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So I have been trying to decide which tea company to place my birthday-present-to-myself tea order at hehe :P I finally chose today, and it was yet another Verdant order. The limited edition Fuijan white tea was the deciding factor, it said pear and white tea and jasmine so there went the willpower. And of course I had to get a few other items as well…
Fuijan White Jasmine – 1 oz (almost got 2, but since it was limited, I refrained lol)
Mi Lan Dancong Black – 2 oz
Laoshan Black – 1 oz
Chai Spice – 2 oz
Shui Jin Gui Wuyi Oolong – 7 g
Big Leaf Sheng Pu'er 2006 Yang Ji Tian Yuan – 7 g
Golden Buds Shu Pu'er Xingyang 2010 – 7 g
Total with my $10 rewards gift cert – $42.20 to hit free shipping
Happy early bday to me! Haha
Thanks Azzrian!! :D
I was going to try sample sizes too, but when I calculated I realized how much more expensive it is that way. I should have ordered golden buds though! lol, Happy Birthday!
Yeahh it is a bit more expensive but I like to try all the teas there and it's a lot easier if I have small quantities of them rather than larger bags, although over half of them I end up reordering anyways lol, oh well :) and thanks for the bday wishes!!
Picked up Strawberry Zabaglione from 52 Teas since A) I only have one cup left and B) I have NEVER seen a discount at 52Teas before so I had to do it.
I wanted to get more of the Walter Bishop Honeybush but I have almost a full bag and I could not justify that as I seriously have spent a lot this past week.
More than I should spend in a month.
I will be hoarding my Walter Bishop tea.
Oh man! I have a problem! I saw that Della Terra Teas has a discount up, and I'm a sucker for a discount of any kind. Had to make an order. Figured it'd be a good time to try some of the teas on their site that I've had my eye on. Got a custom "Try Me Pack", so I didn't spend much (although it's the small purchases that seem to add up to an astronomical amount when I'm not looking). Anyway, I chose to try out:
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie
Grandma's Pumpkin Pie
Orange Brulee
and Walnut Brittle
Excited for these teas to get here! The shame won't set in until I look at my bank statement next week… ;)
I don't feel too bad, though, as it seems a lot of my fellow steepsters have the same problem!
Grabbed the last 2 bags of Caramel Pumpkin Cheesecake from 52teas…so now I have 4 bags of that in the mail :-) also got a bag of pancake breakfast
haha have an extra bag in the house from the first time.. just wanted to pick up some more.
Sil, I have an almost full bag (well technically in a jar now). I'm gonna give it one more go, & possibly swap it out.
tattoed_tea…was it you who wanted the strawberry rhubarb pie from frank? i'm a little all over the place tonight. if so, we could likely do a bit of a swap that way so you can try it…if that was in fact you and i'm not mis-remembering
thanks, I'm up for swapping like I said. I'll send a full bag for samples of other things.
Sil, it was me. I'm dying to try it.
Damn it…Lariel made me place another order!!!!!
Who the hell sends you PMs saying "ppsst hey, I can get you a discount if you order in the next 24 hours from adagio". That's like telling a crack addict it's 2 for 1 day!
Shining Star (3oz blend in pouch)
Ambrosia (3oz blend in pouch)
On the way….
Well, I do like those rooibos flavours. And you did like the other Adagio rooibos I sent. So I thought you would like those.
Mayan Mist
EG Creme
Gma's Pumpkin Pie
White Chocolate
Snow Fairy
Papa Bears Hibernation Blend
Lemon Chiffon
Cinnamon Crackle
Eight Candles
Chocolate Malt Honeybush
Cinnamon Roll Honeybush
My VERY FIRST two orders placed last week from Upton and Adagio have been received and I'm enjoying. Eagerly awaiting my Della Terra order to try some new teas!
52 tea order with Kittenna
-weeping angel
-pomegranate blueberry shou mei
-Cranberry VIT
And this order is Sil's fault…
Red Leaf Teas:
Caramel Matcha,
Maple Syrup Matcha,
Irish Cream Matcha, Matcha
Cheesecake Matcha
4 x tins for them all
hahaha happy to be an enabler. You'll have to let me know how the irish cream tastes! i haven't tried that one :)
went robust on all of them to make sure i get the flavors. Nobody else is allowed to PM me tonight with deals/discounts/codes or anything else! It's ridiculous I have close to a dozen orders incoming :(
Two orders for me today
52 Teas, had to take advantage and sneak in a little one.
Pumpkin Pie Black tea.
Pancake Breakfast Black Tea.
With 20% off it was $14.38. Free shipping because I had it sent to a US address.
And Verdant.
Anxi Fo Shou Black Tea 2oz.
Chocolate Phoenix Chai 2oz.
Laoshan Black 2oz.
Shui Jin Gui Wuyi Oolong 1oz.
Chocolate Chamomile Curiosity Brew 1oz.
Redeemed some of my points for a $10 voucher. Cost $48.25, free shipping.
Trying so hard to resist the 52teas sale! I told myself I'd chill on the orders for a while. But a sale?!?! It's killing me. I'm dying inside… over tea.
I know right! But I have never seen Frank offer a discount on ALL the teas before so I had to get my favorite!
I have been on the website like six times this evening staring at what is available. I'm not sure I can take much more of this. I want the Pina Colada HB, Neapolitan HB, Coconut Cheesecake HB and the Double Chocolate Decadence. I just got the Malted Chocolate HB in the mail today and have two bags of the Earl Black on the way. I'm going to have to self impose a Steepster ban so I don't see these sales and reviews of all this wonderful tea!
Ugg, it's killing me too! I have the subscription so I already have all the regular releases, but the cranberry oolong is calling my name.
Just think AK, you could share that with me if you ordered it now!
(well it sounded good in my head anyway). Get it!
Nope. I caved. I got the Pina, Neapolitan and Coconut honeybush. I held back and didn't get a strawberry honeybush.


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Another View: Nashua does need to conduct its own review of commuter railBY DANIEL MORIARTY
May 14. 2013 6:52PM
I am writing in response to your Friday editorial titled, "Caution First: Nashua needs no rail study yet." First, I feel obligated to point out that my proposed resolution will not cost taxpayers a penny. Nowhere in the text of the resolution does it suggest spending money. My choice of words for its title, "Commuter Rail Feasibility Study Ad-Hoc Committee" was meant to suggest that this small group would take advantage of and interact with the current state-run feasibility study.
I agree that there is no need for Nashua to spend any money on another study at the moment. If you rightfully remove your primary objection that the City of Nashua spend money, I ask you to answer this question: "Should a group of motivated individuals be allowed to volunteer on behalf of the City of Nashua to ascertain the implications of commuter rail on future actions required by the Board of Aldermen?"
