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Today was a fairytale
55 comments:
- ergyerg said...
Pretty dress! Like the lace trim :D xxxxxxx
- June 7, 2010 at 12:18 AM
- Naka said...
i lvoe the ring and ur dress ^^ cute photos ^^
- June 7, 2010 at 12:25 AM
- Luci Ana said...
Wonderful Dress :)
- June 7, 2010 at 12:31 AM
- Carmen said...
Such lovely photos! I love the dress, and the shoes, so pretty!
Carmen.xx. - June 7, 2010 at 12:33 AM
- la-vie-de-mademoiselle-e said...
Lovely photo's. You look very pretty and the vintage car is awesome!
Love, E - June 7, 2010 at 1:52 AM
- BALLET NEWS said...
Beautiful outfit ! Looks as though you had a wonderful time !
- June 7, 2010 at 2:35 AM
- Sarai and Helena. said...
Cute photos! :)
xx, H. - June 7, 2010 at 2:41 AM
- S.Elisabeth said...
Sadly I've never been to a wedding! My cousins, who are the ones I would go see, are far from marital bells.
Btw you look lovely! Haha and hey the car is a gorgeous color, so matching it isn't a bad thing at all! - June 7, 2010 at 3:20 AM
- Tuesday said...
Lovin your dress and THE SHOES!!! I'm a sucker for Mary Jane haiz!
You must have been at the age where most of your friends are getting married, watch out for more and for your own :))))
Happy Monday sweetie! - June 7, 2010 at 3:28 AM
- Jen said...
You look gorgeous! I love the car and the quote on the dove-shaped paper. Really pretty.
Dressing up is surely the best bit of a wedding? I think so, anyway! x - June 7, 2010 at 4:18 AM
- Tanvi said...
I love attending wedding too ... exactly for the same reason :) ... You look super cute and chic in your dress!
- June 7, 2010 at 4:25 AM
- Clochette said...
It's been a long time that I haven't been on this blog I'm so sorry! I love this style, you're so cute ! Do you plan to get married too ? You and your BF are so cute and In love! I would love to see you in a cute / retro wedding dress darling ! :)
- June 7, 2010 at 4:34 AM
- Krimly said...
I also like that about weddings!! because I dress up with a beautiful dress!
I like your photos and the car is so beautiful! :) - June 7, 2010 at 5:55 AM
- un petit lapin said...
You always seem to be going to a wedding!
You look lovely as always <3 - June 7, 2010 at 6:15 AM
- eunice said...
i love attending weddings too! you look beautiful in that white dress! :)
heyfancypants.blogspot.com - June 7, 2010 at 9:06 AM
- ye55i said...
I always love the wedding ceremony.. =) and lovely white dress.. so cute.
- June 7, 2010 at 11:20 AM
- Claradevi Handriatmadja said...
Gorgeous, Sher! The white dress looks stunning on you and they matched with the hand-pickedaccessories you wear. I should say you look so much a fine-lady :)
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Sunflares Plethora - June 7, 2010 at 11:44 AM
- Miss Caitlin S. said...
Oh, how beautiful!!!! You look great with the car- and your sister and you are so cute together. You have a way with the camera and I hope the day was as gorgeous as it looks (well you did call today a fairytale, so i'm going to assume yes)
- June 7, 2010 at 12:14 PM
- ★ Nina Saiful said...
Awww your blog is so sweet and dreamy! I'm going to follow your blog, for sure :)
And you look stunning in that white dress!
Classique chérie - June 7, 2010 at 2:30 PM
- Rose said...
You look really lovelY! such a pretty dress, and great that you matched that lovely wedding car :)
I wish that I could go to more weddings, the last one I went to was about 4 years ago. None of my friends are married and mine and Mikeys family members just dont seem to be getting married!
Rose - June 7, 2010 at 3:31 PM
- katrina said...
i would have to agree with you: dressing up is perhaps my most favorite thing about weddings. you look beautiful, Sher.
- June 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM
- Friend in Fashion said...
You look as pretty as a picture! Such a pretty dress, and lovely accessories :)
I love weddings too!
Luv, Friend in Fashion
x - June 7, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- the crafty currant said...
oh i love this ... hehe!! Well Done on your colour co-ordination. I am going to a wedding in a few weeks and I'm wearing a really loud dress with brightly coloured bird on it ... I will be worried if I match the wedding car at that one!! x
- June 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM
- janettaylor said...
U look so divine, darling!
♥ - June 7, 2010 at 6:20 PM
- Josephine Tale Peddler said...
You look so pretty in these photos. I can imagine your wedding photos - you will be a fairy princess. xx
- June 7, 2010 at 6:29 PM
- Karen said...
Beautiful photos and the car...ohhhh love it!!
You look beautiful!
xoxo - June 7, 2010 at 6:40 PM
- Fashion, Art and other fancies said...
I adore the romance of weddings - you look a picture of elegance, my sweet one - and that splash of colour with the red belt is so refreshing on a pure, white dress, too. Oh, that ring is pretty!
Glad to hear you enjoyed the event;-) - June 7, 2010 at 6:53 PM
- pensandlens said...
Oh how much I love weddings also...I always cry at weddings :D
i love the dress Sher plus the red belt that gives a chic look...for wedding ceremony...
take care
much love,
http://pensandlens.wordpress.com - June 7, 2010 at 9:49 PM
- Keith said...
You look incredible. That's a beautiful dress.
- June 7, 2010 at 9:49 PM
- Vivian said...
you look amazing!!
love your dress and bracelet<3 - June 7, 2010 at 10:06 PM
- A N A S T A S Y A said...
ahhh gorgeous car, and so do you!!
new follower here!! - June 7, 2010 at 10:42 PM
- Raptor Plateado said...
- June 8, 2010 at 12:20 AM
- Rachel {Inspiration in Italy} said...
My darling, you are stunning. These photos are SO GORGEOUS! The 2nd photo is my favourite, and how perfect that you matched the car. It all looks so magical and your shoes are amazing. I love dressing up for weddings too, so glad you had a great time.
Rachel - June 8, 2010 at 2:22 AM
- Missy M said...
you look beautiful in white sweetie x
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- The Starving Stylist said...
love the pop of red on the belt on the dress.
www.thestarvingstylist.com - June 8, 2010 at 4:13 AM
- S and O said...
Love that ring ;)
what a gorgeous car!
your dress is lovely...
Olivia - June 8, 2010 at 4:25 AM
- Mo said...
ooo how nice you look ! it"s been soooo long since ive been to a wedding actually i think i was like 10 years old last time... :(
- June 8, 2010 at 5:10 AM
- jess said...
I like the top of your dress and the ring.
- June 8, 2010 at 5:21 AM
- a la Modest said...
I absolutely love this outfit especially with the socks!
- June 8, 2010 at 7:28 AM
- Sophie said...
i love this!!
and your blog :) I am going to follow it.. please follow mine too!!
sunnypeaches.blogspot.com - June 8, 2010 at 8:05 AM
- anna said...
Adorable! ^^
- June 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- ☆Monica-Ai☆ said...
Thanks for your concern about my illness :) I feel much better now.
That's a great outfit and you do kind of match the car. Great that you got to model with it too! hehe
Also, I know what you mean about the whole going to weddings and dressing up. Since I'm not in school or on Hawaii anymore, I never find time to dress up. I miss wearing pretty dresses and putting on tons of makeup and doing my hair. :(((( - June 8, 2010 at 11:36 AM
- Amanda said...
