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Canvas on Demand 16x20 Canvas Prints $14.99 [2 Prints for $26.24]
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- Canvas on Demand 16x20 Canvas Prints $14.99 [2 Prints for $26.24]
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SZHSR Body Fat Wi-Fi Digital Bathroom Scale $16.99
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JBL Control X Wireless Battery Powered Bluetooth Speakers (Pair) $209.99
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Braun BT3040 Men's Cordless Ultimate Hair Clipper & Beard Trimmer $22.75
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Home Depot: Up to 39% off Select Winix Air Purifiers
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Cuisinart MCP19-16N MultiClad Pro 1-1/2-Quart Saucepan $17.95
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AmazonBasics Automatic Travel Umbrella w/ Wind Vent $13.49
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Zhiyun-Tech Crane v2 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer $399
B&H Photo Video has the Zhiyun-Tech Crane v2 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer for a low $399.00 Free Shipping. Tax in NY, NJ. This normally retails for $649, so you're saving $250 (38%) off. B&H Video Photo is also offering the Stabilizer + Dual Handgrip Kit for $479.00 Free Shipping.
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Qnap TS-563 Turbo 5-Bay Quad-Core Personal Cloud NAS Server $409
B&H Photo-Video has the Qnap TS-563 Turbo 5-Bay AMD Quad-Core Personal Cloud NAS Server (Diskless) for a low $409.00 Free Shipping. Tax in NY. This is $50 less than the previous sale price we posted and the lowest price we've seen.
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B&H DealZone Deals: Davis & Sanford Traverse Aluminum Tripod $59.95
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Amazon Deal of the Day: Up to 57% off Sports Research Supplements
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Amazon Deal of the Day: Up to 25% off Winter Mats
Amazon Deal of the Day. Amazon is offering up to 25% off Winter Mats. Free Shipping on orders over $25, or with Amazon Prime.
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Amazon Prime: Free 30-Day Trial, $20 off First Time Members w/ Echo
Amazon is offering a FREE 30-Day Trial for its Amazon Prime Membership for New Customers or FREE 6-Month Trial for its Amazon Student Prime Membership for Students (must have a valid student email address). This is perfect timing as your 30-day trial will fall in-line for Amazon Exclusive Discounts.
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Torguard Sale: 50% off Sitewide + Free VPN Router
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Amazon Toy Sale: Legos, STEM, Boardgames and more
Amazon is taking up to 50% off select Toys, Board Games, and More for their Cyber Monday Sale. Free Shipping over $25 or with Amazon Prime.
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- Guardians of the Galaxy Dancing Groot RC $11.01 (was $40)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens X-Wing Miniatures Core Set $20.50
- Jenga Classic Game $10.29 (Reg $15)
- Exploding Kittens: NSFW Edition $15.99 (Orig $20)
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- Mega Bloks Construx Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Raph Set $6.80
- Magformers Magnetic ABS-Plastic Smart Set (144pc) $99 (reg $200)
- Add-On LEGO Classic Creativity Box (Orange, Red, Blue) $3.79
Board Games, Books, Figures, Misc
- Add-on Funko POP Movies: Warcraft Orgrim Action Figure $5
- Add-On Play-Doh Fun Factory Set $7.44 (reg $10)
- Add-On POP Star Wars: Rogue One - Captain Cassian Andor $3.25
- Add-On POP Disney: Pirates of the Caribbean - Captain Salazar $2.11
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- Crayola Trolls Washable Paint & Paper Sets $12.99 (was $15)
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Amazon Blu-ray Movie & TV Sale: Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV-VI (Blu-Ray) $37.49
Amazon is taking up to 60% off select Blu-ray Movies & TV Shows for Black Friday. Free Shipping on order $25+ or with Amazon Prime.
Blu-ray Movies:
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- Pre-Order The Sandlot (25th Anniversary, Blu-ray) $7.21 (reg $11.99)
- Sicario 4K Ultra HD (Blu-ray + 4K + Digital) $19.99 (reg $43)
- Planet Earth II (Blu-ray) $20.00 (reg $29.96)
- Firefly Complete Series: 15th Anniversary (Blu-Ray) $14.96 (Reg $30)
- John Wick: Chapter 2 $14.99 (Reg $30)
- Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes I-III (Blu-Ray) $29.99 (Reg $40)
- Star Wars: Trilogy - Episodes IV-VI (Blu-Ray) $37.49 (Reg $38)
- Akira 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray + DVD $14.99 (was $18)
- Mission Impossible 5 Movie Collection $24.11
- Minions (3D Blu-Ray) $15.49 (Reg $25)
- DC Universe 10th Anniversary Collection (30-Movies, Blu-Ray) $211.39
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Blu-Ray) $13.99 (orig $26)
- Police Academy 1-7: The Complete Collection (Blu-Ray) $21.95
- Wonder Woman (Blu-ray) $14.99 (orig $36)
- Workaholics: The Complete Series (DVD) $22.99 (Orig $37)
- Saw: The Complete Movie Collection (Blu-Ray) $11.99 (Orig $25)
- The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection (Blu-ray) $21.49
- Office Space: With Flair! (Blu-Ray) $9.99
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Blu-ray) $12.99
- The Expendables Collection $14.29
- Hacksaw Ridge (Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy) $9.99
4K UHD Movies:
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- The Fifth Element (4K Blu-Ray) $14.99
- John Wick (Blu-ray 4k UHD + Digital Copy) $11.99
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray) $19.96
- Westworld: The Complete First Season 4K HDR $37.99
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Amazon Video Games Sale: Ni No Kuni 2 (PS4) $47.99
Amazon has several Video Games on sale. Free Shipping over $25 or with Amazon Prime. Tax in all states.
Amazon Prime Exclusive Pricing:
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- Releases 3/23/2018 Ni No Kuni 2 (PS4) $47.99
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare - Standard Edition (PS4) $19.99
- Fire Emblem Warriors (New Nintendo 3DS) $26.50
Multi-Platform Games:
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- Releases TBA Final Fantasy VII: Remake (PS4) $47.99
Nintendo Exclusives:
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$59.99 (20% Off)
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Rockport Boot Sale Coupon Code - 40% off select Boots
Rockport is taking 40% off select Boots during their current sale after Coupon Code: "BOOT40" (Exp 1/16, Limited Stock). Free Shipping.
- Cold Springs Plus Mudguard Boot $59.99 (reg $100)
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- Classic Break Chukka $59.99 (orig $100)
- Treeline Hike Plain Toe Boot $90.00 (reg $150)
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TP-LINK HS100 WiFi Smart Plug (2-Pack, Echo Compatible) $39.99
Amazon is offering TP-Link HS100 WiFi Smart Plug (2-Pack, Compatible with Amazon Echo) for a low $39.99 Free Shipping. This normally sells for $49, so you're saving 18% off with this deal.
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- From Amazon Coupons in New Years
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Oittm 950W Portable Ceramic Electric Oscillating Heater $31.48
Amazon has the Oittm Portable Ceramic Electric Oscillating Heater for a low $31.48 Free Shipping after Coupon Code: "IID6Z2T5" (Exp 1/21). This is a 12% drop from our last posting and the lowest price we've seen.
- Creates a gentle current of heat that warms the air around you
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- From Amazon Coupons in Home & Garden
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As the temperature switches almost daily between winter and spring, it's almost time to draw together to discuss an interesting book. In honor of Black History Month, February's discussion will be on Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine.
This novel is set in rural Mississippi in the 1950s and also in Chicago during more contemporary times. It's a novel about family, community, and civil rights.
Books Plus meets the first Sunday of each month. All are welcome. Join the discussion or simply come to listen.
No registration necessary. Drop in.
2 p.m., First Sundays
See the full winter and spring schedule below.
Feb. 5--Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
Discussion leader: Sarah Bowman
"Truly engaging...Campbell has a storyteller's ear for dialogue and the visual sense of painting a picture and a place....There's a steam that keeps the story moving as the characters, and later their children, wrestle through racial, personal, and cultural crisis." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
March 4 -- Room by Emma Donoghue -- One Book One Bloomington Community Read!
