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Columbus 4, Durham 3. This is getting ridiculous. Kevin Witt hit another home run. That is his 29th on the season and about 27 in the last week. Witt is now hitting .294-29-81 with a .963 OPS. Unfortunately Witt is a victim of a numbers game right now. We doubt there is a Devil Rays' fan out there that wouldn't rather see Kevin Witt manning first base for the Devil Rays instead of Travis Lee. However there are a couple of factors that are keeping Witt in Durham for the time being. First and foremost, Witt is not on the 40-man roster. If the team decided to promote Witt, the Rays would have to make room for him by either placing somebody on the disabled list or designating somebody for assignment (DFA). The team may not be ready to cut somebody loose and could be waiting for an opening to occur naturally (injury). The other factor is that Travis Lee is a free agent at the end of the season and the Rays may be auditioning him for contenders before the trading deadline. Lee could potentially be serviceable on another team as late-inning, defensive replacement and veteran pinch-hitter. A player like Lee could be worth a low-level minor 'B' prospect…B. J. Upton went 2-4 to raise his average to .270. Ben Zobrist went 3-5 and is now hitting .328. Devil Rays fans everywhere are working vigorously with their Casey Fossum and Jae Seo voodoo dolls as J. P. Howell had yet another strong start. Howell went 6 innings, allowing 6 hits, 3 walks, 1 run. He struck out 4 and now has an ERA of 2.11 in 7 Durham starts.
Jacksonville 2, Montgomery 0. The Biscuits managed only 3 hits and now have 8 hits and 0 runs in their past 2 games combined.
Bakersfield 5, Visalia 3. Two more hits for Evan Longoria who is now hitting .371. He also has a ridiculous 1.161 OPS in 23 games. Catcher John Jaso also went 2-4 and is now hitting .323. Patrick Breen added his 21st home run.
SW Michigan 4, Quad Cities 2. Another big start from one of the Big 3. Mike Wlodarczyk pitched 7 innings, allowing only 2 hits, 4 walks and 1 run. He struck out 4.


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HARRISON, N.J. – If there was any doubt that the Houston Dynamo still had their playoff magic, it was put to rest on Wednesday.
The Dynamo were thoroughly outplayed by the New York Red Bulls for much of their Eastern Conference Semifinals series second leg, but still managed to pick up a 2-1 victory in extratime at Red Bull Arena. Houston advance to the Eastern Conference Championship by a 4-3 aggregate scoreline.
For the second straight match, Omar Cummings came off the bench to score the final goal for a Dynamo team that was outshot by a large margin and benefited from several key interventions by goalkeeper Tally Hall.
The victory was Houston's first in five matches against New York this season.
The Red Bulls knocked on the door twice in the opening 20 minutes through starting forward Bradley Wright-Phillips, but he was unable to find the back of the net until his third opportunity came in the 23rd. Hall came out to intercept a Lloyd Sam cross but inexplicably spilled it, allowing Wright-Phillips to pounce on the loose ball and calmly slot it home to give New York a 3-2 aggregate lead.
New York continued to look the more dangerous team against a Dynamo side content to hit on the counter. But an awful giveaway from Ibrahim Sekagya allowed Brad Davis to pull Houston level in the 36th minute.
Moments after appearing to tweak a leg muscle while blocking a cross at full stretch, Sekagya played an ill-advised pass across the top of the Red Bulls' 18-yard box that an opportunistic Davis picked off before dribbling forward and slotting it home with ease.
The Red Bulls nearly took the lead again before halftime, but Hall atoned for his earlier blunder by making a jaw-dropping reaction save to stop a Thierry Henry shot that was redirected by Tim Cahill.
New York carved out another bevy of chances, but all were agonizingly denied by Hall and a bit of untimely misfortune, including a Henry header that smacked off the crossbar in the 65th minute and a superb bicycle kick in stoppage time from the Red Bulls captain that was deflected just wide of goal.
The failure to find the go-ahead goal ultimately proved costly to the Red Bulls, as Cummings scored in the 104th minute to give the Dynamo the victory as tired legs went wobbly in the final moments.
New York had a chance to respond in the second half of extra time, but substitute Peguy Luyindula skied a volley in from close range. Appeals for a penalty kick also went ignored as Henry was called for a foul on Eric Brunner, and a late free kick from the Frenchman was hit too high in the 118th minute.
As the lowest surviving seed in the East, Houston know they will host the first leg of the Eastern Conference Championship on Saturday.
MLS Cup Playoffs – Eastern Conference Semifinals – Leg 2
November 6, 2013 – BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, TX
Attendance: 22,264
Scoring Summary:
New York: Bradley Wright-Phillips 1 (unassisted) 23
Houston: Brad Davis 1 (unassisted) 36
Houston: Omar Cummings 2 (Cam Weaver 1, Kofi Sarkodie 1) 104
*Dynamo win aggregate series 4-3 after extra time.
Houston Dynamo: Tally Hall; Kofi Sarkodie, Bobby Boswell, Eric Brunner, Corey Ashe; Boniek Garcia, Warren Creavalle (Andrew Driver 69), Ricardo Clark, Brad Davis; Giles Barnes (Cam Weaver 99), Will Bruin (Omar Cummings 64)
Unused substitutes: Tyler Deric, Mike Chabala, Alexander Lopez, Servando Carrasco
New York Red Bulls: Luis Robles; Brandon Barklage (Peguy Luyindula 105), Markus Holgersson, Ibrahim Sekagya, David Carney; Lloyd Sam (Eric Alexander 75), Dax McCarty, Tim Cahill, Jonathan Steele; Thierry Henry, Bradley Wright-Phillips (Fabian Espindola 63)
Unused substitutes: Ryan Meara, Kosuke Kimura, Matt Miazga, Roy Miller
Misconduct Summary:
NY: Brandon Barklage (caution) 25
HOU: Corey Ashe (caution) 93
Referee: Silviu Petrescu
Referees' Assistants: Daniel Belleau, Peter Manikowski
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- 3 cups water
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- 1 cup dry or off-dry Riesling
- 3 fresh rosemary sprigs
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 1/4 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
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- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
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- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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- 1/2 cup water
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Combine first 6 ingredients in large saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Add pears and bring syrup to boil, turning pears occasionally. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until pears are tender, about 20 minutes. Chill pears uncovered in syrup until cold, at least 3 hours. DO AHEAD Can be made 2 days ahead. Cover and keep chilled.