You look gorgeous! I just discovered your blog and I love it! Definitely following:]
- June 8, 2010 at 12:58 PM
- Leah said...
I can already imagine you walking down the aisle... I know you will be the sweetest bride on earth. Love your dress... great that you matched the wedding motif.
Have a great week Sher! xoxo - June 8, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- beckyxoxo said...
Wow you attend so many weddings ! Haha . Lovely dress anyway ! And I love your shoes too ;)
- June 8, 2010 at 1:46 PM
- Fashion Cappuccino said...
You look so cute in that dress Sher!! I love the belt too!! I think weddings are a great occasion to dress up and feel fancy :-) xxoxoxoxoo
- June 8, 2010 at 2:08 PM
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I really love the dress you wore;] - June 8, 2010 at 2:21 PM
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- surfvintage said...
Congratulations to them! You are so chic!
- June 8, 2010 at 4:52 PM
- Kasia said...
you look lovely girl!;)
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- ellie said...
so sweet.
- June 8, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Jennifer said...
I was at a wedding Saturday, too. I love your pictures. SO CUTE!
- June 9, 2010 at 3:29 AM
- Shelby said...
I really love this outfit! I have been searching for the perfect red belt for a while now. I wish I had yours!
- June 9, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- Diane said...
Great match with that awesome car!And thanks for sharing these pics with the love objects, they're so sweet...
kiss - June 9, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- PinkBow said...
this outfit is so perfect for the occasion
- June 10, 2010 at 2:29 AM


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August 25, 2011
Proba-2 Fuel Tank Refilled From 'Solid Gas'
Sometimes all it takes is fresh air to get a new lease of life. ESA´s Proba-2 microsatellite is a good example: an influx of nitrogen has replenished its fuel tank, in the process demonstrating a whole new space technology.
On 16 August a telecommand was sent from ESA´s Redu ground station in Belgium to boost the gases in Proba-2´s unusual ℠resistojet´ engine.Used to maintain the microsatellite´s orbit at 600 km altitude, this experimental engine runs on xenon gas heated before ejection to provide added thrust.
The command added nitrogen gas to the fuel tank, bringing its pressure close to its launch level.
"What makes this repressurization unique is that the added gas was not stored in a pressurized state but produced from a solid material at room temperature, the first of four ℠cool-gas generators´ on Proba-2," explained Laurens van Vliet of Dutch research organization TNO, which developed the technology.
"Nitrogen, like xenon, is an inert, non-reactive gas, so the resistojet can work just as well with a xenon—nitrogen mixture."
The bottle-shaped cool-gas generators are filled with a rigid solid material that, once triggered, produces more than 250 times its own volume in pure nitrogen gas.
"The generators are a huge step forward because they can be stored without pressure with no danger of leaking, and require no maintenance," added Berry Sanders of TNO. "Proba´s generators had not been touched in six years.
"This is very different to standard systems with gas under pressure, which are much more complex and need regular checking and maintenance."
The other three generators will be used later in Proba-2´s orbital lifetime.
TNO designed the Proba-2 cool-gas experiment in close cooperation with Netherlands-based Bradford Engineering, responsible for constructing it. The resistojet design came from UK company Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd while the experiment was integrated with the satellite by Belgium's QinetiQ Space.
The technology had been fast-tracked for space by the Dutch National Space Office as part of ESA´s General Support Technology Programme, supporting the development of promising prototypes into flight-ready hardware.
"With this test the technology has been ℠space-proven´, such demonstrations being one of the main goals of the Proba-2 mission," concluded Mr Sanders.
It now has many other potential uses in space, including propulsion systems, oxygen production for astronauts and inflatable structures such as antennas, booms, landing airbags and full-sized habitat modules.
TNO and its partners are also looking at a range of terrestrial applications where it would remain dormant for most — preferably all — of its life but would have to work reliably in emergency situations, including fire extinguishers, inflating life rafts or vehicle airbags.
TNO is in the process of transferring the intellectual property involved to a dedicated company, CGG Technology BV.
About Proba-2
Proba-2 is the latest in ESA´s Project for Onboard Autonomy series of satellites, dedicated to the in-orbit demonstration of innovative technologies.
Proba-2 was launched on 2 November 2009. Less than a cubic meter in volume, it carries a total of 17 new technologies and four science payloads focused on the Sun and space weather.
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His latest, The Invention of Love, opens with AE Housman, author of "A Shropshire Lad" and the pre-eminent classicist of his generation, standing on the banks of the river Styx. Some scholars think the Styx was a river in Arcadia. It would be neat if it was: for Stoppard's awesomely erudite and entertaining play springs in many ways from the same source as his last one. It shares with Arcadia (as well as the radio play In the Native State, later staged as Indian Ink) a fascination with the interconnected- ness between then and now, the unreliability of evidence, the haphazardness of what survives.
We first see John Wood as the elderly Housman, in a three-piece suit, blinking at the spotlight, arching a whiskery eyebrow and peering into the gloom. Dry ice swirls around his boots. He reacts well to the sight: "I'm dead then. Good." A memory play that divides its central character into his younger and older self, The Invention of Love tracks back from Housman's death in 1936 to his arrival at Oxford in the late 1870s, cutting between Hades and Oxford, Bayswater, Ealing, Shropshire and Dieppe. Those are only a few of the directions in which the play travels. Time is another, as the conversation shuttles between pagan and Christian societies with the nimbleness of someone flicking channels. The way Housman talks about them, the Sacred Band of 300 Thebans, who died as comrades in arms at the battle of Chaeronea, might have been chaps in another college.
Wood plays the 77-year-old "AEH" with a tremendous mix of pedagogical choler, scepticism and lingering pain. His command of Stop- pard's elaborately structured speeches is masterly: wafting a cupped hand in the air, like a conductor bringing in the wind section for a delicate passage, Wood narrows his eyes and skewers a fellow critic. The play brims with insider knowledge, peppery observation and magisterial insight. Stoppard may introduce all sorts of activities - croquet, billiards, boating, picnics, athletics - but these are mere concessions to the business in hand. Talking. Up here, in this heady stratosphere of learning, Latin and Greek exert a seductive pull. While some playwrights lecture us in the belief that we're stupid, Stoppard lectures us in the belief that we're intelligent.
At Oxford, the young Housman - beautifully played by Paul Rhys as a quivering thoroughbred, a fiercely sensitive and gentle soul - meets Moses Jackson (Robert Portal), an athlete and scientist, who becomes the unrequited love of his life. He also learns about a fellow undergraduate, Oscar Wilde. Stoppard has returned to Wilde, but this time he uses his life as the background for his portrait of Housman.
When Housman comes down from Oxford, without a degree, he takes lodgings in Bayswater with Jackson. They both work at Her Majesty's Patent Office. One question that Housman is not required to deliberate on is who exactly invented love. He could tell his employers (as he tells us) about Cornelius Gallus, whose one extant line puts him ahead of Propertius as the first of the Roman love elegists.
Questions about the love between men - what it is and how our conception of it has changed - are realised in three strikingly emotional scenes. One occurs when the stoutly heterosexual Jackson challenges Housman over whether he is "sweet" on him. Another occurs when Housman meets Wilde (after his release from prison) and the destinies - of the introvert and the extrovert - are vigorously contrasted.
