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Genetics entrepreneur Craig Venter claims his team is on the verge of creating the first artificial lifeform.
In an interview with The Guardian this weekend, Venter said his company, Synthetic Genomics, has completed an artificial chromosome that will carry all necessary genes for a viable bacterium.
It's planned that the DNA will be transplanted into a living cell and take over the molecular reins. An announcement is reckoned to be imminent and Venter says he is 100 per cent confidence of success.
The resulting organism will only be part synthetic, but a huge breakthrough for the 20-strong team of top boffins specially assembled by Venter. He's betting on artificial organisms delivering a bonanza for medicine, renewable energy, and anti-climate change efforts.
He has already applied for a patent for this first, dubbed Mycoplasma laboratorium. His past attempts to make researchers pay for access to its work sequencing the human genome were a failure, and its data was eventually subsumed into the public database.
Venter cuts a maverick figure at the vanguard of biotech, and divides scientists in praise and criticism of his bullish approach to research and commercialisation.
Bioethics groups have expressed concerns that regulations have failed to keep pace with developments in synthetic genetics and warn that the technology coold be abused by terrorists. Venter said: "We are not afraid to take on things that are important just because they stimulate thinking.
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Groupon has acquired MashLogic, a company based in California that makes a simple tool called Britely to capture and collate bits of information from web pages.
The announcement, posted on Britely's blog, did not disclose terms of the deal. Britely will be shut down on Monday, and all user records and data will be deleted.
"We are thrilled to join the Groupon team to help build the operating system for local commerce," MashLogic said. Groupon did not immediately comment.
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Here's an alternative to rewinding AC coils for operation on DC circuits.
Want to skip the time and expense of rewinding AC coils so they can operate on DC? Or are you won dering if it's even possible to use AC coils on DC circuits? If you answered "yes" to both of these questions, there is a method you can use.
Remember, a holding coil, or solenoid, is simply a current-operated device. The device doesn't care what voltage (AC or DC) you apply to it as long as the applied voltage level doesn't exceed the voltage rating of the coil's magnet wire insulation. You can apply a DC voltage to an AC coil. Here's how to go about it:
- First, apply a DC test voltage to the AC coil you want to use, until you draw the same magnitude of operating (holding) current as when the coil operates on AC.
- Then, while applying this DC voltage, insert a fixed but adjustable resistance to get the desired coil dropout characteristics.
You need to consider one important thing to consider here: Make sure you use a bridge that's vastly oversized, so it can withstand the heat generated and any transient overvoltages that may occur. Generally, you can use a 1,000PRV bridge on a 120V circuit, but you should use one having a rating about four times the coil's rated current.
The DC voltage noted above usually will be within 30% of the AC voltage. The DC resistance noted in the second bullet usually will be in the same range (30%) of the AC resistance. The DC pickup voltage also will be in this same range of the AC pick-up voltage. However, the DC drop-out voltage will be within 10% of the AC drop-out voltage.
Are there any benefits (aside from saved rewinding costs) by using AC coils on DC circuits? You bet! You can expect up to three times the extended coil life. That's due to the approximate 70% power reduction. By using AC coils on DC circuits, you can expect clean, solid make-and-break operation with no contact chatter, hum or buzz. Let's go through the procedure in detail. The conversion procedure is simple. All you have to do is follow these four steps.
STEP 1: TAKE SOME MEASUREMENTS First, measure the AC current drawn by the specific coil at rated AC voltage. Then, measure the coil's AC pick-up and drop-out voltages. Finally, measure its DC resistance.
STEP 2: DO SOME CALCULATIONS First, calculate the coil's AC impedance (Z subscript AC). You do this by dividing the coil's AC voltage (E subscript AC) by its AC current draw (I subscript AC), or
Z subscript AC 4E subscript AC3I subscript AC (equation 1).
Then, calculate the coil's AC power (P subscript AC). You do this by multiplying the coil's AC voltage (E subscript AC) by its AC current draw (I subscript AC), or
P subscript AC4E subscript AC2I subscript AC (equation 2).
STEP 3: DO SOME BENCH TESTING Gradually apply a DC voltage to the coil until you see a DC current (I subscript DC ) having the same magnitude as the AC current (I subscript AC) measured in Step 1. Then, measure the DC pick-up and drop-out voltages.
STEP 4: DO SOME MORE CALCULATIONS First, calculate the coil's DC resistance (R subscript DC) by using the following equation:
R subscript DC4E subscript DC3I subscript AC (equation 3).
Then, calculate the coil's DC power, in watts, (P subscript DC) using the following equation:
P subscript DC4E subscript DC2I subscript AC (equation 4).
Verify that the power is 530% of the coil's AC power (P subscript AC) calculated in Step 2.
You may wonder why we're using AC current in equation 3 and equation 4. Our original premise for using AC coils on DC circuits: Apply a DC test voltage until you draw the same magnitude of holding current as when the coil operates on AC.
In other words, I subscript AC equals I subscript DC. So, we can insert the measured AC holding current value in these two equations.
Finally, calculate the power factor (PF) by dividing the coil's DC power (P subscript DC) by its AC power (P subscript AC), or PF4P subscript DC3P subscript AC (equation 5).
Let's try a sample conversion. Suppose you have a signal relay with a coil rated at 120V AC. You measure the DC resistance (2,000 ohms) and note the nameplate says AC power is 2VA. The relay contacts are 10A, coin-silver.
STEP 1 You can measure the AC current draw (I subscript AC), calculate it using the above data, or do it both ways as a check. By using equation 2, but solving for current draw, you have:
I subscript AC4P subscript AC3E subscript AC42VA3120V
Now, verify that this is close to what you're measuring. STEP 2
Calculate the coil's AC impedance (Z subscript AC) by using equation 1:
Z subscript AC4E subscript AC3I subscript AC4120V30.017A
47059 ohms.
You don't have to calculate the coil's AC power because it's on the nameplate (2VA).
STEP 3 Do some bench testing to find the DC voltage that generates the same magnitude of current as when the coil operates on AC. You can also calculate the coil's DC voltage by using equation 3, but solving for E subscript DC:
E subscript DC4R subscript DC2I subscript AC42000V20.017A
By measuring and doing the calculation, you get a good sense that the DC voltage falls within the prescribed range.