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Bake cake until brown on top and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool cake in pan 15 minutes. Turn cake out onto rack and cool completely. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap in foil and store at room temperature.
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Bring 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water to simmer in medium saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Add rosemary sprigs. Simmer until syrup reduces slightly, swirling pan occasionally, about 5 minutes. Using tongs, transfer rosemary sprigs to rack and drain. Cover and reserve rosemary syrup.
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I don't think we're likely to get a new Endor Rebel in the next year. We get the Hoth rebel in the spring. MAYBE a new Rebel Fleet Trooper in the fall or early in 2010. And perhaps a new Endor rebel in late 2010/early 2011. I think Hasbro is trying to space these out to keep the interest going.
I hope we get the Nikto that shot Luke's hand...
I remember seeing the name on some rumor lists. But 2 Ugnaughts in the space of a year? Hmmm.
Quote from: Jesse James on December 8, 2008, 12:04 PMI hope we get the Nikto that shot Luke's hand...I thought a human skiff guard shot Luke's hand? Could be wrong though.
I'd like to see a new take on 8D8 or EV-9D9, maybe as BADs, and a Gammorean Guard
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I have been quiet lately because I feel I have nothing to contribute to what is happening in the world.
I sit here, with food and water and medical care, at least until March 31st, and am still frustrated by the length of time it takes to get aid to someone in this "modern" world.
It is a time when our words can circle the globe in a matter of mili-seconds and yet a bottle of water takes five days to arrive. This disaster of all disasters will perhaps be the launching ground for a new hope of recovery for future disasters. We watched Katrina and said, "This should never happen again." Yet, here is another country suffering without water, care and food.
Some think tank needs to sit down and figure out an answer. Nature will always have a hand to deal to us and we need to be better prepared.
Perhaps we need a league of ships stationed and manned by alternating countries, so that rescue equipment, personnel (medical and rescue), food and water are within one to three days of every port.
That is the third thing I have thought of but the solutions have so many snags, even in my mind, that I am not certain what can be done.
That is why I have been quiet lately.
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Popularity of High Speed Rail to Accelerate Demand for Infrastructure Materials, Says Frost & Sullivan
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- In Germany, France, Spain, and Belgium the number of passengers has increased six-fold since 1990s - The market is estimated to triple during the next few years
LONDON, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- High speed rail (HSR) projects in Europe are opening up a big market for certain segments, such as track materials, where new materials and technologies are set to enjoy considerable growth opportunity.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://chemicals.frost.com), European Materials Market for High Speed Rail Infrastructure, finds that the total market earned revenues of €3.5 million in 2011. The market is estimated to reach €10 million in 2018, of which track materials will account for €8.5 million and cable materials for the remainder.
"In comparison to other modes of transport, rail transport infrastructure is high on the European Commission's agenda, mainly due to its lower carbon footprint," noted Frost & Sullivan Senior Research Analyst Deepak Karthikeyan. "As the European Commission boosts investments in electricity powered, high speed trains, materials for HSR infrastructure will experience high demand."
The number of passengers opting for HSR has increased considerably in the last decade. For instance, since the introduction of high speed lines in Germany, France, Spain, and Belgium in the 1990s, the number of passengers using this mode of transport has increased six-fold. This preference will persist, highlighting the need for more lines connecting larger areas in the future.
As the market gathers momentum, a key challenge will be interoperability between EU member countries, each of whom has separate standards for high speed lines. Different technologies at the material as well as operating level will mean greater expenditure to ensure compatibility.
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VATICAN CITY — In his Easter "urbi et orbi" blessing to the city of Rome and to the world, Pope Benedict today contrasted the joy and hope brought by Christ's resurrection with persistent conflicts and other forms of suffering in the world.
He also delivered Easter greetings in 65 languages, including Chinese, Hindi, Swahili and, of course, Latin. An estimated 100,000 people packed St. Peter's Square for the Mass and the blessing, which was live-streamed on several Vatican websites.
In one section of his blessing, the pope spoke about the need for reconciliation in parts of the Middle East and Africa:
So my message today is intended for everyone, and, as a prophetic proclamation, it is intended especially for peoples and communities who are undergoing a time of suffering, that the Risen Christ may open up for them the path of freedom, justice and peace.
May the Land which was the first to be flooded by the light of the Risen One rejoice. May the splendor of Christ reach the peoples of the Middle East, so that the light of peace and of human dignity may overcome the darkness of division, hate and violence. In the current conflict in Libya, may diplomacy and dialogue take the place of arms and may those who suffer as a result of the conflict be given access to humanitarian aid. In the countries of northern Africa and the Middle East, may all citizens, especially young people, work to promote the common good and to build a society where poverty is defeated and every political choice is inspired by respect for the human person. May help come from all sides to those fleeing conflict and to refugees from various African countries who have been obliged to leave all that is dear to them; may people of good will open their hearts to welcome them, so that the pressing needs of so many brothers and sisters will be met with a concerted response in a spirit of solidarity; and may our words of comfort and appreciation reach all those who make such generous efforts and offer an exemplary witness in this regard.
May peaceful coexistence be restored among the peoples of Ivory Coast, where there is an urgent need to tread the path of reconciliation and pardon, in order to heal the deep wounds caused by the recent violence. May Japan find consolation and hope as it faces the dramatic consequences of the recent earthquake, along with other countries that in recent months have been tested by natural disasters which have sown pain and anguish.
Last night, during a three-hour-long Easter vigil liturgy, the pope baptized six adults from Albania, China, Peru, Russia, Singapore and Switzerland. In a homily, he analyzed why the trajectory of salvation history reaches all the way back to creation — and why environmental responsibility is a Christian duty.
Our profession of faith begins with the words: "We believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth". If we omit the beginning of the Credo, the whole history of salvation becomes too limited and too small. The Church is not some kind of association that concerns itself with man's religious needs but is limited to that objective. No, she brings man into contact with God and thus with the source of all things. Therefore we relate to God as Creator, and so we have a responsibility for creation. Our responsibility extends as far as creation because it comes from the Creator. Only because God created everything can he give us life and direct our lives. Life in the Church's faith involves more than a set of feelings and sentiments and perhaps moral obligations. It embraces man in his entirety, from his origins to his eternal destiny. Only because creation belongs to God can we place ourselves completely in his hands. And only because he is the Creator can he give us life forever. Joy over creation, thanksgiving for creation and responsibility for it all belong together.
