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The recent goat example in my opinion is an example of a question that, though properly formatted, should have been blocked much earlier.
I know the question in some manner has been beneficial to the Stack Overflow community but the question and some of the answers could be perceived as just a way to garner easy rep.
The question however is a properly formatted API question but the answer is in the comments in the original question. Its clearly a joke API method and therefore the API has no valid use.
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My career change (which I'll elaborate more on in a future post) has afforded me two luxuries: less stress and more time! Clearly a win-win situation, which makes me a very happy girl! This new-found freedom if my day-to-day work-life has given me the delight of once again stepping back into the garden, albeit a smaller one, but a glorious garden none the less!
In my garden I have a small row of rainbow chard, 6 plants in all. Knowing they are abundant producers I contemplated cutting back and only planting half of them; however, being someone who is always up for a challenge, especially one involving the kitchen, I decided to go for it! So far I've received a thumbs up regarding my sautéed chard and I know this cheesy bread is sure to please his picky pallet. Unfortunately, neither of the former foods happen to be meal worthy. So, I started spinning my foodie wheels to come up with something that can stand on its own. That is when I started playing around with the idea of stuffed chard rolls! Stuffed Chard Rolls – yields approximately 14 rolls
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3/4 cup cooked rice – I used black Thai rice
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1 leek, (white part only) chopped
1/3 cup minced garlic scapes
8 oz sour cream
2 tsp pureed salt preserved lemons – zest and juice of 1/2 lemon can be substituted
3/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste
olive oil
Greek yogurt – optional
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Etihad Airways celebrates Emirati Women's Day
Etihad Airways has marked Emirati Women's Day by announcing that more than half the UAE nationals employed by the airline are women, including nearly 50 pilots.
Aisha Al Mansoori recalls being mesmorised by the aerial activity at Al Ain Air Show in 2007. Nowadays, she is one of those pilots, flying the largest passenger jet in the world.
"I fell in love with aviation during the 2007 Al Ain Air Show and joined Etihad the following year as a cadet. After qualifying, I started as a Second Officer on the Airbus A320 and now I'm a First Officer on the A380. I hope to become Captain so I can train other aviators," said Aisha Al Mansoori.
A total of 11 Emirati women are fully operational as pilots with the airline, while 38 others are navigating their way through cadet pilot training.
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The most symbolic of the events was a visit to Etihad Airways' Training Academy by ten longstanding members of the UAE General Women's Union (GWU). The delegation met some of the airline's Emirati female pilots, engineers and business leaders – bringing two generations together in a powerful illustration of the journey of Emirati women and the progress that has been made.
The GWU was established 41 years ago on 28 August, the same day now celebrated as Emirati Women's Day. The delegation was led by its first member, 65-year old Zulaikha AL Sayed AL Hashemi.
H.E. Noura Khalifa Al Suwaidi, Director-General of the UAE General Women's Union, said: "Such achievements would not have been possible without the vision, direction and unwavering support of H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women's Union, Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation and President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood. We were happy to meet ambitious Emirati women working across Etihad Airways, both locally and globally, in areas such as flight operations, engineering and management."
Mona Walid, Vice President, Human Resources for Etihad Airways and Etihad Airways Engineering, said: "Since Etihad's launch in 2003, the company has focused on attracting and developing both male and female Emirati talent. As we nurture the leaders of the future, we are committed to elevating Emirati women to the forefront of aviation to play their part in the growth of the economy."
The group also visited Etihad Airways' Global Business Service Solutions (GBSS) in Al Ain, a revenue accounting centre of excellence, where 97 per cent of employees are Emirati women.
On Wednesday 24 August, a media event was held involving a number of Emirati female employees of the airline. Amongst them was Khawla Albadi, who in her role as Head of Business Services, looks after innovation and technology across the organisation.
Of the more than 3,200 Emiratis employed by the airline, 1,661 are women – or 51 per cent. This includes the 137 at the award winning, all-female Al Ain Contact Centre, reflecting the appeal of Etihad as an employer of Emirati women.
Also present at Wednesday's media gathering was Maitha AlHemeiri – Manager E-Operations Support, who is working towards paperless cockpits and Reem Fekri, whose role in the Corporate Communications division saw her seconded to the Indian Ocean island of the Seychelles to assist equity partner, Air Seychelles.
On Sunday and Monday – 28 and 29 August – Etihad is holding networking events where Emirati female employees can discuss their careers with the airline's most successful female staff. Fatma AL Mehairi joined the events from Toronto, where she is the first Emirati woman within Etihad to be appointed as General Manager of a country. Arwa AlShehhi flew in from New York where she is Marketing Manager Americas.
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A General Electric-owned company is suing Apple alleging that its popular iTunes platform violated its patent rights.
SightSound Technologies is seeking an undisclosed amount of damages for Apple allegedly infringing on three patents relating to transmitting video and audio over the Internet.
GE, which owns a share of NBC Universal, owns 50 percent of SightSound Technologies.
Apple uses iTunes to sell music, movies and television shows and it also allows users to play back the media on the platform.
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Game #94: Blue Jays at Yankees pregame
Toronto (45-48) at New York (47-44)
at 7:05 p.m. ET at Yankee Stadium
Today's lineups:
Reed Johnson, LF
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Troy Glaus, 3B
Frank Thomas, DH
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Jason Phillips, C
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Shaun Marcum (5-3)
Johnny Damon, DH
Derek Jeter, SS
Bobby Abreu, RF
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Hideki Matsui, LF
Jorge Posada, C
Robinson Cano, 2B
Andy Phillips, 1B
Melky Cabrera, CF
PITCHING: RHP Roger Clemens (2-4)
NOTES: For the first time since Spring Training, manager John Gibbons said his pitchers needed to start paying closer attention to baserunners to help combat against stolen bases. The Jays rank dead last in the bigs with a 10 percent CS%. From the NY Daily News about the ninth inning on Tuesday: "Andy Phillips started the inning with a single and Miguel Cairo pinch-ran. Cairo exited the dugout telling his teammates and coaches, "I'm going to steal on the second pitch." He lived up to his word." Ouch. … McDonald was back in the lineup after sitting the past three games. … RHP A.J. Burnett threw on flat ground again on Wednesday, continuing his throwing program. Burnett might make it on a mound in the next week or week and a half. … And, somebody call Elias, there is a player with the last name of "Phillips" hitting eighth for both clubs.
entering Wednesday
1. Boston 56-37 (–)
2. New York 47-44 (8)
3. Toronto 45-48 (11)
4. Baltimore 42-51 (14)
5. Tampa Bay 36-56 (19.5)
entering Wednesday
1. Cleveland 55-38 (–)
2. Seattle 52-39 (2)
3. Minnesota 49-44 (6)
4. New York 47-44 (7)
5. Toronto 45-48 (10)
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What is Clemens' era at home to the road. Could you post that, I am guessing there is quite a difference. It seems like Clemens is a different pitcher in N.Y. than on the road. I watched his last start, Friday against the Rays and it was the only win for the Rays vs N.Y. in that 4 game set. Alot of his pitches stayed up and he got hurt. Alot of his strikeouts have come on the splitter this year. Jays if they want to get into that Yankee pen have to be very patient and work the count, get Clemens' pitch count up. If they don't the Jays will be in for a long evening.
Gibbons saying that the Jays will pay more attention to the runners. Is that a organazation descion? Is that Gibbons? Why wouldn't the Jays pay attention to the runners? Joe Kerrigan who is now the Yankees bullpen coach when he was a pitching coach and very briefly manager of the Red Sox did not want his pitchers to pay attention to the runners. I believe that is a DUMB strategy.
I know I said I was done posting here, but you folks have got to see this:
Read it, but then go back to the 2nd paragraph, click on "Alex Rodriguez".
That was hilarious Robert, thanks for the link.
I noticed that you mentioned in another post that there are a couple of teams interested in Glaus and you did say the teams that have been rumoured before. My question to you is from what you've heard/read who has the better offer ? I've seen the players rumoured to be coming over but I don't know enough about any of them to know whether or not it would be a good move.
Robert, I have a favor to ask, is there anyway of getting that picture turned around to see the backend view. If so, I'd personally like to post it on the NY site.
