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Fans can share Draft takes on Twitter
MLB.com integrating application into interactive experience
By Lisa Winston / MLB.com
The social networking application that has taken "immediacy" to new heights will be used to its maximum advantage leading up to -- and during -- Major League Baseball's 2009 First-Year Player Draft.
MLB.com has launched the first online "social community" integration of the Draft by integrating Twitter into its expanding live interactive media experience, the Draft Caster, and its searchable Draft database, the Draft Tracker.
1 WAS: S. Strasburg
2 SEA: D. Ackley
3 SD: D. Tate
4 PIT: J. Sanchez
5 BAL: M. Hobgood
6 SF: Z. Wheeler
7 ATL: M. Minor
8 CIN: M. Leake
9 DET: J. Turner
10 WAS: D. Storen
11 COL: T. Matzek
12 KC: A. Crow
13 OAK: G. Green
14 TEX: M. Purke
15 CLE: A. White
16 ARI: R. Borchering
17 ARI: A. Pollock
18 FLA: C. James
19 STL: S. Miller
20 TOR: S. Jenkins
21 HOU: J. Mier
22 MIN: K. Gibson
23 CWS: J. Mitchell
24 LAA: R. Grichuk
25 LAA: M Trout
26 MIL: E. Arnett
27 SEA: N. Franklin
28 BOS: R. Fuentes
29 NYY: S. Heathcott
30 TB: L. Washington
31 CHC: B. Jackson
32 COL: T. Wheeler
36 LAD: A. Miller
72 NYM: S. Matz
75 PHI: K. Dugan
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MLB.com will offer live coverage and analysis of the entire First-Year Player Draft, beginning Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET. The MLB Network will broadcast the first round on Tuesday evening from its Studio 42 in Secaucus, N.J., and those 32 selections also will be simulcast live on MLB.com.
Beginning with the 33rd pick, up-to-the-minute on-air coverage from the remaining rounds will shift exclusively to MLB.com/Live, where host Vinny Micucci will be joined by MLB.com Draft expert Jonathan Mayo and Major League Scouting Bureau director Frank Marcos.
Once the first night is done, the Draft will continue with rounds 4-30, via conference call from MLB Headquarters in New York, at noon ET on Wednesday. Rounds 31-50 will be on Thursday, starting at 11:30 a.m.
As the Draft gets under way on Tuesday -- and even before then, in fact -- fans will not only be able to follow along every minute of the way online, but they'll be able to interact directly with Draft-eligible players and MLB.com Draft experts, among others.
The Draft Caster itself will allow fans to watch the entire first day of the Draft, with direct access to a searchable database of all eligible players, which will include biographical information, stats, scouting reports and, in many cases, video.
It will also, however, feature the addition of Twitter, and the participation of "tweeters" such as MLB.com Draft expert @JonathanMayoB3, who will also be serving as on-air talent for all three days of the Draft; and reporter @LisaWinstonMLB, who will be writing the up-to-the-minute coverage for MLB.com.
In addition, MLB.com has created a Twitter account devoted to the Draft, where you can stay updated on every piece of info as it becomes available (@MLBDraft).
Even more revolutionary, though, will be the online Twitter presence of some of the top prospects in the Draft, who will keep fans updated on their own personal experiences. Among the potential first-round picks already registered and "tweeting:"
@Michael_Trout: Mike Trout, a five-tool high school outfield slugging sensation from Millville, N.J., whose stock has steadily risen this spring.
@DrewStoren: Stanford University closer Drew Storen, a Draft-eligible sophomore right-hander viewed as the most Major League-ready reliever in the bunch.
@JacobMarisnick: Jake Marisnick, a toolsy outfield prospect from southern California who is considered one of the best athletes in the Draft.
@Eric_Arnett: A big strong quick-rising right-hander out of Indiana who is making Hoosier waves as a mid-round first rounder.
When asked to participate in the innovative event, Marisnick agreed immediately.
"I thought it would be pretty cool, a neat experience to get out there and let people know what I was going through," said Marisnick, who has been one of the most active participants since the launch, despite being a newcomer to Twitter. "It's pretty simple, you just let everyone know what you're doing, what you're thinking about. It's a good way to keep in touch with others."
Perhaps the biggest "challenge" to Twitter is the need to restrict your "tweets" (comments) to a 140-character maximum, though there is no limit to the number of "tweets" you can post.
"You have to think about how to word what you want to say, to keep it short and to the point," said Marisnick, whose schedule is pretty busy these days with his high school graduation on Monday followed by the Draft on Tuesday.
"It will be cool on Draft day to be able to Twitter and let people know how I'm feeling," Marisnick said.
Anyone with an internet connection and e-mail address can sign up for Twitter (www.twitter.com) at no cost and join the fun immediately.
And if you want to make sure your own "tweets" are displayed on the MLB.com Draft Caster and Tracker over the course of the three-day Draft, all you have to do is include the reference code "#mlbdraft" within your message.
MLB.com's coverage will also include on-demand Draft recap video programs for all 30 clubs, live video look-ins to Draft 'war rooms' of select Major League clubs, interviews with Hall of Famers, club dignitaries and Draftees; scouting video of more than 700 of the Draft-eligible prospects, photo galleries from the Draft and Draft history dating back to its 1965 inception.
Lisa Winston is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Dewey was born Dec. 13, 1933, in Biscoe to Dewey Mallett and Mae Dixon Mallett, who preceded him in death. He graduated from Russellville High School in 1952, where he was a member of the football team. He married the love of his life, Shirley Wagner Mallett, on Dec. 2, 1955.
After serving in the U.S. Army in Germany and a brief stay in California, Dewey moved his family home to Russellville. He was an integral part of the development of the Pope County Emergency Services and served as Director of the Pope County Ambulance Service from 1967 to 1981. During some of those years, he volunteered his time and service to serve the River Valley as the Pope County Coroner. After resigning, he worked at Transco Trucking (TLI) and was awarded multiple customer service awards for his time and dedication to the company. He was blessed to work at TLI with his dear friends Zella Harrell and Tim Harrell. He retired in 2003. Dewey was passionate about Razorback Football and enjoyed all sports.
He is survived by Shirley Mallett, his wife of 55 years; two daughters, Jacque Carruth and husband Phil of Fayetteville and Jennifer Mallett-DeVore of Dallas, Texas; two grandsons, David Stork and Christopher Stork of Fayetteville; cousin, Billie Bailey and husband Ten of Russellville; and special friends, Kathy Gyles of Fayetteville, Steve Stork of Gassville and Tommy Hickey of Russellville.
The family welcomes you to Humphrey Funeral Home for a visitation in celebration of Dewey's wonderful life on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, from 10 a.m. to noon.
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I want to add to my finished quilt that already has the binding. This was my first quilt Queen size. I want to add a 10" row all around to hang down over the sides. I have the rows put together but have been trying to figure out how to add without removing the binding. Has anyone every tried to do this? Any help would be wonderful!
I don't think it would work well if you don't remove the binding. Even at that, it is going to be a tricky process. I personally wouldn't tackle it without taking off the binding.
Hi Kathy it is nice to meet you. I hope to see more of you..
BTW, I would agree with Jeanine about your quilt.
Life is like a quilt...bits & pieces, joy & sorrow, stitched with love
hi kathy, welcome to the group. you have the rows together, does this mean the top is not quilted? the binding isn't usually added to the top, until it is quilted. if the top isn't quilted yet, you will need to remove the binding anyway, to quilt it.
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Personally, I would take the binding off. If you tried anything else, you'd end up regretting it. Hopefully the quilt will be around for a long time, so you may as well spend the time making it how you really want it. Just for the sake of a few extra hours. It'll be worth it!
Post us a picture when you've finished it!
Happy stitching, Lindsey, Norfolk, UK
Absolutely take off the binding. You will not be happy if you don't. There will be this big lump all the way around the quilt. As for adding the extra fabric, that is something that most certainly be done after the binding is removed. T.V. time is a great time for this. Once you have the binding removed you can add your top piece, batting and backing at the same time. Do the sides of the quilt first and then the top and bottom just like doing regular borders. You can sew it on or serge it on. I have done this before with the serger and it works very well. You have probably seen quilt as you go quilts. This would be the same process. Once you have the extra borders added. Do a little quilting in them and re-add your binding.
