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Bold Brown Fortune Multicolor Beads Brass Bells and Good Luck Coins on Pair of Womens Crocheted Wristband Bracelets (Thailand)by Novica
ITEM#: 13319554This handmade creation is offered in partnership with NOVICA, in association with National Geographic.
The bracelets are crocheted by hand in Thailand featuring brass bells as well as Chinese coin replicas, believed to foster wealth and success. The bracelets are centered by colorful glass beads and fasten with rain tree wood spheres.
Product Features :
- Style: Wristband
- Color: Brown threads and multicolored glass beads
- Metal: Brass
- Clasp: Toggle
- Bracelet dimensions: 7.5 inches to 6.3 inches long x 20 mm wide
- Adjustable length
Story Behind the Art:
Tiraphan Hasub tells her story: 'I met my husband at university in Bangkok. I worked there for three years after graduating, and then got married. We moved back to Chiang Mai, where he is originally from, and he taught me the art of handcrafts. I'm always trying to look good by wearing nice dresses and jewelry. I believe many women think like me, and that's what inspired me to create jewelry that is original. My designs tend to be more traditional Thai than modern.'
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|Bracelet Style
|Beaded, Braided, Stretch
|Blue, Brown, Orange
|Metal Color
|Product Features
|7.5 inches to 6.3 inches long x 20 mm wide
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I initially purchased the "bold orange fortune" wrist bands, and was so taken with them that I also ordered them in pink and brown. I love them all. I think these brown ones are actually prettier than they look in the photo. They are a lot of fun to wear; the little bells jingle when I move my arm. I now mix the colors and sometimes wear all six at once. Great with jeans and casual clothes. Nicely made, too. I love them.Read More
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These bracelets are very sturdy and are very fashionable. I wear them with almost anything and everything. Plus it comes in a pack of two so when one breaks (which mine hasn't yet), there is always another one for ya!Read More
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Thanks a lot. If someone has the same issue I fixed the url by adding "startkey". http://localhost:5984/psortino/_view/foo/username?startkey= "nsantos"&startkey_docid=048cdb8d0971e625e86730ffc10eda0d BTW: Good explanation. Pablo. On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Chris Anderson <email@example.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Pablo Sortino <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > > A view with startkey_docid is not working. > > startkey_docid is only meant as a method to make finer distinctions > than startkey alone can make. That is, it should have no effect unless > you have rows in your view with the same key, and have specified a > startkey. > > When you have, say, many many docs all with the same date, so that > startkey and endkey alone would not be sufficient to give a small > range of them, the startkey_docid and endkey_docid can be used to > specify a sub range of rows which all have the same key. > > The view storage engine stores the rows under the meta-key: {key, > docid} so queries usually just ignore the docid, but when a startkey > as well as a startkey_docid are both specified, then the comparison > includes the docid part of the meta-key as well. > > ...maybe not my clearest explanation ever, but I hope it helps. > > > -- > Chris Anderson > http://jchris.mfdz.com >
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Make: Imported by EIG. (Probably Made by Pietta)
Model: 1851 Navy Replica, Similar To Pietta Griswold and Gunnison Model
Serial Number: 6310
Year of Manufacture: 1965
Caliber: .36 Cap and Ball
Action Type: Single Action Cap and Ball
Markings: The top of the barrel is marked "EIG NAVY". The right side of the barrel is marked with the Gardone Provisional Proof, the starred "PN" black powder proof and the date code "XXI". The bottom of the barrel is marked "6310". The lower front frame is marked with the same proof marks as the barrel. The cylinder is marked with the Gardone Provisional Proof mark. The left side of the loading lever is marked "2". The bottom of the grip frame is marked "Italy" and with the EIG logo.
Barrel Length: 7 1/2"
Sights / Optics: This revolver uses a square grooved hammer as a rear sight and is mounted with a large gold bead front sight.
Stock Configuration & Condition: The grips are light colored wood. There are only very minor handling marks. The grips rate in about Fine overall condition.
Type of Finish: This revolver has a blue barrel, cylinder and trigger, a case hardened loading lever and hammer, and a brass frame and grip frame.
Finish Originality: All Original
Bore Condition: The bore is dark and the rifling is sharp but shallow. There is no erosion.
Overall Condition: This revolver retains about 80% of its metal finish. There is no wear on the barrel, and only slight wear on the left lower edge of the loading lever and bolt notches of the cylinder. The brass frame and grip frame have surface mottling. The Screw heads are undamaged. The markings are sharp except for those on the brass frame. The cylinder lockup is a little loose. Overall, this revolver rates in about Very Good condition.
Mechanics: The action functions correctly. We have not fired this revolver.
Box, Paperwork & Accessories: This revolver comes with a brown leather holster with oil staining and marks in the finish. It fits the revolver properly.
Our Assessment: This revolver looks like it has not been fired very much, if at all, and is in good mechanical condition. The aged / worn brass only adds to the vintage appeal of this revolver. Still, for black powder enthusiasts who like smoke, this revolver would make a good shooter.
CA Legal or CA Private Party Transferable: This black powder percussion revolver is classified as an antique and can be sold to anyone 18 years of age with valid ID.
LSB#: 120802JM10 Make: Imported by EIG. (Probably Made by Pietta) Model: 1851 Navy Replica, Similar To Pietta Griswold and Gunnison Model Serial Number: 6310
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English which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear has no words for the shiver or the headache. The merest schoolgirl when she falls in love has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry. (Virginia Woolf)
Vincent Connelly from Kildare wore a borrowed suit to Dominic Thorpe's performance. He looked dapper, leaning in the doorway, half in the room and half outside it, looking on as Dominic Thorpe scratched the words 'mind matter' over and over on a large mirror, seated on a broken chair, back to the audience and singing a song from Kildare. The performance lasts approximately two hours or until the performer can no longer hold himself up. The words 'mind matter' suggest surmounting pain, of heroically separating it and putting it outside the body so that it might be overcome, (mind over matter), but the words too are a grim reminder that we are mortal beings, just matter, all of us, each and everyone the same. Thorpe's performance is a means of getting close to Vincent's pain, to distil in language, imagery and repetitive action, so he might cross over into another's physical pain and give it some kind of voice.
