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Hello, my name is Florence Nightingale. Give me two minutes of your time I'll give you my tuppence of thought, based upon your questions.
(Question from audience) "Ms. Nightingale, why did you leave your life as an aristocrat and work so hard to change the healthcare system in Great Britain?"
As a member of the privileged class, I was expected to spend my life in what I considered idle pursuits. You see, my family took umbrage at my plan to become a nurse, ostensibly on the grounds that nurses were not "ladies" but menial drudges, often of ill-repute.
I set out to change all that.
Perhaps that is why, when I finally broke loose at the age of 31, and took the position as Superintendent at the Institution for Sick Gentlewomen in Distressed Circumstances, I launched into the work with passion.
It felt so good to be useful!
Later, my tenure in that hellhole, Scutari, afforded me what I believe you would now refer to as "street credentials." That experience would change my life in so many ways.
After my return, as a professional nurse, and statistician, because of my social standing, I was able to address the problems within the military hospital system, and by extension, to organize my civilian hospital nursing-education plan.
The ideas were conceived as I watched young men die there in Scutari, the situation was so distressing, I dreamed of a better way. And that is my recommendation for you nurses — use your worst nightmare experiences to light a fire under you to reshape healthcare policy!
I beg you, do not sit by, and assume that your one small voice can do nothing to change the system.
Speak up. Let your voice be heard! There are many ways to become a nurse advocate. One day, you, too, will be in need of sincere nursing care. So, speak up, on behalf of your patients, and yourselves!
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A construction worker was injured when he fell about 12 feet after he was hit by a crane in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood this morning, a fire department employee said.
The incident was reported at 8:11 a.m. in the 500 block of Howard Street near First Street, San Francisco fire Capt. Niels Tangherlini said.
When firefighters arrived at the scene, they were told that the worker had been hit by part of a crane, causing him to fall, an employee with the fire chief's office said.
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Subject: | Re: Meaning of Anvi (Female name, Indian background) |
Author: | তন্ময় ভট্টাচার্য্য (guest, 184.108.40.206) |
Date: | October 23, 2011 at 8:44:13 AM |
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I have not been able to find the source of any of the Indian meanings given above. Its phonotactics is right, but I can't find an etymology in Sanskrit. I have not heard the word, and have not met a person with than name, and my best guess is that it is a name patterned after other common names (e.g., tanvi) or that it is a name with a meaning in some regional language (e.g., Hindi/Marathi/etc.; since I know Hindi, I can say it is not a common Hindi word).Just to be clear, my previous post which gave the meanings "to join" etc., was talking about the verbal root from which nouns could be derived and verbs could be declined; anvi is not a noun with that meaning in Sanskrit.
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City and county honor neighborhood watch groups
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Officials from both the city and county met this morning to honor neighborhood watch groups throughout the area.
Members of the watch groups enjoyed good food, plus a proclamation that November 19th will here by be known as "Neighborhood Watch Day" in Albany and Dougherty County.
Mayor Dorothy Hubbard, along with Dougherty County Chairman Jeff Sinyard, presented each group with a certificate of appreciation and expressed their gratitude for all of their hard work.
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Why, pray tell, is "Chuck" re-creating (more or less) the opening credits from "Hart to Hart"? There's a better answer than "because it's funny" — although it is.
It actually pertains to Monday's (May 3) episode, "Chuck vs. the Role Models." The episode finds Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) assigned to training in how to be both effective spies and a functional couple; to that end, they're told to meet up with veteran spies Craig and Laura Turner (guest stars Fred Willard and Swoosie Kurtz).
"I play kind of a Robert Wagner-type character," Willard tells Zap2it, which "Chuck" co-creator Chris Fedak says was a conscious decision on the show's part.
"Chuck and Sarah, because they're now a couple, they need to learn how to be a couple and also be spies," Fedak tells us. "So they work with a famous spy team, and they're very much modeled on 'Hart to Hart.'"
Except for this: The Turners can no longer stand one another. Willard (who also guested on "Modern Family" last week) says viewers can expect to see multiple double-crosses, as well as "guns, wrestling and intrigue."
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Introduction to Custom CSS in Thesis
So, we've installed Thesis, and we've figured out how to add custom elements to our layout. Now, its time to kick the customization into high gear. Let's take a look at some custom styling.
Obviously, Thesis ships with some pretty amazing customization tools. You can change colors, add and remove borders, change sidebar layouts, and more. Before you ever get your hands dirty with any CSS/HTML/PHP code, check this video for help with basic customizations using Thesis options.
Understanding CSS
To help give you a clear idea of what HTML and CSS are we've broken it down.
- HTML is what web browsers (like Firefox or Internet Explorer) read to find out what is on each page. This is purely the text and images shown on a page.
- CSS is the design aspect of a web page. Browsers use CSS to determine how the text/images in the HTML should be displayed.
In a nutshell HTML is "what you see", and CSS is "how you see it."
You can use the standard Thesis design options to create a professional looking blog in perhaps 15 minutes if you've got the design sense to do so. However, to make your design really stand out, you'll need to go above and beyond the scope of the default Thesis controls and dive into some of this "scary code stuff." Luckily, Thesis makes it easy (notice a developing trend?) to manage all of this stuff.
Thesis comes with a built in editor for your custom.css file and your custom_functions.php file. You can access this via the Thesis Options tab in your WordPress admin. Your custom.css file is where you will make all of your style edits to your Thesis design.
The Basics of CSS
If you're new to this whole CSS thing, you need to understand a couple things. Elements of your website are given classes and/or id's. You set styles for specific classes and id's in your WordPress theme's style.css file (every wordpress theme has one). We use "." for classes and "#" for id's. So if an object is classified as "red_button", we would refer to it in style.css as ".red_button {}". If an object was given the id "white_box", we would refer to it as "#white_box {}".
CSS is based on specificity. If an element is contained by another element, we can specify styles for the child element that will only affect it when it is contained by the parent element. For example, if our red button is contained by our white box, we could refer to it as "#white_box .red_button {}". If we had another element with the same red_button class that was outside of the white box, it would not be affected by this since we specified that it would only refer to the red_button inside the white_box. Make sense?
Keep in mind that CSS will always display your most specific code. So, if you have code for ".red_button" and "#white_box .red_button", the latter is the code that will control the display of the red button within the white box.
For more info on CSS basics, check the w3schools website.
So, how in the world does this whole custom.css file work? All of the default styles for Thesis are contained in style.css and layout.css. The < body >
tag controls all of the HTML content of your blog from the top of the header down through the bottom of the footer. Thesis adds a "custom" class to the body tag making it body.custom
. Therefore, if you add ".custom" before any CSS code in the custom.CSS file in the custom folder, it will be more specific than the CSS code in the default style sheets and will override anything written in style.css or layout.css that would refer to the same object.
For example, if we add the following code to custom.CSS:
.custom a { color: #cc0000; }
All of the links will turn red. We're going to use this to demonstrate a couple of css customizations that can be accomplished with the Thesis theme. You'll need some basic CSS knowledge, the rest should be straight forward. This really is an amazing way of doing this. Its not unique to Thesis, but it certainly is a great feature.
Note: Make sure you've enabled your custom.CSS stylesheet in the Thesis Design Options panel or none of this will work.
Clickable Custom Logo
In order to add a custom logo to the header, we're going to cast the blog name and tagline out to the far left. Unless someone has an absolutely enormous resolution computer monitor, they will never know its there. Next, remember the FTP skills we learned in the first part of this guide? We need to upload our logo image (logo.jpg) to the images folder in our Thesis custom folder. Typically this is found at "home/wp-content/thesis(version#)/custom/images".