STEP 4 You measured the DC coil resistance (2000 ohms, remember?) so you already have this information. But, you need to calculate the coil's DC power (P subscript DC) by using equation 4:
P subscript DC4E subscript DC2I subscript AC434V20.017A
This is almost 29% of the AC power (2VA), which is within the prescribed range.
Finally, calculate the coil power factor (PF) by using equation 5:
PF4P subscript DC3P subscript AC40.578W32VA
40.289 or 28.9%.
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Scott Budnick, the fabulously successful producer of the "Hangover" movies, was dining on prosciutto and fig pizza with friends in the rooftop restaurant of the Luxe Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Monday night, when the Governor's Office called.
Jerry Brown had signed legislation that was of special interest to Budnick. It had nothing to do with the big money stuff The Industry so often seeks from Sacramento. This bill could give a break to Miguel Quezada – who lives in a world far removed from Budnick's – and guys like him.
Quezada was a month short of his 17th birthday on May 8, 1998, on a street with no sidewalks in the San Joaquin Valley town of Ceres, when he fired the bullet that ended Daniel Reyes' life. Reyes was 16, too.
In October 1999, a Stanislaus County judge sentenced Quezada to 45 years to life in prison for second-degree murder. By terms of that sentence, he would not be eligible to file a plea for his release to a parole board until 2040, except that on Monday, Brown signed Senate Bill 260, a bill Budnick had championed.
Authored by Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, SB 260 gives inmates serving life sentences for crimes they committed before they turned 18 an opportunity to convince parole boards that they deserve to be released. There are no guarantees, only a chance to plead their cases after they have spent at least 15 years behind bars.
In a legacy of the tough-on-crime laws passed in the 1990s and 2000, California prisons house 5,600 inmates serving time for crimes they committed before they turned 18. About 2,500 of them have served 15 years or more and would be eligible to petition parole boards, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reports.
"It gives me hope," Quezada said, getting used to the notion that he has a shot at parole before he becomes a senior citizen, if, through his actions, he can show he is worthy to be freed.
"They have a chance now to change their lives. I think that is epic," Budnick told me by phone the day after Brown signed the bill.
Quezada grew up in Modesto, dropped out of school in the ninth grade and fell in with the Norteños street gang. Budnick, 37, grew up privileged in suburban Atlanta, the son of a physician and a college English teacher, who imparted the concept that service is important.
While attending Emory University, he landed a role as an extra in a Civil War movie and decided to try his hand at the movie business. He won a summer internship on "Baywatch," which led to an assignment to research a film about juveniles sentenced to life in prison for the murder of the son of a Los Angeles police officer in Agoura Hills, which stirred Budnick's interest in young offenders.
In Los Angeles after college, he found himself "in the same bubble where everyone in my business is stuck, going to the same bars and the same restaurants, and thinking it's the real world."
In 2003, a friend invited him to tag along as a volunteer at a writer's workshop at the juvenile lock-up in Sylmar. He gained wealth when "The Hangover" became a huge success in 2009. But he never stopped going back behind bars, where he and nonprofits he helps fund organize classes and encourage young offenders to better themselves.
One of his regular stops is San Quentin, where he visits a group Quezada helps lead for offenders who committed terrible crimes as teenagers. Human Rights Watch, a nonprofit group that was SB 260's main sponsor, singled out Quezada as an inmate who could get a parole date as a result of SB 260.
Quezada has done time at Deuel Vocational Institute in Tracy, High Desert in Susanville, Pleasant Valley in Coalinga, and since 2011, San Quentin. He sat at a table in a trailer at San Quentin one afternoon last week with a few other prisoners and told me his story.
His hair was trimmed and his teeth were strikingly straight and white. He carried a copy of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot," borrowed from the San Quentin library. I asked him what he was thinking when he fired on Reyes. He said he was frightened; bullets were flying.
"I didn't think," Quezada said. "I didn't know the totality of my actions, on myself, on my family, on the victim, the victim's family. I didn't know."
Budnick believes young inmates have two choices. They can align themselves with convicts who deal drugs and stab other inmates, or they can work to get an education, maybe find religion.
"You have to decide to stop doing harm," Quezada said.
Quezada got his GED and a community college degree. He works as a teacher's aide in class, and volunteers by showing troubled kids the reality of prison life – the cramped cells and the indignity of strip searches and having to shower with a bunch of other men.
"Once you're here," he tells them, "it can be too late."
Quezada was the sort of kid then-Gov. Pete Wilson had in mind in the 1990s when he campaigned to get tough on youth gangs. In 2000, Wilson sponsored Proposition 21, authorizing courts to send miscreants as young as 14 to adult prisons, and implicitly rejecting the notion that juveniles could be rehabilitated.
Gray Davis, who was governor in 2000, readily endorsed Proposition 21 – no matter that it would add hundreds of millions to the cost of prisons. "We'll do what we have to do," his press secretary was quoted as saying. "Times have changed. Some kids out there now are competing for firepower." It was an easy sale. More than 62 percent of the electorate approved the Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act.
As a result of that and other sentencing laws, California's prison population exploded to more than 170,000 in the middle part of the last decade. That led federal courts to intervene by concluding that conditions had become so bad that the state needed to reduce crowding.
Struggling to comply with that order, Brown filed a brief on Monday pleading for a delay. He cited several steps he has taken to alleviate bad conditions, one of which was his decision to sign SB 260. The bill, the brief notes, directs parole boards to "give great weight to the diminished culpability of juveniles and to consider evidence of their maturity and rehabilitation in prison."
The criminal justice pendulum is swinging for many reasons. Courts have concluded that California cannot constitutionally care for the number of inmates it once housed. Lawmakers and Brown have concluded that the state cannot afford the billions it spends on prisons.
Then there is the concept that drives Budnick, the old notion that at least some teenagers can change as they become adults, and that redemption is possible. Some day, perhaps Quezada will get a chance to prove it.


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After a hundred and twenty odd hours on a post—in my case, on the second floor of BCAM—an image can get lodged on the back of the retina, ghostlike—and lovingly so, if you're lucky. A tale told in a single image can be a haunting affair, and may even become the symbol of that exhibition, intentional or not.
