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CINCINNATI (AP) — Johnny Cueto remained unbeaten in June by pitching seven innings and driving in a pair of runs with a squeeze bunt and a bases-loaded groundout on Saturday, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins.
The Reds ended their season-high losing streak at four games.
Cueto (9-3) allowed three hits and fanned a season-high nine while improving to 4-0 in four June starts. The right-hander has allowed only five runs for a 1.47 ERA on the month.
Brandon Phillips hit a two-run homer off left-hander Brian Duensing (1-3), an injury fill-in for the rotation. Scott Rolen had two more hits and scored on Cueto's squeeze bunt and groundout.
The Reds welcomed first basemen Dan Driessen and Sean Casey to their Hall of Fame before the game.

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Virginia Reno, National Academy of Social Insurance and TIAA-CREF Institute Fellow
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Key design issues must be addressed if individual accounts are added to Social Security or are created outside of Social Security. Many of the issues in payout policies also have implications for private retirement plans which increasingly are in the form of personal accounts.
Should retirees be required to buy life annuities? The answer will depend on the purpose of the accounts, the size of Social Security benefits that go with the accounts, and whether workers are required to put money in the accounts. If the accounts are meant to provide basic security and other Social Security benefits are not adequate, then policymakers might want to require retirees to buy products that resemble features of Social Security, with payments for life, that are indexed for inflation, and that automatically pay annuities to widowed spouses.
Will joint life annuities be required? With individual accounts, the cost of paying spousal benefits means that payments to a spouse will reduce funds for the accountholder. To require joint life annuities could impose new reporting requirements and dispute resolution procedures beyond those required for Social Security benefits, where providing spousal benefits does not reduce a retiree's benefit.
Should pre-retirement access to accounts be restricted? The pros and cons of allowing early access to individual accounts will depend, in large part, on the intended use of the accounts, whether people have any choice about whether to participate, and whether the accounts are viewed as personal property. If the accounts are supposed to provide baseline economic security in old age, the case for banning early access is strong. Yet, if the purpose of the system is to expand opportunities for voluntary retirement saving, then early access might encourage people to save more than they otherwise would.


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Media Announcement
October 19, 2011 – Today at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) Annual General Meeting, TSO Board Chair Allan S. Kimberley reported that the 2010.2011 season, led by TSO Music Director Peter Oundjian, was marked by robust complement of programming, an expansion of the orchestra's out of town activities, significant artistic achievements, a continued commitment to community with one of the largest curriculum-based music education outreach programmes in Canada. This was all accomplished in the context of the TSO's sixth year of better-than-plan fiscal operations.
Mr. Kimberley addressed the attendees: "The TSO continues to attract the world's best musicians to perform in our city and inspire Toronto audiences. During the 2010.2011 season, the orchestra also showcased the best of Toronto to the world, in critically acclaimed performances on international stages, including a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. These creative efforts are part of the cultural vibrancy that makes our city great, and are made possible thanks in large part to the support and commitment of generous donors."
Throughout the 2010.2011 season, the TSO continued to operate to plan or better, demonstrating strict fiscal responsibility while fulfilling its mandate of artistic excellence and serving the community with life-enriching public performances and education programmes.
"Despite challenging economic times, the TSO continued to serve the community with a full complement of artistic and educational programming," said TSO President & C.E.O. Andrew R. Shaw. "The 2010.2011 season was characterized by outstanding performances, engaging programming, and successful touring."
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra performed 107 concerts for the general public in 2010.2011, selling 219,173 tickets and maintaining an average paid audience capacity of 93%. A further 23 curriculum-based programmes were performed at Roy Thomson Hall for over 48,000 students, and musicians of the Orchestra reached more than 15,000 students with in-school programmes throughout the GTA. Additionally, the Orchestra performed for over 10,000 students in North Bay and Timmins as part of the TSO's Northern Residency.
The TSO's operating expenses for the 10.11 season were $24,370,522, with revenues of $24,387,035.
For the 2010.2011 season, earned revenue including ticket sales, education and other revenue represented 45% of revenue; fundraising represented 22%; government operating grants accounted for 24%; and gifts from the Toronto Symphony Foundation and the Toronto Symphony Volunteer Committee accounted for 9% of revenue.
Allan Kimberley, Vice Chairman & Managing Director Canadian Real Estate Investment Banking CIBC World Markets Inc., welcomed new board members Carol Hansell, Senior Partner Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, and Richard Phillips, Chairman & C.E.O. East West Investment Management. The TSO Board of Directors recognized and thanked retiring members Rana Florida, Creative Class Group, and Ana Lopes, Managing Director, Tapscott Group. The meeting also marked the end of Allan Kimberley's term as Board Chair. The TSO Board of Directors appointed M. George Lewis, Chairman, RBC Asset Management, as the incoming Board Chair.
The TSO is grateful for support for annual operations and special projects from the following: The Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Ontario Arts Foundation, and the City of Toronto.
