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Been away and want to catch up on last week's IP news? No problem! As always, the IPKat team is here to bring you a quick summary: here comes the 117th edition of Never Too Late.
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The EU Commission unveiled its second copyright package on Sep.14. Not surprisingly, the DSM Directive has attracted the greatest attention. Besides those "much has been said" discussions, Eleonora Rosati brings you her concerns and arguments on the relationship between the DSM Directive and the existing body of case law of the CJEU.
Due to its inconsistency with trade mark's "origin indication" function, being generic is usually a "oh hell no!" for trademark practitioners. Well, it is not always the case for actual business owners who of course put profits-seeking first. In this article, Neil Wilkof explains his insights on the commercial informative value of generic marks by depicting a nostalgic story of "a Men's Store in Mid 19th Century".
The excitement and conveniences that the Internet of Things (IoT) brings come with high prices, such as the vulnerability to hacking, privacy concerns and consumer rights. Debates are therefore heating up. In this article, Nicola Searle brings her vivid reports of the GikII conference (Sep. 30, at London) which is "full of
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Well it's actually not that bad. Until something worse happens… insights from IPKat Alberto Bellan on the Svensson and GS Media cases.
A warm welcome to the new InternKats: Hayleigh Bosher, Tian Lu and Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo!
Mark Schweizer brings us an analysis of the fresh CJEU's judgement on Combit/Commit (Sep. 22).
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You know those crunchy granola Earth Mother types. They won't use, consume, or look at anything that's not all natural. And lots of times that's not an issue. But sometimes it is. Take deodorant, for instance. Some moms are worried that it contains toxins that could be absorbed in the skin, and from there migrate to the breast tissue and the breast milk. So they stay away from deodorant altogether, or they use natural brands, or maybe they use something a bit odd like a handful of baking soda.
I understand this totally. But let's face it, you're stinky mamas. But, hey, you're in good company. Kourtney Kardashian also refuses to wear deodorant. And it's Scott Disick who pays the price.
During a recent episode of Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, Khloe corners Scott and asks him, "Do you notice that there's a little something with Kourt? Like the b.o.?"
"Yeah, she reeks," Scott affirms. "Only because she doesn't believe in wearing deodorant because she thinks it's bad for her breastfeeding or something." Kourt is still breastfeeding baby Penelope.
Although there are no conclusive studies about the potential hazards of deodorant and breast milk, many moms are concerned about antiperspirant ingredients such as parabens, formaldehyde, or aluminum.
Hey, it makes sense to me. If you're concerned why even risk it? But you're gonna have to come up with an acceptable alternative -- that is if you don't want to drive your husband away and your coworkers to human resources.
There are all-natural deodorants. I personally use Tom's. I'm not going to lie and say it works as well as regular deodorants though. It doesn't. So I put on a stronger brand when I'm going out. At one point, I was using baby powder and that seemed to work pretty well.
Baking soda and cornstarch can be mixed together and slathered under the pits. I've never used this, so I can't comment on its efficacy. But if you want to smell like a muffin, fine.
Some women swipe their underarms with a sliced lemon. I don't know if it's worse to smell like baking soda or lemon. Why not just rub yourself with a brownie and at least smell like something people want to be near?
At any rate, the stinky pits won't last that long. Unless you're one of those women who breastfeeds until a kid can make his own lunch.
Did you wear deodorant while breastfeeding?
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How to use Azure Blob Storage modules by PHP
This PHP sample application demonstrates how to make a good use of the modules provided by Microsoft Azure Blob Storage SDK. In addition, Microsoft Azure Storage SDK for PHP resource code can be found on Azure GitHub repository.
For now, the Azure Storage SDK for PHP shares almost the same interface with storage blobs, tables and queues APIs in Azure SDK for PHP. However, there are some minor breaking changes that need to be addressed during your migration.
- Remove all the pear dependencies including HTTP_Request2, Mail_mime, and Mail_mimeDecode. Use Guzzle as underlying http client library.
- Change root namespace from "WindowsAzure" to "MicrosoftAzure/Storage".
- If the set metadata operations contain invalid characters, a ServiceException with 400 bad request errors instead of Http_Request2_LogicException will appear.
This code sample is separated into two tiers. The frontend is built using AngularJs. AngularJs source code scripts are in src folder, and are combined with br gulp. The backend is built using PHP and implementing with Azure storage SDK for PHP. All the operations on Azure Blob Storage in the frontend are called via $http module, which is against the functions in PHP backend.
All the functions that are called via frontend are listed in this single script as trial.php. The function first parses the URL param key to determine which kind of resources the client end is requesting, creating/initializing or trailing the code sample.
If the URL params have the key "init", it means the client end is asking for the initialization of the code sample.
Switch the param value in following cases:
- "container" - get the trial container, its metadata and properties.
- "blob" - list the trial blobs, its metadata and properties with pagination.
- "content" - streaming output the content of the specified blob.
Building the Sample
Before running this code sample, please open settings.php in the api directory.
Here we need the storage account name and access key for setting up a correct configuration. To get your storage account and access key, please login Azure Manage Portal, click the STORAGE in the left navigation bar, select your storage account in the right side list, click the Manage Access Keys button in the bottom bar.
- Replace ACCOUNT_NAME with your storage account in settings.php.
- Replace ACCOUNT_KEY with the storage account key in settings.php.
Make sure your PHP runtime has enabled the extension "fileinfo". To check this, you can use "phpinfo()" function in PHP script or run command "php -m" in cmdlet.
(Optional) You can use WebMatrix to work with this PHP sample. WebMatrix is a free and light-weight tool that will let you create web sites using various technologies like PHP, Asp.Net, Node.js etc. In order to run this sample in Web matrix, you can choose "Open Site", then choose "Folder as Site" and select the folder that contains all the downloaded files.
(Optional) You can use PHP Build-in web server for a quick local test. Use following command in cmdlet from the code sample directory:
php -S localhost:8000
Tour the sample
Click 3 Create buttons in the home page to create the container and blobs resources in your Azure storage. The result of the operations will be directly output in the block under the buttons:
Click the trial button in the top navigation bar to start trailing the code sample.
Then it will redirect to the page that shows the container info.
Enter the container, redirect the page that shows the blob list separated by delimiter /, which can be treated as a virtual directory.
Enter the virtual directory of text blobs lists.
Click the horizontal spots button to get paginated blobs. Click the vertical spots button to show the details of the blob.
Click the disk-like button to get the content of the text blob.
Back to the root of the container, enter the video blobs virtual directory to trail the video blobs.
