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Do you know how a regular/manual potentiometer is wired-up?Digi-Key lists thousands of different digital pots (I'm sure they are not all in stock). 10k to 100k Ohms is a good value for line-level audio. You'll need two for stereo (or you can get a dual digital pot), but you can connect as many as you want to the same control-signals from the Arduino. You'll probably want to get a thru-hole package if you want to avoid soldering the smaller surface-mount parts.Different digital pots are controlled differently, and it's your choice of how you want to do it. The most common method is serial I2C. There is an I2C library for the Arduino, so it shoudn't be too difficult. Some are controlled with a parallel (binary data) connection. Some have up/down digital controls, which might have an advantage in that you won't get a sudden full-volume blast if there's a little "glitch" i the control data. An audio volume control has an "audio taper" (approximately logarithmic). This is because 50% on a regular (linear) pot sounds a lot closer to full-volume than half-volume (due to our logarithmic hearing). With a digital pot, this can be handled in your sketch.
If u r a hobbyist then I suggest that u buy electrical junk like old defective Radios, Stereos, TVs, VCRs ...etc.Then salvage whatever you need whenever u need it! Goodluck
Hey Jomn. I was in the same boat as you. I opted for a PT2257 to control the volume for a project I have on the go at the moment.Great way of learning, read the datasheets.Build the example circuits that most datasheets have, on a breadboard.It was a bit unfortunate that I couldn't find a lib for the PT2257. So I wrote one myself, which was another challenge for a newbie. (To be honest it's not complete, but it functions for my needs.)There are some good tutorials here....http://tronixstuff.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/tutorial-arduino-and-the-i2c-bus/Good luck with your project. It will be frustrating at times, but when you have a working example, you get a great feeling. Then you move onto the next part & start the process again.


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Question: When SQL Server is figuring out the best query plan to use for my query, does it take into account how much of my table is already in memory?
Answer: The simple answer is: No.
When the query optimizer is evaluating various plans as it narrows down the possible choices for the best plan it can come up with in a reasonable time (which is not always the absolute best plan, as the query optimizer cannot spend an inordinate amount of time doing plan compilation), it makes use of the relational metadata.
Related: SQL Server Plan Cache: The Junk Drawer for Your Queries
The relational metadata describes the table columns, indexes, constraints and the statistics about the value distributions of the various columns (if these statistics have been created). The storage metadata describes how the table and indexes are actually stored in the data files, and this is not used by the query optimizer.
SQL Server does not keep track of which portions of a table and its indexes are in memory at any time. The buffer pool tracks which data file pages from a database are in memory, but nothing in SQL Server does any kind of automated aggregation to be able to determine that, say, 50% of index 2 of table X is in memory whereas only 5% of index 3 of table X is in memory.
The query optimizer assumes nothing is in memory and is likely to choose a query plan that involves the least number of I/Os, as I/Os are time consuming and expensive. For instance, given the choice of two nonclustered indexes that could satisfy a SELECT query, where the first index has all the columns required, and the second index has all the columns required and several additional columns, the query optimizer will choose to use the first index because it is narrower (i.e. the index rows are smaller) and so there should be fewer I/Os required to read the necessary data.
However, what if a large proportion of the second, wider index is already in memory, and none of the chosen index is in memory? The query will require I/Os to read the chosen index into memory, which will be a lot slower than using the wider index that is already in memory. In that case, the query plan was actually sub-optimal – but the query optimizer has no way of knowing what's in memory.
As a former software engineer on the SQL Server team, I can tell you that the engineering complexity of keeping an aggregate view of which tables and indexes are in memory to aid in query plan selection is extremely challenging, and would add an undesirable performance overhead for only an occasional benefit. I don't think it will ever happen.
To finish off, if you're interested in seeing what's in the buffer pool, check out the DMV sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors and the various queries I've put together on the Buffer Pool section of my other blog.

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[Yangon, September 27. Image via Getty]
A woman carries plates on her head in Yangon on September 27, 2009 a day after the two-year anniversary of the ruling junta's violent crackdown on Buddhist monks who led mass street protests. At least 31 people were killed in the 2007 crackdown which led to stepped up Western sanctions on military-run Myanmar. AFP PHOTO/EDISON (Photo credit should read EDISON/AFP/Getty Images)


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What happened to Windows MovieMaker?
Yes it was (along with Mail and Messenger). You can get all of these things improved for Win7 at:Programs you can download include:
Ned Pyle [MSFT] - MS Enterprise Platforms Support - Beta Team
- Disarankan sebagai Jawaban oleh Ned Pyle Sabtu, 24 Januari 2009 21.34
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Yes it was (along with Mail and Messenger). You can get all of these things improved for Win7 at:Programs you can download include:
Ned Pyle [MSFT] - MS Enterprise Platforms Support - Beta Team
- Disarankan sebagai Jawaban oleh Ned Pyle Sabtu, 24 Januari 2009 21.34
- Ditandai sebagai Jawaban oleh Ronnie VernonMVP, Moderator Jumat, 13 Februari 2009 05.08
Ned Pyle [MSFT] said:
You can get all of these things improved for Win7 at:
Having thought about it a bit, I worried that my previous comment was maybe a bit harsh and maybe Movie Maker beta had changed since I last tested it. So, I downloaded it and installed it again and...
... my opinion hasn't changed: 'Windows Live Movie Maker beta' is terrible.
The lack of a timeline cripples it. The timeline all what movie making is all about.
Pretty much the only movie editing that MM beta lets you do is to remove an approximate amount from the beginning and end of a movie. You can't trim out the boring chunks from Uncle Norman's 2 hour home movie marathon, you can't blend chunks of 2 movies together... in fact, you can't actually do anything worthwhile with it.
Sorry. :(
You can try to manually install on Windows 7 to see if it works.
At least, it works fine on my computer.
Hope it helps.
Yes it was (along with Mail and Messenger). You can get all of these things improved for Win7 at:Programs you can download include:
Ned Pyle [MSFT] - MS Enterprise Platforms Support - Beta Team
Maybe everything on the list other than Movie Maker improved, but MM certainly has gotten worse. I would say this is the absolute worst iteration of movie maker I've ever seen. No timeline, no DV capture, no support for Media Center TV files (video seems to play w/o any audio), and NO EDITING. I took one of my video clips and tried to use the trim function. Regardless of how many times I trimmed a clip and selected "save" it NEVER applied the trimming. It was as if I was clicking on things and issueing commands and they were going somewhere else, as if into a gale-force wind, only to be blown back into my face as the WMM Beta team secretly snickers at my frustration ...
PLEASE give us back Vista's excellent movie maker. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It's completely 100% worthless now.
U can this if you want vista's movie maker!!!
1- Copy "movie maker" folder from vista's c:/progam files/
2- Paste "movie maker" folder to windows 7 anwhere or in to "program files"
3- Run MOVIEMK.exe
4- if runing normal say THANKS
5- my movie maker running and have all codec packs
Thanks to Uurdan on another thread for the answer. It appears to work fine. Looks like I can edit just like in the "olden days" with Vista. This makes me happy. In fact, let me see if DV capture works again with this ....
Nope it says "Class not registered." It sees the camera and lets me pick a folder and file name. Anyone know how to fix the "class not registered" error?
Edit: FIXED!! Fix is here:
Find the file linked on a post by Rehan named: reregdlls.bat
Run that file, and you're good to go. I don't know if I'm allowed to post a direct link to the file here, but after this I was able to capture video successfully.
- Disarankan sebagai Jawaban oleh SirKronan Sabtu, 16 Mei 2009 15.01
Please, PLEASE, Microsoft...DO NOT remove Windows Movie Maker on Windows 7, it's a HUGE mistake.
Windows Movie Maker is actually quite a good piece of software, and everyone agrees that the new beta Live version is absolutely terrible.
I love all of the other Live programs, but there's no doubt that Live Movie Maker is awful!
Please give us back Windows Movie Maker properly within Windows!
Apparently it 'bombed' at the box office..
No, it's up there for download with the win live stuff which I refuse to use anymore because Microsoft employ 'censorship' on their blogs. I mean a pair of ____ (see - bosoms has been censored here) in Idaho are not the same as a pair of ____ in Western Australia.
God forbid anyone from MS chooses a holiday in the lovely village of ____ (Lucking), Austria. And the Mayor ain't changing the name. US troops in WWII pissed (peed) themselves when they came across it.
- Diedit oleh graham.lv Minggu, 17 Mei 2009 00.18
I agree, removing Movie Maker and replacing it with Movie Maker Live was a terrible mistake. I have been using Movie Maker for years to do home movie editing. I understand that it will be easier to update Live Movie Maker in the future by decoupling it from the OS. However it should be as good as the previous version before taking the previous version away.
Movie Maker is in good company with many other things that have been removed in Windows 7. I guess Microsoft was so concerned with the criticism on Vista being a resource hog that they had to "streamline" everything into something with two menu options.
- Movie Maker gone - replaced with Live (more like Dead) Movie Maker
- Windows Mail gone - replaced with Windows Dead Mail
- Windows Media Player - many features removed in WMP12
It's funny (or maybe irritating) because MS killed the competition with the policy of including all sorts of applications in the OS and now that only professional/expensive niche products have survived the competition against "free", we need to look around and find other options...
I'm guessing by the time Live Movie Maker is final it'll have most of the features of Vista Movie Maker. After all, Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Photo Gallery are pretty much exactly the same as their Vista counterparts except they included Live integration (remember when it was called .NET passport? That was a long time ago!) and photo gallery has photostich built in. Live Movie Maker is probably called beta right now more because it allows them to get away with it being ____ than because it is buggy.
Windows Live Movie Maker is still tagged beta because it is the only Live application being rewritten from scratch, and thus needed more time in the oven. Windows Live Photo Gallery and Mail are mostly improvements on top of older applications.
These blocks of text from a WLMM team blog post best encapsulat WLMM at this time:
We also learned a lot by releasing an early beta of Movie Maker last year. People were surprised (or shocked, rather!) at the limited number of transitions, effects, and overall functionality in the program. We wanted to release the beta to start the conversation about the use of the ribbon and some of the overall changes to the software model, but in hindsight, the application just wasn't useful enough for that. So, thanks for bearing with us as we've continued our work on Movie Maker.
In the Movie Maker beta, the storyboard didn't have the ability to represent time like a traditional timeline would. We've heard you say that you'd like to be able to drag and drop clips to get them to start and end where you want, and that you'd like to have music and text that span multiple photos or video clips. We've also heard that you'd like to – at a glance – see which clips are longer than others, which clips have effects applied, and which clips have transitions. Now, I don't want to give too much away just yet (we still have work to do!), but we're definitely aware of these limitations. We've developed a new approach that we think will help address some of the shortcomings of the beta and will scale well from novice to experienced users without requiring people to switch views in order to get things done.
I wouldn't say WLMM is bad, it would be more accurate to say it's not complete. 640x480 WMVs is all WLMM can do until version 1 is released later this year.


