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I will never leave you nor forsake you. Hebrews 13:5
What does one do when they feel forsaken, forgotten? Questions scream louder than the thoughts in one's head, ricocheting off the broken pieces of the heart. Why? WHY? Where are you God?
The world cries with Newtown, Connecticut.
Where are you God?
Each child precious, each adult endearing. Gone.
Where are you God?
In the midst of the tears He whispers 'I am here'. His own heart breaking with ours. "I. Will. Never. Leave. You. Nor. Forsake. You."
Evil exists. I am with you.
Pain penetrates. I will comfort you.
Strength fades. I will carry you.
Now is the time to remind ourselves, to remind others, of God's attributes. He is faithful, He is merciful, He is the Prince of Peace, He is the Redeemer, He is the Restorer, He is the Provider, He is the Comforter, He is Strength, He is good, He is loving. Whatever we need, He can and will supply.
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Todd Snider's Soul Shines on the Hard Working Americans Live LP "We're All in This Together" … Historically, live albums sometimes take a backseat to the studio produced works, unless the band is already a worldwide phenomenon. The rockin' blues artists of Hard Working Americans (HWA) have released their second live album "We're All in This Together" (Melvin Records) and it has totally disproved this theory. The thirteen track gem showcases what HWA are known for… a rowdy, live show packed with monster tunes that encourage crowd participation and a psychedelic ride into their world. The bands' personable and sometimes loquacious storyteller, singer, songwriter, poet Todd Snider effortlessly relates to the blue-collar fan base at every show. With Dave Schools (Widespread Panic) on the bass, Neil Casal (Chris Robinson Brotherhood) on guitar, Chad Staehly (Great American Taxi) on the keys, Jesse Aycock on guitar and Duane Trucks (Widespread Panic) drumming… to label this project a "supergroup" would be an understatement.
The LP gets a kick-in-the-ass, shotgun start with an Elvin Bishop junkin' jive guitar style on "Mission Accomplished"… a nine minute jam session. Then blasting into "I Don't Have a Gun"… complete with a crowd sing-along chant of the lyric "I don't wanna hurt nobody" and a Reverend Todd Snider welcoming sermon to his hippy congregation. Snider was preaching about "walking forty-seven miles of barbed-wire…wearing a Cobra snake for a necktie"… before asking his followers "Who Do You Love" before belting-out the Hayes Carll penned classic, "Stomp and Holler", to a raucous crowd approval. Slowing the pace down just a bit with "Roman Candles" and pulling the listener back in with the momentum building track "Something Else" with their signature extended guitar jam crescendo. The trippy, drinkin' retrospective "Ascending Into Madness" tune boasts splendid harmonies and echoing guitar effects with some divine dual pickin' with some serious heart-felt vocals from Snider. One of my favorite tracks from their 2016 offering "Rest in Chaos"(Melvin Records), "Burn Out Shoes", is slowed-down just a bit from the studio version, but it adds to the overall psychedelic ride of the album perfectly… with some tasty bits of distorted riffs to boot. With little pause in the set, Snider leads directly into the classic blues tune "Another Train" and mighty guitar work was sure to follow. Somewhat disappointing, to a small degree, there was no dive into the Merle Haggard classic "Working Man Blues" as it is on "The First Waltz" (Melvin Records) album, but Casal and Aycock lay down a blistering dual solo that almost made me forget about The Hag's tune…almost. Reverend Snider's "preaching" starts again with a not-so-subtle jab at folk music. He says, "..I needed an answer to my complications. Having grown-up on folk music, I was raised to believe that the answer, my friend, was blowin' in the wind. So, I went outside and I waited for it..I went outside and I waited for it… You know what the wind told me hippies??? The wind didn't tell me a fuckin' thing. So much for folk music". Snider proceeded to introduce the band with a short story about bassist Schools providing the inspiration for the albums title track. The tune then starts a call-and-response chant between Snider and the crowd alternating "We're All In This Together" several times. The storytelling continues with the song "Is This Thing Working?"… seemingly an ode to puttin' a whoopin' on a schoolhouse bully. Once again, featuring some blistering guitar solos with a dash of "Another Train" riff at the end. One of Snider's' solo efforts, "High Price of Inspiration", is performed at a snails-pace which adds a trippy and eeriness spirit to the track. It's a spectacular rendition that certainly rivals the original. The beautiful vocal harmonies and a classic "cowboy riding into the sunset" western movie vision with the twangy guitar pickin' making this one of the best tunes on the LP. The boogie-swaggering tune "Run A Mile" has a hard act to follow from the last tune, but it hold its own with a catchy groove and more guitar work than I was expecting. The finale of their second live LP was a cover of the Chuck Berry blues staple "School Days" that showcases all the magnificent talents each artist contributes to the band."Hail, Hail Rock 'n' Roll".
These band mates work so well together its as if they have been a band for decades… all are veterans of the industry and are clearly masters of their crafts. From Snider's witty and very un-politically correct lyrics… to the backbone of Schools, Trucks, and Steahly and the monster guitar duo of Casal and Aycock, HWA are nothing short of one the best live shows to behold and this live LP, "We're All in This Together" captures it perfectly.
If you will be in, or around, the Raleigh, NC area on October 1st, HWA will be performing at The Lincoln Theater. You know it will be one helluva party and its on a Sunday evening… so you know the preacher gon' preach. Check 'em out at www.thehardworkingamericans.com to find a show near you and peruse their catalog of righteous jams. The HWA artists are still following their passion and the camaraderie with this veteran group of musicians is clearly evident. Snider has been entertaining his fans since the 1994 powerhouses "Alright Guy" and "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues" that portrays a 90's band that refused to perform… the lyrical cleverness of Snider seems limitless. We are all looking forward to the next HWA production.
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North West, Gauteng & Free State Set For Semi-Finals
The fourth day of the Spar National Netball Championships at the Ugu Sports Centre near Margate on Thursday was a tough one for Gauteng and Free State, who both had to play three matches, but both teams appear to be heading for the semi-finals. Their lunchtime encounter was the match of the day, with both teams trying to establish their authority ahead of the semifinal on Friday, where they are expected to play each other. Gauteng had the upper hand for most of the match, although Free State came back strongly in the third quarter, outscoring Gauteng by 12 goals to seven.
