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Last Game of 2012 (9/29/12)
Our baseball season came to a close at Camden Yards on September 29, 2012, where the surging Orioles faced off against the floundering Boston Red Sox.
We had four goals for this game: (1) have a ton of fun taking in our final game of the season, (2) catch at least one baseball to complete our first ever perfect season of getting at least one baseball at each game we attended, (3) try to get our hands on at least one more Fenway 100 commemorative baseball, and (4) have even more fun.
The past several seasons, the Orioles have had a lot of signs all over downtown Baltimore during a bulk of the season, and then in September they were nowhere to be seen. I was excited to see whether thing would be different in September 2012 with the Orioles just a game back in the A.L. East and in wild card position. And it was:
There were Orioles banners all over downtown Baltimore, as well as an Orioles van!
We arrived at Camden Yards with plenty of time to spare before the gates opened:
It was the final statue (Brooks Robinson) dedication night so there was a huge crowd when we arrived at the CF gate:
We met up with Alex Kopp and Avi Miller (and Avi's sister and friend), and past time Felixing…
…and eating various special flavored oreos until the gates opened.
When the gates opened, we grabbed our Brooks Robinson statues, handed them off to Avi (who had given us free tickets in exchange for our statues), and headed over to foul territory down the LF line:
By the time the gates opened, a huge crowd was ready to head inside for the dedication of Brooks Robinson's new statue. Earlier in the season we were at Camden Yards for the dedication of Frank Robinson's statue. At that game, the line outside the ballpark was also huge, but BP was pretty much just like any other game. But that was early in the season before the Orioles acquired tens-of-thousands of new fans. BP at this game was packed.
We were in a prime spot to get a ball from one of the Red Sox pitchers…
…and we were hoping it would be one of those beautiful Fenway 100 commemoratives.
Eventually, an Orioles batter hit a ball down the line into the LF corner and this trainer guy…
…tossed it over to us.
Thanks, unidentified trainer guy!
That made Tim and me 27-for-27 and Kellan 25-for-25 on the season! Our first ever perfect season, which was pretty cool.
But we still had our sights set on snagging one of those Fenway 100 baseballs.
The only Red Sox reliever who was near us and I recognized was Andrew Bailey:
He was in the last set of Red Sox down the line and, as you can see, he was on the OF side as they warmed up. But then they did some pitching to each other. Bailey came in to approximately 60 feet and popped-a-squat to play catcher. After his partner finished pitching they switched spots and Bailey pitched from the warning track just in front of us. As he pitched, I could tell that he was using a Fenway 100 baseball!
As we watched Bailey with great interest, our ears were treated to a number of speakers telling tales of the great Brooks Robinson – who was no more than 100 yards from us at the time:
By the time Bailey finished pitching, the seats around us at had filled in with fans. But, luckily, I was the first and only person to call out, "Hey, Andrew!" When he turned around, I pointed to Tim and asked if he could toss his ball over.
On his first throw, I didn't think the ball was going to make it into the stands so I reached out for it and Tim and I clanked our gloves together and the ball bounced back towards Bailey. He tossed it again and I stood back so Tim could make a high catch on it:
What a beauty:
Thanks, Andrew!
It was getting so crowded down the LF line that we decided to relocate to LCF by the bullpens. On or walk over there, this was our view of the Brooks Robinson statue ceremony:
Here is the best view we ever got of Brooks or his statue:
Shortly after setting up shop by the bullpens, Tim declared it was snack time. He was wearing his new white (and highly stainable) Felix Hernandez jersey that his grandparents gave him after the Ichiro trade. Snack time brought on the first of several stain-preventing outfit changes for Tim:
In that picture above to the left, he is stuffing his white jersey into a bag so he can enjoy some "pirates" (shown in the middle picture).
Not much was happening in the OF, either from a homerun or a Red Sox toss-up perspective. So we entertained ourselves by chatting, snacking, crowd watching, and taking pictures.
Here's a picture of a temporary banner the Orioles hung behind home plate to thank their new fans – winning creates new fans:
Here's a picture of the boys just clowning around in the seats:
Now check out this picture of the crowd:
It's hard to believe that is Camden Yards! As I said, winning creates new fans. If you have a very keen eye (and know what he looks like), you might be able to spot a red-shirted Alex Kopp in that last picture.
After BP ended, we hung out by the bullpens until around game time. Alex came over and we chatted with him a bit. With the crazy BP crowd, he had not managed to catch a baseball. But he ended up getting one from Rick Adair at the bullpen before the game started.
Just before game time, we started to make our way over to the kids' play area. By that point, they had cleared the statue area so they could clean up all of the seats, etc., used during the ceremony. This was our view of the final new statue as we passed by:
Pretty much at every game we spend some time in the kids' play area and some time watching the game. At this game, we let the kids call the shots and it resulted in what might be a world, single-game record for amount of time spent in a kids' play area.
We started with some air-T batting:
We did a little bouncing:
Tim took his cuts in the batting cage:
And then we landed at the pitching cage, where we would spent a huge amount of time at this game:
In Tim's first turn in the pitching cage (three tosses per turn), Tim threw the fastest recorded pitch of his young life: 37 blazing miles per hour. He matched it once more during the night (and I didn't get a picture of either of them), but most of this pitches clocked in between 33-36 miles per hour. Kellan, on the other hand, did not throw a single clockable pitch. But he was definitely a fan favorite in the pitching cage.
After the first pass through the kids' play area, we decided to pull the old switcheroo – dessert before dinner. It was the bottom of the first inning with no score, and we headed to the statue area for our last ice cream helmets of the season.
It was packed out there. Every seat was filled with a brand-new Orioles fan or a dejected Red Sox fan, and all of the good standing room spots were full. The boys grab some non-prime seating spots along the wall where I could sort of see the action:
Adam Jones went down swinging…
…to the first inning.
We watched the scoreless top of the second inning from the same spot. And Kellan made certain that he didn't waste even a drop of melted ice cream:
During the bottom of the second inning, the Orioles put a little rally together and the boys and I decided to head back behind home plate and then back to the kids play area. On our way through the cross aisle, an usher was kind enough to take our picture:
As we approached the cross-aisle behind third base, Manny Machado hit a ground ball single up the box and into CF. Chris Davis scored the first run of the night on the play.
We made it back to home plate just in time to watch Lew Ford…
…foul out to end the inning.
So, with the score 1-0 Orioles after two inning, we were off to the kids play area again. On our way, we stopped to get the boys' picture with a muscle car:
(Tim loves pointing out muscle cars when we are in the car).
And then it was off to the pitching cage again:
(those lines are running from the muscle car toward the cage).
