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Keep Your Sullied Stars, Give Me Tim Wakefield!July 24, 2009
It has literally nothing to do with Tim Wakefield himself and literally everything to do with that topsy-turvy knuckleball of his. For years now—almost 15 in Boston, to be exact—I have sat on the couch to watch Wakefield pitch, and my head acted just like his signature pitch. A slow, swerving, dancing, darting concoction of half-snores and drool. On a good day, I managed to keep my chin from spiking the center of my chest or, even worse, the floor. For the life of me, I just can't stay engaged when I see the spin-less floater tossed up to the plate over and over...and over. I would leave Wakefield alone by himself on my screen, throwing his tumbling teasers to the world's best hitters, to go fetch a glass of water. I'd come back, and there he was. I'd get up to dig a magazine out of the mail, flip through the interesting stories, skim the less intriguing, and then come back to the ballgame—and Wakefield was still there.
"Geez, does this guy ever get knocked out?"
Yes, sometimes he does, but the majority of the time he just absorbs the blows. This I have come to learn. It's taken me all these years to warm up to watching Wakefield pitch, but I finally got it. If I'm not guilty of negligence, then there isn't a soul on this earth that is.
In the earlier years, Wakefield was nothing more than an average pitcher, a guy I figured would get his jock cleaned by some of baseball's more menacing lineups. For the longest time, sending Wakefield to the mound was nothing more than a cruel, sinister joke. I have always marveled at his courage, because after all, you couldn't pay me enough to stand 60 feet, six inches from men who make a living whirling a deadly weapon around and dangle a treat at 58 miles per hour. No thanks.
But this season has been different. I have watched Wakefield from the beginning, and I watched him win his American League-best 11th game of the season Wednesday evening at Fenway Park, pitching six innings against the Oakland A's. What struck me was that I can't remember the last time Wakefield didn't take the mound for the Red Sox and just do his job. But Wakefield should be used to that; he's been making believers out of doubters his entire career. It's not entirely our fault. I mean, Wakefield wasn't even supposed to be a pitcher to begin with.
Wakefield was a corner infielder in college and was drafted as a hitter in the eighth round of the 1988 Amateur Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates. He holds single-season records for home runs (22) and RBI (71) in addition to the career home run record (40) for the mighty Panthers. The Florida Institute of Technology Panthers, that is. By all means, Wakefield should be writing computer code instead of scouting reports. After being told by a scout that he would never make the big leagues as a position player, Wakefield began tinkering with the knuckleball and made the switch to full-time pitcher in 1990. By '92, the Pirates were calling for Wakefield in August in search of another arm to boost them into the postseason. Wakefield threw a complete game against the St. Louis Cardinals in his major league debut, and the good times rolled. Wakefield finished the year 8-1 with a 2.15 ERA, was named National League Rookie Pitcher of the Year by the Sporting News, and beat Tom Glavine twice in the NLCS. However, the Pirates lost to the Atlanta Braves in seven games. Control problems over the next year and a half, combined with the '94 players strike, led to Wakefield's release in April 1995. Once again, fools did not believe.
A week later, the Boston Red Sox jumped on the opportunity to pick up Wakefield, and what a ride it has been—for both sides. Over the next 15 seasons, Wakefield won two World Series rings and provided valuable innings out of the bullpen in the playoffs. After giving up a walk-off home run to the Yankees' Aaron Boone in Game Seven of the 2003 ALCS, a bomb that sent the Yankees to the World Series and the Red Sox to another winter in Babe Ruth's gas chamber, Wakefield apologized to the fans. It never, ever was about him.
I can't tell you how he got this far, because nobody really knows. Wakefield has always just kept moving. In all likelihood, he isn't going to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, but there's no shame in that. Wakefield has tasted the top of baseball's Mt. Everest...twice. He currently sits 11 wins shy of 200 for his career. He is third in wins in Red Sox history, only behind Cy Young and Roger Clemens. Pedro Martinez is Jesus Christ in Boston, and he provided some of the most magnificent years we have ever seen on a mound. But even he hasn't won as many games in the colors as Wakefield has.
Off the field, there aren't many people with a bigger heart than "Wake." Among his many charitable contributions, Wakefield has done work with the Franciscan Hospital for Children in Boston, New England's Pitching in for Kids organization, and the Touch 'Em All Foundation. He has been nominated for the Roberto Clemente Award, honoring great community service, seven times. Wakefield has never cared about the fame, money, or celebrity. It's always been about the baseball and the people who he shares a neighborhood and a city with. We've seen big cities bring gifted men to their knees. We've seen big money bring indestructible icons to their graves. Major League Baseball has been widely flawed with steroid users and cheats, but Tim Wakefield isn't just a baseball example. He is a societal example.
Every industry in the world, whether it's entertainment or not, is weaved together with handfuls of perplexing souls, but we oftentimes turn our back on the human in order to idolize the corporate product. Why? The recent deaths of Michael Jackson and Steve McNair are perfect examples of amazing talents who had their lives cut short due to destructive habits. Both events are tragic losses for the respective families, families in much need of prayer.
For a change, let's pick some heroes who have done it right with the cameras on, but even better with the cameras off. My bet is that there are many, many more people who do great things for their organizations, companies, fans, and friends than not. That's the beauty of Tim Wakefield—a career I have spent most the time watching half-asleep.
He has been persistent in the pursuit of his dreams and responsible in the handling of his life as a public figure. When Wakefield heads to St. Louis next week for the first All-Star Game of his career, I won't be flipping through the magazines like I used to. My eyes will be open and glued to the screen, paying a true difference maker the respect he deserves.


