I am new to this forum but am looking for advise so found this forum.
We have two Yorkie's, names are Buddy and Holly. Buddy is now 14 and Holly is 3. Buddy is less than 3 lbs and has been such a great pet and shows lots of love. My wife has always said this is her dog and Holly is my little girl which I guess is true. He no longer can see or hear due to age, that is what the Vet says. Has always had teeth problem so we had to have the last few removed about a month ago. Has been on soft food for years due to not having any teeth.
I am so worried and really do not know what to do. I have noticed that last few days that he seem disoriented and is now having a hard time getting around the house. He eats well and goes potty well but the last few days, his urine is real clear and no color too it. It is SO sad to see him bump into things and seem to be lost most of the time. We pretty much have to carry him around all the time, which we do not mind doing! When we go to work, he gets into his bed and stays there until we get home which is within 4-5 hrs of leaving the house. He doesn't seem to be in any pain that we can tell.
I guess I need some advise or feed back. I don't know if we should have him put to sleep or not. Our Vet has never said anything about it, seem to avoid bring it up since she knows how we feel about our "kid" as we refer to them. She just says he is getting old.
SO SAD FOR OUR LITTLE BUDDY!!!!
I think this is a decision you and your wife need to make. Buddy seems like a wonderful little guy, and that he has had a wonderful and loving life. The question that is comes down to is am I keping him alive for my needs, and my needs only?
What's his quality of life? Does he seemed to be scared? Is he comfortable? These, once again, are questions that you and your wife need to go over to determine what's the right thing.
But know this, once you do make your decision, know that it was the right one no matter what. Only you know what's best for your baby.
Welcome to YT. I'm so sorry to hear about Buddy, it's always so hard when they start growing old.
I had similar worries when my Alexander started showing signs of confusion and disorientation. Before making any decisions, I HIGHLY recommend you talk to your vet about a medicine called Anipryl, which I learned about in my thread here http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sic...-yorkie-2.html. Anipryl worked wonders for my Alexander and for some other older yorkies I know. The thread I linked is full of ideas and suggestions - I pray some of them will help your precious little man.
I'm sorry to hear about little Buddy. It so hard as they get older. My vet says if they're eating and drinking and eliminating, that is fine. When they are in pain, they will usually stop eating. Buddy will let you know when.
I just uploaded his picture and it just made me cry.
Hope these are the right photo's.
Aww, what a peanut! Too cute!
Holly, my little girl, just over 3.5 lbs.
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What a beautiful baby! I can see he's been very well loved.
I don't have any words of advice for you, but I dread the day when I am faced with they choices you are having to make I have a co-worker who went through this exact same thing with her little poodle just last month. He was 15 years old and had lost his sight about a year ago. He also had bad teeth and had most of them pulled over the years. He suddenly stopped eating and then the next day was crying in pain. She knew then that it was time.
I wanted to add - if your vet does feel that Buddy would be a good candidate for Anipryl, it can take a few weeks to build up in the body before he'll start showing signs of improvement. It won't be an overnight change. Prayers for the best for Buddy.
Hello and welcome to YT. I just wanted to say the picture of Buddy is adorable what a sweetie. Sometime pictures do not upload because they are over 200 KB. Best wishes during this difficult life cycle and I hope the medications help Buddy during his senior years. Best wishes to you, your wife, Holly, and especially Buddy.
Welcome to YT. I am so sorry about your little Buddy....I know the feeling of having a senior and struggling with the decision about their quality of life. Sadly I have lost a few. Someone told me once that my pup would tell me when it was time...and indeed he did. I have somehow known when it was time based upon signals from them.
That website has information that you may find helpful.
Oh, and Buddy is a precious little guy!
Buddy is a little doll. My Nikki is estimated to be 19 years old. He was a rescue and then his rescuer had a stroke so I took him. He had limited sight and now 2 years later he is pretty much blind and deaf. He is still eating and does not appear to be in any pain. He went through a period of disorientation and Bon Bon was kind enough to give me Alexander's left over Anipryl. After checking with his vet she said it would be fine to give him. It did help with his restlessness. Now he is pretty much sleeping all the time except to eat. Sometimes I have to wake him up to eat. He does have kidney failure and is on KD diet. I found that leaving lights on all the time helps him maneuver better. I have 3 night lights on in my bedroom so he can get up at night to use the pee pads. My babies use a ramp and I put up a baby guard rail so that Nikki doesn't walk off the bed at night. I had to have all of Nikki's teeth removed as they rotted to the gums when found. He eats canned and kibble with no problems. Did your vet say anything about his urine being clear and no odor. If you haven't had his blood work done recently I would have his Bun and Creatine levels checked. Nikki is the oldest dog I have ever had so it is new territory to me also. I do notice that Nikki will walk up against one of my other dogs to help him navigate. Also, we have to be careful to not put anything in his way or he will bump in to it. Even doing that he will walk into my leg on occasion. As long as he is not in any pain I feel his quality of life is ok. One of my other dogs had a severely collapsed trachea at 6 and had been having difficulty with breathing. I too her to my vet and asked what I should do since none of the medicines were helping. She said she is struggling for every breath she is no longer enjoying life. So while most vets don't like to come out and tell you it's time they usually can guide you in to the right decision. I hope you can find some solutions that will help Buddy in his senior years. It is so hard to see them age.


