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Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Drivers are familiar with the many hazards they regularly face on the regions's roads: snow in the winter, wet leaves in the fall, sun glare during rush hours.
But there's one hazard they could be forgiven for not knowing how to deal with – driving during a solar eclipse.
On Monday afternoon, if it's not cloudy, that is the rare condition drivers in the Philadelphia region will face, the AAA motor club is warning.
"As spectacular as this once-in-a-lifetime event will be, if you happen to catch a glimpse of it while behind the wheel, do not turn your eyes away from the road," said Jana L. Tidwell, manager of public and government affairs for AAA Mid-Atlantic. "Aside from damaging your eyes, looking at the eclipse while driving is distracted driving at its worst. While AAA recommends staying off the road during the eclipse, if you have to drive keep sun visors and cell phones down to protect your eyes, reduce temptation to look at the sun, and avoid distracted driving."
In the Philadelphia region, the eclipse begins 1:21 p.m., peaks at 2:44 p.m. and ends at 4:01 p.m., the motor club noted.
"Quite honestly, people probably aren't thinking about driving safety right now," Kathleen Miller of AAA said. "But this is going to happen on a Monday afternoon and people are going to be on the road. People should be prepared and make a decision about whether they need to be on the road at that time."
The area will not get a 100 percent solar eclipse but it will get enough of one that people should use precautions. Permanent eye damage can result from staring for too long at the unusual celestial event.
"In Philadelphia and the surrounding region, the moon will begin to block the sun at 1:21 p.m. and will continue to increase until 2:45 p.m., at which point about 80 percent of the sun's diameter will be blocked," according to Harry Augensen, professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Widener University Observatory. "While the eclipse is an awe-inspiring sight, do not look directly at the sun's harmful rays without wearing special eclipse glasses or welder's glasses."
The concern, Augesen said Monday, is that because the sun is dark people think it is not harming their eyes to look at it for an extended period of time. Typically, if a person looks at the sun they instinctively look away after a short time because it hurts their eyes.
"The eye is deceived into thinking it can continue to look at it. The eye is fooled," said Augesen, who plans to view the event with relatives in Nebraska where the eclipse will be 98.5 percent.
For those on the road during the eclipse, AAA offers the following advice:
• Keep headlights on.
• Put the sun visor down to block your view of the sun.
• Do not wear eclipse glasses while driving.
• Do not try to photograph or video the eclipse while driving.
• Do not pull over to the side of the road, highway or interstate to view the eclipse. Exit the roadway and park in a safe area away from traffic.
• Be mindful of pedestrians that many be walking around with their eyes on the sky.
Interested in seeing a total eclipse? Charleston, South Carolina is able to provide that, if the weather cooperates. The sun is due to be 100 percent blocked in the skies over Charleston at 2:47 p.m. on Monday.
April 2024 will be the next time America sees a solar eclipse, although that one won't visit this area (northwestern Pennsylvania will be the closest it will be to this area, Augesen said).
The last time a transcontinental solar eclipse was seen in the U.S. was June 8, 1918; the next one will be in 2079, the professor said.
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Proporta is offering a designer way to charge up your portable gadgetry.
For all you label lovers, "Ted's Six Pack", is Ted Baker-branded range of items that will charge up your gadgets with special designer electricity.
The "Mobile Device Charger", complete with that all-important logo, charges from any standard USB port and stores 3400 mAH of power.
The pack includes a USB to mini USB cable, and a retractable cable which is compatible with various phones - with more heads available from Proporta - for on-the-go juicing from the charger.
There's also an in "Car Power Supply" compatible with all standard car cigarette lighter sockets, complete with Baker-branding and an "AC World Travel Charger Kit" that also gets some Ted logo-lovin'.
With a "beautiful" drawstring bag to keep everything safe and sound, the kit is on sale now for £29.95.

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Appedex Review
In the weight loss industry, it can often be difficult to see past all the products that are just out there, and the ones that will actually work.
We were sick of wondering whether a product worked or not, so we decided to research each product that looked promising, so that we can all see which ones are going to be worth the space. Today we're looking at the weight loss supplement, Appedex.
What Is Appedex?
Appedex is designed to help you lose weight by lowering your appetite and increasing your ability to burn fat.
Although this is nothing new, there are many supplements that claim to be able to do the same thing, it was exciting to see the ingredients that Appedex uses to follow through on this.
Appedex includes Chromax, ForsLean, and Irvingia Gabonesis, (also known as African mango) which are among the most powerful appetite suppressants on the market. They work by manipulating the hormones which send signals from your stomach to your brain, allowing you to not make your decisions based on hunger. This lets you eat what you should be eating when you should be eating it.
Not only does Appedex have powerful appetite suppressants, but it includes Garcitrin, which helps your body break down its fat stores through citrate lyase inhibition. This allows your body to finally access the energy that you have in your fat cells.
Anything To Be Worried About?
Since Appedex is focused on all-natural ingredients, there have been no reported side effects associated with this weight loss supplement.
Would You Recommend Appedex?
Not only were we impressed with Appedex's formula and many positive consumer reviews, but we also couldn't help but be encouraged by their money back guarantee. If you're looking for a weight loss supplement with as few risks as possible, we recommend Appedex.


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A Rant About Tiny Houses & More Design Links We Love
What the tiny house movement got wrong, and more design links we loved this week.
