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Giants targeting Friday for Scutaro's return
SAN FRANCISCO -- Mired in a month-long slump, the Giants could use a boost. It appears one will arrive Friday.
That's when second baseman Marco Scutaro is slated to return to the club. He'll be evaluated Friday and the hope/plan is for the 38-year-old to be activated before Friday night's game against Arizona. Scutaro (lower back strain) had an off-day Wednesday but is scheduled to play nine innings for Triple-A Fresno on Thursday.
If all goes well, Scutaro will make his 2014 Major League debut Friday. There's a chance the return will have to wait until Saturday, but Friday is the new target date. He'll likely be back in his traditional two-hole spot, too. Manager Bruce Bochy said there's a "very strong possibility of that" when asked about Scutaro batting second. Bochy said Scutaro is optimistic that he can play with more regularity than the original workload of two or three starts per week they had envisioned.
Bochy isn't concerned about Scutaro's .158 average (3-for-19) in eight rehab games between the Rookie-level Arizona Giants and Fresno.
"He feels pretty comfortable," Bochy said. "From looking at the reports, he's swinging free and easy, and that's what's important to us. He's got the type of stroke where I don't think he needs lots of at-bats, but he'll be honest with us when he gets here Friday."
Bochy said he's had discussions internally with general manager Brian Sabean regarding the corresponding move to make room for Scutaro's return, but those conversations will stay between manager and general manager for now. Joe Panik could be sent back to Triple-A, or the Giants can opt for Panik to stay and learn under Scutaro's tutelage, which would likely result in designating Brandon Hicks for assignment.
As for Angel Pagan, Bochy said his injured leadoff hitter flew to Arizona on Wednesday and will resume baseball activities as part of his rehab Thursday. The plan remains for Pagan to return shortly after next week's All-Star break.
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Haft-Baked Ideas, and follow him on Twitter at @sfgiantsbeat. Ryan Hood is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @ryanhood19. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., president and CEO Mike Duke appeared earlier this week at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations where he shed light on a range of topics that weren't fully captured by headlines and soundbites from the event.
Duke was a participant in the organization's CEO speaker series where for an hour he was politely grilled by Bloomberg president and CEO Dan Doctoroff and took questions on a broad range of topics.
It is always worth listening and watching when the CEO of the world's largest company speaks, and that is especially true in this case as Duke's presentation took place against the backdrop of renewed controversy around the company's business practices and the inability of political leaders in Washington to resolve the nation's fiscal matters. Some of what he had to say could be lumped into the category of damage control to stem a slew of recent negative healdines, but Duke made it clear where Walmart stands on inept suppliers and how the $440 billion company has moved beyond the role of traditional retailer. to watch the video, click here.


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Hi, im new to this site, been training for about 5 months 3 times a week. Im 6 foot 4 inches, im toned with a very low body fat % as ive always been skinny so want to gain size and weight, 5 months ago i was 155 pounds now after all the training, eating alot more, getting older (almost 18), many diffrent protein shakes (starting a casein protein now), and muscle tech creatine hardcore (the cheap stuff), im 180 pounds. Just ditched the creatine as it was cheap and wanted to move onto some better stuff, so got some ATP advantage serum creatine which I found really good for my strength havent beent aking it long enough to see size gains though.
Just wanted some new ideas on my training, try trigger some more growth as i find it hard being so tall.
Training Split;
Day 1 - Chest, Triceps, Legs, (Sometimes Bi's, depending how they feel)
Day 2 - Shoulders, Abs, Traps
Day 3 - Bi's, Back, (Sometimes light chest or abs, depending how they feel)
Training Excersises;
Flat bench DB, 6 reps 3-4 sets
Flat bench BB, 8, 3-4
Seated pec press machine, 6, 3
Flat Flys, 8, 3
Close grip press, 8, 3
Lying down tri extension, 6-8, 3
Over head extension, 6-8, 3
Seated leg press, 8, 3-4
Squats, 8, 3
Lying Hamstring Curl, 8, 3-4
Press, 6, 3-4
Upright rows, 6, 3-4
Side raise, 8, 3-4
Front raise, 6, 3-4
DB Shrug, 8, 3
BB Shrug, 8, 3
Standing DB Curl, 6, 3
Standing BB curl, 6, 3
Pull Ups, 5, 5
Concentrations, 6, 3
Bent over upright rows, 8, 3
Lat Pull down, 6, 3
T bar row, 10, 3 (havent got enough weight)
Bent over lateral raises?, 8, 3
My gym does not have that many machines and facilities so have to limit most of my excersises to free weights!
I have about 2 minutes rest in between, some days reduce it to 1 minute for a hard work out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
'Cheap' creatine (mono) is usually your best bet (the better brands of mono contain less impurities usually). But I wouldn't go as far as saying ATP advantage gimmick creatine is better than a good mono (ProLab Mono for example).
I'd be willing to guess that the ATP has some sort of Trademarked name like 'Advanced Anabolic CreaMax Formula' listed on it.
As far as your routine goes, its not ideal. You are relatively new to lifting and although you've gained quite a bit of mass off of it, its not a good routine. I would suggest sticking to a full body scheme rather than a 'split' like you have. You should also prioritize your compound lifts (deadlift (which isn't even in your routine), squat and bench). Keep your isolation movements and more importantly biceps, secondary to the compounds. Compounds will make you grow, not bicep curls.
Looking at your routine, day 1 is nuts because you've got 2 of the big compounds in there plus alot of other volume (not to mention bench and flyes twice). Your day 1 is almost a 3 day split in itself. Then when we come to day 2 your only doing shoulders, so you've gone from cramming all your heaviest movements in one workout to doing some presses and laterals. Day 3 is equally screwy because you've got a bunch of bicep exercises before you even touch your back. Rows, pullups, pulldowns, basically pulling exercises require biceps to be in there in some form, so it's not a good idea to have your biceps start off the workout. They'll be fatigued much quicker and hinder your pulling ability. So in the end your limiting a bigger muscle (back) from growing because you prioritized a smaller muscle (biceps).
That's all I can say for right now, chew that over and also take a look at rippetoe's starting strength program so you can get an idea of what a full body routine looks like.
[QUOTE=Kane;53428]Why would more expensive creatine mean it's better?
oh, ok thanks for that, my creatine was excellent when i first got it and was so suprised it cost me $20, but it started to slow down so though i needed a change, should i go back to it or can you suggest any others?
thanks for that about my training didnt really think about it like that, its hard to do heavy squats, deads and benching as i dont have to heavy weights in my gym and no spotter or smith machine. But ill try my best.
Was thinking this instead, correct me again if it needs it;
Day 1 - Chest, Traps, Tris (or stick traps with back?)
Day 2 - Legs, Shoulders, Abs
Day 3 - Back, Bis
Day 1 - Chest, Traps, Tris
Day 2 - Legs, Bis, Abs
Day 3 - Back, Shoulders
Moved thread to appropriate forum.
