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4 Stocks Spiking on Unusual Volume
Major moves in volume can signal unusual activity, such as insider buying or selling -- or buying or selling by "superinvestors."
>>5 Stocks Set to Soar on Bullish Earnings
Unusual volume can also be a major signal that hedge funds and momentum traders are piling into a stock ahead of a catalyst. These types of traders like to get in well before a large spike, so it's always a smart move to monitor unusual volume. That said, remember to combine trend and price action with unusual volume. Put them all together to help you decipher the next big trend for any stock.
With that in mind, let's take a look at several stocks rising on unusual volume today.
>>5 Stocks Setting Up to Break Out Incyte
Incyte (INCY) , which focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of proprietary small molecule drugs to treat serious unmet medical needs, is trading up 5.2% at $19.17 in recent trading.
Today's Volume: 1.56 million
Average Volume: 1.35 million
Volume % Change: 110%
From a technical perspective, INCY is ripping higher here right above its 50-day moving average of $17.30 with above-average volume. This move is quickly pushing INCY within range of triggering a major breakout trade. That trade will hit if INCY takes out some key overhead resistance levels at $19.60 to $19.80 and then once it clears more resistance at $20 to $20.53 with high volume.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in INCY as long as it's trending above some near-term support at $18.14, and then once it sustains a move or close above those breakout levels with volume that hits near or above 1.35 million shares. If that breakout triggers soon, then INCY will set up to re-fill some its previous gap down zone from last August that started at around $26. Arena Pharmaceuticals
Arena Pharmaceuticals (ARNA) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing oral drugs that target G protein-coupled receptors. This stock is trading up 4.8% at $10.13 in recent trading.
Today's Volume: 12.34 million
Average Volume: 8.61 million
Volume % Change: 135%
From a technical perspective, ARNA is spiking higher here right off some near-term support at $9.50 with monster upside volume. This stock has been uptrending strongly for the last two months, with shares moving higher from its recent low of $7.09 to its intraday high of $10.28. During that move, shares of ARAN have been consistently making higher lows and higher highs, which is bullish technical price action. That move has now pushed ARNA within range of triggering a major breakout trade. That trade will hit if ARNA manages to take out some key overhead resistance levels at $12.07 to $13.50 with high volume.


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An Idaho Supreme Court decision has created uncertainty for hundreds of leaseholders with cabins on Priest and Payette lakes.
The state owns the land under the cabins. On June 29, the state's high court overturned a state law that protected those leaseholders from having that land auctioned off.
The court ruled the protections violated the Idaho Constitution's requirement to maximize financial returns on endowment lands.
The Spokesman-Review reports that 354 cottage sites at Priest Lake and 167 at Payette Lake are affected.
Many cabin owners are putting off improvements to cabins and property until the state decides on changes to the lease program.
The state is working toward offering leaseholders the choice of either public auction for the land or a land exchange that meets strict requirements.


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2. 3-3/8 inch* Ultra Slim Design with Integrated Dock for iPod & Blu-ray Disc 8482; Playback
3. Full-HD Movie & Enjoy YouTube 8482; on your TV: VIERA CAST (YouTube 8482;, Picasa 8482; Web Albums, etc)
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- Two; twice; double: dichromatic.
- Containing two atoms, radicals, or groups: dichloride.
- Variant of dia-.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- Meaning two, twice, or double.
- An occasionally used form of dis-.
- A form of dia- before a vowel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- A prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice.
Greek; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
From Ancient Greek δίς (dis, "twice"). (Wiktionary)
From Ancient Greek δία (dia, "through"). (Wiktionary)
I think pragmatically the politics are such that we would be wise to resist grants and/or contracts directly to ACORN, Inc. but try and either set up separate corporations … or use existing corporations … that are less overtly moving the money di- rectly into ACORN, Inc., though in truth it would be going there in other ways.
The aroma of asafoetida is due to a complex mixture of sulfur compounds, a dozen identical with volatiles in the onion family, and a number of less common di-, tri-, and tetrasulfides.


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In honor of our Fiftieth Class Reunion, four members of our Class of 1966 who wish to remain anonymous pledged $33,000 in increased gifts to the Hendrix Annual Fund for scholarships and financial aid. They challenged the remaining members of the class, along with other members of the Half Century Club, to match their pledge for a total gift of $66,000 in new and increased gifts in honor of the Class of '66.
The completed gift honors the past - the Hendrix that formed us and the lives we lived in that tradition. Today 100% of Hendrix students receive scholarships and other financial aid because of alumni support. President Tsutsui has begun bold collaborations with some of Arkansas' finest preparatory schools to ensure that every applicant meriting a Hendrix education can afford it. Success depends directly on generosity to the Hendrix Annual Fund.
The College's 2015-2016 fiscal year ended on May 31, 2016 and we are proud to announce that we made our Challenge goal. Together, we raised a total of $79,635. Thank you for supporting the Annual Fund!
If you have any questions about this Challenge, or how to create your own donor challenge, contact Jenn Morehead, Director of Annual Giving, by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at (501) 450-1360. The 2016-2017 fiscal year kicked off on June 1 and the College needs your support to make the Hendrix dream a reality for students. You can make your gift anytime online at www.hendrix.edu/makeagift.
Jon Wolfe '66, PhD & Donna Manley Wolfe '66, MAClass Agents, Hendrix Class of '66


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You've met a number of our creators, via their own words, through our "Meet Your Creator" series. We've enjoyed bringing this addition to you as much as our cartoonists have enjoyed sharing this with you. If there is a cartoonist that you'd like to hear from, let us know by commenting here or reaching us on Facebook or Twitter.
