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Tamil Nadu police arrest hundreds of striking Indian autoworkers
Arun Kumar, Moses Rajkumar
In recent weeks, thousands of autoworkers from Yamaha Motor India, Royal Enfield and Myoung Shin Automotive (MSA) plants in the Oragadam-Chengalpattu industrial zone have been involved in strikes, occupations and protests to demand union rights, better working conditions and wage rises.
Located southwest of Chennai, the Tamil Nadu state capital, the zone employs hundreds of thousands of workers. Colloquially known as the "Detroit of Asia," the area has the majority of India's 7.6 million autoworkers. Companies located there include Ford, Daimler AG, Renault–Nissan, Komatsu, Mitsubishi and Toyota.
Last Sunday, hundreds of Yamaha and MSA workers held a "human chain" demonstration to support their respective demands and protest against company and police repression. The Yamaha and Enfield plants produce motorcycles while MSA makes auto parts. The demonstration followed a series of struggles.
* On September 21, over 750 Yamaha permanent workers had walked out on strike indefinitely and established an occupation to demand the reinstatement of two workers. The workers were sacked because of their involvement in organising a new union—the Yamaha Motor Thozhilalar Sangham (Yamaha Motor Workers Association)—at the facility. The union is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), which is controlled by the Stalinist Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM.
Of the nearly 2,500 employed at Yamaha India, 750 are permanent, 1,500 are on contract and around 250 are apprentices. Permanent workers' monthly salaries range from 13,000 rupees ($US180) to 18,000 rupees. Contract workers wanted to join the strike, but the union instructed them not to become involved, declaring that their jobs were at risk.
Yamaha India immediately declared the strike "illegal" and took the dispute to the Madras High Court. After the court ruled that any protest by the workers must be 200 metres from the factory premises, Tamil Nadu police entered the facility on September 26, attacked the striking workers and ejected them from the plant.
On October 3, police conducted early morning raids on the homes of four Yamaha workers, arresting them for allegedly climbing onto mobile towers a week earlier to highlight their demands.
* On September 24, about 1,300 Royal Enfield workers walked out to demand a wage rise and other claims. The company responded by threatening trainees with the sack if they did not return to work. Armed with a court order, the police, on the same day as they attacked the Yamaha strikers, raided the Enfield factory and forcibly removed strikers.
In line with the demands of union officials, Royal Enfield workers ended their strike on September 30. The union claimed to have reached an agreement with the company that there would be no reprisals against the strikers. A new CITU-linked union—the Royal Enfield Employees Union (REEU)—was recently established in the plant, but is not recognised by the company.
Despite the supposed agreement, management cut workers' salaries for the days they were on strike, disciplined eight employees, and sacked another, over alleged involvement in union activities. The company also refused to allow workers to take their mobile phones into the plant. Nearly 700 permanent workers immediately walked out in protest.
Following union talks with the company, the Enfield strikers returned to work again on October 5, only to face another management provocation. They were told to "apologise" for striking and agree to a "good conduct" undertaking.
Angered by these demands, the workers occupied the plant, only to be attacked by police who arrested about 600 protestors, holding them in a nearby hall until that evening.
While management and the police were launching their attacks on the Yamaha and Enfield workers, the CITU, acting as an industrial police force, "advised" the workers to "honour" the court orders.
* On September 5, over 500 workers, including 150 permanent employees from MSA, a supplier to Hyundai in Tamil Nadu, began a strike and occupation to demand payment of a long-outstanding wage rise.
On September 27, a number of striking MSA workers were arrested by the police when they planned to picket the South Korean embassy in Chennai. Police detained them in a nearby hall before releasing them in the evening.
Tamil Nadu business chiefs have denounced the wave of industrial action and demanded that the state government crush strikes.
Ar Rm Arun, chairman of the Tamil Nadu branch of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, India's peak business body, told the Hindu newspaper: "MNCs [multinational corporations] are not mandated to be bogged down in any way by such issues. If the environment is not conducive to their business, there are so many choices for them."
Arun called on the state government to "follow the example of the Singapore prime minister in how he firmly dealt with the striking Singapore Airlines pilots." This was a reference to former Singapore dictator Lee Kwan Yew's threats to crush the pilots' strike in 1980.
Indian big business, global investors, the federal and state governments and the judiciary, working closely with the unions, are determined to suppress any independent eruption of class struggles. The repression of the Maruti Suzuki workers is a case in point.
In 2012, after Maruti Suzuki workers rejected a management-controlled union and formed an independent union, the company worked with police and Indian government authorities to launch a series of provocations. This resulted in the arrest and frame-up of Maruti Suzuki workers and the sentencing of 13 to life imprisonment on bogus murder charges. The CPM and CITU rejected demands for unified national action and then isolated the jailed Maruti Suzuki workers.
While Yamaha, Enfield and MSA workers have demonstrated their determination to fight, the CPM and CITU have repeatedly intervened to prevent unified industrial action.
CITU officials used last Sunday's protest as another occasion to promote illusions in the Tamil Nadu state government. CITU district leader Muthu Kumar called on the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), a right-wing communalist party, to "find an amicable solution."
WSWS reporters recently distributed leaflets among the striking workers explaining the necessity for unified national industrial action to take forward their struggle and exposing the CITU's role.
Numerous Yamaha workers voiced their discontent and blamed the unions for not mobilising contract workers, apprentices and other workers in support of these struggles. Several union bureaucrats intervened and repeatedly demanded that the WSWS reporters leave the area.
Last week, union officials banned workers from speaking to WSWS reporters and, on Sunday, CITU leaders Muthu Kumar and S. Kannan threatened physical violence. Kannan claimed that WSWS reporters were working for the auto companies. Next time, he declared: "CPM comrades will kill you."
These threats are another indication that the CPM and CITU are acutely nervous about the rising militancy of autoworkers and fear any exposure of their political record and pro-big business line. Notwithstanding their occasional "left" demagogy, the Indian Stalinists, as demonstrated in the states where they have held power, such as West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala, will do whatever is demanded of them by international investors and the Indian capitalist elites.
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Man has part of his finger amputated after being pricked while cleaning prawns and getting infected by flesh-eating bacteria
The man underwent surgery and was in hospital for seven days, including two days in the intensive care unit. PHOTO: FACEBOOK
A man had to have part of his right index finger amputated after it was infected by flesh-eating bacteria.
Quoting from a Facebook post by the victim's friend, Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Wanbao reported yesterday that the man's finger was pricked while he was cleaning prawns he had bought from a wet market.
The victim, who was unnamed, said he had been pricked by prawns many times before and thought this time was no different.
But by the next day, his finger had turned black and he had a mild fever.
He went to a 24-hour clinic in Toa Payoh and was told to go to a hospital immediately.
The man underwent surgery that evening and was warded in the hospital for seven days, including two days in the intensive care unit.
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He said doctors told him that if he had waited another day, he could have lost his arm or even died as the bacteria had reached his armpit.
He warned other people to be careful when cleaning raw prawns or seafood.
Flesh-eating disease, or necrotizing fasciitis, is caused by bacteria that are resistant to most antibiotics, and can be fatal if not treated quickly.
Symptoms include the affected area turning red or swollen, severe pain, and a fever.
A family physician told Wanbao that being pricked by fish or crustaceans would usually not lead to complications.
But should the injury become serious or if a fever develops, the person should immediately seek medical attention.
Another doctor told Wanbao that while such situations are not common, they can happen when handling marine animals.
Both doctors said that once the flesh-eating bacteria enter the body, they can spread quickly and cause complications and, in serious cases, even death.
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I've been working on this post for several months, and I finally finished it! It's been a bit hard to write things since the most recent brain injury, as there's been a few health issues since – seizures, worsening complex migraines that mimic strokes, and most recently a diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (although that's been suspected for a very long time). Please be patient with me as I try to make a post that makes sense. I'll probably periodically update this as I find resources.
