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Along with fruit jelly candy, my biggest weakness is a Reese's Fast Break candy bar. Soft nougat and peanut butter encased in chocolate: what's not to love? Dorie Greenspan's recipe for Peanut Butter Torte has always looked like the homemade-dessert version of the Fast Break bar and I've been looking forward to baking it for years. Well, my chance finally arrived: the Tuesdays With Dorie baking group baked the peanut butter torte four years ago this week, and so my quest to finish the book brought me face to face with this much-anticipated recipe.
The peanut butter flavor was too subtle and was totally overpowered by all of the cream cheese + whipped cream. And the flavor of the crust was ...oreos! I found that distracting, and would use a different chocolate base, such as the gluten-free chocolate crust from Deliciously Organic that I used for the Tuesdays With Dorie/Baking With Julia chocolate tarts.
The best part of this dessert was the chocolate topping, but that's no surprise - it's ganache, after all.


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Public reception tonight to open new exhibits
Three new exhibitors will have works on display beginning today at the Community Council for the Arts.
Jeremy Sams of Archdale will display his paintings in the Hampton Gallery, and Tim Lazure and Mi-Sook Hur, both on faculty at ECU, will share the Permanent Collection Gallery.
Sams is a Christian artist who grew up in Farmer, with the Uwharrie Mountains and a rural country setting as his surrounding landscape. He took on the Pein Air painting method in 2011.
Sams won first place in the arts center�s 2012 juried Pein Air Exhibition for his painting, �School Teacher�s Garden.� He also painted the sports mural in the Woodmen Community Center.
Lazure is an associate professor in the Metals Design program at ECU. He earned fine arts degrees in the Northeast, and shows jewelry, silversmithing and furniture in national and international exhibits.
Hur is an associate professor at the School of Art & Design at ECU. The Korea native has exhibited her brooches, plastic cast, sterling, steel and mixed media in the U.S. and abroad. Fascinated by nature, she is especially inspired by peppers, birds, beans, sprouts and seedpods.
In Our Galleries
Opening Reception and Exhibitions
6 to 8 p.m. today
Community Council for the Arts
400 N. Queen St.
Exhibits up through June 1

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PLAYOFF FOOTBALL: Minster hosts 1st home playoff game Friday
MINSTER — Minster showed the last two postseasons that it can go on the road and win a Week 11 playoff game, twice coming back from Springfield Catholic Central with wins.
The Wildcats won't need to prove it again.
The Minster football team will host the school's first-ever home playoff game on Friday when Tri-County North comes to town in a Division VI, Region 24 semi-final.
"It's the first time it's happened here and it's awesome," Minster senior Devon Poeppelman said. "We're going to cherish it."
"It was big, being the first time for Minster and the way that we got it by beating Delphos, a team we hadn't beaten in 15 years," junior tight end Ethan Wolf said. "It's been a great experience being a part of that."
It's also a third straight playoff appearance for the Wildcats in Nate Moore's third season. "Everyone in town is excited," Moore said.
While many area schools are evaluating their fields after a season of marshy conditions, Moore said Memorial Field is in almost pristine condition heading into the playoff game.
"Our booster club had a big capital campaign and did a lot of maintenance work," Moore said. "Through that whole Delphos game it held up pretty well. They've been out there all week coring it and conditioning it, so it should be perfect."
Minster's balanced offense scored 29.8 points per game and split its almost 390 yards of total offense per game evenly with the pass and the run.
Korey Schultz is a home run hitter in the backfield, averaging 8.5 yards per carry with rushing 14 touchdowns.
"Korey is a special running back," Moore said. "He's sitting third in single-season rushing yards at Minster and this is a program that has taken pride in running the football. So to do what he's done this year and be where he's at is an honor for him. He's getting to the second and third levels untouched and that's the guys up front."
A unit that was a question mark coming into the season, the offensive line is paving the way for Minster's balanced offense that passes and runs for more than 190 yards.
Senior quarterback Adam Niemeyer embarks on his second playoffs as a starter with a 62 percent completion percentage and over 1,900 yards passing.
Minster features a pair of big, strong possession receivers in Devon Poeppelman (630 yards receiving, 5 TDs) and tight end Ethan Wolf (461 yards receiving, 4 TDs). Troy Kauffman is a deep threat in the passing game, averaging 22.4 yards per catch on nine receptions.
Minster's passing offense is efficient this season.
"A lot of that is on Adam making good decisions and making good throws," Poeppelman said. "The routes are just there. He does a good job not focusing just on one receiver and that opens it up for all of us. Short passes for me have been working well."
Minster defensively played well this season despite coming into the season after losing Daniel Gusching, the Division VI defensive player of the year in Ohio. While the Wildcats haven't racked up the sack numbers they did a season ago, they still hold opponents to 126.7 yards per game through the air.
Teams have been able to run against the Wildcats, gaining an average of 190 yards per game and 6.4 yards per carry, but Nate Moore says the numbers are deceptive. For the most part, he's been happy with his team's run defense. "We've played some teams that are better rushing teams and we've been up in some games and teams ran the ball against our No. 1's," Moore said. "I've felt like we're doing what we need to do to win. We're better than that number."
James Borges is a stalwart on defense, leading the team with 64 tackles. He also has 6.5 tackles for a loss. Kauffman leads the team with 7.5 stops behind the line of scrimmage for a Minster defense that held opponents to 14 or fewer points six times this season.
Tri-County North, which finished the season at 7-3, runs a Wing-T offense that features talented running back James Macpherson. He rushed for 1,095 yards and 15 touchdowns with an 8.8 yards per carry average. Macpherson went over 100 yards six times, including the final three weeks of the season. Macpherson scored seven combined touchdowns over those final three weeks of the regular season, as well. "They'll look similar to Anna or Fort Loramie or Lehman Catholic," Moore said. "It's something we've seen before."
Sophomore running back Colton Booth rushed for 533 yards and six touchdowns, busting out for a season-high 132 yards in Week 9 against National Trail.
Quarterback Austin Hutchins was efficient, completing 58.8 percent of his passes, throwing 18 touchowns and being picked off just five times. Hutchins' favorite target is senior Billy Derringer, who has scored 10 receiving touchdowns and averaged 17.4 yards per catch. Senior wideout Darrin Jackson provides a deep threat. In his 11 catches, he averaged 25.2 yards per catch and scored on four of them.
Tri-County North brings pressure most every down and Minster's players and coaches said they'll have to be ready for it.
"They blitz about three out of every four snaps," Moore said. "They probbably blitz more than any other team we play. They like to bring the heat. We like to do a lot of things on offense where we give the quarterback a lot of leeway, so he'll check to different plays. We've been pretty successful against the blitz and pick the best option at the line of scrimmage."


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It's barely February, so Bob Baffert isn't rushing to anoint Flashback as his top Kentucky Derby contender.
The gray colt made a solid case for himself, though, winning the $196,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes by 6 1/4 lengths at Santa Anita in his 3-year-old debut Saturday.
Baffert had a good day overall, with his 2-1 favorite Guilt Trip winning the $200,250 Strub Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths for owners Gary and Mary West, who also own Flashback. Baffert also won the first race on the card.
Flashback led all the way in running 1 1/16 miles in 1:42.95 under Julien Leparoux. He paid $3 and $2.40 as the 1-2 favorite in front of 15,349 fans. Flashback won his debut in a sprint race on Dec. 8 at Betfair Hollywood Park by 3 1/2 lengths.
"You never know until they go long," Baffert said. "He's always shown us he's a real talented horse. We were hoping he would do something like that."
Flashback led a 1-2 finish for the Hall of Fame trainer, who saddled second-place Den's Legacy. He returned $2.40 to show.
"I outbroke the gray horse (Flashback), but we all know the gray horse is faster than my horse," said Garrett Gomez, who rode Den's Legacy. "We got up there but the gray horse set his own fractions and was able to go slow enough. It's kind of hard to outkick a nice horse."
He's Had Enough, second to Shanghai Bobby in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile here last fall, was a half-length back in third. He's owned by J. Paul Reddam, trained by Doug O'Neill and ridden by Mario Gutierrez, who teamed to win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness last year with I'll Have Another.
"The horse has a good future," Gutierrez said. "What are the odds for the same owner, same trainer and jockey to do it again? It's more than 100-1. But we're trying and the horse is good, and he ran good."
The Wests have seven horses as early nominees to the Triple Crown series, including Flashback.
"This horse has got some ability," Gary West said. "He's been a highly touted horse. All his works have been spectacular. He's really blossoming right now. He's still a gangly baby really learning the game."
West said Flashback is likely to make two more starts in preparation for the May 4 Kentucky Derby, which Baffert has won three times.
"I don't want to jinx a horse," Baffert said. "I dream in black-and-white. I don't get ahead of myself."
Despite Flashback's inexperience, Baffert said the colt was "great in the paddock and went to the gate like a professional."
"He's going to run against better horses, which are hopefully all mine," Baffert said, laughing.
The trainer has 23 horses as early nominees to the Triple Crown, second only to Todd Pletcher's 29.
Little Jerry finished fourth. There was no show wagering because of the small field in the race named for the late owner of Kentucky Derby winners Silver Charm and Charismatic. Lewis' widow, Beverly, was on hand to present the trophy to Baffert, who trained many of the couple's horses.
"This is a real sentimental win for me because he was one of the greatest owners in the sport," Baffert said. "It brings back a lot of good memories for me."
The Lewis is a qualifying race for the Kentucky Derby, and Flashback earned 10 points for first place. Den's Legacy earned four points; He's Had Enough picked up two; and Little Jerry earned one.
"I really don't think about the points," Baffert said. "The last prep is the most important. This is when the cream is going to start rising to the top."
In the Strub, 4-year-old Guilt Trip ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:48.97 with Joe Talamo in the saddle and paid $6.40, $3.40 and $2.60.
Stephanoatsee, ridden by Leparoux, returned $4.20 and $3.40, while Baffert's Fed Biz was another three-quarters of a length back in third and paid $3 to show.
In the $150,000 Arcadia Stakes, Suggestive Boy won by 2 1/2 lengths under Talamo. Trained by 80-year-old Hall of Famer Ron McAnally, Suggestive Boy ran 1 mile on the turf in 1:32.73 and paid $10.40, $5.80 and $4.20.
"I was a little worried before the race being in the 13-hole," Talamo said. "Not too many horses win from out there, but he's such a classy horse to get over and save some ground."
Wilkinson returned $8.40 and $5.40, while 4-1 favorite Silentio was third in the 13-horse field and paid $3.60 to show.