Our next creative mind to bring their words and art to you is Tony Carrillo, cartoonist of "F Minus". Tony's comic panel is clever, timely and plays off of the daily frustrations of today's innovations and interactions. Tony, you're up.
Let me take you back. Way back. I'm talking about when man first etched his marks upon the cave walls. "Who is that man," I wondered, "and why is he ruining my high school trip to Carlsbad Caverns?" That's when I first got the idea to do a comic strip.
Funny drawings had always been my thing. It was a way of expressing myself where words, whistles, and offensive gestures failed. I would draw pictures in my friends' yearbooks instead of writing the cliché, "Don't change! Keep in touch!" Now that I think about it, maybe that's why all my high school friends changed and stopped calling me.
So in 1997, I submitted one perfect comic to my high school newspaper in Tempe, Arizona. At some point through the years I misplaced that comic, but I still have the rejection letter. It was the first rejection letter I'd ever received from someone who wasn't a girl I liked. In short, the editorial staff of the paper felt that my content was "not appropriate."
I quit cartooning forever for five years. In 2002, my college newspaper printed an advertisement stating that there was a spot available for a new student comic strip.
The rest, as they say, is history. Since everything I've written so far is also history, I'll continue.
I drew up a couple of single-panel comics and sent them in with my application. About a week later, I got a call from the features editor of the paper.
"Now see here, Pachuco. I'm in Dutch over this cartoon vacancy and the chief will have a bean-shooter to my noggin if I don't get it filled lickety-split, see?" (This was how newsmen spoke in the old days.) "After getting a slant at those dingy doodles of yours, me and the boys have you pegged as the real McCoy. Keep it nobby nickel/seven and there's a sawbuck in it for you, savvy?"
Suffice it to say, I agreed to draw a comic five times a week. I called it F Minus, and it wasn't that different from the comic I draw today, except now I draw seven per week. (But the extra two aren't very good.) The rest, as I said, is history.
Some things have changed since those early days. For instance, I've shifted away from the old pen and paper system into the digital realm. Now I draw all my comics on my phone, often while driving.
Be sure to follow me on Twitter @tonycarrillo and @fminus, on Instagram, and don't forget to like F Minus on Facebook. I post comics, detailed descriptions of my meals, things I see out my window, and anything new happening with F Minus. Who knows what the future may bring…


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BETHPAGE - It's considered Hollywood East and is home to many major film productions, including the just wrapped "Amazing Spider-Man 2," and News 12's Elisa DiStefano got a backstage tour of it in Bethpage.
The Grumman Studios is packed with production and super-sized soundstages. According to Francine Bachmann, of Grumman Studios, stage 6 is the largest cyclorama, or chroma key, in New York State.
"The whole thing would be painted green or whatever they wanted," says Bachmann. "And then [we] change it back to white and then we start again."
Bachmann says on stage 7 there is a soundproof room. She says the owner built it specifically for the soundproofing.
Ingrid Dodd, of the Nassau County Film Office, says it's stage 7 and the tax incentives that are why many productions come to the facility.
"We are Hollywood East – the tax incentives we have now from the governor, and the county executive is vested in the area," Dodd says. "The big, big productions are coming and, you know, if you build it, they will come."
The studios will mark a television milestone with "The Sound of Music" three-hour musical special that will air live on NBC on Dec. 5. "Annie" is also currently filming. That is due out next December and stars Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx.


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The Jervis McEntee Diaries - December 12, 1885
Diary Entry:
Saturday, Dec 12, 1885 Cold and bright. Painted all day on my little Kellys Corner picture and have about finished it. I think there are some good qualities in it and I find I have greater facility and can produce results more easily. There was a notice of the pictures at the Union League in yesterdays Tribune and I think every artists name but mine was mentioned. I dont care only I wonder why I am never mentioned in the Tribune. The notice of these foot pads is not so much a distinction as their silence. Mrs. Conkey came with a lot of young women from Brooklyn and Mrs. Henshaw called. About noon Katy Burns, grown into a buxom young woman came from the House of Refuge in charge of a big policeman. I wrote a note to Capt. Van Kewen of the City of Kingston and he took her down there. I hope she will reach home safely, where Sara is to meet her or have some of her people there.


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The New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce's next Hot Topics breakfast is Friday, March 14.
Presenting will be Senator Gary Dahms and Representative Paul Torkelson who will giving an update on the busy beginning of the 2014 Legislative Session. Topics sure to be covered will be the budget surplus, school funding, minimum wage and transportation funding.
Event is at 7:30am at the New Ulm Country Club and includes breakfast. To rsvp, please contact the Chamber at 233-4300. Cost is $7 for Chamber Members and $9 for general admission. Please rsvp by March 12.


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Now available!! On Side A of this Americana-themed split single, National Yodeling Champion Larry Wilder directs his Appalachian yowl toward the lore surrounding Portland's original Voodoo Doughnut store.
In a pun-filled ballad reminiscent of both "Weird Al" Yankovic and Jimmie Rogers, Wilder spins a tale of true romance and double entendre interspersed with his signature yodel. On Side B, Portland's beloved Dickel Brothers reunite for a doughnut song of their own. For "Mama's Sweet Rounds," the Dickels recorded fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, double bass and vocal parts all at once. The result is rich, holistic and mysterious, as if the song was recorded into a tin can in the 1930s…yet it is just as full of sly references to libidinous practices as the yodel number.
