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NFL Playoffs 🦅 vs Falcons
Trav and Josh give their picks in the Falcons vs the Eagles in there big NFC match up.
January 13, 2018
National Championship Part 2 🏈
Trav and Josh recap the National Championship game between Alabama and Georgia.
January 13, 2018
National Championship Part 1 🏈
Josh & Trav get into the National Championship game between Alabama and Georgia.
January 13, 2018
Helmet Sticker: Kelly Bryant
Trav gives out his helmet sticker to Clemson's Kelly Bryant for is effort in the big win over Miami the the ACC Championship Game.
December 8, 2017
Golf Talk: is Tiger Back? ⛳
Tiger looked good in this return. What does 2018 have in store for him?
December 7, 2017
Lavar Ball & Donald Trump
The drama continues in the LiAnglio Ball shop lifting case when the UCLA players return home and Lavar Ball refuses to think President Trump.
November 22, 2017
49ers Get Their First Win 🏈
Trav is on 🔥 after his Niners get their first win of the season.
November 16, 2017
Part 4: Thomas Jones
Thomas talks about his journey from Southwest Virginia to UVA as a Freshman.
October 31, 2017
Part 3: Thomas Jones Intervi
Thomas Jones walks us through his recruiting process and what ultimately lead him to UVA.
October 30, 2017
Part 2: Thomas Jones Inter
Josh & Trav talk about the High School Days with Thomas Jones while he was at Powell Valley.
October 28, 2017
Part 1: Thomas Jones
Intro to the Thomas Jones Interview and Trav as about the time Thomas smoked Josh in the 110 meter hurdles.
October 25, 2017
NBA Preview: Golden State?
Is Golden State the team to beat this season. Find the full show at IfItsSports.com.
October 20, 2017
You Big Dummy Chris Foerster
You Big Dummy of the Week goes to Miami Dolphins O-Line coach Chris Foerster.
October 12, 2017
Cam Newton 🏈Take
Trav & Josh give their take on the Cam Newton and his response to female reporter Jourdan Rodrigue.
October 6, 2017
Lakers to Retire Kobe's 8⃣ & 2⃣4⃣
Lakers will retire both of Kobe Bryant's numbers this year and Trav & Josh give their top 5 NBA players of all time. 🏀
September 22, 2017
Week 3 Helmet Stickers
Find out who Josh & Trav give their helmet stickers to after Week 3 in college football. 🏈
September 20, 2017
Michigan's Amazon Prime Show
Amazon Prime has partnered with Michigan to chronicle the 2017 Michigan football season.
September 20, 2017
You Big Dummy of the Week #4
Trav hands out the big dummies of the week.
September 18, 2017
Thursday Night NFL Recap 🏈
Trav and Josh discuss the lack of offense in the Bengals vs Texans game Thursday night. The NFL needs to put a better product on the field for Thursday Night Football.
September 15, 2017
Lamar Jackson Discussion
Trav and Josh talk about the great season Lamar Jackson is off to and his odds of repeating as a Heisman Trophy winner.
September 14, 2017
Inspirational College Foo
Week one feel good stories from the world of College Football.
September 11, 2017
NFL - NFC North Breakdown
Preseason thoughts on the NFC North for the upcoming 2017 NFL season.
September 1, 2017
NFL - NFC East Breakdown
Preseason thought on how the NFC East will play out in the 2017 NFL season.
August 31, 2017
NFL - AFC West Breakdown
Preseason thoughts on the AFC West
August 29, 2017
NFL - AFC South Breakdown
Breaking down the AFC South on how we see it playing out in the 2017 NFL season.
August 29, 2017
NFL - AFC North Breakdown
Josh and Trav give give their thoughts on the AFC North division.
August 28, 2017
NFL - AFC East Breakdown
Trav & Josh give their preseason views on the AFC East.
August 27, 2017
Back In My Day - Trade Rant
How does Isaiah Thomas and Kyrie Irving get traded for one another?Shame on the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers.
August 27, 2017
Big Dummies of the Week
Listen to what Jon Jones, Dante Fowler Jr and the Arizona Cardinals special teams did to earn the honors.
August 26, 2017
Josh's Top 5 NFL Games Ever
Josh gives us his Top 5 NFL games Of all-time.
August 25, 2017
Trav's Top 5 NFL Games Ever
Trav breaks down his top 5 NFL Games that he has watched.
August 25, 2017
Back in My Day - Traveling
Josh's rant on the epidemic of traveling in basketball
August 18, 2017
You Big Dummy of the Week 8/12
You Big Dummy of the Week
August 16, 2017
Trav's Take - Shoe Game
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August 15, 2017
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Ohio works to process multiple departments and vendors' financial documents and customer service calls.
Like most state governments, Ohio has seen hard times during the Great Recession. Ohio's tax base dropped 12 percent over the past two years, causing a $3.1 billion reduction in revenue, according to figures from the state's Office of Budget and Management (OBM). There are 4,500 fewer state employees.
State officials saw early indicators of the recession in 2007, just as the state was completing an enterprisewide rollout of PeopleSoft ERP software called the Ohio Administrative Knowledge System (OAKS). Gov. Ted Strickland and his cabinet directors realized they had to transform the way the state handled its back-end business processes in order to fully realize the potential of the new software. At the same time, the state needed a means to significantly reduce costs.
Consequently several Ohio agencies banded together in 2008 to build a first-of-its-kind, state-of-the-art shared services center that would use the new ERP system to answer invoicing and related questions for government agencies and vendors, as well as provide shared back-end financial services for participating agencies.
These efforts resulted in a new division called Ohio Shared Services and a series of other changes designed to maximize the new ERP suite's value. The division is housed in a center -- created from a former Rockwell factory that produced missile parts -- designed to facilitate teamwork and flexibility. The center makes wide use of virtual servers and desktops so that IT resources can be easily deployed where needed. And the division's work force -- all of whom voluntarily joined the new organization from other state agencies -- work under innovative new rules and sophisticated performance measures.
In short, it's a marriage of metrics and technology that could be the wave of the future -- a more efficient and cost-effective way for governments to do business.
Ohio Shared Services, a division of the OBM, performs a number of back-end tasks -- accounts payable and invoice processing, fielding invoice inquiries, document imaging, travel expense reimbursement, and vendor maintenance and management -- that before were siloed in the individual agencies. Participation is voluntary, with one exception -- all Ohio state agencies use the center's travel reimbursement and expense reporting capability. Fifteen state agencies participated in the design and launch of Ohio Shared Services, although they pick and choose which shared functions they actually use. For example, only eight were using accounts payable in summer 2010.
Ohio OBM Director Pari Sabety said that sort of flexibility is intentional. "The key on an ERP is how you extract value from the application after you've implemented it," she said. In government, that means helping the agencies focus on their core missions. For example, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction should worry about hiring prison guards and improving safety, not spend time and effort on figuring out how to pay bills more quickly, Sabety said.
The shared services include a modernized process for expense reporting and reimbursement. What was once a tedious "receipt and staple" workflow handled in the finance offices of individual agencies has been transformed into a mostly paperless process in which state employees fax or scan their receipts to the center through OAKS -- a more efficient system that allows the state to cut checks in as few as two days. State officials believe that's one example of how the center's economy of scale will reduce cost. "We now basically process and audit travel for the entire state," said Helga Mattingly, a shared services "associate" who works on a finance transaction team at Ohio Shared Services.
