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Kansas City is tired of coming to San Diego. Yeah, it's got bright sunshine and beautiful women, but they can't win a game here - now 0-6 lifetime after yesterday's loss. Some thoughts (and apologies for the late afternoon posting, duty called):
- Rizzo stole his first base in the majors, and oh my goodness did he get a huge jump. He'd taken 3 steps before Royal starter Bruce Chen delivered the ball to the plate. It's not often you see the catcher make no throw to third on a stolen base attempt.
- Bruce Chen - 52-51 (going into yesterday), parts of 13 major league seasons. I was stunned to realize he'd hung around that long. Teach your sons to throw left-handed; they'll be gainfully employed until they're 50.
- The game's key play ended up being Tim Stauffer's pop-up to start the third. You'll read that an error was charged to Royals 3B Mike Moustakas on the play. What you won't read is that he had the ball pop out of his glove twice while trying to corral it ALONG THE FIRST BASE LINE. Neither the Royals second nor first basemen wanted any part of that ball. Way to bag your teammate fellas.
Charging Moustakas with the error was unquestionably the right decision but a very tough error given how far he ranged, how close he came, and how tough the sun was yesterday afternoon.
Even so Chen faced Ludwick with two on and two out, eventually with a 2-2 count. Ludwick lined that pitch into the corner for the double that tied the game. The next 5 Padres reached safely, including a line shot off Orlando Hudson's bat that Moustakas couldn't hang onto, and a tough high chop from Rob Johnson that Moustakas tried to short-up and missed.
- The Royals employed a shift against Rizzo when he batted in the fifth (bases empty). I'd not seen that strategery before. Rizzo popped to third on the first pitch.
- Brett Butler got 6 at bats in this series (0-for-6). There was a great story on ESPN recently about why the AL has the advantage over the NL in interleague, which made this fair point: No NL team has a 20-HR guy sitting on their bench when they go to an AL park. The converse is also true - AL teams must take a potent bat out of their lineup to play baseball the way God intended. By OPS+ Butler is the second-best hitter on Kansas City's roster. Advantage Padres.
Of course, trying to get all those big bats into the lineup can be fun too. Witness Adrian playing RF for the Red Sox in Philadephia.
- The Padres used Spence and Qualls to negotiate the eighth. I don't believe manager Bud Black declared Mike Adams unavailable yesterday, but that's how he managed the game. Interestingly Heath Bell worked his fourth consecutive ninth, and got his fourth consecutive save for the second time this season.
- Eric Hosmer (Royals 1B) is going to be good. Really, really good. Everything that guy hits has pace.
- Tim Stauffer was nowhere as sharp as he was on Friday. Didn't matter. Royals threatened in the second, broke through for 1 in the third, and posed no serious threat to him the rest of the way. Many consider Mat Latos the Ace of this staff, based on how he pitched from May to September when he was the Ace. Latos hasn't really pitched like that in 2011 (yet), but Stauffer sure has. For my money he's the Ace of this staff.
After losing 7 straight to the AL, San Diego has won 5 in a row. They travel to Seattle to close out their interleague schedule for 2011. It'd be nice to see them win 3 more. After that, 8 games with San Francisco over 14 days. Here we go.


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Georgia Tech Coursera Offering Educates Participants on How to Plan, Launch, and Teach Online Courses
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Newswise — Online education has become overwhelmingly popular and is evolving at a rapid pace due in large part to the expansion of massively open online courses (MOOCs). To meet the increased demands on those who teach via online modalities, Dr. Fatimah Wirth, an instructional designer with Georgia Tech Professional Education, will conduct the first Coursera course focused on creating, designing, and organizing online curriculum. Open to anyone, Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application is a free, six-week course that begins Jan. 28, 2013.
In Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application, participants will learn the basics of proper planning and applications for online education. Topics include online learning pedagogy, online course design, privacy and copyright issues, online assessments, web tools and Learning Management Systems. The course format includes lecture videos, quizzes, standalone assignments, and peer assessments. Participants will build an online course as part of their final project.
Wirth earned her doctorate in Instructional Technology from Ohio University in 2005 and has been teaching online courses for the last three years. She has been instrumental in supporting all of Georgia Tech's courses available in Coursera as a result of her instructional design experience. In 2008, she wrote a $3 million grant on behalf of Georgia Tech Professional Education to create NASA Electronic Professional Development Network (ePDN) online programs and is currently using her expertise to train NASA educators. Working with NASA and other partners, the NASA ePDN program provides free, online professional learning opportunities to K-12 educators to enable them to expand their Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) content knowledge as well as develop best practice pedagogy
"New and different technological methodologies enable us to connect students with other students, and with faculty," said Wirth. "As more teachers and students move to online classes as an educational option, it will become increasingly important for educators to employ high quality and accessible measures that meet the learning needs and goals of online students. The course can help instructors, teachers, educators, or anyone who trains others, improve their online offerings or introduce them to the concept and application."
In July 2012, Georgia Tech signed an agreement with Coursera to put courses online and create new opportunities in the classroom. To date, more than 170,000 students have registered for Georgia Tech's courses available via Coursera. The Institute plans to add more online courses across a range of disciplines to meet the growing needs of students, working professionals, and industries worldwide.
"We are empowering people to learn, and are connecting and expanding our global learning community to meet the evolving needs of students worldwide," said Dr. Nelson Baker, dean of Georgia Tech Professional Education. "By adding courses via Coursera, we are further supporting an individual's quest for wanting to be more competitive and competent whether that is in their studies at a university, in their place of employment, or just to be members of an educated society."
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Inside Track: Goad finds satisfaction at the end of his career path
Coming from nothing, Lake Michigan Credit Union's CFO knows how to work with customers.
Those days when it was hard to find two nickels to rub together remain firmly etched in his memory. His lean financial years turned into a rather convincing motivating force.
"When Claudia and I married, we had zero in our pockets," said Goad, referring to his wife of 26 years.