Fall illustration of red, orange, and gold leaves on a yellow background. The caption says "All about AAC: A Beginner's Guide to Augmentative and Alternative Communication Options." Underneath is the author's name, Courtney Johnson, this website, and the instagram handle at just keep stimming.
I wanted to put together a sort of guide to different types and options for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). I hope it helps!
It's important to note that people can use AAC for a variety of reasons: autism, aphasia, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, etc. Some people use it full time, while others use it to supplement speech when mouth words alone aren't as effective for communication. Everyone can benefit from AAC, and AAC is for everyone!
Augmentative and alternative communication is essentially any communication that doesn't involve mouth words. Most people think of apps and high tech, but there are many other forms of AAC too! Using a dry erase board, texting, picture communication symbols, etc – all are forms of AAC. Even this post can be considered AAC! Not only that, but there are a lot of ways to help make AAC accessible. There are options such as eye gaze (using eyes to select things on the screen), laser pointers with communication boards, having an aide help, switches to help choose things (switches can also help people operate toys too!), and tactile options too.
Note that every person is different, and there isn't one AAC that works for everyone. Some people even use more than one system to help communicate or to supplement speech!
The most important thing to remember is that communication is a human right. Mouth words are not "superior" to any other form of communication, and all forms of communication should be valued.
The focus should be on providing quality and accessible communication that suits each person's needs, not conforming to speech alone.
For me personally, I use various types of AAC – Proloquo2Go, Proloquo4Text, TD Snap, and light tech options as back-ups and also to help supplement. I've used SpeechAssistant, CoughDrop, and others before in the past as low-cost AAC options, and those were also decent – in case anyone is looking for high tech AAC ideas that are more budget friendly. Also: don't forget about discounts during April/October!
I just found the AssistiveWare and TD Snap systems a little more intuitive for my brain. Others may find the other options a better fit – remember, everyone is different!
I used to be mostly a part-time AAC user until more recent traumatic brain injuries (current tally is now five; I'll update you all on that when it's legal to) and other neuro issues – and as of updating this in November 2020, I'm no longer able to rely on speech to communicate effectively for long periods of time at all. So… AAC it is for me!
And now: here are some options for AAC if you're interested! I've listed some light-tech and high-tech options.
Light Tech Options:
Unaided AAC (without tools)
Many people can benefit from sign language!
Sign language varies by region. There's an American Sign Language, British sign language, etc.
It's important to note that there's some valid and very sound arguments that sign languages are not AAC – because for many Deaf/HoH people, it's simply just another language with cultural significance/value. I've included it here in case someone finds signs beneficial to use as AAC, but keep in mind that it's not quite universally seen as a form of AAC.
This can be hard to read sometimes, but it is a form of communication that most people do – whether you use speech or not.
Bonus: stimming can fit into this! For example, the way I flap my hands can tell someone a lot about how I'm feeling/trying to communicate something.
Again, this is hard for me personally to read – but it's often used to convey things without using mouth words. Therefore – AAC!
Aided AAC (with tools)
Paper and Pen or Pencil
Magna Doodles and Boogie Boards
Remember those toys that you can write on and just slide to erase? Those can be a form of AAC too!
Letter boards and communication boards
These often are boards (sometimes laminated) with letters, words, and pictures that an individual can point to or use other methods of indicating their choices.
A picture of one of the light tech letterboards I made to print out and use in case I can't use my AAC device!
Picture Communication Symbols
These can be used with visual schedules or to help someone convey emotions or a want/need. Make sure you use these to help with communication, not as a tool for exchanging/making someone "earn" things. I'm not a fan of the PECS program as it was designed, as it's very ABA-based and limited in vocabulary.
Color Communication Cards
I mentioned these in my Managing/Preventing Meltdowns post, but they definitely deserve a second look. The colors help indicate the person's current mood or ability for communication – and helps give them control over social situations. You can learn more about them here: https://autisticadvocacy.org/2014/02/color-communication-badges/
Clothing, Objects, Accessories
Some people have made bracelets with AAC options on them, while some people have creatively used things like t-shirts with emojis on them or even just carrying a favorite comic and pointing to scenes that help communicate how they feel.
High-Tech Free and Low-Cost Options:
Emergency Chat (Free; iOS and Android)
A texting-style app where the device is passed between users. No voice output.
http://leonardelezi.com/emergencychat/
LetMeTalk (Free; iOS and Android)
Symbol-based app. Has voice output.
Not very robust.
https://www.letmetalk.info/
Cboard (Free; iOS, Android, and computers – it is web-based and mainly used through a browser, but does have an app through GooglePlay)
Symbol-based, supports 33 different languages. Cboard is an open source project and web-based, so it's mainly accessed through an internet browser. However, there's offline support for Google chrome on desktop computers and Android (which has an app available).
https://www.cboard.io/
I Can Communicate! (Free; Android only)
Symbol-based app, with option for typing. Has voice output.
Not very robust
https://www.icancommunicateapp.com/
Verbally (Free; iOS only)
Text-based app, with option for typing. Has voice output.
http://verballyapp.com/index.html
Note: a premium version does exist, but it's $99.
CoughDrop (2 month free trial, monthly option $6, lifetime purchase $200; iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle, Windows, and web browser)
Symbol-based AAC. Can be used across multiple devices, open source (many options for boards and very customizable), has the option for typing, and allows for tracking usage/gathering statistics for parents/professionals.
https://www.mycoughdrop.com/
Note: this app sometimes goes on sale during April and October, usually 50% off.
Speak My Mind ($9.99 a month after a 1 month free trial; iOS only)
Picture-based AAC that uses a word-association design. Also has the traditional grid-style if the regular version is not helpful.
https://speakmymind.wixsite.com/speakmymind
SpeechAssistant AAC (Free on Android; $11.99 for iOS)
Text-based app, with option for typing – and adding your own pictures.
https://www.a-soft.nl/
Note: the iOS version costs, but also has more features.
ChoiceWorks App ($6.99; iOS only)
Not an AAC app in the traditional sense, but allows to create interactive visual schedules that can be beneficial.
http://www.beevisual.com/
Note: there is also a version that has a visual calendar that is nice, but it is only for iPad – and costs $4.99.
Tiimo (monthly $4.49, annual $28.99; iOS and Android smartphones/smartwatches)
Similar to ChoiceWorks, this is also not exactly an AAC app. However, this would be considered assistive technology – and might be something that neurodivergent people would find useful. It also uses visual schedules for daily routines – but also allows for flexibility, has a larger variety of features (including being able to pair with a watch), and has a color ring that works like a visual timer to help show how much time is left.
https://www.tiimoapp.com/
High-Tech Moderate to High Cost
FlipWriter (iPhone version $24.99; full iPad version is $49.99)
Text-based app with typing. Not symbols. Text is displayed upside down in addition to regular text box, so that someone across from the user can read it.
https://www.flipwriteraac.org/
TD Snap (formally Snap Core First) ($49.99 for iPad, $199.99 for Windows; iPad and Windows – has a free version without speech ability)
Symbol-based app with core words and fringe, has option for typing with predictive text-style picture options. The grid size can be adjusted, and there's an option for other page sets such as an Aphasia page set (comes with a digital white board to help describe things), the ability to purchase PODD, and others.
https://us.tobiidynavox.com/pages/td-snap
Tobii Dynavox has other apps and dedicated devices/software as well, but they can get really pricey and you might want to consult an SLP for those in order to help get funding. Tobii Dynavox also does a lot of eye-gaze related technology.
GoTalk NOW ($100; iOS only)
Symbol-based app, has visual scene pages. I've been told there is an option for a free trial where you can only save five pages, but I haven't found it on the website yet.
Not as robust as I'd like it to be.
https://www.attainmentcompany.com/gotalk-now
Note: there is an app made by the same company for the Apple Watch called GoTalk Wow – which is $49.99.
Proloquo4Text ($119.99; iOS and Mac only)
Text-based app with typing. Allows to save phrases, can customize topics and backgrounds. Large option for voices and can be personalized. Works on both iPhone and iPad – and option for Apple Watch.
https://www.assistiveware.com/products/proloquo4text