Hilarious-very well done
Now that is funny about the photo. Good stuff there. I certainly agree with that whole article. You have to stick up for your teammates, I don't know why Halladay didn't line up A-Rod last night. A-Rod is safe at third because the Jays don't even get there with this offense. Perhaps Marcum will do something tonight, I doubt it though. No sack with these Jays, you have to stick up for your mates. Whoever says otherwise doesn't know anything about competing.
enigma d 17,
I have not heard any names regarding Glaus. I have heard the teams like everyone else. Let me know, I would like to here them. I think this time of year is when the front office's of baseball make there $$$$. Last year J.P. sat on his hands and that was a major mistake. I don't know why they would not deal Glaus. It makes alot of sense to do it.
The Glaus trade rumors were started by a sports writer in LA. There's never been any substance to them at all. It was simply a reporter who said, wouldn't it be wonderful if Troy Glaus was back in LA.
As it happens, a number of our idiot sports writers in Toronto picked up on it-in normal fashion meaning two weeks after it ran in LA and then acted like they were really releasing something.
Just goes to show you cannot believe the press.
There's no substance to the stor and never has been.
I see even your home Boston site has asked you to tone it down. I hope you do the same thing here-it's clear what you're here for.
thanks good job.
robertlee,that was great all he was missing was the hat,Ithink your postings are important we dont have a ton of people on this site we don't want to lose any.
freedom,As you will read in the site robertlee posted when Gibbons sat on the bench when Glaus was called out by a blind ump that sort of tells the story.
I wonder if JP told Gibbons if they come back off this road trip with a bad showing he might get the axe.
Jordan when is your next Q/A is going to be.
gsumner—Safe to say it was AIMED at you there. I like to chat about baseball obviously, if I say anything on the negative about the Jays you take it personal.
I do believe you could see Glaus dealt to S.D. or either L.A. team, Seattle maybe.
so what are you here for-youre a boston fan, why spend time on our blog?
J.P. and Gibbons should be shown the door at the end of the season. If J.P. cans Gibbons all he is doing is passing the blame. J.P. has to look into the mirror and no further. He has done a very poor job with the pitching and nobody can say otherwise. Zambrano? Thomspson? Dave Stieb wasn't available, come on now. Jim Clancy? Jimmy Key? J.P. might do a good job with a farm system but he has NO CLUE on how to put a Major League baseball team together, NO CLUE AT ALL.
His remarks were not aimed at me-they were aimed at you-I only made two postings on the Boston site-and his remarks talked about clogging up the site-which is what you do here.
Bosox-why do you come here-why don't you just reside on your own site?
You ask a question about why I am here. It is about time you asked a good question or made a quality comment on here. Congrats!!!!
I live in Pinellas County, that is where the Jays train. I go to alot of there workouts and I alot of there spring training games.
They have some quality players on this team, not just talent wise but as people. Alex Rios, Vernon Wells, Halladay and Reed Johnson are quality peope from what I can tell. Guys that you want your kids to emualte if they look up to baseball players at all. I personally don't think they should but that is another discussion for another time. I watch the Jays so much so I have an interest in them. I am A Red Sox fan to the end but the Jays I would like too see them do well except when they play Boston.
How does that sound gsumner?
I found an interesting article that i'd like to get some thoughts on :
I can't remember the names of any of the players but they are supposedly 3rd baseman as well only younger and according to mike wilner of the fan should be major league ready soon.
By the way this is a link I like to check out every once in a while for my rumours:
on the left under mlb u can get any other team if you choose to.
Thanks for the link there enigma d17. For some reason I love this time of year for baseball. Watching what teams do or in the Jays and Red Sox case last year what they didn't do. Jays unload Glaus and they don't have to deal with his $$$$$ and his nagging injuries. Glaus is old body and it is not getting any younger. He looks like he would be a d.h. down the road.
J.P. would love to have Burnett walk away but who in there right mind is going to? Burnett will be a member of the Jays and J.P. will be getting the mail for Billy Beane again. He needs to get some pitching next year, there bats should be there but you need pitching to stop the bleeding. Look at Boston this year, there bats are asleep most of the time but there pitching is usually there. It prevents long losing streaks when you have the pitching. You need to have some bats though, pitching, defense and timely hitting that is a great combo to win. That formula will never change, salaries do but the simple things need to get done.
I don't think they should trade Glaus.
They've got to many players who you'd consider "nucleus" peices, to be rebuilding.
And if they're trying to contend now (obviously now is 2008/2009) than you cant replace Glaus' production.
Whatever you get for him will be several years away from helping.
I personally have no objection to rebuilding, trade Glaus for a younger 3B and a pitcher hope AJ opts out and use that money on Bedard if the rumor's about him wanting to come home are true, and aim for 2010? I guess (Doc's going to be on the decline soon after that), but if you're trying to contend next year or the year after trading Glaus doesn't make sense.
everything I've read indicates that so long as AJ's arm doesn't fall off he'll probobly opt out.
That's what the Toronto columnists are saying and also what I've read on espn.com writer chats.
You can deal Glaus and get some young player or players in return. Boston's Mike Lowell is a free agent at the end of this year and the Jays could go after him or get someone else. Glaus should be dealt and those west coast teams should go after him.
Red Sox picked up Suppan in 03 and traded Freddy Sanchez and he won a batting title last year for the Pirates so you never know when it comes to young players.
So why all the personal attacks? If you're really a Blue Jas fan, you wouldn't be here attacking all the posters.
Hey, nothing wrong with being a Red Sox fan, if we can't beat the Yanks, I become one as well.
But there's no need for all your personal attacks and insults. You consistently try to infuriate others here.
If you want, myself and a number of other posters can return the favor-both here and on the Boston site. Your choice!!
I guess my message is, if you want to post here, be polite and treat all other posters and our team with respect. This is a site for the Toronto Blue Jays, not the Red Sox.
If your motive is otherwise, expect some serious responses back.
And that isn't a threat like you had on the Yankees site, it's simply a fact.
I don't attack all the posters. You read what you want to read.
If you go on the Boston site give some good baseball knowledge like I do on this site. What is fair is fair. I don't care what response you have to me, call me what you want, your the one that will look bad not me. You can threat me all day and night gsumner.
What do you think of the Jays dealing Glaus at the deadline? What are your thoughts about what the Jays should do or maybe you think they should do nothing like last year. Any thoughts? I am looking forward to your reply.
I don't think Bedard is a free agent next year-is he?
I agree with you, trading glaus is not really mch of an option if we're going to contend next year-which we should.
Off the top of my head Glaus for LaRoach and Billingsly I'd probobly do, but I don't think the Dodgers would do that.
I think when it comes to A.J. Burnett the Jays are stuck and J.P. is to blame. Remember Burnett was always hurt with the Marlins and when he signed with the Jays he was damaged goods. He is what you call a coach killer. Also remember part of the Burnett deal is the Jays have to pay for limo rides for his wife from the Baltimore area to Toronto. His wife from what you here doesn't like to fly. Nice move there J.P. I'm not sure if you folks heard that one or not but it is true. I am not sure how many limo rides from the Baltimore area where he and his wife are from, I think 1 is too many. Any thoughts Jays fans?
I don't think the Dodgers would but the first names you don't agree on anyway. Ask for the stars and moon and you never know what a g.m. will do. Some this time of year become dumb and smart, J.P. could make a nice deal if he plays his cards right.
If you feel you have particulars on AJ's contract-post it. No hear say-prove it.
Let's either see the language of the contract-or an apology from you.
bedard is a free agent after 2009, to clear up what I meant is that IF you're rebuiling you 1)trade Glaus, 2) hope AJ opts out, and 3) get Bedard when he's available.
lots of player have stupid clauses like that, Glaus get $$$ for his wife equestrian business, Alfonso Soriano gets the best suite in hotels on the road ect.
also, if you're not improving the team in any deal for Glaus than why do it? personally I'd be hesitant to do any deal that doesn't look like a "win" for the Jays.
I don't think they need to make a trade only for the sake of making a trade.
gsumner, relax.
I don't have prof, because no team publicises the contract language, but it is public knowledge that AJ's wife doesn't like flying and gets a certain # of limo rides from their home to Toronto every year.
You can look it up for yourself on the old articles about AJ's signing.
gsummer,don't let this guy get to you not worth it if we ignor it,it will go away.
robertlee,keep glaus try to get beddard.
the garryguy,
Oh yeah! Definitly.