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A concert that began with Bruce Springsteen professing deep love for New Jersey in "My City of Ruins" ended with Alicia Keys delivering an emotional tribute to New York with "Empire State of Mind (Part II)."
"I was born and raised in New York City," Keys said. "I still live right down the street in New York City. This is our city. This is everybody's city…I love my city."
In between, a dizzying array of the world's top performers pranced across the red carpet, blared their most renowned songs, told raunchy jokes, made subtle political statements and urged those watching to give. The event — a star-studded fete even by New York standards — sold out Madison Square Garden and was available to nearly two billion people across the world, organizers said.


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"Duke University researchers used molecules called microRNAs to convert scar tissue (called fibroblasts) into heart muscle cells in a living mouse"
That's great! Unfortunately, the author of the article foolishly decided to pit "microRNA – The New Kid On The Block" against the decade long reigning champ, Adult Stem Cells…and he needs to get his story straight.
New Kids On The Block
From the start, the author presents almost no accurate information about adult stem cells, their decade of history, successes, studies, trials, patients treated, safety, efficacy and potency. He is incredibly dated on the understanding of adult stem cells and straight up wrong/ignorant on many of his points. His original 3 point comparison is to Embryonic stem cells, already shown to be far inferior to Adult Stem Cells in every way including their potency. He then states Adult Stem Cells have: "…a limited capacity to form other types of cells" which is completely wrong.
He then quotes the Duke University doctor, 'The results of using these adult stem cells for tissue regeneration are "not as satisfying as one would like."
- A. "not as satisfying as one would like." is perhaps the most unscientific assessment I've ever heard
- B. I'm surprised to hear this from the doctor as Duke University has had tremendous success utilizing stem cells in treating pediatric Cerebral Palsy/Ataxia
- C. Would he be satisfied if there was a decade long history of cardiac tissue regeneration studies? There is: https://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/heart-disease-treatment/
- D. Would he be satisfied if you could grow an entire heart from scratch, from a patients' own stem cells? You can.
I suppose the author is not entirely to blame as the assertion within the peer reviewed article is completely erroneous as well: "this is the first report of direct cardiac reprogramming in vivo." Wrong!
I would further question whether microRNA cells are "smart" like adult stem cells are. Gene therapy to turn heart muscle scar tissue into heart muscle is great but then you have a scar shaped piece of heart muscle. Does it beat in perfect time with the rest of the heart muscle or is it asynchronous? Can it grow an entirely new heart from scratch as adult stem cells can? (No, it can not)
An adult stem cell grows a cardiac cell from it's proverbial birth and the cardiac cells conform from 'birth' and as they develop to the surrounding tissue and work in unison with the adjacent cells. It would appear the microRNA transforms the scar tissue at a later stage of the cells growth. This is then perhaps an "older cell" with it's own inherent programming and limitations. Prone to it's own agenda, these doppelganger heart cells may cause conflicts with the existing cells and the rest of the heart muscle.
Just changing scar to muscle is only a fraction of what stem cells can do. "Smart" adult stem cells will build the cells needed, put them in the places they are needed, create valves where valves are needed, capillaries if those are needed, bring dead heart tissue back to life and then some will migrate down to the pancreas and heal that as well.
microRNA gene therapy may have a long future of success and I am sure there are some applications which they will be great. To compare them to adult stem cells in the context of regenerative medicine as the author has done, especially without a proper understanding of the safety and efficacy record of adult stem cells, especially in the field of cardiac regenerative medicine which has a decade long history (the longest of all practical and clinical research), is like bringing a rubber knife to a gun fight.
Repairing the heart without using stem cells
By Alex Crees Published April 27, 2012 FoxNews.com
When a person suffers a heart attack, scar tissue forms over the damaged areas of the heart, reducing the organ's function. However, in a recent study, scientists successfully turned this scar tissue into working heart muscle without the use of stem cells.
Duke University researchers used molecules called microRNAs to convert scar tissue (called fibroblasts) into heart muscle cells in a living mouse, improving the heart's ability to pump blood.
According to the scientists, this process is much simpler than stem cell transplants and has none of the ethical concerns, making it a potential turning point in the science of tissue regeneration.
"Right now, there's no good evidence stem cells can do the job," senior author Dr. Victor Dzau, a James B. Duke professor of medicine and chancellor of health affairs at Duke University, told FoxNews.com.
Scientists believe embryonic stem cells are the best to use for tissue regeneration because they are pluripotent—meaning they can become any type of cell in the body. However, Dzau said there have not been enough experiments done to prove how functional the stem cells are in regenerating tissues and whether or not they may form deadly tumors.
Additionally, there are ethical concerns about using cells derived from a human embryo, he said.
Meanwhile, adult stem cells avoid the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cells but have a limited capacity to form other types of cells. The results of using these adult stem cells for tissue regeneration are "not as satisfying as one would like," Dzau said.
Rather than stem cells, the new method developed by Dzau's team uses microRNA molecules—which typically control gene activity—and delivers them into the scar tissue that develops after a heart attack. The microRNAs are able to reprogram, or trick, the scar tissue into becoming heart muscle again instead.
Testing is still in its early stages, but so far, the method appears to be relatively easy, and the data looks very promising, according to the researchers.
"It's a much simplified, feasible way of causing regeneration; very easy to use as therapy," Dzau said. "With stem cells, you have to take them from the embryo or tissue in the body, grow them in culture, and re-inject them—and then there can be technical and biological problems.
"With microRNA, after a heart attack you can simply convert some of the fibroblasts and tell them to become the right cell type and regenerate," he said.
The method also has the potential to treat stroke, spinal cord injuries, chronic conditions such as heart disease—and even the normal damage that can come with aging. It can feasibly be used for any type of organ in the body, though the process of converting the cells may be different for each organ.
"Right now, our work is proof of concept," Dzau said, adding that the method must still be tested in then larger animals, and if successful there, it can move onto human clinical trials. "But one could think about all these things of possibilities. Could you use it to treat the disease of aging and losing brain cells? Can you convert other cells in the brain to working brain cells?
"It's a significant finding because it changes the way we think about regenerating tissues," Dzau said. "It breaks open a whole new area."
The study was funded in part by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and published Thursday in the journal Circulation Research.