We stayed at the kids' play area for a long, long time doing all sorts of playing. Like this…
…and this:
And some standing around waiting to play, like this:
When we finally left the play area, the game was heading into the bottom of the fourth inning and it was still 1-0 Orioles. We headed out to the flag court. It was packed out there:
I should mention that right before we headed to the flag court, or maybe even while we were en route to the flag court, Chris Davis launched his 30th homerun of the season deep into the seats in RCF (much more CF than RF). That made it 3-0 Orioles and the place was going crazy – partially because the Orioles were playing a "Gangnam Style" parody video on the big screen called "Camden Style."
We were out in the flag court for the top of the fifth. Unforutnately, the lead off batter walked and then Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit a 2-run homerun into the seats in RCF just past the flag court.
That made the score 3-2 Birds.
The Orioles Bird was out in the flag court and, despite the Salty-Bomb, he was plenty happy about the O's 1-run lead. He celebrated by eating Tim's head…
…and a few minutes later, he came back to shake Tim's hand while we were on our way back to the play area.
On our way back to the play area, I noticed this big picture of Memorial Stadium:
I'm not sure how long its been there. Maybe it's always been there. But I have never really paid attention to it. I was never at a game at Memorial Stadium. But it is cool to see that the Orioles paid tribute to it on the design of the home plate area at Camden Yards – the two look very similar.
After our final many rounds of pitching in the cage…
…we headed off to the club level to meet up with Avi and have some dinner:
While we were in the Club Level, Avi was none-to-pleased to see Adam Jones and Chris Davis fail to communicate properly, leading to a dropped ball by Davis and a game-tying third run for the Red Sox. That was in the top of the sixth inning.
The score remained 3-3 until the bottom of the seventh inning, which Machado led off by belting a homerun into the LF seats. And just like that, the O's were back on top 4-3.
In the eighth inning, we decided to head down to the field level. On our way through the Club Level on our way to the elevator, I snapped some pictures of the décor:
We headed here…
…for the rest of the game. This was my standing-room view from the cross-aisle behind second 32:
I should mention that the Yankees had already lost their game against the Blue Jays. With the Yankees loss, the O's were just half a game back in the A.L. East. The team and the crowd badly wanted a share of first place.
The Orioles sent in their All-Star closer Jim Johnson to get the final three outs of the game. Meanwhile, we pondered the idea of going for a post-game umpire baseball. We moved more directly behind home plate in the cross-aisle.
It took six pitches, but Johnson mowed down Cody Ross on strikes. Eight pitches later, Johnson retired Mauro Gomez on a line drive to RF. It was no routine liner though. It was softly hit and former-Royal/Expo/National/Phillie/Met/Mariner Endy Chavez had to race in and make a nice diving catch to record the out.
When the whole crowd rose to its feet in anticipation of the final out of the game, the Red Sox sent Saltalamacchia to the plate, and I sent Tim down the stair case to get into position for an umpire ball. Kellan and I stayed at the top of the stairs where this was our view of the Tim and the game:
This was the TV viewing audience's view of Tim and the game just prior to the final pitch of the night:
And so was this:
That guy right next to Tim is about to tap him on the shoulder and give him the open seat right along the umpires' tunnel.
On the third pitch of the at-bat, Saltalamacchia flew out to LF to end the game. Tim was already in perfect position. The crowd was going crazy and no one was leaving. So Kellan and I had an easy time making our way down the stairs to the fourth row (two rows behind Tim).
I had told Tim already that the umpires' name was Greg Gibson. When the four umps converged on the warning track just behind home plate, Tim must have already called out Gibson's name because once they opened up the umpires' gate, Gibson ducked into the tunnel and walked right over to Tim. They had a little conversation that probably lasted 10-20 seconds. And then Gibson pulled a beautiful Camden Yards commemorative baseball out of his pouch and set it into Tim's glove before giving Tim a final smile and turning back toward the exit. Two steps later, Gibson handed another beautiful commemorative baseball to Kellan.
Double thanks, Mr. Gibson!
We quickly relocated to the first row to watch the stadium celebrate. The highlight of the celebration was when the Orioles Bird ran over and gave all three of us high fives through the protective netting. I thought that was pretty funny in light of the fact that we were all wearing Mariners jerseys. But, hey, we were celebrating right along with everyone else. It was a great atmosphere.
A few minutes later, an usher took a final, blurry photo of the three of us before we started to pack up to get out of there:
It's been another great season with my boys, and a lot of fun having Kellan join in the fun with Tim and me.
On our way out of the ballpark, Tim posed for a picture with Brooks Robinson's number 5 posted on the warehouse:
They had already locked up RF and CF gates into the flag court and CF bleachers:
But Eutaw Street was rocking:
On our way out, we tried to go over and get a better look at the new Brooks Robinson statue, but about 3,000 other people had the same idea and this is as close as we got:
And just like that, our in person MLB season was over…
…, goodbye, Camden Yards.
We can wait to come back for more in 2013.
2012 C&S Fan Stats
|27/25 Games (Tim/Kellan)
|18/17 Teams – Tim – Mariners, Rockies, Phillies, Mets, Marlins, Athletics, Orioles, Nationals, Diamondbacks, Blue Jays, Twins, Cubs, Cardinals, Royals, Red Sox, Rays, Pirates, Braves; Kellan – Mariners, Rockies, Marlins, Nationals, Athletics, Orioles, Mets, Diamondbacks, Blue Jays, Twins, Cubs, Cardinals, Royals, Red Sox, Rays, Pirates, Braves
|44 Ice Cream Helmet(s) – Mariners 5, Phillies 9, Orioles 7, Mets 2, Twins 2, Cardinals 3, Royals 2, Rockies 3, Red Sox 2, Pirates 3, Nationals 2, Marlins 4
|1 Ice Cream Glove! – Nationals
|155 Baseballs – Mariners 22, Marlins 7, Mets 21, Nationals 8, Phillies 10, Umpires 11, Orioles 13, Athletics 2, Diamondbacks 4, Blue Jays 1, Twins 1, Cubs 7, Cardinals 1, Royals 6, Red Sox 8, Rays 12, Pirates 3, Rockies 4, Braves 6
|27 Commemorative Baseball(s) – Marlins Park 2, Mets 50th Anniversary 2, Camden Yards 13, Dodger Stadium 4, Fenway Park 2, Shea Stadium '08 2, Nationals Park '08 2
|12/12 Stadiums – Tim – Safeco Field, Citizens Bank Park, Nationals Park, Camden Yards, Citi Field, Target Field, Busch Stadium, Kauffman Stadium, Coors Field, Fenway Park, PNC Park, Marlins Park; Kellan – Safeco Field, Nationals Park, Camden Yards, Citi Field, Target Field, Busch Stadium, Kauffman Stadium, Coors Field, Fenway Park, PNC Park, Citizens Bank Park, Marlins Park10/1 Mascots Photos – Tim – Mariners Moose (2), Sluggerrr, Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Oriole Bird (4); Kellan – Fredbird
|7/2 Player Photos – Tim – Ricky Bones, Willie Bloomquist, Jeremy Guthrie, Evan Scribner, Stephen Pryor, Shawn Kelley, Scott Cursi; Kellan – Willie Bloomquist, Stephen Pryor
|2 Batting Gloves – Ronnie Deck
|9 Autographs – Willie Bloomquist 2, Tim Byrdak, Brian Roberts, Munenori Kawasaki, Evan Scribner, Felix Hernandez, Shawn Kelley, Steven Pryor, Josh Kinney


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The bonds that children develop with their parents early on can be fundamental to their success in life, but the latest research finds many babies and toddlers are missing out, and that means problems.
