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Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) - Giancarlo Stanton set the tone with a towering home run and Adeiny Hechavarria had four hits as the Miami Marlins continued their hot start to the season with an 8-2 takedown of the San Diego Padres on Friday.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia went 3-for-4 with two RBI and Casey McGehee drove in a pair for Miami, which moved to 4-1 on the season. Stanton's lone hit, a 484- foot blast in the first inning, was the longest homer in the short history of Marlins Park. Hechavarria also scored twice and stole his first base of the season.
Tom Koehler (1-0) held the Padres to two runs on seven hits over six frames, while Brad Hand tossed three no-hit innings in relief to secure his first career save.
San Diego got two hits each from Jedd Gyorko and Yasmani Grandal, but it hit just 2-for-7 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base. Padres starter Eric Stults (0-1) yielded five runs on seven hits in four innings of work.
Jeff Baker's one-out single in the bottom of the first put a runner on for Stanton, who sent a no-doubter over the Budweiser logo in deep left field.
Miami padded its lead two innings later, tacking on three more runs for a 5-0 margin. McGehee plated Hechevarria with a sacrifice fly and Saltalamacchia drove in a pair with his double in the gap in left-center.
Three straight singles with one away in the top of the fifth loaded the bases for the Padres, but they failed to put a run across. Tommy Medica pinch-hit for Stults and popped out, and Everth Cabrera grounded out sharply to Garrett Jones at first, who flipped to Koehler covering the bag in time to get the speedy lead-off hitter.
Jones doubled in a run and scored on Marcell Ozuna's grounder, and after five innings the Marlins owned a comfortable 7-0 lead.
San Diego finally got on the board with two runs in the top of the sixth, with Yonder Alonso and Gyorko each driving one in. McGehee's RBI single to center in the eighth resulted in the final tally.
Game Notes
Alonso's sixth inning double was San Diego's lone extra base hit ... Miami went 4-for-9 with RISP ... The Marlins have two more games against the Padres before going on the road for the first time this season to visit Washington.


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Smyith wrote:so my friend sauce told me i need to start a political thread. so here it is do all the bitching you want. just remember the man is watching you; good thing he's a coke snorting retard...lol.
TexasOutlaw wrote:I voted for him and the bastard took away my Cuban cigars.
Smyith wrote:the thing i love most about him is the fact he talks about how we are falling behind in education and how hes gonna fix it. and what was one of the biggest cuts from the budget this year? education. hes a joke.
the embargo on cubans have basically been since cuba was taken over by castro so its nothing new. i can't wait til my hook up gets back from cuba.
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Jwt4412 wrote:Smyith.
First, education on the federal level is up over 300% under Bush - facts are stubborn things.
and second, the security of the ports is not getting sold to the UAE -the management of the ports is. The security is still the Coast Guard and the Port Authorities.
Third, calling a man dumb who has kicked the ass of his opponents and made them like it for over a decade starts to sound silly. How dumb are the people getting waxed by the Hitler-Monkey?
By the way read some of Kennedy's Speeches and Bush Speeches - take out the words Communist and Terrorist and all of their derivatives and tell me how you are going to tell the speeches apart...
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SAN FRANCISCO — Downtown construction crews have unearthed the massive foundations of the old San Francisco City Hall destroyed in the disastrous 1906 earthquake.
The wreckage of the old City Hall and its 300-foot dome became a famous symbol of the quake.
The San Francisco Chronicle (bit.ly/UCEu32) says workers digging on Hyde Street near Fulton Street for a landscaping project found the City Hall ruins on Sept. 14.
Archaeologists from the federal General Services Administration, which owns the adjacent former federal building, were called in to examine the foundations.
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Marist ready for clash with Sherwood in 5A Championship
EUGENE, Ore. -- There is just one player currently on the Marist roster that was on the team in 2009 when the Spartans won the State Title.
That player is Austin Baird, who is done for the year after getting hurt two weeks ago.
Despite losing arguably their best player, the Spartans made it to the 5A championship game, where they will face Sherwood this Saturday.
The Bowmen are the only team to beat Marist this season, a 38-20 game in week two of the season.
"No one is ready to play them early in the year," says Spartans head coach Frank Geske. "They have their spring football, then they go to Linfield Camp. They practice all summer long.
"We don't even do 7-on-7 in the summer. We lift and get the body ready, we're not football ready early on. We're ready now."
The Bowmen enter the game averaging more than 50 points a contest while going 12-0 this season, but Marist's biggest improvement this year comes on defense, according to Geske.
The Spartans have held five teams to under ten points this season, including a 40-8 victory over Redmond last week.
"Our level of progression and their (Sherwood) level of progression are not at the same rate," says Geske. "There's two different planes there. I think we're catching up."
The Spartans and Bowmen also met in the state title game two years ago, as Sherwood came away with 26-23 win in overtime.
"They like to come in and do their thing," says Marist quarterback Kamerun smith. "They just try to execute. Hopefully we can execute better."
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ST. LOUIS -- Tim McCarver is set to make his booth debut for Fox Sports Midwest on Monday for the first of 30 Cardinals games he'll call this season. He will also be behind the microphone Tuesday before joining the Cardinals in Chicago over the weekend.
McCarver, who ended an 18-season partnership with Joe Buck as a FOX analyst last October, was added to the FSM team over the winter. This is a familiar place for McCarver to return to, as he played 12 seasons with the Cardinals, beginning in 1959. He was a member of the 1964 World Series club, along with Cardinals radio broadcaster Mike Shannon, and a two-time Cardinals All-Star.