I laid the top piece face down on the top of my quilt and laid the batting piece on top of that, which is larger than the top piece I'm adding. I then placed the backing piece, which would be the same as the batting, facedown on the back of the quilt, serged or machine stitched it on. Unfolded it, added the next side, unfolded it and then added the top and bottom. The reason I laid the batting on the top is so it would feed through the machine without getting caught in the feed dogs. Quilt, bind and on the bed it goes. Hope I'm making sense. Let us know how it works.


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Turiaf is exactly what the doctor ordered.
You guys are getting a good streak and Amare gets a T...
Congrats on your expensive cry-baby
low scoring game, too bad Blazers already won.
Blazers played HORRIBLY in the 2nd quarter and its a tie game.. HHAHAHAH
Wilson Chandler increasing his trade value for a Melo trade?
You guys are so shortsighted. Chandler will come back down to earth. He's providing the spark we need right now. Things will balance out.
Bill Walker having a huge 4th for us.
But where is Amar'e and Wilson now? We had a 9 point lead... now down to 3. GULP!
Money quarter..... Felton wants this home opener win
Landry Fields is playing like a NBA veteran
Felton is really good. Thas the way a NY point guard should play.
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Author Notes: I had a package of miso that I bought for a particular recipe sitting in my fridge for a while. I never used it for anything else and wanted to use it up before it went bad, so for a few weeks I went on a kick of "what else can I put miso in?". I thought tomato and miso might be an odd combination, but they taste suprisingly good together. —VanessaS
Serves 6
- 1 1/2 pounds assorted cherry and pear tomatoes
- 3 green onions, white and light green parts only, very thinly sliced.
- 1 inch piece of ginger, grated
- 1 tablespoon hacho miso
- 1 teaspoon shoyu
- 1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1 sheet of nori, cut into 3 inch lengths and then thinly sliced
- Halve the tomatoes and place in a medium bowl with the green onions.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the ginger, miso, shoyu, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, and lemon juice. Toss the tomatoes with the dressing and fold in the nori slices.
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The Braves got two homeruns, a stolen base and an unearned run. Miami Marlins starting pitcher Jacob Turner threw in an intentional walk, an unintentional walk, an error and beaned Dan Uggla for good measure. And that was all in just the first inning.
All the action kept the Braves Waffle House winning streak rolling in impressive fashion as Brandon Beachy helped Atlanta to its 14th straight win. The Braves are now 71-45 and 39-15 at home.
Justin Upton got things started early. Batting second, the Braves big man took a 2-2 pitch out to left field for a solo shot, his 22nd of the season. The homer extended Upton's hitting streak to 13 games, the fourth longest streak of his career and the longest since a 14-game run in 2011.
Not to be left out of the first inning action, Freddie Freeman and Brian McCann each reached base and were driven in by Chris Johnson. McCann's run was unearned as he reached base on a fielding error charged to Donovan Solano, who also failed to tag Freeman out at second. Two pitches later Johnson laid into a whopper in the middle of the plate.
While the scoreboard will be more kind, Turner got beaten up pretty badly by the Braves. The 22 year old surrendered only five hits in five innings with five strikeouts, but was also charged with four earned runs, three walks and three homeruns.
Turner's night was ended early, or right on time, in the fifth inning. Juan Pierre pinch hit for the struggling pitcher in the sixth.
Brandon Beachy, on the other hand, pitched lights-out, going eight innings and allowing only three hits and one run, with six strikeouts on 99 pitches. He threw 32 balls and 67 strikes. When Turner got the yank, having thrown 96 total pitches (43 balls and 53 strikes), Beachy hadn't even crossed 70. The win is Beachy's first of the season, giving Atlanta another undercover threat as they march toward the postseason.
The Braves went on to win the game, 5-0, with Scott Downs coming on in the ninth for Beachy. Luis Ayala closed the game out for the Braves, getting the game's final two outs.
There were dueling Web Gem Top Plays from Braves super shortstop Andrelton Simmons and Miami's Adeiny Hechavarria too.
Friday night's 7:30 game time – with a first pitch temperature of 89 degrees – was a one-off for the series. Saturday night's game against Miami is expected to start at 7:00 p.m and Sunday's first pitch is expected at 1:30.


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Ooh! Vacuum Tubes Lit With Tri-Colored LEDs
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I have just taken possession of a box of the most amazing old vacuum tubes; you will not believe your eyes!
Sit down and prepare to be flabbergasted. I have news so exciting that I can barely bring myself to speak of it. In my earlier blog on my Ultra-Macho Prognostication Engine project, I mentioned the idea of mounting vacuum tubes on top of the engine and then lighting them from underneath with tri-colored LEDs. The following mock-up gives a rough idea as to what I was thinking:
Now, I have a huge bag of non-functional small vacuum tubes I could use, but we really need something more grandiose for this project. Originally, I had toyed with the idea of using the 12-inch-tall antique vacuum tube I have in The Pleasure Dome (my office) as shown below:
When push came to shove, however, I simply could not bring myself to take this little beauty out of its transportation frame. Thus it was that last Friday, on the way into work, I popped into Mock Electronics (a store so amazing that describing it as "An Eclectic Emporium of Electronic Elements" fails to do it justice).
My hope was to find a really large tube to act as the centerpiece of the display, and indeed I found an absolute beauty -- a monster in size, with an outgrowth of glass on one side, jam-packed with strange and wondrous internal structures. The only problem occurred when I turned this beauty over and discovered its $275 price tag. Once I'd regained consciousness, and various nervous twitches and tremors were under control, I moved on to see if there was anything I could actually afford. You can only imagine my surprise and delight to discover a box of rather interesting 500W bulbs (only a few dollars apiece), one of which is shown below:
I should have placed a ruler next to this bulb when I took this image, but I forgot, so you'll just have to take my word that it's approximately 4.5" in diameter. When I arrived at my office, I took this bulb to show to my chum Ivan, and we whipped it onto the test bench and powered it up. At about 21 volts, the filament gives a very satisfying red glow. That's not what we're seeing here, however, because the filament isnt being powered in the above image.
Observe the faint rainbow-colored lights at the bottom of the bulb -- just where the base of the bulb goes into a hole I cut in the top of a cardboard box, which is acting as a poor man's prototyping platform. For this first test, I connected four of Adafruit's Flora NeoPixels. (These were kindly sent to me some time ago by EE Times Chief Community Editor Caleb Kraft.)
Unfortunately, the above photo doesnt do this justice. It looks a lot better in real life. Here's a slightly better image with the room's main lights turned off:
Once again, even this image doesnt really convey what this looks like to the human eye, which is a sort-of aurora borealis-type effect as shown below:
Having said all of this, even though the effect I've achieved thus far is rather tasty, it really doesnt stand out enough in bright light. This led me to conceive a cunning plan. Have you seen that glass-etching cream you can get from places like Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and Wal-Mart? The idea is that you first apply some sort of stencil to your glass (painter's masking tape will do), and then use this cream to etch the glass leaving a frosted effect as shown below:
This explains why I was to be found roaming around Michaels yesterday purchasing a jar of this cream. My idea is to frost the top and bottom of my bulb, leaving a wide stripe around the middle unfrosted so that we can still see the glowing filament. I think that this frosting will act as a display screen that captures the light from the LEDs and makes the overall effect much more interesting.
In turn, this explains why this morning on the way into work I once again headed down to Mock Electronics to purchase some more of these bulbs to play with, and I did indeed pick up three more (better safe than sorry) as shown below:
I'm still planning on performing my glass-etching experiments this evening, just to see what will happen. I'm sure these bulbs will find a home in future projects. Unfortunately, I have to say that I no longer plan to use them as part of my Ultra-Macho Prognostication Engine. Why? Well, as soon as I walked through the front door, the folks at Mock Electronics said "Guess what we've discovered hidden away in the depths of the store?" And then they whipped out a box of the most amazing old vacuum tubes as shown below:
OMG! Can you imagine what these will look like on top of the Ultra-Macho Prognostication Engine when they are illuminated from inside with tri-colored LEDs. There is a slight problem (isnt there always?). I dont want to do anything that could potentially damage these tubes -- not that they are actually capable of performing their original function, you understand, but I dont want to crack the glass. Fortunately, I do have a cunning plan... which we will discuss in a future column.
In the meantime, what do you think about these new tubes? You have to agree that they are going to look absolutely amazing on top of the Prognostication Engine.
Related posts:
- Soldering Course & Competition at EE Live! 2014?