Discussion Leader: Wendy Rubin
"Gripping, riveting, and close to the bone, this story grabs you and doesn't let go. Donoghue skillfully builds a suspenseful narrative evoking fear and hate and hope--but most of all, the triumph of a mother's ferocious love." -- Library Journal
April 1 -- Wind, Water, Forest, Stone: Poems about the Green Earth
Discussion Leader: Dory Lynch
Join us in April to celebrate National Poetry Month. This year we'll explore the world of nature poetry. For centuries, poets have praised rivers, streams, mountains, animals, and flowers. From the early Greeks to Native American chants to modern writers such as Mary Oliver, Robert Hass, Gary Snyder, and Louise Glück poets have been inspired by the world around them.
Please bring a nature poem that has touched you. Let's join our voices in celebrating this beautiful Earth.
"The wind sings in its turnings, / water murmurs as it goes..." Octavia Paz
May 6 -- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Discussion Leader: Doris Lynch
This book "reads as if it had been composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum. It is a long and thoughtful novel as one thinks about it. It is a short and vivid scene as one feels it." -- New York Times Book Review, April 1939

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Ryan confirms Rangers' interest in Oswalt
Club president could target Astros' ace to add pitching depth
By Brian McTaggart / MLB.com
Ryan, who Oswalt considered a mentor during Ryan's years as a special assistant to the Astros, was asked about his interest in Oswalt prior to the opener of the annual Lone Star Series between the in-state rivals at Minute Maid Park.
"You know, we definitely are looking to improve our ballclub, and when you have an opportunity, or might have an opportunity, to acquire someone like that, you have to look at it and evaluate it and see if that's a possibility and see if it's doable," Ryan said.
The Rangers, in first place in the American League West, are actively pursuing starting pitching. They've inquired about Mariners left-hander Cliff Lee, among many other pitchers. Right-hander Rich Harden and left-hander Derek Holland are on the disabled list, and long reliever Dustin Nippert is filling in as the fifth starter.
The Astros acknowledged last month that Oswalt's agent, Bob Garber, called owner Drayton McLane and requested the three-time All-Star be traded. Oswalt has a no-trade clause and would have to approve any trade the Astros make.
Oswalt was asked Friday about his interest in the Rangers.
"I'm open," he said. "Just have to wait and see what works for both of us."
Ryan said the interest in Oswalt is only preliminary.
"There hasn't been really any conversations I've been aware of here in the last week to 10 days," Ryan said. "I think, from the Astros' perspective, that would pick up as we would get closer to the [non-waiver] Trade Deadline in July."
Astros general manager Ed Wade has a policy of not commenting on trades.
Oswalt is 5-8 with a 3.12 ERA in 14 starts this year for the Astros, who entered Friday at 26-41 and near the bottom in the National League Central. He has 12 quality starts and has thrown at least seven innings and allowed no more than two runs in each of his five road starts this year.
"I think he's phenomenal," Ryan said. "I think he's been one of the top four or five pitchers in the league for quite a while. He's a big-game pitcher and consistent with his stuff, as we see this year, with the way he's approached each game he's been in. He's special."
Oswalt is making $15 million this year and is scheduled to make $16 million next year. The Astros have a $2 million buyout for 2012 or he will be paid $16 million.
The Rangers cannot take on significant payroll in any trade. But they can get other teams to pick up a high-priced player's salary if they add extra prospects to the package. The question is if the ownership situation will be resolved by the Trade Deadline. If the Ryan-Greenberg group takes over before then, the Rangers will have financial flexibility to add payroll in any trade without giving up additional prospects.
"Last October, we sat down and devised a budget for this year, and as long as we stay within that budget, we're fine," Ryan said. "If we go outside that budget, we have to get approvals. The only way I foresee that happens is you acquire somebody that has salary that would put you over what your limits are. Will that happen? I don't know. We've budgeted for the Trade Deadline, and we feel we might be in position to improve our ballclub, but we don't really know."
Ryan said he's hopeful the club's ownership situation will be settled in July.
"I think it's progressing and I think that from our perspective, it's going well," Ryan said. "We'd like to think, in July, we will get the opportunity to close the deal and the new ownership group will be the group we put together."
Brian McTaggart 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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Family of teen who died on base to get $40,000
By ADAM ASHTON | The (Tacoma, Wash.) News Tribune | Published: January 16, 2013
The family of a Lakewood teenager who died from a drug overdose in a Fort Lewis barracks four years ago will receive $40,000 from the government and a security contractor, according to a lawsuit settlement between the U.S. attorney's office and the girl's mother.
The outcome disappointed the 16-year-old Leah King's family, who wanted an opportunity to testify about the girl's life and counter perceptions that she eagerly participated in using drugs with the soldier who sneaked her into his room.
"For me it wasn't about the money," King's mother, Katherine King, said Tuesday.
But her lawyers determined they had a limited chance of winning the lawsuit after an August decision from U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle that dismissed the security firm from the case, King said.
The agreement the attorneys struck in November likely closes an episode that brought embarrassment to the military post and pledges from top generals to shore up security lapses.
It calls on the government to pay King $35,000 and former Fort Lewis security contractor Doyon to contribute another $5,000.
Doyon attorney Sok-Khieng Lim said the company agreed to participate in the settlement to avoid an appeal.
Judge Settle wrote in August that Doyon employees at the installation's main gate did not violate Fort Lewis security policies in allowing Leah King on post about 11:20 p.m. the night of her death because she was accompanied by a soldier carrying appropriate identification.
The policy would have required Doyon guards to turn away teenagers younger than 16 at 11 p.m. Minors of Leah King's age were permitted to enter the post until 1 a.m.
Doyon no longer has a security contract at what is now Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Settle wrote that King's attorneys could have proceeded with a lawsuit against the Army.
Leah King's presence in the barracks violated a Fort Lewis policy that prohibited nonfamily minors from being in soldiers' living quarters without a parent or guardian, Settle wrote.
Although Leah King and Army Pvt. Timothy Bennitt sneaked into his barracks without signing her in as a guest, Bennitt notified a noncommissioned officer in charge of the quarters at about midnight that the girl was with him. She was not removed from the barracks, and she died about three hours later, Settle wrote.
"It is undisputed that (the noncommissioned officer) knew that (Leah King) was a visitor and had not properly signed in," Settle wrote. "Thus, (the noncommissioned officer) was responsible for ensuring that (Leah King) signed in and did not stay overnight in the barrack."
Bennitt in January 2010 was sentenced to almost six years in prison in connection with the girl's death. He was found guilty of abetting in her fatal use of the painkiller oxymorphone and the anxiety pill Xanax.
Leah King was a Lakes High School sophomore. Katherine King remembers her daughter as smitten with the young soldier when they met in early 2009. The mother wanted a chance in court to describe Leah's potential.
"I was only heard once, and that was during deposition," Katherine King said. "I was supposed to stick only to the questions, and none of the questions were the right questions to ask."


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And, as others have pointed out, Perl is usually an auxiliary, not primary, job skill that employers are looking for. I think I see it listed for just about every sys admin position, for example.
Now, before anyone gets their Perl Panties in a bunch, I'm not suggesting that Perl is anywhere near where Cobol is today, but I think it's safe to say (in that anecdotal sort of way that chromatic hates) that the enthusiasm for it is in decline. Whether or not Perl 6 can reverse that trend remains to be seen.
I think it's safe to say (in that anecdotal sort of way that chromatic hates) that the enthusiasm for it is in decline.
That depends on your definition of "safe". If you mean "here is a stack of statistics and here is the research methods and raw data", then we agree on the word safe. If you mean "two 14 year olds emo kiddies with stupid pointy-in-the-middle haircuts and eyeshadow knocked on my door to try to sell me on DHHism, and no one's done that for Perl in a couple of years, but I leave the proof
Does that mean Cobol is "alive"? I wouldn't say so
Actually, I wouldn't call in Father Murphy to give COBOL [google.com] its last rites just yet. And if COBOL's survivability concerns you a great deal, you may want to withdraw all your funds from the bank, as much of them are still managed by COBOL based systems. Not to mention how much of your government may be dependent on it.