Again, with this training, you need to ditch the split and stick with something that is full body. Meaning you're squatting everyday, benching once or twice a week, deadlifting one day, plus some other pull and push compound added in. Mainly you should be looking at the exercise layout of the starting strength program.
Day 1
Day 2
Light Squat
Day 3
Not something exactly like this. This is not a routine, there are no reps, its only a collection of basic exercises. And before you ask, no, day 1 and day 3 are not the same. They will differ by reps/sets or variations of an exercise, mainly something will set them apart in some way.
ok ok im getting you now! just a few final questions,
so on the two benching days do DB one day and BB one day or both twice a week?
and the two rows, upright and bent over?
should i be adding some tris bis and abs at the end of the 3 work outs?
should i be doing 5x5 on the squats, bench, deads and rows? then maybe higher for my smaller muscles?
thanks for the help will be trying it out today.
Rows are the same, I would pick two 'bent over' variations, not upright rows. You could do the same as bench, 5x5 one day and 1x5 the other.
Try not to do any arms and see how things work for a bit, they will grow without any accessory work. You can do abs and if you really have to do arms then do a bicep or a tricep exercise, not both and only 2-3 sets (maybe 8-12 reps) of one exercise.
Squats are the same as bench and rows. 5x5 one day, a light 5x5 another, and a 1x5 the last day.
I'm not sure if anyone else noticed what I did here. But I basically just gave you the exercise setup for DFT :biglaugh: Its a more 'advanced' setup, although what I gave here is only half of what makes DFT DFT.
I'm still going to strongly suggest you take a look at the Starting Strength program. Take a look at the journal section, Pitysister is doing it and has a good journal for it right now. SS is much better for you at this point.
good to see your doing pullups....do they have anywhere you can do dips as well? kane brings up all good stuff... :)
it's hard to get out of the mentality of "i have to do 5356 reps a day for biceps and triceps..." but once you do...there's no going back...
i have not done any bicep work for about a month now....and if anything...they have gotten bigger because they are not getting overtrained :)
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Producers Broadway Across America - Beth Williams, Howard & Janet Kagan and Barry Brown just announced casting for the world premiere production of the new musical TUCK EVERLASTING at Boston's Citi Performing Arts Center Emerson Colonial Theatre (106 Boylston Street) from July 28-August 18, 2013. The pre-Broadway production will feature (in alphabetical order): Fred Applegate (Sister Act) as 'Constable Joe,' Marylouise Burke (Fuddy Meers) as 'Nana,' Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello (Scandalous) as 'Ma Tuck,' David Garrison (Titanic) as 'The Man In The Yellow Suit,' Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Newsies) as 'Jesse Tuck,' Daytime Emmy Award Winner Michael Park (How To Succeed...) as 'Pa Tuck,' Michael Wartella (The Kid) as 'Hugo,' and Valerie Wright (Elf) as 'Mother,' and will introduce Sadie Sink in the role of 'Winnie.'
With a book by Tony Award nominee Claudia Shear (Dirty Blonde), music by Chris Miller (The Burnt Part Boys), lyrics by Nathan Tysen (The Burnt Part Boys) and directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon), TUCK EVERLASTING is based on the award-winning novel by Natalie Babbitt.
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Have you ever been so disgusted you could spit? That is how I felt listening to big-salaried criminal justice people trying to cram more parolees down Vallejo's throat.
This was the majority sentiment at a recent second "parolee sales meeting" held at the senior center by criminal representatives from the county. All of the official speakers at this "sales meeting" (except perhaps one judge) were arrogant and condescending. All tried to sell parolees to Vallejo. It's a crying shame.
The Solano County Supervisors are dumping a Parolee Day Reporting Center -- scheduled to be placed on Tuolumne Street right next to crime-laden Millerville -- a few blocks away from Children's Wonderland Park and the Vallejo Ballet School. To add insult to injury, they have insulted Vallejo citizens by stating that they will re-name it "Service Center" -- as though that will make one bit of difference!
How insulting it is to think that citizens will appreciate more parolees in town, if they simply remove the word parolee from the project's title.
Many Vallejo citizens know what a con game this is, and they are not going to be insulted with a simple name change. Former Supervisor Barbara Kondylis has said that she "fought for this center to come here, and it is a no-brainer." Her no-brainer is that more than 300 parolees are or will be released to Vallejo to attend the "Parolee Day Reporting Center" -- or the Parolee Day Care Center, as a county employee mistakenly called it.
Let's get it clear folks. This "day care center" is nothing more than a money grab! Parolees only have to be released back to the COUNTY where they committed the crime, but the supervisors have chosen to dump them all in Vallejo. "Almost 40 percent of the parolees are connected to Vallejo, or commit crimes here, and many are already here couch surfing, the county parole director said. That is no reason to pull 100 percent of all non-violent, sexual, serious criminals from jails and prisons, and place them in Vallejo to search for more couches. It makes all the sense in the world that they should return to the County Seat of Fairfield, not Vallejo. Fairfield has a jail, and a very expensive modern, glass building with plenty of empty space, and it is at the central seat of Solano County government.
Would it not be logical to place a parolee center there? But no, they want to test their little pilot project in Vallejo, and the only people who will benefit are the big-salaried folks up county who live in places like Green Valley, East Ridge and Vacaville's Browns Valley, Foxboro, and the Vine gated community. Since most of these people live in such trendy areas, why don't they place a parolee center in their neighborhood? Because they are classic "NIMBYS" -- Not in My Back Yard Sir. Why don't they want parolees in their backyards? Because they know how vulnerable they would be with them living near them.
So they would rather send them to Vallejo, which will place our citizens at even greater risk. They will continue to dump more and more parolees in Vallejo, thinking that most Vallejoans are so apathetic they won't care, or even perceive the difference.
Most of the up-county crime folks who spoke at the second meeting treated Vallejo residents like children. So how stupid do they think the people of Vallejo really are? Pretty darn stupid. One up-county supervisor once said "the people of Vallejo just can't get their act together." To counter that, one Vallejo resident said, the high salaried presenters "had their sugar-coated speeches down pat, and delivered a good song and dance." She further noted that they had one parolee "shill" in the audience who spoke positively about a parolee "day care center" (read plant). A few criminal judges spoke in support of a parolee center. Particularly insulting was Judge Wendy Getty who acted arrogant and obnoxious. At one point she rudely cut a citizen off from asking further questions. Getty also said she is often "in tears" watching and sentencing some criminals, many of whom are "from foster homes." One resident countered, "I am from a foster home in Vallejo, and I don't have a criminal record."
So please Ms. Getty, if you are such a liberal judge, open a parolee day care center for criminals in your home. It's no wonder we have a revolving door among prisoners with judges touting such a mind set.
