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How does 17 weeks off a year with full time pay and no emergency hours or calls sound to you? Can you imagine yourself tailgating at West Virginia University for football games every fall? Boating on the river every weekend during the summer? What about experiencing the Greenbrier Classic with all of our favorite golfers? Walking down the historical streets of our state capital during art walks? State fair? Concerts? Hiking through Hawks Nest or visiting the New River Gorge and participating in Bridge Day? Skiing every winter at an amazing and breathtaking resort? Are you a wine connoisseur? The Wine and Jazz Festival is a relaxing and fun event that takes place every year in downtown Charleston. Also, Florida is only a 1 hour and 45 minute flight!
The list of things that our beautiful and humble state has to offer is endless. Our practice also offers a ton of amazing qualities and opportunities. We pride ourselves in keeping our clients and their pets as healthy and as happy as possible.
Happy Pet * Happy Family * Happy Life
Gateway Animal Hospital is excited to be seeking a new full time Veterinarian. We are located in Saint Albans, WV. We also have a second location, North Gateway Animal Hospital, in Charleston, WV.
We are a busy walk in practice, serving pets and their families for over 50 years. Our doctors perform routine spay and neuter procedures as well as soft tissue and orthopedic procedures. We are a small companion practice and also offer equine services, full grooming, and dental services.
Our current team consists of 3 doctors that rotate working 2 weeks on and getting the 3rd week off, resulting in 17 full weeks off a year. No emergency calls or emergency hours - we have the support of a local emergency clinic. The only on-call duties are rotating weekend and holiday duties for in-house patients. We are open-minded to other scheduling as well. We have a full, educated, and compassionate staff at both locations with the support of experienced practitioners for mentorship.
We offer a competitive salary and pay 100% of health insurance costs for doctors. We pay malpractice insurance through AVMA's PLIT Program and all licenses and membership fees such as AVMA, CE meetings are 100% paid for (including travel, meals, hotel, wet labs, and meeting fees.) We offer a retirement plan with matching funds by the company. We also have an exciting bonus program which is rewarded by the overall productions of both hospitals as a team.
We are super proud of our updated facilities with a warm and welcoming atmosphere. Our clinics are fully equipped with digital radiography, ultrasound, endoscopy, and Companion Laser Therapy. We offer a wide range of in-house diagnostics, as well as an outside reference laboratory.
We are very excited and we are looking forward to hearing from you! If you think that we sound like a good fit for you, please contact us. Feel free to call anytime. Monday through Friday, between 9am and 6pm. Gateway Animal Hospital: 1-304-727-4331. North Gateway Animal Hospital: 1-304-342-9628. Please ask to speak with our Practice Owner, Dr. Julie Cole or our Office Coordinator, Sunny Tucker. You can also email Dr. Cole at email@example.com.

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John McCririck has blasted TV ageism and said he was devastated after being sacked as a result of 'audience research'.
The 72-year-old – the long-serving face of Channel 4 racing – was dropped this week as the channel unveiled its new presenting team to join Clare Balding.
John – who is also well-known for his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother – accused the station of ditching older performers
He said: "It is so sad that Channel 4 boss Jay Hunt and production chief Carl Hicks, both long-time BBC executives, have again gone down their well-worn path of ageism. Among the 13 slated to be on screen, only Jimbo McGrath is over 50."
John said he was only informed he was being axed half an hour before Channel 4 announced the new line-up.
"I trust those now in power, having shown their macho images as all new producers do by getting rid of their most well-known older performer, don't forget that racing appeals to all generations."
He went on: "Naturally I am devastated at being sacked after covering betting, first on ITV and then Channel 4, for 31 years. According to Channel 4, I'm being sacked after audience research."
Clare Balding, one of the key presenters in the BBC's Olympics coverage, was signed up as the new face of C4's racing coverage earlier this year, shortly after the station signed a deal to effectively become the home of the sport by bagging the key highlights of the calendar.
On Thursday Nick Luck was named as a main presenter, supporting Clare at many of the main events from January onwards.
A Channel 4 spokeswoman said: "The presenting team for Channel 4 racing from 2013 includes a range of experienced broadcasters and racing experts and reflects our desire to give a new approach to covering horseracing as we become the terrestrial home of the sport."


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Servicers Modify Nearly Half of HAMP Eligible Second Liens
By Jon Prior, Housingwire.com
Mortgage servicers participating in a Treasury Department program to modify second liens provided workouts on roughly 47% of all such eligible loans through November.
Fannie Mae directed its servicers to begin modifying mortgages through the 2MP initiative in January 2011. The servicers can elect to modify the second lien or fully extinguish it. Treasury guidelines require a servicer to offer a second-lien mod to any borrower in an active permanent modification on the first lien. The second must have an unpaid principal balance of at least $5,000 and a monthly payment of at least $100 before the workout.
Only six of the top 10 HAMP servicers participate in the voluntary program, including Bank of America, Citigroup, Ally Financial, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo
These five servicers started modifications on 94% of the 54,828 second-lien mods under 2MP. According to the Treasury, more than 115,000 second liens are eligible for the program as of November.
Servicers are notified by Treasury if a second lien matches up with a HAMP first-lien modification. More than 308,000 matches have been reported, but canceled or failed trials eliminate most of them.
Of the more than 54,000 second-lien mods, nearly 10,000 were fully extinguished. The median amount of extinguished second liens was $60,688.
Not surprisingly, 35% of the 2MP activity occurred in California. The next closest was Florida at 9%.
Servicers started 26,877 permanent mortgage workouts through the Home Affordable Modification Program in November, pushing the total past 909,000 since the launch in March 2009.
The much criticized program expires at the end of 2012 and has averaged between 25,000 and 30,000 permanent modifications per month for the past year. Should the current pace continue through the end of 2012, the amount of workouts could move higher than 1.2 million. That's well short of the 3 million to 4 million originally estimated and also before redefaults are factored in.
According to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, 17% of the 108,000 HAMP modifications began in the second quarter of 2010 went 60 or more days delinquent within one year. That's compared to a 31% redefault rate for other private programs.
The Congressional Oversight Panel estimated last year that HAMP would total roughly 800,000 completed permanent modifications that avoided redefault.


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Is it ever OK to end a sentence with a preposition?
One of the most frequent questions I'm asked is whether it's acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition.
I know many of you were taught that you shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition, but it's a myth. In fact, I consider it one of the top ten grammar myths because many people believe it's true, but nearly all grammarians disagree, at least in some cases (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). So before I lose you, let's back up. What is a preposition?
What Is a Preposition?
A preposition is a word that creates a relationship between other words. It's been said that prepositions often deal with space and time (1), which always makes me think of Star Trek. For example, the prepositions "above," "by," and "over" all say something about a position in space; the prepositions "before," "after," and "since" all say something about time.
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When Can a Sentence End with a Preposition?
Here's an example of a sentence that can end with a preposition: What did you step on? A key point is that the sentence doesn't work if you leave off the preposition. You can't say, "What did you step?" You need to say, "What did you step on?" to make a grammatical sentence.
I can hear some of you gnashing your teeth right now, while you think, "What about saying, 'On what did you step?'" But really, have you ever heard anyone talk that way? I've read long, contorted arguments from noted grammarians about why it's OK to end sentences with prepositions when the preposition isn't extraneous (1), but the driving point still seems to be, "Nobody in their right mind talks this way." Yes, you could say, "On what did you step?" but not even grammarians think you should. It sounds pedantic.