About the TSO: Founded in 1922, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra is one of Canada's major cultural institutions. Under the leadership of Music Director Peter Oundjian, the TSO is committed to innovative programming and showcases a roster of distinguished guest artists and conductors. In addition to public performances, the TSO serves the community with one of the largest musical education outreach programmes in Canada, connecting students throughout Ontario with curriculum-based programming. tso.ca
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text: Well we haven't seen this yet. While the older LG decoy had the Bluetooth module embedded into the phone, this iPhone version might end up being better received by consumers. With an ultra thin BlueTooth Piece at only 5mm, it is stored and charged on the back of the iPhone. That's cool. With that lack of girth it should not impede too much on the overall weight and thickness of the iPhone 3G (see video). While the case is not a battery itself, you can charge the phone and the BlueTooth piece through the micro USB port. So essentially you cannot charge the BlueTooth piece wirelessley. The headset is rumored to last an approximate of 4 hours of talk time and a week on standby. Rumblings suggest that we might see this product in limited quantities sometime in July will a full scale Apple and AT&T store launch in the fall. Price is suggested at $99. This could be good news given the discontinued Apple BlueTooth Module.


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"Today is the day to appreciate the past and create your future. Live your truth and make all of your dreams come true!"
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I seriously need a Nesshuel fix! I'm hoping to be online tomorrow evening. And maybe then I'll finally finish making this blog it's own account…we'll see. :) Have a lovely night/day beauties.
"Oh no, you can come in sweetheart." She said with a sweet tone in her voice. Esme liked Nahuel, he was very kind towards her and the entire family. She, of course was grateful to him and his aunt Huilen for what they have done. She sat on the couch, looking inside a box, rummaging through things and grabbing items that was in their Forks home. "Would you like to help? I have many other boxes that needs to be unpacked, and none of my sons are home." Esme stood up and grabbed a box, carrying it to where the now empty box was and placed it on the floor.
"Thank you." Nahuel said as he smiled at Esme and took a seat next to her on the couch, or his temporary bed depending on how you chose to look at it. "Of course, that seems like the least that I could do after how welcoming you and your husband have been to me. And my aunt, for that matter." Nahuel sighed lightly as he looked over at the family's maternal figure. "I apologize that Huilen left without saying goodbye. She can get a little…to far out of her comfort zone, I guess." He found himself slightly embarrassed that his aunt had left in the middle of the night without so much as a word to the Cullen's after they had so warmly opened their home to them.
Renesmee wasn't sure if that was a good or bad sign, did he agree to be with her? She wrapped her arms around his neck, "Is that a yes?"She asked with a small chuckle as she pulled away and turned her attention to the pancakes. Pouring some in the pan in the heart shaped utensil.
She meant what she said about being with Nahuel, She was open to give him a chance at love with her…a chance to know what being with her felt like. Something Jacob didn't really cherish much as she expected. Being with Ness was something special, Something amazing. Renesmee offered love,care,kindness,and much more. She turned to Nahuel once again and smiled a little. "I'll give you a chance to be with me,Nahuel. Be mine?'She asked. She couldn't believe she was asking a boy out.
Nahuel released a single chuckle when she wrapped her arms around his neck and asked him the question. How could there have been any other answer to her proposition? With a delighted smile Nahuel approached her from behind as she cooked their breakfast and wrapped his arms around her torso before leaning in and whispered into her ear. "That's a yes, without the shadow of a doubt. Yes."
His chin rested lightly on the top of her shoulder as he watched the pancakes cook. It felt right to hold her in his arms. Her tiny frame fit perfectly within his tall embrace. When she began to talk again she released his arms from around her just slightly so that she could turn to him. "Of course." Nahuel's lips tugged back up into a smile. "I'll be yours for as long as you want me to be, I'll be here." His hand ran up the bottom of her jaw as his fingers glided along her cheek and neck, stopping just before reaching her dark brown curls. "Right here." He whispered lightly.
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She thought about it before she took the pan and before she even moved away form him. Every word he said was right, every single one. She too felt different and she loved that. She could feel bad about Jacob but Jacob was there since day one. She looked at him, thinking about it.
Jacob or Nahuel. She herself didn't even know but Nahuel seemed right,right now. With her here. She placed the pan down and looked at him. She had made up her mind. "Nahuel."She began. "I want to talk about it, It's just that…I don't know."She shook her head. "I want to…trust me I really do."She chuckled as she exhaled deeply. "I can..be with you..here."She finally admitted.
Nahuel was stirring the mix together when she began to talk. He figured that she was going to tell him what a big mistake it was to kiss him, to let him think that it would be ok to kiss her, to hold and touch her. He assumed that she would push him away physically and emotionally, maybe even ask him to leave. The last thing that he expected her to say were the words that she actually spoke to him now.