Gauteng turned on the power again in the final quarter, which they won by nine goals to six, to finish with a 37-29 victory. Gauteng goalshooter Ine-Marie Venter was the stand-out player, shooting from any part of the circle with a calm confidence that belied her 20 years. Coach Jenny Van Dyk says: 'We're peaking at the right time, and they have improved with every game. We still have two matches to play, but we definitely plan to play in the semis. We have been able to use all 12 players in the squad, which means they have been able to keep up with a very strenuous programme.'
Free State coach Burta de Kock said she was very proud of her young team: 'They are gaining experience all the time and they are becoming more confident. They are stepping into the shoes of players like Adele Niemand, Karla Mostert and Maryka Holtzhausen. In the beginning, they thought they wouldn't be able to do it, but now they believe they can. We lost a lot of balls against Gauteng, because of poor decision-making, but we can improve on that. We still have to qualify for the semi-finals, but I believe they will do it.' In their earlier matches, Gauteng beat KwaZulu-Natal A1 46-27, while Free State beat Mpumalanga 45-28, before squeaking home 32-30 against Western Cape A1.
Eastern Cape and Western Cape A1 drew 27-all. The all-conquering North West, who have won every match so far, beat Eastern Cape 46-27, and Limpopo 53-20. Northern Cape recorded their first victory, with a 30-29 win over KwaZulu-Natal A2, but Western Cape A2 beat them 37-26, and Gauteng beat them 49-16.
Western Cape A2, who are hot on the heels of their A1 side, narrowly defeated Limpopo 35-33. Eastern Cape ended the day with a victory, beating KwaZulu-Natal A1 37-29. Mpumalanga beat KwaZulu-Natal A2 by 31 goals to 29. The battle for the fourth semi-final berth appears to be between the three Cape sides, with everything depending on the outcome of their matches on Friday morning, when Eastern Cape play Northern Cape, Western Cape 1 play KwaZulu-Natal 2 and Western Cape 2 play North West.
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I am trying to decide how I feel about the idea of having a baby with my new husband. We have both been married before and we both have 2 children from our previous marriages. He has a son and a daughter (8 and 5) and I have a son and a daughter (12 and 11). I am 31 and I had my kids VERY young. I am an attorney and my career is very demanding. I had kids young because I wanted to really be able to keep up with them and be active with them. Now that both of my kids are in middle school and relatively self-sufficient, I don't know if I am prepared to go back to diapers and sleepless nights. My husband is a great dad....very involved with his children whose mother completely abandoned them two years ago. I think a new baby would be a great way to bring us closer as husband and wife and as a family but I guess I am being selfish. I struggled to raise my two kids through law school and on my own. Now that I am educated and financially secure I kind of feel like any free time we have can be spent together, traveling, or doing nothing at all. Do I really want to be back at the parenting starting gate now that the finish line is in sight? I know it must sound terrible but my whole life from teenage years on has been spent raising babies and going to school. I have had no social life and no free time. Now that my kids are old enough for me to have a little of each I feel very protective of it. Opinions....guidance....anyone???


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As we use the internet, how seriously do we take our data security?
I've been using the internet now for over 20 years. My first real experience involved a friend taking me off to some Unix computers to look at a collection of amazing planet / space images he'd found from (I think) NASA. This was not using a web browser (this was just as the web was starting to get noticed, my first web browsing experience was about 3 months later) but through Gopher space. However even prior to this I'd been playing around with computers for some time.
So over all these 20+ years of computer usage I've been infected three times by viruses, the last one about six years ago. However yesterday was the first time I've actually had one of my services (Twitter) hacked into. This did get me thinking a bit about control, and about how much I now have (or don't have) over my information when actually using the computer in front of me. Even now, I'm not writing this on a word processor on my machine, but using Evernote, which automatically saves this to a server somewhere out on the internet! I'm currently using Macs, often hyped for their resilience against viruses, I also keep my software up to date with the latest patches and fixes, yet this did not stop my Twitter from being despoiled.
With the expectation now of 'total access' to all of your services from anywhere, school, work, home, on the train (even my local buses are now advertising wi-fi access) we're passing across to others so much control without knowing what's going on with our data. We all tick those boxes saying we have read the Terms and Conditions, but how many do read them, or when you do, make any sense of them. Even if your data is (supposedly) stored on a server in the EU or in the United States, what route did it take to get there. While you were tapping away on the keyboard, did the wonders of the internet direct it from your ISP through to some other country before it made its way back to your preferred data centre? If your data is intercepted en-route, who do you turn to for help!
I really do find it useful to have access to my information and to be able to do my social networking from anywhere and everywhere, but there is a price to pay for this. I just hope it's worth it!


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It's halftime of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament title game, and Charles Barkley just announced that Spike Albrecht "can't keep shooting like that." But then, who thought he'd shoot like that in the first place? The Michigan guard, who scored 67 points in 38 games until tonight, has 17 points in the first half as the Wolverines lead Louisville 38-37. He's 4-for-4 from the 3-point line.
This could be a rout except for Luke Hancock, who finished the half with four 3-pointers and 16 points for Louisville.
And now, let's go to the Twitter Albrecht-Hancock reaction:
BREAKING Ryan Gosling has accepted the role of Spike Albrecht in the movie version.
— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) April 9, 2013
Luke Hancock and Spike Albrecht's dads are standing behind Tim Hardaway and Glenn Robinson and loudly clearing their throats.
— SportsPickle (@sportspickle) April 9, 2013
Spike Albrecht's 1st half numbers: 17 points and 8K new Twitter followers.
— chris palmer (@ESPNChrisPalmer) April 9, 2013
Luke Hancock looks like Richie Tenenbaum, post-shave.
— J.E. Skeets (@jeskeets) April 9, 2013
My 4-year old is so sweet...she asked me "Who the F is Spike Albrecht?"
— Paul Pabst (@PaulPabst) April 9, 2013
Michigan faces a monumental second-half problem – Spike Albrecht has an 11 p.m. curfew weeknights.
— Norman Chad (@NormanChad) April 9, 2013
use the force Luke RT @jasonlisk: Luke Hancock is Matching Spike Albrecht: 4 for 4 from Three Point Range
— Jason McIntyre (@TheBigLead) April 9, 2013
Help trapped in Luke Hancock's lucid dream this time I'm srs
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This is the most elaborate and well played game of H.O.R.S.E. I have ever seen.
