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Microsoft offers ad-free Bing search for schools
Microsoft is launching a "Bing for Schools" program that is tailored for K-12 students by "removing all advertisements from search results, enhancing privacy protections and the filtering of adult content," according to Matt Wallaert, a former teacher is now "Bing Behavioral Scientist."
The service, which is voluntary for K-12 schools, will off the ad-free experience across all Bing.com searches from within the school's network. No special software will be needed, according to Wallaert's blog post. Schools have the option of sticking with the regular Bing.com experience if they don't enter the program.
Digital literacy skills
The service will offer short lesson plans "that teach digital literacy skills" that are related to search and tied to the Common Core, which are the standards that provide "a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn," according to the Common Core State Standards Initiative. As an example, Microsoft showed a link to a Bing image of a sloth, which "might be coupled with the question "How many sloths could live in one square mile of jungle?" and a lesson helping students use search tools and critical thinking to find potential answers."
Major competitors also in education
Microsoft, of course, is not the only major tech company to cater to schools. Google has a very large education initiative to to encourage schools to use its apps. The Google in Education site promotes the use of Google's devices and platforms including Chromebooks, Google apps and YouTube EDU, which is YouTube's portal for videos suitable for use in K through college classrooms.
Apple doesn't have a web service for schools, but it has always had a strong program to get its gear adapted by schools, starting in the early 80's with its Apple II. Apple recently signed a $30 million contract with the Los Angeles Unified School District that will result in iPads initially being rolled out to each student in 47 schools with the possibility of hundreds of million of dollars more being spent on iPad by LA Schools in the next two years, according to the Los Angeles Times. Apple offers discounts not just to schools but to students, teachers and other school staff as part of its Apple in Education program.
How to sign-up your school
Parents, teachers and others affiliated with schools can sign-up to get more information as Microsoft rolls out the registration process. Microsoft asks people to "Please understand that this program is a major undertaking and will take time to get to all the schools that express interest.

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Emory University Hospital is expecting to receive a patient from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas later today, Oct. 15. The patient is the second of two health care workers infected while caring for a patient at the Dallas hospital.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Texas Health Resources specifically requested that the patient be transferred to Emory Healthcare.
The patient will be treated in the same isolation unit at Emory University Hospital in which three patients have already been treated. The first two patients were discharged in late August and a third patient is still being treated.
Emory University Hospital physicians, nurses and staff are highly trained in the specific and unique protocols and procedures necessary to treat and care for this type of patient.
Emory is bound by patient confidentiality and has no additional information regarding this patient.
UPDATE: October 28, 2014
Emory University Hospital physicians, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are pleased to report that the Ebola patient from Dallas that arrived on Oct. 15, Amber Vinson, will be discharged today and is free of the virus.
Emory University Hospital will hold a news conference today at 1 p.m., where Bruce Ribner, MD, medical director of Emory's Serious Communicable Disease Unit, will discuss the discharge of Amber Vinson from the hospital and answer media questions. Amber Vinson will also be present and will make a statement, but will not take questions.
UPDATE: October 20, 2014
A patient who was transported to Emory University Hospital on Sept. 9 with Ebola virus disease was discharged from the hospital on Oct. 19, 2014.
In coordination with the CDC and Georgia Department of Public Health, the patient was determined to be free of virus and to pose no public health threat. The patient has asked to remain anonymous and left the hospital for an undisclosed location. He will make a statement at a later date.
The patient was treated in the Serious Communicable Disease Unit in Emory University Hospital. Two other patients who were treated for Ebola virus disease were discharged from the hospital on Aug. 19 and Aug. 21. A fourth patient, who arrived on Oct. 15, 2014, is still being treated for Ebola virus disease in Emory's Serious Communicable Disease Unit.
UPDATE: October 15, 2014
A patient with Ebola virus disease arrived at Emory University Hospital on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at approximately 8:30 p.m. ET. The patient was transported by air ambulance from Dallas, Texas.
The patient will be treated in the special isolation unit in which three other patients have been treated. Two of those patients were discharged in late August and a third is still being treated.
Emory is bound by patient confidentiality and has no information regarding the status of the patient.
UPDATE: October 15, 2014
Emory is currently caring for a third patient with Ebola virus disease who arrived at Emory University Hospital on Sept. 9. Emory is bound by patient confidentiality and has provided no information regarding the status of the patient.
Given the recent news regarding the diagnosis of Ebola virus disease in health care workers, the patient has requested that we release the following statement, but continue to maintain anonymity:
Statement From Emory University Hospital Patient Recovering From Ebola
"Given the national focus on Ebola, particularly with the diagnosis in two health care workers, I want to share the news that I am recovering from this disease, and that I anticipate being discharged very soon, free from the Ebola virus and able to return safely to my family and to my community.
As a result of the virus, my condition worsened and I became critically ill soon after I arrived at Emory. Through rigorous medical treatment, skillful nursing, and the full support of a healthcare team, I am well on the way to a full recovery. I want the public to know that although Ebola is a serious, complex disease, it is possible to recover and return to a healthy life. I wish to retain my anonymity for now, but I anticipate sharing more information in future weeks as I complete my recovery."


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Summary and Keywords
The Special Relationship is a term used to describe the close relations between the United States and the United Kingdom. It applies particularly to the governmental realms of foreign, defense, security, and intelligence policy, but it also captures a broader sense that both public and private relations between the United States and Britain are particularly deep and close. The Special Relationship is thus a term for a reality that came into being over time as the result of political leadership as well as ideas and events outside the formal arena of politics.
After the political break of the American Revolution and in spite of sporadic cooperation in the 19th century, it was not until the Great Rapprochement of the 1890s that the idea that Britain and the United States had a special kind of relationship took hold. This decade, in turn, created the basis for the Special Relationship, a term first used by Winston Churchill in 1944. Churchill did the most to build the relationship, convinced as he was that close friendship between Britain and the United States was the cornerstone of world peace and prosperity. During and after the Second World War, many others on both sides of the Atlantic came to agree with Churchill.
The post-1945 era witnessed a flowering of the relationship, which was cemented—not without many controversies and crises—by the emerging Cold War against the Soviet Union. After the end of the Cold War in 1989, the relationship remained close, though it was severely tested by further security crises, Britain's declining defense spending, the evolving implications of Britain's membership in the European Union, the relative decline of Europe, and an increasing U.S. interest in Asia. Yet on many public and private levels, relations between the United States and Britain continue to be particularly deep, and thus the Special Relationship endures.
Keywords: special relationship, Anglo-American relations, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Second World War, decolonization, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Suez crisis (1956), Iraq War (2003)
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Change in payments is in overdrive, and will only get faster. Traditional payments players are being squeezed from all sides.
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Specification link: 13.2 Gradients
This test has a gradient with gradientUnits='objectBoundingBox' which is a fade from black to white. The gradient is used for the stroke of a line. Lines don't have a boundingbox, since they are one-dimensional, even though the stroke-width makes it look like they should have a boundingbox with non-zero width and height. See the coordinate chapter, last paragraph of 7.11.
The left rectangle has four 'line' elements rotated in different ways. The right rectangle has four 'rect' elements rotated in the same way as the 'line' elements. Both of these rectangles and their contents should look the same for the test to pass; all lines are solid black except for the diagonal from bottom left to top right, which has a black to white gradient.


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Current Law Students / Any benefit to going without a realitor?« on: December 19, 2008, 09:17:02 AM »
I have been looking around a lot on google maps, and I can find a lot of houses that I'd like to see. Say I just called that realitor up and looked at the house, and did this until I found one I liked. Couldn't I save 1-2% by doing this? That is a lot of money when you are talking about $400k house.


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The big fella decided to put in a very quick appearance just hours before I was due to be induced!
The labour lasted just 3 hours from 1st twinge to cuddles and though it was a text book normal delivery, it was very scary due to his unexpected largeness!!
I lost a lot of blood at delivery and narrowly escaped going to theatre, luckily some medication via a drip slowed it down and we were discharged after 12 hours. There was also meconium present which terrified me, the joys of too much inside information due to my job sucks sometimes!!
I hope to get back to my sewing and regular blogging soon, bear with me won't you?
PS: All these pictures were taken with my iPhone and then edited in PicMonkey. PicMonkey is the new Picknik for those who don't know, it's brilliant!!