- No matter your feelings on the rise of expensive housing developments in expensive cities, this long read on the conversion of churches to fancy condos makes you realize how much else is being lost in the process, besides just the past. (Curbed)
- In the artist Jenny Holzer's nighttime installations, a poem is projected in people-sized characters onto a building by a mechanical beam, "all its paradoxes, ironies, contradictions, understatements, and devastating truths," as one writer describes them, on display and illuminated. (The New Yorker)
- It's Friday: Permission to browse this list of the 15 "most beautiful" bonsai trees without worrying about how hyperbolic the headline is. (Then, visit the bonsai room at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this weekend to get a dose of the real thing.) (Bored Panda)
- The next time you get swept up in the tiny house or Cabin Porn™ movement, entirely convinced that you should shun material excess and inhabit a shoebox instead, read this open letter/rant about homes that are "roughly the size of the Keebler Elf Tree" (and just try not to laugh). (Terrible Minds)
- It's sunny in New York, so we're celebrating by lingering by the windows and getting closely acquainted with these pictures of an airy California family home that gets as many points for cool elegance as it does for feeling attainable. (Apartment Therapy)
- A Dusseldorf-based museum curator devised a homespun way to clean their Pollack ("Number 32"), which involves an air gun, wheat paste, and a very, very steady hand—plus 300 spare hours. (New York Times)
What design stories did you read (and love) on the internet this week? Share the best of them in the comments.


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It wasn't a surprise when Jadeveon Clowney was on the cover of my Sports Illustrated college football preview. I had known that was going to happen two days earlier, when the magazine released the links to its six regional covers.
The hype continues to build around Clowney, which is great publicity for the program, and (I think) a great thing for Clowney. He plays his best when he's goaded to perform at his absolute best, and all this hype can only serve to do that.
But I also realize how great this is going to be for the Gamecocks' other defensive end, Chaz Sutton. He's been held out of the past week of practice with a foot sprain, but it shouldn't be anything that will keep him from playing. He's going to be the guy who will benefit the most from Clowney's hype outside of Clowney himself.
Clowney will draw all the attention from opposing offenses. That leaves Sutton, who had seven tackles for loss and five sacks last year — and set a school record with a 375-pound power clean over the offseason — to clean up.
A guy such as Sutton probably wouldn't have a chance at the NFL if he was playing in any other year. Now, he's got a chance for a monster season and a draft spot.
Call it the Melvin Ingram Plan.


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The Justice Department, through the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER), filed a lawsuit against Louisiana-based companies Technical Marine Maintenance Texas LLC, which provides contract shipyard labor, and Gulf Coast Workforce LLC, a related company, alleging that they violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by engaging in a pattern or practice of discrimination against U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens during the I-9 and E-Verify process.
According to the Complaint, from at least January 2014 until at least July 2017, Technical Marine asked U.S. citizens to produce List B and C documents, such as a state drivers license and Social Security cards, respectively. The statistics showed during this period, Technical Marine obtained List B and C documents from 99.56% of U.S. citizens. On the other hand, Technical Marine asked non-U.S. citizens to produce a List A document, such as a permanent resident card (green card) or employment authorization document. The statistics showed during this period, Technical Marine obtained a List A document from 99.29% of non-U.S. citizens.
This is an unusual case because the Complaint alleges Technical Marine discriminated against both U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens by their requests for certain documentation. In most cases brought by DOJ, the discrimination occurs through the request and receipt of certain document(s) by non-U.S. citizens while U.S. citizens are free to present any documentation from the Lists of Acceptable Documents. Because Technical Marine asked for specific and different documents from U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens, then both actions are alleged as unlawful. Under the INA, all workers, regardless of their citizenship status, must be allowed to choose from among the valid documentation that proves their employment eligibility.
This Complaint is a reminder to employers do not request specific documentation from employees, regardless of whether they are U.S. citizens or non-U.S. citizens. If you do, you may be investigated by the IER of the DOJ. Such investigations are costly and subject employers to civil penalties and back pay if they are found to have committed this type of discrimination or if employers reach a settlement with the IER.
By: Bruce Buchanan, Sebelist Buchanan Law
The Justice Departments Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) has reached an agreement with TEG Staffing Inc., also known as Eastridge Workforce Solutions, a temporary staffing agency headquartered in San Diego, to resolve allegations that they discriminated against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
The OSCs investigation found that from about March 2014 until about September 2015, Eastridge had a pattern or practice of requesting specific immigration documents from non-U.S. citizens for the Form I-9 and E-Verify processes. In contrast, Eastridge allowed U.S. citizens to present whichever valid documents they wanted to present to prove their work authorization. Under the INA, all workers, including non-U.S. citizens, must be allowed to choose whichever valid documentation they would like to present from the Lists of Acceptable Documents to prove their work authorization, such as a drivers license and unrestricted Social Security card.
Under the terms of the settlement agreement, which is effective for two years, Eastridge will pay $175,000 in civil penalties, attend training by the OSC through a webinar on anti-discrimination provisions, and undergo department monitoring and review of its processes for verifying the work authorization of newly hired employees.
This settlement is just another example of the OSCs strict enforcement of the INA with large civil penalties.
By Bruce Buchanan, Siskind Susser
An Indian Kansas couple pleaded guilty in federal court to unlawfully employing undocumented workers. The husband pleaded guilty to engaging in a pattern or practice of employing illegal workers and failure to collect federal income and Social Security taxes. His wife pleaded guilty to an unlicensed money remitting business charge. As part of their plea agreements, the couple agreed to forfeit more than $700,000 in cash, money from bank accounts, and gold seized by the government in this case. Those assets represent proceeds of their unlawful activities.