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Over the summer my fiancé and I traveled to West Africa to visit his native country of Ghana and his family. We had a great visit and spent some time in four different countries: Morocco, The Gambia, Senegal, and Ghana. During the trip, I heard many different languages, which got me thinking about languages in general and the process of learning another language. Every language is unique, beautiful, and intricate. Learning another one gives you new windows to view the world through.
However, as anyone who has ever attempted it knows, learning another language can also be a challenging process. I learned Spanish in the past, and recently I have been working on learning one of my Fiancé's native languages called Twi. It's so different from English and is proving to be harder than learning Spanish was. My mouth is still learning to move in new ways, and my ears are struggling to hear sounds they've never had to distinguish before. It's a process, but it's also exciting. Although it's hard, I know I can do it. I know that given dedication, hard work, and the right strategies, I'll one day be able to communicate in Twi.
As someone who teaches and also learns new languages, one advice I would give to anyone learning another language is that it is important to develop the ability to recognize mistakes and self-correct. It's a skill that I try to develop in students in my classroom, and it's also something I try to do when I speak the languages I am learning. If you are currently in the process of becoming multilingual, take time to analyze the language, look for patterns you know, and things that don't follow what you've learned. Teach yourself to find mistakes and correct them.
If you are learning English, the Sunday Review is a resource that can help you with this process. After a summer break, the Sunday Review is back for the fall semester with a weekly list of sentences with common mistakes for you to analyze and correct. Plan to take 20 minutes each week to sit down with a cup of coffee and teach your brain to recognize common mistakes in English.
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The human genome is under continuous selective pressure for resistance to infectious diseases. Several polymorphic alleles have been associated with resistance to malaria in West African populations, for example. In the November 15 Nature, Modiano et al. report a large-scale study aimed at clarifying the role of hemoglobin C (HbC) in resistance to Plasmodium falciparum malaria (Nature 2001, 414:305-308). They evaluated allele frequencies for the β globin gene in 3,513 healthy subjects and 835 malaria patients in Burkina Faso. The results show that HbC can provide protection against P. falciparummalaria in both the heterozygous and homozygous states. The reduced risk is 93% for HbCC homozygosity and 29% for HbAC heterozygosity. The authors predict that the HbC alleles will spread across Africa, replacing the sickle hemoglobin (hemoglobin S; HbS) polymorphisms that are associated with reduced fitness.
- Sickle hemoglobin (HbS) allele and sickle cell disease: a HuGE review.Google Scholar
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We in DHL are using a lot the Review function from Project Place. It would be great for our teams to be able to run a report to check by project, or folder, how many reviews are still ongoing, which is late, how long it took to close this one, etc.
Maybe already in your pipeline,
Virginie Torra
A view for seeing document under review has been implemented in the Document tool.
Hi Virgine,
Thanks for your feedback. On your personal overview, which you see if you click on your name in the left hand menu, you can see all the reviews that you are involved in.
Would a similar function for your projects be good for you?
Best regards,
Hi Karolina,
We are all already using this fonction already to view all the ongoing reviews for which we are a reviewer.
The reporting fonction is different: it would be a fonction to run, according to diverse parameters (from - to date/ or by business unit / or by review type, etc) a real activity report to measure our internal performance in dealing with reviews. The fields in the report could be: doc title, when created, when review requested, what kind of review requested, when completed, who is/are the reviewers, how many reminders sent, how many days opened, etc...
Hope this is clearer,
Hi Karolina,
regarding to your feedback on my request, we require indeed also an overview tool for all reviews (past&present).
It is not sufficient enough to just see the reviews that you initiated or that you are involved in.
As the administrator I have to tool to have an overview over ongoing and closed reviews throughout Propjectplace. I received a query from one of my colleagues that she is invited to a review but cannot open the document sent by the other colleague. An overview on all reviews would have put me in the position to take a look at the requests and clear out the issue in stead of waiting for the people to get back to me again.
I was very surprised to hear that there is no such tool within PP so far. As this is essential if you want to be on top of all ongoing and open issues within the project.
Thank you, Helen.
Hi Helen,
Please vote for this idea if you like it. + or ++.
Best regards,
Hi Karolina
I fully support Virginie's suggestion and consider that introduction of a separate review tab/sheet generating project overview concerning all closed and active reviews and traceability, more or less identical to issues functionality will assist the daily project management significant.
Another incitement having this review overview functionality in place, is in fact that not all projects have the task functionality enabled.
Still I do recognise your opinion that reviews is a personal commitment so is assigned issues?
Could the review functionality at least be created for administrator purposes?
Any way I struggle with this "missing" functionality on a daily basis and is forced to operate a manual time consuming spreadsheet.
In my opinion implementation of this review functionality would be a major PP improvement.
Best regards,
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A view for seeing document under review has been implemented in the Document tool.
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I have been advised by Triaster that there have been a growing number of requests from both new and more established customers for contact details of other Triaster users to talk with, and on occasion meet. Some people are looking specifically for other users in their area of the UK, or for non-UK customers, users in their country, whereas others are looking for people who have similar objectives for their projects. Triaster are happy to make such information available, once permission has been granted of course. However, please remember that no matter where you are located, you can always share ideas and make contact with other customers via the Triaster User Group forum.
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One super important thing we needed to do for one another is to take care of each other! I love how great our church is at bringing meals and helping others when needed. One great website I have recently discovered is Take Them a Meal where it makes organizing a meal for someone VERY easy. In the past, I would organize meals for a friend by sending out emails and dates and going back and forth between everyone trying to pick dates. Then, I'd send out another email to remind them, etc. Well, the website Take them a Meal is so easy because it takes them directly to where you set up the days and then your friends can sign up directly for a specific day, they can even put what they will bring, then the website sends them an automatic email reminder to bring their meal. You can even put what not to bring or any other details about the meal in there! A super great website that I highly recommend!
I recommend that you have a "go to" meal that you use whenever you bring a meal to a friend. My own personal quota is that I only do one meal a month (for anyone), otherwise it gets to be costly or difficult for me to do more than that for friends. Really that is reasonable. I have done more, but find it's a little tough.