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Writing in the New York Times, check out Jacob Bernstein's takeout piece on his mother's final act:
At 10 p.m. on a Friday night in a private room on the 14th Floor of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital on 68th and York Avenue, my mother was lying in her bed hallucinating, in that dream space people go on their way to being gone.
She spoke of seeing trees, possibly a forest. And she mentioned to Nick, my stepfather, that she had been to the theater where her play was showing and that the audience was full. In reality, she had not left the hospital in a month, and the play, "Lucky Guy," was nearly a year away from opening.
My brother, Max, and I stood there in disbelief. Though it had been weeks since her blood count showed any sign of improvement, the gravity of the situation had crept up on us. Mom's housekeeper, Linda Diaz, who had worked for her for 25 years, was in the corner sobbing.
At some point, a team of doctors and nurses arrived to assess the situation, and Mom became slightly more lucid.
"Can you tell me your name?" one of them asked.
"Nora Ephron," she said, nodding.
"Can you tell me where you are?"
"New York Hospital."
"Who is the president of the United States?"
At this point, my mother looked annoyed, gave a roll of the eyes and refused to answer the question, which later on was the source of some debate between Max and me about whether her sarcasm and humor remained even as her memory and focus faded or whether she was simply irritated at being treated like an infant.
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Overstrike Becomes Fuse
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Overstrike becomes Fuse and looses a little in the conversion.
Hmmm, I preferred it when it was more Ratchet and Clank and less Resistance.
However, I do have a lot of faith in Insomniac and I'm curious to see how this turns out.
That E3 2011 trailer was really awesome and fun and got me excited for the game. Now, they took pretty much everything that made that interesting, shifted the tone, and I'm not looking forward to this as much. It's Insomniac, which means the gameplay will still probably be great, but they've neutered the charm and enthusiasm out of it.
I'm also a little worried that without the charm, Fuse will bomb.
another reason to hate on EA (not my words but you know its coming)
Eh. I am not really interested in it now. It just looks so bland now.
So the Terran Republic are now a terrorist faction? Sorry but I've been playing the PS2 beta for a bit and when I saw red and black cannon fodder all I thought about was TR (Lets face it that boss might as well have been a MAX).
hmm looks pretty boring now.
Just wait for XCOM and you wont even know what "Fuse" is when Oct 9th rolls around.
Huh, the trailer looked so awesome, I loved the style...but then looking at the screen caps..it looks so bland..
Less TF2... I approve. Will hold off complete judgement till, you know, the game is made and all.
Agreed I was considering buying this which would have been a first for an EA backed game in years, for the simple reason it was funny and made by Insomniac. Now my interest has cooled some what. I imagine the guns and that will be fun but the game lacks the certain Insomniac charm that is usually present in their games for me.
Oh and a side note for EA. Keep your grubby hands of Insomniac! You have already taken Bullfrog and Pandemic from me, you are not getting Insomniac too or so help you god I will end you!
WHAT? you awful awful person...gritty is the devils visual style and you obviously drown puppies in your spare time to say such a thing
what is this?....why do you say things that make no sense..I don't understand any of that 0_0....[1]
[1] to cover my ass yes this is me joking
Yeah, sorry about that. I get that a lot.
I just really, really hate puppies.
Eugh. Just... eugh.
This is depressing. Really depressing.
What's even their excuse for this change? Everyone was praising the light hearted tone and quirky characters. Were they even paying attention?
No, clearly not.
If developers tone down grittiness and scale up level of crazy the game still might get interesting
Well let's hope this is a one-time deal. I'd hate to see them instantly try to shift Ratchet and Clank into some cigar-chomping, grizzled and angry war vet with Clank being some bigass terminator-styled robot with no mouth and a Cylon eye scanner.
Unless it was just for parody, of course, and immediately revert back to normal R&C.
Agreed though that the charm of the original was really great. I'd of loved the trailer even if Insomniac's name wasn't on it, the name just guarantees some crazy guns and strong gameplay. I'd like to see why they decided on the shift. Is this like some Reverse-Borderlands where they went from silly to serious?
Hmm. I was looking forward to this.
The death dealing is so light hearted in this trailer! Teeheee... let's snap some necks!
Ugh, I really loved the look, feel and characters of the original trailer, its really disheartening to see this happen to the characters.
Hey, it`s Binary Domain 2.
Its the wait and see affect. Got me thinking of how I felt when I saw the cell shading for Wind Waker, instead of that what was in the infamous link vs Gannon trailer that was circulating before the new title was announced.
Well screw you to Imsomniac, I haven't bought any of your games since Ratchet and Clank Gladiator, anyway!
And I bought all of them used to!
just one question comes to mind, "Why?" i mean, seriously, you had this awesome trailer with great style and light hearted 4 players co-op, something that is so rare to see, and turn it into "gears of binary i dont even care", i dont really investigate in these things so someone correct me if im wrong, but i smell the hand of the publisher in this xd
I watched the trailer and I was like, "WOOOOHOOO!
Then I read the article and I had a sad.
The artstyle shift is a huge pain. Honestly I like co-op shooters and the "New" gameplay shift probably works better, but we didn't know anything about the gameplay before anyways. So with subdued humor and more realistic visuals they're getting rid of the two things that sold me on the game in the first place. Uber-lame.
The change in style and tone makes me sad. Still seems like it'll be good, but I would've preferred if it was more like its 2011 trailer. That trailer made the game look fun and interesting, this one makes it look like... bleh.
Wonder why they changed styles.
urgh. So they want to have independence of their studio and they go to EA? Really? Should have stuck with Sony. I really hope this is a one time deal with EA and after that they decide to go to someone else. Or back to Sony. I was really excited for Overstrike. It looked like an amazing game. Now this. I'm sure the weapons and gameplay will be tight and interesting but the humour that was in the trailer would have made it better.
Yes I know it wasn't a gameplay trailer but I was hoping it was indication of what the gameplay would be like and I was hoping the game would be colourful and game humour. Now it sounds like its yet ANOTHER serious game about a unnamed terrorist group from an unnamed region with robots. WHY EA! WHY! I really hope its EA's influence and not some direction decided by the heads at Insomniac.
Now, I'm not saying EA is responsible for this change, I'm just heavily implying it.
Can I say it? I really wanna say it...
Looks like some marketer saw it and went, "This doesn't look HD.. we need it to look HD."
I actually really liked this trailer, but I never saw the trailer for Overstrike so I've not the prior knowledge to be upset about the changes.
That is the original trailer, the screenshots are what the game looks like now.
I was seriously and honestly interested in this game purely because of the trailer. It seemed like a great combination of the zaniness of Borderlands with the heavy team-focus of Left4Dead. At worst, the game would be compared too heavily with Borderlands's style.
Then EA comes and pulls this.
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There are three really nice things that generally occur in homeschool classes:
1) The kids are of all different ages, and their parents are with them, and it always seems to be a really good mix, so that everyone has a lot of fun with each other.
2) The kids pretty much all want to be there, and all participate eagerly.
3) No matter the subject of the class, at least some of the kids there have obsessively, passionately studied that subject, and so there's always someone able to answer a question.
In this Ancient Egypt class, I happen to have one of the kids who's obsessively studied the subject, bringing to life a fourth pleasure in homeschool classes:
4) You get to watch your kid raise her hand and speak up with answers. Seriously, how cool is that? I imagine that kids are doing that all day long in institutional schools, but on the occasions when my kids are in that particular situation, I'm generally nearby, watching and beaming with pride and reporting their triumphs back to Matt in the evenings.
In the laboratory, the kids got to help the scientist with the dummy mummy. When the scientist was discussing the removal of the organs, Willow shouted out, "But not the heart!" and cackled at her joke, along with a bunch of other little Ancient Egypt obsessives. She was fine with helping to remove the liver, though:
Sydney helped take out the intestines:
While they were in the lab, the kids all started their own experiment:
1) You take four pieces of apple, and put each piece into a little lidded cup.
2) Leave one apple as the control, so all you do is put the lid on that one.
3) In each of the other containers, cover the apple completely with one of three substances available to the Ancient Egyptians--salt, sand, and natron (our natron did not come from the banks of the Nile, but was made in the museum's laboratory):
Check the apples daily, and unlid them in a week to see which substance (if any) preserves the apple the best. Remember that we're not concerned with DRYING the apple, necessarily, but with PRESERVING it, since preservation was the true goal of the Ancient Egyptians.
We also learned about the amulets that the Ancient Egyptians made, particularly the process that they used. Basically, if an Ancient Egyptian carved a really super amulet, they'd press that amulet into clay to make a mold of it, which we did. Then whenever they wanted a copy of that amulet, they'd press more clay into the hardened mold, which we also did:
We got to take our amulets AND our amulet molds home so that when the clay hardens, we can use them to make even more copies of authentic Ancient Egyptian amulets.
We discussed hieroglyphics, specifically cartouches. We took a tour of the museum's exhibit on King Seti I, and found and translated his cartouches (two, of course, since a pharaoh has a given name and a throne name). The girls used a hierogplyphics alphabet to create cartouches of their names--
Recently, one of our relatives (after listening patiently to the girls describe their class, and inspecting their salt dough maps of Ancient Egypt and their other work that only those obsessive and passionate about a subject of study can produce), told me that at the school where she works, children study Ancient Egypt in the sixth grade. This brings me to another pleasure, not in homeschooling classes, per se, but more in regards to homeschooling as a whole, for us:
We can learn as and when we choose. Willow and Sydney don't have to wait until the sixth grade to study Ancient Egypt for their school. They don't have to wait until after school and the weekends to study Ancient Egypt in their "free time," while doing a serious of interesting and uninteresting things at school for the greater part of each weekday. When they study Ancient Egypt, they can study as they wish, reading about gods and figuring out whose canopic jar is whose and building pyramids and relief maps and exploring the saga of Moses--they don't have to only do the projects that a teacher asks, in the time that is allowed for the project, producing something that's not as special on account of everyone else is doing the exact same project at the exact same time.
And yes, they can NOT learn something when and as they choose. I don't give a flip that Willow can't tie her shoelaces or tell time. She CAN tell you exactly how the Nile's flood process works, and why the Nile delta is named as such, and which is Lower and which Upper Egypt.
And after she does that, she can take you to ride the vintage carousel three times in a row, because her class just took place at the Children's Museum!


