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The template was not as straightforward as it could have been. A bit different from other print programs that I have used. Once I figured it out, I was very happy with the cards that I produced (sympathy thank you cards).
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I like the material for this product, but the Word template is useless. There are no guides or transparent borders to help you visualize the template, so I had to scan in the card into Photoshop and create guides myself. Also, there's another problem (which is Word, not Avery's problem) -- you don't have the ability to type in upside down text. so that you can create text on the back of the card. One workaround is to use WordArt (but for me, personally, WordArt looks dated) and then rotate the text, the other option is to create an image in an image editor (e.g. Photoshop) and then flip the image 180 degrees to get it to go upside down or you can create the image upside down in the image editor also.


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The Player Forecast Manager
Tips and ToolsPlayer Forecast Manager (PFM for short; PFM could also mean PECOTA Fantasy Manager). The PFM was originally designed by Nate Silver to help users calculate appropriate dollar values for fantasy baseball leagues that use auctions to distribute players. PFM values are built off of the concept of replacement level, scaled and applied to the fantasy baseball world. The PFM figures out hypothetical replacement level at each position for each statistic that your league uses, then assigns players credit for how far they surpass the replacement level in each statistic, both with respect to their position and with respect to the rest of the players.
New to PFM this year is support for points leagues, some ease-of-use features for people in a straight draft (as opposed to an auction draft), and the ability to download the statistics to a tab-separated or comma-separated text file. Previously, we didn't have the option to display playing time in the web based PFM (it was an option on the original Excel-based version).
This system has helped many Baseball Prospectus readers win their fantasy leagues, including myself. This year, we have made a few notable improvements to the PFM, so to help those of you who aren't familiar with the tool, I'd like to introduce some basic usage tips, point to useful options, and hopefully get everyone acquainted with one of the best draft tools available.
The PFM works in two main stages. The first stage is where you specify your league settings and the second is where you get the player values and can use the inflation tool to adjust the player values during the course of your draft. In the first stage, there are three categories of settings: personal preferences and league setup, roster specifications and statistic selections (with a column for each hitters and pitchers).
In the first column, you will specify the main options:
In the second column, you'll specify your league's starting roster spots. Typically, the PFM is only used for drafting the starting roster for a team. The values that it calculates are based off of this assumption, so the safest way to go is to have just your starting roster put into the PFM's settings. However, if you want to assume that teams will always split their bench spots a certain way, say 10 bench spots split as 5 hitters and 5 pitchers, you might try adding 5 more Util hitters and 5 more pitchers. This is a somewhat risky assumption, but it could help you get a better feel for the value of these bench spots as a result. Officially, though, this section is for your starting rosters only.
The third and fourth columns comprise the third section, where you use the checkboxes to indicate which statistics your league uses for scoring. Please note that the PFM does not support having rate stats in points leagues, but otherwise any statistic is fair game.
Once you submit all the settings and get a listing for players, you can use the draft inflation tool during the draft to account for which players are taken and how much they were drafted for. This applies primarily to auction drafts, where the players will be auctioned off for a salary value. In a straight draft, the inflation tool will expect dollar values of zero for every taken player and it will inflate the remaining available players accordingly. This means that toward the end of the draft, when there are relatively few players remaining to be drafted, the inflation tool might cause PFM to give erratic results.
Some of the things that tend to trip people up are the default settings and budget constraints. For example, the default value for minimum dollars/points displayed is set to zero, which means that players with dollar or points values below zero are not displayed by default. Many users for roto leagues will probably want to see some of the negative-valued players, so some users might find a value like -10 or even -25 more suitable for this option. Additionally, the default settings are configured to what we think is a typical roto league, which includes the roster setup and budget. Many leagues have smaller rosters, so it might be prudent to rethink how you want your budget allocated. Most users want to have more money allocated to hitters, so a user in a roto league with a roster that only starts C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF and seven pitchers would probably want to adjust the total budget to something like $100, with maybe $60 to hitters. In fact, I have found it much easier to use a total budget of $100 for most of my straight draft roto leagues. Unless I have a certain specific budget as set up in an auction league, this allows me to see each dollar value as a percentage of that $100 total budget, and any math I want to try to do in my head is that much easier.
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I am in a 12 team mixed league that drafts on Sunday the 5th. We will be using OBP instead of avg and QS instead of W's. Straight draft. No keepers. What should I set Disposition,Positional Adjustment, and Inflation at?
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Hill, Bloomquist eager to return from DL stints
PHOENIX -- Aaron Hill and Willie Bloomquist are waiting on the disabled list for their respective injuries to improve before taking their next steps forward in returning to the D-backs.
Hill, who suffered a broken hand on April 9 and has been on the DL since April 15, was hoping to be out of his soft cast this week but the bone was still tender when he tried to pick up a bat and doctors ordered him to keep the cast on for another week.
"Until we see it heal, we don't want to mess with it," he said. "You just feel it when you do something, but that's why they have it in a cast."
The second baseman will visit the doctor again Sunday and undergo another CT scan on Monday with the hopes of seeing enough improvement to hit off a tee at some point next week.
In the meantime, Hill is working out at the club's Spring Training facility in Scottsdale, running, keeping his footwork sharp and standing in on bullpen sessions to track pitches with his eyes.
In Bloomquist's case, the shortstop thought he was feeling good enough to play in extended spring games, but in his first at-bat on May 2, he felt some pain and has since gone back to swinging only in batting practice. The 35-year-old hasn't played since straining his oblique in the final days of Spring Training this year.
"I hadn't taken a swing with that intensity before and I wasn't ready for that type of intensity," Bloomquist said. "It was just something to let me know that I'm not ready. It wasn't a grab or pull, just a little bit of pain."
Earlier this week, D-backs manager Kirk Gibson called the incident a setback, but Bloomquist disagreed.
"I wouldn't call it that," he said. "It was the only way to find out if I was ready, I had only taken batting practice before."
Bloomquist hopes to try swinging in a game scenario again sometime next week but acknowledged that it isn't his decision.
"We're just trying to find when is the right time to try it out," he said. "It's a tough injury in the fact that it feels good to me."
Now six weeks since the initial injury, Bloomquist admitted to being frustrated with how long his recovery has taken but he said he knows players who have taken even longer.
"I was expecting to be back by now but I've talked to guys who've had similar injuries and they said it took them seven, eight, nine weeks before it felt right again," he said. "Does it make me feel better? No, but it lets me know I'm at least not behind schedule."
Tyler Emerick is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Dear Members,
The first time I read this story, I was so surprised that I too have the same feeling, I so love to look at the Buddha images/statues.My daughter bought Buddha statues from Japan/India/Phillippines for me as gifts.
The most beautiful Buddha statue at Wat Dhammabucha San Antonio,Texas:
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Vakkali: His True Love For Buddha
[Thai Dhammapada,Thai Version]
He belonged to a brahmin family of Sāvatthi and became proficient in the three Vedas. After he once saw the Buddha he could never tire of looking at him, and followed him about. In order to be closer to him he became a monk, and spent all his time, apart from meals and bathing, in contemplating the Buddha's person. One day the Buddha said to him, "Vakkali! What is there to see in this vile body? He who sees Dhamma, Vakkali, sees me; he who sees me sees Dhamma. Truly seeing Dhamma, one sees me; seeing me one sees Dhamma." . But even then Vakkali would not leave the Buddha till, on the last day of the rains, the Buddha commanded him to depart. Greatly grieved, Vakkali sought the precipices of Gijjhakūta. The Buddha, aware of this, appeared before him and uttered a stanza; then stretching out his hand, he said: "Come, monk." Filled with joy, Vakkali rose in the air pondering on the Buddha's words and realized arahantship.
The Apadāna account is similar. It says that the Buddha spoke to him from the foot of the rock. Vakkali jumped down to meet the Buddha, a depth of many cubits, but he alighted unhurt. It was on this occasion that the Buddha declared his eminence(Etadagga) among those of implicit faith(saddhādhimuttānam).
In the Pārāyanavagga the Buddha is represented as holding Vakkali up to Pingiya as an example of one who won emancipation through faith.
***His resolve to become chief among the saddhādhimuttas had been made in the time of Padumuttara Buddha, when he saw a monk also named Vakkali similarly honoured by the Buddha.
Love Buddha's dhamma,


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Guard Ricky Kreklow, who has missed the past 11 games with a broken hand, is expected to play for Cal against Stanford on Wednesday night at Haas Pavilion.
