My father-in-law has had this corduroy jacket for years now. It's been very well-loved, and as a result, its lining was worn and tattered, coming apart at the seams and the edges. My mother-in-law asked if I could possibly repair it for his birthday last month.
As I snipped out the damaged lining, I was able to see just how many times it had already been patched - at least three. While I was dis-assembling, I also salvaged the original tag, thinking I would reattach it, but I ended up going a different direction. You'll see.
I carefully cut apart the panels of the lining, labelling each piece as I went. Then I used those as a pattern to cut my new fabric (adding seam allowances, of course) and then reassembled the whole thing.
Instead of reattaching the original tag, I decided to give it a bit more of a personal touch. My FIL calls this his "Mr. McGregor" jacket because it reminds him of Mr. McGregor from the Peter Rabbit books he used to read to his children when they were little. I knew just what to do! I grabbed a scrap of fabric and an embroider hoop and penciled on my text. Then I used my matching sewing thread, doubled, and traced the letters with a chain stitch.
Since recreating the interior pocket would have been a bit more involved, and since it was still in pretty good shape, I decided to simply attach my new lining around the pocket. I laid the piece of original lining on top of my new fabric and snipped out where the pocket would be. Then I hand-stitched on my new label just below the pocket slit.
Now I could finally attach the new lining to the outer corduroy fabric. First, I machine-sewed along the bottom edge. Then I flipped the lining upward, inserted the sleeve lining into the sleeves and pinned around all the edges.
Then I hand-stitched it all together, trying to make my stitches as even and invisible as possible.
I hear he likes his new-old jacket very much, especially the personalized label. So glad I could make this special birthday gift for him!
Thanks! I was pretty proud of how it turned out, especially for never having lined a jacket before.
Cool! I love it when people mend instead of buy new :) The personalized tag is great!
Definitely! I can't even remember the last time I bought any new clothing (other than underwear of course).
Oh my gosh, it's perfect! I've never done (or heard of) a chain stitch but I totally want to learn now! Great work restoring this!
Thanks, Miche! I don't know much about hand embroidery, so I did a lot of googling beforehand to figure out which stitch might work best for lettering. And I think this would fit the bill nicely!
Very Nice, Carissa ! So much of your heart put into the hand stitching all around and on the lining !
I have enjoyed your Thursday photography. You are doing quite well with the camera settings and the posing !
Thank you, Linda! It was worth all that effort to bring his favorite jacket back to life!
From the MIL: Carissa did a beautiful job with the coat lining. He LOVES the personalized tag and once again it is his "go to" coat. He wore this coat in high school and is just drawing SS this year, so the coat has a lot of years on it. It is so funny, sometimes he will put his hands in his pockets a certain way so he can show off the tag.
Bravo ! I love this new label !!! A great restauration.
Merci! The label was definitely my favorite part of the final product.
Out of all your remakes, this is my favorite and a gift to boot. Talent and sharing...doesn't get any better than this!
Thanks, Donna! It feels good to wear one of your own creations with pride, but even better when someone else does!
How absolutely awesome that (1) you were able to do this for your MIL for her DH and (2) that the corduroy has stood up all these years and look so great and (3) that your FIL likes to show off the label - hah!
Great job! My heart would be bursting with pride if I did something this lovely for a loved one.
Thanks, Jenny! I'm definitely happy with how it turned out, and I'm so glad my FIL is too!
I'm pretty sure this is the best "refashion" EVER!!! I just loooooooove that your FIL calls this his Mr McGregor coat! So cool!!!
It was great seeing a lining replaced as this is something I've considered doing, but hadn't worked up my nerve to actually do yet.
This was a new one for me too. It definitely helped to be able to use the old lining as a pattern.