I'm also a bit puzzled by those that seem to demand a level of data cleansing of the Perl numbers that isn't required of any of the other
Regarding the data cleansing, I think it's a fair question to ask for any language that's often used in an auxiliary role. If you want verifiable data I guess you would have to analyze the job descriptions. Personally, I think jobs.perl.org is a better (or at least
om Copeland recently blogged that RubyForge had over 20,000 registered users. By comparison I count only 6148 on CPAN...
To paraphrase Sam Tregar, that's kind of an Apples to Oranges [perl.org] comparison (even with your followup correction).
I've been doing some more number crunching for both CPAN and RubyForge, and it's been an interesting exercise. I'm going to save the results for an independent blog post. However, I'll leave you with this hypothesis:
The existence of a collaborative development environment for a given programming langu
Does "collaborative development environment" include IRC, mailing lists, and Usenet or is it solely the purview of web fora?
I'm curious to see your research and conclusions, but the CPAN predates SourceForge. In my mind, that's an important distinction between collaborative Ruby and collaborative Perl development. (I might also suggest that Ruby's main driver skews a lot of new Ruby developers toward the web, where even Perl 5's various waves of popularity included a lot of system administrators who did


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The girls of "Jersey Shore" were taken for an etiquette ride by New York City socialite Tinsley Mortimer in Harper's Bazaar May issue, where they revealed a few intimate details – including Jenni "J-WOWW" Farley's wish to undergo plastic surgery every year.
"It was well worth it," she told the mag of her breast implants. "I'd do it every year if I could."
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi also had a breast-related admission. She revealed that she often multitasks with her girls. She explained that she often stashes her Blackberry and lip-gloss in her bra while on the go.
For the mag, the ladies were given instructions on etiquette from Tinsely, but Snooki said she didn't exactly need them.
"We might come off like we have no manners at all, but we do," Snooki said during the lesson. "I know a couple things about manners, I just don't use them."
Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola told the mag that she doesn't need lessons on how to act.
"I feel like I already know how to be a lady," she said, but acknowledged that her blinged out wardrobe could be toned down.
One "Shore" staple that's not coming down is Snooki's trademark poof.
"It was a teen Guidette thing, and when everyone grew out of it, I just kept it," Snookie said when asked about her trademark 'do.
"I'm launching the Snookit," she said of her own version a Bumpit
In more revealing news, JWOWW told the mag that she currently has a boyfriend and even sported a ring on the Harper's photoshoot.
"It's just a commitment ring," she explained. "It's part of a $22,000 set my boyfriend got me for Christmas — a ring, necklace, and earrings. I got him a ring with diamonds too…He's a Persico. I don't know if you've heard of them, but half of them are in jail… He's a spoiled little rich boy, but he doesn't act like it."
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text: dasickle Posted February 19, 2012 Hello, I setup a 3g pico tank about a year ago and I am very happy with the way everything is going so far except for one thing. I can not get rid of the white film on the surface of the tank which I assume is the byproduct of organic waste. All my corals are doing great and growing fast. I add about 1 coral a month and so far my tank has 2 small zoa's, 3 mushroom colonies, 1 leather coral, 2 small turbo snails, 1 hermit crab, bali starfish and no fish. So I dont think that I am overloading the tank. I do regular water changes (1g/every 3-4 days), change my filter media every 2 weeks. I also started using active carbon which I hope will help with the issue. I have my powerhead directed at the surface. So I think I am doing everything right and yet I am still having the issue. I know that some might people think adding a skimmer is the solution but wouldn't it be an overkill for a 3g tank? Wont it take out all of the minerals from the water? Any ideas? --best D Share this post Link to post


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Mini Pear, Raspberry and Ginger Pies for Project Wedding
I have been loving the very rustic, natural and country-style weddings that I have been reading about lately. Like this one, this one or this one. I think that when the world feels a little chaotic, we tend to resort to a homemade kind of lifestyle with lots of home cooking, personalized gifts and DIY touches. So for this month's Project Wedding assignment, I created individual pear, raspberry and ginger pies with a rustic touch that can be served at any wedding instead of the traditional cake and are so simple to make.
Fall made it's first appearance in South Florida today and it has put me in the mood for lots of comfort food, apples, quince and falling leaves, so I think it's going to be that kind of weekend for us.
For more photos and the recipes, please go here. Hope you like it!


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Pineiro named AL Player of the Week
Mariners righty goes 2-0 with 1.59 ERA during the stretch
By Dawn Klemish / MLB.com
SEATTLE -- Like many pitchers, Joel Pineiro doesn't like to walk batters. The problem his opponents are having lately, however, is that Pineiro isn't letting them hit much, either. The Mariners starter earned American League Player of the Week honors after posting a 2-0 record and 1.59 ERA in two starts last week. During those 17 innings, he fanned six and walked none. His walkless-innings streak currently stands at 18. "I want them to earn their way on base," Pineiro said. "Maybe I give up 10, 12, 15 hits, but they're all singles, I don't care -- they earned their way on. I don't want to give them a free pass. That's how they get things started, maybe bunt the guy over, hit-and-run, things like that." The right-hander's standout week didn't come against fluff teams, either. On Saturday, Pineiro allowed the Indians -- who with 201 runs through Sunday are the highest scorers in the Majors -- to drive in just one run off four hits over eight innings of work. The win halted a four-game losing streak for Seattle that began after his last start. "I want to be that guy where they trust me, 'Here's the ball. Go out there and do the job,' " Pineiro said. "I'm not saying I'm the guy to do that every time out there, but I want that trust from them. I want them to feel that way about me." The eight-inning effort came just five days after Pineiro's 105 pitches against the Twins were enough both for the Mariners' 8-2 win and the first complete game of the season for the club. Through Sunday, it is just one of seven in the American League this season. His outing not only impressed the coaching staff, but earned gratitude from his bullpen teammates as well. "We've only had one off-day in the last two and a half weeks and don't really have one coming up soon," reliever George Sherrill said after the game. "So this early in the season, it's always good to get an unexpected day off. So it was a big outing for two different reasons." Pineiro is the first Mariners pitcher to earn the award since Kazuhiro Sasaki in April 2001, and the first Seattle starter since Randy Johnson in June 1997. Other candidates considered were Cleveland designated hitter Travis Hafner (.320 average, four homers, 13 RBIs), Detroit outfielder Magglio Ordonez (.333, four homers, nine RBIs) and Toronto third baseman Troy Glaus (.333, four homers, eight RBIs). Pitchers considered for the award were Minnesota's Johan Santana (2-0, 20 strikeouts over 14 innings) and C.C. Sabathia (2-0, 0.69 ERA over 13 innings) of the Indians.
Dawn Klemish is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I deliberately left my balcony lights on all night ,on a recent trip to Lake Kerkini in Northern Greece,and the result was amazing .Altogether I attracted 32 species of moth ,several beetles ,a couple of crickets and unfortunately 10,000 mosquitoes .Anyway there were a few species I didn't recognize ,can anyone help me with IDs please.Could no 3 be a Scarce Bordered Straw or am I way off.?
For exotic moths and other animals you would have a better chance on other forums, such as this: http://www.projectnoah.org/
Florin - They are not particularly exotic to me!
I get all of these in my garden (in Cyprus)
1. Charissa subtaurica (there are other species in Charissa that are similar, but I'm fairly sure this is your one)
2. Idaea degeneraria
3. Helicoverpa armigera, you are right
This stayed unanswered for three months and I thought it deserved at least an advice.
Oh yes - October13 - how come I missed that one?!
Although I try to keep up with all new postings in 'Identification', it does seem from time to time that some sneak past me!
Now play nicely folks .Thankyou both for your input ,it has been very helpful .


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ORLANDO, Fla. - A Mississippi father was taken to a hospital Sunday night after a fight with his son outside an Orlando Dave & Buster's about an alleged mistress, deputies said.