We also need to set height and width properties for both the logo area and the hyperlink itself. This will ensure that that full logo is shown in the proper location. Here is the CSS code:
.custom #logo {background-image: url('images/logo.jpg') no-repeat; width: 300px; height: 150px; text-indent: -9999px; }
.custom #logo a {width: 300px; height: 150px; display: block; }
Height and width obviously just set the size of the logo. "Text-indent" is the property that casts the title and tagline out to the far left.
Adding a Background Image to the Body
This one is easy! First, we upload our background image to the images folder in our Thesis custom folder. Then, we need to specify that we are referring to the body, so we use "body.custom" and it really is just one line of CSS code to get this done:
body.custom { background: #fff url(images/body_bg.gif) repeat-x; }
That should get you off to a good start! I really hope this tutorial has helped to get you started. If you have any questions just fire away in the comments and I'll be glad to answer. Also, if any of this seems intimidating, don't worry! Thesis has one of the best support forums in the business. The community there is amazing and if you have problems, just ask questions and you'll get great answers.
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Very useful information, continue on creativity. Since I masig lay about CSS, please explain a little about CSS?
Good information covered on css. I feel now I will not be having problems in editing css.
[…] Introduction to Custom CSS in Thesis – This is another Tutorial you can find here on Art of Blog. It takes you through the basics of CSS, using custom CSS in Thesis, and offers a couple of very simple example tutorials. […]
How to match adsense to the default Thesis links, what is the color that Thesis uses for default?
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I am a beginner and have been doing a crash course in web design since I have been out of work for over two years. I have been studying XHTML, HTML, CSS and Java Script so that I would have more of an idea on how the websites are controlled.
Using Thesis — how do I influence HTML; only by custom.css? What about using external style sheets? I may be under misunderstanding, but there is so much I see in using XHTML and HTML along with CSS in placing everything on the page; I don't see that even with all the Thesis design controls. I thought understanding code would give me a better control and appreciation of designing a website; however, it has only confused me in regards to the shortcut ability of using Thesis — it seems that rather than extending my options; Thesis seems to be limiting. Please excuse me for my ignorance, but I don't see how to coordinate all these options and getting what I desire in page layout by using Thesis. The only other editing I see for which I have very little experience is PhP. The more the options–the more the confusion. I'd appreciate any clarification you may give. Thank you.
Russ, I totally understand your frustration. I was in your shoes when I first opened Thesis too.
Definitely check out this post on Thesis Custom Hooks
http://www.artofblog.com/thesis-introduction-to-hooks/With a TINY bit of PHP you can insert whatever xhtml you want anywhere you can think of using thesis. The above tutorial does a great job explaining it.
Basically you will use the PHP to just wrap your html. I would say with your bit of experience you will be up and rolling in NO TIME!
Nick is spot on here. Thesis works just like any other theme with regard to css. It has two style sheets that dictate style. They are style.css and layout.css. custom.css is designed to overwrite those styles. That way, you can change whatever you want via custom.css and leave the rest to the default style sheets. Hope that makes sense.
Also, def check out the hooks article.
Appreciate the comments. When one buys an expensive book, it approaches the topics clearly for the approach they are using. You throw a different approach as in the case of Thesis — it becomes a different animal, i.e. the element of setting up external style sheets as explained in the book has to be rethought into another vehicle; then you find that PHP enters, and there's more pieces to add to the puzzle. Even simple terms like "hooks" become: "what is that and how does that apply to what I spent hours upon hours of studying?" This reminds me of being thrown into the beginnings of desktop publishing back in the late 80's when Mac and the software was beginning. The employer knew it was the up and coming method of operation, but with very little training and hardly any guidance it was: "here are the tools (which you have never seen before); now just do the work . . . perfectly." Amazingly somehow we did. Now the printing industry has again changed and jobs were eliminated. Now it is time to take the experience and remake oneself so economically one can survive, and I find myself back at the beginning saying: "I understand the principles and how the codes work, but the pieces are not so easy to combine; however, do the work . . . perfectly. Lol, I've been here many years ago — and we've progressed how?
Thank you sir for your advise, which is most appreciated . . . seems there could be a book or outline that would give an overview of all the coding and what specific coding does; furthermore, a source that would provide a guidance or tutorial on where to start and the path or choice of study that would be a logical course to put all these puzzles together. It's amazing how just phrasing a search can take you down a path of complete help, confusion or nothing at all. There are many out there who know how to do — but their ability to communicate is so poor as to leave too big of gaps in their presuming someone even understands their terminology or explanation thereof . . . amazing! In short, some help is no help at all. I do appreciate your time and patience. Combine that with clarity without talking down and you become a genuine teacher. :-)
[…] Introduction to Custom CSS in Thesis […]
[…] To get started, the body tag contains all of the html that displays as your website's content. Assuming you've opted to use the "Custom Stylesheet" in the Thesis site options panel, Thesis automatically adds a "custom" class to your body tag site-wide. This is why you add .custom to the beginning of each line of css code you use in custom.css. […]
Can you tell me if it is possible to remove a sidebar on a specific post if I create a css command for that particular post ?
and if so how and what would be the css command that I would be looking for
Thanks for your help
Is there a way to remove the sidebars on a specific post with a css command ?
Appreciate you help
Not sure that using CSS to hide sidebars on certain posts is optimal, but here ya go:
.custom .sidebar { display: hidden; }
Firstly thanks mate appreciate it. This is one a a very small number of thesis sites that I have book marked — I come back to this site again and again, thank you for all your hard work.
Secondly I am using a skin from thesis themes and therefore have no idea on how to adjust the function php and do it that way i.e. by creating a custom page template — because the skin uses a custom page template for a "portfolio style" page.
That being said would you recommend another way — and why would removing the sidebars via css NOT be optimal ?
Appreciate your help
The main reason it is not optimal is that the sidebar html remains in your markup. The CSS just hides it visually. Ideally you would remove it from the markup.
As for recommending another way…well sometimes you just have to get your hands dirty and learn the PHP. Here's a good place to start:
I was wondering where you find out what attributes can be changed. For example where do I findthe name sidebar 1 to be able to change the CSS. Where in Thesis do I find the name of this? Another example would be if I want to make one of those big footers with lots of stuff in there where would i find the info to be able to change that. Basically howdo I know the names of what I can change. Thanx, Aaron
Great resource for Thesis.
I would like to place a background behind my content.
I can find lots of info on the body background but not content (posts and pages) background.
Thanks is advance and keep up the good work!
Dave -
[…] If you'd like, you can find out more about the way that Thesis handles hooks and custom css. […]
This tutorial ia all I need for my projects. Thanks
Its so easy ! from my point of view if someone is dedicated to learn css then it can easily be learnt in 3-4 days.