The Bears (15-7, 6-3 Pac-12) are playing their first game since knocking off top-ranked and unbeaten Arizona 60-58 on Saturday.
Kreklow hasn't played since Dec. 14 against Fresno. The 6-foot-6 junior started five of the team's first 11 games, averaging 6.4 points and 2.6 rebounds. He will come off the bench against Stanford (14-7, 5-4).
Cal beat Stanford 69-62 at Maples Pavilion to open the conference schedule. The Cardinal is coming off a 76-70 win over Arizona State, following a three-point loss to Arizona.
Florida 68, Missouri 58: Scottie Wilbekin scored 19 points, helping the No. 3 Gators (20-2, 9-0 Southeastern Conference) hold off the Tigers (16-6, 4-5) for their 14th straight win. Jabari Brown led Missouri with 15 points.
Kansas 69, Baylor 52: Naadir Tharpe scored 22 points, and the No. 8 Jayhawks (17-5, 8-1 Big 12) beat the Bears (14-8, 2-7). Andrew Wiggins overcame a slow start to score 14 points for Kansas. He didn't make his first basket until a half-court shot to beat the buzzer going into halftime.
Duke 83, Wake Forest 63: Jabari Parker had 21 points as the No. 11 Blue Devils (18-5, 7-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) routed the Demon Deacons (14-9, 4-6).
Saint Mary's: Matthew Dellavedova's jersey No. 4 will be retired before the Gaels' Feb. 15 game against BYU. Dellavedova, now a rookie with the Cleveland Cavaliers, joins Tom Meschery as the only men's basketball players whose numbers have been retired by Saint Mary's.
Connecticut 102, SMU 41: Bria Hartley scored 21 points and Breanna Stewart added 20 to lead the No. 1 Huskies (24-0, 10-0 American Athletic Conference) past the Mustangs (14-8, 5-6). It was UConn's 30th consecutive victory.
Louisville 74, UCF 59: Asia Taylor had 19 points to lead the No. 4 Cardinals (23-1, 11-0 AAC) to a win against the Knights (9-13, 2-9). Louisville plays UConn on Sunday.
Arizona State 60, Arizona 36: Katie Hempen scored 11 points, and the No. 11 Sun Devils (20-3, 9-2 Pac-12) cruised past the Wildcats (4-18, 0-11).
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As much as hope and optimism reign in the spring, not everything is hunky-dory. Every team, in fact, will be dealing with at least one concern when camps open next week.
A look at the most pressing issue for each NL club (listed in alphabetical order):
Arizona Diamondbacks: Culture shock
The D-backs essentially are beginning a new era after trading franchise cornerstones Justin Upton, Chris Young and Stephen Drew in the past seven months. Much has been made of their increased emphasis on grit and grinders, but no one knows if an attitude adjustment will result in an improvement over last season's 81-81 finish.
Atlanta Braves: Top of the order
Every position is set, as are the rotation and all the important bullpen roles. That doesn't leave manager Fredi Gonzalez with a lot to do this spring except figure out his batting order, specifically the top spot.
Rookie shortstop Andrelton Simmons has the tools to lead off, but the Braves would be wise to ease him in at the bottom of the order. Then to whom do they turn? New center fielder B.J. Upton looks like the best candidate, except his on-base percentage was a career-low .298 last season.
Chicago Cubs: Getting on base
After finishing with a .302 on-base percentage that ranked 29th in the majors last season, the Cubs signed Nate Schierholtz and Scott Hairston. Neither should be expected to help much in the OBP department since they checked in last season at .321 and .299, respectively.
Expect the focus to be on approach. New full-time hitting coach James Rowson should know about grinding out at-bats. Prior to joining the Cubs organization last year, he spent the previous six seasons working in the New York Yankees system.
Pitchers and catchers report: Reporting dates for all 30 MLB clubs
Cincinnati Reds: Aroldis Chapman
The decision whether to start Chapman or keep him as closer is one of those nice-to-have problems. If the 24-year-old lefthander's delivery and stuff hold up as a starter, the Reds will be adding the game's hardest thrower to an already deep rotation. If he falters, they simply can return him to the ninth inning, where he dominated last season.
The trick is in the timing. Cincinnati needs to make the call halfway through spring training or it risks entering the season with an unsettled pitching staff.
Colorado Rockies: The rotation
Of the slew of challenges facing rookie manager Walt Weiss in trying to right a 98-loss club, none is greater than finding five starters from a group that had only one pitcher work more than 100 innings last season and no one finish with an ERA lower than 4.43.
That is, I think Weiss is looking for five starters. After working with a four-man rotation last season, maybe the Rockies will try six starters at some point this season. The way they have been operating, who knows?
Los Angeles Dodgers: The left side of the field
Left fielder Carl Crawford is trying to bounce back from not one but two surgeries on his left arm—his elbow last summer and his wrist last spring. At shortstop, the club would prefer Hanley Ramirez to use spring training to work on his defense but he will be serving as a DH in the World Baseball Classic. The Dodgers were pleased with third baseman Luis Cruz's hitting after his call-up last season, but he has yet to play a full season in the majors.
As the club's payroll and expectations soar, so will the pressure on these three, as well as all of their teammates.
WITRADO: Camp concerns for each AL team
Miami Marlins: A frustrated slugger
If Giancarlo Stanton can stay healthy, he is as much of a lock to hit 40 homers as Justin Verlander is to pitch 200 innings. But this isn't about his production.
This is about his outlook. When the Marlins made their embarrassing salary-dump deal with the Toronto Blue Jays, Stanton didn't mind telling the world what he thought. He tweeted: "Alright, I'm pissed off!!! Plain & Simple."
Stanton's comments since have been more guarded, though he still isn't pleased and says he has yet to hear from the club's brain trust. But he knows complaining will invite more questions, and answering questions never has been his favorite part of the job.
Still, the situation in South Florida could get so ugly that Stanton could crack. He already is less than thrilled to play home games in a monstrous ballpark where there are no cheap homers. Now he'll be doing his bashing on a club pegged to lose 100 games. Plus, he has no idea if the Marlins will trade him next. And he is only 23.
Given all of this, it will be more surprising if he doesn't blast his bosses at some point.
Milwaukee Brewers: The rotation
General manager Doug Melvin has overhauled the majors' worst bullpen and, if Ryan Braun is telling the truth, the Brewers shouldn't have to worry about their lineup. The rotation is another matter. Righthander Yovani Gallardo is Milwaukee's only truly established starter.
New York Mets: A little-known outfield
Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Mike Baxter and Lucas Duda enter camp as the leading contenders, with newcomer Collin Cowgill and Jordany Valdespin also in the running. No wonder the Mets remain in the chase for Michael Bourn.
Philadelphia Phillies: Outfield production
Not long ago, the Phillies' entire outfield made the All-Star team. But their outfield no longer looks like a strength. In center, they will be no better than OK with Ben Revere, who hit .294 and stole 40 bases for the Minnesota Twins last season but has never homered in the majors and has limited experience as an everyday player. In right, they could be in trouble with Delmon Young, who is coming off offseason ankle surgery and likely won't be 100 percent for a while. Moving from left field to a spot he hasn't played since 2007 won't help his already weak defense, either.
And those are the solid spots. In left, the Phillies would like rookie Darin Ruf to win the job because of his power and because they have just about run out of hope that Domonic Brown or John Mayberry Jr. will become productive everyday players. Ruf, however, could be as defensively challenged as Young.
Pittsburgh Pirates: The ninth inning
If the Pirates could figure out a way in spring training to avoid another second-half meltdown, surely they would. But that challenge is better faced at the trading deadline. Early on, Pittsburgh should be concerned about its decision to turn over the closer job to Jason Grilli after it traded All-Star closer Joel Hanrahan.
Grilli put up strong numbers (2.91 ERA, 13.8 K/9) in a setup role last season, but the 36-year-old righthander is just 5-for-11 in save chances over a career that began in 2000. If Grilli falters, the next-best option appears to be Mark Melancon, who struggled so much with the Boston Red Sox last season that he was sent to the minors.
San Diego Padres: An early letdown
A late-summer ownership change coupled with a strong second half on the field had San Diego pumped up about 2013. But after a winter during which the Padres did nothing to improve the roster, the outlook has been deflated.
San Francisco Giants: Tim Lincecum
The Giants enter spring training on a championship high and with their roster intact from 2012. But such euphoria tends to fade as spring wears on. Lincecum's performance could determine just how quickly the mood returns to reality.