As far as I'm concerned you try to get Bedard irrelevent of everything else.
He's looking like an ace, you can't have to many of those.
I am going to add my 2 cents and since our money is almost par , it might actually be worth something . I think JP should have used the money he spent on Thomas to find pitching ,good pitching not the 3 the Jays let go already . I think like some other GMs ( I won't mention names again ) he got caught up in the euphoria of Thomas outing with the A's. There was no line up waiting to scoop Thomas up . He paid 18 mil too much .
The fact the Gibby didn't fight for Glaus when he wasn't out at second in Boston, bothers me far more than the fact Doc didn't toss a ball at A-Rod . What good would it have done to have Doc tossed from the game and probably fined and suspended. Sure they would have got retribution but they would have paid the higher price by losing their ace for yet more games.( I played competative sports for many yrs there are other ways ) When he didn't argue for Glaus, he gave his players the perception they didn't matter. How do you be a team with no leader ? JP has spent money unwisely and his pawn Gibby has no leadership qualities for this team . Having said this , I still stand behind this team and its players but I don't support the administration. This team needs to know there are people who support them. We all need encouragement not discouragement. I am going eat and watch what is left of the game…..have a great evening everyone……GOOOOO JAYSSSSSSSS
robert-you just made a critial error-you responded to a post I made to Bosox under the Robert alias.
You have multiple alias's. Now Bosox makes sense. You forgot to post under the Bosox alias.
Jordon I hope you just saw that.
Bosox is Robert-Robert is Bosox.
The Garry
No one ever gets to me-trust me. He's about to get wacked.
Actually it might be cheaper to have her take a limo than fly …..lol….ok food calls..
nowwatch how fast he posts under each alias.
He posts things without any proof. He does this to get us to respond. Don't take anything he says seriously.
He's a young man that needs serious help
Ah, no.
I told you this before, my email has been the same all year.
I'm smart, but look at our sentence structure and vocabulary. It's different. I'm not that smart.
I agree with everything you said, but from what I've read Thomas and pitching wasn't and "either or" situation.
JP offered 10mil per year to Lilly and Meche AFTER signing Thomas and was trying to get both, which means he had permission to spend all that money.
I agree he overpaid Thomas, but from reading Blair,Griffin, Elliot (the Globe,Star, and Sun writers) the Thomas signing had no financial impact on the Jays ability to get pitching.
Robert you are Bosox, Bosox is Robert. Anyone can set up 100's of emails. You just got caught, admit it and let's move on.
Robert-just keep the Boxsox alias off this site and you'll have no problems from me
Ok seriously.
I would laugh, but your veiled threats are disturbing.
no threats just facts
As I said no problem, just keep the bosox alias off of this site. I couldn't care less what you do on the Boston or NY sites-but this one is for the Jays-and Bosox does not return.
It ain't so garry.
gsumner thinks he's so smart that there could only possibly be 1 person in the whole world that disagrees with him, so he assumes that bosox and I are one in the same.
Yeah, garry.
The fact that bosox has dissappeared has me thinking that all you people don't exist.
it's just gsumner arguing with himself.
gsumner—starting trouble again. No shock there.
Halladay wouldn't have been suspended if he threw at A-Rod, there wasn't any warnings before the game. Line him up with a pitch at the ribs. If J.P. took the money he signed with Thomas and got a pitcher, he certainly wouldn't get much for a pitcher with that money.
Meche got 55 million from the Royals, Lilly 40 million from the Cubs and Zito 118 million from the Giants. To get pitching you have to grossly overpay to get it. Dice-K with the posting fee included 107 million or close to it.
It has not just 1 limo ride for Mrs. Burnett it is several I believe per season. Perhaps Jordan can help me out there. So obviously J.P. got ****** in there. This management of the Jays or a better word is lack of management. Another Jays season means another year without the playoffs and J.P. takes the blame on this one. Who hired Gibbons? Who gave Gibbons a contract extension? You guessed it, J.P.
He keeps calling people children, yet he's the only person in here who uses acronyms, like the ROTFLMFAO, that he keeps posting.
How many chances does thid team need 9 hits one run Wells come out come out wherever your are.
yes there were bosox, it was reported by the toronto beat guys that both teams were warned before hand.
To robertlee13—
Don't talk about gsumner–He is just starting trouble—
I like to talk baseball with alot of different folks on here and you are one of them. I like to read different perspectives because it is refreshing to here. Everyone is welcomed on any team's site as long as you keep it to baseball. Marcum coming up big tonight, a bit of a surprise to me. I thought the Yankees would have some mo heading into tonight's game after there extra inning and a comeback on top of it. Clemens sure pitches well at Yankee Stadium.
Robert you messed up. you forgot to change log ins and posted under Bosox.
The prrof is in the postings.
They were warned, what game? Why is it one game a warning and not the other. Monday night's game there was no warning. I would say go hard and spikes high into 3rd base but the Jays don't get there too often. There bats didn't clear customs or something along those lines.
The Garry
We are posting to the same individual-Robert and Bosox.
two posters-one individual
You're an idiot. And again with the acronym, who's the child?
No, bosox, the Jays were warned by the umpires before the series even started. It was a blanket warning that if they did anything their pitcher and manager get tossed, and the league office (right there in NY) would be involved.
robert-so you resort to calling names and personal insults. Why don't you just admit you messed up-keep Bosox off the thread.
There's proof in the postings above. Why not admit you error and move on?
Actually, I rally don't need an admission. Just keep your Bosox alias off this thread-that's all.
***** equals female dogging.
Nasty-the proof is in your responses-plain enough for all to see.
Hey Robert-no need to blow a gasket-just cut back to 1 alias here and get on with life
I didn't hear about the warning. Gibbons getting tossed would be nothing but a good thing, addition by subtraction.
Blue Jays should be up by at least 4-0, letting the Yankees hang around. That could cost them, we shall see.
Oh shut-up.
I'd be happy to just sit here and talk ball. But you can't handle it when people disagree with you so you come up with this nonsense about bosox and me being the same person.
10 hits-1 run, and 11 lob is not a good thing.
10 hits 2 walks=1 run do the math it dosen't add up.
Now, now, now, you're the one who cause the problem-you're the one who messed up-do not try to blame your mess up on me son.
I'm not your son.
Stick to talking ball, or shut-up.
Robert-this is not your first mess up, it's your second.
Time to come clean and be normal-know what I mean
Alot of guys being left on and that could cost the Jays. If you have a chance to jump the Yankees you do it, trust me on that one. I am a Sox fan and I know all about Yankee comebacks, they usually start with a cheap hit, a bleeder of some sort.
wow-nasty response.
You never responded in such a nasty form in your Bosox alias-what's up?
Jeter on first—he might be stealing second.
You know the funny thing is, I'm not sure theres any rules here about having multiple alias's like Robert/Bosox.
Shame really-most public BB's ofr blog's have those rules and once discovered the poster is eliminated.
It likley won't happen here
I think we should ignor bosox or Jordan is going to get mad again if he shuts down the site bosox wins and we all lose,just like the game.
bosox isn't the problem, gsumner is.
The Jays let the Yankees hang around and they are paying for it now. Just what I wrote earlier.
The proof is in the pudding. All anyone has to do is read what he has written.
What do you think of this game tonight? Jays squandered alot of chances and they are paying for it now. That is how I see it.
the garry
Jordon is a smart young man; he will read the blog and pick up what I did. Robert is Bosox; Bosox is Robert. The proof is plain as day in the postings above.
If Jordon does not want to or can not deal with this multiple alias, we have too. So no concern,Jordon is not going to shut down the site-believe me.
Hopefully he does have a way to deal with this guy, but I doubt that as well. All Bosox has to do is register a new email address and be back here in two minutes.
So like it or not, he has to be dealt with here-by us.
The Jays need a manager who can motivate the players, light a fire under them so they wont be so horrible in clutch situations.
My point was he overspent on Thomas and instead of chasing after him he should have been chasing down pitchers. I know what they went for and I know what Jays offered them . He made Thomas his first priority and that says one heck of a lot.
