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Tennessee native and American country superstar Rodney Atkins just recently returned from Kuwait and Afghanistan after a weeklong USO tour. This isn't his first time supporting the troops, though. In 2011, Rodney partnered with Applebee's to help launch a military support campaign to honor veterans and active duty military personnel worldwide. The "Thank You Movement" officially launched last October and allows folks to post thank you messages on ThankYouMovement.com, Applebees' Facebook page, Twitter using the hashtag #ThankYouMovement, or YouTube. Veterans and servicemen and women can then go online and see those messages.
During his most recent endeavor, Rodney visited eight bases and performed six formal USO shows in addition to several "unplugged" performances for wounded soldiers and service men and women unable to their posts. He also posed for pictures and signed autographs with over 3,400 service members at Camp Buehring, Camp Arifjan, Camp Leatherneck and Kandahar Air Field.
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"I can't say enough about how amazing my USO tour to the Middle East was," Atkins said. "From all of the skilled and brave service men and women I met to the warm reception I received throughout my time downrange. I learned a lot, had a great experience and, most importantly, made a lot of memories. I can't wait to go back out again and extend my thanks." – Joseph P. Scannell, New Media Intern
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Bob Harris first began volunteering at the USO Northwest Seattle-Tacoma International Airport center in 2013. Shortly after he started, he was asked if he'd be interested in picking up donated bananas and bringing them to the airport center once a week. It wasn't long after his first delivery that Bob realized the donations runs had earned him a new nickname.


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Assuming I have a decorator and a wrapped function like this:
def squared(method):
def wrapper(x, y):
return method(x*x, y*y)
return wrapper
def sum(x, y):
return x+y
I have other code that would like to call the undecorated version of the
sum function. Is there an import trick that can get me to this unwrapped method? If my code says
from some.module.path import sum then, I get the wrapped version of the
sum method, which is not what I want in this case. (Yes, I know I could break this out into a helper method, but that breaks some of the cleanliness of the pattern I'm going for here.)
I'm okay with adding extra "magic" to the decorator to provide some alternate symbol name (like
orig_sum) that I could then import, I just don't know how to do that.


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Brett Holt begins his fifth year with the men's volleyball program, and serves in the role of Director of Volleyball Operations. During his tenure Coach Holt guided the Vikings to a 67-28 overall record and three NAIA Top 10 finishes. His 2012 and 2013 teams both won 21 games, making it the first time in school history to win back to back 20 matches in a season. The 2014 Vikings continued to break the record books going 23-11 overall and breaking the school record for wins in a season that was set the previous two years. The squad earned 4 all-conference players, the conference Libero of the Year, and the school's first ever AVCA All-American. Coach Holt has coached 12 all-conference players, including two conference Freshman/Newcomers of the Year and two conference Liberos of the Year. The program has also had 10 scholar athletes in the past three years. Coach Holt will also be entering his third season as the women's coach at MVC, having a combined 64-34 record in his first two seasons.
In college, Coach Holt was a four-year setter on The Ohio State University men's volleyball club team. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in sport and leisure studies with a concentration in recreation management and coaching from The Ohio State University in June 2001. Previous to joining the staff, Coach Holt has held various coaching positions at the high school, club, and collegiate club levels. As the varsity assistant at West Holmes High School in Millersburg, Ohio from 1999-2006, the team made six appearances in the Ohio High School Division 2 State Final Four, including runner-up finishes in 2002, 2003, and 2004. He was also the head coach from 2000-2005 of the women's club team at The Ohio State University, where in 2005, he guided the Buckeyes to a National runner-up finish at the N.I.R.S.A Collegiate Club Championships in Kansas City. He spent 2011 as the head coach of the 17-U National girl's team with Mintonette Sports, the top club program in Central Ohio.
Coach Holt received his Master's Degree in sport and athletic business administration from the University of Central Missouri in June 2013.
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Jason Fistick will enter his second season as head coach for the men's volleyball program. Fistick also serves as assistant coach for the women's volleyball team.
During college, Coach Fistick was an outside hitter and libero with the Kent State University men's volleyball club team.