He later embarked on what has been a successful second career as a broadcaster. In addition to his time at FOX, McCarver has called games locally for the Phillies, Yankees, Mets and Giants. He was elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012 as the winner of the Ford C. Frick Award.
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- The highest number of Academy Award nominations ever received by a Bond film (five: Best Song, Score, Sound Mixing, Sound Effects Editing and Cinematography).
- The first Bond film in three decades to receive Oscar nominations. The last time was in 1982, when For Your Eyes Only (1981) was nominated for Best Song. 1982 also saw producer Albert R. Broccoli receive the Honorary Thalberg Award.
- First Bond film to win two Oscars (Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965) won just the one each)
- The third Bond film to win an Academy Award and the first in forty-seven years, the last being Thunderball (1965).
- Skyfall's tied Oscar for Sound Editing was not actually the first in that category, as Goldfinger (1964) had won for Best Effects, Sound Effects whilst Diamonds Are Forever (1971) had been nominated for Best Sound.
- Although a number of Bond songs have being nominated for the Best Song Oscar (Live and Let Die (1973), For Your Eyes Only (1981), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and the unofficial Casino Royale (1967)), Adele's "Skyfall" became the first James Bond theme to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.


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Public Enemy's Chuck D Calls Jimmy Page's Puff Daddy Collaboration a ' F—ing Travesty'
Public Enemy's Chuck D will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 18, whether you like it or not. More on that in a moment, but in a recent interview he talked about his group's collaboration with classic rock bands, and the "debacle" of Jimmy Page's and Puff Daddy's collaboration.
"I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kasmhir' was a debacle," he told Rolling Stone. "They are giants in their own way – and you can print this – but that was a f—ing travesty."
"When I get involved with a classic, I knock the f—ing ceiling out of it or I leave it the f–k alone." Anthrax, U2 and Stephen Stills are just a few of the rockers his group has worked with. The rapper was referring to the Puff Daddy (as he was known then) song 'Come With Me' which used the music from Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir.' Page appeared in the video for the song and stamped his approval on it during a 1998 appearance with Puff Daddy on 'Saturday Night Live.' The song was used for the movie soundtrack to the equally terrible film 'Godzilla.'
This conversation stemmed from a greater conversation about whether Public Enemy will be part of some sort of onstage mashing of minds during the Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Public Enemy, Rush, Heart, Randy Newman, Donna Summer and Albert King were announced as 2013 inductees last week. Chuck D seems emphatic when discussing whether or not hip-hop belongs.
"Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture," he says. "DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it."
We're not going to argue with him. Look for Chuck D and Public Enemy to put together more Hip-Hop Gods shows featuring classic rap artists in 2013.
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made with 3d coat.
looks better without ao, im finding...
more updates...
about happy with it now...
more proportionate fixes.
that sword looks like it would be way off balance.
the last looks better but its mostly wider. you should try box modeling the character before sculpting it. then you only need to add detail once your scultping and not keep reshaping it
also, the arm muscles are kind of weird. the biceps i don't really see, and theres some weird muscle sticking out above the elbow. the calves look like they're longer than the thighs, and the pelvis should be wider
this was done in a 3d program without sculpting. anything with color that looks like detail was painted on. it has form without being sculpted.
this approach might be easier for you to get the base shape than sculpting I couldnt post an image. here is a link
here are two more that I did for others
quick handhttp://bleed.kuheo.com/handquick.html
you should try box modeling the body out. foot goes here, calf here, knee here, pelvis, etc. while it may not look like it. thats how the first link is made
patch box modelhttp://bleed.kuheo.com/patchmodelbegin.html


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LAKE COUNTY -- The Clear Lake Area California Highway Patrol (CHP) is currently investigating a hit-and-run fatal collision that occurred on Highway 29 south of Lower Lake.
According to the CHP, the driver in the collision was located. Officers are interviewing a woman who went to the Clearlake Police Department earlier today to report that she thought she had hit something with her SUV in the Lower Lake area.
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While it's a few days later than originally anticipated, the first egg "pipping" (chick breaking out of the egg) has begun on Catalina, and majestic bald eagles Wray and K01 (aka "Superman") are expected to officially become parents today.
The live camera on Catalina Island is officially on "Hatch Watch," and so far tens of thousands of viewers from around the world have looked on as Wray and K01 have watched over their eggs. Today's expected hatching is the first of three eggs the eagles laid this season.


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- "Your next job is taped under the phone..."
- ―Mr. Black
Mr. Black is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears as an unseen, main character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Black is a businessman who resides in Vice City and, during the events of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, unintentionally employs Tommy Vercetti as a hitman.
Mr. Black and Leo Teal's names are most likely a reference to the cult classic, Reservoir Dogs, due to their surnames being colors, as are the codenames of each of the robbers in the film.
Nothing is known about Mr. Black's life before the events of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. At some point in his life, Black started a hitmen business and hired Leo Teal as a hitman.
The Vice City Police Department (VCPD) correctly believe that he runs a hitman business and have doubts over whether he is involved with money laundering.
Mr. Black employs Leo Teal, whom Tommy kills and he takes Teal's phone, allowing for random contact with Mr. Black. Despite his criminal activities, the VCPD have no information on him.