Four council members were in attendance, but not necessarily in agreement. Only one (Councilmember Robert McConnell) spoke out. Marti Brown, Bob Sampayan and McConnell stayed for most of the meeting (more than three hours). Osby Davis did not stay long, but long enough to show off his sharp green suit and Fedora hat. Former Councilmember Erin Hannigan made a short appearance. She too was recently quoted as saying: "I am for this parolee center as long as they send down Vallejo parolees only." How naïve that is -- we all know that won't happen. They will ship all of the thieves, drug addicts and burglary professionals down to Vallejo. And the citizens of Vallejo will be "placed at high risk" as one speaker said.
But never you mind. Like it or not, the parolees are coming -- you can be sure of it. So go out and get a gun, before they take those rights away, too. And if you or a neighbor sees one of these parolees breaking into your house, get the gun. Or at the very least, adopt a big dog or two, and teach it two words: Sick 'em.
Supervisor Linda Seifert and former Supervisor Kondylis should be ashamed of themselves for making this center come to Vallejo. They know how strapped Vallejo is and how desperate the town is for more police services, and yet they lobbied for this center and for more parolees to arrive here. To my mind it is no more than a money-making proposition for state and county employees. Oh sure, a few dollars will be sent to churches. Tragically, by the county's own admission, only 10-15 percent of parolees attending such a center will be helped (the rest will go back to jails and prisons). What is even more angering is that there seems to be absolutely no accountability or follow-up in place for this pilot project. So what will happen to the rest of the parolees? They will rob, and lute again, hold up banks, shop lift, and mug people for drug money. What's important for the criminal justice folks? Parolees won't be couch surfing in their communities. But since they do couch surf, they will find an abandoned Vallejo home to squat in or someone's couch until they find their next victim in Vallejo. Most of them don't have cars, so Vallejo will be a convenient place to search for victims, not to mention copper theft.
It is fully apparent that both Supervisor Seifert and Kondylis have more regard for parolees than for Vallejo's citizens. Knowing full well how tapped Vallejo is for police services, they have put citizens in an extremely vulnerable position.
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A Visitor's Guide to the Milky Way
About 3900 light years away, a diamond planet that's about the mass of Jupiter orbits a star called a pulsar—the collapsed core of a once-massive star.
By studying the pulsar's wobble—how much it moves because of the tug of war with its planet—scientists led by Matthew Bailes at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing in Melbourne, Australia, deduced the planet's huge mass. And by noting the planet's orbital time (about 2 hours) and close proximity to the pulsar (about 1.7 times the distance between Earth and the moon), the team estimated its density: at least 23 grams per cubic centimeter, or 7 times the density of jewelry diamonds. The team, which published their findings in Science in 2011, says the planet probably contains oxygen and carbon in a crystal form.
Still, extraterrestrial prospecting may be foolish: "The certainty over the structure and composition is far from 100 percent, just a very plausible explanation," Bailes says. Even if the planet is a crystalline orb, it is far from certain that it would glimmer like a terrestrial diamond, which is a cubic grid of carbon atoms.
Diamonds may be forever, but stars are certainly not. In fact, Bailes's team believes the planet is actually the corpse of a white dwarf star that fused its fuel into a carbon core before the neighboring pulsar ripped off its coating, leaving the carbon behind. "We know of a lot of cases where there is a companion star stripping off material from a neighboring star," says Varun Bhalerao, a member of the team at Caltech, "but this scenario, of stripping a very dense white dwarf, is rather rare."
The buckyball is a cage of 60 carbon atoms aligned in pentagons and hexagons to make a design reminiscent of Disney's Epcot Center. Given buckyballs' ability to carry other molecules around in their hollow innards or to be festooned with other molecular chains, they promise potential use in science and tech applications such as drug delivery. Just this week a study came out in which mice fed olive oil laced with buckyballs lived far longer than those that ate the normal olive oil.
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Buckyballs have turned out to be common in space. "When we discovered it, we weren't quite sure if we were looking at something unique," Cami says. "Quite quickly after our paper came out, researchers found it in many other places." These places include planetary nebulae, lower radiation nebulae called proto-planetary nebulae, other galaxies, evolved stars, and carbon-rich stars called corona borealis stars. He estimates that, in objects like planetary nebulae, the particular molecule makes up about half of 1 percent of all of the carbon present.
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Today most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease management and make application delivery more flexible overall. As with most new architectures, this dream takes significant work to become a reality. Even when you do get your application componentized enough and packaged properly, there are still challenges for DevOps teams to making the shift to continuous delivery and achieving that reducti...
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Real IoT production deployments running at scale are collecting sensor data from hundreds / thousands / millions of devices. The goal is to take business-critical actions on the real-time data and find insights from stored datasets. In his session at @ThingsExpo, John Walicki, Watson IoT Developer Advocate at IBM Cloud, will provide a fast-paced developer journey that follows the IoT sensor data from generation, to edge gateway, to edge analytics, to encryption, to the IBM Bluemix cloud, to Wa...
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Enterprises are moving to the cloud faster than most of us in security expected. CIOs are going from 0 to 100 in cloud adoption and leaving security teams in the dust. Once cloud is part of an enterprise stack, it's unclear who has responsibility for the protection of applications, services, and data. When cloud breaches occur, whether active compromise or a publicly accessible database, the blame must fall on both service providers and users. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ben Johnson, C...
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OK everyone, after hearing back from 19 owners I've settled on October 20 as draft day.
Details are:
Keeper League Fantasy Draft
Saturday, October 20
8:00 a.m. Eastern (Indianapolis) Time
I'll add more details later but basically we'll hold the draft live on this board.
Tough call between the 13th and 20th. The 27th had 6 3rd place votes and the most people who absolutely couldn't make it so it was eliminated pretty easily. The decider was that 4 people listed the 13th as their 3rd preference while none listed the 20th.
Chill, Kraft and maybe Ken - I can draft for you or if you prefer, any other member you want can draft. Just get him or her a list.
Finally, this sets the deadline to get your 9-player lists to me by the evening of Saturday the 13th. Let's call it by 9 p.m. Indy time. That gives me Sunday to send out reminders. That was another reason in favor of the 20th BTW - if we went with the 13th that deadline would be less than a week away.
Hopefully I can get the PL's out to everyone Sunday night, the 14th.
I'll send an e-mail out to everyone along with the summer rosters - you should have those already, but just in case.


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Book four in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series is just as fast paced, exciting and funny as the first three. Percy, our favorite half human, half Greek God hero can't seem to stay away from trouble, trouble always finds him. This time it's evil demon cheerleaders. To stop them, Percy destroys yet another school. Will this kid ever graduate?
