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Saturday, Jan. 25
Jan. 25 from 10 to 12 a.m. Let It Grow will hold a Learn to Graft workshop. Free to observe or $2.50 per rootstock to graft your own heritage tree. For more information call 565-3099.
This months Monthly Yoga "Grange Benefit" will be held 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Jan. 25. Donation only, all levels are welcome. All proceeds will benefit Mt. Lookout Grange. Take towel/mat and water. Refrain from eating an hour before.
1980's dance party with DJ P.A. on Jan. 25 at Blondie's at 9 p.m. Dress up for prizes!
Sunday, Jan. 26
Heart and Core Yoga Studio, 30 W. Main Cortez, will have a Free Yoga for beginners Class on Jan. 26 from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Class lead by certified yoga teacher, Sharon Englehart. For more information visit www.heartandcoreyoga.com.
Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance will be playing three films for Sunday matinee at Empire Electric from 1 to 4 p.m. on Jan. 26. Pathway to the gods plays at 1:15 p.m.; NEMO, 1934 plays at 2:35 p.m. and Death Of Place plays at 3:35 p.m. Read full film descriptions at www.swcocanyons.org on the Jan. 4 newsletter.
Wednesday, Jan. 29
William Hendrickson will discuss the history of oil and gas in Montezuma County on Jan. 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the gallery at the Cortez Cultural Center. Free to members, $5 to others.
The public is invited to enjoy live swing music by WE-4 at the Vista Mesa Assisted Living Residence, located at1206 N. Mildred rd. in Cortez on Wednesday, Jan. 29 from 12:30-2 p.m. Linda Baker, Cat Hill, Herb Folsom and Tony Littlejohn will deliver a toe-tapping good time.
Friday, Jan. 31
The Montezuma Land Conservancy will be hosting the Wild & Scenic Film Festival on Jan. 31 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Dolores Community Center. There will be an award-winning selection of films that bring a human face to the environmental movement, beer and wine, and drawings. Support local land conservation in and around Montezuma County!
Through January
"Snuggle Up in January" is the January theme of Raising Readers Storytime at the Cortez Public Library. Storytime is held every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. for preschool-aged children. Older children are welcome to join for the craft at 11:15 a.m. For more information, contact the library at 565-8117.
Current displays at the Cortez Public Library are: Jay Whitewolf, featured artist for January for the Southwest Artists'League. Mary North, Huichol Indian beaded items (through February) Otter Lopez, acrylic on canvas and pencil drawings (through February) The library is located at 202 N. Park St., Cortez, CO. and may be reached by calling 565-8117.
Saturday, Feb. 1
The Cortez Cultural Center's annual Sweetheart Ball fundraiser will be held Feb. 1 at the Cortez Elks. This year's theme is "Abracadabra Sweetheart Ball" featuring dinner, auction, magic entertainment and dancing. Donations for the auction are being accepted Jan. 7 – 29 and can be taken to the center at 25 N. Market from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Gift certificates faxed to 565-4075. For more information call 565-1151.
Cortez Special Olympics will be hosting their second annual Music Festival on Feb. 1 at Blondies at 7 p.m. Three bands will be playing: They Guys, Beach Street Blues Band, and Redneck Symphony. No cover. Funds raised will be used to send athletes to State and Regional basketball tournaments. You can also donate by mailing a check to Marcy Aldaz, 13691 Rd. 28, Dolores, CO 81323. Make checks payable to Cortez Special Olympics. For more information call 749-5096.
Join San Juan Mountains Association (SJMA) on Saturday, Feb. 1 from 10 a.m. to noon for a fun and educational snowshoe walk to Chris Park. Search for signs of life in the winter stillness. Look closely, and you will realize that life lives on in the cold and snow of winter. For ages 4 and up, accompanied by an adult. Snowshoes for children are provided. Snowshoes for adults can be provided if you register by Jan. 29. Contact MK to sign up at firstname.lastname@example.com or 970-759-9113. Program provided by SJMA, San Juan National Forest and BLM Tres Rios Field Office.
The Recovery Center (formerly CARS) 35 N. Ash St. in Cortez will be offering Level II (DUI) Classes beginning on Feb. 1. $12.50 per class. Call 565-4109 for an appointment to get enrolled.
Monday, Feb. 3
The Jordan World Circus 2014 is coming to Cortez at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds on Monday, Feb. 3 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. For more information visit www.thejordanworldcircus.com or their facebook page TheJordanWorldCircus.
The Montelores Early Childhood Council (MECC) will hold their next monthly luncheon meeting on Monday Feb. 3 at 11:45 a.m. at the Johnson Building, 525 S. Broadway, in the downstairs meeting room 110, Cortez, CO. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to MECC's coordinator, Vangi McCoy, email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com, PO Box 1725, Cortez, CO 81321, phone 749-7017.
Tuesday, Feb. 4
The Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society is pleased to present Jonathan Till on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Methodist Church, 515 Park Street in Cortez to discuss the Results of the Hovenweep Pottery Analysis Project, Year 2.
Friday, Feb. 7
The 28th Annual Chocolate Fantasia, a fundraiser benefiting the Volunteers of America Southwest Safehouse and the Durango Community Shelter, will be held on Friday, Feb. 7, at the La Plata County Fairgrounds (2500 Main Avenue), from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. This year's theme is "Chocolat De Paris." Tickets are available throughout the Durango community as well as at the door. For more information call Volunteers of America at 259-1021.
The Montezuma School to Farm Project is hosting a Talent Show at the Dolores River Brewery, 100 S. 4th St. in Dolores on Feb. 7! Family contest from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Cake Walk at 7 p.m., and adult contest from 8 to 10 p.m. Prizes will be awarded and a karaoke machine will be available. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 303-918-3538 to enter. All proceeds will go to school gardens in Montezuma County. $5 suggested donation at the door.
Sunday, Feb. 16
The Anasazi Heritage Center presents David Mattson, of Yale University, Feb. 16, at 1 p.m. for his presentation "Lions in Your Back Yard." Free to the public. Contact the Center at 882-5600 for information on upcoming events or go to its website at www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ahc.html.
Monday, March 3
SouthWest Colorado Concerts presents award winning concert pianist Charlie Albright at 7 p.m. Monday, March 3, at the Montezuma-Cortez High School Auditorium. Charlie has been hailed as being "among the most gifted musicians of his generation" by the Washington Post. Tickets will be on sale at the door beginning at 6:30 p.m. For more information contact Joyce Stevenson at 565-4757 or Paul Bostrom at 565-9127.
Through February
The PAAC Class Colorado Archaeology will be held Jan. 31 at the Anasazi Heritage Center from 5 to 8 p.m. then continue on Feb. 1 from 9 to 5 p.m., Feb. 2 from 9 to 5 p.m. and Feb. 3 from 5 to 8 p.m. The cost is $12. Call 560-1318 or email email@example.com to register.
"A Literary February" is the February theme of Raising Readers Storytime at the Cortez Public Library, located at 202 N. Park St. Storytime is every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. for preschool-aged children. Older children are welcome to join for the craft at 11:15 a.m. For more information, contact the library at 970-565-8117.
The Cortez Public Library, 202 N. Park St., will offer computer classes in February: Feb.13, at 1 p.m., beginning computer class, called Incredibly Basic Computers. On Friday, Feb. 14, at 1 p.m. the Workforce Center will hold a class on finding a job. On Thursday, Feb. 27, at 1 p.m., there will be a class called Basics II. All classes must be signed up for ahead of time by stopping by or calling the library at 565-8117.
First Monday
Southwest Center for Independence Second Chance Brain Injury group meetings will be the first Monday of every month at noon at the Cortez Office at 2409 E. Empire. For more information, call Matthew at 570-8001.
The Cortez Emblem Club No. 261 meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Monday of each month (except January and February). For more information, call 565-2197.
First Tuesday
American Legion Ute Mountain Post 75 meets 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the American Legion Hall, 320 N. Harrison St. For more information, call the Legion at 565-8151.
First Wednesday
At noon the first Wednesday of each month, the Cortez Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its business lunch forum. For more information, and locations, call 565-3414.
First Thursday
Montezuma County Republican Central Committee meets at noon the first Thursday of every month at Shiloh's Steakhouse. For more information, email Nicci Crowley, secretary, at email@example.com or call 570-9372.
First Friday
First Friday Leadership is held the first Friday of every month at First National Bank in Cortez from 8 to 9 a.m. Join the free event at 7:45 a.m. for coffee and doughnuts. For more information, call Dena at 565-3414.
Second Wednesday
Southwest Inter-Tribal Voice and Montelores Human Rights Committee meets at 6 p.m. the second Wednesday of every month at the Community Meeting Room in First National Bank. Email Art Neskahi at email@example.com.
Second Thursday
The Cortez Area Chamber of Commerce will hold Business After Hours at various locations from 5 to 7 p.m. the second Thursday of the month. For more information, call 565-3414.
Republican Women of Montezuma County invite the public to meet at noon every second Thursday at Shilo's Steakhouse at 5 Veach St., in Cortez. For information, call Rosemarie Beall at 564-1576.
A Free legal self-help clinic for Montezuma County parties without an attorney will be held the second Thursday of every month from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Mancos Public Library, 211 W. First St. Volunteer attorneys will assist one-on-one, via computer link. First come first-served basis.
Third Sunday
Jennifer Hope will host Literary Explorations, a free ongoing discussion group exploring all kinds of writings, both fiction and nonfiction, upstairs at the Cortez Cultural Center at 6:30 p.m. every third Sunday of the month.
Third Wednesday
The Cortez Area Chamber of Commerce Luncheon will be held at noon the third Wednesday of the month at Shiloh Steakhouse. For more information, call 565-3414.
First and Third Thursdays
Planning committee for the 10th Annual Ute Mountain-Mesa Verde Birding Festival meets at 10 a.m. on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month upstairs at the Cortez Cultural Center. Anyone interested in volunteering is welcome to attend. Call 565-1151 for details.
Fourth Tuesday
A new Republican woman's club has been formed locally called 4 Corners Republican Women's Club. Regular meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of the month at 11:30 a.m. at the Cortez Elk's Lodge. For more information, please call 565-2197.
Every Sunday
First United Methodist Church has a Native American Worship Service at 2 p.m. every Sunday. For more information call 565-3002.
Every Monday
The public is invited to join the Southwest Singers as they begin rehearsals for the fall season. The choir practices at 6:30 p.m. Monday evenings at First United Methodist Church in Cortez, 515 N. Park. For more information, call Director Ruth Wilson Francisco at 872-3870.
Every Wednesday
The Way Christian Church has a Bible Studies class every Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Every Monday
and Wednesday
Freestyle Defensive Arts is held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday at the Community Center in Mancos. Kids Freestyle Defensive Arts class, for ages 8 to 15, will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. every Wednesday. For more information, call instructor Brian Williams at 903-5576.
Every Tuesday
and Thursday
Karate "Ryukoku Seidokan" is held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at the Community Center in Mancos. Ages 5 to 10 is held from 5:30 to 6 p.m. and costs $5 each class. Ages 11 and older is from 6 to 8 p.m. and costs $10 each class. For more information, call Victor Pilcher at 533-7471.
Every Thursday
Every Thursday the Community Drum Circle will be held at Kaleidoscope Wellness, 233 Park St. in Mancos. For more information call 533-1100
Free Community Dinner every Thursday night at 6 p.m. at the Cortez Family Worship Center Foursquare Church, 500 N. Washington. Donation is always appreciated. Call 565-3709 for more information.
Every Friday
Every Friday at 6 p.m. the Tree of Life In Jesus Messianic Community (Etz-Chayim B'Yeshua) will begin a new Bible Study Series: "Survey of Messianic Judaism" at Baptist Chapel, 1509 Colorado Hwy 145. For more information, call 970-562-4217 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Every Saturday
The Mancos Indoor Flea Market is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Saturday at the old hardware store in Mancos, 192 S. Main St. To become a vendor, call Queenie Barz at 749-9320. The booth fee is $15 per weekend, along with insurance and vendor license charges.