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Last Men in Aleppo
Set amidst the rubble of the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, this tremendously powerful portrait of White Helmet civilian volunteers was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for documentary at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Though an unfortunate product of the Syrian Civil War atrocities, viewed as a work of vital on-the-ground reporting this is an extraordinary achievement. Not interested in glorifying the heroics, or showering a viewer with all the gruesome images, but in simply in telling it how it is, this film is humane, gripping and heartbreakingly sad.
As the Russian missiles fall across the Aleppo war zone – Syria's largest city becomes the symbol of Bashar al-Assad's war against the rebels opposing his government – the physically exhausted, unarmed and poorly equipped troupe of aid volunteers get the call to scour the rubble in search for survivors. It is haunting viewing (emphasised by the score) and director Feras Fayyad, in a collaboration with Danish filmmaker Steed Johannessen and the Aleppo Media Centre, records, via privileged and professionally dangerous access, the traumas and the emotional struggles of these brave everyday heroes. With the distressing coverage of the rubble scouring and the excavation of expired youngsters (mostly) we are offered intimate insight into the psychology of these men as they share dialogue and have rare moments of comfort to balm their stresses – with the next tragedy emerging from the horizon.
Fayyad achieves greatness here, by tempering a pair of dramatic arcs – the stories of White Helmets' Khaled and Mahmoud – by balancing their desperate rescue efforts with details of their attempts to recreate a sense of normalcy. Khaled is a father torn between fleeing with his children and his duty to the White Helmets. Mahmoud visits a family that he help save from the debris, and at one point is caught up in an attack where his brother is almost killed. This harrowing and depressingly haunting document spotlights the courage and resilience of these men, whose personally-unfathomable optimism of a brighter future for Syria begins to be broken down with each fresh bombing raid, and who admirably maintain a sense of duty to the community and the city they remain proud to call home.
Roller Dreams
It was the year 1984, and on the boardwalk of Venice Beach, California, young people of colour were seeking refuge from the turmoil of inner city life. They would flock to the eclectic ocean community to create a brand new phenomenon: roller dancing. The talent and vibrant personality of this multicultural roller 'family' transformed the pastime into an art form and drew massive crowds of appreciative spectators. But politics and gentrification would conspire to end the dream. Australian filmmaker Kate Hickey's energetic documentary turns the lens on this exciting subculture; injecting blast from the past archival footage with a respectful interrogation and colourful stylistic flourishes.
At the centre of the film – and the catalyst for the boom and the unofficial delegate for the eventual dismantling of the art at its height – is Mad, a smooth-moving, physically-perfect icon who took the eager youngsters under his wing, established a reputation of leadership and respect, and forged a culture of integration, collaboration and pride for the art. When the hotspot became a target of racially-charged police crackdowns, Mad was chief rebel.
For a large part of the film Mad remains a silent spectre in the background – there didn't seem to be many videos of him and I expected that he had passed in the years since (I feared tragically) – as fellow skaters Jimmy, Larry and Sally and others tell their skating origin stories, and share their experiences with the man touted as the 'Godfather' of roller dancing. But, eventually, the film directs its focus to Mad – a man who has hung up the skates for good and never looked back. The loss of dancing has continued to pain him all these years, but he has applied his natural charisma and sensible wisdom to every endeavour in his adult life. Reluctant to revisit the past Mad is coerced into returning to Venice Beach to lead one final line with his former proteges. It is a powerful image; to see the man reduced to tears when confronted with the past, considering the life he never led.


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The Dynamo recovered to book their place in the semifinals with a comprehensive win over D.C. United. Ricardo Clark and Bobby Boswell scored with first-half headers, and Stuart Holden sewed things up with a transition goal in the 84th minute.
Houston Dynamo (2-1-0) vs. D.C. United (0-3-0)
July 19, 2008 -- RFK Stadium, Washington DC
SuperLiga -- Group A
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Ricardo Clark 1 (Brad Davis 2) 12
HOU -- Bobby Boswell 1 (Brad Davis 3) 28
DC -- Francis Doe 2 (Marc Burch 1) 76
HOU -- Stuart Holden 3 (Brian Ching 1) 84
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Craig Waibel, Bobby Boswell, Eddie Robinson (Patrick Ianni 64), Wade Barrett, Geoff Cameron, Ricardo Clark, Brad Davis (Stuart Holden 46+), Corey Ashe, Dwayne De Rosario (Brian Ching 74), Brian Mullan (Chris Wondolowski 74).
Substitutes Not Used: unavailable.
D.C. United -- Zach Wells, Pat Carroll, Bryan Namoff (Mike Zaher 76), Devon McTavish, Marc Burch, Craig Thompson, Clyde Simms (Gonzalo Martinez 62), Fred (Quavas Kirk 63), Ryan Cordeiro, Francis Doe, Luciano Emilio (Rod Dyachenko 48+).
Substitutes Not Used: unavailable.
Misconduct Summary:
DC -- Fred (caution) 20
DC -- Luciano Emilio (caution) 21
DC -- Rod Ryachenko (caution) 81
Referee: Alex Prus
Referee's Assistants: Adam Wienckowski; C.J. Morgante
4th official: Andrew Chapin
Attendance: 12,893
Weather: Partly Cloudy-and-90-degrees
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial


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We can see Mor's personality in this picture.
I adore this girl. I wish I was that happy most of the time. She loves to laugh, she smiles a lot... Seems like her worries are very small and minor...
Anyway... The layout is inspired by sketch #239 @UnscriptedSketches, using only scraps...
I think there's too much black for me in this layout - but I'll try better next time ;-)
Saturday, January 11, 2014
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Sri Lanka's chief justice walks out of hearing
Sri Lanka's chief justice walked out of an impeachment hearing Thursday, saying she lacks confidence in the fairness of the committee looking into allegations against her, a her lawyer said.
Lawyer Saliya Peiris did not say why Shirani Bandaranayake lacked confidence in the parliamentary committee.
The development is likely to exacerbate a months-long tussle between the Parliament, controlled by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and the judiciary. The government has not responded to the walkout and it is unclear what steps it would take.
The government submitted an impeachment motion last month and launched an inquiry against Bandaranayake after accusing her of having unexplained wealth and misusing her power. The hearing has been closed to the media and participants had been advised to maintain secrecy.
Lawyers and opposition parties have called the impeachment an effort to undermine judicial independence and concentrate powers in Rajapaksa's hands.
The United Nations, many human rights groups and countries including the United States have expressed concern over the impeachment.
Bandaranayake began to be heavily criticized by the government after she ruled that legislation giving sweeping powers to the economic development minister violated the constitution. The minister is Rajapaksa's brother.


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Duration: 365 days
Inward conflicts
'Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.' Song of Solomon 6:13
Suggested Further Reading: Romans 7:15–25
The new nature which God implants in his people is directly the opposite of the old one. As the old nature comes of Satan, being defiled and depraved by the fall, so the new nature comes direct from heaven, pure and without spot. As the old nature is sin, essentially sin, so the new nature is essentially grace; it is a living and incorruptible seed which lives and abides for ever, a seed which cannot sin, because it is born of God. When these two, therefore, come into conflict, it is as when fire and water meet; either the one or the other must die. There can be no truce, no parley; the two are deadly foes; the life of the one is the death of the other; the strength of the one is the weakness of the other. Now the old nature has been there beforehand; it is like a tree well rooted—it has been there twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, or sixty years, according to the date of conversion, and it is not easily to be torn up by its roots. Even when grace comes into the heart and makes sin to fall, as Dagon did before the ark of God, yet it is true of sin as it was of Dagon, the stump thereof is left, and there is enough vitality in that old stump still to breed pain and confusion without limit. The reigning power of sin falls dead the moment a man is converted, but the struggling power of sin does not die until the man dies. Bunyan said that unbelief had as many lives as a cat, and sin has the same vitality. Until we are wrapped in our winding-sheets, we shall never have that black thread of depravity drawn out from us; it will, it must continue to be there till God shall sanctify us, spirit, soul, and body, and take us home.
For meditation: The new birth (1 Peter 2:2) produces a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17), a new person (Colossians 3:10), a new life (Romans 6:4) and a new spirit (Romans 7:6), but also results in some new enemies, one of which is the old nature (Galatians 5:17; 1 Peter 2:11).
Sermon no. 593
9 October (1864)365 Days with C.H. Spurgeon, Vol. 2: A Unique Collection of 365 Daily Readings from Sermons Preached by Charles Haddon Spurgeon from His Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (365 Days With Series); edited by Terence Peter Crosby; (c) Day One Publications, 2002.


