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Microsoft is buying the maker of the world's largest multi-touch displays in an effort to create Windows 8 devices that can be used for collaboration.
The purchase of Perceptive Pixel (PPI) for an undisclosed amount was announced at Microsoft's Worldwide Partners Conference in Toronto Monday. With the focus of Windows 8 on touch-based Metro applications, the addition of PPI will mean a different scope of applications than could be accommodated on a typical small-format tablet.
"PPI's large touch displays, when combined with hardware from our OEMs, will become powerful Windows 8-based PCs and open new possibilities for productivity and collaboration," Kurt DelBene, president of Microsoft's Office Division, says in a press release.
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PPI notably makes the enormous unlimited-touch touchscreens and applications used by CNN political analysts to display voter maps and election results. Last year the company claims it produced the largest touchscreen and then later in the year made an even larger one.
This year it unveiled a pen-and-touch screen that enables drawing with a stylus and manipulating the image with fingers. The display is intelligent enough to ignore casually resting a hand on the screen.
Jennifer Colegrove, an analyst with DisplaySearch, says PPI has technology called Active Stylus that includes a pressure-sensitive battery-powered stylus. If a person presses harder on the screen with the active pen, it creates a wider line, similar to how a pencil makes a wider, darker line when pressed harder into paper. Freehand drawings can be more precise, she says.
Owning the technology will give Microsoft the ability to either build devices on its own or license others to make them. Currently the iPad, which some see as a competitor to Microsoft's announced Surface touch tablets, doesn't have a similar stylus, Colegrove says.
Combined with current Microsoft partner products, its software will be able to run on devices as small as phones and as large as PPI's biggest displays.
During a speech at a conference earlier this year, PPI's founder and CTO Jeff Han said the technology could readily support a 200-inch touchscreen if one that big were available. To date, PPI buys displays made by other vendors and enables them for multi-touch.
"Although Perceptive Pixel currently focuses on larger displays, the touchscreen technology improves Microsoft's position in a range of markets from professional on-wall displays down to handheld tablets," says Matthew Mckee, a tablet and touchscreen analyst with Strategy Analytics. "Microsoft's focus currently is clearly the professional touchscreen segment, an area which we estimate will see tremendous growth over the next several years, especially with Microsoft's mobile OS and Office software."
After the purchase is completed PPI will fall under Microsoft's Office Division, which is also absorbing recent acquisition Yammer. A combination of large multi-touch screens and Yammer social collaboration software could create an environment for large groups at one location to work in cooperation with others remotely.
"With Perceptive Pixel's software and hardware, Microsoft has demonstrated their commitment to being a real contender in the hardware space and strengthened their position as a touchscreen manufacturer," Mckee says.
PPI says most of its customers are in government, broadcast, defense, higher education, energy exploration, engineering and product design. For instance, it worked in collaboration with VizRT to touch-enable its animated graphics software Viz Art.
The company, founded in 2006, decided early on to collaborate with Microsoft. All Windows touch-enabled apps run on PPI gear. PPI partners can use its APIs to write their own applications to the platform, according to the company website.
Perceptive Pixel is a privately held company with headquarters in New York City and offices in or near Portland, Ore.; Mountain View, Calif; Atlanta; Los Angeles; Chicago; and Washington, D.C.
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RICHMOND, Va. – Add one more for Havoc.
Consensus top-100 guard Melvin Johnson (Bronx, N.Y./St. Benedict's Prep) has signed with Virginia Commonwealth University, Rams' Head Coach Shaka Smart announced Monday. Johnson has enrolled in classes and will be eligible to compete immediately.
"We are extremely excited about adding Melvin to our program," Smart said. "He is a great kid who can put the ball in the basket at a high rate. His future is bright at VCU!"
A 6-foot-3, 195-pound combo guard, Johnson starred for St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J. last year. A smooth scorer with outstanding range from beyond the 3-point arc, Johnson is a welcome addition to Smart's up-tempo Havoc attack. He averaged 20.8 points per game for St. Benedict's in 2011-12 and knocked down 82 three-point field goals.
Johnson has been rated four stars by every major recruiting service and is ranked No. 76 in the class of 2012 by Scout.com, No. 85 by ESPN and No. 99 by Rivals.com. Scout.com also ranks Johnson as the 14th-best shooting guard in the class of 2012.
As a member of the Long Island Lightning AAU squad in 2011, Johnson earned MVP of the Hoop Group Elite Camp Session I. He began his prep career at famed Rice High School in Harlem, but moved to St. Benedict's when the school closed.
Originally a University of Miami signee, Johnson picked VCU over a host of suitors following the reopening of his recruitment. Marquette, Georgetown, Villanova and Dayton were among those interested in Johnson.
Johnson is the latest in an impressive recruiting haul for Smart and his staff. He joins a 2012 class that includes Jordan Burgess, Mo-Alie Cox and Justin Tuoyo.


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Treading Ground has now moved away from ComicGenesis, and resides on its own domain at TreadingGround.com. With the move, I've eliminated the forum, as this just doesn't seem to be the way modestly successful webcomics roll these days. The Forum will stay up as long as ComicGenesis stays up, but no one will be driven here from the site.
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Jamboree wrote:I was fully expecting The Briscoes appearing some way during the weekend, and that was kind of a disappointment for me.
And finally, where did the Kings Of Wrestling go after their match? I expected this whole speech from Claudio and a big standing ovation and the whole nine.
Jamboree wrote:What was up with Dragon during the main event? He seemed pretty loopy halfway through.
TigerDriver98 wrote:I don't know if this is the last of Claudio in PWG. Hero has the Dec 2nd and 16th shows on his date list, maybe Claudio will appear with him on one of those. If so he could get a proper send off then. I think matches against the Briscoes or Shelley/Sabin would be musts.
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After the show Claudio mentioned that he would be coming back in December. He has time before his developmental contract requires him elsewhere.
Maybe it's because at any given PWG show, there's 3-12 fans who act like complete nutsacks, who try to get their stupid idiotic screaming/chants over more than anything going on in the ring.TigerDriver98 wrote:Jamboree wrote:- AJ Vs. Romero was good, but I didn't think it touched their Reason for the season meeting. Good work from both of them here though. Afterward AJ completely snaps on a fan in the front row. What started that? Something about Jesus maybe? Wild guess but I'd bet the word "faggot" was used in some capacity.
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Use the scan for startup procs option to scan for automatic execution of stored procedures at Microsoft SQL Server startup time. If this option is set to 1, SQL Server scans for and runs all automatically run stored procedures defined on the server. The default value for scan for startup procs is 0 (do not scan).
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Gonzaga coach Mark Few described his team's loss to Wichita State in last year's NCAA tournament as "running into a buzzsaw."
He tried to use the phrase again after the Zags were blown out by Arizona, and then rethought it.
"I guess I need to come up with a better term because the Arizona team we saw tonight was as good of a team as we have faced, that I can remember," Few said after Arizona rolled over Gonzaga 84-61 on Sunday night.
Coming off a shaky NCAA tournament opener, Arizona (32-4) ended a wild first weekend of upsets and buzzer beaters with a display of domination, looking every bit the No. 1 seed in the West.
This was not the epic double-overtime game these teams played in the 2003 NCAA tournament. This was an eye-popping display of what one of the nation's best teams can do when it gets rolling.
