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Community Improvement Grant Program
Thank you for your interest in the Community Improvement Grant Program (CIGP). Redwood City wants to help jump-start your neighborhood and community improvement projects and events, and encourages you to get together with your neighbors to plan and implement a great community-building activity! The purpose of the grant program is to help get your project started so that it may become self-sustaining; the program is not intended for continual or annual support.
Grants may be between $100 and $300. Actual grant amount will be determined by staff review of your application. Ideas for community-building activities that may qualify include: a block or neighborhood party or large multi-street block party; a neighborhood-shared garden; a community clean-up project; a neighborhood newsletter or website; setting up a neighborhood watch meeting. Please note that the City does not pay for any alcoholic beverages.
If yours is an existing (repeated) project, a repeat grant may be considered; you must show how you will use this grant to substantially expand or broaden your repeat event's scope, outreach, and community involvement.
- Program brochure / Español
- Grant application for printing and mailing/faxing (Español)
- Online application
- Temporary street closure application
- Final Actual Expenses Form
We want to help you create projects that will have a positive impact on the community, offer an opportunity for neighbors to get to know one another and work together toward a common goal of neighborhood improvement and engagement. If you have questions or would like more information, call the City Manager's office at 650-780-7300.
We look forward to hearing about your creative and fun community improvement ideas - Redwood City's CIGP can help make them happen. Thank you for helping to build a great community together!


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Johannesburg, South Africa – November, 6, 2014 – AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG), the online security company™ for 188 million active users, today announced that it has acquired Norman Safeground, the Norway-based international IT security company. This acquisition will help expand AVG's existing European footprint into the regions supported by Norman Safeground and provide customers with greater product choice and enhanced support services.
Norman Safeground has an established presence and strong customer base across western Europe with offices and users in regions that include DACH, Benelux and the Nordics, which are key growth markets for AVG. This acquisition will underpin and drive forward the rollout of new consumer Protection and Performance products, and business services including AVG CloudCare and AVG Managed Workplace to the marketplace over the next twelve months.
In addition, having a presence in these markets will enable AVG to provide better support to existing consumer and business customers, increase the AVG partner network across the region, and facilitate the implementation of AVG's business product portfolio by getting the latest products to market quickly and efficiently.
Mike Foreman, general manager, SMB at AVG said, "Norman Safeground share our cloud vision and brings expert local marketing and sales experience, and an extensive channel network. We now have a formidable combination of partner networks on a global scale, and we're excited about having a dedicated local channel presence in this region which has great potential for growth in mobile and cloud services in Europe."

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Your Opinion Required on Indy Star Board
I have signed on the Indy Star Colts' board as TraditionalColt, trying to appeal to the reasonability of the posters there as it relates to our efforts on coltsheritage.com. To my surprise (perhaps I'm being naive) there was a significantly more amount of push back from the posters than support. After 19 posts (I had to stop at that number) I don't think that I got very far. I ask that you sign on there and try to keep the true spirit of the site and petition alive. Do as you see fit but I would suggest that you keep in mind that you are representing Baltimore and our collective desire to restore our city's NFL Heritage.
Here's the thread: BALTIMORE COLTS
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I gave up 2 years ago, for some reason they hate everything Baltimore. Through many message boards I have yet to meet a civil Colts fan. It is really sad.


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Dear Valued Adobe Developer,
I wanted to make you aware of an exciting new program which Adobe will be releasing this Summer. Adobe is creating a brand new Adobe Exchange, which will enable developers, trainers, and community experts to promote, distribute, monetize and track their CS6 solutions. These products will be made visible to potential CS6 customers within the 'Adobe Exchange' panel in most CS6 applications. The initial CS6 products which will support the Exchange panel are:
- Dreamweaver
- Fireworks
- Flash Professional
- Illustrator
- InCopy
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- Premiere
- Prelude
This program is appropriate for developers who are seeking effective and efficient ways to market and distribute free, paid, and trial items as well as deliver updates of those items to Creative Suite users. We are actively seeking launch partners for this program and are taking applications now for partners who would like to be added into our beta program. Launch partners that commit to providing distributable CS6 content in the next 8 to 10 weeks will receive valuable benefits as charter members of the new Adobe Exchange. If you are interested in becoming a launch partner and getting in on this exciting opportunity early or hearing more about the program here's how to get started:
Complete the brief Adobe Exchange (codename: Agora) Prerelease Program sign up form:
We plan to hold a Connect session to give you more information on Adobe Exchange. If you are interested in joining a Connect session to learn more about the program, please ensure you have signed up for the prerelease, (join here) to receive an invitation.
Ken Toole | Director, Partner and Enterprise Solutions


text: "I never asked for much. Just appreciation for what I do. I've been drawing since I was 6. Finding my artistic niche was difficult growing up with no money, no supplies, and little to no support. Needless to say that I grew up frustrated and angry at my situation. By the time that i was a teenager, I was taking out that anger through less than legal artistic means, Graffiti. I'd been caught plenty of times by property owners and police, taken home in squad cars, and run off of property, leaving half completed works. This wasn't working, but I loved it so much. Creating beautiful works that somebody, somewhere would look at and see a piece of my soul. One officer that had taken me home asked me why I did what I did. I told him that I wanted to do art, big bold and beautiful art. He then asked me why I wouldn't I want to do art that people would appreciate instead of be angry at and eventually erase? Wouldn't I want to make art that people would be able to see and appreciate for ages? He said that I had a lot of talent and really wanted to see my art in a gallery where I would receive the respect that I deserved for my talent instead of on a back alley brick wall where I would only be seen as a criminal. I'd never received praise for my art before. So, I took it to heart. I began looking into all forms of visual art and stretching out creatively.""I joined the military to get some kind of direction in life and traveled to many different places and seeing many different artistic mediums. I was inspired artistically and for once in my life had a goal to attain. Through the discipline that I gained in the service, I decided that this is what I wanted to do with my life, one way or another. Upon returning from Bosnia, I went to college for Graphic Design where I was able to polish my craft as well as learn the mechanics of art as a business.""It's been an uphill battle making my art accessible to the public. It still is. I'm 34 years old with a wife and three kids. Anyone with children will know how difficult it is raising a family as well as carrying through with your passion. Living in a town that finds no value in art doesn't help. But, I find ways. Today, I paint when I can, sketch drawings every chance I get, and I'm looking into sculpting and mask making. I work at a Bowling Alley as a mechanic. In my off time, I do design work for various clients, including the Scary Noises! Podcast, Drawing First Blood Podcast, various Haunted Attractions (I'm honored to call 7th Street Haunt my haunt family), and UWA Wrestling under the banner of Crowjan Designs."Crowjan Designs began as a means to create art for various audio and video outlets. Now, Crowjan is a functioning design studio that creates t-shirt designs, logos, cover art, posters, fliers, and other such pieces. Crowjan Designs, Designing Your Life!