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The San Jose Earthquakes announced the signing of a pair of defenders on Friday, including center back Ty Harden and right back Dan Gargan. Per league and team policy, terms of the deals were not disclosed.
"Both Dan and Ty are veterans who know the league well," said Earthquakes head coach Frank Yallop. "They're solid, dependable players who will help manage our additional workload this season with CONCACAF Champions League games to play. We're happy to have them in the fold."
Gargan, 30, is a seven-year MLS veteran who spent his last two seasons as a member of the Chicago Fire. The right back has two goals and eight assists in 123 career appearances while splitting time with the Colorado Rapids (2005-08), Chivas USA (2008), Toronto FC (2010-11) and Chicago Fire (2011-12). He was a regular starter for the Fire and helped the club reach the MLS Cup Playoffs in 2012 as well as the 2011 U.S. Open Cup Final. The former All-Big East selection was a co-captain for the Georgetown Hoyas in college.
Harden, 28, is a five-year MLS veteran who spent his last three years with Toronto FC. The 6-foot-1 center back has 74 appearances and 64 starts during his career. Current Earthquakes head coach Frank Yallop drafted Harden to play for the LA Galaxy in 2007 where the lanky center back started 24 games during his rookie season. After taking a year off from soccer, Harden returned in 2009 as a member of the Colorado Rapids before joining Toronto FC in 2010. In college, Harden captained the Washington Huskies and was a four-year starter in college.
"We're excited to have both of these guys. They add depth to our roster and will challenge for starting spots," said Earthquakes general manager John Doyle.
Dan Gargan
Position: Defender
Height: 5-11
Weight: 175
Born: Dec. 14, 1982 in Philadelphia, Penn.
Hometown: Philadelphia, Penn.
College: Georgetown
Citizenship: USA
Twitter: @RealDanGargan
Ty Harden
Position: Defender
Height: 6-1
Weight: 190
Born: March 6, 1984 in Norman, Okla.
Hometown: Junction City, Ore.
College: Washington
Citizenship: USA


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Chincoteague Hunting & Fishing Center
We appreciate your interest in Chincoteague Hunting/Fishing Center Inc. We offer guided waterfowl hunting on the Virginia's Eastern Shore, which are the wintering grounds for one of the largest, most diverse populations of waterfowl found anywhere and includes the largest concentration of Greater Snow Geese in the country.
Chincoteague Hunting & Fishing Cntr. has been rated as one of the top one hundred greatest waterfowl outfitters in North America.
"...Capt. Pete Wallace has set up a waterfowling outfitting service that will gladden the heart of any hunter".
We have approximately 100 blinds from the Maryland-Virginia state line south for approximately thirty miles. We also have blinds in and around the Saxis Wildlife Management area on the Chesapeake Bay. These blinds include marsh blinds, which overlook ponds and creeks. Pole blinds, which are located in the open waters of the bays and sounds. We also have grass boats, floating and portable blinds. Our guides provide you with transportation to and from the blinds. They are licensed Coast Guard Captains with Coast Guard inspected vessels. Your guide will remain near by throughout the hunt to set out decoys, retrieve your birds and relocate you as necessary. We often move a few times throughout the hunt depending on weather conditions, tides and the type of waterfowl you are hunting. It is possible to hunt Puddle ducks, Divers, Sea Ducks, Brant and Geese all in the same day.
Captain Pete Wallace started in this area approximately thirty years ago as a Charter Boat operater. The business expanded into waterfowl guide service currently employing five full time guides. We are a Virginia hunting license agent and offer a full selection of ammo at competitive prices.
For reservations, please call 757-336-3474 anytime before 6 p.m.
For information, please call 757-894-8148.
This business is one of a number of private businesses authorized within Assateague Island National Seashore by written agreement with the National Park Service to provide appropriate recreational services to seashore visitors. Assateague Island National Seashore does not endorse this business over any other authorized providers. Please direct all inquiries and comments related to the quality of these services within the seashore to the Superintendent, Assateague Island National Seashore, 7206 National Seashore Lane, Berlin, MD. 21811.
Hunting Update
It was a good year, but not a great year. We had one of our best seasons on Black ducks,
but puddle duck hunting in general was slow. There were plenty of puddlers in the area, but
with the pretty weather they just didn't feel like getting shot.
Captain Pete
It was a good year, but not a great year. We had one of our best seasons on Black ducks,
but puddle duck hunting in general was slow. There were plenty of puddlers in the area, but
with the pretty weather they just didn't feel like getting shot.
Captain Pete


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Jeter sparks Yanks, but exits with tight quad
Designated hitter goes 1-for-4 vs. Royals in first game of season
NEW YORK -- Derek Jeter beamed his thousand-watt smile as he crossed home plate at Yankee Stadium for the first time in nearly nine months, scoring his team's first run of the afternoon and gleefully accepting a flurry of congratulatory fist-bumps and high-fives.
By the end of the day, Jeter's tone was more muted, as he and the Yankees both await the results of a trip into the MRI tube. With Jeter's help, the Yankees rallied for an 8-4 victory over the Royals in the Bronx, but the 39-year-old was unable to finish the game because of a tight right quadriceps.
"It's not frustrating yet. We'll see," Jeter said. "They MRI everything around here. I'm going to get an MRI and we'll find out, but I hope it's not a big deal. I don't ever think anything is a big deal, so I'm hoping for the best."
That sober assessment soured what should have been a sugary afternoon for the Yankees, slipping their captain back into his pinstriped No. 2 jersey and performing in game action for the first time since his left ankle shattered in Game 1 of last year's American League Championship Series against the Tigers.
"I couldn't wait. Ever since I got hurt in October, I was thinking about the first at-bat," Jeter said. "I wanted to get back on the field. That's what I worked extremely hard for and [why I] did all the rehab."
The Yankees' initial plan was to have Jeter spend Thursday afternoon serving as the designated hitter at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, but general manager Brian Cashman summoned Jeter to New York following injuries to Brett Gardner and Travis Hafner in Wednesday's 8-1 win over Kansas City.
Now, they will cross their fingers and hope that legging out four ground balls didn't force Jeter back onto the list of the walking wounded.
"His right quad tightened up a little bit," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "He said something, and I said, 'You're done. We're going to take you out.' We hope it's not much, but we won't really know until [Friday]."
Well before his quad grabbed him in the fifth inning, Jeter's presence added a healthy dose of interest to the matinee. A paid crowd of 40,381 rose by the thousands to cheer as Jeter discarded the weight hugging his Louisville Slugger, digging in for his first big league at-bat of the season.
Jeter said that he had made up his mind to swing at the first pitch and followed through, rolling a slow grounder that third baseman Miguel Tejada fumbled as Jeter reached on an infield hit. Serving as New York's designated hitter, Jeter finished the afternoon 1-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI.
"Just having him back is great," said Yankees starter Andy Pettitte, who allowed four runs (three earned) in 5 2/3 innings for his seventh win. "I'm not too sentimental or nostalgic, but it's great to have Derek Jeter back in the lineup; great to see him in the dugout. I just love having him back out there."
Pettitte needed help from Jeter and the rest of the lineup as the Yankees fought to take the veteran left-hander off the hook from what was shaping up early to be a rough and labored start.
Royals catcher Salvador Perez raked a two-run double down the third-base line and Lorenzo Cain lifted a sac fly in a three-run first, and Pettitte's fielding error on a second-inning bunt also helped set up an Alcides Escobar RBI single.
"It's the same old story," Pettitte said. "It seems like, for me, every bunt is a perfect bunt."
Pettitte settled in and clamped the damage long enough for the Yankees to erupt, as the Bombers pounded Royals starter Ervin Santana for eight runs on 10 hits in five-plus innings.
Austin Romine and Ichiro Suzuki had run-scoring hits off Santana in the second inning, and the Yankees added four more in the fifth, highlighted by Lyle Overbay's two-run, bases-loaded single.
Zoilo Almonte and Eduardo Nunez also had run-scoring hits to back Pettitte, who picked up his second victory in as many starts.
"Against a guy like that, you try to work the count as much as you can, and I thought we did a good job of that early," Kansas City's David Lough said of Pettitte. "Then he started settling in a little bit, and he just pitched a good game from there on out."
Shawn Kelley pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings of relief before All-Star Game Final Vote runner-up David Robertson made one final pitch for votes with three strikeouts in the eighth. Boone Logan wrapped it up by getting the last three outs in the ninth.
Girardi had wanted to get Jeter back at shortstop on Friday against the Twins, but now Jeter seems more likely to be used as the DH again -- if he plays at all. The Yankees certainly hope that will be the case.
"I think guys are excited he's back. He's been such a big part of this organization for so long," Girardi said. "It's great to see him, and it was nice for me to put his name in the lineup. Hopefully, I'll get to do it [Friday]."