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I think this is the longest I've gone without blogging since I started this thing. Since I'm documenting the heck out of my knitting projects over at Ravelry, I haven't felt the need to blog my knitting details here anymore.
I'm considering changing the focus of this blog for 2009. I enjoy blogging (and looking back on old blog posts – they always jog a lot of memories), but there's no need to repeat what I post on Ravelry, so this blog may evolve from being a knitting blog to being something else.
Speaking of knitting, there has been a lot of it!
The arrival of snow motivated me to knit a Dog Walking Hat:
The hat is AMAZING. I knit it out of Cascade 220 (both regular and Superwash) and it's like a furnace on my head. I love it!
Changing up how I knit socks (from top down on dpn's to toe up on Magic Loop) inspired me and I knocked off five pairs of socks.
This is my first pair of toe up/Magic Loop socks:
The next pair is knit out of my new favorite sock yarn, Kaleidoscope Superwash Sock Yarn from Blue Ridge Yarns:
This pair is knit out of Opal's Harry Potter line in the Hedwig colorway:
I do love these socks, but calling this a Hedwig colorway is bullshit. I've read all the books and seen all the movies and I don't recall a blue/green owl making an appearance.
Like many sock knitters, I joined the sock blank dyeing craze. This blank:
Turned into these socks:
And finally, these socks were knit from one of the first balls of sock yarn I ever purchased (at least three years ago):
The sock obsession soon morphed into sweater knitting. I've never been a sweater knitter, but now I'm obsessed.
Baby sweater for my best friend's newborn son:
Around this time last year I started a Central Park Hoodie. It knit up quickly, but then I got distracted (and frustrated with how to knit the collar and buttonbands). I picked it up again last week and it's finally finished. And it fits! (This is the first sweater I've ever knit for me, so I was afraid it wouldn't fit.)
Here are the bones of my Weekend Sweater. It's blocking now and I hope to sew it this weekend.
I'll be swatching for my next sweater tonight. The yarn is waiting for me:
Details for all of the knits can be found on my Ravelry page.
My furry family has all been doing well. Here's Romeo watching the dogs:
Kishka and Sadie's relationship continues to flourish:
The three of us did a lot of hiking this fall:
Sadie especially loves chilling out in the stream:
Colorado scenery never ceases to amaze me, even after living here for 11 years.
Here's an early morning shot of Pikes Peak:
And some high country shots from my trip to Vail in October:
I can't really explain it, but this is one of my favorite 'scenery' pictures that I've taken this year:
And this picture is one of my favorite critter pictures I've taken this year:


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Don't be fooled by any market turkeys, says investment advisor and analyst Elaine Garzarelli.
"Based on our proprietary model, the stock market currently, on our very conservative 2014 earnings of 111, is 8% undervalued," she said in a note to investors on Monday.
"So, people are worried about a bear market, people are worried about a bubble, people are worried about the rise in long-term interest rates, but we don't see any of that now."
The analyst, known for predicting the 1987 market crash, is all smiles these days.
"We continue to be in a bull market," she noted.
"This week our indicators actually rose from last week and the reason was that the Economic Cycle Research Institute Weekly Index rose 2.4% for the week of Nov. 15. It is telling us the economy is coming back from the government shutdown. That's what we've been waiting for, and that's the reason that our indicators have popped up to 80% from 78.5%," Garzarelli explained.
Taper Terror
Everybody's worried about what will happen if long-term interest rates go up, the investment expert says, "then that's the end of the bull market."
Not so fast. There's a long way to go "before the market would even be fully valued," Garzarelli notes.
"The 10-year bond yield is currently 2.76%," she pointed out. "If it begins to rise as they taper, those rates would have to rise to over 4%, closer to 5%, our model tells us, before the stock market would be fully valued on 2014 earnings. And our earnings estimates are 10% below the consensus."
As for market and economic indicators, they would have to fall to 30% to get a bear market, and they are currently at 80%, she shares.
In other words, economic-cycle indicators would have to turn sharply negative.
"Our monetary worth 24% and valuation worth 25% are still bullish – they'd have to go to bearish. And our sentiment is mostly bullish but mixed, and that would have to go to negative," the analyst said. "So, you know there are a lot of things that have to happen."
"So, people are worried about a bear market, people are worried about a bubble, people are worried about the rise in long-term interest rates, but we don't see any of that now."
(Check out As Monetary Cliff Looms, Economist Urges Fed to Increase QE at ThinkAdvisor.)