The Wildcats overran Gonzaga (29-7) with their size, athleticism and quick hands to blow the eighth-seeded Bulldogs out of the bracket.
Turning one of college basketball's most efficient teams on its head, Arizona scored 31 points of Gonzaga's 21 turnovers — 15 on steals — and never gave the Zags a chance after racing out to a 21-point lead in the first half.
Aaron Gordon had 18 points, six rebounds and six assists for Arizona. Fellow freshman Rondae Hollis-Jefferson also had 18 points and Nick Johnson finished with 17.
Next up for Arizona is fourth-seeded San Diego State — a team it beat in this same arena early in the season — in the Sweet 16 just up the coast in Anaheim.
"Tonight was one of our season's best performances," Arizona coach Sean Miller said. "Obviously, you want to play well in the NCAA tournament and that's exactly what our team did tonight."
Gonzaga has relied on its ability to control the game and take care of the ball during a run of 16 straight NCAA tournament appearances.
Arizona's pressure ran the Zags ragged, leaving them trailing the Wildcats as they raced off to one layup after another.
Przemek Karnowski scored 14 points and Kevin Pangos added 12 for Gonzaga, which hasn't reached the Sweet 16 since 2009.
"We didn't do ourselves any favors," said Pangos, who kept playing after turning his ankle early in the game. "We let them feel pretty good about themselves. But they are a good team and they did speed it up a little bit."
Arizona was jittery in its opener against Weber State, starting slow and allowing the Wildcats from Utah to claw their way back from a 21-point deficit in the second half to make it close.
The first-game anxiety out of their system, the Wildcats played with confidence and plenty of energy against Gonzaga, sprinting up the floor after steals and defensive rebounds to set up easy shots in transition.
Gonzaga shot well against one of the nation's best defenses — when it could get shots off.
The Bulldogs struggled with Arizona's they're-everywhere defense, playing catch-up on the break as the Wildcats snared passes and stripped dribblers for eight steals in the first half. Gonzaga had 11 turnovers that Arizona turned into 19 points for a 47-34 halftime lead that would have been more if the Bulldogs didn't make a late run.
Arizona had one turnover and 13 assists on its 17 field goals — 34 attempts — with Gordon and Hollis-Jefferson combining to hit 8 of 9 shots while scoring 12 points each.
"What we did today was push the tempo," Gordon said. "We noticed they weren't getting back as well as they should and we just kept that going throughout the game."
The second half started like this: two possessions by Gonzaga, two turnovers.
Arizona kept the show going from there.
Johnson had the defensive highlight of the half, tracking down David Stockton to block what appeared to be a breakaway layup and the ball went off a Gonzaga player, to boot. The offensive reel was highlighted by Gordon, who soared in for a rebound slam over two Gonzaga players.
No chance for the Bulldogs and, if Arizona keeps playing like this, not much of one for anyone else.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Hospital admissions for acute heart attacks fall about 20 percent 36 months after restaurant, bar and workplace smoking bans, U.S. researchers say.
The researchers investigated the association between U.S. smoking bans targeting workplaces, restaurants and bars passed from 1991 to 2008 and hospital admissions for smoking-related illnesses -- acute myocardial infarction and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- among Medicare beneficiaries age 65 or older.
In addition, to fewer heart attack admissions, admission rates for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease fell 11 percent where workplace smoking bans were in place and 15 percent where bar smoking bans were present.
However, there was very little effect found for hospitalization for gastrointestinal hemorrhage and hip fracture -- two conditions largely unrelated to smoking and examined as points of comparison.
The researchers -- Mark W. Vander Weg and Gary E. Rosenthal of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and Mary Vaughan Sarrazin of the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Research Enhancement Award Program, Midwest Veterans Affairs Rural Health Resource Center and Carver College of Medicine -- said their findings provide further support for the public health benefits of laws that limit exposure to tobacco smoke.
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Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer says he never had any doubt that Disney would resume production on Johnny Depp's "The Lone Ranger."
Bruckheimer, however, said negotiations over budget cuts for the film, which was shut down for eight weeks, were some of the toughest in his career, The Hollywood Reporter said.
The industry trade publication said Bruckheimer slashed a budget that had spiraled above $260 million down to $215 million to meet the demands of Disney CEO Robert Iger. Disney announced last week the movie was back on track.
Bruckheimer, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, said Thursday reworking the production plan and shooting in states with the best tax incentives will save $18 million. Deferment of fees and other cuts helped trim $45 million.
The producer said a sequence involving supernatural coyotes and a small animated segment had to be cut but most of the script was left intact.
"Disney would have much preferred us cutting stuff out of the script. But the competition is fierce. You can't compete with "The Hobbit," you can't compete with "Transformers" if you do that. The audience will stay home," Bruckheimer said.
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I know Spider-Man's on-again, off-again lust interest is supposed to have bad luck powers, but with Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff voicing the 2099 version of the Black Cat, I can't help but feel like my luck's taken a turn for the better.
Katee Sackhoff's charm lies in the fact that she reminds most guys of that crazy, impishly cute girl from school that would actually talk to us because she didn't know any better. Combine that with the Black Cat's extreme sexual self-awareness (and cute widdle teef) and you've got a dreamy force to be reckoned with in Spider-Man: Edge of Time.
And hey, it looks like some mad scientist decided to clone her a few dozen times. Best mad scientist ever.
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Not Chasing Amy
by Jason Good
We were nestled in the relationship sweet spot: lying on separate sofas watching Gwyneth Paltrow deliver her Oscar acceptance speech for Shakespeare in Love. Then Amy muted the television and cleared her throat. The words came off her tongue too cleanly to be natural, making me suspect that her cats had heard them a few times before I did.
"What we have here might be as good as it gets, but I need to find out if things can be better with someone else. I'm going to move out, but not for a month because I need to save money. I'm going to stay here until then."
It was a demand so concise and stripped of setup that I accepted, slack-jawed, as if a brawny repo man had shown up to take my car.
Before Best Director was awarded, I'd acquiesced to the details. We would continue to share our one-bedroom apartment, as well as its only bed — but I wasn't permitted to be in love with her anymore.
We'd met at a party in Austin. Amy was friendly and eager to connect, but I could tell immediately that she was troubled. Her laughs ended abruptly, as though joy had to be carefully balanced with melancholy. But whatever her demons were, they had nurtured a dark sardonic wit that made any emotional lability seem worth the ride.
Over the next few nights after the Oscars, my requests to spoon were denied with disgusted refusals: an emotional switch had been toggled. I couldn't help but think there must be something more important fueling her detachment than the trite prospect of a better life with "someone else."
Amy was routinely gone in the morning before I woke up, and she didn't return until late at night. When I discovered the password to her email was no longer "p0etry," I changed mine to "bitch1971." In my defense, it was the year of her birth, and I was desperate to heal.
I was also out of work. And as the days passed, eventually discovered that festering alone at home devouring pornography and bean burritos wasn't helping my self-esteem. I started spending my afternoons and evenings at a local bar. I think it was a hipster place, but 20 somethings in ironic hats weren't called that yet.
I made friends with the owner, Gretchen, who also bartended in the early evening. She wore vintage '50s cardigan sweaters, had short dark hair styled with bobby pins, and loved the Pixies. We played Jenga on the bar, shared cigarettes, and when business was slow played pool.