Also: this is one of the apps I use!
Proloquo2Go ($249.99; iOS and Mac only, can sometimes get it on dedicated devices)
Symbol-based app and robust, with option for typing. Boards keep the core words static so that it's easier to remember where they are – but grid sizes can be adjusted too. Large option for voices and can be personalized. Works on both iPhone and iPad – and option for Apple Watch.
https://www.assistiveware.com/products/proloquo2go
This is the other AAC app I use that's symbol-based! My grid size for my AAC tablet is much larger than the picture you see on the example there, so I can access a lot of words much faster.
LAMP Words for Life ($299.99; dedicated devices and iPad)
Symbol-based app, very high focus on motor planning and robust. Various voice options.
https://www.prentrom.com/prc_advantage/lamp-words-for-life-language-system and also https://aacapps.com/
TouchChat with WordPower ($299.99; iOS only, can sometimes get it on dedicated devices)
Symbol-based app with voice output, very robust. Like Proloquo2Go, you can make phone calls in the app!
https://touchchatapp.com/apps/touchchat-hd-aac-with-wordpower
Note: this app sometimes goes on sale during April and October, usually 50% off. There are a few other versions also available on the website that are lower cost
Speak For Yourself AAC ($299.99; iOS only)
Symbol-based app and robust, various voice options.
https://www.speakforyourself.org/
As I find more things to add to this, I will! There's probably lots more out there that I haven't heard of yet, but I'll update as I'm able.
All images, prices, and descriptions are accurate as of when I first published this. Images come from the official websites of the apps themselves.
Favorite AAC Users' Blogs, Social Medias, and Websites:
https://anotherqueerautistic.wordpress.com/category/aac/
https://www.instagram.com/nigh.functioning.autism/
https://autisticaacunderground.blogspot.com/
https://www.instagram.com/spellingwithwill/
https://turtleisaverb.blogspot.com/
https://www.instagram.com/afriendforlillybug/
http://yesthattoo.blogspot.com/
https://www.rhemashope.com/
First-hand Knowledge from AAC Users and Nonspeakers:
LISTEN: a short film made by and with nonspeakers
https://communicationfirst.org/LISTEN/
This Is Not About Me
https://thisisnotaboutme.film/
People Like Me
https://vimeo.com/339903359/description
Free Printables:
Communication Board – Tobii Dynavox-PCS and QWERTY
Lilly's Voice
https://www.lillysvoice.org/
https://thearc.org/find-a-chapter/
Sometimes your local Arc chapter may have funding to help access a communication device, depending on what's available.
Your state's Assistive Technology centers
https://www.at3center.net/stateprogram
These are a thing! Many states have centers where they can help you access assistive tech.
Medicaid, Home and Community-Based Services, and (sometimes) insurance plans
This can be difficult, but sometimes they will cover communication devices. I know at least in Tennessee, ECF Choices can cover assistive technology.
This might be an option for older individuals rather than children – and for people who are planning on working. But Vocational Rehabilitation is supposed to provide you with things related to your disability that you need to succeed in the workplace, in your education, etc – and if that includes AAC, there you go!
This section is a work in process. I'll update it as I'm able to, and hopefully reorganize it when I have the spoons/energy.
AssistiveWare: What is AAC?
assistiveware.com/learn-aac/what-is-aac
YouTube Playlist of AAC Review Videos I Made:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZ3u9CTstK-2i-iP-9s7XhxbGTOx2pPE
Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Speaking Autistic Adults: Overview and Recommendations by Alyssa Hillary Zisk and Elizabeth Dalton
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/aut.2018.0007?fbclid=IwAR0e4FbCUDqZFrJn5OSJK_9AsOKQCjsVeGMORaXXbg1-fERW_9Z6AtTgQrk
Am I the curriculum? by Alyssa Hillary
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03626784.2019.1664255?fbclid=IwAR3f2T-JpfiZILWKPZ2P88rbEDW3PLRfXZGJAtYeHyzFaU7IUVi5IR131XE&scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=rcui20#.Xge3DlDlAA8.link
Leaders Around Me: Autobiographies of Autistics who Type, Point, and Spell to Communicate
https://www.amazon.com/Leaders-Around-Autobiographies-Autistics-Communicate/dp/1791505953
Communication Alternatives in Autism: Perspectives on Typing and Spelling Approaches for the Nonspeaking
https://www.amazon.com/Communication-Alternatives-Autism-Perspectives-Nonspeaking/dp/147667891X
Communication First
https://communicationfirst.org/
Informational Posts
Updates on Updates
16 thoughts on "All About AAC: A Guide to Augmentative and Alternative Communication Options!"
this is absolutely wonderful! I love seeing all this great info all in one place. I have just started searching out options for communication so this has become much easier due to your time and efforts……. I sincerely Thank you!
tscott76 says:
This is a wonderful resource and a fantastic explanation of AAC! Thank you! I will be sharing this!!
Happy to help!
Does anyone know of an app with an onscreen keyboard that is in alphabetical order?
I think many people might do better with using the alphabet rather than a QWERTY keyboard. My relative appears to have forgotten how to type but she would still know the alphabet.
Hi! The onscreen primary keyboard for Snap Core First is in alphabetical order, if I recall correctly. I know you can also reorder the buttons as well.
Adelaide Dupont says:
Courtney,
I love the idea of the word / decision tree in AACORN.
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Great post! Here's the link to the free version of the GoTalk AAC app: GoTalk NOW LITE by Attainment Company, Inc., https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gotalk-now-lite/id953164338, iPad only, iOS 9.0 or later.
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Welcome to the 2019-2020 School Year: SRCE School Start Dates and Transportation Information
The 2019-2020 school start dates are:
School Orientation and Organization Day (staff only) Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Regional In-Service Day (staff only) Wednesday, September 4, 2019
First Day of Classes for Students Thursday, September 5, 2019
School-Based Support Staff As notified by the Regional Centre/school administrator
or as provided in collective agreement.
Changes to Bus Routes
Details related to any changes to bus routes will be communicated to students and parents/guardians through the school and/or direct contact with parents/guardians. It is expected that several days may be required for students and bus drivers to become fully accustomed to their routes. Your patience and cooperation is appreciated.
Please contact the Transportation Department staff at 902-747-3645 for further information related to your child's bus stop. The Strait Regional Centre for Education must follow the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board's regulations with respect to pupil transportation. For example, the following regulation states: "The driver of a school bus shall not stop the bus for the purpose of taking on or discharging passengers at:
(a) more than three (3) places in 1.6 km (1 mile) OR (b) a place that has not been designated as a loading station by a school board or other authority by or on whose behalf the bus is operating."
Spur Route Service
The Strait Regional Centre for Education will continue to implement Transportation Department, Policy IX-A-1, Mandate and Standards, 1.3 Spur Route Service, which states:
"Off-route listed road service will only be considered where the condition of the road is such that the bus can travel safely and with a suitable turning place maintained at no cost to the Regional Centre. School buses will not proceed into an off-route road or subdivision for the purpose of pickup or unloading pupils unless such pupils live more than 0.8 kilometers therein."
Students, parents/guardians, motorists, the school bus driver, teachers and Transportation Department staff share the responsibility for school bus safety. Please slow down in school zones, pay extra attention to children walking to and from school and never pass a school bus when its red lights are flashing. The speed limit in school zones is 30 km/h in areas where the approaching limit is 50 km/h, when children are present. In school areas where the surrounding speed zone is higher, the speed limit is 50 km/h when children are present. For more information on bus safety, please access the brochure entitled, School Bus Safety: A Guide for Students and Parents/Guardians available in the Document Depot section of the Regional Centre's website at www.srce.ca. For more information on School Zone Safety, please visit the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal website at https://novascotia.ca/tran/. By working together, we will ensure the bus trip is a safe one.
The Strait Regional Centre for Education will not alter or extend bus routes for the purpose of transporting students to after-school programs offered by Day Care Facilities.
Pre-Primary Programs
The Strait Regional Centre for Education is pleased to announce the opening schedule for the Pre-Primary Programs for the 2019-2020 school year. An orientation session for children and parents/guardians will be held on Friday, August 30, 2019, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Families may visit the school with their child at either of these times to meet staff and to receive program information. The first day for children is Tuesday, September 3, 2019. The Program will run from September 2019 to June 2020. Program hours will vary depending on individual school schedules. For more information on the Pre-Primary Program or to register your child, parents/guardians may contact Carolyn Webber, Manager of Pre-Primary and Early Years Programs at carolyn.webber@srce.ca / 902-631-4617, and access www.srce.ca.