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A Hollywood film yet again finds itself responding to a social-media outcry over the casting of a Caucasian actor in a role that was originally Asian-American.
British actor Ed Skrein earlier this week joined the cast of the "Hellboy" reboot "Rise of the Blood Queen." His character Ben Daimio is Japanese-American in Mike Mignola's "Hellboy" comics, and many are objecting to the role not going to an Asian-American actor.
The backlash follows previous "whitewashing" controversies including the castings of Emma Stone in "Aloha" and Scarlett Johansson in "Ghost in the Shell."
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The film's distributor, Lionsgate, declined comment. A representative for Skrein didn't respond to queries Wednesday.
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Joseph Reinhart has been writing about German-speaking soldiers in the Union army for quite some time now, and is considered an authority in that area. His new book, A German Hurrah!: Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Strangel, 9th Ohio Infantry, from Kent State University Press, was released this year. Joe is a Facebook friend, and was nice enough to answer a few questions for Bull Runnings.
BR: Joe, I'm always curious about the backgrounds of Civil War authors and how they wound up doing what they do – it's usually a winding road. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself.
JR: I'm a native Kentuckian and lifelong resident of Louisville. After graduating from Bellarmine College and earning an M.B.A degree from Indiana University, I pursued a career in public accounting. In 1974 I was admitted as a partner in Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). I am now retired.
I have been interested in military history since I was ten years old and a majority of my leisure reading since then has been on that subject. The discovery in 1993 that my great great-grandfather Nicolas Reinhart and his wife's two brothers, John and Frank Hettinger, had fought in the Union army rekindled my interest in that war, and launched me into researching and writing about it. I belong to and am the web master for the Louisville Civil War Round Table and the Manatee Civil War Round Table in Sarasota, Florida (where my wife and I spend some winter months). I have three married daughters and seven grandchildren in Louisville and enjoy spending time with them.
BR: I did a little work with Coopers when I was in internal audit with the G. C. Murphy Co. a lifetime ago. We may know some of the same people. But back on track – you specialize in German-speaking soldiers and regiments. What got you interested in this area?
JR: I became interested in genealogy after I retired and that is when I discovered my family connections to the Civil War. I began researching both Nicholas Reinhart's military records and those of his regiment, the 28th Kentucky Infantry. I soon decided to write an article about the Civil War regiments organized in Louisville. When I discovered my great-great uncle Frank Hettinger's regiment, the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, contained four companies of German immigrants from Louisville, I decided to write that regiment's history (A History of the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry U.S: The Boys Who Feared No Noise). My research on the Germans in the regiment was possible because I had recently completed five college courses in the German language to facilitate my family research. All but one of my foreign-born ancestors was German.
My research uncovered a good number of letters and several diaries of both Germans and Anglo-Americans who fought in the 6th Kentucky— substantially enriching the history. One of my sources was the Louisville Anzeiger (a German American newspaper of the time). It contained a treasure trove of letters from many of Louisville's German-born soldiers. I realized that if I did not translate these letters and get them published they would forever be lost to history. The University of Tennessee Press published my Two Germans in the Civil War: The Diary of John Daeuble and the Letters of Gottfried Rentschler, 6th Kentucky Infantry in 2004. Kent State University Press published August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen: Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry in 2006, and A German Hurrah!:Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stängel, 9th Ohio Infantry in July of this year. The latter two works also contain letters discovered in the Cincinnati Volksfreund.
BR: How did the A German Hurrah project come about?
JR: While researching in the Cincinnati Volksfreund for letters from soldiers in the 32nd Indiana, I found a large number of letters from an officer in the 9th Ohio. Added to the letters from soldiers in the 9th that I previously found in the Louisville Anzeiger, there was sufficient material for another book revealing views and experiences of German immigrants fighting in the Civil War and first hand accounts of life in a German regiment. I was checking the Volksfreund because the 32nd Indiana contained a company of Germans from Cincinnati. The 32nd Indiana and 9th Ohio each contained over 20 Germans from Louisville, thus the letters from those two regiments found in the Anzeiger.
BR: What have you learned in the process of editing A German Hurrah and your other books? Any surprises, any challenges to previously held opinions?
JR: First I want to point out that there is a scarcity of published primary source materials for German American Civil War soldiers. Little more than a dozen books containing different letter collections of Germans exist and unpublished letters are very difficult to find, so it's not possible to obtain a representative sample from the 200,000 Germans in the Union army.
Two of my three books of translated letters, as well as the letters from the 82nd Illinois that I am currently editing, were written by officers and men in German regiments. These three German regiments, like most of the North's thirty or so German regiments, were organized by refugees from the German Revolution of 1848 and like-minded persons, who held radical political, social and economic ideas, and strongly supported the abolition of slavery. Many of the organizers and officers were socialists or communists and they were suspicious of or despised organized religions, especially the Roman Catholic Church. Therefore such regiments did not contain a cross-section of America's Germans. For example, one-third of German immigrants were Roman Catholics and few Catholics served in the 32nd Indiana, 9th Ohio and 82nd Illinois. Only a very small percent of German Americans were radicals or crusaded for the abolition of slavery. Just 20 percent of native Germans in the Union army served in German regiments, so all but one of my works includes letters from the most liberal/radical Germans. That said, the letters reveal strong German pride along with strong prejudices against Anglo-Americans and other ethnics.
The letter writers believed that they and their fellow Germans were better soldiers and superior culturally and morally to Anglo-Americans and other nationalities. They worked hard to outshine their competition to prove they were better. Yet they freely criticized fellow Germans for a variety of shortcomings and actions. Many also criticized American military and civilian leaders for not pursuing the war with sufficient vigor and being too lenient on enemy civilians. They fought hard. Beer was part of their culture and they mention it frequently in their letters. Most of their historical memories were of Germany and many references were made to German places, literature, and historical figures. They had a strong attachment to their native language and customs and wanted to retain them, while still being good American citizens. The literature I read when I first began investigating Germans in the Civil War professed that fighting for a common cause with Anglo-Americans accelerated their assimilation or Americanization, but the authors provided little or no evidence to back this up. The anecdotal evidence I have seen indicates that the nativism exhibited against German Americans caused them to draw inward for mutual protection and not jump into the melting pot for many decades.
BR: Can you describe your writing/research process?
JR: I search archives for suitable diaries and letters from Germans and once I have a sufficient number I translate them and research the lives of the letter writer[s]. Once the letters are translated I draft the introduction to explain why the letters are worthy of publication and provide highlights of the letters. I also provide biographical information about the correspondence's authors and pertinent information about America's mid-nineteenth century German immigrants, their culture, and their differences in religion, political views and so forth. I then begin the editing process including deciding what, if anything, can be left out of the letters due to unimportance or unnecessary repetition. Next I begin working on the chapters. I compose the explanatory matter that precedes each letter, i.e., text designed to help the reader better understand the letters. This could include describing important events that have taken place since the preceding letters, more fully describing a battle referred to in the letter, pointing out errors in the letters, and pointing out changes over time. I type supporting references in red after sentences or paragraphs to facilitate footnote preparation. I also verify what is said about battles and other things in the letters to the extent practicable and disclose any errors or questionable items. My sources include the Official Records, compiled service records, pension files, diaries, letters and journals of other soldiers, secondary works, and various genealogical records. I always have two other persons read and criticize the manuscript before I send it to a prospective publisher.
BR: How has this book been received?
JR: A German Hurrah! has only been out since mid-July, so it's too early to tell, but I believe persons interested in Germans in the Civil War (there were 200,000 of them in the Union army) and parties interested in the battles and campaigns in which the 9th Ohio participated will be pleased with what they find. Almost half the book focuses on the war in western Virginia in 1861 and only a few books of soldiers' letters are available about this part of the war.
BR: What's next for you?
JR: I am near completion of the first draft of a manuscript of a collection of letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry (the 2nd Hecker Regiment). The 82nd fought at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg before being transferred west with the 11th Corps. The letters cover the regiment's organization in 1862 through the Carolinas' Campaign in 1865. After this is finished I hope to write the long-deferred article about Louisville's Union Regiments.
I'm sure students of the Civil War are looking forward to more from Mr. Reinhart on this little explored and fascinating aspect of the times. I know I am.