- Creating an Inamorata Prognostication Engine, Part 1
- Fixing a Small Gotcha With Adafruit's NeoPixels
- Introducing REX: The Brain for Robots
- Creating an Inamorata Prognostication Engine, Part 2
- I Love Adafruit's RGB LCD Shield Kit
- Ultra-Macho Prognostication Engine, Part 1


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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Posted by Steven Seidman at 7:11AM | 3 comments
The best exhibition of Barack Obama campaign posters is in the Dominican Republic. Titled "The Art as Political and Policy of Art," the exhibition was organized by the Barna Business School, and includes 50 posters from a private collection. According to Diario Social, the show "seeks to validate the importance of design in communication strategy and how artists are key elements in any political revolution...."
[Thanks to Jason Urban of PRINTERESTING for publicizing this exhibition and posting the YouTube video of the poster gallery, for those of us who can't make it down to the D.R.]


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Astros set out to be 'most improved' in 2014
By Joe Morgan / Special to MLB.com
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- No team won fewer games in 2013 than the Astros.
In fact, no team had lost as many games as last year's Astros since the Arizona Diamondbacks finished with an identical 51-111 record in 2004.
But manager Bo Porter's club has a new distinction in mind as the team held its first full-squad workout of Spring Training.
"It's our goal to be the most improved team in Major League Baseball," Porter said. "And I believe, collectively as an organization, we have the group together, and we can actually accomplish that.
"We want to be the most improved team as far as the win-loss column goes."
The path to that improvement is a focus on attitude. Numerous signs in the Astros clubhouse in Kissimmee drive home the message.
One sign reads, "W.I.N. -- What's Important Now." Another says, "The Process." A large pinwheel lists the qualities of winning teams in numerous panels, two of which include a picture of the Commissioner's Trophy.
Houston wants to build toward a championship.
"The players can kind of sense that there's something special happening here," Porter said. "We're all going to hold each other accountable to see the vision come true. It just means being accountable and being professional."
Numerous signs also recognize the Astros' 2005 National League championship, and Roger Clemens, Roy Oswalt and Morgan Ensberg were at camp Thursday.
Pitching prospect Mark Appel said the team even watched video of Houston's NL Championship Series victory against the St. Louis Cardinals.
"The atmosphere the Astros had at home, just how dynamic it was," Appel said, "Houston is a baseball town."
The Astros want to give their town a winner. The club made efforts to surround its youth with talented veterans this offseason by adding outfielder Dexter Fowler, starter Scott Feldman and relievers Jesse Crain and Chad Qualls.
Porter believes winning begins with the people in the clubhouse. Talent alone will not secure players a roster spot come April.
"You're at work 24 hours a day," Porter said. "Everything that you go out and you do, you're representing the Houston Astros. The vision is simple. The vision is to consistently compete for a championship each and every year.
"From a player's standpoint, when we evaluate you and we grade you, we're looking at the whole person. We're saying, 'Can this person help us accomplish our vision?'"
The philosophy of responsibility both on the diamond and in the clubhouse has trickled down from management to the prospects. First baseman Jonathan Singleton believes Houston can be competitive this season. The goal stands. More wins than last year's team and more improvement than any other team in the Majors. The Astros know the odds are stacked against them. They are ready to face those odds.
"We've had a couple of rough years, and hopefully I can be a part of the solution, but it's not just going to be me," Appel said. "It's going to be every guy in that clubhouse. I firmly believe that we're a team that can go out and shock some people."
"We're all willing to go out there and get our uniform dirty and hopefully come out with the 'W,'" Singleton added. "There's not much that we expect others expect of us. More or less, we just go out there and play hard and have fun."
MRI reveals Crain has strained right calf
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Jesse Crain's MRI results came back on Thursday and revealed his right calf injury suffered on Tuesday is a strain. Astros manager Bo Porter, who announced the results prior to the team's pre-workout stretching, said there's no timetable for Crain's return.
"It's just a strain, and he will continue to work with the training staff, and they'll keep me abreast of his progress," Porter said.
Even before receiving the news that his injury was just a strain, Crain felt good on Thursday morning, saying he did not believe the injury was "anything too major."
"It's getting better, but I don't know how fast [recovery] is going to be," Crain said. "But it's a little easier to walk on today, so that's a good sign."
The right-handed reliever, who is wearing a walking boot, suffered the strain while stepping onto a box during a workout in the weight room on Tuesday.
"It's something I definitely wasn't planning on," Crain said. "It's something that just happened. There was nothing leading up to it or any kind of warning. It just went out on one thing. It's frustrating, but you've just got to keep on moving forward. I've had stuff like this before, so just try to keep a positive attitude and get better."
The Astros signed Crain to a one-year deal on Dec. 31 to help add a veteran presence to their bullpen. In 46 appearances with the White Sox last season, he posted a 0.74 ERA in 37 innings. Crain was traded to the Rays on July 29, but he never threw a pitch for American League East runners-up.
Although the calf strain is a setback, Crain hopes to press forward without much issue.
"As long as I can get some kind of throwing in and keep my arm there, I don't think it's going to cause too much of a problem," Crain said.
Appel tosses first bullpen after appendectomy
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- A January appendectomy brought Mark Appel more than pain. It brought him perspective.
"I don't want to say an appendectomy is a good thing, but it really gave me time to just think about the things I need to accomplish at Spring Training," Appel said. "Laying down in bed for a couple of days just really helped me prepare myself mentally for what to expect and just the stuff that I need to do."
On Thursday, Appel went through his first bullpen session this season. He fired 22 pitches from a mix of the wind-up and the stretch on the mound.
"I was going to end on the 21st one, but it wasn't a good pitch," Appel joked. "So I threw one more."
Appel felt good following the exercise. He said the soreness he felt was nothing more than the standard that comes with bullpen sessions.
"It felt great," Appel said. "I love getting to pitch, and I love getting to go out there and compete. I know I wasn't competing against a hitter today, but I was just competing against myself."
Before his bullpen session on Thursday morning, Appel said he was feeling "80-85 percent" recovered from his appendectomy. Following the conclusion of the day's workouts, Appel is not sure when he will throw again.
"I think I'll feel good," Appel said of possibly pitching another bullpen session on Friday. "We have one of the best training staffs in the country, so I'm sure that they'll get me ready and I'll put in the work to be ready for [Friday] and see what the day has in store for me."
Appel, the No. 1 overall pick in last year's MLB First-Year Player Draft, has a large legacy to live up to in Houston. Luckily, two of the men who cast that long shadow -- Roger Clemens and Roy Oswalt -- were in Kissimmee on Thursday.
Clemens has proven especially helpful to Appel, advising the 22-year-old to stay focused in the face of distractions both during Spring Training and the regular season.
"It's amazing having Roger Clemens here at camp, just the amount of knowledge he has about the game," Appel said. " … He's just a passionate guy. He loves this game. He loves Houston, and he loves the Astros. That's really cool being a part of the Astros.
"He's really rooting for us. He's in our corner. I think it's just so cool that even though he's retired, he's making himself available to whoever wants to talk to him."
In a young 2014 that has already seen Appel rub shoulders with Clemens and undergo an appendectomy, all while owning the status of one of baseball's hottest prospects, the Stanford grad from the state where everything is bigger knows that his path to the big leagues is paved with the small things.
"Months down the road, years down the road, the stuff I do right now in these times that don't seem important is really going to define me," Appel said.
Oswalt lends a hand at full-squad workout
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- On April 5, the Astros will celebrate their past with a special ceremony honoring former franchise stars Roy Oswalt and Lance Berkman. The duo will sign one-day contracts and officially retire as Astros.
But during his visit to Houston's first full-squad workout day on Thursday, Oswalt wanted to celebrate the club's future.
"I think it's just a matter of time before they put a winning team on the field, for sure," Oswalt said. "The guys have grown."
Oswalt has also grown from being one of the best pitchers in baseball to a mentor.
He recently spoke to the Mississippi State University baseball team at the school's "First Pitch" banquet in early February, and although Oswalt is only assisting the Astros in an unofficial capacity for now, he can envision himself coaching down the road.
"I don't want to get too far away from [baseball]," Oswalt said. "I'm doing some things here and there with some guys back at Mississippi State. It's fun just being around it. I like the young part of it, the guys coming up. [I tell them] kind of what to expect and how to adapt to the big leagues."
Oswalt is not the only former Astros starting pitcher at camp. Roger Clemens has worked with some of Houston's pitchers in Kissimmee, a presence Astros manager Bo Porter welcomes.
