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Daniela Florescu has authored numerous academic papers. With Don Chamberlin and Jonathan Robie, she developed the Quilt query language (from which the XML Query Working Group derived XQuery).
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To earn a second bachelor's degree in the College, a student must complete in residence in the College of Human Environmental Sciences, with a grade average of "C" (2.00 GPA) or better, a minimum of 32 hours beyond the hours required for the first degree. The work must be completed in accordance with all other University and College regulations.
Graduate programs. The College of Human Environmental Sciences offers programs leading to the master of science in human environmental sciences degree with one of the following concentrations: general studies; consumer sciences; clothing, textiles, and interior design; food and nutrition; or human development and family studies. Within the general studies concentration, students may specialize in consumer quality management, family financial management and counseling, interactive technology, sports management, or restaurant, hotel, and meetings management. Specializations within human development and family studies include child life and marriage and family therapy. In addition, the master of arts in health studies is available. A concentration in human development is offered through the Ph.D. program in educational psychology, and a developmental track is available in the Department of Psychology. In addition, a student can earn a Ph.D. specializing in health education and health promotion. These programs are offered through the University of Alabama Graduate School.

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Learn how to recognize when your dog has a seizure and what to do with tips from a veterinarian in this free emergency pet health care video. Expert: Dr Adrienne Mulligan Bio: Dr. Adrienne Mulligan started her lifelong dream to be a veterinarian at Oakridge High School in Oakridge, Tennessee. Filmmaker: Chuck Tyler
Emergency Dog Health Care : What to Do If Your Dog Has A Seizure
@popaleechee LMAO!! What? You trying to tell me dogs have lived off of dried shit and shit in a tin for 1000s of years?!?!?!? ahahahaha. Well, News flash. They haven't. Us humans got lazy and found it easier to pour greasy dried pellets full of crap into a bowl. Or tins of crap that stink of rotten eggs. Yeah, so much chewing action going on! NOT. My Dog went to the Vets last week for a check up and the Vet couldnt find a damned thing wrong with him. Perfect teeth, perfect coat etc.
Oh yeah, One more thing…. If this raw diet is so bad there would be no dogs around today. Kibble and shit in a tin hasn't been around long.
@popaleechee no in some cases dog stomping is an act of mercy, as with dogs that are in pain, or cocker spaniels
@Wtflolyay Most dogs these days don't start off eating raw meats (and bones ), so they are usually not immune or used to bacterias and viruses/diseases that live in raw meats. That's why "perfessionals" tell ppl to "cure" any kind of raw meat before giving it to your dog, so it'll kill the bad stuff :\ And just cuz dogs have eaten raw stuff in past, doesn't mean that they have never been sick/killed from the stuff :\ And yes you're right, most of the cheap dog foods look horrible! Dx lol
@Wtflolyay haha, but then again dogs have been eating, and still eat disgusting stuff/anything these days. So foods in cans aren't as bad compared to nasty raw foods, or garbage that they would happily eat off streets
Try buying those "all meat meal" dry food stuff from places like Petsmart. It shouldn't be more than what you probably already spend on meats for your dog they range from $20-$100 for the big good-quality bags! xD And there are "gourmet" can foods these days too :l lol
@werewyrm1 So what you're implying is that you stomp on the dog while it's having a seizure, like on its sides or stomache? If so, that'll still give it bruises and injury :\
@popaleechee lmao what the hell. Immune? Dogs have short digestive tracts and strong stomach acid and TEETH that close together like SCISSORS, check your dogs mouth. Their molars are not flat, they are designed to cut meat.. Raw food is in there for around 4 hours. Dry food is in there for up to 12 hours. With kibble there is more chance of them getting ill from bacteria, dogs have DIED from CONTAMINATED PET FOOD. NOT RAW FOOD.
@popaleechee plus, popular pet food brands such as Pedigree, Royal Canin, Whiskas are made by MARS. What do mars make? Oh yeah, sugary junk food. If they make crap for humans they'll make crap for pets. Purina is by Nestle. Nestle also make sugary junk food. Go figure.
@Wtflolyay n_n lol that's why you don't feed them contaminated/expired/moldy pet food… and the bacteria that could get dogs that have never really eaten raw foods sick/killed, are the bacterias that live in raw meats way before the animal is killed like those bacterias in pigs/chickens and stuff. And dogs teeth are not strong enough to bite through BONES! Dx You said that's something you feed yours with the meat D: And yeah, I noticed that too; those are the cheap brands haha
@popaleechee What are you, 12? My PUGS have been fed MANY raw pieces of CHICKEN including the RAW BONE. My PUGS have eaten RAW BEEF RIBS and ate the bone. They can chew bone very easily. Go do your research before bashing a diet that dogs are designed to eat. Go search for dogs eating the raw diet. There's pugs eating rabbit legs, dogs eating rabbit heads etc. All those dogs are in perfect health and NEVER go to the Vet.
@Wtflolyay I was thinking the same thing about you o_o lol I'm getting the impression that you're like… a 16 yr old skater boy… or something like that lolz… no offense ^_^'
But yeah, bigger dogs could eat bones, but not at once like they can raw meats and dog foods! D: They usually have to chew them for awhile :l
I would have never imagined a small dog being able to chew through bone that quick :\ Maybe a pug, cuz they're like little Bulldogs ^_^
@Wtflolyay I also already know that dogs can CHEW bones, cuz I sometimes feed my Pom beef bones. I never feed them chicken bones though, cuz those can get caught in their throughts like sharp shards sometimes :\
I've fed my other dog some raw meat a couple of times, but at next vet check-up they found that my dog had some type of worms inside of it it was the reason it was sick and vomiting so much :\
@popaleechee No, I'm a 17 year old girl. lmao. Oh yeah, Even raw chicken bones can be dangerous if fed alone. But i feed them as wings as they're covered in flesh and skin. But i wouldn't feed them without any kind of meat on.
@Wtflolyay D: you're like the same age as me!! Dx Dey-ja-vu! haha
That sounds believable! I never thought of that possability lol but don't you ever have problems with bad dog breathe by feeding them raw meats?
@popaleechee Nah, not at all. The raw food doesn't stink, and it cleans their teeth so their breath doesn't stink. When i fed kibble though they had tartar build up and terrible breath, at not even a year old.
@Wtflolyay Oh, that's pretty goog to hear ^_^ but to be honest, to me meat, especially beef, kind of stinks :l
But just in case you want to feed your dog/s something else besides raw meats for any reason, I don't think it'll hurt much to try one of those "high-quality" foods from a petstore!
@popaleechee I did want to feed Orijen or something but i can't find it locally in the UK. I don't know if it's even available in the UK. That's why i fed raw instead. Ah well!
@Wtflolyay Ah so you're from the UK?
Well there are other brands, like "Euryka", that possibly might be sold in the UK too :\ Try reading the ingredients on the back of the packages and look for anything that says cornmeal. Those are the brands that most likely have added proteins and other chemicals, because it doesn't really contain all the stuff needed for proper growth. Look for all meat ingredients, or no corn/corn-meal in the ingredients!
@popaleechee no before the dog has a seizure at the first sign that the dog sucks begin stomping
My dog does that when she is sleeping. She will be sleeping, and then she will start whining and twitching and her legs go stiff, but I just tap her or shake her a little and say her name, and then she will stop. Is she having a seizure, or is she just dreaming?
thats a good tip i had a rabbit and it died whit heat and i was wondering if you could tell me what i should done i tried to save him whit cold water but it didn't work
Does any of this apply to reptiles? A bearded dragon I care for has had a seizure and I'm so afraid of it re-occuring though he's in great care at the moment… I'm not sure if it'd be due to bad breeding as his origins are hazy…
@LunatheMutt My dog does that too! Im not sure because just now she started twitching and her eyes went up and her breathing was uh… bumpy? So idk D:
@LenxXxRinO2 yeah! it sounds like her breathing is really pinched and her eyes kind of twitch, but then I just shake or tap her, and she stops, and then she breathes kind of hard afterwards, but stops after like a minute. I've always wondered if she having nightmares or something.


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by St. Justin Popovich(...continued from Part 2)
By conquering the sin within him through Christ, a man conquers death. If a single day passes and you have not yet conquered at least one of your sins, realize that you have become all the more mortal. If, however, you have overcome one, two, or three of your sins, you have become more greatly renewed in that newness that does not age: immortality and eternity. Let us never forget that, for one to believe in Christ, this means that he must struggle ceaselessly against sin, evil, and death.
