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As a football player, James saw plenty of his teammates get an injury that coaches called a "burner" or "stinger." But he'd never had a stinger himself until a game during his junior year. He made a tackle on a play, and his helmet struck the other player awkwardly, pushing his head and shoulder in opposite directions.
The pain in his shoulder and neck was very intense, and his arm felt numb. James came out of the game and took a seat on the bench while one of his coaches asked him about the injury. Fortunately, the pain went away and feeling returned to his arm in a few minutes.
A burner — also known as a stinger — is an injury to the nerves of the upper arm. Burners usually happen in the neck or shoulder. This kind of injury takes its name from the burning or stinging pain that runs down a person's arm from shoulder to hand.
The nerves of your arm branch out from the spinal cord near the base of your neck. They come together in your upper shoulder in a bundle called the brachial plexus, and then separate again into individual nerves. When the brachial plexus is stretched, pinched, or bruised, it can result in a burner. The pain can be quite intense and may feel like an electric shock or lightning bolt down your arm.
Most burners are temporary, and the symptoms usually disappear quickly.
Usually people feel a burner in only one arm, and it goes away after a minute or two. In rare cases, the symptoms may last hours, days, or longer.
Pain or numbness in both arms, can be a sign of a more serious problem. Call your doctor if you notice burner or stinger-like pain in both arms.
Some common signs of a burner are:
Chances are you won't need to see a doctor for a burner or stinger since it will go away quickly. But call your doctor's office if:
Also call your doctor if:
The doctor will ask you questions about what you're feeling and how the injury happened. He or she will also examine you for pain, tenderness, and arm strength and check your reflexes and the range of motion in your arm.
Your doctor will probably order imaging tests if you have any of the following:
Imaging tests like X-rays or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans can help doctors see the extent of the injury and rule out a more serious condition, such as a spine fracture.
Injuries to the brachial plexus can happen when a person's head is pushed forcefully down and toward the opposite shoulder. This bends the neck and pinches or stretches the nerves in the neck and shoulder. A sudden movement of the head to the side, as in a whiplash-type injury, also can cause nerves to be pinched.
Burners also can happen when the brachial plexus nerves are bruised. This bruising happens when pressure on the head or the area above the collarbone compresses the nerves against a bone.
Contact sports, particularly football and wrestling, are common causes of burners. In these sports, players run the risk of falling on their head, as in a football tackle or wrestling takedown. The head, neck, and shoulder impacts that go with playing football make it the sport that causes the most burners and stingers.
It's not really possible to prevent all burners, but you can do a few things to make them less likely if you play contact sports:
The first thing you should do to treat a burner is remove yourself from the activity that caused the injury in the first place. In most cases, your nerves will recover on their own in a matter of minutes.
Some burners will last longer and require further treatment:
Burners get better with time, but in more serious cases, you may have to work with a physical therapist or trainer to keep your muscles strong and mobile while you heal. Your doctor might prescribe medicine to help with any pain.
And as with any injury, make sure you're completely healed before you start playing sports again. If you don't, you'll increase your chances of having another burner.
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Date reviewed: October 2014
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Thinking about surprising your sweetheart with a room makeover for Valentine's Day? Here are tips to make sure you're both happy with the result of a romantic home improvement project.
When it comes to home decorating, the stereotype is that men often lack "a woman's touch" and women like all things lacy and frilly. Often, neither is true. If you're planning to surprise your sweetheart with a room re-do this Valentine's Day, keep these things in mind:
Let Neutral Colors Dominate
With paint colors, neutral colors work well for both men and women, along with gray-blues and sea greens. More vivid colors can be incorporated in small doses – in throw pillows, for example.
Mix Fabrics
Men prefer earthy, durable materials like leather and hard woods. But these materials are great for mixing and matching with softer fabrics and patterns to create the cozy, warm and feminine look women tend to like. Let your décor reflect a little of both.
Choose a Comfortable Sofa
Women tend to choose a sofa based on appearance, but men see a sofa as a place to park. When sofa shopping, don't neglect comfort. Make sure your sofa works for sprawling on during football games and on sick days. To keep both of you happy, your mission is to find the perfect decorating blend of utility and aesthetics.