Prior to joining the Missouri Valley staff, Coach Fistick worked with various club volleyball organizations including the Elite Volleyball Training Center in Columbus, Ohio, HiP in St. Louis, Mo., and Vital Volleyball in Minneapolis, Minn.
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Tamika Drake, aka "Coach T", is entering her second season on the Viking coaching staff. In addition to her role as the Missouri Valley graduate assistant women's volleyball coach, she will also serve as graduate assistant coach for the men's volleyball program.
As a student-athlete in college, Coach Drake earned a walk-on position and played two seasons at The Ohio State University as defensive specialist and one season on The Ohio State University women's volleyball club team. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/ Pre-medicine and African/African-American Studies minor at The Ohio State University in the spring of 2005.
Prior to joining the MVC coaching staff, Coach Drake coached various teams at high school and club levels. As the Head Varsity Coach at Euclid High School in Euclid, Ohio from 2007-2011, her team won the Lake Erie League championship in 2010-11. Coach T was voted 2010 Northeast Ohio District 2 Coach of the Year and Lake Erie League Coach of the Year. Coach T has also coached several girls 16-u, 17-u and 18-u with Eastside Volleyball Club in Cleveland, Ohio and Fort Bend Fire Volleyball Club in Houston, Texas.
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"Can't beat it can you" My Father used to say that after sitting on a wet river bank all day in the cold to catch a few brown trout, I never understood it Alan4711, I would think it dedication to ones interest or hobby.South Wales must have shown me its pleasant face whilst stationed at Bridgend with nice days in Porthcawl with the local girls or dancing in Port Talbot, the weather seemed always good.Dig the garden over in Autumn then let winter do its work, no help needed from us until the first awakenings of Spring then the saying goes "spring into action" that is how it is for me.Getting very cold now in the North East still I am not dashing off to the local hop as was once the case, watch TV with a beer and think about seed sowing next month.
We are right under a weather front fighting it out above us in Stockton. The coastal side is fair and bright the inland side dull and wet, it is sunshine and showers alternating as the front moves.I think I will just got to the Beach with my wind break umbrella and hot water bottle.
Rose5, Try making up a seed tray with half washed sand and grit and half compost, seedlings do not need much feed to start them off.I actually use quarter compost and three quarters sand and fine grit then prick out as soon as two leaves are set into a half and half mix potting on later into two thirds compost one third grit.You will find this drains better although I still put a covering of grit or vermiculite on top and as the seedlings grow they get more feed from a stronger mix of compost, the grit helps drainage..Winter sown seeds do have problems if you do not have heat and in my part of the country I do not bother finding that early February gives me all the plants I need at the time I need them.
Stockton, low cloud and rain, no frost, not cold just dark.
Stockton, nothing to write home about.
Geoff, I never knew that brilliant, never too old to learn especially on this electronic whizz kid kit called a laptop.
The problem with some grow bags the compost inside is quite coarse and woody usually the cheaper ones so go for the named ones.You could buy a grow bag and mix some of your garden soil with it enough to fill some pots, some GC's give them away, neighbours or family may have some odd pots. Grow bags tend to be very bright and off putting but they will work so if that is the way for you do it, never be put off doing things your way.
Rosa, it was the Sam who said the birds are singing, I am singing as I bake squash in the oven to make soup, it frightens the birds away, I popped a garlic clove in each pod where the seeds were dug out and it is all I can smell.The Sun is brilliant, I now have doors and windows open as the house gets full sunlight and the warmth it brings, warms the heart too.
Stockton, sunshine blue sky and windows open as it is warm.I can see the misty shape of the Cleveland hills and they are glowing, I would say it is not too bad a day.
Stockton on Tees, very miserable and grey, never mind my Daughters have been so the sun shone in the house, it is winter after all but will soon be spring.


