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Fear Factor, CW Style
Eons ago when the show Fear Factor first came out, I discovered something about myself: I have an extremely sympathetic gag reflex. Yep. Show me a video of someone eating yak brains, and I want to...well, yak.
Imagine how much better the show would have been, though, if they'd substituted the following cakes for the gross foods challenge. It wouldn't have been that much easier on the contestants, and seeing their expressions when they got a pleasant surprise as opposed to a sticky/wriggly one would have been awesome.
Oh, and in case this intro hasn't been warning enough, guys, here's a tip: PUT THE FOOD DOWN. AND THE COFFEE. AND THAT PRICELESS MING DYNASTY VASE. (Dude, what are you doing carrying that around, anyway?)
First up, here's looking at ewe, kid.
Eva G., for some reason the phrase "bubblegum tongue" from that John Mayer song keeps coming to mind. (And now every time you hear that song, you will think of this cake. That is my gift to you. [bowing])
Or if you'd prefer to live high on the hog, you can always pig out on this guy:
Looks like someone brought home the bacon. Hey Cattie P., way to ham it up!
Hey, where are you all going? I'm not done yet! Ok, ok, no more puns - promise.
This one looks kinda crunchy:
Stephanie N., I don't care how artistically done this sucker is - I'd still stomp on him in a pinch. (Assuming he was less than an inch long, of course. Otherwise, Jooooohhn!!!)
And lastly, let's finish up with a little seafood. (Although for some of you, this will mean seeing all the food you ate for breakfast.)
[lower lip trembling] Must. Keep. Swallowing.
From the short bursts of eye contact I was able to make with this guy before the dry heaving began, I think I decided it was a catfish. And as for those green things - well, it helps me to keep the bile at bay if I tell myself they're grapes. So we're going with that, ok, Joanna B.? Don't bother telling me they're fish eggs, or catfish brains, or the prepubescent larvae of a water-dwelling grindylow: honestly, I don't want to hear it.


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Frisian, NorthernPrint
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10,000 (Stephens 1976). Ethnic population: 60,000 (Stephens 1976).
Schleswig-Holstein state: coastal area between Eider river south and Wiedau river north; adjacent islands Föhr, Amrum, Sylt, Norstrand, Pellworm, the ten islands of Halligen group, and Helgoland.
7 (Shifting).
Mooringer (Mainland Frisian, Mooringa), Ferring (Fohr-Amrum), Sölreng (Sylt), Helgoland. Ferring dialect is actively used. Not intelligible to East Frisian Low Saxon [frs] of Germany or Frisian [fry] of the Netherlands except by a few educated bilingual speakers of Frisian. Lexical similarity: 70% between the Mooringer dialect and Standard German [deu], 55% with English [eng], 66% with East Frisian Old Saxon [frs], the Föhr dialect has 69% with Standard German, 62% with English, 68% with Frisian [fry], 73% with East Frisian Low Saxon, 86% with the Mooringer dialect, 91% with the Amrum dialect; the Sylt dialect has 64% with Standard German, 61% with English, 79% with the Mooringer dialect, 85% with the Föhr dialect.
Literacy rate in L1: Few read Frisian. Bible portions: 1954.
Latin script [Latn].
Education is in Standard German [deu] only. Commerce and religious services in German.

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text: Please beware of the unscrupulous elements who may misguide the candidates with false promises of getting them selected for the job, on illegal consideration. The recruitment process in the RRB exams is fully computerized and the selection is based purely on the merit of the candidates. If you come across any such person, please do inform us with all possible details, so that we can take appropriate and necessary action in this regard.


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Horse reiki and bull sperm hair masks: 9 bizarre spa treatments
I hate to knock anything that might make me look younger or feel better.
Thanks to what's known in the business as "signature local treatments," spas today massage and wrap customers in things like cherries, sugarcane, barbecue sauce and chocolate -- each ingredient said to add something to our undernourished bodies.
While it's one thing for an oceanside spa to offer thalassotherapy (naturally salted seawater), a nightingale poo facial is something quite different.
The more unusual spa treatments below suggest that mashed avocado and a couple of slices of cucumber are barely able to scratch the surface.
Snake massage
Snakes in the small northern Israeli village of Talmei Elazar give people massages.
Ada Barak's Carniverous Plant Farm is a breeding station for plants that eat rodents, insects and small mammals.
On the sidelines, the farm employs a tangled team of non-venomous king and corn snakes to slither and wriggle away knots on clients' naked bodies.
According to one regular, they're especially nifty at relieving migraines.
Ada Barak's Carniverous Plant Farm, Talmei Elazar; +972 4 637 3473; $250
Equine reiki
In the Japanese art of reiki, healing energy passed from practitioner to client corrects physical and emotional imbalances.
At Free Rein Australia, the 12 four-legged practitioners sometimes snort, roll or even relieve themselves while clearing energy blocks.
These reiki workers have no emotional "baggage" (they roam freely on 90 acres when not dislodging and releasing aforementioned energy blocks) and can replace clients' low-level vibrations with their higher electromagnetic field, according to the ranch owners.
Clients lay on a massage bed in a secure yard and the horses decide among themselves who will perform the treatment and where to find the blocks. It's not unusual for the whole team to get involved.
Free Rein Australia, 231 Grossmans Road, Torquay, Victoria, Australia; $145
Bull sperm hair treatment
At upscale Hari's salon in London, customers couldn't get enough of a bull sperm hair mask that owner Hari Salem called "Viagra for the hair."
Although no longer offered, it was made from organic bull semen imported from Scotland, mixed with Iranian katera root and, because it was refrigerated, allegedly didn't smell.
Hari's also liked to penetrate hair follicles with caviar and a blow dry treatment that used diamond dust and powdered meteorites.
These more pedestrian days, you can check into Hari's Beehive Bar for a retro do; or the Bun Bar for buns like you've never seen.
Hari's, 305 Brompton Road, +44 (0)20 7581 5211 and 233 Kings Road, +44 (0)20 7349 8722
Moist hay body wrap
Getting shrink-wrapped in hot, moist hay has been a therapeutic spa treatment in northern Italy since 1903.
This unique vegetal straitjacket, perfected at Hotel Heubad, is said to draw out toxins, stimulate metabolism and fortify the immune system.
The hay is harvested from the meadows of Alpe di Siusi in the early morning when it still has all its ethereal oils. It also contains mountain arnica, gentian, thimble and lady's mantle.
The Kompatscher family has been burying people up to their necks in fermented hay for more than a century and claims there's scientific documentation proving the health benefits of hay baths.
However, it was recently stricken from government cure treatment classification.
Hotel Heubad, Via Sciliar 13, Völs am Schlern, South Tyrol, Italy; +39 0471 725020; $42
Beer bath
Soaking in beer enriches skin, eliminates toxins and exfoliates -- so claim fans of the sudsy new European pastime.
At beer spas in Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic, customers soak in barrels, wooden tubs and even swimming pools filled with lagers and ales.
The Landhotel Moorhof in Franking, Austria, offers a beer facial with hops, malt, honey and cream cheese. According to proprietor Hedwig Bauer, bathing in beer fights rheumatism, gout, poor circulation, eczema, kidney stones, heart attacks, strokes and stress -- although she didn't mention if that last one had more to do with the pints of Schnaitl's offered along with the baths.
Morhoof, Dorfibm 2, 5131 Franking, Austria; +43 6277 8188; $180
Fish foot spa
Your Labrador retriever can fetch your newspaper, but can he give you a pedicure?
In spas all over Asia, (and some in the UK, U.S. and Canada, although regulations are getting tighter), a species of Middle Eastern carp nicknamed "doctor fish" eat away dead skin.
You can even stock your aquarium with these reddish "log suckers" (another of its many nicknames).
Diane Sawyer, who featured the unique pedicure on "Good Morning America," called the fish nibbles "little delicate kisses," although others have described the sensation as "ants marching over your body."
Said to cure psoriasis and other skin disorders, the treatment is maddeningly ticklish to some.
Sampuoton Fish Spa, B-G-23 Merchant Square, Jalan Tropicana Selatan 1, Petaling Jaya 47410, Malaysia; +60 (0)3 7885 0691; from $5
More on CNN: Thailand fish spas nibble on despite health concerns
Bird-poo facial
Japanese geishas, kabuki dancers and, more recently, Victoria Beckham, have been known to smear a cream containing "uguisu no fun" on their faces.
The tonic is made from powdered droppings from the Japanese bush warbler, a nightingale found in Asia.
Besides the fact that I have no desire to look like a geisha, I also don't relish the idea of applying bird doo doo to my face, even if it is dried, beaten to a pulp, sanitized with ultraviolet light and mixed with essential oils. So, this one comes with no personal testimonial.
Ten Thousand Waves, 320 Tesuque Dr., Santa Fe, N.M., U.S.A.; +1 505 982 9304; from $120
Gem stone massage
Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but they share billing with amethysts, rubies and sapphires in Trump Spa's Harmonizing Gemstone Treatment.
Massage oil is infused with ground semi-precious gems and larger stones are placed on the body's chakras.
"They're not as big as the rocks we use for the hot rock massages, but they're real diamonds, amethysts, rubies and sapphires," says spa concierge Bridgitte Willis.
"We also have a pearl wrap that uses ground-up pearls to exfoliate."
Trump Spa, One Central Park West, New York; +1 212 299 1000; $195
Criminal spa
Though the receptionist is a uniformed security guard, the Chang Mai Women's Correctional Facility spa -- located in an historic building in Chiang Mai, Thaland -- resembles any other boutique spa, with flowers, soothing music, a gift shop and tea room.
The difference is the massage therapists are temporarily incarcerated at the Chiang Mai Women's Correctional Facility.
When they're six months from release it's hoped the Thai massage skills they master will help them avoid a return to the slammer.
It's a good cause and for $6, how can you quibble?Chang Mai Women's Correctional Facility, 100 Rachvithi Road, Chiang Mai, Thailand; +66 (0)53 706 1041