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Campaigning against the influence of creationism in the UK Science Classroom
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Thanks or the tip Ashley - not sure how I missed seeing your post but I'm recording it now on spec. Not sure if I'll find time to watch it - was it any good? I could do wiih edited highlghlights: the Bible lady is always good and the Adventist Research Centre must surely by good for a laugh!a_haworthroberts wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b050c3sl/the-big-questions-series-8-episode-2
"Nicky Campbell presides over a special debate asking just one big question - does evidence undermine religion? Taking part in the debate are: evolutionary biologist Adam Rutherford, Biblical scholar professor Francesca Stavrakapolou, Rabbi Miriam Berger from the Finchley Reform Synagogue, author Robert Feather, Hamza Tzortzis from iERA, Visnu Murti Das from the Hare Krishna Temple, philosopher Dr Arif Ahmed, Lola Tinubu from London Black Atheists, professor Joan Taylor from King's College, philosopher Dr Peter Cave and Dr Radisa Antic from the Seventh Day Adventist Research Centre. Recorded at The Harris Academy Peckham, London."
Peter Henderson wrote:BBC Radio Ulster's talkback today, 23rd February. Live discussion with Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Rev. David McIlveen ( Retired Free Presbyterian minister ), and Peter Lynas of the Evangelical Alliance (NI) by phone.
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May 10, 2011 | ISBN 9780375873881 | 4-8 years
Review, The New York Times Book Review, December 2, 2007:
"An ultracharming picture book."
Starred review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, April 2007:
"There's plenty to pore over in the detail-rich scenes, and the childlike but deft lines match the text's exuberance . . . This is perfect family fare and a welcome departure from storybooks that assume the worst when a new life joins the family."
IRA–CBC Children's Choice WINNER
National Parenting Publications Award (NAPPA) WINNER 2007
New York Times Bestseller WINNER 2007
New York Times Notable Book WINNER 2007
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Reichl, a former food critic for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and--at the time of this speech--editor of Gourmet magazine, spoke of her mother, as many of the other honorees did. But her tribute took a turn the others did not. From the speech:
My mother would have been one hundred years old today. And so I've been thinking about her, and how she helped me to become the person that I am....
But my mother was a great example of everything I didn't want to be, and to this day I wake up every morning grateful that I'm not her.Shocked silence met those lines. But as Reichl continued, giving a blunt assessment of her mother's life and its influence on her, the audience members started to see themselves and their own mothers. Immediately, she said:
Grateful, in fact, not to be any of the women of her generation, who were unlucky enough to have been born at what seems to me to have been the worst possible time to have been a middle-class American woman.Many were in tears by the end of the talk, brief as it was. Here's what you can learn from this famous speech:
- Tell your most difficult stories: Reichl's mother was a horrible cook, almost "taste-blind." She was depressed and bipolar and not a particularly good mother in many respects. But by having the courage to talk about how that motivated and shaped her own success, Reichl demonstrates what I mean when I talk about finding your voice as a speaker: If you can bring yourself to share your most difficult stories in a speech, you'll have the most compelling content and a riveting voice.
- Don't go for the obvious: Award acceptance speeches are almost entirely predictable...and can easily bore the audience, especially if there are several to sit through. By not just thanking her mother but using her mother as a foil for her achievements, Reichl had the room in the palm of her hand.
- Say the things only you can say: No one, but no one, could have stood in front of that room and said, "Ruth's so grateful not to be her mother." But she could--and in doing so, shared an intimate and insightful part of herself that made the talk unique.
A publisher approached her immediately, asking her to write a memoir of her mother. Later, on the book tour for what became Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way,Reichl recreated the speech--a gift to this blog, since the original wasn't recorded--and talks about the reactions to it, in the video below. You also may want to listen to the audiobook version, or read the speech text in this NPR excerpt from the book. Reichl also talks about her mother and the book in this NPR Fresh Air interview. What do you think of this famous speech?
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"hit and miss. we tried deeper water and caught a 17 white perch. large mouth bass are being caught more thank any other fishing on the lake. the bass are hit jigs and..." Bayou D'Arbonne Lake
"Boone creek is a slough that that feeds a swamp on Hwy164 between Doyline and Sibley. most of the creek is located on the ammunition plant and drys up often. Last summer..." Boone Creek
"Buffalo River is navigable and it is receiving a lot of pressure. With summer here, the smallmouths are active...." Little Crooked Creek
"Buffalo River is navigable and it is receiving a lot of pressure. With summer here, the smallmouths are active...." Crooked Creek
"Saturday June 1, on lake at first light, left north shore where my house is and went to deep water points on south side. Saw a fish chase a shad, first cast with chug..." Lake Claiborne Dam
"Off the bridge and just under the overflow there were literally 20-30 people bass fishing with bobbers and worms and hauling in 5-10 good sized largemouths a piece. I..." Ivan Lake
"Crappie and large bream can be caught throughout the winter on shiners and jigs fished off the ends of the deeper piers, especially piers with added structure. Fish..." Eagle Lake
"Bream are good on worms and crickets right now under a float. Crappie are fair on live minnows and small jigs. Bass are good on Rogues, worms, and spinnerbaits...." Lake Columbia
"Fish the cypress trees with lizards and senkos or crankbaits like ratltraps. Flukes and spinnerbaits work good also. If you can find fish still on beds here they love..." Bayou Darbonne Dam
Tips, tactics, gear reviews for everything from bass and bluegills to stripers and bluefish - if it's fishing related, we cover it.
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Just as the shocks, bushings, and springs in a vehicle's suspension will degrade over the years, other components-door strikers and even hood hinges-will wear out as well. Telltale signs of a worn hood hinge would include repeated adjustment fore and aft as well as height corrections. Another sign is when the hood is raised and it droops and will not stay up on its own. While only replacing the hood springs could have corrected our drooping hood, we were after an updated look to match the theme of today's muscle cars.
In our search for something a bit different, though, we decided to kill two birds with one stone. We ditched the idea of going with a factory replacement and instead went with a billet hood hinge assembly from Eddie Motorsports. The billet hood hinges have very distinct advantages over the stamped steel versions. First, the billet components are extremely strong, which means the hood won't wiggle once up, keeping the hood rigid. They are CNC-crafted from 6061-T6 billet aluminum and utilize sealed bearings for a smooth operation. Next is its adjustability; the billet hinges provide more in adjustment for aligning the hood to the fenders and hood latch. They also feature stainless steel fine-tuning adjustment turnbuckles for final fitment. Finally, you get a choice of custom color options: a polished; machined; or in our case, matte-black powdercoated finish to match our exterior.
To get the job done, we raised the hood on our '66 El Camino and got to work using basic handtools. Don't worry, this is no time-consuming chore; it took us less than an hour. And when it was done, we not only have a more rigid and smoother-functioning hood, but it looks downright awesome.
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What We Did
Swapped the old spring-style hood hinges with a pair of Eddie Motorsports billet aluminum units
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Topic started by Ramki (@ 18.104.22.168) on Fri Nov 19 19:49:35 EST 2004.
Often we listen to songs that we feel deserves more appreciation or we discover songs that somehow escaped the attention of listeners or were masked by other popular songs from the same movie.The joy of sharing such discoveries with others could be boundless.
This thread is going to do exactly that.
Songs we host could be really rare or not so rare. We are not limiting to just hosting them.
Many of the songs will be analyzed in detail by carnatic vocalist Mrs Charumathi M.
We are going to start with one song a week. We will try our best to upload the songs in tfmpage but in rare occassions we might just give you the song link.
Finally, if you feel you have a song that you want to share it with rest of us or if you want us to load a particular song, please let us know and we will try our maximum best to meet your request. You can reach us here .
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You see what I did there? 🙂
Lots of major life stuff going on right now. Transitioning from grad student to predoctoral intern and moving halfway across the country while simultaneously collecting data for and writing my dissertation. I haven't had much time to update anything or play much GW, as you can imagine.
But I have had time to do some thinking.
I've been pondering a way to tie GW Belzan to GW2 Belzan and I've been focusing mainly on the story I've already written (i.e., Chronicles of the Eremite). This has largely been unsuccessful.
It is the season of rewrites and reboots and all that fun stuff in comics, movies, and movies about comics. Everyone's starting over. Why not me?
So here's the plan. I'm working on an outline for a new background story. I'll be overhauling the site over the next couple months and archiving Chronicles. It'll still be on the site, but prolly not so prominently displayed. I've also done absolutely nothing with the Friends, Acquaintances, and Allies section, so I'll prolly do away with it. The NPCs and alts pertain directly to my Chronicles storyline and the vast majority of other characters are friends who no longer play GW, so it's difficult to acquire game pics and RP storylines from them.
I also haven't had much time lately to talk about all the new stuff mentioned in GW2. I'm excited about the engineer (and, I called it, totally) and extremely excited about underwater combat. Dungeons are exactly what I expected them to be: GW1 transplanted to GW2. That being said, I'm ready to go kick some Ascalonian Ghosty ectoplasm (I'd usually say butt here, but I'm sure you can see how that word doesn't really apply since they have no bodies).
I can't wait for the mesmer to be released and I'm looking forward to reading about the asura (logically, these are what's coming next). I'm ready to learn about PvP. It doesn't really apply to me all that much, but it is something I can see myself having fun with. It's basically one ENORMOUS dynamic event afterall.
That's it for now. Look for Belzan related posts here in the future and get to reading Talk Tyria for interesting GW2 related articles. I'll prolly have one or two posted there in a while as well.