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|Reviews for Why Can't You Stay?
| Georgina Summer chapter 1 . 3/10/2007
that was very touchy...:( Ilove your story...
| DreamsXReality chapter 1 . 3/9/2007
That was so..romantic, and emotional, and awesome!
| sasukecomebackforsakuraplz chapter 1 . 3/5/2007
DAMSS OROCHIMARU AND HIS STUPID CRUSE FOR GIVING IT TO SASUKE DARN IT! i can't take it when i see sakura crying she's one of my fav characters why do they have to make sasuke leave it's so
sad and bad we don't even know if he will ever come back ah gawd i hate it when he did that sorry for that outburst just hate it when he does things like that nice fiction
| SakuraGaara chapter 1 . 3/4/2007
Review no Jutsu! I love this one shot its awesome!
| Moongoddess97 chapter 1 . 1/21/2007
It was great! I enjoyed reading it!
| kawaii.buddy chapter 1 . 12/30/2006
perfect much?
this made me either:
-anything of that sort
this was sad, and yet still joyful..sorta.
but still. WONDERFUL!_
i think you made Sakura the way she is, a little bit quirky and made Sasuke-as usual-stoic.
and then you made him lose his control and he kissed her backXD
_i love this.
| thecigarettesong chapter 1 . 12/18/2006
Nice oneshot you have there :D I look forward to reading your other stories! :)
| ginny7777 chapter 1 . 12/17/2006
please dont be a one shot... if you want you ould skip a year a few chapters or a few years one chapter or sumtin!
| danielie chapter 1 . 12/13/2006
| Sekowari chapter 1 . 12/13/2006
WOW. This fanfic is just absolutely beautiful. You captured the feelings and emotions perfectly! And the characters weren't at all OOC, in my opinion. XD And I mean, of course Sasuke was bound to have feelings for Sakura right? Hehe, excellent job!
| Rikkun chapter 1 . 12/2/2006
That was really sad, but well written! It almost made me cry,
| pink22sakura chapter 1 . 11/30/2006
This is so good! Please write a sequel! :)
| FlamedraSeer7213 chapter 1 . 11/19/2006
Wonderful! -favs-
| runegirl chapter 1 . 11/17/2006
Good story I like it
| SmileyPhase chapter 1 . 11/9/2006
is this just a one-shot? wah. i liked it, even though sasuke's still as direct as ever . i love your stories! please write more and update the instant message one .


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Freud's career has so far fallen into two quite distinct parts. Up to about 1958 he worked in the smooth tightly focused manner exemplified in this picture. After that his handling of paint became much freer and the slight stylisations that can be detected in, for example, the treatment of the eyes and mouth of the model in 'Girl with a White Dog' disappear. A major work of his later phase is 'Standing by the Rags' [Tate Gallery T05722]. Freud's early style has roots in the smooth and linear portraiture of the great nineteenth-century French neoclassicist, Ingres. This, together with the particular psychological atmosphere of Freud's early work led the critic Herbert Read to make his celebrated remark that Freud was 'the Ingres of Existentialism'. This sense that Freud gives of human existence as essentially lonely, and spiritually if not physically painful, is something shared by his great contemporaries, Francis Bacon and the sculptor Alberto Giacometti. These artists represented a view of life that was seen as highly relevant in the atmosphere of post-war Europe and which found a theoretical philosophical expression in the Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre.
The model for this and a number of other major early works by Freud was his first wife Kitty Garman, daughter of the sculptor Jacob Epstein and his second wife Kathleen Garman. A bronze portrait bust of Kathleen Garman, begun by Epstein the day after he met her in 1921, is in the Tate Gallery collection [N06089].
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A friend and I had arranged to go with Barrett Adventures to see Dunn's River Falls and Secret Falls. We had heard about Dunn's River Falls and how awesome it was, but we especially liked Carolyn's explanation online about getting there before anyone else. Skeptical of the price, $120 pp, we decided to book online and pay in full.
Carolyn was suppose to be our tour guide for the day, but Shawn met us at our resort. At first, we were nervous because we would have preferred to have a female tour guide, being two young women trying to see Jamaica, but we started feeling at ease when talking with Shawn in the car. He answered SOOO many questions. We talked about Jamaican schools, house interest rates, food, culture, etc. He stopped to let us shop at some shops along the road, which seemed to be his friends or people he knew, but we didn't care (we were in Jamaica!). We bought some stuff and went on our way.