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Marlins' Bullpen Generating Trade Interest
By Steve Adams | August 1, 2022 at 9:00am CDT
Just as Detroit will be receiving interest in a huge chunk of its bullpen, Miami figures to have several relievers on the block. Longtime Marlins beat writer Joe Frisaro tweets that the Fish have gotten interest on lefties Tanner Scott and Steven Okert as well as right-handers Dylan Floro and Anthony Bass.
The 28-year-old Scott surely has the highest price tag, as he's leading the club with 14 saves and has long tantalized scouts with a blistering fastball and power slider, dating back to his time in Baltimore. He's averaged 96.8 mph on that heater this season and ramped up the usage of his slider to a career-high 66%. The result is a career-best 31.8% strikeout rate, a huge 15.3% swinging-strike rate and a 31.3% chase rate on pitches out of the strike zone.
Scott's command — or lack thereof — is the elephant in the room. The southpaw has walked 15.3% of his opponents this season, plunked three hitters and tossed a pair of wild pitches. That's been par for the course throughout Scott's career, evidenced by a bloated 14% walk rate. Were Scott's command even average or just slightly below-average, his overpowering fastball/slider blend could make him one of the sport's most dominant relievers. That hasn't been the case, however, which is surely why the Marlins were able to acquire both Scott and Cole Sulser from the Orioles this past offseason in exchange for a Competitive Balance draft pick (Round B) and a pair of low-level minor leaguers.
It was still a surprising return for a player with Scott's stuff, particularly given that he's controlled through the 2024 season. That remaining control will obviously appeal to clubs but also make the asking price on him fairly steep. The Marlins are known to be looking for immediate offensive upgrades in trade returns, and Scott's two-plus seasons of control could embolden them to do so when teams call about the power-armed lefty.
Okert, meanwhile, has been a great find for the Fish. The 31-year-old signed a minor league deal after spending nine years in the Giants organization and never establishing himself in their bullpen. He's been great in Miami dating back to 2021 however, working to a combined 2.74 ERA, 29.3% strikeout rate and 10.9% walk rate. Okert doesn't have Scott's power stuff and has also been homer-prone, but the late nature of his breakout means he can be controlled another five seasons.
Both Floro and Bass are closer to free agency and, as such, seem likelier to change hands. The 31-year-old Floro is earning $3MM this season and has pitched to a 3.49 ERA with a below-average 17.7% strikeout rate but strong walk and ground-ball rates (5.3% and 50%, respectively). He's excelled at keeping the ball in the yard throughout his career with the Rays, Cubs, Dodgers and now Marlins, yielding just 0.5 homers per nine frames.
Floro isn't without red flags, though. He's never been an especially hard thrower but has seen his average heater drop from 93.8 mph in 2021 to 91.8 mph in 2022. And after posting one of the lowest hard-hit rates in the Majors from 2016-21 (31.5%), he's yielded a 41.4% hard-hit rate this season along with a career-high 88.7 mph average exit velocity (the latter of which is right in line with the league average, to be fair).
Of the whole group, Bass seems the best bet to go. The 34-year-old signed a two-year, $5MM contract with Miami prior to the 2021 season and posted a solid but unremarkable 3.82 ERA through 61 1/3 innings in his first season in South Florida. This year, however, Bass is toting a pristine 1.41 ERA with a career-high 26% strikeout rate and a very strong 5.8% walk rate. Like Scott, he's throwing his slider at a career-high rate (56%) and has enjoyed terrific results thanks to the change.
Bass is also controlled for the 2023 season by virtue of an eminently reasonable $3MM club option. That could be good reason for the Marlins to hang onto him, as they're intent on competing in the near future, but there's some risk in hanging onto a reliever for what would be his age-35 season as well.
Any of the relievers here could make sense as trade candidates on their own, but it's also intriguing to think about the possibility of them being packaged as part of a larger deal. Pairing any of the four together would be appealing for a contender seeking bullpen help (which applies to pretty much every contender), and the Marlins could also add a bullpen arm to a package if they're trying to coax out an even bigger return for a pitcher such as Pablo Lopez, on whom they're reportedly at least listening to offers.
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Marlins Open To Trade Offers On Pablo Lopez, Looking To Upgrade Offense
By Anthony Franco | July 26, 2022 at 8:30pm CDT
The Marlins have stumbled out of the All-Star Break, dropping three of their first five contests against below-.500 teams in the Rangers, Pirates and Reds. Paired with a three-game sweep at the hands of the division-rival Phillies to close out the season's unofficial first half, Miami has dropped six of eight before tonight's contest with Cincinnati.
Sitting 45-51 and 5 1/2 games out of the National League's final Wild Card spot, the Marlins look increasingly unlikely to compete for a postseason berth. That's particularly true with the news that the club's best position player, Jazz Chisholm Jr., won't return until September at the earliest due to a stress fracture in his back. In the face of those mounting odds, general manager Kim Ng and her staff are apparently willing to consider dealing notable players from the major league roster.
Jon Heyman of the New York Post tweeted this afternoon that the Fish are willing to listen to offers on everyone other than ace Sandy Alcantara. It's hard to imagine Miami trading Chisholm since he's controllable through 2026 and currently on the injured list, but it seems the bulk of the team could be available. Aside from Alcantara and Chisholm, perhaps no one else on the roster would draw more interest than starter Pablo López. While Miami hasn't previously shown much appetite for dealing López, Barry Jackson and Craig Mish of the Miami Herald report that the Marlins are now willing to hear offers on the 26-year-old righty. According to Jackson and Mish, the Fish aren't actively shopping López, but they're "no longer dismissing calls" from interested teams.
Assuming Ng and her staff are willing to seriously consider offers on López, he'd be one of the top options available for rotation-needy clubs. After missing most of the second half of last season due to a shoulder injury, he's stayed healthy this year to take 20 starts. López owns a 3.03 ERA with an above-average 25.5% strikeout rate, a stingy 7.6% walk percentage and a solid 47.4% ground-ball rate. It's the continuation of a few excellent years for the Venezuelan-born hurler, who has posted a sub-4.00 ERA with better than average strikeout and walk rates in each of the past three seasons.
López is only in his first season of arbitration-eligibility. He's making an affordable $2.45MM salary, around $974K of which is still to be paid before the end of the season. That's affordable enough for every club, and López comes with an additional two seasons of control before he can hit free agency after the 2024 campaign. He's both cheaper and under a longer window of control than any of Luis Castillo, Tyler Mahle or Frankie Montas — the three hurlers who have generally been viewed as the top rotation trade candidates on the market.
There's no need for Ng and her front office to force a deal given that extended window of club control, but they could view this as an opportunity to move him at the peak of his trade value. The Herald writes that the Marlins have not engaged López's representatives at Excel Sports Management about a possible extension. Miami also has a fair bit of rotation depth and is looking for opportunities to invigorate an offense that carried a meager .238/.302/.376 line into play tonight.
Jackson and Mish write that the Marlins would like to add a left-handed power hitter for the 2023 lineup. Whether that'd come directly in a López deal is unclear — it's rare for contenders to trade off their big league roster to address another area — but an openness to dealing away one of their top arms while searching for ways to add a controllable hitter suggests Ng and her staff aren't approaching the deadline as a strict "buyer" or "seller." Rather, it seems they'll be one of a handful of teams — the Red Sox, Rangers, Angels and Orioles could be others — approaching the deadline more flexibly, recognizing that competing in 2022 is a longshot while still searching for ways to preemptively add to next year's roster.
Of course, the rotation depth that could make the Marlins more amenable to parting with López has also been hit hard by injuries. Former top prospect Sixto Sánchez hasn't thrown a major league pitch in two years. Jesús Luzardo and Edward Cabrera have been on the injured list for months, and rookie Max Meyer joined them over the weekend after leaving the second start of his MLB career with elbow discomfort.
In a worrisome development, Jackson and Mish report that Tommy John surgery could be on the table for Meyer. The team is still awaiting the results of a recent MRI before determining whether surgery will be required, but a UCL reconstruction would likely cost him all of the 2023 season. Miami is certainly hoping the electric 23-year-old will be able to avoid that fate; the club figures to provide an update on the righty's status in the coming days.
Whether Meyer eventually goes under the knife or not, the injury serves as a reminder that even teams with a seeming surplus of starting pitching can see that depth thinned out rather quickly. Indeed, Miami's rotation has largely been propelled by excellent seasons from Alcantara and López. 2021 breakout southpaw Trevor Rogers has had a disappointing follow-up campaign, and the back of the rotation has been hit by the aforementioned injuries along with a woeful showing from Elieser Hernández, who found himself demoted to the bullpen.
If Miami follows through on dealing some veterans, López wouldn't be the only player on the roster to attract interest. MLBTR examined a few of the club's other possible trade candidates last week. First baseman/designated hitter Garrett Cooper has a season and a half of remaining control and is hitting .279/.347/.426 on the year. He landed on the 10-day injured list due to a right wrist contusion this afternoon, but he indicated he expects to return when first eligible on August 3 (link via Christina De Nicola of MLB.com). He won't play again before next Tuesday's trade deadline, but injured players are able to be dealt, and it stands to reason other clubs will look past the injury if Cooper's likely to return next week.
Brian Anderson and Jon Berti each looked like potential trade candidates, but they're on the IL themselves. Anderson suffered a shoulder injury over the weekend, while Berti has yet to begin a rehab assignment after hurting his groin a little less than two weeks ago. They seem less likely than Cooper to be dealt given their longer-term recovery timelines.
Miami also has a handful of veteran relievers who could change hands. Right-hander Anthony Bass is controllable next season via $3MM club option, but he should draw interest with a 1.51 ERA through 41 2/3 innings on the year. Southpaws Steven Okert and Tanner Scott have missed plenty of bats and are controllable for multiple seasons beyond 2022, although each has struggled with his control. Richard Bleier is a more stable ground-ball specialist from the left side, while Dylan Floro is a righty with a broadly similar profile as Bleier.
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Orioles Acquire Yaqui Rivera From Marlins
By Anthony Franco | June 1, 2022 at 9:04pm CDT
The Orioles announced they've acquired minor league right-hander Yaqui Rivera from the Marlins. He's the player to be named later in the April deal that sent relievers Cole Sulser and Tanner Scott to South Florida.
Rivera, 18, was a recent signee of Miami's out of the Dominican Republic. He made his professional debut last season with a few outings in complex ball and nine starts in the Dominican Summer League. Rivera, who has never appeared on an organizational prospects list at FanGraphs or Baseball America, missed some bats but also had an elevated walk rate — unsurprising tendencies for a pitcher so young.
The 6'2″ hurler is one of three young players the O's added to the organization in the deal. Baltimore also picked up left-hander Antonio Velez, who has struggled with home runs over his first eight outings in Double-A this year, and low minors outfielder Kevin Guerrero. The 25-year-old Velez is certainly the most likely of the trio to make any kind of near-term impact in spite of his early struggles in Bowie; Guerrero and Rivera are long-term developmental fliers.
Sulser and Scott have each stepped into the big league bullpen in Miami, with the former assuming some high-leverage opportunities. It's been a fairly similar start to the season for both, who each have quality swing-and-miss numbers but have struggled with control. Sulser owns a 4.50 ERA through 18 innings, and he's seen his fastball velocity drop nearly two ticks on average relative to last season. Scott remains among the harder left-handed throwers in the game, but he's dealt with strike-throwing issues throughout his career. He has a 5.40 ERA in 18 1/3 frames with the Fish.
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Marlins Acquire Tanner Scott, Cole Sulser From Orioles
By Mark Polishuk | April 3, 2022 at 8:56pm CDT
8:56PM: Both teams have officially announced the trade. To clear 40-man roster space for Scott and Sulser, the Marlins have designated left-hander Nick Neidert for assignment and placed lefty Sean Guenther on the 60-day injured list. MLB.com's Christina De Nicola reported Friday that Guenther was dealing with an arm injury that may require surgery.
5:52PM: The Marlins have acquired left-hander Tanner Scott and right-hander Cole Sulser from the Orioles. MLB.com's Mark Feinsand reported (Twitter links) Scott's inclusion in the deal, while The Miami Herald's Craig Mish reported that Sulser had also been dealt. Feinsand reports that the Orioles will receive prospects Antonio Velez and Kevin Guerrero, a player to be named later, and the Marlins' pick in Competitive Balance Round B of this summer's amateur draft.
The bullpen was known to be a target area for Miami, and the Fish have now bolstered their relief core with a pair of experienced arms. In Sulser, the Marlins have also found a new closer candidate, as Sulser saved eight games with Baltimore last season. While the Marlins aren't expected to have a full-time closer, there is a vacancy for the ninth inning, as Dylan Floro is expected to start the season on the injured list.
Sulser is a late bloomer who didn't make his MLB debut until he was 29, so he is still controlled through the 2025 season even though he only recently celebrated his 32nd birthday. Injuries played a factor in Sulser's late start, as he underwent two Tommy John surgeries (one in college, and the other in 2015 when he was pitching in Cleveland's farm system). He finally surfaced in the majors with the Rays in 2019, and then came to Baltimore on a waiver claim at the end of the 2019 season.
After posting a 5.56 ERA over 22 2/3 innings in 2020, Sulser broke out with a 2.70 ERA over 63 1/3 relief innings for Baltimore last season. Though his 8.9% walk rate ranked only in the 40th percentile of all pitchers (as per Statcast), Sulser's 28.4% strikeout rate was well above average, and fit in the high strikeout totals he has posted during his minor league career.
Scott also hasn't had much trouble missing bats, but the southpaw's control issues have resulted in some inconsistent numbers over 156 Major League innings. Scott has an ungainly 13.6% walk rate during his MLB career, which is a big reason why he has posted only a 4.73 ERA with the Orioles despite a 50.1% grounder rate and a 29.4% strikeout rate.
Between those numbers, Scott's mid-90s fastball, and his three remaining years of arbitration control (Scott is set to earn $1.05MM this season after avoiding arbitration with the O's), it is easy to see why Scott has drawn his share of trade buzz over the years. As well, Sulser's name also surfaced in trade rumors earlier this year, as the rebuilding Orioles continue to be open for business on pretty much everyone on the roster.
In fact, the Marlins themselves swung another notable bullpen trade with the O's back in August 2020, picking up Richard Bleier. Sulser and Bleier will now join Anthony Bass and Anthony Bender as Miami's top save candidates, with Floro joining the mix when he returns to action. It is quite possible more names might end up emerging as closer possibilities for manager Don Mattingly, or one of those relievers might pitch well enough to firmly establish themselves as the top choice for the ninth inning.
