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Clifford The Big Red Dog "Fishing Lessons/No Baths for Cleo" Fishing Lessons - Clifford's Big Idea: Be Respectful Charley promises to teach Emily Elizabeth how to fish, then keeps putting it off until "tomorrow." At first Emily Elizabeth is understanding and uses the extra time to visit the library and check out books on fishing, but after a while, she's hurt by Charley's continuous cancellations. Emily Elizabeth and Jetta help him to realize that once a promise is made, it should be honored and respected. D
7:00 am
Arthur "Fern And The Case Of The Stolen Story/sue Ellen Vegges Out" Fern and the Case of the Stolen Story - The unthinkable has happened! Fern has writer's block! Fortunately, Ladonna's full of stories. Faced with a tight deadline, Fern decides to "borrow" the tales and simply change the names. Has Fern confused write and wrong? Sue Ellen Vegges Out - When Sue Ellen decides to stop eating meat, Muffy and Francine compete to be the best vegetarian. D
7:30 am
Martha Speaks "Martha's Millions/Carolina's Gifted" Martha's Millions - When Carolina reads about a dog inheriting millions, she's appalled. What could a dog do with all that money? Martha discovers that it isn't who spends it, but how you spend it, that matters most. Vocabulary: (E) inherit(s)(ed)(ing)(ance), wealthy, greedy, generous, fortune (I) will, buy, spend, stingy, give(ing). D
8:00 am
Curious George "Where's The Firedog?/Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye" Where's the Firedog? - George's canine friend Blaze keeps running away from the firehouse. When Blaze winds up in the animal shelter, George and his firefighter friend Sam learn how to keep her safe by putting a tag on her collar, walking her on a leash, and making sure she's never lonely. Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye - Toots the blues-singing germ is back and the Man with the Yellow Hat has a cold. D
8:30 am
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Rumbly Tumbly/Planet Name Game" Rumbly Tumbly: Nick's hungry tummy is rumbling! But why do our stomachs make noises when they're hungry? A super shrunken trip into Thing One's stomach will show them the answer! They learn how chewing and stomach juices help to break down the food, and the tummy sounds are actually the stomach working. When your tummy is empty, the sounds are much louder! There's only one way to quiet Nick's rumbly tumbly. a chewy chocolate chunky chunk chip cookie! Planet Name Game: Nick and Sally have run out of things to name in the garden. D
9:00 am
Super Why! "Juan Bobo and the Pig" Red can't believe her ears! Could Grandma really have asked for a "pizza paper?" The Super Readers fly into a Puerto Rican folktale to meet a boy who thinks his Momma wants him to put his pig in a dress! Maybe both Juan Bobo and Red have misunderstood! Will the Super Readers untangle this silly situation before Juan Bobo's pig runs hog wild? Educational Objectives: To learn about the importance of getting all the information. Young viewers will use the alphabet, practice spelling skills and use the power to read to change the story!. D
9:30 am
Dinosaur Train "Dinosaur Train Submarine: Maisie Mosasaurus/Date Night" The Pteranodon family goes back underwater in the Dinosaur Train Submarine and meet Maisie and Marvin Mosasaurus, a daughter and father who are huge, fast-swimming lizards with flippers. Maisie and Shiny bond when they discover neither likes to go down deep in the water. The Pteranodons and Mosasaurus have a great time up near the ocean's surface, each family showing the other how they hunt and catch fish to eat. D
10:00 am
Sesame Street "Tribute to Number Seven" Today is the number seven day on Sesame Street! Rosita, Abby, and Zoe begin singing about the number seven as they count seven dancing chickens. Next, Maria does the number seven rumba. As the seven celebration continues, a sniffling letter "S" arrives. D
11:00 am
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Daniel Uses His Words/All Aboard!" Daniel Uses his Words: Daniel is playing "farm" today, but when Mom Tiger is cleaning up, she accidentally ruins Daniel's game. Grrr! Mom teaches Daniel to express his feelings so she can understand why he is upset. Once Daniel uses his words, Mom helps him rebuild his farm. D
11:30 am
Sid The Science Kid "My Ice Pops" Sid wakes up and discovers that his ice pops melted! This sticky situation leads him to ask," Why do things have to melt?" After investigating at school, Sid learns that if liquids don't stay in a really cold place, they slowly melt over time. He also discovers that liquids can freeze into solid ice and then melt right back into liquid. D
12:00 pm
WordWorld "The Mystery of the Disappearing Pie/Duck's Family Reunion" The Mystery of the Disappearing Pie - When Pig's pie for Bear goes missing, it's up to Detective Sheep to follow the letter clues and solve the mystery of the disappearing pie! Duck's Family Reunion - Because they have a similar sounding name, Duck mistakes Truck for a long-lost relative! Frog is a bit ruffled at the epidemic of silliness going around, but ends up saving the day for Duck and his word "family". D
12:30 pm
Caillou "After Dark!" Things get a little scary today. Caillou and his new neighbours, Jason and Jeffery, are playing hide and go seek in the backyard, until dusk brings out the shadows. A flashlight and Mommy help chase the shadows away. D
1:00 pm
Barney & Friends "Counting and Letters" Counting: BJ and Riff find a pirate map, but in order to find the treasure, they have to be able to count. Since Baby Bop hasn't learned to count yet, Barney offers to help teach her so she is not left behind. In the end, Baby Bop learns to count and realizes that feeling good about herself is the greatest treasure in the world! Letters: It's time for a music concert in the park. D
1:30 pm
Thomas & Friends "Busy Days" Thomas' Crazy Day - Thomas promised to play hide and seek with his best friend Percy at the Steam Works. Sir Topham Hatt also asked him to show Bash, Dash and Ferdinand what it takes to be a Really Useful engine. Thomas decides that he has to do everything so he rushes back and forth helping the Logging Locos and playing a game of hide and seek with Percy. D
2:00 pm
Curious George "Where's The Firedog?/Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye" Where's the Firedog? - George's canine friend Blaze keeps running away from the firehouse. When Blaze winds up in the animal shelter, George and his firefighter friend Sam learn how to keep her safe by putting a tag on her collar, walking her on a leash, and making sure she's never lonely. Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye - Toots the blues-singing germ is back and the Man with the Yellow Hat has a cold. D
2:30 pm
Martha Speaks "Martha's Millions/Carolina's Gifted" Martha's Millions - When Carolina reads about a dog inheriting millions, she's appalled. What could a dog do with all that money? Martha discovers that it isn't who spends it, but how you spend it, that matters most. Vocabulary: (E) inherit(s)(ed)(ing)(ance), wealthy, greedy, generous, fortune (I) will, buy, spend, stingy, give(ing). D
3:00 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
3:30 pm
WordGirl "Wordgirl Makes A Mistake: Part 1/Wordgirl Makes A Mistake: Part 2" Wordgirl Makes A Mistake: Part 1 - Newsflash: WordGirl is mispronouncing words! Realizing her weakened state, Mr. Big captures WordGirl and plans to set up a mind control ray on the moon. Can the city and the entire planet be saved without her? (To be continued. . D
4:00 pm
Wild Kratts "Neck and Neck" As Chris and Martin search for the answer to why giraffes have long necks, a mischievous giraffe begins secretly taking Creature Power Suit parts and supplies from the Tortuga. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "On The Line" When Digit heads off alone to dispose of the powerful Network Interface Card (NIC), calamity strikes. A sinister cyvulture steals the NIC right out from under Digit's beak and gives it to Hacker! At a secret location on the Northern Frontier, Hacker uses the NIC to power up his dastardly Transformatron and transforms himself so he can slip into Control Central and replace Motherboard. To find the Transformatron and reverse its power, the CyberSquad must discover how an object can be pinpointed using two straight lines - before Hacker takes over Cyberspace forever!. D
5:00 pm
Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Lepurr Strikes" A crime wave has hit the city! The sinister, disguise-wearing criminal LePurr has been hitting up flower shops, and Ruff is determined to stop her! Ruff gets Brian to patrol a local flower shop, and he also sends Isaac out in disguise to try to trick Brian. He then sends Talia and Sterling to learn about laser light and optics, which they will use to dismantle the security system in LePurr's hideout!. D
5:30 pm
Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report, another day of big market swings. Should investors suit up for a summer of volatility? And a modern family milestone. Find out why the old saying about 'dad bringing home the bacon' no longer holds true. D
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7:00 pm
Nature "The Himalayas" Despite their forbidding appearance, the mountains, which are considered sacred, are rich with a surprising array of plants and animals. Snow leopards, red pandas, Asiatic black bears, musk deer, snub-nosed monkeys, Tibetan foxes and high-flying birds populate the heights. Great valleys draw warm wet air in from the tropics, creating rainforests at 8,000 feet, each one a tropical paradise like the long-sought Shangri-la.G
8:00 pm
NOVA "Manhunt - Boston Bombers" At 2:50pm on April 15, two bomb blasts turned the Boston Marathon finish line from a scene of triumph to tragedy. NOVA follows the manhunt for the bombers step by step, examining the role modern technology -- combined with old-fashioned detective work -- played in cracking the case.G
9:00 pm
My Brother The Jihadist Film-maker Robb Leech sets out to discover why his step-brother, Rich, a white middle-class man from Dorset became a radical Islamist. Robb first heard of his brother's conversion in a national newspaper in the summer of 2009. The article said Rich had converted under Anjem Choudary, leader of the radical Muslim group Islam4UK, which was later banned under Britain's anti-terror laws. D
10:00 pm
Life In Cold Blood "Sophisticated Serpents" David Attenborough examines the fascinating lives of the most misunderstood group of reptiles - the snakes - and reveals how their simplistic body design that has contributed to their success. Part 4 of 5G
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I need some advice for a new directional board this year. I am kiting for years on a twintip at 3rd av. and I am trying since last year to use a surfboard directional. But I have a big issue to learn how to Jibe.
I have currently a North RocketFish 2007 (5'9" - 17"). It is a good board but I just cannot learn how to Jibe with it. It seems way too unstable for a beginner on a surfboard.
I tried probably a good dozen sessions on it focusing only on Jibe without any success.
So I think I need a bigger board this year.
Reading older post on the forum, I think I need a board longer than 6" and wider than 19" (I am 150lbs).
Perhaps a board that I could use in the future for lightwind or surfing.
But the choice is huge and I have no idea what are the most common brand of Surfboard or what style of board are better for beginner.
What would you recommend?

