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Across the nation, Mimi's Cafe's guests and teammates "put their hearts up" to support American Heart Association's® Go Red For Women® movement in February, raising a total of $158,000. Mimi's Knoxville team raised the most, $4,689, out of all 145 restaurants. Surpassing this year's goal, Mimi's has raised the bar by shouting louder and standing stronger in the fight against heart disease in women. One hundred percent of the donations go to the American Heart Association.
"Mimi's is touched by the huge hearts of our guests who made a contribution during American Heart Month," said Karen Eadon, Vice President of Marketing, Mimi's Cafe. "With their help and the help of our team, we were able to take a stand and continue to raise awareness to help prevent heart disease, the number one killer of women."
In 2004, AHA created Go Red For Women, an initiative designed to empower women to take charge of their heart health and educate women on ways to prevent heart disease. Donations to the movement fund American Heart Association educational programs, help increase women's understanding about their risk for heart disease, and support scientific research.
Mimi's second annual campaign kicked off on Feb. 1, the 10th National Wear Red Day, and concluded Feb. 28. Mimi's fundraising efforts included a free soup offer every Tuesday throughout February for guests who made a donation, a $1 donation came with a heart-shaped tribute card to display in the restaurant, and those making a $5 donation received a limited-edition sparkle red dress lapel pin. As a thank you, all donors received up to $30 in Mimi's savings.
Mimi's also spread the word about heart health in social media. Beverly Swanson of Reno, NV earned first prize, a $500 Macy's® Gift Card and an exclusive Seiko® Tressia Watch, in the Mimi's Goes Red Fan Challenge.
For more information on Mimi's Cares initiatives, visit www.mimiscafe.com/Cares.
Founded by Arthur Simms, who was stationed in France during World War II, Mimi's Cafe is a neighborhood bistro inspired by the wonderful flavors, wines and unmistakable ambience of Paris, and named after a captivating mademoiselle he met named Mimi. In 1978, he opened the first Mimi's Cafe inspired by his memories of Mimi and passion for good food, wine and camaraderie that he remembered so fondly. Mimi's Cafe is owned by Le Duff America, Inc. and has 145 locations in 24 states. More info at www.MimisCafe.com.
About Go Red For Women
Go Red For Women® is the American Heart Association's national movement to end heart disease in women. We are committed to the fight, for as long as it takes. The American Heart Association's Go Red For Women® movement advocates for more research and swifter action for women's heart health. The American Heart Association's Go Red For Women® movement was created by women, for women. Because our health is non-negotiable, because we have the power to save our lives, and because the best force for women is women. The American Heart Association's Go Red For Women® movement is nationally sponsored by Macy's and Merck & Co., Inc, with additional support from our cause supporters. For more information please visit GoRedForWomen.org or call 1-888-MY-HEART (1-888-694-3278).
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|Building bridges
We would really be better off without it, wouldn't we?
I think it is probably safe to say that anyone, who went to Porto to support City, will be dead against anything but more Europa League. A lot more Europa League. This is the sorry tale of wine, dance and sunshine that accompanied us through an away win at the house of one of the greats of European football and the holders of the UEFA Cup, as I like to call it.
|Settling in to new surroundings
The Quai de Ribeira is the sort of place, when bathed in Spring sunshine, with its little port barges puttering past, the wine lodges basking on the other bank, Gustave Eiffel's giant iron railway bridge spanning the great divide, with its rows of decorative trinket shops and eateries and the warm glow of sun on your back, that you could gladly call home for as long as the locals will put up with you. With City's game against FC Porto another nine hours or so away, this is exactly what many Blues had decided to do. In this idyllic setting, we started our day, met with old faces and new, turning the taps slowly on what would become a day's worth of Superbock and red wine and wallowed in our sheer bad luck to have been drawn to this beautiful old coastal city in northern Portugal to watch top class European football.
"Manchester's a shithole, we wanna stay here" rang out loud and clear as tin trays and soup spoons were commandeered for percussion practice. It is always at times like these that you are reminded what a fantastic experience an away trip in Europe can be. Old familiar faces and new unfamiliar ones streamed past. A hug, a handshake, a volley of old reminiscences. The place was awash with the good and great of City's bedrock support, with the lined faces to prove what we had all been through to finally merit a day and a half in the sunshine of southern Europe.
The talk of Carlisle in 84 and Grimsby and Lincoln, of trips to Barnet and Wrexham, Bristol Rovers and Shrewsbury put this bright sunny place into stark perspective. For so many faces, creased deep by the labour of love, this was like a reward at the end of a long hard journey. As the red wine flowed and the stories broadened out into what might become of us, minds were trained on the job in hand. Would City be full strength? Would Mancini risk throwing Yaya in so soon after he had completed African Nations Cup duties? Would we last it in this heat slogging back bottle after bottle of red wine?
Boom boom boom, went the tin trays again. "Oh David Silva, Oh David Silva, he scored the 5th goal at Old Trafford...."
By the time the light began slanting down over the port lodge roofs on the opposite bank, there could be only one outcome to the day's wonderful meandering melodies. We headed to the trains and coaches, expectation and, in various cases, heavy bladders getting the better of us. A mild altercation in the underground ensued as some visitors became confused by the strange local custom of paying for tube travel, but there was no stopping the flow of merry travellers from completing the short journey to station "Estadio do Dragão".
|Watching the plebs getting frisked from the UEFA staircase
Exiting into what was now night, the giant bulk of this brand new stadium (constructed for Euro 2004) shone out at us, it's great open end allowing the first glimpses of the dark blue seats which would soon be occupied by 48,000 bellowing believers. There was just time for the typical modern football experience of disappearing into the neighbouring shopping centre, where Portistas were devouring pancakes and coffee. We opted for ice cream and red wine, which seemed particularly apt at the time.
At this point I was reminded of the large piece of laminated plastic attached to the lapel of my coat. Ah yes, of course, I would - thanks to the doyen of the Sporting Lisbon press box Tom Kundert - be taking in this game from the sweaty ranks of the press! I had almost forgotten. Luckily, by imbibing heavily during the day, I would not stand out too much in my amateurish shufflings from the rank and file of the Men of Letters..
|"pencil, notepad.....razor, toothbrush, hair drier, what's this square one for?....."
"Please, Sir!" came the firm but polite voice of a teenage security boy, bedecked in shirt and tie, walkie talkie and UEFA embossed credentials. "Not here for pictures!". Why not, I shrugged. "UEFA!" came the all-empowering one word explanation. You don't need to say anything else, do you? I had visions of that nasty Anglophobe Mr Platini doing a Gallic shrug and getting me thrown out. There was no space for argument. I sat, defeated and put my little camera away. Little did we know, the young fellow would have recourse to far stronger words than that to get me under control later on, when the football excitement would mount towards volcanic levels.
For now I slipped back into my seat nonchalantly flipping the pages of my notepad and checking that my pen was still functioning. Preparation involved writing "Ready Steady Eddie" just to look busy for a minute. Try writing this under the influence of alcohol after being told off for taking photographs, whilst wearing a meaningful expression of serious intent on your face. Ready Steady Eddie!!! And I had even put a row of exclamation marks alongside it.
Owing to the excitement billowing up inside me, I now take shelter in the scribbled "Matchday Notes" from said little book to remind me of what exactly happened. This of course represents an abridged version as there are pages and pages of the stuff:
- Ready Steady Eddie!!!
- No photos, you daft pleb. What an embarrassment. Learn the UEFA rules you laughing stock amateur! God, what a start
- Pudge-bellied City official in ill fitting maroon jumper. Looks awry in amongst hoity toity UEFA suits. Good old City! All the wannabe's leaning into their laptops. Like Blakes Seven up here. Small note pad = deeply embarrassing.
- Paul Simpson alert!! Ian Cheeseman!! Looking serious, just tried to sharpen my pencil, only to realise its a biro. Sitting down opposite the REAL Pros!! Alright, gents, how's it going!!