Former infielder Morgan Ensberg was also with the team on Thursday.
"It's great to have all those guys stop by," Porter said. "I've said this to all of them. We want them around as much as possible. I know a lot of them have busy schedules, but our door is completely open.
"They are a part of our family, and it's always good for our players to get an opportunity to talk to the guys that have laid the foundation around here of some great teams."
Joe Morgan is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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It all started with the wine last night — a dark red, with cherry and chocolate notes. The chocolate I can take or leave, but cherry…cherry is my flavor, and it reacted with the phlegmy mass building up in my sinuses to leach cherry dreams into my brain. This damned cold made my sleep fitful, as well, so unlike my usual nights, when I sleep deeply and blissfully so my dreams all dissipate before they pass into my awareness, I drifted shallowly in the Lethe, my head bobbing above the surface, and I remembered all, a rare experience.
Weird thing, most of the dreams I remember have salmon in them, as does this one. But it's not got much salmon. It's mostly about the cherry trees. OK, maybe a fair amount of salmon.
When I was young, I lived in the Green River Valley, which was appropriately named. There was the valley floor, which ran mostly north-south and was flat and rich-soiled and mostly used for agriculture, and there were the valley walls which rose abruptly and steeply to either side. I was a rambling boy, and I would hike all over back roads and through farmers' fields and into little patches of wildness, and the Green River was a constant feature — it twisted and looped through the valley, and on any good stroll you'd be crossing it multiple times.
The Green was a beautiful river, deep and slow, and a good contemplative river. I was often content just to stand on its banks or a bridge and watch the mysteries of its surface, the eddies that roiled it and drifted downstream to disappear, the strange pockets and bulges that would appear on the gray-green surface and wander about. On the edges you'd find small fish darting about, and crayfish, and hellgrammites, and wicked little dragonfly larvae, and water striders and water boatmen. In deeper water, the steelhead lurked with their unwelcome cousins, the suckerfish. It was a fine river to savor.
The farmers' fields weren't as uniform as you might think, either. This was the Pacific Northwest, so it rained and it was wet, and every field was dappled with small ponds that might dry up in July or August, but most of the time were filled with shallow water, just enough to dissuade the farmers' plows. So there'd be a field of corn or lettuce or cauliflower and in its center, a decades old depression that had never been harrowed or cut, hallowed by an attending ring of trees and brush and blackberry brambles (always the blackberries, which would rise up on any neglected patch). The ponds were a haven for cattails and ducks.
There were also feeble little streams trickling towards the river — they were tiny, maybe a few inches wide, but frequent. They were wetter than you'd think for their dimensions, though: they would be surrounded by mud flats a dozen or twenty feet wide, a glistening surface speckled with skunk cabbage and pitcher plants and other odd fleshy members of the vegetable kingdom, overshadowed with gloom by all the trees rising up around them. You did not walk there unless you wanted to risk losing a boot to the sucking mud.
Another bane of the farmers, I'm sure, were infrequent eruptions of boulders. This valley had been carved by glaciers and the erosion of the river, but it's flat surface had also been built up by mud flows from the volcanoes of the Cascades, and in a few places you'd find rocky outcrops that again, refused the plow. These were drier, with a different flora: the ubiquitous blackberries, of course, but also tangled nets of deadly nightshade and morning glories. I'd poke around the edges, but they were impenetrable.
But I'm just setting the stage. I dreamed about the cherry orchard.
In early to mid-summer, I'd often set course south on my rambles. I'd walk out of town, cross the Green River (of course, and perhaps stopping for a while to watch it placidly muscle its way downstream to the Sound), and walk along a narrow country road that paralleled the river on my left. There was never any traffic. It was always quiet. I'd pass a sleepy junkyard, its intimidatingly high fences softened by the vines growing over it and pulling it down. I'd walk past interminable borders of blackberries.
Then, a break in the brambles to the right, and a rutted gravel road leading under a railroad trestle. The trestle was old and dark and tarred, reeking of creosote, like a gateway into an industrial hell, but once you got past it, the road splayed out into the neglected cherry orchard. It was a strange place: all the trees were laid out in precise rows and ranks, abandoned soldiers standing at attention with arms reaching up to the sky. Because I'd often go there at twilight, I picture it now with a dark gray sky and pitch black trees.
But the orderliness was a relic. The tree branches were untended and had grown together in a matted tangle. Underfoot, the grass had grown high, but then twisted and curled into rabbit warrens. Rabbits would dart away as I walked through their grassy shanty town; I'd see deer wandering through the aisles of trees; once as I walked in I met a skunk walking out, and we made wary half circles around each other and succeeded in letting each other be.
Oh, and there were cherries.
I could reach up and just touch frequent bunches of them. In the dusk, they were all blackish-red, a dark devil's fruit, and I'd palp them gently to find the ones that were ripe, and pluck them one at a time. There was no hurry, they were plentiful. I'd put one in my mouth and just roll it around, round and firm and so smooth, and then when I'd bite into it, that rush of flavor and the tart sweet syrupy juice and pulp. It was a sensual and sensuous experience.
A few years later, when I first really kissed a girl, I was startled to think of those cherries: firm, muscular, smooth, slick. Overriding all my confused surprise and "whoa, that was nice" messages in my head, cherries echoed. If I'd been a Christian, it would have been a revelation that the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden was without a doubt a dark gnarled cherry tree, and that the fruit Satan encouraged Eve to pluck was small and cherry red and firm fleshed and juicy, and that the first bite would have been followed by very many other sins of the flesh. Wait, not sins: joys.
Mmmm, cherries.
In my cherry travels, I'd stroll through the orchard, sampling the delights, until I reached the far side, usually as it was getting dark, and I'd have to cross a few fences and grassy fields to reach a road running north, and I'd walk home, inevitably crossing the Green again.
But this was not just a lusty dream of the sensuous nature of the feral cherry. I remembered what happened to the orchard.
In those years, the small towns south of Seattle saw the behemoth slowly sending pseudopods up the river, and they saw an opportunity to grow rich. Over and over, I saw it: first, the signs would appear on the highway side of the fields: "Zoned Light Industrial", "Zoned Commercial". They were the first speckles of the disease.
Then would appear the concrete culverts and ditches and pipes. Good drainage in this country was good money. Familiar ponds and creeks would disappear, replaced by sheets of dried crazed cracked mud, the skunk cabbage turned to blackish stains, the dragonflies fled.
Then the bulldozers. Trees were shattered, brush cast into piles, the ground leveled and smoothed. Forms were pegged out on the ground, and concrete poured, then hoisted to make gray-walled boxes, roofed with sheet metal. They were dreary tombs that steadily replaced the living land. Landscaping was a matter of placing a rectangular patch of dirt and filling it with lawn…or often, low maintenance sheets of decorative white gravel. The interiors of these boxes smelled all the same, of carpet glue and dust, or perhaps embalming fluid and death; they were all lit with banks of fluorescent rods suspended from the bare metal trellis supporting the roof. The sounds you'd hear would be the whine of electric forklifts rolling about between racks of shelves, with perhaps some tinny, echoing country western ballad playing on someone's transistor radio.
This was the end. This was to be the fate of the orchard. When my father heard of this, he had a plan.
One evening, we drove to the orchard, the station wagon loaded with tools. We pulled into the rutted gravel road, stopped at the edge, and saw the instruments of doom to the side: a yellow bulldozer, a woodchipper, rows of trees reduced to stumps by chainsaws, trunks stacked like dead bodies in piles. We went to work with bow saws and long handled pruning shears, and we scavenged.
We gathered twigs. We cut wrist-thick branches into chunks. We harvested the discarded limbs of the trees, we scooped up the larger chips of cherry wood left by the machines. We worked into the dark beneath the light of the moon. We packed that car to the roof with the broken fragments of the orchard.
Little known fact, but my father was a wizard and an alchemist. He had a plan for a transformation — a plan that he would work on diligently for years.
Over time, he would fish and gather steelhead from the Green River — big muscular red-fleshed fish that he would expertly fillet into great slabs of meat. He would then chill water and use his alchemical arts to saturate it with salt and brown sugar and molasses, making a thick brown brine that we'd immerse the red meat in, darkening it, filling it with sweetness and saltiness. The fillets would soak for days.
Then, the magic: the smokehouse. This is where the cherry orchard was resurrected and transformed. The broken bits and pieces of cherry wood would smolder in the closed environment of the smokehouse for days, slowly cooking the salmon and infusing it with cherriness. Our yard would smell of smoke and cherries as the meat was slowly infused with the essence of the orchard, and the sugars caramelized and the flavors matured.