As a stranger to my situation, Gretchen offered a perspective that rattled my already weak sense of masculinity. She was appalled that I'd agreed to let Amy stay in our apartment, and more than a little leery, if not disgusted, when I told her we still shared a bed. She wanted me to stand up for myself. As I continued, nightly, to seek solace and strength from my sexy new bartender friend, my life seemed to be following the lyrics of a Billy Joel song I couldn't quite remember.
Each night, I returned to our apartment a little more capable of pretending I was building a new life for myself. Sometimes, I would even attempt playful conversation, but my boozy optimism only annoyed Amy.
One morning she went to work, forgetting her purse in the apartment. I'd decided the night before to repair my favorite shirt, which I'd ripped on the banister during a drunken jaunt up the stairwell. Not having a sewing kit, I fished through Amy's bag for a safety pin and left it in disarray.
That night, I received an angry call from Amy. "Stay out of my damn purse!" And she hung up.
Two weeks earlier, I had been free to help myself to safety pins, keys, Chapstick, gum with hair on it, and coins stuck to wet cough drops. Now, just because she'd decided to attempt a lifegasm, her bag was suddenly sacred space. Had that much really changed?
When her move-out date arrived, she threw all her clothes in a suitcase, leaving me with her valuables: camera, cassette tapes, and two cats. It seemed more like she was taking a vacation than leaving a life.
Months passed, and, as a result of my penchant for $5 pints, I could no longer afford the apartment. I accepted an offer from friends to take temporary shelter in their spare bedroom. These were the obligatory couple-friends with whom Amy and I used to lie about our sex life and play euchre. I brought Amy's orphaned belongings with me and crammed them into my new room. The cats were unhappy and peed on the paper grocery bags I was using as makeshift luggage. I had no money and no plans, but I spent as many evenings as I could at Gretchen's bar, even though I had to take a bus to get there.
I tried talking to my new housemates about Amy, but they were oddly reticent. We had all been great friends, so I understood their unwillingness to trash her, but how could they not agree I was owed some sympathy?
After a month, I'd overstayed my welcome and started planning a move to New York City. I just needed to find a home for Amy's cats. I asked my friends how to reach her so perhaps she and I could agree upon their fate.
My friend took a deep breath, silently poured us each three fingers of expensive Scotch, and gestured to a chair. He sounded disappointed and looked guilty.
"Amy said she was going to tell you, but I guess she's not. We promised her we wouldn't say anything until she had a chance, but we've both decided it's been too long, and you deserve to know the truth."
As he continued to speak, Amy's behavior over the previous three months started to make sense.
A few weeks before the Oscars, Amy and I had each gone on short trips to our hometowns to visit friends. While back in San Diego, Amy had rekindled with an old high-school flame. I'm assuming they'd had sex outside under the stars at a golf course, then spent the night there, teaching each other the different constellations and sharing thoughts on mortality. During a moment of post-coital weakness, he probably had even agreed with her that God must be a woman.
Whatever the details, the reality is that they became sweet enough on each other that he proposed. And she accepted.
Amy had returned to Austin engaged. She'd lived with me, slept in our bed and watched most of the Oscars with me, all while secretly "soul-mated" with someone else. She hadn't so much stopped loving me as she'd simply transferred her feelings to another man, like moving a cellphone number to a different carrier.
My friend told me that she wore her engagement ring around town, showed it off to our friends, and then hid it in her purse before returning home. That explained the angry phone call; while searching her purse for a safety pin, I might have discovered the empty ring box and exposed her secret. Why she didn't hide it better, I don't know, but perhaps, deep down, she thought that getting caught might be simpler than being honest. And who can blame her.
She'd left our apartment on a muggy morning to embark on a new life; her fiancé of one month was waiting in a taxi around the block. They'd driven to the airport, hopped a flight to Las Vegas, and wed that evening.
After hearing the story, I spent the next week walking the streets of Austin feeling like I'd stumbled onto a movie set where everyone was acting except me.
Word spread among friends that I was in on the secret. I wanted them to validate my anger, but I understood that doing so would indicate that they viewed Amy's actions as unfair and evil instead of predictably impetuous and worrisome. In their minds, and eventually mine, I hadn't been dumped; I'd been released to find a partner who wasn't destined to run away.
During a recent move from an apartment in Brooklyn to a house in suburban New Jersey, I came across Amy's camera and cassettes. They felt significant in the way a rosary might feel to a reformed Catholic. I found some comfort in them, as they represented a need for drama that I'd outgrown. Crazy people are exciting, but most will unwittingly steer themselves toward a life of entropy instead comfort.
Sometimes even the most awkward rebounds result in graceful put-backs. I'm five years sober now, and married to Gretchen. In fact, it was she who encouraged me to quit my job to be a writer. We have two small boys who love that I'm home all day, and while my life is chaotic and often maddening, it's also filled with warmth and security: the good kind of crazy.
The cats now live in Portugal. Gwyneth Paltrow is a country singer. And Amy, I recently heard, is on her third marriage and finally settled.
Jason Good is a comedian, writer, and numerous other things he's not willing to admit publicly. A children's book based on his blog post, "3 Minutes Inside the Head of My 2 Year Old" is due to be released in 2013. He is also a contributing writer to Parents Magazine. Jason lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons, and enjoys making them laugh more than anyone. You can follow him on twitter @jasonmgood.


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The Barclays iPath S&P 500 Short-term VIX Futures ETN (VXX) touched a fresh lifetime low today on a split-adjusted basis. As it happens, that's not very newsworthy. Fresh lows occurred repeatedly last year due to the way this ETN is built. It buys volatility-futures contracts that are priced persistently high and sells out of others that have been persistently low.
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On Father's Day, Gwynn reflects on family, career
SAN DIEGO -- It's hard to believe on this Father's Day that Tony Gwynn Sr. is 53 and his son, Tony Jr., is already 30.
The older Gwynn has four grandchildren and his son is still playing for the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes in the Dodgers' system.
SAN DIEGO -- It's hard to believe on this Father's Day that Tony Gwynn Sr. is 53 and his son, Tony Jr., is already 30.
The older Gwynn has four grandchildren and his son is still playing for the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes in the Dodgers' system.
I've known Gwynn so long, I covered his first hit in 1982, his last in 2001 and most of the 3,141 in a 20-year career, all with the Padres. I was there for Little Tony's first big league hit in 2006. And with any luck, I'll be there to see newly born Kayden's first knock. Tony Sr.'s daughter, Anisha, just gave birth to him three months ago.
In my mind's eye, I can still see Tony's two kids playing with my kids around the pool of the Yuma, Ariz., hotel where we all stayed during Spring Training when I covered the Padres for the old San Diego Tribune 25 years ago.
For Gwynn, these have been trying times. He has spent the last few years battling cancer of the parotid (or salivary) gland in his right cheek, the result, he believes, of a lifetime of chewing tobacco. He's undergone multiple surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy, and is currently working through some unidentified treatment. Doctors replaced the nerve in that cheek and total movement still hasn't returned.
Gwynn is the head baseball coach at San Diego State, his alma mater, and the Aztecs were eliminated in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Now, he's embarking on a limited schedule of analyzing televised Padres games. His debut was this week and he was up in the booth, wearing his retired No. 19 jersey after the Padres honored their 1998 National League pennant winners on Friday night.