The creation account tells us, then, that the world is a product of creative Reason. Hence it tells us that, far from there being an absence of reason and freedom at the origin of all things, the source of everything is creative Reason, love, and freedom. Here we are faced with the ultimate alternative that is at stake in the dispute between faith and unbelief: are irrationality, lack of freedom and pure chance the origin of everything, or are reason, freedom and love at the origin of being? Does the primacy belong to unreason or to reason? This is what everything hinges upon in the final analysis. As believers we answer, with the creation account and with John, that in the beginning is reason. In the beginning is freedom. Hence it is good to be a human person. It is not the case that in the expanding universe, at a late stage, in some tiny corner of the cosmos, there evolved randomly some species of living being capable of reasoning and of trying to find rationality within creation, or to bring rationality into it. If man were merely a random product of evolution in some place on the margins of the universe, then his life would make no sense or might even be a chance of nature. But no, Reason is there at the beginning: creative, divine Reason.
On Good Friday, at the close of the Way of the Cross at Rome's Colosseum, the pope spoke about the cross as a symbol of love, not of triumph.
This evening, in faith, we have accompanied Jesus as he takes the final steps of his earthly journey, the most painful steps, the steps that lead to Calvary. We have heard the cries of the crowd, the words of condemnation, the insults of the soldiers, the lamentation of the Virgin Mary and of the women. Now we are immersed in the silence of this night, in the silence of the cross, the silence of death. It is a silence pregnant with the burden of pain borne by a man rejected, oppressed, downtrodden, the burden of sin which mars his face, the burden of evil. Tonight we have re-lived, deep within our hearts, the drama of Jesus, weighed down by pain, by evil, by human sin.
What remains now before our eyes? It is a crucified man, a cross raised on Golgotha, a cross which seems a sign of the final defeat of the One who brought light to those immersed in darkness, the One who spoke of the power of forgiveness and of mercy, the One who asked us to believe in God's infinite love for each human person. Despised and rejected by men, there stands before us "a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity, one from whom others hide their faces" (Is 53:3).
But let us look more closely at that man crucified between earth and heaven. Let us contemplate him more intently, and we will realize that the cross is not the banner of the victory of death, sin and evil, but rather the luminous sign of love, of God's immense love, of something that we could never have asked, imagined or expected: God bent down over us, he lowered himself, even to the darkest corner of our lives, in order to stretch out his hand and draw us to himself, to bring us all the way to himself. The cross speaks to us of the supreme love of God and invites, today, to renew our faith in the power of that love, and to believe that in every situation of our lives, our history and our world, God is able to vanquish death, sin and evil, and to give us new, risen life. In the Son of God's death on the cross, we find the seed of new hope for life, like the seed which dies within the earth.


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A federal lawsuit challenging cancellation of home-delivered meals to at least 34 older residents of a southwest Ohio county alleges an agency improperly applied eligibility criteria and didn't use the same process in four other counties.
The lawsuit against the Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio was filed Tuesday in Cincinnati by 10 former meal recipients and the Clinton County Community Action Program in Wilmington, which delivers the meals.
The lawsuit alleges the council violated constitutional guarantees to equal protection and due process in denying service to eligible residents.
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Bold, colourful posters are blanketing the streets of Halifax in support of the boys accused of hounding Rehtaeh Parsons to death.
And now, these posters and their message are hounding the family of the girl, who was taken off life support on April 7, just days after she tried to take her own life.
The posters, according to CBC, urge the community to "Stay strong, support the boys."
"It just felt like someone kicked me in the stomach. How dare they do that?" Leah Parsons told Global News.
After Parson's death, her mother Leah wrote on a Facebook memorial page that the 15-year-old student at Cole Harbour District High School, near Halifax, had been the victim of a brutal assault.
The teen claimed she had been raped by four boys who then distributed photos of the incident -- a claim that had reportedly fallen on deaf ears among local authorities.
In a blog on The Huffington Post Canada, her father, Glen Canning added, "My daughter wasn't bullied to death, she was disappointed to death. Disappointed in people she thought she could trust, her school, and the police."
Amid mounting public pressure, and a threat from hacker group Anonymous, the RCMP reopened the Parsons case late last week.
Parson's family couldn't help but encounter the posters. Her stepfather, Jason Barnes told CBC News he spotted them on Wednesday morning, draping telephone poles on his street.
Some of those posters, CTV News reports, were tacked right outside of the family's home in Cole Harbour.
Now, Leah Parsons is using the same memorial page she set up for her daughter to condemn the authors of the posters.
"This is our street, we are mourning our daughter, my children live in this neighbourhood," she wrote. "If you wanted to speak the truth ... why didn't you speak when Rehtaeh was alive ... you push her to suicide then you continue with this bullshit!!! Really???? You have no compassion ... but we knew that already."
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Northern Iowa Player Arrested After Fistfight Near Campus
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) - A University of Northern Iowa football player has been arrested after a fistfight near the campus in Cedar Falls.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that Terrell Sinkfield Jr., a starting wide receiver, was arrested early Sunday morning.
Police say several people were involved in the fight at an apartment parking lot around 2 a.m.
Police say the 21-year-old Sinkfield faces charges of disorderly conduct and interfering with police officers.
A public phone listing for Sinkfield could not be found. Online court records don't list the name of his attorney.
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A BEAUTIFUL woman lowers her eyes demurely beneath a hat. In an earlier era, her gaze might have signaled a mysterious allure. But this is a 2003 advertisement for Zoloft, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (S.S.R.I.) approved by the F.D.A. to treat social anxiety disorder. "Is she just shy? Or is it Social Anxiety Disorder?" reads the caption, suggesting that the young woman is not alluring at all. She is sick.
But is she?
It is possible that the lovely young woman has a life-wrecking form of social anxiety. There are people too afraid of disapproval to venture out for a job interview, a date or even a meal in public. Despite the risk of serious side effects — nausea, loss of sex drive, seizures — drugs like Zoloft can be a godsend for this group.
But the ad's insinuation aside, it's also possible the young woman is "just shy," or introverted — traits our society disfavors. One way we manifest this bias is by encouraging perfectly healthy shy people to see themselves as ill.