Second: "Should a group of volunteers directed by Nashua's Board of Aldermen be allowed to interface with the state group conducting the current study?" The answer to each of those questions is "Yes."
Third, in regards to the two substantial reports of prior commuter rail feasibility studies which you allude to in your editorial, I ask: "Have you read them?" When I asked that question in the Nashua Aldermanic Chamber, the response I got was a collection of blank stares.
I have read the most recent study (with the term "Capital Corridor" in its title). In my opinion it does not draw the conclusion, as you claim, that commuter rail is not feasible. But it does itemize substantial cost estimates broken down into categories such as one-time construction, or ongoing maintenance, and by extent of service (e.g. Nashua only, the Manchester Airport included, the City of Manchester included, or Concord included).
While reading the report, it became clear to me that much work needs to be done to take advantage of the reports which already exist. In my opinion a decision to disallow a group of volunteers to read the reports and summarize them for your benefit is tantamount to a choice "to remain uninformed."
The concept for this committee was offered to me by an individual with substantial experience at the local and state levels, with decades of experience as a businessman and as an appointee on state level commissions. Since its first reading in the Board of Aldermen, I have been contacted by other individuals requesting that they participate — individuals who are both for and against rail. Without the aldermanic endorsement of an ad-hoc committee, these volunteers cannot perform the work they feel is necessary.
Further, the Charter of the City of Nashua has clauses which make it difficult for an individual alderman to perform work without the endorsement of the full board. There is no harm in allowing motivated and responsible volunteers to work on behalf of the City of Nashua.
With the above ideas in mind, please read the full text of my resolution and either watch an online broadcast of, or read the full minutes of, the Personnel and Administrative Affairs Committee Meeting (May 6, 2013) in which I elaborated further. The timing is right for a group of motivated volunteers to act upon the results of previous studies and interact with the current study to help prepare the Nashua Board of Aldermen to enable commuter rail service that is sustainable without requiring tax subsidies from the state.
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The charts below show the average disk queue length and the request times.
Ultimately, the reason why Thomas' team implemented its innovative solution was to improve AT Internet's customer service. The SanDisk powered system delivered.
"Our system runs continuous batch jobs on the day's data—and it now does so much faster. Processes that used to take three seconds now complete in less than a second, which means our customers can always see site activity in real-time," Thomas said. "When our system was under heavy load, customers real-time reports might take from three to five minutes to complete. We can now deliver these in under a minute, even under the largest traffic spikes."
Thomas Fisher,
Technical Architect, AT Internet
Stopping the Scale-Out
Not only did Thomas's team improve the performance of its Microsoft SQL Server database by six times, but they also did so with one-sixth the number of servers. The ROI was clear.
Thomas said, "In our previous system, the return on investment for each new server was reaching its limit. Our databases have a write-intensive workload that makes disk performance extremely expensive. We considered purchasing a SAN, but it would have taken more than 100 disks, plus we would have had to install a Fibre Channel system and Fibre Channel cards just to meet our needs. It only took two servers with a single ioDrive in each to give us six times the performance we had before."
The Cost-Saving Multiplier of Consolidation
The cost savings AT Internet realized were significant, and include the following:
5 x 2U servers, 4 x quad-core 2.66GHz processors, 16GB RAM
9 x blade servers (in 9U Enclosure), 6 x quad core 2.26GHz processors, 16GB RAM
2 x 4U servers, octa-core 2.13GHz processor, 64GB RAM
Implementing ioMemory gave AT Internet the following benefits:
About AT Internet
Established in 1995, AT Internet is a leading independent web, mobile and social analytics solution provider. A leader in Europe in the field of online intelligence, its expertise and technology have enabled the company to develop unique and innovative solutions allowing it to measure web traffic, Internet user behaviour, the performance and availability of websites, as well as to manage a company's online reputation. AT Internet has approximately 3, 500 clients worldwide, including some of the largest companies and institutions in the world. With its Headquarters in Bordeaux, and thanks to its subsidiaries, AT Internet operates in 9 different countries worldwide including Germany, England, Ireland, Spain and Canada. It currently employs 150 people on an international level, with approximately 60% of its staff working in R&D.
سواءً كنت ضمن أكبر 500 شركة عالميًا أو كنت شركة ناشئة من خمسة أفراد، فإن SanDisk لديها الحلول التي ستساعدك للحصول على أقصى أداء من بنيتك الأساسية.
سواءً كنت ترغب في طرح بعض الأسئلة الأولية أو كنت مستعدًا لمناقشة أحد حلول SanDisk المخصصة بحسب احتياجات مؤسستك، فإن فريق مبيعات SanDisk على أهبة الاستعداد لمساعدتك.
سنسعد بالرد على أسئلتك، لهذا يرجى ملء النموذج أدناه بحيث يمكننا البدء.
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Did anyone see Rosenhaus last night in the press conference claiming that 7 other teams were really trying to get TO. Funny, becasue we never heard of any of those negotiations and we also know that Rosenhaus/TO can't keep their collective mouths closed. I think he's also full of ****.
People have been posting pictures online of a repainted McFarlane figure
I find it funny that Seattle thinks it will hurt the Vikings by throwing a 49 million deal at Nate Burleson and including a "poison pill". He's not worth anything near that amount. I would have liked to see him stay around, but Seattle can have him if they want to overpay for a number two or three WR. The Vikings get another draft pick, maybe to be used to get a higher first rounder. I won't be surprised if the NFL puts a stop to the "poison pill" deals.
Originally, I thought it would play out like this:1. Houston Texans take Reggie Bush2. New Orleans Saints take Mario Williams3. Tennessee Titans take Matt Leinart4. New York Jets take D'Brickashaw FergusonShocker
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PARIS (AP) — The Paris mayor's race will give the city a new leader for the first time in 13 years and is offering a chance to reimagine one of the world's top tourist destinations.
No one — neither Parisians nor visitors — wants a complete transformation. It's not by accident that Paris barely looks different from the 19th century, when Emperor Napoleon III came up with a grand plan for grand boulevards and low, white stone buildings.
But the two leading candidates in elections starting Sunday — Socialist Anne Hidalgo and conservative longshot Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, known as NKM among the initial-loving French — see room for improvement. Here are their visions:
The first subway trains leave around 5:30 a.m. and the last around 12:30 a.m — a frustrating schedule for people who come to Paris for the nightlife. Both candidates have proposed expanding the hours. The conservative's plans would match London's, where plans are to have the Tube run around the clock on weekends beginning in 2015.
Paris also has 10 abandoned subway stations — mostly unseen, as the trains hurtle through their darkened tunnels. NKM has a futuristic plan to transform these stations into public spaces like a swimming pool, performance hall or restaurant.