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This week's "Fabulous Room" is the chic and eclectic bedroom of Andy and Kate Spade. This is exactly the type of room I'd like to spend some time in after a hectic week. Doesn't it look inviting? I love the casual elegance of it all. It's slightly decadent in sort of "undone" way and has a very "Royal Tenenbaums" vibe. All of the furniture silhouettes are classic, but the way in which the space is composed along with the stacks of books and casual white linens make it all feel so inviting.The grey-green grasscloth adds warmth and texture to the space while the bold black and white nightstand, and bright yellow and white-striped headboard add a modern, whimsical touch to the traditional furnishings. It's such a great takeaway—you may just stumble upon a fabulous piece while vintage shopping this weekend that you can modernize and make your own through the use of color. I think Andy may have the right idea enjoying a cocktail in bed. Maybe I'll give it a try this weekend! Happy Friday!
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Dear editor: School leaders should beg Tom Brown for help
Dear editor:
Mr. Barger, as a voting citizen of Catawba County, I would like to know why Tom Brown is not being named interim coach for Maiden. We are a community that cherishes our own. Tom may be one of the best motivational coaches ever. He has always taken small town kids and given them the confidences to believe anything. Yet the school board continually disrespects him. If you and the board value your positions you all will be at his door begging him to help. We will not forget come election time.
David Pope,


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PalmSecure by Fujitsu is an authentication system that utilizes the latest in biometric security technology. Answering a worldwide need from governments to the private sector, PalmSecure is a contactless, palm-vein device offers an easy-to use, hygienic solution for verifying identity.
The palm vein device works by capturing a person's vein pattern image while radiating it with near-infrared rays. The deoxidized haemoglobin in the palm vein absorbs these rays, thereby reducing the reflection rate and causing the veins to appear as a black pattern. This vein pattern is then verified against a pre-registered pattern to authenticate the individual.
Fujitsu researched the best physical position for vein authentication, and came to the conclusion that palm is the most suitable place. Vein patterns are unique to individuals and contain detailed characteristics so a template can be formed for each user. The sensor of the palm vein device only recognizes the pattern if the deoxidized haemoglobin is actively flowing within the individual's veins.


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2011 has been huge for "Top Chef All-Star" Richard Blais, with his Bravo win and a new "haute doggery," just to name a few. But he might just top it this upcoming year when The Spence opens in Atlanta in February. We chatted with this chef mastermind, found out some juicy details about his new restaurant, and a thing or two about what he's up to in his hometown. This top chef not only dishes out crazy good food, he makes t-shirts and pops-and-locks, too.
We wish we were based in Atlanta–we're missing a lot of great things from you these days! What's new at Flip Burger?
Flip is really into reminding our guests that we use great ingredients right now. Of course, people know us for off-the-wall flavor combos and liquid nitrogen shakes, but we use a few great farmers like Border Springs Lamb, Benton's bacon, and some local Farmers in the Atlanta area.
Your hot dog joint HD1 opened in September. Tell us all about it.
[It's] a haute doggery. [We use] all local meats, either made by a local charcutier or ground in house. It's a super casual, quick-service place focusing on " food you want to stuff your face with " canned beers and vintage sodas, a lot of fun.
Hamburgers and hot dogs can be pretty standard, but with you, we know it can't be that simple. How are you reinventing these American favorites?
HD1 serves a dog with tripe and oxtail--some consider that out there. Flip has of course a foie gras milkshake and a sous-vide-then-fried burger. I think it's all pretty current. We go around shooting burgers with ray guns, and then transform them back into patties, and then cook that in the microwave.
A past episode of 1st Look was all about unique dining experiences. We know that you are the master of creating such experiences, but what's your craziest food memory?
My craziest food memory is still my honeymoon dinner at El Bulli. But I just tricked the prettiest girl in the world to marry me, so the surreal aspects of the experience had more to do with my company. I think that's how it works. And the first time I drank milk straight from a cow, yeah that was crazy. Or, [the time] when I had three McRibs in a sitting... all crazy for different reasons.
Have you ever heard of the culinary club called The Gastronauts? They explore foods from other countries, like balut (16-day fertilized duck egg), shirako (cod milt), kokorec (lamb intestines stuffed w veal sweetbreads). Would you ever join a club like this?
Sounds fun! I've done the cod sperm... what do these folks look like? I'm envisioning the comic book character from The Simpsons.
If the sky were the limit and you could create any restaurant, where and what would it be?
A "menu changes every day" jeans and t-shirt type of casual place in the Bay Area. A chalkboard, a tiny kitchen, a good view maybe... yeah. I should be careful what I wish for.
And speaking of opening restaurants, we hear February 2012 is going to be a big month for you. What can people expect from you and your team at The Spence?
Bone-in salisbury steak. A wood-burning rotisserie. Ducks and lambs. A salad with some dates maybe. Black garlic spaghetti. Dover sole and English muffins. A date night place... a hang out.
What are you doing at The Spence that's unlike anything in the Atlanta dining scene?
I'm going to serve our staff family meal for $1 until it runs out that night.
Let's take a break from the foodie chat. Congrats on running the NYC Marathon. What an achievement! Are there any other hobbies or alternative activities you're really digging right now?
I enjoy running, may do another one this year. I'm thinking about joining a hockey or lacrosse league (I played in high school). I'm collecting vintage spoons and tableware. Oh! I just started a t-shirt company, Tasty Cotton!
Is there ever a moment you just want to throw down a dance move? What is your dance move and go-to venue for a good night out?
Yes, it's the robot, or an occasional pop-locking session... I'm a dork. I party at home with my kids!
What are your plans for the holidays? Did you cook this Thanksgiving?
Yes, we had about 13 people come over. Tamale-stuffed turkey is this year's new dish. Lots of veg, and this year, a cheesecake!
Lastly, in light of the holiday cheer, are there any amazing organizations or charity groups out there right now that you'd like to give a shout out to?
Alliance For a Healthier Generation. I'm working with them through the marathon. Check outcrowdrise.com/rblais and Charity Buzz to bid on a private cooking lesson with me!
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"Top Chef" Richard Blais at the Top of His Game
2011 has been huge for "Top Chef All-Star" Richard Blais, with his Bravo win and a new "haute doggery," just to name a few. But he might just top it this upcoming year when The Spence opens in Atlanta in February. We chatted with this chef mastermind, found out some juicy details about his new restaurant, and a thing or two about what he's up to in his hometown. This top chef not only dishes out crazy good food, he makes t-shirts and pops-and-locks, too.


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Friday, November 7, 2008
Domestic Mammals in the Field?
I have disagreed in the past. I felt large roosters were the true threat. I especially think of one I met at Pipe Springs National Monument that I named Tyrannosaurus pecks (no pictures though, I was running away). The wounds were painful...
During an exploration of some wild caves in the Sierra Nevada foothills, I found my assumptions about chickens to be wrong. Rounding a corner, we were faced with a vanguard of the coming invasion...I had the same feeling that King Arthur must have experienced when he met the Knights Who Say Nit (Monty Python's Holy Grail), or maybe the white rabbit.
Seriously though, there are some great caves in our neck of the wood. I have a smattering of photos posted here. One of our Sierra caves (Lilburn in Kings Canyon National Park) has something like 17 miles of passageways. Info on caves of Sequoia and Kings Canyon can be found here.
5 comments:
- Eric said...
Nothin' quite like a cow for REALLY STARING you down.
- November 7, 2008 at 1:07 PM
- Silver Fox said...
It looks like your son may be right!
- November 8, 2008 at 5:25 AM
Speaking of dolphins, you may want to take a look at this... :)
- January 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM
- Garry Hayes said...
Dang! I was wondering what those dolphins were up to....
- January 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM
- on-the-rocks said...
I suspect the cows were thinking "What do you mean you didn't bring us any food?"
My pickup truck was set upon by a bunch of horses one time in the Jarilla Mts. of southern New Mexico.
It seemed that they were expecting us to have brought them some apples or some sort of treat and when we walked away to check out an old mine, they set about vandalizing my truck.
They chewed on the door handles, the windshield wipers, the camper shell handle, and one kicked and shattered the passenger-side mirror.
On the non-domesticated side, there was a story going around the North Georgia mountains a year or two ago about a grouse repeatedly attacking mountain bikers along a particular trail.
It's a jungle out there, even in the desert.
- February 27, 2009 at 9:53 PM


