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Sunday, August 25, 2013
Two Big Writing Tips
When I'm reading for fun, I try to turn off the editing part of my brain and just enjoy the story.
Sometimes though, things just jump out at me. It happens in almost every book I read--but more often in the self-pubbed, small press group.
One thing that can be bothersome to a reader--whether they know anything about writing or not is paragraphs that are far two long. If a paragraph takes up half a page or longer--it should be broken up. Yes, even if the information is related.
White space is good. It makes the reading easier on the eyes.
And tip number two. I've given this one before, but it's a good reminder.
When someone new does or says something, the writer should start a new paragraph.
Why? It gives that white space I just wrote about, but even more important it helps the reader know who is doing or saying something. Anything you can do to make the reading experience easier is good.
Do I think my writing is perfect? Far from it. I just went over the edits for my next Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery and not only did the editor point out a lot of errors, when I was going over it again, I found even more mistakes.
All any writer can do is tell a good story and try to make it as error free as possible.
I hope these two tips will be helpful to someone.
6 comments:
- Marilyn Meredith a.k.a. F. M. Meredith said...
Since yesterday, I've fixed 3 typos--if you see anymore, be sure and comment.
- August 26, 2013 at 6:51 AM
- Janet Greger said...
As usual your comments are good.
JL Greger, author of Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight
- August 26, 2013 at 8:00 AM
- marja said...
Outstanding tips, Marilyn. And, believe me, I spend half my time fixing typos when I reread a book I'm working on. : )
Marja McGraw
- August 26, 2013 at 10:36 AM
- Michelle Perin said...
One of my big things as a reader (and that I try to follow as a writer) is to make details match. I just finished a book where a character was wearing a University of Arizona Wildcat sweatshirt. She graduated from Arizona State University, the Sun Devils.
- August 26, 2013 at 10:46 AM
- Jackie Taylor Zortman said...
Very good points, Marilyn, and I totally agree. I have found that once you are a writer, it's difficult to turn that editing tendency off when reading books by your colleagues. Well, maybe not so much their actual finished books, but manuscripts or ARCs.
- August 26, 2013 at 11:29 AM
- Anne R. Allen said...
Great post, Marilyn. You're so right. One of the most successful writers in the US today is James Patterson. Personally his stuff is too gory for me, but he's a master of white space. Go look at one of his books in a bookstore sometime. Short paragraphs are especially important for e-readers, where a block of text can seem even more daunting.
- August 26, 2013 at 6:43 PM


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Frankie Dettori admitted Discreet Cat will need to be somewhere near his best when the big Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) hope makes his eagerly-awaited reappearance at the Nad Al Sheba Super Thursday program on March 1.
Sponsored by Derrinstown Stud, is set to be the biggest day's racing in the UAE outside the Dubai World Cup meeting itself. The US$1.3 million meeting stages seven races that replicate the contests run on Dubai World Cup night.
It's importance is due in part to Discreet Cat's presence. Officially ranked the second best horse in the world, he who runs in the US$200,000 Lahan Burj Nahaar (UAE-III).
Of the Saeed bin Suroor-trained horse, Italian Dettori said: "I have not sat on him since winning the UAE Derby (UAE-II) last year, but obviously I watched him go on to really prove himself in America.
"I see him most days though, and he has been training well, and Saeed is very happy with him.
"This is a big day for him, and it's the next step to the Dubai World Cup meeting. It's not going to be easy with a seven-pound penalty, which he has for winning a group I race, but we've got to start somewhere."
Godolphin is also represented by Day Pass, who is unbeaten in his two starts in America, the last of which was at grade III level.
The 3-year-old is entered for the US$150,000 Bahri Al Bastakiya, and Dettori said: "He looks a nice horse, but this will be his biggest test on Thursday as it looks a very competitive race."
In the same race, South African trainer Mike De Kock unleashes potentially one of his best ever horses, Asiatic Boy, whose last two victories have come at the 2007 Dubai International Racing Carnival, including the UAE 2,000 Guineas.
De Kock, who has tasted glory on Dubai World Cup night before with Victory Moon, Lundy's Liability and Grand Emporium, said: "He's right up there with some of the best I've trained, although he may have a bit more speed.
"He's brilliant over a mile but the question mark is the extra 200 meters, but I'd rather find out now, rather than in the UAE Derby on Dubai World Cup night."
De Kock also saddles Irridescence, who won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup (HK-I) in Hong Kong last year, in the US$250,000 Haafhd Jebel Hatta (UAE-II).
"She had a bad case of colic, and doesn't look at her best yet, so I think my second best chance might be Oracle West, who will try and follow up last year's win in the Intikhab Dubai City Of Gold."
De Kock added that Money Bags "should run a fairly decent race" in the featured US$300,000 Elnadim Maktoum Challenge Round 3 (UAE-II).
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Posted by: newsla on Aug 10, 2014 - 07:01 AM
SRT Motorsports Post-Qualifying Report - Road Race Showcase at Road America
The SRT ® (Street and Racing Technology) Motorsports Dodge Viper SRT GTS-Rs qualified second and third for tomorrow's Road Race Showcase at Wisconsin's Road America after battling for the pole throughout the 15-minute GTLM-class qualifying session on Saturday.
Both Jonathan Bomarito, driving the No. 93 Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R, and Marc Goossens, in the No. 91 Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R, held the provisional pole at various points in the competitive qualifying session. However, the SRT Motorsports teammates ultimately came up just short of the final pole-winning time, with Bomarito qualifying second and Goossens clocking in a close third.
Bomarito, who co-drives the No. 93 with Kuno Wittmer, turned a top lap time of 2:03.813 (117.700 mph). Goossens drove to a session-best lap of 2:03.930 (117.589 mph) in the No. 91 that he shares with Dominik Farnbacher.
Qualifying at the front-end of grid should help SRT Motorsports in its bid to earn consecutive victories at both Road America and in the 2014 IMSA TUDOR United SportsCar Championship in tomorrow's race. Goossens and Farnbacher gave the Viper its first win since returning to major league sports car competition at Road America in last year's event. Likewise, Bomarito and Wittmer took the victory one race ago in the Brickyard Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the team's first win since last year's Road America triumph.
The Road Race Showcase at Road America, the eighth event for the GTLM class in the 2014 IMSA schedule, is scheduled to start at 1:15 p.m. CDT tomorrow, Sunday, August 10. The race will be broadcast in same-day coverage at 5:30 p.m. CDT on FOX Sports 1.
Jonathan Bomarito, driver, No. 93 Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R
How was your qualifying run?
"Qualifying was great. The team did an awesome job and put a great Viper under us. The track has been changing all day long, so we're just trying to stay one step ahead of it. It's tough. We have a good idea of where it's going tomorrow, but you never really know until the race and nobody does. We're just trying to put all our heads together and put the best setup on the car for tomorrow. We start second and third and our biggest competitor in the championship didn't have the greatest qualifying run. We have even more forward momentum and we're thinking positively about tomorrow's race."
Why do you think the track is changing so much?