Voodoo Doughnut Recordings will be releasing a new single every month this year, so stay tuned for more….


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Mind / Iron | January 2008 | Infrastructure
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A fundamental aspect of robotics is that the application domain can range from ocean beds and table tops to the nooks and crannies of extraterrestrial dunes. It's no coincidence that the techniques and technologies described in the article featured in this issue of SERVO can be applied to virtually any application areas. However, if you have a particular interest in space exploration, then you'll find Fulvio Mastrogiovanni's article, "Space Robotics," of particular note...
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Hey tbcotten.
What do you mean by average? Do you want to take all models < 2 AIC and "average" those models out? How would you define non-mathematically average?
So I'm picking up a project that a colleague abandoned when he moved. I'm performing a regression with frog occupancy as a function of several habitat characteristics using R. I've calculated my AIC table but need to model average for the models the were <2 AIC points. Does any one have any experience with this and and writing the code for it in R?


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Sackets Harbor Girls Advance To Semis
The Sackets Harbor girls' basketball team was the only one to advance among a trio of Frontier League schools hoping to stay alive in postseason play.
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Thursday's Local Sports Scores
Girls' High School Basketball
Sackets Harbor 47
Cincinnatus 29
Little Falls 42
Thousand Islands 41
Boys' High School Basketball
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Made for Each Other
Inside the national parks you'll find natural—and man-made—wonders
By Dwight Young | From Preservation | January/February 2010
Like millions of other people, I spent a big chunk of the fall watching Ken Burns' epic PBS documentary about our national parks. Much of it was familiar—a grizzly here, a geyser there, plunging canyons, towering trees, purple mountain majesties, etc., etc.—but heart-stoppingly beautiful just the same. Still, after seeing the same view of Yosemite Falls for the umpteenth time (Here it is in sepia! Here it is in glorious color!) I found myself thinking, OK, very nice—but when do we get to the buildings?
Don't get me wrong: I'm a big fan of scenery. Having grown up on the Plains, I am blown away by rugged mountains, deep forests, and blue lakes. When I'm driving through a stretch of pretty country, I have to fight the urge to stick my head out the window and try to lap it all up like a big, dumb golden retriever. I'm grateful that visionaries like John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt and Stephen Mather worked so hard to keep so many incredible places from being plowed under or paved over. But while we're celebrating the accomplishments of these great nature-lovers, let's not forget that the national parks embrace a host of man-made wonders too. Sure, "the best idea America ever had" protects a stunning array of sweeping vistas—but there's lots of bricks and mortar (not to mention wood and concrete and steel) in the parks.
Historic sites in the National Park Service's care range from Alcatraz to Independence Hall, with everything from Mesa Verde to Abraham Lincoln's home and the shimmering Gateway Arch in between. Even the parks that are best known for their natural beauty boast plenty of historic structures—like the delightfully rustic El Tovar Hotel on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, the simple farmsteads at Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains, the huge mining structures at Wrangell-St. Elias, the slightly wacko Scotty's Castle in Death Valley, or any of the thousands of cabins and lookout towers and bathhouses erected by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the New Deal era.
All told, the nearly 400 units in the national park system incorporate a mind-boggling 27,000 significant structures. These places link us with everyone from original inhabitants and pioneer settlers to 20th-century park planners and vacationers. Modest or monumental, they represent important chapters in our nation's story, which is a lofty way of saying that they're worth hanging on to. And that's why we've included several park structures on our "11 Most Endangered" list over the years, and why Save America's Treasures has raised millions of dollars to help preserve them, and why everyone who loves the parks ought to take a minute to celebrate the buildings that dot—and often enrich—the landscape.
I found a photo taken in Grand Teton National Park. In the background loom the Tetons themselves—a stunning wall of jagged peaks splotched with snow, rising straight up from the valley floor to the stratosphere, looking more like fantasy than geology. In the foreground is a barn, weathered and well used, looking pretty much like a million other barns, except that here, its steeply pitched roof precisely mimics the shape of the mountain behind it. Seen together, mountain and barn say something important and meaningful about the American West, about the glories it offers and challenges it poses, about the way people have responded to both. Happily, the whole scene—mountains and barn and everything else in sight—belongs to all of us. That's good news, because that mountain and that barn were made for each other.
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Funeral services will be held Tuesday for the Harrison County High School senior who was killed in an automobile accident last Wednesday.
Brett Persinger, 18, was the passenger in a vehicle driven by Max Ogden. The pair were traveling down the hill on New Lair Road behind the high school when the car they were in collided with a cement truck that was headed up the hill.
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After 32 years working for the federal government, local postal carrier Eric Reed will be retiring at the end of this month.
Reed, 57, and a 1978 graduate of Harrison County High School, served for 13 years in the United States Army and for the last 19 years as a postal carrier.
After graduating from high school in 1978, Reed attended college at Eastern Kentucky University for one year, before enlisting in the Army.
Former Harrison County resident and current WKYT-TV news anchor Amber Philpott will be the grand marshal presiding over this year's annual Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade.
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A trio of entrepreneurs are on the verge of opening a new business in downtown Cynthiana.
Maiden City Brewing Company is set to open its tap room sometime in mid-December and hopes to get its own craft beer up and running in the spring of 2017.
The business will be located on Pike Street, right next door to Vanhook's Hardware store.
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The plow blades have been sharpened. The salt domes are full. It's snow and ice season, and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's (KYTC) maintenance crews are prepared and ready to battle the elements to keep Kentuckians moving this winter.
