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Sara Eddins is excited about her unopposed run for the Lancaster City Council District 6 seat.
"It's been going just fine," Eddins said. "I've never run for office before and I was quite surprised when I was unopposed."
Q: What if the sales tax collected isn't enough to cover the bonds used to build the courthouse?
A campaign flier that arrived in homes this week may leave some of you wondering where one of your local papers stands in the S.C. District 16 Senate race.
The flier, sent out by Democrat Mandy Powers Norrell's campaign, uses the Carolina Gateway flag, or logo, and a fragment of a headline from the Oct. 15 issue, as part of an attack on Norrell's opponent, Republican Mick Mulvaney.
But the newspaper's flag was used without permission, Carolina Gateway Editor Jane Alford said Thursday.
A weekend rally by a civil rights organization will center on education, fairness, unity and empowerment.
The National Action Network, a civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, is holding a justice rally at 1 p.m. Saturday at First Washington Baptist Church on East Meeting Street.
John Barnett, president of the York County National Action Network, said the rally will give people in the community a chance to share concerns related to law enforcement and employment.
Five candidates seeking countywide positions are expected to sail to easy victories in Tuesday's election.
The reason: They face no opponents.
Barring a successful write-in campaign, Lancaster County Coroner Mike Morris, Clerk of Court Jeff Hammond, Treasurer Dick Rowell and Auditor Cheryl Morgan will all retain their offices. They are all Democrats.
Landmark Media Enterprises LLC, citing the credit crisis, announced Wednesday that it has taken most of its properties, including The Lancaster News, off the market. But the company is continuing negotiations to sell its flagship paper, The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk.
"We are having discussions regarding The Virginian-Pilot Media Companies with an interested buyer," Landmark's vice chairman, Richard F. Barry III, said Wednesday. "The buyer is encouraged about obtaining financing."
She said she's running for office again because of her love of children.
Charlene McGriff is running unopposed for the District 2 seat on the Lancaster County school board in Tuesday's election.
McGriff, 56, has served on the board 1994. She is seeking her fifth term.
"All my love and energy go toward children," said McGriff, the current board chairwoman. "That's what I do."
McGriff wants to help ensure that everything the board does is for the betterment of the students.
It was once a question of if Lancaster County would build a courthouse using a 1-cent sales tax.
That was before a fire set by an arsonist destroyed the second floor of the 180-year-old Lancaster County Courthouse on Aug. 4.
The courthouse was being used then as a working court facility, and county officials were making plans to build a new one.
But the fire changed the tone of the referendum. Now, Lancaster County must have a new courthouse, county officials say.
Two Lancaster men were reportedly shot while playing cards at a Rock Street home early Thursday.
The two men – ages 25 and 19 – were inside the home when they heard three gunshots, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report. One man was shot in the right arm and the other was shot in the lower right abdomen.
The incident happened just after midnight.
The battle continues as the candidates for the state Senate District 16 seat bicker over a mountain of accusations.
Democrat Mandy Powers Norrell and Republican Mick Mulvaney have spent much of the final days before Tuesday's election responding to complaints from each other's campaign.
On Tuesday afternoon, Norrell accused Mulvaney of supporting "push polling," a technique used in political elections where people are asked fake poll questions designed to tarnish the reputation of a candidate.
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This is a diamond variation of the Craik O'Brien Cornsweet illusion. What you have to do, is to look at each row of diamonds below. Does each row appear darker than the row above it? It sure does to me. In reality, all of the diamond shapes present in this figure are in fact identical in luminance. The reason for this illusions, is that when combined in this pattern, the diamonds near the bottom are perceived darker than those near the top!
UPDATE: Check out the video below, recently uploaded on YouTube. This guy showed how this illusion works in real life:

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Nugent: 'More support' than Obama
Never one to shy away from speaking his mind, rocker Ted Nugent arrived on Capitol Hill for the State of the Union speech and promised to keep quiet.
And he kept his promise, sitting silently in a corner of the visitors' gallery above the House floor. Nugent — a gun advocate and guest of Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) — was so quiet, in fact, he didn't even applaud once during the entire speech.
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( Also on POLITICO: Ted Nugent's 'stranglehold' on TV)
"He's a masterful speaker, but in the past he's proven he doesn't mean what he says," said Nugent of President Barack Obama. "It's all flowers and very attractive and scripted emotion."
The galleries were filled with guests of elected House members, including more than two dozen people affected by gun violence that were invited by Democratic lawmakers. But Nugent said the people who sat with him during the speech were those who "lived by the same logic as the Nugent family."
( PHOTOS: Scenes from the State of the Union)
"People of the military, people of law enforcement, small business owners — everyone was in agreement with Uncle Ted," he said.
As he left the the gallery, Nugent was swarmed by fans wanting photos — and even one woman who yelled "Run for president, Ted!"
"You hear that?" he said to a reporter. "I have more support than the President at his own speech."
Nugent's presence at the State of the Union was, of course, controversial. Last year the Secret Service interviewed Nugent after he told an NRA rally that he would be "dead or in jail by this time next year" if President Obama was reelected.
A liberal group called on House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to "disinvite" Nugent from Tuesday's speech, saying inviting the rocker is "unconscionable."
"This so-called 'patriot' has repeatedly threatened the life of the president," People For The American Way President Michael Keegan wrote in a letter to Boehner. "With a gun in each hand, Ted Nugent once publicly called Obama a 'piece of s***,' saying he 'told him [Obama] to suck on my machine gun.'"


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We have four miserable work days to fill until the Ravens' 2009 season opener this Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium against the Kansas City Chiefs. So I figured, in order to help pass the time, I would do a quick semi-preview (quasi-Lebronish?) of the purple and black's schedule for the coming months, breaking it up to 4 games/day through Friday.
Of course, all of these predictions are based on rosters, teams, etc., as they stand today. Injuries, suspensions, and whatever else could easily drastically change my feeling about any or all of the games. This is for fun more than anything else, so don't go calling your bookie on my recommendations.
Week 1 – vs. Kansas City
Matt Cassel is supposedly planning to make the start, despite injuring his knee last week. If he is unable to go, Brodie Croyle will be under center. It won't matter if it is Cassel or Croyle, though. SOMEBODY wearing a Chiefs jersey is going to be throwing balls to Ed Reed this Sunday. M&T Bank will be rockin', I'll be attending my second Ravens' home opener (hope to see you there!), and the Ravens will win, and win big.
Chance of victory: 90%
Week 2 – @ San Diego
A week 2 east-to-west trip for the Mauve Marauders (no? OK.) looks less than appetizing at this point. San Diego looks to be loaded once again on both sides of the ball, and after their terrible start last season, one would have to believe that they will learn from their mistakes and not let themselves fall into another 4-8 hole before they decide to start playing for keeps. I think the Ravens will keep this one close, and avoid getting embarrassed like they did on their last trip to Qualcomm, but I don't see them bringing a W back from sunny San Diego.
Chance of victory: 40%
Week 3 – vs. Cleveland
Presumably, Eric Mangina Mangini will have decided on a QB between Derek Anderson and Brady Quinn by the end of September, but who's to say for sure? Neither of them will be able to handle the Ravens' D, and even though he made the team against everyone's predictions, Jamal Lewis is but a shell of his former self. If Cleveland somehow beats Minnesota, wins at Mile High, and rolls into B'More 2-0 on 9/27, I might be a tad more worried, but another Brown-stain whooping looks much more likely sitting here on Labor Day.