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Nothing is known about this man. We are eager to find out more. Possible connection to money laundering thought to be unlikely. Believed to be involved in running hitman business. No further info available.
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Silver Lining
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silver lining (noun) a consoling aspect of an otherwise desperate or difficult situation; "every dark rain cloud has a silver edge or lining"; "look on the bright side of it." Roughly a year ago I was in Honduras doing volunteer work and taking Spanish classes for a week. It was my fourth volunteer trip, third one to a Central American country, and was fulfilling the promise I made to myself years ago to give back to those in need. For […]
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Chairman Peter Holt of San Antonio has appointed Chairman Emeritus Lee Bass of Fort Worth to an interim committee that will study deer breeding issues before the next session of the Texas Legislature.
Gov. Rick Perry recently appointed three people to the Select Interim Committee to Study the Practice of Breeding White-Tailed and Mule Deer. Perry's recent appointees include Scott Bugai, a veterinarian and manager of a ranch and deer breeding facility; William Eikenhorst, a veterinarian and land stewardship consultant; and Joseph Bluntzer Jr., a wildlife management consultant and former Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden.
The committee was created by Senate Bill 573 authored by Sen. Kenneth "Kim" Brimer in the recent legislative session. The bill calls for a select interim committee to study the deer breeding industry, especially its impact on rural areas. According to SB 573 provisions, the TPW Commission chairman shall nominate one committee member.
"Mr. Bass possesses a broad and thorough understanding of all the issues related to the practice of deer breeding, and as chairman of the department's White-tailed Deer Advisory Committee, has been immersed in studying these issues for several years," Holt said in a letter appointing Bass to the committee. "I am certain that his knowledge and understanding will benefit the committee as it studies the practice of deer breeding, and of particular importance to me, its impact on Texas' multi-billion dollar hunting industry and the natural resources of this state."
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For most women, nine months of pregnancy ends with a wonderful event - the birth of your healthy baby. For a very small number of women, the baby may develop with a serious, perhaps life-threatening, problem.
Testing during the early stages of your pregnancy can help identify some of these problems and may help you come to an important decision about your baby. Having these tests is not compulsory and there are some women who choose not to take them at all. It's up to you.
For those that are interested in being tested but aren't sure which tests to take, antenatal tests can be divided into two categories:
In this test, the thickness of the fluid-filled space at the back of your baby's neck is measured. The test is performed during 12-13 weeks of pregnancy using an ultrasound technology. It is used mainly to test for Down Syndrome but is also helpful in detecting abnormalities related to the heart of the foetus. placental proteins(PAPP-A and free (Beta)hcg)
This test, done by analysing the blood sample taken from a pregnant woman, measures levels of alpha-fetaprotein, (hcg) and unconjugated estriol (a type of estrogen produced by the placenta. It has the capability of detecting around 80 percent of neural tube defects and Down Syndrome cases.
These more comprehensive tests may be performed when:
This test is carried out between 10-12 weeks gestation by one of two ways. In some cases, a catheter is passed through the cervix, or, alternatively, a needle is inserted through the abdomen. A sample of chrionic villus tissue (the tissue that will eventually become placenta) is taken and tested. This procedure does come with a small risk of miscarriage which is less than 1 percent.
For detecting Down Syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities, this is considered to be the most accurate test and is usually performed during weeks 15-16 of pregnancy. Under ultrasound guidance, a fine needle is inserted through the abdomen to withdraw a small amount of amniotic fluid for further testing. Again, there is also a very small risk of miscarriage - less than 1 percent.
Neural tube defects are serious abnormalities which occur in the development of the brain and spinal cord in about 1 in 500 babies. The cause is, as yet, unknown. The two most common forms are anencephaly and spina bifida.
In anencephaly there is abnormal development of the baby's brain and skull and babies with anencephalyusually die soon after birth.
In spina bifida, the baby's spine does not form properly. Babies with spina bifida may have paralysis of the legs, lack of bladder and bowel control, and curvature of the spine. Hydrocephalus (too much fluid around the brain) can also occur.
Down Syndrome is what happens when a baby has an extra copy of one of its chromosomes(chromosome 21). This happens in about 1 in 600 babies. The cause is, as yet, unknown.
Children with Down Syndrome usually have a characteristic appearance. They have varying levels of intellectual disability. They may also have one or more medical problems involving their bones, heart, bowel and thyroid gland. Some may also have poor eyesight and hearing.
When it comes to testing during pregnancy, your doctor will advise you of the best options for your specific circumstance but remember, the choice is always yours.
If done at around 11-13 weeks gestation, the combined blood and ultrasound tests will detect around 85 percent of all babies affected with Down Syndrome. If done when you are between 14 and 20 weeks pregnant, blood testing and ultrasound scanning will detect over 95 percent of all babies who have a Neural Tube Defect, and about 75 percent of all babies who have Down Syndrome. Not all affected babies will be detected.
This article was written by Claire Halliday for Australia's leading parenting resource, Kidspot. Sources include the South Australian Maternal Serum Antenatal Screening Programme and the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of South Australia Inc and the Down Syndrome Society of South Australia Inc.
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Sophie Gimbel: Fashioning American Couture
Sophie Gimbel was a seminal figure in the American fashion industry
during the first half of the 20th century. As head of the Salon Moderne,
the custom design boutique within Saks Fifth Avenue, Gimbel was a
champion of American Couture; a distinct form of made-to-measure
fashion. Gimbel designed for the world's most fashionable
women including stage and screen actresses, socialites, and First
Ladies. Her work graced the cover of Vogue's inaugural American Fashion
issue in 1940, and in 1947 she became the first American designer to
appear on the cover of Time magazine.