A new analysis concludes that 40 percent of children are not getting that needed secure attachment, which family therapist Susan Stiffelman says comes through parents being attuned to their baby.
"That means relating and responding and interacting with them in such a way that says 'I'm with you,'" she explains. "'We're connected. Your needs matter. They can be understood and acted upon.' And it sort of sets a template for a child going through life."
The report says those children from birth to age three who do not form strong bonds with their mother or father are more likely to suffer from aggression, defiance and hyperactivity as they get older.
Stiffelman says that lack of a loving bond can also impact other areas for children, including health and educational achievement.
"Children are very distracted by emotional events that are in their home life or between them and their parents," she stresses. "So, a child who is sent off to school by a parent who criticizes and berates them and there's no sense of warmth, these kids don't do well in school because they're distracted all day long."
While some may think that the need for a loving bond is most important for girls, the report finds that the behavior of boys is actually more affected by early parenting.
"Even though we think of boys as much tougher and more durable and hearty and thicker-skinned, boys it's thought have a greater vulnerability to injuries of attachment," Stiffelman points out. "And so we do see that in more acting out behavior when a little boy is not feeling securely attached and connected."
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Seventy-five pianos will be located in public spaces throughout Boston and Cambridge with an open invitation by the Celebrity Series of Boston to the public to make music or gather around to sing or listen.
As Jude Griffin painted bright white stars and glittery red stripes onto a piano, she imagined her patriotic instrument surprising people on the Rose Kennedy Greenway and beckoning them to come close. Perhaps someone might sit down and play "The Star-Spangled Banner" or "God Bless America."
Like the other artists who decorated 75 pianos for Street Pianos Boston, Griffin, of Quincy, designed her piano with the words, "Play Me, I'm Yours."
It's an open invitation by the Celebrity Series of Boston to make music or gather around to sing or listen.
"We thought, 'Let's bring the performances out of the halls and into the communities," said Gary Dunning, executive director of the Celebrity Series, which is celebrating its 75th season.
"The pianos absolutely change the spaces they're in. They're a fun, engaging way to say the arts are for everyone at whatever level they are."
Pianos exposed to sun, wind and banging fingers seem crazy, except that 36 cities have hosted Street Pianos installations since 2008. The 1,000th piano will be installed during the Boston exhibition, which runs from this coming Friday through Oct. 14.
British artist Luke Jerram launched the idea in 2008, when he saw pianos as a catalyst for conversation and community in public spaces. Jerram will be at the kick-off celebration and performance, which is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at Boston City Hall. The grand piano there will be painted with bright pink, yellow and blue comic-book-style images of New England.
The other pianos will be stationed in public outdoor spaces throughout downtown Boston and its neighborhoods and Cambridge, and Washington Square in Brookline and Davis Square in Somerville will have one piano each.
Earlier this month, the donated upright pianos filled a room at the Design Center in Boston, where professional and amateur artists selected by the Celebrity Series volunteered to give them character.
"Never in a million years did I expect to see pianos like this," said Griffin, who enlisted the help of her nieces and nephews and intends to photograph every piano. "It has been exciting that they brought together so many artists. We've learned from each other, because, in a sense, we're all beginners at painting a piano."
About a dozen pianos were delivered to schools and community organizations to be decorated, and all the pianos will be donated to a variety of organizations after the installation ends, project manager Margo Saulnier said.
As well as impromptu music, there will be scheduled solo and ensemble concerts in all genres of music, which will be filmed and posted online. These performances are planned by piano hosts such as the Longy School of Music, the Strand Theater and the Boston Nature Center.
None of the pianos look alike. A silvery, metallic piano with disco boots on its legs appears ready to dance at the Boston Center for the Arts. At the Old State House, Lego pieces and superheroes make a piano seem to celebrate inventiveness. At the Boston Architectural College, a piano with surrealistic photographic images seems inspired by Salvador Dali. A piano with dancing pigs is sure to delight visitors to Children's Hospital. At the New England Conservatory, New England's four seasons are painted in mountains, beaches and forests.
Expect Boston and Cambridge to be not just more musical, but more playful, during the exhibition's three-week run. Artist Cassandra Hurley, 24, for example, is planning a piano scavenger hunt for her friends. Hurley, of Wilmington, painted a piano for Dewey Square featuring burgundy calla lilies, pink orchids and yellow jonquils on a geometric background inspired by blue Portuguese tiles.
Although hosted by the Celebrity Series, Street Pianos Boston is a community-wide endeavor. More than 75 institutions and community groups will host or co-host a piano. That means they take responsibility for lowering a tarp when it rains, locking the keyboard at night in residential areas, and reporting damage. Technicians also will check pianos every two or three days to keep them in tune.
This is one of the largest Street Piano installations, which typically have 15 to 25 pianos.
"To do 75 is going to be really impactful," Saulnier said. "We're hoping they will be hard to miss."
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Can we identify and treat "schizophrenia light" to prevent true psychotic illness?BMJ 2013; 346 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f304 (Published 18 January 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;346:f304
- Jim van Os, professor of psychiatric epidemiology1,
- Robin M Murray, professor of psychiatric research2
- 1Maastricht University Medical Centre, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, Maastricht, Netherlands
- 2King's Health Partners, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
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In a linked meta-analysis, Stafford and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.f185) provide evidence that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) may show some modest benefits in preventing transition to psychosis at 12 months' follow-up in patients at high risk.1 In doing so, they summarise a huge amount of work on interventions to prevent psychosis. However, this approach assumes that a discrete state of high risk for psychosis exists, an assumption that has increasingly been challenged.
