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Which is why Andrews is favored to claim their third straight 4-4A
title five weeks from now.
The Mustangs and Pecos Eagles are the only two district teams with
winning records. But Andrews has played the more impressive schedule,
beating Class 5A teams from Carlsbad, Odessa High, Roswell Goddard,
along with Frenship, one of the teams expected to reach the playoffs out
of District 2-4A.
Lance Martin has the best earned run average of any district starter so
far, Cody Klein is already in double-digits in home runs and is also
undefeated on the mound, with much of that success due to Andrews'
The Mustang lead 4-4A teams in double plays and have committed the
fewest errors, meaning -- so far at least -- Andrews hasn't beaten
The Eagles have lost only two more games than the Mustangs, but in
three of those losses -- two behind No. 1 pitcher Jason Abila -- they
have beaten themselves, allowing seven unearned runs in losses to the
two best teams they've played so far, El Paso Burges and Abilene Wylie.
Abila went 4-1 last season in district, and with lefthander Moses
Martinez posting a 4-1 pre-district record after his strong finish a
year ago, the Eagles should end their five-year playoff drought, and
could challenge Andrews for the district title, if they can avoid the
errors and connect against the district's lefthanded pitchers.
San Angelo Lake View is looking to do just about the same thing. They
get Sterlin Gilbert back as their No. 1 pitcher, and have gotten a
couple of other good pitching efforts recently. The Chiefs are probably
a little more consistent hitting team than the Eagles right now, but
they're also averaging about 4½ errors per game. That number could again
keep Lake View out of post-season play, but if the defense improves, it
could be San Angelo challenging for the 4-4A title.
Andrews, Pecos and Lake View are the favorites to earn the three
post-season berths, but Sweetwater, Big Spring and Fort Stockton could
Big Spring has six straight playoff appearances, but lost virtually
their entire squad from a season ago. Coach Bobby Doe has gotten some
good pitching recently from Blake Hull and Danny Wilson, and he said the
team's defense has improved as of late.
The Steers' recent winning tradition could also help against their 4-4A
rivals down the stretch, if the new players can come up with some early
victories in district play.
Sweetwater made the playoffs in two of their last four seasons in
District 4-4A, before going to District 5-4A the past two years. Coach
Tony Heredia's team will be even younger than Big Spring, with only one
senior starter and three sophomore pitchers, including lefthanded ace
Jared Shelton. Both he and most of the other starters already have a
season of varsity play under their belts, and several late arrivals to
the squad should bolster the Mustangs' defense.
Fort Stockton's defense was committing about as many errors as San
Angelo Lake View through the first month of play. When they got things
together, they finished ahead of both Sweetwater and Big Spring at the
Snyder Tournament. Coach Russell McGuiart also has a young team, but
they could cause trouble if the defense performs behind No. 1 pitcher
Steven Cordova, who had an 8-to-1 strikeout to walk ratio in six
pre-district contests.
Pecos has gone five years since their last trip to the playoffs.
Injuries to their main pitchers, and an inability to bring home runners
in scoring position, have been two of the main culprits.
Last year's team went 4-6 in District 4-4A and 9-12 overall, and the
two teams they finished ahead of came up with one no-hitter and a near
no-hitter against the Eagles.
This year's squad has already surpassed last season's win total, and in
their 10 wins, the Eagles have scored 15, 6, 9, 9, 13, 8, 22, 16, 12 and
11 runs.
"If we get people on base, we're going to score," Eagles' coach Bubba
Williams said last week. "When we get on we're going to run, and I don't
think a high school team can consistently throw us out."
Although they've struggled at bat in a few games, Pecos has been much
more successful with the hit-and-run this year, and have been able to
both move runners up with one out, and get them home with two out so far
in 1997.
Much of the improvement has come from within, since Pecos has seven of
their nine starters back from a year ago.
Jason Abila returns for a third season at shortstop and on the mound,
and will try to get though 1997 injury free. He popped his elbow midway
through district play as a freshman, then did the same in mid-March last
He still managed to make it through the season, posting a 4-1 record in
district on the mound, and went 7-2 overall as a sophomore.
In doing so, Abila became the first Eagles pitcher in a decade to make
it from the opening to the close of the season as No. 1 starter. Of
course, he ended up as No. 1 after 1995's top pitcher, Anthony
Dutchover, moved away, so even that achievement was had its down side.
No one has moved away this year, and while Abila has already equalled
his loss total from a year ago, the junior's 3-2 mark comes with an
earned run average below 1.50, and 57 strikeouts in 31 innings.
Errors have played key roles in three of Pecos' four defeats, including
both of Abila's losses, to El Paso Burges and Abilene Wylie. Bad
fielding in some other games hasn't cost Pecos, thanks to their
double-digit run totals, but Williams is hoping the Eagles can keep the
mistakes down, as they've done in their last two games.
"If we play defense behind Jason, we're going to be all right,"
Williams said. "They may hit him, but they're not going to hit him
Along with Abila, the Eagles' other main pitcher this season has been
lefthander Moses Martinez. He got in one start as a freshman, then
struggled on the mound until late last season, when he shut the door on
eventual district runner-up Big Spring to preserve a victory for Abila.
In pre-district this season, Martinez has posted a 4-1 record after
going 0-5 as a freshman and sophomore, and outside of some early control
problems in his last start, he's been the most consistent pitcher in
throwing strikes for the Eagles.
The No. 3 pitching spot is still unsettled going into district play.
Jason Aguilar was moved up to the varsity, and ended up as the Eagles'
No. 2 starter last season. He had a couple of good games, but has
struggled with his control in the early going so far in 1997.
Williams got a pair of relief victories out of newcomer Jason Chabarria
in Midland two weeks ago, and he's also looked at Ruben Campos, Oscar
Luna and Richard Gutierrez on the mound.
Gutierrez was the Eagles leading hitter in district last season, and
returns as Pecos' starting third baseman, as does second baseman Nestor
Mendoza. He's moved his average up about 50 points in the past week,
while Gutierrez hit over .450 in pre-district play.
At first base, Joseph Strain won the starting job, after missing most
of last season, and has batted around .300 for most of the season, while
in the outfield, Cisco Rodriguez and Eric Abila return as starters from
a year ago.
Rodriguez joins Gutierrez and Jason Abila in batting over .400 for most
of pre-district play, while Abila was above .350 until last week, when
he slumped a bit after suffering a stomach virus.
Also returning as a starter is catcher Mark Abila. He started as a
freshman last season, and has had few opponents running on him this
year, though he has had a few problems with throws to third base in the
past week.
Two other sophomores have split time in the outfield. Oscar Luna has
played the most there, while Lucio Florez was brought up from the JV
after Luna injured his wrist two weeks ago. Right now, he's splitting
time between baseball and track, making him the second most effective
outfielder/hurdler in District 4-4A, behind Andrews' Shaud Williams.
Florez served as designated hitter in the Eagles' district opener
against Sweetwater, batting for senior John Paul Vasquez, who is
handling the shortstop job when Jason Abila is on the mound.
Aside from Luna's wrist, the Eagles also have suffered through an early
season-leg problem for Martinez, an impending tonsillectomy for
outfielder Eric Aguilar, and the March 11 car crash that sidelined
Strain for two games and cost Pecos their other shortstop, Eric Muniz,
for the rest of the season with a broken ankle.
Going into district, Williams was concerned about how well the Eagles
would hit lefthanders, though the past two games against Lamesa's Jaime
Garcia and Sweetwater's Jarod Shelton have been encouraging.
