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Opening The Old Testament
An Open-Hearted God, An Open-Hearted Worship: Reflections on 1 Kings 8:22-23, 41-43
Lectionary Reflections
1 Kings 8:22-23, 41-43
June 2, 2013
I have often wished that the same writer who gave us those unforgettable stories of Samuel, Saul, and David (in the books of Samuel) had continued the story of the next generation of Israel's leaders, especially the memorable Solomon, David's son with the infamous Bathsheba. One can only imagine the saucy tales that might have been shared about the king who purportedly wrote vast numbers of proverbs, who married hundreds of wives, not to mention having relations with a vast number of concubines and being known for unsurpassed wisdom (see the famous story of the prostitutes and a child in 1 Kgs. 3).
Alas! The Deuteronomic Historian, a deeply ideological author, got a stranglehold on the Solomonic material and bent it to his specific desires. What makes this propaganda so easy to read in Hebrew—its limited vocabulary, its simple sentence structure, its constant repetitions—is what makes it far less interesting for modern readers. The reading from 1 Kings 8:23-24 is a parade example; if you hear it once, you hear it many more times. Solomon is dedicating the newly built temple in Jerusalem, and assuming the orans position of prayer (hands raised and widely outstretched), he intones:
YHWH, God of Israel, there is no God like you in the sky above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and unbreakable love (chesed) for your servants who walk before you with all their heart, the covenant that you kept for your servant my father David as you declared to him; you promised with your mouth and this day fulfilled with your hand.
It is Deuteronomy that supplies Judaism with its creedal statement: "Hear, O Israel, YHWH is our God, YHWH alone." This powerful claim of strict monotheism is a hallmark of the 7th-century Deuteronomist. And that YHWH from the beginning has made a unique covenant, a treaty, with Israel, YHWH's chosen people, and YHWH has kept that covenant without fail, offering unbreakable devotion to the people "who walk before you with all their heart." We remember that in Hebrew anthropology the heart is the source of will and intelligence. To love God with the whole heart is to devote single-mindedness to YHWH only, to will what YHWH wills, to act as YHWH calls all to act. And when all that happens, when YHWH's love is recognized and when the people act out of that love and covenant alone, Israel is successful, reaping the benefits of YHWH in all things. The newly consecrated temple is merely a physical manifestation of that success.
If you do well, as YHWH commands, it will be well with you. Thus speaks Deuteronomy again and again and again. And his words have resonated well into our own time, as preacher after preacher has said much the same: follow God's command and you will prosper; but fail to heed the divine will and you will suffer. Even though the book of Job was designed specifically to knock such a view into a cocked hat, I fear the Deuteronomist has regularly gotten the last laugh. In my many places of preaching and teaching, I have rarely failed to hear the old idea bruited about that strict attention to God's demands will lead inevitably to power, success, wealth, comfort, etc.
Unless you have lived under a rock for your entire adult life, you know with a certainty not to be gainsaid that this belief is, not to put to fine a point on it, hooey. We all know people, we may in fact be people, for whom following our/their understanding of God's will has not led to success at all. One could readily say that the prime example is the one we call Christ, who followed the will of his God with supreme faithfulness, and the result was a short life and a monstrous death. Surely, there must be more to this Deuteronomic fellow than that simplistic notion.
John C. Holbert is the Lois Craddock Perkins Professor Emeritus of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, TX.
Holbert's column, "Opening the Old Testament," is published every Monday on the Progressive Christian portal and the Preachers Portal. Subscribe via email or RSS.


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Course DescriptionFacilitates the acquisition of motivational interviewing counseling skills as applied to the arena of addiction counseling. Prerequisites: AD 150, AD 151. Prerequisites/concurrent: WR 122. Corequisites: AD 157. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
- Apply the principles of Motivational Interviewing to a counseling session in order to facilitate client movement toward self-motivating statements and beliefs.
- Apply the principles and micro-counseling skills of the Anchor Point System to a counseling session with someone who has concerns about their use of mood altering chemicals or behaviors in order to facilitate the client movement toward self-motivating statements and beliefs.
- Evaluate a counseling session to determine its compliance with the principles of Motivational Interviewing and the Anchor Point System in order to facilitate ongoing professional development and quality assurance.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
The following assessment strategies will be employed:
1. Objective tests will be utilized, focusing on intended outcomes imbedded in lectures, readings and other multimedia presentations.
2. Synthesis papers will be utilized that focus on the student applying the targeted concepts to a fictional character/scenario/case study.
3. Analysis of video segments that attempt to portray the targeted skills.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
1) History of confrontation as a counseling technique
2) Stages of Change (Prochaska and DiClemente)
3) Motivational Interviewing (Miller)
A) Five General Principles
1) Expressing Empathy
2) Developing Discrepancy
3) Rolling with Resistance
4) Supporting Self-Efficacy
5) Avoid argumentation
B) General Practice
1) Open Questions
2) Reflective Listening
3) Affirmations
4) Summarizing
5) Self-Motivational Statements
4) "Loss of Control" as an identifying characteristic of addiction
5) Anchor Point System (Gieber)
A) Responding to content.
B) Responding to feeling.
C) Using "Third Party" Investigation.
D) Using "Historical Perspective".
E) Using "Decoding"
F) Identification of value conflict related to "Loss of Control".
G) Setting the "Anchor Point".
H) Summarizing the interview including working with the clients
"Definition of Addiction".
6) Peer review as adjunct to skill mastery

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The Forgotten Leafs & the Rise of Professional Hockey
A Great Game
The Forgotten Leafs & the Rise of Professional Hockey
Published to praise from reviewers in both the US and Canada, A Great Game brings alive the hockey heroes and hard-boiled businessmen who built the game of hockey and pays passionate tribute to the earliest star players of the game—lavishly illustrated with captivating photographs throughout.
Stephen Harper has crafted a "readable and entertaining historical exposition of the early organizational days of Canada's most beloved sport" (Toronto Star). With a historian's perspective and fan's passion, Harper presents a riveting, often-surprising portrait, capturing everything from the physical contests on the rinks to the battles behind the scenes and the changing social conventions of the twentieth century.
A Great Game shows that many things have stayed the same. Rough play, fervent hometown loyalties, owner-player contract disputes, dubious news coverage, and big money were issues from the get-go. Harper's meticulous research yields "insightful examinations of class and religion and the roles they played in a country that still saw itself as a pillar of the British Empire, all viewed through the prism of hockey at the dawn of the pro era" (The New York Times).