- Music: "We are Porto, we are Porto", sounds like a funeral dirge. Still checking pen/pencil for escaping lead/ink..
- Fireworks in the City end. Still party time over there then! Hope there are no UEFA pigmies chasing them up.
- Balo, Yaya, Nasri all play. Get in, get down, and get in again.
- Appear to be sitting in tv and radio area, nice man is moving me down a bit to sit with the newspaper bods. At least he's not throwing me out. See ya later, Simmo & Cheesey!.
- (At this point I appear to have attempted to draw a tiny team formation - very small notepad, remember - but it looks a little like a Rorshach test with a fellow called "Sweating" upfront for us and a flock of caped bats in midfield..
- Looking through bars. pay nothing, look through bars. Oo we're off....
- 7:17 Yaya! Big Yaya. Nice to have you back, son.Floating, stinging, cruising.
- Big Argie flag...big Brazil flag. Something about the Armada. De Jong on Moutinho, tasty! Small v small and only one winner.
- Barry tidy but risky. 19 is James, not bad start. Constant Porto support. Nasri, woof woof.
- We're Not Really Here ringing out. Hulk x de Jong big splat. Silva EVERYWHERE. Alavaro Pereira EVERYWHERE. Oooer Nasri - corner.
- Big Sleepy at near post, Varelaaaaa 17 in case you didn't notice. 1-0 to the insiders. Moderate noise.Gah.
- Code red from away end! Nordic reporters studying laptops, drinking WATER so calm! Going into action. Take them out one by one. We are CITY from Maine Road.Preparing Blakes Seven tool box.
- 30:45 Clichy NOOO! Balotelli ooof. 36:00 taxi for James.
- BIG THIRST COMING DOWN. Weetabix mouth. Fernando clatters Silva. Is this gig working with Nasri? Sort of.
- HALF TIME. Where's the UEFA buffet. BLOODY VENDING MACHINE!!!! a vending bloody machine.tut and you have to put coins in it. A non-free vending machine....
- Long punts to Balo - not paying off.
- 49:18 Richards post right side, oof. Sit down sit down, you ape, he'll shout at you again.
- 51:10 De Jong-Balo- Barry- Yaya- nice nice....Balo just saved, Atmosphere hotting up HOT level RED again, going wading into UEFA suits in a mo
- Maicon flattens Balo. City man in maroon pullover's back, nearly went headfirst down the steps. Call for UEFA teenage helper crew.
- 53:?? Own goal own goal!!! Under the desk punches going in in in. Paul Simpson's watching from the balcony above! Try a hard man press smile at him. Not looking. Turn round. One ONE, get in the old onion bag my son, CMON BLUES
- Yellow Kompany...yellow de Jong....yellow Barry. What the ... is happening. Its 3 card trick time!
- Filha da Puta!!! every time Harty takes goalkick.
- 62:== Hulk thru, cleared away. Clichy UP and DOWN, Up and then DOWN
- 66:00 Blues starting to get on top!!!
- 66:52 Helton running around like its last minute. HAS CLOCK STOPPED? What's going on???? Something in his tea? Amphetamines somesuch tripe. Or loaded tripe.
- 68:05 Hulk touched by de Jong, goes flying rolling. Immediate surgery needed!! Dear me, for a big lad..
- 69:05 ref playing for us.
- 70__ Looking at Yaya cruising, CRUISING around. delight to have him back.
- 72:00 Superdragões have shut up at last. COLD-THIRSTY-DEHYDRATED Vending machine now anything will do
- Yellow Nasri, dear Jesus. 78:00 Aguero for Balo. Where's Milner? All this way for a press conference. Not on bench!!!
- 79:00 Moutinho big loopy into stands. Not going for them
- 81:00 Losing hands, circulation, COLD UP HERE. Found a mint that tastes like those toilet blocks.The blue ones. Micah and Alavrao Pereira 2 BIG athletes..BOOM
- Aguero sky blue boots!!! oh no Kolarov...oh no!! - for Silva! It's over now. One one.
- 84:00 goaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaL----- get in!!! get in!! get in!!!!!! GET THE BUGGER IN!!!!!!!!! Air Kissing Paul Simpson.
Lips tongues, you name it.Slight ruckus in the press area, centred on....oh, me. Sit down, Sir, or we take you away. This is press area, not supporters. Where's your laptop, sonny? You do understand UEFA pressbox etiquette? So stop shouting!
- 86 - Kolarov you little beauty! We Are Not Really Here. People leaving all around!!
- Blue Moon now. Saw me cold in my coat. Still time for 2-3!! Yellow Richards, dear me. Refs from Turkey.
- 93:00 we win in Europe. Oh boy! Press are leaving at speed. Where to now, nobody knows. Follow the Nordics. Press face attached, dictaphone magic coming up!! "Er Paul, could I have a quick word, mate?" *fumbles with on/off switch like a complete amateur....* ...Be with you in a second.
|tabloid hack begins non-football story
UEFA leggy alert. Coming right at me! hands mic to tabloid boys in front of me. I now regurgitate word for word because I am stunned:
- Scarred Skull: "Roberto, what do you think of the racist chants at Balotelli?"
- Mancini, surprised: "I no hear nothing, bat eet ees for other people"
- Skull: "How did the racist chanting affect Balotelli and Yaya Touré"
- Mancini: "Eeer, I hear, we hear nathing on the bench, nathing, so I don't know"
- Skull's mate: "Will City be reporting Porto over the racist chanting, Roberto?"
- Mancini (looking deflated): "I don't know about thees."
- 3rd reporter: (affecting deeply disinterested voice) "So what chance you go through now?"
|Mancini deals with my question whilst moustachioed interpreter waits to translate the bons mots
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Price solid, Francisco homers as Rays beat Toronto
TORONTO – Heading into a critical stretch of games with playoff implications, the Tampa Bay Rays are looking like contenders again.
David Price earned his AL-leading 17th victory with 6 2-3 solid innings and Ben Francisco homered in his first start for Tampa Bay as the Rays won their second straight to salvage a series split against the Toronto Blue Jays, 9-4 on Sunday.
The win capped a tough 3-4 road trip for the Rays that saw them drop several games by one run only to fall further behind the division-leading New York Yankees in the AL East.
"I'm really proud of the way we've handled all of these moments," manager Joe Maddon said. "I know we lost some really harsh games and it's easy to go away after those loses and we didn't go away."
Carlos Pena also homered as the Rays won their second straight and third in nine games, pulling within 3 1/2 games of the Yankees, who begin a three-game series at Tampa Bay on Monday.
"This is going to be a race to the end," outfielder B.J. Upton said. "We still got our work cut out for us but I think we're in a good position."
After the Yankees, the Rays will host the Texas Rangers before a visit to the Baltimore Orioles — two teams both in the playoff hunt.
"We have time to do this," Maddon said. "I know we believe that we can do this."
Price (17-5) gave up two runs, six hits and four walks while striking out five in a rebound game after a rare bad outing in Texas, where he was tagged by the Rangers for six runs and 10 hits.
The All-Star lefty is 9-1 in his last 14 starts overall and improved to 12-2 in his career against Toronto.
Price credited the Rays' offense for making it easy for him to get back on track.
"They've done a good job all year hitting for me, especially early in the game, it makes it a lot easier for me to go out there and try and pound the strike zone," he said. "The offense did a great job of putting up a lot of runs."
Blue Jays ace Ricky Romero (8-13) lost his 12th straight decision. He allowed a run in the first inning, then faced seven batters in the second and all of them reached base.
The Rays got to Romero with six runs in the big second, starting when Francisco — acquired in a trade with Houston on Friday — hit a solo shot over the left-field wall.
Romero walked Pena, Ryan Roberts doubled and Jose Molina hit an RBI single to shallow center field. Desmond Jennings singled to the exact same spot to make it 4-0.
