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Present: Representatives Issa and McHenry.
D. Martin, Deputy Staff Director for Oversight; and Rebecca Watkins, Communications Director.
Chairman ISSA. The Committee will come to order.
Will you all please rise?
Chairman ISSA. Please be seated.
know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent.
participate in the hearing today. Without objection, so ordered.
In a sense, I made my opening statement before we even began.
Dallas, Texas. I was 10 years old. He was only in his mid-40s.
Act. We are not here today to question that Act or its validity.
Act. We need to do better.
healthcare providers, what they can dowe will react.
Todays hearing is really about that. We know some of the problems, the most important of which is access and then affordability.
Those are important issues that we are going to hear from our witnesses today and in the days to come.
to understand the real impact of Obamacare on real Americans.
broken promises of this administration under this healthcare law.
Carolinians managed to select a plan on Healthcare.gov.
not be able to log on to the website. That is not acceptable.
he said if you like your plan, you can keep it. Another administrative fix was in order to resolve that promise.
you are likely to see premium prices go up.
previously paying for their health insurance.
costs over $500 a month. She cannot afford that.
we all know a Jonathan. This is about people.
consequences of this failed healthcare reform.
Issa, that North Carolinians, even if we disagree, are a polite lot.
disagree, we can do it in an agreeable fashion.
as the real south, right?
of this chamber, and I want to thank the full county commission.
todayMr. Tracy Philbeck and Jason Williams. Thank you.
County, who is here today, Susan Lockridge, thank you.
Senator for Gaston County, Kathy Harrington. Thank you.
your time and I yield back.
time that you have yielded to me.
Chairman ISSA. Well, thanks for letting us come to your district.
businesses and the complexities and the problems of Obamacare.
calls every single day, of personal concerns that individuals have.
and addressed on their system to date.
be denied their personal healthcare. So these are very troubling.
Congressman McHenry shared the numbers in North Carolina.
particularly in our state, to hold this hearing.
you, Mr. Chairman, again, for allowing me to be here and for conducting this hearing.
Chairman ISSA. Thank you, Rob.
Additionally, I ask that excerpts from USA Today today and excerpts from the Heritage Report on Healthcare Costs under the Affordable Care Act be placed in the record. Without objection, so ordered.
five days after this hearing. Without objection, so ordered.
the record. Without objection, so ordered.
We now go to our distinguished panel of witnesses.
Mr. Dan Waters is President of Dan Waters and Associates. Welcome.
Mr. Joel Long is President of the Gastonia Sheet Metal Services.
I guess that is one of the remaining heavy manufacturers. Welcome. Thank you for being here.
Human Resource Solutions here in North Carolina.
Pursuant to the committee rules, all witnesses must be sworn.
Will you please rise and raise your right hands to take the oath.
witnesses answered in the affirmative.
North Carolina, you had better hurry, or else.
placed in the record in its entirety.
it as part of a question.
after we have gone to red, until the next round, if necessary.
told that I kick off with you first. You are recognized for five minutes.
Mr. WATERS. Thank you, Chairman Issa.
insurance agent and broker for 33 years.
neither the clients, their agents or their Congressional Representative fully understand or have personally read.
trying to explain this complex law to our groups and to individuals.
and concerns of our clients with regard to new plans.
I like my current plan. Why can I not keep it?
Why do I have to pay for benefits I will never use such as maternity benefits, birth control, pediatric vision and dental, rehab services?
Do I qualify for a subsidy? Why do I not qualify for a subsidy?
Why is my health care premium so much higher than before?
not my right to choose without having a penalty?
the reaction of my clients, that would be a resounding no.
those calls and the frustrations of our clients increased exponentially, since clients found their monthly costs more than doubling.
seeking to wait and do just that, if the laws permit.
and less growth for our area.
making it a burden to our society.
Hickory as an insurance agent and broker for over thirty-three years.
the fears and concerns of our clients with regard to their new plans.
1. Ilike my current plan. Why can r not just keep it?
control, pediatric vision and dental or rehab. services?
4. Do I qualify for a subsidy? Why do I not qualify for a subsidy?
5. Why is my health care premium so much higher than before?
Americans with pre-existing conditions to keep or get coverage at a reasonable rate.
large portion of my individual clients are seeking to do just that.
closing, a depressed housing market, and overall lowering of disposable income.
individual translates into less spending and less growth for our area.
without making it a burden to our SOCiety.
going to need both frequently.
what nicety you give it, a lie is a lie is a lie.
keep it. This is another lie.
itself. It should be called the Unaffordable Healthcare Act.
This huge increase in my monthly insurance premium and outof-pocket expense and deductible does not supply any more coverage, nor does it provide better coverage.
as constitutional is beyond any reasoning.
is another thing that is beyond any reasoning.
present time is that most Americans do not like their coverage.
There is an old saying that goes, Tell a lie long enough and it becomes the truth.
Obamacare, this is what his whole presidential tenure was based.
reasons of control, began dismantling it.
taken away my choice and with my choice, my rights and freedom.
they cannot afford the insurance, and they cannot afford the penalty for not having the insurance.
provide coverage for those who are without? This would be a winwin situation. Americans would be happy to keep their insurance.
Those without insurance will be happy because they have coverage.
Thats what makes sense if Obamacare had not been about control.
information into one system about you and me.
Hello. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today and voice my concerns for the Affordable Health Care Act.
am sure I will need both frequently!
changes brought about by this unjust law. We now have fewer choices than we have ever had.
I am thankful that Congressman Patrick McHenry voted against this law.
alone. It should be called the "Unaffordable Health Care Act."
not provide any more coverage nor does it provide better coverage.
Supreme Court Justice Roberts could have cast the deciding vote as constitutional is beyond any reasoning.
presidential tenure has been based. But the legacy is going to be, "Obamacare is a lie."
They cannot get on the web site.
They cannot afford the penalty for not having insurance.
all. It is the gathering of all kinds of information into one system about you and me.
President, who pushes bad policies and when they fail, lie to the American people that it was not his fault.
pushed the underhand polices that President Obama has, would have already been impeached by now.
lack of medical attention brought about from the failure of Obamacare.
I sincerely thank you for this hearing today to voice and share my concerns.
challenges. You are to be commended for taking the discussion outside the Washington bubble.
air conditioning, and commercial roofing company founded in 1927.
think of an issue that touches more people than healthcare.
quality career for those who work in my company, my co-workers.
with lawmakersnot as the opposition.
In my limited time, I would like to touch on two of the most important ramifications we are experiencing in the business world related to healthcare reform.
providing excellent coverage at affordable rates for our co-workers.
Ive included our 10-year history of rate increases. Ive also included our current 2013 health insurance rates for you.
health event. Most of our co-workers never exceed the $1000 deductible GSM pays.
$43,438. Numbers do not lie. This is a testament to the effectiveness of this strategy for GSM and our co-workers.
happy with this agreement, with this partnership. We were all successful, it was our plan.
minimum will be closer to 50 percent under the current conditions.
so companies like ours can continue to offer better and more affordable options to our co-workers.
Confusion is my second part. There is no debate as to the confusion this new law has created, not to mention implementation.
new law are not statistics, they are the lives of real people.
be commended for taking the discussion outside of the Washington "bubble."
operate this business and employ 146 co-workers.
work in my company; my co-workers.
asking for many years to be treated as partners with lawmakers - not as the opposition.
we are experiencing in the business world related to health care reform.
deductible, Co-workers pay the next $2,000, and we both split the next $7,000 evenly.
generics). Our total HRA Potential Liability was $553,500 and we paid out $43,438.
agreement. With this partnership! We were all successful! It was our plan!
better and more affordable options to our coworkers.
yet challenge, threaten, or even ignore the very mechanisms for job creation.
running our businesses and providing for our families.
insurance professional, I discuss this impact almost daily.
and vulnerable to financial ruin if they have medical needs.
is in addition to her increased premiums.
how Obamacare will impact them when they ran the numbers.
higher premium than the plans offered in 2013.
hours of their workers to avoid mandates. The employees are finding that coverage, even with subsidies, are higher than the employer plan that they were covered on.
they shouldand the target is put on those subsidies.
individuals and small businesses to see for yourself their concerns.
professional I discuss this impact almost daily.
Residents of North Carolina are currently seeing commercials for Healthcare.gov.
them uninsured and vulnerable to financial ruin if they have medical needs.
seen firsthand how ObamaCare will impact them when they ran the numbers.
plan they were covered on.
(which in their case are larger than the proposed planned loss of business).
the penalty if you don't want the coverage.
small businesses to see for yourself their concerns.
both men are strong advocates for the residents of the State of North Carolina.
Mr. Chairman and Committee Members, thank you for your time today.
and individuals in areas of my state.
no conjecture, no speculation, no pontification.
like they did this morning. So I dont have that written in my testimony, we can talk about that later.
concernsuncertainty and trust, or lack thereof. And our employees have added the word fear.
in return, they will not spend it, will not spend as much.
the last recession and its extended benefits period.
understand underwriting and insurance products.
Were going to reduce head count below 50 people.
taxes and turning them into health insurance premiums.
stays under 29 hours per week.
People, myself included, have been asked by their clients to payroll people for their company, but for less than 30 hours a week.
they had to pay premiums.
And I will stop there, Mr. Chairman.
after the deadline for submission of my testimony passes on November 20, 2013.
what they will get in return. If they do not know they will not spend it.
because of the unknown costs of Obama Care and other issues coming from the federal and state governments.
funds went dry during the last recession and it's extended benefits periods.
1) "We are going to reduce headcount below 50 employees".
seasonal or part time help stays under 29 hours per week"
"I plan to make some full time fully benefitted positions part time and non-benefitted."
"The rules for a variable hour employee are too confusing" They are too subjective.
than 30 hours per week.
until the numbers become more quantifiable.
A staffing company in south Florida decided to do the "right thing" for their employees in October of 2013.
criteria. This included participation ratios.
those maximums in those plans that would be in effect after January 1 2014.