"We need to convince ourselves we can hit lefthanded pitching, because
that's what we're going to see in district," Williams said following
last Friday's win over Garcia and the Tornadoes.
Pecos got over their problems beating Big Spring last season, sweeping
both games from the Steers, but have beaten defending district champion
Andrews only once, in non-district play, since 1992.
That's also the year the current playoff drought began. With the new
three-team playoff format -- and barring both injuries and grade
problems -- that streak should end this year, but if Pecos wants to earn
their first district title since 1987, they'll need to end that streak
against the Mustangs, along with reversing their recent problems against
San Angelo Lake View.
Andrews has gone 18-2 in district the past two seasons, and were 23-6 a
year ago before losing in the third round of the playoffs to Sherman, in
a best-of-three series. And the Mustangs did it mainly behind the arms
of Larry and Corey Martin.
Both Larry, a lefthander, and Corey, a righty, have graduated, but the
Mustangs have filled at least one of those holes with Larry's brother,
Lance, another righty who already owns two shutouts this season, one a
no-hitter against Lubbock Roosevelt.
The senior also shut the door on Snyder after the first inning of the
championship game of the Snyder Tournament on Mar. 15. But that was in
relief of starter P.J. Lewis, and by that time, the Tigers had pushed 11
runs across the plate in an 11-0 win.
However, he came back to get the save on Mar. 18 in Andrews against
Snyder, as the Mustangs posted a 13-11 win, and earned a victory this
past weekend at the Roswell, N.M. Tournament, beating the host Goddard
Rockets after Haney shutting out Lawton, Okla. in the opener. The
Mustangs then used Martin, Cody Klein and Gabe Falcon to beat
Wolfforth-Frenship, 5-4, in the championship game.
It was Andrews' second title in three tries -- they won the Carlsbad
Tournament in early March -- though coach Joe Ray Halsey said playing a
tournament right before district, "is something I'm probably not going
to do again."
However, outside of the bat work Snyder displayed against the
non-Martin hurlers Halsey threw at them, Andrews' district rivals are
faced with the odds that the Mustangs will again by at or near the top
of the 4-4A standings.
Martin, Klein and Falcon are all seniors, though with the two other
Martins around, none pitched much in 1995. Klein couldn't, due to
soreness in his elbow tendon. But so far this season, the lefthander is
undefeated, with his latest win in the title game on Saturday against
"He's had some big strikeout games, but basically, he's been able to
get the ground ball when he's needed it," Halsey said.
While the 4-0 Klein and the 5-0 Martin fight it out for No. 1 pitcher,
there's no question Klein has been the top hitter so far for Andrews.
"He's had a remarkable pre-district," Halsey said, with 10 home runs in
the team's first 17 games. "He had several last year, but right now he's
swinging as good as anyone I've seen."
Klein played outfield last season, but has spent time at first base
this year. He joins Martin, last year's second baseman, are among a
handful of returning starters for Andrews. They include their catcher,
Elton Emiliano, and shortstop Gabe Falcon, who has seen some mound
action this year and backed up Emiliano at catcher last season.
August Lewis is the only completely new face on the infield, starting
at third base, and defensively, the Mustangs have played better than
anyone else in 4-4A through the first month of the season.
"We've had a lot of double plays, which sounds good, but that also
means we've had a lot of runners on, which isn't good," Halsey said.
Another newcomer is familiar to Andrews' District 4-4A rivals.
Sophomore Shaud Williams will be trying to add an all-district baseball
honor to his all-district in basketball and district MVP in football.
Williams played a little bit last year, and is still splitting time
with track, where he was a regional qualifier in the hurdles as a
freshman. "We don't have him all the time, but when he's there, he
really helps," Halsey said.
Along with Williams and both Lewises, other new players in the
Mustangs' lineup include a pair of Mikes, Hudson and Hudgens. Hudgens
will flank Williams on one side in the outfield, while P.J. Lewis will
also play there when he's not pitching.
Aside from Klein, Halsey said Falcon has been the team's next-best
hitter so far in 1997. "He's been hitting the ball well and has about
four home runs. Those two are our leading RBI guys."
While most of the other district coaches have already pencilled in
Andrews for one of the three 4-4A post-season berths, Halsey was a
little more cautious, since last year's team was just as heavy a
favorite, and did drop two games in district before claiming their
second straight 4-4A title.
"It always seems like when district comes around, it (the pre-district
records) just don't remain the same," he said.
Even so, it would be a major surprise if Andrews wasn't one of the
three district teams still playing when May arrives.
Lake View entered District 4-4A play sporting only a 5-9 mark, and had
lost four of their previous five games. But before that streak, they
piled up 23 runs on Lamesa, a team that defeated both Pecos and Fort
Stockton last weekend, and they closed out pre-district play with a 5-1
win over Snyder, after the Tigers had racked up 22 runs on 4-4A favorite
Andrews during the previous six days.
In between those wins, Lake View lost a pair of games to the Frenship
Tigers and one to Lubbock Estacado. All the games were close, and Lake
View did touch Tigers' ace Dwight Welch for five hits and three runs in
a 6-3 loss. Welch came into that game with two no-hitters and a
one-hitter in the first three weeks of the season.
Welch throws in the low 90s, and impressed Andrews' coach Joe Halsey,
whose team squeezed out a 5-4 win over Frenship last weekend at the
Roswell tournament. Combine that with strong pitching efforts by a
senior two underclassmen during the past 10 days, and coach Rene
Cordova's team has a good shot at putting to rest the Chiefs'
distinction of being the only district team to have never reached the
Lake View keeps coming close. Three years ago, a seventh inning homer
by Pecos' Arturo Hinojos in the final game of the season kept them out,
and the past two years, season-ending losses to Big Spring's Zac Leslie
have sent the Chiefs home.
This year, Cordova's squad will be hoping Sterlin Gilbert, who
quarterbacked Lake View to three straight post-season appearances, and
lead the Chiefs to their first-ever playoff trip in baseball.
He entered district with just a 1-3 mark, but has been hurt by his
defense in a couple of losses. Against Frenship, he matched Welch in
allowing just five hits, but saw four unearned runs provide the margin
of difference.
While Gilbert hasn't gotten much help, teammate Tommy Stubblefield was
the beneficiary of the Chiefs' 23-run outburst against Lamesa. He's 3-1
on the season, and fanned nine in his five innings of work against the
However, curveballer Chris Martinez may have put on an even more
impressive performance in four-hitting Snyder last Friday for Lake
View's other win this season. That came after he relieved Josh Gauwain
(0-3) the previous Friday against Estacado, allowing just three hits and
one earned runs in seven innings of a 7-5 loss.
Martinez and Gilbert also start on the infield, at second and third
base, when they're not pitching, while last year's second baseman,
senior Lanze Velez, has moved over to shortstop.
Also back is the team's leading hitter, Mark Childress, at catcher. He
slumped slightly as a sophomore, after earning all-district honors as a
freshman, and has been hitting over .500 so far this season.
Hitting in front of Childress is another returning starter, outfielder
Richard Luna, while last year's designated hitter, Ashby Franklin, has
moved in on defense, either in the outfield or as Gilbert's replacement
at third base.
Gauwain had been filling out the outfield for the Chiefs, playing in
center, while at first, Gary Floyd and Gilbert Velez had split playing
time this season. But Floyd has since left the team, as has Gauwain,
with Abellaro Santillian now set as the third outfielder.
The errors behind Gilbert have continued behind the other Lake View
pitchers. Martinez survived four by his infielders last week to get the
win over Snyder, though Cordova would not doubt like his infielders to
give his pitchers less of a challenge to getting victories now that 4-4A
play has begun.