From Baltimore's perspective, the CBR-B draft pick may be the biggest score of the trade return. The Competitive Balance Rounds are two separate draft rounds that respectively take place after the first round and second round of the draft, with 15 teams (all falling within the bottom 10 of market or revenue size) getting a bonus pick in one of the two rounds. For the 2022 draft, the Marlins were selected into CBR-B and had the first pick of that round. As it so happens, Baltimore will now be picking first in both Competitive Balance Rounds, as the O's also have the first selection of CBR-A. The Competitive Balance picks are the only draft selections that are allowed to be traded.
Baseball America ranked Guerrero 29th and Velez 34th on their most recent list of the Marlins' top 40 prospects. Guerrero is a 17-year-old outfielder who was part of the 2020-21 international signing class, and he hit .260/.373/.298 in 159 PA this past summer with the Marlins' Dominican Summer League squad. BA's scouting report describes him as something of a work in progress, as his "future will be based around the way his body develops," given that Guerrero is already 6'3″ but only 165 pounds.
Velez is a Miami native who wasn't drafted coming out of Florida State, owing to the shortened nature of the 2020 draft. Baseball America credited Velez as having the best changeup and best control of any pitcher in the Marlins' farm system, which is no small achievement given all of the high-profile young arms in Miami's minor league ranks. In addition to that quality changeup, Velez's "low-90s fastball is amplified by vertical break that borders on double-plus."
While the Orioles continue to bolster their minor league ranks, today's trade marks yet another move that depletes the MLB roster. Sulser was tentatively set to act as Baltimore's closer, and since Scott was also in the mix for save chances, it is now an open question as to who will end up getting ninth-inning duties. Paul Fry, Jorge Lopez, and Dillon Tate look like the next men up on the depth chart, though any number of pitchers could be cycled through depending on performance, shifting roles, injuries, and perhaps more trades.
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Orioles Select Pat Valaika
By Anthony Franco | September 14, 2021 at 4:13pm CDT
The Orioles announced they've selected infielder Pat Valaika back to the big league roster. Baltimore also recalled righty Marcos Diplán from Triple-A Norfolk. Left-hander Tanner Scott has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a left knee sprain, while utilityman Jorge Mateo was placed on the 60-day IL due to right lumbar inflammation.
Valaika has logged substantial big league action with the O's in each of the last two seasons. He flashed some intriguing power potential last year, popping eight home runs in 150 plate appearances en route to a solid .277/.315/.475 showing. But he struggled badly over a slightly longer look this year, posting a .192/.251/.280 line over 212 trips to the dish. He was designated for assignment and passed through outright waivers last month. Valaika will be eligible for arbitration this offseason, but given his disappointing season, he looks like a non-tender candidate.
Baltimore grabbed Mateo off waivers from the Padres last month, with the rebuilding O's in a far better position than the win-now Padres to give regular playing time to the former top prospect. (Mateo is out of minor league option years, so he'd spent much of his San Diego tenure in a bench role). The 26-year-old showed fairly well in his look with the Orioles, hitting .280/.328/.421 with a pair of homers and five stolen bases over 116 plate appearances. His season comes to a premature end because of the injury, but he's seemingly done enough to warrant a spot on Baltimore's 40-man roster over the upcoming offseason.
Unlike Mateo, Scott isn't officially ruled out for the rest of the year by his IL placement. Nevertheless, manager Brandon Hyde suggested to reporters (including Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com) the hard-throwing reliever is unlikely to make it back this season. Scott appeared in 62 games and tossed 54 innings of 5.17 ERA ball, striking out a solid 27.9% of opponents but issuing walks at an elevated 14.7% clip. He'll be eligible for arbitration for the first time this offseason.
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Orioles Make Three Roster Moves
By Mark Polishuk | August 1, 2021 at 11:16am CDT
The Orioles placed left-hander Tanner Scott on the 10-day injured list due to a left knee sprain. Fellow lefty Keegan Akin has been reinstated from the COVID-related injury list to take Scott's place on the active roster, while right-hander Thomas Eshelman was designated for assignment to open up a 40-man roster spot.
Scott has a 3.95 ERA/4.12 SIERA over 41 innings out of Baltimore's bullpen this season, with a very strong 31.4% strikeout rate. However, Scott's 16.5% walk rate is one of the worst in baseball, continuing the control problems that have plagued the southpaw over his 143 career innings in the Show. Despite these free passes, Scott still drew a lot of attention prior to the trade deadline, as rival teams were intrigued by his high fastball velocity and the fact that Scott isn't eligible for free agency until after the 2024 season.
This is the third time in as many seasons that the Orioles have DFA's Eshelman, with the previous two designations resulting in the right-hander being outrighted to Triple-A. All 92 of Eshelman's career Major League innings have come with Baltimore in those three seasons, with the righty posting a 5.87 ERA and only an 11% strikeout rate. The swingman has been mostly used in the rotation in 2021, as Eshelman has started five of his six games.
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Two Orioles Lefties Commanding Trade Interest
By Steve Adams | July 28, 2021 at 8:36am CDT
Baltimore left-handers Paul Fry and Tanner Scott aren't household names, but both are drawing ample trade interest as Friday afternoon's deadline approaches, per both Dan Connolly of The Athletic and Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com. Right-handers Cole Sulser and Dillon Tate have also drawn some interest, but they're both controlled four more years after the current season and won't even be arbitration-eligible until the 2022-23 offseason at the earliest.
The 29-year-old Fry and 27-year-old Scott both offer plenty of club control in their own right. Both pitchers have an additional year of MLB service time over Sulser and Tate, making both arb-eligible this winter and controllable through the 2024 campaign. Either pitcher would make for an affordable upgrade who could impact his new club for several years down the road, and both pitchers have become increasingly appealing as the market context has changed this week.
This summer's trade market was never particularly deep in high-quality left-handed relief help. But the injury to Minnesota's Taylor Rogers, recent struggles for Washington's Brad Hand, and the Athletics' Monday acquisition of Andrew Chafin from the Cubs can only make the pair of Baltimore lefties all the more appealing.
Fry (60 2/3 innings) and Scott (61 innings) have near-identical innings totals over the past two seasons and have been similarly effective, relying on well above-average strikeout and ground-ball rates. Scott's 2.51 ERA in that time has the edge on Fry's 3.12 mark, but Fry has the edge in strikeout percentage (31.9 to 30.9) and ground-ball percentage (54.6 percent to 52.2 percent). Fry's walk rate of 10.8 percent is worse than the league average but considerably lower than Scott's mark of 14.3 percent. Scott, however, offers a blazing heater that has averaged 97 mph in 2021 and generates far more swinging strikes than Paul and his 93 mph fastball. It's easy to see a club dreaming more on Scott's stuff, but Fry's demonstrably better control of the strike zone is a major point in his favor.
Naturally, Connolly suggests that there's a split in other teams' opinions on the pair of southpaws. Some figure prefer Fry's less-dynamic repertoire but steadier control. Others will be drawn to Scott's power arsenal. Kubatko reports that the Phillies, who have several former O's execs in their front office, have been keeping tabs on the Baltimore bullpen. He also lists the Padres as a possibility.
Generally speaking, Fry and Scott are two of the market's most appealing lefty relievers. The aforementioned Hand is sure to be available as the Nationals pivot to selling, but he's also earning a $10.5MM salary this season and has surrendered eight runs in his past nine innings of work. It's feasible that the Angels could move veteran Tony Watson, but their deadline direction remains unsettled and he's a free agent at season's end. Chasen Shreve, having a solid but unspectacular year in Pittsburgh, would also be a rental. Miami's Richard Bleier is a quietly effective name who could likely be had in a trade, and even with Rogers down, the Twins have another interesting lefty in Caleb Thielbar. Both Bleier and Thielbar are 34 and lack even average fastball velocity, however.
Fry and Scott arguably offer the best combination of bottom-line results, quality stuff, age and remaining club control on the market at this point. That makes them more expensive in terms of prospects than rental veterans like Hand, Watson or Shreve, of course, but either would be a quality get for a contender's relief corps.
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Orioles Designate Nate Karns, Promote Dillon Tate, Place John Means On IL
By Jeff Todd | July 26, 2019 at 7:55pm CDT
The Orioles announced multiple pitching moves this evening. One player is now likely headed out of the organization, as righty Nate Karns was reinstated from the 60-day injured list and designated for assignment.
Young hurler Dillon Tate, the former fourth overall pick, was promoted for his first attempt at the majors. Righty Evan Phillips will accompany Tate onto the active roster.
Unfortunately, the O's also announced that southpaw starter and rookie All-Star John Means was placed on the 10-day injured list with a biceps strain. Lefty Tanner Scott was optioned down to create the other necessary roster opening.
Karns landed with the Baltimore organization over the winter. He threw 5 1/3 scoreless frames to open his tenure but hit the shelf early with a forearm strain. The 31-year-old struggled mightily on his rehab assignment, dishing out ten walks and recording only five strikeouts in 10 1/3 innings.
It's also unwelcome news as concerns Means. It had already been a bit of a rough month, as his ERA has moved north from 2.50 to 3.12, but it's never preferable to hear of any issues in the arm of a young pitcher. There's no indication as of yet regarding the severity, but the club will surely hope it's only a minor blip for the 26-year-old.
As he prepares to debut at 25 years of age, Tate won't face the massive expectations he once did. Arm issues and inconsistencies have changed the trajectory of the twice-traded righty. He has been solid at Double-A, working to a 3.48 ERA with 8.0 K/9 and 2.4 BB/9 over 33 2/3 innings in 15 relief appearances and a pair of starts.
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Orioles Option Tanner Scott
By George Miller | June 30, 2019 at 4:36pm CDT
Following today's game, the Orioles have optioned left-handed pitcher Tanner Scott to Triple-A, reports Roch Kubatko of MASN on Twitter. Presumably, the move opens a roster spot for the club to add a starter for tomorrow night's game, though specifics are not yet known.
Scott, just 24 years old, has functioned in a bullpen role for the Orioles this season. In his young career, the southpaw has displayed flashy strikeout stuff, notching 96 K's in just 66 1/3 innings of work, good for a 13.0 average per nine innings. That's the carrying tool for a youngster who profiles as a pure relief arm with potential to grow into a high-leverage role for the O's, though he's yet to actualize that potential: despite the high strikeout numbers, Scott has managed just a 5.56 ERA in his career, which has spanned parts of three seasons.
Though the corresponding move has not been officially announced, Kubatko additionally suggests (via Twitter) that Tom Eshelman could be the one to get the call for tomorrow night's series opener against the Rays. Notably, though, Eshelman is not on the Orioles' 40-man roster, meaning that an additional move would be required to clear a spot for him on the 40-man.
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Orioles To Select Josh Lucas, Place Richard Bleier On Injured List
By Steve Adams | April 11, 2019 at 8:53am CDT
The Orioles have lockers set up for right-hander Josh Lucas and lefty Tanner Scott this morning, per MASNsports.com's Roch Kubatko (all Twitter links), indicating that both have been brought up to the Major League roster. Lucas isn't on the team's 40-man roster, so his contract will be formally selected prior today's 12:35 ET starting time. Baltimore already optioned Josh Rogers to Triple-A Norfolk following last night's game, creating one vacancy on the 25-man roster, and the other will be created by placing lefty Richard Bleier on the injured list.
Lucas, 28, signed a minor league pact with the Orioles back in late November. His experience at the MLB level is limited, though he's appeared in each of the past two big league seasons: with the Cardinals in 2017 and the Athletics in 2018. He's tallied just 21 2/3 frames in that time, working to a 5.40 ERA with a 21-to-13 K/BB ratio and a promising 54.8 percent ground-ball rate.
Lucas doesn't throw particularly hard, sitting 91-92 mph with his fastball, but he's induced a solid 11.4 percent swinging-strike rate and a strong 33.8 percent chase rate on pitches out of the strike zone. He'll come to the O's with a nice Triple-A track record, having logged a 3.32 ERA with 8.9 K/9, 2.6 BB/9 and above-average ground-ball tendencies.
Bleier, despite a lack of missed bats, was the Orioles' most effective reliever from 2017-18. Through 4 1/3 innings this season, though, he's already allowed as many runs (seven) as he did through 32 2/3 frames last year. Bleier's 2019 season was cut short by a lat tear that required surgery, and it's possible that he's still dealing with some lingering effects from that procedure.
Prior to Opening Day, he's totaled 119 innings in the Majors between the Yankees and O's, pitching to an immaculate 1.97 ERA despite averaging 4.1 K/9. Bleier's pristine control (1.6 BB/9) and knack for avoiding hard contact have helped him thrive to this point in his big league career. If he can get back on track between now and July, he'd stand out as a possible trade candidate; the late-blooming Bleier will turn 32 next week but has three years of team control remaining beyond 2019.
The 24-year-old Scott, meanwhile, is already on the 40-man roster after spending the bulk of the 2018 season with the Orioles. Last year, he logged a lackluster 5.40 ERA but did punched out 76 batters in just 53 1/3 innings of Major League relief. The flamethrower has averaged better than 97 mph on his heater at the MLB level with a gaudy 16.4 percent swinging-strike rate and 36.6 percent opponents' chase rate on out-of-zone pitches. If Scott can rein in his control (4.7 BB/9), he has the makings of a quality late-inning reliever; fielding-independent pitching metrics are already quite bullish on him as it is (3.40 FIP, 2.96 xFIP, 3.18 SIERA in 2018).
Baltimore Orioles Transactions Josh Lucas Richard Bleier Tanner Scott
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Oh Fair Use, the places you'll go!
In November 2016, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P., sued Comicmix LLC and various individuals for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and unfair business practices.
Comicmix created a work entitled Oh, The Places You'll Boldly Go! via Kickstarter. It is a mashup of Dr. Seuss's Oh, The Places You'll Go! and the Star Trek universe. The picture in this post is an exhibit that the district court analyzed.
Comicmix filed a motion to dismiss on various grounds, including fair use—arguing that its work was a parody of Dr. Seuss's work. Earlier this month, the court ruled on the motion.
The court rejected the parody argument—there wasn't enough commentary on Oh, The Places You'll Go! to qualify as parody. But the court still found that the work was transformative enough to maintain a fair-use defense.
The court rejected Dr. Seuss's argument that lack of parody precluded a fair-use defense. The court was worried that accepting that argument would expose a whole genre of art—the mashup—to copyright-infringement claims. Rather, the court determined that mashups—like Comicmix's—were transformative enough to maintain a fair-use defense. But because there were some other close factual questions, the court denied the motion to dismiss the copyright claim.
The court did grant Comicmix's motion with respect to Dr. Seuss's trademark claim. The claimed trademark was the title: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Comicmix argued that it's use of the title was a nomative fair use, i.e., it used the mark to describe Dr. Seuss's product to indicate that it's product was a mashup of Dr. Seuss's book and Star Trek. The court agreed, dismissing the trademark and related unfair-business-practices claims.