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A hopper barge laden with chicken cages became Georgia's newest artificial reef when the Department of Natural Resources sank it about 10 miles off Tybee Nov. 18.
"It's going to make great habitat," said January Murray, who manages the DNR reef program. "It's a long and tall piece of metal material. That is what fish love. Encrusting organisms will attach to the barge and coat it. Fish will flock to it, where they can shelter, feed and reproduce. Now they have a home; it's like if you build it they will come, and they do."
The 254-foot-long barge, donated by Georgia Recyclers, was stacked with 330 steel chicken cages donated by Claxton Chicken. The East Coast Terminal Co. in Savannah allowed the use of its land as a staging area where the cages were stored and donated the use of its equipment.
The vessel had previously been docked on the back river, sitting there long enough — about a decade — that several full-grown Chinese tallow trees sprouted from its bow. As scrap, the combined barge and cages donation was worth about $225,000. It cost almost $20,000 to clean the vessel to environmental standards and tow it to place, according to Murray.
Future residents
That's "worth every penny," she said, because the material becomes an oasis on the otherwise sandy and barren bottom off Georgia's coast.
Murray listed the expected residents: "Angel fish, trigger fish, black sea bass, snapper, groupers, grunts tomtates, basically the reef fish community," she said. "Also damsel fish, sting rays, sharks, jellyfish. By building the habitat, everything flocks to it."
Georgia's Offshore Artificial Reef Program covers 52 square miles and consists of 20 offshore reefs, two "beach reefs" and eight Navy Tactical Air Crew Training System Towers. The barge joins a host of other underwater material at these reefs, including New York City subway cars, M60 battle tanks and other steel-hulled vessels. There's also a natural live bottom reef off Georgia, Gray's Reef, which is a national marine sanctuary.
Reefs are a boon to fishermen, divers and conservationists alike, said Kevin Quinn, who captained an observation boat at the site of the sinking.
"Within a week there will be stuff growing on it," said Quinn, an officer with the Coastal Conservation Association, whose Sapelo chapter facilitated the donation of the chicken cages. "Within a month it'll be covered."
Slow sinker
Biblia Inc., a marine towing and transportation company, prepped the 580-ton vessel and tugboated it into place. On arrival the crew opened a 6-inch valve they had created in the hull. But after more than an hour, the barge remained stubbornly afloat.
Something seemed to be clogging the valve, said Biblia owner and operator William Van Puffelen, who has experience sinking more than 30 vessels. To persuade the vessel on its journey downward, he climbed back aboard with an acetylene torch and cut out a rectangular hole at the waterline near the back of the barge.
More than an hour later, at 5:20 p.m., the barge sank. But not before Van Puffelen and his crew spotted the vessel's last sailor, a raccoon inadvertently trapped aboard. It had likely been attracted by the odor of the chicken cages, he said. The raccoon made a panicked lap around the deck and jumped off the boat as the stern went down.
"We were gonna let him get on the tug," Van Puffelen said. "But we couldn't find him."
By then it was also too dark for the DNR diver to assess the barge's landing on the sea floor. But a future dive is being planned for that purpose, and experience indicates it won't be long before the barge is bustling with sea life.
Murray recalled once inspecting an underwater site where 274 concrete pallet balls had been delivered to create a reef.
"I dove in two hours after, and there was immediately a great barricuda on the reef," Murray said. "There was no prey, but he was waiting. Once you build it, they use it as habitat and they stay."
Go to savannahnow.com to see a video of the barge-sinking operation.
The Georgia DNR offers information about its artificial reefs at http://coastalgadnr.org/fb/ar. The barge's drop coordinates are 31° 50.381'N / 80° 46.527'W.

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However, I finally made some progress in winning my argument about fish on Fridays during Lent. It was a couple of weeks ago and it went something like this:
me: Is lobster a fish?See why I'm so much fun to live with and why he loves me so much? And do I even have to mention that conversation took place on a Friday night after dinner and wine?
Joe: No.
me: So is it meat?
Joe: No.
me: What about crabs? Or scallops? Are they allowed for Lent?
Joe: I say yes, they're acceptable for Lent because I group all things that come from the ocean into one category.
me: What about ducks?
Joe: Those don't belong in the ocean. So ducks are meat.
me: What about freshwater fish?
Joe (exasperated with me already): Ok, I group together all things that come from the water.
me: Dolphins? Frogs?
Joe: Yes, fine for Lent. Though dolphins may be somewhat illegal.
me: So now what about ducks? They come from freshwater!
With all of my circular reasoning, I did at least
Yeah, petty of me I know. And he still won't admit that fish is meat. But at least I've brought him around to my way of thinking somewhat. I can't explain why that pleases me so.
Oh, and as for curbing my potty mouth? I think I've done well. But I'm still going to be making a sizable donation somewhere based on my agreement. I'm going to have to choose somewhere that will take installment payments.
TGIF folks and please come back tomorrow for Six Word Saturday!