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Nielsen Reports DVR Playback is Adding to TV Viewing Levels
Time-Shifting of Shows is Extending Prime Time to Later in the Evening
DVR Users Comprise Three Distinct Groups Based on How Much They Time-Shift
Feb 14, 2008, 00:00 ET from The Nielsen Company
LAS VEGAS, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Playback from Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) is increasing the amount of time people spend watching television, according to new data from The Nielsen Company. In comparing total television usage (Live viewing plus DVR playback) for persons 18-49 in November, 2007 to total television usage in November, 2005 (before Nielsen measured DVR homes and penetration was very low) Nielsen found that viewing had increased slightly throughout the day, and was three percent higher at 9:00 p.m. and five percent higher between 11:00 p.m. and midnight. This has implications for primetime viewing levels in the future because as the number of DVR households in the U.S. population grows, DVR prime time viewing levels will likely rise as well. Nielsen also reported that the traditional prime time period between 8 PM - 11PM was expanding because people are watching the shows they recorded later the same evening. In fact, by creating their own "personal television schedules," viewers are pushing prime time as far back as midnight. Nielsen found that DVR playback peaks at 9 to 10 pm with eleven percent of viewers age 18-49 in DVR homes playing back recorded programming on their DVRs, while between 11:00 p.m. and midnight seven percent of people are playing programming back. The information was presented today at Nielsen's Client Meeting on Audience Measurement in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event is attended by more than 600 television, online, mobile, advertiser and agency clients from around the world, as well as by senior Nielsen management, including CEO David Calhoun. "Consumers are increasingly making time-shifted viewing an important part of their overall television experience, and are beginning to change traditional TV models," said Patricia McDonough, Senior Vice President of Insights Analysis and Policy at Nielsen Media Research. "DVR playback has added to TV usage, particularly during the most watched hours of the day, as viewers take advantage of their ability to watch their favorite shows according to their own schedules." Providing new insights into time-shifted audiences, Nielsen identified three distinct groups of DVR users based on how much they time-shift:
-- Heavy Shifters are primarily middle income women, ages 18-49, who record and later watch nearly 26 hours of television- or about half of their TV viewing - a week. Males, 18-34, are least likely to fall into this group. -- Medium Shifters watch somewhat more television than the average person; and about a third of their viewing is time-shifted. -- Light Shifters, who represent nearly 70% of all persons in DVR households, watch less television than the average viewer. With incomes that exceed $100,000 and the most prone to own a high definition TV set, they spend only about 10% of their television time with time shifted programming, watching shows they would otherwise have missed. Nielsen also reported that time-shifting is not evenly distributed by forms of programs. As would be expected, most viewers prefer to watch news, sports and movies live. On the other hand, general dramas, such as House, Grey's Anatomy and Heroes, are most often recorded and viewed later, and account for one-third of all time-shifted content. Among other types of programming that is heavily time-shifted are talk shows like Oprah; soap operas like The Young and Restless; and reality television shows such as Survivor, The Biggest Loser and Dancing With the Stars. About The Nielsen Company The Nielsen Company is a global information and media company with leading market positions in marketing information (ACNielsen), media information (Nielsen Media Research), online intelligence (NetRatings and BuzzMetrics), mobile measurement, trade shows and business publications (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek). The privately held company is active in more than 100 countries, with headquarters in Haarlem, the Netherlands, and New York, USA. For more information, please visit www.nielsen.com .
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Do you think you'll win in a staring contest with Jessica Alba? Well, you could try. Jessica Alba responded to ibeatyou's challenge way back in 2008 so here it goes.
It's an old video but it's still kinda cute, and weird at the same time. Jessica Alba looked cute as ever though. And she tried really hard to stare at the monitor for as long as she can but to no avail.
I know this is old but you can still try to see if you can beat Jessica in a staring contest. Let me know if you succeed or at what point in Jessica's video did you give up.


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Puig dominating Cactus League with surprising ease
SURPRISE, Ariz. – The Dodgers agreed to give Yasiel Puig $42 million nine months ago, so it's not a total surprise that he's lighting up the team this early into his tenure.
What is surprising is the extent to which he's dominating and the ease with which he's doing it.
Through 19 Cactus League games, including nine starts, the 22-year-old Puig is hitting .450 with five extra base hits and eight RBI. The average is good for fifth-best among the hundreds of players in Arizona for spring training.
All that, after 95 previous professional at-bats in America.
"I don't know if I've seen anybody do something like this," Manager Don Mattingly said of the Cuban outfielder. "I've seen guys have good springs, but not with that kind of energy. You don't see this kind of package, a Bo Jackson-type package."
Saturday's Cactus League Game Highlights
The Jackson comparisons come into play because of Puig's size-speed combination. The 6-foot-3, 245-pounder legged out an infield single Saturday after stealing a base Friday.
Puig, who defected from Cuba in mid-May and then signed with the Dodgers in June, said his spring success is "surprising."
"I thought I would do well, but I didn't think I would do quite as well as I'm doing now," he said through interpreter Eddie Oropesa. "That's why I went to Puerto Rico to prepare."
Two high-priced Dodgers have taken significant steps forward in their hopes to be ready for opening day.
Right-hander Zack Greinke played catch for the second consecutive day Saturday and could be ready to throw a bullpen session Sunday. And outfielder Carl Crawford is tentatively scheduled to make his Dodger debut as a designated hitter in Sunday's game against Milwaukee – depending on how he feels when he arrives at camp in the morning.
"He's progressed," Mattingly said of Greinke, who received a PRP injection in his inflamed right elbow Monday. "I think if he comes in and everything's all right, then we're talking about a light 'pen."
Crawford, recovering from Tommy John surgery, played in a minor-league game Saturday. He has now logged 16 minor-league at-bats over the past three days and also played catch ranging to 90 feet.
He said he feels ready to begin hitting major-league pitching.
"If it was up to me, I'd have already been there," Crawford said Saturday. "But the thing is, you gotta wait for the (Dodger staffers.)"
Clayton Kershaw left the ballpark Saturday with his left foot taped after he was hit in his Achilles' heel by a comebacker on the mound. He stayed in the game but said he expects it to bruise overnight. ...
Mattingly will be considerably cutting down the team's 48-man spring training roster over the next two days.
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Ska'd for life: remembering the Sydney 80s ska scene
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Countdown, Simon Townsend's 'Wonder World', JJ and then JJJ were all there in the early 80s when the English 2 Tone ska movement exploded onto Australian shores. They were the media outlets that introduced an exciting new music to me, an impressible young lad from Chester Hill. Madness hosted Countdown, the Js played The Specials and The English Beat, and in 1983 The Allniters, a Sydney-based band had a hit with 'Montego Bay'. They also appeared on 'Wonder World' and were listed on the Countdown chart list.
My first taste of live music was circa 1983-4. Western Suburbs Rugby League club was broke, so a benefit gig at Lidcombe oval was organised with local groups like Rose Tattoo and The Angels. The Allniters weren't so popular. They came onstage to a barrage of coins being thrown at them and were quickly hustled off again. When the band finally came back to face the crowd, frontman Brett Patterson picked up a handful of coins and said, "most money we've ever made" and then broke into the set. For weeks after on the train to and from school I watched as they pulled down the stage and cleaned up the mess. I asked for and got their album, 'D-D-D Dance' that Christmas, on tape of course.
The Allniters, Strange Tenants, Club Ska, The Leftovers, The Hangovers, Tenement Dance and in the late 80's The Allsorts and Latenotes to name just a few, were all hard working ska bands. They were on the road playing not only popular city venues like The Sydney Cove Tavern and The Chevron Rock Room but travelling to the 'burbs' as well, places like Sefton Hotel, Chester Hill Hotel, Sweethearts Cabramatta, and Connections Penrith. This was very important as it brought the music to the masses in a time when train strikes were rampant. I remember circa 1986-7 a group of us were walking into a pub in Campbelltown where Naughty Rhythms were about to play. The place went dead silent, the Dj stopped playing and all eyes were on us (Rude Boys, Rude Girls) as we walked through the doors. The band came on and the singer announced before the first song, "Don't worry guys the weirdos are alright…1, 2, 3, 4".