don't have breasts or ovaries" and whatever was added to the new plans that were not in their cancelled plans.
Did I mention "uncertainty" above and fear of what their new premiums were going to be?"
fear that their premiums will be significantly higher than they were before they were cancelled.
"Where is my insurance? It is not on this form ""why do I have to pay anything" "I have to pay WHAT?"
II where is my free care?1I I've worked 90 days where is my ObamaCarel"
administration to administer ObamaCare correctly, to say the least. That is a fact.
speculation, or economic and financial modeling.
Thank you for this opportunity to put "a face" on the problems many of us have with the Affordable Care Act.
And Ill recognize myself for a first round of questions.
amount for that term life insurance?
Mr. WATERS. No, I have not.
Mr. FALLS. No, sir, I have not.
going to be participating in the plan; yes, sir.
Chairman ISSA. And I would like to follow up a little bit. Mr.
and your company pay, is going to change.
of negotiating with hospitals for rates and the like; is that correct?
10-year period. So even their rates are covered.
Chairman ISSA. And the difference was what you chose to pay.
and your choice to cover that on behalf of your employees.
ever got to that point.
money wisely; is that correct?
the individual and/or the employer to drive down the cost of delivery of healthcare? Do any of you have any examples?
one, then they do not know what they are talking about.
working with his employees on.
healthcare over and above that. I have not quite figured that out.
to be, if you will, fully compliant with the Affordable Care Act.
under the new exchanges that the three of us as members of Congress, by law, have to go into.
have as federal workers should be available to all Americans.
And with that, I go to Mr. McHenry.
Congress and federal employees have. I think that would be a useful and positive step. And in fact, this is not some partisan idea.
they had a chronic condition, were you able to get them health insurance as a result of a North Carolina program?
Carolina did a good job with that.
Mr. WATERS. That is correct.
or preexisting conditions get health insurance.
Mr. MCHENRY. Okay. So we were able to do that prior to the Affordable Care Act or Obamacares passage.
end of December, so you cannot write it any more starting as of December 1st, it is over with.
Mr. MCHENRY. Okay. I just wanted to be clear about that.
Mr. MCHENRY. So to say that someone with a preexisting condition could not get health insurance in North Carolina that is reasonably affordable is simply not the case.
Mr. WATERS. Right. That is correct.
you have maternity coverage under that?
Mr. MCHENRY. No. And you are requiredyour new plan requires you to have this?
Mr. MCHENRY. Okay. Is that somewhat absurd?
more children and it is not possible.
old daughter for maternity care, she did not find appropriate either.
Chairman ISSA. Will the gentleman yield?
table also have to have maternity coverage under the law.
Mr. LONG. Personally? Probably not.
Mr. MCHENRY. Okay. So this type of coverage that actually increases your cost is not helpful.
Mrs. OVERBEY. No, it is not.
Mr. MCHENRY. Okay. All right, just trying to understand this.
And your premiums are currently?
Mrs. OVERBEY. I currently pay $395.60.
and all that is going up too.
able to employ more people and pay higher wages than without it?
Mr. LONG. This would stifle my ability to create more jobs, yes.
Mr. MCHENRY. Okay. Mr. Falls.
number of workers. So personally, I expect to see a spike in our unemployment rate in Cleveland County because of it.
economic growth and more jobs.
Mr. FALLS. That is correct.
for your time today and I yield back.
about compliance and what is going on.
And then the technology part is changing rapidly, as you know.
in compliance and they are meeting the numbers that they are supposed to meet in order to qualify currently for this program.
long this will go on, but it is an ongoing saga as to what it takes.
compliance time is required, do you think, by your staff?
Mr. PITTENGER. A substantial amount.
shoes, what would you like us to do?
things for some people in the Act.
Mr. PITTENGER. Okay. Mr. Long.
yourself as a job creator.
business and that of other businesses that you are involved in?
terms of your ability to expand and your ability to grow?
very fortunate to have Charlotte, that metropolitan area, that really drives our economy.
Mr. PITTENGER. That is a great area.
is just another way that our government is not being a good partner at the right scale.
are a lot of hidden costs and there is a lot of hidden impact of slower growth. You are trying to prove a negative and that is very difficult.
Mr. PITTENGER. Mr. Falls, thank you for your testimony.
they face? What are the options, what advice can you give us?
they will make a phone call to me and say I do not understand.
Mr. PITTENGER. It is tough.
can stay for that. I have just got a couple of questions.
insurance for a long time.
Chairman ISSA. Did your family do it for the previous generation?
Chairman ISSA. Even the first generation, there was some consideration?
we did, that first generation.
Chairman ISSA. But for decades your family has provided it.
Mr. LONG. Yes, decades definitely; yes, sir.
while mandating the individual to have it.
to waive for people who least likely provided healthcare?
Mr. LONG. Of course, if that is the case with employers under 50.
how large a company is?
that they have actually done this. But they are doing it.
can the IRS, by the way. They came to us and asked us.
to what ultimately would end up being combined.
to come to you for nine weeks and then going to go somewhere else.
like I know the answer to a question, but if I am not mistaken, proportionate contributions is forbidden under the Act.
Chairman ISSA. That is my understanding too.
Mr. GAUSS. I am probably wrong.
sense long before there was a law.
doing what they are doing, not prohibited from it.
Mr. MCHENRY. I just wanted to make sure.
that we will get it.
Mr. LONG. Because of open competition.
Mr. MCHENRY. So competition will set price.
Mr. LONG. It makes us better, yes.
you have more competition, right? Prices come down.
planthis is a couple of years ago. How many options do I have?
for what you are looking for. And then we go with that.
minute drive from where we sit.
Mr. MCHENRY. Can I get a healthcare plan from South Carolina?
there is some good competition there.
about it is competition matters.
Obamacare, we had 12 carriers.
does that do for competition?
Mr. MCHENRY. Does not pull down the price.
about healthcare reform, health insurance reform, more competition. So employers and individuals have more options. Right?
the main reason why people do not buy health insurance?
Mr. WATERS. Primarily price drives the item. And then some people are looking for specific coverages, regardless of price.
Mr. WATERS. But price normally drives the item.
Mr. MCHENRY. Price drivesI am sorry?
Mr. WATERS. Drives the item that we are looking for.
lines. Would you find that beneficial in your offerings?
Mr. WATERS. I would find that beneficial, yes.
Mr. MCHENRY. Okay. Now, so Mr. Long, in terms of your employees, now what are they looking for for their health insurance?
to change, our plan will change.
that decision until December of next year.
Mr. MCHENRY. Okay. So what does this mean for your employees?
need more choices instead of less choices. And I think all of us do.
that covers a procedure you are morally opposed to?
Mrs. OVERBEY. Of course. I think that is what Americans want.
not have any choice in the matter.
frommost consistent word I hear from my constituents.
it means a lot that you would take the time to tell your stories.
not fewer or less. And so I think we are unified in that.
Mr. PITTENGER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
hopefully, clearer minds will prevail and we will have a better policy come through that.
we have in terms of a risk pool? Will it be adequate, will it be balanced? Will it only embrace those who have a preexisting condition?
road as these pools are being assembled.
to give an example on how I think from experience this will happen.
they canceled that federal plan earlier this year rather than stopping it December 31st, along with the state plan.
The subsidies are out there, the lack of underwriting, as Mr.
will they fulfill their role in terms of the risk pool requirement?
most cases and are not going to help the pool.
up. Obviously the older people need it, the younger people do not.
applaud the effort that you have made.
I want to thank all our witnesses today. I want to thank the audience for being an extremely good audience.
and I participated in it. So I have looked at employer and individual mandates which were considered in my state by a Republican governor.
and pursuant to the Tenth Amendment, would we be here today?
play by the federal rules, which we do in Washington all the time.
We do it with highway funds and so on.
for the subsidies, would we be here today?
perhaps be part of it here today and in other hearings.
the audiences willingness to add to the dialogue today in writing.
I thank our witnesses and we stand adjourned.
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Cameraless Photography by Martin Barnes is an historical survey of cameraless photography, and the written introduction provides an excellent overview of this genre. The subsequent 141 illustrations of cameraless photography are drawn from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The book concludes with a four-page glossary and a list of references for further reading. The illustrations are organized in chronological fashion, with the earliest images dating from 1826 (by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce), and the most recent images are from 2015 (by Marco Breuer). This chronological organization nicely shows the evolution of the genre over time.
A wide range of cameraless photography techniques are included, and anyone interested in pursuing cameraless photography would find this book an interesting source of ideas. Virtually all of the examples in the book are of high quality. It is not, however, a how-to book on cameraless photography, so anyone interested in specific process information would need to search elsewhere.
The techniques presented include chemigrams, cliché-verre, cyanotypes, dye destruction printing, heliographs, holograms, luminograms, photocopying, photogenic drawing, photograms, photographic and photoglyphic engraving, photogravure, radiography, and scannergrams. This book is a very interesting read precisely because it includes examples of so many techniques.
The author adopts a loose definition of the term cameraless. To quote the introduction, "In general, any images that employ the use of conventional cameras and lenses have been excluded." In that sense the author delineates those photographic techniques he declares to be cameraless by defining its inverse, and loosens this further by using the subjective term conventional. This leaves plenty of room for interpretation, providing quite an eclectic collection of images for the reader's enjoyment.
If one thinks of a the very basic elements that would constitute a 'conventional' camera, one would include but three elements: a light-sensitive surface, a shutter, and a lens. And indeed, most of the techniques shown in the book employ a light-sensitive surface on which to record an image. However, most of the techniques illustrated in the book dispense with a lens, and substitute the turning on and off of a light source for the action of a shutter. Because a lens is typically not employed, surfaces of objects cannot be reproduced. Instead, many cameraless images consist of silhouettes of objects, or abstracted patterns created by modulation of light, heat, or chemical reactions.
As can be seen throughout the book, there are certain popular subjects represented in cameraless photography. These include botanical subjects, human or animal forms, textiles, medical images, astronomical references, and abstract patterns.
In conclusion, the very act of collecting this group of cameraless images into one volume was the most interesting aspect of this book. One gets an appreciation of the many different approaches to the genre taken by photographers and artists over almost 190 years. There is great richness and history in this type of photography.
A sampling of images that captivated this reviewer follows below.