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Dan Bongino is asking the right question on Twitter:
Pages #83 through #96 of the FISA Court Opinion provide the context for this question.
The fastest way to answer the question is to ask the guy at the epicenter of the FISA-702 queries. W.H. "Bill" Priestap, the FBI Director of Counterintelligence. Mr. Priestap could easily answer that question…. and he's on the Nunes witness list for questioning this month… but will he answer?


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Under and by virtue of the Power of Sale contained in a Security Deed given by Susan Spell to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., dated January 28, 2009, recorded in Deed Book 454, Page 644, Appling County, Georgia Records, as last transferred to LoanCare, a Division of FNF Servicing, Inc. by assignment to be recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Appling County, Georgia Records, conveying the after-described property to secure a Note in the original principal amount of SEVENTY-FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($74,379.00), with interest thereon as set forth therein, there will be sold at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash before the courthouse door of Appling County, Georgia within the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in November, 2011, the following described property: SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF The debt secured by said Security Deed has been and is hereby declared due because of, among other possible events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as and when due and in the manner provided in the Note and Security Deed. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same and all expenses of this sale, as provided in Security Deed and by law, including attorneys fees (notice of intent to collect attorneys fees having been given). Said property will be sold subject to any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, but not yet due and payable), any matters which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property, any assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of record superior to the Security Deed first set out above. The entity that has full authority to negotiate, amend, and modify all terms of the mortgage with the debtor is: Loancare Servicing Center, 3637 Sentara Way, Suite 303, Virginia Beach, VA 23452, 800-909-9525. Please understand that the secured creditor is not required by law to negotiate, amend, or modify the terms of the mortgage instrument. To the best knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the party in possession of the property is Susan Spell or a tenant or tenants and said property is more commonly known as 324 Jake Moody Road, Baxley, Georgia 31513. The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the security deed.
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EXHIBIT A Land referred to in this commitment is described as all that certain property situated in the County of Appling, and State of Georgia and being described in a Deed dated 05/23/2002 and recorded 06/25/2002 in Book 362 Page 113 among the Land Records of the County and State set forth above, and referenced as follows: All that tract or parcel of land lying being and situate in the Second Land District of Appling County, Georgia, and consisting of One Lot, lying in Lot of Land No. 530 of said District, described as follows: Beginning at an established point being an iron pin located at a point South 67 degrees 40 minutes east a distance of 300 feet from County maintained Road No. 388. Said point being the northeast corner of a tract of land as solid to Billy Joe Davis and his wife Lizzie Mae Davis on May 27, 1982, and being identified as per a survey by Denean Dixon, recorded in Plat Book 10, Page 152 said plat is incorporated herein for all purposes, thence running from said point of beginning South 67 degrees 40 minutes east a distance of 80 feet to an iron pin; thence running southward a distance of 100 feet to an iron pin; thence running westward a distance of 90 feet to an iron pin; thence running North 22 degrees 47 minutes east a distance of approximately 125 feet to an iron pin, being the point of beginning. Being bound North by property of Donnie H. Morris; East by property of Donnie H. Morris; South by a 30-foot road right of way easement and West by property now or formerly of Billy Joe Davis and Lizzie Mae Davis. Tax ID#: 44-45 Parcel No. 44-45
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CHESTER, Pa. – Down a man for the final 20 minutes of Wednesday's Eastern Conference game at PPL Park, the Columbus Crew not only stopped the Philadelphia Union from scoring – they also got an improbable goal of their own.
With Philly pushing everyone forward to break a deadlock, the Crew's Eddie Gaven netted the game-winner in stoppage time to stun the PPL Park crowd and send visiting Columbus to a dramatic 2-1 victory.
Crew goalie Matt Lampson earned an impressive victory in his first career MLS start, as Philly held a man-advantage after Crew defender Josh Williams was shown a red card in the 69th minute.
But the Union couldn't break through Lampson – who was starting in place of the injured Andy Gruenebaum – and the Columbus defense.
OPTA Chalkboard: Crew make the best of their chances
The Union (7-13-4) are winless in their last five, while the Crew (11-8-6) are unbeaten in their last five.
Before being sent off, Williams scored his first career goal for Columbus, matching defensive counterpart Carlos Valdés, who scored earlier in the first half to put Philly ahead.
After Michael Farfan was taken down to draw a free kick from about 30 yards out, Valdés stepped up and hit a low shot that deflected off the wall and into the right corner of the net in the 29th minute.
It was the second goal of the season for Valdés, who is now tied for fourth on the club in that category. The all-star defender later came out with what appeared to be an injury in the 55th minute. Rookie Ray Gaddis replaced him in the lineup, with Sheanon Williams moving from right back to center back.
After Valdés' goal, Columbus struck back in the 41st minute with a goal of their own from a defender, as Union goalkeeper Zac MacMath had no chance on a perfect header from Williams.
It was the first career MLS goal for Williams, who was the recipient of an equally perfect free kick from red-hot Crew forward Federico Higuain to open his account.
But like Valdés, Williams also exited the game early when he was shown a straight red card after getting into an off-the-ball scuffle with Union sub Antoine Hoppenot, who got a yellow.
Up a man, the Union had Columbus back on their heels. But Lampson came up big to save a shot from Gabriel Farfan in the 80th minute, before the threat was subdued when Philly was called offside.
The Union kept the pressure on but the Chad Marshall-led Crew defense limited the shots on target and almost got a goal on a counter from Higuain, before Gaven gave them the full three points.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
2010 Top Prospect List: #12 J.C. Sulbaran, rhp
Height 6-2, Weight 220, B/T: R/R, DOB: 11/9/1989
2009 Redlegs Baseball Prospect Ranking: "Other Notables"
J.C. Sulbaran arrived in the Reds organization with substantial hype, surpassed only by Aroldis Chapman in recent years. Like Chapman, Sulbaran generated the buzz with his performance in international competition. However, Sulbaran learned quickly that success at the international level doesn't always translate easily into success at the professional level.
The Reds selected Sulbaran in the 30th round of the 2008 draft with the 899th overall pick. Sulbaran is from Curacao, but attended American Heritage high school in Plantation, Florida where he was a teammate of more highly regarded prospects in Eric Hosmer and Adrian Nieto.
Sulbaran really made his mark in international competition, where he pitched for the Dutch team. He held the Cuban team to 1 run in 6 innings at the Haarlem Honkbal tournament. He squared off against the Cubans once again in the Olympics, where was less impressive, giving up 2 earned runs in four and two-thirds of an inning. He was also selected to pitch for the Dutch during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, where he gave up 5 hits and 3 runs in two and two-thirds innings, including a dominating 3-pitch strikeout of Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez.
His international experience earned him a great deal of hype and a spot in the rotation for the Dayton Dragons for the 2009 season.
Despite his impressive performance in the World Baseball Classic, the Reds wisely were conservative with him, sending him to low-A Dayton for the season.
For the Dragons, Sulbaran started 21 games, working 92.2 innings and posting a 5.24 ERA, 1.57 WHIP, 100/51 K/BB ratio, and a 0.60 GB/FB ratio. Obviously, despite his unimpressive overall performance, there are still components to like, as evidenced by his 9.71 K/9 ratio and his 1.96 K/BB ratio. Additionally, Sulbaran was a bit unlucky, as evidenced by his .317 BABIP and 69.2% strand rate. So, potentially a few more hitters than expected reached base via balls-in-play and a few more baserunners than expected came around to score.
However, his strong strikeout rate is about the only positive to draw from his 2009 season, which was characterized by a high walk and homerun rates. He was inefficient with his pitches and struggled to keep the "balls-in-play" on the ground.
Taking a look at Sulbaran's pitching mechanics may identify reasons for the primary characteristics of his performance, namely 1) good velocity, 2) poor command, and 3) high flyball rate.
Sulbaran has a unique set of pitching mechanics. He might be the only pitcher I've ever seen who begins his windup with a movement of his pitching arm side foot. Instead of beginning his windup with a small step backward with his left foot or even a step forward and down with his left foot, he starts by rotating his right foot down onto the rubber. He does rock a bit to unweight his right foot, but his left foot stays firmly planted on the ground until his right foot shifts down onto the rubber. I really can't remember ever having seen that before.
Once he does shift his right foot down onto the rubber, he brings his left leg up into a leg kick. In his leg kick, he brings his knee up well past parallel and uses significant hip rotation, which coils his body to generate energy and results in him almost showing his back to the hitters. His leg kick involves his lower leg wrapping around his body and his left foot actually ending up outside his right hip at the apex of his leg kick. Jamie Moyer uses a similar wrapping type leg kick, one wherein the foot is drawn back farther than the knee (and, yes this is likely the first and only time J.C. Sulbaran will ever be compared to Jamie Moyer, but there are some similarities in their leg kicks).
Once he gets to the apex of his leg kick, Sulbaran begins his move to the plate, which is triggered by breaking down his right leg. He flexes his right knee to begin his drive to the plate. This knee bend seems a bit more pronounced when he works from the stretch, but one of the immediate consequences of this move is that it alters the level of his shoulders. His pitching shoulder drops in relation to his left shoulder, which means that as he begins his drive to the plate he is "throwing up-hill," so to speak. This is likely one reason for his difficulties in keeping the ball down in the zone.
Another reason for his difficulties in keeping the ball out of the air is his upright posture. His upper body remains tall throughout his delivery, which can make it difficult to finish off pitches and work down in the zone effectively. Lengthening his stride would help him finish off his pitches, but as it stands his stride is somewhat short. Aaron Harang has struggled with this in recent years, as his spine angle has become too vertical in his delivery and follow-through. "Throwing up-hill" and standing too up-right are two likely causes for his significant fly ball rate, though power pitchers in general have a tendency to work up in the zone and get a high rate of fly balls. Still, Sulbaran's fly ball rate is pretty extreme, even for a power pitcher.
After driving off the mound, his plant foot lands closer to the thirdbase side than is normal, which leaves him in a closed off position and results in him throwing across his body. This cross-fire throwing motion results in the momentum of his delivery pulling his body off to the first base side on his follow-through. This type of cross-fire throwing motion likely creates arm-side run on his fastball. In addition, Sulbaran seems to be inconsistent with his follow-through, as he falls off to first to a different extent on different pitches. Obviously, falling off to one side of the mound leaves a pitcher in less than ideal fielding position.
In addition, when his plant foot lands his heel at times hits the ground first, which can result in an unstable foundation for the delivery. Pitchers such as Gil Meche and Randy Johnson took significant steps forward in their level of performance when they began to land more on the ball of their foot. Landing on the ball of the foot more effectively dissipates the shock of the delivery than landing on the heel.
When you combine the inconsistency of his cross-fire delivery with the inconsistency in the landing of his plant foot, it's not surprising that he struggles to maintain a consistent arm slot. Right now, there is just too much inconsistency and looseness in his delivery, which helps explain his struggles with both command and control in 2009.
Here is a look at J.C. Sulbaran in action courtesy of RedsMinorLeagues on YouTube:
While his command and fly ball rate aren't strong, he does generate significant velocity, which helps him wrack up the strikeouts and enables him to dominate hitters.
In terms of efficiency and effectiveness, pitching mechanics can be thought of as a kinetic chain that is only as strong as its weakest link. However, from an injury risk point of view, the arm action itself is the most important factor in pitching mechanics. Good arm action provides a strong foundation around which to build a pitcher. It's easier to alter timing, tempo, balance, lower body drive, etc. etc. etc. than it is to teach a pitcher a new way to throw the ball. Despite some unsual pitching mechanics, Sulbaran does possess good arm action.
Sulbaran's arm action does contain several positives. After he breaks his hands, Sulbaran shows the ball to second base when bringing it up into throwing position. Also, he maintains good elbow position in relation to his shoulder level. Finally, he doesn't overthrow by using so much effort that it strains the pitching arm, throws the rest of his delivery off balance, or causes the various moving parts of his delivery to fall out of sync. Additionally, Sulbaran's good arm action should provide for a reduced injury risk.
Sulbaran has long, loose limbs that allow him to generate easy velocity from his high three-quarter arm slot. He's not a max effort guy, as he has a free-and-easy arm action that gives his pitches good hop and allows his pitches to get on the hitters before they are ready. Sulbaran's height also gives him an advantage, as he both releases the ball closer to the plate and throws on more of a downward plane than shorter pitchers. The ability to generate velocity increases both the ability to dominate and the margin for error on location mistakes.
