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Eastern Ohio feels drilling impact
As Gulfport Energy continues drilling profitable Utica Shale wells across eastern Ohio, MarkWest Energy plans to build about $1.8 billion worth of new infrastructure this year to process the gas.
"In 2012 we invested almost $2 billion on strategic growth projects primarily in our Marcellus and Utica business units and in 2013, we expect to invest between $1.5 and $1.8 billion on additional capital projects, which are supported by long-term, largely fee-based contracts," said Frank Semple, chairman, president and chief executive officer of MarkWest Energy.
One MarkWest facility is already operating near Cadiz, though the plant will soon increase its capacity to separate dry methane from liquid ethane, propane, butane and pentane. Hundreds of construction workers and pipeliners are now working at the plant and should continue doing so until 2014. The company is now building a fractionator – a machine that will further process these materials into marketable items – near Hopedale, which will connect to the Cadiz plant via pipeline.
MarkWest is also building a network of pipelines throughout eastern Ohio, including some in the Flushing area of Belmont County. The company processes gas for producers such as Gulfport and Antero Resources, both of which are active drillers in the area.
MarkWest also processes gas in West Virginia at the Mobley site in Wetzel County and the Majorsville complex in Marshall County, working for producers such Magnum Hunter, Consol Energy, Noble Energy and Range Resources.
"The acceleration of our Utica midstream development is a direct result of the ongoing success of our producer customers' drilling programs," said Semple.
According to MarkWest, the Cadiz processing complex will include a de-ethanization facility where purity ethane will be produced and delivered into the ATEX Express ethane pipeline. This pipeline will transport ethane from the Utica and Marcellus shale regions to the Gulf Coast for cracking.
The Gulfport gas that MarkWest is processing is abundant, as a single well near Barnesville could be producing as much as $100,000 worth of revenue per day. Also, Gulfport's Clay well – located in the area of U.S. 22 and Ohio 800, near the northern portion of Piedmont Lake in Harrison County – is producing daily averages of 747 barrels of condensate, 761 barrels of natural gas liquids and 5.9 million cubic feet of natural gas.
These wells are in addition to the company's "monster" – as labeled by energy investment firm Global Hunter Securities – Shugert well that has been producing as much as 28.5 million cubic feet of gas per day from the Egypt Valley area near Morristown.
Many eastern Ohio residents who originally signed leases with Wishgard LLC or Tri-Star Energy have seen those contracts turned over to Gulfport, while Gulfport has also signed many county landowners to their own leases. Terms of the leases can range widely depending upon when they were signed and a multitude of other factors.
However, some property owners have received at least as much as $5,900 per acre, with as much as 20 percent of the production royalties.


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I heard ESPN, and Kenny Smith say that Michael Beasley might not declare for this years draft, and might stay with Kansas St. for another year.
If anyone watched the game yesterday you probably heard what Kenny Smith was saying about it.
I don't know why Michael Beasley won't want to declare for the draft he is a great player, and he is NBA ready. If you guys recall, Kenny Smith was talking about that Marvin Williams went to the pros to early, and made a point about Michael Beasley.

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Nice GT debut from our Euro connection.
If I may be so bold as to make a tip, get some pictures from knicksnow.com. Their's are by far the best.
There's also 82games.com that tallies statistics of all NBA teams, so you can add definitive breakdowns of opponents and/or the NYK.
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- Fabrication of novel metal alloy foams for biomedical applications
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- Degeneration of the weight bearing bones of the ageing population often requires the inception of metallic biomaterials. Research in this area is receiving increased attention globally. However, most of today's artificial bone materials are dense and suffer from problems of adverse reaction, biomechanical mismatch and lack of appropriate space for the regeneration of new bone tissues. In the present study, novel ZrTi alloy foams with a porous structure and mechanical properties that are very close to those of bone were fabricated. These ZrTi alloy foams are biocompatible, and display a porous structure permitting the ingrowth of new bone tissues.
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Home List of Titles Characterization of mechanical properties of TBCs via a Taguchi experimental design
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- Experimental designs have been used by the thermal spray community to improve and optimize spray parameters to produce coatings with desired properties. The influence of four spray parameters including top and bond coat thicknesses, substrate temperature, and spray distance on the mechanical properties of plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings has been examined. Two experimental matrices; (i) a four by nine according to a Taguchi experimental design, and (ii) a four by seventeen according to a full factorial design of the experiment, were developed. Six samples from each group were tested using a four point bend arrangement. Yield strength and elastic modulus were calculated from the four point bend test. A multi-linear regression analysis on yield strength and elastic modulus values from each experimental matrix was carried out to determine the influence of each spray parameter on these properties. The multi-linear regression analysis results for these two experimental matrixes are compared.
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- 2000
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- Corrosion resistance; Design of experiment; DoE; Elastic moduli; Oxidation resistance; Regression analysis; Plasma spray coatings; Sprayed coatings; Substrates; Thermal barrier coatings; Thermodynamic stability; Wear resistance; Yttrium compounds; Zirconia
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text: Higher ed leaders urge governor to fund contracts MTA higher education leaders from across the state converged on Natick, April 27, to urge Gov. Deval Patrick to support funding of their contracts as they were signed, ratified and sent by him to the Legislature. Currently, the contracts are being held up in the Legislature as the Patrick administration is demanding that they be reopened and that unions accept further concessions, including furloughs. Union leaders are firmly opposed to reopening the contracts – a fact underscored by the profusion of yellow, red and black buttons in the room, reading, "Keep Your Word – A Deal Is A Deal!" Patrick surprised the group by saying he had been told by Administration and Finance Secretary Jay Gonzalez that the administration was not asking for furloughs from public higher education employees. The administration's changed position had not been communicated to MTA or its chapters by their respective employers. In any case, the chapter presidents asked the governor to support immediate funding of the contracts and to rescind the administration's request to reopen the contracts. Patrick promised to review the situation with Gonzalez and legislative leaders and get back to MTA. The one-and-a-half hour "conversation" with the governor and Education Secretary Paul Reville followed a similar session on March 30 that the governor was unable to attend because of the flood crisis in the state. As in that earlier meeting, attended by Reville and Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray, chapter leaders reviewed the long and tortuous bargaining process, which began in 2007. Shauna Lee Manning, president of the Classified Staff Union at UMass Boston, urged Patrick to write to the Speaker of the House and Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee to fund the contracts. "We feel like the budget is being balanced on our backs," Manning said. "We go above and beyond in our work, and now we're asking you to go above and beyond and to write a letter asking the Legislature to fund our contracts." The audience did laud Patrick's efforts to spare public higher education from drastic budget cuts and to secure increased federal funding. However, leaders also reminded Patrick of the dire straits higher education – and educators – find themselves in. Manning cited cases of classified staff employees having to ration medicine; another – days from payday – did not have enough money to park in the UMass lot. And according to Randy Phillis, president of the Massachusetts Society of Professors, UMass Amherst, "For the first time in history of Massachusetts public education, more money is coming from students and parents than from the state." Near the conclusion of the session, Patrick assured the audience, "Considering the current situation, it may be hard for you to hear this, but I do respect what you do. And in time, with an improving economy, I hope you will feel this, too."