This exhibition will provide insight into Gimbel's original design creations through the creative display of garments from the Parsons Fashion Archive. Laboriously crafted by skilled artisans these dresses, gowns and suits demonstrate exemplary skill in construction, ornamentation and tailoring, rendered in luxurious fabrics and a rich color palette. Designs inspired by garments in the exhibition created by School of Fashion students in part-time associate teaching professor Kathleen Maggio's Couture Design Techniques class, will also be featured as will objects from the Saks Fifth Avenue fashion publicity archive at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Design Archives and The New School Art Collection. The exhibition is curated by Beth Dincuff Charleston, part-time assistant professor, School of Fashion, Parsons The New School for Design with support from Saks Fifth Avenue. Special thanks to Fiona Dieffenbacher, program director, BFA Fashion Design, School of Fashion, Parsons The New School for Design.
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Hello All,
This may have been discussed already in the past, I apologize if so, but my fathers blood pressure is getting lower. Is that normal with the CC or is it more indicative of an infection? He has no fever to speak of. (as background, he is not getting any treatment for his CC, but has not allowed hospice in as of yet). Thank you all in advance, as always, you are all angels!


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What Increased Media Consumption Does to Kids' Health
Technology has certainly revolutionized the world. It brings all kinds of wonderful things to us – ways to stay in touch, communicate, entertain ourselves, access information. But it's also a double-edged sword. . .
The Kaiser Family Foundation has just released the results of a third wave of data they've collected about the use of media by children ages 8-18 years. The numbers are pretty shocking: in a typical day, kids these ages spend 7 hours and 38 minutes using media devices, including TV's, computers, MP3 players, and cell phones. That's up a full hour and 17 minutes from the data collected in 2004.
And the study only reflects the use of cell phones for music, video, or Internet, not cell phone time spent talking (1/2 hour/day) or texting (1 ½ hours/day) . And because a lot of kids are really good media multi-taskers (listening to music while cruising Facebook, for example), they're actually exposed to about 10 hours and 45 minutes worth of media content in a day's time.
More studies are needed to confirm the various effects that all this screen time has on kids and families, but here are a few possible associations noted in this and other studies:
• Lower grades? (heavier media users had lower grades than lighter users)
• More mindless, unhealthy snacking?
• More obesity?
• More sedentary time/less exercise?
• Less time for face-to-face relationships? (66 percent of kids in the study said the TV is on during mealtimes, and 45 percent said it's on "most of the time" in their households)
• More emotional difficulties and/or troubled relationships? (of course, the question here is "which came first, the chicken or the egg? – but heavier users did report higher rates of feeling bored and sad, more relationship problems with parents, more feelings of unhappiness in school, and a greater likelihood of getting into trouble)
• Lower reading scores?
• More problems with attention?
There are also some concerns about how isolating these devices may be. Although technology can be used for socializing, kids are also sequestering themselves in their rooms, away from family and friends, and watching videos, YouTube, Internet-streamed television shows, or playing video games for hours on end. After all, 71 percent of kids have their own TV and 50 percent have a video game player in their bedroom. How can this not have an effect on family and other relationships?
We haven't even touched on other important ramifications of technology use, such as cyberbullying; increased aggressive behavior in kids exposed to violence on TV or in video games; or the potential of an unsupervised young user encountering a child predator online.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has the following recommendations about television and children:
• Under age 2 – no TV! Our youngest kids should be playing interactively, instead.
• Ages 3-5 – under an hour per day of nonviolent, educational shows, supervised by adults
• Over the age of five – no more than 1-2 hours daily. Again, only nonviolent, educational shows, with good adult supervision.
And here are some other ideas:
• Keep media devices – TV's, computers, etc. – in a "public area" of the house, so parents can casually walk by and supervise their children's use of them
• Encourage exercise – lead by example! Get up and MOVE with your kids!
• Encourage reading – again, lead by example! Grab a good novel, and encourage your kids to snuggle up on the couch with you to read. . .
• Establish and uphold family rules about how much total screen time is healthy for each member of your family – keep it under two hours a day total for all types of screens (TV's, computers, video games, cell phones, MP3 players)
• Keep the TV off during mealtimes to increase family communication
• Help your children choose age-appropriate programs to watch or video games to play – and best of all, watch/play with them.
• Make screen entertainment a treat that is earned by completing homework, playing outside, etc.
• Know who your child is communicating with by cell phone, social network site, e-mail, online chat program, etc.
• Learn more Internet safety tips by visiting the American Academy of Pediatrics' web site Safety Net.


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AS World War One centenary commemorations sweep the nation, one Winchester school has found its own way to mark the milestone.
Normal timetables were suspended at Stanmore Primary School, in Stanmore Lane, last week (June 2-6) to learn about different aspects of the conflict, and they have even built their own version of a trench.
History co-ordinator and Year 6 teacher, Emma Pearce, said she thinks it is important for younger generations to understand the significance of the war.
"I personally believe that the past informs the present and it's important that there is awareness and respect of what has gone before us," she said.
"We have teamed up with the Hampshire Archives and talked through how we could access different aspects of the war for each year group."
Year 6 pupils explored life in the trenches, and on Thursday June 5, and Friday June 6, Corporal Kyle Yates of Winchester Army Training Regiment helped them to build a defensive position within the school grounds.