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A Very Fluid Race for the Republican Nomination
Two weeks ago, Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for president at Liberty University, and last week, Rand Paul announced at the Galt House hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Marco Rubio is expected to announce this week at the Freedom Tower in Miami. Others will follow.
So what have we learned about the race for the Republican nomination for president so far?
1.) Nobody is running away with it. In no national poll of Republican primary voters this year has any one of the dozen or so candidates tested received more than 20 percent of the vote.
And only twice has any candidate received more than 20 percent in the multiple polls conducted in the four early states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
Some commentators expected Jeb Bush to jump into a significant lead when he made it clear he would in time announce. That hasn't happened. At this point in the 2000 cycle, Gallup showed George W. Bush with over 50 percent of the primary vote. Jeb Bush's current Real Clear Politics average is 17 percent, just tenths of a percentage point ahead of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Republican primary voters are shopping around, uncertain whom to back, with nothing approaching a consensus choice.
2.) Numbers can move fast. Speaking of Walker, on Jan. 24, he gave a well-received speech at the Freedom Summit in Des Moines. The next round of polls showed him shooting up from single digits in the middle of the pack to double digits up at the top.
And not just in Iowa, but also nationally — including New Hampshire, South Carolina and elsewhere. Evidently, some significant quantum of Republican primary voters are paying attention to what is happening not only in their own media markets but all over the nation. They're keeping up on digital media.
Walker is not the only one who has benefited. In the three national polls and one South Carolina poll conducted since his announcement, Ted Cruz also moved from single digits to double digits, and money followed. Now we'll see whether Rand Paul's numbers increase.
In any case, it seems Republicans are ready to move around, moving some candidates up sharply and others, as Rick Perry and Herman Cain learned in 2011, down the totem poll.
3.) Money doesn't have much to do with this, at least so far. Political reporters like to keep tabs on how much money candidates are raising and if they're making progress attracting big money donors to sympathetic superPACs. That, like poll numbers, is a measure of support, but it doesn't seem dispositive yet.
In his Wall Street Journal column, Karl Rove sketched out how much money serious candidates need to raise. Clearly, several candidates will raise enough to hire staff and lease headquarters this year.
Big money comes in handiest, to judge from the last two Republican cycles, in buying attack ads against opponents, especially in the short intervals between early caucuses and primaries. But in a multi-candidate field, there's always a risk that if Candidate A spends big bucks against Candidate B, voters will recoil against both, and the real benefit will go to Candidate C. Money can boomerang.
Also, the Internet makes it possible to raise late money even faster than you can spend it: Scott Brown, when he suddenly looked to have a serious chance to be elected the 41st vote against Obamacare, was raising $1 million a day in January 2011. So don't assume the biggest-buck candidate will have an inevitable advantage in early 2016.
4.) Issues and events can reshape the race. Republican primary voters in 2014, after watching provocative Senate candidates lose winnable races in 2010 and 2012, shunned them in 2014 primaries. The positive reaction to Cruz's articulate and non-emollient announcement suggests some are now willing to take a chance on one. Look for more of that if Hillary Clinton's numbers keep falling.
The ISIS beheadings last August and terrorist advances since have made Republican voters less isolationist. That made Rand Paul's views on foreign policy less appealing — and apparently caused him to strike a different note in his announcement.
Bottom line: It's a very fluid race and an opportunity for candidates to offer new ideas and expand the electorate — two things Republicans need to maximize their chances in November 2016.
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Fischer debuterade i Mannheim 1767 och uppträdde med framgång i München (1778), Wien (1779), Paris (1783), Italien (1784), Berlin (1788–1815) och så vidare. Fischer skapade Osmin i Mozarts Enleveringen. Enligt Otto Jahn var han en artist av ovanlig begåvning i fråga om röstens omfång (D-a1), makt och skönhet. Han ägde jämväl en konstnärlig fulländning i både sång och spel samt var sannolikt den störste tyske bassångaren på sin tid. Han komponerade den kända bassången "I djupa källarvalvet".