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We have all heard it before: "Just print it, sign it, and fax it over." That saying that brings visions of typewriters to mind. It's one step ahead of vacuum tube document transfer, but without that cool wooshing effect. It is slightly better when you can print the form, fill it out in hard copy, and then scan it back in so it can be emailed; This is still a little silly. Agree'nSign hopes to do its part to eliminate the step into the physical world of hard copy by facilitating legally binding and defensible electronic signatures. The Agree'nSign API makes it possible to integrate this function into existing applications.
There are two main functionality tracks in this service, documents and reusable documents. Regular documents are sent to a specific one-time list of signers while reusable documents can be sent over and over again. This would be useful for handling new employees who often need to sign a number of documents on their first day of work. Each employee needs to sign roughly the same set of documents, and that set of could be made to be "reusable" in Agree'nSign.
The API is XML based. It might not be JSON, but at least it's not paper! With the API you can create, send new contracts, retrieve contract meta data or PDFs, and get a list of all contracts. If you want to create a reusable contract, you will still need to head to the agree'nSign website.
There are 10 esignature APIs in the index, going back as far as 2006.


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Lana Violet – 1000 Facials
Released: May 14, 2012
Released: May 14, 2012
Lana Violet is a pornstar of Philippine heritage, but she is American through and through culturally. She claims to really love sloppy wet blowjobs that get plenty messy, so we decided to let her prove it my putting her money where her mouth is in the newest 1000 Facials exclusive video for you! Sure enough she starts leaking fluids out of her mouth like a busted sprinkler-head and half way through this scene she had already started making a puddle of her best saliva on the floor in front of her! By the end she was begging for cum and licking her fingers clean after scooping it off her face with her sexy fingernails. Lana loves cum and when she tells you that, you can see it's genuine!


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Welcome to Apache Felix
Apache Felix is a community effort to implement the OSGi Framework and Service platform and other interesting OSGi-related technologies under the Apache license. The OSGi specifications originally targeted embedded devices and home services gateways, but they are ideally suited for any project interested in the principles of modularity, component-orientation, and/or service-orientation. OSGi technology combines aspects of these aforementioned principles to define a dynamic service deployment framework that is amenable to remote management.
Refer to the news archive for all news.
Apache Felix Subprojects¶
The Felix project is organized into subprojects, where each subproject targets a specific OSGi specification or OSGi-related technology; the following list summarizes each released subproject:
- Config Admin - An implementation of the OSGi Configuration Admin service specification for managing bundle configuration properties.
- Dependency Manager - An API-based component model to simplify OSGi-based development.
- Event Admin - An implementation of the OSGi Event Admin service specification for event-based communication.
- File Install - A simple, directory-based management agent for managing bundle deployment.
- Framework - An implementation of the OSGi R6 core framework.
- Gogo - An advanced shell for interacting with OSGi frameworks.
- Health Checks - An extensible framework to monitor the status of the OSGi container at runtime.
- HTTP Service - An implementation of the OSGi HTTP Whiteboard and Http Service specification.
- Inventory Printer - A simple and extensible framework to retrieve inventory information about applications running in an OSGi Framework.
- iPOJO - A sophisticated service-oriented component model to simplify OSGi-based development.
- Log - A simple, memory-based implementation of the OSGi Log service specification.
- Felix Logback - Apache Felix Logback is a small integration of the Logback backend with OSGi.
- Maven Bundle Plugin - A Maven plugin to simplify building bundles.
- Maven SCR Plugin - A Maven plugin to simplify using Declarative Services.
- Metatype - An implementation of the OSGi Metatype service to describe types needed by bundles.
- OSGi Bundle Repository - A bundle repository service to simplify discovering and deploying bundles and their dependencies.
- Preferences - An implementation of the OSGi Preferences service specification for storing settings and preferences.
- Remote Shell - A remote, text-based interface to the Apache Felix Shell.
- Service Component Runtime - An implementation of the OSGi Declarative Services specification providing a service-oriented component model to simplify OSGi-based development.
- Shell - A very simple shell service implemented as a bundle for interacting with an OSGi framework instance.
- Shell TUI - A simple, text-based interface to the Apache Felix Shell.
- UPnP - An implementation of the OSGi UPnP Device service specification for UPnP device integration.
- Web Console - A simple tool to inspect and manage OSGi framework instances using your favorite Web Browser.
Several other unreleased sub-projects also exist, please refer to the Subprojects page for more. To see some projects using Felix subprojects, refer to the Projects Using Felix documentation.


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in qualifying schools will have the opportunity to eat breakfast and
lunch at school with no cost. This program is funded by USDA and is
called (CEP) or Community Eligibility Provision. Schools included are as
Elementary Schools
Central City
Cox Landing
Hite Saunders
Milton Elementary
Milton PK
Explorer Academy
Salt Rock
Spring Hill
Middle Schools
Huntington Middle
Huntington East Middle
Alternative School
Students who are well fed and ready to learn are an integral part of
the One Voice, One Focus vision plan," said West Virginia Superintendent
of Schools Michael Martirano. "Educational
improvements in West Virginia schools include providing access to
school meals so that all children have a chance to achieve. I am proud
that Cabell County Schools will be participating in the CEP program and
meeting a crucial need for student success in our state."
program will allow Cabell County Schools to feed nearly 6094 students'
free breakfast and lunch each day. "It provides a great benefit for both
parents and students," said Rhonda McCoy, Director of Food Services.
U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released data reporting high
levels of food insecurity and hunger across the country. In West
Virginia, over 14 percent of residents live in food insecure households
and more than 100,000 children live below the poverty line.
CEP was enacted as a result of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act and
provides universal meal service to children in high poverty areas. This
is the fourth year for the option. The CEP is an alternative to
collecting, approving and verifying household eligibility applications
for free and reduced price eligible students in high poverty Local
Education Agencies.
Cabell County Schools is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
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where did it start from? any history? im cory clark and i was wondering if anyone new anything about anything of mee, like how many clarks are out there?
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Acronym for nevi, atrial myxoma, myxoid neurofibromas, and ephelides. See: NAME syndrome.
name(nām) a word or words used to designate a unique entity and distinguish it from others.
generic name
1. in chemistry, a name applied to a class of compounds, e.g., alkane.
3. in biology, the name applied to a genus.
International Nonproprietary Name (INN) the nonproprietary designation recommended by the World Health Organization for any pharmaceutical preparation.
nonproprietary name a short name coined for a drug or chemical not subject to proprietary (trademark) rights and recommended or recognized by an official body.
pharmacy equivalent name (PEN) a shortened name for a drug or combination of drugs; when used for a combination of drugs, the term usually consists of the prefix co- plus an abbreviation for each drug in the combination.
proprietary name a brand name or trademark under which a proprietary product is marketed. See proprietary.
systematic name in chemical nomenclature, a name of a substance based on the chemical structure of a compound.
trivial name in chemical nomenclature, a name of a substance that does not reflect its chemical structure; many trivial names are semisystematic, e.g., the -ol in glycerol indicates that it is an alcohol.
United States Adopted Name (USAN) a nonproprietary designation for any compound used as a drug, established by negotiation between their manufacturers and a council sponsored jointly by the American Medical Association, American Pharmaceutical Association, and United States Pharmacopeial Convention.
Molecular medicine A word or phrase that uniquely identifies a particular allele of a gene. The allele name has an abbreviation which is the allele's symbol.
Online An identifier for a particular computer in a particular place which allows other computers to communicate with that computer and no other
Pharmaceutical industry A designation—official or otherwise—for a chemical or other substance with therapeutic potential
Taxonomy The label assigned to a material or organism
nameGraduate education A popular term for the degree to which a person, mentor or professor is recognized in a particular field. See Reputation Pharmaceutical industry A designation, official or otherwise for a chemical or other substance with therapeutic potential. See Blank canvas name.
title; identifying word(s).
business name
a legal title for a veterinary hospital or practice, approved by the local veterinary registering authority and the registrar under the Companies Act or similar authority responsible for the registration of such names.
problem name
key name; key indicant. The name of the problem, which may be a clinical sign, a production average, or a performance figure. A critical identification in a problem-oriented system of record keeping.
Patient discussion about name
Q. what are the name of those popular pills i hear about to beat depression?
A. Common drugs used to treat depression are usually of the SSRI family. There are many names, depending on your place. These drugs are prescription drugs, i.e. prescribed by a doctor, so if you have any questions or seek to use them you should consult a doctor.
A list of anti-depressive drugs may be found here:
A list of anti-depressive drugs may be found here:
Q. what is the medical name of the specialist who treats fibromyalgia? The person who treats arthritis is medically termed "rheumatologist", then what is the medical name of the specialist who treats fibromyalgia?
A. Rheumatologist is an internist who is a specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of muscle, bones and joint complaint. If a person is having fibromyalgia together joint pain and inflammation, it would be better for him to be seen by an arthritis specialist who can better diagnose what might have caused fibromyalgia and what others might have been the causes other than fibromyalgia, which should not go undiagnosed. There is as such no medical name for the person who treats fibromyalgia.
Q. Hi Everyone, my name is Selly with Bipolar. Are there homeopathic meds for Hypothyroidism and Bipolar?
A. Hi, I also have hypothyroidism along with my bipolar depression. I would agree with Dagmar that getting some conventional medical treatment first is the right way to go. I certainly wouldn't knock a homeopathic treatment that worked, but for bipolar disorder you really should be monitored closely by a doctor. Perhaps you can integrate some homeopathic remedies with your conventional medications, under the observation of a doctor, of course. Good luck, and if you find something that works for you let us know!More discussions about name