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This Heavily Massaged Rod Is No Mirage
The Arizona desert offers its inhabitants a different kind of beautyyes, its the poetic path thats less traveled because of its climatic extremes, but its also a path with a forlorn beauty that will deeply imprint your soul.
Desert dwellers Jan and Gary Riley have been an integral part of the Arizona rod scene for decades. As former President of the Relics and Rods, the Rileys created The Run to the Sun and turned it into one of the Southwests most popular and well-attended rod runs. Currently, the Rileys are members of the Dukes of Ludlow car club.
What you see before you is no desert mirageits a steel Deuce sedan delivery that has been heavily massaged by a crew of talented craftsmen. Jim Norman, Rod Palmer, Vic Kitchens, and Mike Bell assisted Jan and Gary along the way to create a different kind of hot rodone that reminds us of a Tom Daniel sketchpad from the past. It may be unconventional, but there are enough awards and trophies on the Rileys mantle to validate their design choices. As we said, the desert offers a path thats less traveled, but as colorful and beautiful as any on earth.


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Comedy that panders to one specific audience never works. It's why most people mistake the jokes on Sex and the City for videos of livestock giving birth. Hilarity is complicated, so let me try to put it another way. Writing comedy is like being locked in an elevator with a broken security camera and a medical cadaver -- anything goes. That being said, there are a lot of things you can do that are horribly, horribly wrong.
These four books set out to create humor for nerds back when that word meant something. Instead, they spawned black holes of clumsy, punning anti-comedy. If our society imposed criminal penalties for sucking, the authors and cartoonists responsible would be cryogenically frozen until future generations invented a way to put a bag of cats up their dickholes. Summon your strength ... I'm about to show you what I'm talking about.
4Mirthful Kombat: Jokes with BYTE! (1993) by John M. Byrne
John M. Byrne is an Irish author of dozens of cartoon and joke books, and all of them are garbage. He writes puns like he's not sure what they are. He flails blindly at malapropism with all the grace of a tornado ripping out his catheter. He's worse than unfunny. Sex offenders use his words to explain to children what's happening to them. If John M. Byrne wrote "Who's on First," Abbott's first and closing lines would have been "POOCH on first!? Bow wow WOW!"
You may have already spotted a pattern here, and I'm not talking about how this man has the wit of hangover diarrhea. Mirthful Kombat contains only video game jokes, and the only two things the author knows about those are 1) something called Sonic is a hedgehog and 2) the Super Mario Brothers are Italian plumbers. I'm not exaggerating. There are about 250 jokes in this book, and literally none of them are about a third video game. Apes did more research before they invented AIDS than John did before he wrote this book.
Nintendormouse? Moontendo? Was there a single stray thought in this goddamn idiot's head that didn't make the final cut? This book is so vile that blind people somehow know when it's in the room with them. They will look directly at it and hiss.
I can see people using that joke. Maybe as their defense when the prosecuting attorney asks them "What did the deceased say to you before you stomped his mouth into his stupid, shitty brain?" Oh, before we go on ... you should know that John M. Byrne, the man who thought Bing Crosby's Byte Christmas was a complete joke, has written multiple books on how to write comedy. Yeah, I thought that'd get your attention, Satan.
That's so far from a joke I can't even begin to explain to John why it doesn't work. I ... it'd be like telling the neurons in an autistic boy's brain that they're going the wrong way while he blankly examines his grandmother's death rattle.
If the English language had a rape whistle, it would be blowing it right now.
Eyeliner researchers are funnier than this when they explain to their boss why they need more rabbits.
What the shi- oh, I get it. This is how a sense of humor writes a suicide note.
This man is so unfunny that instead of fart sounds, his asshole recites obituaries.
John Byrne, you fucking piece of shit.
These two sentences are all that remain of a Luftwaffe scientist's attempt at turning laughter into snakes.
Look at this stupid dick scramble for a play on words. It's not cute anymore. I feel like I'm watching a homeless man try to eat a brick for a dollar.
What? No really, what the hell is this madness? John M. Byrne, I'll tell you the same thing I told your wife: I pulled that dick out of your mouth because your beard itches, not because I wanted to hear you read from your dumbass dream journal.
As a man who teaches the art of humorous writing, John M. Byrne knows how important context is for comedy. You can't simply tell the reader "Batteries go in a Gameboy!" and call it a punchline. He made a couple small mistakes in this joke, like forgetting to mention why Methuselah could only buy one set of batteries, why that might be funny and how or why any of this shit is happening. It's really only a desperate attempt at getting a double meaning from the term "long life," which kind of only has one meaning, so yes ... this joke is objectively terrible. If the Special Olympics had a comedy writing event, this would be the only entry that didn't win a hug. John M. Byrne is so tragic that breast cancer walks to end him.
3The Pac-Man Riddle and Joke Book (1982) by Mike Thaler
When you look at the cover and see Pac-Man jumping his own video game on a motorcycle, it's easy to assume that this is just a book about awesome insane things. It's absolutely the opposite of that. This book is an exhaustive collection of puns on the words "dot" and "Pac," except I'm making it sound too fun. If you found these jokes on a dead body, the forensic psychologist would say, "The killer was a robot. No ... human could misunderstand humor this badly."