Upton's routine fly ball became a single when right fielder Moses Sierra lost the ball in the sun and let it drop. With the bases loaded, Ben Zobrist hit a two-run single that ended Romero's day. An RBI grounder by Jeff Keppinger put the Rays ahead 7-0.
"Going through something like this, I would never wish upon anyone," Romero said. "It's tough. I've had advice from a lot of people, even from opponents, the guy who pitched against me today and their all-star third baseman, a lot of guys on other teams.
"(They say) 'keep going, keep moving forward, you can't dwell on the past. It's going to turn around.'"
Price had some trouble of his own in the second inning when he loaded the bases with walks to Adam Lind, Yunel Escobar and Mike McCoy, but the Jays failed to capitalize.
Pena sent the first pitch he saw in the third over the center-field wall for his 17th homer.
Tampa Bay did more damage in the fourth when Evan Longoria hit a ground-rule double, Keppinger singled and Francisco hit an RBI double.
Edwin Encarnacion hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh and Lind had an RBI single that finished Price.
Encarnacion hit his 37th homer, a two-run drive, in the ninth.
NOTES: Rays manager Joe Maddon says RHP Jeff Niemann, who left in the fourth inning of Saturday's game, is still day-to-day with a "general shoulder malaise." ... Tampa Bay will start RHP James Shields (12-8, 3.91 ERA) on Monday against Yankees LHP CC Sabathia (13-4, 3.40). Toronto opens a three-game homestand against the Baltimore Orioles on Labor Day.


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Gadhafi's death is undoubtedly good news to most Libyans and to the international community. Under his brutal 42-year dictatorship, Libya saw a complete collapse of governmental institutions. Gadhafi ruled with terrifying capriciousness, wreaked havoc in the daily lives of the people, and all but decimated the economy. Externally, Gadhafi pursued policies that added to instability in the Middle East and North Africa. He actively supported terrorist groups against the US and Israel, and aggressively exerted Libyan influence over Arab neighbors. Only prolonged international isolation and severe economic problems forced Gadhafi in the last decade to seek rehabilitation in the eyes of Western leaders.
The National Transitional Council has now inherited a failed state. In many ways, the challenges that come next will be much harder than the act of overthrowing Gadhafi's regime. Gadhafi's corrupt rule has hollowed out political institutions, leaving no functional framework of representation or governance upon which to build a new republic. Gadhafi built his power upon an edifice of patronage to the clans related to his tribe. In response, groups that opposed the regime now run along the fractured lines of tribal and regional loyalties. These are not civil society organizations that can easily draw together the diverse elements in Libya. The uprising that overthrew Gadhafi itself was less motivated by democratic ideals as such than by hatred of the dictator and his allies. Even the military in Libya is largely made up of one tribe. Unlike the protestors in Egypt or Tunisia, Gadhafi's opponents quickly launched a civil war. This all-or-nothing attitude reveals the profound divisions in society and the weakness of the state.
The Transitional Council faces difficulties far beyond the one of instituting democracy, if that is its goal. The recent conflict exacerbated damage to an already buckling economy from the Gadhafi's years. Libya's dependence on oil for public revenue (oil contributes 75% to the public budget) makes it liable to the "resource curse." (This is a common phenomenon where the government siphons off the natural wealth to bolster its grip on power and repress citizens, at the same time neglecting investment in other economic activities.) In addition, the Transitional Council has to construct a sense of national identity out of warring tribes with deep-seated animosity towards one another. It has to govern even while building a working state apparatus from the ground up, in a country where unemployment already stood at 30% before the recent war and poverty is prevalent. (As an indicator of the scale of this issue, 70% of the population is under the age of 20.)
Libya is at the crossroads. Gadhafi's death will demoralize and weaken the pro-regime forces as they no longer have a charismatic figure around whom they could rally. But the capacity of the Transitional Council to meet the challenges outlined above remains highly in doubt. The collapse of the state presents a potential humanitarian disaster. The civil war inflicted enormous bloodshed and fostered new enmities. Such circumstances could lead to a complete dissolution of the republic. They could also give rise to another autocrat with a power base created on the back of a new configuration of tribal allegiances. The problems we have seen in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last decade are likely to unfold in Libya.
A question often asked in the American media is whether post-Gadhafi Libya will see the rise to power of Islamists. The rebel stronghold was in the east of the country, where Islamists and several jihadi groups were active. Rebels included members of such groups. The Libyan Islamic Movement in particular is a recognized terrorist group. It participated in the war to depose Gadhafi and has allied itself with the National Transitional Council. The movement has denied links to al-Qaeda and characterizes itself as a freedom organization against an anti-Muslim regime that attacked its own people with guns and bombs.
It is important to note that most Libyans are in fact moderate Muslims. Even Islamists who desire integration of religious principles into the state are not inherently violent. Gadhafi's heavy-handed measures against Muslim groups played a key role in radicalizing some of them and turning them militant. The most effective way to marginalize the extremist organizations is to ensure openness and inclusiveness in the institution-building process.


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The year is 2025 and there's a raging snow storm outside. The world is a pale shade of white and gray. You wake up and instinctively look around the bedroom to locate the amber dot glowing on your G-Glass iteration #4 (4th generation upgrade) visor.
Your friends envy you. They may have a more feature-packed visor, some even have Wizers (visors with AI built-in). They talk excitedly about how the narrow-AI in their current gen Wizers is going to be upgraded to AGI but you just smile to yourself, wear your G-Glass#4 and sink back into your pillow, looking out the window – the blank canvas of the world waits to be painted by your imagination.
The amber dot is glowing and you do a slow blink with both your eyes. The in-ward facing camera reads your eye gesture and opens the note.
Hey Dan – Join us at the beach? Co-ords are N 39° 1'12.2664, E 1° 28'55.7646.
You know the place like you know a familiar telephone number, even before the spinning Digital Globe zooms in and fills your G-Glass#4′s field of view. You have tele-traveled to a secluded, clothing optional beach cove in Ibiza. You look around and you spot 5 of your friends already there. Two are present in the same way you are, as Dirrogates – Digital Surrogates. The other 3 are in person; the "naturals".
You can't feel the sun or the sand in the same way the "naturals" can, but that doesn't matter, the meta-data from the location has already streamed through and has seamlessly adjusted the air-conditioning in your bedroom and you have the option of turning off the sun-tan lamp and the ambient sound of the surf and waves lapping at the beach. Advanced frequency filtration reduces the volume of the high-pitched sounds of the sea birds so you can hear your friends better.
This is why you are the envy of some of your friends who own other Visors – They pay a premium to tele-travel in the Surrogate Reality world that Google painstakingly built over the previous decades.
Mesh-net is born:
The first version of this Surrogate Metaverse was simply called Google Earth, and it's imagery and topography was updated only every few months or so… Until the launch of Mesh-net – that changed everything. Now 3D meshes of the real world could be created at near infinite resolution and inEuclideon like detail, in real-time, and be pin-registered to it's real world counterpart.
The high resolution eyes-in-the-sky did much of the heavy lifting of capturing and draping live video over the real time 3D geometry. The advanced GGlass#4, thanks to it's stereoscopic cameras and depth-from-stereo algorithms, could produce ground level meshes of everything in the field of view of a wearer, including live meshes of people, draped with video of themselves – living organic paint.
Initially, only the military had access to the technology, but with state governments and a growing number of allies passing unanimous resolutions to ward of terrorism, citizens had waived off their privacy concerns and rights, which then opened the door to wide-spread commercialization and the birth of Mesh-net.
Mixed Reality…to Surrogate Reality – The hard science:
Every one is now aware of Augmented Reality. This is the next big media Technology marvel. While previously it resided only in University research labs, the emergence of cost effective hardware such as visors from Vuzix, Meta-Glass, Google Glass and even the I-Phone and Android based phones, with sophisticated hardware such as digital compasses and accelerometers has allowed Augmented Reality applications to be introduced to the public. One excited market is the Ad Industry and Marketing agencies that have helped popularize this technology.
