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When my good friend recently returned engaged from her trip abroad, she spoke fondly of the future life she imagined with her fiancee. This life included eventually moving and living permanently overseas where she would build a career and raise her babies. It hit me then that this woman with whom I'd spent countless hours in dorm rooms, classrooms, libraries... The woman with whom I'd spent countless nights running the streets of new york city partying and days exploring... The woman with whom I'd plotted and planned to save Barnard from itself, only to then plot and plan to create a better world starting right here in Harlem, USA... She was not going to spend her future life with me at all. I realized that despite all our efforts to maintain our friendship our lives are on divergent paths, and we will make the world a better place, but not as next door neighbors with our children playing in each other's yards. Our friendship will be defined by our twenties and at some point down the road when she lives abroad and I am right here, we will remember and think of each other best at this moment in time.
President Spar writes of her own friend who she met in grad school "before we had our jobs, our babies, our homes... Before either of us had met the men who would eventually become our husbands." It is this time that she calls magical, when the whole world is open.
And I feel the magic, but it weighs on me heavily. The weight is of big dreams, with no road map to achieve them. God, how do I do what I love and make money enough to live? The weight is of uncertainty in relationships. Will the next man I meet be my husband? The weight is a gnawing sense of urgency, because I want to know the future. I'm dying to know what my reality will be 1 year from now, 5 years, 20 years...
It's funny how we spend our twenties; how we engage with the magic time trying to decipher our futures. I have a friend who has moved into an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. She has become Deborah Barone on a trial basis (she and her significant other just moved in together - not married) to see if she wants to be with Ray and his intrusive mother forever. Another friend of mine, a month shy of 30, is itching to be settled in career and family life. She's recently resolved that if she sits still, as opposed to moving, chasing and grinding, that she might actually be able to put down some roots and create the life she wants to have.
Regardless of the choices we make now in our youth laying the foundation to further our adult lives, and whether the friendships of now carry on the way we would like, I imagine I will always remember this time in life and the people close to me now fondly.
Like President Spar, the friends I have made since I moved onto Barnard's campus in August 2003 will always be 18, 21, 25 to me. We will be "caught in that magical moment of time when nothing has quite yet happened, but everything is possible." Although we will have made defining choices in our lives, we will be forever young when we see each other. We will be able to remember and hold onto the magic of 25 and bring it with us into the present. Except hopefully the magic of twenty-something possibility will be freeing, not heavy at a time when more limits or responsibilities exist. It has to be possible.


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Alan Barrett, kindly got back in contact, after he sent me a description and photos of an encounter over Fethiye (Turkey) in 2007. I thought it appropriate that i reproduce the blog post from august 2007 below.
August 13th UPDATE
Thanks to Alan Barrett for sending in 2 photos….
As he mentions in the comment below, the "daylight photo from 6th July 2007,that contains something i did not know was there,when i took the shot.In a sequence of three photos,taken from a moving minibus(dolmus),the middle one shows something over FETHIYE town in the distance,just below the farther away mountains.This looks quite symetrical after a magnification,and is not dirt on the windscreen".
Alan was using a Canon PowerShot A570 IS, and shot the photo at 2.38 pm.
Looking at the photos, i am afraid the second one is far to small for a proper analysis, and even the first one is proving a challenge. On looking at this photo, i noticed what seems like reflections (after enlarging 50%), just below the telegraph poles on the left of the picture (figure 1, did not use unsharpen mask).
The object in question, is just above the road on the right, and can be seen enlarged (figure 2- image 100% enlarged, but untouched…ie no unsharp mask,ect).
I next sharpened the image as can be seen in figure 3 below.
And finally, i took the part of the object, and highlighted it with colour to see if anything was picked up….figure4 below.
My conclusions are that i'm not sure, as the image is quite small, i'm afraid; although i cannot rule out a very small chip in the window. If anyone would like to comment on these images please do.
Thank you alan for sending them in, sorry i cannot be of more help.
He now goes on to add, that he also used a camcorder on the same holiday, and whilst studying the film at Calis beach has possibly captured something else (whilst on a 2 week holiday). He mentions that he caught something hovering over an area close to an island about a mile away; he played the film back over a tv screen, and froze the picture (see below) several times.
He took a photo of the resulting image on a digital camera.The results had television lines on them,but the shape of the UFO could be described as a large bell-like object.It also moved quite a distance from the far end of the beach to its position over the island in just a few seconds.
Of course, due to the distance, it might be a bird in flight? Although not being there i cannot comment further.
What do you believe it was? can we learn anything more from this? is it a UFO?
Thank you Alan for your update, and thanks for your support for the blog…
Related articles
- Turquoise Coast – Fethiye, Turkey (travelpod.com)
- Turkey (jonmeyeruk.wordpress.com)
- World UFO sightings November 2012 [updated regularly] (dandare.wordpress.com)


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Around 30,000 people took to the streets in seven major German cities to show their support for renewable energies and opposition against coal, nuclear and gas fracking on 22 March, reported environment and nature protection organisation Bund on the same day.
Speeches were made calling for faster expansion of wind and solar capacity in Germany, criticising the federal government's plans to cap support for wind and solar.
Ironically, as German energy companies apply to close conventional plants on economic grounds, Germany's considerable overcapacity could shrink to create a more encouraging climate for renewables — unless the government condones a strategy of having conventional plants redefined as electricity system reserve and receiving support to stay online.
Last week, several manufacturers, including Senvion (formerly Repower), Siemens and Vestas, protested as part of an action organised by wind energy association BWE.
Additionally, Enercon has announced it is putting investments of around EUR 110 million on hold this year in protest at the government's plans.


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On Saturday 17 Nov 2012, 10am to 4pm, I will be presenting a genealogy seminar at Coffs Harbour in New South Wales. The seminar (Queensland and Beyond: A Family History Smorgasbord) will consist of four sessions. The first will focus on Queensland, but the other three sessions will deal with sources and techniques that are relevant to research in many areas.
- North of the Border - an Overview. An introduction to some of the main repositories and resources for research in Queensland. This talk will highlight major differences between Queensland and NSW research, and it will demonstrate why you should look in Queensland for information about people who lived or died in other States or overseas.
- Black Sheep and Vanishing Relatives. Sources and strategies for researching the 'black sheep' of the family and people who 'disappeared' (either temporarily or permanently). Problems and sources to be discussed include unregistered deaths; aliases; family stories that hide the truth; illegitimacy; mental asylum records; electoral rolls; inquests; 'no-inquest' preliminary enquiries; police and prison records; Police watchhouse records; murder files; registers of criminal depositions; maintenance records; Police Gazettes; and various series of Court records. For those with Queensland research, this session will provide a wealth of specific advice; and because most Government archives hold similar records, it will also help you with research in other areas.
- Using Indexes: Tips and Traps. You are less likely to miss relevant entries in indexes if you are aware of indexes' idiosyncracies and the many mistakes that indexers make (especially when handwritten documents are involved).
- Who else is Researching Your Family? Distant relatives are likely to have photos, letters and other precious items from your branch of the family. Learn about many different ways to find and contact these 'new' relatives.
The seminar will be held at the Community Village, Earl Street, Coffs Harbour. The cost (including morning tea and a light lunch) is $25 for members of Coffs Harbour District FHS and $30 for non-members.
Bookings by Wed. 14 November are necessary for catering purposes. Phone Stan Gordon (02 6658 7955) or Jane Gow (02 6658 3355) or email the Society (coffsgenie [at] gmail.com).
There will be time for questions during the seminar. If you intend to ask me for advice, please come prepared with copies of certificates and details of names, dates, places, and sources that you have used.
Details of my future talks are on my Web site.