Deputies arrested Taylor Dwayne Harris, 21, of Pearl, Miss., after they say he punched his father, Leonard Harris, 52, in the face, leaving him unconscious on the ground after his head hit the concrete.
Family members who were vacationing with the two men told deputies that the younger Harris became upset after finding evidence on his father's cellphone of an extramarital affair his father had been having, according to an Orange County Sheriff's Office report. Family members indicated that he had found pictures on Facebook earlier and confronted his father, who admitted to the affair, deputies said.
Taylor Dwayne Harris left the table where the family was eating after seeing text messages on his father's phone, witnesses told deputies.
When Leonard Harris went outside to ask him what was wrong Taylor Dwayne Harris hit his father in the face, knocking him backward to the ground, witnesses said.
After the altercation, Taylor Dwayne Harris went back into the building, where deputies found him crying. He had told his mother, who was also inside, about his father's affair, according to a report.
Witnesses outside the restaurant and gaming venue who responded to the father told deputies the victim's breathing was shallow, he was bleeding and his pulse was faint when they came to his aid.
Leonard Harris was taken to Doctor Phillips Hospital, then Orlando Regional Medical Center, with critical injuries, a report stated.
Deputies arrested and charged Taylor Dwayne Harris with aggravated battery.
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A's see two replay calls go the other way
By Jane Lee / MLB.com
BOSTON -- A's manager Bob Melvin lost his third challenge in 10 tries this season on the first play of his club's series finale in Boston.
Speedy leadoff man Coco Crisp was called out on a close play at first base by umpire Dan Bellino on a grounder to third. Melvin came out of the dugout to challenge the call.
Following a review, the call stood.
Two innings later, Josh Donaldson was ruled out at the plate on a call that was reviewed by the umpires at the urging of Melvin, who believed catcher A.J. Pierzynski was blocking the plate.
It was decided, however, that Pierzynski was not in violation of any plate-blocking rules.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Scholars go to the schools to teach science
a high school science teacher, Mark Volpe has attended his share of professional development programs and seminars. Few, however, have given him the chance to ask such big philosophical questions as, "What are the criteria for truth? How do we know what is true?"
But that's just the question Volpe put to Aaron Lemonick, professor of physics emeritus, during a recent seminar for local teachers organized by the University's Teacher Preparation Program. The seminar, one of two identical sessions held this spring, allowed teachers to fire questions -- big or small -- at Lemonick as he guided them through a history of astronomy and helped them experience the same sense of discovery that they work to impart to their own students.
"I enjoyed it thoroughly," said Volpe. "It was so nice to go into an academic setting and be able to ask someone else questions, instead of standing up in front of a room and talking. It's nice to have a little role reversal."
The seminar paired Lemonick, whose humor and plain language made him a beloved teacher at Princeton, with Ilene Levine, a third-grade teacher from Roosevelt, N.J., who interspersed his anecdotes and scientific explanations with practical, hands-on demonstrations. The teachers built their own telescopes, peered through prisms and gazed at a simulated cosmos in a miniature planetarium that can be used in classrooms.
"It is really an opportunity for Aaron to share what he is so very good at," said John Webb, director of Teacher Prep. "He weaves a kind of magic with the teachers. And he and Ilene work very well together."
The seminars grew out of Teacher Prep's three-year-old Teachers as Scholars initiative, which brings 80 teachers from 13 local school districts to the Princeton campus each year to attend workshops with faculty members in a variety of disciplines. More than a dozen faculty members participate in the seminars, which meet as many as four times in a semester.
Teachers as Scholars participants asked for more science seminars, said Webb, so the Teacher Prep staff used a grant from the Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation to develop the science seminars with Lemonick and Levine. As a new twist, they brought the program to the schools. The first session took place in the East Windsor School District and the second was in the Crossroads Middle School in South Brunswick.
Webb said that going to the schools underscored the program's commitment to participating in the area's schools and communicated to students in the schools that their teachers also engaged in learning. "And it worked," he said. "When we were out in the courtyard working with our sky domes, students came over and asked what we were doing."
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Smith wins Nationwide finale as Stenhouse is crowned
Regan Smith took the checkered flag in the 200-lap race to win his first-career Nationwide Series event, leading the final 22 laps and easily taking the checkered flag ahead of Kyle Busch.
Brendan Gaughan, Sam Hornish, Jr. and Austin Dillon rounded out the top five.
Stenhouse, Jr. – who only needed only to finish 16th or better to clinch the title – came home sixth to beat out Elliott Sadler for the title for second year in row, becoming the first driver since Martin Truex, Jr. in 2004 & 2005 to defend his series title.
Stenhouse, Jr. ended the season with a series-high six wins and 19 top-five finishes – including three in the final four races – to beat Sadler by 23 points to bring home the fourth Nationwide Series title for Roush-Fenway Racing.
"It is really neat to be able to go back-to-back when only now six of us have done it. That is pretty special," said Stenhouse. "It really makes me see how hard that 48 (Jimmie Johnson) team works on the Cup side with five in a row. It was a great two years and we have had a lot of fun.
"You know, we won Rookie of the Year in 2010 and we were at the banquet, and we said that we wanted to be (champions) in 2011, and we were able to accomplish that. To sit up there last year, and we told each other that we wanted six to ten wins and another championship, we got that, just a lot of hard work by a lot of great people, and I'm just blessed to be a part of it."
The Nationwide season finale was a similar story to last year's season finale, with Stenhouse and Sadler coming into the last race within 20 points of each other.
Knowing he needed only to finish ahead of Sadler to win, Stenhouse simply needed to stay out of trouble while Sadler had to do the same, and hope Stenhouse stumbled.
At times during Saturday's race, Stenhouse was playing it anything but safe.
Trying to race his way to the front, Stenhouse spend much of the final laps battling Dillon, Sadler and Brian Scott, at one point going three wide for the fifth position before falling back to sixth in the final finishing order.
"There were some anxious moments for our spotter, and I got tired of listening, so I keyed up the mic so he couldn't talk to me the rest of the way," said Stenhouse. "He wanted me to let him go, and of course I wanted 20 top 5s at least, so I came up one spot short. We wanted to win the race; that's what we come to do each and every week and that's what got us in the position that we were in."
Saturday's race was also a story of drivers heading in different directions.
For Stenhouse, it's was his last full-time run in the Nationwide Series, as he moves up to the Cup Series in 2013 to replace the departing Matt Kenseth as driver of the no. 17 Ford for Roush-Fenway Racing; for Sadler, it's was his last ride for Richard Childress Racing, as he will not be returning in 2013; For Busch, it was another one that got away; and for Smith, it was his first run for his new team, as he joins Junior Motorsports full time in the Nationwide Series in 2013.
Having lost his ride in the Sprint Cup Series and filling in for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. while he was out with a concussion, Smith was out to prove himself in his first start in the no. 5 Chevrolet and his first in the Nationwide Series since 2007.
Smith grabbed the lead on a restart on lap 179 with a four-wide pass on Dillon, Sadler and Kevin Swindell and then pulled away to a half-straightaway lead that he held to the finish for his first series win in 103 starts.
"You look at it outside of the champions, there's only three other people that are going to leave here happy from Homestead this year, and fortunately we're one of the teams that can," said Smith. "It's what we needed to do tonight. Our goal was to come down here and get information, get data, get knowledge for next year, figure out areas that we can do better next year."
Busch finished up in the runner-up spot for the third time this season, still looking for that first win with his own Kyle Busch Motorsports team, and, like in the truck series, went winless for the season for the first time since his rookie year in 2003.
"I think it's been well documented that this has been the absolute worst year of my career, bar none. It's been a huge disappointment," said Busch, who led a race-high 89 laps. "I'm more excited about this year being over than anything else in my entire life. You know, happy to go home this off-season, spend some time with my wife and relax and enjoy unpacking all of our boxes and everything. We've been living out of suitcases for the past three months. It'll be finally nice to sit down and get home."