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3 Ways To Be More Direct with Erica Reitman
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We live in a society where it's hard to be direct and say what you want—but I want to change that, starting with myself.
Erica Reitman joins us today for a straightforward conversation on three ways to be more direct in both your life and your career. Listen in as she walks us through her journey and how being direct has moved the needle forward!
It is impossible to stop people from judging you. Show up as your damn self, have fun, and don't worry about it anymore. - Erica Reitman
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Erica's Past as an Interior Designer (1:44)
Inner Shift to Coaching (3:31)
Three Ways to Be More Direct (7:07)
1. Setting the tone for being direct (7:07)
2. Being straightforward in your pricing (14:40)
3. Be clear about who you want to work with (17:18)
Parting Advice (20:47)
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Jess Ekstrom:
Okay, so my love language is actually people being direct with me. There's something that I just love about a short email, a short post, or just people who get to the dang point. This is why I love our guest on the podcast today, Erica Reitman. We met in Clubhouse. I instantly fell in love with how direct she was, how clear she is about who she is, what she does, who she wants to work with, and it's just something that I feel like is such a breath of fresh air in this industry.
Erica has a really interesting past from being an interior designer to writing for HGTV, and now she is a coach for coaches who are building their empire. In this episode, we're going to talk about three ways that you can be more direct. Erica also has her own pathway on Bright Pages on how to find your tone. Go to BrightPages.com and check out Erica's pathway. Please welcome Erica.
What's up, everybody. It is Jess Ekstrom and welcome to Business on the Bright Side, the podcast where you can learn how to make a living and make a difference at the same time. Life is short and so is my attention span, so let's get started.
I went down a rabbit hole on your page and one, obviously I fell in love with you from the moment I heard your voice on Clubhouse, but you made quite the transformation. Can you talk to me a little bit about how you stepped into who you are today, because I felt like the deeper I scrolled I was almost looking at a different person.
Erica Reitman:
Right. You were probably looking at all the pretty pictures back from when I was an interior designer.
Yeah, what happened for me, so being an interior designer had always been my dream, my crazy, like this could never really happen could it? And then it did and it was amazing, but I realized pretty quickly that I didn't necessarily love working with clients, which is a little bit of a challenge if you are a-
A minor hiccup.
Yeah, a minor hiccup if you are an interior designer. I have to say, having a dream for so long and then getting it and then realizing that it didn't look anything like you thought it was going to look, felt like a gigantic failure. Like oh my God, this is the thing I wanted, now I got it and I don't like it, so now what?
It just really felt very unnerving and upsetting, but I realized that I just needed to figure out this was kind of the start of my do business however the fuck you want to because that was the start of me figuring out I don't have to be an interior designer like everyone else is. I can invent this and do it my own way. I started writing for HGTV. I started only working with dream clients. I started working for a company that did staging. I really just created a life for myself that allowed me to do the thing that I wanted to do, but in a way that didn't look like anybody else.
Is that what led you to being a coach is realizing that you can have this inner shift?
Yeah, at the time I was searching a little bit and doing some mindset work on my own and I stumbled across Brooke Castillo, don't know if you know who she is.
Oh yeah, and I'm a fan of her podcast, too.
Me too, so I ended up doing a deep dive into her podcast and I joined her monthly membership, and within three months had completely changed my life from top to bottom. I never had an understanding of how we could use our brain to completely change our entire lives. I just was going through life as if things were happening to me and it was out of my control and I guess I just have to deal with whatever happens. She helped me understand that that is not the case.
Once I got a taste of that and I started, so for instance, I have struggled with my weight, my entire life. I had like 30... or I had lost a hundred pounds, but I wanted to lose the last like 20 or 30 and I couldn't do it. Within six weeks, I had lost the weight.
Oh my gosh.
This is literally the story of my life. That is what started me thinking about becoming a coach. I quickly realized when you're an interior designer, you're a coach too. I mean, you are doing couples therapy, you are coaching people. It's just so much a part of what you do. It wasn't that odd of a transition for me, but I just got so passionate about it. I realized I want to help other people do this.
Yeah, more like design your life and I've had some really great coaches and then I've had some coaches that have been not so great that I've worked with, but one of the biggest revelations that I had through coaching that is what we're going to talk about today is I hired a coach once because I was feeling really tired.
It was like, I just was wondering, is this how I am now? Am I just like a tired person? I don't want to be a tired person. We just kind of started unpacking what are the things that are exhausting to me? What we noticed was that my natural disposition is just being direct. I love when people are direct with me, that's one of the reasons why I loved you so much. I would be almost envious of people who could just tell it like it is, especially men in meetings just being so direct. I felt like I had to give a TED Talk in order to get a point across or be really gentle with how I gave feedback. I was getting really exhausted by not leaning into this natural disposition of just being direct.
She said, "What if you just told people, like your team, the people that you communicate with the most, hey guys, I'm trying something new. I'm just going to be more direct. It's nothing against anyone. You might think I'm being angry, but I'm not. It's just who I am." And it changed my life. I mean, I was like, oh my God, I can just send an email without having a how's your day going, like kind of thing.
It was incredible and one of the things that I have loved since following you is how you just show up and you are just so direct in your offerings, in your tone, in who am I for and who am I not for? It just feels so refreshing in such an ambiguous world to have someone who's really direct. That's what I'd love to cover on the podcast today is what are three ways that people can just lean into just being more direct.
I think that that starts with tone. If you head to your Instagram and I encourage anyone listening to this podcast, you can tell them your handle to do that, but how do you set the tone for being direct? How did you step into that?
I will definitely say that I have had this tendency for most of my life because I do often get that question. Have you always been like this? I inherited it from my mom. When I was a kid and I saw my mom being super direct, it was ridiculously embarrassing, but I realized that it is a really effective way in my opinion, to run your business and live your life, so I am now very, very intentional every time I show up on Instagram and it is my intention often to be polarizing because I know that this isn't for everyone.
I am not for everyone. Everyone's not for me. I really want to connect with the people who I resonate with and who are really going to have the best success. This is something else I realized, if you're not direct and you're not sharing your true self, and you're not connecting with the right people, as a coach, I'm not going to have successful clients.