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What's up guys! SO the Biannual Bibliothon is almost here and it actually starts on my birthday, so I'm kinda stoked on that!
Name 3 book characters, 2 types of food/drink, and 1 song you'd like to have to survive being stuck in a car in a snowstorm with ( host ).
You've been invited to a Christmas party and no one shows up. You have to think of 12 characters to invite. MUST BE NICE AND GET ALONG W EVERYONE ELSE ( host ).
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These challenges sound so interesting! I hope you smash it. Also happy birthday!


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October 28, 2010 11:30PM PT
Hot off "The Hangover," director Todd Phillips and Zach Galifianakis reteam for a comedy less raunchy than their last collaboration but every bit as outrageous.
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Peter Highman - Robert Downey Jr. Ethan Tremblay - Zach Galifianakis Sarah Highman - Michelle Monaghan Darryl - Jamie Foxx Heidi - Juliette Lewis Lonnie - Danny McBride Airport Screener - RZA TSA Agent - Matt Walsh
Hot off "The Hangover," director Todd Phillips and Zach Galifianakis reteam for more R-rated mayhem in "Due Date," delivering a "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"-style cross-country odd-couple comedy that's less raunchy than their last collaboration but every bit as outrageous. With a sequel to 2009's hit bachelor-party romp greenlit even before it opened, Phillips clearly saw "Due Date" as a necessary change of pace — albeit one that circles back to his rowdy "Road Trip" roots. As such, Warners will be lucky to attract a fraction of the "Hangover" crowd to watch two grounded travelers driving each other crazy.
Only an architect like Peter Highman, the tightly wound character Robert Downey Jr. portrays desperately trying to get home in time for his first child's birth, could appreciate a comic foil so perfectly constructed to annoy as Galifianakis' Ethan Tremblay. In fact, so infuriating is Ethan that "Due Date" very nearly loses us, too, at the outset, but over time, the bearded boor manages to win everyone over, audience included.
The two opposites collide outside the Atlanta airport, where Ethan's beat-up station wagon knocks the door off Peter's chauffeured town car. It's quite an entrance, capped by a slow-motion reveal of Ethan's character. Apart from the over-the-shoulder dog-carrying case, the rest of his ensemble suggests the sort of person who committed to his look sometime in the mid-'80s and hasn't done much to alter it since.
Early on, Phillips shows things mostly from the more fashion-conscious Peter's point of view, and it's easy to understand why the GQ-ready dad-to-be might not appreciate being seated next to someone so gauche on his long flight back to Los Angeles. Things only get worse when the two are booted off the plane together and added to the no-fly list. Skipping a few glaring logical steps, Peter agrees to carpool to California with his bad-luck companion. And so the torture begins.
It took Phillips five features to land on the style he established in "The Hangover," and "Due Date" looks and feels awfully similar, subbing a steely blue-gray tint for "The Hangover's" golden baked-Vegas glow (courtesy of returning d.p. Lawrence Sher). Phillips, a hands-on helmer who went uncredited for his rewrite contributions on the 2009 summer smash, shares screenplay billing here with "King of the Hill" vets Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, as well as Adam Sztykiel, and though his instinct for original, over-the-top setpieces comes through — best evidenced by a haywire detour across the Mexican border — the plot feels drearily linear and predictably episodic by comparison.
Since Peter's expectant wife (Michelle Monaghan) is planning to give birth by C-section, she has control over when the baby's going to come, which means there's only limited urgency to Peter and Ethan's road trip. So the film becomes an exercise in playing the two mismatched personalities against each other: Ethan prods Peter with constant questions, makes a dodgy detour to acquire "medical marijuana" and insists on pleasuring himself to sleep (an activity amusingly mirrored by his dog), while his anger-prone companion does his best to avoid murdering the overgrown man-child.
Surely an early draft of the script must have considered this a trial by fire for fatherhood, even though the final cut conspicuously lacks the "is this guy really ready to be a dad" introspection that invariably accompanies such scenarios. It's worth noting that Phillips has once again mixed dramatic and comedic performers: While picking Monaghan over a funnier actress marks a missed opportunity, Downey brings just the right combination of wry humor and brink-of-losing-it unpredictability.
Eventually, Peter comes to realize that while Ethan may be uncouth — and downright dangerous — he's not without sympathetic qualities. For example, Ethan is mourning the recent death of his own dad and looking for the right spot to spread his father's remains along the way. So there it is: birth and death, the whole darn circle of life evoked in service of a few hearty knee-slappers and a doozy of a spit-take, with the ashes-filled coffee tin supplying the most poignant and outrageous moments in the film.
As the pair make their way West, the only surprises not sampled in the trailer are the drug-related ones, which means auds know to expect cameos from Danny McBride and Jamie Foxx, but don't know which actress will turn up as Ethan's pot dealer — another strategy learned on his last film, that familiar faces in small roles can go a long way. However different this pic, it'll have to do until Phillips delivers his "Hangover" sequel.
Production: A Warner Bros. release presented in association with Legendary Pictures of a Green Hat Films production. Produced by Todd Phillips, Dan Goldberg. Executive producers, Thomas Tull, Susan Downey, Scott Budnick. Co-producers, David Witz, Jeffrey Wetzel. Directed by Todd Phillips. Screenplay, Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, Adam Sztykiel, Phillips; story, Cohen, Freedland.
Crew: Camera (Deluxe color, widescreen, Technicolor prints), Lawrence Sher; editor, Debra Neil-Fisher; music, Christophe Beck; music supervisors; Randall Poster, George Drakoulias; production designer, Bill Brzeski; supervising art director, Shepherd Frankel; art director, Desma Murphy; set decorator, Danielle Berman; costume designer, Louise Mingenbach; sound (Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS), Jose Antonio Garcia; sound designer/supervising sound editor, Cameron Frankley; re-recording mixers, Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill; stunt coordinator, Allan Graf; visual effects supervisor, Marc Kolbe; visual effects, Digiscope, Method, Kolbeco; associate producer, Joseph Garner; assistant director, Jeffrey J.P. Wetzel; second unit director, Graf; second unit camera, Robert Labonge; casting, Juel Bestrop, Seth Yanklewitz. Reviewed at Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, Oct. 22, 2010. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 95 MIN.
With: Peter Highman - Robert Downey Jr. Ethan Tremblay - Zach Galifianakis Sarah Highman - Michelle Monaghan Darryl - Jamie Foxx Heidi - Juliette Lewis Lonnie - Danny McBride Airport Screener - RZA TSA Agent - Matt Walsh
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June is one of my least favorite times to be in the Sierra, owing to the preponderance of mosquitoes that come out during that month. On the other hand, temperatures begin to climb in other parts of the state around this time, and this weekend was forecast to be a scorcher - 100F in the major valleys and deserts, 90s throughout much of the northern and southern parts of California. I hit upon the idea of visiting the White Mtns on their east side, primarily to tackle about 10 summits found in Zdon's book, Desert Summits, that I'd yet to visit. I was scheduled to meet Patrick on Thursday afternoon which gave me two half days to do some hiking and scrambling in Yosemite. I timed my drive from San Jose to coincide with the hottest part of the day, not arriving at Tenaya Lake until nearly 5p. By then the temperatures were starting to subside while I still had more than three hours' time to play.
Located about 1.5mi NE of Tenaya Lake, Dozier Dome lies beneath the south side of the more massive Medlicott Dome. Because it lies about 3/4mi from SR120, it is not all that visible unless one knows where to look. The NW Face is a 400-foot wall that is said to have some respectable rock climbing routes. I parked at a small turnout on the east side of the road, crossed Tenaya Creek and spent about 20min wandering through the forest to the base of the dome. I turned right and started climbing up along the base of the cliffs until I reached the easier slabs on the southwest side. The scrambling is no more than class 3 with a fine view of the cascades descending from Cathedral Lakes to the south. The summit block is an imposing 10-foot granite boulder, made easy by a few well-placed stepping boulders to aid the ascent (The first two look to have been placed there by human effort. Though they aren't actually helpful for the ascent, they add a sense of symmetry and balance). Cathedral Peak and Echo Peaks/Ridge can be seen rising high to the east beyond more forest. Medlicott rises not quite so high to the north. Tenaya Lake and Polly Dome share the view to the west. I descended down slabs on the northwest side, a little stiffer than the SW slabs, but still class 3. I was back to the highway and the van a little over an hour after starting out. Nice little scramble, this one.
This unnamed dome lies north of Medlicott and west of Fairview Dome, adjacent to the highway on the south side. It has an imposing 500-foot wall on the west and north sides, but has class 3 options elsewhere. I parked off the highway west of the summit and headed into the woods towards the SW Ridge. Easier options are found by moving well to the right, but I found the scrambling quite enjoyable nearer the edge of the ridge, mostly class 3 slabs but some stiffer slabs and even a nice lieback that I used at one 20-foot section. I ended up backing down this lieback when I couldn't make further progress upward, eventually finding a groove further right that worked better. The summit offers simultaneous views of Half Dome/Tenya Lake to the southwest and the spread of Tuolumne Meadows to the northeast. Falls Ridge, Cold Mtn, and the higher summits of Northern Yosemite can be seen to the northwest and north. Polly Dome and Mt. Hoffmann are prominent to the west, but mostly washed out by the lowering sun on this late afternoon visit. I descended the easier class 2-3 on the northwest side, traversing around the North Face before returning to the start at the highway.
It was 7:30p by the time I pulled into the Lembert Dome parking lot. A pair of dirtbagging climbers were cooking a meal at one the picnic benches while swatting mosquitoes made active by the cool evening air. I scrambled up the steep slabs just right of the popular climbing routes on the west and southwest faces. I had been up this feature 13yrs earlier with my then six year-old son. That time we had gone up the south side slabs, not quite as steep as the SW side, but a challenge nonetheless given his age. I found my way to the top in about 20min, about half an hour before sunset, with a fine view for my effort. There were various parties hanging out near the summit awaiting the setting sun. I spoke briefly to a few of them as I made my way down the NW side. I dropped to the high, forest saddle with Dog Dome before climbing the far easier dome to its highpoint, a s hort class 1-2 effort. For the return, I wasn't sure exactly where to find the Lembert Dome Trail and ended up descending to the west from the saddle between the two domes, eventually winding my way down around the base of Lembert Dome to return to the parking lot. There was a climbers' use trail in places, making the cross-country fairly easy, getting me back to the parking lot before 8:30p.