There were warnings given to both teams before the mondays game, so yes Doc would have faced a possible suspension. Try reading what I wrote instead of what you think I wrote. Like I said there is no inflection of the voice in typed words. I said I am not a fan of admin . You are so quick to judge here yet when I mention the ******** 70 mil Epstein gave Drew , you sure got quiet . Drew was only one of the many free agents Epstein has been enamoured with . We all love our teams
I will keep to myself how I think MLB has to keep the rivalry between the yanks and sox alive ….its good for baseball . The umps look through rose coloured glasses for some teams
robertlee,The problem is BOSOX this site was a good one until he came on here this guy is sick if you can't see that well whatever.
GIBBONS IS A JOKE is he going to use Downs until he runes him.To late for League when Marcum had one on then League not now.
You aren't seriously falling for gsumners bs about me and bosox being the same person are you?
Because I've never posted anything about the Red Sox.
You haven't quite got it yet have you. Robert is Bosox, Bosox is Robert. They are 1 individual posting under a minimum of two names.
With the $$$$$ that J.P. spent on Thomas he wasn't going to get anyone with that amount of money.
Your comparing J.P. and Theo. That is like comparing the winter in Toronto and the winter in Hawaii. NO COMPARISON. J.D. Drew has been a TERRIBLE signing but if his shoulder his hurt in yr. 3 the Sox can and will void the contract, that is all I can hope for. At least Drew is on the field while Burnett is watching like always. Burnett was born to watch not too pitch. If he could ever stay heathly or try to pitch thru pain he is very good but that will NEVER happen.
I was never a fan of Drew, he is gutless and not a gamer. Varitek is my type of player, balls to the wall. Reed Johnson is another favorite of mine. They would run thru a wall to win while guys like Drew and Burnett watch.
garryguy, you're forgetting what gsumner did to that guy with the company. Just because the guy disagreed with him and told him so.
And the fight he picked with me when I called him out on it.
Whatever, people need to stick to ball or shut-up.
Why don't we let Jordon be the Judge?
Of does that bother you-corsidering what you have posted tonight?
gsumner is one odd individual and Jordan will read and determine what he thinks. I like talking baseball with guys like yourself and indigo, even though indigo and I don't agree but that is o.k. with me.
squirm, squirm sqirm, you're not getting out of this one-regardless of how you attack me.
Your guilt is already public-you posted it.
And I've already given you a way out.
Just keep the Bosox alias off the site and you and I will be friends-no problem
I fully expect Jordan to be ticked-off about tonight and render an opinoin of some sort, which certainly could be closing the blog. I for one would be sad but wouldn't blame him.
What have I posted that makes you think we are the same person? Other than the obvious fact we both think you don't know anything about baseball.
Robert-admit it
It's time for the Bosox alias to go away anyway. I've seen some serious threats to that alias on the Yankee site.
Just let it go away
I've said it before I'll say it again.
I can't keep someone off of here who ISN'T ME!
The Garry
I will communicate with you on your personal email address.
Unless Jordon does something with this issue, I ain't coming back here-this site has turned into a joke with this guy
At this point I'm starting to think you're just trying to **** me off, so that Jordan will blame me for this.
Jays fall to 2-5 after the break. They are inching closer to the Orioles in 4th place and the Jays better look out because Tampa Bay is luriking as well. Jays bats are silent again. That is why they lost this game. They let the Yankees hang around and that is never a good thing.
Hey, the game's not over yet.
Robert-just so you know, I do have more proof than what you posted tonight. I've known for some time. I leave the decision of what you do up to you.
I expect Jordon has known for a while as well. In the end it's Jordon's decision, it is his blog. So what he decides to do is fine with me.
Ok, Enter the Sandman, *now* it's over.
Provide the proof!
You're wrong.
Aside from our opinion of you, bosox and I have different views of this team.
what do you not understand….. I never said he would get anyone for that amount of money …..lol.. His focus should have been on pitching not a DH ….forget the money …men can be so dense…..lol
You're tyring to scare/threaten/frustrate me into going away because you can't stand that I disagree with you, and I let it work for a few days.
No more. I'm not going anywhere.
I'll provide the additional proof to Jordon if he wants it-although the proof is already here in the postings and I'm sure he will pick up on it.
Of course, I will provide the same proof to the Yankee posters so ancious to meet Bosox.
Have a good night
I don't even know who I am anymore,bosox lay off indigo every time she says something you tear her down read what she writes it seems she has more brains than you my friend.with all this garbage tonight nobody else is posting,bosox wins again ignor him and he will go away.
Robert-if you are not Bosox-you have no problem if you are you do.
Of course-you have already admitted in postings here you are, so I question how you think you'll get out of that.
How's that for justice
J.P. signed Thomas for 18 million. Let's say J.P. did not, where would he have gone to for pitching? I would like to know. Tell me please. Lilly signed for 40 million remember. Lilly took the $$$$$ and said see ya. Don't blame him. Of course J.P. should have focused on more pitching but he didn't want to pay obviously.
What, where have I addmitted anything?
But, I do have a problem.
You won't talk ball or shut-up.
bosox, JP offered Lilly the same as the Cubs, he left because he didn't want to be here anymore (something to do with his fight with Gibbons, or going to thw weaker NL).
JP did what he could, short of giving out an even worse contract than the Burnett deal.
Bo , you don't discuss…..lol…. Its your way or no way . You feel Burnett's signing for 55 mil was the worst in 5 yrs . After months of speculation and numerous physicals , Epstein still signed a player who is prone to injury….certainly not a gamer , for 70 mil . In my opinion that was more foolish but i guess since only your opinion counts you may dismiss this post . You ask for opinions but don't accept them
I said they overpaid for Thomas. They should have taken that money plus everything else they could get and gone after a decent pitcher but JP didn't do that . He choose to give contracts to 3 who didn't fit in and are now gone . Lets just forget it . I think JP and Gibby should both go . Now seeing the moves Gibby has made in this game I think he has totally lost it
Burnett was a terrible signing I have stated that many times. When it happened and now and forver. Everyone said it was a bad signing. When I say worst signing in some years, pitching indigo. Chan Ho signed that ugly deal with Texas. What you say about Drew I agree with, I have always said that. That was another signing where both general manager's got ****** in. You don't read what I say. That is o.k.
What do you think the Jays should have done with there starting pitching last winter???? Tell me….I would like to know….Looking forward to your reply…I have asked before but you don't answer me for some reason.
It has nothing to do with the weaker N.L. for Lilly. Him not wanting to be there in Toronto and playing for Gibbons and a clueless g.m. might be the reason among others.
Why would a free agent want to play for the Jays? The g.m. doesn't know how to build a team.
Even though I assume you're talking to indigo,
I think they should have traded Wells for the best pitcher or pitchers they could get.
Have an outfield of Lind-Rios-Johnson left to right.
Rotation of Doc, Burnett, the guy the got for wells, Chacin, Towers. and due to injuries/being horrible chacin and towers would have been replaced (as they have been) by McGowan and Marcum.
True bosox, I'm just referencing the reason he went to Chicago instead of NY.
(I know the Yankees wern't willing to go to 10mil)
How about that for a hoirrible move? Igawa for 46mil or Lilly for 40?
Yeah, indigo.
I've got it bookmarked, best contract site there is.
It's odd that no "mainstream" (espn/fox/si) sites publicize contract info better than they do.
Igawa's money includes the posting fee. I believe his posting fee was around 20 million or more. Dice-K his posting fee was 51.1 million, how nuts is that? He might win 18 to 20 though. The Lions his team in Japan loved that check I am sure.
Meche for 55 million, this just in the Royals will lose 95 games with Meche or no Meche. If the Royals played the Sox they would win 95.
I have seen that indigo. Some of these guys that **** are cashing in BIG. Drew, Burnett come to my mind quick. I have ridiculed them enough.
indigo I think no I know you are right.gsummer pegged bosox a long time ago he says he wants to talk baseball but he keeps talking trash,check out the red sox and the yankees site he's on their blogs and all he talks is trash, oh he talks baseball then fills it in with trash.
So many postings…
I noticed, and became annoyed by two things today. First is our amazing 10:1 ratio of hits to runs. Holy eff, that's awful. I see Wells is 0-5 and has left 7 on base; Glaus is 1-5 and left 6. Great for our no. 3-4. Second, and more frustrating is the recent Jays' Notes highlighting our inability to pick off base-stealers or be stealers ourselves. Zaun has openly said he doesn't try to focus on base-stealers. Awesome. And Gibbons doesn't seem to be doing anything productive to change it. Fantastic. I don't know about you, but I was super pumped when Aaron Hill stole home. Eff, we should be doing so much more running and instilling fear of letting any of our men on base. But instead, we seem to focus only on our powerful (ahem) offense. Narrow-minded managing, if you ask me.