A man demonstrates that he truly believes in the Resurrected Lord by his struggle against the passions and against sin; and if he so struggles, he must know that he struggles for immortality and for eternal life. If he does not struggle, then his faith is in vain. For, if a man's faith is not a struggle for immortality and eternity, then what is it? If by faith in Christ one does not attain to immortality and victory over death, then to what end our faith? If Christ is not resurrected, this means that sin and death have not been conquered. And if these two things have not been overcome, then why should anyone believe in Christ? He who, through faith in the Resurrection of Christ, struggles against his every sin, however, has profound reinforcement within himself of a sense that Christ is in fact resurrected, that He has in fact removed the sting of death, that He has in fact conquered death on all fronts of battle.
by St. Justin Popovich(...continued from Part 1)
By the grace of the resurrection of Christ, by the grace of His conquest over death, men became, are now becoming, and will in the future become Christians. All of Christian history is nothing other than that of one singular miracle, the miracle of the Resurrection of Christ, which is eternally contained within the hearts of Christians from day to day, from year to year, and from age to age, until the Second Coming.
Man is truly born, not when he is brought into the world by his mother, but when he comes to believe in the Resurrected Savior, Christ; for then he is born into immortality and eternal life, while the mother brings a child only into death, to the grave. The Resurrection of Christ is the mother of all of us, all of us Christians — the mother of all who are deathless. By his faith in the Resurrection of Christ, man is born anew, born into eternity.
by St. Justin Popovich
Men have condemned God to death; God, however, has by His Resurrection "sentenced" men to immortality. In return for their buffets, He offers embraces; for their insults, blessings; for death, immortality. Never have men shown such enmity for God as when they crucified Him; and never has God shown such love for men as He did in resurrecting. Men wish to render God mortal, but God by His Resurrection designed to make men immortal. The crucified God resurrected and overcame death. Death is no more. Immortality has overtaken man and the whole of his world.
Through the Resurrection of the God-Man, the nature of man has been led irrevocably to the path of immortality, and death has thus become fearful. For, before the Resurrection of Christ, death was something feared by man; but after the Resurrection of the Lord, man has become something fearful for death. If a man lives in Faith within the Resurrected God-Man, he lives above death. He stands impregnable by death. Death is transformed into a "footstool beneath his feet": "O death, where is thy victory? O Hades, where is thy sting?" (I Corinthians 15:55). Therefore, when a man in Christ breathes his last, he sheds only the shell of his body, to be clothed with it once again on the day of the Second Coming.
by St. Justin Popovich 1894-1979
A thoughtless faith in the omnipotence of humanistic science and education, of culture and the applied arts, as well as in the omnipotence of humanistic civilization, borders on insanity. Through the tragic influence of this thoughtless faith, European education has also created among us the confrontation between the Church and the School, or rather has exceedingly applied its principles in Orthodox countries having officially expelled God from School. This has been disastrous for our Orthodox people. Our intellectuals who have been cut off from their roots are already carrying from these centuries "the lights" of this humanism in order to "rehabilitate" the Orthodox people. The result has been to transform Orthodox countries into slaughter-houses of souls.
...There is only one way to escape final destruction. What is this way? To accept theanthropic education and to apply it completely in all schools, from the greatest to the smallest, and in all state and national institutions. Theanthropic education radiates, illuminates, enlightens with the only inextinguishable and true Light in the entire world, namely with the God-man Christ. Darkness cannot extinguish or hide this Light, not even the darkness of Europe. Only this is capable of expelling all darkness from man, from society, from the people, and from the state. This, the only true Light, illuminates every man in the nucleus of his being and reveals to each one of us our immortality, our own divine and eternal brother. It teaches us that only then can the problems of man and the problems of society, the problems of the nation and the problems of humanity, be easily understood and solved when they are examined through the God-man Christ.
by St. Justin Popovich
The Apostolicity and Tradition of the Church
The holy Tradition is wholly of the God-man, wholly of the holy apostles, wholly of the holy fathers, wholly of the Church, in the Church, and by the Church. The holy fathers are nothing other than the "guardians of the apostolic tradition. " All of them, like the holy apostles themselves, are but "witnesses" of a single and unique Truth: the transcendent Truth of Christ, the God-man. They preach and confess it without rest, they, the "golden mouths of the Word." The God-man, the Lord Christ is one, unique, and indivisible. So also is the Church unique and indivisible, for she is the incarnation of the Theanthropos Christ, continuing through the ages and through all eternity. Being such by her nature and in her earthly history, the Church may not be divided. It is only possible to fall away from her. That unity and uniqueness of the Church is theanthropic [i.e. of the God-Man] from the very beginning and through all the ages and all eternity.
Apostolic succession, the apostolic heritage, is theanthropic from first to last. What is it that the holy apostles are transmitting to their successors as their heritage? The Lord Christ, the God-man Himself, with all the imperishable riches of His wondrous theanthropic Personality, Christ—the Head of the Church, her sole Head. If it does not transmit that, apostolic succession ceases to be apostolic, and the apostolic Tradition is lost, for there is no longer an apostolic hierarchy and an apostolic Church.
The Apostolicity of the Church
The holy apostles were the first god-men by grace. Like the Apostle Paul each of them, by his integral life, could have said of himself: "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" (Gal. 2:20). Each of them is a Christ repeated; or, to be more exact, a continuation of Christ. Everything in them is theanthropic [i.e. of the God-Man] because everything was received from the God-man. Apostolicity is nothing other than the God-manhood of the Lord Christ, freely assimilated through the holy struggles of the holy virtues: faith, love, hope, prayer, fasting, etc. This means that everything that is of man lives in them freely through the God-man, thinks through the God-man, feels through the God-man, acts through the God-man and wills through the God-man. For them, the historical God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ, is the supreme value and the supreme criterion. Everything in them is of the God-man, for the sake of the God-man, and in the God-man. And it is always and everywhere thus. That for them is immortality in the time and space of this world. Thereby are they even on this earth partakers of the theanthropic eternity of Christ.
The Holiness of the Church
... The flow of history confirms the reality of the Gospel: the Church is filled to overflowing with sinners. Does their presence in the Church reduce, violate, or destroy her sanctity? Not in the least! For her Head—the Lord Christ, and her Soul —the Holy Spirit, and her divine teaching, her mysteries, and her virtues, are indissolubly and immutably holy. The Church tolerates sinners, shelters them, and instructs them, that they may be awakened and roused to repentance and spiritual recovery and transfiguration; but they do not hinder the Church from being holy. Only unrepentant sinners, persistent in evil and godless malice, are cut off from the Church either by the visible action of the theanthropic [i.e. of the God-Man] authority of the Church or by the invisible action of divine judgment, so that thus also the holiness of the Church may be preserved. "Put away from among yourselves that wicked person" (I Cor. 5:13).
In their writings and at the Councils, the holy fathers confessed the holiness of the church as her essential and immutable quality. The fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council defined it dogmatically in the ninth article of the Symbol of Faith. And the succeeding ecumenical councils confirmed it by the seal of their assent.
The Unity and Uniqueness of the Church
The attributes of the Church are innumerable because her attributes are actually the attributes of the Lord Christ, the Godman, and, through Him, those of the Triune Godhead. However, the holy and divinely wise fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council, guided and instructed by the Holy Spirit, reduced them in the ninth article of the Symbol of Faith to four—I believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. These attributes of the Church—unity, holiness, catholicity (sobornost), and apostolicity—are derived from the very nature of the Church and of her purpose. They clearly and accurately define the character of the Orthodox Church of Christ whereby, as a theanthropic institution and community, she is distinguishable from any institution or community of the human sort.