Find Wall Art that Works
When it comes to hanging paintings and prints, men and women can easily clash. Guys tend to like rugged landscapes, wooded scenery, masculine sailing ships and even "basement art" of the bikini-model-posed-on-a-sports-car variety. Women, on the other hand, are pulled more towards flowery art, botanicals and cottages. But the situation isn't impossible. Look for abstracts that appeal to you both, as well as graphic designs, beach and city scenes. Some kinds of art can be more unisex than others.
Before heading out to the paint or furniture store, plan a cozy evening at home with a few home decorating magazines. Browse together, jotting down any color schemes, themes or looks that get your mutual thumbs-up. Find ways to blend together colors and pieces that make you both feel at home.
With some thoughtful planning, you can create a decorating plan that works for both men and women and a home that reflects the harmony of your relationship.


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Student design showcase set for May 1
Student design showcase set for May 1
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Engineering students will display their solutions to industry-posed problems at the Student Design Project Showcase at 1 p.m. on May 1 at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus of Penn State. The event is free and open to the public.
The showcase is the culmination of a semester-long effort by engineering students to design prototypes and remedies to real-world challenges posed by industry clients.
Seniors in biological engineering, biomedical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, energy engineering, engineering design, engineering science and mechanics, industrial engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering and nuclear engineering are participating in the showcase as part of the capstone design project.
This semester's capstone assignments are sponsored by a variety of local and national firms and government agencies, including Air Products, Alcoa, Bechtel Power, Boeing, the Central Pennsylvania Spinal Cord Injury Support Group, Dresser-Rand, FedEx, Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Ingersoll Rand, John Deere, Lockheed Martin, Shanghai Electric, Shell, Siemens Healthcare, Sun Fresh Foods, U.S. Steel, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Volvo Group, Westinghouse and Xerox Corporation.
The event will feature efforts by first-year students in EDSGN 100 Introduction to Engineering Design, who were tasked by AT&T to identify opportunities that leverage real-time connectivity and new and emerging technologies to collect information that can be used for products and systems that benefit lives.
Also on display will be the final design projects for students in EDSGN 130 Architectural Graphics and CAD. The students were asked to understand the meaning of home by choosing a historically significant person and designing a home for them.
Judges at the showcase will award accolades for top projects and best posters. Visitors may choose projects for a people's choice award.


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We have a police NIXLE notification system on this island that is supposed to be used for emergency notifications.
Unfortunately our Hawaii County Police Department uses it at times to promote themselves and send out notices that I would consider non-emergency related.
Here is a snippet of the most recent emergency Nixle notice I just received:
….the Hawaiʻi Police Department has been awarded accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc., (CALEA). Chief Kubojiri was among the police officials who received the coveted award at the CALEA fall conference on November 17 in Jacksonville, Florida…
There was a moral to the boy who called wolf!
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For a functional index, an index is defined on the result of a function applied to one or more columns of a single table. Functional indices can be used to obtain fast access to data based on the result of function calls.
For example, a common way to do case-insensitive comparisons is to use the lower:
SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE lower(col1) = 'value';In order for that query to be able to use an index, it has to be defined on the result of the lower(column) operation:
CREATE INDEX test1_lower_col1_idx ON test1 (lower(col1));
The function in the index definition can take more than one argument, but they must be table columns, not constants. Functional indices are always single-column (namely, the function result) even if the function uses more than one input field; there cannot be multi-column indices that contain function calls.
Tip: The restrictions mentioned in the previous paragraph can easily be worked around by defining custom functions to use in the index definition that call the desired function(s) internally.


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Digital D necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 29 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Digital Dementia
We promise to give prompt, detailed feedback!
We are a funky and upbeat new company that is an IT/new media consulting company. We help people manage their digital lifestyle through mentoring services. Some of the services we provide are development of websites, applications and video content. We also provides project management services, system analysis, and consulting.
Essentially we are a creative/imaginative company and want to reflect that fact.
My customers are primarily other small to medium sized businesses and suppliers with some private individual work. My target customers are generally the Gen-Y crowd and up. We need a logo to that can be used in all situations.
The logo we are looking for is somewhat artsy, but contemporary with a high tech look. A bit edgy might be good but nothing too cutesy or child like.
Some ideas that we've had are:
Pixels flowing into the logo design
The image could play off the words digital dementia (or convey the meaning symbolically) - use your imagination!
Colors and font are entirely up to you.
No stock images or clip-art please.
The files we require are:
Print file format - .Adobe Illustrator .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .png and layered Adobe Photoshop .psd (RGB)
Looking forward to viewing your creative designs. Feel free to ask questions in the comment section.