More Information and Resources
Azure Storage SDK for PHP: https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-php
Microsoft Azure storage documents: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/storage
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Prince Fielder homered for the second straight game, Torii Hunter hit his first clout since joining Detroit to help back Justin Verlander and the Tigers snapped the Oakland Athletics' nine-game winning streak with a 7-3 victory Saturday.
Jhonny Peralta followed Fielder's leadoff shot in the fourth with a three-run homer, and the Tigers didn't let the A's back into this one a day after losing 4-3 in 12 innings.
A's nemesis Verlander (2-1) outpitched Oakland lefty Brett Anderson before a sellout crowd of 35,067 similar to those spirited fans who packed the Coliseum for last fall's division series between these clubs.
Verlander, making his third start since signing a $180 million, seven-year contract March 29, pitched the Tigers past the A's 6-0 in the Game 5 division series clincher at the Coliseum last October and also won Game 1 of the series.
This time, he shut down the American League's hottest team. Even dropping to 9-3, the A's have tied the second-best mark in club history after 12 games.
Oakland manager Bob Melvin was ejected by plate umpire Andy Fletcher in the bottom of the eighth for arguing after Brandon Moss was called out on strikes. The A's loaded the bases that inning but pinch-hitter Jed Lowrie struck out looking against Joaquin Benoit.
Verlander, who took a 7-0 loss his last time out against the Yankees, had to throw 31 pitches in the fourth, taking him to 79. The right-hander struck out six and walked three in six innings, allowing one run and three hits. He gave way to Al Alburquerque after 111 pitches.
Chris Young, playing center field in place of the injured Coco Crisp, hit a two-out, two-run double in the seventh and Tigers manager Jim Leyland turned to Phil Coke. He retired Josh Reddick on a grounder.
Verlander got plenty of run support.
Brayan Pena's RBI double in the sixth chased Anderson, then Pat Neshek immediately gave up a run-scoring double to Austin Jackson.
Anderson (1-2) allowed three home runs to match a career high. He was tagged for seven runs on eight hits in 5 2-3 innings, struck out two and walked three.
Derek Norris hit a two-out RBI single in the second, then Hunter tied the game at 1 in the top of the third.
Hunter's first homer since signing with Detroit during the offseason was a memorable drive that landed a few rows shy of the glass luxury suites high in the left-field seats.
The short-handed A's were forced to shuffle their outfield with Crisp nursing a strained left groin and left fielder Yoenis Cespedes being placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained muscle in his left hand.
Fielder followed his four-hit game a night earlier in which he had a three-run homer with another nice day. He extended his hitting streak to eight games with a two-out single in the first, then connected for his fourth homer. He walked in the fifth and seventh.
Omar Infante singled in the fourth for a nine-game hitting streak as the first five batters of the inning reached base against Anderson.
NOTES: Peralta hit just his second homer in Oakland. ... The Tigers will skip RHP Rick Porcello's turn in the rotation. He was scheduled to pitch Tuesday at Seattle, but Doug Fister will now go that day. Detroit has a day off Monday, and Leyland said that factored into the decision. ... Coke missed Friday's game with an illness. After arriving at the ballpark, he was sent back to the hotel. ... Detroit C Alex Avila, who took a foul ball off his right shin and was hit in the head with a bat on a follow through Friday night, had the day off. 'I told him (Leyland) I'm fine,' Avila said. 'Play me every day.' ... The A's sold out for the second time in 2013. ... Lowrie struck out with the bases loaded for the 15th time in his career.


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KDOT grant to help keep public land users safePRATT — Through a grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation, natural resource officers with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism are targeting underage drinkers at Osage and Lyon state fishing lakes and Melvern and Pomona reservoirs this spring. The issue is especially problematic in late spring, when minors gather after prom and graduation festivities for parties on their own.
Similar operations in the past have netted arrests for minors possessing or consuming alcohol, as well as drugs and drug paraphernalia. Numerous cases of beer and other alcoholic beverages were seized and citations were issued. Parents or guardians were notified and required to come to the lakes to pick up their sons and daughters. Additionally, officers arrested and charged several adults with furnishing intoxicants to minors.
Natural resource officers are conducting similar efforts in other parts of the state to keep natural areas safe and clean and to help prevent tragedies that too often occur as a result of alcohol and drug abuse.
For more information, phone the KDWPT Pratt Operations Office, Law Enforcement Division, at 620-672-5911.


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What We Learned From Swimming With Leeches
We don't go away much in the summer. Highways and traffic grate at our nerves, we fixate too much on what could be getting done on the farm, we get grouchy filling up at the pump.
That is not to say our summers are without bliss. But once things are growing in the soil and critters are out on pasture, we tend to stay within a small radius. We don't take "days off" in the conventional sense; rather we find our summer vacation in the interstices of our daily labor and take our seasonal bliss in place—long lunches, naps, or reading novels on the back porch; staying up a bit later in the evening to watch the girls wrestle and dance in the grass; early morning hikes before the sun rises too high in the sky; and best of all, retreating to the farm pond on the side hill across the creek. If "family vacation" exists for our clan in July and August, then it is defined by late afternoons and early evenings beside the pond, watching the sun retreat over the hilltops, zipping back and forth across the water with dogs, kids, friends and neighbors alike.
Thus, when Saoirse, Ula, and Grammie came down from the pond one hot day this past May and reported that they'd found leeches on their legs following their first swim, three generations of our family fell into despair. Our retreat was suddenly whisked away by freshwater vampires—evil, spineless, bloodsucking parasites.
We tried to keep it a secret while we decided what to do. We didn't want our friends and neighbors to start avoiding our summer watering hole. But news of leeches leaked through Ula and her five-year-old network, parents were made aware, and we suddenly felt as though we had a highly transmissible social disease that was isolating us from our community and friends. No one wants to swim with leeches. Or, at least, that was my initial conclusion.
Grammie began doing research on leech control. She concluded that they had probably been present all along, but that our activity on the pond's edge obliged them to burrow deep down or linger along the backsides of the pond where the cattails obstruct our swimming and play. She grew angry. Leeches didn't bother her if they wanted to live on the far side of the pond, or if they wanted to inhabit one of the many other smaller farm ponds that we use for our gravity-fed watering system. But this was her space, where she played with her grandchildren. We were sent up with rakes, hoes, and stick-retrieving dogs to stir up the water and disturb the area where they'd settled. She began scavenging around for tin cans to build leech traps.
As her plan of attack fell into place, she began sharing with us bits of leech trivia: Leeches are once again being used medicinally, and the particular leeches in our pond have special medical value. We heard the leeches' praises sung by an acupuncturist who swears by them in his practice; we visited a local living history museum where the on-site pharmacist took a leech out of a jar and allowed it to crawl around on his arm like a pet.