Gwynn is the only career Padre inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He was a .338 lifetime hitter and possesses eight NL batting titles. I caught up with him before the 1998 NL champions' ceremony at Petco Park.
MLB.com: This was your 11th season as Aztecs head coach and second time to the NCAA Tournament. How did it go?
Gwynn: I thought we beat ourselves in the regional just trying to do too much. Overall, I thought it was a good year. I thought our guys played hard all year long. We were right there in the thick of things. We got to where we wanted to go, which was to a regional. One of these years, one of these years, man, instead of working [as a broadcaster] in June, I'm still going to be coaching in June and that's what we're hoping for.
MLB.com: That's like getting to the next round of the playoffs.
Gwynn: Yes, that's exactly right. You've got to move up. It's good to get there because I think our guys will learn a lot by getting there. But ultimately it's not where you want to end up. You want to continue playing and hopefully get to Omaha and the College World Series. I think that's all of our dreams is to one day get to Omaha, so we're going to work hard to get there.
MLB.com: So you're still enjoying it?
Gwynn: Loving it. I think I love it even more now. As you get older, I love the coaching aspect. Being on the field is the best part. The administrative stuff can be tedious, like today, dealing with scholarships. But that's part of it. In order to be successful, you have to put all those things together, so hopefully we can do that.
MLB.com: How is your son doing?
Gwynn: He's doing really good and I'm really proud of him. When you're not on the [40-man] roster and you see how they've struggled and you don't get a call, it can be extremely frustrating. He called me earlier in the year and asked me, "What should I do?" And I said, "Go play. Go play well. Hopefully somebody else will see you and you'll get another opportunity." He went 4-for-5 the other night. He's doing really well. Hopefully somebody will see that and give him a shot.
MLB.com: So you think he's pretty much finished in the Dodgers organization?
Gwynn: I don't know. He's not on the roster. When you're not on the roster, you've got to take somebody off of it to put somebody on. When Matt Kemp got hurt, they brought [Yasiel] Puig up. With the kind of money they spent on that outfield -- [Carl] Crawford, Kemp and [Andre] Ethier -- it doesn't look good.
MLB.com: His attitude is always good, I'm sure.
Gwynn: You never have to worry about that with him. He has a great sense of humor. He understands that it's a business. All you can do is go out there, play well and be productive and like I said, hope something opens up.
MLB.com: How are you feeling?
Gwynn: Doing good. You have your days, but for the most part, I'm doing good. I only missed four games this year, so life is good.
MLB.com: Why did you miss games?
Gwynn: Treatment. I had treatment.
MLB.com: What kind of treatment?
Gwynn: Just treatment. I'm doing good. I'm still here. I'm still walking around and able to talk to you.
MLB.com: OK, so what did you think of our Hall of Fame vote last winter?
Gwynn: I was surprised. I honestly thought Craig Biggio would get in. I figure there would be some pull back with Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. But I thought somebody would make it. I'm really surprised that nobody is getting in out of that group this year. The problem is that next year you add a Greg Maddux, you add a Tom Glavine, you add a Frank Thomas. Now you've got all those other guys -- Biggio, Bonds, Clemens, Sammy Sosa -- the votes are going to get more interesting as we move along here. However it goes, it's going to be interesting.
MLB.com: As we move forward, do you think these guys should be forgiven and get in?
Gwynn: That's not my call. That's your call. You're the only one who can answer that question. From my standpoint, whoever gets in, as long as it's the process I had to go through, I'm going to be there to support whoever gets in. It's a little easier for me to say that because I've playing in this era. I'm sure some of the old-school guys who played before me might not feel the way I feel. I know that when I went in 2007, when Cal [Ripken Jr.] and I went in, there were a bunch of guys there to support us going in. I plan on trying to be the same way. No matter who gets in, no matter how it happens.
MLB.com: What do you think about this current investigation?
Gwynn: I don't. There's nothing I can do about it. I care because I think we all care about the game and doing things right and doing things the right way. But obviously to some guys, that's not important. You would think they're going to have to tighten up the rules a little bit. A 50-game suspension doesn't seem to be a deterrent to some guys. They're probably going to have to run that to 100 games. Take some more cash, some more salary away. Right now, 50 days worth doesn't seem to be enough.
MLB.com: Do you feel tainted by having played in this era?
Gwynn: No, I don't. I didn't do anything wrong. I don't feel tainted. But there's going to be whole [boat] load of people who watch the game who feel that way. Because I played in that era, 50 years from now, they'll probably look at my numbers and think I was one of those guys, too. But I can't change anything now. It's done. All I can do is try to be a representative to the Hall of Fame and try to preach to people to do things right.
That's what I try to tell our [college] guys: "Hey, you've got to do things right. You've got to play the game the right way. You've got to take care of your business the right way." That's really all I can do. My opinion means jack, right now, because there are guys who feel they've got to make it and by whatever means that is what those guys feel they have to do.
I think all of us were in that position at one point or another in our careers when you try to decide what is the best way of going about being successful. I just chose the hard work way. I was just going to outwork guys. Hopefully, that was going to work for me and it did. But obviously that's not the way everybody is going about their business.
MLB.com: What do you think about the Padres from what you've seen this year?
Gwynn: I like them. I like the young guys. I like the fact that they're inquisitive. That they want to get better. Guys like Yonder Alonso and Yasmani Grandal, they want to get better. Chase Headley, he really came into his own last year. Will Venable is not beating himself up like he used to. You can see them maturing right in front of your eyes. Let's hope that they can keep doing some good things. I think we've surprised people already.
MLB.com: You think the team needs to sign Headley long term and start keeping players?
Gwynn: You would like to see that happen. I think every organization would like to have that one guy they can depend on, who comes up through the organization. That gives Minor Leaguers the hope that they can be that one guy. So I hope that's what happens, but it is a business. They'll make those decisions when they get to them. You've got to keep your own. I've always felt that way. You've got to develop and keep your own.
MLB.com: Well, you're a perfect example of that. You were one of those guys. That was important to you.
Gwynn: Yeah. Yeah. And now when you look at the back of my card, it's really cool. It just says San Diego on it.
Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow@boomskie on Twitter.


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Too Many Anti-Television Quotes[edit]
I think there's far too many anti-television quotes in this article. Not only do I disagree that TV is the root of all problems, it's also not a good, balanced article to me. —This unsigned comment is by Occono (talk • contribs) .
It's not an article, it is a collection of quotes, if you can find some pro-television quotes then you should add them. —This unsigned comment is by 188.8.131.52 (talk • contribs) .
