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Charlie Corr of Mimeo on his perspective on new technology
Published on May 21, 2012
Cary Sherburne: Hi. I'm Cary Sherburne, Senior Editor at WhatTheyThink and I'm here with my good friend Charlie Corr, who is Chief Strategy Officer at Mimeo. Actually, I just gave you that title.
Charlie Corr: You gave me that title; thank you.
Cary Sherburne: Tell the boss. But you're involved with setting the strategy for -- the strategic direction, the product strategy and marketing.
Charlie Corr: Yes. That's right.
Cary Sherburne: That's great. So and that's – and Mimeo of course is primarily an online company.
Charlie Corr: Yeah. One hundred percent online. Everything we get is digital and everything we get is through the Internet.
Cary Sherburne: And so, you know, many of us have spent an inordinate amount of time trumping around Dusseldorf in the past several weeks feels like, looking at all kinds of great new technology. And actually it was kind of an exciting show because it was, you know, there was a lot going on.
Charlie Corr: Yes.
Cary Sherburne: But what's your perspective, I mean on that and what a printer, as you are now, should thinking about when they're looking into making this kind of an investment. And what should a manufacturer be thinking about when they're bringing the products to market?
Charlie Corr: Be thinking about. Yeah, and I think you can get so drawn up in the latest equipment or the latest approach or the latest technology and when you're an insider that stuff can get you – as you said, like this excitement. And we know we spend a lot of time of it and we're passionate about it, but I do think you have to keep in context the customers are not as excited about it. Customers are mainly ambivalent about it. You pick the right technology; meet my needs; and do it effectively. Right? And do it most cost effectively. Do it in the most – the least painful way for me.
Cary Sherburne: And when you say customers –
Charlie Corr: Or the most efficient way.
Cary Sherburne: Your customers as a printer.
Charlie Corr: My customers. Right, right. And take pain, take cost out of the supply chain. Make it easier to communicate. Make it more cost effective to communicate. In print, view, right, however is the most effective way and I think we can lose sight of that. That print, in and of itself, really is a commodity and we do kind of understand there are all these formats. We kind of know them, right? The technology changes –
Cary Sherburne: Well we more than kind of know them. We know them.
Charlie Corr: Yeah, we know them. It's been around for a long time and I do think one of the things we're seeing is an acknowledgement that certain people know how to move paper really well. Well I can substitute a technology and they still know how to move paper really well.
Cary Sherburne: And that's kind of interesting when you think about what like what Landa is doing – nanographics with the offset press manufacturers. They know how to move paper really well. Komori knows how to move paper.
Charlie Corr: Yes.
Cary Sherburne: Heidelberg knows how to move paper.
Charlie Corr: Yeah. Yep. They're very efficient at it. And you start to see these hybrids – especially with inkjet, right – where you can put inkjet systems on an existing offset press and then you see these other approaches. And I think that makes perfect sense ultimate you want to incorporate what you have and know and you can leverage and take advantage of new technologies but the new technologies have to meet the requirements of the customer. And it's price, it's helping them in their supply chain, right, it's helping them communicate effectively. So you can easily – you can often lose sight of what they're trying to do as opposed to how neat we think our tools are to do it.
Cary Sherburne: You know it's kind of interesting and I'm going to pick on IBM a little bit here but I'm going to draw an analogy here – but if you go back to the early '80s when the proposal came to the corporate management committee to do the IBM PC, the proposal ended up being almost an anathema to the IBM strategy because they couldn't use IBM disks; they couldn't use memory. Everything – they couldn't use service and support. It was all too expensive. It would never had been competitive. And they were able to actually overcome that as a corporation and say, okay, we're going to partner...
Charlie Corr: Yeah.
Cary Sherburne: ...in the channel, we're going to do all of this and they came to market...
Charlie Corr: Right.
Cary Sherburne: ...and the rest is history. Well now you see that happening, for example, Heidelberg – everything was Heidelberg and now...
Charlie Corr: Right. Now it's--
Cary Sherburne: ...you know now they're saying we're partnering with Landa, we're partnering with Ricoh, we're doing this, we're doing do. So it is really kind of an interesting transition that's happening, but maybe it's not happening fast enough.
Charlie Corr: It may not be and I think it's something new for us, right? And in a redefined economic environment where you have fewer resources just because of the whole macroeconomic issues around print, you almost have to move in those directions, right?
Cary Sherburne: Right.
Charlie Corr: Because you're not going to have the type of margins that print once enjoyed. Probably ever again.
Cary Sherburne: Ever again.
Charlie Corr: Right? So it's a new reality and I'm struck by that new reality in the partnership levering what's good, incorporating new technology, always the notion of what does the customer want? They want more efficient communication.
Cary Sherburne: Right.
Charlie Corr: It's appropriate for them.
Cary Sherburne: The end customer. Exactly.
Charlie Corr: At the right cost, right? That's what they want. They're not as enamored about technology in and of itself – only what it can deliver to them. Kind of like Intel inside, right?
Cary Sherburne: Right.
Charlie Corr: They don't really care in -
Cary Sherburne: Well that's interesting and very thought provoking, so hopefully we'll get some comments on this video.
Charlie Corr: Yes, yes, I hope so.
Cary Sherburne: And people can find out more about you guys by visiting mimeo.com
Charlie Corr: Com. Yes.
By Henry Freedman on May 21, 2012
One way to look at the discussion re Landa is that Heidelberg and the other press manufacturers have always used other peoples inks
so Landa is another ink option. The twist here is they (press manufacturers) need to modify the press if they wish to use Landa ink. The new Heidleberg/Landa press may not allow customer to switch inks as they can with Heidelberg offset presses as well as the others. This is a huge change for customers of such expensive press equipment.
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A resident near the Lockport Township bridge told police he noticed activity in the area earlier in the week and on Thursday investigated the situation, Lori said.
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At that point, the matter was turned over to the St. Joseph County Sheriff's Department.
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GLADSTONE - A total of 80 World War II veterans will be on their way to visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 26, when the second Upper Peninsula Honor Flight takes off from the Delta County Airport.