Traditionally, phenomena such as delusions and hallucinations (hereafter, psychosis) were thought to be diagnostic indicators of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. However, psychotic symptoms are more common than was previously realised. They are present—at various degrees of severity—in about 5% of the general population who are not seeking help; in about 25% of people with (non-psychotic) common mental disorders, such as anxiety and depression; and in around 80% of patients with psychotic disorders.2
Low grade psychotic phenomena in those not seeking help are associated with an increased relative risk—albeit low absolute risk—of later psychotic disorder, and, more surprisingly, also of non-psychotic mental disorder.3 Furthermore, low grade psychotic symptoms in people with common mental disorders predict a poorer prognosis, similar …
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Hey folks! I posted a "Sire Special" message within the last week, but I'm not sure what happened to it. :/
Anyway...All sires/DS that would normally be 175 points/credits or less are half off until the new year. All DDS's that would normally be 100 points/credits ot less are half off during the same time period. The prices shown for these sires are already has the discount applied. You have to acquire them in real time, not with the bidding process (they are the same cost there). Think of it like Pokemon Go, without having to walk all over your neighborhood and getting nothing but a Pidgey or Ratatta (Yes, I played Pokemon Go with my kids for a spell, and that's pretty much all I caught.. though I once got some crazy guy with a magnet on the side of his head...).
2017 Special Races - They are on their way up! I normally update these after I update the sires, but decided to reverse the order this year after receiving several requests for the schedule earlier than in the past. Important! My update should be considered "uber-early" - some of the stakes may need to be moved (date wise or, in the case of the BB, location wise) - I realize that; I just wanted to give people an idea of how to plan out their 2017 schedule. I will be fixing things between now and the new year (and later if necessary) .
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I look at the faces within my classroom. Each face is different, filled with individuals. Then, as an educator, I need to remind myself that each individual student has a strength and weakness in how they learn. Understanding how a student learns and applying a variety of learning opportunities in the classroom opens the door for all students to achieve success.
Digging for ways to apply the theory of multiple intelligences and learning styles within classroom lessons can take time and effort for the teacher. Time is something we cherish and are not always willing to give up. So, how can I use my time effectively and still open the door to helping students achieve through their strengths?
It would be good to refresh my understanding of multiple intelligences (body, linguistic, spacial, intrapersonal, interpersonal, musical, naturalist, and logic) and learning styles (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic & tactile). What does each mean? How does each type of learning transfer into a classroom situation?
To help save time throughout the year, I created a list of possible products. Each product is generic enough that it could be used within any area of study. This list will change into a checklist as I decide which multiple intelligences and learning styles are evident within the product. Writing a short note to each intelligence or style, explaining why each connects to the product, will help as the product is more refined later to a particular lesson and subject.
A student working within a cooperative group can create a skit. This project could include the learning styles of: interpersonal, body, and kinesthetic & tactile. Logic could be added if the student needed to organize information gathered.
As a teacher, it is so important to consider each of my students. I need to take into account the different ways each student learns and then apply that in formation within my lessons. It is important that each student has the opportunity to achieve success.
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Blast Defeat Syracuse 20-7
The Baltimore Blast traveled to Syracuse tonight to play the Silver Knights for their Game 1 in the playoffs and won, 20-7. The victory tonight put the Blast up 1-0 in the post season and they look to have the same success when they play the Silver Knights again at home on Tuesday, March 11th.
The first quarter was high scoring and a great start to tonight's match. Aduato Neto got the Blast on the board first 3 minutes into the game. Marco Mangione scored again for Baltimore 2:09 left in the quarter off an assist from Aduato Neto. The Silver Knights took advantage of a power play when Machel Millwood scored shortly after Mangione. Less than a minute later, Lucas Roque scored a goal with 1:23 left on the clock off an assist from Tony Donatelli.
Max Ferdinand scored first in the second quarter at the 12:48 mark. Ferdinand helped the Blast to their second goal of the quarter when he assisted Lucas Roque with 2:18 left in the quarter. With 42 seconds left in the quarter Syracuse's Machel Millwood scored his second goal of the game. The Blast went into the half leading 10-4.
The second half picked up for the Blast when Neto assisted Stephen DeRoux for the teams sixth goal of the night. Less than 3 minutes later Aduato Neto scored his second goal of the night off an assist from goalkeeper, William Vanzela. Syracuse's Nelson Santana recorded a 3-point goal with two minutes left in the quarter.
The Blast held on to their lead into the 4th quarter and remained in control. Max Ferdinand assisted his second goal of the night to Mike Lookingland's 3-point goal. Less than 30 seconds remaining in the game, Tony Donatelli also scored an unassisted 3-point goal into the open net. At the final buzzer, the Blast had won 20-7.
Offensively, Aduato Neto led the Blast with 2 goals and 2 assists. Defensively Pat Healey led Baltimore with 2 blocks and goalkeeper William Vanzela recorded 14 saves in the victory.
Baltimore will matchup against Syracuse at the Baltimore Arena this Tuesday as they look to wrap up the series at 7:35pm.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 168 diseños de 47 diseñadores freelance.
Company Name: Exposure Travels
We may want to emphasize the "Exposure" part and have "Travels" secondary. We are open to LARGE or small caps.
If adding an icon (which we'd like) please make sure it could be used as a stand alone as well as together with the text. The logo needs to be smart, stylish and savvy.
We offer luxury adventure travel in the Pacific Northwest, including private yacht charters, fishing charters, culinary cruises, heli-skiing, etc. We are selling the experience of being surrounded by some of the most beautiful nature (rainforests, orca whales, sunsets over the ocean) combined with unreal cuisine and an abundance of outdoor activities.
Logo needs to convey the following characteristics: Luxurious; Gourmet; Welcoming; Authentic; Unique; Adventurous; Exclusive.
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How effective a team is at scoring off of an out-of-bounds play often gets lost in the shuffle, unless one of those plays ends up leading to a game-winning shot, as it did for the Celtics in their thrilling last-second win against the Miami Heat Saturday night.
Before the Celtics lost to Charlotte, 89-83, Wednesday night at TD Garden, coach Brad Stevens downplayed how much emphasis he puts on those kinds of plays.
"I don't know if I'm different than any other coach," he said.
But those who worked with him at Butler said that out-of-bounds plays were one of his specialties.
"Being able to score out of those situations was real important," said former Butler assistant Micah Shrewsberry, who is now in the same role with the Celtics.
"The defense wasn't set. They're not sure what's going to happen. That was a place where you could be unique."
Shrewsberry said out-of-bounds plays in basketball are similar to special teams in football in that they can provide a hidden edge, one that Stevens valued highly.