That's it? I ... I can't tell if this is the world's worst joke or the world's best riddle.
I think we can all agree that turning "bad" into "Pac" is a clutzy pun. Without a doubt, fuck Mike "America's Riddle King" Thaler for writing that. But more importantly, look at the nightmarish dystopia this comic hints at. It's a world where each dot in Pac-Man's maze is a living, feeling creature with its own personality. And not only are they forced to ponder and discuss this existence while they hover motionless forever, they can actually smell the rotting remains of their family when the yellow monster face that devoured them comes close. That might be more depressing than this cartoon's punchline.
Dressing Pac-Man up like Batman is an ironically genius way to tell the world that you're a dipshit.
So you're saying that if Pac-Man had sex with a sweater, it would spawn a drag queen growing out of a scrotum? I guess that's closer to comedy than typing the word "Pat-Man" under a Batman Pac-Man. I am still kind of pissed off about that. "Pat-Man" is like something a seizure would make your mouth say instead of "Help."
H-hats? But ... what? I'm not sure I get why anyone would make this. Is this trying to show us what newborn babies experience when you circumcise them?
Nice joke, America's Riddle King. Honestly, how uselessly dumb is a person allowed to be before animal control is obligated to shoot them?
Was this written to punish you if you appreciate orchestral compositions from the '20s and can also name all the Pac-Man ghosts? If that describes you, haven't you suffered enough?
My God. The only reason a person would write it would be because their genitals were shaped like a "Q" and they were trying to get revenge on language itself.
I read this piece of trash from cover to cover, and if Mike Thaler held a gun to my head and demanded I point out a funny part, I would tell him to pull the trigger after congratulating him on finally understanding surreal humor.


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SPRINGFIELD - Affordability and campus diversity -
issues that have long occupied the higher education agenda
- headline next week's meeting of the Illinois Board of Higher
Losing Ground singled Illinois out for its strong need-based financial aid program. A comparison with seven other large states found that:
The report also documented trends that indicate "the cost of attendance is becoming relatively more expensive for Illinois residents." It found that between 1992 and 2002, increases in tuition and fees outpaced growth in the Consumer Price Index and in state per capita disposable income. Average tuition and fees as a percentage of median income also increased from 1990 and 2000. The proportion of Illinois undergraduates who borrow to pay for college grew significantly at public and private four-year institutions during the 1990s, as did the average annual undergraduate loan amount in those two sectors.
The average Monetary Award Program grant as a percent of
tuition and fees has remained relatively constant at public
universities and community colleges, although not for students
at private institutions.
The report also examined the issue of campus climate. Among
the general conclusions in the report:
Board members also will review a report that explores the question of degree-program approval in the context of worker shortages in various disciplines. The report examines the issue in the context of demographic trends and the changing workplace and concludes, among other things, that a worker shortage is, by itself, insufficient cause for expanding program offerings at colleges and universities because new program requests always assert a shortage of qualified workers. It also suggests that other considerations that will influence decisions for new programs include the changing nature of student populations; a learning environment in which not all students intend to pursue a degree; the fact that quality of education at all levels affects the state and national economies; and the effects of the job market in broadening the education marketplace, with a growth in proprietary institutions catering to preparing students for jobs in growth industries.
The report concludes that there is no easy or quick solution to worker shortages and cautions colleges and universities against radically altering their educational missions.
The Board meeting at the University of Illinois will be the first for newly appointed Chairman Steven H. Lesnik, who succeeds Philip J. Rock, and for Executive Director Daniel J. LaVista, who has replaced Keith R. Sanders. Lesnik will join the Joint Education Committee - comprised of officials from state education and workforce agencies and the Governor's office - as a representative of the Board of Higher Education.


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Life is a terrifying goddamn ride that, at any second, can come to an abrupt, dramatic and bloody halt. On some level, we all know that, and we try to plan accordingly: We look both ways when crossing the street, we stand in doorways during earthquakes and we shamefully lock the doors when teenagers walk by our cars. But some freak accidents are unavoidable; they come careening out of nowhere to turn all of our hopes and dreams into abstract art on the sidewalk. When that day comes, all you can do is try to die quick, and hope that your last words are something a bit more poetic than "Well, shitballs."
Or you can be like these people, who saw Death charging at them a mile away and merrily cartwheeled out of their own mortality.
5Ducking Vehicular Manslaughter
Commuting in China is a perpetual game of chicken, often against literal chickens, as out-of-control poultry trucks are one of the chief causes of road fatalities in Hong Kong [Source: Jackie Chan movies]. To willingly join into that Thunderdome of a road system deserves respect; to do it on a bike should earn your giant, bronzed balls a spot in the Testicular Hall of Fame. Here's why:
That bicyclist is, no doubt, impossibly lucky. The black car missed him by sheer chance. But the white car? That wasn't chance at all; that bicycling son of a bitch dodged an exploding, airborne car in mid-spinout. That's the kind of reflexes you get when you routinely take a rusty bike to a Chinese car fight. If he had slowed down at all while still in the path of the black car, he'd be an advertisement for helmet safety posted up across the side of that bus right now. But when the white car careens into his path, the bicyclist hits the brakes and manages to slow juuust enough to slip between two disintegrating, bouncing, jagged steel wrecking balls without a scratch.
And he does all that without even dumping the bike! As a kid, I once crashed my bicycle in a completely flat, empty parking lot because a girl said hi to me -- and here's this dude, calmly modulating his speed so perfectly that he skips between two clashing metal tornadoes without so much as a handle wobble.
But perhaps a better testimony to the stoic balls and immeasurable skill of this bicyclist is not what's in the video, but what it's missing. Watch past the crash, to the immediate aftermath. See how everybody in the area wanders out into the street? They're totally shell-shocked. Even complete bystanders who just happened to glance up and see this are left standing dumbstruck in the road, marveling at all the pretty disaster around them. Notice anything missing?
The bicyclist.
He's not even there. He barely ducked out of being the finger cuffs in a car/bike gangbang, and that didn't even warrant a stop on his commute.