After the explosion, Percy flees to Camp Half-Blood in hopes of getting a grip on what the deal is with demon cheerleaders. He finds out that the Titan Lord Kronos is assembling an army of monsters, demons and other nasties to overthrow the Gods. Kronos's plan is to attack Camp Half-Blood by entering through a giant underground maze that has an exit inside Camp Half-Blood.
Percy and his friends enter the maze in a crazy attempt to stop the invasion. This maze is no ordinary maze. Hidden entrances and exits exist all over the US…if you know where to find them. And to top it off, the maze itself is alive! The passages in the maze move and change so that finding his way back out again is as much of a challenge to Percy as the monsters and demons inside it trying to kill him! He's got his friends along; Annabeth, Grover & Tyson as well as Rachel, a mortal with monster vision, to help him find the way. Author: Rick Riordan
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This recipe combines traditional Jamaican flavors with the Great American Hamburger Cookout. The result makes for sizzling summer cuisine.
I grew up in upstate Ny and never considered Italian as ethnic until I moved away. Italian food was a staple, and most of the rest's there were Italian too.
My Island Teriyaki Jamaican Jerk Beef Sliders celebrates the collaboration of American beef burger and the bold and flamboyant flavors of Jamaica.
My inspiration to make this burger is my huge love for my homemade chili.
Indiana summer squash! I have been given a lot of summer squash this summer!
This recipe came out of my passion for the Burger. And my even bigger passion for trying to make a new, exciting and delicious burger.


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With the Magma ExpressBox 3T there really is little reason to buy a Mac Pro. Use your PCIe cards with an iMac. This is great news for musicians wanting to upgrade old tower macs but keep their DSP and interface cards.
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For the year ahead, investors and traders alike need to learn to think differently from everyone else in the markets. In 2012, we found plentiful evidence that the biggest losers in the S&P 500 offer significant trading opportunities and that they frequently stage sharp fast rallies. Trading the falling knives instead of the glamorous darlings may give investors and edge as they put their tools to work in a less crowded playing field.
This thought is consistent with some of the research done by the Brandes Institute and others. I have a still-to-be-tested theory that bottom fishing is even more productive today as a result of ETF and index trading. These tend to have a bullish bias in my experience and provide a source of buying pressure for broken stocks. Once the fundamental selling is over, the blind buyers in the ETF marketplace reassert themselves and the stocks quickly correct. Even if my theory turns out not to hold water, the worst performing stocks are more likely to meet my fundamental criteria than the leaders, so it can still be a fertile shopping ground for stock ideas....630 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Fancy and Cozy Double Room
Size14 m²
Floor No.1(with elevator)
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|Piazza della Libertà,, 00192 Rome, Italy
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It has been newly modernized room with basin, bidet, hot tub, toilet in bathroom, hairdryer, air conditioning, heating, TV, desk, Wi-fi, kettle and shutters.
It is adapted for people with reduced mobility, for the elderly and small children. Baby cot and Child's bed on request.
Breakfast is included in the price and you can have a continental breakfast at the bar downstairs for few euros extras. Cooking is also allowed.
In our B&B the quality is at the top of our top ten rules and every room has its own bathroom in a classic revisited style.
You will have easy access to everything that the "eternal" City can offer: Shopping on Via Cola di Rienzo, the best architectural and historical Sites in the City just steps away, some of the best restaurants in the City, and much more! The building is just two blocks away from the Subway/Metro and 2 blocks from Bus Station. The Express Bus stop from the International Fiumicino Airport is just a couple of blocks away.
Shopping area if needed or architecture and archeological attractions if you want to take a walk in the History of the city.
Near the B&B is located Piazza Cavour where you can see the peculiar Palazzaccio or you can go to Castel Sant'Angelo, Adrian Emperor's Mausoleum with a wonderful garden for children or adult and his great Castel. The METRO A is round the corner and you can find a lot of buses going in every directions. Taxi station is 200 meters.
You'll never find something different from what you have seen on internet and you can ask Us everything you need: Our mission is to make you happy of your Roman Holiday.
House rulesThe check in is from 11:00 in the morning and then. For late check-in from 23h o'clock this will cost 20€ and should be paid in cash on the arrival. For the late check out after 10.00am the cost is 20€.
You get one key for your stay, 1 for the room and 1 for the entrance door and 1 for the large doors of the building.
Sheets and towels for face and body are included as well as breakfast we serve on convenient tray which can be taken also in your room.
WIFI access, safe in room, air conditioning, doorman in the morning, heating and other additional services if required as a baby sitter, private driver to / from the airport or other destinations.
A / C is easy to use.
If you have any problem don't hesitate to call me!
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The apartment in Rome is spacious and has a comfortable bed and a good bathroom. In the kitchen area each morning a simple but effective breakfast ready. There is a refrigerator where you can store meals. Wifi is available. From the apartment it is to walk to the bus and / or subway. In the district are restaurants and shops. The apartment and the hospitality of Paolo will receive a thick 8.
Het appartement in Rome is ruim en heeft een heerlijk bed en een goede badkamer. In de keukenruimte staat elke ochtend een simpel doch doeltreffend ontbijt klaar. Er is een koelkast waar je zelf eten in kunt bewaren. Wifi is aanwezig. Vanuit het appartement is het aan te lopen naar de bus en/of metro. In de wijk zijn restaurants en winkels. Het appartement en de gastvrijheid van Paolo krijgt van ons een dikke 8.
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Very comfortable room, clean, a lot of space, good location nearby the Underground and on walking distance of Piazza del Popolo and Castel Sant'Angelo. Friendly welcome by the host(ess). The gelateria downstairs is fantastic. When I return I will definitely try again to book this room. Thank you Paolo!
The apartment is exactly like in the pictures, very clean and beautiful. Very closed to Piazza del Poppolo (the entrance for the pilgrims in the past). We walked to Vatican and Piazza de Spagna. Is closed to the M-tro and buses. I recomend it, comfortable and the owner Paolo is very nice.
This room is part of a cosy B&B with a total of 4 rooms in the center of Rome. We liked the ambiente very much and Paolo was always around to help out with any extra wishes and tourist information. The place is in close walking distance to the historical center and so we only had to take public transport for day trips outside of Rome. This is extremely convenient. Two minor remarks might be helpful: Only little cookings are possible in the citchen and the room doors are not really soundproof towards the corridor. However, this was completely fine for our requirements and all guests were very considerate.
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Using ISO to Legitimize High/Low BABIPs?
Last week, industry colleague Michael Salfino penned an interesting article for Yahoo! Sports discussing BABIP and how we might be able to tell legitimately good BABIPs apart from lucky ones (and legitimately bad BABIPs apart from unlucky ones). A couple of you pointed the article out to me and asked for my take on it, so I thought it best to simply write up a post in case others were interested. The article opens with:
I want to drive home one more time that big breakthrough that I think we've had here this year, which is using isolated slugging allowed (slugging average minus batting average) as a projection tool.
