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Thad Levine: Rangers' inability to get Justin Upton without trading Elvis Andrus, Jurickson Profar 'not for a lack of effort'
The Rangers entered December looking poised to dominate the MLB off-season. Three weeks later, things are suddenly looking much bleaker.
Almost every big name free agent that seemed to make sense for the Rangers has already signed a deal to play elsewhere next season. But there is one big name still out there who has been linked to the Rangers for months – Arizona's Justin Upton.
And while Texas has reportedly been in touch with Arizona about Upton for months, the Rangers' unwillingness to include either Elvis Andrus or Jurickson Profar in the deal has apparently kept them from getting very far in negotiations. And if there is a way for the Rangers to get Upton without giving up Andrus or Profar, assistant GM Thad Levine says the club is trying to find it.
"If there is, it's not for a lack of effort," Levine said during an appearance on Sirius XM's Front Office show. "We've had great conversations with [Arizona GM] Kevin [Towers] this whole off-season. I think probably what's been made clear is that the reports made earlier in the off-season that [Upton] was not only available but was going to be moved were probably a little bit overstated. They really value Justin, as well they should."
Acquiring Upton would give the Rangers another potential power bat on a team that suddenly seems to be lacking them – Texas lost 67 homers off last year's club when Josh Hamilton and Mike Napoli signed elsewhere. But Levine says replacing power with power isn't a necessity for the Rangers.
"In the last three years, we've lost impact players each off-season. Two years ago, we lost Cliff Lee and we ended up signing Adrian Beltre. Last year, we lost C.J. Wilson and ended up signing Yu Darvish. And I think our objective this off-season was preparing, if we do lose Josh Hamilton, who's another impact player that we can go sign?" Levine said.
"We've looked at all of those types of players as guys who can sort of replace our former impact players so we can sort of net out the same number of impact players and move forward, even if it means redefining the team."


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Skip to comments.Cindy Sheehan announces run for governor at Wisconsin conference
Posted on 08/13/2013 7:59:30 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz
The former vice presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party attended a Green Party rally in Wisconsin last week to announce her candidacy for governor of California.
The newly proclaimed candidate is none other than Cindy Sheehan, who gained notoriety a few years ago as the angry mother of a soldier killed in Iraq.
Sheehan has always been a bizarre figure...
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Not a chance. California already has lots of idiotic candidates who have name recognition far above the 15 minutes of fame recognition that Cindy Shehag obtained, and then was thrown under the bus by those who were using her.
Is that the woman that lived in the ditch? Is she still alive?
As a general rule it's probably best to announce that you're running for governor in the actual state that you are running to be governor of.
If there is any place that would elect a g like Sheehan it would be California.
Cindy Sheehan, who gained notoriety a few years ago as the angry mother of a soldier killed in Iraq.Partisan Media Shills ping.
What a great idea
Trying for her second or third 15 minutes of fame.
She couldn't Californicate California any better than the current governor, coudld she?
I hope this idiot recycled all of those left over books she had. Californians don't want a "polluter" as their governor, do they?
With all the drone strikes by Obama I wondered what happened to this media-fabricated parasite.
Thanks for that. Best laugh I have had all day.
I live in NorCal. Even though we are a very live-and-let-live in general where I am, if this Leftist Loon tries making any speeches where I am about, aside from laughing insanely at every comment she utters, I will be right there grabbing the mic from her and using every vocal-impression of which I am capable of to respond to her, of which I am told I am quite good at.
Including the doctor from T3 as I ask her in his voice: "I'm guessing you are one of those enlightened voices of experience that insist that we just let go and elect you before we know what's in there", and then doing that space cadet from Taxi as I am saying things like "Ya know, you're not supposed to be here! You're supposed to be home taping the Rams game!", probably followed up by that dingbat from the singing commercial's voice "She-e-e-e go-o-o-ot, a-me outa thatta police-a thing, -on her knees, with lotsa-a fleeeasss! So I vote-a for her-a!"
Yes, the Crawford ditch witch...
What party? The Pariah Party? Or the Burned Bridge Party?
Have to admit that I had to check if this was on a satire site... ;-)
She is still as insane as ever
Yes. Her anti-war stance became a pariah after Barack win the White House and it became THEIR war. She was shunned by her own side.
Yes.. a prerequisite to be elected in California though... Current Governor Moonbean is no saner.
I swear to God for a few minutes I couldn't remember why this moonbat was infamous. My brain is self healing I guess.
Very loud, very heartfelt laughter at everything she saysis the worst thing you can possibly do. The kind of laugh that says you're on to her and you know each and everything she says is either ridiculous or a complete lie. Plus it's hard to be tossed out of an event for just laughing.
I did that as an audience member at a candidate's debate between a one-term, Obama-coattail, Marxist House incumbent and a up and coming conservative challenger. I was on the center end of the isle on the 3rd row, and it really unnerved her. She was shooting daggers of hatred at me as my laughter made her stutter, and because she was in a public forum with TV cameras rolling, her goons couldn't do a damn thing to save her or shut me up. Also, the great majority of the audience took my cue and joined in my laughter at her lies.
Try it sometime. It's quite exhilarating.
*snicker* Perhaps Scotty from StarTrek; "Och, there laddie. I think it's time now we were sitting away from the good scotch now before more gets wasted then."
Well, why not?
I'm truly having a grand time laughing even now just thinking aboot it!
everybody else on the left has used trayvon...why not Mother Sheehan
hey its a Natchul!!
Ye Id put money on it were I a betting man,
I thought she lived in Texas across from Bush's ranch...
Thanks for that as well by the way. Ye wouldna believe the enjoyment I'm getting now both from your memories and from planning how I might be doing the same then.
Sad when 'useful idiots' are no longer wanted. Not!
She just needs to give in to her ultimate fate; channel her inner Rachel Corrie and find a bulldozer to stand in front of.
Nah. She lives in Vacaville. Easy commute to Sacramento. If she goes so far to get on the ballot, she's got my vote.
can voters registers as other than democrats vote in their primary?
Id love to cast that primary vote for mother sheehan
I sent you a private reply by mistake. Sheehan would fit right in with the politicians in this state. They are a joke.
I WILL vote for cindy sheehan in the primaries if I am allowed.
this might be a great way to wrest the state OUT of the hands of the Moonbeam types!!
let the shock and awe voting begin!!
Well she's way more qualified to be a governor than Sarah Palin was.
Having stated your opinion, make sure you vote for her. You and your state deserve that...
I should never underestimate the inability of FReepers to appreciate sarcasm.
*laugh* Yes, sometimes the "/sarc" tag is necessary, mate.
I recognized it as sarcasm
Lovely! However, I must tell you that since I was not familiar with the poster, unlike how most of us except the newbies are familiar with Laz, I did not immediately assume the posting was sarcasm. You need to establish a pattern first as a particular type of poster before you can safely assume that people will recognize the background tenor of your dialogue.
Oh, and; thanks for the tip, mate. *grin*
If she weren't so pathetic I'd laugh but, pathetic she is...
You seem to have that wrong. I appreciated your sarcasm just as much as you seem to have appreciated mine...
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I currently have a 47" shower in my master bath that I would like to replace with a new 60" shower/tub unit. The width of the room is 60" total. There is currently an offset of 13" in the room for the existing shower unit.
My plan is to remove the existing unit....knock out the 13" offset and then install the new 60" unit.
Everyone is telling me I am getting in over my head by wanting to attempt this myself. I don't see removing the old shower as a major deal, but I don't know alot about plumbing and wonder whether I should be attempting to install the new unit. Also....will it be an issue getting a new tub/surround unit into the room?? My door width is 29" into the room.
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No one was even really hurt in this crash
. I don't know the one woman managed to get off her jet ski so fast.
Morons from Outer Space!
Jet skis have NO brakes! Idiots for going so fast next to the beach!
That's becoming more typical behavior Violet. People are more interested in filming disasters instead of helping out for youtube and facebook views and shares.ReplyCancel
Yay, a short one!
I'm proud to say I've never for a single moment had a desire to get on a jet ski. Only because the beach is full of drunken shitheads who've never been in ocean water in their entire lives and have no grasp of mortality.
It's the same reason my cat isn't allowed to use a chainsaw. Shit's dangerous.
BTW- thats not a jet ski.
Jet ski – stand up, brand name, much more difficult.
This, in general, is A PWC / personal water crafts.