Sulbaran certainly has to refine his mechanics, but he does has some positives that could enable him to be an impact pitcher in the professional ranks. He has a nice three pitch mix with a fastball that sits 90-92 mph, a developing curveball that enables him to change the eye level of hitters, and an average change-up.
Sulbaran struggled in his first taste of pro-ball and looks to rebound in 2010. He would benefit from tightening up his mechanics, but he has a nice three pitch mix and easy velocity that could enable him to develop into a true impact pitcher. For now, Sulbaran's substantial upside outweighs his 2009 performance and the inconsistency in his mechanics to land him at #12 on the list.
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man when you were describing his delivery it sounded so wierd i couldnt picture it in my head, but watching the video i actually like his delivery. Yes, he needs some work on it but i like how he is nice and slow and in control until his leg reaches its peak then he explodes through the rest of it. That can really mess with a hitters timing. He does stand very tall through his windup but he looks like he does a good job keeping his weight back, Harang was having trouble with that particular problem. I really like sulbaran and see him as a number 2 pitcher if he reaches his potential. great post larkReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2010 at 11:02 AM
Good stuff as always Lark. Having seen that video I'd agree with your thoughts. What stands out to me also would be the cutting off of himself a bit with landing his plant foot to the 3rd base side (although even here he has a tendency to be inconsistent with his plant location at times). Also agree with the landing of the heel it seems to just throw him off a bit control wise. Don't really see a problem with his stride length though, I tend to think his cutting himself off isn't allowing for proper follow thru.ReplyDelete
The real problem with JC might be attitude. From what someone has intimated to me he has some growing up to do and it sounds like this might just be his biggest obstacle to whether or not he makes it. One telling issue ought to be these mechanics, if he does any improving on them well that is good sign IMO.
All that said I like his arm, his demeanor and intensity he seems to bring to the mound. That usually bodes well for young pitchers if they can make it thru the injury nexus reasonably unscathed. I can see a good solid #3 type, not sure if he has the stuff to be better than that but he is still growing and learning so we will see. Heck by the time he reaches the bigs he could have a whole different arsenal.
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2010 at 2:41 PM
I saw Sulbaran pitch twice for dayton this year and was left unimpresed with his fastball toping out at 88 in both performinces.ReplyDelete
While I've seen Sulbaran work, this is the first time I've taken an in-depth look at his mechanics. And, to be honest, I was pretty surprised. Every time I took another look, something else jumped out at me, which is probably why this the longest "pitching mechanics" section I've ever written up. I'm still baffled by the right foot trigger to his delivery. In fact, part of me wonders if it is even against the rules. Probably not, but regardless I suppose it doesn't matter, as he only does it from the wind-up, so the danger of a balk is lessened.
As for his ceiling, I do agree that it's probably that of a #2 starter. Also, I think you're right that he maintains good body control up until the apex of his leg kick. Still, he's got a long way to go and I do think he needs to refine his mechanics. On the plus side, a live arm with good arm-action makes up for a lot of sins. I'll be expecting better from him in 2010, but I do think he needs to tighten up his delivery to improve his command and control.
Thanks for the comment!
Yeah, even Sulbaran's inconsistencies are inconsistent. His landing spot, how he lands, how much he falls off to the 1b-side, his arm slot, etc. etc. etc.
As for his cross-fire delivery, I think you've got a point. I think we've talked about this before, maybe in the Tuttle write up. When you are throwing across your body, then you are cutting yourself short. Tuttle tried to overcome it by "standing up" in his delivery, while Sulbaran has to work around it.
On Sulbaran, I do think a longer stride would force him to get better extension and follow-through to get out over his front leg. On the other hand, he could also improve his extension by opening up his stride and not blocking himself. It seems like two different ways to address/resolve the same problem.
When I look at pitching mechanics, I'm looking at it largely from an efficiency standpoint. Basically, getting as much output/velocity from as little work/effort as possible. You need to be able to generate the velocity/power to succeed at the MLB level, but you need to be able to generate it without being overtaxed to the point of breaking down.
From the start of the wind-up to the apex of the leg kick, it is all about creating and storing potential energy. When unpacking the leg kick and beginning the drive to the plate, it becomes all about transferring that energy to the baseball.
And, by and large, every mechanical flaw acts as a drag on efficiency. Either it prevents you from generating optimal velocity or it increases the effort required to attain that optimal velocity. Either way, the worse the mechanics, the worse the efficiency.
And, a loss of efficiency is what we are seeing in Sulbaran when his plant foot lands closer to third base, resulting in him being closed off in his delivery. Sulbaran has a high leg kick and coils his body, but he simply can't bring his momentum directly to the plate because of the position of his plant foot. His momentum has to come AROUND his plant leg, which is also why he falls off to the first base side. Instead of bringing his momentum/energy directly to the plate, it has to rotate around his plant leg. So, he becomes less efficient because he bleeds some of the momentum he generates in the rotational movement around his plant leg.
I haven't heard too much about his attitude, but young prospects frequently have to mature and learn how to work. A lot of good young prospects have no idea how to work or what constitutes hard work. They have always been the best on the field and haven't had to work all that hard to achieve success. Still, once they get into the game and get around guys who have been around the block a time or two, they begin to get a sense for the work required to succeed.
Sulbaran definitely has some work to do, but I suspect low-A brought him down to earth a bit after his success in international competition. Hopefully, he now understands the type of commitment professional baseball requires and brings that new knowledge to bear in 2010.
Anyway, thanks for the comment!
Thanks for the info. Just out of curiosity, when did you see those two games? Were they late in the season when his arm was tired? Spaced out over a couple of months? I haven't heard that his velocity was down at 88 mph consistently, so I'm curious if there is an explanation for the velocity readings you saw.
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Not me but who wrote that but according to Doug Gray (Dougdirt on RZ)he saw Sulbaran throwing some games (the whole game) in the 86-88 range but also saw him throwing some games in the 87-90 range as well. As he says and I agree 100+ innings on a new young arm from the HS ranks (HS age) is a normal thing and hopefully thru development via mechanics and/or physical growth he'll maintain what he used to throw or better. I think he'll be fine in this regard.ReplyDelete
Yeah, I just got my Baseball America Prospect handbook and here is one of the quotes on Sulbaran:
"He sometimes sits at 89-92 with his lively fastball and complements it with a plus curveball and an average change-up. But at other times, he struggles to top 90 mph, fails to locate his curveball, and an average change-up."
So, obviously, he's still young and inconsistent from start to start and even pitch to pitch. And, I think we did a good job of flushing out the reasons for it.
Thanks for the comment.
- AnonymousFebruary 22, 2010 at 11:10 PM
Hmmm sounds like how the kids in pony league/babe ruth and little league start the delivery.ReplyDelete
Maybe needs some coaching up and work outside of games then.
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2010 at 7:34 AM
10 days? come on.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2010 at 12:51 PM
I agree. These reports keep comeing later and later every time. whats the deal. At this rate it will be the all star break before we see your number one rated prospect.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2010 at 10:04 PM
He's on guy people and i'm sure he has a life outside of bloggin', sometimes ya just gotta take a break. Not to mention you won't find better in depth reports anywhere on the internet those take time when you are doing most of your own analysis.ReplyDelete
How's about folks throw out there top 10 so we have something to discuss in the meantime. I'll start.....
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2010 at 10:05 PM
#1 - Aroldis Chapman - 21, LH, has 3 plus pitches (off and on) and is polished enough to make the Reds think he has any chance at all to start the season in the bigs, need I say more?ReplyDelete
Major League Comp - Hate to say it but Randy Johnson is the most similiar type of player but the big unit had 7 more inches of leverage to work with.
#2 - Yonder Alonso - Highest ceiling in the minors outside of rookie ball and below. Potential LH middle of the order bat who profiles to hit for power (despite his temporary hamate bone issue),avg, discipline. Mediocre defensive chops is a minor concern however so did Pujols (amongst others) once upon a time. Splits vs. LHP aren't real good yet but he's shown flashes of hitting them and his approach is sound, just a matter of reps.
Major League Comp - In my mind he's Andres Galaragga like. Very late bloomer with the power but was a doubles machine.
#3 - Todd Frazier - Not an elite ceiling but the type of player every winning team needs. Has some quirkiness in his swing but it hasn't effected him yet so perhaps it won't be an issue going forward. Still likely to make him a bit vulnerable to the inside FB, however he's a pull hitter so the pitcher better hit his spot.
Major League Comp - His game and intangibles to me scream Mike Lowell. I think his future is at 3B and I see him giving a team similiar overall production.
#4 - Mike Leake - A pattern emerging here with Reds prospects, polish, knowledge of the game, competitors who play to win the game. Nothing not to like about Leake except he's not likely a #1 guy but a guy who should give you 200 innings for many years and keep you in most every game.
Major League Comp - Lots of people say Tim Hudson and while I see where they are coming from I see him more like Bronson Arroyo but with a bit better stuff and earlier in his career. Also already armed with the sinker that Bronson has just recently figured out. If you like the Bronson of the last couple of seasons. A likely #3 innings eater who will win more than lose.
#5 - Chris Heisey - Not one plus tool but most tools (maybe all tools) average to slightly above. Solid defender, runner, arm, hits for solid avg., solid power, solid discipline, intelligent with good intangibles. Can play all 3 OF positions adequately or better. There are higher ceiling types but I like Heisey's odds of filling his role.
Major League Comp - Used to compare him to Mark Kotsay but now he kind of has grown out of a full time borderline gold glove capable CF. But now I see him as a Melky Cabrera type a good guy to have playing LF or as the 4th OF who can do it all.
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2010 at 10:06 PM
#6 - Zack Cozart - A young SS who has average to slightly above tools both offensively and defensively is a really nice prospect to have. Really just need to see him continue to improve at the plate and grow physically and he should be an above average starting SS.ReplyDelete
Major League Comp - I see him as a guy somewhere between Jack Wilson and J.J. Hardy.
#7 - Travis Wood - A young, athletic LHP with again the right mix of talent and intangibles. Doesn't have a real high ceiling due to an average fastball and a small stature. Should slot in as a cheap but better than adequate #4 or #5 pitcher.
Major League Comp - Ah, real tough guy to comp. This isn't a good one but a smallish starting LHP who is athletic and throws a nasty change up and I recall once upon a time Chris Hammond but with a better overall arsenal stuff wise.
# 8 - Yorman Rodriguez - Maybe the highest ceiling in the organization and at a position of higher significance (CF). The traditional 5 tool freak who has speed, power and glove and playing in rookie ball at 16 and holding his own is serious. The only reason he is this low is due to his age (17) and distance from the show.
Major League Comp - Good grief, tough to tell at this stage but early comps included guys like Carlos Beltran and Andruw Jones.
#9 - Billy Hamilton - If Yorman isn't the highest ceiling then this guy is. A very raw 5 tool athletic freak who has the talent to stay at SS and be well above average both offensively and defensively. Has a lot of work to do on his skillset from both aspects.
Major League Comp - Jose Reyes might be his ceiling if he stays at short. High expectations but a real long way to go.
#10 - Neftali Soto - Strong bat and one with plenty of room to develop further. Defensive position is a real bear to figure out what with his limitations at an already young age, but holding out hope he sticks at 3rd or makes the transition to catcher. Needs some work and patience but I like his future.
Major League Comp - I want to say Aramis Ramirez but I think that's hoping for alot to happen so I'll just go with a wait and see approach here.
Noticeable absence - Juan Francisco - I just think he has flaws which will likely turn out to be too great to overcome, but his ceiling is top 5 worthy.
Unfortunately, I just don't have as much time as I would like to do these write-ups, which is slowing me down. Professionally, I'm at a different place than I was when I did last year's write-ups. I thought that would give me more free time to write them up, but it's actually been just the opposite. So, I get them done as quickly as possible, but I do need to pick up the pace to get these done before the season starts.
Great list. I love the MLB comps. I have considered doing that myself, but haven't gotten around to doing it. I would love to see Chris Heisey become Mark Kotsay, who was an incredibly underrated talent.
Interesting to see your ranking on Hamilton. Man, I went back and forth on that guy. He's got a wider range of ceiling and floor than any prospect in the system.
As for Leake, I don't see the Tim Hudson comp either. Hudson was absurdly dominant when he first arrived. His splitter was ridiculous. I'm not sure Leake has that kind of dominance in his game.
Anyway, thanks for the comment!
It does seem like the kind of wind-up trigger that you see in pony league ball. Obviously, he's comfortable with it and it works for him, but he does need to tighten up his mechanics. Between starts and side sessions is where he'll have to do the majority of the work. His upside is significant, if he can gain more consistency.
Thanks for the comment!