"They only feed twice per year," he assured us, "while they may suction to your skin because they think you'll be a good future host, they aren't likely to bite. If they do, it is painless. They secrete a local anesthetic over their hosts so as not to disturb them or alert them when they are feeding."
Suddenly, we began to feel, well, guilty. Were we being fair to the leeches? Bob observed, "they're just innocent creatures trying to make their way in the world."
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I couldn't get that comment out of my head. The more acclimated our family has become to our habitat, the less inclined we are to insulate ourselves from it. The girls and I rarely wear shoes. I work in the garden barefoot, fully aware of the snails and worms beneath my feet. I pull nettles and crush Japanese beetles with my bare fingers. We don't own sunscreen or insect repellent. We perform nightly tick checks to prevent Lyme disease, rather than forbid our skin from having contact with nature. How could we be this comfortable with our natural world, yet paranoid about swimming with a few leeches, who probably aren't very hungry for our flesh, and if they were, would do us less harm than a mosquito?
The days grew hotter. We longed to cool our bodies beside our summer sanctuary. A few weeks ago, we couldn't avoid it any longer. Bob, the girls, and I trundled up the side hill and plunged into the water. We shuddered and jumped if a bit of pond grass touched our legs, and we resisted the temptation to stand too long in the sandy shallow end. But we swam with the leeches. Or at least we thought we did. We didn't see any. Then Grammie came up and joined us, joyfully plunging into the water.
She found the lone leech, swishing along the surface of the pond, set adrift by our splashing and play. Distressed, she ordered us all out, marched back down the hill, poked holes in her tin can to finish making the trap, filled it with fresh chicken livers, tied it on a string and brought it back to the pond. The next day she called me.
"Whose gonna open that trap?"
"You set it."
"I'm not opening it!"
"Tell Dad to get it."
"Don't you want to be there? We could make it a ceremony and feed them to the chickens."
"I'm not opening it!"
And so, a few more hot days passed, where we all found convenient excuses to avoid the pond. And the leech trap. At last, Mom and I couldn't put it off any longer. We went up to the pond to clean out the shed that stands beside it. Saoirse and Ula joined us.
"What will you do with the leeches in the trap?" Saoirse wanted to know.
"Chicken feed," came my grim reply.
"But they're just innocent creatures trying to make their way in this world!" She repeated her father's observation.
"I'm not swimming with leeches," confirmed Grammie.
Saoirse said nothing. Grammie and I went about wiping down lawn chairs and sweeping up mouse detritus. Ula, unperturbed by the idea of leeches from the start, wallowed happily in the water. Saoirse disappeared.
I found her by the side of the pond, silently weeping, mourning the destruction of innocent creatures. I tried to remain firm. "Death is part of life on a farm," I began my standard diatribe. She looked at me with her big, teary brown eyes and said nothing. I stopped.
It is true that we kill 150 chickens on the farm every month. We slaughter lambs, cattle, turkeys. We crush beetles, slugs, and snails that destroy our garden crops. But chickens, lambs, cattle, and turkeys are food. Beetles, slugs, and snails threaten our food. Leeches don't threaten our food. They don't even pose a threat to our health or safety. They just make us squeamish. I saw the issue from Saoirse's eyes. That was senseless killing.
"Okay, I won't feed the leeches to the chickens," I sighed. "But would you agree to let me take them out of the pond?"
She hugged and kissed me for her answer.
Grammie retrieved the leech can and handed it off to me. Saoirse and I trundled off through the pasture to the nearby watering hole. We found an edge with good leech habitat, suitably populated with cattails. She stood back and watched as I squatted beside the water, removed the lid, then jumped back (never too certain that leeches can't suddenly spring from the water and attack my face).
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The stench of rotten chicken livers stimulated my gag reflex. Saoirse and I covered our mouths and noses. Then we inched forward to see our catch.
No leeches.
Maybe we successfully disturbed the pond edge enough to push them back to more peaceful hiding places. Maybe the fish ate them. But we've not seen a single leech since, and we've been swimming nearly every day for the past two weeks. We've noticed that our friends and neighbors have resisted our invitations to join us at the farm pond. Apparently, they aren't as comfortable sharing the water with leeches as we have become.
But we've concluded that we can tolerate it. The more time we spend swimming and splashing about our pond's edge, the less interesting it is for the leeches. They can relocate to the quiet side of the pond, we can have our noisy end, and both humans and leeches can enjoy their summer sanctuary.
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Fall registration for the 2011/12 Academy school year is in full swing, and the Academy has something to offer every student, beginning as young as even 3 years old.
Creative Movement classes, designed for children ages 3-5, take the approach of "creative play" and are designed to hone motor skills, while educating children on movement. Classes meet once a week and offer "movement stories and ballet-based activities" appropriate for both boys and girls.
When children turn 5, they and their parents are given the option of moving onto our Pre-Ballet program, which is open to children ages 5-7. Pre-Ballet is more structured than creative movement, and serves as a transition between Creative Movement and when formal training begins at age 8, in Level 1.
In both our Creative Movement and Pre-Ballet programs, faculty in the Ballet Austin Academy place high emphasis on curriculum and age-appropriate teaching. Through these classes, we provide a place for children to not only have fun, but also take the opportunity to prepare themselves for a quality dance education. We believe that upholding excellence and professionalism starts with providing quality dance instruction at the youngest age possible.
At age 8, students may join Level 1 in the Lower School, marking their first step to professional ballet training. This age and level also mean another very special landmark: the age where Academy students have the opportunity to be cast in The Nutcracker! Each year, over 200 Academy students are cast our annual production exclusively.
If you are interested in enrolling your child, please check the Ballet Austin Academy's website for more detailed information, including new student registration forms.
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When I used to design and build large web applications for a living, I always started with the interface design, nailing down how the user will use the software before implementing the functionality behind it (that also made it easier to integrate the use of Smarty templates and the like, but I digress). Let's approach this exercise from a new direction: what are some new and different ways a musician can interface with a sampler and, more importantly, with the samples themselves?
I keep seeing flashes of images in my head, and I can't help but think there might be a whole new paradigm here nobody's touched yet. Maybe everything can be done within a waveform view, where functions from setting loop points to trimming can be done with handles associated with each waveform directly (with the occasional right-click, perhaps) with automatic zero-crossing detection. Instead of envelopes, we can define "frames" where these parameters change from one state to another over the course of a period of time. Perhaps we can do the waveform view in a Melodyne-like window, with all of sample mapped out and easily available. Perhaps an OpenGL window could also work, being able to shuffle around and manipulate the waveforms of a set in a 3D space.