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Saying Goodbye - Wheel to Wheel
It's been a good run, but it's time to move on
I think Bill Shakespeare said, "parting is such sweet sorrow." Whether he wrote it or not, few truer words have ever been spoken. I am sad to announce that this is my last editorial column
in Circle Track. I have been with Source Interlink Media for just about five and a half years. After my first month I took a leap of faith and moved from New Jersey to sunny Florida, not knowing if a career in automotive journalism was something I was even interested in. I knew I loved cars and I could put a sentence together, now five and a half years later, I've written for six different magazines, built friendships with some amazing people, and got to know the automotive aftermarket from an amazingly unique perspective. And I have to say, if I could do it all over again, there is very, very little I would change!
I love cars—in just about all forms. I grew up around them, raced them, worked on them, and I thought I knew a lot, that is until I got thrown into a conversation with people who actually knew a lot about cars. I really thought I was in way over my head. Five and a half years later, I still feel in over my head, but I know how to handle it much better now.
I have learned so much from so many people, there is no way to thank everyone on the list. I wouldn't have spent the last year and a half at Circle Track if it wasn't for Rob Fisher. Rob, thank you! You have been an amazing boss and a great friend! I am going to miss working for and with you!
Bob Bolles, thank you for always pushing me to write at a higher level technically and to learn as much as possible. I appreciate you always being there as a mentor and a guide as I grew into the CT team.
I'll still be around. Just because I am moving on doesn't mean you aren't going to see my name on a byline anymore. I'm going to try to contribute as much as I can to current projects and the occasional story here and there. The magazine (and Source Interlink Media in general) has been good to me, and I look forward to remaining a part of the CT and SIM team, although in a much lesser capacity.
In my new position I will remain in the automotive aftermarket, and still have the opportunity to work with many of the magazines, just in a different way. I will be doing a large portion of the marketing for an aftermarket suspension company. I will also write when I have the time to do so. I love testing parts and writing about the results, and helping to educate readers on whatever the topic is—I don't know if that is something I will ever give up.
I'm going to miss writing "Wheel to Wheel" each month. Maybe Rob will let me write one every once in a while to vent my racing frustrations or simply voice my opinion from time to time. Until then, thank you for letting me have my dream job, listing to my BS, and being so loyal to such a great magazine. I have truly been honored to have been a part of Circle Track and I have thoroughly enjoyed the last year and a half! While I am excited to move, the thought of leaving is very sad!


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Mr. Hooper's Picture figured prominently in the 1983 episode 1839 of Sesame Street, which addressed the death of Mr. Hooper following the real-life death of actor Will Lee. In the episode, Big Bird has drawn portraits of all of his human friends and is handing them out as gifts. Big Bird is eager to give Mr. Hooper his portrait, but the adults explain that Mr. Hooper died, and that when someone dies, he never comes back.
Near the end of the episode, Big Bird hangs the picture in his nest area as a remembrance. In subsequent episodes, the picture becomes a prominent background prop and continuing memorial to Mr. Hooper. The actual drawing was done by Caroll Spinney, Big Bird's performer and a cartoonist in his own right.[1]
In Episode 3611, bird art collector Leo Birdelli offers Big Bird one hundred bags of birdseed in exchange for the picture. Big Bird refused, explaining that it was hard enough saying goodbye to Mr. Hooper once, and he couldn't say goodbye again. Template:SSvideo
Mr. Hooper's picture, along with Radar, are the only two belongings that Big Bird takes from his nest when he is forced to relocate after it is destroyed by a hurricane. He props it up next to his makeshift nest in Maria and Luis's apartment in episode 3978.
The same caricature of Mr. Hooper replaces the head of George Washington on dollar bills seen in the resource video For Me, For You, For Later and a 2011 episode.
Joe Mathieu duplicated the picture three times (once on the cover and twice in the book proper) in I'll Miss You, Mr. Hooper. Another variant appeared briefly near the beginning and ending of the film Follow That Bird and shows Mr. Hooper facing in the opposite direction from the original. Spinney himself redrew the picture for his memoir The Wisdom of Big Bird.


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Alison Sweeney's Couch Workout
Andrew Southam
Row Boat
The Biggest Loser's Alison Sweeney may spend more time on TV than she does in front of it, but the multitasking mom has mastered the art of finding exercise options in her living room or hotel room. "When it comes to working out, I don't just let it happen; I make it happen. I think about it a day in advance," says Sweeney, who walks the talk on these pages. Got 24 minutes during your fave sitcom? Then sculpt sexy muscles at home. "Anyone can do it," says Sweeney's trainer, Stevie Sant'Angelo, who designed this fast allover firm-up exclusively for FITNESS using just a couch and a single resistance band. "You'll get your sweat on and tone all the top trouble zones on your own schedule." Do 15 reps of each move then repeat the circuit twice. Stash the band between your sofa cushions so it's always on hand to keep your body supersleek.
Row Boat
Targets: Back, shoulders, and biceps
- Loop center of band around couch leg and sit on floor facing couch, holding ends of band in each hand, arms extended in front of you with palms facing down.
- Drive elbows behind you at shoulder height to row band toward chest; then, keeping elbows bent to maintain resistance, lower them to sides. Return to start.
- Do 15 reps.
Trainer's Tip: Keep your shoulders down throughout the move so that their blades kiss in back.
Andrew Southam
Decline Push-Up
Targets: Chest, arms, and abs
- Get into full push-up position with palms on floor, arms extended, balls of feet resting on couch cushion and hips lifted so that body forms a straight line from head to heels.
- MAKE IT EASIER: Place knees on cushion or do an incline push-up with feet on floor and palms on cushion.
- Bend elbows to lower chest toward floor, then return to start.
- Do 15 reps.
Andrew Southam
Flye Master
Targets: Shoulders, chest, and abs
- Loop center of band around couch leg and sit on floor with back against couch, legs extended in front of you, holding ends of band in each hand. MAKE IT HARDER: Lean torso back 45 degrees without touching couch and raise feet a few inches off floor.
- Lift extended arms out to sides at shoulder level, palms facing down, and then bring them toward each other in front of you.
- Bring arms back out to sides and repeat.
- Do 15 reps.
Andrew Southam
Flamingo Dip
Targets: Triceps and quads
- Stand with feet hip-width apart with your back to couch and place both palms on edge of cushion or armrest, fingers facing forward.
- Keeping arms straight and elbows close by sides, bend knees about 90 degrees and then lift left foot a few inches off floor, knee bent, to get into start position.
- Flexing left foot, bend elbows behind you 90 degrees and simultaneously extend left leg so that it's parallel to floor.
- Straighten arms and bend left knee to return to start.
- Do 15 reps.
- Switch sides and repeat.
Trainer's Tip: "Think of your heel as added resistance," Sant'Angelo says. "The greater you flex your foot, the more you'll work your quads."
Andrew Southam
Pli? Plus
Targets: Shoulders, abs, butt, inner thighs, and calves
- Loop center of band around couch leg and stand with back to couch, feet together with toes turned out, holding ends of band in each hand in front of hips.
- Bend knees 90 degrees to lower into pli? squat.
- Straighten legs to stand up, squeezing inner thighs together and raising heels off floor as you lift extended arms in front of you to shoulder level, palms facing down.
- Lower heels and arms, then return to pli? squat.
- Do 15 reps.
Trainer's Tip: Squeeze your glutes and hold for one count as you stand in the calf-raise position.
Andrew Southam
Curl 'n' Squat
Targets: Biceps, abs, butt, and legs
- Stand with feet hip-width apart on center of band so that your back is facing couch, holding ends of band in each hand with arms by sides and palms facing forward; stand about 18 inches from edge of cushion.
- Keeping elbows by sides, curl hands toward shoulders as you lower into a squat, barely touching edge of cushion.
- Stand up quickly, lowering arms by sides.
- Do 15 reps.
Trainer's Tip: To really target the butt, push through your heels, not your toes.
Andrew Southam
Booty Lift
Targets: Butt and hamstrings
- Lie faceup on floor with heels hip-width apart on edge of couch cushion, knees bent 90 degrees and arms on floor, slightly out to sides.
- Lift hips, squeezing glutes, so that body forms a straight line from shoulders to knees.
- Lower knees out to sides and bring them back in, then return to start.
- Do 15 reps.
Andrew Southam
Thigh-Frying Wood Chop
Targets: Shoulders, abs, obliques, butt, and legs
- Tie one end of band to couch leg and hold other end with both hands. Stand with feet hip-width apart so that couch is a few feet to your right and you feel resistance in the band, hands by right hip.
- Lower into squat, knees bent about 90 degrees, then pull band diagonally up with arms extended from right hip to above left shoulder. Maintain squat as you rotate torso.
- Do 15 reps.
- Switch sides, with couch on your left, and repeat.
Trainer's Tip: Squeeze a towel between your knees during this move to add inner-thigh toning.
Extra-Credit Sweat
Turn up the burn and ab flattening of this workout with the following five-minute quickie after each resistance-band circuit. Or try it on its own during commercials.
Jump rope, do step-ups on the couch or coffee table, or run up and down the stairs in your house.
Hold a plank pose, balancing on floor on forearms and feet.
Do jumping jacks.
Do bicycle crunches, bringing opposite elbow and knee together. (Every fourth crunch, hold the position for five seconds before resuming.)
Repeat jumping rope, step-ups, or running up and down stairs.