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Tour de France Stage 1: Mont-Saint-Michel > Utah Beach,188kms
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Tour de France - Stage 1
What it's all about - the peloton rides towards the Mont Saint Michel for the official start...
The French air-force makes its special send-off to the Tour de France...
The peloton now leaves the Mont Saint-Michel under the escort of the race-director's car...
Leigh Howard leads a trio of escapers away in the opening kilometres...
Anthony Delaplace and Alex Howes are chasing at fifty-seconds...
Paul Voss has attacked from the trio and is going after maximum climbing points...
Howes is now leading a quartet of chasers at one-minute...
Thomas De Gendt leads a quiet chase in behalf of Lotto-Soudal - the gap is almost at five-minutes...
Chris Froome looks relaxed enoigh as the peloton tackles a gentle descent...
Ilnur Zakarin is carrying water bottles for a team where's he's joint-leader...
Mark Cavendish is happy to be back at the Tour - he might even win today..!
Paris-Roubaix winner Matthew Hayman is also in the Tour - but working for Michael Matthews...
Peter Sagan looks like a true World Champion - but will he swap his rainbow jersey for Green any day soon..?
Dutch champion Dylan Groenewegen is riding his first Tour at the age of 23 - but he too could win the stage..!
Mark Cavendish makes a wheel change, and finds his exit partly blocked by the 'live' TV moto...
Bernhard Eisel makes sure Cavendish makes it back to the peloton quickly...
Howes lesds the quintet of escapers still - they are about three-minutes in front...
Fabio Aru has a week of racing on dangerous roads before the apparent freedom of the Pyrenees...
Some flags reveal the strength of the crosswinds as the race speeds up after the feed-zone...
The crosswinds have shelled abourt 20 riders out of the back with 100-kilometres still to go..!
Little Domenica Pozzovivo is the first to be blown backwards...
Alberto Contador has crashed into a concrete median - his teamates all drop back for him...
Contador changes his bike, but he might need to change his right shoulder tonight..!
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Contador is hurting badly as his teamates pace him back to the peloton...
Team Sky have stayed out of trouble near the front - and they've slowed the peloton to help Contador get back...
Howes and Delaplace are the only ones in front with 40-kilometres left...
Etixx and Lotto continue to chase, albeit very gently...
Delaplace and Howes are starring on TV, as they have been for many hours..!
Howes and Delaplace are still hanging out with a 30-secoinds lead and 15-kilometres to go...
It's a bust-up at Utah Beach between Cavendish the Brit, and two Germans in Kittel and Greipel..!
Mark Cavendish wins stage one of the Tour de France..!
Chris Froome leads a small group in 23-seconds later, but they are all in the same time as Cavendish...
Alberto Contador arrives much later, in the same time though, but with a huge swelling on his damaged shoulder...
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A dream come true - Mark Cavendish wears his first-ever Maillot Jaune as race-leader of the Tour de France..!


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GG Весов (), HD 138344 — одиночная переменная звезда в созвездии Весов на расстоянии приблизительно 700 световых лет (около 215 парсеков) от Солнца. Видимая звёздная величина звезды — от +6,93m до +6,83m.

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GG Весов — красный гигант, пульсирующая полуправильная переменная звезда (SR:) спектрального класса M5:III или M4III.

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Home All News Kids Mom is Moved to Tears When Older Boys Approach Her Adopted Son...
Mom is Moved to Tears When Older Boys Approach Her Adopted Son at the Park
This mom's testimony of kindness is just another example of why kids have the purest hearts.
It was a quiet morning when Christy Lee Rowden of Oologah, Oklahoma took her two kids Asher and Mercy to the park this week. Since it was still early in the day, the youngsters spent the first part of their trip playing by themselves.
Then, a group of 5th grade boys from Oologah Upper Elementary showed up and started playing basketball.
Rowden says that since she adopted 7-year-old Asher from Uganda, he can be shy around other kids as a result. But this time, as he quietly stepped back to watch the boys play, they approached him instead.
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"All the boys came over and shook Asher's hand and introduced themselves. Then they asked him to play with them," Rowden wrote on Facebook, adding that the gesture "melted her heart."
"They were so kind – they included him by letting him catch and throw the ball and they cheered him on and high-fived him," says Rowden.
"It seriously brought tears to my eyes – especially being the mom of a black boy in a mostly white community," she added.
LOOK: Photo of Young Athletes Paying Respect to a Funeral is Restoring People's Faith in Humanity
The video of the youngsters all hugging and encouraging Asher has been shared on Facebook hundreds of times – and it's not hard to see why.
Clayton Brown, who says that he knows the kids in the video, wrote: "We teach our kids to be color blind because at the end of the day we're all humans just getting through life. So seeing this makes me –and I'm sure the other parents– feel like we're doing the right thing."
(WATCH the sweet video below)
Share The Sweet Story Of Compassion With Your Friends – Photo by Christy Lee Rowden
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La discographie de Thin Lizzy est composée de douze albums studio, de sept albums enregistrés en concert, de vingt-huit compilations, d'un maxi et de vingt-sept singles. Le groupe a été formé à Dublin en Irlande en 1969 avec Eric Bell à la guitare, Brian Downey à la batterie et Phil Lynott à la basse et aux chants.

Le dernier album studio de Thin Lizzy est intitulé Thunder and Lightning et est sorti en 1983. Le leader du groupe Phil Lynott mourut en 1986 et malgré cette disparition, le groupe s'est reformé à plusieurs occasions, d'abord en 1991 où la compilation Dedication: The Very Best of Thin Lizzy vit le jour comprenant un titre inédit, Dedication. Bobby Tench intègre le groupe en 1993 pour y interpréter quelques chansons de Thin Lizzy, accompagné de Doish Nagle à la basse et de Doug Brockie à la guitare...