Here's a little bit of what I personally do to organize it. First of all, my go-to meal is a crock pot BBQ pork sandwich meal. It's quick and easy and I just put it in first thing in the morning.
I save all kinds of disposable containers. There is nothing worse than being sick or unable to cook and having a meal delivered, then trying to find the person and give back all their dishes - especially if you get a couple weeks worth of meals and dishes! So, ALWAYS give them their dinner in something they don't have to wash and can just throw out when they are done! I save butter tubs, lettuce containers, take home containers, cool whip containers, etc. You'd be amazed what you can reuse. I wash them and have a special place I keep all that stuff.
I try to give the family a main meal, a vegetable or fruit, a starch, and a small dessert. It's what I'd feed my own family - and often I split it and we eat the other half for our own dinner!
I use my trusty label maker (yes, I use it often) and label everything so they know what they are eating. This meal was BBQ pork sandwiches, so I had the BBQ pork meat in the cylinder, fries (kids love this), a spinach salad (super easy with cranberries, feta cheese, sliced almonds, and apple slices), and some brownies. I put them in a disposable bag (if you have a TON of gift bags it's great to use one of those even). Then, when you deliver it, you'll just hand over the bag and it's done! I try not to go in or linger because often if they are sick or just had surgery or a baby, it's just not appropriate. Plus, I'm often just delivering it and have to get home to get my own family fed! Bring your kids, though....show them what it means to love your brothers and sisters in the Lord!
I must confess that on this particular day when I was doing this meal, my friend Julie (who just came home the day before with her preemie baby) stopped by my house on her way home from her parents' house. Just as she pulled up, I was packing up the bag to hand her when....I dropped the whole salad on the floor! I was SO embarrassed! (The Lord certainly keeps me humble). The good part was it was the salad - I made a new one in three minutes, literally! That's how easy that salad is! And this little guy above was happy to get the meal! Hopefully he enjoyed the fries and brownies too!
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We already knew that Apple was toying with color for the next generation of iPad Mini, and now it appears that the full-size tablets will also be offered in a color called "Space Gray." That's also one of the new color options for the iPhone 5S.
9to5Mac got its hands on some great leaked photos, three of which appear below. You can click on them to get a closer look.
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Trump speech reignites rally
President Donald Trump's measured tone in his first speech to Congress lifted investor optimism. Fred Katayama reports.
President Donald Trump's measured tone in his first speech to Congress on Tuesday night lifted investor optimism. On Wednesday, the Dow breached the 21,000 mark for the first time ever, while the S&P, and the Nasdaq hit record intraday highs. In his speech, Trump asked for unity, softened his immigration stance, and set aside disputes with Democrats and the news media. Markets could have responded more favorably simply because they saw Trump looking more presidential, says David Birdsell, dean of Baruch's School of Public and International Affairs. (SOUNDBITE) DAVID BIRDSELL, DEAN OF THE AUSTIN W. MARXE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, BARUCH COLLEGE, (ENGLISH) SAYING: "This is the first rhetorical pivot for this President since he was inaugurated on the 20th of January. So, that may well describe or explain the surge in business activity, its confidence, or at least somewhat more confidence that the President is going to be the sober, predicable stewart of policy that we've long expected American presidents to be." The markets rallied even though Trump didn't provide specifics on his infrastructure and public works program, tax cuts for the middle class, immigration reform, healthcare overhaul, and an education bill. Much of Trump's speech focused on solving problems at home in line with his "America first" rhetoric. Apart from criticizing Obama for increasing the national debt, Trump did not mention the federal budget deficit, which will severely limit any new spending programs.


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GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Grove City College baseball team improved to 8-2 Monday afternoon with a doubleheader sweep of Presidents' Athletic Conference rival Bethany (2-12, 0-2 PAC). The Wolverines (2-0 PAC) earned a 2-1 victory in the opener, then secured a 3-0 nightcap win.
In the opener, senior pitcher Ryan Carr (New Castle, Pa./Mohawk) fired a five-hitter to improve to 3-0 on the season. Carr struck out six batters and allowed just one run. Senior pitcher Erik Arnesen (Princeton, N.J./Timothy Christian) tossed a three-hit shutout in the nightcap. He struck out nine and walked only one batter.
Grove City took a 1-0 lead in the second inning of Game One as sophomore DH Mike Hess (Sewickley, Pa./Avonworth) singled and eventually scored on a single from junior center fielder Chris Schwamberger (Mansfield, Ohio/Madison).
In the third, Grove City doubled its lead as sophomore third baseman Bryan Pierrot (Wadsworth, Ohio/Wadsworth) walked, advanced to second on a sacrifice and scored on a single by senior shortstop Mike Ritter (Moon Township, Pa./Moon). Hess also doubled in the win while junior first baseman Dan Bartkowiak (Fredonia, N.Y./Fredonia) collected a career-high three hits in three at-bats.
The Wolverines assumed a 1-0 lead in the nightcap in the third inning as sophomore outfielder John Coyne (Solon, Ohio/Solon) belted a leadoff homer. Grove City extended the lead to 2-0 in the fourth as Bartkowiak singled, stole second and scored on a Schwamberger single.
Freshman second baseman Ben Wilson (Mechanicsville, Va./Lee Davis) opened the fifth with a double and scored on a two-out single by Pierrot. Hess and senior right fielder Jerry Ott (Bridgeville, Pa./South Fayette) both doubled in the win while Ritter finished 2-for-3.
Arnesen now has 30 strikeouts in 21 innings this year. Carr, meanwhile, has allowed just 12 hits and three walks in 20 innings. Grove City pitchers have 70 strikeouts in 73 innings this year while yielding just 67 hits.
Grove City will host Hiram Tuesday afternoon in a non-conference 9-inning game at 3 p.m.
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"Mary Mouse"
It's Wednesday 15th April and posting Day 13 of the "Blogging from A to Z April 2015 Challenge". Today marks the half way point in the 26 days of the A to Z challenge!
Today is "M" - "Mary Mouse"
Mouse: is a small mammal belonging to the order of rodents, characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding rate.
I told you I would be back with another Advent Animal from Brooke Nolan (Brooke's Books)
This one is "Mary Mouse". Perfect choice for "M" day! "Mary Mouse" is being stitched on the same piece of fabric as "Katie Kitty" and she is the third in the series of 25 Animals.