This does us all a grave disservice, because shyness and introversion — or more precisely, the careful, sensitive temperament from which both often spring — are not just normal. They are valuable. And they may be essential to the survival of our species.
Theoretically, shyness and social anxiety disorder are easily distinguishable. But a blurry line divides the two. Imagine that the woman in the ad enjoys a steady paycheck, a strong marriage and a small circle of close friends — a good life by most measures — except that she avoids a needed promotion because she's nervous about leading meetings. She often criticizes herself for feeling too shy to speak up.
What do you think now? Is she ill, or does she simply need public-speaking training?
Before 1980, this would have seemed a strange question. Social anxiety disorder did not officially exist until it appeared in that year's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-III, the psychiatrist's bible of mental disorders, under the name "social phobia." It was not widely known until the 1990s, when pharmaceutical companies received F.D.A. approval to treat social anxiety with S.S.R.I.'s and poured tens of millions of dollars into advertising its existence. The current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-IV, acknowledges that stage fright (and shyness in social situations) is common and not necessarily a sign of illness. But it also says that diagnosis is warranted when anxiety "interferes significantly" with work performance or if the sufferer shows "marked distress" about it. According to this definition, the answer to our question is clear: the young woman in the ad is indeed sick.
The DSM inevitably reflects cultural attitudes; it used to identify homosexuality as a disease, too. Though the DSM did not set out to pathologize shyness, it risks doing so, and has twice come close to identifying introversion as a disorder, too. (Shyness and introversion are not the same thing. Shy people fear negative judgment; introverts simply prefer quiet, minimally stimulating environments.)
But shyness and introversion share an undervalued status in a world that prizes extroversion. Children's classroom desks are now often arranged in pods, because group participation supposedly leads to better learning; in one school I visited, a sign announcing "Rules for Group Work" included, "You can't ask a teacher for help unless everyone in your group has the same question." Many adults work for organizations that now assign work in teams, in offices without walls, for supervisors who value "people skills" above all. As a society, we prefer action to contemplation, risk-taking to heed-taking, certainty to doubt. Studies show that we rank fast and frequent talkers as more competent, likable and even smarter than slow ones. As the psychologists William Hart and Dolores Albarracin point out, phrases like "get active," "get moving," "do something" and similar calls to action surface repeatedly in recent books.
Yet shy and introverted people have been part of our species for a very long time, often in leadership positions. We find them in the Bible ("Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh?" asked Moses, whom the Book of Numbers describes as "very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.") We find them in recent history, in figures like Charles Darwin, Marcel Proust and Albert Einstein, and, in contemporary times: think of Google's Larry Page, or Harry Potter's creator, J. K. Rowling.
In the science journalist Winifred Gallagher's words: "The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor 'Paradise Lost' was dashed off by a party animal."
We even find "introverts" in the animal kingdom, where 15 percent to 20 percent of many species are watchful, slow-to-warm-up types who stick to the sidelines (sometimes called "sitters") while the other 80 percent are "rovers" who sally forth without paying much attention to their surroundings. Sitters and rovers favor different survival strategies, which could be summed up as the sitter's "Look before you leap" versus the rover's inclination to "Just do it!" Each strategy reaps different rewards.
IN an illustrative experiment, David Sloan Wilson, a Binghamton evolutionary biologist, dropped metal traps into a pond of pumpkinseed sunfish. The "rover" fish couldn't help but investigate — and were immediately caught. But the "sitter" fish stayed back, making it impossible for Professor Wilson to capture them. Had Professor Wilson's traps posed a real threat, only the sitters would have survived. But had the sitters taken Zoloft and become more like bold rovers, the entire family of pumpkinseed sunfish would have been wiped out. "Anxiety" about the trap saved the fishes' lives.
Next, Professor Wilson used fishing nets to catch both types of fish; when he carried them back to his lab, he noted that the rovers quickly acclimated to their new environment and started eating a full five days earlier than their sitter brethren. In this situation, the rovers were the likely survivors. "There is no single best ... [animal] personality," Professor Wilson concludes in his book, "Evolution for Everyone," "but rather a diversity of personalities maintained by natural selection."
The same might be said of humans, 15 percent to 20 percent of whom are also born with sitter-like temperaments that predispose them to shyness and introversion. (The overall incidence of shyness and introversion is higher — 40 percent of the population for shyness, according to the psychology professor Jonathan Cheek, and 50 percent for introversion. Conversely, some born sitters never become shy or introverted at all.)
Once you know about sitters and rovers, you see them everywhere, especially among young children. Drop in on your local Mommy and Me music class: there are the sitters, intently watching the action from their mothers' laps, while the rovers march around the room banging their drums and shaking their maracas.
Relaxed and exploratory, the rovers have fun, make friends and will take risks, both rewarding and dangerous ones, as they grow. According to Daniel Nettle, a Newcastle University evolutionary psychologist, extroverts are more likely than introverts to be hospitalized as a result of an injury, have affairs (men) and change relationships (women). One study of bus drivers even found that accidents are more likely to occur when extroverts are at the wheel.
In contrast, sitter children are careful and astute, and tend to learn by observing instead of by acting. They notice scary things more than other children do, but they also notice more things in general. Studies dating all the way back to the 1960's by the psychologists Jerome Kagan and Ellen Siegelman found that cautious, solitary children playing matching games spent more time considering all the alternatives than impulsive children did, actually using more eye movements to make decisions. Recent studies by a group of scientists at Stony Brook University and at Chinese universities using functional M.R.I. technology echoed this research, finding that adults with sitter-like temperaments looked longer at pairs of photos with subtle differences and showed more activity in brain regions that make associations between the photos and other stored information in the brain.
Once they reach school age, many sitter children use such traits to great effect. Introverts, who tend to digest information thoroughly, stay on task, and work accurately, earn disproportionate numbers of National Merit Scholarship finalist positions and Phi Beta Kappa keys, according to the Center for Applications of Psychological Type, a research arm for the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator — even though their I.Q. scores are no higher than those of extroverts. Another study, by the psychologists Eric Rolfhus and Philip Ackerman, tested 141 college students' knowledge of 20 different subjects, from art to astronomy to statistics, and found that the introverts knew more than the extroverts about 19 subjects — presumably, the researchers concluded, because the more time people spend socializing, the less time they have for learning.