An instant Canadian bestseller, A Great Game resurrects the history of hockey's first decades. With photographs of the game's earliest arenas and star players, this impressive and original account will entertain and educate you from start to finish. "Thanks to Stephen Harper's impressive book of early hockey history in Toronto, the 'forgotten Leafs' will be forgotten no more" (The Washington Times).
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1: Each horse has a heading line. It contains the Program Number if available, the horses age and sex, the state where the horse was bred, the Morning Line, if available, the assigned running style, and overall early speed / late speed ratings. In this example, the early speed rating is 74, the late speed rating is 41.
2: This is a running line for a dirt race. Dirt is indicated by the final number being in brown. The line begins with track, date, distance in furlongs, and an average bias rating for that track and distance. The bias rating is on a 0 to 300 scale. It can be compared to the average bias rating of today's race, which is in the race header file. Next come the figures for the race. There are two pace calls followed by a speed figure. Above, the pace figures are 86, 83 and the speed figure is 67. These are for the leader, and the winner at the finish. The next three figures are the figures of the horse. They are 81, 75, and a speed figure of 64. Next comes a horse's late pace figure. It is weighted towards the final fraction, but does include some early speed to penalize plodders. Next comes a "bias" indicator. They are as follows:
Pace figures are generally the 1/4 mile and 1/2 mile for sprints (<8f), and the 1/2 mile and 3/4 mile for races shorter than 10f. At 10f and less than 12f, the pace figures are for the 1/2 mile and 1 mile calls. At 12f, it is 4f and 10f (1 1/4m). The first pace call is only available for running lines beginning in 2011.
The final number is the Performance Figure, or an overall rating of the running line. In this line it is a 68. The number takes into account early position, the race shape (pace figure relation to speed figure), and the horse's pace and speed figures. There are also minor adjustments for weight and horse maturity.
3: A dashed line indicates a short layoff of at least 91 days, but less than 181 days. The year of the prior race is indicated on the layoff line to avoid confusion.
4: A line of equal signs indicates a long layoff of more than 180 days. It also will include the year of the prior race to make that easy to calculate.
5: This is a running line for a turf race, indicated by the final number being in green.
6: An asterisk immediately after the number indicates the horse won the race. If the number is in bold, it shows the race was within 1/2 furlong of the race today.
7: This is a running line for a synthetic race, indicated by the final number being in blue.


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Build a permanent footing
If your deck posts move up in the spring then settle back down as the weather warms, then you have a bad case of "frost heave-osis." In the winter, the ground freezes from the top of the soil downward. The depth of frost penetration depends on the soil type, the severity of the winter, the amount of water in the soil and the depth of an insulating blanket of snow.
The frost depth varies by region. In frigid Minnesota, the frost depth is 42 in., whereas a warmer state like Missouri may have a frost depth of only 1 ft.
When you contact your local building department to get your building permit, ask what the frost depth requirement is and the required size and shape of the footings. Then dig the footing holes so that the bottoms of the footings are at or below the frost depth.
The mechanics of frost heave are complex, but here's a quick primer. Water in the surrounding soil collects and freezes into thin layers of frost called "ice lenses."
When water freezes, it expands about 9 percent—think of how ice cubes are domed above the original water level in the ice cube tray. Ice exerts a pressure of about 50,000 lbs. per square inch—enough force to lift even a large building. A puny little deck on inadequate footings doesn't stand a chance.
The reason buildings and decks don't always return to their original height is that surrounding dirt sometimes fills in under the footing while it's lifted.
Heavy clay soils don't drain well, so they tend to have more frost heave problems than sandy, well-drained ones. But even if footings are deep enough, ice lenses can latch onto the rough surfaces of wood and concrete and lift footings and posts from the side. That's why concrete piers poured in waxed cardboard tubes and smooth wooden posts work well for below-grade support.Here's how to get a solid, frost-proof footing:
- When you pour concrete footings, hold the cardboard concrete form tube about 12 in. up from the bottom of the footing. Do this by nailing the sides of the tube to the center of a tic-tac-toe grid of 2x4s at the top of the hole. Then dump concrete through the tube into the bottom of the hole. After the wide part at the bottom of the hole has filled, the tube will fill too.
- Flare the sides on concrete footings so the footings will resist heave in harsh winters when frost penetrates especially deep. Greater width at the bottom will also distribute weight over a larger area.
- Mound soil around the posts after the backfill settles to direct runoff water away from the post.
Ordering Premixed Concrete
If you're pouring more than a few footings, order premixed concrete from a ready-mix company. You'd be shocked at how many bags of concrete mix you'd have to mix by hand to fill a form tube.
Figure concrete volume by multiplying the height of the post and column in feet by the radius of the tube in feet squared times 3.14. Divide the total by 27 to get the cubic yardage you need to order. Add extra for the wide footing bases.


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Men in Black 3
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Attention, mutant aliens! If you're green, blue, striped, syrupy, gelatinous, mucus-covered, bulbous and/or oozing in any way, DO NOT attempt to vacation on/camp out at/invade Earth without first devising a suitable humanoid disguise.
If you do, you're gonna get pinched by the Men in Black. It's as simple as that. Don't believe us? Ask Boris the Animal.
Alien Level 2 File Note: Boris has a snaggletoothed horror of a face, a room-vibrating growl, the temper of a raging ox and can instantly sprout mouth-like body cavities where a symbiotic space spider dwells and spits out organic death barbs. But that does not make him a bad person, er, monster, er, space beastie.
Well, OK, maybe it does. But according to our records it's not yet an intergalactic crime to want to propagate your Boglodite species and/or take over Earth. Not that that legal technicality stopped a certain human, known as Agent K, from arresting him, "accidentally" blasting his arm off and leaving him to cool his razor-clawed heels in an orbiting Lunar-Max prison.
Alien Level 6 Top Secret File Note: After 40 years of imprisonment, Boris the Animal devised a plan to escape. With the help of a foolish human woman, he killed everyone in the super-security facility, blew the place apart and made his way back to Earth. Our internal records further indicate that he's now trying to jump back in time to 1969, where he intends to kill Agent K when he is younger and more naive, destroy the Earth-protecting ArcNet, and take over from there.
Alien Level 1 Record Keeper's Addendum: Boris should have dreamed this up decades ago. It'll be so easy. Who could possibly stop him?
Positive Elements
The answer to that last misguided and misinformed alien question would be K's longtime partner, Agent J. When K suddenly fades out of existence in their modern era, J uses his own time machine to jump back to 1969, where he teams with the younger K in hopes of finding and defeating Boris. What those aliens don't count on and don't even understand is a human being's capacity for loyalty and self-sacrifice. And J risks everything to make sure K's younger version survives. He also works diligently to help K avoid an emotionally scarring event.
