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Then he asked if I would take a picture of him with his Transformer walkie-talkies and put it on the 'blob' too.
How could I say no?
It is good to be back among the land of the living. Wednesday night I was struck down with whatever it was that my 2-year-old had. Bleh. Fortunately I did not throw-up on any quilts. Also fortunate was the fact that I had been to the grocery store, Costco, the library, picked-up my daughter's new glasses and put away 7 loads of laundry within the 24-hours before I was consumed with feeling gross. (You know it's really bad when even the thought of sewing or reading blogs doesn't sound remotely appealing.) And the final fortunate thing: my lovely husband took the day off yesterday to run the show around here. I'm just glad for his sake that I could time my illness with the first day of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. (Thank you and you're welcome, dear.)


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Death by cat food
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Introducing the cane toad: a very bad decision
Since their introduction into the Australian landscape many decades ago, cane toads have devastated local flora and fauna. The idea was that they would eat the cane beetle, which threatened sugar cane crops. As it turned out, the thousands of introduced toads had little effect on the cane beetle, but they killed or ate just about everything else they came near.
Naturally, ever since then, Australians have tried to find ways to rid themselves of these self-introduced pests, which kill pets, swarm over the landscape in such numbers they look like a moving, toady carpet, and outcompete many Australian natives for food–or, they just eat them.
Cat food lures meat-eating ants
Recent news from Australia was that cane toad hunters might no longer be able to humanely dispatch the amphibians using carbon dioxide gas. Instead, the advice was going to be that bashing them over the head with a single, toad-dispatching blow would be the best way to control them. Now, some Australians have discovered another way to end a toad's life: Death by meat-eating ant.
Evidently, the ant does not find the toad naturally attractive, but a spoon of cat food near areas where baby toads emerge from ponds brings the ants by the horde. The horde then finds a lot of tasty toads to eat, and…they eat them. Sounds painful, but evidently, it's pretty effective, and no human has to bash a toad on the head.
The Australian researcher who made the cat food breakthrough is Rick Shine, a noted herpetologist whose recent research on behalf of native herps turned up this low-tech solution to the problem.
Ideas for thinkin'
Introducing the cane toads ended disastrously for Australia. Find other examples of introduced species. Why is it that populations of introduced species seem so easily able to explode in number? Think about concepts of co-evolution and species interactions.
In Austin, Tex., an invasive plant species, Hydrilla, has choked lakes and water treatment plants. Authorities are trying to control Hydrilla by introducing triploid Asian grass carp, another non-native species. What are the grass carp expected to achieve? Why? Why are they triploid? Can you think of benefits of this second introduction? What are some potential drawbacks, and what might be the first sign that they're in progress? And where did that Hydrilla come from, anyway?


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Dear Em,
I have just got the box of candy that Lena was so kind to send, and it is hitting the right spot. It is just the kind that a fellow can enjoy. I have showted it out to some of the boys and they are of the same mind as myself. Oh, here comes a sand storm, but I am going to continue this letter regardless, and take a chance on the condition of it when it is over. It seems every time I start a letter, up comes one of these blooming showers of sand. I could almost write on this paper just now with out a pencil it is so covered with dirt and dust.
It was Saturday morning inspection, so we got off pretty easy so far. We are to go on out post tonight for twenty four hours, so I will not be able to write again until Monday any way. I got a letter from Little Mary, and say she is some trump. I sent her one, to South Boston, but I guess she will get it some way, in Charlestown. I see you are having a lot of trouble with sharks up that way. I think if this bunch down here could see some swimming water now they would go in, sharks or no sharks. I so hope it will soon get cooler up there before long for I know how hard it is to find a cool spot when it is hot especially in Boston. Down here, if you can get out of the sun, it is really cool, but the idea is to get out of the sun. It is as hot in the tents when the sun is shining as it is in the sun, for the sun beats right down on the canvas and you would think that you were in an oven. Well I should worry, as I've always said, if the other fellow can stand it, I can. I hope Pa is enjoying himself in the very short time he is given to do so. (one week vacation)
There is one thing that I forgot to look out for, that I hope you will, and that is my clothes. Please put some moth balls in the pockets of my new suit anyway and the other stuff that is there, for I have really forgotten just what I have got. I guess I have more clothes here than I ever had at home for we change socks and underclothes every day, after a shower bath that we are supposed to take. Can you imagine the washing that we have to do. I have sent last week's wash to the laundry, but it costs so much that, that will never do. There will be a whole line of clothes strung from tent to tent, when a sand storm, of which we are bound to get today, will come up and make the clothes worse than ever. Gee it's a lot of fun. I suppose you can imagine my face and mood when this happens to me. Where is that letter from Henry? Tell him he had better write now, for I will keep after him until he does. Give me his address so I can make good this threat.
There is nothing more to say outside of my feeling fine, beginning to eat all I can get ahold of, and working hard to hold down this job. I am getting mail every day now, and I wish I could return all I get in answers, but between, drilling for four hours, washing which takes about an hour, non comps school in the after noon two hours, and drilling recruits, and resting a little, I have nothing to do but write letters.
With love to all
Dear Lena,
I suppose it surprises you to find me shooting so many letters, but who could help it when he has such people as you at home that are constantly keeping him in touch with, that home as you folks are. And the greatest thing that pleases me in all your letters, (for it is mentioned in all your letters) is Pa's health and gamness. You can talk about all your soldiers and there battles. But men don't always remain soldiers nor are they always fighting battles. But Pa, has always remained a soldier, and he is as game as any man that ever faced an enemy. In other words (He's there).
I sertainly hated to say good by to him that day he put him self out so much to go to Framingham to see me off. I guess he felt no better, (that is,) the way I judged it. But we all know now that there is going to be no fighting, and that they just roped us into the army. Well the country was for (Preparedness) and we are practically paying for it by serving our young lives down here. But say it is going to make a grand lot of men out of us, and some of us will be glad it happened, (when it is all over) yes when it is over. It must be pleasant to have Our Little Mary around all the time, and tell her I want her to be there when I come home. I have not been sending any mail to anyone outside of you folks and (one) other for the last few days, so I will have to get busy soon and remember some of my other friends. But they are not going to interfere with home anyway.
You see there is so much guard, patrol, and out post work, and when we are not on this duty we are, what they call alarm company. I guess they figure, when we are working we have no time to get sore or discontented, and say I agree with them. Its about time I told you just what we do when we are not doing any thing.
First call in the morning 5.20. Gee this is tough, (get up.) Revielle Roll call, when we all fall in and answer to our names as the First Sergeant calls it. 5.30. Between 5.45 and 7.20 wash up, eat, clean up the tents, furl tents, so that the sun (you know we don't get much of this stuff) can get at all the clothing and ground under the tent. Fatigue, which is to form the company and have them cover about one quarter of a mile of each company limit and pick up every thing except sand. By that time it is about time to fall in for drill.
At 7.30 the company is march out on more sand and given what we call setting up exercises. And say if every young man in this great country was given this physical instruction (Theres a shot out on the border but it is getting common now so ish ka bibble, there is another.) we would have the grandest set of men in the world. It is a set of execises that developes the shoulders, arms, fingers, legs, chest, and reduces the stomack. I don't think Ill have to work hard at the latter exercise. I washed out a set of underclothes, pair of socks, face towel, and hankerchief to day, and as usual, just as I got them hung up a sand storm came along, and the only consolation I have is that they saw water. Well Im getting away from the subject now.
After the setting up drill, we are given bayonet drill, which lasts for about one half hour. Then the real work begins. The companies are gathered together into its respective battalions and are drilled in close and extended order until half past eleven. And say kid its hot out in the sun. About ten oclock the boys begin to drop, and are taken to the field hospital for treatment. I guess these are the fellows that don't know enough to take care of them selves. At half past eleven we come in all played out and we just sit down and rest until twelve when mess blows. Well I tell you its no scramble for eats, especially at noon, but we eat just by habit, for they generally have some thing cold to drink. Then we unfurl tents and get ready for feet inspection, and inspection of quarters. After inspection we hit for the shower baths, and this is the best part of the day. Washing out the clothes that we have changed is next, and by that time school is in progress, until four. 5.30 we all fall in for (Retreat.) or the lowering of the colors. Then comes mess. Nine oclock Tatoo, which means you can go to bed if you want to. Ten minutes of ten call to quarters, and ten, Taps, all lights out and go to sleep. Now this is a days work down here. Of coarse I can find time if I want to but it doesn't pay to kill it to much. You know how much I stay out of work, well Im the same here. Well don't get lost in a snow storm.
With love
© Copyright 2008 by Richard Landers, All Rights Reserved. No reproduction without permission.