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Former North Augusta assistant principal Stephen Coke Eubanks, who was convicted in 2010 of child molestation, was denied parole on Wednesday.
Over the course of three decades, from 1976 to 1995, Eubanks abused teenage boys and girls while he was working within the local education system, officials said.
At the hearing, which statute requires, Eubanks pleaded to be released as he "could never do anything like that again."
When asked why he had committed the crimes, Eubanks replied "ignorance and indiscretion."
According to court testimony, Eubanks made juveniles perform various sex acts with him and took some to interstate rest areas where he made them engage in sexual activity with other unidentified men.
"I feel it's taken away my life and has not only devastated me, but my family," he said. "I realize now that I could never do anything like that again. Seeing what it has done with the family and the community, no way I could go back to doing that."
The panel also heard from a representative of the victims, who plainly stated their case.
"I'm against parole," the representative said. "I feel that he has not had enough time in (prison)."
The board agreed and quickly denied parole due to the seriousness of Eubanks' crimes.
Eubanks is set to complete his 10-year sentence in 2015, according to Peter A. O'Boyle, director of public information for S.C. Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services. His release date, without parole, is estimated to be March 26, 2015, according to the S.C. Department of Corrections.
The hearing was conducted via teleconference, with Eubanks appearing on his own. Other parole-eligible offenders appeared with supporters by their side.
Since being convicted on the child molestation charges, Eubanks has worked in chaplain's office at MacDougall Correctional Institution where he is housed, for two years.
At the hearing, he presented this work, his attendance at "every church service" and his working "with people who have problems with literacy" as evidence that he has been rehabilitated.
According to court documents, Eubanks was accused of having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old boy at the former educator's Belair Road home between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 1993.
Other allegations included that he watched pornography and engaged in masturbation and oral sex after plying teenagers with alcohol and drugs.
Charges also stemmed from abuse he inflicted on a North Augusta High School student and a Paul Knox Junior High School student in the 1970s.


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If anyone was paying attention to Twitter last night, it was a blood bath. A fairly well-known WoW machinima creator by the name of Crendor (aka WoWCrendor) decided last night to use Twitter as his personal platform to berate women who dress like "whores." What surprised me the most was not that his fans jumped up to support him but the sheer number of people who Tweeted or re-Tweeted things that myself and others were saying about how sexist and victim-blaming he was. Instead of initially apologizing for the whole thing, he got wildly indignant and decided to dig the hole deeper, including tying a woman's dress to the amount of times she gets creeped, abused or cheated on. Sound suspiciously familiar?
WoWCrendor finally pushed out an apology later, with little to no self-awareness of what he actually did wrong or why that train of thought was so damaging and promptly deleted most of the tweets. I have them all saved here if people wish to see them in the unvarnished light of day. I'm really disappointed by this as he was one of my favorite movie creators by far. I felt like he wasn't one of the douchebags that randomly populate every aspect of gaming culture.
Now, I'm not writing this article just to point fingers at Crendor. Goodness knows I did enough of that last night on Twitter. I think we all need to sit down as a community and think about what he said, why he said it and confront some really thorny issues. Because Crendor isn't just a bad dude who said this. A lot of dudes say this. A lot of gals do too. This right here, this train of thought is what directly contributes to rape, abuse and other forms of harassment being so hard to punish for, because societally, we feel the real instigator of all of these things is not the person who committed the act, but the person who was victimized. They wore the wrong thing, they said the wrong thing, they dared to be in an alley or a bar, I could go on. We've grown so used to believing that the woman in this scenario brought it on herself that there's little to no mention about the person who is culpable – morally, ethically and legally.
What is this called? The actual term that gets used in most feminist circles is "victim blaming."
Victim blaming occurs when the victim(s) of a crime, an accident, or any type of abusive maltreatment are held entirely or partially responsible for the transgressions committed against them. Blaming the victim has traditionally emerged especially inracist and sexist forms.[1] However, this attitude may exist independently from these radical views and even be at least half-official in some countries.[2]
People familiar with victimology are much less likely to see the victim as responsible.[3] Knowledge about prior relationship between victim and perpetrator increases perceptions of victim blame for rape, but not for robbery.[4]
World of Warcraft is obviously a fictional world and a video game and we don't all physically interact with eachother. So it might feel like a lot of what was said last night doesn't really apply to my little blog, but it does. It's very apparent if you read my blog that the feelings and mores that we have about the real world very often carry themselves into our virtual spaces. Not only do people we deem "celebrities" in our nerdy little niche of the Internet say terrible things about 50 percent of their possible fan-base, but we have to deal with victim-blaming inside the game, even. Victim-blaming is such a pervasive thought that at it's weakest concentration, it is even a defense for bullying and trolling. Have you ever thought, "well, they were just asking for it" and then done something mean or rude? Yeah. It's that too.
But let's bring it back a little. I was stalked and harassed via World of Warcraft by someone in my friend circle. You might even say that we had a slightly friendlier-than-friends relationship. I dance around this because even though I have a restraining order against this person now, since he's been harassing me via blogs, Twitter, and WoW for well over 3 years, I still know that there's many people who will read this and say, "Well, didn't you do XYZ with him? That's why he's doing this to you." See? Why is the person who is sending me rape threats on a daily basis less culpable of harassment than me, the person who gets to put up with this abuse daily? See how illogical it is? Or did it not even occur prior to someone you know saying something like this for you to see that?
This is why I'm exceptionally annoyed with someone like Crendor using a platform that is public and open to his entire fanbase to directly spout victim-blaming and other sexist malarky. Because all it does is serve to reinforce some really scary ideas that, out in the wild, have managed to make it hard to report any sort of abuse or rape or harassment by the victim because of what the backlash will be. It's even become so normalized that women should expect and understand that they will be hit on because they were dressing sexy. And that they should just deal with that. Why is it that when the crime becomes involved with sex or abuse that suddenly we don't find the person who did those things responsible? We don't say that the bank was "just asking" to be robbed by having all that money inside of its vaults.
I want WoW celebrities to rise out of the primordial ooze, much like everyone else in our culture, and stop putting the fault of a crime on the person who had the crime committed against them. I want people to stop using their status and their public forums to spreading the same garbage we hear every day. I want there to be repercussions and consequences for thinking this is an okay idea to espouse professionally. I want people to think about this in all areas of their life, from bullying to abuse, to rape and even stuff like just creeping on someone at a bar. Unhook your brain from its track of "they were asking for it" and think about "what can I do to stop this from happening to more people?" We can even try all we like to make people "less of the victims" as we have been for years, but we really need to focus our efforts on not creating new criminals and bullies.
Clothes are just clothes, Crendor. They are swatches of material we use to express ourselves. They do not, however, force a person to do something to them. They do not ask for things. They are garments we wear for various reasons. A woman should be allowed to wear what she wants and not be at fault when lots of dudes feel compelled to hit on her in a creepy way. Dudes should stop hitting on people in creepy ways and if you think that clothes have anything to do with it, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
(Note, the bridge is wearing pasties and a thong. Hope that helps.)


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Below are just a few of the pictures I have taken over the past few years. They are now available for the first time for digital download. They are being released at a special introductory price for a limited time to celebrate our website launch. I have taken many photos over the past few years and have a catalogue of over 1000 unique and artistic shots from all around the world that will be added weekly to this page. If you see any pictures on the homepage galleries that you would like to download please feel free to e mail me on the Contacts page. All downloads are high resolution and the watermark will be removed automatically on the download. All prices are inclusive of VAT.


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I finally got it working and thought I'd post what I did for others that are new to OS X.
Download Instant Client
First you'll nee to download the Instant Client for OS X. I downloaded the following files for Version 184.108.40.206.0 (64-bit):
- instantclient-basic-macos.x64-184.108.40.206.0.zip
- instantclient-sqlplus-macos.x64-126.96.36.199.0.zip
Unzip both files and put their contents in /oracle/instantclient_11_2/
Setting Paths
You'll need to set the appropriate paths to load by default in Terminal. Open Terminal and run:
vi ~/.bash_profileAdd the following to the file:
#in ~/.bash_profile DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:/oracle/instantclient_11_2 export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH=$PATH:/oracle/instantclient_11_2/ export PATH #Create this directory and put your tnsnames.ora file in it TNS_ADMIN=/oracle/instantclient_11_2/network/admin/Running SQL*Plus
Now when you open a new terminal window you should be able to run SQL*Plus
#ex: sqlplus username/password@//server:port/sid sqlplus system/oracle@//localhost:1521/XE #or use a connection string leveraging a tnsnames entry
Additional Addons
When using SQL*Plus in Windows you can use the Up arrow to get your previous command. If you do that in Linux you'll get some weird character. The good news is that there's a program to resolve it called rlwrap. CJ Travis has a good post on how to install rlwrap of Mac OS X.