Augmented Reality thus far has come to mean the overlaying of Computer generated imagery (CGI) in perfect registration and orientation with a live view (usually via the built in camera of a device) of the real world. In most instances people are now familiar with turning on their built in smart-phone camera, and have an AR application run, that superimposes useful information in context to the live camera view shown on the display. Examples range from a list of nearby fast food outlets, to geo tagged "tweets" from Twitter. Applications like Layar also allow the overlaying of 3D objects of interest.
If we could use the concept of Augmented Reality, mixed with Virtual Reality, in context with a town, city or even the world… we could in effect, be sitting at home and tele-traveling via a digital representation of ourselves, our 'Dirrogates', in a superimposed world, while "interacting" with real people in the real world. This would be Mixed Reality, or Surrogate Reality.
Google Powered Surrogate Reality:
How could Google power such a Surrogate Reality experience? Google already has a Virtual version of not only every street, town and city… It has a virtual copy of the entire planet in the form of Google Earth. With Google Earth you can zoom in and spin a "Digital Globe" on a PC to visit a geographically correct and accurate digital representation of any city or country in the world down to street level. A rich overlay map shows an aerial satellite image of this location draped on the digital globe.
The Digital Globe from Google also has many 'layers' that can be turned on and off, such as traffic information, locations of civic services etc. One of the most important layers is the 3D buildings layer. This allows whole streets and city blocks to be represented in Google Earth as 3D models that can be navigated in real time. All these layers are geo referenced and located at exact real world co-ordinates. So for instance if we create a 3D building and a community park or playground and place it at the exact co-ordinates as in the real world, we would have a location that we can navigate to virtually, and be at the same place as someone who may be there in real life (IRL)!
Another example, is if we create a replica 3d model of a supermarket or a bookstore that exists in real life and place this 3D model at the exact same co-ordinates on the Digital Globe, we could "fly" to this virtual model and "enter" the building as shown in the video above.
Case Study – Social Networking in a Surrogate Reality World:
How does this all tie in and what are the benefits of mixing Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality? Take the case of the community park as mentioned above. If we have a virtual model of such a community park, and if Google Earth adds an "avatar" layer we could have a Second Life type socializing and collaboration platform. Using Internet chat, voice and webcam we could start a social interaction with another avatar that might be at the same location.
In-fact Google had done an experiment with such a virtual world with their project, Lively which has since been closed. If you thought this would be an interesting way to meet different people from different parts of the world, via a very intuitive interface (much better way than navigating in Second Life), imagine if you could interact with REAL PEOPLE who may be present at that real world location! Your Digital Surrogate would be socializing with a real human, driven by you in the comfort of your armchair.
Surrogate interaction with Humans:
So how would your Surrogate avatar interact with Real People? This is where Augmented Reality comes in.
An excerpt from the hard science novel "Memories with Maya" explains…
The prof was paying rapt attention to everything Krish had to say. "I laser scanned the playground and the food-court. The entire campus is a low rez 3D model," he said. "Dan can see us move around in the virtual world because my position updates. The front camera's video stream is also mapped to my avatar's face, so he can see my expressions."
"Now all we do is not render the virtual buildings, but instead, keep Daniel's avatar and replace it with the real-world view coming in through the phone's camera," explained Krish.
"Hmm… so you also do away with render overhead and possibly conserve battery life?" the prof asked.
"Correct. Using GPS, camera and marker-less tracking algorithms, we can update our position in the virtual world and sync Dan's avatar with our world."
"And we haven't even talked about how AI can enhance this," I said.
I walked a few steps away from them, counting as I went.
"We can either follow Dan or a few steps more and contact will be broken. This way in a social scenario, virtual people can interact with humans in the real world," Krish said. I was nearing the personal space out of range warning.
"Wait up, Dan," Krish called.
I stopped. He and the prof caught up.
"Here's how we establish contact," Krish said. He touched my avatar on the screen. I raised my hand in a high-five gesture.
"So only humans can initiate contact with these virtual people?" asked the prof.
"Humans are always in control," I said.
Radius of 'Contact'; Human and Surrogate:
So, a human present at a real world location, can, via his/her smart-phone or visor, locate and interact with a "Surrogate". Social Interaction will take place just as it does today; The surrogate hears the human who speaks thru the visor's mic, and the human hears the Surrogate via the speaker or headphones. The human, of course is at all times "seeing" the Surrogate via the augmented view of the see through visor. This way the human can know where the Surrogate is. Communication can be initiated and maintained only while the Surrogate is within a certain radius-of-contact of the visor/smart-phone, and by the user then "clicking" or gesturing to initiate contact with the Surrogate.
On establishing contact with the Surrogate to start social interaction, a 3D avatar of the human can then "spawn" in the superimposed world so that the Surrogate can have visual confirmation or "see" the human. The accelerometer and compass in the smart phone or visor can keep track of the movement of the human in the real world and thus update the position of the human's avatar. It is then up to either the human or Surrogate to stay in one place or move around and be followed by the other, in order to maintain the radius of contact for social interaction in their Digital Personal Space.
In the video above, a Surrogate is shown in a real world location as he would appear when viewed through the display of a Smart Phone or visor. By 2025, there is every reason to realistically predict that the "Surrogate" will be of sufficiently high quality and humans (growing up with video games and lifelike anime) will get over the "uncanny valley" effect plaguing today's generation of CGI and human minds.
The future of Mesh-net and Dirrogate Reality:
Competitors tried back in 2015 and still try today, to build something as sophisticated as Mesh-Net – an attempt to create parallel universes, and recently there have been attempts to hack into Mesh-net itself. Tele-traveling had a serious impact on transportation and there were many job losses that had a knock on effect on related businesses. But, these incidents are dropping, as humans finally see the logic of living in a border-less world, where resources are in abundance, thanks to advances in technology that allowed for large scale desalination of water, near earth-body and asteroid mining and dying out of war mongering human minds.
The essay is to seed ideas, and is not to be interpreted in any way as endorsement or involvement from Google or other organizations mentioned. All existing trademarks and copyrights are acknowledged and respected as belonging to their respective owners.
The concepts in this essay are from the novel "Memories with Maya" by Clyde DeSouza.


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Research in Motion's so called iPad killer is dying a premature death on Sprint's network.
Sprint Nextel has pulled the plug on its support for RIM's PlayBook tablet that would have run on the carrier's 4G network.
"We apologize for any inconvenience but the BlackBerry 4G PlayBook Tablet that was announced in January for summer availability will no longer be coming to the Sprint network," a Sprint representative told Wired.com in a statement. "This was a mutual decision between Sprint and RIM."
The carrier was forced to end the relationship because of a lack of demand by business customers. The move also leaves the PlayBook without a U.S. carrier.
Verizon and AT&T are both selling Apple's popular iPad 2.
Without carrier support, RIM will only be able to sell 3G versions of the tablet that had such high expectations ahead of its release but failed to receive positive reviews.
Sprint Kills BlackBerry's iPad Killer
Research in Motion's so called iPad killer is dying a premature death on Sprint's network.


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A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world.
In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial panics. Nature unleashes its wrath and people rush to help the victims. Evil shows its face and we are paralyzed over how to respond.
It was not always this way. During the twentieth century, thinkers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Reinhold Niebuhr, Arthur Koestler, and George Orwell made evil central to everything they wrote. Acclaimed political scientist Alan Wolfe argues that in an age of partisan blame-assigning, therapeutic excuse-making, and theological question-dodging, we need to get serious about the problem of evil once again. While there will always be something incomprehensible about evil, we are very much capable of understanding and combating the use of evil means to obtain political ends.
Diplomats and politicians with their own agendas ignore this side of evil to grim and often tragic effect. These movers and shakers apply the concept of general evil, seemingly inconquerable, inviting only violence and despair to situations that are local in nature. Looking at examples of political evil around the globe—in the Middle East, Darfur, the Balkans, and at home in the West—Wolfe shows us how seemingly small distinctions can make an immense difference in international response. And he makes clear that much-needed change can be initiated with a shift in how we talk and think about political evil.