The end result? dark slabs of meat with rich complexity of taste, and threading through it all, a sweet hint of cherry. The orchard transmuted by my father's art! I would eat it with bare hands, tearing off a hunk of flaky meat, and savor it slowly, enjoying every morsel of flavor. This was the heart of my dream, that memory of fish and salt and cherry. For years I did this, consuming the orchard in this new way.
I only realized later that my father's magic could not have been limited to transforming trees into fish. The other part of his trick was transforming fish into boy. I was being suffused with the essence of my home, and I suspect that even now, if you could taste me, there'd be subtle undertones of river and pond, rain and alga-rich mud, salmon and smoke, and just the lightest note of cherry.
We all taste of place. I hope we're all delicious.


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Tulo, Choo win Player of Week Awards
Rox shortstop earns second straight Bank of America honor
By Bailey Stephens / MLB.com
It's the second consecutive award for Tulowitzki, who joins the Indians' Shin-Soo Choo as this week's Bank of America honorees.
Tulo's numbers over the past week are nothing short of mind-boggling. The All-Star launched six home runs over the week, including five in a three-game span at one point. With two homers on Saturday, Tulowitzki became just the third player in Major League history to hit 14 homers in a 15-game span, joining Albert Belle in 1995 and Barry Bonds in 2001.
"I don't have words to describe what we're seeing from Troy Tulowitzki," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said. "It's one thing to be hot. It's another thing to be in the zone like this guy is. But he has that type of mentality, and he loves this time of the year, going back to 2007 when he was just a kid. He's still at a very ripe age where he's at right now."
Perhaps, most importantly to the Rockies, Tulowitzki's stretch has spurred on the club. Entering play on Monday, the Rockies sat just 1 1/2 back in the National League West, largely in part to Tulo's bat.
Tulowitzki is enjoying one of the most prolific stints of his young career. With 10 games left in September, Tulo is just two RBIs from tying Mark Teixiera's total of 35 in 2005, the highest during the month since 1990.
"This stretch, this is something I'll always remember," Tulowitzki said. "It could get a little better, but at the same time, I might not play better my entire career. So, it's something I'll always remember. But for right now, I'm not done with this, so might as well try to keep on riding it out as long as I can."
It's not just at the plate where Tulo has put on a clinic, as the 25-year-old has made his presence felt on both sides of the ball. Tulowitzki leads NL shortstops in fielding percentage (.986) and slugging percentage (.590), setting him up to become the first to own both catagories since Jay Bell in 1993.
Tulo might be playing in another world right now, but Choo is putting up some impressive numbers of his own lately for the Tribe. The South Korean outfielder drove in an AL-best 11 runs last week.
Choo knocked four long balls over the seven-day span, including three in one contest on Sept. 17 against the Royals. His ability to spray the long ball to all fields frustrated Kansas City's attack.
"We tried everything [to get him out]," Royals catcher Brayan Pena said. "We came soft inside with a changeup, and he hit it out to right. We went hard and away with a two-seamer, not a bad pitch, and he hit it out to left. Then it was hard inside with a fastball."
With another homer and a stolen base two days later, Choo secured his second consecutive 20-homer, 20-steal season. Choo, though, wasn't concerned with his numbers of late.
"I had a good series," Choo said. "I feel better about my swing. The last 10 days, I was worried about striking out. I'm not worried anymore."
Bailey Stephens is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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EPA officials announced on Friday that their agency has allocated $100,000 to test and remediate homes on Leong Drive that could have unsafe levels of toxic vapors trapped inside.
Groundwater sampling in 2011 found trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination on the east side of Leong Drive under the site of a gas station, hotel and now-vacant Denny's restaurant. How it got there is still under investigation.
The announcement comes after attendees of a March 3 Wagon Wheel neighborhood meeting were shocked to learn of the toxics on Leong Drive -- when residents already were reeling from news about toxic vapors found in homes on Evandale Avenue. Environmental Protection Agency officials had said that there was no funding to do indoor air testing of homes in the area as a search for the polluters responsible was underway.
But after reports appeared in the Voice and other press coverage, that all changed last week.
"We got the word this week that we'll have the money," said Rusty Harris-Bishop, spokesperson for the EPA, in an interview on March 15.
"The fact there's no responsible parties in the area, that doesn't pose an impediment to us," said David Yogi, another EPA spokesperson. "Our priority is make sure people are safe and protected."
EPA officials are set to reach out to residents of the block bordered by Leong Drive, Winston Place, Evandale Avenue and Emily Drive. Indoor air tests are free and voluntary, but landlords must agree to them, according to EPA policy. So far, the EPA has been able to get permission from landlords in every case on Evandale Avenue, where over 30 homes have been tested near the Valley's largest Superfund site, polluted by original computer chip manufacturers including Intel, Fairchild and Raytheon.
"If they found high levels, especially in and around the house, my guess is we'd probably look to live somewhere else," said resident Shannon Bell, who lives with his wife across the street from the highest concentrations of TCE.
The EPA is ready to pay to install systems on the homes, if needed, that pull the vapors from underneath and vent them above the roof-line.
Bell also expressed concern about being able to eat from the orange tree in his backyard, though EPA officials have stressed that it's safe to eat vegetables and fruit grown in TCE contaminated soil.
Concentrations of TCE in groundwater were as high as 12,000 parts per billion (ppb) at the Leong Drive site, much lower than the 130,000 ppb hot spot found on Evandale late last year, where a large amount may have been dumped or found its way along a sewer line. The EPA's groundwater cleanup goal is 5 ppb.
Helen Esquivel said she had lived on the corner of Winston and Leong for 30 years, and had only heard of the toxics at nearby Moffett Field.
"I hadn't heard about it," she said, adding that she would be concerned "if it gets into the water." EPA officials have also stressed that the area's drinking water is safe from TCE contamination.
The nearest public drinking well to the site is at Creekside Park on Easy Street, south of Middlefield Road, and is closed for maintenance, said Gregg Hosfeldt, assistant public works director in Mountain View.
Esquivel said that the contaminated area across the street looks much the same as it did when she moved in. A gas station, hotel and restaurant building have been there ever since.
It is certainly a busy time in Mountain View for the EPA, after discovering potentially unsafe levels of TCE vapors late last year in two homes on Evandale Avenue near Whisman Road and in two large Google office buildings at 369 and 379 Whisman Road. While they may be busy, local EPA officials took offense to being characterized as "overwhelmed," as they were in a Voice editorial last week, suggesting that local Congressional representatives might have to help secure funds for indoor air testing.
"Our actions have demonstrated what we're able to do," Yogi said. "EPA does have emergency funding and other funding mechanisms." He added, "This is not an emergency action."
EPA indoor air project manager Alana Lee said the indoor air of the hotel has already been sampled. TCE concentrations found were "very low," Lee said, adding that the levels were lower than what was found in the outdoor air of the site.
Lee added that the groundwater sampling results showed TCE levels "dropping off" at the western edge of Leong Drive, indicating that the homes may not be at risk.
The EPA calls TCE a "carcinogen by all routes of exposure," including breathing its vapors. Inhalation can cause "hepatic, renal, neurological, immunological, reproductive, and developmental effects," the EPA reported in 2011 for its final health assessment of TCE. Pregnant women are particularly at risk from short term-exposures that can cause fetal heart defects, EPA toxicologists say.


text: I'm still hoping for the best, but just trying to look objectively and if the results were amazing I'm 99% sure it would've leaked by now. Hopefully they have at least some results comparable to Histogen or Aderans and, even if there are no results I'd expect them to try to make a positive spin on it because I'm sure they don't want to admit failure and would like to continue with research in this area. Hope they come through, or Histogen or another one do as well.


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Umps report verbal abuse by Halos
Scioscia denies staff acted improperly after Wednesday's loss
By Lyle Spencer / MLB.com
"That's absolutely wrong," Scioscia said following Thursday night's 4-3 Angels victory. "We had an emotional team. We respected their space. Nobody followed them up the stairway as they peeled off.
"It was an emotional clubhouse. Whatever they heard, a lot of it was not directed at them. It was guys venting along the lines of, 'You've got to be kidding.' There was no profanity."
Reed, the home-plate umpire on Wednesday, accused the Angels' coaching staff of verbally abusing the umpiring crew as it was leaving the field, according to the Boston Herald.