Just as the Person of Christ the God-man is one and unique, so is the Church founded by Him, in Him, and upon Him. The unity of the Church follows necessarily from the unity of the Person of the Lord Christ, the God-man. Being an organically integral and theanthropic organism unique in all the worlds, the Church, according to all the laws of Heaven and earth, is indivisible. Any division would signify her death. Immersed in the God-man, she is first and foremost a theanthropic organism, and only then a theanthropic organization. In her, everything is theanthropic: nature, faith, love, baptism, the Eucharist, all the holy mysteries and all the holy virtues, her teaching, her entire life, her immortality, her eternity, and her structure. Yes, yes, yes; in her, everything is theanthropically integral and indivisible Christification, sanctification, deification, Trinitarianism, salvation. In her everything is fused organically and by grace into a single theanthropic body, under a single Head—the God-man, the Lord Christ. All her members, though as persons always whole and inviolate, yet united by the same grace of the Holy Spirit through the holy mysteries and the holy virtues into an organic unity, comprise one body and confess the one faith, which unites them to each other and to the Lord Christ.
by St. Justin PopovichFrom Man and God-man: Studies about Orthodox Theology, Athens, 1974.
"For we are laborers together with God" (I Cor. 3:9). The ideal of the true and perfect man was realized in the person of the God-man with the God-human synergy. This God-human cooperation, taking place through the God-human body of the Church, becomes a common property of man and a common way of life, thought, action, and their existence. In the Church, men are incorporated with the God-man, Christ, namely are born with Him and by Him, are transformed with Him and by Him, are crucified with Him and by Him, are resurrected with Him and by Him, partake of His Ascension and by Him, are living eternally in Him and by Him, are feeling in Him and by Him, are acting with Him and by Him. In this catholic God-humanization of man lies his exact salvation and sanctification. The human race was created for this reason, and paradisiacal life of our forefathers was created in this joyful synergy with God. The fall occurred when we rejected this synergy and began to work through sin and cooperation with the Devil. The God Logos became man in order to restore the life of Paradise and the order of life within it, namely the cooperation with God.
by St. Justin Popovichfrom his The Orthodox Church and Ecumenism, p. 27-28
He who believes in the Lord Christ continually grows by His Truth into its divine infinity; grows with all his being, his mind, heart and soul. Thus he lives constantly by Christ's Truth, as it constitutes life itself in Christ. Life in Christ is life in truth (Eph. 4:15), a constant abiding with all our being in the truth of Christ. A Christian's life in truth stems from his love for the Lord Christ. He is constantly growing and developing in that love, for love never faileth (II Cor. 13:8). This love for the Lord Christ is the motive for our life in His Truth and maintains us in it. It allows a Christian constantly to grow in Christ, into all His height, breadth and depth (cf. Eph. 3:17-19). We are never alone, but are with all the saints, in the Church and with the Church, as it is impossible otherwise to grow into Him which is the Head of the Body of the Church, even Christ (Eph. 4:15). When we live in the truth, we do so with all the saints, and when we love, we love with all the saints, for all is conciliar in the Church; all that happens is with all the saints because all constitute one spiritual Body, in which all live one conciliar life, by one Spirit and one Truth. Only by living in truth and love with all the saints can we grow up into Him in all things, which is the Head, even Christ. The Church receives the infinite powers required of all Christians for growth in the theanthropic Body directly from its Head, the Lord Christ. For only He, God and Lord, has these innumerable and infinite powers, and discloses them with supreme wisdom.
by St. Justin Popovic
People condemned God to death; with His Resurrection He condemned them to immortality. For striking Him, God returned embraces; for insults, blessings; for death, immortality. Never did men show more hate towards God than when they crucified Him; and God never showed His love towards people more than when He was resurrected. Mankind wanted to make God dead, but God, with His Resurrection, made people alive, the crucified God resurrected on the third day and thereby killed death! There is no more death. Immortality is surrounding man and his entire world.
With the Resurrection of the God-Man, the nature of man is irreversibly led toward the road of immortality and man's nature becomes destructive to death itself. For until the Resurrection of Christ, death was destructive for man; from the Resurrection of Christ, man's nature becomes destructive in death. If man lives in the faith of the Resurrected God Man, he lives above death, he is unreachable for her; death is under man's feet. Death where is thy sting? Hell, where is thy victory? And when a man who believes in Christ dies, he only leaves his body as his clothes, in which he will be dressed again on the Day of Last Judgment.
Before the Resurrection of the God-Man, death was the second nature of man; life was first and death was second. Man became accustomed to death as something natural. But after His Resurrection the Lord changed everything: and it was only natural until Christ's Resurrection, that the people became mortal, so after Christ's Resurrection it was natural that the people became immortal.
from Orthodox America, Issue 4, Vol. 1, No. 4, October, 1980by St. Justin Popovich
Prayerful Preparation
Just as important as knowing why we should read the Bible is knowing how we should read the Bible.
The best guides for this are the holy Fathers, headed by St. John Chrysostom who, in a manner of speaking, has written a fifth Gospel.
The holy Fathers recommend serious preparation before reading and studying the Bible; but of what does this preparation consist?
First of all in prayer. Pray to the Lord to illumine your mind--so that you may understand the words of the Bible--and to fill your heart with His grace--so that you may feel the truth and life of those words.
Be aware that these are God's words, which He is speaking and saying to you personally. Prayer, together with the other virtues found in the Gospel, is the best preparation a person can have for understanding the Bible.
How We Should Read the Bible Prayerfully and reverently, for in each word there is another drop of eternal truth, and all the words together make up the boundless ocean of the Eternal Truth.
The Bible is not a book, but life; because its words are spiritual life (John 6:63). Therefore its words can be comprehended it we study them with the spirit of its spirit, and with the life of its life.
It is a book that must be read with life-by putting it into practice. One should first live it, and then understand it.
The Bible is in a sense a biography of God in this world. In it the Indescribable One has in a sense described Himself.
The Holy Scriptures of the New Testament are a biography of the incarnate God in this world. In them it is related how God, in order to reveal Himself to men, sent God the Logos, Who took on flesh and became man-and as man told men everything that God is, everything that God wants from this world and the people in it.
God the Logos revealed God's plan for the world and God's love for the world. God the Word spoke to men about God with the help of words insofar as human words can contain the uncontainable God.
All that is necessary for this world and the people in it--the Lord has stated in the Bible. In it He has given the answers to all questions. There is no question which can torment the human soul, and not find its answer, either directly or indirectly in the Bible.
Men cannot devise more questions than there are answers in the Bible. If you fail to find the answer to any of your questions in the Bible, it means that you have either posed a senseless question or did not know how to read the Bible and did not finish reading the answer in it.
What the Bible Contains
In the Bible God has made known:
1) what the world is; where it came from; why it exists; what it is heading for; how it will end;
2) what man is; where he comes from; where he is going; what he is made of; what his purpose is
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Lovely weather
The cold rain kept us tucked in our cozy room most of the morning, but about noon we ventured out. After going by the Verizon store to ask why we kept getting kicked off the Internet by our air card (nice guy, best answer - the network doesn't work as well near water....) we went to the waterfront to see if any part of the festival hadn't been canceled because of the bitterly cold wind and rain.
Kalmar Nyckel
We found a lively enough group in a warm tent down by the water listening to Them Eastport Oyster Boys. But since food was being served, Madison was forbidden, so we wandered down to look at the tall ships. They were supposed to be sailing and for $25, a person could go along, but the sails were canceled due to gale warnings. We got a kick out of looking at the ships though. The Kalmar Nyckel from Wilmington, Del., was most impressive. It is a re-creation of the first Swedish settlement ship to arrive in America. She's ornately carved with a wonderful cast of characters including a dog sticking its tongue out. She was launched in the fall of 1997. And did I mention that she's huge! She's 148 feet LOA with a 25-foot beam. The Kalmar Nyckel Foundation owns the present Kalmar Nyckel and uses her for educational purposes and as an ambassador for the state of Delaware. In 1638, the original Kalmar Nyckel brought a colony of Swedish, Finnish, German and Dutch settlers to the Delaware Valley where they established a permanent settlement called New Sweden in present-day Wilmington, Del. Kalmar Nyckel crossed the Atlantic round-trip four times, more than any other ship of the era.