For pain really has no voice, its locus is the body and it is well recognised that sufferers of physical pain have difficulty expressing it and we have difficulty imagining it. 'Other people's pain' writes Elaine Scarry 'seems like an invisible geography as distant as the interstellar events are for scientists who speak of not yet detectable intergalactic screams, or of very distant Seyfert galaxies. Pain occurring in other people's bodies flickers before the mind, and then disappears. So, as Scarry suggests, there is an absolute split between our own reality and the reality of the sufferer. 'Pain,' she writes 'comes unsharably into our midst' and even though people suffering pain is an everyday reality 'these people often cease to become visible to us.' Removed from common experience, placed in hospitals and institutions or confined in their homes, withdrawn from the world, their absence represents a diminishing power, so according to Scarry the problem of pain is also bound up with the problem of power and the loss of power and sometimes too the loss of social roles.
Dominic Thorpe's project was part of an experiment conceived by First Medical Communications, Pfizer Ltd. and NCAD, Dublin. It asked a group of visual artists to work closely with neuropathic pain sufferers to see if they could assist with a visual description of pain so that the medics might draw on the findings as a source of improving diagnostics. The doctors found neuropathic pain sufferers to have great difficulty articulating their physical pain, as if language were inadequate. For Thorpe, whose artistic practice is founded on principles of listening and who uses imagery, material, action and language in a process of sifting down 'the dirt and mess of life' , such an invitation presented a genuine challenge to find a way of collaboration with Vincent to give physical pain a voice so that it might begin to tell its story. But it also supported a process in which Thorpe set out to transcend the limits of the experiment and not to see this 'sick man' and his illness as an isolated object to be, in the words of Michel de Certeau 'transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defence of health.' Instead, Thorpe befriended Vincent so that a mutual trust between them formed a two-way process of exchange and a getting to know each other which gave time for collective interaction.
Vincent's vocabulary of pain was, contrary to the doctors' perception, sharp, visceral and to the point, using metaphors of war and weapons to convey something of the felt experience of his suffering: 'rows of nine-inch nails pierced through feet', 'insides scratched by gut-rolls of spiked wire.' He spoke of 'hot and shooting pain', suggestive of a pain that is both temporal and spatial. Such boisterous language becomes a means for making art - translated into visual imagery, objects and performance, it is given agency - and through Thorpe's performance, a way of sharing is found that brings the language of physical pain into a public discourse and begins to dissolve those dual realities and the inadequacies of language that Elaine Scarry so accurately describes. The artist's interest in collaborative process enables a functional dimension to his work – it assists the medical world to gain a more precise insight into what is going on inside the body of a sufferer, but it also allows this information to go outside the borders of hospitals, clinics and the administration of healing, to hold meaning within the wider world and, also, within the social, aesthetic, relational and political drives of contemporary arts practice.
Contemporary arts practice which places an emphasis on a social dimension of participation and collaboration has proliferated since the 1990s but it is also part of a longer historical trajectory that finds its roots in the historical and neo-avant-garde movements that set out to reconnect art and life - in the Dada of the 1920s, Neo-Concretism in Brazil in the 1950s, the Situationists in France of the 1960s, and the Happenings of 1970s America. Nicolas Bourriaud's, Relational Aesthetics, written in 1998 drew attention to contemporary arts practice that operates within the social interstices, producing a 'specific sociability and encouraging an interhuman intercourse'. Grant Kester's dialogical aesthetic draws on the philosophies of Jürgen Habermas and Jean-François Lyotard, to present a very different image of the artist: 'one defined in terms of openness, of listening and a willingness to accept dependence and intersubjective vulnerability.' Claire Bishop, writing more recently on participatory arts, stresses its critical ambitions, firstly, to create an active and emancipated subject able to determine their own social and political reality; secondly the ceding of authorial control and thirdly to achieve some kind of collective responsibility. Suzi Gablik, writing in Suzanne Lacy's seminal book New Genre Public Art writes of an art that is 'rooted in listening, that comes into its own through dialogue, as open conversation, in which one listens and includes other voices."
When Michelle Browne was invited to curate the Vital Signs exhibition she was clear that she wanted to use this occasion to showcase some of the more complex and involved collaborative arts projects currently happening within the health service in Ireland: 'The health service is about people and dealing with people and it is the human element of such contemporary arts practices that is of interest to me within such contexts, rather than the art making something beautiful.'' Vital Signs, the title of the exhibition, stakes a claim on the role artists of all disciplines might have within the health service, where the focus is on patients and people, and where such practice is lodged in collaborative experimentation, critical research, enquiry and negotiation and where through a more self-reflexive interactive process art is made. The human dimension is vital and foremost to this work. The search towards positive results legitimising art within the discourses of medicine offers another site of reception, a source of recognition, an expansion of clinical knowledge, and a desire to engage with human suffering in a purposeful way. It is also a means of funding. So, for a number of the fourteen artists in Vital Signs, they have found themselves working at the vanguard of art and medicine, brokering new ground across disciplines and collaborating with a range of people in their wor, psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, lab-technicians, patients and families of the sick and deceased. Their work is done in the pursuit of kindness, in seeking answers, new understandings, or as artist Seamus McGuinness puts it, 'in finding a new knowledge through equal and collective sharing.' Their work is also made in exploration of the language of art and in pursuit of artistic and aesthetic practices that are not founded in therapy but rather in communication.