The early Sydney ska scene opened my eyes to a much larger world. The sounds of a young Jamaica, the plight of black people in South Africa, left wing politics and Dj-ing. When on anti-apartheid marches in the 80s, we would be called 'race traders', often by guys that went to ska gigs. I still Dj and own/operate the 'Intensified Soundsystem' playing 60s Jamaican Ska. I'm a union rep and I still choose to wear my hair short, along with Harrington jackets, Ben Shermans and Doc Martins.
I've been trying to pin-point what it was about 80s ska that originally drew me in; the horns, the driving off beats, the pubs, the people, the beers, the clothes. But really it was knowing I didn't want to be like everyone else. I make no apologies; I would never have made a good yob.
I still have the 80s records and, as we used to say (with total disregards for any copyright laws), "If you want I'll make you up a mix tape".


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The Horse Forum
- Reining
- - Horse fell to his knees when stopping.....:-(
Horse fell to his knees when stopping.....:-( Ok, as some of you know, my guy has been in training now since mid October, which, in the big scheme of reiners, is really not much at all......especially since he is older and lots was retraining. So, I got to ride him yesterday for the first time I'm almost 6 months. SO exciting! We did really well, at least for us. The trainer told me to ride to the center and stop. So, I did, just how I was taught-legs forward, seat deep.....and he fell down onto his knees. It took him a minute to recover, and he seemed fine. Trainer just said-"how odd"......hmmm. I certainly do not want this to happen! I don;t want him hurt. I think maybe because he is still bouncing in front rather than stepping, could be part of it, but the fact that he fell forward also tells me his weight was not far enough back. Is there anything else I can do to help him? Obviously the trainer(s) will be working on this in the next few weeks.....they have him unit the beginning of June, then I will take him back north with me for the summer. Thanks! Just wondered if this happens very often? I have never seen it myself, but have heard of one somersaulting on someone...... |
It may not have had anything to do with how proper or improper he's working or how proper or improper you were riding. It may have been nothing more than a stumble at just the wrong time and he was unable to recover like he usually would. Truthfully, I wouldn't concern myself with it unless it starts to become more common. Heck, a while back, I found several videos on youboob showing reining or pleasure horses that would fall and completely flip over just trotting/loping along because they stumbled and couldn't recover. It happens, just like it does with people. I fall all the time for no apparent reason :lol:. |
does he stop on his front when your trainer rides him? or did he just stop on his front (bounce) when you asked him to stop? |
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I agree with the first post, I wouldn't think too much of it unless it happens more often. My horse has fallen to his knees, just because it was a little puddly and he's the biggest clutz on earth! I would keep an eye on it, but I wouldn't lose sleep :) good luck to the boy! I'm a total sucker for reiners, love them all :) Posted via Mobile Device |
Rookie-he slides and uses himself better when the trainer rides him, but still has not gotten the hang of walking his front legs, so he bounces them. It was probably me, plus I was riding indoors, so in a smaller area. Hopefully we will be outside today, and will see a difference. Just jump-reiners are SO fun! Loving it, even tho mine is certainly never going to be a real contender in the NRHA, we have fun, and that makes it all worth it. ;-) |
hmm that's odd that he's stops on his front with the trainer too...after 6 months of training....from what i have seen around here that is the first thing that go after ( lightness )...but hopefully he was having an off day or it was because of how you were sitting..not his training :) |
They tell me the stepping on the stop comes with time. They have had a really tough time with him because much of his training was RE training, which is much more difficult. He does now sit the stop, but hops in front...weight is in the back, at least with the trainer. I am going out shortly to have another lesson and we will see. |
I had a horse that did that to me. When I got off and checked him. He was just not him. Can not quite explane it. He had never done that before and he was fine a few days before. Anyway called the vet out to have him checked for EPM sure enough he had it. Caught it early but still took a big to treat it. |
THanks NRHA-He was good today, but I will say-he stumbles a lot at the lope in the rear-like 5-6 times a ride. Trainer thinks he is not yet totally used to the plates and is driving hard behind. I am going to watch. it. he has always down some of that, just not this bad. |
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PAS domain clan
This clan contains PAS domains that are found in a wide variety of bacterial signaling proteins.
This clan contains 13 families and the total number of domains in the clan is 113389. The clan was built by A Bateman.
Literature references
- Zhulin IB, Taylor BL, Dixon R; , Trends Biochem Sci 1997;22:331-333.: PAS domain S-boxes in archaea, bacteria and sensors for oxygen and redox. PUBMED:9301332 EPMC:9301332
- Borgstahl GE, Williams DR, Getzoff ED; , Biochemistry 1995;34:6278-6287.: 1.4 A structure of photoactive yellow protein, a cytosolic photoreceptor: unusual fold, active site, and chromophore. PUBMED:7756254 EPMC:7756254
- Ponting CP, Aravind L; , Curr Biol 1997;7:674-677.: PAS: a multifunctional domain family comes to light. PUBMED:9382818 EPMC:9382818
- Hefti MH, Francoijs KJ, de Vries SC, Dixon R, Vervoort J; , Eur J Biochem 2004;271:1198-1208.: The PAS fold: a redefination of the PAS domain based upon structural prediction. PUBMED:15009198 EPMC:15009198
This clan contains the following 13 member families:
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PAS_3 (PF08447) | 23723 (20.9%) | View |
PAS_4 (PF08448) | 23651 (20.9%) | View |
PAS (PF00989) | 21613 (19.1%) | View |
PAS_8 (PF13188) | 7301 (6.4%) | View |
PAS_7 (PF12860) | 3260 (2.9%) | View |
PAS_11 (PF14598) | 1778 (1.6%) | View |
PAS_10 (PF13596) | 1403 (1.2%) | View |
PAS_2 (PF08446) | 1303 (1.1%) | View |
PAS_6 (PF08348) | 946 (0.8%) | View |
MEKHLA (PF08670) | 622 (0.5%) | View |
PAS_5 (PF07310) | 488 (0.4%) | View |
CpxA_peri (PF16527) | 133 (0.1%) | View |
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British Tea Culture
by February 4, 2013 10:09 pm27
British Tea Culture, we all know it exists, we all know it's important, but what exactly does it mean? I set out to figure this out by interviewing over 110 people from the United Kingdom about their tea habits. I wanted to see what makes their tea culture unique across all social classes. I deliberately did not ask tea connoisseurs, for we know that the "connoisseur crowd" is a common stripe among all tea cultures.
Assumptions made: British Tea is a black tea, mostly a blended black tea. Teas blends are commonly made up of teas from India (Assam), Sri Lanka, or East Africa.
The following is a tag cloud of words that I gathered from asking the question "what does tea mean to you?":
My favorite response:
"If the day is a sentence, tea for me is the punctuation." – Andy Callaghan
Hearing a lot about how tea is considered a small meal or a time of the day in Britain, I asked the respondents whether tea was a time of the day, a meal, or supper. I realized later on that it was probably a mistake to ask if tea was a beverage as well, as most responses included this as an answer. It was possible to choose more than one answer.
When asked what food is most likely to accompany tea:
50% drink tea with biscuits
27% drink tea on its own
9% drink tea with cake
The term "biscuit" is used a bit differently in the UK than in America. Typically, rich tea biscuits, digestives or hobnobs are consumed with tea. They are a hard biscuit that can be dipped in tea.