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This is something that we have been keeping a close eye on for a while. The app, as the name of it suggests is for subscribing and downloading your favourite podcasts. Things have been moving fairly swiftly from this developer and we're today seeing some important updates to bring it up to version 1.3.
The app itself has a simple but effective UI and allows the ability to search, subscribe and update automatically. The full list of updates and details follow.
I have been using the app since it was first released to marketplace, the rapidity of the updates has caught my eye and I look forward to reviewing it when it matures a little more. For now things are coming along nicely and I find myself reaching for this over other solutions.
If you're using your Windows Phone with a US account or just live in the US, apps for podcasting might seem a little moot due to the excellent built in subscription system. For those of us outside the US apps like this are essential for grabbing a podcast or two.
Changes in this update include:
- Podcast episode description view with download button.
- Added settings: auto-continue playback from last saved position, clean old played episodes and try to use cellular data for downloading.
- Change main view pivot headers to match Windows Phone style.
- Fixes for crash in Windows Phone 8.
- Bug fixes
The app is still in its early stages and it does show in many places, the marketplace reviews will attest to that but it has promise. It currently costs US $1.49 but there is a trial mode which allows you to have two podcast subscriptions. I suggest strongly you try it before taking the plunge as it may not be for you. We really like what we see so far and look forward to more updates soon.
You can download Podcatcher from the Windows Phone Store here.


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Perhaps no other day in Mets history shook the franchise to its core like this date in 1977 when the organization traded The Franchise.
Unthinkable to many, but anticipated by him, the Mets traded the best player – still to this day – Tom Seaver to the Cincinnati Reds for pitcher Pat Zachry, infielder Doug Flynn and outfielders Steve Henderson and Dan Norman.
Three days earlier, Seaver beat the Astros in Houston, 3-1, and after the game said: "This may very well be my last game as a Met.''
Seaver went the distance that day, giving up five hits while walking two and striking out six to raise his record to 7-3 with a 3.00 ERA.
Seaver anticipated the trade when contract negotiations stalled with CEO M. Donald Grant. As Seaver became more frustrated, things finally boiled over when cantankerous New York Daily News columnist Dick Young, who publicly and loudly sided with Grant.
Unable to deal with Grant, Seaver went to then owner Lorinda de Roulet and GM Joe McDonald and reached agreement on a three-year extension. However, when Young wrote a column suggesting Seaver's wife, Nancy, was pushing him to ask for more money, the pitcher called off the deal.
Wrote Young: "In a way, Tom Seaver is like Walter O'Malley. Both are very good at what they do. Both are very deceptive in what they say. Both are very greedy. … Nolan Ryan is getting more now than Seaver, and that galls Tom because Nancy Seaver and Ruth Ryan are very friendly and Tom Seaver long has treated Nolan Ryan like a little brother.''
When the column hit the streets, Seaver knew it was time to leave.
In 2007, Seaver said: "That Young column was the straw that broke the back. Bringing your family into it with no truth whatsoever to what he wrote. I could not abide by that. I had to go.''
Young also wrote, "A man lives up to his contract,'' but four years later he broke his own contract with the Daily News and moved to the Post.


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You can open the project used in the video in ShareLaTeX by following this link: https://www.sharelatex.com/project/51ed0480335f3d63700f3aa9
In the last video we looked at splitting up documents into sections and paragraphs.
In this video we're going to be looking at adding basic maths symbols and equations into our documents.
Before you start writing mathematical content in LaTeX we recommend you load up the 'amsmath' package, this will give you more options when writing more complicated mathematical documents.
To do this simply use the
\usepackage command and enter 'amsmath' in the brackets.
To simply write maths inline with the text you are writing, enclose your mathematical content in dollar signs. ShareLaTeX will colour code content in dollar signs in green so you can easily identify your inline mathematics.
To write something in superscript, follow your number or symbol by a caret and then enter the number or symbol you want in the superscript into curly brackets.
To write something in subscript it's the same process except we use an underscore instead of a caret.
Greek letters are very easy to add in LaTeX. Each letter of the greek alphabet has a corresponding command which is just a backslash followed by the name of the greek letter in english. If you want to capitalise them, simply start the command with a capital letter.
Pretty much any mathematical function you can think of has a LaTeX command to typeset it.
There are numerous lists of these online so I will just introduce a few of them to you now.
Firstly trig functions look like this.
The square root function like this.
Fractions can be easily entered using the
\frac command.
And there are also numerous functions for writing algebraic statements like this subset command.
Often you don't want to write mathematics inline with the text, particularly if you are writing more complex equations. Therefore to write an equation or formula on a new line you can use the begin equation structure. Here's an example of this structure implementing a basic polynomial and an example demonstrating a summation symbol. You will notice that LaTeX has automatically numbered these equations and printed their corresponding numbers in brackets on the right hand side of the page. If you don't want your equation to be numbered you can add an asterisk immediately after the word equation in both the begin and end commands. Here's an example using a definite integral.
This concludes our discussion on mathematics in LaTeX. In the next video we'll look at inserting images into our documents.