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Dang we hate these things! But it seems another round of tag is making it's way around dogster, BOL! ;) I was tagged by my furiend Lacy in Maryland!
Here are the rules:
I think every pup knows the basic tag rules, but because it's Thanksgiving time, there is a change to the rules. I get to tell ya about 7 things that I am thankful for and then tag 7 pals and tell them about it with a pmail or a rosette. Then those pups get to write in their diary, tag and notify 7 pals, and on it goes....
Seven things I'm thankful for:
1.) I am thankful Naps!
2.) I am thankful dad stayed by my side when I was a pup with parvo!
3.) I am thankful I had 12 years with my mom and dad!
4.) I am thankful for Bones! I loved bones, the bigger the better!
5.) I am thankful for Blankets! I loved a blanket tossed on me when I would sleep!
6.) I am thankful for Remote controlled cars! What a blast!
7.) I am thankful I was able to spend a little time with Stator and show him the ropes! Though he did drive me nuts!
I've tagged:
I've been tagged by Woodie!
The Rules: Dogs who are tagged need to write down in there own diary 7 random facts about themselves and these rules! Then you need to choose 7 dogs to tag and list there names in your diary, too. Don't forget to leave these tagged dogs a note that they have been tagged and need to read your dairy to check the rules!
Here are 7 things you may or may not know about me
1. I was a kind dog and never growled at anyone in my whole life!
2. I died of cancer at the age of 12, mom and dad still have my ashes.
3. My favorite toy was any rag, towel or rope as long as I could get someone to play tug-O-war....
4. My favorite pass time was sleeping.
5. I was a very food driven dog!
6. Stator/Fatboy annoyed the crap out of me and I was pissed they got him!
7. I co-existed with a cat named Dallas for 11 years and she didn't like me till our last year together,(I think my size scared her) we died 3 days apart from each other.
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Anti-Drug Media Campaign:
ONDCP Met Most Mandates, but Evaluations of Impact Are Inconclusive
GGD/HEHS-00-153: Published: Jul 31, 2000. Publicly Released: Jul 31, 2000.
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Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, focusing on: (1) whether ONDCP provided timely financial reports to Congress; (2) how funds for paid advertising were managed and disbursed; (3) whether ONDCP complied with certain statutory requirements regarding the obligation of funds; (4) what ONDCP has done to develop and implement guidelines for the Campaign in response to program requirements; (5) whether the evaluation designs for phases I, II, and III were appropriate and how well the phases I and II evaluations were implemented; and (6) how effective phases I and II of the Campaign were in influencing group awareness of different types of paid anti-drug media messages and drug attitudes.
GAO noted that: (1) in response to statutory financial reporting requirements and certain statutory spending restrictions, ONDCP generally provided timely financial reports to the appropriate Committees and complied with selected statutory spending restrictions imposed by Congress for fiscal years (FY) 1998 and 1999; (2) ONDCP had processes in place to monitor and approve all paid advertising expenditures before paying vendors and reporting to Congress; (3) ONDCP's success in meeting the congressionally mandated program requirements was mixed; (4) the match program, which was developed during phase I of the Campaign to meet the congressional requirement that ONDCP supplement existing public service announcements (PSA), resulted in over 265,000 pro bono or match PSAs; (5) due to the need to meet the Campaign's reach and frequency goals, ONDCP may not be able to meet the current congressional direction that it obtain a pro bono match as a part of each buy from every vendor; (6) contractor officials explained that some vendors were unwilling or financially unable to provide a match; (7) in some of these cases, it was necessary to make a purchase without the match so that ONDCP could meet the Campaign's reach and frequency goals in that market; (8) ONDCP did not develop a plan to secure private sector contributions; (9) ONDCP officials told GAO that they do not believe they will ever be able to attain the highest level of the congressionally mandated levels of contributions, which range from 40 to 100 percent of the annual Campaign appropriations for FY 1999 through FY 2002; (10) ONDCP developed policy and guidance prohibiting advertisements that feature political figures or partisan political purposes and established an advertisement review process but they had no internal controls requiring that these reviews be documented; (11) ONDCP's work with community anti-drug coalitions was limited in the first two phases of the Campaign; however, ONDCP and contractors planned and initiated numerous initiatives for phase III; (12) the results of the phases I and II evaluations regarding the Campaign's impact on youth, teen, and parent advertisement awareness and drug attitudes were inconclusive due to site selection problems, unknown parent response rates, low school response rates, and data analysis issues; (13) the 4-year phase III evaluation began in 1999, and its design appears promising; and (14) Ogilvy and Mather, the phase III advertising contractor, is to examine the impact of each media element, and the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information is to continue to collect data through the end of year 2000 on the volume of public contacts and publications distributed as supplemental measures of Campaign awareness/exposure.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In June 2000, ONDCP began maintaining documentation of all purchases that do not result in a match. ONDCP began providing this information to Congress in quarterly reports in November 2000 and also conveys the information through discussions with Congressional staff and through questions for the record.
Recommendation: To improve ONDCP's compliance with the statutory program requirements, the Director of ONDCP should direct the appropriate ONDCP or contractor staff to determine the extent to which matches do not occur because of efforts to achieve the Campaign's reach and frequency goals, maintain documentation of all purchases that do not result in a match, including why the vendor did not provide a match and why the purchase was made without a match. This information should be provided to Congress to assist in its assessment of the viability of the current congressional direction that ONDCP obtain a match from each seller of advertising time and space, given the Campaign's reach and frequency goals.
Agency Affected: Office of National Drug Control Policy
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: ONDCP retained the services of a communications outreach and program contractor, Fleishman-Hillard, to assist with the private sector contributions component of the media campaign. In February 2002, ONDCP submitted a report to Congress on the program. The report included the results of an analysis of philanthropic and marketing trends in the present economy. These findings indicated that it is unrealistic to expect the generation of private sector donations equaling those required by Congress.
Recommendation: To improve ONDCP's compliance with the statutory program requirements, the Director of ONDCP should direct the appropriate ONDCP or contractor staff, after adequate research and consultation with experts, to provide information to Congress detailing the anticipated dollar value of all private-sector, nonmatch contributions to assist Congress in its assessment of the viability of the private-sector contributions goals and the dollar value ONDCP can be expected to obtain from the private sector.
Agency Affected: Office of National Drug Control Policy
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: ONDCP established an internal review mechanism, or worksheet, to address the recommendation that it develop internal controls to ensure that reviews of new advertisements for political figures or partisan content are fully documented. The Director of ONDCP approved the worksheet on September 20, 2000. The completed worksheets are retained by ONDCP's Office of Legal Counsel and are to be made available for review upon request. In September 2001, GAO reviewed samples of completed worksheets provided by ONDCP relating to ONDCP's review of new advertisements for political figures or partisan content.
Recommendation: To improve ONDCP's compliance with the statutory program requirements, the Director of ONDCP should direct the appropriate ONDCP or contractor staff to develop internal controls, in accordance with the Comptroller General's standards, to ensure that the reviews of new advertisements for political figures or partisan content are fully documented and available for examination.
Agency Affected: Office of National Drug Control Policy
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Selective meso-monobromination of 5,15-diarylporphyrins via organopalladium porphyrins
Kato, Aiko, Hartnell, Regan D., Yamashita, Masahiro, Miyasaka, Hiroshi, Sugiura, Ken-ichi, & Arnold, Dennis P. (2004) Selective meso-monobromination of 5,15-diarylporphyrins via organopalladium porphyrins. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 8(10), pp. 1222-1227.
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The selective meso-monobromination of 5,15-diarylporphyrins is difficult to achieve and extensive chromatography is required to obtain pure products. A sequence of (i) dibromination, (ii) selective monoinsertion of [Pd(dppe)] [dppe = 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane] and (iii) hydrodepalladation using methanolic base affords pure monobromoporphyrins in typically ≥60% overall yield without isolation of the organopalladium porphyrin. Monobromo derivatives of even highly lipophilic 5,15-diarylporphyrins are thus readily available without tedious, expensive and environmentally undesirable chromatography.
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Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, the President's sequester has gone into effect and, according to the White House, the sky is falling. The administration is on a tour de fear with the American people, yet it has the power to prioritize spending.
Who made the priority list? Pakistan. That's right, Madam Speaker. In the midst of doom and gloom of sequestration, the administration is quietly shelling out an additional $37 million to Pakistan. That's over half of the $67 million being cut from public education in Texas.
Pakistan is the Benedict Arnold nation in the list of countries we call allies. Pakistani leaders are continuing to vilify the United States on one hand and, with the sleight of hand, take our money--money I believe ends up in the hands of radical extremists. Pakistan plays the game of dangerous, dishonest deceit by pretending to be our ally in the war on terror while simultaneously giving a wink and a nod to extremism.
Mr. President, fund our schools, not a disloyal ally.
And that's just the way it is.
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text: New to the board, but glad I found this! I have asthma, migraines, and TMJ that all developed while I was in the Navy. Been on meds for the asthma for almost 18 years and it is well controlled. When I had my C&P exam, the female doctor told me that my asthma was not severe because I was able to carry two pregnancies to term without any problems. You know, if I stopped my medication (oral corticosteroids and inhalers), my asthma would probably put me in the hospital. Is there any way to prove this without putting myself in danger of respiratory failure? Currently rated at 30%. Migraines - currently rated at 30%, as well. Any help on getting either of these increased would be appreciated. Also, my VSO advised me today that I actually have 2 claims in for the TMJ - one for mandibular retrognathia and one for TMJ - effective dates are different. Now, I have no idea where mandibular retrognathia is different from TMJ - I had surgery to try to correct the TMJ (as a civilian) and have a completely numb chin from that surgery - any ideas on the different conditions? Thanks so much and thanks to all who served!