Ohio Shared Services is operated by a governance council that includes Sabety; Ronn Kolbash, who leads the new division's change management team; a council of state chief fiscal officers; and multiple process councils that oversee various business lines. Originally an outside advisory council representing Marriott, Nationwide Insurance and Limited Brands was also involved, but the group is no longer used.
The center's start-up costs are being covered by transaction fees paid by each participating agency. The fees pay for the building's rent, so the only appreciable upfront cost, Kolbash said, was roughly $2 million for technology and furniture.
At first glance, the 45,000-square-foot center looks like a typical office -- with rows and rows of nondescript cubicles. But the workplace is anything but routine, especially in the public sector.
Kolbash and Kumar Rachuri, CIO of the Ohio OBM, had the luxury of a blank slate when designing the center. "We knew what enabling technologies we wanted to use in Shared Services; we knew we wanted to use thin clients, and have a dedicated call center and a dedicated server room," Kolbash said. "With that, we began to shape the facility around not only technology, but also some of the other principles we had in mind for the center."
The center was built to encourage collaboration and interchangeability. It has an open floor plan, low walls and cubicles that have an atypical 120-degree bend that Kolbash said mimics a honeycomb. The cubical shape works well for groups of 10, which officials knew would be the size of teams working the different functions, such as the call center or accounts payable. "Depending on where you sit, you're always looking at least two people beside you and another three people in front of you -- so you're always within your team, within earshot," Kolbash said.
Instead of desktop towers, Wyse thin clients running VMware desktop virtualization software were installed at the desks. They connect to the center's dedicated Dell server room. Employees use VoIP for telephony. The call center technology includes Cisco network-to-desktop computer telephony integration; Ohio Shared Services entered into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, which had already used this call center setup, to provide the same solution for its center. In all, about 85 percent of the center's IT is virtualized, according to Rachuri. The back-end infrastructure is all located onsite, except for a data center located in Cincinnati that's operated by project consultant Accenture, which syncs with the PeopleSoft ERP.
This virtualized IT stack means that employees can be shifted seamlessly to different workspaces within the room as needed. Employees are differentiated only by skill-based pay, so they can move to other functions and business lines when necessary.
Finally, the office's technological showstoppers are the wall-mounted, flat-screen monitors that track employee performance -- number of calls in the queue, calls taken, call length, service-level measurement and other data.
Ohio managed to do what some observers thought was impossible by bringing in state employees who were willing to work in a metrics-driven office. In doing so, Ohio Shared Services has managed to dispel the widely held notion that the government worker is reluctant to be held accountable.
Every employee working at Ohio Shared Services is a state employee who came from another agency. Transfer was voluntary. Applicants were interviewed and told upfront that the workplace would be significantly different and that their performance would be measured. "We knew we were going to require metrics," Sabety said, "and employees needed to feel confident enough about their abilities to have metrics about their performance shared with colleagues and supervisors."
For the past decade, the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association had argued in favor of just such a metrics-based workplace, Sabety said. And the state wouldn't have gone forward with the project without the union's support. Sabety said she had no doubt beforehand that state employees would line up to work at Shared Services. "I knew they would sign up in a heartbeat because most people like to be challenged every minute of every hour they spend at work," she said.
Most of the employees who work at Ohio Shared Services are classified as "associates" and work under the leadership of coaches. Both the associates and coaches work under team leads. Kolbash oversees all of them.
Employees see metrics every day. In addition to the real-time data displayed on the flat screens in the Shared Services center, monthly "associate performance scorecards" measure a worker's actual performance against target goals and take into account the employee's opinion, as well as comments from coaches and co-workers. Typical metrics assessed are error rates for financial transactions, number of calls handled, number of cases resolved and call-handling quality. Each team at Ohio Shared Services also is given a group scorecard from the previous day's work.
Coach Heather Tomlinson said coaches usually oversee one or more areas within the division. Her responsibilities include the contact center that fields customer requests and the imaging center that scans documents. "I'm responsible for all incoming calls and e-mails," Tomlinson said about her team, which works with Medicaid providers. "So they could be vendors calling in to find out when they could expect their next payment, or maybe they sent in something to change an address and they want to make sure that paperwork has been processed."
Coaches also are responsible for overseeing the associates' development. "You basically present your scorecard to your coach. 'This is how I'm doing. This is where I want to go, and this is what my peers feel about me,'" said Tiffany Wilson, an associate who works in the contact center.
Being critiqued by peers and bosses can be daunting, but the benefit is that it doesn't leave much room for misplaced blame. "You're accountable for your own actions and your own progress," Wilson said. "You're accountable for the knowledge that you want to learn."
In the end, the purpose of Ohio Shared Services is to make back-end processes more efficient while saving money. It's doing exactly that, according to officials at the Ohio Department of Administrative Services, which is a Shared Services customer for accounts payable. "From the implementation perspective, we had a very good experience with the staff at Shared Services, and I felt like they bent over backward to help us understand what we were getting into," said Jennifer Leymaster, the budget services manager for Administrative Services.
According to John Yoho, the department's fiscal services manager, having Ohio Shared Services manage accounts payable processing has saved money. "We're having really serious challenges in funding our programs to deliver the services we must deliver, so we're looking in all sorts of places we didn't look before to find cost savings," he said.
Ohio Shared Services will continue to re-examine and add to the services it offers. Some agencies have expressed interest in expanding the center's document imaging capabilities, Kolbash said. The IT staff at the OBM are working on an implementation of optical character recognition technology that translates scanned material into machine-readable text; Ohio Shared Services is using a solution developed in-house by the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation. The project is an example of how Ohio would prefer to rely upon centers of excellence to leverage new technology for the center, Rachuri said, rather than outsourcing the work.
The next big move will be to look at the center's business lines -- vendor management, accounts payable, document imaging and call center -- and begin digging deep into the data that's being generated to improve business processes and intelligence. "What's the data telling and showing us that we can give back to the agencies?" Kolbash explained. "What are the reasons for the most common phone calls and e-mails for assistance? Why are inaccurate invoices coming from one agency more often than the rest?"
With that type of information, agencies and Ohio Shared Services could drive further cost savings for the state government, he said. This intelligence capability will require an additional IT solution that Rachuri said could come from either a middleware system installed between the server room and the ERP, or from an Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite that's being implemented across the state government.
Those improvements would mean that the state isn't just consolidating services to improve efficiency; it also is working across organizational lines to add value back into the partnering agencies. "And that will put us farther down the road to true shared services," Kolbash said.

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David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox Voted 2013 Edgar Martinez Outstanding DH of the Year
Major League Baseball announced today that David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox has been voted the winner of the 2013 Edgar Martinez Outstanding Designated Hitter Award. Ortiz unanimously received all of the first-place votes cast to garner the honor for the seventh time in his 17-year career, previously winning in each year from 2003-07 and again in 2011 - all while with Boston. David's seven awards are the most ever since its 1973 inception, with the honor's namesake, Edgar Martinez, taking home five over 18 seasons. In addition to Ortiz, three previous Red Sox have been tabbed as the league's top designated hitter, including Orlando Cepeda (1973), Jim Rice (1977) and Don Baylor (1986). Detroit's Victor Martinez finished second with 52 second-place votes after batting .306 with 31 doubles, 13 homers and 76 RBI in 139 games for the Tigers this past season.
