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6-20-11, 6-21-11, and 6-22-11 PNC Park
I decided that rather than doing three separate entries, that I would lump all three Orioles games together in one entry.
Monday 6-20-11
I began Monday on the Riverwalk, which ended up being a waste of time for about the tenth game in a row. There simply hasn't been any action there since Pedro Alvarez went on the disabled list.
Upon entering the stadium, I caught two baseballs on the fly within the first two minutes of batting practice. They were both hit by Matt Diaz, and I caught both of them here:
I wasn't expecting a huge crowd on Monday, but I was wrong. There were enough fans that things got crowded enough where range became a problem at 5:30. During the Orioles batting practice, I glove tricked a ball along the wall in left field, and caught an unidentified Orioles home run on the fly here:
After batting practice I got some extra tickets scanned and got two bags filled with photo wraps. It was too crowded to compete for outfield toss ups, so I watched most of the game from beneath the left field bleachers.
Tuesday 6-21-11
There was a gigantic crowd for a Tuesday, with over 33,000 in attendance for a 1971 World Series stein.
The Pirates stopped hitting at 5:03. Wow. Three minutes of batting practice time. Nice.
I caught an unidentified Orioles home run here:
And then glove tricked a ball in section 141 for my second ball of the day.
Nick Markakis hit a home run that landed just out of reach in the ivy in center field. I went over to take a look at the ball, and deemed that it was definitely gettable with the right device. I let it go though, as there was a supervisor nearby.
I left immediately after batting practice.
Wednesday 6-22-11.
There as no batting practice today, as it was a day game after a night game, and the players needed the extra sleep. (Poor babies).
Anyhow, the Markakis ball from yesterday was still in center field:
So I grabbed a squeegee and prodded it loose, reached through the railing and grabbed it to avoid a shutout.
When the Orioles came out to throw (and only two sets of pitchers came out), I was lucky enough to snag a ball from Clay Rapada.
He tossed his ball towards the crowd, and two other fans tried to make the snag along with me. The ball clanked off of our hands/gloves, bounced on the warning track, where I snagged it with my right hand almost immediately.
That would be the last ball I snagged, as I sat along the third baseline and watched the game with my Dad.
We watched the later innings from the club level.
In other news:
I had x-rays done on my hand that I hurt on June 7th when racing Nick into foul territory to snag a ball. Since then, I've had no strength in my middle and ring fingers and can only move them minimally. Since they haven't been healing, I decided I needed to go to the doctor, even though I'm one of those stubborn people that hate going to doctors.
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To cap things off, I tweaked my back on the way to the doctor by lifting and carrying a giant trash bag with nineteen 3- pound boxes in it. I can't win.
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6/22: 2 balls (1 thrown, 1 device)
Season: 240 balls (93 hit, 53 thrown, 59 device, 26 found)
Games: 41 games
Average: 5.85 balls per game
Career: 1,362 balls
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I just about skipped this one, quite frankly, but instead I will continue the 'minimalist' theme with a comment on our outdoor decorations on the cabin, in retirement. The photo is from 2009, but the high and low wreaths are the same. We have colored lights around the window, and put colored lights on the left holly bush (rather than the 'white tree' thing over there) this year.
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November 18. 2017 11:29PM
Kentucky-based Advanced Solutions Life Sciences, which plans to bring a dozen staffers to the Manchester Millyard later this year, has invented a 3-D human tissue printer. (COURTESY)
MANCHESTER - Michael Golway is so bullish on Dean Kamen and someday manufacturing human organs that he is moving a dozen staffers to Manchester at year's end.
The president and CEO of a Kentucky company, Advanced Solutions, Golway said he can foresee housing as many as 150 workers here within three years and perhaps 10 times that number years down the road - reaping potentially billions of dollars of yearly revenue.
"I think it has the opportunity for a small company to play a role in something that could be very big and profound and impactful - not only for our country but for a lot of people around the world," Golway said by phone from Kentucky last week.
Golway is talking about the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute, which is ramping up in the Millyard. Kamen spearheaded Manchester securing ARMI and about $294 million in government and private investment committed. ARMI hopes to make the manufacturing of human body parts commercially viable.
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"It's a learning and improvement opportunity," he said. "We also have designed and built and we currently sell the first 3-D human tissue printer that uses a six-axis robot."
During a recent speech in Concord, Kamen noted Advanced Solutions' commitment to moving a dozen workers to "help the Millyard become the beginning of an ecosystem."
Company officials were in Manchester for ARMI's kickoff in July.
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Golway showed that excitement during a phone interview.
"I was definitely a little star-struck," he said of meeting Kamen, whose inventions include the Segway Human Transporter and the first wearable insulin pump for diabetics. "He's a powerful visionary and somebody that I've come to admire and trust."
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"Just taking out all the barriers to discovery" and "bring subject experts together to accelerate discovery and move the science forward," he said. "That's very appealing to me as an entrepreneur and business owner."
Using human fat cells, "we have a technique where we can extract the fat and 3-D print the microvessels" and grow them outside the body, he said.
Their efforts have shown promise in testing on rats.
"We can do implants into animals," he said. "We have not gone to human trial at this point." He hopes that will start in the next three to five years.
An engineer by training, Golway sees a human heart as a collection of cell assemblies just as a car has thousands of subassemblies.
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In Memoriam; Monte Zucker: Devoted Teacher, Resilient Spirit, And Photographic Legend
Zucker, a dedicated family man, an ebullient spirit, and an icon in the professional
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Monte operated a photography studio in the Washington area for more than 50 years, first in Garfinkels department store in Montgomery Mall and then in the White Flint shopping area in Rockville. A few years ago, he resettled to Florida where he continued to photograph, teach, and mentor amateur and professional photographers.