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The Reds selected Jesse Winker in the supplemental first round of the 2012 draft. It's already looking like a very shrewd selection. Winker was drafted out of Olympia High School in Florida, the same school that produced notable players/prospects like Brad Miller, Walker Wieckel, and Mason Williams.
Despite his youthful age and limited professional experience, Winker already exhibits an advanced approach and good feel for hitting. The Reds have had tremendous success in drafting and developing homegrown talent over the last decade. They have developed position players and pitchers of all types and profiles, but one area where they have come up a bit short is in impact bats. Jesse Winker is the best bet in the system to develop into a pure, complete hitter.
Winker spent the entire 2013 season with low-A Dayton. For the Dragons, he posted a rock solid slash line of .281/.379/.463/.841 over 112 games and 417 ABs. He also posted an impressive 75/63 K/BB ratio, showing an impressive ability to control the strike zone, and flashed developing power, 18 doubles and 16 homeruns. For his professional career, Winker has almost as many walks (103 BBs) as strikeouts (125 Ks), which portends very well for continued success as he can work deep into counts to draw walks but has the hit tool and 2-strike approach needed to limit the strikeouts. Further, Winker's homerun spray chart reveals that he hit 4 to left field, 2 to center field, and pulled 10 to right field, so he does a nice job using the entire field.
Thus far, the Reds are keeping Winker on a deliberate and linear development path, with one stop per season and a one level advancement from season 1 to season 2. It seems like the appropriate development plan for Winker, a polished high school hitter who has yet to find a level he can't handle.
If the Reds hold true to form, Winker will start and finish the season at high-A Bakersfield. But, if Winker hits well against the more advanced competition, then he could jump on a faster development track.
In last year's write up, I talked at length about the unusual arm-bar he uses in loading the hands and the corresponding hand manipulations he is forced to use to overcome it. I also wrote that "a mechanical issue isn't a flaw until it demonstrably impacts a player's performance level." Winker's arm-bar hasn't yet proven to be a flaw because he continues to produce. So far, so good.
Even so, it's an issue worth mentioning again. At times, it seems like Winker has diminished the arm-bar action in his swing, but it's definitely still there. And, as with last year, I feel like comparing Winker to John Olerud, who owned a highly effective and yet very simple swing, at similar points in their respective swings effectively illustrates the point.
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On the left, you can see John Olerud in action. His lead arm has more bend to it and his lead shoulder and hip have yet to open up. On the right, you can see Jesse Winker in action for the Dayton Dragons last season. Once again, Winker's swing places him in an atypical position, as his lead arm is barred and his back elbow is already tucked in close to the body. The position of his arms actually gives the appearance that he's going to come completely over the top in his swing. In addition, Winker's front hip is opening up earlier than Olerud's. But, to date, Winker's swing has yet to fail him, so this remains an issue merely worth watching, rather than a swing flaw. He obviously incorporates whatever in-swing hand adjustments necessary to make his arm-bar load functional.
Despite the deeper loading of the hands, as created by the arm-bar, Winker still manages to use a short, compact swing. His hand path to the point of impact is direct and efficient, which reduces the length of his swing and reduces the chances that he'll be tied up on hard, inside pitches, a typical concern with arm-bar swings.
Winker starts with a slightly wider than shoulder-width stance and a small bat waggle in his pre-pitch stance. He uses a high leg kick to transfer his weight forward to meet the pitch, which can occasionally throw off his timing when he gets fooled by offspeed pitches and has to slow his swing to try to make contact. As his stride foot touches down, he begins to draw his hands back to load up, triggering the aforementioned arm-bar issue, and starts to fire his hips. His hand path to the ball is short, which makes him quick to the ball. He brings his back elbow into his back hip, syncing his upper body to the power of the hip rotation. His hip rotation drives his weight up onto the toes of his back foot and he effectively firms up the front-side, allowing the force generated by the rotation of the hips to rotate around an anchored point.
In the below photo, you can see the very strong position that he gets into at the point of impact:
Winker gets good extension through the point of impact and uses good hand-eye coordination to consistently get the barrel of the bat on the ball. His swing seems short to the point of impact, but longer out-and-through the ball, which should give the valuable mix of contact ability and power production. I would like to see him hold off releasing the bat just a hair longer in the swing, maintaining a smaller angle between bat and left forearm for a longer period of time, to avoid any early casting of the bat head and maximizing the rotational power of the swing. IF he can delay the release of the bat head a hair longer, it may help him unlock his power potential going forward by generating a bit more leverage. Still, his good size should enable him to add more muscle/strength to his frame and it already allows him to generate good leverage in his swing.
Here's a look at Winker in action, courtesy of RedsMinorLeagues on YouTube:
Overall, there is a great deal to like with Jesse Winker. He has the pitch recognition skills and disciplined approach needed to control the strike zone and generate high walk rates. He has the hand-eye coordination and strong wrists needed to make consistent, hard contact. And, there's untapped power in his swing that could take his hitting to a whole new level. He also already has a mature approach, utilizing the entire field.
Currently, Winker is the best pure hitting prospect in the Reds system and the upside is both undeniable and tantalizing. If he continues on his current development path and adds a touch more power, then his offensive ceiling will be sky high. And, his current batting average and on-base skills give him a fairly highly floor.
On the defensive side of the game, Winker is likely to be relegated to left field or first base. Though, Joey Votto obviously presents something of a roadblock to playing time at first (understatement alert!), so left field is the likely home for Winker.
Winker should be just fine in left field. While he doesn't run that well, preventing him from covering a tremendous amount of ground, and his athleticism isn't great, he does do a nice job converting those plays he can reach into outs. His arm strength is average, at best, but it will play just fine in left field.
Ultimately, Winker's lack of athleticism will likely preclude him from ever being a plus defensive player, but he could be a solid, non-liability in left field. He'll need more innings under his belt to improve his reads off the bat and improve his comfort level out there. He's a prospect who takes pride in his defense and wants to be a well-rounded player, which bodes well for his development in this area.
Winker will always be a bat-first prospect, but he should have enough ability in left field to avoid having his defense act as a drag on his overall value.
When you are evaluating Jesse Winker, you are evaluating his hit tool. He's a bat-first prospect who will go as far as his hitting will take him. He doesn't have the speed or defense that drives the value of other prospects, so there is much greater emphasis on his hitting. That said, despite my lingering reservations about how he does what he does, I feel like there could be a significant breakthrough on the horizon for Winker.
Winker has already shown the ability to hit for average and control the strike zone, but there could/should be more power on the horizon. Power is frequently the last attribute to develop and there should be a power spike coming in the near future for the 20-year old Winker. When the power arrives, the Reds could have a very complete hitter on their hands, one who excels in all three components of the slash line and has a very high offensive ceiling.
Winker is an exciting prospect and one with a great deal of projection remaining in his offensive game. If he can tap into it, then he could be the best, most well-rounded hitter the Reds have developed since Joey Votto. My gut feeling is that Winker, if his development breaks right, could be a very special hitter for the Reds. I'm definitely bullish on his future, so for now Winker lands at #3 on the list.