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Summer entertaining is supposed to be easy so the last thing
you want to worry about is how the tablecloth holds up. To find toppers that
will dress up your table without making work for you, we stained 13 with all
kinds of gunk---grape juice, salad dressing, coffee, red wine, chocolate syrup,
cola, ketchup, and mustard---all the things that are likely to be spilled at a
backyard barbecue. We tried removing the stains immediately as you might do if
someone's burger dripped ketchup and after 24 hours when you're most likely to
be doing the post-party wash.
The winners?
The Bardwil Indoor/Outdoor Tablecloth (bardwilhome.com) feels the softest
and comes in lots of pretty prints. The only stains that didn't come out were
mustard and salad dressing but a little spritz of stain remover made the cloth
look brand new.
OutDoor Living's Sunbrella Tablecloth (outdoorlivingtablecloths.com) is available in such
an extensive variety of patterns, colors, and sizes (with or without an
umbrella hole) that you're sure to find something to suit your taste. Have a
massive table that sits 12 or an octangular one? You can even special order
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Designing a Solution for Vexing Innovation Problems
It takes a rare kind of executive to admit to his peers he needs some outside perspective to solve a challenge he's facing. It's an even rarer one who asks for their insight, and has a forum for which to do so.
But Steve Jacobs is just that kind of executive, and when he asked roundtable participants at a Howe School Alliance for Technology Management meeting to brainstorm some innovative solutions for him, the last thing he felt was trepidation.
"These are good people who I've had the chance to meet and get to know, and it's a very comfortable atmosphere," said Jacobs, president of Global BioPharm Solutions, located outside Philadelphia. "We're all trying to figure this out together."
The Alliance meeting, held at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey's offices in Newark, was its latest roundtable on design thinking, a novel approach to problem solving that often involves thinking outside the box and acting in ways that may rile the established corporate culture. At its core, design thinking involves a process of problem solving that emphasizes a desire to challenge models, seeks optimization over compromise, makes elegance and simplicity primary considerations, and fosters a willingness to create with your customers by giving up control.
Jacobs presented a challenge to about 30 fellow members scattered across different industries: How could he improve the first impression his company makes on those attending one of its signature conferences?
Within a few minutes, members had come up with everything from beer at the check-in line to digital solutions that involved replacing people at a reception desk with iPads loaded with customized apps. It's hard to imagine another place where the creative juices flow so strongly, but for longtime Alliance members, it was business as usual for a roundtable.
"To get such a range of ideas in just 10 minutes or so is amazing," he said. "The next step for me is to go back to the board and say that we need to think outside the box here."
Jacobs said he'd actually kicked some of those ideas around with members of his board before, but that group had a bad experience when it decided to offer shuttle busing from the airport to a convention hotel. Only a few dozen people registered for the buses, but more than 100 were waiting for rides when their flights arrived.
The knee-jerk reaction might be to suggest the attendees are at fault for failing to register in advance, but Jacobs said that's not so.
"Clearly, that reaction is aimed at us, not customer delight," he said.
"We almost always have lines," he added. "The attitude can't be, 'These are adults, they ought to expect lines.' That's wrong. Everybody hates lines. We have to come up with solutions that improve the experience for everyone who attends."
'We can find a way to do this'
If you can't get rid of the lines, some Alliance members suggested, at least make them less uncomfortable. That's where the open bar came in, and it sounded like a suggestion Jacobs took seriously.
"This is a hard-drinking crowd," he said. "We'd like to get them relaxed so that even if there is a line, they won't care quite as much."
These are unorthodox ideas, Jacobs said, but "we can do this. We can find way a to do this better for the customers."
While Jacobs found himself the center of attention, other members found the exercise useful, as well. Susan Miller, of Alcatel-Lucent, participated virtually and enjoyed seeing the early, theory-driven background immediately put in a practical perspective.
"It really puts the idea into quick example of how it's practical," she said. Members presented several obvious ideas, "but they also threw out ideas you never would have thought of. Just the fact that we had an example like that shows it's more than just theory. That's very valuable."
About the Alliance
The Howe School Alliance for Technology Management is a partnership between Stevens and various companies in New Jersey and beyond who meet to network, share best and emerging practices, and explore the challenges and opportunities presented by evolving technology and thought in the workplace. Members meet and network at regular roundtables and workshops, attend an annual conference, and enjoy various other benefits. For more information, visit the Alliance homepage.