Igawa was a 26 mil posing fee I think, and a 4 or 5 year 20mil contract.
I don't know why I don't just check the contract site but whatever.
Yeah 55 is crazy but 103mil total (posting + contract) might be a bargain. Look at Zito's deal (he's better than Zito), and imagine what Santana will get assuming he doesn't sign a discount with Minn. He's not as good as Santana (obviously) but Boras is his agent, so he'd use it as precedent.
I've been reading what Indigo has been trying to say and I think what she means is that the Jays should have focused their attention on a pitcher or 2 (the big fish first) and if he addressed that then they could've turned the attention towards other areas (i.e. a D.H. or shortstop)Personally besides pitching I would've gone hard after a shortstop who can actually hit for a decent average (i was really hoping for Garciaparra sp? though I read of no interest from the team.) Thomas should've been an icing on the cake type of signing. If the Jays had addressed pitching first and then the shortstop then you go after a guy like thomas. Not to mention that DH is the easiest position to fill. The jays could just be alternating between Glaus, Stairs and Garciaparra (had they signed him).
With ALL THAT said though the pitching this year probably wasn't worth it. Barry was arquably the best out there and he isn't exactly putting up solid numbers for what he's making. His numbers werent very good against New york or boston either so that didn't help. Lilly has been the best bang for the buck this year and Meche is way overpayed so the options werent good. I was upset when Freddy Garcia went to Philly, i was hoping the jays could offer something there (trade-wise) but I must admit even he isn't doing so well either, in fact i might be mistakin but he might be injured.
garryguy, but why was it neccessary to say that?
If everyone will commit to my idea (talk ball or shut-up) than we wont have any big problems, if someone gets out of line take the high road.
Yeah, I know I'm a hypocrite.
A small added note: I think our inability to run is destroying our run production, exemplified by the high ratio of hits to runs. At 10 hits, you can afford to try your statistics and run. Instead, no stolen bases. Not even a caught stealing.
Agreed enigma.
I think Lilly is the one guy they should have tried harder on.
I know it sets a bad precident, but they should have fired Gibbons if that's what it would have taken to get him to sign.
Garciaparra was staying on the left coast, no Canada for him. I know what indigo is saying but with what $$$$$? J.P. wanted to do it the cheap route on the pitching, perhaps he was gun shy with what happened with Burentt. J.P. went to Walmart as opposed to going to a mall with some brand names. In other words he went the cheap route.
J.P. put himself in a bad spot because he was the fool that signed Burnett. He was given some $$$$$ to play with and had no idea what to do with them. Scouting for this team is so critical because they don't have all the money to throw around. He hasn't developed a good young arm yet. He needs to go and Gibbons as well.
Agreed Tower, but I think the bigger issue is our lack of clutch hitting (being horrible with runners in scoring position)
Ah, bosox,
McGowan (I know it wasn't his pick but still)
Janssen (Who I think should be a starter)
League (his pick???)
Accardo (brilliant trade for Chulk who was his pick)
No stud, but it's not as bad as some think.
I would agree about the lack of hitting but when push comes to shove you need pitching. Whoever is the g.m. needs to look into pitching. Deal Glaus away and get a couple of arms. Yu can get Accarrdo for Hillenbrand, you should get something for Glaus. Hillenbrand can come back and write the ship is sinking and boy would he be write.
I still think he should be fired though.
It's like Rob Babcock (former Raptors GM). He was horrible (like worst GM in all of sports history, horrible), but he does deserve credit for signing Jose Calderon.
Sorry if you don't know what I'm talking about, you could look it up.
Those guys are o.k. but Tampa has Kazmir, Shields and the number 1 farm system according to baseball america. They have quality young arms and everyday players. Jays, where are these arms????? J.P. has done a poor job and I don't know how he is still employed. He is the one that built this team and he is the one that is RESPONSIBLE.
Who cares about Babcock. Baseball here and baseball only. Worst g.m. in baseball is Bowden from the Nats. Think about it, he had Soriano last year and alot of teams were interested and he kept him knowing he couldn't afford him. What a genius move there. Schuerholtz and Beane are the best, J.P. was around Beane for several years but obviously he didn't learn anything.
I could have sworn I said JP should be fired.
Oh, wait . . . I did.
Clutch hitting thats an art the jays dont know about the same as speed.Whats the use of talking about what the jays should have done,What should they do now any ideas,from Blue Jay fans only please.
I think they should have dealt Chacin . I think he is injury prone and will always be on the DL . Burnett we have for a couple more yrs and nobody will take him . Marcum has great stuff as well as McGowan. Lilly didn't want to come back , that was obvious and JP should have seen that coming . The money they wanted to give Lilly could have added up to a bigger investment in Meche and if neither of them, then maybe take it all and shoot for Zito but I think he is due for injuries . My point was JP didn't try hard enough and the money he spent was not well spent.
I agree with you Johnson is my fav player….i love the passion he has for the game . Honestly, I think they are all overpaid . Its entertainment. How much money do they need . I know its a business but where is the love for the game , its all gimme gimme gimme
Pray, that is what Jays fans should do.
JP won't fire Gibby , he likes that he can control him
There is no way the Jays could have given Zito that kind of money. Meche would have been a good pickup. J.P. was gunshy I think about going hard after Meche and given him 55 million because of what happened with Burnett.
J.P. tried the cheap route, he bought 3 hyundai's as opposed to 1 lexus.
J.P. gave a contract extension to Gibbons before the season started. He fires him after this season, what does that say about J.P.'s descion making?
JP had to know he had no chance on the free agent market,Lilly could hardly wait to get out of Toronto,Meche was not worth the money and Zito 18 mil per What a joke,The only way was to trade,For who who knows but JP won't trade anybody unless they insult him like Hudson did.
lol 3 hyundai's as opposed to 1 Lexus; great line.
J.p. just said in an interview that he would be happy with Thomas getting in the 20's for homers. Give me a break. Anything below 30 should be considered a huge disapointment and it looks like that will be the case. J.p. I believe just said that to justify the signing.
Your right about that J.P., justify the signing. Put the heat on Burnett to take it off himself. Billy Beane needs someone to make his coffee, I heard J.P. makes some mean coffee.
bosox do me a favor go look in the mirror and ask robert what he would do.
Do not stoop to gsumner's level. Read what Jordan wrote the other night. Do me a favor and Jordan and all the other bloggers here. You have a great night garryguy.
Since when has Gil Meche been a lexus?
News flash. PITCHING IS NOT THE PROBLEM! Of the 12 pitchers on the 25 plus Burnett minus League, we have to pitchers with eras over five, and McGowan had a horrid start and hes only at 5.05. Our team BA however is tied for 10th with KC. How does trading Glaus for pitching make any sense. Other than catcher and shortstop, we have a hitting lineup that should be atop the league. I think we need a new manager, but outside of Girardi, who is out there? Ernie Whitt? Hmm, former catcher, bench coach, sound familiar. There are not many candidates out there people.
Never said Meche was a lexus. Certainly Thompson, Zambrano are hyundai's. J.P. tried the cheap route and it FAILED.
Jays bats have been quiet for some strange reason but when you have good starting pitching suddenly losing streaks are not as prolonged.
Some day some of you will realize that but it will be too late. Let's hope J.P. will realize it someday. You can have Sparky Anderson in the dugout but if you have a g.m. that has no clue in how to put together a baseball team it will not matter who is on the bench.
To bad JP and Gibbons didn't log on the bluejays website and go onto this blog. They might learn a thing or two. But on the other hand, they would probably say that we are crazy and don't know anything about baseball.
I dont know how much you guys have noticed, but its been a while since my last post. And judging by the stuff I see on here today, i am glad I have stayed away. Jordan works hard to bring these blogs to everyone and all we can do is trash each other and call names and other insults. Seriously…some people need to grow up. I was hoping to talk baseball, but now I don't know if I will bother. I am a Jays supporter 100%, so I will leave this site until I see some quality thoughts about BASEBALL on here….for some reason I think that this was intended for baseball talk. Who cares how many different emails someone has, and who cares who has different opinions. If you wnat to get personal and take stabs at people, create your own site. Leave this for the people that really seem to care about our Jays.