This case arose when inspectors from the Kansas Department of Revenues Alcohol Beverage Control division observed employees at the Route 56 Express gas station and convenience store in McPherson selling tobacco products to minors. The investigators determined that several employees at Route 56 Express were not lawfully in the United States, nor were they authorized to be employed. Local and federal investigators then assisted, which led to the return of the federal indictments in June.
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When Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis invited Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Karan Johar and other representatives of the film industry to his official residence on Saturday to broker a truce — after the MNS threatened to disrupt the showing of Johar's film Ae dil hai mushkil starring Pakistani actor Fawad Khan — he diminished the fundamental pact between the citizen and the state. The "solution" arrived at, payment of Rs 5 crore by the filmmaker to an army fund, resembles the hafta given to assuage the local bully who has already intimidated the policeman. That there should be a price tag to law and order, that a filmmaker should have to pay money to ensure a violence-free passage of a film, speaks of the times we live in when nationalism is becoming a cover for an everyday assault on civility and freedom by assorted non-state actors. But most of all, it speaks of the stark abdication by the chief minister and his government of its responsibility to ensure and protect the rule of law.
But there was more than one cave-in in last week's meeting in Mumbai. Karan Johar and other industry seniors had an opportunity — to take the moral high ground, to stand up to the bully, and to show up the cravenness of their government by refusing to compromise with the freedom of speech and expression. They failed, but what was far worse, they didn't even put up a fight. Far from defending the liberty to make the film they want, with the actors they choose, Johar and Co. have let the MNS frame the issue as one that involves nationalism and patriotism. They did not point out the obvious: That the campaign of threat and blackmail, MNS-style, is not about anybody's love for the nation. That it is, in fact, about the danger posed by the politics of hate and insularity to creative freedoms. The Fadnavis-led BJP may arguably have acted on the political calculation that propping up the MNS and legitimising its politics would help it undermine the Shiv Sena, which is becoming a competitive, troublesome ally. The film producers may have felt pressured by the large sum of money and the several livelihoods that ride on a film as big as Johar's. But in the end, for their own reasons, both the chief minister and the film producer have let Raj Thackeray and his goons seize the canvas and stunt the frame.
Tragically, the Mumbai drama was devoid of any high principle, it was only about the tawdry terms of a monetary transaction, at a time when it could have been about Mumbai reminding the nation of the real power of the idea of India. It gets reaffirmed, and becomes larger, when artists from other countries, including and especially from Pakistan, flock to it, to work and to make it their home. That idea of India is made up of the promise of a system more open and free, institutions more rule-bound, and a society more liberal and tolerant of diverse ideas, minorities and dissent. It took a blow in Mumbai on Saturday.
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Watch 'Couples Therapy' Farrah Abraham Go On Horrible Date On Season Finale [VIDEO]
Online dating isn't for everyone, and it might not be for "Couples Therapy" star Farrah Abraham following her pretty horrendous experience. The VH1 reality star was the only member to arrive to the show without a significant other, so the "Couples Therapy" resident psychologist Dr. Jenn Berman set her up with a dating profile to help her find a guy.
During the season, viewers of the show saw Berman help the 22-year-old "Backdoor Teen Mom" star set up a profile on PlentyOfFish.com, but things didn't go as planned when reality set in. On the season finale of the show, airing Thursday, Berman shares a few clips from Abraham's first in-person meeting.
Initially, Abraham's date tells her that he plans on moving back in with his mother, and he offers some pretty negative information about the mother of his child and about women in general. In the reality star's defense, it seems likes she's trying to save the moment, but the date already appears insufferable.
To make things worse, the date says how he once worked at the Playboy mansion. It seems like he was trying to hint at finding about how Abraham made her two sex tapes. When she's speaking to Berman, Abraham explains she felt like he was laughing at her and that it infuriated her.
Even though Abraham went onto the show solo, fans seemed to love it. According to The Futon Critic, season 5 of "Couples Therapy" has been the most popular one yet and is up in viewership by 50 percent.
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Watch a Supercut of The O.C.'s Sandy Cohen Giving Relationship Advice
No one understood relationships quite like The O.C.'s No. 1 dad.
When your relationship is on the rocks, when you don't know how to talk to your crush, when you have no idea how to please the object of your affection, just ask yourself this simple question: "What would Sandy Cohen tell me to do?" Over the course of The O.C.'s four seasons, Peter Gallagher's plainspoken patriarch gave tough-love advice like no one else — and, since this happened on The O.C., that advice often had to do with matters of the heart. As part of our anniversary-week celebration, Vulture compiled some of Sandy's best relationship tips in this video. Young or old, single or partnered, we all have something to learn about love from Mr. Cohen.


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Remember the days when Pixar meant perfection? When you could count on its animation to amaze, its stories to sweep you up?
Remember "Up"?
Or the smooth ride in "Cars"? The "Toy Story" pals whose friendship was anything but plastic? The love among the ruins unearthed by "Wall-E"? A clownfish dad's deep-sea desperation in "Finding Nemo"?
What has happened to the memory makers who gave us all that?
They are nowhere to be found at "Monsters University," the latest shiny new movie to roll off what increasingly feels like the Disney-Pixar assembly line.
"Cars 2" certainly sputtered. Even "Brave," which won the 2012 Oscar for animated feature, didn't seem especially brave.
"Monsters University" is not so much substandard. It just isn't the Ivy League. Or close to what we've come to expect from any animated film flying John Lasseter's flag. Seven years into his rule as mayor of Disney's toon town, one has to wonder, given the recent slippage, whether the artistic leader who once prided originality above all has gone suit-and-tie on us. Did he lose that outsider's edge after his enterprising upstart was gobbled by Walt's behemoth?