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In the closing days of the great health care debate, Republicans settled on an argument not based on principles, but on polls: The American people don't want this bill, they said, every poll agrees. The argument was flawed on several levels.
In the closing days of the great health care debate, Republicans settled on an argument not based on principles, but on polls: The American people don't want this bill, they said, every poll agrees.
The argument was flawed on several levels. First, "the American people" never speak with one voice. The locution, while common in both parties, carries the unfortunate implication that those who disagree with the speaker aren't American.
Second, the polls were no more unanimous than the people. One widely cited CNN poll found respondents disapproving of the health care bill, 59 to 39 percent, but the detailed results showed that 13 percent of those opposed said the bill was "not liberal enough," which changes the picture. Many polls registered disapproval of the bill, but opinions changed when respondents were asked about specific features of the bill -- universal coverage, coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, etc., which most respondents supported.
But there's a larger problem with this business: The founders didn't envision a Congress in which members based their votes on polls rather than their own judgments. Every member there (with a couple of exceptions) was elected by their states or districts, and most of them made their general views on health care reform clear on the campaign trail. Were Republicans suggesting they break their promises to their constituents as well as vote against their better judgment, simply to align their votes with the passing verdicts of dubious national polls?
American history is replete with examples of legislators who split with public opinion to vote their conscience. That's the theme of John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage." Republicans are no strangers to the road less broadly approved by polls: They impeached President Clinton when the polls showed the public disapproved of the action; they supported President Bush's Iraq surge when the polls opposed it. Has America changed so much that now we denounce such courage instead of applauding it?
Emboldened by the polls and egged on by tea party activists, some Republicans have vowed to ride into November's mid-term election under a "repeal health care" banner. While some predicted he would quickly turn the page to job creation, Obama has been taking a victory lap on health care, daring the GOP to keep fighting his signature bill.
We'll see how that plays out on Election Day, in the only poll that counts. Meanwhile, poll-takers are detecting a change in the wind. A USA/Gallup survey taken after Congress approved the bill a week ago found that 49 percent approve of the bill, while 40 percent disapprove.
Opinions may shift further as both sides continue to spin an issue Congress has finally settled. But they raise a question Republicans might consider: If your big argument against an initiative is that it is unpopular with voters, what happens if it becomes popular?
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TheButcher wrote:SDCC: "Daredevil" Season 3 Ordered By Netflix SDCC:
Marvel executive Joe Quesada confirmed that a third season of Netflix's "Daredevil" is on the way.
'The Defenders' Teaser Previews Marvel's Netflix Team-Up Series; 2017 Release Date Confirmed
'Luke Cage': Sweet Christmas, the First Trailer Has Arrived!
SDCC '16: Check Out The First Trailer For Marvel And Netflix's IRON FIST
Wolfpack wrote:TheButcher wrote:SDCC: "Daredevil" Season 3 Ordered By Netflix SDCC:
Marvel executive Joe Quesada confirmed that a third season of Netflix's "Daredevil" is on the way.
'The Defenders' Teaser Previews Marvel's Netflix Team-Up Series; 2017 Release Date Confirmed
'Luke Cage': Sweet Christmas, the First Trailer Has Arrived!
SDCC '16: Check Out The First Trailer For Marvel And Netflix's IRON FIST
Looks like there's a lot of navel-gazing angst coming our way!
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Fried Gold wrote:Is this going to get a DVD release at some point?
Why don't you just Netflix it? Or give a pirate subscription link on a piece of paper to whoever you're giving this a Christmas present to?
Peven wrote:why would you put that in spoiler black out?
Todd Spangler wrote:Turns out that as a crime-fighting quartet, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist together may be weaker than they are as solo vigilantes.
"Marvel's The Defenders," featuring the street-hero characters, was the least-watched Netflix Marvel original series premiere in the U.S. as measured over the first 30 days of viewership, according to an analysis by Jumpshot, a marketing-analytics firm.
For the comparison, Jumpshot created an index benchmarking each of the Netflix Marvel series against the top-viewed of the bunch, which was "Daredevil" season 2 in March 2016. Following its Aug. 18 premiere, "The Defenders" clocked in with just 17% of the viewership that "Daredevil" season two received in the first 30 days. The study looked at Netflix U.S. subs who watched at least one episode of each series.
Compared with "The Defenders," the previous premieres of "Iron Fist," "Luke Cage" and "Jessica Jones" performed relatively equally in the first 30 days, accounting for 28%, 27% and 26% of "Daredevil" season 2's viewership, respectively. In addition to being the least-viewed of the group, "The Defenders" also had the largest week-over-week drop in viewership, declining by 67%, 48% and 41%, respectively, over the 30-day period, per Jumpshot.
Netflix doesn't release viewing data, leaving industry players to rely on estimates from third parties. But execs from the streaming-video company have routinely questioned the validity of attempts to gauge consumption on its global platform.
Moreover, Netflix evaluates the full performance of its content on its VOD service over a longer span than just 30 days. But the initial consumption of a series is often a good indicator of its long-term performance, and it's worth noting that "The Defenders" showed a significant drop in viewers in the first month on the service.
The eight-episode miniseries "Marvel's The Defenders" tells the story of Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter) and Iron Fist (Finn Jones), who reluctantly band together to save New York City from criminal mastermind Alexandra Reid (Sigourney Weaver).
Why did "The Defenders" mashup get a colder shoulder than its predecessor series? One explanation may be that each of the individual street heroes appeals to different kinds of viewers, at least among Netflix members who had never watched content tagged as in the "superhero" genre before.
According to a Netflix news release, one-eighth of the viewers for the Marvel street-hero series were new to the comic-book genre. Among this group of newbies, "Daredevil" viewers gravitate toward storylines featuring antiheroes and moral ambiguity; "Jessica Jones" attracted those attuned to "sharp humor and dark crime"; "Luke Cage" watchers tended to prefer stories about "dangerous worlds and complex consequences"; and "Iron Fist" drew in fans of coming-of-age tales.
For the data on Netflix originals, Jumpshot looked at the viewing behavior and activity of the company's U.S. members. The San Francisco-based company analyzes anonymized click-stream data from a panel of more than 100 million internet consumers, amounting to some 160 billion individual data points per month. The data excludes viewing that occurs on connected-TV platforms or Netflix mobile apps, but Jumpshot says its benchmark analysis reflects aggregate viewing on the platform.
Wolfpack wrote:So...Daredevil has been cancelled.
Wolfpack wrote:So...Daredevil has been cancelled.
TheBaxter wrote:Wolfpack wrote:So...Daredevil has been cancelled.
probably because of that same Christian group that wants Good Omens cancelled. can't be having a tv show about a devil, especially one who dares.
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Twins with rare disorder fight for their lives
Posted by rrichardson May 2nd, 2013, 8:03 pm
Daniel and Forrest Theiss wanted to fight for their country.
Daniel dreamed of becoming an airborne medic in the U.S. Army. Forrest enlisted with the U.S. Marines.
Instead, the 18-year-old identical twins are fighting for their lives after being diagnosed with a genetic condition – so rare it doesn't even have a name – that causes blood vessels in their body to rip and shred.
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In the past year and a half, the once healthy and active Mason teens have each undergone multiple surgeries to repair aortas shredded like wet tissue paper. Complications during a surgery in January – Daniel's third major operation – left him a paraplegic.
For the brothers and their parents, Matt and stepmom Kathy, the journey has been both heartbreaking and harrowing, but also inspiring – a lesson about finding joy in adversity and of the transformational power of family and community.
At first glance, it's hard to tell Daniel and Forrest apart.
Sharing a 98 percent genetic match, both have the same tall, lanky build, aquiline nose and doleful brown eyes. Even their voices – and their infectious sense of humor – are nearly indistinguishable
The differences, they will tell you, are in the details.
Daniel, the older brother by five minutes, is practical and patient. Forrest, the entertainer, embraces the limelight, while Daniel, the quiet artist, prefers to remain behind-the-scenes.
When Matt's job as a business analyst moved the family from Long Island, N.Y., to Mason the summer before their senior year in 2011, the boys quickly found their groove at Mason High School.
Daniel joined the cross country team. Forrest tried out for the school musical. Despite a bout of pneumonia that fall that sidelined Daniel, there was little sign of what was to come.
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Daniel Theiss at home with stepmom Kathy. Daniel and his identical twin brother Forrest, 18, both suffer from a rare genetic mutation that causes their arteries to rip and shred. The Enquirer/Tony Jones
In January 2012, an observant Army doctor detected a heart murmur in Daniel. That same night, he was overcome by a sudden wave of excruciating stomach pain.
An echocardiogram detected an aortic dissection, an uncommon but often lethal tear in the inner lining of the body's largest artery. The tear allows blood to surge into the middle layer of the aorta, causing the muscle layers to peel apart.
If the tear ruptures through the aorta's third and outside wall, death can be almost immediate.
Aortic dissections claimed the lives of actors Lucille Ball and John Ritter.
The Theisses were even more stunned by what came next.
Genetic tests revealed both Daniel and Forrest share a mutation of the ACTA2 gene. The defective gene affects muscular contractions in the aorta and other blood vessels, which can lead to aortic aneurysms and dissections.
Doctors stabilized Daniel and scheduled both boys for surgery after graduation that June.
Two weeks later, in February, Daniel was rushed to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center with chest pain
As doctors stabilized Daniel, Forrest felt his left arm go numb. An MRI revealed an ascending aortic dissection. Forrest needed emergency surgery.
Matt made the difficult decision to transfer Forrest to the Cleveland Clinic, where doctors there might save his aortic valves.
"They told me that every half-hour we waited was another 10-15 percent chance Forrest could die," Matt recalls.
In Cleveland, hospital staff immediately whisked Forrest into surgery, where cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Eric Roselli sawed through his ribcage to replace his dissected aorta with a synthetic sleeve. Daniel would undergo a similar procedure four days later.
"If they didn't have the surgery, they most certainly would have died within days," Roselli says.
After several months of rehabilitation, Daniel and Forrest came home. They went to prom. Graduated high school. Tried to put the harrowing experience behind them.
Daniel got a job at a local fast food restaurant and planned to become an EMT. Forrest moved to New York to study nursing.
But their ordeal wasn't over.
In August, Daniel suffered a series of mini-strokes sparked by aneurysms in his carotid arteries. Four months later, his aorta dissected another 20 centimeters.
Forrest flew in from New York for Daniel's Jan. 22 surgery. As Roselli gathered the family for an update, Forrest suffered a stroke.
Daniel and Forrest's parallel medical paths would soon diverge. Over the next two days, Daniel fell victim to a spinal stroke and lost all sensation from the waist down.
"Forrest and Daniel are in sync. When one does something, the other has to top it. I didn't think they were going to medically top each other, but they have," Kathy says.
Faith that God has a purpose for the boys is what sustains Matt and Kathy. For Daniel and Forrest, laughter is the best medicine.
The brothers call themselves Forrest Gump and Lt. Dan – a self-deprecating wit that belies a steely determination to live life to the fullest.
"You have to have a good sense of humor about it. Otherwise, you'd be sitting in bed all day thinking, 'What's the point?''' Daniel says.
But laughter won't pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket medical costs incurred by the Theisses, who've dipped into their retirement funds and taken a loan against their house. It won't pay for the $34,000 home renovation to make their home handicap-accessible or for a variety of assistive devices to help Daniel live independently.
Luckily, the Theisses didn't move into just any neighborhood. They moved into Mason's Coddington Reserve.
After the twins' first surgeries, neighbors in the Theisses' remarkably close-knit, 10-home cul-de-sac sprang to action, organizing a "meal train," performing yard work and lending a sympathetic ear. They hope to raise at least $6,000 Saturday at a fundraiser at the Mason American Legion.
The Theisses take nothing for granted. Each day is a gift.
"It's pretty much guaranteed that their arteries will continue to degenerate," Matt says. "We know they won't have a normal life span."
"The doctors really can't predict their future," Kathy adds. "It's all really in God's hands."
Their career goals upended, Daniel and Forrest struggle to redefine themselves. Forrest switched majors from nursing to a one-year auto-diesel repair program. Daniel's goal is to simply become independent.
"I had a plan A and then I had a plan B,'' Daniel says. "Now I need a plan C."
Still, the Thiesses say they are blessed.
"I feel like Jimmy Stewart in 'It's a Wonderful Life,'" Matt says. "You like to think you can handle it all, but you can't and after a while you realize you need a community to raise your family. It's made me believe it's about family, friends and helping others."
What: Daniel and Forrest Theiss Fundraiser
When: 7-11 p.m. Saturday
Where: American Legion Hall Post 194, 401 Reading Road, Mason
Tickets: $30. Split-the-pot, raffles, beverages and games additional cost.
Information: Leslie Galley, 513-459-9300; email@example.com.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 128 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
Gildale or Gildale Farms
Gildale Farms manufactures and distributes premium wood fuel pellets, which are an environmental responsible alternative heating fuel source. Wood Pellets are considered to be carbon-neutral, renewable, and clean burning when used in specifically designed pellet stoves, furnaces, or boilers. In addition, wood pellets are a cost competitive heat fuel.
Pellet Fuel is used in both residential and commercial heating.
Residential use is primarily by rural homeowners.
Gildale Farms in continuing to grow and expand, and now needs a logo that can be put on delivery trucks, on future website, business cards, etc for signage.
If possible, with regards to logo content, creatively emphasize environmental benefits to using wood pellets. An additional idea, (but not necessary) would be to also express that direct sales and delivery to the end consumer (home owner, business owner, etc) is an important part of our value proposition (and benefit to the consumer).
-clearly incorporate either 'Gildale' or 'Gildale Farms' as part of the logo
-use of green or earth tones to emphasize natural environmental benefits
-must be easily translated into Black and White
-must be able to be scaled down for on business cards, as well as scaled up for use on delivery truck signage
Note: Delivery trucks are white, logo must work well with white background of truck
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-specific use of trees, flame or fire as part of logo, other elements of nature are fine such as plants, leafs, water, sunshine,etc
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Incorporating the 5D Series Signal Conditioner Modules, the 3000PLUS is a field-scalable indicator with operator-programmable signal processing and PC/PLC communications. With a durable front panel and secure screw terminals for all power and I/O connections, this mechanically and electrically rugged instrument is ideal for pump, motor, hydraulic, and other high-noise monitoring applications.
Any standard 5D module will plug into the rear of the 3000PLUS (as shown in the photo below). Accepting the fully conditioned output of its 5D module, the meter maintains signal integrity to deliver accurately scaled analog output, while sampling all data at 16-bit resolution. The data display provides selectable digital filtering for even greater readout stability.
The operator can easily select any of three separate output channels for display:
- the meter's basic ±5-VDC scaled output (Channel 1), representing measured engineering units (after calibration)
- the "auxiliary" DAC output (Channel 2), which serves to monitor and process Channel 1, and to generate Channel 3
- the "raw volts" output (Channel 3), which is continuously proportional to Channel 2. Channel 3 may be set to a full scale of either ±5 or ±10 VDC, and is available from the rear of the 3000PLUS as both voltage and 4-20 mA output
The meter's "auxiliary" analog output is used for
- HI/OK/LO limit monitoring with selectable hysteresis windows, front-panel annunciation, and relay outputs for local process control
- high-speed positive or negative peak capture with "have peak" logic output; selectable "peak defeat" threshold (to prevent low-level input from triggering a "have peak" condition); selectable "backout" threshold (to prevent low-amplitude signal noise from toggling the "have peak" output on and off); and user-adjustable leak rate (useful in the measurement of peak trends in very fast cyclic processes)
- automatic application of a desired tare offset
- a signal hold to allow captured peaks and other values to be transferred to computer for processing
Separate logic inputs provide external control of peak capture, signal hold, tare application, and the release of latched limit violations.
You can quickly set up the 3000PLUS via the simple front-panel button menu or the configuration software supplied with the unit. Operator-entered ranges, filters, calibration points, and other setup parameters are always specific to the installed 5D conditioner.
A standard RS232 interface operating at a fixed rate of 19.2K baud allows connection of an external PC for instrument configuration and on-line monitoring. It may also be used for direct communication of simple ASCII mnemonic commands both for run-time reconfiguration and for interrogation of current data and setup values.