But the Steers may be taking a page from Big Spring's basketball team,
which always seems to be in the playoffs despite slow starting seasons.
Big Spring has advanced to post-season six straight years, with a trip
to state and three district titles along the way. And while they started
this year by losing by double digit to Odessa Permian, they lost by only
a 2-0 score to Permian two weeks ago, and come into district play having
won two straight games.
"We're starting to play a little bit better than what we were," said
coach Bobby Doe, who has taken the last five Steer teams to the playoffs.
Last year, Big Spring rode the arm of senior Zac Leslie to a third
round post-season appearance. The Steers were 7-9 going into district,
then went 7-3 in 4-4A play, and beat El Paso High and Dumas in the
playoffs before falling to Fort Worth Arlington Heights for the second
year in a row.
Leslie is gone, along with everyone else except for designated hitter
Wes Mouton, who has taken over the role of starting second baseman.
Mouton will be the Steers' main offensive threat this season -- he had
two of the team's three hits in their win last Saturday over Levelland,
though Doe said "he's been struggling at bat," up until Saturday.
Mouton is among a group of underclassmen who'll be in starting roles.
That group includes third baseman Aaron Boadle, who Doe said "has been
our leading hitter, although he's only hitting about .300. We're not
hitting the ball like we have."
Louis Lopez is at shortstop, while last year's junior varsity third
baseman, senior Kade Bowerman, has moved over to first base this year.
"Our infield is starting to play a little better. It's an all-new team,
and they're learning new positions," the Steers' coach said.
Clayton Pate is the Steers' new catcher, and Doe said he's been steady
behind the plate, while earning a spot in the heart of the batting order.
In the outfield, Doe has juniors Brock Gee, Marcus Hyatt and sophomore
Blake Wright in right, center and left field.
On the mound, Big Spring will work with a pair of seniors, Blake Hull
and Danny Wilson, and one junior, Jeff Denton. Hull, whose brother Danny
was a member of the team last season, had one pre-district win and
picked up the save on Saturday against Levelland for Wilson, who allowed
just one run in his four innings of work, while getting his second
victory of the year.
Big Spring was able to advance to post-season play last year despite
two losses to Pecos, thanks to a sweep of San Angelo Lake View and a
split with Andrews. Going into district play this season, Doe isn't
optimistic about his -- or any other team's -- chances against Andrews,
but with the new three-playoff format, the Steers will have an extra
game or so to set things up for their seventh straight post-season trip.
And they'd like to match the triple play the 1992 Mustangs pulled off
-- taking district titles in football, basketball and baseball during
the same year.
The football and basketball titles are already under wraps, but to
repeat the results from either 1992 of `94, Sweetwater will have to
bounce back from a weak season offensively as a member of District 5-4A
in 1996 -- which might be a suprise to their 4-4A rivals, since
Sweetwater was always an offensive-minded team in the past.
Seven of coach Tony Heredia's nine starters were members of the
Mustangs' district-championship football team, though unlike 1992, the
most-heralded players have opted for track over baseball this season.
"We've only got one senior on the team among our returning lettermen,
and our whole pitching staff is sophomores," said Heredia, who just got
another sophomore, Brett Bishop, out after he playing on Sweetwater's
regional championship basketball squad.
"He filled in very nicely at the Snyder Tournament. He got a couple of
hits with only one day's batting practice," Heredia said. "Once he feels
comfortable, he should do even better."
However, the key sophomore is lefthander Jarod Shelton, the team's No.
1 pitcher, who already owns a victory over Big Spring at the Snyder
Tournament on March 13.
"He saw some playing time as a freshman, so he's got a year's
experience, even though he's still young," the Mustangs' coach said.
Shelton pitched in relief in Sweetwater's final pre-district game, a
7-5 loss at home to Kermit. Jeremy Maxwell started that game, and coach
Tony Heredia also used Brandon Maldonado on the mound. "I gave all my
pitchers 2¶ innings (against Kermit), so they would all get in a little
work," said Heredia, who currently has Maldonado down as his No. 2
Shelton will play first base when he's not on the mound, while
Maldoando saw time at shortstop before Bishop's arrival.
The rest of the starting infield features two juniors, third baseman
Michael Gomez and Marty Smith, the lone senior starter, at second base.
"He's our leading hitter right now. He's batting about .450," said
Heredia. "Defensively, he made a couple of errors when he played at
shortstop when Maldonado was pitching, but I think his error Friday
(against Kermit) was hit first at second base."
Gomez just got his starting job back a couple of weeks ago, after
spending time on the ineligible list, as did another junior, outfielder
Eddie Campos.
He'll start in left field, with junior Jason Gomez in right, and Justin
Gee, a sophomore, in centerfield.
"He's made four or five diving catches out there that were pretty
spectacular," Heredia said. Offensively, Gee's hitting in the .275-.300
range, but his coach said his on-base percentage is much higher. "He's
drawn walk after walk," Heredia added.
Catcher right now is being split between Nicholas Boil and Andy Hall,
while two other players, Steven Wayman and Brandon Henfer, are splitting
time as designated hitter.
Weyman gives the Mustangs the same kind of big designated hitter they
enjoyed when Toby Stephens filled the roll back in 1992-94. But the
235-pound junior also will see action in the field, at first base when
Shelton is pitching.
Coach Russell McGuiart's squad is below .500 going into District 4-4A
play, but finished ahead of a couple of district rivals, Sweetwater and
Big Spring, at the Snyder Tournament on March 13-15. And while a 12-2
loss to the host Tigers doesn't look good, Snyder took out two-time
defending district champ Andrews 11-0 the following night.
Last season, the Panthers started strong, with a 7-4 record, but ended
up going 2-8 in district for the second year in a row.
"We're very young. We've only got two back from last year," said
McGuiart of his starting lineup.
Fort Stockton's success figures to hinge on the pitching of Steven
Cordero. The righthander sported a 3-3 mark in pre-district, but had
only allowed two earned runs in his first six games, with seven walks
and 57 strikeouts.
Errors plagued Cordero in his losses. They added 15 more runs to his
total, most of those coming in the three losses.
"Steve's had some hard luck. We've made a bunch of errors behind him,"
McGuiart said. Overall, the Panthers committed 54 errors in pre-district
Cordero was the Panthers shortstop last season, and will be back there
when not pitching.
Competing for the No. 2 pitching spot are a pair of newcomers, Nathan
Reeves and Jeremy Hickman.
Reeves, the younger brother of last year's starting center fielder,
Chad Reeves, earned a 6-5 victory over Sweetwater in the Snyder
Tournament, though he was hit hard by Lamesa on Saturday in a 10-6 loss.
Hickman started the Panthers' 2-1 win over Lubbock Roosevelt and their
6-4 loss on Mar. 18 against Monahans.
Cordero is just one of a handful of returning players for Fort
Stockton. He's joined by Chris Irigoyen and outfielder Bryan Parker.
Both they're both moving to different positions this season -- Parker
from the outfield to catcher, and Irigoyen from third to first base.
"Bryan's coming around. He was having problems with his throws and I
put Jeremy Hickman at catcher and moved him to right field, and that
kind of got his attention," McGuiart said.
The pair, along with Cordero, were batting in the mid-.300s during the
first month of the season, as was Reeves, who plays outfielder with two
other sophomores, Cesar Hernandez and Jonathan Rojas.