A partial list of his professional accolades includes the Photographer of the Year Award from the United Nations (2002), the Distinguished Service Award from the Photo Marketing Association, the Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman degrees from the Professional Photographers of America (PPA), the Westcott Award for Achievement, fellowship in the American Society of Photographers, membership in the elite Camera Craftsmen of America, and distinction as a Canon Explorer of Light. In addition, Monte had dozens of images entered into the prestigious PPA Loan Collection, received several honors from Wedding & Portrait Photographers International and the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers, and was awarded an honorary Master of Photography degree from PPA.
Before his passing, Monte initiated the Zucker Institute for Photographic Inspiration. The charitable organization is dedicated to inspiring at-risk youth through photography, giving them a vital creative outlet and possibly a future career. For more information, visit www.montezucker.com and click the link to the Institute.
Monte will be remembered by his loving family, dedicated friends, and generations of photographers who will forever think of him as a friend, a mentor, and a teacher.
--Jeff Medford
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You probably use your ears a lot, even when you don't mean to or when you're not supposed to (ahem, like when you eavesdrop.) Studies show that people put their hearing at risk a lot, with too-loud headphones, blaring car stereos, and uber loud concerts that are partly to blame.
So the big question is: How old are your ears? AsapScience has created a hearing test of sorts that plays a series of tones at increasing frequencies. The video indicates which average age group can hear the tones, so you can find just how good or bad your hearing is almost immediately.


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US-based Full Moon Features has entered the VoD sector with the announcement on Tuesday [5] that it was launching the streaming service Grindhouseflix for rare B-movies with the premiere of Ooga Booga.
The service provides access to a host of grindhouse films dating back to the 1960s, with payment options ranging from a $4.99 monthly plan to $1.99 for individual rentals.
Through the Grindhouseflix app, the service streams to a range of devices including iPhones, iPads, Androids, tablets and desktops.
"We wanted to create an unparalleled movie site for impossible to find cult classics," said Full Moon founder Charles Band. "This service will finally make it possible to discover the obscure films that played in decadent arthouse cinemas years ago, and be first to access our exciting world premieres, such as our newest feature film Ooga Booga."
Ooga Booga is set to debut on Mar 12 and follows the murder of an African-American medical student who then exacts his revenge on racists while spiritually trapped inside the body of an obscure toy. Band directed the film starring Karen Black, Stacy Keach and internet celebrity Maddox.


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Michael Schapira, Interview Editor at Full Stop sits down with Janet Roitman to get an insider perspective on her new book Anti-Crisis. Dr. Roitman, Chair, Department of Anthropology at the New School, examines the cycle of crisis production and thinks critically about the Global Financial Crisis. Below is an excerpt of the interview. Read the entire interview at Full Stop.
Crisis is not a small word. It is meant to raise the stakes of the present moment. We may no longer speak with the grandeur of the Continental philosopher (Rahm Emanuel parroting Winston Churchill — "never let a good crisis go to waste" — is probably the best known use of the term today), but that doesn't take any of the immediacy out of the crisis claim. However, what are the grounds of crisis? What allows us to call the 2007-9 economic collapse the "Global Financial Crisis," and how do we tell ourselves the story of how we got there and where we need to go? As the anthropologist Janet Roitman notes in her excellent new book Anti-Crisis, our telling of events like the Global Financial Crisis has the effect of "permitting and enabling certain narrations and giving rise to certain questions, but not others." The questions we tend to ask are along the lines of "what went wrong?" (e.g. in our pricing of derivatives or other complex financial instruments), but not "how can one know crisis in history? And how can one know crisis itself?" It is a stretch to say that the Global Financial Crisis has reached any neat resolution, which makes Roitman's call to think outside of the politics of crisis such an important task for understanding our present moment — in both its limitations and possibilities.
I sat down with Janet on a chilly morning near Lincoln Center to discuss why we need to think crisis differently, why the concept has eluded the critical attention that we give to other terms, and why anthropologists may have something significant to contribute to philosophy and political theory.
Michael Schapira: How did you arrive at the concept of "crisis?"
Janet Roitman: It's actually a very simple story. I'd published my first book, which was on Central Africa and related to economic anthropology. One of the things that was important to me in that book was to not write about Africa and its pathology. I was very careful not to take the Weberian model of the rational-legal state and then recount the ways that Africa diverges from and doesn't achieve that model — which is basically what most political science on Africa does. I was teaching in France at the time and got an email from Beth Povinelli at Columbia inviting me to give the Franz Boas lecture. Of course, I was very flattered. So we had this email exchange. Fiscal Disobedience had been out for a couple of years and I didn't want to just present the book, so I wondered what exactly they wanted me to do. She wrote back saying that the book had been really helpful for thinking about crisis in anthropology. I didn't know if she meant crisis in the discipline of anthropology or how anthropologists deal with the concept of crisis, but what I did know is that I felt I had failed miserably. In the introduction to my first book, I say why I am not using the terms crisis or failed states, so I thought, "Oh no, I went to all these pains to avoid these terms and here they are asking me to come talk about them." I was really flummoxed, but I thought about it and realized that Achille Mbembe and I had written this text almost a decade prior in Public Culture called "Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis." So I went back and reread that text and realized that I was happy when we wrote it, but now totally disagreed with it a decade later. So I wrote the presentation for the Franz Boas lecture that explained why I was in disagreement with it and why my book was supposed to have marked a different direction.
To jump over a lot of stuff, I ended this experience of having given the lecture with the question of how to think Africa otherwise than under the sign of crisis, which was a quandary. As an anthropologist, or at least someone associated with the discipline of anthropology, I had to devise an ethnographic project to investigate this question; but first I really needed to think more about the concept. So I started this work of inquiring into the concept. When I arrived at The New School in 2007, I taught two graduate seminars where we really traced the emergence of the concept in the social sciences and its displacements through various disciplines — from Marxist historiography to economic anthropology to post-structuralism, etc.
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Premier League: Newcastle came from behind to beat Southampton 4-2
Newcastle leapfrogged Southampton in the Premier League thanks to a thrilling 4-2 win at St James' Park.