It's almost like a relationship with a therapist. There could be a therapist that you absolutely love and helps you through something, and then I sit down with them and I'm like, I don't know. I'm not feeling your vibe. For me, it's definitely the way I want to live my life, but it has also really helped me make me more successful and my clients successful, which has been super fun to watch.
And it's just more fun. I don't like having to think through like a whole checklist that I need to go through before I show up anywhere.
Yeah, and you're just creating your own mental drama, like what would they think if... One of my favorite things that I saw you post, I think it was last year, you kind of showed your top performing posts and number one, and number two of most likes and most shares was you talking about how you don't want kids and you never have. I just loved that because you would think that, oh, maybe I shouldn't share this with people who do want kids and you could create this whole mess in your head. You're like, fuck it, no. This is who I am and this is totally normal.
Right. It's such an amazing way really, to connect with your community too, because I always think when I'm going to share something maybe a little more vulnerable like that, if I can connect with one person and help one person who might be going through something similar, then it's totally worth it.
Yeah, last year I posted a lot about Black Lives Matter. I posted a lot about where I stand politically and what I don't stand for, and even though I knew it was right for me, the fact that you give something for people to respond to, good or bad when you stand for something, and you also have to kind of wrap it in your head that when you put a flag in the ground, that also means people will not agree with it.
I lost a ton of followers, which I'm not crying about because they're not the right people for me. But I also gained a whole new audience because people knew where I stood and what I want to use my platform for. But I had to have a few conversations with myself in the mirror because you can measure yourself based on what people say about you on the internet or how many followers you have, and it's just such a silly way to live.
Yeah, I totally agree. I don't want my day dictated by what angrymom22 happens to like. No, thank you. I'm not interested.
I did a live the other day and someone was like, you seem to have a lot of good things to say, but your use of "um's" was distracting. I was just like, thank you for your feedback.
Oh my God. Yeah, no, not interested in that. And in fact, I now on my sales page and on my website have a section that very clearly states, if you're uncomfortable saying Black Lives Matter, I do not want your money. If you support Donald Trump, I do not want your money. I am not the right fit for you. I just want to get it out there because if someone accidentally slips through, that's not going to be cool either for me or for them.
Absolutely. There's people that sometimes message us before they buy and they're like, and not saying that they're asking too many questions, but you can kind of tell if they're already squeezing for a discount. If they're already kind of looking for the quick hack or ways to get out of it, then they're not going to be a really great student in your program.
I feel like I used to think like, well, how do I make someone happy to feel confident putting their credit card in? Of course I want to do that, but then there are times where I'm like, you know what you're not going to be successful here because if you're already trying to find a way to squeeze out every penny, then it's just not going to work.
Yeah, I totally agree. I don't address objections. If you have objections, I am not the right person for you, and that's okay. But I am not going to spend time convincing you that I am the coach for you.
Right, absolutely. It's like if I got dumped with a boyfriend and I don't want to have to list off all the reasons why you should like me, like you should just like me. If you don't, then let's move on. I wish I could have told myself that in high school.
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Okay, how to be more direct in your business or on social media. First is just setting your tone. The second, which is how we originally connected, is being straightforward about your pricing. I love your outlook on this. Tell me a little bit about how you think being straightforward in your pricing is helpful in being direct.
Well, for me, I always want to know what the price of something is first. I think most of us share that same feeling. We just want to know what the price is. I know that there are a lot of people that prefer not to list their prices and then they might get on a sales call and their intent is to help someone understand the value of what they're getting. I want my price front and center, because if I get on the phone with you and my program costs $5,000 and you're in your head thinking it costs $500, that is a complete waste of time for both of us. It just doesn't make any sense.
I feel like you cannot even have a real conversation with somebody until you get the price out there. I was joking it's kind of like a bomb in the room and you know it's going to go off and you're both waiting for it. You're both going to have a reaction and the awkwardness of being on the phone with somebody and having that misalignment, I would rather go to the dentist and get a root canal.
Because they're not really truly listening because they're wondering how much is this going to cost me? My husband and I were at this Italian restaurant once and you know how they list off the specials before you order, so everything on the menu, it was like 20 or 30 bucks an entree and they listed off this like blue crab pasta.
My husband was like, "Oh, I'll have that." You don't ask what the price is because it's a special, it's not listed. I was kind of like, hmm, I wonder how much the blue crab is, but we didn't want to ask and then we get the bill and this blue crab, they must have handpicked these crabs like an hour before, it was like $70, this dish. We were both like, what the hell? But we didn't ask because there was that awkwardness of like, how much is this going to cost me? You feel weird, but you shouldn't.
No, not at all. To me, I like to get it out.
Yeah, tell him what the crab costs. Exactly.
That crab probably flew on a private plane.
Exactly. One, set the tone on social media, two, be clear about your pricing. The third way that you're saying that you can just be more direct in your business is being clear about who you want to work with.
Now, I think that this approach is interesting because oftentimes being in this thought leadership space, whether you're a speaker or a coach or whatever, you just say, well, whoever will pay for it is who I want to work with. But you're saying no.
How do you get clear on who you want to work with? How do you know that for yourself too?
Yeah, well it is a process. I think for most of us who are coaches, you don't necessarily wake up one day and have this clear understanding of the sort of person that you want to work with. I do really believe in niching down. Now, there are some different thoughts about that, but I feel like that is the first thing that will help you start to get closer to your people.
But I, through time working with different sorts of people, realize that I do like to work with a specific coach and so I am very intentional with the language that I use, for example. So I say that I work with tell-it-like-it-is coaches. That to me helps to just put that kind of vibe out there that if you're really sensitive and you want somebody to like grab a blankie and hold your hand and do all of that stuff, I am probably not the right person for you.
I use language like I want to help you build your empire and that connects me to women who aren't in that like, well, let's see if this whole business thing will work. If not cool, I don't know. That connects me to women who are like, let's fucking do this. I am ready to go. I want you to help me do it.