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Would I be right in saying that if you choose to use CSS based page layout, then you have to hand code everything? i.e. are tools like Dreamweaver not suitable? Is there a quicker way of doing it than hand coding?
You could use a toolkit, such as Twitter Bootstrap.This is a free collection of tools for creating websites and contains a bunch of HTML and CSS-based design templates.To get going, you only have to download the code and include the style sheet in your page, then you have a load of pre-defined classes and UI elements that you can make use of.You can, of course, then build on this foundation with styles of your own.You can read more here: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
Yes Dreamweaver does. Most WYSIWYG HTML editors will write the HTML & CSS for you.
This post on Smashing Magazine might help: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/06/25-wysiwyg-editors-reviewed/
BTW, that's an old post (2008) and some might not be available anymore
My own preference is to generally hand-code (sometimes I'll copy and paste a working example and modify it to suit) as when a program like Dreamweaver is used any errors could be made by either the program or the user.l When the CSS is hand-coded any errors are down to the user only.
If you either have a good sized screen or two screens hooked up to the computer then you could have a text editor open in one to edit the css file and in the other have a browser window open to test any changes that are made.
If you end up using a sample from somewhere and you might forget why you used that sample, place a comment above or below the bit to remind yourself or to inform a future developer why that bit was chosen.
You don't have to hand-code it, but you'll often end up with a better site if you do. Editors like Dreamweaver can create all the styles, but they can't know what you mean, so you will usually have less semantic code and more bloat/redundant code, leading to more styles than you need, which makes it more difficult to maintain and update. If you have hand-coded it, you will know exactly what everything does, which will help you to slim it down and make sure that everything is exactly as it should be.
Even on sites where I have to use a CMS, I always switch to the code view and hand-code the editable content areas within the template!
Even on sites where I have to use a CMS, I always switch to the code view and hand-code the editable content areas within the template!
I would stop using Dreamweaver, it's an old over-hyped program.
I recommend using a lightweight program like notepad++. This program provides more helpful foundation to coding your websites, using this you can make changes to your CSS frameworks.
For CSS based layouts, you can use bootstrap as suggested by @Pullo; or you can other frameworks such as:
This would be your easiest option, your hardest bet would be to try and make a professional web design tool out of Dreamweaver
I disagree. Dreamweaver is still among the best in terms of coding. It is easy to use and pretty robust. That said, there are newer options like SiteGrinder that do all of the heavy work for you so you don't slave over a screen for hours coding a site to perfection.
I agree with you that Dw is quite a good code editor, but as mentioned above, anything that spits out code for you is likely to do a poor job of it, so it's much better to learn to hand code. In the end, hand coding is much faster. I have a friend who uses a WYSIWYG editor, claiming it's much faster, yet he spends hours trying to fix/debug things that take me a few seconds to fix via hand coding.
Knowing your code is very important in controlling every aspect of your website, which is crucial in today's world of the web. WYSIWYG editors were good for learning what each thing does, but once you've completely grasped HTML and CSS you'd want to use a text editor to be able to understand what you're doing.
Another downside to Dreamweaver is that is adds unnecessary tags. For example, every paragraph would be translated as a <DIV> and your document will contain a series of class's with the name .style. We've not even touched on the left behind tags.
It's low level entry point combined with it's easy to use application made it a dream come true for wannabe web designer. As this is such an unregulated industry we naturally witnessed rock bottom prices overlooking the basics of web standards and browser cross-compatibility. Their technical expertise would be something similar to a person using Ms Word, but because of this low stepping stone this made it inevitable.
Many professionals with technical experitise just wanted to be in full control and the only way they could do this is if they dropped this paid program and opted for another editor. Many in the industry use a free HTML editor.
You're more likely in today's age to use CSS frameworks to do your hard work, such as 960, or the links I suggested above rather than using Dreamweaver.
Hi all,
Although DW has a WYSIWYG editor, which, as @Sega ; rightly says, is pants (if that is all you use), don't forget that it also has a code view, which is awesome.I use DW to do all my web coding (it has so many cool features like templates, code completion, widgets etc.), but I spend 99% of my time in the code view.The WYSIWYG view is useful to highlight an element on the page, then you can switch back to the code view and see the appropriate HTML highlighted.
Maybe this is getting a bit off topic ...
[ot]Hi Sega,
Indeed I have. On my local machine I have a dev server in a Virtual Box and as DW would (or at least used to) cause a virtual machine to fall over and die, I looked for other editors.I tried Aptana Studio, but wasn't convinced. Then I tried Notepad ++ and have been using that ever since.Saying that, my work bought the complete Adobe CS5 suite for me to use, so it would be a crying shame not to use DW [/ot]


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SLE215 - Nature Interpretation and Tourism
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Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin. *Students are also required to attend 3 x 3 hour class per trimester at the Burwood (Melbourne) campus.
Ecotourism is a rapidly expanding field of tourism globally, and given society's growing interest in the environment, coupled with increased access into remote areas, this field of tourism is anticipated to grow. In this unit we critically examine the key components of ecotourism, with a view to exploring what ecotourism delivers in relation to what many expect from it. Interpretation, one key element of ecotourism is investigated in detail, using case studies involving cultural and natural heritage to understand the effectiveness of different interpretative techniques, namely face to face and written forms of interpretation. Wildlife tourism is also examined in detail during this unit. Wildlife tourism, perceived by many as a form of ecotourism, is another rapidly expanding field within the tourism sector. During this unit students will analyse wildlife-human interactions and the associated impacts in relation to changes in wildlife behaviour and responses. The management of negative interactions will be explored and any negatives will be examined in relation to social and economic benefits/costs to host communities.
Book review 30%, Ecotour design and communication 30%, group management plan proposal 40%
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text: I'm wondering if anyone has ever seen this? A little background. A couple weeks ago I rode through Shenandoah on Skyline drive, from Sperryville to Charlottsville. Beautiful ride by the way, and very very few people this time of year; backpackers/hikers mostly. There was lots of dried salt brine on the road, to the point that much of the road was pale or white. During the ride I turned a curve, and there were 5 to 6 deer just standing in the middle of the road, some with their noses to the ground. I pulled in the clutch and coasted up to them, and all but one walked off the road. One doe in the left lane was not going to budge, even after I bumped the horn. I rode past her while she watched. Granted, it's a national forest area, so most of the wildlife is tame/used to people and vehicles. But these deer were blatantly not moving. I didn't think about it at the time, but later wondered if they were licking the salt brine off the road. I have never heard of this, or seen it. I am just wondering if anyone else has? I'm not ruling it out.


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I just realized that they may not make a PSU with enough wattage or connectors to drive a dual E5 system with 4 GPUs (possibly some of them having more than one GPU chip on board, such as with the HD 7990 or a possible future GTX 790).
Could it be possible that the PSU may put a cap on my wish to build a system with two CPU slots and four GPUs in a bench, tower, or free-standing form factor?
If you look at prices for all these parts, we're talking about a $5,000 to $6,000 system. I can't do that all at once. But I would like to do it in phases over the course of the next two or three years. Which means that the PSU (or multiple PSUs?) should be planned and sized early in the project so that I won't have to scramble when it's time to place an order.
For reference, this is going to be a high-compute machine for the great majority of time, and it will run F@H 24/7 except when I send it GPGPU work from my main workstation. It will probably live in the guest bedroom and will likely serve as a web browser when visitors come and stay; guests who don't arrive with their own laptop, that is... Heat generation will not be insignificant, so for comfort I plan to stop folding when guests are over.
It will be set up for Steam and therefore might be used for games on occasion, but probably not often; and certainly no need for Crossfire or SLI; just multiple badass GPUs for compute and one to drive a single big monitor.
Is this plan feasible with just one very big PSU, or am I getting into rarified air here? If multiple PSUs are needed, how do you do that and satisfy the 24-pin load on the second PSU...and where do you put a second PSU?
I also have a semi-related case topic. It was a judgement call, but I decided to separate the two.


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Supposedly you can connect MDP to a thunderbolt port but it doesn't fit.
The port is on a gigabyte Z77 something or other board. Is Apple back up to their old tricks? As in maybe the port is slightly different on a Mac. Seem to remember running into something like that with DVI.
Apple MDP is the standard intel spec port. Looking at the review on anandtech, Gigabyte is using a slightly out of spec connector.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6296/giga ... -times-two
I've been with Apple so long I just suspect them first. The board was picked since Gigabyte is supposedly hackintosh friendly, and it is, and TB wasn't a must but being able to use an ACD 27 was the tipping point even if it's not the best Gigabyte board. Maybe some of the male/female extenders on monoprice will fit.
Turns out it's a common problem of the faceplate not aligning with just the TB ports. Everything looks fine but a little piece is overhanging the port. It took a magnifying glass to be able to see it. Easy to bend it up and snip it off.
Just out of curiosity, are you planning (or already using) an Ivy Bridge chip with onboard video for the ACD? I'm currently running an extra graphics card using DP to miniDP, but would happily hop to on board video if it might work (with the same board as you).