The Pure Luck Version:
It's tempting to chalk every close call up to luck: If one thing had gone even slightly differently, somebody would be dead. And there's some truth to that, sure, but let's not sell these people short. Their actions, no matter how small, still had some hand in saving them. And I can prove it, because there are plenty of close calls where that is not at all the case, and the only reason anybody survived is because they once saved a leprechaun's life and now he owes their ass big.
Welcome to Russia, where your average driver's first response to a vehicle slowing -- even a little bit -- is to wrench the wheel violently into oncoming traffic, because even acknowledging the existence of brakes is for little pansy men with hairless faces who wince when they drink vodka. Sometimes there is a downside to driving like an alpha dickhead, and sometimes that downside is a giant friggin' semi truck Tokyo drifting across the entire roadway.
Watch as the driver's instincts and reflexes completely fail him: He can't do anything but stop directly in the path of the giant metal squeegee wiping the road clear in front of him. Then he sits quietly and waits for death, like he finished his assignment early and the teacher just didn't have any more work for him.
4Ducking Vehicular Manslaughter ... on Foot
It was a beautiful day in Russia: Everything was track suits and sunglasses as far as the eye could see. And then, disaster struck.
Or rather, it tried to strike, but Trackpants here danced right out of its way like a cologne-smelling, club-hopping matador.
Watch his body language closely: He doesn't just jump out of the way. Trackpants clearly sees Death coming for him, and he knows his time is up. So what does he do when the Reaper rides toward him on his Pale Horse, the sickle of mortality glinting coldly in the waning sun?
He jukes.
He jukes right, fakes out the very concept of death itself, then dodges left and laughs as the Reaper careens harmlessly by him, presumably shouting his name in fury and shaking his bony fist. But much like the bicyclist, Trackpants doesn't have time to stop and acknowledge his near-death experience. He doesn't even chastise the driver for using the sidewalk like a Mario Kart Boost Pad -- he just continues on his merry Russian way, off to sit on a bus stop bench somewhere for a busy day of leering at women while pointing to his prominent Lycra-highlighted package.
The Pure Luck Version:
You think you know what's going to happen here when you see the truck start to pull out at the last possible moment. You think they're going to T-bone, but that is foolish. Because again, this is Russia, and braking is for women and consumptives.
The driver of the oncoming truck sees the accident coming, but he doesn't even try to slow down: He spits in the face of logic and reflex, and just calmly moves the wheel a little to the right to hit the turning truck parallel. The end result? An objectively ridiculous amount of death barreling down on one harmless old Russian dude, just trying to fill up at the gas station. Wait, you're about to be hit by two dump trucks, side by side, as they ram you into an active gas pump? Holy shit, dude: Nobody has ever died that hard. Bruce Willis didn't die that hard. Did you bone Death's wife or something?
This is how he reacts:
Don't laugh. That's exactly what every one of us would do in the same situation. Nobody expects that much Fucked to come flying at their face out of nowhere. It's almost cartoonish how screwed he is. So he closes his eyes, hunches up his shoulders and kind of turns around a little bit, like an uncoordinated kid would do if you unexpectedly tossed a baseball to him. But the two trucks don't hit him: They smash together two feet in front of his face, then bounce away to either side. They hit so hard and so close that you can actually see the little whirlwind of debris from the impact blow over the man, but nothing actually touches him. When it's all over, he opens his eyes and checks around him, then pats himself down, as if to say, "Really? Fucking really, I survived that? Is bullshit! Totally unrealistic!"


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LO is 12 1/2 mo and although he has no dairy allergies or sensitivities, he has been refusing cow's milk. I guess he just doesn't like the taste. I EP and am planning to continue pumping, but unfortunately have had a hard time getting enough bm for him, so we've been supplementing with formula. Today at lunch I tried giving him goats milk and he LOVED it!!! I'm so excited, maybe we can get him off the formula supplements shortly and replace them with goats milk!
Now I'm unsure how to deal with goats milk. Does it have enough fat/calories/nutrition that he needs at this point in his life? Any thoughts or links? I was raised on cow's milk and goat's milk hadn't even occurred to me until I was at the grocery again. TIA!


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This is a small portion of the Veil Nebula the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded thousands of years ago. The entire structure spans about 3 degrees on the sky, corresponding to about 6 full moons. The image was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in November 1994 and August 1997.
Object Name: Veil Nebula
Image Type: Astronomical
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Acknowledgment: J. Hester (Arizona State University)
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Only Days Left!!
Our boys are feeling the love!! Have you voted your tush off yet?
And have you voted all 25 times per email address?
And then, maybe, used other email addresses? So that you spend your hours only voting for the All Star game?
Our boys need you!! Online voting alone will determine the outcome for Lo Duca, Jose Reyes, David Wright, and Carlos Beltran.
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I have used about 12 different alias to vote for David Wright and the rest of the crew. I will bookmark your page and i wish you nothing but the best in Mlblogs community!. Also come be a Wrightoholic in which weekly newsletter's go out. Email me at email@example.com or leave a comment on my page.
Hey!! Thanks for becoming a Wrightoholic!!!
And don't worry girl if you can throw like a infant, I can bat like one LOL We'll make our own team!!!
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does he really need help getting in? best 3B in the NL…next to Miggy!
Ah, but it's about showing the love. D-Wright may win, but let's show him just how devoted we are. And I'm not talking just Wright. The whole team's got my vote–even with a write in for Valentin at 2nd base! (He's been getting it done, no?)


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Another sig check, please.
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Is my signature still okay? I added a link to my newly made FanFiction.Net account.
My fanfics:
Aquatic Passion (multi-chaptered fic)
Misty, The Mysterious Mermaid (oneshot)
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Okay, I changed the image file and reduced the file size for the 4 images. It's good now, right?
Mine's probably okay, but check plz. Just to be safe.
I just added some stuff to my sig, is it too big now?
May I have my signature checked please. Thanks in advance
Sig check?
We do have a lot in common.
The same air, the same Earth, the same sky.
Maybe if we started looking at
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...well, who knows?
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My dream team. I am an amateur shiny hunter.
Please check mine. thanks! it's probably too tall......
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I'm cis and straight, April Fools.
