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text: HomeMenus & SpecialsOn TapBeer To Go!Rams Head LoungeHistory The music has stopped – for now. All McMenamins, except 23rd Ave Bottle Shop, are temporarily closed. We'll be ready for you with beer, wine and burgers when this is over. Until then, stay safe. Upcoming Events see all events Friends & Family Night - Benefit for Chapman Elementary Tuesday, April 21 Oregon Wine Month - May 1-10 * 2019 White Rabbit Friday, May 01 Burger Month Monday, June 01 Slam a dram at the Ram Housed in "The Campbell," a residential hotel (now high-end condos) built in 1912, the Rams Head is a spirited meeting place just a step down off the sidewalk. As you sample the specialty cocktails, take note of the rich historical attributes, from woodwork to artwork. Enjoy outdoor seating on those beautiful Pacific Northwest days, a cool handcrafted McMenamins ale in hand. Have your next gathering in our Rams Head Lounge! The Rams Head allows pets at our sidewalk seating only. Menus Menu Happy Hour Food Specials 3-6 p.m. & 10 p.m.-close No substitutions, additions, or to-go orders Our menus feature the freshest seasonal ingredients from local and regional growers and producers, house-baked breads, desserts and pastries from the Crystal Bakery, a specialty cocktail menu and an affordable yet approachable wine list, while our waitstaff provides a comfortable and welcoming guest experience. No reservations are necessary; stop by for a quick lunch while you're out shopping, a pre-show drink or an evening date night along Northwest 23rd Avenue. Gluten-free buns available! These light, crisp, locally made products are available for an additional charge with hamburgers and sandwiches – just ask your server. Please note: Although the bun is gluten-free, our kitchens are not. All Ales Wine Cider Guest Taps 33rd State IPA Black Rabbit Red Blackberry Cider Blanc de Noirs Sparkling Wine Cabernet Sauvignon Chardonnay Chardonnay, Rainbow Ridge Cuvée De L'Abri Rouge Edgefield Apple Cider Fresh Start Lager Hammerhead Hawthorne Kölsch Lovecraft Hazy Pale McMenamins Irish Stout Merlot Pinot Gris Pinot Noir Pinot Noir, Fennwood Pomegranate Cider Riesling Riesling, Vineyard Select Ruby Ale Suns Up Pineapple Peach Sour Syrah Terminator Stout The Oak And The Stone: Barrel Aged Apricot Saison Umbrella Jimmy Dry Rosé Upper Strata DIPA Viognier White Rabbit Tree Hugger Porter Bring in your growler for these fills from our taps: (or purchase a glass growler at any of our locations) Beer Hard Cider 32 ounce $8-$12.50 32 ounce $9-$14 64 ounce $16-$25.00 64 ounce $18-$28 Get fills on special at the Pubs: Growler Mondays: $5 off* *certain beers may be additional charge Crowler Tuesday: $2 off* *certain beers may be additional charge Cider Wednesdays: $3 off* *this price applies to standard Edgefield Cider – regular apple or seasonal only Check out what's ON TAP at WHICH LOCATIONS on the free McMenamins app. Cans Our cans of signature Ruby and Hammerhead are available at all locations. Ask about seasonal and limited-edition cans and bottles as well. Crowlers Offered at our 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop, Cedar Hills, Cornelius Pass Roadhouse, Elks Temple Bottle Shop, Roseburg Station Pub & Brewery and Winery Tasting Room (just for cider), a Crowler is a 32-ounce vessel that we fill fresh from an ale or cider tap of your choice and seal up. Kegs/Cornelius Can Shipping Beer Now shipping to anywhere in Oregon Call the Edgefield Gift Shop to order: 503-492-5470 7 am –7 pm Pacific Time Max 24 cans per order per state law Why can't you ship elsewhere? While Oregon law allows us to ship outside of the state, individual state laws prohibit us to ship beer directly to consumers. Have Your Get-Together at Rams Head Lounge Reserve now by calling 503-221-0098; reservations on Friday and Saturday nights may be limited. If your next gathering is for 20 to 25 people, we've got the perfect comfortable, charming space. The lounge area at Ram's Head now has two rooms complete with couches, cushy chairs and coffee tables. This space is ideal for a group ordering small plates and appetizers chosen from our pub menu. A step down from bustling Northwest 23rd places you in one of the most prominent buildings along the Avenue, a living artifact from an earlier era. This dining area was originally part of the venerable Campbell Hotel, an upscale apartment house known for its refinement and personal service.... During Prohibition, all the drinks were served in coffee cups at this hotel restaurant... hmmm.... Read more for a complete history.


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Welcome to Snowpack Park! You've arrived in hopes of hanging out with some of the local penguins and learning how to take care of them. However, a recent storm has just sent the residents of the park fleeing to various islands throughout the area, and there are only a few penguins to be found.