Because it's never too early throw an aside into an article or make a point that's only tangential to the topic at hand, I want to take a second to step on my soap box and talk about batting average. People love to talk about batting average as a flawed or overrated stat, but I want to point out that the stat itself isn't flawed any more than an "advanced" stat like BABIP or HR/FB or FIP is. It does what it's designed to do and nothing more. It's only overrated insofar as the prominence the mainstream media and old-school thinkers tend to place on it (which Salfino understands and hints at—this is more of a general rant than one pointed at anyone in particular, to be clear). Take batting average for what it is, and it's no more flawed than strikeout rate.
The main problem pundits point out with batting average is that all hits are weighted the same. Salfino mentions this as the reason why batting average is overrated and as the reason why BABIP may be flawed:
With BABIP we're sort of stuck with judging all hits as hits, period, because we're already subtracting homers (which are out of play). We at least need to check BABIP against isolated slugging.
When talking about a hitter's contribution to his team, of course it's incorrect to assume that a home run and a single are worth the same amount—a fact many fans and analysts fail to recognize. Used like this, batting average is a descriptive stat. But when we're talking about a pitcher's BABIP, it's usually as a predictive stat. These are two very different things, and the distinction shapes how we use a particular stat. After all, if we don't know what we want a stat to accomplish, how can we possible hope to use it correctly?
The way we generally use BABIP is to look at pitchers with extreme values and say that, in the future, the pitcher's BABIP will be league average, dragging the pitcher's ERA along for the ride. It's a shortcut for regressing to the mean. Essentially, because there is so much noise in BABIP, we say it's safe enough to assume 100 percent regression to the mean when dealing with single-year samples. And because doing a full regression would give us something close to this anyway, we're generally okay with using this shortcut.
My feeling now is that if a pitcher has a good ERA and a good BABIP allowed (which has been viewed as lucky by default) PLUS a good ISO allowed, then he's probably not lucky. At least, he's not nearly as lucky as we think. On the other hand, if a high ERA pitcher has a bad/high BABIP allowed but also a high ISO allowed (about .133 is the league average), then he's probably not unlucky – meaning we wouldn't expect the ERA to be significantly lower the next year.
On the surface, this seems to make sense. BABIP counts up all the hits but ignores the quality, and intuitively, the quality of the hit should matter. The problem is that in a single-year sample for pitchers, it really doesn't. I've shown before that singles, doubles, and triples take a long-time to stabilize, making it reasonable enough to regress them all 100 percent to the mean when using shortcut methods like BABIP. In other words, if you're using BABIP in the first place, hit quality really doesn't matter. So while "we're sort of stuck with judging all hits as hits," that's actually okay.
But then what to make of this: "Remember, ISO allowed seems to be pretty consistent year-to-year." Stats that are consistent from year-to-year—stats like strikeout rate, walk rate, and groundball rate—are usually important to pay attention to, so what about ISO? The main reason for Salfino's finding is that home runs—the most stable of all four hit types by a wide margin—make up a big part of ISO (while being ignored by BABIP). Singles—highly unstable—are excluded from ISO (but are huge in BABIP). This gives us the illusion of ISO being much more stable than BABIP. The problem is that, while home runs are relatively stable, once we account for the fact that they are fly balls (which are even more stable), they become incredible unpredictable—more so than BABIP, even!
Indeed, if we look at all pitcher seasons from 2005 to 2011 with at least 200 IP, there is a strong .69 correlation between ISO and HR/FB. In other words, a huge chunk of ISO is explained by a stat this is even harder to predict than BABIP!
Take a look at the pitchers deemed "Not Lucky," this time with HR/FB attached (keeping in mind that league average HR/FB is 13.6 percent):
As you can see, while the low ISOs of these players may make it seem like they deserve their low BABIPs because they're not allowing hard contact, they've really just been lucky in terms of not allowing home runs (keeping their ISOs so low). As a group, their HR/FB is a paltry 9.9 percent.
Let's look at the guys who were deemed "Not Unlucky":
As expected, we see a similar pattern here. Of these high BABIP/high ISO pitchers, just two managed to post better-than-average HR/FB rates. The rest were all unlucky to some degree, with a cumulative 15.4 percent HR/FB. It's not that these guys are giving up bad contact; they're just getting unlucky with their home runs.
So to answer the question originally posed by the readers that emailed me, unfortunately, I wouldn't pay much attention to ISO as a tool for legitimizing high or low BABIPs. It seemed like a nice thought, but it just doesn't hold up when we examine it a little closer.
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BOS Supports Environmental Excellence
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12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
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Feb. 26, 2007
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Supports Environmental Excellence
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, at its regular meeting today, took action to enhance air and water quality in the county. The actions directly support the Board of Supervisors' environmental agenda outlined in "Environmental Excellence for Fairfax County - A 20-Year Vision."
Adopted in 2004, the agenda identifies six areas of focus for environmental protection: growth and land use; air quality and transportation; water quality; solid waste; parks, trails and open space; and environmental stewardship. Information about the 2004 plan and the board's fiscal year 2008 environmental agenda is available on the county's Web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/living/environment/eip/.
Virginia Air Quality State Implementation Plan
Pledging a permanent commitment to emissions-reducing behavior, the Board of Supervisors approved a letter to be sent to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (PDF) from Chairman Gerald E. Connolly. The letter affirms Fairfax County's commitment to the Virginia Air Quality State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the eight-hour federal ozone standard.
Noting the air quality in the metropolitan region has improved, the letter acknowledges that more local measures are needed to meet national ambient air quality standards.
"Fairfax County has been a leader on air quality issues for years, and with the additional actions outlined today, we will continue to set the standard for years to come," said Connolly.
Connolly outlined a number of the county's voluntary control measures to be part of the state implementation plan: purchasing wind energy; lighting upgrades in county buildings; tree canopy requirements and tree planting initiatives; numerous green building projects; and Clean Air Partner membership.
In addition, the letter lists measures that demonstrate transportation conformity for the SIP, including hundreds of diesel retrofits for school buses, trucks and fire trucks; purchase of clean
diesel transit buses and change to ultra-low sulfur diesel for transit buses; horsepower reduction and engine idle shutdown for transit buses; bike racks on transit buses; and buying 60 additional hybrid vehicles.
The full text of the letter is attached to this release. For more information about air quality, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/airquality.
Watershed Management Plans
The Board of Supervisors also approved watershed management plans for the Difficult Run and Cub Run/Bull Run watersheds. The board's environmental plan specifically calls for the implementation of new watershed management plans and stream protection strategies and provides insight and a vision for the implementation of the watershed management plans.
The watershed management plans offer a range of project options to reduce nutrient loadings and sediment in the streams, improve stream habitat and reduce the stormwater runoff peak flows into local streams. Plan recommendations are divided into two categories: structural and non-structural projects and policy/land use related recommendations.