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i know, i cried at the end too...like, real actual wet tears! it was horrible! i think wanderer is such a cool character b/c everyone knows someone who is kind of like her, compassionate to a fault...too sensitive for this world, but with the strength to make it anyways....i did not like her in the first chapter, she seemed....stiff? restrained? then you get to see who she really is and how she really sees things and i just loved her! i wasn't crazy about calling her wanda either....but i realize the necessity of a shorter, easier name.*Wanderer* wrote: I was really just, bawling... more than I did in New Moon! ..... Another reason I should add to my long list of why I love Stephenie Meyer's books: the characters.
yes! her characters are all so loveable, even when they piss you off!! she said somewhere that she didn't first develop a plot when brainstorming for her novels, but rather she thought of a character and gave them the will to have their own lives, own decisions, i'm sure this is a huge reason why they are all so unforgettable and multi-faceted!


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Rising from the edge of the Chalbi desert in northern Kenya, the wild hill country of the Mathews Range offers a different kind of safari experience. Sally Beck visited the Kitich Camp, as featured in the Rough Guide to Kenya, to get acquainted with the local wildlife.
Landing on a private airstrip in a retro 1958 Cessna at the foot of Kenya's Mathews Range is quite a rush. It's a tricky manoeuvre which involves dropping down over a ridge and flying to the opposite end of the red earth airstrip, before executing a tight turn and coming in to land. As a passenger, sitting up front next to the pilot, the one thing you must not do, tempting as it is, is put your foot on the dual control brake. Do that, and you're likely to veer off into the scrub.
Ngelai is the last strip of parched plain in the Kenyan landscape that you encounter before heading by 4WD upwards into the green canopy that is the blissfully isolated Mathews Range. Climbing steadily, you bump your way through the odd Samburu village, where little children wave happily at you and the flora turns greener by the mile.
Our destination is Kitich Camp, an intimate, six-double-bedded-camp, complete with silver medal eco rating, in the heart of the forest.
In the open-air "lounge", safari chairs covered with sheepskin overlook a floodlit glade where, if you're lucky, elephant, buffalo and bushbuck emerge from the forest at dusk to drink from the stream.
On the way to my luxurious canvas tent, I heard the low rumble of an elephant from somewhere in the lush indigenous forest. A pied kingfisher began an impressive acrobatic display above the stream that ran a few feet away from my "front door", and as we slept, a large male lion woke the others with its throaty call, close-by.
Kitich, the Samburu word for Place of Peace, accurately sums up this remote paradise, which scientists refer to as "Sky Island".
Unlike most safari treks, which you spend observing wildlife from inside a jeep, Kitich is explored on foot. A pride of lion won't walk ten feet away from you like they would in the Maasai Mara, but they will be there. Their paw-prints can be seen everywhere, as well as those of a leopard. Neither will you get close to a herd of elephant, but butterflies the size of dinner plates or small as daisies and red and black Turacos swoop across your path. With binoculars, you can study a troop (or congress if you want to get scientific) of baboons in the distance.
Escorted by three native Samburu, carrying spears and a gun – just in case – and Stefano Cheli, the camp's owner and knowledgeable guide, we walked through the tall grass into the unknown. We passed thorny acacia, mountains of elephant dung and scattered bird feathers – a sign that a big cat had fed recently.
Armed with a rifle, the elder Samburu, Thomas, took the lead. He was watching mainly for buffalo, which present the most danger to pedestrians in these parts. At the rear was Touson, wearing an impressive headdress indicating he is a young warrior. Then Stefano disappeared from view only to jump out again hollering like a warthog. For one tense moment Touson crouched, spear poised, ready to throw, before we all dissolved laughing.
We saw more droppings – of all kinds – which revealed so much. We could tell that a lion had feasted on a buffalo by the undigested fur and hoof, and that elephants digest only forty percent of the grass and leaves they eat, because their droppings are full of straw. And when a hyena's droppings are white, it shows that they've recently eaten bone.
We passed ancient cycads, wild orchid and a white fungi that looks like a sea-shell. Thanks to protracted stays by professional botanists, our Samburu guides know the Latin names for pretty much everything.
Just as I began to flag, a river with its own plunge pool came into view. It was complete with sisal rope dangling tantalizingly from a tree screaming "swing on me", which I did, before allowing tiny fish to give me a free pedicure in the shallows. In another clearing, a picnic lunch appeared, complete with pudding, cheese and wine.
Back at camp, after an al-fresco shower, I sipped sundowners of Tusker beer and the local cocktail dawa – vodka, honey, lime and mint – by a campfire, examining our collection of porcupine quills and bird feathers. Stefano explained how this whole place, once owned by olive oil magnate Julian Bertolli, would disappear if tourists stopped coming. The income we generate shores up the local economy. "Otherwise the Samburu would chop down the trees and use it to graze their cattle," he says. "All this would be lost."
A scientist recently found 150 undiscovered plants at Kitich Camp; in addition to the 380 species of birds, the butterflies and insects, it's an ecosystem that suggests the forest has been there for millions of years and hopefully, will be for several million more.
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When Intel first unveiled its "Silverthorne" microarchitecture in 2008, it was clear that the low-power, in-order processors based on it (i.e., Atom) would be at the very bottom of the performance heap. It's fair to say that none of us in the tech press ever expected to see a server based on the design, much less one that would be aimed directly at Intel's high-end Xeon line. But we weren't the only ones watching the Silverthorne announcement.
SeaMicro is a Silicon Valley hardware startup that began work in July 2007 on a server that could gang together cheap, low-end processors like Atom in ways that would make sense for Web-centric server workloads. The result of that effort was unveiled today in the form of the SeaMicro SM10000, a datacenter server that squeezes 512 Atom processors into 10U of space and draws 2KW of power.
SeaMicro claims that the server provides the same SPECINT performance as a Dell Xeon server in one-fourth the space and at one-fourth the power. Its biggest advantage is that it runs existing x86 software, from the disk images on each node up to load-balancing and automation packages.
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We've been over and over the economic case for the kind of server architecture that the SM10000 represents, so there's no need to recap that here (check "Further Reading" below for more on "physicalization"). Instead, let's take a practical look at how the SM10K works.
Each server node consists of one Atom Z530 chipset (Atom CPU plus I/O hub), a small pool of DRAM, and a special ASIC chip that attaches to the I/O hub's PCIe bus. This ASIC is what makes the SeaMicro idea work, and it does so by pretending to be a standard complement of PCIe-based storage and networking controllers.
So while the front side of the ASIC attaches to the Atom chipset via PCIe, the backside of it attaches to a high-bandwidth, proprietary bus that connects the invidual server nodes to each other and to a shared pool of storage and network interfaces. The ASIC does a bit of sleight-of-hand for the Atom node that it's attached to, making it appear as if the OS instance that's running on that node is directly looking at and talking to the storage and networking controllers; in reality, those controllers are being shared by all of the Atom nodes in the system.
In other words, the ASIC implements a kind of I/O virtualization in hardware.
By removing all of the storage and I/O controller hardware from each server node in order to centralize it in one place in the system, and by leaving a single ASIC at the node as the kind of ghost or avatar for that (now centrally located) controller hardware, the SM10K dramatically reduces the size of each individual server node. The picture below shows a single board that packs eight server nodes in a 5" x 11" space.
SeaMicro's approach makes for an incredibly low cost per node, both in terms of bill of materials and power consumption. On some kinds of workloads, like a Web application that features transient bursts of lightweight threads, the Atom-based server should indeed deliver better performance per watt and per dollar than a Xeon server running a bunch of virtual machines.
Right now, SeaMicro only offers a product based on Atom, which the company claims is head-and-shoulders above the dual-core ARM A9 parts it tested in performance per watt on server workloads. But there's nothing stopping the company from offering ARM-based servers, since the basic design should theoretically work with any chipset or SoC that talks to peripherals over PCIe.
What will really rock this design is Intel's upcoming Tunnel Creek SoC, which is an Atom-based SoC that has a PCIe controller on the main die, instead of in an I/O hub. A successor to the SM10K based on Tunnel Creek could do away with the I/O hub entirely, cutting down the number of components in each node to just an SoC, some DRAM, and the ASIC.
If SeaMicro moved to two SoCs per node in this case, they could instantly double the number of Atom cores in their design without increasing its size. Absolute power consumption would go up, of course, but so would power efficiency (the lack of an I/O hub chip would mean fewer wasted watts).
It's likely that SeaMicro is only the first of a barrage of similar startups that we'll see in the coming years. Plenty of system architects across Silicon Valley think in exactly these terms, and SeaMicro's exit from stealth mode shows that the approach is finally making the transition from a popular "what if..." notion and a few one-off products to an actual movement.