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In Re: MARK JOSEPH BRANNAN, KELLY ANN BRANNAN, Debtors.
MARK JOSEPH BRANNAN, KELLY ANN BRANNAN, Plaintiffs,
WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE, INC. f/k/a NORWEST MORTGAGE, INC., Defendant.
MARGARET A. MAHONEY, Bankruptcy Judge
This case involves the affidavit preparation, signing and filing practices of Wells Fargo, its employees, and the law firms representing it over a period from 1996 through 2008 in the Southern District of Alabama Bankruptcy Court. The debtor asserts that the practices were so pervasively improper and/or fraudulent as to require relief for all debtors in this district even if the information contained in each debtor's particular affidavit was true. The Court has jurisdiction to hear this matter pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 157 and 1334 and the Order of Reference of the District Court. This is a core proceeding pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 157(b)(2) and the Court has authority to enter a final order. The case is presently before the court at the class certification stage. For the reasons indicated below, the Court is denying the plaintiff's motion to certify the class proposed by her, but will allow 30 days for plaintiff to amend the proposed class, if appropriate.
Wells Fargo was the mortgage and note holder for an unknown but substantial number of homes of people who filed bankruptcy in the Southern District of Alabama from 1996 through 2008. In order to be able to foreclose on the home of any debtor who was delinquent in his or her payments, Wells Fargo needed relief from the automatic stay that was imposed in every bankruptcy case at filing. This relief was necessary until the debtor obtained a discharge or had his or her case dismissed. Kelly Brannan, with her then husband, filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy case in the Southern District of Alabama on November 21, 2002. Kelly and Mark Brannan owned a home at 1309 Mixon Avenue in Bay Minette, Alabama. They became delinquent in their payments to Norwest Mortgage, Inc., n/k/a Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc., their mortgagee. In order to foreclose on the house, Wells Fargo sought relief from the automatic stay by motion filed pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 362. The motion was filed on March 31, 2003. In conjunction with the motion, Wells Fargo filed an affidavit supporting the motion.
The affidavit was filed on March 31, 2003. The affiant was Teresa Diaz-Cochran and the notary public was Marian W. Hudson. The affidavit and notary public acknowledgment were dated March 28, 2003. The affiant signature and notary signature were on a page separate from the other two pages of the affidavit. The affiant attested to the financial data surrounding the loan such as the amount owed and the amount in arrears, and stated facts about the mortgage and note. The affidavit also stated that copies of the note and mortgage were attached to the affidavit. The affidavit had only one attachment—the mortgage. From testimony offered at the certification hearing, it is clear that the Brice Vander Linden firm prepared and filed the Motion for Relief from the Stay and it prepared the affidavit that Theresa Diaz-Cochran signed. The testimony also shows that the affidavit was "presigned." The Wells Fargo employees had sent to Brice Vander Linden multiple signature pages with the affiant's signature and the notary's signature on the page as well as the notary seal, with the dates of signing blank. The employee reviewed the affidavit online when it was sent to the employee's email. If the financial data was correct, the employee emailed approval to the Brice firm and it attached a presigned signature page to the approved wording. The Brice firm also apparently filled in the dates of the affiant's and notary's signatures.
The Brannans and Wells Fargo agreed to a conditional denial of the motion for relief from the stay at a hearing held on April 23, 2003. The court signed an order on April 25, 2003 stating, in general terms, that the arrears of the Brannans on their mortgage would be paid through their Chapter 13 plan together with attorney's fees of $350 and a filing fee of $75. Ms. Brannan never personally paid the mortgage payments after that date. She deeded the home to Wells Fargo in a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure arrangement.
Debtor offered into evidence 631 affidavits with a variety of alleged flaws. Wells Fargo listed the defects in its brief.
1. A person other than the affiant mistakenly named in the body of the affidavit
2. Misdescription of the affiant's job (i.e., called "bankruptcy representative or "bankruptcy specialist" as opposed to "bankruptcy supervisor")
3. Notarization undated
4. Missing page
5. Affidavit refers to an exhibit containing an indication that it was printed or faxed later
6. Affidavit refers to an exhibit attached to a motion for relief from stay which had not been filed at the time of the affidavit's execution
7. First page of the affidavit appears to have been "updated" after the affidavit's signature to reflect a missed payment subsequent to the date of the affidavit (without the knowledge or consent of any Wells Fargo employee)
8. Handwriting of the date on the notarization appears to be different from that of the notary
9. Affidavit exhibit(s) missing
10. Affidavit refers to a note as an exhibit but instead there is a Lost Note Affidavit
11. Different font for some part of the affidavit
12. Affiant date blank
13. Notarization state or county incorrect
14. McCalla Raymer attorney signed as Assistant Secretary of Wells Fargo
15. Blanks in affidavit not filled in
16. Affiant's name misspelled
17. Affiant and notary dates are different
18. Affiant's name wrong in body of affidavit
19. Affiant was allegedly not assistant secretary of MERS
20. Handwritten changes on affidavit
21. Affidavit refers to delinquent payment for month after affidavit filed
22. Missing affiant signature
23. Debtor's name wrong in some places in affidavit
24. Affiant did not sign in presence of notary
25. Affidavit refers to property value in debtor's bankruptcy schedules, but affiant does not know whether she/he personally reviewed the schedules[1]
The evidence shows that two law firms handled all or substantially all of the bankruptcy cases in this district from 1996-2008 for Wells Fargo — the Brice Vander Linden firm and the McCalla Raymer firm. The Brice Vander Linden firm has admitted it filed "presigned" affidavits and has provided a list of many of them. Those affidavits are included in plaintiff's list of 631 affidavits. The affidavits it handled also included affidavits that exhibited most if not all of the other infirmities listed. The McCalla Raymer firm does not admit to filing any presigned affidavits. However, all of the other infirmities appeared in its affidavits.
The Brice Vander Linden firm commenced its representation of Wells Fargo no later than 1996. From 1996-2003, it used (at least part of the time) presigned affidavits from Wells Fargo representatives which it filed in conjunction with relief from stay motions. These presigned affidavits were provided by Wells Fargo and were sanctioned by Wells Fargo's own Guidelines dated May 27, 2003[2] which authorized the procedure. It is not clear how long the presigned affidavit process was used except that Hillary Bonial, the lawyer from Brice in charge of bankruptcy operations, knows it ended on April 15, 2003 when the Brice Vander Linden firm sent an email to Wells Fargo stating that the firm was terminating the procedure. The Brice firm itself terminated the process, at least in part, because a bankruptcy judge in California called the process into question. Another Brice client, Mitsubishi, had been providing presigned signature pages to Brice and an affidavit with a presigned signature page was discovered to have been filed in Judge Klein's court. Wells Fargo never told Brice Vander Linden to stop using the procedure. After terminating the policy, the Brice firm provided full affidavits to Wells Fargo by email, using what it called the "corrected execution" procedure. Wells Fargo employees were responsible for reviewing, signing and notarizing the affidavits and returning them by overnight mail to the Brice firm. The Brice firm did not attach any documents that an affidavit stated were attached unless it determined it was not a document available on Wells Fargo's computer system. If a document came from a third party, some evidence indicated that the Brice firm forwarded it to Wells Fargo.
The evidence is repetitiously substantial that the Brice firm filed the affidavits returned to them by Wells Fargo regardless of condition. Many affidavits bore no date for an affiant's signature and/or a notary's signature; many had mistakes as to the names of affiants or job titles; many had statements that documents were attached that were not.
The McCalla Raymer law firm did a substantial amount of Wells Fargo's work in the Southern District of Alabama over the period 2004-2008. There is no evidence that McCalla Raymer used presigned affidavits. However, the McCalla Raymer affidavits had many of the same defects as the Brice firm affidavits. Many had undated affiant or notary signatures. Many had wrong affiant names or job titles.
In addition, McCalla Raymer affidavits had three other defects. Some McCalla affidavits had attachments added to affidavits after they were signed. This is clear because some affidavits stated that a note was attached, but a lost note affidavit was attached instead. Most troubling was the fact that there were numerous affidavits which stated that payments were in default for periods of time in the future, i.e., an affidavit dated August 25, 2004 stated that the September 2004 payment was in default.
Wells Fargo had guidelines for attorneys working on its bankruptcy cases. In the 2003 version of the guidelines, attorneys were advised that Wells Fargo would supply presigned affidavit signature pages for bankruptcy cases if requested. It is unclear if that was in the guidelines before that date. After the 2003 version, the presigned affidavit signature language was deleted. The guidelines said nothing else about procedures to be followed in regard to affidavit preparation by law firms. Wells Fargo employees repeatedly stated that they relied on their attorneys to tell them what to do. Wells Fargo had no organized training for affidavit signing employees or notary signing employees. When hired, they were told how to do their jobs by their predecessors or supervisors.
Employees signed numerous affidavits every day. One employee described receiving and handling 80-100 affidavits before lunch each day. She averaged about 2 ½-3 minutes per affidavit for collating, stapling, checking content and signing. One employee admitted she didn't read any of the affidavits she signed. Others testified they read the financial information. When confronted with affidavits with wrong names, wrong job titles, missing or incorrect attachments, they expressed surprise. If the affidavit stated that the debtors' bankruptcy schedules indicated a property value of a certain amount, the employees testified that they did not verify that fact because they had no access to PACER.
Many affidavits had mortgage and note attachments which appeared to be attached after the preparation and signing of the affidavit. Many affidavits had Lost Note affidavits attached that said a copy of the mortgage and note were attached. Other affidavits stated that the Mortgage and Note were attached to the motion for relief from stay but were not.
The employees signing affidavits testified in numerous instances that the date of their signing of the affidavit was not filled in by them. Notary employees also often testified that they did not fill in the dates on their notarizations. Someone else had done it. Employees signing affidavits did not always sign the affidavits in front of a notary. The affidavits were placed in a file folder and delivered to the notary by the affiant or another employee.
Some notarizations were not dated the same date as the affiant's signature date. Some affidavits stated that a debtor was in default as to payments which were not yet due. The Wells Fargo employees stated that they did whatever their attorneys told them to do.
Wells Fargo employees, high and low, and its attorneys testified that they saw nothing wrong with their affidavit preparation, signature and notarization procedures. If the financial data in the affidavit was correct, they testified that the affidavit was okay. Their focus was solely on the financial data. The rest was "technicalities."
The issue to be decided is whether a class of debtors can be certified pursuant to Fed. R. Bankr. P. 7023. Rule 7023 incorporates Fed.R.Civ.P. 23 into adversary proceedings. The requirements for a class are set forth in the rule.
(a) Prerequisites. One or more members of a class may sue or be sued as representative parties on behalf of all members only if:
(1) The class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable;
(2) There are questions of law or fact common to the class
(3) The claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class; and
(4) The representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.
Brannan seeks to certify a class that includes every debtor that had a case in the Southern District of Alabama from 1996 through 2008 in whose case an affidavit was filed by Wells Fargo. Brannan asserts that, based upon the facts outlined above, every affidavit is improper or fraudulent due to the policies and procedures followed by Wells Fargo and its agents and employees in preparing, executing and filing affidavits in debtors' cases. The Court concludes that a class defined as proposed cannot be certified. However, the Court concludes that Brannan's case can serve as a vehicle for sanctioning Wells Fargo for its behavior, and/or, perhaps the class can be redefined to include those who have suffered actual harm.
There are three reasons the Court concludes that the proposed class cannot be certified. First, abuse of the bankruptcy process or fraud on the court is a remedy that is based upon injury to the court system as a whole rather than an injury to individual debtors. Therefore, to the extent this case is about punishment of Wells Fargo for all debtors, regardless of actual injury, the relief given must necessarily be to the system—not individuals. Second, no other court that has dealt with similar practices has done more than sanction creditors who use improper practices. Although not determinative of the right to a class wide remedy, it is evidence that such abuses, involving numerous debtors, have been dealt with by courts in a more summary fashion. Third, although the proposed class of debtors was "harmed" in a way by the practices of Wells Fargo, the harm cannot be quantified meaningfully for each debtor. A class that specifically focused on debtors who actually paid an attorneys' fee or filing fee for Wells Fargo's shoddy filings might be able to be certified because such debtors suffered actual monetary damages. What the debtors received was actually worth less than the $350-$500 charged and paid by them.
Abuse of the bankruptcy process and/or rules and fraud on the court are complaints which go to the heart of the bankruptcy system—not to any particular debtor. In fact, as Wells Fargo has pointed out, Ms. Brannan can point to no actual monetary harm suffered by her. What is the harm in Wells Fargo's practices? That Wells Fargo "took the law into its own hands." It decided unilaterally to disregard South Carolina notary public requirements, this Court's local practices, and the ages old law of signature or declaration under oath or penalty of perjury. Testimony under oath may not be foolproof, but it is the lifeblood of the courts. If parties have no regard for what it means, those parties' testimony is suspect and unreliable. The only reason this Court allows evidence to be presented by Wells Fargo and other parties by affidavit is to make the process more convenient and streamlined for the Court and litigants. If the testimony is not trustworthy because the safeguards of the process are not observed, this Court (and one would suspect others too) will have to require parties to appear in person. Disregard of court procedures and rules, notary law and signatures under oath is a courtwide concern.
In Travelers Indemnity Company v. Gore, 761 F.2d 1549, 1552 (11th Cir. 1985) the Eleventh Circuit defined fraud on the court as "that species of fraud which does or attempts to, defile the court itself, or is a fraud perpetrated by officers of the court so that the judicial machinery cannot perform in the usual manner its impartial task of adjudicating cases that are presented for adjudication." It is an abuse that must be corrected regardless of harm to any individual debtor or creditor. To the extent Brannan seeks to correct or address this courtwide concern, the remedy is not one for damages to be awarded to specific debtors.
Several cases similar to this case are pending in the Middle District of Alabama Bankruptcy Court. Judge Sawyer concluded that a single false affidavit might not be a fraud on the court but an intra-party fraud. However, five factors made the facts alleged in Judge Sawyer's cases and this Court's cases fraud on the court. Woodruff v. Chase Home Finance, LLC, 2010 WL 386209 (Bankr. M.D.Ala. 2010).
(1) Large numbers of motions for relief from the automatic stay are filed.
(2) There is only a short period of time to dispose of these motions.
(3) There is a huge economic disparity between the resources available to the parties.
(4) The subject matter is critical to the debtor's survival.
(5) These matters are only rarely litigated to a final order after a hearing on evidence.
Woodruff, 2010 WL 386209, at *6.
These factors make the actions of Wells Fargo, if proven, a fraud on the court. The sheer numbers, the reliance of the court on the affidavits, and the subject matter of the Wells Fargo motions (debtors' homeplaces) make even careless, negligent procedures inexcusable.
The facts also can be seen as a ground for this Court to exercise its inherent authority to impose sanctions "to enforce court . . . rules, or to prevent an abuse of process." 11 U.S.C. § 105(a). Franken v. Mukamal, 2011 WL 4584767 (11th Cir. 2011) (citing to In re Walker, 532 F.3d 1304, 1309 (11th Cir. 2008) and In re Sunshine Jr. Stores, Inc., 456 F.3d 1291, 1304 (11th Cir. 2006)); Hardy v. U.S., 97 F.3d 1384 (11th Cir. 1996); In re Mroz, 65 F.3d 1567 (11th Cir. 1995). "The power to punish for contempts is inherent in all courts." Chambers v. NASCO, Inc., 501 U.S. 32, 44, 111 S.Ct. 2123 (1991) (citing Ex parte Robinson, 19 Wall. 505, 510, 22 L.Ed. 205 (1874)). The Chambers court indicated that one type of contempt the courts may sanction under their inherent powers is "tampering with the administration of justice . . . [which] involves far more than an injury to a single litigant. It is a wrong against the institutions set up to protect and safeguard the public." Id. (citing Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238, 246, 64 S.Ct. 997, 88 L.Ed.1250 (1944)). This is precisely the type of wrong allegedly committed in this case as it pertains to all debtors in this district.
The Court has found no cases that have certified a class like this one. That alone is not sufficient reason not to certify a class, but it is some support for this ruling. This is particularly true when there is another remedy, a sanction, which is clearly within this Court's authority.
To have standing to sue, a plaintiff must have "suffered . . . injury in fact,'. . . the injury[] . . . [must be] `fairly traceable' to the actions of the defendant, and . . . the injury[] . . . [must] likely be redressed by a favorable decision." Bennett v. Spear, 520 U.S. 154, 162, 117 S.Ct. 1154, 137 L.Ed.2d 281 (1997) (quoting Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560-61, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992). An "injury in fact" must be "(a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical." Lujan, 504 U.S. at 560-61, 112 S.Ct. 2130; Griffin v. Dugger, 823 F.2d 1476, 1482 (11th Cir. 1987) (stating that "[u]nder elementary principles of standing, a plaintiff must allege and show that he personally suffered injury"). Although plaintiff characterizes the harm to plaintiff as the order of this Court requiring payment of attorney's fees and expenses and the posting of the same to plaintiff's account, Brannan can offer no proof that any information in her tainted affidavit was untrue, nor can she prove she paid Wells Fargo anything for production of the shoddy document. This will be true of many of the proposed class members. Only debtors who actually paid fees for the offending affidavits had an "injury in fact." The injury was overpayment for improper document preparation. The cause of action of abuse of the rules and process under 11 U.S.C. § 105 is a sufficient basis for this claim coupled with 11 U.S.C. § 506 allowing a creditor to recover only "reasonable costs or charges" from a debtor. If plaintiff can redefine the class to encompass only those debtors who actually paid a fee to Wells Fargo, the class may be able to be certified.
IT IS ORDERED that:
1. The motion of the plaintiff to certify her proposed class is DENIED;
2. The plaintiff shall have 30 days from the date of this order to amend the proposed class, if she desires to do so;
3. A hearing on any amended class proposal shall be held on January 10, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. in Courtroom 2, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, 201 St. Louis Street, Mobile, AL 36602;
4. The plaintiff may file a brief in support of any amended class by December 12, 2012 and the defendant may file any responsive brief by December 23, 2012; and
5. At the hearing on January 10, 2012, the Court will discuss with counsel how to proceed with any sanction hearing in regard to Wells Fargo's actions as the Court indicated might be appropriate in this ruling.
[1] Defendant's Brief in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification, Docket Entry #200, pages 4-5.
[2] "If our (Wells Fargo's) signature is necessary, please send us a supply of the last page of the document and we will pre-sign them (sic) for future use by your firm." Home Mortgage Default Management Guidelines, May 27, 2003, page 23.