Too many numskulls are on them, drunk, and these folks are lucky no one was seriously injured. I'd be mad as F.
We have and enjoy boats, jet skis and PWC's. There's responsibility to others, just like driving.
I'd prob wanna throw a punch at that dude.
I'd make a comment, but need to stack the logs that the cat's just cut.ReplyCancel
OMG! He purposely tried to run her down and kill her. I hope the driver was arrested for attempted murder!!ReplyCancel
They are lucky she wasn't seriously injured. The machine however will have sucked up so much sand close to shore that it probably won't work again. We own PWC's too, and they are dangerous if not ridden properly. Scary to watch.ReplyCancel


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Tim Thomas' Problem
Patrick Johnston
January 28 2012 12:44PM
Tim Thomas' week isn't what he thought it would be, apparently.
(Phillip MacCallum/Getty Images, via CBC)
Bruins' goalie Tim Thomas says he doesn't think he should be answering questions about why he didn't go to the White House. He says his teammates shouldn't be brought into the equation, nor should his family. On the latter point, he has this writer's support. Thomas' family life really nothing to do with this. On the rest, he's wrong.
His teammates, on the other hand, do. Part of the media's job is to tell a team's followers something they didn't know before and, sadly, in this day and age, sometimes this means reporting on disenssion in a dressing room. Now, it has become clear that Tim Thomas the lone wolf isn't much of a new idea. The only issue with this notion is suggesting this is a unique problem. Goalies are well known to march to their own tune, so to make this up as a big deal seems a bit of a reach.
No the only issue here is Tim's feeling he shouldn't have to answer questions. He's wrong. Tim made a choice, which was to express, strongly, a principled position. What you or I think of that position or how he articulated that position is irrelevant. The point is, he made a statement that was deeply political. The venue where he chose to make that statement is completely political. If he chose to not visit a hospital, or a sponsor's office tower, that can be argued to be less political, but the White House? If Thomas had said he dislikes the architecture or that he's allergic to the rugs, then maybe this could accepted as an apolitical act.
But he didn't. He didn't even say 'For personal reasons which I don't care to dicuss, I'm not going.' No, he gave cogent reasons for why he wasn't attending and they were expressly about the current state of government. He went on to criticize the major political parties. This is political criticism. He's taking a strong position. When you take a strong position, you must accept that you may be challenged to defend that position. That's how it works.
Tim Thomas is a public figure. If he doesn't want to discuss his politics, then he shouldn't have brought them up. That may not be fair, but he doesn't have much say in that matter. He's a public figure. If he didn't want it to go public, then why did he post it on his Facebook fan page?
He blames the media for creating this mess? What did he expect would happen when he made a statement? The media is asking him questions every day, did he really think this would be something he could control? Unless he planned ahead and is making some roundabout commentary on the voraciousness of the media, he shouldn't have expected any different. He made a choice and now he needs to recognize the consequences of that decision.
I honestly couldn't care less that Thomas didn't go to the White House. It seems a bizarre choice, but as he said, it is his right to say 'no.' If George W Bush had invited me to go, I would have gone, even though I intensely disliked him. I'd have gone for the history, for chance to say I once went to the White House. But that's me.
Thomas didn't have to go. But he also didn't have to make a statement.
January 28 2012, 03:59PM
Team visits to the White House are a freebie photo op and, to use a British expression for a fun day out with the gang, a jolly for the team that wins the Stanley Cup. The host of the event is not the leader of the Republican Party or the Democratic Party but the office of the President Of The United States of America. Tim Thomas did not snub Barak Obama the politcal entity but the concept of the Presidency. This was not a political event until he elected to make it one. It was a day out for his team-mates which he chose to sour and taint. Thomas is free to hold and express whatever political opinion he wants to but time and place decide how the world at large will respond to it. Thomas is blaming the media for his own stupidity and insensitivity. He deserves all the negative attention he gets. He has earned it. But yes, leave his children out of it.


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Did you happen to see this news article? It reported on the orthopedic surgeon who gave his patient (female) a temporary tattoo as he put it "to lighten their spirits". I ran this by the crew I worked with in the OR this morning and didn't give them all the details, just this:
"Did you guys hear the news report of the orthopedic surgeon who did a lumbar procedure on a woman and then put a temporary tattoo on her lower abdomen, in the panty region? The patient found it when she went to get dressed in front of her husband. She was reportedly very emotionally traumatized by it."
All of them had somehow missed this news item. Questions came.
"Did he know this person? I mean were they friends outside of the professional relationship?"
"Was the surgeon and patient joking about tattoos in the pre-op?"
"How much is she suing for?"
"The other members of the OR crew allowed him to do this?!"
In the end we all agreed that this was not appropriate for the surgeon to do. My crew would have felt comfortable to have pointed this out to me (had I foolishly tried to do such a thing).
I do not in any terms want to "justify" this behavior, but neither do I think that what these two blog sites and their commenters (here and here) are doing with this incident is appropriate either. It is unfair to "lump" all physicians or all surgeons in a group with this one.
I ran across a post on "A Doctor's Touch" yesterday. It is worth reading the entire posts and it's comments. I think that most of us physicians/surgeons try to do just this with both "touch" and "interaction".
In conclusion, as you can see, a doctor's touch is an action which, if used wisely and professionally can provide a variety of benefits from psychological to diagnostic. Also, you can see that touch is missing when the doctor-patient relationship involves phone, video or e-mail communication. It is understandable why we who teach medical students stress touch as an important medical tool in its many ways. ..Maurice.
It's the wisely and more importantly the professionally that stands out for me in the above paragraph. I try to keep things professional. I try to treat each patient with respect. Read these wonderful blogs by fellow surgeons and you will quickly see that many of us are in awe that patients place their trust in us.
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Skip to comments.Poll: Cain surges, opens up 20-point lead on Romney
Posted on 10/07/2011 11:24:25 AM PDT by Ron H.
In news sure to inject shock and awe into the Republican political primary season, a Zogby poll released Thursday showed Herman Cain leading the Republican field, topping former front-runner Mitt Romney by an astonishing 20 points ........
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With Palin out, conservatives are moving to Cain. Once she announced, I sent him money.
Wow. This seems too good to be true. Is it??
And in a totally unrelated story Lawrence O'Donnells head just exploded.
Poll Ping! :-)
I am backing Herman Cain all the way. I support this man to the hilt.
But how many times is this same story going to be posted? I got all excited thinking it was a different poll backing up this one.
Cain is one of those guys that has core values, sticks to them, expresses them honestly, and tries to convince people he's right. You can choose to vote for him or not based on whether you agree or not.
Romney, Perry, et al, are politicians. They may have core values, but they've been trained not to offend anyone, so they never express those core values out loud and try to "nice" as many as possible into voting for them.
Then, we get to the general. A leftist could NEVER honestly express his core values, because he'd get about 15% of the popular vote, because leftist core values are abhorrent to most decent people.
Now we see who the MSM wants to be our candidate.
Read this out loud to our weekend house guests. They all cheered for Cain.
Go, Herman!
True, so true! And Perry's camp has apparently gone into near total seclusion in an attempt as to figure out what next to flip-flop on in order to stem the blood gushing from their campaign. Stay tuned for the next upcoming debate to find out. Be on the look out for it.
I guess Jack Welch was right. Cain going on a book tour in the middle of the campaign was ill advised. Cain could be 50 points ahead of Milt if he stayed on the trail. LOL.
I sure hope more people catch on to this leftist ploy to incriminate any conservative black as being a traitor to his or her race.
So true!
Every once in awhile, though, even the trained politicians let one of their core values slip out. Just as Perry did with the "heartless" comment.
Once this becomes a Cain-Romney contest, I think Cain wins easily. There won't be enough cross-over independents and democrats to drag Mitt over the finish line, save possibly in New Hampshire where the RINO wing holds sway.
I looked for it prior to posting. If the moderator wants to remove this one I have no problem with it. In the meantime you may want to post some those other links you are referring to.
I think we've been seeing that for a long time, don't you?
I believe you'll be saved by the "four hour rule".
Probably. I put no faith in these Zogby online polls.
I'd love to believe him, but I don't.
Well according to Janeane Garafalo, your house guests are all closet racists. Watch out! LOL.
Sadly (sigh) I think so.
Zogby has really fallen off in the last few years. His sample sizes seem to be small and not representative of registered voters.
In Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida? Primary places ? I cant imagine thats close to being true.
Geez! My eyes! My stomach! That's some scary Halloween witch costume there.
Lawrence O'Donnell has had to have his head taped back together so many times, he has the parts numbered to speed the cosmetic reassembly. But they keep on stuffing the same old tired cliches and bromides back in there too, so the repeated activity of propping O'Donnell back up as a talking head is an exercise in futility.
born December 13, 1945 in Memphis, TN (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Luther Cain Jr., born March 16, 1925 in TN, died March 29, 1982 in Atlanta, GA
Lenora Davis, born July 27, 1925 in GA, died August 20, 2005 in Atlanta, GA
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Herman Cain is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!
Seems like they want Cain.
Seems like they want Cain.
I have moved on to Mr Cain and he will have BOTH my vocal support along with my financial support.
Wrong mutiny. That's the Bounty.
Not sure how I'd translate this into Caine Mutiny imagery, although Obama should be nervously fiddling with some ball bearings about now.
Oh, I really, really doubt that.
I usually spell that word with a B instead of a W, but I guess there may be different spellings in different parts of the country. Regional dialect I guess.
Is there a Cain ping list?
Previous Zogby IBOPE polls have had Michelle Bachmann leading with 39% as well as Ron Paul leading with 35% (and John Huntsman Jr. trailing Paul at 30%). How are they doing today?
There's no doubt Cain is the current "flavor of the week" (as Perry, Bachman and even Trump have been before him) but can he sustain his poll numbers? Personally, I think he's peaked. Perry is currently raising mountains of cash. He'll be back (hopefully he spent some of this $$$ on debate coaching).
I know he's been very unreliable, but he's hard left, so this one has me puzzled.
"He simply isn't afraid to attack the protesters the way the other candidates are. He's not afraid of the Media. Being black, he can attack black attitudes in a way the other candidates are afraid to do for fear of being labeled as racist. This fearlessness is resonating with many."
And this is a bad thing?
I was thinking... if the leftists keep going after Cain like they are - trying to do to him what they did to Palin, it might just backfire....I would think there would be people in the black community that would see the way people like lounge lizard Larry are treating him and be rightfully offended by it, and rebel against the left.
You can put me on Report right now, 'cause I took all the strawberrys and pitched 'em over the side.
(Saluting smartly) Permission to come aboard, Mister Cain....
Quite right, but Bogie's mutiny didn't stack up as neatly, so I had to take poetic license and resort to MMM (Mixed Mutiny Metaphor).
Thanks. Did you ask that this one be pulled?
Six degrees of Mister Roberts?
If an actual African-American (with slave blood ;) looks like a viable candidate, maybe they finally use the brains God gave them and turn against Obama.
Not likely.......but possible. As Cain has said. They're brainwashed.
Oh Gosh no, I just wanted to voice my displeasure that this was not a new poll backing up the zogby poll.....I got all excited!
A Essay on Mitt Romney. Its damning.
heh heh, I know what you mean. As a general rule I don't put much faith in any so called (push) poll as they are often worded to attain a pre-determined desired result. That's why I only trust the one taken at the end of the day on election day. But since so many put their faith into them then why not play along and watch the mayhem when ones candidate gets gored by these so called polls. < /pessimism>
Ditto all that. My first thought was 'is this the same poll?'.
And I've already made a donation to Cain.
I'm holding off to give Perry one more chance to look half-way credible in the debates. If he fails again, that's it. I'm on the Cain Train.
Moved Solid to CAIN when Sarah out! With Perry's supports starting to act like Rabid PAULBOTS... He can now join PAUL and ROMNEY.. anyone of those 3 get the Nomination, I may leave the President line ... BLANK!!! as I've only done ONCE before!!
"Seismic Shift" - Oh yes he Cain!!!!
Du'oh!? That's what I expect from the leader of the free world, someone who is not afraid to be Politically Incorrect when necessary. This is the mark of a true leader, telling it like it is and sugar coating it. All the rest can go back to playing tiddly-winks in the sandbox with the rest of their spineless political playmate night crawlers.
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Summaries of EU Legislation
Summaries of EU legislation: direct access to the main summaries page.
Bank Resolution Funds
During the 2008 financial crisis, considerable amounts of public funds were made available to banks to support their activities. However, governments clearly indicated that this support could not be renewed. It is for this reason that the European Commission supports the creation of resolution funds which should allow the costs related to resolution in the event of new failures to be covered.
Communication of 26 May 2010 from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the European Central Bank - Bank Resolution Funds [COM(2010) 254 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
This Communication defines the European Commission's intentions concerning the establishment of Bank Resolution Funds.
What is the role of Bank Resolution Funds?
Resolution funds should contribute to financing the orderly resolution of distressed banks. In order to do this, they could implement measures such as:
- financing bridge banks;
- financing a total or partial transfer of assets and/or liabilities from the ailing entity;
- financing a good bank/bad bank split.
Resolution funds may also be used to cover administrative costs, legal and advisory fees.
However, they must not play the role of insurance against failure or be used to bail out failing banks.
How can Bank Resolution Funds be financed?
The Commission considers that financing arrangements for a fund should procure the necessary resources whilst incentivising appropriate behaviour.
Three points could form the basis for calculating contributions to Bank Resolution Funds:
- banks' assets could represent an indicator of the amount which might need to be spent in handling the bank's resolution. A levy could be established based on the assets and could therefore amount to an additional capital requirement;
- banks' liabilities could also represent indicators of the amount which might need to be spent in handling the bank's resolution. However, liabilities could be less effective proxies for the degree of risk;
- profits and bonuses could be used as a reference in order to determine the amount of levies.
Financing arrangements should meet the following criteria:
- avoid any possible arbitrage;
- reflect the appropriate risks;
- take into account the systemic nature of certain financial entities;
- be based on the possible amounts that could be spent if resolution becomes necessary;
- avoid competition distortions.
What means of governance should be used for Bank Resolution Funds?
Bank Resolution Funds should remain separate from the national budget and be dedicated only to resolution costs.
The management of these funds should be entrusted to the authorities responsible for the resolution of financial entities acting as independent executive bodies.
The use of resolution funds should also respect the EU State aid rules.
The Commission plans to adopt legislative proposals for crisis management and resolution funds by early 2011.
How can bank resolution funds be integrated into a new financial stability framework?
The Commission has proposed to strengthen capital requirements and to reform financial supervision within the EU. It intends to strengthen Deposit Guarantee Schemes and the corporate governance of financial institutions.
The Commission also intends to implement preventive measures in order to mitigate the risks of bank failures and to reduce the implicit guarantees associated with institutions deemed 'too big to fail'.
The Commission has also planned to adopt in October 2010 a roadmap on a European framework for crisis management. The aim of the new proposed framework is to make common tools, which enable prompt and effective action to be taken in the event of banking failures, available to Member States. These measures should not lead to costs for taxpayers.
Tools are proposed to complement the action of resolution funds:
- Recovery and Resolution Plans;
- debt to equity conversions.
Defining a common approach to Bank Resolution Funds
A European and global approach should be defined as regards the creation of Bank Resolution Funds.
Under this new measure, national authorities will continue to be responsible for day to day supervision, and this should be underpinned by a solid cross-border framework which is ready to address possible crises.
The first step in this common approach lies in establishing a system based on a harmonised network of national funds linked to a set of coordinated crisis management arrangements. This system should be re-examined by 2014 with a view to creating EU integrated crisis management and supervisory arrangements, as well as an EU Resolution Fund in the longer term.
In order to mitigate the bank failures caused by the October 2008 financial crisis, the governments of Member States have provided State aid to assist the financial sector. This aid has considerably affected taxpayers and has increased Member States' public debt. The creation of resolution funds should prevent future recourse to State aid to resolve financial institutions' failures.
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FGD: One Tin Soldier - The Legend of City Yak
Vintage Flame
April 01 2013 04:10PM
After Shelbyville showed us all that even a broken clock is right twice a day, the Battle of Alberta gamethread is back where it belongs. Oh and if you don't get the reference in the title? Google is your friend.
Tonight, two teams on completely different roads will cross paths once again, where scoreboard watching will be put aside in favour of compulsory disdain and a sheer desire to lay the boots to one of your oldest rivals. Since 2009, it has been the Flames doing the majority of kicking, leading the head-to-head series 19-4.