And the mindset at Butler under Stevens, according to Bulldogs assistant Michael Lewis, was, "We want to win that part of the game and we want to score more on the special situations."
Former Butler forward Matt Howard recalled the team's unusual success on those plays.
"If we had a timeout before, he and our coaching staff were about as good as anybody that I've played for at drawing something up from something they'd seen," Howard said. "We have to go out there and execute, but they were almost always right on the money."
Howard added that because Butler was in so many close games, their ability to score on out-of-bounds plays was crucial to the team pulling out so many close wins.
Stevens did say that he's always studying basketball games for such plays.
"Every night, I turn on the TV like anybody else and lay down in bed and watch whatever game is on," he said, "and many times I've taken something from one of those games whether they be college games or pro games or even when I was recruiting, I could go to a high school game and you see a neat little wrinkle that somebody is running on an out-of-bounds play.
"You're always watching the game like that now."
If he sees something he likes, he said he'll add it to a database of such plays that he keeps on his laptop.
"Maybe you just look at that on a plane ride or look at that before a game and you think like it might be efficient or effective against whoever you're playing," Stevens said.
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Forward Jared Sullinger sat out the game with a bone bruise in his right knee, which an MRI revealed Tuesday afternoon.
Sullinger suffered the injury in the second quarter of the Celtics' win Monday night against Orlando, when he took a charge from Magic forward Maurice Harkless.
Sullinger is still day-to-day.
Forward Kris Humphries, who had played in limited minutes in half of the Celtics' eight games entering Wednesday night, was tabbed to fill in for Sullinger off the bench.
He had 1 point and no rebounds in 10 minutes.
Of playing a limited role this season, Humphries said, "It's tough for anybody, there's other guys on this team. It's a team effort. It's not about me. It's about everyone staying ready and contributing, being ready when their time is called to help the team."
Looking forward
Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge spent Tuesday night in Chicago, where he was among many NBA executives attending college games featuring three top-flight freshmen who are expected to be lottery picks in the 2014 NBA draft.
The games featured No. 2 Michigan State against No. 1 Kentucky and then No. 5 Kansas against No. 4 Duke.
In the first game, Kentucky's 6-foot-9-inch, 250-pound freshman forward Julius Randle scored 27 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in his team's 78-74 loss to the Spartans.
But the second game was the one that had NBA executives drooling, as it pitted Kansas 6-8 swingman Andrew Wiggins against Duke 6-8 forward Jabari Parker, who figure to be the top two players drafted in 2014.
Kansas won, 94-83, but both players were impressive: Wiggins scored 22 points and had eight rebounds; Parker scored 27 and had nine rebounds.
"[Incoming NBA commissioner] Adam Silver and the NBA league office's marketing executives are smiling because those two young people will be able to move right into place when LeBron James and Kevin Durant are needed to be replaced," an Eastern Conference scout said of Wiggins and Parker.
The scout added that Parker reminds him of a young Grant Hill or Joe Johnson and that Wiggins could become better than as Golden State guard Andre Igudola but not better than James, the Miami Heat star.
Stevens was asked about those players before the game, but he declined comment, as NBA officials are not permitted to publicly comment on underclassmen.
Anniversary date
Wednesday marked the nine month anniversary of Rajon Rondo's surgery to repair the torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee . . . Red Sox first baseman Mike Napoli sat courtside and received a loud ovation in the first quarter when he was recognized on the JumboTron.
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Hi guys, welcome to my wonderful world of simple drawing animals. Today I am going to be teaching you "how to draw a simple elephant", step by step. The next few lessons are all going to be animal based. This is because I wanted to fill a lot of requests today, and I wanted to give my baby sister some cool stuff to draw that is easy enough for her to tackle. Drawing elephants is a really popular safari animal that many children, kids and adults attempt to draw. They are also one of the more common animals that you will find in a zoo. These massive creatures have been walking the earth for decades, and decades, withe their earliest species being the wooly mammoth. This simplified version of an elephant will teach you a very easy way you can "draw a simple elephant" with no fuss or strain. When you are done with this tutorial, all you have to do is color it in, and add it to your animal drawings collection. I will tweak this lesson a little later by adding more content, I just wanted to get it uploaded so that you guys have something to do in the mean time. Well, that's it for now. I will be back shortly with another animal tutorial. Peace peeps, have a happy drawing day!
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Mike Bloomberg wanted to be president, and came close to launching a billion-dollar campaign, but his plans were dashed by Barack Obama's surge in popularity, according to a new book.
"MIKE BLOOMBERG: Money, Power, Politics," by veteran reporter Joyce Purnick, paints a picture of the Big Apple mayor downplaying his White House aspirations even as his closest aides fanned the flames of his candidacy with his blessing. The hype started the day after Bloomberg won reelection by a landslide in 2005, when his key adviser Kevin Sheekey, told a stunned cable TV interviewer the Bloomberg for President campaign was ready to roll.
Bloomberg repeatedly denied having any interest in being commander in chief, once wondering aloud what chance does a "short, Jewish, divorced billionaire" have. But meanwhile, his people were organizing a stealth campaign complete with a website and national network. As another aide wrote a book about the need for a third party in America, Bloomberg, a Democrat-turned-Republican, declared himself an Independent.
The Bloomberg hype reached a short-lived crescendo, according to Purnick, in the last week of 2007, with news that he would join a Jan. 6 bipartisan conference of political heavyweights at the University of Oklahoma. But on Jan. 3, Obama stunned the country by winning the first primary caucuses, and the momentum -- and A-list media -- shifted to Obama. Instead of becoming a launch, the conference became a footnote, writes Purnick. In February, Bloomberg wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times saying he would not run.
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Not that he didn't want to, and not that he lacked confidence in his ability. McCain or Obama might turn out to be a great president, Bloomberg told Purnick at the time. "But what the hell do they know about management and dealing with people? Nothing," Bloomberg said to me, a few weeks before he took himself out of contention. "If you look at my company, why, after all the success that we had before I ran for office would you not think that I couldn't run government? What the hell do I gotta do to prove myself?"
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New Consumer Guide Released: Preservation of Upper Limb Function
People with spinal cord injuries and their caregivers have a new resource to help with improving the quality of their lives: Preservation of Upper Limb Function: What You Should Know, new from the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine.
Strain on the upper limbs is prevalent among wheelchair users, with the impending risk of experiencing a painful and potentially disabling injury.