I'll see if I can draw up an illustration at some point before Spring Break is over.
PS - I'm actually kinda liking the "frames" idea. I'm looking forward to seeing if we can all run with this.


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Of the 174 free agents to sign with MLB teams since November, 60 have been inked to minor league contracts. Most of these players won't be heard from -- for them, minor league means minor league, as they'll fill veteran depth roles on Double-A and Triple-A squads.
But every year, a few veterans brought in on minor league flyers turn out to be the perfect peg to fit a team's biggest hole. Here are six players signed to minor league deals over the past three months who could play major roles on their teams in 2014.
Colby Lewis, Rangers
Lewis has been out since mid-2012 due to surgeries on his hip and arm. But prior to those injuries, Lewis made 80 excellent starts over two-and-a-half seasons with the Rangers. Over 506 innings, Lewis struck out 408 against just 135 walks (3.4 K/BB) and posted a 3.93 ERA (113 ERA+). It's hard to find pitchers who can navigate the hitter-friendly fences and atmosphere of Texas, and Lewis has proven his skillset can play there. That's why the Rangers have kept him on the payroll (which includes overseeing his rehab) despite his myriad health issues.
The Rangers have so many starting pitching options that Lewis may have been relegated to a long relief role even if he showed up to spring training in perfect health. But with Derek Holland suffering a knee injury as a result of a collision with his dog, an extra rotation spot is open. Lewis will be one of the frontrunners come Feburary.
Mark Reynolds, Brewers
Reynolds signed with the Brewers on Friday and immediately vaulted to the top of the club's first base depth chart. The move isn't so much about Reynolds's merits -- he has hit just .221/.321/.411 over the last two seasons and been a rough definition of a replacement-level player -- as it is about the vortex of incompetence that was first base in Milwaukee last season.
Consider the five players to see time at first base for the Brewers in 2013:
|Yuniesky Betancourt
|Juan Francisco
|Alex Gonzalez
|Sean Halton
|Blake Lalli
Considering this crew -- a pair of shortstops, a waiver-wire third baseman and a pair of career minor leaguers -- it's not surprising the Brewers were bad. But the 2013 Brewers, according to FanGraphs, fielded the worst squad of first basemen of any team in the history of major professional baseball. To rephrase, the 2013 Milwaukee Brewers first basemen accrued -4.6 WAR, ranked 2,745th of 2,745 teams since 1871.
Mark Reynolds might not be that good. But as long as he shows up, there's no way he can be worse.
Jason Kubel, Twins
In 2012, Kubel hit .253/.327/.506 and set a career high with 30 home runs for the Arizona Diamondbacks. That he was limited to a minor league contract this offseason is a testament to just how far he fell in 2013, as he mustered 15 extra-base hits over 97 games between Arizona and Cleveland and set career lows in batting average, OPS (.610) and OPS+ (69).
Kubel will be returning to Minnesota in 2014, where he played from 2004 through 2011. His best season came with Minnesota in 2009 as a 27-year-old, when he hit 28 home runs and posted career highs in RBIs (103), doubles (35), batting average (.300), on-base percentage (.369), slugging percentage (.539), OPS (.907) and OPS+ (137). The Twins struggled to find offense out of the corner outfield and DH spots in 2013, so they have little to lose by seeing if any of the oomph is left in Kubel's bat.
Tsuyoshi Wada, Cubs
The Orioles signed Wada out of Japan with a two-year, $8 million contract prior to the 2012 season, but Tommy John surgery prevented Wada from ever making an appearance in an Orioles jersey. Wada did at least get back on a mound late in the season, however, as he made 19 starts for Triple-A Norfolk with moderate effectivness: 102.2 IP, 4.03 ERA, 80 K, 35 BB.
Despite his injury issues, the Cubs plan to use the 32-year-old Wada out of the rotation. Of Wada's 210 Japanese appearances, 207 came as a starter, where he had great success over a nine-year career with the SoftBank Hawks. Wada owns a sparkling 3.13 career ERA and a 3.4 K/BB over those 207 starts. His best season in NPB was his final one in 2011, when he posted a brilliant 1.51 ERA over 184 2/3 innings, including 168 strikeouts and just 40 walks. The Cubs only have three starters locked into the rotation in Travis Wood, Edwin Jackson and Jeff Samardzija, so a healthy Wada has a great chance at earning his way onto the roster, even if Chicago does manage to sign Masahiro Tanaka.
Henry Rodriguez, Marlins
Since 2010, there have been 25 pitcher seasons with at least 20 innings pitched and an average fastball velocity over 97.0 mph. Four of them belong to Henry Rodriguez. Since 2008, there have been 1,998 pitches thrown at 100 mph or higher. Of those, 228 -- 11.4 percent -- have been thrown by Rodriguez, third behind Aroldis Chapman and Joel Zumaya.
Despite the heat, Rodriguez has been awful over the past two seasons -- in 57 appearances between the Nationals and Cubs, Rodriguez has a 5.08 ERA and a 5.55 FIP. He struck out just one more batter than he walked. But Rodriguez is just 26 years old, and nothing screams "closer" louder than a 100 mph fastball. The Marlins will give him a chance to work out the control issues in their bullpen. Considering Steve Cishek and Michael Dunn are the most established relievers the Marlins have, Rodriguez will have the opportunity to rise into a late-inning role.
All of these players are flawed in some way. All have high bust potential. But every year, a few players come from nowhere to revitalize a career after fighting for a roster spot on a minor league contract in the spring. This year should be no different, as these five players and others will be bringing plenty of talent to spring training in 2014.


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Punk rock dads open up
In the documentary "The Other F Word" the word implied in the title is fatherhood; the film takes a look at the seemingly contradictory transition into middle age for men who are in a working rock band and also trying to settle into a stable family life.
The most boldfaced name in the movie is likely Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers (interviewed alongside his daughter), but the main character who emerges is Jim Lindberg, longtime singer with the band Pennywise who also published his own book called "Punk Rock Dad." He gives the greatest insight into the struggles of being a present, active parent and husband while making a living brashly rocking out, juggling tour dates with father-daughter dances.
Featuring members of Black Flag, Everclear, Blink-182, TSOL, the Adolescents, Rancid and other bands, some of the interviews are astonishing for how emotionally raw they are, with talk of childhood sexual abuse, stillborn birth and a son lost in a car crash. Still, with the film starting as something of a pocket history of the L.A. punk scene — with sections on the state of the music industry and the notion of long-touring middle-class bands — "The Other F Word" winds up feeling scattershot and unfocused.