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HIV/AIDS News
Trojan Horse Virus Controls HIV Infection
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) grantees at Yale University have converted a common livestock virus into a Trojan horse that selectively targets HIV-infected cells and then destroys them. As reported Sept. 5 in the journal Cell, this strategy effectively controlled HIV infection in laboratory-grown T cells and dramatically reduced infectious HIV to levels that were barely or no longer detectable.
This is a completely new approach, targeting a virus to an infected cell," explains the study's senior scientist, John K. Rose, Ph.D., from Yale's Departments of Pathology and Cell Biology. "The concept could be used to develop a whole new class of agents that are useful for controlling disease."
Although additional in vitro and animal studies need to be performed before this novel virus can be tested in humans," comments NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., "this concept of cell-targeted delivery has enormous potential applications for HIV, cancer or other diseases."
In their report, Dr. Rose, Matthias J. Schnell, Ph.D., and their colleagues describe how they modified the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) genome, deleting its envelope gene and replacing it with the genes for a pair of cell surface receptor -- CD4 and the coreceptor CXCR4 -- normally found on human T cells. These receptors enable HIV to attach to, enter and infect T cells.
These receptors also permit cell-to-cell HIV infection to occur. HIV-infected cells flag themselves for destruction by the body's immune system by displaying HIV's outer coat protein. But this protein, HIV gp120, is the same one that attaches to the T-cell receptors and leads to infection. Cell-to-cell infection occurs when the HIV gp120 on an infected cell first hitches up to the receptors on an uninfected T cell, resulting in the fusion of the cell and viral membranes, and transfer of virus from the infected to the uninfected cell.
Turning around what occurs naturally, the remodeled shell of VSV -- which now looks like an uninfected T cell -- tricks HIV- infected cells into fusing with it instead. This enables VSV, which easily kills cells, to gain entry into the HIV-infected cell and destroy it. The modified VSV cannot infect normal cells because it lacks its normal surface protein. Thus, it targets, enters, multiplies in and kills only Tcells that, through the display of HIV gp120, signal that they are infected.
In their experiments, the Yale team infected human T cell lines with a laboratory strain of HIV. To these cells lines -- in which about half of the cells were now HIV-infected -- they added the novel VSV at either three or five days postinfection. This ultimately slashed infectious HIV to extremely low or undetectable levels, at least 300- fold to10 thousand-fold lower than the levels of HIV produced in control cells.
Until there are data from animal models," Dr. Rose cautions, "we cannot gauge how well the potential treatment might work in people." But he regards it as "likely to be safe," and would like to see the concept tested in human clinical trials as soon as possible. Such discussions are already under way, but Dr. Rose estimates the possibility is at least a year away and that trials in animal models are a necessary first step.
The report says the novel VSV described would be most appropriate for limiting HIV production in people with late-stage disease, but the Yale team has moved on to develop VSV constructs that incorporate other HIV coreceptors such as CCR5 and CCR3 in an attempt to affect HIV strains that target macrophages and typically predominate in early HIV infection.
The virus involved, VSV, causes vesicular stomatitis, a disease mainly of cattle, horses and pigs that causes blister-like bumps on the hoofs and tongue. Nearly all animals recover completely from the illness.
Occasionally, people become infected with VSV through close contact with infected livestock or via laboratory exposure. Many people with VSV have no symptoms, and those who become ill usually have a mild, limited flu-like disease. No human deaths linked to VSV infection have been reported.
The modified VSV is defective because it no longer has its normal coat protein. Therefore, it can not enter normal cells and cause infection in livestock or humans.
In their paper, the authors note several positive features of their system. For example, levels of the novel VSV would be expected to decline as HIV declines, since the VSV only targets and multiples in HIV-infected cells. Moreover, resistance to the novel VSV would not be expected to develop, because that "would require loss of HIV's ability to bind CD4 or [the] coreceptor and would therefore not be selected," the authors write.
Nava Sarver, Ph.D., chief of the targeted interventions branch in NIAID's Division of AIDS says, "This is a very exciting advance. We are getting closer to solving one of the major problems in targeted delivery of genes to specific cells for treatment and possibly disease prevention: specifically, how to deliver what you want to the cell you want it to go to."
Currently, most gene delivery is done by removing certain cells from the body, modifying and then growing more of them, and, finally, reintroducing them back into the body. "This is a very labor- intensive, time-consuming task," says Dr. Sarver. In addition, there's a tremendous dilution effect because the amount of cells reintroduced is very small.
She adds, "The Yale group has crossed a major hurdle that may allow direct, in vivo delivery of a vector that can find its destined target in the body. There should be no need for ex-vivo manipulation of cells." She envisions many potential applications of this research. Surface-modified live vectors like VSV could be used to shuttle into the body viruses or toxins to destroy infected or cancerous cells, or therapeutic genes to protect uninfected cells against an invading virus. Moreover, such vectors could be used as novel vaccines to deliver antigenic genes to antigen-presenting cells, such as dendritic cells, for mounting immune protection against an invading pathogen such as HIV.
NIAID, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supports research on AIDS, malaria and other infectious diseases, as well as allergies and asthma. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Press releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the Internet via the NIAID home page at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.
Reference: Schnell MJ, Johnson JE, Buonocore L and Rose JK. Construction of a novel virus that targets HIV-1-infected cells and controls HIV-1 infection. Cell 1997;90(5):849-857.