Thanks for all YOUR hard work Jordan.
The yanks have a powerful tool in their fan base and they utilize it well. The ruckous noise of the fans disturbs the concentration of some pitchers especially the rookies . Last night was yet another good example when Marcum broke down in the 7th and Accardo and Janssen the night before. You could see in their faces, the focus leaving when the fans started . They are not use to that constant noise, it has to rattle them . Hopefully they will learn from it and maybe we as fans, need to help condition them to it, not to mention the added benefit of letting them feel fan support.
As for making changes to this team , as fans we are innocuous
Jordan you do a great job , thank you
Take care all


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Title text: Sure, we could stop dictators and pandemics, but we could also make the signs on every damn diagram make sense.
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Aside from uniting most of his country against Britain's rule, he was also a model of a renaissance man: an author, printer, musician, politician, postmaster, inventor, scientist, and diplomat. Some of his legacies include bifocals, the Franklin stove, an odometer for a horse-drawn carriage, the almanac, and abolitionist ideals. He has since been honored with the use of his image on the $100 bill.
Franklin also did several experiments regarding electricity, and invented the lightning rod. He discovered the fundamentals of electricity, including positive and negative charges, as well as the principle of conservation of charge. When Franklin first wrote down his notes for electricity, he defined a positive charge as one left on a glass rod by rubbing it with silk, and a negative charge as one left on rubber by rubbing it with fur. Without realizing it, this meant that he had assigned a negative value to the charge on the electron, later identified as the fundamental carrier of electrical charge.
In an electrical circuit, we envisage the charge to be flowing from positive to negative. This is analogous to energy flowing from a region of high temperature to one of low temperature, or a fluid moving from an area of high pressure to one of low pressure. However, because an electron is negatively charged, the actual flow of electrons is in the opposite direction, from negative to positive. This reversal of the natural expectation has caused unnecessary confusion to many fledgling engineers.
In the comic, the invention of a time machine was commissioned with the intent of preventing a robot apocalypse. However, the Cueball that built and used the machine is an electrical engineer with misplaced priorities, believing that reversing Franklin's "mistake" takes precedence over eliminating a more immediate threat to the human race.
Cueball tells Franklin that the charge left on a glass rod by rubbing it with silk should be the negative charge, not the positive charge, because the friction removes electrons from the rod. This would not have been intuitive to Franklin, because the electron had not as of yet been discovered. Yet by telling Franklin to reverse the positive and negative conventions, this would ultimately result in an alternate universe where electrons are assigned a positive charge. One can only speculate what other changes this reversal of convention would lead to, as small changes tend to cascade into huge ones. Would the positron have been instead named the negatron? And would this affect the success of the Transformers franchise?[citation needed]
In the title text, Cueball defends his actions, claiming that correcting the signs on "every damn diagram" is more important than preventing the rise of atrocity-committing autocrats and deadly diseases. Cueball is likely voicing Randall's own frustration with this breach of logic, albeit exaggerated to comedic levels.
- [Cueball steps out of rift. Benjamin Franklin is sitting at his desk with quill and parchment.]
- Cueball: Benjamin Franklin?
- Franklin: Yes?
- Cueball: I bring a message from the future! I don't have much time.
- Franklin: What is it?
- Cueball: The convention you're setting for electric charge is backward. The one left on glass by silk should be the negative charge.
- We were going to use the time machine to prevent the robot apocalypse, but the guy who built it was an electrical engineer.
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The explanation is backwards. Current is defined as the flow of *positive* charge, thus moving from positive to negative terminals. In most cases, the current is actually electrons, which are moving from the negative terminals to the positive. 22.214.171.124 16:48, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
- Hopefully fixed. This was hard to write clearly. 126.96.36.199 01:43, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I might be completely mistaken but I've thought that the reason why the positive and negative terminals are assigned as they are originated from observing the electric current passing through the solutions of salt. In the said solutions the current consists of the positively charged ions that get deposited onto the negative electrode, while the positive electrode slowly dissolves. This naturally makes one think that the electric current carries the charged particles from the positive to the negative electrode. Of course it might be that I've completely forgotten what I've been taught in school and gotten everything wrong. 126.96.36.199 01:50, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
In a circuit, it is the electrons, or the negative charges, that are actually travelling. The positive charges, the nuclei of the material carrying the current, remain fixed. This is opposite to the definition of current, which is defined as the flow of positive charge. In other words, the particles that we define as flowing in a current are not the ones that actually move. Confusing, right? I think what you may be referring to is when a salt solution undergoes electrolysis, the anions (negatively charged part of the salt) travel to the anode (positively charged electrode), and the cations (positively charged particles) travel to the cathode (negatively charged electrode). 126.96.36.199 06:03, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Do the same thing with dating conventions, Venerable Bede, and 0 AD. :-) 188.8.131.52 23:25, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Ben Franklin just decided to call two opposing charges positive and negative. Blame the guy who decided electrons should be considered negative and protons should be considered positive.184.108.40.206 03:28, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Up until Franklin's experiments with electricity, there was debate as to whether electricity came in two forms, vitreous, as in a glass rod rubbed with silk, and resinous, which other experiments before him was shown to be the one in the rubber rubbed with fur (or amber rubbed with fur, hence the name). Franklin felt there was a single "fluid" which flowed to produce an electric current. He felt that when an object such as the glass rod had an excess of this fluid, it was "positive", and when there was a deficiency of this fluid, the object was "negative". Current flow was the flow of a region of excess "fluid" to a region deficient in it. Unfortunately what actually flowed was electrons and the glass rod form contained excess electrons, not a deficiency of the positively charged fluid. Therefore, HE was the one who started the convention of calling electrons positive.184.108.40.206 03:47, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
- What we need here is a time machine so we won't waste too much time arguing. -- Weatherlawyer (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Wait, I interpereted it completely differently. What if Cueball thought that the Apocalyptic Inventor went evil out of rage over the charge confusion? Trying to make sure that the guy's reason for going evil counts as averting the apocalypse. -[VectorLightning the guest]
At the risk of stating the obvious, the scene is a joke on Terminator (where a time machine was used to fight a robot apocalypse). The time-travelling cueball appears in a Terminator-like bolt. Mountain Hikes (talk) 03:48, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- No, in no way is this even close to the Terminator time travel scenes. 188.8.131.52 14:22, 6 March 2016 (UTC)


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Ex-reality TV dad Jon Gosselin, whose booze-fueled nights out on the town are well-documented, confessed his maturity level has plunged in recent months.
"I went from 32 to 23," he said. "My therapist has told me that. My therapist told me I went from 32 to 23."
In a segment taped for "The Insider" set to air Thursday, Gosselin admitted he's going through a wild phase and said he's trying to do what's best for his kids by halting production of the TLC reality show that would focus on them.
"I don't care if [my kids] hate me, because I know what is best for my kids," he said. "I will pull them off [the show]."
He and Kate were due in court this morning over the $230,000 Jon allegedly took out of their joint account but the hearing was delayed until next week because the judge's wife died, according to gossip site TMZ.com.
The father of eight was spotted throughout the summer sipping suds with a bevy of blondes and is now dating 22-year-old Hailey Glassman, the daughter of soon-to-be-ex wife Kate's tummy tuck surgeon. He confessed he's going through a rebellious phase.
The divorcing dad also got an earfull from "Real Housewives of New York City" star Bethenny Frankel, who ripped into Gosselin for allowing his kids to be on the show in the first place.
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Václav Janeček
After graduating from the Dance Conservatory, Václav Janeček studied dance pedagogy at the Academy of Performing Arts and subsequently for a doctorate in aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts at CharlesUniversity in Prague. His habilitation thesis was on the theme of innovation of classical dance technique. Since 1993 he has taught classical dance technique and methodology at the Dance Department of the Academy of Performing Arts, and since 2012 has headed the department.
Václav Janeček has been a dramaturge of the Czech National Ballet in Prague for a number of years. He has also been a dramaturge of the Laterna magika company, for which he still works as a pedagogue, ballet master and assistant choreographer. Previously, he was a Laterna magika soloist.