According to Honor Flight coordinator Barb Van Rooy, the veterans, who range in age from 85-94, will be accompanied by 73 guardians and volunteers from the Honor Flight Committee.
"We expect everything to be about the same as the inaugural flight last September," Van Rooy said. "We'll land in Baltimore and have a motorcycle escort into Washington to the memorial." After spending time at the memorial, the group will enjoy a bus tour to see various points of interest in the city. A stop at the Arlington National Cemetery will round out the trip.
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Roswell Anderson and his gaurdian Paul Anderson, both of Marquette, make their way to the plane at the Delta County Airport during departure for the 2011 Inaugural U.P. Honor Flight.
"We won't be able to take part in the wreath laying like we did last time, but that's about the only change," Van Rooy said.
The return flight later that afternoon will include the emotional "Roll Call" event when the veterans will be presented with envelopes filled with letters and cards from family members and friends, as well as hand-made greetings from elementary children throughout the area.
Van Rooy gives a great deal of credit to her committee, which includes three individuals who served as guardians on the first flight.
"They were all wonderful to work with and they all just did their part to get this ready," she said.
Those on the flight will enjoy a "meet-and-greet" at the Peninsula Bay Inn on Wednesday evening and are expected to be at the airport by 6:30 Thursday morning.
Van Rooy said an honor guard from the Marine Corps League is expected to be on hand for the send-off and will back when the flight returns to Escanaba later that same day. Also scheduled to be at the airport is the Little German Band from Escanaba and the Remnants Barbershop Chorus who will play and sing music of the 1940's
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Even though she already has one flight under her belt, Van Rooy admitted she is a little nervous about this flight.
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"By then it was midnight and the group had to be back at the airport by 7 the next morning so I don't imagine any of them got very much sleep," she said. "Those are the kinds of unexpected things that you can't help but think about."
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Roxy Schneider is ChEnected's Featured Young Professional for the month of June 2010. Roxy graduated in 2008 with a degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University, where she served as AIChE student chapter president. In the two years since then, she has worked as Project Engineer and Operations Leader for AIChE's Center for Chemical Process Safety. Her current interests include risk assessment, inherently safer design, risk based process safety management. In the future she hopes to use her chemical engineering degree to save the world. She hopes to accomplish this by in some way helping to scale up new technologies and do so in a safe and responsible manner. Below is my recent interview with Roxy:
Lowell: Where are you from?
Roxy: Proudly born and raised in the great city of Hoboken, NJ. (Also the birthplace of Frank Sinatra, baseball, and Oreo cookies).
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Roxy: I graduated from Princeton University with a BSE in Chemical Engineering in 2008.
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Roxy: I was first a student member in 2006 and became a full member in 2008.
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Roxy: AIChE's The Center for Chemical Process Safety.
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Roxy: CCPS was running a conference in Sao Paulo that was originally scheduled for June of last year and I was in charge of the technical programming. The cultural differences and language barriers were a challenge and on top of that, the organization that was co-organizing with us decided to postpone the conference at the last minute. Luckily our authors and volunteers were really flexible about the change and now we're all really looking forward to the rescheduled conference which will take place later this month.
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After this weekend's downpour left cars flooded and water lapping into homes across New Orleans, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Wednesday that his administration will begin tracking localized flooding to guide infrastructure planning and, until improvements are in place, might ease neutral-ground parking restrictions during bad weather.
Landrieu said it would make sense to give a break to drivers who park on neutral grounds to gain a few inches of elevation that might protect their vehicles from flooding in the street.
"Generally it's illegal to park on the neutral grounds," the mayor said. "But we ought to be able to get ahead of the issue when bad weather is coming up, send out an alarm earlier rather than later and say, 'Look, it looks like it's going to flood tomorrow so the Department of Public Works (will) stand down on issuing tickets to people on neutral grounds.'
"There are just some things that I think we can do better," he said.
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"We understand that we only have the capacity to pump so much, but as we're redeveloping the city, we ought to figure out where the flooding is, what the real cause of it is and whether or not we can do more work to encourage citizens to get ahead of that issue," Landrieu said.
"What I want to do is identify exactly where the streets are that flood," he said. "We ought to know this. This is a knowable issue."
Growing up in Broadmoor, one of New Orleans' lowest-lying neighborhoods and home to scores of properties that have flooded repeatedly during routine rainfalls, Landrieu said he has great sympathy for residents who fear losing a car or getting water in a house every time dark clouds gather.
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Layoffs taking place at Brooks Hospital
June 19, 2013
It appears the Lake Erie Regional Health System of New York is laying off more of its employees, but this time in Dunkirk....
For the usual naysayers, I guess I'm a dinosaur, but I just felt that all employees should have been notified of their impending layoffs before the newspaper, and eliminating all that anxiety and conjecture. Call me old fashioned, but I just think people who've worked for any place for a time deserve more respect and concern. But I forgot, this is America 2013, and nobody cares about their employees anymore. Their are just too many Phil Julians around.
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The sad part is the cuts will come in those who care for patients, clean and maintain the building and/or those helping the nursing staff, such as ward clerks, but I bet not one administrative position will be cut.
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Why the abrupt hatchet job? Why all the secrecy? Why no "two weeks" notice? You come to work, your told your done and turn in your badge. End of discussion. Why stonewall the news media? All of this says a great deal about the administration.
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Maybe, this area can get one of those proposed casinos and hire all these laid of workers. Another, employment problem the area is starting to see is alot of your stores, restaurants and businesses in the area are now starting to reduce employees and/or their hours. So i wonder maybe the hospitals are following suit.
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Here's a "cold" layoff for you - - This guy was a regional manager for a large company, and had to go to all his regional offices and lay-off staff.
He got back to the home office, received the boss's thanks and then..."You're done today, too."
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CHRISTOPHER - when I had a heart attack I was lucky to have Brooks Hospital only minutes away. I think under similar circumstances you would feel the same way. Much like other local employers the hospital is taken for granted and unappreciated.
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New York...we're open for business!!!