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The home crowd were stunned into silence as early as the third minute, when Morgan Schneiderlin gave the Saints an early lead, but it was all Newcastle for the rest of the half.
However, the Toon faithful had to wait until just after the half-hour mark to equalise, when Moussa Sissoko tapped in after Yoan Gouffran's effort had been blocked by Saints' stopper Artur Boruc, then Papiss Cisse's spectacular 25-yard dipping effort gave Newcastle a deserved lead at the break.
Just as they had in the first period, Southampton came out of the blocks the quickest after the interval, and Rickie Lambert scored his 100th goal for the club from close-range to put the Saints level.
However, a Yohan Cabaye penalty and a bizarre own goal from Jos Hooiveld meant Alan Pardew's men took all three points from this thrilling encounter.
It was France day at St James' Park, with fans donning all kinds of Gallic attire to celebrate the influx of new faces at the club, but the positive feeling around the ground was soon turned sour by the Saint's opener.
Rickie Lambert, who was a nuisance all afternoon, knocked down Luke Shaw's diagonal ball into the path of the onrushing Morgan Schneiderlin, who swivelled and stroked the ball past Premier League debutant Rob Elliot, deputising in place of the injured Tim Krul.
However, after that it was all Newcastle, with the only surprise that it took so long for the home side to find that equaliser, which came thanks to Sissoko after great work from Gouffran down the right, bamboozling the Saints' backline with some neat footwork, and firing a low shot which was saved by Boruc, but Sissoko was on hand tap in.
Papiss Cisse then produced a moment of magic reminiscent of his spectacular strike at Stamford Bridge last season, smashing in a thunderous effort from 25 yards to give the Magpies the lead at the break.
However, the Saints were soon level after the interval thanks to Southampton's dangerman Lambert. Adam Lallana was allowed time and space to pick out the hitman in the box, who had no trouble stroking the ball past Elliot.
The momentum swung once again as Southampton sensed a rare victory in this part of the North East, but a blatant handball from substitute Danny Fox as the impressive Mathieu Debuchy attempted to hook a Cabaye cross into the dangerzone gifted Newcastle the opportunity to regain the lead from the spot, and Cabaye duly obliged, slotting his penalty past Boruc.
The goal that sealed the points for the Magpies was harsh on Southampton, but it was the manner in which it was scored that will anger boss Mauricio Pochettino.
Danny Fox attempted to lash the ball clear in his six yard area, but instead volleyed straight at Hooiveld, who was powerless to stop the ball bouncing in.


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Oh geez! Is it really almost October??! Alida hasn't had the busiest summer but her parent's sure have! I think I misunderstood what it meant to be two years old. For some reason I thought I was waiting for this moment so that I could once again resume cleaning the house, cooking meals and running errands. My excuse for the last two years for a dirty house, an empty fridge and the ability to accomplish little or nothing at all is still going strong!!!
Alida is still into everything...no exceptions. She has most recently painted her face with butt paste, painted her toys/stool/play room carpet with purple paint, "washed" out a poopy diaper in the bathroom sink, soaped up her baby dolls because they looked dirty, emptied a brand new bottle of perfume onto her Mom-Mom's bed, etc, etc, etc. You just gotta love her! Oh...and I swear that I never leave this child alone for more than a few seconds. She's like lightning!! If she's quiet you know she's into something she shouldn't be. The only thing that keeps her attention and gets her to remain still for more than a second is "The Fresh Beat Band" (on Nick...The Backyardigans have taken a back seat to this hip hop band!).
She is still making us the proudest parent's that ever existed. Since her stroke diagnosis several months back she has been receiving OT and PT through Early Intervention. She has been improving a great deal!! She's motivated to use that left hand no matter the challenge. She's constantly reminding us to use both hands or to "try the other hand". She has been singing songs all summer long including "God Bless America" (a song I sang at the top of my lungs as a kid!). She enjoys singing "Happy Birthday" to whomever she is able to and if it's not currently someones birthday one of her dolls will be a fill-in. She has named each of her dolls....I constantly ask her their names, it's just so freakin' cute! There's baby Tara, baby Regan, baby Doll, baby Riley, baby Baby, baby Maddox and baby Beth. Of course some of the dolls came with names...but she remembers them without needing reminders.
The little lady is currently passed out in her big girl bed. We had to switch over due to new climbing skills that daddy convinced Alida to start using to her advantage. So far...so good. She has not gotten out of the bed to date and still yells for mommy when she wakes. The only problem is that now mommy has to get up right away for fear the the first solo exit won't be the last! She's still cuddling with George (her favorite stuffed animal courtesy of Fran and Amy that she never lets out of her site) and her favorite blanket (a yellow and white star blanket that's fuzzy on one side and silky on the other). Sometimes we forget George and her blanket when we visit friends or family but she usually agrees that it's important for George to get a night out once in a while. I also figured out how to get the girl to brush her teeth without a fight!!! Did anyone ever hear of the cavity monster?! Works like a charm!
I had plans to do something fun and exciting several times this summer....my plan didn't work out so well. Alida was able to visit the beach once and she got to check out Sesame Place as well. She spent most of the summer swimming in Aunt Joan's pool so she was able to show us her swimming abilities by the end of the summer. I refrained from tossing her into the pool as I am told my mother once did when I was a small child. The excitement of watching her swim around the pool on her own (with the help of the arm floaties) would have been tainted had I forced her to suck water up her nose and fear for her life to get her to do it!! I still love you mom!! HAHA!
Alida has been spending some extra QT with daddy recently. I've been accepted to a weekend nursing program and have been spending Saturdays and Sundays in class so Alida has finally gotten the chance to bond with her pops. I know that she will one day appreciate this chance even though when I call during break time she always says "mommy, come over. I'm crying for you mommy!" She surely knows how to pull on my heartstrings!!!
Enjoying the boardwalk with her beau Noah!
Digging in OC, NJ for the day.