It's obvious that the two agents highly value their friendship and partnership, and it's clear they've become something of a family over the years. For K's part, he also makes some self-sacrificial choices on J's behalf that open the younger man's eyes to the deepness of their bond. Back in the future, J expresses his thanks, and K responds with, "It's been my pleasure."
The film's other big theme is telling the truth. Never mind that one of the franchise's biggest shticks is wrapped up in its truth-obliterating nueralyzer guns, scriptwriters here seem to go out of their way to make the point that, as one character states, "The bitterest truth is always better than the sweetest lies." Scripture tells us that the truth will set us free; MIB3 tells us that you can't save the world with a lie.
One more nugget: We hear K say, "The most destructive force in the universe [is] regret."
Spiritual Content
During a deceased agent's eulogy, aliens sing a snippet of "Amazing Grace."
Sexual Content
Boris' stiletto-heeled human "girlfriend" comes to visit him in prison wearing a formfitting, low-cut dress. She carries a Jell-O-like cake close to her chest, and the camera makes sure to compare the confection's jiggles to the girl's. When she comes face-to-face with Boris, he sticks out his massive tongue and runs it around inside her mouth till the guards (who have already joked about how "dirty" the girl is) remind him it's not a conjugal visit.
Runway strutting male and female models are covered by what looks like curled strips of sheet metal, revealing bare backs, thighs and stomachs. One of the male models cross-dresses. Elsewhere, women wear short skirts and midriff-baring outfits.
It's stated that Mick Jagger is actually an alien sent to breed with Earth women. J slyly turns the phrase "low-hanging fruit" into a double entendre. We hear quick quips about Viagra, "balls" and conception.
Violent Content
With his symbiotic, spike-spitting spider creature, a mouthful of ragged fangs, and human-flinging, hyper-alien strength, Boris the Animal is fearsome indeed. We see him manhandle quite a few people, driving spikes into their bodies and heads. He also blows out the wall of a space station to let the decompression suck people out into space (including his girlfriend helper).
J and K get in on quite a bit of messy violence too. For instance, K interrogates one alien by repeatedly pounding him in the face with a smaller spiky alien. He flattens another creature's head with repeated blows from a frying pan. The two agents obliterate aliens into pulsating pools of goo with their MIB pistols. During an interrogation, J bowls with an alien's head, slamming down pins and thumping it to-and-fro. He barely escapes being swallowed by a giant alien fish by grabbing and ripping out several of its internal organs.
Instead of arresting a surrendering criminal alien, K decides to take the law into his own hands and kill the villain.
The agents also fall off the roof of a building, thumping down to the street below. An alien is vaporized by the exhaust flames of a rocket ship. Another loses his arm in the blast of a ray gun. A human falls from a high place, splatting to the ground. And the time jumps involve just that: jumps. Several times we see J leaping off the top of a skyscraper. A young K zaps J with an electrical charge and punches him in the face (twice).
Crude or Profane Language
Five or six s-words; 10 or 12 uses each of "h‑‑‑," "d‑‑n" and "a‑‑." There's a single use of "b‑‑tard." Someone uses the Yiddish pejorative "schmuck." God's and Jesus' names are misused once or twice each; God's is combined with "d‑‑n."
Drug and Alcohol Content
Mixed drinks and champagne show up at a party. In order to time jump, J is told he needs to "get high." (When he balks at the idea, it's explained that he actually has to climb to the top of the Chrysler Building.)
Other Negative Elements
After he jumps back to 1969, a bit of a joke is made of J getting pulled over for "driving while black."
Let's face it, just seeing a Men in Black sequel up on the big screen in 2012 feels like something of a time warp experience. It's been 10 years since MIB II and a full 15 since MIB. So, in a weird way, making this franchise capper a time travel pic makes complete sense.
Josh Brolin is spot-on in his impersonation of Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K. Some of the '60s character spoofs are fun and laugh-worthy. The direction is crisp (this being one of the few movie series out there that's been solely supervised by the same person, Barry Sonnenfeld in this case). And there's a very satisfying moment at the end of the film that harkens back, with a nice emotional wraparound, to the original movie—making the three MIBs almost seem like an intended trilogy. Add to that valuable messages about the strength of friendship and the way friends can sometimes even become family. K is shown to care more about J than we ever knew before. J is shown to be quite grateful for all the hidden things K has done for him over the years. Then top it all off with a surprisingly strong anti-neuralyzer truth serum.
On the other fang-enhanced alien hand, this newest movie can't seem to plot a decent space course around the same old problems that have always plagued MIB.
Alien Level 9 Movie Reviewer's Postscript: Sucking the kid-friendliness right out of the room are vigilante-approved firefights, a heavy-hitting prison break, organic spikes to the forehead, profanity-peppered dialogue and gushing alien goo.
Pro-social Content
Objectionable Content
Summary Advisory
Plot Summary
Christian Beliefs
Other Belief Systems
Discussion Topics
Additional Comments/Notes
Episode Reviews
Readability Age Range
Will Smith as Agent J; Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K; Josh Brolin as Young Agent K; Emma Thompson as Agent O; Alice Eve as Young Agent O; Michael Stuhlbarg as Griffin
Barry Sonnenfeld ( Nine Lives, RV, Men in Black II, Big Trouble, Wild Wild West, Men in Black)
Columbia Pictures
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May 25, 2012
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Super Cute! Pink & Daughter Willow Take a Bite Out of The Big Apple (PHOTOS)
Pink and her adorable daughter were spotted taking a stroll in New York City — much to the delight of the paparazzi, eagerly awaiting to snap a pic of the new mom and her baby girl.Little Willow Sage Hart is growing up fast!
The duo color-coordinated in matching black outfits. Little Willow was dressed in a pair of black-n-white striped socks and little red shoes with hearts on the straps. Pink looked fresh-faced without a stitch of makeup and wrapped a colorful bandana over her hair as a headband.
Earlier this month, the singer "raised her glass" to salute turning 32!
The singer is in town for a visit with her hubby, motocross racing hottie Carey Hart.
Just because, here's one of our favorite Pink songs because it perfectly captures her kick ass attitude:
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East London Runners' James Wilson and John Booth both won their respective parkruns on Saturday.
Wilson came home first in the Wanstead Flasts 5km event with a time of 19.40 while Russell Price, Derek Wright and Emmett Fitzgibbon all made the top ten.