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Possible conversation at Lowe Strateus, Paris (except in French of course).
Creative #1: I know, lets cover stuff in bubble wrap just like they did in Snapple Bubble Wrap city.
Creative #2: Yeah lets do that! Wait, wot?
philippe lopez : Copywriter
jocelyn berthat : Art Director
barbara vaira : Agency Producer
Claude FAYOLLE : Producer
Director: Wilfrid Brimo
Production Company: Wanda Productions


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So when I stumbled upon two talented bloggers who turned the Ikea Jennylund accent chair into swivel -rockers, I was stoked.
Bring on the spit-up & poop explosions.
The garden stool looks so cute in the berry shade! :) We went the non conventional route too with our nursery chair, found a super comfy chair at World Market the has a slipcover - love that I can wash it whenever!
One thing I will say is a must (our baby is 4mos) is an ottoman!! I've fallen asleep so many times with my feet up in the chair thanks to the ottoman
@ Mrs Chic: So good to hear that you went the unconventional chair route too! We just have to do what's best for us, regardless of other's opinions. =]
I hear ya! We are on the quest for a comfy ottoman & are waffling between a storage ottoman or one of those pouf ottomans. Oy.
I adore the pink stool. I'm thinking I need to try spraying mine, too. It's also turned yellow from being outdoors. Love the pop of pink.
Also, great tip on adding the swivel to the chair. How have I never thought of doing this? (Not that I need a swivel chair. But now I kind of want one.)
PS - next time you are in the neighborhood on the drive-by. Stop in. I could use that nesting instinct to help me clean and organize my house.
Um, you can add a swivel to an Ikea chair? Where were you 16 months ago when I decided to forego the glider? K, now I need to knock out another kid so I can do this exact same thing
Enough about me, this nursery is freaking fabulous, FC. LOOOVE it. Cannot wait to "meet" the Freckles Chicklet.
And I feel like the best part of that freaking glider ikea chair is that in however many years when you're done knocking out mini freckles chicks, you can convert it back into a chair. Sorry, I'm just totally blown away by this and can't stop thinking about it.ReplyDelete
Just letting you know I think your blog is great and I've given you an award that was given to me. No pressure, just letting you know. If you want to participate check my blog at www.colonialcurvecottage.blogspot.com and if not, totally cool. I still like your blog :) Not spam, not a cult and not a plea for money or more readership. Just some kudos from me to you.
PS...I have a gold garden seat that I've been aching to spray paint but was too chicken. I think I'm brave now. Your awesome.
first of all, that garden stool is the cutest thing ever! what a great idea to paint it! secondly, I have the jennylund chair in my daughter's nursery and I LOVE it. It is super comfortable, looks great, and was cheap! If I would have known you convert it into a rocker I'd have totally done that too! Love it. Can't wait to see the big nursery reveal :)ReplyDelete
The stool is precious but at first glance it looks like a cage to keep peanut in when she gets noisy. I'm kidding!
I love the pop of raspberry with the whiteness of the chair!
The garden stool turned out perfect :)
I have a upholstered chair, not a rocker, with a pouf and I hope it will work out. But this is a great solution, never thought of that!
WOW, I'm so glad you researched this so now you're a one-stop shop for this information. You've just saved me LOTS of money! Thank you!ReplyDelete
did you say stool and poop explosion in a single post? awesome.
the 'stool' is super cute, and perfect for your jumbo glass of wine you'll be enjoying in T minus 4 weeks!!! woop!
It's perfect and I love the garden stool. Such a fantastic pop of color. Girl, you have so much energy. :)ReplyDelete
Love the color you picked for the stool! So pretty!
I want to paint everything in my house that color. It's beautiful. And then I will probably want to add a swivel rocker to everything too.
I am so saving this project for our nursery!!! Love it...thanks for sharing, FC. xoxoReplyDelete
I love your blog! I was wondering what kind of spray paint you used for the stool. Thanks in advance!ReplyDelete
@ Anonymous: I used Krylon Indoor/Outdoor spraypaint in gloss Raspberry (see 2nd pic in post). Hope that helps!ReplyDelete
That raspberry stool is to die for, sexy pants!ReplyDelete
I love the garden stool!! So pretty! And what a great idea to just DIY your own glider!!! We used ours A LOT!!!! Even when the kiddies aren't wee babes anymore, it is SO nice when they are sick and need to just be held/bounced constantly!!
You may have already checked this out, but we loved Happiest Baby on the Block! Seriously AWESOME calming techniques!! Don't bother reading the book if you can get your hands on his DVD. :)
I was lusting after the Pottery Barn rockers myself after baby #2, but as you said: $$$$ + lack of space + will I use it? = let's stick to a normal comfy chair :-)
I wish I had known we could turn it into a rocker! Unfortunately we are both very much craft-impaired ;-)
Heya, lady! Your nursery is coming along beautifully... great work!
So, did you do anything to prep your stool (lmao, @Cassie!) before painting? I've got 2 that are still outside and quite yellow... one's even gotten a bit chippy. That's what I get for buying the $20 cheapies, I guess.
I love the new color of the new stool color. Really makes it pop.ReplyDelete
@ Samantha: Thank you so much for the award, what an honor!! ::blushing furiously:: You're hilarious--I'd join your cult ANY day, for reals. =]
@ Genelle: Now that you mention it, I can't look at the stool & NOT think of it's multi-functionality! HA!! Our friend called the crib a "cage for the baby" too.
@ Cassie: I TOTALLY said "stool" & "poop explosion" in the same post. I did it all for you, C. That's how much I love you. HA!
@ Em J: LMAO @ "prep your stool". All I did to prep it b/f spraypainting was to hose off the dirt & grime, wiped it dry, & that's it! Hope that helps!
That is such a beautiful pink color!
I confess.. I have barely used my rocker in our nursery. I mostly nurse on the couch or on our bed, and rocking him to sleep in my arms. I have a feeling the rocker is going to be relocated in the near future.
Hi there! So in love with the swivel + rocker chair idea. Has the DIY element held up for you so far? Hope you and baby are doing well!ReplyDelete
If you choose a glider, you'll want to know if the bearings, which run the gliding mechanism, have a warranty. They get a lot of wear over time.ReplyDelete
I just found your post through Pinterest. I have that exact IKEA chair on my nursery shopping list even though my husband really wants a glider. This can give us the best of both worlds. Thank you!ReplyDelete
Oh good, I hope it works out for you! :) Thanks so much for stopping by!
Can you tell me where I would find a glider mechanism? I don't know where to start looking! I love this idea.. Picking up a chair at ikea tomorrow!ReplyDelete
The bloggers who turned their IKEA chairs into rockers actually used "swivel" mechanisms like this one: http://www.swivel-chair-parts.com/154RockerSwiveLeg.html
So the chair becomes more of a rocking chair than a glider. Hope this helps! :-)


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John Gilray Christy, 78, of Wyndmoor, a retired corporate executive, died June 10 of complications from a heart condition at Chestnut Hill Hospital.
Mr. Christy was the founder of Chestnut Capital Corp., a firm that invested in "green"-focused companies. Earlier he was the CEO of IU International in Philadelphia, an international holding company that owned a variety of utilities.
Mr. Christy and his wife, the former Helen Jones, had lived in Chestnut Hill for more than two decades.
Raised in Silver Creek, N.Y., Mr. Christy received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and master's degree in South Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. He served in the Navy as a pilot flying jets from aircraft carriers.
After leaving the service, he worked with the Development Loan Fund (AID) in India and for a time with ITT in New York.
Mr. Christy was a former board member of Fidelity Bank, the Philadelphia Contributionship, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Eisenhower Fellowship.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Andrew R. Christy; a daughter, Jennifer C. MacNeill; three stepchildren; sisters Mary Lou Van Orman, of Reading, and Jean Mallery, of Cobleskill, N.Y.; five grandchildren and three step-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to a charity of the donor's choice. – WF


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Red Wings F Abdelkader suspended 2 games
New York, NY – The National Hockey League issued a two-game suspension to Detroit Red Wings forward Justin Abdelkader on Sunday.
Abdelkader was given a major for charging and a game misconduct, after leaving his feet to deliver a hit to the head of Ducks defenseman Toni Lydman late in the second period of Saturday's 4-0 Anaheim victory in Game 3 of a Western Conference quarterfinal.
Lydman left the game and did not return.
"Abdelkader elevates at contact, turning what could have been a hard, full body check into a high, violent check with significant contact to the head that caused an injury," noted Brendan Shanahan, NHL director of player safety in a video explanation of the punishment.
The 26-year-old winger, who has never incurred any previous supplemental discipline, will miss Monday's Game 4 in Detroit and Wednesday's Game 5 back in Anaheim.
Detroit trails the best-of-seven series two games to one.