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Having read all.of these posts I have a couple of comments. First I heard call 911. Most cellphones come with video cameras. A short documentary will avail you of cross examination.
Secondly I also carry a SD knife. Unopened it can give me certain advantages in a fistfight.
Third, I don't fistfight anymore. I used to frequent some stupid places. The last time I was in a bar a fight broke out and I hit the door because I had a wife and kids at home and really didn't havthe any business being there. The thought of the cops going to my house and telling my wife I was in the hospital or the morgue because I was at the bar didn't sit too well with me.
I am too old now too fight or run. An attack of any kind will put me in fear for my life. I would have to hit first and hit hard if it came down to it.
My second move would be introducing the BG to my gun. The choice would be his as to the next step.
As mentioned in several very good replies, when the time comes you'll know what to do. These are things no one can tell you how to react.
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Of course as we get older we tend to tone it down but we don't need to look back with regrets about the things we missed because we chose to be safe. Or wonder what our limits are.
There is no substitute for good
judgement. Your life can be ruined
by one split second decision --
even if it is morally and legally sound.
Stay safe and stay away from places
where there is a heightened chance
trouble will find you.
I'm not a fighter. Only been in one "fight" but I curled up in a ball and waited for it to end :1zhelp: - lol if there's a next time I'll at least try. I'm certainly not going to jump into the fray at my size. The only time I would consider getting involved with someone I don't know is if a child or someone disabled or elderly was involved - I'd never be able to sleep at night if I didn't at least try to help someone who wasn't in a position to help themselves. Otherwise you never know the whole story and I don't want to make assumptions. Call 911, snap some pics, stay out of the way. I just read an article this morning about good samaritans restraining the wrong person - came to a woman's aid and restrained the guy...only problem is the woman was the mugger and she got away. When you come upon a scene, it's not always how it seems. Ooops. Would-be NJ Samaritans restrain victim, help thief - NorthJersey.com
I did get into a screaming match with a dad at flag football practice several months ago - VERY VERY out of character for me. But it involved my kid - my developmentally delayed kid, so mama bear roared. I can't imagine it would have escalated into a fist fight - dude was a LOT bigger than me! All turned out well, neither one of us even got thrown out (which was amazing) he even got a talking to about the way he was cursing me, a "lady". :hahaha: (I may have been cursing too but I'm not as loud) :icon_redface:


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Giving his fans another tasty audio tidbit, Chris Brown released his new song "How I Feel" last night (March 8).
The "Kiss Kiss" singer gets uber-personal on the track, opening up about his past with abuse and determination to move forward despite his own mess-ups.
Chris sings, "Nineteen, a n***a went through a tragedy... Three years, a n***a just found a better me. Yeah, you might find another lover, but you always started with Breezy like the letter B."
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Clinical approach to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in adults
- Authors
- Vance G Fowler, Jr, MD
Vance G Fowler, Jr, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Duke University Medical Center
- Daniel J Sexton, MD
Daniel J Sexton, MD
- Editor-in-Chief — Infectious Diseases
- Section Editor — Bacterial Infections
- Professor of Medicine
- Duke University Medical Center
- Section Editor
- Stephen B Calderwood, MD
Stephen B Calderwood, MD
- Editor-in-Chief — Infectious Diseases
- Section Editor — Bacterial Infections
- Professor of Medicine (Microbiology and Immunobiology)
- Harvard Medical School
- Deputy Editor
- Elinor L Baron, MD, DTMH
Elinor L Baron, MD, DTMH
- Deputy Editor — Infectious Diseases
- Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
- Tufts University School of Medicine
Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of community-acquired and hospital-acquired bacteremia. Patients with S. aureus bacteremia can develop a broad array of complications that may be difficult to recognize initially and can increase morbidity. Mortality rates of 20 to 40 percent have been described [1,2]. Mortality appears to be higher with methicillin-resistant (MRSA) compared with methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) bacteremia [1,2].
Treatment failure (ie, death within 30 days following treatment, persistent bacteremia >10 days after initiation of appropriate therapy, or recurrence of bacteremia within 60 days of discontinuing therapy) is fairly common in patients with S. aureus bacteremia, particularly in the setting of infection due to MRSA [3].
Issues related to the clinical approach to S. aureus bacteremia in adults will be reviewed here. Issues related to clinical manifestations of S. aureus infection are discussed separately. The epidemiology, risk factors, and complications of S. aureus bacteremia and treatment of methicillin-resistant or vancomycin-resistant S. aureus infections are discussed separately. (See "Clinical manifestations of Staphylococcus aureus infection in adults".)
The clinical approach to S. aureus bacteremia consists of careful history and physical examination, infectious disease consultation, and diagnostic evaluation including echocardiography and additional imaging as needed.
History and physical examination — A careful history and physical examination is essential. For circumstances in which the source of bacteremia is uncertain, patients should be questioned carefully regarding potential portals of entry including recent skin or soft tissue infection and presence of indwelling prosthetic devices (including intravascular catheters, orthopedic hardware, and cardiac devices).
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- Li J, Echevarria KL, Hughes DW, et al. Comparison of cefazolin versus oxacillin for treatment of complicated bacteremia caused by methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2014; 58:5117.
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Former child abduction victim Elizabeth Smart will speak to southwestern Indiana high school seniors Friday.
Smart will present the keynote address to high school seniors attending a College GO! Week event at Vincennes University's Red Skelton Performing Arts Center. She will talk about how it's possible to overcome extreme adversity by not allowing one's past to dictate the future.
Smart has become an advocate for change related to child abduction and recovery programs.
Vincennes University's College GO! Week helps Hoosiers of all ages plan for college completion and career success. The university says seniors from five Vincennes-area high schools will attend Smart's presentation.
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Just a follow up to my previous post - Homemade Tomato Cages. I'd be remiss if I didn't offer more information on whether this project was a success or failure. The tomatoes are both heirlooms and are about four feet high so they still have some growing to do, but the cages are supporting the plants very well.
And as you can see I'm a big fan of surrounding the bottom of the tomato plants with marigolds. These are the "Lemon Gem" marigold, a small, compact marigold with a lovely lemon scent to the foliage, so every time you brush them you get a wonderful lemony smell that permeates the air.
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2 comments:
- Karen said...
Well, I'm glad to see the tomato cages have met and exceeded your expectations so far. Your tomatoes certainly have, too! That's a really neat idea, planting marigolds at the base, eye candy and food all in one place.
We just had a thunderstorm rage on through, I wonder what my tomatoes look like in their flimsy little hoops, they're probably flat. I will have to get Carl to work constructing El Gaucho-esque structures for next season.
- July 18, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- Sara said...
I've read that marigolds are supposed to help some with bug repelling because of their stench... is there any truth to that? Also - methinks that all these awesome photos must be Blah blog fodder soon and/or for next year!!
- July 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM
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Public school board trustees rejected a motion that would have forbidden selling part of the Ancaster High School property to fund the construction of a new Dundas high school.