Chance of victory: 80%
Week 4 – @ New England
Guhhh. Another early season road trip, another brutal opponent. The Pats and their fans will no doubt remember that it was the Ravens who kept their 11-5 team out of the postseason in 2008, but the more important factor will be the return of Tom Brady. After having 3 weeks to shake off any rust (or anything else) that he may have gathered over the past year of laying in bed all day with his supermodel wife, Brady and the Pats' offense are likely to be firing on all cylinders by Week 4. I don't think they'll run away with it, and the Ravens will hang around just long enough to give us all heart palpitations, but Randy Moss or Wes Welker will supply the dagger late in the 4th quarter.
Chance of victory: 25%
Tomorrow: Weeks 5-9


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It started as a collective effort … Pretty soon Nature prevailed.
Eyeballs Invaders have landed on a mysterious planet and they need to get as many energy orbs as they can to build themselves a new spaceship. Only one tiny problem: there's not enough room on the replacement shuttle for all of them. Let the massacre begins, cause in the end, only one will survive and go home!
The Eyeball Invaders is a free to play fast-paced multi-player action game for PC, Mac and Linux in which each player takes control of one of many different eyeball-like character and jumps his way through 5 wonderful planets and 150 tricky levels.
Discover The Eyeball Invaders world through an exciting single player adventure mode or tackle the challenges with your friends! The game will let you challenge up to seven other players over five hectic modes of play, for some local eight-player brawling madness! And if you prefer playing online, go through the steam community and game integrated lobbies to find yourself more challengers!
Control your jump power and leap left or right to catch the Orbs in the glimpse of an eye. Stick to the walls and use them as launching platforms to jump even further! Watchwords: jump, stick and brawl! Feels like something you'd like to play? Then do something about it and head over to Steam Community, where we're waiting for your votes to get Greenlit!
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So, WatermarQue Plus is just one of those apps allowing the user to watermark any number of images, right? Not so fast... WatermarQue Plus comes with a built-in media player that allows the user to import movies and take movie snapshots, which can be brought to its image list. That is, WatermarQue plus offers a quick and easy way of batch-watermarking movie snapshots. Its built-in video player supports such multimedia formats as 3GP, AVI, DV, M4V, MOV, MPEG, WMV and more, depending on computer's OS version, availability of QuickTime components and other factors.
What's New in WatermarQue Plus
Version 2.3.1:
- Preferences: 'Check QuickTime at startup' is deprecated because the application can put itself into an infinite loop when the user cannot locate QuickTime 7 under Snow Leopard.
- Text alignment may not have been enforced unless the user closes Text window and then reopen it manually.
- Open button is installed so that the user can have quick access to the destination folder.
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Eighty years ago, the nation's eyes turned to rural ENC when eight residents died on the way to a tobacco market
Four in the morning, a truck bed filled with tobacco, on the road to the market. Just another workday.
When the 12 men and boys left Deep Run for a market near the South Carolina line on Aug. 22, 1933, there wasn�t any reason to think that day would be unlike any other.
But while approaching a railroad crossing at 8:30 a.m. on the south side of Lumberton, driver Haywood Smith believed the whistle he heard came from a nearby factory � only it wasn�t. With barely any time to react, the truck slammed into the side of the baggage car of a Seaboard Air Line Railroad passenger train.
Three people died at the scene, two died on their way to receive medical treatment and two more died shortly after reaching Baker Sanatorium.
Jesse Davenport, 26; Louis Davenport, 33; Wesley Davenport, 14; Dick Harper, 22; Burchard Smith, 23; Jack Smith, 21; and Clyde Taylor, 15 died that day. The father of Jesse, Louis and Wesley � Furney Davenport, 57 � succumbed to his injuries soon thereafter.
Zeb Brown, 28; Millard Davenport, 61; Haywood Smith, 26; and Woodrow Taylor, 21, survived the crash.
The story went across the wires, picked up in papers as far away as Texas and New York. First-hand accounts from The Robesonian and the United Press described the destruction in detail.
The collision sent debris 300 yards down the track.
�Parts of three bodies were strewn all along the track,� said H.A. Oliver, business manager for the Robesonian in a UP story. �There was a head cut off, and the rest of the body farther down the line. They were literally torn to pieces.�
Haywood Smith, miraculously, walked away from the disaster with minor cuts to the face and a bruised leg. He reportedly told investigators he couldn�t see the train or the railroad crossing until it was too late, obscured by houses on the road.
�My daddy was standing on the brakes, so they say,� said Lexine Jaye, Haywood�s daughter and Furney�s granddaughter.
In addition to her grandfather, she also lost five uncles in the wreck.
Jaye, born nearly three years afterward, said she didn�t know anything about what happened until she was 15, and nothing substantial about the incident until she started looking into it as an adult.
�Daddy wouldn�t talk about it, and mother couldn�t stand it, either,� Jaye said.
Picking up the pieces
The first word reached Deep Run when Sheriff P.S. Kornegay in Lumberton put in a call to the Lenoir County Sheriff�s Office. What was described as an undertaker�s party left for Lumberton at 11 a.m., returning to town later that afternoon. Reports tell of Kinston residents meeting each other on street corners, in shock at what occurred.
The next day would be a day of mourning.
The Aug. 23, 1933 edition of The Free Press called it �the saddest day in Deep Run�s history,� noting, �Practically every person in the countryside took today off to visit with the families of the victims.�
The Deep Run Free Will Baptist Church held a joint funeral for the Smith brothers, Dick Harper and Clyde Taylor. The Davenports held their funeral service at their home. On a day of turbulent emotions, the weather appeared to follow in kind.
�Arrangements for the funerals were made as a storm raged across the section,� The Free Press reported. �A tropical gale sweeping up from the coast drenched the countryside and leveled crops.�
The courts
After Lumberton law enforcement held off on charging anyone with a crime, Solicitor Thomas McNeill of Lumberton called for the coroner to convene an inquest. Late at night on Aug. 22, officers placed Haywood Smith under arrest.
�Daddy was under a $1,000 bond, and back then, that was a lot of money,� Jaye said. �But he was found not guilty.�
A $1,000 bond in 1933 is equivalent to nearly $18,000 today.
The Seaboard rail line found itself the subject of seven lawsuits brought by victims of the wreck, which sought damages of $280,000, equal to $4.54 million now.
After the cases bounced around the civil court system, they went to trial as one matter on June 17, 1937. A jury received the suits at 5 p.m. that day, returning at 10:50 p.m. a verdict of negligence on the part of Seaboard. The rail line was ordered to pay $20,000, or what would amount to nearly $325,000 today.
Seaboard announced its intention to appeal after the judgment.
Jaye said she knew Jesse Davenport and Jack Smith�s families settled with Seaboard, but she didn�t know about what might have happened to others.
�(Jesse�s) baby was about nine months old, and the railroad company gave him a settlement,� Jaye said. �And, daddy�s brother, Jack � he had a daughter, but she wasn�t born at (the time of) the wreck.�
Jack Smith�s daughter was born a few months later.
Putting the past in the past
The community worked to put the tragedy behind them as they moved along with the business of their lives. And unless you look, it�s hard to find remnants of the sadness that gripped Lenoir County during late August, 80 years ago.
But, what happened that day does survive � in the song �Lumberton Wreck� recorded the next year, in the words of journalists long since deceased, or family photos and stories told to relatives around the kitchen table.
And in the Deep Run FWB Church cemetery, a magnolia towers over those whose lives were taken too early, now long at rest.
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 and email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @WolfeReports.