Much has changed since the Flames and the Oilers last met on January 27th (when the good guys won 4-3), as Calgary seems to have taken a page out of the Oilers operational book and are on a slide towards the bottom of the league. The Oilers, meanwhile, are on the cusp of making a push towards unfamiliar territory of their own… the playoffs.
Somehow it seems fitting that these two squads would meet up today, April 1st. What has in recent history been dubbed the "Battle of Albrutal", where either team is in the standings has been irrelevant because neither ever wants to lose this match-up, neither want to be the fool.
The Line-Up
We all know who the obvious loss to the lineup is, but we shouldn't forget who still is. Curtis Glencross loves himself a piece of the Oilers whenever the chance presents itself.
The Flames lineup is probably written in pencil, due to wide speculation around who might be staying and who might be leaving. Fronting the list is Jay Bouwmeester, with destinations including both Detroit and St. Louis. Others that are also coming up to be on the move are the likes of Tanguay, Sarich, Cammallerri and of course Glencross.
Very few are safe these days and there is going to be a lot of speculation leading right up to April 3rd. For now, here's how SNET's Pat Steinberg has the lines shaping up.
- Glencross-Stajan-Stempniak
- Tanguay-Cammallerri-Comeau
- Hudler-Backlund-Cervenka
- McGrattan-Begin-Jackman
- Brodie-Bouwmeester
- Giordano-Wideman
- Butler-Sarich
- Kiprusoff
The Oilers have to be licking their chops at the thought of facing Miikka Kiprusoff tonight with his less than stellar performance between the pipes this year. However he is also 15-2 in his last 17 starts against Edmonton with a 2.43 GAA. He will have to be "that guy" tonight in order to give his team a legit chance at putting a dent in the Oilers' playoff hopes.
It will also be very interesting to see how long Hartley leaves the Czech's with Backlund. Cervenka has been playing with a lot more confidence and certainty in the month of March, and Backlund's creative and bold play is an interesting match that has the potential to pay dividends.
The Village Idiots
The Oil have won three straight for the first time this season. That is part of a 6-2-2 record in their last ten that has them sitting 11th in the conference, just two points out of the top eight.
An Edmonton Oilers Signing Alert has to be sponsored by Rexall Drugs, right? RIGHT?!?— The Royal Half (@theroyalhalf) April 1, 2013
It's no secret that the Oilers' Achilles heel (other than playing in the NHL) has been from the blueline. This morning they penned Ladislav Smid to a four year extension with an AAV of $3.5 Million. That's sure to be enough to put them over the hump right? Relax Shelbyville dwellers, we know, we know… "Laddy" is a great shot-blocker and he has all the intangibles right? RIGHT?
It's a good thing the defence is all sorted out, now Ralph Kreuger can figure what the hell is wrong with his highly touted offensive talent. "Yak City" is more of a ghost town these days, registering just one assist in his last five games and hasn't been part of the Oilers late push. In fact he hasn't found the back of the net since February 25th, and only has 5 assists during the entire month of March.
Things aren't that rosy for RNH this season either. The young center has a meagre three goals on sixty-six shots, giving him a whopping personal shooting percentage of 3.0%. That's a far cry from last season's 13.4% pace. Then again, I suppose it's okay to fall off a cliff when you know you will safely land on the coat-tails of Taylor Hall. Well done Nuuuuuuge.
- Hall-Nugent-Hopkins-Eberle
- Paajarvi-Gagner-Hemsky
- Jones-Horcoff-Yakupov
- Petrell-Smyth-Brown
- Smid-Petry
- N. Schultz-J. Schultz
- Whitney-Potter
- Dubnyk
Sum it Up
Game Day Prediction: The Flames scrape the barrel for what remaining ounce of dignity they have left and continue the Alberta trend by winning this one 5-3; snapping their road loss streak at nine.
Obvious Game Day Prediction: Curtis Glencross sticks it once again to the team that let him go, showing two versions of his infamous "Scoreface"
Not-so-Obvious Game Day Prediction: Hot on the heels of scoring his fastest hat-trick in Oilers history, Taylor Hall is about due for some mis-hap that has always seem to keep him out of games against Calgary. Tonight will be no different as he and his buck-toothed face will be mistaken for the Easter Bunny, so all the other barely pubescent children on the team will bug him about not getting enough candy this weekend.
I bet @vintage_flame is really excited to watch his team suck the hind banana tonight! #GOilers— edmontoncritic (@edmontoncritic) April 1, 2013
What makes this whole situation really funny is that the average Oil fan is like some giddy, pimpled-faced nerd who finally landed that date with his lab partner's sister. They say they have been waiting for this day, this day of retribution. When all the stars are aligned and the Oil can take back the pride that the Flames have, for the last decade or so, used to clean their skate blades after the game.
Newsflash… We know, we've seen this coming for a long time too guys. What makes it funny though is that despite everything, the losses, the bad trades, the injuries… whatever you want to jeer Calgary about this time, they just keep beating the Oilers.
These days, for Flames fans.. that's not quitte enough for now. However, for added entertainment, Flames fans appreciate the fans up North, the ones that are convinced that this is finally it. The time for the Oilers to take that step forward out of the mire and take their rightful place at the fornt of the class. That's just awesome and I sincerely hope the Oilers do make the playoffs this year. It will make it that much better when they are bounced decisively and the Oilers management is left shaking their heads as to what went wrong.
One last thing…
April 01 2013, 04:12PM
Flamers suck a big FIST
Hope you enjoyed writing your last GDB/FGD Vintage Flame. Oilers win 18-0 Obvious game day prediction!
April 01 2013, 04:22PM
Booooooo get of the stage!!
April 01 2013, 04:23PM
Streak better end tonight!
That Flames forward lineup is just pitiful.
I call a 5-1 win Oilers
Ebs with a pair.
And Brown steps up to a big boy and ktfo's him
April 01 2013, 04:25PM
Wanye's gonna blow a gasket when he sees that Eberle pic.
This post is a good reminder that the passion behind the BoA hasn't died.
No matter what, i love it. Laughed al the way to the fridge for another beer. Good read. Let go Oilers and Flames. Our Province craves some Oil and Shames good old hockey.
Kipper===eat my shorts and i hope you end up in T.O. Good luck with that you Finnish Freak...
Glencross... keep your head up cowgirl.Mike Brown is going to Pound you through the glass.
OILERS-FLAMES Just like it should be. W-A-R
April 01 2013, 04:32PM
Wow, just....wow. Does this guy watch hockey at all? This is a prime example of your typical Calgarian, no class and delusional. Is Glencross your big star then?
Oilers win 10-0. Hall breaks his own record for fastest hat trick to start a game with 3 goals in the first five minutes.
April 01 2013, 04:36PM
Nice lineup. These guys aren't household names in their own houses.
If this group was playing hockey in my backyard, I would pull down the blinds.
My car got broken into the other day and I had two tickets to the Flames game at the Saddledome on my dash, when I got back to the car, you guessed it .....FOUR tickets.
Vintage Flame, when you were born you were so ugly, the doctor slapped your Mother!
I got hundreds of 'em ....I'm here all week, Folks - try the veal.
Young inconsistent team. Oilers could look horrible tonight and it would not be a surprise.
April 01 2013, 04:40PM
Lander was called up. Lines should be different.
Oil are gonna stomp the Flames tonight.
4-1 W for the GOOD GUYs!
Yak-City nets a pair.
April 01 2013, 04:41PM
This game can't go wrong for Flames fans really. Either they beat the Oilers and help keep them out of playoffs, or they lose and get one step closer to an excellent prospect.
April 01 2013, 04:42PM
Oilers 100 Flames 0.
April 01 2013, 04:42PM
Win or lose; the Oilers still win...
The extra 2 points pulls Calgary 2 points farther from a real talent in the draft (if they could find one) or the Oilers 2 points closer to the playoffs...
Best case scenario is a 3 point game...
Ps, Flames fans can fall in a hole
April 01 2013, 04:42PM
That's it, trade Ebs. Can't have that in the room.
April 01 2013, 04:43PM
Keep waiting for Wanye's war cry upon see that picture! Nobody besmirches the might name of Jordan Eberle and gets away with it!
April 01 2013, 04:43PM
Also, the Oiler fans in here are probably the least intellegent and thin skinned turds I have ever seen.