When I last stitched on her back in January I left her looking like this:
On Monday night while watching the first episode of Series 5 of "Game of Thrones" I managed to finish the bottom white border and started on her shoes and legs.
Loving her big green shoes! Hopefully Little Miss Mary Mouse will soon have two legs to show off to you - but for now she goes back into the WIP basket!
That's it for today's rather late post... I will be back shortly with my GG update, and then back again tomorrow with my "N" post!
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Tourists in Cooke City, Montana are trapped after the access road that cuts through Yellowstone Park is closed due to the partial government shutdown.
According to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, there are two ways out of the town: one that connects to a mountain pass closed due to snow, and one that crosses through the now-closed Yellowstone Park.
The park road from Gardiner, Montana to Silver Gate and Cooke City, is being kept open, but residents only—not tourists—have special passes to allow them through the locked gates.
"We're trapped," Bill Anderson told the Chronicle. "It's nuts." Anderson, of Wichita, Kan., is one about 15 tourists unable to leave Cooke City.
They're reportedly spending a lot of time at Buns N Beds, the only business open in Cooke City besides the gas station.
Owner of Buns N Beds, Leo Gaerther, who described Cooke City as a "ghost town," says he's only staying open because of the trapped tourists and locals.
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I bought a new dollhouse from Goodwill ready to turn into my Wizard's Cottage! I've renovated and sold three dollhouses in the past, but this is one that I plan to spend a lot of time on and keep for our kids (when they're old enough to safely play with small things).
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Dragon Shire Overview
Dragon Shire is one of several maps available to players in Heroes of the Storm. A 5v5 battleground, this map has a mystical, almost Night Elf feel. Dragon Shire is a three lane map design that we traditionally see in Heroes of the Storm.
What differentiate this map from others is the two Dragon Shrines found in both the top and bottom lanes of the map. Teams will fight to take control of these shrines and ultimately gain control of the powerful Dragon Knight, found in the middle lane. The Dragon Knight is a powerful tool that can be used to level your enemies and ultimately win the game.
Primary Map Objectives
Control the Shrines
The main focus of the Dragon Shire map is to control both the shrines of the Sun and the Moon. Doing this will activate the Dragon Knight statue. Both shrines need to be under your teams control before you may activate the Dragon Knight.
When the game begins, the shrines will not be spawned. About 1:15 after the games begin, a warning will pop up indicating the shrines are about to spawn. You will receive a 30 second warning before the event, with a count down timer. After the shrines have spawned they can be claimed for your team.
Indicators for shrine control will appear under each team's UI. If your team controls a shrine, it will appear under you team's bar and vice versa. To capture a shrine you or your teammates must stand inside the capture circle. This is noted by a blue or red glow on the ground. The more allies that stand inside the circle, the faster the shrine will be captured.
Enemies standing inside the circle will negate an ally's capture. If there are more enemies than allies, the enemy team will slowly capture the shrine. If a shrine is uncontrolled, your team must fill both bars with your team's color. If the shrine is already captured by the opposing team, the shrine's bar must fall below the halfway mark for that team to lose control of the shrine.
Once both shrines have been captured by the team, the Dragon Knight statue in the center of the map will become powered. To activate the statue, the player will need to go to it, right click it, and channel for roughly four seconds. Any interruptions will cancel the channeling. Once the channeling is complete, the statue will activate and that player will take on the form of the Dragon Knight.
The Dragon Knight
The player that channels the Dragon Knight statue successfully will become the Dragon Knight. Your character will be transformed into a lean, mean, dragon fighting machine. Your abilities will also change. The Dragon Knights abilities are as follows:
- Flame Breath – Breathes fire towards the targeted area. Four second cool down.
- Savage Charge – Charge a target and knock them back, dealing damage. Eight second cool down.
- Exit – Kills the Dragon Knight, regain control of your hero.
- Rubble Maker – Damage dealt to structures is doubled. Damage from structures is halved. Dragon Knight explodes upon death.
Secondary Map Objectives
Dragon Shire hosts five mercenary camps and a single watchtower, one less than other Heroes of the Storm maps.
Mercenary Camps
As mentioned above, players will find five mercenary camps on this map. All three mercenary types are present here:
- Knights - Located on each team's side, between the forts.
- Siege Golems -Located on each team's side, between the forts.
- Grave Golem – Located just below the Obelisk of the Moon.
The single watchtower found on Dragon Shire is located below the Dragon Alter, at the very center of the map. This watchtower will provide the team who controls is with vision of most of the paths through the forest, allowing the team to keep tabs on enemy movements.
Dragon Shire: How to Play
The main focus of the Dragon Shire map is, not surprisingly, to capture the Dragon Shrines and activate the Dragon Knight. Competition is fierce and capturing both shrines simultaneously. Teams should divide into two teams to dominate the shrines. Currently, most teams prefer to dispatch two heroes to each shrine and leave one hero at the Dragon Statue. This allows the player at the statue to activate it when the shrines are captured, or disrupt enemy heroes from doing the same.
While getting control of the shrines is important, teams cannot forget to level their hero. Getting back into the lanes and wiping out enemy minions to earn XP is all important. Heroes that are underpowered will not be able to take on enemies who have gained more levels.
After the Dragon Knight has been activated, your team should come together and push the lane that currently has the weakest defense. Remember, the Dragon Knight does extra damage to buildings and can wipe them out quickly. While the Dragon Knight has awesome power, he is not unbeatable. Do not head into enemy territory without reinforcements.
If the enemy team manages to activate the Dragon Knight, you must take immediate action. He can do serious damage and can easily dominate the game. Collect team mates and converge on the Dragon Knight to take him down together and quickly. The faster the Dragon Knight goes down, the less damage he can do.
Please note that this is a generally accepted strategy. Do not be afraid to improvise and play to the strengths of your team. How you win is, ultimately, not important.