Rojas was the top hitter in the early going for Fort Stockton, batting
just under .400 in pre-district, and McGuiart said, "He's the best
fielder. When we have a fast pitcher like Steven on the mound, I'll put
him in right field."
Along with the sophomores, McGuiart has a freshman, David Nance, in the
lineup, at shortstop. "He's also not a bad pitcher. He beat Greenwood in
the Monahans Tournament," McGuiart said, while saying Nance is still a
little behind the older players in hitting.
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Football: OU Super Saturday Set for April 27
Beginning at 9 a.m. OU Football season ticket holders may enter the Switzer Center via Gates 1 and 12 on the south side of Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. An open house will be conducted at the Switzer Center until 11:30 a.m. Fans will have the opportunity for an exclusive tour of the OU Football facilities, including the locker room, Coach Bob Stoops' office, the Adrian Peterson Team Meeting Room, as well as the training and weight rooms.
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Jonathan and I married 22 years ago this month, and like all newly weds we had big plans for our life. Among the certainties we presented to God, were the following:
- Jonathan would be a youth pastor forever, because youth ministry wasn't just a stepping stone to "something bigger and better."
- We would be young parents. Our four children would be born before we hit our 30's so we could be grandparents in our 40's.
- We were never leaving Canada.
- We would never renovate a house, or farm sheep.
In case you're new here, I'll remind you that we have, thus far, managed to not farm sheep. We hit our tenth anniversary, still childless, and Jonathan leaving his youth pastorate at the beginning of what would be a five year theological overhaul. One would think I would have learned not to give God absolutes. Still, I continued to be surprised when my plans were not His. Here I sit, approaching 43, expecting my own bonus doodle, instead of the granddoodle of my initial plans, and I find myself thinking "but this wasn't my plan. This wasn't how life was supposed to go."
Almost nothing about the life I have now is the life I pictured then. I "should" be published. I "should" have teenagers in an excellent Christian school on whose PTA I would gladly serve. I "should" . . . does it even matter? The point is, I'm not.
And still, as I look back over 22 years of "shoulds," I am struck also by the things I never saw coming. Would anyone who knew me even ten years ago have anticipated that I would own three separate rolling pins for three separate baking tasks, and use every one regularly? Would the naive almost 21 year old who walked that aisle have anticipated the day she/I could gut, skin, and process both large game and small animals and birds for our family's consumption? Hardly. My political shift from liberal to angry conservative to undefinable was probably not as surprising to others as it was to me. However, I know that no one could have foreseen the day in which I found joy and peace within the bounds called "confessional."
I didn't set out to be a confessional Presbyterian, any more than I set out to spend ten years of life infertile, but the journeys are not separate. This isn't the life I set out to live. This isn't the road map I unfurled at the dawning of my early adulthood. It doesn't even look like the same country, some days. Still, I wouldn't trade it. Some of the greatest beauties of my life and things that stir my soul today couldn't even be found on that first path. The things in which I delight today are things I didn't even know I wanted then.
So six months ago it wasn't my plan to have a baby in my 40s. What joy and delights are to come that I cannot anticipate? This bonus doodle follows in a long line of things I receive from the Lord that I didn't know I wanted. Some of those things have been terribly painful, and the heavy hand of providence may lay on this too. Even so, all things considered, He has continued to make my boundaries lie in pleasant places. This isn't the way I thought my life would go, 22 years ago, 10 years ago, 6 months ago. This wasn't my plan. What a comforting place to rest.


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Chelsea Clinton: I'm Pregnant
The Clinton dynasty continues. Chelsea Clinton announced on Thursday that she and her husband are expecting their first child later this year. Clinton appeared with her mom at an event in New York to talk about opportunities for women and girls. "I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child and hopefully children as my mom was to me," she said. Hillary Clinton told the crowd she was "really excited" to be expecting her first grandchild.


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KINCARDINE—Ontario Power Generation has taken a "cavalier attitude" to the potential hazards of nuclear wastes it plans to bury near the Bruce nuclear station, says a former OPG scientist.
And Frank Greening says the company did it to save money.
But OPG and Canada's nuclear regulator told a federal review panel that the errors in their calculations pointed out by Greening, don't alter the fact that the proposed waste site is safe.
Greening gave a technically dense but often scathing assessment of the company's plans to entomb low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste 680 metres below ground on the shore of Lake Huron.
Greening discovered major errors in OPG's statements of the types of waste and the radioactivity of materials destined for the site.
Greening, who holds a PhD in chemistry, worked for OPG and Ontario Hydro from 1978 until 2000.
Greening's critique sent OPG and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission back to re-do calculations, which were presented to the panel on Wednesday.
For example, the CNSC reported that when Greening's corrections were made, the radiation dose to members of the public resulting from a terrorist bomb damaging a package of scrapped pressure tubes would be three times more than originally calculated.
Pressure tubes run through the reactor core and hold the uranium fuel bundles.
But officials of OPG and the commission said that even allowing for Greening's corrections, any doses to the public would remain far below the threshold of levels that are considered unacceptable.
Information about what's going into the site, and its characteristics, will be continually updated as the project moves forward in the coming years, they said.
Greening accused OPG of estimating what materials, in what proportions, are contained in waste produced by their nuclear power stations — instead of taking samples.
Estimating is cheaper, he said.
"OPG has chosen to skimp on the costs of properly characterizing these piles of radioactive waste, perhaps because the analysis of just one sample costs over a thousand dollars," Greening said.
After Greening pointed out mistakes, OPG said that they resulted from OPG's use of "available data" in 2010, when the information was prepared.
"This is simply not true," Greening said. "OPG did not use available data, but used fabricated data instead."
Greening also tore into OPG for not acknowledging the hazards of zirconium, a metal used in pressure tubes.
Zirconium in powdered form is highly explosive – and is in fact used to make incendiary bombs, Greening said. He presented a U.S. patent for a bomb using zirconium.
A terrorist bomb exploding near zirconium could ignite the zirconium, and magnify the effect of the original blast, he said. That in turn could blow more radioactive material into the environment that currently contemplated.
OPG and the CNSC appear to be "blissfully ignorant" of the explosive properties of zirconium, he said.
OPG experts said Greening's fears are unfounded, since the zirconium destined for the dump will be cut in pieces a bit smaller than a playing card.
They showed a video of a piece of zirconium being heated to 1,100 degrees Celsius, but failing to ignite.
Greening noted that a terrorist bomb could blow the zirconium pieces into fragments that could be small enough to ignite.
Panel chair Stella Swanson warned Greening that some of the material he presented Wednesday was new to the panel, which is contrary to its rules. Information is supposed to be given to the panel in advance, so others can study it and comment.
She said the panel will rule at a future date whether all his information will be accepted.
Anna Tilman of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health told the panel that Greening's work raises questions about the quality of OPG's over-all work in designing the waste site.
"What other errors have they made in the inventory that haven't been detected?" she asked.


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Price Drop Boosts PlayStation 2 Sales
The PlayStation 2's long-awaited drop to a $149 price point seems to have had the desired effect, Sony Computer Entertainment America announced today. In the month since Sony announced the price drop at E3, sales of the hardware have reportedly more than doubled compared to the month before the drop.
Sony registered a 216% week-over-week increase in the seven days immediately following the announcement, and a 141% increase in the three full weeks after...