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Jared Beers, a junior defenseman on the Notre Dame hockey team, was arrested Monday night after a weekend incident at Brothers Bar & Grill in South Bend. According to police, the 22-year-old Beers repeatedly tried to take beers from other customers, and got violent when the bar manager tried to eject him from the premises.
The woman said Beers refused to leave, and punched her in the face, police said.
She told officers he then stepped on her head, face and neck when she fell to the ground, according to a police report.
She said he then pulled her ponytail, police said.
Witnesses said Beers ran away when they called police.
I know, you're wondering how police were able to collar Beers after he pulled off the perfect crime. Well, turns out he dropped his wallet while beating up a woman. The police found it, called Beers to tell him, and when he showed up at the police station to retrieve it, arrested him.
Yesterday Notre Dame announced that Beers is suspended indefinitely. He faces charges of criminal trespass, battery and resisting law enforcement.


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On Thursday, Amanda Bynes skipped her court hearing in L.A. and went shopping instead in New York City. The actress's attorney, Richard Hutton, pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor counts of hit and run on her behalf. (The charges come from alleged incidents on Apr. 10 and Aug. 4.)
The charges carry a maximum sentence of six months in jail and/or a $1,000 fine for each count. The sentences can run consecutively, i.e. one year and/or a $2,000 fine.
Amanda also skipped her hearing for driving with a suspended license
U.S. & World
"Her attorney, Rich Hutton, is highly capable and I have no doubt that he will get her the best deal possible," criminal defense attorney Troy Slaten, who is not associated with Bynes, tells E! News.
"Neither hit and run allegation can be used to enhance any potential punishment from the DUI or vice versa," he says. "Because she was not on probation for any offense when the alleged hit-and-runs occurred, the fact that she is also separately charged with DUI is irrelevant to that case."
Bynes says she's doing "amazing" and has plans to start a clothing line
"All that being said, the City Attorney and the D.A. are keenly aware of all the charges and the appearance that she is engaging in reckless and dangerous behavior that may put the public at risk," Slaten says. "This could play into any plea bargaining that may happen in her case."
Commissioner Rebecca Omens set the next court date for Oct. 19. The actress was ordered to obey all laws and not drive without valid drivers license. Commissioner Omens ordered Bynes to be officially booked within 48 hours of the Oct. 19 court date.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown announced Friday that he had extended a ban on the open display of handguns in most California cities and towns to include rifles and shotguns.
Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Canada-Flintridge, said he wrote AB1527 after gun rights advocates began carrying unloaded long guns to protest a law from last year that prohibited the display of handguns.
The measure will make it a misdemeanor to display an unloaded firearm in a public place. It includes dozens of exemptions for hunters, members of the military, rural Californians, and those bringing their guns to shooting ranges or gunsmiths.
The rifle and shotgun ban sparked lengthy debates in both houses of the Legislature, with Republicans calling it an attempt to infringe on Second Amendment rights.
Opponents, including the National Rifle Association, said the numerous exemptions included in the ban showed that it was unnecessarily restrictive and underscored that long guns are an integral part of American culture.
Supporters noted that it was law enforcement officers who sought the ban, including the state police chiefs association and the Peace Officers Research Association of California, which represents local, state and federal law enforcement officers.
Officers said the open display of long guns in coffee shops and city centers was causing alarm because only the owner of the gun can tell whether it is loaded. It is already illegal to openly carry a loaded gun in California.
Portantino said in a statement that he had hoped the ban he carried last year on the open carry of handguns would be sufficient, but after gun rights advocates showed up at a police fundraiser carrying long guns, "it became clear that there was more work to do."
"I want to thank Governor Brown for recognizing the importance of this public safety measure that will help reduce the threat of gun violence for the public and for law enforcement," he said.
Brown also vetoed several pieces of gun-related legislation Friday. One of the bills he rejected, SB1366, would have required owners to report stolen or lost firearms to authorities within 48 hours of discovering them missing.
"For the most part, responsible people report the loss or theft of a firearm and irresponsible people do not," the Democratic governor said in a statement. "I am skeptical that this bill would change these behaviors."
Another vetoed bill would have allowed law enforcement officers to fine parents whose children break the law by taking BB guns to public places. Brown also rejected AB2460, which would have prevented law enforcement officials and members of the military from selling "unsafe handguns" to the general public.
"This bill takes from law enforcement officers the right to an activity that remains legally available to every private citizen," Brown said in his veto statement. "I don't believe this is justified."


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The Science of Van Gogh
The Dutch artist's sunflower paintings have attracted the attention of doctors and geneticists.
Hannah Waters
Apr 5, 2012
Of all of the works by 19th-century painter Vincent Van Gogh, perhaps he's most well known for his sunflowers. The flowers, arranged in a vase, are cast in shades of yellow and brown, simultaneously signaling life along with impending death and decay.
His use of color is legendary among students and appreciators of art, and doctors and medical researchers have used his sometimes-surreal pallet as a basis for diagnosing Van Gogh with a panoply of medical disorders. In the past decades, paper authors and letter writers in the Journal of the American Medical Association have speculated that his odd color-sense was caused by the toxic side effects of epilepsy treatment, an herb used to make absinthe, as well as a variety of eye problems, from glaucoma to color-blindness.
No one will ever know for sure if illness affected Van Gogh's artwork, but that didn't stop retired biologist and designer Kazunori Asada from trying to see the artist's work through colorblind eyes. After hearing his red-colorblind friend describe seeing and truly understanding the artwork, Asada created a mobile app to simulate red-colorblindness—and the comparison between the two seeing states is remarkable. "Finally I feel that van Gogh's astounding qualities are available to me," Asada wrote on his blog. "The flowers are more tangible."
But if you look closely at the picture above, you'll notice that color is not the only thing slightly off about the painting. One of the sunflower variants portrayed lacks the recognizable black sunflower center and, instead, looks rather like a dandelion, with long thin petals bursting out.
These represent a sunflower variant that University of Georgia plant biologist John Burke studies in his lab—not to unravel any secrets of Van Gogh (although he admits that the connection is quite compelling), but because they might provide insight into the evolution of plants.
"The sunflower family is most speciose family of flowering plants," and the variation in flower heads affects how easily they are pollinated by bees and butterflies, said Burke. He studies the genetics behind sunflower variation to understand how "changes in these genes might influence diversification rate in the family."
Performing simple Mendellian crosses, Burke created the double-flowered mutant, which was "likely the same mutation that Van Gogh was painting," he said. Molecular studies showed that these flowers have a 999-basepair insertion in the HaCYC2c gene, which influences petal development. This mutation changes where the gene is expressed: instead of staying put in the yellow sunflower petals, the double-flowered mutant also expresses it in the discs, the short and stubby florets that make up the flower head and eventually develop into seeds.
This mutation essentially turns the entire flower head into a puffball, festooned with petals and the gene expressed throughout. Burke's paper was published last week (March 29) in PLoS Genetics.


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I seem to have seen these phrases:
to do science
to do due diligence
quite a bit in recent years, and they sound funny to me; I wonder whether this usage of "diligence" and "science" as direct objects of "do" is in fact new, or just a bit of ignorance on my part?
Assuming that these words have expanded their allowed functions in sentences, what is that expansion called (cf. "verbing" (probably not the technical term :))? Are there other examples? Is this a common occurrence?