"I bagged groceries, waited on tables and parked cars in downtown Miami," said Goad, who earned an undergraduate degree from William Jennings Bryan College in Dayton, Tenn., in 1986, majoring in classical and New Testament Greek.
His break in what became his career field came when he snagged a job with Sun Trust Bank in Miami as an operations/financial analyst and federal funds trader. He worked there from 1988-1993. And that's when the juggling act commenced.
While Goad worked full time during the day, he decided to attend school at night to earn his MBA, a goal he reached in 1997 at Grand Valley State University. He has some advice about attending college in the evening: "Do it before the kids are old enough to remember you went to night school," he said.
After Sun Trust Bank, Goad worked in senior financial management positions at the former Old Kent Financial Corp. from 1993-2001, then as CFO of Cornerstone University from 2001-2005 and as CFO with The Bank of Holland from 2005-2012.
"We've grown from $400 million in assets in 2000 to $2.7 billion today," said Goad. "The credit union expanded its charter and is actively seeking to serve residents in 36 counties, west of Lansing."
Some of this can be attributed to the nationwide merger/acquisition trend credit unions have experienced.
According to the National Credit Union Administration, about one-third of all credit unions operating in 2008 had participated in one merger between 1979 and 2008 — the same year mergers had to comply with revisions to the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141. The effect of the new regulations is said to have made merger transactions more time consuming and complex for CFOs, management and their boards.
Goad declined to say if mergers were on the horizon for Lake Michigan Credit Union, but acknowledged it's a trend that will be part of credit unions' future.
"We've have had some mergers, and I would expect to have some more in the future," he said. "The industry has been consolidated and I would expect it to continue because improving technology and increased regulations make it harder for smaller banks and smaller credit unions to compete against larger ones. So when an institution is small enough to be a community-focused institution but large enough to offer services and products that can compete with national institutions, we're definitely in that space."
Goad said he was drawn to Lake Michigan Credit Union in part because of his previous nonprofit work as Cornerstone University's CFO and his volunteer work as a board member and treasurer for St. Cecilia Music Center and Closed Door Ministries International.
"There's a sense of stewardship being CFO of a credit union and managing assets for the benefit of our members," said Goad. "The difference (between a bank and a credit union) comes down to what we do with our earnings. Instead of taking our profits and distributing them to owners as dividends, we instead give our members higher rates on deposits and lower rates on loans."
He's an unabashed drum major for his new employer.
"I believe Lake Michigan Credit Union is the premier community banking organization in West Michigan," he said, "because of our service, outstanding products and as a credit union, we're here for the benefit of our members, not for outside shareholders."
Serving on the board of Closed Door Ministries International is a reminder of the hardships people endure in some regions of the world, he said.
"We focus on mission work in the Far East (countries) that are harder for missionaries to work in," said Goad. "They really focus on helping Christians in that part of the world to be economically self-sufficient so they don't become dependent on outside giving but learn to lead their churches and their organizations on their own. You get to see the challenges that people face around the world when we have it so good here, and it makes you sensitive to those needs."
Goad's life has been one of getting around and moving around.
His father was a Baptist pastor for 38 years, including at Wealthy Street Baptist Church in the mid-1970s. He attended Crestwood Middle School in Kentwood, then moved to Atlanta just before he started ninth grade.
"He was disciplined and determined but caring for others," Goad said of his father.
For some teens, no longer attending school with familiar faces might have been tough. But Goad said he was able to take in stride.
"I had a really good relationship with my parents," he said. "I was an achiever in high school, so when I enrolled in my new school, I plugged in and made new friends."
When he was growing up, Goad toyed with the idea of becoming a medical research scientist — pretty heady stuff for a child. He didn't go that route but while still an undergraduate, he had thoughts of taking his classical and New Testament Greek major and going on to graduate school to eventually teach Greek at the college level.
But those plans were re-routed when he snagged a job at the bank in Miami and a friend recommended he read the job-hunting book by Richard Nelson Bolles: "What Color Is Your Parachute?" Now, as he looks back, he has no regrets about where he is today.
"I used the exercises in the book and what I found I would enjoy and be good at is banking and finance," said Goad. "Those turned up as the top category. What I love about finance is banking is so quantitative, working to figure out this variable math problem," said Goad.
Goad began working when he was 14, with a maintenance crew for Colonial Hills Christian Schools in Atlanta, a job he held for three summers.
"We learned how to overhaul a fleet of school buses, tune up engines and change brakes," he said. "It was hard and rewarding work. Rewarding, because I could be done at the end of a day, knowing you're going to get the job done and see the finished product."
Goad learned a relative on his mother's side and another on his father's served in the Confederate Army during American Civil War, more than likely as enlisted soldiers. His lineage spurred a closer look at that war, such as the first and second battles of Bull Run.
"What an amazing place that was," Goad said of Northern Virginia. "Just the major battles that were fought there and how close we came to having Washington invaded, and it was put back each time."


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Episode 3 | See how the bluegrass sound spreads in post-war America, and meet honky-tonk star Hank Williams, whose songs of surprising emotional depth are derived from his troubled and tragically short life.
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An estimated 400,000 Americans have died as a result of opioid use. But grieving families say the national response to the health crisis is inadequate. In her coverage of the epidemic, Associated Press reporter Claire Galofaro profiled Cheryl Juaire, who lost her son to a heroin overdose in 2011. Galofaro and Juaire talk to William Brangham about how they are trying to increase opioid awareness.
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I love nicknames. I think it's a way to personalize the name - make it something special between just you and your child or within your family. My youngest has about 5 nicknames and responds to all of them, yet he can tell his kindergarten teacher his first, middle and last names with no problem or confusion. It's also a way that I differentiate between when we're being affection/teasing and when we're serious. For example, my daughter's nickname is "MoMo" but her first name is Moira. If we're just talking/playing around then I call her MoMo, but if it's something serious like chores or instructions while babysitting etc then I call her Moira so she has that verbal clue that this is serious time and she needs to pay attention. By the way, switching from nicknames to realm names is very quick and second nature. I'm a teacher and I never slip up and call my kids by their nicknames at school.