Sharing her lolly with Mason and Livvy at Sesame....she does share it eventually, I promise!
Attempting to get away from Bert and Ernie...she still regrets not giving them a high five and hasn't forgiven herself for causing them to cry.


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Well-known artist Richard Bramble already features in his own page here under the CONTRIBUTIONS drop-down menu. For the previous post of RB hard at work on new designs at the Delphi Club CLICK EXAMPLE PHOTO BELOW
RB and Crawfish model posing (both)
Richard has broadened his already considerable range of paintings and ceramics to include the Abaco marine life he painted while at Delphi. In addition to his very elegant Bonefish, there are now Permit and Crawfish plates (with the original 'life model' pictured above). Some weeks later I was at Richard's studio in Dorset as he prepared to transfer these designs to ceramics, with crawfish cut-outs artfully strewn around the floor. Here are his new items, with his characteristic captions:
(I have an oval bonefish plate to remind me of the ones I… I…'let go' by mistake)
Richard's comprehensive website featuring his entire oeuvre is to be found at the sign of the Crawfish together with an elementary purchase method to take advantage of the excellent online shopping opportunities (he might be too modest to say). I write this with Christmas-tide a mere 2 weeks away. You'll find sea water and fresh water fish / creatures, shells, all manner of game birds and farmyards animals, on every conceivable type of ceramic platter, utensil and kitchen gizmo.
(With apologies that this site seems t0 be turning into a cross between an online Mall and an advertising agency… Nature Tours. Boat Expeditions. Arts & Crafts. Kitchenware. Books. Cameras. Yup, ticked them all. But there's plenty of other stuff to look at in these pages)


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It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR and I'm Guy Raz. And our show today - misconceptions - things you know to be true until they aren't. Is there something you always believed and then you found out it was wrong?
MALCOLM GLADWELL: Well, I sort of feel like that's true all the time. I feel like what I believe about the world today is so different from what I believed five or 10 years ago.
RAZ: Yeah. But there are things that we - like, we're sure are true. We're convinced they are true like there was a brontosaurus. But in fact there was never a brontosaurus because kids now learn about the apatosaurus. But there was never a brontosaurus.
GLADWELL: Wow.
RAZ: There was never - it was just two apatosauruses from different parts of the body. And they just discovered that that's what it was. It was no brontosaurus.
GLADWELL: I didn't - you know, I did not know that until you said that right now. My world has now been rocked. I feel like - no brontosaurus. Brontosaurus was a permanent part of my kind of intellectual arsenal, and now it's gone.
RAZ: Gone, completely gone from Malcolm Gladwell's life. And this is what he does. He writes books about all the things we thought we knew to be true that turn out to be wrong. I'm sorry to have broken this to you like this.
GLADWELL: Well, this is what I'm saying. I mean, you're never more alive than when things get turned upside down. I love the feeling actually of getting my applecart overturned.
RAZ: And on the show today, things that might possibly overturn your applecart as well - five misconceptions about things we are convinced are right. So let's start with Malcolm Gladwell's TED talk.
GLADWELL: So I wanted to tell a story that really obsessed me when I was writing my new book. And the reason the story obsessed me is that I thought I understood it. And then I went back over it, and I realized that I didn't understand it at all. Ancient Palestine had a...
RAZ: So you know this story. It's a famous battle which may or may not have taken place sometime in the late 10th, early ninth century BC. The Israelites, they were led by King Saul, and they were fighting the Philistines. And they were locked in a stalemate across the valley. So they decide to settle it, once and for all, in one epic battle between two warriors. The Philistines go first.
GLADWELL: And the Philistine who is sent down, their mighty warrior is a giant. He's 6-foot-9.
RAZ: He's got armor, a sword, javelin, a spear.
GLADWELL: He is absolutely terrifying.
RAZ: And none of the Israelites want to take him on. Except...
GLADWELL: This young shepherd boy. And he goes up to Saul, and he says, I'll fight him. Saul says, you can't fight him. That's ridiculous. You're this kid. This is this mighty warrior. But the shepherd is adamant. He says, no, no, no. You don't understand. I have been defending my flock against lions and wolves for years. I think I can do it.
RAZ: So Saul says, OK. And the boy, he picks up a few stones...
GLADWELL: And puts them in his shepherd's bag and starts to walk down the mountainside to meet the giant.
RAZ: And from a distance, the giant sees this tiny little man holding a shepherd's staff.
GLADWELL: He's insulted. And he says, am I a dog that you would come to me with sticks?
RAZ: The shepherd boy says nothing. He just lines up his sling, and with only one rock, he hits the target.
GLADWELL: Right between the eyes.
RAZ: And the giant...
GLADWELL: Falls down, either dead or unconscious. And the shepherd boy runs up and takes his sword and cuts off his head. And the Philistines see this, and they turn, and they just run. And of course the name of the giant is Goliath, and the name of the shepherd boy is David. And the reason that story has obsessed me over the course of writing my book is that everything I thought I knew about that story turned out to be wrong.
RAZ: I mean, everything you thought you knew about this was wrong.
GLADWELL: The emphasis is all wrong. The story is dramatic in - I think it's more dramatic when you know the hidden story.
GLADWELL: David in that story is supposed to be the underdog, right? In fact, that term, David and Goliath, has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger. Now why do we call David an underdog? Well, we call him an underdog because all he has is - this giant is that - is that Goliath is outfitted with all of this modern weaponry, this glittering coat of armor and a sword and a javelin and a spear. And all David has is this sling. Well, let's start there with the phrase, all David has is this sling, because that's the first mistake that we make. In ancient warfare, there are three kinds of warriors. There's cavalry, there's heavy infantry and there's artillery. And artillery are archers, but more importantly, slingers. And a slinger is someone who has a leather pouch with two long cords attached to it.