Take control of either a Mii character or one of the game's built-in characters and brave various terrains and unexpected obstacles. Travel from island to island, find penguins and bring them back safely to the park. But getting them back is just the beginning. The penguins have different moods, which will go up and down depending on how much interaction they have with you. If a penguin's mood gets too bad, it will leave the park. To prevent that from happening, you must learn how to feed, pet and play with the penguins in order to keep them happy. Throughout the park, you'll also find fun minigames to play, headwear pieces for the penguins to wear, fish for them to eat, blowfish to roll up into snowballs and a variety of other useful things. You can even collect photos of yourself and the penguins by visiting one of the park's photo-taking locations. Prepare for a heartwarming Antarctic adventure!
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Release Date: November 22, 2010
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Release Date: December 21, 2010
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text: One of my favourite viewpoints of downtown Toronto. At the southeast corner of University and Queen is the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto's new home of the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada. The buildings behind rising into the sky are (from left) the Sheraton Centre, Bay Adelaide Centre (mostly hidden), Scotia Plaza, First Canadian Plaza and the Hilton hotel. Also in the picture are Queen's Park, Ontario's Legislative Building (at the at the northern end of University Ave), Ontario's Superior Court of Justice (north-east) and Toronto City Hall (east). The big statue is the South African War Memorial. The panorama was taken in front of the Canada Life Building.


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Student-Athletes to Soak Up All the Inspiration They Can Get
Sara Koehnke graduated from Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Ill., less than a month ago and cannot wait for her next big adventure. For most, that would mean college. But for Koehnke, she will make a pit stop in Beijing, China, before she enrolls in Knox College in the fall.
In early September, Koehnke, who was born with just one hand, will travel to Beijing for the 2008 Paralympic Games as a part of the Paralympic Academy Beijing program. U.S. Paralympics is sponsoring the program, sending 25 student-athletes and 10 coaches to the Paralympic Games.
Similar to the rest of the student-athletes selected to the Academy, Koehnke has found a passion for sports in her life. She competes in track and field, cross country and fencing. The student-athlete trains herself and uses the Paralympic Games as a model for success. She sees what others like her can do on an international stage and tells herself she never wants to be held back because of her physical disability.
"Whenever someone tells me I can't do something, I want to do it even more," Koehnke explained. "Don't listen to anybody that tells you you can't do something. A lot of people feel bad for (people with) disabilities, but then you see the Paralympics."
Koehnke is just one of 25 student-athletes hoping to find inspiration for life and sport in Beijing.
John Register, Associate Director for Community and Military Programs,U.S. Paralympics, said the program focuses on "giving kids that have done a phenomenal job in schools and academia, as well as in their sports, a chance to meet their heroes and see the Paralympic Games and give them that vision of becoming a Paralympic athlete."
The student-athletes and coaches will be sent over in two waves, both accompanied by U.S. Paralympic staff members. The first wave will attend the Opening Ceremonies, while the second will attend the Closing Ceremonies.
"Each one of the kids is very energetic and very excited about the trip," Register said. "For each one of the kids it's going to be a life-changing experience. I don't think there are too many people on the trip who have been to China before."
The participants will have the chance to attend the Games' competition, as well as meet and greet type activities with some of the Paralympians.
"Every morning, or at some point in the day, they'll have a Paralympic athlete that's on the team come over and speak to the group," Register said. "They'll probably have a Paralympic coach come over and speak to the group as well."
For many of the student-athletes, only in their dreams have they had this opportunity before.
"They'll get a chance to meet their Paralympic heroes on the world stage," Register said.
But the Academy represents more than just meeting talented athletes. It creates awareness for all athletes with a physical disability throughout the United States.
"I think the ultimate goal is not so much to help them become a Paralympic athlete," Register said. "Our goal is that these student-athletes will energize their communities and help create more awareness about Paralympic sport in their local community program. To help drive our Paralympic network, to help brand Paralympics across the United States...to really show to people and help explain to people what Paralympics is all about."
Deborah Jackson, one of the coaches traveling with the group, believes the program is something she can learn from and apply to her life back home. The Durham, N.C., native works as a Patient Care Coordinator for an orthotic and prosthetic facility, and it was her son, an amputee, who sparked her interest in the program.
After Beijing, Jackson wants to act as the liaison between the Paralympians and the children she works with on the East coast.
"I hope to gain awareness of more children with (physical disabilities) and what they can do," Jackson said. "I would just like to be motivated by the Paralympians and their drive. I would like to funnel that energy and bring it back to the children here in North Carolina."
The Academy is a program in which young athletes watch older ones achieve their dreams. But for Jackson, it is one in which a young athlete can learn from an older one and take the next step toward achieving his own goal. She hopes to integrate the lessons she learns in Beijing into the lives of the children she works with, including her son's.
"I think I can motivate them to achieve their dreams and perhaps open up new avenues for sports," Jackson said.