THE psychologist Gregory Feist found that many of the most creative people in a range of fields are introverts who are comfortable working in solitary conditions in which they can focus attention inward. Steve Wozniak, the engineer who founded Apple with Steve Jobs, is a prime example: Mr. Wozniak describes his creative process as an exercise in solitude. "Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me," he writes in "iWoz," his autobiography. "They're shy and they live in their heads. They're almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone ... Not on a committee. Not on a team."
Sitters' temperaments also confer more subtle advantages. Anxiety, it seems, can serve an important social purpose; for example, it plays a key role in the development of some children's consciences. When caregivers rebuke them for acting up, they become anxious, and since anxiety is unpleasant, they tend to develop pro-social behaviors. Shy children are often easier to socialize and more conscientious, according to the developmental psychologist Grazyna Kochanska. By 6 they're less likely than their peers to cheat or break rules, even when they think they can't be caught, according to one study. By 7 they're more likely to be described by their parents as having high levels of moral traits such as empathy.
When I shared this information with the mother of a "sitter" daughter, her reaction was mixed. "That is all very nice," she said, "but how will it help her in the tough real world?" But sensitivity, if it is not excessive and is properly nurtured, can be a catalyst for empathy and even leadership. Eleanor Roosevelt, for example, was a courageous leader who was very likely a sitter. Painfully shy and serious as a child, she grew up to be a woman who could not look away from other people's suffering — and who urged her husband, the constitutionally buoyant F.D.R., to do the same; the man who had nothing to fear but fear itself relied, paradoxically, on a woman deeply acquainted with it.
Another advantage sitters bring to leadership is a willingness to listen to and implement other people's ideas. A groundbreaking study led by the Wharton management professor Adam Grant, to be published this month in The Academy of Management Journal, found that introverts outperform extroverts when leading teams of proactive workers — the kinds of employees who take initiative and are disposed to dream up better ways of doing things. Professor Grant notes that business self-help guides often suggest that introverted leaders practice their communication skills and smile more. But, he told me, it may be extrovert leaders who need to change, to listen more and say less.
What would the world would look like if all our sitters chose to medicate themselves? The day may come when we have pills that "cure" shyness and turn introverts into social butterflies — without the side effects and other drawbacks of today's medications. (A recent study suggests that today's S.S.R.I.'s not only relieve social anxiety but also induce extroverted behavior.) The day may come — and might be here already — when people are as comfortable changing their psyches as the color of their hair. If we continue to confuse shyness with sickness, we may find ourselves in a world of all rovers and no sitters, of all yang and no yin.
As a sitter who enjoys an engaged, productive life, and a professional speaking career, but still experiences the occasional knock-kneed moment, I can understand why caring physicians prescribe available medicine and encourage effective non-pharmaceutical treatments such as cognitive-behavioral therapy.
But even non-medical treatments emphasize what is wrong with the people who use them. They don't focus on what is right. Perhaps we need to rethink our approach to social anxiety: to address the pain, but to respect the temperament that underlies it. The act of treating shyness as an illness obscures the value of that temperament. Ridding people of social unease need not involve pathologizing their fundamental nature, but rather urging them to use its gifts.
It's time for the young woman in the Zoloft ad to rediscover her allure.


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Construction job motor vehicle accidents often occur due to OSHA violations. Many different types of vehicles are used in construction site work including cranes, forklifts, platform lift trucks, motorized hand trucks, bulldozers, delivery trucks, excavators, front loaders, dump trucks, backhoes, graders, cement mixers and trenchers.
OSHA listed powered industrial truck standards violations as one of the top 10 most violated standards at construction sites in the year 2017.
What is considered a powered industrial truck?
Other names for powered industrial trucks are lift trucks or forklifts. Their main purpose is to move materials, by raising, lowering or removing large objects. They can also be used to move smaller objects on pallets or in crates, containers or boxes. Trucks or earth-moving equipment that are modified by adding forks are not considered powered industrial trucks, even though they may be used to move materials.
What dangers are related to driving powered industrial trucks?
Dangers depend on the type of forklift. A high-lift rider truck that lifts loads to greater heights than a hand truck is more prone to falling load accidents. Types of accidents that often occur may involve workers who suffer injury when lifts fall between loading docks or due to unsecured trailers. Injuries also occur when lift trucks strike workers or when workers fall while working on elevated pallets and tines.
If you are a construction worker and notice that working conditions are dangerous, you have the right to file a complaint with OSHA and request a workplace inspection. All too often, serious or fatal accidents happen before violations are dealt with to make a safer work environment.
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It was the third week of preseason for the Dynamo, and with the club training in Southern California, head coach Dominic Kinnear made a trade to add depth to a team that reached the 2011 MLS Cup Final and would return its core. Kinnear acquired forward Macoumba Kandji from Colorado on Feb. 8, a move that didn't generate much buzz at the time, but now appears to be a key ingredient to Houston's seven-game unbeaten streak heading into Friday's showdown with the New York Red Bulls.
"At that time of the preseason we needed another forward," Kinnear said. "We watched him over the years and we've always been impressed with how he can change the game on his own. He is technically good on the ball, is a good athlete, and can be a force when moving forward."
Kandji, a six-foot-four attacker from Senegal, had to wait for opportunities to play early this season, not starting a match until the seventh game of the season, at New York on May 9. He found his form as summer arrived, when he finally regained full strength in his left knee, after he famously tore his ACL setting up the game-winning goal for the Rapids in the 2010 MLS Cup Final.
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The Dynamo shifted to a 4-3-3 formation for its June 30 meeting with Philadelphia, allowing a third forward to play up front. Kandji received the call as the third attacker, joining Dynamo leading scorer Will Bruin and new arrival Boniek Garcia. The Dynamo are unbeaten since the formation tweak, with a 5-0-2 record that has brought them from fifth place in the Eastern Conference to a tie for second, a point behind New York.
Kandji has started all seven games during the unbeaten run. He tallied an assist in the 2-1 win over Philadelphia that began the streak and recorded his first two-goal game since 2009 in a 3-0 win over Montreal on July 21 to cap a perfect three-win homestand.
"I think he has been confident and has been given a good run of games," said Kinnear about Kandji's recent form. "He always provides a moment or two in each half when he is either on the verge of setting up a goal or scoring a goal. He seems to be enjoying his position out there, wide left, and it has paid dividends for him."
Kandji, who turned 27 on Thursday, was born in Senegal and moved to Gambia as a child when his mom immigrated to the United States and found a position in a hospital. Kandji moved in with his aunt and cousins and considers both of the bordering countries on the West African coast to be his home nation.