Joey Logano clinched the owner's championship in his final Nationwide Series start for Joe Gibbs Racing before bolting to Penske Racing for 2013. Logano's 16th-place finish earned JGR their fourth series title, finishing 23 points of Stenhouse's Roush-Fenway Racing team.
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Support Our Children Now!
Original post made by Jerry Shelly, Amador Valley High School, on May 1, 2009
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on May 1, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Jerry, We know each other well. I have nothing but respect for you as the principal at Walnut Grove when there were 1,100 students and a very old facility. You were amazing at Harvest Park as well. All in years when there were students at 30:1 K-3 and 36:1 4-6. I also remember how you fought for kids in the face of opposing positions at the district level, and, I believe, went back to teaching because of it before you retired.
My kids' experience, much of it with you and stellar teachers who have since retired, was amazing despite what now would be considered inconceivable conditions. Our children wanted to come back to Pleasanton after our time in Texas because of their experiences with educators like you. There are no bad experiences and plenty of battles like unification that we fought together with other amazing parents.
I wonder why you would think I don't like children with three of my own and a grandchild I couldn't adore more--and I'm the oldest of eleven and have many, many nieces and nephews, and a sister in education and a great deal of friends who teach or serve in other capacities.
There truly are communities facing many genuine problems and I hope their communities are working for the best solutions for their student populations . . . there are districts like Poway that have given up five days to save jobs. These, however, are not Pleasanton, and people we both know and respect agree that this once fiscally sound district has been run into the ground.
Precisely because you have seen this before, you know that without a strong reserve to plan for times like this the district gambled and lost. You also know that pink slips were sent out to create another layer of disquiet in the community as some of the newest teachers are threatened. And you know that I still work in K-12 education, so I very much care about all of it and the friends we share in common and what is happening to them and their children who are now young teachers.
As a community member, taxpayer, and voter, I am still allowed to have my say. Then, I spoke for our schools and our children . . . today I speak for my grandchild. I have nothing to gain by being publicly against this tax. It was a difficult choice.
Jerry, I will stand by your side to fight for the right parcel tax once we know where district funding has gone, what can be cut without loss of CSR (and it can be done), and time to discern what the community values and will pay for. This isn't that time or that tax.
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Brooke Burke-Charvet doesn't let anything—even a bout with thyroid cancer—dull her sparkle.
The Dancing with the Stars cohost told E! News Wednesday that "aside from a small scar and some follow-up appointments, I'm back to normal" following her surgery in December.
"I'm so blessed," she added. "I'm working out. I'm getting ready for the next season [of DWTS]. I feel great!"
The mom of four feels so great, in fact, she's helping spread it around to others. On Wednesday, as part of Kleenex brand's Softness Worth Sharing initiative, she kicked off the celebrity care pack campaign delivery.
Select cities can nominate someone they think deserves a little extra care for a chance to win a Care Pack. "It's a great way to send a little TLC," Brooke said, noting that she'd probably nominate her mom to receive one. "I just think it's sweet for someone to show up at your door, unannounced, then have these great items given to you."
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Textbook publishers aren't offering any discounts on digital textbooks at all,
Tell me again how everyone, in a tablet world, is forced to deal with these guys?
Their monopoly/oligopoly is based on their distribution system and its economies of scale. A tablet fundamentally renders it meaningless.
It won't take competent authors, present or future, very long to figure this out.
It's one thing where eBook textbooks are optional and secondary. It's a very different world when that is the market.
As for the professors, well, you're right, some do enjoy socking it to their students. But, I personally know many who did not. (It will be interesting to see what happens when everyone knows the price of distribution is next to free, though; the lined pockets of the authors will be fairly easy to see; depends on how shameless they are I guess).
In any case, the world changes here, I think. Certainly, the ability of publishers to hold sway because of their distribution networks is at tremendous risk. Maybe they can find another way, but the corporate graveyards are full of businesses that have failed at something like this.
And, I don't really see the book publishing business as being all that technically savvy, either. They are about to go from a cozy little world to looking at competing with Amazon, Apple, Google, or some newcomer with a similar discipline. I just don't see the traditional publishers coming up with the moxie after decades of being able to live off the fat of the land. Tough.


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Chad Billingsley had his way with the Cubs lineup, as he usually does, and the Dodgers knocked around Jeff Samardzija en route to a 6-1 victory in Los Angeles. Samardzija was repeatedly beat tonight ahead in the count, which is rare for him. Shark just couldn't put any one away, he lasted 5.1 innings giving up five runs on eight hits while walking none and striking out three on the way to his ninth loss of the season. As I mentioned the Cubs offense was nothing to write home about as they seemed to sleep walk their way through this one. They only managed four hits on the night, and finished 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position. Luis Valbuena was the only Cubs player to register an RBI as he knocked in Darwin Barney with an RBI double in the 5th to tie the game at one. Unfortunately the Dodgers poured it on from there, scoring twice in the 5th and 6th to make it 5-1 on their way to the victory. There was a bright side tonight, I promise. Scott Maine, Alberto Cabrera, and Jeff Beliveau all had scoreless outings, nice to see some success out of the bullpen by guys not named Russell and Camp. Small change to the rotation as Chris Volstad will get the start against Clayton Kershaw tomorrow night instead of Justin Germano. Full box score and highlights after the jump.
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Today's featured t-shirt comes from Nowherebad.com, where it combines the eerie setting of LIMBO with the ***insert adjective*** of Adventure Time. There's not one word that can describe what Adventure Time is, but I can tell you this much: if these two properties combined, LIMBO would've been a completely different game.
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In an attempt to provide an even better podcast experience for you, our faithful listener, we've decided to play with the format little bit, doing less free-range, unedited interviews. While those have their place, everyone can stand a good editor. We've decided to go about packaging interviews and behind-the-scenes info into more of a "radio show." Shorter interviews, music, news, information about upcoming events at the Wex, you get the idea. We're calling it Transmissions. The first installment of this (we'll try to time them with our printed calendar which lands six times a year) features interviews with artist Cyprien Gaillard, Ohio State Dance Professor David Covey reminiscing about Merce Cunningham, and Wexner Center Film/Video Curator Dave Filipi talking about the new partnership with the Gateway Film Center.
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Talk about the Michael Jordan of weddings!
The former NBA star said "I do" to model Yvette Prieto in Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday after five years of dating.
The couple made it official in front of a whopping 500 guests, who arrived on tour buses, at Episcopal church Bethesda-by-the Sea, according to People.
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TONY CAMPBELL, far right, sax jams with the band. (Photos by J. L. Martello)
Pittsburgh is known around the world as the home of many legendary jazz icons.
On June 21 the 9th Annual Jazz on the Hillside fundraising concert brought four local "icons" to the lawn of the Schenley Heights Community Development Program Multi-Purpose Center at 3171 Ewart Drive.
"As with the programs we provide at SHCDP, Jazz on the Hillside has become a mainstay in the Schenley Heights community and is a great way to celebrate our mission," said Rev. Dr. Johnnie Monroe, executive director of SHCDP. "Our programs enable the community's children to have a safe place to go and to grow."
ETTA COX was one of the jazz giants who performed.
This year's evening of jazz "under the stars" featured the Tony Campbell Quintet featuring Jerry Lucarelli, the legendary Harold Betters Quartet, Al Dowe & Etta Cox Quartet and Jimmy Ponder. Tony Mowod, the "Voice of Jazz" and president and founder of the Pittsburgh Jazz Society, returned as the emcee and is co-chair of the event.
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I'd like to ordain as a monk at Wat Pah Nanachat some day. But now I became a bit anxious, because...
I went to a dermatologist, and it turned out, that I have several birthmarks on my head (naevus pigmentosus). There is no problem with them, there is no sign that they will turn into melanoma.
But it is definitely not advisable to shave my head, because if they injured it can be dangerous. So I can't shave my head completely, not even with a hair clipper, because it can injure them too.
What can I do now? Is it an obstacle to my ordination? Or is it possible to cut my hair to a minimum size with a hair clipper or something like that?