One Harrison County High School teen was laid to rest Tuesday morning and another is still in the fight for his life.
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Brett Persinger, 18, who was killed in a traffic accident last Wednesday just before noon.
Max Ogden, 17, remains hospitalized at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington.
Persinger, a senior, and Ogden, a junior, played baseball under Coach Mac Whitaker.
Omega chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority met on Monday, Nov. 4 at the home of Lois Judy. Two members were absent.
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As I think about the times of growing up on the farm living in an old two story house that was built without or with very little, if any, insulation was a time of being thankful that God was truly watching over my family.
Two Harrison County teens were arrested early Saturday morning in separate but related incidents. Both are facing felony charges.
The first call started on Taylor Drive around 11:15 p.m. and ended minutes later on Battle Grove Avenue.
Frank Lang, 18, Cynthiana, who was driving a Dodge pickup truck, is accused of driving through two yards on Taylor Drive.
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DescriptionThis ascidian forms extensive loosely attached sheets over other sessile animals, such as bryozoans and sponges. The sheets are wrinkled, with regularly scattered small inhalant pores and irregular larger exhalant openings, usually on raised parts of the colony. The usual colour is a dirty off-white or beige. Colonies may become free hanging, growing out from their support on overhanging surfaces. 3mm thick x 150mm across. Could easily be confused with Didemnum maculosum or Lissoclinum perforatum. Trididemnum delesseriae forms smaller colonies on sublittoral algae.


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By Anton Ruin
Fortunately, data protection technologies have got far ahead with time and it has now become much safer to make online purchases. However, the occasional cases of fraudulence or credit card number thefts, for example, prove that there is still much to improve, regarding provided online payment security.
Even though many crucial upgrades in digital encoding mechanisms and algorithms, aimed at the elimination of online data fraudulence, took place back in 2013, this year's issues, related to e-commerce payment security, are not likely to lessen in either their number, or the amount of harm they can cause.
Achieved Improvements
Undoubtedly, one of the most urgent problems in e-commerce is associated with the cases of customers' data theft. In fact, some skeptics may even claim that world's online hackers become craftier as fast as the reputable companies update their fraudulence detection algorithms and data protection methods.
At the same time, the latest research results reveal that the state of things is not as bad as it may seem. In fact, some of the upgrades and changes, implemented by world's e-merchants and financial companies, like Visa, have substantially decreased the possibility of e-shoppers' actual money loss.
In this respect, the most effective measures include the usage of innovative technological solutions and tactics, aimed at the minimization of harm, caused by financial data breach of any kind. Even if many customers' credit card numbers are stolen simultaneously, for example, the developed mechanisms track the breach and lock these cards, until the problem is resolved.
Remaining Challenges
Unlike the mentioned positive changes in the online payment security aspect, there are still many challenges in e-commerce these days. One of them is related to hacking consumers' login and password credentials, used for shopping online, for a purpose of stealing money from their bank accounts.
Unfortunately, such kind online fraudulence is almost impossible to eliminate even today, at least if e-shoppers are not willing to so to say "join the fight" for online payment safety and follow helpful recommendations from world's experts. In particular, the key tips, which enable online consumers to lower risks of their money loss, presuppose:
– Choice of complex passwords, which will be harder to crack.
– Opting for varied login/password credentials for different e-shopping sites.
– Avoiding the usage of a "remember password" or an "auto-fill" option in web-browsers.
Of course, it is also crucial to avoid clicking on any links in e-mails, sent from unknown, spam sources, as they often contain viruses, worms and other kinds of malware.
Mobile Commerce Specifics
Undoubtedly, the total number of people, who shop online using their PCs and laptops has increased to an incredible ext
ent within the past years, which allows speaking about the sufficient level of consumers' trust and confidence that their money is protected. At the same time, mobile shopping options still seem less safe for many customers worldwide, and the reasons of their skepticism are versatile.
According to recently conducted surveys, many people avoid using their mobile devices to buy goods and services mostly because their smartphones or tablets might be stolen, and the hackers may then get access to their bank accounts. Additionally, many respondents are afraid that they may lose the money, if Internet connection is aborted, while payment for their purchase is being transferred. After all, some customers simply are not ready to change their habits and try out new m-shopping options.
However, most analysts admit that the cases of fraudulence and money theft in mobile commerce do not outnumber those on display Web. If a person selects a unique complex password for m-commerce sites and does not use either an "auto-fill" or a "remember password" option, it is possible to minimize the probability of losing one's funds. Certainly, it is also recommended to ignore spam e-mails or clicking on any strange links from unknown m-commerce companies, even if a click will supposedly give a discount, a special offer, etc.
In a whole, it is clear that the global e-commerce industry is still ascending and will definitely evolve further in 2014. Similarly, the applied payment security and data protection technologies, as analysts predict, will become more sophisticated this year. Naturally, such positive trends will enable e-commerce companies to attract and engage more customers, especially the so-called "cautious" audience segments, easier and increase their revenue, as a result.
About the author
Anton Ruin is CEO of Epom (http://epom.com/).


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Matchup: Oakland Athletics vs. Pittsburgh Pirates
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 10, 7:15 p.m. (ET)
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Money Line: Oakland (+126) Pittsburgh (-136)
Total Line: 7.5
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Pitching has been at a premium so far in this three-game interleague clash with Oakland coming away with back-to-back 2-1 victories as a slight road favorite on Monday and Tuesday night. The total stayed well UNDER a 7.5-line in both contests and it has now stayed UNDER in five its last seven games. The Athletics have gone 7-3 in their last 10 games and they are a half-game ahead of Texas in the AL West at 54-37 overall. They are 26-23 on the road this year.