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Enbridge is fighting back after a poll earlier this week from environmental groups found a majority of British Columbians oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline project.
The firm claims in a video released to The Vancouver Sun Saturday that the Dogwood Initiative, ForestEthics Advocacy, Friends of Wild Salmon and West Coast Environmental Law, misled respondents with some of the wording used in the questions. The video was scheduled to be realeased to the public Sunday morning.
For instance, one of the statements included in the poll was: "Up until now, crude oil supertankers have not entered B.C.'s inside passage. the federal government is now considering allowing crude oil supertankers in these waters."
But the company argues it will not use the inside passage.
"We committed during the JRP process not to use the Grenville Channel and Laredo Sound, the inside passage. This commitment was made to the same activists who commissioned this poll," the video states.
"When people make misleading statements about our project, it's our responsibility to correct the record. The poll released earlier this week by a group of environmental associations used misleading statements to generate a biased result, which we believe is irresponsible," said Northern gateway Pipelines communications manager Ivan Giesbrecht in an email statement to the Sun.
Barb Justason, principal with Justason Market Intelligence, said the same poll was done in March with the same questions and Northern Gateway had never contacted her before about the language in the poll. She said she would look into the company's claims and determine whether there were any inaccuracies. She said her firm would provide a further statement after she had reviewed the complaints with the environmental groups.
Another claim in the video is that the language suggests that the Northern Gateway hasn't involved the public, but the company says the joint review process was the "most exhaustive and thorough pipeline review project in Canadian history."
Northern Gateway is awaiting approval on a $6.5-billion pipeline project, which will carry diluted bitumen from the Alberta oilsands to Kitimat for transport by tanker overseas to open up Asian markets. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government has until the middle of this year to make a decision.
On Thursday, the environmental groups released a poll that found that nearly two thirds of British Columbians are opposed to the pipeline and the tankers it will bring to the coast.
The findings showed that four times as many of those surveyed "strongly" oppose the project (50 per cent) than who "strongly" support the project (12 per cent). Another 17 per cent somewhat support the project.