Paris turns quiet on Sundays — most stores are closed, and those that are open tend to shut down shortly after lunch. NKM wants to expand the city's relatively small tourist zones where Sunday openings are permitted and allow department stores, grocers and public swimming pools to stay open later. She's also in favor of expanded hours for luxury shopping districts.
Hidalgo, following the path of current Mayor Bertrand Delanoe and her Socialist Party, sees no reason to change a rhythm of life that lets many French workers set aside a day for family and leisure. But she's well aware of the dismal welcome offered by the Eiffel Tower, where lines stretch for hours, leaving visitors to bake in the summer or soak in the rain for fear of losing their place. Hidalgo wants to create an underground welcome area there and rethink how people visit France's most popular monument.
Both candidates want to improve access to green spaces in Paris, where parks and playgrounds are rare in some neighborhoods and gardens tend to the formal.
La Petite Ceinture — an abandoned railway from the 19th century — is now ramshackle and overgrown. NKM wants to turn it into a 43-kilometer (27-mile) cycling and walking path, like the High Line in New York. Hidalgo's plan is more elaborate, envisioning not just a green space but — in the tunnels — places for farming fish and mushrooms.
As deputy major, Hidalgo was already involved in a park expansion in northern Paris, part of a major redevelopment to move much of the city courthouse off the central Ile de la Cite island, which is overrun with visitors to Notre Dame and Sainte Chapelle cathedrals. She wants to expand a walkway along the banks of the Seine and the newly fashionable areas around Paris' canal district.
NKM wants to reopen some of Paris' closed parks and increase access to the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes, which have fallen into disrepair.
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Did you hear about the DREAMer who got a rude awakening?
Did you hear about the DREAMer who got a rude awakening?
The term refers to the estimated 1.4 million undocumented young people who might have benefited from the DREAM Act, which would have offered legal status in exchange for attending college or joining the military. The bill was scuttled in late 2010 by the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Most of these young people, brought to the United States as children by their parents, are wise enough to not draw attention. But a small group of activists, succumbing to the narcissistic culture of their adopted country, thrives on it.
These activists think of themselves as full-fledged Americans who can get away with the kind of in-your-face agitation that has been prevalent since the 1960s. But, as I have written, their arrogance and radicalism alienates supporters and puts them in jeopardy from a Department of Homeland Security that harasses the Latino immigrant community.
The activist who received the wake-up call is 25-year-old Erika Andiola, the co-founder of the Phoenix-based Arizona Dream Act Coalition and a 2009 graduate of Arizona State University. An undocumented immigrant, Andiola has been arrested after camping out in front of the Phoenix office of Sen. John McCain. She also picketed outside the U.S. Capitol. She appeared on the cover of Time magazine along with other DREAMers. And when the Senate spiked the DREAM Act, she joined a group of plaintiffs who sued that legislative body. For someone who is not even supposed to be in this country, and could be removed at any time, this is not what you call maintaining a low profile.
Nonetheless, Andiola's activism has also helped her establish a national network of friends, allies and supporters - one that, as you're about to see, can be mobilized at a moment's notice. That's good to have when you're an undocumented immigrant living in Barack Obama's America, where you can be on a magazine cover one minute and have to take cover the next.
DREAMers must have felt empowered when one of them spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. But who speaks for them when a Democratic administration tries to deport them or their relatives?
That's what happened to Erika's mother, Maria Arreola, who was recently arrested at home by federal immigration agents and hauled off in handcuffs along with Erika's brother.
The DREAMer was not apprehended because she has been granted deferred action and given a two-year work permit.
According to media accounts, Arreola was stopped last year by an officer with the police department in Mesa, Ariz., a suburb of Phoenix, and detained for driving without a license. Consistent with Secure Communities, a program that the Obama administration has been trying to make mandatory throughout the country, her fingerprints were sent to federal authorities. They found that Arreola was on a priority list for deportation. She had been apprehended in 1998, while illegally crossing the border into Arizona, and returned to Mexico. But she came back.
After the traffic stop, Andiola posted videos on YouTube of her mother being questioned by police and alleged that this was a case of racial profiling. She thus went from raising her own profile to raising that of her mother as well.
After the arrests of her mother and brother, Erika took to Facebook and Twitter to ask her network for help. She also posted a tearful video on YouTube to shake other DREAMers out of their sense of invincibility.
"I need everybody to stop pretending that nothing is wrong," she said in the video, "that we're all just living normal lives, because we're not. This could happen to any of us any time."
After a few calls from immigration lawyers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a stay of removal. The family has been reunited.
This looks like a happy ending, and the DREAMers think they're more powerful than ever.
But is this really the end? Arreola could still be deported at any time. And Erika's brother brought back a sinister message from ICE, which apparently has a file on the family. On a press call after the incident, Erika said: "They told my brother, 'We know all about your sister, we know about what your sister does, and you should get away from that.' "
Andiola's supporters insist that, if not for her activism, she wouldn't have gotten the help she needed to free her family members.
That's true. But what they conveniently overlook is that, if not for her activism, she might not have needed it.
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The Lehigh Valley's recovery from superstorm Sandy seemed to be proceeding slowly but surely on Wednesday, with streets coming to life and the area's electric utilities saying most power would be restored by the end of the weekend.
But the return to normalcy was overshadowed by news that the Valley's death toll from the storm had risen to five.
A 66-year-old Carbon County man died Tuesday of carbon monoxide poisoning from fumes from a generator in the garage of his home in the Albrightsville section of Penn Forest Township. His name had not been released.
In Lower Macungie Township, Tammy Kerosetz, 48, of the 3600 block of Schoeneck Road, died sometime before 8:30 a.m....


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Family Mediator - South Wales
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- £30000 - £40000 per annum + Negotiable
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- 22 Feb 2013
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We have an opportunity that may well be of interest to a Lawyer with experience in Family and Childcare law, who is looking for career development within a growing firm.
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The department is a Partner lead team with an existing caseload of wide ranging, private and publicly funded Family, Childcare, Matrimonial and Ancillary matters. Family Mediation accreditation would be a distinct advantage with this role.
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Republican strategists worry that Tuesday's election results indicates the GOP has a "demographic problem."
No kidding. Latinos turned out at the polls and voted for President Obama at a historic rate. At least one election eve report by the Latino Decisions blog indicates that Obama won 75% of that voting bloc, while Republican challenger Mitt Romney captured a mere 23%. (Latinos account for 10% of the electorate).