The third occurs when the older and younger Housman sit on a bench in Hades. The red and weathered face stares at the white and translucent one, aware of the grief ahead. Here Housman's second passion is powerfully demonstrated. In an uncompromising defence of textual criticism ("the crown and summit of scholarship"), Wood reveals the damage done to a Catullus poem by a misplaced comma. "It's where we're nearest to our humanness," says Rhys, later. "Useless knowledge for its own sake."
Stoppard broadens the social context to include fruity cameos of the Oxford intellectuals Ruskin, Jowett and Pater (seized with relish by Benjamin Whitrow, John Carlisle and Robin Soans), who play croquet and pronounce on art, education and morality, and the London journalists Henry Labouchere, WT Stead and Frank Harris (the same actors, the same relish), who play billiards and pronounce on newspapers, sex and morality. If the joke quota in this mature, impassioned play is stricter than you might expect, the aphorisms are in full flow ("biography is the mesh through which our real life escapes", and so on). Anthony Ward's set of tall library shelves with grey leather-bound tomes acts as an oblique tribute to Stoppard's voluminous research. The Invention of Love is Richard Eyre's final production as director of the National. This week - and it could have been other ones - four of the "Five Best Plays" recommended on the Going Out page are on at his theatre. We've been very lucky.
The story behind the musical Maddie is as appealing as the musical itself. It opened in Salisbury to rave notices , but failed to transfer. The Daily Telegraph's critic told his readers and they responded with pounds 150,000. Last week it opened in the West End. In another musical developed out of workshops with Stephen Sondheim (a genre I'm becoming wary of), Nick and Jan move into a dilapidated San Francisco apartment and discover it is haunted by a 1920s dancer, Madeleine Marsh. She takes over the body of Jan - both roles played by the radiant American newcomer Summer Rognlie - and Jan now has the chance to do something about her "nothinglife".
Maddie isn't terrible. It has clever-enough lyrics by Shaun McKenna, one of those just-what-you-might-expect showbiz scores from Stephen Keeling, and a book (McKenna and Steven Dexter) that mines similar themes to the Donmar's Sondheimesque Enter the Guardsman: stale marriages and having sex with your partner while thinking they're someone else. You need to be Sondheim or Peter Nichols to jolt us with an insight about marriage: Maddie approaches it through the tired conventions of musical comedy.
The Comedie Francaise returned to London for the first time in 25 years to open the French Theatre season with a cooly passionate production by their artistic director Jean-Pierre Miquel of Marivaux's psychological comedy Les Fausses Confidences. Miquel's semi-abstract set of a curving wooden wall and billowing curtain carries unfortunate hints of a car showroom. But elsewhere in this immaculately poised production, as the penniless young lawyer Dorante attempts to win a wealthy young widow, Araminte, the deceptions, shifts in status, and unexpected blossoming of relationships are made impressively clear. To see the elegant Comte (Andrzej Seweryn) seated at the table, with shiny shoes and white button-hole, with one hand on his silver-topped cane, the other holding a glass of red wine, is to be reminded of something crucial about playing Marivaux. It isn't gulp, gulp, gulp. It's sniff ... sip ... sniff ... sip ... sniff ... sip. The distinctions are exacting.
'The Invention of Love': Cottesloe, SE1 (0171 928 2252). 'Maddie': Lyric, W1 (0171 494 5045).
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We have been waiting on the Niceguys' new project, James Kelley, ever since the Houston group leaked the effort's lead single, "Ari Gold," back in March. They have put a release date on hold, it seems, to make way for the biggest collaboration of their career. The "Ari Gold" remix finds Niceguys rapper Yves spitting alongside his mentor, fellow Texan Bun B. It also features a somehow even more raucous production, which does the whole hard guitar-based hip-hop beat thing without sounding corny. It's a little hectic, sure, but it works. You can stream the remix below and download it here.
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A Beginners Story-
This has been my experiences over the last couple of months As a newbie/beginner I thought I would share my experiences for all other newbies-you may pick something up- and maybe for some others you may get a chuckle out of my inexperience- Everything listed was learned by NOT doing it the right way- Just learning all this as I go.
So, let me begin by saying that EVERYTHING takes 3x longer then you think it will and it seems I use 3x the amount of product I think I will need!
The first cake I made- can I just tell you my kitchen was a complete disaster- really a disaster. I have gotten a little better, but there is still *at least *an hour of clean up involved at the end. That darn powdered sugar and buttercream has a mind of its own. Here are my suggestions in reference to that:
1) Start with a clean kitchen- dishwasher, sink- empty garbage pail (one that open with your foot is great)
2) Have plenty of paper towels, off the roll, stacked for easy access and plenty of clean dishtowels (I seem to go through 4 or 5 for one 2 – 3 tired cake- Is that a lot??)
3) I line as much as possible now-(under my mixer, on my table when torting and filling etc.)- lately I have been using the packing paper from the *many *shipments of cake supplies that I get. It seems I never have what I need- the right sized pan, fondant, cutter -I don't think there has been one cake that I have just used what I had on hand, I just have to buy/order something.
4) Two clean sponges (one is in hot soapy water at all times)
5) I leave a large bowl of hot soapy (Dawn) water in my sink- I throw all my used utensils in as I go
6) A pump liquid soap dispenser is absolutely one of my most favorite things-I'm now thinking the ones that dispense automatically when you run your hand under it might even be better!
7) A swifter wet and dry would be great to have- on my list to get.
9) Take the time to clean everything before you go to bed-(* IF you go to bed, for my first cake- I stayed up _ALL*_ night and then had to take the day off work to finish) no matter what time it is now, I clean everything-I even mop- this way I can enjoy my coffee before going to my real job. (Ha)
Baking also presents some challenges- especially if you don't have multiple of the same size pan. I'm gathering at this point you are picking up on the mistakes I have made- ugh!
1) Make sure you use parchment and/or cake release
2) The bake even strips, flower nails and heating cores are from heaven (fab tip I picked up from other posts)
3) Seems silly but a cake tester is a necessary tool- I tried to improvise- not a good idea.
4) Bake ahead of time- don't wait till the last minute- actually freezing the cakes helps to keep them moist
5) Check your supplies/ingredients (again –the hard way)
6) Cooling racks are your friend (3 is working well for me)
7) Make sure there is room in your freezer ahead of time if you plan on freezing your cakes-which usually entails me cooking some really large dinners for my son ahead of time- he's thrilled.
Now on to the decorating, the fun part: My first few times were not fun for me at all, I didn't have the right tools- I didn't even know what tools I needed:
1) Organization-although next to impossible, is helpful. I can't figure out how to move these bins and boxes from my dining room- where is everyone putting/storing their supplies???I'm in a wreck over here and it is only getting worse!
2) If making flowers, bows, etc. make sure you leave time enough for them to dry – I had an issue with a cross I made from RI- (make extra of necessary pieces, they tend to break-at the worst possible time)
3) Borders are an important detail. I had not been giving it much thought until the very end, consider it part of the design. The cake bases as well, use your imagination to cover them and add ribbons to the edges- I still have not mastered this- I always run out of time
4) Crumb coats are exactly that, crumbs will get in- after many tears and frustration, I have learned to accept this
5) The first cakes will NOT look like the beautiful, smooth, level, gorgeous ones posted here and they definitely will not look like the cakes from TV.
7) Prep more ganache, buttercream and filling then you think you will need, you can freeze the extra- that is if you can find room in your freezer.
8) Make sure you damn your fillings- this will help with the dreaded bulge
9) The Silicone Mat to roll fondant is great- but DO NOT use your exacto knife on it- it is NOT self-healing (ugh!!) I have recently discovered "The Mat" by Sweetwise- LOVE IT, also not self-healing, don't cut on it!