Kalmar Nyckel
A history by a descendant of a Kalmar Nyckel settler
We were freezing and though I would have loved to stand around and admire her for much longer, we moved on. On another dock we watched the "ship's doctor" use a very 20th century plastic pump to clear the bilge of a "jolly boat," the smallest tender a British ship of the Age of Sail would have carried. At 17 feet, she would have been stacked inside three other shore-going boats on the deck of a ship, or so her sailing master "Alastar Smee" by name, told us. We came upon "Alastar" (whose 21st century name is Patrick) as he was tugging on one of the lines holding "Vigilant" to the dock. Their ship's doctor was a midwife pressed into service when the real ship's doctor became indisposed, he said. The jolly boat was the easiest to launch and was used by the captain when he went ashore and for ferrying mail and supplies back and forth to the ship. "Alastar" speculated that the name "jolly" might have been attached to the boat because the crew that rowed her ashore had a chance to become "jolly" before returning. Vigilant was built in 1991 and belongs to Lloyd Robbins. She's a reconstruction of an 18th Century jolly boat from the ship Columbia commanded by a Captain Gray who explored the mouth of the Columbia River in 1792, according to the sign posted next to her.
There was so much to see but it was soooooo COLD. We tramped down every dock, but the wind was so strong it threatened to snatch my day pack out of my hands everytime I took it off my back. We finally retreated to the car and drove down the charming tree-lined streets with brick sidewalks around Chestertown's harbor heading for the outskirts where we could find fast food and coffee. We drove around a bit exploring the town, then camped out in the Verizon parking lot to connect to the Internet for a few minutes. Afterward, Robert brought me back to Rock Hall and he went back for a program at 5 p.m. about the building of Sultana.
Always enjoy reading your blog. This cold has really put a crimp into everyone's plans - we're going to brave it on Tuesday and head south.
Have a great winter and stay warm.
LL Bean
We packed the car and left for Chestertown about 9 a.m. The drive took about six hours, but we stopped after we crossed the bay bridge at an outlet center where we found an LL Bean outlet and spent about an hour. We were reluctant to stop before we got across the bridge for fear of having the same experience Olivia did of getting stuck waiting for hours.
We were looking for gloves. The weather prediction is for cold and wind and possibly snow for the weekend. We started this journey in stifling heat. I suppose it's appropriate that we end it in freezing cold.
Rock Hall
We found our gloves and a few other odds and ends and went on our way to Rock Hall, which is across the peninsula formed by the bay and the Chester River from Chestertown. It's about a 15 minute drive from Chestertown and was the closest place we could find lodging for the weekend. We're staying at the Mariner Motel in a cozy room that has an absolutely marvelous shower.
We ordered our dinner from the Waterman's Crab House, a short walk from the motel and ate at the little round table in our room. Robert apparently had a lengthy conversation with the bartender while he waited for our order. He told her we weren't eating in the restaurant because we had a dog. She told him she has eight dogs - all small. She showed him a picture of a puppy she was getting soon. Tomorrow night, if we order from there, he said I should go talk to her.
We left for Chestertown about 6:30 p.m. so we could watch the fireworks and I could go to a talk at The Prince Theater by Dava Sobol, who wrote "Longitude." This weekend is my birthday celebration, so Robert insisted I go, though he would have really enjoyed it (one of us had to stay with Madison). He's read the book and we've seen the A&E movie based on the story of John Harrison, a clockmaker who took up the challenge issued by the British government to find a solution to problem of fixing a ship's longitude at sea.
Sobol began her presentation by showing a slide of her mother as a young woman at the helm of a sailboat. She included the photo of her mother, she joked, because there were no women in this story. She explained that when she was a little girl, her mother got interested in celestial navigation about the same time her father got interested in sailing. Her mother took her along to classes, so she had an early introduction to the concepts of latitude and longitude, though she wasn't much interested at the time.
Years later, when she was working as a science writer for various well-known publications, she tried to peddle a story about a symposium on longitude she'd been invited to attend at Harvard. All the editors she approached thought it was "boring, weird and esoteric." But shortly before the conference when it turned out hundreds of people were coming from all over the world, Harvard Magazine called and asked her to cover it.
It was the best science conference she's been to in 30 years of science writing, she said. Soon after the magazine came out, a book publisher read her story and called to ask if she had enough information to turn it into a book.
She went from not being able to get even an assignment for a magazine article to being offered a book contract. And the book she wrote spent months on the New York Times bestseller list.
In the early 1700s, the British government offered a 20,000 pound prize to anyone who could come up with a way for sailors to reliably calculate longitude after four of five ships in Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell's fleet ran aground in 1707 and sank with a loss of about 2,000 sailors. They ran into the rocks off the Scilly Islands in the fog because they thought they were someplace else. (The great irony is that within the previous 24 hours, Shovell had been approached by a common sailor who had been keeping his own reckoning of the fleet's location and disagreed with the fleet's navigators. The sailor knew that such activity was considered subversive and that he risked being hanged, but the danger seemed so great he took the risk. Shovell had him hanged on the spot.) Shovell's fleet was only the most recent in a long line of ships and men lost at sea because they were literally lost. They misjudged where they were because they had no accurate way of determining their longitude. Sailors could determine latitude - their location north or south on the globe - by measuring the distance between the horizon and the sun at noon or the North Star at night. The zero-degree meridian of latitude is the equator. But there was no heavenly help for sailors in determining longitude - that is, where they were east or west, though an astronomical solution was believed to exist, and was being diligently sought.
The other solution to determining longitude was to develop an accurate timepiece that would withstand the rigors of life at sea. As Sobol explains in "Longitude,":
"The measurement of longitude meridians...is tempered by time. To learn one's longitude at sea, one needs to know what time it is aboard ship and also the time at the home port or another place of known longitude - at that very same moment. The two clock times enable the navigator to convert the hour difference into a geographical separation. Since the earth takes twenty-four hours to complete one full revolution of three hundred sixty degrees, one hour marks one twenty-fourth of a spin, or fifteen degrees. And so each hour's time difference between the ship and the starting point marks a progress of fifteen degrees of longitude to the east or west."
Sobol's one prop, besides her slides, was a little inflated globe. She got a laugh right off by pointing out that latitude lines are the ones that run around the globe from east to west and grow smaller toward the poles. Longitude lines are the ones that run north and south over the poles.
The equator is a natural for zero-degree latitude, but there is no natural point for zero-degree longitude, so of course deciding prime meridian of longitude became a political matter. In "Longitude," Sobol writes that the French continued to place the prime meridian in Paris until 1911, 27 years after the International Meridian Conference in 1884 made official what had been common practice for more than a century and placed the prime meridian at Greenwich, seven miles outside of London.
"Day begins in Greenwich," Sobol writes. "Time zones the world over run a legislated number of hours ahead of or behind Greenwich mean time (GMT). Greenwich time even extends into outer space: Astronomers use GMT to time predictions and observations, except that they call it Universal Time, or UT, in their celestial calendars."
But that's the end result of John Harrison's story, the honor that came to England because he designed a beautiful, precise time piece that would remain true despite the harshness of life at sea. Harrison's story is the heart of Longitude. It took him 40 years to claim the prize. He was his own worst critic in the beginning, but in the end he was undermined by some members of the Board of Longitude that had been set up to decide the winner. It's a compelling human story, as is the story of naval officer Rupert Gould, the man who discovered Harrison's four prototypes corroding at Greenwich and spent 12 years meticulously cleaning and restoring them without pay. Today, they are on display at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, wound every morning by the Maritime Museum curator who lovingly cares for them.
As she concluded her talk, Sobol reflected on the Global Positioning System that gives its name to the GPSs so precise that anyone checking our blog can tell exactly where our boat is in the Deltaville boatyard. GPSs work by receiving information from orbiting satellites and time signals from atomic clocks. It's the perfect marriage of the two methods - astronomical and temporal - of determining longitude.
"You have to wonder what the Board of Longitude would have thought of that solution," Sobol said.
When I told Robert, he had a ready response. "They would have accused whoever came up with it of witchcraft and burned them at the stake."
A&E movie
Longitude at Amazon
NPR interview about Sobol's new book "A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
Interview with Sobol
Preparing to leave
We spent the day rolling up the dingy, cleaning out the ice box and doing other chores related to leaving the boat. In the afternoon, Madison and I camped out at the laundry - a VERY busy place this week - and waited our turn to wash clothes and her bedding. Meanwhile, Enterprise picked Robert up and took him to Gloucester where he picked up a rental car we'll use to go to Chestertown for the Downrigging Festival and then to go home in. When he got back we did a mini-tour of Deltaville. We were disappointed that at the infamous Stingray Point, where John Smith got stung by a stingray, there's a sign that says private road, no access. We consoled ourselves by driving back to the maritime museum and going for a walk on the beautiful, peaceful grounds there. A couple of guys were having a cold one in the boatbuilding shed after stringing lights along the sculpture path in the forest in preparation for All Hallows Eve.