So over time, I've realized that those are the sorts of women that I love to work with. I'm a business coach who works with other coaches, but that's still a really big cross section of people. The more I've worked and the more clients I've had, the more clear I've gotten on who this woman is and how I can find her. For me, using that intentional language has really helped a lot.
That is awesome because I could tell when I was on your website and I'll put your website in the show notes, it's like, you scroll down and it's like, cool, are we still vibing? Check this out. I'm like, you have such a clear energy and aura that you're putting out in the world where it's either it is, you are on it or you are not. I love that because you probably don't get a ton of ambiguous interest. It's like, holy shit, Erica, where do I sign up? Or it's like, oh, you know, not for me, I need someone who's softer or whatever it might be.
Yeah, so far it's worked really well. I'm enrolling my mastermind right now this week and the women so far who have joined, I could have gone into a lab and created them like Frankenstein-style because they are just so perfect. The exact sort of women that I want to work with. This is what happens when you're showing up on social media as yourself, you're super clear on who you want to work with. It just magnetizes those people to you.
I love it. Parting words of advice either for an aspiring coach or someone who is just looking to step into their own personal flavor and be more direct?
Well, this takes a lot of practice, but I joke that I am president of the Who Gives a Shit Club.
Can I be your VP? I would love that.
Yes, of course. I'm going to be a dictator. I'm never giving up my spot. But that is something that really helps when you realize that it is impossible to stop people from judging you, even though you think that you are by not saying the thing or sharing the opinion, you won't have people judging you. There are people probably judging every single solitary person right now that's listening to this somewhere out there in the world.
When you really get that, you really get that there is a literally nothing you can do to stop it, then you can just show up as your damn self, have fun and not worry about it anymore. That for me has just been the key to unlock happiness, fun, money, ideal clients, everything.
Yeah, if you realize there is no trick sitting, standing, walking left, walking right that is going to be that token that makes everyone love you. There is no token and it's just like, let's just do what feels right and let's just have fun with it. I love that. Now, where can people find you?
You can find me on Instagram. My handle is my first name and last name. It's @EricaReitman. That's where I like to hang out. I'm on Clubhouse a bit, but just trying to figure out my vibe over there too.
I got a little burnt.
Me too. I got real burnt. That's another convo for another time, but yeah, I got real burnt.
I think that that's one of the other awesome things that you shown me is just go with what feels right. You don't have to do everything. I was over there trying to do TikTok for a bit and all this stuff and I'm like, you know what? I just want to focus on my Instagram and on my podcast. I don't have to be on Clubhouse narrating while I'm going to the bathroom. You've got to do what feels right for you.
Yeah, and the whole idea that I should be on Clubhouse for hours and hours at a time so that I can get more followers over on Instagram and then ignore the followers because I'm over on Clubhouse makes no sense to me.
No sense, and not get paid too. This is all super valuable information, so I'm right there with you. But thank you so much for joining us. Definitely give Erica a follow and I'll put her website in the show notes.
Thank you. This was fun.
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Spring Training Game One and other thoughts
Posted on February 23, 2019 by Linkmeister
Dodgers v. White Sox, 12:05 PM PST
The first Dodger lineup of the year:
1. Pederson LF
2. Turner 3B
3. Muncy 1B
4. Hernández 2B
5. Martin DH
6. Barnes C
7. Verdugo CF
8. Orlando RF
9. Castro SS
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I'm worried about Kershaw's sudden shutdown just a week or so into spring training.
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Linkmeister on March 7, 2019 at 8:27 pm said:
Kershaw was busy visiting the Dominican Republic before spring training began, lending his presence to fighting sex trafficking there.
Linkmeister on March 6, 2019 at 11:06 am said:
Thought experiment:
https://twitter.com/jonweisman/status/1103164943447146497
The wordplay, the wordplay! Jay Jaffe:
https://twitter.com/jay_jaffe/status/1102999578545213441
WBBsAs on March 5, 2019 at 11:45 am said:
Be thankful you're not this O's fan… https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1102988418689183750
Bob_Hendley on March 6, 2019 at 5:36 am said:
The long term downfall of the O's, a team that I first began to follow in 1966 [sigh] and more personally after moving to the East coast in 1978, saddens me.
WBBsAs on March 6, 2019 at 12:26 pm said:
Arguably, even worse ownership than McCourt.
Bob_Hendley on March 6, 2019 at 3:38 pm said:
Yeah, he mostly let Ned alone.
Dodger pitching farmhand Tony Gonsolin is a cat guy.
https://twitter.com/azfreedman/status/1100083471115005952
He was also the Dodgers' minor league pitcher of the year last year.
His fastball has hit 100 mph. His breaking balls break. And he is new enough to this that more potential remains.
Last spring, the Dodgers asked if he wanted to train as a starter. He said he did. He worked more intensely than he ever had, developed a routine and crushed the California League. He reached Double-A Tulsa and pitched even better.
With catsoup? I wouldn't touch either of them.
Kershaw may not start Opening Day:
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts acknowledged for the first time Monday that Kershaw, recently set back by shoulder inflammation, might not have enough time to get stretched out for his team's first regular-season game on March 28.
"That's fair," Roberts told reporters from Glendale, Arizona, while adding that the ace left-hander is nonetheless "trending in the right direction."
In case you're wondering, the record for consecutive Opening Day starts by a pitcher is 14, by Jack Morris. Kershaw has made 8 in a row.
In case you are wondering, the last guy to open for the Dodgers was Padilla.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_Opening_Day_starting_pitchers
HLKLA on March 5, 2019 at 5:08 pm said:
Sandy Koufax only opened the season for the Dodgers once. Hard to believe.
John_from_Aus on March 7, 2019 at 2:20 pm said:
If he is not ready, let Kershaw throw just the first pitch just to keep the streak alive 🙂
Today's Times:
EXTRA BASES: Closer Kenley Jansen will make his spring debut Sunday. He is scheduled to be followed by new setup man Joe Kelly, Josh Fields, J.T. Chargois and Tony Cingrani. … The Diamondbacks elected to start ace Zack Greinke in a B game instead of against the Dodgers Saturday. … Roberts said he has penciled infield prospect Edwin Rios, who has been out for about a week because of an illness, in the lineup for Sunday's game.
UP NEXT: The Dodgers will play a Texas split-squad team at Camelback Ranch at noon PST on Sunday. Right-hander Kenta Maeda will start for the Dodgers against Rangers right-hander Lance Lynn. TV: SportsNet LA.
Anyone seen anything after Klayton's throwing session on Saturday?
Apparently he didn't throw yesterday, but will play catch today.
Meanwhile Buehler is throwing only his second bullpen session of ST. His first in two weeks. Let's hear it for SP depth!
From the LA Times Friday edition:
Kershaw, slowed by shoulder inflammation, played catch for a second straight day at about 60 feet Friday, increasing the intensity and duration of his throwing session to six or seven minutes. The left-hander did not appear to have any setbacks
https://twitter.com/kengurnick/status/1102258237053652993
Stewart, Bellinger are robots, or at least mechanically minded.
Bellinger has to earn full-time starting job, he says.
He's looking really good so far, including 3-for-3 today, two doubles and a single.
Linkmeister on March 1, 2019 at 8:45 am said:
Ken Rosenthal at The Athletic:
The Dodgers offered Harper another option – a three-year deal with opt-outs and an AAV above Zack Greinke's record $34.4 million but well below $40 million, according to sources. Harper could have stayed closer to his home in Las Vegas by joining the defending two-time National League champions – a team with much more recent success than the Phillies – and become a free agent entering his age 29 season. But to gain the increased flexibility, he would have walked away from nearly $200 million in guaranteed money – a tradeoff that was not worth the risk, especially when he had produced only one full monster season and was young enough to warrant a longer deal.
Bumsrap on March 1, 2019 at 3:58 am said:
The Harper contract was said to be front loaded.
If the Phillies matched the Dodgers offer for the first 4 years at $45M that's $180M.
If the second 4 years is at $30M that's $120M.
If the last 5 years are at $6M that's $30M.
The AAV is $25.4M. But that is only significant toward the end of Harper's contract if the CBT remains intact, which it won't.
Would that payout schedule be all that crazy?
ESPN's Jeff Passan has ostensible details of the Harper contract.
WBBsAs on February 28, 2019 at 10:39 am said:
13 years sounds like an unlucky number. https://twitter.com/Ned2point0/status/1101216228448718848
Linkmeister on February 28, 2019 at 12:41 pm said:
https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1101241278027620352
scooplew on February 28, 2019 at 11:29 am said:
Harper reportedly signs 13-year deal (13 YEARS?!) with the Phillies. Even FDR didn't last 13 years in the White House.
Bob_Hendley on February 28, 2019 at 11:29 am said:
Guessing the Dodgers offer was much more generous with AAV, perhaps as much as $40m, but at least half the number of years.
Hyman says Fillies signing Harper. Now that that is over…
So that means nearly all the money we saved by sending Puig, Kemp, Wood and Farmer to the Phillies — we did sign Pollock — is being tucked away in Guggenheim's pockets.
Well there's always… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/888011de2488f4901167cd33ca8f4beee63c19705fec6eb92dc26b366fd77bfd.png
Wow. Brautigan has been dead nearly 35 years.
OK, try this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3FywYooMq4
Guessing that he was willing to spend, but FO wasn't able to get a deal that they thought would be good for the club.
scooplew on February 28, 2019 at 9:35 am said:
A modest proposal: Sign Harper, preventing the Giants from doing so, and then put together a package including Pederson and Verdugo and send it to the Indians for Kluber.
Bob_Hendley on February 28, 2019 at 8:41 am said:
Klayton's playing catch session only lasted five minutes today! Color me extremely worried that he begins the season on the DL.
Friedman says it went well, however, and will be repeated tomorrow. At the very least, would seem to be behind schedule to start opener, one would think.
History has demonstrated that we rarely get an honest report from the club's front office or Roberts, and the situation almost always is worse than what we were told.
They paint a rosy picture based upon available information and leave it up to us to fear the worst.
scooplew on February 28, 2019 at 12:41 pm said:
Why won't they do an MRI? Are they afraid what it might reveal?…(I just now saw the post below about why no MRI.)
Linkmeister on February 28, 2019 at 8:25 am said:
The latest Harper rumors, complete with links.
Verducci's "overworked pitchers" report is out for last season, and there's only one on the list: Buehler.
WBBsAs on February 26, 2019 at 1:14 pm said:
After three days of powerful production from the offensive scrubs, the regulars have done nothing against the Reales today, and the pitching scrubs need scrubbing.
Uh oh. Arenado extension at $255 over 8 years, so Bryce will want a minimum of $33 AAV to be highest paid position player.
HLKLA on February 26, 2019 at 11:35 am said:
Many people who do not want to sign Harper, were hoping to go after Arenado, so I wonder if this changes their thinking.
Includes an opt out, and now they say that Bryce might demand the same. Just to muddle the situation more.
WBBsAs on February 27, 2019 at 1:56 am said:
Arenado is all-around elite, especially on defense at a premium position – which Harper isn't (though he's certainly playable).
Bryce/Boras don't care about such facts. Of course neither is the top player, probably not even top five.
Linkmeister on February 25, 2019 at 1:41 pm said:
Kershaw's work stoppage had to do with shoulder inflammation. No MRI required.
He expects to throw next week.
Team officials including Doc reportedly in Vegas. Harper? Or maybe they are gambling away the savings from coming in under the luxury tax.
McCourt already did the latter with the Dodgers.
The Dodgers will ask McCourt to return the parking concessions and use that money to sign Harper.
Gnatfans are panicking. https://twitter.com/NBCSGiants/status/1099958198893596672
D.J. Peters, who homered twice off BadGums in one inning in a minor league rehab game, has homered twice against the Angles today.
Good sign, as he has reportedly cut down on his power swing to reduce Ks.
WBBsAs on February 24, 2019 at 12:22 pm said:
The minor league bullpen scrubs aren't doing very well today.
Looking at GameDay, it seems that BadGums has claimed his first headhunting victim of the season v. the Cubbies. Dodgers off to a 4-0 lead v. the Angles.
In the great scheme of things, yesterday's game was meaningless except, perhaps, to Ben Holmes, the 27-year-old minor leaguer who got the shaky save. One of the Chisox relievers was named "Vieira," which means scallop in Spanish (though Chileans say "ostión").
Bob_Hendley on February 24, 2019 at 1:41 pm said:
Called callao de hacha in Mexico, where ostion is oyster. Have heard ostra used for scallops as well. Vieira is the Portuguese word for scallops as well.
My wife once ordered barbacoa in Mexico, thinking it some form of parrilla, and was shocked to get mondongo.
Refers generally to meat slow cooked in a sauce, normally mutton or goat, but beef in the north, including entrails.
That was in Yucatán, actually.
Normally venison or pork.
Cingrani appears to be a personalidad, as we would say in Spanish. He needs to try the Andes next. https://twitter.com/mike_petriello/status/1099462509294206977
Kershaw update. He's feeling better, we're told.
"It only hurts when I pitch"
For heaven's sake. Look what Tony Cingrani did during the off-season.
Getting sloppy now.
Dodger bats are off to a pretty good start.
6-0 Dodgers in the third, and Hill and Yimi each pitched a 1-2-3 inning with one strikeout by each. Hey, I'm saving up already for World Series ducats.
Bumsrap on February 23, 2019 at 12:55 pm said:
And Joc's home run just rolled up my driveway. Cool.
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Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the Hulu original series High Fidelity. The album features a selection of songs from the show's first season by such artists as Thomas Doherty, Blondie, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Darondo, Dexys Midnight Runners, William Onyeabor, Ann Peebles and Silk Rhodes. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 14 and will be available to stream/download here. High Fidelity is developed by Sarah Kucserka & Veronica West based on Nick Hornby's 1995 book and Stephen Frears' 2000 feature and stars Zoë Kravitz, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, David H. Holmes, Jake Lacy and Kingsley Ben-Adir. The comedy follows a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn who revisits past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one true love. The series is premiering tomorrow exclusively on Hulu.
Here's the album track list:
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2. Didn't I – Darondo (3:28)
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4. Come On Eileen – Dexys Midnight Runners (4:44)
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10. Pains – Silk Rhodes (3:10)
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Tendimane est un village du Sénégal situé en Basse-Casamance. Il fait partie de la commune de Tenghory, dans le département de Bignona et la région de Ziguinchor.