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Kidnappers Of Six Julius Berger Workers Reduce Ransom From Over N600million To N200million
It was gathered that the company, however, is insisting that they are working on "other options" other than paying the ransom to the assailants.
by Saharareporters, New York Mar 25, 2021
The sea pirates, who abducted six workers of the Julius Berger Construction Company, near the Bonga Oil Field between Delta and Rivers states, have reduced their ransom from $1.5 million to N200 million, one of the affected families told SaharaReporters on Thursday.
One of the affected family members who spoke with SaharaReporters said the health of one of the victims, who has now spent over a week with the abductors, was a concern to them as he was having high blood pressure.
"Yes, they called the Chief Security Officer of the company on Wednesday and brought down the ransom to N200 million. Yet, the company is not willing to make any commitment at all. They are just quiet about the incident and these workers have spent over a week with the kidnappers.
"If they were expatriates, would Julius Berger keep quiet for so long? One of the victims had down with high blood pressure before. Would this incident not worsen their health condition? The wife cannot eat. All the family members are more depressed daily. Something needs to be urgently done to rescue these workers," he explained.
SaharaReporters had on Wednesday reported that the pirates attacked the captain of the tow barge, and abducted him alongside the six workers.
The abductors had reached out to the company to demand $1.5 million as ransom for the workers.
It was said that the incident happened last Monday when the workers were moving from Warri to the Bonny Island en route to the Bonga Oil Field on the Atlantic Ocean.
Another relative of one of the victims had told SaharaReporters on Wednesday that over a week into the kidnapping, the company seemed to be trivialising the abduction of the Nigerian citizens and had yet to make a statement on the incident.
"I have a brother among those who were kidnapped. There was a captain and six other Julius Berger workers. The kidnappers after seven days contacted the construction company demanding $1.5 million.
"The company seems to be taking the ordeal of the Nigerian workers with levity as the victims continue to suffer in the den of the sea pirates. My bother and other workers were going from Warri to Bonny Island en route to the Bonga Oil Field when the incident happened last Monday," he had stated.
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There are lots of areas of importance in a negotiation. This article will focus on uncovering tactics and redirecting the negotiations back to a mutuality-based, win-win process.
A Tactic, by definition here, differs from a strategy. A tactic is intentional and, it is meant to get you to give up a concession without the other party giving anything in return.
This article is not written to encourage you to use tactics but instead to know when tactics are used against you. We want you to be able to neutralize tactics to preserve a win-win negotiating relationship.
A "strategy" used by the other party may be a tactic or it may simply be the way they do business. Let's use "Higher Authority" as the tactic example. You move through a negotiations process with someone, thinking that person will make the deal with you. Then, when you have wrapped up the trading, they tell you that they do not have the authority to make the deal; they need to pass the information up through channels. Is this a tactic? It may be an attempt to put pressure on you and get you to change your offer.
But, it may not be a tactic. I know of a large energy company who runs negotiations this way; they have a two-step process by design. The negotiators who initially go out tell the company they are negotiating with about the process. They are the first line but do not have budgetary authority to make the size deals done at this level. They then bring all of the information to the next level of management for approval. Not a tactic; just the way they do business.
If you suspect that a tactic is being used against you, the best strategy to ascertain if it is or isn't a tactic is to ask questions. It is usually that simple. You probe. Let's say the other party sets a deadline. How can you know I fit is a tactic or not. Test the deadline. Ask questions about it. Who set it? Why that time and date? What happens if the deadline is not met? Get conversational. Use objective criteria – the facts.
Lastly, when you learn that the other has truly been using a tactic against you (never with you), you need to tell the other party what the consequences are for dealing negatively and unfairly. Stay objective f you can. Judging the other party to be "wrong" may feel natural but all it will do is get their defenses up. Just call it for what it is from an objective place. Take the lead in returning the negotiations to a mutuality-based, win-win process. Be the enlightened negotiator; the model. That goes a long way in appearing powerful in a very positive way.