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Salmon Questions for an Alaskan Fisherman
My Alaskan friend recently shipped me ten pounds of fresh salmon he caught in the Kenai River. Not a bad cardboard box to find waiting on your doorstep. My first batch—cooked with lemon, sea salt, and pepper— was so tasty, I wanted to jump up and down and invent a happy dance called "The Salmon."
Unlike the light pink, over-boiled salmon at Ikea (sorry Ikea)—and most salmon of my childhood (sorry Mom)—this one was a deeper, almost-red shade. Why is Alaskan salmon so much better? To understand, I went to Randy Hartnell, a longtime Alaskan fisherman and founder of a wild fish and berries company called Vital Choice. After over twenty years of fishing and educating people on sustainability issues, Hartnell knows his stuff and explained some basics of salmon.
Why is wild salmon almost twice as expensive as farm-raised? Comparing the two isn't "apples to apples." They have little in common beyond a shared name. As with other natural, whole foods, "cheaper" is as far removed from "good for you" as a piece of tree-ripened fruit is from artificially flavored orange soda.
As far as health differences go, wild salmon is lower in saturated fats and grows naturally, free of artificial diets and chemicals. Farmed salmon is raised in a manner that makes it vulnerable to parasites and disease, and so it is treated with more antibiotics per pound than other livestock.
So it's worth the bump in price? Wild salmon costs more, but it's one of the last truly wild, naturally organic foods available on earth—and indisputably, one of the healthiest, nutrient-dense foods you can consume. By contrast, the hidden nutritional, environmental, and social costs of farmed salmon are too high.
Is there such thing as a non-evil, acceptable farm-raised salmon? Right now there are no farmed salmon on the market that escape two aspects of "evil."
First, farmed salmon are confined their entire lives in cramped quarters and fed a manufactured "chow" that contains elevated levels of contaminants and chemicals to artificially color their flesh from white to pink. (Wild salmon are naturally pink.) A more natural "organic" feed could be used, but its higher cost would bring the price of farmed salmon closer to that of wild salmon.
The second serious problem is farmed salmon's devastating impact on fragile marine ecosystems. Salmon "aquaculture" (industrial fish farming) utilizes huge open net-cages, exposing the surrounding waters to enormous amounts of waste, chemicals, diseases, and lice infestations that harm other marine life.
So even if this "non-evil" fish existed, the responsibly farmed salmon would still be nutritionally inferior to wild salmon and sold at a higher price than it is now. Its one remaining advantage over wild salmon would be increased availability.
Do most restaurants use farmed salmon, if not otherwise specified? Absolutely. You can pretty much assume if the salmon listed on the menu isn't specifically described as "wild," it's farmed salmon.
In fact, much of the so-called "wild salmon" listed on restaurant menus and sold in grocery stores could be mislabeled farmed salmon. In the past few weeks, I've encountered this in restaurants in Phoenix, Denver, and Boulder. Once you're familiar with truly wild salmon, you'll have no trouble recognizing the flat taste and oily texture of farmed salmon.
What labels should a consumer look out for when buying salmon? Nearly all wild salmon now originates in Alaska, where the habitat remains pristine and the fisheries management system is a model for other regions. Therefore, when shopping for fresh, frozen, or canned wild salmon, always look for "Alaska" or "Alaskan" on the label. Salmon farming is banned here, so you can be sure that all Alaskan salmon is wild. Another sure sign of wild salmon is to look for the eco-seal of the Marine Stewardship Council on the label or near the point of sale.
Look for labels like: "Line-caught Alaskan Coho," "Copper River Red Salmon," and "Yukon King." Be wary of: "Atlantic," "Chilean," "Norwegian," "Icelandic," "Scottish," or "New Zealand," which all refer to farmed salmon. Your food server or seafood counter clerk should know exactly where their salmon is from. If they try to sidestep the question or seem unsure, consider it a yellow flag—a caution that they're trying to get market value from the term "wild" without being able to back it up.
Why are the omega-3s in salmon good again? Overwhelming scientific evidence suggests that a diet with lots of omega-3 fatty acids reduces the risk of heart disease, sudden cardiac death, and stroke. Omega-3s can also decrease inflammation and the risk or severity of diabetes, mood disorders, autoimmune diseases, and certain cancers. And research is clear that expectant mothers' intake of omega-3s exerts a major influence on their child's brain development and emotional well-being.
So omega-3s are good fats which fight the "bad" fats? Yes. The omega-3 fatty acids in wild salmon are what you might think of as "good fats." The typical American diet is deficient in these and too rich in omega-6 fatty acids, which tend to increase inflammation. (Relatively speaking, the "bad" fats.)
The human diet evolved to include roughly equal amounts of omega-3s and omega-6s, and today, the typical American diet is estimated to contain as many as 20 to 40 times more omega-6s than omega-3s. This promotes a "silent" inflammatory state in many Americans, believed to trigger our most deadly chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.
Wild salmon contains as much as nine times more omega-3s than omega-6s. Farmed salmon has roughly equal amounts of each. Factory-farmed protein (chicken, beef, pork) is raised on grain laden with omega-6 fatty acids, and typically contains 50 times more omega-6s than omega-3s.
What kind of salmon is good for sashimi? Frozen okay? Properly handled frozen salmon is perfect for sashimi. In fact, nearly all fish used for sushi is pre-frozen to kill potential parasites and ensure the fish is safe to eat. Freezing does not alter the taste or texture of fish, so long as it is done correctly. And freezing is the best way to preserve fish quality during transport.
In your opinion, is Copper River Salmon really "worth its weight in gold," as one Serious Eats reader asked? Thirty-five bucks per pound is sure a lot. "Copper River" is a trade name for salmon originating in the Prince William Sound region of Alaska. It is a very high-quality, flavorful fish with a high content of "good" fats. But much of its extremely high price is due to branding and market timing.
Copper River Salmon is the first fresh wild salmon available on the market each spring. A highly successful marketing effort has capitalized on this to create a following that drives exceptional competition for a relatively limited number of fish.
In a given year, the industry estimates that far more "Copper River Salmon" is sold than actually caught. So buyers beware! Wild salmon of equally high quality are available from other areas in Alaska later in the season, and normally priced much more reasonably.
How do you envision the future of fishing and aquaculture? The planet's wild fisheries are under great pressure right now and our oceans are in trouble. But consumers have great power to drive positive environmental change by "voting with their forks." This means choosing wild and farmed species that are sustainably grown and harvested, and avoiding those which aren't. (See "Monterey Bay Aquarium" below)
While it may seem paradoxical, the truth is that to save wild salmon—and other sustainably harvested species—we have to choose to eat them. Doing so rewards and empowers responsible management of fisheries and relieves pressure from vulnerable species, giving existing stocks a chance to survive and perhaps even recover.
It's important to remember that cheap food isn't really cheap.
In the past two years, high-profile retailers like Walmart and well-known chefs such as Wolfgang Puck have pledged to begin using only sustainably harvested seafood, including both carefully managed wild and farmed species. This is something we all should support with our pocketbooks and our forks.
Helpful Sources
Marine Stewardship Council
Walmart Introduces New Label to Distinguish Sustainable Seafood
Wolfgang Puck Goes "Green" with Sustainable Seafood
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Farmed and Dangerous
Consumer Reports on the Salmon Scam
Fear of Sushi at Home
All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.


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brandishing broken bottles.
If you would like to participate in Jenny's Meme, please go to the following LINK for complete rules and guidelines. Best of all, there will be prizes!
LOL! Something Elf would have eaten.
i think my tummy hurts now from reading the ingredient list. lol.
a bleeding bonking on the buttocks...yikes!
Bewilderment! Bully Billy Bawled?
Awesome alliteration!
and o yuck! That sounds like the worst snack ever. The stuff of nightmares!
Beyond being best!
Funny! Did that really happen? I could see one of my 4 grandsons making up a concoction like that. Yech.
What a great, creative post. And your son gets points for making his own snack, but perhaps he could use some cooking lessons? This made me laugh out loud. Kathy
LOL! Thanks for the giggle ...
Awesome dialogue ! Love it!xx
Beeeautiful poetry!
Visiting from SITS. Great to read you!
Oh wow.. almost got my tongue twisted trying to read out your To B or Not To B... Good one! :D
fun poem, I like all the b's...
Oh, the teacher in me does love your alliteration! Fantastic job! Cute, clever post 5th Sister!
Very clever!
Munchie Boy's snack does sound like it would give you a bellyache! I do have to give him points for creative use of ingredients, though.
Just the thought of eating that gave me a bellyache!
Wow, you are the master of alliteration. I tried to find a B word in my thesauras that meant the same thing but there wasn't one.
Loved your bellyache story, too!
You are a funny, funny girl!
A+ for you!
Billy better behave better because Bobby's been blabbering "Burn, Billy, burn!"
Breaking bulletin: Billy bolted.
Bye, Billy.
love the poem :D
LOL! LB wins for most creative commentary thus far! Wish I had a prize or something.
Bravo! Bravo!
Very clever. Wow! I can't imagine why anyone would think this sounds or looks appetizing.
Love the poem! Oh and I remember the days when I used to eat that kind of stuff. ~sigh~ One more thing . . . Your question is being answered tomorrow over at my place for my inaugural edition of Ask Meeko. :)
Boy oh boy, that was some combination LOL.
I am feeling little uneasy just reading about his "gourmet meal", lol.
Great tongue twister. I had to read it 3 times to get it correctly.
That sounds like something my kids would concoct. Yuck.
This is a fun meme I've not seen this one before. I like the paragraph with all the letter B's that's quite a tongue twister!
This is a new meme---haven't seen it before! Love it. You aced this one, too---not surprising since you're so great w/ the Haikus on Wednesdays...
B is for brilliant! This had me laughing out loud. I think I have a bellyache now...
just reading that made my belly hurt! yuck!
Sounds like sumthin my grandkids would make. But do you think I could get them to eat a piece of broccoli? NO
clever woman. I love it!
What a concoction he had put together, hopefully he will feel better, and the poem is wonderful..
Thanks for visiting..I had those feelings that's why another blog :-)
Tummy ache? One bite of that would have landed me in the hospital. Oh the resiliency of youth!
Oh my! Is your son by any chance 12? Sounds just like something my 12 year old would do!
Your post about 'B'left me speechless . I was totally impressed with your poem and LB gets an A for effort too :)
Whoa, that IS a recipe for a belly ache. Poor guy.
That was so funny thanks for sharing that. I used to turn the syrup bottle upside down to my mouth. YUM!!!!
Good Morning 5th Sister...
Thanks for stopping by the farmhouse for a visit!
I totally understand where you are coming from...I raised 2 boys..
Have a great weekend!
Boys! They will eat anything, won't they?
Funny Stuff! We have a lot in common. :)
What a great combination - goldfish and chocolate sauce is bad enough but the rest as well....!!
i think i have a bellyache just from reading the ingrediants!
Quite a B tongue twister...as for the meal...well, kids will eat anything!
Check out my "B is for Barcelona" - my favorite city in the world - at
Somehow, McLinky didn't work for me!
Amiable fill someone in on and this post helped me alot in my college assignement. Thanks you on your information.
Bountiful B's!!!! (I have to admit...my adoration of alliteration!)
Blessings & Aloha!
Ouch! on your boy's bellyache!