Thus Jean-Michel Basquiat's untitled head from the inaugural BCAM exhibition flashes its indelible and striking image. In a white gallery, the black spiky skull, bristling with ferocity, jarring color, and a wink of ironic humor, sits iconically in my brain, like the ghost it is.
From there we travel back in time to last winter's Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures. Hans Grundig's To the Victims of Fascism is a harrowing painting of two Jews prostrated in dying poses while a red-orange sky is littered with blackbirds soaring portentously overhead. This is but one page of a profound scholarship that traces the pathos of a nation coming to terms with a dark and diabolical past. The idea of a "haunting" may not say enough about this giant of an exhibition.
But like it or not, the scene changes from World War II's broken and dark past, and I find myself in Your Bright Future, a new and strange and even somewhat personal construct of another nation's life. Once more, an emphatic and imposing piece of art becomes a mesmerizing experience. The once small grey gallery morphs into a large white cavernous space, dimly lit. Here a vanity is brought to life as a small Korean house crashes into a larger American boarding house. With Do Ho Suh's Fallen Star 1/5, we enter a private metaphor, a dream as it were, in unbelievable detail. The dollhouses are brought to a reality that is indescribable; yet they achieve a demonstrative display of alienation and integration.
In spite of these hypnotic ghosts, the last exhibit is a form of release, for the images are framed photographs of the delightful and captivating series of The Sum of Myself: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, spanning a hundred and fifty years—of which, from my station, sadly I can only see the sides of frames.
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YARMOUTH — Town councilors said they were blindsided, but are coping with the resignation of former Chairman Steve Woods.
Woods, who served as chairman for three years, ran unsuccessfully in the June 10 Democratic primary in state Senate District 25. He resigned from the council a day later.
Woods' resignation left the council with only six members, instead of the usual seven. The vacancy will be filled in a November election.
Had he resigned earlier, the seat could have been filled in the June 10 Town Council election.
"It's unfortunate that Steve waited until after the election to submit his resignation," Councilor Jim MacLeod, the new chairman, said this week. "It was sudden and unexpected, quite frankly."
Woods said he decided to resign a few weeks prior to Election Day, and that he knew he would resign regardless of the outcome of the Senate primary.
"After six years of public service in Yarmouth, it seemed to be a good time to have other people become more involved in the community," he said.
Woods said his decision to resign was not connected to the Democratic primary outcome.
"It had nothing to do with the June 10 election and had everything to do with wanting to focus on my business and on my family," he said. "There was no, and is no, negative element to my resignation."
Woods said he would have resigned before the election had he known that was what he wanted before putting his name on the ballot. The paperwork required to be placed on the ballot was due two months before the election, when Woods said he had no intention of resigning.
Councilor David Craig said although he understands Woods' decision, he is upset by it and the predicament it created for the council.
"With his resignation and Councilor Leslie Hyde's decision against running for re-election, the council has lost two strong progressive voices," Craig said. "The current makeup of the council is more center-right than before."
Craig said the loss of "progressive voices" may affect "Yarmouth's unique village culture," as well as the town's "excellent schools" and the way the council responds to the concerns of citizens.
Woods said he doesn't believe there are any issues before the council that will be affected by his absence.
"I think the other six people on council are very competent," he said. "I have 100 percent faith in (Town Manager) Nat Tupper and the Town Council."
MacLeod said Woods will be replaced in the November election. Until then, he doesn't believe the council will have any problem working with a vacancy, because its summer agenda is light.
Tupper agreed, saying the council has had only one workshop meeting since Woods' resignation. He said he's "sure (the council) will do just fine," despite the empty seat.
Woods said he enjoyed serving Yarmouth and that it was "an honor and a privilege" to be on the council.
MacLeod said Woods' hard work and dedication are reasons why his resignation was so surprising.
"He served the town very well," MacLeod said, "so it caught a lot of us off guard."
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Jays trim roster by three
The Blue Jays whittled down their roster on Tuesday morning, bringing the Opening Day roster picture a little more into focus. Toronto reassigned outfielder Jeremy Reed to Minor League camp and optioned left-handers Jesse Carlson and David Purcey to Triple-A Las Vegas.
The departure of Reed likely means the only decision left facing the Jays in terms of position players is picking between Jose Molina and Raul Chavez for the backup catching duties. Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston was quick to note, though, that there is still a chance that Toronto's roster situation changes due to players being passed through waivers or a potential trade.
Barring any late-spring additions, though, the Blue Jays' bench would consist of infielder John McDonald, first baseman/designated hitter Randy Ruiz, utility man Mike McCoy and Molina or Chavez. The only other issue that could change the makeup is if third baseman Edwin Encarnacion (left wrist) needs to open the year on the disabled list.
Carlson had battled a left knee injury throughout the spring and his one-inning showing on Monday marked his first Grapefruit League appearance since March 5. Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos said Carlson simply had not pitched enough to win a job over the other relieving candidates in camp.
Carlson, who has options, will join Purcey in the Triple-A bullpen. Purcey entered camp as a starter, but the Jays limited him to throwing fastballs and sliders this spring and were thrilled with the results. Purcey hoped to fight for a starting role, but showed improved confidence and command as a reliever.
With Carlson and Purcey out of the mix, that leaves Kevin Gregg, Jason Frasor, Scott Downs, Casey Janssen, Shawn Camp, Jeremy Accardo, Merkin Valdez, Josh Roenicke, Dana Eveland and possibly Brian Tallet in the bullpen picture. Only Gregg, Frasor and Downs are locks, while Camp, Valdez, Eveland and Tallet are out of options.
Tallet has been a favorite to win a rotation job all spring, but Gaston said on Monday that the veteran lefty might still be considered as a reliever. Eveland has had a fantastic spring and will likely be on the staff in some capacity. The Jays have liked what they've seen from Valdez, meaning either Accardo or Roenicke may wind up in the Minors (if Tallet and Eveland are both in the rotation).