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Novak Djokovic wasn't optimistic about his right ankle injury after lifting Serbia to an insurmountable 3-1 lead over the U.S. with a 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-0 win over Sam Querrey in a Davis Cup quarterfinal.
The world No. 1 twisted the ankle while hitting a forehand at 1-1, 30-40 on Querrey's serve in the third game of the match at the Taco Bell Arena on Sunday.
"Injuries are part of the sport and you try to avoid them as an athlete as much as you can," Djokovic said. "The nature of the injury is still to be determined.
"One hour, one hour and a half after the end of the match, all I can say is it doesn't look good."
Djokovic had the ankle tightly wrapped and had taken anti-inflammatory pills. He plans to travel home to Monte Carlo to have an MRI.
He was hoping to be ready to play the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, which he considers his home event, but didn't sound convinced he'd be ready to play when it gets underway April 14.
"It's swollen, and when it's swollen it's definitely not a good first sign," Djokovic said. "I'm going to do everything I can in my power to recover till that tournament. How realistic that is, I don't know what to tell you."
Djokovic indicated that the consequences of playing on the ankle didn't enter his decision in continuing with the match.
"I was just thinking of just winning this match and bringing the tie win to Serbia and I'm glad I did," he said. "On the other-hand, I'm a bit concerned it's not comfortable feeling what I feel with the ankle.
"If it was a normal ATP Tour event I don't know, but probably my mindset would've been different. I had a lot of motivation and it just felt logical that you do your best to finish the match.
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Starting a Cluster on EC2 with Pallet
Pallet is a node provisioning, configuration and administration tool. It is designed to make small to midsize deployments simple.
Pallet is built on top of the java library jclouds. There is a Clojure API for jclouds, written by the same contributors that have put in so much work on Pallet, and it's what Pallet itself uses, for the most part. jclouds seems to be more focused on provisioning and controlling compute instances, while Pallet is a configuration and administration tool that just happens to need that provisioning capability.
Getting started
The Pallet docs are pretty good, but they left me with some questions and produced some behavior that I had to investigate further to understand. In that way, Pallet is currently a bit of a narrow path on top of steep cliffs, wander off the trail too far and things get choppy. To get started with Pallet, I cloned Hugo Duncan's repo at
git://github.com/hugoduncan/pallet.git and started a swank server with
lein swank. Easy as could be.
Node Types
Pallet has a notion of nodes, identically configured machines. A node is identified by a tag and specified up front how it's supposed to be configured. A plain vanilla node with no configuration or other special customizations can be created via
(defnode vanilla {})
You specify a node's configuration via phases.
:bootstrap and
:configure are the two major phases of a node.
:bootstrap is run exactly once when a node is started for the first time, useful for setting up users, basic services and settings to grant access to the box.
:configure is a bit more general and can be thought of as the steps needed to bring a node to a baseline configuration.
I wanted to start a 5 machine CouchDB cluster, so I defined a couchdb node type:
(defnode couchnode {}
:bootstrap (phase (automated-admin-user))
:configure (phase (java :openjdk)
Node names can't have hypens in them, so scrunch everything together. The
phase calls are a macro that run packaged configurations called crates. The above adds my public key (
~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) as authorized to login to a couchdb node, and then installs the Open JDK and CouchDB. Cool thing about this is that we don't specify and it doesn't matter what flavor of Linux is running on the node, these crates are agnostic.
Logging into the Box
jclouds, not Pallet as far as I can tell, when targeted at EC2 creates a new security group per tag (nodetype) and a new key pair per box. This is good security practice, but it wasn't obvious to me how to get the actual key so that I could log into a node and pooke around.
Poking around on individual nodes is what Pallet is supposed to save you from, so much later in your comfortability with the tool I'm sure that this sort of thing doesn't matter, but it's an issue I encountered.
automated-admin-user crate is incredibly useful in this regard. It authorizes a public key for login in addition to the one that jclouds creates. By default it authorizes
~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, your public key, but you can supply your own along with a few more advanced options defined in the
pallet.crate.ssh-key namespace.
Beefier Boxes
The couchdb node we defined above by default uses the smallest instance available. On EC2, this is the t1.micro instance. If we need more memory or want more cores, we need to specify that in our node definition.
(defnode couchnode {:min-ram (* 7 1024) :min-cores 2}
:bootstrap (phase (automated-admin-user))
:configure (phase (java :openjdk)
The Pallet docs don't do a stellar job of outlining what these options are, but that may be because the options themselves are specified in the jclouds Clojure API source, in
On EC2, with only the RAM and Cores specified, the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is left to the library to choose. I think jclouds (I think Pallet offloads this logic) chose poorly. The machine is Ubuntu 9.02, whose ssh daemon takes forever to start (consistently more than 10 minutes for me), and once it is started, jclouds itself seemed to be locked out, all of its operations failing with an "Auth failure" message. So as a final step, I found a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 image and specified that along with the other information:
(defnode couchnode {:image-id "us-east-1/ami-da0cf8b3" :min-ram (* 7 1024) :min-cores 2}
:bootstrap (phase (automated-admin-user))
:configure (phase (java :openjdk)
Converge and Lift
With the node type specified, it's time to start up a few instances. This is the job of
converge. First, we create a
compute-service object and then we're good to go:
(def ec2-service (compute-service "ec2" :identity ec2-access-id :credential ec2-secret-key)
(converge {couchnode 5} :compute ec2-service)
converge is kind of neat as it will stop or start new nodes as necessary to bring the total number specified per nodetype. It runs
:bootstrap for newly started nodes and
:configure for all nodes to ensure that when it completes that you have a homogenous cluster of machines at your disposal.
There is a similar operation,
lift that applies phases to all of the nodes of a certain type. It looks very similar in form to
converge, but it doesn't guarantee to run
:configure unless you explicitly specify that it should. This makes
lift a good candidate for applying configurations to a set of nodes after they've already been started:
(lift couchnode
:compute ec2-service
:phase (phase (jetty)))
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The Best Destiny Year Two Exotic Weapons: All 37 Ranked
The best a Guardian can get.
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During Destiny Year One there was an amazing Legendary sniper rifle known as the Black Hammer. In Year Two, that weapon was revived as the Exotic Black Spindle and is still kicking ass and taking names. It's high impact, and White Nail perk (instantly reloads after three consecutive precision shots), make it a serious threat against any foe. Raid bosses better beware.
If you've forayed into the Crucible, you may have found yourself cursing out this particular Exotic Scout Rifle. It's a favorite of many thanks to it's balanced rate of fire, range, impact, and stability. Throw in that insane reload speed and it's a nightmare for the competition. On top of it all, it makes the Guardian wielding it much faster, so yeah, no running from this weapon.
After getting a taste for sword action during vanilla Destiny and leading up to The Dark Below, fans everywhere wished for a powerful blade they could carry anywhere. Bungie responded with Legendary swords in The Taken King that could then be upgraded to Exotics through a challenging questline. These weapons proved to be powerful, and the three different burns all serve their purpose elegantly. Whether it's taking out groups with the Dark-Drinker or tearing up a single target with a Raze-Lighter, you can't go wrong with a sword.
Placing The Last Word in the right hands can lead to devastating effects in both PvE and PvP. It's not just that this Hand Cannon is powerful, it's its speed that makes it a force to be reckoned with. It can be fired as fast as you can pull the trigger, and reloaded pretty swiftly as well. When you throw in the improved hip-fire stability, battlefields become the wild west.
Tlaloc is a Scout Rifle that is actually exclusive to Warlocks. While the other two class-exclusive weapons were considered to be a bit underwhelming, Tlaloc is actually extraordinarily overpowered. It becomes better as you charge up, keeps your grenades charged, and grows even more useful as you take damage. It's just constantly improving during a fight.
Bungie went all out designing a rewarding quest for Destiny's newest Raid Exotic. The Touch of Malice had players explore every nook and cranny of The Taken King while also putting them up against the game's toughest challenges. In the end they were rewarded with a stunning, unique weapon that was birthed in darkness.
When Gjallarhorn was cut from the Year Two exotic offerings, heavy weapons seemed to take a big hit. It turned out that most people had forgotten how awesome Truth was with it's tracking and smart detonation. But Guardians everywhere were soon reminded how useful this weapon was.
Primary weapons with elemental damage aren't exactly common in Destiny, and that makes Zhalo Supercell such a standout. It's Arc damage can jump between targets making it a perfect tool for close quarters combat and hordes of enemies.
There's something about shotguns that make them extremely fun to use in Crucible and close-quarters combat. The Universal Remote builds on that innate sense of fun by being a primary weapon with some solid range for a shotgun. That means no shortage of ammo while playing PvP and a whole lot of angry Guardians.
Plan C remains as one of the most reliable and powerful fusion rifles in the Crucible through Year Two. Fusion riflers will always appreciate its great all around stats and skilled players can use its zero charge exotic perk to frustrate enemies.