Tea bags seem to be a favorite with 71% preferring them as opposed to 13% loose and 15% other (whatever that means). Of those that answered loose, steeping methods ranged from the most common answer "strain the tea once steeped" to "use of a filter while steeping."
When asked whether they steep tea directly in a tea cup or mug or in a tea pot, I was surprised at how few people use tea pots:
69% brew tea in a tea cup or coffee mug
19% brew tea in a tea pot
12% use something other than tea pots or cups/mugs
I've read about the use of brown teapots called "brown betty" teapots, the interwebs seem to think that these are widespread throughout the UK, however only 17% of respondents had actually heard of them and 6% actually owned one.
Most remember drinking tea as a child, in fact:
The average age that Brits remember drinking tea is 9
9% of respondents could not remember the age at which they begun drinking tea but answered "for as long as I can remember."
Now we move into touchy territory, preparation preferences. I asked "how do you take your tea" and gave four options: with milk, with sugar, with milk and sugar, and other. Here are the results:
Another personal preference that has sparked many a debate is what to add first, milk or sugar.
67% add milk first
33% add sugar first
The next section of the survey dealt with "builder's tea" something that garnered some "colorful" responses. "Builder's Tea" is a name given to what some describe as a "working man's tea" – a very strong brew with copious amounts of milk and sugar in it.
Here are some of the answers I received when I asked "what does builder's tea mean to you?":
Builder's tea is
"overly strong, excessively tannic" / "very strong, milky, two sugars" / "very strong and sweet" / "something revolting for morons" / "bog standard, everyday tea" / "ordinary tea with no frills, fairly strong"
Back to tea-ware, I wanted to find out what most people owned as far as tea implements go. One thing I quickly learned was that nearly everyone uses electric kettles in the UK and boiling water on the stove is rarely done. I even found this amusing post about the predictable surge in electricity demand that the power infrastructure must deal with each day. Here is a tag cloud gathered from responses to the question: "Do you own a kettle, a tea pot, and teacups? Tell me about your teaware:"
When asked what their favorite brand was, respondents gave a wide variety, but the most common brands were Twinings, Yorkshire, PG Tips and Tetley. Here are the results:
23% Twinings
22% Yorkshire
17% PG Tips
5% Tetley
33% Other
While everyone has their own personal favorite way to prepare tea, the most common way to prepare tea in the UK seems to be:
Freshly boiled water is poured from the electric kettle into a mug over a tea bag. After several minutes, the tea bag is removed and milk is added and sometimes sugar. Actually, be right back, I think I'll have a cuppa.
Interestingly enough, Royal Society of Chemistry has put out a release entitled: "How to make a Perfect Cup of Tea" check it out for a more detailed guide to making tea.
To the British, tea is important, tea is always offered to guest upon arrival to one's home, tea is always offered in times of crises, and in times of celebration, at all times really. A cuppa is said to solve all problems.
Many thanks to the friends I met in my travels that helped me with this post and to the wonderful people of r/askuk. Any questions or comments? Feel free to leave a message in the comments below.
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I worked briefly with a british mechanic serving a large expat community and lots of vintage british cars preserved in the california sunshine. I get fed up buying overpriced coffees with
funny names. I assembled a tea service; Sadler Brown Betty, sterling tea leaf strainer, demerara sugar and creamers and cups. The nearby import shop provided digestives.
customer pulls in very upset. Her MK V Jaquar had been kicked by a kid in a Mustang and bore a bashed fender.
At that moment one of the Spanish Heinkel 111s used in movies flew overhead. It's predatory bird shadow fell on this East End Blitz survivor and she looked up and fell apart.
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I am British, well Northern Irish, well European, no… erm, I am not sure about that at the moment. Anyway, I love a good cup of tea. Always with milk though. Of course I enjoy green tea and other infusions such as fresh mint tea, chai etc. but when I go back home to Northern Ireland (guess I need a visa now) I will expect to drink at least 6 cups of tea with milk per day. Wherever you go you will be given a cup of milky tea before you get a chance to say not thanks and you will receive another top-up or replacement cup of tea (and biscuits, digestives mostly) before the first now has had time to cool down. I am not kidding, it is almost like that scene from Father Ted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0anR6t56PX8
Can you please tell briefly me the influence and symbol of tea into British people' s culture? I am doing a research on that. Thank you
Read FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA by Sarah Rose to start.
And Tony please expose the use of plastic in tea bags in your research. Yuck!! Won't even break down on garbage heap.
pg tips is best in my opinion. twinings are great but they make speciality teas, assam, earl grey etc. . yorkshire tea is over rated. for a great cup of basic british *somewhat builders tea* PG Tips is best.
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I like Bigelow's Constant Comment tea with its orange rind and hint od spice.
I have tried duplicating it myself, unsuccessfully.
Is there a better tea you might recommend with these qualities?
Gene Eggleston-
Drinking Constant Comment now! With a little milk and a moderate amount of sugar.
Tony, your article is a very nice read.
Very interesting and informative, thanks for posting! I would be interested in knowing what brands dominated the "Other" category.
I am a Planter In SriLanka and reading for MBA . For My marketing assignment I have selected a subject as tea export to UK (Branded Tea). your information are very usefully to me.
Excellent info – thanks for compiling it all. Also like the graphs.
I am retired but was growing and manufacturing black teas (both the Orthodox and CTC variries) for the last 45 years in my own Tea Estate in Assam. There are so many 'variables' in growing and manufacture of teas that it requires a life time just to gather the basics. Quality in tea is a gift of nature, we human only try to keep this quality intact in growing, in manufacturing and also in brewing of the cup we would drink.
Love the post, Tony! I find the use of graphs incredibly refreshing compared to either infographics or plain text posts.
By chance, did you happen to speak to anyone about their intake of coffee? I know Britain is largely known as tea drinkers but there seems to be a downward trend amongst younger Brits.
For me, the popular conception of tea in the UK is so different from enthusiast teas that they may as well be completely different drinks. I think the same is true for chocolate, coffee, beer and probably a wide range of things.
I agree, this is why I surveyed people that largely were not enthusiasts.
Tony, I'm so glad I discovered your blog through your following me on Twitter. Having been "raised English" in the US (mother's family from Cumbria and Yorkshire), tea has always been a part of my life. I was probably two when I had my first tea and remember well drinking tea with my grandmother when I was four. I just posted a tea review and included in the post my directions on How to Make a Proper Cup of Tea. PS I drink tea throughout the day (and sometimes night!), so if I had a biscuit or cake every time I drank tea I would be a very unhealthy person!
Great stuff, thanks Tony. Here's another commonly debated British tea question; should you put the tea or the milk into the cup first? I'd say with tea poured from the pot, milk first probably wins. Sadly that can apply to bags brewed in the mug too: Cup, milk, bag on milk, boiling water. Best not to dwell on that. There was a discussion of this big question in The Guardian, you can find it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,,-1400,00.html
One other thought, several minutes for a tea bag in a mug seems long. From what i've seen that might happen in a teapot, but in a mug it's whisked out within 30 seconds, as soon as it looks "brown enough."
Very informative. How did you interview people, just talking to them on the street?
Thanks. I used Google Forms. This will be the first in a series of surveys on unique tea cultures for a section of my upcoming book.
I didn't know about Google Forms, thanks for the tip.
Tony posed his question to the community at http://reddit.com/r/askuk
"It's" is short for "It is". "Its" is the possessive form.
"27% drink tea on it's own"27% drink tea on it is own?
i know, it was an error. great catch, thanks.