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Location: Environmentally Integrated Dairy Management ResearchTitle: Element pool changes within a scrub-oak ecosystem after 11 years of elevated CO2 exposure Author
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|Megonigal, Patrick
|Ketterer, Michael
|Drake, Bert
|Johnson, Dale
|Hungate, Bruce
Submitted to: PLoS One
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/12/2013
Publication Date: 5/23/2013
Publication URL: http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/57038
Citation: Duval, B.D., Dijkstra, P., Megonigal, P.J., Ketterer, M.E., Drake, B.G., Johnson, D.W., Hungate, B.A. 2013. Element pool changes within a scrub-oak ecosystem after 11 years of elevated CO2 exposure. PLoS One. DOI:10.1371. Interpretive Summary: Elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are a cause of concern for climate change. However, many plants grow larger under high levels of carbon dioxide, potentially offsetting emissions to the atmosphere. In an effort to determine if elevated levels of carbon dioxide affect a plant's update of essential nutrients, we took advantage of a long-term experiment in Florida to measure nutrient differences in plant tissues and soils and how they were impacted by high carbon dioxide exposure. We found that elevated carbon dioxide caused certain nutrients to be transferred from soil to plants, suggesting that ecosystems with a large plant growth response under high carbon dioxide will likely experience element movement from soil pools to plant tissue.
Technical Abstract: Elevated CO2 effects on soil element pool size and fluxes are equivocal. We measured above and belowground pools of non-nitrogen macro and micronutrients in a Florida scrub-oak ecosystem exposed to twice-ambient CO2 concentrations for 11 years. We quantified element pools in above ground biomass of the dominant oak (Quercus myrtifolia), as well as in the litter layer, roots, and soil to a depth of 200 cm. Parallel with large biomass stimulation, elevated CO2 increased oak stem Na, Mg, P, K, V, Zn and Mo, and the overall aboveground pool of K and S. However, we observed a negative effect of CO2 on the pool size of elements in roots for most elements. Our calculations of nutrient redistribution from soluble soil pools to plant biomass suggest that the increase in plant Ca is greater than the decline of the plant available pool of elements in soils. We conclude that elevated CO2 caused a net transfer of a subset of nutrients from soil to plants, suggesting that ecosystems with a large positive plant growth response under high CO2 will likely experience mobilization of elements from soil pools to plant biomass.


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"The Ultimate Fighter 7" winner Amir Sadollah (2-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) went nearly 14 months between his first and second appearance in the UFC, but now the welterweight is making up for lost time.
Sadollah meets Brad Blackburn (15-9-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) on the broadcast-opening bout of "UFC Fight Night 20: Maynard vs. Diaz" on Jan. 11, and the contest will be the "TUF"-winner's third fight in just five months.
"I was lucky enough to come through the last fight with no injuries," Sadollah today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "I've been inactive for a long time, so we'll see how staying active works for me."
The Spike TV-broadcast event takes place in Sadollah's home state of Virginia, so the 29 year old was a natural for the card. But Sadollah said it's a desire to remain active and improve rather than obligation to fight close to home that drove him to return to action quickly.
"Fighting in Virginia was a small part of it," Sadollah said. "It was great to be included in the first fight in my home state. That was nice, but that's not the reason to take a fight.
"It was something that myself and my coaches agreed that it was a good idea. I'm trying to get better, and I think this is the way to go about it."
After Sadollah's unlikely run through the "TUF 7" tournament, many wondered if he could ever reach his full potential. Numerous injuries plagued Sadollah during his layoff, but the welterweight said he continued to improve during the time off.
"One thing I think I got out of that period of inactivity was I learned a lot about training – how to push yourself and the limits, and how to get through it," Sadollah said. "I don't have it figured out, but I think I've definitely come closer to knowing myself better."
After coming to the UFC without a professional record, Sadollah has been forced to learn about himself while competing on the biggest stage in mixed martial arts. He claims he wouldn't have it any other way.
"Straight in the deep end," Sadollah said. "That's kind of my personality. I tend to enjoy that. I like that. I feel good about myself when I know I'm functioning in the hardest environment possible. That is absolutely the case, and I've loved it so far.
"It's an opportunity that a lot of guys out there that work as hard as me don't get to do. I love it, and I'm grateful for all of it."
While Sadollah will undoubtedly find himself well-received fighting in his home state, he believes it won't prove helpful once the cage door closes.
"It's the same cage anywhere in the world," Sadollah said. "It's nice to be able to fight a little closer to home, and that's my support network. … But there's two people in the cage, and that doesn't change anywhere."
So rather than relying on the crowd to carry him to victory, Sadollah will hope to utilize the effective striking he showed in his UFC 106 win over Phil Baroni. Opponent Blackburn's record on paper doesn't impress at first look, but his five-fight winning streak proves "Bad" Brad is a real threat.
"Paper means nothing," Sadollah said. "I look at who he is as a fighter, and I see a tough opponent. That's kind of something I tend to like, so I'm excited. It'll be a great fight.
"He's definitely a good striker. I think it's definitely one of his strengths. But these days, you can't just be worried about somebody's ground game or striking game or wrestling game. It's all around. He's a very skilled opponent. I'll try to be ready for anything."
It's an important fight for both fighters, and a win could propel the victor into a higher tier of potential matchups. Sadollah still has plenty of time to work himself up the UFC's ranks, but now is as good of a time as any.
And with a new year and a new career strategy, Sadollah has a simple goal moving forward.
"If somebody asked me, 'What do I want in 2010?' I want to be better than I was in 2009," Sadollah said. "It's a pretty apparent goal, but whether that's having one great fight or 10, that's what I want."
For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 20, which features a lightweight headliner between Gray Maynard and Nate Diaz, stay tuned to the the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
John Morgan is the lead staff reporter for MMAjunkie.com.


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Three the Institute Students Among 20 National Scholars to Receive Prestigious Pickering Fellowship
October 25, 2010
Fifteen percent—three out of 20—of the national scholars chosen for the prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship this year are students of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Jaime LeBlanc-Hadley, Leah Severino and Juan Vazquez will receive support during their two years of study at MIIS as well as during two internships, one domestic and one overseas. As part of the fellowship award, the students commit to serve for three years as U.S. State Department foreign service officers after graduation.
This is the 14th year that the Woodrow Wilson Foundation has named Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellows. According to the foundation, the fellowships "develop a source of well-prepared men and women from academic disciplines who fulfill the skill needs of the United States Department of State and who are dedicated to representing America's interests abroad."
For the students the fellowship can mean the world, both literally and figuratively. Jaime LeBlanc-Hadley says she is "extremely honored to have received a Pickering Fellowship and to have the opportunity to serve in the U.S. Foreign Service after I graduate from MIIS. Prior to receiving this fellowship, I didn't know if I would even be able to go to graduate school, so obviously this has made a huge difference in my life and my future."
Juan Vazquez also has the Pickering Fellowship to thank for being able to attend graduate school "to study international affairs, which is something that I'm passionate about. The Fellowship program is wonderful as it provides opportunities to put in practice what you learn in the classroom through internship placements domestically and internationally."


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Wick-ed: Va. Principal Attacks Public Schools – While Happily Accepting A Paycheck From Them
There are educators in my family, so I know a few things about how challenging that profession can be. The hours are long, the pay is often mediocre and the working conditions are sometimes not great.
But at the same time, I've been taught by teachers and have encountered some at the public schools my daughter and son have attended who were born to the profession. They're just naturals. They have a gift, and it's hard to imagine them doing anything else.
Unfortunately, there are also people working in public schools who probably ought to be doing something else.


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Easter weekend is a big time for families to come together, have some fun and create great memories.
Here are some of the places families can go Saturday to take part in fun times.
Fourth annual citywide Easter egg hunt
The Russellville Kiwanis Club and the Boys and Girls Club of the Arkansas River Valley will host the fourth annual city-wide Easter Egg Hunt for kids ages 2-10.
The hunt will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at Old Post Park. All participants will need to bring an Easter basket to gather their eggs.
Three different areas will be designated for specific ages 2-3, 4-6 and 7-10. There will be hot dogs and soft drinks while they last.
Approximately 12,000 stuffed Easter eggs will be provided for the hunt. Children will need to be accompanied by an adult.
VFW Easter egg hunt Saturday
The VFW Rogers Rye Post 2283 and Ladies Auxiliary will host an Easter egg hunt at noon Saturday at the Post on State Highway 7 North. The Easter Bunny will be there, and refreshments will be served.
Easter egg hunt
The Fraternal Order of Eagles Lodge 3928, 3016 East 16th St., Russellville, will have a children's easter egg hunt beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday. There will be hot dogs and chips, prizes and lots of fun. For additional information, call 967-6164.


text: We may be closer to the apes than we think—when we think. Scientists at the Living Links Center, part of Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center near Atlanta, Georgia, study human evolution and the relation between primate and human behavior by observing resident colonies of chimpanzees, capuchin monkeys, and other primates. Recent research includes work on gestures and language as well as selfishness versus altruism in chimpanzees. " 'Living Links' is a play on 'missing links,' since the center works with the closest living relatives of us humans," says Frans de Waal, the center's director. "We want to see how similar we are, but also how different." For more information go to emory.edu/living_links.