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The Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries, or CPOPC, a palm oil board led by Indonesia and Malaysia, said British supermarket chain Iceland's decision to remove palm oil from its own-brand food products misleads consumers. (Reuters Photo/Hannah McKay)
Indonesia-Malaysia Palm Council Says UK Supermarket Misleads Consumers
Jakarta. The Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries, or CPOPC, a palm oil board led by Indonesia and Malaysia, said British supermarket chain Iceland's decision to remove palm oil from its own-brand food products misleads consumers.
Iceland said last week that due to concerns over rainforest destruction it would remove palm oil from all of its own-brand products by end-2018, reducing demand for the vegetable oil by more than 500 tons per year.
The claims being made against palm oil are "misleading the consumers on the environmental benefits of other vegetable oil," CPOPC executive director Mahendra Siregar said in a letter addressed to Richard Walker, managing director of Iceland.
Siregar confirmed the content of the letter, dated April 13, late on Sunday (15/04).
CPOPC said demand for vegetable oil continues to grow and that replacing palm oil with other vegetable oils, such as from rapeseed, soybeans and sunflower seeds, would lead to 10 to 20 times greater land use to produce the same amount of oil.
Iceland, which specializes in frozen food and operates around 900 stores, said it has already removed palm oil from half of its own-brand products.
A demand boom for widely-used palm oil has led to palm plantations spread across 18 million hectares in Indonesia and Malaysia, according to data from Indonesian government and Malaysia Palm Oil Board. Indonesia and Malaysia are the world's largest and second-largest producers of palm oil.
Critics say the expansion has resulted in an increase in the greenhouse gases that warm the planet.
Palm plantation are also often blamed for forest fires that regularly take place on Sumatra and Kalimantan in Indonesia, blanketing large areas of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore in a choking haze that can hang in the air for weeks.
The European Parliament last year voted to phase out use of unsustainable palm oil in biodiesel by 2020. The resolution endorsed a single Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) plan for Europe-bound palm and other vegetable oils to ensure they are produced in an environmentally sustainable way.
Europe is the second-largest market for both Indonesia and Malaysia. India is the largest.
Indonesia has been promoting palm oil in new markets to mitigate the risk of dropping European demand, while promoting wider use of biodiesel locally to soak up supply.


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An empirical investigation into the alliance capability development processHeimeriks, Koen H.; Duysters, Geert (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This study centers around the way in which firms can enhance alliance performance through the development of alliance capabilities. Whereas most research has focused on inter-firm antecedents of alliance performance, research on intra-firm antecedents pointing to prior experience and internal mechanisms to foster knowledge transfer has only recently emerged. As little is known about how firms develop alliance capabilities, this study aims to uncover how differences in sources of alliance capability development explain performance heterogeneity. The data come from a detailed survey held among alliance managers and Vice-Presidents of 151 firms. The survey covers over 2600 alliances for the period 1997-2001. This study not only finds that alliance capabilities partially mediate between alliance experience and alliance performance, but also yields novel insights into the micro-level building blocks underlying the process of alliance capability development. Key words: alliances, learning, knowledge transfer, alliance experience. JEL classification: L14 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7436
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An Empirical StudyHeimeriks, Koen H.; Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper assesses the differential performance effects of learning mechanisms on the development of alliance capabilities. Prior research has suggested that different capability levels could be identified in which specific intra-firm learning mechanisms are used to enhance a firm's alliance capability. However, empirical testing in this field is scarce and little is known as to what extent different learning mechanisms are indeed useful in advancing a firm's alliance capability. This paper analyzes to what extent intra-firm learning mechanisms help firms develop their alliance capability. Differential learning may explain in what way firms yield superior returns from their alliances in comparison to competitors. The empirical results show that different learning mechanisms have different performance effects at different stages of the alliance capability development process. The main lesson from this paper is that firms can steer the creation and speed of their alliance capability development as different learning mechanisms have differential performance effects and are more appropriate at different levels of alliance capability. Key words: learning mechanisms, alliance capabilities and competitive heterogeneity. JEL classification: L14 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7459
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Here at The Prince Regent, the celebrations don't end on 25th December. Recover from your Christmas Day shenanigans with a relaxing Boxing Day 2019, then ring in the New Year with your favourite people.