As far as the rotation goes, the only locks are Shaun Marcum and Ricky Romero. Brandon Morrow, Marc Rzepczynski, Brett Cecil, Eveland and Tallet are in the running for the Nos. 3-5 slots. Rzepczynski and Cecil will start on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, so Anthopoulos said the starting five will likely be announced Thursday.
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JB-Any feedback on how Morrow feels today after his outing yesterday?
So "relieved" to see Carlson out of the mix. I spent most of last season trying to fiuger out why Cito kept using him. I am hoping that, now that he is healthy and back in form, that Janssen will stay up.
I was sad to see Reed go down, especially with how well he played, but I am sure we will see him soon. No choice on that one with McCoy in the mix.
Yea, the Jays have no need for a solid glove man who is hiting above .300 and offers more stabilty than free swinging Snyder whom Gaston will put in the doghouse again. Snyder will be lucky to make it ouf Texas without drawing Gastons ire. Its not Like Bell , Barfield and Moseby are patrolling the OF, this is a horrid move.
Carlson was a good move though, he is one trick pony and his funky delivery worked for a year and a half but the gig is up. Youc an only pithc against the a's and royals so many times, the AL east will eat him his 3rd year around.
tony-Surely you jest if you put Reed into the same class as Snider (not Snyder). True, Reed had a good spring, but check out his career numbers, he's not that great. Sending Reed down means McCoy makes the team, it doesn't have a lot to do with Snider. Reed had options-McCoy didn't. McCoy is more flexible, has more speed and had a better spring than Reed.
give reed some slack…..few guys come back from a broken bone in the hand a couple years ago, he had a great spring
and he will be up soon enough. i wish mccoy well, he did great also. but reality is he is untested over the long haul.time will answer all the predicting…..
Good to see carlson going down IMO. He could come back later to fill in if needed ( Downs/Frasor futures?). But I'd rather see Purcey be the first call-up.
No Jest there. Snider had 78 k;s in 241 AB's last eyar, Reed had only 74 in his 400 Ab's with Seattle during his FT gig. Reed has had a better spring and is by far a better glove. Snider has options and is destined for Gaston's doghouse sometime after the first 10 games. McCoy had a great spring as well but with Gonzo and Mac there, its not like he will get meaningful Ab's. Reed deserves to be there over Snider and McCoy will be useless come April.
Not a very good move in my opnion and Syder or Snider he might as well be Schnider because once he gets on the shcnide he will be buried on the bench.
Reed is a career .255/.312/.357 hitter over roughly 6 years and your initial post was to state he'd be better here than Snider, which is misguided to say the least. As I said, Reed had a good spring, but I just don't see him hitting 40-50 points higher than his career numbers-won't happen.
Frankly, we have better than Reed in the minors coming soon, so if he does make it back here, it will have to be very soon because others will be knocking at the door.
McCoy plays 6 different positions, and could play 7 if pressed. He has great plate discipline as shown by his high OBP numbers and has great speed. He also offers an option at short, allowing management to trade Gonzalez at the trade deadline and have someone play the position.
Right decision, imo.
McCoy missed some time this spring but he is Nick Leyva's "discovery" so he gets a chance. Reed had a good spring and deserves a chance but Snider's development has been rushed and if given time he still has a chance to get a whole lot better. I think at age 22 time is on his side.
Pitching decisions will be interesting. The guy who pitched well but hardly got a look was Accardo. He will likely be sent down but shouldn't be.
So glad to see Carlson down in the minors, he lost us so many games last year and I found it insane how Cito kept putting him in. Good riddens!
The career stats on Reed are misleading. They have been skewed by injury. When healthly, Reed has always been a top rate outfielder. He is in his prime right now and, so long as he is healthy, is a much better option than Snider – as has been suggested.
Stats skewed, huh-I guess that's why in 462 games, 1,222 at bats, he's only hit 11 home runs and driven in 107 over 6 years while playing a known "power position.".
To say he's a better option than Snider is ridiculous, he's not even as good as some minor leaguers we have in AAA or AA.
well….. gsjays is a true scholar of the game to suggest a 5 yr. vet with 1222 at bats and a .431 spring is not as good as some AA boys at this moment in time. alot of what you do say is quite valid and good. but you lose alot of credibility with statements like that. say hi to mccoy and snider while your cleaning their jockstraps….
Gs Jays…obviously you take this alot more serious than many. Its just a simple personal opnion that Reed would of served the team better. Thats the beauty fo baseball you can disagree. No one is here saying Marcum was better than Stieb. There wa sno obvious mistake. Snider didnt last in the majors and Reed could be a solid contributor based on the spring.
But to stary launching "deal with it" as if we are Reeds agent or start belittling posters because they have an opinion just means your looking at this comment section to start some Jim Rome type fight…its just baseball dude. Relax, no of us are getting paid by the Jays..let fans have thier own opnion. Yoru taking this way too serious.
Gs Jays…obviously you take this alot more serious than many. Its just a simple personal opnion that Reed would of served the team better. Thats the beauty fo baseball you can disagree. No one is here saying Marcum was better than Stieb. There wa sno obvious mistake. Snider didnt last in the majors and Reed could be a solid contributor based on the spring.
But to stary launching "deal with it" as if we are Reeds agent or start belittling posters because they have an opinion just means your looking at this comment section to start some Jim Rome type fight…its just baseball dude. Relax, no of us are getting paid by the Jays..let fans have thier own opnion. Yoru taking this way too serious.
I agree with gs that Snider is more of the future than Reed, I also know for a fact that GS gets more excited about prospects than anyone, so for someone to be upset that Reed is sent down, I think gs should be able to relate. GS, you may say, "but reed is 28 already", well, how old is Ruiz? How old is Mccoy now? Truth is reed used to be a solid prospect and has had many injury problems so far in his career. I see his season stats, and agree they are unimpressive, but so are Alex Rios and yet people rave (some do) about him. Also, Tony posted strikeout totals for Reed and Snider last year; I don't care if snider struck out twice as much, an out is an out. Sniders average was still higher. Ryan Howard leads the league in k's every year, would you want Reed over him too?
A 5 year yet playing a power position that doesn't have power, has never driven in many runs, has never hit for high average nor high obp. Lol, not sure why you'd hang your hat on that. Reed would never be part of the future this team is trying to build-he isn't good enough. Frankly, I doubt if he even starts in AAA and if he does not for long.