Winchester City Council donated sandbags, and they also used turf from the school site, and dressed the scene with WW1 artefacts.
Amelie De Lara, 11, was amongst the pupils enthusiastically building the position.
She said: "Part of learning about WWI is that we have to feel it. We have to learn the facts but building this means that we can properly know how the soldiers felt at the time."
Naz Hamid, 11, added: "It gives you respect for them as well, because you can empathise with what they did."
Children in Years 1 and 2 investigated the role of animals from war horses to rescue dogs, and learnt some rousing war-time songs.
Year 3 and 4 pupils designed propaganda posters encouraging young men to sign up and fight for their country, as well as learning how to march like a new recruit.
On Tuesday (June 3) Year 5 visited the West Hill cemetery to look at the WW1 graves, and using the information on the headstones they looked online to see what they could discover about each soldier.


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Sam Gagner and the Edmonton Oilers have agreed to a three-year deal worth $14.4 million, according to TSN.ca.
With the deal, the two sides avoided arbitration just hours before their scheduled hearing with an arbitrator, TSN.ca noted.
"So happy to remain an Edmonton Oiler for at least three more years," Gagner tweeted on Monday. "Thanks to everyone for the support. Time to get to work."
Last season, Gagner scored 14 goals and had 24 assists in 48 games for the Oilers.
Gagner, 23, is part of an exciting young nucleus in Edmonton that also includes forwards Jordan Eberle (23 years old), Taylor Hall (21 years old), Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (20 years old), Nail Yakupov (19 years old) and defenseman Justin Schultz (23 years old).


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The 2016 VCOA National Meet has come and gone, but you can relive the fun and excitement by viewing the images on the 2016 National Meet Gallery.
Just navigate to Community/Galleries and click on National Event Galleries and you will find the 2016 Gallery among past event galleries.
Volvo officially announced the new S90 sedan on December 2, 2015 and will display it in public at the NAIAS in Detroit January, 2016.
The initial automotive press has been mostly positive and complementary. We have gathered a collection of reviews for you to peruse. Click the Read More button to begin.
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For those who were not able to attend the VCOA National Meet, below is a video produced by Volvo Cars of the event with coverage centered around the corporate exhibit on the 18th fairway with some footage on the club presence in the featured Car Club Showcase populated with selected members' cars and other members' cars displayed in the VCOA car show on fairway #17.
One shot of Lex Kerssemakers, CEO of Volvo Americas and President of VCNA, was captured as he was speaking at the VCOA banquet on Saturday. Enjoy, the 110+ club members who attended sure did! Volvo Cars Video
Volvo will be presenting a number of classics including a 1933 PV654 on loan from the Volvo Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival Concours d'Elegance and the 2015 VCOA National Meet. Also on display will be the Saints original 1967 1800S sports coupe driven by Roger Moore, a 1927 PV4, a 1955 PV444 and a 1957 P1900. Classic Cars.com has a short article with more details available here: ClassicCars.com
51 year old Hagerty International Managing Director Angus Forsyth, bought his 51 year old 1963 Volvo 1800S in 1982 when he was 18 years old and still drives it to this day. Every time he gets behind the wheel, the smell of the car takes him back to his childhood where he fondly remembers his mother, who drove him around in an identical vehicle. Watch it on Youtube.
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Teixeira working through soreness in cut finger
First baseman hasn't taken a full batting practice since the injury on Wednesday
NEW YORK -- It's still painful for Mark Teixeira to grip a bat, but he took some swings prior to Friday's game against the Indians to test out his injured left pinkie finger.
Teixeira, who sliced his finger open while sliding into home plate during Wednesday's game against the Tigers, was out of the lineup for a second consecutive game on Friday. The cut required three stitches that will remain in for about a week.
The Yankees first baseman took Thursday off to rest from baseball activities, but the pinky still has not improved much. He was limited to tee work and soft toss on Friday, and he was hoping to eliminate some of the soreness.
"Just gripping a bat and taking dry swings is pretty painful," Teixeira said. "But I'm going to go out, run around, stretch. Hopefully some blood flow will help, get it warm. During the day, as the day goes on, hopefully it just keeps getting a little better."
Teixeira will likely need at least a couple more days before he returns to the lineup, even if his finger responds well. He has not gone through a full batting practice, and he was not sure if the injury would impact his play on defense.
"It's just sore," he said. "I'm not sure if it'll get worse, but it definitely needs to get better."
Jamal Collier is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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How do I import my book information from Amazon?
It's simple. Within the app go to My Books. Click on the Add New button. Enter the ISBN for your book and click Add Book. All your book information will be automatically imported into the app from Amazon.
It may sound obvious but we're going to say it anyway: you can only import data from Amazon if your book is for sale on Amazon.
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To remove the app from your fan page you need to go to your fan page in Facebook. Click on Edit Page and go to Apps. You will see Author Marketing App listed in your Apps directory. Click the x next to the Author Marketing app to remove the app.
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Andrew Gorniak is entering his second season as the Running Backs Coach at Concordia University of Wisconsin. Prior to his coaching stint with the Falcons, he was a student-athlete at Carroll University (Waukesha, WI), and most recently, an Assistant Football Coach at Homestead High School (Mequon, WI). During his competitive years in football at CU he earned four varsity letters as a Wide Receiver, accrued honors on the Midwest Conference All-Academic Team, and was delegated as Team Captain. Most importantly, he earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in Elementary Educational Studies, with a teaching minor in Mathematics.