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I remember it like it was yesterday. I was in 7th grade and getting ready to go to a birthday sleepover for one of my friends. Having begged my mother all day to allow me to wear eye-shadow to the party, she finally caved and said that I could wear a tiny bit but just on my eyelids. Eyelids adorned in a frosty sea-foam green was the perfect compliment to my dangling palm tree earrings. And so it began. I fell fast. I fell hard. My love for cosmetics ran deep. So deep, in fact, that it often missed the area of my brain where good taste and sensibility is formed. I invite you to take a look back as I revisit some of the products that helped lay the foundation for my love affair with cosmetics. The good, the bad, and the down-right humiliating. Sadly (but not really) I have no photos handy of the certain instances I am referring to. I didn't say that the photos didn't exist, just that they do not reside in the same home or even state that I am in. Damn! That really sucks. I guess we will just have to move forward minus the potential to shatter my credibility and reputation as an aspiring beauty journalist. I have to mention that all of my hits and misses were obviously from various drugstores. I didn't even know makeup existed outside of the drugstore until I saw a friend of mines mother using Clinique. I thought she must be super rich to use Clinique. I hung on to this generalization for a long time to come.
The next vivid memory of my make-up past and the products that lived to tell the story took place during my Sophomore year of high school. From this point on, I know my make-up biography backwards and forwards. With a lot more "backwards" than "forwards". And there is actual proof in the form of pictures to go along with these memories (but not anywhere near this blog post). Does anyone remember the line of make-up called "Naturistics"? I have combed the ends of the earth to find a photo to prove the existence of the eyeshadow that I went through by the barrel. Having been way ahead of its time, it was an eyeshadow duo that came with an eyeshadow primer! The first of its kind, at least in my world. I remember using the creamy white primer on my eyelids before applying the taupey-brown shadow it was paired with on my eyelids. I think I always stopped short of the eyelids because I didn't know how to go any further into unknown upper eye lid territory.I Purchased over and over at the local Fisher's Big Wheel near my hometown. Its no longer there anymore nor is Naturistics make-up sold anymore. I think it is still sold on places like Ebay but knowing how long ago I have seen this brand in stores, I'm not sure I would purchase it with the intent of actually using it. Nostalgic purchase? Possibly. Moving on! If I described each individual make-up detail for a 10 year period of my life, we would have less blog and more mind numbing novel. Time to kick this thing into overdrive.
I bring you up to speed to a crucial year in MissMakeUp's "makeup life". The year was 1994: I had a strong love for The Cure and tan suede clogs. Well the clog thing had actually faded out the year prior but I'm pretty sure you get the idea that I was mega-cool. This was the year where my style changed and my concern with appearance reared its ugly little head. My jeans became tighter and my lipstick became brighter. Enter my Junior year of high school. I have two words for you: Revlon Colorstay. A lipstick junkie's dream come true. A lip product that is so matte and drying that it literally stays put all day. Even after slobbering all over your boyfriend between classes. No matter how industrial strength that product was, I always felt the need to touch up after every single class and on bathroom breaks during class. Bathroom break signified lipstick touch up and rarely ever involved an actual restroom stall. The shade was "Sienna". The actual shade looked similar to how it sounded with more of a red/berry tone to it if I can recall and quite possibly the most matte lipstick that has ever crossed these lips. I'm pretty sure by the 5th school day touch up that cracks would start to form on my lips. And it didn't stop there. Do you think I would have actually been able to maximize my lip potential without the use of #999 (or was it #666?) Wet N' Wild lip liner in the shade Brandywine? Amazingly enough, it is now 17 years after this lip lining love affair began with the aforementioned lip perfecter and it is still sold to this day. Turns out its a cult-classic and harbors the dedication of many members of my generation and new followers as well. I am absolutely amazed that this liner sold for 99 cents back in 1994 and still sells for 99 cents in 2011. Oh, Wet N' Wild, I give you a lot of credit for sticking with me through those turbulent teen years.
My lip combination didn't change until around 2000. Although I often put the Sienna down to opt for an even darker lip from Revlon Colorstay which was achieved by the use of Sienna's older and more mysterious counterpart: Burgundy. And burgundy it was. This one happened to be my high-school BFF's signature color and I vividly remember it in her senior photos. Another lipstick that made it into my locker on occasion if my precious Sienna was sold out was another Wet N' Wild gem, Bordeaux. I remember it being a stiff and hard to work with lipstick that boasted that cheap lipstick smell. Yet another signature lip product in my collection. What was with the 90's and dark lipsticks?! Once a boy who I went to school with practically begged me to just come to school one day without lipstick on. Even if it was just for an hour. I was then free to apply it anytime after that. I was mortified by the very idea of this highly inappropriate request. I may have been more comfortable with the idea of coming to school with a naked ass before I'd show up with naked lips.
I am convinced that I blacked out from 1997-1999 but I've seen the proof that I was in fact present during this time with the help of pictures and it wasn't pretty. I mentioned in a previous paragraph that I had a great love of The Cure. Apparently during these two years, I also thought I WAS The Cure. Or at least Robert Smith's baby sister. Who wanted to have sex with him. I remember that the actual cosmetics I used to achieve the death personified look were quite tame. However, when used in large quantities and with brute force, one can take any seemingly neutral product and transform it into something that Cover Girl would not have been proud to have its name associated with at the time. Cover Girl's Raisin eye shadow was introduced into my collection around 1999 until it finally met its maker sometime in 2003. The latter years were much more toned down and appropriate for the maturity level I was finally reaching when it came to my face. I took that sucker from pretty to putrid and then back to pretty again before they discontinued it. I would use it today (in the right way this time) if they did. Believe me, I've hunted high and low for it. A shade like this has no business being anywhere but in the brand's permanent line. This was your typical shade of, well, raisin. It was a purple-taupe shade with just the right amount of frost to its sheen and I used it with passion and zeal. From the lids to the brows, this was my signature shade.
The next milestone I hit in this "journey to awareness" was inching me closer to an acknowledgment of other facial features besides my eyes and lips. It was a product made by L'Oreal called "Brow Colorist". It was an eyebrow pencil that was dual-ended. On one end you had your typical eyebrow shading pencil while the other end housed a product that I would come to fall in make-up love with: the brow highlighting powder. I remember you dipped the end with the smudge brush into the cap and to unleash a lovely sheen under your brow bone. This was a brand-new concept for me and one that would play a part in my everyday routine until this day. Just not with the same product and in the same fashion.