Could there be a better way to spend New Year's Day 2020 than at your favourite local, eating the finest food in London with a glass (or two) of bubbly?
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What Is Sous Vide?
With new cooking terms and techniques constantly popping up, this is an exciting time to be a cook. But sometimes they can seem so challenging or mysterious, one can't help wondering if some of them are things home cooks shouldn't attempt. Sous vide is one such example. It's actually not a new technique at all - it was first seen in France around the 1970s. These days more and more restaurants from fast-food to fine dining are turning to sous vide to ensure that food is perfectly cooked every time- Shake Shack is the lastest chain to announce it is actually cooking its chicken nuggets sous vide (not from frozen) in an effort to ensure their nuggets are consistently delicous!
Restaurant Secrets Every Home Cook Should Know
Much like roasting or braising, sous vide is just another slow-cooking method. To sous vide successfully, one puts an ingredient (commonly meat) into a vacuum-sealed bag with some herbs and spices. Then, this little package is submerged into water at a low and precisely controlled temperature. Here, it will cook for hours or days until it has reached the perfect doneness.So why go through all the trouble of cooking meat in its own hot tub? Well, the results are worth it. After 36 hours of cooking, the flavor is more intense, since it's been cooked with its own juices; the texture is silky and delicate, and because it's been cooking in a moist environment, the meat itself hasn't shrunk and is still the same size. Once it's cooked to perfection, you can remove it from the bag and sear either side to create crispness for the final result. With the slow and low, controlled temperatures of sous vide, the final product is cooked consistently every time, tender and delicious and with no overcooked spots.
One would think that a "set it and forget it" method like sous vide would take off among home cooks worldwide. But the fact is that it's commonly thought to be expensive to obtain the equipment needed (which has caused some to even try cooking meals sous vide in their washing machiens). Though unbelievablly expensive sous vide equipment certainly was the case one upon a time, these days there are more options that ever for the home cook to consider. These days the top sous vide machines, like the Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker will set you back $199 though there are many other more affordably priced options, like the Wancle Thermal immersion Circulator to be found for less than $100.But if you're not the do-it-yourself type, and you don't want to waste money by purchasing equipment just to make meat more tender, it may be best to leave this method to the professionals. There are many other ways to quell tender meat cravings that aren't as expensive or complicated but are just as satisfying. After all, there's nothing wrong with dusting off the ol' Crock-Pot for any of these 50 essential slow cooker recipes.
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ユ Adds extra fullness and shape to dresses and skirts
ユIdeal for layering under a Swing Dress
ユ Layers of net fabric in a tiered design
ユ Wider than a full circle for a fuller effect
ユ Ruffled hem
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ユ Approximately 7" deep elasticated waist band
ユ Approximately 28" long
ユ Material Composition: 100% Polyester
ユ Garment Care:Machine wash
***Please note that the petticoat may look fuller than the picture***
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Justin time! Clutch homer stings Mets
Slugger's late jack helps Braves survive Kimbrel's hiccup
NEW YORK -- It proved to be much more interesting than desired after Ervin Santana extended the dominance of Atlanta's starting rotation with his latest gem, but Justin Upton's late-inning contributions allowed the Braves to overcome Craig Kimbrel's rocky return to the mound.
Upton's three-run home run off Jose Valverde in the top of the ninth proved to be enough for the Braves to claim a 7-5 win over the Mets despite the fact that Kimbrel allowed a pair of runs in the bottom half of the final inning on Saturday night at Citi Field.
"You never know how a game is going to go," Upton said. "You just have to continue to pitch, play defense, put together good at-bats and see what happens in the end. You just have to keep playing the game."
A three-run advantage was reduced when the Mets scored a pair of runs off David Carpenter in the eighth inning. When Upton pushed Atlanta's advantage back to four runs with his three-run shot to straightway center field in the ninth, it appeared Kimbrel was going to have plenty of breathing room while making his first appearance in a week.
But nothing came easy for Kimbrel as he battled the rust that had developed while he spent the early portion of this week dealing with a sore right shoulder. The usually dominant closer surrendered three hits, issued a walk and threw just 13 of his 24 pitches for strikes before being removed with two outs in the ninth.
After surrendering David Wright's RBI double and Chris Young's two-out RBI single, Kimbrel loaded the bases by walking Lucas Duda. This prompted the entry of Jordan Walden. Walden ended the game by getting Travis d'Arnaud to ground out to Andrelton Simmons, who made a nice backhand stop and throw to first base.