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Night Azalea - I wish for you the rest of a thousand ladybirds (all sleeping)
Do you go birth babies near a lion for its dinner? Or are you birthing the baby for your own reasons, not as a kind offering to lions?
Quote from: Xof the Elder on Apr 10, 2017, 12:01:40 AMNight Azalea - I wish for you the rest of a thousand ladybirds (all sleeping)Thanks I guess though that image freaks me out a bit. And I might've been a bit hastily dismissive. As no animals would've been harmed then* yes I would eat the egg proffered by the wild chicken if I fancied it, assuming she ran away and left it and wasn't sitting on it. Obviously I don't speak for all vegans.*Except for the chick...shit I'm a new vegan and still making mistakes...
My point - and a big part of the vegan mindset - is that what animals have and do (their bodies, their fluids, their skills, their babies) are not ours to use. They are separate beings who have a right to go about life the same as anyone else, free from harm and exploitation and cruelty. If a chicken came and laid an egg by me, I wouldn't assume that its purpose was to feed me. I'd assume a chicken just happened to lay an egg close to where I was sitting.


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Salvador Perez hit a sixth-inning triple and there are three reasons why it shouldn't have happened. First; the ball was hit to the left-center gap. Most triples are hit to right or right-center—they're further away from third base. Second; there were no outs. Most triples happen with one out—with nobody out you generally stop at second. A lead-off double is a pretty good way to start an inning, why ruin it by getting greedy and being thrown out at third? And, finally; Salvador Perez is not fast—he's a catcher.
Salvador Perez ignored all the reasons he should have stayed at second base, tried for third, made it and broke open the game.
The score was 2-1 when Sal hit the ball. The Royals had the 2 and Ned Yost said with his pitching staff, he felt pretty good about protecting a one-run lead. When Perez made it safely to third base, it looked like the Royals might tack on a run. Wrong—they tacked on three.
Lorenzo Cain hit a triple of his own, scoring Sal. Right-handed Matt Albers replaced Cleveland's starting pitcher Scott Kazmir and Ned Yost countered by pinch-hitting left-handed David Lough for right-handed Justin Maxwell. With Cain on third, Cleveland had their infield in and Lough hit a single between first and second. Next, Mike Moustakas got a 3-0 green light and flew out to centerfield for the first out of the inning. With Alcides Escobar at the plate Lough took off for second while Esky put the ball in play. Asdrubal Cabrera picked up Escobar's grounder, but threw high to first base, pulling Carlos Santana off the bag. (Santana is 5' 11"—Eric Hosmer is 6' 4". Hosmer would've made that play easily. There's a reason infielders like to have a guy with some wingspan over at first base.)
Left-handed Nick Hagadone replaced Albers so he could face left-handed Alex Gordon. With Lough at second and Escobar on first, Gordon hit a fly ball to right field. Lough tagged and headed for third and made it easily, Escobar tagged up, headed for second and came close to being thrown out by right fielder Nick Swisher. Risking making the third out at second when you already have a runner in scoring position might not be the best decision Escobar ever made, but he got away with it.
Emilio Bonifacio shattered his bat, hit a weak groundball to third base and Lonnie Chisenhall muffed it. David Lough scored the third run of the inning on an E5 and the Royals never looked back. They scored two more in the eighth and beat the Cleveland Indians 7-1.
And it started with a triple that shouldn't have happened.
Game notes
• Back to that 3-0 green light for Moustakas: 3-0 green lights are generally given to power hitters who can do damage from home plate, or contact hitters with a runner in scoring position. Sometimes a manager might give a 3-0 green light to a hitter who's scuffling because the manager knows the hitter will probably get a fastball down the pipe—maybe that will get the hitter going.
• The sixth was a really long inning and Wade Davis came out to replace starter James Shields in the seventh. Cleveland lead-off hitter Michael Bourn visibly complained about the call on a 1-2 pitch and if you're going to show up the umpire like that, you better be swinging on the next one—don't give the umpire a chance to get even. Bourn swung, but it did no good—he struck out on a 97 MPH fastball.
• In the seventh inning Carlos Carrasco struck out Lorenzo Cain on a "front door" slider. That's a slider thrown at the hitter's front hip; movement carries it into the strike zone. Cain raised his arms when the pitch appeared to be inside and I've heard some hitting instructors say this is a bad idea.
If the hitter thinks the pitch is inside, it's better if the hitter rotate his upper body back toward the catcher—that protects the hitter from being hit in the hands or arms. If the pitch starts to move back over the plate, the hitter has the chance to reverse his rotation and try to make contact with the ball. Raise your arms and there's nothing you can do to protect the strike zone.
• Back to the top of first inning: when James Shields got ahead of the hitters, he got them out. When he fell behind the hitters, he didn't. Here are the hitters, the count and the results:
Michael Bourn got 1-2 changeup and struck out. Nick Swisher got a 2-1 fastball and singled. Jason Kipnis got an 0-2 change and struck out. Carlos Santana got 2-0 fastball and doubled. Michael Brantley got a 1-1 changeup and grounded out.
Get ahead and pitchers can throw off-speed, fall behind and they tend to throw fastballs.
• Apropos of almost nothing: guys who are afraid to hit with two strikes are more aggressive about swinging the bat. They don't want to get in a two-strike count because they don't have a good two-strike approach.