Rather than capturing punk brattiness maturing into wary adulthood, director Andrea Blaugrund Nevins might have been better off simply making a film solely about Lindberg.
"The Other F Word." No MPAA rating. Running time: 1 hour, 38 minutes. At the Nuart, West Los Angeles.


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Franz Schubert
Schubert, Franz Peter
Franz Peter Schubert (fränts pā´tər shōō´bərt), 1797–1828, Austrian composer, one of the most gifted musicians of the 19th cent. His symphonic works represent the best legacy of the classical tradition, while his songs exemplify the height of romantic lyricism. Displaying remarkable talent in childhood, he was first taught to play the violin and piano by his father and his brother, and then studied the organ and singing at a local church. His beautiful voice gained him admittance in 1808 to the imperial chapel choir and the Royal Seminary, where he later studied composition with Salieri. Schubert wrote his first symphony in 1813, and in that year he left the Seminary. From 1814 to 1816 he taught at his father's elementary school, devoting his spare hours to composing lieder that give evidence of his inexhaustible melodic genius.
He wrote more than 600 songs, many to the lyrics of such German poets as Goethe, Schiller, and Heine. In addition to individual lyrics, such as the famous Erlkönig, set to a ballad by Goethe, Schubert wrote such song cycles as Die schöne Müllerin (1823) and Die Winterreise (1827), both to poems of Wilhelm Müller. Schubert's symphonies are the final extension of the classical sonata forms, and three of them—the Fifth, in B Flat (1816), the Eighth, in B Minor (the Unfinished, 1822), and the Ninth, in C Major (1828)—rank with the finest orchestral music. The Quartet in D Minor (Death and the Maiden, 1824) and the Quintet in A Major (The Trout, 1819) are the best known of his mature chamber works. He also composed music for the stage, overtures, choral music, masses, and piano music, including 21 sonatas and shorter waltzes, scherzos, and impromptus. Except for a circle of admirers who were among the leading artists of the period, he gained little recognition before his death. He held only one musical appointment, that of music teacher to the children of a Hungarian nobleman, and he lived in poverty.
See O. E. Deutsch, The Schubert Reader: A Life … in Letters and Documents (tr. 1947); biographies by M. J. E. Brown (1958, repr. 1977), A. Einstein (1951, repr. 1981), and C. H. Gibbs (2000); studies by M. J. E. Brown (1966, repr. 1978), B. Newbould (1992, 1997), and I. Bostridge (2015); C. H. Gibbs, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Schubert (1997).


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On Navarre's tracks and trails
Bardenas Reales Nature Reserve
It is easy to get a close look at Navarre's natural diversity. You just need to put on walking boots and get out and walk. Ready? You are sure to have an extraordinary holiday in this Region in northern Spain. The ingredients cannot fail: spectacular landscapes, sport in the open air, good food and drink, wonderful monuments. An experience to be repeated.
From the Pyrenees Mountains to the plains of southern Navarre, there are some 100 kilometres in a straight line, dominated by colour and contrast. A host of tracks and trails cross this region. They will take you to mountains, valleys, rivers and forests. These trails will also show you the Region's rich heritage and culture. The Region of Navarre has a different landscape to offer with each passing season. Nevertheless, for hiking spring, autumn and the end of summer are the best times of year. The options available are so varied and so attractive that you won't know which to choose. Here are a few.
The Way of Saint James: living history
Navarre is the starting point for one of the branches of this famous route which has the UNESCO World Heritage designation: the French Route. Every year thousands of people cover the 168 kilometres that pass through this Region. It is a beautiful journey that runs from the imposing peaks of the Pyrenees, through pine forests and small mountain villages, and continues on tracks surrounded by vineyards and green pastureland. You can choose to do the whole route or just a few stages. Whatever you decide, along the way you will be able to see some of Navarre's most important monuments. Take note: Roncesvalles Collegiate Church; Pamplona Cathedral; the church of Santa María de Eunate close to Obanos; the churches in Puente la Reina; the historic old town of Estella; the church of Santa María in Viana. In Navarre there is another variant of the Way of Saint James that comes from the Aragón Pyrenees and joins the main route in the town of Puente la Reina. If you decide to do it, make sure you don't miss the Church of Santa María la Real in Sangüesa and Leyre Monastery.
"Vías Verdes", tracks of iron
The lines that once carried trains have now been recovered for the enjoyment of walkers and cycle-tourists. These are the "Vías Verdes": they are easy trails with barely any hills, ideal for children, older people and can be good for disabled persons too. Fields of cereal crops, meadowland, woods and vineyards make up a good part of the landscapes you can see on the"Vías Verdes" in the Region of Navarre. Distances vary between 6 kilometres on the Foz de Lumbier Vía Verde and 43 kilometres on the Plazaola Vía. On these old railway routes you will find the stunning walls of the Foz de Lumbier Canyon, the banks of the Bidasoa River and the Queiles and Leitzaran Valleys. Be sure to make for the Region's tourist offices where they will give you all the information you need.
Nature at each step
Walking is also a good way to discover some of the Region of Navarre's most emblematic nature areas. The Bardenas Reales Nature Reserve is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and offers different itineraries to choose from. On self-guided routes in the Señorío de Bertiz Nature Reserve you will walk through luxuriant forest. The Irati Forest is Europe's largest beech-fir wood and has a network of signposted trails that run to its main points of interest. The same is true in the Urbasa y Andía Nature Reserve where there are themed routes and guided tours available. One piece of advice: drop into the park's visitor centre first and you will receive detailed information on all the different activities you can do.
Come hiking and discover Navarre. You'll want to return.
If you liked this article, we would recommend the following related items: - Biking in the Bardenas Reales - "Vías Verdes" (old railway lines): a different way to discover Spain - The Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route – much more than just a trip through Spain. More information: Navarre Tourism Board
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We've seen the new Lamborghini LP560-4 at Geneva, but that didn't stop us from checking it out again here in New York for its North American debut. Yes, the updated V10 makes 552 HP. Yes, the new car weighs 44lbs less than the original Gallardo. But none of that really matter unless you're behind the wheel on an open road. So why is it that we can't get enough of the little Lambo?
Simply put, the LP560-4 is gorgeous. This isn't just a mid-cycle model refresh that's been tacked on, its a series of subtle tweaks that make the Gallardo feel like a baby Reventon. The new shade of matte white paint is fantastic. Plus, it's soothingly smooth to the touch. And after all, we sure are suckers for good-looking, unattainable Italian... cars.


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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Creamy Baked Taquitos
Posted by Candise at 8:11 PM
13 comments:
- Amber said...