Register said the program also aims to further students' cultural and political boundaries. In addition to the three to four days of competition student-athletes will see, one day of their trip will be dedicated to cultural immersion.
"I think it's going to be an interesting social shock for me," Koehnke said.
Register has molded the program into an experience beyond what a teacher can create in a classroom setting or a coach can produce on the field.
"In the United States we tend to be on a pretty big island," Register explained. "We go from Maine to California, and from Washington to Florida, and we're still speaking the same language. Most Americans don't have the chance to get out and experience another culture, and so they get very defensive and very afraid about other people trying to come in or speaking different languages. (When) you get outside of the United States, you really appreciate other cultures and other languages and accept people for truly who they are."
This is just one of the many opportunities student-athlete Colbie Bratlie has been offered because of her physical disability.
"I've gotten to meet a lot of people and gone to a lot of different places," Bratlie said.
The 14-year-old participates in several sports, and won the 2007 National Junior Disability Championships in swimming.
Bratlie said Beijing will probably be the best place she has traveled to, though, as she looks forward to meeting the athletes and seeing how people from different cultures interact with one another.
Meanwhile, Darius Lopes, 16, was inspired just by the fact that he was accepted into the program.
"It's a great honor," Lopes said. "Not many people I know can say that they went to Beijing, China. It inspires me to be at that level. Now I want to go and play in the Paralympics. It will make me work harder. It will make me work 100 percent all of the time."
Lopes, a wheelchair user, has the opportunity to watch Paralympic athletes achieve their dreams.
"I just want to learn what's possible," he said.
Lopes' grandmother, Cheryl Lopes, will accompany him on the trip, and is maybe even more excited than he is. She said it will be a learning experience for him that most kids his age don't have.
"He'll learn how proud (he) is to have a (physical) disability - (that) it's not something to be ashamed of," Cheryl said. "He'll learn about competing and the intricate parts of how it runs. He'll learn about culture and food."
U.S. Paralympics tries to get an accurate representation of athletes from all disability groups, ethnic groups, geographic groups and genders. Athletes must be between 12 and 18 years old by the time of the trip.
Bratile knows a lot of people that applied for the program and was very thankful when she found out she was offered a spot.
"I was really excited, and kind of surprised actually," Bratile said about her selection.
Koehnke's reaction to Register's call was not quite as subtle.
"I think I might've screamed his ear off," Koehnke said with a laugh.
Coaches interested in being a part of the Academy must send letters of recommendations from supervisors and an essay, and have coaching experience in adaptive sports.
In 2004, U.S. Paralympics sponsored the inaugural Academy, sending six student-athletes and six coaches to Athens. One of those student-athletes, Greta Neimanas, is now going to be representing the U.S. at the Paralympic Games in cycling in Beijing.
"Four years ago in Athens, she was in their seat," Register said about Neimanas. "She fell in love with the sport of cycling, bought a bicycle and now she's one of our Paralympic athletes."
All six of the athletes who traveled to Athens came back a new person.
"Every athlete that went on that trip was changed in one way or another," Register said. "Their determination to pursue sport or pursue whatever their interests were was heightened."
Koehnke hopes the trip to Beijing is the same for her as Athens was for Neimanas. She hopes someone over in Beijing will seek out her positive attitude and potential as an athlete. She hopes to find someone who will help her train so she can achieve her dreams. She hopes, in fact she just about knows, that it will be a life-changing experience.
"I'm hoping to just find different things that inspire me," Koehnke said. "It's more just hoping to soak up everything. I don't really have any expectations."
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Doe v. Network Solutions, LLC, No. 07-5115, 2008 WL 191419 (N.D. Cal. January 22, 2008)
Plaintiff Doe alleged violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and similar California statutes when he discovered that personal and financial information about him had allegedly been obtained from a webmail account he established with Network Solutions. Citing to the forum selection clause in the click-wrap agreement Doe had entered into several times, Network Solutions moved to dismiss the action under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(3) for improper venue.
The court granted the motion to dismiss, finding that the claims brought by plaintiff were within the scope of the clause, and that enforcement would not be unreasonable. The matter was dismissed without prejudice to refile in the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Lots of people are prescribed prescription drugs like OxyContin or Vicodin to help with pain from an injury or surgery. When taken as prescribed, these medications are safe; but when abused, they can be highly addictive and dangerous—even deadly.
In the video, "Get Back in the Game: Use Painkillers Safely," NIDA scientists Dr. Cindy Miner and Dr. Joni Rutter describe what can happen when a person abuses painkillers. What is considered prescription drug abuse? Here are some examples:
- Taking someone else's prescription
- Taking more than prescribed for you, or for a reason other than intended
- Mixing prescription drugs with alcohol or other drugs
To learn more, take a look at the materials in NIDA's PEERx initiative. Prescription drug abuse is actually a serious public health problem in this country, and is growing in teens. You can help turn it around by raising awareness among your friends and family. Prescription drug abuse IS drug abuse, period.