While the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board's trustees later voted against a new Dundas high school, trustees were hesitant to grant blanket approval for the preservation of the 44-acre green space that encompasses Ancaster High's Jerseyville Road campus.

Rather than build a new high school at the Highland Secondary School site in Dundas, trustees voted to spend $15 million to renovate Highland, coupled with the closure of Parkside Secondary School in 2014.

A plan to build a new high school on the Highland site was defeated in a 6-5 vote. Board staff acknowledged the $15-million Highland plan is contingent upon securing $10 million in provincial funding.

No changes to Ancaster High School were approved at Monday's committee of the whole meeting.

Ancaster trustee Alex Johnstone, who proposed an amendment to restrict the sale of any part of the Ancaster High property to finance a new Dundas school, argued her constituents are concerned about the potential loss of land.

The school board's West Accommodation Review Committee recommended two new high schools to replace Highland, Parkside and Ancaster High.

Board figures show that Ancaster High's enrollment is expected to remain well below its 1,300-student capacity. A board projection predicts 882 students in the Ancaster catchment area in the year 2020.

With no action taken to address accomodations for the Ancaster High catchment, trustees hinted at the possibilty of examining a new school to replace both Ancaster High and Sir Allan MacNab. MacNab is part of the board's south ARC.

"It's obvious Ancaster has not been dealt with. I think we limit ourselves by putting it under the west ARC," trustee Judith Bishop said.

Trustee Laura Peddle introduced a motion to have staff come back with a recommendation in November on how to proceed with completing the work of the west ARC as it relates to Ancaster.

"We have not done anything with the problem at Ancaster," said Peddle. "How do we close out the ARC without that? Ancaster is part of the west ARC."

HWDSB Director John Molloy said the board will examine remaining work that needs to be done in January, 2013.

Peddle's motion failed in a 7-3 vote.

"Ancaster High is one of the few growth areas across our board," said Johnstone. "I think we need to retain our growth needs. We need to reaffirm that the land will not be touched at this time."

The Ancaster High site includes 10 soccer fields used by the Ancaster Soccer Club, as well as a 700-seat auditorium that hosts Theatre Ancaster performances.

But trustee Laura Peddle argued the school board is not in the business of providing surplus land to the community.

"Our mandate is not to provide land," said Peddle. "Our mandate is to provide education delivery across our region."

Johnstone's motion was defeated on a 6-4 vote.


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Orange Romania has inaugurated commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) services in the capital Bucharest, with the cellco noting that at launch customers in areas including the central and northern area of the city, and the tourist regions of Prahova Valley, Bran-Moieciu and Poiana Brasov could access the superfast mobile broadband service. With the cellco noting that its new network offers downlink speeds of up to 75Mbps and upload speeds of up to 37.5Mbps, it has also revealed that customers signing up for any of its new 4G tariffs on a two-year contract will have no data usage caps for the first six months. Initially, those customers looking to take up the cellcos 4G offering will only be offered a USB modem or tablet, although Orange Romania noted that it expects to introduce a smartphone option soon. For now, the two devices on offer are the Orange Huawei E392 modem, which is offered free with any LTE tariff, while the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 4G tablet price starts at EUR309 (USD403), dependent on the plan taken.
With the operators LTE coverage initially available in only a limited area, Orange Romania has confirmed that those on its 4G tariffs will be able to connect to its 3.5G network in those regions where the new infrastructure has yet to be rolled out. The cellco has highlighted the fact that its customers currently have access to downlink speeds of 14.4Mbps nationwide, while 21.1Mbps speeds are available in over 13,000 locations.
Further, it also noted that it has now deployed DC-HSPA technology, offering theoretical downlink rates of 43.2Mbps, in 331 locations, including 18 of the countrys larger cities, those being: Arad, Baia Mare, Brasov, Bucharest, Campia Turzii, Cluj, Codlea, Constanta, Iasi, Mangalia, Oradea, Satu Mare, Sacele, Sibiu, Targu Mures, Timisoara, Tulcea and Zalau.
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How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living
Karen Karbo
Published: Nov 22, 2011
Category: Biography
Anybody feel the need to know one thing more about Georgia O'Keeffe?
How about Coco Chanel?
And, while we're at it, let's throw in Katharine Hepburn.
I can't think of three women who have inspired more commentary and speculation.
So why have I devoured Karen Karbo's mini-shelf of bios about O'Keeffe, Chanel and Hepburn?
For very good reasons.
Karbo is a demon researcher who never sprains her arm patting herself on the back in praise of her library time.
Her books are short — her latest, "How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living," is, like its predecessors, pocket-sized, and yet it's just 221 pages." [To buy the paperback from Amazon,click here.For the Kindle edition, click here.]
Karbo always has a reason for writing you haven't heard before. In these books, she says, "I would not only figure out how I should live, but also, that some of their luster might rub off on me, and by extension, you."
Karbo writes like nobody else. She gives you O'Keeffe, but she also serves herself up in relation to O'Keeffe, woman to woman, as it were. Others do this, and the charm is so obviously fake that millions fall for it.
Karbo serves up more rueful memories: the dateless high school years, thyroid surgery, going on the O'Keeffe trail in an RV.
Of the trilogy, the O'Keeffe may be the most useful. Hepburn came from a family so privileged that she referred to family friend George Bernard Shaw as "Shaw." Chanel was a dirt-poor orphan. O'Keeffe, in contrast, had a reasonably normal American childhood — we have no trouble understanding that part of her life.Then O'Keeffe steps into her own, wonderfully exciting "I gotta be me" zone.
When money was tight, she made her own clothes — including her underwear.
Alfred Stieglitz — her lover, mentor and husband — wrote at least 50,000 letters. "Those letters were Angry Birds and I Can Has Cheezburger and American Idol and retail therapy, and everything else we moderns like to do."
"The greatest aphrodisiac is vitality." That sentence alone is worth the price of the book.
The "epic marriage" of Stieglitz and O'Keeffe: "She was the red Porsche purchased by a middle-aged man; he was the football hero who falls in love with the awkward new girl in school."
At the marriage ceremony, she refused to say "honor" or "obey."
Yes, there's the standard stuff you want and need to know: the paintings, the photographs, her love of the Southwest. All presented lightly, effortlessly, casually, colloquially. "For O'Keeffe, forty was the new sixty," Karbo writes. That's not being cool. That's just style.
After you finish the O'Keeffe, you may want to go on to The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman and "How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great." [To buy the book from Amazon, click here. For the Kindle edition, click here.]
Taken together, they make a fourth book: "The Life and Times of Karen Karbo." It's just as good as the others.