Tendimane tirerait son nom de la transcription de l'expression Diola "tan dimaay" qui signifie "là où il fait sombre". En effet pour installer leur village, les premiers habitants auraient déboisé le cœur d'une forêt galerie dont les reliques sont encore visibles, tant au nord qu'au sud du village. La majeure partie des habitations s'aligne sur deux kilomètres de long et 500 mètres de large au sud de la route reliant Bignona au Blouf, appelée Boucle du Blouf.

Deux quartiers composent le village : Kallap à l'est et Bany à l'ouest.
La population est estimée à 600 habitants (chiffres issus du recensement de la population 2021).

L'activité économique principale est la culture (arachide, mil, sorgho, riz). L'arboriculture se développe ces dernières années avec l'implantation de vergers.
L'élevage bovin, et dans une moindre mesure ovin et caprin, complètent la composante agricole. La pêche, en raison de la raréfaction des poissons depuis la construction du barrage d' Afignam, est une activité marginale.

Le village de Tendimane possède maintenant un poste de santé et la construction d'un collège est prévue. La population bénéficie de l'énergie électrique depuis 2020 avec des lampes de rue dispersées un peu partout dans le village et un branchement particulier dans toutes les maisons et équipements publics (mosquées, poste de santé et centre de développement communautaire), de même que l'eau courante, grâce au château d'eau alimentant aussi les villages de Djimakakoor, Koutenghor et Diourou.
De même, la route, autrefois cauchemar à cause de son aspect boueux durant l'hivernage et de la poussière soulevée par les conducteurs pendant la saison sèche, est désormais goudronnée, ce qui facilite l'accès au village : Bignona n'est plus qu'à un quart d'heure de route.