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Daily Distraction
Watch These Dogs Playing With Butterflies — Daily Distraction
A butterfly must be fascinating to a dog.
Watch These People Making Amazing Foul-Ball Catches — Daily Distraction
The World Series starts tonight, so let's take a moment to appreciate the most important people at the game: the fans.
Watch These Dogs Stealing the Cat's Food — Daily Distraction
Yesterday we showed you how cats had gotten the upper hand in the ages-old clash between felines and canines. Today, the shoe is on the other, um, paw?
Watch These Cats Stealing the Dog's Bed — Daily Distraction
Cats and dogs, mortal enemies, have one thing in common: they both love taking naps.
Watch These Kittens Riding Around on Things They Shouldn't Be — Daily Distraction
Kittens are fluffy, adorable little furballs who love to take naps, wrestle each other and bite you really lightly. They are also quite delicate.
Watch This Series of Building Implosions — Daily Distraction
At first, the planned demolition of a building may not seem like much of a spectator sport, but after watching these implosions, we can see its appeal.
Watch These Animals Playing Tetherball — Daily Distraction
Tetherball is tons of fun, and not only for big brothers trying to embarrass their siblings.
Watch These Cats Who Are Terrified of Little Tortoises — Daily Distraction
Cats are easily scared, we all know that, but even a cat shouldn't be quite so spooked by something that moves .... soooooooo ... sloooooooowly ......
Watch These Dogs Playing With Balloons — Daily Distraction
Well, perhaps "playing" isn't the most accurate term.
Watch These Kids Who Hate Eating Their Vegetables — Daily Distraction
Kids and their hatred of vegetables ... it's a tale as old as spinach.
Watch These Kids Popping Balloons — Daily Distraction
Kids love balloons, and who can blame them. But it's always fun to watch them learn what happens when your balloon goes POP!
Watch These Big Dogs Playing Nice With Babies — Daily Distraction
Babies, as everyone knows, are rather delicate creatures. And these dogs have the required gentle touch.


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Environmental Policy Collection - 4 Matching Results
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- Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon
- According to the Executive Summary, the aims and objective of this report are to provide an assessment of national capacity and capability in 25 tropical countries for measuring and monitoring forest as a requirement for reporting on REDD under IPCC guidelines. This paper was commissioned by the United Kingdom Office of Climate Change as background work to its report 'Climate Change: Financing Global Forests' (the Eliasch Review).
- The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation: Update of the Report prepared for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change
- According to the introduction, this report provides a global estimate of the cost of reducing the rate of deforestation.
- Renewables 2010: Global Status Report
- This report describes economic trends in building the capacity of renewable energy in several countries.
- Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future
- This report outlines the strategic direction of the energy sector to meet its growing energy demand in an environmentally-sustainable manner over the next two decades, and presents a pathway of policy frameworks and financing mechanisms to get there. This study found that large-scale deployment of energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies can simultaneously stabilize East Asia's CO2 emissions by 2025 and significantly improve the local environment and enhance energy security, without compromising economic growth.


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In 1923, U.S. patent 1448235 was issued to an Emma Read for her remarkable invention of the Portable Baby Cage. It was the purpose of this invention to suspend infants from the exterior of high-rise buildings, adjacent to windows, so that they could enjoy fresh air and exercise without the pesky business of taking the child outside.
You can see the downright amazing photos of the baby cage in action here, in photos taken in the 1930s. There they sit/crawl/recline, the Portably Caged Babies, dangled many stories above the street in a wire mesh box. Are they happy? Are they gripped by diaper-filling terror? It's hard to say, because we can only rely on the images. Tragically, the baby cage is no longer a viable product.
Yes, I said tragically. Sure, you might be horrified by those photos, but that's because you haven't thought of the many, MANY benefits a window-bolted baby cage can provide!
For one thing, consider the immeasurable reduction in baby-related odors. Smelly diaper? Out you go into the cage, Junior. Let those fresh breezes carry away the eyeball-searing stench of the child's bodily secretions. This would come in especially handy if you were having guests over. How many times have you tidied the house for company, only to have your infant grunt his way through a massive blowout just before the doorbell rings? With the cage, you could just put him outside the window ahead of time -- and guests could still admire his rosy wind-chapped cheeks from behind the safety of the glass. Don't forget to line the mesh with fresh newspapers!
Also, life with a baby would be so much more peaceful if you could stick him outside when he cries. Let's face it: babies are abysmally noisy. But who will hear him in the portable baby cage? No one aside from those pigeons (are they pecking him? Well, no matter, he'll learn valuable lessons about wildlife!). Go ahead, while baby hollers, you can put your feet up and get some much-needed rest.
Finally, I think we can all agree that cramming your child in what appears to be a veal pen is the perfect solution for reducing mobility and increasing those delicious baby fat-rolls. No one likes a crawling, toddling, getting-into-everything baby, and a small cage is well-suited for hindering his development. Plus, you can surely slip a bottle through the openings in the wire to make sure he's building up those adorable roly-poly thighs. Remember, a baby with muscle tone is an unattractive and unpleasant baby.
In conclusion, I for one hope the Portable Baby Cage comes back into vogue -- what a tragedy that it was only enjoyed by those who raised children 80 years ago. It's just so sad that we've replaced wonderful practices like this with the callous modern parenting choices of today.
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As the global financial crisis continues to slow economic recovery, the campaign to eliminate the debt that developing countries owe to major financial institutions moves to local parishes and congregations Oct. 15-16.
Jubilee Sunday, sponsored by the Jubilee USA Network, will find faith communities praying for a just resolution to the debt crisis poor
countries face.
Educational programs about the impact of the debt owed by poor and developing countries and to call for cancellation of that debt also are being planned, Jeremy Weyl, outreach and congregations fellow at Jubilee USA Network, told Catholic News Service.
The program is based on the biblical concept of jubilee where debts are forgiven and slates are wiped clean, allowing for a new beginning for all partners.
The weekend of events and prayers close Illegitimate Debt Week, which finds organizations around the world and in the United States focusing on the reform of international financial institutions.
Jubilee USA Network has developed a resource guide for congregations to use. It includes prayers, homily tips, Sunday school programs and additional action steps.
Weyl said his organization also is working to get the Jubilee Act reintroduced in Congress. The text of the bill introduced in the last Congress can be seen here.
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"I am proud of both teams for their continued academic success,†coach Bill Taylor said. "We have been nationally ranked and have earned team All-Academic status every year since I've been here, and have a history of academic success prior to my arrival.
"In my entire coaching career I have never coached a men's or women's cross country or track & field team that didn't achieve above a 3.0 cumulative GPA. Academics are extremely important to me and always will be.â€Â
A total of 152 institutions represent 31 conferences that compose the group. The Big 12 led all conferences with 10 members earning All-Academic honors and was followed by the Big East which had nine listed.
Mississippi Valley State reported the highest cumulative GPA among All-Academic honorees with a 3.62. Southern Illinois followed with a 3.60.
Seven of the top ten finishing teams at the 2010 NCAA Cross Country Championships earned All-Academic status. Of the 31 teams that participated in the national final, 20 of those earned All-Academic status.
To qualify as a USTFCCCA All-Academic Cross Country Team, the team must have had a cumulative team GPA of 3.00 or better and have started at least five regionals at their respective NCAA regional championship.
"While we should be proud about another year of earning national All-Academic status, I also want to say that my standards and expectations are higher than what we achieved this year,†Taylor said. "I expect our athletes to excel at the absolute highest levels in the classroom. Though we are still one of the nation's best, we slipped a bit this year and I look forward to seeing our athletes push both programs back up to the top of the nation.â€Â