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I've got a weird issue with the media card reader on my Bold.
It just stopped working and won't detect any single media card.
I now just get "Media Card is not presently inserted in the device" within the options.
To help anybody help me, the following has been done.
Checked media card(s) in other 9900s etc and they are fine. All the data is still there.
Took it to a shop who initially told me that they thought the reader was faulty, so they replaced it. This didn't solve the issue.
The shop tried several physical card readers and none of them fixed the problem, leading to the sho telling me that they thought it was software based.
I've done factory reset, wiped the software and re-installed the os and the problem persists.
The other parts of the card reader work fine.
Has anybody came across this weird issue that has a solution or suggestion?


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Extremely robust and vibration-resistant energy chain
The flatbed semi-trailer of this heavy-duty transporter can be extended to a length of 62m. Customised vehicle energy chains of the proven E4.1 series are used in order to ensure that the electrical, brake and hydraulic cables can roll safely in the inner tubes. They are exposed to very strong push and pull forces which they have to endure continuously when the vehicle pulls out.


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Very similarly to DDR3, but with some caveats. For starters, Haswell-E tops out at a 2666MHz memory strap, which is very low for what DDR4 can do. Since XMP specifies speeds in excess of 2666MHz, your motherboard BIOS has to compensate somehow. Typically, when XMP tells the motherboard to use a higher memory speed than 2666MHz, the motherboard BIOS will bump the BClk strap from 100MHz to 125MHz. That's normal, but that change will also increase the clock speed of the CPU itself; a well-designed BIOS will compensate and bring the CPU clock speed in line.
While we've been working around the clock with motherboard vendors to maximize compatibility and performance, these technologies are all very new. If you have trouble with stability using either XMP profile, we recommend either manually entering the speed and timings the DDR4 is rated for or running your memory at its default speeds until your motherboard vendor provides a BIOS update to improve stability.
We're launching DDR4 at up to 3000MHz speeds and 8GB per stick densities, but that's just this year alone. DDR4 is expected to hit 16GB densities in 2015, allowing your X99 motherboard to support a staggering 128GB of memory (provided it has eight memory slots). In short, it's gonna get bigger, and it's gonna get faster.