He had no idea how close she was to Jacob but he did know, by the racing of her heart, that she felt like she was making a huge decision for her life. Nahuel could respect that. He wouldn't push or pressure her into making a final decision or even life altering changes now. He just wanted the pleasure of receiving a chance. A chance to feel what she brought alive in him, to show her that he could do the exact same for her. Nahuel wanted to show Renesmee his life, to open up to her even further. Nahuel raised his eyes when she was done speaking before cautiously leaning in and placed a single, delicately long kiss on her temple. As he leaned away, his hand slid down to the small of her back, and he led her back to the stove before handing her the bowl of mix. "I honestly can't wait to try your love infused pancakes." He admitted with a loving smile.
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Renesmee was taken back yet once again that Nahuel would wan to return her kiss. There was something about him because she wouldn't kiss any random guy she met. Something more different then how Jacob was. Being around Nahuel sort of vanished Jacob, as if she never met him in her life before and that sort of confused Ness. But, being around Nahuel was amazing.
She let Nahuel kiss her,softly. But once the sent of burning pancakes over flooded the house air, she pulled away quicker then Nahuel but he had beaten her to the stove. "Wow."She swallowed as she took the pan and placed it in the sink,trying to water the burnt smell away. She turned over to see Nahuel, trying to explain how she felt. Maybe, he was the one. Maybe. He was so caring and…beautiful. "So..Um."She began. "I really shouldn't be doing this.."She admitted to him, thinking of Jacob. "But, I did like..the kiss."She chuckled awkwardly.
Nahuel released her hand as he rushed to the kitchen window, opening it and waving the air out around them in an attempt to snuff the smell out of the house. He leaned against the counter, across the room from Renesmee as his eyes turned down to the tiling of the floor. He could suddenly feel the awkwardness in the room and felt compelled to explain himself to her. "I…" With a hard swallow and a sigh he looked up from the ground. "I feel…different when I'm around you."
"I don't know if I can explain it but…" Nahuel stood up straight and slowly approached her. He laid his hand upon her waist as he hovered over her with his great height. "I loose myself in you." As soon as he looked down into her face, Nahuel could feel her becoming slightly rigid as the thought of Jacob refilled her mind. The hybrid sighed to himself lightly before taking a step away and returning to the bowl of pancake batter. "Look, we don't need to talk about it if you don't want to." He grabbed a new pan and handed it to her gently. Nahuel couldn't bring himself to meet her gaze this time. He felt kind of embarrassed that she felt that their kiss was wrong, something that shouldn't have happened, because to Nahuel, it was perfection. "Now, about this pancake mix…"
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Proactive Strategies for Heath and Wellness Evolution
Interview with Dr Brad Schapiro founder of Ultimate Health Chiropractic about Proactive Strategies for Heath and Wellness Evolution.
The show was lead as always by Coach Steve's line of questioning which probed Dr. Brad's intuitive approach to comprehensive health. Now that I actually work on his staff I can personally vouch for the way he and his excellent staff truly address all areas of his patient's needs; the structure and function of the physical body, its chemistry make up, as well as coherence.
Like Coach Steve and myself, Brad, although only in his thirties, is keenly concerned about awakening consciousness in himself and those he can touch either directly or indirectly. He seems able to sense the appropriate timing to bring about shifts in awareness through a combination of functional neurology combined with questions which take people out of their conditional thinking. What is more, he has a hilarious sense of humor and injects it in every session with everyone which naturally drops subconscious resistance for change.
Dr. Brad now actively trains under me with the sword 3 to 4 days per week learning the time honored craft of the Shinkage Ryu. Finding the experience very enriching, he decided to invest in a membership in my life coaching program of APPLIED SAMURAI WISDOM for his staff. Each month we will have a staff meeting, where we will all watch the class of the month and I will address any questions. This shows not only that he is deeply committed to his own evolution but also for the happiness and consciousness of his staff, the true sign of a real leader. On the flip side of that, Dr. Brad is coaching me in his branch of Chiropractic, Applied Kinesiology, and I am learning a great deal every day. Thus ours is a unique pairing. Add to all that the incredible vehicle being launced in 2013 of the Conscious Evolution Media network that Coach Steve has master minded and you have a one stop shop of tremendous value. 2013 is going to be a POWERFUL year!!!!!
I want to share with you Dr. Brad's vision:
"To assemble a comprehensive healing facility unlike any other in America. He is going to staff it with a handpicked team of specialized professionals of the deepest integrity. The combined expertise and energy of such a team will truly foster the health, happiness, and consciousness of people everywhere and will redefine the meaning of health care itself."
So if you haven't done so already, watch the show in the archives. In fact, watch them all. And please gift yourself , someone or your staff you love 3 or more months of Applied Samurai Wisdom Life Coaching, begin 2013 REALLY STRONG!!! This year, DECIDE to TAKE ACTION. If you like, email me and set up a SKYPE call with me too. I will be happy and honored to serve you.