I work right next to a pain management clinic and we have team meetings about patients on these type of pain relievers. These doctors take prescribing pain meds very seriously because they know that people can overdose and die (if taken wrong). OxyContin or Vicodin are powerful narcotics. Yet, some think that they can share their prescription with a loved one or friend in pain. This is illegal. Tolerances to medication for one person are different than another so not only might you have a "bad trip" but you could stop breathing and die. So don't do it. If you are having pain these most MDs don't even recommend prescribing pain meds to youth (that's how dangerous they are!). Instead, physical therapy is recommended. [commercial link removed, per guidelines]
Well it was subscribe for pain and not to be abused.
I have been a professional Chinese medicine therapist for the last fourteen years and would like that people who are struggling with different types of addictions to know, that besides conventional therapies, you can also find yourself a good licensed Chinese medicine therapist, close to your home and while being treated conventionally you can also accompany this treatment by Chinese medicine and participating in personal development courses.These can also ease the process of [commercial link removed, per guidelines] kicking the Habit.
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Your blog is really must to whom use painkillers as chocolate..We tend to hear about painkiller addiction here and there, with the occasional celebrity coming out and admitting they have or have had a problem with prescription pain medications, but with the recent death of Michael Jackson being linked to possible pain med addiction, it has really forced a much needed dialogue about this epidemic.
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These prescription drugs have dangerous side effects. And the proof is this study. Findrxonline mentions buying prescription drugs online have increased considerably. Twenty percent in the last four years and is worrisome because now children and adolescents also take pain relievers such as vicodin, lortab, percocet, which are used for chronic diseases. We expect the authorities to take letters in the subject to reduce the overuse of medications prescribed in minor effects checked them.
I believe a lot of drug related situations are caused by a lack of motivation. To stay motivated I have created a routine that keeps me going by a set daily goals that will lead to a 20 year goal. Also, I have a self-help/ motivational blog that I post twice daily on with a themed schedule I keep. [commercial link removed, per guidelines]
Thank you for the information. This looks like an excellent resource for grandparents to share with their grandchildren. I'm bookmarking it in Delicious. Thanks again.
Prescription drug addiction is no laughing matter. But it always helps to have a good activity that not only takes your attention away from drugs, but also gives you something to aspire for. I've seen a lot of kids in my martial arts school really turn their lives around, just by having an activity that gives them a reason to stay clean. [commercial link removed, per guidelines]
it feels good to find this kind of stuff while surfing on net… keep posting i liked it very much
In many cases the prescription drugs are helpful to treat illness or injury but in my opinion the should be an alterenate source and a less addictive drug.
This little blog helped me alot because ilearned that using prescription drug abuse is very dangerous and it can be daedly. ikno alot of ppl that use prescripition drugs and this info informed me. so now im going to share what ihave actually learned about this situation
Well this passage is telling that whats wrong with the country now is painkiller, because teenagers using medications just to use it, and some people taking other people medication or prescriptions that is not subscribed to them. Mixing different types of medication together an taking it and overdosing.
I agree with Mark a lot of drug related situations are caused by a lack of motivation from your surrounding peers.
I was also searching related stuff from long time.You have solved my problem.Thanks for sharing this great stuff with us.
Students trading/ selling their prescriptions is a widespread issues even with mature students. Many law schools have ritalin abuse and underground trade (to manage very very long study hours), and if anyone should know better, they should. Peer pressure AND the pressure to succeed are both factors. [commercial link removed, per guidelines]
They should. Teach this at school some kids have no idea what this drug can o to them they may think it's cool now but what the start getting the effects they will be pissed they wasn't educated about this drug
Parents are the ones who should stay on top of the whole drudg abuse issue, always talking to your children about the peer pressure and the dangers of drudg abuse, and always watching for the signs should they appear in their own children.
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I believe this very sensitive issue needs to be the focus of furthur education.
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yup this is true u
My mother died of perscription drug overdose so I know how it feels for the people that have experienced this.
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Teens and adults both are going to find a way to abuse substances to get high. The real problem isn't making it more controlled, it is making something without dangerous side effects and risk of overdose legal. Marijuana is supposedly a gateway drug, but if it was legal to obtain I can almost guarantee that abuse of other more dangerous drugs would drop dramatically. When you have a child you note that the more you constrain and restrict, the more they try to rebel. It is the same with people in general. The more you try to control and restrict, the more they will try to find ways around it. Since you can't restrict everything effectively, maybe trying to give a little leeway would be beneficial.
@Pandagravy: On the "gateway" concept, while it is true that most people who use other drugs have also used marijuana (and nicotine and/or alcohol), it is not true that most marijuana users go on to use other drugs. Still, it's good to remember that even if someone doesn't go beyond using marijuana or alcohol, these substances themselves can pose pretty big health risks, including the risk of addiction.