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Cowes week rental Accommodation, Cowes Isle of Wight with 4 bedrooms
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Property Ref: 48
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Turn of the century cottage in the heart of Cowes. Four bedrooms, two convertible twin/doubles, a single and a triple. Recenly redecorated (2015) with stripped floors but retaining original features. Very characterful and deceptively large sheltered sunny with garden. Patio area with BBQ. Available for all regattas, LBCC, Cowes Week, Round the Island, Swans, Commodores Cup etc. but also holidays and corporate lets. TV with cable package, fast cable wifi and fitted kitchen. Best quality Egyptian cotton bedlinen and towels.+ More details
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Newly refurbished (2011) this semi-detached house in the ever popular Beckford Road is finished to a very high standard with four bedrooms. All can be twins or doubles and one of them a triple giving a maximum capacity of nine. There is a kitchen/dining room and a good sized lounge with flat screen TV, Wifi, etc. Double glazed throughout, this house is cosy at any time of year. Paved back garden on two levels with BBQ and seating. Best quality Egyptian cotton bedlinen and towels. Available for Cowes Week, Little Britain Cup (LBCC) Swan Europeans, Round the Island race as well as for holidays and corporate guests.+ More details
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The gite was completed in June 2012. A plan is available. Everything is brand new with full insulation (important in the hot summers), new bathrooms and kitchens from the UK and laminate flooring, slate laminate in the kitchen and bathrooms, and cherry everywhere else.
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The Twitter website crashed on Tuesday -- the social network's second outage in the past nine days.
Twitter was down for about an hour yesterday because of complications stemming from a planned upgrade of the site, according to the site's status page.
The problem started around 2 p.m. ET and Twitter quickly posted a statement: "Most users are experiencing issues accessing Twitter on Web and mobile apps. We're looking into it."
Then a little after 3 p.m., Twitter updated the situation.
"During a planned deploy in one of our core services, we experienced unexpected complications that made Twitter unavailable for many users starting at 11:01a.m.," Twitter reported. "We rolled back the change as soon as we identified the issue and began a controlled recovery to ensure stability of other parts of the service. The site was fully recovered by [2:47am ET]. We apologize for the inconvenience."
The outage came at a lousy time, though as it coincided with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone appearance on a panel at the South by Southwest conference. During the discussion of "our connected society," people were encouraged to ask Stone questions by tweeting them using the hashtag #askbiz.
And people noticed.
"So Twitter went down - hard - during the Biz Stone talk. That is amusing on many levels. #sxsw #BizSTone," tweeted @afairweather.
On March 2, Twitter reported that "some users" were unable to view or post tweets on twitter.com, as well as on Twitter's mobile app for about a half hour.
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Back in the saddle
I hope that everyone had a great holiday season and New Year's Eve. Thank you all for your ideas to improve the blog, as we'll certainly take them all into consideration and hopefully incorporate most of them into the mix this season. Some of them require some looking into with MLBAM out of New York (the technical stuff), but a lot can get done on this end, so we'll work to accomplish them.
Having just returned to town yesterday, I don't know the answers to some of your other questions, but I will also work to get them answered in the next week or so.
Our annual caravan will take place in the first week of February and though it hasn't been announced publicly until now, it will likely be Feb. 6-7. Once we have details of where it's going and who will be there, we'll post them here.
And finally, to the person who requested more "inside info" from the clubhouse: This is one area that I've struggled with since the blog started last season. I really think it would be a huge benefit to the readers and I will do my best to try and incorporate some things, but I really have to keep in mind the fact that when I'm around the players they do not consider what they are doing or saying as "public." The reality is, every one of us would act a little differently if we knew that what we're doing could be broadcast to the world and I do have to respect that fact. If players begin to view me as a "reporter," it would significantly damage the working relationship we've established. But I'll certainly take the suggestion to heart.
Is anyone else shocked that we've only got 40 days until pitchers and catchers report?
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40 Days. Nice. I'm looking forward to the photo galleries on Dodgers.com.
I can't wait for Kemp, Laroche, and Elbert to be ready. The future is bright; for the Dodgers there will be no fools gold out of their mines.
Welcome back, Josh, hope ou had a great vacation. As far as becoming a "reporter" is concerned, DON'T DO IT!!! If you hear something that you think we'd like to hear, ask the person who said it if you can put it on the blog, and if you can give them credit for saying it. That should retain your status, and still give us a chance at some good info.
I'm really excited about the upcoming season and still hope we can add some power without sacrificing the future, but prefer to think we can compete very well as is given the natural maturation of Martin, Ethier, and Kemp. I also believe that Liberthal for Hall is a huge improvement.
Welcome back Josh, Not only am I shocked we only have 40 days to spring training , and counting the days, but I'm shocked to see that the Dodgers plan to bat Furcal third. He's a great lead-off hitter that's what he was signed for. To bat him third is not taking advantage of his true abilities. A third place hitter as we all know is supposed to be the teams best hitter, not a lead-off guy.
Were getting close. I agree with your point fleigel. We signed him to be our leadoff hitter, thats what he is. Scott Elbert is a beast. He should have a nice career. I havent been this excited about a Dodger pitching prospect since Eric Gagne. Here's to Scott Elbert winning 300 times more games than Luke Prokopec.
I also think Furcal should not bat 3rd. To my way of thinking, he should bat 1st or 2nd. If he bunts better than Pierre, I'd have him bat 2nd, if not, 1st.
Nomar is better suited to bat 3rd, but I still don't think Ned is done yet.
I would like to see more of an emphasis on this site made on the farm. Maybe a small section on where the famr teams stand, who is making noise. I feel sometimes that all we see are their stats but know very little of who they are and how they have achieved what they have.
I think last year there was an effort made on how Russ Martin made it to the bigs and they type of payer he is, but what about Loney, Billingsley, Ethier etc.?
"The reality is, every one of us would act a little differently if we knew that what we're doing could be broadcast to the world and I do have to respect that fact."
Totally agree with that fact
Welcome Back Josh – I think we all agree that we wouldn't want to invade the players, privacy !! and I can see the concern of it all. It would be nice though if from time to time a player, coach or front office could check in once in a while. The Lowe blog during the playoffs was great !!!
Go Ned !!
Go Dodgers !!
Welcome back Josh! Thanks for your candor in explaining your relationship to the players… keep it sacred I say!! We will know what we NEED to know when we need to know it… right? :o)
Oh… and Josh… there was one question a reader left that I thought was interesting:
"Hey Josh, I was at the stadium about a week ago and i noticed the pavilions and outfield wall torn down and some rows in the reserve section were missing seats as well. Is there any way you can fill us in on whats going on out there? Thanks!"
Perhaps you could answer this one? Thanks!
Hey Josh, I hope you had a good vacation and its glad to have you back. I do agree with your explanation to the privacy issue and wouldnt expect for you to put your self in a situatuion where the players didnt want you around them thinking you are writing everything down. It would be nice to hear more about the players off the field but not to the degree to where any private issues are breached.
Hi Josh, hope you had a great vacation and welcome back. You gave a great explanation of your relationship with the players.
In reading the above comments, it sounds like everyone is very agreeable with you and your feelings. I would not put anything on the blogs without letting the other person right up front know what you are doing.
If you are honest with the interviewee I would doubt anyone would object to your asking of questions and giving the answers here. If they object to anything you just have to avoid posting their comments.
What I would like to read is blurbs on players (especially younger players) giving information (other than statistics) about how they arrived at this point in their career; who helped them most in their advancement and maybe family status (things you very seldom read in the papers).
Your current career depends on honesty and integrity and you sound like you have this under control.
Best wishes on the new year and hope everything this season is on a positive note.
With 26 players on the 40 man roster who should make the 25 man roster, who would you guys think gets left off assuming no further trades? I would hate it to be loney.
Here's the list of the most likely players to make the 25 man roster:
Pitchers: (13)
Catchers: (2)
Infielders: (7)
Outfielders: (5)
Repko or Kemp
2 players from these 27 Dodgers cannot make the team, who goes in all of your opinions? I would try to trade Hendrickson and Tomko for young talent in my opinion to get it down to 25. If you were the GM based off the talent we have who do you go with right now as our 25 man opening day roster?
Brazoban should go to AAA and Loney should too. I know, he's Major-League ready, but if he doesn't get consistent AB's, then he's bound to lose something off his swing. I think he should go and wait for injury to Nomar, Kent, or Gonzo. If Jeff gets hurt, Nomar moves to 2nd and Loney comes up to play 1st, if Gonzo gets hurt, he goes in LF. Kemp stays at AAA – he needs another year of conditioning before he's really ready. If Loney stays up and we don't trade Tomko or Hendrickson, Dessens gets released. I know, someone's gonna scream about my thoughts. This is what I think is best financially and for stability. Brazoban needs to go to AAA just to get used to pitching again. Didn't he have TJ surgery? Most pitchers don't do well their first year after the surgery. This is especially true for starters, but stands for relievers also. They have to get their mechanics back. That's my thoughts.
On another note: Did you guys see that Orel didn't even get enough HOF votes to stay on the ballot for next year??!?!?!?! 4.4% – 5 is required to stay on the ballot.
I think they should leave off Juan Pierre and Gonzo. 🙂
hahahah wouldnt that be great fleigel. hopefully dessens gets released, i dont want that guy pitching when it counts. tomko couldnt get anybody out coming out of the bullpen, and mark hendrickson would be an ok option for long relief. i think it would be a mistake to put loney back in vegas for another season, he doesnt need to work on power or anything else one might say he's ready to be an everyday player. i wish we treated loney like the braves treated francouer. just let him go out there and play. i dont think brazoban will be starting the season in LA though, he needs to refine his stuff. anyone going to any spring training games??
graffiti, you're right on the money man. I agree with you on everything you've said. Since we don't have any good power hitter and Ned has decided to keep the kids, let them play and get rid of some of the dead (Tomko) wood.
I would not trade any starting pitching for another bat right now.Let's see how things shape up in spring training first. Front line pitchers can go down with injuries at the drop of a hat.