McGuinness is undertaking a practice-based PhD with the School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, his supervisors are Dr Kevin Malone, Professor of Psychiatry at UCD and Janis Jefferies, Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His enquiry into male suicide in Ireland, which has claimed thousands of lives, operates within what Professor Malone terms a 'knowledge vacuum'. Through a creative research collaboration with families of the deceased, scholars in suicide studies and Professor Kevin Malone, McGuinness's work is made in acknowledgement of devastating distress and despair and the stigma of suicide. Through a discursive collaboration between art and science there is a collective ambition to find new tools to look more closely at the loss behind the statistics and to help reduce suicide deaths in Ireland. Finding inspiration in C.P. Snow's 1959 Reid Lecture, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution where Snow identified the gulf between the two cultures of modern society – literary intellectuals and natural scientists - as a major hindrance to solving the world's problems, McGuinness's work opens a common ground between science and art. His project Lost Portraits – Materialising Stories of Suicide in Ireland, begins with listening to 'lay knowledge' gathered in an interview process, where McGuinness, quoting from Roland Barthes, writes: 'in order to hear the silent voices of these lost, but lived lives, we must create a mode of listening in the interviewing process in order to facilitate the development of an intersubjective space between listener.' In McGuinness's slow and empathetic approach there is an awareness that the intensity of human experience can sometimes be beyond words. How can we speak of those human experiences which are not 'contained' by discourse? How can we comprehend and make sense of the eruption of the real? How can we speak these silences? His emphasis begins with small and unique memories and the value that these hold. His primary artistic practice is in textile and with this he positions cloth as a core material; its closeness to the body, its textuality and ability to hold memories, its material potency bound up in a person's identity. In establishing a visual autopsy akin to the psychological autopsy, building upon the medical and scientific, he creates a place for donations of fragments - clothing, photographs and objects of the families' choice - and together with the families' consent they build an archive of cloth, material, stories, firstly for themselves and now, as part of Vital Signs, it will go into the public domain. With this courageous gesture personal trauma is brought further into the light and in a way that might awaken a public empathy for a dark reality in our midst.
Like McGuinness, Denis Roche's Open Window also sees an interdisciplinary collaborative process between medicine and art based on long-term investigation into the acute care environment of patients who have had bone marrow transplants. Isolated for up to six weeks after transplants, these patients immune systems are fragile, their bodies weak and selves unsettled. Recovery can be long and lonely. Joining forces with Dr Catherine McCabe from the School of Nursing, Trinity College Dublin, whose PhD examines the clinical impact of Roche's art practice they set about 'clearing a space' around the transplant patients and together start an investigation that might contribute to a better, more attentive and active recovery. Some preliminary research suggests that the recovery of patients who have a room with a view is faster and more effective. The idea of being able to look out a window gives hope and distraction, the outside world made visible diminishing a sense of entrapment and claustrophobia, allowing an imaginative access to beauty and familiarity and a connection to a greater narrative. 'Let the great world spin for ever down the spinning grooves of change'. This is the basis of Roche's research. He aims to create with patients a virtual view where transformative effects lift spirits. His gallery of projections includes newly commissioned artworks, a catalogue of well known works of art, and a space for individuals to create their own picture gallery. Many of these works are based on landscape and familiar things - photos of family, places of memory, dreams, animals. The art videos play at a slow unfolding pace, like John Gerrard's Smoke Tree or Roche's video, shot as he circles an island on a river in Wexford. Roche's role is newly positioned as a service provider negotiating within the highly regulated and politicised system of a hospital, he is able to take advantage of the free space he can claim as an artist and get close to the patients in the way that maybe only the cleaners or porters might. He is not checking pulse or administering drugs, his conversations are more flexible and go much further than the territories of a sick bed. Like McGuiness and Thorpe, listening is at the root of Roche's research, and hiswork has been taken seriously by the medical hegemony. He is not motivated by 'doing good' or driven by a moral conscience, but the fact that his art is scientifically measured and demonstrates a real use where clinical validation matters. And it matters too that his practice is understood and given critical meaning within expansive capacities of contemporary arts practice, where, as Grant Kester argues, the new 'locus of evaluation is not centred on the physical object… but on the character of dialogical exchange itself'.
The simple quiet presence of another, just being there, silent, like a ghost visitor is how Jennie Moran began her residency in Galway's University Hospital's unit for stroke patients. Sitting in the corner of rooms knitting or sketching and listening. Moving about between the small wards of bed-ridden patients, details filtering through her observations and then conversations starting up. Memories are everything where the possibility of memory loss is real. Patients like to talk about their lives, and personalities prevail in resistance of pessimism, in the struggle against hopelessness, in the desire to be back to themselves and useful 'not parasitic on the rationality of work' . For the hospital seems like a space closed in upon itself 'a heterotopia' as Michel Foucault terms it. Crossing in and out of it is on the basis of strict rules. Jennie Moran like all the other visitors and workers must purify herself before entering and wash in an alcoholic substance to keep bacteria out. But the modern hospital is less like a place of crisis and more like a therapeutic institution, dedicated to the production of knowledge. This small unit is quite beautiful and peaceful in a way that low buildings can be, close to the ground, with rabbits running wild in the grass and the free feeling of the outside coming in. Moran's practice is founded on the principles of micro-solutions - small interventions into daily living that make a difference. For the Stroke Unit she is stitching and printing onto pillowcases hybrid slivers of conversations, fragments of memories stitched into images from the hospital's paraphernalia - equipment, medical instruments, drugs – cables (from mountain cable cars) with hoists (from hospital beds). Images threaded onto bed linen, permanently leaving a simple mark where heads lie down to sleep. 'Sleep, sleep is so important for the repair of the brain' says Katherine Waugh, philosopher, who is working alongside Moran here.