Currently, Gorniak is pursuing a Masters of Sports Science (M.S.S.) Degree from the United States Sports Academy (Daphne, AL). Also, he is an active member of the Wisconsin Football Coaches Assosciation (WFCA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and AdvoCare.


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Hi All,
EggMaps HD (my app for Google Maps for iPad) made it into the app store last week. (Hooray! ) ...but...
I was foolish enough to think that if people like it, the app would sell itself. People LOVE it. But it is not selling itself, at least not to its potential.
AdWords isn't a viable way to promote it, unless I get a > 20% conversion rate (which is unlikely).
I've tried a few discussion forum websites, but have been warned by a couple about self-promotion (I didn't read their terms & conditions well enough).
Do any other app developers have ideas?
There are loads of app/ apple device sites that review apps, you might try submitting to those. Have you created your own site for the app? App title, description and icon within the app store are important if your app has a lot of competitors - people have a short decision window to choose between apps they find in a search, I'd probably not look twice at an app that has a picture of an egg as it doesn't relate to anything I'm looking for. I see quite a few app developers now use the description in an 'seo' style - deliberate placing of keywords that relate to competitors and search terms, in particular the 'auto suggest' phrases that come up when you start typing a search word.
Thanks EastCoast. I've submitted it to as many app review and press sites as I can find, and it is like sending information into a black hole.
You're right about the icon. I already have a new icon design which I'm releasing soon.
The "SEO" style description is a good tip, thanks. I was wary of getting my app rejected if I used them, but now it's already in the store I may get a bit more brazen.
Keep the tips coming!
The App store seems to suggest that it's free. Is it?
Anyhow, my problem with things like this is, I wonder to myself—"how is this different from Apple Maps or Google Maps?" I don't feel your description (on your site or in the Store) really convinces me that it's worth downloading, as it sounds like the same thing (and I don't want to clutter my device). So I'd recommend more explanation and detail—the hard sell, as it were. In terms of promotion, it might be worth putting up a YouTube video as well.
Thanks ralph.m, and congrats on being staff member of the year!
I've made the app free just for today. I've heard elsewhere that there are a lot of people who use price-drop monitoring software and websites. So far, this seems to have backfired and killed my #4 app store (navigation) ranking in Australia, at least temporarily.
Both your suggestions are good. Having suffered app store rejection previously, I was pretty cautious about the description this time. I'll see if I can get some more aggressive marketing in there with the next update. Good advice.
The YouTube video is also a good idea, although I don't get many visits to my site: most people seem to prefer clicking on an app-store link rather than an unknown website. I'll see what Apple's policy is regarding linking to 3rd-party sites from the app metadata.
Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful suggestions so far. I've been a bit silly to assume that "if you build it, they will come".
Yes, with so many apps out there, it's a wonder some are found at all. I wasn't necessarily suggesting you link from the Apps page to YouTube. It's just that if there's something out there on YouTube, it might get noticed, and lead people to the Apps page or your site. I also see that you do have more description on the Apps page. (I missed the read more link) but all the same, the more the merrier from my point of view. You can put as much as you like on your own site, of course, and I usually check the developer's site for more info before i buy an app ... but maybe that's just me.
Tweet it out to your twitter following and hope they retweet it. If you have a corporate facebook site, then add a few blogs about it; they'll get pickup in your connections.
Maybe think about affiliating yourself with an organization that can make good use of your app. Ask them to promote it, they get x number of $ for every app they help sell and you get the promotion. I'm not sure how viable this is, but you still need to try ways to market your app and being creative with this can help.
You can promote your iPad app by contacting different app review sites. Maniacdev has compiled 170+ sites that review apps. Make sure to pitch your app nicely to the reviewers.
Hope it helps!


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Capture Big Bend's Spring Splendor at Photo Workshop
PRESIDIO, Texas — Flowing desert springs and blooming Chihuahua Desert wildflowers, cacti and shrubs should provide colorful subjects for shutterbugs attending Big Bend Ranch State Park's twice-annual digital photography workshop April 13-15.
"The park was blessed with considerable amounts of rain and snow this winter, so the ranch's chaparral, canyons and mountain slopes should be awash in floral color," said Houston photographer Jim Carr. "The workshop is designed for both beginning and intermediate digital photographers."
Carr, a retired commercial photographer, is quite knowledgeable about what makes Big Bend Ranch such a special place. He has been conducting trail rides and photo workshops at the scenic 300,000-acre state park and working cattle ranch for more than 10 years.
Workshop participants will be taught how to properly light and compose a picture, and what to do with pictures after they've been taken, according to Carr. Instruction will touch on digital photo storage and organization as well as how to delete, edit and resize the image for e-mailing, printing or posting on a Web site.
The $400 workshop cost includes meals, lodging, all park fees and transportation in connection with the on-site workshop. Workshop participants will meet at Fort Leaton State Historic Site in Presidio and be transported to Big Bend Ranch.
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atropine/hyoscyamine/phenobarbital/scopolamine (generic name)
Bellalphen (brand name)
It is used to treat different bowel problems including irritable bowel syndrome, acute enterocolitis, or duodenal ulcer.