April 01 2013, 04:47PM
Also, the Oiler fans in here are probably the least intellegent and thin skinned turds I have ever seen.
Definition of "IRONY" - spelling "intelligent" wrong while informing people how dumb you think THEY are.
Thanks Calgary, you never let us down!
PS Dont even think of correcting it now, Jethro.
April 01 2013, 04:49PM
A lot of "why did I write that" content in this one, considering the next GDB/FGD will be written in less than 48 hours.
Brave, you are, Vintage! But no surprise here - big balls don't always equate to a big brain. ;)
April 01 2013, 04:50PM
I thought the GDB was never going to show up...looks like VF has put fourth his best effort in a decent blog. A mediocre blog from a mediocre team.
Oil with a 4-1 win. Glencross with the lone Flames goal.
I just hope that we don't get the Flames screaming annoucer on sportsnet. I will be putting the TV on mute if so...
Also, the Oiler fans in here are probably the least intellegent and thin skinned turds I have ever seen.
Intellegent? Ok OilersNation can you see the irony in this post.Will leave it at that.
April 01 2013, 04:52PM
@The Soup Fascist
That actually isn't the definition of irony at all. But please, play again!!
April 01 2013, 04:53PM
Hahaha not sure if they can top that Jankowski kid. Maybe they'll draft some high schooler from Stettler with their top 5 pick this year hmm?
Hahaha I love it!! Makes me not feel bad for not feeling bad about laughing at the whole lot of f***all they got for iggy! Whatever little dignity the flamers are grasping at is gonna be blown away with ease tonight and guess what... I won't feel bad!!!
April 01 2013, 04:57PM
Bloody brilliant final note. Left me a great feeling of rage and pleasure. I hope the Oil stick the Flames with something sharp and rusty tonight.
Go Oil!!
April 01 2013, 04:57PM
How do our farts smell, Calgary?
Must really suck to be a Calgary Lames (never more fitting to have that name) fan now, knowing they won't even hit rock bottom for another 2 yrs yet. You're all welcome to tune into Oiler games for your hockey fix these next half dozen yrs.
Who's your daddy again Calgary!
Poor Flamers-- I'd like to talk to you about our incompetent management but you've got Uncle Fester or something at the helm who doesn't seem to know NHL waiver rules when it comes to mid-season offer sheets; I'd also like to talk to you about the pain of losing franchise guys like Smyth at trade deadlines but you lost Squiggly Joe or whatever his name was recently and that might be hurtful; so instead I'll talk to you about no matter how incompetent our management team is or the number of franchise players we trade away, we still rather would be us than a sorry bunch of yahoos like you.
Hahaha not sure if they can top that Jankowski kid. Maybe they'll draft some high schooler from Stettler with their top 5 pick this year hmm?
Wouldn't be hard research to figure out who the Lames are gonna draft top 5 this year. Just look for a college player with a last name ending in owski...
Flames win 4-1. The kids still can't handle the heat. Oilers fans suck, nothing new happening here.
April 01 2013, 05:00PM
Won't take these games for granted as the Flames do seem to play above their record vs the Oil.
That said, I hope this is the beginning of the worst two weeks the Flames play all season. When our crack at the playoffs comes, we'll try to win at least one series during our period of "dominance".
Good grief...I always love it when fLames fans try to give it to Oiler fans. The cartoon has Gretzky vs. Larry McDonald's or whatever his name is. Seriously? What's next? A mock-up of Messier arm wrestling Loob? Sheesh!
So, to sum up:
Flames suck more now, but it's all good cause you saw it coming and have made peace with it.
Our 1st and 2nd year rookies aren't putting up 70 points per season yet and are therefore busts.
And the rapidly fading silver lining on the $#!tcloud that is the flames present and foreseeable future is that you still hold a better reg season record against us.
That about it?
If I had to swallow a pill like that all those sour grapes would make a relatively sweet chaser to me too.
April 01 2013, 05:07PM
That actually isn't the definition of irony at all. But please, play again!!
please, for our entertainment, define ironic.
That was rich. Any Flamers want to do a Scoreface for Human Pylon (Ryan Whitney) trade? That would guarantee a 30th overall finish for you and top odds at the top pick (although playing on the road should pretty much have the same effect).
GDP: Oilers 5-2. OGDP: The top line continues to roll, combining for 7 points. NSOGDP: Jay Feaster goes missing after the second intermission. Weeks later he is found "wandering the desert."
Wouldn't be hard research to figure out who the Lames are gonna draft top 5 this year. Just look for a college player with a last name ending in owski...
Wait... I take this back, there's gotta be an owski playing in high school somewhere?? Someone check the 'metro high school boys league'
April 01 2013, 05:10PM
please, for our entertainment, define ironic.
The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
Or just feel free to read a book once in a while.
April 01 2013, 05:16PM
"We all know who the obvious loss in the lineup is..." He who shall not be named or "the player" is the only thing that kept the Flames in 9th place all these years.
Claiming Yak and Nuge are busts is just playing with fire and words your clearly gonna have to swallow later. We would attack your rising stars but you don't have any...
Flames fans prepare for years of losses starting with tonights. Its got to hurt. But whats got to hurt more is if JEROME IGINLA wins the cup he will bring it to his hometown, Oil Country.
Iggy for weird Al Yankovich.... hmmmm not bad Feaster.
I have a rotten ronnies gift card for you.
Flames i didnt think it is was possible to worse Mgmt than us... Once again Calgary you one up Edmonton.. LOL Losers.
L-L-L-L-L-L-L aughing stock, get use to it horse crap city.
April 01 2013, 05:18PM
Wanye Gretz seems like the kind of guy who takes long showers.
Just throwing that out into the world
12-1 Yakupov gets 5
April 01 2013, 05:21PM
Boys Boys Boys
12th v 14th talking like its 1989 again and you are contenders not pretenders. Oh if that was only the case. In my opinion i believe MANY of the posters on thsi site were still playing with Ninja turtle action figures. As some one who remembers the late 1980's and the terrific BOA tht took place , the past 2 decades have been a cheap knock off.
Lets take it easy on the lames fans here boys. They're on the edge of severe depression and we don't need to shove them over the cliff. There a good team with a bright future! Sure they offer sheeted a player that needed waivers, sure they traded their franchise player for assets that will never appear in the NHL. Sure there highest paid player has 10 seasons with no playoffs. But at least they have...... Um....
Also, the Oiler fans in here are probably the least intellegent and thin skinned turds I have ever seen.
Years of losing have thickened our skins quite nicely thank you. Intelligent is the correct spelling, don't you dare blame auto-correct either. :}
The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
Or just feel free to read a book once in a while.
This is getting good.
Everyone please Google "irony dictionary".
Can it get more entertaining?
April 01 2013, 05:32PM
You suck at this. I can appreciate chiding, it can be fun, but you suck at it.
The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
Or just feel free to read a book once in a while.
ironic - Something is ironic if the result is the opposite of what was intended.
I would say misspelling intelligent when putting down Oiler fans' intelligence would fit the description. Maybe you should quit while you're behind.
@Vintage fLame
What was harder coming up with a recent positive and something to put into this final BOA article
. . .having to write any of those names as your Top 6 forwards - Comeau, Stajan, Stempn . . .(stopped writing for laughter . . .endless laughter)
@ Johe
Change desert to dessert and you are probably right. Or was it just a typo?


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Centre signings Casey Laulala and James Downey will start in the Munster midfield for their PRO12 opener at Edinburgh on Saturday.
Off-season signings James Downey and Casey Laulala will start in the Munster midfield for their PRO12 opener at Edinburgh on Saturday.
The duo are joined by fellow new player Sean Dougall plus international Donncha O'Callaghan in the starting line-up running out at Murrayfield.
Besides the three newcomers the only uncapped player in the squad is forward Barry O'Mahony while Doug Howlett leads the side for the first time competitively in his new role as captain.
Downey and Laulala form the midfield pairing and after an impressive debut season in which he scored four tries Luke O'Dea is named on the left.
Up front there's a strong spine to the selection, Damien Varley propped by the South African pair Wian du Preez and BJ Botha. O'Callaghan is partnered by the hard working Billy Holland with Dougall joined in the back-row by youth and experience in the shape of Paddy Butler and the ever dependable James Coughlan at number eight.
And there will be no easing into the season for Penney's side as Michael Bradley welcomes back a number of his internationals who were involved in the the triumphant three Test Australasia tour.