Structural projects include measures such as modifications to existing stormwater management facilities to improve water quality controls; new stormwater management facilities; low impact development practices; and stream restoration. Non-structural recommendations include practices such as developing educational and outreach materials, supporting volunteer monitoring groups and updating the county's database of stormwater management facilities.
Based on results from the 2001 Fairfax County Stream Protection Strategy Baseline Study, more than 70 percent of the county's streams are in fair to very poor condition. One of the primary objectives of the watershed planning initiative is to improve these conditions as well as addressing Fairfax County's commitment to the Chesapeake Bay Program.
Starting with the Little Hunting Creek Watershed Management Plan, the county embarked on a watershed planning initiative that will assess program needs for the next 25 years. The watershed planning initiative, which will result in 15 watershed management plans for the county, is a giant step forward in the process of restoring and preserving the county's watersheds. The board demonstrated its commitment to water quality by dedicating one cent of real estate tax revenue in the fiscal year 2007 budget for stormwater program initiatives, including watershed planning and implementation.
Additional information about watershed planning is available at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/watersheds.
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Chatham University offers students the opportunity to earn a Professional Doctorate of Occupational Therapy (OTD). This low-residency program is for occupational therapy clinicians and/or academicians who want to enhance their careers and advance to professional leadership.
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Palo Alto, California-based, Tesla Motors uses proprietary technology, world-class design, and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes to create a new generation of highway capable electric vehicles. We utilize an innovative distribution model based on Company-owned sales and service centers. This approach allows us to maintain the highest levels of customer experience and benefit from short customer feedback loops to ensure our customer needs are fulfilled. We believe our operational infrastructure provides us with a competitive advantage compared to traditional automobile manufacturers.
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As a Software Engineer in Test, you have the opportunity to accelerate the delivery and improve the quality of Tesla products. You will be responsible for designing and implementing build and test infrastructure, creating and enforcing good engineering practices for various Tesla products. Your primary responsibility as a Software Engineer in Test will be to work with the development and test engineering teams to create new testing capabilities, to automate testing, implement new automation tools and create innovative automated test systems. These test systems explore and validate the functional correctness and performance capabilities of our hardware and software, as well as their interaction with other Tesla systems and infrastructure.
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OCALA, Fla. - A Marion County brother and sister have been charged with burglary and grand theft after deputies say they found their van packed with Frito-Lay chips stolen from a distribution center.
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Deputies said Darren L. Hagerman 25, and Jessica L. Huggard, 22, were spotted riding in a blue Ford van on Highway 40 in Ocala Thursday night and pulled over when a deputy saw a 2-year-old jumping in the backseat.
According to the report, the deputy found the van packed with Frito-Lay chips during the traffic stop. When asked where the chips came from, Hagermen said he and his sister take the chips as a way to generate income.
"I got the chips from the dumpster," Hagerman told authorities.
The deputy found that Hagerman had a master key that worked on the gate lock at the Frito-Lay factory, according the report. It appears Hagerman doesn't work at the factory.
Hagerman and Huggard were arrested and the child was given to a relative.
Local 6 spoke to the father who said his son and daughter shouldn't have been breaking and entering, but said it was OK for them to be there because someone gave them a key to enter the property. He said they took the chips from the dumpster and did not steal fresh items from inside the center, which he helps sell to friends.
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With the Festive Season approaching I wanted to take a few minutes out today to give a shout out to the sponsors of ProBlogger that have been so supportive over the past month or two. This group of companies and individuals help me to keep my eye on blogging rather than having to worry about raising money and I appreciate them all.
LinkWorth – if there's an award for longest running sponsor of ProBlogger it's these guys.
LinkWorth is a Search Engine Marketing and Text Link Advertising service who offers a range of products including text link ads, blog reviews, in text links, pay per click ads, rotating text ads, directory submission and much more.
Join LinkWorth today either as an advertiser looking to grow your blog or as a publisher seeking to monetize your blog in new ways.
WidgetBucks – relatively new to the ad network space, WidgetBucks have caused quite a stir and have helped a number of ProBlogger readers recently to go full time in their blogging.
I've reviewed them previously (before they became a sponsor) and have found them to be a great way to monetize a blog – particularly if your traffic is largely from North America (although they've just activated ads now for non US traffic).
Pubmatic – This ad optimizing tool is an example of where I think we'll see advertising on blogs go in the year or two ahead.
I reviewed it recently (note: the review was before PubMatic became an advertiser) and was really impressed with this new system that will allow you to manage multiple advertising networks ads in the one ad spot. For each impression they'll serve the ad that will earn you the most money.
The campaign that they're currently running is part of their Pubmatic Publisher Challenge where they've given away free advertising to some of the publishers using them – in this case it's WinCustomize.
Voxant Newsroom – this service provides blogs (and other sites) with high quality and licensed content.
They'll supply video, text and images from the very highest of quality sources (WSJ, CBS, AP, Reuters and more).
Not only that – they'll also share the advertising revenue when a news story that Voxant supplies is viewed.
Register for the service here.
RankSense – is a new SEO software suite designed to make your rankings in search engines higher than the currently are.
They're currently beta testing and are offering those willing to give it a go credits towards eventual purchase of the final product.
This isn't a service that spams search engines for temporary results – but one that evaluates your site to help you genuinely improve it and climb the search engines for the long haul.
Compete – I'll be honest – I was surprised to see that Compete had joined us a sponsor. Not because they don't fit here (they do) but because it's a service that I use regularly.
Compete's Search Analytics helps you to analyze what people are searching for online, find gaps in what competitors are doing and get other useful information.
As Aaron Wall says – 'Compete Search Analytics is essential for people looking to develop competitive research into what, where and how consumers are searching online'.
Entrecard – a new service that I've been running in my sidebar recently (as a sponsored widget) is Entrecard. It's one of those services that is a little difficult to explain in a sentence or two – but fortunately there's a great video that does it well on their front page.
I've been using it now for a few weeks the thing I like most about it is that it's a service that allows you to network with, get to know and do some mutual promotion with other bloggers. It's a service that I think is well worth having a play around with.
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So thank you to each of the current ProBlogger sponsors. I'm excited by the type of companies that we've been attracting of late – some genuinely useful services in the mix above.
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Indians invite RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka to Major League Camp
CLEVELAND, OH - The Cleveland Indians today announced the club has signed free agent RHP DAISUKE MATSUZAKA to a Minor League contract with a non-roster invitation to Major League camp.
Matsuzaka, 32, owns a career Major League record of 50-37 with a 4.53 ERA in 116 starts (668.1IP, 627H, 336ER, 321BB, 609K, .247AVG) with the Boston Red Sox since 2007. The Tokyo, Japan native went a combined 33-15 with a 3.72 ERA in 61 starts for the Sox in 2007-08 (372.1IP, 319H, 154ER, 355K), but has been limited to 18 starts and 83.0 innings the last two campaigns after undergoing right elbow reconstruction in June 2011.