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Location: Quality & Safety Assessment ResearchTitle: Comparison of cook loss, shear force, and sensory descriptive profiles of broiler breast fillets cooked from a frozen state and cooked after freeze/thaw Author
|Zhuang, Hong
|Savage, Elizabeth - Retired ARS Employee
Submitted to: Poultry Science
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/4/2013
Publication Date: 11/1/2013
Citation: Zhuang, H., Savage, E.M. 2013. Comparison of cook loss, shear force, and sensory descriptive profiles of broiler breast fillets cooked from a frozen state and cooked after freeze/thaw. Poultry Science. 92(11): 3003-3009.
Interpretive Summary: Storing meat in a freezer is the most economical and safe preservation method. The frozen meat very often goes through thawing and cooking before consumption. However, in the research, the frozen meat is sometimes cooked directly from a frozen state. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of these two cooking methods on quality of cooked chicken breast meat. Our results showed no differences in flavor of cooked chicken breast meat between these two cooking methods. However, the breast meat cooked directly from the frozen state lost more water during cooking and was perceived more cohesive and harder than the meat cooked after thawing. These results demonstrate that cooked breast meat will taste the same no matter the meat is cooked from a frozen state or after thawing. The meat that goes through thawing before cooking has better texture quality and higher cook yield.
Technical Abstract: Four replications were conducted to compare quality measurements, cook loss, shear force, and sensory quality profiles of cooked broiler breast meat (pectoralis major) prepared directly from a frozen state and prepared after freeze/thaw. In each replication, fresh broiler fillets (removed from carcasses 6-8 h postmortem) were procured from a local commercial processing plant and stored in a -20C freezer until use. On the sensory evaluation date, the fillets were either cooked directly from the frozen state or after the frozen samples were thawed at a refrigerator (2C) overnight. Both samples were cooked to an endpoint temperature of 78C. Cook loss and Warner-Bratzler (WB) shear force were measured as indicators for meat water-holding capacity and texture. Sensory quality was evaluated by trained descriptive panelists using 0-15 universal intensity scales for 7 texture and 10 flavor attributes. Our results show that there were no differences (p>0.05) for sensory descriptive flavor attributes of cooked fillets between the two sample preparation methods, indicating that the sensory flavor profiles of both methods were similar to each other. However, WB shear force (32.3 Newton), cook loss (21.2%), sensory texture attributes cohesiveness (intensity score was 5.2) and hardness (4.9) of the breast fillets cooked directly from the frozen state were significantly higher (p<0.05) than those of the breast meat cooked after being thawed (27.4 Newton, 19.0%, 4.9, 4.6, and 5.3, respectively). Principal component analysis of the sensory analysis data shows that meat samples cooked directly from the frozen state was closely associated with most of sensory descriptive attributes and close to each other compared with the freeze/thaw samples. These results indicate that the sample preparation methods used to cook frozen broiler breast fillets can result in different measurement values of cook loss, shear force, and sensory descriptive texture attributes. Compared with the freeze/thaw sample preparation method, cooking from a frozen state retains better sensory characteristics and reduces sensory measurement variations.


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|View of Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Carnival from Reliant Stadium
Jumping in a little late, but I've decided to try this Photo of the Day Challenge... join in if you feel like it!
Yesterday was WINDOW... took this last night at the rodeo, and HH could not figure out why I WANTED a pic with the window bar showing. Now he knows.
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Discovery's optical coherent receiver systems provide a flexible communications platform with multiple input and output options. They achieve high sensitivity, both with and without an optical pre-amplifier. The systems can also be used at other wavelengths such as 980 nm, 1064 nm, 1310 nm and optical S band. By maintaining the optical phase information, the receivers open up a whole new field of both digital and analog optical signal processing.


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Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga was forced to leave a meeting when Soshanguve residents who are allegedly African National Congress (ANC) did not want him to speak.
The group that refused to be addressed by Msimanga cheered Gauteng MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Human Settlements, Paul Mashatile.
Mashatile and Msimanga were handing houses over to beneficiaries and inspecting projects.
Tshwane ANC regional secretary, Paul Mojapelo, says it is not true that residents were ANC members, saying Mashatile met the community on his ability as MEC.
Mojapelo insists the ANC in the region accept Msimanga as mayor.
Listen to Paul Mojapelo saying the ANC accepts Msimanga is mayor but he must handle himself as a mayor for all residents...


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I think the falling prices of Apple's stocks has something to do with the sustainability of its business model in the future. Many experts believe that 2013 will be a bad year for high end gadgets and this is the category where Apple products fall into.
The Korea Herald: Samsung's market capitalization gaining as Apple shares flag
The market value of Samsung Electronics' listed stocks was worth $201.5 billion as of last week, which was about 40 percent of the value of Apple Inc.'s listed shares.
These figures reflected a 13 percentage point increase compared to the end of August this year, according to KB Investment and Securities. At the same time, Apple's worth was undermined, with its market capitalization now 2.5 times that of Samsung, down from when the iPhone maker's stocks were worth four times the South Korean company's shares.
In particular, Samsung Electronics' market cap showed the biggest increase between August, when its stock price started to rise, up to this month.
In that month a U.S. court ordered Samsung to pay Apple $1.05 billion for infringing the U.S. company's critical patents.
In September, Apple's share prices surpassed $700 on the back of the news, but stock value soon started to slip, falling to around $520 per share as of the middle of November.
"Apple's stock prices have shed 19.6 percent since the U.S. jury reached its verdict on Aug. 24, while Samsung Electronics' stocks have risen by 16.1 percent. This gap indicates that an unprecedented disparity in competitiveness is being created between the two firms," said Song Myong-sup, a researcher for Hi Investment and Securities.
Public dissatisfaction with Apple's new smart device lineup, such as the much-delayed iPhone 5 and the iPad mini, appears to have driven down the prices, industry watchers said. Information about the features of these new devices was also leaked prematurely into the market, dampening customer anticipation, they added.
Apple currently is calling for a U.S. judge to ban Samsung products from shelves for copying its designs, but a trial hearing that opened this week hinted that the tables may be turned, at least partially, as the judge said there was a possibility that the damages award that Samsung was ordered to pay out to Apple was miscalculated.
Experts have predicted that while overturning the verdict completely would be difficult, there could be alterations made to the damages award.
Both Samsung and Apple, now the top two rivals in the global IT industry, have vowed not to back down in the patent battle.
On Tuesday, Samsung shares closed at 1.476 million won ($1,370), down 15,000 won from the previous day's trading.
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1835 – March 29, 1887*
Benjamin Franklin Ruff was born in 1835. His wife Mary Jane was born in 1840. They had at least one daughter, Sally, who was born in 1860. Ruff is said to have been a Connellsville-area neighbor and a friend of Henry Clay Frick. In her wonderful book on Frick, Martha Sanger tells us that Ruff often stayed at The Monongahela House, the residential hotel in Pittsburgh where H. C. Frick also lodged. So when Ruff envisioned the summer retreat in the hills above Johnstown, it was natural that he promoted this idea to Frick, who by that time had achieved his goal of being a millionaire by age 30. Indeed Frick was fast becoming one of the richest men in America and he was, as yet, single.
There is an excellent account in David McCullough's "The Johnstown Flood" of how Ruff bought the land and developed it for the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. Below is a summary from other sources...
For the record, the charter members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were: B F Ruff; T H Sweet; Charles J Clarke; Thomas Clark; W F Fundenberg; Howard Hartley; H C Yeager; J B White; H C Frick; E A Myers; C C Hussey; D R Ewer; C A Carpenter; W L Dunn; W L McClintock; A V Holmes.
B. F. Ruff had been a tunnel contractor for the Pennsylvania Railroad and sometime-real estate salesman, as well as a coke dealer. He became not only the purchaser but also the developer and the first president of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. B. F. Ruff supervised the repairs to the dam, and while he was not a civil engineer, he had a background that included being a railroad tunnel contractor.