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Take Two
Emotions run high as Naomi and Pete prepare to walk down the aisle
Short Cuts
Charlotte and Sheldon disagree over an unstable patient's request
Playing God
Sam has to put his feelings aside to save a patient
A Better Place to Be
Dell's orphaned daughter is left without a home
In or Out
Addison butts heads with a new oncologist
All in the Family
Oceanside has to deal with the ethical dilemma of a patients right to privacy
Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?
Charlotte is brutally attacked
What Happens Next
Charlotte assault brings up painful memories
Can't Find My Way Back Home
After Charlotte's assault, she resists help from Oceanside Wellness
Just Lose It
The district attorney delivers bad news to Charlotte regarding her assault
If You Don't Know Me By Now
Addison seeks Dr. Rodriguez's help to save her mother's patient
Heaven Can Wait
Addison plans Bizzy and Susan's wedding
Blind Love
Charlotte's attacker finds himself in need of urgent care - at her hospital
Home Again
Addison is joined by Sam and friends in Conneticut after a family tragedy
Two Steps Back
Charlotte and Cooper must learn to forgive and forget
Love and Lies
The Oceanside doctors are divided when a patient wants use ill-fated eggs
A Step Too Far
Sheldon's attraction to Dr. Marla Philips causes conflict
The Hardest Part
Pete learns that his mother's illness may be his brother's doing
What We Have Here...
Katie returns to confront Violet about her book... and her past
Something Old, Something New
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God Bless the Child
The Oceanside doctors suspect the worst of Betsy's foster care environment
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She leaves behind her life partner, Susan Cooper of Lamar; mother, Dolores E. Reuland of Bentonville; sister, Nancy K. Reuland and husband, Robert E. Holmes of Rogers.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorials can be made to North American Trail Ride Conference, Region 4, C/O Shirley Brodersen 341880 East 880 Road, Chandler, OK 74834.
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sixnationsrugby.com > Scotland
Winning in London and Paris during the course of the same Championship has not been done by any Irish team since Tom Kiernan's in 1972. They beat France at Stade Colombes 14-9 and England at Twickenham a fortnight later 16-12, only to be denied a crack at completing the Grand Slam at home because their opponents failed to turn up.
First Scotland, then Wales chose not to go to Dublin because of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. No amount of pleading by a six-man Irish Rugby Union delegation sent to Edinburgh and Cardiff made any difference.
The Scottish and Welsh refusal to travel prevented some of Ireland's greatest players from converting a rare away double into the equal rarity of a Slam.
Until Kiernan's unlucky team did it in the early Seventies, the London-Paris double had not been done since 1948, the momentous year when Scotland and Wales did turn up after Jack Kyle & Co had won the opening matches in France and England.
Having eased past Scotland in the opening round by 22 points and followed that by going one better against Wales in knocking the champions off their pedestal, Ireland go to Twickenham next week as the team to beat. Their coach and captain know how it feels to win there.
Joe Schmidt did it in style albeit at the expense of Irish rather than English opposition, presiding over Leinster's exhilarating brand of Total Rugby which eventually engulfed Ulster during the European Cup final two years ago.
In his first season as an international coach, the New Zealander goes back there with a squad in serious contention for what would be only Ireland's second title since the mid-Eighties.
Paul O'Connell has seen Ireland win on three of their last five visits to Twickenham, the first, most famously, ten years ago when Billy Williams' old cabbage patch really was a fortress.
England, with their newly-won World Cup on display, had not lost there for five years until the Irish took it by storm thanks to Girvan Dempsey's try and five Ronan O'Gara goals.
Three of that team will expect to be there again this time - O'Connell, Brian O'Driscoll, still peerless at 35, and his perennial midfield partner Gordon D'Arcy, a comparative slip of a lad at 34.
Home after losing unluckily in Paris and winning comfortably in Edinburgh, England see Ireland as a severe test of how far they have come on the road to recovery from their disintegration in Cardiff 11 months ago. Ireland see England in much the same light.
No sooner had the Welsh victory roar subsided than O'Connell had acknowledged the point: "The competition gets a whole lot harder from here. Twickenham's going to be a massive step up. It doesn't matter how many times you've done it before, a win at Twickenham is massive."
Ireland under Schmidt are in the business of victory on a monumental scale as Wales will testify. In the course of outplaying the holders, the Irish torpedo hit them amidships with enough force to leave a gaping hole in their avowed aim of sailing home to the first hat-trick of RBS 6 Nations titles.
Warren Gatland had not experienced a defeat like it in Championship terms as Wales head coach, worse even than their last beating on the road, 28-9 in Paris three years ago.
Wales had not been restricted to a single penalty goal in the tournament since their first match in the RBS 6 Nations, against France in Cardiff in February 2000.
No country tends to hold a more heated or protracted inquest into national defeat than Wales. That they must wait until Friday week when France come to the Millennium Stadium means this one will go on longer than usual.
Family doubles come in all shapes and sizes but one went without mention last weekend when it would have justified a fanfare. Rarely has history repeated itself quite as neatly as in the 48th minute at the Stade de France last Sunday.
Hugo Bonneval, the French left wing, scored a try on debut. His father Eric, in the same No.11 jersey, had done exactly the same 30 years earlier, against the All Blacks in Auckland.
The romantic notion that Scotland would somehow defy the odds and come up with a family double of their own against England turned out to be a forlorn one.
In 1984, a couple of months before Bonneval, senior, made his bow in New Zealand, Scotland had won the Calcutta Cup with a decisive 18-6 win over their southern neighbours en route to winning an even more glittering prize, the Grand Slam.
Roy Laidlaw, the Lion from Jedbergh, was a permanent fixture at scrum-half. The current No. 9, his nephew Greig, learnt the hard way that an action replay would not be possible but then uncle Roy did play behind some pack of forwards - Jim Aitken, Colin Deans, Iain 'The Bear' Milne, Bill Cuthbertson-Alister Campbell, Alan Tomes, Jim Calder, Iain Paxton and David Leslie, the most fearless of wing forwards for whom words are difficult to find to do him full justice.
Suffice to say that no player can ever have put his body on the line more readily in his country's cause.
The red cards flashed at substitute props Michele Rizzo (Italy) and Rabah Slimani (France) in Paris evoked memories of the last double Championship sending-off, in the same city more than two decades ago.
France-England at the Parc des Princes on Saturday, February 15, 1992 made such a mockery of the Entente Cordiale that the Ulsterman charged with enforcing law and order did so by dispatching two-thirds of the home team's front row.
Referee Stephen Hilditch sent both off for early baths. Gregoire Lascube, a member of the Gendarmerie, was the first to go for allegedly doing to PC Martin Bayfield what the then humble Bedfordshire bobbie, likened to 'Fred Astaire doing a tap dance on my back'.
No sooner had the France loosehead been given his marching orders than he found a tearful hooker Vincent Moscato marching in his footsteps after an illegal tete-a-tete with England's unflappable tighthead, Jeff Probyn.
In the mayhem that followed, the France captain, Jean-Francois Tordo, might easily have provoked Hilditch into pointing him to the dressing-room before the end of a scrap that England won by the proverbial boulevard.
The referee, then headmaster of a school in Belfast, was given a police escort off the field in the furious aftermath of the second double dismissal in the Championship.
Norman Sansom, the Scottish referee responsible for the first, at Cardiff Arms Park in January 1977, blew for no-side and made his own unflustered way back to the dressing-room without requiring any protection from the long arm of the law.
He sent the Wales lock Geoff Wheel off for flattening Ulster's Lion of a flanker Stewart McKinney and another Irish Lion, Willie Duggan, hot on McKinney's heels for taking retaliatory action. Sansom, without recourse way back then to any such thing as a video referee, relied on the evidence of his own eyes, likewise Hilditch in Paris 15 years later.
Team of the weekend:
Ireland, 1-15.
Best of the rest:
M Brown (England); Y Huget (France), L Burrell (England), W Fofana (France), J May (England); J Plisson (France), D Care (England); A De Marchi (Italy), D Szarzewski (France), D Cole (England); J Launchbury (England), J Furno (Italy); T Wood (England), C Robshaw (England), L Picamoles (France).
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(CNN) — [Breaking news update at 1:20 p.m. Friday]
A "ground stop" has been issued for planes scheduled to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday. A ground stop means flights destined for the affected airport are held at their departure point, according to the FAA.
[Original story, posted at 1:15 p.m. Friday]
(CNN) — Parts of Los Angeles International Airport were being evacuated Friday morning after reports of shots being fired there, police said.
Airport officials said a police incident began about 9:30 a.m. at Terminal 3 at LAX, airport spokeswoman Nancy Suey Castles said.
Passenger Robert Perez, who was getting ready to fly Virgin Air, was taking a nap in the terminal when panic erupted, he told CNN affiliate KCAL/KCBS.
"I heard a popping sound, and everybody was diving for cover," Perez told the station. "The TSA said there was a shooting in the terminal and evacuate the building."
At least 100 people came down a staircase. "Everybody started to panic," Perez said.
Fox Sports national columnist Bill Reiter was also at the airport during the gunfire. "After the initial burst of gunfire and hiding, people started jumping over one another, jumping off chairs, pushing each other. Chaos & fear," he said on his Twitter account.
The passengers were directed to board a bus and were taken to a smaller terminal, Perez told the affiliate.
The Los Angeles Fire Department is assisting with a "multi-patient" incident at Los Angeles International Airport, the department said Friday on Twitter.
Firefighters were laying down tarps on the street at the airport, which appeared to be triage tarps. Several ambulances were at the airport, and at least one person was loaded into an ambulance.
The area around the airport was jammed with cars as police shut down access to the airport Friday morning.
CNN's Casey Wian contributed to this report from LAX.