David batted .309 (160-for-518) with 38 doubles, two triples, 30 homers, 103 RBI and 84 runs scored in 137 games. The Dominican Republic native led Boston in batting average, homers, RBI, walks (76), on-base percentage (.395), slugging percentage (.564), total bases (292) and extra-base hits (70). Ortiz was ranked third in the Majors in slugging percentage, and among A.L. leaders, the 38-year-old ranked fourth in on-base percentage, fifth in extra-base hits, sixth in batting average, seventh in RBI, tied for seventh in walks, eighth in total bases and tied for eighth in homers. The lefty-swinging slugger recorded his seventh career 30-homer, 100-RBI season, tying Hall of Famer Ted Williams for the most in team history. His second-inning double on July 10th in Seattle was the 1,689th of his career as a DH, passing Harold Baines (1,688) for the most in Major League history. Big Papi is already the Major League leader with 381 homers and 1,245 RBI at the position. He was named to the A.L. All-Star squad for the fourth straight year and the ninth time of his career, the most in the Majors since 2004. It was his fifth appearance as a DH, passing Edgar Martinez for the most all-time. During the Red Sox run to their eighth World Series Championship, Ortiz batted .353 with three doubles, five homers, 13 RBI and 16 walks while starting in all 16 Postseason games. He was named the World Series Most Valuable Player after hitting .688 with two doubles, two homers, six RBI and eight walks (four intentional) in six games. He reached base in a World Series record-tying nine straight plate appearances and his 19 times on base were the second-most in a single Fall Classic (Barry Bonds, 21 in 2002).
Now in its 40th season, the Outstanding Designated Hitter Award was renamed by Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig in a September 2004 ceremony at Safeco Field in honor of the retiring Edgar Martinez. Ballots are cast by club beat writers, broadcasters and A.L. public relations departments with nominees including all players with a minimum of 100 at-bats as a designated hitter.


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Steward or Arandur was the traditional title of a chief counselor to one of the Kings of Gondor.
King Rómendacil I established the office of Steward, chosen by the King as a man of high trust and wisdom; Stewards were advanced in years since they were not permitted to go to war or to leave the realm. They were never a member of the Royal House.
The Steward to King Minardil, Húrin of Emyn Arnen, was the founder of the famous House of Húrin. They were of high Númenórean blood, but not descendants of Elendil in the ruling line. After the time of Minardil, the Kings established the custom that Stewards are chosen from this House.
During the time of the Steward Pelendur, this title became hereditary, passing the station of counselor from father to son, much like the Kingship.
After the death of King Eärnur, who left no heir to the throne of Gondor, the Steward Mardil Voronwë became the first of the Ruling Stewards. Mardil was the first of the Stewards to administer Gondor, and his descendants did so for 25 generations.
The Stewards watched over the throne until it could be reclaimed by a true King of Gondor, an heir of Elendil. When asked by his son Boromir how long must pass before a Steward could become a King, if the King did not return, Denethor II replied, "Few years, maybe, in other places of less royalty … In Gondor ten thousand years would not suffice" (reported by Faramir in The Two Towers). This is a jibe at Arnor, which was split in three and eventually fell into the wilderness, only to be restored by Aragorn II.
The Stewards never sat on the throne of the King; instead, they sat on a simple chair of black stone placed below it. The symbol of their office was a white rod.
The Quenya name of the title is Arandur: "Servant of the King".
Ruling Stewards of Gondor
The following is a list of the Ruling Stewards of Gondor. (All dates are from the Third Age.)
- Pelendur (fl. 1944)
- Mardil Voronwë "The Steadfast" (2029–2080)
- Eradan (2080–2116) - First Steward to use Sindarin name
- Herion (2116–2148)
- Belegorn (2148–2204)
- Húrin I (2204–2244) - Had two older sisters
- Túrin I (2244–2278) - Married twice, several daughters from both wives
- Hador (2278–2395) - From Túrin's second wife
- Barahir (2395–2412)
- Dior (2412–2435) - Childless. Succeeded by sister-son Denethor.
- Denethor I (2435–2477)
- Boromir (2477–2489)
- Cirion (2489–2567)
- Hallas (2567–2605)
- Húrin II (2605–2628)
- Belecthor I (2628–2655)
- Orodreth (2655–2685)
- Ecthelion I (2685–2698)
- Egalmoth (2698–2743)
- Beren (2743–2763)
- Beregond (2763–2811)
- Belecthor II (2811–2872)
- Thorondir (2872–2882)
- Túrin II (2882–2914)
- Turgon (2914–2953)
- Ecthelion II (2953–2984)
- Denethor II (2984–3019)
Soon after the death of Denethor II, Aragorn Elessar was crowned King. The Steward Faramir, son of Denethor II, surrendered to the King his rod of office, but it was returned to him. Faramir nominally ruled briefly as Steward until Elessar's coronation, but since Faramir rested in the Houses of Healing, Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth took his place much of that time. Though Faramir became Steward a month and a half before Elessar became King, Faramir is not considered one of the Ruling Stewards. King Elessar confirmed in Faramir and his descendants the office of Steward of Gondor, and granted him in addition the Princedom of Ithilien, ensuring his line a position as counselor of the King.


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Woman sentenced to lengthy prison term for attempted murder
A 21-year-old Buffalo woman was sentenced this week to lengthy prison terms for firing shots from a .32-caliber pistol at a woman outside a Buffalo nightclub and then at a passing car as she ran away.
Janiera G. Ross was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison for second-degree attempted murder, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office. Ross admitted firing the shots at close range, wounding Jherilynn Williams on the 1400 block of Main Street, near Glenwood Avenue, about 3:30 p.m. March 24.
When Ross fled, she was almost struck by a car. One of the four college students in the car yelled at Ross for running in front of the car, and she fired multiple shots at them, prosecutors said.
She was sentenced to two and one-third to seven years for first-degree reckless endangerment for firing shots at the car. None of the students was hurt.
State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller ordered the sentences to be served consecutively, meaning her total prison sentence is 14 and one-third to 19 years in prison.
She had faced up to 25 years in prison.


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Nobody who knows me would believe that I ever hesitate to say exactly what I think, but around doctors I've always been tongue-tied. Partly, it could be the situation: shivering in a paper gown in front of a relative stranger doesn't provide optimal conditions for a friendly conversation. Another aspect is that I tend to believe that if you hire an expert, you should follow their recommendations without causing them a lot of grief. Then there's the "just do what you're told and don't question authorities" phenomenon (again, those who know me are laughing at the suggestion that I might think such a thing).
If there's any advantage to being diagnosed with a chronic disease, it's that I'm learning to talk to medical people instead of silently accepting everything they say. Medblogs are a big part of that. I discovered writings by doctors who don't seem above it all; they seem like nice people who listen to patients and use the stories they hear to make people's lives better. Musings of a Distractible Mind is the first blog I found, followed by Notes From the Country Doctor, A Country Doctor Writes, and Whitecoat's Call Room.
Before medblogs, I hadn't know that there are people who became doctors to help people. I thought the profession was selected based on prestige and potential income. Before reading medblogs, it hadn't occurred to me before that a doctor might want more than the bare-bones information written on a questionnaire. The things I've discovered could fill a book, but the point pertinent to this post (before I get even farther off track) is that based on the medblogs I read (those cited above, plus a number of others), I've discovered that it's okay to speak up.
Example #1
The first rheumy just wasn't working out for me (details of which I won't go into again here). I dreaded every appointment. Finally I told my PCP that I was thinking of looking for a new rheumatologist. That probably sounds like a small thing, but for me, it was huge. In less than a minute my PCP had written a new referral – and this doctor is a much better fit for me. All I had to do was speak up.