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The Pirates made a big splash to upgrade their rotation tonight, adding LHP Wandy Rodriguez from Houston. In return, the Astros get LHP Rudy Owens, LHP Colton Cain and OF Robbie Grossman.
Wandy has made a league leading 21 starts this season. While his 3.79 ERA is his highest since 2007, his 1.27 WHIP is his lowest since 2009. His strikeouts are down this year, but he's walking fewer batters too for a 2.78 K/BB ratio. Rodriguez is an immediate upgrade to the rotation. Kevin Correia will likely be the odd man out but nothing has been announced yet. It looks like Rodriguez will start this weekend in Houston. I honestly wouldn't be too surprised if they skipped James McDonald's next start just to give him a break.
Owens had shown remarked improvement in his second season at AAA Indianapolis. In 19 starts over 117.1 innings the 6′ 3″ lefty from Arizona posted an 8-5 record, 3.14 ERA, 1.168 WHIP, and 6.5 K/9.
Cain is also a 6' 3″ lefty and gets to return to his home state. In his first season at High-A Bradenton, Cain has thrown 75 innings to the tune of a 3-5 record, 4.20 ERA, 1.240 WHIP, and 6.1 K/9.
Robbie Grossman was the Pirates second best OF prospect coming into the season and is also a Texas native. He was putting up a .262/.374/.403 in his first season at AA Altoona.
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Someone who lives in Philadelphia told me that each terminal at the airport has a stop for the train (the R1 Airport Rail Line)...it runs every 20 minutes to 1/2 hour and the ride is 23 minutes. You can take it to 3 center city locations:
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To find out about the multiplicity of life on earth – biodiversity – and to help preserve it: That is the aim of research at Senckenberg. The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung has grown enormously in recent years. It has been augmented by new locations and it is making a concerted effort to extend its expertise in biodiversity research. However, the internal research structures are not organized according to the different locations, but on a thematic basis. We have defined four research fields, each composed of several research activities (RA), that cover the entire range of the Senckenberg research:
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The Research Field Biodiversity and Climate is mainly dealing with two of the greatest challenges of the era: The loss of biodiversity and climate change. To understand them and their close and numerous interactions properly, research has to take both processes into account. This interdisciplinary scientific research is the aim of the research field Biodiversity and Climate, with at its core the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F).
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In one sense, the speculation about Jeb is based on a myth that doesn't really hold up: that Jeb was the Bush son who was supposed to be President. The Bush saga runs like this: For decades Jeb was the studious son who might one day be presidential material. George W. was the cutup. My own view is that the contrast between Jeb's virtues and George W.'s vices is exaggerated. Wasps to the core, Bushes don't sit down and talk about dynastic roles, much less assign them. They're more likely to discuss sports or tell mildly off-color jokes.
Those who think "Bush fatigue" is pre-emptively fatal to Jeb's chances may be underestimating the American affinity for brand names. The Bushes aren't kings; in managementspeak, they're a line of related products that most Americans recognize and have chosen on three (1988, 2000 and 2004) of the four occasions they've been on offer. Will we have a chance to buy another? George W., whose approval ratings are rising as the years pass, has said he'd like his brother to try for it.
It's possible that the choice will come down to the Bushes and another familiar American product: the Clintons. Perhaps the two clans will soon join Lancashire and York, Gladstone and Disraeli, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, and the Yankees and the Red Sox as one of history's great rivalries. Remember: the Clintons have renamed the family foundation the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, while Jeb's son George P. is seeking statewide office in Texas. This could go on forever.
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"Essential teachings. . . . The deepest insights are presented here straight from the heart. I consider this a great contribution to the study of Buddhism."—Ringu Tulku
"Straight from the Heart is a priceless garland of Mahayana and Vajrayana literary gems that were previously difficult to locate. . . . Beautifully translated. . . . All communicate the singular power and beauty of the Dharma and undoubtedly will awaken or deepen faith in the reader as well as instruct and delight. . . . Brunnhölzl's thoroughness in presenting these rare and inspiring materials can be gauged from the fact that the book contains well over one thousand footnotes furnishing further details both for the general reader and scholars. Straight from the Heart has an almost magical quality; it makes one feel as though one were sitting in the presence of all those wonderful masters."—Georg Feuerstein, PhD
"In the preface to Straight from the Heart: Buddhist Pith Instructions the translator Karl Brunnhölzl aptly compares his new anthology to a box of fine chocolates. There is a tremendous variety within the collection, and as with chocolates these unique and rich poems, songs, and pithy treatises are best appreciated one or two at a time. . . . For readers who enjoy a book that may be repeatedly dipped into for inspiration, Straight from the Heart is a very deep well indeed. Brunnhölzl strives for a balance of precision and clarity in his translations that make these esoteric instructions more accessible, and his commentaries contextualize the verses just enough without burying them in too much explanation."—Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly
"Straight from the Heart: Buddhist Pith Instructions is an exciting new collection of poetry, songs, meditation, instructions, and philosophical works by Indian and Tibetan Buddhist masters, much of which has previously been unavailable in Western languages. The eminently capable translator Karl Brunnhölzl has made his selections from the writings of such famous teachers as Nagarjuna Asanga and the Karmapas of Tibet as well as from those of lesser known teachers. Each selection is prefaced by an introduction and a biographical sketch of its author and is copiously annotated. The result is a compendium of profound and witty writings that will delight, inform, and inspire all who are interested in the Buddhist spiritual path."—Elizabeth Callahan, editor and translator of The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy


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Leni,Your vase looks the right colour for Riihimäen, and this shape usually seems to be described as such, attributed to Tamara Aladin (or sometimes Nanny Still). Without a catalogue, I'm sure we'll never know for sure!Robbo
Leni, Try this link http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=tamara+aladin&btnG=Search
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Do you have to provide health insurance for your minor child when your ex-husband got full custody but he has no coverage? I could add my son to my plan at work, but it would cost me a lot of money. Plus, I don't want to give my ex-husband a break from what he is supposed to do.
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Dear Single Mom,
The short answer to your question is no, you are not required to cover your son. The longer answer is a bit more interesting.
If the custody agreement specified that the father is responsible for health insurance, then you are not on the hook to provide it. The custody agreement may or may not have required him to have health insurance; it may only have required him to be responsible for the child's medical bills. In other words, it doesn't matter if Junior has health insurance; it only matters that the medical bills will be paid somehow. Either way, the hospital or doctor's office will not be able to come after you for the bills.
You may want your son to have health insurance, rather than be limited to what your husband can afford to pay for medical bills. Something expensive could happen and you wouldn't want to stand by and risk your son not getting all of the care he needs.
So, you have an interesting opportunity. Since you have a plan offered to you, you have something to negotiate with. You could offer to cover your son, in exchange for lowering your child support payments. Or there may be some other part of the custody agreement that you could adjust. This might sound a bit too business-like, given that a child is involved, but children are at least partly a financial enterprise.
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With the arrival of Nike as the official apparel provider for the NFL, the Seahawks were the first team to get an extreme makeover.
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Hey everyone! I just uploaded my first video to YouTube, the start of a series of coding videos I'm calling Coding with Jesse.
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I'm speaking this morning at the Lasso Developer Conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario. My talk is called "Deciphering Usability", talking about some ways that developers can take a static design and do some CSS and JavaScript enhancements to improve the usability a bit.
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Great news! O'Reilly has been kind enough to let me distribute my eBook Unobtrusive Ajax to readers of my blog, so now you can download and read it for free!
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Unobtrusive Ajax is about making web applications that work for everyone all the time, even if you have JavaScript turned off, or you're using a mobile phone or a screen reader, or however you happen to be using the Web. It's about the separation of behavior (JavaScript), content (HTML), and presentation (CSS).
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When you're finished reading this book, you will be able to convince anyone why developing unobtrusively is the best way to build a site with JavaScript and Ajax.
I wrote this book back in 2007, before I'd discovered jQuery, so writing unobtrusive JavaScript has become even easier than ever. That said, the principals of writing web pages that work without JavaScript remain the same: keep your content in the HTML, use real links and forms, and avoid depending on JavaScript or Flash for any critical functionality.
Nowadays, I would also suggest bearing different user interfaces in mind. Not every visitor to your website has a mouse and a keyboard, some are using their handheld touchscreen phones, and if your shopping cart requires people to drag and drop, you may end up losing customers. Be careful not to make assumptions about your visitors. If you stick with basic HTML, you can't go wrong.
jQuery announced that they are now officially supporting jQuery Templates, thanks in big part to Microsoft.
Templating cleans up the job of generating HTML with jQuery. It also gives you the opportunity of keeping HTML code out of your JavaScript completely, if you wish.
Let's say you have a block of data like this:
var fruits = [ { name: 'apples', color: 'green' }, { name: 'oranges', color: 'orange' }, { name: 'bananas', color: 'yellow' }, { name: 'tomatoes', color: 'red' } ];
You want to display the data in a nice table with some color effects:
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'); // append a header to the table $('
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', { css: { background: fruits[i].color } }); // create a column and append to the row // we use text here so all HTML is escaped, to prevent hacking $('', { text: fruits[i].name }).appendTo( $row ); // do the same for the color $('', { text: fruits[i].color }).appendTo( $row ); // append the row to the table $row.appendTo( $table ); } // all done, stick the table on the page $table.appendTo('body');
Unfortunately, code like this usually ends up looking kludgy, and it's often hard to visualize what the final HTML will look like.
Templates let us turn the HTML/JavaScript relationship inside-out by putting the looping right in the HTML:
// define a template for the fruit table // we'll use slashes at the end of each line to escape the line break // this way we don't have to concatenate strings. $.template('fruit-table', '\
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 \ '); // instantiate the template with the fruit array passed in as 'rows' var $table = $.tmpl('fruit-table', { rows: fruits }); // that's it. stick it on the page. $table.appendTo('body');
Now there's no question what the HTML will look like. It's in plain view.
If you'd like to jump on the chance to take the HTML out of your JavaScript completely, you can stick the same block on the page, in a special
Now we're down to a single line of code. Beautiful, isn't it?
$('#fruit-table').tmpl({ rows: fruits }).appendTo('body');
Now that we've gotten that taken care of, let's take it to the next level, and make a template that will dump any tabular data we give it:

$('#table').tmpl({ data: fruits, className: 'fruits-table' }).appendTo('body');
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jQuery 1.3 came out on January 14th, jQuery 1.3.1 on the 21st, and with them we now have live events built into jQuery.
Live events are pretty magical at first glance. They allow you to set events only once, and they work forever in the future, even as you're creating new elements and adding them to the page.
Normally if you ran:
$('a.wizard').click(function(){ // do some wizardry });
and then later you added wanted to add some more s to the page, you would have to re-attach this event handler over and over.
Live events allow you to add an event that will work forever. This means you only have to add each type of event once. You would only have to write:
$('a.wizard').live('click', function(){ // do some wizardry });
And your wizard links will work forever, even after you add 100 new wizard links to the page dynamically.
This magic trick works by attaching the click event to the document. Whenever you click anywhere on the page, the document click event gets called. jQuery compares the target element to your wizard links and triggers your click event if the click came from inside the link.
You can also do this yourself using the new closest() function. It allows you to do something like this:
// listen for clicks on the document $(document).click(function(e){ // look for a possible parent element matching a.wizard $(e.target).closest('a.wizard').each(function(){ // wizard it up }); });
These live events can really help with performance. If you're attaching events to 100s of similar elements, like photos in an album, you can also save a lot of memory and speed things up by using live events, or using the example above and checking for events on a common parent element, either document or any element.
If you're used to using closures to use data within click handlers, you will find they won't work anymore which is probably a good thing. Instead, you can use data() to store any amount of data with that element and get it out later:
// maybe this is some JSON data you got using Ajax or something var wizards = [ { name: 'Merlin', skill: 'magic' }, { name: 'Mr. Wizard', skill: 'science' } ]; $.each(wizards, function(i, wizard){ // create a new link, change the text, add the data and append to the body $('') .text(wizard.name) .data('wizard', wizard) .appendTo(document.body); });
then you only need to attach the click handler once:
$(document).ready(function(){ $('a.wizard').live('click', function(){ // fetch the data back out var wizard = $(this).data('wizard'); // get the stuff you need out of the object var name = wizard.name; var skill = wizard.skill; // do your thing alert( "Hello my name is " + name + "and I'm better than you at " + skill + "!!!" ); }); });
And you can actually do these things in reverse, the order doesn't matter because of the magic and universality of live events.
Pretty cool, eh? This way of developing has always been possible using JavaScript, but after learning about this with jQuery 1.3, it changed the way I look at programming with data and events.
What do you think? Any questions, corrections or suggestions? Leave a comment.