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Santa isn't the only one busy this time of year. Henderson County schools have also been preparing for the holidays.
Santa isn't the only one busy this time of year. Henderson County schools have also been preparing for the holidays.
School employees are ensuring that all of their students are taken care of during Christmas. Guidance counselors across the county sent letters home weeks ago asking if anyone needed assistance with the approaching holiday season.
Leanne Mullen, a guidance counselor at Rugby Middle School, took over the school's "backpack lunch program," which sends home meals for students who may need food over the weekend.
She has identified a list of 50 Rugby students who need assistance this holiday season and has been working on the "adopt a family" sponsorship program for the last month.
The community has responded in force to Mullen's request for help. Churches, law firms, businesses, teachers and, in some cases, entire classes have adopted children.
"We just have a very supportive community in general," Mullen said.
Friday is the deadline for gifts to be turned in. The presents will be picked up by parents next week.
The district's schools do different things to help students and their families, Mullen said, adding that "This is just what works for us."
Etowah Elementary has a similar program, but gets help from local banks. Guidance counselor Emily Ingram identifies a list of students through the school's backpack lunch program and then hands that list over to United Community Bank and Mountain First Bank in Etowah.
The banks put boy and girl angels, protecting the identities of the children, on Christmas trees, and residents can select an angel with a wish list that needs filled.
"It's a whole community event," Ingram said.
On top of the angel tree adoption program, the Etowah Fire Department has donated 30 $100 Walmart gift cards to the school.
Etowah Elementary also goes a step further. This year there are 109 children on the school's list — including names of current students' siblings who are past and present Etowah students.
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Whether performing nationally as a marimba/vibraphone soloist or a chamber musician, conducting percussion clinics, composing for a range of soloists and ensembles around the world or teaching at the university level, Nathan Daughtrey (b. 1975) is a musical chameleon who uses his wide-ranging talents to adapt comfortably to a variety of environments.
As a performing artist and clinician for Yamaha and Vic Firth, Dr. Daughtrey has performed and conducted master classes and clinics in concert halls and at universities throughout the United States and across three continents. He has two solo marimba CDs to his credit – Spiral Passages, which features premiere recordings of David Gillingham's "Gate to Heaven" and David J. Long's "Concerto for Marimba;" and The Yuletide Marimba, which showcases Daughtrey's solo and marimba quartet arrangements of 13 Christmas favorites. Also active as a collaborative artist, he has performed and recorded in chamber settings with composers Michael Udow and Daniel McCarthy, saxophonists Susan Fancher and Steven Stusek, bassoonist Michael Burns, clarinetist Christina Giacona, and the Virginia Beach Percussion Quartet, Trommel Percussion Group and Philidor Percussion Group.
According to leading wind band conductors and clinicians Ray Cramer and Peter Boonshaft, Dr. Daughtrey's compositions are "fresh, beautifully scored journeys through dramatic textures" that feature "powerful tensions, velvety textures, lamenting colors and driving vigor." With over fifty publications for concert band, percussion ensemble, chamber ensembles, and soloists as well as an ever-growing number of commissions, his works have been performed at national and international conferences. Performance venues include Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Bands of America National Percussion Festival, Asian Symphonic Band Competition (Bangkok, Thailand), and the International Music Conference (Beijing, China). Daughtrey is the only composer in the history of the Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest to procure both 2nd and 3rd place in the same year with his percussion ensemble works "Limerick Daydreams" and "Adaptation." Additionally, his band pieces "Downtown Dash" and "Limerick Daydreams" have been featured in two volumes of GIA Publications' "Teaching Music Through Performance in Band." He has received annual awards from ASCAP since 2007. His eagerly awaited "Concerto for Vibraphone" is now available from C. Alan Publications in versions for both percussion ensemble and piano reduction.
As an educator, Dr. Daughtrey served as a Visiting Lecturer of Percussion for three years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he taught applied percussion and conducted the Percussion Ensemble. He also served as a sabbatical replacement at the University of Oklahoma, where he taught undergraduate and graduate percussion students and conducted the world-renowned OU Percussion Orchestra. Dr. Daughtrey is currently a Visiting Lecturer of Music Composition at High Point University (NC), where he teaches applied lessons and works in collaboration with the School of Communication.
When not performing, composing or teaching, Dr. Daughtrey can be found running and biking the trails and greenways in his hometown of Greensboro, NC.
|Total Number of Percussionists Required :10+ Percussionist(s)
|Categories : Tuned Percussion / Percussion Ensemble
|Instrument / Discipline : Large Percussion Ensemble
|Instrumentation : Bells / Chimes / Concert Toms (x4) / Crotales (Set of) / Small Bass Drum / Snare Drum / Suspended Cymbal / Tam-Tam / Vibraphone (x2) / Xylophone
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C. Alan Publications was founded in 1989 to fill a need for high-quality percussion literature. Since that time, they have adhered to the highest standards of music integrity in the percussion music they publish. In 1997, they added a line of concert band music to their catalogue, which continues to flourish. More recently they added music for orchestra (youth, string and full), brass ensemble, chorus, jazz ensemble and chamber ensembles.
In addition they are the sole distributor of 'Whole Sum Productions' percussion catalogue (WS). Their music receives extensive exposure through performances on international concerts, clinics and conventions and is widely available on compact disc.
|Year Composed / Copyright Date :2004 / 2005
|Duration :9Minutes
|No. of Mallets/Sticks Required :2
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3rd Place Winner of the 2005 Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest, Adaptation is a reworking of Dr. Daughtreys award-winning piece, "Episodes for Solo Piano," now scored for percussion ensemble.
When one goes through any life changes, one must experience several stages of adaptation. Each movement represents one of these stages: I. Improvisation - in which you are caught off-guard and you are forced to fly by the seat of your pants. II. Meditation - in which you take time to reflect on your life and try to discover solutions. III. Revelation - in which a light bulb goes off and you find the answer.
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I am so excited!! I have company coming in on Thursday and they are staying in the Studio! It's the 2nd biggest bedroom and they won't be as crowded as they would be if they stayed in the room that we usually reserved for guests. Granted this room doesn't have a TV, so the other room is better for TV viewing.
This room is over the garage, hence the funky ceiling. It also gets extremely cold in the winter and hot in the summer. As you'll see the A/C unit in the window and the space heater on the table.
Inspiration Board is a work in progress. And a wonderful place to put things I don't want to lose. No, that's not my guitar or keyboard. My son has taken a real interest in music over the last few years and this is his first guitar. I'm pretty musically inept, but love to belt out a Song or two as I sing along with my mp3 player. (much to my family's chagrin….geez I really don't get that)
My modest fabric Stash! You really ought to see my mother in laws!!! M.A.G.N.I.F.I.C.E.N.T., to say the least!
To the right of the dresser is my Current project. I'll be appliquéing the flower petals and leaves to a tan pieced background. More later when I finish.
Some of my absolute favorite pictures of Family. The wonders of digital and scanning in old pics lets me have brand new pictures for just 19 cents from Walgreens. (If I really had my act together, I'd upload about 50 favorites and have snapfish print them for just 9 cents a piece.)……But that's if I had my act together!!
I have had this rack for about 5 years. I had bought two at the time for only about 6 bucks each. I hung the first one right away in my bathroom. I have almost given this one to Goodwill about 3 times, but something inside said, "Wait, you may wish you had it someday". And now, It's someday....It's a perfect spot for those dropper paints I told you about in this post.
I covered one of those big body length pillows about ten years ago with that striped fabric you see on the closer bed. Then my dear grandmother gave me a quilt she no longer uses that she had embroidered herself! I use what I love and I love this, however, so did the dog and the kids, so now there are tears to more than a few stitches and ink marks! Ah, well…..what can I say?? I'm so happy with those Deka Curtain wires from Ikea. I can now put all kinds of fun stuff up. And Look, that same dog has made her way into the picture. Good thing she's on the floor, huh?
Thanks for stopping by and letting me share with you! Posting this here really helped motivate me to get this done! Pictures are clickable (become larger upon clicking them), if you want a better look. - Eden