If Lincecum pitches like the two-time Cy Young Award winner he is, the Giants should be set for another championship run. But if his ERA remains at last year's ugly level (5.18), reality will set in for San Francisco.
St. Louis Cardinals: Body parts
If the condition of shortstop Rafael Furcal's elbow and lefthanded starter Jaime Garcia's shoulder prove as troubling as ace Chris Carpenter's season-ending neck and shoulder issues, St. Louis could be looking at a long summer.
Furcal's availability is particularly crucial for a club lacking depth at his position. After both Furcal and Garcia opted against surgery, they say they will be ready for opening day. Of course, Carpenter was saying the same just a few weeks ago.
Washington Nationals: Bullpen chemistry
Rafael Soriano gives the Nationals another experienced and effective arm. But did a team that already boasted two potential closers really need to spend $28 million on a third? Even Manager Davey Johnson admitted he was surprised after the club's mid-January acquisition.
With Soriano already anointed the closer, Johnson faces a couple of uncomfortable conversations with his returning relievers. Though Drew Storen and Tyler Clippard aren't the types to create a ruckus over roles, whoever has to move to the seventh inning won't be thrilled. Johnson can't get too cute fiddling with their roles, either. Bullpens work best when everyone knows his role; it is even better when everyone is happy with them.


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I think of it like this: if all you program in is Perl, and you never have to mess with Apache, MySQL, Linux, Javascript, Ruby, or PHP--then definitely go to YAPC. It's the best Perl conference there is, with a lot of great Perl content.
But if you deal with a lot of non-Perl topics, and you find them interesting, then consider coming to OSCON. We cater to that kind of diversity of interests and needs. There'll always be a better conference for every topic we cover, but those conferences only cover that


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CHECK DISTRIBUTION | Representatives of the five organizations named as beneficiaries of the 2011 Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade gather at the Round-Up Saloon to pick up checks representing their share of proceeds from the Pride parade. Dallas Tavern Guild, which puts on the parade each year, distributed checks totaling $18,700 during the guild's monthly meeting on Thursday, Dec. 1, with each beneficiary's share determined by the number of shifts each group's volunteers worked during the parade and Festival in Lee Park in September. AIDS Interfaith Network received $4,300; AIDS Arms received $3,400; AIDS Services Dallas received $2,400; Legacy Counseling Center received $1,100 and Youth First Texas received $7,500. Beneficiaries are in the front row. Tavern Guild members are behind them. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition December 9, 2011.


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There is one plant whose self-sustainability is legendary and on which you could rely, in hard times, whether you had no water, no money, or neither one. In fact, you could subsist quite well from consumption of its foliar pads and fruit.
The plant in question is prickly pear cactus and I have to thank Nick Kurek, who grows it in Granada Hills, for reminding me of its virtues. In addition to requiring zero water to grow, prickly pear cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) is highly nutritious, whether you are dining on its diced pads, which taste like tart green beans, or enjoying its fruit, whose flavor is somewhere between that of a watermelon and a kiwi.
Pads — or nopales — have noticeable spines and less conspicuous, but equally prickly, surface glochids and all must be removed prior to cooking. The ripe fruit or tunas have a fleshy, wine red skin that must be pared away prior to consumption. While you can train prickly pear cactus into a tree that will reach 15 feet in height, you can also simply let it grow and it will develop into an impenetrable security barrier around your property.
Prickly pear cactus is easily propagated by detachment of its individual pads, which are then allowed to to callous over where they were cut (usually takes about a week) before sticking them into a sandy or other fast draining soil.
"How to Grow More Vegetables" (Ten Speed Press, $30) is a set of directives that, if followed to the letter, could radically change your life.
"How To Grow More Vegetables" by John Jeavons has been translated into six languages for gardeners around the globe. It demonstrates that an average-sized front yard of 800 to 1,000 square feet can provide enough vegetables and soft fruits (strawberries and melons) to meet the yearly produce requirements of a family of four or five.
The book, now in its eighth edition, is not speculative; It is based on more than 40 years of hands-on growing and research by the author.
Reached by phone in Willits, in Northern California, Jeavons informed me that his methods are now utilized in more than 143 countries. The technique he advocates is called biointensive gardening. It combines ancient agricultural systems, from Chinese to Mayan, with two more contemporary agricultural methods: the biodynamic and French intensive techniques.
Biodynamic farming, developed by Rudolf Steiner in Europe during the 1920s, substitutes organic or natural fertilizers for synthetic, chemical ones. It demands that crops be grown in fluffy, raised beds, where water can easily penetrate and gas exchange around plant roots is maximized.
The French intensive technique was begun outside Paris in the 1890s. On manure-enriched soil, "crops were grown so close to each other that when the plants were mature, their leaves would touch," according to Jeavons' book. "The close spacing provided a mini-climate and a living mulch which reduced weed growth and helped hold moisture in the soil. During the winter, glass jars were placed over the seedlings to give them an early start. The gardeners grew up to nine crops each year." And that was in Paris, where winters are considerably colder than in Los Angeles.
It has been shown that the 322 pounds of vegetables that you consume, on average, per year, can be successfully harvested from an area as small as 100 square feet, which is about half the size of most kitchens. The secret is in the soil. Proper soil preparation will bring crops along faster and in better health than when you just dig and plant. Each year you garden in a biointensively improved bed, your yields will increase. But even if you start with only average garden soil, you should not need more than three years before you are producing 300 pounds of vegetables per 100 square feet of raised beds.
In biointensive gardening, crops are grown in raised beds 5 feet wide that are surrounded by footpaths. Narrow beds make it possible to garden without stepping on and compacting the soil; you never have to reach more than 21/2 feet to weed, hoe or harvest. Initial preparation of beds involves double digging, which entails loosening and amending the soil to a depth of two shovel blades — 20 to 24 inches below the surface.
Central to biointensive gardens is the concept of sustainability. Ultimately, little fertilizer or manure is brought in from outside to nourish crops because green manure — in the form of peas, beans, clover or vetch — is periodically grown in the beds. When turned under, green manure plants provide the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other minerals that vegetable, fruit and cereal crops require. Ideally, once sustainability is achieved, except for some occasional compost enrichment, water will be the only input brought to the garden from the outside. Everything else, from fertilizers to seeds, will be produced by the garden itself.
Jeavons emphasized that biointensive gardening is highly appropriate for the sort of drought that California experiences every few years. Growing vegetables in raised beds, as compared to conventional row planting, results in water savings of up to 75 percent, in addition to increased crop harvests.
Successful vegetable growing depends upon skillful crop rotation, with the addition of non-edible, soil-enriching cover crops such as pink clover. For example, in a four-year rotation for spring/summer crops, you could plant tomatoes in year one, corn in year two, beans in year three and zucchini in year four. You could grow all four crops every year as long as you divided your vegetable garden into four sections, making sure to rotate the crops appropriately in each section.
To enhance soil fertility, plant legumes such as red or pink clover after your squash and corn have established themselves in the garden. You can broadcast the clover seed in between the developing crops or even underneath them. After you have harvested your edibles, allow the clover to continue growing as your next crop. Three weeks before planting your fall or winter vegetable garden, cut the clover plants at ground level and work them into the earth. Clover provides nutrients, aerates the soil with its penetrating roots, and helps to keep pathogenic soil fungi at bay.
Often I hear gardeners complain that they cannot grow tomatoes anymore or that their pansies or impatiens simply will not flower like they once did. The reason for such failures is repetitive planting of the same species in the same spot, year after year. Where such monoculture exists, there is a proliferation of soil-borne fungi that are harmful to the repetitively planted species. In addition, monoculture robs the soil of plant nutrient reserves since each crop has a tendency to extract particular minerals from the earth.
For more information about area plants and gardens, go to Joshua Siskin's website at www.thesmartergardener.com. Send questions and photos to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Mr. Bush's WarNews at Home
Britain's prime and exceedingly miserable minister, Tony Blair, demanded, for one, that Hussein disown his weapons of mass destruction, however limited their geopolitical reach may be. Meanwhile, Mr. Bush is randy to procreate another generation of atomic insanity -- "mini-nukes" -- to bully any sovereign nation we choose (unless it, too, is atomically armed), and is quite willing to destroy historic alliances per Dick Cheney's macho vision, Karl Rove's political instructions, and his own creeping messianic complex.