Also riding shotgun with me on this wild ride of hits and misses was the Maybelline Shine Free Pressed Powder in "Medium Dark". To this day I am disappointed by the fact that its no longer being made. For someone with very sensitive skin who finds it hard to find a product they can use that doesn't contain the ingredients that will leave those frustrating white bumps in its wake. It's like a death in the family when you lose a product that fulfilled this qualification for a large portion of your cosmetic wearing life. It had a great matte finish and actually did what the package claimed it did which was to leave your face free of shine. And for around $3.99 at the time, this was a small price to pay for those kind of results. At first I started noticing the drugstores phasing out my particular shade. Next, they started taking out the medium beige which I used for my back-up when medium dark was sold out. I jumped off the Shine-Free train when all they had left was the Ivory shade. I had put the paleness past behind me and was entering a whole new world of tanning beds and hair bleach. I didn't have the time or willingness to take a single step backwards. I was on a roll.
Also riding shotgun with me on this wild ride of hits and misses was the Maybelline Shine Free Pressed Powder in "Medium Dark". To this day I am disappointed by the fact that its no longer being made. For someone with very sensitive skin who finds it hard to find a product they can use that doesn't contain the ingredients that will leave those frustrating white bumps in its wake. It's like a death in the family when you lose a product that fulfilled this qualification for a large portion of your cosmetic wearing life. It had a great matte finish and actually did what the package claimed it did which was to leave your face free of shine. And for around $3.99 at the time, this was a small price to pay for those kind of results. At first I started noticing the drugstores phasing out my particular shade. Next, they started taking out the medium beige which I used for my back-up when medium dark was sold out. I jumped off the Shine-Free train when all they had left was the Ivory shade. I had put the paleness past behind me and was entering a whole new world of tanning beds and hair bleach. I didn't have the time or willingness to take a single step backwards. I was on a roll.
If you haven't noticed, most of the products I'm putting in the spotlight are good products. The way in which I applied them wasn't always good, however. While having outlined for you some of my favorite products of the 90's through the current decade, I will now list for you some of the ways in which I flat out missed the mark and fell on my face with some of the hideous application methods and clear disregard for looking presentable.
Make-Up Misses:
Pale blue frosty eyeshadow from the lids to the brows with no apparent method to this madness.
Glitter! Glitter! And More Glitter! on the chest as well as face in large death defying quantities. Not to be confused with shimmer, we are talking about actual large chunks of foil like particles floating around in sticky gel.
Overdone mascara. I used to take my eyelash curler after applying about 20 coats of L'oreal Le Grand (discontinued) mascara and curl them after they were severely coated and crispy. I remember pulling the curler away from my lash area and feeling them stick to the rubber piece of the tool as well as ocassionally being pulled ou and then stuck onto the black residue left on the curler. Overuse of this method ended up canceling the original purpose of the eyelash curler which is to curl. Instead, my lashes almost stood up to form a straight line.
White Pressed Powder. So the shade wasn't called "white", but it sure did look like I crushed a few pieces of Crayola chalk to form my own version of a pressed powder. And I remember really caking it in certain areas where I wanted more coverage. What I was left with was a white face with certain small areas that were even whiter. Rather than have that dreaded foundation line where your face is too dark for your neck, I had the opposite problem.
Brown lipstick. L'Oreal Brazil Nut. Its still made today. I don't know what possessed me to think this was a good shade for me but I was in 9th grade at the time and this was my first "grown up" lipstick product. Clearly I was not ready to put down the lip smackers just yet. To make matters worse I didn't even pronounce it right. I don't know why it failed to register that you would pronounce "Brazil" exactly the same way as the country, "Brazil". And left in its place was "Bray-zil Nut" which the emphasis on the first syllable. So this lipstick was a problem for me even before I applied it for the very first time. I looked awful wearing it and I sounded awful saying it.
Now that the dust has settled on that rollercoaster ride where girl meets makeup for the first time, I am proud to say that I have it all finally figured out. An obsession with makeup may be unhealthy, but that passion fueled my desperate attempts to "get it right". And I bring you, with relief and enthusiasm, the products I use to create my daily signature look. My look is comprised of several different brands and products that are in rotation, with the realistic acknowledgement that at any given moment one could be dropped like drugstore make-up upon discovering the good stuff. A make-up junkie knows that each product in her collection is disposable. Or at least replaceable. Loyalty only exists to a certain degree. I will do this in a list formation without any need for reviews. I will be reviewing certain ones in the future and I don't know if I can sleep tonight having subjected my eight precious followers, who I want to hold on to with every bit of strength in my grip, to any additional needless length.
Current Skin/Face Routine:
Lancome Genefique Youth Activating Cream Serum
Neutrogena Dry-Touch SPF 45 Sunscreen
Hope in a Jar or Origins Vita-Zing moisturizer
Laura Mercier concealer in shade #1
Too Faced Shadow Insurance Eye Primer
Korres Mineral Powder Foundation (Med. Beige)
Laura Mercier Mineral Powder Foundation (to provide a nice sheen)
Eyeshadow Rotation:
Urban Decay Naked Palette
Bare Escentuals Bare Skin
Wet N' Wild Color Icon Trios
Eyeliner Rotation:
Mac Blacktrack Fluidline
Urban Decay 24/7 liner in Whiskey/Zero
Urban Decay 24/7 liner in Stash
Urban Decay 24/7 liner in Stash
Mascara (minus the rotation)
Dior Lash Plumping Primer
Bare Escentuals Buxom Lash
Shiseido eyelash curler
Blush/Bronzer/Highlight Rotation (Favorite category):
Mac Mineralize Skin Finish Stereo Rose
Rock and Republic blush Call Me
Mac Mineralize Skin Finish Pink Power
Dior blush/bronzer/powder trio
Bare Escentuals blush Flower
YSL Touche Eclat highlighter #8
Lip Product Rotation:
Chanel Natural lipliner
Mac lipliner Subculture
Mac Marquise D' lustre lipstick
Mac lipstick Gaga2
Mac lipglass Emancipation
NYX Mega Shine lipgloss Beige


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Running 270 miles across Death Valley and back in July and other ultra adventures
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Whine Not...
It's COLD!
Where did this cold blast come from? It was getting so nice, and I was looking forward to March, and then we got this wimpy little snowstorm that hardly dropped any moisture on us, all it did was bring COLD air!