This expert guide offers:
- Recommendations on selecting and setting up equipment
- Exercise routines to maintain strong and healthy arms and shoulders
- Tips on arranging your environment to lessen stress on arms
- Guidance and positive tips on staying healthy
This consumer guide is a companion to the clinical practice guideline, Preservation of Upper Limb Function Following SCI. Published by Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) on behalf of the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine.
Download the Upper Limb consumer guide at no cost today:
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If you shop at Benetton this season, the dummies may be watching you.
If you shop at Benetton this season, the dummies may be watching you.
The retailer, which forged its image on universal love, is placing mannequins in its stores with cameras embedded in their eyes.
This goes beyond kooky or creepy. It's tasteless and another theft of our personal privacy.
The store purchased these $4,000 "EyeSee" figures to study customers' shopping habits.
The eye-level camera can see what you are looking at. Then the store can use that information to change window displays, store layouts and promotions to encourage sales, according to published accounts.
It doesn't make it any less disturbing that only one eye of the polyethylene humanoids has a camera.
It's part of an alarming trend.
Police recently investigated a man they suspected of — imagine this! — feeding wild cats in a small Kansas town, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
So cops planted a surveillance camera in a tree and pointed it at the duplex he lived in. The camera just happened to be focused on his adult daughter's bedroom.
The camera was eventually removed once the homeowner discovered it, yet police refused to admit it was wrong in the first place.
Some New Jersey police can use high-tech cameras, infrared technology and automatic license plate readers to surveil its communities, courtesy of a federal anti-terror program. Yet the police aren't limited to using the equipment for homeland security investigations.
We are not just at the mercy of technology, but of the judgment of those who use it.
That's the real danger.
Some local law enforcement agencies use drones. GPS technology embedded in cell phones can track you and airport body scanners can detect contraband, weapons and our private parts.
You can see the potentials for privacy abuse.
Facial recognition software can scour social media like Facebook, leading to your identity.
Getting creeped out yet?
I like my privacy. I don't want some drone snapping pictures of me while I take a shower.
If the head of the world's largest spy agency couldn't keep his emails secret, how can we? Notice I've referred to "privacy," not "privacy rights." Neither the U.S. Constitution nor the Bill of Rights addresses personal privacy outside the home except for some very specific circumstances.
It's only a matter of time before someone plants a microphone in the mannequin's ear as you plot your shoplifting caper — or your discreet relationship with the head of the CIA.
We are in a period of rapid technological growth that requires we exercise commensurate judgment.
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Microsoft's Bad Quarter and 'Lost Decade'
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The times, they are a-changin', as the old song goes, and nowhere is that more evident today than in perceptions of our old friend Microsoft.
In fact, after years of being viewed by many as an unconquerable leader in the world of desktop software, Microsoft's armor is apparently beginning to chip.
Exhibit A: "Microsoft's Lost Decade," a recent article in Vanity Fair that paints a damaging picture of how the software behemoth has declined in recent years.
An Implicit Admission
Exhibit B: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's response, the very making of which made it plain just how much that Vanity Fair article had hurt.
Exhibit C: Last week's news that Microsoft was posting its first quarterly loss in its 26 years as a public company.
What do you get when you add exhibits A plus B plus C? The answer, most Linux bloggers seem to agree, is a company on the rocks.
'Not the Only Show in Town'
"There was a time when M$ shipped 95 percent of the licenses for OSes on PCs," blogger Robert Pogson pointed out, for example. "Now they are down to 75 percent. That's a decline even if the revenue still increases."
Not only that, but "since the office suite and the servers are handicapped by being tied to the OS, they are about to decline as well," Pogson predicted. "Claiming that businesses must use M$'s office suite, server OS and desktop OS to be in business is getting really tired as many governments and businesses of all sizes use GNU/Linux."
Meanwhile, "anyone who's serious about IT these days knows M$ is not the only show in town," he added. "Eventually M$ will have to compete on price/performance and the revenue will plunge. The Wintel treadmill is breaking down when OEMs ship millions of GNU/Linux machines and more Android/Linux ARMed machines than Wintel does."
'Death Is Imminent'
In fact, "the monopoly on retail shelf-space is gone if one considers ARMed devices as PCs, and the monopoly on retail shelf-space for x86/amd64 machines is gone in much of Earth; it's only in USA/North America where it is still difficult to find GNU/Linux PCs on retail shelves," Pogson pointed out.
In short, "the monopoly may not be dead yet, but the death is imminent," he concluded. "Try as they might, M$ cannot sustain monopoly because it's not the right way to do IT."
Microsoft's prime was actually over "the minute Bill Gates stepped down as CEO," suggested Google+ blogger Linux Rants. "Since then, Microsoft has coasted on its previous success."
That success, in fact, "was so all-encompassing, no one really noticed that Microsoft was coasting until later," Linux Rants added.
Now, "Microsoft is trying to rekindle some of their former glory with Windows 8 and tablets, but I don't see them succeeding," he concluded. "Microsoft will continue to decline in relevance until it's eventually replaced. That could very well be another 'lost decade' away, but it's coming."
'Inexplicable Decisions'
If Microsoft is in decline, "it is because of their inexplicable decisions such as angering their core user base with the new interface or throwing away boatloads of money on their entertainment division," Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza opined.
Of course, "you can't project the future from a single quarter," he pointed out.
Still, "with that said, it couldn't happen to a more deserving company," Espinoza added. "Oh, wait, I forgot about those fruit guys, who are now carrying their torch admirably well."
'Where Apple Will Be in 10 Years'
Indeed, "in the 1970s, IBM ruled the IT world, used its power to crush competition, got sued for anti-trust, and nearly disappeared in the 1980s/1990s," Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien pointed out. "Microsoft became the dominant company, used its power to crush competition, got sued for anti-trust, and has been floundering ever since."
Now Apple "is the dominant company, is doing its best to crush competition, and will probably attract increased scrutiny on anti-trust grounds soon," he predicted.
So, "I think Microsoft is headed for where IBM was before Lou Gerstner turned them around, and is forecasting where Apple will be in another 10 years," O'Brien said.
'No One Is Afraid of Them Anymore'
It's possible Bill Gates "jumped ship because he knew this was going to happen and didn't know how to stop it," mused consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack.
To wit: "The world Bill Gates sought so hard to destroy when he put Netscape out of business is here, with many OS-independent apps all web-based," Mack pointed out.
The company's big money-makers are still Windows and Office, "but even those have lost share over the past decade," he added. "On top of it all, no one is afraid of them anymore."
There was once a time when Microsoft's entry into a new market "caused the existing players to panic," Mack concluded. "Not anymore."