Please, do you really think this guy Reed is capable of hitting 200 points over his career average.-and you say I lose credibility. lol
You can push Reed as hard as you want, but fact is he's gone and probably will never be back. Deal with it. By the way posting insults simply shows you can't defend your position, it makes you look immature, now maybe that's what you like to look like-who knows.
I got to agree with GSJays here. Keeping Reed over Snider would have been a huge mistake. Snider's talent is undeniable, its a matter of good pitch selection and productive at bats for him. He has tinkered with his stance and will a definite force this season. Reed has zero upside at this point in his illustrious career. Yes, it has been hampered by injuries but the results speak for themselves. If he plays well at AAA and the Jays have injuries, he may get his shot. But even that is uncertain. I think Cito made the right move here. I also have a feeling we have not seen the last of Jeremy Reed…
take a deep breath gs… it is hard to take positions against
so many predictions.but i will stand behind my position about AA players. it is fun being immature after a long day of surgery! reed will take care of himself. i am proud of his doing so well this spring coming back last 2 yrs from his hand injury.time will tell and i will be back to remind you when he comes backup. you have not heard the end of jeremy reed.
Man! Do I have to toss my hat in the door first?
I think I would have designated Gonzales and kept Reed. There isn't much to choose between Gonzales and MacDonald, and you have McCoy on the depth chart, who may be able to play himself into a starting job.
Hey Tony-I didn't start the belittling nor insults, but I certainly do respond to someone who does. Posters that have been here a while can attest to that. I only ratchet up my comments when others start, never before.
Everyone who posts here has an opinion and that's what makes the forum great, there never is any need for personal insults or attacks. I respect others positions and expect others to respect mine. But when someone suggests "say hi to mccoy and snider while your cleaning their jockstraps..", that's an insult I respond to.
jbunk-I couldn't care less if you had a long day of surgery. Take your immaturity and frustrations out on someone else.
Why are you so proud of Reed doing so well in st, what is he to you? His career numbers suggest he little more than a good defense, fringe offense outfielder with limited upside. That certainly, isn't the profile of high ceiling type of prospects the team is aiming for in order to improve.
Hey I hope he does perform well in AAA, I really do because if he does he becomes a trade able asset, but don't hold your breath, we have some bangers down there and more on the way.
okgojays-I'm not sure Reed has ever been a high ceiling prospect. High ceiling corner outfielder prospects have to either hit for power, or high OBP combined with speed. Reed has never done either.
yerottaheah-I wonder if AA knew how McCoy was going to perform if he'd have signed Gonzalez?
The point people seem to be missing is that the jays are trying to work towards a future that they envision involving Snider (not Reed). Snider has a huge upside. He was the top hitting prospect in the system a couple of years ago and is projected to (at some point) have a big break out both in power and hopefully OBP. It is amazing how fast people seem to forget the two seasons of poor average, high Ks, and back n' forths from AAA that Lind went through. The jays, particularly in a development year such as this, want to work towards the same progression with Snider. For that reason, all others aside, it makes more sense to keep Travis.
Well said, ilovethenumbers. If we have anything to be upset at as Blue Jays' fans it may be the fact that the organization is not maximimizing the opportunity that this year presents to prepare for the future. This should be a year where both Lind and Snider learn to play the outfield. It should be a year where Arencebia gets half the starts behind the plate. It should be a year when Purcey learns to be an effective reliever if not closer. It should be a year where we find out what we have in Dopriak/Ruiz platooning between first and DH. From a development perspective, I just crigne when I see the make-up of this team. I will never understand why other teams can play their kids, develop at the major-league level, and finish close to the top and get great draft picks, but the Jays' feel that if they do not win 73 games (or some other hypothetical number) the fans will not turn out. That reasoning seems flawed to me. Mediocrity never attracts. Call it what it really is — a rebuilding year; a development year. I am afraid that Antho/Beeston's commitment to Blue Jays will cost the Jays more than just cash when this year is complete.
2 mistakes: 1) near the bottom, not top
2) commitment to Cito — not the Jays
Burt-As you can tell from the above exchange not all Jays fans are into the re-build plan, some still want us to win as many games this year as possible or simply have player favorites they'd like to see make the team.
I think we have to remember a lot of Jays fans are not real baseball fans and do not understand we win by building from the bottom up, not top down.
My take on Dopirak/Ruiz is there's been no takers for Overbay as yet, that might change but no one has bit yet, when it does I think we'll see Dopirak back up here. That being said, neither Ruiz nor Dopirak are long term Jays, the situation for both of them changed after we got Wallace.
Further I suspect a number of veterans are being showcased and we'll see a very busy trade deadline and pick up more prospects.
I originally wanted to see Arencibia start here this year ( as you well know), but after seeing his spring performance, I think a few more months in AAA will help him more than being here, so when he is called back up he sticks. Frankly, the rest of the high ceiling prospects we have are not ready yet, albeit it Wallace, Drabek, D'Arnaud, etc., so it might be, we need to be more patient than originally thought.
On the other hand, I think AA has done a remarkable job so far in turning the minors around. It still has a long way to go, but I'd expect if anyone rated the minor league teams now, we wouldn't be in last place like we were in December.
I don't pretend to know everything about baseball nor will I ever know everything about baseball . I do think we are lucky to have a forum where we can express our opinions and debate such opinions . However I do think to say somebody is not a real baseball fan because they don't agree with an opinion is wrong . The Jays are obviously rebuilding ( even to this lay person ) but what I have found amusing is that other teams get criticized for bringing up players too soon yet Jays get chastized for not bringing up players soon enough . For me, I will leave those decisions to those who hopefully know the players best, certainly better than I do and in the end I will enjoy the Jays whether they win or lose because I am a real baseball fan . This was not written to upset anybody but to make all of us aware that we are all fans or we would not be here
Well said Indigo.
Indigo-I have no problem with you criticizing my posts although I must say I wonder why that's the only type of posts you make here now. However, when you do please get your facts straight.