Example #2
When my (new) rheumy was reviewing my meds last fall, pondering my response and whether it was time to try something different, she said, "It looks like you've been taking this since May…" I spoke up – new concept! Actually, I'd been taking it for almost two years. Knowing that made a difference in her treatment plan.
Example #3
PT, not MD. Most of my exercises are supposed to be done with 20-30 reps. One of them is extremely difficult (I'm lucky to do ten), and another is super easy (I'm still going strong at sixty but stop because it's so boring). Before RA I would have just done 20 reps of each and gone on to the next thing. Now, I dare speak.
Me: How many did you want me to do of these?
PT: 20 or stop sooner if you get tired.
Me: I could do these all day.
I never would have said anything before. I would've gone home, checked what it says on the printed exercise list he gave me, and followed instructions to the letter (persisting in an exercise that was useless). However, given my feedback, the therapist modified the exercise so that it actually helped.
I've been pondering… Have I had doctors do things that make it harder/easier to talk to them?
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Martha's Sewing Room "Crazy Quilting" Embellishing a Summer Separates garment with crazy quilting; constructing a Sew Quick, Sew Easy sewing wallet; And Sew On segment on creating rickrack roses and leaves; Hand embroidered herringbone stitch. Guests: Missy Billingsley, Kari Mecca, Gloria McKinnon. D
10:30 am
Best of the Joy of Painting "Double Take" Bob Ross presents another unique idea, two paintings (summer and winter) overlapping on the same black canvas. D
11:00 am
New Scandinavian Cooking with Andreas Viestad "The World's Best Sausages" Andreas prepares sausages on the slopes of a fjord in the Ryfylke region. He creates homemade ketchup and mixes an elegant drink on a glacier.G
11:30 am
Joanne Weir's Cooking Class ""Saintly" Penne & Fried Oyster Caesar" Joanne finds her student Ron's enthusiasm for food contagious as she shows him how to prepare a pasta dish whose star is a spicy olive oil condiment, and shares the story of how she came up with a novel take on a popular salad. Recipes: (1) PENNE WITH OLIO SANTO, RICOTTA SALATA, OLIVES AND MINT, (2) FRIED OYSTER "CAESAR" SALAD. Student: Ron Martin - Firefighter. D
12:00 pm
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "La Demora (The Delay)" In this episode, Raquel's plane to Argentina is delayed and she spends time reviewing her experiences in Spain.G
12:30 pm
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Revelaciones (Revelations)" This episode covers numbers from 100 to 1,000. The conversational Spanish is much more rapid and, compared to previous episodes.G
1:00 pm
Unseen Life On Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology "Energy and Growth" There were microorganisms on earth approximately 2 billion years before any other life forms evolved. Because of this profound head- start they have evolved several different metabolic strategies for producing energy and securing the materials needed for growth. This program examines those mechanisms using examples that should be familiar to all students. D
1:30 pm
Unseen Life On Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology "Life's Databases" All life on earth uses DNA as an information storage molecule. This program deals with the way that information is expressed in cellular growth and metabolism. It also examines how the tools that helped us understand the genetics of inheritance can be used to solve both environmental and health problems. D
2:00 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Maxwell's Equations" Maxwell discovers that displacement current produces electromagnetic waves or light. D
2:30 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Optics" Many properties of light are properties of waves, including reflection, refraction, and diffraction. D
3:00 pm
Discovering Psychology "The Power of the Situation" Reveals how social psychologists attempt to understand behavior within its broader social context and how our beliefs and behavior can be influenced and manipulated by other people and by subtle situational forces.G
3:30 pm
Discovering Psychology "Constructing Social Reality" Investigates the factors that contribute to our interpretation of reality and how understanding the psychological processes that govern our behavior can help us become more empathetic and independent members of society.G
4:00 pm
Saddle Club "Borrowing Freedom" Garnet humiliates Veronica by refusing to make a difficult jump. She hires a horse breaker in her attempt to make it to the regionals.G
4:30 pm
Biz Kid$ "The Green Economy & You" Join the Biz Kids on a mission and discover your impact on the environment. Explore different ways to become part of the green economy and learn how there's green to be made in thinking green. Find out about "The Big Green Bus" and "Zoo Doo. D
5:00 pm
The Electric Company "Scent of a Human" On the day he is supposed to star in his own rap video, Hector is hypnotized into thinking he's a dog. Can The Electric Company train Hector to use his human instincts, or will he have to rap with a doggie brain?. D
5:30 pm
Cyberchase "Eureeka!" (topic: 2- & 3-D Geometry) - Pursued by Hacker, Digit lands on cybersite Eureeka, where his mission is to find Professor Archimedes - the maker of the encryptor chip, a unique computer chip that can fix Motherboard. But Archimedes is nowhere to be found - only a pile of two-dimensional rods where his chip factory should be. The kids arrive to help, and discover that by linking the two-dimensional rods together into certain geometrical patterns they actually create a surprising three-dimensional shape that leads directly to unraveling the mystery of Archimedes' strange disappearance. D
6:00 pm
Essential Pepin "Shell-Ebration" Crab Cakes With Avocado Sauce; Oysters Madison; Mussels Poulette; Mussels Gratinee; Clam Fritters. D
6:30 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Cool and Creamy Desserts" Host Christopher Kimball visits Toscanini's to learn the secrets behind professional ice-cream making. Next, test cook Bridget Lancaster shows Chris how to make the Best Homemade Ice Cream. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his pick for the top ice-cream makers, and tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of vanilla beans. D
7:00 pm
Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen "Gaucho Grill" Gaucho describes the cowboys of northern Argentina and southern Brazil. These rustic cattle herders developed a simple yet powerful style of grilling over an open wood fire, a tradition still celebrated around Planet Barbecue today. Here are three indispensible gaucho favorites: Chicken roasted in a salt crust, from Uruguay's celebrity grill master, Francis Mallmann; the monster beef ribs that made the reputation of Brazil's famous grill house, Fogo de Chao; and a dessert from Brazil's cattle country, a pineapple you roast on the rotisserie. D
7:30 pm
Clodagh's Irish Food Trails "Valentia, Co. Kerry" NULL
8:00 pm
The Woodwright's Shop "Steam Power Sawmill" Fired by wood scraps, a giant steam engine drives ancient saws and window sash mills. D
8:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Burgundy: Profound France" Rick takes time to enjoy the region's edible, drinkable, scenic and floatable delights. He travels on a canal barge, visits a medieval hospice and a modern monastery, builds a barrel, appreciates fine Burgundy wine, slurps escargot and eats well.G
9:00 pm
Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Touring Ireland" Burt visits Ireland's great pilgrimage sites, follows the trails of St. Patrick, investigates the history of Guinness, learns about the most valuable book in Ireland, looks at the great architecture of Dublin and finds out what's good to eat. This program could easily become the basis for your own fascinating tour of Ireland. D
9:30 pm
Essential Pepin "Shell-Ebration" Crab Cakes With Avocado Sauce; Oysters Madison; Mussels Poulette; Mussels Gratinee; Clam Fritters. D
10:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Cool and Creamy Desserts" Host Christopher Kimball visits Toscanini's to learn the secrets behind professional ice-cream making. Next, test cook Bridget Lancaster shows Chris how to make the Best Homemade Ice Cream. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his pick for the top ice-cream makers, and tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of vanilla beans. D
10:30 pm
Burt Wolf: What We Eat "How Sweet It Is: The Story of Sugar" Sugar started out in Asia, traveled to the Middle East and then to Europe first as a medicine and then as a rare spice. During his second voyage in 1493, Columbus brought it to the Caribbean where it changed into a common necessity, became a key element in the Caribbean slave trade and an early example of capitalist manufacturing. We'll find out why people who had a sweet tooth had a better chance of surviving than people who didn't and how sugar became the basis for England's international trade, a key element in the control of Britain's working class, and an essential part of the temperance movement. D
11:00 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Go Nuts!" Joanne goes "nuts" and makes for us her five-spice, ginger, and cayenne packed Asian Toasted Nuts. Then she encourages her student Geoff to do the same making stir-fried chicken, pine-nut lettuce wraps, and cardamom-scented rice with toasted almonds. Recipes: Asian Toasted Nuts, Stir-Fried Chicken and Mushroom Lettuce Wraps, and Cardamom-Scented Rice with Toasted Almonds. D
11:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Burgundy: Profound France" Rick takes time to enjoy the region's edible, drinkable, scenic and floatable delights. He travels on a canal barge, visits a medieval hospice and a modern monastery, builds a barrel, appreciates fine Burgundy wine, slurps escargot and eats well.G


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Saturday, June 7, 2014
Museum of Natural History
Stars to Starfish compares the exploration of our universe with the exploration of Earth's oceans. Underscoring the importance of our home's last great resource, this beautiful excursion features stunning underwater photography and videography by Mike and Jan Davis. Star talk included. $5 adults, seniors, and children.