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Ideas and Insight supporting all stages of Drug Discovery & Development
Start-up Spotlight: Proteios
Posted on November 11th, 2016 by Betsy Davis in Pharma R&D
This week's Start-Up Spotlight, featuring start-ups in the pharmaceutical and biotech spaces, is showcasing the Seattle-based firm Proteios. Dr. Bob Snyder, Managing Director of Proteios, discusses the company and its game-changing research. (more…)


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1962 Dodge Dart - Too Much Fun - Hot Rod Power Tour Coolest Mopar: Memphis, Tennessee
Allen McDaniel Can't Bring Himself To Take This Dart Off The Road
Allen McDaniel knew it the minute the trailer drove up. It was May 2002, and Allen, from Saltillo, Mississippi, was at his office when it arrived. It was the '62 Dodge Dart he had purchased from John Parent of Sacramento, California. Allen had purchased the car from John fully restored. But what made the moment particularly nerve-wracking was not just the major investment pulling into the driveway, but the fact that Allen had never met John.
Allen purchased the Dart on eBay without ever having seen it or having met the owner.
"I had been looking for a '62 Dodge or Plymouth B-Body for two or three years," he says. "Every time my Hemming's Motor News came, I went straight to the P and D [sections]. Then a friend of mine saw this car on eBay and told me about it. I clicked on the pictures, and I was toast."
When the moment of truth arrived, Allen's friends went outside with him and watched as the Dart was unloaded. "They were taking pictures," he continues. "It was great. The hard part about buying the car was I had never seen it in person. But when it came off that trailer, I knew I had done the right thing. It took my breath away. The first time I got in, my leg was shaking. I don't know why."
With a '70 Dodge 440 engine, this Dart can definitely shake a leg. "It's just for playing with," he says. "When I put the new engine in, I'm going to need a little more gear in it, but it's a great highway car."
Right now, the 440 is basically stock, with 10:1-compression pistons and a hydraulic cam. It's also pushing through a complete '62 Max Wedge exhaust system with cutouts. But waiting to go into the engine compartment is a 440 short-block, which came with the purchase of the Dart. The short-block came with 413 heads, a Max Wedge intake, carbs, air cleaner, and linkage. Allen already has the short-block torn down, rebuilt, and ready to install. He just hasn't gotten around to it yet.
"I'm having too much fun with the car to take it off the road that long," he says. "I also want to add a five-speed down the line."
Allen continues to be impressed by the restoration job John did beforehand. "Big Red (as Allen calls it) was discovered in a wrecking yard in Sacramento in 1995," he says. "It had no rust or dents, and had a six-cylinder with a three-speed. John has about 30-40 Mopars out there and had seven or eight Darts when I talked to him. I called him several times after looking at it [on eBay], and he sent me some additional photos. When I saw those, I was hooked. He also said it had been a multiple-show winner, which made me feel better. I just bid until everyone else quit. I would like to meet him someday."
While in John's care, the Dart's bodywork was performed by Majestic Body Shop in California. In addition to a new red exterior, it was outfitted with a reproduction fiberglass hoodscoop. The Dart has a stock front suspension, but has the rear springs from the '66 Dodge Police Package. The stock, powdercoated wheels are hooked up to front and rear drum brakes.
On the inside, John renewed the black-on-black interior with a cloth/vinyl combination on the Polara bucket seats. The chrome work around the dash and glovebox was also redone.
"I had a '62 Plymouth when I was 21," Allen says. "I thought it was the ugliest [car] made. People used to say it was 'unique,' which was a tactful way of saying 'ugly.' But the older these cars get, the more beautiful they get."
Allen joined the Mopar invasion on the Hot Rod Power Tour and took Coolest Mopar honors in Memphis. "I'm just having fun with it now," he says. "I take it up to Memphis, North Carolina, and down to the Gulf Coast. Wherever I go, if I park someplace, when I come back there's a note under the wiper blade with a phone number, asking about buying the car. I've never experienced anything like that before. It does wonders for the car ego."
Freud may not have known anything about "car ego," but for Allen, this Dart is the finest form of therapy money can buy.


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Dancing with the Stars Season 12 Casting Rumors – Kendra Wilkinson
According to E! News – and they're probably in a position to know. 🙂 Supposedly, she met with them Wednesday.
We're happy to say that the rumor mill is kicking off in style, as our own Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett has become the latest name to surface—a source tells E! News that the onetime Girl Next Door is in talks with producers to join the show.
So just how close is she to signing?
Well, a casting insider tells us that Kendra was approached by ABC and recently sat down for a meeting with the network execs.
"Her personality, combined with her ability to dance, is appealing," the source says.


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Game On
Weather forecasters are calling for light, spotty showers/sprinkles in the next couple of hours with heavier stuff potentially coming later tonight.
Gates will open on time for the 7:05 game. Phillies lineup remains the same as yesterday.
The field was covered so both teams took batting practice in the indoor cages. Earlier, the Phillies autographed dozens of items that will be used by community relations throughout the year and for the Phillies ALS Phestival on May 21.
Charlie Manuel had his normal 4 o'clock press briefing in the dugout. Pat Burrell walked through the group and chipred, "First to third, baby", referring to his journey during last night's win.
Jamie Moyer has a routine of long tossing the day after his start. He and Rich Dubee did that also at 4 in the afternoon.
Yes, thanks go out to the fans who voted online for the Phillies Wall of Fame during spring training. The fans narrowed the 15-Almuni list to five finalists. In alphabetical order, the finalists are: Darren Daulton (c), Lenny Dykstra (OF), John Kruk (1B), the late Gene Mauch (MGR) and the late John Vukovich (CH).
Currently, 15 members of a Special Wall of Fame Selection Committee are casting their vote for the 2007 winner that will be inducted on Friday night, August 10. That panel consists of Phillies executives, members of the media and a couple of baseball historians. Stay tuned.
Thanks to the fans for their efforts in raising $10,000 for the Jackie Robinson Foundation. The Phillies' Community Relations Department conducted a silent auction of autographed baseball memorabilia as part of the Robinson tribute on Monday night. The total was just over $10,000.
Thanks to the Dollar Dog fans. You've gulped down over 163,000 Hatfield hot dogs over the first three such promotions this year.
Thanks to Charlie Manuel for not panicking when others did.