Thank you for the article. Just reminiscing. I grew up drinking tea, not coffee, in rural Nebraska, USA. I don't know much about my own heritage, but my folks brewed hot tea in a pre-warmed pot, from cold tap water boiled on the stove. They had it with milk and sometimes honey. We children were allowed our first real (not Cambric) tea at age 13 on our birthday, and were encouraged to have tea with the adults after that age. We had tea daily during and after all meals, but we did not really have a tea time in the afternoons. I've wondered if my parents inherited this behavior or acquired it. I know this was very different from my friends' parents, who were all coffee drinkers. Both my parents have long since passed away, thus it's not easy to find out why my family was different. Happy Days!
Great stuff, Tony! I think the infographics really make it pop, too.


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Sevierville, TN – The Tennessee Smokies dropped the rubber match of the five game series against the Carolina Mudcats on Monday night at Smokies Park 6-4 in front of 2,329 fans. Former Bearden High School standout Brett Carroll was the difference maker for the Mudcats, hitting a pinch-hit home run in the 8th inning to give Carolina the lead.
Both starters were dominant early in the contest, yielding no runs through the first three innings. Unlike previous games in the series, the Smokies struck first to take a 2-0 lead. Jemel Spearman's patience helped draw a walk after being down 0-2 in the count. Jake Fox came to the plate and hit a 2-run homerun to right center off Manuel Olivera. The Smokies added another run the inning after three straight singles, with Matt Craig bringing home Josh Kroeger to make the score 3-0.
The Mudcats did not waste any time cutting the lead down to one. Kevin Randel hit a 2-run homerun to make the score 3-2 in the 5th. The Smokies quickly got the run back though in the bottom half of the inning. Spearman singled to get things started, followed by a hit by Fox. Southern League batting leader Kroeger made the score 4-2 with an RBI single to left.
The Mudcats used a late rally to take the lead back 6-4. Dante Brinkley continued his hot hitting versus the Smokies with an RBI double in the 6th. In the 8th, Matt Carroll gave Carolina another run after blasting a homerun off the top of the scoreboard off Smokies reliever Billy Petrick (0-1). Brinkley reached on a single, and then stole second base. After a wild pitch, Chase Lambin brought him home on a sacrifice fly, giving the Mudcats the two-run lead.
Wes Letson (2-0) notched the win for the Smokies by pitching one inning of scoreless relief. Kurt Koehler pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his fourth save of the season.
The Smokies take to the road for the next ten days for a five game series in Birmingham, followed by a five game series in Montgomery. Tennessee will return home for a five game set against the Chattanooga Lookouts on Saturday May 12th.
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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore.In Mexico, the presidential elections are a matter of tremendous controversy. Tens of thousands of people have been in the streets saying the elections were stolen.Now joining us to talk about what's happening is James Cockcroft. He is an award-winning author, a bilingual poet, a lecturer on policy issues of the day, as well as a three-time Fulbright scholar. He's written more than 50 books, including Mexico's Revolution Then and Now. And he joins us today from Montreal. Thanks very much for joining us, James.JAMES COCKCROFT, AUTHOR: Thanks for having me, Paul.JAY: So, first of all, give us the basic facts of what happened in the election. And what is the controversy? Why is it being so challenged?COCKCROFT: The election has been challenged for many months now because the mass media in Mexico, led by Televisa, the big TV monopolyâor part of a duopoly, actuallyâwas coming out in favor constantly for one candidate, the candidate who supposedly triumphed in July, won presidential election, Peña Nieto, and it was broadcasting false news about his main contender from the left center, López Obrador, and telling lies about López Obrador and half-truths about the candidate that it supported, Peña Nieto from the PRI, the former longest-ruling political party in the world until its replacement in a fairly democratic election in the year 2000 by a more conservative party. And that conservative party's been in power for the last 12 years and has continued to guide Mexico down to the abyss of economic failure and poverty and more violence, etc., the so-called narco war.So that propaganda for the candidate of the PRI, in an arrangement where the two conservative parties, the PRI and the PAN, were to change the presidency every now and then, because it was clear the governing party couldn't win after all the deathsâ60,000 people killed in a phony narco war in the last six yearsâcaused a lot of people to be upset.And then the student movement erupted on the eve of the election. And the student movement, which quickly allied with our own student movement here in Quebec, where I live, in Montreal, and the big student movement in Chile, where also there's a longstanding strike going on, the student movement literally came out in the streets to protest against this TV channel, Televisa, and its candidate, Peña Nieto, saying that it was basically misreporting the news and leading people to vote for Peña Nieto because they didn't know what López Obrador really stood for.JAY: And part of the challengeâexcuse me. Part of the challenge, if I understand correctly, from López Obrador is that this indirectly violated campaign financing laws. It amounted to, you know, millions of dollars of free advertising.COCKCROFT: Exactly. And in addition, López Obrador's campaign has documented that, independently of the TV coverage, Peña Nieto has spent between 10 and 13 times more than the legal limit established by law on his campaign. The legal limit is $26 million, and 10 or 13 times that is hundreds of millions of dollars.In addition, the charge by López Obrador against this fraudulent election of Peña Nieto, this rigged election, if you will, is that 5 million votes were bought directly with that extra money that was sloshing around in the campaign and bribing poor people in the rural areas and better-off people in the suburbs, particularly the home state of Peña Nieto, Mexico State, where he had been governor and overseen a very violent regime that repressed workers and peasants. Apparently, bought about 1 million votes just in his home state alone, where he won as a result, and 5 million votes total when hisânationally, when his margin of alleged victory was 3 million.JAY: The difference in votes is something like about the number of votes that they accuse have been bought. Is that right?COCKCROFT: Yeah. Well, actually, evenâthey only won by 3 million votes, but they're accused of having purchased 5 million votes. Okay? And then there's some other hanky-panky that López Obrador is also bringing to light.But, you know, for most Mexicans this is sort of standard operational procedure. Their elections have been fraudulent for years now. That's why they threw out the PRI in 2000. They had a mass movement in the street for democracyâfor real democracy, as opposed to fraudulent democracy. And that movement was succeeding when they elected a president in 1988, whose election was taken away by Salinas. And Salinas came into power at that point, consolidated all the alliances with the narco gangs, consolidated the alliances with the U.S. economic interests and oil interests in Mexico, and hasâSalinas himself was caught, by the way, in a series of illegalities, not only in the '88 election, but as president over the next six years. He had to flee justice, go live in England for a while. He's back in Mexico now, apparently pulling a lot of the strings behind the scenes for this campaign.JAY: James, the, I mean, underlying struggle here is thatâand I guess my question is: will the Mexican elite, which has done so well with this neoliberal economics and free tradeâand, you know, some of the richest billionaires in the world live in, have emerged in Mexico. Are they going to allow any legal process that would bring in López Obrador, who, at least in terms of his campaign promises, isâyou know, wants an alternative to this kind of neoliberal economics?COCKCROFT: Yeah, he's running against neoliberal economics. And it's not even a socialist program or anything of the kind; it's just a sort of moderate capitalism thatâa more humane capitalism that he's advocating, and, of course, protection of the nation's national resources, particularly oil, most of which has already been delivered indirectly to the U.S. and other foreign companies. So he's sort of a nationalist, moderate centrist left of center. But the elites, as you say, will not allow him in.And so that's why in the previous presidential election that he ran in, six years ago, López Obrador won, by everyone's testimonyâand it's been documented, including in my new book Mexico's Revolution Then and Nowâand yet he was not allowed to take office. Calderón came in from the conservative PAN