I did not say "somebody is not a real baseball fan because they don't agree with an opinion.". What I said was "a lot of Jays fans are not real baseball fans and do not understand we win by building from the bottom up, not top down." Point is that statement is a fact and if you read a number of blogs you'd realize that.
In terms of the poster in question, I state again, I didn't start the mud throwing, but I sure as hell do not sit back and let others throw it without responding. To be frank, he got off lightly, I could have called him a babbling idiot or moron, like a number of other posters would call anyone who thinks Reed is a better option than Snider. But I didn't.
Come back often and post, your thoughts on baseball are missed here, but we don't need a board moderator.
No poster said that the Jays were not building but you took the liberty of saying a lot of Jays fans are not real baseball fans . How can you make that assumption when you don't know those people . I work in an industry that builds from the ground up , I understand the concept but to say some Jays fans are ignorant of that fact therefore not real fans is unfair. I was not attacking you merely stating my opinion as you stated yours . I still read this blog and many others . There are numerous blogs that welcome new posters until the said new poster writes something a core poster disagrees with, then you often read derogatory comments . I admit to having learned a lot from what I have read here and will continue to read but I was not bashing you just stating my opinion.
Indigo, did someone pee in your wheaties, please, get real and make up your mind what you're criticizing me for. First it was "somebody is not a real baseball fan because they don't agree with an opinion is wrong.". Now it's "you took the liberty of saying a lot of Jays fans are not real baseball fans."
The point in all this, which for whatever reason you haven't recognized is, I didn't start this. I was attacked, not he other way around-read the blog above. I welcome all new posters here and always have. I've never attacked anyone or posted derogatory posts to someone, UNLESS they started it-and you know that.
I consistently try on this blog and game blogs to keep everyone civil, so our blog doesn't end up like the Yank ones with everyone calling everyone else moron, idiot or some other derogatory name.
IMO, it is true that a lot of Jays fans do not understand the concept of building from the bottom up. All one has to do is read posts here, other blogs, listen to radio and tv and most fans want instant gratification.
A lot are still ********** Halladay was traded, and thought all they Jays had to do is add 2-3 free agents in order to compete without understanding all that would have done is keep us in 4th place again. Most wanted Doc to stay, including yourself, if I remember right, whereas I am not only pleased he was traded but also very pleased with the return we got.
For the record, I really like the new management and the direction and think it's going to be fun to be a Blue Jay fan and watch all these kids grow and ultimately compete and win.
I am not accusing you of anything other than the fact I took exception to your comment …"I think we have to remember a lot of Jays fans are not real baseball fans and do not understand we win by building from the bottom up, not top down." Nowhere did I say you attacked anyone . I believe I said that comment was unfair as we are all fans . You give the impression that some Jays fans are what… false? Not capable of understanding ? Nobody peed in my corn flakes …..lol…. This is the problem with the net , you don't get the inflection of a voice . I also never accused you of not welcoming new people . I was referring to the fact several sites welcome new posters then chastize them or ask them to leave when the new poster doesn't agree with an older poster ( Redsox and Yankees are a good example ) .
Like I said , I have learned a great deal here and yes I was upset Doc was traded but I also understand why he was traded . As for the players they received in return , I also said I will reserve judgement on them until they hit the majors , they are prospects at this time and we all know a lot never do well in the big leagues .
Everyone is entitled to their opinion . I was not attacking you or anyone but this stuff is exactly why I choose to read and rarely post . As you said the site doesn't need a monitor , that is JB's job . I wouldn't want it ..take care
pee in your wheaties….naw, that does not sound immature
at all compared to cleaning a jockstap.where's the credibility….


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EDIT July 3, 2013: New gallery of the presentation artwork from SDCC!
this would be year 3 with a slip up...lol.........if this is real its kinda cool
just click on the news section,its there right now
EDIT July 3, 2013: New gallery of the presentation artwork from SDCC!
this would be year 3 with a slip up...lol.........if this is real its kinda cool
just click on the news section,its there right now
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Link or it didn't happen...sorry.
Update- When I clicked on News, it still showed me the July Sale as the most recent news item.
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It happened. And it is not a great character.
He-Fans and She-Ravers,
After almost one year and over 1,300 entries, we have a winner of our Masters of the Universe® Create a Character Contest!
During the Mattypalooza fan panel at SDCC it was revealed that "Castle Grayskullman," created by Daniel Benedict, was chosen as the top entry and will be made into an actual figure available this fall as part of the 30th Anniversary line.
The contest gave fans the opportunity to create a new MOTUC character based on bucks from existing 6" figures. It was the perfect chance for them to let their creativity shine.
The panel of eight judges included members of Mattel's marketing, entertainment, packaging, and design departments. They evaluated each entry, looking for concepts that had an original name and look, used approximately 50% shared parts, were easily translated into a toy, and fit into the world of MOTU. Daniel's "Castle Grayskullman" wowed the judges, cleverly incorporating details from the vintage Castle Grayskull® Playset.
The big announcement was made during the SDCC fan panel, where new art created specifically for Daniel's concept was also revealed. In addition, Daniel will receive a 2013 Club Eternia® subscription, and he will be interviewed for an article right here on MattyCollector.com. Best of all, he'll have lifelong bragging rights as creator of a new MOTUC character!
In addition to the winning entry, five runner-ups were also announced during the SDCC fan panel, and each of them will also receive a 2013 club subscription.
We congratulate Daniel and the runner-ups, and thank everyone who submitted for an incredible turnout!
P.S. Per the contest's Official Rules and entry form, all entries remain the sole property of Mattel and may not be used or posted by anyone else (including any entrant), in any way, for any purpose.
It's on there. Not going to spoil it for everyone else.
Congrats to the winner. Don't really care for his name, but the figure itself is pretty awesome.
if that's real, I quite like the design. hate the name and fear the potential bio.
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I actually think it's cool. Totally wacky awesome, like MOTU should be.
I'm not 100% certain that this is real, though.
EDIT- The more I look at him, the more I love him. I hope this isn't a gag!
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Is that person on the boards? If yeah, what name does he go by?
So it is
castle grayskull man!
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looks pretty cool
Pretty cool look for a figure design though, although this would have to be a spell cast on someone to transform them like that as nothing else would make any sense.