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January 19, 2012
The Freedom Climb is now in the history books. We watched and listened from a distance as forty-eight women, inspired their leader and our good friend Cathey Anderson, took on the challenge – the highest point on the continent of Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro. They climbed to raise awareness and money to combat human trafficking – for the women and children victimized by the cruel imposition of slavery on a global scale.
If you have ever set out to climb a mountain or ride bike a hundred miles or run a marathon or swim the channel, you know what it's like to train. You know that setting the goal and doing the work are two entirely different things. It's one thing to share the dream of accomplishment; to imagine the joyous celebration at the finish line. It's quite another to start the training – and to push yourself to new levels, new distances, new disciplines. You set the routines. You feel the pain. Not long into it, you wonder what on earth you were thinking to imagine that you could reach that crazy goal. You didn't really understand the cost. You hit the wall. You feel the pain. And after awhile, there is a break through. A new surge of strength carries you past that first milestone. But you know there will be more work ahead. You begin to feel the benefits of the hard work – but you know that's exactly what it is – hard work.
LeaderFOCUS is predictably my own original work. But this time, I'm going to let JoAnn Hummel speak. I've never met her, but I was moved by her words. She is now a Kili Climber. She now has seen the sunrise from 19,000 feet. Here's what she learned on the trail as she trained –
Dear Kili-climbing sisters!
With less than a week to go until we depart for Africa, the Lord said to me today, "It is time to move your eyes from yourself (your packing, shopping, and stressy self) and refocus them on Me and why I called you to make this Freedom Climb."
When I know God is speaking, it is time to pay attention! Here's the rest of what the Lord was speaking to me…
This Kilimanjaro trek is a powerful prophetic symbol. You – the climbers – are meant to symbolize the victims; Kilimanjaro symbolizes the towering "mountain" of pain, evil, injustice and woundedness that dehumanizes millions of trafficked and enslaved victims daily.
Every hardship you will face step-by-step and breath-by-breath on Kilimanjaro is meant to mirror the life-threatening extremities of the trafficked and enslaved for whom you climb. They are deprived; you, too, will face deprivation. They persevere through extreme conditions; so will you. They receive no comfort; you will sacrifice your comforts for their sake. Their unclean bodies ache and sweat and hurt and shiver; yours will, too. They are forced to live one moment at a time and you will only make this climb one step at a time. And the same God who gives the millions of victims breath and life, sees their pain, holds their hands, and whispers His hope into their darkness will likewise be present with you.
This trek is meant to break your heart for what breaks Mine. I will do this in you by taking you beyond the limits of your own human strength, wits, and abilities. When you summit Kilimanjaro, you will not be able to credit yourself, but only give glory to Me. You will make it because I will carry you. That heady joy of freedom as you stand on the roof of Africa will serve as a symbol of the joyous release and victory I have in store for those who are now in bondage!
I will call many of you into active engagement to overcome and destroy these evils as you return home. Be ready for a life change.
I love you and that is why I invited you to make this climb. I didn't ask everyone; I asked you and you said YES. I am so proud of your willingness to follow Me up this mountain that I made with My own hands. This will be a radical journey of faith and risk, but I knew what I was doing when I called you. I never make a mistake. You were meant to be on this Freedom Climb and I will be with you every step of your way. Now surrender your "me" stuff. Lay all of it down at the Cross. Ask Me to give you My heart, My perspective, and My strength and I will do it.
Refocus the eyes of your heart on Me. It is time.
JoAnn Hummel
As you and I face our own Kili, let's remember JoAnn's challenge.
Copyright Kenneth E Kemp 2012
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Since 1989, Emergency Operations has been tasked with handling the Department's emergency preparedness.
When the normal becomes unfamiliar and the orderly running of the facility is interrupted by an incident caused by one or a group of individuals, the Indiana Department of Correction relies on the staff who have been properly trained to deal with such incidents. Regardless of the size or type of disruption to the smooth running of facility operations, the mission of these staff members is to return the facility back to normal operations, regardless of whether it is an incident handled by on-duty staff or the activation of support teams for assistance.
• Six individual mission-specific Emergency Teams strategy for all Emergency Teams to work together in emergencies, to resolve the situation, and begin recovery.
• Emergency Response Teams are designed to handle Emergency Situations from the smallest fight to the largest riot, disaster, or stand off.
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Emergency Teams
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• K-9 – Canine Team
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Quick Response Team (QRT)
QRT consists of on-duty staff properly trained and capable of immediately responding to spontaneous emergencies or containing a situation until an E-Squad can be assembled, if needed.
Emergency Squad (E-Squad)
E-Squad Primary Mission:
• Disturbance and Crowd Control
• Escape Search
Special Emergency Response Team
Specially selected, trained and equipped personnel with expertise in:
• Entry Tactics
• Precision Weapons
• Hostage Rescue
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Canine (K-9)
K-9 Units may be assigned to the following task and/or assignments:
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• Trail and Apprehend Escapees
• Conduct Narcotic, Tobacco, Cell Phone, Bomb Searches
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• Crowd Control
• Monitor Yard/Recreation Activities
• High Security Transports
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Specially-trained facility team that is activated during Level III or anticipated Level III emergencies to conduct negotiations during hostage situations or in situations requiring the use of negotiation tactics, e.g. barricaded suspects.
Critical Incident Stress Management (C.I.S.M.)
CISM is a comprehensive, organized approach for reduction and control of harmful stress. CISM also provides assistance to employees who, in the course of their work, may become involved or may have knowledge of a critical incident which transpired at their facility.
Emergency Response bloodhounds are used quite often around the state by County Sheriffs and State Police to search for missing persons. Our bloodhounds have found elderly, small children and even hunters lost in the Hoosier National Forest, as well as felons who have escaped from Deputies during transport.
Our drug dogs have assisted Law Enforcement at sobriety check points and searching houses and jails for drugs. In addition, our drug dogs have been utilized at high schools for drug searches of student lockers and vehicles.
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Psychology (Purdue degree)Offered by: Department of Psychology We're a community of learners and students thrive here. Students here reap the benefits of an interactive learning environment, challenging material and lab work, and unparalleled research and internship opportunities.
Why choose this program?
We're a community of learners and students thrive here. Students here reap the benefits of an interactive learning environment, challenging material and lab work, and unparalleled research and internship opportunities. As early as their freshman year, our undergraduates are able to participate in research with renowned faculty. Students support each other through peer-advising, providing a unique environment where students become leaders by helping others.
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Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. The goals of psychology are to describe, explain, predict, and change behavior (observable actions) and mental processes (thoughts, feelings, memories, beliefs). In our department, we focus on four major themes throughout the undergraduate curriculum: (1) psychology is a science; (2) behavior is a function of person variables, environmental variables, and the interaction of person and environment; (3) psychology has evolved in a socio-historical context, and its major theoretical perspectives reflect this phenomenon; and (4) socio-cultural context influences how psychological concepts are understood and applied.
IUPUI psychology specialties include: psychobiology of addictions, health psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, severe mental illness, stereotyping and prejudice.
The psychology department provides our majors with a well-balanced and scientifically rigorous curriculum. Students completing an undergraduate degree in psychology will graduate with a strong background in communication skills, critical thinking, scientific methodology, ethics and diversity – skills that are in high demand.
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Purpose of Lesson:
The purpose of this lesson is to help students either relearn the information or extend their information through creating a technology project.
Major Strategies to Watch for:
1) Differentiated prompts for students at different levels of learning.
Learning Goal: Create a product using your photosynthesis learning.
Opening Question: What is the most important thing about photosynthesis to put in your project?
Students record their opening question on their learning goal sheet and are ready to start class 3 min after the bell has rung. I reward students who get started early with ROCK STAR SCIENTIST tickets.
Follow the links to learn more about the beginning of class strategies and ROCK STAR scientist tickets.
The purpose of this section is to engage the students in the technology activity we are doing today.
I start by explaining to the kids that we will be making Animotos...which is an online video production app. It will make 30 second videos with music and effects very easily. I show them this video that I made about food chains to get them excited about the project. There is also a method of setting up an Educator account and getting 50 free Animoto Plus accounts. It is a little tricky and time consuming but I've attached the instructions to this section.
Today the students will be doing a type of digital writing using the Animoto platform. There purpose is to produce a type of "readable writing" that will explain the process of photosynthesis to others. It is probably a good idea to go back to the concept of "readable writing" to make sure that students view this as a writing project instead of just a tech project. I use this anchor chart to help build the foundation of "Readable Writing" in class.
Since kids are doing two different assignments, I hand these out first and let them read the assignment and plan for a few minutes. What they really need to know before they get on the computer is what types of pictures they will need. For example, students will probably need pictures of the sun.
Once they have a plan, we go on the computers and find the pictures. I take them to the animoto website and help them set up their animoto accounts. Then I show them how to add their pictures and fiddle with the captions and effects. Below is a screencast explaining some of the tricks to animoto.
For some students, this activity is a chance to relearn material they have not yet shown proficiency on through the formative assessments, quizzes, and discussions. These students will be making an animoto that simply shows the process of photosynthesis.
The checklist for this assignment is:
_____ I have a slide for each step.
_____ My slides have captions.
_____ The pictures match the words on the slides.
_____ I show the reactants and the products.
_____ My slides have no misunderstandings.
Here are some examples of student work!
For some students, this activity is a chance to make connections with the learning from food chains and food webs. They will be using the equation AND a food chain to explain how matter and energy flows through the system.
The checklist for this assignment is;
______ I have shown where energy begins in the food chain
______ I have describe how matter is produced.
.______ I have shown the reactants and products of photosynthesis.
______The pictures match the words on the slides.
______ My slides have no misunderstandings.
Closing Statement: "Today we made products using our knowledge of photosynthesis. Tomorrow we will be making a concept map and taking a test."
Closing Question: "How did making a product help you learn the content better?"
Closure depends greatly on timing and is not as easy to plan in advance as opening. You can find more information about how I manage closure here.