The right-handed pitcher was the MVP of the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics, going 6-0 with a 1.95 ERA in 6 WBC starts. Daisuke pitched for the Seibu Lions from 1999-2006, going 108-60 with a 2.95 ERA in 204 games/190 starts (1402.2IP, 1102H, 459ER, 1355K) and led the Pacific League in strikeouts four times, finished first in wins on three occasions and was a two-time ERA champ.


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It was late February, toward the end of his final season in NCAA basketball, and Zeke Marshall stood far from the spotlight. Here he was, a star center on a team with an 18-game winning streak and hardly anyone knew his name, but he expressed no desire on that day to change anything about where he'd chosen to spend his college career.
Lots of more prominent basketball programs than Akron had recruited Marshall. Great student, athletic 7-footer—who wouldn't want that guy? But he wanted Akron, in part because he was attracted to its challenging computer information program.
"I don't regret choosing this school at all," Marshall told Sporting News. "I have a lot of good, positive memories here. I have no regrets. I think it was a great decision."
Marshall wasn't unusual, really. Nate Wolters played his senior season at South Dakota State, Isaiah Canaan at Murray State, Ian Clark at Belmont and Mike Muscala at Bucknell. This is what happens most everywhere, most every time.
The handful of players transferring each season to compete for different schools as graduate students is leading some coaches to contend this practice is a disaster for college basketball, an epidemic, but it's really not much more than an occasion for them to complain.
In an article by Rustin Dodd published Saturday by the Kansas City Star, Southern Illinois coach Barry Hinson charged that "poaching" was going on to get top mid-major players to transfer to bigger-name schools. Kansas State's Bruce Weber told the Star, "Schools are recruiting kids right off of campus."
And yet neither coach was quoted as placing the blame for those circumstances on the coaches who might be doing the poaching.
And nowhere in the article was a mention of how coaches' job-hopping and institutions' coach-firing can lead players to conclude they, too, might find a better circumstance at a different program.
After the 2011-12 season, there were 52 coaching changes in college basketball, including 34 openings created by firings or "resignations" and another 18 by retirements or those who left to accept better positions.
According to the list compiled at CBSSports.com by basketball writer Jeff Goodman, there were roughly 30 graduate transfers in college basketball in 2012-13, and few fit the prototype description of the player who left the helpless mid-major program to find a brighter spotlight at a big-money basketball school.
How many of those were there? Six. The most prominent probably was Julius Mays, who transferred from N.C. State to Wright State, spent a year in residence and played one season for the Raiders, and then left for a single season at Kentucky.
Does six transfers leaving behind mid-majors for bigger programs sound like an epidemic to you?
Weber told the Star the graduate transfer rule is "totally unfair to programs where they've worked with kids for four years."
Except Mays' case shows that not all grad transfers fit that description, even. Konner Tucker began his career at Wake Forest, transferred to Sam Houston and then finished his career at UTEP. So maybe he had the transferring bug really bad, but that doesn't mean it was a contagion.
Most players at mid-major programs finish their careers where they began, and that is particularly true when they are part of stable programs. Marshall's four years at Akron turned out well because Akron made it so. The coach who recruited him, Keith Dambrot, ran the Zips all four years. The staff built a successful team around Marshall.
Marshall finished his career in the NCAA Tournament, completing a fourth season with the program that had recruited him (and beat out all those big-timers) five years earlier. That's far more common. It's not even close.


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My Mother passed away peacefully shortly after 11 pm on 9/30 as I held her hands in mine and told her how much we all loved her and will miss her. It was the hardest thing I ever did, but I am grateful that I was able to be with her as she passed into heaven. Her fight was truly an inspiration and I hope I can be half as strong as her! Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. Our family has asked for donations to this foundation in her name. Please we must find a cure!!!


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Croup is a common childhood illness in children under the age of five and is characterised by a harsh, barking cough.
Croup is contagious and caused by a variety of viruses, often the parainfluenza virus, that may begin as what appears to be a common cold. The barking cough that gives croup its name is caused by inflammation of your child's windpipe and voice box (trachea and larynx) that partially causes a blockage in the windpipe. Children have very small airways to begin with, so croup can cause air passages to narrow quite a bit. Occasionally, croup is caused by a bacterial infection, but this is not common.
Croup is usually not serious and goes away in a few days by itself. However, because croup narrows a child's airways, you should watch your child carefully for signs that she is having trouble breathing, as that can signal that she may not be getting enough oxygen.
Like any virus, croup is best prevented by teaching kids to wash their hands often with soap and water. Avoid contact with other children who have the virus as it is contagious. And, teach kids to cough and sneeze into a tissue that they then throw away.
The most obvious sign of croup is a harsh, barking cough that is usually at its worst the second and third day of the illness. The cough is often worse at night because of the cool night air. Your child's breathing may also appear noisy or laboured. Croup may follow what appears to be the beginning of a common cold or a mild flu.
Croup usually appears at night when the air temperature gets cooler and it is for this reason that historically doctors have advised parents to treat croup with steam. There is now little evidence that steam actually helps relieve croup.
Because the sensation and sound of croup can be distressing for your child, and distress can exacerbate the symptoms (crying leads to more coughing and additional phlegm), the best thing you can do for your child with croup is keep him calm at all times. Crying generally results in the temporary worsening of symptoms.
Croup generally goes away all by itself in three to four days. You can give your child paracetamol for a fever or general aches and pains.
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Written by Rebecca Stigall for Kidspot, Australia's parenting resource for family health. Sources include Better Health Channel, NSW Health and Health Insite.
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Bass Pro Shops Founder To Match Raised Funds for Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center Education Building
ATHENS, Texas-Bass Pro Shops founder John L. Morris is serious about the value of teaching young people principles of natural resource conservation by involving them in fishing.
Morris showed that commitment at a fundraiser for the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center held April 3 in Grapevine. He pledged to match dollar for dollar all monies raised during the next year (up to $650,000) for the construction of a new education building at TFFC. This amount equates to one-half of the money needed to complete the fundraising for the new education center.
"Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and in particular the staff of the Inland Fisheries Division have made Texas bass fishing among the best in the nation," explained Morris. "We must teach kids, as well as novice adults, how to enjoy all the outdoor activities the great outdoors has to offer."
Morris made his pledge and remarks at the second annual 'Schooling for Bass' banquet, which was attended by around 600 guests as well as TPWD Executive Director Robert L. Cook and TPW Commission members J. Robert Brown and Philip Montgomery. Also in attendance was former TPW Commissioner Edwin L. Cox, Jr., for whom the TFFC is named. 'Schooling for Bass' was organized by retired Dallas banker Richard Hart for the purpose of raising funds for TFFC.