Reed, who issued a game-tying walk to pinch-hitter Nick Green in the bottom of the ninth on a 3-2 pitch from Brian Fuentes that the Angels were convinced was a game-ending strike three, said that a report and complaint had been sent to American League officials by the umpires.
Umpires at Fenway Park leave the field through the visitors' dugout tunnel, putting them in close contact with coaches and Scioscia, who felt the Angels had a game taken from them by calls favoring the Red Sox.
"Their deportment as we left the field, going through the Angels' dugout, left a lot to be desired," Reed told the Herald before Thursday night's series finale. "I will say this: I'm disappointed in the coaches. Coaches are usually the guys who try to stop any kind of friction that develops in the course of a game and afterward, but they were initiating last night, and I'm not pleased in the way they said things or in their presentation. I think Major League Baseball has been notified, and probably something will become of it, I don't know what."
Angels coaches had words with the umpiring crew before Scioscia intervened, according to Reed, whose praise for the manager was sparing.
"Mike made an attempt to quiet his coaches down," Reed said, "but he also made a comment that I thought incited the situation."
Scioscia, who said that the Angels also spoke with league officials, again flatly denied the accusation.
"What happened in the walkway is, we had a very emotional club upset with the way the game ended," he said. "We stopped -- kept everybody back -- to give them a buffer zone to get up.
"I made a quiet comment to Rick Reed. That's between him and me. If anything was instigated, it was [umpire] Mike Wegner coming back and confronting one of our coaches. If anything, it was a little lessening in professionalism by Mike Wegner that needs to be discussed."
Wegner was working at third base on Wednesday.
Referring to the behavior of the Angels coaches, Reed said it was "unprofessional and unbecoming of a professional team, that's how bad it was.
"We filed a report after the game, and I would think there will be a coach or two over there that would be regretting his actions today."
Pitching coach Mike Butcher appeared baffled by Reed's comments.
"I really don't know anything about that," Butcher said. "I was on the field while they were leaving."
As for the 3-2 pitch to Green that the Angels contended was clearly in the strike zone, Reed said that upon further review, "It very well could have been a strike. It was a pitch in the bottom of the strike zone."
Reed added that catcher Mike Napoli moved his glove up after he caught the pitch, which Reed interpreted as meaning that the ball was low.
Lyle Spencer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Welcome to another NEW YEAR.Since the past year has been very, busy with change, we thought an appropriate challenge for our talented shutterbugs would be a visual diary of how our life is different from our ancestors.
You are encouraged to provide your own photographs of things like:
Here is an old Pocket Watch I recently purchased at an Estate Sale.This item alone is something that has fallen into antiquity. However, the ornately cast design is that of an old Steam Railroad train; another thing that harkens from the distant past.
The idea of a Pocket Watch brings to mind days before the invention of "the horseless carriage". However, as I write this I realize that ANY watch - particularly analog versus digital - is a rarity today.We have so many electronic devices that constantly provide us a display of the time (in numeral format), it is unnecessary to wear a watch.Personally, I stopped wearing a watch when I began carrying a cell phone (15+ years ago)
A couple of pictures of Tiger Moths taken at the local airport Open Day last year. The cockpit controls are from the plane on the left.
This is the old... and I guess that you can imagine what's the new
That's a great picture, @molona. I love steam engines. That's one area where I regret "progress" - I'd much rather have steam (with soot and all) than a smelly diesel.
@TechnoBear; Thank you. I love them too and completely agree :agree:
My local record shop closed the other day.. unfortunately music stores, both small independents and national chains are closing in large numbers as people switch away from hard copies of music or buy online.
Ah,... EastCoast snuck a final photo in yesterday and a great one, too! This challenge ends now. Please vote in our poll. Results will be posted next Friday, Feb. 8.
Some good pics. Wasn't easy to choose the one I liked the most. But I did it.
Doesn't time fly, especially in a short month like February! Our winner this month is @Shaun_OfTheDead with @molona snapping at his heels. Great pictures, both of you. Thanks for entering and Congratulations Shaun!
Thank you!
And good job, everyone!
Now to find some dragons...
Wow, it's excellent. Thank you.
Congratulations @Shaun_OfTheDead;
You're a worthy winner and I don't mind losing against you :shifty:
And I wish you the best of luck... to find drangons... I've tried but I haven't had any luck to find anything Chinese related to the New Year... that is, something that I can take a picture of :lol:
Nice pics! The train is great.
So far I've gotten Chinese lions, doing a lion-dance. And I've gotten a man in a dragon costume at Carnival, but it doesn't look Chinese in anyway. So I'm stuck.
I love old steamy trains! Great picture.


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- Kengo Kuma YusuharaSet in the idyllic forested mountains of Kochi, Japan, The Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum combines traditional Japanese architecture with modernism. Designed by Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates, the slatted timber structure visually joins two existing buildings separated by a road. The cantilever structure also houses a workshop and modest accommodation for the museum.1
- Kengo Kuma Wooden Bridge MueseumAt first glance, the structure appears to be simply a bridge, fooling the eye into thinking there is no interior building within at all. Large timber beams criss-cross, building up the museum's base.2
- Kengo Kuma Wooden Bridge MueseumThe beams vary in length (they're shorter at the bottom) and gradually increase as the structure approaches the bridge walkway creating a triangular formation that reaches toward the ground.3
- Kengo Kuma Wooden Bridge MueseumThis shape also responds to the upward sloping of the surrounding mountains. The decreasing triangular form is unified and held strong with a support beam that holds court in the street between the two existing buildings.4
- Kengo Kuma Wooden Bridge MueseumEach end of the honeycombed wooden structure is met with rectangular glass towers, creating the effect that the bridge is floating. The glass towers house stairwells, but more importantly, make the deep colors of the surround evergreens visible through the building.5
- Kengo Kuma Wooden Bridge MueseumInside, the alternating beams of the exterior are repeated in the ceiling of the cavernous long hall. Each end is capped with glass walls and doors, filling the space with natural light.6
- Kengo Kuma Wooden Bridge MueseumThe exhibition rooms along the hallway also have glass doors, which draws in light from their interior into the hallway. The timber beams used within the interior show the natural wood grain, which ties the inside to the natural landscape which surrounds the building.7


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No One Really Wants to Be in Charge in Libya
NATO agreed on Thursday night to take complete command of military operations in Libya. Psych! NATO is only leading the part that involves flying jets around, while the U.S., France and the UK are stuck doing the "actual war stuff" (technical term).
So, "we" are all up in Libya now, with our planes and so forth, and by most accounts the action has been not a huge disaster, and maybe even reasonably successful at stopping the mass death of civilians. Hurrah? The thing is, "we" don't want to be in charge, because we are already waging six or seven other wars, and the pro-war political party is also anti-black president, and also, "the economy," or whatever. So let's just hand this bad boy over to NATO, take a step back, and say we cancelled out Vietnam, okay?
Except that, hold up, NATO doesn't really want to be in charge of Libya 2: The Legend of Qaddafi's Gold. Well, they're okay with taking command of the easy part—maintaining the no-fly zone, which now extends along the entire Libyan coast, and preventing the sale of arms to Qaddafi. (This is the part unlikely to result in civilian casualties.) But objections from NATO signatories Germany and Turkey over the scope of the U.N. resolution that allowed military action in the first place mean that the so-called "no-drive zone"—the aggressive airstrikes on Qaddafi's troops and certain military installations intended to stop the advance of ground troops—is still under the auspices of France, the United Kingdom, and... us. (Gosh, why is it so hard to convince people to enter into an open-ended campaign of airstrikes against a dictator in an oil-rich Arab country?)
Luckily, having two different military operations in the same country working under separate command structures is really safe and sensible, and is unlikely to lead to miscommunication, confusion, and dead people. (To be fair, war in general leads to miscommunication, confusion, and dead people.) So what's the plan? For now, we cross our fingers and hope it works. More negotiations are taking place, and the U.S. is putting pressure on Turkey and Germany to agree to a full NATO command, which would be best for a variety of reasons. But until then—hopefully, only a few more days—the weird hard part of this war thing is ours to share with France and the United Kingdom.


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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.—The only drama in this game: would Tyler Wilson play.
Well, the Arkansas star quarterback did not because of a concussion sustained last week, and that left the Hogs with little hope against top-ranked Alabama.