As a physical therapist and [commercial link removed, per guidelines] practitioner, and Vicodin is a highly prescribed pain killer due to it's effectivity. Patients should be well informed how strong this medicine it and only take as advised by doctor.
[commercial link removed, per guidelines] Parents are the ones who should stay on top of the whole drudg abuse issue, always talking to your children about the peer pressure and the dangers of drudg abuse, and always watching for the signs should they appear in their own children.
Some people, especially teenagers, experiment with prescribed drugs for they think that those will help them have more fun, lose weight, to fit in or even to study more effectively. These prescription drugs are easier to get that street drug…the family members or friends may have them.
Don't you know that taking prescription drugs in a way that has [not] been recommended by a doctor can be more dangerous than people think? In fact, its drug abuse and it's just as illegal as taking street drugs!
I totally agree.
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this type of abusive drug should be completely banned form market cause they are just harmfull to our body not is so good thanks [commercial link removed, per guidelines]
I couldnt agree more on the articles and comments! this need to be taken care of seriously!
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well i think people shouldnt take it unless its nessary
people are wrong for using pain killers when they dont need it when somebody deprssed and reaily needs it
I have s good knowledge about it because i also need drugs for some deceases but not continuously . Abuse of drugs are very harmful for human bodies .Wrong prescribed drug may occur tremendous loss for patient some times it may cause death.So be care full...!!!!!!
Treating drug addiction problems is really a big task for the doctors. Some of the patients are in such a bad condition that they couldn't overcome form their drug addiction problems. There are lots of drug addiction treatment rehabs present that provide best and effective treatment for the drug addicts.
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Really great post!!.Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us.
The information is very interesting with great pleasure i read your blog.
I believe a lot of drug related situations are caused by a lack of motivation. To stay motivated I have created a routine that keeps me going by a set daily goals that will lead to a 20 year goal. Also, I have a self-help/ motivational blog that I post twice daily on with a themed schedule I keep.
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I have a story that people may be able to relate to......when I was small my parents went through a divorce that was terrible.
All of the fighting yelling and blaming they did. I even saw them get in some physical fights but it wasn't until I got older and was in high school that I suppose it really started to affect me. I was the one that went out every weekend and got drunk and high Bc it was fun and seemed like the thing to do. When I was in 10th grade that I noticed a problem with my hand even though I had been having severe pain in my arm as well. We saw several doctors to figure out what was wrong. The problem was with the nerves in my shoulder but the problem is once the nerves are gone you cant bring them back so they prescribed me vicoden. I have been on vicoden since 2004 and was taken off of it last year because I was addicted to it. I became addicted to it after my body met a tolerance level and I needed more to relieve the pain. Every time I went Otto the doctor I never told them how much I needed to take for relief. If I could go back now I would. If you think it gives you an awesome high let me tell you its not worth it. Trying to overcome the addiction has been the hardest thing ive ever had to do. Plus comes the factor of the pain I already had. I just hole that teenagers will think twice before you ever try any drugs. If you have had any kind of trauma in your life be it physical or emotional please seek out safe alternatives to help not drugs.


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Rangers turn to small ball to top Mariners in finale
Martin provides key sacrifice bunts as Scheppers turns in rough start
ARLINGTON -- A night after Leonys Martin had a two-out walk-off single, it was his ability to get down a sacrifice bunt that propelled the Rangers to an 8-6 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday afternoon.
Martin twice laid down sacrifice bunts as the Rangers executed the type of small ball that manager Ron Washington champions, first helping them tie the game in the bottom of the third, and then setting them up to get the lead back in the bottom of the fifth after they had blown a 4-0 lead.
The rally helped the Rangers win their third consecutive game for the first time this season. A team that has struggled with the bats scored five runs or more for the third time in 16 games.
Without Adrian Beltre in the middle of the lineup and Prince Fielder struggling so far -- he was 0-for-3 to drop his average to .164 -- the Rangers have had to find a way to scratch out runs.
Martin's first bunt came with two strikes against tough Seattle starter Erasmo Ramirez. It came after Mitch Moreland had an RBI double to drive in Kevin Kouzmanoff to make it 6-5 and Donnie Murphy walked. Martin then missed on two bunt attempts before laying one down in front of the mound to set up the tying run as Moreland scored on a grounder to shortstop by J.P. Arencibia.
The Rangers used the sacrifice bunt again in the bottom of the fifth. Moreland walked and Murphy had a single to set up another Martin sacrifice, this one on his first bunt attempt. Moreland scored again on a grounder, again by Arencibia, and Murphy came home to make it 8-6 on a wild pitch by Mariners reliever Joe Beimel.
Arencibia didn't seem like the prime candidate to give up an out to move runners over -- he entered Thursday's game with two hits in 24 at-bats, neither of those hits coming in nine at-bats with runners in scoring position.