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252 FIRs, DD entries against parties, others: Delhi CEO
Team MP6 May 2019 6:10 PM GMT
NEW DELHI: Over 252 FIRs and daily diary (DD) entries were registered against political parties and others here till date for violation of the model code of conduct, officials said on Monday. The statistics surveillance team of Delhi's Chief Electoral Office, constituted to keep an eye on the expenses of political parties, has seized Rs 4.08 crore in cash and 1412 kg of narcotics and drugs.
"A total of 252 FIRs or DD entries have been lodged till date in connection with violation of the model code of conduct," the office of the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said in a statement.


Five-Spice Crispy-Skin Chicken ~ I Can Do That!
The original plan was to deep-fry a whole chicken but I decided on baked chicken halves instead because I'm not too keen on deep-frying. The recipe is from my ancient Wei Chuan's Chinese Cuisine cookbook by Huang Su-Huei which is my favorite of all my Chinese cookbooks. The recipes in this book are simple, authentic, and delicious.
Perhaps I deviated too much from the recipe, the result may not be representative of the book's recipe. The skin came out crispy enough but probably not as crispy as deep-fried. But the flavor and aroma of the chicken are fantastic and the meat so moist. The 5-spice powder, honey, rice wine, and vinegar all go well together. I like it a lot. It's finger lickin' good.
Rinse and pat dry the chicken.
In a small skillet heat salt over low heat until very hot. Remove from heat and stir in the five-spice powder. Let cool then rub half of the mixture into the cavity of the chicken. Reserve the other half to serve with the cooked chicken.
In a small skillet heat the rest of the ingredients except oil until honey is dissolved. Baste the chicken with half of the mixture until completely coated. Reserve the remaining honey mixture and keep in the refrigerator.
Place the chicken on a rack set on a baking sheet pan and refrigerate uncovered for 2 days, basting with the remaining honey mixture, until the skin appears dry (the book says to hang outside to dry for 8 hours or use an electric fan indoors).
Heat oil in a deep pot or fryer and fry chicken over low heat for 30 minutes. Turn the heat to high and fry for 2 minutes more or until golden brown. Remove from oil and drain on paper towels. Cut into serving portions. Serve with lemon wedges and the remaining 5-spice salt.
My chicken obviously does not have cavity. I rubbed the 5-spice salt on the meat under the skin and all over the exposed meat. It has just the right amount of salt and the skin has a hint of sweetness from the honey. To bake: Preheat oven to 325° F. Bake on a metal rack set on a roasting pan until golden brown and juices run clear. Chicken halves: 1 hour; whole chicken: 1½ to 1¾ hours.
that looks sooo good! all that spices must have already been infused with the chicken meat since you had to let it 'rest' for two days...so fried or not am sure it's tasty!
i prefer baked than deep-fried, too. the ingredients sound interesting, must be really delicious!
I got that 5-spiced months ago but never tried it on chicken yet...looks yummy! Love your avatar btw.
That looks good, Oggi! The skin looks so yummy!
That looks great. I have a jar of 5-spice I have been trying to use up for months.
Maiylah, yeah, marinating for 2 days made it flavorful.
Luna Miranda, I deep-fry once in a blue moon, bagnet usually.
Iska, the skin is almost like chicharron.
Joy, it's also excellent for Chinese pork hocks humba.


There are two options in entering the Bhutan it's either by land or by flights as Bhutan is a landlocked country so there is no provision of entering the country by seaways.
The Paro Airport is Bhutan's only air field and many consider it to be one of the most beautiful in the world. The airport offers the flights to destination like Bangkok, Delhi, Kolkata, Bagdogra, BodhGaya, Dhaka, Kathmandu, Guwahati, Singapore and Mumbai. There are also domestic airports in Yonphula in eastern Bhutan, Bumthang in central Bhutan, and Gelephu in south-central Bhutan.
The flight between Paro and Kathmandu is one of the most exciting ones as the aircraft passes over four of the five highest mountains in the world. In fine weather you can enjoy the spectacular view of Mt. Everest, Lhotse, Makalu and Kanchenjunga at their best.
If your are planning to enter Bhutan by overland then Phuentsholing, Gelephu and Samdrup Jongkhar ar the only land borders areas open to tourists. You can either enter from Phuentsholing while coming from the west, Gelephu is the entry point if you are travelling from the ventral region and Samdrup Jongkhar is the only option to enter the Dragon Country from the east.


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The legal nature of the evaluative concepts of "justice", "good conscience", "reasonableness" in the Civil Code of Ukraine.
P.P. Patsurkivskyy
Keywords: civil law; civil legislation; the Civil Code of Ukraine; evaluative concepts of "justice", "good conscience", "reasonableness"; recodification of the Civil Code of Ukraine.
The key ideological and methodological motives of the article were conditioned by the discussion that has been going on for some time among Ukrainian civil-scholars on the need and content of recoding the Civil Code of Ukraine, the main problems of further development of civil law in Ukraine. First of all, the degree of scientific development of the problem is analyzed and it is found that the evaluative concepts of "justice", "good conscience", "reasonableness" in Civil Code of Ukraine are constantly in the field of view of Ukrainian civil scientists, but they are still poorly understood in domestic civil law, from a priori inherent in their knowledge of natural law research approaches. It is shown that they were mainly analyzed using the formal-dogmatic method of the positivist doctrine of jurisprudence, which is unable to ensure the disclosure of the existential nature of the respective categories.
As a result of research of the above-mentioned problem some new scientific results have been received. In particular, in the current Civil Code of Ukraine the evaluative concepts of "justice", "good conscience", "reasonableness" were used 95 times, which is almost an order of magnitude more than they were used in the Civil Code of the USSR, and in the latter concepts "justice" and "good conscience" weren't used at all.
It is proved that the content of these categories in the Civil Code of Ukraine goes beyond purely positive legal constructions, and represents the meaning of natural private law in general. Based on this understanding of their nature, as well as the a priori (non-positive) nature of other principles of civil law set out in Article 3 of the Civil Code of Ukraine, is proposed to change the name of Article 3 to «General Principles of Civil Law».
It is concluded that the formula of Part 6, Article 3 of the Civil Code of Ukraine is de facto the most laconic formulation of the anthroposociocultural code of civil law.
Considered that it is contained in one of the title articles of the first book «General Provisions» of the Cіvil Code of Ukraine, it is concluded that it both de facto and de jure permeates the entire content of the current Civil Code of Ukraine. It was also stated that given the key role of Art. 3 of the Civil Code of Ukraine in the entire legal structure of the Civil Code, the categorical series "justice", "good conscience", "reasonableness" of the Civil Code of Ukraine has moved from its periphery to the epicenter of the codex.