It is called an article, isn't it? I'll try and add any good quotes I can find, I was just bringing attention to it.--Occono 10:12, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- I just call them pages because, unlike Wikipedia articles, the pages here aren't "a work of prose" like an essay or a research paper. But you are surely entitled to call it whatever you wish. As for the quotes being negatively focused on television, I'd have to agree. But I own about a dozen books on modern quotations, all of which I have been reading through which have not a single positive quotation about television. Additionally, there are very, very few noteworthy people (read: famous people) out there who say anything good about television, aside from "Be sure to tune into my show!" The article also needs loads of cleanup. Sweet Pinkette 08:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. ~ Billy Wilder
- Sex on television can't hurt you – unless you fall off. ~ Woody Allen
- Television is called a medium because it is neither rare or well done ~ Fred Allen
- Television is for appearing on, not looking at. ~ Noel Coward
- TV is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. ~ Bill Hicks
- "Television - teacher, mother, secret lover" ~ Homer Simpson
- Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms. ~ Alan Coren
- The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience ~ Bill Bryson
- Television has raised writing to a new low. ~ Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- There are many ways to talk about television. But in a "Business" perspective, let's be realistic : basically, TF1's job is to help Coca-Cola sell its product, for instance. To make the advertising message well received, the audience's brain must be available. Our shows are here to make the brain available, to entertain it, to relax it, to prepare it between two messages. What we're selling to Coca-Cola is available human brain time. Nothing is as difficult as getting this availability. ~ Patrick Le Lay, CEO of TF1, the main French TV-channel
- Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. ~ Paul Erdös
- TV is chewing gum for the eyes. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. ~ Marlon Brando
- Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. ~ Gallagher
- I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. ~ David Frost
- It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ~ Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
- Television? The word is half Greek and half Latin. No good will come of this device. ~ C. P. Scott 1936
- My father hated radio and couldn't wait for television to be invented so he could hate that, too. ~ Peter De Vries, American novelist (1910-1993)
- Television is America's jester. It has assumed the guise of an idiot while actually accruing power and authority behind the smoke screen of its self-degradation. ~Lawrence Mintz
- The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross
- I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.
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Husband and I were able to go to dinner alone last night! Yay, us! This was my little girl's bento she took to the the drop-in playplace (no reservations required childcare!).
This box is packed with flower power! (I really went overboard with the flower shapes). ;-)
Packed in an EasyLunchboxes container, the large section on the left has a turkey sandwich, pretzel crisps, cheddar cheese and fruit leather. The smaller sections on the right hold cucumbers and raspberries.
The sandwich was cut using a Lunch Punch sandwich cutter from the brand-new (hasn't even been released yet!)(You can pre-order yours now!) Sand*wishes set. The two pieces of fruit leather were cut with the flower shape from the middle of the Lunch Punch.
The cheddar cheese and cucumbers were cut with different sizes of flower-shaped mini cutters.
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There are just a few days left to enter the bento goodie giveaway, benefiting Alex. Please remember to cast your votes for the sweet Kallas family and then leave your comment on that giveaway post! I'm thrilled with the outcome so far and am gathering the goods for the next giveaway. (Yay!!!) Thank you so much and please, keep the votes coming! :)
How to vote:
1. go to the Pigeon Forge Taking Vacations Back contest page.
2. click the "votes" option and then the "sort" button. This should sort the nominees so that the ones with the most votes are at the top. If this doesn't work (sometimes it doesn't work when I do it on my iPhone), if you click the spot at the very top of the page where it says "vote for a family" and then do the sort by votes it should work then -- sometimes it's tricky. I'm sorry for that.
3. Find "Andrea K. - Spring Hill, Tn (6/1/2010)". This is the Kallas family, they've been hanging out in the 3rd place spot, but are gaining on #2!! Next click where it says "vote" right to the left of Andrea's name. That's it! You've voted!
4. Go to the the bento goodie giveaway post and leave a comment saying that you have voted.
5. Come back and do it all over again every day. You can vote from your computer and your phone. You can vote from work. You can vote from the library. Hop on your neighbors unsecured wireless internet and vote again. ;-) Do what you gotta do, but please vote.
Leave another comment on my giveaway post for every vote you cast. More votes, more chances to win.
This was the last time Owen saw Alex. I'm sorry for the poor photo quality! I took it with my phone, and then had to crop out the other kids that were in the background.
It was during our Mother's Day brunch that their Kindergarten class held. Alex spent the morning at clinic that day, but was able to pop in to see his friends for a little bit. Here he is with my Owen. :) This was a "regular", "typical" Kindergarten class, where we live there is full inclusion for students with disabilities (what some people may know as "mainstreaming"), but the kids with special needs are "buddied up" and have an aid to help guide them through the classroom and tasks. Alex was Owen's buddy.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
EasyLunchboxes with flower power
Posted by Melissa at 12:28 PM
Labels: EasyLunchboxes, Lunch Punch, theme
3 comments:
- Mommyof2girlz said... [Reply to comment]
Love the flower power and yay for getting to go to dinner with no kiddos, i'm sure you and hubby had a blast ;)
- July 11, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
Love all of the flowers! Looks delicious :D
- July 11, 2010 at 3:34 PM
- Kelly Polizzi said... [Reply to comment]
I love the flowers. So pretty. You'll have to teach me your trick on how to get your kids to eat cucumbers! I keep giving them to Willow but she keeps leaving them! lol
- July 12, 2010 at 11:01 PM
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The ESEE-4 is a fixed blade outdoor, survival, bushcraft and tactical blade made of 1095 High Carbon Steel which holds an edge through the toughest of chores. The ESEE-4 is the longer, thicker "wilderness" model of the popular ESEE-3 tactical knife. With its 3/16" thick, full flat grind blade, rounded pommel, Micarta handles and light weight, this 7.4 oz knife can serve as a primary backpacking and wilderness survival knife, or fitted to your modular system for duty carry in a tactical environment. This is a survival knife in the truest sense of the word. It is an extremely versatile drop point blade with a 4.5" cutting edge, capable for all manor of outdoor tasks, including field dressing and preparation of medium to large-sized game animals. The blade edge is sharpened to approximately 20 degrees, and the overall length of the knife is 9.0"
Falling between the compact/tactical ESEE 3 and the larger ESEE 5 and ESEE 6 knives, the ESEE 4 is a perfect fit. Just like all ESEE Knives, the ESEE 4 is a no-nonsense knife that you can stake your life on when it comes to performace & durability. The people behind this knife developed it by experience & practical application... not theory. Regardless of your place in life, this knife will soon become your best friend as you experience its superb form & function.
The textured power coat is extremely durable, and will not wear off easily. The 3 5/8" Micarta handle slabs provide most all hand sizes a secure 4 finger grip. Micarta is a durable material, created from soaking layers of linen cloth/canvas in resin, then compressing them under heat and pressure.
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This ESEE Knife is made from high carbon 1095 steel. And while 1095 is a top choice for professional cutlery designed for hard use, it will rust and stain if not properly cared for - especially on the cutting edge and around the laser engraving. It is the user's responsibility to keep the blades properly lubricated and cleaned. We suggest using a dry film rust inhibitor such as Sentry Solutions MARINE TUF-CLOTH.
Esee knives are not considered "high production" due to the care that is taken during the manufacturing process. After the steel is laser cut to size, the knives are heat treated (**see note below). Both Micarta and G-10 handle slabs are profiled and radiused on a CNC milling machine, and each set of handles are matched and fitted to a corresponding knife blank. The reason for this is during the laser cutting process there is a certain amount of tolerance, so one knife may be a few thousanths of an inch bigger (or smaller) than the next. By marrying a set of handles to a blank throughout the manufacturing process, the user ends up with a finely fitted knife. The handles slabs are held in place with three screws fastened with Loctite into a barrel nut. When the handles are assembled, a fiber liner is placed between the Micarta or G-10 slab and tang of the knife. The partially serrated knives are made by milling each serration individually with a 3/8" end mill. Unlike a lot of serrations, these are designed to easily cut through fabrics, rope and other flexible materials.