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Media denounce Breitbart's tactics, highlight his loss of credibility
With the implosion of Andrew Breitbart's smear of Shirley Sherrod, many in the media have criticized Breitbart's tactics, called on him to apologize, or pointed out how this episode has depleted any credibility he may have had.
Media: Breitbart "is not a journalist," but a "bull[y]" and "slander[er]" who can't be trusted
Fox's Smith: "[W]e did not and do not trust the source." Discussing coverage of the Sherrod story on the July 21 edition of Fox News' Studio B, host Shepard Smith said that his show declined to report on it initially because "we didn't who shot it, we didn't know when it was shot, we didn't know the context of the statement, and because of the history of videos on the site where it was posted. In short, we did not and do not trust the source."
CNN's Cooper: Breitbart actions are "a classic example of what is wrong with our national discourse." On the July 21 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, Cooper said that Breitbart's video clips of Sherrod "were clearly edited to deceive and slander Miss Sherrod," and that Breitbart's efforts to "weasel his way out of taking responsibility for what he did to Miss Sherrod is a classic example of what is wrong with our national discourse." Cooper continued:
COOPER: "The truth matters." Breitbart posted the clip on Monday on his website. Nearly everything Mr. Breitbart said about Shirley Sherrod was either wrong or somehow slanted to make a larger point about racism and the NAACP. He initially said her speech showed a government official who allowed racist views to influence her work with a white farmer. But we now know it was a speech about her change of heart 24 years ago, when she wasn't even at the USDA. Today, Mr. Breitbart could have just apologized, said he was wrong, but he didn't. Bullies never do, nor do ideologues in our divided country. Instead, he now claims this was never about Miss Sherrod, it was about the NAACP and what he says was their racism based on the audience's reaction to her speech.
Well, the fact is there was no applause when Miss Sherrod was talking about the white farmer. And we'll talk to members of the audience who were there that night about the reaction they saw and heard and that they themselves had. Now, Breitbart also said today that there were cheers over racist comments. Again, the facts do not bear him out. The truth matters. The closest Mr. Breitbart came to an apology today was this comment.
BREITBART [video clip]: I feel bad that they made this about her, and I feel sorry that they made this about her. I'm not sure if that was done because they rushed to judgment or whether they wanted to make about Shirley versus me, because that's what it's become.
COOPER: He goes on to say he's sympathetic to what Miss Sherrod has gone through. Notice the passive voice here, because his words, quote, "they went after her," and not the NAACP. It's like the arsonist saying, "I'm sorry, ma'am, for the water damage done by firefighters." He started the fire. Andrew Breitbart said the clip he first posted proved black racism happening now at the USDA and the NAACP. It didn't. He said it proved racism in the crowd. You can decide for yourself about that. We'll play you the tapes and you'll talk -- you'll hear from audience members. He claims to feel sorry for the victim, but blames others acting on his misleading information for hurting her.
It was a phony story. It isn't the first, and it isn't the first about race. But why let the truth stop you when you're making political points? That's the way a lot of people seem to think these days, on the left and the right.
Politico's Ben Smith: "Breitbart's sites now have a growing credibility problem." In a July 22 Politico blog post on the Sherrod story, Ben Smith wrote: "The nice thing about the new-media space is how quickly it self-corrects. Breitbart's sites now have a growing credibility problem." Smith added: "And for all the talk of the speed of the Internet, online, like offline, reporting is a long, endless game, and with fewer and fewer trusted institutions to dispense it at will, credibility is a scarce and extremely valuable commodity."
MSNBC's O'Donnell: "I think [Breitbart] has lost his standing to present videos to the country at any time." On the July 22 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, Lawrence O'Donnell said that Breitbart "has lost his standing to present videos to the country at any time," adding that the ACORN videos promoted by Breitbart were "manipulated in ways that were grotesquely unfair to the people in those scenes."
NPR* ombudsman: Breitbart's treatment of Sherrod shows he "is not a journalist." Commenting on the Sherrod story, NPR* ombudsman Alicia Shepard said, "Any journalist would seek comment [from the story's subject before publishing]. If Breitbart does not, he is not a journalist."
Jonah Goldberg: Sherrod is "owed apolog[y]" from Breitbart. In a July 21 National Review Online blog post, Jonah Goldberg wrote that Sherrod is "owed apologies from pretty much everyone, including my good friend Andrew Breitbart." Goldberg added that Breitbart "says he received the video in its edited form and I believe him. But the relevant question is, would he have done the same thing over again if he had seen the full video from the outset? I'd like to think he wouldn't have. Because to knowingly turn this woman into a racist in order to fight fire with fire with the NAACP is unacceptable."
John McCormack: Breitbart's clip "was unfair," she "deserves an apology." In a July 21 post, The Weekly Standard's John McCormack wrote that "Breitbart's posting of the partial clip, which leaves out crucial information, was unfair to Sherrod," adding that, "Sherrod deserves an apology from Breitbart for posting the edited video."
David Frum: "Breitbart continues to defend his own 'ends justify the means' bending of the truth." Former Bush speechwriter David Frum wrote in a July 21 FrumForum blog post that Breitbart will "survive, and undamaged" and that "There will be no apology or statement of regret for distributing a doctored tape to defame and destroy someone. There will be not even a flutter of interest among conservatives in discussing Breitbart's role." Frum added that "Breitbart continues to defend his own 'ends justify the means' bending of the truth."
SPJ official: Breitbart is "someone with a specific agenda." Andy Schotz, ethics committee chair at the Society of Professional Journalists, said: "Basic journalism calls for getting information, checking it out, looking for context and trying to get to the truth. ... Gathering snippets and putting them out there to see what happens seems to be what is happening here. (Breitbart) is also someone with a specific agenda."
This item previously identified Alicia Shepard as ombudsman for PBS. She is in fact ombudsman for NPR. We regret the error.


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Tigers win AL Central title with 6-3 win over Royals
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Jim Leyland had tears in his eyes as he surveyed his crowded office Monday night.
There was Miguel Cabrera, surrounded by his family, with the Triple Crown within reach. Justin Verlander, closing in on another Cy Young Award, had a pair of swimming goggles perched on his head, while Tigers owner Mike Ilitch and general manager Dave Dombrowski slapped each other on the back.
The smell of cigars wafted through the door to the clubhouse as the Tigers, counted out so many times this season, celebrated a 6-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals that clinched the AL Central title and back-to-back playoff trips for the first time since 1934-35.
Watch a report on the Tigers win during today's News at Noon.
"We wanted to win this game. That was our goal, to win this one," said Cabrera, who had four hits, including a solo homer during a five-run sixth inning. "We did it."
The Tigers were even mindful of their victory celebration, choosing Fre Brut -- an alcohol-removed sparkling wine -- in deference to Cabrera, who's had his share of alcohol abuse problems.
"It feels really good," said Prince Fielder, who was doused in the stuff from his dreadlocks all the way down to his shoelaces. "I mean, it wasn't easy, but we got it done."
Fielder also finished with four hits and Gerald Laird had a bases-loaded double. Rick Porcello (10-12) pitched shutout ball into the sixth inning and Jhonny Peralta went deep off Bruce Chen (11-14) to stake the Tigers to a big cushion.
After hanging over the dugout railing the entire ninth inning, they streamed onto the field behind the pitchers' mound to celebrate the moment Jose Valverde got Alcides Escobar to ground out to shortstop with a runner on second for his 35th save in 40 chances.
The Tigers (87-73) will have the worst record among AL division champions, which means they'll open the playoffs Saturday at home against the division winner with the second-best mark.
Not that when and where matters much to Leyland's bunch.
They're just glad to be back in the playoffs.
"It was a rocky road, it was a tough season, but in this business, you have to be able to take some hits," Leyland said. "This isn't a place for the faint-hearted. Hell, we took a lot of punches, a lot of them justified, some of them maybe not. But hey, we can take a punch."
After winning the division by 15 games last season and signing Fielder in the offseason, the Tigers entered spring training with lofty expectations. But they got off to a surprisingly slow start and were below .500 in early July. They were still well behind Chicago early last month.
The White Sox faltered, though, and the Tigers took advantage.
"You've got to take your hat off to them. They're the champs," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "They've got the starting pitching, the power, a great bullpen. They've got a chance to go deep."
Indeed, with Cabrera closing in on baseball's first Triple Crown since 1967 and Verlander in the running for more hardware, Detroit may be the hottest team in the majors.
Right-hander Anibal Sanchez has been terrific down the stretch, Fielder and Austin Jackson are having big years at the plate, and the shoddy fielding that could have forced the Tigers to sit home in October has improved to the point that they'll be pressing on into the postseason.
"You get that kind of momentum, usually it ends up very good," said Ilitch, who has spent a lot of his money to chase the Tigers' first World Series title since 1984.
"I wasn't nervous about it at all. We didn't fall apart," he said. "We just had the bottom part of the batting order that wasn't contributing, and at the end, we got a little bit out of them."
The Tigers clung to a 1-0 lead provided by Peralta's homer until their big sixth inning.
Cabrera broke a tie with Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton for the major league lead in homers with his 44th, a solo shot to right. Two fielding mistakes by David Lough in center led to another run.
Laird's bases-loaded double knocked Chen from the game, and effectively knocked the second-place White Sox out of the playoffs, though they didn't do much to help themselves down the stretch.
Chicago beat the Indians 11-0 Monday night for just its third win in 13 games.
Meanwhile, the Tigers have won seven of their last eight as they surged to the division crown, including five straight against the Royals, who have dropped eight of their last nine.
Porcello kept the Royals off the scoreboard until the sixth, when Alex Gordon's homer to right field finally gave Kansas City some life. Leyland wasted no time lifting his right-hander, who'd done enough to end a string of six straight losses and pick up his first victory in nine starts.
Cabrera had singles in the fourth, seventh and ninth in addition to his homer in the sixth, pushing his AL-leading batting average to .329, ahead of the Angels' Mike Trout and the Twins' Joe Mauer. Cabrera also moved his astonishing RBI total to 137, by far the best in the majors.
Cabrera was only part of the party Monday night, though, slapping backs and exchanging high-fives with the rest of his teammates as Detroit locked up its place in the postseason.
He could be the center of the celebration when the regular season ends Wednesday night.
"He's a once-in-a-lifetime player," Dombrowski said. "I talked to him and he said, 'The Triple Crown is important, but it's not the most important thing. I want to win a championship."'
NOTES: The Royals celebrated the 20th anniversary of George Brett's 3,000th hit, which occurred on Sept. 30, 1992. ... RHP Doug Fister will start for Detroit on Tuesday night against RHP Jeremy Guthrie of the Royals. ... Royals 1B Eric Hosmer and 3B Mike Moustakas could miss the final two games of the season. Hosmer has a strained right shoulder and Moustakas has a groin injury.