Les défis auxquels fait face le village n'en sont pas pour autant éliminés. Quelques-uns sont cités ci-dessous, tout en soulignant que la liste n'est pas exhaustive :
 désœuvrement des jeunes ;
 érosion et comblement des bas-fonds ;
 péril fécal ;
 gestion des ordures, notamment les sachets plastiques ;
 perte de la biodiversité.

Maintenant que l'eau courante est disponible, que le courant est disponible, que la route est goudronnée et que le réseau téléphonique est présent (bien que de piètre qualité) le village mène la réflexion à travers son congrès annuel pour relever les défis cités précédemment. Dans ce cadre, la coopération avec des partenaires au développement bat son plein. C'est ainsi que des partenaires québécois viennent de finir la réfection de 2 salles de classe pour l'école du village.
De même, le village a retenu une superficie de dix (10) hectares pour réaliser un périmètre maraîcher irrigué dont deux (2) hectares réservés à la culture du moringa.
Ce projet agro-alimentaire n'est pas encore monté ni financé. Il permettra d'offrir des emplois et d'occuper à temps plein ( 12 mois sur 12 ) les populations, notamment les jeunes. .
D'autres initiatives qui entrent dans la relève des défis ci-dessus cités sont les bienvenues.

Voir aussi

Liens externes
 Répertoire des villages officiels du Sénégal (PNDL)

Village dans la région de Ziguinchor


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Q: What order do batched row insertions/deletions take place in UITableView? UITableView allows you to batch editing operations using beginUpdates and endUpdates.
My question is: do I need to know whether it does deletions or insertions first? Or can I refer to everything by the index path prior to beginUpdates and it'll magically work?
Suppose I have a table:
A (currently index path 0,0)
B (0,1)
C (0,2)
D (0,3)
E (0,4)
F (0,5)

I want to turn it into:
A (0,0)
C (0,1)
D (0,2)
H (0,3)
E (0,4)
F (0,5)

Thus, I've deleted B (which was at 0,1) and inserted H (which was inserted after D — at 0,4 before the deletions, or 0,3 after).
So, between my begin/end updates calls, which of these will work?

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*insertRowsAtIndexPaths: 0,3, followed by deleteRowsAtIndexPaths: 0,1

A: The relevant Apple documentation for this is under Ordering of Operations and Index Paths.

Deletion and reloading operations within an animation block specify which rows and sections in the original table should be removed or reloaded; insertions specify which rows and sections should be added to the resulting table. The index paths used to identify sections and rows follow this model.

So the table view will first perform any delete or update operations, whose index paths refer to index paths in the original table contents. Then insertions are performed, and those index paths refer to index paths after deletions have occured.
So in theory your number '2' option should be the one you want.


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Q: Refactoring nested for loops I have this situation where I have a parent child relationship between two sets of data. I have a parent document collection and a child document collection. The requirement is that the parents and their corresponding children need to be exported into 'a' pdf document. A simple-implementation of the above situation can be as follows(java-ish pseudo code below):
for(Document parentDocument:Documents){
   ExportToPdf(parentDocument);
    for(Document childDocument:parentDocument.children()){
      AppendToParentPdf(childDocument);
  }
}

Something as above will probably solve the problem, but all of a sudden the requirements changes and now each of these parents and their corresponding children need to be in separate pdfs, so the above given snippet is modified by changing the AppendToParentPdf() to ExportToPdf() follows:
for(Document parentDocument:Documents){
   ExportToPdf(parentDocument);
    for(Document childDocument:parentDocument.children()){
      ExportToPdf(childDocument);
  }
}

Going along this way, it will not take long before this seemingly trivial snippet would suffer from some serious code smells.
My questions to SO are:

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*Are there better representations of parent-child relationships such as the above where instead of brute-forcing my way through all the documents and their children in an O(n^2) fashion, I can use a different data-structure or technique to traverse the entire structure in a more optimal fashion.

*In the scenario that I described above, where the business rules are rather fluid about the way the pdfs should be exported, is there a smarter way to code the nature of the export function? Also the export format is transient. PDFs can give way to *.docs/csvs/xmls et al.
It will be great to get some perspective on this.
Thanks

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Are there better representations of parent-child relationships such as the above where instead of brute-forcing my way through all the documents and their children in an O(n^2) fashion.

This is not O(N^2).  It is O(N) where N is the total number of parent and child documents.  Assuming that no child has more than one parent document, then you can't significantly improve the performance.  Furthermore, the cost of the traversal is probably trivial compared with the cost of the calls that generate the PDFs.
The only case where you might want to consider optimizing is if child documents can be children of multiple parents.  In that case, you may want to keep track of the documents that you've already generated PDF's for ... and skip them if you revisit them in the traversal.  The test for "have I seen this document before" can be implemented using a HashSet.

A: You could encapsulate what you want to do with a document in a handler. This will also allow you to define new handlers in the future that you can pass to existing code.
interface DocumentHandler {
    void process(Document d);
}

class ExportToPdf implements DocumentHandler { ... }
class AppendToParentPdf implements DocumentHandler { ... }

// Now you're just passing the interface whose implementation does something with the document
void handleDocument(DocumentHandler parentHandler, DocumentHandler childHandler) {
    for(Document parent : documents) {
        parentHandler.process(parent);

        for(Document child : parent.children()) {
            childHandler.process(child);
        }
    }
}

DocumentHandler appendToParent = new AppendToParentPdf();
DocumentHandler exportToPdf = new ExportToPdf();

// pass the child/parent handlers as needed
handleDocument(exportToPdf, appendToParent);
handleDocument(exportToPdf, exportToPdf);

As for efficiency, I'd say don't try to optimise unless you run into performance issues. In any case, the problem won't be with the nested loop but with the logic itself that processes the documents.

A: For your 2nd question, you could use the provider pattern or an extension of it.