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I Love You, Beth Cooper (Paperback)
Ecco, 9780061236181, 304pp.
Publication Date: April 15, 2008
Other Editions of This Title:
Digital Audiobook (6/8/2009)
CD-Audio (6/9/2009)
Paperback (6/9/2009)
Hardcover (5/8/2007)
Mass Market Paperback (6/1/2009)
Denis Cooverman wanted to say something really important in his high school graduation speech. So, in front of his 512 classmates and their 3,000 relatives, he announced: "I love you, Beth Cooper."
It would have been such a sweet, romantic moment. Except that Beth, the head cheerleader, has only the vaguest idea who Denis is. And Denis, the captain of the debate team, is so far out of her league he is barely even the same species. And then there's Kevin, Beth's remarkably large boyfriend, who's in town on furlough from the United States Army. Complications ensue.
About the Author
Larry Doyle goes by thelarrydoyle on Facebook, Twitter, and in real life. Too much information about him is available at larrydoyle.com.
Praise For I Love You, Beth Cooper…
— USA Today
"In the flagrantly funny I Love You, Beth Cooper, Larry Doyle gives the coming-of-age novel a swirly."
— Vanity Fair
"Fresh, sweet, seriously funny."
— Newsweek
"…hilarious coming-of-age novel…"
— Rocky Mountain News
"…this book is laugh-out-loud funny…"
— John Searles, NBC Weekend Today Show
"…this side-splitting novel of adolescence is a classic teen movie waiting to be made."
— Entertainment Weekly - The Must List
One of the "best comedy books of the summer."
— Time Out Chicago
"…the book is great... dark, absurdist, insanely funny send-up of a John Hughes movie…Buy it."
— New York magazine
"Doyle's hilarious debut novel [moves] at a clip but never forgets that humor needs heart, too." Grade: A
— Entertainment Weekly
"Larry Doyle…gives a 21st-century gloss to this familiar tale… wickedly funny…"
— New York Times Book Review
"I Love You, Beth Cooper…made B&N fiction buyer Sessalee Hensley 'laugh-snort through my nose.'"
— USA Today
— Esquire
"...a demonstration of the power of good comic writing…"
— Weekly Standard
"…hilarious high school romp... never ceases to charm...unlike, say, PE."
— E! Online - Cool Stuff
"Hilarious, suspenseful, and a little good-kind-of-sad, the novel is a mashup of John Hughes movies.
— Blueprint Magazine
"This funny, hopeful novel is like a John Hughes movie in book form."
— Indianapolis Star
"...darn funny."
— Salt Lake City Tribune
"...a romp, a goof, a wedgie to the coming-of-age novel... the book is blessed release."
— Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Doyle [injects] his own brand of insightful, engaging humor and convincingly recreates the high school experience..."
— New York Press
"A smart, incredibly funny pastiche…Doyle's writing is fast-paced and full of self-aware nods to the audience."
— Houston Press - Blogs
"It's all outlandish fun, but what do you expect from a former Simpsons writer?"
— Daily Candy Los Angeles
"Hip and hysterical...a fun, teen coming-of-age story."
— Buffalo News
"…outrageously funny novel… "
— Booklist
"...humorously addresses the agony and ecstasy of adolescence. It's high-school hell…Doyle has the scene down cold."
— Kirkus Reviews
"If this book doesn't make you laugh out loud, something is wrong with you."
— Dave Barry
"...an instant classic, right up there with great end-of-school landmarks like American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused."
— Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of LITTLE CHILDREN
"Larry Doyle has created a perfect literary hot fudge sundae: sweet, naughty, delicious, irresistible."
— Kurt Andersen
"...a one-night-only joyride through Larry Doyle's brilliant sense of humor."
— David Schickler, author of SWEET AND VICIOUS and KISSING IN MANHATTAN
"I have never laughed as consistently hard with (or at) anything as I did with this book…"
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


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Control the Risk of Stroke in Women
Women are more likely than men to die of stroke. While many people believe that stroke affects only the elderly, anyone at any age can be at risk for stroke. Here is what you should know about the risk factors and how to treat them.
Did you know?
- Stroke is the third leading cause of death, and a leading cause of disability in the United States.
- Of the 700,000 Americans who suffer strokes every year, many stroke sufferers are women under age 65.
The good news is that the most common risk factors for stroke are ones that can be treated and controlled:
Common Risk Factors for Stroke
High blood pressure/hypertension
High blood pressure is the single most important risk factor for stroke. There are usually no symptoms or early warning signs of high blood pressure. The best way to ensure that your blood pressure is normal (about 120/80 mm Hg) is to have it checked regularly.
Studies show that cigarette smoking is an important risk factor for stroke, but the consequences of smoking are the most preventable. The carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke decreases the amount of oxygen in the blood.
Diabetes occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin or is unable to use the insulin it does make. Many diabetes patients have other health problems such as high cholesterol and blood pressure. When these health issues are combined with diabetes, the risk for stroke is increased.
Carotid artery disease
Since your carotid artery (in your neck) supplies blood directly to the brain, if this artery is damaged by atherosclerosis (fatty buildup of plaque in the artery wall), it can become blocked by a clot, which may result in a stroke.
Coronary heart disease
People with heart problems are at risk for stroke two times more than those whose hearts work normally. Rapid, uncontrolled beating in the heart's upper chamber raises the risk for stroke. Heart attack is also a major cause of death among stroke survivors.
Special Risk Factors for Women
Although stroke is more common in men than women, more women at older ages have strokes, and at all ages women are more likely to die of stroke. For women, other risk factors can have a direct impact on stroke:
Migraine headaches
Women are more likely to experience migraine headaches than men. Women who suffer from migraines with auras (visual interruptions such as blind spots or flashing dots) can be at a much higher risk of having a stroke, according to recent research.
Birth control pills
Oral contraceptives are safe options for birth control, but the risk of stroke increases significantly for women who use these contraceptives and are smokers, as well as those are older than age 35.
Learn what factors put you at greater risk of stroke such as family history, high blood pressure, diabetes, and increasing age, and how to modify your lifestyle to lessen risks.
This article was originally published in the May 2006 issue of Smart Health – Northeast Ohio's Health and Wellness Magazine Just For Women, and was adapted for use on NetWellness with permission, 2006.
For more information:
Go to the Stroke health topic.


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As I was looking at everyone's Top 10 Ideas from 2010 I noticed everyone's Subway Art.
I just think that subway art is the coolest thing, and not very hard at all.
So I decided I would try it out myself!
I picked the canvas up at Hobby Lobby for 1/2 off!
As I was looking around Hobby Lobby I saw the scrapbook pages were also 1/2 off so I thought I might try and add some of these into my subway art!
First I painting my canvas chocolate brown,
then I cut the scrapbook pages into a few rows.
I then got out my favorite crafting device...
and modpodged my paper onto my brown canvas!!
As this was drying I started printing out words on my silhouette machine to put on my canvas.
This was actually the hardest part, I couldn't think of words to put on there!
I started off with our families names, then just added words in as they came to my head.
And this is how it all turned out!
It's still a little wet in the picture, but I was super anxious to show everyone my first try at Subway Art!!!
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Michele Bachmann was recently on Glenn Beck's radio show, so that two of the right-wing's most prominent nutters could talk, inaccurately, about currency issues:
BACHMANN: Let me tell you, there's something that's happening this week in Congress that could be the eventual unravelling for our freedom, and it's this. I had asked the Treasury Secretary and Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chair, if they would categorically denounce —
BECK: I know.