On the hard
Arwen came out of the water about 11 a.m. this morning after we waited in line for about 45 minutes to get to the fuel dock for a pumpout. Her bottom was in better shape than we had feared. She had a few blisters that will have to be ground out and filled with epoxy before she gets a water barrier coat and a new coat of bottom paint, but all-in-all, she looked pretty good. We pierced the blisters using a punch tool a great neighbor on a 28-foot Cape Dory loaned us. We're deep in the boatyard, with the bow facing a nice patch of woods, right beside a Moody 376 wrapped in shrink wrap that's for sale.
Raising Madison
There are several problems with living on a boat that's on the hard, especially if you have a dog. For starters, you can't use the head and we are a pretty good hike from the bathrooms. But the biggest problem for us is getting Madison on and off the boat. We've done it before in Oriental, so we have a system, but it was a bit harder tonight because we didn't have a step ladder, just an extension ladder. We put her life vest on and Robert tied a line to it. We put the line around a wench. Then Robert carried her up the ladder by the handle on the back of the life vest while I pulled the rope up using the wench. That way, if he lost his grip, Madison wouldn't have fallen. Fortunately, Madison just goes limp and allows herself be manhandled without struggling. She weighs 50 pounds, so if she struggled, it would be nearly impossible to get her up this way. She's so trusting and she does what she can to help. When she gets to the toe rail, she puts her front paws out and tries to grasp it. She's such a good girl. Later, Robert put a block on the boom and swung the end of the boom out over the side of the boat to make it easier to raise and lower her.
A colony expunged
We hauled the dingy from the dingy dock to the boatyard in a cart and spent the afternoon removing the bay life that had colonized her bottom. Some of the barnacles were getting to be a respectable size. The job took a fair amount of elbow grease and boat soap. Then we left her to dry and took Madison for a walk.
We spent the morning taking the sails off in a brisk wind. This required a fair amount of cooperation with Robert pulling them down and me trying to keep them from blowing into the water and flake them as they came off the mast in the case of the mainsail and the roller furler in the case of the jib. We managed to keep them from blowing into the water, but I'm none too proud of the flaking and folding.
A loon
We had a splendid morning eating breakfast in the cockpit and watching a lone loon carefully groom itself in Jackson Creek. After its morning ablution, it began diving. It stayed under an average of about 50 seconds.
Laundry etiquette
Robert spent most of the day running errands to get ready to haul out. I spent most of it sitting outside the laundry room with Madison working on the computer. The washing machine and dryer were busy and I had an opportunity to meet new cruisers, mostly heading south for the winter. The woman ahead of me and her husband, who stopped in to have a relatively minor repair done, are from Maine. Their boat is named, appropriately enough, Katahdin. The person doing laundry ahead of her had left their clothes in the only working dryer. Cathy, being a thoughtful person, was reluctant to take those things out and pile them on the table. I was in no hurry, so I told her it was fine to leave her clothes in the washer and wait for the other person to come back. Cathy went away and came back in 15 minutes. The clothes were still in the dryer, so we decided to wait a while longer. An hour later we made an executive decision to take the clothes in the dryer out and fold them. When we removed them, it turned out they were mostly rags and such used for boat cleaning. We laughed and Cathy proceeded to move her laundry to the dryer and I put mine in to wash. Cathy neatly folded the rags and left them on the folding table. Sometime later, the woman who owned the rags returned and laughed to find her pile neatly folded. She came out and thanked me for being so nice. I explained that it was Cathy who had folded them. Laundry room etiquette is very important.
A fondness for bus routes???
It was a beautiful sunny day, but by late afternoon there was a chill in the air. Boats are coming into the anchorage for the night and leaving early in the morning, presumably bound for warmer climes. Robert wants to go with them. Last night he was reminiscing fondly of getting around on bicycles and figuring out bus schedules.
"I don't want to go back to cars," he said. He sounded a bit petulant.


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Ok - I do not have a weight problem- but I read a very interesting article today about weight loss whilst exercising. By going out out hammering a ride- pushing yourself to the limit and doing lots of high milage does not work.
The way to burn off fat is to put the heart rate in the correct zone to burn fat instead of energy.
Find your maximum heart rate and your resting HR. In my case that is max 165 and resting of 70- difference of those is 95. The best heart rate for burning fat is at 65 to 80% of the difference so for me- My fat burning heart rate is between 132( 70 + 65% of 95) and 146 (70+ 80% of 95). Thats good as I like to ride between 140 and 145.
If you go above the upper limit your body changes from burning fat to burning energy (Muscle Glycogen) which is stored in the muscles. You need plenty of Oxygen to to burn off the fat so the bottom line is- if you are getting breathless- you will not be burning fat.
Now in the same magazine- It recommends that we reverse our normal eating process for rides. Normally we eat to build up energy for a ride and they recommend differently. Go for a ride and then pig out- Longer the ride- more you can pig out. The suggestion is a 4 hour ride in which you will burn off 1800 calories. Then you can have a Steak and kidney pie, Mash and gravy= 1280 calories and a couple of pints of Guinness= 420 calories. Net loss on the ride= 100 calories.
Sounds good to me- providing the pig out is a breakfast halfway on the ride, and instead of the Guinness- a good slice of pie at the end.


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Sports Day "The Rangers will sign big left-handed hitting first baseman Ike Davis to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training, a major league source confirmed Sunday evening. Davis, 28, spent last season with Oakland, but played part of the 2014 season with Pittsburgh..." February 15
New York Daily News "Ike Davis might have a chance to make it New York after all. With the Yankees. GM Brian Cashman confirmed that the Bombers have been talking with the former Mets first baseman, currently a free agent, in light of Greg Bird being lost for this season due to shoulder surgery. "We've talked..." February 12
Head trainer Nick Paparesta says Ike Davis (hip surgery yesterday) should be ready by Spring Training.
Athletics Nation "The Oakland Athletics activated left-handed reliever Sean Doolittle from the 60-day disabled list after several strong relief outings with the Triple-A Nashville Sounds ahead of Saturday night's Star Wars Fireworks night game. To clear space on the active roster, right-handed reliever Dan Otero..." August 22
Ike Davis will have season-ending left hip surgery.
Hardball Talk "Oakland has placed first baseman Ike Davis on the disabled list with a strained left hip. Davis hasn't cracked a .750 OPS since 2012, but he showed some flashes of good production during that time and was decent for the Mets and Pirates last year. For the A's he's been more valuable as a mop-up..." August 19
New York Post "Ike Davis is going to be looking for a job soon. Pirates general manager Neal Huntington did not definitively say Davis would not receive a contract before Dec. 2 – the date by which all unsigned players on the 40-man roster must be tendered. But put two and two together. He said the strong..." November 13
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Manager Clint Hurdle spent part of his off day this week tinkering with the Pirates lineup. He came up with one change no manager before him ever has: Ike Davis in the two-hole. "His comment was funny. He said, 'I always felt like I could hit second,' " said Hurdle. "I think he wanted to say..." May 01
ESPN "The Ike Davis saga is over in New York. The New York Mets traded the enigmatic first baseman to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday, in exchange for right-handed reliever Zack Thornton and a player to be named later. The deal was announced just a few minutes prior to the Mets' game against the..." April 19
ESPN "Sandy Alderson has started to approach teams with whom he had talks during the winter to see if there is any existing trade interest in Ike Davis, a source familiar with that renewed dialogue told ESPNNewYork.com. Davis (right calf) has not appeared in a Grapefruit League game in more than two..." March 18
Hardball Talk "Matt Ehalt reports that Ike Davis now has a walking boot on his right leg. Davis has been sidelined with right calf tightness for a week. Walking boots tend not to suggest that the matter is improving. Between Davis' calf and Lucas Duda's hamstring barking, it would seem that the frontrunner..." March 10
New York Post "Ike Davis concealed an oblique injury from Mets officials for most of last season because of bad timing and the fact he was struggling and didn't want to surrender his spot in the lineup, the beleaguered first baseman told The Post on Sunday. Ultimately, his season concluded on Aug. 31 in..." February 24
Hardball Talk "The Pirates got an underwhelming .768 OPS from the first base position in 2013 and lost Justin Morneau this winter to free agency. If the 2014 season started today, Gaby Sanchez and his .258/.337/.417 career batting line would be Pittsburgh's primary option at baseball's most premium offensive..." February 18
New York Post "Against all odds, Ike Davis is ready to begin his fifth spring training with the Mets. The beleaguered first baseman admitted Friday he couldn't have seen this coming during an offseason in which the organization was open about its willingness to trade him and hand the position to Lucas..." February 15
New York Daily News "The Mets "really screwed up" and "backed themselves into a corner" this winter with the way they've handled potentially trading Ike Davis, the player's father says. But, Ron Davis, the former Yankee pitcher, also believes the relationship between player and team is not irreparably broken. His..." January 22
#Mets avoid arbitration with Ike Davis. Will pay him $3.5M in 2014.