From time to time Bush has disclosed confessionally that he is but God's instrument on Earth, destined to direct swarms of noble Christian men and women on a victorious Holy Crusade against the heathen Hussein. His eyes are fixated, dilated and glazed. Not a dram of reason can invade his mind; he is utterly tuned out. And it's noticeable, not only to his critics who populate most of the planet, but to his friends as well. As Paul Krugman reported -- not editorialized -- last Friday, "more people than you would think" from Defense, State, and Treasury "don't just question the competence of Mr. Bush and his inner circle; they believe that America's leadership has lost touch with reality."
There is a clinical term for this: psychosis.
So who is the more reckless kingpin? Bush or Hussein? After all that contemporary America has been through, it is a wretched thing that this could even be a valid question. Nevertheless by nearly anyone's standard of objectivity, valid it is.
Say what you will about sadistic Saddam, but this secularist born to dirt-poor farmers has managed to hold together opposing and hostile religious tribes as a nation and successfully thumb his nose at the world's only superpower for 12 years. Virtually everyone rides the hate-Hussein bandwagon with prodigious cause; still, you've got to admit his history demonstrates he has remarkable skill. Fundamentalist Bush, on the other hand, has managed in only 17 months to fracture domestic secular interests and turn the world's majority against us, thereby squandering unprecedented heights of domestic and international good will. That also requires skill, though of a different sort.
Is all this merely the result of dumb luck or bad fortune? Or maybe those Iraqi "liars and propagandists" poisoning the universal mind, as Ari Fleischer prefers to propagandize? Or is it, simply, good and bad judgment that comes into play? As you ponder the twosome's comparative recklessness, keep in mind these are not trick questions. Nor, for sure, are they laughing matters. Both Bush and Hussein scoff at accountability; both detest scrutiny; both demand blind loyalty -- and most horrifying, both have a groove on for brinkmanship and friends of at least one believe their man "has lost touch with reality."
In those extraordinarily rare public moments when Bush is expected to answer a question, he comes across as defensive, cocky and paranoid, all at once. In a commander in chief these qualities are more than just sad -- they're scary. In a commander in chief licensed to more weapons of mass destruction than any competing psychotic dictator could dream of, they are downright terrifying.
Add to this uneasy mixture the thought that throughout his comfortable life Mr. Bush has demonstrated a distinct, almost pathological indifference, if not hostility, to things of the mind. He had available the best educational opportunities to learn and grow, but chose to remain intellectually adolescent. And like many adolescents, with none of the requisite learning he haughtily professes all the answers.
Willfully ignorant, messianic, cocky, reckless, defensive, paranoid, out of touch with reality and in singular command of the world's greatest WMD machine.
Sleep well tonight.
Perhaps you'll dream about the constitution's 25th Amendment, Section 4, kicking
in. The downside, though, will be the immediately following nightmare with Dick
Cheney announcing the good news.
© Copyright 2003 P. M. Carpenter
Mr. Carpenter's column is published weekly by History News Network and buzzflash.com.
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Bob Jones - 7/19/2004
get a fuckin life you fuckin idiot,,,,PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAKE ME FUCKIN SICK
Jack Dempsey - 11/26/2003
What ever you may think of this nations,international trade laws,please ponder this:Low & fixed income seniors will soon be forbiden to buy perscription drugs in Canada,@ 1/3 the cost here in the U.S.A. Why then,are the lower,& middle class excluded from enjoying the free trade laws,that this administration,along with Wal Mart,General Motors,etc.have fought & died for.
Tom Gorman - 11/12/2003
Dear writer,
it is you who is the prized idiot, you have no idea what a stalinist is nor do you have any conception of the use of the word, in plain and simple terms, you are of extremely limited mental capacity and ingrained US idiot who cannot see the wood for the trees, often we say the country deserves the politician it get's.
Libertarian Larry - 3/25/2003
Thank you for your response with reasonable questions.
First, I do support the president's efforts (and so has congress) to defend the country. Defence is one of the few things allowed for in our Constitution. Realizing after 9/11 that the world has changed so much that real threats to our country can come from all over the world in many forms. If most of the world had our Constitutional form of government, then non-interventionism works. However, most of the world does not enjoy our form of government and the "outside" world is dangerous, it's like being in the wild, so we must be interventionist in some ways. When Clinton was being interventionist, I did not like it, however, the congress went along with him. I would prefer the world enbrace our Constitution and then reducing the threats to our country. I think that when the world sees our educational institutions, media, and many powerful politicians knock our country, attack it and blame America for the world problems, it refelcts badly on our country.
I don't buy the case that Saddam was brought to power by us and supported by us. Look at what their military is! It's all Soviet!, They have AK-47s, not M1-16s, they have T-72 tanks, not M1 Abrams, MIGs not F-18s, BMPs- not Bradleys, and Scuds. You don't seem to know the historical context in which we aided in minimal ways and complicity. At the time Iran and Iraq were at war, there was a greater threat to the world, the Soviet Union. Iran was also in control of Mulsem extremeists like the ones who have declared war on us. Our aid only kept them from loosing to Iran, the Soviet Union is really responsible for Saddam's army. Aparently the Russians contiune to help Iraq's army even with "Sancations".
What bothers me more about President Bushes spending, it money for a Perscription drug program, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Commerce, government retirement program (SSI), government health insurance (medicare), high taxes, taxes on dividends, support of government mass transit systems, government aid to the poor (any aid to illegal aliens). None of these things are in the constitution.
John Kipper - 3/25/2003
As a semi-regular reader of these posts, I have usually agreed your arguements, if not always with your articualtion of them. But this time you hit a grand slam! What an absolutely perfect squelch of this self-righteously vicious ass. Thanks for making my day.
Derek Catsam - 3/24/2003
Ahh, yeah -- that I agree with, though it was certainly not clear from your original point. Much of the anti-war critique (though why the anti-war crowd is being tarred as simply 'left" is beyond me) has been very slippery -- when their cocerns are addressed they come up with a whole new slew of criticisms that somehow were not even on the radar earlier. But they are playing a dangerous game with the korea situation -- they would reveal themselves to be rather intellectually naked if Bush got up andsai, "you know, the demonstrators are right when they ask 'why Iraq and not N. Korea.' The invasion of North Korea thus begins tomorrow."
David Donaldson - 3/23/2003
If supporting international diplomacy, the United Nations, the Kyoto protocol, the World Court, the Nobel Peace Prize committee, and the putting on trial of Milosevic is "isolationist", then maybe the warmongering chickenhawk Project for a New American Century and their wimpy apologists here are giving us a new dictionary, in addition to trashing 200 years of American democratic traditions.
It won't be hard to translate though. Just remember: President Bush "doesn't do nation-building", the second Security Council resolution vote "WILL take place" (Ari Fleischer), and Ariel Sharon is a "man of peace."
Herodotus - 3/23/2003
No, it's that if the Bush administration turns to North Korea after Iraq, it is not inconceivable that many of those who suggested that North Korea was a greater threat than Iraq and ought to be dealt with first will not hold to their position and be supportive of an activist policy against North Korea.
It's a bit like saying you support X rather than Y when in reality you don't support either, but want to weaken the chances that either would come to pass.
And it has gone quietly unnoticed that the position that the U.S. has maintained on the North Korean situation is that of a multilateral solution through the UN, and that the IAEA has indeed referred the matter to the Security Council. A move which the North Koreans, incidentally, pronounced 'tantamount to a declaration of war.'
Derek Catsam - 3/23/2003
So what of individuals and entities that support war in Iraq but not North Korea? Is that "isolationist prattle wrapped in faux liberal terminology?" Or is it just possible that North Korea, right now, is not a fight we are prepared for? Is it really isolationist not to want to fight a three front war? Is it really isolationist to recognize that the North Jorean soldiers lined up on the 38th parallel might pose a wee bit of a sticking poiunt to any action on our part? Is it really prattle to think that China just might play a role in considerations to oppose war in North Korea now or in the near future?
Herodotus - 3/23/2003
Somehow I get the sense that when the U.S. turns to dealing with North Korea you'll be opposing that too. We're getting tired of this isolationist prattle wrapped in faux liberal terminology.
Lt. Q - 3/22/2003
TK, Your implied theory about 1980 suggests a level of intelligence in a former B-movie actor beyond that displayed during his official careers.
Iran IS in the "axis of evil" (an absurd verbal concotion which makes even less sense now that we are doing what they wasted hundreds of thousands of soldiers' lives trying but failing to do in the 1980s) and it has nuclear ambitions, but it has not been defying UN disarmament resolutions for 12 years, so plausible and consistent pretexts are not readily obvious.
Tom Kellum - 3/22/2003
Did you intentionally leave out the next "villain" on the hit list? That would be Iran.