Next, we arrived at Dunn's River Falls. Shawn walked us all the way inside the falls to meet a tour guide. We waited for more people, and then we went down to the beach. We were very turned off by the tour guide and the whole experience at Dunn's River Falls. Not only can you not do what you want, but you are instructed to hold hands with multiple people while climbing the falls. I'm sorry, but a <10 year old child isn't going to help me from drowning or falling over in a waterfall. After about two rocks up, my friend and I ditched the tour group all together. It seemed like they were trying to video you the entire time to make you pay for it. Also, before exiting the falls you have to walk through a ton of little shops were people are trying to sell you overpriced junk. We had a great time, but we were excited to travel to the Secret Falls.
Just a short drive, and we were at the secret falls. Kevin took us around the falls, taking pictures of us with my waterproof camera, helping us over rocks, and doing some flirting with us. He showed us where we could swim under waterfalls, climb up rocks, and check out cool caves. The falls were BEAUTIFUL and like nothing I have ever seen before. Very few people were there including us and a lady who took her bed and breakfast people with her. Kevin and a friend of his cracked open an almond for us to eat, and Shawn got an all spice leaf out of a tree for us to smell. The whole experience really felt like we were seeing ACTUAL Jamaica.
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With the JCP blunder and now HLF which is not going well, Ackman's career as an investment manager is most likely over. Let's be clear, if Ackman is correct on HLF, then HLF MUST CLOSE as it is allegedly an illegal business. There's no other outcome that would accommodate Ackman. If Ackman is not right, meaning HLF continues as a going concern, as it has in the past 33 years!!!, then Ackman will have a disaster of a trade on his hands. The only other outcome to him other than HLF closing and going to zero is that HLF is going to be fairly valued which would be a heck of a lot higher than it is here. Ironically his very action of going so big on the short side would most likely create one of the biggest short squeezes of all time and would crush his trade. Whatever happens, the fact that Ackman went so big on a trade, shows his complete mismanagement of risk for funds under his management which begs the question: Is he violating a fiduciary obligation to his investors by undertaking such a horrifically risky trade??? Perhaps the attorney generals of the appropriate investors' States should take a look at that one.
Your range of possibilities is very incomplete and wrong. HLF could lose sales momentum, newly conned recruits could be harder to come by creating drop in sales, regulators could let them operate but under different paramaters, other countries regulators could shut them down as belgium did, lots of potential bad outcomes. All of these would be bad for the stock price and good for shorts..............
Its a good company and they are not shut down anywhere..
WRONG!! Ackman's contention is that this is an illegal business and once the DOJ figures this out, HLF will be closed! That's his position, period. Then, by virtue of simple logic, which some shorts may be deprived of, any other outcome but HLF closing is opposite to his contention. The investment public will have to value the business "fairly" based on all fundamentals, including the growth rate, income, balance sheet, competitiveness, etc.
Sure there are always adjustment a business can do to be more transparent or to deal with some disgruntled, underqualified, desparate so called dealers. But that's irrelevant as far as Ackman's position is concerned. He's gone for the simple premise that this company should be shut down. It's simple and clear. It's a binary outcome with no grey area. So if you're short, you're basically taking on Ackman's position and if you're wrong your short position would have to result in a tremendous loss.
coulda woulda shoulda i think ackman should never put so much into any one stock as taught in stock 101 class, regardless what you think of a company. he is just trying to take advantage of a company with no concern for this co, but to kill it.period...
Yeah, Belguim in 2011 was a catastrophe. HLF only doubled from $35 to $70. God, the longs better hope that doesn't happen again.