GOP leaders can't be surprised by those results. How could they be when they were repeatedly warned by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and others that taking a hard line on immigration was a dangerous tactic. Sure, that strategy might win Romney support among some conservatives, but it also risked alienating Latinos in key battleground states such as Florida. Nor should they be shocked by Latinos' rejection of their plan. After all, this isn't the first time Latinos have seen the GOP embrace such rhetoric. Republicans took the same approach in California in 1994. Led by Gov. Pete Wilson, the GOP threw its support behind Proposition 187, the ballot measure that sought to bar undocumented immigrants from receiving state social services and educational benefits. That decision cost the party dearly. It drove Latinos out of the party and has kept them away for nearly two decades.


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|Three Weeks at Wabash: 'Passion is for Pros'
On April 12, artist Zach Medler '01 opened his exhibit, 'Art from Where You Live,' at Crawfordsville's Athens of Indiana Gallery. Medler created the exhibit during the Gallery's open hours.
"I wanted to work when the gallery was open so people could see the process. I don't come in here with an idea—I come in with these materials, then I respond to the space, to what I saw when I drove by on the way in, to what comes to me while I'm here.'


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Holiday Quilt Projects
Deck your halls, walls, and beds with these merry holiday quilts. Whether you're looking for a jolly decoration to last the season or a special quilt to wrap under the tree, we have everything on your wish list.
Christmas Geese [1]
Flying Geese soar in crisscross formations on this red-and-white delight.
Patchwork Pines [4]
Contemporary trees and a bright color palette add cheer to a holiday wall hanging.
Deck the Halls [7]
When poinsettia appliqués and red and green patchwork team up, you can't help but feel festive.
Classic Christmas Quilt [10]
Use a variety of traditional holiday colors and prints in a wall hanging fit for decking the halls. Metallic touches and star and snowflake quilting make this a Christmas favorite.
Ruby Reds [13]
Scrappy red-and-white star blocks capture your heart in the throw. Cleverly mixed prints make three versions of the same star block.
Gift Giving [16]
Brightly colored prints, polka dots, and batiks capture the excitement of giving in the delightful wall hanging.
Tree Tops [19]
Brighten a wall and accent a winter scene nearby with a forest that truly is evergreen.
Holiday Blooms [22]
Fusible appliqué and strip piecing make the seasonal throw an easy project to finish quickly—just in time for gift-giving.
Deck the Wall [25]
Decorate for the season with a festive, quick-to-make wall hanging or table runner.
Vintage Ornaments [28]
Inspired by glass ornaments of yesteryear, this wall hanging captures a softer side of holiday decorating.
Twin Stars [31]
The classic red-and-white combo and traditional-with-a-twist star blocks make the quilt a winner year-round.
Christmas Remembered [34]
Columbian Puzzle blocks on an antique quilt intrigued designer Lila Scott. Her modern-day interpretation uses reproduction prints, offering a softer alternative to the traditional holiday palette.
Buy this pattern here [35].
Urban Amish [37]
Give a contemporary spin to a classic Double Nine-Patch block using solids and mottled fabrics in a limited color palette.
Snow Much Fun [40]
Two shapes are all it takes. This dynamic quilt is composed entirely of squares and triangle-squares in various color combinations.
Winter Berries [43]
Fool everyone with machine appliqué that looks hand-done on this simple but festive piece.
Polka Dot Fest [46]
Fifty-six red-and-white blocks create intersecting light and dark "dots" in this throw. A polka dot border ties them together.
Prairie Blossoms [49]
Use fusible appliqué and Snowball blocks in red, gold, and green for a festive lap quilt.
Festival of Trees [52]
If bold and vibrant colors are your style, complete this quick-and-easy wall hanging in time for the holidays.
Christmas Candy [55]
Floral fabric turns into holiday sweets when you fussy-cut pieces and combine them into kaleidoscopic swirls.
Holiday Sparkle [58]
Fussy-cut a beautiful fabric to star in the center of gemlike quilt blocks. Choose a holiday print with metallic touches for a throw that really shines.
Pieceful Pines [61]
Here's a wall quilt that's destined to become a holiday tradition. The dimensional tree boughs are quilted before the top edges are stitched into the seams of the background squares. Then they are decked with cheery red pom-poms.
Seasonal Stars [64]
Make your stars shine brightly with a metallic gold stripe and a punchy red print. The green print and white print backgrounds shine an even bigger spotlight on the stars. The red inner border and green outer border radiate festive cheer.
Half and Half [67]
A single star block split diagonally by color is rotated to create an intricate design.
It Takes Two [70]
A quick-to-piece, big-block quilt for the quilter on the go. Turquoise, red, and gray are a modern holiday color palette.
Spruce It Up Throw [73]
Assemble an entire forest of these easy pine trees in no time. They're simply pieced backgrounds topped with fusible appliqué.
Candy Cane Quilt [76]
Compose this fresh red-and-white wall hanging with various cheerful prints and a simple Churn Dash block.
Tree Time Wall Quilt [79]
Gather a variety of cool-tone solids for tree blocks, set the blocks side-by-side, and frame them with a narrow border to make a forest-inspired wall quilt.
Gnome Sweet Gnome [82]
Use fat quarter fabrics to create a cheerful holiday wall hanging quilt with festive appliquéd blocks and a pieced border.
Be Merry [85]
Step away from traditional holiday color combinations with this bright, seasonal wall hanging. The fusible appliqué design comes together quickly, leaving you more time for festivities.
Holiday Gifts Wall Hanging [88]
For a merry wall hanging, top blocks with whimsical, machine-appliquéd bows.
Icy Blues Wall Hanging [91]
Combine shades of blue, white, and gray to create a wintertime wall hanging that lasts well past the holiday season.
Holiday Double Nine-Patch Quilt [94]
Use holiday prints to give a classic Double Nine-Patch block seasonal flair.
Holiday House-Block Throw [97]
Use flirty holiday florals fabrics to construct a House-block quilt.
Stars and Tree Quilt [100]
Sprinkle 25 pieced blocks—trees, stars, and bow ties—among festive setting squares to make a large throw.
Holiday Churn Dash [103]
Give Churn Dash blocks a new look by stitching them in contemporary fabrics and setting them on point. You'll love the fast-to-sew method used to make this traditional block.
Folk Art Floral Wreaths [106]
With a casual folk art style, create a classic quilt with contemporary methods-fusible appliqué and machine-blanket-stitch.
Classic Two-Color Treasure [109]
This vintage red-and-white quilt uses just two fabrics for the star blocks, background, and binding. Make the blocks using set-in seams, and showcase quilting stitches in the setting pieces.
Buy this quilt pattern here [110].
Country Winter Ensemble [112]
Simply sewn, strip-piecing brings this cozy bed-size quilt together quickly.


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Late last night, residents of the East Village were risen from their slumber/barstool slumping to the sounds of horns, drums, trumpets and stomping. Boston Honk's sister fest of radical marching bands Honk NYC — is in town starting tonight.