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Think it is great. I had a nickname and so do all 4 of my children. Nothing wrong with it. They still know their birth names cause when they get in trouble that's what they hear.
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i named my daughter what i did for that specific reason. I HATE NICKNAMES. i picked a simple and sweet, but uncommon name that is TO SHORT for a nickname. Her name is Kira for a reason. As her parents we call her silly names, but when shes in school, its going to be kira, and thats it.
There is nothing wrong with nicknames has long has they are appropiate,my son has a nickname given to him by his grandpa and he loves it,it was given to him when he was born and he is 26 years old now,he even has it on his license plates on his car.
My name is Victoria. My mother named me that, not Vicky or Vic, or even Tori. So I have never liked nick names. The ones that I REALLY hate are Bubba and Sissy for brother and sister. It just really rubs me the wrong way!!!
I'm not against nicknames at all, but it fusterate me when people want to call my son Andy or Drew, those names are real Names and they can be stand on their own. if I wanted my son to be called Andy or Drew those names would have been on his birth citifcate. We call him by his really Name all the time, but on line he is called Mousey. I think people should ask parents 1st what to call a child, it so disrespectful when people come up to me and call my son a name I didn't give him. It like me going up to them and call the meanface, really, they don't like it. That I call them that,but they want me to like it that they can call my son whatever they want
For me it really depends on the name. My 10 year old's name is Christian and I never wanted it to be shortened to Chris. He has always gone by Christian and no one except his bus driver calls him Chris...which makes him really mad, but he's too nice to correct her. LOL! I also have a daughter named Addison and she also goes by Addy by everyone else but me and it doesn't really bother me. We are expecting #4 in October and I have always wanted a Katie. So if this one is a girl her given name will be either Kathryn or Kate. I think it's important to have a good strong given name so as an adult they have that option to use a mature name in their chosen profession. I wouldn't want to see Katie or Addy on their college diplomas, but something more mature. That's just me though.
I like the point about the more adult name on a diploma. Who wants to go before judge KItty?
My daughter's name is Julianna and she has about 4 or 5 nicknames (juju, juli, monster, juju bear). However she knows her full name and when someone asks she tells them her full name. I see nothing wrong with nicknames. I believe they're full of affection.
My daughter Madilyn goes by Madi for the most part. This happened because in first grade (then again in 2nd) there was a Madelyn, so my daughter went by Madi while the other one stayed with Madelyn. At home is an entirely different story. We call her anything that comes to our minds, bug, bird, madbob, mad, moo, puppy, bunny, it's neverending. I personally think it's funny to see all of the different words she'll answer to. Just the other day I was hollaring out random vowel sounds and noises just to see what she'd respond to. HOWEVER, she's our only. I'm sure this would be totally different if we had another one, because they'd not know who we'd be calling for. We'd probably still shorten their given names though.
I really hate nicknames.........that is why I named my son Seneca David and my daughter Siobhan Pierette.
I had thought long and hard about Jennifer, Jessica, and names like that but knew they would be called Jenny or Jessie or so forth.
My dad always has called me "Little E". He is really the only one who says it seriously... anyone else is teasing me (all in good fun). My girls have long names, but each have at least one "short" name and a nickname. Giovanna is Gia in school and G, Gigi, or big girl at home. Gabriella is Gabby in school, but at home she is also Gab, Gabs, or Gabbers (her teacher last year called her Gabby Goo which was cute). Giulianna is Giuli/Giulia at school. At home we call her Juju, jj jetplane, Julesy...she has a few more.
Hi.my nsme is Sonia!my opinion about nickname for childe:I like a new name.it's appear thats good! so please choose a new and good name for your baby!!!
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My parents named me "Roxanna-insert five saints name here-and my last name. Dad called me "Chacha" for muchacha, granma called me "preciosa". As I grew older, daddy called me Rox, Mommy called me by my first name and my first second name. Then she began calling me "Rana" frog, because when I jumped roped I looked like one! I was three when my little sister was born and she would call me "Nana". In middle school, my freind Kimberly called me Roxy, and not only did everyone start calling me that, I hated it! She died when I was 13 as a result of suicide and I refused to let anyone call me by that name. As an adult, I worked at Headstart and all the kids called me "Rocky". One of my students name was Kimberly and looked just like my old friend.....first day I met her she called me Roxy and nothing else......I had to keep it.
I love some of mine and when I had my children, nicknames were planned even before they were born! Mimu for my oldest, Leydita and Negra were two more nicknames we gave her. My youngest is Mico, Abby, Babas, Gorda, Abby Butt, Booger Butt and Brat. I don't call my dad 'Daddy" to often, but I call him by his nickname "Tito". I don't dare with my Mom because she will still grab the "chancla " and beat me!
My sister also had nicknames, and when I had my girls, they called her "Titi". My sister had two girls and when she asked me what I wanted them to call me I remembered how she would call me "Nana" as a baby. My nieces call me "Ti'Nana".
More nicknames for me? The majority of my friends (who are usually five to fifteen years younger than me and my husband) call us Momma and Poppa....I kinda like that, too!
I love nicknames. Everyone else can use the official name, but the nickname is usually a personal, intimate thing for those of us in the family. It's like a family joke or code. I have some my friends gave me and I usually know who might call me what!! My parents didn't give me any though. Wish they had!!
We are big on nicknames in our family. I used to call my oldest cookie butt, ok, I still do sometimes even though he is 14, because he had a little onesie with Cookie Monster fishing for a cookie and the cookie was right on his little tush. My son Christian goes by Chris. My daughter Gracelyn is called Gracey. We have started calling her CeeCee though, because that is how she pronounces Gracey. My youngest is named Amalia but we always planned to call her Mali. When she came home she was only 4 and a half pounds and my mom said "What a little Mali bean she is" and we have been calling her Bean ever since.