The effects of hospitalisation and illness on children have been well documented. The strange environment of a hospital causing fear and anxiety in young children and delaying recovery. It has resulted in a greater awareness of children's needs and the establishment of the hospital play specialist where play is recognised as having a special function in a hospital. Puppeteer and clown doctor, Helene Hugel has dedicated her recent practice to working within hospital contexts and utilising the materials of such environments to create unique puppet shows for sick children. Puppets are made out of stethoscopes, bandages and syringes and shows are performed from the end of the bed. Such resourcefulness and inventiveness combines magical fictions and odysseys, the way she can move things and make objects come to life, transforming the hospital ward into a whole other world in a true suspension of disbelief. Her entrepreneurial skills see her establishing the Puppet Portal Project - a virtual network with other artists working in children's hospitals and sharing performances and experiences through webcam and the internet. The experience of working in the health service has expanded the capacities for her artistic practice pushing the creative and performative dimension and opening out new possibilities for relationships with her audience. Hugel is interested in the spaces of performances, in the ideas of spontaneity and, in listening. 'Silence', she says 'is very much a part of the performance, there is a removal of the ego, a co-operation with the children and trust between me and them.' Bedmaker, the work selected for the Vital Signs exhibition has been adapted for public performance. Here, an audience of six children between the ages of three to five, will travel with her on a giant bed where she will use puppetry, interactive storytelling, a tactile set and sound to tell her story.
The contemporary artist operating within the interstices of healthcare disciplines, capable of intelligent and sensitive negotiation and strategic collaboration is a theme well demonstrated within the range of works being brought into public exhibition here by Michelle Browne. The projects included in this essay are part of a larger exhibition of artistic intervention, which also includes Paul Gregg's very special Subaquatic Dublin – an original fish tank made for the Children's Hospital in Crumlin; John Tunney's Sing us Another Song at Kilmaley Daycare Centre, County Clare; Paul Maye's Beyond Appearances with the Radiology Department in Galway University Hospital and Ger Wolfe's Ó Bhéal guth Béal in Gaeltacht Múscraí, Co. Corcaí. Browne's assemblage identifies a particular and poignant narrative of the artist working within such contexts; the presence of the artist, the performative dimension of their work, an interest in collaboration and engagement, the pursuit of knowledge, an identification with the human dimension and the experience of 'otherness'. Works by Marie Brett and Charlotte Donovan in Memory Dress in St Finbarr's Hospital in Cork, Cathy Henderson's series of portraits Life Blood in St James's Hospital, Dublin, Mark Roper's Haiku Project in Waterford General Hospital and Danny McCarthy's sound work from Moment in Cork, all explore the individual within the healthcare context. As such, Browne affords us an opportunity to focus both the artistic drives behind the artists' work as well as its potential value or usefulness. This usefulness, which may or may not have a practical function, is not founded in the application of art as therapy, but rather in the more elusive spaces of dialogue, empathy, sharing and listening, in the transformative power of the imagination, in finding missing language and in the silences that matter too. And within the presentation, Browne remains courageously inventive, curating a show of performance and artwork, taking them outside of hospital contexts and institutions of care and representing them as a walking tour along Thomas Street, Dublin and including St James's Hospital, Dr Steeven's Hospital, St Patrick's University Hospital, Foley's pharmacy and NCAD's new gallery. The emphasis in the Vital Signs exhibition is always on the experiential.


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Insignificant: A Q&A with Author Chris Travis
Now Featured at the Patheos Book Club
Why You Matter in the Surprising Way God Is Changing the World
By Chris Travis
A Q&A With Chris Travis
What was it like teaching at the most dangerous school in New York City?
It was like living in a made-for-TV movie. I wanted to teach in a rough school, but I had no idea my school would have the highest rate of student-injuries-per-capita in NYC that year. It seemed like every day brought something unexpected. I might wade into a surging crowd of students to help break up a nasty fight on one day, and the next see a huge smile on a little girl's face because something clicked and she understood how to add fractions for the first time. Teaching there was sometimes horrible, or thrilling, or comical, or tragic. But it always mattered.
You haven't always been a teacher. Why did you decide to teach there?
I'm not sure I can explain it. I think it's kind of like how some people are just drawn to the ocean. You know it can be dangerous, but you just have to go. I was a pastor at a great church, and my wife and I felt drawn to New York City for a variety of reasons, among them a desire to plant a new church. But we knew we had to live there first, before we decided what kind of ministry would be appropriate. I really wanted to do something significant. When I heard about the opportunity to teach in academically at-risk schools, something in my heart leapt.
Can you describe a typical day teaching at a school like that?
Not really, because there weren't many typical days! Of course, a lot of days it was just hard work. Teaching and re-teaching, scrubbing graffiti off desks, tracking down whoever took care of my students--parents, grandparents, aunts, older sisters, foster parents, you name it--to enlist their help. Teaching is a very difficult job, and teaching in the inner city is a whole different thing. Sometimes you just had to laugh. I had too many strange experiences to fit into one book. Here's one I didn't include in inSignificant: One day as I was teaching, a milk carton suddenly exploded against the chalkboard and sprayed the first couple of rows of desks. There were several moments of chaos, but for whatever reason, I didn't even flinch. I calmly said, "Whoever threw that, please clean it up. We won't go to lunch until you do." Then I went and stood by the door. I overheard a student say, "Man, he so calm! He must be doin' some mad yoga!" I laughed out loud.
What does teaching at an inner city school have to do with "significance"?
For me, everything. Those two years were the two most difficult years of my life. I found out that I wasn't as good a person as I liked to think. And honestly, I wasn't doing very well at first. My students didn't like me and they weren't learning much. God stripped away all the things I had been relying on to feel significant. What could be more insignificant than a math teacher who was failing to teach students at a tiny, failing middle-school? Feeling insignificant can be very painful, and it was for me. But therein lies the paradox: those two years teaching in Harlem turned out to be the two most significant years of my life.