MLB.com "Awkwardness, Sandy Alderson said, should not exist in Mets camp this spring -- not even under the increasingly likely scenario that both Ike Davis and Lucas Duda are in the clubhouse together, battling for the starting first-base job. To that end, Alderson spoke with Davis last month at David..." January 11
ESPN "Sandy Alderson spoke with Ike Davis at David Wright's wedding in late December. And the GM indicated Davis is not unnerved about all the trade chatter. "He was in a good mood," Alderson told MLB.com. "I don't think any of this talk over the winter has bothered him. I think he's anxious to get..." January 09
ESPN "Can anyone say awkward? Mets insiders now expect Ike Davis will be in spring training with the team in Port St. Lucie, Fla. -- while cautioning they are willing to reengage the Pittsburgh Pirates or Milwaukee Brewers or any other club in search of a first baseman in trade talks in the six weeks..." January 05
Newark Star-Ledger "he New Year is approaching and Ike Davis is still a member of the Mets. But his bosses are still shopping him with hopes of clearing the club's logjam at first base. The Mets, continuing discussions with various teams seeking a first baseman, offered Davis to the Orioles for left-handed..." January 01
Sporting News "The New York Mets continue to shop first baseman Ike Davis as they try to solve the problem of having Davis and Lucas Duda, two similar players, available at first base. The team recently tried to swing a deal with the Baltimore Orioles to get left-handed pitching prospect Eduardo Rodriguez,..." December 27
Pittsburgh Tribune Review "The Pirates spoke to the Mets about trading for first baseman Ike Davis, a source told the Tribune-Review on Tuesday. Davis is a left-handed hitter who has shown a blend of power and on-base skills throughout his career. If acquired, he would presumably platoon with Gaby Sanchez at first..." December 18
Sources: #Mets, #Brewers still talking on Ike Davis, but Brewers still won't part with RHP Tyler Thornburg.
brewers-mets meeting on ike davis. milwaukee needs a real 1B. loney also still on board. hou pitt tb also seek 1B.
Hardball Talk "The Mariners took two first baseman off the board earlier today by agreeing to a deal with Corey Hart and acquiring Logan Morrison from the Marlins. Could Mets' first baseman Ike Davis be the next domino to fall? While nothing appears to be imminent, Jim Duquette of MLB Network Radio reports..." December 11
If #Brewers find out they're not signing Hart, sound positioned to move quickly on Ike Davis. Have done extensive background work on him.
ESPN "Ike Davis, who appears fairly likely to get dealt this winter, said he has no burning desire to bolt Flushing. "I just want a chance to play," Davis told MLB.com. "Honestly, I've loved my time with the Mets. I'm still a Met right now and I don't want to get traded. But that part of the game is..." November 21
CBS Sports "There appears to be decent trade interest in Ike Davis despite his awful 2013 season. The Astros, Orioles, Rays, Brewers and Rockies all have checked in as the Mets field offers. Milwaukee may prefer re-signing its own guy Corey Hart, however. The Mets appear set to go with Lucas Duda..." November 13
CBS Sports "According to Andy Martino of the New York Daily News, the Mets are "leaning strongly toward" shopping first baseman Ike Davis instead of Lucas Duda. As many as "four or five teams" have interest. The Mets and Brewers did discuss a possible trade involving Davis, but the talks didn't go..." November 11
New York Daily News "This World Series -- or, as Mets fans seem to regard it, the annoying partition blocking you from the offseason you've long been waiting for -- will end either tonight or tomorrow, but the New York baseball reader should not expect immediate hot stove action. The Mets are looking to trade..." October 30
New York Post "The Mets still have not had the ultimate Ike Davis conversation. The one multiple members of the organization told me will be held at season's end when a group will advise Sandy Alderson on the tough decision about what to do next with the first baseman. And really don't kid yourself about how..." September 04
Newark Star-Ledger "As Ike Davis was slowly climbing out of his season-long struggles he kept feeling a slight tug on the right side of his torso the sign of a barking oblique muscle. Saturday night what Davis described as chronic soreness gave way to a stabbing pain after he hit a sacrifice fly during the Mets'..." September 01
New York Post "The question now is whether Ike Davis can deliver more in his second major league stint this season than he did in his first. The Mets first baseman was recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas last night and will join the major league team in Milwaukee today, general manager Sandy Alderson confirmed...." July 05
Source says Ike Davis returning to #Mets. More coming to ESPN New York:
New York Post "Ike Davis wasn't happy he was passed over by the Mets for promotion on Sunday, but yesterday he received the prize behind Door No. 2: Pacific Coast League Player of the Week. The first baseman won the award after batting .474 with four homers in six games at Triple-A Las Vegas last..." June 25
Sounds like there's a fair chance Ike would return after White Sox series. #Mets face 2 lefties in Chicago.
North Jersey "If Ike Davis had been sent to the minor leagues last season by the Mets, he would have gotten off the plane in Buffalo, N.Y. That's where the team's Class AAA affiliate was in 2012. Davis, his .161 batting average an eyesore the Mets no longer wanted to view, was sent down to the minors last..." June 18
North Jersey "No one knows a son's swing like his father. And if Ike Davis ever needed help, it is now. So when Ron Davis' desperately slumping son comes to Arizona next week with the Mets' Class AAA affiliate, the Las Vegas 51s, he will be there to throw him batting practice. He understands all too..." June 12
New York Post "It was just about 100 degrees in the afternoon sun at Cashman Field yesterday when Ike Davis took his first early batting practice as a minor leaguer since 2010. Such is the new reality for the first baseman, who was sent down to Triple-A Las Vegas by the Mets Sunday night. "It's not a good..." June 12
New York Post "The Mets couldn't wait any longer. Being unable to win even one game on consecutive weekends against the majors' worst team demanded action, so the Mets responded by doing the following Sunday: Removing three players who were failing in favor of three players who already had failed for them...." June 11
New York Post "The Mets are hoping Ike Davis' demotion solves his hitting woes. But, in the short term, there are many questions to answer. Here are four regarding his demotion: Davis' plan is pretty simple. "I'm going to go down and work hard and figure out my swing," Davis told The Post yesterday. He..." June 11
New York Daily News "Ike Davis better hope what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas, because that is exactly where he is heading. It finally became too much for even the general manager to watch. With his team bumbling through two straight extra-inning losses to arguably the worst team in baseball, Sandy..." June 10
New York Post "Ike Davis is starting to show signs he can again be a productive player for the Mets. After nearly getting demoted to Triple-A Las Vegas on Tuesday, the first baseman capped his week with a two-run homer in the Mets' 11-6 loss to the Marlins yesterday. Davis, who finished with two hits and..." June 03
New York Post "Late last night when Ike Davis was asked about getting his offense going heading into tonight's game at Yankee Stadium with its short right field porch, the Mets' struggling first baseman pointed out an interesting fact. "I've never hit a home run in Yankee Stadium," he said. "Honestly I just..." May 29
New York Post "There was so much talk about frustration and losing and bouncing back in every corner of the Mets' world before they took the national stage last night against the Braves. But there was one other talk and it came in a dugout huddle with general manager Sandy Alderson, manager Terry Collins, COO..." May 27
Newark Star-Ledger "One of the most memorable aspects of a mostly forgettable first baseman named Tim Harkness was a Polo Grounds-produced banner in the early days of the Mets. ''Hit one into the darkness, Harkness,'' the bedsheet proclaimed. But prodigious homers, let alone average production, were rarely the..." May 26
New York Post "The Mets don't know whether to hit or stand, fold or go all-in. The floundering team continues to postpone its decision whether to demote Ike Davis, despite his immense struggles at the plate, to its Triple-A affiliate in Las Vegas. Before Davis snapped a 1-for-42 skid with an opposite-field..." May 26
New York Post "Well, after adding a golden sombrero to his collection, Ike Davis has to be Las Vegas-bound now, right? The problem for the Mets is, assuming they demote their imploding first baseman to Triple-A, another storm should arrive imminently. Just because that's the way baseball goes, especially in..." May 25
New York Post "I don't think Ike Davis is a lost cause. It would not surprise me at all if two years from now he were hitting 37 homers, defending at a high level and doing so for, say, the Tampa Bay Rays. Some players excel from Day 1 with little deviation throughout their careers. We tend to call them Hall..." May 25
New York Daily News "It is a bit mystifying as to why Sandy Alderson is taking so long to do what he and everyone else — owners, coaching staff, players and fans around the Mets — know he has to do: get Ike Davis out of here and into the rarefied air of Las Vegas, where he can hopefully clear his head and rediscover..." May 24


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Make no bones about it
Rheumatoid arthritis eats away
Radiological pictures speak a
thousand words and the news
doesn't bode well for mineral density scores
By Brian Hoyle
The study population was 373 middle-aged,
mostly female patients who had low to moderate rheumatoid
arthritis. They'd been recruited to help evaluate the
effects of a gung-ho exercise program vs conventional
physical therapy.