10) I'm still having so much trouble with moving cakes around – from the cooling rack to the cakeboard, to the drum-etc- I seem to go through so many cake boards- I know I'm doing something wrong here- just haven't figured out what yet.
11) Take pictures along the way- you will be happy you did when you are done
12) Air bubbles- in the cake, buttercream AND fondant-ugh!!! HATE them- enough said.
13) Make sure your base is strong enough- the cakes are much heavier than you think
14) No matter how hard I try- I never seem to have out what I need- ensuring that I will have to rummage through the bins and cardboard boxes that I have all my supplies in-
15) An Agbay would be a gift I would cry over- aahhh someday…..
16) Lie to yourself and have your cake "due" the day/night before its actual due date- believe me , you will thank me for this one. Also, leave yourself much more time to drive the cake to the location- go slow and bring a repair kit
And lastly- be patient with yourself, accept the praise you get, you deserve it. Most people have no idea how much work, effort and cost goes into the making of the cake- that's what CakesDecor is for (ha).
After reading this- can you just imagine what went on here during the creation of my first few cakes- it was NOT pretty- and my first cake should have wound up as an article in a Cake Disaster section- it melted, literally melted, in the car while I was at the Graduation Ceremony-yeah, the one I stayed up all night and missed work for (many tears were shed- actually I'm still not over it)
So this is my tale of what I have garnered over the last few months- hope it helps someonethat is beginning- and lent a chuckleor two to the pros.
Happy Caking


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If you've made a visit to ESPN.com's lacrosse section any time within the last five years, you may have thought you were looking at a stagnant page. Stories from the previous spring would grace the screen for months at a time, moving only when the higher ups at the World Wide Leader thought it was time to throw the lacrosse community a bone.
There were even "what is lacrosse?" style articles written by Quint Kessenich, making the sport look as if it were some side show that nobody outside of New England had heard about.
Recently however, the sports giant has started to pay attention to the fastest game on two feet. The top four articles on the lacrosse page were written within the last two days, covering everything from the college game to the NLL. Granted, much of the content is swiped straight from Inside Lacrosse, but even Kessenich's articles have transitioned from "how-to" guides to thoughtful analysis of the current state of the game.
Maybe it's because of the recent influx of games being shown on ESPNU, or because more people are marking lacrosse as their primary sport on their ESPN Profiles. Whatever it is, ESPN is starting to recognize our game as both legitimate and worth its time.
But why should we care what might bring ESPN and lacrosse together?
After all, we have sites like this to help fans get their lacrosse fix.
I agree, and I also believe that the most passionate and highest quality content will come from sites run by current and former players that still have a hand in the lacrosse community (i.e. LacrosseAllStars.com). But whether we like it or not, ESPN's opinion of a sport is a huge factor in determining whether or not the game is considered to be on the fringe, or mainstream. Without that "mainstream" moniker, the game will have a hard time growing.
Perhaps one day lacrosse will be one of the sports with a link right at the top of ESPN.com's main page. For now, I'm just happy I'm reading about 2009.


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6.4: Area of Triangles
Learning Objectives
- Use formulas to find the area of triangles.
Example 1
How could we find the area of this triangle?
Make it into a parallelogram. This can be done by making a copy of the original triangle and putting the copy together with the original. As you can see in the diagram below, one triangle looks the same as the one above, and the other is upside down.
When you put the 2 triangles together, they make a parallelogram. The area of the parallelogram is bh, and since we used 2 triangles to make the parallelogram, the area of the triangle is half of
How many triangles are used to make up the parallelogram above? __________
Warning: Notice that the height
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1. In a triangle, the height and the base in a must be ____________________________ because they form a
2. Another name for the height of a triangle is the ___________________.
Area of a Triangle
If a triangle has base
Reading Check
1. True or False: In a triangle, the base and the height intersect at an obtuse angle.
2. True or False: Multiplying by
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"The Irish economy certainly is in a recession and, by the rule-of-thumb definition, we're in a depression. The economy will fall by more than 10% from peak to trough. However, it is understandable that we don't use the word 'depression' – as that word conjures up scenes of mass deprivation and extreme poverty in a time before a modern welfare state.
The issue of when the economy returns to quarterly growth will be more than just a statistical fact – it will be highly politicised. Optimistic forecasters predict the economy – on a quarter-by-quarter basis – will go into the black as early as the first quarter of next year. Others suggest it will occur later. Whoever is right, we will probably see GNP increase on quarter-by-quarter basis sometime next year".
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The Siege: Agent of Rome by Nick Brown
Oct 4, 2011
The Siege – Agent of Rome – is screenwriter Nick Brown`s first foray into novel writing; the two are surprisingly different disciplines, but Brown has crossed the divide with some aplomb. Cassius Corbulo is a young officer whose well-connected family have landed him a commission in the Emperor`s secret service – one of the corn-men (frumentarii) as they were known. He`s despatched to Palmyra during Queen Zenobia`s revolt and receives orders to take command of the fort of Alauran…
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ECB Keeps Interest Rates as Investors Seek Policy Hints
Jana Randow and Stefan RiecherThe European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged at a record low amid rising bond yields in the region and pressure for President Mario Draghi to give investors hints on his future policy.
ECB officials meeting in Frankfurt today left the main refinancing rate at 0.5 percent after reducing it by a quarter point in May. The decision was predicted by 61 of 62 economists in a Bloomberg News survey, with Morgan Stanley the only institution forecasting a cut. Draghi will hold a press conference at 2:30 p.m.
With Portugal's 10-year bond yield yesterday climbing above 8 percent for the first time since November and the Federal Reserve signaling it may withdraw monetary stimulus, investors are now seeking assurance from the ECB president that it has no plans to end its current accommodative stance. Some economists are suggesting Draghi will go a step further and offer commitments on the path of interest rates.
"Forward guidance is something they probably will venture into," said Nick Matthews, senior European economist at Nomura International Plc in London. "If you get closer to the lower bound and have an external environment in which rates, especially in the U.S., are moving higher, the ECB has to differentiate itself."
Whatever It Takes
The ECB held its deposit rate at zero and its marginal lending rate at 1 percent. The Bank of England kept its bond-purchase target at 375 billion pounds ($567 billion) and maintained its key rate at 0.5 percent today, while saying in a statement that the "significant upward movement in market interest rates" weighs on the outlook for the economy.
Almost a year after Draghi halted an increase in borrowing costs by saying he'll do "whatever it takes" to save the euro, bond investors are signaling that more is needed, in words if not in deeds. The ECB president used a form of forward guidance in March when he said for the first time that monetary policy "will remain accommodative for as long as needed." With some economic indicators showing an improvement, his challenge now is to pledge that the central bank will keep rates low without compromising its inflation goal or boxing itself into a corner.
Additional guidance
Additional forward guidance may help the ECB keep market interest rates in the 17-nation euro area from rising to levels that threaten to prevent the currency bloc emerging from its longest-ever recession.
"Draghi will use the press conference to reassure banks and markets that there is a consensus in favor of an accommodative policy," said Christian Schulz, an economist at Berenberg Bank in London. "He will provide everything short of Fed-style forward guidance to signal that the ECB will keep rates very low, liquidity provision generous and the OMT commitment credible as long as necessary."
OMT, or Outright Monetary Transactions, is the ECB's as-yet-unused pledge to buy the bonds of crisis-hit countries in the euro area that sign up to reform conditions. Since its inception in September, it has contained sovereign borrowing costs in debt-strapped countries.