• The only run the Indians got came off a changeup thrown to Lonnie Chisenhall. The Indians third baseman hit it into the right-field bullpen. When a pitch is elevated it's easier to hit in the air, when it's off-speed it's easier to pull it into the short part of the ballpark
• Why you have to be there: the box score will show you that Eric Hosmer went 1-5, but he absolutely crushed three balls that turned into outs. After the game I asked Hosmer if there was any satisfaction in making hard outs; wouldn't it be worse to hit three weak grounders?
Hosmer said it was better, but it was still tough to take. (Actually, that's not the way he described it at all, but this is still a family newspaper—whatever the hell that means—and I guess the same standards apply to the website.)
• The Royals pitchers had 17 strikeouts—I was told that's a club record for a nine-inning game. All I know is it took forever to play this one: 3 hours and 28 minutes.
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According to the TV guys, during last weekend's Detroit series, the area around first base had a bunch of sand thrown on it. Supposedly the Tigers wanted to slow down the Royals base runners and they made sure the area around first base had bad traction. I promised I'd ask about this when the team got back and I did. Turns out it's not as simple as you—or I—might think.
Trevor Vance, the Royals head groundskeeper, didn't think it was that big a deal. The material thrown around probably wasn't sand; it was more likely a drying compound. It looked different than the dirt around it because the dirt was probably wet and the drying compound wasn't. They wet the dirt at all fields; they don't want the dirt to dry out and get hard. But if it'stoo
wet a big guy like Prince Fielder can tear it up; the wet dirt will stick to his spikes and the area around first base will be a mess. First base has the most traffic so first base has the most problems.
First base coach Rusty Kuntz had a slightly different take: he agreed that the material around first base was a drying compound, but thought that the dirt underneath was very soft—and that wasn't an accident. Rusty called the area a "sandbox" and maybe that's where the idea that the material was actually sand got started.
The Tigers didn't mind having a soft area around first; they don't steal a lot of bases. But Rusty didn't blame the dirt around first base for any Royals base runner getting picked off. Apparently, the Tigers pitchers worked at slowing down the Royals: they were varying when they threw over, holding the ball in the set position and were very quick to first when they finally got around to throwing the ball in that direction.
First base coaches keep pitchers delivery times to home plate, but they also time how long it takes pitchers to throw the ball to first. If the pitcher is quick, the runners have to shorten up their lead—and the guys who got picked off didn't do that. Ego is a big part of this game: pitchers saythat guy may be a good fastball hitter, but he hasn't seen my fastball. Base stealers think the same way: sure, that guy may be quick on a pick-off, but he hasn't picked off me.
Ballplayers will tell you confidence is a must; if you don't believe you can hit the pitcher on the mound, you won't. But at some point you've got to tip your cap, admit your opponent is pretty good and go to Plan B.
Bottom line: if the Detroit Tigers went too far in trying to slow down the Kansas City base runners, the Royals could ask an umpire to take a look. If the umpire agreed that the conditions were unplayable, the umpire could get the grounds crew out to fix it.


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I am proud to announce that Vice President Jennie Day-Burget is named Managing Director of Prichard.
For several months now, Jennie has overseen the day-to-day management of Prichard, while I have spent much of my time growing Mac's List, Portland's top source for jobs throughout Oregon. Today, we operate two successful and distinct companies.
Now, it is time to make this change at Prichard more formal. Effective June 1, I have promoted Jennie to Managing Director of Prichard. Jennie will now oversee business growth, operations, management, staffing and client service. As President of Prichard, I will focus on continuing to grow our agency's business and serve long-term clients. In spite of these changes, our company's mission remains the same: provide the communications services social change makers like you need to make the world a better place. Please join me in congratulating Jennie on her new role!


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Thanks to Gregg Russell of Hilton Head Island for sharing the story of how the Hilton Head Heroes charity began.
"The Dragon Slayer"
By Gregg Russell
This spring during the RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing, something extraordinary happened to me.
As I was standing on the Harbour Town Golf Links, a huge gust of wind blew a heavy green cloud of pollen out of a stand of tall pine trees. I instinctively covered my nose and mouth with my hands to keep from inhaling too much pollen. Almost immediately, one of the tournament volunteers standing close by looked over at me and said, "With all the rain we've had this year, I would have thought the worst of the pollen season would be over by now."
He looked at me in a "do I know you from somewhere" way and then said, "You look familiar. Do I know you?"
I told him that I am the guy who sings under the tree in Harbour Town every night. He was visibly shaken as he put his hand on my shoulder and said, "I know you don't remember me, but I'm Herb Womble."
I was instantly transported back more than 25 years to a night in Harbour Town when I had the pleasure of meeting a wonderful young fellow during one of my shows. He was chosen to sing that night and left the stage with a big smile and that was that.
Some months later, I received a heartbreaking letter from his mother, telling me that her son had been diagnosed with cancer and she thought that maybe a note from me might cheer him up a bit. Well, we began corresponding and I invited him and his family to return to Sea Pines as my guests.
Time went by and the last thing that Little Herbie ever sent to me was a story that he had written about slaying his "dragons" and the inspiration that he had received from a gentle singing "wizard" who lived under a big oak tree. Shortly thereafter, I received a beautiful note from his mother telling me that Herbie had passed away and they would not be making that trip back to Hilton Head Island.
This special young man would have been our first Hilton Head Hero child if he had been able to make that trip. But in his passing, he touched me in a life-changing way. He made me feel that there must be lots of other kids who are valiantly fighting their own dragons who would just like the chance to get away from all of the tubes, treatments and terror that they face every day.
The idea of Hilton Head Heroes was born because of Herbie.