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Cal Ripken, Jr., is baseball's all-time Iron Man. He retired from baseball in October 2001 after 21 seasons with the Baltimore Orioles. His name appears in the record books repeatedly, most notably as one of only eight players in history to record more than 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. In 1995, Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played (2,130) and voluntarily ended his streak in 1998 after playing in a world-record 2,632 consecutive games.
Among his other on-field accolades are American League Rookie of the Year (1982), two-time American League Most Valuable Player (1983, 1991), two-time Gold Glove recipient (1991, 1992), two-time All-Star Game MVP (1991, 2001), and 19 All-Star Game selections. He also was named to Major League Baseball's All-Century Team in 1999.
Ripken has made a tremendous impact on the sport and on fans everywhere. In 1999, Babe Ruth League, Inc., changed the name of its largest division (5- to 12-year-olds) from Bambino to Cal Ripken Baseball. Currently, more than 700,000 youths play Cal Ripken Baseball worldwide. He is using the platform that baseball has provided him to construct a baseball complex in his hometown of Aberdeen, Maryland. The one-of-a-kind facility consists of Ripken Stadium, a state-of-the-art 6,000-seat minor league ballpark that is home to the hugely successful Class A Aberdeen IronBirds. Adjacent to the minor league ballpark is the Ripken Youth Baseball Academy, consisting of eight youth fields, including a youth-sized replica of Oriole Park at Camden Yards, a synthetic training infield, a bullpen area, and batting cages.
Ripken resides in Maryland with his wife, Kelly, and their children, Rachel and Ryan.
Bill Ripken, a 12-year Major League veteran, began his career with the Baltimore Orioles in 1987 under the direction of his father, Cal Ripken, Sr., and alongside brother Cal Ripken, Jr. This was the first and remains the only time in Major League Baseball history that a father simultaneously managed two of his sons.After five and a half seasons with the Orioles, Ripken, who would later return to Baltimore for a year, played for Texas, Cleveland, and Detroit. In 1988, he was second among American League second basemen in double plays turned (100). At the plate, Ripken led the Baltimore Orioles in hitting with a .291 average and 28 doubles in 1990. Ripken, a second baseman by trade, had a fielding percentage of .9927 in 1992, the best of any Major League second baseman that season, and his career fielding percentage at second base (.987) ranks among baseball's all-time leaders. Ripken was voted by his peers as one of the players most likely to manage a big league team.Ripken is the co-owner and executive vice president of Ripken Baseball Inc., a baseball sales and marketing company founded in 1999 and based in Baltimore. Ripken is involved in all aspects of the business and regularly instructs at youth camps and coaching clinics. Through his work with these programs, he has become recognized as one of America's premiere baseball instructors. Ripken also is involved in the continued development of the Ripken Academy in Aberdeen, Maryland, and the management of Ripken Baseball's minor league teams in Aberdeen and Augusta, Georgia.
Ripken lives in Fallston, Maryland, with his wife, Candace, and his children, Miranda, Anna, Reese, and Jack.
Scott Lowe joined Ripken Baseball in 1999 after eight years working in college sports publicity. Lowe initially served as the general manager of the company's camps and clinics division, developing Ripken Baseball's youth camps, coaching clinics, and other instructional programs. Presently he writes and designs Ripken Baseball's Coach's Clipboard e-newsletter, which is distributed to amateur baseball coaches around the world on a monthly basis. He also oversees the creation and distribution off Ripken Baseball instructional products and is involved in the development and implementation of the company's coaching education and other baseball instructional programs.
After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Maryland College of Journalism in 1991, Lowe spent two years as an athletic communications assistant at Princeton University. He was the assistant director of sports information and served as the athletics marketing coordinator at Drexel University in Philadelphia from 1993 to 1995 before returning to the Baltimore area to become the assistant director of athletic communications at Loyola College. Lowe served in that capacity before being promoted to the position of head sports information director in 1997. Lowe left Loyola in 1998 to form his own baseball camp business prior to joining Ripken Baseball in September 1999.
In addition to his full-time position at Ripken Baseball, he has served for three years as the head coach of varsity baseball at the Park School in Baltimore, compiling a 45–19 record and leading the Bruins to three consecutive MIAA B Conference playoff appearances, including a trip to the 2006 championship game, after the school had failed to reach the postseason the previous seven years.
Lowe resides in Owings Mills, Maryland, with his wife, Robin, and children, Devin and Sydney.
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Daily Archives: May 25, 2012
Scott "Nudist" Brown's Tomahawk Chop Backfires
For the last month or so, Scott Brown, the Republican Senator from Massachusetts and his private attack dog, the Boston Herald (Republican) have waged a war against his Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren as the result of her contention that family lore is that she has Native American ancestry. The Brown campaign and the tabloid have made countless accusations and written scores of articles (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here) in an attempt to smear the architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Despite their best efforts, neither Brown nor the rag have been able to show that Warren's career was in any way advanced by her claim to have Native American ancestry. Indeed, every one of her employers has emphatically stated that they either had no idea of her ancestry or that it had absolutely no effect on their decision to hire her at numerous top level law schools. It now appears that the entire jointly executed smear campaign has actually backfired.
The Boston Globe reports that Elizabeth Warren "has pulled into a virtual tie with US Senator Scott Brown, according to a new Suffolk University/7News poll." The poll reveals that,
"Warren, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has the support of 47 percent of likely voters in Massachusetts, compared to 48 percent for Brown, a dead heat in a poll with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
That is a significant shift from the last Suffolk poll in February when Warren, a consumer advocate and Harvard Law School professor, trailed Brown, a Wrentham Republican, 49 percent to 40 percent."
Yes, the poll shows that Elizabeth Warren has actually gained 7 points in the poll while Brown is losing support all since the mud-slinging by Brown and Co. began. The poll was conducted between May 20th and May 22nd and will certainly "help Warren fend off criticism from political insiders who complained that she had bungled her response to the issue by not confronting it more directly."
Importantly, "Forty-nine percent said they believe Warren is telling the truth about being part Native American, compared to 28 percent who said they believe she is not being honest and 23 percent who said they were not sure."
Voters do not appear to be punishing Warren for it, said Suffolk's pollster, David Paleologos. "I'm not saying there was no damage from the Native American thing, but if you zoom out to see what the net effect was, it was minimal," he said. "What we can conclude is people do not believe it is a significant story. It's considered a nonstory."
Former state treasurer and major GOP player in Massachusetts, Joe Malone said, "This has been like a fender-bender on the side of the road. They're slowing down to look, but it's not changing where they're heading."
The Hill reports, "In Massachusetts — where Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1 but independents make up more than half the electorate — voters have a history of shrugging off scandals that would in other states prove fatal. Brown's predecessor, former Sen. Edward Kennedy (D), survived the Chappaquiddick incident to win reelection for another four decades. Rep. Barney Frank (D) survived a prostitution scandal, and Gov. Deval Patrick (D) outlived a $46,000 Cadillac he leased with taxpayer dollars during his first weeks in office."
The Boston Globe also reports that Elizabeth Warren "could benefit from President Barack Obama's strong standing in Massachusetts, and the surge of Democrats he could bring to the polls in November. In the presidential race, Obama crushed former governor Mitt Romney by 25 points, 59 percent to 34 percent in Massachusetts, a reflection of how far Romney has fallen out of favor in the state he once governed."
Here is an interesting spot which appeared on "Morning Joe" yesterday where even former Republican Congressman and Scott Brown supporter Joe Scarborough was gushing over Elizabeth Warren:
Elizabeth Warren can now get back to forcing the clothing-challenged Scott Brown to talk about the issues that are important to the Massachusetts electorate. One of those issues is why did the conservative Forbes magazine name Scott Brown as one of "Wall Street's Favorite Congressmen"?
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(sung to the Judy Collins song "Send In The Clowns")
Claims he's not rich
Poses while bare
Drives an old truck around town
Mitt Romney hair
This is Scott Brown
And with a kiss
Scott does approve
Of tearing Medicare down
He is a boob
This is Scott Brown
Yes. It's Scott Brown
Made many stops on his book tour
But he refuses to reveal his child molester
Though he may molest again, Scott Brown does not care
Turns a blind eye
Brown does not care
Scott Brown's a farce
His end is near
He's not what the Tea Party wants…
Sorry, Scott dear!
He is just a clown
So Mr. Brown
Don't bother next year
(plagiarism break)
Isn't it rich?
Sometime next year
He will be unemployed late in his career
Yes, so long Scott Brown
We're done with Scott Brown
Let's stand up and cheer.


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Catherine Dulac, Cori Bargmann are co-recipients of 11th Perl–UNC Neuroscience Prize
The Perl prize carries a $10,000 award and is given to recognize a seminal achievement in neuroscience. Past recipients have included four subsequent winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named Catherine Dulac, PhD and Cori Bargmann, PhD as co-recipients of the 11th Perl – UNC Neuroscience Prize.
Dr. Dulac is the Chair and Higgins Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University and is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Dr. Bargmann is the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor in the Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at Rockefeller University. She is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
The Perl prize carries a $10,000 award and is given to recognize a seminal achievement in neuroscience. Past recipients have included four subsequent winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. Dr. Edward R. Perl is Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology at the UNC School of Medicine. Perl's work in pain mechanisms has been highly influential. Thirty years ago, he was the first to prove that a particular class of nerve cells (now called nociceptors) responds exclusively to stimuli that are perceived as painful. These cells now are targets of intensive efforts to find drugs that block their function.
This year's Perl Prize is being awarded to Drs. Dulac and Bargmann for the "Discovery of chemosensory circuits that regulate social behaviors."
"Dr. Dulac discovered receptors for pheromones, molecules that allow animals to distinguish males from females (sex discrimination) and that influence sexual behaviors. She also identified the neural circuits where pheromone receptors function. Dr. Bargmann has used the simple invertebrate, C. elegans to study the interplay between environment, experience, and intrinsic properties of neural circuits in animal behavior. Using sophisticated neural circuit dissection and population genetics, she has discovered how sensory inputs and genes regulate a network that controls solitary verses social feeding behaviors," said Dr. William Snider, director of the UNC Neuroscience Center and head of the selection committee for the prize.
School of Medicine Dean William L. Roper, MD, MPH, will present Dr. Dulac's share of the award at 11:45 a.m. April 21 in room G202 in the Medical Biomolecular Research Building on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Dr. Dulac will deliver her Perl Prize lecture immediately following the ceremony.
Dr. Bargmann will deliver her Perl Prize lecture at the 12th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium on Oct. 13 and receive her share of the award then.