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Brunswick (clothing)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Brunswick gown or Brunswick is a two-piece woman's gown of the mid-eighteenth century.
The Brunswick comprises a hip-length jacket with a high neckline and a hood, worn with a matching petticoat. The jacket sleeves consist of an upper sleeve with flounces at the elbow and a tight, wrist-length lower sleeve.
The Brunswick is one of several informal jacket-and-petticoat costumes popular in the later 18th century, derived from working class costume but made up in fine fabrics.
Originating in France (based on a German fashion), the Brunswick was also popular in England and the United States as a traveling costume.
- Baumgarten, Linda: What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-300-09580-5
- Ribeiro, Aileen: The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France 1750–1820, Yale University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-300-06287-7
- Ribeiro, Aileen: Dress in Eighteenth Century Europe 1715–1789, Yale University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-300-09151-6
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
Sooo Close!
I normally would've raised this hand but there was a utg limper. On the flop villain insta pushed and i knew exactly what he had so i insta called. of course after i lose the hand and i'm sitting 35/35 i start to second guess the call. But from everything i've read and learned it is wrong to pass up on obvious +ev plays. Besides had i won this hand i wouldve final tabled for sure... and you know how i feel once i final table a tournament... i'm taking that sucka down!
First prize was around 7k i think. I checked the result this morning and the donk villain in this hand busted 24th... 24th! winning this hand put him in 1st or 2nd place with around 60bb and he finished 24th. So sad.
I had played a $11 mtt and a $11+1r+1a earlier but busted both quickly because i had just come home from work and was tired. I also played the $55 50k that started about 30 minutes after the 25k and was running ok when i misplayed a flopped set on a coordinated flop to bust 391st out of 1289.
All in all i feel really good with my play lastnight. Most importantly i learned that i can play at these buy-ins. when playing higher than normal we automatically assume that opponents are gonna be so much better based solely on the buy-in, but that simply was not the case in any of these tournaments. I felt i was better than at least 60% of the field. Of course the final table would probably be alot harder.
I will continue to work on my game, hopefully it pays off in a high 4 figure or even 5 figure cash.
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- E z e k i e l said...
Good job man! Keep playing your "A" game and the results will come. That was a hard way to go out with A6o, but had you raised pre-flop you might have avoided the whole situation. But once you saw the flop and faced with the all-in bet, I would find it tough to lay down there as well considering I'm probably a 3-1 favorite.
I hope to see another post detailing your run to another final table, but with you taking it down for the 5 figure score! That would be a truly great read!
p.s. happy belated b-day
- Game101 said...
thanks Zeke, I would enjoy nothing more that making that post:)
I didnt raise the hand because of the limper utg, I probably shouldve just folded preflop.
- Unknown said...
It's so discouraging to get a beat off a donkey like that because you know that your chips are going to be immediately spewed to all the other players at the table. How that idiot amassed a huge stack and then came in 24th we'll never know. Keep up the good work.


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SUNY Canton to Hold Public Forum on Proposed Wind Turbine Project, July 17Monday, July 8th, 2013
The meeting will be the second in a series of public outreach efforts held by the College and its project partners.
SUNY Canton will host the second of three public informational sessions discussing a proposed wind turbine on the College campus beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 17, in Richard W. Miller Campus Center's Kingston Theater.
The public is encouraged to attend this free event. Refreshments will be served.
The College, in consultation with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and Sustainable Energy Developments (SED), is considering the construction of a wind turbine that would provide electricity to the campus. The turbine would also advance educational opportunities for students, including those in the Alternative and Renewable Energy Systems and Electrical Engineering Technology programs.
Following the previous outreach session, SED conducted numerous studies on the visual, acoustic, and archeological impacts of the proposed wind turbine on the campus and surrounding community.
Representatives from the SUNY Canton President's Office, the Facilities and Planning Department, and the Public Relations Office will join NYPA and SED to answer questions about the project.
If the project is completed, SUNY Canton will be the only SUNY college or university with a 1.8 megawatt wind turbine on campus.
Parking will be available in Lots 1 and 13. For directions, please refer to the campus maps http://www.canton.edu/map/.
For further information, please contact the SUNY Canton Public Relations Office at 315-386-7300, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
About SUNY Canton:
SUNY Canton offers a variety of career-driven bachelor's degrees in addition to its associate and certificate programs. In the past year, the College added two new bachelor's degrees and expanded its facilities with a new athletic center, nicknamed Roos House, and the Grasse River Suites Residence Hall. The College's faculty members are noted for their professional real-world experience in addition to their academic credentials. SUNY Canton OnLine offers flexible and convenient online courses and programs. The College's 14 athletic teams compete as provisional members of the NCAA Division III as well as the USCAA.


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An ingrown toenail occurs when the edge of the nail grows down and into the skin of the toe.
Onychocryptosis; Unguis incarnatus; Nail avlusion; Matrix excision
An ingrown toenail can result from a number of things. Poorly fitting shoes and toenails that are not properly trimmed are the most common causes. The skin along the edge of a toenail may become red and infected. The great toe is affected most often, but any toenail can become ingrown.
Ingrown toenails may occur when extra pressure is placed on your toe. This pressure is caused by shoes that are too tight or too loose. If you walk often or participate in athletics, a shoe that is even a little tight can cause this problem. Deformities of the foot or toes can also place extra pressure on the toe.
Nails that are not trimmed properly can also cause ingrown toenails.
Some people are born with nails that are curved and grow downward. Others have toenails that are too large for their toes. Stubbing your toe or other injuries can also lead to an ingrown toenail.
There may be pain, redness and swelling around the nail.
An exam of the foot will show the following:
Tests or x-rays are usually not needed.
If you have diabetes, nerve damage in the leg or foot, poor blood circulation to your foot, or an infection around the nail, go to the doctor right away. Do not try to treat an ingrown nail at home.
Otherwise, to treat an ingrown nail at home:
When trimming your toenails:
Consider wearing sandals until the problem goes away. Over-the-counter medication that is applied to the ingrown toenail may help with the pain, but it does not treat the problem.
If this does not work and the ingrown nail gets worse, see your family doctor, a foot specialist (podiatrist) or a skin specialist (dermatologist).
If your ingrown nail does not heal or keeps coming back, your doctor may remove part of the nail:
Sometimes your doctor will use a chemical, electrical current, or another small surgical cut to destroy or remove the area from which a new nail may grow.
If the toe is infected, your doctor may prescribe antibiotics.
Treatment usually controls the infection and relieves pain. The condition is likely to return if you do not practice good foot care.
This condition may become serious in people with diabetes, poor circulation, and nerve problems (peripheral neuropathies).
In severe cases, the infection can spread through the toe and into the bone.
Call your health care provider if you:
If you have diabetes, nerve damage in the leg or foot, poor blood circulation to your foot, or an infection around the nail, your risk for complications is higher. If you have diabetes, see your health care provider.
Wear shoes that fit properly. Shoes that you wear every day should have plenty of room around your toes. Shoes that you wear for walking briskly or for running should also have plenty of room, but not be too loose.
Keep your feet clean and dry. People with diabetes should have routine foot exams and nail care.
Heidelbaugh JJ, Lee H. Management of the ingrown toenail. Am Fam Physician. 2009;79(4):303-8.
Ishikawa SN. Disorders of nails and skin. In: Canale ST, Beaty JH, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Mosby; 2012:chap 87.