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Lean Hog futures closed Wednesday with most contracts 47.5 cents to $1.525 higher. The CME Lean Hog Index was up 35 cents from the previous day @ $54.85 on January 7. The USDA pork carcass cutout value was down 49 cents on Wednesday afternoon at an average weighted price of $69.67. The national base cash hog carcass value was $1.02 higher in the PM report, with a weighted average of $51.19. This week's FI hog slaughter through Wednesday was estimated at 1.423 million head, which was 54,000 head larger than the same week last year.
--provided by Brugler Marketing & Management


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|A tunnel is an underground passage for a road or similar.
|Group: Placement
|Used on these elements
|Documented values: 3
|Useful combination
|Status: de facto
|Tools for this tag
tunnel=* is used for roads, railway line, canals etc that run underground (in tunnel).
For some grade separated crossings it may however be debatable if the lower way is in the tunnel or if the upper way is on a bridge=*. In general, if the lower way is long and surround by earth it is almost certainly a tunnel; and if the lower way is short and the upper way is supported on concrete, brick on metal pillars / beams then that is almost certainly a bridge. There are however situations where it is a matter of personal judgement, but it is preferred to either tag the lower way as tunnel or the upper way as a bridge but not both.
For covered passages which are open on one side, often ways underneath a building, use covered=* in place of tunnel=*. One exception are landslide/avalanche protectors on mountain roads which are tagged as tunnel=avalanche_protector.
Where the water from a smaller stream, drain or even cattle crossing passes under a way structure or a building consider using tunnel=culvert in place of the tunnel=yes used for accessible and larger tunnels for roads or railways.
When the waterway=* runs underground for a considerable distance, you can use tunnel=flooded especially when the duct isn't designed to be safely accessible in operation or man_made=pipeline for sections built with tube assemblies.
Power cables (power=cable) buried underground should not be tagged as tunnels. The location of a buried cable may optionally be tagged as location=underground/underwater. However if the cable is located inside a self-supporting tunnel it may be tagged as tunnel=yes. Such dedicated power tunnels are sometimes found in large cities.
How to map
- split the way in question at the points were the tunnel starts and ends and add the tunnel tag. It is best to avoid having a tunnel continue to a junction that is not in a tunnel by splitting the way prior to the junction.
- most tunnels should be tagged with layer=-1 or another suitable negative value (exception: tunnel=building_passage). For metros/subways or other very long ways it is often convenient to use layer=-2 to accommodate underground passages for pedestrians between the tunnel and the surface.
- Where the approach to the tunnel is in a cutting this can be identified with cutting=yes. Note that a layer=* tag is not desired on a cutting or embankment unless there are several layers of objects that need to be differentiated.
tunnel=building_passage should not normally have a layer assigned as there is no clear above/below relation to the building but a layer may be required when there are several layers of building passages.
It may also be useful to add maxheight=* and maxwidth=* if there are publicised restrictions and use access=* if there restrictions on use by certain classes of vehicle or user.
If the tunnel has a name this can be specified using tunnel:name=* although there is still some debate on the best method to include a name of the tunnel as discinct from the road/railway etc that goes through it. lit=* can be included to provide information about any lighting in the tunnel (or not).
Ways that go through a building and have walls on both sides should be tagged with tunnel=building_passage.
- the building and the way should have shared nodes at the entry and exit points of the building.
- the way is split at the entry and exit nodes and only the part covered by the building is tagged with tunnel=building_passage.
- the layer should be the same as the layer of the building, with the above mentioned exception when several tunnels are passing on different levels. So if the building doesn't have a layer tag, the way should not have one either.
When building_passage should not be used:
It is not meant to be used for indoor mapping. The walls at both sides (and the top) of the tunnel are considered outer walls of the building, which can have entrances that lead into it (This proposal doesn't cover entrances inside building passages). For indoor mapping highway=corridor or indoor=yes can be used. It is also not meant for ways that go through something else than a building.
A variant of covered=arcade is tunnel=avalanche_protector and should be used in case of tunnels alongside mountains. These constructions stand for themselves and are not attached to a building. Their purpose is to protect the highway or railway from avalanches and landslides. Use avalanche_protector:left=open or avalanche_protector:right=open to define which side of the way is open ("open" in case of avalanche protectors means, that light and air can enter on that side).
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Mapnik draws tunnels on highways with dotted outlines and a lighter fill color for the road and with curved color transitions on tunnel entrances.
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- highway=corridor
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Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Sydney, Nebraska, motel - 1950ish
Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Sydney, Nebraska, motel - 1950ish
Is Jimmie about 6? That would be 1950. Pete and Eileen would have been married about 13 years. I'd have been eleven, taking the photo on Mom's old camera. It might even be 1949. Love the white hard-shell Samsonite luggage (far right, on the bed!). They sure are young! My Mom and Dad. He has the farmer tan, of course; being a very active farmer then. She still looked like the Coon Rapids girl, she always was! Fun... ;-)
Families are Forever! ;-)
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- AnonymousMarch 31, 2012 at 4:46 PM
I'm assuming this is a vacation photo. I'm amazed your mother was able to get the farmer away from the farm long enough for a vacation. My father never took vacations because he needed to milk the cows.ReplyDelete
Pretty much true here as well. I was too you to worry about such things, of course. I think Mom's brother was available to do "the chores" for the several days we were gone. Great comment! THANKS! ;-)ReplyDelete
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First things first, however. A limerick is a five-line verse, smart or silly, as popularised by Edward Lear in the 19th century. Limerick is nothing of the sort. And it contains even more variety, humour and history.
Set at the mouth of the Shannon, Limerick city is the third-largest on the island. It's also the hardest to pin down. Limerick formed the bleakest of backdrops for Frank McCourt's childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes. At the same time, it's home to a revitalised city art gallery, slick new hotels and Thomond Park, the thumping new home of Munster's passionate rugby union team.
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It's also where Brendan O'Regan and his coffee shop invented something very special back in 1943. On a dreadful night, he welcomed a weary captain and passengers from a flight bound for Newfoundland with a cup of coffee and a surprise drop of whiskey – and so created the Irish Coffee.
It's not the only surprise in Limerick's history, either. The Hunt Museum holds paintings by Renoir and Picasso, amongst other treasures. In Adare, you can match thatched cottages with a magnificent manor stay. At Lough Gur, you can't throw out a picnic rug without hitting a stone circle, hill fort or mass rock of some kind. People have lived at this ancient lake for 5,500 years. The wind sounds like their whispers...
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Today, I am honored to be a guest blogger at my friend Nicole Alexander's blog, "The Mists of Time." She asked me to write about my trip to Turkey and the connections between Turkey and the Arthurian legend. You can read my guest post at: http://nicoleevelina.com/2012/04/11/guest-post-searching-for-king-arthur-in-turkey/
I have blogged several times here also about the French fairy, Melusine of Lusignan, whom I consider a marginal part of Arthuriana since Melusine was raised on the Isle of Avalon.