Ackman just stated that " if the FTC misses HLF, it is the equivalent of the SEC missing Madoff." He further stated the difference is that in this case they have the benefit of his thorough study. He is also saying that if the SEC or any state attorney beats the FTC to arriving at the pyramid conclusion, that they will be highly embarrassed, which should be more than enough reason for the FTC to investigate. He is also stating that KPMG should think twice as they will be liable as well. I believe all these parties don't need Ackman's ego shoved in their face, so it will be interesting to see the responses. It's one thing to have a high conviction, but Ackman seems desperate by so arrogantly challenging the FTC, SEC, state attorneys, and KPMG.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
He's so clearly making my point in my original post above. Now he's trying to underhandedly bully the government into doing something that would help him. Something the government has already taken on several times which resulted in a clean bill of health for HLF.
ackman does seem desperate. if i was running a hedge fund the last thing i would want is icahn wanting my butt in a sling. jmho-bucko
Ackman is getting insane now. This guy never owned Apple and just watched her run. How can people call him "smart"? So stupid.
about time
Looks like history will repeat itself for Ackman who is not a novice in having his investors funds virtually wiped out (like with his Target fiasco).
Ackerman replied that MBIA took 7 years to bring down. I wonder how many of you shorts want to pay dividends for that long?
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Once again, just bringing attention to my post of Feb 13 - HLF is either going to have to go to zero or will be back over $70 soon. There's really no other state of existence for a company making so much money. Either it's all fraud (zero) or it should be valued fairly, which is over $70. Icahn is betting on $70+. Good enough for me.
I think hlf should file a complaint on Ackman for stock manipulation for wrongful accusations to profit. I hope this fool jumps out of a building when his fund crashes. I have no position in this stock. I just feel that what he is doing is unbelievable.
in the end, it will not be the hlf shareholders that will cause ackman to crumble but his own pershing sq. clientele that will force his hand. jmho-bucko


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Samardzija Down, the Other Fox Up....
It looks like I was on to something yesterday when I mentioned that Jeff Samardzija might get sent down. Chad Fox gets the call-up and has been added to the 40-man roster. As in years past, when Fox blows out his arm and has to go on the 60-day DL, the Cubs can call up anyone from their organization for the playoffs to take his spot (as long as he was with the organization by September 1st I believe).
Also, Derrek Lee sits again with the bulging disc issue and the lineup for tonight is Soriano, Riot, Bradley, Ramirez, Soto, Johnson, Hoffpauir, Miles and Harden against lefty Mike Hampton
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chad fox and angel guzman both to the DL with undisclosed hand injuries after greeting each other with a failed high-5.
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I hope no one is too excited about Chad Fox. I think the Cubs just feel like they owe him one from Dusty re-ruining his arm a few years ago.
Fox had problems with control though the last few times he's been on the team so I don't see him exactly coming into Lou's good side.
My nickname for Fox: twigs and duct tape. As in whats keeping his arm held together :)
Re: Samardzija Down, the Other Fox Up....
chad fox didn't need help ruining his arm...and if that's a concern you'd probably want to avoid gregg/marmol recently throwing 5 out of 6 days in a row for 100-120 pitches each.
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Oh I was just joking about Dusty ruining his arm, BUT the game that he did have his injury in 2005, he came into the game in a 10-3 game. Therefore its always stuck in my head that in an alternate universe Dusty could have saved Fox for a different situation.
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yeah...guys like chad fox and rondell white amaze me.
somehow...somewhere...they will find a way to get injured.
fox likes to get his over with real quick, though. heheh...
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I was at that game.
Dunn's hr hit off Fox, looked like it was shot out of a bazooka, it was a line drive out of the park.
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Glad Smardzdick got sent sent down as he clearly is not ready for the bigs yet, but I am sorry it needlessly came up at the expense of losing Vizcaino.
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HUGE Hit!
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Got his first RBI yesterday and his first XBH today. Hopefully Skinny Dick will get it going.
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So, we ate $3.6M in salary for cutting a guy who hadn't given up a run yet, so that we can give Samardzija a few weeks in the bigs and replace him with Chad Fox?
A bizarre move a few weeks ago, now just turned into an idiotic one.