And before you start pffft-ing up a storm, a few of us coincidentally happened to catch a few of these bands perform at the Cat Factory in Brooklyn and Church blew our minds. Then they all invaded the Village, apparently.
With more than thirty bands performing in and around the Veveritse and Jalopy Theater, Honk NYC kicks off tonight. You can catch Church parade to Jalopy from Atlantic and Smith St at 8.15 and Friday. (Video: Renee Rauchut)


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Retiring Grand County High School math teacher Ed DeFrancia was named the district's Teacher of the Year. Receiving the Employee of the Year award was Mike McCue, who has worked as a special education para-educator for the past six years at Grand County Middle School.
In addition, Carol Hoggard was named the district's 2013-2014 Friend of Education for her extensive volunteer work in the schools. GCHS math teacher Allison Brown also received the district's "Rising Star" award.
DeFrancia, who was one of the keynote speakers at GCHS graduation on May 22, was lauded for his 17 years of service at the high school, as an educator and as a coach. He also briefly served as an assistant principal.
"The way [DeFrancia] teaches makes students want to become better at math and in life," said Grand County Board of Education member Jim Webster. "He devotes many hours to help develop individuals to be prepared for life outside of school."
"Grand County School District will be losing a great teacher, a great man, and a great influence with his retirement," Webster added.
Hoggard was recognized for her many hours of service as a school volunteer. Her commendation, which was read by school board member Melissa Byrd, stated that Hoggard had logged 92 volunteer hours during the month of March alone, many of them spent reading with students at Helen M. Knight Elementary School.
"You can't slow Carol down," Byrd said. "She uses her artificial knee and rheumatoid arthritis as excuses for staying active."
Hoggard also volunteers for Moab Solutions picking up trash and recycling along the Mill Creek trail, as well as for Seekhaven, Grand County Hospice, and the Canyonlands Care Center, Byrd noted.
McCue was commended for his willingness to "help with anything."
"He is hard working and dependable," said school board member Bryon Walston. "He's positive and optimistic. He's easy to work with and kind. He never complains."
The district also introduced its new "Rising Star" award, and presented it to Brown, who just finished her second year as a GCHS math teacher. Brown was commended for her dedication and commitment, including many hours spent working with students in after-school tutoring sessions.
"She is the ultimate professional in every way," stated Brown's commendation, which concluded, "She is a superstar among teachers, and she doesn't know it because it is not about her … it is about the kids."
Retiring GCHS English teacher Richard Jenkinson was also honored during the meeting, as were various other employees who had reached five-year incremental milestones of service with the district.
"Have an enjoyable summer. Everyone get recharged and we'll see you in the fall," said Grand County School District Superintendent Scott Crane as the ceremony concluded.


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I changed the summary: Our lives are stories that interwine with each other... our destinies are all related to one thing: love. No matter if you believe in it or not, everyone has a soulmate, it just takes some work to find one. This is a story about Bella, Edward, and other characters of twilight series, including some visitors that you will simply love! Please read the sequel to this story: Love's Light *stephanie Meyer owns all, and im just a normal addicted teenager* (banner by Marauder by midnight--Thank you)
Bella is a danger magnet...and she's through with being ms. nice girl. Read through Bella and Edward's love, events that will make you laugh and cry, and get ready for some VISITORS!
1. Stop Screaming!
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I woke up in my most favorite place in the world, my love's cold, and hard arms. The sunlight seeped through the open curtains and ignited my little room and the world seemed to absorb my happiness as I turned back and saw my favorite sight in the world. My love, my whole reason for existence. My Edward Anthony Masen Cullen.
He smiled my favorite crooked smile and when my heart started going a million miles per hour, his smile turned into an impish grin.
"Good Morning, my angel." He said in his smooth, quiet, velvety voice.
"Good Morning Edward." My voice sounded raspy and kind of off next to his, but he didn't seem to notice things like that, which I was eternally happy for.
"So how are you this morning?"
"Um, good…I'm gonna go get my human minute really quick." I said, standing up. Even though he said he didn't think I had morning breath, I was still self-conscious.
"I'll be waiting." He said, making a statue of Adonis sitting on my bed. My own personal Greek God. I grabbed my toiletries bag off my desk and a set of clean clothes from my dresser. I ran to the bathroom, brushed my teeth and stepped into the shower.
The hot water seemed to be trying to relax my muscles but they just wouldn't budge from the excitement that was running in my blood. Today was a big day. A really big day.
I got out of the shower and quickly toweled my body dry. Stepping into my blue jeans and a dark green blouse, I turned off the light and ran back to my room.
But of course, my stupid klutzy feet tripped on the way. Before I could fall face down on the carpet and probably break my nose, two white flashes grabbed my waist and pulled me up. I looked into Edward's eyes and tried to slow my breathing.
"Thanks for catching me."
"Bella, honey, will try to be more careful? I really don't want to lose you because of an accident that could have been avoided." He said, smoldering me with his beautiful topaz eyes. My smile turned to a frown and I crossed my arms over my chest. I really didn't want to play "lets make fun of the girl who should be disabled."
"I'm sorry for saying that out loud." He chuckled in his bell-like laugh. I was so distracted by the sound that I forgot I was acting mad.
"I love catching you every time you fall."
"Well, you don't have to be so arrogant about it. We don't all have vampire reflexes. Although…" I trailed off suggestively. His face became abruptly hard and he raised his perfect eyebrow as if daring me to say the rest of the sentence.
"Although what, Bella?" His voice could cut steel, but I ignored it.
"Although, soon enough…I will." I said quietly while turning away from his face and making my bed. I thought I heard him say something under his breath that sounded like "so eager for eternal damnation."
"Ok, breakfast time for the human!" I said, quoting his favorite phrase of my humanity. It worked, he laughed and threw me over his shoulder. It was in one lithe movement, but I had to catch my breath after he sat me down on a chair next to the kitchen.
"So what would you like, my dear?" His voice still sounded pained, but i could tell he was trying to hide it.
"I want eggs and toast and orange juice. But I can't have that." I sighed.
"And why not?" he said curiously.
"Because, knowing me, and knowing what today is, it's probably just going to come back up in an unpleasant way, so I'm just going to have some milk."
"Bella, I don't know why you're so nervous, it's just a high school graduation."
"Yeah, easy for you to say, you have graduated like 16 times, and you don't even have to worry about tripping on stage…" I mumbled and stared at the floor. T
oday was going to be so scary, I didn't even know why I was going through with this. Oh yeah, I remember: Edward and me together forever.