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Trial for 48-year-old Thomas Harold Morgan was to have been held in August, but it was postponed so he could undergo a mental evaluation. Morgan is now to be tried on Oct. 28.
U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes III signed an order on Tuesday that said Morgan has no condition that would impair his ability to understand the charges or participate in his defense. The psychiatric report is under seal.
Morgan faces five counts of receiving child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. He's been in custody since his June 2012 arrest.
Morgan was a children's entertainer, working under the name "Sondance the Clown."


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O's give Bundy time to rest groin spasm
By Brittany Ghiroli / MLB.com
SARASOTA, Fla.-- Right-hander Dylan Bundy was originally scheduled to pitch in Sunday's Orioles game, but according to manager Buck Showalter, he had a groin spasm and was pushed back to be safe.
Bundy will now take a workday on Tuesday, when he will take will take part in biomechanical analysis testing, following the team's off-day on Monday.
The organization's top pitching prospect, Bundy last pitched on Wednesday, and he has appeared in two games, throwing three scoreless innings.
O's Gonzalez not resting on laurels in MLB camp
SARASOTA, Fla.-- A year ago, Miguel Gonzalez -- who had just signed with the organization after pitching in winter ball -- was a 27-year-old right-hander in Orioles' Minor League camp. On Sunday afternoon, Gonzalez finally made his first appearance in a Spring Training game as a big league player, coming off a 2012 season in which he was one of baseball's biggest surprises, going 9-4 with a 3.25 ERA.
"That was probably in 2007, the last time I threw in a big league Spring Training game," said Gonzalez, then with the Angels, who would come over an extra Minor League player to fill innings. "So, it was fun to go out there and perform."
Gonzalez picked up right where he ended last season, breezing through two scoreless innings against the Phillies and allowing just one baseunner -- a walk to Cesar Hernandez, who was erased by catcher Matt Wieters while trying to steal second.
Gonzalez is penciled in to be one of the Orioles' starting pitchers this season, but it doesn't mean he's OK coasting through camp.
"I think it's got a lot more to do with what he's been through to get here; he's letting it rip," manager Buck Showalter said. "He's not taking one pitch for granted. Out there today, he gives up a two-out routine fly to right [field] and second base is vacated, and instead of kind of walking off the field, he ran to second base in case something happened. Those are the kind of things I notice.
"This guy, he's not assuming anything. You've been where he is. Miguel is trying to make the club."
Gonzalez used mostly fastballs on Sunday, with the unusually cold and windy temperatures limiting the availability of his split-finger pitch, and he was pleased afterward with how he felt. Gonzalez spent the offseason working out in California with vice president of baseball operations Brady Anderson -- along with several teammates -- and he looks noticeably stronger this spring. The right-hander never had a specific offseason regimen as he bounced around organizations and dealt with several injuries, and he hadn't lifted weights since college.
"He smiles easily, he's engaging, but he's a competitive guy," Showalter said of Gonzalez, who has an unflappable mound demeanor. "You see him bounce off the mound on a bunt. He competes now. And when he doesn't do what he's capable of doing, he isn't a happy guy. He can, I wouldn't say 'brood,' but he can convey feelings of unhappiness with himself."
Markakis scratched from O's lineup with neck spasms
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis was not in Sunday's starting lineup due to neck spasms that he reported to the team's complex with in the morning.
Manager Buck Showalter said it's nothing serious. Markakis was examined for structural damage and none was found -- although if it were the regular season, Showalter would still err on the side of caution and probably sit Markakis. The issue is believed to have stemmed from just sleeping on his neck a little funny.
The team's first off-day this spring is on Monday, and with Tuesday's game being in Dunedin, Fla., it's likely Markakis won't play again until Wednesday's home exhibition against Team Spain.
O's to utilize biomechanical testing again this spring
SARASOTA, Fla. -- For the second consecutive spring, the Orioles will take part in biomechanical analysis testing, with the American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI) mapping some of the organization's pitchers using wires.
Manager Buck Showalter said some of the pitchers who underwent the testing last year will be retested depending on the results and whether the organization felt they had a good enough baseline already.
"It's good that it's cool, because we had some trouble with the magnets slipping off with the sweat and everything [last spring]," Showalter said. "They are a lot more prepared, organized with it this year. They are going to work out of the auxiliary locker room, and then they just go right to the [covered batting] cages. Should take about 15 minutes."
The Minor League pitchers will undergo the testing -- which was brought in by director of pitching development Rick Peterson -- on Monday, with the big leaguers going the following three days depending on their work day schedule.
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Twitter @britt_ghiroli. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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good !!!! I cum in my mother !!!!
She has a hot little body!
Bridget the midget!! Bridget Powerz, I just saw her in that movie Big Money Rustlas yesterday, so hilarious.
mala cipka a jaka pojemna....
a love this.
This guy NEVER stays hard in ANY of his films.
encore mieux q une femme de 1,80m qui fait sa belle alors quelle et pas foutu de faire une gorge profonde
truth is I would love to screw that littlr bottomless lady
rofl @ legolas
Gimli, my elf eyes see that your wife is unfaithful with the dark lord lol
was she a talking sock puppet for him?
I have seen this guy before in other clips. Don't know his name - Mr Semi maybe? My Floppy? Hilarious the way she can blow him standing up. Bridget has a great attitude and loves sex clearly, but since she got all of her tats, she doesn't do it for me any more.
Big dick. Weak Shot.
i like my 4.5 hard dick then 12 inch softy
I was expecting her 2 get COVERED in cum! WRONG :( Wut a small load
Like a Rabbit fucking a anaconda. LOL
watcha scene. hehe
id eat her ass allday while she sucked me
well at least she doesnt need to kneel down to such his cock
I think she starred in I hope they serve beer in hell! lol
FUCK OFF!!!!! I can't stand pizza.
Damn I need a midget
His dick its bigger than his head ._.
Where can I buy one?
his hedge in the background needs cutting, and pool can do with a clean
She is so beautifull i wanna slam my BIG BIGER COCK in her smal pussy and eat her spider tatoo
I wanna ram that midget so fuckin bad..Im jerking off right now
She fine. Nice shape.
She coffed once during his sex with her. I think it was coming out her throat.
her real name is Bridget powers. she goes by Bridget the midget and Bridget Powerz
Hey Bridget.. remember me from back in H.S. Wow I would love to talk..
im only 8 inches, not the like 12 this guy is but at least i can get hard. plus with my 8 inches I can make my wife cum so much ans so hard that we have to change the sheets and flip the mattress whereas her ex at 12 inches couldnt do anything but hurt her. so hooray to men with slightly larger than average penises!!!!!!!
i fuck her hard and cum in her tight little pussy and have midget babys lol
that hawg leg is bigger than her!
what the fuck?
was that cock really big or was it just coz shes really short
who es hee?
Il gigante e la nanetta ahahahah 10+
that is funny, strange to watch.
This is just wrong this midget needs counseling cant hate on the black man but really this is wrong!
the cock has no strength to go inside the ass hole.LoL
Who is she?
Wow i laughed so hard.
this IS hilarious indeed xD!
she seems to like it... but hard not to judge
This is fucking hilarious !!!
This is some sick shit...
Monitor: I you think like, that it's wrong? Migdet wanted it! Midget is cool and lovely woman!
Give me get more into it
ugh.,i want a big cock like that wish someone good give it to me ;D
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World Food Books is a book shop in Melbourne, Australia.
Founded in 2010, World Food Books is a book service dedicated to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of quality international art and design journals, artists' monographs, exhibition catalogues, artists' editions, collected writings and printed ephemera.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print publications spanning the fields of contemporary art, modern art, cultural theory, photography, film, poetry, fiction, fashion, architecture, interior design, typography, illustration, politics and much between, World Food Books wishes to encourage active and thoughtful reading, looking, writing, publishing, and exchanging of art and design press, both contemporary and historical.
As well as our book shop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service. We also have outposts at MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art) and Westspace, both also in Melbourne.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a program of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
World Food Books
The Nicholas Building
Studio 19, Level 3
37 Swanston Street
Victoria 3000
World Food Books
Postal Address:
PO Box 435
Flinders Lane
Victoria 8009
Theory / Essay
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Sculpture / Installation
Performance / Dance / Theater
Sound / Music
Group Shows / Collections
Out-of-print / Rare
Objects / Ephemera / A/V
Signed Books
World Food Books Gift Voucher
World Food Book Bag
Australian Art
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Minimal Art
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Pop Art
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Illustration / Graphic Art
Japanese Photography
Ceramics / Glass
Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People's Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - "they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me", "my sweet little lamb", "work is a disease - Karl Marx"; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don't make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
"BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb."
"Food Bazaar"
"USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb."
"RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it's personal."
"H. Brickman & Sons."
"Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn't absolute in Wurtz's work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
at Minerva, Sydney (curated by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
"...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing's face was seared and blackened."
William Gibson, "Count Zero", 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980's, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne's 'Fragments' collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character' and 'personality' in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
1983, Japanese
Softcover, 150 pages, 22 x 24 cm
1st Edition, out of print title / Used*,
Published by Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Tokyo
$90.00 - In stock -
Great book published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in 1983.
Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white with examples of leading firgure in 1960s Japanese art scene, across themes and movements such as Gutai, Mono-ha, Pop, Fluxus, Dada, conceptual art and much more, including profiles on Tetsumi Kudo, Yukihisa Isobe, Ushio Shinohara, Shusaku Arakawa, Takami Sakurai, Yoshio Murakami, Hisashi Indo, Tomio Miki, Nobuaki Kojima, Jiro Takamatsu, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Koichi Tateishi, Hiroshi Nakamura, Koichi Tanikawa, Kei Hiraga, Ay-o, Tadanori Yokoo, Tasuo Ikeda, Tetsuro Komai, Hideo Hagiwara, Fumiaki Fukita, Yukio Fukazawa, Arinori Ichihara, Masuo Ikeda, Mitsuo Kano, Hideo Yoshihara, Tetsuya Noda, Bushiro Mouri, Saburo Muraoka, Shu Eguchi, Hisayuki Mogami, Ryokichi Mukai, Yoshikuni Iida, Bukichi Inoue, Isamu Wakabayashi, Masakazu Horiuchi, Kakuzo Tatehata, Haruhiko Yasuda, Moio Shinoda, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Masunobu Yoshimura, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Minami Tada, Aiko Miyawaki, Nobuo Sekine, Takeo Yamaguchi, Masanari Murai, Toshinobu Onosato, Yoshishige Saito, Minoru Kawabata, Kumi Sugai, Yayoi Kusama, On Kawara, Keiji Usami, Takahiko Iimura.
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- Mineral resources and agricultural potential
- Support from international donors and investors
- Dependence on oil, gold and aluminium
- Poorly diversified economy
- Size of the informal economy (30% of GDP), with casinos, gold mining and smuggling
- Problems with the management of public-sector companies
- Lack of transport infrastructure (roads, ports)
- Difficult business climate, ineffective justice system
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Towards a slow recovery in activity in 2017
Suriname's economy relies heavily on exports of gold, bauxite and oil, which represent almost one third of the country's GDP and tax receipts. In 2016, economic activity contracted sharply because of weak commodity prices and whole host of fiscal and monetary measures which affected domestic demand. The central bank's decision to devalue the currency by 20% in late 2015, as well as the austerity policy conducted by the government since President Bouterse's re-election (higher taxes on fuel, gradual removal of subsidies on water and electricity) contributed to the drop in domestic demand and specifically in household consumption. In 2017, the country is expected to begin a modest recovery driven by higher public investment, supported by the award of financial aid by the IMF (stand-by arrangement) amounting to USD 478 million. The performances of the agricultural sector, which relies heavily on rice and banana cultivation, are expected to benefit from the dissipation of the effects of the El Nino weather phenomenon. The start of production at the Merian gold mine in October 2016 and the completion of extension work at the Staatsolie refinery should help boost exports. Private consumption will, however, remain weak, affected by the fall in household purchasing power because of inflation, which, although lower, remains high. This climbed sharply in 2016 in response to the devaluation of the local currency, which affected most imported consumer goods.
Continuation of fiscal consolidation policy
In 2016, the fiscal deficit deepened because of the fall in income from the mining sector (about 30% of tax receipts) and the expansionary policy conducted by the government in 2015 (electoral period) comprising, in particular, an increase in civil service wages. Faced with slippage in the public accounts, the authorities decided to proceed with budget restructuring involving, in particular, a freeze on civil service wages, a cut in subsidies on water and electricity prices and in public investment spending depending on the external financing obtained. Thanks to the implementation of its reforms, Suriname has been able to benefit from IMF financial aid (USD 478 million). The country also issued 10-year bonds (USD 550 million) at 9.25% in late 2016. The use of borrowing is expected to contribute to an increase in the public debt. Monetary policy is expected to remain cautious, but the central bank's room for manoeuvre will remain limited because of weak foreign exchange reserves. In May 2016, the central bank decided to abandon the currency's pegged float against the dollar, after a 20% devaluation of the currency in late 2015.
External trade hit by weak commodity prices
The current account balance deteriorated sharply in 2016 in connection with the persistent weakness of commodity prices (gold, bauxite, in particular) and the closing of the aluminium refinery belonging to the Alcoa group. In 2017, the current account deficit is expected to narrow but will remain large. It will be maintained by the expected increase in the volume of gold exports thanks to full production at the Merian mine and of oil derivatives, which will benefit from the completion of extension work at the state oil company, Staatsolie. Moreover, exports of mining and non-mining products are also expected to become more competitive due to the depreciation of the local currency against the dollar. Imports of consumer goods, now more expensive, are however expected to cool, although the resumption of investment will require new purchases of imported capital goods.
A government which is losing popularity
President Désiré Bouterse, leader of the National Democratic Party (NDP), is expected to continue his programme of reforms in order to maintain financial support from the international institutions. The austerity measures (including higher electricity and water tariffs) and the effects of the currency's depreciation which has hit most imported consumer goods, are, however, proving very unpopular and impact on the government's image with the population. Limited access to credit, under-developed infrastructure and the lack of skilled labour continue, moreover, to hamper the business climate. Internationally, President Bouterse's relations with the Netherlands and the United States will remain tense. The former dictator is alleged to secretly support drug trafficking and money laundering.
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François Nars's latest work of art, Makeup Your Mind: Express Yourself ($45), is more than just another coffee table kind of book. Of course it's pretty to look at, but you'll find that you can't help but be inspired by its contents: tutorial after tutorial of makeup looks featuring women and men of varying ages and ethnicities.
And here's a chance for you to see (and try out) some of these makeup palettes on your own. Just peruse the gallery below for 12 step-by-step instructions of looks found in the book. Tip: there's even a Makeup Your Mind community website, where you can post pictures of yourself wearing one (or all) of the following styles, and enter for a chance to win some cool prizes. Learn how you can re-create 12 amazing Nars beauty looks now.