These fees are for 2019. They apply to all Australian citizens and permanent residents or temporary residents.
those set by the College.
An annual invoice covering the full fees for the academic year is issued at the start of Term 1. The standard payment terms are over 3 instalments, due for payment at the end of February, April and July. Other terms, e.g. monthly payments, are available on request.
Extra curriculum fees, e.g. Band fees, Music camp, Duke of Edinburgh scheme and sports activities are not included in the College Education Fee and will be payable during the year. There are also additional fees for students in Years 9-12 for some elective subjects, e.g. Food technology. Students in Years 11 & 12 doing TAFE courses will be asked for an initial deposit of $1,200 towards the cost of their course, with final costs to be advised once courses are confirmed.


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Q: Instantiating a nested dictionary I'm trying to instantiate a nested dictionary which contains another dictionaries as keys and each of these dictionaries contains another dictionaries. I know what keys and how many keys will be in nested and nested-nested dictionaries, but I don't know how many and what keys will be in the upper dictionary (which will be OrderedDict and keys will be integers but I don't know how many).
The upper dictionary contains integers as keys and dictionaries as values - each of these dictionaries has 3 keys = 'forth','back' and 'price'.
'forth' and 'back' has another dictionaries as their values. Each of these dicts (values) contains these keys
'arr_date','arr_place','dep_date','dep_place'.