Provider pattern : This pattern has its roots in the Strategy pattern and it lets you design your data and behavior in an abstraction so that you can swap out implementation at any time

A: I tried to fit this into a comment, but there's too much to say...
I don't see how the change you're talking about is a code smell. If the requirements change for this simple function, then they change. If you only need to make the change in one place, then it sounds like you've done a good job. If your client is going to need both ways of doing it (or more), then you might consider some sort of strategy pattern so you don't have to rewrite the surrounding code to do either function.
If you're making dozens of these changes per week, then it could get messy and you probably ought to make a plan for how to more effectively deal with a very busy axis of change.  Otherwise, discipline and refactoring can help you keep it clean.
As to whether or not n² is a problem, it depends. How big is n? If you have to do this frequently (i.e. dozens of times per hour) and n is in the 1000's of them, then you might have a problem. Otherwise I wouldn't sweat it as long as you're meeting or exceeding demand and your CPU/disk utilization is out of the danger zone.

A: The second questions' problem can be solved by simply creating an inteface Exporter with the method
export(Document doc); and then implementing it for each of the various formats, e.g. class DocExporterImpl implements Exporter.
The first one is dependent on your requirements and no design pattern as such solves these problems. Can't help you there.

A: Using a Set to keep track of which elements have already been exported might not be the most beautiful solution, but it will prevent the documents from being exported twice.
Set<Document> alreadyExported = new HashSet<Document>();

for(Document parentDocument:Documents){
   ExportToPdf(parentDocument);
   for(Document childDocument:parentDocument.children()){
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Lake County, Florida Ambulance History
Local funeral homes provided ambulance service to Lake County. Zeller of Eustis, Steverson of Tavares, Kurfiss of Groveland and Dabney of Leesburg.
Mid 1970s-1983
Lake County ambulance services still fragmented into three service areas. South Lake Memorial Hospital in the south, Leesburg Fire Department in the northwest and Waterman Memorial Hospital in the northeast.
Ambulance service in North Lake County is combined under Waterman Medical Center. In 1986, Waterman contracts with South Lake Hospital to provide ambulance service to all of Lake County as a single provider d.b.a. Lake County EMS. In 1987, Sumter County contracts with Waterman Medical Center's ambulance service to both counties under the name of Lake-Sumter Emergency Medical Services. In 1991, Waterman Medical Center contracts with Hernando County to provide ambulance services and Lake-Sumter EMS becomes Florida Regional EMS. In 1995, Citrus County joins with Florida Hospital Waterman d.b.a. Florida Regional EMS. Service continues in all four counties until Sept 30, 2000.
2000-2011 Lake-Sumter EMS, Inc.
In October 2000, Lake-Sumter EMS, Inc., began operations as a unique, government-owned, bi-county corporation given the mandate to provide efficient, cost-effective emergency medical service and transportation of the sick and injured citizens and visitors of Lake and Sumter counties, Florida.
In early 2011, the Sumter County Board of County Commissioners elected to end its eleven year cooperative venture to provide bi-county emergency medical ambulance service, by deciding to bid out the ambulance service contract. Lake-Sumter EMS officially ceased operation at the end of September 2011.
2011-2018 Lake Emergency Medical Services, Inc.
After a careful review of its options, the Lake County Board of County Commissioners decided that even though Sumter County elected to withdraw from the mutual operation of a governmental corporation, the concept was still sound and cost efficient. On October 1, 2011, Lake Emergency Medical Services, Inc. began operations as a government-owned, county corporation given the mandate to provide efficient, cost-effective emergency medical service and ambulance transportation of the sick and injured citizens and visitors of Lake County, Florida. As Lake EMS progressed towards its new future, it continued to strive to achieve and eventually surpass those initial goals.
In February 2018, Lake County Commissioners voted unanimously to transition Lake Emergency Medical Services (Lake EMS) into the county organization as the Lake County Office of EMS. The commission's vote will ultimately dissolve the 501(c)(3) non-profit Lake EMS and its board. The transition is expected to be completed by February 2019.
Geographic/Demographic overview of Lake County
Lake County is appropriately named for its 1,400 lakes, which cover 202 square miles of its 1,163 square mile total. Located in Central Florida, Lake County is 90 miles in length and 35 miles in width, and is bordered by Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, Sumter, Volusia and Marion Counties. It is a part of the Orlando Metropolitan Statistical Area, one of the fastest growing regions in the nation. Bureau of the Census 2010 statistics indicate the population was 297,052, a population increase of 41.1% since the 2000 Census.
Lake Emergency Medical Services, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization formed in 2011 by Lake County, Florida to provide quality, community-based EMS services. The agency operated 22 Advanced Life Support ambulance units at peak operation, dynamically deployed throughout the county. Lake EMS was governed by a nine-member Board of Directors headed by Chairman Timothy I. Sullivan. Jerry Smith served as Executive Director with administrative offices located at 2761 West Old Highway 441 in Mount Dora, Florida. In October 2018, the administrative offices were moved to the Lake County Administration Building at 315 W. Main St., Suite 144 in Tavares, Florida. Medical direction is provided by Dr. Desmond Fitzpatrick, M.D.
Our mission statement of quality values and principles embodies the vision of emergency services in Lake County, Florida. These fundamentals will be used to pioneer the course of Lake EMS now and in the future.
To serve our communities by providing exceptional patient care and extraordinary customer service through compassion, knowledge, clinical sophistication and the integrity of our organization.
Quality Values and Principles
Value honesty, trustworthiness and integrity
Exhibit dignity and respect for one another
Dedicated pride of service
Foster empowerment
Manage through leadership
Focus on personal and professional growth