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The conclusion!
Apollyon kills the last necrolyte.
Elven Reinforcements - Alex
The silver spears put a quick end to the last ghosts.
Final Overwatch and kills:
Falk - 10
tymon555 - 7
Apollyon - 5
Alex - 9
Stormblessed/RWL - 4
Mosshide calls forth the forces of nature to destroy the deathgate.
Mosshide: In time, these wounds shall heal; although I still need to pass judgement on you, Apollyon.
Mosshide: You have shown great courage and selfless heroism in this fight, yet your crimes are still grave, and you must be punished. By ancient law, I shall banish you eternally from elven lands, Apollyon. You must leave immediately and never return.
Apollyon: As you command, wise ancient. I shall leave.
Valeera: Before you do, I... this incident had shown us how volatile the enemy your empire is facing; they are dangerous foes. Once you return, tell your king that the elves of Evergreen Woods are ready to fight by his side.
Apollyon: I will Valeera. Thank you.
Later, at the borderlands of elven woods:
Gallikronn: Greetings Apollyon! It's good to see you alive and in one piece!
Apollyon: Who are you, elven sage, and what do you want from me?
Gallikronn: I am Gallikronn, but I am no elf. I'm here to give you fast transport to Imperial City.
That was Raid on Tranquility Glade. Hope you've enjoyed it! I'll post an interlude soon(ish), and a new battle will be happening in the future as well.


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Emmy nominations better than usual
This year's picks for TV honors reflect best of the medium
San Francisco
Dang, you can really count on the Emmys to spoil the fun.
It used to be that you could count on at least half the nominees for the Emmys being so absurd, you could sharpen your teeth and vocabulary at the same time by ranting with something approaching critical glee.
But not this year.
The 66th incarnation of the TV awards show will air live from the Nokia Theater on Monday on NBC, WNYT, Ch. 13, with Seth Meyers hosting. The show will probably be fairly awful, because it always is, no matter how good the host is. Meyers could counterbalance some of the bloat, and I would expect a tribute to Robin Williams, who never received any Emmy love while he was alive but whose contributions to the medium can be seen in every comic who colors outside the lines today.
There will be suspense in some categories, of course, but overall, because most of the nominees are worthy, the outrage potential is considerably lessened. Oh, I have a few quibbles with the nominations, but they're pretty minor. I don't understand why Melissa McCarthy gets a nod for "Mike & Molly," a grade C sitcom if there ever was one. Or how "White Queen" got nominated for best miniseries when it's mediocre at best. And it's criminal that the TV academy omitted a nomination for Tatiana Maslany in "Orphan Black," but when it comes to what happens on Sunday, if Lizzy Caplan bested Robin Wright, or Aaron Paul won over Peter Dinklage, I'd be fine with that.
It's not necessarily that the TV academy has gotten smart, but, rather, that just as the gap between the rich and poor is said to be widening, the gap between universally acknowledged TV greatness and the rest of the pack is yawning like the Grand Canyon this year. In offering my humble wishes about Sunday's winners, I agonized a lot in some categories because the nominations are generally worthy.
Here's a list of nominees in the major categories, along with my picks for each one. These aren't necessarily the ones I think will win — frankly, I think "Orange Is the New Black" may win over "Silicon Valley," but I'm partial to the sustained genius of Mike Judge's new show.
BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA NOMINEES: Michelle Dockery, "Downton Abbey"; Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"; Robin Wright, "House of Cards"; Lizzy Caplan, "Masters of Sex"; Claire Danes, "Homeland"; Kerry Washington, "Scandal." MY PICK: Robin Wright
BEST ACTOR, DRAMA NOMINEES: Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"; Kevin Spacey, "House of Cards"; Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"; Jeff Daniels, "The Newsroom"; Woody Harrelson, "True Detective"; Matthew McConaughey, "True Detective." MY PICK: Matthew McConaughey
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA NOMINEES: Anna Gunn, "Breaking Bad"; Christine Baranski, "The Good Wife"; Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey"; Joanne Froggatt, "Downton Abbey"; Lena Headey, "Game of Thrones"; Christina Hendricks, "Mad Men." MY PICK: Anna Gunn
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA NOMINEES: Aaron Paul, "Breaking Bad"; Jim Carter, "Downton Abbey"; Peter Dinklage, "Game of Thrones"; Mandy Patinkin, "Homeland"; Jon Voight, "Ray Donovan"; Josh Charles, "The Good Wife." MY PICK: Peter Dinklage
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES NOMINEES: "Breaking Bad," "Downton Abbey," "Game of Thrones," "House of Cards," "Mad Men," "True Detective." MY PICK: "True Detective."
LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY SERIES NOMINEES: Melissa McCarty. "Mike & Molly"; Lena Dunham, "Girls"; Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"; Taylor Schilling, "Orange Is the New Black"; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"; Amy Poehler, "Parks and Recreation." MY PICK: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES NOMINEES: Ricky Gervais, "Derek"; Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes"; Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"; William H. Macy, "Shameless"; Louis CK, "Louis"; Jim Parson, "The Big Bang Theory." MY PICK: Louis CK
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY SERIES NOMINEES: Julie Bowen, "Modern Family"; Alison Janney, "Mom"; Kate Mulgrew, "Orange Is the New Black,": Kate McKinnon, various characters, "Saturday Night Live"; Mayim Bialik, "The Big Bang Theory"; Anna Chlumsky, "Veep." MY PICK: Alison Janney
SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES NOMINEES: Adam Driver, "Girls"; Andre Braugher, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"; Ty Burrell, "Modern Family"; Jesse Tyler Ferguson, "Modern Family"; Fred Armisen, various characters, "Portlandia"; Tony Hale, "Veep." MY PICK: Tony
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES NOMINEES: "Louie," "Modern Family," "Orange Is the New Black," "Silicon Valley," "Veep"; "The Big Bang Theory." MY PICK: "Silicon Valley."