"Road America does change through the weekend, but it seems like every year I come here it changes more and more. I think that's just asphalt, patches and stuff like that - the sealers coming out of the track and then they try to patch certain areas and then you have bigger discrepancies between the two. It's just kind of a common trend around here. The heat, rubber and the different tire compounds - all of those things are contributing factors."
Kuno Wittmer, driver, No. 93 Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R
How was your qualifying performance?
"I think it's a season-high right now qualifying second and third. You don't always have to have a pole position to showcase how strong your team is. I think it's a really good starting position for tomorrow and it looks like we'll have the same type of weather. It's going to be a little bit earlier in the day for the race and we're very confident in the entire SRT Motorsports team. I think the Viper will pull through again. Can we win? Possibly. I think we have the car for it, but more importantly for the No. 93 car we need to remain consistent and keep a clean race going for this race and for the three races coming up."
Is tire wear a concern for tomorrow?
"It seems that the tires could be a pretty big concern, but I think we've got everything figured out."
Marc Goossens, driver, No. 91 Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R
How was your qualifying run?
"We obviously were short a couple of tenths to be on pole. We're very happy with where we are. The top three cars were very close and I think there's a bit of a gap after that. The car ran well. Like I've mentioned so many times, life is so much easier if you roll off the hauler with a strong car."
How much will tire wear play into the race?
"You always push a little bit harder in qualifying and you demand from the tires and the car. I still believe we are there. We're competitive and it's all about tire management now. We just had a big discussion between the drivers and engineers about what kind of compound we go with, how do we want to play the strategy and I think that's going to be the gamble for everybody. I still believe we're in pretty good shape for what we need to be doing tomorrow."
What is your strategy for tomorrow?
"We've got another warm-up session and we're going to get Dominik some more laps because he has been limited on laps today. But having said that, I don't think he missed much because after the SportsCar Challenge race the track was not up to it anymore. We'll see - we've been surviving pretty well with no damage, but we did have a couple of issues yesterday in the first practice. After that everything got cleared and I think everybody did a good job keeping the car on track. The car was prepared well by the team. We just have to keep the Vipers up front like we always do and there's no reason we shouldn't get another double podium."
Dominik Farnbacher, driver, No. 91 Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R
How were your teammates in qualifying?
"We did pretty good. Second and third place is a great starting point for tomorrow's race. Of course the pole position would have been better, but we're very happy with second and third. That's a good team effort and it shows how strong the Viper is here. I hope we can maintain those positions during the race and we keep it like that. It will be a tough race tomorrow and it will be very tough on tires, but I think our Viper will be good. We tried out a lot of different setups in the practice sessions and Marc and I found something that was really good and helped us, so I think tomorrow will be very positive."
What is your plan for tomorrow?
"I will run the morning warm-up session because Marc did most the driving in the practices, so I will get more comfortable in the warm-up session and then I will start the race and Marc will finish it."
Matt Bejnarowicz, lead engineer, No. 93 Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R
What did you think of the qualifying session?
"I think JB (Jonathan Bomarito) did a great job. I think everybody stacked pretty close in the front, so we're probably set up for a pretty exciting race. We've been working on our car to be consistent on the long run and I think that's going to be a key to the race tomorrow is protecting the car and especially the tires to keep that consistency on the long run."
How will you approach tomorrow?
"We've got a couple of things we want to try in the warm-up. We're going to make some small changes to the car and we'll use the warm-up as a confirmation and then for the race it's just the same strategy as all the short races like this. The number one priority is to stay out of trouble and keep the car clean and then cycle through."
Bill Riley, lead engineer, No. 91 Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R
How was your qualifying run?
"It's a great day for the Viper team to get the 93 car second and the 91 third. Obviously, we want to be on pole, but it wasn't to be right now. I think we're going to have some good race cars for tomorrow and of course we have the 33 up front also. I think it will be a good day for Viper nation tomorrow."
How do you expect to show in tomorrow's race?
"Right now by the way qualifying went, we're looking pretty strong for tomorrow. We'll see how the cars react in race trim under a long run. We've been doing long runs on tires to make sure we're okay. We've been making sure we pull all the fuel up because we don't want to be as nervous as last year. I think we're looking pretty good."
SRT Motorsports Team Lineup for Road America
No. 91 Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R
Driver: Dominik Farnbacher (Germany)
Driver: Marc Goossens (Belgium)
Lead Engineer: Bill Riley
No. 93 Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R
Driver: Jonathan Bomarito (United States)
Driver: Kuno Wittmer (Canada)
Lead Engineer: Matt Bejnarowicz
Race Information
Name: Road Race Showcase (race eight of 11 for TUDOR Championship GTLM)
Date: Aug. 10, 2014
Time: 1:15 p.m. CDT for 2 hours and 45 minutes
Track: Road America, 4.048-miles
Broadcast Information: FOX Sports 1 at 5:30 p.m. CDT
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Less Sexy Celeb Siblings: Kevin Jonas Omitted From People's "Most Beautiful People" List
People's 100 Most Beautiful People issue has hit newsstands, and the editors have gone Jonas mad. Both Nick Jonas (right), 16, and Joe Jonas (left), 19, made the cut. But aren't you forgetting someone? Looks like Kevin Jonas (middle), 21, has been put on another list—the long list of celebrity siblings that never quite live up to their golden siblings. [MTV] Kevin is probably looking in the mirror right now and wondering, "Why?!" He's got the signature Jonas brow and a pensive, sexy smile. It's not you, Kev — it's celebrity natural selection. For some reason, no matter how hard they try, some siblings aren't cut out for super-stardom. Cry it out, Kevin, along with these other celeb sibs.
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Extreme climatic variation is predicted with climate change this century. In many cropping regions, the crop environment will tend to be warmer with more irregular rainfall and spikes in stress levels will be more severe. The challenge is not only to raise agricultural production for an expanding population, but to achieve this under more adverse environmental conditions. It is now possible to systematically explore the genetic variation in historic local landraces by using GPS locators and world climate maps to describe the natural selection for local adaptation, and to identify candidate germplasm for tolerances to extreme stresses. The physiological and biochemical components of these expressions can be genomically investigated with candidate gene approaches and next generation sequencing. Wild relatives of crops have largely untapped genetic variation for abiotic and biotic stress tolerances, and could greatly expand the available domesticated gene pools to assist crops to survive in the predicted extremes of climate change, a survivalomics strategy. Genomic strategies can assist in the introgression of these valuable traits into the domesticated crop gene pools, where they can be better evaluated for crop improvement. The challenge is to increase agricultural productivity despite climate change. This calls for the integration of many disciplines from eco-geographical analyses of genetic resources to new advances in genomics, agronomy and farm management, underpinned by an understanding of how crop adaptation to climate is affected by genotype × environment interaction.