Singapore Airlines (SIA) has commenced nonstop services on the world's fourth longest passenger route after its inaugural flight to San Francisco touched down in the Bay Area over the weekend.
The SQ32 flight, operated by Airbus A350-900 9V-SMF featuring a special logo signifying it was the 10,000th aircraft delivered by the European airframer, landed at San Francisco Airport a little after 0830 local time on Sunday, October 23, after a trip time of almost 14 hours.
The A350-900 operating the route is in SIA's standard configuration for the aircraft type with 253 seats comprising 42 in business, 24 in premium economy and 187 in economy.
SIA, a Virgin Australia shareholder and alliance partner, has also ordered seven A350-900ULR (ultra long-range) variants that will be used to resume nonstop services from Singapore to Los Angeles, New York and potentially a third US destination.
San Francisco-Singapore is a rarity among ultra long-haul routes as it features two carriers – United started its own nonstop service on the city pair in June with Boeing 787-9s.
The world's longest passenger route is between Delhi and San Francisco. But only when flying eastwards from Delhi.
Air India took the record on October 16, when AI 173 took off from Indira Ghandi International Airport at a few minutes before 0430 local time and landed at San Francisco International Airport some 14 and a half hours later, covering 8,285nm, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. The return flight is shorter as it heads eastwards from San Francisco and over the Atlantic Ocean back to Delhi, taking advantage of the prevailing tailwinds when flying east.
Subsequent flights have exceeded the 8,285nm covered on that inaugural service that operated with an eastwards routing.
2. Doha-Auckland (7,848nm) – to be operated by Qatar Airways with Boeing 777-200LR. From February 1 2017.
4. Dubai-Panama City (7,463nm) – to be operated by Emirates with Boeing 777-200LR. Start date not confirmed.
It would seem that a lot of QF ability to wrest control of Australian traffic from international carriers lies with the manufacturers capacity to deliver ultra long-range aircraft. Carriers like Singapore and Emirates that currently have a geographic advantage of inhabiting the middle ground. / one-stop locations will be hoping at least on the Kangaroo route that the ultra long-range aircraft are some way away yet.
I'm confused. Do you mean "Pacific Ocean routing eastwards from Delhi only"?
@random, whilst that may be true for a couple of routes, realistically speaking there is no way QF is going to serve the top 20 destinations in both Europe and North America, unless there are even longer range B787s in order simply due to the lack of consumer demand and extra capacity from competition. The tie-up with Emirates and American ensures that QF gets access to a wide network but apart from the most popular cities it can never compete with the likes of Emirates and American on smaller trunk routes. From an economic point of view QF's interests are best served in investing in Asia and North America. Instability from terrorism, Brexit and extreme over capacity makes it difficult for QF to invest in Europe, apart from London.
San Francisco to Singapore? I'll be taking the A350 thanks!


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The Motorola Q Wiki, also known as the Moto Q Wiki,[1] and MOTO Q Wiki, is a former wiki site about the Motorola Q; a Windows-based mobile phone and e-mail device that fits in your pocket. Fully tricked-out, it can duplicate many of the functions of a computer, including M$ document processing, handling business and personal e-mail, accessing the internet, playing music and more.
Because the possible applications for the MOTO Q will always expand, the 'ideal" user guide would also be able to grow and change. This wiki is an attempt to do that. It's a place to capture and share the knowledge of the greater community of MOTO Q users. If, for example, you have added a new application to your MOTO Q, you could post instructions on how you did it here, for the benefit of all MOTO Q users.
This site has been established by Motorola for the use of MOTO Q users. It has been seeded with the contents of the in-box user guide. Additional content will be provided by MOTO Q users as they explore the MOTO Q's capabilities.
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'Crazy busy': Boom from $40B LNG plant in northwestern B.C. leaves communities scrambling to keep up
CBC December 29, 2019
After 25 years of cutting hair in downtown Prince George, Freda Barton is doing something she never expected: moving back home to Kitimat to cash in on northwestern British Columbia's economic boom.
"The whole town is just crazy busy," Barton said. "I'm really excited."
Barton will be helping Kitimat's Nechako Barber Shop set up a mobile studio to service a 4,500-person work camp being built in support of the $40-billion LNG Canada export facility.
But though the mega-project is creating new opportunities in the region, it's also creating challenges for both small businesses and local governments attempting to keep up with rapid growth.
Aside from needing more barbers, communities say they also need more police and bylaw officers to respond to some of the problems that come with a rapidly growing population — but questions remain about who will pay for that.
Rentals in short supply
Already, approximately 1,000 workers are in place and the impact can be seen everywhere, said Nechako Barber Shop owner Tracy Best.
"Everybody's got 'Help Wanted,' signs," she said, adding it's difficult to recruit people into service-industry positions with high-paying camp jobs nearby.
Even so, the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce is warning people against simply showing up in town expecting to cash in.
Andrew Kurjata/CBC
Rental units are in high-demand so it's best to have both a job and a place to live lined up before deciding to move northwest, said chamber president Daniel Chimko.
"I mean, in terms of those [service] jobs, you can probably start the next day," he said. "But again, you've got to make sure you have your first couple months rent in hand so that you're not left out in the street."
Construction is also underway on new townhouses and a new hotel to accommodate the growing population, which isn't limited to Kitimat. The nearby city of Terrace, which acts a service centre for the region, is also being impacted, said city CAO Heather Avinson.
"With a big project like this ... there's an influx of people that come to the area," Avinson told CBC Daybreak North host Carolina de Ryk.
"And it's happening more quickly than we expected."
New activity straining local resources: City of Terrace
Avinson said while the economic activity is welcome, it also has a downside: people in the community are seeing more visible homelessness, drug use and property crime.
Avinson said she didn't want to attribute all the negative changes to LNG Canada, but said it's likely some of the challenges can be attributed to new people arriving in the region.
"It's a blessing and a curse," she said.
The city wants to add more police and bylaw officers to its roster in 2020 in order to respond, and hopes the province and companies behind LNG Canada will be willing to help pay for those costs.
LNG Canada said it's designing the project with nearby communities in mind, attempting to provide as many services — from medical to recreation — as possible within its 400-hectare work camp in order to minimize disruption.
Spokesperson Susannah Pierce said LNG Canada is also working with the province and local governments to monitor numbers on everything from housing prices to crime rates.
"We can then look at the data and get a better understanding of how we work collectively to address some of those concerns," she said.
Avinson said LNG Canada has been responsive, and eager to contribute to projects such as the recent purchase of a new highway rescue truck for the Terrace fire department. But she said what's really needed is ongoing funding injected into Terrace's municipal budget.
Both Terrace and Kitimat are members of the Northwest B.C. Resource Benefits Alliance, which advocates for more money from major projects in the region to be invested directly into municipalities.
Pierce didn't say whether the company would or would not be willing to pay municipalities ongoing funding, but instead said they would engage in an "open dialogue."
B.C. Premier John Horgan has committed to negotiating a revenue-sharing agreement with those communities, but terms have yet to be worked out.
Meanwhile, Avinson said, Terrace is looking at a seven per cent tax increase in 2020 just to keep up with demand for city services.
"That is not insignificant," she said. "But it's what we need to do."
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A numerical solution of time dependent compressible elastohydrodynamic lubrication of line contacts has been obtained. The results show the effects of various operating parameters on the transient response behavior of a lubricated contact. The analysis models a startup situation where the surfaces are initially at rest and in contact. Then, with the contacts operating at a given load and speed, the analysis is run until the pressure and film thickness reach a steady-state condition. A multigrid/multilevel technique is used to simultaneously solve the time dependent Reynolds and elasticity equations. The effects of various loads and speeds have been investigated. Results are presented for nondimensional loads ranging from W = 2.0 × 10−5 to W = 2.3 × 10−4 and nondimensional speeds ranging from U = 1.0 × 10−12 to U = 1.0 × 10−10 .
Osborn KF, Sadeghi FF. Time Dependent Line EHD Lubrication Using the Multigrid/Multilevel Technique. ASME. J. Tribol. 1992;114(1):68-74. doi:10.1115/1.2920870.


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Nine Officials Just Dropped a Bombshell On Mike Flynn's Ties With Russia
Ron Delancer
The constant dissemination of falsehoods by Donald Trump and his team is just beyond belief. In fact, every day more and more lies are exposed. But the latest one is a matter of national security and can even reach the level of treason.
Retired General Mike Flynn has consistently denied that he talked to the Russian ambassador in December about President Obama's sanctions against Russia, but apparently he did exactly that.
The bombshell findings were reported by Greg Miller, Adam Entous and Ellen Nakashima for the Washington Post:
"Flynn on Wednesday denied that he had discussed sanctions with Sergey Kislyak. Asked in an interview whether he had ever done so, he twice said, "No." On Thursday, Flynn, through his spokesman, backed away from the denial. The spokesman said Flynn "indicated that while he had no recollection of discussing sanctions, he couldn't be certain that the topic never came up."
….The emerging details contradict public statements by incoming senior administration officials including Mike Pence…Nine current and former officials, who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
All of those officials said Flynn's references to the election-related sanctions were explicit. Two of those officials went further, saying that Flynn urged Russia not to overreact to the penalties being imposed by President Barack Obama, making clear that the two sides would be in a position to review the matter after Trump was sworn in as president. "Kislyak was left with the impression that the sanctions would be revisited at a later time," said a former official.
A third official put it more bluntly, saying that either Flynn had misled Pence or that Pence misspoke. A spokesman for Pence did not respond to a request for comment. The sanctions in question have so far remained in place."
That's nine officials! And every one of them says Flynn explicitly talked about the sanctions that Obama levied on Russia as retaliation for their cyber-hacking during the campaign. The message: don't worry about it. We've got your back.
Is this how the Trump administration puts America first? Unbelievable! This is treason!
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Q: Get all properties that lies within user defined polygon in Tire/Elastic search using geo_polygon filter I'm working on a project that uses ElasticSearch and tire.I have a google map on my web page.i want to get all properties when user draw apolygon on the map that must be fetched by Elastic search with tire. i have alreday get polygon coordinates now i want to write a query in (tire.serach Block see below) that will filter all properties within polygon area.Properties table of my database has longitude and latitide column. i can do this by using Postgis adapter but i need to know the syntax of query that will do this in tire/Elastic search.
def self.search(params={})

tire.search(load: true, page: params[:page], per_page: 50) do |search|

  syntax of the filter query that will fetch all properties within user defined polygon area..???

end
end

Thanks
Ateq.