While I was visiting in Turkey the ruins of Ephesus (best known for St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians and because the Apostle John and Virgin Mary settled there after Jesus' ascension), I was stunned to see a depiction of Medusa. We all known Medusa as the woman in the story of Perseus who has a head of snakes, and if you look upon her, you would be turned to stone. Perseus uses his shield so he only has to look at her reflection and can cut off her head.
At Ephesus, the image of Medusa closely resembles many images of Melusine. Medusa is depicted with what look like two fish (possibly serpent or snake) tails. This image is close to that well-known image of the mermaid in the Starbucks logo and many other depictions of Melusine.
Melusine is herself believed to be based in earlier mythologies of water spirits or goddesses and Medusa is probably one of her literary or religious grandmothers. Their stories have similarities. According to Wikipedia: "Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," priestess in Athena's temple, but when she was caught being raped by the "Lord of the Sea" Poseidon by Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Minerva (Athena) as just and well earned." Well-earned is questionable. Does being raped deserve such punishment? Melusine also acquires her serpent form at the rage of another–her mother Pressyne, who curses her after Melusine and her sisters lock up their father in a cave where he dies.
I'm not the first to note the similarities between Melusine and Medusa. An interesting book that discusses Melusine's connection to more classical myths is Gillian Alban's Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and Mythology.
Anyone interested in ancient goddesses and the Turkey connection might enjoy a tour of Turkey with Rashid Ergener, who was my own tour guide of Turkey, and the most knowledgeable tour guide I have ever known. He even leads tours in search of the Ancient Mother Goddess. Find out more at: http://rashidsturkey.com/?nav=g&dir=&g=
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Albert, are you at K-Bell today?
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the girl that won the 400 is from Carlmont not Freemont
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On Monday in United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation, the Court "" by a vote of seven to one (with Justice Kagan recused) "" held that the fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege does not apply to the general trust relationship between the United States and the Indian tribes. Justice Alito wrote the opinion for the Court, which reversed the decision of the Federal Circuit and remanded the case to the Court of Federal Claims.
The Jicarilla Apache Nation occupies a 900,000-acre reservation in northern New Mexico, which contains various natural resources. The Department of the Interior develops these resources and, pursuant to the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994, the federal government holds the revenues from that development in a trust fund, which it manages for the Tribe.
In 2002, the Tribe filed a breach-of-trust action against the United States, alleging that "" in violation of several statutes "" the government had mismanaged the funds held in trust. For the next six years, the Tribe and the federal government engaged in alternative dispute resolution, during which time the government withheld over two hundred potentially relevant documents on the ground that they were privileged. After the case was restored to active litigation at the Tribe's request, the Tribe sought disclosure of the documents for which the government claimed a privilege. The government, for its part, disclosed seventy-one documents, but it maintained that the remaining documents were protected under the attorney-client privilege or the work-product doctrine.
The Court of Federal Claims (CFC) granted the Tribe's motion to compel in part. It held that communications relating to the management of trust funds fall within a "fiduciary exception" to the attorney-client privilege, which precludes a trustee who obtains legal advice "related to the execution of fiduciary obligations . . . from asserting the attorney-client privilege against beneficiaries of the trust." The Federal Circuit denied the government's subsequent petition for a writ of mandamus directing the CFC to vacate its order; the government then filed a petition for certiorari, which the Court granted.
In its opinion, the Court began by tracing the evolution of the fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege from its roots in the English common law to its widespread acceptance among American courts. In the United States, one of the leading cases on the issue is Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. v. Zimmer, 355 A.2d 709 (Del. Ch. 1976), in which the Delaware Chancery Court granted a motion by the beneficiaries of a trust to compel the trustees to disclose a legal memorandum concerning administration of the trust. In doing so, that court identified two principles underlying the exception. First, the trustees were "mere representatives" of the beneficiaries, who in turn were the "real clients" of the attorneys who authored the legal memorandum. This was so because there was no reason for the trustees to seek legal advice other than in a fiduciary capacity and, indeed, the memorandum was created for the purpose of benefiting the trust and paid for with trust assets. Second, the trustees owed a common-law fiduciary duty to furnish trust-related information to the beneficiaries. The Court then noted that "[t]he Federal Courts of Appeals apply the fiduciary exception based on the same two criteria."
As an initial matter, the Court rejected the analogy "" drawn by the Federal Circuit "" between a private trustee and the role of the government in this case. In doing so, the Court highlighted the Court's precedents distinguishing the government's relationship with the Indian Tribes from that of a private trustee with its beneficiaries. Thus, the Court reasoned, "Congress may style its relations with the Indians a "trust' without assuming all the fiduciary duties of a private trustee." Moreover, the government holds a "unique position . . . as a sovereign," has "sovereign interests" in managing the trust at issue in this case, and "has often structured the trust relationship to pursue its own policy goals." In light of these interests, the ordinary common-law principles governing trusts should not apply. Rather, the Court explained, to compel the government to disclose the documents it seeks, the Tribe would have to point to a right conferred by statute or regulation.
The Court concluded that the statutes establishing the trust relationship between the government and the tribe conferred no such right. To the contrary, it emphasized, the two principles "justifying the fiduciary exception "" the beneficiary's status as the "real client' and the trustee's duty to disclose information about the trust "" are notably absent in the trust relationship Congress has established between the United States and the Tribe." For one thing, the government cannot be considered the "mere representative" of the Tribe in light of its independent policy interests in managing the trusts. What is more, the government simply "does not have the same common-law disclosure obligations as a private trustee" because the trustee relationship was statutorily created, and the Court declined to read the statutes to contain a common-law duty to disclose.
Justice Ginsburg, joined by Justice Breyer, filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in which she emphasized that the government is not analogous to a private trustee. However, she disputed the majority's claim "that the Government "assumes Indian trust responsibilities only to the extent it expressly accepts those responsibilities by statute.'" In her view, it was unnecessary for the Court to go beyond the attorney-client privilege issue and decide what other information the government may withhold in these circumstances.
Justice Sotomayor dissented, arguing that "the governing statutory scheme establishes a conventional fiduciary relationship" between the government and the Tribe. Moreover, she continued, the Court's prior decisions indicate that "the Government's duties include fiduciary obligations derived from common-law trust principles." And although she agreed that the majority correctly identified the two principles justifying the application of the fiduciary exception, Justice Sotomayor disagreed with the Court's characterization and application of those standards.
Recommended Citation: Briggs Matheson, The unique trust relationship between the U.S. and Indian Tribes., SCOTUSblog (Jun. 15, 2011, 9:47 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/06/the-unique-trust-relationship-between-the-u-s-and-indian-tribes/