"Don't worry, everything is going to be perfectly fine." He assured me and suddenly a ringing came from inside his pocket. It was his cell phone and it flipped open and flashed to his ear faster than I could even wonder what it was.
"Hello? Hi Alice…No, she's awake…I don't know if that's such a good idea…yeah, I understand, but she will be angry with me…fine! You talk to her and tell her, because I'm not going to ruin her day… whatever Alice."
I had the strange feeling they were talking about me. I narrowed my eyes as he handed the phone to me.
"Bella, you need to get over here now!" Alice sounded angry on the other line.
"Just have Edward get you over because it's important!"
"Fine, we'll be there in a little bit." More like a couple of hours...
"No, Isabella, NOW!" she screamed.
"ALICE, STOP SCREAMING! I KNOW WHAT THIS IS ABOUT AND I AM NOT GOING TO BE YOUR GUINEA PIG FOR THE GRADUATION CEREMONY!" I bellowed into the speaker of the little phone.
Edward visibly flinched and stepped back a step. I barely ever got this angry, but I didn't care! She is not going to force me to dress up and wear high heels and make this little walk to get my degree even harder!
"Bella, if you don't get here in the next five minutes I am going to get Emmett over there, and bring you here unconscious!" She sounded so angry that I cringed and sighed.
There was no way I was going to get out of this. I hung up the phone and looked at Edward. He was kind of leaning back as if I was going to explode in front of his very eyes. I rolled my eyes and chugged down the remains of my glass of milk.
"So should we drive or do you want to run?" he asked tensely.
He grabbed me and pulled me into his arms. When I still didn't smile he sighed. He bent down and brushed his cold lips onto mine. I closed my eyes and it took me about a second to throw my body into the kiss. I ran my hands up his shoulders and was about to twirl my fingers through his hair, when he noticed what I was going to do; he broke the kiss and leaned his forehead on mine. I took me so long to get my breath back that I felt dizzy.
He suddenly tossed me onto his back and tightened my arms and legs around him. Then we were running. We got there in about three minutes and I barely got to get off his back until Alice shot into the air and grabbed me. I screamed but she ignored me and almost threw me into her new yellow 911 Turbo and started to speed off on the highway.
"Alice! Please, Please, Please!" I moaned. We were going 120 miles per hour and my nerves just couldn't handle it.
"Bella, do you know what time it is? We only have 2 hours! Why did you wake up so late?" Alice said.
"Excuse me? I did NOT plan on going to Port Angeles today!"
"Then your crazy if you think I was going to let you graduate high school for the first time in an old outfit!"
I was sitting on Alice's bed, waiting for her to finish getting ready. I was already dressed in a ridiculously frilly, blue cocktail dress that had a ridiculously low neckline, and ridiculously high heels to go matching with it. Yeah, you heard me…it was ridiculous.
Alice stepped out of the bathroom in a gorgeous black mini dress with a halter-top and she looked like a runway model.
"Alice, I don't understand! If we're going to have to wear those baggy green graduation gowns anyway, why are we dressed up??" I never understood Alice; she was eccentric. But she was my best friend.
"Bella, don't think about it." She said firmly, as if that ended the conversation. She picked me up and ran me down the stairs of the beautiful Cullen mansion.
Everyone was ready and a huge banner that read "congratulations" was hanging on the wall. Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, Esme, and Carlislie were standing under the banner, patiently waiting for us.
I looked around as Alice let go of me, but I couldn't see Edward anywhere. "He is going to meet us at the high school, Bella." Jasper said, sensing my panic. They all drove to Forks High School and met up with Charlie.
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Derry teen suing Kingston YMCA camp over bike accidentBy Jason Schreiber
Union Leader Correspondent
August 01. 2013 8:29PM
BRENTWOOD — A teenager who worked as a volunteer camp counselor at a popular YMCA camp in Kingston is suing after he was injured when the wheel fell off a bike he was riding in an accident three years ago.
Aaron Wallack, 18, and his father, Steven Wallack, of Derry, filed suit against Southern District YMCA/Camp Lincoln in Rockingham County Superior Court earlier this week.
According to the suit, Aaron Wallack, who was 15 at the time, was a volunteer working as a counselor-in-training at Camp Lincoln during the summer of 2010 when the accident occurred.
The suit claims Wallack and other counselors were leading campers by bicycle to a cookout when the front wheel of the mountain bike owned and maintained by Camp Lincoln "became dislodged and fell off the front fork of the bicycle, causing him to go over the handlebars, impacting his head and face on the ground."
The suit accuses the camp of negligence, claiming it "failed to inspect the bicycle prior to its use on Aug. 12, 2010, failed to keep and follow a reasonable inspection and maintenance policy to care for the bicycle, and failed to adequately train staff to properly inspect and maintain the bicycle equipment, and as a result, the front tire of the defendant's bicycle became dislodged from the bicycle fork while the plaintiff, Aaron Wallack, was riding the bicycle."
Wallack suffered numerous injuries to his head, cheek, and lips, the suit said. He also received injuries to his teeth that required dental treatment.
Because of the injuries to his son, the suit said Wallack's father has incurred medical expenses and that Wallack remains in need of "substantial additional future medical and dental treatment and will incur additional medical and dental expenses for that treatment," the suit said.
The suit seeks unspecified damages.
Jeff Gleason, director of Camp Lincoln, could not be reached for comment on the suit Thursday.


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Bryant Walker Smith is an assistant professor in the School of Law and (by courtesy) in the School of Engineering at the University of South Carolina.
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.
Robots are already in widespread use in manufacturing and warfare. You see them increasingly in hospitals, warehouses, even homes. The mainstreaming of robotics presents a number of interesting puzzles for administrative, tort, and other areas of the law.
CIS has emerged as a national leader in exploring the intersection of law and robotics. Our staff has published on a variety of topics, including autonomous driving, the domestic use of drones, robotics and privacy, and liability for personal robots. We have held several events around artificial intelligence and robotics, including the annual Robot Block Party for National Robotics Week that draws thousands of visitors.
Bryant Walker Smith is an assistant professor in the School of Law and (by courtesy) in the School of Engineering at the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Asaro is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York City. He is the co-founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and has written on lethal robotics from the perspective of just war theory and human rights. Dr. Asaro's research also examines agency and autonomy, liability and punishment, and privacy and surveillance as it applies to consumer robots, industrial automation, smart buildings, aerial drones and autonomous vehicles.
Ryan Calo is an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law and a former research director at CIS. A nationally recognized expert in law and emerging technology, Ryan's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Wired Magazine, and other news outlets. Ryan serves on several advisory committees, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Future of Privacy Forum.