And they put a projectile, either a rock or a lead ball, inside the pouch. And they whirl it around like this, and they let one of the cords go. And the effect is to send the projectile forward at - towards its target. That's what David has, and it's important to understand that that sling is not a slingshot, right? It's not a child's toy.
When David rolls it around like this, he's turning this sling around probably at six or seven revolutions per second. And that means that when the rock is released, it's going forward really fast, probably 35 meters per second. More than that, the stones in the Valley of Elah were not normal rocks. They were barium sulfate, which are rocks twice the density of normal stones. If you do the calculations on the ballistic - on the stopping power of the rock fired from David's sling, it's roughly equal to the stopping power of a 45 millimeter handgun, right? This is an incredibly devastating weapon. From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight.
They were incredibly accurate, right? When David lines up - and he's not 200 yards away from Goliath - he's quite close to Goliath. When he lines up and fires that thing at Goliath, he has every intention and every expectation of being able to hit Goliath at his most volatile spot, between his eyes.
It's not just that we misunderstand David and his choice of weaponry. It's also that we profoundly misunderstand Goliath. Goliath is not what he seems to be. There's all kinds of hints of this in the biblical text, things that are - in retrospect, are quite puzzling and don't square with his image as this mighty warrior. So to begin with, the Bible makes special note of how slowly Goliath moves. Now that is weird, right? Here is this mighty warrior. And then there's that strange comment he makes to David, am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks? Right? Sticks? David only has one stick.
Well, it turns out that there's been a great deal of speculation within the medical community over the years about whether there's something wrong with - fundamentally wrong with Goliath, an attempt to make sense of all of those apparent anomalies. So Goliath is head and shoulders above all of his peers in that era. And usually when someone is that far out of the norm, there's an explanation for it. So the most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland.
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous - he had acromegaly. There's even speculation that Abraham Lincoln had acromegaly. And acromegaly has a very distinct set of side effects associated with it, principally having to do with vision. The pituitary tumor, as it grows, often starts to compress the visual nerves in your brain with the result that people with acromegaly have either double vision or they are profoundly nearsighted. Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks? He sees two sticks when David has only one. So the Israelites up on the mountain ridge looking down on him thought he was this extraordinarily powerful foe. What they didn't understand was that the very thing that was the source of his apparent strength was also the source of his greatest weakness. Goliath is a sitting duck. He doesn't have a chance, right? So why do we keep calling David an underdog, and why do we keep referring to his victory as improbable? And there is, I think, in that a very important lesson for all of us. Giants are not as strong and powerful as they seem, and sometimes the shepherd boy has a sling in his pocket. Thank you.
RAZ: I mean, I ,like - I feel like I've been thrown a little bit off balance.
GLADWELL: Good. I like that. I take that as high praise.
RAZ: But then a part of me is, like, you know, surely most underdogs don't come with the advantages of David, you know, like facing a partially blind adversary who's lumbering and slow.
GLADWELL: Well, although, maybe not. I mean, so you have all kinds of software companies out there that do battle against the giants like Microsoft and have done very well in recent years. And if you asked them why, well, they would say, well, the giant is kind of lumbering and blind and slow. I mean, I don't think we - there are any shortage of examples of countries or companies or individuals who have gotten very, very successful and as a result become vulnerable to a more nimble, hungrier opponent armed with the weapons of the spirit. I mean, I still think that's the narrative of our age.
RAZ: So why is this misconception - I mean, why is that our narrative?
GLADWELL: I think that there's a thing, particularly when a story turns into a metaphor, it becomes very difficult to displace. And once something turns into a metaphor, I just don't think we bother to revisit it anymore, you know. We kind of - we get lazy. And that's probably half the reason right there.
RAZ: So does that mean we're all going to want to be Goliaths?
GLADWELL: Well, no. It just changes the definitions. What we should think of is not underdog versus favorite. It is rather the difference between established and powerful and large, and a nimble audacious outsider. It's the startup versus Microsoft. It's Tesla versus BMW. And once you rephrase it, you get away from this simplistic way of saying, one guy's supposed to win and one guy's not. It's not that. It's that their arsenal is profoundly different, and there'll be different outcomes depending on how the battle is configured.
RAZ: Malcolm Gladwell. You can see his full talk at TED.com. His new book about all this is called "David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants." More misconceptions in a minute. I'm Guy Raz and you're listening to the TED Radio Hour from NPR.
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I like my coffee like I like my women
That's right. I photoshopped some tits onto a coffee cup. I'm a fucking genius.
So, now that I've won you over with my intellectually sophisticated brand of wit, I'd like to take this opportunity to share something that is very near and dear to my heart...
Friends, we live in a world that is jam packed with problems, yet lacking in solutions. And while some of these problems involve disease, natural resources, the weather, and anal-probing extraterrestrials, the vast majority of our problems are caused by other humans. When something goes wrong, it's usually an inside job.
Many great thinkers have noticed this, and tried to do something about it. Plato attempted to solve the bulk of our problems in his book "The Republic". It was a good start, but the book contained no pictures of boobies, and therefore did not really take off. The political philosopher/slapstick comedian Marx came up with many interesting solutions during the course of his career, but after he and his brothers attained success as a comedy troupe, the name "Marx" became associated with silliness and eye poking, causing many scholars to no longer take him seriously. Even the brilliant thinker Nietzsche took a swipe at it, but was, unfortunately, completely batshit.
I, on the other hand, display no signs of mental illness (see previous post), have a very serious and authoritative sounding name (see profile), and am not afraid to roll out the boobies if the need arises (see above). So with that in mind, I now present to you my very own one-size-fits-all solution to (almost) all of society's woes:
The Catapult
Once popular as an artillery weapon in Medieval times, these contraptions have a lot of great features. They are easy to construct. They do not require gasoline or electricity, and are therefore environmentally friendly. They project a certain "Olde World" charm. They also project unwanted things far, far away.