"Provision of space for educational programming is critical to TFFC's ability to continue to carry out its mission and expand its services to school-aged children," said Allen Forshage, TFFC director. "The new space will also allow expansion of professional development programming for school teachers, greatly multiplying TFFC's impact on environmental education." Plans for the building also include a museum honoring Texas game wardens.
Hart's 'Schooling for Bass' group has raised about $300,000 for the building so far. "Mr. Morris's gift represents an incredible level of support for Texas fishing through TFFC," Forshage said. "These matching funds will enable us to reach our $1.5 million goal by April 2005."
Persons wishing to donate money to the fund may contact Schooling for Bass at (214) 360-3911 or at Bank One, 8111 Preston Road, 2nd Floor, Dallas 75225.
The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center is an innovative aquatic nature center and hatchery complex operated by TPWD located 75 miles southeast of Dallas on FM 2495 four miles east of Athens. Attractions include 300,000 gallons of aquariums, daily dive show and on-site fishing. Hours are Tues.-Sat. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday 1-4 p.m. Admission is as follows: adults $5.50, seniors $4.50, children ages 4-12, $3.50. For more information, visit the Web (http://tpwd.texas.gov/) and click on Fishing or call the TFFC at (903) 676-2277.
Bass Pro Shops, a popular outdoors store, offers shoppers a large selection of quality outdoor gear, clothing and accessories from top industry names and at value prices. Beyond fishing and hunting, Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World stores offers equipment for hiking, backpacking, wildlife viewing, camping, outdoor cooking and more. A gift and nature center also serves up a wide variety of outdoor-related items from lamps and dishes to bird feeders and furniture.
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Backbone Mountain Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Rainy Oct weather
Date Climbed: Oct 16, 2009
|Posted Jan 3, 2012 8:54 pm
|Cold rainy hike
Date Climbed: Oct 27, 2011
|Coming from Spruce Knob, found the trailhead on 219 in the late afternoon and quickly but carefully managed the slippery logging road in the rain. Unfortunately no view at all due to rain and clouds. HP #17.
|Posted Oct 30, 2011 11:07 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2009
|Dy found the worst walking stick ever.
|Posted Aug 21, 2011 5:41 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 1993
|Four of five made it on the way to WDC.
|Posted Aug 10, 2011 5:24 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2011
|Nice day for a hike. Had the summit and the trail to ourselves.
|Posted Aug 9, 2011 7:24 pm
|Backbone Mountain
Date Climbed: Oct 10, 2010
|My home state and my 3rd SHP.
|Posted Aug 7, 2011 9:45 am
|Double Play
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2011
|After the exhausting summit of Spruce Knob caught Backbone on the way back to camp in Harpers Ferry.
|Posted Jun 25, 2011 5:31 pm
Date Climbed: May 28, 2011
WV-MD-PA in five hours
|Posted May 31, 2011 1:02 am
|Alone in the snow
Date Climbed: Apr 3, 2011
|Routefinding was a little tricky due to the snow cover, which had bent most of the small trees to the ground, covering the trail. I didn't see another soul, but did hear some gunshots in the distance. Other than that, the only sound was snow dropping from tree branches. This was a fun little hike with great winter scenery. HP37
|Posted May 1, 2011 4:16 pm
|Got lost on way down.
Date Climbed: Apr 21, 2011
|Parked on 219S and hurried up the mountain before dusk but I think I took the long way because it took almost 40 minutes and I was hoofing across the ridge forever. I'm not a fan of the mountain but the peak was respectable. Then I went the wrong way on the way back and came out the developed area and came out by the smallest church. It was pitch black by the time I made it back but I'm in double digits now.
|Posted Apr 22, 2011 2:31 pm
|Wet and Dark
Date Climbed: Apr 16, 2011
|Rainy ugly day, late in the evening, it was pretty dark at the top and very dark when I got to the bottom and I was soaked. Bagged the highpoint though.
|Posted Apr 18, 2011 8:35 pm
|6th State HP
Date Climbed: Apr 16, 2011
|Short Hike. Was able to do it during a break in the rain.
|Posted Apr 16, 2011 5:39 pm
|Things have changed
Date Climbed: Jun 29, 1996
|Climbed again in April of '09. The summit had been manicured quite a bit since '96. Better views and easier to find. Definitely check out the "smallest" church nearby!
|Posted Apr 10, 2011 1:06 am
|Nice kids hike
Date Climbed: Sep 24, 1999
|With lesdubois, Elisabeth, and Sam.
|Posted Jan 29, 2011 10:38 am
|Part of a triple-play
Date Climbed: Nov 7, 2010
|Tagged BBM on my way N from spruce Knob day before. It's funny who you'll meet on the trail.....
|Posted Dec 5, 2010 6:19 pm
|My 2nd highpoint
Date Climbed: Oct 17, 2010
|After reading some of the previous posts, I was paying very close attention for the roadsigns. Luckily I spotted a small white "Maryland Highpoint" sign up a tree. This was a really nice little hike after driving nonstop from Mt. Davis, PA. Enjoyed lunch at the picnic table at the summit, signed the logbook and on my way. Despite the fact that it was a beautiful fall day, I had the whole place to myself going up and coming down.
|Posted Nov 10, 2010 9:35 am
|Nice little hike
Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2010
|Nice hike, road sign with "HP" on back must have been replaced it is no longer there. Trail pretty well marked. 2nd HP for the day also did spruce knob (for the 2nd time this year) and Mt. davis.
|Posted Sep 6, 2010 6:07 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2010
|Nice hike for a sister and brother who were always going to do it but never did...until 6-10-2010. Must have passed this place more times than I can count in my 50+ years. If you put off something long enough, you don't have to do it. So my sister and I decided to go. Fairly easy hike even for someone as old as me and not in peak shape. Except for the pile of rotting deer carcasses near the entrance, it was great. It was my first high point I didn't just drive by and say..."I have to climb there one day."
|Posted Aug 19, 2010 1:06 pm
|Not Sure When
|Not exactly certain when I did this climb but my guess would be at about age 12. I remember the Sign at the summit and thinking that the hike was pretty easy by even my young standards.
|Posted Jul 23, 2010 2:59 am
Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2010
|Finished this nice little climb as my third state high point this morning. About to leave in 5 minutes or so for #4, Spruce Knob! Lots more to go and enjoying every minute of it!
|Posted Jun 8, 2010 11:31 am


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Italy coach Mauro Berruto: "I'm
very happy for this success, now we have to get the top of the Pool D. We had a perfect match, we had deserved this
Korea captain Y.M. Kwon: "We have
played a very bad match, we still haven't
recovered from the long trip."
Italy captain Cristian Savani: "It has been a perfect day even thanks to the great audience in the competition
hall. We have reached our goals."
Korea coach Kim
Keung-Un: "A really
bad match for us aginst a to strong Italy. I think that Italy can get a
good position in this tournament."