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Last week Ade stared lining up a big back-piece he will be working on. This time a very special 'character' from the wayang kulit shaddow puppet theatre, called Gunungan.
Gunungan (mountains) or Kayon (tree) / the Cosmic Tree or Mountain of Life is a shadow puppet shaped like a mountain and represents the world and its content. On it you will find carved and painted, mythical symbols and animals. There are two types of Gunungan; on one version you will find the tree standing with his roots in a pond of water, which sometimes contains fish (female qualities) and the other one is one with a big gate guarded by two demon giants. They are the guards of heaven and represent the forces of greed and lust. The gate itself is the gate to heaven or perhaps a gate from the world of reality into the mystical world of the ancestors and the gods. The last one is usually slightly more pointed to represent the male qualities. In the tree you find many animals or fantastic creatures are depicted: a tiger, a bison, peacocks, birds, dragons etc. Resembling concepts such as pride, arrogance, and vanity. Half way up the tree is the big face of an demon, Kala / Raksasa , symbolizing the dangers of human life.
Before the wayang shadow puppet play starts, Gunungan is plugged in the middle of the screen, leaning slightly to the right. This means that the puppet play has not yet begun, like the world that has not yet been 'opened'. Once the play starts, Gunungan will be moved and lined up on the right. It's function during the performance is to mark the beginning of each scene.
Besides that Gunungan is also used as a sign if there are any chances in the play, the stage or the story. Gunungan is also used to symbolize fire or wind. In this case Gunungan is reversed (flipped around) and on that side it reveals a huge demonic face with its tongue hanging out and eyes bulging. It's consuming flames and fire. They evil energy is unleashed, it consumes and destroys. It's energy turned negative.
The Gunungan (the cosmic mountain or Tree of Life) has both practical and highly symbolic functions in the wayang performances. For example Gunungan can also be used to symbolize the jungle, a mountain or the ocean during some scenes of the play. In this case Gunungan can act as soil, jungles, streets and so on, following the dialogue of the puppeteer.
After the play is finished, Gunungan is plugged in again in the middle of the screen, leaning slightly to the left, symbolizing that the story / play has finished.
The Gunungan shadow puppet is not only used in wayang kulit performances but also in wayang golek or klitik shows.
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A Lesson Before Blogging
Ladies and Gentlemen, there has been a dearth of blogging recently. My fear is that no one is posting for fear of violating the blogging rules. So, over the next few days, I will be posting the Official Blogging Rules, so that there are no questions or concerns about what is questionable or concerning.
Rule #1 - This blog is a tasteful blog. We will not, therefore, allow posts that exist solely to make fun of someone's name, simply because it seems dirty. Got it? No making fun of names, and no posting to dirty-ish things, like this.
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César (AKA César Garcia) in the COMICLOPEDIA
"César Garcia was born in Madrid, and moved to France after the Spanish Civil War. He debuted as an illustrator in L'Essor in 1945. In 1947, his name appeared in L'Os Libre, Le Hérisson, Marius and La Presse. In addition, he worked in comics for a short period in his career. He drew..." [ Read more ]