Andy Jenkins was 13th with 22.28 while Sarah McCrea was the fastest lady in the race with 22.58 which was enough for 17th overall.
Also in pole position was Booth at the Hackney Marshes run. Booth crossed the line first with 17.59.
At the Walthamstow parkrun, David Baldwin was Runners' first man in. He came third in 20.57, just ahead of fourth-placed Patrick Brown (22.02).
Richard Guest finished eighth with 23.23 while George Geogiou (24.04), Phoebe Bowman (25.59) an Steve Bywater (26.13) came inside the top 30.
At the South of England Cross Country Championships, Patrick Brown was Runners' fastest runner, coming 118th in a time of 58.49.
Mark Boulton (64.18), Paul Quinton (69.30) also finished the nine-mile event while Celia Payaneeandee polished off five miles in 43.27.


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Terran Solar System in Ultima II that can be visited with the rocket ship in the time of the Aftermath. Minax' meddling with the timestream had caused the planet to be quite different from its original state.
There is next to nothing on this planet, apart from the mysterious "Computer Camp" village.
Neptune is on the space chart of the documentation, and its coordinates are 4,0,5.
Trivia Edit
- In reality, Neptune is a gas-giant planet with no solid surface. Besides its deadly pressure and atmosphere, it also is freezingly cold.
|Planets of the Terran Solar System
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The UAF Office of Sustainability is cleaning house and looking for new homes for 32-gallon bins previously used for on-campus recycling.
If you have a sustainable use for such bins at your office or home, send a few sentences to the Office of Sustainability describing your plan. Sustainable examples include rain barrels, hydroponic containers or additional home recycling bins. See http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/hg-44.pdf for directions on how you can turn your bin into a hydroponic container.
The limit is two bins per person until they are gone. Bins will need to be picked up from the second floor of Lola Tilly Commons.
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Vikings' LB Greenway Agrees To Pay Cut
Veteran linebacker Chad Greenway has agreed to a restructured contract that will save the team more than $3 million in cap space for 2015.
Veteran linebacker Chad Greenway has agreed to a restructured contract that will save the team more than $3 million in cap space for 2015.
Viking linebacker Chad Greenway is going back to the Pro Bowl. Greenway was announced by the Vikings as an injury replacement for Dallas outside linebacker Demarcus Ware. Greenway led the Vikings in tackles with 148 in 2012.
The Vikings allowed 260 yards rushing against the 49ers in their preseason game at San Francisco Friday night. Viking linebacker Chad Greenway says the mistakes made are correctable and one preseason game isn't an indication of how the season will go. The Vikings were the best team against the run in the NFL from 2006-2008. Pat Williams anchored the defensive line during those seasons and has since retired.
Viking linebacker Chad Greenway was named as a replacement for injured linebacker Lance Briggs of the Bears to play for the NFC in the Pro Bowl January 29 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Greenway led the Vikings in tackles with 174 in 2011. He has led the Vikings in tackles 4 straight seasons.
The Vikings have signed linebacker Chad Greenway to a 5-year contract extension worth $41 Million with $20 Million guaranteed. Greenway has led the Vikings in tackles each of the last 3 seasons. He was scheduled to make $10.1 Million this season after the Vikings used the franchise tag on him.
Viking running back Adrian Peterson is expected to be back at practice for the Vikings tomorrow after the birth of his son. Peterson told head coach Leslie Frazier everything went well. Peterson is in the final year of his current contract. The Vikings are expected to start negotiations with Peterson on a long term contract.
The Vikings placed the franchise tag on linebacker Chad Greenway Monday meaning he's in line to receive a 1-year contract offer that is worth the average of the top 5 salaries at linebacker last season or about $10 Million. The Vikings also expect to dicuss a long term contract.


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Upton sees economic stimulus driven online
U.S. Rep. Fred Upton said Monday he's touring Kalamazoo business to get a first-hand look at ways the Internet can move the economy forward.
Upton, R-Mich., scheduled stops at Bell's Brewery and three other Kalamazoo-area business with representatives from Google, Facebook and members of the so-called Internet Association.
The congressman said Monday the Internet is moving the U.S. economy as well as the economies of small- and mid-sized cities across the country.
"You don't have to look any further than small businesses in Kalamazoo to see firsthand how the Internet is opening up new possibilities for entrepreneurs and consumers alike," he said.
Bridget Blough, owner and chef of The Organic Gypsy food truck, said during her meetings with Upton's delegation the Internet is the best utility for her fast-moving business.
"Because I change menus depending on what I can get from farmers, I update menus, times, and locations every day," she said.
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When we moved my craft room upstairs last winter, it left an empty room that was now being used to store junk. You know, a "catch all" room. For some unknown reason (out of the blue), Greg decided this was going to be his new Man Cave. Yeah, that's really not what I had in mind, but okay.
He made it very clear that there was nothing girly or crafty going in there. I'll go along with the girly part, but crafty? I'm trying to sneak a few things in and this sign was the first to make it to a wall.
I had those cheapo pieces of wood stuck back and painted them white first and then dry brushed on the tan so it would give it that washed out look.
I cut the words out on contact paper using the Cameo and painted them brown.
After it dries completely, peel the paper off.
To hang it, I glued jute to the back of all the pieces.
He doesn't know it yet, but I'm working on pillows and a window valance as we speak!