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Growing into the Body • What Is Your Baby Like Between Six Weeks and Eight Months of Age? • Learning to Walk • The Second Year: Mastering Language • The Emergence of Thinking • The Young Child's Senses • The Emerging Sense of Self • Recommended Resources
Helping Your Baby's Development
Stimulating and Protecting the Sensitivity of the Newborn • What Is It Like Being with a Newborn? • What Is It Like from Months Two to Twelve? • Physical Development • The Development of Intelligence • Emotional Development • Language Development • Toys for the First Year • Recommended Resources
Helping Your Toddler's Development
Encouraging Balanced Development • Dealing with Negative Behavior • Encouraging the Development of Language and Understanding • The Beginnings of Imaginative Play • Providing a Rich Environment for Your Toddler • Toys and Equipment • Recommended Resources
Rhythm in Home Life
Creating Rhythm in Daily Life • The Rhythm of the Week • Celebrating Festivals and the Rhythm of the Year • Celebrating Birthdays • Recommended Resources
Discipline and Other Parenting Issues
The Question of Discipline • Why Does Parenting Take So Much Energy? • Can You Work toward Rhythm with an Infant? • What about Weaning? • Crying Babies • What about Going Back to Work? • How Long Do Children's Senses Need Protecting? • Toilet Training • Separation Anxiety and "Helicopter Parenting" • Cabin Fever • Other Parenting Issues • Recommended Resources
Nourishing Your Child's Imagination and Creative Play
Three Stages of Play • Experiencing the World through Play • The Importance of Play in Intellectual Development • Ways to Encourage Your Child's Creative Play • Nourishing Your Child's Imaginative Play through Stories • Recommended Resources
Developing Your Child's Artistic Ability
Children's Drawings and Development • The Experience of Color • Watercolor Painting with Young Children • Metamorphosis in Later Stages of Life • Modeling with Beeswax • Making Things with Your Children • Freeing Your Own Inner Artist • Recommended Resources
Encouraging Your Child's Musical Ability
Make a Joyful Noise • Music and Cognitive Development • Singing with Your Child • Movement Games and Fingerplays • Pentatonic Music and the "Mood of the Fifth" • What about Music and Dance Lessons? • Recommended Resources
Cognitive Development and Early Childhood Education
Academic vs. Play-Based Learning • Why Not Introduce Academics Early? • The Value of Preschool • Evaluating Early Childhood Programs • LifeWays and Waldorf Early Childhood Programs • LifeWays and Waldorf in the Home • The Value of Mixed-Age Programs • When Is Your Child Ready for First Grade? • What Happens Around Age Seven? • Beginning Academic Work: The Waldorf Approach • What about the Advanced or Gifted Child? • Recommended Resources
Common Parenting Questions: From Television to Immunizations
Preparation for Life • Computers • Balanced Development • Television • Toys • Video Games • Immunizations and Childhood Illnesses • The Sick Child • What Makes Children So Different from One Another? • Religion and Young Children • Recommended Resources
Help for the Journey
Conscious Parenting Is a Process • In Conclusion
Appendix: Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf Education


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Coco's tooth
Hi, my baby Coco has somewhat long lower incisors and one is thinner than the other, there is a gap forming between them. All which would just make me think he needs them trimmed however, the one thicker tooth has turned yellow and the gums at the bottom of it look swollen and red. I have a picture of it, however I am not too computer savvy and don't know how to put it up on here. If anybody thinks they have some knowledge about cavy dental issues, I will gladly email the picture to you. I know this doesn't replace going to the vet. I just live in a really small community right now as I am going to college, so the vets I will be going to will not know much about guinea pigs and all the help I could get would be greatly appreciated. My thoughts are that we should trim the teeth and see what that does, and if it doesn't work, may have to pull out the entire tooth. If anybody also has any stories of having to pull a tooth and how your guinea pig was after that would really be great as well. Thanks in advance for any help :)
that would be great, I just sent you my email through here so that you can give my yours. Thank you so much! :)
Again, thank you so very much, I really appreciate it. If anybody wants to see a more up close detailed picture though, I can still email it. I understand on here it probably cant be that big; being so small they really don't show the extent of the problem.
- Mum
- I GAVE, dammit!
I wonder if that lower incisor is cracked at the base - it looks as if it might be in that picture.
An xray of his mouth (dental xray done under light anesthesia) should give you a better idea of what's going on with that front incisor.
I had a pig who had to have a front incisor removed, and she did ok. Unfortunately, it's extremely hard to remove the whole root in a guinea pig incisor, and it had to be removed twice.
Usually incisor problems are caused by molar issues, but an xray will tell you if that's the case. In my pig's case it was caused by a tooth that was knocked out and became infected (this is rare).
You wouldn't want to mess with the incisors without getting a dental xray of his molars as well as the incisors.
An xray of his mouth (dental xray done under light anesthesia) should give you a better idea of what's going on with that front incisor.
I had a pig who had to have a front incisor removed, and she did ok. Unfortunately, it's extremely hard to remove the whole root in a guinea pig incisor, and it had to be removed twice.
Usually incisor problems are caused by molar issues, but an xray will tell you if that's the case. In my pig's case it was caused by a tooth that was knocked out and became infected (this is rare).
You wouldn't want to mess with the incisors without getting a dental xray of his molars as well as the incisors.
Thanks so much Mum. I heard that incisor problems are usually caused by molar problems, I am hoping in my case it isn't cross my fingers. But I will now ask for an x-ray first. He actually had an x-ray when he was younger for his stomach, because it is just so big and mushy that I thought he might be bloated, turned out it was just all filled with food, my little porker! Although they didn't need any anesthetic. I am a vet tech student and know all the dangers of them, so it really scares me. Especially since he was on Baytril when he was younger for an URI and almost died...actually after that is when he got the weird mushy stomach. So his health has always been on my mind. I will be calling the vets around here in a few minutes, once they open....I just wonder how closely related guinea pigs are to say beavers, weasels, etc., because the one vet around here deals with wildlife but not guinea pigs, maybe she will be my best bet. I just want to have all the information I can before going in, thank again now I know where to start.
Well I made an appointment at the cat/dog, wildlife vet....the receptionist said she treat's guinea pigs. Still not too sure though, I do have my regular guinea pig vet that lives 3 hours away that I could go to. However when Coco had a possible URI (which I really don't think he did) she put him on Baytril I think...that was soo long ago and he stopped eating and got really bad diarrhea so I went back in and she tried to give him a penicillin shot, and I said no, because I read on here that it is bad for them and can kill them. So I don't know if its any better to drive down and see her since I'm not sure if she really knows what she is doing. This really is stressing me out, makes me want to go become a guinea pig vet just so their are more. Thanks for help Mum, I really don't want to sedate him, seeing as that can cause death itself.
Lynx that would be great, thank you.
Well I'm off to the vet tomorrow, getting really nervous. I have two last questions before I go. My teachers at school (I am taking a Veterinarian Technician course) who are vets but don't really know anything about guinea pigs keep saying Coco's bottom incisors look too long. What do you guys think? I took Taz out, my other guinea pig and was looking in his mouth for comparison but they look just as long and he is perfectly healthy. Coco is eating fine and acting fine, all except I noticed the harder objects in his cage like his giant "cardboard" tube isn't being chewed at all, when it used to be devoured every couple months. So I am worried to get his teeth trimmed and then he stops eating, when he is eating fine now. I am thinking, x-rays, possible lancing of the abcess if thats what it is, and some antibiotics....although he reacted really badly to Baytril last time he was on it. Also I was wondering how exactly they do the dental radiographs? The pictures on this site basically just show a radiograph of the whole skull, so I am guessing they need to take one from each side? Also how can you tell if the molars are say entrapping the tongue from a side shot radiograph? Anyways these are just some of the questions I have lingering in my head as I head into tomorrow's appointment. Thanks in advance for any advice.
- PinkRufus
- Contributor in 2020
His lower incisors don't look to long to me, I wouldn't trim them unless they touched the roof of his mouth IMO. I've had dental x-rays done, in my case they did the whole skull two side views. Tongue entrapment can be usually be seen visually. Is this the same vet that wanted to give your pig a shot of penicillin? If so, you may want to take as much info with you as possible. Print out anything that you think will help, especially the dangerous medications list. My pigs have had trouble with Baytril also, so I always opt for Bactrim which has so far worked well on my pigs problems. Good luck.
- ShadowBlasko
- Supporter in '05
Wow. That looks EXACTLY like Skittles lowers.
He cracked one chewing on his cage (I think) and now it looks a lot like that.
Truth be told I have not worried all that much about it, since he still eats just fine, and his weight and activity levels are stable. He's a huge pig, over 3 pounds, and since we don't know his age I worry about anethesia (had some bad results before)
He cracked one chewing on his cage (I think) and now it looks a lot like that.
Truth be told I have not worried all that much about it, since he still eats just fine, and his weight and activity levels are stable. He's a huge pig, over 3 pounds, and since we don't know his age I worry about anethesia (had some bad results before)
Thanks so much for all of your input. I have already printed out every page on medications, anesthetics, teeth, etc. hehe and got the names of all the dentistry vets in Ontario (I live in Canada), as well as all the "Guinea pig vets" (although the one who tried to give him penicillin was on there, so don't know how good the list is). This way the vet I am going to can call another vet for advice if she is not quite sure what to do. I am not going to the vet that tried to give him the penicillin, I am going to a vet with little experience with guinea pigs (but some wildlife experience) who is open to listening to my advice. I am worried about anesthesia as well because I had to sedate guinea pigs, gerbils, and rats at school this year and before each class our teacher would say its not your fault if your rodent dies, some of them can have adverse reactions to the anesthetic. So I am going to try to avoid it as much as I can. He is normally good at the vets because he gets scared and just lets them do anything. With me he squirms and tries to be tough. He has such an attitude and thats why I love him so much. Just a little cute note: when I went to the pet store to get a guinea pig, to keep me company after my 19 year old dog died. There was a female and a male in different cages the female would come right up to you and want attention, Coco just looked at me then turned around to put his back to me and lied down, saying go away and leave me alone...I was in love :) Thanks again, I feel better prepared with all your input, this site is great! I will let you know what happens today.
Well I am back from the vet, got x-rays done and not a big surprise but Coco has a big hole in his tooth below the gum line. So since its a continually growing tooth she said to just leave it and it should eventually grow out and break off. She didn't want to put him on antibiotics because of his last experience with them. Not sure if this is the best way to go, seeing that his gums are all red and if it is an abcess it could go into his jaw and eat away at his jaw. But at least I know what it is now. I will be back at home in 2 weeks, instead of up in the middle of now where at school. I found another vet in my hometown that is a dentistry vet and specialized in wildlife. So I will go to him with my problem and see what he says. Also I think I am going to buy some buccal pad separators so I can properly see, or let the vet see the his molars and make sure they are ok. She had one shot of his molars that were actually visible but I don't know what I would see in an abnormality on an x-ray. Anyways thats the update, if anybody knows of a topical antibiotic that could be used in a Guinea pigs mouth that would be great. Thanks for everybody's help!
Anybody know if Baby Anbesol is ok to use in my guinea pigs mouth?