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President Barack Obama is delivering a speech on Wall Street Monday, exactly one year after Lehman Brothers collapsed, precipitating the financial crisis felt around the world.
The White House announced Thursday that the president will deliver a speech on the financial crisis at midday Monday at Federal Hall in New York. He is to talk about steps the administration has taken to mitigate the crisis and its commitment to winding down the government's role in the financial sector.
Citing emerging financial sector stability, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday that a number of government rescue efforts in place since the Wall Street crisis are no longer needed and that banks will repay $50 billion in rescue funds over the next 18 months.
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He says conditions have improved in the banking industry and the Treasury is stepping down emergency support programs implemented after the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment bank.


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My quest for a Wii began back in the early fall. It was around the time when I realized that with the DS, Nintendo was really onto something different—new, innovative game play (Cooking Mama, and later Elite Beat Agents) was making video games fun again. While I would have loved to get a Wii for my birthday, it came too early, even for preorders. Without a preorder and not having the desire to wait all night outside a retailer on release day, I decided to opt for the next best thing: I asked Santa. Although, come Christmas, not even the power of Santa could overcome the ridiculously high demand for such a interesting system.
While Santa couldn't get a Wii, I was graced with a gift card for the value of a Wii. I figured that, while supplies have been short, they would catch up quickly and getting one at a store wouldn't be too difficult a task. How wrong I was once again. The next few weeks were spent calling various stores to no avail. I lost count of how many times I went to a gaming store to find out that they had Wiis earlier in the day, but sold out within minutes (or hours at the longest). Having a full-time job made it difficult to be at stores at opening or other random times throughout the day when the UPS truck of joy would make the weekly Wii delivery.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago, when the big "Wii Sunday" was underway. I was headed to my in-laws for the day, but my wife and I decided to hit up a Best Buy that was along the way. I knew I would have to get there early in order to get in line and hope to be one of the fortunate ones who is given the Blue and Golden ticket saying a Wii will be held for them. Through a series of poor directions from the Internet, the fact that cities outside Boston lack street signs, and the general crappiness of Massachusetts road design, I ended up at the store a mere 58 minutes before it opened. A large line had formed by this point; however, the flier guaranteed at least 20 Wiis per store. I figured I might still be okay. As the man in the knit Wii skull cap passed out the tickets, I came to the realization that I was not going to make the cut. I felt like I was standing outside a club where the bouncer wouldn't let me in. It turned out I was 22nd in line, and there had been 20 Wiis available. D'Oh!
The next few weeks were similar to the previous ones, calling
around and learning that no one knew when Wiis would be available or
when they were last sold, that they just showed up randomly. However,
thanks to a tip from a good friend who was at our local Toys 'R Us
Saturday, I was informed that they had a sign advertising
that Wiis would be available Sunday morning. I woke up early the next
day and headed out to Toys 'R Us at the buttcrack of dawn (well, 7:50 AM; early enough for me). As I got there more than two hours before the
store opened, I realized I was alone in the parking lot. Since it
was freezing cold outside, I decided I would sit in my car with
heat on until others arrived to get in line. So there I sat, in my dark
luxury car, reading a book about zero, wearing a large coat, outside a
toy store at 8am on
a Sunday morning, probably looking a bit too much like a pedophile
than I'd care to think.
However, time passed and no showed. This was fine by me, as it meant
that I could
stay warm for a longer period of time. Around 8:45, I saw a man walk
into the vestibule (this was an oldschool Toys 'R Us with the huge
vestibule). He motioned for me to come over. I got out of my car and
walked over to see what he can do for me. He seemed to be in charge and
asked me why I was there. I said that my friend told me they'd have Wiis
today. He looked around and said, "yes." And with that, he handed me a
of paper with a number on it, 1. I was the FIRST in line and have
guaranteed myself a Wii! He told me he was shocked that no one else was
there yet, as each previous day when they had Wiis, a line had formed by
that point in the morning. Odd, but I didn't care. He told me that as
long as I came back by 2pm, that I was good to go. The manager then
said that he couldn't just sell me the Wii, I was going to have to buy a
bundle. Crap, I wasn't looking for some bundle, but what they
were offering wasn't too bad. They were selling the Wii plus one
game—either Tony Hawk or Marvel Ultimate Alliance—plus
starter kit for a total discount of $30 off the separate price. While I
was none too interested in either of those games, I figured I could
trade them in somewhere else for a game I wanted.
After this successful exchange, I headed out to do other errands. Oddly enough, I stumbled across another Toys 'R Us not 30 minutes later and I saw a large line formed along the side of the building, no doubt made up of those who were looking to score a Wii for themselves. After running my errands, I returned home to relay my morning's success to my wife and we both headed back out to the Toys 'R Us where a Wii was waiting. Upon getting there, I headed to the video game counter, presented my ticket and was asked which game I would like, Marvel, Tony Hawk, or Rayman Raving Rabbids. I jumped at the unexpected offering (I planned to try and trade one of the games in for Rayman Raving Rabbids).
Heading home with our new Wii, my wife and I were elated. I cleaned out my office and set the new system up. We spent the next few hours playing Wii Sports and Rayman, laughing and having fun. Even my wife, a lifelong, avid non-gamer was having a great time. She was having a blast cursing the rabbits who mocked us while we tried to jump rope and slam outhouse doors shut.
All in all, this system was well worth the wait, and I can now take place in inter-journal battles in the Orbiting HQ which are being determined by Wii Bowling scores. I plan to train for more than a few victories.