This last feature is the one on which I would like to expand. Let's take a look at just a few of the ways this marvelous device can be utilized:
Social functions
How many times has your party, bat mitzvah, wedding reception, funeral, etc., been ruined by unwanted guests, family, friends, or other types of jackasses? With the catapult, these undesirables can easily be projected to a more acceptable distance from your celebration. Plus, they are so simple to operate, you can do it while completely shitfaced.
Movie theaters
I don't know about you, but when I pay $9 for the privilege of allowing Hollywood to lobotomize me with their unimaginative, brain dead drivel, the last thing I want to hear is some chick in the next row talk on her cellphone or pop her chewing gum. Every seat in a movie theater should have a built-in catapult, so that offenders can be quickly and quietly projected out of the theater and into the parking lot.
Now, I know some of you are probably wondering "but what about crying babies? What do we do about those irritating little cocksuckers?". I can forgive babies, for it is not their fault that they're stupid. Which is why anyone under the age of three will be projected onto a specially cushioned pad in the parking lot, where their mothers can retrieve them once the movie is over.
Drugs and paraphernalia
No one wants to be left holding the bag, so to speak, when Johnny Law kicks the door in. Toilets are very ineffective in these situations. Marijuana floats, cocaine is not water-soluble, and pills are often too heavy to flush properly. Not to mention bongs, pipes, glowsticks and other bulky paraphernalia, which must also be removed from the premises. A small catapult near a window is the answer to your problems. Not only will it quickly and safely get the incriminating evidence off of your property, but will deposit it onto the property of the asshole neighbor who called the cops in the first place. Or the asshole neighbor with the dog that never stops barking, it's your choice.
On the Job
The workforce is overflowing with lazy and incompetent employees. You know the type: Instead of working, they sit around all day, wasting valuable company time while surfing the internet, reading blogs, and...
Well, let's just skip this one for now.
Public Education
Our schools are overly crowded as it is, and it's time to get rid of some of the dead wood. Instead of "No child left behind", I say we adopt a policy of "Some children projected far away". Any time a test is given, each child will sit in their special government-issued catapult seat. The moment they get an answer wrong, they are instantly relocated away from the school and onto the street, where their education will continue as they learn to be drug dealers and prostitutes. I call it "higher" learning.
So, as you can see, this catapult solution is a subject which I've thought through very carefully, and not just something I pulled out of my ass at the last minute because it's Wednesday and I needed to put up a blog post.
And while the coffee-cup-with-boobies picture alone would probably have been enough to sufficiently distract most of you from your horrid, mind-numbing office jobs, The Captain likes to go that extra mile, and give you something to really think about.
So leave a comment and get right back to work. And pray that your boss doesn't read this post, or you may find a large, wooden mechanism next to the copy machine when you come in to work tomorrow.
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Hello lovelies! Today I have some fun new free printables. I love printables. They are just so fun and I love how you can print them out for very little (either at home, Walgreen's, CVS, etc) and change them out for Holidays. I decided to try my hand out at making some new cute ones. I followed the tutorial on I am Momma, Hear Me Roar. Boy was this one helpful. I have been copy and pasting scrapbook pages, but her tutorial made it so much easier. Thank you Cheri!
Here are the printables I made over the weekend, while relaxing it up.
If you make a project, link it back to me and e-mail you pic.
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this first one was my tester....
and this one totally describes my family to a T
and you can tell I was getting a bit braver with the fonts and words.
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Many dogs and cats that end up in shelters are merely the victims of their owner�s lifestyle changes.
Many dogs and cats that end up in shelters are merely the victims of their owner�s lifestyle changes.
That�s the assessment of Bonnie Compton, president of the Pals for Paws, which was one of two animal rescue groups on hand Saturday at the New Bern Farmer�s Market Dog Days of Summer event.
�People don�t hold onto their animals,� she said. �They get them when they are young and cute and they (animals) grow up. Life changes and the owners � they get children, they get a divorce, they get new carpet.�
The pets are often the odd one out, said Compton.
That is where rescue groups such as Pals come to the rescue when they can.
�We had the most adorable little dog. They (owners) didn�t have enough space,� Compton said. �It was the luckiest thing that could have happened to him. He�s now got a new loving home.�
Compton heads Pal�s �A New Leash on Life� program, which teams with inmates at Craven County Correctional Institution. The inmates work with the adoptable dogs, teaching them basic obedience and agility, house manners, along with crate and leash training.
Pal�s rescues four dogs from the local shelter for each class and they go to the prison training for eight weeks. The next graduation is Sept. 4 and only Tangie, a Beagle mix with a hint of a few other breeds including pit bull. She is a year-old female and weights 35 pounds.
Pal�s also sponsors affordable spay/neuter for animals: $50 for dogs; $30 for cats and $14 for a rabies shot.
At Saturday�s event, the group also sold raffle tickets, handed out information and took donations.
�All our programs are totally funded by the community,� she said. Pal�s is basically a three-person operation, with Compton, along with Shiela Rohner, who is the treasurer and head of the spay/neuter program; and secretary and volunteer Kathy Gentile.
Another rescue group at Saturday�s event was the Home at Last Foundation, based in New Bern. It has a cat shelter home, which is currently full with about 100 felines, according to volunteer Kenni Woody, who was manning the group�s regular booth, featuring hand-knitted items donated by other volunteers. Items include dog and cat toys, bags, dog beds and pillows.
The group will soon be opening a new thrift shop called Fur Pets Sake at 2021 U.S. 17 in Bridgeton.
There is a preview sale scheduled Aug. 30 from 5 to 8 p.m. and also on Aug. 31 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The store opening is planned Sept. 6. Store hours will be 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Fridays; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and 1to 5 p.m. on Sundays.
The nonprofit group is now accepting all items, large and small, excluding computer equipment.
Some items still needed to set up the shop includes a register, cloths racks, hanger, book and utility shelves, display cases and tables.
Contact 671-3206 of 813-505-2760 for donation drop-offs or pickup, or information.