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I notice the comment about "don't want to do business with a hospital that might be sadly understaffed". Sounds like typical union scare tactic. What unionized entity or business ever had too many people to suit the union? Public employees, fireman, police, teachers, nurses, the list goes on and on. For them, there is never enough staff, inflated benefits and soaring salaries. This self-serving attitude has led to the demise of many a city or business. Detroit is a great example. I am sure the professionals at all local hospitals will continue to provide excellent care and service. The key is to support local providers and the hospital. I am sure they are all dedicated, good people, and will continue to give excellent care.
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I heard 90 in the area lost jobs. Also Cott just release another 15 jobs.
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Christopher you know that companies do not give out that information especially in the early stages. They keep the number low so that people won't stop coming then little by little the number grows and grows. Soon Dunkirk will not have enough jobs to sustain the city and then what happens? Dunkirk as a city is small potatoes and the costs are rising and business is leaving. It always was and always will be money. The hospital owners do not care one iota is people have to travel miles to get help. Now how can a city maintain itself without tax dollars from business? It can't. So unfortunately the future has been decided. The job of the mayor is to try and convince there companies to stay but he is not. He did not even know Brooks was laying off. Our leaders seem to think that Dunkirk can survive on events in the city. Well it ain't gonna happen and no one seems to understand that.
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Why won't the CEO of this operation admit to a specific number for Lakeshore layoffs, and then Brooks? I don't think I want to do any "business" with a hospital that might be sadly understaffed.
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Got it. I've made a list (tomorrow parents go shopping so for once they can absorb the majority of my grocery bill!)
Pomegranate Juice (no added sugar!)
Orange Juice (no added sugar!)
Sweet Potato
Red grapes
I have plenty of bones in the freezer and I've been drinking 2 cups a day for the past month. (this made no difference either) but I'll keep it up.
I'm really looking forward to this experiment! It's a long time since I stopped looking at carb/sugar content! It's going to make me look silly now that I have fruit juice, when I tell my brother to stop drinking it! (although he is obese and this is the only 'fresh' food he eats)!


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JACKSON, MI – Planning a barbecue or hoping to spruce up the flower beds and trim the hedges this holiday weekend?
The next couple days are expected to be perfect for outdoor activities.
Saturday, May 24, it is to be sunny with a high near 74 degrees and a calm wind, according to the National Weather Service.
Sunday, the expected maximum temperature jumps to 79 degrees, according to the weather service.
It is not until Monday that the service predicts anything but clear skies.
Memorial Day, there is a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms after 9 a.m. Still, it will be mostly sunny with a high near 82 degrees, according to the service.
Take advantage. Several Jackson-area parades and festivities are planned for the holiday.


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Duluth, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) --- The Duluth School Board will enter into negotiations with interim superintendent Bill Gronseth for a three year term.
The board passed the motion late this afternoon in a 4 to 3 vote. Negotiations will start next week.
Dr. I.V. Foster resigned earlier this month, after it was discovered he did not have the appropriate licensing.
Gronseth was one of the original candidates for the job.
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We decided to paint our house after three years, and it got the whole neighborhood talking! We love that we were able to make it even more our own, in a huge way.
A lot of paint, and rearranging later, we landed here with a very short to do list to make our master bedroom complete. At least for now.
When you enter the house, it's through the turret, which leads to some tricky design decisions!
The mudroom was the first room we finished, and I still love it!
We are thrilled with how the kitchen turned out!
The nursery it one of my favorite rooms, and it was also one of the quickest to get completed.


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Sunday: Guillen in LF, Raburn at DH
As expected, Ryan Raburn is back in the Tigers lineup Sunday against Indians lefty Cliff Lee. But he's at DH, not in LF. Instead, Carlos Guillen is in left. Leyland had a meeting with Raburn in his office Sunday morning, trying to get him to relax a bit and calm his nerves. Raburn is 2-for-5 for his career against Cliff Lee, by the way. Gerald Laird, who has the day off, is 1-for-12 off Lee.
Leyland's opinion on the call on Raburn's misplay Saturday? He felt it was an error, but he respects the official scorer's opinion.
Leyland was particularly looking forward to seeing Justin Verlander pitch today, given the way he pitched his last start and his history against Cleveland. Among his opposing hitters will be Matt LaPorta, making his Major League debut.
- Granderson, CF
- Polanco, 2B
- Ordonez, RF
- Cabrera, 1B
- Guillen, LF
- Inge, 3B
- Raburn, DH
- Everett, SS
- Sardinha, C
P: Verlander
- Grady Sizemore, CF
- Asdrubal Cabrera, SS
- Victor Martinez, 1B
- Shin-Soo Choo, LF
- Mark DeRosa, 3B
- David Dellucci, DH
- Kelly Shoppach, C
- Matt LaPorta, RF (Major League debut)
- Luis Valbuena, 2B
P: Cliff Lee
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Laird needs a day off. Guillen is a liability out there in LF. Obviuosly so is Raburn. It's pretty easy to rip a strip off him but I know he is actually a better outfielder than what he has shown us. Neverthey less, the capacity for brutal play is still there and you never know when it can happen. It does seem to happen when he is in a pressure situation.
The whole thing with Larish making the team and them saying he could play a corner OF slot—I don't think he did play at all out there even with Guillen and Thames hobbled. Management bugs me when they say they are doing something and make it sound so profound and then fail to follow through. Larish's shot to help the Tigers may only be in the OF. How will they ever know? I bet he doesn't get any playing time out there in Toledo either (which again doesn't make sense since the Hens already have 2 corner infielders playing regularly).
Anyway, I see what JL is trying to do with Raburn today. The problem is even if he is able to rekindle some self-confidence in him, he doesn't have the skills to be as productive a ballplayer as the club REALLY needs.
If you have to throw a body out there in LF why not give Santiago a chance to see what he can do? The guy is a good athlete and understands the game. I think he could adapt to anything JL would ask him to do.
JL is trying to coax Carlos back into being a hitter. He went on and on with sheffield trying to do the same. If he is stubborn enough to think Carlos is going to come around by simply playing him then at least find another spot in the order for him. Carlos is pressing and might have a better chance for success if the pressure is lifted by putting someone else in that RBI spot. Inge makes sense. So does Granderson or Ordonez.