The only reason why Iran may be spared is because of the important role it played in the 1980 U.S. Presidential election.
Libertarian Larry - 3/22/2003
Arch did review the "Article", with as much dignity that it deserves. He just cut the crap and got right down to what it's really about.
Carpenter's "Mr. Bush's War" is not an article, it's an editorial. As such it doesn't need to bother with facts, just empty accusations and hateful comments.
Are you guys all history profs? I'd like to know where so I make sure my kids don't go to those colleges.
T. Herzl - 3/22/2003
Larry, your irrelevant remarks are difficult to fathom.
What part of your libertarianism explains your support for a president who is spending hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars to depose a Mideast dictator whose party was brought into power and later supported by billions of (mostly off-budget) American taxpayer dollars ?
Lieutenant Quentin - 3/22/2003
Interesting possibility, but not likely. What the "Project for a New American Century" and their ilk lack (besides common sense, a knowledge of history and moral scruples) is credibility. Finally "getting" the current bad guys is called for now in their script. The entertainment media can hardly wait. Creating replacements for today's villains is no problem, its being done right now in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt as a little collateral side effect of this war and the associated efforts to gradually turn America into a kind of Likud-Israel writ large. Meanwhile, there's the Korean peninsula.
Libertarian Larry - 3/22/2003
Jeez, if President Bush is a "Pretzelbrain" with a MBA from Yale, then what is Gore, a "Moron", village "Idiot", "Shit for brains"? I thought Gore was just a college drop-out and George Bush was President of the United States.
That's the thing with the left, when you confronted with facts, respond with hate and emotion.
Why do you hate the President and Jews so much?
Tom Kellum - 3/22/2003
Thank you, Lieutenant Quentin.
Couldn't have said it better, myself. If I could have, and had thought to, I would have.
Just one tiny point, though: do you really think SH and OBL are going to take a hit? I know that RR's boys killed Ghadaffi's little girl, but I'm not sure but what SH & OBL might be more valuable to the Bunnypants crowd alive, rather than the alternative.
Clio - 3/22/2003
Guess again
Lieutenant Quentin - 3/22/2003
The American soldiers, Marines, marines, marinheiros, unspecial forces and their "embedded"see-nothing, hear-nothing, report-nothing entourage in the Mideast are not working for Haliburton or any other corrupt profiteer. They HAVE BEEN shipped off to fight in a hypocritical war which an incompetent president has blundered into. We are going to take out Saddam and maybe Osama, both of whom we helped create, and, in the process, create dozens of new Osamas and possibly a few new Saddams to boot, by stomping around arrogantly, clumsily, in defiance of American values and American traditions, without our oldest ally and without international sympathy. Lafayette, forgive us.
And poppies will grow in Flanders.
Bill Heuisler - 3/21/2003
In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Bill Heuisler - 3/21/2003
Mr. McRae,
Thank you for the recognition. I risked my life for Halliburton in the Sixties, before they existed. Prescient, huh? They won't let me reenlist now, but it's nice to know there are Americans like you and Mr. Kellum who appreciate our service anyway.
By the way, when you type, Marines, use a capital letter.
Bill Heuisler
Steven Muller - 3/21/2003
Yes, it's telling when HNN has to put at the top of the main page that they have articles from both the right and the left. Isn't the point of the website to have articles from the HISTORICAL side, not each of the two political sides?
John McRae - 3/21/2003
Eminent scholars ?
On THIS website ?? !!
Really, Mr. Kellum, you should not be making sick jokes at a time when brave marines like Bill Heuisler are risking their lives for Halliburton and the Project for a New American Century.
Richard Kurdlion - 3/21/2003
Watch and hear Perle, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Sharon, compare them to George Pretzelbrain Bush, and then ask yourself who is really running this show, which could not be launched until after Labor Day, and which, 12 years after Papa Bush pulled down the curtain on it, could not be postponed even a more few months to allow Blix, Annan, and world public opinion a chance to decode the confused, bumbling belligerence coming out of Washington and Jerusalem.
Suetonius - 3/21/2003
For the Editors: do you pay Mr. Carpenter for this pieces?
dan - 3/21/2003
Good title; self-reference is usually the most accurate.
Disconnected fundamentalist religious fanaticism is the same, whether it is based on the christian or the muslim name for P R and recruitment purposes. None of it is based on the underlying religious texts nor on any reasonable interpretation thereof.
Religious fundamentalism, per se, is not bad. There are several excellent examples of principled religious fundamentalist life in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. You will notice exactly how many people they threaten each year.
dan - 3/21/2003
So that's why you didn't review the articel!
Joshua Edlin - 3/21/2003
The article's substance can't be refuted; it has no substance.
Carpenter makes one biased, unproven claim after another. The essence of the article states that Bush has a messianic, psychotic mindset. Of course, this is pure opinion and not a popular opinion at that.
Carpenter litters his arguments with personal attacks such as describing Tony Blair as "Britain's prime and exceedingly miserable minister" and Bush as "Willfully ignorant, messianic, cocky, reckless, defensive, paranoid, out of touch with reality." He accuses Ari Fleischer of spreading propoganda. He claims Bush has a "pathological indifference, if not hostility, to things of the mind" and calls him "intellectually adolescent". Clearly these are personal attacks that demonstrate Carpenter's inability to separate his personal biases from the facts at hand.
In fact, Carpenter presents very few facts in this attack piece. The only facts I can see are the headline of a New York Times articles, a demand made by Tony Blair of Hussein, the fact that Paul Krugman made some negative comments, and the comment that the U.S. has more WMDs than any "competing psychotic dictator".
This hardly counts as substance. Carpenter repeatedly proves that his comments have no relevance in history or politics. HNN should be ashamed to call him a regular columnist.
Tom Kellum - 3/20/2003
You must be very surprised that none of the eminent scholars here have been able or willing to engage you on the substance of your commentary.
It is a testament to the power of your logic that their only response has been mainly of the ad hominem variety.
E. A. Blair - 3/19/2003
Carpenter's screed is in the great tradition of Stalinist demagoguery. Never mind Saddam's methods, it's the results that count and he has done a wonderful job of keeping his country together. How many countries does it take to satisfy Mr Carpenter and others of his ilk? The UK, Australia, Japan, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark and the new European democracies, including the only Muslin country in Europe, are all on our side. Soon Carpenter will have one less dictator to fawn over, but I am sure we can expect future columns to contain glowing accounts of the wonderful utopia that exists in North Korea. I'll bet he played "Gulag" as a kid.
Bill Heuisler - 3/18/2003
Willfully ignorant people eventually reveal flaccid mentality through stupid - and revealing - mistakes.
HNN's in-house fool wrote, "As Paul Klugman reported -- not editorialized -- last Friday, "more people than you would think" from Defense, State, and Treasury "don't just question the competence of Mr. Bush and his inner circle; they believe that America's leadership has lost touch with reality."
He then accused the U.S. President of psychosis.
Paul Klugman didn't report anything. James Klugman once wrote a 218 page piece of trash called "The Future of Man" published by the Communist Party of Great Britain. This poor HNN scribbler probably keeps the out-of-print Communist screed by his bed. Paul Krugman (with an R) might have written a highly insulting piece on our president, but HNN's sloppy house jester can't piggy-back properly or separate fantasies from reality.
Freudian? You bet.
Bill Heuisler
An Informed Herodotus - 3/18/2003
My dear Mr. Ersatz Herodotus. You haven't even bothered to read section 4 of the 25th Amendment, which has absolutely nothing to do with a president's death. What is most "offensive" is that you label a comment "treasonous" without having the foggiest notion of its constitutional foundation.
Please change your handle to Limbaugh or Fleischer. Either would be much more suiting and intellectually consistent.
Arch Stanton - 3/18/2003
I hate Bush. I really hate Bush. I really, really hate Bush. Let me tell you how much I hate Bush. Let me tell you some more about how much I hate Bush. Wait, don't go away, I'm not done telling you how much I hate Bush. I like talking. I like hearing myself talk. Yawn.
Stephen - 3/18/2003
Mr. Carpenter is an ignorant fool. Let's be blunt.
For years, it's become obvious that the Stalinist view of the religious faithful has been adopted by the western left. The argument is that the western left is "scientific" and therefore not simply crazy in the way that the Stalinists were. The leftist hatred of religion is, thus, rational.
I do not think that this is true. Mr. Carpenter is a closet Stalinist. The anti-religious crusade he is part of is cut from the same cloth as the Stalinists.