One other regular Saturday vendor had animal items. Grandma�s Goodies Bakery featured dog treats, including all-natural ones for diabetic dogs. They are made of sweet potatoes, honey, apple sauce and whole wheat flour. Those ingredients, according to the vendors, helps stabilize blood sugar.
The Farmers Market has more upcoming events, including a Scuppernong Grape Saturday, which will be announced as the grapes ripen.
On Sept. 21, the market has Heritage Day, which began in 2010 during the city of New Bern�s 300th anniversary. Julie McKeon of the market said vendors are encouraged to bring antiques and that anyone with genealogy information or displays are also welcome. Old photographs are also on the list of requested display items.
On Sept. 27, the third annual Ocktoberfest by the New Bern Breakfast Rotary Club is scheduled. The fundraiser for Rotary community projects is from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. and along with plenty of food and beverages, the Harbour Towne Fest Band of Wilmington will provide the music.
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To do this project you need:
- An extra large piece of paper (I used a piece off a roll of table paper), it would also be fun to try it on a sheet
- Rubber spike balls (I found mine in the dollar spot at Target)
- Tempera paints
- A drop cloth for the ground to keep dirt & grass off the balls - in my case I was trying to protect my cement (it did help a little, but next time I will try to find a grassy area so the clean-up is easier)
- A wall or fence to tape your paper to
- Tape up an extra piece of paper above the art work paper
in case of a stray ballto protect your wall or fence from paint splashes. I had to scrub mine off the house - it wasn't too bad, but it only added to the clean up I had to do on my driveway.
- I could have used a few extra drop cloths also, but it wouldn't have been a big deal if the kids had been standing on grass.
Afterwards I turned on the sprinklers so they could rinse a little paint off their bodies, but instead they decided to turn clean-up into a bike wash.


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Pocket as many pool balls as you can before the time runs out!
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Run for the Money participants kept the victims of the Boston Marathon explosions on their minds early Saturday.
Run for the Money participants kept the victims of the Boston Marathon explosions on their minds early Saturday.
About 2,000 runners and walkers gathered along Main Avenue in Gastonia to help raise money for Gaston County nonprofits.
Megan Conner of Belmont participated in the 2K walk and said the situation in Boston was the first thing she thought about Saturday.
Her friend, Cindy Hammer of Mount Holly, also walked and said she prayed for everyone�s safety. She remembered the tragedy in Boston before falling asleep on Friday night.
Gastonia Police Department and Gaston County Sheriff�s deputies blocked off streets throughout the York Chester neighborhood around downtown Gastonia for the event.
People gathered to start the 2K walk and 5K run at 8 a.m., some introducing themselves to others and offering smiles. Event organizers with the Community Foundation of Gaston County hope to raise $1 million.
�It�s the best thing for the community,� Conner said. �We come together, we support each other. It�s an awesome thing.�
An estimated 2,000 people participated in the event that will benefit 132 nonprofit organizations. Some set up booths around the Rotary Pavilion in Gastonia to sell items and offer information.
Hammer said the brisk weather on Saturday morning helps when running or walking.
�It�s cool. You want it cool. It�s perfect,� she said. �You want it cool because you�re going to get heated up.�


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White Chocolate
We tasted real white chocolate alongside "fake" supermarket brands to determine if the real deal was worth tracking down.
How We Tested
White chocolate isn't really chocolate at all. While it contains the cocoa butter of true chocolate, it lacks cocoa solids, the element responsible for milk and dark chocolate's characteristic brown color and nutty roasted flavor. Other pale confections labeled simply "white" chips or bars (these boast less than the 20 percent cocoa butter required to earn the designation "white chocolate") are just as common in the baking aisle of the supermarket. These milky products usually contain partially hydrogenated palm oil, palm kernel oil, soybean oil, or cottonseed oil in lieu of some or all of the cocoa butter. Could the fakes match the flavor of real white chocolate and perform the same in cooking?
We gathered nine brands (four real, five fake) to taste plain, eliminating four brands outright for off-flavors, grainy textures, and over-the-top sweetness. Surprisingly, these losers were not confined to the fake brands—two were real white chocolate containing at least 20 percent cocoa butter. Almost all contained artificial ingredients and more sugar than higher-ranked brands.
Next, we prepared the top five in white chocolate mousse. Better brands melted and blended well to create creamy mousse with balanced milky, vanilla flavors and moderate sweetness. Lesser brands tasted more sweet than complex. In addition, two looked oily when melted and produced slightly grainy mousse. This problem, it turned out, occurred only in the real white chocolate. Due to its high concentration of cocoa butter, real white chocolate melts and solidifies at a lower temperature than the fake stuff and will form crystals if it cools too quickly. Refined fats in the fake white confection, in contrast, can help it melt and solidify at a higher temperature, preventing the crystals that cause grainy mousse.
With the fake white confection's edge in cooking, our winner turned out to be not real white chocolate at all but an artificial white chip: Guittard Choc-Au-Lait White Chips. Tasters raved over a creamy texture akin to "crème fraîche" and a strong vanilla flavor. In mousse it was "not too sweet" and "remarkably smooth." It was the second-cheapest brand in the lineup, costing just 27 cents per ounce, and beat out a real white chocolate from the same manufacturer.
We also found that a good brand of imitation white chocolate like Guittard has another decided edge over the real white deal: A lesser amount (or lack) of cocoa butter keeps it from oxidizing too quickly and extends shelf life. White chocolate, on the other hand, rapidly goes rancid when exposed to bright light or heat (the antioxidants in the cocoa solids in milk and dark chocolate help temper this reaction), plus it has the tendency to pick up surrounding odors. When we stored some white chocolate in a clear plastic container in a fluorescent-lit storage room, within one week, it had gone rancid and smelled (and tasted) like plastic.