LEAD ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR MOVIE' NOMINEES: Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson, "American Horror Story: Coven"; Cicely Tyson, "Trip to Bountiful"; Helena Bonham Carter, "Burton and Taylor"; Minnie Driver, "Return to Zero"; Kristen Wiig, "The Spoils of Babylon." MY PICK: Cicely Tyson
LEAD ACTOR, MINISERIES OR MOVIE NOMINEES: Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Dancing on the Edge"; Mark Ruffalo, "The Normal Heart"; Benedict Cumberbatch, "Sherlock"; Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman, "Fargo" ; Idris Elba, "Luther." MY PICK: Billy Bob Thornton
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR MOVIE NOMINEES: Frances Conroy, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, "American Horror Story: Coven"; Julia Roberts, "The Normal Heart"; Ellen Burstyn, "Flowers in the Attic"; Allison Tolman, "Fargo." MY PICK: Allison Tolman
SUPPORTING ACTOR, MINISERIES OR MOVIE NOMINEES: Colin Hanks, "Fargo"; Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer, Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello, all for "The Normal Heart"; Martin Freeman, "Sherlock." MY PICK: Matt Bomer
OUTSTANDING VARIETY SHOW NOMINEES: "The Colbert Report," "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "Real Time With Bill Maher"; "Saturday Night Live." MY PICK: "The Colbert Report"
OUTSTANDING MINISERIES NOMINEES: "American Horror Story: Coven," "Bonnie & Clyde," "Fargo," "Luther," "The White Queen," "Treme.' MY PICK: "Fargo"
OUTSTANDING REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM NOMINEES: "Dancing With the Stars," "Project Runway," "So You Think You Can Dance," "The Amazing Race," "The Voice," "Top Chef." MY PICK: "Dancing With the Stars"
OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE NOMINEES: "Killing Kennedy," "The Normal Heart," "Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight," "Sherlock: His Last Vow," "The Trip to Bountiful." MY PICK: "The Normal Heart"
David Wiegand is The San Francisco Chronicle's executive features editor and TV critic. E-mail: dwiegandsfchronicle.com Twitter: WaitWhat—TV
BROADCAST NOTES: 66th annual Prime Time Emmy Awards: Airs live at 8 p.m. Monday on NBC, WNYT Ch 13. David Wiegand will tweet live during the show WaitWhat—TV.


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No Wind, No Racing In Naples At 2014 Audi Tron Sailing Series
5 April 2014
Naples, Italy - Unfortunately, the first day of scheduled racing at the 2014 Audi Melges 20 Audi Tron Sailing Series in Naples, Italy did not run any races due to the lack of breeze. All twenty-eight teams taking part in the event, hosted by the Circolo del Remo e della Vela Italia, organized by B.Plan Sport&Events (BPSE) in cooperation with Melges Europe were sent back to shore.
The fleet found their way back to the docks very quietly and environmentally friendly, special thanks to the electric outboard motors provided to all the teams by Torqeedo, a sailing series circuit partner supported by automobile manufacturer Ingolstadt.
Once back ashore, the teams relaxed at the Yacht Club and Audi Hospitality Village, set along the Caracciolo seafront, a few meters away the Castel Dell'Ovo where they enjoyed free rides in the Audi latest models.
The Audi Tron Sailing Series will resume on Sunday, 6 April at 09.30.
As in the past, the start of the Audi Tron Sailing Series means the return of the Audi test drives too. Anyone can demo the A3 g-tron, RS6 Avant, SQ5, and A1 SB Admired. For further details, please call 345.9585343, or email email@example.com.
In addition to main sponsor Audi, the Audi Tron is supported by official sponsors Kuehne+Nagel, Torqeedo electric motors and technical partners such as the Ente Fiera di Genova, Nespresso and Olicor.
As with other Audi Melges 20 events in Europe and around the world, racing updates will be posted online at the Official Audi Melges 20 Facebook Page. Tune in for the latest racing information, results, video interviews, and photos. Race reports, press releases and photos will be available online each day post racing at melges20.com.


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It's not often that most of us get to ride the exact same machines that the pro's do. While we can buy team replica frames, most often they don't come with the same parts that the pro's actually ride. Sure you may end up with a bike that may have the same color scheme, and some of the components may look almost right, but when you see a close-up of the pro's equipment you realize that what you ended up with is indeed just a replica. It's not the same race-ready gear that is built to hold up to the rigors of the upper echelon of pro cycling.
But Diamondback set out to change all of that in 2014 when they announced that the Optum Pro Cycling presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies team was going to ride Diamondback Podium bikes. The Podium is one of the finest bikes we've ever had the opportunity to ride. Stiff, fast, responsive, and drop-dead gorgeous, these are bikes that can help Optum, and you, take the win. And this is no "team replica" bike either. The light Continuous Fiber Technology frameset is painted up in team livery colors, hung with pro-level SRAM Red 22 components, and rolling on stiff HED carbon tubulars – in short it's the exact same bike the Optum pro's will be riding in the Tour of California and other top races in North America and Europe. And the best news is, it's now available at Performance Bicycle.
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Free Democrats' Uphill Battle in German Election
Germany's Free Democratic Party formed a coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union at the last general election in 2009. But the Free Democratic Party has struggled in the polls, having slumped to as low as 2% of the vote. Harriet Torry assesses its chances.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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bonou2 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 96 designs submitted by 41 freelance designers.
Logo required for established Makeup Artist/Model in Brisbane, Australia
Erin Bigg - Makeup Artist/Model
Elegant,modern, classy, feminine, artistic, glamourous, clean
I am a makeup artist and model - my main focus being onmakeup, however I still want to incorporate model into my logo as it is still arelevant part of the work I do.
I cover all areas of makeup from photoshoots forcommercial purposes, porfolios for models, weddings, formals, catwalk andcreative makeup. My target audience is females who want to reveal their innerbeauty on the outside. I need to be able to appeal to these women and assistwith their transformation.
My twomajor competitors are:
- I want a logo that has Erin Bigg as main text and Make Up Artist/Model as subtext
- I wanta logo that incorporates lips – hot pink in colour as though a woman has pickedup a piece of paper and kissed it while wearing lipstick.
- I want a logo that incorporates my website http://www.erinbigg.com.au
Iwould like my name written as though it were a signature – possibly in black.
Iwould like makeup artist/model in some sort of subtext and not necessarilyusing a forward slash (/) but somehow seperated.
I wantit to look glamorous and feminine and want a 'clean' design
Iam open to colour, however I visualised it as black, pink and white
Kissesas in "xxx" could also be incorporated somehow but this is not essential andmay be too much with the lips anyway.
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One of the best ways to engage young children in math is to make it hands-on. Here are three hands-on tools that can give kindergartners opportunities to do some great mathematical thinking in the context of…them.
Bathroom Scale: The bathroom scale is a fun math "tool" to have in the house because it gives kids immediate feedback and, the best part is, it's all about them! Unlike a lot of adults who may not like standing on a bathroom scale, kids find it fascinating.
There are two kinds of bathroom scales: a digital scale and one where the numbers are visible on and off the scale. The digital scale is the best scale to use for this activity as the other scale usually only shows decade numbers or multiples of 20 making it pretty abstract for young kids. Since the digital scale usually shows decimals, you may want younger kids to ignore the number after the decimal point. (It's okay to say that the number after the decimal point tells us know how close we are to adding on one more pound…but let them
know that for now you're going to ignore it.)
Have your child step on the scale and read the number. Offer help, if needed. Don't worry about your child not knowing how to read the numbers. That will come with time and experience. But it's important that you say them out loud so they can begin to see how the words are connected to the symbols.