His extensive publication activities include four books (Classical Dance Methodology for ArtSchools; Echoes of Dance; Body and Dance; Laterna magika, or A Theatre of Miracles) and about ninety specialist and popular essays, articles, personality profiles, interviews, editorials and specialist reflections. He has created or co-created several dance and ballet projects, scripts and television documentaries pertaining to Laterna magika (the productions Graffiti, Argonauts, Cocktail 008, and Code 58.08, the exhibition titled Laterna magika – A Multi-Visual Phenomenon, etc.) and the National Theatre in Prague (Ballet Mania, Americana II-III, Faust, etc.).
Václav Janeček's artistic, specialist and educational activities also include occasional work for public and private universities, academic senates of the Academy of Performing Arts, as a member of grant committees of Prague City Council and the Ministry of Culture of the CzechRepublic, and as a visiting pedagogue in Czech and foreign ensembles.


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In the winter of 1968, Krishna Das met spiritual seeker Ram Dass and was enthralled by the stories of his recent trip to India, where he met the legendary guru Neem Karoli Baba. Soon thereafter, he left behind his dreams of being a rock 'n' roll star and was on his way to India to meet this remarkable man. In the three years he spent there with Neem Karoli Baba, Krishna Das's heart was drawn to the practice of Bhakti Yoga—the yoga of devotion—and especially to the practice of kirtan (chanting the Names of God). Krishna Das returned to the United States and began developing his signature chanting style, fusing traditional kirtan structure with Western harmonic and rhythmic sensibilities. He continues to travel the world leading call-and-response kirtans and sharing this deep, experiential practice with thousands of people. Website: www.KrishnaDas.com
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Caden wasn't sure how he arrived at the park; his feet had walked themselves there. He sat on a park bench feeling empty and worthless. In front of him sat an old Chinese stove, but he gave it little thought.
He'd lost Caroline for real this times and Caden didn't know how to get her back. Lyrics from the song playing in the pub as she walked away from him, were on a continuel loop in his mind; she loved that song. He sighed, begging his mind to forget the painful lyrics.
"She's imperfect but she tries, she is good but she lies. She is hard on herself, she is broken and won't ask for help. She is messy but she's kind, she's is lonely –most of the time. She is all of this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pie; she is gone but she used to be mine."
Caden hadn't ever felt so low. What did a man do when the woman he thought he'd stay with forever disappeared and wouldn't talk to him?
No one seemed to know where Caroline was. He had almost cried in front of her Dad saying he only wanted to apologize and win her back. Caroline's Dad patted Caden on the back saying,"Things will get better soon."
Caden stared at the odd Chinese Stove wondering what its purpose was. He attempted to distract himself with the stove as the lyrics from that damn song floated back to him:
"If I'm honest I know I would give it all back for a chance to start over and rewrite an ending or two. For the girl that I knew who'll be reckless just enough, who'll get hurt but, who learns how to toughen up when she's bruised . . . she is gone but she used to be mine."
Caden pressed his hands against his ears, trying to block the words out.
Suddenly, Caroline was standing in front of him, "How did you get here?" He asked her.
She gazed at him, "You look horrible Caden. Did I do that to you?"
He gasped shocked at seeing her, truly there now sitting beside him. Caden couldn't hold back, he cried into Caroline's neck as she stroked his hair; he held onto her tightly.
"I thought you would never forgive me," he said.
"It's alright," she crooned to him, "I'm not leaving you ever again."
Caroline was still Caden's girl.
Sara Barielles – "She Used to Be Mine"
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While putting together our recent series of posts looking at how major brands use the four main social networks I've somehow managed to overlook Coca-Cola, so today I have rectified that startling omission.
Coca-Cola is one of those instantly recognisable brands that would rake in fans and followers without even trying, so it's to its credit that it has active accounts across the social web.
So, here's a quick look at how it uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+.
By way of comparison, check out our other posts that take a similar look at other brands including Red Bull, Cadbury, Microsoft, Walmart and Nike…
Coca-Cola has attracted 63 million fans to its main Facebook page, which isn't that surprising as it's one of the most recognisable brands in the world.
And one of the privileges that comes with its international celebrity is the ability to leave its Facebook page unattended for long periods of time.
While other consumer brands such as ASOS and Red Bull push out several updates per day in order to keep their fans interested, Coca-Cola often goes more than a week without posting anything.
Starbucks enjoys a similar position to Coca-Cola and has around 30 million fans and a huge amount of on-page engagement despite the fact that it rarely posts any updates.
Furthermore, as Coca-Cola doesn't have its own stores its social strategy isn't focused on driving people to its shops or to an ecommerce platform.
Instead it's all about maintaining the brand image and raising awareness of its ad campaigns.
For example, most of the updates this year have been to promote Coke's polar bear adverts as well as the company's charity work to help the Arctic.
Similarly, in the past 12 months the company has used its Facebook pages to publicise its Olympics and Euro 2012 ad campaigns.
The social team also pose questions and run polls fairly often, however images yield a far better response from fans in terms of comments and 'likes'.
Compared to a number of other brands I've looked at the level of engagement on Coca-Cola's page is actually quite low. It generally attracts a few thousand 'likes' and a couple of hundred comments on each post, but Nike and Starbucks frequently clock up tens of thousands of 'likes' and thousands of comments.
Coca-Cola also has a number of Facebook apps, including one called 'When will happiness strike' that is basically a video reel of its ads and another called 'Ahh Giver' that allows users to send a personalised message and a free Coke to a Facebook friend.
Coca-Cola also has Facebook pages for its other products such as Diet Coke and Coke Zero, however these have far fewer fans.
Interestingly, the Diet Coke page has attracted two million 'likes' by posting daily updates of fashion content and pictures of the Diet Coke man. However the Coke Zero page has 4.2 million fans despite the fact that it is generally updated only a few times per month.
This disparity could possibly be something to do with Coca-Cola's use of global pages, as at the moment it appears that you see different content depending on your location.
For example, the updates on the main Coke page talk about the London Olympics being in "our back yard", but presumably users in other countries see different content.
Therefore it could be that the Coke Zero page is far more active in other regions which has helped it to attract so many fans.
As is common with most global brands, Coca-Cola has separate Twitter feeds for each of the local markets in which it operates.
It also has dedicated pages for various products and sub-brands, including Diet Coke, Coke Zero, its racing teams, and the company's long-deceased founder Doc Pemberton.
The main Twitter feed has just over 700,000 followers and has tweeted more than 75,000 times, which makes it among the most active brands I've looked at.
The social team rarely post any straightforward marketing messages and instead primarily use Twitter to respond to @mentions.
It responds to a huge number of mentions each day, including complaints, follow requests, compliments and general chitchat. And the social team even has a Spanish speaker among the ranks.
Overall I'm a fan of Coca-Cola's Twitter feed as it is used as a way of communicating with customers rather than simply pushing out marketing messages.
That said, there are probably still hundreds of @mentions going unanswered which Coca-Cola could probably address by adding more staff to the social or customer service teams.
The Diet Coke feed adopts a very different approach and is mainly used for tweeting marketing messages, asking questions, and spouting inspirational quotes.
It does respond to occasional @mentions, but never really more than about five per day.
As with the Facebook page, the brand messaging is aimed squarely at women and I feel it is missing a trick by not being more active in responding to other users.
It has a clearly defined audience and could easily use Twitter to communicate with its customers and increase brand loyalty, however it prefers instead to use it primarily as a broadcast tool.
As a comparison, the Nike Running feed gives training and product advice to hundreds of people per day, so there's no reason why Diet Coke couldn't offer fashion and lifestyle tips in keeping with its brand positioning.
The Doc Pemberton feed is also a decent example of how to use Twitter for customer engagement rather than overt marketing.
It's a quirky, entertaining account that tweets the pretend musings of the man who invented Coca-Cola's back in 1886.
Whoever controls it gives light-hearted responses to a good number of @mentions, which helps to soften Coke's glossy, corporate image.
Coca-Cola's Pinterest account is really quite interesting as there's only one board that relates to a specific Coca-Cola ad campaign, while the others are all images that focus on a random theme.
The one brand-related board is called 'Olympic Games Moments' and includes loads of images depicting Coca-Cola's sponsorship of the event, all of which link to official Coca-Cola sites.
It's the kind of thing that's fairly typical of major brands on Pinterest and is by far the least interesting of its six boards.
The other five are themed around vague topics such as 'Be Together', 'Keep Discovering' and 'Be Active'. They include some great photos, all of which are taken form Flickr so none of it links back to Coca-Cola's own websites, which is a trap that many brands fall into.