International shame in the years following the Rwandan genocide—after the world failed to recognize it as such—led to a large-scale campaign against genocide in Darfur. Except, Wolfe argues, in Darfur it wasn't genocide: it was civil war. We see—surprisingly, and powerfully—that labeling the conflict incorrectly had disastrous effects, even extending the violence as soldiers waited for seemingly inevitable Western intervention. When, on the other hand, Western leaders compared Serbian president and infamous ethnic cleanser Slobodan Milosevic to Hitler, they failed to recognize that exterminating people and seeking to take over their land are both evil but they are evil in different ways; misguided Western intervention in the Balkans eventually brought ethnic cleansing to an end, but only by allowing it to run its course.
At once impassioned and pragmatic, Political Evil sheds essential light on the creation of policy and on a concrete path to a more practicable and just future.
From the Hardcover edition.
""Intelligent and often brave . . . Audacious . . . Important . . . Whatever you label Wolfe's argument in Political Evil, it is timely, valuable and refreshingly adult." -Jonathan Rauch, The New York Times Book Review "In Political Evil, Alan Wolfe issues a compelling summons to moral and intellectual seriousness and conducts a multi-pronged and . . . soberly argued inquiry into the contemporary forms of political evil and the proper means for combating them." -Peter Berkowitz, The Wall Street Journal "[Wolfe's] sentiments . . . seem both admirable and true." -Michael Ignatieff, Slate "Ambitious and important." -Charles R. Morris, Commonweal "This book has many virtues. Wolfe has done us a service in reminding us that human beings should be sensitive to their own fallibility, and to the dangers of a hubristic mustering of overwhelming force . . . Political Evil represents the reflections of an intelligent, humane and learned scholar who has many important things to say to policy makers in a world that is dangerous and sadly in need of tempering voices." -Robert Swan, Washington Independent Review of Books "A revelatory work: full of terrific analysis, and, a word I hesitate to use, wisdom. So many illuminations about so many murky matters. Really wonderful." -C.K. Williams, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry "In this impassioned and thought-provoking journey through the varied landscape of political evil, Alan Wolfe draws subtle and often heartbreaking distinctions examining what can—and cannot—be done to combat the most vile organized horrors that human beings have always inflicted upon one another. This is a necessary but disturbing book, because it is all about the heart of darkness that is so much more comfortable to ignore—and our own limitations even when we try to do the right thing."-Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason "In the face of mass violence, terrorism, and genocide around the globe, democratic citizens risk inaction and also excessive reaction. Are there alternatives to letting evil continue and producing more violence and inevitable victimization of innocents? Alan Wolfe's clear-eyed analysis offers vital tools to advance effective responses. He calls for joining unblinking condemnation of large-scale horrors with precise attention to their particular roots. His warnings against sweeping generalizations and faulty analogies to the past are grounded in detailed studies of mass violence in Darfur, the US 'war against terror,' and other current events. For serious alternatives to overreaction and inaction in the face of political evil, read Alan Wolfe." -Martha Minow, author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness "Despite the persistence of evil, Wolfe is hopeful that we can stop evil acts, and despite his clear appeal to reason, his arguments are quite passionate." -Booklist "A balanced inquiry into the violent world confronting America today." -Publishers Weekly "


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Britney Spears Writes Heartfelt Letter to Young Gay Fan [PHOTO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Hardcore Britney Spears fan David LeCours recently got the surprise of his life when his idol penned him a heartfelt letter in response to a moving letter that he gave her.
LeCours, who is gay, recently met Britney at a Meet and Greet — and handed her his letter, which detailed how she helped him out of a dark period in his life.
"I got to give her my letter that I put so much effort into. The letter explained how she helped me get through a real tough period in my life these past couple of months, and how I wanted to end it all but she made me be strong," LeCoures explained in the caption of his pic with the pop star (which you can check out here). "As I was leaving the building where meet and greet was held, Britney's bodyguard ran and stopped me and said Britney requested my address so she could respond because my letter meant so much to her."
And respond she did, as LeCours revealed yesterday (Aug. 26) on Instagram:
"I honestly have no words at all," he captioned the photo. "I just want to thank you so much for taking the time to write me back and being such an amazing inspiration to me. You mean more than anything to me and it means more than you know for responding to me."
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Calcium absorption not the cause of evolution of milk digestion in Europeans – "'The evolution of lactase persistence is one of the best known and most dramatic examples of recent human evolution. One of the ironies of working in this area is that we know it happened but we still don't fully know why' says Sverrisdóttir. Lactase persistence is found at highest frequencies in southern Sweden and in Ireland. Given that calcium absorption is not the only reason why this trait evolved so rapidly, Sverrisdóttir and colleagues have proposed another cause: Although most early European farmers would not have been lactase persistent, they would still have been able to consume fermented milk products such as yoghurt and cheese, because fermentation converts much of the lactose into fats. But in famine conditions, such as when crops fail, they are likely to have eaten all the fermented milk foods, leaving only the more high-lactose products. This would have caused the usual lactose intolerance symptoms such as diarrhea. Diarrhea in in healthy people is not usually life-threatening, but in severely malnourished individuals it certainly can be. So famine could have led to episodes of very strong natural selection favoring lactase persistence."
Human and Helicobacter pylori coevolution shapes the risk of gastric disease – "Patients were recruited from two geographically distinct Colombian populations with significantly different incidences of gastric cancer, but virtually identical prevalence of H. pylori infection. All H. pylori isolates contained the genetic signatures of multiple ancestries, with an ancestral African cluster predominating in a low-risk, coastal population and a European cluster in a high-risk, mountain population. The human ancestry of the biopsied individuals also varied with geography, with mostly African ancestry in the coastal region (58%), and mostly Amerindian ancestry in the mountain region (67%). The interaction between the host and pathogen ancestries completely accounted for the difference in the severity of gastric lesions in the two regions of Colombia. In particular, African H. pylori ancestry was relatively benign in humans of African ancestry but was deleterious in individuals with substantial Amerindian ancestry. Thus, coevolution likely modulated disease risk, and the disruption of coevolved human and H. pylori genomes can explain the high incidence of gastric disease in the mountain population."
Seeing X Chromosomes in a New Light – "X-chromosome inactivation, Dr. Nathans's pictures show, creates a genetic diversity that's particularly dramatic. Two cells side by side may be using different versions of many different genes. 'But there is also much larger-scale diversity,' Dr. Nathans said. In some brains, for example, a mother's X chromosome was seen dominating the left side, while the father's dominated the right. Entire organs can be skewed toward one parent. Dr. Nathans and his colleagues found that in some mice, one eye was dominated by the father and the other by the mother. The diversity even extended to the entire mouse. In some animals, almost all the X chromosomes from one parent were shut; in others, the opposite was true."
Are plants altruistic? – "Roots can distinguish self from other, and they know their own kind (species), they can share resources and information about insect attacks and deliver nutrients to trees in need. The preponderance of evidence does seem to suggest that plants are proactive in filling their own needs and the needs of others." – ooooh, not just their own species, their own close relatives! – see also The Intelligent Plant.
Sluggish metabolisms are key to primates' long lives – "[P]rimates expend 50 per cent less energy than other mammals of equivalent mass during an average day. 'What's more, he says the difference is not easily explained by differing activity levels: a human would need to run a whole marathon every day to be on an even energetic footing with mammals that aren't primates….' The finding offers a completely new way to understand why primates have slower life histories than other mammals of equivalent body size…. Pontzer thinks that the slower metabolism may have evolved to help primates cope with food shortages. For instance, orang-utans suffer frequent famines. 'Orang-utans experience extended periods of low fruit availability,' says Vogel. 'There are months when caloric intake is less than expenditure – and they burn body fat stores.' A slow metabolism might help them survive."