Meanwhile, some nine players from the successful Scotland tour of Australasia return to competitive action for Edinburgh.
Starting the match in the backs are captain and fly-half Greig Laidlaw as well as centre Nick De Luca and top try-scoring winger Tim Visser. Ross Ford, and back-row trio Ross Rennie, David Denton and Stuart McInally re-enter the pack, while props Allan Jacobsen and Geoff Cross are primed to enter the fray from the bench.
Head coach Michael Bradley's first selection for the 2012/13 season will also see five competitive debuts made from the outset.
With Tom Brown ruled out with a hamstring strain, new arrival Greig Tonks gets his first start in his preferred position of full-back with fellow new face, Ben Atiga, forming a centre partnership with De Luca for the first time.
Welsh international scrum-half Richie Rees forges a dynamic half-back partnership with Laidlaw, while Lee Jones completes the backs on the wing.
New props John Yapp and Willem Nel flank Scotland captain Ford in a formidable front row, with the pack completed by the familiar pairing of Sean Cox and elite development graduate Grant Gilchrist, who reinstate a partnership that started 15 matches last season.
Form: Edinburgh's only round one victory since 2005 came at Cardiff Blues in 2009. The Scotsmen finished off last season's RaboDirect PRO12 season with victory at home to Benetton Treviso. Edinburgh have won their last three games at Murrayfield in all competitions, but have not beaten any Irish province since this equivalent fixture last season – played on 30 September 2011. Munster have begun their new campaign with a win in four of the past five seasons. The Munstermen's only victory away from home in their last four trips was 20-16 at Connacht on 24 March. Munster have lost just one of their last ten encounters with Scottish opponents. In the history of the tournament the two sides have met on 21 previous occasions, with Edinburgh victorious on just five occasions.
The teams:
Edinburgh: 15 Greig Tonks, 14 Lee Jones, 13 Nick De Luca, 12 Ben Atiga, 11 Tim Visser, 10 Greig Laidlaw (c), 9 Richie Rees, 8 Stuart McInally, 7 Ross Rennie, 6 David Denton, 5 Sean Cox, 4 Grant Gilchrist, 3 Willem Nel, 2 Ross Ford, 1 John Yapp.
Replacements: 16 Andy Titterrell, 17 Allan Jacobsen, 18 Geoff Cross, 19 Perry Parker, 20 Dimitri Basilaia, 21 Chris Leck, 22 Gregor Hunter, 23 John Houston.
Munster: 15 Denis Hurley, 14 Doug Howlett (capt), 13 Casey Laulala, 12 James Downey, 11 Luke O'Dea, 10 Ian Keatley, 9 Duncan Williams, 8 James Coughlan, 7 Sean Dougall, 6 Peter Butler, 5 Billy Holland, 4 Donncha O'Callaghan, 3 BJ Botha, 2 Damien Varley, 1 Wian du Preez.
Replacements: 16 Mike Sherry, 17 Marcus Horan, 18 Stephen Archer, 19 Dave Foley, 20 Barry O'Mahony, 21 Peter Stringer, 22 Scott Deasy, 23 Ivan Dineen.
Date: Saturday, September 1
Kick-off: 20:00 BST
Venue: Murrayfield
Referee: Leighton Hodges (Wales)
Assistant Referees: Andy Macpherson (Scotland), Bob Nevins (Scotland)
Television match official: Iain Ramage (Scotland)


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Whenever I feel totally uninspired by cooking and the contents of my refrigerator, I reach for a few fail-safe tricks. Like: Boiling a pot of beans with an onion and some bay. Simmering a quick tomato sauce and adding dried pasta. A scoop of miso dissolved in some vegetable broth.
One of my all-time, fool-proof favorites: Roasting whatever I have around in the oven at high heat until dark, caramelized, and fragrant. I like to cut everything into similar sized pieces — here, I used a head of broccoli, a few wilting brussels sprouts, and a few cloves of peeled garlic — and coat with olive oil, lemon zest, aleppo pepper, and lemon juice. Simple. Twenty minutes later, fresh out of the oven, charred and crispy, I deglazed the pan with a little white wine and some starchy pasta water, just enough to make a light sauce. If none of that inspires you? Delivery pizza is totally a legit alternative.


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Sakura Simulator application - daily coverage of Japan's cherry blossom flowering time
Weathernews released a service called Sakura Simulator which allows you to monitor the current blooming situation of cherry blossoms all over Japan.
Hamee - Lightning cables matching iPhone 5c colors
I've seen only a few people who were using iPhone 5c. It seems to be a bit rare in Japan. This is for those who have this rare iPhone.
Hamee released colorful Lightning cables to match the colors of the iPhone 5c for ¥1,890 each.
It's a certified product by Apple (MFI, made for iPhone/iPod/iPad).
- Color: White, Pink, Yellow, Blue, and Green
- Length of cable: 65cm
XYZprinting - Inexpensive personal 3D printer "da Vinci 1.0 3D Printer"
XYZprinting Japan is going to start selling the personal 3D printer da Vinci 1.0 3D Printer for ¥69,800 on March 18 in Japan.
XYZprinting is a Taiwanese company. They promote a reasonable price, and although Japanese tax will be increased to 8% on April 1, they will keep the price ¥69,800 including tax after that date.
There is no complicated initial setting required for da Vinci 1.0 3D Printer. As soon as you set the filament, you are able to start using it.
Elecom - Bluetooth earphones with excellent wearing comfort
Elecom is going to release new Bluetooth earphones LBT-HPC11AV series in early April.
LBT-HPC11AV supports A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile), AVRCP (Audio/Video Remote Control Profile), HSP (Headset Profile), HFP (Hands-free Profile).
There are buttons for volume adjustment, music playback, On/Off and pairing with other Bluetooth compliant devices. It comes in various size of ear pieces (S,M,L) to fit your ears perfectly.
Ketchup spaghetti popsicle for adventurous eaters
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Lawson-only stuffed Rilakkuma dressed up as vegetables
Rare Rilakkuma is now available for sale at Lawson!
Vegetable Rilakkuma is currently available only at the convenience store, Lawson.
As you can see in the pictures, Rilakkuma, Korilakkuma, and Kiiroitori are dressed up as a carrot, cabbage, tomato, eggplant, onion and green pepper and sitting in a cardboard-like box.
Lawson will stop selling them when their present stock runs out. Each piece is ¥1,450.
Fire up your soul like a Samurai! "SAMURIDE ENERGY DRINK"
House Wellness Food today released a new energy drink called SAMURIDE ENERGY DRINK produced with "Japan" as the theme.
Speaking of energy drinks available in Japan, foreign products like Red Bull and Monster Energy, come to mind first if you live here. Of course, there are many old school longtime energy drinks that exist here like Lipovitan D, Tiovita and Alinamin V, however it's hard to think of any "fashionable" Japanese energy drink brand easily.


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Jennifer is a one in a million stay-at-home mom. (More like one OF a million stay at home moms!) She graduated from a liberal arts college but there is nothing liberal OR artsy about her. She is married to Kevin Fischer of This Just In, and together they have a beautiful young daughter Kyla Audrey. In no particular order she loves dogs, wine, a good bargain, her family, pizza, and entertaining. Follow her blog of all things miscellaneous including but not limited to cooking and baking, entertaining and party planning, being a mommy, and homekeeping.
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Ulster marched to the top of the PRO12 standings on Friday with a dominant 31-5 victory over the Dragons at Ravenhill.
Ulster marched to the top of the PRO12 standings on Friday with a dominant 31-5 victory over the Dragons at Ravenhill.
Following the season-defining reverse at the hands of Saracens last weekend, the encounter represented an opportunity for a demoralised Ulster to salvage their domestic season. For the lowly Dragons, meanwhile, the game signified a chance to regain some pride from what has been a disappointing campaign thus far. For the restored Tommy Bowe in particular, this was part of a last-gasp mission to secure a coveted place on the Lions' plane to Australia.
As it was, Ulster got off to the worst start imaginable. Paul Marshall badly misjudged a box kick in the first minute that went out on the full. From the ensuing line-out, the hosts conceded a penalty but Tom Prydie was off target with his kick.
The visitors' back row drove superbly around the fringes in the opening skirmishes, with Welsh international Toby Faletau particularly prominent. It was the visitors, assuredly, who made the better start.