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The next time you want to turn down the emotional intensity before making an important decision, you may want to dim the lights first.
A new study shows that human emotions, whether they are positive or negative, are felt more intensely under bright lights.
"Other evidence shows that on sunny days people are more optimistic about the stock market, report higher wellbeing, and are more helpful while extended exposure to dark, gloomy days can result in seasonal affective disorder," says Alison Jing Xu, assistant professor of management at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
"Contrary to these results, we found that on sunny days depression-prone people actually become more depressed," she says, pointing to peaks in suicide rates during late spring and summer when sunshine is abundant.
For a new study published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Xu and Aparna Labroo of Northwestern University asked participants to rate a wide range of things—the spiciness of chicken-wing sauce, the aggressiveness of a fictional character, how attractive someone was, their feelings about specific words, and the taste of two juices—under different lighting conditions.
The results show that under bright lights emotions are felt more intensely. In the brighter room participants wanted spicier chicken wing sauce, thought the fictional character was more aggressive, found the women more attractive, felt better about positive words and worse about negative words, and drank more of the "favorable" juice and less of the "unfavorable" juice.
The effect bright light has on our emotional system may be the result of it being perceived as heat, and the perception of heat can trigger our emotions. "Bright light intensifies the initial emotional reaction we have to different kinds of stimulus including products and people," Xu says.
The majority of everyday decisions are also made under bright light. So turning down the light may help you make more rational decisions or even settle negotiations more easily.
"Marketers may also adjust the lighting levels in the retail environment, according to the nature of the products on sale," Xu says. "If you are selling emotional expressive products such as flowers or engagement rings it would make sense to make the store as bright as possible."
The effect is likely to be stronger on brighter days around noon when sunlight is the most abundant and in geographic regions that experience sunnier rather than cloudier days.
Source: University of Toronto


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Even after the strong start to the year, we remain bullish in our stock market outlook for the balance of the 2013. The economy is recovering and corporate earnings continue to be solid. Nevertheless, after the very sharp recent gains, we expect stocks to slow down for a bit.
Rather than chase the recent winners, we suggest searching the market for those stocks that have good 2013 prospects but have lagged during the recent rally.
Readers might recall that we have touted a barbell approach of value-oriented higher growth potential holdings on the one hand, and all-weather, dividend-oriented large blue chips on the other. The year has started strongly for the first group and less so for the second.
Therefore, in the nearer-term, we would focus on that all-weather group that offers high current income and a lower beta. This will give some added balance to the barbell while also providing some stability in the event of a market pull-back.
Two all-weather stocks we have talked about in the past that we think are timely now are Consolidated Edison (ED) and Merck (MRK). While we do not expect either to provide outsized investment returns, we do think both should trade higher as the year progresses; and each also offers a healthy dividend income along the way.
Consolidated Edison ($56.36) is one of the largest regulated utilities, with a long history of operating and financial consistency. Essentially 100% of its earnings come from owning highly regulated electrical utility generating plants and transmission systems. The earnings, cash flows and dividend consistency from these operations are higher than the utility averages.
During the recent quarter, ED reported weaker than expected earnings of 69 cents per share versus 73 cents consensus due to one-time Hurricane Sandy costs. Management guided to flat earnings for 2013 due to continued storm related expenses. However, management expects the business to return to normal in 2014. At that point, the company will be comfortable with asking regulators for rate relief due to the storm.
ED's shares are flat over the past year and have not participated in the recent market rally. Nevertheless, ED should be a key holding for any investor looking for balance, dividends and low volatility in a portfolio. The stock currently has an above average 4.3% dividend yield and a strong A+ investment grade credit rating. Investors expect 2% to 4% earnings and dividend growth per year. The company has a long history of raising its dividend, and it should also provide some modest capital appreciation potential as the current 14.6x price-to-earnings ratio is in-line with its long-term average.
Merck ($41.19) is a leading global pharmaceutical company. The firm has a long history of consistent revenue, earnings and dividend growth. Merck reported fourth quarter earnings in line with estimates of 83 cents per share. Earnings will be down in 2013 due to the recent loss of patent protection on Singulair, one of its top drugs, as well as the negative impact on the devaluation of the Venezuelan bolivar.
The stock has been weak over the past quarter due to these earnings and product concerns.
Nevertheless, Merck should continue to be able to generate strong earnings and dividends going forward. The stock currently has an above average 4.2% dividend yield and a strong A++ investment grade credit rating. Earnings and dividends should grow 2% to 3% per year in the upcoming decade. The firm has a long history of raising the dividend. The stock should also provide better than average capital appreciation potential since the current 10.7 P/E trails both the company's and the industry's long-term averages of a 12x to 14x. One additional beneficial wild card could be a possible restructuring of MRK's business portfolio to unlock shareholder value, as was done by Pfizer (PFE), Bristol Myers (BMY) and Abbott Labs (ABT).
There are always opportunities to pursue in all market environments. For value-oriented types like us, it gets harder after the market has had a good run. Nevertheless both ED and MRK offer top-drawer quality, consistency and a good point of entry right now.