And while all of the images are in someway related to the overall theme, many of them also include Coke bottles.
Some were created specifically for Coca-Cola but most appear to be pictures from random Flickr accounts, which means there are a large number of people out there who like to take photos that look like Coca-Cola adverts. Several of them even come from people's weddings.
It's a great idea by Coca-Cola to collate all of these images into one place and presumably the people who took them will be pleased that the company has noticed their efforts, but I find it slightly odd that anyone would want to take such a photo just for their own pleasure.
There is also a Diet Coke Pinterest account that has 3,400 followers, slightly more than the Coca-Cola page.
It has nine boards that are largely brand related, but it does a good job of collating content posted on other networks and websites by its fans.
In some cases the social team has also taken the time to ask permission before repinning photos from Instagram or Twitter.
The social team also ran a Pinterest competition last year, which is becoming a common tactic for driving up awareness and followers.
Entrants could win a trip to New York during Fashion Week by creating a new board and pinning four autumn fashion images using the hashtag #TakeMeToNYC.
A quick search revealed that there are just 54 boards named after the hashtag, however as Diet Coke didn't actually stipulate what the board had to be named it's possible that there are more entries.
Overall, neither of the accounts I looked at is particularly active as they've only pinned around 120 images each, but they've taken the time to find quality images that other people have posted to demonstrate their affinity for Coca-Cola and Diet Coke.
And as a result they've got some really creative, interesting boards and images that other users will want to share and that will go some way to deepening people's brand loyalty.
During the first half of 2012 Coca-Cola maintained a fairly active Google+ page and posted updates every few days, but following the Olympics that seems to have tailed off and it now goes weeks and sometimes months without posting anything.
It has more than 800,000 followers, but as with most brands the level of user engagement on the page is really low when compared to Facebook, with only a few hundred +1s and comments on each update.
It's generally quite unremarkable other than the fact that Coca-Cola has experimented with Hangouts several times, which I feel is really the only interesting feature that G+ currently offers.
In the past 12 months it has hosted Hangouts with one of Coke's 'super fans', the Coke racing team and singer Jason Derulo, which offers fans a unique opportunity to engage with the brand beyond the usual +1s and 'likes'.
In contrast, Diet Coke's page is somewhat less impressive…
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Recently, we decided to tackle my son's bedroom. We wanted to replace the old worn out carpet with new "click" laminate flooring from IKEA. We also wanted to add some Environ II™ (EVII) floor heating because the room sits right over top of the garage. I decided to recruit some friends to help. The first step was to remove the old carpet and padding. Once removed, the plywood subfloor was exposed, so we did some additional cleanup and removed staples and tack strip. Next, we used a pry bar to carefully remove all baseboards and trim located at floor level.
We decided to add a layer of cork over top of the subfloor to act as insulation. To lay the cork, we divided the room in sections and pre-cut the roll of cork to fit each section. Next, we applied an 1/8" thick layer of latex thinset to the subfloor to hold the cork in place. Then we placed the cork pieces on top, one at a time.
Once the cork was installed, we followed the custom installation plan provided by WarmlyYours to install the EVII floor heating panels. WarmlyYours specified the 240V product because of the room's large size. We positioned the EVII panels so that the lead wire would run the shortest path along the wall back to the thermostat. Where necessary, we carved out the cork with a mat knife to create a channel to house the lead wire, In retrospect, this would have been easier to do before the thinset settled completely. We then used an electric back saw to cut down the door's moldings at the bottom so they could accommodate the height of the flooring. We used a piece of the laminate to ensure that we trimmed the door to the right height.
Our next step was to lay the laminate flooring. Large open sections were easy to do. We did have to cut pieces to go around the closets and door which was a lot more time consuming.
Finally, we neatly routed the lead wires back to a relay and then into the thermostat. A simple mat knife will easily carve a channel in the cork for the lead wires. Don't forget to put the sensor wire underneath of the laminate before you lay down your last piece. The sensor wire sends the signal about the floor's temperature to the thermostat. Last step was thermostat hook up.
The floor's looked great! And, my son is looking forward to warm floors this winter.
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Navigating the Kindle's Basic Web Browser
The Kindle 2 and Kindle DX come with an application called Basic Web. As the name implies, Basic Web is a type of Web browser, but not a full-featured Web browser, so it doesn't do a lot of the sophisticated things that a "real" Web browser will do. The controls for navigating the Internet with Web Basic are pretty intuitive, though.
To follow a link on a Web page, use the controller. When you are on top of a link, the link text or image is highlighted. Click the controller to go to the link's destination. If you're used to surfing the Web quickly, moving from one link to another as fast as pages appear, you'll find this way of browsing a s-l-o-w process. As you're waiting for pages to appear, just keep telling yourself: It's free; I'm on the Web for free.
To enter the URL for a Web page, use the five-way controller to move to the address bar at the top. Or, while the browser is open, click Menu and then click Enter URL. Next, enter the URL in the dialog box shown in the following figure. You don't have to enter the prefix http://; the Kindle enters it for you.
Searching Google is always an option. Do so by clicking the Google button at the far right.
Stop a page from loading or reload the current page by selecting the button to the right of the current page's URL in the menu bar. You might want to stop loading if a page's contents are taking too long to appear, for example.
When you're browsing with Basic Web, you move back one page by clicking the left arrow at the top of the menu bar, and forward one page by clicking the right arrow. The Back button just beneath the five-way controller also becomes extra important. Click it when you want to return to the previous page you viewed. The Next Page and Prev Page buttons allow you to navigate within the currently loaded Web page.
Just above the URL, your Kindle displays your browsing mode, which is either Basic Mode (the default) or Advanced Mode. You can change your browse mode by pressing the Menu button, moving the controller, and clicking to select Use Advanced Mode or Use Basic Mode on the menu that appears.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Read a story and draw a graph that tells the same story. Next look at a graph and write a story to match.
You will be presented with three different isotopes of the same element. See if you can calculate the atom's average relative mass.
This timeline shows the development of Israel throughout the 20th century to the present. Follow Israel from the British control of the region in 1917, to its founding in 1948, to events immediately following September 11.
Use your knowledge of scientific notation systems used to describe orbital configuration. Build up orbitals and electrons piece by piece in order to construct a given element.
Answer the journal prompts, including reflections from the workshops and your own classroom. The journal (requires a login) will save your entries for 120 days after you register. However, you can print or transfer your entries to your own computer.
Read three journal entries, one at a time, about events of historical significance. Identify the region and era particular to each journal entry, and answer additional questions about the topic covered.
Visit an amusement park and try to solve six conversion problems as fast as you can.
Practice some of the vocabulary and grammar covered in the La Gavia episodes of Destinos.
Observe as a sheet of letter-sized paper is cut and assembled to form a rectangular prism, a triangular prism and a cylinder. Which object would contain the greatest volume?
Slow a sample of fast-moving atoms with a laser to capture them in a trap by setting the temperature of the oven and adjusting the strength of the magnets. Once trapped they can be cooled and used in a variety of experiments.
This activity highlights examples of conceptually related Spanish and English cognates that share Latin root words, which can be used to help students develop their vocabulary.
Did you know that there are other temperature scales besides Fahrenheit and Celsius? Read the descriptions of all the scales and then match the scale to the correct thermometer.
You are a congressperson trying to pass your education bill. Join in the extensive public debate, committee work, and parliamentary maneuvering necessary to achieve majority legislative support for your bill.
Study the names and abbreviations of length units in both the metric and British systems. Then play a game to see how well you remember them.
Read three letters, one at a time, about events of historical significance. Identify the region and era particular to each letter, and answer additional questions about the information it contains.
Explore major developments that take place across the life span. Select specific stages (childhood, adolescence, etc.) to learn about biological, cognitive and psychosocial development at each stage.
A limerick is a very funny piece of nonsense verse with its own special pattern of rhyme and rhythm. Use this tool to choose phrases to create your own limerick that follows the pattern.
Create line plots that have a mean of 5 but different deviations from the mean. Notice that the total deviation above the mean must equal the total deviation below the mean.
How many states can you identify?. There are 20 questions and you have 30 seconds to answer each one.
Consider two graphs representing the number of people present at two different locations over the course of the day. Interpret the graphs to guess the locations.
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