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idk guys i just play bonus xD. If you guys want to get the danger close challenge done, i'd suggest putting on danger close with frags or c4 on nuketown. Works best on demolition and domination. And don't try to do it if the other team uses trophies. Not a good idea lol.
Guys, I'm planning on making a new club, but I'm pretty sure you can't own two, so I'd need someone to take over the NZC and make a V3 version. Any volunteers?
if anyone can get on before 8am pst (11 Eastern time) and get some wins in, we might get some more clan xp. Oh and on tuesday try to play CTF and get some flags for the clan op. Please just try for it. Pleaaaase? We almost have gold clan tags. We got this hopefully by the end of the week. Wednesday will be easier since it's domination flag caps. I'm semi asking semi begging that you guys do the clan ops this week so we can hit clan level 10.
I hate the new Domination. Its too short and the rounds is so lame. And I am a Domination guy from the past CODs till now. Bring back the original Domination, or I won't touch the gamemode anymore. TDM and Hardpoint is my new main modes.
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NOTICE: I just started my part time job recently and I don't have as much time to trade so on the weekdays I am available between 12pm - 3pm/11pm - 4am EST Monday - Friday and all day Sundays when I wake up.
Pokemon Y Is my main of the two with over 999:59+ Hours invested since launch.
Pokemon X&Y!!!
FS type: Electric (Stunfisk, Electrode and Galvantula)
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well it looks like only me, jase_connor, and zero did the clan op. we got 29 total wins so only 100xp. 50 would have gotten us 200 xp. 75 would have given us 300. Guys please go for flag caps in ctf today. It feels like no one in this clan is trying the clan ops at all.
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Originally Posted by Seref
It's ok guys I get it. Also everyone I got a youtuber to make us a clan emblem. Find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkt621u3Mww
You can add skulls and stuff if you want but I think it's great as is. Tell him what you think!
Join the Nazi Zombies Club V3 today!
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Originally Posted by Seref
All right guys try to do some Clan Ops every now and then, I know some of you are busy but @ times you are on an playing other games.
Nice emblem btw, might change it later.
This is the current event, you have 12 hours to ready up
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Add me 4098-5518-0449!
I have played Domination at noon and capture about 23 flags. Thought I'll do it while I get ready for school. (Classes started at 1:05pm boring!)
Will play later tonight.
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EDIT: Never playing Gun game again. Not gonna ruin the awesome.(yes that is me and yes that is my sexy as hell emblem) http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6d5b5054.png
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When I get home ill start on the capture the flag challenge besides we already gold for the domination challenge.
Ps3 finally gets ntz, and psn is down
EDIT: FUCK YOU SONY http://us.support.sonyentertainmentn...service_status WHY YOU GOTTA EXTEND THE TIME UNTIL AFTER I LEAVE FOR SCHOOL TOMORROW. YOU HAD TO PICK TODAY TO SHUT DOWN PSN FOR MAINTENANCE DIDN'T YOU.
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Come on guys stop *****ing. At least PSN is free.
Just download it today, no biggie.
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The last few days of life for a person with a terminal condition are challenging both for the patient and for family members. During my grandmother, Nonna Dela's, last days on this earth, her children, including my own mother, were in a state of complete upheaval.
Emotions were raw and took over without warning: at different times, Nonna Dela's five adult children experienced anger, denial, despair and eventually acceptance.
My mother told me that one of the most difficult things for her, were the unexpected moments when a sea of emotions and sadness would sweep over her. Saying goodbye to a loved one, in my mom's case to her own mother, is difficult and provokes unexpected reactions and confusion.
There isn't a one-fits-all answer to these difficulties: it's hard to know how we'll react to the death of a loved one because we find our own individual answers and ways to cope as it happens.
While we can't predict how we will handle this situation, there are resources that can guide us and offer support during this difficult time. Hospice is one of them. It's available to everyone and provided by Medicare and Medicaid and most insurance companies. Most hospices will not turn anyone down but provide for people who don't qualify through insurance plans of any kind.
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If you've ever been to places like England and stayed for more than a day, you've probably walked around with a pocket full of change, as coins in the U.K. are used similarly to how one- and five-dollar bills are used in the United States.
Although the dollar bill isn't the almighty standalone currency it used to be in terms of value, there's something about that army-green, leather-smelling piece of paper that serves consumers well.
And the dollar may not buy you a whole lot these days, but it will still get you a lot of items that we use in our day-to-day lives, like that pack of gum sitting by the register at the convenience store or that tabloid newspaper that you grab on your way to work each morning.
Let's face it, the dollar bill is still a nifty little piece of paper to have--and if you pool enough of them together, you don't have to break that $20 bill in your wallet--because we all know that once that $20 is broken, it will disappear like David Blaine is practicing some elaborate trick with your finances.
But what if the dollar was removed from U.S. currency altogether, and just like our good friends on the opposite side of the ocean, we only used coins to represent it, and instead of carrying a wad of ones we toted around a bunch of change?
GAO's recommendation
Throughout the last couple of decades, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has been trying to get rid of the paper dollar and replace it with a coin; in several reports, the U.S. agency has indicated getting rid of the paper dollar would ultimately save the country a significant amount of money.
But many Americans don't see it that way, as past surveys indicate that people prefer using dollar bills. Dollar coins seem to be used far less and wind up collecting dust on top of a dresser or being thrown into an empty bottle, never to be used again.
As a result, the U.S. Treasury stopped production of dollar coins in 2011.
However Lorelei St. James, the director of the GAO, said trying to save the government money should be the country's primary concern rathr than consumer convenience, and if the paper dollar was to be replaced permanently, it could save the U.S. government about $146 million per year and $4.4 billion over a span of 30 years by shrinking production and processing costs dramatically.
"We continue to believe that the government would receive a financial benefit from making the replacement," said St. James in a statement. "We realize that replacing the $1 note with the $1 coin is controversial. In fact, public opinion has consistently been opposed to the $1 coin."
Environmental benefits
The GAO also points to the environmental benefits of removing the dollar bill, since coins can eventually be melted and made into new coins when they become overused or damaged.
The agency also says coins can last for almost 40 years, while dollar bills only last up to four years before they start to wear and can be easily torn.