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My depression is tearing my family apart. I am an adolescent who after a months stay in hospital following a suicide attempt, my second in two months, was discharged on Friday. I am by no means well yet, if you are somebody who considers depression an illness. I have a long way to go before I am fully recovered, able to approach the world in a healthy, rational way, which at this moment in time I find myself unable to do. It has been almost a year since the first signs of depression arose, where shortly after Christmas I found myself feeling sad for no particular reason. I merely chalked it up to a case of the January blues. But it only deteriorated from there. By May I had resorted to self harm as a coping mechanism. Upon this discovery, my mother arranged for me to speak to my guidance teacher at school for support. I found it extremely difficult to open up, something which, I'm afraid, has not improved over time. I find it very difficult to talk to people, as I live in constant fear of people's judgement and disapproval, and I hate myself for it. Anyway, these sessions didn't help, and by the end of June, I had decided I couldn't go on. Suicide was my only way out, It wasn't a cry for help, as so many people later said. I had grown tired of trying to be happy when it seemed that everything was against me. I gave up. Took the easy way out. So on the last day of school, I had a plan. I would go to school as normal, then return home, where I would ingest every pill in the house. As I left to school that day, I didn't feel relief that the suffering would soon be over. I felt afraid. Death didn't seem any less frightening because I was inflicting it on myself. David Foster Wallace said, "The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. the person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be or you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains constant. the variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's the terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling "Don't!" and "Hang on!", can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling." He explained it far better than I ever could. Long story short, I didn't succeed, and that was how I found myself in hospital speaking to the crisis team. The summer that followed consisted of endless appointments in psychiatrists offices, prescriptions for anti-depressants, and in general, an awful lot of structure and organisation. And so, I returned to school. Everyone thought I was doing well. But I wasn't. I returned to school, and seeing other teenagers with their happy-go-lucky lifestyles, with their friends, relationships and discussions of the parties they attended over the summer, I was reminded that I had no friends, no relationship, that I had spent my summer explaining to people why I nearly put myself in a come by taking every form of medication that was in my possession. And I had brought it all on myself, by being a socially awkward, insecure, anxious, pessimistic form of a human being. So school carried on, and after about two weeks after returning home, I was about to make my way to the nearby train station, when my mother and stepfather returned home. They had received a call from my guidance teacher expressing concerns over my well-being. And so it all came out. And that was how I ended up staying in hospital for just under five weeks. And now I am home, but things are far from normal. I have an uncle who I have always been very close to, and he has always been, if I'm honest, my favourite family member. This uncle however, has always held the view that mental illness is something invented to excuse bad behaviour, and has always mocked people diagnosed with depression, so you can understand my concerns that this incident could lead him to cast judgement on me and effect our relationship. My mother did her best to reassure me that I had nothing to worry about, but following a conversation that took place between my mother and uncle that night, it would seem that my concerns were justified, as he revealed in his texts that he didn't believe I was ill, and that I had brought it all in myself by not being sociable enough. And as hurt as I was by those comments, and as rejected as I feel, I have to admit the truth, which is that he is right. I did bring it all on myself. I started out in a dark tunnel if you will, where I continually walked, and there were many occasions where I could see light; A way out of the tunnel, but instead I continued to walk into the darkness. A rather poor analogy perhaps, but hopefully you get the point I was trying to make. So, after finally coming to believe that not everything was not my fault, that my constant feeling of wrongdoing was inaccurate, it seems that everything I believed was true. When Quadrophenia was released in 1973, it included a booklet with a text version of the story. In the story, there's a mention of a sign saying, "Paranoiacs are just people with some idea of what's really going on." And while I have never found these words particularly comforting, in my current predicament, they have never seemed more true.
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Ah I hear you.
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Thank you. It's so refreshing to speak to someone who understands. People think they're being helpful by saying, "But you've nothing to be depressed about!" But they don't realise that that makes it worse because your mood isn't justifiable, which in my case at least, makes me angry at myself for making a fuss over nothing.
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Timeouts on certain document queries
I have a "flagged" view that emits documents with a "f" property equal to 1. I'm simply using get_multi and set_multi to process 500 documents at a time from this view (code sets the "f" property to 0, adds the document to a dict, calls set_multi with this dict when all documents are processed).
This runs great locally, but only worked for the first request against my production Couchbase cluster. Now every request for a "flagged" document times out, regardless of whether it is a get_multi request or a single get request. Requests for other documents work. In the web console I can see these documents that requests are timing out for; they definitely exist. Has this flagged view and its related documents become locked or gone into a state that would prevent querying these documents?
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I'm not using Twisted or GEvent. I was on version 1.0 and just upgraded to 1.2 and tried this again, still no luck. I've run these queries from two different machines and both timeout for existing documents related to this flagged view.
This definitely appears to be something going on with the cluster itself. All server nodes are up and appear to be good. I've run these queries against different server node IPs as well as deleted the flagged view completely and re-created it, but this issue remains.