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WoW: Top 5 Ways to Improve the Garrison
Let's face it – Garrisons are a huge part of World of Warcraft now. They've been made a focal point of Warlords of Draenor and, overall, seem to be a pretty big hit. My guild is constantly joking during raid … Continue reading
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It's not often when most of the long-range meteorologists agree, but there seems to be consensus building on what we can expect from the weather in April and even into May. A number of forecasters -- including the team at Accu-Weather and Joe Bastardi, now with the fledgling WeatherBell service -- are painting a cold picture over the eastern United States and parts of the Midwest.
This would be a departure from last April's mild conditions in the same part of the country. The consensus seems to be that the cold air will mostly remain north of the Mason-Dixon Line, but I think that pattern provides a solid clue on what we can expect in the Carolinas.
First, let's get the next 10 days out of the way. Today's sunshine and 60-degree readings (which are quite a warm-up, but still well below average for this time of year) will be fleeting. Wednesday, Thursday and possibly even Friday will be ugly. We can expect at least an inch of rain, and a cold air wedge will keep high temperatures in the low to mid 50s.
Then comes a warmup, starting this weekend and extending through next week, possibly through the weekend of April 9-10. The outlook is for temperatures at or above the seasonal averages. Translated: 70s, and maybe some low 80s. There could be a few days in the mid and upper 60s when it rains, but it looks nothing like this week's 40s.
Then the long-range forecasters see an outbreak of cold air spilling southward from Canada into the northern U.S. after April 10. The theory is that the outbreaks of cold will continue through the month -- and even into May in the Great Lakes and upper Midwest. Occasionally, some of that cold might filter into the Carolinas (as happened this week), but for the most part, we'll remain mild.
The main impact, though, will be the storm track. Forecasters seem to think many of the low pressure systems that move eastward across the United States will take a path along the boundary between the cold air and the milder air to the south. That boundary often will be in the vicinity of the Carolinas. So if all this comes to pass, it probably means April and even May will be unsettled -- stormy at times, with temperatures probably above average. That will be wetter and cooler than the last two Aprils.
And if you're headed north during the Easter break, take a heavy coat. It looks like spring might be late in the North this year.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
A clue to our April pattern?
It's not often when most of the long-range meteorologists agree, but there seems to be consensus building on what we can expect from the weather in April and even into May. A number of forecasters -- including the team at Accu-Weather and Joe Bastardi, now with the fledgling WeatherBell service -- are painting a cold picture over the eastern United States and parts of the Midwest.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Bastardi finds a new home
As many people surmised when Joe Bastardi abruptly resigned from Accu-Weather last month, it wouldn't take long for him to find a new home.
In fact, a lot of us are wondering if he left because he had a new home.
Anyways, Bastardi, probably the best-known meteorologist on Accu-Weather's staff, has become long-range meteorologist at WeatherBell Analystic LLC, a New York-based company which provides meteorological products (forecasts) for companies that worry about what the weather will do.
Joining Bastardi is Joseph D'Aleo, who was director of meteorology for the Weather Channel when the cable TV channel was launched.
Bastardi has become well-known in meteorological circles for his long-range forecasts and his feisty demeanor. Those apparently will be on full display at WeatherBell, but you'll have to pay for it.
His blog (and that of D'Aleo) is free for now, but WeatherBell says it will begin charging a fee for their columns on April 1.
Then again, Accu-Weather charged a fee for people to read Bastardi, so it's nothing new.
His new job is outlined in this Washington Post story, http://wapo.st/gCWnaB.
You can find WeatherBell at www.weatherbell.com.
Incidentally, Bastardi is predicting a severe outbreak of cold weather for much of April in the East, although it appears as if he believes the worst of the cold will be bottled north of Interstate 70.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
A minor quake for the Charlotte region
It seems almost silly to talk about the 2.9 earthquake that shook portions of four counties Monday evening southeast of Charlotte, because it pales in comparison with the 9.0 quake that devastated northeast Japan less than two weeks ago.
But Monday's shake is a reminder that the Carolinas certainly are not a stranger to the shifting earth.
Most Carolinas residents are familiar with the story of the 7.3 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 1, 1886, near Charleston. That temblor killed at least 60 people and caused millions of dollars of damage. It was felt 600 miles away and was among the most damaging earthquakes in U.S. history.
There have been other quakes, however, and the N.C. mountains experience minor earthquakes fairly frequently.
Monday's earthquake was reported at 6:02 p.m., and the U.S. Geological Survey pinpointed the center as being 4 miles north-northeast of Chesterfield, S.C. It originated about a half-mile below the earth's surface.
Residents in Chesterfield, Lancaster, Richmond and Anson counties reported feeling the shake, but there were no reports of major damage.
The Charleston earthquake was South Carolina's biggest ever.
In North Carolina, the biggest quake was a 5.2 magnitude shake on Feb. 21, 1916. It was centered near Waynesville, not far from Asheville. According to records at the time, damage was reported in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. The quake broke windows and knocked chimneys off buildings near the epicenter.
Even the Charlotte area has received a shaking. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there was a quake of about 4.0 magnitude in the early-morning hours of Dec. 13, 1879, centered in southeast Mecklenburg County. That earthquake awakened residents in places like Pineville, Matthews, Waxhaw, Lancaster and southeast Charlotte. No major damage was recorded, however.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Japan quake ... and Super Moon?
It's absolutely the first thing I thought of this morning, when I heard of the horrendous earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan.
Super Moon!
I wrote about Super Moon earlier this week (check out my earlier blog entry), but to bring you up to speed, here's the theory ... on March 19, the moon will reach its closest point to the earth in almost two decades. And it will be a full moon.
An astrologer, Richard Nolle, has given the name Super Moon to any case when the moon is either at its new or full status when it is close to the earth. Some have theorized that the stronger gravitational pull of the moon can cause earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes and other natural disasters on our planet.
They support that theory with the earthquake and killer tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004 (a Super Moon happened two weeks later) and a devastating cyclone which hit Darwin, Australia, in the 1970s.
Scientists dismiss the talk, saying the moon's gravitational pull is nowhere near strong enough to cause disasters on earth.
Now, with Super Moon a week away, we have this morning's devastating quake and tsunami in Japan. And an earthquake with a 4.2 magnitude hit Hawaii overnight. You want more? How about the eruption of a volcano in the Philippines?
Don't get me wrong. I'm not a supporter of this Super Moon theory.
Earthquakes will happen, and many devastating quakes -- along with hurricanes and volcanoes -- happen when the moon is not close to the earth.
But the Super Moon believers certainly gained some fuel from this morning's events on the other side of the world.
Mike Persinger, a co-worker here at The Observer, pointed out a couple other interesting facts/coincidences concerning Super Moon.
There was a Super Moon a few days before the October 1989 earthquake that caused heavy damage in San Francisco and Oakland, and a Super Moon within a few days of the devastating August 1886 quake in Charleston.
I found yet another ... a Super Moon three days before Krakatoa, the famed Pacific volcano, began erupting in August 1883. A few days later, the mountain exploded, sending a 100-foot tsunami into some Pacific islands and leaving enough dust in the atmosphere to cause chilly summers for two years across the globe.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Get ready for .... Super Moon!
As if we didn't already have enough to worry about, with skyrocketing gasoline prices, high unemployment rates, and Charlie Sheen having his own Internet show.
Now we've got to worry about Super Moon, and all the natural disasters it will bring.
I'm joking, but some people aren't laughing about March 19, the date when the moon will have its closest approach to our humble planet in 18 years. On that day, the moon will be a mere 221,567 miles away. And it will reach its full cycle.
Some people believe proximity of the moon will unleash disasters on the earth -- sort of a 2012 preview.
Astrologer Richard Nolle has coined the term Super Moon for any time when a full moon or new moon takes place when the moon is 90 percent or more of its closest approach to earth. In other words, if the moon is within about 250,000 miles and is either full or new, it's called a Super Moon.
Apparently, some astronomers have adopted the term.
Followers of the theory blame the Indonesian earthquake and resulting gigantic tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, on a Super Moon. One minor problem ... Super Moon didn't happen until two weeks later. But I guess that's close enough.
And a Super Moon took place Dec. 25, 1974, when Cyclone Tracy slammed into the northwest coast of Australia and heavily damaged the city of Darwin (a city made famous in the latter part of the movie "Australia").
Most scientists say any fears are ridiculous. The relative nearness of the moon will mean high tides are a bit higher and low tides a bit lower, but they expect no other impact.
Like I said ... if you want to worry about it, knock yourself out. I've got other things on my mind.
Then again, if all sorts of craziness takes place -- earthquakes, cyclones, tidal waves, Charlie Sheen behaving himself -- you've been forewarned.
Monday, March 7, 2011
I-77 at Fancy Gap ... a spectacular nightmare
The Virginia Department of Transportation closed a portion of Interstate 77 near the North Carolina border late Sunday and early Monday because of high winds.
Some motorists probably wouldn't mind that portion of I-77 being closed permanently ... except that the alternatives are worse.
If you've ever driven I-77 into Virginia -- and most of you have, at one time or another -- you know what I'm talking about.
At the North Carolina border, headed northbound, you encounter a 10-mile stretch in which the road climbs about 1,500 to 2,000 feet. It's less scary northbound, because everyone is climbing, and that limits the speed at which most vehicles can drive.
But southbound, from Virginia into North Carolina? Yikes! Tractor-trailers, other types of trucks, campers, SUVs, minivans and regular sedans tend to fly down that mountain, and they often roll into a thick fog bank that forms on the embankment.
It's actually the Blue Ridge Escarpment, and it's where the North Carolina Piedmont rises into the Appalachian Mountains. That change in topography occurs all along the mountain line in North Carolina, but it's particularly vivid on I-77 because of the high traffic volume and the unusual makeup of the ridge in that area.
Dave Wert, of the National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, Va., said the Blue Ridge line typically is southwest-northeast, but it's on more of an east-west line in the Fancy Gap, Va., area at I-77.
When a moist south or southeast wind from the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico piles up against the mountain range, it forms dense fog. And when the wind is strong out of the south -- as was the case late Sunday -- it creates a tunnel effect up I-77. Winds can blow at 40 to 50 mph, causing motorists to lose control of their vehicles.
The fog-induced wrecks can be nightmarish. One minute, you're driving south on I-77 in cloudy weather. The next minute, fog limits visibility to a 100 or 200 feet.
Last Nov. 16, dense fog was blamed for pileups that claimed 75 vehicles and left two people dead. There was a 50-vehicle pileup in May 2001 and a 46-vehicle wreck in October 1998.
The Virginia Department of Transportation did a study on that section of I-77 about a decade ago and found that most of the wrecks happened between mile markers 5 and 7, about halfway down the steep grade. And most happened on the southbound side, where motorists were traveling faster.
So Virginia officials installed devices to measure fog and wind, and to alert motorists in advance with overhead signs. Unfortunately, the warnings sometimes don't slow motorists.
In the headline, I called this section of I-77 a "spectacular nightmare."
That's because when conditions are clear, the visibility can be 25 to 40 miles, and motorists can see far southeastward, into the North Carolina Piedmont. Of course, drivers shouldn't be looking at the scenery. That section of the road is frightening enough in good weather. But if you're a passenger and the weather is clear, the view is great.
I also said at the beginning of this article that the alternatives to I-77 are worse.
Before this section of road was completed in July 1977, motorists headed from North Carolina to Virginia had to use twisting, turning U.S. 52. A trip of 10 miles could take a couple hours, and portions of that roadway were scary, too.
So keep the speed in check, make sure drivers keep their eyes on the road, and follow advice on the road signs. If you do all that, and if the fog and winds aren't bad, it'll be a quick and scenic way of negotiating the Blue Ridge Escarpment.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Our winter: Nasty, except the finish
You'll see a variety of winter-in-review articles in the next few days, because for meteorologists, it's now spring.
The meteorological seasons run on a slightly different schedule than on the traditional calendar. Spring, for example, is March 1 to May 31. Summer is June 1 to Aug. 31. You get the idea.
So for the weather world, winter has ended. Those dates seem to work well in the South, because the change to winter seems to happen often around Dec. 1 ... and around March 1 for spring (don't tell me about those March snowfalls ... I remember them, but they don't last long).
Brad Panovich, chief meteorologist at WCNC-TV, our news partner, has a nice recap on the winter of 2010-11 at www.wcnc.com/news/local/Looking-back-at-our-crazy-winter-weather-117325038.html.
I'll try to add a few observations of my own.
1. It started almost on cue. After a 67-degree high on Dec. 1, temperatures tumbled. And with only a few exceptions, they never recovered until the last half of February. The high on Dec. 2 was 47. Eight more days in December, the high never escaped the 30s.
2. December was awful. In addition to it being the second-coldest December ever in Charlotte (see Brad's column), there was a sleet storm on the morning of Dec. 16, and, of course, we had our snowfall on Dec. 25-26. People who really wanted a White Christmas probably will take exception of my description of December as "awful," but it really wasn't pleasant. I don't think anyone enjoyed paying those heating bills.
3. January was no better. After a mild start to the new year, with highs in the 60s on Jan. 1 and 2, it went downhill. The pits came Jan. 9-13, with a 4.1-inch snowfall Jan. 10. The worst of that storm was the coating of ice on top of the snow, which made roads nearly impassable for a day or so.
4. February started the same way. We had a close call to a winter storm on Feb. 4, when nearly an inch of rain fell in Charlotte -- with temperatures only a degree or two above freezing. The rain was badly needed, but temperatures started quite cold again.
5. When it ended ... well, it ended! It was as if someone flicked a switch Feb. 12, and brought mild weather back again. It reached 58 degrees that day in Charlotte, then 62 on the following day, and 71 degrees on Valentine's Day. Just like that ... winter was over.