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Former Police Chief Defends NYPD's 'Stop And Frisk' Program, Because It Has A Checklist
from the meanwhile,-certain-commanders-seem-to-be-encouraging-profiling dept
NYPD's "stop-and-frisk" program has never really been considered "constitutional" by anyone involved on either side of the law. In fact, certain elements of the stop-and-frisk program have already been ruled unconstitutional (making trespass stops outside residential buildings). But a case currently underway (Floyd v. City of New York) is hoping to prove that the NYPD's program violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Since 2002, the NYPD has performed these "street interrogations" over 4 million times. The end result? Nearly nine out of ten "suspects" have been completely innocent, and this is according to the NYPD's own reports. In addition, an overwhelming percentage of those stopped have been minorities. (Stops of whites hovers around 11% of the total.)
Not only are the NYPD's numbers damning in their own right, but NYPD officer testimony alleges that the department pressures officers with a quotas (20 summonses + 1 arrest per officer per month -- a.k.a. "20 and one"), something many states have recognized as creating perverse incentives and have outlawed accordingly. (Of course, this just leads to police departments utilizing other terms, like "productivity" or "benchmarks" or "performance goals.") Secret recordings even caught a commanding officer stating explicitly who patrol officers were supposed to target with the stop-and-frisk program: "I told you at roll call, and I have no problem telling you this, male blacks 14 to 20, 21."
Recently retired police chief Joseph Esposito was called to testify in the Floyd v. City of New York case and Scott Greenfield noticed a rather interesting exchange between the chief and the presiding judge. After Esposito played to part of the crowd for a bit, mentioning the 40% reduction in crime and saluting his sergeants as the "best in the world," he answered a few questions directly related to the stop-and-frisk program.
Mr. Esposito also put much stock in the paperwork that officers must fill out after each street stop. That form includes numerous check boxes, each describing behavior that might lead to a stop, like "furtive movements" or "actions indicative of casing."(Here's a copy of that form, usually referred to as a "250" form [UF-250] despite the fact that its form number is 344-151A.)
Mr. Esposito insisted that a supervisor could conclude that a stop was legal based on reviewing that form alone.
"If it's filled out properly, it gives you reasonable suspicion. And if you have reasonable suspicion established, then you do not have racial profiling," Mr. Esposito said. "It's as simple as that."
That's an interesting rationale. And not just the fact that Esposito believes "reasonable suspicion" can be entirely unyoked from "racial profiling." It's not as if narratives (and their corresponding paperwork) have never been altered to justify racially motivated actions.
But the worst part of this rationale is how little it takes for an officer to "establish" reasonable suspicion, and how the NYPD seems to prefer it that way.
A checklist. The holy grail of grocery clerks. Check off a few boxes and, bingo, reasonable suspicion is established. "It's as simple as that."As Greenfield says, this is what's presiding over New Yorker's constitutional rights -- a set of checkboxes so vague any person could be considered "reasonably suspicious."
[T]his... testimony... provides the deepest understanding of the failure to grasp what's at risk when cops roam the street under the leadership of a guy like Espo.
With his three stars, he was a "near-mythic figure" in the NYPD. Yet on the witness stand, he revealed himself to be an errand boy for grocery store clerks, who thought a checklist was real. "It's as simple as that." They so adore checklists. Check the right boxes and all is well with the world. There is no better proof than a checklist.
Fortunately, the judge was underwhelmed by Eposito's "star power" and his affection for reasonable-suspicion-via-checklist. Her response points out just how broadly written the form is and how easily it can be abused.
But Judge Scheindlin appeared skeptical that the paperwork proved anything.No. You really can't tell much by looking at the form. And like all paperwork, it's usually filled out after someone has already been shoved against a wall for walking in a high crime area. The department's own stats show that 9 out of 10 times, nothing illegal is happening. But yet the practice persists, failing to do anything more than assert control over the populace with systemic harassment sporting a gaudy 90% failure rate.
"Any officer can check off 'high-crime area' and 'furtive movements,' " Judge Scheindlin said, referring to two check-box categories on the stop-and-frisk form. "You really don't know much about the stop, looking at the form, do you?"
The number of stops dropped 20% last year (from its 2011 peak), suggesting a couple of things are happening. Either batting .100 isn't sitting well with some officers or the form itself is slowing down the process of establishing reasonable suspicion. Below is one of the forms the NYPD is reportedly* considering using to replace the inefficient, two-page "250" form.
*Actually not considering this completely made-up form at all.
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...We did have Lulu 露露, an almond milk drink that is all the rage here in Beijing. (You may have seen it in this Thanksgiving video.) And unlike eggnog, it's not so heavy that it sits in your stomach all night long with the turkey, pie, and chocolate pudding you stuffed into yourself.
Of course, living in Beijing and being thousands of miles away from either of our families, we didn't have turkey, rich desserts, and all that good stuff. We decided to go out for dinner instead. Let's just say Lulu goes quite well with Din Tai Fung's soup dumplings, although beer also does.
This almond drink featuring an actress and her signature on the can has inspired a host of other imitation almond drinks, or walnut and peanut drinks, also with actresses and their signatures on the can. But only Lulu is popular enough to make it onto the drink list of what seems like every restaurant in town. Including the upscale ones.
Although Lulu tastes good cold, the best way to drink it is warmed up. Restaurants will offer to warm up the can if you order one. At home, you can use an electric tea pot and heat it up as you would water. Of course, be careful not to wander off and accidentally let the almond milk boil over, resulting in a big mess, like I did tonight. Oops.
Accidents aside, I like having Lulu right before bed. It's warm and comforting, like steamed milk or good hot chocolate, but nuttier and much easier to find here.
Happy sipping and happy holidays!