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The Commissionership: A Historical Perspective
Since baseball's beginnings in the mid-19th century, the governance of the game has evolved from an ineffective alliance of players known as the National Association to a central figure with considerable powers called the Commissioner.
The game was still new in the spring of 1857, when the Knickerbocker club of New York City invited several neighboring bands of players to assemble and agree upon a standardized set of rules. From this modest beginning rose the National Association of Base Ball Players, which became the game's ruling body the following year. The founding principle of the organization was to keep baseball an amateur sport, thus prohibiting any player from receiving compensation.
By 1867, rivalries among teams had grown so strong, and the power of the National Association so weak, that paying players had become a common, albeit illegal, practice. Eventually the National Association divided teams into those that paid players and those that did not, and by 1869, baseball had its first professional club - the Cincinnati Red Stockings.
The Red Stockings' success encouraged the formation of other professional teams and eventually led to the establishment in 1871 of a new organization: the National Association of Professional Baseball Players.
Gambling and bribery soon became widespread within the organization and, with virtually no power to control its members, it was eventually rendered ineffective. By 1876, the National Association, all but extinct, was replaced by the fledgling National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs. The first members of the National League were: Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis.
The National League differed from the National Association in that it was an organization of clubs rather than an association of players. Although the league was still composed of various administrative committees, most of its power rested with a board of five directors, one of whom, as a president, decided matters of importance. The first such man was Morgan G. Buckley, who was also president of the Hartford franchise.
One colorful character in the early years of the NL was William A. Hulbert. He became the league's second president in 1877 and served until his death in April 1882. At the time of his election, Hulbert was also president of the Chicago club. He gained a reputation as an iron-fisted disciplinarian who routinely expelled players from the game for "acting in an ungentlemanly fashion." In 1878, Hulbert expelled four players: James Devkin, George Hall, W.H. Craver and A.H. Nichols, "for conduct in the contravention of the objects of the league," when they were caught conspiring with gamblers to throw games. By 1881, Hulbert had received numerous pleas for reinstatement of the players. Unmoved, he dictated a notice announcing once and for all that the penalties inflicted on the players for their dishonest actions would never be remitted, nor would the league thereafter entertain any appeal on the players' behalf.
Entire clubs were also subject to ejection from the league for violations of conduct. In 1880, a special meeting of the board of directors decided to expel the Cincinnati club for "selling malt or spirituous liquors on the league grounds." In retaliation, the owner of the Reds, Justus Thorner, formed the American Association. The new league prospered and was soon recognized as another major organization. The Reds stayed in the American Association until 1890 before rejoining the National League. The American Association dissolved the following year.
Shortly after the formation of the National League, other leagues were formed, which led to intense competition for players. It became commonplace for one club or league to lure top players from another club or league. In response to this piracy, the three major organizations at the time - the National League, the American Association and the Northwestern League - determined there was a need for a central authority to govern all associations by an equitable code of rules. Representatives from the three organizations met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City in February 1883 and drew up the "Triparte Agreement," later renamed the National Agreement, which would serve as the central law of the associations.
The National Agreement helped promote unprecedented harmony among its members. The pact was enforced by an arbitration committee consisting of three representatives of each member organization. The decisions of the committee were final.
By 1900, 14 leagues had become signatories to the National Agreement: the National League, Atlantic League, California League, Canadian League, Connecticut League, Eastern League, Indiana-Illinois League, Inter-State League, New England League, New York State League, Southern League, Texas League, Western Association and the Western League.
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That same year, the Western League's presidency was put into the hands of a man who would ultimately be responsible for the two-league system that exists today - former Cincinnati sportswriter Byron Bancroft ("Ban") Johnson. In early 1900 he changed the name of the Western League to the American League and tried to establish it as the National League's equal.
Johnson was an opportunist, and after the National League dropped four of its clubs in 1900, the American League placed teams in three of those cities (Baltimore, Cleveland and Washington) in 1901, its first full season of operation. The National League refused to regard the American League as an equal and in retaliation the AL repudiated the National Agreement and unilaterally declared itself an equal professional organization.
The strength of the American League grew as an increasing number of National League players opted for the higher salaries offered by the new association. Faced with the prospect of losing many of its best players, the NL chose peace and declared the AL its equal in 1903. This led to a new National Agreement and the birth of the World Series. The American and National Leagues were established as major leagues and all other associations comprised the minor leagues, which fell under the jurisdiction of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues.
The National Agreement created a National Commission, a three-man body endowed with supervisory control of professional baseball. The commission also was granted the power to interpret and carry out the terms and provisions of the National Agreement, as well as the ability to enact and enforce fines and suspensions. There was, however, an inherent problem with the National Commission - most of its members had vested interests in particular clubs. In fact, the only chairman of the commission from 1903-1920, August Herrman, also served as president of the Cincinnati Reds. In the end, the commission proved unworkable and produced suspicions that self-interest influenced some of its decisions.
But the Commission's demise was the result of the game's most infamous episode - the 1919 World Series between Herrman's Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox, owned by Charles Comiskey.
Following the Series, in which eight members of the White Sox allegedly took bribes from gamblers to intentionally lose (Herrman, reluctant to believe his Reds were not winning on merit alone, had been slow to investigate rumors of a fix), the National League proposed to eliminate the National Commission and replace it with one leader, a man "of unquestionable reputation and standing in fields other than baseball" whose "mere presence would assure that public interests would first be served, and that therefore, as a natural sequence, all exisiting evils would disappear." The league put forth this argument in a document called the Lasker Plan, named for its author, Albert Lasker, a stockholder in the Chicago Cubs. The American League initially balked at the idea, but eventually a compromise was reached, and on January 12, 1921, the position of Baseball Commissioner was created with the ratification of the new Major League Agreement.
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected as the game's first Commissioner. At the time of his election, Landis was a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. An ardent fan, the judge's professional association with baseball had begun in 1914, when he presided over the injunction suit of the upstart Federal League against baseball.
The Federal League, as a minor league, had attempted to establish itself as an equal to the NL and AL. When the major leagues failed to acknowledge the outlaw league, as it was known, the Federal League brought an injunction suit against the established circuits. Recognizing the turmoil that would ensue should he grant injunction, Landis took the case under advisement and withheld an opinion until the major leagues were able to absorb the Federal League and bring peace to the game. During this period, Landis had spent countless hours studying baseball history. This knowledge, along with the rest of his background, made him an excellent choice for Commissioner.
Initially, Landis refused the Commissionership on the grounds that he "loved his position as judge too much." However, he later accepted upon the condition he could hold both positions, specifying that his baseball salary ($50,000) be decreased by the amount he was receiving as a judge ($7,500).
Under the Major League Agreement, the new Commission was broadly empowered to "investigate, either upon complaint or upon his own initiative, an act, transaction or practice, charged, alleged or suspected to be detrimental to the best interest of the national game of baseball, (and to determine and take) any remedial, preventive or punitive action (he deemed appropriate)." The Agreement also expressly provided that the Commissioner's decisions would be final and could not be challenged by the clubs in court.
Following Landis' death in November 1944, the Major League Agreement was modified, limiting the powers of the Commissioner by giving clubs the right to challenge the Commissioner's decisions in court, and providing that no conduct which conformed with all major league rules and regulations could be deemed by the Commissioner to be "detrimental to the best interests of baseball."
In April 1945, A.B. "Happy" Chandler was elected the game's second Commissioner. Chandler served for six years, his tenure marked by vast changes in the game's structure, highlighted by the breaking of the race barrier and the creation of the player pension plan. The former governor, senator and presidential candidate from Kentucky resigned, effective July 15, 1951.
Ford C. Frick succeeded Chandler in September 1951 after 17 years as president of the National League. He remained Commissioner for 14 years. In 1964, Frick, who would retire the following year, insisted that the clubs again amend the Major League Agreement. This time they restored and even enhanced the Commissioner's powers through three modifications.
First, the clubs deleted the 1944 language that prevented the Commissioner from finding any act or practice complying with a major league rule to be detrimental to baseball. Also, the language "detrimental to the best interests of baseball" was changed to "not in the best interests of baseball." Finally, the clubs restored the provision waiving any right of recourse in the courts to challenge a Commissioner's decision.
General William D. Eckert became baseball's fourth Commissioner in November 1965. Eckert, who had been the youngest three-star general in the United States Army, held the position until December 1968.
The leagues, which could not at first agree upon a new Commissioner, eventually elected Bowie K. Kuhn, a New York lawyer who had worked as counsel with the National League for 19 years, as Commissioner pro-tem for one year in February 1969. Later that year, he was elected to a full seven-year term, re-elected, and served until October 1984. During his tenure, baseball expanded from 20 to 26 clubs and attendance increased from 23 million in 1968 to more than 45 million in 1983.
Peter V. Ueberroth was elected baseball's sixth Commissioner on March 3, 1984 and took office in October of that year. Ueberroth had served as president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1984 Olympic Games before coming to baseball. To entice Uerberroth, the clubs again expanded the Commissioner's powers by amending the Major League Agreement so that the two league presidents were required to answer to the Commissioner with respect to administrative matters. This change made the Commissioner the chief executive officer of baseball. Also, the Commissioner's fining authority as to clubs was increased to $250,000.
National League President A. Bartlett Giamatti was elected baseball's seventh Commissioner on September 8, 1988, by a unanimous vote of the 26 club owners. Born on April 4, 1938, Giamatti served as president of Yale University for eight years before joining the National League in December 1986. He took office on April 1, 1989, and served until September 1, 1989 when he died of a heart attack at his summer home in Martha's Vineyard, MA.
Francis T. Vincent, Jr. was elected to a four-and-one-half year term as baseball's eighth Commissioner on September 13, 1989. A lawyer, Vincent had served as Deputy Commissioner under Giamatti. Vincent came to baseball from the Coca-Cola Company, where he had served as executive vice president and chief executive officer of its entertainment business, which included Columbia Pictures. During his term, Vincent presided over many landmark events. On October 17, after holding office for only one month, the San Francisco Bay area was struck with a massive earthquake, postponing the World Series between the Giants and the Athletics. After meeting with city officials, Vincent announced that the World Series would resume on October 27. In the spring of 1990, Vincent presided over negotiations between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association which resulted in Opening Day being delayed one week, but ensured that 162 regular-season games would be played. The addition of two new National League teams during Vincent's term brought the number of Major League Baseball franchises to 28. Vincent declared that the American League would receive $42 million of the National League's $190 million in expansion revenue and the AL would provide players in the NL expansion draft. This decision marked the first time in expansion history that leagues were required to share expansion revenue or provide players for another league's expansion draft. Vincent's term as Commissioner ended when he resigned on September 7, 1992.
Allan H. "Bud" Selig was elected the ninth Commissioner of Baseball on July 9, 1998 by a vote of the 30 Major League Baseball club owners. Selig was born on July 30, 1934 in Milwaukee and received a bachelor's degree in American History and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1956. After serving two years in the armed forces, Selig returned to Milwaukee and began working in the automobile business with his father. Selig maintains a tie to that industry as president of the Selig Executive Lease Company. Selig served a dual role as President of the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club and Chairman of the Executive Council until his appointment as Commissioner on July 9, 1998. As Chairman of the Executive Council, and then as Commissioner, Selig's ability to rule by consensus brought about numerous dramatic changes to baseball, including:
Interleague play
Revenue sharing (more than $165 million is transferred from high to low revenue clubs each year)
Three-division formats in the American and National Leagues
An extra tier of playoffs and the Wild Card
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Consolidation of the administrative functions of the American and National League into the Commissioner's Office.
Under his leadership as Executive Council Chairman and Commissioner, new stadiums opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Minnesota, New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Texas and Washington.
Fittingly, the man who would become our pastime's 10th Commissioner grew up just an hour's drive from Cooperstown, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Rob Manfred was raised in the small upstate New York town of Rome, and the lawyer with a background in labor relations took office Jan. 25, 2015, after being elected to the position on Aug. 14, 2014.
Manfred gradually became a power broker in the MLB Commissioner's Office. First as an outside counsel who worked on collusion cases beginning in the late 1980s, then on collective bargaining in 1989-90, followed by working closely with Bud Selig, then the head of MLB's executive council, on baseball's first efforts at revenue sharing.
Selig and Manfred became close in those years, with Manfred returning to help with the collective bargaining of 1994. The settlement contained an agreement on revenue sharing, which became one of Selig's triumphs after he became acting Commissioner in 1992. The program has been expanded since then, creating not only competitive balance but also unprecedented labor peace.
Manfred was MLB's chief negotiator in 2002, 2006 and 2011, and under Selig's leadership he not only continued to widen the scope of revenue sharing but also got the MLB Players Association to agree to mandatory drug testing for the first time. The Joint Drug Agreement, too, has been expanded and is now regarded as the best among all professional sports leagues.
Manfred was promoted to chief operating officer in September 2013, holding that position until his rise to Commissioner.
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So far, there haven't been any rumors about the "why" of Bethenny Frankel and Jason Hoppy's divorce. That may be because everyone already knows why they called it quits -- spend one hour watching that reality show of theirs and it's obvious that they're just on two separate pages -- but still. I'm surprised there aren't any cheating allegations or some he-said, she-said bullshit. All we know is that they're heartbroken and will do their best to co-parent Bryn.
Which got me wondering (as I'm apt to do about people I see on TV yet have never met, nor will ever meet, in my entire life) -- is it possible that Bethenny's obsessiveness over her business was the cause of trouble in her marriage but, at the same time, a source of beauty in her divorce?
It's like the perfect storm, or rather, the perfect, most elegant double-edged sword I've ever seen in my entire life. Something that ruins a marriage is the savior in divorce. What a gorgeous problem.
It was clear from watching the show that Bethenny had a great mind for business. She allegedly sold her Skinnygirl empire to Jim Bean for $120 million (or was it $8 million? who knows) and expanded her brand to include clothing, cleanses, and nutrition bars. She's even got her own talk show. To say she's busy might be an understatement, and it's easy to jump to the conclusion that Bethenny's businesses might have been prioritized over her marriage.
But all that savviness paid off in the end. The best and smartest business move Bethenny ever made was getting an iron-clad prenuptial agreement.
According to reports, the prenup states that all of Skinnygirl, every last bit of it, belongs to her, which is to say, all the money that Skinnygirl has made and will make goes straight into Bethenny's allegedly separate bank account. She knew what she was doing when she drafted that prenup, and in the end, it looks like that forethought will pay off big time.
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Across Time & Place: Treasures from the Permanent Collection
This rotating exhibition highlights a broad range of works by 19th and 20th century American and European artists from the Heckscher Museum's Permanent Collection. Of particular interest is Étienne Berne-Bellecour's monumental Embarkation Maneuver, 1882, which factually depicts the departure of a regiment of cuirassiers following the Franco-Prussian War. Heckscher Museum of Art, Main St. and Prime Ave., Huntington. (631) 351-3250 or www.heckscher.org.
Artists in America
A survey of 300 years of great American paintings. Artists from every era of American art are featured among the exhibit's 79 works, including John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Robert Motherwell and Sol LeWitt. The works are selected from the permanent collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. Through Feb. 24. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. 484-9337 or www.nassaumuseum.org.
The "Iranian Schindler"
An exhibit of photograhs and artifacts honoring Abdol-Hossein Sardari, the Iranian envoy stationed in Paris who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis. Through December. Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, 100 Crescent Beach Rd., Glen Cove. 571-8040 ext. 100 or www.holocaust-nassau.org.
Political Slant: Editorial Cartoons
Original sketches and digital prints of contemporary cartoons by five editorial cartoonists: Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Mike Keefe, Steve Kelley, Jimmy Margulies of The Record (North New Jersey) and Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News. Through Dec. 21. Hofstra University's David Filderman Gallery, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus, Hempstead. 463-5672.
Toward Greater Awareness: Darfur and American Activism
This exhibit, featuring large-scale sculptures by American artist Mitch Lewis, focuses on the genocide that occurred in Darfur and Sudan from 2003 to 2006, as well as the American response to the crisis. It is presented in conjunction with October's Presidential Debate. Through Dec. 16. Hofstra University's Emily Lowe Gallery, Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus, Hempstead. 463-5672.
Afternoon Movie
See "The Amazing Spiderman," the latest version of the superhero's tale, Friday, Nov, 30, 2:30 p.m.; also "October Sky," the inspiriational story of NASA engineer Homer Hickam, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2 p.m. Elmont Memorial Library Theatre, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 354-5280.
At the Movies
See the comedy "Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection," Friday, Nov. 30, 1 p.m. Baldwin Public Library, 2385 Grand Ave., Baldwin. 223-6228.
Monday Film
See "Moonrise Kingdom," about two 12 year-olds in a small New England town in the summer of 1965, Monday, Dec. 3, 1:30 and 7 p.m. Oceanside Library, 30 Davison Ave., Oceanside. 766-2360.
Movie Showing
Watch "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding," the comedy about an uptight New York City lawyer who visits her hippie mother's farmhouse with her two teenagers, with Jane Fonda, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence. 239-3262.
Movie Time
See "Moonrise Kingdom," about two 12 year-olds in a small New England town in the summer of 1965, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, 1125 Broadway, Hewlett. 374-1967.
Art Talk
Explore "Religion in Art," with art historian Professor Thomas Germano, Thursday, Dec. 6, 1 p.m. Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence. 239-3262.