But twice Washington put him in a run-producing situation, and twice it worked, even though Arencibia made outs both times.
"Arencibia is a part of this team," Washington said. "He has to do it, too. I put him in a situation where we needed him to produce and he got us two runs. Two productive outs … when you're in situations that we were in today, we needed Martin to get the bunt down and at least scratch out a run. Somehow we got four runs out of it."
The Rangers also got production out of the five and six spots in the lineup. Kouzmanoff and Moreland combined to go 4-for-8 with four RBIs.
"I just have to do the things, we all have to do the things that are us," Kouzmanoff said. "We can't step outside of ourselves. Stealing bases, advancing a base with the ball in the dirt, Leonys laying down those bunts, that small game, that stuff is pretty important. That's what wins ball games. That's what happened today."
The bullpen did the rest. Starting with Hector Noesi, five Rangers relievers blanked the Mariners for 6 2/3 innings. Pedro Figueroa picked up his second career win in as many nights, pitching 1 2/3 scoreless innings, and Joakim Soria made it save No. 2 with a perfect ninth to highlight a great day for the bullpen.
"They were just outstanding," Washington said.
Meanwhile, the Tanner Scheppers experiment as a starting pitcher continued on its path to perhaps him returning to the bullpen, as well as the relief corps pitched. Scheppers hasn't looked like the same dominant pitcher he was last season when he had 27 holds and a 1.88 ERA as the Rangers' setup man for closer Joe Nathan.
Scheppers saw a 4-0 lead evaporate in the top of third as the right-hander gave up a six-run inning, the second time he's done that this season.
Scheppers has been the victim of the big inning -- 17 of the 20 runs he's allowed in four starts have come in three innings. He has allowed two six-run innings, plus a five-run inning in his last start against Houston. His 9.82 ERA is the highest of any pitcher in the American League with a minimum of one inning pitched per team game played.
The long ball got Scheppers in the top of the third. After a single and a walk, Scheppers tried to go with an 0-1 changeup to Robinson Cano, and it backfired. Cano hammered a three-run homer into the right-field seats, his first home run as a Mariner in his 15th game with his new team. Corey Hart then launched a home run to left field to tie the game at 4-4.
Scheppers then allowed a one-out walk to Nick Franklin and a single to Justin Smoak and was pulled from the game. The Rangers lost the lead with Noesi, recently acquired from the Mariners, giving up a two-run double to Dustin Ackley to give Seattle a 6-4 lead.
Scheppers' transition to the rotation means he's using his secondary pitches such as his changeup more often.
"It came back right down the middle," Arencibia said of Cano's homer. "Good pitches usually don't get hit out. A lot of the balls that were hit are missed locations. That's just the game. You execute your pitches to hurt people, and if you don't, if you leave pitches up … look at the other guy [Ramirez]. He's an unbelievable starter. He's one of the best in the league. But if you leave balls up, it doesn't matter what the name of the guy is on the back of his jersey. It's going to get hit."
Scheppers' next start would be Tuesday at Oakland. Nick Martinez, who opened the season in the Rangers' rotation, was scheduled to pitch for Double-A Frisco on Thursday night. But there has been no discussion about Scheppers going back to the bullpen.
"It's nothing that has crossed my mind," Washington said. "We know it's a work in progress."
Scheppers was waiting at his locker after the game and said he is ready to move on to the next start.
"It doesn't feel good for something like this," Scheppers said. "Luckily the bullpen picked me up … I don't think I'm pitching to my ability. Yes it is frustrating, but all I can do is move on."
Kouzmanoff helped the Rangers jump out to a 4-0 lead. He collected a hit in his eighth straight game as a Ranger, a two-out RBI single after Fielder was intentionally walked, scoring Elvis Andrus for a 1-0 lead. Moreland followed with a two-run single to center field for a 3-0 lead.
Shin-Soo Choo gave the Rangers a 4-0 lead with two outs in the top of the second inning with his first home run with Texas, a 404-foot shot to right field.


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Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
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West Ham have agreed a two-year deal for Stockport County youngster Danny Whitehead.
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Whitehead, who has played 59 Blue Square Bet Premier matches for the Hatters, joins the Hammers for an undisclosed fee with an option of a third year.
The attacking midfielder, who made his first-team debut in 2011 at 17 years of age, will join up with Sam Allardyce's men for pre-season training on July 1.
Whitehead said: "I'm very excited to have joined West Ham and I can't wait to get out there and play.
"It's obviously a big step up, but I've got to take the opportunity and grasp it.
"I was on trial here at the end of last season and all the lads helped me fit in well during the two weeks of training I did.
"I've got a bit of experience from playing for the first team at Stockport - I'll probably be with the U21s here at the start and then try to push towards the first team."
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"I asked their current manager Ian Bogie about his talents and he allowed us to take a look at him last season and like every young player he's got talent.
