Friday, June 5, 2009
New York Weddings - Purple & Green Real Wedding Inspiration Board
Purple is all the rage! Here is a real weddings inspiration board from a New York Wedding at the Tribeca Rooftop. Enjoy!
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Base Hits: 6/4/2009
Sure, Baltimore dropped the series in Seattle but you can console yourself with the fact that the O's have played the second hardest schedule in the majors this season. Only the Indians have had it rougher. Maybe the NL East is the remedy?
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Sure the Orioles lost 3-2 last night...OR DID THEY???
Obviously, Yahoo Sports considered that first inning shot by Huff a fair ball...
On the bright side, you have to be impressed by how well Brad Bergesen and Matt Wieters work together. Two starts, both at least 7 inning outings with 2 earned runs apiece.
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I like Dave Trembley. I really do. But his odd "aggressive" base runnning and hit-and-run tactics are a bit overused and misguided. Sure, Brian Roberts and Adam Jones could be employed in these maneuvers...but Aubrey Huff?
But zknower of Camden Chat says it way better than I could. And even Peter Schmuck gets in on the act. OK, Peter advocates for the sac bunt but IF you're going to play "small ball", he has a very valid point. And IF, you're going to play "small ball" why not use Felix Pie as a pinch runner late in the game?
I'm an Earl Weaver guy...pitching, defense and the three run homer. Didn't Earl say that the 27 outs you get at the beginning of the game are your most precious commodity? (I have to stop repeating myself and just find that quote...)
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OPACY has made PETA's Top Ten Vegetarian-Friendly Ballparks for the first time. As a spouse of a woman with specific dietary needs, I appreciate that Camden Yards offers veggie burgers, veggie dogs, salads and fruit cups. It's good for the consumer and prevents me from having to eat elsewhere before the game. But the clever PETA rhetoric goes just a little too far...
Birds fans would be disgusted to know that the meat industry drugs chickens and turkeys, making them grow so fat that their legs often become crippled under their own weight. Luckily, Orioles diehards can help prevent such cruelty by choosing mouthwatering vegetarian options...
That's the new logo! Cartoon Oriole bird, engorged from feasting on it's Major league opponents, no longer able to support his mass on his own spindly legs!
Or....maybe not.
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Luke Scott leads the AL in ISO (Raw Power like The Stooges, baby) at .339, tied with Jason Bay. He leads the league in slugging at .669. Streaky hitter? Yes. Could he hit 30 this season? I think so. He being much more disciplined at the plate. His strikeout rate has dropped and his walk rate has ticked up a bit.
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MacPhail may have fleeced Seattle but getting Scott as a throw-in in the Tejada deal is becoming a pretty good fleecing too.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
"Evil" Agents, Untapped Potential and Revisionist History: The Ben McDonald Draft Revisited
(toh to Matt from Roar from 34 for linking to this article...)
USA Today's Ben Nightengale has a story that revisits the drafting of former Oriole Ben McDonald, the inherent risks of the draft and draws parallels to college phenom pitcher Stephen Strasburg.
I think the point of the article was to warn of the dangers of star agents and unrealistic expectations for top draft picks. You know, the typical "How can teams pay players so much money? It's crazy!" articles. I am no fan of McDonald's former agent, Scott Boras, but what got me fired up were the quotes by former members of the Oriole front office.
Says current Boston Red Sox president Larry Luchino:
Boston Red Sox president Larry Lucchino's long-standing feud with Boras started during the McDonald negotiations when Lucchino was president of the Orioles.
"I'll always remember how highly rated Ben was," Lucchino says. "And how unequivocal his representative was in telling us how unique his talent was. And the predictions of a long and storied Hall of Fame career.
"And I still believe those negotiations might have impaired his early development. His agent did not want him to be signed until the last possible moment."
After signing, McDonald made two starts in the minor leagues before being promoted to the Orioles...
Wow. Notice the quotes I emphasized. The problems with McDonald's development were Scott Boras' fault, not the fault of an organization that threw him into the middle of a division race with 9 minor league innings under his belt at the age of 21.
McDonald only had 64 innings of minor league work before he was thrust into the Oriole lineup for good in 1990. By comparison, Mike Mussina (the top pick in 1990) had 178 innings in the minors before getting called up. Did the organization's anger with Boras affect how they treated McDonald?
McDonald was rushed. Instead of viewing McDonald as an investment, the Orioles basically told him, "Are you really that good? Prove it, rook."
There's more:
Roland Hemond is currently an Arizona Diamondbacks special assistant but was the Orioles general manager in 1989 and says he thinks the lengthy negotiations cost the team a playoff berth.
"If he had signed sooner, we might have picked up a couple of wins and gotten in there," Hemond says. "But the negotiations just kept dragging. And sometimes when that happens, the player and the agent lose out in the long run."