Bond yields in Portugal spiraled this week after the resignation of two of the nation's ministers sparked concern austerity fatigue will derail fiscal reforms. Yields also climbed in Italy and Spain while declining in Germany.
Guidance Risks
The theory behind forward guidance is that it boosts weaker economies by lowering the anticipated path of interest rates while signaling the bank will tolerate higher inflation. The Fed has gone the furthest among major central banks by tying changes in its benchmark rate directly to indicators for employment and inflation, setting thresholds for the lifespan of easy money.
The ECB is looking "carefully" at the U.S. experience, Executive Board member Benoit Coeure said in an interview with The Times last week.
Still, the Fed's example shows that forward guidance comes with risks. Financial markets slumped after Fed chairman Ben S. Bernanke said June 19 that the central bank could stop purchasing assets around the middle of next year when joblessness "would likely be in the vicinity of 7 percent."
Central bankers including Draghi, the then Bank of England Governor Mervyn King and ECB Governing Council members said a week later an exit to current monetary policy is "distant."
Price Stability
For the ECB, "guidance linked to real economic benchmarks - à la the Fed - is less likely, as highlighted by the problems of forward guidance in the U.S.," Michala Marcussen, global head of economics at Societe Generale SA in London, said in a note this week. It also risks "possibly diluting the ECB's primary objective of price stability," she said.
ECB policy makers have said that the central bank's primary goal of price stability won't change and that inflation rates above two percent won't be tolerated in the medium term. At the same time, Draghi has several options to choose from when extending forward guidance.
He could tell investors how long low interest rates will last, mirroring an existing commitment to supply unlimited liquidity to euro-area banks against collateral until mid-2014. If new Bank of England Governor Mark Carney's policy at his former job at the Bank of Canada is an inspiration, the ECB might commit to keep rates low for a set period of time, unless inflation spirals above a target.
Delphic Guidance
Fixing the rate charged on longer-term refinancing operations would be a more indirect commitment to keep rates unchanged. At the moment, the interest banks pay is linked to the average of the ECB's benchmark over the life of the loan.
"The most likely form of guidance is a statement that exit is 'very distant,'" said Richard Barwell, senior European economist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in London. "But it is possible that the Council will go the whole hog and commit to time-contingent Delphic guidance to coincide with what is already being done on the liquidity operations."
Draghi said on June 26 in Paris that he has an "open mind" about all possible instruments. Last month, he said options include charging banks for depositing money with the ECB, easing collateral rules, reviving the market for asset-backed securities and providing investors with greater guidance on how long borrowing costs will stay low.
While euro-area unemployment rose to a record 12.2 percent in May, other indicators have signaled the economy may recover under current monetary policy. Confidence in the currency bloc jumped to the highest level in more than a year in June, a gauge of manufacturing and services output improved for third month and industrial output rose for a third month in April.
"Draghi will probably address the latest increase in bond yields," said Carsten Brzeski, senior economist at ING in Brussels. "He will not use traditional policy tools but rather central bankers' other powerful tool: words."


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Before Farmville, before Angry Birds, there was Pac-Man. A little yellow circle with a wedge taken out of it proved to be a true mainstream gaming phenomenon decades before the medium would re-realize that possibility with the advent of smartphones and Facebook. And Namco wants you to have a hand in choosing the art style for an upcoming title in the series.
This Facebook quiz asks you to select one of these little drawings of Pac and his ghosts, then asks a few basic questions about yourself – gender, whether or not you're between the ages of 13 and 40, and what you're favorite casual game system is. It looks like the company is trying to recapture a little of the casual gamer magic it had back in the eighties, albeit in a significantly more competitive ecosystem. Myself, I have to agree with Joystiq and pick D -- there's something entrancing about those screwed-up little Tim Burtonesque faces. I'm going to guess that C wins out, however.


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Haption, designer and manufacturer of Force-feedback Systems, discusses their solutions for the simulation and virtual reality markets
Haption designs and manufactures a range of force-feedback systems which are also known as haptic systems. The company's roots are in research, and they bring that heritage to professionals with haptic systems designed for a variety of markets.
Whenever you have a virtual reality environment, you simulate an interaction with objects via a virtual environment. When you cannot "feel" what you are doing, then an important part of the virtual "reality" is missing. Haptic robotics increase the real interaction in many virtual environments.


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God wants you to know that He loves you and wants you to experience peace and life…abundant and eternal. The Bible says… "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16
Our Problem: Separation
God created us in His own image to have an abundant life. He did not make us like robots to automatically love and obey Him, but gave us a will and a freedom of choice. When we chose to disobey God and go our willful way, the penalty was eternal separation from God. The Bible says… "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23
The Solution: Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is the only answer to this problem. He died on the Cross and rose from the grave, paying the penalty for our sins and bridging the gap between God and man. The Bible says… "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
Our Response: Repentance
Admit to God that you are a sinner and be willing to turn from your sins.
Believe in your heart that Jesus Christ died on the cross to cover your sins and that God raised Him from the dead.
Pray for Jesus to come into your heart and allow Him to control your life through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Bible says... "...if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9
What to Pray:
Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner and need Your forgiveness. I believe that You died for my sins. Now I want to turn from my sins and invite You to come into my heart. I want to trust and follow You as Lord and Savior of my life. In the name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
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The sexy siren of Ramaiya Vastavaiya is annoyed with Girish's histrionics. Our lost in translation efforts could be equally nerve-wracking. Take a look!
The latest song Hip hop Pammi from Shruti Haasan and Girish Kumar's forthcoming venture Ramaiya Vastavaiya is already moving up the popularity chart, thanks to its quirky lyrics. In the video, we see the newbie Girish trying woo his lady love with his unimpressive dance moves and histrionics. We tried to translate this number into English just to see if we can match up to Kumar's madness but our humble efforts got lost in translation and how!
Pa pa pa Pammi
Tu meri History Tu Philosophy yu Loveology
Pa pa pa pammi
Are sun yeh meri gal
Chal mere naal chal
Ban tu meri soni girl
Pa pa pa Pummy
O bajne de dhol oh girl
Aa mere naal oh girl
Bajne de dhol aa meri girl
Sun dil ke bol ab tu
Pa Pa Pammi
You are my history, you philosophy you loveology
Pa Pa Pammi
Hey listen to my problem
Come with me come
Become my good girl
Pa Pa Pammi
Oh girl let the dhol hit
Come with me oh girl
Let the dhol hit, come my girl
Listen to heart's word you now
Kar Le Na Hip Hop Hip Hop Pammi
Kar Le Na Hip Hop Hip Hop Pammi
Do it no hip hop Pammi
Do it no hip hop Pammi
Now Shruti doing Hip hop has certainly made us go bonkers. You tell us BollywoodLifers, if you too are impressed with the babe's charming persona in this Pummy number?


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Protect your laptop! Lauinger Library has partnered with the Department of Public Safety, the Student Safety Advisory Board and University Information Services to help eliminate laptop thefts in the Library and around campus. On Monday, February 25, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., we'll be hosting an information fair in Lauinger's lobby with experts who will provide details about effective locks and state-of-the-art tracking options. Stop by with your laptop to learn what kind of laptop lock to use and how tracking software can help recover your property! And if you're in Lauinger or Blommer Science Library, visit the Circulation Desk and check out a laptop lock anytime (just as you would a book). We're also working on other ways to help keep your items safe—stay tuned for more details!