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Orange, oat & sultana cookies
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- Freezable
- Healthy
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal167
- fat9g
- saturates5g
- carbs19g
- sugars11g
- fibre2g
- protein3g
- salt0.18g
- 100g butter at room temperature
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 1 egg
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 50g mashed ripe banana
Probably the best known, most popular tropical fruit, their name probably derives from the…
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 100g light soft brown sugar
- ½ tsp grated orange zest
- 100g wholemeal flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
Baking powderbay-king pow-dah
Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…
- 100g rolled oats
Oats are processed by rolling (steamed and pressed) or steel-cutting (cut into pieces). There is…
- 25g desiccated coconut
- 50g chopped walnut
Walnuts are one of the most popular and versatile of all nuts. When picked young, they're…
- 75g sultana or dark chocolate chips
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Cream the butter and sugar together until well blended and smooth. Gradually beat in the banana, vanilla extract and egg. Add the zest. Mix well with a wooden spoon until thoroughly blended.
In a large bowl, mix the flour, salt, baking powder, oats, coconut, walnuts and sultanas or chocolate chips. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet and mix thoroughly until a thick dough is formed. Line a baking sheet with parchment. Drop heaped tbsps onto the sheet, leaving a 5cm (2in) space around each one, and press down lightly. Bake for 15-20 mins until lightly browned. Cool.