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- First Ever NEA RA Mayor Announced
July 05, 2012 06:11:39 pm
Amy Wiggins Brown, a middle school math teacher from Atlantic City, New Jersey, earned the title of NEA RA Mayor 2012 after taking advantage of all the latest social media and online tools at the RA.
- Educators Leave Representative Assembly Committed to Leading the Profession
July 05, 2012 05:23:38 pm
Education and political leaders inspire delegates to stand up and become forces for change back home.
- Obama: Underfunding Public Education is an Attack on the Middle Class
July 05, 2012 03:13:27 pm
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- 2012 National Teacher of the Year: "Great Teachers Lead With Both their Heads and their Hearts"
July 05, 2012 12:21:40 pm
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- NEA Calls on all Educators to be "Social Justice Patriots"
July 04, 2012 04:31:14 pm
Executive Director John Stocks says a new generation of NEA activists must lead in the fight for a more just society.
- Education Support Professional of the Year Energizes, Inspires Fellow Educators
July 04, 2012 01:15:25 pm
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- NEA Members Leading the Professions to Transform Schools
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July 03, 2012 05:16:16 pm
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- New Student Program Chair: Activism is Critical to Everything You Do
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Jul 2, 2012 01:50:43 pm
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July 2, 2012 11:00:54 am
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June 27, 2012 10:34:56 am
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Classy dame: Old farmhouse outshines rivals
ADDRESS: 1900 Cobblestone Lane
NEIGHBORHOOD: Candlewyck
SIZE: 2,728 fin. sq. ft.
LAND: 2.30 acres
CURB APPEAL: 9 out of 10
LISTED BY: Betsy Cobb of Keller Williams Realty 220-2200
This classy old farmhouse must feel like an aging leading lady standing graciously in the shadows while upstart ingénues steal the public's heart.
When it was built in 1905 as the homestead of a 232-acre dairy farm called "North Leigh," the house was probably typical of other county farms: a solid stucco structure with tall double-hung windows, plaster walls, high ceilings, pine floors, and metal roof amid shade trees, barns, and beautiful green fields.
The original long driveway (now obliterated) delivered visitors to a wide front porch, thence to a spacious entry hall with an interesting stairway and two parlors with fireplaces. (We have to imagine the original kitchen and bathroom facilities, but it's likely they wouldn't win the house a spot on a charity house tour– if they were even indoors.)
A lot can happen in a hundred years.
The fate of the house itself has not been bad: addition of a modern kitchen, bathrooms, a soapstone porch, heating and cooling systems, and new rooms; reconfiguration of the original space to divide a large upstairs bedroom into an apartment, and turn a long porch into a hallway; and decorative design touches.
What's happened to the 232 acres is more disturbing. In the late '60s, the farm (which spanned Old Ballard Road) was divided, the barns torn down, and the acreage on this side of the road developed into a generic subdivision– "Candlewyck"– full of streets with equally pretentious names like "Cobblestone Lane" and "Chippendale Court."
In contrast, there's nothing pretentious about this house. Its working farm origins are evident in the painted floors and double parlors, and in the absence of crown molding and other frivolous do-dads. The extensive lush landscaping– while doing exactly what it's supposed to do (block all traces of "Candlewyck")– is well choreographed: a Tuscan pergola and fountain, multiple perennial beds, original hemlock trees, and what must be some of the biggest rhododendrons in the county.
Fig and peach trees provide summer treats, a rotted old pine entertains woodpeckers, and a large quiet pine grove often shelters picnickers beyond the back fence.
The house as it exists today, while showing signs of many permutations over the years (the odd hallway created from the porch at the side of the house, a separate apartment and deck added upstairs), has much to attract a contemporary buyer. The kitchen is bright and functional, with '50s knotty-pine cabinetry and a view of the splashing fountain. The unusual design of the entrance-hall stairway provides cross-over steps into a separate first-floor bedroom/bath suite before turning back toward the door to lead up to the second floor.
Outside, where the barns used to be, part of a former two- or three-car garage has been converted to a private, fully equipped (heat and AC) study or studio so private that it seems to be in the middle of a secluded forest instead of seconds from an asphalt subdivision road.
The second-floor apartment may have appeal for a family stretching to pay the mortgage on a property in this price range. Currently rented for $700/month, it's fully self-contained– bedroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, and with its own separate deck. But a purist can't help imagining removing a wall or two to return the house to its original design. That would create a huge master suite with the private deck overlooking the pretty fountain and wisteria-covered pergola.
The beauty of the place is that anything's possible. It can stay the same and provide a wonderful home for people who appreciate quality and continuity. On the other hand, with a new kitchen, floors restored to the original pine, and elimination of the apartment, it could compete with the most elaborate new construction in Glenmore or The Rocks.
So the grand dame has the last laugh. While the newcomers flash their Hardiplank and vinyl under the blistering sun, she sits calmly in the shade, confident in her timeless class and grace.


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(Pocket-lint) - Motorola, in collaboration with T-Mobile in the US, is having a second dabble in the social networking mobile phone market with an update on its highly successful Cliq. Cunningly titled Cliq 2, the new handset is similar in many ways, just beefed up.
Yet again, it comes with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and utilises the company's Motoblur social networking portal, which aggregates Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Gmail, while giving access to personal and work contacts. Plus, the camera remains of the 5-megapixel variety (with a dual-LED flash) and the battery is still 1420mAh.
However, this time around the touchscreen has increased in size, to 3.7 inches, and its resolution is now 854 x 480 (the original Cliq was 320 x 480).
The flavour of operating system has been improved too, from Android 1.5 to Android 2.2, with rumours that an update to 2.3 will be forthcoming.
There's 512MB RAM, 1GB ROM, and up to 1GB user available memory. And while a 2GB microSD card comes pre-loaded, the Cliq 2's microSD expansion slot is capable of taking a card up to 32GB.
The new handset is a touch heavier than its predecessor, but not by much, at 175g, and its dimensions of 116 x 59.6 x 14.5mm are slightly bigger, although it is slimmer.
It comes with an in-built FM radio, and can munch on a whole host of media files, such as MP3, WAV, AAC and many more. Video-wise, it can play H.263, H.264 and MPEG4 filetypes (among others) and as the handset is DLNA-enabled, it can stream content to a compatible TV or player.
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While Pocket-lint only got limited playtime with the device at CES 2011, we were definitely impressed by its build quality. Most so-called "social networking" phones can be plasticy or flimsy, aimed more at younger people. However, we would say that teenagers and the like are more likely to drop their handsets, and therefore need a more solidly built phone than most. Thankfully, with this in mind, the Motorola Cliq 2 is a sturdier beast than most, and the slide-out keyboard moves in a satisfyingly tough manner.
The strangely hexagonal keys are, perhaps, a bit small for our sausage fingers, but are absolutely fine for tweeting or texting on the fly. You wouldn't want to write a novel on the keypad, but this phone isn't aimed at authors, rather those who dip in and out.
It's a shame that it's not going to see life outside of North America, but we reckon it'll do very well within its borders.