BACHMANN: — taking the United States off of the dollar and putting us on an international global currency. Because as you know, Russia, China, Brazil, India, South Africa, many national have lined up now and called for an international currency, a One World currency. And they want to get off the dollar as the reserve currency.
BECK: Most people don't understand what that means.
Here, for once, Beck is on the money. As we'll shortly see, neither he nor Bachmann understands what that means:
BACHMANN: What that means is that all of the countries of the world would have a single currency. We would give up the dollar as our currency and we would just go with a One World currency. And now for the first time, we're seeing major countires like China, India, Russia, countries like that, calling for a one world currency and they want this discussion to occur at the G20. So I asked both the Treasury Secretary and the Federal Reserve chair if they would categorically denounce this. The reason why is because if we give up the dollar as our standard, and co-mingle the value of the dollar with the value of coinage in Zimbabwe, that dilutes our money supply. We lose country over our economy. And economic liberty is inextricably entwined with political liberty. Once you lose your economic freedom, you lose your political freedom. And then we are no more, as an exceptional nation, as we always have been. So this is imperative.
This falsehoods here are coming so fast and loose that it's hard to know where to start here. But to get to the main point, most countries hold "reserves" of various kinds — foreign currency and gold. Most countries, right now, primarily hold dollars. Euros are also popular, and Yen and British Pounds somewhat less so. The United States of America does not, obviously, hold any dollars in our reserves. We actually have quite a lot of gold. And different countries vary their practices in this regard. But most countries mostly hold their reserves in dollars. So the dollar is, in effect, the "global reserve currency." The IMF also issues something called Special Drawing Rights that countries can use as a reserve asset. SDRs work as a kind of meta-currency, with their value based on a basket of major world currencies. A Chinese official suggested that it might be good for the world to tilt away from such a heavy reliance on dollars as the reserve currency of choice, since this leaves countries exposed to policy decisions in the United States, and toward something more SDR-like that would be balanced between dollars and euros and yen and pounds and so forth.
This has nothing to do with replacing the dollars in your bank account — or Michele Bachmann's — with a new currency. Nor would it be the creation of a One World Currency. And to be clear, while the United States could prevent the IMF from formally creating any kind of new internationalized reserve currency, there's nothing we can do to stop foreign countries from weighting their reserve baskets away from dollars. It's just not up to us.
At any rate, my colleague Ali Frick found this remarkable exchange and has the audio for your pleasure:
Keep in mind that these aren't just two weirdos hiding out in a cabin somewhere. Beck has a show on a major cable news network and Bachmann has a seat in congress.


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An archaic institution appointed Trump.
The reason she didn't do better is the economy sucks for the lower middle class.
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Biological markers, or biomarkers, are substances that indicate a particular biological state. Today, neuroscientific researchers are using a vast array of biomarkers, ranging from neuroimaging results to genetic variations to levels of cell proteins, to help predict, diagnose, and treat a variety of brain-related disease states and neuropsychiatric disorders.
What is a biomarker?[i]
The simplest example of a biomarker is an antibody. When someone suffers from an infection, the body's immune system mounts a defensive front through the production of antibodies. These antibodies are specific to the virus or bacteria invading the body. As such, the presence of a particular antibody in the blood is evidence, or a biomarker, of a specific infection, even if the virus or bacterium itself cannot be directly measured. For example, physicians use an antibody test to diagnose Human-Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in patients—an invaluable biomarker in the identification and treatment of this sobering disease.
Biomarkers are used across scientific disciplines—for example, in geology, the presence of certain soil extracts can help predict where scientists might find rich oil deposits. But in the field of neuroscience, these biological characteristics are offering valuable and much-needed insight into the causes and development of debilitating disorders that affect millions of people across the globe. Current neuroscientific biomarkers are helping researchers better understand the etiology of Alzheimer's disease, the prognosis after brain injury, and the selection of antidepressant medication to treat chronic depression.
How do biomarkers help predict or diagnose neuropsychiatric disease? An example.[ii] [iii] [iv]
Disorders of the nervous system are often complex. However, biomarkers can assist in predicting, diagnosing, and sub-typing complicated neuropsychiatric disorders alongside behavioral assessment and other clinical tools. Researchers from the University of California Los Angeles and Rush University Medical Center identified specific changes to the brain that might help predict who will develop Alzheimer's disease. Using neuroimaging techniques, these researchers have discovered loss of brain tissue in an area of the brain called the caudate nucleus as well as thinning in regions of the cortex that receive input from a brain structure called the substantia innominata. These biomarkers helped to predict who was at risk to develop Alzheimer's disease, and may assist future clinicians by allowing them to make early diagnoses and better understand the progression of the disease.
Major depressive disorder often manifests itself differently across individuals—for example, some patients with the disorder may be suicidal, others may not be. Both low cholesterol and decreased brain-derived neurotrophic factor have been linked with suicidal behavior in individuals. Adding these neurobiological predictors to an arsenal of diagnostic tools, psychiatrists can better predict which patients may be more at greater risk for taking their own life.
How do biomarkers help clinicians better predict disease outcomes? An example.[v]
Brain injuries result in a cascade of molecular changes in the brain. Researchers from the Department of Applied Neurobiology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have identified specific changes in the regulation of different proteins after two types of brain injury, one being a stroke and the other being the ballistic type injury you see after a gunshot wound, in a rat model. By understanding these protein changes correlated with specific types of injury, the researchers hope these biomarkers may offer clinicians ways to better characterize how these acute brain injuries may impact function.
How might biomarkers help clinicians select personalized treatments for disease? An example.[vi]
For many neuropsychiatric disorders, there are a variety of possible treatment options. In the case of depression, selecting an antidepressant medication is often a process of trial and error for psychiatrists. With over twenty Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved medications to choose from, it can be a long, arduous process to find the drug that will alleviate depressive symptoms in an individual patient. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles' Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior have demonstrated that a particular pattern of brain activation measured by quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG), a clinical biomarker, can help predict whether a depressed patient will respond better to one type of antidepressant medication over another. They are hopeful the discovery of other clinical biomarkers using this technique may also pinpoint the right treatment options for Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Huntington's disease, and chronic pain disorders in the future.
What are the challenges to using biomarkers in the study of the nervous system?[vii]
The nervous system is very complex, with a variety of different neurotransmitters, neurohormones, and neuropeptides not only influencing neural signaling directly but modulating each other's ability to work in the synapse. This complexity can make it difficult to pinpoint specific biomarkers and understand how they are related to disease. Specifically, even when a particular biomarker is discovered, it is often unclear whether that particular marker, be it a molecule or some type of clinical measurement, is directly correlated to the disease state in question or simply associated with other factors related to the disease.
The blood-brain barrier, the protective layer of endothelial cells that separates the brain from circulating blood, also complicates matters when considering molecular biomarkers. Clinicians cannot directly access brain tissue to look for or measure specific biomarkers of interest. Instead, they must rely on measurements of those biological characteristics in blood, saliva, or cerebrospinal fluid, which may or may not reflect the levels found inside the brain. This is sometimes referred to as "finding windows to the brain."
What can we expect to see from biomarkers in the future?[viii]
Given the need for reliable neuroscientific biomarkers in the detection and treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders, there has been a concerted effort to bring academia and industry together to help identify new and promising candidates. Despite the challenges involved in discovering biomarkers in the study of brain-related disease, neuroscientists are quite optimistic about their contribution to our future understanding of these disorders. As data from fields like genetics, molecular and cellular biology, neuroimaging, and behavioral research converge from the bench and the bedside, it is expected that more precise and reliable biological characteristics will provide clinicians the right tools to diagnose and manage the brain-related diseases and disorders that plague millions of people every day.