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Dozens of Special Olympics teams kick off winter games
"Of course we always want to have a first-place winner and a second-place winner for every race, but we also award other medals so that others can have the feeling of being a medal winner, too," said Anna Brennan-Curry, communications and grants manager for Special Olympics New Hampshire.
Among the teams participating are Androscoggin River Athletes, Arctic Wolves, Artful Dodgers, Blazing Colors, Capital Area Cougars, Claremont Cool Cats, Community Partners, Connecticut River Special Olympics, ConVal Cougars, Crotched Mountain and Derry Recreation Timberwolves.
Also competing are the Farmington Tigers, Farmsteads of N.E., Independent Burbank, Independent Verrill, Lakeview School, Manchester, Merrimack Friars, Nashua Special Olympics, North Country United, Peterborough Elementary, PLUS Pride, Rivendell Raptors, Rochester Raiders, Special Olympics Rhode Island, South Meadow Middle School Pumas, Storming Hawks, Team Challenger, Team Gunstock, Temple Tornadoes, Waterville Valley Coyotes, White Mountain Special Olympics and Woodsville Engineers.
Among the athletes, 101 will be competing in Alpine skiing contests, 157 in snowshoeing events, 42 in cross-country skiing and 17 in snowboarding.
On Monday, the first day of the event, there were smiles all around.
"Everything went really well, the kids had a great time," Brennan-Curry said.
The competition continues today. Competitions run from 9-11:30 a.m. and 1-4 p.m. Admission is free and the public is encouraged to cheer the athletes on.
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- Snorralaug Hot Spring – Iceland
- The Roman Baths – Bath, UK– Iceland
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- The Blue Lagoon – Iceland
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11. Evans Plunge, Hot Springs, SD.
Beautiful! 3 appearances on the list from my home state, CO.
Looks like I need to get traveling again, as I haven't been to any of these!
La Fortuna, Costa Rica- multiple hot springs areas from Arenal Volcano. Tabacon resort, Baldi resort, and a public access hot springs whose name I can't remember but is easily as nice and scenic as either of the more expensive places. Loads of flowers and hot waterfalls since its less a single source springs but more a hot river.
My favorite: Furnas, Sao Miguel, Portugal.
At the same time, I'm pretty sure its more eco friendly to draw a bath in your home than to fly to a remote destination to get in a hot spring. Not saying I wouldn't do it, but I think that confuses people.
I'm pretty sure the springs (pictured above) in Bath are not actually open to the public for swimming.
Those Japanese monkeys look like they're soooo relaxed.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — When the Braves open the Grapefruit League schedule Saturday against Detroit, they'll start all projected lineup regulars except injured first baseman Freddie Freeman.
Eric Hinske will play first base and Matt Diaz will be the designated hitter for the Braves, who have rookie Tyler Pastornicky making his debut as their new starting shortstop.
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez trimmed Friday's workout by dropping the regular conditioning segment at the end.
"I cut the guys loose a little early today, because they're ready to go," he said. "They've been working hard, and we gave them a little breather so they'd be refreshed tomorrow."
Braves left-hander Mike Minor will face Tigers right-hander Doug Fister. Gonzalez declined to name any of his planned relievers for Saturday.
The Braves will have an outfield of Martin Prado in left, Michael Bourn in center and Jason Heyward in right. The infield has second baseman Dan Uggla and third baseman Chipper Jones with Pastornicky and Hinske.
"Practice has been good," catcher Brian McCann said. "But it's time to play."
Gonzalez plans to get two at-bats for most of his regulars and two innings from Minor before making substitutions.
The game will be carried on 680 AM and 93.7 FM in Atlanta, and former Braves great Dale Murphy is set to join Jim Powell in the radio booth. Murphy begins a 15-day stint as guest coach in Braves camp.
There is no scheduled television broadcast — including no MLB.tv — for any Braves game until a March 9 split-squad game vs. the Yankees on MLB Network.
Freeman recovering quickly
Three days after hurting his knee, Freeman did some jogging Friday and said he could be back in the lineup in a few days. He walked two laps and jogged another around a backfield at the Braves' spring-training complex.
Gonzalez was encouraged to see Freeman not favoring the right leg. He won't let the first baseman talk his way into the lineup this weekend, but said he could be ready to play early next week.
Freeman could be cleared to hit in the batting cage as soon as Saturday.
He diagnosed with a subluxation of his right patella after his kneecap briefly popped out of place when he reached for a low throw on Tuesday.
It's the second time he's had the same injury in two years, and Freeman said he will wear a knee brace in workouts and games for the rest of his career.
He was only supposed to walk around the perimeter of the field Friday, but Freeman said he couldn't resist pushing it a bit more.
"I felt good so I started jogging," he said, smiling. "Bubba [head trainer Jeff Porter] wasn't out there so he couldn't stop me. I checked to make sure he wasn't."