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In Months, New York Politics Go from Red Hot to Ice Cold
With Giuliani and Clinton out of '08 race, politics cools down for New York.
ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York pollster Lee Miringoff thought there would be two hot poll questions for New Yorkers this fall:
1. Which presidential candidate from New York would carry the state in November, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton or former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani?
2. Whom should Gov. Eliot Spitzer appoint to the Senate to fill Clinton's term if she goes to the White House?
To say things didn't work that way is one of the great understatements of modern New York politics.
Clinton lost the Democratic nominating contest to Barack Obama. Former GOP front-runner Giuliani failed to win a single Republican primary or caucus despite spending tens of millions of dollars.
Even if Clinton had won, Spitzer wouldn't have been the one deciding who'd replace her. The Democrat resigned as governor in March after he was linked to a prostitution ring.
"A lot can change in six months," Miringoff says. And so New York is back in the role it has played in presidential elections for the past 20 years.
"In presidential politics, New York's votes are already assigned," says Maurice Carroll, a former longtime New York City newspaper political reporter now doing polling on New York issues for Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. "So why should either Obama or McCain give much attention to New York, except for the money, except for the publicity?"
Peter LaMassa, 39, of Massapequa, Long Island, says he doubts the presidential candidates will even bother running many campaign ads in New York.
"It makes you question the whole electoral process," says LaMassa, who works in financial services. "I think it's sort of disappointing that only the battleground states get all the attention. It makes some states irrelevant and others so important."
Even with polls tightening to show Republican John McCain might have a chance to carry the state against Democrat Obama — a Siena (College) Research Institute poll released Monday had Obama up 46%-41% — New York is still irrelevant, Baruch College political scientist Douglas Muzzio points out.
"If Obama is in trouble in New York, that's the least of his worries," Muzzio says.
For New York, it used to be different.
For six successive presidential elections, from 1928 to 1948, at least one New Yorker was the presidential candidate of one of the major parties.
In 1944, two New Yorkers squared off: incumbent Democratic President (and former New York governor) Franklin D. Roosevelt and Republican Gov. Thomas E. Dewey.
Roosevelt, the only man ever elected president four times, was the sixth (and last) New Yorker to be president. He died in office in April 1945.
In 1948, Dewey seemed likely to make it five presidential wins in a row for New Yorkers, but he managed to blow a big lead to Democrat Harry Truman.
In those days, "New York was a leader with both parties because its demographic and population characteristics converged with the national demographic and population characteristics," says State University of New York-New Paltz Vice President Gerald Benjamin, the leading academic expert on New York government and politics.
As the country became more suburban and the South and West surged, New York became less important, he says.
"There's no doubt New York has lost some of its luster," says Gov. David Paterson, the former lieutenant governor who got the top job when Spitzer left.
The rest of the country seemed less tolerant of the sometimes boisterous, aggressive attitude of many New Yorkers, some of whom in turn resented the shift.
"New York seems to get lost in the shuffle sometimes," says Kandi Desrosiers, 43, from Rensselaer, N.Y.
Tara Golden of Albany, 28, concurs.
"Democrats always get the New York vote," she says. "I'm a Republican, so I don't really care about Hillary Clinton, (but) I think Giuliani would have been good."
Lamont Pinckney, 40, a digital editor who lives in the Bronx, says he doesn't mind if the presidential candidates focus their attention elsewhere in the remaining weeks of the campaign. "I don't feel it's right to spend so much time in New York when other states have issues and problems," he says.
New Yorkers have had their moments in the sun in recent decades.
Former governor Mario Cuomo became an instant national celebrity after his "Tale of Two Cities" keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic convention, and he seemed poised to be a serious contender for the nomination in 1988 and 1992, but he never put his hat in the ring.
"All you need is the right circumstance," he said this week when asked what it takes to be a hit on the national stage. "If you get there, and get lucky, anything can happen."
Gallagher reports for the Gannett News Service bureau in Albany, N.Y.