Guillen could bat 6th for awhile and not suffer too much embarassment at the demotion IMO.
I think that it is only a matter of time before JL realizes that Granderson has RBI potential and can revitalize the middle of the lineup. Of course that would mean that Anderson would have to be the leadoff guy. A job he can handle, but is he ready for a full time role? I guess we'll never know.
The guy plays hard and my guess is if he were given the opportunity to hit agains lefties he would still find a way to get on.
He should be in the lineup today.
Justin needs to bear down and demolish the bottom end of the Indians' batting order today. That will be a key.
Here's the bottom of the lineup and here is JV not bearing down to that first batter. That pitch that hit him was supposed to be away. This is the part of a lineup you have to take advantage of. It's the reason we have been as successful as we have been because we have been getting offensive production from it.
That's my point. Ahead of the 7 hitter 1-2 and you plunk him on a pitch that wasn't supposed to be crowding him.
Then you lose the #9 hitter. You can't let up on these guys when you know you have 3 great LHB to face after them.
Verlander's fault. Let's hope he can pick himself up after losing the no-hitter then the shut-out. We have seen him get unglued at times like this.
Even JL has to see that Carlos is not gonna be able to overcome this nagging injury. What is really stupid (apart from not helping the team win), is that Carlos is being physically sacrificed until he shreds the tendon and then they can put him on the DL. Have some character and do it now.
The 5th inning has been one to look out for for us and I think may be a challenging one for JV. Imperative to put these guys in their place.
We have often seen the opposition put big innings together after being well handled and after an excuse me for hitting inning like our offense just had.
Turning point here IMO
Sure would be nice to get some runs. The offense needs to support their starters when they throw well. Good performances are supposed to complement each other. You get good pitching it should give the hitters a lift and vice versa-at least when a team is going right.
If Granderson scores after that beauty bunt–I think it help him to consider adding that element to his game. We sure could use the run.
I don't like the idea that JL didn't sacrifice with Polanco. Last I looked the game was tied and we have had trouble getting runs. 3 and 4 hitters coming up???
Cab mighta had an RBI there.
I don't know about the rest of you folks out there but I am completely fed up with watching Guillen. He has ZERO chance of being dangerous right now.
I just hope he doesn't impact this game with a bad play in LF. Base-runners can run on him at will.
These guys simply have to go out and win this game for verlander. It will be a huge lift if they can do that-for him as well as for themselves becasue they have to break the bad habit of not giving him runs in a close game.
He just had a nice fast inning but he may have only 1 inning left in him.
On the flip side-if they don't go out and win this one for him you run the risk of discouraging (at least subconciously) the starters and particularly, Verlander.
Hate to say this but JV looks done!
He was wild high and DeRosa waited for his pitch.
BTW–Anderson catches that ball if he is RF.
Boy do we ever need a home to 2st DP
JV was amazingly composed in that 7th inning.
Heckuva job keeping in the strike zone after the 0 out trouble.
Like I say–gotta get him the W
This is so great for these guys to do this righnt now. And that was a clutch, clutch job by Ordonez. Patient disciplined hitting. Credit where credit is due.
Not sure why Granderson wasn't bunting though—paid off but still not the way I would have done things
They need to take Guillen out of this game and put in Anderson defensively.–Regardless of what he does.
Carlos is an easy out right now. JL can't be worried about getting him going or sparing his feelings. They need production out of the 5 hole.
Smarten up Leyland and read the writing that's on the wall.
Couple more runs would be nice here given the fact we have 2 innings to get through- and 1 of those with Rodney.
Zumaya is not the guy I'd be going to in this situation.
Got away with stupidity throwing DeRosa meatballs.
Congratulations to these gusys for playing like a team today and this game may prove to be bigger than the W it adds to the win column.
I was at both games this weekend- and altho I'm proud of the way we pulled off both wins- I have to say the Raburn experiment is quite annoying. Especially today with one automatic out (Sardinha- altho he ended up with a very timely first hit of the season) there was no reason to have Raburn at DH. It was particularly frustrating with bases loaded in the 7th when we could have really used an extra insurance run, not to PH Santiago. But in all- that's my only criticism of the weekend games. Very exciting baseball to watch.
I think that Leyland needs to drop down Guillen in the batting order and move Inge up to the #5 spot. Too many players are being left on base when Guillen is up to bat. Let him work out his problems at a lower spot in the order and reward a guy that's playing his mind out right now.


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Early July is a good time to spot evasive little Mercury. Look for it very low in the east-northeast predawn sky during the first two weeks of the month. On Tuesday, July 1, a thin crescent moon will drift above Mercury.
Venus remains lost in the solar glare again this month, still behind the sun in relation to the Earth. Next month it will return to the evening sky.
Mars appears low in the western sky in evening twilight. For the first few nights, the Red Planet is very close to the blue-white star Regulus. It then drifts very close to Saturn on the nights of July 9 through the 12. On Sunday, July 6, a crescent moon will join Mars, Saturn and Regulus to form a nice binocular target, about an hour after sunset.
Jupiter reaches opposition on July 9. On that night it will rise in the east as the sun sets in the west and will be visible all night long. Since Jupiter's path traces a relatively low arc across the sky this summer, the best telescopic views will be when the planet is located due south.
Saturn is found low in the west as the evening twilight darkens. It will sink lower in the sky each night as the month progresses. Don't miss the gathering of Saturn, Mars, the moon and the star Regulus on Sunday, July 6.
The Delta Aquarid meteor shower peaks on the night of July 28 to 29. The crescent moon will not be a problem this year. The best viewing will occur during the predawn hours.
Since ancient times, humans have always wanted the ability to move upward into the heavens in order to strengthen their connection with the universe, as evidenced by the tale of Jacob's ladder in the Bible. Today, some scientists are dreaming of a possible space elevator, a revolutionary Earth-to-space transportation system that would rank with the greatest of human accomplishments. Although it sounds like a crazy idea, a successful space elevator would be an excellent alternative to rocket boosters for space exploration, providing relatively cheap, easy, low-risk access to both low Earth and geo-synchronous Earth orbit. Now, with the advent of carbon nanotube composites, this dream could become a reality, enhancing the lives of all humanity.