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Broken toe and 3 Day Walk training08/21/2006 |
I am training to walk a 3 Day, 60 mile fundraising event in 9 weeks and I just broke my little toe. I am up to walking 14 miles at a time, and I hate to lose my training momemtum, but equally worried about starting up too soon and permanently damaging my toe. Whenever I untape my "buddy toe", my little toe leans away from the other toes. Will it heal that way?
It it important to determine the type of fracture in you foot. Some fractures may become displaced with repetitive weight-bearing activities such as walking. Review the Xray with your physician and determine the type and severity of the fracture before continuing your walking program.
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Jeff and Theresa Ebert of St. Meinrad announce the birth of their son, Luke James Ebert, at 2:06 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at the Women's Hospital in Newburgh.
The infant weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Mrs. Ebert is the former Theresa Kleaving. Luke has an older brother, Ben, 6, and an older sister, Claudia, 4.
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The Wealth Strategies Journal has posted a new article by Richard Harris, entitled "Borrowing to Finance Life Insurance Premiums: What Professionals Need to Know." In his article, Mr. Harris discusses the advantages and disadvantages of purchasing life insurance with "premium financing." In this model, an individual establishes an Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust ("ILIT") to borrow funds, purchase a life insurance policy, and own the purchased policy. The ILIT becomes borrower, policy owner, and policy beneficiary in a series of transactions sold under the guise of attaining "free" life insurance. This concept, which is often practiced today, is not well-vetted for many estate planning practitioners.
In his article, Mr. Harris considers the various aspects of this arrangement and their unique application to ILITs. The ILIT will borrow money each year to pay the life insurance premiums for that year. The interest rate charged on those loans will fluctuate with the market rates, typically determined by the London InterBank Offer Rate (LIBOR). Whether the interest payments are paid annually or accrued is determined by the trustee, who should be the original applicant and "owner" of the policy. If the trustee decides to pay the interest annually, then gifts will have to be paid to the ILIT as the ILIT, for all intents and purposes, is the borrower. These gifts are liable for taxation under the Internal Revenue Code, so the practitioner should advise his client of the necessity of proper gift planning.
The ILIT may make payments on the principal depending on the provisions of the loan agreement. These loans are usually collateralized with a combination of the cash surrender value of the life insurance policy and "stand-by" collateral provided by the guarantor. The latter collateral will come into play only where the cash surrender value of the policy is insufficient to meet the debt obligation. In the rare case that the lender will call the loan, the guarantor may have to make payments on behalf of the ILIT. In this case, the repayment of the loan principal by the guarantor will give rise to gift tax liability on the part of that individual.
Life insurance is a complex financial tool. The type of policy considered best for the purposes of "premium financing" is Equity Indexed Universal Life Insurance (EIUL). Given the complexity of this specific vehicle, Mr. Harris recommends purchasing an insurance policy with a rate of return between 5% and 6.5%.
Apart from these technical aspects regarding "premium financing" and life insurance policies, Mr. Harris shares eight practical lessons from his experience in the field. Most individuals who are sold on the "premium financing" model do so for the benefits of getting "free" life insurance. However, the true consequences can sometimes be very sticky. To avoid this, Mr. Harris's overarching advice is for the estate planning practitioner to avoid becoming trapped by the sales pitch of an insurance salesman, who oftentimes only quotes an overly-optimistic estimate of their product's performance.
To read Mr. Harris's great article including his eight lessons, click here.
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Administration Won't Quantify HealthCare.gov's Back-End Problems
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The New York Times and Wall Street Journal both reported Sunday that insurers said they were still receiving bad or missing data from HealthCare.gov. They portrayed it as a significant impediment to getting people covered under the law. "Health plans can't process enrollments they don't receive," a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's top lobbying group, told the Times.
Bataille encouraged people who have enrolled in coverage through HealthCare.gov to call their insurer to verify that they've been enrolled and/or paid their first premium.


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a funny thing happened tonight...Penny said "you know I am always thankful for you and our friendship" and I was very appreciative but I think she had it backwards. Every day I am thankful for her friendship....her courage...and her unwavering faith and loyalty to me as a loving friend...I am going through a rough time right now and she is RIGHT THERE...what more could I hope for....so thank you Penny. I wish I had beautiful words like so many people do but that is not my gift so I will quote..."Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
- C. S. Lewis
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Penny Nannini gave props (12 May 2010):
Robin, you are an amazing friend, and you just added to my week of love. Thank you...and I really don't say that enough.
Penny Nannini gave props (12 May 2010):
...and, just btw, this photo is beautiful too :)
Robin Smith said (12 May 2010):
no Penny...this is not a really good photo...but I felt it wa a perfect representation of us struggling and rising above the weeds! :)
Robin Smith said (12 May 2010):
And omg you spotlighted me...meep....thank you!
Penny Nannini said (12 May 2010):
it's a gentle photo with great colors and fabulous dof!
nö (Deleted) gave props (12 May 2010):
how sweet. and yes this is a beautiful photo, the colours are so soft and pretty. Words and photo are perfect for penny i think :) you both are wonderful women.
Carol Holmes gave props (2 Jul 2010):
Breathtaking! Love the colors!
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Samuel Zanti gave props (30 Aug 2010):
Love the picture and words. Friendship is what makes life worth living...
Cindy Griff said (27 Mar 2011):
Lovely tribute to a best friend, beautiful compostion, warm feel.


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Krista Ruffini joined the Center in August 2012 as a Research Associate with the Federal Fiscal Policy division.
Prior to joining the Center, Ruffini worked with the United Kingdom's Parliament, where she evaluated income support proposals targeted to disabled persons and low-income families. Ruffini has also interned with the U.S. Senate, and has worked as a Policy Analyst for the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, where she conducted interstate analyses on homelessness prevention efforts.
She holds a BA with honors in Economics, Political Science, and International Relations from Boston University and a MPA in Public and Economic Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.


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The Brallier Formation shale is a Devonian-aged turbidite sequence shed off the Acadian orogeny. This sample was collected from an outcrop on new New Route 55, just west of Moorefield, WV. The Brallier Formation can be seen in this image by Alan Pitts: gigapan.org/gigapans/97256 Image made as part of the M...
This roadcut perserves ripple marks that are now nearly two billion years old. Tilted during the Penokean Orogeny, these rocks are also some of the oldest redbeds (evidence of an atmosphere with free oxygen) in the world.
At Ableman's Gorge, a former quarry, 1.7 billion year old ripple marks form a vertical wall scores of feet high. Stop and think about what that means -- the sand that eventually became this rock was laid down at a time when the only living things on planet were unicellular. And the forces that can stand this up to vert...
Taken from just east of the traditional tourist lookout (see Grand Canyon 1 when I get that posted) - it is looking NE-ish. For a really fun time, find all the hikers! And the rest stop/restrooms. Phantom Ranch is in there too.
Rhythmites are rhythmically-bedding sedimentary deposits, deposited in a sedimentary basin with some regularly-shifting condition like tidal cycles or day/night changes. The gigapan shows an outcrop of the Konnarock Formation, a bit east of Konnarock, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge province. They are Proterozoic in age. T...
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This is a roadcut/drivewaycut along Shore Airport Road, just northeast of Ticonderoga, New York. My primary goal in shooting this macroGigaPan was to illustrate sedimentary structures including those spectacular weathered crossbeds near the bottom of this image. Can you make out any other interesting sedimentary stru...