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Our favorite art school provocateur, Aliza Shvarts, may not get to show her controversial abortion art project — predicated upon a series of artificial inseminations and alleged miscarriages — after all. According to the Yale Daily News, "The University will not allow Aliza Shvarts '08 to display her controversial senior art project at its scheduled opening Tuesday unless she confesses in writing that the exhibition is a work of fiction, Yale officials said Sunday." In addition, two of Shvarts' advisers, lecturer Pia Lindman and School of Art Director of Undergraduate Studies Henk van Assen, who allowed the project to go forward, have been disciplined. Shvarts has also weighed in on the debacle: "I started out with the University on board with what I was doing, and because of the media frenzy they've been trying to dissociate with me...Ultimately, I want to get back to a point where they renew their support, because ultimately this was something they supported." [YDN]
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"Anything you can do, I can do better, biatches." This was the missive written by one of the Fragdolls, Valkyrie, in her November 26th blog when she began training for the Humpday against Bungie. To be fair it was in a post titled "Adios Xbox Live – Almost," where Valkyrie is departing from Live to head off into the world of elves, orcs and Shatner – Blizzard's World of Warcraft, but that's secondary to her parting trash talk.
In order to imagine playing the Fragdolls, you must first imagine playing with Joe Tung. Then imagine if Joe Tung had a whole sea of Lemmings or Pikmin following him around parroting everything he says in matches ad infinitum, then take those voices, ratchet them up a few octaves and insert even more hilarious Language Violations. That's playing the Fragdolls. Talking trash is something the Fragdolls do very well, but how well do they play Halo 3? A tale of personal discovery, triumph and tears begins now.
Abe Froman SK – Luke Timmins, Engineer, greatest beard in Bungie HistoryNew0001 – Joe Tung, Multiplayer Producer on Halo 3, loudest mouth in Bungie HistoryThug Larz – Lars Bakken, Multiplayer Designer on Halo 3, most placid lake in Bungie HistoryTJ Scoot – Luke Smith, Worst sniper in Bungie History
The Fragdolls are an organization, collection and furious four-hit juggling combo of girl gamers, hired by Ubisoft to embarrass the inferior sex (mens) at videogames in addition to promoting Ubisoft products. In the interest of fairness we'll paste a paragraph from the "About" section on the gal's Web site:
"The Frag Dolls are a team of gamers recruited by Ubisoft to represent their video games and promote the presence of women in the game industry." On this night they were present. They brought it.
Frag Dolls
Valkryie FDCalyber FDMischief FDPyra FD
Game 1
Team Slayer on IsolationTone of Game: Where is My Mind?
Girl 1: "You guys can pick whatever you want, we'll beat you on anything.""Did you guys want to play with MLG settings?"Girl 2: "No, we practiced on regular modes because we figured that's all you scrubby jerks would know how to play." "Alright, Team Slayer on Isolation, do your jobs." Girl 1: "Uh, they have jobs?"
I don't remember if it was for a Humpday or just a random night of Matchmaking, but Froman talked about how people tended (erroneously) to play Isolation on the top of the map, camping the Forerunner structure and suppressing the concave down shaped green grass with Battle Rifles. So he decided that we'd be able to beat an occasional team by staying underneath, controlling the Rockets and holding court in an area I refer to as Sub Taint.
You know the place, the dark green spot at the bottom of Isolation underneath the Honey I Shrunk the Kids-style chute, except at the bottom of this tunnel there isn't a big bowl of cereal but Froman with a Rocket Launcher and a crotch piece that is destined to leave a smear on your visor.
Our basic strategy, with tons of emphasis on basic, was to work in tandem underneath the caves, cycling regenerators and covering the three long hallways that connect at Sub Taint. It sort of worked, aside from Tung running around alone and somehow the spawning logic dumping Froman right in front of the gals on the top of the map.
As amusing as it was hearing their proximity chat calling us all manners of awful things for "camping" – we prefer "strategizing" – and using Regenerators (again, strategizing) underneath, the ladies would occasionally make insanely coordinated tactical strikes coming down the hallways and even if you're standing directly in a Regenerator, two or even three people firing at you with a Battle Rifle is going to erase a player pretty quickly.
We got out to a huge lead a lead that made me wonder "How did we not steamroll these women?" and before I knew it, it was 30-28 on the film. They were figuring out ways to counter our "hide desperately and hope" strategy. We started to get split from the pack and the 'Dolls picked us off, we were some slow, horned animal on the savanna and they hunted.
Final Score: 50-46 Frag Dolls Win
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Game 2Team Slayer on The PitTone of Game: Bone Machine
When we're not supposed to win (and let's face it, no one expects us to ever win), losing isn't as frustrating. Let's face it, these girls practiced, they were ready and we gave it our best effort in the first game on the only map where there was any sort of pre-baked easy-mode strategy involving hiding. Since we were still in charge of picking gametypes and maps we picked Team Slayer on The Pit, the impetus for this having something to do with pulling off a band-aid quickly and then maybe we could play Tower of Power in Game 3.
Like the game before, we got out to an improbable lead, only to see it whittled away like the girls were carving a boat out of balsa wood to send our dreams down a river. We led into the 30s and then faded, again. At 41-38, Frag Dolls advantage, it looked like we were going to let another one slip through our fingers. We're holding too tight!
But improbably, inexplicably and maybe, just maybe, magically at 43-40 the tide started to turn. At 44-43 the Regenerator came back to haunt the Frag Dolls – great Regenerator? Or Greatest Regenerator? Lars got slapped in the fingercuffs in the Command Center and the score was 46-44, those-who-pee-sitting, with the lead. A magical grenade killed Calyber's spree and the lead was just one. Immediately after New0001 killed Mischief to tie the game, Valkyrie's ill-advised heroics against Froman and I (Pro-Tip: The odds are not in your favor in this situation, kind players) turned into a sickening death march. The tide had turned. 47-46. New0001 put the score to 48-46 us and the Frag Dolls had scored their last points in this round.
Final Score: 50-46 Bungie WinsDownload the film (TJ Scoot's perspective)
Game 3Team Slayer (Snipers Only) on ValhallaTone of Game: Wave of Mutilation
Measured risk or tactical mastery? New and Froman wanted to play Snipers on Valhalla, Lars and I wanted to play anything but snipers on Valhalla, and the girls didn't seem to care as they recognized that Game 2 of the three game challenge was a complete and total anomaly and there was no way we would beat them in Game 3.
I was pretty spent after Game 2 and just wanted the Humpday to be over. After Game3, if Lars and I were kids on a message board we'd both have gone and made threads about "What's wrong with the Sniper Rifle?" because we both stunk up the joint. Thankfully, Joe and Froman combined for 40 kills.
All we did was divide into two groups of two, with Joe controlling top-mid and rotating to downed Pelican and Froman and I covering Hot Gates and Big Rock in front of their base. Lars and I would poke our heads out, draw fire, return fire, likely die and then Froman and New mopped them up.
At one point in the match, Froman had 15 kills, New had 10, Lars three and I had two. Pretty evenly balanced! You can watch from both New0001's and Froman's perspective below. Watch Lars and I fling ourselves into harm's way!
Final Score: 50-30
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A 4v4 mix of Double EXP Slayer and Objective gametypes on a whole mess of your own community created maps.
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So, yeah, This week's Double EXP Weekend is running a little behind. I blame Ninja 0n Fire. (He tells me that some fairly large updates are being deployed and as a result, we'll likely not see the Double EXP Weekend go live until tomorrow, or, *gulp* "later").
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Looks like ubald unleashed another render over at HBO. This one's a WIP and part of a much larger collection that will ultimately serve as a webcomic. But you should check it out now.
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This week's Steve's getting all Batman on some Scarab carapace.
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Thanks to everyone who voted for me in the haiku contest over at The Platoon Advantage. I ended up winning the contest. Unfortunately my local Dick's doesn't carry any Pirate gear so I'll probably get some new shoes.
Pedro Alvarez has been called up. Hopefully he keeps hitting like he did in Indy and is the lift this offense needs.
The Bucs start a four game set in Atlanta tonight. By no coincidence at all, I'll be in attendance for all four games. The pitching matchups are brutal, so escaping with a split would be just fine.
Game 1: McDonald vs Hudson
Game 2: Karstens vs Hanson
Game 3: Maholm vs Jurrjens
Game 4: Correia vs Lowe
Rain is in the forecast tonight, so let's hope this one gets in without too much delay. Follow my twitter feed for pics and thoughts as they come.
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Samantha Grace
Adopted: November 20, 1999
Died: April 25, 2008
Oh, Samantha. My sweet Sammie girl. Gracie. I was not ready to say goodbye to you.
Sam's story begins, like all my critter stories do, at the Humane Society. I was looking for a German Shepherd and found Samantha. In all honesty, she looked rough. She was about 20 lbs. underweight and her nails were so long that they curled under her feet. She was 3 or 4 years old and was skittish as hell. I soon learned that she had a very strong fear of loud noises: thunder, voices, laughter, etc. I tend to be a loud person (in talking and especially laughing) and if I didn't lower my voice, Sam would go running from the room.
After a rough start, Sam became best friends with my other Shepherd, Max. Those two did everything together and were rarely more than a couple of feet from each other. Their favorite activity together was playing 'chase' and wrestling:
If I had to sum up Sam in one sentence I would say that she lived life with gusto and it was a joy to watch how much fun she had every single day.
Samantha loved fetch more than any dog I've ever known.
A few years ago I decided to see how long she could play fetch before getting tired of it. At about 90 minutes into this experiment, my arm cried 'uncle', but Sam was still running at full speed. While she slowed down a lot in the past couple of years, Sam was still playing fetch last weekend.
Sam also loved car rides. I've had dogs that have liked riding in the car, but usually only sat up for a couple of minutes and then settled in for a nap. Not Sam. She sat at attention the whole time and the look of happiness on her face always made me smile.
Samantha also loved water and loved to play with the water hose in the summer (with my help, of course):
Samantha was a digger. Soon after I moved into this house, she excavated a hole under the deck:
She spent many hot summer days under the deck. She also had a spot in the backyard that she dug on a regular basis. She was a serious digger, too. When the hole in the backyard would get 3-4 feet deep, I would sneak outside and fill it in. In just a day or two, it would be dug out again. Then we'd repeat the dance: me filling in the hole and her digging it out again. I think she enjoyed this routine as much as I did.
To say that Samantha loved toys would be an understatement.
The dog was just bonkers about stuffed animals. After any major stuffed animal holiday (Easter, Valentine's, etc.) I would hit those 75% off sales and buy up stuffed animals by the dozen.
Samantha could (and would) spend hours just watching out the window.
She always notified me immediately of any danger: the neighbor's cat in the yard, a loose dog running by or the garbage men stealing our stuff.
Sam was insanely obedient. I had total voice control over her and she always obeyed the first time I gave her a command. When we went on walks she would hear an approaching car and immediately move to the side of the road. Sam started losing her hearing a couple years ago and for the last year or so she's been almost totally deaf (except for very loud or very high pitched noises). Luckily, I teach my dogs hand signals along with voice commands, so I was able to communicate with her. Sam also taught herself a pretty cool trick. One night she didn't come inside with her sisters, so I got the flashlight out to find her in the yard. The second she saw the flashlight beam she ran inside. That became my command for her to come inside after dark.
My furry family would eventually include Kishka. Samantha and Kishka weren't as close as Max and Sam, but they enjoyed each other's company. Their favorite activity was sleeping side by side:
Sam and Sadie were just beginning their relationship, but it was already off to a good start.
Late last year, Samantha was diagnosed with degenerative myelopathy. When that happened, I feared the worst. I'm happy to say that I was wrong. Samantha's DM never progressed very far. She did stumble sometimes, but she was able to go for walks and play fetch right up until the end. For that, I am extremely grateful.
Samantha taught me so much about life: how to live life with enthusiasm and to not let past disappointments ruin a chance for happiness in the future.
Thank you, Samantha, for eight and a half wonderful years. You were a complete joy every single day. I will miss watching you eviscerate your stuffed animals. I will miss falling asleep at night to the sound of your soft snores. I will miss how your eyes sparkled when we went on walks. I will miss your anticipation when I picked up a tennis ball, frisbee or the garden hose. I will miss seeing the dirt fly as you dug to China. I will miss arriving home and seeing your happy face pop up in the front window.
Most of all, I'll just miss you. Your gentle spirit and lust for life brightened every day of my life. You were loved and adored as much as any dog could be. Rest in peace, my sweet girl.