A: Something like:
Tire.search 'venues' do
  query do
    filtered do
      query { all }
      filter :geo_polygon, location: { points: [
                                        {lat: 40, lon -70},
                                        {lat: 30, lon -80},
                                        {lat: 20, lon -90}
                                       ]
                                      }
    end
  end
end

Example adapted from Elasticsearch documentation on Geo Polygon Filter.

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Hypnotize Anyone Fast track Training - Secrets of Hypnosis
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If you have ever wondered how stage hypnotist and street hypnosis rapid hypnosis Inductions work you will learn a step by step approach for success using a rapid hypnosis induction.
Rapid hypnosis inductions are not used by most hypnotists because of fear of failure they mostly use progressive relaxation techniques or indirect Ericksonian Hypnosis Inductions and even though hypnotist has great success using these types of inductions most would like to be able to do rapid hypnosis or handshake inductions made popular by Richard Bandler.
But it is the fear of failure that holds them back, however, they would not need to have this fear once they understand all the steps that must be in place for success every time.
Some may say that is a big claim to say to have success every time you do a rapid hypnosis induction but just like any good recipe for the bread once all the ingredients are added you get fresh bread every time.
The demonstration video for this course breaks down every tiny step needed for you to have success Hypnotizing people.
I have also added other rapid hypnosis induction videos with complete transcripts that you can download so that you can study what I am doing from what you will learn from the demonstration video.
It is also very important to have a positive intention or outcome for doing rapid hypnosis inductions as you will be subconsciously sub-communicating your intentions and your confidence level to the person and this may have an impact on whether you are successful or not.
If the person you are hypnotizing is happy and feels safe being hypnotized by you you will easily hypnotize them with a rapid hypnosis induction once you follow all the steps I am going to teach you in this easy to follow course.
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Karnataka: Bengaluru has emerged as the world's fastest-growing mature tech ecosystem in the world since 2016, according to new research released in London on Thursday.
As per the new research, Bengaluru is followed by the European cities of London, Munich, Berlin and Paris, with India's financial centre of Mumbai in sixth place.
Dealroom.co data analysed by London & Partners the Mayor of London's international trade and investment agency revealed that investment in the Karnataka capital of Bengaluru grew 5.4 times from USD 1.3 billion in 2016 to USD 7.2 billion in 2020, with the Maharashtra capital of Mumbai growing 1.7 times from USD 0.7 billion to USD 1.2 billion in the same period.
The UK capital of London registered an impressive three times growth between 2016 and 2020, rising from USD 3.5 billion to USD 10.5 billion.
Bengaluru is also ranked sixth for the world's tech venture capitalist (VC) investments, on a global list topped by Beijing and San Francisco, New York, Shanghai and London making up the top five. Mumbai comes in at No. 21 in the worldwide ranking, with Boston and Singapore among the other high-ranking cities.
Behind Bengaluru and London, the other fast growing tech hubs include the two German cities of Munich and Berlin and the French capital of Paris, all three more than doubling their investments in the 2016-2020 period.
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These concerts are by far the most ambitious that we have ever conceived. So if you cannot come for the whole festival – we have put on sale a limited number of tickets for Saturday night and for Sunday.
What are you waiting for? It will be one of those events that people talk about for a long time. Debut bands this year include Jewdysee all the way from Germany, and Israeli grassroots sensation Aharit Hayamim. Aharit blend the many cultural influences of Israel into one jamming sound. Jewdysee is one of the most exciting acts in all of Europe. Last year Moshav brought down the roof – so we brought them back, as well as internationally acclaimed hip-hop rapper Y-Love. Additional stars of this year's line-up include, Blue Fringe founder, Dov Rosenblatt, Shempseed creator Erez Safar, aka Diwon and Nosson Zand, who recently toured with Matisyahu. We'll dance into the night with DJ Eric Rosen & The Twelve Tribes.
Also enjoy the amazing and intense music of these fine performers— Adam Weinberg, J. Kleinberg, Inbar Bakal, David Finlay Quartet, Kosha Dilz, and a surprise guest or two. We are thrilled to announce that the Concert Series will be musically MC'd by Jewlicious fan favorite Rav Shmuel, back by popular demand.
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We asked every performer to prepare a greeting to the participants of Jewlicious Festival. We think they are pretty clever. Some are made just this week – and a few are classic videos they submitted to highlight their work. We think you'll find them all very entertaining.


There are many web sites on the Internet with information relating to the Script-Fu plug-in of GIMP. Some of those sites have information which is either out-of-date or which is misleading or inaccurate.
My primary area of interest regarding GIMP development for many years has been the Script-Fu plug-in of GIMP and the associated scripts. The scripts are written in a language called Scheme.
I am still determining what information should be included in these pages and how best to organize them. For now, you can see below a list of the topics I am planning to cover with the pages I will eventually be adding.


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Irwin first came to wide critical notice in 1958, in the Three Collagists show at the old ICA in Dover Street, London, and would continue to make collages throughout his working life. Although he would always consider himself a painter, the working method he developed through his collages would inform everything he ever did.
In 1979 his biographical in entry in the directory of Contemporary British Artists states that "In the past I have made collage, assemblage, constructions and paintings, using the backs of old posters, string, wood-shavings, cardboard, matches, nails, wood, cloth, paint and so on, but I am currently working with oil paint on canvas." He went on to describe his "invariable" working method. "I write the pictures. Starting at the top left-hand corner I work along, adding individual ribbon-like unit to individual unit until I reach the right-hand edge. I then return to the left-hand edge and repeat the process until the bottom right-hand corner is reached, some 400 hours after beginning ... I watch with wonder and excitement as the colours and marks, falling from my hand as if propelled by a source of guidance other than myself, slowly spread across the surface."
Irwin was born at Basingstoke, Hampshire, but grew up at Trebetherick, on the north Cornish coast. He was educated at Bryanston school in Dorset, where the painter Roger Hilton was briefly the art master, before going on to art school in London, first to Goldsmiths College and then, from 1951 until 1954, to the Central School at Holborn. The 1950s were the crucial years in the development of later 20th-century modernism, and while many of Irwin's contemporaries fell under the growing influence of abstract expressionism and the New York School of Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and the rest, Irwin, no less sympathetic to the abstract, was drawn rather more to the currency of the European avant-garde - to art brut, Tachisme, graffiti and the found image, and the continuing legacy of surrealism.
In those early days, he took his material, quite literally, from public advertising hoardings, not in the imagery they carried but in, as it were, the archaeology of posters laid layer upon arbitrary layer, a thick, dank mass that at first he would strip away himself on furtive night-time expeditions: later, it would be delivered openly to the studio by the bale. From this came those first collages, constructed strip by torn strip, row upon row, to draw a strange beauty from the rough tears, the arbitrary overlays and the rotted damage thus inherited. The critics were enchanted: "The patience, the subtlety, the muted gradations of every effect combine to produce an atmosphere of studied beauty," said the Times in 1959, of his first solo show at Gimpel Fils; Irwin "cannot put two pieces of torn paper side by side without creating an atmosphere of poetic tenderness", John Russell wrote in the Sunday Times in 1963.
Continuing critical success seemed assured: the Paris Biennale came in 1960; the Venice Biennale, with Joe Tilson, Bernard Meadows and his old teacher Hilton, in 1964. In the same year he figured prominently in Private View, a sweeping survey of the contemporary English art scene, by Bryan Robertson and John Russell with photographs by Lord Snowdon, and was included in the Tate's major international review of the painting and sculpture of the previous 10 years.
By the end of the 1960s, the shows had dried up, and he was teaching at Corsham, Hornsey and Chelsea. In 1969, became head of fine art at Brighton College of Art, where he remained until 1984. Retirement brought something of a renewal of critical interest in his work, even as he addressed himself to it with a renewed energy. Gimpel Fils gave him a retrospective in 1987; there were shows at the Redfern Gallery in the early 1990s; and he was included in important survey shows of the 1950s and 60s at the Barbican (1993) and Tate Britain (2004).
A large retrospective planned for next year at the Lemon Street Gallery in Truro must now be his memorial. He will be remembered as a man of irrepressible, often unpredictable energy, fun and spirit, and of great charm.
David Gwyther Broome Irwin, artist, born May 7 1931; died October 18 2008
Based on an obituary by William Packer which appeared in the Guardian on 29 October, 2008.