The concept for a space elevator is an old one. The idea was first proposed by the Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky more than a century ago and interest again surfaced in the 1960s. In 1978, Arthur C. Clarke discussed the concept at length in his novel, ''Fountains of Paradise.'' However, the scheme of actually building one remained in the realm of science fiction, because there was no material in existence that was strong enough for the cable.
Then, in 1991, a Japanese scientist working with the tiniest of technologies discovered carbon nanotubes that have the potential to be more than 100 times as strong and 20 percent more flexible than steel, at one-sixth the weight. The tubes are long, narrow (one nanometer in diameter, about 1/50,000 the width of a human hair) cylindrical molecules with walls made of carbon atoms. Their strength is three times greater than that needed for the space elevator cable. Several labs and universities are currently working on processes to lengthen the nanotubes and to then spin them into a cable structure. Now, the concept of a space elevator is no longer science fiction, although it will be at least another 30 to 50 years before the initial one is completed.
Scientists have recently determined that a carbon nanotube composite ribbon would actually perform better than a cable structure. One end would be anchored to a very high tower on an offshore sea platform and the other end would attach to a counterweight satellite about 62,000 miles into space. The system's center of mass would be in geostationary orbit, 22,240 miles in altitude. At that distance, a satellite over the equator takes exactly one day to orbit the Earth, and, therefore, it will hover over the same point on Earth's surface.
As the Earth rotates, the counterweight would spin around the Earth in orbit, keeping the paper-thin, 4 cm wide ribbon taut and allowing robotic electromagnetic lifters to carry cargo up and down at relatively high speeds. These lifters would be powered by laser beams projected from the base platform on Earth. The location of the high tower used to tether the ribbon on Earth would need to be somewhere along the equator so that it would align properly with the geostationary orbit position directly overhead. An equatorial base site is also essential since that region experiences extremely few hurricanes and tornadoes.
One of the basic problems facing space agencies around the world today is the incredibly high cost of sending things into orbit. It currently costs over $10,000 per pound to place a payload into low Earth orbit. Potentially, the cost to reach a much higher geostationary orbit using a space elevator would be lowered to only a few dollars per pound. Passengers and cargo would be able to ride up and down the cable in a manner similar to a cable car, traveling at just a fraction of escape velocity. In much the same way as a bridge connects cities across a body of water, a space elevator would function as a utility and transportation system for transferring power, payloads and people between Earth's surface and space.
When can we expect a space elevator to be available to take us on the ride of a lifetime? When asked this question, the author Arthur C. Clarke (Space Odessy:2001) answered ''The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.''
Article Photos
Image courtesy of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna.
Top left: The Bible contains the mythical story of the Tower of Babel, supposedly built by humans sometime after the legends of Noah's arc and the Deluge took place. Since ancient times, people have wanted to go up to the heavens.
Illustration courtesy of Alan Chan
Middle: A substantial transfer station would be built at the geostationary orbit point, 22,370 miles up the cable. This station would handle cargo, deploy satellites into other orbits, assemble and refuel spacecraft, and also act as a tourist destination.
Graphic courtesy of The Spaceward Foundation
At right: This drawing illustrates the concept of the Space Elevator. A magnetic levitation and propulsion system, powered by laser beams from the base platform, would climb the tether to deliver cargo to low Earth orbit or to the transfer station in geostationary orbit.


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most ppl use photoshop.
How do you make those they are so sweet. Is there a program i need to download or what.
most ppl use photoshop.
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Photoshop. You can ask other members to make it for ya!Originally Posted by zfichisal
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adobe photoshop works well
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Go to the design lounge. here: http://www.wiichat.com/design-lounge/ and they have tutorials and everything.
For programs just use any paint shop program. A good free one would be Gimp.
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If you dont have photoshop download GIMP it is free
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do you just put graphics togeather like a montage.
I would personally suggest using Photoshop for things such as Sigs, but I have heard that GIMP, for a free software, is pretty good.Originally Posted by zfichisal
But yes, the general procedure involved is putting images together and adding colours and such. You can learn most of the techniques by following tutorials.
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How is GIMP?? never tried it. i already have photoshop but im always willing to learn a new program.Originally Posted by Marioman


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April 27, 2015 | by Brian Mastroianni
Duras's The Lover, thirty years later.
Early in Marguerite Duras's The Lover, we encounter an indelible image: a strange rag doll of a girl rides the ferry across the Mekong River en route to Saigon. She's an adolescent, fifteen and a half, and she looks both too young and too old for her age, in a sleeveless, low-cut, red silk dress, a leather belt that belongs to one of her older brothers, gold lamé shoes, and—the most striking piece of her ensemble—a large, flat-brimmed men's hat:
Having got it, this hat that all by itself makes me whole, I wear it all the time. With the shoes it must have been much the same, but after the hat. They contradict the hat, as the hat contradicts the puny body, so they're right for me.
That elliptical, dreamlike tone is characteristic of the novel. The book's narrator is a young woman in flux. She's outgrown childhood and has poured her body into oversize markers of adulthood; the conclusion of the ferry ride signals the start of her sexual awakening, as she first glimpses the chauffeured black limousine that belongs to the twenty-seven-year-old Chinese businessman, the novel's eponymous lover.