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The Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort Study (BASELINE)
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|December 20, 2011
|Last Updated Date
|January 20, 2015
|Start Date ICMJE
|August 2008
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|October 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|To establish a longitudinal birth cohort study to examine early life environment and effect on childhood illness [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01498965 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|The Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort Study
|Official Title ICMJE
|BASELINE: Babies After Scope: Evaluating the Longitudinal Impact Using Neurological and Nutritional Endpoints
|Brief Summary
|The Departments of Paediatrics and Child Health, Obstetrics/Gynaecology and Nutritional Sciences, University College Cork, and the Department of Dermatology, Trinity College, Dublin have a unique and urgent opportunity to form a birth cohort of over 2000 children whose growth and maternal health status will have been closely monitored from early pregnancy. Longitudinal monitoring of these infants will allow direct investigation of several research areas in a way which has not previously been possible in Ireland, or abroad. The investigators propose to focus on three main research themes: the effects of intrauterine growth restriction, the incidence and prevalence of food allergy and eczema in early childhood and the incidence and effects of maternal and infant vitamin D status on the growth and health of Irish children. Although the investigators initial proposal will focus on these important areas, the formation of this birth cohort will offer many opportunities for further research as the cohort grows older. It will form a unique bio-bank of information from Irish children collected longitudinally from soon after their conception. The mothers of these infants are currently being recruited, which leaves us with a narrow window of opportunity to put in place a pathway of investigation for these children. To ignore this opportunity would be to lose access to a wealth of information regarding child health and disease. The potential for this cohort to provide definitive answers to current, and future, theories of disease causation is enormous.
|Detailed Description
Our underlying aim is to establish a prospective paediatric birth cohort which will have access to detailed information on maternal health, fetal growth, and childhood nutrition, growth and development in the first 2 years of life. This cohort will have the advantage of a stored biobank of maternal and fetal plasma, serum and DNA. This cohort will allow us to monitor the effects of intrauterine growth and nutrition on early life illnesses.
Our specific aims are:
There is increasing evidence that the intrauterine environment has important effects, not only on fetal growth, but also on the life-long health of the child. A term infant is the end result of nine months of immunological and nutritional interplay between the fetus, placenta and mother. Therefore, it is not surprising that this nutritional and hormonal environment has far-reaching effects on childhood health and adult health risk. Fetal nutritional status has been repeatedly linked with adult risk of hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Fetal growth restriction may be associated with neurocognitive delay and long term behavioural problems. We know that maternal vitamin D status has a direct effect on bone growth, not just in neonates, but also on the bone mass and fracture risk of the adolescent offspring. More recently there is some evidence that maternal vitamin D and E deficiency may contribute to a substantial proportion of the increasing incidence of childhood asthma. It is clear, then, that to establish the pathophysiology of many childhood diseases we will need to look back to long before birth.
Previous large birth cohorts in the UK have added greatly to our current knowledge of paediatric health and disease. However the early ALSPAC cohort study examining the "Children of the Nineties" did not have access to the detailed and serial fetal scanning which the SCOPE study will provide to BASELINE. The more recent Southampton Women's Study recruited a similar number of maternal and fetal dyads. The SWS study protocol included fetal scanning and stored DNA, but does not have a cord biobank of serum and plasma samples. The BASELINE study will have access to maternal blood sampling, detailed health questionnaires, serial fetal scanning and multiple aliquots of stored umbilical cord blood. In addition our study will provide reference data in Irish children, something which overseas cohorts can not provide to Irish health care planners and providers.
We believe that the BASELINE study is Ireland's opportunity to establish a longitudinal birth cohort with the potential to answer important questions in the study of diseases in early life, later childhood and beyond. We will be able to identify risk factors for common disorders such as diabetes, eczema and asthma. The BASELINE genetic biobank will allow us to examine candidate genetic markers of disorders as they arise in the cohort. This study has the potential to transform the landscape of paediatric research in Ireland.
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Design ICMJE
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Target Follow-Up Duration
|Not Provided
|Retention: Samples With DNA
MAternal DNA, plasma, serum and urine Umbilical serum, plasma, DNA, RNA At 2 years and 5 years: serum, and DNA
|Sampling Method
|Probability Sample
|Study Population
|All infants born to mothers enrolled in the SCOPE pregnancy study (www.scopestudy.net) in SCOPE Ireland. First time, low risk mothers with singleton pregnancies.
|Condition ICMJE
|Intervention ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Study Groups/Cohorts
|Not Provided
|Publications *
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Unknown status
|Enrollment ICMJE
|Estimated Completion Date
|January 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|October 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|Plan to Share Data
|Not Provided
|IPD Description
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|National Children's Research Centre, Ireland
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|National Children's Research Centre, Ireland
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Food Standards Agency, United Kingdom
|Investigators ICMJE
|PRS Account
|National Children's Research Centre, Ireland
|Verification Date
|January 2015
ICMJE Data element required by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the World Health Organization ICTRP