And now, all of these years later, many hundreds of courageous children and their families have spent time on our island climbing the lighthouse, riding bikes, playing on the beach and swimming in the Hero House pool. The heart and soul of one little boy remains alive in the hopes and dreams of so many who have come after him. My young friend, little Herbie Womble, left behind a legacy that lives on until this day.
I hope that has, in some small way, helped to heal this dad's broken heart.
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Jason Gedrick has landed a major role on season seven of Dexter.
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Dexter will return on September 30, with Deb in on her brother's big secret; and with Ray Stevenson as an important member of a Russian crime ring.
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Todd DeLaughter, vice president and general manager of HP's Management Software organization, said the suite will integrate with the outfit's OpenView management platform.
The idea is to help CIOs link business and IT for real-time management, a key ingredient for HP's Adaptive Enterprise play, the executive said.
In the Business Management sector, HP OpenView Business Process Insight is software that monitors business processes and their relationships to the applications, and IT resources on which they depend, DeLaughter told internetnews.com. For example, the software can provide the dollar value of a failed network or slow e-commerce response time, based on financial data provided by the business.
IT Service Management assesses the impact of an IT event on service-level agreements, and then improves the service delivery Application Management improves the performance, availability and quality of applications over the course of their lifecycle. Infrastructure Management watches over servers, storage, networking, PCs, printing and imaging and utility-based resources.
HP has long offered management products and services under its OpenView platform, but the Palo Alto, Calif., systems vendor has shifted its focus to help CIOs drive out complexity in environments with disparate products, as well as the cost associated with managing those zones.
But HP has also struggled to define Adaptive Enterprise -- its version of utility, on-demand computing or real-time computing -- in a market populated by IBM, Computer Associates, Sun Microsystems and VERITAS Software. But few besides IBM have scored a lot of customer momentum, leaving the door open for HP.
Products and services such as management offerings -- and the vendor's recently introduced service-oriented architecture (SOA) software -- can help them do that.
To understand real-time network behavior without polling, the company also issued OpenView Route Analytics Management System software, which it said would identify and patch failures up to 80 percent faster. The software provides such data as problem identification updates every 15 seconds.
The product manages the network as a service, not as IT infrastructure, a departure from previous approaches DeLaughter said would help HP stand out from management software rivals such as IBM, Computer Associates and BMC.
The company also has fashioned Enterprise Management Services as part of its PartnerONE program to accelerate the creation of certified software with application vendors.
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Biological Surveys
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The actual methodology of the survey depends the goal of the project, the unit of biodiversity being measured, and how the data will be analyzed. Data collected can be either qualitative (presence/absence, also known as binary) or quantitative data, in which the number of individuals for each species are counted. Small mobile animals such as insects are usually captured using traps or nets, while plants are usually visually identified in the field.
This section was written by Torsten Bernhardt
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Had a horrible, horrible night that ended where me and one other aide were on the floor. Each of us had 20 or so patients apiece and a huge percentage were incontinent.
We set a goddamn record: Ten diaper changes, three of them necessitating a complete bed strip-down, in one hour and fifteen minutes. Beat that!
Plus, this:
Elderly Insane Female Patient, as we pull back her diaper to get her cleaned up:
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Posted by Audrey Morgan at 11:30 PM
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I work in a NURSING HOME and have never had that many dirty butts to change (ok, well, I have, but not with an additional 3 complete bed changes in an hour and 15 minutes). What the hell are they feeding those people, besides Colace, senna and Mirilax? At least you have this to point to when asked about your time management skills in the future!ReplyDelete
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- n. The style of writing often held to be characteristic of newspapers and magazines, distinguished by clichés, sensationalism, and triteness of thought.
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- n. A style of writing used in some newspapers and magazines, characterized by cliché, hyperbolic language and clipped syntax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. the linguistic style in which newspapers are written.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A style of writing fit only for rapid newspaper work; a style abounding in pretentious words and sudden colloquialisms and making crude bids for popularity.
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This reminds me of the to-do a few years back (late 20th-early 21st century) when someone Chinese decided that the suffix '-ese' had a derogatory meaning in English (as in 'journalese').
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This, of course, leads to that particular form of "journalese" in which a cricket-ball becomes a "leathern missile" and so forth.
"journalese;" and as the picturesque reporter is a greater power in
"Is sufficiently — er — journalese?" he interrupted suavely.
Mexican journalese (newspaper language) often features words that are perfectly well known but little used in conversation.
Military imagery has long been a staple of political rhetoric--and of political journalese.
This relatively new adjective (first recorded in 1907) has lately become something of a minor irritant to a few usage commentators, who have described it variously as 'journalese' (Zinsser 1976), 'a suspicious overstatement for "perceptive"' (Strunk & White 1979) and 'jargon' (Janis 1984).
Such scandalous journalese, however, pales in comparison to the appalling treatment of friends and relatives of Ethiopian passengers.
In another he dubs Variety's founder "osteopath of the English language and inventor of some of the most unfettered journalese ever to be set in type."


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Jan Studin, vice president and publisher of Hachette Filipacchi's Woman's Day, was named vice president and publisher for G&J's Parents Group, with oversight of the title Parents and its related brand extensions.
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Earlier this month, G&J shut down flagging shelter title Homestyle -- shortly after a memo from CEO Dan Brewster promised the new year would bring "streamlining" -- and its senior vice president of corporate sales, Ken Wallace, left the company as well, with his responsibilities assumed by Chief Marketing Officer Cindy Spengler.
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|Hydrogenation of Semiconductor Surfaces: Si and Ge (111)
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|Kaxiras, Efthimios and John D. Joannopoulos. 1988. Hydrogenation of semiconductor surfaces: Si and Ge (111). Physical Review B 37(15): 8842-8848.