I call my little girl Boo. She actually looks like the girl in Monster's Inc Sully named her Boo. But we do say her name as well. She is three and knows her first,middle, last name
I was okay with nicknames after my daughter learned her name. I call her "bubba" now. In school she will be zada or alexa (her middle name) whichever she is comfortable with.
I have no problems with nicknames. I however have never liked my full name. My mom named me Jessica, and she prefers to call me that. She does NOT like that I shorten it, but almost 28 years later, I still can't stand to be called Jessica. I go by Jessi. My son's name is Ronan and my daughter's name is Hailey. I call them Ro and Hail. They know their full names, and they can choose what they would like to go by.
Our daughter is Betty, named after three of our four grandmothers. We felt it was important to name her Betty, not Elizabeth or something else...since the three grandmothers are all Betty, not Elizabeth. But we call her Bess, because I prefer the sound of it. Her middle name is a family name, which could be either gender. So when she's older, she can be Bess, Betty, her middle name, or even her initials if she wants!
Both of my kids had nicknames but they were "private" meaning I was the only one that used the nicknames which also made it a special thing between my children and me.
My daughter was and still is Munchkin, and my son is Button.
My granddughters are Lexi~Girl and Lani~Beth, again Gamma is the only one to call them that.
we naturally shorten names in our families. we call our girls by the first part of their names, like: Cari for Carissia. its quick, easy and natural. their nickmanes are still a part of their actual full names; and the besst part is, that while they are still young and little, they sound cutr and sweet, but when they grow up, ahtey can use their full name if they want; or at least legally(paper work, jobs, etc.,)
My son Aaron goes by his middle name Scot(he's named after his dad), he also sometimes wants to be called Batman, Spiderman. Kayla sometimes go by kayla bayla or pain in butt.If Kayla gets in trouble it's louann(her middle name). Sueann goes by Susie, bug, tooterbug, big girl, baby girl or baby. Can't u tell she's the baby of the family. There is nothing wrong with nicknames, my children knows what their names are. Since they have to learn how to spell their names for school(their teachers ask if they go by any other name) there is not a problem.
My sons name is Christian and before I decided it, I had to decide whether it would be ok for people to call him Chris because its gonna happen. I dont mind and no one does yet except his grandmother sometimes, but Im not sure why! My daughters name is Lia and never gets called that around the house hardly. Its always Lia Rose (her middle name) or i call her all kinds of things like Rosey Toesy, Roserella, Rosalina, you get the idea! She answers to it all!
I happen to love nicknames but also agree with some ladies that they evolve with time. As a kid in elementary school my mom and siblings called me Jenny but as a grew up (into a tomboy in middle school) I went by jen. Into high school as certain friends grew close to me and would begin to call my jenny accidentally the more time they spent with my family, it made me feel good
And closer to those friends, but inhated strangers calling me that. Differently my youngest brother was always been called His first name which is James after my grandpa. In grade school his teachers called him Jimmy but I remember one dinner when ge proclaimed, "my name is James". Now, to change once again, in high school all of his friends call him Jimmy :/ Though my mother has ALWAYS called him Jimmy and never anything else. I on the other hand have ALWAYS called him James, sometimes when talking to his friends and other family thy get confused when I'm referring to him. I've just always loved that name and ultimately chose it For thenmiddle name
For my own son who we named Keegan, and often call him kee
Nicknames are great, just be sure the teacher knows what you want the child to learn to write. This can be put on the enrollment form. Now my mom picked names that could not be changed by a nickname.
And i do not like nicknames that stick. I had a student that enrolled as Peaches. How to live with that?
I like nicknames and each of my kiddos have several. Though they both prefer to go by their full names at school, they like that mom has a special name for each of them. A nickname is a great way to show affection, make a kid feel special and give them a moniker that suits who they are now, while still having a full- proper name that will suit them as an adult and/or a professional.
I deliberately chose names for my children that cannot be shortened or made into nicknames. I chose the names for them that I wanted because I liked them, not because I wanted to base a nickname on it. I do not like nicknames but I understand it's a personal preference. If someone else wants to give their kids nicknames that's their own thing and it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
I don't think that nicknames can hurt. Both my girls have them and they can tell you what their real names are. My youngest is nicknamed nunu- meaning monkey. It is a very common nickname in SA and sounds a lot better than calling your child monkey.
As long as your child knows their name, no harm no foul!
Defiantly nicknames....it's great fun.
My son is Christopher Clayton Thomas, partly after my husband. We have so many variations of 'Chris' between our families, that I told my husband that if he wanted to name the baby that then I get to choose his nickname. My, now 4 yo, son has always gone by Topher. In fact he gets very mad when someone calls him Christopher or Chris. I think it will do well for him in school, I don't hear of many Tophers. When I was growing up my classes were full of Brittany's, Sarah's, Megans, Mike's, Matt's, Chris', etc.
My son is name Vincent and some people call him Vinnie, but I stick with Vincent. Doesn't bother me and it doesn't seem to bother him, he's 8. My son on the way is going to be Zachary and I already call him Zack, just comes out naturally. It won't bother me.
Nicknames are terms of endearment to your child I think something special just between you and them, I have nicknames for my grandchildren and they love them as well as when my children were little, I still call my girls by their nicknames at times and they are 38 and 42 :-)
I don't mind nicknames if I choose them. I wouldn't want someone else coming up with a nickname for them. So I named both Erik & Lauren names that don't really have nicknames. However, when Lauren was younger she couldn't say Erik lol so at 27 we call him Ack still...lol
My son is Louis Jr. but we call him Baby Lou. We tried. "L.J." or "Junior" and a few other names to know the difference in who was being called. dad or baby. But my son now 11 is still being called Baby Lou. His friends or teachers do not ever call him that but us here in the house all call him that. His sister calls him Bay Lou and he always corrects her. he does not like it one bit. To me... He will always be Baby Lou.