Both genomics and phenomics will assist the investigation of genetic variation in both crop landrace germplasm and in crop wild relatives. Novel genetic variation will be needed to extend the range of tolerances to high temperature stresses and to severe droughts in the crop growing period, that are predicted to be more extreme with climate change this century [
Severe moisture stress in the pre-flowering and the flowering periods reduces formation of florets as well as affecting fertilisation and seed set [
The rise in global world temperature is now expected to exceed 2 °C by around 2050 in the worst case scenario, and certainly before 2100. In the temperate—tropical latitudes this will result in shorter crop growth periods and reduced yield potential [
World population growth is on schedule to exceed 9 billion by 2050, as well as being increasingly urbanised, and competing with agriculture for water and land resources. Even as major crop production environments become less favourable for crops, over 70% more production will be required to provide adequate food, mainly on the same area of arable land [
Integrated genetic (long term) and agronomic (short and long term) innovations will be important to raise world food production [
Landrace populations or traditional local varieties with a diversity of types and polymorphic genetic variation have been selected through natural and manual selection for population complexes with specific adaptation to the range of seasonal crop environments in each locality [
Accurate geographic positioning of the locations where both wild and landrace germplasm is collected is now possible with GPS data on longitude, latitude and elevation. World climate maps are freely available on the internet, with a local resolution down to 1 square km [
Not all landraces from localities with a history of extreme stress are necessarily stress tolerant. Ehlers and Hall [
A phenomenon known as a domestication bottleneck [
Selection for domestication was crop specific, but in grain crops typically required a shift in plant morphology and physiology; to retention of seed on plants for ease of harvest, to larger seed size so that agriculture became a more attractive food source than hunter-gathering, to a reduction in hard seed coats to allow reliable germination of annual crops, to improved nutrition and digestion, and for investment of more plant photosynthate in the seed rather than in vegetative growth [
This bottleneck limited transfer of the genetic diversity for abiotic stress tolerances from the much wider genepools of the crop progenitors and of other wild relatives. The secondary and tertiary wild relatives of crops may be rich sources of desirable traits such as disease resistance [
The wild progenitors often can still be found in the respective regions where a crop was domesticated, growing wild often in marginal habitats unsuited to agriculture with severe abiotic stresses, or sometimes even as a weed in cultivated crops [
Wild relatives survive on uncultivated ground in generally harsher environments. Wider genetic variation for tolerance of abiotic stresses, as a result of natural selection for survival with better seed set on the more tolerant plants, is more likely to be available in wild relatives than in the genepools of most domestic crops [
A systematic preliminary screening of both landraces (efficiently sampled as core or mini-core collections representing the species diversity (23]), and wild relatives, based on the growing season history of their respective habitats, provides a short list of selected germplasm for more intensive evaluation, in an efficient and strategic search for the required genetic tolerance of abiotic stress. Not all candidates for stress tolerance will have this characteristic, as some may have escape mechanisms such as very early flowering; indeterminacy; very low biomass; capacity to recover from short term stress spikes, or may represent the genetic remnants from a narrow genetic base as the species expanded to new ecological niches [
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New genomic tools such the use of a very density of genetic markers such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) can provide genome-wide selection (GWS) in conjunction with genotyping of each individual in a segregating population [
Stress tolerant regulatory loci occur across various species as variants of candidate genes or even as direct analogues [
Regulatory genes are important in the simultaneous changes of the mRNA levels of many genes such as for ROS removal [
Differentially expressed genes associated with genetic variation for heat or drought have been investigated through their EST sequences using large array analyses for genome wide searches, however this is likely to be super-ceded with next generation sequence (NGS) technologies. Both approaches enable comparative functional studies of genes for stress resistance. Candidate genes for drought/heat adaptive traits in the domesticated gene pools of crops, such as for osmotic adjustment, transpiration efficiency, photosynthetic maintenance and water soluble carbohydrates have been identified [
With NGS, whole genome or gene-space sequencing data are available for many crops, plus transcriptome sequence data to provide large numbers of ESTs [
While NGS technologies hold much promise, and a further "Third generation technology" is being developed, there are complications for allopolyploid genomes such as bread wheat made up of three related sets of homoeologous chromosomes, and canola (
Plant breeding addresses the challenge of combining together heritable traits for improved yield, resistances to endemic diseases and pests, and product quality traits, to suit the production system of the target environment. This target environment can be very wide when new varieties have general adaptation [
Early analyses of genotype × environment interaction by regression analyses suggested that patterns of wide and of specific adaptation found in a worldwide barley germplasm collection reflected the natural selection history of the respective germplasm [
New molecular tools such as NGS will assist in identifying the underlying components of stress tolerances in the domestic germplasm, and in the identification and introgression of novel stress genes from crop wild relatives. This is being systematically applied in the International Centre for Wheat and Maize Improvement ( CIMMYT) wheat breeding program with managed field screening for tolerances of heat and drought stresses, to exploit both the domesticated and wild genepools [


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Interactive Time-Dependent Tone Mapping Using Programmable Graphics Hardware
Nolan Goodnight
Rui Wang
Cliff Woolley
Greg Humphreys
2003 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering
Modern graphics architectures have replaced stages of the graphics pipeline with fully programmable modules. Therefore, it is now possible to perform fairly general computation on each vertex or fragment in a scene. In addition, the nature of the graphics pipeline makes substantial computational power available if the programs have a suitable structure. In this paper, we show that it is possible to cleanly map a state-of-the-art tone mapping algorithm to the pixel processor. This allows an interactive application to achieve higher levels of realism by rendering with physically based, unclamped lighting values and high dynamic range texture maps. We also show that the tone mapping operator can easily be extended to include a time-dependent model, which is crucial for interactive behavior. Finally, we describe the ways in which the graphics hardware limits our ability to compress dynamic range efficiently, and discuss modifications to the algorithm that could alleviate these problems.
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50. Stephen Parker, 3B
|Parker struggled in his first season at the Triple-A level.
The 2012 season was undoubtedly a disappointing one for Parker. The BYU has moved steadily up the A's system since he was drafted in the fifth round in 2009. Parker posted a 900 OPS for High-A Stockton in 2010 and while that number dipped to 786 for Double-A Midland in 2011, there was still a lot to like about Parker's 2011 season, as he hit .286, posted a .373 OBP and finished the season on a hot streak.
Parker began 2012 as the Sacramento River Cats' everyday third baseman, and he got off to a fast start, batting .292 with an 838 OPS in April. However, he hit a rough spot in May and was bypassed for promotion when the A's sent down Josh Donaldson to Triple-A in late May. Parker would share time with Donaldson at third until Donaldson was recalled to Oakland in August. Parker would swing the bat well in June (.306/.359/.528) but he struggled badly in July and August and finished with a pedestrian .256/.327/.390 line in 99 games.
That batting line was by far Parker's worst in his three full seasons as a pro. His power was down from his previous two seasons and, most disturbingly, his K% jumped nearly six percentage points from his 2011 season and his BB% fell more than three percentage points from 2011. Defensively, Parker still struggled with the routine play at times.
A's minor league hitting coordinator Todd Steverson believed that Parker's struggles offensively with Sacramento stemmed from adjusting to a league that favors off-speed pitches over fastballs.