[i] http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11947&page=1[ii] Madsen SK, Ho AJ, Hua X, Saharan PS, Jack Jr. CR, Weiner MW, Toga AW and Thompson PM. Caudate atrophy and its clinical correlates in 400 Alzheimer's disease, MCI and healthy elderly subjects. Program No. 348.4. 2010 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.[iii] George S, Mufson EF, Shah RC and Detoledo-Morrell L. Cortical thinning in the substantia innominate project sites in incipient Alzheimer's disease. Program No. 756.9. 2010 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.[iv] Lee BH and Kim YK. Potential peripheral biological predictors of suicidal behavior in major depressive disorder. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 11 August 2010.[v] Yao C, Williams AJ, Ottens AK, May Lu XC, Chen R, Wang KK, Hayes RL, Tortella FC and Dave JR. Detection of protein biomarkers using high-throughput immunoblotting following focal ischemic or penetrating ballistic-like brain injuries in rats. Brain Injury. 2008, 22(10): 723-732[vi] Leuchter AF, Cook IA, Hamilton SP, Narr KL, Toga A, Hunter AM, Faull K, Whitelegge J, Andrews AM, Loo J, Way B, Nelson SF, Horvath S and Lebowitz BD. Biomarkers to predict antidepressant response. Current Psychiatry Reports. 2010, 12(6): 553-562.[vii] http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11947&page=1[viii] http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11947&page=1
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Hay Hay, It's Donna Day!
This is my first "Hay Hay It's Donna Day" blog challenge, a challenge started by fellow Kiwi, Barbara. I have got all the Donna Hay cook books and magazines, and while it seems like I am a huge fan, it is the prettiness of her style rather than her recipes that I enjoy! I love the use of white and pale blue in the photography in her books and magazines – it is very clean and peaceful looking.
The HHIDD challenge involves the last month's challenge winner choosing a recipe from a DH magazine or book and the challengers have to make, not necessarily the recipe, but a form of it. The topics are pretty generic – eg terrines or tarts. This month the challenge was pizza.
This wasn't too much of a challenge for me as I often make pizza, making my own base. The challenge was thinking of an exciting topping. While I am strongly against pizza being a base for whatever is left in the fridge, that is kind of what my pizza turned out to be!
I made it on Sunday night after the champagne breakfast. There were some of the yummy sausages left from the bbq, so I thought I would use them. I made a tomato sauce using canned tomatoes, basil and some leftover red wine, spread that on the base, and sprinkled over sliced sausage and some grated parmesan. While that was cooking, I made a salad of sliced sundried tomatoes, basil leaves, chopped kalamata olives and crumbled feta with plenty of black pepper and a drizzle of olive oil. Once the pizza came out of the oven, I topped it with the salad. It was actually so yummy, and a combination that I would use again.
I think it's a good idea to cook the pizza and then add something fresh to the pizza once it comes out of the oven. It really livens it up and makes it taste fresh and yummy.
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oh my, that looks delicious! Good idea about putting the topping on afterwards, the last time I made pizza I put sundried tomatoes on before cooking, and they weren't as good cooked! I will do it your way next time.
- January 25, 2008 at 10:15 AM
You have excelled yourself again by making a pizza that one would like to eat just from looking at the picture. Very colourful & moorish your husband must be so delighted with your culinary delights.
I too like the fresh on top makes it have a nicer look.
- January 26, 2008 at 8:54 PM
- Barbara said...
Hi Tammy glad you have joined HHDD. Your pizza looks delicious. I agree about adding something fresh at the end.
- January 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM
- joey said...
Looks delicious Tammy! Thanks for joining :)
- January 28, 2008 at 11:20 PM
- How To Eat A Cupcake said...
Oh wow that looks incredible!
- January 29, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Hi Tammy
The addition of the fresh salad on top is great. Hot and cold. Yum
I'm from Auckland too nice to read your blog
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Do I Need my Asthma Meds All the Time?
It seems like one day I am ok, the next not so bad. Do I really need to take my asthma medication all the time? I take as needed. I don't like to take them long term as they make me tired and weak, substantially affecting my quality of life on a daily basis. I especially had a bad response with Symbicort, got so weak I knew one day I would not be able to get out of bed if I continued taking it. Can I just go on cruise control when I need to?
As you probably know, the treatment of asthma is centered around the use of two main forms of medications: 1. controllers [designed to be used on a regular basis to prevent asthma symptoms] and 2. rescue inhalers [designed to be used as needed only when you are having symptoms]
Asthma controller medications including Symbicort (or other inhalers with inhaled steroids in combination with long-acting beta-agonists, inhaled steroids alone, or oral leukotriene modifying agents) work by decreasing the inflammation in the airway, thereby preventing asthma symptoms when used on a regular basis.
Current asthma guidelines recommend adjusting your treatment regimen to find the lowest effective dose of these medications which prevent you from having symptoms. Because most of these agents may take several weeks to reach full effect, it is usually recommended that they are used on a regular basis without interruption. There may be exceptions in patients who have asthma symptoms for a few months out of the year (for example, during the spring allergy season), but are fine the rest of the time. In that case, it may be appropriate to use them for a few months and then stop, but it is not usually effective to use them for a few days at a time and then stop.
As a general rule, if you are using your rescue inhaler such as albuterol more than two times per week or you are waking up more than two nights per month with asthma symptoms, your asthma is not as well controlled as it should be. In that case, you should actually talk with your asthma care provider about increasing your asthma therapy. Similarly, if you are experiencing side effects from your medications that are making it difficult for you to take them on a regular basis, you should discuss that with him/her as well.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
I am glad to be here to discuss the topic of integrating national human rights institutions and equality bodies in the EU. This subject may appear a purely technical one at first glance, but in fact it touches on the heart of fundamental rights implementation, as I hope my remarks will show.
The economic crisis has led to an increase in poverty, bringing uncertainty to many people's lives and potentially leading to a greater number of human rights violations. We have also seen how extremist parties have succeeded in boosting their popularity by scapegoating groups such as migrants, Roma, or sexual minorities, to mention but a few. However, just as the dangers of fundamental rights violations are rising, many governments have been cutting justice budgets. This has in some places had a detrimental effect on the overall delivery of justice, while in others we have seen attempts to take political influence on judicial independence.
A recent FRA report on access to justice focused particularly on equality bodies, and stated that while financial austerity might require streamlining, it should and need not be to the detriment of access to justice. So what can be done?
Perhaps it is time for some new steps.
What we sometimes refer to as Europe's 'fundamental rights landscape' is made up of an intricate web of mechanisms aimed at promoting and protecting fundamental rights. These range from local awareness raising or complaints offices, through national courts, equality bodies, NHRIs, ombudsperson institutions, and the various institutions of the EU and the Council of Europe, to the universal monitoring mechanisms of the United Nations. Indeed, we see more and more that non-judicial institutions can potentially improve access to justice, while at the same time reducing the overall cost of the justice system.
The fundamental rights landscape has now become so integrated and sophisticated that it might be better described as a human rights architecture. For example, we have:
- the EU's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights, with all its implications for the relationship between the courts in Strasbourg and Luxembourg and their jurisprudence;
- the EU being a party to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which obliges the Union to set up a specific mechanism to monitor the implementation of these rights which will link up with the national level monitoring mechanisms;
- increased informal recognition of the importance of NHRIs in the EU system in EP resolutions, and reference to Paris Principles;
- the increasingly important role of NHRIs within the UN system;
- and finally, the further integration and mergers of NHRIs, ombudsperson institutions and national equality bodies, or other national bodies with a human rights remit.