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|The relaxations of hydrogenated Si and Ge (111) surfaces are determined using ab initio self-consistent calculations in a slab configuration. The Si-H and Ge-H bonds are found to be considerably larger than the sum of covalent radii. The substrate relaxations are small and their physical origin can be explained in terms of electronic charge transfer which eliminates the surface dipole moment. The calculated frequencies of the hydrogen vibrational modes are in excellent agreement with experiment. A surface-atom vibrational mode is compared to similar modes in the amorphous hydrogenated materials. The comparison predicts that internal surfaces (microvoids) in the amorphous network are locally much softer than the corresponding crystalline surface configuration.
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New 7'' for Galileo 7, the group of Allan Crockford (guitar, vocals) from the legendary Prisoners including the Viv Bonsels (organ, vocals), Paul Moss (bass, vocals) and o Mole (drums, vocals) from the fantastics Mystreated,etc. Here we have two psych-garage-pop-freakbeat tracks, in the spirit of the above groups, with melodic vocals, great organ and very good sound with nowhere people to be a little more psych / garage in comparison to the cruel bird. Take it!


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By: Nishant Shah
In Taiwan, they are called the Strawberry Generation — the young digital natives, born after the 1980s, who look pink and delicious, like strawberries, and just like strawberries, they crush under pressure really fast. This Strawberry Generation, which consists of young millennials, is basking in the aftermath of the Sunflower Revolution, a student-led protest against the indifference of their government towards their foreign and trade policies with China. The Sunflower Revolution has become one of the biggest political demonstrations in east Asia, where the students took over the legislative assembly in Taipei and continued to make their demands which were not only heard, but also led to corrective reforms in their political system.
It has been just over three months since this self-organised, volunteer-based group of concerned students became political superstars as they orchestrated a flash mob of more than 10,000 citizens in Taipei to come to their aid. People poured on to the streets to surround the legislative assembly, and protected those who had made it into their fortress from the attacks of the judiciary or police systems.
The crowds stayed for weeks, organising food, water, resources and political protests, through sophisticated use of social media. The "Friend of a Friend" phenomenon, which is generally noticed in how videos of cute cats and dancing babies go viral, became a way by which it was ensured that those who had put themselves at political risk were protected as they demanded for better governance ethics in their country.
Earlier this month, I was in Taiwan, in conversation with some of the folks who were a part of this movement that took everybody by surprise. Largely in their early to mid-20s, studying in different universities in Taipei, and dressed in the standard street-market ensemble that marks fashion in Taiwan, the bunch of young politicos sat with me in a café that is so chic that you have to brew your own tea there. Among many things, we talked about trust. About how they understand trust, especially because they insisted that trust is not about sharing information, but about withholding it.
I was a little mystified about what it means to trust somebody you don't know. Sure, we trust strangers all the time — which is why we have the courage to step out of the house because we trust that the throngs of strangers that surround us are not just going to hurt us. But the bunch of people said that the flash mobs that supported them were not people who knew everything, but people who trusted them because they shared a dream. Their social media strategy was not to over-share and document in minute detail, but instead, to share ideas, impressions, thoughts and feelings. To reveal information when questions were asked, but otherwise exercising reticence.
Used to the online spaces of social networking, for them, trust does not reside in sharing of information or getting to know somebody deeply and truly. Trust, as one of them pointed out, sipping on her coffee-flavoured oolong tea, is about sharing nonsense with people. When you share important information, you are careful. You think twice. You filter. But when you are on Facebook or Line (the mobile social network most popular in Taiwan), you say all kinds of strange things. And you know that no matter what you say, the others in the networks will watch your back. Just like, one of them pointed out, you share all your political thoughts with strangers on the Web. You don't even know who they are, she paused. But I know the person I trust the most is the one I don't have to share anything with.
"Like the other day," she narrated, "I was really sad because I had just broken up with my boyfriend. I called my friend at three in the morning. She drove for 30 minutes to come to me. And when she came, and asked me what's up, I was still so filled with pain I didn't want to talk about it. So I said, 'I can't tell'. And she just hugged me, and we stayed silent. She didn't need to know. All she needed to know was that I am in pain. And that is trust."
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ABCD 2 has hold well on Monday (4th day) at box office and thus passed the Monday test with flying colors. Film has collected around 8 crore nett on day 4 which is very very good hold. In fact drop from Sunday is less than 50% which is rarity nowadays. Drop from Friday is even less with around 40-45% which is fantastic. ABCD 2 total collection after 4 days is approx 54.25 crore nett. Film 3D version is doing exceptionally well across all parts of India, whereas business of 2D is decent to good.
Film is now almost certain to touch 100 crores at box office and be the 2nd film of the year to do so after Tanu Weds Manu Returns. Film fantastic opening has ensured that film is Runaway Hit and now only question is where it will stand in Hit zone in coming days. Varun is a serious contender now for Top league and is easily one of the best of new generation if not the best as far as crowd pulling is concerned.
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WEST WHITELAND >> Shoppers waiting for Whole Foods Market in Exton to open won't have to wait much longer. The company announced Tuesday the store will open on Jan. 18.
"We're excited to welcome Exton's growing community to this new Whole Foods Market, which includes ample inside and outside spaces for family and friends to gather," said Alison Marcantuno, the store team leader. "From our fresh produce and flowers to oven-ready, grab-and-go and prepared foods meal solutions, the store will offer fresh and healthy options for Exton shoppers."