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I'm on my second set of retainers and my jaw locked up. It'snot locked open and its not locked closed, I just can't open my mouth all the way. It has been locked for about a week and a half.
Has this happened to anyone during their Invisalign treatment? If so, how did you correct it ?


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[NWSL] The National Women's Soccer League will have its first expansion team -- and second team operated by an MLS club -- as the Houston Dynamo will announce Thursday that it will proceed with the launch of a NWSL team in 2014.
Dynamo president Chris Canetti had tweeted on Saturday that the club would go
ahead with plans for the women's pro team. Houston is one of the best-drawing MLS clubs. The Dynamo conducted a drive for fans interested in purchasing season tickets to the women's team.
The Portland Thorns -- operated by the MLS Timbers -- drew more than double any other NWSL team and won the league's inaugural title.
Houston will give the NWSL nine teams, which will
require one team to sit out each week or play two games in a week. The league's other teams are grouped geographically -- four in the East, two in the Midwest and two in the Pacific Northwest.


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Interview with Allison Grodner
Allison Grodner explains, again, what they are looking for in casting Big Brother 11.Details
Allison Grodner explains, again, what they are looking for in casting Big Brother 11.Details
Well folks, it's over. Another season of The Amazing Race has come and gone and with it, we have winners! Tammy and Victor Jih, siblings from San Francisco and Los Angeles, California were declared the winners of The Amazing Race 14 after crossing the finish line first, naturally. All three of the final three teams had been bunched up at the final roadblock, the surfboard fence, where each person had to remember events from each leg, find a surfboard with the correct symbols and put them in the right order. Luke and Margie, mother and son, had been ahead at this challenge, arriving first and Luke having correctly placed the first 9 of 11 boards, but became caught on the last two. Cheerleaders and friends, Jaime and Cara caught up with the other two teams, and in the end their team and Luke and Margie helped each other to finish but ultimately Tammy and Victor finished first, got a lucky cab and claimed the one million dollars.
In my opinion this has been one of the better seasons of the reality season, in the fact that I didn't dislike any of the last three teams and was happy with whoever won. My personal preference as a sentimental favorite was Margie and Luke, but I liked all three. But let's take a look back at all the teams and some thoughts from our forum members on the season as a whole.Details
If you don't wanted to be spoiled STOP READING RIGHT NOW. SERIOUSLY, stop reading. This doesn't reveal the winner but could lead to some speculation on it.
So, what does this mean?Details
May Sweeps is upon Network TV yet again. What do your favorite shows have in store for you? When are they leaving you with a cliff-hanging, jaw-dropping finale? Will you get anything resolved on your show? Click below for the May Season/Series finale schedule and some sneak peeks on some hit shows!Details
Here we are in May and we've already lost too many celebrities. While we are aware that we get older every year, it seems that we tend to forget that the celebrities we grew up watching age, as well. It's likely that we remember them at the age that we last saw them, so at first thought, we're shocked that they've passed. It's very sad that their lives came to an end, but for most of them, they lived a long, successful life and passed on knowing that through the years they've entertained millions of people.
These are the people that we've lost in 2009:
And so another summer is apporaching, which for all you reality tv fans means one thing…..IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR BIG BROTHER!!!! With the excitement building and Yakkity Yaks ramping up for our inaugural Big Brother season, we thought as staff we'd reveal the changes we'd like to see on Big Brother 11. Not that they're likely to happen BUT as die hard fans/live feed updaters/ Big Brother net nerds, we are truly devoted viewers who have seen what we thought worked and definitely didn't work.