Eventually, I'd love to see the 4H's take on the giant creature that the vintage one looked to be constructed around. How cool would that be?!
Gods Above! Here's hoping we're getting ribbed. I mean, the weapons are pretty cool, but I just do not like the concept. I mean, what is it supposed to be?
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It's pretty cool, very nice detailed and I like it as a spirit of Grayskull with the jawbridge crossed swords as weapons. COOL. My only lame is that none of its parts cannot be shared with other major characters which still require tooling.....
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I love the design
Name, well what's in a motuc name, we have punny ones like Buzz Off and Evil Lynn already. Name isn't to bad, but I'm interested in the bio.
Fabulous secret powers revealed
See the last blurb. Guess it's sayonara for this thread.
I really like the design and look of that character. His name is blah but he is full of awesome details. He would make a good army builder for guards for the Sorceress and Grayskull. He is my second favorite of the 30th thus far and he is only less cool than Draego Man since he lacks wings.
He looks like a cross between the Galaxy Warriors and Remco wrestler knock offs from the '80s. I think he even has a Hulk Hogan skullet
It's not as good as Draego-Man, but better than Spector an Laser Lot.
I'm still hoping that it's one of TG's games, but I doubt he would go through so much effort
Maybe the long hair can be re-used on Longhaired Alcala He-Man
"A knight is sworn to valor. His heart knows only virtue. His blade defends the helpless. His word speaks only truth. His wrath undoes the wicked."
Really? That's what won? Congrats to the winner, but come on. While I was not expecting to win since I had to rush my drawings, I was at least hoping they would have picked a female character as the winner. We already have enough sausage in MOTU.
Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
Thanks for use of spoiler tags all. Please keep that up until the actual panel. Whoever runs the Matty site sure makes it hard to keep these things a secret!! But for now let's try to keep the surprise going... for the person who won if nothing else.
That being said -
I like it! It's not as good as any of mine were. (This is a joke.) But seriously, it's a lot of fun. I think it's a pretty clever concept.
I'm a little confused about the... hair? Is that hair? It's kind of hard to tell. But I like the face, the details.. the crest from the door. The name... not so much. I will be naming him something else. I wonder what the bio is? The Castle come to life because of a spell momentarily? Some sort of stone guardian the Castle creates to protect itself? I actually think buying several might be neat if the latter is true.
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Maybe they can say it's some sort of ghostly character that haunts Castle Grayskull or something.


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Posted: Apr 29, 2012
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The Birmingham-Southern women's tennis team's first trip to the SCAC post-season resulted in a sixth-place finish in the 2012 SCAC Championship. The fifth-seeded Panthers fell to seven seed Colorado College today, 5-4, and finish the season 11-9.
On the final day of the tournament held at the Burns Park Tennis Center in North Little Rock, Ark., BSC split the singles matches with wins from junior Raeanne Lamere, sophomore Emily Holst, and sophomore Terria Punturo. In doubles, the Panthers would earn one win from the team of Lamere and Punturo with an 8-5 victory.


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Yesterday the PM is reported to have been asked by someone travelling on his aeroplane from Moscow "whether he had forgiven Advani for calling him a 'weak Prime Minister'".
The question was absurd, almost ridiculous, typical of our docile ingratiating rather juvenile English-language press and media, as if any issue of forgiveness arises at all about what one politician says during an election campaign about another politician's performance in office.
Dr Manmohan Singh's answer was surprising too: "I was compelled to reply to what Advani said…On May 16 when (Advani) telephoned me, he told me that he was hurt by some of my statements. He said he was hurt and regretted his statements… I apologised to him if I have hurt him. I am looking forward to a close relationship with the Leader of the Opposition."
So LK Advani appears to have apologised to Manmohan Singh and Manmohan Singh to LK Advani for what they said about each other during the recent general election campaign! What is going on? Were they schoolboys exchanging fisticuffs in a school playground or elderly men battling over power and policy in modern Indian politics?
What would we have done if there was a Churchill in Indian politics today – hurling sarcastic insults at domestic opponents and foreign leaders while guiding a nation on its right course during turbulent times?
Churchill once famously said his parents had not shown him "The Boneless Wonder" in PT Barnum's circus because it was too horrible a sight but now he had finally seen such a "Boneless Wonder" in his opponent on the Treasury Benches, namely, Ramsay MacDonald. Of the same opponent he said later "He has the gift of compressing the largest number of words into the smallest amount of thought".
When accused of being drunk by a woman MP he replied "And you are very ugly, but tomorrow I'll be sober". Today's politically correct world would scream at far less. Field Marshall Montgomery told Churchill, "I neither drink nor smoke and am 100% fit," to which Churchill replied, "I drink and smoke and I am 200% fit". That too would be politically incorrect today.
Churchill described Prime Minister Clement Attlee as "a modest man with much to be modest about"; also about Attlee: "If any grub is fed on Royal Jelly it turns into a Queen Bee". Yet Attlee had enough dignity and self-knowledge and self-confidence to brush it all off and instead respect and praise him. In the 1954 volume Winston Spencer Churchill Servant of Crown and Commonwealth Attlee added his own tribute to his great opponent: "I recall…the period when he was at odds with his own party and took a seat on the Bench below the Gangway on the Government side. Here he was well placed to fire on both parties. I remember describing him as a heavily armed tank cruising in No Man's Land. Very impressive were the speeches he delivered as the international horizon grew darker. He became very unpopular with the predominant group in his own party, but he never minded fighting a lone battle."
Stanley Baldwin, who as PM first appointed Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer, once said "There comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind". Yet Churchill was to later say harshly "I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better had he never lived."
Of Lenin, Churchill said, he was "transported in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia". Of Molotov: "I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern concept of a robot." Of Hitler, "If [he] invaded hell I would at least make a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons". Of De Gaulle, "He was a man without a country yet he acted as if he was head of state"." Of John Foster Dulles, "[He] is the only bull who carries his china shop with him". Of Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador to the USSR, "…a lunatic in a country of lunatics"; and also "There but for the Grace of God, goes God".