It isn't Prez Bush who's a woeful idiot. Mr. Carpenter is an idiot of catastrophic proportions -- the useful idiot so prized by the Leninists. Carpenter missed the primary lessons of the 20th century, and he wants to paint others as ignorant. Who helps you stick your feet through the holes in your jockey shorts in the morning, you moron?
Just for those of you who will write that I engage in little more than phony psychotherapy from a distance and name calling -- that is precisely what this idiot has done.
Herodotus - 3/18/2003
Mr. Carpenter's ridiculing of evangelical Christianity is offensive. He has a right to say it, but does HNN stand behind it?
And hoping that President Bush will die is treasonous.
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I'm good and I think MR is too but I think tbaby didn't get who he picked.
I don't want West or Gasol so I'll figure out who I want but I won't make a pick until you give me the go-ahead - right now Billups is still out there and David West isn't. Lemme know in this thread when you're ready for me to make my pick.
If we're lucky the site will fix itself.


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Because calcium plays an important role in stabilizing the permeability of cell membranes to sodium, hypocalcemia can cause progressive excitation of the nervous system.4,10 Calcium is also essential for normal contraction of skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle.7,11 Additionally, precise control of the serum ionized calcium concentration is critical because of calcium's role as an intracellular second messenger, in regulating mitochondrial metabolism, and as a cofactor in the coagulation cascade.4,11
Parathyroid hormone
The only biologically active product of the parathyroid glands is PTH, which is produced by specialized cells called chief cells.1,7 The other cell type in the gland, the oxyphil cell, is rare in carnivores and produces no known active substance.7,12 A pair of parathyroid glands are in close association with each thyroid gland.1,2 In cats, half of each parathyroid pair is embedded within the capsule of the thyroid gland or within the thyroid gland itself.12
PTH is first formed as a preprohormone on the ribosomes of the chief cells.7,9 Within the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus, the molecule is cleaved sequentially to the prohormone and then to PTH.7,9 PTH is subsequently packaged into secretory granules within the cytoplasm.7 Within the chief cells of the parathyroid gland, a calcium-sensing receptor enables the chief cells to act as sensors of the extracellular calcium concentration.9 The serum ionized calcium provides proportional feedback, inhibiting or stimulating the release of PTH.1,2,7,9,12 Although less physiologically important, calcitriol also inhibits the production and release of PTH.9


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Family, friends form 'Faces for Change' after bullied teen's death
LA GRANDE, Ore. - Jadin Bell was a teenager pushed to despair and now there is an effort to turn his short life into a life-changing movement for others.
In January, 15-year-old Jadin Bell tried to hang himself at an elementary school playground in La Grande, Ore. Someone passing by tried to rescue Bell but the young man died weeks later at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland when he was taken off life support.
Bell's family said the teenager, who was gay, was pushed to suicide after being bullied both in person and on the Internet.
The young man's uncle, Bud Hill, said the family was very supportive of Bell's sexual orientation but classmates called him names. Hill said the teenager had complained about the bullying to a school counselor.
Following what happened, those who knew and loved Bell are trying to take on bullying in his name.
"It just puzzles me that somebody that had such a huge heart as he did could be ridiculed and brought down to the point that he did what he did," Hill said.
Hill, along with Heather Martin, a concerned mother, are among the founding members of Faces for Change. Their foundation's mission is to take on bullying in Bell's name.
On Monday, one of their first acts as a group was completed. They sponsored a motivational speaker, Jeremy Arno, and he talked to the student body at La Grande High School about the ups and downs of life.
Meanwhile, Bell's family is dealing with how to move forward.
For the boy's father, it means a journey - a long one. Joe Bell is planning to leave Saturday to walk across the country and share what happened to his son with whoever will listen. He is bound for New York City, which is where his son wanted to live after he graduated from high school.
"He just felt he had to do something for his self healing," Hill said. "You know, he's hurting pretty bad with the loss of his son."
This is a symbolic week for the anti-bullying effort. The national Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network is calling for a National Day of Silence this Friday. They are asking students across the country to observe a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of bullying and harassment.


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I'm a long time Colts fan since they moved to Indy in my childhood, but the Bolts have always been my second favorite team since Dan Fouts and Air Coryell, and they remain so. Since the Chargers were the early odds makers favorite to win next years Super Bowl, and along with New England are our 2 biggest threats to make it back the championship, I wanted to start something about who they are considering to replace Marty.
I'm hearing some of the candidates mentioned, like Ron Rivera, Mike Singletary (whom I love), Norv Turner, Rex Ryan, and others, and it seems to me that all of these guys would seem to me to be a downgrade likely of who they already had, and basically just a group of guys already rejected by Dallas and other teams. With that in mind I have another candidate for the Chargers, and I'm seeking public opinion.
Ralph Friedgen, Head Coach of University of Maryland.
In my view Friedgen may be the best coach not currently in the NFL, and the one who as a Colts fan might scare me the most that they'd hire. He was the Chargers offensive coordinator when they went to the Super Bowl in the mid nineties. He has won at whatever stops he has been at. He took over a horrible program at Maryland and has taken them to numerous bowls, including a few on New Years Day. He was Merriman's college coach and likely has a solid relationship with him I would assume. He has history with the city and with Dean Spanos. As scary as this seems, the Charger offense would likely be better with him running it. Friedgen also wouldnt likely have issues with AJ Smith helping name and choose his assistants, and would likely come cheap for them to hire.
Now, they arnt likely to hire or even interview Friedgen, so we dont have to worry much about him most likely. The question I pose is this: As a Colts fan first (therefore wanting San Diego to screw this up) who should I be rooting for them to hire?


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PepsiCo Inc., the brand behind the cupboard favorites Cheetos and Doritos, is expanding its product range from the pantry to the refrigerator. This time, it includes yogurt.
In a move announced on Monday, the New York-based company will soon be rolling out a new line of yogurt thanks to a partnership with Theo Muller Group, the largest privately held dairy business in Germany. Their joint venture, called Muller Quaker Dairy, will introduce premium yogurt products to the Northeast and Mid Atlantic states later this month.
According to the Associated Press, the move will help the company capitalize on Americans' growing appetite for yogurt.
Some of the new yogurt flavors, including "Choco Balls" and "Chocolate Flakes," straddle the line between "good-for-your" and the "fun-for-you" foods PepsiCo is known for. Other yogurt flavors side more with healthy options, including traditional flavors, Greek-style and mixed-fruit varieties. PepsiCo did not report the caloric range of their new yogurt products ,but said that they would be comparable to other yogurts on the market.
The yogurt will be sold under the product name Muller Quaker Dairy.
The U.S. yogurt market is expected to reach $9 billion by 2016, doubling what it was in 2008.
"As we've seen through the success of our dairy business in other parts of the world, this is a category with strong growth prospects," Mehmood Khan, PepsiCo chief scientific officer, global research & development, said in a news release.
While this is PepsiCo's first step into the yogurt market, this isn't the company's first investment in the dairy industry. The company acquired Wimm-Bill-Dann, Russia's largest dairy company, in 2011 and has been part of a successful joint venture with Almarai, Saudi Arabia's largest dairy company, since 2009.


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Safety and Efficacy of Therapeutic INduced HYPERTENSION in Acute Non-cardioembolic Ischemic Stroke (SETIN-HYPERTENSION)
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified April 2017 by Oh Young Bang, Samsung Medical Center
Samsung Medical Center
Inje University
Gyeongsang National University Hospital
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center
Yeungnam University Hospital
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Oh Young Bang, Samsung Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: May 13, 2012
Last updated: April 24, 2017
Last verified: April 2017
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Detailed Description:
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the induced hypertension using phenylephrine in patients with noncardioembolic ischemic stroke.