I do love these taquitos! Thanks for the reminder, I'll have to make these this week!
- March 28, 2012 at 8:22 PM
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These look yummy, I love the Costco chicken, it's so tasty and easy!
- March 29, 2012 at 11:50 AM
- mireia badia said...
I love tacos so I can totally see myself LOVING these!!
- March 29, 2012 at 2:22 PM
- Beth said...
These look delicious. Great meal!
- March 29, 2012 at 6:24 PM
- Jennifer Medeiros said...
- A brownie a day keeps the monsters away is too cute! zuuzs is hosting a Spring Recipe Challenge and I'd like to invite you to join! It's a great opportunity for you to promote your blog and showcase your recipe in front of thousands of people. Plus, there are prizes including a $500 Gift Card for the Grand Prize and three $200 Gift Cards as the top Category prizes you can use to buy kitchen related wares.
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- March 29, 2012 at 7:37 PM
- Danelle said...
I have a similar recipe and we love it!
- March 29, 2012 at 8:26 PM
- Bizzy B. Bakes said...
This would be quite a treat for my family. Thanks for sharing it.
- March 29, 2012 at 8:27 PM
- Cakelaw said...
These sound marvellous, and I bet they'd be good in work lunches.
- March 30, 2012 at 12:18 AM
- Leslie said...
These look fantastic (and they sound super easy)! I love that they can be freezed and you can use rotisserie chicken. I think adding extra salsa to anything like this is best because there's no chance they could dry out.
- March 30, 2012 at 3:38 PM
- Little Mommy said...
These look so yummy! Glad to follow you!
- April 1, 2012 at 8:00 PM
- Gloria said...
I've seen similar recipes and I always have good intentions to try them. But of course haven't gotten around to it yet. Using rotisserie chicken is a great idea.
- April 3, 2012 at 10:50 PM
- Missy said...
Oh man! These look right up my alley! Thanks for sharing, Cindy!
- March 28, 2016 at 10:10 PM
- Grandma Scott said...
This looks perfect to me. Of course I'll have to adjust it down, but it would be great to just take something out that was sooo good.\
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The WINNER (selected by random.org) is #40 Caryn of Bailey Family. Congratulations! 🙂
NaBloPoMo – Day 21
It's time to get serious about toy shopping, not only because the holidays are just around the corner, but because lately we've had recall after recall concerning toys made in China and toy shopping has had to become serious business. Serious business because it's proving to be more important than ever to do your homework and know that the toys you are purchasing for your children will be safe (i.e. free from lead paint or any other toxic substances). If we can't count on the government and toy manufacturers to protect our children, then we must step up and be vigilant on their behalf.
Since we are trying to weed out most of our plastic toys in our home and replace them with quality wooden toys, that's what I've been on the lookout for for the past few months. It's not just because of the toy recalls (though that's been a definite motivating factor), but also because wooden and organic toys feel so much better, promote imagination (a big part of the Waldorf school of thought), and are generally built to last.
This gift guide is a bit different from traditional gift guides in that it primarily contains information about the places where I'm doing my holiday shopping this year, but I hope you will find it to be helpful as well. 🙂
Where oh where can I find quality toys without breaking the bank?
– When time is no object –
If you have time, some patience and a little bit of luck, you can score some great toys for the kids for little to no money at all, you just have to know where to look.
- Freecycle – Freecycle can be a great resource for finding used previously loved toys. The good news is that everything listed on there is free and you are saving the items from otherwise ending up in the trash. The bad news is the fact that you may be "competing" against a lot of people for any one item so you have to pay attention to the listings and be quick to respond, and even then you aren't guaranteed an item since it's up to the person giving it away to decide who gets it. But if you have some patience and persevere, you could end up with some good finds. As they say, "one person's trash is another person's treasure." In addition to my recent Christmas tree score, I also got this cute little hobby horse from Freecycle last week. 🙂
- Craigslist – Another good resource for previously loved toys. Most of the items on Craigslist do cost money, but the nice thing is that you are recycling and giving the items (toys or anything else) a chance at being loved again (and again, keeping them out of the landfills).
- Consignment store, thrift stores and garage sales – You never know what will turn up in consignment and thrift stores so my advice is to visit them often since they are always putting new merchandise up for sale. I recently found a handful of wooden toys at a local children's consignment shop. You can also score some real treasures from garage sales. Can ya tell I'm a big fan of second-hand toys?
Crunchy tip: One of the many wonderful things about buying quality wooden toys is that they can be passed on from child to child, family to family, even generation to generation and most are built to last for the long haul. 🙂 Plastic toys, on the other hand, tend to wear out or break, and end up in the landfills. 🙁
– When it's getting to be crunch time –
When it's getting down to the wire and you are still in need of quality toy gifts, there are still deals to be had if you know where to look.
- Closeout stores – Stop in closeout stores like Tuesday Morning and Ross, among others, and you may be pleasantly surprised by some of the quality toys they carry. At the suggestion of a friend, I recently went to Tuesday Morning and found a large selection of German wooden toys (brands like Spielmaus and HEROS) for 50% off the retail price. Germany's safety standards for toys are among the strictest out there. They also had Melissa and Doug toys, as well as Ryan's Room toys in stock. Although their inventory can vary greatly from week to week, it is possible to find great toys at closeout stores for a fraction of the retail price. I ended up walking out of there with a wooden ring stacker, a wooden doll house, HEROS wooden blocks, a Spielmaus wooden workbench (that I'm saving until Julian is older), a children's garden tool set and gardening gloves, two Melissa & Doug wooden puzzles, and a HEROS train set, and then Jody went back later and bought a 131 piece train table – all for 50% off!
Hazelnut Kids – Selling only "Natural, earth-friendly, wooden and organic cotton toys for children and babies" including brands like HABA (made in Germany), Plan Toys (a huge variety of wooden toys made in Thailand), Under the Nile (dolls and more made in Egypt), Elves & Angels (wooden kitchens made in USA), and Kathe Kruse (Waldorf dolls made in Germany), Hazelnut Kids is a new favorite online toy store of mine. I recently had the chance to try out one of their MiYim organic cotton teether rattles, well, Julian tried it out, but mama was very impressed. It's an adorable rattle and very well-made, and I love the fact that it's organic cotton since it's going in his mouth. I was so impressed with Hazelnut Kids and the variety of quality toys that they offer (Note: each toy has a yellow box next to it that tells you what country the toy was made in) that I purchased several toys from their online store for upcoming birthday and Christmas presents like a wooden tableware set and modeling beeswax for Ava and a car, xylophone, and a punch and drop for Julian. The toys shipped the SAME DAY that I ordered them and the prices seemed very reasonable to a penny-pincher like me. I also like that for each toy you buy, Hazelnut Kids gives you "Loyalty Reward Points" that allow you to take money off future purchases. Their flat-rate shipping charge is only $5.95 for delivery within the contiguous United States. And if you sign up for their newsletter, you will receive coupons and free entries into drawings. I seriously can't say enough good things about this company.