MORE: Live box score | Play-by-play
So by the time it was 24-0 late in the first half; by the time Alabama had twice intercepted Wilson's backups (that's right, I said backups, plural) and recovered a muffed punt to set up another score, the only uncertainty left was how many of the 70,000 fans would show up for the second half to sit through a steady rain – and bad football.
At least bad for Arkansas. For Alabama, it was more of the same. Run the ball with power, throw play action, make game-changing plays on defense. Eddie Lacy scored two touchdowns, and quarterback A.J. McCarron – who hasn't thrown an interception (much less made a mistake) this season – was nearly flawless.
Arkansas could do little with Brandon Allen and Brandon Mitchell rotating every play in place of the injured Wilson. An offense that had so much potential going into the season, had just 44 total yards.
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We must be tolerant of other cultures. This is a minor incident.
Nothing to lose your head over.
Come on PK, bring some of that Faith-Criticism here, where it truly belongs.17 partygoers beheaded by insurgents in Afghanistan
Published August 27, 2012
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan Insurgents attacked a large party in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan and beheaded 17 people, officials said on Monday.
The head of the local government initially said the victims were civilians at a celebration late Sunday involving music and dancing in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province. The official, Neyamatullah Khan, said the Taliban killed the party-goers for flouting the extreme brand of Islam embraced by the militants.
We must be tolerant of other cultures. This is a minor incident.
Nothing to lose your head over.
The Muslim version of Footloose?
Annother opportunity for a Standard Issue PK Religion Smackdown....passed by talking to me.
Guess you just got nothign to say on this one, PK. No worries. I am sure you'll get back to those evil Homophobic Mormons, a real instance of Religious Evil in our time.
Because you clearly used a thread to call out another poster...which is against the JI Platinum TOS.
You're insubordination has been reported.
In exchange...I promise to NOT start any threads that have to do with any current events in the section of the board for current events.
Funny, I thought I was making a comparison of one posters thread on a topic to another issue on the same topic, and inviting a compare/contrast about the importance and severity of those two issues in a socio-political forum
I assure you PK, any similarities to a "call out" are purely your imagaination. You'll have to forgive me that I was simply shocked we have yet to hear a critical word on the actual topic yet from you as yet, despite repeated replies aimed only at me......after all, you interject criticism of Christianity (at least) into threads that aren't even about religion.
I guess you find the things I choose to post of more interest than the topic, suprising, I must admit.
P.S. I am unbannable (and frankly, a ban might be good the way the strip is these days, dear lord the emo there is debilitating).
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this thread reminds me of EVERY conversation between a non-liberal and liberal:
non-liberal: so, we should really have voter ID laws. And we can make sure everyone gets an ID who should have one.
liberal: racist pig
non-liberal: ok then.
I must've missed the part where I called Fish a racist. Oh well.
Here's a video for your viewing pleasure:
If we lived in a Muslim country, then Islam would be talked about by us agnostics/atheists/secular folk instead of Christianity.
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek."


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Parents love choices. Proliferating brands, color palettes, communication media, and electronic options are only a few of the manifestations of our collective desire to be in charge of our choices. Not surprisingly, board members now face a significant increase in demands for school choice. Some of this increase in demand is fueled by federal funding incentives for charter schools; the recent $4 billion Race to the Top program gave preference to states with the least restrictive charter school legislation. A growing number of states permit parents to choose schools outside traditional attendance boundaries, and a few are permitting vouchers.
However, charters and vouchers are not the only ways for school systems to provide choices to stakeholders. This is important, because the demand for choice is propelled not just by political trends but by human nature. Parents often like expressing their choices of teachers, curriculum, assessment methods, homework, textbooks, and extracurricular activities, to name a few areas with increasing parental involvement.
While not every school system permits these choices, a growing number of schools are using choice to better engage parents and students. Board members and other education leaders should consider making the point that it is possible for parents to have meaningful choices without losing students to charter schools or private schools supported by publicly funded vouchers.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 5:45 PM
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One year as Contra Costa County supervisor
Original post made on Jul 11, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 5:45 PM
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a resident of Danville
on Jul 11, 2013 at 8:17 am
I have had some minor disagreements with Ms. Andersen, but over-all she is a fine public servant, and is a person the rest of the Board of Supes would do well to emulate.
a resident of Danville
on Jul 11, 2013 at 9:43 am
I pretty much agree with Rick Pshaw's comment, above. Ms. Anderson is maybe not quite as staunch a fiscal conservative as I'd prefer, but in fairness, her positions are reasonably conservative in light of the overall make-up of the County Board of Supervisors. Nudging in the right direction is probably the pragmatic approach.
Having the county employees' pension fund lower its anticipated rate of return from 7.75% to 7.25% is a good step in the right direction, even if it is vary arguably not enough. But it will serve to have a more conservative funding level for pensions, going forward.
I am more concerned, however, with elimination of pension-spiking methods, where there has been very little progress. I hope that Ms. Anderson will lead the charge, so to speak, in reducing and/or eliminating the pension-spiking abuses that are currently allowed. Being paid for unused vacation time is one thing. But you shouldn't be able to have the unused vacation time lump-sum payment count in your lifetime pension calculation. (As just one example of the pension spiking that goes on.) The basic pension formula for most county employees is already very generous, and far better than anyone receives in the private sector (if you even have a pension). The various pension-spiking methods (on top of the basic formula) are basically pouring salt on the wounds of the taxpayers.
a resident of Danville
on Jul 11, 2013 at 11:42 am
Danville Rotary is honored to have Supervisor Andersen as our guest speaker at our luncheon meeting on Monday, July 15th at Faz in downtown Danville at noon. If you are interested in learning more about the good work of Rotary and about Supervisor Andersen's perspective on the Board of Supervisors, please join us on Monday. Lunch is $15.
a resident of another community
on Jul 11, 2013 at 5:58 pm
Candace certainly has you fooled. She contradicts herself throughout the article and you didn't even catch it! Have any of you watched or been to a Board of Supervisors meeting?
Andersen is out of touch with the board and as a result hasn't accomplished much. In reality she is the most ineffective Board member in recent history.
What a waste.
a resident of Danville
on Jul 12, 2013 at 9:45 am
There will always be many "political views" on most anyone in an "elected public office." Actually seeing Supervisor Andersen "out working & active in our community" on a very regular weekly basis is positive. She is seen often out in the community "speaking" with those she represents. Just after taking office she was out supporting the Danville Veterans Memorial Building - the Fallen Heroes Memorial in Danville - at music concerts at Alamo's Lavornia Park on Fridays & Danville's Oak Hill Park - site of the All Wars Memorial... and even up in Crockett for an Armed Forces Day "Walk of Honor" for our Veterans. Clearly she is supporting those who proudly serve and have served our nation - from her district and others.
I am honored to be a small part of the legacy of those who proudly wore a uniform... providing the "freedom" for everyone else - to freely express their opinion! Supervisor Andersen is clearly an active part of our community - with both feet on the ground.
a resident of another community
on Jul 12, 2013 at 10:36 am
Very nice post GARFIELD, however my comments were based in fact, and directly have to do with Andersen's actual job performance, not her political showboating. We are all entitled to our own opinion, but not our own facts. Her policital activities are common place for those who seek political attention rather than actually working hard to reap results. Not only did she contradict her self in the article numorous times, she attempted to take credit for things she has had no vote in. Did she somehow sneak on the contra costa retirement board? (The answer is no, she has no vote) Web Link
Please do a little bit of homework before forming an opinion based on her attendance at community events, veteran affairs and social affairs. (That's what weak politicians do).
Thanks for your service GARFIELD and for the record, I wore a uniform too.
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From next week all non UK lorries will be subjected to a £10 per day tax. This is in retaliation by the Government for the taxes and tolls we have to pay in countries like France. The money is supposed to go towards road maintenance.
From next week all non UK lorries will be subjected to a £10 per day tax. This is in retaliation by the Government for the taxes and tolls we have to pay in countries like France. The money is supposed to go towards road maintenance.
It seems to be a good idea but, with a bit of organised logistics, lorry operators could get around these charges. By arranging the exchange of cargos at the ports (switching incoming loaded trailers to UK traction units), the foreign lorries can avoid coming out onto UK roads. And the foreign traction units could then pick up UK-loaded trailers as they arrive at the ports. When we are at the ferry terminals we often see trailers parked without their traction units, so I would bet that some companies already work in this manner. It would not take experienced transport managers much effort to extend the practice much more widely.