Explain what you mean by that. How were those years the most significant of your life?


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Solar Balloon
The Solar Balloon is a toy that has been around for a few years now. There are a number of sizes, but the one we show here is the largest - it is 50 feet long!
The toy is very simple - it consists of a black bag made of very thin (and therefore lightweight) plastic. The first step is to fill the Solar Balloon with air. Running around holding one end open does this effectively and quickly. Then you just wait...
The ideal weather conditions are a calm day, with bright sunshine. It actually works best if the air temperature is not too high. As the sun shines onto the black Solar Balloon, it starts to absorb heat, and the air inside slowly gets warmer. As this process continues, the bag starts to become lighter than the surrounding air. The principle is the same as a hot air balloon, although the temperature gradient is not so great in this case.
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Wasn't going to bother starting a thread at this point of the evening (Louisville and Bakersfield are off), but I see, and find it notable, that Jacob Johnson has turned in his second good start since joining Dayton (and coming off shoulder surgery): 5 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 3 K (0.90.)
The Dragons scored 5 in the 8th to go up 8-5. Then Lansing scored 4 in the bottom of the 9th to win it 9-8. Man. Carlos Contreras took the beating, but Kyle McMyne and Lucas O'Rear weren't much better.
Josef Terry was 3-4 with a 2B. Muller (2B), Selsky, Wright (2B), Waldrop, O'Shea and Buckley (2B) all had two hits.


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by James Brumley | January 24, 2013 6:14 pm
Millions of people might be underemployed if not outright unemployed, and consumers might even be cutting back in purchased of technology toys like the iPhone or iPad[1].
But come hell or high water, they will be sipping on a caffe latte at their local Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX[2]).
That's the impression one would have gotten following Thursday's earnings news from the world's most prolific coffee house, anyway. Same-store sales grew by 6% company-wide, 7% in the United States. Per-share profits were highly caffeinated too, up 14% from the year ago number of 50 cents per share to 57 cents in its fiscal first quarter of 2013 (mostly calendar Q4 2012).
It was a record-breaking bottom line, too, underscoring the argument that Starbucks is doing a lot of things right.
So, uh …. now what?
Last quarter's year-over-year revenue grew by 11%, with a little more than half of that growth fueled by organic in-store sales increases, but a fair portion driven by the 212 (net) new stores erected during the past four quarters. When it was all said and done, the $40.6 billion company generated $3.8 billion in sales last quarter — the quarter that's historically the biggest and best for the year.
Here's the killer: That's still not good enough.
While EPS of 57 cents rolled in as expected, that top line was about $50 million shy of analyst revenue estimates.
Some might say such a small shortfall is splitting hairs. And, were it any other company or any other situation, that might be a fair assessment of coming up 1.3% short on revenues. But this is Starbucks — this is a stock that has run up 8% since its last quarterly earnings report. It's also a stock that's trading at more than 30 times its trailing income, and more than 20 times its projected profits. There is no wiggle room, even if it manages to produce the expected 15% to 20% improvement in earnings this year.
Yet, after a little selling pressure immediately following Thursday's report, the bulls stepped back up to the plate to not only get the stock back to even with its closing price, but actually up in after-hours trading, to the tune of a 3% gain. Will it last? Nobody knows, though fans should at least be concerned of a rollover (mentally as well as directionally) for shares overnight.
Investors assuming Starbucks (the stock, as well as the company's earnings) will be anything other than stellar in the long run might want to have their heads examined. This company has made premium coffee a staple and is yielding its market leadership to no one.
Click to Enlarge In the near-term, however, the stock has some technical pressures to deal with that might affect when and where newcomers want to step in.
Above all else, Thursday evening's initial weakness implies there's some selling pressure that needs to be worked off. The fact that shares peaked at a known ceiling around $56 a few days ago as well as Thursday evening — after the initial selling wave — bolsters the notion that at least some bears had plans, even before earnings were unveiled. With that being the case, it probably would be unwise to stand in the way of any selling now that the catalyst is here … even if it doesn't materialize immediately Friday. (Indeed, that brush with $56 again might end up being the prompt for profit-taking Friday.)
Just don't stand on the sidelines for too long. While SBUX shares might be priced at a bit of a premium, this is a stock that can justify it.
Long-term investors looking for a better entry spot should note that short-term traders see a major technical floor — and former ceiling — around $52.20. That's also roughly where the 200-day moving average will be by the time that support level could be tested.
If you need a more fundamental justification for an entry, however, a dip to the $52.20 mark would mean Starbucks shares are trading at about 24 times 2013's expected income, and only 19.9 times 2014's projected profits. That's not cheap, but that's about as cheap as Starbucks is going to get. On a monthly close basis, SBUX hasn't traded at a sub-20 P/E ratio since 2008.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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text: SFFD What's beneath those brick circles in San Francisco intersections? By Audrey Dilling • Mar 22, 2017 Courtesy of Scott Kildall/ Waterworks Listen Listening... / 7:29 Chava Kronenberg is on a manhole hunt. "Oh! Wow! There it is! We have a winner!" she exclaims near the intersection of Geary Boulevard and 5th Avenue in San Francisco. Super Bowl Impact: How a city can stay safe during the nation's biggest sporting event By Angela Johnston • Jan 25, 2016 Courtesy Super Bowl 50 Host Committee/ resized and cropped Listen Listening... / 9:08 In the next two weeks, more than one million people will flood into the Bay Area to celebrate Super Bowl 50. Fighting the Mission Bay blaze By Ben Trefny • Mar 13, 2014 Kenneth Smith Two days ago, the San Francisco skyline was covered in thick black smoke. It came from a fire that tore through a construction site in the Mission Bay neighborhood. Tuesday's five alarm fire was the biggest the city has seen since 2012. Ultimately, 150 firefighters responded, with almost 50 vehicles, and they used a lot of water. KALW's Ben Trefny spoke with Mindy Talmidge, the Public Information Officer at the San Francisco Fire Department, to get a sense of how they take on a blaze this big, where the water had to come from, and and how much water it took to fight it.