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Corn, soybeans, and wheat all finished the day lower as the mid-day weather run called for a wetter weather pattern for Argentina in the 6-10 day time period. Brazil appears to be receiving much needed rains for the rest of this week into the weekend. The grain markets were trading higher early in the session before the weather reports came out. March corn ended up settling 4 ½ lower at $6.38. January soybeans settled 10 ¾ lower at $11.87 and March Chicago wheat finished trading 6 lower at $6.45 ¼.
There wasn't anything outside of weather that was fresh news today. Weekly US Ethanol production was released and ended up being a new high for the year. It appears to us that blenders are all rushing to take advantage of the credits before they expire at the end of the year. It will be very interesting to see what happens to production after the first of the year. The trade continues to get thinner as we head into the last trading day of the year tomorrow. Weekly export sales will be released tomorrow morning at 7:30am due to the Christmas Holiday. Corn sales are estimated to be between 350,000MT- 550,000MT. Soybean sales are estimated to be between 300,000MT-400,000MT. Wheat sales are estimated to be between 200,000Mt-300,000MT. Tomorrow is the last trading day for December live cattle and also the first notice day January grain futures. Please contact your broker to re-position any hedges involving these contracts.
The next major USDA report will be released January 12th at 7:30am. This report will involve grain stocks, supply/demand and production, and also winter wheat seedings. We will be releasing our estimates for this report in the next week or so. Our major suggestion is that everyone gets in touch with their broker to go over our current recommendations and also be sure that AMMO is updated so that we are well positioned for this critical report.
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Cooking is the best way of maintaining your family's food budget at its minimum. Nearly all meals cooked at home are by far less expensive than similar meals bought in an eatery. When moving to a new home, you will need to consider the essential kitchen items you will need to set up a workable kitchen. You need to have a kitchen items list for new home to know the basic items to buy especially if you are working on a budget. Buying kitchen items can be quite costly but fortunately, you do not need to fully stock the kitchen at once. You can start with only the essential items and buy the rest later without straining yourself financially.
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A stove top, oven and a refrigerator
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A cutting board and a vegetable peeler
A cutting board comes in handy when chopping and cutting items like onions, carrots and tomatoes. The main reason for getting this board is to prevent the countertop from getting damaged by the knife when preparing meals. A vegetable peeler is an extremely efficient equipment in the kitchen. Even though you can use a knife to peel potatoes, squash and zucchini, a vegetable peeler adds great convenience when preparing meals.
A skillet, large and small pots
When cooking at home, you only need not more than three pots at a time. Use the large pot to cook stews, boil beans and pasta, baking cakes, and preparing foods that are in plenty amount. You can use the small pot to make sauces, and boil small vegetable amounts among other uses. A skillet (preferably a single large one) is your main stove top cooking equipment. When buying these cooking items, ensure that you only settle for hard-anodized aluminum pots and skillet as they are very durable. As such, they can last for decades while still in excellent conditions.
When drafting your kitchen items list for new home, it is important to be creative in identifying the items that can be substituted. For instance, you should not buy a cheese slicer unless you will be using it daily to slice more than five pounds of slice. You can simply use a knife to slice your cheese and buy the slicer later after you have bought all the basic items. Any item that does not have more than one use in the kitchen is not a primary equipment and as such can be avoided.