"I couldn't get the curveball over at first, and then I started throwing fastballs over the plate," Kimbrel said. "When you do that, it makes for a tough inning."
Kimbrel was visibly upset when he was removed the game. But after his club won for the seventh time in the past eight games, he apologized to Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez for his spirited on-field actions, which included him appearing to say, "You're taking me out?" Gonzalez did not seem bothered.
"That's what makes him good," Gonzalez said. "At that point of the game, he didn't care about his arm or anything other than finishing that inning. That's why Roger [McDowell] and I get the big bucks to take care of him and all of the guys."
The struggles experienced by Kimbrel and Carpenter came long after Freddie Freeman had continued to frustrate the Mets by producing a trio of hits and driving in his club's first three runs. Freeman's contributions aided Santana, who limited the damage during his seven-inning performance to a first-inning run. This marked the seventh straight game that a Braves starting pitcher allowed fewer than two runs .
"We always talk about the last couple of innings, and they almost overshadowed Santana's performance and how well he pitched," Gonzalez said. "It got a little crazy those last couple of innings."
Upton singled and eventually scored on Daisuke Matsuzaka's wild pitch in the eighth inning. One inning later, just before Upton homered for the fifth time in his past 33 at-bats, Valverde opted to issue a two-out intentional walk to Freeman, who has has batted .378 (34-for-90) with a 1.118 OPS over the past 23 games he has played against the Mets.
"The Mets always play us tough," Upton said. "Every time we play them, they scrap with us. Every run we can get is definitely important."
Santana was nowhere near as dominant as he was when he delivered eight scoreless innings against the Mets in his April 9 season debut, during which he began the game by throwing 20 straight strikes. The veteran hurler opened this latest start by issuing a a leadoff walk to Eric Young Jr., who stole second base and eventually scored when Wright sent a one-out single past a drawn-in Atlanta infield.
"It was a little bit difficult, but I made my pitches and I got out of jams," said Santana who allowed at least one runner to reach second base in four of his seven innings.
Wright's single accounted for the only damage incurred by Santana, who has allowed two earned runs in the 21 innings that have encompassed his first three starts. His contributions have proven valuable to the Atlanta's rotation, which has produced a Major League-best 1.46 ERA through this season's first 17 games.
"He uses the aggressiveness of the hitters," Gonzalez said. "He doesn't give in. He makes great pitches with his breaking pitches and secondary pitches. He commands those pitches and he doesn't give in."


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CRESTVIEW � A first-year pharmacy student responded to Professor Jamal Brown's questions during an Introduction to Principles of Drug Action class at Florida A&M University's pharmacy school.
CRESTVIEW � A first-year pharmacy student responded to Professor Jamal Brown's questions during an Introduction to Principles of Drug Action class at Florida A&M University's pharmacy school.
Student-teacher interaction has been common since the days of Socrates. However, the difference here was that Wileta Luckett sat in a downtown classroom while Brown was in a lecture hall more than 150 miles away at FAMU's main Tallahassee campus.
Using cameras and microphones in both facilities, Crestview students watch faculty lectures, in real-time, on high-definition television. They ask questions and interact with professors and their peers in the Tallahassee classroom. With monitors, the professors see and can address Crestview students and answer their questions.
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A "smart board" adjacent to the monitor in the Crestview classrooms projects the same materials that Tallahassee students are seeing.
As Luckett and her classmates prepared to take a quiz Wednesday morning, they sat quietly with their test papers facedown on their desks and waited as Brown got the Tallahassee students settled down.
Finally, Brown looked into the camera and, in mock frustration, said, "Crestview, why can't they be like y'all?"
TelePresence in Crestview
Such live interaction uses Cisco Systems� TelePresence, an audio-video "bridge" between the two campuses. Eight classrooms each in both campuses have the technology.
"FAMU faced pressure from the college accreditation board to show that its Crestview students would not be at a disadvantage while learning off-site from the College of Pharmacy�s main campus in Tallahassee," Cisco stated in a case study of the local system.
Before adopting the system at its Crestview location, school technology staffers evaluated similar technology used by pharmacy schools at Auburn University, the University of Georgia and Wingate University in North Carolina.
When the college accreditation board evaluated Crestview�s campus, it found that students performed better academically than peers who attend the classes in person.