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The Royal Variety Show" and second, it didn't take place, like the poster says, at the London Palladium, but rather at the Prince of Wales Theatre, November 4th, 1963 (There more inaccuracies concerning the poster, take a look at the comments section of this post). Many people think that John Lennon's famous "rattle yer jewellery" remark was aimed at Queen Elizabeth, but guess what? She wasn't attending the show. The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret was there, though. In the Rutles retelling of the story, it's an impersonator of Queen Elizabeth who is attending, or "Barry's mum", if you wish.
Apart from the aforementioned poster, in 1963 a 32-page 7" x 9" softback souvenir photo book named "The Beatles By Royal Command" was produced in the UK by the Daily Mirror newspaper, documenting their Royal Variety Show performance from arrival through rehearsals to the aftershow with a great live shot colour centrefold.
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The Beatles did play a gig at the London Palladium in 1963. That happened on October 13th, but that was for the TV show "Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium". Very few episodes of this programme have survived (5 out of original run's 126), the Beatles' episode being one of the lost ones (contrary to what Wikipedia says).


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Michigan Tech Researchers Receive Two Great Lakes Restoration Grants
Two Great Lakes restoration research projects by Michigan Technological University researchers are among 12 selected for funding, the University of Michigan Water Center announced today. Fifty-four research teams from universities near the Great Lakes and beyond submitted proposals for nearly $570,000 total funding.
"Michigan Tech should be very proud of its Great Lakes researchers," said Guy Meadows, director of the Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC) at Michigan Tech. "These grants are a recognition of their outstanding abilities, and their work will produce critically needed data to improve our restoration efforts on the Great Lakes
A team led by Amy Marcarelli, assistant professor of biological sciences who also works with the GLRC, received $50,000 to study the impact of remediation of stamp sands along Hills Creek on the Keweenaw Peninsula. David Dean, assistant research scientist at the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) in Ann Arbor, heads another Michigan Tech team that received a $50,000 Water Center grant to develop a geospatial database to inform response plans for dealing with oil or chemical spills in the Great Lakes.
Marcarelli's co-investigator is Casey Huckins, associate professor of biological sciences who also works with the GLRC. Dean's co-investigators are Colin Brooks and Arthur Endsley, both research scientists at MTRI in Ann Arbor.
The UM Water Center was formed last October to provide a scientific framework for more efficient and effective Great Lakes restoration. This is its first round of grants. A second round of larger grants will be awarded later this year.
The 12 grants announced today focus on analysis of the outcomes of existing restoration projects. "It's key to understanding what we're doing right and what we need to tweak," said Water Center Deputy Director Jennifer Read.
Marcarelli and Huckins will measure the mechanisms underlying the function of the ecosystem of Hills Creek, where copper-rich stamp sand has been removed from the floodplain and 18.2 acres of vegetative cover has been planted as part of a major restoration project. They will analyze the nutrient dynamics—how nutrients in the water are used by the organisms that live there—the movement of particles and dissolved materials, what the fish are eating and how much energy they are getting from that food. They will compare those measurements to data from sections of the stream that weren't as affected by the stamp sands.
The new funding will enable them to enhance ongoing pre- and post-restoration monitoring that Huckins has been conducting at these sites, where he and his students sample stream fish and other organisms that live in the water.
"People rarely monitor ecosystem response to restoration projects," Marcarelli explained. "They do the work and assume that they've fixed the problem." Huckins added: "Integrating these measurements of ecosystem responses with traditional assessments of stream health should improve restoration monitoring and guide future projects.
The GLRC scientists will work with the Houghton Keweenaw Conservation District and the US Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service, which conducted the restoration.
Receiving the grant is "very exciting," Marcarelli said. "There were very few funded, and it's great to see one right here on the shores of Lakes Superior."
Dean, Brooks and Endsley are going to use geospatial technology—including geographic information systems (GIS), the global positioning system (GPS) and remote sensing—to develop easily modifiable, high resolution maps that can help responders act quickly and effectively in case of an oil or chemical spill. They will map the western basin of Lake Erie, an area that sees significant ship traffic. Oil pipelines under rivers in the area also pose a spill threat.
The MTRI researchers will work with the US Coast Guard and the US Environmental Protection Agency to develop the data that would be need to mount a rapid and appropriate response should a spill occur.
"This project applies geospatial technology to oil spill response plans, improving the information available to responders and helping to protect critical habitat in the western basin of Lake Erie," said Dean, whose master's degree research formed the basis for the new research.
The other UM Water Center grants went to Baylor University, State University of New York-Syracuse, University of Northern Iowa, University of Toledo, University of Michigan-Dearborn, University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Michigan.