For the companies, this might be considerably cost effective, making savings in payment expenses for long trips into foreign countries, reduced costs per traction unit (fuel and vehicle maintenance), and lower insurance premiums for lorries not travelling across the channel.
For UK drivers, a vast reduction of the often problematic foreign lorry drivers on our roads.
Don't redirect current budgets for road maintenance yet, Mr Osbourne!!!
"The money is supposed to go towards road maintenance"
Has anyone said this? It's supposed to be a principle of UK taxation that revenue is not "hypothecated" or allocated to particular areas of expenditure.
That was why the "road fund" was abolished.
The reason hauliers send their own drivers and traction over the channel is to retain control. In fact the charges for unaccompanied trailers are not much less than accompanied ones.
This new tax is intended to level the field a little. Up to now, foreign trucks pay nothing towards the cost of the infrastructure that they use. Germany has the maut and France and other countries have tolls.
This from a REPUTABLE site:
"The Department for Transport said about 260,000 UK-registered trucks would come into scope of the charge, while about 130,000 eligible foreign-registered trucks enter the UK each year, making a total of about 1.5 million journeys.
The system will cost the taxpayer between £2.5 million and £5 million to set up in the first year. Following that, revenues from foreign hauliers paying into the system will generate annual surpluses of £18.7 million to £23.2 million.
Foreign hauliers will pay £10 a day or £1,000 a year to drive on British roads with a 40-tonne truck. Lighter vehicles pay proportionately less. The fees are the highest that Britain can impose under EU law.
The department is proposing a fixed penalty (or for those based outside the UK, a penalty deposit) of £300 for those failing to pay the appropriate levy amount for a vehicle"
Next week?
It started on the 1st of April.
Really, well well well ! Just fancy I am a week out. Oh well no need to tell anyone then.
Quote.......... "The money is supposed to go towards road maintenance."That sounds like a good April fool joke, to me?.........winkeye Smiley.


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After Josh Hamilton hit a game-winning home run against the Angels on Wednesday night, one of the first people to call to congratulate him was his grandmother.
"She was all fired up," Hamilton told MLB.com. "She watches all the games. She was going, 'Josh, I just had a feeling. I had a feeling.' I said, 'Grandma, I wish you'd have more feelings like that.'"
Hamilton, meanwhile, has thoroughly enjoyed the huge season he's had -- a .309 average, 21 home runs and 91 RBIs -- including a home run and four RBIs on Thursday night.
"It has been fun," he said. "I've been enjoying it. I wouldn't want to be anywhere [else] than to be on this team and with these guys. This is the best clubhouse I've ever been in, and the Texas Rangers fans have been unbelievable. I just hope it keeps coming, and I hope it gets better and better."
Polanco takes oath of citizenship: Placido Polanco was one of 100 people sworn in as U.S. citizens in Detroit before the Indians-Tigers game on Wednesday. It's the thrill of a lifetime for Polanco.
"I wanted to be here in this country -- it's a country of opportunity," Polanco told The Detroit Free Press. "I work here playing baseball, and baseball has been very good to me and my family. God bless America."
Fish tales abound at Hunter homestead: Torii Hunter has enjoyed the Angels' road trip to Texas to face the Rangers, because it has allowed him to stay at his home north of Dallas. Hunter has had teammates Chone Figgins and Garrett Anderson stay with him as well.
"It's very nice," Figgins told The Los Angeles Times of Hunter's spread. "Usually, on the road, you can go to the mall, and that's about it. But we'd get up in the morning and fish. Just hung out by the dock and talked. You don't get to do that stuff. And for four days, it's just nice."
Gaudin plans to keep walks to a minimum: Chad Gaudin, traded by A's to the Cubs earlier this week, played under Cubs manager Lou Piniella in Tampa. He's excited about the opportunity to again play under Sweet Lou.
"It's fun and always exciting, intense -- everything you can throw in there," Gaudin told The Chicago Tribune. "I know one thing -- he does not like you to walk guys. You definitely learn that first hand.
"When you start walking people, you don't even have to look. At one point, I looked over there [in the dugout] a couple of years ago and saw that face and said 'Uh-oh, I better clean it up real quick.' That was in the past, and I'm here now, so enjoy."
Roberts to bring versatility in return: Dave Roberts, rehabbing in Triple-A, is close to re-joining the Giants.
"I think he'll be a huge addition," Bochy told The San Francisco Chronicle. "With Dave's experience and ability to play left and center, his speed, his left-handed bat, it would be similar to getting a free agent because we really haven't had that all year. He has some weapons that can help us, whether it's coming off the bench or starting."
Garcia takes fast track to Majors: For Jamie Garcia, who has yet to appear in a game, it's been an eventful season. After starting the year in Double-A Springfield, Garcia has been to Triple-A Memphis and now finds himself in the St. Louis bullpen. Manager Tony La Russa hopes that Garcia can be an effective lefty out of the pen.
"He's had some good periods, and he's made progress," La Russa told MLB.com. "I think he can be used in a Brad Thompson-like way -- versatile. He can give us innings, because he's used to it. And we have a left-handed relief need."
Rincon aims for return to old self: Juan Rincon, called up this week by the Cleveland Indians, believes he's ready to show he can get back to where he was during his best days while with the Twins.
"Physically, I feel very good," Rincon, who worked a scoreless inning on Thursday, told The Akron Beacon Journal. "I've been smart enough to take care of my body. After my surgery, it took some time for me to get back, but eventually, I felt as good as ever."
Chipper Jones keeps confidence high: Chipper Jones is having an exceptional season, even by his own high standards. He leads the Major Leagues with a .375 average and his 18 home runs lead the Braves.
"It's been fun from a personal standpoint," Jones told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I mean, this is not an individual sport. This is a team sport, and I'm most concerned with the well-being of the club. I know that if I stay healthy and play games, my numbers are going to be there. I'm still confident enough in my ability."
Johnson adds velocity in return: On Thursday, Josh Johnson made his first start in the Majors since undergoing Tommy John surgery last August. He pitched five innings and allowed three runs, striking out six and walking none for the Marlins. He threw harder than he did pre-surgery, consistently throwing 93-94 miles per hour. All but five of the 20 batters he faced got a first-pitch strike, and only two saw a 2-0 pitch.
"You have to pitch right, though," Johnson told The South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "You have to locate still. You might be able to get away with a few more things, but you can't bank on that."
Furcal shooting for late-August return: Disc surgery performed on Rafael Furcal has left him positive that he will return before the end of the season. Furcal had the operation on July 3 and is targeting a late-August return.
"I feel much better than I did before," Furcal, who was hitting a team-leading .366 when he was put on the disabled list on May 13, told The Los Angeles Times. "I feel only sore in one part."
Harden plans to be a rotation fixture: Cubs trainer Mark O'Neal and pitching coach Larry Rothschild plan to do all they can to keep newly acquired pitcher Rich Harden healthy.
"It's good to hear that," Harden told The Chicago Tribune. "I feel like I can go out there every fifth or sixth day, and if I get a day off here or there, it definitely makes a difference. Just with the history of having some injuries, that one extra day does make a difference, so I think that's something that we'd do."
Glaus intent on being everyday player: Troy Glaus takes pride in playing every day.
"It's what I do. I play ball," Glaus told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "When I'm healthy, I want to be in there every day. Look at my career, and that's the way it's been. I don't see any reason for it be different now."
Bush sets personal strikeout mark: Dave Bush is pitching with confidence, and it showed in a big way on Thursday. Bush chalked up a career-high 13 strikeouts in eight innings in the Brewers' 11-1 win over the Rockies.
"Having some successful outings gives you some confidence," Bush told MLB.com. "Confidence kind of ebbs and flows throughout the season, so once I got going, that definitely helped. Maybe I was putting too much pressure on myself at the beginning of the season."
Harrison impressive in debut: In the Rangers' 3-2 over the Angels on Tuesday night, Matt Harrison -- making his Major League debut -- pitched well enough to get another start this Sunday against the White Sox.
"Just getting one start was pretty awesome," Harrison told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "Now I've got to go out there and try to do the same thing. Maybe I can turn that into a third start."
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Bjarne Stroustrup asks in C++ Programming Language 3rd edition exercise 5.9 1. to declare a refrence to an array of 10 integers. Is this possible. I know you can declare pointer to an array but a refrence?
Code:int inumbers[10]; int *pinumbers = inumbers; //pointer to array int &rinumbers= inumbers[0];// refrence to first element; int &rinumber=inumbers;// compiler error