The Lover, Duras's forty-eighth work, was published in France in 1984; the English translation arrived in the United States a year later. If the book, at just over a hundred pages, reads like the hazy, disconnected musings of a seventy-year-old writer looking at faded snapshots of her past, that's because it is. When Duras claimed that the novel was entirely autobiographical, it became something of an international sensation. But, as the New York Times noted, "truth, in the Durasian universe, is a slippery entity"; Duras also went on to say "that the story of her life did not exist." She and the novel found even more notoriety a decade later, when Jean-Jacques Annaud's film adaptation was released. Duras eventually washed her hands of the film, which focused mainly on the erotic elements of the story—and indeed the novel's depictions of sex receive an outsize portion of attention. But it's also a study in the narrator's fraught connection with her family and the cultural fissures in French-colonial Indochine. Read More »
What We're Loving: Racetrack Murals, Lovers, A Child's Christmas in Wales
December 20, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
One of my favorite novels of the past few years is Andrés Neuman's Traveler of the Century, an ambitious "total novel" that is many things: a love story, a murder mystery, and, most of all, a novel of ideas. While his latest, Talking to Ourselves, is much more brief and intimate, it is no less moving and intelligent. And while Traveller was set in an imaginary place, Talking to Ourselves is grounded in our reality, alternating between the voices of a father, mother, and son as they all deal with the father's illness. None of them dares to express the complete the truth to the other two; instead, it's up to us to put the pieces together. As the mother, Elena, expresses near the end, "Let's be honest. All honesty is a little posthumous." —Justin Alvarez
When I last left America, an airport official confiscated Dos Passos's USA trilogy to reduce my hand-luggage; I learnt my lesson and flew back in bearing only one light paperback, Open City by Teju Cole. As I read it over three months, its narrator, Julius, walked through the same streets of New York (then Brussels and back to New York) in a headspace James Wood astutely calls "productive alienation," nourishing common encounters on the street with memories (of his father's funeral, Nigeria, schoolmates illnesses, the first illicit consumption of a pornographic magazine or a Coca Cola). His narrative is besieged by loss, and calibrated, in the end, to omit rather than include. Cole's novel is paradoxical, "turned in on itself" as Manhattan itself is: "water was a kind of embarrassing secret, the unloved daughter, neglected, while the parks were doted on, fussed over, overused." —Lucie Elven
"Years and years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed." If one story conjures the youthful enchantment of tossing snowballs at neighborhood cats and building snowmen, of chimneys emitting plumes of smoke, surely it must be Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales. Published in a slim blue volume by New Directions, this comic tale of family and friends of Christmas past is sure to delight; I joyfully revisit Thomas's word-drunk reverie each year. —Adam Winters
This week I've been reading the Barbara Bray translation of Marguerite Duras's L'amant (The Lover). On more than one occasion I found myself reading it aloud, not just to hear the pleasant tensions of translation, but to also listen to the heartache of Duras's language. Against the backdrop of prewar Indochina, Duras paints the most tempestuous of love affairs. Yet amidst the novel's unabated despair—the affaire de coeur, the family torn asunder by poverty, the mother's madness, the young girl's insatiable desire for another young girl's body—shines a beacon of hope: the narrator's inexorable determination to become a writer. "I'm still part of the family, it's there I live to the exclusion of everywhere else. It's in its aridity, it's terrible harshness, its malignancy, that I'm most deeply sure of myself, at the heart of my essential certainty, the certainty that later on I'll be a writer." To second Maxine Hong Kingston's remarks in her Introduction to the novel, "The Lover is a story about a girl and a woman becoming an artist." —Caitlin Youngquist
Sportswriter Joe Palmer once warned that those of us who've spent time at the races may develop an "unreasonable fondness for certain places," and if you've ever been to Aqueduct—the neon lights, the cinderblock walls, the geriatric thugs crowding the parimutuel windows—no doubt you're familiar with the sentiment. A certain charm, one might say, if one were drunk on Wild Turkey—and yet the kids have not caught on, or at least not yet. The New York Racing Association recently commissioned thirteen street artists to liven up those cinderblock walls, resulting in several murals diverse in style, size and subject matter (including portraiture based on archival photos supplied by the NYRA). On a recent afternoon the grizzled throngs were still in evidence, though I also spied a few fresh-faced twenty-somethings looking only slightly ill at ease. Aqueduct's current meet runs through December 31. —Abby Gibbon
Filling the Silence: An Interview with Marie Chaix
February 25, 2013 | by Sarah Gerard
To call Marie Chaix's work autobiographical would be incomplete, though most of her books tell and retell the stories of her life. Her writing is porous and breathes memory, attesting to memory's transience and the impressions it leaves on the body.
At the age of twenty-six, Chaix read the notebooks her father had kept during his ten years in prison following World War II. Unbeknownst to her family, he'd been the right-hand man of pro-German Fascist collaborator Jacques Doriot and had fought in the Wehrmacht beside him. This was a shock and became the topic of Chaix's first book, The Laurels of Lake Constance. Like many of Chaix's works, it hovers somewhere between memoir and fiction. In June, Dalkey Archive Press will publish The Summer of the Elder Tree, translated by Chaix's husband, Harry Mathews. It concerns her ten-year hiatus from writing following the death of her editor and reincorporates many of the places she visited in The Laurels of Lake Constance and in her second book, Silences, or a Woman's Life, which Dalkey published late last year.
Chaix spoke to me on the phone from her home in Key West.
As someone who writes a lot of autobiography, do you believe that a story is preexisting—that a writer's job is to find it, retrieve it, and record it—or is there some invention in autobiography?
Well, I didn't realize it before writing, but in general I discovered that, even if you have characters that you know very well—even if you write about yourself, about your "life," your memories—the result is exactly the same as if it was fiction. I think that readers know that it's autobiographical because writers care when it's autobiographical, but they read it and think about themselves, which is what happened to me.
But I think writing doesn't work like that, you know? Of course, you have a motive, you have yourself, you have your family. But they become completely—and even yourself—you become completely part of a larger world, a larger story. Read More »
The Fetish
February 16, 2012 | by Vanessa Blakeslee
The slim novel came my way quite by accident. I had stumbled across a review of the film The Lover and ordered a VHS copy through my movie-of-the-month club. The first Saturday I could secure a house free of hovering parents, my fellow honors English friends and I, as sex obsessed as we were lit geeks, watched, enraptured, Marguerite Duras's autobiographical depiction of an adolescent girl in French Indochina who embarks on an affair with a wealthy Chinese man. The girl's family is crass and impoverished, but she is a good student and wants to be a writer. Soon after, I got my hands on a paperback with a cinema-still cover and was not disappointed.