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Now that I've calmed down a little bit, I want to talk about this game some more. Namely, I want to talk about how every single player who set foot on the floor for the Sixers had a hand in the win.
I'm just going with bullets because it's late and I have a ton to say:
- This may have been the best defensive game the Sixers played all season. Outside of LaMarcus Aldridge, who had a monster game by the way, the Sixers completely shut down the lane and closed on the shooters all night long. I wish I had kept track of the number of times the Blazers wound up taking bad jumpers late in the clock. And even Aldridge, who had a huge size advantage on Thad, needed 25 shots to score 24 points. That's not exactly efficient. Their team defense was just amazing. They were swarming the ball, closing out on shooters. It looked like there were 7 Sixers on the floor and they were stifling Portland.
- If any Blazers' fans complain about the refs, just point to this one stat. The Sixers attempted 5 threes all night long and got to the line 39 times. Portland attempted 34 threes and got to the line 17 times. When you settle for jumpers all night, you do not get to the line, simple as that. Now, let's get to the players, in no particular order:
- Reggie Evans - I don't know how many times I can say this, but Reggie Evans is kryptonite to good offenses. His 12 points were clearly an aberration, but his +13 in 14 minutes was absolutely not. Neither was his +10 in 20 minutes against the Lakers. It's gotten to the point where you can't deny it, and to be honest with you, when the playoffs come around, Reggie is going to be a difference maker. Write that down.
- Royal Ivey - Only 2 pionts in 8 minutes tonight, but the play of the game when he locked Brandon Roy down for the final 20 second of regulation and forced him to chuck up an airball for the win.
- Theo Ratliff - Bought Sammy some time at the end of the third and beginning of the fourth, much needed relief and more importantly, kept a strong presence in the middle when they desperately needed it.
- Lou Williams - 27 minutes, +17, but most important, Lou's shot was not falling tonight, so he didn't force it. He made smart decisions with the basketball, played tough defense, cutting off his man's drives. Like I've been saying, if Lou can learn to play within himself, the shooting percentages don't matter. He brings a ton to this team when he's got his head screwed on straight. Someone should save tape of this game and show it to Lou when he gets on another bad streak.
- Willie Green - I ripped on him in the comments early because he lost Brandon Roy on a backdoor for a dunk, but from there he rallied. DiLeo actually went to Willie for defense down the stretch, and he came through. Only 1 for 2 from the floor in 26 minutes, that has to be a record.
- Marreese Speights - Only 14 minutes of work for the rook, but I thought he played nice D on Aldridge after Thad had problems with his size. Nailed a couple of jumpers too.
- Sam Dalembert - Sammy did little to nothing in the first half, and I was afraid the game was going to pass him by. Then, with Sixers leading 104-103 in overtime, Brandon Roy decided to try his luck at the hoop. Sammy stuffed his first attempt, altered his second and grabbed the rebound. The Sixers would go up by three on the ensuing possession and put the game away from there. Coming up big in the biggest moment is what wins games.
- Thad Young - Quietly efficient ... 10/15, 25 points, 7 boards, only one turnover and when the Blazers turned this game around in the third quarter, Thad took over. He scored 11 straight points over a 4 minute stretch at the end of the third during a time when the Blazers couldn't miss. Without him, they would've been down 10 going into the fourth ... subtly dominant.
- Andre Miller - Check out my heart post, then say a quick prayer tonight that he comes back next season.
- Andre Iguodala - Iguodala 2, Roy 0. Need I say more? OK, I will: 25 points on 7/13 from the floor, 9/11 from the line. Two clutch free throws to tie it up with 20 seconds left.
- Coach DiLeo - The Ivey sub. Would Mo Cheeks have made that move? He also forced them to take Oden out of the game on the Sixers' final possession of regulation by putting Thad at the five, Iggy at the four, Willie at the three, Lou at the two and Miller at the point. That opened the lane up for Iggy's drive and subsequent foul.
by Brian on Mar 24 2009
Tags: Basketball | Blazer | Post Game | Sixers |
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text: The signs of the coming of fall here in Virginia have been with us for over a month. Yes, even during the blistering days of August, the acorns had already begun to fall and the leaves on the hickories, the walnuts, and other trees were already turning. It doesn't quite "feel" like autumn yet, but no doubt that is also just around the corner. Though I'm still wearing one of my cotton blazers most days, I'll soon be sporting one of my Harris Tweeds. And since so many folks in my part of Virginia are of Scots-Irish descent (including me), I thought this video would be appropriately timed: From Scotland - The History of Tweed. Great video. Hat tip to A Continuous Lean.


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We ended up going and hanging out with my sister last night, we'd sort of explained why it was special, but DD just kept thinking it was her birthday and kept saying "happy birthday year!" and thought she was going to get to stay up, but we set her straight pretty quickly about that one!
I hope you're all well, DH has been off since 12/19 and I think he and I are both very ready for him to be back at work. Our schedules are just so off, and I have a feeling it isn't going to be easy transitioning back to our regular schedules. DS & DD are super happy having daddy around though, so we've just been trying to get things done without driving each other crazy
Do you have any New Years traditions?
I hope everyone had a great Christmas! We did, I'll post some pics soon. Now it's back to work. We are having a rough time figuring out me working, Dan practicing and taking care of the kids, and oh yeah sleeping! I think we're slowly figuring it out though. May it's tough to work and be a Mom I can't wait to get out of debt and hopefully go part time!! Hugs to all my May mammas!