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Welcome Back
In today's post I'd like to share the latest page created for my advent calendar project.
Advent Calendar Day 22
- Stamps Used; Artylicious; Mistletoe Script UDLGW0067
- Inks Used; Adirondack; Bottle, Espresso
- Paint Used; Adirondack Acrylic Dabber; Gold. Twinkling H2Os
- Cuttlebug Alphabet; Olivia
I'd love to see your results if you are making daily pages for a similar advent calendar. If you missed the tutorial at the start, here's Part 1, which contained a download for how to create your calendar. Hope you like this project and will join me tomorrow for the next page.
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon
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From the Steve Harvey school of armchair anti-atheist philosophy, Denzel Washington discusses preparing for the new film Safe House with NBC's Matt Lauer:
"I read this book called 'The Sociopath Next Door,' and that was like my Bible, that I related to," he told TODAY's Matt Lauer. "The traits of a sociopath: No conscience, no sense of remorse, usually atheist, just always want to win, dominate…. He's about to get waterboarded and he's telling the guy he brought the wrong towels. He's still trying to win."
Talk to us about atheist sociopathy Denzel: Endorsement of waterboarding as a no-torture zone: good Christian fascists George W. Bush , Dick Cheney
Extension of war, torture, slaughter of innocents through endless drone and troop deployment: "He will guide" us Christian soldier Barack Obama


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Residents pick up drinking water at the state capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, on Friday.
Tap water in nine West Virginia counties continues to be off-limits, the governor said Saturday evening, as residents spent a third day unable to drink from the faucet or bathe following a chemical spill.
"We will let you know as soon as the water company lifts the ban," Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said at a news conference. "Please remain patient and keep checking on your neighbors."
Tomblin said officials will continue testing the water supply and purging the system, after nearly 800 people reported symptoms by Saturday afternoon.
A chemical leak means West Virginia residents cannot drink, bathe or use their tap water for an indefinite period of time. NBC News' Luke Russert reports.
"The chemical leak is unacceptable and must be cleaned up as soon as possible," Tomblin added.
The National Guard said tests administered on the water on Saturday showed the contamination level was decreasing but that the water was not yet safe to use, reported NBC affiliate WSAZ.
"I would expect that we are talking days" before the water is safe, said West Virginia American Water's president, Jeff McIntyre.
The state's poison control center had logged 787 human exposure calls and 54 animal exposure calls since the massive leak sparked a tap-water ban for 300,000 residents, said the director Dr. Elizabeth Scharman.
Many of those were from people experiencing nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, skin irritation or rashes in "varying degrees of severity," Scharman said.
The center — which called in staff from vacation, recruited volunteers and put workers on 16-hour shifts — recommended that only a few callers go to the emergency room because most of the symptoms can be treated at home.
At least 90 people showed up at hospitals, though the vast majority of them didn't require emergency treatment, Scharman said. As many as five people have been admitted.
The West Virginia American Water Co. announced Thursday that its water supply had become contaminated, after a leak from a Freedom Industries storage tank about a mile upstream on the Elk River sent a strange licorice-like smell wafting through the streets in Charleston, the state capital.
Tomblin declared a state of emergency in Boone, Cabell, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Putnam and Roane counties after the spill of up to 5,000 gallons into the Elk River.
"If you live in one of these areas, do not use tap water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, washing, or bathing. At this time, I do not know how long this will last," Tomblin said Friday.
"If you are low on bottled water, do not panic. Help is on the way."
Officials said Saturday the governor had requested more bottled water from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Distribution centers continue to remain open.
Charleston, W.V., residents are awaiting word as to when their water will be safe again after a chemical spill contaminated the Elk River.
On Friday, President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in the nine counties authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA to provide disaster relief.
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson spoke with Tomblin on Friday to express concern and confirm that response efforts were adequate, according to FEMA.
The West Virginia National Guard was enlisted to dispense bottled drinking water to emergency services agencies in the affected counties, as the feds opened a probe into the circumstances surrounding the spill.
The U.S Chemical Safety Board announced Saturday that a team would arrive in West Virginia on Monday to investigate what led to "a leak of such magnitude."
Senator Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said he was pleased with the safety board's quick response. "I remain committed to keeping those affected safe and secure, and making sure corrective actions are taken so this does not happen again," Rockefeller said.
The leaked product is 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, which is used in the froth flotation process of coal washing and preparation.
The chemical compound is used to rinse coal. It's a colorless oily liquid that smells like black licorice. Methylcyclohexane can be dangerous in high concentrations, but generally causes eye, skin and throat irritation, trouble breathing and dizziness or drowsiness if people are exposed, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
It can cause pneumonia if it's breathed deep into the lungs and nausea if it's swallowed. The effects of prolonged exposure aren't clear.