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Guittard Choc-Au-Lait White Chips
Guittard Choc-Au-Lait White Chips
This "creamy, buttery, and milky" chip was praised for its "strong vanilla" flavor and "smooth, silky, crème fraîche¬-like" texture when prepared in white chocolate mousse. Though it's not true white chocolate, its lesser amount of cocoa butter than in the real stuff proved a boon: These chips were less finicky in cooking than the real white chocolate brands.
E. Guittard 31% Cacao Pure White Chocolate Wafers
E. Guittard 31% Cacao Pure White Chocolate Wafers
Tied for second place, this white chocolate baking wafer is the real deal. "Very creamy and smooth," tasted plain, it had a "milky, buttery, nutty and vanilla" flavor that was "complex" and "not just candy-sweet." One caveat: It needed to be monitored carefully during cooking to make sure it didn't seize up and lead to grainy mousse.
Ghirardelli White Chocolate Premium Baking Bar
Ghirardelli White Chocolate Premium Baking Bar
This "extra creamy" real white chocolate tasted "slightly fruity" and like "vanilla." Tasters liked its "moderately sweet" flavor, but a slightly "grainy" texture in mousse and a tendency to seize up reduced its ranking.
Ghirardelli Premium Baking Chips, Classic White
Ghirardelli Premium Baking Chips, Classic White
This fake chip surprised us when it tied for second place, as it beat out the real white chocolate bar made by the same manufacturer. This chip's "sweet cream" flavor was "rich," and "milky," with a "buttery" texture, though some noticed a slightly "waxy and chalky" aftertaste when prepared in mousse.
Nestlé Toll House Premier White Baking Bar
Nestlé Toll House Premier White Baking Bar
Though some felt this fake white chocolate baking bar tasted "buttery," many sensed an "artificial" flavor and some felt there was "too much sugar" added. A "dry and chalky" texture made it "stick to your teeth."
Baker's Premium White Chocolate Baking Squares
Baker's Premium White Chocolate Baking Squares
This "neutral" tasting real white chocolate was "acceptable" to some, but many were turned off by its "fake," "chemical," flavor and "chalky" texture. "Reminds me of cheap holiday candies my grandmother had," commented one taster. It was eliminated after the plain tasting.
Hershey's Premier White Chips
Hershey's Premier White Chips
Heavy on the sugar and vanilla flavor, this fake white chip was "waxy," "chalky," and "dry" in texture. Its "too sweet" flavor reminded some of "old Easter candy." This brand was eliminated after the plain tasting.
Barry Callebaut White Chocolate Chunks
Barry Callebaut White Chocolate Chunks
These "chalky," "too sweet" chunks had a "granular texture" that tasters couldn't get past. Many reported an odd, fruity flavor, "like it got mixed up with some hard candy before they packaged it." For those reasons, it was eliminated after the plain tasting.
Nestlé Toll House Premier White Morsels
Nestlé Toll House Premier White Morsels
This "very grainy" and "absurdly sweet" chip tasted like "hardened condensed milk." With a "chalky" texture and a "fake plastic flavor," this fake chip landed at the bottom of our lineup and was eliminated after the plain tasting.


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The European Union (EU) announced a TARP-sized rescue program for its sovereign debt crisis, and relieved global investors sent stock markets surging on Monday.
But unveiling the rescue package is not identical with "crisis over."
A potential sticking point: The deal arranged by EU finance ministers doesn't mean that parliaments in all member nations will ultimately agree to support those costs.
America's TARP fund, the Troubled Assets Relief Program of 2008, may be a cautionary tale. Even at the height of the financial crisis, America was wary of bailing out its own banking system. The initial congressional vote went against creating the $700 billion fund.
The eurozone package is politically more complicated. It's designed to show that 16 nations sharing the euro currency will stand united behind the debts of member nations to stave off a potential crisis of confidence that could damage them all.
"To disburse the money to actually fund this vehicle, it would require parliamentary approval" in participating nations, says Jay Bryson, a global economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, N.C. "I'm cautiously optimistic that this crisis is over for now." But "there's still a long road ahead here."
Just like Congress with the TARP, European nations have a strong incentive to go along with the rescue. Failure to stem investors' worries, which sent stocks tumbling last week, could threaten the Continent's economic recovery.
Bailouts often aren't popular with voters however.
The deal by the numbers
The crisis fund would total €750 billion, with €440 billion coming from the nations in the currency union, an additional €60 billion from the wider European Union, plus €250 billion from the International Monetary Fund. Central banks are adding their own new liquidity programs sovereign-debt markets.
Germany and Britain are two politically powerful European nations where voter anxiety is running high.
The German coalition government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel lost some electoral ground in a May 9 election, for example. And a separate bailout package for Greece, approved last week by the German parliament, was unpopular with many voters. Still, Ms. Merkel said she expects the parliament to consider the rescue package soon and to pass it.
"The euro zone's member states showed yesterday that we have a common political will to do everything for the stability of our common currency," Merkel said, according to an Associated Press report. "This is a determined and united message to those who think that they can weaken Europe."
As the largest economy in the eurozone, Germany would pay for more than one-fourth of the €440 billion fund.
Britain is not a member of the eurozone, and thus wasn't expecting to be drawn into this currency crisis. According to news reports Monday, Britain will oppose the planned €60 billion contribution by European Union members to the rescue fund. If some other EU nations joined in opposition, that money could be blocked.
The positive stock market reaction indicates that, for now at least, Europe's version of the TARP is expected to succeed.
Money might not be needed
In a best-case outcome, the promised money won't even be needed because private investors will have the confidence to keep holding the debts of euro-based nations such as Greece, Portugal, and Spain.
But the rescue fund may also be tapped.
In fact, even if Greece and other debt-strapped nations follow through with fiscal austerity measures, that's no guarantee that the debt crisis will end. The austerity is expected to crimp economic output, making it hard to pay off their debts.
One alternative would be bailout money, to the degree that it's available. Another would be for Greece to opt out of the euro currency.
"Greece is essentially looking at a lost decade, given the austerity that its got to go through," Mr. Bryson says.