This week sort of sucked. I felt super tired after my early in the week runs. I was going to do 15 on Thursday but we had the snow that day and I don't have any excuse other than I wimped out. I know, it's pathetic. But I was tired, and sleep has been less restful this week. So instead of running on Thursday, I took care of personal business, got things like papers for doing our taxes organized, spent a little more time figuring out my upcoming trip to Cleveland/Columbus in April, and basically tried to have a lower stress day.
Then Friday I worked an 8 hour shift, and it started out as a great day. It was relaxed at work, I was busy but not running too much most of the time, had my favorite kind of patient, a first time chemo that goes all day, and all my other patients for the day were "easy". Our massage therapist was hanging around, giving patients massages, and had time to give each of the nurses a short little chair massage. A rare and perfect work day. Except.
My last "easy" patient of the day decided to have a reaction to her infusion, right at the same moment that my chemo patient was finishing up. Damn it. I hate that. I always want my first time chemo patients to have a smooth ride. And it was, except I wanted to be there through the whole thing, to the very end of the day. But that is the life of a nurse. It's always something...
When the "easy" patient went south, I asked one of my coworkers to finish up the chemo patient. As it turned out I didn't even get to say goodbye to the chemo patient because I was on the phone with the doctor. As it turned out the "easy" patient was okay, but when told me she thought her tongue was swelling that sort of threw everything off...
I made her wait while I paged the doctor, and while she waited and I watched her and checked her over thoroughly, I finally determined that her tongue was NOT swelling but not before she was questioning why she couldn't go home right away? Why did she have to wait there while I checked her vitals again, looked in her mouth, listened to her lungs and called the doctor?
Some people are just not all that bright. After I did all the charting on THAT incident, I got out of there. More like 9 hours.
Advice to everyone. If you tell the nurse your tongue is swelling, you're going to be detained. But you do have choices. If your tongue is swelling and you don't want to be detained, go ahead and don't say anything, leave the hospital and collapse out on the street in respiratory arrest. There is one advantage to the latter scenario, you might qualify for a Darwin Award. Nice way to be remembered.
It was a nice sunset and Dennis and I went out for sushi. But I did not run, and I had hoped to after work. I was too fried and tired when I got home, and it didn't seem worth it to deal with rush hour traffic for a little 5 mile run. I wimped out.
As a result I ended up with two days off running, and I had to get my speedwork in this week, since I missed it last week. Twenty-one degrees at the track, and that was when I finished up. It was 13 degrees when I woke up this morning. I did 12 x 400 meters, they were slower than I've been doing recently, but still respectable. I felt like I was freezing in between each one.
When I got home I whined about having to get 20 miles in for the day, and another 20 tomorrow. That is what my plan was. I was having a weak moment again and I tried to justify and rationalize and weasel out of it, I talked to Dennis about it and asked him what he thought, and he told me I was being a wimp.
If Dennis tells me I'm being a wimp, I'm being a wimp. He would tell me to rest if he thought I needed to rest. So I took Iris out for a couple more miles, and I am eating lunch and blogging and I might take a nap, but I will somehow have to get another nearly 10 miles in late today or this evening. Dennis won't let me get away with wimping out.
It is pathetic. All I have to do is get through this weekend and then I am tapering. Two more days of long miles. I've been doing it for 4 months, I can do it for two more days.
Tomorrow I will force myself out the door and go run at Horsetooth with the running club, that will keep me honest. After I get my 20 in tomorrow, it's taper time. I think I've earned it, as long as I finish my miles this week. Whine not.
2 comments:
- HappyTrails said...
I am not tough like Dennis - I would allow you to wimp out and justify your revulsion to 2 20 milers this weekend as you might need a little break, physically and mentally, and that your body was talking to you. But that's me rationalizing the easy way out. :-) Now get out there and get those 20 miles in tomorrow!!! We had a lovely 38 degrees and sun today - felt quite nice! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
- February 23, 2013 at 2:38 PM
- Alene Gone Bad said...
Kathleen, I just woke up from that nap and it is 34 degrees, the sun is sort of showing itself between clouds, and I need to go get those 10 miles before the sun goes down. Glad you had a nice day there. As far as Dennis goes, he's more likely to tell me to err on the side of rest, so when he tells me I'm a wimp, I listen. I am being a wimp. Or was. Out the door before the wimp catches up with me again...
- February 23, 2013 at 4:33 PM


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Yes, enthusiasm has been in short supply for the past two seasons, with more than a few loyal supporters questioning their allegiances faster than the Malfoy family at the end of the Deathly Hallows.
We peanuts have long been among the most sentimental of the blogging community. We sigh with memories of Johan and Torii (heck, we even mourned Boof Bonser and Brendan Harris). And as the Twins rebuilding project has begun to gain momentum more and more of the guys we cheered for when this blog began have left the franchise.
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just for being fun...
But while reminiscences are satisfying to some, they really don't do much to address the present. As much as we peanuts love the by gone days of competitive, talented ball players whom we could photoshop in awkward ways, those days are over, and it does not do to dwell on dreams only to forget reality.
About a month ago, right after the Ben Revere trade, I took Stinky (Mrs. Peanut to you) out for a nice Italian dinner date night. We commiserated about the dearth of lovable guys and the uncertainty of new players. As she said, "everyone who made me love this team is gone, and in their place are a bunch of people I'm not sure will be here in six months. I used to cheer because I loved the team and the guys who were part of it. Now, I cheer because they wear the same clothes that the guys I love used to wear."
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I have a feeling that Stinky spoke for a lot of Twins fans that night, few of whom are members of the blogosphere, but many of whom sit down the row or at the same bar and who have begun to approach the summer months with apathy bordering on estrangement. I've certainly had similar moments, and I've read many similar thoughts from other bloggers. But, as I told my beloved Stinky that same night, "this is part of love. The people you care about don't stay exactly the same as when you first met them, they grow, they change, and you find new things to love about them."
We could close up the blogging shop right now, satisfied that it was an amusing diversion for many years, and hope that some day the Twins sweep us off our feet again. Or we can keep writing, keep chatting and actually redouble our efforts as we find new things to love in this new team. This version of the Twins might not win, (okay they definitely won't win) but they can be entertaining and we can find entertainment in their efforts. So join us as we ring out the old (with the PFH HoF vote) and ring in the new (with new posts welcoming in our quirky line-up).
It's going to be a fun year.
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