Triune origins – "With the latest paper, the story on European origins is becoming clearer. Three populations account for European ancestry: the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of western Europe (dubbed WHG in the paper), early European farmers derived from somewhere in the Mideast (EEF), and a third group more closely related to ancient Siberians (ANE) than any existing population. Those Sibermen also contributed a third of Amerindian ancestry, the rest being similar to modern East Asian populations." – from greg cochran.
The first industrial revolution – "As early modern humans spread farther north, they entered more challenging environments…. Did these new cognitive demands have an evolutionary impact? Did they select for certain mental capacities over others? Piffer (2013) has addressed these questions by seeing how hunter-gatherers differ from farming peoples in alleles at COMT, a gene linked to executive function, working memory, and intelligence…. Northern hunting peoples, however, differ from other hunter-gatherers and resemble more advanced farming populations." – from peter frost.
'Out of Africa' gene mutation in human pigmentation increases predisposition to skin cancer – "The V60L mutation is more common in people with light hair and skin tone that, despite being light, tans easily in the summer. This mutation is positive for the climate of the Mediterranean region, as it facilitates the absorption of vitamin D in the winter months, in which the ultraviolet radiation is lower. In the summer months, in which the radiation is greater, the ease to darken the skin pigmentation provides a certain protection. However, the study also revealed that among people with this mutation there is a greater predisposition to skin cancer." – see also: Simultaneous Purifying Selection on the Ancestral MC1R Allele and Positive Selection on the Melanoma-Risk Allele V60L in South Europeans.
Longitudinal four-dimensional mapping of subcortical anatomy in human development – h/t kevin mitchell! who said: "Large imaging study details substantial sex differences in maturation dynamics of subcortical structures." – also: Fundamental sex difference in human brain architecture [behind paywall].
Changes in Thickness and Surface Area of the Human Cortex and Their Relationship with Intelligence – "At 10 years of age, more intelligent children have a slightly thinner cortex than children with a lower IQ. This relationship becomes more pronounced with increasing age: with higher IQ, a faster thinning of the cortex is found over time. In the more intelligent young adults, this relationship reverses so that by the age of 42 a thicker cortex is associated with higher intelligence. In contrast, cortical surface is larger in more intelligent children at the age of 10. The cortical surface is still expanding, reaching its maximum area during adolescence. With higher IQ, cortical expansion is completed at a younger age; and once completed, surface area decreases at a higher rate. These findings suggest that intelligence may be more related to the magnitude and timing of changes in brain structure during development than to brain structure per se, and that the cortex is never completed but shows continuing intelligence-dependent development."
Why do spatial abilities predict mathematical performance? – "About a third of the variation in spatial ability at age 12 is explained by genetic factors; a little less than half of the variation in mathematics at this age is genetic. We find no sex differences in the genetic and environmental influences (either in magnitude or type) on mathematical and spatial variation at age 12. The observed overlap between spatial ability and mathematics is substantial (r > .40). Approximately 60% of this overlap is explained by common genetic effects, with 40% of the overlap due to environmental experience." – h/t DOCTOR stuart ritchie! (^_^)
New evidence shows the FDA was wrong to halt 23andMe testing – "While the tests are often too inaccurate for consumers to consider them diagnoses, research shows that most customers will seek a doctor's opinion before taking action, anyway. According to the authors' research, 58% of 1,051 surveyed customers did nothing at all with their genomic results. Of the 42% who made health decisions based on the information, only 2% changed prescription drug regimens without consulting a physician. The majority of customers who made changes focused on diet, exercise, and vitamins."
Dogs' Closest Wolf Ancestors Went Extinct, Study Suggests – " A new genetic analysis of modern dogs and wolves suggests that man's best friend was domesticated before agriculture. But the origin of this domestication remains stubbornly mysterious. Researchers analyzed the genomes of wolves from three likely sites of domestication (the Middle East, Asia and eastern Europe), and found that modern dogs were not more closely related to any of the three. In fact, it seems that the closest wolf ancestors of today's dogs may have gone extinct, leaving no wild descendants." – also: Paedomorphic Facial Expressions Give Dogs a Selective Advantage – woof! – h/t claire lehmann!
The Nurture Enigma – How Does the Environment Influence Human Nature? – from staffan.
The interplay of genetic and cultural evolution – from jason collins.
Eye of the Tiger People – "But what the hell is 'culture,' anyway? Talk about a social construct! Even the term 'social construct' is a social construct, one unique to our culture. And who's to say culture is entirely separate from genetics? There's some suggestion that the two may be intimately intertwined. In rawest terms, 'culture' may be nothing more than what happens when a group's genes interact with their environment." – from jim goad.
Toddlers' aggression is strongly associated with genetic factors, study reports – "The development of physical aggression in toddlers is strongly associated genetic factors and to a lesser degree with the environment, according to a new study led by Eric Lacourse of the University of Montreal and its affiliated CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital. Lacourse's worked with the parents of identical and non-identical twins to evaluate and compare their behaviour, environment and genetics." – h/t mr. mangan, esq!
Modifying DNA May Wipe Away Old Memories – so can several double gin and tonics in a row. (~_^) – they're talking about epigenetic changes here, btw.
Apes are intuitive statisticians – "Here, we conducted the first investigation of such intuitive statistical reasoning with non-human primates. In a series of 7 experiments, Bonobos, Chimpanzees, Gorillas and Orangutans drew flexible statistical inferences from populations to samples. These inferences, furthermore, were truly based on statistical information regarding the relative frequency distributions in a population, and not on absolute frequencies. Intuitive statistics in its most basic form is thus an evolutionarily more ancient rather than a uniquely human capacity." – iow, the other great apes outperform a lot of humans (i.e. the pc ones)! (~_^) – h/t neuroskeptic!
Study: Chimpanzees Bond Over Shared Meals – "[C]himps who share their food have higher levels of oxytocin, known as the love hormone, than those who don't." – h/t hbd bibliography!
Comedians have psychotic personality traits, study finds – "In a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry, researchers analyzed comedians from Australia, Britain and the United States and found they scored significantly higher on four types of psychotic characteristics compared to a control group of people who had non-creative jobs. The traits included a tendency towards impulsive or anti-social behavior, and a tendency to avoid intimacy. 'The creative elements needed to produce humor are strikingly similar to those characterizing the cognitive style of people with psychosis – both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder,' said Gordon Claridge of the University of Oxford's department of experimental psychology, who led the study."
Natural selection can favour 'irrational' behaviour – well, there's your problem!
'Human evolution likely led to rise of religion' – h/t holly dunsworth! whose response was: duh! (~_^)
New study finds mistimed sleep disrupts rhythms of genes in humans – "During this disruption of sleep timing, there was a six-fold reduction in the number of genes that displayed a circadian rhythm (a rhythm with an approximately 24 hour period). This included many regulators associated with transcription and translation, indicating widespread disruption to many biological processes." – sleep right!
speaking of which: Study finds later school start times improve sleep and daytime functioning in adolescents – h/t anatoly!
The human brain can process images the eye sees for 13 milliseconds – imagine how quickly THE FLASH's brain can process images!! (~_^)
The Islamic Republic of Baby-Making – "Iran, like other Middle Eastern countries, has an extremely high infertility rate. More than 20 percent of Iranian couples cannot conceive, according to a study conducted by one of the country's leading fertility clinics, compared with the global rate of between 8 and 12 percent. Experts believe this is due to the prevalence of consanguineous marriages, or those between cousins. Male infertility is 'the hidden story of the Middle East,' says Marcia Inhorn, a Yale University medical anthropologist and a specialist on assisted reproduction in the region."