Discographie

Albums studio

Albums live

Compilations sélectives
 1978 - The Continuing Saga of the Ageing Orphans (Période 1971-1974)
 1981 - The Adventures of Thin Lizzy (The Hit Singles Collection) (Période 1972-1980)
 1991 - Dedication: The Very Best of Thin Lizzy (période 1973-1990)
 2004 - Greatest Hits
 2012 - Collected
 2020 - Rock Legends (Coffret 6CD inclus 74 inédits dont démos, live, raretés, singles & 1DVD "Bad Reputation" documentaire de 60 min de la BBC4 diffusé en 09/2015 + 4 titres interprétés durant une émission spéciale consacrée à Rod Stewart "Night on the Town" diffusée le 24/10/1976 sur la chaîne londonnienne LWT Tv)

Singles

Références

Lien externe
  Site officiel de Thin Lizzy

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Monday's Miami Herald had an informative piece by Eric Barton on the problems facing Florida's solar industry. Barton, one of the most talented contributors to Gulfstream Media Group's publications, collaborated with The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting to explain how Florida's Legislature is thwarting efforts of the solar industry to grow in the state.
As usual, the reason is money. The article details the enormous contributions from Florida's power companies to almost anything that moves in Tallahassee to assure that any legislation to benefit solar development goes nowhere. Since 2010, the state's Big Four of Energy – FPL, Duke Energy, Gulf Power and Tampa Electric – have contributed $12 million to the campaigns of state lawmakers.
They give to everybody, but mostly to Republicans, and in a Legislature dominated by very conservative GOP members, the handful of legislators who want to capitalize on Florida's natural gift – abundant sunshine to provide renewable energy – get no movement on their bills. What they do get is pariah treatment, sometimes in an insulting manner. Barton quotes Representative Dwight Dudley (pictured above), R-St. Petersburg, on an encounter with a utility company lobbyist. Dudley was talking to an acquaintance at a function.
This is exactly the opposite of what should happen. Good men should not be attacked. Those whose votes are bought by campaign contributions should be those suffering the boycott. Boycott, by the way, comes from the Irish land wars of the 1800s. A land agent named Charles Boycott was despised by the peasants who were losing their homes when they could not afford the rent. Instead of killing him, which they would have preferred, the people shunned him. Absolutely. No one talked to him or recognized his existence. Restaurants would not serve him. Carriage drivers would not transport him. People closed curtains on windows when he passed by.
It worked. Boycott became a sordid celebrity in the British Isles, and he could not stand it. He left Ireland, and the publicity gave momentum to the land reform movement, which ultimately regained much of the land the Irish had lost over the centuries.
The solar situation is just the latest example of money corrupting our Legislature. Big Sugar buys votes to prevent money already approved for restoring the Everglades from being spent. Any gun law opposed by the National Rifle Association has no chance, even though police departments and most Floridians favor gun control. School administrators and police are appalled by the current bill to allow guns on campuses. It makes no difference to this Legislature.
The pro-solar community is trying to get around the Legislature by means of a constitutional amendment, perhaps next year. That would likely pass. Most Floridians, at least those who vote, care about the environment. But even that is no guarantee of action. The voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to provide funds to buy land for the Everglades cleanup. But the Legislature has approved only a fraction of the money. It is obviously responding to Big Sugar dollars, now that the sugar companies have decided they don't want to honor previous agreements.
What can we do about the arrogance of these elected officials who deny the will of the people? It is illegal in most parts of Florida to have them drawn and quartered. Maybe the Irish had the right idea.