Ask her what the number would be if she weighed one more/less pound. Then have her find something that you know weighs at least a pound and have her get back on the scale holding it. Ask her if the number will be greater or less than what she weighed when she didn't have the object. Ask if she can find something that would make the number go even higher. Then have her press just her hands on the scale. Is the number greater or less than standing on the scale? Why does she think that happened?
Tape measures and rulers: Kids should grow up being as comfortable with using a ruler or tape measure as they are using a pencil. After all, a ruler is simply a tool we use when we need to solve a linear measurement problem. But since opportunities to use rulers or tape measures in the context of everyday life don't happen that often, here are some fun ways to introduce them to these cool tools.
Tell them you're going to measure how far they can jump. Show them the tape measure, preferably one that does not have metal edges, and teach them how to use it. Since young kids will often start measuring an object beginning at the '1' mark on the ruler, you'll need to show them how to measure starting at the end of the tape measure. Then, find a good place for them to begin jumping making sure the "start line" is clearly marked. Masking tape works well for this.
Kids love to keep track of how far they can jump and like to see if they can beat their record. If needed, help them read the numbers on the tape measure. Ask questions such as How many more inches did you jump this time?
To take this to the next level, see if they can find objects around the house that measure about as far as they can jump. Or have them measure the length of their foot or arm. You can also introduce them to measuring with a ruler and find objects that measure about six inches, etc.
Calendar: The calendar packs a powerful punch when it comes to teachable math moments. Not only will kids be learning counting, the months of the year and the days of the week, you'll also be reinforcing the
ccalendar, kids will begin to understand time and how long until something happens. And, aside from the mathematical learning benefits, using the calendar has positive emotional benefits, as well. When kids know what to expect, they feel more relaxed and in control.
I recommend getting a 12-month calendar and hanging it in a prominent location low enough for your kids to be able to "read" it. With the help of your child, fill in the important weekly events such as gymnastics class Mondays at 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays soccer practice at 3:30 p.m. and grandma and grandpa visiting Saturday
at 11:00 a.m. Each morning, discuss the daily happenings and tie in some math. How many more days until grandma comes to visit? How many days are in September? As your kids get older, have them fill in their own weekly events. This helps kids learn how to set up and be in charge of their own lives, another added benefit.
Karyn is co-founder of Math Unity LLC, an educational company specializing in elementary mathematics. She has a BA in Child Development, a Masters of Arts in Education with a Specialization in Elementary Mathematics and a multiple subjects teaching credential. Her passion is designing real-world lessons that resonate with kids and their interests. Karyn is the creator of Nifty Numbers, Math Medley, Gellin' with Geometry and Play and Take Family Math Night kits. These kits were designed to build strong family-school partnerships and get parents involved in fun and engaging math activities with their children. To find out more, visit www.FamilyMathNight.com


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OUTSIDE SAN LUIS DE LA LOMA, Mexico — Don Polo's heavily armed convoy wound its way through the hills above the lush coastal plain of Guerrero state, its groves of slender palm trees now far below him.
The two-lane country road twisted eastward, and upward, for miles. But around each bend, there were no campesinos, no burros, no dogs, no cars barreling down toward the Pacific. Fields of yellow grass, grown taller than a man, covered the landscape, animated only by the wind.
This, though, was no vision of tranquillity. This was the road to the pueblos fantasmas, the ghost pueblos.
PHOTOS: Ghost pueblos of Mexico
"There used to be hundreds of heads of cattle here," Don Polo said. "But now there are no cattle to eat the grass, because the farmers can't live here anymore.
"All of this is due to organized crime."
Leopoldo "Polo" Soberanis, a 54-year-old fruit-packing impresario whom most here respectfully address as Don Polo, said he wanted the world to see what had happened in this swath of Guerrero state set between the famous beach resorts of Acapulco and Ixtapa.


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Hong Kong Holiday
I'm definitely a little late on posting these photos, but a few weeks ago I took a little last-minute solo journey to check out Hong Kong. Being so busy all summer long, I managed to take a week off before the fall (our super busy season) starts up and get out of Shanghai for a bit.
After securing a fairly cheap round-trip flight and booking a room in Causeway Bay, I was only 48 hours away from one of my best 72-hour vacations to date. Most people who visit Hong Kong for such a short period do so for visa renewals; I was just late on figuring out what to do with my week off. Oops, silly me. My trip was purely for pleasure.
I wanted to do so much during my visit, but didn't want to bite off more than I could chew. I had plans of checking out bike shops too but just ran out of time. Next visit, I'm definitely going to go see Brian at RDFX and hopefully find someone/somewhere to lend me a bike for a few days and get a real feel for the city. Though even just being in HK for 3 days, I managed to squeeze quite a bit in and even made a few new friends.


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Avocados by Mail! California Avocados Direct Delivers
If you are an avocado lover—or you know one whose birthday is coming up—a box of these bumpy green fruits sitting on your doorstep sounds like heaven, right? One company in California has started a mail-order business in an effort to combat the competition and high water prices that threaten the family farm. We had the chance to try out the goods.
The Holtz family has been farming avocados for decades, and in January, they started shipping fresh-picked avocados straight to consumers. It's funny; we know plenty of farms (not to mention companies like Harry & David) that ship citrus and other fruits. Why not avocados? We'd much rather get these than a bunch of pears any day.
The avocados are shipped the same day they're picked and are nestled in straw with a little heat pack (like a hand warmer you use when you're skiing), which we're assuming keeps the avocados from freezing during winter months or else helps them start ripening? There's a booklet inside that tells you how long your avocados should take to ripen, plus tips on storing them. We loved the advice on freezing avocado flesh; apparently it works like a charm, which we never knew.
As we expected, the downside is the price. Gift boxes start at $35.95 for six. The price includes shipping—which is usually the big expense with food delivery—but that's still almost $6 per avocado. Organic avocados at Whole Foods cost about $3 each. That's painful enough for us.
The payoff? Quality and size. Every once in a while, we'll cut open an avocado from the store, only to find spotted, mealy flesh—such a waste. The Holtz family posts a video on their website discussing how they guarantee their avocados will arrive unblemished and beautiful. We certainly agree; ours were HUGE and gorgeous. If we were paying by the pound, these guys probably would cost $6 a piece at the store.
• Check them out: California Avocados Direct
Another thing to consider: It took our avocados almost a week to fully ripen, which was fine, and we planned meals accordingly. But once they ripen, they all ripen. We had eight avocados that needed to be eaten fairly quickly, whereas when we buy them at the store, we buy what we need right then so we don't waste any. We'll definitely need to freeze some of these.
Overall, we'd recommend these as a spectacular gift and a way to support a farm in the US (especially for those of us in the Northeast with no local avocado growers). But as a regular indulgence, they are a bit pricey.
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In a move that surprised even the Cubs, former staff ace and closer Kerry Wood agreed to return to his baseball roots and sign with his original team for one year, $1.5 million, according to a source.
… As recently as last week, team officials expected Wood to take a more lucrative, multi-year offer from either the New York Yankees, where he finished last season, or the Boston Red Sox.
Wood also considered a one-year, $3.5 million offer from the White Sox before following his heart back to the North Side, where he maintains strong relationships with Cubs' front office personnel, as well as several former teammates still with the club.
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While most of the formatting functions can be accessed through the buttons above each text window, it can be helpful to know the exact codes required.