So for example 'forth' dict is:
dict.fromkeys(['arr_date','arr_place','dep_date','dep_place'],None)

So the point is that I want to instantiate the dictionary with these keys but the problem is that upper dictionary can has variable integers. It can contains these keys [1,2,3,4] but also can contains [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8].
This is an example of instantiation of nested and nested-nested. So this would be a value of upper dictionary for each of it's keys  (I'm not sure if condition will work).
dict.fromkeys(['forth','back','price'], dict.fromkeys(['arr_date','arr_place','dep_date','dep_place'],None) if key in ['forth','back'] else None)

The whole thing is that I want to tell the code as much as possible default values and keys.
Any advices?
EDIT: The condition 6 lines above does not work so anybody could tell how to do that too.
EDIT II: So the dict should looks like:
 {1:{'forth':{'arr_date':'15-8-4','arr_place':'Atlanta','dep_date':'15-8-4','dep_place':'New York'},'back':{'arr_date...},'price':158},2:{....}}

A: Maybe something like this:
def inner_dict(vals = []):
    my_vals = vals  + [None]*(4 - len(vals))
    my_keys = ['arr_date','arr_place','dep_date','dep_place']
    return dict(zip(my_keys,my_vals))

def middle_dict(fvals = [], bvals = [], price = None):
    d = {"forth": inner_dict(fvals),"back":inner_dict(bvals), 'price': price}
    return d

Typical use:
>>> middle_dict(['5-18-4', 'Atlanta','5-18-4','New York'],
        ['5-19-4', 'New York','5-19-4','Atlanta'], 134.05)
{'forth': {'arr_date': '5-18-4', 'dep_place': 'New York', 'dep_date': '5-18-4', 'arr_place': 'Atlanta'}, 'price': 134.05, 'back': {'arr_date': '5-19-4', 'dep_place': 'Atlanta', 'dep_date': '5-19-4', 'arr_place': 'New York'}}
>>>
>>> d = {i:middle_dict() for i in range(1,4)}
>>> d
{1: {'forth': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_place': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None}, 'price': 0.0, 'back': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_place': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None}}, 2: {'forth': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_place': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None}, 'price': 0.0, 'back': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_place': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None}}, 3: {'forth': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_place': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None}, 'price': 0.0, 'back': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_place': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None}}}

A: This should produce the empty ordered dict you're looking for assuming you want to instantiate with None values in your nested dicts:
from collections import OrderedDict
d=OrderedDict()
for x in range(1,6):
    d[x]={key:dict.fromkeys(['arr_date','arr_place','dep_date','dep_place'],None) if key in ['forth','back'] else None for key in ['forth','back','price']}

Which gives the following dict:
In[42]: dict(d)
Out[42]: {1: {'price': None, 'forth': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None, 'dep_place': None}, 'back': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None, 'dep_place': None}}, 2: {'price': None, 'forth': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None, 'dep_place': None}, 'back': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None, 'dep_place': None}}, 3: {'price': None, 'forth': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None, 'dep_place': None}, 'back': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None, 'dep_place': None}}, 4: {'price': None, 'forth': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None, 'dep_place': None}, 'back': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None, 'dep_place': None}}, 5: {'price': None, 'forth': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None, 'dep_place': None}, 'back': {'arr_date': None, 'dep_date': None, 'arr_place': None, 'dep_place': None}}}

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Q: Exporting data to excel in Wordpress I'm trying to export some data to an excel in my wordpress page, but when I save the file it print it on my browser and never open the dialog to save it.
I'm trying to save with this command.
        $objWriter->save('php://output');

Thank you in advance.

A: Yeah, I instantiate it before.
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($this->excel->workbook,'Excel5');

And I have use several headers, for example this one:
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="'.$filename.'.xls"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');

And this too:
header("Content-type: text/csv");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.csv");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");