"We have family in both countries, so it was a very easy transition," Kandji remembers. "When I was growing up in Senegal, I'd always go to Gambia for summer vacations. When I lived in Gambia, I'd take summer vacations to Senegal. "
Kandji played soccer in the streets of Gambia with his friends and cousins, who were like family to him.
"We are very close as a family," Kandji said. "My cousins, I don't call them my "cousins", I call them my "brothers" and "sisters" because we all grew up together."
Growing up, Kandji often fielded questions about his last name, which reminded many of a Senegal national team defender. The inquiries were accurate, as Macoumba's father, Sharif Kandji, played for Senegal's national team in the 1980s. One of Sharif's teammates on the national team was Oumar Sene, the father of current New England Revolution striker Saer Sene.
Kandji moved to the United States at age 17 and attended high school in Charlotte, N.C. Next, Kandji played soccer at Georgia Military College, a junior college two hours southeast of Atlanta. Kandji would sign with the Atlanta Silverbacks of the North American Soccer League in 2007 and scored enough goals to attract the attention of the New York Red Bulls. After a loan in 2008, Kandji signed with New York before the 2009 season and had four goals and five assists in 23 games.
After his breakout season of 2009, Kandji scored just one goal in 29 games between 2010-11, a bittersweet span marred by the ACL injury but highlighted by the 2010 MLS Cup title with Colorado.
Kandji's career revitalization hit its crescendo with his two-goal game against Montreal on July 21. After opening the scoring with a deflected goal in the seventh minute, Kandji delivered the signature moment of the perfect homestand with a breathtaking run from midfield for his second goal. Kandji covered an estimated 50 yards in just four touches – from the midfield line to the center of the Montreal box – as he beat three defenders before rocketing a shot into the roof of the net to seal the 3-0 win.
"I got the ball at midfield and I thought, 'It is late in the game and my legs are dead right now, but I'm pretty sure their legs are gone too,'" Kandji said. "As soon as I got the ball, I knew I was going to go to goal."
As teammates ran over to celebrate the goal with Kandji, he flashed his trademark smile, as wide as the border between Gambia and Senegal. The smile does not fade from his exterior, in good times or bad. The large grin is something you expect from Kandji, like his occasional variations of his braided hair. When asked what makes him smile so often, his answer is simple.
"Not everybody is blessed enough to have a job that is their hobby," he said. "I just thank God for this opportunity. My parents give me a lot of love and that contributes to me being happy. When you have a supportive family and this beautiful job, a lot of people wish they were in your shoes. I'm not going to take it for granted. I'm going to take it with two hands and I'm going to smile as I go because life is fun."


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SEI is running a pilot program to improve its administrative and operational platform for advisors, with a full launch planned for the first quarter of 2013.
"We are significantly upgrading the functionality and the capabilities of the administrative and operational platform," Steve Onofrio, managing director at SEI, told AdvisorOne on Tuesday.
The SEI Wealth Platform brand encompasses the firm's current investment platform, administrative and operational platform, and the practice management platform, Onofrio (left) said.
What's unique about SEI's platform, Onofrio said, is that they are integrating a full custodial solution with their current technology. "It's different in the industry because all of the solutions available to independent advisors today don't have an integrated custody platform as well," he said. Typically, advisors use independent software and specialized subsystems that they interface to a custodial system. The enhanced SEI Wealth Platform will have integrated portfolio management and rebalancing systems, an automated fee system, and will produce performance reporting statements. "What this allows is free-flowing information between all these systems," Onofrio added. "It then enables the advisor to spend more time with clients and building the business."
Another benefit of the platform, Onofrio said, is that it reduces the amount of resources an advisor needs, such as people to process transactions on their end, as well as additional software, not to mention the time it takes to learn, implement and upgrade various systems. "They don't have to spend the money to buy additional subsystems. They don't have to spend the time or money to integrate them."
Information flows automatically, Onofrio said, and assets are identified in one database, as opposed to in the portfolio management system and the custodial system, forcing advisors to import data back and forth as needed. "Our system doesn't require that at all. Nobody has to manually import it, do the modeling, do the trades, and then export the trades back to the custodian for execution." In addition to savings in time and money, Onofrio also points to savings in frustration, as the single database will prevent information from getting "out of sync" between an advisor's records and the custodian's.
The platform has fully unified, household capabilities, as opposed to taking an account-based approach. Onofrio calls the platform "household-centric or model-centric."
"We accommodate non-SEI assets for our larger advisors. The new offering will also enable us to be a full custodian, so we'll be able to and will custody any asset that we can receive an independent price or value for. It's really an integrated and streamlined technology, with open investment architecture."
The platform was initially launched in the United Kingdom, where is has been operating for six years and has 17 clients "up and running," Onofrio said. "There was a huge need over in the United Kingdom. They didn't have any systems over there, so their technology for advisors was well behind ours."
After adapting the platform for the U.S. tax environment, SEI started transitioning advisors to the platform in 2012.
"We used that time to build out our infrastructure here, meaning we had to retrain some of the people here. We had to define our service environment, the transition solution for bringing them from the current system to the new system, and then all of the training that's required for our advisors—not that there's a lot of training, but training for the new system."
As of September 2011, the platform supports 83 mutual fund-only advisors. In the first week of July, SEI will add five large, complex, high-volume advisors to the new platform. "We want to make sure that the client experience is defined properly for our advisors," Onofrio said.
The firm will begin transitioning more advisors to the platform at the end of the year, and Onofrio expects the entire client base will be upgraded to the new system gradually over the first quarter of 2013. "We have a line of clients who want to get on this system," Onofrio added.
Feedback from advisors who are using the platform currently has been positive. "They all like it," Onofrio said. "It has unified managed household capability, which is a big advantage for them today. They like its streamlined nature. It has workflow management within it."
Onofrio noted that the firm will "really start to focus on functionality once we get these larger, complex advisors on the system." The advisors on the system now work with mutual funds only, and with SEI mutual funds at that, so the full extent of the system's capabilities are untested. "When we put non-SEI assets on unified managed household and then do the automated rebalancing on it, that'll be a big advantage for a lot of people."


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The wait is nearly over for Edson Buddle.
The forward has trained without limitations this week and is hopeful of making his Rapids debut on Saturday against the Portland Timbers (4 p.m. MT, TICKETS).