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You see many interesting things on New Year's Eve, particularly on a train departing from New York. For example, I saw a group of Scottish people, two men, two women, approach a group of college students who had flipped the seats and were using them as footrests. One of the women told the boys, "these seats are not for feet," then added a few moments later, "they're for bums!" Two girls soon wandered past the Scotsmen, who were dressed in traditional Scottish attire (read: kilt, sporran, hose, etc.), and dive into the restroom, puke spewing. The college students chatted with the two women, while one of the men explained that the girl believes all American men look like Ben Affleck. This led the boys to asking about Ireland, wherein the girl corrected them and explained Ireland is a different country from Scotland. Another gentleman wandered by and waited for the restroom, which had been occupied for 20 minutes by the 2 sick women. He began kicking the door, and got into a verbal confrontation over the toilet. Finally, another man came by, dancing like a 5 year old. He had to pee so bad he began doing karate chops. He would have gone into the next car, but he could not figure out how to open the door. When the girls finally left, they yelled at him, even though he was not the kicker. He went in, peed, came out and warned everyone else not to go in there.
About 16 hours later, DeMarcus Cousins gave another memorable performance. Maybe the team suspension was a wake up call, but last night, Cousins hit 21 points, 14 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 steals, and he is averaging 16 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists, and 2 steals in his 3 games back. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, this is the Cousins we have all wanted to see. Remember, the guy is only 22 years old and he put up 18 PPG and 11 RPG with more than an assist, block and steal per game last season. The only thing holding DeMarcus back is his own immaturity, and once that gets fixed, the talent will take over.
I had to once again fill in at the last minute, so apologies if this post is a little lighter than usual. I also can't promise there will be any tiers tonight, but maybe there will be some tears. Here's what else happened in the NBA on New Year's Day:
Jordan Crawford – Returned from his ankle injury for 9 points (1 three), 2 rebounds and 4 assists over 24 minutes.
Carmelo Anthony – Returned from HIS injury to score a whopping 45 (including 5 from downtown), plus 7 rebounds, 4 assists, and a steal. He also shot 12 of 14 from the free throw line.
Eric Gordon – Saw a little bump in the road with 5 of 17 shooting for 11 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal. I'm just happy he played 2 games in a row.
O.J. Mayo – Finally had a good performance with 15 points (3 from deep), a board, 5 assists, 2 steals.
Ryan Anderson – How many PF/C eligible guys give you 5 threes? This guy (Ryan, not me). He accumulated 23 points and 6 rebounds on the night.
Pau Gasol – Shot terribly (2 of 12) but still nearly had a double double with 11 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal.
Amar'e Stoudemire – In his first game back, he played a bit shy of 17 minutes for 6 points, 1 rebound and a block. Obviously, it will take him some time to get back to game rhythm, but it's good to see him back.
Kosta Koufos – He could not live up to the pressure of the Razzball seal of approval, making 2 of 5 shots for 4 points and 5 rebounds, with no blocks. That's 3 games without double digit points and 4 without double digit rebounds.
Bradley Beal – Led his team with 22 points, including 4 threes, plus 4 rebounds, 2 assists and a block.
Charlie Villanueva – He had been doing well recently, but he was ejected last night, keeping him to 9 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block.
Vince Carter – Vinsanity seemed to have been kept in check with prescription medication, because it was really not all that Vinsane until last night, when he went crazy for 23 points (2 threes), 4 rebounds, 2 assists and a steal. Nice to see mental illness is back!
Antawn Jamison – He spent his 5th game in a row warming the bench the entire game, and has not see more than 20 minutes of playing time since December 13. He's not just a sell, he's a drop from a moving car and don't slow down.
Zaza Pachulia – Nice little game for Za with 12 points, 10 boards (6 offensive) and a block. He doesn't always give double doubles, or even usually, but he is capable of it. Occasionally.
Wesley Matthews – Saw 29 1/2 minutes but only had 8 points, 3 boards, 2 assists and a steal. Still, considering he didn't play the 4 previous games, you give this one to him.


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We've been saying for some time that Obamacare will be a central issue in the 2014 election, and that it offers Republicans the hope, if they nominate solid candidates, of taking control of the Senate. Now, Senate Democrats have figured this out, as well.
Ron Wyden is latest example. He frets:
There is reason to be very concerned about what's going to happen with young people. If their (insurance) premiums shoot up, I can tell you, that is going to wash into the United States Senate in a hurry.
Senate Democrats tend to blame the Obama administration for not rolling out the details regarding insurance exchanges and, more generally, for failing to inform the public about Obamacare. Max Baucus, who helped write the legislation and who has decided not to run for re-election, gave the Department of Health and Human Services a "failing grade" for its Obamacare outreach efforts.
But this is mostly a cop-out. Democratic control of the Senate is threatened primarily by the inherent flaws in the legislation the Dems rushed through, not by poor implementation by the Obama administration. The inherent problems include the natural reluctance of big insurers to participate in insurance exchanges, state resistance to these exchanges and to the Medicaid expansion, and penalties that appear too weak to coerce the conduct contemplated by the Act including the purchasing of insurance by young people.
I'm all for throwing the Obama administration under the bus, but doing so won't save Democrats from the wrath of the voters if, as seems likely, the Obamacare launch proves to be a dud.


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BRICE W. TROTT family reunion held Oct. 12 in Richlands. For more information call 910-324-3468.
BRICE W. TROTT family reunion held Oct. 12 in Richlands. For more information call 910-324-3468.
EMERALD ISLE Parks and Recreation hosts its annual Flounder Surf Fishing Tournament from 8 a.m. Sept. 28 to 5 p.m. Oct. 5. Prizes awarded. Call 252-354-6350.
GREAT MULLET Run 5K/Mile Fun Run begins at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 9 beginning and ending at Hammocks Beach State Park, Swansboro. Entry fee $15. Call 252-393-2301.
RETIREE Appreciation Day/Health Fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 28 at Marston Pavilion aboard Camp Lejeune with health screenings, speakers and more. Call 910-451-0287.
WALK 4-LIFE fundraiser for Onslow Pregnancy Resource Center held Sept. 28 at Riverwalk Crossing Park. Registration at 9 a.m. Call 910-938-7000 or oprcfriends.com.
N.C. COASTAL Federation hosts a shoreline cleanup/kayak trip from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 28 at Morris Landing Clean Water Preserve. Call 910-509-2838 or nccoast.org.
JACKSONVILLE SDA Church offers �How to Prepare for a Disaster� seminar from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Oct. 12 at 453 College Street with speaker Steve Stillwell. Call 910-787-3477.
HEM OF HIS Garment Thrift Store, Hwy. 24 in Swansboro will hold a Christmas yard sale fundraiser at 9 a.m. Sept. 28.
ONSLOW Parks and Recreation hosts �Dog Day in the Park� from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 28 at Onslow Pines Parks with dog wash, dog jog, microchips, photo contest and more. Call 910-347-5332.


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Ben T necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 91 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
NBT Construction (nbtconstruct.com)
NBT Construction is a small company that's growing fast. I've been in the remodeling and construction company for 16 years and started NBT Construction about 3 years ago. We specialize in quality workmanship, including custom-designed carpentry, tiling, kitchens, bathrooms, cabins, and full-scale remodeling projects. I'm looking forward to expanding my company and giving it a professional look, which starts with a company logo.
The majority of my clients are upscale. I target high-end customers looking for custom-designed remodeling. No matter the client, we always bring quality and full service.
NBT Construction is a small company, so we want the logo to emulate the personal service we give each of our customers and the creative, quality work we do. Words to describe what the logo should express: integrity, high-end design, creativity, personal service, quality work, and experienced consultation... just to name a few.
More specific requirements:
* No cheesy images or icons, like a hammer and nails.
* Shapes are ok.
* Prefer bold colors.
* Clean, professional look.
We always try to be creative with our projects, so feel free to be with your designs. I look forward to seeing your ideas. Good luck, have fun and thanks for participating!
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How to Finish Last, a comic by Nick Barsuli and Massimo Sabadin.
Nice guys finish last. It's an age-old truth that no one wants to admit. Tyler Martin (or Ty), however, is finding this out the hard way. Come join him on his journey through adulthood as he learns that being nice, kind, courteous, chivalrous, and sweet...doesn't get you too far. However, the supporting cast shines through with stories of their own to show us that no one is perfect, and everyone's opinion is a valid one, even if it's one that is strongly in combat with your own.
Check it out! =)