'Ballmer Is a Bad CEO'
It all comes down to the fact that "Steve Ballmer is a bad CEO -- period, the end," Slashdot blogger hairyfeet opined. "He has NO clue what his customers want, he has NO clue about market trends. Frankly if Ballmer hasn't flushed at LEAST 40 billion dollars down the toilet, I'll be amazed."
To survive, Microsoft "needs to accept some basic truths," hairyfeet added.
"1. X86 will never go away, but it IS a mature market; 2. Computers passed 'good enough' and went straight to 'insanely overpowered,' and the work the average user has will be no faster on a first gen Phenom than it will a top o' the line i series, so there is no point for the average user to replace until the unit dies," he explained. "3. Since most users aren't using even half the power available, the units last longer than ever; and 4. There is NO POINT in having Windows on ARM if it can't run X86 software."
If the company accepts those truths, "spins off the mobile division and does NOT call it windows, but say Metro, and sets them up in an office far away from Redmond so they won't be pressured by the PHBs to tie everything into the sacred cows of Windows and Office, then and ONLY then do they have a shot," hairyfeet concluded.
'Nowhere to Go But Down'
"A near monopoly is like a dictator," offered Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor. "Even a benign dictator runs the risk of failing to respond to the needs of the people, and how many people would called Microsoft benign?
"What Microsoft forgot is that sooner or later, the masses do rebel," Lim suggested.
Ultimately, "Microsoft is Windows and Microsoft is Office," he concluded.
"Microsoft has been on top for years because we needed it," he added. "Now, it has to try to hold its still-enormous-stranglehold in a market learning that it does not need it anymore. A monopoly is always more profitable than a buyers market, so really, there is nowhere for Microsoft to go but down."
'Dark Clouds on the Horizon'
It's clear "there are dark clouds on the horizon for Microsoft," began Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project.
The question, however, "is whether Microsoft has reached dark days yet," he said. "It's hard to say based on one quarterly report.
"On one hand, revenue is actually up, so a quarterly loss means they are spending more rather than earning less," Travers pointed out. "The same thing holds true over the year, where net income is down compared to last year even though revenue is up."
In general, "I don't think you can conclude that this represents the entry into Microsoft's troubles," he opined. "They are spending a lot more and earning more. This suggests increasing re-investment of their income into their business."
'The First Crack to Appear'
A closer look, however, reveals some interesting things, Travers said.
"First, Windows and Windows Live revenue is slightly down even before the revenue deferral," he pointed out. "This is true both for the year and for the quarter.
"Although one can perhaps blame it on economic doldrums in part," Travers suggested, "it is the first crack to appear in the apparent inevitability of the Windows monopoly since the introduction of Linux-based netbooks."


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2009 Leading Edge Award Recipients
Four ASTC member organizations and two science center professionals received Roy L. Shafer Leading Edge Awards on October 31 at the 2009 ASTC Annual Conference Banquet in Fort Worth, Texas.
Leading Edge Award for Business Practice
Awarded to the Sciencenter, Ithaca, New York, for its Sustainability Initiative, which made several positive impacts on the center's operations. In addition to converting to 100% sustainable wind power, composting food waste, and installing environmentally-friendly restroom hand driers, Sciencenter also contributed to a wide range of community-building efforts, including increasing the accessibility of the center's exhibits and programs to all socioeconomic groups and creating a new salary-health-retirement package for sustaining science center staff.
Leading Edge Award for Visitor Experience (small institution)
The Bakken Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, won an "Edgie" for its Science Assets-Based School Partnership Program. The program supports elementary students and their teachers by bolstering science assets—defined by the museum as the attitudes, skills, and knowledge that form the foundation for continued achievement in science. The Bakken staff use an inquiry-based approach to expand students' scientific reasoning skills; at the same time, the museum provides professional development to teachers, building their confidence to answer questions about science. A partnership between the museum and the Minneapolis Public Schools, the program is expanding to serve 2,700 fourth graders and their teachers.
Leading Edge Award for Visitor Experience (large institution)
Awarded to Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Norsk Teknisk Museum, in Oslo, Norway.
Carnegie Science Center, accepted its award for BrainCake.org where 11- to 17-year-olds can access scholarship and science information, receive homework help, ask mentors for advice, and blog about science, all in a safe place. With a growing global database of over 9,000 members, the web site also counts more than one million hits a month and nearly 30,000 individual visitors monthly. BrainCake.org is one of the four core programs of the center's Girls, Math & Science Partnership, dedicated to engaging, educating, and embracing girls as architects of change.
The Norsk Teknisk Museum won its "Edgie" for Klima X, a global climate change exhibition that breaks new ground for immersive environments. Visitors are required to put on rubber boots before entering the exhibition, where the entire floor is covered by four inches of water. The flooded floor, huge blocks of melting ice, sheets of rain, and smoking chimneys create an unforgettable visitor experience and reinforce the educational framework and associated programming for the exhibition.
Leading Edge Award for Experienced Leadership in the Field
Awarded to Christopher Andrews, director of the Steinhart Aquarium and chief of public programs, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco and Rachel Meyer, executive director of the Coyote Point Museum for Environmental Education, San Mateo, California.
Andrews was the guiding force in developing the visitor experience—including the aquarium, natural history museum, planetarium, and all educational and public programming—for the new California Academy of Sciences, which reopened in September 2008 and hosted more than two million visitors since opening day. The jury noted his ability to inspire and nurture creative thinking across academy departments.
Meyer led a top-to-bottom revitalization of a museum on the brink of extinction. Not only did she revamp the museum's educational philosophy and transform the visitor experience, Meyer also set the museum on stronger financial footing. Due to her leadership, attendance is up 15% in the last year, membership has increased by 10%, and the museum has had balanced operating budgets for the last two fiscal years, after seven years of significant deficits.


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At the heart of Edwardian Hotels London is a simple founding belief, that from back of house to the boardroom we are all Hosts. Everyone is encouraged to express their individuality and initiative, and to bring their passion to work. (We may wear uniforms, but we don't believe in uniformity.)
Everything we do is driven by a desire to exceed our guests', clients and partners expectations. To surprise and delight. To make the time our guests choose to spend with us genuinely exceptional. So that even the shortest stay with us, will last long in their memory. Everyone who works here does this every day across our portfolio of brands, in highly prestigious locations in London and beyond.
For 40 years Edwardian Hotels London has built upon this ambition, and as a family owned company we're proud of the freedom our independence gives us to grow our business on a relentless and memorable curve – upwards.
With an enviable collection of luxurious distinctive hotels and restaurants such as The May Fair Hotel, Radisson Blu Edwardian London Hotels, Steak and Lobster, Scoff and Banter, May Fair Kitchen, Annayu and May Fair Bar; in the most desirable locations of the UK's most vibrant cities.