"It is quite an adjustment really if you go from the Texas League to the PCL," Steverson said in mid-July. "The PCL, I wouldn't say that it is the most fastball-oriented league. Meaning by that, there are a lot of guys in this league that are more savvy, kind of crafty pitchers than they are just velocity guys. For that level of it, you have to start to really hunker down on how to understand how to hit more off-speed pitches in hitter's counts.
"When you come from a league where guys use their fastballs a lot and you have to adjust to a lot more off-speed pitches more consistently, it does become a lot of adjusting. That is the rough part because when you get to the big leagues, they are going to put their fastballs on the table."
Parker's poor season couldn't have come at a worse time for him from an organizational depth chart perspective, as Donaldson emerged as a strong candidate to be the A's everyday third baseman with his late season effort for Oakland. However, it is still early to write off Parker's future with the A's completely. Until 2012, Parker had always been one of the A's most professional minor league hitters in terms of approach. He used the whole field well, was selective at the plate and was able to handle left-handed pitching as well as right-handers. He turned 25 in early September and is younger than top prospect Grant Green. While Donaldson and a returning Scott Sizemore give the A's two solid options for third base in 2013, there is no guarantee that either player is a long-term solution for Oakland at the position. If Parker can get back to the approach that worked for him so well in 2010 and 2011, he could re-assert himself as a top prospect, much the same way Donaldson did in 2012.
49. Jose Torres, LHP
|Torres had a strong first season in the States.
Torres, who turned 19 in September, was the youngest pitcher to suit up for an A's affiliate in the United States this season. The left-hander more than held his own in his first season in the US. The native of Venezuela finished second amongst AZL A's pitchers with 52 innings pitched and posted a 4.33 ERA, second-best amongst AZL A's starting pitchers.
Torres' K:BB ratio was a mediocre 41:29, but it improved as the season progressed. Over his final eight starts of the season, he walked more than two only twice and he struck-out 31 in 37.2 innings. Torres allowed only two homeruns and posted a 1.40 groundout-to-flyout ratio.
"Jose Torres was crafty. He had a decent fastball," AZL A's pitching coach Jimmy Escalante said. "He wasn't throwing a ton of strikes at that time, so he kind of pitched crafty. We were working so much on his delivery this year – he had a little jump in it. It wasn't smooth and he wasn't getting his foot down on time. It wasn't allowing him to get ahead of hitters, so he fell behind a lot.
"I know that he walked quite a bit, but what was funny about him was that when he walked a guy, it seemed like he'd always get a double-play."
At 6'2'', 165, Torres is still growing into his frame and he will likely continue to add velocity to his high-80s, occasional low-90s fastball as he matures physically. He has already flashed solid fastball command and a good change-up. Torres will continue to develop his breaking ball in 2013. Whether he stays in Arizona for the 2013 season or jumps to short-season Vermont will likely depend on how quickly that breaking ball comes around.
48. Josh Whitaker, OF/1B
|A late-season injury dragged down Whitaker's overall numbers.
Whitaker came out of nowhere in 2011 to put his name on the prospect map when he posted a 957 OPS for Low-A Burlington in the pitcher-friendly Midwest League. Whitaker's numbers dipped with High-A Stockton in 2012, but he still was one of the Ports' top hitters and a late-season ankle injury dragged down his overall batting line.
The A's 2010 25th-round pick posted a .259/.325/.472 line in 99 games with the Ports in 2012. He got off to a slow start with Stockton as he had to make the adjustment to the California League. At the start of the year, Whitaker's swings-and-misses were way up, as his plate discipline was practically non-existent. However, as he started seeing the ball better and understanding the Cal League strike-zone, Whitaker's numbers improved dramatically. He hit 16 homers in 43 games in June and July and looked poised to post his second straight 800+ OPS season when he injured his ankle in mid-July.
Whitaker played through the ankle injury for the final few weeks of July and the first week of August before finally landing on the DL in early August. He spent most of the month on the DL, returning for the final few days of the season. Despite missing so much time, Whitaker finished second on the Ports and 15th in the league in homeruns with 20. After playing mostly at first base in 2011, Whitaker moved to the outfield in 2012 and flashed a strong throwing arm.
As a low-round pick, Whitaker will always be fighting an uphill battle to be recognized. However, the Georgia native has impressive power and is surprisingly athletic for a player of his build. Whitaker has always been a free swinger, however, and he will need to refine his approach to raise his profile even higher. The A's minor league depth chart in the outfield is crowded at the moment but Whitaker's ability to play first base as well should give him an opportunity to move up to Double-A next season. He will be 24 at the start of the season.
47. Dakota Bacus, RHP
The A's ninth-round pick this season, Bacus dominated for the AZL A's in both a starter and reliever's role. The 6'2'' right-hander allowed only 12 hits in 30 innings while striking out 35 and walking only five. Over his final 18 innings, Bacus allowed only one hit and he walked four while striking out 27. He did not allow a homerun.
Bacus was drafted after one season in NCAA baseball with Indiana State. Before that, he had spent two seasons at Southeastern Community College. Although Bacus is already 21 with college experience, he was kept back in the Arizona Rookie League in part because he only had one season of experience at a four-year school. He proved to be way too good for the Arizona League competition.
Bacus has a solid three-pitch mix: a low-90s fastball that has touched 95 on occasion, a change-up and a slider. He does a good job repeating his delivery and he hides the ball well. Bacus gets a lot of movement on his fastball and he has solid fastball command. The A's like Bacus' approach to pitching. He is aggressive within the strike-zone, often challenging hitters to beat him.
"He was a very aggressive pitcher. Really goes after guys," AZL A's pitching coach Jimmy Escalante said.
"We have that saying that we want warriors on the mound, and that's what he was out there. Every time he went out there, he didn't care when he was out there, how many innings."
Also working in Bacus' favor for his future growth as a pitcher is his ability to induce groundballs. Of all balls put into play against him last season, half of those balls were hit on the ground. There wasn't much solid contact made against Bacus in the AZL, period, as only 25.8% of balls put in play in the air reached the outfield and only 10.6% of balls put in play were line-drives. He struck-out exactly a third of the batters he faced while walking less than five percent.
Bacus split his time between the starting rotation and the bullpen in 2012, but the A's view him as a starter. His innings were limited with the AZL A's after he threw 116.2 innings at Indiana State earlier in the year. That innings total set a school record. Bacus should be a strong candidate to join the starting rotation for the Low-A Beloit Snappers in 2013.
46. Chad Oberacker, CF
|Oberacker moved up a level mid-season in 2012.
If things had worked out differently, Oberacker would be part of the St. Louis Cardinals' organization. The outfielder was drafted in the 19th round by the Cardinals in 2010 as a junior with Tennessee Tech. Oberacker intended to sign with St. Louis, but negotiations broke down and he returned to TTU for his senior season. The A's swooped him up in the 25th round in 2011 and he is looking like a solid find for the A's at that spot in the draft.