Bush's effort to equate America's amalgam of new enemies to the Axis powers of World War II quickly fizzled. Even some in the White House admitted privately to embarrassment, and the word "Islamofascism" was stricken from presidential speeches. Evil? Yes. But not an organized force — and Bush's speeches quickly came to be regarded as a huge mistake because they inflated the power of America's enemies rather than dividing them by playing off their longstanding rivalries. After all, it wasn't so long ago that the Iraqis and the Iranians were fighting a bitter war. And Bush was lumping Osama bin Laden's Sunni extremists with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vision of a nuclear-capable Persia.
Juan Cole's "Engaging the Muslim World" maps those fault lines, and one can only wish Bush had mulled over such material (in fact, much of it was contained in his briefing papers) before the misadventures of the post-9/11 era began. Like Lawrence Wright's remarkable "Looming Tower," published almost three years ago, this field guide to the politics of modern Islam traces the history of the different movements, whose violent offshoots are still morphing into new forms. Along the way, Cole, a historian at the University of Michigan, explores what he sees as the twin dynamic of "Islam Anxiety" in the United States and "American Anxiety" in the Arab world.
Readers of Cole's blog, Informed Comment, will find many of the arguments familiar, though they are well assembled here, with essays on the myths surrounding Saudi Wahhabism, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the unintended side effects of American meddling in Iran. Cole starts his book in the right place: America's addiction to Middle Eastern oil, which has skewed policy and often led us to support dictators we would ordinarily put on the list of human-rights violators. (The Saudis would probably qualify.) And he declares a truth that should be sobering to President Obama: "The fact is that we are likely to become more dependent on Islamic oil in the coming decades, not less," he writes, noting that 11 of the top 15 exporters of oil are countries with Muslim majorities.
Did they? George W. Bush may have overinflated the power of Islamofascism, but certainly the radical Muslim movement, in all its incarnations, has a membership that is bigger and better financed than the American fringe groups, and with a presence in more countries than those home-grown extremists who threaten domestic terrorism.
There is a reason that we have tens of thousands of American troops on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan: to stop radical groups from taking over either state, which would create a sanctuary for planning attacks around the world, and — in the case of Pakistan — to prevent them from obtaining nuclear weapons. Those are problems of a vastly different scale than apprehending the next Timothy McVeigh. And they explain why a new president who came into office as the anti-Bush, ready to use diplomacy first, is extending American military action in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
As Cole points out, the international community is going to need access to the thousands of Iranian scientists at work in the nuclear project. But he overstates the freedom inspectors have had to visit Iran's facilities, leaving the impression that they have seen everything they have asked to see. The inspectors tell a very different story.
In the end, Cole backs very pragmatic approaches — confidence-building with Iran, and the kind of wooing of enemies that allowed Gen. David Petraeus to begin to tame Iraq. But mostly, he urges us to tear away our blinders. "The bigoted way in which some politicians have dealt with Islam," he concludes, is bound to fail.


To determine whether Mn2+ interferes with Ca2+ activation of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH), isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH) a-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (aKGDH) or the F1F0 ATP synthase and decreases the rate of Ca2+-stimulated ATP production using oxidation rate experiments.
To determine whether Mn2+ can inhibit mitochondrial ETC complex 1 using oxidation rate experiments.
To characterize the effect of Mn2+ on ATP production, ROS production, and cell death in neuronal cell lines in the presence of factors known to produce signs of PSN in animals.
Earlier work in our laboratory has used x-ray spectroscopic techniques to show that no observable manganese3+ (Mn3+) is produced by oxidation of Mn2+ in brain mitochondria, neuron-like cells or astrocytes. This has led us to hypothesize that the proximal cause or causes of Mn toxicity are either transport of Mn3+ into the target tissue or damage by Mn2+. As is discussed in the Background, we believe that possible damage by Mn2+ is likely to be particularly important in explaining how Mn can act as a risk factor in Parkinsonism (PSM). Mn2+ is known to bind to all Ca2+ binding sites with an affinity as strong as Ca2+'s or stronger (see Table 1). In mitochondria the rate of ATP production can be increased by a factor of up to three by binding of Ca2+ to a set of dehydrogenases associated with the Krebs or TCA cycle and to the mitochondrial ATP synthase1-3. Mn2+ binding to these sites of Ca2+ activation of ATP production could inhibit the activation and greatly decrease the ATP that can be produced in the high energy requiring cells of the target tissue. We show in the Preliminary Data that this does occur at a-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (a KGDH). Since a decrease in metabolic energy production has been postulated as a possible cause of PSM4-7, Mn2+ in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) and striatum, the target tissues for PSM, could be a factor in the development of PSM.
Furthermore, as is discussed in the Background, inhibitors of the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) complex I show a particularly close relationship to the development of PSM, and in some cases have been shown to induce signs and symptoms indistinguishable from those of idiopathic Parkinson's disease in humans, rats, and mice8-11. We present arguments which suggest that Mn2+ might also function as an inhibitor of complex I. If it does function in this way, it is very likely that it contributes to the development of PSM. We have therefore suggested and now hypothesize two ways in which Mn2+ could function to increase the risk of development of PSM: 1) by decreasing the supply of ATP in energy demanding cells, and 2) by functioning as a complex I inhibitor, a stress which has been closely connected to the development of PSM. We propose 3 specific aims to test these hypotheses and to characterize the effects of Mn2+ on dopaminergic neurons and astrocytes under conditions related to those in which development of PSM occurs.
a) We developed a novel technique for identifying the sites of Mn2+ inhibition within the mitochondrial metabolic pathways and identified the F1F0 ATP synthase in liver and heart mitochondria and two completely different sites in brain mitochondria. In brain mitochondria, Mn2+ inhibits either fumarase or complex II (succinate dehydrogenase) and also either the glutamate aspartate exchanger or aspartate aminotransferase. We found no indication of inhibition at mitochondrial complex I. We found that Mn nanoparticles, similar to forms of Mn seen in welding fumes, produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) and seem to kill cells by hyperactivation of lysosomes. We are still working on the problem of Mn2+ transport via the RaM mechanism under alternative funding. We have found that Mn2+ is not significantly transported via the Na+-dependent mitochondrial Ca2+ efflux mechanism.
1. Gunter, T. E., C. E. Gavin, M. Aschner, and K.K. Gunter. Speciation of manganese in cells and mitochondria: A search for the proximal cause of manganese neurotoxicity. Neurotoxicology 27: 765 - 776, 2006.
2. Gunter, T.E., C. E. Gavin, and K. K. Gunter. The case for manganese interaction with mitochondria. Neurotoxicology 30: 727 - 729, 2009.
3. Gunter, T. E., and S. S. Sheu. Characteristics and possible functions of mitochondrial Ca2+ transport mechanisms. Biochem. Biophys. Acta (Bioenergetics) 1787: 1291 - 1308, 2009.
4. Van Winkle, B., K. Bentley, J. Malecki, K. K. Gunter, I. M. Evans, A. Elder, J. N. Finkelstein, G. Oberdorster, and T. E. Gunter. Nanoparticle (NP) uptake by type I alveolar epithelial cells and their oxidative stress response. Nanotoxicology 3: 307 - 318, 2009.
5. Gunter, T. E., B. Gerstner, T. Lester, A. P. Wojtovich, J. Malecki, S. G. Swarts, P. S. Brookes, C. E. Gavin, and K. K. Gunter. An analysis of the effects of Mn2+ on oxidative phosphorylation in liver, brain, and heart mitochondria using state 3 oxidation rate assays. Toxicol. and Appl. Pharmacol. 249: 65 - 75, 2010.
1. Gunter, T. E., K.K. Gunter, and M. Aschner. Mn2+ interference with Ca2+ activation of ATP production by mitochondria: A novel hypothesis of Mn neurotoxicity. 22nd International Neurotoxicology Conference. Raleigh - Durham, NC; Sept. 11 - 14 2005.
2. Gunter, T. E., M. Aschner, J. Salter, and K. K. Gunter. Where does Mn2+ inhibit oxidative phosphorylation? 23rd International Neurotoxicology Conference. Little Rock AR, Sept 17 - 21, 2006.
3. Gunter, T. E., M. Aschner, T. Lester, J. Malecki, and K. Gunter. Mn2+ inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation. 17th annual meeting of Setac Europe. Porto, Portugal, May 20 - 24, 2007.
4. Gunter, T. E., K. Gunter, B. Gerstner, T. Lester, J. Malecki, A. Wojtovich, and S. Swarts. Where does Mn2+ inhibit oxidative phosphorylation? or Mn2+ inhibition of the F1F0 ATP synthase. The Manganese Health Research Program Showcase Conference; Londsdowne Resort; Washington, D.C. June 24 - 25, 2009.
5. Gunter, T. E., B. Gerstner, C. Gavin, and K. Gunter. Mn2+ inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation in liver, brain, and heart mitochondria. Society of Toxicology Meeting; Washington, D. C.; March 6 - 10, 2011.


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How can a cave form from solid rock? Most caves are found in limestone, a rock made of materials of calcium carbonate. This rock is unusual because the solid minerals it is made of easily dissolve in weak acids. The most common weak acid in the environment is actually water!