This Language Names Odors As Precisely As English Speakers Name Color – jahai speakers in malaysia. – h/t t.greer! – see also: Can You Name That Smell? – "It's also possible that the Jahai are built differently than the rest of us. The genes that code for the olfactory receptors in our noses exhibit a great deal of variation not only between different human populations but also between people. So it may be that the Jahai have evolved more of these receptors or a greater diversity of them than everyone else, much like the Tsimane tribe from the Bolivian rainforest were shown to be more sensitive to smells than were Germans."
Gene therapy 'could be used to treat blindness' – "Surgeons in Oxford have used a gene therapy technique to improve the vision of six patients who would otherwise have gone blind. The operation involved inserting a gene into the eye, a treatment that revived light-detecting cells."
The thinnest Americans are Asian Americans, CDC data show – surprise!
Shapely centrefolds? Temporal change in body measures: trend analysis – h/t ben southwood! who said: "Playboy centrefolds' waists have widened, weights have fallen, busts have shrunk and hips have narrowed since 1953."
Study: Violence, infectious disease and climate change contributed to Indus civilization collapse – h/t mike anissimov!
What was in that grog? Scientists analyze ancient Nordic drink – "Ancient Scandinavians quaffed an alcoholic mixture of barley, honey, cranberries, herbs and even grape wine imported from Greece and Rome, new research finds." – mmmmmm! mmmmmm?
bonus: i'm a journalist! – h/t jayman!
bonus bonus: and a neo-fascist, too, apparently. hahahahahahahaha!! *snort*
bonus bonus bonus: Genetically engineered plant glows so brightly it can be used as a LAMP
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Ballfields of PA: South Allegheny
Take a look at the weird dimensions to this field:
Left Center field is the deepest field of all, and center field are about the exact same distance, 330 feet, making left center about 400 or so. That's no good for someone who hits exclusively to left center. Also, all of those trees you see in the aerial are in a huge ravine, so make sure you don't hit any foul balls here.
Here's the view from right field:
And the ravine along the first base line:
A look at the dingy dugout:
And the backstop:
Left field, which you'll notice gets real deep in a hurry headed out to left center:
And a view from the left field foul pole.
Donning my new Rickie Weeks shirt that I bought for $5, I took some swings.
I didn't hit like Weeks though.
I hit one off of the fence, but no home runs today.
I wasn't a fan of this field. From the ravines on both foul lines, to the deep power alleys, to the weird layout, I just don't see myself ever returning to play here. One interesting note is that this school and this field groomed a major leaguer. Maybe you've heard of him.
That's right, Scott Seabol! Seabol had one at bat in 2001 with the Yankees. He then disappeared for awhile, before emerging in 2005 with the Cardinals where he hit .219 with 1 HR and 10 RBI in 105 at bats. He played in the minor leagues until 2007, and then finished up his career in Japan, retiring after the 2009 season. Although he didn't stick in the minor leagues, he did hit 32 HR and hit .300 in 2007 with the Marlins' AAA affiliate.
Condition: C-
Dimensions: D
Location/Surrounding Area: C (hate the ravine)
Parking/Access: A
In other news, this entry will be the last time you see my long hair. Its gone. I originally said I'd cut it when I reached 215 lbs, but that's not happening, so I allowed myself to cut it when I was able to bench press 275 lbs. Did that. Hair cut.
Did some research going through pictures. Last hair cut was in mid-march, here's a pic that Amy took at Twin Lakes when we were Geocaching.
I let it grow for 8 full months, so the way I look at it, I saved myself about 4 haircuts, or $60, which… is a trip to Cleveland.
Check out my blog this week for updates from The Pirates Caravan, PNC Park season ticket holder indoor batting practice, Piratefest, me taking BP vs a professional pitcher, me buying season tickets to another team other than the Pirates, etc, etc.
Other fields I've blogged about
Riverfront Park, Boston
Wylie Park, Elizabeth
Peterswood Park, Peters Township
Washington Park, Washington PA
Thomas Jefferson High School Field, Jefferson Hills PA
Clairton Resident Park, Clairton PA
West Field (Homestead Grays), Munhall PA
South Fayette


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Published at Saturday, March 14th, 2020 - 04:11:56 AM. Bedding. By Maria Halphen.
Without the need for a box spring, platform beds take up less space. This is ideal for smaller bedrooms. Even in large rooms, the extra space can be put to other uses, like storage. Many platform beds even have built-in underbed storage. This extra storage is possible because the space is not being taken up by a box-spring.
A beautiful centre table or a piece of art can make the bedroom look attractive. You can keep a piece of art on the table. Add a rug at the centre of the room or next to the bed. Match up it with other accessories in the room. Keep size of the rug limited to the size of the room. Decide upon the colors you want to use for your bed and bedding's. Bold, warm, `neutral or cool, every color has its own importance. Choose color as per your taste and wish. Your bedrooms are a place to rest, tranquil and relax. Therefore make your bedroom a comfortable place for reading, writing and studying. Use modular and simple furniture to make the bedroom spacious. Use vibrant flower vases and beautiful flowers placed in it, to create an aromatic environment. Go for aromatic candles in the room.
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Alabama UST Class C Operator Training | Spanish
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The PASS UST Class C training course consists of seven primary chapters. Each chapter is followed by a short quiz. Once a student has completed all chapters and quizzes, he or she will be directed to print out an Orientation Checklist. During the student's orientation tour of the facility, the student and the manager or Class B Operator will check off each item on the list as it is identified and explained. When the Orientation Checklist has been completed, the student may print his or her UST Class C operator certificate.
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Led by the U.S. Department of State, developers in five cities will work concurrently to find solutions to sustainability problems facing international fisheries.
Starting June 13 and occurring over the weekend, five cities will host hackathons with a unique but common goal. Led by the U.S. Department of State, developers and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Boston, Baltimore, Miami and New York City will participate concurrently in what's being called a Fishackathon. Participants will address four challenges, not yet announced, facing the global fishing ecosystem. As with most hackathons, winners of the Fishackathon will receive prizes, but event leaders are doing a few other things differently.
Secretary of State John Kerry emphasized the importance of the issue on the project's website. "Today, this incredible resource [the ocean] is threatened," he said. "It's threatened by unsustainable fishing, by pollution, by climate change. Indeed, how we respond to these challenges is literally going to help determine the future of our planet."
Rewards will be used to encourage participation, ranging from $5,000 in cash to a trip to an international fishery that will benefit from the application that was developed. Fishackathon coincides with the Secretary of State's June 16th and 17th Our Ocean Conference, where experts from around the world will speak about what's going on in the fishing ecosystem and how it impacts the world. The four challenges of Fishackathon have not been announced, but conference's pillars may offer some clues. They are: sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and ocean acidification.
Event organizers seek to ensure sustainability in fishing practices, and as an event partner, CAST Software will seek to ensure sustainability in the development process, said Pete Pizzutillo, head of marketing.
"What we witness with most hackathons is that they really reward creative, fast-paced developing and the solutions are interesting and creative, but at the end of the day most of that code gets thrown away and they end up rewriting the winners under different conditions," he said. "There should be some reward for folks for writing code that's usable, that's maintainable, and we have a system that can help identify that."
CAST develops a software analytic platform that helps in the analysis of complex systems, like large enterprise software systems or e-commerce systems, but it works on small apps, too, Pizzutillo said. The idea is to identify structural quality issues and enforce development best practices and standardization, because one of the challenges a software project like this that draws on data sets from around the world is ensuring that all the pieces fit together, he said.
"Just like sustainability in fishing, our primary goal is helping people make good programs and systems that are sustainable," he explained.


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by rick olivares
Dear God,
Hi. It's me, Barry. Barry Bonds. I've been shaken and stirred a lot lately. But I've kept the faith, Lord!
I know I haven't been the most warmest of human beings. Is it my fault that I'm the best player of my generation? Now they want to penalize me coz they say that I willingly and knowingly took steroids? I'm innocent until proven guilty. But you know that, Lord God.
I thought it was a Gatorade-like thing they were pumping into me! I swear – oopss. Sorry for swearin', Lord God almighty!