I've read this in the Buddhist Monastic Code:
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Is it possible to take it as a 'sore', so I can use scissors? What does the Community of Wat Pah Nanachat think about that (I mean do they use electric razors)?Unless ill — e.g., he has a sore on his head — a bhikkhu may not use scissors to cut his hair or have it cut. The question of using electric razors to shave the head is a controversial one. Because their cutting action — even in rotary shavers — is like that of scissors, many Communities will not allow their use in shaving the head.
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Why Are Takeover Prices Plummeting?
Mergers and acquisitions have been dominated by cheapskates this year.
U.S. companies are paying just 19% more, on average, than their acquisition target's trading price one week before the deal was announced.
That's the lowest takeover premium since at least 1995, as far back as records go at Dealogic, which analyzed the data for The Wall Street Journal. Historically, the premiums have averaged 30%.
Companies such as Thermo Fisher Scientific, Applied Materials and Perrigo have all signed acquisition deals this year with premiums below traditional averages.
The tightfisted terms reflect the cautious stance of corporate boards. Executives must make calculations based on political uncertainty, industry cycles, a tepid economic recovery and expectations that the Federal Reserve may soon reverse policies that have kept interest rates near historic lows.
"Companies think it's too uncertain a time to do major deals," said Robert Kindler, global head of mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley.
That hesitancy is outweighing conditions that normally spur deals: a rising stock market that is rewarding acquirers, wide-open credit markets and a tough economic environment that makes it difficult to expand without acquisitions.
U.S. acquirers have announced 9,347 deals so far this year, off about 16% from the same point last year, and the lowest year-to-date level in four years.
Some of the shrinkage in this year's premiums has had to do with a surging stock market. The S&P 500 index has climbed more than 26% this year. Escalating stock prices can complicate negotiations by shrinking a premium daily.
R.R. Donnelley & Sons paid a 3% premium in its $620 million acquisition of Consolidated Graphics Donnelley CEO Thomas Quinlan said buyers are finding it easier to persuade sellers to accept lower premiums because their valuations already are high, though he declined to discuss specifics of his deal.
Shares of R.R. Donnelley and Consolidated Graphics were up more than 80% for the year when the deal was announced in late October.
"Sometimes the seller has already seen its stock run up," Mr. Quinlan said.
In some cases, industry cycles affect valuations. Concerns about the long-term health of Dell Inc.'s personal-computer business, for example, kept private-equity firm Silver Lake and company founder Michael Dell from putting more money on the table. It also discouraged other bidders from getting aggressive.
"Getting their arms around what happens to the PC business was difficult," said one person close to the discussions.
That uncertainty allowed Mr. Dell and Silver Lake to avoid any substantial increase in their bid for the company, even though Dell's shareholders were clamoring for a big bump from the initial $13.65 a share, which represented a 4.8% premium to the stock's week-earlier price.
In the end, Mr. Dell and Silver Lake raised the price by a dime a share.
While premiums are an important selling point to the target's shareholders, they rank low on the list of factors that buyers consider.
"It's a big psychological factor for the company being acquired. It's an easy expression of value," said Sean Aggarwal, chief financial officer of real-estate website Trulia, which bought software company Market Leader Inc. at a 21% premium. But, he added, "The premium is the crudest measure of all."
Instead, to determine the value of the deal, Trulia's management focused on how the deal would improve cash flow, and examined how much revenue and profits the combined company would create, although it also looked at multiples paid in other similar deals, and gauged the trading multiples of Market Leader's peers.
Perrigo's pending $8.6 billion acquisition of Irish biotechnology company Elan carried a 16% premium when it was announced at the end of July. That was lower than the average 18.4% premium paid in all health-care deals by U.S. buyers this year, and less than half the 35.9% average premium last year.
Judy Brown, Perrigo's CFO, said the company calculated the return on invested capital, for the next three years when assessing the price it paid for Elan. She also said that Elan had been subject to a hostile takeover effort by Royalty Pharma AG, which pushed up the stock price and affected Perrigo's ultimate bid.
"It's very challenging to just go in willy-nilly and pay an enormous premium," she said. "Whether you call it discipline or stinginess, we're always being careful."
But takeover battles are relatively rare these days, preventing sellers from playing competing bidders off against each other to push up prices.
So far this year, just 15 takeovers involved rival bids. That's less than the 27 a year earlier and the lowest since 2004, according to Dealogic.
"The highest premiums tend to be on deals that are contested, with multiple bidders involved," said Anil Shivdasani, a finance professor at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
The lack of overall takeover activity is leaving some puzzled, particularly because the market seems to be rewarding companies that seal deals, said Jim Woolery, deputy chairman of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP.
Advance Auto Parts stock jumped as much as 19% last month after it agreed to buy General Parts International Inc. for just over $2 billion in cash.
Dealogic's data show that the stock prices of acquirers have increased an average 2.4% between the day before and the day after a deal's announcement. That's the largest average increase since 2006.
"The market is voting in favor of the deals," Mr. Woolery said. "The fact that we're not seeing more folks trying to capture that is a bit of a mystery."


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Beginning Monday, April 29, eastbound lanes of Main Street will close nightly as the City's contractor on the Floyd Branch Watershed drainage project installs box culverts under the roadway. The closures are anticipated to take place for approximately one week, weather permitting
The closures are expected to begin at 8 p.m. each night and conclude by 6 a.m. the following morning.
Signs will be placed in the area alerting drivers of the lane closures. Eastbound traffic on Belt Line Road/Main Street will be directed to turn north onto the US-75 frontage road, then take Greer Street to Interurban Street to continue east on Main Street. Northbound US-75 drivers wishing to turn onto eastbound Main Street will be directed to Kaufman Street then Interurban Street. (See map below.)
A second phase of the project will impact installation of box culverts under the west bound lanes, which will require daytime lane closures. That work will begin once the first phase is complete. During the second phase of work, east and west bound traffic will be constricted but will be allowed to flow in both directions.
The Floyd Branch watershed collects drainage from 2.6 square miles in south central Richardson and eventually flows to White Rock Lake. Improvement work includes the installation of a new right turn lane along westbound Main Street from Interurban Street to the US-75 northbound frontage road and construction of a new bridge over Floyd Creek Branch at West Phillips Street. The bulk of the work centers on the installation of an underground concrete drainage system through portions of downtown Richardson north and south of Main Street between US-75 and the DART rail line.
In addition to improving the decades-old drainage system, improving drainage system deficiencies will also allow for the possibility of future development since current conditions have been a costly deterrent to redevelopment along the City's Main Street and Central Expressway corridors.
Final completion of the project is expected in spring of 2014.
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GROUPLOVE, an American indie pop band that formed in 2010 by Christian Zucconi (vocals, guitar), Hannah Hooper (vocals, keyboards), Andrew Wessen (vocals, guitar), Sean Gadd (bass, vocals), and Ryan Rabin (drums), thrilled the crowd with catchy fan favorites, including 'Itchin' on a Photograph'.
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Alps - Western Part > Uri Alps Group > Galenstock > Climber's Log
Galenstock Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Route Climbed: SE Spur Date Climbed: july 2017
|Very nice route and unknown to me only until staying in the Sidelenütte a few nights before our climb. We came back a few days later and climbed the SE Spur. Besides the entry couloir, very good rock. The higher you climb, the better it gets. Descent via abseil piste back to the Sidelenhütte.
|Posted Jul 18, 2017 6:16 am
|Silvia Mazzani
|From Albert Heim Hutte
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2004
|Very dry glacier with several crevasses, beautiful peak!
|Posted Dec 13, 2012 7:05 pm
|[X] Bird
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2011
|Did the SE-spur from the Furka pass parking. Lots of clouds during the approached, luckily the start of the climbing was just above the clouds. All in all a realy nice climb, though the decent via the Rhone gletscher is long, boring and tedious.
|Posted Sep 14, 2011 7:26 am
|South-North traverse
Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2010
|Climbed the galengrat verschneidung and traversed from south to north. Perfect weather. Climbed during the alpine instructor course of the dutch alpine association.
|Posted Jul 10, 2010 4:18 pm
|SE Sporn
Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2007
|First tour after my introductionary alpine course (C1) with 3 friends. Descended to the Rhone glacier.
|Posted Aug 16, 2009 4:59 pm
|Bas Visscher
|south-east ridge
|Climbed the south spur on the galengrat. Good rock, nice day out, but because of the unstable weather we returned two pitches under the end of the route. Well bolted, good rock. Because of the melting of the glacier, there is a new pitch (V-V+) with bolts.
|Posted Aug 23, 2008 10:53 am
|normal route
|Following the guide during beginners course.
|Posted May 2, 2008 3:00 pm
|Ski route
Date Climbed: Apr 27, 2008
|Mulidivarese has spocken for me.