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Minor MLB Transactions: 6/1/19
By Ty Bradley | June 1, 2019 at 4:49pm CDT
The latest in minor moves from around the game…
Veteran catcher Chris Stewart has opted out of his deal with the Padres, Robert Murray of The Athletic reports. The 12-year MLB vet, a reliable backup for the Giants, Yankees and Pirates, among others, since his debut all the way back in 2006, will again look to provide defensive stability for a club in the stretch run. Stewart's never hit much, with a career line of .230/.297/.291, but does flash occasional on-base ability and unexpected pop against quality lefties. In 73 plate appearances for Triple-A El Paso this season, Stewart slashed .277/.333/.354 with a lone homer. He led all MLB catchers in 2011 with 21 defensive runs saved in a mere 460 innings behind the dish.
Righty Jeanmar Gomez has been placed on unconditional release waivers by the Rangers, per the club. The 31-year-old was designated for assignment by the club last week. Gomez was a capable performer for the Pirates and Phillies from 2013-16, but has fallen on hard times in recent seasons. He's had particular difficulty with stranding runners – a 55.2% LOB mark in '19 spelled his end in Texas, the latest in a disturbing trend that began in the 2016 season, when his grounder-heavy excellence began slowly to erode.
San Diego Padres Texas Rangers Transactions Chris Stewart Jeanmar Gomez
Rangers Designate Jeanmar Gomez
By Jeff Todd | May 27, 2019 at 4:03pm CDT
The Rangers have designated righty Jeanmar Gomez, per a team announcement. His active roster spot will go to lefty Kyle Bird.
Gomez, 31, was brought in on a minors deal that included a $1MM salary in the majors. He made the roster out of camp when the team decided to keep him rather than control-challenged flamethrower Connor Sadzeck.
That decision hasn't worked out for the Rangers to this point. While Sadzeck has found a home in Seattle, Gomez has mostly been ineffective.
Through 15 1/3 innings this year, Gomez carries an ugly 8.22 ERA. That's due in no small part to a low 55.2% strand rate, as well as a .389 BABIP that would be expected to trend down over a full season.
Gomez does carry a 55.2% groundball rate. ERA estimators think he has been better than the results. Still, with just 5.9 K/9 against 3.5 BB/9 and a minuscule 5.9% swinging-strike rate, he did not exactly have the peripherals of a successful reliever.
Texas Rangers Transactions Jeanmar Gomez Kyle Bird
Injury Notes: Zimmermann, Smyly, Yankees
By Jeff Todd | April 26, 2019 at 12:26am CDT
The Tigers are holding their breath after seeing starter Jordan Zimmermann depart with discomfort in his right elbow, as Anthony Fenech of the Detroit Free Press was among those to report on Twitter. More on his outlook will be known after he's evaluated tomorrow, but it seems there's a bit of worry from within the organization. Zimmermann's tenure in Detroit has been nothing short of disastrous; he entered the season with a cumulative 5.24 ERA and is sitting on a 5.93 mark through six starts this year. The club owes him $25MM this year and the same for 2020.
More on the health front:
Rangers lefty Drew Smyly says he thinks he'll be capable of returning after skipping only a starter or two, as MLB.com's TR Sullivan tweets. He explains that he is just dealing with arm fatigue in his first full season back following Tommy John surgery. That's reasonably promising news, standing alone. Trouble is, the Texas organization really needs innings right away. Prospect Taylor Hearn was bombed tonight, leaving the bullpen to pick up the pieces. As Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News notes on Twitter, veteran righty Jeanmar Gomez took the brunt of the damage and may now be at risk of losing his spot on the roster as the club scrambles to cover innings in the coming days.
With loads of significant players on the injured list, there are always quite a few Yankees updates of note. MLB.com's Bryan Hoch rounds up the latest in one concise tweet. Aaron Hicks and Troy Tulowitzki both appear close to full (minor-league) game action, which suggests both may not be far off from a return to the MLB roster. Miguel Andujar is slated to appear at third base in extended spring action tomorrow. That represents the latest promising sign as he attempts to stave off surgery to address a shoulder injury that isn't preventing him from hitting but has hampered his throwing. Just how that'll all turn out remains to be seen, but it appears there is enough promise that he's going to try to ramp back up at the hot corner.
As for star Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton, the biceps issue that drove him to the injured list appears to be sorted. But he's now dealing with a new shoulder malady. Per Andy Martino of SNY.tv, the hope is that this new problem will only extend his absence by a week or so. It's all a bit foggy but seems less than concerning on the whole, at least in comparison to the club's overall injury malaise. Having treaded water admirably thus far, the Yanks can go another week without Stanton. They are still in good position in the AL East — so long as their health fortunes finally turn, at least.
Detroit Tigers New York Yankees Texas Rangers Aaron Hicks Drew Smyly Giancarlo Stanton Jeanmar Gomez Jordan Zimmermann Miguel Andujar Troy Tulowitzki
Rangers Select Hunter Pence, Logan Forsythe, Jeanmar Gomez; Designate Connor Sadzeck
By Steve Adams | March 28, 2019 at 11:20am CDT
The Rangers announced that they've selected the contracts of outfielder Hunter Pence, infielder Logan Forsythe and right-hander Jeanmar Gomez. The trio of veterans will all be on the Opening Day roster. Right-hander Connor Sadzeck was designated for assignment to clear one spot on the 40-man roster, while fellow righty Luke Farrell was placed on the 60-day injured list to create another. Texas also optioned outfielder Zack Granite to Triple-A and placed lefty Yohander Mendez on the 10-day IL.
Sadzeck, 27, had been in competition for a bullpen job all spring, but the control issues that plagued him in the big leagues continued to manifest during exhibition play. While Sadzeck's average fastball of 97 mph is undeniably tantalizing, he walked 11 batters in 9 1/3 MLB innings last season and issued another eight free passes through 8 1/3 innings of Cactus League action. In his place, the Rangers will entrust a bullpen spot to Kyle Bird — a 25-year-old lefty acquired as part of the Jurickson Profar trade.
Neither Pence nor Forsythe is expected to hold down an everyday role with the Rangers, though Pence is in the Opening Day lineup as the designated hitter with a lefty opponent on the mound. Pence should see occasional time in the corner outfield and at DH, particularly against lefties, while Forsythe can provide some platoon support for lefty-swinging Rougned Odor at second base. The veteran Forsythe has experience at all four infield positions, so he'll give rookie manager Chris Woodward plenty of versatility off the bench.
Texas Rangers Transactions Connor Sadzeck Hunter Pence Jeanmar Gomez Logan Forsythe Luke Farrell Yohander Mendez Zack Granite
Rangers To Sign Jeanmar Gomez
By Jeff Todd | December 19, 2018 at 1:12pm CDT
The Rangers have reached a minor-league deal with right-hander Jeanmar Gomez, according to Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News. The signing includes an invitation to MLB spring camp.
Also joining the Texas organization on minors deals are a trio of other hurlers. Ariel Hernandez, Phillips Valdez, and Miguel Del Pozo are all slated to join Gomez on the big league side in Surprise, Arizona.
Gomez, 30, is still looking to fully reestablish himself after three tough seasons. He averaged 9.7 K/9 in 25 innings last year with the White Sox, but struggled to a 4.68 ERA in that span. He has now coughed up 5.28 earned per nine since the start of the 2016 season.
Unsurprisingly, the Rangers seem to be bringing in quite a few arms for spring trials. The club has mostly filled out its rotation, at least barring ensuing trades, but has quite a lot of bullpen positions up for grabs.
Of the other hurlers, only Hernandez has reached the big leagues. The high-powered, control-challenged pitcher struggled in a brief 2017 stint with the Reds. He bounced around last year, ultimately throwing 55 1/3 innings of 2.93 ERA ball in the upper minors but recording 8.8 K/9 against 6.5 BB/9 in the proceess.
Texas Rangers Transactions Ariel Hernandez Jeanmar Gomez
White Sox Designate Bruce Rondon, Select Jeanmar Gomez
By Steve Adams and Jeff Todd | July 11, 2018 at 1:07pm CDT
The White Sox have designated right-hander Bruce Rondon for assignment, per a club announcement. Replacing him on the roster will be fellow righty reliever Jeanmar Gomez, whose contract was selected.
Rondon, 27, was in his first season with the Sox after previously spending the entirety of his pro career in the Tigers organization. Rondon enjoyed a fairly promising start in his new environs, working to a solid 3.68 ERA with 31 strikeouts against 12 walks through his first 22 innings with the Pale Hose. But things derailed quickly for Rondon, as he was hammered for a stunning 19 earned runs over his next 7 2/3 innings — including another three-run meltdown in Tuesday night's bludgeoning by the Cardinals. In the end, Rondon's ERA with the White Sox will be a dismal 8.49. He's out of minor league options, so the Sox don't have the luxury of sending him to Triple-A to sort things out without first exposing him to waivers.
Rondon still throws plenty hard, averaging 96.4 mph on his heater, and he clearly has little trouble when it comes to missing bats; he punched out 40 hitters in 29 2/3 innings of work and notched a quality 14 percent swinging-strike rate. As has typically been the case for Rondon, though, he showed a significant lack of control in his time with the Sox, walking 27 batters, hitting another and throwing six wild pitches.
The Sox will have a week to either trade Rondon, run him through outright waivers or release him. It's possible that another organization will be intrigued by his velocity and ability to miss bats, but they'd have to allow him to try to sort things out at the big league level due to that lack of minor league options. If Rondon does clear waivers, he has enough big league service time to reject a outright assignment and seek a new opportunity with another organization.
As for Gomez, 30, this will be his first shot at the majors since he fell out of fortune last year with the Phillies. He had turned in a few solid seasons, even becoming the Phils' closer for a stretch, but was knocked around in 2017. Though he carried a career-high 8.5 K/9 in his 22 1/3 innings, Gomez was tagged for 31 hits (seven of which left the yard) and 18 earned runs prior to being cut loose.
Gomez spent a bit of time in the upper minors last year, throwing well but failing to make his way back up. He landed with the White Sox on a minors deal over the winter and has performed admirably thus far at Triple-A. Through forty frames over thirty appearances with Charlotte, Gomez owns a 2.02 ERA with 7.9 K/9 and 2.9 BB/9. If he can show well over the next few weeks, perhaps it's not out of the question that he could turn into something of a trade candidate. If not, he may simply help the rebuilding White Sox fill innings down the stretch.
Chicago White Sox Transactions Bruce Rondon Jeanmar Gomez
White Sox, Jeanmar Gomez Agree To Minor League Deal
By Steve Adams | January 31, 2018 at 6:03pm CDT
The White Sox are in agreement with right-hander Jeanmar Gomez on a minor league contract, tweets SB Nation's Chris Cotillo. The Magnus Sports client will vie for a bullpen role with the South Siders in Spring Training.
Gomez, 30 in February, got off to a strong start with the Phillies in 2016 and emerged as their closer, saving 37 games for the Phils over the course of that season. However, his ERA and save total never matched up with his secondary numbers, and he was tattooed for 17 runs in eight innings that September.
The Phils held onto Gomez despite pedestrian peripheral marks, but his struggles took a turn for the worse in 2017. Gomez was torched for a 7.25 ERA in 22 1/3 innings with the Phillies this past season and ultimately cut loose in late June. He latched on with the Mariners and Brewers on minor league contracts and threw well with their Triple-A affiliates, though he never resurfaced in the Majors.
Chicago GM Rick Hahn has been active in bringing in experienced bullpen options this offseason, hoping to create depth and perhaps to catch lightning in a bottle — as he did with minor league signee Anthony Swarzak last offseason. The Sox took on Joakim Soria (and cash) and Luis Avilan in a three-team trade with the Royals and Dodgers, and they've added several veterans on minor league deals as well. In addition to Gomez, the Pale Hose will have Xavier Cedeno, Rob Scahill, T.J. House and Chris Volstad in camp this spring, among others. Beyond that, they swung a trade with the Mariners to acquire hard-throwing young righty Thyago Vieira, giving them yet another arm to compete for relief innings in 2018.
Chicago White Sox Transactions Jeanmar Gomez
Mariners Sign Jeanmar Gomez To Minor League Deal
By Connor Byrne | August 12, 2017 at 8:54pm CDT
The Mariners have signed reliever Jeanmar Gomez to a minor league contract, as Triple-A Tacoma broadcaster Mike Curto reports that the Rainiers added the right-hander to their roster on Saturday (Twitter link). Gomez opted out of his minors pact with the Brewers on Monday, according to KKTV 11 in Colorado Springs.
The 29-year-old Gomez signed with the Brewers less than a month ago, on July 15, and performed well with their Colorado Springs-based Triple-A affiliate. Gomez totaled 8 1/3 innings with the club and allowed two earned runs on seven hits and a walk, with seven strikeouts. He wasn't nearly as effective at the major league level this year with the Phillies, who released him June 24. Philadelphia parted with Gomez after he turned in a 7.25 ERA across 22 1/3 innings and experienced a dip in his already low velocity, though he did post career-best strikeout and walk numbers (8.46 K/9 and 2.82 BB/9) and a 50.7 percent ground-ball rate.
If Gomez ultimately gets to Seattle, it'll be his fourth major league club since he debuted with the Indians in 2010. Gomez was at his best with the Pirates from 2013-15, when he combined for 3.28 ERA and a 51.5 percent grounder rate in 142 2/3 innings. Last season, Gomez's first in Philadelphia, he served as the team's closer and continued to eat innings (68 2/3) and induce grounders (52 percent). Gomez fell out of favor, though, with an 8.33 ERA during the season's second half. Overall, he registered a 4.85 ERA and 37 saves, earning him $4.2MM in his final year of arbitration eligibility.
Milwaukee Brewers Seattle Mariners Transactions Jeanmar Gomez
Brewers Sign Jeanmar Gomez
By charliewilmoth | July 15, 2017 at 9:02am CDT
The Brewers have announced that they've signed righty reliever Jeanmar Gomez, presumably to a minor-league deal. (They also announced that they've signed righty and former Rockies farmhand Alec Kenilvort and released righty Stephen Kohlscheen.) Gomez is a client of Magnus Sports.
The Phillies designated Gomez for assignment and then released him last month after he posted a 7.25 ERA and and seven home runs allowed over 22 1/3 innings, albeit with a decent 8.5 K/9 and 2.8 BB/9. Gomez recorded 37 saves for Philadelphia in 2016 (a performance that earned him a $4.2MM deal as an arbitration-eligible player last winter) but was quickly replaced in the closer's role after getting off to a bad start this April. It's perhaps also worth noting that Gomez doesn't have archetypal closer stuff — he's a groundball pitcher with a low-90s fastball. He has, however, previously proven fairly useful in parts of eight big-league seasons, particularly given his ability to pitch in multi-inning stretches (and even start as needed, although he hasn't done so since 2013). For his career, Gomez has a 4.39 ERA, 5.6 K/9 and 2.9 BB/9 in 515 innings.
Milwaukee Brewers Transactions Jeanmar Gomez
Minor MLB Transactions: 6/24/17
By Jeff Todd | June 24, 2017 at 7:47pm CDT
We'll track the latest minor moves from around baseball in this post…
Newest Moves
The White Sox signed Grant Green to a minor league deal on Wednesday, the team's Triple-A affiliate announced (on Twitter). The veteran infielder signed a minors contract with the Nationals over the winter and appeared in two games for the team before being outrighted off the 40-man roster in April and released in mid-June. Picked 13th overall by the A's in the 2009 draft, Green has played for four teams over parts of five seasons in the big leagues, posting a .248/.283/.336 slash line in 353 PA.
The Athletics signed left-hander Patrick Schuster last week, Baseball America's Matt Eddy reports. Schuster joined the A's organization just a couple of days after being released from his minor league deal with the Dodgers. This is Schuster's second stint in Oakland, as he made his MLB debut last July before being claimed on waivers by the Phillies in September. Still just 26 and in his ninth year as a pro, Schuster has a 3.38 ERA over 474 2/3 IP in the minors (mostly as a reliever) as well as 11 big league games with the A's and Phillies.
The Tigers released southpaw Mike Zagurski earlier this month, Tom Reisenweber of the Erie Times-News reports (via Twitter). Zagurski signed a minor league deal with Detroit last winter, making his return to North American baseball after spending the previous two seasons in Japan. The lefty posted a 3.29 ERA, 5.38 K/BB rate and 14.2 K/9 over 27 1/3 combined innings at the Double-A and Triple-A levels, including a 5.06 ERA in 10 2/3 IP at Toledo despite those impressive peripherals. Zagurski will now look to catch on with another team in hopes of making it back to the majors for the first time since 2013.
Earlier Today
Veteran Phillies players Michael Saunders and Jeanmar Gomez were each released, according to the MLB.com transactions page. Both were designated at the same time recently, and the Phils evidently couldn't find takers in trade — which isn't terribly surprising given their pronounced struggles and big salaries. Saunders, 30, had a strong 2016 season and has mostly been a better-than-average hitter in the big leagues, so he'll surely find a new opportunity elsewhere. The same holds for Gomez, who always seemed miscast as a closer but might provide some solid innings in a middle-relief role. Though both can now be had for the league minimum, it would perhaps be a surprise were either to sign directly only a MLB roster at this stage of the season.
Likewise, the Royals announced that release waivers have been requested on veteran right-hander Chris Young, who was just designated. It's not clear whether the 38-year-old will continue pitching after losing his job with Kansas City. He overcame significant arm injuries to make it back to the majors, and had a few good years upon his return, but has struggled mightily over the past two campaigns.
The Twins have released lefty Adam Wilk, per Mike Berardino of the St. Paul Pioneer Press (via Twitter). He had been designated for assignment after making a few fill-in outings for Minnesota. Wilk has allowed 14 earned runs on 24 hits in his 14 MLB innings this year, while recording just eight strikeouts against nine walks. He'll likely end up finding a new organization on a minors deal.
Chicago White Sox Detroit Tigers Kansas City Royals Minnesota Twins Oakland Athletics Philadelphia Phillies Transactions Adam Wilk Chris Young Grant Green Jeanmar Gomez Michael Saunders Mike Zagurski Patrick Schuster
Rangers Re-Sign Elier Hernandez To Minors Contract
Orioles Sign Curtis Terry To Minor League Contract
Trio Of Free Agent Pitchers Work Out For Clubs