Oberacker began the 2012 campaign with Low-A Burlington, but after only a few weeks with the Bees, it was clear that he was too good for that level. In 74 at-bats, Oberacker hit .317/.403/.524 with eight walks and eight extra-base hits. He was promoted to High-A Stockton in early May and spent the rest of the year at or near the top of the Ports' line-up. In 454 at-bats with the Ports, Oberacker hit .260/.326/.432 with 13 homers and 25 stolen bases in 28 chances.
Oberacker's season with Stockton was actually better than the overall numbers would suggest. The centerfielder had a 682 OPS in August, which dragged down his overall slash line. Before his late-season slump, Oberacker was the most consistent hitter on the Ports and was one of their better defensive outfielders, as well.
The Pennsylvania native doesn't have one tool that stands out, but he does everything well. Oberacker has above-average speed and decent power for a middle of the diamond player. He is a smart baserunner and has solid fundamentals defensively. Oberacker has a solid approach at the plate, although he could stand to cut down on his strike-outs, especially given his normal role as a leadoff hitter. He struggled against left-handed pitchers last season (with Stockton, a 597 OPS against lefties/824 OPS against righties). In some ways, Oberacker profiles as a poor man's Mark Kotsay.
Like Whitaker, Oberacker will have to continue to prove himself in order to move up in the system given his status as a later round pick and a senior sign. However, he is the kind of player who coaches love to have in the line-up. The A's have a crowded outfield depth chart, but if the A's move any of their Triple-A outfielders before the start of the season, Oberacker should get a chance to move up to Double-A Midland at the start of 2013. He will be 24 throughout the 2013 season.


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ChristineWilde said
Looks like I won't submit mine in time. I don't want to rush it either.
We're in the same boat, but if you've done work on it, there are still some prizes worth considering:We're also running a Best Item Contest where authors of all Tumblr Themes submitted between March 26th and May 21st will have a chance to win the following bonus cash prizes:Might be worth finishing that theme.
- Best Tumblr Blog: $1,000
- Best Tumblr Portfolio: $1,000
- Best Tumblr Business Theme: $1,000
Ah! I must have read it too quickly I thought that was only the first 20 themes. Doh! I should be able to finish the theme next week, fingers crossed.
Looks like I won't submit mine in time. I don't want to rush it either.
Can this be increase to the first 30 themes submitted?
Oh man! If I had known this was going to happen I would have waited on the theme I uploaded just last week. Hadn't uploaded a theme for over 6 months then I do, then there's a competition! Will have to dust off one of my other designs then.
I'm really liking the new design but the only issue I can see with it is the 'View Portfolio' button. I couldn't instantly see the button because it merges with the background colours, etc. I think it would be better to have the colour of the marketplace you are on instead. Or an actual colour.
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Have you checked the notifications? The invitation was sent out to all people that added the challenge account to their Friends. If you find the notification, be sure to "accept the challenge"
I clicked on the notification but it didn't load it. I'm already doing a challenge with a friend but that shouldn't effect it. Pretty sure you can do more than one at a time.
My phone isn't showing the new challenge. Is it because I'm too late?
I'm up for the challenge! Been doing a lot of running lately. Trying to get up to 5km each time I run. Been aiming for at least 10 miles a week. This challenge will hopefully help me to be more motivated. Good luck everyone!
It was great meeting everyone, fellow staff members and authors! Glad everyone had a great time and I can't wait to see the pictures now.
Until the next one!
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Two centuries-old Giant Sequoia trees fell three weeks ago at the Trail of a Hundred Giants, southeast of Visalia forever changing the Trail's natural rhythm. The Trail welcomed about 5,000 visitors each week, many of whom would only visit the Trail once. Counted in those 5,000 people were my two young sons and me who visited the Trail at least weekly from our home in California Hot Springs.
In our time there, we discovered that there are areas along the half-mile trail where tourists like to congregate, creating a natural rhythm to the short hike. In a one-time visit to this historic trail, it would be easy to miss the flow of the Trail and the importance of the two famous and now-fallen trees.
Trail marker #1 is the first opportunity to explore a Giant Sequoia up close and walk through the hole in the bottom of the tree left by a fire. At this tree we tell people that the black sticky stuff is not actually ash from the fire but a scar created by the tree protect itself from more damage. Giant Sequoias are nearly fire-proof as a result.
At trail marker #3 you will find a limb struck by lightening that impaled itself in the ground and stands sticking up like a tree unto itself. Most people pass #3 without realizing what they are seeing. My boys and I make a point of stopping tourists and explaining excitedly, "If you hear thunder while you're here, run!". We do take our own advice: I have myself run out of the grove with a toddler in a backpack as lightening flashed.
Marker #4 offers a cluster of trees you can squeeze into and find yourself in an open room with only one redwood exit. Early people used such trees as pens for geese and other animals. My older son was in the "goose pen" one day when we met a man walking real live geese.
Marker #9 is the next natural place to congregate. It has offered two trees grown so close together that their base became one. The trees stood in a well-lit portion of the path and a fire 200 years ago burned out a portion of their base. The light against the deep black color of the scarred Giant Sequoia made it a perfect spot for tourist pictures. The nearby foot bridges made the area particularly quaint.
Through much of 2010 the trips to the Trail with my toddler son involved walking straight to marker #9 and walking back and forth over the wooden bridges listening to the echo of our own footsteps. "Boom! Boom! Boom!," said the bridges to the delight of my toddler. We spent hours listening to our steps and I took many pictures of tourists that summer posed in front of the two burned trees. We named the bridges affectionately: "The Boom Boom Bridges."
Those tourists may never know that they are pictured in front of trees that are no longer vertical.
One of the two trees at marker #9 has been leaning for some time, but we noticed a dramatic change in mid-August. My mom, toddler, and I headed to the Trail early one August morning to take pictures of the fire debris that threatened the grove in late July. As we approached marker #9 we were struck by how much one of the trees was leaning. We stood back marveling at the angle and wondered out loud why we had not noticed it before. The morning light shone bright on the leaning tree making the angle hard to miss. "Maybe it's the light this morning. Perhaps it has been leaning this much all along." Not appreciating the significance, the leaning tree only made its way into the side of one of our pictures.
In our picture from August, you can compare the angle of the Giant on the left side of the photo to other trees in the redwood grove. In just a six week period, the massive weight of the tree worked together with gravity to break the shallow root system of itself and its redwood companion. The two trees fell together on September 30. The crushing sound was captured on video by a tourist as the trees fell, destroying a "Boom Boom Bridge" and a significant portion of the Trail.
"Boom" indeed. Marker #9 at the Trail of a Hundred Giants is in deep need of revision.
Forestry leaders are looking for public feedback on what to do about these fallen trees. The tree bases tower 18 feet and block a significant portion of a trail that had been accessible by wheelchair and, when no tourists were present, by young boys on scooters. How will Sequoia National Forest recoup this accessible trail? Should the trees be removed from the grove entirely? Should massive saws cut out slices that cross the Trail to allow people to pass? Ought a tunnel be carved out through these immense logs? The Forest Service is seeking feedback.