This increased integration is also perceptible in the structure of the Fundamental Rights Agency. The number of Management Board members from NHRIs, equality bodies, ombudsperson institutions or similar entities at national level has expanded to around a third – and we hope the proportion will continue to grow. In fact, the current chairperson of FRA's Management Board is one of Finland's parliamentary ombudsmen. And so with FRA, we are seeing national level protection mechanisms becoming part of the governing structure of a regional human rights body for the first time. This is a next step from the mechanisms established with the OPCAT and UNCRPD. In this regard it should also be mentioned that the CoE is a member of the Management Board and thus ensuring a complementarity between the work of the CoE and FRA.
Apart from this, FRA cooperates closely with NHRIs, as stipulated in its founding regulation, as well as with the European Group of NHRIs and other national bodies with a human rights remit. These include equality bodies and their European network EQUINET, and also ombudsperson institutions. Indeed, later this year we are organising – together with the Council of Europe – a strategic meeting of equality bodies, NHRIs and ombudsperson institutions to define our future collaboration.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Over the last few years, we have seen a trend at national level towards mergers between equality bodies and NHRIs.
- I would like here to show you my first slide. The green colour coding indicates in which EU Member States ICC accredited NHRIs additionally play the role of a national equality body, and where the two bodies are distinct institutions (equality bodies in orange). It also shows their possible monitoring role under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OP-CAT).
There are a number of advantages to be gained from having a larger, more integrated organisation.
- A larger institution has the potential to be more influential, and thereby have a greater impact on policy developments at both the local and national level.
- Human rights institutions and equality bodies exist to help those whose rights have been violated. But FRA's surveys on ethnic minorities and LGBT shows that a large number of respondents are not aware of the existence of these institutions. In FRA's EU-MIDIS survey of more than 23,000 people, 80% of respondents were unable to name any organisation that offered support to victims of discrimination. A single larger institution is almost by default better known, and is often easier and less confusing for victims of fundamental rights abuses to turn to, thus helping them more efficiently towards redress.
- Despite the many disparities between different areas of human rights, the issues that emerge from them are often similar to each other. So by covering a number of them, a synergy can be achieved by an integrated human rights body that is able to draw on different forms of expertise, helping it to find new ways forward.
a. When discussing the phenomenon of hate crime, it is often an advantage to address it in relation to more than one group, for example LGBT, people with disabilities and ethnic minorities;
b. In several of our surveys, we have identified discrimination in the health sector as a major issue. And again, in our communication with the health sector, our arguments become more convincing when we can refer to more than one group that is facing discrimination;
c. Classical issues like data protection, access to justice and the prohibition of torture can qualify the discourse and work on areas such as ethnic data collection, the underreporting of hate crime, and the involuntary treatment of people with mental health problems.
And there are many other benefits. I look forward to further discussing this point later on.
The reasoning behind the mergers of NHRIs and equality bodies, whether in France, the Netherlands, Denmark or Britain, is mixed. As the interesting report that I understand will be presented shortly points out, they have certainly been motivated in some cases by economic calculation rather than a search for organisational improvement. The hardest task, though, is not the decision to fuse human rights and equality bodies, but to create structures that make sure the new, combined organisations are:
- independent
- adequately funded
- in a position to combat inequality effectively and at the same time
- able to focus on broader human rights issues
Naturally, there is the risk that a larger, integrated body's mandate can become watered down. That none of the issues are treated in depth and with respect for the specificities of that particular topic. We must not lose sight of the detail. When NHRIs and equality bodies are merged, it is therefore important to make sure we can see the trees for the wood, and not just the other way round.
Another challenge is to ensure that the equality dimension of the new organisation remains intact. Whereas the prohibition against discrimination is an integrated human rights issue, it takes more consideration in a human rights dominated institution to ensure the development of the equality aspect.
Finally, a serious concern is that the discrimination component becomes all-encompassing, to the detriment of other vital areas such as data protection or access to justice. The danger is that the organisation is perceived as only being 'in the service' of minorities or niche groups. It is crucial to ensure that fundamental rights are for everyone. Indeed, at FRA we constantly struggle to get this balance right, since – as we all know – it is often among minorities that the most severe human rights problems occur.
Ladies and gentlemen,
As long as the enlarged organisations are aware of and rise to the challenges they face, a positive outcome to such mergers is possible and even probable.
At the EU level, such a metamorphosis took place six years ago. It was then that the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, which was limited to researching trends in a relatively narrow area, was replaced with the present EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, with a mandate to cover fundamental rights across the board. And I do believe – as the hosts of today's conference suggest in their report – that the creation of FRA is helping to break down the barriers between the areas traditionally covered by equality bodies on the one hand and NHRIs on the other.
Of course, the situation in individual Member States doesn't correspond one-to-one with the EU level, or even with the situation in other Member States. But the EU level experience is nevertheless relevant to the mergers now taking place at national level. And I can say that from my point of view, the transformation of the EUMC into the Fundamental Rights Agency has been a very positive one. We are able to engage more easily, with fewer concerns for the boundaries between rights.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Towards the close of my remarks here today, I would like to return to sketch a next step in the design of our fundamental rights architecture. Last year's Brighton Declaration stressed that establishing truly independent NHRIs in all Member States would do much to reduce the load on the over-burdened European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. At the same time, this would ensure a strong culture of respect for fundamental rights and the rule of law.
A consequence of this and the mergers that we see could be to fuse the legal regimes as we know them today. The existence of equality bodies in each Member State is a requirement under EU law; NHRIs, on the other hand, are not obligatory, but the Paris Principles set out the criteria to ensure their independence and effectiveness.
The EU could therefore consider introducing a legal requirement for each Member State to establish an accredited – and hence independent – NHRI (as you are aware, only 10 out of 27 Member States currently have an A-status NHRI). In fact, Data Protection Authorities, also obligatory under EU law, would benefit from stricter minimum standards to ensure independence and efficiency as well – as recent judgments by the European Court of Justice have made clear.
- I would like here to show you my second slide, which demonstrates the independence criteria of NHRIs as they stem from the Paris Principles, contrasted with independence requirements under EU law and European case law in relation to equality bodies or Data Protection Authorities.
Let me now conclude:
The EU is still very much a greenhouse of ideas, in which trying and testing is sometimes the best way to reach a solution. Today's conference will – I hope – provide an important stepping stone on our path to ensuring the accessibility and efficiency of NHRIs and equality bodies in Europe. Through our discussions, I am sure that we will move towards 'bridging the divide' between organisations in those places where this has not already happened.
In the end, though, what matters is that any mechanisms that are conceived and consequently established, whether merged or separate, must ultimately serve and benefit the people of Europe.
I look forward to interesting contributions and a lively debate at today's conference. Thank you for your attention.


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5-5-10 PNC Park
After missing yesterday's game due to coaching, I was looking forward to attending my first game of the week today, on Cinco de Mayo.
I ran in, trailing fellow ballhawk Nick Pelescak. Nick broke to the left towards the bullpen, so I was left to search near the ushers. Surprisingly, there was a ball sitting there in the third row on the ground. I was on the board.
I got my second and third balls of the day during the Pirates BP in this area: The General Admission Bleachers.