Oh yeah, New Year's traditions for us usually consist of me working, but I really like sparkling apple cider, and the whole black eyed peas for good luck thing, unfortunately I didn't get to do either yet! (except work!!)
If I didn't feel like crap, it would have been more fun, but it was fun anyway. DS1 stayed up, DS2 fell asleep around 11:30.
DH's temper is fraying with being on constant kid-duty since I am so out of it.
Sorry. Life is really good, I just don't like it right now :-(
Here as mama to W (2/04), R (5/06), D (7/09), and J (12/9/12!), co-parenting with my DH
I WOH part-time, am a doula & childbirth educator, home/unschool, and hope we are nearing the center of chaos
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
"And now," cried Max "let the wild rumpus begin!"
Gotta run, the kids need me.
"And now," cried Max "let the wild rumpus begin!"
Here as mama to W (2/04), R (5/06), D (7/09), and J (12/9/12!), co-parenting with my DH
I WOH part-time, am a doula & childbirth educator, home/unschool, and hope we are nearing the center of chaos
We don't do anything for New Year's. DH is especially turned off by the whole celebration of what is really not that significant a day. We did go out to dinner, and on our way there realized it was NYE and that it would probably be busy. New Year's Day our friends invited us and 2 other families over for breakfast. This is our core group of closest friends and we all get together often. Two of them are pregnant! So I get to go to a blessingway tomorrow--I can't wait!
Last night we got a babysitter and went out to dinner on a date! It was so wonderful--we had a delicious meal and a really nice time together.
Gotta go--dh and Phoebe are back from their walk and we have friends coming over for dinner.
So in other news I am officially starting to work on getting my lactation consultant certification! It'll take a while, but I am going to a conference at the end of April, I'm about to take an online class, and I'm continuing to build up my contact hours at work. I still feel like such a novice in helping other people nurse. I had easy babies, they just got right on and ate no work was necessary from me! It's so different when you are on the other side trying to make it work, but I'm slowly getting better!
Well I'm off to work in a few so have a great night everyone!!
Kathryn, you'll be an awesome LC. Good luck w/the process.
So I've started crocheting again. I had this box of really nice yarn and a project I had started years ago, and I finally decided to break it out again. I am really enjoying it. So far I've made a "snuggle shawl" for the kids (it's on the idea of a prayer shawl for when they aren't feeling well or are upset), and I've made matching scarves for the girls & me, and a boyish one for ds. My only problem is that my life & mind are way too busy to follow pattern (Kathryn, I don't know how you do it!), so everyone I know is going to be getting scarves! I'm also really interested in making prayer shawls, so I am thinking of doing that for my UU church. (www.shawlministry.com is a nice site if you'd like more info.)
How's your knitting MaryLizah?
Have a nice Sunday everyone.
"And now," cried Max "let the wild rumpus begin!"
Happy New Year!
Things are a bit rough here-- I'm sooooooo sick (possibly with strep? or the flu or something) and have been since Monday. It's slowly getting better, but I feel rotten! I even threw up this morning from coughing so hard.
And, DH is in France . He left NYE, so my new year's celebrations were subdued, to say the least. He has interviews lined up next week, which is great, but being the sole caregiver is hard. DS really misses his dad a lot.
Mamabeakley, I hope the 1st trimester passes quickly and you feel better soon!
TXmom, that's great about becoming an LC! I think I would enjoy doing that, too.
Max, I'm so sorry to hear about the fall and the pox. I know what you mean about losing 10 years of your life in one instant! Kids have that amazing superpower to shorten their parent's lifespan. Congrats on the crocheting, my knitting is going well, though I have yet to make anything other than scarves! "Santa" brought me circular needles in my stocking, and I'm hoping to start a baby blanket for a pregnant friend soon.
Ecoteat, yay on the date!! DH and I were hoping for a date right before he left, but it was crazy busy with Christmas, family in town, then I got sick, not to mention my dad has been unwell since his surgery 3 weeks ago. He has another one scheduled for tomorrow and we hope it will resolve some issues he's having.
Well, off to shower and get the day started. Hugs to all!
Kathryn- I'm so excited for you, that's awesome! I am always thrilled to hear there will be another LC in the world.
Mary- I hope your dad's surgery goes well, and best wishes with the whole move thing. An international move seems daunting to me!
Max- lots of get well thoughts for your kiddos.
I haven't been around much for the last year but think of you all often.
I felt the need to take a break from MDC when things in my AP-mothering world weren't working the way I had imagined them. I found it challenging to make the changes I needed to make while constantly asking for help here at MDC, so I pulled back for a bit, found my own way and am now happy to be back feeling more confident in my parenting and eager to reconnect with old friends!
I've recently returned to work part-time writing, teaching yoga and leading workshops for mothers and couples and life is flowing a whole lot more smoothly in my house since I made this change!
I'm looking forward to reconnecting with you all!!!!
PS ~ Here's a pic of my May babe that I think you will all appreciate!
Well mamas, chicken pox is a much more drawn out thing than I imagined. Ds keeps getting new outbreaks, just when I think he is doing better. And the contagious period lasts until three days after the last outbreak. So the poor little guy has been housebound and going stir crazy. (In case you're wondering, nine year old boys don't do housebound very well. )
"And now," cried Max "let the wild rumpus begin!"
Max- I bet he is stir crazy! Poor kid, I guess at least it's not summer, it would probably seem that much worse if it was.
Max, soooooo sorry to hear that CP is still going on. I can't imagine trying to keep a 9 y o housebound! I hope he feels better soon.
I'm finally starting to feel better over here, but I think DS is catching my virus from heck. Anyone know if I can give him Emergen-C? A whole dose, or just part? I think he needs some vitamin C pronto.