Plus, once dollar bills are unusable, many are dumped into landfills, and the entire process from printing to being discarded costs the taxpayer unnecessary amounts of money, claims the GAO.
Although the GAO makes seemingly good points in terms of cutting back on taxpayer expense and creating a higher level of sustainability in the production of money, the auditing agency will have its work cut out for it when it comes to convincing consumers to make the switch from dollar bills to coins.
Consumer opposition
According to a survey conducted by the research firm Lincoln Park Strategies, 70 percent of those surveyed wanted the dollar bill to remain.
Additionally, 73 percent said the dollar coin is completely unnecessary, 67 percent said the dollar bill is preferable because it's easier to carry around, and 60 percent said the dollar bill should remain because it's a better symbol of American tradition and pride than the coin.
The president of Lincoln Park Strategies, which is based in Washington, D.C., says the survey findings were conclusive, and that most of the participants had very strong feelings associated with the dollar bill and some felt even stronger about what those in government should be spending their time on instead.
"Sentiments against the dollar coin are strong across Wyoming and the rest of the country," Stefan Hankin said, as the survey was conducted in that part of the country.
"Our research shows people's resistance to the dollar coin spans from everyday usage to the feeling that politicians should be spending their time on more important issues."
But there are still some in Washington who feel it's not the consumer who should decide what forms of currency stays and goes, and those in government should be the ones to make the decision on what changes need to be made to lower the national debt.
"Change can be difficult," said Sen. Mike Enzi, of Wyoming in an interview earlier this year. "But doing things as we've always done has contributed to our debt. We've got to latch on to any reasonable handhold we can find to climb out of this hole."
Dollar bill advocates
But others like Randy DeCleene, of the dollar-bill advocate group Americans for George, agree that making changes to lower the debt is needed, but removing the dollar isn't the way to do it.
"The federal budget and economy are facing hard times and this is when we need our government representatives to stand up for programs that will make a difference we need," said DeCleene. "Leave the dollar bill alone and move on to more important issues."


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Personal Connections
By divas on Oct 08, 2009
When I heard about a Aloha on Rails, I jumped on the chance to attend a local conference. Having been to several JavaOne conferences, I knew how helpful they were they were for learning best practices, discovering what people were adopting, and getting a view of what's coming down the pike. I definitely got all of that, but I unexpectedly took away a lot more.
For one, it was my first "local" conference (well it is an airplane ride away, but it still felt local to me). I was happy to find that about half the people I talked to are developers in Hawaii and a lot of business cards were exchanged with the hope that we could all meet again at Aloha on Rails 2.
Second, it was a small conference. After the first day and a nice pau nana party put on by Agathon Group (thanks guys), everyone was starting to look familiar and we were having great discussions. The theme of the conference was talk story, and that definitely was going on both in the conference rooms and outside. Small conferences also mean that the speakers are easily accessible. Here were people that I have been following for years, like Chad Fowler, Obie Fernandez, Charles Nutter, and Yehuda Katz, that I got to meet face-to-face, as well as people I hadn't heard about but are now on my follow list, such as Blythe Dunham, Jim Weirich (have you learned to play Hawaiian Lullabye on your uke yet?), and Desi McAdam, founder of DevChix. I don't know if it is because everyone was a Rails developer (and following the Rails way), the aloha atmosphere, or what, but it really was a nice crowd of people to hang with.
Last, while there was a lot of good info about how to do Rails right and what is the best stuff to use, the bigger take away for me was how important it is to develop personal connections and get involved in communities. That seemed to be the theme spreading through all the talks...how good things happen when you connect with and share with people outside of your daily job tasks. So that is my new mantra...Get Connected. The first thing I did when I returned to work was to join an online community of tech people on the Big Island, and I have already exchanged emails with a couple of people (whoo hoo, I am not alone). Next, I need to get involved with an open source community. It might be something in the cloud, or some Rails project (maybe a cloud one), I don't know. If you have suggestions, pass them on.
So, anyway, I am pretty energized by the small conference experience. If you haven't done one, you gotta try it. And a BIG thanks to Seth for making it happen. Great job.


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Consider Jeremiah's story in a lively translation, "The breath, she came out of the mouth of God in the form of a word. The word of God, it came toward me and over me in order to say to me, 'in the time before my hands squished and shaped and molded you inside the womb, I was already intimate with you. And in the time before you were pushed out of them womb, I set you apart to be sacred and holy for a special purpose. I put you in place to be a prophet to all the peoples of the earth – to every nation."
And Jeremiah says, in Hebrew, "ah-hah" which is English for "ah-hah." "Now look here God, my master. You can plainly see I don't know how to make words, I'm only a youngster." But God said right back, "Don't tell me you're only a youngster. It doesn't matter because – toward everyone I send you, you must go walking and of all that I command, the words will come out of you. And by the way, don't be afraid of those words because I am with you – to rescue you. This is the word of your God!"
When do you tell someone not to be afraid? That's right, when danger is present. When God calls someone there is always an element of danger. It is as if God needs something changed and the last time I looked new stuff and change is not widely accepted. Prophets are people who announce change and new ways of living in community are usually ignored and if they become too troublesome the community just kills them. And God says, "Don't be afraid, I am with you, even until the end."
God called young Jeremiah and put words in his mouth. He was put in place over all the nations and over all the kings in order to pull out by the roots, to destroy and to overthrow. But Jeremiah was also put in place over all the nations and over all the kings in order to build, to construct, to design and engineer with his own hands. He was put in place to plant fresh seeds in the ground, to work the soil, nurture and protect the seedlings until new life could spring up.
Jeremiah was not called to keep the old ways in place. He was not called to keep the future from transforming the past. He was called to redeeming the past and send it out into the future. The danger to our souls lurks in being stuck in the struggle of our own lives to the extent that we want to pass that same struggle and wounds, on to others – even when life has moved on and changed and our struggle should stay where it belongs, in our history and in our stories. We often recreate a crisis that no longer exists or does not exist in the same way, all the while hoping that a next generation will appreciate it so much that they will assume the burden for themselves. At our worst we find ourselves recreating hatred just so the next generation will be prepared to face off the same enemy we hated.