The upscale grocer that was recently purchased by Amazon said opening day shoppers are invited to attend the traditional bread-breaking ceremony at 8:45 a.m. and will be greeted with door buster deals and an array of product demonstrations and samples.
The 50,000-square-foot store includes:
• Pike's, an in-store venue with a retro diner ambiance, serving tortas and tacos as well as beer, wine and a selection of mezcal & tequila.
• More than 75 local supplier products ranging from seasonal produce to local pork and chicken and a unique selection of ceramics, jewelry and gifts.
• An expansive cheese department featuring exclusive local cheeses from Yellow Springs Dairy in Chester Springs, as well as a robust national and international selection of sheep, goat and cow's milk offerings.
• Full-service meat and seafood departments featuring Global Animal Partnership 5 Step Animal Welfare-rated meat and sustainable seafood staffed by expert meat cutters and fishmongers.
• Made in-house specialties including: hand-tossed pizza, corn & flour tortillas and tortilla chips made with local Castle Valley Mill grains, and a selection of dips such as rutabaga, collard green, and guacamole.
• A large, seasonal rooftop with a fire pit where customers can enjoy food and draft beer.
When the store opens in January, it will be about 2½ years from when it was originally announced to be coming to Exton. The owner of the property and adjacent Exton Square Mall, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, or PREIT, said in July 2015 that it would tear down an existing Kmart and replace it with a Whole Foods. At the time, PREIT said the Whole Foods would open in 2017. Whole Foods will be leasing the space from PREIT under the arrangement.
The grocer has not commented on what led to the delay in the opening but in June it was announced Amazon was buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion. The deal closed in August.
Whole Foods is one of several additions at the mall meant to meet changing consumer habits. The other major change at Exton Square Mall was the opening of a Round 1 entertainment center in a former JC Penney department store.
Nationwide, many department store chains have closed locations due to the popularity of online shopping.
A spokeswoman for Whole Foods, Rachael Dean Wilson, said there is as yet no opening date set for another area Whole Foods that's been in the works for a while, in Ellis Preserve at Newtown Square, Delaware County.
Whole Foods Market Exton will be hiring approximately 125 team members for positions throughout the store. Interested candidates should visit wholefoodsmarket.com/careers to apply or stop by hiring events at the Exton Square Mall this week: Dec. 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Dec. 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and December 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Prospective candidates can also Text "Hire Me" to 610-624-8686 for more information.
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Crafting an effective email subject line is both a skill and an art form.
Most companies are sending out marketing messages several times per week so it needs subtlety and creativity to ensure they don't become repetitive or annoying.
This requires intimate knowledge of the company's tone of voice and the target audience, but we can at least try to broadly identify words that help drive clicks, and words to avoid at all costs.
New subject line analysis from Alchemy Worx shows that 'content', 'offer', 'benefits' and 'premium' are four of the top five words brands can use to increase the open rate, while 'Friday', 'Monday' and 'double' are three of the worst performing.
It also shows that symbols and emojis can have a big impact on engagement rates.
For more on this topic, read our posts on 45 other words to avoid in your email marketing subject lines and six case studies on how to write effective email subject lines.
Best and worst words
The data shows that 'content' is the best word for increasing open rates (up 59% vs. the average).
Personally I find this hugely surprising as I assume that Joe Public doesn't have the same obsession with content that has inflicted the marketing community.
It's quite a vague term as it doesn't refer to anything in particular (Is it video content? Written content? Are you feeling content?), but apparently consumers respond positively to it so it's probably worth trialling in your own subject lines.
The word 'policy' presumably has a positive impact as it suggests that it's an email that will contain important information (e.g. "Insurance policy documents enclosed").
On the flip side, days of the week apparently cause the biggest drop in open rates.
I wonder if this is in any way impacted by the sheer volume of emails sent to promote Cyber Monday and Black Friday?
Impact by industry
Looking at the impact of different words by industry, for financial services companies the words 'policy', 'benefits' and 'premium' apparently have the best impact.
This does suggest that the overall results are heavily impacted by results from the financial services.
Over in the travel sector, 'holiday' and 'voucher' are the most effective, while it might be best to avoid 'departing' or the points of the compass.
Interestingly, 'vacation' has a negative impact on open rates.
Best and worst symbols
The friendly snowman symbol is apparently hugely effective at encouraging people to open marketing emails (+65.72%).
In second place is a sun symbol (+20.95%), followed by a star (+10.65%).
However it's important to consider the context in which these symbols are used.
Would including a snowman in a subject line in June really have a positive impact on the open rate?
Also, why does the black sun symbol increase open rates by 20.95%, while the white sun causes a drop of 8.03% versus the average?
In conclusion...
It shouldn't be taken as gospel that these words will have the same impact on your own email marketing.
The open rate is influenced by a range of factors including sending frequency, time of day, day of the week, and the entire subject line.
These words should instead be used to inspire your own subject line tests so you can find what works best for your own brand and audience.
So don't just assume that 'premium content ☃' is going to double your open rate.
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Also don't don't forget pre-headers, which are like little extra bits of subject line:
Nice one David, I appreciate the use of emojis a lot and have my own results that can verify your black sun vs white sun ones (the same goes to some arrows).
Have you seen any more interesting symbols? Is the full report available somewhere?
Hi George, this is all the information I have. You could maybe get in contact with Alchemy Worx to see if they have further information.
Interestingly Alchemy Worx have failed to mention words like "New", "Save" or "Sale"
i found this article very interesting! Now I know exactly how I should design my newsletters with my GetResponse platform. :)