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text: Citizens For A Strong NH - Weekly E-Newsletter August 09, 2014 Web Video: "Jack in the Box" Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire launched a new web advertisement this week titled, "Jack in the Box." The commercial focuses on Senator Jeanne Shaheen, and her husband's business interests, profiting from her vote for the wasteful $787 billion stimulus program. The video also sheds light on her refusal to discuss it. Senator Shaheen's husband, Bill Shaheen, is a former US attorney and a partner in one of the most politically connected law firms in New Hampshire. Shaheen has been heavily criticized in recent months with regards to her husband's firm's "stimulus opportunities team." Click HERE to watch the video and be sure to share it with your fellow Granite Staters. You can also read NHJournal's coverage of the story by clicking HERE. Microsite: www.WhyIsSheHiding.com In addition to the new web video, Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire also launched a microsite this week. www.WhyIsSheHiding.com is an offshoot of our main website, www.StrongNH.com. It highlights web videos, articles, and press releases that show Senator Shaheen's refusal to meet with her constituents or discuss the important issues facing Granite Staters. Click HERE to visit the website and be sure to share it on social media and email it to your friends. No Town Halls: Hassan, Shaheen, Shea-Porter and Kuster still refuse to host meetings It's August recess, which is the month when Members of Congress are home from Washington and typically hold Town Hall meetings to discuss their work with their constituents. Sadly though, Governor Hassan, Senator Shaheen, Congresswoman Shea-Porter (NH-01) and Congresswoman Kuster (NH-02) refuse to hold any. After months of us criticizing our elected officials for hiding from us, WMUR reported on the lack of Town Hall meetings this week and other news outlets are noticing as well. Be assured that we will continue to call on these four to host a public forum with Granite Staters like you, but there is a way you can help encourage them to do so, too.Last week, we told you that Congresswoman Annie Kuster announced a "What Does Your Granite State Look Like" photo contest. We found the concept quite absurd, but considering her lack of public forums with her constituents, it makes sense why she doesn't know what New Hampshire looks like. Thus, in response, we are letting Congresswoman Kuster know that Granite Staters want to know what she looks like. If you are a resident of New Hampshire's Second Congressional District, we are asking you to send us photos of your town's Town Hall building. Later this month, we will compile all of the photos and deliver them to Congresswoman Kuster's office with the hope of encouraging her to come out of hiding, talk to her fellow Granite Staters, and finally host her first Town Hall meeting.Submit your photos of your Town Hall in NH-02 by emailing them to firstname.lastname@example.com. Volunteers: The backbone of Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire Citizens for A Strong New Hampshire's volunteers are the best. On Wednesday evening, we had another great phone bank at our Manchester headquarters. As always, we thank them for their dedication!If you want to play an important roll in fighting for a stronger New Hampshire with lower taxes, less spending, and smaller government, please email email@example.com today and find out how you can volunteer. Even if you can't make it into our office, you can always help with writing letters to the editor of your local newspapers or participating in other grassroots opportunities in your community. Editorial Cartoon of the Week


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Call For Occupy and Anonymous to Defend People's Park From the 1%
The University of California has hired San Francisco real estate mogul Robert J. Lalanne to redevelop People's Park. The UC's plans include the removal of many of the trees and plants. The UC will take total control of landscaping and gardening of People's Park, making it illegal for the public to participate in public gardening, ending 44 years of volunteer gardening. It is believed that initial steps to control the Park will occur over winter break, such as a primary wave of foliage removal.
Operation People's Park
This is a call for tree sitters and Occupiers to defend the Park. Tree sit actions in People's Park have defended the Park in the past, but the UC is upping the ante, and new tree guardians are urgently needed. Occupiers are also needed as ground support to assist any tree defenders.
This is a call for transparency/data/journalism activists who can do do FOIA requests for development plans, including activists who can follow the chain of funding for the redevelopment of People's Park. It is theorized that the redevelopment of the Park is in part being guided at Federal levels. Activists are needed to get at emails, and internal documents outlining the attack against People's Park.
The UC has been 44 years of history is going to be transformed into a Park dominated by business interests. The Telegraph Business Improvement District (TBID) has been privy to the drafting of the People's Park redevelopment plan, but park activists and gardeners have not been allowed into the closed meetings between the UC and the TBID. Robert J Lalanne has stated that Bryant Park will serve as the model for the People's Park redevelopment, but New York's Bryant Park forbids bicycle riding and gardening, and even forbids photography without a permit (http://www.bryantpark.org/plan-your-visit/rules.html). Bryant Park is owned by a corporation, in which regular community members cannot participate in decision making; the Bryan Park Corporation is dominated by the 1% elite. The future of People's Park will follow suit, with a People's Park Corporation dominated by the UC and major business interests.
In January, as students return from break, Robert Lalanne takes position as the UC vice-chancellor in charge of redeveloping the Park. In preparation for his arrival however, it is strongly believed that the UC will begin clearing the park over the winter break.
The UC states it wishes to reduce crime in the park and surrounding neighborhood, but the only plans the UC has involve removing trees and plants. There is no plans for mental health assistance, drug rehab, or homeless support to rehabilitate and assist the homeless population in the Park. The park is going to be graded to be flat, and the foliage will be reduced; destruction of a local ecosystem in the name of public safety.
The 44 year history of resistance and creativity is under siege by the 1%. It is necessary to Occupy People's Park. The UC has been divesting from education, and has been putting money into real estate projects and development schemes, at the loss of classes and professors. Rather than focusing on its educational mission, the UC is pooling it's dwindling resources into a new battle for the control of People's Park.
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The Bears (8-7) could have clinched the NFC North with a victory, but their chance slipped away quickly in Philadelphia where the Eagles scored the game's first 24 points and kept piling on.
Philadelphia (9-6) were already heading to a season-ending matchup with Dallas (8-7) that will determine the NFC East title and a postseason spot, and could have chosen to rest their players.
Instead, they played fast and furious from the opening kickoff to earn their most lopsided triumph of the season.
"It says a lot about the character of this team that we would go out and play as hard as we did tonight," Eagles guard Evan Mathis told reporters. "It would have been easy for us to take the night off, but that's not what this team is all about."
Chicago will have their own division and the playoffs at stake when they host a winner-take-all against Green Bay (7-7-1) next week.
The Bears will need to recover from their latest setback, which saw the Eagles run all over them for 289 rushing yards.
LeSean McCoy led the charge with 133 yards and two scores on the ground, while Philadelphia quarterback Nick Foles tossed for 230 yards and two scores.
Jay Cutler, returning to start in his second straight game for Chicago since he missed four straight with injury, completed just 20 of 35 passes with a touchdown and an interception.
He was sacked five times and did not get the Bears into the end zone until the final seconds of the third quarter where their deficit was 33-11.
"We didn't play Bears football, and that's probably the most frustrating thing, especially with what was at stake," said Bears linebacker Jon Bostic.
"We know we're better than what we showed tonight."
Philadelphia added 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to punctuate the rout.
Brandon Boykin returned an interception 54 yards for a touchdown and Bryce Brown added a 65-yard run to set off the crowd at Lincoln Financial Field.
Brown finished with 115 yards rushing.
His Eagles team mate McCoy is on the verge of winning the NFL's rushing title as his 1,476 yards leads Kansas City's Jamaal Charles by 189.
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The next few examples illustrate the use of the workspace for storing data.
|Grabbing Space
Load the example program work1 into the simulator. You should see:
60 bd ajw -3 b3 ajw 3
The first instruction is two bytes long; ajw -3 means "adjust the workspace pointer by -3 words". If you press step, you should see that Wptr in the Register panel has changed by -12 bytes, which is -3 words. The red marker in the Data panel should also appear at a position three words down from the top.
This gives the program 3 words of data memory which it can use, numbered 0, 1 and 2, counting upwards from the workspace pointer Wptr.