I put the question to my 9 year old son who has likely been to the Trail more than any 9 year old on the planet. Lately the Trail has been boring to him. The fire this summer got his attention and was good for a couple of complaint-free hikes. Holiday weekends work well too because he becomes a tour guide of sorts helping others discover the best trees to squeeze into or the easiest way to climb roots of other fallen trees. However, in August when we noticed the leaning tree, we left him home to play video games, to our disgust. This week I described to him the fallen trees and the new dilemma faced by the Forestry Service. I laid out the options for making the Trail accessible again. He lit up at the idea that there might be a redwood tunnel on the Trail, fully accessible to wheel chairs (and scooters). His young brother agrees.
It makes you wonder if the real reason for the fall of the two Giants is a kamikaze-like attempt of the Trail to compete with video games. The Trail will certainly have a new, exciting rhythm, at least for two boys.
There will be a public meeting at the Trail on October 22 at 10 a.m. so that people can see the fallen Giants and discuss the possibilities for making the Trail accessible again. Two young boys will be there, with a renewed sense of excitement, casting their votes.


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Dave Wannstedt didn't mention anyone by name. The Pitt coach didn't have to, as it wasn't a question of who, but rather: why?
It's no coincidence that cornerback Aaron Berry and safety Elijah Fields were demoted to the second-team defense on the same day. They arrived at Pitt in the same recruiting class, bonding on their official visit and becoming fast friends. Sometimes, their association has negative connotations.
"To me, to be a consistent football player at the level that is expected of you in our program, winning is not a sometimes thing. We've all heard that cliché," Wannstedt said before Thursday's practice. "I personally believe that that carries over into the weight room, into the off-season program, into the classroom. Sometimes, a player might be doing well on the football field but in my opinion he's not doing everything he's supposed to do or to the best of his ability in some other areas.
"We've got a few guys I'm really not concerned with where they're at football-wise (but) I am concerned about them doing everything that's expected of them in all areas that affect this program."
The fastest way to get their attention is by threatening to reduce their playing time. As a result, two talented sophomores – cornerback Antwuan Reed and safety Andrew Taglianetti – are taking advantage of their opportunity to practice with the first-team defense.
"It's really not experimenting as much as just making sure everyone in this program understands that they're accountable every day," Wannstedt said. "You've got to be accountable every day."
Sometimes, talent and depth are a team's top disciplinarians.
• Discipline has nothing to do with Pitt's shuffling at center. Accountability does, though. Offensive line coach Tony Wise told me today that walk-on Alex Karabin is being rewarded for his performance by taking first-team reps ahead of incumbent starter Robb Houser.
Houser probably isn't 100 percent healthy since returning from a fractured right ankle against Rutgers that ended his 2008 season. He has struggled against the likes of tackles Myles Caragein and Mick Williams in practice, and is being instructed to work on his getting lower in his stance and being more physical in his blocking.
Interestingly, John Malecki has started taking snaps with the quarterbacks at the start of practice and is being prepared to become the Panthers' emergency center, the way C.J. Davis did last fall.
"Coach Wise wants me to learn center, just in case something like last year with C.J. comes up," Malecki said. "He wants to feel comfortable putting somebody in there. He said we have to find the next backup center. He wants me learning that position so I'm able to help out as much as possible come fall."
Read more about that development in my story in Friday's Trib.
• Malecki is showing signs of becoming the undisputed leader of the line. He has taken sophomore Lucas Nix under his wing by forcing him to watch more film, and it's no accident that Nix is thriving.
Never mind that Malecki is only a year into playing offense.
"It's a bit of a challenge," Malecki said. "I'm taking it in stride. I'm trying to help Lucas. I'm trying to help him understand the way C.J. helped me. He was a great leader and a great player here."
Nix is taking first-team reps at right tackle and is being thrown into the fire, facing end Jabaal Sheard on every play. It's a tough transition. When Sheard rushes on the outside, Nix is able to use his long arms and quick feet to keep him away from the quarterback. When Sheard makes an inside move, however, he is overpowering Nix with his strength.
Yet Wise is impressed with Nix's improvement.
"Lucas has had a very, very good spring," Wise said. "He's figured a couple of things out. He's gotten better from Tuesday to Thursday, from Friday to Saturday. That is the most important thing. That is a big component of that.
Wise warned not to read any more into it that Nix is starting in place of Joe Thomas, who missed last week's workouts with a sprained ankle.
"We're not really into trying to send any messages," Wise said. "That's purely on what he's done. Lucas has played well."
* The tailback competition is taking daily twists and turns. Wannstedt praised redshirt freshman Chris Burns for his play: "I thought Chris Burns the last couple days has taken a few steps forward."
The other candidates turned in a pair of eye-opening plays. Redshirt sophomore Shariff Harris broke through the grasp of middle linebacker Brandon Lindsey and turned a draw into a 45-yard touchdown run. Freshman Dion Lewis beat weak-side linebacker Tristan Roberts on a wheel route (reminiscent of West Virginia's Steve Slaton burning Tommie Campbell on the same play in 2006) and caught a Tino Sunseri pass in stride on the right sideline for another scoring play.
Wannstedt indicated that all three backs will likely play this fall, even if some have more prominent roles than others.
"They're all a little bit different, as most players are," Wannstedt said. "I think the challenge is going to be, as a staff and as players, to say, 'One guy may not get 35 carries, but what can I contribute to the team? What's my role on this team?' As coaches, we need to put them in position where they can maximize their abilities.
"At the running back position, I think things could be that way. It could change, but I think there could really be some good competition all the way through camp and throughout the season. When you run the ball like we do, you need all the backs you can get. We've proven that, and they're all going to be a major part of the success we have."
Wannstedt also is in no hurry to name a starting tailback.
"Somebody has to start, and I wouldn't see me declaring a starter until a week before the opener," Wannstedt said. "We can practice all of them and all of them know that somebody has to start but they're all going to be a part of it."
• I'm not a fan of early enrollees (see: Dell, Steve; Hobby, Ronald), but Lewis is making a case for why it can be beneficial to a newcomer. And, without addressing that issue directly, Wannstedt gave an indication of why players opt to skip the spring semester of high school for spring drills.
"This spring is when you really get a chance to evaluate your freshmen," Wannstedt said. "Most kids come in and you really just almost say, 'OK, we've got three deep here and, Chris Burns, you're going to be redshirted (because) we've got LaRod (Stephens-Howling), we've got Conredge (Collins), we've got Shady (LeSean McCoy). You're not going to play, foreseeing an injury.' They're on the scout team and they're really not going to play, in terms of development, until the spring. This is the time of the year when you really look at your freshman class and say, 'This guy has a chance to help us and this guy will fit in here.'"
The one misconception about freshmen taking a redshirt is that they use it as a year to learn the system. More likely, they spend that season running the opponents' plays on the scout team. Other than giving redshirts a year to allow them to adapt to college life and physically mature, it's a waste.