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John Timberlake , President & Chief Executive Officer
John Timberlake has served as our chief executive officer, president and chief commercial officer and a member of our board of directors since February 2016, prior to which he served as president and chief commercial officer since August 2008. Before becoming chief executive officer, president and chief commercial officer, Mr. Timberlake was a general manager with our company from September 2006 to August 2008. Prior to joining Valeritas, Mr. Timberlake held positions of increasing responsibility from 1991 to 2006 at Sanofi-Aventis (now Sanofi), with his last role as vice president of diabetes marketing, where he was responsible for the diabetes franchise, including the brands Lantus, Apidra and Amaryl. While at Sanofi, Mr. Timberlake had extensive experience and commercial responsibilities for new products in development across multiple therapeutic areas, including inhaled insulin and other metabolic products. Prior to working in the healthcare industry, Mr. Timberlake was a manager with Deloitte & Touche LLP from 1986 to 1991 and was both a certified management accountant and a certified public accountant. He earned a B.S. in accounting at Northwest Missouri State University, an M.S. in management from Purdue University and an MBA from ESC Rouen in France (now NEOMA Business School).
Peter Devlin , Chairman of the Board & Compensation Chairman
Peter Devlin has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2016. From August 2009 to September 2014, Mr. Devlin was the chief commercial officer at Insulet Corporation, a manufacturer of diabetes insulin device products, where he was responsible for the company's worldwide commercial operations. Prior to joining Insulet, Mr. Devlin held several leadership roles at Abbott Laboratories, Inc. From February 2008 to July 2009, he served as divisional vice president of Abbott's Global Strategic Marketing in the diabetes care unit, prior to which he served as general manager, hospital & government in the diabetes care unit from December 2006 to February 2008, and prior to which he served as director of Abbott's Canadian diabetes unit from September 2003 to December 2006. Mr. Devlin received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts. Mr. Devlin is qualified to serve as a director because of his extensive business experience in the field of diabetes.
Katherine D. Crothall , Ph.D. , Member
Katherine D. Crothall, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2016. Dr. Crothall currently serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Aspire Bariatrics, a company committed to providing safe and effective treatments for obesity to patients worldwide. Prior to Aspire, Dr. Crothall was a Principal at Liberty Venture Partners, a venture capital firm located in Philadelphia, from 2006 until November 2010. Prior to Liberty, Dr. Crothall was Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Animas Corporation, a leading manufacturer of insulin infusion pumps located in West Chester, PA, from its inception to its acquisition by Johnson & Johnson Corporation in February 2006. Prior to Animas, Dr. Crothall was also the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of two other medical device companies: Luxar Corporation, founded in 1988 and sold to ESC Medical, and Laakmann Electro-Optics, founded in 1978 and sold to Johnson & Johnson in 1981. Dr. Crothall continued running Laakmann Electro-Optics for five years post-acquisition.
Dr. Crothall received her B.S. from University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. from University of Southern California, both in Electrical Engineering. She holds over 20 patents and is the recipient of several awards including the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2003 and the Greater Philadelphia Raymond Rafferty Entrepreneurial Excellence Award in 2004. Dr. Crothall is a director of Adhezion BioMedical and Xanitos, Inc. She also sits on the Board of Overseers of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Luke Düster , Member
Luke Düster has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2016. Since 2009, Mr. Düster has worked for CRG investing in healthcare companies across a wide range of product technologies and therapeutic areas. Prior to joining Capital Royalty Group L.P., Mr. Düster was at Harris Williams & Co. from 2004 to 2009, where he served as vice president and advised private equity and corporate clients across a broad range of M&A assignments. Mr. Düster also held investment banking roles at the Wallach Company a regional investment banking boutique, from 2000 to 2002, and the Nord Companies, a healthcare advisory firm, from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Düster received his B.S. summa cum laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an M.B.A. with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Düster is qualified to serve as a director because of his significant experience working with companies backed by private equity investors, particularly in the healthcare industry, as well as his experience with healthcare investing.
Brian Roberts , Audit Chairman
Brian Roberts has served as a member of our board of directors and as chairman of the audit committee since July 2016. Mr. Roberts currently serves as chief financial officer of Tarveda Therapeutics and serves as a member of the board of directors and audit chairman of ViewRay. Most recently he served as the chief operating and financial officer of Avedro, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company leading the organization through FDA approval, manufacturing readiness and commercial launch of its lead combination drug and medical device product Prior to Avedro, he served as CFO for Insulet Corporation, a tubeless insulin pump technology company. Under his supervision, Insulet grew from approximately $30 million to nearly $300 million in revenue, achieved operating profitability and increased its market capitalization to over $2 billion. Previously, Mr. Roberts served as CFO for Jingle Networks, a leader in mobile voice-ad services that was acquired by Marchex, and as CFO for Digitas, which was sold for $1.3 billion to Publicis Groupe. He holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting and finance from Boston College, is a certified public accountant, and served as an auditor with Ernst & Young LLP.
Joe Mandato , D.M. , Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Chairman
Joe Mandato, D.M., has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2016. Beginning in March, 2003, Dr. Mandato has been a Managing Director at De Novo Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on the life sciences. Dr. Mandato also serves as a Senior Advisor to Mainsail Partners and its portfolio companies. Dr. Mandato served as a member of the Board of Directors of AxoGen Corporation from February 2006 until its merger with and into AxoGen, Inc. in September 2011, and then served on the Board of AxoGen, Inc. until September 2016. Dr. Mandato has served on other public boards and continues to serve on the board of directors of several private companies and non-profit organizations.
Dr. Mandato has served as CEO of several successful operating companies, including two leveraged buyouts. The first, an ophthalmic implant company, was sold to a UK-based public company, and the second, a leveraged purchase from Johnson & Johnson, was subsequently acquired by a NYSE-listed company. Both transactions resulted in significant value creation for shareholders. He also advised the founders, was an active investor and was appointed to the Board of Directors of Align Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALGN), developer of the Invisalign clear orthodontic appliance.
Earlier in his career, he served as President and CEO of Origin Medsystems, a developer of minimally invasive surgical devices, where he also co-founded and served as CEO of Gynecare, a women's health spin-out from Origin, which was later acquired by Johnson & Johnson. Origin was acquired by Guidant Corporation (which was NYSE-listed prior to being acquired by Boston Scientific), where Dr. Mandato served as a Vice President and member of the founding management committee and CEO of two of its five operating units. He has also served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mayfield Fund, a venture capital firm.
Prior to his distinguished career, Dr. Mandato served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He currently serves on the boards of Embrace Global and Save the Children. In 2004, Dr. Mandato received his doctorate degree in management from Case Western Reserve University, focusing his research on the evolving role of boards of directors in ensuring effective enterprise governance, and serves on its Board of Trustees. Dr. Mandato holds the Carlo Rossi Chair in Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of San Francisco, is a Lecturer at Stanford University and is currently a Fellow in the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative.


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Video is big in marketing in 2018. While you can't really embed the videos themselves into emails, you can always include an image showing a preview of your video with a play symbol in front of it that links to your video.
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The PA organizes a number of fundraising events which require parental input in terms of organization and logistics. We welcome the involvement of all parents regardless of whether they are a member of the PA or not. We firmly believe that everyone can make a contribution to ensure that pupils and parents alike have a positive experience at St Luke's.
The PA also supports the sport representatives who organize extracurricular activities such as swimming, hockey and soccer.
We urge all parents to consider joining the PA or volunteering as sports representatives.
Do not hesitate to contact us with any queries you may have.


ook club annual get together with husbands and without books on saturday was a reprieve from the incredible cold and january greyness that has swamped Molesey..... at least I have managed to get something down in the diary/sketchbook...it has definitely given me something to think about other than surviving the english winter!
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Q: What is meant by "managed" vs "unmanaged" resources in .NET? What is meant by the terms managed resource and unmanaged resource in .NET? How do they come into the picture?

A: The basic difference between a managed and unmanaged resource is that the
garbage collector knows about all managed resources, at some point in time
the GC will come along and clean up all the memory and resources associated
with a managed object. The GC does not know about unmanaged resources, such
as files, stream and handles, so if you do not clean them up explicitly in
your code then you will end up with memory leaks and locked resources.
For more details - http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/276059-what-unmanaged-resources

A: Managed resources are those that are pure .NET code and managed by the runtime and are under its direct control.
Unmanaged resources are those that are not. File handles, pinned memory, COM objects, database connections etc.

A: In the Q&A What are unmanaged resources?1, Bruce Wood posted the following:

I think of the terms "managed" and "unmanaged" this way:
"Managed" refers to anything within the .NET sandbox. This includes
  all .NET Framework classes.
"Unmanaged" refers to the wilderness outside the .NET sandbox. This
  includes anything that is returned to you through calls to Win32 API
  functions.
If you never call a Win32 API function and never get back any Win32
  "handle" objects, then you are not holding any unmanaged resources.
  Files and streams that you open via .NET Framework class methods are
  all managed wrappers.

Comment: You may not be holding an unmanaged resource directly. However, you may be holding an unmanaged resource indirectly via a managed "wrapper class" such as System.IO.FileStream. Such a wrapper class commonly implements IDisposable (either directly or via inheritance).

...many managed (.NET Framework) objects are
  holding unmanaged resources inside them, and you probably want to
  Dispose() of them as soon as you can, or at least offer your callers
  the opportunity to do so. That's where writing your own Dispose()
  method comes in. Essentially, implementing IDisposable() does two
  things for you:

*

*Allows you to get rid of any resources you grabbed directly from
  the operating system behind .NET's back (unmanaged resources).

*Allows you and your callers to release hefty .NET objects / .NET
  objects that are holding precious resources in their grubby little
  hands that you / your callers want released now.