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A Wonderful Round-up Of DARK HORSE Cricket Love/
You have a baby. You think it is beautiful. You watch it walk out into the world the proud father, but as it steps down the path a bully or two throws some bricks. He gets fired from a job. Maybe crashes a car. Gets dumped. Makes you wonder if you are delusional. Maybe he is sorta of ugly after all? But the nice thing about producing movies, is after you unleash your hard work on the festival circuit, you get another chance when you release it to real audiences. Sure we had some mixed reviews, but we also got a HUGE AMOUNT OF LOVE. And we were the #1 per screen box office average of all debuting films. Our little pony "trounced" the competition.
Can't help but notice some trends. All three outlets that dare to feature our city's name as theirs in full, share the same recognition: go see the movie. That's The New York Times, The New Yorker, and New York Magazine. Here at the pony rides, we call that a Dark Horse New York Trifecta Of Love.
Also check out how both the legendary stalwarts renown for their general dislike of most cinematic output, Mr. Hoberman & Mr White, also agree that you should saddle up to the Solondz corral. 'nuff said.
NEW YORK TIMES, by AO Scott
'Mr. Solondz brilliantly — triumphantly — turns this impression on its head, transforming what might have been an exercise in easy satirical cruelty into a tremendously moving argument for the necessity of compassion.'
NEW YORK MAGAZINE, by David Edelstein
You should see it not just for the sake of Solondz and Hope, but for the sake of American independent cinema. It's that vital.'
CITY ARTS (May 29, 2012) / "Zombie Mantra." By Armond White.
"if Dark Horse was indeed produced on stage rather than as an independent film, it would probably receive enormous acclaim"
SALON.COM (Tuesday, June 5, 2012) / "Todd Solondz: I'm Judd Apatow's dark side." By Andrew O'Hehir.
DARK HORSE "clearly among his (Solondz's) funniest & most affecting "
TABLET MAGAZINE (Thursday, June 7, 2012) / Positive review by J. Hoberman in, "Solondz's Schlubs - The funny, sad Dark Horse adds a creepy loser in love to the director's catalog of misanthropes." By J. Hoberman.
"With its lovingly detailed caricatures, fondness for extreme scenarios, and snarky nerd's-eye view of ordinary misery, cinema Solondz is a successor to the underground comix of the 1970s."
TIME.COM (Thursday, June 7, 2012) / "Summer Arts Preview: This Season's Must-See Films, Shows, Art and More."
"Solondz's most endearing film, his gentlest triumph."
WNYC.com (Thursday, June 7, 2012) / Ran Ian Buckwalter's positive NPR review.
"as yet another installment in Todd Solondz's career-long examination of the lust for love and security among the deeply damaged... a newfound maturity in his work, told through the story of a man desperately in need of growing up."
MOVIELINE.COM (Thursday, June 7, 2012) / Positive review, "Todd Solondz Spins a tale of an unlovable but compelling loser in Dark Horse." By Allison Willmore.
6/23/12 UPDATE: The love continues to come:
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times : "Dark Horse" (3.5 of 4 Stars)
"Abe is the latest in a gallery of walking wounded populating the films of Todd Solondz, who has never met a character he didn't dislike. And "Dark Horse" is another of his portraits of anguish in suburbia, joining "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and "Happiness." There are times when it is dark humor, and then times when it is simply dark. But there is something more going on here, something deeper and more … hopeful?"
John Anderson, Newsday: "DARK HORSE Plays Irony Well"
""Are you for real?" Miranda asks Abe, after his proposal has registered. "I mean, you're not being ironic? Like performance art?" "Dark Horse" is certainly being ironic. Which doesn't mean it isn't a fully realized performance -- or art, of a rather perverse variety."
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: "DARK HORSE Director Finds Humanity In Unsympathetic Lead " (3 of 4 Stars):
"In a compact, wittily humiliating 84 minutes, "Dark Horse" does a smart thing: It transforms from realism into a string of dreamscapes taking place in Abe's imagination, involving the sex life of his fellow office worker (Donna Murphy, on the money) and other bittersweet fancies."
Whitney Matheson, Pop Candy, USA Today: "With DARK HORSE, Solondz Issues Another Darkly Comic Tale"
" While it's not the feel-good movie of the year, fans of the director wouldn't expect such a thing. Solondz, however, does succeed in making thoughtful commentary on the fleeting nature of youth, and our desperate need to be loved."
And if you want to hear it from the horse's mouth, here's some interviews with Mr. Solondz:
FILMMAKER MAGAZINE (Thursday, June 7, 2012) / Todd Solondz interview, "'Dark Horse' Writer/Director Todd Solondz." By Livia Bloom.