I loved that 1989 team. It was awesome to watch. But the reason they missed the playoffs was not because Ben McDonald did not make some starts for that team. That team simply didn't have the horses. And the team was not built to contend. It was a rebuilding effort that caught lightning in a bottle.
If you were so smart Hemond, if you thought this team could win in the first place, why did you trade away Eddie Murray in '88? Or Mike Boddicker?!?! Or Mike Morgan!?!?!?! Who do you think would have been more likely to push that team over the top? A 21 year old rookie with virtually no minor league innings or a slugging first baseman who was on his way to the Hall of Fame?!?!?! Our best starter was Bob Milacki! You think we could have used Mike Boddicker in '89?!?!?!
Don't pull that crap with me, Hemond! You may be 80 years old but you can't possibly be that DELUSIONAL!!!!!
(pant, pant, pant)
Typical management tactics. Blame the player, the 21 year old kid, and his agent for the player's ultimate failure, not the team that pushed him too far, too fast. (And it's not as if Ben McDonald is the ultimate cautionary tale. Injuries prevented him from living up to the hype but he was a very good pitcher, especially toward the back end of his career. Why? He finally learned to pitch. He could have learned better in the minors and reached his potential sooner had Baltimore treated him like a normal prospect...)
Besides, there are others who think that Ben was overworked in college and that perhaps that was the reason he developed injuries in his mid-20's:
(Boras) says a more reasonable explanation is that McDonald was a product of the times, when collegiate pitchers started a game one day and closed it the next.
Granted, Boras has a vested interest in this matter. But Rob Neyer (who is certainly no Boras fan) had heard and seen similar things regarding McDonald's collegiate workload:
Speaking of Ben McDonald, I saw his last outing before he got drafted, at the College World Series in 1989. His brilliant coach left him in for far too long, as he was obviously laboring; some say McDonald was never the same afterward.
But somehow, some way, it was Scott Boras and the lost (at most) 10 weeks of potential extra playing time in 1989 that cost the Orioles the division and ultimately damaged McDonald's career.
Get out of here with that. Pull my other leg, this one's long enough.
USA Today's Ben Nightengale has a story that revisits the drafting of former Oriole Ben McDonald, the inherent risks of the draft and draws parallels to college phenom pitcher Stephen Strasburg.
I think the point of the article was to warn of the dangers of star agents and unrealistic expectations for top draft picks. You know, the typical "How can teams pay players so much money? It's crazy!" articles. I am no fan of McDonald's former agent, Scott Boras, but what got me fired up were the quotes by former members of the Oriole front office.
Says current Boston Red Sox president Larry Luchino:
Boston Red Sox president Larry Lucchino's long-standing feud with Boras started during the McDonald negotiations when Lucchino was president of the Orioles.
"I'll always remember how highly rated Ben was," Lucchino says. "And how unequivocal his representative was in telling us how unique his talent was. And the predictions of a long and storied Hall of Fame career.
"And I still believe those negotiations might have impaired his early development. His agent did not want him to be signed until the last possible moment."
After signing, McDonald made two starts in the minor leagues before being promoted to the Orioles...
Wow. Notice the quotes I emphasized. The problems with McDonald's development were Scott Boras' fault, not the fault of an organization that threw him into the middle of a division race with 9 minor league innings under his belt at the age of 21.
McDonald only had 64 innings of minor league work before he was thrust into the Oriole lineup for good in 1990. By comparison, Mike Mussina (the top pick in 1990) had 178 innings in the minors before getting called up. Did the organization's anger with Boras affect how they treated McDonald?
McDonald was rushed. Instead of viewing McDonald as an investment, the Orioles basically told him, "Are you really that good? Prove it, rook."
There's more:
Roland Hemond is currently an Arizona Diamondbacks special assistant but was the Orioles general manager in 1989 and says he thinks the lengthy negotiations cost the team a playoff berth.
"If he had signed sooner, we might have picked up a couple of wins and gotten in there," Hemond says. "But the negotiations just kept dragging. And sometimes when that happens, the player and the agent lose out in the long run."
I loved that 1989 team. It was awesome to watch. But the reason they missed the playoffs was not because Ben McDonald did not make some starts for that team. That team simply didn't have the horses. And the team was not built to contend. It was a rebuilding effort that caught lightning in a bottle.
If you were so smart Hemond, if you thought this team could win in the first place, why did you trade away Eddie Murray in '88? Or Mike Boddicker?!?! Or Mike Morgan!?!?!?! Who do you think would have been more likely to push that team over the top? A 21 year old rookie with virtually no minor league innings or a slugging first baseman who was on his way to the Hall of Fame?!?!?! Our best starter was Bob Milacki! You think we could have used Mike Boddicker in '89?!?!?!
Don't pull that crap with me, Hemond! You may be 80 years old but you can't possibly be that DELUSIONAL!!!!!