Comment: By implementing IDisposable and thereby providing a Dispose() method, you are enabling a user of your class to release in a deterministic fashion any unmanaged resources that are held by an instance your class.

1 Link originally shared in Sachin Shanbhag's answer. Quoted material dated 2005-11-17. Note that I have lightly copy-edited the quoted content.

A: Managed resources are resources which can be freed up by the garbage collector and unmanaged resources cannot be freed up by the garbage collector for this purpose destructor is required.

A: The term "unmanaged resource" is usually used to describe something not directly under the control of the garbage collector. For example, if you open a connection to a database server this will use resources on the server (for maintaining the connection) and possibly other non-.net resources on the client machine, if the provider isn't written entirely in managed code.
This is why, for something like a database connection, it's recommended you write your code thusly:
using (var connection = new SqlConnection("connection_string_here"))
{
    // Code to use connection here
}

As this ensures that .Dispose() is called on the connection object, ensuring that any unmanaged resources are cleaned up.


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Our enlightened self-interest is at stake, the well-being of our children and grandchildren is in the balance. Let's do right.
What, we wonder, can we do about it?
What is there to do about a lack of funding for our public schools and education in general? Just looking at the federal level, despite an economy that is doing very well at the moment, Trump's proposed 2019 education budget chops it from $68 billion in 2016 to $63 billion in 2019, cheating children while at the same time spending more and more on war profiteers like Lockheed and Boeing.
Indeed, the daily contracts for the war department are staggering. Just today, 10 September 2018, Boeing is awarded $2.85 billion, $51 million to Lockheed, $19 million to Northrup Grumman, an additional contract of $14 million more to Boeing, and $12 million to BAE Technology Solutions.
Those are just the Air Force contracts for one random day. The Navy's, Army's, and Defense Logistics Agency list other contracts for the day, each one in the $millions, even more than $200 million for L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace.
But, I hear you snort, that's how Trump is creating jobs!
Nope. That's how he's losing them, once the new budgets kick in.
Economists figure it by jobs created per $million spent. The military contractors produce far fewer jobs/$million than does education. Nationwide, the average is 17 jobs per $million (or 17,000 jobs/$billion), and if you just consider the government workers, including all members of all branches of the military and all agency workers, that sector actually creates 21 jobs per $million spent, more than any other sector. Therefore, the private sector profits are obscenely high in Pentagon budgets.
To create more jobs, to create more educational opportunities for our young people, vote for candidates who will cut military spending and increase education. Ask your candidates for federal office very specifically about their intentions, ask incumbents about their actual voting records, and choose accordingly. Our future is at stake more than ever in this midterm election season. From an environment under attack, to foreign influence on our elections, to a drive toward the US as less and less free, our opportunity to fix this starts right now.
I want to be proud of my country and right now, bluntly, I am not. I have hope, but it revolves around regular folks rising up in rejection of Trump and his agenda in November. Our enlightened self-interest is at stake, the well-being of our children and grandchildren is in the balance. Let's do right.