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Cookie dough cupcakes have a surprise inside – cookie dough!!
But, cookie dough cupcakes also have cookie dough on the outside; I topped these cookie dough cupcakes with cookie dough frosting – literally cookie dough thinned out with a bit of heavy cream to make it spreadable. For an added bonus, there is a raw cookie sitting on top of the cupcake.
You could use the cookie dough filling and cookie dough frosting idea on any cupcakes.
Cookie Dough Filling
Cookie Dough Filling
If you are going to be serving raw cookie dough, I recommend that you use this eggless cookie dough recipe that is safe to eat.
Cookie Dough Frosting
To make the cookie dough frosting, mix one cup of raw cookie dough with one half cup of heavy cream. It tastes just like cookie dough, but spreads perfectly!
Brown Butter Cupcake Recipe
Update 8/21/11: I recently developed my own brown butter cupcake recipe. I'd recommend trying that one out instead of the one in this post.
While any cake recipe would work (which one would you use?), I decided to make brown butter (or burnt butter depending on who you are talking to) cupcakes. The cake was rich and a fitting complement to the cookie dough. It might have been even better had I actually followed instructions.
The recipe clearly stated that I should use self-rising cake flour and not all-purpose flour. Since I didn't have any self-rising cake flour sitting around, I just ignored that instruction. While I can't say for sure how that affected the recipe, I will say that my rendition of the recipe made only six cupcakes while the recipe said that it made twelve. I suppose if I had used the correct flour, I would have ended up with twelve fluffy cupcakes vs. six dense cupcakes.
The burnt butter cupcake recipe came from the blog, Create! and I am reprinting it below with my notes.
Made 6 cupcakes for me with the all-purpose flour, but the recipe with the self-rising cake flour says it should make 12.
- 1/2 C plus 2 T unsalted butter
- 3/4 C self-rising cake flour (NOT all-purpose; you can do it with all-purpose but – as I discovered – it cut the number of cupcakes in half!)
- 3 T sugar
- 5 T brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 t vanilla extract
- 1 t baking powder
- 2-3 T milk
- First, you must brown the butter. There are some photos of these steps below the cupcake recipe.
- Place butter in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly until it turns a dark golden color (3-5 minutes).
- Take the pan off the heat and strain into a bowl (to separate from the sediment).
- Let the butter sit until it solidifies, but is still a little soft. (This took almost 30 minutes because it's hot here; if hot out, put in the fridge for about 10 minutes).
- When the butter is solid yet soft, place in a food processor along with ALL cupcake ingredients except milk. Blitz! (I don't own a food processor big enough to put everything in so I just used my Kitchen Aid.)
- Add milk slowly and pulse till well-mixed.
- Fill six cupcake liners to the top if you used all-purpose flour, or twelve cupcake liners halfway if you used self-rising cake flour.
- Bake at 400 F for for 15-20 minutes.
- When the cupcakes cool, use a paring knife to cut a hole in them and plop in a ball of cookie dough. See the photo at the top of this post.
Brown Butter Photos
Here's what the strained stuff looks like from the brown butter. Beautiful, right?
And here's the brown butter. Mmmm. There is a recipe on Create! for burnt butter frosting which I may have to try some time.
This photo has nothing to do with burnt butter. It is an expression of the joy that spring is finally here and cupcakes can be eaten outdoors!


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Syndergaard can make Mets flush with aces
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Forty-five years ago, when the Mets were still training along the water in St. Petersburg, Fla., Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, Bud Harrelson, Jerry Grote and others would unwind on afternoon fishing trips. They were sometimes joined by their young manager, Gil Hodges.
The expansion franchise had always been a doormat, finishing ninth in the National League the year before. But something was different that spring, and the 24-year-old Seaver spoke up about it once while sitting in a boat.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Forty-five years ago, when the Mets were still training along the water in St. Petersburg, Fla., Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, Bud Harrelson, Jerry Grote and others would unwind on afternoon fishing trips. They were sometimes joined by their young manager, Gil Hodges.
The expansion franchise had always been a doormat, finishing ninth in the National League the year before. But something was different that spring, and the 24-year-old Seaver spoke up about it once while sitting in a boat.
Seaver, who sometimes referred to himself as The Supreme Optimist, declared that the Mets were so flush with pitching "we could win our division if we play up to our potential."
In addition to Seaver and Ryan, the 1969 Mets featured 26-year-old Jerry Koosman, 24-year-old Tug McGraw and 22-year-old Gary Gentry. They would go on to blow away the heavily favored Cardinals and outlast the Cubs, becoming the Miracle Mets when they beat the Braves in the NL Championship Series and the Orioles in the World Series.
Flash forward to 2014, spend a gorgeous spring afternoon watching 21-year-old Texan Noah Syndergaard blow through the Braves in his Spring Training debut, and, well, the imagination can run as wild as Yasiel Puig on a gapper.
"He's a big tough kid," Mets manager Terry Collins said of the big right-hander, the 38th player overall in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft. "He's got all the traits, all the talents, of the good ones. He's not joking around, not even when he's out of the game. He's bound and determined to be real, real good. His work ethic is outstanding. He's going to be a really good pitcher."
Syndergaard has positioned himself to pitch alongside 24-year-old Matt Harvey and 23-year-old Zack Wheeler in a rotation that could put the Mets back into the conversation in the NL East. But first the kid with command of a 98-mph fastball and a curveball that Collins calls "the hook from hell" will have to complete his apprenticeship and Harvey, who started the 2013 All-Star Game, will have to be blessed with a successful recovery from Tommy John surgery.
Watching Syndergaard blow away the likes of Jason Heyward, B.J. Upton, Justin Upton and Evan Gattis, you wonder how the Mets could have gotten him (and catcher Travis d'Arnaud) from the Blue Jays in a trade for R.A. Dickey before last season. Dickey maintains a say in how the deal will be evaluated, but it's not too early to say Sandy Alderson got a high return on the aging knuckleballer.
Syndergaard has never been a secret -- well, not since he started throwing so hard his teammates couldn't catch him late in his senior year at Legacy High in Mansfield, Texas, southwest of Fort Worth. He was Team USA's starter in last year's Futures Game at Citi Field, but few expected him to make such a huge impression in his first Spring Training start.
"[I] shocked myself a little bit," Syndergaard said of his fastball-curveball combination to strike out five Mets in two innings during an intrasquad game last week. But if there was anything fluky about that, you couldn't prove it by how the Braves fared against him.
Snydergaard looked like Mark Prior, circa 2003.
"He obviously came in ready to compete," said Braves catcher Ryan Doumit. "You see a lot of guys throw 96, 97 during the season, but they're not throwing 96, 97 right now. It [usually] takes a little while to build up to that."
Snydergaard, a powerful 6-foot-6, 240 pounds, went to 3-2 on Heyward, the leadoff man, and then threw a 98-mph fastball past him. He needed only two more pitches to get through the first inning, getting B.J. Upton to pop to first base and Justin Upton to fly out to right fielder Chris Young.
Snydergaard surrenedered an opposite-field single to Doumit at the end of a nine-pitch battle in the second. But the sequence to remember there came against Gattis. This was power-vs.-power, and Gattis couldn't catch up to Syndergaard's fastball. He swung through three of them in a row, the first at 95 and then two at 96.
"You won't see many people throw three pitches past Evan Gattis," Collins said. "He's on track to be special."
Snydergaard said he was nervous, but only until he threw his first pitch.
"It's always like that," he said, before allowing that striking out Heyward meant "a lot of weight coming off my shoulders there."
Collins stopped worrying about Snydergaard's nerves when he pounded the strike zone with his first two pitches to Heyward.
"Today was a big test," Collins said. "You've got the Atlanta Braves. The leadoff hitter is as big as you are. That kind of shows you aren't in Kansas anymore. You're where the big guys play, and he handled it."
Syndergaard has gone 22-12 with a 2.64 ERA as a pro, but he's worked only 294 innings. He's slated to open the year in Triple-A, because he's worked only 54 innings above Class A ball, and admits he has a lot still to work on -- his changeup mainly, but also also the secondary parts of pitching, like fielding his position and holding on runners.
Major League players know that it's dangerous to draw too many conclusions from what happens in Spring Training, especially when it's so early that starting pitchers are working only two innings. But talent like Syndergaard's is undeniable.
"I didn't know anything about the kid coming into the game," Doumit said. "I sure won't forget his name now."
Asked directly if he thinks he's ready to pitch in the big leagues, Snydergaard seemed more diplomatic than candid.
"I don't think that's up to me," he said. "That's up to the front office."
Time will tell. But it's clear that the Mets are figuring out how they can compete against their division rivals, just like they did under Hodges back in 1969.
Phil Rogers is a columnist for MLB.com.


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Rattus norvegicus - Deletions
Deletion length: 9509 bp
Breakpoint flanking sequences
more information in Documentation - Flanking regions
|Two-dimensional scatterplot showing the location of the selected deletion (red diamond) versus the full dataset (grey dots). Each point represents an mtDNA rearrangement with the 5' breakpoint on the x-axis and the 3' breakpoint on the y-axis.
Circular mtDNA plot specifying the location of the deleted region (black bar).
|Length distribution of the deleted region in the selected deletion (red bar) versus the full dataset (grey bars) .The cases were grouped 100-nt windows.
[ 7 ] Pak, J. W., et al., MtDNA point mutations are associated with deletion mutations in aged rat.Experimental Gerontology. 2005. 40(3): p. 209-18.