Here is how two Flood historians describe it…
In 1879 Henry Clay Frick was approached by a good friend and neighbor, Benjamin Ruff. Mr. Ruff had quite an idea - to purchase an old canal reservoir a few miles upstream from Johnstown and create a new fishing and hunting club, which was all the rage at the time. Mr. Frick signed on, and in that year the infamous South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was born.
For the next 10 years, the club owned a breathtaking lake and offered some of the finest scenery that Western Pennsylvania had to offer. The club's membership grew to include some of America's most powerful men. The club itself was a private affair, yet it found itself in the middle of one of the largest scandals of the late 19th century: the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889.
(Source: Stanley Pinkas, Chairman; Douglas J. Richardson, Historian; 1889 South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club Historical Preservation Society; St. Michael, PA; from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Letter to the Editor, Saturday, January 22, 2000)
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One source summarizes the history of the start of the Club this way…
In 1875 Congressman John Reilly bought the dam, lake, and surrounding land for $2,500, then sustained a $500 loss when he resold it to Benjamin F. Ruff in 1879. Ruff developed the property into the exclusive South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club with a wealthy nabob membership of 100 families including those of Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Henry C. Frick, A. V. Holmes, Philander C. Knox, W. L. Dunn, and John A. Harper. Each paid $2,000 to join [sic; McCullough says the cost to join was $800.00; "The Johnstown Flood"; page 57].
As McCullough further relates, Cyrus Elder, the chief legal counsel for the Cambria Iron Company, became "extremely exercised" by the news that Ruff was rebuilding the old dam... (TJF, page 67). Ironically, Elder would later buy the deceased Morrell's membership and on the day of the Flood, lose his home, his wife and daughter to the deluge.
A brief history of the dam by John Fulton, who was Club member Daniel Morrell's chief engineer at the Cambria Iron Company, as printed in the "Annual report of the Commissioner of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 1928/30"; which also has outstanding plans and sections of the South Fork Dam…
The work of the dam was begun in 1840 and completed in 1852. It was constructed under the authority of the state of Pennsylvania, from plans by William E Morris, principal assistant engineer; the work was performed under contract by Col James K Moorehead. … the dam was abandoned in 1857. the first break occurred in July 1862, carrying out about 25,000 cubic yards. The break was caused by neglect of the bulkhead and general want of repairs to the dam. As its pool at this time was only half full, a moderate amount of damage was caused in the valley below. In May of 1875 this property consisting of about 500 acres including the dam was sold to Hon. John Rilley. He held the property until 1879 when he disposed of it to B. F. Ruff, an old railroad contractor, for $2000.
[David McCullough states that although Congressman Reilly sold the property at a slight loss, he made up for it by first removing the old cast iron discharge pipes and selling them for scrap. (The Johnstown Flood, page 55]
Mr. Ruff the same year interested some Pittsburghers and others in this property and organized "The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club". He estimated the cost of repairing the first break at $1,700—it is said to have cost $17,000. The repairs were made in the summer and fall of 1880. During this and subsequent years a number of quite elegant cottages were built along the south margin of this, "The Conemaugh Lake". …(thereafter follows an account of the exchange between Ruff and Morrell regarding the need for repairs and the insufficiency of the brush used as fill, etc. as well as an account of the flood itself). ...there is no evidence that any engineer was employed in making these repairs. Mr. Ruff evidently dominated the whole of the operations of the repair of the dam. Every operation in making these repairs exhibited a total lack of skill or criminal negligence. (thereafter these flaws are enumerated and described)
- John Fulton, C. E.
- Engineer Member
- Johnstown Pa. January 1, 1898
Accounts of the improvements made on behalf of the Club by B. F. Ruff and Cyrus Unger included lowering the top of the dam by about four feet, making the roadway across the top of the dam wider (about 17 feet) and more convenient for carriages to pass one another going to and from the Clubhouse and Cottages. This made the center of the dam the lowest and weakest point.
Benjamin Franklin Ruff died suddenly on March 29, 1887 of a carbuncle of the neck, at a Pittsburgh hotel. It was two years, almost to the day, before the tragic events of the Johnstown Flood.*
*(Ruff's year of death is given in David McCullough's American Heritage article about the Flood called, "Run For Your Lives!", June 1966; and he further provides the day and month in his book "The Johnstown Flood" on page 78).


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Pedal power lights up rural Rwanda
May 8 - Rwandans without access to the country's power grid access a cheap, safe and clean lighting solution that makes use of a pedal-powered generator. Joanne Nicholson reports.
Pedalling to bring power to his village in Rwanda. Francois Nsegimana is working for lightmaker, Nuru Energy. Customers pay Francois to charge up the batteries for their LED lights on his pedal generator. (SOUNDBITE) (Kinyarwanda) NURU LIGHT SELLER, FRANCOIS NSENGIMANA, SAYING: "When I was selected to be among the people to sell these lights, I was first trained on how to use the machines, now I am doing serious business, many people are buying these lights because the price of kerosene is too high." One minute pedalling generates 400 minutes of light. Each of the lights costs around six U.S. dollars and to charge the batteries, it's 17 cents. The lights have brought more freedom to the villagers in Kayonza, which is just 60km from the capital, Kigali. (SOUNDBITE) (Kinyarwanda) VICTOR NIYIGENA, PUPIL SAYING: "Before I got this light I couldn't do my homework for more than 30 minutes at night, we had problems of Kerosene cost but now I can review my lessons for more than two hours at night and it helps me so much." (SOUNDBITE) (Kinyarwanda) VICTOR'S MOTHER, VESTINE MUKANDAHIRO, SAYING: "Before I used a Kerosene lamp to cook but it was so difficult because of the smoke and also the cost of kerosene, my children could not do their homework properly because kerosene is expensive but now it has become easier." Nuru Energy gives the generators and lights to traders like Francois and in return they sell the lamps The firm has projects in other countries like India but in Africa, Rwanda is the first country to use the pedal generators. Joanne Nicholson, Reuters


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The 87 year old said; "Well, I eat Italian bread every day. It keeps your energy level high and you'll have great stamina with the ladies."
So, on the way home, the 80 year old stops at the bakery.
As he was looking around, the lady asked if he needed any help.
He said, "Do you have any Italian bread?"
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Since 2010, Eco Motive owner Pam Sawyer dreamed about starting an exciting and useful business in Santa Fe. Pam has a background in business and hospitality (she managed the Pink Adobe Restaurant for 27 years!) and decided to create a unique bike shop that focused on electric bicycles. The idea supports biking in Santa Fe while catering to a growing market of cyclists interested in e-bikes. In early 2013 Dan Jeffre and Barbara Williams joined Pam to develop the Eco Motive Vision and provide increased visibility and solid customer service.
Electric bikes really make sense and their popularity is gaining world-wide because they are perfect choice for a daily commute or a playful cruise through the neighborhood. Anyone who loves biking or being outdoors is perfect candidate for an electric bike. Pam chose to work with Prodeco because it is an American electric bike company and Pedego because it increased options available to our customers. The design of the Pedego and Prodeco Tech bikes allow a rider to use the bike with or without the aid of a powerful electric engine. A rider can pedal all they want and then engage the electric engine with the twist of a throttle. The bikes are PERFECT and SO MUCH FUN.