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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Crippled Child Slips on Bannana Peel, Hilarity Ensues
I was 'working' there one day when a young boy with crutches (from a childhood bout of polio) hobbled back to a treatment area with some bullshit illness. I mean you could just look at him and tell he was full of shit. One of the previous patients had left a banana peel on the floor, which is very strange, as bananas were as rare as toilet paper in the Motherland at that time, but there it was, and there he went. Wham! Blood everywhere. What a mess, the little asswipe.
Nothing a few stitches and a cast didn't fix but I could barely keep a straight face trying to take care of him. His parents were Uzbeks, the worst kind, and both had congenital supra-tentorial ano-cranial inversion, so it's not surprising their little urchin had many problems. That's what inbreeding of inferior races will do. I don't think any of them had bathed in months, and their sob stories about lack of food and money were all lies and we told them so.
As the child was trying to leave on his crutches, a drunk man stumbled into him and grabbed the little boy's hair and pulled him to the ground. Boy was that funny! It was lucky the drunk man was not hurt, but the child broke his fall.
The parents were distraught but we told them to HTFU, and that their kid's problems were all their fault. You should have seen their faces! We had them booted from the hospital by the police and we never saw them again. It still makes me laugh. I think they got sent to a gulag.
Ah, the good old days!
это будет шутка вы идиоты
27 comments:
Writing in Russian is hot. I can understand some when it is spoken, but have no clue what the letters mean. I had to email my dad and ask him what it said. Nice touch.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:26 PM, January 08, 2008
This story does not make much sense and I think the commentary in Russian confirms it. ;-)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:58 PM, January 08, 2008
Will you please stop trying to turn me on? My heart belongs to etotheipi.ReplyDelete
Kegelingly yours, Shari Ann
This comment has been removed by the author.ReplyDelete
вы господин, будете гениемReplyDelete
Вы должны вывесить больше.
I hope that translated right.ReplyDelete
Good job, Em!ReplyDelete
I sure loves you doctor x. Let's have some blini together. OR maybe some vodka and caviar.
you can drink it out of my navel.
Ahh, Dr. X. The secret is out. I guess I can't keep you all to myself anymore. Oh well, we will always have that night. Вы были пышны в вашем scrubs.ReplyDelete
hahaha the "ano-cranial inversion"...nice.ReplyDelete
the translators online give me "It will be a joke you idiots"...but i think i get the point lol
- Anonymous8:57 AM, January 09, 2008
Некультурный крестьянинReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:59 AM, January 09, 2008
Fucking classic. My vote for post of the year.ReplyDelete
I'm LOL. And I HATE people who write "LOL", proving how much I am LOL.
Russians have such a sublime sense of humor.
- Anonymous9:53 AM, January 09, 2008
Do you still practice medicine? I feel sorry for you, and even more so for your patients. You should have chosen a career where your anti-humanist values would be more accurately matched. Prison guard perhaps.ReplyDelete
I was wondering how long it would take for some "AnonIdiot" to poke it's head out and reveal, yet again, that they have no sense of humor!! Or even the ability to recognize a tongue-in-cheek post!ReplyDelete
#12 is the winner!!
Then the first guy says "I can't hear you, I've got a banana in my ear"ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:32 AM, January 09, 2008
Anonymous at 9:53 a.m.ReplyDelete
You have a lot of nerve. I'm a prisoner and my old man is a prison guard. You have offended us both by your insensitive comment. I'm paying my debt to society for insurance fraud and my old man is making sure that I get everything I need during my stay here. We are as good and decent as you are. As soon as I get out, and if gay marriage is legal by then, we're going to be married. Why do you have to be so mean?
- Anonymous12:37 PM, January 09, 2008
This is comedy:ReplyDelete
DRX, you just turn all the girls heads don't you? And all the men laugh at your jokes! What is it about you Godless Commies, anyway?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:44 PM, January 09, 2008
I did not know your nom-de-plume was Jimmy Carter. :D
Фидель дорогой,ReplyDelete
твоя мать была хомячка и Ваш отец корюшка в elderberries.
Дорогие анонимные,
Вы не можете исправить глупо.
- Anonymous2:42 PM, January 10, 2008
monty python?ReplyDelete
If self righteous "anonymous" actually took this seriously enough to complain, I have my doubts as to whether they'd pass a mini-mental... Seriously. Thats all I have to say. By the way, great great posts.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:54 PM, January 15, 2008
I find this post a low point in M.D.O.D. and was sorry to read it.ReplyDelete
even though it is a known fact for anyone who has lived in Russia for some significant time to know Russians generally have a hate-hate relationship with the Uzbecks, I still find it degrading for the M.D.O.D. blog to have such a racist comment in it. even though its written as an offhand.
to the last anonymous poster on this thread. you are now officially in our prayers. you might want to try going here and plugging in the russian phrase at the end of the post and have it translated to english for you. good day!ReplyDelete
How can you try to play the racial card in the same comment thread that has Monty Python translated into Russian?ReplyDelete
I hate anonymi.
PS: I'm sure you will find it hard to believe, but "Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG" doesn't translate to Russian.
"Я пердеть в вашем общем направлении", however, does.
- Anonymous6:56 PM, January 22, 2008
Nice blog. I will keep reading. Please take the time to visit my blog about Guitar LessonReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:33 AM, October 15, 2011
You people are so funny!ReplyDelete


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Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) - Matt Carpenter's two-out double in the bottom of the eighth inning drove in the deciding run as the St. Louis Cardinals rallied for a 9-6 victory over the Colorado Rockies. The Cardinals trailed 5-1 after four innings and 6-4 through six, but scored once in the seventh prior to reaching Adam Ottavino (0-3) for two runs in the eighth to claim the rubber match of this three-game set.
Daniel Descalso added a pinch-hit double that tied the game and scored the go- ahead run on Carpenter's grounder up the middle that caromed into center field after being deflected by Rockies' shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. Matt Holliday went 3-for-4 with an RBI to aid the comeback and Matt Adams contributed a pair of hits, including a two-run homer. Carpenter also finished with two RBI. Corey Dickerson had a two-run double for the Rockies and Drew Stubbs belted a solo homer in the loss, Colorado's eighth in nine games. "It's just a little tough period we're going through right now," Dickerson said. "It's not about just the bullpen, it's about us [hitters], too. We've just got to pick it up as a team and play some team ball and we'll pick up some wins." Ottavino came on in the eighth to protect a 6-5 lead and was greeted by a single from Allen Craig, but retired the next two batters before Descalso's liner to left dropped in fair territory and Mark Ellis slid just under the tag of catcher Wilin Rosario to score the tying run. After Carpenter sent St. Louis in front and the Rockies failed to score in the bottom of the eighth, the Cardinals tacked on two more runs in their final at- bat. Yadier Molina and Craig each delivered sacrifice flies to bring in Adams and Jhonny Peralta, who had reached on a single and a walk, respectively. "It's encouraging for the guys [to know] that if they keep squaring them up, good things are going to happen," said Cardinals manager Mike Matheny. "Overall, just a real solid approach all the way around and we really took advantage of what they gave us." Carpenter's double made a winner out of Pat Neshek (2-0), who tossed a 1-2-3 seventh. Trevor Rosenthal recorded the last four outs to nail down his 23rd save. The game featured a matchup of pitchers both making their major league debuts, with the Cardinals promoting prospect Marco Gonzales from Double-A Springfield and Colorado sending out 28-year-old career minor leaguer Yohan Flande in place of an injured Christian Bergman. Gonzalez, a native of nearby Fort Collins and the Cardinals' first-round pick in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, had an impressive beginning to his intro. The 22-year-old allowed just a walk through the opening three innings, laced a double in his initial at-bat and scored the game's first run when Holliday drilled a single to left two batters later in the top of the third. The young lefty, whose father, Frank, is a minor league pitching coach in the Rockies' organization, was shellacked in the fourth, however, as Colorado struck for five runs to move in front. Stubbs jump-started the Rockies' offense by cranking Gonzalez's first pitch of the frame over the wall in left, and five of the next six hitters reached base as well. Dickerson's hard two-run double into the gap gave Colorado a 3-1 advantage, with D.J. LeMahieu following with an RBI single and Flande getting into the act with a grounder to third that plated Dickerson for the fifth run of the inning. Gonzalez made it through the fifth unscathed, finishing with a line of five runs allowed on seven hits. "To be honest, it's one of the best times I've had as far as strength-wise and health-wise and things like that," said Gonzalez afterward. Flande also had his moments early on. The left-hander struck out the side in order in the second and permitted just one run until the Cardinals got their bats untracked in the fifth. Ellis led off the inning with a deep double and later came home on a Carpenter sac fly to bring St. Louis within 5-2. Holliday then doubled off the center- field wall in front of Adams' third homer of the series, which trimmed Colorado's lead to a run. The Rockies extended the margin in the sixth, though, as Josh Rutledge greeted reliever Seth Maness with a single and was brought in on Charlie Blackmon's two-out double. St. Louis answered in the seventh, with Carpenter's leadoff walk against Rex Brothers preceding Holliday's third hit of the day and a Peralta sacrifice fly that trimmed the deficit to 6-5. Flande also lasted five innings, surrendering four runs on six hits while fanning four. Game Notes Gonzales, called up when Michael Wacha and Jaime Garcia landed on the disabled list earlier this week, gave St. Louis a pitcher to advance to the majors a year after being drafted in back-to-back seasons. Wacha accomplished the feat last year ... Gonzales is also the first Cardinal hurler to go straight from Double A to the majors since Donovan Osborne in 1992 ... Flande is the 12th pitcher to start a game for Colorado this season, tops in the majors ... Adams now had six homers and 16 RBI in 13 games since returning from the DL on June 13 ... Holliday is 15-of-26 over his last six games at Coors Field.
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