The second instruction in the program is ajw 3 which moves Wptr back to the end of the memory, effectively giving back the space which it grabbed at the beginning. Later we will see that each procedure grabs some more space for itself by moving the workspace pointer down from whatever its current position was, and that it gives that space back when it returns by readjusting the workspace pointer.
|Storing Intermediate Values
With many expressions, you can get away with using the three data registers Areg, Breg, Creg. However, some are too complicated. For example, suppose you want to evaluate the expression:
(1 + 2) * (3 + 4) + (8 - 5) * (6 + 1)
You would need four registers to calculate this without using any memory locations. You need to store an intermediate value, say the first half, while calculating the second. If you load up the program work2 into the simulator, you should see:
60 bf ajw -1 ..... d0 stl 0 ..... 70 ldl 0 f5 add b1 ajw 1
The first instruction reserves a single word of workspace. The next few instructions calculate (1+2) * (3+4), resulting in 21 in Areg. The stl (store local) instruction means store the value from Areg into the workspace, at position 0 relative to Wptr, ie the location that was reserved earlier. The value is deleted from Areg, and the other two data registers are moved up, as with arithmetic operations.
This saves the intermediate result while the next part of the expression is evaluated. The next few instructions calculate (8 - 5) * (6 + 1) , leaving the result, 21, in Areg.
The ldl (load local) instruction copies the value from the workspace into Aerg. The word copied is at position 0 relative to Wptr, ie the value 21 that was stored away earlier. Now the two halves of the expression are in Areg and Breg ready for the final addition. The program ends by tidying up, readjusting the workspace pointer to give the space back.
Slide 15. This example carries out a complete assignment as a sequence of load, arithmetic and store instructions.
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By Timothy Dalrymple
We interviewed Michael McConnell in May, shortly after he had argued CLS v. Martinez before the Supreme Court. CLS v. Martinez considers a case in which a public law school denied official student group status to the Christian Legal Society because it required its voting membership to affirm a statement of faith -- a statement that says that sex should be reserved for a marriage between a man and a woman.
Throughout the litigation process, there was confusion over what exactly was the policy that the Christian Legal Society had offended. In the litigation process, Hastings clarified that they held to an "all comers" policy, in which all students should be permitted to become members in all student groups. Christian student groups could not, in other words, limit its membership only to Christians, or only to those who affirm the same creed.
The Supreme Court decided in favor of Hastings, and judged that the "all comers" policy is not an unconstitutional abridgement of the First Amendment. Refer to our interview with McConnell for more information, or to the rolling reports at the Cross and Culture blog.
Judge McConnell made himself available for a follow-up interview, in order to share his perspective on the ruling.
How do you interpret the impact of the ruling?
Essentially, the court declined to rule on most of our arguments, so the impact is that there will be a lot more litigation in the future. We certainly have not lost on the important questions in the case. The court declined to reach the written non-discrimination policy that says that religious organizations cannot discriminate on the basis of religion. They did not reach that at all. The four justices in dissent all said that this is plainly unconstitutional. One justice, Justice Stevens, now retiring, defended it. The others were silent on that. I expect that we will ultimately prevail. I wish that they had reached it in this case, but they did not.
Even the "all comers" policy was only upheld in the abstract. The court remanded on the question of whether the policy has in fact been non-discriminatory. I think the record pretty clearly shows that it has been discriminatory, that it's only been applied to the Christian Legal Society and not to other organizations that similarly restrict their membership and their leadership.
I expect that we will prevail. It's just going to be a lot longer slog than we had hoped it would be. And nationwide, a number of universities are going to look at this and see whether it's going to be a way to shut down organizations that they don't want to put up with. That means there will be litigation all over the country.
What's next then for the Christian Legal Society and the Alliance Defense Fund? This gets remanded, and you will build a case that this was discriminatory in its application? That only the Christian Legal Society, and not other groups that discriminate in their membership, were singled out?
Yes. And I think the record is pretty clear that it was applied in a discriminatory matter. Justice Alito's dissent recites a lot of the evidence.
Timothy Dalrymple is the CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Polymath Innovations, a strategic storytelling agency that advances the good with visionary organizations and brands. He leads a unique team of communicators from around North America and across the creative spectrum, serving mission-driven businesses and nonprofits who need a partner to amplify their voice and good works.
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If you and your child work with your child's doctor and do your best to control blood sugar levels, your child will likely live a long and normal life. PreventionThere's currently no known way to prevent type 1 diabetes. Children who have a high risk of developing type 1 diabetes can be tested for antibodies associated with the disorder. But the presence of these antibodies doesn't make diabetes inevitable. And there's currently no known way to prevent type 1 diabetes if the antibodies are found. Researchers are working on preventing type 1 diabetes in people who have a high risk of developing the disease. Other research focuses on preventing further destruction of the islet cells in people who are newly diagnosed. While there's nothing you could have done to prevent your child's type 1 diabetes, you can help your child prevent its complications by: Helping your child maintain good blood sugar control as much as possible Teaching your child the importance of eating a healthy diet and participating in regular physical activity Scheduling regular visits with your child's diabetes doctor and a yearly eye exam beginning no more than five years after the initial diabetes diagnosis Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic Preparing for your appointmentIn-Depth March 15, 2017 Print Share on: FacebookTwitter References Levitsky LL, et al. Epidemiology, presentation and diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Nov. 4, 2016. Kliegman RM, et al. Diabetes mellitus in children. In: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 20th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier; 2016. http://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed Nov. 5, 2016. AskMayoExpert. Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Rochester, Minn.: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research; 2015. Levitsky LL, et al. Management of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Nov. 4, 2016. Goldman L, et al., eds. Diabetes mellitus. In: Goldman-Cecil Medicine. 25th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier; 2016. http://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed Nov. 5, 2016. Cameron FJ, et al. Care of diabetes in children and adolescents: Controversies, changes, and consensus. The Lancet. 2015;385:2096. Jameson L, et al., eds. Management of diabetes in children. In: Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier; 2016. http://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed Nov.5, 2016. Rewers M, et al. Environmental risk factors for type 1 diabetes. The Lancet. 2016;387:2340. Levitsky LL, et al. Complications and screening in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Nov. 4, 2016. Chiang JL, et al. Type 1 diabetes through the life span: A position statement of the American Diabetes Association. Diabetes Care. 2014;37:2034. Levitsky LL, et al. Special situations in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Nov. 4, 2016. Tools for effective diabetes management. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-communication-programs/ndep/health-care-professionals/school-guide/Pages/publicationdetail.aspx. Accessed Nov. 5, 2016. Hyperglycemia (high blood glucose). American Diabetes Association. http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/treatment-and-care/blood-glucose-control/hyperglycemia.html. Accessed Nov. 5, 2016. DKA (ketoacidosis) & ketones. American Diabetes Association. http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/complications/ketoacidosis-dka.html. Accessed Nov. 5, 2016. School responsibilities under federal laws. 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Greenock Creek Seven Acres Shiraz 2005
Syrah/Shiraz from Barossa Valley, Barossa, Australia
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This is probably the best release from the Seven Acre vineyard since the vines were planted in 1990, even more dense than the previous wines. The Seven Acre vineyard yields one to one and a half tonnes per acre; total production was 400 cases. Wood treatment: matured in aged American oak for 28 months.