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Kerri is a 20 year old sophomore from Zachary, LA. She majoring in mass communications and is Miss Baton Rouge 2005. She is a member of the American Heart Association (Heart Walk Captain) and a Supplies for Soldiers Volunteer. Kerri enjoys running, shopping, modeling, spending time with friends, public speaking, photography and pageantry. On attending LSU: "There is nothing like LSU! I've been a Tiger fan since I was a little girl. LSU's welcoming atmosphere is unlike any other in the nation and I feel truly privileged to be part of such an amazing university."


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The five-day forecast is iffy, there's a teetering pile of programmes next to my laptop and I suspect I've forgotten to turn the gas off. Which can mean only one thing: it's time to head to Edinburgh for the festival.
Before I waddle, overburdened, on to the train, I thought it'd be worth telling you what delights we have coming your way over the next three weeks. After today's comedy warm-up act in G2, the fringe proper kicks off this weekend: check tomorrow's paper for Charlotte Higgins's first dispatches from the festival, and this Sunday's Observer for the first batch of comedy and theatre roundups, plus a column by that paper's very own Tom Lamont. On Monday, the action shifts to G2: funnywoman Isy Suttie will be writing us a daily behind-the-scenes diary and we'll have some terrific interviews and features (my lips are sealed, but Monday's is especially worth keeping your eyes peeled for). And critics Lyn Gardner and Brian Logan will be packing in four thousand shows a day so you don't have to, reviewing and tweeting as they go.
All of it, of course, will be online: our Edinburgh festival homepage is the one to check for all the latest reviews, tip-offs and updates, plus a series of Culture Short videos we'll be making at the festival. Look out for Stephanie Merritt and Paul Macinnes's daily comedy notebook from Monday, and our tips on the new acts you should watch. If you're on Twitter, make sure you're stalking our full Edinburgh team, and follow our main festival Twitter account. We've even put the festival's classiest tweeters, from Josie Long to Stephen K Amos, into a list so you can follow them en masse. And if you're heading to the festival, do check out our travel tips – from the best festival chillout zones to the places to visit for a perfect hangover cure. And you'll be able to follow the action on our interactive map, where you can plot our every move (well, nearly; maybe not the late-night kebab runs).
This year, more than ever, we want to hear from you. Lots of you already sent in your tips for shows to watch out for, so ta for those – we're checking them out as I write. If you're out and about at the festival, tweet your reviews (make sure you use the #edfest hashtag) direct to our Edinburgh festival Twitter account – we'll retweet the best and add them to our map, plus a selection of other good stuff we spot from around the festival. Thanks to EdTwinge, you'll also be able to keep an eye on the top 10 acts in each genre according to Twitter – see the handy chart on the righthand side of our Edinburgh festival page.
Fill our Flickr group with your arty festival snapshots (if they're geotagged, I'm assured they'll even appear on our map). And, if you're performing at the festival, we want you to send us a short video taster of your act. Do you have what it takes to impress Guardian readers? Only one way to find out …
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Kathleen "Kat" Gallagher has had enough. Ever since her parents' divorce, Kat's been overwhelmed by life, her family, and her future. Kat is exhausted with life, and she's only thirteen years old.
One day in December, after having an argument with her sister Ellie, Kat makes a mad dash away from her, accidentally runs in front of an SUV and is killed on contact.
Kat then wakes up in a foreign place, in a foreign atmosphere...in a foreign realm. Kat is in the Realm of the Lost. She must now adjust to life in the In Between, until she learns how to move on to the next realm. If she doesn't learn and accomplish what she's meant to accomplish, she may very well end up in the realm of unfinished and trapped souls.
I have fallen in love with Emma Eden Ramos' stories! They're so short, action packed, and so detailed, it's like a tiny movie playing in my head every time I pick up a new Ramos novel. Still, at Your Door is still my favorite piece of her work, but The Realm of the Lost was equally as entertaining and memorable.
You would assume that with such heavy subject matter, the story would be dark and depressing, and completely unsuitable for middle schoolers, but honestly the way Emma Eden Ramos portrays the "In Between" is incredibly tasteful.
Still, at Your Door is very real and emotional, whereas The Realm of the Lost is adventurous and fictional. Both have very many endearing qualities.
Emma Eden Ramos is a master storyteller. I could have her tell me stories like Still, at Your Door and The Realm of the Lost all day, every day.


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Top: H&M
Palazzo Pants: H&M
Shoulder Bag: Asianicandy
Sandals: Primark
Sunglasses: BijouxBrigitte
This has been my most favorite outfit of this last month, and I believe it will continue being like it until the end of summer, since I'm basically wearing everyday!
First of all, the pants! The story of these pants begins in a really hot day, when I got mad with the extreme hot weather and decided to go outside at 14.00 just to buy something wearable for summer. I'm not completely sure what happened in that crazy shopping day (I call it crazy but I actually just bought 3 items haha), but these pants appeared like a paradise to me, and I just fell in love with them.. Of course there are so many controversial ideas about those pants, and not everybody can like them, but they stole my heart so no offense to them will move my opinion haha
The funny thing is that I still didn't see anybody having them on, so this makes me happy anytime I buy something in H&M!
If for the look I decided to pair the look with that cute old bag of mine, most of the times you'll see me walking around with a huge and uncomfortable bag (I need a new backpack) because I always carry my laptop around. For my feet, flat sandals are the best at the moment (and go awesomely with it), but I also often pair everything with my pink vans for fresher days or higher platform sandals for a more sophisticated look :)
Hope you're in my team and like this look too!
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A hypothetical situation: You're visiting a nice coffee shop in a different city, and you get recognised as a coffee person. You've queued up and you've got your $3 in hand ready to pay for your coffee. Instead your barista, seeing as you're industry, gives you the coffee for free. You do what you think is the honourable thing and you put your $3 in the tip jar – you're trying to be a good person (and you don't want to look cheap…).
Now imagine a slightly different situation: this time the barista takes your money, but doesn't ring the drink into the till and when you're not looking just puts the cash in the tip jar.
The second one of these feels quite explicitly like theft, an employee diverted money from the business into their own pockets. Yet in both situations the business, the barista and the customer are in identical financial positions. You could argue that the intention of the barista wasn't to pocket the cash when they comped the drink, just to offer some nice hospitality, and I completely side with the baristas that have kindly offered me drinks for free over the years. I just looked at these scenarios and could help but notice that financially the situations are pretty much identical.
The employee's decision to comp a drink prevented the business from earning money. There is one situation in which this is ok – where there is an explicit and clear policy for comping drinks on a bar, but I don't think nearly as many businesses have these as they do have staff who give things away.
Let me be absolutely clear: I am not calling baristas who comp drinks thieves. That would be ludicrous. I actually believe this is a flaw in the operations practices of many businesses, and just something I thought would make for a fun discussion. The only ones who deserve any blame are those who fail to set proper policies for this sort of thing within a business.


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The story is told through a mixture of dialog and exposition. The dialog helps the reader to understand the standpoints of the other characters better than only seeing Harry's feelings alone about the person.
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This data has caused investors and economists rise their hopes that the Federal Reserve can take a breathe next week from its rate-raising campaign and leave interest rates alone.
Stocks also moved remarkably higher as shown in Wall Street. Ken Mayland, president of ClearView Economics, said that businesses are guarded as they see a downshifting of economic growth, rising energy prices and higher interest rates.
Matching the jobless rate in February, the civilian unemployment rate jumped from 4.6 percent in June to 4.8 percent in July. The last time the unemployment rate was higher was in December, at 4.9 percent. Economists forecasted a gain of about 145,000 jobs and an unemployment rate of 4.6 percent.