Party and unleashed the military on the people to repress any social movements or protest. Now, back in 2006âof course, in the name of fighting narco gangs, but it's really to repress the social movements. Back in 2006, during that stealing of the election, the Mexicans occupied the main streets of Mexico City, Paseo de la Reforma, right down to the Zócalo, the main plaza, for three months, occupied the streets and camped out and protested this fraud. And nowâthey're not doing that this year. López Obrador said, don't tie up traffic, don't do that; we're going to go through the courts and so on. That's what he's doing now. But the people are ignoring him and going out on the streets anyway, and led in great part by this student movement that's formed alliances with those very worker and peasant movements that Peña Nieto repressed four years ago in the state of Mexico when the president-elect, so-called, Peña Nieto, was governor at that time. So it's formed alliances with working-class people and with gay and lesbian people and with oppressed peoples in general, any peoples with complaints.JAY: Elaborate a little bit more why you're calling this a phony narco war.COCKCROFT: Well, it turns out, according to the UN commission against drugs and crime, that the vast majority of money in the narcotrafficking is laundered by the six largest U.S. banks. And the amount of money they laundered in 2008, when so many of the major banks collapsed, was enough to bail them out. But the narcotrafficking is fundamental not only to the banks, and therefore to the survival of the U.S. economy, but to U.S. foreign policy, which uses the phony wars against narcotrafficking to destabilize countries and justify the creation of military bases in those countries, as it did in Colombia in the last 30 years and is beginning to do in Mexico, particularly in the last six years. Don't forget, the narcotrafficking is the second biggest liquid capital flow going on in world trade and world economics.JAY: Right. Now, is Obrador considered a serious threat to all of this, including the narcotrafficking?COCKCROFT: López Obrador is considered a serious threat in Washington. Absolutely. Absolutely. Even though he's guaranteed foreign investments and reassured foreign capital, he is considered a serious threat.JAY: So what happens? If the election officials in Mexico and the Supreme Court and all the various process eventually validate this election, and millions of people think it was rigged, and the student movement has come alive and, as you described, has allied itself with workers and peasants and such, how does this movement respond to such a decision?COCKCROFT: I can assure your listeners, Paul, that these movements will continue and they will grow, and they will grow rapidly. So stay tuned. You're going to hear more from Mexico's masses.JAY: Alright. Thanks very much for joining us, James.COCKCROFT: Thank you for having me, Paul.JAY: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.End
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If you like a crazy play that has a little bit of everything, you're in luck, because the Colorado Rockies and San Francisco Giants provided one on Monday night.
It happened with the Rockies hitting in the second inning. Their own starting pitcher, Alex White, had just connected for his first career home run one batter earlier, so it's probably safe to assume San Francisco's Ryan Vogelsong was already in a bad mood on the mound. And his mood would not improve as Tyler Colvin smacked him in the lower leg with a one-hopper ticketed for center field.
After striking Vogelsong, the ball would roll slowly towards the first base line, allowing Buster Posey to scoop it up and make an attempt on Colvin at first. Initially, that part didn't go well either for San Francisco, because Posey's throw deflected off first baseman Brandon Belt's glove. However, instead of bouncing into short right field, allowing Colvin to advance, it hit umpire Eric Cooper and fell at his feet.
Unfortunately for Colvin, his first instinct was to make a dash for second. But fortunately for the Giants, Belt's first instinct was to retrieve the ball and quickly apply the tag on Colvin to record a wild third out:
Honestly, I can't blame Cooper for missing the call or not being in the right frame of mind initially. That was not a pleasant shot he took. But kudos to the rest of the crew for huddling up and ultimately getting it right. I just wish it didn't take a manager coming out to argue in order to get such a play overturned. If another umpire sees something, he should speak up right away and help keep the show moving.
Anyway, we're happy to report that Cooper and Vogelsong were both able to shake off their temporary discomfort and remained in the game. As for Colvin, he still gets credited with a single, which might ease his mind a little bit, but not as much as the Rockies holding on for a 6-5 victory. All's well that ends well for him.
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NEW YORK -- Umpiring cost the Pirates a victory Wednesday.
So said the umpires' crew chief yesterday, in a rare admission for Major League Baseball.
Ed Montague, a 30-year veteran, acknowledged that first-base umpire Tony Randazzo incorrectly called the New York Yankees' Gary Sheffield safe on what would have been a game-ending double play in the ninth inning. The Yankees went on to tie the score that inning, then win, 7-5, in the 10th on Jason Giambi's home run.
"You can stop the action like they did on ESPN and put those little circles on the screen. But when it's bang-bang and we don't have that benefit of instant replay ... you know, nobody feels worse than Tony," Montague said. "This is my 30th year in the league and, still, when something like that happens, it just tears your guts out. It's just like being a ballplayer making an error. And I think we feel worse, probably, if it costs someone the game or something like that."
Montague described Randazzo as being so distraught by the missed call that he "didn't say a word for the whole ride back" to the umpires' hotel.
Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon still seemed irritated in his pregame news conference, but most of his ire was focused on what he described as unprofessional behavior by Randazzo after the call. McClendon accused Randazzo of glaring into the Pirates' dugout at him after Giambi's home run.
"Isn't it amazing that the game's over with and that umpire's looking at me?" McClendon said. "Think about that. You tell me: Why is he looking in the dugout at me? Why would he be looking at me in the dugout when the game is over and the only thing he has to do is make sure that runner touches first, then head off the field to the umpires' room? Now, explain that one to me."
McClendon, who never left the dugout to dispute the call, said the only time he addressed Randazzo was when he was glaring at him.
"I asked him what the hell he's looking at."
McClendon said Randazzo also made a shooing motion with his hand, as if to suggest he go to the clubhouse.
Montague confirmed the shooing motion, but he dismissed the rest of McClendon's version of the story.
"What I saw coming off the field -- and I was hoping Tony didn't see him -- was Lloyd standing at the top of the dugout, throwing his arms up and stuff like that," Montague said. "I guess he caught Tony by surprise and Tony did the [shooing motion]. That was it. No big deal."
McClendon also charged that Randazzo looked into the Pirates' dugout immediately after the missed call.
"When he made the call, he looked at me and shook his head. If you made the call and know you made the right call, why are you looking in my dugout? I didn't jump up and scream at him. I certainly didn't come out there to argue the call, did I?"
That changed midway through the seventh inning last night, when McClendon came on to the field twice to argue with Randazzo, who was working behind home plate. It came shortly after Randazzo rung up Jose Castillo looking at a third strike.
As McClendon was returning to the dugout after their second encounter, Randazzo, standing about 20 feet behind home plate, made a safe sign with his arms in the Pirates' direction.
McClendon said he did not see that, and he declined to divulge the nature of their arguments.
Randazzo, 40, has six-plus years of major-league service and has been selected to work a playoff series once.
McClendon expressed a view that he has been targeted by umpires since June 26, 2001, when he drew the national notoriety by uprooting first base and carrying it off the field at PNC Park to protest a close call. He has been ejected 13 times since then, including twice this year.
"I think it's been pretty well documented," he said. "You'd have to be somewhere asleep not to know that I've been watched closely."
He said that is the reason he seldom has left the dugout to dispute calls.
"I just keep my mouth shut and go about my business. Fact is, I've learned that going out and jumping and arguing and raising hell is not going to change the call. That's why I didn't go out on this call."
Asked if Bob Watson, MLB's vice president in charge of discipline, had addressed such a matter with him, McClendon replied: "You mean on top of my fines? No."