Patrick Lin is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, based at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he is also a philosophy professor. He has published several books and papers in the field of technology ethics, especially with respect to robotics—including Robot Ethics (MIT Press, 2012) and Robot Ethics 2.0 (Oxford University Press, 2017)—human enhancement, cyberwarfare, space exploration, nanotechnology, and other areas.
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Since the 1950s, the Long Beach Freeway has linked the massive Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to, roughly, the rest of the continental United States. Because much has changed in trade and traffic since then, California's relevant transportation authorities have decided that perhaps this freeway should change as well.
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I'm delighted to announce We Robot 2014, back at the University of Miami School of Law for its third year after a wonderful event at Stanford Law School last April. Cyberlaw is about more than the Internet. As Chris Anderson put it so well in another context, atoms are the new bits. I hope you will join us for another stimulating discussion of the intersection of law, policy, and robotics. Call for papers below. Be there, or be digital.
Should Google, a global company with intimate access to the lives of billions, use its technology to bolster one country's military dominance? Should it use its state of the art artificial intelligence technologies, its best engineers, its cloud computing services, and the vast personal data that it collects to contribute to programs that advance the development of autonomous weapons?
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the UN has just concluded a second round of meetings on lethal autonomous weapons systems in Geneva, under the auspices of what is known as a Group of Governmental Experts. Both the urgency and significance of the discussions in that forum have been heightened by the rising concerns over artificial intelligence (AI) arms races and the increasing use of digital technologies to subvert democratic processes.
The term "hacking" has come to signify breaking into a computer system. A number of local, national, and international laws seek to hold hackers accountable for breaking into computer systems to steal information or disrupt their operation. Other laws and standards incentivize private firms to use best practices in securing computers against attack.
Self-driving cars are here. More are on their way. Major automakers and Silicon Valley giants are clamoring to develop and release fully autonomous cars to safely and efficiently chauffeur us. Some models won't even include a steering wheel. Along with many challenges, technical and otherwise, there is one fundamental political question that is too easily brushed aside: Who decides on how transportation algorithms will make decisions about life, death and everything in between?
"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, allows that the document "concedes a lot to industry," but he adds that "it also reflects some mature thinking on the part of the DOT."
"It isn't just our interactions with other humans that could be affected. "I worry a lot about how we're building this world that's supposed to be for convenience, comfort, and speed, but in fact makes us feel like someone is always listening, whether they are or not," says Ryan Calo, a professor of law at the University of Washington who has studied the impacts of anthropomorphic robots on society.
""These rulemakings could matter a lot, and the devil will be in the details," says Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies automated vehicle policy. In other words: A lot might be about to change in the world of vehicle regulation. We just don't know what yet."
""There's wariness about the federal government's regulatory commitment [and] willingness to police the companies," said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina and a driverless policy expert. "Even more than the distrust in the technology, it's distrust in the companies . . . And it's even a distrust in the administrative ability of government to regulate, to act as a check.""
The ongoing development and ever-increasing sophistication of artificial intelligence (AI) is giving rise to some fundamental ethical questions: Will machine-made decisions always be transparent and stay within human-defined parameters? To what extent can users retain control over intelligent algorithms? Is it possible to imbue self-learning systems with a sense of morality? And who decides what moral values these systems should to follow anyway?
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In 2013, Elon Musk proposed an "open source transportation concept" of levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hour. It would be weatherproof, energy-efficient, relatively inexpensive, have autonomous controls. Its impact on urban and inter-city transport could reshape economies and families.
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing on Wednesday, November 16, 2016, at 3:00 p.m. entitled "Exploring Augmented Reality." The hearing will examine the emergence, benefits, and implications of augmented reality technologies. Unlike virtual reality that creates a wholly simulated reality, augmented reality attempts to superimpose images and visual data on the physical world in an intuitive way.
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In 2013, Elon Musk proposed an "open source transportation concept" of levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hour. It would be weatherproof, energy-
November 30, 2016
FLI's Ariel Conn recently spoke with Heather Roff and Peter Asaro about autonomous weapons. Roff, a research scientist at The Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University and a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford, recently compiled an international database of weapons systems that exhibit some level of autonomous capabilities. Asaro is a philosopher of science, technology, and media at The New School in New York City.
November 2, 2016
Peter Asaro (assistant professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School) and S. Matthew Liao (director of the Center for Bioethics at New York University) talk to Live Science's Denise Chow and Space.com's Tariq Malik about the ethics of AI.
October 15, 2016
On October 14-15, 2016, the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness in conjunction with the NYU Center for Bioethics hosted a conference on "The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence".


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Hultzen working toward Spring Training 2015
PEORIA, Ariz. -- As the rest of his Mariners teammates opened their Cactus League season on Thursday, Danny Hultzen had a different agenda.
There is no season to prepare for this year for Hultzen, the second overall pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft and a guy the Mariners once hoped could be an integral part of their pitching rotation by now.View Full Game Coverage
PEORIA, Ariz. -- As the rest of his Mariners teammates opened their Cactus League season on Thursday, Danny Hultzen had a different agenda.
There is no season to prepare for this year for Hultzen, the second overall pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft and a guy the Mariners once hoped could be an integral part of their pitching rotation by now.View Full Game Coverage
Instead, the club's premier left-handed pitching prospect is rehabbing from rotator cuff surgery in his throwing shoulder after a frustrating 2013 season of stops and starts was finally scrapped in September.
So now, Hultzen heads to the practice field three days a week, looking not to blow fastballs past opposing hitters and snap off impressive curves, but to play catch with a trainer from 45 feet away.
The former Virginia All-American and Gold Spikes College Player of the Year could feel sorry for himself. Surely this isn't the way Hultzen expected his third season in pro ball to play out after being ranked as the 18th-best prospect in baseball just a year ago by MLB.com.
But Hultzen prefers taking the positive path, so he talks of progress rather than pain. He speaks of milestones reached rather than opportunities missed. And he takes small pleasures where he can find them, as in being able to put on a uniform four and a half months after the surgery and taking part in pitcher's fielding drills with his teammates on the practice fields of Peoria.
Sure, Hultzen has to underhand the ball over to first base after fielding bunts or gloving ground balls back to the mound. But he's out there at least, a part of the game to which he's trying to return.
"I had the sling on for six weeks, which was a pain, but I'm feeling really good lately, and I'm glad I can kind of be a baseball player again and go out there and do PFPs, and play catch and all that instead of just sitting on the sidelines," Hultzen said. "My heart was actually racing a little bit the first time we went out there. Most of the time it's just kind of another day, but it was exciting for me, for sure."
For now, Hultzen's days are spent primarily in the training room doing rehab exercises and working out. But he's in a throwing program that will eventually stretch him out to long toss at 180 feet, then pitching from the flat ground before taking the mound for bullpen sessions.