Partially serrated blades are easily sharpened by honing with a flat hone across them in the same manner as you would hone the plain edge. The textured powder coat we use on Esee knives is a special powder that has an increased amount of resistance to wear and corrosion, while maintaining a smoother feel than oxide or phosphate coatings.
**All ESEE Knives now feature a Rowen Manufacturing heat treat recipe that allows for hardening the blade completely to 57 Rc. while still maintaining flexibility.
No Questions Asked Warranty, from ESEE Knives: "If you screw it up, break it, or cut it in two with a cutting torch, send it back and we'll replace it. Warranty is transferable. In other words, we warranty the knife no matter how many times it's been traded, sold or given away. We don't ask for a sales receipt, date of purchase or where you bought the knife - No fine print and no hassles. We do not warranty against rust or normal wear and tear.
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Rays' Rodriguez groomed by father for baseball
In anticipation of Father's Day, the manager of the Johnson City Cardinals -- St. Louis' Rookie affiliate in the Appalachian League -- had some advice for Rays left fielder Sean Rodriguez.
"My Father's Day advice to him," Johnny Rodriguez said, "is to be a good father and work hard to maintain those four children and wife -- to maintain your home.
In anticipation of Father's Day, the manager of the Johnson City Cardinals -- St. Louis' Rookie affiliate in the Appalachian League -- had some advice for Rays left fielder Sean Rodriguez.
"My Father's Day advice to him," Johnny Rodriguez said, "is to be a good father and work hard to maintain those four children and wife -- to maintain your home.
"He's got an opportunity to play the next 10 years, at least, in the big leagues -- to set himself up for life. So I say, 'Be a good father. Be a leader -- to your team and to your home.'"
Sean, now 29 years old, has been living by Johnny's words for, well, 29 years. From the time his son was a baby, after all, Johnny made sure Sean was never treated like one. He raised his son like he coaches his Minor Leaguers.
"I've been in baseball a long time, and when Sean was little, I knew there was one thing I had to teach him, because nowadays players are not taught it even at the big league level, that you earn everything in life," Johnny Rodriguez said. "It happens a lot with No. 1 picks -- they're babied and carried all the way to the big leagues. I said to him when he was little, 'I don't know what round you'll go, or if you'll ever play the game. But I'll tell you one thing you're gonna do -- you're gonna control the controllable, which is every time you walk on that field, you give everything or beyond.'"
Or maybe Johnny coaches his players like he raised his son.
"That's the mentality I brought him up with," Johnny said. "Sean has four children and a wife. You know how hard it is nowadays. I know he has a nice job, but I said, 'Now that you're there, you have to sustain it.' And in life, nothing is gonna be given on a platter. I see too many players babied -- the reason they don't perform in the big leagues is because they're babied.
"You have to teach men to be men. If not, what are we doing? We're creating babies."
So when Sean was in Little League, his father managed his son his way -- like he wasn't the coach's kid.
"I never treated him as my son," Johnny said. "Never -- on the field."
Sean, of course, like every Little Leaguer, wanted to play shortstop. His dad stuck him in the outfield.
"I played him in center when he was the best shortstop on the team," Johnny Rodriguez said matter-of-factly.
That's where the team needed him, so that's where he'd play.
"We're better with you at center and the other kid at short," Johnny would tell Sean. "You're the best one we have in center field -- you're the best one we have in right field."
Sean could play anywhere, but where he did play depended on the eight kids around him and where they could play, too.
That flexibility, Johnny said, has helped Sean carve out his role in Major League Baseball, as the "million-dollar babies" fail. For the Rays, Rodriguez can play left field, second base, third or first -- he's on the depth chart for each position. He's even the team's emergency catcher. That all started under coach Johnny.
"Not that I couldn't be the everyday star on the team," Sean said. "No, he would tell me, 'Look, you're gonna hit third or fourth if I know that you're gonna be the guy that's gonna get the big hit or help the team win.'
"He always looked to me to do that, always expected me to do that -- and when I didn't do it, he was never mad at me. He always made sure that I didn't feel as if I had to be the guy: 'You can be the guy, you should be the guy -- but if not, so what? You know the next guy can do it, too.'"
That philosophy applies even more so now. Sean Rodriguez is a Major League ballplayer -- he's made it to big leagues, where the nine guys who take the field were all the best player on their Little League team. A lot of them probably even played shortstop.
And Sean is certainly no baby. Whenever there's an altercation -- and there have been plenty, the Rays and Red Sox have seen to that -- he is in the middle of it. This season, he was even ejected (unjustly, maintains manager Joe Maddon) during the benches-clearing altercation between Tampa Bay and Boston in St. Petersburg, despite being uninvolved in the play that started the scuffle.
Johnny can claim a hand in that, too. He used to say to Sean, "You're a football player on a baseball team." He told him, "There's not a wall you're not gonna run through. There's not a ball that's gonna drop in front of you. There's not a ball you're not gonna dive to get to. Because every ball, you've got a chance at."
So Sean is quick to act, more than he is to speak. With Father's Day approaching, then, the younger Rodriguez -- whose fourth child was born in April -- left the dispensing of advice to his dad and shared a simple message.
"Happy Father's Day for my old man, happy Father's Day for me -- it's pretty cool," Sean said.
David Adler is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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A future version of Bluetooth will be able to increase throughput for sending videos, music, and other high-bandwidth applications by using a nearby Wi-Fi network, the group in charge of Bluetooth development says.
Ander Edlund, European Marketing Director for the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, said the technology enabling Bluetooth connections to hop on neighboring Wi-Fi networks is about a year from being ready. "We're on [Bluetooth version] 2.1 now, so it might be in version 3," Edlund said on the eve of Mobile World Congress, which opened its a four-day run Monday.
The technology that will enable Bluetooth to use Wi-Fi is called "Alternate MAC/PHY."
Bluetooth was designed as way to wirelessly connect devices--a PC and a printer, for example--that doesn't consume as much power as Wi-Fi, but also doesn't move data as quickly or as far.
Bluetooth developers are already working to make their technology compliant with another wireless broadband standard, the WiMedia Alliance's Certified Wireless USB ultra-wideband technology.
However Certified Wireless USB products have only begun to appear recently, and so Bluetooth is turning to a more ubiquitous high-speed wireless technology to help with applications where Bluetooth's own bandwidth (with a theoretical maximum of 3 megabits per second) is insufficient. The Bluetooth SIG stressed that it is continuing to work on pairing Bluetooth with Certified Wireless USB, however.
Alternate MAC/PHY would let a Bluetooth connection use an 802.11x network only when the additional bandwidth was needed; for tasks that can make do with standard Bluetooth speeds, the Bluetooth connection would stop using the Wi-Fi network.


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Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection
Drawing upon the dynamic collection of San Francisco native Trevor Traina, this exhibition consists of approximately 100 works made by some of the pre-eminent artists working in photography this past century. While the core of the Traina collection embraces the documentary impulse in photography, it also tracks the medium's full-blooded absorption into the world of contemporary art.