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Act I of Alonzo King LINES Ballet's Triangle of Squinches plays out in front of a backdrop of several hundred silvered bungee cords, stretched perpendicular to the Novellus Theater stage floor so that they form a brilliantine thicket through which dancers will emerge, and retreat. The dancers will pluck the cords like harp strings, lean in to, ascend and descend them. The bungees are supply lines in their own right for this small but sturdy army of dancers who are the very embodiment of the excellence that can spring even from the 21st Century culture we often work very hard to distance ourselves from.
King is the diametrical opposite of your garden variety artistic director who ritualistically follows the formulas of his antecedents: An African-American artist who waded with his family in the thermal waters of the 1960s Civil Rights movement, King chose to dance ballet and tailor its rudiments to his inspired needs for self-expression, and some of those needs betray an atavistic pull toward solidarity. It took time to chase the thread of his own instincts to achieve an ethos of collaboration with musicians such as Mickey Hart, Pharaoh Sanders, and Zakir Hussain. His path took a detour off the Yellow Brick Road leading skippingly toward wizardry. Instead he located the agony and ecstasy of the heart in an oasis of authenticity, peopled by artists of the same persuasion as King. These are dancers with bodies that have emerged out of a broth of naturalism, where the mind is not an obstacle to mining artistic self-confidence, but an integral extrusion tool.
It's as if the dancers in this company birth their own best exponents, and of the women, Courtney Henry, a recent addition, is a fine example. All sinew and sculpted muscle, because she is tall, there is the temptation to think of her as athletic or a super-soaker of a dancer, but that would be to fall for a trompe d'oeil. While she has the strength and tenacity of an Olympic athlete, there is an artisanal quality to her dancing that beckons you to hear and see the vibrational symmetry she brings to the plaintive string melody that accompanies her solo in the second movement of Act I. It is tempting to list the dancers one by one to detail what sizzles in the zarzuela each brings to the feast. Suffice it to say that Carolyn Rocher tenders slow, deliberate technique, most evident in her plush developpés; Kara Wilkes unpacks a trousseau of crisply starched technique heirlooms, each an artifact of embroidered homespun. In this setting, they wax classical, and in a complementary way, Yu Jin Kim effortlessly wields the whisk of ballet technique to whip up a frothy embellishment for their intertwined presentation.
At the point at which each woman dancer has a sound assigned to her, an engine starting up, a ringing bell, sounds of every day life that we normally hardly notice as they mark a specific hour, we see that the cylindrical turns, arms in opposition, and floor squinches, are stamped with some element of our collective subliminal experience. These are filtered through the elastic boundaries of the bungees. Two men venture into the bungees, burrowing into the sumptuous nest of contradictions that invite one man to lean his head into the hollow between the arm and the breast of the other.
In Act II, a dun-colored hinged assembly of tongue and groove corrugated cardboard assumes the shape of a citadel—at least for the moment. The indomitable, but gentle giant of a dancer, Keelan Whitmore is tasked with scaling the wall, vertically and horizontally Mickey Hart's music and the women are past containment in this segment, as Whitmore eventually reaches upper and outer limits of the teetering obstacle, until makes a conquest of the final panels. Arms embrace him, bells ring, light goes into a slow diminuendo, the wall reveals its brilliantly-engineered innards as it turns into a traveling twist-o-gram, having been the silent witness to the hieroglyphs of the sound and furies of movement.
If there is any deficit in this otherwise volcanic company, it is the public image of it as a precious New Age, more-sensitive-than-thou, mystic phenomenon, accessible only to those annointed with transcendental sensibilities. On the contrary, this is a company grounded in the material reality of nature and naturalism. Its sublime effort to find and present the truth in art, step over the hype and faddism which devalues its competitors, renders it bracingly authentic and potentially places it on the same wavelength of the broadest spectrum of the population.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet will present Program 2, Migration and Scheherazade from April 18-22, 2012 at the Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. For ticket information, call 415 863-3040.


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I learned that the wavefunction for the hydrogen atom can be solved analytically (we did the derivation in class), but that for more complicated atoms it is "impossible" to solve and that only approximations can be obtained.
Well, I'm not sure I like the vague wording with "impossible".
Basically, a hydrogen atom can be solved in terms of elementary functions. Elementary functions, as far as I know, are just arbitrarily defined (Is $\sqrt{}$ one? What about $\text{erfc}$?). For instance, I could say that $\sin{x}$ cannot be solved exactly except in a few special cases (x = some rational multiples of $\pi$).
To analogize, a general quintic equation cannot be "solved" exactly using elementary functions -- that is, unless you define a Bring radical as a new elementary function. To me, it's really arbitrary and all of these solutions come down to numerical, iterative refinement. Solved exactly vs solved approximately seems to be an ill-defined concept.
So what I am asking -- given enough computer time -- can I solve the Schrodinger equation of, say, Lithium, to whatever precision I like? Much as how I can solve $\sin{x}$ to however many decimal places I want? Or is there some other limit to such a calculation?


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