Oakland has done a good job at pushing runs across the plate this season with an average of 4.6 a game, but the real strength in this team still lies in a pitching staff that is ranked first in the American League with a team ERA of 3.66. Tommy Milone is slated to get the start for the A's in this series finale. The left-hander is 8-7 this season with a 4.11 ERA.
The Pirates have now lost their last four games to fall a game and a half behind St. Louis in the NL Central. They have also failed to win their last three series but still a healthy 53-36 overall. After posting a 1-4 record at PNC Park in their last five games, they have dropped to 29-17 at home this season. The total has stayed UNDER in seven of their last 10 games.
Pittsburgh is ranked 13th in the National League in scoring with an average of just 3.9 runs a game but it has failed to eclipse this mark in seven of its last 10 games. Fortunately it remains the top pitching team in the NL with a 3.12 team ERA. The Pirates will go with Francisco Liriano as their starter for Wednesday night. The left-hander is 8-3 on the year with an overall ERA of 2.20. This number actually drops to 2.05 when pitching at home. Lifetime against Oakland he is 3-4 with an ERA of 4.59.
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Sooner or later your sweet little toddler will blurt out a string of words that sounds a lot like an insult. You might hear something like, You're a do-do head. or the ever popular, You're stupid. It may stop you in your tracks and make you wonder, Did I hear that right?
Toddler rage can get pretty intense and if you're a toddler you're not really capable of saying exactly what's got your big girl or boy panties in a wad. As a parent, you might have to restrain yourself from giggling the first time or two insults are hurled, but after awhile you're really going to want to put a stop to it. First of all it's annoying when the cuteness wears off- and secondly, you don't want your child insulting everyone whenever they get the urge, and finally they need to learn how to control their impulses.
Sometimes parents, caregivers or babysitters get right down on a toddlers level and the fight begins. No one wins in this situation.
So how do you put a stop to your preschooler's name-calling and its first cousin potty mouth?
Well, there are several approaches you can try. Since every kid is different, some of these tips will help some and not others. But don't give up and don't lose your cool (too often.)
- Take the fun out of name-calling. Let's face it; name-calling for a toddler is a blast. They get a quick response and it can be very amusing watching mom or dad blow up right in front of them. Oftentimes they get giggles from their parents, or equal rage. For a toddler that's a lot of exciting attention. Instead, calmly respond, don't like that word, please don't use it. It's simple and to the point. Continue doing whatever you were doing before your child decided to let you know you weren't behaving the way they wanted you to.
- Help your child find the language they need to explain what they are feeling. Angry insults usually come from frustration, and ha-ha insults from getting positive re-enforcement in the way of laughter and making a big deal of whatever is said. To a toddler, cracking mom and pop up on a regular basis is a hoot till mom and pop get tired of it. Take the time to look at the situation that was going on right before the outburst. Was there something he or she wanted? Was he or she hungry, tired, thirsty, bored? Express what you think they were really wanting to say, such as: You really wanted more cookies; they taste yummy. You're mad that mommy isn't letting you have them. See if they respond that you have acknowledged their true complaint. Work with them a little while to help them find the right words.
- Give the anger a release valve. Offer your toddler a pillow to hit on or allow them to stamp their feet for a limited amount of time. Anger is normal we all have times when we get angry. Expecting a child to not get angry or express it is not reasonable. Help them learn how to express anger appropriately and move on.
- Acknowledge your child's need for independence. That's a tough one because they aren't really independent. But they are beginning to understand that they can have some say in their life choices. Help your youngster feel more empowered by allowing her to choose which shoes to wear, or what she has for snack time. When children are constantly being told what to do, they are more likely to try to exert some sense of power with behaviors like name-calling.
- Don't reward name-calling. I think that says it pretty clearly. If you want to entertain a power struggle with a toddler, you'll probably come out on top in the long run, but feel worse about your behavior than theirs. A better approach is to not reward name-calling by either over-reacting or giving in to demands. If he or she doesnt get what they want after a name-calling session, they'll eventually learn that name-calling doesn't work.
- Ouch. Some parents find it effective to use this simple phrase to let their children know that they have crossed the line. It sends a brief message in a neutral way that can have a real impact because it is delivered without a lot of words that a child might otherwise tune out.
- Where did you learn to act like that? Kids are great mimics. They learn by watching and listening. If you name-call when you're angry, or someone they spend a lot of time around is a name-caller, you can see where they might pick it up. I've always thought if you want to see a reflection of yourself watch how your toddler behaves.
- And finally, the hardest method of dealing with name-calling, don't laugh OK, now stop right there, not one more giggle. See? It's hard. Once the laugh train is going full steam, it's difficult for the conductor to stop it. Do your best to maintain a poker face even when the name-calling is silly. There are lots of more positive things to laugh with your child about.
Most children try name-calling when they feel hurt or out-of-control. If you find yourself at the beginning of the name-calling phase, control your own behavior and offer your child a way to help express what is going on with them. It's one of those childhood expressive periods that needs some direct guidance and management before it becomes a pattern of bad behavior.
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What can be done with those brown bananas sitting on your counter top? Think tender, sweet, banana-bread-like cake with a crunchy sugar-pecan top. Then picture warm chocolate sauce drizzled over a piece and then swoon a little as you drop a mental dollop of whipped cream on top. As decadent as this sounds, it's pretty easy and includes a boost in nutrition from Hodgson Mill Whole Wheat Pastry Flour.