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Tag Archives: Rafael Soriano
Never rear-end a guy who's head is shaped like a box.
Earlier today, Nationals manager Matt Williams was involved in a hit and run accident while giving an interview to a DC radio station. While you would think something like this is uncommon, it has in fact happened many times throughout the years to members of the Nationals. Below is a list of some of the more memorable times when Nationals players had a run in with the law while on the air.
1. While giving a phone interview while walking through downtown DC, Jordan Zimmermann's backpack was snatched by a man running by. However Jordan was able to successfully catch the thief after getting him to slow down to a walking pace, since Jordan doesn't allow any runs.
2. During a Skype interview in the comfort of his own home, Rafael Soriano experienced a case of breaking and entering. The criminal was successful in kidnapping Soriano's family, after Rafael blew the chance to save them.
3. In a similar case to Williams, Wilson Ramos also dealt with a hit and run while giving an interview while driving. However unlike Williams, Ramos was critically injured, broke every bone in his body and now uses several colostomy bags.
4. In a post-game locker room interview, the entire Nationals team was cited for indecent exposure. They are now required to wear bathing suits in the shower.
5. While giving an interview together during a goodwill trip to the Middle East, Tyler Clippard and Drew Storen were arrested and sentenced to death after being mistaken for a gay couple. They were later freed and returned to the U.S., where they continue to live together, work together, and share a twin bed together.
Tagged crime, Drew Storen, Jordan Zimmermann, Matt Williams, nudity, Rafael Soriano, Tyler Clippard, Wilson Ramos
Nationals Win 2 out of 3 Decisions vs. Philadelphia's Rocky Team: A Phillies Series Recap
Ben Revere, breaking his spine. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
Nationals 5, Phillies 2
Davey Johnson vowed to not shave his facial hair until the Nationals bats started hitting. I'm uncertain if this is some luck-based initiative, or if his kids stopped paying the night nurse and just left him on his own. Either way, I'm torn. For one, I like the Nationals hitting. But on the other hand, I like the idea of having a guy who looks like a germ-fearing Mr. Burns managing our team.
Many teams have turned to crafty veterans throughout the years to help lead their team to victory. But what about insane veterans? I think Davey should keep taking this superstition stuff further and further until the Nationals bats perform at a consistently high level. Some ideas…
Tagged beards, Ben Revere, Davey Johnson, Death, Drew Storen, Fernando Abad, George Clooney, Hindu, Indra, Jordan Zimmermann, Kevin Frandsen, Kurt Suzuki, Mr. Burns, Murray Chass, Nazis, nipples, nudity, Philadelphia Phillies, Picasso, Rafael Soriano, rain, Rocky, sabremetrics, spines, Stephen Strasburg, superstition, teeth, The SS
A Giant Shit (Named Rafael Soriano)
Bryce Harper celebrates scoring the go-ahead run in the 10th inning of game three by singing every aria from Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in succession. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
Giants 8, Nationals 0
Oh, Zach Duke. I'm not mad. I'm just…disappointed. We dedicated a whole week to you this offseason. We did our best to make you feel welcomed and loved in the Nationals family. We took you in off the streets, despite your filthy, mangy hair and rabid foaming mouth. We bathed you, fed you, clothed you, neutered you. We gave you everything we had to give.
And this…this is how you repay us? 4 ER in 3 IP? How could you be so ungrateful? I will not strike you, Zach Duke. I will not even raise my voice.
But I never want to see you again, Zach Duke. Begone from this place, and do not return. Continue reading →
Tagged animals, Bryce Harper, children, Death, Drew Storen, executions, Food, Gio Gonzalez, kisses, Mayas, money, Mozart, opera, poop, Rafael Soriano, San Francisco Giants, Yunesky Maya, Zach Duke, Zach Duke Week
Nats Fail to Finish Chore of Sweeping, Get Beaten by Dads: A Padres Series Recap
A doctor (not shown) chases Span to try and finally cut off his umbilical cord. However, Denard doesn't want to part with it after all these years, and runs away. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
Nationals 6, Padres 2
Stephen Strasburg dominated the Padres on Thursday night, going 8 innings and allowing just 1 earned run. With a rough start to the season, Strasburg hopefully turned things around with his tremendous performance. What changed for him? Well, San Diego is where he's from. And apparently that means a great deal for his comfort. He was quoted as saying, "It's easy pitching in front of a lot of loved ones." Understandable. But I have a question Stephen.
You…don't love us?
Tagged Adam LaRoche, Burch Smith, Chad Tracy, Dan Haren, Davey Johnson, Denard Span, diapers, doctors, Drew Storen, drugs, errors, fuck buddies, Gio Gonzalez, Iraq, Jordan Zimmermann, Kenny Loggins, love, nipples, North Korea, poop, Rafael Soriano, Ryan Zimmerman, San Diego Padres, sex, spankings, Steve McCatty, trees, Tyler Clippard, umbilical cords, Yonder Alonso
The Curse of the Billy Errors: A Cubs Series Recap
Despite Ryan's protests, the ump went through with his dick punch, captured here mid-windup. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Nationals 7, Cubs 3
This is Ian Desmond's world and we're all just living in it. Which explains the amount of accidental gunshot deaths in the news recently. A lot of people are committing stupid errors.
But today there were no accidental gunshot deaths, or even worse, throwing errors for Desmond. Instead he put on a fantastic offensive performance that powered the Nationals to victory. With a home run, a double, and a single, Desmond managed 7 bases while seeing just 6 pitches. So he was a lot more patient than usual. All in all, I'm very happy with Desmond at the moment. In fact, I'm going to order an Ian Desmond jersey right now.
*UPS guy arrives*
Why does this jersey have the number 6 on the back? That's his old number! Gah, what a stupid error. Didn't you get the memo MLB shop? We're not doing that for Desmond anymore!
Tagged Anthony Rizzo, Bryce Harper, Chicago Cubs, Dawrin Barney, Death, dick punch, Drew Storen, Edwin Jackson, emphysema, errors, fingers, guns, Ian Desmond, jail, Kurt Suzuki, Mike Maroth, mompen, moms, Mother's Day, Nationals Park, New York Yankees, Omar Daal, Rafael Soriano, Ryan Zimmerman, Stephen Strasburg, toes, UPS, vaginas, wombs
Nationals Ring the Bell, Win at Pitt: A Pirates Series Recap
Jason Grilli's hair starts spinning to prepare for takeoff. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Pirates 3, Nationals 1
"Fuck the Yankees."
Having admitted to being, in addition to a Nationals fan, a Yankees fan, that is not a sentence I have said often. I said something like it once before when I asked my girlfriend to keep putting on different masks of Yankees players so I could live out a totally non-gay, non-weird fantasy. But don't judge, cause you'd do it too if you got to imagine you were having sex with Bartolo Colon.
But it has recently become clear that the Yankees, obviously tired of winning the World Series (why else would they trade for Vernon Wells and sign Lyle Overbay?), have made it their sole objective to hurt the Nationals. The plan? It's obvious. To acquire terrible talent and strategically send them off to teams where they could hurt the Nationals most. You may say I'm a conspiracy theorist, but I have proof that the government doesn't want me to reveal because Bigfoot is real and 9/11 was an inside job.
Tagged A.J. Burnett, Adam LaRoche, alcohol, Bartolo Colon, conspiracies, Danny Espinosa, deportation, drugs, ejections, helicopters, Ian Desmond, insanity, Jason Grilli, Jayson Nix, Lyle Overbay, man piles, Mariano Rivera, medication, Mormons, mud, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Potomac Nationals, Rafael Soriano, Ryan Zimmerman, sex, Trent Jewett, umpires, Vernon Wells
Split Peavy Soup: Nats Slurp Up White Sox in Series Opener
When the sunlight reflects off this sign at just the right angle, you can make out the faint hidden hologram message: "Suck it, Phillies."
Final Score: Nationals 8, White Sox 7.
Belle of the Ball: Adam LaRoche. Adam's two home runs made me forgive his 0-14 start to the season, but will I ever forget? Yeah, probably, in a couple months.
Smell of the Ball: Rafael Soriano. Save or no, Soriano smelled like a toilet that had gone unflushed flushed for a thousand years.
Man, I love Gio Gonzalez. Can't get enough of him. I go to all his starts. I love when he pitches, when he hits, when he just sits in the dugout and grins, when he balks with the bases loaded–wait. No. I hate when he does that. Damn it, Gio.
But even in the face of such a balk, I will not balk (HA) at expressing my affection for Gio, especially when he follows it up with four scoreless innings. Continue reading →
Tagged Adam LaRoche, balks, Chicago White Sox, Death, fire, Food, Gio Gonzalez, guns, hell, immigration, Jake Peavy, Joe Biden, love, money, Philadelphia Phillies, President's Race, Rafael Soriano, Selena Meyer, soup, Veep, VORP
2013 Nationals Player Profile: Denard Span
Denard Span's saliva is worth its weight in saliva.
On January 16, 2013, Denard Span woke up, went to the bathroom, defecated, forgot to brush his teeth, and pulled on his Lounging Robe, which is neon pink and checkered with pictures of his naked body taken from different angles. He plopped down on his couch, flipped open his laptop, and started clicking around on youtube.
Denard Span saw something on youtube. Something that would change his life forever.
He couldn't contain himself. He tried to resist for a few minutes, but twitter was calling him with its siren tweet-song. At last, at 11:54 AM, Denard Span tweeted the following tweet:
@thisisdpsan: "I was watching some controversial stuff on YouTube about the sandy hooks thing today! It really makes u think and wonder"
It really does. It really makes me think and wonder about Denard Span, and what other odds and ends are meandering around in that crazy ol' head of his. Continue reading →
Tagged 9/11, Abraham Lincoln, animals, assassinations, Barack Obama, Brutus, Chad Cordero, conspiracy theories, Davey Johnson, Death, Denard Span, God, Jesus, John F. Kennedy, Julius Caesar, NASA, nudity, poop, Presidents, racism, Rafael Soriano, the CIA, the moon, the Titanic, tragedy, twitter, William Shakespeare