I think names evolve as life goes on...I tend to call boys 'Bud" and girls ' Honey'....sort of an affectionate, generic name...sometimes even the dog..
.My son John was 3 when someone called him Johnny..."My name is J-O-H-N !!!!!!!" He likes his name, and so does his brother Matt....I think nicnames are OK unless they are hurtful, or focus on a negative....like Punkin Head, or Stilts, or Zits, or something like that.....like I said, they usually just evolve...
I think nicknames can be fun as long as they are kind names. Growing up I was nicknamed Peanut and loved it. I was little, girly and goofy, so I felt peanut was perfect and so much better than my real name.
I think the names and nicknames we give our children affect them there entire live and we should try to name them something positive. My husband is the oldest son in his family and I am the oldest child & daughter in my family, so we elected to honor each of our fathers by giving our son the first name of my husband's father (he passed away before our son was born) and the middle name of my father. Our son's name is "William Christopher". We really liked that the name not only connected our son to both of his grandfathers, but it is also a strong, conservative name that reflected our heritage. With all of this being said, we elected to call our son by the nickname "Will" as a way to provide him with his own identity.
The name Will perfectly fits our son's personality and best of all our son is proud of his name and enjoys telling people.
My parents had several nicknames each & if they aren't strange I'm for them all the way.
Im not into the nickname thing. My son is Mathew and thats what he will always be it sounds and feels funny when someone calls him Matt or Matty. And our other sons name is going to be David and I cant call him Dave or Davy just doent feel right. My sister in law on the other hand has a Kristin which has always went by Krissi and Megan which is Maggie and a Jacob which is Jake and she gets mad when someone calls them by their name. Even when you ask Kristin what her name is she says Krissi and when someone tells her its really Kristin she gets mad and fights with you about it.But to each their own.
My name is Megan but my family calls me by many nicknames, I mostly go by Meg but also Meggy, Megs,Nutmeg and a few others but I prefer Meg, it sounds more like an adult woman's name and not a child. My boys have nicknames too which is usually what we call them but when I need to get their attention quick it is Donathon, Maxton and Quinian.
I think we all go through some pet names for our children while they are young. Most outgrow them over time. Some hang on but are only used by family, while there are others that just become the child's name. Example - my two oldest were known as Booger boy which got shortened to Boog and then Bug. Once they finished teething the nickname pretty much disappeared. My husband's oldest was Pumpkin, shortened to Punk. She doesn't go by Punk, but dad still calls her that on occassion (she's now 18). My youngest (5) is Little Bit. It's hung on for awhile, but only time will tell if it lasts.
On other nicknames, I have a Daniel who has always been Daniel. Not Dan or Danny. By his choice he allows some friends to call him Dan, but will not respond to Danny. I also have a Nicholas but he is Nick unless he's in trouble. None of the other children have names that can be shortened and still sound good. I think it just depends on the name, the nickname, and the person's choice.
Depends on the nickname. I have a Chinese nickname, which translates into "tiny one" or "youngest one" (I was the youngest child). While I was growing up, the name was fine. Upon graduating college, I went to China with my parents to live for a year (great experience). One day, in Shanghai, I was walking ahead of my parents. My father shouts out my family nickname because that's what he always called me. Well, everyone was looking for a young child, certainly not a 5 foot-7 inch 130 lb adult woman. When we got back to our apartment, I asked my father (and mother), if they could possibly start calling me by my given name. It took a few months but they eventually switched over.
So, nicknames are great. Just know that your kid may outgrow the name.
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2012 is already the deadliest year on Nebraska roads since 2009. The number of crashes is up, along with the amount of distraction for drivers. But one statistic that is on the decline, however, is seat belt usage.
State and local law enforcement officer said people are forgetting a few simple steps for safety – steps that can save lives.
"I stopped an 8-year-old kid driving a pickup truck," said Trooper Dave Nelson. "Along with the 8-year-old is his 7-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister."
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"Fatalities are up big time in Nebraska, at least over the last two years, from what we used to have," Nelson said.
From January through this week, more than 180 people have died in crashes. The same time frame shows 161 deaths in 2011 and 165 in 2010.
Authorities said 75 percent of those killed in cars weren't wearing seat belts.
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Menning runs the education programs for the Omaha Police Department's traffic unit, including Project Nightlife, which educates teenage drivers.
"They're that high-risk group," Menning said. "They only make up 6 percent, yet they're getting in so many crashes."
What about the other 94 percent who should already know better, but still put themselves and others in danger?
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Reports show that this is just what consumers are looking for; the first six months of 2012 marked the most purchases of fuel efficient vehicles ever.
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With the new standards in place, drivers nationwide can expect to save money...Missouri residents will save an estimated 1.725 billion dollars at the pump.
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Nota bene : These are unstable development versions. If you have the slightest doubt about how to use or install LilyPond, we urge you to use the stable Download, and read the stable Manuals.
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Enviva Partners, LP (NYSE: EVA) is a publicly traded master limited partnership that aggregates a natural resource, wood fiber, and processes it into a transportable form, wood pellets. The Partnership sells a significant majority of its wood pellets through long-term, take-or-pay agreements with creditworthy customers in the United Kingdom and Europe. The Partnership owns and operates 6 plants with a combined production capacity of nearly 3 million metric tons of wood pellets per year in Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Florida. In addition, the Partnership exports wood pellets through its owned marine terminal assets at the Port of Chesapeake, Virginia, and Port of Wilmington, North Carolina and from third-party marine terminals in Mobile, Alabama and Panama City, Florida.
Enviva Development Holdings, LLC
Enviva Development Holdings, LLC develops and builds wood pellet production plants and export terminals. It has a pipeline of projects under development to support incremental projected demand for wood pellets.