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Seven Aztecs named to All-Mountain West first and second teams
San Diego State senior cornerback Leon McFadden stood out as the only three-time first-team selection on the list ofAll-Mountain West teamsreleased by the league Tuesday.
The teams were chosen by the league's 10 head coaches and selected media members.
McFadden was accompanied on the all-conference first-team by SDSU tight end Gavin Escobar – a two-time first team selection – and senior offensive guard Nik Embernate, who helped to open holes the size of Texas for running backs Walter Kazee and Adam Muema this year.
Muema missed out on first-team honors, but was named to the second team along with senior center Alec Johnson, linebacker Jake Fely, and safety Nat Berhe.
Aztecs coach Rocky Long seemed a little disappointed that his peers hadn't selected Muema to the first team.
The running back finished with 1,355 yards on 211 carries this season, an average of 6.4 yards per carry.
"I think Adam Muema was a good candidate to be player of the year in this league," Long said. "He was only second-team all conference. If you look at the number of carries he had and the number of yards he has compared to the other running backs on that list, he was much more efficient than those two."
Fresno State QB Derek Carr was a unanimous selection to the first team, and also the conference's offensive player of the year.
Fresno State's Robbie Rouse and Nevada's Stefphon Jefferson were the two backs voted onto the first team.
Jefferson is the nation's second-leading rusher, with 1,703 yards on 341 carries for a 4.99 yards-per-carry average. Rouse had 1,468 yards on 269 carries, averaging 5.46 yards per carry.
Muema's 6.42 yards carry is tied with Alabama's Eddie Lacy and Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel for 13th nationally.
Defensively, Long said he wasn't surprised that Fely – who led the Aztecs with 11.5 tackles for loss, who was second behind Berhe in total tackles – didn't make it onto the first team.
"The way we play defense around here, it's very difficult for our defensive players to get awards," Long said. "We alternate so many players, they're not in there as much as other players in their statistics. These teams are based on statistics. So if you're the leading tackler in the league, guess what, you're going to be first-team all-conference. It doesn't matter if you played 700 plays or 300 plays.
Case in point: Nevada LB Albert Rossette, who led the league with an average of 10.7 tackles per game. He made the first team along with UNLV's John Lotulelei and Boise State's J.C. Percy.
Fresno State defensive back Phillip Thomas was named defensive player of the year, while Hawaii kick returned Mike Edwards netted special teams player of the year honors. Bulldogs' receiver Davante Adams was named freshman of the year.
Honorable mention
Sophmore linebacker Derek Largent certainly made an impact in his first season as an Aztec. Largent, a community college transfer, was named an All-Mountain West honorable mention after a season where he finished second only to Fely, with 6.5 total sacks.
"Derek Largent I think made some spectacular plays that coaches remember," Long said. "I mean, he made a couple sacks, and made a sack and got the fumble himself. He tipped a ball twice and intercepted it himself. He had some spectacular plays that stick in coaches minds. So that's why he got that award.
"I think he's just scratching the surface. I think he's going to be a much better player the next two years than he was this year."
Sophomore defensive lineman Sam Meredith, and junior offensive tackle Bryce Quigley also garnered honorable mention honors.


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So how was your year? Setbacks, advances?
Hey, no doubt, it went better than Lance's.
First up on sports' yearlong ride:
An unrelenting Crimson Tide.
JoePa makes his great migration
Trailed by heartache, litigation.
Eli's coming and Giants roll
Past Brady in the Super Bowl.
Suddenly, all's Linsanity:
Headlines, puns, sheer inanity.
Banned Ryan Braun left fans aghast.
An arbiter says not so fast.
Daytona, Kenseth - let's explain:
The night sets fire to the rain.
Then football gets its jolt of jolts
When Peyton's place is not with Colts.
Tebow leaves the Mile High air
And joins the Jets - a time for prayer.
Kentucky wins, backed by Davis.
Rent a team (call Hertz or Avis).
Baylor follows. Need a reason?
Brittney Griner, perfect season.
Ozzie Guillen, with much to tell,
Sings loving praises of Fidel.
The shaken Saints now turn to Vitt.
Pat Summitt says it's time to quit.
Out at Indy, sitting pretty,
Once again it's all Franchitti.
Pro football vets demand their due.
Concussed and angry, thousands sue.
I'll Have Another's path seems clear,
But still no Triple Crown this year.
Wait a second. Can this be right?
Manny Pacquiao lost a fight?
Lord Stanley's Cup goes to the Kings
While hockey's woes wait in the wings.
After all the sound and fury,
Clemens walks, cleared by a jury.
The Heat are champs. It looks like reign.
South Beach party - LeBron and Dwyane.
Sandusky's jury has its say:
This coach won't see the light of day.
Soccer's armada, mighty Spain,
Captures the Euros in Ukraine.
Come Wimbledon, Serena's crown.
Paterno's statue taken down.
Then Wiggins rides with guile and grit.
The Tour de France goes to a Brit.
Olympics start, McCartney sings.
Phelps swims with gills, Bolt soars with wings.
Pistorius runs, Gabby's great.
A specter looms: Badmintongate.
Brilliant games, with heart and brio.
Snuff the flame and on to Rio.
Augusta bends. How awfully nice.
A female member - Condi Rice.
Lance lambasted for all to see,
His lies unfold as sponsors flee,
His titles stripped, life off its hinge.
Now it's all about the syringe.
Perfect time to make this wager:
Andy Murray wins a major.
The NHL then shuts its door.
(I think we've heard this song before.)
Replacement refs prove one big mess.
The league is forced to acquiesce.
Ryder Cup comes to Medinah.
Europe gives U.S. angina.
Hold no vote, form no committee -
Washington's a baseball city.
Those Oakland A's, no hand-me-down.
Miguel Cabrera, Triple Crown.
Buster Posey and Hunter Pence.
This really doesn't make much sense.
The Giants sweep to take it all.
Black and orange, the style for fall.
No marathon, New York City.
Sandy strikes and shows no pity.
Colts ride a wave of splendid Luck.
They shave their heads and play for Chuck.
The Lakers stumble, won't sit still,
Sign Mike D'Antoni, pass on Phil.
Keselowski, Penske Sprint to Cup.
Notre Dame, `Bama, coming up.
College conferences realign,
In thrall to TV's dollar sign.
Maryland, Rutgers, Big Ten bound.
The money chase goes round and round.
The Chiefs and Cowboys reel from blows.
The NFL's in mourning clothes.
Johnny Football wins Heisman race.
Pacquiao's crushed, flat on his face.
The year is quickly put to bed,
With what's been done and what's been said,
While limbering up sight unseen
For what's on deck ... 2013.