The whole aim is to get Hultzen ready by next Spring Training, when he can start competing again. For now, the victories are of a different sort.
"There are little milestones every once in a while," Hultzen said. "The first day we did towel drills and my arm stayed on there, so that was a milestone. Then, we started playing catch with a tennis ball and I threw one and made it there. So that was a milestone. Then playing catch actually with a baseball and glove, that was another one. There are many more to come."
When Hultzen was healthy enough to get on a mound last year, he didn't disappoint, going 4-1 with a 2.05 ERA in six starts with Triple-A Tacoma. There is no doubt he'd be smack in the middle of the rotation plans this year for an organization that envisioned his arrival, along with Taijuan Walker and James Paxton, as three of the better pitching prospects in baseball.
But the shoulder problem kept cropping up and Hultzen kept trying to rest and then return before surgery finally was performed by Dr. James Andrews on Oct. 1 in Pensacola, Fla.
When Hultzen's teammates head out to start the season, he'll remain in Peoria for a full season of rehab work. Most pitchers who undergo rotator cuff surgeries say it takes 12 months to finally feel normal again and longer than that to rebuild the strength.
Hultzen again finds a best-case scenario in that his surgery fell at such a point that there was no way he could even think about pitching this season. Instead, he'll take this full year and then have four months more of offseason to get fully prepared for 2015.
"If it had been done earlier, it could have been a thought I could play this year," Hultzen said. "I know myself and I'd probably force myself to try to get through it and move things along too quickly, just to see if I could. Which is probably not the smartest thing to do. So the timing is actually good because there's absolutely no need to rush it."
That's Hultzen. Finding a silver lining. But the positive thinking can only mask reality for so long. And nobody understands how frustrating his situation is any more than the guy spending his days in rehab and looking at a long haul by himself in Arizona when his buddies are off touring the country and playing ball.
Is there really any good side to this whole situation?
"Oh, hell no," Hultzen said. "Absolutely not."
But Hultzen has no choice in these matters. So as teammates fine tune their craft in preparation for games in front of cheering crowds, Hultzen does what he can. He plays catch. And dreams of better days ahead.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog.


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Alleged Somali pirate taken back into custody
WASHINGTON (AP) — An alleged Somali pirate is back in jail, less than 24 hours after he was released pending trial.
Last Thursday, U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle ordered Ali Mohamed Ali released from custody. Huvelle said that Ali's continued pretrial detention — 28 months and counting — violates his rights under the Constitution's due process clause.
But the next day, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted a government motion to return him to custody. It did not provide a reason for the decision. Ali was picked up Friday afternoon, his lawyer said.
Last year, a different appeals court panel had ordered Ali back to jail after an earlier order by Huvelle to release him.
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UPDATED: The Phillies have confirmed the 3-year, $18 million deal with a mutual option for a fourth year.
"We're very happy to have Placido back in a Phillies uniform," Ruben Amaro Jr said in a statement. "He's a professional hitter who will enhance our lineup. As a Gold Glove infielder, we're very confident that he will make a smooth transition back to third base. Polly also gives us some added versatility at second base if and when Chase needs a rest."
Earlier: The Phillies have agreed to a deal with veteran infielder Placido Polanco to replace Pedro Feliz at third base, several sources confirmed today. The deal is expected to be announced once Polanco passes a physical, a formality for the durable former Detroit Tiger.
Polanco arrived in Philadelphia earlier today after the Phillies and his agents, Sam and Seth Levinson, hammered out the final details of the deal.
There's little doubt that the signing of Polanco represents a good value on the offensive side of the plate in the short-term. Had the Phillies exercised Feliz's option, they would have paid the veteran third baseman $5.5 million this season, which is $500,000 less than they will reportedly pay Polanco (although the Phillies did pay Feliz a $500,000 buy-out). In two years in Philadelphia, Feliz hits .259 with a .306 on base percentage and a .393 slugging percentage for a .699 OPS. Curiously, the power that he had displayed in hitting at least 20 home runs in each of the previous four seasons for the Giants disappeared despite cozier home confines in Citizens Bank Park. Feliz managed just 26 home runs in 2008-09, an average of one per every 38.7 at-bats, well below the rate (1/26.1) at which he hit in San Fran.
During that same time frame, Polanco bested Feliz in virtually every offensive category, hitting .295 with a .340 on base percentage, .407 slugging percentage, .747 OPS, 18 home runs, 130 RBI, and 172 runs scored while converting 14-of-17 stolen base attempts.
But the Phillies' decision to give Polanco a three-year deal may raise some eyebrows. The versatile veteran will be 34 on Opening Day, and his batting average, on base percentage and slugging percentage have decreased over the last three seasons, from .341/.388/.458 in 2007 to .285/.331/.396 in 2009. Plus, while Polanco won a Gold Glove at second base, he has not played third base since leaving the Phillies midway through the 2005 seasons.
The Phillies gave 46-year-old Jamie Moyer a two-year contract prior to last season. After a subpar 2009 in which he lost his spot in the rotation before undergoing season-ending surgery, the Phillies are now comitted to him at $8 million for next season. They also cut Geoff Jenkins prior to last season, despite owing him $6.5 million on a two-year deal he signed prior to the 2008 seasons. Their decision to give veteran outfielder Raul Ibanez a three-year contract last year also raised some eyebrows.


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The Diesel fuel filter may leak from the area around the heating component. Fuel may leak onto the roadway, increasing the risk of a crash. A fuel leak always increases the risk of a fire. Dealers will replace the Diesel fuel filter to correct this concern.
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A Diesel fuel leak may develop from the area around the fuel heater component of the fuel filter.
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Mercedes-Benz will notify owners of affected vehicles during November 2011. If you are experiencing a Diesel fuel leak, or you don't receive notification and feel you should have, please contact your dealer. It's helpful to have your vehicle identification number (VIN) when you call.


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Turn on with this sexy hi low sweater crop top that features a cowl neck and an arrangement of speckled colors to cozy up in. Pair with platform sandals for a high-esteemed look of luxury!
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Amelie from Beautiful Sweater!!! I am not big on sweaters but this one is sexy, different and I looooove it. I wore it with high waist leggings from Bebe and everybody was giving compliments. It fits perfectly.
Date published: 2015-01-01
Rated 3 out of 5 by Sommersprossen from It's ok I loved this sweater when I saw it, got it and the bad thing about it is that the sleeves are extremely long. I'm not tall and while the length of the sweater fits perfect the sleeves are super long and does not look like the model. I got it at the store for around $30 + tax and so disappointed that is a final sale. I will have to find a way to wear it. Sometimes Bebe has the sizes so weird, they should consider that not all girls are tall and skinny like the models.
Date published: 2014-01-04