Decades later, that great neo-Churchillian Margaret Thatcher was on the receiving end of a vast amount of sarcasm. "President Mitterrand once famously remarked that Thatcher had 'the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe'. Rather less flatteringly, Dennis Healey described her as Attila the Hen. She probably took both descriptions as compliments." (Malcolm Rifkind in Margaret Thatcher's Revolution: How it Happened and What it Meant edited by Subroto Roy and John Clarke, 2005).
Politics is, and should be, grown up stuff because it deals with human lives and national destinies, and really, if you can't take the heat please do not enter the kitchen. The slight Churchillian sarcasm that does arise within modern Indian politics comes very occasionally from Bihar but nowhere else, e.g. about the inevitability of aloo in samosas and of bhaloos in the jungle but no longer of Laloo being in the seat of power. In general, everyone seems frightfully sombre and self-important though may be in fact short of self-knowledge and hence self-confidence.
What had Manmohan Singh said about LK Advani that he felt he had to apologise for? That Advani had no substantial political achievement to his credit and did not deserve to be India's PM. Manmohan was not alone in making the charge – Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and numerous other spokesmen and representatives of their party said the same. Has Manmohan's apology to Advani been one on behalf of the whole Congress Party itself?
Was Advani's apology to Manmohan one on behalf of the whole BJP too?
What had the BJP charged Manmohan with that Advani felt he had to apologise for? Being a "weak PM".
Hmmm. Frankly, thinking about it, it is hard to count who has not been weak as a PM in India's modern history.
Certainly Vallabhai Patel as a kind of co-PM was decisive and far from weak back in 1947-48.
Lal Bahadur Shastri was not weak when he told Pakistan that a Pakistani attack on Kashmir would result in an Indian attack on Pakistan.
Indira Gandhi was not weak when she resisted the Yahya Khan-Tikka Khan tyranny against Bangladesh.
Had he not been assassinated, Rajiv Gandhi in a second term would have been decisive and not weak in facing up to and tackling the powerful lobbies and special interest groups that have crippled our domestic economic policy for decades.
But the number of such examples may be counted by hand. Perhaps VP Singh might count, riding in an open jeep to Amritsar, as might AB Vajpayee's Pokhran II and travelling on a bus to Lahore. In general, the BJP's charge that Manmohan was "weak" may have constructively led to serious discussion in the country about the whole nature of the Prime Ministership in modern India, which means raising a whole gamut of issues about Indian governance – about India being the softest of "soft states", with the softest of "soft government budget constraints" (i.e., endless deficit finance and paper money creation) etc.
Instead, what we have had thus far is apologies being exchanged for no real political reason between the leaderships of the Government and the Opposition. If two or three sellers come to implicitly carve up a market between themselves they are said by economic theory to be colluding rather than being in competition. Indian politics may be revealing such implicit collusive behaviour. The goal of this political oligopoly would seem to be to preserve and promote the status quo of the post-1947 Dilli Raj with its special hereditary nomenclatura, at the expense of anonymous diffused teeming India.
Subroto Roy
Postscript July 15 2009: Churchill's mature opinion of Baldwin was one of the fullest praise at the 20 May 1950 unveiling of a memorial to him. See his In the Balance, edited by Randolph S Churchill, 1951, p. 281


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Eventually, we filed an insurance claim with our renter's insurance. Allstate was so great about our claim that when we had to buy homeowner's insurance and changed car insurances, I insisted we go with them because they were so easy to work with. Eventually, I started talking to the folks at Green Lake Jewelry Works, because I have always loved their custom work, but the idea of outsourcing the ring to a company in Seattle just made me a little iffy, and the idea of picking a diamond on the internet was even more disquieting. We talked about a non-diamond, and I was on the fence, and so I stayed on the fence for awhile. Eventually we decided to go with moissanite and were in the process of actually making decisions when my cousin called me and offered me my grandmother's engagement ring.
I was incredibly close to my grandparents. My grandmother died shortly after we got married, and was too ill to come to our wedding, but we were very close and I loved her so much. As soon as my cousin gave me her ring, I immediately stopped dragging my feet on the replacement. We went to a couple of jewelry stores, and my other cousin recommended Berman's. The woman who helped us looked at my stone, and then asked me what I was thinking about. I said I wasn't sure if we wanted to resize or pick a stone off the rack or get something custom, and I asked if I could just try stuff on to get a feel for what I liked. She nodded and asked me about my tastes. She started with, "the halo settings are very popular". I shook my head, because they're just not my style, and so we started pulling out other stones. There was a pretty one with an antiquey etching look to it, which is a style I like, but it wouldn't sit flush with my wedding band. I started to feel a little discouraged. I was really starting to want to not go through the custom process again, for a number of reasons. I nudged M. out of the way and started looking at the halo settings I had turned down earlier. And then, there it was. In the bottom of the display case was a ring with intricate metalwork, accent stones, and a leaf motif.
"That one." I said, urgently. I knew before she even handed it to me that it Was Mine. I proceeded to wear it for the next half hour while we discussed soldering my wedding band to it, while we discussed sizing, while she appraised my grandmother's stone. She popped my grandma's stone out of the setting and put it in the ring and I smiled so hard I was concerned my face would break.
We opted to have my wedding band soldered to the engagement ring, which I was a little concerned about but looks great and keeps everything in place, which is important because it makes them seem more flush.
The ring is from Jolie Designs and they also make the same design in a wedding band with no center stone, which I think is cool. It's white gold, but looks good with my palladium wedding band (especially after they shined the heck out of it!) I'm still really surprised I was able to find something I liked in the store, because all of the other rings we looked at were so different from this one.
Ultimately, I'm pretty happy with our decision to replace my ring, but I also think that if I had simply opted not to, I would have gotten by as well. I'd gotten very used to wearing my simple wedding band and it made life easy - I could wear it and do anything, which is nice. My new setting is on the higher side, which I'm getting used to. I also fought a lot internally with the idea I didn't deserve a new ring, which was why I was so grateful when my cousin offered me my grandmother's ring. Somehow it felt different than simple vanity to get a new ring - it was a way to bring new life into something that wasn't being used, it was a way to remember and honor my grandmother on a daily basis, and it was more than just an engagement ring.