For Jeremiah his call was the beginning of a powerful relationship between the people and God. A living relationship that grew and changed. Sometimes a period of plucking up and casting out was a living sign of a growing relationship. Other times planting and building up new communities and forming relationships in new way was a sign that God was pushing the future into the present.
The present moment is not permanent. The past does not have to be permanently the kingdom where we live. Parts of it may need to be forgotten. The future contains what may not be shaken and it already exists. It lives as the power of life redeemed and resurrected in both the earthly and the heavenly places. Resurrection lives in the center of God's being. It cannot be shaken.


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Trevor's Time To Retire
Trevor William Hoffman, the All-Time Saves leader and Mr. Padre #2, retired today after 18 amazing years of closing dominance.
It was an incredible run. Trevor is one of my favorite players ever. He's the classiest guy around, and he's such a good baseball player. His years with San Diego are some that I'll never forget. I'll never forget the day that he became the All-Time saves leader, and the days he got his 500th and 600th saves. I'll never forget the day that I got his autograph (which was the same day that I fell in love with Kouz actually).
We were so blessed to have him here for so many years.
Trevor, I don't think you'll ever know the impact that you've had on me and the city of San Diego. Even when we didn't have many championships to look forward to, we always had amazing moments to look forward to because we had the best closer in all of baseball right here. Not only were you an amazing influence on the field, but you were an amazing example of sportsmanship and leadership.
I'll never forget sitting in my room on a September afternoon, the radios blaring, as we listening to you getting your 479th save. That was such an incredible moment that it brought me to tears. I didn't really know much about your career at that point, but I knew that that was a very special moment.
Thank you so much for everything. Thanks for all the memories and fun times. Thanks for staying here as long as you did. Thanks for giving us something incredible to cheer for and to watch. Thank you for being such an integral part of this organization.
Even though you were a member of a couple other teams, I know that you will always be a Padre. Especially now that you're joining the club in a front office role, you are going to become a Padre again. I'm so excited that you're back home, where you belong.
Always a Padre ❤
I love you Trevor!!
See you in the Hall of Fame in 2016.
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I hated to see him retire, but it's a day every player must face. Glad to see he's going to be with the Padres still….just a different type of uniform.
Nice entry. Man, I can't believe it's true that Trevor William Hoffman retired. He definitely brought the city of Sam Diego with ton of memorable moments. It still seems surreal that Trevor will not be in a baseball uniform but he's the greatest closer of all-time.🙂
Trevor Hoffman was the rare player that combined excellence with class. It's amazing to me why people say he wouldn't be a first ballot hall of famer.
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'A Thousand Mornings' With Poet Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose body of work is largely filled with imagery of the natural world — cats, opossums crossing the street, sunflowers and black oaks in the sunshine. Her most recent collection is entitled A Thousand Mornings.
In one poem, "I Happen to Be Standing," Oliver describes herself as witnessing all these things as she stands by her door every morning, notebook and pen in hand. But, she tells NPR's Rachel Martin, she doesn't actually do that every morning. "Almost. I thought, gee, I do lie a little bit, and I should have said, 'which is the way I begin most mornings,' " she laughs.
Mornings with the notebook are part of a regular ritual for Oliver, though. "Most mornings I'm up to see the sun, and that rising of the light moves me very much, and I'm used to thinking and feeling in words, so it sort of just happens."
Those morning moments are a kind of prayer for Oliver. "I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and ... almost involuntary in my life," she says. "And when I talk about prayer, I mean really ... what Rumi says in that wonderful line, 'there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.' I'm not theological, specifically, I might pick a flower for Shiva as well as say the hundredth [psalm]."
Oliver says her work has become more spiritual over the years, growing from her love of the poets who came before her and the natural world — but she feels a great sorrow over humanity's lack of care for that world. "The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails," she says.
"And this is happening to the world," Oliver continues, "and I think it is very very dangerous for our future generations, those of us who believe that the world is not only necessary to us in its pristine state, but it is in itself an act of some kind of spiritual thing. I said once, and I think this is true, the world did not have to be beautiful to work. But it is. What does that mean?"
It can be a challenge, over years of writing about the natural world, to find new ways of describing what's out there — especially when so many other poets are writing about the same subject matter. But Oliver says she's up to the challenge. "To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it," she says. "But it's wonderful, it's fun."
"One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear," Oliver adds. "It mustn't be fancy. I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are, they sort of tap dance through it. I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem."
Poems from A Thousand Mornings
All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, but only until night
meets and then is overwhelmed by
morning, the light deepening, the
wind easing and just waiting, as I
too wait (and when have I ever been
disappointed?) for redbird to sing.
The first time Percy came back
he was not sailing on a cloud.
He was loping along the sand as though
he had come a great way.
"Percy," I cried out, and reached to him--
those white curls--
but he was unreachable. As music
is present yet you can't touch it.
"Yes, it's all different," he said.
"You're going to be very surprised."
But I wasn't thinking of that. I only
wanted to hold him. "Listen," he said,
"I miss that too.
And now you'll be telling stories
of my coming back
and they won't be false, and they won't be true,
but they'll be real."
And then, as he used to, he said, "Let's go!"
And we walked down the beach together.
Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing through.
His voice is deep,
then he lifts it until it seems
to fall from the sky.
I am thrilled.
I am grateful.
Then, by the end of morning,
he's gone, nothing but silence
out of the tree
where he rested for a night.
And this I find acceptable.
Not enough is a poor life.
But too much is, well, too much.
Imagine Verdi or Mahler
every day, all day.
It would exhaust anyone.
From A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver. Copyright 2012 by Mary Oliver. Excerpted with permission of Penguin Group.
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. Mary Oliver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose body of work is largely filled with imagery of the natural world. Her most recent collection is titled "A Thousand Mornings." I spoke with her from member station WSHU in Fairfield, Connecticut. She began our interview by reading her poem, "I Happen to Be Standing."