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Dierkes, Frank X. September 20, 2011. Long time resident of Chestnut Hill, formerly of Germantown. Beloved husband of the late Ann (Halstead); devoted father to Anne Sikorski (Christopher), Richard (Wendy), Jennifer Maxwell (Robert); loving PopPop to Julia, Charlie, Megan and Kevin Maxwell, and Henry and Stanley Dierkes. Survived by brothers William and James. Mr. Dierkes was an active member of Our Mother of Consolation Church, serving as an usher and involved with Aid for Friends for many years. He owned a home repairs business and worked primarily in Chestnut Hill, Mount Airy and Germantown. Mr. Dierkes was most recently a resident of Mansfield, OH and attended Saint Peter's Catholic Church. A funeral was held Wednesday, Sept. 28, at Our Mother of Consolation Church, 9 E. Chestnut Hill Avenue, Phila., PA 19118, , Int. Holy Sepulchre Cem. In lieu of flowers, donations in Frank's memory to Our Mother of
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In Keating, Lambert has created a surprisingly adaptable piece of seating furniture in a simple, understated design. The cubic shape blends harmoniously with any style of interior design, and is composed with amazing individuality. Whether from the contrasting piping or the combination of fabrics and materials that is currently so popular with designers. Keating's carefully balanced carcase is not only given new clothes, but becomes an entirely new item of furniture. The covers can also be manufactured in a number of ways, which adds to the inimitable versatility of this all-rounder.