Demographic and clinical data such
as age, weight and disease severity was collected. Rheumatoid
arthritis had been part of the patients' lives for around
seven years. The subjects had median scores of 27 for
the hands and feet, according to the Larsen scoring
system, which uses radiology to determine the extent
of bone erosion and joint space narrowing. Eighty-three
percent of them had never used corticosteroids, which
are confirmed culprits in bone loss.
The mineral density of the patients'
bones was assessed using a technique called dual X-ray
absorptiometry. Dr M C Lodder of VU University Medical
Centre in Amsterdam and colleagues discovered osteoporosis
in the neck in 6.5% of the women and in the spine in
12.6% of them. When the researchers took a peek at the
bone mass in those locales, a reduced amount of bone
was apparent in the neck in almost 19% of the women
and in the spine in nearly 21%.
When statistical associations between
rheumatoid arthritis and the demographic/clinical data,
as well as with the bone mass determinations, were explored,
a high Larsen score was found to be strongly associated
with a low bone mineral density (BMD) of the hip.
The researchers concluded that
there was "an association between high radiological
[rheumatoid arthritis] damage and low [BMD] at the hip,
which suggests an association between the severity of
[rheumatoid arthritis] and the risk for generalized
bone loss." Further, according to the researchers, bone
loss may occur even in "corticosteroid-naive patients."
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By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Online Editor
Students shouldn't feel left out of the "low cost software loop," when contemplating the contents of the article "Microsoft Products Available to UNT Employees at Low Cost." Although the price may be a bit higher than $7.00, the University Bookstore has a variety of software available for students at greatly discounted educational prices. The following message was recently sent to all students via Bulk Mail:
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Are You There, Creative Transpromo? Folding Fanatic Needs Samples!
Those of you who know me, the Folding Fanatic, by now know that I'm always looking for creative folded formats, but Transpromo is a new area of interest for me. I see tremendous potential in researching the different format opportunities and sharing them with the industry.
Transpromo, of course, is the process of combining transactional mail with a marketing message, and as an industry we should be taking advantage of this fantastic opportunity to sell the idea of using that valuable real estate for direct marketing, cross-selling, brand reinforcement and client retention/activation.
Did you know that 95 precent of consumers open transactional documents when they get them in the mail? Makes sense, I guess. On average, consumers spend 2 minutes reviewing transactional communications, such as bills and invoices. Considering that unsolicited marketing materials may get 5 seconds of attention from the recipient, there is tremendous opportunity to fill the valuable white space left on a bill or invoice with a marketing message.
Formats for this category of mail tend to be fairly simple and built to sizes that work within standard business envelopes. For those who intend to use this marketing method, there is a challenge in choosing the right format, and a challenge in arranging the transactional content and the marketing content appropriately so that the consumer isn't confused or frustrated by the distraction of the marketing content. Done right, Transpromo can be very effective, and can reinforce to our customers that print is truly a powerful marketing tool.
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An old logging road on a steep hillside was being reconstructed, and the rock quarry site was at the base
of a steep slope. Workers had assessed the site for unstable rocks and danger trees only by looking up at
the hillside from the old logging road below it. A few days before the incident, two blasts were detonated.
However, the stability of the trees above the site was not re-assessed.
Two workers drilled the bore holes for the main blast. The next day, they loaded the holes with explosives.
The supervisor came to help tie in the holes. Just before firing, a strong gust of wind suddenly blew through
the quarry site. Two trees blew down from the steep slope. As the supervisor ran for cover, he was struck by
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Improving our own capacities to carry out high quality sustainability research
Roundtable 1: Big Concepts in Sustainability Research
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 – NRESS Seminar – 3:10-4:30 PM James Hall G46.
Dr. Jennifer Kushner, University of Wisconsin, speaking on "Paradigm Shifts: What is interdisciplinary research?" Dr. Kushner is an expert in education innovation and reform, with a focus on paradigm change in educational systems. She is a Program and Evaluation Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Extension, where she works locally, nationally and internationally with programs related to agriculture, the environment, and youth, family & community development. She had led several interdisciplinary reform initiatives including the NSF-sponsored EPICS program, the founding of the School of Integrative Studies at Edgewood College, and is currently leading a national youth water education reform initiative. Her current research focuses on knowledge construction, evolution of thinking, interdisciplinary research, and on leadership and learning related to environmental and social change. Her past work has focused on program innovation and evaluation in science, engineering, medicine, and the humanities.
- Dr. Jennifer Jushner PowerPoint presentation
- Clark, W.C., & Dickson, N. M. (2003.) "Sustainability science: The emerging research program." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 100(14): 8059-8061.
- Clark, W.C. (2007.) "Sustainability Science: A room of its own." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104: 1737-1738; published online on February 6, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611291104.
Roundtable 2: How Can Research More Effectively Support a Sustainable Society?
Thursday, October 13, 2011 – Brown Bag Lunch – 12:40-2:30 PM: Gregg Hall 320
Roundtable 3: A Look at the Mechanics of "Other" Disciplinary Research
Thursday, October 27, 2011 – Brown Bag Lunch – 12:40-2:30 PM: Gregg Hall 320
Featuring faculty demystifying social science approaches for natural scientists and natural science approaches for social scientists. Learn the language, methods, similarities, differences, benefits and limitations from case studies.
- Dr. Cameron Wake PowerPoint presentation "Assessing the Risk of 100-year Freshwater Floods in the Lamprey River Watershed of New Hampshire Resulting from Changes in Climate and Land Use."
- Glass and McAtee. (2006). "Behavioral science at the crossroads in public health: Extending horizons, envisioning the future." Social Science & Medicine 62: 1650–1671.
- Green, L.W.. (March 2006.) "Public Health Asks of Systems Science: To Advance Our Evidence-Based Practice, Can You Help Us Get More Practice-Based Evidence?" American Journal of Public Health (96, 3): 406-409.
- Huang TT, Drewnowski A, Kumanyika SK, Glass TA. (2009). "A systems-oriented multilevel framework for addressing obesity in the 21st century." Prev Chronic Dis 6(3):A82. http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2009/jul/09_0013.htm. Accessed 4/2/12.
- Boelee, E. Small Reservoirs Toolkit: Participatory Health Impact Assessment. International Water Management Institute, Ethiopia and International Development Research Centre, Egypt / International Water Management Institute, Ghana.
- B. L. Turner II, Roger E. Kasperson, Pamela A. Matsone, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Amy Luerse, Marybeth L. Martellog, Colin Polsky, Alexander Pulsipher, and Andrew Schiller. (July 8, 2003). "A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science." Communicated by Susan Hanson, Clark University, Worcester, MA, March 7, 2003 (received for review February 25, 2003). Proceedings of the National Academies of Science 100(14): 8074–8079, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1231335100.
- Stokols, D., Hall, K., Taylor, B., Moser, R. (2008). "The Science of Team Science: Overview of the Field and Introduction to the Supplement." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 35 (2S): S77-S89.