"I'm fifteen and a half," the unnamed narrator repeats early in the book. "There are no seasons in that part of the world, we have just the one season, hot, monotonous, we're in the long hot girdle of the earth, with no spring, no renewal." Nothing suggested sex as much as sensual lyricism, warm, distant places, and anything French.
I was also fifteen and a half, a virgin consumed with the mysteries of sex, of forbidden encounters. I was also going to be a writer. I read the book and watched the film again and again. Just what was The Lover's appeal? By then I had discovered Lady Chatterly's Lover and Lolita, but Duras's novel resonated more acutely, an exotic Lolita tale but told from the woman's (if she could be called that) point of view.
My favorite section was where the narrator describes herself on the ferry, wearing gold lamé high heels and a man's fedora: "Going to school in evening shoes decorated with little diamanté flowers. I insist on wearing them. I don't like myself in any others, and to this day I still like myself in them." It is the day she is about to meet the "Chinaman" for the first time. She is fixated on this particular, outlandish ensemble, as stubborn as a child playing dress up. But the faint hint of pedophilia, of prostitution, fell so far into the background that it became practically invisible to me then, obscured by the striking imagery and strange, lush atmosphere of colonial Saigon. Read More »
Aamer Hussein on 'The Cloud Messenger'
October 18, 2011 | by Jonathan Gharraie
Though The Cloud Messenger is Aamer Hussein's first novel, it comes after five collections of stories and a novella, Another Gulmohar Tree. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, but a long-time resident of London, Hussein has dramatized the sorts of encounters between and within cultures that reflect his own facility in seven languages. He writes with intelligent restraint about the experience of displacement, but also the indelible richness of wherever we like to think of as home. The Cloud Messenger draws on his own unsentimental education as a student of Farsi to create a romance about language and the unexpected life that reading and translating can take. Last year, we met to discuss the Granta anthology of writing from and about Pakistan at his home in West London.
Could you begin by explaining your background?
I'm from Karachi, third-generation in almost an accidental way, because both my grandfather and father were born there, even though they hadn't lived there very much until after partition because of certain historical … mishaps, you might say. My mother is from Northern India and from a much more traditional family, although her father was an academic.Read More »
Enrique Vila-Matas on 'Never Any End to Paris'
June 6, 2011 | by Scott Esposito
Decorated with numerous awards in his native Spain—including the same Premio Rómulo Gallegos that catapulted his friend Roberto Bolaño to international renown—Enrique Vila-Matas has pioneered one of contemporary literature's most interesting responses to the great Modernist writers. Taking the Modernists as towering giants that will never be equaled, Vila-Matas works to inscribe himself—at times literally—in the margins of their works. His tools are irony, parody, paradox, and futility, and his goal is to mix fact, fiction, and autobiography in order to depict not reality but truth. I asked him about his newly translated novel Never Any End to Paris—his third in English—based on the time he spent in Paris as a young writer attempting (and gloriously failing) to triumph as Hemingway did.
Never Any End to Paris uses your youth in Paris to explore ideas of creativity, influence, and identity. The narrator is a writer whose facts and dates are similar to yours, though—I think—he both is and isn't you. Do you think art requires certain compromises with reality?
Which reality? If you mean the conventional "consumerist reality" that rules the book market and has become the preferred milieu for fiction, this doesn't interest me at all. What really interests me much more than reality is truth. I believe that fiction is the only thing that brings me closer to the truth that reality obscures. There remains to be written a great book, a book that would be the missing chapter in the development of the epic. This chapter would include all of those—from Cervantes through Kafka and Musil—who struggle with a colossal strength against all forms of fakery and pretense. Their struggle has always had an obvious touch of paradox, since those who so struggled were writers that were up to their ears in fiction. They searched for truth through fiction. And out of this stylistic tension have emerged marvelous semblances of the truth, as well as the best pages of modern literature.
This sentiment is very similar to something you say in Paris—"where there is a mirage there is life"—and it reminds me of something I heard you say in an interview: that for the modernists the quest is rectilinear, in contrast to that of Ulysses, whose quest was a circle. In your books, what inspires this search?
In a movie by Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray says "you can't go home again." Sometimes I think about this phrase, and in order to calm down I imagine myself as a Chinese who came home. "I'm just a Chinese who returned home," wrote Kafka in a letter. Sometimes I wish I were this Chinese, but only sometimes. Because the truth is that what I write frequently brings me to a descent, a fall, a journey within, an excursion to the end of the night, the complete opposite of a return to Ithaca. In short, I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.


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With Opening Day for the Red Sox less than two weeks away, here are 10 random thoughts from my time in Fort Myers:
1. As soon as he is ready for a starter's full workload, which could be by Opening Day, Aaron Cook is in my rotation.
That would leave one spot for Daniel Bard, Alfredo Aceves or Felix Doubront. You choose.
2. If the Bard experiment does not work out, what should be done with him? I don't think that's an easy question.
Do the Red Sox slide him back into eighth-inning setup, where he was fine until failing at the end of 2011?
What does that mean for Mark Melancon or possibly Aceves? The Red Sox have invested so much time and attention in Bard as a a starter that they almost have to go through with it, especially since he hasn't been all that bad.
Neither has he been all that impressive. Calling it off now, and moving him back in the bullpen, sounds simple - but given Bard's training regimen and mindset, I'm not so sure.
3. Some of us have underestimated Mike Aviles, who looks like the starting shortstop.
Jose Iglesias is dazzling, but the Red Sox can win with Aviles at shortstop. He's a known quantity, more or less, which is more than anybody can say about Iglesias as a hitter.
4. I'm buying into the company line that Josh Beckett's leadership is playing a positive role.
The doubts about Beckett's focus were fair ones after last year's calamitous finish, but he has always been a positive clubhouse force. If you believe Jon Lester and the vibes sent out by Bobby Valentine, he still is.
5. Next time the Red Sox go into an exaggerated shift for a left-handed hitter, take a look at where Kevin Youkilis is stationed.invo
Rather than slide everybody over, Valentine puts his third baseman closest to first baseman Adrian Gonzalez. That keeps his double-play combination from moving around, and keeps Youkilis from having to pivot at second base.