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The Wine Advocate - "The Seven Acres Shiraz was also aged for 28 months in seasoned American oak hogsheads. Tar, mineral, earth notes, smoked meat, and blueberry scents jump from the glass of this full-bodied but restrained (relatively speaking) Shiraz. On the palate it is a bit more austere than its siblings with a bit more structure and apparent acidity. As a result, it will require longer cellaring and should offer prime drinking from 2015 to 2030."
Greenock Creek Winery
Greenock Creek Wines is situated at Seppeltsfield in the rolling hills between the hamlets of Greenock and Marananga, on the western edge of the Barossa Valley. The winery's first release was in 1988, when it sold a 1986 Shiraz and a 1988 Chardonnay from its tiny cellar door situated beneath the Waugh's 150 year old stone cottage. Since then the winery has planted, grafted or acquired more vines, and now specialises in premium red wine production. Only grapes grown on the property are used, making it truly an estate winery. The range of wines includes five Shiraz, two Cabernet Sauvignons and a Grenache, all processed at the winery on the Waugh's Roennfeldt Road property. The wines are released each year in early September and are sold through cellar door, mail order, a selected number of retail outlets in Australia and a small quantity via export. If there is a "Cult" Australian winery, this is it! View all Greenock Creek Wines
About Barossa ValleyView a map of Barossa Valley wineries
The Barossa zone consists of two sections - the Barossa Valley and the Eden Valley. Wines from the Eden Valley can be labelled Barossa or Barossa Valley.
Situated just a bit east of the large city of Adelaide, Barossa is Australia's wine headquarters. Mega producers are based here, boutique wineries call it home and a majority of the habitants claim their income on the wine industry. The valley is strewn with a series of hamlets, small towns spotted throughout the region.
Barossa ValleyBarossa is red-wine territory, with red grapes consisting of about two-thirds of the region's plantings. The reds, Shiraz in particular, are lauded for their rich, concentrated flavors and aging potential. Old vines of Shiraz and Grenache are popular, many up to 80 years old. The valley is home to some of the most famous vineyards of Australia - this is where the first Penfolds Grange was made. Whites are also found, mainly from the Semillon grape – these wines are as full-bodied as the reds although harder to find. Riesling and Chardonnay are also planted.
Eden ValleyRight next to Barossa Valley, but a bit higher in elevation, Eden Valley is an ideal neighbor. Many wineries source vineyards from both areas as the climate difference in Eden Valley leads to wines of a different character. Reds are still mainly Shiraz and Grenache, but the wines are often more restrained and less dense than those in the Barossa Valley. Whites are popular here too. Eden Valley Rieslings and Semillons are particularly excellent.
About AustraliaLike the United States, which is about the same size, Australia's winemaking regions are huddled into one or two pockets of the country. The state of South Australia, which produces about 60% of the country's wine, also has the most wineries and sub-regions, including McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Coonawarra and Barossa Valley. New South Wales is home to the Hunter Valley, while the smaller, southern state of Victoria is best known for theYarra Valley. Head way west to the very large state of Western Australia and you'll find the tiny region of Margaret River at the southern tip.
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How Manny Ramirez helped Carlos Gomez tap his potential
Left hand over right, Carlos Gomez watches ball after ball zip past into the netting behind him. They fly by at a high rate of speed, the Iron Mike Master Pitching Machine set up just feet away. He goes through his routine, sets up in the left-handed batter's box, and watches pitches – 30, maybe 40, at a time.
Next, he begins to swing, trying to foul off as many as he can. Purposely hitting, but purposely missing.
Finally, he moves up, and calls Milwaukee Brewers hitting coach Johnny Narron in for flips. Here, Gomez only tries to touch bat on ball. Not to hit – that's impossible at that distance and velocity – just touch.
He pantomimes the short motion in front of his locker, hands tucked tight to his body.
"It's here to there," he said, pointing to a laundry basket across his from his locker, about four feet away. "It's impossible to drive the ball. You want to just touch it. Kind of like playing pepper but real close and real hard."
This is a new routine for Gomez, who learned it this offseason from one of the greatest right-handed hitters in the last 50 years in good friend Manny Ramirez.
The 27-year-old Gomez was coming off his best season as in the major leagues in 2012, hitting a career best .260 with career highs in home runs (19) and stolen bases (37). A notorious free swinger, he also had his best on-base percentage at .305.
Yet Ramirez, he of the .312 career batting average and .411 OBP, saw a way for Gomez to improve at the plate. So, he approached his young friend.
The conversation centered around improving Gomez's pitch selection, and increasing his ability to foul off tough offerings to increase the chances of getting a mistake he could capitalize on. The drill was also designed to put Gomez into an relatively uncomfortable hitting situation – lefty, pitches coming in quickly – to make him more comfortable in real games.
"He likes swinging from the left side, it helps balance his body as far as his swing mechanism," Brewers hitting coach Johnny Narron said. "He enjoys that. The other thing, with being close, it kind of sharpens his focus. If that helps him, that's what we're going to do."
A microcosm of that drill paying off was an at-bat late Thursday night against Cardinals reliever Mitchell Boggs. Gomez worked the count to 3-0, then fouled off three straight pitches, then took a walk to drive in a run. In his next at-bat against Edward Mujica, Gomez ripped the first pitch for a single.
"When I go to the game, I see the ball slow and I can make my approach more easy because I feel like when the people throw 95, 96, I'm feeling like they're throwing 86," Gomez said. "It really helped. He taught me a few drills that really helped me feel comfortable at the plate. Not to hit the ball hard – I'm swinging the same – but to feel more comfortable."
Alex Gonzalez leaned back in his chair and glanced over at his teammate, thinking about the differences between the Gomez he saw once as an opponent, then up close last year, to the one that is currently leading the league in hitting.