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This example comes from Steve Eddins' blog: Learning Lessons from a One-Liner
Write a function that takes a list or array of numbers as input and return the largest number that is adjacent to a zero.
Input x = [1 5 3 0 2 7 0 8 9 1 0] Output y is 8
This problem was originally posed by Greg Wilson of Software Carpentry.
Two more tests:
1. Input x = [-4 -2 0 -4 -1 0]
Output y is -1.
2. Input x = [-9 -3 0 0 -5 0 -2 -1]
Output y is -2.
Good comment, Gaik. A lot of solutions (including mine) will break with two consecutive zeros.
Why: "Input x = [-9 -3 0 0 -5 0 -2 -1] Output y is -2."???
Output should be 0. It doesn't say anywhere that the number adjacent to a zero must be nonzero!
This was challenging
function y = nearZero(x)
function y = nearZero(x)
y = [];
for i=1:L
if x(i)==0
if i==1
elseif i==L
function y = nearZero(x)
x = [min(x(x~=0)),x,min(x(x~=0))];
index = find(x == 0);
y = max([x(index-1),x(index+1)]);
I understand how this function works, but how did you know to use [1 0 1] for the convolution?
It is really cool to see someone has the exact chain of thoughts as you .... !!!
I believe size(x,2) is equivalent to length(x). Great solution though! Made me realize where I put in too much work.
Hi everyone. I realized this code is very large and cannot be run on this website because of the many loops that it has to go through. It works on matlab so if anyone could help me keep the general form of it but have it cut down in the number of loops that would be great. Thanks.
the imdilate function apparently can't be used... this is a clumsy clumsy workaround
I think the test suite needs a test for a = [0 0 0 0]. I passed with the above code but would not pass this case.
I ended up with the same logic, I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
It's a shame this is basically a verbose reworking of the imdilate function (which is not accessible for this challenge)
I suppose overt is more at it. This will catch multiple consecutive zeros. I suppose I could have put comments too. Not to mention it's clocking 10^-6sec. Why do these Cody problems go by size isn't speed incredibly more important in computational programming.
regexp should really be banned from problems not related with word handling...
This solution gives the wrong value if the largest value is at the end of the vector. For example for x = [1 0 2 0 3] it returns 2 instead of 3.
Thanks for the tip!
No way that the leading solution is the least complex one! The rating function is questionable.
Fails when the max value output should be negative and the last value of the input vector is zero, e.g. a = [5 4 -1 0 -2 0 -5 0]. Should return -1, but returns 0.
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Much like Ronald McDonald and Dick Cheney, Verizon's "Can You Hear Me Now" guy makes public appearances, but is actually not one person, but many different people dressed up for the part. And because of this, Verizon has a fairly thick rulebook of how the guy should be dressed, how he should appear, and how nobody should ever, ever talk to him.
Besides the requirement for always having "Good" follow "Can you hear me now"—which coincidentally is the only thing he's allowed to say—the guy should be in his mid-20s to late-30s, and should never be seen doing anything else besides testing the network. That means no interviews by the press (he's just a dude in a jumpsuit) and no appearances without a background of the Verizon Wireless testbed (no ribbon cutting ceremonies for supermarkets).
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Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Jan 23, 2013
Algeria is strategically important to Europe as a source of natural gas and expanding its energy potential is vital to compensate for declining supplies from the North Sea.
But that could be at risk because of growing security concerns following last week's four-day seizure of a major gas complex in the desert, and more critically, a power struggle for political supremacy amid growing national discontent.
"The economy is the Algerians' biggest fear at this point," a U.S. energy industry executive working in Algeria told the Financial Times after the Algerian army stormed the Ain Amenas facility, seized by Islamist militants Jan. 16.
It was the first such attack on Algeria's energy sector, the backbone of its economy.
But the death toll -- 48 hostages, almost all of them foreigners, killed along with 32 militants -- in the military's still-murky operation to end the siege emphasized Algiers' hard-line policy of no negotiations and the human cost to international energy companies who invest in Algeria.
"It is likely to have been fears for the economy that provoked what many describe as Algeria's heavy handed response to the hostage-taking, especially amid rumors the militants had been threatening to blow up the gas field," the Financial Times observed.
"To be a reliable source of gas is a linchpin of Algerian policy," said Francis Ghiles, a North Africa specialist at the Barcelona Center for International Affairs.
"The idea that supply could be cut is anathema to the Algerian leadership. Trying to blow up a gas field may have motivated the brutality."
Algerians have been battling Islamist militants since 1992, when the military-backed government scrapped a parliamentary election an Islamist alliance was set to win, a result that would have anticipated the so-called Arab Spring by nearly two decades.
That triggered a fearful civil war that raged for years and wasn't officially deemed to have ended until 2011.
Militants who seized the Ain Amenas complex near the Libyan border, apparently in response to a French military intervention against jihadists in nearby Mali, emerged from that civil war in which some 200,000 people were slain.
BP and Statoil of Norway, which operate the gas field with Algeria's state oil company Sonatrach, have pulled out their foreign staff, and other international energy companies may follow suit.
The bloodbath in the desert has resonated with foreign energy companies across the region, particularly in troubled Libya and Egypt. All these states are dependent on energy exports, largely to Europe, to finance domestic spending programs.
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, leader of the jihadist group, has warned of further attacks against Western targets.
"With large conventional and unconventional natural gas reserves and suitable export infrastructure, Algeria appears primed to succeed Norway as Europe's primary regional natural gas supplier," the U.S. global security consultancy Stratfor observed.
But, it noted, "foreign participation in Algeria has suffered in large part due to protectionist policies enforced by the highly nationalistic military government.
Foreign investment slowed considerably during the civil war, even though energy facilities were never targeted, and the economy was left badly underdeveloped.
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sought to reboot the economy and the ease the protectionist policies after he was elected, with the support of the military, in 1999.
But he has become increasingly entangled in a political struggle with the powerful and much-feared intelligence service, the DRS, headed by longtime adversary Lt. Gen. Mohamed "Toufik" Mediene.
Sonatrach has suffered heavily in this conflict, with Mediene ousting its president and most of its leading executives, seriously curtailing development of the all-important energy sector.
This has undermined the government's efforts to placate an increasingly disgruntled populace of 37 million with hefty subsidies and social spending programs.
That prevented Algeria from enduring the dictator-toppling upheavals that convulsed Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
With presidential elections due in 2014, the power struggle is likely to intensify.
The energy industry is thus likely to face further setbacks, whether or not the militants strike again, and the government's ability to buy off discontent will diminish.
Stratfor noted that, for now at least, even if Western companies' enthusiasm for involvement in Algeria dips, "Europe will eventually be so dependent on the country for natural gas that EU members will have no choice but to invest further in the Algerian energy sector."


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Rios Montt, 86, is the first former president to be charged with genocide by a Latin American court. He has been under house arrest since January 2012 when a judge ruled there was enough evidence for him to stand trial. Appeals from his lawyers delayed the case, the Times reported. The latest ruling opens the trial.
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text: Finally, after many months of speculation, the application store for your Blackberry will be called "Blackberry App World". We were told that the store will open towards the end of March, but with like everything else RIM promises us, I would not be surprised if this is delayed longer. Tonight at 10pm, their site will be up and running and you will be able to sign up for a notice when their App World finally goes live. Something tells me we may also find out some more info at 10pm tonight as well


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Oh high school, I miss thee.
I heard that P4 isn't that popular in Japan at least. Might indeed be hard for newcomers to get into the show.Quote from: Dice on October 27, 2011, 07:30:29 PMOh high school, I miss thee.I'd take college back any day over High School.
Well, amongst others, P4 got beaten by 3 harem shows... so I think robots aren't what people are looking for =/
I heard that P4 isn't that popular in Japan at least. Might indeed be hard for newcomers to get into the show.
On the other hand I think I'm expecting the opposite of ZeronHitaro, I want the show to go slower, to take it's time.
Am I the only one who thinks this show is really mediocre? Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Persona 4 fan and I welcome any opportunity to see the characters in a new light. But this show is poorly paced, characters are not really developed (within the show, anyway), animation is average at best, and overall I can't really say it adds anything to the Persona 4 universe. The only thing I'm actually enjoying are the little nods of appreciation to the games, like the calendar and stat things.As it is I couldn't possibly recommend this show to anyone who isn't already a fan of the game.


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Taofeek Muraina never had it good as a child. His adulthood is not even better. This, perhaps, explains why the 40-year-old bricklayer thought it wise to die rather than being put to shame by friends and neighbours.
Twice this year, he has attempted suicide. The first time, PUNCH Metro learnt, was about five months ago, while the second one was on December 5.
On December 5, he had wanted to poison himself when a neighbour arrived on time and raised the alarm.
Muraina has been battling with an acute eye condition since when he was a child. As he grows, his condition worsens, making life unbearable for him.
Explaining reasons for attempting suicide, he said, "Life is unbearable for me. I was born with an eye problem. My wife, Tawa, left me and dumped our 10-year-old son with me. I learnt that she has got married to another man.
"I attempted to commit suicide by poisoning myself while my son and neighbours were not at home but my landlady got home while I was preparing the mixture.
His landlady, Mrs. Aminat Oseni, who said that Muraina had been her tenant for five years, explained that it was the second time that he attempted taking his own life.
Oseni said, "He (Muraina) is a friend to my son, Fatai, who is a welder. My son appealed to me that we should accommodate him when he came begging for accommodation.
"According to him, he was sent packing by his former landlord on the ground that the landlord's family wanted to make use of the apartment. But he said the landlord only ejected him because of his eye problem."
Muraina, whose left eyeball gorge from the socket, said, "This is causing acute pain for me. I have been living in pain since I was born. It became worse during the crisis within the National Union of Road Transport Workers three years ago at Moniya. I was hit in my eyes by an object and since then it had been worse."
His relatives, according to him, came with a promise that they would help him but they never showed up again.
Muraina's landlady said, "When they saw him they burst out crying. They said that they would take him to the hospital but they could not do so for lack of funds."
A Mass Communication Student of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Yusuf Oseni, said Muraina had not been having any medical attention as a result of poverty, adding, "That is why five months ago he attempted to commit suicide by hanging.
"Having tried all available means to help himself, he decided to take his own life. He has no money to treat himself in the hospital. He is alone with his problem. When he went to the University College Hospital, he was asked to pay N10m.
Muraina, a resident of Gunwin Akingbile, Moniya, Ibadan, Oyo State, said the excruciating pains he experienced on a daily basis had made life difficult for him.
He said, "I am a bricklayer and I mould blocks. People in the neighbourhood always make jest of me. I take native treatment because I cannot afford the cost of surgery.
"I decided to end it all because I could not afford the cost of surgery and no one wishes to help me. With my condition, I still manage to work to feed myself and my son but people hate me."


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