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Although I approve of a lot of the offseason moves that Hendry has made and a lot of how Lou has handled playing time, there has been some embarrassing mismanagement of the roster recently. Skipping over my probably unjustified love of prospects, I'll just look at the bullpen. The releases of Gaudin and Vizcaino made very little sense; Vizcaino certainly could have done what Samardzija did in his few weeks and is probably as likely to succeed as Chad Fox is, and Gaudin makes at least as much sense for the Cubs bullpen as does Patton (who I like, but how often do Rule 5 pitchers work out?). Also, the trade of Wuertz looks like a mistake (at least the Cubs got a couple minor leaguers back for him). How much better would the Cubs bullpen look with some or all of those guys still in it? Keeping all three would have been tough, but clearly there was room for at least one and possibly two (if they end up returning Patton).
Just so this isn't entirely a "FIRE HENDRY!!!!" rant; they've done a good job putting together a competitive team lately, and I really think the offense and rotation will give them time to find an adequate combination of relievers.
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Everyone looks for bullpen help in July. The only way the Cubs, without really overpaying for a reliever, can improve the bullpen is from within, and I just don't see where that is going to come from at this time.
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Well, Ascanio and Reinhard have been kicking a fair amount of ass. It's not like they need to call up a couple guys to take over the 7th, 8th, and 9th inning roles. They need a middle reliever or two. Guess we'll get a look at Randy Wells on Friday, as well.
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but how often do Rule 5 pitchers work out?
I don't know how often, as in how many are successful out of the total universe of Rule 5 pitchers, but-- I do know of one particular Rule 5 pitcher named Johan Santana who did pretty well after the Twins picked him up. Another notable Rule 5 pickup in Cubs history was catcher Jody Davis.
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Some other notable Rule 5 picks:
Our own Hack Wilson, Tony Taylor* and Guillermo "Willie" Hernandez
Cecil Cooper
George Bell
Darrell Evans
Fernando Vina
Bobby Bonilla
Mitch Williams
Josh Hamilton
Joakim Soria
....and of course, the greatest Rule 5 pick of all-time, Roberto Clemente himself.
*The Cubs got some decent play from Taylor and turned him into Don "No-Hit" Cardwell via trade. Which was turned into Larry Jackson via trade. Which was turned into Fergie via trade. Which was eventually turned into Bill Madlock via trade. Which was then turned into Bobby Murcer via trade. The Cubs got one HELLUVA lot of value out of Tony Taylor.
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Point taken, but is David Patton one of those high-upside picks? I've never heard him described that way. I'm not opposed to having him--he's done okay so far and looks like he's got good enough stuff to be a successful relief pitcher eventually. But I just think that Wuertz or Gaudin might have been better bets. Of course, it's kind of early to know that.
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Go Reed Go!!! Gathright might never start again in CF, not that that would be a problem.
Oh wait, I shouldn't be posting now as the Cubs are winning. I am suppose to be hiding from TCR...sorry!
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Hunter Pence should have to look at 4 pitches about a foot inside every time he steps to the plate against the Cubs. He absolutely murders Cubs pitching, so why not make him really earn first base instead of all the XBH he gets?
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I keep forgetting about his tardiness.
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I hate Lance Berkman!!
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I hate the Crawford Boxes. Most high school fields are longer than 315 down the line.
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That's not even a home run at Wrigley. Cheap.
And I'm not worried at all about Chad Fox. He won't be anything special, but he'll be fine filling in Samardjiza's role.
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Soothing win.
It sure is nice to see a game where things worked out the way we had all envisioned back in March.
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Manny Acta looks very frustrated.
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And a BB RBI on a pitch that looked like it was headed for the upper deck. Literally. God, this isn't good baseball at all I should go to bed.
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Trade idea:
Oakland is desperate for sluggers, we need middle relief help, and a lefty reliever would be particularly welcome. What if the Cubs sent Jake Fox to the A's for Jerry Blevins, who was sent to Oakland for Jason Kendall two years ago? Would help both teams....
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Throwbacks with fashionable cutouts would be a nice touch.
The next 2 games are nationally televised. I think we dominate tonight, hitting 3 HRs off Shields. Great night for KB to end HR drought facing HR prone pitcher in one of the most hitter friendly parks in the league.
If the ball didn't deflect off the pitcher's mound, the game wouldn't have ended. Montgomery did miss his location though, but if that same contact was made and went in any of direction, good chance of ground out if it doesn't get through.