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit welcomed the beginning of 2006 on Earth by taking this striking panorama of intricately rippled sand deposits in Gusev Crater on Mars. This is an approximate true-color rendering of the "El Dorado" ripple field provided by Spirit over the New Year's holiday weekend. The view spans a...


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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
By Gary R. Rasberry
Cavaliers score early and then ride Geeslin
ELIDA - This time, Coldwater decided not to wait to score.
The Cavaliers scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning, then added insurance late to defeat Marion Pleasant 4-0 in the Division III Regional Championship game at Ed Sandy Field in Elida on Friday afternoon.
With the win, Coldwater (27-4) heads to its 15th state final four since 1961, the first since 2004, next Friday at Cooper Stadium in Columbus against 28-3 Canton Central Catholic at 1 p.m. The Crusaders (28-3) beat Peninsula Woodbridge 13-9 to capture the Massillon Regional title. Pleasant sees its 19-game win streak snapped to end the season at 24-7.
Tuesday, it took Fairview's Ryan Radcliff to hit a home run to spark the Cavaliers into scoring in the bottom of the fourth inning to post a 2-1 win.
Friday, Coldwater wasted no time getting to Taylor Braun, who threw 45 pitches over five perfect innings on Thursday to beat Woodmore in the other semifinal.
Ryan Geier led off the fun with a double to the fence in right. After Tony Harlamert popped out, Cory Klenke reached on a walk. After both runners stole a base, Keith Wenning lofted a high fly into shallow left-center. Spartan shortstop Matt McKinney made the catch and the speedy Geier tagged up and headed home, sliding in as the throw got past catcher Andrew Kundrat. The wild throw allowed Klenke to sprint from second and score standing up to make it 2-0.
"You score first, it's huge on our part," said Coldwater coach Brian Harlamert, going to state for the third time as coach to go with the two state titles won as a player. "We were a little aggressive, getting a couple guys on, get stolen bases and have a shallow fly ball. Being aggressive, Ryan took off and Cory followed."
That was all that Coldwater pitcher Bill Geeslin needed. After allowing two runners to get on in the top of the first before striking out Brad Potts to end the inning, Wenning got help from a 5-4-3 double play to end the second.
"Nice to get the two runs early to help Bill relax a bit," said Harlamert. "Bill's been following what Cory's been doing on the mound for us. He controlled the game from the mound."
In the third, the Spartans made their last true threat to score as Geeslin got wild and hit Elijah Sparling to start the third. McKinney followed with a single to put two runners on. Braun lofted a short fly to right, but Kyle Ahrens came in and made a big diving catch for the out and to keep the runners on their bases. After Griffin Clark popped out to Geeslin, Cory Snyder was hit by Geeslin to load the bases for Potts. This time, Potts swung away at strike three to leave the bases loaded and deflate the Spartan rally hopes.
"We didn't get any clutch hits," said Pleasant coach Chris Kubbs. "(Geeslin) made the pitches when he had to."
"When we got into those jams, I was letting my ball get up and wasn't letting my defense play," said Geeslin. "I found a way to get the ball into the zone and let my defense make plays. You can get out of it when you have good defense."
Geeslin proceeded to retire the side in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, getting some additional run support late in the game.
In the fifth, Jordan Borgerding led off with a pinch-hit walk, then went to second on Chad Westgerdes' bunt. After a passed ball moved Borgerding to third, Geier grounded deep to short, allowing Borgerding to score.
In the sixth, Klenke doubled and stole third before Ahrens singled him in to complete the scoring.
In the top of the seventh, Geeslin allowed a leadoff double to Corey Nielsen, but promptly retired the next three batters, making a dash to cover first to force out Sparling to end the game.
"They always say pitching and defense wins ballgames. And timely hitting," said Harlamert. "Big hits by Kyle in the sixth with two outs, a ground ball to get a run in."
Geeslin did not allow a walk to Pleasant, although he did hit three batters, while striking out six in getting the four-hit shutout.
"He hit that corner well," said Spartan centerfielder Griffin Clark, one of only two seniors on the Pleasant roster. "He started to struggle in the last two innings, but the first five innings he got ahead early and put us in a hole."
Ryan Geier and Klenke each went 2-for-3 with Klenke scoring twice to pace the Cavaliers.
"We feel good. We've got two more to play," said Harlamert.
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1. Following directions in German is difficult for me, but not THAT bad. I should experiment with anleitung auf Deutsch (directions in German) more often. Words like twist, tear, bend, punch, etc. are just not in my German vocabulary! I've been adding/deleting blogs from my blogroll lately and have found some fun German craft blogs, so they'll help me move that way.
2. Directions for projects are not all bad. In general, I don't like following directions with crafts. Sewing, usually, but crafts, not so much; there's a little rebel streak in me! Still, it was a good thing to have them this weekend because it helped me learn a few new techniques that can be used anywhere, so directions can be good!
3. I have my own style. Since the projects we completed were pretty strict in terms of which papers and elements we could use and how the completed project should look, I found myself struggling to make a project 'me' and not just a copy of the example. Part of this was the directions/rebel issue, part of it was me and 'my look'.
4. Trying something different definitely gives me new ideas for other, often unrelated, projects. It was fun to dabble in something different for an evening and while I doubt I'm going to become a die-hard scrapper or card-maker (I'll leave that to Nadine and Tina!), I definitely learned a few things that I'll be mixing into other projects down the road -some even this week!
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Manatees find this a nice place to warm up from the cold winter waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Debrah Leonard (Deleted) gave props (5 Feb 2011):
The aqua tint of this crystal water is incredible.... what a beautiful series, Judy.
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what an amazing and inviting place!
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beautiful !!! my vote!!!
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Clear as a bell! Hope it is warmer there right now than this time last year!
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I never get tired of seeing this gorgeous area, Judy! Another beautiful capture.
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The color of the water is so incredible. Another beautiful image. And it's spectacular in 'Lightbox'. R
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Super shot. I love this area as well. Can't wait till summer!
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Before I get busy looking at the playoffs, I thought I'd look at the Giants.
First thing to talk about is who will be the new manager.
…. Candidates are expected to include longtime major-league manager Lou Piniella, former Giants catcher and Arizona Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly, Angels pitching coach and former Giants pitcher Bud Black, longtime Giants bench coach Ron Wotus and perhaps former manager Dusty Baker, if some burned bridges can be reconstructed.
Ron Wotus, Alou's bench coach, will probably get the longest look, and I'd like to suggest they also look at Rags, who's value as a pitching coach should certainly have come into question these last two seasons. His value as a company man, and his recognized ability to reach today's player would seem to suggest the possibility of moving in a different direction.
Here's my dark horse, (or more accurately, the man I'd most like to see take the reins), Joe Girardi. Championship player, worked under Torre a couple of seasons on the bench, took a team of nobodies as far as Alou was able to take Sabean's "veterans." All in all, almost certainly the best man for the job. And Sabean's got some NY Yankee connections. I nailed it with Alou four years ago, maybe I can be right again.
As for Alou, in some ways, he did as well as he could with what he was handed. Except for the AJ "cancer" story, you never heard any bullshit from the clubhouse, backstabbing, crap like that. There have been several instances where the team has been demoralized, destroyed, or derailed. He has managed to get them back on track, rebounding like the pros they are supposed to be. This is a very important aspect of the job, and he was very good at it.