Through a joint venture with the Hancock Natural Resource Group and other affiliates of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, Enviva Development Holdings is completing the detailed design work for the permitted plant site in Hamlet, NC. Through a second joint venture with Hancock Natural Resource Group and other affiliates of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, Enviva Development Holdings acquired an industrial wood pellet production plant in Greenwood, South Carolina.
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Machine-Control Obsolescence
Use of electronic controls in the pressroom began decades ago. Before then, manufacturers were readily able to service nearly every aspect of what were more mechanical controls. This also is true of old machine controls that use relay logic—these units are serviceable with new relays when the originals no longer are available. Also, the ladder logic in these controls—what would comprise a program in a PLC—is physically visible, easing maintenance and repair.
Fast forward to today. If an old PLC or solid-state control fails and you do not have a copy of the program, it becomes a black box. Repairing it is not a matter of simply replacing the parts; you also must replicate the logic circuit.
Parts and Service Becoming a Problem
Today we find that many of the older machine-control manufacturers no longer can service or provide parts for the PLCs they provided decades ago. Also, some manufacturers of production equipment have gone out of business. In this case, even if your controls aren't that old, there may be no support for identifying the underlying logic required to operate the equipment.
Manufacturers of PLCs support their components for only a defined lifespan. Any machine with a PLC control will therefore, at some point, be exposed to obsolescence. Most controls using dedicated solid-state controls also will have this problem. In addition, some older machines were designed with software that requires DOS-based computers or emulators to view and update. This can make repairs difficult if not impossible.
Certain electronic boards may no longer be available. In many cases they have been rendered obsolete due to reduced volumes and excessive manufacturing costs, or as part of a marketing strategy to drive customers to more current products. Or, perhaps the original manufacturer has gone out of business and the technical data to reproduce the boards has been lost.
Risk Assessment
Metalformers must ask themselves four critical questions when evaluating their susceptibility to control obsolescence:
• What parts of the press cells are vulnerable to the risk?
• Where is the greatest risk?
• What is the potential or likely length of lost production time?
• How do we control this risk?
Not only do these units often contain aging electronic components, but today's special safety requirements place a high burden on engineering and liability. These safety requirements can render stop-gap repairs potentially dangerous and ill-advised. Botched repairs can lead to grievous injuries. This added burden results in higher-priced replacement costs and typically longer lead times to produce the controls, configure them for the press, and install them. To make matters worse, nearly all press controls developed since the 1980s either are dedicated microprocessors or PLC-based, which means most will have some level of obsolescence risk.
Lead Times
For small presses, lead times to receive replacement control components can stretch as long as four to eight weeks just to receive the hardware after the order. It can be much worse for larger presses, 800 tons and up, where lead times can be extended by an additional four weeks. This occurs because the larger press's electrical cabinets, starters, drives and disconnects may not be off-the-shelf items, and can require custom fabrication or extended delivery delays.
In addition, installation of the replacement components can easily take one to two weeks after the parts are delivered, assuming two experienced techs working full time on the installation. That timeline assumes the stamper already has the quotes prepared and has avoided delays in processing the order. Budget one or two weeks for preparing quotes.
To Mitigate Risk
…start by looking at your most important presses, and contact the press-control manufacturer(s). Be aware that in some cases, the press and control builder are one and the same, and that some aftermarket press-control specialists are actually the control provider. Either the press builder bought the control from them when the press was built, or a later end user changed the original control to one available from the press-control specialists after having run the press for some time.
If the investigation reveals a lack of support, begin to prepare for the worst by first asking: Should the control fail, is the press worth investing in? A "yes" answer implies that the machine is valuable, with a useful life ahead. In this case, go ahead and begin the investigation to identify the best aftermarket control provider to meet your needs, when the needs occur.
Immediately prepare quotes for your most-critical presses—don't wait until something breaks. Having this work done ahead of time can save weeks or months of downtime should an aging control fail. Also, be sure to investigate the support policies of your new or potential control vendors. Ask them how long they will support their product, to avoid future obsolescence issues.
Aging Servo Feeds at High Risk
Older servo feeds, purchased in the 1980s and '90s in particular, are likely to no longer be supported with new parts. Servo drives themselves differ from variable-speed drives in their ability to not only control motor speed and acceleration, but to also turn the motor a very precise number of degrees of rotation. This control function allows the feed to index the strip a programmed feed length.
Press feeds represent a very specialized application of servo-drive technology. Stampers cannot simply purchase a new drive and motor package from a motion-control supplier. Specialized application knowledge and custom programming are required to apply the technology in a press-feed application.
Lead times for servo-feed drive and motor packages can be as little as in-stock to four days, if ordered from one of the larger original equipment manufacturers. If the OEM cannot support the equipment, some of the larger servo feed suppliers offer drive packages to support equipment made by other manufacturers. In this case, though, quoting may take a bit longer if the supplier lacks complete documentation for the equipment.
Mitigating risk begins as noted above. In some cases, a stamper can locate rebuilt drives or have repairs made using old parts sourced from used-equipment websites. However, as a better long-term solution, consider opting for completely new drive-motor packages, providing state-of-the-art features and ease of use with current hardware support. Again, request quotes sooner rather than later for critical equipment, to enable your pressroom to react quickly in the event of a breakdown.
Straightener and Reel Drives
The risk of obsolescence is relatively moderate to low for straightener and reel drives, as its application in the pressroom is not as specialized as that found with servo feeds. The process of locating and installing equivalent-functioning straightener drives generally occurs more quickly and at less cost than that for servo feeds. In addition, little specialized programming is required to apply the drives, and many vendors offer suitable replacement products.
Lead time to obtain replacement drives and motors for straighteners and reels generally is measured in days not weeks. In most cases, merely gathering the specifications for your equipment suffices—no need to obtain quotes from multiple vendors unless you'll be relying on them to install the equipment.