It's an unconventional approach, but it makes sense to me.
6. Kelly Shoppach will be more than just an everyday No. 2 catcher on this team. Whenever the talk involves the handling of the pitching staff, it is Shoppach not Jarrod Saltalamacchia who gets the best reviews.
Shoppach does not hit for average, but he does have power, as evidenced by his 21-homer year with Cleveland in 2008. It will be interesting to see how Valentine, who does not favor personal catchers for individual pitchers, handles his receivers this season.
There is also Ryan Lavarnway, likely to start the year in Triple A but reportedly a Valentine favorite. If the Red Sox think he's ready, how long are they going to keep him down on the farm, and how will they make room to promote him?
7. Bobby Valentine's high-profile personality is doing his stars a favor. More than in any other recent season, media attention is being deflected from the Papis and Pedroias as the manager has center stage.
Normally, I would expect that to wear off rather quickly. With Bobby V, I'm not so sure.
Expect a new wave of media fascination when the Red Sox come home for their Fenway opener on April 13 against Tampa Bay.
8. Valentine is extremely impressed with Will Middlebrooks, the third baseman who will be in the majors leagues by sometime in 2013, and maybe sooner.
That didn't stop Bobby V from calling him Willowbrook in one press conference last week. Hey, there's 75 guys in camp, what do you expect.
9. I'm not sure why the top of the batting order has to be changed. Valentine is looking at choices and may not stay with the same lineup every day.
For all their issues last year, the Red Sox got a lot of clout from guys at the top. I'd go with Ellsbury-Pedroia-Gonzalez-Youkilis-Ortiz at the top, and let Carl Crawford prove he deserves to hit higher than sixth.
10. The Red Sox face Jonathan Papelbon's Phillies Monday in Clearwater. Pap made waves two weeks ago when he said Phillies fans were smarter than Red Sox fans, perhaps because they come from a National League background.
No one is a more qualified source of intellectual wisdom (not to mention broad, out-of-control generalization) than Papelbon. It is believed that before Monday's game, he will make himself available to tutor visiting Sox fans on astrophysics, speed chess and the mysteries of the double switch. There will be a recalculation of the square root of pi, too, if time permits.
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In unveiling his $3.1 trillion budget proposal recently, President Bush referred to it as "innovative."
Perhaps the means of providing it — electronically instead of in thick paper documents — is new and improved. Still is little evidence that the proposal itself contains anything but the same old irresponsible, out-of-control spending plan of the past, however.
Bush's budget proposal is being posted online this year, instead of being printed on paper. We think taxpayers want more savings than that represented by the new technique, however.
The proposal is bulked up by the need to spend enormous amounts on defense, of course. We agree with Bush that the nation cannot safely relax its priority to continue battling terrorist organizations throughout the world.
There are some proposals to cut non-defense spending — but we suspect that Bush is well aware that, particularly during an election year, there is no reason to believe that Congress will go along with them.
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What's your biggest challenge with your toddler?
My own girls are 11 and 12 now but I babysit for my sisters so I always have my 2yo nephew and 3yo niece around and, man, are they different from mine!
The boy is harder to get him to stick to a schedule and the girl just seems to want to eat all day long. The challenge is getting her to let him eat his own food and him to leave her alone when she's napping since he won't nap when she does.
What's your biggest challenge?
Her attitude and throwing a fit when she doesn't get her way. Plus she refuses to nap
My 12mo old signs a lot and speaks when he can. He even signs please. They can usually understand language before they can speak it
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My biggest challenge is her want of something, but her lack of communication. She grunts and squeals. It doesn't matter how much I talk to her, she still grunts and squeals. Granted, she is only 14 months, but by this age my DS was talking up a storm.
eating, sleeping in his own bed, and not hiting or attacking me lol. he thinks its funny. oh and throwing stuff especially hot wheels. hubby already got one to the face i got one to the elbow ouch


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Auburn, which has won three of its last four games, will play No. 19 Kentucky at 1:30 p.m. Friday. The Tigers, the tournament's 10th seed, beat the No. 2-seeded Wildcats 66-61 Sunday.
Auburn improved to 15-15 overall in a season that included a 5-11 conference record. Florida fell to 15-15.
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The Dodge Charger
Some Things Never Go Out Of Style
The year was 1966. The muscle car era, which arguably began two years earlier with the introduction of the Pontiac GTO, was in full swing. In order to have a chance at attracting the young, affluent buyers so craved by American automakers of the day, a car needed to offer equal doses of style and horsepower. Dodge, with its brand new Charger fastback, offered plenty of both.
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The Wind Orchestra "Volvo i Eskilstuna Musikkår" started in 1943. It was originally called "Bolinder-Munktell Musikkår", and later changed name to "Volvo BM Musikkår" and "VME Musikkår". The orchestra consists of 30 members, who practise reguarly together.
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Alden J. "Doc" Laborde helped found the modern-day energy industry by creating one of the first submersible rigs and setting up two offshore companies that used the new technology.
After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy and serving in World War II, Laborde went to work for Kerr-McGee Corp. in Morgan City. It was there that he became convinced that offshore drilling should be done from a movable unit. When Kerr-McGee refused to build such a rig, Laborde quit and set up Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co. with backing from Murphy Oil Co. The rig Laborde's company gave birth to was named Mr. Charlie, in honor of the father of Murphy Oil's Charles Murphy Jr.
In 1954, Mr. Charlie took on its first assignment: a series of small wells for Shell Oil.
The rig had drawn skepticism from offshore-industry professionals. Boats with industry scouts and competitors followed Mr. Charlie to observe its work on that first job. To Laborde's relief, the rig performed with only a few glitches. And Mr. Charlie went on to drill hundreds of offshore wells over 32 years. The rig is now on permanent display in Morgan City at the International Petroleum Museum & Exposition.
Laborde went on to build several variations of Mr. Charlie. With his brother John, he eventually founded Tidewater Inc., which today operates a fleet of more than 300 vessels that work around the globe for the energy sector.