- Linking directly to other articles (Wikifying): [[Article name]], or to dress, [[Article name|Text that appears in article]]
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Giving Melky second chance may be worth it
In time, the line will get to Melky Cabrera. Yes, he got caught for having unusually high levels of testosterone, was suspended for 50 games, was left off the Giants' World Series roster and was involved with a phony website designed to make it seem as if he had naively bought a cream online that resulted in the positive performance-enhancing drug test.
We know all that. We also know that after a two-month investigation, the Players Association cleared Cabrera's agents, Sam and Seth Levinson of ACES, of any knowledge or wrongdoing in the posting of the website by Juan Nunez in the Dominican Republic; Nunez was a part-time associate of the agency, was found to have acted on his own and has moved on. Not surprisingly, other agencies have moved in to try to poach some of ACES' clients, but while five have gone elsewhere since the Cabrera suspension Aug. 15, players like Scott Rolen, Dustin Pedroia and Jonathan Papelbon have steadfastly remained with the agency.
Did Cabrera make a serious mistake? Of course. He so acknowledged, asked to not be qualified for the batting title -- which he could have won -- and is moving on. Nunez has moved on. The Major League Baseball anti-doping program worked. An All-Star got caught, served a 50-game suspension without pay (although, per MLB rules, he does get a World Series share) and will certainly have a much-lessened free-agent market value.
But Cabrera will have a market, likely for a year as he re-establishes himself at the age of 28, likely laden with ifs, ands and buts as well as incentives, such as no internet access. He won't be the only one coming back from a suspension. Bartolo Colon was suspended this year, was not on the Oakland postseason roster, and has already re-signed with the Athletics in the early free-agent rush. Cabrera was not banned for life. Mike Cameron was once suspended, and later got a multiyear contract. One can be certain the Padres hope Yasmani Grandal learns from his recent suspension. Hey, in the NFL, a player can be traded while suspended for a positive PED test, which is how the New England Patriots ended up with Aqib Talib.
Now, the question is, how good is Melky Cabrera? Is he a lock to be the guy who put up a record 51 hits in May, hit .346 with a .390/.516/.906 line, 158 OPS+ and a 4.7 WAR that despite missing 45 regular-season games was better than that of Ryan Zimmerman, Carlos Beltran and Adam LaRoche -- while playing his home games at AT&T Park?
Signing Melky will be be an event that will raise some talk-show and columnist ire; the Levinsons appreciate that and have let some big-market teams such as the Red Sox know that it's probably best that Melky doesn't go there. There will be the simplistic deduction that 2012 was entirely the product of the PEDs, but colleagues like Joe Sheehan and Keith Law, who have broken down Cabrera's 2011 season in Kansas City and his 2012 season in San Francisco, have concluded that the two seasons were essentially consistent except for a noticeable spike in BABIP (batting average on balls in play) in 2012.
In 2011 for the Royals, Cabrera batted .305 with a .339/.470/.809 line and a 121 OPS+, decent without the BABIP study, and good enough to merit being traded to the Giants for Jonathan Sanchez, whose train went off the tracks in 2012. Melky apparently had learned a lesson from his poor 2010 season in Atlanta, as the Braves felt he got heavy and released him. He has always had an above-average corner outfielder's arm. Cabrera has always been a baseball rat who from the time he arrived in New York was a favorite of Don Mattingly, who anyone would want on his side. At 28, it would seem that Cabrera's eight-year average of .284 with a .338/.414/.752 line could and probably should move upward.
After Hamilton, Michael Bourn is probably the free-agent outfielder who will attract the most attention because he is an elite center fielder and a leadoff man. B.J. Upton will create a line. So will Hunter. Nick Swisher. Angel Pagan. Cody Ross and Delmon Young. Jason Bay, away from Citi Field. Grady Sizemore, rehabbing from a second microfracture operation, this time on his other knee.
There are trades to be made, although they are increasingly difficult -- even for a Justin Upton -- because of the way teams value young players.
And there is Melky, switch-hitter, 28. He made a mistake, he has been disciplined, he is going to take a market hit as he re-establishes who and what he is, which likely is somewhere in a smaller market where his production will fall somewhere between what it was in Atlanta and what it was on Aug. 15.


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Thanks tautologies, The damage is a bit further up than the picture you show, right where the steering lines cross following a rotation before you spin the bar.
I have had one incident with the kite looping uncontrollably that I punched out from, but I did not notice damamge after this (and it is quite noticable damage, both when kiting and setting up). I first noticed the damage a few sessions ago and it appeared to get worse over the last couple of sessions.
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She was having a very hard time with the whole year. In January, she had an aortic valve replacement, triple bypass, then a major lung infection. But as we talked and she began sharing her story, her liveliness and her true nature surfaced.
"My husband died in 1972 and left me with six children ages 10-20." Pause. "And I'm still angry about that!"
Fortunately he left her with a good enough income to take care of the family, and she continued to work in jobs at the church, becoming the music department manager and bookkeeper.
A few highlights of Rose Mary:
She was the first female student at the University of St. Louis in 1947, studying music.
She won a Westinghouse Scholarship and transferred to Washington University to earn a degree in chemical engineering.
She met and married George Taylor, a fellow engineering student.
She obtained an FBI Q1490 security clearance and worked separating U235 from U238 and tested radiation going into the Mississippi River.
In 1951, she and George moved to San Diego and worked at Convair. Although they were not hiring women, they hired Rose Mary and she worked in the test lab.
After their children were born, Rose Mary stayed home to raise them, as well as her 11-year-old half sister. She volunteered in just about everything she could: PTA, League of Woman Voters, YWCA, San Diego Church Women United, La Jolla Open Housing Committee, Salvation Army [founder of Haven Project for unwed mothers], San Diego Opera Board, La Jolla Chair San Diego Symphony, President of California Ballet, Starlight Society Board, La Jolla Stage Company Board, San Diego Metropolitan Opera Auditions Committee, San Diego Master Chorale.
She became fascinated with Parliamentary Procedures and wrote by-laws for many nonprofits.
She persuaded the League of Women Voters to get the first Selectric typewriter in town and learned how to use it well. Soon she saw a community need for printing and decided to go into business for herself.
In 1978, Rose Mary opened Imprinteur printing invitations, followed by a wedding shop. She bought an embossing machine and the first typesetting computer in La Jolla. She was the first and only solo woman printer in the Printing Industries Association. The business grew and expanded before she sold it and tried to retire in 1990.
The Welcome Wagon, who she had done some printing for, had an opening for South La Jolla and asked her to step in temporarily in 1990. She enjoyed it so much that 15 years later, she was still doing it. When that company closed in 1999, she and her daughter, Julie Taylor, founded San Diego Newcomers to carry on the torch of welcoming newcomers.
The Village Vaudeville, created by the Soroptomist Club in the 1980s to raise money for widows or divorcées getting back in to the workforce, featured Rose Mary dancing in a chorus line called the Hot Flashettes. The show was popular and ran for 11 years.
In 1989, the Salvation Army honored her as a Woman of Dedication and she has twice received the Star Award from the San Diego Performing Arts League.
Throughout her San Diego life she has sung in the La Jolla Presbyterian Church Choir and the San Diego Master Chorale, retiring last summer after 54 years. She was even registered as a vocal instrument with the San Diego Symphony.
At 83, she is active in a club she helped found, Club Altura. She is also taking classes in law and music appreciation.
Rose Mary is a woman of power. When she set her mind to something, she did it — even if no one else ever had. She does not think of herself as extraordinary, but those who meet her do.
— SharonAnn Hamilton is the founder of The Retirement Concierge, a service designed to help those facing retirement navigate the ins and outs of life transitions. www.theretirementconcierge.com