Eddy-Current Drive Controls
Again, the risk with eddy-current drives is moderate to low, and depends on how long a stamper can afford to have a particular press down. These devices allow presses to operate with variable stroking speed, through the use of a specialized motor and eddy-current magnetic-clutch arrangement between the motor output shaft and the pulleys of the belts that turn the flywheel. An additional consideration when determining risk: In a bind, a skilled technician can set up the press to run at one preset stroking speed, by using a DC power supply and a little creativity. (This assumes that the control is what fails, not the eddy-current clutch itself.)
Lead time to secure replacement eddy-current drive controls generally is measured in days, and they're relatively low-cost parts. While obsolescence can be an issue, in most cases the drive controls (or equivalent replacement controls from other manufacturers) are readily available. In some cases, repair shops can repair old controls, although the modest purchase price of new controls may make repair a sound solution only when the stamper needs a very quick fix.
A caveat: While rebuilding eddy-current clutch-motor assemblies, may be possible, stampers can expect to wait longer than a few days for parts. Risk can escalate from low to moderate, or even to high, if the machine has a very high utilization rate and there's no backup press available.
Ensure your supplier(s) can support the speed controls being used. If not, investigate the part numbers of acceptable replacements. Additionally, for presses with very high uptime requirements, it may make sense—considering the pricetag for replacement controls—to keep a speed controller in stock on the shelf.
Another option stampers should consider is converting to AC variable-speed drives, should the motor/clutch fail. Eddy current drives were the standard for presses for many decades, but have been steadily replaced with AC variable speed drives in the last decade. We see a lot of presses being outfitted with these drives, as there are several suppliers and, moving forward, prices and lead times for repair parts will continue to drop.Note: Converting from eddy-current to AC variable-speed drives will require some millwright support, since the motor mount on top the press must be moved. However, performing this task fits well within the skill set of a good mechanic. MF
See also: TCR-Integrated Stamping Systems
Related Enterprise Zones: Coil Handling, Sensing/Electronics


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Up to six hours a day, they wade through the mud and water and end up earning less than US$3 a day. The overexploitation of aquatic products has resulted in increased scarcity and growing competition between the fisherwomen.
The park's management board can neither officially accept the presence of people in the core zone, nor can it enforce the law that forbids human use there. Since October 2011, Mangroves for the Future (MFF) has supported the park in piloting a co-management initiative to ensure the more sustainable use of natural resources. The park now officially accepts the presence of the fisherwomen in the core zone and involves them in preparing regulations over what species can be collected, how (no mechanical devices), where, and when (no harvesting in reproductive season). Cutting mangroves and trapping birds are forbidden.
By working with the fisherwomen, the park has been able to register more than 500 of them and can now provide some oversight. The collection of aquatic products is monitored by a 15-person committee that includes representatives from the park, local authorities, and communities. Through peer monitoring, collecting practices have been made less damaging. And on a rotational basis, fisherwomen can access small loans from a livelihood fund set up by the park.
Ms. Pham Thi Kim Phuong, a fisherwoman in Giao Thien Commune, has become an effective communicator, encouraging other fisherwomen to comply with the new regulations. She has been voted in as is member of the monitoring committee and was among the first round of 25 recipients of a US$100 loan from the livelihood fund to raise chicken and pigs. "Tet's coming and prices keep rising but now we have chickens to eat instead of having to buy them at high price during the holidays," she said cheerfully.
The pilot co-management arrangement in Xuan Thuy National Park has already made a real difference in improving living standards of local women and reducing overexploitation of its natural resources.


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The lack of money may be at the root of all evil – but money is not the answer to happiness, according to a new survey.
In fact, just one person in ten believes money can buy happiness while nine out of ten reckon that there comes a point when a higher salary isn't worth the sacrifice, responsibility and stress that comes with it.
And cut of point, to be exact, is £37,396 a year – after that most people would give careful consideration to whether it's better to stick with their current salary or face a more hectic, stressful life after a pay rise, even though most people set out to earn as much as possible from their jobs.
It's about achieving a life-work balance, and almost two thirds of people surveyed admitted they have considered taking a pay cut or demotion in order to have a richer life and improve that balance.
The average person considers a £24,270 salary enough to make their life comfortable, and 88 per cent of people would, or already have, turned down a more senior job, or a pay rise, if it was likely to have an effect on their work life balance.
Despite potentially losing out financially, almost one in ten have gone self-employed so they can control what they do for a living, others have changed jobs completely, accepted pay cuts and demotions, taken early retirement or accepted a redundancy offer to improve their quality of life.
Researchers also found more than half of the 2000 people surveyed would rather have a job which had a low or average salary that allowed them to have a rich and fulfilled life, than a stressful job which pays well. And 66 per cent would prefer a job they loved, but that wasn't particularly well paid, than one they hated but had a good salary.
When it comes to priorities, being financially rich is only the eighth most important area of life.
At number one in the top ten of life priorties is having a happy family life.
Also in the top ten are:
- being healthy
- having a good work-life balance
- having a partner or being married
- have an active social life
- being pretty or handsome.


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Not another rehash of an old game? Well actually The Warriors is not just any other re-release because it's by Rock Star.
Gamers have been treated to some fantastic remasters and re-releases on PlayStation 4, and some not so great too.
But with the creators of Grand Theft Auto behind this re-release of a cult classic game about a cult classic film, what's not to like?
For those that don't know, The Warriors is - unsurprisingly - a beat 'em up and was originally released in 2005 for PlayStation 2.
Although the graphics have been pushed up to 1080p, the PS4 version out now is very much a re-release rather than a remaster.
The game takes place in a gritty 1970s New York City. The story follows a street gang known as the Warriors, who have been accused of a murder they didn't commit, and must return to their home turf in one night, although the game begins three months prior to the film events.
The original was a success achieving average review scores of 8.7/10.