March 2nd, 2012
6:56 pm
March 2nd, 2012
6:56 pm
not again
March 2nd, 2012
6:56 pm
but i wanted to be
March 2nd, 2012
6:57 pm
first ever first for me
March 2nd, 2012
6:59 pm
good job, ladies
March 2nd, 2012
7:22 pm
DOB, can you pay to go to the game at Disney but go to the backfield's and watch some other workout's? Been down here a couple of years and have not yet figured that part out. Go Braves!
March 2nd, 2012
8:12 pm
Batter up!
March 2nd, 2012
8:13 pm
If Freeman wasn't supposed to be running, he shouldn't push it. I'd rather he misses a couple of extra spring games than suffers a setback.
March 2nd, 2012
9:53 pm
DOB, I hate to bring up bad topics – but how is Jeff Porter doing, given everything that he's been through recently? Thoughts and prayers still go to him and his family…
March 2nd, 2012
11:01 pm
what time will it be on 680?
March 3rd, 2012
12:22 am
Hey Dave, just saw Varitek's retirement speech. Pretty emotional. I took a public speaking class with Jason at Tech. Will miss following him. Thought about Chipper and that he has been with the Braves like 10 years longer than any other current player. The Braves should put a "C" on his chest and make him captain this year. He's due it and it would likely mean the world to him. Who else has been "captain" of the Braves and what do you think of this idea?
March 3rd, 2012
1:59 am
Sorry if this seems a bit off topic but how do i get 680 the fan through my laptop for free and be an hour early for the braves vs tigers game on my laptop so i can listen to marph and jim powell? i know the game starts at 1:05 pm but i want to know if a link will be posted or if 680 the fan will put the mlb tab back up there. I want to listen to them since i can't watch them yet.
March 3rd, 2012
6:34 am
matt you can go to google type in 680 the fan and link will be there
March 3rd, 2012
8:05 am
Play Ball! DOB, any good, hall-in-the-wall joints to grab a bite around the Disney area. I never seem to find a good spot amid the overpriced chains, tourist traps and mediocre fare…
March 3rd, 2012
8:10 am
please tell me we do NOT have to put up with Chip Caray this year on TV.
March 3rd, 2012
10:17 am
Best thing about this story is the comment from Freddie, Bubba was not out there….that means that Jeff Porter was on the field and at work. Jeff, our thoughts and prayers continue to be with you. One tough hombre to get back to work, but I know you would not have it any other way….
March 3rd, 2012
10:18 am
Play Ball…………..!!
March 3rd, 2012
10:25 am
Nice… baseball is finally here… kinda. Thanks DOB!
March 3rd, 2012
10:29 am
This may not apply to spring training games, but I'm pretty sure that regular season radio broadcasts are blacked out on the free radio sites. I think you have to buy an audio subscription from mlb.com. Again, not 100% sure about this.
March 3rd, 2012
11:22 am
Braves won't be on 680 today, but if you're up near Marietta, turn on 1230 AM. It's The Fan 2.
March 3rd, 2012
11:32 am
baseball is finally here maybe the braves can play a full 162 games this year. you hear that freddi don't ruin your pen by using the same guys everyday make your starters go deeper into games.
March 3rd, 2012
11:40 am
It would be totally obvious if the BRAVES have zero interest in the new postseason format,especially when they are the ones who are in October year-after-year and it's because of total sympathy and pity when they don't show up in October postseason,especially like in 2011 of course, those who would be in this totally idiotic October format are the mets marlins and the cubs because these 3 teams don't ever even win anything at all in baseball.But hey if they want to expand it's nothing but a first hand advantage for us BRAVES.GO BRAVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 3rd, 2012
11:46 am
Kelvar-Chipper IS the team captain
March 3rd, 2012
12:30 pm
Awesome awesome awesome. Opening Day will be here soon. Go Braves
March 3rd, 2012
1:04 pm
Phillies vs. Yankees on MLB.com right now (1 p.m. eastern, 12 noon central). First live game. Play ball.
March 3rd, 2012
1:17 pm
Is anybody else only getting the Tigers radio feed on the At Bat app? I have the Braves feed selected but am stuck with the Tigers feed. This sucks.
March 3rd, 2012
3:44 pm
Picked up right where we left off: One hit. I know it's the first spring game and all, but it's the Tigers' first game, too. They scored twice and got ten hits. Ugh; please don't let this be a sign of things to come.
March 3rd, 2012
4:40 pm
More of the same from last year already….Detroit pitches a ONE HITTER against our starting 8 (with Hinske instead of Freeman). That one hit, by the way was by a non-roster player, so basically the Braves started the spring season going a mind-boggling 0-25 at the plate with their "powerhouse" starters. This was done against Detroit, who other than Verlander, is not known as a great pitching staff. Way to go….I'm predicting our offense will only get shutout 57 times this season…
Silver lining….another year of stagnant offense and missing the playoffs should get Freddi out of town forever…
March 3rd, 2012
4:45 pm
Really a one hitter today? Am I crazy or does this look deja vue.