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Cal Ripken Jr.'s career speaks for itself.
The 3,184 hits. The 431 home runs. The two American League Most Valuable Player awards. The historic string of 2,632 consecutive games played that initially assured his place among the immortals. It will all be on the bronze plaque soon to be cast for display in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
It's going to be hard to fit much else on that plaque, but I hope there still is room to mention what I believe was the most significant achievement of Ripken's amazing career. He set the single-season record for autographs signed during the 1995 season and almost single-handedly persuaded a nation of disaffected fans to give baseball another chance after the labor dispute that wiped out the 1994 World Series.
Everybody remembers the famous victory lap of 1995, when Ripken added a very personal touch to the historic night he broke Lou Gehrig's supposedly unbreakable record, but Ripken had begun repairing the broken relationship between the sport and its fans much earlier.
He stayed late into the night, game after game, signing every baseball, every autograph book, every scorecard that was proffered in just about every American League city. The lines started forming at the Orioles dugout in the seventh inning and sometimes stretched halfway around the ballpark. Some nights he stood there until well after midnight, while exasperated stadium workers tapped their feet and waited to lock up.
The Major League Baseball Players Association had encouraged players to be more engaging with the fans after the lengthy work stoppage, but nobody told Ripken to take the concept to a whole new level. Somehow, he just sensed that his pursuit of Gehrig's record might be the perfect vehicle to drive baseball out of the darkness.
"I'm not trying to take on any great responsibility for the game of baseball," he said at the time. "It's not part of any plan."
It really wouldn't have mattered if it was. The important thing was the new link he was forging with each impromptu autograph marathon.
"When you talk about Cal Ripken, just think where we are today and where we were in 1995," commissioner Bud Selig told USA Today recently. "I will always be grateful to Cal because he started that task of recovery and made it a lot easier. No one should ever diminish his great role in baseball."
I agree, which is why I was so disappointed when a Hall of Fame voter announced a few days ago that he had sent in a blank ballot as a protest against baseball's so-called steroid era. I guess the point was to penalize all baseball players for their supposed complicity in the tawdry performance-enhancement scandal that dates to the early 1990s, except that this particular display of self-righteousness missed the point and - in exchange for a dubious moment in the media spotlight - painted Ripken and Tony Gwynn with the same ugly brush that was meant for Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire.
Sometimes in our enthusiasm to seek justice, we forget to see the whole picture ... in this case the picture of a weary Cal Ripken, standing on rubber legs in the gathering darkness because there still were a few hundred fans who wanted his signature.
No one should be surprised that Ripken didn't become the first unanimous choice for the Hall of Fame. There has never been a unanimous choice, and there are always a few voters who believe that if the rest of baseball's greatest legends were not inducted with a unanimous vote, why start now.
I don't buy that, at least not in the case of a slam-dunk like Ripken. If it takes Carlton Fisk a few ballots to get to Cooperstown, so be it, but I can't imagine anyone looking at Ripken's resume or Gwynn's eight batting titles and making a legitimate case for leaving the box next to either one of their names unchecked.
Of course, I was there on many of those nights in the summer of 1995, looking down from the press box at the serpentine line of fans stretching down the right field line. I watched as Ripken wrote his name over and over until I'm sure his hand ached and his feet burned.
He won them back, one fan at a time, and for that alone he deserves his bronze plaque in upstate New York - even if it fails to mention that he once saved baseball from itself.
The Peter Schmuck Show airs on WBAL (1090 AM) at noon on Saturdays.
Nearly perfect
Top Hall of Fame voting percentages.
Player .................... Year ..................... Pct.
Tom Seaver ........ 1992 .................. 98.84
Nolan Ryan ........ 1999 .................... 98.79
Cal Ripken Jr. .... 2007 ................. 98.53
Ty Cobb .............. 1936 .................. 98.23
George Brett ...... 1999 .................. 98.19
Hank Aaron ......... 1982 .................. 97.83
Tony Gwynn ....... 2007 ................... 97.61


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It's really very fun looking through the resort 2010 runway shows. I'm inspired by many looks from some of my favorite designers. Resort wear pleases me. The designs are casual and relaxed yet innovative and stylish. It gives me plenty of ideas for putting together looks of my own. These days I'm all about experimenting. I love the idea of pairing a blazer with a long flowing dress as shown at Max Azria. Or going for a more dramatic look and layering as featured at YSL.
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Sky Bet Championship: Lee Clark, Billy Davies, Mick McCarthy and Steve McClaren up for prize
Lee Clark is among the contenders for the Sky Bet Championship Manager of the Month award for December.
Last Updated: 10/01/14 7:00am
McClaren, Davies and McCarthy have overseen great results at Derby, Nottingham Forest and Ipswich respectively as their clubs mount serious promotion pushes, while an unbeaten month has helped Clark's Birmingham rise away from the drop zone.
Derby have a representative up for the player's award - Craig Bryson - while Leicester City's Danny Drinkwater, Kieran Trippier of Burnley and Sheffield Wednesday's Connor Wickham are also in the frame.
Here, Sky Sports considers more closely the managers in contention.
Lee Clark (Birmingham City)
An unbeaten month saw Birmingham record impressive away wins at Bournemouth and Blackburn Rovers. They also held promotion-chasing Wigan Athletic and Nottingham Forest to goalless draws as Clark instilled growing belief in his team.
Billy Davies (Nottingham Forest)
Davies carefully guided his side to four clean sheets during a hectic programme which ended with entertaining and convincing home victories over QPR and Leeds United. Three wins and three draws lifted Forest into the play-off places.
Mick McCarthy (Ipswich Town)
The quiet revolution in Suffolk continued apace with three wins and three draws from six matches. McCarthy's influence on Frank Nouble alongside David McGoldrick and Daryl Murphy has given his team an attacking trio to fear.
Steve McClaren (Derby County)
A December to remember in which McClaren's side garnered 19 points from 21 and outscored their opponents by a huge 18-6 margin. He placed the emphasis on free-flowing attacking play as Derby moved up into second place.
Sky Sports also takes a look at those in the mix to be named Player of the Month.
Craig Bryson (Derby County)
Five goals in a month from central midfield was an outstanding return for the Scot who timed his runs into the box to perfection. His dynamism and determination also helped to set up goals for teammates in a bumper December.
Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City)
The midfielder's energy and determination to go forward were the driving force in City going top of the Sky Bet Championship. Superb in the 1-0 win at Queens Park Rangers, his willingness to try shots from distance was seen with a long-range finish against Bolton Wanderers.
Kieran Trippier (Burnley)
Strong in the tackle and with the pace to nullify opposing wingers, the right-back helped his side keep three clean sheets. With two assists, his attacking prowess and crossing ability were crucial in Burnley's equaliser at Leicester City.
Connor Wickham (Sheffield Wednesday)
Limited to four December matches, the striker's robust stature and infectious enthusiasm brought seven points and four goals in those games with two fine efforts against leaders Leicester City and a perfectly struck free-kick winner at Watford.


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