Great ski route.Valerio, Giacomo e Andrea.
|Posted Apr 29, 2008 1:44 pm
|three for a perfect one
Date Climbed: Apr 27, 2008
|From Realp in about 6 hour.
Perfect sunny day but incredible hot, without breeze untill we reached about 2900 meters on the glacers.
We skied on the left of the serracs instead the "classic ski route" which leads on the left under Tiefenstock.
Reached the top at 4 pm, the final ridge was very icy. No problems on the two slopes for the top.
We spent the night at the comfortable Albert Heim Hutte watching the sunset and the long way.
Valerio, Giacomo e Andrea
|Posted Apr 29, 2008 3:32 am
|Galenstock 3586 m
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2004
|Fantastic tour to Galenstock 3586 m
my picture are here: Link to Galenstock 3586 m
|Posted Nov 14, 2007 11:50 am
|SE Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2007
|Climbed the Galenstock SE ridge. It has been very well bolted but can be done in a more traditionally 'alpine' way as well and is very enjoyable as such. Plenty of oppertunities for placing good pro. Rock is of very good quality mostly and the the climbing was highly enjoyable. Descent via the north-ridge is rather awkward!
|Posted Aug 15, 2007 7:47 am
|SE-pillar (sporn)
Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2007
|Climbed the Galenstock via the SE-sporn. The pillar itself consists of broken rock in the bottom part (beware of falling rocks if there are parties above) but gets better as you get higher. Some sections III but mostly easier, some sections can be scrambled with rope transport.
|Posted Aug 1, 2007 2:49 pm
|Normal route from Albert Heim Hut
Date Climbed: May 1, 2007
|Climbed with snow shoes from Albert Heim Hut. The conditions were not good, too warm and deep wet snow. At the summit we had a bad view because of a lot of clouds
|Posted May 3, 2007 4:52 am
|Galengrat SE spur
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2006
|Start from the very nice Sidelenhut. The SE spur on the Galengrat (SAC-fuhrer route 720a) has been bolted in 94 and therefore offers 'plaisir' climbing in an alpine environment. The granite feels great and the climb is at times exposed - max. difficulty is UIAA 5 (2 pitches). After about a dozen pitches we got to the end of the climb and the Galensattel. From there we continued on normal shoes/crampons to the Galenstock summit. A bit of a tedious descent via the normalroute and the Rhône Glacier. All in all a very rewarding day, but, when are those temperatures going to drop???
|Posted Jul 23, 2006 7:50 pm
|Mister White
|Route Climbed: From Belvedere Date
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2003
|Second attempt to climb this mountain, after the first had failed from Albert-Heim Hutte. We camped at the south of the Furkapass, so we had a long hike even before we could start. This resulted in an reaching the S-grat late in the afternoon. When I also made a fall, we decided it was time to go back, just about 100 meters from the summit. We reached our camp again when it was getting dark. I will be back to climb the SE-route from Sidelen Hutte.
|Posted Apr 6, 2006 8:58 am
|Route Climbed: normal route from Albert-Heim Hutte Date Climbed: 29 july 2003
|Difficult to reach the summit. I reach with Walter Phister the rocks in 2 1/2 hours. From here I was very heavy.. We reached the summit in 6 hours! But my condition was not optimal.. A wonderful sight like a year before on the Morgenhorn was not giving to me this year... clouds were all around us! but it's a beatiful mountain!!!
|Posted Sep 16, 2003 4:09 am
|Mathias Zehring
|Route Climbed: From Belvedere Date Climbed: June 5th 1993
|2nd day of openig of the Furka Pass road after winter closing. Over 100 swiss climbers had had the same idea so that you "could pass a bottle of beer to the summit". But nevertheless it was a very impressive ski tour. Not easy because of steep slopes and hard snow!
|Posted Feb 9, 2002 12:22 am


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The contractors board interprets the interest of the legislature in enacting Chapter 31.05 ASCA to be the protection of the health, safety, and general welfare of all those persons dealing with individuals engaged in the contracting vocation and the affording to such individuals an effective and practical protection against incompetent, inexperienced, unlawful, and fraudulent acts of contractors with whom they contract. Also, the board's goal is to upgrade and cultivate responsibility within the contracting vocation as well as the promotion of craftsmanship and financial stability.History: Contractors Lic. Bd. Reg. 1.02, eff 12 Feb 73.


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Guide to St. Louis County Missouri genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
|St. Louis County, Missouri
Location of Missouri in the U.S.
|October 1, 1812
|County Seat
| St. Louis County Courthouse
41 S Central Avenue
Clayton, MO 63105
Phone: 314.889.2041
St. Louis County Website
- 1 County Courthouse
- 2 History
- 3 Places/Localities
- 4 Resources
- 4.1 Archives and Libraries
- 4.2 Cemeteries
- 4.3 Census
- 4.4 Church History and Records
- 4.5 County Directories
- 4.6 Court Records
- 4.7 Land
- 4.8 Local Histories
- 4.9 Maps
- 4.10 Military
- 4.11 Newspapers
- 4.12 Taxation
- 4.13 Vital Records (Civil)
- 5 Societies/Libraries/Museums
- 6 Web Sites
- 7 References
County Courthouse
County Clerk has birth records 1877-1910;
Recorder Deeds has marriage and land records;
Clerk Circuit Court has divorce and court records[1]
St. Louis County predates the state of Missouri which was admitted to the union in 1821. St. Louis was one of the five original districts of the Louisiana Territory from 1805-1812 and one of the five original counties of the Missouri Territory from 1812 to 1821.
On August 22, 1876 the City of St. Louis voted to separate from St. Louis County and became an independent city.
Parent County
'St. Louis County was created 1 October 1812 as an original county.
- Note - The seperation was not official until a court case decided the issue in March of 1877. St. Louis County started separate record keeping from St. Louis City in 1877. It was not until December 1878, however, that the county established a new courthouse in the new county seat of Clayton, Missouri.
- Records for the county (1805-1876) are maintained by the City of St. Louis and records (1877-present) are maintained by the county. The two years of 1877 and 1878 are a gray area in county record keeping and records for those years may show up in city records. Many of these records are available at both the St. Louis Public Library (City) and the St. Louis County Library.
For further explanation see St. Louis City and County Split & How it Affects Research in St. Louis.
Boundary Changes
- See an interactive map of St. Louis County border changes at N2Genealogy.
Record Loss
- The State Historical Society of Missouri has information on historical Missouri place names for all Missouri Counties. The place names for St. Louis City and St. Louis County are combined under St. Louis County Place Names.
Populated Places
Neighboring Counties
- Franklin SW
- Jefferson S
- Madison (Illinois) NE
- Monroe (Illinois) SE
- St. Charles NW
- St. Clair (Illinois) SE
- St. Louis (Independant city) E
Archives and Libraries
- St. Louis Public Library (St. Louis City) owns a large collection of books, periodicals, maps, and other miscellaneous materials that deal with the history of St. Louis City, and Library staff have indexed many previously unindexed books and materials on that topic. They also own a large local history card file, and a large vertical file consisting of articles clipped from local newspapers and other local publications.
St. Louis Public Library Local History Indexes and Bibliographies
- St. Louis County Library has a large collection of genealogical records for St. Louis City and St. Louis County in its Special Collections Department located at its main headquarters. The collection includes holdings from the St. Louis Genealogical Society as well as parish records from the Archdiocese of St. Louis. In addition to its holdings, the staff of the Special Collections Department has created indexes for many records including St. Louis newspapers as well as birth, naturalization, probate, and church records.