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I figured a curve with vacuum advance would work best.
No experience with locked out timing though so I figured I would ask.
Couple more more questions though:
1) If high gearing as commonly found in street cars causes low rpm / high load conditions, and droping compression could keep this from being a problem when using locked timing, couldent lowering the gear ratio make this work as well? If so, would the gearing have to be so extreem that it wouldent even be streetable? I imagine that low gearing in conjunction with a high stall or a manual trans would be plausable, but then we are getting into a high rpm / high powerband application again. But hypothetically speaking, what about a low stall, low gear combo such as 1500-4500 powerband, th350 auto w/ 2krpm stall, 29" tires and 4.56:1 gears?
2) How could 20 degrees of retard be too much? Total timing would normally around 35* in most applications as far as I have seen. If the timing were locked in those same applications that are 35* total w/ a curve then it would be locked at about 35*right? With a 20* cranking retard that would mean 15* while cranking and 15* till 800rpm. I don't see how 20* retard would be problematic.
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US President Barack Obama has hailed the reforms taken by Myanmar leader Thein Sein but urged him to end violence against Muslims. Sein is the country's first president to visit the White House in almost half a century.
Speaking from the US capital Monday Obama said he recognized Sein's work to guide Myanmar down "a long and sometimes difficult, but ultimately correct, path to follow."
Obama said that during his meeting with the Myanmar leader, Sein assured him he was going to continue political reforms in the country as well as release more political prisoners. The US president also said Sein had vowed to end ethnic conflicts by creating a more inclusive state.
"I also shared with President Sein our deep concern about communal violence that has been directed at Muslim communities inside Myanmar," Obama said. "The displacement of people, the violence directed towards them needs to stop.
Sein's visit to the White House was the first by a Myanmar head of state in 47 years.
'New national identity'
After the talks, Sein said he wanted a "more inclusive national identity" for Myanmar, but did not mention the struggles of the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.
"Myanmar people of all ethnic backgrounds and faiths – Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Hindus and others – must feel part of this new national identity," he said.
"We must end all forms of discrimination and ensure not only that intercommunal violence is brought to a halt, but that all perpetrators are brought to justice," he told Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
Sein said his country faced a "daunting task" in carrying out reforms, adding that Myanmar will need the "assistance and understanding" of the international community, including from Washington, as it goes through the process.
Relations resumed
The US and Myanmar, also known as Burma, resumed relations in 2011 after five decades of military rule. Last November Obama made a landmark visit to the former pariah state and US officials say the reforms of Myanmar's now quasi-military government deserve support. Those changes include the freeing of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi and hundreds of other political prisoners, ending censorship and legalizing trade unions and protests.
But ethnic and sectarian violence in the country has worsened since the US began loosening sanctions. Unrest in the western Rakhine state has been particularly turbulent. At least 192 people died there last year in clashes between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, who are denied citizenship by the Myanmar government.
Most of the victims in that violence, and the 140,00 people subsequently displaced, were Muslim.
Rights groups have alleged officials are turning a blind eye to the attacks on Rohingya Muslims, with Human Rights Watch accusing Myanmar of carrying out a "campaign of ethnic cleansing" against the minority.
dr/crh (Reuters, AFP, AP, dpa)


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I hope this is a good place to post this. My mother had an early hysterectomy (late 30s) and I have had a low lying uterus since the birth of my first baby, who is now 3. I don't go to a gynocologist. I can't stand being examined and really want to avoid that, so I'm trying to build an exercise rountine that will put it back where it needs to be.
I really want to have another baby.
What I have decided to do so far is a routine of sit ups, keagles on my back and keagles while in a "pyramid" position (hands and feet on the floor, butt in the air).
I will eat healthier and fix my bad posture. What else can I do?
For now, I will do my routine of keagles and sit ups as many times a day as I can, literally.
My uterrus is like, lying on top of my vagina at this point.
TIA... I am really hoping for encouraging info....
my grandmother said it didn;t seem too bad a situation since I just had two heavy babies in a row, plus a miscarriage...
2 babies in 4 years, my youngest is 1.5 years now
This website/blog is also very informative, and takes a different approach than kegals (in fact, she discourages women from doing kegels and instead practice squatting). She has several posts about pelvic organ prolapse.
Mama to DS (7) & DD (4) : :
hi, just saw this post whilst doing a search on hysterectomy. There is a prolapse support thread. I've just lost it - do a search, you should find it, let me know if you don't.
And good luck.
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Squatting, quitting grain and dairy and eating well. I eat according to the Primal Blueprint or paleo (had been traditional European for years before), and now my uterus is back where it was before my 1st pg. I had some healing that reversed after having pertussis, but tweaking my diet since December 1st of this year, has yanked my uterus back and returned elasticity to my belly skin that previously felt just like leather, and has almost closed my abdominal diastasis up. I've even used my body in ways I didn't before because I was afraid that my uterus would fall a bit from strain, but it hasn't budged, and I've been doing push-ups even!
I honestly thought my belly skin and unsteady uterus were forever. A few weeks of paleo eating and the healing is tremendous.
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Yeah, because people were not sufficiently outraged enough over dead children, you have to show them the pictures.
What a maroon!
This is a discussion on More Pig-like behavior from the left... within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Sandy Hook families rip Michael Moore's call to release crime scene photos | Fox News...
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Yeah, because people were not sufficiently outraged enough over dead children, you have to show them the pictures.
What a maroon!
What has happened to this country in the last four years....?
"Gun Free Zones" is where only criminals carry guns.
Truth be told......it's Moore's attempt to destroy the NRA.....and your right, IMO.....he looks like a PIG.....not to insult swine.
IIRC he claimed to be a member of the NRA. I don't know if he was or not but if he was I hope they revoked his membership and kept his money for defrauding the NRA. He claimed support of the Constitution and the 2nd Ammendment but works to destroy both.
Rather than incur the wrath of the mods suffice to say my opinion of propagandist moore is unsuitable for this forum.
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
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Well, at least he's honest about his ghoulish lust to control others. Most anti's don't have the guts to admit that they just love to exploit the dead for their purposes.
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