Spring drills are a time to perform – and impress.
"It's an exciting time for the underclassmen, more so than the older guys," Wannstedt said, "because there's still that unknown of what they're capable of doing, other than what we see on their high school tape."
• Highlights from Thursday's practice:
• Weak-side linebacker Max Gruder continues to make plays, and he drew praise from position coach Joe Tumpkin when he read a pass in the right flat and met tight end Dorin Dickerson head-on. Gruder's backup, Tristran Roberts, made a similar play (and also got Tumpkin's attention) by blowing up a dump pass to Harris in the left flat.
• With defensive end Tony Tucker breathing down his neck, Tino Sunseri sidestepped the pass rush and found Greg Cross open in the left seam. The pass was thrown behind Cross, who adjusted to make the catch. Later, Cross caught a pass over the middle and used a stutter-step to freeze safety Hobby and then sprinted down the right sideline.
Cross is displaying nice ability in the open field. Now, he just needs to learn to catch every pass with his hands, not against his body.
* With Gruder and strong-side linebacker Greg Williams showing blitz, Bill Stull showed his experience by delaying his cadence and drawing them off-sides. Later, Fields stunted on a blitz and drew an illegal procedure penalty, as Wise made his linemen back up 5 yards.
• Stull had another miscommunication with Jonathan Baldwin that resulted in an interception. Baldwin was running across the middle and came to a sudden halt, as Stull's pass was picked off by Berry. I'm not sure who was at fault, but if Stull wants to retain the starting quarterback job and Baldwin is going to develop into the star receiver he has the talent to become, these two must get on the same page.
• Stull was inconsistent for the second consecutive practice, and showed signs of frustration after throwing a swing pass at the feet of Lewis. As Wannstedt indicated Tuesday, Stull is pressing too much. And it's only going to get harder. He is starting to take reps with the second- and third-team offenses, behind Bostick and Sunseri.
And it doesn't help when Stull, facing pressure in the pocket, throws a perfectly catchable pass and Dickerson drops it after getting popped by Taglianetti.
• Mick Williams drew praise from Wannstedt when he swooped in from the backside to chase down Lewis on a toss sweep to the left side. Defensive tackle Tommie Duhart also got Wannstedt's approval after weaving through traffic to stop Burns.
• Bostick hadn't thrown an interception through the first eight practices, including the scrimmage, but has thrown two in as many days since starting to take first-team reps. He rolled right and threw one that tipped off Baldwin's hands and into those of safety Dom DeCicco.
• As wondrous as his talent and bright as his future is, sometimes Baldwin has mental lapses. He runs the wrong route or fails to finish a route. He doesn't come back on an underthrown pass or isn't looking when a pass is thrown his way. As much as Baldwin can turn a routine play into the spectacular, he also has a tendency to make his QBs look bad.
So let's hold those Larry Fitzgerald comparisons for a moment. While Baldwin has NFL ability, his knowledge of the game – as well as his position – is still in the formative stages.
Fitzgerald was more polished in high school.
• As first reported in the Pittsburgh Trib's H.S. Sports Insiders blog Wednesday night, Sto-Rox quarterback Paul Jones, who gave a verbal commitment to Penn State, is re-opening his recruitment. Jones and receiver Andrew Carswell are expected to take an unofficial visit to Pitt on Friday, sit in on team and position meetings and attend the 4:15 p.m. practice.


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Rising uncertainty about the outcome of Italy's general election pushed up borrowing costs at its last debt sale before the poll, but the country also managed to sell its first 30-year bond in nearly two years.
The ultra-long debt sale - which would have been unthinkable just half a year ago, when Italian yields were at euro-era highs - suggests investors are increasingly confident that the country will resolve its problems and that the single currency will survive.
But Wednesday's auction also brought a sharp rise in the cost to Italy of three-year money from the last sale in January as markets fret that the February 24-25 poll will deliver a weak government and slow reforms needed to spur growth and cut debt.
Rabobank rate strategist Lyn Graham-Taylor described the sale as "a mixed bag", with the successful 30-year sale balanced by relatively weak results for other maturities.
"The yield for the three-year emphasises the recent increase in yields for peripheral paper as anxiety has mounted about the upcoming elections in Italy, Cyprus bailout talks and Spanish political concerns," he said.
"The 2040 bond is also likely to have benefited from the lack of long-end Italian supply in recent history."
Italy sold €3.449 billion of three-year bonds at a yield of 2.30 per cent, up from 1.85 per cent at the last such sale in mid-January, although still substantially below the 2.5 per cent it paid in December.
A January rally drove Italian and Spanish yields to multi-year lows but they have risen in recent days, reflecting political uncertainties in the two countries, the euro zone's third- and fourth-largest economies respectively.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is facing calls to resign over a corruption scandal, while former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi's surprise comeback in polls less than two weeks before elections has unsettled investors.
Italy's three-year funding costs were 5.3 per cent last June, before the European Central Bank's September pledge to buy bonds of countries seeking aid helped calm the euro zone debt crisis which is now in its fourth year.
Their euro-era peak was 7.89 per cent in November 2011 when the government headed by Berlusconi was forced to resign and a technocrat cabinet led by Prime Minister Mario Monti took power.
Investors also bought €888 million on Wednesday of debt maturing in September 2040 at a yield of 5.07 per cent - the first time Italy has sold 30-year debt at a regular sale since May 2011.
"The 30-year bond reopening went very well, with the yield at auction below the 5.12 (per cent) seen on the secondary market, and a strong bid-to-cover," said Filippo A. Diodovich at IG Markets, adding that investors had not seemed especially worried about the election.
The successful sale could open the way for a new ultra-long benchmark bond once uncertainty around the election dissipates.
Wednesday's sale, which also included a 15-year bond and a five-year floating rate CCTeu certificate linked to Euribor, raised a total €6.63 billion euros, just under the treasury's maximum targeted amount of €6.75 billion.
Italy has now completed about 18 per cent of its estimated total borrowing for 2013.
After the sale, 10-year Italian government bond yields were 14 basis points lower at 4.48 per cent, having risen 34 basis points since late January.
Investors fear this month's vote will return a fragmented parliament and a weak government, threatening the structural reforms needed to cut Italy's €2 trillion debt pile and revive its moribund economy.
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My friend has six modesta in a tank with some tetras, and she's noticed that they tend to be more aggressive than clowns unless you've got a ton of places for them to hide in. Hers were truly tank terrors until she loaded the tank up with slate-and-driftwood caves, now everyone is fairly happy (although they do come out and chase each other around, they're leaving the tetras alone).
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America's Got Talent aired its second set of New York City auditions Tuesday night, and the star of the show was a terrifying/amusing dance act built around a cardboard house and several featureless masks. Behold…Narcissister! Hit the comments and weigh in on whether you think this is a million-dollar act, or a billion-dollar nightmare-maker. Did anything else on AGT catch your fancy on Tuesday? Holla back!
uhmmm…. Piers complains that Howie and Sharon put through bad acts when he is not there to moderate but he was all for this act too. They have to be kidding right??!?! Million dollar act my foot! I even watched it just then a second time to make sure I didn't miss something… but nope just as bad the same time.