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Do you know how much you actually pay for a 20 lakh house when you fund it through home loan? Home loan is surely an easier way of buying the home of your dreams since it is impossible for a middle class buyer to pay for a property in full. But what comes with this initial comfort is the burden of heavy monthly interests for an elongated period. And the interest adds up to manifolds of the actual price of the property.
Investors Clinic has found a solution to this financial worry and brings to you Byaaj Mukt Awas Yojna (BMAY) on March 11, 2016. It is an interest-free home scheme wherein you only have to pay the actual price of the property (minus 10% down payment) in 100 equated installments known as EPR (Equal Principal Repayment).
Here is a calculated difference between the value of your property when you finance it through home loan versus BMAY.


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A major snowstorm producing blizzard-like conditions hammered the northeastern United States on Friday, causing more than 1,000 U.S. flight delays and cancellations, paralyzing road travel, and closing schools and government offices.
The first major winter storm of 2014 brought bone-chilling temperatures and high winds from the lower Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic coast, with nearly 2 feet of snow falling in some areas of Massachusetts.
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Much of the U.S. northeast saw heavy snowfall and plummeting temperatures late on Thursday and early on Friday morning, said Jared Guyer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The weather service said the mass of Arctic air would drop temperatures to levels 20 to 30 degrees below normal, with record lows possible on Friday. It was still snowing in some places, such as Boston, "but we are probably past the peak in terms of intensity at this point," Guyer said, adding that the bitter cold and snow-scattering winds showed no signs of letting up.
Snowfall reports varied widely, with Washington receiving more than 2 inches, Baltimore some 3 to 6 inches, Philadelphia roughly 5 inches, Hartford 6 to 10 inches and Boston some 14 inches.
"If it's going to be cold, it might as well snow," said Zander Fortier, a 29-year-old architect from Boston's Roslindale neighborhood, where the flakes fell steadily on Thursday.
Related: Slide Show: Craziest Blizzards
Residents grappled on Friday with road and school closures throughout the region. "Severe weather conditions" led officials to close New York City public schools on Friday morning. Schools were also closed in Hoboken and Jersey City, in New Jersey, and in Boston and Providence Massachusetts.
The storm also posed the first major challenge to Bill de Blasio, the newly-elected Mayor of New York, which expected to see up to 8 inches of snow.
More than 1,400 U.S. flights were canceled and more than 340 were delayed early on Friday, according to flightaware.com.
New York's three major airports prepared hundreds of cots to accommodate stranded travelers and Logan International Airport said that up to a quarter of its scheduled flights had been canceled on Thursday.
Related: Can America's Mayors Diffuse Their Fiscal Times Bombs?
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday warned people to stay in their homes and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick told non-essential state workers to head home on Thursday, as did his officials in neighboring Connecticut.
"Tomorrow people should definitely consider staying in their homes if the storm continues as we expect," said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. "This is nothing to be trifled with. We have learned too well over the past few years the power of Mother Nature. We have seen the damage that has been done."
A city worker in Philadelphia was killed after a machine he was using was crushed by a mound of de-icing rock salt, NBC News reported. In Chicago, a man was in critical condition after being pulled out of an icy Lake Michigan by fire fighters.
With additional reporting by Victoria Cavaliere, Marina Lopes and Scott DiSavino in New York, Daniel Lovering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ian Simpson in Washington, and Lisa Garza in Dallas, all of Reuters.


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Bank of Jordan announced the name of the savings account holder who won a prize of JD50,000 (10 times the savings account balance, with a minimum prize value of JD25,000) in the January draw.
The lucky winner, Mrs Fatima Abd Al Raheem Mahmood Klob / Salt Branch, extended her thanks and gratitude to Bank of Jordan for its distinguished banking services and valuable prizes granted to customers.
It is worth noting that Bank of Jordan grants many cash awards for holders of savings accounts year-round. In addition to its monthly draw, a total of 10 prizes (whose value stands at JD5,000 each is granted to winners every March and September. The JD250,000 grand prize draw is held in December, where the prize is split between two winners.