"The university partially attributes this finding to the Crestview students� quick adoption of the technology for the learning process, making the students more likely to go back online to consult past lectures and course materials to better obtain knowledge," the case study stated.
Making the program possible
In addition to beaming teachers and students to and from Crestview, lectures are recorded and archived at the local FAMU site, allowing students to review material or see a missed lecture.
Surveys of students and faculty found overall acceptance of the system, FAMU's senior computer support specialist Jason Mobley said.
"The technology doesn't get in the way of the professor," Mobley said. "All he has to do is turn on his microphone and teach."
Dr. Margareth Larose-Pierre, the Crestview campus� associate dean, said the technology makes the Crestview pharmacy program possible, as budget restrictions bar hiring additional faculty to staff the satellite campus.
"Without the technology, we wouldn't be able to offer the program," Larose-Pierre said.
Contact News Bulletin Staff Writer Brian Hughes at 850-682-6524 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbBrian.


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I hope Elizabeth van Kampen publishes her story in a book. The Web is a good way to share her account with the world. However, I fear it may not be a good long-term storage mechanism. I would hate to see her tale lost after she dies and then something goes bad with her site.
From the site:
After a wonderful youth in the Dutch East Indies, today Indonesia, my family and I went through three and a half years Japanese occupation. I lost my father, I lost the country I loved, I lost everything, but I kept my memories.
My son advised me to start a website and write all those memories down. So here I am, 79 years old, sitting behind my computer, going back to the Dutch East Indies.


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Near the end of my last post, Curious Firefox Tidbits, I briefly mentioned poking around a bit in the places.sqlite file of Firefox 3.0.
I mentioned that some of the database items indicated that (among other things) that it appeared that Places was able to track when each bookmark was added to the database as well as when it was last modified.
If you are running a recent version of Firefox 3.0 (beta or nightlies), you can look into the new Places features by going to Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks on the menu-bar.
This will display the "Library" window that contains your bookmarks.
By default the Library window will show a tree structure on the left-hand side, and the bookmark/folder name, tag, and URL location on the right hand side.
Below in the third-pane is some specific information regarding the bookmark/folder selected.
I was wondering if I could find any more specific options in the display here.
I clicked the "More" button in the bottom third-pane but it didn't provide me the time/date information I knew was being tracked in the places.sqlite database file.
Then I noticed a little column-picker icon in the top-right column bar.
I selected it and found I could add additional bookmark column-view details to my main Library pane: Visit Count, Keyword, Description, Added, Last Modified, and Visit Date.
These columns may be rearranged and sorted on according to your preferences.
So, now you know how to display these "power-columns" in your Firefox 3.0 Places Library window.
Good to know, although I really would like to see a utility to allow me to off-load the places.sqlite file from a system (say to USB) then inspect it later in a more GUI-friendly display than the available SQLite viewers do at the moment. Something more on the lines of one of NirSoft's tool: MozillaHistoryView.
Maybe a "MozillaPlacesView" will be forthcoming from NirSoft? Now wouldn't that be nice!


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I always braise chicken with Chinese wine and dry pepper all the time.Some time I used Mirin and sometime I used Shaoxing wine but this time I used Mijiu.Mijiu 米酒 is the generic name for Chinese fermented rice wine, similar to Japanese sake. It is generally clear, and is used for both drinking and cooking. Mijiu intended for cooking often contains 1.5% salt and alcohol content by volume: 12-19.5%. The reason I used chicken wing to braised instead of other part of chicken it's becos chicken wing have smooth texture and I feel good when eating the tips part..On top of that the gravy have spicy tangy sweet flavor that suitable to eat with steamed white rice on a cold weather!!
15 chicken wings,cut and washed
5 garlic,peeled and mashed
10 dry small pepper
1/2 cup mijiu 米酒
1 cup water
2 tbsp oil
2 tbsp chicken bouillon powder
2 tbsp sugar
4-5 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp caramel sauce(thick soy sauce)
salt to taste
1:Heat deep large skillet or stock pot with oil ,dry pepper and garlic at medium high heat.When garlic and dry pepper is fragrant,add in chicken wings,water,mijiu,caramel sauce,soy sauce,chicken bouillon powder and sugar,mix well.
2:Simmer the chicken wings at medium heat for 30-40 minutes or until cook.Check the seasoning.Remove chicken wings from heat.Dish out and serve warm with steamed rice.