Manufacturers and information companies, including publishers and telecommunication firms, open jobs last month. On the other hand, employment in retailing and in the government was flat. This has added to the restraining of overall hiring.
Economists anticipated a 0.3 percent rise. Wage growth is welcomed by workers. Friday's weaker job growth would justify such a breather, offering more evidence of slowing economic activity. Others Fed-watchers who are worried about inflation think policymakers have another interest-rate jump in store.
The hiring slowdown comes as companies cope with soaring energy prices and higher interest rates. That, in turn, has slowed the economy. The economy slowed to a pace of 2.5 percent in the April-to-June quarter, compared with the 5.6 percent growth rate in the first three months of the year.
Last month, manufacturers cut 15,000 jobs, reversing the gain of 22,000 the month before. Employment was flat in retailing, after the sector shed just over 4,000 jobs in June.
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Haute couture (French for "high sewing" or "high dressmaking";) refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted fashions. It originally referred to Englishman Charles Frederick Worth's work, produced in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. In modern France, haute couture is a "protected name" that can be used only by firms that meet certain well-defined standards. However, the term is also used loosely to describe all high-fashion custom-fitted clothing, whether it is produced in Paris or in other fashion capitals such as Milan, Tokyo, New York, Rome and London. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finish, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques.
The term can refer to: the fashion houses or fashion designers that create exclusive and often trend-setting fashions the fashions created . To earn the right to call itself a couture house and to use the term haute couture in its advertising and any other way, members of the Chambre syndicale de la haute couture must follow these rules:
Design made-to-order for private clients, with one or more fittings.
Have a workshop (atelier) in Paris that employs at least fifteen people full-time.
Each season, present a collection to the Paris press, comprising at least thirty-five runs with outfits for both daytime wear and evening wear. However, the term haute couture has been misused by successive ready-to-wear brands and high street labels since the late 1980s so that its true meaning has become blurred with that of prêt-à-porter (the French term for ready-to-wear fashion) in the public perception. Every haute couture house also markets prêt-à-porter collections, which typically deliver a higher return on investment than their custom clothing. In fact, much of the haute couture displayed at fashion shows today is rarely sold; it is created to enhance the prestige of the house. Falling revenues have forced a few couture houses to abandon their less profitable couture division and concentrate solely on the less prestigious prêt-à-porter. These houses, such as Italian designer Antonio Capucci, all of whom have their workshops in Italy, are no longer considered haute couture.
Once you see real couture you will be able to notice the incredible difference bewteen it and standard fashion. It is pure magic!
Many top designer fashion houses also use the word for some of their collections.
Adeline André
Christian Dior
Christian Lacroix
Dominique Sirop
Emanuel Ungaro
Franck Sorbier
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean-Louis Scherrer
As of early 2007, there are three correspondent (foreign) member houses:
Elie Saab
Giorgio Armani
6 Part series "The Secret World of Haute Couture", very interesting clip series from the BBC, they take a rare look behind the secret inner circle of Haute Couture. I had no idea how huge and secreative of a society this was. Check it out!


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Myrtle M. Laumann, age 79, of Young America, died Thursday, April 13, 2006 at Glencoe Regional Health Services, Long Term Care.
She was born Feb. 24, 1927 at New Germany, the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Kohls) Unglaub. Myrtle was baptized and confirmed at St. Mark Lutheran Church in New Germany.
She was united in marriage to James W. Laumann Oct. 17, 1947 at St. Mark Lutheran Church, New Germany.
Myrtle was preceded in death by her husband, James; sons Gary, and Roger Laumann; parents William and Elizabeth Unglaub; brothers Clarence, Howard, and Leonard Unglaub; and sisters Lydia Trittabaugh, Lida Feltmann, and Florence Schuettpelz.
She is survived by her loving family: daughter and son-in-law Brenda and Thomas Lano; son Keith Laumann, all of Young America; grandchildren Katherine and Elizabeth Lano; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law Darlene Unglaub of Watertown, Virginia Goede of New Germany, Edwin Laumann of Watertown, Adeline and Bill Harrison of Columbus, N.M., Rose Ann Gebhardt of Glencoe, and Evangeline Laumann of Mayer; nieces, nephews, and other relatives, and friends.
A memorial service took place Monday, April 17 at the Johnson Funeral Home Chapel, Waconia, with the Rev. Scott Gustafson of St. John's Lutheran Church in Norwood Young America officiating. Interment was in Crow River Cemetery, Camden Twp., New Germany.
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text: As an alternative to the AOG in Lancaster the Devon group held a 7 mile circular walk starting in Hemyock. Eleven walkers and two dogs met at the War Mamorial for a promptish start and onwards to Culmstock. The walk was led by Steve and Mark, Steve having lived in the area a number of years ago, was able to give a history of Hemyock and Culmstock and recant a few old memories. The weather was perfect for walking, not too warm or sunny. There was lane, field and track walking and a varied number and types of style to cross. Lunch stop was at the church in Culmstock before a quick viewing of the interior and the Yew Tree that is growing out of the tower. The walk was completed with more lane, field and tracks before decending quickly back into Hemyock and the option to try the Catherine Wheel Pub for drinks.


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Hands TogetherMonday, January 18th, 2016
To honor Martin Luther King, Jr., we're looking at Keith Mayerson's painting, Drum Majors (Martin Luther King, Jr., and Family), which was installed at the 2014 Biennial and is now part of the Whitney's collection.
A rigorous, crescent-shaped composition, the image brings together Dr. King with his family. Their heads align like a chord on a musical scale. Coretta Scott King is at the top, the only standing. She embodies the ubiquitous adage, "Behind every great man is a great woman." The Revered looks closely at his daughter, but Coretta's elevated point of view enables her to survey all hands together. Still, the parents work in harmony; they mimic each other as each presses their right index finger to the keyboard.
The convergence of hands at the piano keyboard could remind us of the hands in Leonard Freed's photo, Baltimore, Maryland: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being greeted upon his return to the United States after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, October 31, 1964. In Freed's photo, the composition radiates outward from Dr. King's extended hand – or all hands home in toward his. Either way, the scrum of hands describes the currents of MLK's mass appeal and resonance. In Mayerson's painting, the hands extend in the same direction, as they might have done in a church pew, among other places.
This may be a stretch, but I see formal affinities between Keith's painting and Matisse's Goldfish and Palette. Begin with the slabs of black geometric planes on the lower right quadrant of each painting: in Keith's, a piano; in Matisse's, a "vestigial scaffolding" that abstracts Matisse himself clutching a palette. Then look to the left, where black and white alternate. In the background of each painting, we see arabesque contours, especially fulsome in the floral paisley of the King family's wallpaper. Notice how the marigold bow corresponds to Matisse's lemon. And don't you see a goldfish shape on the surface of King's daughter's dress?


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In early 2011 there are about 12 companies that manufacture penis extenders, with five of these companies that seem to dominate the market in terms of very aggressive internet marketing. Of the many penis extender devices I have personally evaluated, all are of the same basic design and engineering concept, with only small differences in regard to materials used and design features to hold the head or shaft of the penis while traction forces are applied. The only great difference amongst this group appears to be in the advertising and promotional claims that they dare to make about the effectiveness of their products. Prices range from $250 to $430 for the most common models.
Problems with penis extenders
1. Any man would like to believe that the answer to his Peyronie's problem will also cause his penis to be bigger.
2. The simple idea that fixing a curved penis is as easy as straightening a bent paper clip must appeal to anyone who is frustrated by the complexity of Peyronies disease.