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The Development Department requests proposals for a variety of department-specific projects throughout Riverside, providing opportunities for vendors to bid on City business.
All responses are due at or before the time shown on each solicitation. Late responses cannot be accepted. It is the bidder's responsibility to ensure that the most complete and current version of the solicitation, including addenda, has been downloaded.
Current Bid Opportunities
Surplus Property:
Former Marcy Branch Library
The City is pleased to invite proposals for the purchase and adaptive re-use of the former Marcy Branch Library site located at 3711/3723 Central Avenue aka Assessor Parcel Nos. 225-124-014 and 225-124-016.
The deadline for Proposals: Before 4:00 PM on March 22, 2013.
Surplus Property:
Van Buren Boulevard and Hayes Street
The City is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for the purchase and subsequent development of surplus property located at 3909 and 3915 Van Buren Boulevard aka Assessor Parcel Nos. 191-311-037 and 191-311-038, situated at the northeast corner of Van Buren Boulevard and Hayes Street.
The deadline for Proposals: Before 4:00 PM on November 4, 2012.
Request for Qualifications (RFQ): Seizing Our Destiny Executive Director
Amendment No. 1
Seizing Our Destiny a community-driven movement here in Riverside is
seeking its first Executive Director. The right person must be
passionate about the vision for high quality of life for all and be able
to demonstrate the experience to strategize for impact, grow an
organization, lead leaders, communicate a vision, connect a community
and measure results. In particular, we seek someone with a track record
of achieving progress and sustaining momentum for initiatives based on
public-private partnerships, cross-sector action, community engagement,
collaboration building, innovative economic development and/or
collective impact to improve community quality of life.
RFP for Soccer Complex Development
Exhbiti A-1
Amendment No. 1
The proposed Complex shall entail the relocation of eleven (11) small sized soccer fields (190' x 118'), five (5) medium sized soccer fields (300' x 150'), and eight (8) full size soccer fields (360' x 210') currently located at the adjacent Ab Brown Soccer Complex and the construction of sufficient parking and applicable amenities such as concessions and restroom facilities. Furthermore, the complex is proposed to include the construction of a soccer stadium large enough to host professional exhibition, semi-professional, collegiate and high school soccer games/tournaments. The proposed stadium will include an artificial turf field, stadium seating, lighting for night games, locker rooms, sufficient parking and applicable amenities such as concession stands, restroom facilities and meeting space.
New Restaurant Opportunity at the Fox Entertainment Plaza
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Amendment No. 2
Amendment No. 3
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Lobby Annex Plans
Parking Structure Plans
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to serve as a key attraction within the City‐owned Fox Entertainment Plaza, which is next door
to the Fox Performing Arts Theater in downtown (Exhibit "A").
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Four starters among Yankees' six All-Stars
Cano, Granderson, Jeter, A-Rod voted in; Martin, Mo reserves
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com
Second baseman Robinson Cano, shortstop Derek Jeter, third baseman Alex Rodriguez and outfielder Curtis Granderson will bring their road gray uniforms to Arizona's Chase Field, having been elected to the AL's starting lineup via fan voting.
In addition, catcher Russell Martin and closer Mariano Rivera have been named as All-Stars via the player vote, with Martin making the cut as a reserve.
"That's great -- it shows that a lot people are recognizing what the guys on this team have been doing," Granderson said. "Getting the chance to have that many guys out here playing definitely speaks highly for how these guys have been doing up to this point so far."
The 82nd Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be played on July 12. It will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and Sportsnet HD and Le Reseau des Sports, with pregame ceremonies beginning at 8 p.m. ET. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide exclusive national radio coverage. MLB Network, MLB.com and Sirius XM also will provide comprehensive All-Star Game coverage.
This season marks the first time that one team has been represented in the infield by at least three players since 2004, when the Yankees shipped Jason Giambi, Jeter and Rodriguez to that year's Midsummer Classic in Houston.
Receiving his third All-Star selection and second consecutive fan-elected start, the slick-fielding Cano notched the third-most votes in the Majors with 6,679,976, finishing more than 2 million votes ahead of Boston's Dustin Pedroia (4,391,835).
"It's good to go back again," Cano said. "I would say it's every player's dream. You want to come play on a team that wins and can go there and have fun."
Just six hits shy of becoming the 28th member of baseball's 3,000-hits club, Jeter received 4,536,386 votes and will represent the AL for the 12th time, beating out Asdrubal Cabrera of the Indians (4,073,992).
Enjoying his sixth consecutive fan election and seventh overall, Jeter joins Cal Ripken Jr. (1989-96) and Ozzie Smith (1983-92) as the only shortstops to start six straight All-Star Games.
Now a 14-time All-Star, Rodriguez picked up 5,277,823 votes, finishing more than 1 million votes ahead of the Rangers' Adrian Beltre (4,036,191). Rodriguez now has six fan-elected starts at shortstop and six at third base.
Granderson is making his second All-Star appearance and first as a fan-elected starter, having claimed 6,683,887 votes.
That gives him the second-highest vote total of all time, behind only Jose Bautista's 7,454,753 votes this year but ahead of the previous high mark of Ken Griffey Jr.'s 6,069,688 votes in 1994.
"It's exciting, and I'm happy for the time being," Granderson said. "I'll be a little more excited once we get to that point, but for right now, I'll enjoy the moment for getting the nomination to do it."
A first-time AL All-Star after two appearances with the National League, Martin led at every checkpoint in the fan balloting before being overtaken by the Tigers' Alex Avila in the final week, 4,144,384 to 3,646,033.
"He deserves it -- he's got much better numbers than I do," Martin said. "I'm glad he's going to get the start; I was kind of worried about that, actually. It's going to be fun getting a chance to go out there. It's been a couple of years since I've been."
Rivera, the Yankees' ageless wonder, was picked as an All-Star for the 12th time. This year, he has already reached the 20-saves plateau for the 15th time in his career and has a crack at equaling Trevor Hoffman's record of 601 career saves later this season.
"Being named and making the All-Star team, it is a privilege, of course," Rivera said.
Two other Yankees pitchers had hopes of making the AL roster but were not selected.
CC Sabathia owns an 11-4 record and a 3.05 ERA, but he is scheduled to pitch two days before the All-Star Game and would thus be ineligible for to play. He said that he plans to enjoy the All-Star break with his family in the Bahamas instead.
"Had I been eligible to pitch, I probably would have been a little more disappointed," Sabathia said. "I felt like I've had a pretty good first half, but there's a lot of guys pitching well. Guys are having great years. I'll just keep going."
Reliever David Robertson also stated a convincing candidacy for an All-Star nod, owning an AL-best 1.05 ERA through play Sunday, but said that he understood having each team represented on the roster probably worked against him.
"It could have," Robertson said. "We've got a lot of great players on this team. Those other guys are getting to go, and I hope they have fun, I hope they have a good time and I hope they win."
Having already decided the starters, this week baseball fans will have the opportunity to select the final player on each All-Star team. Balloting began immediately following Sunday's Major League All-Star Selection Show presented by Taco Bell and continues until 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 7. The winners will be announced on MLB.com shortly thereafter.
Mobile voting in the U.S. is exclusive to Sprint, Nextel and Boost subscribers. To receive the 2011 All-Star Game Final Vote Sponsored by Sprint mobile ballot, text the word "VOTE" to 1122. To vote for a specific player, simply text message your choice to 1122. EXAMPLE: Text "A3" to vote for AL Player 3 or "N3" to vote for NL Player 3. Msg&Data Rates May Apply. Mobile voting in Canada is open to all carriers; fans should text their choices to 88555. Standard rates may apply.
On July 12, fans once again will have the opportunity to participate in the official voting for the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player presented by Chevy via the 2011 All-Star Game MVP Vote Sponsored by Sprint on MLB.com during the All-Star Game.
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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NS, which owns the route pending a sale to Michigan, will employ crews to begin work on Monday that will allow resumption of original passenger rail speeds. NS will work through April 19, but Amtrak train service will be affected or cancelled, with some bus substitution offered, in order to facilitate ongoing work.
NS imposed the restrictions on March 15, noting at the time it had given advance warning to both MichDOT and Amtrak on the move.
Amtrak Vice President of Government Affairs and Corporate Communications Joe McHugh, addressing Railway Supply Institute members at Amtrak's Washington, D.C., headquarters Thursday, says Amtrak looks forward to Michigan's purchase of 135 miles of the route, adding to Amtrak's own portion from Kalamazoo to Porter, Ind., already operating trains at 110 mph speeds.
Amtrak expects ridership to increase significantly in Michigan, though McHugh acknowledged congestion on the route between Porter, Ind., and Chicago remains problematic for the railroad.
Michigan DOT has filed with the Surface Transportation Board for an Acquisition Exemption to acquire NS right-of-way totaling roughly 135 miles.