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Art and artifact
What possibly could be controversial about an art museum in Paris? You have no idea.
But Sally Price does. She is the author of Paris Primitive, an examination of a set of French cultural debates that led to the building of a museum near the Eiffel Tower dedicated to what Price often refers to as "so-called primitive art."
One person's "art" often is another's "artifact," an ideological difference that fuels this book by Price, the Duane A. & Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American studies and anthropology at William and Mary, and author of an earlier book, Primitive Art in Civilized Places, which has been translated into seven languages.
Pair of Jacques
The controversies depicted in Paris Primitive had their genesis in the formation of an alliance between Jacques Chirac, soon to be president of France, and art collector Jacques Kerchache.
The two formed a friendship around a common interest in primitive art. They wanted to raise the profile of what Chirac had been calling "the art of three-quarters of the world." To accomplish their ambition, they set their sights on an exhibition in the Louvre. Cue the fireworks.
"The whole discussion there is whether the Louvre is supposed to be a universal museum," Price explained. "The director of the Louvre, who was in charge while all this was going on—he's now retired—was adamant that the Louvre does not do everything. Impressionist art, for example, is in the Musée d'Orsay, which is a different museum and Asian art is in the Musée Guimet, which is a different museum."
The debate over the Louvre was a precursor to the hubbub surrounding the creation of the Musée Quai Branly, in which the primitive art of Paris found a home of its own. Paris Primitive discusses the strange bedfellows created by this peculiar sort of museum politics. Predictably, the fight to keep primitive art out of the Louvre was championed by a group characterized as "the very elitist curators of the Louvre museum, the art historical people." The Louvre's purists had allies in the anthropological community, who didn't so much want to keep the objects out of the art museums as they wanted them to remain in ethnographic-oriented institutions such as the Musée de l'Homme.
"That's the whole debate between art-history-oriented museum curators and anthropologically oriented museum curators," Price explained. "It's important to realize that an object in an anthropological museum already has lost a lot of its context, because it's been taken out of its original setting. So, it's already re-contextualized in one sense, but then, when it moves into a more esthetically oriented museum, it loses a lot of its power to help people understand other cultures."
On the other side of the debate were Kerchache, who was circulating petitions and taking out full-page newspaper ads advocating for primitive art to be displayed in the Louvre, and Chirac, speaking not from only the bully pulpit of the French presidency, but also as a connoisseur who was known to question authorities on arcane points of primitive art.
Into the Louvre
Primitive art made its way into the Louvre in 2000, but that was hardly the end of the controversy. Price said Chirac initially resisted, but eventually embraced the concept of a new and separate museum for primitive art. Proposals for a site bounced from arrondissement to arrondissement, finally ending up in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.
"It's very prime real estate there and the people who live there didn't want their view of the river obstructed," Price said. "So there were restrictions on the height of the building. Every aspect of this project was a big, big debate."
The big, big debate continued during and after the construction of the museum, most notably along the ethnography versus art controversy. The finished Musée du Quai Branly was stocked with objects selected from other collections and which had been subjected to what Paris Primitive calls "the most advanced museological makeover in the world."
The makeover included extensive cleaning, repair and disinfecting—and incorporated extensive recontexting of numerous items of anthropological interest. In a reprise of the Louvre debate, the art collector's esthetic propounded by Jacques Kerchache trumped all other concerns, even though Kerchache himself died before the Musée du Quai Branly was completed.
She explains that the Kerchache perspective was endorsed by the museum's architect, who was given control of the curatorial aspect "to a degree many consider quite astounding." In a tour of the finished museum, Price found a textile from South America that she had worked with in past research. "It's a horizontal textile," she said. "But because the architect designed that particular case as a vertical case, it's turned 90 degrees to suit the architectural plan. It makes no sense, ethnographically."
She concedes that the exhibits do have contextual information, but the meatier stuff is often separated from the actual items.
Price said she had been critical of the Louvre's "estheticising" ethos and its tendency to remove anthropological context. "But after I went to the Quai Branly museum and went back to the Louvre, it looked pretty good, because you could see these objects, you could walk around them and it's well lit," she said, compared to the dark, faux-jungly Quai Branly, a product of the architect's conception of a primitive environment.
"It picks up on stereotypes," she said. "That's the bottom line."
—Joe McClain
Objects may be closer than they appear
Many of us suspect that the avoidable horrors of the future may be more familiar to readers of Dickens than to readers of Orwell, if only because people keep reminding us of the glory days of the Victorians. Simon Joyce looks at the ways we preserve the heritage of the 19th-Century, with points of view that include nostalgia, longing and loathing. Please, sir...may I have some more?
Simon Joyce is an associate professor of English and director of literary and cultural studies. His interests include the literature and sociology of crime, cultural representations of the past and the globalization of culture.
So you want to be a Supreme Court justice?
In Strategic Selection, Christine Nemacheck offers a window into the political and institutional dynamics that underlie the White House's selection of nominees for the Supreme Court and reveals the pattern of strategic action which is visible from the earliest stages of the selection process.
Who was on the president's short list? How are these lists developed in the first place? What is the role of Congress and what propels the choice of one nominee over another? These questions and more are answered in this creative and insightful work which will be enjoyed by anyone who cares about the past and the future of the nation's highest court.
Christine Nemacheck is an associate professor of government. Her research interests include American and judicial politics. Her work has also appeared in Congress and the Presidency and a number of edited volumes.
Looking for joy (in all the right places)
Joy offers a literary and intellectual history of joy or, more specifically, the ways in which joy has been addressed in Western literature and art, philosophy and religion, psychology and statecraft with particular emphasis on British and German works from the Reformation through Romanticism.
What is true of love, Potkay sets out to show, is equally true of joy. Emotions or passions are not simply constant components of human psychology and physiology, the hard wiring of who we are. They are shaped, as well, by histories: the case history of each individual, and the cultural history of each emotion term.
This book is of particular interest to scholars of the Renaissance to the late Romantic period but will also appeal to those interested in literature, philosophy, history, musicology or theology.
Adam S. Potkay is the Margaret L. Hamilton Professor of English Literature. He is the author of four books (working on a fifth) and dozens of articles on 18th- and 19th-Century literature and philosophy in journals.
Master of space and time
If Travels with Tooy had come out in the early 1970s, many lives may have turned out completely different, because people who are now middle-aged might have read Richard Price's book and been inspired to do something productive (such as ethnography), rather than being inspired by Carlos Castaneda's books to do other things (such as experiment with jimson weed.) Price encountered Tooy, a rain forest priest-philosopher, in the course of his research among the Saramakas, descendant populations of rebel slaves. Travels with Tooy would make an interesting buddy film, as Tooy himself is described as a "time-traveler" and the settings of the narrative sections go way beyond the rain forest in terms of exoticism.
Sound files from Travels with Tooy are available online.
Richard S. Price is the Dittman Professor of Anthropology at William and Mary. His research combines history and anthropology and often centers on African American cultures in South America.
Awards, plaudits, updates
Wages of Wins placed on 'noteworthy' list
Princeton University Library's Industrial Relations Section has added Wages of Wins: Taking Measure of the Many Myths in Modern Sports to its Noteworthy Books list for 2006. Martin B. Schmidt, associate professor of economics at William and Mary, is co-author of Wages of Wins, along with David J. Berri and Stacey L. Brook. The book's "ESPN meets freakonomics" approach and companion website has ensured it a long life in the blogosphere. An updated paperback edition of Wages is out, with a basketball-themed cover.
Evolving God listed on ALA religion top 10 list
Evolving God: A Provocative View of the Origins of Religion was listed among the top 10 religion books of the year by the American Library Association. Evolving God, featured in the summer, 2007 issue of Ideation, was written by Barbara King, class of 2007 professor of anthropology. King's views of religion as a consequence of primate evolution shares space on the ALA list with works by humorist Christopher Hitchens and Pope Benedict XVI.
Steel Drivin' Man wins Library of Virginia honor
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend took top nonfiction honors at the 10th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards. The Library of Virginia honor is only the most recent award for the book by Scott Nelson, Legum Professor of History.
Among the finalists for the nonfiction award was Sold American: Consumption, and Citizenship, 1890-1945, by Charles McGovern, associate professor in history and American studies.
Steel Drivin' Man was also a finalist for the People's Choice Award, which was won by Jamestown: The Buried Truth by William M. Kelso, head archaeologist at the Jamestown Rediscovery Project and lecturer in the history department.