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AMHERST, Mass. – Like a kindergarten or a busy airport where cold viruses and other germs circulate freely, flowers are common gathering places where pollinators such as bees and butterflies can pick up fungal, bacterial or viral infections that might be as benign as the sniffles or as debilitating as influenza.
But "almost nothing is known regarding how pathogens of pollinators are transmitted at flowers," postdoctoral researcher Scott McArt and Professor Lynn Adler at the University of Massachusetts Amherst write. "As major hubs of plant-animal interactions throughout the world, flowers are ideal venues for the transmission of microbes among plants and animals."
In a recent review in Ecology Letters with colleagues at Dartmouth and Yale, McArt and Adler survey the literature and identify promising areas for future research on how floral traits influence pathogen transmission.
As the authors point out, "Given recent concerns about pollinator declines caused in part by pathogens, the role of floral traits in mediating pathogen transmission is a key area for further research." They say their synthesis could help efforts to control economically devastating pollinator-vectored plant pathogens such as fire blight, which affects rose family fruits such as apples and pears, and mummyberry disease, which attacks blueberries.
McArt adds, "Our intent with this paper is to stimulate interest in the fascinating yet poorly understood microbial world of flowers. We found several generalities in how plant pathogens are transmitted at flowers, yet the major take-home from our paper may be in pointing out that this is an important gap in our knowledge."
The authors identified 187 studies pertaining to plant pathogens published between 1947 and 2013 in which floral visitors were implicated in transmission and where transmission must have occurred at flowers or pathogen-induced pseudoflowers. These are flower-like structures made by a pathogen that can look and smell like a real flower, for example. Regarding animal pathogens, they identified 618 studies published before September 2013 using the same criteria.
"In total, we found eight major groups of animal pathogens that are potentially transmitted at flowers, including a trypanosomatid, fungi, bacteria and RNA viruses," they note. Their paper, "Arranging the bouquet of disease: Floral traits and the transmission of plant and animal pathogens," was featured in the publisher's "News Round-Up" of "most newsworthy research."
Traditionally, research on flower evolution has focused largely on selection by pollinators, but as McArt and colleagues point out, pollinators that also transmit pathogens may reduce the benefits to the plant of attracting them, depending on the costs and benefits of pollination. The researchers say more work is needed before scientists can know whether a flower's chemical or physical traits determine the likelihood that pathogens are transmitted, for example, and whether infection by pathogens is an inevitable consequence of pollinator visitation.
"Plant pathologists have made great strides in identifying floral traits that mediate host plant resistance to floral pathogens in individual systems; synthesizing this literature can provide generality in identifying traits that mediate plant-pathogen dynamics. From the pollinator's perspective, there has been surprisingly little work elucidating the role of flowers and floral traits for pathogen transmission. Given recent concerns about pollinator declines caused in part by pathogens, understanding the role of floral traits in disease transmission is a key missing element," say McArt and colleagues.


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The food and beverage industries help provide the basic food and beverage needs for all people. Plastics have transformed for the better how we are impacted by these industries; everything from bottles and containers to promotional, structural and mechanical usages.
Advantages of plastics
The advantages of plastics in chemical manufacturing are numerous. Plastics are much lighter than metal, which equate into better fuel economy and cheaper to manufacture parts. Additionally, the lighter weight aids in safer material handling. Plastics can be designed to be impact and dent resistant, and modified for improved strength. Corrosion resistance is one of the key advantages for the Chemical industry.
Materials Utilized Within Industry
Plastics used in the Food and Beverage industries are typically FDA, USDA, NSF, 3-A Dairy, and Canada AG compliant, including Nylon, UHMW, Teflon, PVC tube, Ultem, Acetal/Delrin, PET, Sanalite Cutting Board and Metal Detectable Plastics
Acetron® MD
This copolymer acetal grade, containing a metal detectable additive, has been specifically tailored for use in the food processing and packaging industries where it can easily be traced by the conventional metal detection systems installed to detect contamination of the foodstuffs (results may vary depending on the sensitivity of the metal detection system used). Acetron MD presents good mechanical strength, stiffness and impact strength, and it also features a food contact compliant composition.
TECAFORM™ AH ID (Metal Detectable Acetal)
TECAFORM™ AH ID is the first commercially available thermoplastic that can be detected by the standard metal detection equipment typically used in food quality inspection.
Tecaform™ Acetal Copolymer
TECAFORM™ is commonly used as bushings, rollers, wear strips and other applications requiring a combination of strength, low moisture absorption, chemical resistance and dimensional stability.
Rochling Sustaplast Sustarin H
Material Properties and Machining Guidelines for Sustarin H, Sustarin H AF and Sustarin AF - DE588.
Rochling Sustaplast Sustarin C
Material Properties and Machining Guidelines for Sustarin C, Sustarin C ESD 60, Sustarin ESD 90 and Sustarin C TF.
Cast Acrylic (Polymethyl methacrylate or PMMA)
Cell cast acrylic is a lightweight, flexible and impact resistant substitute for glass. It has better optical quality and better physical properties than extruded acrylic.
Plexiglas® MC Fluorescent Color Series Acrylic Sheet
Set your displays on fire with luminescent neon colors. In normal light, the sheets glow as if illuminated from within. Add more UV light and the colors intensify.
Tecamid™ Nylon Sheets and Rods
TECAMID™ is an ideal material for metal replacement in applications whose design requirements include high strength, toughness, and weight reduction.
Rochling Sustaplast Sustamid 6G and Sustaglide
Material Properties and Machining Guidelines for Sustamid 6G, Sustamid 6G Blue, Sustamid 6G MoS2, Sustamid 6G OL, Sustaglide and Sustaglide Plus.


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Tooling Update
Cost-Estimating Software for Tool and Die Makers
eTurboTools, Inc. has released its eTurboQuote cloud-based cost-estimating development tool, designed to save tool and die makers time when quoting and pricing new jobs. Says the firm's Jerry Scrivo:
"We developed this tool with small to medium-sized tool and die manufacturers in mind. The tool is web based, giving team members involved in quoting access to the data wherever they have access to the web. With this tool, manufacturers can update costing information for their entire product line in just seconds."
Adds company president Brian Krichbaum:
"We find that most tool and die manufacturers produce similar products over and over. Why should they have to redevelop price modules every time? With eTurboQuote, we have simplified the cost-estimating process by allowing for the creation of standard price templates for all of the product lines of a company."eTurboTools: 517/270-0165; www.eturboquote.com
See also: E-Turbo Tools, Inc.
Related Enterprise Zones: Tool & Die


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