If it was 1 night later, Chapman would be out there and we probably would be going to extras.
Also, If KB wasn't robbed of a HR, perhaps we would have won. We will never know. Nice play by Melky though.
The comparison isn't Chapman replacing Rondon. It's Chapman replacing Richard (hopefully) in the pen. Chapman's better.
I'm with you, Rob. You pretty much summed up how I feel about it.
Been quite the roller-coaster the past two days -- both games, plus the Chapman kerfuffel. How about a couple of nice, comfortable wins before facing Sale? Cubs should definitely wear throwbacks for that game.
The Cubs are stronger defensively than most of the teams they play. In order to capitalize on that, they have to a) put the ball in play and b) run the bases aggressively.
That said, Cabrera has a strong, accurate arm, as witnessed by his 97 outfield assists over 12 seasons--mostly left field but also a lot of center. Bryant is rarely thrown out, but I guess you have to know who's throwing the ball.
On the other hand, Pries won his first start for Iowa, only giving up two HRs in the process. This trade has got some legs yet!
KB now with 0 RBI in his last 10 games and 1 in his last 15, despite having 19 hits in his last 15 games and raising his batting average from .278 to .286 over that span.
Maybe have Zobrist hit 2 and KB hit 4?
Also -- no HR in the last 15 games -- time for a bunch. Starting tomorrow.
Down a run. Fowler on first. Nobody out. KB singles to left, Fowler makes it to third, perfect throw from Cabrera nails KB trying to stretch for 2nd.
So, instead of 1st & 3rd and no out, you have 3rd with one out. It was a perfect throw, but why take the chance with 3-4-5 hitters coming up?
Must be a Cub thing - our lefties can;t get lefties out.
Splitting hairs, but Jake's pitch was poor execution, while KB's play was a poor decision (and the 2nd time he got thrown out trying to stretch in the game). Poor execution happens. Poor decisions are preventable. Speaking of poor decisions -- Baez's steal of 3rd made absolutely no sense.
Didn't Jake cost them the game with a pitch to Frazier?
Missed the play w/Bryant. What happened?
Not a good decision by Bryant in the 9th. That may have cost them the game.
Can we un-do the Montgomery deal? Please?


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Funding sources No external funding (internal funding from Radboud University Nijmegen).
Role of induced negative and positive emotions in sensitivity to itch and pain in women
Version of Record online: 11 JUN 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2012.10933.x
© 2012 The Authors. BJD © 2012 British Association of Dermatologists
British Journal of Dermatology
Volume 167, Issue 2, pages 262–269, August 2012
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van Laarhoven, A.I.M., Walker, A.L., Wilder-Smith, O.H., Kroeze, S., van Riel, P.L.C.M., van de Kerkhof, P.C.M., Kraaimaat, F.W. and Evers, A.W.M. (2012), Role of induced negative and positive emotions in sensitivity to itch and pain in women. British Journal of Dermatology, 167: 262–269. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2012.10933.x
Conflicts of interest None declared.
Publication History
- Issue online: 26 JUL 2012
- Version of Record online: 11 JUN 2012
- Accepted manuscript online: 8 MAR 2012 02:45PM EST
- Accepted for publication 29 February 2012
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Background Itch and pain are common symptoms in skin disease. It has been suggested that negative emotions may play a role in itch and pain. To date, however, the role of emotions has only been studied for pain in experimental studies, not yet for itch.
Objectives To investigate the effects of negative and positive emotions on the sensitivity to itch and pain.
Methods Film fragments were used to induce a negative or positive emotional state in healthy women. Itch and pain were induced using the following somatosensory stimuli: electrical stimulation, histamine iontophoresis and the cold pressor test.
Results Results showed that the scores for itch and pain evoked by histamine and the cold pressor test, respectively, were significantly higher in the negative than in the positive emotion condition, whereas tolerance thresholds to electrical stimulation and the cold pressor test, and stimulus unpleasantness scores did not differ between the two conditions.
Conclusions These findings for the first time indicate in an experimental design that emotions play a role in sensitivity to somatosensory sensations of both itch and pain.


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