March 3rd, 2012
4:50 pm
Just to let it sink in…this was our offense that is supposed to get us to the World Series…
Michael Bourn 0-3
Martin Prado 0-3
Chipper Jones 0-1
Brian McCann 0-1
Dan Uggla 0-2
Eric Hinske 0-1
Jason Heyward 0-2
Matt Diaz 0-3
Tyler Pastornicky 0-2
Another year of possibly even worse offense is something I cant comprehend. I just can't understand how a major league offense can be this inept for this long. I understand this is the first spring training game, but after hearing about all the work they put in these past 2 weeks, and how almost everyone showed up early to jump in the cages, and this is the result we fans get? Last year I did not think an MLB offense could get any worse than the 2011 Atlanta Braves, yet I have a creeping feeling the 2012 Braves offense will somehow be even worse. But hey at least they are having fun, goofing around, laughing all buddy-buddy, and high-fiving a bunch this spring- that's all that matters to these guys. Yeah right….Get Freddi and Wren out of town ASAP and then blow this offensive "juggernaut" up, then maybe I will buy another Braves ticket…
March 3rd, 2012
5:28 pm
No, you don't understand, Monger… what else can you expect from the worst fans in the world than a complete acquiescence after the first Spring game… looking forward to watching my team win or lose for the next 7-8 months but certainly not the blubbering done by the pseudo fans who are ready to give up now… Come to think of it, just go on and give up and GO AWAY…
March 3rd, 2012
6:19 pm
Saw the box score for today's game too. OMG, what an awful sign for this year. Detroit had 10 hits while Braves get 1. Detroit pitchers have had no more work than their Braves counterparts. Sickening to watch or read about this continuous offensive ineptitude.
March 3rd, 2012
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Dan Murphy/Monday Night Mayhem Interview (MNM Podcast on iTunes): www.mondaynightmayhemarchives.com/sept10/091310.mp3
Interview highlights courtesy of The Mayhem's official correspondent, Paterson from New Jersey:
Why Pro Wrestling Illustrated selected "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles as #1 in this year's PWI 500 (as the top male wrestler of the year): "I went into the 500 meeting (we have about seven or eight of us, including some editors, the publisher, & a couple of senior writers), and we all sat down and decided what's the top five and what everyone was thinking as the consensus for number one. I came in thinking at the time that Chris Jericho was the guy I was leaning towards, and I think the reason for that was because he had done so much in the previous year and had been so underrated, I think I was rating him a little higher to make up for that almost. And then when somebody pointed out that AJ Styles at that time had held the TNA World Title maybe 260 days of the 325 days during the grading period, it just really made a lot of sense. AJ had become the franchise guy for TNA. They finally gave him a nice long run with the belt. They gave him Ric Flair, they gave him some wins over Kurt Angle. He was really the guy carrying the ball through the first half of the year. We looked at some of the inconsistencies of guys like John Cena & Triple H (who had gone out with injury) and some of the other usual suspects, we realized that AJ overall had the best year, and once his name came out there we all looked at each other said 'Yeah, it's AJ,' and AJ became our first TNA #1 in the PWI 500. It's great that the guy who broke that for them is one of their homegrown guys and not somebody who had other experience with WCW or WWE. AJ is really the face of the company, and it was a pleasure to have him as the top guy."
The widely argued move of choosing Michelle McCool as #1 in the recently released PWI Female 50 (as the top female wrestler): "It was definitely controversial, and we knew that going in. I had to write the article called 'The Facts Don't Lie: McCool Tops The Third PWI Female 50,' and the way I started that was really saying that the critics have some negative opinions about Michelle McCool. I laid out all of the criticisms of her, and said the fact of the matter is she had been holding the title for most of the grading period or co-holding it after the Layla storyline unfolded, and had been the most consistent woman in wrestling in a major promotion over the past year. Beth Phoenix (a perennial top contender) had gone out with injury, Mickie James (who won last year and who came in #1 last year) was released and her focus shifted to music, Angelina Love was sidelined with that visa issue for about four months. A lot of the big names who you think would be up at the top had some holes. So it was Michele McCool who was the best in a relatively weak field. The big debate came down, and we thought maybe this is the year we do something a little bit different and go outside WWE or TNA and go with Mercedes Martinez or Cheerleader Melissa in the top spot, but in the end, we ended up going with McCool."
Whether or not Dan has ever had talent call him and complain about their ranking on the PWI 500/PWI Female 50 & why they should been placed higher: "Every year...consistently. Some people complain. You see the best & the worst. You get the people who really complain and want to be higher, and then the people who just really happy to be included. It all balances out in the end, but every there people who are upset about it, and other people who take it for what it is and say thanks for thinking of me. Others really want to go 'I was #7...I should have been #2' and really get into it. I had somebody in the top five in the PWI Female 50, who when the number one choice was leaked online she was texting me immediately, and she was furious, and she was somebody in our top five who got a really good ranking, and she was so upset that Michelle McCool took the top spot. She might still be giving me the silent treatment right now, but that's the way it goes...it happens every year."