Rookie Ulster tighthead Ricky Lutton, moreover, was under acute pressure from the Dragons' Aaron Coundley. As the half progressed, Pienaar began to get his backline moving, with the hosts displaying some crisp passing in midfield.
The South African fly-half also mixed his game up with some deft kicking. A combination of handling errors, and stoic Dragons' defence disrupted the hosts' continuity, though.
The game opened up on 23 minutes, however, when an incisive break from Marshall in the visiting 22 unleashed Bowe to score in the right-hand corner. Pienaar converted to give his side a 7-0 advantage.
Dragons impressive start dissipated further on 28 minutes when Sam Parry conceded a penalty for hands in the ruck. The concession proved even more costly when Dan Evans was subsequently yellow-carded for dissent. Pienaar duly added the three points.
The hosts made the hitherto impressive Dragons suffer further when Olding squeezed over on 34 minutes in the left, as the 14 men struggled to plug the gaps. Pienaar again converted. Darren Cave compounded the visitors' misery when he danced through to touch down on 37 minutes. Ulster were now 24-0 to the good.
Ulster commenced the second half in similar fashion, pummelling the Dragons 22 through the behemoth, Nick Williams. Their ascendancy was copper-fastened on 44 minutes, when Marshall evaded the Dragons cover to score. Pienaar nailed the conversion to make it 31-0.
Man-of-the-match Olding nearly jigged his way through on 52 minutes, but was whistled back for a knock on. With the Dragons replacing both props, Ulster's scrum was utterly dominant, and the visitors' pack began to look somewhat beleaguered.
Indeed it was only Ulster's own errors that prevented them from amassing a cricket score. Although the raft of substitutions undoubtedly disrupted the rhythm of the match, the Dragons' defence was immeasurably better in the second period.
Ulster continued to keep the Dragons pegged in their own half through the twin boots of Pienaar and Marshall.
But Dragons were not finished. Prydie finished off a neat passage on 68 minutes, following some terrific counter-attacking. But Ulster resolutely closed out the game.
Although his team's resistance will have heartened Dragons coach Edwards, this loss cements their place as second from bottom of the Pro12. For Ulster, this thoroughly decent victory propels them back to the league summit, and keeps the side on course for a home semi-final.
The scorers:
For Ulster:
Tries: Bowe, Olding, Cave, Marshall
Cons: Pienaar 4
Pen: Pienaar
For Dragons:
Tries: Prydie
Yellow card: Evans
Ulster: 15 Peter Nelson, 14 Tommy Bowe, 13 Darren Cave, 12 Stuart Olding, 11 Craig Gilroy, 10 Ruan Pienaar, 9 Paul Marshall, 8 Nick Williams, 7 Mike McComish, 6 Robbie Diack, 5 Dan Tuohy, 4 Iain Henderson, 3 Ricky Lutton, 2 Rory Best (c), 1 Tom Court.
Replacements: 16 Rob Herring, 17 Callum Black, 18 Declan Fitzpatrick, 19 Lewis Stevenson, 20 Ali Birch, 21 Niall O'Connor, 22 Mike Allen, 23 Adam D'Arcy.
Dragons: 15 Tom Prydie, 14 Will Harries, 13 Pat Leach, 12 Jack Dixon, 11 Ross Wardle, 10 Dan Evans, 9 Jonathan Evans, 8 Toby Faletau, 7 Darren Waters, 6 Dan Lydiate, 5 Rob Sidoli, 4 Andrew Coombs (c), 3 Nathan Buck, 2 Sam Parry, 1 Aaron Coundley.
Replacements: 16 Hugh Gustafson, 17 Nathan Williams, 18 Dan Way, 19 Adam Jones, 20 Jevon Groves, 21 Wayne Evans, 22 Steffan Jones, 23 Andy Tuilagi.
Venue: Ravenhill
Referee: Olly Hodges (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Paul Haycock (Ireland), Gary Conway (Ireland)
Television match official: Peter Ferguson (Ireland)
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6th Grade Pilot Lesson
Unit Title:Fat Dogs and Coughing Horses: Haley's Comet has a Cough
Please note that these plans are a work in progress. They will be revised, assessed, and re-piloted over the next two years. The second version of the Spring 2012 plan is below.
Here is the 2011 version 1 of this plan
Here is the 2010 version of this plan.
Grade Level: 6th Grade
Subject/Topic Areas: Science and Health
Key Words: Asthma, Respiratory System, Veterinarian
Teachers: Christine Strattman
Time Frame: 6 week unit to be piloted Spring 2012
School District: Indianapolis Public Schools
Schools: Rousseau McClellan Montessori School #91
Brief Summary of Unit:
Students will work in cooperative groups to complete an online WebQuest. Using links in the WebQuest and numerous resource books, and models, they will explore similarities and differences between human and horse anatomies and examine human and equine respiratory systems and other body systems, organs, tissues and cell structures. They will discover connections between asthma and heaves, a condition in horses similar to asthma. They will compare and contrast the veterinary and medical sciences and learn that there are numerous career opportunities in veterinary science. Students will learn how animals help people; sometimes when veterinarians find successful treatments for sick animals, doctors may use that knowledge to design similar treatments and medicines for people. Students learn how the clinical trials process is similar to the scientific method that students use to carry out their own investigations in school. Near the end of the unit, students use their knowledge to diagnose the conditions of three animals presented in the book, Be the Vet, Solve the Case! For their final task in the WebQuest, students choose an area of interest within the unit to explore in greater depth and present in a brochure they create on the computer.
Academic Standards
Key Vocabulary - Student created word bank
Spring 2012 Pilot
Advance Preparation:
Teacher will need to arrange ahead of time for the following guests and field trips and end of unit brochure.
- Day 5: Field trip to a horse stable –Take photos or notes on the horse environment, bedding, food, pasture…
- Day 8: Guest presenter: Asthma specialist, pediatrician, or school nurse
- Day 18: Guest presenter:
Create a poster in the classroom where students can brainstorm and record topics for further inquiry and the end of the unit. They will use that inquiry to create and present a brochure on a topic of interest. Students will present their brochures to throughout the unit, students should add to a list of topics as they build on their learning.
Task I - Days 1 and 2: It's in the Bag
Task II - Days 3 - 5: Introducing Breeze and Comanche
Task III - Day 6: How Do We Breathe?
Task IV - Days 7 and 8: When Our Lungs Don't Don't Work Well
Task V - Days 9 and 10: When a Horse's Lungs Don't Work Well
Task VI - Days 11 - 13: Travel the "Organ" Trail
Task VII - Day 14 - 16: Comparing Human and Animal Systems, Organs and Cells
Task VIII - Days 17 and 18: How Animals Help People
Task IX - Days 19 and 20: Be the Vet, Solve the Case!
Task X - Days 21 - 22: It's Your Turn
In this webquest, your mission will be to discover:
- How doctors and veterinarians are similar
- Veterinary medicine and research careers
- How animals can help people
- How research using clinical trials is pretty much like the scientific method that you use in science investigations.
Giddy Up!
Task I - Days 1 and 2: It's in the Bag
Obj. Students compare and contrast the tools used by a veterinarian with those of medical doctor.
Teacher brings a "Doctor's bag" filled with a thermometer, stethoscope, forceps, otoscope…etc., leads discussion about the tools inside and asks students if they have seen any tools like these tools before. (Probably at the doctor's office) Surprise! These are the tools of a veterinarian!
Obj. Students compare and contrast careers in the fields of veterinary and medical science.
In this and in most other lessons in the unit, students will receive the greatest benefit by working together in small groups. Introduce them to the arrangement of the WebQuest. They will use it to complete a new task every few days. Today, they will use information found in books and on the WebQuest to identify and describe careers in the medical field (human medicine) and record those careers on the "Word Bank" chart. They do the same with careers in the veterinary sciences field, noticing similarities and differences as they compare and contrast the two fields in a Venn diagram in their notebooks. (Class maintains a poster with this information while individual students record this information in their composition notebooks.)
Task II - Days 3-5: Introducing... Breeze and Comanche
Obj. Students investigate the proper care and maintenance of a horse and its environment for future analysis.
In the WebQuest, students meet to two racehorses that suffer from different respiratory ailments, Spring's Breeze and Comanche's Reign Storm. Later in the unit, students try to diagnose their conditions based on their symptoms and other clues.
Students use the WebQuest to learn about raising and caring for horses as preparation to field trip to horse stable.