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Angels beat Triumph in Lingerie Football League action in Abbotsford
The B.C. Angels played their second and final home game of the Lingerie Football League season at Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre on Saturday night, and came up with a 31-27 win over the Toronto Triumph.
There was a crowd of approximately 3,000 on hand for the spectacle, and a straw poll of the mostly young male spectators showed they were enjoying the show.
"It's unbelievable," said Mike Patron of Coquitlam, who was on board a party bus with about 40 people who came from Coquitlam for the game.
"Fans should come and check it out, before they assume what it is," he said, adding there has been too much controversy over what the girls are wearing.
"It's actually a good game, too."
Richard Wells of Hope said the people in the crowd were clearly enjoying themselves, and the event makes for a fun atmosphere, and an affordable night out.
"The crowd is into it, and everyone's cheering and yelling," he said. "It's a good night for adults. It's something different."
Even a pair of women in attendance were impressed, saying the girls are "inspiring" athletes.
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I remember when the first 3D0 came out, it was $800. I didn't buy one until it was down to $400. You know you've played too many video games when you remember owning a large number of those.
Best game on the 3D0 : Need For Speed
I never played the top 4 or 5 most expensive... I guess I missed out.
They didn't even include the SegaCD and the Sega 32x. Those were awesome back in their day!
I miss the Dreamcast. It should have been bigger than it was.
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Best 3DO game ever.
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Man, I remember saving up FOREVER for the Turbo Grafx 16. I was such an idiot.
INTV fo Life, yo.
Yes! Loved this game!Originally Posted by Onikuno View Post
Loved that Need for Speed on 3DO. The Supra and he NSX were awesome in that game.
Played tons of Fifa as well.
I have owned 13 of those systems.
I don't see the Sega-CD, though it was essentially an add-on for the Genesis, but damn that thing was expensive at the time and a waste of money IMO.
But I just had to have that Night Trap game.
I'm at 17, 19 if you include the Sega CD & the 32x.
None of that mentions portable gaming.
I thought I was one of a few that owned 3DO. I can still remember the sayings from this one the most:
I don't remember "Return Fire" I did have the "Need for Speed" game.
and I've only owned 7 from that list.
I still have my NES and Atari 2600 in the garage, next time I redo the living room, I'm thinking about putting them in the rack with the PS3 & the 360. I wish I would have kept all of the systems instead of trading them to move to the next one.
When the Playstation2 came out, I was able to trade in enough stuff to have $700 in store credit at Gamestop (or whatever it was called at the time). I bought the system, extra controllers, every game that came out at launch, bought a magazine subscription and I had to pay $6 out of pocket to leave the store at midnight. That's the one time I've gone somewhere early and camped out. My friend and I got there at 4PM and were number 2 and 3 in line at the mall in Norman.
I gave my PS2 to a kid that didn't have one.
Did you play a lot of Smuggler's Run?Originally Posted by stationarymotion View Post
Of course, loved it! I was terrible at it, but I loved it.
I've owned 4 of those systems, and developed games for 11 of them.
LASooner, I'd much rather have that story!
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Basically until MGS2 came out, every person that I knew who bought a PS2 at launch had Smuggler's Run. I always thought that was funny.Originally Posted by stationarymotion View Post
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Overview | Reference | Examples
The first few examples are for Visual Basic and are designed to show the ways in which the component can be used. All examples are based on a local server with the Foodmart sample OLAP database. To use VBScript instead, substitue Dim objDSOCtrl As New DSOCtrl.OLAPProc for Set objDSOCtrl = CreateObject("DSOCtrl.OLAPProc"). Remember to declare objDSOCtrl, and change the process type to a numeric, as the constants will be unavailable.
VB 1: Perform a default cube process, as no ProcessType is specified, and return the time taken.
Dim objDSOCtrl As New DSOCtrl.OLAPProc objDSOCtrl.ProcessCube ".", "FoodMart", "Sales" MsgBox objDSOCtrl.ProcessDuration
VB 2: Assign properties individually and perform a default cube process.
Dim objDSOCtrl As New DSOCtrl.OLAPProc objDSOCtrl.Server = "." objDSOCtrl.Database = "FoodMart" objDSOCtrl.Cube = "Sales" objDSOCtrl.ProcessType = processDefault objDSOCtrl.ProcessCube
VB 3: Use the ConnectCube method and return the last processed. Then process the cube and return the date again, and the time taken.
Dim objDSOCtrl As New DSOCtrl.OLAPProc objDSOCtrl.ConnectCube ".", "FoodMart", "Sales" MsgBox objDSOCtrl.LastProcessed objDSOCtrl.ProcessCube , , , processFull MsgBox objDSOCtrl.LastProcessed MsgBox objDSOCtrl.ProcessDuration
T-SQL: I have created a two stored procedure samples as wrappers around the sp_OAxxxx code required to utilise DSOCtrl. Both require the two OLE Automation Return Codes and Error Information stored procedures detailed in SQL Server Books Online (msoleerror.sql)
sp_DSOCtrl_ProcessCube (spDSOCtrlProcessCube.sql) This example will process the cube Sales in the FoodMart DB on the local server.
EXEC master.dbo.sp_DSOCtrl_ProcessCube ".", "FoodMart", "Sales"
sp_DSOCtrl_ProcessAllDimensions (spDSOCtrlProcessAllDimensions.sql) This example will process all dimensions in the FoodMart DB on the local server. The process duration is returned as an output parameter and printed.
DECLARE @ProcessDuration datetime EXEC master.dbo.sp_DSOCtrl_ProcessAllDimensions ".", "FoodMart", @ProcessDuration OUTPUT PRINT CONVERT(char(8), @ProcessDuration, 108)
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Thanks so much to everyone for all your sweet comments on my good fortune!!
A few pics from the new Master Bedroom re-do...
Only half of the room is done, so we are going to just call this "part 1" of the tour..
Hanging lamps: Ikea, side table from sweet neighbors
Some of our bedding, up close & personal -
mixture of thrifted finds and sale items. I have about 3 quilts and a dozen pillowcases that I mix & match and switch around all year long.
This was my mood this day...
My nook, oh how I love thee...
My only rule for this space - "no boys allowed!"
dressing table: Salvation Army, Chantilly Powder: from my Maw
b&w postcards collected since High School and the first time Tracy & I watched the movie Singles many moons ago
... so happy to see them out for viewing again.
Held on the wall with pearlized straight pins
Mirror from those great neighbors of ours, wall lamps from Ikea Kids. Couldn't resist the sweet dancing frogs!
Our new paint color is Rainwashed from Sherwin-Williams. I picked up a gallon 3/4 full @ our Habitat for Humanity ReStore center. Now I need to go to buy some more so we can finish the rest of the room...
* A note about the curtains:
The curtains where designed by me and made by my mother. There are a combined 5 fabrics on each panel. This layered panel has become my trademark with curtains - my clients houses are full of them! I have plans for a large layered roman shade for the kitchen, but even as I type this I can feel my mother tearing out her hair. She is a good woman to put up with -and go along with - all my crazy ideas!


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Dear E. Jean: My boyfriend has the palate of a seven-year-old (Twinkies, soda, etc.), snacks all day, and has gained 15 pounds. I exercise five times a week for his and my benefit—and I feel cheated! How do I get him to get in shape?
A: I don't like women telling men how to look. You must love your dude for who and what he is. P.S. But I guess it wouldn't hurt if you mentioned your "fantastically ripped" new male trainer two or three times a day.
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