Roundtable 4: Building Skill and Capacity to Carry Out Sustainability Research
Thursday, December 1, 2011 –12:40-2:30 PM: Gregg Hall 320
Featuring YOU in conversation with staff and faculty from other disciplines in pursuit of compatible ideas. Bring your sense of adventure!
Round Table 5: Discussion on adaptive management
Featuring 2011-2012 SRC Faculty Fellow Allison Watts
Round Table 6: Discussion on food systems research
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The Awards, run in association with Watson Wyatt, are the UK's
Business Oscars. The winners are chosen by taking the 10 largest
listed companies in the UK in 22 sectors and asking them to rate
their rivals in nine separate categories.
Marks & Spencer was crowned overall winner for 2007, with
previous winner Tesco slipping to 2nd place. Capita reached 8th
place in the top ten (from 53rd in 2006) and achieved the
fourth highest score overall in three of the nine measures of
success – 'ability to attract, develop & retain top talent',
'values as a long-term investment' and 'capacity to innovate'.
Britain's Most Admired Top Ten for 2007
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Scfi adventure game from kickstarter was released today. It's a platform game and main purpose of this game is to bring back to life your wife. There's someone who bought it? What's your opinion?
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Yay! Welcome Ascension!!
After much beating about the head and shoulders and egg throwing and a small amount of time in the stocks for initiation (none of which is true) we have decided to add Ascension to the ranks of Community Leaders in order to help keep you motley lot under control (also not true)
So everyone give a warm welcome to our newest source of guild labor! Ascension! Speech please!
All Hail FlappyMap! Long Live MapFeed!
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i'm also pleased to report that this promotion and promotion announcement was done via mobile phone browser while driving down the interstate...lol
safety first people...wear your seatbelts.
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Congrats Assension
And some people never learn, do they Arcana?
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Please take my critiques as someone who Wishes he had the Talent
Congratulations Ascension. Whip this lot into shape. First task - locking the challenge and getting voting started
Congrats Ascension! You have truly ascended... unfortunately I think it was the wrong direction.
Bill Stickers is innocent! It isn't Bill's fault that he was hanging out in the wrong place.
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This week, Drake, Jeezy and Vanilla Ice had the most popular stories of the week. Drake made headlines when he praised Kendrick Lamar, Jeezy blamed Freddie Gibbs for burning a bridge with Eminem and Vanilla Ice dissed the new "Shell Shocked" track.
Drake Says Kendrick Lamar Is Legendary, A King
Drake recently said he and J. Cole are the only kings in Rap. However, at his OVO Fest this week, Drake backtracked on that statement, saying that Kendrick Lamar is also a king in the Hip Hop sphere.
This follows speculation of an ongoing feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar following K. Dot's "Control" verse.
For the full story, click here.
Jeezy Blames Freddie Gibbs For Ruining Eminem Relationship
Jeezy blamed Freddie Gibbs for burning a bridge with Eminem.
"I messed up a lot of relationships, even with Eminem," Jeezy said. "Just by me putting Gibbs on the record that was for me and, trying to convince Em to do the record, and the record leaking in the process. That burned a great bridge for me. Eminem is my dude. Me putting [Gibbs] on song with T.I. - putting him on three or four of my mixtapes - and me paying for videos that he didn't use because when he showed up to the set too late for them to shoot, and it's all my money."
For the full story click here.
Vanilla Ice Disses Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, Ty Dolla $ign's "Shell Shocked"
Vanilla Ice dissed "Shell Shocked," a cut made by Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J and Ty Dolla $ign. "With respect to all of the artists, the song doesn't really do it for me," Vanilla Ice said. "It feels a little artificial. What I mean by that is that it sounds like a bunch of executives in the corporate world put it together. It really does not fit the theme of the Ninja Turtles legend. I think you have to understand, and be a true Ninja, to possess the Magic to really pull off the secret sound."
For the full story, click here.
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How are social sciences and humanities students partnering with organizations to do research in their communities?
Join us at the Congress 2016 Career Corner in Calgary to learn about funded research collaborations between academia and local partners. This session will discuss eligibility criteria, timing, potential research connections, success rates for applications, and practical ways to find partners with Mitacs.
Join Mitacs, faculty, and grad students at Mobilizing Graduate Students for Diverse Careers held in conjunction with Congress 2016, on May 31, 2016, at the University of Calgary.
At this one-day event, join the discussion about rethinking graduate education and how universities can prepare social sciences and humanities for diverse careers.
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Hosted by Mitacs, this panel session will convene leading Canadian academics to discuss how the professor's role has changed over the past two decades; whether universities, governments, and others are supporting professors in their changing role; and the skills and resources needed to promote social innovation.
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People you should know and want to know. People with "disabilities" will share their stories and life. The event is an inspirational and educational fundraiser for alternative methods for healing. Something Underground will perform. Sun 6-10 p.m.


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|IMAGE TO SOUND CONVERSION DEVICE - A device for creating a sound map of a three dimensional view area is provided. The device comprises a first camera configured to capture and transmit a first image and a second camera positioned a predetermined distance from the first camera configured to capture and transmit a second image. An image processing system is connected to the first camera and the second camera and is configured to create a three dimensional topographic plan of the three dimensional view area based on a comparison of the first image with the second image and the predetermined distance between the first camera and the second camera. The image processing system is further configured to transform the three dimensional topographic plan into a sound map comprising volume gradients and tone gradients. The present invention further provides methods of creating a sound map of a three dimensional view area.


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When North Central College takes its weeklong break between winter and spring terms, some 70 students plus faculty and staff members will leave campus and travel nationwide on nine different service and academic trips. In addition, the men's baseball and women's softball teams head south for competition.
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Just fricking great. My monthly XM bill is now going to be close to $30!!!! Time to cancel.
Sirius XM Rate Increase For March 11th CONFIRMED - SiriusBuzz
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
I laugh, because those awful "free radio" commercials were right. Satellite radio prices are going up. Not a good way to keep business in a poor economy.
XM/Sirius will be irrelevant in 5 years. 3G networks and streaming audio are the way ahead.
"Homemade beer, after all, is like a democracy. Every so often, youre gonna hate what comes out of it. But when its good, its the best." - woot.com
whoa, whoa. unless you have multiple radio subscriptions, you are not affected at all.
Originally Posted by TheHelgo
whoa, whoa. unless you have multiple radio subscriptions, you are not affected at all.
That's my biggest beef with XM. You have to pay extra to get satellite radio in other vehicles or in-house.
My girlfriend has XM and it's a nice service. Just not very consumer friendly if you ask me.
Whoa, whoa. People pay to listen to the radio?
It's Bushbama!
2 time Chupacabra of Humor Award Recipient
Originally Posted by joefrog
I will admit, I am to blame in sometimes making mountains out of molehills.
Ahhhhhhhh yes.... the famous 'we will merge and therefore provide better and cheaper service to our customers' scenario. As we like to do on this board, the second I heard about the potential merger I thought, "the moment they merge, increase in prices in 3 - 2 - 1...."
Whoa, whoa, whoa....
I just farted.
I have had sirius since 2004 and this is the first time they have raised rates. When was the last time a company held their rates flat for 5 years. I actually believe this is the first rate increase in the history of Sirius.
I think the consumer friendly part is how you want to use it, the car only units are terrible, but I have a portable that I had to pay a little for upfront, but have a car kit, home kit, and am able to take it anywhere. Simply love it!
Brian my friend...xm sirius has got some kind of balls raising their rates in this economy...
If they raise my rates it'll be good bye .. sayanara...& even...six two and even I'm out of here!!!!!!!!!!
You are now able to also adjust your packages down to save money, so even with the price hike you can offset it by dropping some channels.
so my rate that I renewed on my car in Nov is safe, but my wife's is up in April. if we renew her's it will go up $2. not too bad in my eyes. I've had Sirius since 03 and the price has never changed.
Are you a member?
i have had Sirius for 2 years, and I now have the Best of XM as well. I love it - can't really imagine going back to terrestrial radio.
I've had XM for several years and it is all I listen to. Every MLB game, most college games and now every NBA game. Not to mention you can avoid having to listen to Jon Miller and Marty and Miller. A few bucks isn't going to make that much of a difference.
Businesses need to understand there is a price consumers wont pay.
Personally, NFL Sunday ticket and XM are getting very very very very very close to it if they haven't gone over it already.
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