Hugs to all!
But now it's back to work, although this weekend I have a girls scrapbooking weekend, which will be a lot of fun. One of my daycare kids got sick here, so hopefully we don't get it Oh well, tis the season, right??!!!
MaryLizah, I'm glad you are feeling better. I was worried about you. How's dh making out in France?
"And now," cried Max "let the wild rumpus begin!"
I have a thread going in H&H. Long story short, DS has croup. Very scary.
He's feeling better now, though I'm still shaky.
I know it's wrong, but I feel like the universe is punishing us for something.
I miss my DH. This is so lonely.
Sorry, I'm really feeling sorry for myself right now.
|I have a thread going in H&H. Long story short, DS has croup. Very scary.
I had actually weaned my DS the week before but luckily was still lactating and nursed him that night (and decided that weaning in the middle of winter cold-flu season is not the best idea so we're happily nursing again).
"And now," cried Max "let the wild rumpus begin!"
We actually had a really good night last night. I had on our cool mist vaporizer, which made a really big difference. We both slept really well, hardly any coughing!
Max, he did get oral steroids and a steroid shot yesterday. Thank goodness, too. He really couldn't breathe.
He's calling for me, better run, but thanks again for all the support.
I totally thought I felt this baby move, even though I know rationally that at 8 weeks, it is much too small to be doing much. But it was a neat sensation anyway, even if my mind made it up! (No, it was NOT gas - I've got lots of that, too, but this was a totally different feeling).
DS2 is still working on his 2 year molars - anyone else going through teething right now?
Here as mama to W (2/04), R (5/06), D (7/09), and J (12/9/12!), co-parenting with my DH
I WOH part-time, am a doula & childbirth educator, home/unschool, and hope we are nearing the center of chaos
Mary, how's your little guy today? I hope he is feeling better and you both are getting some rest.
My ds is finally over the chicken pox & returned to school today. Amazingly no one else got it - but time will tell.
"And now," cried Max "let the wild rumpus begin!"
Mary good luck with the croup! That's so scary! Is your Dh still in Europe? It would be hard to deal with that alone!
Max- Clara also frequently thinks it's her birthday when it's others!
Mamabeakley-I hope this trimester goes by quickly for you!
Well in our neck of the woods not much happening, we are starting to look for a new church/start our own? Things have been getting weird there for a while, we were in denial that we needed to leave, but now we know we have to. There is some talk of a "house" church, where we meet to worship in people's homes that sounds exciting, but we'll see if it pans out! We are also really looking forward to trying to move back to Texas in about 6 months or so!!!: I really miss my family!
Clara said the funniest thing the other day, she said I want to go to Kindergarten right now, I told her that she couldn't go until she was 5 (if we ever let her go! we might homeschool!) then she said she just turned 5 yesterday, so I told her she had to stop going pee pee in her panties, and she said okay I stopped I can go to kindergarten! Too cute! (she didn't stop going in her panites though!) We just about have her back to being potty trained at pre baby levels but not quite! Well I have some new pics on my blog so check them out the girls are getting so big!! Talk to y'all later!
I did it!
I spent 16 hours yesterday doula-ing a birth! I have been so scared of how I was going to be able to serve the two families I am doula for this month before I expect to feel better, but I did it! This was actually the first birth I've attended where I didn't feel afterwards like I wished I had said something/done something I didn't, too (9th birth as a doula).
I just feel so non-functional at home all the time that I was worried I'd get to a birth and just collapse & be useless. I did have to pace myself more (probably a good skill to learn anyway) and I did have a moment of just really feeling down and grumpy about the whole thing, but the mom graciously okayed me taking a 1 hour nap break and after that I was able to get back with the program and do my job.
And - this is cool - the baby was born at 11:11 on 1/11! A vaginal birth to a mom whose sisters have all had c/s - she was really pleased with herself
Here as mama to W (2/04), R (5/06), D (7/09), and J (12/9/12!), co-parenting with my DH
I WOH part-time, am a doula & childbirth educator, home/unschool, and hope we are nearing the center of chaos
Kathryn, I'm sorry things aren't working out so well w/your church. I know how important it is in your life, but it sounds like you have a good plan. Our UU church actually started w/worships being held in people's homes. Then as the congregation grew they rented a couple of different spaces, and now we are moving into a home of our own next month.
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Dear Paul,
Firstly may I extend to you and to the USA team my heartfelt congratulations for your magnificent results at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. (Related item: USOC's response)
I have addressed this letter to you after having read the following statements attributed to you in the American press: "It was very hard to focus after what has happened the previous days. At this moment, I don't feel that I have to give back my medal. If the FIG will decide that I have to give it back, I'll do it. There are many different options about what I have to do. I can understand my Korean opponent. I believe that something is going to happen soon."
This declaration, which gave me great pleasure, was made by a great gymnast and true champion who has the highest ethical values. This act, which demonstrates the highest level of honesty, places you amongst the true Olympic champions. I wish to confirm that your words grant you the highest esteem from the worldwide gymnastics family.
I wish to remind you that the FIG Executive Committee has admitted the error of judgement made on the Parallel Bars and suspended the three responsible judges, two from the A panel and the FIG Technical Committee member. Indeed, the start value of the Korean gymnast Yang Tae Young was given as 9.9 instead of 10. As a result, the true winner of the All-Around competition is Yang Tae Young.
If, (according to your declarations to the press), you would return your medal to the Korean if the FIG requested it, then such an action would be recognised as the ultimate demonstration of Fairplay by the whole world. The FIG and the IOC would highly appreciate the magnitude of this gesture.
At this moment in time, you are the only one who can make this decision. (Related letter: USOC responds to FIG letter)
With my best regards and deepest respect,
Bruno Grandi, FIG President