The investigators hypothesized that phenylephrine induced-hypertension can result in good clinical response without serious complications in patients with noncardioembolic ischemic stroke.
|Stroke, Acute Progressing Stroke
|Drug: Phenylephrine
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Safety and Efficacy of Therapeutic Induced Hypertension in Patients With Acute Non-cardioembolic Ischemic Stroke: A Multicenter, Randomized, Open Label, Prospective, Phase 3 Study
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Drug Information available for: Phenylephrine Phenylephrine hydrochloride Oxymetazoline Oxymetazoline hydrochlorideU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Oh Young Bang, Samsung Medical Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Primary outcome [ Time Frame: Day 0 and Day 7 ]2 points improvement in NIH stroke scale (NIHSS) between days 0 and 7
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Secondary efficacy outcome [ Time Frame: Day 90 for 1, 2 and Day 7 for 3 ]
- modified Rankin scale (mRS)≤ 2 at day 90
- modified Bathel index (mBI)≥ 90 at day 90
- Infarct growth or new ischemic lesion on follow-up MRI
- Major safety outcome [ Time Frame: From date of randomization until the date of first documented progression by intracranial hemorrhage or cerebral edema, date of myocardial infarction, or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 3 months ]
- Symptom aggravation by intracranial hemorrhage or cerebral edema (Clinical deterioration causing an increase in the NIHSS score of more than or equal to 4 points and if the hemorrhage or edema was liley to be the cause of the clinical deterioration)
- Myocardial infarction
- death from any cause
- Minor safety outcome [ Time Frame: From date of randomization until the date of first documented intracranial hemorrhage on follow-up MRI, or date of first documented side effects, whichever came first, assessed up to 3 months ]
- Intracranial hemorrhage on follow-up MRI
- Side effects including headache, arrhythmia, chest pain, dysuria, or gastrointestinal hemorrhage
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|June 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Phenylephrine
Phenylephrine induced-hypertension arm
Drug: Phenylephrine
Phenylephrine (0.12mg/mL) Starting dose: 10cc/hr Titration: increase 10cc/hr every 30-60min, maximum 160cc/hr rate: increase systolic blood pressure (SBP) 10-25mmHg /hr Target: initially 20% increase of initial SBP, up to improving NIHSS score or SBP 200mmHg
No Intervention: Conventional treatment
Control arm
Detailed Description:
See below
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with acute ischemic stroke confirmed by diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) performed within 24 hours of symptom onset or symptom worsening(defined by a 2-point or more increase in NIH stroke scale (NIHSS)score including one or more increase in the motor score of affected upper and lower limbs in NIHSS during hospitalization or clear history of symptom worsening judged by investigator before hospitalization) confirmed by DWI performed within 24 hours of aggravation.
- Baseline NIHSS score 4-18 points
- Alert mental status
- Newly developed paresis, aphasia, or neglect
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients underwent recanalization therapy
- Systolic blood pressure >170 mmHg at baseline
- Patients with history or at risk of hemorrhagic stroke
- History of significant arrhythmia (e.g. atrial fibrillation)
- Unable to perform MRI scans or undergo MRI scans > 24 hours of symptom onset or progression
- Large cortical infarction on DWI (more than 1/2 of middle cerebral artery territory)
- 3 or more cortical microbleeds on gradient-echo MRI
- Coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Anticoagulation therapy (phenylephrine group only)
- Patients with high-risk cardioembolic sources
- Cervical or cerebral artery dissection or unruptured aortic/cerebral arterial aneurysm
- Decreased consciousness
- Pregnant or Lactating patient
- Seizure at stroke onset
- Life expectancy < 6 months
- Pre-stroke modified Rankin scale (mRS) >= 2
- Patients without informed consent
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01600235
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01600235
|Contact: Oh Young Bang, MD
|Contact: Mi Hyun Seo, RN
|Korea, Republic of
|Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
|Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 135710
|Contact: Suk Jae Kim, MD 82234101895 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Oh Young Bang, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Kwang Ho Lee, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Chin-Sang Chung, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Gyeong-Moon Kim, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Sung-Ji Park, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Suk Jae Kim, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Sookyung Ryoo, MD
Sponsors and Collaborators
Samsung Medical Center
Inje University
Gyeongsang National University Hospital
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center
Yeungnam University Hospital
|Principal Investigator:
|Oh Young Bang, MD
|Samsung Medical Center
More Information
Keywords provided by Oh Young Bang, Samsung Medical Center:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Oh Young Bang, Associate Professor, Samsung Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01600235 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 13, 2012
|Last Updated:
|April 24, 2017
Keywords provided by Oh Young Bang, Samsung Medical Center:
Stroke, ischemic
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Cerebrovascular Disorders
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Cardiotonic Agents
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Vasoconstrictor Agents
Nasal Decongestants
Respiratory System Agents
Adrenergic alpha-1 Receptor Agonists
Adrenergic alpha-Agonists
Adrenergic Agonists
Adrenergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Protective Agents
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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So this has been in my head for quite a while and I wanted to start a thread that we can throw around ideas about building a diesel boat. Please feel free to chime in as this is something new to me and I have limited knowledge about diesel engines. Any diesel techs on this forum?
This is what I am thinking as far as a start point on the fantasy build
Saltere or Pirata I am also looking for a totally wrecked pirata for less than 1k
1:1 walter v drive
I have no clue on a trany please chime in
Engine Im thinking something out of a wrecked truck I have been thinking that v8 chevy or 6cyl isuzu would be the best. I think fords are a bit on the heavy side and the cumins out of the dodge would be hard to mate with the trany. What do you guys think?
The idea for this is to cost less than 10k total and to run all day at 25mph or less with 1k of ballast on lets say less than 10 gal of fuel do you think its possible?


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But even when Pagano returned to the sidelines at the end of the 2012 season, he looked understandably fatigued.
Six weeks later, scouting the NFL Combine for new players, the September Pagano was back in the house.
"I don't know if I'll ever be the same," Pagano said. "I feel pretty normal now, as far as going through the normal stuff a football coach goes through day in and day out. Whether I'll ever be exactly the same, I don't think it'll ever be that way. But I feel good and most of that is behind me and I feel good about where I'm at."
Asked if his doctors had any specific restrictions about attacking his job again, Pagano turned mischievous.
"Very little media obligations…" he said, joking.
The NFL Combine is a time for looking at the future, picking out which players have the goods to be drafted, to fill a slot, to help a team become more of a contender. It's fitting, in a way, to see Pagano where he is now, looking to the future.
He'll talk about the past, the cancer fight. He'll marvel at how his team reacted, winning more games than they had a right to. He'll wax a little melancholy, wishing Bruce Arians was still wearing the horseshoe, figuring out which players would make Andrew Luck more effective. But Pagano's absence catapulted Arians to head coach at Arizona, another example of good rising out of a bad situation.
Pagano is very much about the future, even as he knows the cancer's remission requires periodic checks to make sure it remains so.
"I still have a process to go through," Pagano said, pointing to his regular medication and periodic checks.
He needs five years of remission for a full bill of health.
Five years can be an eternity in NFL coaching.
"After you're in remission five years, they give you a certificate and a badge and send you walking," Pagano said.
He's walking already, of course. Pagano recognizes the standard the Colts set in his truncated Year One, winning 11 games, making the playoffs, establishing a young offense capable of big things. He said he's excited about Pep Hamilton taking over as offensive coordinator. Hamilton will change some things up – Pagano said the Colts have no plans of giving out all the secrets – as he installs more of a West Coast style offense. Hamilton worked with Luck at Stanford. They worked well together.
Pagano and Colts general manager Ryan Grigson are doing their due diligence at the combine, interviewing players, analyzing data and trying to decipher needs in the draft. There's an upcoming stretch of free agency that will play a part, of course. Will the Colts pursue players such as Ed Reed, a long-time friend of Pagano?
Not shy about one area, Pagano said signing Colts free agent punter Pat McAfee is a high priority.
That's the type of candor that Pagano brought with him when he took the job. It was a sharp departure from the previous front office directed by the guarded (to put it mildly) Bill Polian and coach Jim Caldwell. Arians, of course, made transparency a part of his routine as interim coach.
Many pointed out that Arians' everyday approach was intended to fulfill Pagano's previously set mission. That upbeat, positive approach – even though Arians could be quite abrupt when necessary – was another aspect of the Pagano style.
The players responded to Pagano's style via Arians' surrogate coaching.
"From Day One, they bought into what our plan was, what our vision was," Pagano said. "Look at the first game I was away, they came back from a 21-3 deficit to upset Green Bay at home. Then they had a devastating loss and came back and never lost two games in a row. Resiliency. Perseverance."
Pagano is nothing if not resilient. Perseverance might as well be his middle name.
Friday afternoon, walking through Lucas Oil Stadium, shaking hands, making people feel at ease. That's the Pagano from a year ago. It's good to see him back.


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Coordinator of the African and African American Studies Program
African and African American studies offers students the opportunity to examine the contributions of Africa and the Black Diaspora to the global community. By choosing relevant courses, students can add an understanding of African and African diaspora literature, customs, history, politics, and economics to their studies in other disciplines.