Students work together in small groups. They use their learning to prepare interview questions for a field trip to a horse stable on Day 5.
Teacher should plan a field trip to a horse stable and have someone talk to the students about health care and maintenance of horses. Students should have questions ready before they go and take notes while they are there. Guide students to develop higher-level questions to ask at the stable.
If possible, students may wish to take photos and video of the horses and their environment like the stall, bedding, food, pasture, etc., for future reference in learning about heaves and other respiratory diseases.
Students bring notebooks, pencils, cameras, and bags for sample collections to the stable.
After the field trip, students should write a reflection in their science notebook which may include new words and ideas to add to charts, and don't let them forget to write thank-you letters to the stable.
Obj. Students discover how the human respiratory system works using books and the WebQuest as preliminary research to help diagnose the two horses, Breeze and Comanche, at the end of the unit.
Explore, Elaborate, Explain and Evaluate
As a homework assignment students create a working model of the respiratory system to share with the class. They should be encouraged to be creative and use common materials that they have at home, NOT a store-bought model of the respiratory system. The classroom can decide on some guidelines and/or a rubric for expectations about what students should include in their model and presentation. Models can be presented in a number of ways. Some ideas are a gallery walk, a few presentations per day, build in an extra day for all presentations, or students present within small groups.
Task IV - Days 7 and 8: When Our Lungs Don't Work Well
Obj. Students discover causes, triggers, treatments, etc., for asthma using books and the WebQuest.
Engage and Explore
Straw Activity: The teacher directs the students to breathe in and out through a common sized drinking straw several times. (This shouldn't be difficult). Discuss the results. Next, students repeat the procedure with a coffee stirrer. (This will be very difficult). Discuss and compare the results. The teacher should lead the class in a brief discussion about how this relates to asthma and air restriction.
Explore, Explain and Elaborate
Students use books and the WebQuest to develop questions for a visitor who will be invited to speak about asthma and how it's treated. The visitor could be a respiratory specialist, pediatrician, school nurse, etc.
Visit from health professional should be on Day 8. Ask the specialist to talk about why asthma patients use inhalers and how patients need to be educated on the proper use of their inhalers. Students take notes and photographs and/or video of the presenter. (They will need this information when they design an animal inhaler in the next task.)
Teacher should remind students to reflect in their notebooks and on the charts in the classroom and to write a thank you note to the guest presenter.
Task V - Days 9 and 10: When a Horse's Lungs Don't Work Well
Obj. Students analyze asthma treatments for humans in order to design a tool or method for delivering medicine to an animal's lungs.
Engage, Explore, Elaborate, Explain and Evaluate
Students use the WebQuest and books to investigate horses and their respiratory problems, such as heaves and Inflammatory Airway Disease (IAD), and other equine respiratory diseases and their causes, triggers and treatments.
Students are asked to consider the methods that veterinarians might use treat heaves in horses? Discuss that previously the health professional talked about the proper use of an inhaler, but a veterinarian can't educate a horse on how to use an inhaler. Students work in small groups to discuss, design and create a device that could be used on horses for heaves treatments. Create and use a rubric to evaluate the group effort, process, model and presentation as desired and allow opportunity for groups to present their models.
Task VI - Days 11-13: Travel the "ORGAN" Trail
Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate
Obj. Students will investigate different organs and how they are organized into body systems. They will follow the directions on the WebQuest to complete and present a WANTED poster about their chosen organ.
Task VII - Days 14 - 16: Comparing Human and Animal Systems, Organs and Cells
Obj. Students compare and contrast human and animal anatomies.
Explore - Students will use models, prepared slides and books, as well as the WebQuest links and videos to observe and compare humans to animals. Use models of dogs, cats, horses and humans to compare skeletal, muscular and respiratory systems and different organs. The teacher should make sure students are recording their learning in their notebooks.
Use Bingo Body Parts Game with accompanying PowerPoint to find additional similarities between human and animal anatomy if time permits.
Task VII - Days 17 - 18: How Animals Help People
Obj. Students build connections between their new learning about clinical trials and the scientific method. They use these connections to understand how animals help doctors to better care for humans.
Engage, Explore, Elaborate
Before students begin the WebQuest today, the teacher should lead them to brainstorm ways that animals might help people. They will probably be able to add to the list after they learn how actual animals at Purdue University have helped people. Students view an online activity in the WebQuest to learn how animals at Purdue's Veterinary Hospital help people. Play the interactive game, "Tucker's Trials" to learn about the process of clinical trials. The game is a cartoon based on the real dog, Tucker, a golden retriever with bladder cancer. Doctors used the knowledge gained in treating Tucker to study treatments for people with a similar condition.
After students learn about the process for clinical trials, they can make connections between that and a process they are very familiar with, the scientific method, which they use regularly in their own investigations.
After playing the game, students should develop interview questions to prepare for a visit from a veterinarian. www.vet.purdue.edu/engagement/p12/virtual-vet-visits
Background Information for the teacher:
Clinical Trials include four phases:
Phase I
Uses 20 – 80 volunteers to test a new medicine's safety, dosage and side effects.
Phase II
Uses 100 – 300 volunteers to further evaluate the medicine's safety and effectiveness within a larger group.
Phase III
Uses 1,000 – 3,000 volunteers to compare the new medicine with current medicine's side effects and effectiveness in an even larger group.
Phase IV
The medicine has received FDA approval, but needs to be monitored to determine its long-term safety, side effects and effectiveness.
Participation in clinical trials is always voluntary throughout the entire process.
Task IX - Days 19 and 20: Be the Vet, Solve the Case!
Obj. Students analyze the signs and symptoms of two animals to determine why they are sick and how they can be treated.
Explore, Evaluate
Students will read the book, Be the Vet, Solve the Case! and complete the activities included in the book. They will learn about the signs and symptoms that brought Spring's Breeze and Comanche's Reign Storm to the vet. Students will use this information to help the Purdue Veterinarians diagnose nutrition and respiratory conditions in these two animals.
Task X - Days 21 and 22: It's Your Turn
Obj. Students design a brochure on a topic that they have learned about in the unit but wish to explore in greater depth and detail.
Explore, Elaborate, Explain, Evaluate
Using the computer, students will research, create and present a brochure exploring one of the topics from the classroom chart that they would like to understand in greater depth.
Optional extension: The following books have been chosen to integrate the 6th grade Language Arts and Social Studies Standards:
The project described is supported by a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) from the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
NIH . . . Turning Discovery Into Health
Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of ORIP or NIH.
The PVM Office of Engagement collaborates with Discovery Park's Discovery Learning Research Center, Purdue's College of Liberal Arts, Purdue's College of Agriculture, parents, schools, teachers, counselors, and communities to give P-12 students the skills and support they need for future success.
Additional Links
NIH SEPA: This is How We "Role" Program


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Enterprise Tech Tip: Using CDI and Dependency Injection for Java in a JSF 2.0 Application
By edort on Oct 30, 2009
The next release of the enterprise Java platform, Java EE 6 includes a number of powerful new technologies and well as significant enhancements to existing technologies. Two of the new technologies are JSR 299: Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) (referred to in earlier times as Web Beans) and JSR 330: Dependency Injection For Java. One of the significantly enhanced technologies is JSR 314: JavaServer Faces 2.0.
CDI defines a set of services for the Java EE environment that makes applications much easier to develop. Perhaps most significantly, CDI unifies and simplifies the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and JavaServer Faces (JSF) programming models. It allows enterprise beans to act as managed beans in a JSF application.
Until now there has not been a standard approach for annotation-based dependency injection. Dependency Injection For Java changes that by introducing a standard set of annotations that can be used for dependency injection.
If you're involved with creating user interfaces (UIs) for web applications, you're probably familiar with JavaServer Faces. It's a technology that provides a server-side component framework that is designed to simplify the development of UIs for Java EE applications. The latest release of the technology, JSR 314: JavaServer Faces 2.0, makes UI development for Java EE applications even easier through support for annotations and the addition of new features such as Facelets and composite components.
You can get a good idea of how these technologies simplify web application development by reading the Tech Tip Using CDI and Dependency Injection for Java in a JSF 2.0 Application, written by Roger Kitain, the JavaServer Faces co-specification lead. Roger presents a JSF 2.0 application and shows in the source code where CDI components and Dependency Injection for Java annotations play a role.