A New Jersey auto accident sent five people to the hospital, according to the Courier Post. The car accident happened when a man ran a stop sign in his minivan and was broad-sided, thrown into a ditch, and then ejected from the vehicle.
The 49-year-old New Jersey car accident victim was driving with his three children in the vehicle, who were not thrown from the van but were treated for injuries as well. A passenger in the other vehicle was also taken to the hospital to be treated for her auto accident injuries.


Hi Folks! Kelly Griglione here to share the cutest polar bear skiing cross-country across the Arctic landscape … under a crisp, clear winter sky.
This bear is from the Winnie & Walter Winter Wishes with Evelin T Designs stamp set. After coloring the bear I cut two snow drifts for him to ski in between. The snow drift in the foreground is just adhered on the bottom so he can slide freely between the two layers. The stars and the die cuts are from the same Winter Wishes set as well. After die cutting the star shape I backed the panel with dark blue vellum (so it blends in with the panel) and stamped/embossed a silver star in the opening. This will be what lights up.
Here is a look into the inside of the card. I made a pencil mark where the center of each of the stars will be and then ran the copper tape past the pencil marks, and adhered the Chibitronics white LEDs on top of the pencil marks. The second star from the left was a little off (I either didn't see the pencil mark well, or I marked it in the wrong place) so I had to shift and angle the LED over to the right a little. Not a big deal, as the circuitry still works, but for something like this it's important to catch it before you get too far in building your card. So I always test it out along the way, by holding the top panel over the lighted LEDs.
Here's a look at the back of the top panel, showing the blue vellum adhered behind the star die cuts, and the sliding switch wrapped in copper tape. You can also see the black foam tape I've added to the bottom panel.
Now that we've got the formalities out of the way, shall we see what he looks like?!
I've mounted his starry night panel on a map of the Arctic to further play along with his story, but the panel is also able to operate on its own, so I may also use him as a journaling card for my December Daily album. I'd really love to have some interactive elements in an album like that to surprise people.
Here he is again, skiing at dusk with the thin outline of the stars shining in silver.
And here he is when night has completely descended, with the stars glowing.
I hope you've enjoyed this cute bear on his skiing expedition across the Artic! Thanks so much for stopping by! You can get further details at my blog Notable Nest.
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