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After the Scott Rolen trade, the Reds may have used up any payroll flexibility they had for the 2010 season. In addition, the recession hasn't spared the Reds, as attendance fell from 2,058,632 in 2008 all the way down to 1,747,919 in 2009. That's a decrease of 310,713 tickets sold from 2008 to 2009. In 2008, the average ticket price for a Reds game was $19.41 and the organization decided to hold ticket prices steady for 2009. So, just for a rough estimate, the Reds saw their revenue decline by $6,030,939.33 ($19.41 x 310,713).
Obviously, the Reds will face fiscal constraints that other organizations will not. That leaves the Reds to sift through the bargain bin while other organizations kick the tires on the elite talent. While bargain bin shopping may not be as exciting, it's certainly much more interesting.
Given the fiscal constraints, the Reds will likely be targeting only undervalued players with upside. If that's the case, the first name on the list should be former Giant Noah Lowry. If southpaw Lowry is 100% healthy, then he could be the steal of the offseason.
Here is a blurb from the San Francisco Chronicle about his impending departure from the Giants organization:
"Noah Lowry, who last pitched in 2007, will become a free agent today when he is removed from the 40-man roster, not surprising given his arm saga and hard feelings over his care.
Lowry's agent, Damon Lapa, said he was informed of that by the Giants today and added in an e-mail, "Noah is completely healthy throwing three days a week on his normal offseason program without any restrictions. Lowry will be removed from the Giants' 40-man roster and become a free agent."
It was a given that his $6.25 million option for 2010 wouldn't be picked up. Lowry has missed the last two seasons because of elbow/forearm issues that he believes the Giants misdiasgnosed. He was 14-8 with a 3.92 ERA in his last healthy season in 2007."
Lowry is an intriguing pitcher. He's a power pitcher without the power stuff. His fastball only sits around 87-88 mph, but he his best pitch is a plus-plus change-up. Even without a dominating fastball, Lowry is fearless. He attacks hitters with the velocity differential between his fastball and change-up. He also utilizes both a curveball and a slider. His bulldog demeanor on the mound has allowed him to be truly dominant over significant stretches of time despite not having dominating power stuff.
From 2003-2005, Lowry averaged ~7 K/9 and ~3 BB/9. In July 2005, Lowry posted a 3.58 ERA and a 39/14 K/BB ratio in 37.2 innings. Not bad, but in August of 2005 Lowry blew the doors off everyone. He posted a 0.69 ERA with a 33/9 K/BB ratio in 39.1 innings.
A funny thing happened in 2006 and 2007. Lowry's strikeout rate began decreasing while his groundball rate began to increase. I suspect that it was the result of his forearm struggles, but at this point it would difficult to know for sure what type of pitcher Lowry will be upon his return to the show. So, there is a degree of risk, but that's why he comes at such a reduced cost.
The Reds could use another solid starter in the rotation, especially one who throws from the left side. Lowry wouldn't have to bounce back too far to be an asset at the back end of the rotation and he could bounce back much farther than the 5th spot.
I've always liked Lowry's game and if he finally is 100% healthy, then he could be a very nice addition to the team. At the very least, the price is likely to be right, as he will have little bargaining power and, regardless, is likely to value an opportunity to start at the big league level over maximizing his 2010 salary. A low base salary with some built-in incentives might be enough to get it done.


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There are too many external factors that can affect our TV antenna picking up signals. Not talking about those existed factors (i.e. trees, area/distance, buildings, weather, airport, etc.), we still have chances to improve the performance ourselves by installing our TV antenna a bit higher (more than 30 to 50 feet above ground level) to reduce the interference from them. This step might give you a better idea on choosing the best antenna for you house.
LAVA HDTV antenna basics: There is no one magic HDTV antenna or HDTV antenna type that will deliver excellent TV reception in every location. The main factors determining reception are the distance and direction from the TV station transmitters to your home. Other factors include the transmitter's power and the height of its tower, the terrain between the tower and your Lava HDTV antenna, and the size and location of any large buildings in the path of the transmission.
VHF and UHF Like analog signals, digital TV signals can be broadcast over two different frequency ranges: VHF (Very High Frequency) and UHF (Ultra High Frequency). The VHF channel range is 2-13 "low-band" VHF is channels 2-6; "high-band VHF is channels 7-13. The UHF channel range is 14-69. Prior to the Feb. 2009 transition, most digital stations (over 87%) broadcast in the UHF frequency band, meaning that most viewers would be fine using a UHF antenna. But many stations will change their channel locations with the transition. The nation's 1,819 full-power TV stations will look like this: Low-band VHF (ch. 2-6): 40, High-band VHF (ch. 7-13): 445, UHF (ch. 14-51): 1334. If some of the local stations you want to receive are below 14, you may need a VHF/UHF antenna — especially to receive channels 2-6.
Amplified HDTV antenna vs. non-amplified HDTV antennas: One way to help HDTV antennas overcome size or height disadvantages, or otherwise enhance signal gain, is through the use of electronic amplification. The amplifier can be built in as it is in many indoor TV antennas, or it can be a separate device that installs in-line between the HDTV antenna and TV. An amplifier that installs on an outdoor TV antenna or mast is often called a preamplifier or "preamp." Most experts recommend only using an amplifier if you need to. The potential drawbacks of amplifiers are that they amplify noise along with the signal, and they can be over driven by strong TV signals, which can make reception worse.
Indoor TV antenna vs. outdoor TV antennas: Indoor TV antennas are generally small, designed to be placed on or near your TV. Outdoor TV antennas tend to be significantly larger and are intended for roof or attic mounting. In general, the larger an antenna's surface area is, the stronger the signal it will provide. The relative strength of the signal an antenna can deliver to a tuner is referred to as "gain" and is measured in decibels (dB). The higher the dB rating, the greater the gain.
Uni-directional HDTV antenna vs. multi-directional(Omni-directional) HDTV antennas: TV Antennas described as "uni-directional" or sometimes just "directional" are designed to receive signals from one direction. "Multi-directional" or "omni-directional" antennas are able to receive signals from all directions.Directional antennas are able to pull in signals from greater distances, and because they "see" in only one direction they are resistant to noise and "multipath distortion. Because multi-directional antennas "see" in many directions they are more likely to pick up noise, interference, and multipath distortion.


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Share Your Sweets: Oatmeal Cookies
The Serious Eats community shares their sweet recipes.
As far as cookie bases go, you can't ask for much more than oatmeal. It's got texture, flavor, and it plays well with others. How well? Just click through this slideshow of oatmeal cookie creations to see recipes made with everything from pistachios to butterscotch chips.
Next week we're getting out our fruit peelers and making some apple pie. What's your best recipe? Is it crumb topped, swirled with caramel, or accented with cranberries or pears? Send us a few lines about what makes your apple pie special, shoot us a photo (along with a link to the recipe!) and we'll include it in next week's roundup. Be sure to send it in no later than Tuesday, October 2nd so we can include it in next Thursday's Share Your Sweets on October 4th.
If you're new to Share Your Sweets, take a peep at the rules here. A few notes: we can only take one submission per person, so pick your favorite (or the most recent shot) and send it in. Also, Share Your Sweets is just for the folks at home; no pros or companies! If you want to really impress us, crop your photo so it's 610 pixels wide and 458 pixels tall.
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Bobbie Ferguson, 71, has a message for older people who are feeling depressed and their families.
"Get to professionals who will provide help," said this Pittsburgh resident, who's struggling through her third bout of this condition.
"A lot of older folks are overwhelmed – they drink, they self-medicate – but they don't want to go see anyone about it," she said.
Ferguson is being treated with anti-depressants, which provide initial relief for about 50 percent of older patients and can aid up to 70 percent when medication regimens are subsequently altered. Other recommended interventions for seniors include problem-solving therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, and interpersonal therapy, according to a 2011 review.
Getting help is important because depression in later life tends to be recurrent, with a shorter interval between relapses, and an average three-year recovery period for about two-thirds of patients.
Symptoms may not resemble those in younger adults. Older adults are less likely to report intense feelings of sadness and more common to say things such as "my food doesn't taste right, I'm not sleeping well, I'm having trouble concentrating," said Barry Lebowitz, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
Minor depression in older adults – feelings of helplessness or a loss of pleasure in life that doesn't rise to the threshold of major depression — is also a significant concern and should not be overlooked, Lebowitz said. Up to 20 percent of older adults are thought to have "sub-threshold" depression; this raises their chance of developing major depression by almost 30 percent, according to a 2006 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry.