"I'm wanting to be ready for this weekend," Buddle told ColoradoRapids.com on Wednesday. "I'm pushing myself each and every day to be as fit as possible."
After making his way back from a knee injury, Buddle suffered a slight groin strain in a Reserve League game against Salt Lake on March 16, which kept him off the training field ahead of Colorado's match at LA last Saturday.
Buddle's last MLS game was the MLS Cup final on December 1, 2012, when he helped the LA Galaxy win their second straight title. The Rapids acquired him in a trade later that month but he injured his knee while with the U.S. Men's National Team in January.
"I still get those anxious butterflies," he said as he anticipates his return to action. "I can't wait to be out there."
In 11 seasons, Buddle has scored 93 career goals, which places him eighth all-time in MLS.
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Mustang salvo: Horsing around with Frank of Arabia
Not the least of Hidalgo's accomplishments is reducing U.S. involvement in the Middle East to a horse race.
Raising entertainment to an art form, director Joe Johnston imbues this fact-based tall tale with depth and breadth.
The story combines elements of Dances with Wolves, Indiana Jones and Seabiscuit, but the setup is right out of The Last Samurai as a man, disgusted with the army's actions in the Indian wars, drinks heavily and joins a wild West show, then accepts an overseas challenge that teaches him the ways of an exotic culture.
It turns out that Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen, cementing his LOTR popularity as an action hero) is sympathetic to the Native Americans because he's half-Indian himself, and perhaps it's his own mixed blood that makes him appreciate the mustangs the U.S. government wants to eliminate.
As a long-distance rider for the Pony Express, Frank has set cross-country records on his mustang, Hidalgo. This brings him to the attention of an emissary from Sheikh Riyadh (Omar Sharif), who sees him in Buffalo Bill's show and invites him to compete in the 3000-mile Ocean of Fire race across the Arabian desert.
The annual competition– with a purse of more than $100,000– involves "100 of the finest and purest Arabian stallions," including the Sheikh's champion, Al-Attal. One horse is English-owned. Lady Anne Davenport (Louise Lombard, a cross between Ann-Margret and Lynn Redgrave) hopes if her mare wins it will get a chance to breed with Al-Attal. On a personal level, she wouldn't mind breeding with Hopkins while her husband (an unbilled cameo by Malcolm McDowell) waits back in port.
If Hidalgo screenwriter John Fusco uses every cliché in the book, it must be a wonderful book. It's amazing to see how many elements he can cram into this story: action-adventure, romance, suspense, humor, politics, and a competitive event. While the race is the main thing, the riders get a day off if they make it to the halfway point (about half of them do), and the halftime show is a whole 'nother movie. (Sorry, no Janet and Justin.)
The Sheikh has a daughter, Jazira (Zuleikha Robinson), he's trying to marry off to a prince (Saïd Taghmaoui), who would make her his fifth wife, "a slave in his house." A closet horsewoman, Jazira has a lot of smarts and skills her father (whose sons are all dead) secretly admires; but in public, like a one-man Taliban, he forces her to play a traditional woman's role.
When Jazira is caught going to Frank's tent for some after-hours conversation, it puts the American's life in jeopardy. But the Sheikh's evil nephew kidnaps her with Al-Attal as ransom and only Hopkins can save the day.
Once the day is saved, it's back to the race. Even with everything working against Frank (including the fact he didn't get any rest on his day off) his opponents still play dirty.
In addition to the desert vistas, fans of big-screen movies get to enjoy effects sequences of a sandstorm in the form of a veritable tidal wave, and a swarm of locusts Jazira describes as a gift, not a plague.
The heroes and villains of Hidalgo are established early when the assertion, "Mustangs don't belong in races with thoroughbreds" makes Frank fighting mad and puts all of us who feel like mustangs on his side. The whole movie is so pro-mustang, Ford will have to sponsor its eventual telecast!


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"How food is grown can affect the quality of our environment and can affect the community around us," said Hodge.
She came to the conclusion that food production should incorporate social justice and environmentalism while improving a community.
Hodge joined an organization that reflects her passion for locally grown food. As the City Farms Program Manager for Just Food, which advocates a sustainable food system in New York City, she encourages New Yorkers to grow their own food and provides them with resources so that they in turn can lead educational workshops for blossoming community gardeners.
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"People are starting to think about where and how our food is grown, what we are eating, and how we can afford the food that we deserve," said Hodge.
And Hodge really does believe that a healthy diet can be affordable. Just Food works with many community gardens in low-income neighborhoods. Community gardeners produce their food during the growing season and can even make extra money selling at community garden markets.
Hodge said that despite progress made by Just Food and similar organizations, millions of New Yorkers still lack access to locally grown food. Community gardening needs more support from local and federal government before it can become the mainstream.
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Katie Daynes has written oodles of books for Usborne, from lifting the flaps on germs and poo, through things to spot in the sea and at school, to the life stories of Nelson Mandela and Marie Antoinette. She wrote My First Chess Book after being taught by her son, Joe Birks, who became the British Under 9 Chess Champion in 2017. She now lives in Yorkshire with her architect husband, two inquisitive children and a hamster called Toffee. When she's not writing books, Katie likes walking on the blustery moors, meeting friends for coffee and playing competitive board games.
This is a great book for introducing children to the inner workings of the human body. It is especially good for children with why and how questions about what happens in their bodies. The lift flaps are excellent at keeping the books and content interactive and entertaining.
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Two that my daughter (nearly five) adores and goes back to again and again are See Inside Your Body by Katie Daynes (£8.99) and The Flip-Flap Body Book (£7.99, both Usborne). The first is fairly detailed, and it covers eating, excreting, bones, muscles and the senses and has lift-up flaps. It's really good for learning about food and what happens to it. You can read out the simpler bits and go into more details as she gets older. If you were to buy just one book for her that would be right for her now and last for a couple more years, this would be my recommendation. The Flip-Flap Body Book covers food and digestion, the sense and how babies are made in a very basic fashion (note: each of these topics is the subject of a separate book that goes into more detail and costs £4.99) but it's very accessible and aimed at young children.