Students who complete the African And African American studies minor learn the role that the people of Africa have played in countries all over the world. People of African descent live not only in the United States, but also in Canada, the Caribbean islands, Europe and South America. Brazil, for example, is home to more people of African descent than the United States.
This minor focuses on Africana studies, which includes the study of African, African American, and Caribbean people and their impact on a broad range of disciplines, including but not limited to, anthropology, art, history, culture, language and literature, political science, sociology, and women's studies.


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It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead.
When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop.
But Vianne is completely unprepared for what she finds there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint tea, and there, on the bank of the river Tannes, facing the square little tower of the church of Saint-Jerôme like a piece on a chessboard - slender, bone-white and crowned with a silver crescent moon - a minaret.
Nor is it only the incomers from North Africa that have brought big changes to the community. Father Reynaud, Vianne's erstwhile adversary, is now disgraced and under threat. Could it be that Vianne is the only one who can save him?
©2012 Frogspawn (P)2012 Random House AudioGO
Wife, mother, nanna, part time actor, avid reader, world traveller, golfer, bridge player, lover of life.
"Vianne Never Stays Long Enough"
As always Joanne Harris delivers yet another spellbinding tale from Lansquenet and so a must for all of those who have followed Vianne Rocher and her family through the trilogy.
I always adore the way Joanne Harris weaves her spell in the way she write her stories.
Vianne and the children by Rula and Monsieur le Cure by Gareth Armstrong
When the veil was removed for the first time and the story is behind that veil revealed.
I thoroughly enjoyed hearing this book. The story brings a thousand different images through Joanne Harris' superb ability to capture her readers in a web of intrigue. The smells, colours and characters are seen in the eye of the mind so clearly that again I felt transported to France. I only wish I could visit that wonderful fictitious town known as Lansquenet and visit the Chocolaterie. Perhaps another movie on the way, I hope so.
"Intriguing …… the best yet!"
This is Joanne Harris's best yet. I have read most of her books and enjoy her writing but this one surprised me I could not have predicted the twists in this story. It was a terrific sequel to Chocolat and I hope there will be more to come. Highly recommended.
Joanne Harris hasn't let us down. Loved this book as much as her others. Beautifully written, I feel like I am dreaming when I read/listen to her stories.
I found the voices difficult to distinguish at first. I prefer audiobooks that use different actors for all the different characters.
"Delightful and delicious"
Vivid, entertaining and enlightening.
When they picked the first peaches - I could almost taste them!
When the cure was giving confession through his letter box. I also liked spending time in the kitchen with the Muslim women.
I liked having the time to digest each chapter without having to rush through to the next. Having said that I couldn't wait for my journey to continue so I coulod listen to the next bit of the story.
I enjoyed this reading as the two voices brought the characters to life.
"A wonderful further chapter in the Chocolat saga"
Intriguing, riveting, familiar
That Joanne Harris had maintained the same familiar characters but brought it up to date by introducing a whole load of immigrants with very familiar culture and how that culture was received by the small remote French village.
No, I had not listened to others of their performances but I was very impressed with their rendition of this book. Both gave remarkable performances.
I would never attempt to rename an author's work.
"Well worth the listen"
This novel is a really good listen - the descriptions are colourful and evocative, and the mystery at the heart of the novel remains tantalising to the last. Initially Rula Lenska's narration seemed at odds with the youth of Vianne, but the range of her voice in creating the different characters compensated. Her co-narrator as M Le Cure was perfect. Very enjoyable and a great antidote to chilly British weather.
"Good, but weaker than the Lollipop Shoes"
Below Chocolat and the Lollipop Shoes, but definitily above the Holy Fools and Sleep, Pale Sister
The Performance of Gareth Armstrong as Francis Raynaud is awesome.
"Great third book in the series"
This is the third book by Joanne Harris in the series starting with Chocolat, then The Lollipop Shoes. I had read the first two a while ago before listening to the audiobooks, but this one I only have in audio form.
All three books are very good reads and listens to and are stand alone stories but
I think it helps to listen to them in order, like most series.
Another good story from Joanne Harris and very well read.
"Peaches for Monsieur le Cure by Joanne Harris"
This is a wonderfully entertaining story, set somewhere in deepest France and built around the fascinating Vianne Rocher of Chocolat fame. Read by Rula Lenska and Gareth Armstrong, the many characters are really brought to life and made listening an absolute pleasure, I was sorry when the book came to an end. I felt that I would benefit from being able to sit with Vianne and pour out all my troubles over a steaming cup of her marvellous-sounding hot chocolate! A real treat, thankyou.
"Chocolat revisited"
I really enjoyed this book and revisiting the little town of Lansquenet where Chocolat had begun, to see how the characters had developed, the new ones that had arrived and a surprise return. I warmed to Mon. le cure this time far more than before as a different side to him is revealed throughout the book. The different readers were excellent and I finished by wanting to make my own peach jam. A lovely listen
"Great to return to Lansquenet"
I thoroughly enjoyed and got wrapped up in this book and the excellent narration. Having found Lollipop Shoes a slightly uncomfortable listen due to the disturbing subject of identity theft, it was lovely to revisit the village of Lansquenet and themes developed from Chocolat.
"The Wrong Choice of Narrator"
Another magical tale from Joanne Harris but Rula Lenska was not a good choice of narrator for this book.
"Classic Joanne Harris goodness"
Beautiful descriptions, interesting characters and engaging and gripping storyline. I loved Chocolat and I much prefer this book to the second book in this series.
"A feast for the senses, fabulous follow up!"
A feast for the senses, fabulous follow up! I do hope we get another installment!
"Sooooooo beautiful"
Yes! Everything you want from Joanne Harris and more. Back at lansquenet she develops the characters.
She is a master story teller. I am a lover of the spiritual nature and witchy beauty of her stories. Don't believe other review that says not as good ass lollipop shoes. Both fantastic.
Both great. Took a bit of getting used to Rula after juliette stevensons reading of 'lollipop shoes'. Rula does kids and elderly brilliantly. Gareth Armstrong couldn't have been a better choice for playing the priest.
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Thanks Lisa that one sounds good. We are also looking at one out of Miami on the Triumph. It does Half Moon Cay, St Thomas, San Juan and Grand Turk.
Does anyone have any comments on this one?
we meet with out Ta Friday or Monday. Waiting to see what options she gives us.


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I See Sea Shells...?Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I am 600 feet tall, but am not a mountain, a tree or a tower.
My body resembles shells being created as ribs from a sphere of the same radius;
yet I am not an egg, nor do I live in the sea.
My gestation period took 14 years, and I had more than one father.
I also have the distinction of being famous the world over;
and have even been a part of the Olympic Games.
I have hosted both the poor and Royalty alike,
but I favour neither one in particular.
What am I?
AnswerI am the Sydney Opera House.
This building is one of the famous iconic landmarks in the world, covering 4.5 acres of land and is 600 feet in height. Its structure is famous for its egg-shell design and construction which began in 1959 and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973. The original architect, Jorn Utzon left the project and was replaced by a number of different architects before its completion. The Opera House is host to the visits of thousands of people each week from every walk of life who travel from around the world to see it. The Opera House was even the logo and medal design of the 2000 Olympics.
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Dermatologist Approved: Goldfaden MD Skincare
This new beauty brand uses natural ingredients to reveal youthful, healthier-looking skin (where you wouldn't expect).
In a day and age when a trip to the cold-and-flu aisle at CVS (plus the requisite/neurotic Google search) is a common sub-in for an in-person medical appointment, it's not surprising that many of us haven't had an actual face-to-face with our ever-sage skin-specialty docs since before WebMD was a thing (guilty as charged).
Enter Goldfaden MD, a new line of physician-strength skincare products created by Dr. Gary Goldfaden, a practicing—for upwards of 40 years—South Floridian dermatologist with an inclination for natural, no-Rx-needed ingredients, i.e. active plant complexes and antioxidant-rich botanicals, plus known anti-agers like retinol, glucosamine, and hyaluronic acid. (With zero alcohol, silicone, or gluten to spoil the mix.)
The line, inspired by in-office procedures, shines in its clean, yet un-clinical formulations, like the ultra-light, oil-, frangrance-, film-free SPF 30 mist (fragrance- and film-free), and the anti-aging plus brightening hand treatment ($38)—a forward-thinking cream that helps fade dark spots and reduces the appearance of fine lines while plumping, hydrating, and firming paws' delicate epidermis.
Hurry up and hand over damaged, lusterless skin at Space NK in Scarsdale—doctor's orders.