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What is this medicine?ATROPINE; HYOSCYAMINE; PHENOBARBITAL; SCOPOLAMINE (A troe peen; hye oh SYE a meen; fee noe BAR bi tal; skoe POL a meen) is used to treat different bowel problems including irritable bowel syndrome, acute enterocolitis, or duodenal ulcer.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
How should I use this medicine?Take this medicine by mouth. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Use a specially marked spoon or dropper to measure each dose. Ask your pharmacist if you do not have one. Household spoons are not accurate.
Take your medicine at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed. Do not stop taking except on your doctor's advice.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
Patients over 65 years old may have a stronger reaction and need a smaller dose.
What if I miss a dose?If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
What may interact with this medicine?Do not take this medicine with any of the following medications:
This medicine may also interact with the following medications:
What should I watch for while using this medicine?Your mouth may get dry. Chewing sugarless gum or sucking hard candy, and drinking plenty of water may help. Contact your doctor if the problem does not go away or is severe.
This medicine may cause dry eyes and blurred vision. If you wear contact lenses you may feel some discomfort. Lubricating drops may help. See your eye doctor if the problem does not go away or is severe.
You may get drowsy or dizzy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do anything that needs mental alertness until you know how this medicine affects you. Do not stand or sit up quickly, especially if you are an older patient. This reduces the risk of dizzy or fainting spells. Alcohol may interfere with the effect of this medicine. Avoid alcoholic drinks.
Birth control pills may not work properly while you are taking this medicine. Talk to your doctor about using an extra method of birth control.
Avoid extreme heat (e.g., hot tubs, saunas). This medication can cause you to sweat less than normal. Your body temperature could increase to dangerous levels, which may lead to heat stroke.


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A COACH from Stourbridge carrying youngsters heading off for a seaside day trip has overturned on the M5.
Around seven people are believed to have been hurt in the incident which happened at around 10am near junction 13 near Stroud, Gloucestershire.
But none of the wounded are thought to have suffered life-threatening injuries.
A spokesman for Gloucestershire Constabulary confirmed: "There are no injuries believed to be life-threatening or life-changing . However the driver of the coach does have back injuries."
He said there were 54 people (including the driver) on board the 57-seater coach from Prospect Coaches in Lye which had been heading towards Weston-super-Mare for a day trip to the seaside.
The spokesman added: "It appears the coach left the road and went onto the hard shoulder and struck a barrier and turned over."
And he said a section of the southbound stretch of motorway between junction 13 and 14 has been closed while paramedics and fire crews work at the scene.
A spokesman for the Confederation of Passenger Transport said on behalf of Prospect Coaches: "We've just been in contact with them but we haven't been able to speak to the driver at this stage.
"The coach the left the Action for Children group centre in West Bromwich at 8.30am; it was one of four on the way to Weston for a seaside day trip."
Two of the coaches left the West Bromwich centre and the other two are believed to have left a Dudley children's centre in Kate's Hill .


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Cue Feeding: Wisdom and Science
Lisa Marasco, BA, IBCLC, Santa Maria, California
Jan Barger, MA, RC, IBCLC, Wheaton, Illinois
from Breastfeeding Abstracts, May 1999, Volume 18, Number 4, pp. 28-29.
It is now commonly accepted that infants, most especially breastfed infants, thrive best when allowed to feed as they indicate their needs. Nevertheless, some mothers continue to believe that they must wait for their breasts to "fill up" between feedings in order to have enough milk for their babies, and some popular sources of advice for parents urge mothers to stick to a feeding schedule in which even young infants are fed at 3- to 4-hour intervals. Some infants may be able to thrive on scheduled feedings, but many others do not. Recent research on the breast's mechanisms for regulating milk production provides a better understanding of the importance of demand feeding and the role of infant appetite in the regulation of milk production.
Until recently, efforts to understand the processes that regulate milk synthesis have focused on the prolactin surge that occurs in response to infant suckling. However, researchers have not found a consistent relationship between plasma prolactin levels and maternal milk production. Taking a different approach, Peter Hartmann and his colleagues in Australia have studied human milk production by making topographical-type maps of lactating breasts before and after nursing sessions using video and computer equipment to assess changes in breast volume.4 The accuracy of this technique for measuring milk storage capacity and milk production has been assessed at ±5 percent. Based on this work, Hartmann has concluded that the rate of milk synthesis between feedings varies according to the degree of fullness of the breast; the fuller the breast, the slower the milk production rate, and conversely, the emptier the breast, the faster the rate at which the milk is replaced.
Hartmann and colleagues also quantified differences in the maximum storage capacity of women's breasts, identifying at least a 300 percent difference between women in their study. It was also noted that the women who had larger storage capacities often nursed at longer intervals, whereas women with smaller storage capacities nursed at more frequent intervals. Breast size was not always a good predictor of production or storage capacity, and all of the women had the ability to produce plenty of milk over 24 hours. What varied was the amount of milk that could be delivered at one feeding.
High prolactin levels are critical to the initiation of lactation, but as prolactin levels decline, endocrine control becomes less important to milk production, and autocrine systems take over.5, 6 However, successful long term lactation depends on the development of adequate prolactin receptors during the endocrine control period, which in turn appears to depend on the frequency of feedings: the more frequent the feeds, the greater the receptor development.3,8
We have found that many women experience success in schedule feeding their breastfed babies during the first couple of months. However, these women have an unusually high rate of milk supply failure around 3-4 months, as evidenced by babies who fall below acceptable growth standards, require supplementation, and/or who wean involuntarily, rejecting the slower-flowing, lower volume breast for a more copious milk supply in a bottle.