Left: Roe Ethridge, Thanksgiving 1984 (Green Dress), 2009. Chromogenic print. 44 x 33 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery. Right: Ryan McGinley, BMX, 2000. Chromogenic print 32 3/4 x 42 inches Courtesy of the artist and Ratio 3, San Francisco


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Year 1 and Year 3 Teacher- Redbridge September 2018
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Primary School in Redbridge, recruiting Primary NQTs for September 2018
This, 2 form entry primary school based within Redbridge is looking to recruit Primary NQTs for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 NQT roles. The primary school is ideally looking for a Year 1 and Year 3 teacher to join their established primary school for September 2018. The school are looking to secure Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 Primary NQTs for their primary school for September 2018. The school has an excellent reputation for supporting NQTs and are keen to find more primary NQT teachers that they can build into outstanding teachers / practitioners who can in turn become future leaders within the school.
Are you a Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2 primary NQT teacher looking to find your first Primary NQT role in a supportive primary school within Redbridge?
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My client is a supportive large 2 form entry primary school based within the London Borough of Redbridge. The Headteacher and his senior leadership team are keen to appoint some Primary NQTs for the new academic year due to reshuffling of teachers into new management roles for next academic year. This is a great opportunity for 2 Primary NQTs to join the team and really make an impact on a group of children. The roles are flexible in terms of year groups and will be negotiated dependent on your experience and preferences. If you are a Primary NQT that is keen to secure your NQT teaching position, then this could be the school for you. As a KS1 or KS2 Primary NQT you will take on the role as a class teacher with a flourishing class of 28-30 children, you will be supported fully by fellow parallel teachers and have the full support of the senior leadership team and your NQT mentor. Primary NQTs have successfully done well over the last few years at this school and have really progressed due to the Headteachers passion for NQTs and the CPD she offers her teachers.
The school has an excellent reputation within the local community and has made an impact on a number of families within the area. The school is heavily diverse and multicultural and they celebrate diversity within their community. The primary school has excellent facilities that help inspire, engage and develop the young minds within the school.
If you are looking for a supportive primary school in the London Borough of Redbridge then this could be the school for you.
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EA Sports
A couple of guys here at the NFL Network studios were having a conversation about "Breaking Bad" the other day, when somebody walked into the room and said, "Don't spoil anything!" You figured the aforementioned person might have been an episode or two behind and didn't want to hear the conversation.
But no, this person was actually six seasons behind.
Are you freaking kidding me?
Spoilers are out of control, people. I mean, you can't even have a "Star Wars" conversation without somebody getting bent out of shape about it.
With that in mind, let me give you the appropriate spoiler alert because Madden NFL 25 ran a simulation on the entire season to see exactly what is going to happen. If you don't want the upcoming season ruined for you, I suggest you turn away.
Again, please turn away...
1. Here are your AFC Playoff teams in order, according to Madden: The New England Patriots, Houston Texans, Denver Broncos, Cincinnati Bengals, Indianapolis Colts and Baltimore Ravens. So, there's going to be no difference in last year's playoff teams? Well, that's not going to happen. There is too much turnover from year to year in the NFL for all six teams to make the playoffs.
|Madden Next Gen will follow 25 NFL players throughout the Season. Fans can rank this list each week based on performance. This ranking will influence the rankings in Madden 25.
2. The Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins will finish 8-8.
3. Your NFC playoff teams: The San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons, Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints and Washington Redskins. Well at least Madden NFL 25 understood the Vikings were a bit fortunate last year to make the playoffs. And proper deference was given to the return of Sean Payton.
4. The team that owns the first pick in the 2014 NFL Draft: The New York Jets. No surprise there. The St. Louis football club takes the second pick. You might as well use the relocation feature if that was to happen in St. Louis.
5. What about Adrian Peterson? He falls short of his goal of 2,500 yards, but he is simulated to rush for 2,139 yards. So Peterson still would become the first player in NFL history with back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.
6. Peyton Manning is on pace for 112 touchdown passes this season. This makes Madden's simulation of 43 touchdown passes seem a little less gaudy. At least Madden realizes Manning still has trouble winning in the playoffs. Manning also goes for 5,323 yards.
7. No word if C.J. Spiller pukes during his run toward 1,504 yards, which is good for third in the NFL behind Peterson and Jamaal Charles, who goes for 1,886.
8. Calvin Johnson doesn't reach 2,000 receiving yards. Neither does Dez Bryant. The simulation has Johnson going for 1,839 yards. Check the injury rating, but Danny Amendola was simulated for 125 receptions for 1,324 yards and seven touchdowns.
9. Your award winners are Peyton Manning as MVP and Jim Harbaugh as Coach of the Year. I think sports writers have already voted Manning as the winner of the 2013 NFL MVP after Thursday night, so this makes sense.
10. But let's get down to the brass tacks, who wins in the playoffs? Well, I already told you the Broncos lose. Madden NFL 25 has the Texans beating the Patriots to move on to the Super Bowl, while the 49ers hang on to beat the Redskins.
Who takes the Super Bowl? Well, we don't want to spoil everything for you.


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The Queens Republican Party civil war is not over, and Phil Ragusa did not reclaim his throne yet, his opponents say.
Both Ragusa and former Congressmember Bob Turner have declared themselves winners in the election to head the Queens GOP after a six hour contentious meeting on September 27.
According to Party officials, Ragusa won re-election as chair by 52 percent of votes cast by district leaders and state committee members. His challenger, Turner, garnered about 48 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results.
But Councilmember Eric Ulrich, an outspoken critic of Ragusa, said Turner in fact had higher tallies than reported and had the support of "a clear majority" of voters.
There was no independent monitor in the room to count the votes, he said, and the Party's leadership had thrown out valid proxies.
"The county's members are using fuzzy math," Ulrich said. "Their attempts to disqualify the proxy votes of duly elected county committee members are shameful. When every single vote is counted, it is clear that Bob Turner is the chairman."
Both Turner and Ragusa have submitted certificates of election with the state and city Board of Elections.
Ragusa released a statement, saying he had been declared the "clear winner."
"I am honored and humbled by the show of support given to me by Queens County Committee and State Committee members," he said. "I will continue to lead the party honorably and faithfully and will work to unify the party so that the
Queens GOP continues to grow and become even stronger in the future."
Turner said he was confident court litigations over the next few weeks would find him victorious.
"We know we won," Turner said. "This is going to have to be solved at a different level."
A similar internal battle occurred in 2011, when both Ragusa and former Councilmember Tom Ognibene claimed victory, though Ognibene was later defeated.
Ulrich, an insurgent of the Queens GOP, has long called for Turner to take over Party leadership, especially after a bombshell corruption scandal emerged this April.
Queens GOP Vice Chair Vince Tabone and Republican Councilmember Dan Halloran were among a handful of officials indicted in a bribery scheme to get Democratic State Senator Malcolm Smith on the GOP mayoral primary ticket.
Shortly after Tabone resigned from his post, more than a dozen Republican State Committee members wrote Ragusa a letter, asking him to step down, too, and allow Turner to take over.
The county boss, who was not accused of any wrongdoing, stayed on and won re-election earlier this month to his district leader post, beating back challenger and Ulrich ally Sal Bacarella.
Others elected to the Queens GOP include Robert Beltrani as executive vice chair and James McClelland as first vice chair. McClelland served as chief of staff to Councilmember Peter Koo and recently left to work for State Senator Simcha Felder.