- Missouri History Museum Library and Research Center has a collection of books, manuscripts, periodicals, newspapers, maps, and photographs including: Biographies, yearbooks, business and trade catalogs and military records. Their website has a searchable genealogy index that covers many of these collections.
- Search the Archdiocese of St. Louis Cemetery records for burials in seventeen Catholic cemeteries from the St. Louis area.
- New Mt. Sinai Cemetery records (Jewish) are available online.
- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has burial records for Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery and other Veterans Affairs National Cemeteries around the country.
- List of St Louis Area Cemeteries with records on Cd available for purchase from the St. Louis Genealogical Society.
- B'nai Amoona Cemetery, University City
- Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery, Ladue
- Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, University City
- Chinese Cemetery, University City
- Oakwood Cemetery, Kirkwood
- Ohave Sholom Cemetery, University City
- Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Maryland Heights
For tips on accessing St. Louis County, Missouri Genealogy census records online, see: Missouri Census.
Church History and Records
- The St. Louis County Library has a page that lists its available Catholic resources including a list of Catholic priests * that served in St. Louis from 1841-1900.
- St. Louis County Library's Catholic records collection is large. A list of their holdings from the Archdiocese of St. Louis is not available online. They have published a 348 page guide Guide To St. Louis Catholic Archdiocesan Parish Records detailing their holdings.
- The St. Louis County Library has a page that lists its available Lutheran resources including an index to some Immanuel Lutheran Church and St. Paul's Lutheran Church records.
Evangelical and United Church of Christ
- The St. Louis County Library has a page that lists its available Evangelical resources including a list of Evangelical priests * that served from 1834-2005.
* With the priests name from a civil marriage record, this list can be used to locate a church marriage record which often contains more family information.
County Directories
- The St. Louis County Directory for 1893 is available on Google Books.
- The St. Louis County Library has St. Louis County Directories for 1893, 1896, 1903 and other later years available in their Special Collections Department.
Court Records
- Missouri State Archives - Online access to St. Louis Probate records (original documents)
- St. Louis County Library has created an Index to Naturalizations. Site provides information on the various naturalization records from the U.S. Circuit Court.
Local Histories
- Map of modern day St. Louis County townships (Histopolis) - also shows the locaton of cemeteries from the St. Louis area.
- The University of Missouri Digital Library has digital copies of Missouri county plat books (ca. 1930) for all Missouri counties including St. Louis County. The city of St. Louis is not included in this collection.
- 1798-1914 - St. Louis County Library has created an Index to Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914. The names included in the extracted set below include ONLY enlistees who were either born in St. Louis, Missouri, or who enlisted at St. Louis or at Jefferson Barracks (shown as Jeff Bks in the chart) which is located in St. Louis County.
Civil War
Civil War service men from St. Louis County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies or regiments that were formed from men of St. Louis County.
Men from St. Louis County also served in the following Illinois companies:
- - 2nd Regiment, Illinois Light Artillery, Battery E.
- - 10th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Company F.
- - 16th Regiment, Illinois Cavalry, Company E.
- - 43rd Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Company A.
World War I
- St. Louis County Library site has a street guide to the World War I draft boards in the city of St. Louis. Ancestry.com ($) has copies of World War I draft registration cards.
- Fold3.com ($) has Civil War and other military records available online. Some libraries including the St. Louis County Library provide free access to this database.
St. Louis Obiturary index: Compiled from the St. Louis Post Dispatch Newpaper covering the years 1880-1930, 1942-1945, 1960-1969, and 1992-2009. Sponsored by the St. Louis Public Library.
Vital Records (Civil)
See St. Louis County, Missouri Vital Records for information on St. Louis County vital records and their indexes.
St. Louis Genealogical Society.
Family History Centers
- Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
- St Louis Missouri Family History Center
- St Louis Missouri North Family History Center
Web Sites
- USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
- Family History Library Catalog
- Genealogy in St. Louis
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), St Louis County, Missouri. Page 406 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).


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ang galing bumanat nung japanese guy.
ang sarap mo talaga angel ang init mo
sarap paglaruan puki mo....ooooohhhhhh ka pa baby
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ang tatanga nyo nakalagay na nga sa title yung pangalan nung actress...hindi si angel locsin yan...
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yeah right
nde yan c angel,, naging issue na yan dti... open nyu sa google type nyu natt chanapa.. look alike lng nya yan.. d gn2ng claseng tao c angel..
no its not ANGEL LOCSIN ITS ME MY OWN BOY NOT DINGDONG DANTES
si angel kaya talaga to?
pre, si angel locsin daw to?
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Jeter collected at least one hit and one run in each of his seven games last week, going 13-for-30 with four doubles, 23 total bases, a .767 slugging percentage and a .472 on-base percentage. He also had four multi-hit games and drove in a run in six of his seven contests. The Yankees are now 17-1 in games in which Jeter hits a home run. This is his second career weekly award (previous: 8/5/01).
Other candidates were fellow Yankee Alex Rodriguez (.323, 11 RBI); Detroit's Carlos Guillen (.476) and Craig Monroe (.385, 4 HR, 9 RBI); Kansas City's Angel Berroa (.452, 2 HR, 7 RBI) and Joe Randa (.462, 5 RBI, 9 R); Kevin Mench (.370, 5 HR, 6 RBI), Mark Teixeira (4 HR, 13 RBI) and Michael Young (.419, 3 RBI) of Texas; and last week's winner, Toronto's Carlos Delgado (.409, 3 HR, 6 RBI).
Pitchers on this week's ballot were C.C. Sabathia (1-0, 1.79 ERA, 1 CG) of the Indians; Anaheim's Bartolo Colón (2-0, 1.29 ERA); Boston's Bronson Arroyo (2-0, 1.98 ERA); Mark Buehrle (1-0, 2.00 ERA, 1 CG) of the Chicago White Sox; and Orlando Hernandez (2-0, 1.93 ERA) of the Yankees.
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Arroyo expresses frustration over ailing back
By Steve Gilbert / MLB.com
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Monday was not a good one for Bronson Arroyo.
The D-backs right-hander played catch for the third day in a row, but unlike Sunday, when his injured back felt better, it was more like Saturday, when he was stiff.
"We're trying a million things," said Arroyo, who was scratched from his start last Tuesday and diagnosed with a bulging disk.
Arroyo is still hopeful that he can throw a bullpen session Wednesday, which would put him on track to be ready for the regular season.
"The longer it goes on, the more he gets pushed back," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "We'll wait and see. It's been slow."
And that pace is wearing on Arroyo.
"It's driving me nuts today to tell you the truth," he said. "Everybody around here is like no hurry, no hurry, but I've got a time clock in my head, and to me, it's like a time bomb going off if I don't get this thing right."
Arroyo has never had to miss a regular-season start due to injury, so the thought of opening the season on the disabled list is not one he wants to entertain.
"It's a huge deal to me," he said. "I've played this game for the last 20 years without having to bow out. I'll know when there's a day where I've got it and it's like, 'All right, I'm good.' If I can throw and get after it, it will be like, 'OK, I weathered the storm.' But right now, I'm not there yet."
And the clock is ticking.
Corbin feeling ready with one spring start left
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- D-backs lefty Patrick Corbin settled in after allowing two runs in the second inning and came away from his start Monday night feeling good about where he's at.
Corbin allowed three runs on six hits over five innings as he threw 74 pitches.
"I started just getting ahead with my fastball and then going to my slider," Corbin said. "Early on, I was kind of throwing my slider earlier in counts. I just talked to [pitching coach Mike Harkey] about it, and it was just something we tried to make an adjustment for in the third inning and just attacked with my fastball."
Corbin has one more start, Saturday against the Indians in Goodyear, before he pitches the regular-season opener against the Dodgers on March 22 in Sydney, Australia.
"I feel like I'm ready and where I need to be," Corbin said.
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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