Spare me the asterisk next to my home run tally. Please. If Bud Selig places one next to my 714-and-counting, then David Stern should place one next to the Houston Rockets' NBA titles in '94 & '95. God you know that if You didn't send your avenging angel Michael Jordan out to chase curve balls then the Bulls would have won eight straight. And maybe the Russians should have an asterisk next to their 1972 Olympic Gold Medal. The Godless communists won the game after given three tries – three tries – goddamit! – oopss. Sorry. Forgive me Lord, but it's hard keeping all these pent up emotions inside of me with all the heckling and all. You hear those Philly fans heckle me, Lord God? And they call their city the City of Brotherly Love?
How about Muhammad Ali? We all know he lost to Ken Norton in their third bout. Look here. I'm an Ali fan, and I know he done a lot for the black man. But Norton smoked his ass in that one. And Budini Brown? He knows the truth!
That's not baseball? Okay Lord. How about Hank Aaron? He way feasted on expansion pitching that year. Yessirree, Lordy. Uh-uh. No way he faced guys like Curt Schilling, Kerry Wood, Randy Johnson, or Greg Maddux. Facing these cats and the heat they bring night after night --- why you could dislocate a shoulder just flailing at their pitches! And the Babe. God bless him. I know I ripped him in the past, but the man practically wrote the gospel of baseball. I ain't got nuthin' but respect for the man. But did he ever have to face the colored man? They cheered Mark McGwire, but maybe he was doped up too. Sammy Sosa? Only You would know how many corked bats he used.
I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't be rippin' nobody. Big Mac and Sammy are my homeboys after all. All this pressure of trying to help my Giants win a World Series title – and of course, since I'm hovering about Hank Aaron's 'hood, then I might as well go for the record. I'll be a good boy, Lord.
Just spare me the asterisk.


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As weird as this sounds, but the smell of brimstone carried in the cold crisp air reminds me of the holidays. As a kid growing up in New York, I would go to lots with my parents to buy a Christmas tree. And every lot would have a barrel with a fire for warmth and that aroma always stuck with me.
Oh yes - I'm from NY also. I remember that smell so well!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
As i'm from new york to and i remember the aroma of cookies and breads baking and the smell of a freshly cut tree our house smelled so good.
The smells I remember on Christmas day were not always teh most pleasant
a gingerbread latte from starbucks during an xmas shopping trip
i love the smell of my yankee candle "home for the holidays" scent back in the 90s
and now days i use fabreeze plug ins,i got buttercream/cintimin roll scent
I enjoy yankee candles also i get their candle book in my mail as i getting them the candles fill your home with memories.


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San Francisco isn't the only Bay Area city looking to bump up its minimum wage rate. Alameda County today [Fri/27] certified a ballot measure that would raise minimum wage in Oakland to $12.25 and provide workers with paid sick days, affecting over 50,000 employees.
The initiative is the result of an effort by Lift Up Oakland, a coalition of workers, business owners, and a collection of nonprofits and local restaurateurs [Correction: The Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce is not supporting the measure, as we previously reported]. Having passed muster with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, the measure must be placed on the November ballot by the Oakland City Council.
According to the Lift Up Oakland website, the initiative specifically "sets a base of five or nine paid sick days provided by the businesses, depending on their size" and "requires that the service fees hospitality employers charge go to the workers who provide the services," in addition to setting a $12.25 minimum wage that includes a provision for annual cost-of-living increases.
Supporters of the measure believe it addresses an issue that has plagued Oakland workers for awhile now.
"Income inequality in Oakland is a crisis. Workers need relief," said Lift Up Oakland President Gary Jimenez in a statement. "Our proposal will help low-wage workers make ends meet. Some business organizations are trying to push a watered-down proposal, but people need to be able to put food on the table today."
Economists at UC Berkeley and experts from the Institute for Women's Policy Research have found that the measure would have numerous important benefits for the Oakland community, according to a statement from Rise Up Oakland. Aside from giving $120 million to workers around the city, the initiative would benefit communities of color and have no foreseeable negative impact on employment. The measure is also wide-reaching—over a quarter of Oakland workers would see their pay increase.
But perhaps even more telling that the economists' study is the strong support for the initiative shown by Oakland residents. About 45 different organizations and 253 volunteers helped to gather 33,682 voter signatures to put the measure on the November ballot, which goes to show how widely popular it is throughout the city.
Oakland and San Francisco aren't the only cities looking to improve conditions for low-wage workers. According to Shum Preston of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, there is a strategy in place to expand the proposal to other cities around the Bay Area in what Preston calls a "regional referendum."
Those other cities are already making progress. Earlier this month, for example, the Richmond City Council agreed to implement a $13 minimum wage by 2018, though certain businesses are exempt from that particular measure. The City Council in Berkeley recently passed the first reading of a similar ordinance, which calls for a $12.53 minimum wage by 2016, and Preston says SEIU is also in contact with activists from Concord, Hayward and Fremont.
With so many major cities on board to improve pay conditions, the message is clear. "Ultimately this is about human dignity," said Burger King security guard John Jones. "We need more money for our people and we need it yesterday."


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Today I have been admiring this Gastown loft in Vancouver B.C. that I found in our fresh new spaces group on flickr. Thanks so much to flickr member to be, inspired for sharing this! At first, you might browse on by and think "oh big whoop, another gorgeous loft with big windows, exposed brick and beams and huge open space." However, look closer. This owner really knows how to balance things to perfection. It's not too rugged, not too sleek. Not too modern, not too eclectic. It's just right:
This loft strikes a great balance between sleek, modern furniture and some classic glitz; between structural elements like ebony wood cabinets and more worn patinas, like the exposed brick walls and slightly rough-hewn posts. Sticking to the a neutral color palette allows the wide array of textures to stand out.
For more about this loft, link over to this post at To Be, Inspired. Also, this post is hilarious. If you want to learn more about the owner, Sally, click here. She is someone I would love to hang out with!
both images from flickr member to be, inspired, specifically, Ryan. Doesn't this beautiful photography enhance the palette and style of this space even more? As I watched the slideshow from our group, every one of their photos was obviously theirs.
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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2 pounds turkey schnitzel, cut into 1-inch strips
Bread crumbs to cover
½ lbs. mushrooms, sliced
¾ cup white wine
Canola oil for sautéing
Heat oil in large frying pan. Dredge schnitzel with bread crumbs and when oil is hot, begin to fry. Fry until both sides are brown, about 2 minutes per side. You will need to proceed in batches, adding more oil as necessary. As each batch finishes remove to baking pan. When all the turkey is done, lightly sauté the mushrooms in the remaining oil and pour over the turkey. Cover with white wine. Can be served immediately or can be covered and reheated for about ½ hour before serving. Serves 12.


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D-1 Eastman size M, worn by Aldo Uribe (M. Sgt Noches) in the BBC drama series My Mother & Other Strangers.
This jacket will be on show, and for sale, at our pop-up shop in Shoreditch, London, from the 15th - 27th November.
The garment will come with a Certificate of Authenticity.


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TYPOGRAFFIT is really cool. The website allows you to play around with a few gadgets which transform words and tags into cool graffiti which can be shared over the internet to various social clients. But the app is also available at the App Store for 1.99$. In a nutshell, the app's magic is simple: TYPGRAFFIT turns your imaginative texting into imaginative pictures. It is a fun way to text, email, and twit; in short, it livens up online communications. But true artists with true artistic eyes may even find better ways to use it. I think it is time for a sarcastic grin! Rolleyes, have fun. Whatever you do with TYPOGRAFFIT, make sure you do it maturely as remember, this app turns text (any text) into a picture. If there happens to be a neat graphic on internet which can be placed instead of a word, it will clip in. If you have discovered cute phrases, why not share them in the comment section of this post? Just, remember to keep it clean okay?
Graffit, LLC, TYPOGRAFFIT – $1.99
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