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SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS trailer
On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. … SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is both a narrative film documenting this once in a life time performance and an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates the lead-up to the show, the day after, and the personal and professional ramifications of his decision.
plus footage of james murphy putting on pants two feet at a time. so basically it had me at RED FLANNEL PAJAMAS.
such a great doc. truly, if you haven't seen it, you should watch it now or soon. it will make you think about the endless possibilities of this world which we have yet to explore, especially in the worlds of the people we thought we knew.
Watched Parallel World, Parallel Lives…again. It's a fascinating and fantastic Nova/BBC documentary about Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett's search to learn more about his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III (pioneered the parallel universes theory). If you're an Eels (or E) fan it's a must. All 6 parts can be found on youtube. Not new but definitely worth sharing…


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So good. It's old-fashioned parody, and it totally works.
IKEA - "Have A Go"
They nailed it.
I love this ad. "Fight Boring"
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now I urgently need Kyu as Don and Hyukjae as Cosmo doing the "Moses Supposes" duo ;A;
now I urgently need Kyu as Don and Hyukjae as Cosmo doing the "Moses Supposes" duo ;A;
My dash needs more SJ babies, and damn, I follow so many blogs but everyone disappeared D=
VOTE!! It's unlimited yo!!
omg go to Donghae's instagram
In which I am now even more Hyukjae biased, and babies are perfect, and I'm cry ;A;
DERPS - Yup, they are derpy as fuck lol (photo taken by my sister)
I only screamed and jumped xD No pictures from me, sorry.
Also they are flawless gorgeous beings:
This one was taken by my cousin's mother =D
Here it goes:
[MV] The Croods OST - Shine Your Way (Kyuhyun & Luna) (by cherzayn)
This era.
so hard to choose ;A;
This one is special 'cause I used to keep it in my ipod and show to people how they are dorky and adorable all the time, even before I knew their names xD:
lol, I really like this moment xD
Also this one, 'cause they are young and adorable and I feel like biting their faces:
Kyuhyun, Eunhyuk and Sungmin doing imitations
Last, but not least, innocent Eunhae playing during Adonis Camp:
Bonus: this video is short, but can make me laugh hysterically any time
because Yesung is a special kid:
Para as ELFs brasileiras que ainda não sabem, a livraria Cultura tá vendendo albums do SUJU (outras bandas tbm), não sei se onde vocês moram já vendia antes, mas aqui em Salvador é novo, então não custa avisar xD
mas custa os olhos da cara, à depender, fica até mais barato comprar pelo yesasia =X
I'm loving to sit here and watch ELFs reactions to Kyu's picture as they see it for the first time.
I'm now imagining them at that beautiful beach - with the contrast of the blues from the sky and the sea touching in the horizon - the sun shine reflecting over the surface - making the sea look like a giant sapphire sunk in the sand.
They take their shirts off with a smile of excitement on their faces. Kyu sits calmly appreciating the view and looking for the food/drink sellers he read about in a guide book he found once in a library. Wookie breathes deeply and smile in front of the beautiful image, paying attention to the sound of the waves coming and going - dragging some kids castles away with it… and Hyukjae… jumping in the water like the hyper dork he is, just to, after that, rise up sexily while doing a hair flip - like the stupidly sexy bastard he also is. The water runs in his body, travelling through his curves. His gums shows while he call the members with his eyes slightly closed because of the sun. Wookie runs.
And I cry.
Hey ELFs, WordPress took down sup3rjunior.com, I bet most of you know this fansite. It's very nice, and one of the best ways to read news about Super Junior in a language we can actually understand.
So I want to ask you guys to please mention @wordpressdotcom to restore it. I'd really appreciate it. ♥


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Dictionary Meaning and Definition on 'Nomocracy'
Nomocracy Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Nomocracy \No*moc"ra*cy\, n. [Gr. ? law + -cracy, as in
Government in accordance with a system of law. --Milman.
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Wikipedia Meaning and Definition on 'Nomocracy'
A nomocracy is a government which is ruled by law. That is, a government under the sovereignty of rational laws and civic right as opposed to one under theocratic systems of government . In a nomocracy, ultimate and final authority (sovereignty) exists in the law.
Other commentators dispute this interpretation of nomocracy. According to Seyyed Hossein Nasr in The Heart of Islam (2002), "the Islamic ideal is that of a nomocracy, that is, the rule of Divine Law" (148).
2. Michael Oakeshott's "Lectures in the History of Political Thought" Chapters 31 and 32[See more about Nomocracy at Dictionary 3.0 Encyclopedia]