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Mon, 31 October 2016
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The Mom Squad Show - is a witty, edgy and modern perspective on life from Two Moms, Two Journalists, Two Hosts and Two Friends. Straight from the Kyra's kitchen and Christine's home studio these two smart and zany moms discuss news of the day, pop culture, mommy hood and men in a way that will make you laugh, think and be inspired. There's no makeup, no hair dresser, and no frills just real moms, real life.


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Friday, April 27, 2007
Different better
It's a different kind of labor than someone headed for a hospital. Different better. And I'm really not a sensationalist. Nor do I consider myself way-holistic, or uber-natural in other parts of my life.
I was walking and talking with friends and my husband. Wearing my feathered and jeweled "birth crown" (hah). Wearing my water-backpack for hydration. And wearing a skirt, (which I never wear), for comfort and for femininity. Knowing I had nowhere to be. No schedule to keep. It was my second home birth.
I am the one who never dreamed of having my first baby at home--let alone a second. My mother swore by her epidural. Her painless journey had a happy ending. But the more I read about birth, and the more friends of mine, and friends of friends, who fell victim to the c-section check-mate of modern hospital/interventionist birth game--the more uncomfortable I felt with my original plan to follow in my mother's birth-steps.
With the first few sessions of our east coast Bradley(tm) Class under our belts and the book "The Baby Catcher" clutched tightly in our hands, my husband and I waded into the idea of a natural birth, and we ended up with a full-on home birth. Twice. One in D.C. and one in San Francisco. After all--what sense would it make to have a natural birth all hooked up to machines and/or in an aseptic hospital environment with (sometimes) cranky nurses poking and asking you if you're 'ready to give up on that natural birth yet?'
'Oh, but the doctors and the medicines and the intervention in case of disaster would be there', you say. But no... not so much.
The doctors are never there--not until "the end"--after hours of pain and questions, confusion and second-guessing. "The end" is a fleck of time. It seemed like a millisecond compared to the rest of labor.
As it turns out, doctors really know nothing of how to care for a woman in labor. It's simply not what they are trained to deal with or care about. I was so stunned when I finally figured that out. So if your labor is normal--you never see your doctor. A midwife is there with you during labor, by your side for hours, sometimes days, helping you cope, reassuring you, giving you (or helping your partner give you) what you need and keeping away all things you don't. Right through to the birth. And then for hours after that. Not to mention the pre- and post-natal care that builds you up and backs you down to and from the moment of birth with 30-60 minute appointments that are 5 parts therapy, 3 parts hanging-out-with-a-new-best-friend, and 2 parts healthcare.
Then there's the medicines--It turns out, there aren't really any medicines you need. The best medicines are comfort and family and security provided by the caregiver that's been by the side of hundreds of women through hundreds of complete labors--telling you that all is going well. She's seen this pain before. She's seen this stage, this moment, this struggle. She knows. And then you know. You can do it too. Just like all those other women before you. And there is nothing to fear. So different from the kind of feedback that western medicine offers women who labor in hospitals.
Then there's the intervention in case of emergency: And there's some truth to this. But the other truth is that nearly all serious conditions requiring medical management at birth can be predicted during gestation. Your caring midwife would see them in advance and graciously, gently transfer your care over to a physician--and she will stay with you even then. And in the rare case that something would present itself during labor, that same wonderful woman--ever vigilantly observing and monitoring--would hear, measure, or sense that it was time to transfer this birth to a hospital. And by your side she would travel. You would never be or feel alone.
For all these reasons and realizations. We chose a home birth. Twice.
Read this part:
To be cared for by a midwife is decadent.
Go back and read the line above again.
It's the kind of healthcare you can only dream of. It's how you've always wanted to be treated. I've done it twice now, and I still can't get over how much care was lavished on me and my sons. Two different midwives. Opposite sides of the country. Same standard of care.
Midwives are amazing.
Thank you to Eileen and Maria. You are both amazing amazing women. I loved my births. -- Bradee
Ian Gregory
Eli Sydney
Ian and his midwife, Eileen. She's giving breast-feeding pointers during his first post-partum visit
Eli and his midwife, Maria. He's getting is weight checked at his first post-partum visit
Labels: birth, empowerment, homebirth, midwifery, natural childbirth
2 comments:
- amy said...
this is a beautiful contribution to the internet. it articulates what i wish i could tell every pregnant woman i meet so that she could receive care like you received. congratulations on your excellent choice for yourself as a woman and as a mother. tell everyone your story all the time!!!
- August 6, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- The Isabeli said...
I got a little weepy reading your post and know now more than ever that I'm making the right choice in having my baby at home. Thank you!
- November 22, 2010 at 10:35 AM
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In 2010, while at Camp Victory, Iraq, 11 female Soldiers received the opportunity to eat lunch with and ask questions of Dr. Jill Biden, second lady of the United States.
Sgt. Ashleigh Berg, currently the strength management noncommissioned officer for the 8th Theater Sustainment Command, was among those hand-selected to receive the honor.
When it came time for Berg to ask the second lady something poignant and meaningful, the only thing that came to her mind was, "Ma'am, I love your shoes! Where did you get them?"
That question stuck in Dr. Biden's mind and opened several doors for Berg during the past two years; it netted Berg her invitations to both the 2012 State of the Union Address, as well as this year's Inaugural Ball -- all because of Berg's and Dr. Biden's shared love of footwear.
"I am a shoe person," said Berg. "I own more than 50 pairs of shoes. After meeting in Iraq that first time, I was able to snap a photo of myself and Dr. Biden. I sent them to my mom who is a big fan of hers. My mom sent the pictures to the White House to see if Dr. Biden would sign them. Not only did she sign them, but she and my mom stayed in contact, and my mom was invited out to the White House to meet her!"
A year ago, almost to the day, Berg received contact from the White House inviting her to be Dr. Biden's escort to the 2012 State of the Union Address.
"It felt as if I had just won an Oscar!" Berg exclaimed. "I sat right next to her and close to Michelle Obama during the whole speech."
This year, Berg was again invited to the White House for the 2013 Inaugural Ball, a large social gathering of both white tie and black ties, held to celebrate the commencement of the new term of the President of the United States.
"It's a big honor to be invited," Berg said. "It's even better that they gave me a second ticket."
Berg plans on taking her father to the ball.
"I'm more excited for him," said Berg. "When I told my dad, he literally started sobbing. It was very moving, and I'm excited to be able to give him this chance."
Last year, Berg was able to spend a lot of quality time with the second lady.
"She's the nicest person I've ever met," she said with a grin. "She showed me her shoes at the State of the Union, too, and they were gorgeous."
This year, she will have the same opportunity.
"I can't wait to see what shoes she has on this year!" Berg exclaimed.


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Catalog Details
AE4020 - Contemporary Topics in Art Education
Credits: 1 - 3
This course is repeatable.
Provides opportunity for immersion in a specialized topic/area concerning studio art, art history, multicultural arts traditions, special education, technology, graphic design and/or art education, which contemporary art educators address as professionals. Guest artists, educators and professionals working with faculty members are invited to teach this course and share their experience and expertise in selected areas of specialization. Students may repeat this course when it is offered under a different topic. Prerequisite(s): Junior status as Art or Art Education major.