More ideas – Go indie!
Rather than support the big name toy stores this season, why not shop the local and independent toy stores in your area? You might pay a little more money, but you are also likely to receive better customer service and better quality toys.
One great place to shop indie online is Etsy – the place to buy "all things homemade." I like Etsy because you can find a wide range of unique toys and many other items (purses, jewelry, clothing, glass, soap, art, and much more) all in one place. Some of the cute things I've seen on Etsy include a Doorway Puppet Theater, OogaBooga plush dolls, sock monkeys, Vermont Fairies hand-felted fairy dolls, a felt vegetable pita set, custom
super hero capes, hardwood puzzles and toys, a Waldorf "Cheery" Rattle, and Au Natural Building Blocks. The list could go on and on because there is no shortage of cute, quality, original and otherwise great toys on Etsy.
Another cool feature about Etsy is that if you'd like to shop for items made by a seller in a particular city or state or country, you can use the Geolocator to enter in that location and it will show all sellers matching that description.
Let's get creative!
Lastly, if you are feeling the creative juices flowing this holiday season, you can make some pretty awesome toys out of things like cardboard boxes and Fome Cor, including a kitchen in a box (made out of a carboard box!), a portable playhouse and a puppet playhouse. In addition to instructions on making cool toys for your kids, the Family Fun site has tons of craft ideas to do with your kids as well.
Some final thoughts on holiday shopping
Do your research. Buy brand names you know and can trust. Ask questions and don't be afraid to contact the manufacturer if the store can't answer your questions. The quality toys are out there. We just may need to look farther than the big box stores to find them. Cheers and happy shopping! 🙂
And now for the giveaway…
Win it!
Hazelnut Kids has generously donated two great toys – a MiYim organic cotton elephant teether rattle and a Keptin Jr. organic cotton cuddle pants doll – to one lucky Crunchy Domestic Goddess reader. The MiYim elephant has a sweet, sewn-on face and a knitted, 100% organic cotton body. "It's the perfect size for babies to hold and to teethe on." The Keptin Jr. cuddle pants 100% organic cotton doll is filled with pure wool. "The simplicity of the design stimulates the child's creativity, and the high quality of the product guarantees it will last."
If you'd like a chance to win these great toys, please link to this gift guide either by writing a post about it or by placing the gift guide button from above (with a link back to this guide) on your blog. If you don't have a blog, please send a link to this post to three of your friends and copy me on the email: amygeekgrl (at) gmail (dot) com. Once you've done one of those things, please leave a comment below and you will be entered into the drawing. The winner will be selected using Random.org on Thursday, Dec. 13, and announced that day. Good luck! 🙂


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Either one guy is buying hundreds of thousands of Samsung teevees a day to rig the stats, or we're collectively Samsung-crazed in our television choices. According to President Boo-Keun Yoon, the company moves two sets per second, globally.
I'm no maths wizard, but given population figures I'm guessing a lot of people are buying TVs for their parents and dogs and closets and spare TVs to use as coffee tables. [Samsung Live Blog]


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Relay For Life of Logan County receives American Cancer Society
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[January 25, 2013]
Relay For Life of Logan County
was awarded the American Cancer Society's prestigious Relay All Star
Award at the society's Relay Leadership Summit in Itasca.
"By supporting Relay For Life of Logan County, our volunteers are
helping us save more lives faster," said Alan D. Lev, chairman of
the board of the American Cancer Society's Illinois Division. "We
invite all Logan County residents to join us in fighting for every
birthday threatened by cancer."
This year the Logan County Relay for Life will be from 6 p.m.
June 14 to 6 a.m. on June 15 outside at the Lincoln Center on the
Lincoln College campus.
Teams are signing up members to help the Logan County Relay reach
the $1 million mark for the lifetime of the county's events, which
began in 1998. With 2013 as the 16th year in Logan County, and being
only $1,320 away from that milestone, the organization continues to
strive to help find a cure while also supporting services that
benefit survivors.
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To register a team, call Carolyn Motley, 732-8032. Questions from
past teams can also be directed to her or this year's co-chairs:
Nicole Tripplett Lee, Amy Weidhuner or Tabitha Weidhuner.
The next meeting is Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m. at Lincoln Christian
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Friday, March 16, 2012
Hello, I'm Frank. Remember me?
6 comments:
- Buck SavageMarch 17, 2012 at 9:34 PM
Good to hear Franklin, but as a wise man once said, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me again . . . I can't get fooled again."ReplyDelete
Rant topic; the one and only Lambeau Mooner is back in San Francheesy. Word has it he runs the 40 in 4.4 . . . still. Will his mouth ruin an otherwise impressively cohesive team? Are golden gate traffic cops wearing full riot gear in anticipation? Will he pay for his new apartment with straight cash, or will he take advantage of historically low mortgage rates, homie? Engage rant.
- RuppertMarch 23, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Is it too late to add a loop of "Eye of the Tiger" playing in the background of this post?ReplyDelete
The Ranter's back with a vengeance.
- A_Lerxst_in_PackerlandMarch 23, 2012 at 5:54 PM
Buck, that wasn't a wise man, that was the village idiot...ReplyDelete
Franklin, wow, a Matrix reference, Level 35 Armor of Invincibility, and Charmin to boot! You really ARE back!
This is just like when daddy divorced mommy and I would sit on the front steps every Saturday morning with my ball and glove waiting for that sound of his 1979 Trans Am as it rounded the corner. "This weekend we're on for sure Jonny, I'll see you real soon I promise." So I'd oil my glove all week and hide my favorite pair of jeans so mom wouldn't wash them and dad would think I was being my own man. Only to be devastated week after week when that God damn bight orange piece of shit he loved so much never did round that corner. Promises Franklin...promises.ReplyDelete
- Buck SavageApril 2, 2012 at 9:58 AM
To the lonely Ranter who shouts on the hill:ReplyDelete
I guess you got what you wanted; praise, rant ideas and I think Mr. Vicious pulled a reverse Skywalker on you and revealed that you are his father. (didn't see that coming)
You had us swooning like Grandma when she gets that once-every-five-years call that starts off, "I'm sorry I haven't called more often." "Oh, never mind that Dearie. There is bridge on Tuesdays, bingo on Thursdays and all the applesauce you can eat here at the home. I'm just glad you called now."