The balls bounced on the walkway behind me and hopped up into the bleachers. I don't know who hit ball #2, but ball #3 was off the bat of Ronny Cedeno.
I caught my fourth ball of the day off the bat of Jason Jaramillo. I caught it on the fly in the second row (which is an accomplishment, as I typically stay away from the first two rows).
That was it for the Pirates BP, and the Cubs came out.
I didn't have to wait long to get my first Cubs ball, as Derrek Lee hit a high fly ball that bounced on the warning track, and six rows back into my glove.
Soon after, I glove tricked ball #6 in this area:
Game: 8 balls (4 hit, 2 thrown, 1 device, 1 found)
Season: 77 balls (47 hit, 15 thrown, 8 device, 7 found)
Games: 11 games
Average: 7.00 balls per game
2010 Game Balls: 3
Career: 655 balls
Streak: 107 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
Attendance: 11,053
8-25-08 PNC Park, Cubs @ Pirates
The Pirates came back to Pittsburgh after an awful road trip to take on the rival Cubs of Chicago. I usually hate it when the Cubs come to Pittsburgh because their fans travel well, and there are usually almost as many Cubs fans as Pirates fans.
I didn't get to the Center Field gate until 4:45 PM, so I figured I'd be at the end of a long line and lose a few minutes of BP time. Luckily, I was fifth in line, as the "crowd" was late arriving. There was a line back to the bridge by the time the gates opened at 5.
I'd been waiting for this day since last Wednesday, because I would have a chance to get my 100th ball of the season (I needed only 1 to achieve this milestone). I stood between Sections 135 and 136, as I usually do, and came up empty during the Pirates portion of batting practice, which was 15 minutes worth. The Pirates bat from 4:30-5:15, but the gates don't open until 5 PM for season ticket holders. Yeah, its stupid.
During the Pirates portion of batting practice, Craig Hansen was being a bit childish. Several people had asked him for balls that rolled his way, but he refused to oblige. Around 5:10, a ball rolled towards Hansen. He picked it up and threw it high and hard. It hit off of a sign right below the score board. If it had been a Home Run, it would've measured 550-580 feet from home plate. Many folks around me took off running for the ball, swarming up the steps into the general admission bleachers. I didn't budge. I figured Hansen had done it for his own amusement to watch all of the fans scurry about for the ball. I'd seen Hansen do this before. He took a ball during the last homestand and long tossed it way over the batters eye in Center Field. The ball presumably landed in the Allegheny. If any one got it, I'll never know.
The next ball that rolled Hansen's way was a ball that I got, but not until 20 minutes later. Hansen took the ball and chucked it into the upper deck. Some fans just looked at each other with astonished looks on their faces. I heard someone say, "Why did he do that?"
I made a mental note of where the ball landed, several rows up in Section 328, and returned my concentration to batting practice.
The Cubs were now taking batting practice and Alfonso Soriano was shagging balls in left field. I didn't even bother asking him to toss and balls to me, as I noticed he was too busy doing ridiculous dance steps to horrible music. A few minutes into the Cubs portion of BP, Derrek Lee launched a deep fly to left field. The ball hit off of a railing separating Section 136 from the Handicapped seating area, as seen in the picture below. I drifted over to "take a look" at the HR, but I knew it was over my head. The ball slammed off the railing, and directly at me. I snatched it out of the air. It was ball #1 of the day, and my one-hundredth ball of the season. I received a congratulatory hand-shake from fellow ballhawk, Amac. It was nice to finally be in triple digits.
Soon after, 5:30 approached, and the rest of the stadium would be opening up. I positioned myself at the bottom of the stairs just inside the left field gate. At 5:30 I took off up the escalator, skipping every other step. I was winded after about three steps, but kept pushing on, knowing that Hansen's ball was somewhere in the upper deck, untouched and waiting to be claimed.
After I reached the upper deck, I immediately turned left and went in the first walkway that I saw that led to Section 329. I dashed up the stairs, ran over one section, and there it was, ball #2. Thank you Craig Hansen.
I set up in the first row of Section 142. Its the first section you see there on the right field wall. While there I politely asked Neal Cotts, Sean Marshall, and Kosuke Fukudome for balls. They never so much as even glanced up at the top of the wall. Even though I had thrown on a Cubs shirt and hat. There were also two coaches with fungo bats. I was able to identify
them from their photos on my "cheat sheet," but they never so much as
came within 50 feet of the wall. Meanwhile, I was watching Aramis Ramirez and Alfonso Soriano launch several balls into the left field bleachers. I was thinking, "Great choice Erik." Enter the D-Train, Daryl Ward.
Ward launched a deep fly to right field. I judged it perfectly, but realized at the last second that the ball was going to fall short of the wall. I grabbed the front railing of the 21 foot high wall to support myself and reached as far as I could. I was able to make a basket catch on the ball with my arm outstretched as far as it could go. It was ball #3 of the day. I was getting ready to label the ball, when with the very next pitch, Ward sent another HR in the exact same spot. He had hit this ball with more force and it landed three rows behind me. It hit a chair, which killed the balls' momentum and sat there in an empty row. I hopped over three rows and was able to throw my glove over the ball with less than a second to spare. Amac, a fellow ballhawk, who will probably comment that I robbed him, was after this HR ball and arrived just a split second too late. I had ball #4 of the day in my mitt.
Batting practice ended soon after, and I went to meet my wife at the Left Field gate. She had came late, because she had to work late and wasn't home when I left my house. We had pretty good seats for this game, (or so we thought) in Section 222 Row K, Seats 1-2 (See view below). I was hoping to get some foul balls during the game, but all I got was annoyed.
When we got to our seats
around 6:30, the
was almost
Within fifteen minutes we were surrounded by an annoying old couple to our left, who kept sticking their bony hands in our faces pointing to something over on the right. Making matter worse was a family of five with two annoying kids who sat directly to our left. The little brats kept running up and down the stairs. Around the 3rd or 4th inning, Holly and I got up and watched the middle section of the game on TV from comfortable chairs in the Pittsburgh Baseball Club. After the Pirates fell behind 10-1, we decided to leave the game early, as we are both starting back to school this week and were really tired from getting up early
The Pirates ended up getting crushed 12-3. I was happy with 4 balls. I discussed batting practice with 3 fellow ball hawks on my way to the designated driver booth to sign up for a free drink. Two of them got shut out, and Amac came away with 1 ball in batting practice. My day's work is pictured below.
Game: 4 Balls
Season: 103 Balls
Career: 141 Balls
Attendance: 14,454 (37.7% full)


text: On Day 5 of my trip to Death Valley, I returned to my camera that spent the night on the salt flats, and tried for a morning shot. This also marked my last full day in Death Valley. Thank you everyone who has followed along on this adventure. I'm already gearing up for my next trip, and I look forward to sharing the results in a couple months.


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Here at the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability we are just putting the final touches to our spring series of free Open Lectures. This year we will be presenting them as part of the University of Cumbria's 10 Year celebrations, which will gather pace during 2017 towards the official birthday of the 1st August.
On Tuesday 21 March, we have our very own Professor Jem Bendell. His talk, entitled "The Future of Collaboration for Sustainability: in the company of revolutionaries?"
Over twenty years ago, large companies and environmental groups started teaming up to address global problems like deforestation and overfishing. Suddenly both sides realised the benefits of collaboration for sustainability. In 1997 Jem Bendell co-wrote "In the Company of Partners" about this phenomenon, with IFLAS Deputy Director Dr David Murphy. Today such partnerships are widespread. But what are they delivering on their original promise? As indicators of Sustainable Development give little cause for optimism, what might collaboration look like in future? In this 20th anniversary retrospective, Professor Bendell argues for a more revolutionary approach for partnership that focus on transforming economic and political systems to achieve a more rapid transition.