On the other hand, his handling of pitchers was pretty much as expected; which is to say, abysmal. It's hard to know which mistake was worse; when he would leave the starters in for an extra 20 or 30 high stress pitches, or when he would use four relievers to get three outs five nights in a row. Either way, a substantial portion of the failures of the pitching staff must fall on his shoulders. There is no doubt that this was his biggest weakness, and, disappointingly, it was never really mentioned by the local press, or more importantly, the Giants brain trust. In point of fact, Sabean's blind faith in Alou's judgement on the use of his pitchers has to rank as one of the biggest mistakes on his shoulders.
As for the pitchers, who do we single out as a failure this season? Morris? Schmidt? Lowry, one reliever after another? I say no. As I've said before, there is not one Giants player that could have reasonably been expected to have performed any better than they did. If you accept the premise that Rags and Alou failed as coaches and managers, then you cannot come down on Lowry, Schmidt, Benitez, Morris, and whichever reliever you're looking at. Many, many times, I questioned Alou's decision to allow Schmidt to go over 120 pitches, or to let Lowry come out for the seventh, or to take out a pitcher who was cruising along to bring in a situation replacement. I believe Alou is the primary reason the pitchers were so inconsistent and, so often horrible. Morris struggled in the first inning all season long. How come no one in management could figure out a way around that?
Just look at the last two weeks. When we got to crunch time, there was nothing in the tank for virtually the entire pitching staff. Why is that? Whose fault is that?
Offensively, there's nothing for me to say that I haven't said a hundred times; we got exactly what we should have expected. Bonds hit 26 home runs, Durham had his best year as a Giant, while Winn balanced him out by regressing to, umm, a Winn-like level. We got nothing from first base, we got about a thousand outs from third, Alfonzo was a revelation filling in for Matheny, Vizquel continued to defy his age, Moises was hurt all year…. I mean, no one in their right mind could have thought that this team would have scored more runs than they did.
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As I start to unwind for the night and try to get my little Baby H to sleep, I realized that part of our bedtime routine is rather uncommon for many families in American culture. Baby H, at almost 16 months old, is not quite a baby anymore. She's an active toddler, into everything, and needing lots of love, interaction, and redirection during the day. Throughout the day and especially at night when she's tired and ready for bed, she also still loves to nurse.
Are you familiar with extended breastfeeding?
Few would argue against the oft-quoted slogan that "breast is best" when feeding infants. Any amount of colostrum or breastmilk that an infant gets from the mother is a wonderful blessing to that little baby, even if formula has to be introduced later. Nursing in public has its proponents and opponents, but in my personal experience, breastfeeding my babies has been met with overall support.
Something seems to change when the baby turns one year old, though. Many moms enter breastfeeding with the goal of making it six weeks, three months, six months, or perhaps a year, but the concept of nursing past that one-year milestone is a foreign one to many families and care-givers. It might even be considered extreme to some. Why on earth would someone want to nurse a toddler?
I don't know when nursing a toddler or young child became outside of the cultural norms for our industrialized society, but cultural anthropologist Kathy Dettwyler has done much research on what might be the natural weaning age for children. Her findings are based on the nursing habits of animals in relation to their physical development which are then proportionally compared to human development. All of her research indicates that the "natural" weaning age for human children, based upon their physical development, is (are you ready for this?) anywhere from 2.5 years to 7 (seven!) years old.
That sure makes nursing until at least two years old, as recommended by the World Health Organization, not so extreme, doesn't it?
As someone who has nursed all four of our children past their first birthday, and is currently nursing a little toddler, I want to continue to look into extended breastfeeding with you over the next few posts. I believe that there are wonderful benefits available to moms and toddlers when nursing is allowed to continue, but there are also some unique challenges that go along. We'll take a look at both the advantages and the challenges, and I'll also share my personal experience in nursing toddlers.
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Tad, what holds this sight on? Does it stay in the one spot when firing?
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I just bought Trijicon Bright & Tough Night Sights... 8 weeks to delivery... ouch but in our pending legal environment seemed like a prudent move. Most of my pistol sights are the factory standard... So Sigs sights, which seem to work really well..
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It snaps onto the barrel. It goes around far enough to latch securely on both 20 ga and 12 ga barrels. It also has a notch that the bead fits into to keep it indexed. It doesn't move at all when firing on any of my three shotguns that I have it on. |
January 7, 2013, 09:46 PM | #29 |
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Keep it simple: I mean, that's why you chose the shotgun, right? Find the bead, pull the trigger, target goes down...extra sights and other accessories basically make the shotgun into a 4 to 8 shot manually operated rifle, while slowing you down.
That said, a tactical light is very useful. If you illuminate someone while loudly racking one into the chamber, and yelling "STOP OR I'LL SHOOT", it should resolve the situation one way or the other. Good lights are expensive, though. It should be on the fore-end (don't mess with barrel-mounted ones, because you want to be able to turn it on and off without any cords dangling, etc.). I'm not a fan of extended magazines because they make the gun more awkward, and can be a source of malfunctions. |
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To those who think you do not have to aim a shotgun to hit at ranges of 15 to 10 feet . . . try it and see. Shoot fast as you would in a self-defense encounter. Use a random start signal. Put pressure on yourself.
You might be surprised that you do miss at such close range. Imagine how much worse you might shoot under pressure of a deadly threat with adrenaline pumping through your veins. You may have heard "you can't miss fast enough to win."
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Thank you Tad.
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I've killed so many clay pigeons with a bead I cannot imagine a better sight on a shotgun. I figure if I can smack clays flying through the air I could hit a bg in my house. Don't overestimate the spread on a scatter gun at HD range though.
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For what it sounds like you're going to do with it, I think you're good to go with the bead.
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January 21, 2013, 01:52 PM | #34 |
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Just installed a couple of the Meprolight tritium bead replacements on short barreled HD pump 12's, and I am pleased with how bright they are in a dark room, and they function the same as a bead in daylight, so it is a win-win deal. And at less than $40, who cares if they are only warranted for 5 years ? I have not yet found a good rear sight though, so the 3/8" shallow groove on the top of the receiver is the standard for now.
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I just ordered a Nebo CSi light and 12/20 ga clamp for my 870 youth model 20ga that I keep for HD. I can get a shell to land where I want it with the bead sight, I just wanted to be able to ID my target. The light does have a laser in it, but I won't be using it until I mount it and take it to the range to see how it holds up.
Total cost is about $30, and requires no modification to the shotgun. |
January 29, 2013, 08:37 PM | #36 |
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With many years of shotgun shooting,skeet, trap,sporting clays and hunting I never used the bead ,I would see it but concentration would be on the target cheek on the stock. I don,t need a sight to hit a target any place in my house or outside if within range
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Fitted my M590A1 with the surefire front stock light and a pulsing green laser on a rail over the receiver, it was pre-drilled for the rail. It did turn a $750 gun into a $1400 gun though. Great for HD & with the laser on awild turkeys eye/head at 25yds only the bottom of the pattern hits the bird taking the head/neck OFF & NO bbs in the breast.
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Just a bead for me, thanks. With a shotgun at close range, the comb of the stock is my rear sight. Focus on the target and swing to it as needed. When the blur/flash of the bead covers the target, shoot.
The only extra gear to consider is a light, per posters above.
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I like a green fiber optic front bead.
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surefire, for sure!
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Charlie Askins said he used either a white rag or white tape on the muzzles of his combat shotguns to make it easier to pick up the muzzle.
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Add a rail to the top of the receiver and a Burris FastFire...very fast to acquire, small and very durable.
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The bead sight has done me well with rabbits ans squirels why not larger targets?
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