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Following Thursday morning's training session, Crew Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter told his players that there was a surprise team activity in the evening. Later in the day the Black & Gold gathered in the lobby of their team hotel to depart for Medieval Times, a destination Crew fans may remember from last year's preseason stay in Orlando.
Matt Lampson was the driving force behind last year's excursion, and he was just as excited to be back taking in the jousting action once again this season. Hear what Lampson had to say about the team bonding, rooting for the Black & Gold Knight and tackling medieval food.
Several players took to social media to document the event.
Uh oh, Yellow Knight round 2. Here we go. #MedievalTimes #Crew96
— Eric Gehrig (@eGehrig16) February 27, 2014
Headed back in time! #Crew96 #medievaltimes pic.twitter.com/1QKubEq14d
— Michael Parkhurst (@MFparkhurst) February 27, 2014
Goodmorrow lords and ladies #MedievalTimes #crew96
— William Trapp (@wil_trapp) February 27, 2014
Let the feast and tournament begin! #jousting #StephanieTheWench pic.twitter.com/xxEtB8WBMD
— Ross Friedman (@RFriedman4) February 27, 2014
He didn't win the princess... But at least he wasn't the black and red knight #blackandyellow4life #medievaltimes pic.twitter.com/lgtPltRsgc
— Chad Barson (@DoctorOfDefense) February 28, 2014
Haven't lost all preseason but the yellow knight let us down tonight. Still had a great time with the boys. Thanks to the @ColumbusCrew
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Charlize Theron has decided not to go globetrotting as "The Tourist" – and Angelina Jolie might step in to replace her.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Charlize has backed out of the big screen thriller after being attached to the project for quite some time.
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As a result, Angelina is now reportedly in talks with the studio to replace her.
"The Tourist" – a remake of the 2005 French thriller "Anthony Zimmer" – follows an American tourist traveling abroad who is seduced by a beautiful woman and becomes caught in an international plot involving Interpol and the Russian mafia who both mistake him for a criminal mastermind.
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"Terminator: Salvation" and "Avatar" star Sam Worthington is lined up to play the male lead.
No reason for Charlize's departure from the film was reported. Shooting is slated to begin in early 2010.
The South African-born beauty will next be seen on the big screen in the post-apocalyptic drama "The Road," opposite Viggo Mortensen. She also lends her voice to the upcoming animated feature "Astro Boy," which hits theaters on October 23.
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What Can the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library Do for Your Site?
In this article, I will look at the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library in more detail. The YUI is an AJAX framework, but it is also a generic JavaScript library that provides a lot of Web 2.0 widgets or UI elements, effects, and tools for web developers.
Introduction to the YUI
The abundance of AJAX frameworks on the market make it very hard for one of them to get noticed. But what better way is there than if it's used by one of the most popular web sites online? And, the YUI is currently used on a lot on the Yahoo web pages, including the main front page, my Yahoo portal, Yahoo news and Yahoo finance. Because Yahoo's main business is web based, their acceptance and usage of the YUI accomplishes two things. First, it get the library noticed and second, it proves that it's mature and stable code.
The library was released as open source under the BSD license. This means that it can be freely used for commercial projects, and it is currently maintained by the Yahoo developer community.
The YUI library can be conceptually separated into three parts. The first part is the AJAX communication wrapper that YUI calls Connection Manager. This utility deals with the instantiation of the XmlHttpRequest object, handling of the AJAX requests, browser status codes, and callback mechanics. The Connection Manager is reused in a lot of other widgets, making then AJAX-enabled. The second part of the YUI is a very solid collection of UI widgets such as Calendar/Date Picker, TreeView, TabView, and so forth. And, the last part is a polished collection of DHTML utilities that simplify DOM scripting and the creation of arresting visual behaviors, such as Drag & Drop or Animations effects. The utilities include the Document Object Model (DOM) manipulation package, CSS, Font, Event utilities, and others.
I should also mention that all YUI widgets come with separate CSS files. Changing their appearance to match the custom look of a particular site is easy; you don't have to touch the JavaScript code.
Setting Up the YUI
To set the up YUI, download it from the Yahoo Developer Network, unzip it into your web server directory, and include the JavaScript files corresponding to the features you want to use in your pages. For example, if you want to use Drag and Drop, you may include these JavaScript files.
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../build/yahoo/yahoo.js" > </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../build/event/event.js" > </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../build/dom/dom.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../build/dragdrop/dragdrop.js" > </script>
Similarly, if you want to use Calendar/Date Picker, you can include it.
<script type="text/javascript" src="yahoo.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="event.js" ></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="dom.js" ></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="calendar.js"></script> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="yui/calendar.css">
Unlike Scrip.aculo.us, which requires that you include one core file and dynamically load other modules, the YUI requires an explicit declaration of what you need.
As an alternative to including required JS files from the local web server directory, the same files can be included from the Yahoo servers. From the client point of view, there is no difference from where the file is downloaded, either from your server or the Yahoo server. Also, note that all library files come with three versions: the regular file, file with the .min and .debug in its name. Any library file with the .min in its name is minified, meaning that comments and white space have been removed to make them more efficient to download. For example, calendar-min.js and similarly .debug uses the debug version of the file; for example, calendar-debug.js.
AJAX Connection Manager
If you are not using the YUI, the only way to initiate an asynchronous AJAX call to the server is to write something like this:
function getXmlHttpObject() { var XHR=null; if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { XHR =new XMLHttpRequest(); } else if (window.ActiveXObject){ XHR =new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } return XHR; }
This code checks for different browser implementations of the XMLHttpRequest object, and hopefully is compatible with most browsers. You also will need to use XHR object's API to send GET or POST request and then manually check for any error codes, such as 404 "page not found" and status codes. It completes such a response in a total of over 30 lines of code.
With the YUI's Connection Manager, all of this plumbing has been already implemented. All you need is one line of code:
var transaction = YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('GET', sUrl, callback);
Note: The callback is not a function but an object, and the asyncRequest method returns a reference to the transaction that can be used later. This method supports the GET, POST, and HEAD options of the HTTP request. The URL parameter is self explanatory.
The callback object is simply a JavaScript object that has a code definition of the methods you want to execute on a successful response or a failed response. It can also have other options, such as timeout value, arguments, and scope.
var callback = { success function(o) {/*success handler code*/}, failure: function(o) {/*failure handler code*/}, }
Here is how a form would be submitted:
var formObject = document.getElementById('aForm'); YAHOO.util.Connect.setForm(formObject); YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('POST', 'http://www.yahoo.com', callback);
Finally, if you want to terminate a request that hasn't completed in ten seconds, you can set a timeout variable in the callback object to 10000 or call the abort method and pass in the transaction variable.
The YUI Connection Manager also supports asynchronous file uploads, which are specified with an argument array in the callback object. For example:
var callback = { success: function(o) {/*success handler code*/}, failure: function(o) {/*failure handler code*/}, argument: ['file1','file2'] }
There are more options in the Connection Manager, but these are the main use cases. Now that you know how to initiate an asynchronous AJAX call with YUI, look at what other neat effects and utilities are available.
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There is a difference between writing an ordinary essay and writing an essay that attracts the attention the attention of those that are it. To write such an essay you obviously are going to go an extra mile In your research and manner of writing. This means that you are going to do very thorough preparation before writing the essay and that you are going to add components in the essay that are not commonly found In other essays. I will assure that it is not simple but it is all worth it. Here is how you are going to achieve this.
- Use figurative language
- Use vocabulary
- Be creative
- Quote from other people
- Check your spellings and grammar
They say that common things occur commonly. You therefore do not expect to use common language and still have an essay that is unique. Make your essay interesting by using language in a creative manner. Do not write the way you speak in daily life because this is not something that is common you are doing. Use similes, metaphors, phrasal verbs and sayings here necessary. While doing all these you need to be careful that you do not overdo it such that your essay ends up too complex and not easily understood.
Well, when I say vocabulary I do not mean that you look for the biggest words that you come across and throw into the essay. This will worsen the situation. A vocabulary is any word in English that is not commonly used. Make sure that you use vocabularies that the reader can easily get the meaning even without checking in the dictionary. This is because the vocabularies have been placed in the right context. Again I will caution you against overdoing this because it will distort the desired effect.
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