Just as bad the *Second* time rather.
Despite what Piers likes to complain about, they don't always necessarily put through an act that they think can/will win, they sometimes put through an act to see what they can come up with next. In some ways she's like Prince Poppyc0ck or Arc Attack who, at first, seemed to be sort of "one trick ponies," and while AA ultimately ran out of steam, it still was worth putting them through initially to see what where they might be able to go with their act. She's in that same kind of vein. Who knows, maybe she'll come up with something amazing in the next round and move on, or maybe she'll fizzle. It's a fairly unique and different act so another performance couldn't hurt.
Creepy. Really, really creepy. :O
Looks like LaToya Jackson.
Wes Craven has a new villain for his next slasher flick.
I guess I have a sense of humor and whimsey … I thought it was clever and funny!
Great. They put a clever costume through. I don't buy anything about the act or that they think they want to see what else she can come up with. They had a certain number of acts they had to send through, and looks like she was on at the end of the day so they were sending anyone. This was stupid. Just like sending Steroid Man through just because he had an incredible body that looked like a roast chicken.
wow half good half terrible and somewhat creepy exactly like a roasred chicken
Narcisister has been around for a while as a feminist performance artist. There isn't much of a chance she'll fizzle out. I think that the context she works in adds to her work.
I had never hear of her before this. I checked her out on you tube and facebook. She does some very edgy stuff! Michael, you have to interview her.
correcting my typo – meant to say "I had never heard of her before this."
She has been around in New York for awhile. Recently, she did a showcase which sold out. No matter what middle America thinks, in the art world… her performance art is edgy and progressive.
She is amazing.
I love her but I'm really confused why she didn't show up to perform in Vegas. I don't know if she couldn't make it or they eliminated her of air like 4play and Cindy Chang. I was really looking forward to what she had to offer in Vegas but was disappointed when she didn't show. Hopefully we will see her again on America's Got Talent!
america got talent is talentless show. nothing is worth watching, 2 judges, sharon and howie are incompetent. howie is arrogant and very jealous of piers and always tries to criticise him instead of cricising the performers.sharon always sides with howie. they should learn from judges of think you can dance, where judges are decent , and give their personal comments , which are sensible, they donot put each other down or squirit water at each other,and they are very proffessional in their judging.your show is very unpleasant
whats with all the 15 people acts this season – sooo boring- who wants hip-hop and all the so called dancing acts?-lets have some single music acts-I would never go to show to see someone jumping around,or flying around on a bike or what ever- real talent-pulease!!!!


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Last week was a busy one for the FDA, with four notable decisions out. The decisions by the FDA were mixed, which led to mixed stock action in these five stocks.
Acura Pharma (NASDAQ:ACUR) rose 16% on Monday after the FDA approved the company's drug, Oxecta (oxycodone HCl, USP) Tablets CII. Oxecta is indicated for the management of acute and chronic moderate to severe pain where the use of an opioid analgesic is appropriate. Oxecta is the first immediate-release oxycodone HCl medicine that applies technology designed to discourage common methods of tampering associated with opioid abuse and misuse.
Durect (NASDAQ:DRRX) & Pain Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PTIE) weren't so lucky with their pain drug, as the FDA issued a Complete Response Letter for their Remoxy drug on Friday. The stocks were crushed and fell by 31% and 43%, respectively. Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), the drug's sponsor, is working to evaluate the issues described in the Complete Response Letter and plans to have further discussions with FDA around them. Remoxy is an investigational drug that is a unique, controlled release formulation of oxycodone for moderate-to-severe chronic pain designed to reduce potential risks of unintended use. Approximately 50 million Americans suffer from persistent pain each year, according to the American Pain Foundation.
Lannett (NYSEMKT:LCI) fell almost 1% on Friday despite an approval from the FDA for the company's Morphine Sulfate Oral Solution. Sales of Morphine Sulfate Oral Solution for the last 12 months at average wholesale prices were approximately $31.7 million, according to Wolters Kluwer. The company expects to commence shipping the product shortly. The CEO said that the company is expecting to receive approvals for a number of abbreviated new drug applications currently pending at the FDA.
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Press Packer Louis helped pilots reach Africa with the world's first solar-powered electric paramotor - a paraglider with a motor attached.
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"In my summer holidays I travelled from Barcelona in Spain to Morocco in North Africa with pilots of the first ever electric paramotor in the world.
My uncle made it and it was powered by some solar panels that were attached to the top of our van.
Daddy decided to go on the trip because it was fundraising for charity, and because it was a good opportunity for an adventure.
The trip
The solar panels powered the flying machine and they charged phones, cameras and a fridge for cold drinks in the van.
One day the solar panels got so dirty that they stopped charging the paramotor, so I had to climb up on the roof of the van and scrape the dirt off.
Each night we camped in a different place, mostly on the beach, but sometimes we went up into the mountains.
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We helped refuel the machines whenever they landed and also had to keep looking out for the pilots in the sky to make sure they were ok.
Once we saw one of the paramotors breaking down and we thought it had landed in the sea, but luckily it had glided in over the sea and just reached the beach.
It got really hot every day and the pilots could only fly in the mornings because the heat made the air very bumpy and dangerous to fly in.
This was quite good because it meant we could all go to the beach every afternoon and play in the sea on a jet ski that we took with us.
Everybody who went on the trip thought it was fantastic.
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I have always wanted to have a go at whipping through the air at high speeds on a paramotor, but since the trip I can't wait until I am old enough and strong enough to fly one.
I know it's not easy but one day I'd like to soar the skies in one of those incredible machines."
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Should Ryan O'Bryan's 'My 5 at 5′ Go All-'90's Every Day [POLL]
If you've been listening on Friday evenings for a while, you know that I like to have a special edition of the My 5 at 5 where every song that's requested must have been released between 1990-1999. It's one of the more popular days of the week for the My 5 at 5. But has the time come for it to expand?
That was suggested by Erica in Evansville who sent in a text request the other day. I'll admit, I like the idea, however I do have concerns. As great as music was in the '90's, is there enough of it to warrant five songs worth every Monday through Friday? My fear is that the same handful of songs will get requested day after day.
I also wonder if we go all '90's every day, the novelty and specialness (is that even a word?) will wear off quickly. I think the appeal of going all '90's on Friday's is that it does only happen once a week. It's like going out for ice cream instead of staying home and eating the store brand stuff in your fridge. If you ate Dairy Queen every time you were in the mood for ice cream, after a while you'd get burnt out on it (in theory) and you'd quit going eventually. The appeal would lose its luster because it's no longer a special treat.
Honestly, I'm torn. On the surface, I love the idea, but the more I think about it I wonder if you can indeed have too much of a good thing after a while. So I'm looking for your input. You're the one who listens everyday, your the one who requests the songs, and your the one who's opinion is the one that matters. So you tell me, what do you want?