Mash the bananas in a small bowl and stir in the vanilla extract. Set aside. In a medium-sized bowl, mix together the flours, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt. Set aside. Reserving one tablespoon of sugar, cream together the remaining sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl. Add the eggs and mix until well combined. Mix in the sour cream and banana mixture at slow speed or by hand. It's okay if the mixture looks a bit curdled- it will come back together with the dry ingredients. Mix in the dry ingredients just until incorporated. Pour the batter into a well-buttered nine-inch cast-iron skillet or similarly-sized buttered cake pan. Scatter the pecans over the top and then sprinkle the reserved tablespoon of sugar over the top, too. Bake for about 30 minutes at 350˚F until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
To make the chocolate sauce, combine the whipped cream and brown sugar in a small saucepan. Stir together over low heat and simmer until the sugar has dissolved. Bring the mixture to a quick boil, remove from the heat and stir in the chopped chocolate until it is smooth. Set aside to serve warm with the banana cake.
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The following consists of written comments that were turned in at the Bureau of Reclamation's Informational Open Houses held in Wauneta, Ne (8/22/00) and McCook, Ne (8/23/00). The majority of them were written on comment cards.
We thank everyone who attended these open houses for their ideas and these comments which will play an important part in the development of the future Resource Management Plans for the four Southwestern Reservoirs: Enders, Swanson, Medicine Creek and Red Willow.
Sure give the Bureau credit for one thing - they know how to manage a meeting!!"
"People from the Bureau of Reclamation and Game and Parks Commission, do you hunt? Are you 72 years old? I am 72 years old and like to hunt but I can't do a lot of walking. By closing the West end of Enders Lake, you have limited my hunting there.
"I believe your wages are paid by the people of the state. I believe in a democracy. The people in charge should talk to the people they represent before they make changes. You are making the changes first, and now you want to talk about it.
"Who manages the grazing around the lake. It should be someone who has the experience and knowledge to do it the right way. Pasture light in spring and, if it rains during summer, then pasture it light in fall.
"You say you want to improve the habitat on the West end of Enders Lake. The turkey hunting last spring was very poor. It did not improve hunting last spring.
"I would like to see 1 mile of road on the South side of the Frenchman River between the no. 2 parking area and the no. 4 parking area, West end."
"Gov't (should) redo the project purposes at Enders, or introduce legislation."
At Swanson Reservoir:
"Thank you! It was nice to be able to comment for the next long range plan."
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Curry County dairyman Albin Smith said there were many days over the last four years when he wasn't sure his business was going to make it.
Smith, the owner of Curry County dairies SAS and Arrowhead, said trying to bounce back from four years of decline has not and will not be easy for the dairy industry.
"Some of my neighbors are not here now, because they didn't make it through this downturn," he said. "God and myself have become really close and that's what it was (that got me through), not my brilliance or my deep pockets. That and a good banker."
Walter Bradley of the southwest area for Dairy Farmers of America, a four-state region, said one dairy closed in Roosevelt County in 2013, making a loss of 10 dairies since 2009.
Curry County has maintained 26 dairies since 2009, with two closing, but only temporarily.
But the good news, according to Bradley, is that he does not foresee any more local dairies closing because industry prices have improved recently.
"In fact, the dairy that went down (in 2013), may reopen," Bradley said. "But I also don't see any big expansions happening because of the hard times the industry has come through from 2010 to 2013."
Bradley said 2010 through 2012 was a rough period for area dairies with the region's severe drought causing high feed prices and over production causing low milk prices.
He said after three years of a bad market, dairy producers have debt to repay from having to borrow during the down times.
Bradley said milk prices are rising because demand has increased here as well as in the exportation of dairy products.
"In 2012, our feed cost was really high, because we could not produce it (ourselves)," Bradley said. "So the big difference (now) is that our feed cost has gone down quite a bit."
Bradley said due to a drop in ethanol demand, corn prices dropped, making it more readily available as livestock feed.
He said regional dairies were just beginning to export their products in 2010 and since then, product exports have increase from 9 percent to 15 percent, further improving the industry's situation.
Smith said exporting has increased because powdered milk is in much higher demand in other countries than in the U.S.
"It's been the pits (for the dairy industry) for four years," Smith said. "We've now had two months of better prices with milk and also the prices of cows have improved somewhat."
He said prices should remain improved for local industry as long as the global and national economy remains improved.
Bradley said when local dairymen are back to being able to grow their own feed, that will further improve industry conditions, but the drought is still preventing that for the time being.
He said after improving at the end of last year, the industry is staying steady. Now, all producers can do is hope for it to continue, he said.
"It could have been a lot worse," Bradley said of the industry's rough patch. "But it may not be over. It (the industry) may turn on us again and if it does, we may be in trouble again."
Smith said it will take well more than a year with extremely improved prices for local dairies to get back to where they were before 2010.
Bradley said New Mexico is the number one state in production per cow with Curry, Roosevelt and Chaves counties tops in the state.
He said dairy producers have begun culling cows (taking them out of production) earlier in their lives in order to keep top production from each.
The dairy industry brings $23 million per month in income to Curry and Roosevelt counties, with 80 percent of that income remaining within the two counties, according to Bradley.


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Basilian Fathers Continue Legacy at UST
We are the Basilian Fathers serving at UST. Our community established the University of St. Thomas in 1947, and more than 70 members of our community have served at the University. We do all we can to ensure that UST continues to provide a solid Catholic liberal arts education, and we believe strongly in the ability of such an education to enrich the minds and hearts of students.