But, now it's clear, "Twitter killed the Blogger Star." (patent pending)
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Well, here it is! The movie based on Gillian Flynn's hit novel is finally placing a face to Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy (Rosamund Pike). Obviously I can say nothing else because the Spoiler Alert Police (the most terrifying of all police forces!) will come and find me and banish me to a land without television. And nobody wants that. Especially me.
Gone Girl is scheduled to open in theaters during October 2014. SO EXCITED.
Related: Gone Girl's Gillian Flynn Goes Hollywood
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Shark bites teen swimmer off Surfside Beach
Riding on his boogie board off Surfside Beach on Monday afternoon, the teen was in waist-deep water when the shark struck.
The shark had bitten the 15-year-old from Needville on the left leg.
The boy fought back, officials said, reaching down and striking the shark on the head. The shark would get the boy one more time, biting him on his left hand.
The bites were not considered life-threatening, said Gregg Bisso, Surfside's assistant police chief. The boy is recovering at Memorial Hermann-The Texas Medical Center, taken there by Life Flight helicopter ambulance. Surfside police are also paramedics. They stabilized the teenager until the helicopter arrived.
"He was alert and oriented," Bisso said.
The teen was swimming with friends about 2:45 p.m. at the beach in Brazoria County. He was with other members of a church youth group, who later helped him get to shore.
"He said, 'I'm OK. I can walk,' " Bisso said.
The Monday attack was a rarity for the Texas Gulf Coast, a shark expert said.
"Generally speaking, the number of attacks are rare on the Gulf Coast and certainly in comparison to the Atlantic Coast," said George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Fla.
There have been 37 attacks on the Texas Gulf Coast since 1911, according to the museum. Two of those were fatalities: a 1911 attack in Galveston County and a 1962 attack in Cameron County.
Only two previous shark attacks were recorded in Brazoria County. The highest number of attacks were recorded in Galveston County, 15.
Burgess said that although shark attacks were nearly 10 times more frequent on the Atlantic Coast, attacks on the Gulf Coast tended to cause more injury because of the prevalence of the aggressive bull shark.
The evidence was too scanty to determine whether a bull shark was responsible for the Surfside attack, he said.
But the repeated bites suggest that the attack was by one of the more aggressive shark species, such as the bull shark or lemon shark, Burgess said.
In Galveston, Beach Patrol Chief Peter Davis said eight shark attacks have occurred on beaches over the last 30 years. Nearly all those attacks involved swimmers in a school of fish that the shark was feasting on, he said. In those cases he was involved, "every one was someone in the middle of schooling fish, usually mullet," Davis said.
Shark attacks are rare on Galveston beaches despite the large number of swimmers in part because sharks don't like the shallow Galveston water, Davis said.
Davis offered five tips: Shuffle your feet in shallow water to scare small sharks away, avoid swimming in the middle of schools of fish, stay out of the water if you are bleeding, avoid swimming in estuaries, and when wade fishing avoid tying caught fishing on a line close to the body.


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day #1 of the new year.
i open the window,
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today: day #1 of the new year. 2013. still strange to write this.
today: sunrise at 8.16 and sunset at 16.37
today: day #7 of eating lighter & trying new food
today: day #1 of the mindful writing month, which i join in videos. that's how dawning happened
today: day #42 of revising my travel novel masala moments
today: day #1 of the global reading challenge
today: happy
a rough plan for 2013
more on the mindful moments & the masala revision and the reading, here in this rough plan for 2013 that i sketched on winter solstic - and ain't it nice that i wrote it all down already. good to revisit: solstice: mindful moments, revisits/revisions & world reads...
smile. maybe it would be more fitting to just copy the whole post into this place, right? seeing it's actually 2013 now..
solstice: mindful moments, revisits/revisions & world reads, or: a rough plan for 2013
today: winter solstice. this turning point in time: from here on, the days will grow longer again.
the sky isn't very festive here, though: there's a snow/rain front moving through. but yesterday brought a surprising and colorful sunrise, like a painting almost. i took several photos.
mindful moments
taking the sunrise picture made me think of January 2013, and the return of the mindful writing challenge that has the title: "Pay more attention and fall in love with the world", this task and inspiration to note the small, beautiful moments the everyday holds, and make/take time to note one of them each day. (here's more).
looking forward to it, and yesterday i revisited some of the moments from January 2011.... .
....which also brought the thought to put up some kind of frame in the shelf here, a place to display those daily moments. and beyond that daily moments, leads to another theme of these days:
revisiting & revising
over time, both with my own writing and with blueprintreview, so many different works - photos, texts, stories, blog entries, notes - have gathered. like this winter solstice note from last year, which is now re-posted in the blueprint lit blog: Solstice Reflections
in 2013, i want to spend more time with those works, revisit, and also: revise. the impulse for that came through my first travel novel, and the island stay. here's a blog note from November, and a photo:
Masala Moments
my first travel novel, so far only available in print (more here). As i am reading more and more e-books myself, it now seems like a logical step to create an ebook version. And while at it, i might add a current introduction, i thought. And started to read into it - and then realized that it would be a good book to take along, to read and re-format and re-new. Still working on that. So good to be back to those pages, and it feels like right timing. I hope to have the revision complete by the end of the year.
there are so places out there, and so many books. it's impossible to visit all, and to read all. but after joining a global reading challenge in 2012, and the places it took me to, the authors and stories i discovered with it, i am now already looking forward to continue the world reads - and to combine it with a focus on different aspects of the world: the current megacities of the world, the highest countries, the richest countries, the ones with most immigrants.. here's the challenge link: 7 Continents, 7 Billion People, 7 Books
so summing it up, here is my rough base plan for 2013:
- revisiting and revising
- reading around the world
may 2013 bring joy and light~~
PS: and sharing - today i came across a page of shared sky views. i just added my solstice photo, here: sky watch.


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There was an old anti-piracy ad that said something completely inane like "you wouldn't download a car, so why would you download music?" It was ridiculous and everybody laughed mercilessly. Except now, Honda is actually letting – nay, encouraging – you to download their cars. Or 3D models of its cars, at least.
The Japanese automaker launched a new website, Honda 3-D, as part of its "Super Ultra Daydreams" project. With the convenience of a computer, the Internet, and a home 3-D printer, you can download the basis for concepts like the Fuya-Jo, the Kiwami, the FSR Concept, and the NSX Concept.
The website encourages you to download the models, build them, and then build upon them to design your vehicles.
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