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Dr Jem Bendell is a Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS). A graduate of the University of Cambridge, he has twenty years of experience working on business sustainability, as a researcher, educator, facilitator, advisor & entrepreneur, having lived & worked in six countries. He is co-author of "Healing Capitalism" and founder of the Post-Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Leadership. Previously he helped create innovative alliances, including the Marine Stewardship Council, to endorse sustainable fisheries and The Finance Innovation Lab, to promote sustainable finance. The WEF appointed him a Young Global Leader in 2012. Professor Bendell now specialises in leadership development, offering coaching and training to senior executives from around the world who have an interest in sustainable enterprise and finance.
Next in the Spring series is a welcome return to a speaker who we first heard back in 2015. Mick Fowler is an award winning author, lecturer and climber. He was voted the 'Mountaineers' Mountaineer' in a poll by The Observer newspaper and in 2012 he was awarded the King Albert Mountain Award for his "outstanding contribution to mountaineering". In 2016 he and Paul Ramsden became the first pair to win a Piolet d'Or award for the third time, after their ascent of the 6,451-metre (21,175 ft) Gave Ding in the Nepal Himalayas. He was a senior leader in HM Revenue and Customs for many years. He has served as President of the Alpine Club and led numerous cutting edge mountaineering expeditions in the Himalayas. Mick has written two volumes of memoirs - On Thin Ice & Vertical Pleasure - both of which were shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. He won the Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature at the 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival and the best book prize at the Bormio Mountain Festival (Italy) in 2012. Eric Vola compiled segments of books by Fowler and Saunders and published the collection in French as "Les Tribulations de Mick et Vic." It won the Grand Prix award at the Passy Book Festival in 2015.
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Mick's talk, "On Thin Ice: Business Ethics and Climbing Ethics" will take place in April, the 25th to be exact. He will be exploring ethics and ethical choices in the field of climbing and parallels in the workplace. He will be discussing what steers climbers to make the ethical choices that they do, the consequences of those choices and whether or not those consequences were foreseeable or intended. Against a backdrop of stunning imagery Mick will be taking us through some of the heated ethical debates in the world of climbing, linking these to business and engaging the audience in discussion of those issues.
In May, a speaker new to IFLAS and The University of Cumbria – David Saddington. Influencing UK & international policy, fronting a pioneering climate media campaign that reached over 3 million people and giving a TEDx talk at London's O2 arena are just a few of David Saddington's achievements as a climate change activist since experiencing a stark introduction to the impacts of climate change as a thirteen year old.
As a climate change communicator David works to raise the profile of the issue through blogging for media outlets like the Huffington Post, writing book contributions and organising innovative large scale public awareness events in the centre of UK cities involving outdoor cinema, interactive science experiments and panel debates. He is constantly looking for new and innovative to engage with the public and is currently exploring using Virtual Reality technology to tell the story of climate change.
After leading education reforms to get climate change on school curricula David has pursued his own academic work studying climate science and a broad range of climate impacts from the environmental to economic, security & health implications.
David continues to be a contemporary voice and advocate for climate change action, speaking to a range of audiences around the world - from United Nations Conferences to MTV. David speaks about the opportunities and challenges from tackling climate change from his experience consulting on the implementation of carbon and energy policies and on sustainability initiatives with multinational corporations. He always seeks out innovation and ways to re-energise the conversation around this global challenge.
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On the 16th May, at this talk – "Turning science into stories: How do we get people to care about climate change?" David will say that most people are now aware of climate change and the threat it poses - but still, too few of us care enough to take action.
David has been a strong advocate for rapidly moving away from talking about climate change as an environmental issue and instead start getting to grips with the economic, health, security and social aspects.
In this IFLAS open lecture, which follows a year where 'post-truth' and 'populist' politics have reshaped the western world, David will share his ideas about what all of this means for climate action and how sustainability leaders need to respond. By turning science into stories David believes we can reenergise the conversation around this global challenge and create a more inclusive and diverse voice for change.
For June, we can reveal we will be welcoming iconic fashion designer and environmental activist Vivienne Westwood to Ambleside. For further details on this very special event, click here
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The finest investment for a sustainable future must be ocean protection. Paul explores the last wild, pristine places in the ocean, communicates their value to the world and helps get them protected. To get this done he's been lost under icebergs, bitten by moray eels, run out of air and attacked by a polar bear. Paul brings to life the challenges and successes of ocean protection with glorious images, film and enlightening tales. He invites us to bring enquiring minds and difficult questions!
A man at the front line of exploration and one of the world's most experienced science expedition leaders, Paul Rose helps scientists unlock and communicate global mysteries in the most remote and challenging regions of the planet.
Former Vice President of the Royal Geographical Society – representing Fieldwork and Expeditions, Paul is Expedition Leader for the National Geographic Pristine Seas Expeditions.
In his work for BBC Paul presents television programmes focused on science and the environment.
As a Polar Guide, Paul has led Greenland Ice Cap crossings, first ascents of previously unclimbed Arctic mountains and new ski-mountaineering routes.
He was the Base Commander of Rothera Research Station, Antarctica, for the British Antarctic Survey for 10 years and was awarded HM The Queen's Polar Medal. For his work with NASA and the Mars Lander project on Mt Erebus, Antarctica, he was awarded the US Polar Medal.
A mountain in Antarctica is named after him!
All Open lectures are free to attend, and will take place in the Percival Lecture Theatre, at the Ambleside campus of The University of Cumbria, from 5.30 until around 7pm on the dates indicated.
To register a place on any of the Open Lectures, contact firstname.lastname@example.com
For further information about IFLAS, see our website www.cumbria.ac.uk/iflas, follow us on Twitter (@iflasinfo) or on Facebook (@IFLAS.info)


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Microsoft's push for Windows Phone has to lead to advertising popping up in a variety of locations; the latest includes your popcorn bag at AMC Theaters.
The American movie theater chain's popcorn bag features a blown up view of Windows Phone's signature start screen with a side caption reading "Meet the only phone with Live Tiles, designed to keep you closer to what matters most." Movie goers can then scan a QR code to demo Windows Phone on their own device.
The flip side of the bag showcases three Nokia handsets including AT&T's Lumia 920, Verizon's Lumia 820 and T-mobile's Lumia 521. There are no HTC or Samsung phones in sight, so we know Microsoft is choosing to show off its top partner's hardware.
The advertisements for Windows Phone don't stop at the snack bar; displays in the theater urging movie goers to text in for a discounted fountain drink, show off Microsoft's mobile platform.
As Windows Phone took third place and pushed down Blackberry a notch in global market share, we can assume Redmond's colorful platform is starting to take notice.
Currently 92% of smartphone shipments are Android and iOS devices. Microsoft isn't racing ahead and blowing back its competition, but instead chooses to be a steady racehorse slowly taking over its competitors.
In an interview with Mashable.com, Greg Sullivan, head of Windows Phone marketing, spoke about building up the platform's momentum with the general public.
"It takes a lot of energy to start it and get it going and you see the progress and it feels like it's very slow progress. It's the tipping point; you get to critical mass or momentum that's self-sustaining."
The past few days have shown Microsoft stepping up its advertising and we only expect the trend to continue.
How did you first hear about Windows Phone – did you see an advertisement or stumble upon the platform in another fashion?