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Massachusetts Bay Colony Genealogy
Massachusetts Bay Colony was a 17th Century British settlement and political unit on the east coast of North America. It was established in 1628; its charter revoked in 1684, and it became part of the Dominion of New England in 1686. Massachusetts Bay Colony included parts of New England, centered around Boston and Salem. The Colony included parts of present-day Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. She claimed land to the Pacific Ocean. Her modern successor is now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the fifty United States.
Prelude, and the Great Migration. The Massachusetts Bay Company included investors in the Dorchester Company which had colonized 1623-1626 Cape Ann (northwest of Salem). That company went bankrupt, the colony was abandoned, and some of her settlers moved to what became Salem.[1] Backers of the remaining colonists continued to work on support for the survivors. By 1628 they organized the Massachusetts Bay Company to begin further settlements around Salem and Boston. The colony became economically viable partly because of fur trading. From 1630 to 1640 about 20,000 mostly Puritan colonists seeking to build an ideal society arrived from England and Barbados in what is now called the Great Migration.[2]
Out migration of dissidents. Massachusetts Bay Colony leaders were elected by freemen examined for their adherence to Puritan religious views. Thus, their leadership was usually intolerant of Anglican, Quaker, or Baptist religious ideas. These strict religious norms were one of the factors contributing to dissidents' early migration westward away from the colony center and out of reach of colony leaders.[2] Another significant factor in westward migration was the need for new farm land for the maturing children of large New England families.
Indian relations. At first, the colony's relations with native tribes were good. However, eventually cultural and demographic friction led to the Pequot War, 1637, and King Philip's War 1675-1676, the bloodiest war (per capita) in American history. After 1676 most Indians in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut had died of disease, been killed in war, pacified, or driven off.[2]
Relations with England. The independence and religious views of Massachusetts Bay Colony leaders also led to friction with the mother country. King James II tried to reign in his too independent colony and establish more respect for the Church of England (Anglican Church). In 1684 he revoked the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter. In 1686 he put the former colony in the Dominion of New England and sent governors to enforce more discipline. The Dominion government collapsed in 1689 with news of the Glorious Revolution in Britain. By 1691 a new charter combined the Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay colonies into one province.[2]
Colony records. Search Boston repositories for colonial records before 1684. The old Norfolk County, one of the four original Massachusetts Bay Colony counties, extended north well into present-day New Hampshire. At the least, her land conveyance records up to 1714 and apparently some early marriages are housed at the Essex County Registry of Deeds in Salem, Massachusetts.[3]
Most of the genealogically significant records were kept at the town level. Look for ancestors in their respective town records.
The original four Massachusetts Bay Colony counties were Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, and old Norfolk (mostly in New Hampshire), all formed in 1643. In 1680 New Hampshire was separated, and in 1820 Maine was split-off from Massachusetts. Plymouth Colony remained separate and independent of Massachusetts Bay Colony until 1691. Many other Massachusetts counties were eventually formed and also had responsibility for keeping selected records.
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- ↑ Aaron J. Palmer, "Dorchester Company," in Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History at http://www.answers.com/topic/dorchester-company (9 July 2012).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Wikipedia contributors, "Massachusetts Bay Colony" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorchester_Company (accessed 9 July 2012).
- ↑ "Old Norfolk County Records," Essex Antiquarian 1, no. 2 (February 1897), 19. Part of NEHGS American Ancestors Search. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Film 599729 Item 2; Book 974.45 B2a. Includes a map of the six towns.


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This is my third summer using solar food dryers and they have become a firm part of my food preservation plan. Of course, the biggest aspect of my plan is to need as little preservation as possible. So, we eat as much as we are able to out of the garden all year. Next is to grow crops that pretty much store themselves. That would be things like onions, garlic, winter squash, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cowpeas, hazelnuts, and peanuts. Some things are fermented, particularly cucumbers and cabbage. I've had a huge jar of dill pickles on my kitchen counter for most of the summer, sort of like what you might see in a deli. We take pickles out whenever we want. Some of the snap beans get salted in a crock. The rest of the snap beans and extra tomatoes are canned.
The crop that I dry the most is tomatoes. There are varieties that are better suited for this and I've been growing some. Principe Borghese (preen-see-pee bore-gay-zee) has been the most prolific so far. I had a harvest of about 75 pounds from the plants that grew along a 16' livestock panel. Principe Borghese is a determinate variety, pumping out the whole harvest in 5-6 weeks. The seed catalog says the days to maturity for this variety is 78 days, however, I've found my harvest begins at about 60 days from transplanting and I had my first tomatoes before July 4th this year, without even trying. These tomatoes look like large cherry tomatoes. Sometimes I cut them in half to dry and sometimes I cut them in quarters.
I also grew Hungarian Paste tomatoes, another determinate variety. I began harvesting these about 18 days later than Principe Borghese and picked for only 4 weeks. That was too short of a harvest window for me, but the blister beetles had moved in on the plants. This variety is similar to Roma and Amish Paste. I had some trouble with blossom end rot on the first flush this year, which might have been caused by weird weather; however, blossom end rot has been a problem with this type of paste tomato on the first flush in my garden in other years. I've had my soil tested and calcium deficiency is not the problem.
A new variety, for me at least, is Long Tom, an indeterminate. I only have a few plants and they were put in late, but I'm really impressed with the tomatoes I'm getting. It could be due to the bed they are in, but these meaty tomatoes have been weighing 4 ounces each! If you don't like seeds in your dried tomatoes, this is the variety to grow. I'll pay more attention to Long Toms next year. All these varieties and more are available through the Southern Exposure Seed Exchange catalog.
The list of things I've dried in my solar dryers is: apples, cabbage, celery, collards, grapes, kale, mushrooms, okra, onions, parsley, peaches, peppers, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and zucchini. I've dried snap beans, but I found we just don't eat them. They are good, however, reconstituted in chicken broth. One of the good things about drying is that you don't need to have the quantity that you need when you are canning. You can put small amounts of this and that in the dryers. I've found that I can salt the snap beans in a crock and add to it over the next couple weeks as the harvest comes in, otherwise if I had a small amount, they'd go in the dryer.
I have two dryers and each have special features. One, the SunWorks model, exposes the food to the sun. Historically, that's how things were dried, lying out in the sun. The larger model, based on plans developed by Appalachian State University (ASU), does not expose the food to the sun. If I'm drying mushrooms, I put them in the SunWorks dryer since mushrooms really develop a lot of vitamin D when exposed to the sun. If I'm drying collards or kale, I put them in the ASU dryer. The greens dry quickly in either one, but they stay greener out of the sun. I built the SunWorks dryer with an electric backup option. I played with that a little that first year, but haven't plugged it in since. If the weather takes a turn and it rains, I just leave the food in until the sun comes back out and it dries. When drying is complete, I put the food in glass canning jars and store them on shelves in my pantry. Of course, if the weather promises to be rainy and damp for days, which is the pattern we seem to be in at the moment, I resort to canning.
You can find more information about my solar dryers at my blog posts Solar Food Dryers and Solar Food Dryers-Update. The Solar Food Dryer, a book by Eben Fodor, was my guide in making the SunWorks dryer. A good book to refer to in handling the food is Making & Using Dried Foods by Phyllis Hobson. I'll have both books for sale at my booth at the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello on September 15 and at the Mother Earth News Fair at Seven Springs, Pennsylvania on September 21-23. I'll also be speaking on Solar Food Drying at both events. See you there!


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After rejecting the district's latest offer, Chicago educators are back at the bargaining table negotiating issues including pay, staffing shortages and class size.
Eddy Pineiro won Chicago's nerve-wracking kicking competition. Now, he's winning over Bears fans and teammates who suffered through the double-doink miss by Cody Parkey that sent them home from the playoffs.


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