MARY OLIVER: (Reading) I don't know where prayers go or what they do. Do cats pray while they sleep half-asleep in the sun? Does the opossum pray as it crosses the street? The sunflowers, the old black oak growing older every year? I know I can walk through the world along the shore or under the trees with my mind filled with things of little importance. In full self-attendance, a condition I can't really call being alive. Is a prayer a gift or a petition, or does it matter? The sunflowers blaze - maybe that's their way. Maybe the cats are sound asleep, maybe not. While I was thinking this, I happened to be standing just outside my door with my notebook open, which is the way I begin every morning. Then a wren in the privet began to sing. He was positively drenched in enthusiasm. I don't know why. And yet why not? I wouldn't persuade you from whatever you believe or whatever you don't. That's your business. But I thought of the wren singing what could this be if it isn't a prayer? So, I just listened, my pen in the air.
MARTIN: Poet Mary Oliver. I asked her if she in fact begins her days the way she describes in this poem, "I Happen to be Standing."
OLIVER: Almost. I thought, gee, I do lie a little bit. And I should have said, which is the way I begin most mornings.
MARTIN: Talk to me a little bit about that ritual. Do you make it part of the writing discipline to go out into the world and make some observations every day?
OLIVER: I think it began with discipline, because I did understand that any artistic venture requires a lot of discipline. But it's no longer a discipline, it's no longer something I think about. I'm often up - on most mornings - I'm up to see the sun. And that rising of the light moves me very much. And I'm used to thinking and feeling in words, so it sort of just happens.
MARTIN: Have you always done that? Have you always written in the mornings?
OLIVER: Yes, yes. I like the mornings. I like to give the mornings to those first good thoughts. And I suppose in a way it sets up the day.
MARTIN: You have written many collections. How is this one different?
OLIVER: I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful and, again, almost involuntary in my life. And when I talk about prayer, I mean really what that Rumi says in that wonderful line, there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. I'm not theological specifically. I might pick a flower for Shiva as well as say the hundredth prayer. The name of the god doesn't interest me so much as the fact there are so many names of that mystery.
MARTIN: Has your work become more prayerful, more spiritual over the years?
OLIVER: I would say yes. Maybe a little bit of that is that the two things I loved from a very early age were the natural world and dead poets, which were my pals when I was a kid. But the concern I have for the natural world is really a very sorrowful business.
MARTIN: Why sorrowful?
OLIVER: Because we aren't doing what we should do to preserve the world. The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in, they're not gone but they're full of bicycle trails and - I grew up in a town that was 3,500 people in Ohio, very pastoral and there were woods to go to. That town is now over 250,000 people. And this is happening to the world and I think it is very, very dangerous for our future generations, those of us who believe that the world is not only necessary to us in its pristine state but it is in itself an act of some kind of spiritual thing. I said once, and I think this is true, the world did not have to be beautiful to work, but it is. What does that mean?
MARTIN: Because you write about the natural world and because you write these beautiful meditations about your natural surroundings, as so many others have done, how do you find new words to describe what you see?
OLIVER: I suppose by paying very close, close, close attention to things and seeing new details. I love words. I love the mechanics of poetry. I often speak of the choreography of the poem on the page. And to find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it. It's wonderful. It's fun. But one thing I do know is that a poetry to be understand must be clear. It mustn't be fancy. I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it. I always feel that whatever isn't necessary should not be in the poem.
MARTIN: How do you know when a poem is done?
OLIVER: Oh. Well, I don't know that you ever know but in some way you have made a completion of a thought or a mood or whatever you're doing and it's time to go on with the next one.
MARTIN: Mary Oliver. Her new book of poetry is called "A Thousand Mornings." She joined us from member station WSHU in Fairfield, Connecticut. Mary, thanks so much for talking with us. It's been a real pleasure.
OLIVER: Thank you, thank you. A pleasure for me too. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.


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Corky Miller's Mustache has it's own Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Corky...33277576706213
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Zimmers (04-21-2013)
I'm not sure Hanigan is going to get his everyday job back, and that's coming from somebody who has supported continuing to play him.
Also, Corky Miller is a horrible baseball player. Awful.
Tom Servo (04-22-2013)
yes....hannigan, please hurry up and get healthy as the Reds miss your potent stick.
"I can't take this homerism anymore." - 10xWSChamps, August 11, 2010. A Cardinals fan having a problem with all the homerism on Redszone. Classic.
"Man do I miss the days where were didn't need a calculator and an encyclopedia of baseball metrics to enjoy a baseball game ... - MikeS21" - 8/2/12 game thread
Corky Miller may not be the best player around, but his facial hair is being inducted into the Reds HOF in 2015.
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
He does however, call a great game. This article says why many of us are Corky Miller fans.
As catcher-sages go, Miller is a combination of Jake Taylor (bad knees, irreverent) in the movie Major League, Hall of Fame New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra (always funny, even when he doesn't mean to be) and Crash Davis, played by Kevin Costner in the movie Bull Durham."I gave up a double (earlier this season in Triple-A)," Willis said, "and he came out to the mound, and I said, 'Bad call on my part to throw that pitch.' His response was, 'No, it wasn't. It was the right pitch. Just throw it better.'Miller is renowned for paying more attention to the pitcher he's catching that the one he's batting against that night.
"He sees everything," Willis said. "He's helped a lot of guys. You might not like what he's saying, but it's the truth. I think that's a lost art in this world.
"We've had a lot of in-depth conversations in Triple-A. I really believe that if it wasn't for him helping (catching prospect) (Devin) Mesoraco the way he has, I wouldn't have had the solid first half there that I did.''
Mesoraco tells a story about Miller watching from the dugout earlier this year and detecting that Mesoraco was inadvertently tipping the pitcher's pitches by the way his signaling arm was positioned. Miller knew every pitch that was coming.
"Quick learner," Miller said of Mesoraco. "That was three months ago. I haven't seen it since."
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remdog (04-22-2013)
I'm hoping that Dusty rides Mes hard while Hannigan is on the DL.
Corky is a last resort type player. I honestly hope he gets no starts if at all possible.
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I fully expect Corky to get a few starts. I don't want to see Mez get 15 straight starts as it would wear him down. And rewarding Corky for his great work in the system with a couple of games over the next two weeks would be a nice move as well. I fully expect his last AB to result in a homer into the gloamin' as he then goes back to the minors to play his role until September.
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