We do not accomplish this alone and acknowledge with great gratitude the men and women who have served together with us at UST and join us in fulfilling our mission.
We look forward to receiving students here. They are not mere customers to us. We believe in an education that addresses students as persons. Although a university focuses on intellectual growth, we also hope where possible to cultivate in our students other dimensions of human development: spiritual, moral, social and physical.
Learn about the many ways in which our University is informed and inspired by the Catholic and Basilian traditions of higher education. It is a legacy we prize and gladly share with people of all faiths and traditions. May God bless you.
Read more about the Basilian Fathers
The Congregation of St. Basil
The Congregation of St. Basil was started by 10 priest-teachers in Annonay, France in 1822 and later branched out into Canada in the mid-19th century. Today, their headquarters are in Toronto, and the Basilians also have communities in other Canadian cities and in New York, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, France, Colombia and Mexico.
Fr. Buentello serves as superior of the 10 Basilian priests who live on campus in Donoghue Hall, most of whom are active in University life. The Rev. Joseph Pilsner, a 1988 alumnus, is the dean of Arts and Sciences, after teaching philosophy, theology and honors courses during his 10 years as a faculty member. Other faculty members include the Rev. Ted Baenziger, who studied at the renowned Sorbonne in France and is a professor of French. The Rev. George Hosko is the inter-library loan librarian and always ready to talk politics.
Involvement at St. Thomas
Fr. Janusz Ihnatowicz, though not a Basilian, also lives in Donoghue Hall. He is a professor emeritus of theology and personally knew the priest who turned out to be the first Polish pope. "I wrote for his diocesan paper when he was a bishop," Fr. Ihnatowicz says. "We used to talk about articles. He was quite an editor."
Another notable Basilian Father is the Most Rev. J. Michael Miller, archbishop of Vancouver, who was president of the University from 1997 to 2004 before being called to the Vatican. He occasionally visits for lectures and special events.
Fr. Buentello, in his role as chaplain, is actively involved with students in the spiritual dimension and also the social dimension. "We connect with students through the sacraments," Fr. Buentello said. "The attendance at the 12:30 p.m. Mass has gone up since I've been here, as well as the sacrament of reconciliation."
Fr. Buentello makes it a point to meet students on campus where they are. Several times a semester, he can be found on the Campus Life Mall, donned in boots and a black cowboy hat, and preparing a 120-pound pig in his "Holy Smoke" barbecue pit for a student event. Or students can chat about the University sports teams with him while working out in the Jerabeck Center weight room. Fr. Buentello has also been known to join the annual Jell-O® games with Residence Life.
"I enjoy the spontaneity of being with young people and the depth of their thoughts as they look at world issues and share with me their insight," he said. "I'm very much amazed at how well they grasp a lot of things, and I find it enlightening."
Basilian Community Life
The Basilians' community life revolves around morning and evening prayer, as part of the Divine Office of prayers. The morning begins with meditation and prayer in the priest's private chapel in the Basilian residence. Breakfast follows with meals served by one of the priests' longtime cooks, Ruby Justice. "The conversation is light hearted and fun, discussing current events, politics and history," Fr. Buentello said.
After work on campus, the priests will return to their residence for conversation and dinner. "In most homes there's a living room," Fr. Buentello said. "In our house it's a community room. I look forward to that at five o'clock — just to be part of that conversation."
Another longtime cook, Juanita Rogers prepares dinner at six, and the priests are punctual for the meal, which includes more lively discussion. "At dinner, Fr. Braden can explain physics to us, so that we mere mortals can understand it," Fr. Buentello said. "He'll use the salt shaker and the pepper to start demonstrating, and okay, wow, now I understand."
Each priest has a modest living space: a small room with a door that opens up to the courtyard. There is also a pool, a gift from benefactors Dominique and John de Menil in the 1960s. "My living room is the outdoors, the courtyard," Fr. Buentello said. "I like that design."
As this is their home, the Basilian residence also has spaces dedicated to the work and hobbies of several of the priests.
Fr. Baenziger grows about 800 orchids, some of them prize-winning, in the courtyard and in a greenhouse tucked behind the priest's rooms. The priests also care for their dog Nero, a large black Labrador that can take a grown man down with one jump.
More Than Founders
Today, the University's success means that the priests no longer have to work for free, and the Basilian community donates a large portion of salaries back to the University, continuing the many ways in which they support the school.
The Basilian Fathers build on the legacy of previous priests at St. Thomas. Fr. Buentello, an alumnus, said he remembers another era of priests when he studied at UST as an undergraduate in the 1980s. "Fr. William Young was president," he said. "Fr. Robert Lamb was still teaching history. I remember Fr. John McManus, Fr. Edward Bader, Fr. Richard Schieffen — all of these very gifted individuals. We would say our evening prayer, and then I would see them trudging back on campus to their offices. And guess what, I do the same thing. Well, there's something to be done. We want to do it."
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October 27, 2000:
By Douglas Bernon
We skedaddled out of Annapolis first thing Sunday morning, getting but a few miles south yet landing light years from the hectic pace of the past couple of weeks. As long as we remained in Annapolis, we'd continue to hang out with friends we love, but 10 days of boat shows, BOAT U.S., West Marine, Fawcett's, meetings, BAM (Boat Accessory Market–a used-boat-stuff extravaganza), and a rush-rush business trip out west for Bernadette to do a story for CW was enough for us both.