Annalisa Barbieri - The Guardian - Best chilren's books on the human body
A smart, fun, exciting, interactive introduction to what is arguably the most fascinating topic of scientific study, the human body. The flap panels encourage the reader to participate in the journey into the hidden wonders that our body has to offer, taking them deeper into the functionality and intricate detail of our tissues. With a perfect balance of scientific terminology and simplistic explanations of the various systems in our bodies, the young anatomist will find this book informative and stimulating. It's a superb introduction to the human body!
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I cant believe bow much my 6 yr old is learning from this book, we've looked at it nearly every night since Christmas and hes fascinated.
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I am a mother of 5 and I work in the medical field. This book keeps all of my kids entertained. This is a book we can all read and learn together. My two and four year old love lifting the flaps as I read to my nine and eleven year old. They have found this book to be entertaining and educational.
Jessica West, 12th March 2017
Best kids book ever
We have a ton of books. This one is just amazing. It's been my kid's favourite book for well over a year, since the day she got it. When her friends come over they are always reading it. Explains the body better than I can and she has retained so much knowledge. The most fun she'll ever have learning!
Genevieve Dennis, 28th February 2016
Wonderful book!
My 3 year old daughter is completely enthralled by this book. She loves finding out what different organs do and what they are called. I am a lab tech, and have taken the opportunity to start teaching her the medical terms for different structures as well as some of the bones. I think she now knows more about the body than many people 10 years her senior. The flaps and artwork and little characters capture her attention, sometimes for hours. The production of waste, the cut, the germs in the blood and the lung, and the skeleton are particularly interesting, but her favorite by far is the broken tibia. My daughter loves this book and so do I. I highly recommend it!
Kim, 17th September 2015
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I bought this book for my little girl who was asking a lot of questions about the body that I didn't know how to explain to her in a way she would understand. This book is fantastic!! I can't say a bad word about it. It's a great way to have fun with your child whilst they learn. Even my 2 yr old son sits down with us whilst we read and he's picked up quite a lot of info. I would highly reccomend this book to any parent and even school children to read themselves. For 9.99 you can't complain, money well spent I say.
Mrs Dwyer, 8th April 2011
See Inside Your Body
This book is excellent for all ages, gives a really good insight to a human body and the colourful way the book shows this is good.
Emma English, 21st November 2009
See inside your body
Absolutely fantastic. My daughter, Hollie age 3, thinks this book is fascinating, really interested in every page, especially lift-up flaps.
Nina Asquith, 12th June 2009
Wonderful Learning Book
I recently purchased this book for my 4 yr old. She had been asking a lot of questions that I could not answer, so I purchased the book after looking through it a bit. It has wonderful illustrations that are easy to understand, and the interactive flaps are fun to lift up. I find it so much easier now to describe things to her, with help from this book! Thank you!
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i think this book is nice. i read it in the library, i love it sooooooooo much it is cool, i love the little people in it. could you make more books like it cos your my favorite book company
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this is a super book for the inquisitive child. there is enough easy english to encourage new readers to have a go themselves, and enough of the harder words to keep the older ones (and adults) interested. the colours are great and the flaps prove irresistible to small fingers. the topics covered are sensible and appealing to the young audience e.g. eating & excreting, and the section on breathing (pictures of healthy & unhealthy lungs) get the no smoking message across without even seeming to try. the book has proved well worth the price in our household. we have had it over a year now, it is extremely well thumbed but the flaps are holding up very well. thank you.
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It's fitting that Wil Myers and James Shields, the two principals involved in the Royals-Rays preseason trade that launched a thousand articles and blog posts about which team had just committed an unforgivable blunder/stolen a great player, are refusing to give us an easy answer to that debate. With two weeks left in the season, and their respective teams playing in the midst of a feverish wild card race, both Myers and Shields are playing balls-out, tremendous baseball. Last night was just the latest example. On a night when both the Royals and the Rays were desperate for a win, Myers and Shields carried their teams to victory.
Myers was up first. Facing former Ray Matt Garza and the backsliding Texas Rangers, he spent the night hitting the ever-loving shit out of the ball. He staked the Rays to an early lead with an opposite field homer in the second inning, and then blew the game open with a two-run double that hit the center field wall on the fly—and, Jesus Christ, I have no idea how that ball didn't leave the stadium—in the fifth inning.
This is all Myers has been doing lately. In September, he's hitting .352/.407/.704 with four home runs, 10 RBI, and 10 runs scored. Behind Myers's bat, the Rays have won four out of their last five games and are now tied for the AL wild card league with the Rangers. Seriously though, watch how goddamn hard he hit that double last night:
An hour after the Rays game started, James Shields took the mound against the Cleveland Indians, one of the teams standing in the Royals' way in the rock fight that has become the AL wild card race. Shields went six innings, allowing just one run on six hits while striking out 10. He spent the night dazzling Indians hitters with fluttering change ups and roaring like a badass:
Say what you want about the validity of the nickname "Big Game" James, but it's hard to watch Shields coming off the mound there and not think that this is exactly what the Royals were looking for when they traded for him. Yeah, the 213 innings pitched and the 184 strikeouts are nice, but there has to be something to be said for the spiritual reinforcement that a team may feel from watching its ace pitch his ass off and then come stomping into the dugout like a triumphant gladiator.
Recall just why the Wil Myers-James Shields trade was so controversial: both teams were trying to get better. In most cases, these kind of marquee, ace-for-prospects trades involve one team clearly embarking on a rebuilding course and another trying to load up for a playoff run. But this trade was something else, a fair exchange that came with an unspoken and built-in challenge: Let's see who made the right choice.
The shitty thing about that challenge is that it must, at some point, be resolved. One of these players will eventually prove to be more valuable than the other, and it will likely have little to do with whether or not either team makes the playoffs this year. Of course, "valuable" can mean many different things. The deck is loaded against Shields, as Myers—a 22-year-old stud on his rookie contract who is under team control for the next few years—is obviously a more valuable player from almost any logical viewpoint. But what if Shields wins a couple of Cy Young awards and brings the Royals a World Series title—does that make the trade worth it for the Royals? But then what if Jake Odorizzi, another prospect the Royals gave up in the trade, turns out to be a stud? Then do the Rays end up winning the trade, after all? This is a philosophical debate that really comes down to—
Ah, goddammit. See, that's the rabbit hole that we will eventually find ourselves at the bottom of no matter what happens. But why go diving in there now? Why not stay outside a bit longer, in the sunshine and the grass, and relish the opportunity to enjoy watching two great baseball players do amazing things while the stakes are the highest?