Research on feeding intervals and levels of fat in milk adds another dimension to the understanding of how infant appetite, as reflected in demand-feeding, regulates milk synthesis. Michael Woolridge has proposed that caloric intake at the breast, specifically fat intake, is responsible for infant appetite control and satiety. It is readily assumed that the mother of a baby who remains unsettled after feeding has inadequate milk volume. In reality, there may be a small but critical shortfall in her baby's fat or caloric intake.10 Proponents of scheduled feeds often place time restrictions upon how long babies should feed, thus limiting fat/caloric intake at the end of feeds.
Supporters of schedule/routine feedings believe that longer intervals make for hungrier babies who will demand more aggressively and who will obtain the higher fat milk available at the end of a feeding. However, Woolridge has shown that prefeed fat levels are inversely related to the length of the interfeed interval. Fat concentrations of milk can be maximized by increasing both feed frequency and the amount of milk removed from the breast at a feeding. When feed frequency and duration are restricted by predetermined feeding schedules, the result may well be lowered infant fat intake, symptoms of breast milk insufficiency, and underfeeding.2,10
A baby who is getting ready to feed displays cues even before he awakens. At first, baby may wiggle, toss and turn, or be restless in his sleep. If his hand is near his face, he may begin to root towards it and even attempt to suckle it or anything else near his mouth. If these early cues are ignored, the baby begins to "squeak" and fuss slightly and eventually works up to a full cry, expressing that he is now overdue for his needed nourishment. An experienced breastfeeding mother with baby nearby usually quickly discerns baby's needs and puts him to the breast early in this sequence of cues. For the mother who is scheduling her baby and/or sleeping apart from him, however, it is much different.7
A newborn who is left to cry for even a few minutes can become very disorganized and have a more difficult time latching on and sucking correctly. As a result he often does not take as much milk as he needs, and if this scenario is repeated, mother's milk production will decrease over time. This is yet another way in which feeding schedules can inhibit maternal milk production. In an attempt to prevent excessive crying, some proponents of infant schedules promote the use of pacifiers to delay feedings and/or eliminate non-nutritive sucking at the breast. Such interventions are not without risk. A recent study has documented that pacifier use is associated with a shorter duration of breastfeeding,1 while another study found that mothers who utilize pacifiers for their infants frequently exercise a higher degree of behavioral control while breastfeeding, often leading again to shorter duration of breastfeeding overall.9
Empirical and theoretical evidence combined continues to support current recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics11 that babies, most especially breastfed babies, need to be fed on cue and should be allowed to set their own routine, rather than placed on a predetermined schedule. It is our further conclusion that practices which interfere with babies' cuings have been responsible for low weight gains, failure to thrive, milk supply failure, involuntary early weaning, and possibly even some cases of colic, as well as infant regression and depression due to lack of parental responsiveness to baby's frantic cues. Maternal milk production and infant intake are influenced by many factors, including frequency of feeding during the establishment of lactation, maternal milk storage capacity, infant stomach capacity, milk fat content, and the degree of breast emptying at any given feeding. Thus the evidence is very strong that arbitrary scheduling of breastfed infant feedings is inadvisable for any mother who desires to breastfeed successfully.
Lisa Marasco is a La Leche League Leader and a lactation consultant in private practice in Santa Maria, CA. She is currently a Master's student at the Lactation Institute in Encino, CA.
Jan Barger is a clinical instructor and Program Director for Breastfeeding Support Consultants. She is a lactation consultant for a pediatric group in Wheaton, Illinois and has a private practice. She is also a past president of the International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA).
1. Barros, F. C., C. G. Victora et al. Use of pacifiers is associated with decrease of breastfeeding duration. Pediatrics 1995; 95:497-99.
2. DeCarvalho, M. D. et al. Effect of frequent breastfeeding on early milk production and infant weight gain. Pediatrics 1983; 72:307-11.
3. De Coopman, J. Breastfeeding after pituitary resection: Support for a theory of autocrine control of milk supply? J Hum Lact 1993; 9(1):35-40.
4. Daly, S. E., J. C. Kent, D. Q. Huynh et al. The determination of short-term breast volume changes and the rate of synthesis of human milk using computerized breast measurement. Experimental Physiol 1992; 77:79-87.
5. Daly, S. E. and P. Hartmann. Infant demand and milk supply. Part 1: Infant demand and milk production in lactating women. J Hum Lact 1995; 11(1):21-26.
6. Daly, S. E. and P. Hartmann. Infant demand and milk supply. Part 2: The short-term control of milk synthesis in lactating women. J Hum Lact 1995; 11(1):27-37.
7. Neifert, M. Early assessment of the breastfeeding infant. Contempory Pediatr 1996; October, 2-16.
8. Perry, H. M. and L. S. Jacobs. Rabbit mammary prolactin receptors. J Biologic Chem 1978; 253:1560.
9. Victora, C. G., D. P. Behague, F. C. Barros et al. Pacifier use and short breastfeeding duration: Cause, consequence or coincidence. Pediatrics 1997; 99(3):445-453.
10. Woolridge, M. Baby controlled breastfeeding: Biocultural implications. In Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives, ed. P. Stuart Macadam and K. A. Dettwyler. New York: De Gruyter, 1995.
11. American Academy of Pediatrics Work Group on Breastfeeding. Breastfeeding and the use of human milk. Pediatrics 1997; 100:1035-39.


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