So for anyone who missed it first time around or fancies having a blast through it again the re-release will be right up your street.
The PSN download will cost £11.99 and joins a growing catalogue of PS2-era Rockstar Games titles being converted for digital download following Manhunt, Bully, Red Dead Revolver, and multiplayer Grand Theft Auto and Midnight Club games.
Don't expect great graphics because as I say this is very much a re-release but one thing you can always rely on with Rockstar is a superb narrative and engrossing plot.
The gameplay will also be right up there and the different characters have differing fighting styles.
Your objective? Make your way from one end of New York to your home turf on the other side of the city.
All that stands between The Warriors and survival are 20 miles and thousands of street gang members.
It's going to be a long night.


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I recently completed and went live with the new website for the Guild of Professional Tour Guides of Washington, DC, at www.washingtondctourguides.com.
Yesterday, Joe Steinbock of the Guild passed on the following compliment to me and Shirley Timashev of the Guild:
I join everyone in the Guild in thanking you for the new web site. The following unsolicited compliment
came today from a professional designer I met at the Destination DC "speed networking" event.
Best wishes,
Joe Steinbock
Hi Joe!
Did you just redo your website? It looks great! Whoever did it, did a really great job.
Hope you're having a great week.
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There's always a race to publish the first complete, accurately named roster for NCAA Football 12, and this year it was available on the day of release. However, that doesn't usually address depth chart placement, equipment details, or for some players, position changes and attribute re-ratings.
For those Xbox 360 players waiting for truly accurate rosters before beginning their dynasties or single player Road to Glory campaigns, they have now arrived. Operation Sports' long awaited Community Roster project has just rolled out its first edition. According to the editors:
• All players are named
• All jersey numbers are corrected as accurately as possible
• All transfers are in the game
• All players who are no longer on the team have been removed
• Equipment overhaul on over 75 percent of teams.
• All coaches are named
• Minor re-rates on certain players
You can find them under the following Gamertags in the Roster Share selection under NCAA Football 12's team management menu.
1) CcAaRrSsOoNn3
2) Nsuplaya84
Also, for online players on the Xbox 360, Fairdale Kings, one of the leading names in roster editing, has just published his first version for NCAA Football 12. Simply go to the Team Management menu, select Roster Share, select Download Rosters, and then enter FAIRDALE KINGS at the prompt for a Gamertag.
Operation Sports says PS3 rosters will be available shortly, perhaps after the weekend.
OS NCAA Football 12 Community Roster Available Now, Details Included [Operation Sports]
FAIRDALE KINGS NCAA Football 12 Rosters (360) [Operation Sports]


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A March 31st report by Swissinfo.ch (31st March, 2011) carried news of a survey indicating that one in four Swiss citizens chose to describe themselves as 'non-religious'. This was significantly up from the 1% who claimed to be non-religous in 1970 and the 11% who did so in the year 2000.
The Natural Science Foundation funded survey was carried out by Lausanne University professor Jörg Stolz and Münster University professor Judith Könemann, who suggested caution in interpreting the data. They pointed out that these unaffiliated individuals 'might believe in God or be alternatively spiritual.'
The survey polled 1,229 people and a further 73 in-depth interviews produced a categorisation of people as one of four types: distanced (64%), institutional (17%), secular (10%), and alternative (9%). Institutionals represent the active churchgoers whilst the majority 'distanced' group attended occasional church services but did not consider religion to be very important in their lives. Most 'alternatives' were women and interested in'meditation, reincarnation and herbal remedies'.
Commenting on the findings, Markus Ries, a theologian at Lucerne University, predicted that in 25 years time there would be much more plurality regarding religious and non-religious practice, mirroring the increasing plurality in society at large.
In 2000, 161,075 people or 2.2% of the population belonged to so-called free churches (non-state recognised Christian denominations). For the moment Switzerland remains a Protestant country with 32% of the population claiming allegiance, a slim 1% ahead of the Roman Catholic population.
Further information about the changing face of religion in Switzerland and a number of useful links to the websites of various Swiss Churches is available by following this link.


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HBO Apologizes for Putting George W. Bush's Head on a Stake in Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones producers say they regret using the former president's likeness in a grisly scene
George W. Bush was once head of state. Today, he may be more concerned with the state of his head.
HBO has apologized for gruesomely disrespecting the former president by putting the likeness of his head on a stake in the network's fantasy hit Game of Thrones – in a scene that the producers joke about in the commentary track on the DVD. (Watch on io9.com.)
"We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste," HBO said in a statement.
RELATED: Game of Thrones Finale: What Was the Best Moment?
"We made this clear to the executive producers of the series, who apologized immediately for this inadvertent careless mistake. We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production."
The producers, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, said they rented prosthetic body parts in bulk for the season 1 scene in which King Joffrey takes Sansa Stark to look at the head of her dead father, Ned Stark.
"After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush," they said in a statement. "In the DVD commentary, we mentioned this, though we should not have. We meant no disrespect to the former president and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise."


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Santander Bank Polska S.A. is one of the largest and most innovative financial institutions in Poland.
We are also one of the most vibrant and fastest-growing banks in Poland today, meeting the needs of millions of personal customers, small or medium-sized enterprises and large corporations. We offer complex financial services to the highest standards, supported by modern banking technology.
Customer relationships that are based on mutual trust are the single most important asset for us. This focus enables our customers to achieve their goals by using the Bank's advanced financial solutions, rapid loan decisions and simple, transparent procedures.
Our long-standing experience, plus an innovative approach, enable us to offer modern products via one of the largest networks of branches and partner outlets (numbering almost 1,000). We also offer electronic access for mobile and internet banking.
Santander Group offers brokerage services, asset and investment fund management, leasing, factoring, and a full range of bancassurance products.
The main shareholder of Bank Zachodni WBK is Santander, the number one bank in the Eurozone and the eleventh biggest in the world in terms of market capitalisation.
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