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Glancing through the contents list my orbs fell across the eye-catching title: "An Interview with Clive 'Max' Maxfield"
A funny thing happened to me this morning. When I arrived at my office, there in the mail were two copies of the May 2013 issue of Circuit Cellar magazine. The reason this was a bit of a surprise is that I'm not a subscriber to this magazine (I should note that I have tremendous respect for Circuit Cellar, it's just that I no longer have the time to read everything I would like).
The real surprise came when I glanced through the contents list (as you do) where on page 48 my orbs fell across the eye-catching title: Engineer, Author and Innovator: An Interview with Clive "Max" Maxfield.
Do you know; I'd completely forgotten all about this. The thing is that Circuit Cellar is still predominantly a print magazine (with an associated online edition), and the lead-time for print is several months, so the fact that they'd interviewed me a while back had completely slipped my mind. (Click Here to see an online version of the full interview.)
As an aside, one of my tasks when I worked for Intergraph Computer Systems in the late 1990s was to hand-deliver computer systems to magazines for review. We'd discovered to our cost that if we simply shipped a machine, it would sit on a shelf for several weeks, then be brought down and tested in a rush. Even worse, the reviewers would often take the covers off the computers they were testing. This was unfortunate in our case, because our machines came equipped with a safety cut-off that prevented the machine from being powered up when the cover was off (unless you knew how to by-pass the cut-off).
There's nothing quite like reading a review saying your machine was "dead on arrival" when it was the reviewer's fault for not reading the instructions. By hand-delivering our machines, I could walk the reviewers through this sort of feature, noting points like the fact that having a safety interlock on the power system to stop users from electrocuting themselves was actually a good thing.
The point of these meandering musings is that this was still during the heyday of print magazines. The issue containing the review typically wouldn't hit the streets for 12+ weeks after we'd loaned the machine to the magazine. Oftentimes, when readers called Intergraph to purchase machines they'd just read about, we had to inform them that we no longer produced that particular model (instead we had something that was faster and cheaper).
But we digress what were we talking about? Oh yes, the fact that I'd been interviewed so long ago that I'd forgotten all about it. When I read this article I thought to myself "Wow what an interesting fellow I am." Even better, research shows that reading something with which you agree makes you feel better and happier, and I agree with everything I said in my interview, so I feel really happy :-)
The best thing will be when my mother opens the copy I'm going to send her in the post. She's inordinately proud of me and loves telling her little old lady friends how wonderful I am, so she will be able to "dine out" at the hairdressers for months on this (grin).
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