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This was not our only brush with The Law. In Annapolis one day, while dinghying over to see a guy I heard was using old sailboat parts to make a contraption that hurls pumpkins, a flashing light and siren out of nowhere were all of the sudden next to me, and a local cop with mirrored-sunglasses was bellowing: "Stop your engine and produce ownership of this vessel."
"Sure," I said. "I always carry the official papers in the rubber duck." John Wayne was not amused. This inanity, and the one full day of our finite lives that it wasted to straighten it all out, doesn't merit much detail except to say that I continue to struggle telling the difference between cops and robbers.
Fortunately, Annapolis harbors people who balance that kind of karma, which is why I was searching out the pumpkin guy, Jim Hyde, who owns MB Boats, a highly respected boatyard with a logo that includes the print of a dog paw. This I took as a good omen. His yard is located smack dab in the middle of the Annapolis Yacht Club, near where Ithaka was moored. For the second consecutive year, Jim is competing in a "Punkin Chunkin" Contest. This year's event, the last one of the season, sponsored by the Punkin Chunkin Association, will be held in Millsboro, Delaware, on November 4 and 5. There are a number of categories, each designated by means of propulsion: Engine-Powered, Human-Powered, Human-Powered Catapult, Unlimited Catapult, and Pneumatic Cannons. Unlike hassling people in dinghies, this is an activity to which I can fully relate.
|The Punkin Chunker
Jim Hyde and crew are competing in the Unlimited-Catapult class. "You can cock it with any device you want," he told me, happy to have someone come in who was interested in what he was up to. "But we use hydraulics." Sitting among the sailboats was an enormous catapult, an aluminum mast with a number of new and unusual welded fittings. The whole thing was affixed to a fulcrum that suggested collaboration between Rube Goldberg and Monty Python.
Hyde loves to talk about what he's doing. "We were the first people to use a sailboat rig," he said. "It's what we know, so it's what we made. See that scale model over by the truck? It threw a lime 550 feet. With the right pumpkin, we'd like to do a good 3,000 feet this year." Hyde prefers "the 8- to 10-pound pumpkins, about the same size as a 10-pin bowling ball. Y'gotta learn to tune your machine. A lotta guys swear by the white pumpkin. Better mass and consistency. That's important because it's gotta leave your machine whole, in one piece."
He is particularly proud of this year's contraption, but will not describe it fully or reveal all its secret parts, sort of like shrouding a newly designed keel underwater until the main event. "We've got thousands of hours in this baby. I even had custom-made springs turned for it. This is our year. We wanna win bad, but time's getting short. The problem is we still gotta work on boats. We try to blow off as many jobs as we can right now. The guys in our class are maxing out at 1,600, 1,700 feet. We'd like to do a good 3,000 feet this year and bring back the big-ass award. It's a carved statue of a guy climbing steps and holding a pumpkin on his shoulders. It's like the America's Cup of chunkin."
|Jim Hyde, builder of the Punkin Chunker
On so many levels, I can identify with Jim Hyde and his desire to throw things. In what now seems like a previous life, more than 20 years ago, I was briefly employed as a minor weenie at the United States Metric Board, a now-defunct government agency whose Congressional mandate was "to encourage voluntary metrification." Many of the Board Members were a touch evangelical in their enthusiasm, and dreamed of a metric Lourdes where frail men and women would throw down their yardsticks to find new life forces in liters and meters. To their considerable disappointment, this groundswell never happened, so as part of my job I was assigned to seek out what my superiors termed "major metric conversion opportunities," public events whose organizers would agree to embrace the metric system, thereby educating the citizenry and leading them from darkness.
First I contacted all the serious guys--baseball, golf, football, horse-racing–in fact, every professional sport. Door after door was slammed in my face. Finally, in the panhandle of Oklahoma, I found the Beaver International Cow-Chip Hurling Championship.
In the United States Metric Board, the Cow Chip People recognized their ideal handmaiden; they would get publicity and a pseudo-endorsement from a federal agency that for some cockeyed reason was willing to spend taxpayers' money to publicize hundreds of people throwing dried turds as far as they could. (I would learn firsthand that discus-style is the favored throwing style, and that your chances are improved by selecting a pie that's not too sun-parched. The retained moisture keeps the mass solid so, like the pumpkin, it's less likely to come apart at launch.)
With some not-needed advice from my superiors about my maintaining the dignity of the U.S. Government, they dispatched me to Beaver, where I competed in the contest, watched the crowning ceremony for Miss Beaver and rode in the parade. My favorite float was a 10-foot-diameter, paper-mache cow flop molded over a go-cart. Dry ice gave off a convincing steam, and the driver's head protruded through an opening in the top but was camouflaged by a helmet shaped like a large bulbous-eyed fly. The motorized pie zig-zagged down the parade route evoking appropriately tasteful comments. My car turned out to be rather less than my fantasized shiny convertible filled with pretty girls. I was put in an old Fairlane with hand-scrawled signs taped on the sides that said: U.S. Metric Board. I had to drive it myself. While metrification has not swept America, I remain a fan, and consider my major contribution to have been announcing all the distances in what the Beaver Judges called "both metric and regular."
I don't place myself in the same lofty category as Jim Hyde and his fellow punkin chunkers, but I have enormous respect for their desire to apply excellence and creativity in the pursuit of the absurd.
As Jim said to me, "This is my sanity. We take a whole week off to live in a soybean field in Delaware. It's a good way to spend time, drink a few beers, play with something that can kill you, and the police have to leave you alone."
I'm all for that.
|Fall at the Rhode
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