"He works a lot in the cage, takes good a batting practice," Gonzalez said. "Then, game time is a lot different because they're going to throw you any kind of pitches but he's making great adjustments to be a great hitter.
"I think everybody wants to be a great hitter, but he's not giving a pitch away, he doesn't give an at-bat away. He always battles to the end, to try and find that something to hit – homers, doubles. That's the way he does it."
Gonzalez, who carries one of the most intense dispositions of any player in the Brewers clubhouse, cracked a smile.
"He's very aggressive at home plate," he said of Gomez. "He goes to home plate and tries to swing hard. His swing is what I look to as a pretty good swing, that's why he makes a lot of swings hard because if that's the pitch you want to hit you can swing hard. That's why he falls down sometimes."
He laughed.
"To me, if you're looking for a slider and you see it, why not swing hard? Put a good swing on it. If you have a good approach and adjustments to the pitcher, that's why you can be aggressive."
That was the most important part about Ramirez's tip for Gomez – it was meant to compliment and accentuate his aggressive style at the plate, not corral it.
"I'm an aggressive hitter – they have to come get me," Gomez said. "And it feel good to make them waste those pitches and it's going to be good and anytime they make a mistake I always put a good swing on it. Even if I'm behind in the count I'm (going) to try to hit a hard line drive."
That approach is paying off, though it didn't start that way.
In his first nine games, 37 plate appearances, he didn't walk once, struck out seven times, and hit just .162. Despite the slow start, he wasn't concerned. By Gomez's estimation, he should have been hitting .340 right out of the gate, but the balls were right at someone. His .200 BAbip (batting average on balls in play) in that stretch bears that out.
"For all of us you don't really focus too much on results," Ryan Braun said. "You have very little control over results. He's been taking good batting practice, he's having good at-bats. As long as he does that I think it's inevitable that eventually he'll start having some success. He's really strong, he's really fast, and as long as he puts the ball in play he's got a good chance to get some hits."
Gomez has been continually putting the ball in play, but since April 14 they have been finding open spaces. Since then, he has hit .478, reached base nearly 54 percent of the time and has an incredible 1.408 OPS (on base plus slugging).
He also has 13 extra base hits in that stretch, and is currently on a 12-game hitting streak.
"He's a tremendous talent," Narron said. "He's worked extremely hard. He's got aptitude. He listens to what I tell him and he applies it. He's making himself better."
Gomez was looking to do that anyway this offseason, but then the Brewers rewarded his upward trend in production last year with a 3-year, $24 million extension in March. Rather than feel he accomplished something, the new deal only motivated him.
"That's what it is. And, it's more easy – like when you're always going to come (to the ballpark) and you know you're going to play no matter what," he said. "You're more relaxed yourself. You play loosely, it's not stressful, you don't have to get two base hits to play tomorrow. Now I know I'm going to play the next day.
"Now you know you're a premium part of the team. Just coming in here and preparing myself to play and win games. Now, you got paid. Now what are the other reasons? It's to win games."
It's what the Brewers began doing as soon as Gomez's smashes started finding grass rather than leather on April 14, going 12-8 since.
Every day, Gomez works the pitching machine, watches the ball zip by time after time. He watches it off the black of the plate, then tries to foul some off, then tries to get a touch, all lefty. He heads to batting practice last of all, trying to hit a line drive home run to start the game with a good feeling.
But, might there be a little more to it all than just selecting pitches better?
Gomez pulls on his batting practice jersey and gets ready to hit.
"When I swing left-handed, then wrap the bat to the right hand – I feel like 'The Man.'"
He hitches a pant leg, pulls his cap down, then heads out of the clubhouse.
Photodavie | May 7, 2013 at 1:37 p.m. (report)
Great article. Great move by the Brewers to lock GO-GO up for the next few years too. Real fun to watch him run the bases.
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The spill from a 65-year-old pipeline outside of Mayflower, Ark., covered a residential subdivision with thousands of barrels of heavy oil, Reuters reports[3].
The company would not speculate when the spill would be cleaned up. The damaged section of the Pegasus pipeline has not yet been dug up and examined, and no close assessment has been performed. Entire yards have been soaked in the oil that runs down the streets, and more than 10 waterfowl were either killed or being treated.
The Pegasus pipeline carries oil from Illinois to Texas. The oil is heavy crude from Alberta, Canada, that has to be mixed with liquid natural gas or lighter oil to travel through the 90,000-barrel-per-day pipeline. It is unknown when the pipeline will be reopened.
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Julie and Ryan Simonson want to make sure their three sons understand the true meaning of Memorial Day. "I want my boys to see how important it is to give service to this nation. And if you don't do it in the military, you do it in another way; you volunteer or you become a teacher or you become a legislator," says Julie.
She was in the Junior ROTC in high school and got a scholarship to West Point. "I went through basic training and four years of West Point, and then I was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in the Army…was in the Military Police Corps."
She met her husband Ryan just before they graduated. "By the end of the night I was like 'oh man, I want to marry this guy.' We dated for two and a half weeks and we got married right after we graduated from West Point."
Both she and Ryan were heading for Iraq. "I was all set to get my platoon, and I got the anthrax vaccine, and within hours of getting the vaccine I got very ill."
She went anyway. "I deployed in support of Iraqi Freedom, went to Kuwait…didn't make it because I was too sick."
She was sent back to the States. "I had to leave my platoon over there, and it was very sad for me."
And 3 days after her medical separation from the Army, she found out she was pregnant. When their first son was born in Sarasota, Ryan was in Iraq. The Army notified him of the birth by a fax, and Ryan managed to find a satellite phone to call Julie and speak to his new son.
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It is possible to book a regular passenger seat for infant at the applicable child fare. Baby car seats approved for air travel have to be used.
One adult can travel with maximum 2 infants, one of them being 6 months or older. Second infant occupies a separate seat and is seated in approved car type seat.
From 2 to 12 years of age children accompanied by an adult travel on their own ticket and the they occupy a regular passenger seat. They travel at child rates, at a maximum of 50% discount on the applicable adult fare. Number of accompanied children is not limited.
Passengers traveling with young children or many children may be pre-embarked.
Pre-reservation of seats so family members can sit together is possible – please contact our nearest office or the Contact Centre (+385 1 66 76 555) or at email@example.com .
You can select seats and print your boarding passes yourself - no earlier than 23 hours and no later than 60 minutes before flight departure.
Children up to 4 years of age, are entitled to one collapsible baby stroller free of charge. It can be checked at the gate or at the aircraft depending on the airport – please check the procedure with check-in staff.