(pant, pant, pant)
Typical management tactics. Blame the player, the 21 year old kid, and his agent for the player's ultimate failure, not the team that pushed him too far, too fast. (And it's not as if Ben McDonald is the ultimate cautionary tale. Injuries prevented him from living up to the hype but he was a very good pitcher, especially toward the back end of his career. Why? He finally learned to pitch. He could have learned better in the minors and reached his potential sooner had Baltimore treated him like a normal prospect...)
Besides, there are others who think that Ben was overworked in college and that perhaps that was the reason he developed injuries in his mid-20's:
(Boras) says a more reasonable explanation is that McDonald was a product of the times, when collegiate pitchers started a game one day and closed it the next.
Granted, Boras has a vested interest in this matter. But Rob Neyer (who is certainly no Boras fan) had heard and seen similar things regarding McDonald's collegiate workload:
Speaking of Ben McDonald, I saw his last outing before he got drafted, at the College World Series in 1989. His brilliant coach left him in for far too long, as he was obviously laboring; some say McDonald was never the same afterward.
But somehow, some way, it was Scott Boras and the lost (at most) 10 weeks of potential extra playing time in 1989 that cost the Orioles the division and ultimately damaged McDonald's career.
Get out of here with that. Pull my other leg, this one's long enough.
How align Blogger widget To Centre Left or Right Of Page
How to align any widget to Left,right or centre Of Blogger?What you have to do for it,its very simple question with very simple answer for those who just have little knowledge about html or xml or you must have learnt while writing your post also if you dont had any previous knowledge,so you waiting for just simple answer to this simple question.
Ok just see the codes below:-
For align to center
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For align to left
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Ok i have answered this question,now i would like to talk about one tip i use to get increase my visitors from search engines sometimes when i have nothing to post and have shared it with you before also.This post is part of that trick.
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And Today i was also in hurry to post,so thought why not just take my fast 10 minutes,which is very short time for my post,as usually it take me minimum of 1 hour to make a proper and easy tutorial for you.
I tried to make this 10 minute post useful for my blog readers as well as my search engine visitors.
So the post is seo with fully loaded tip to my readers.A complete package post...
Ok just see the codes below:-
For align to center
<div align="center">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
For align to left
<div align="left">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
For align to center
<div align="right">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
Now just place your codes in place of red line and widget will align to left,right or center,whichever code you will use.
Ok i have answered this question,now i would like to talk about one tip i use to get increase my visitors from search engines sometimes when i have nothing to post and have shared it with you before also.This post is part of that trick.
As few days ago i shared a post on how to increase my visitors from search engines.You should read it for sure.There i said to check for keywords for which visitors are coming to your blog.I found 2-3 visitors or i can say newbies to blogger coming to my blog searching align widget blogger,and i was not surprised also as me too would have searched if i would have not known anything what html is ..?
And Today i was also in hurry to post,so thought why not just take my fast 10 minutes,which is very short time for my post,as usually it take me minimum of 1 hour to make a proper and easy tutorial for you.
I tried to make this 10 minute post useful for my blog readers as well as my search engine visitors.
So the post is seo with fully loaded tip to my readers.A complete package post...
How align Blogger widget To Centre Left or Right Of Page
How to align any widget to Left,right or centre Of Blogger?What you have to do for it,its very simple question with very simple answer for those who just have little knowledge about html or xml or you must have learnt while writing your post also if you dont had any previous knowledge,so you waiting for just simple answer to this simple question.
Ok just see the codes below:-
For align to center
<div align="center">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
For align to left
<div align="left">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
For align to center
<div align="right">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
Now just place your codes in place of red line and widget will align to left,right or center,whichever code you will use.
Ok i have answered this question,now i would like to talk about one tip i use to get increase my visitors from search engines sometimes when i have nothing to post and have shared it with you before also.This post is part of that trick.
As few days ago i shared a post on how to increase my visitors from search engines.You should read it for sure.There i said to check for keywords for which visitors are coming to your blog.I found 2-3 visitors or i can say newbies to blogger coming to my blog searching align widget blogger,and i was not surprised also as me too would have searched if i would have not known anything what html is ..?
And Today i was also in hurry to post,so thought why not just take my fast 10 minutes,which is very short time for my post,as usually it take me minimum of 1 hour to make a proper and easy tutorial for you.
I tried to make this 10 minute post useful for my blog readers as well as my search engine visitors.
So the post is seo with fully loaded tip to my readers.A complete package post...
Ok just see the codes below:-
For align to center
<div align="center">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
For align to left
<div align="left">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
For align to center
<div align="right">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
Now just place your codes in place of red line and widget will align to left,right or center,whichever code you will use.
Ok i have answered this question,now i would like to talk about one tip i use to get increase my visitors from search engines sometimes when i have nothing to post and have shared it with you before also.This post is part of that trick.
As few days ago i shared a post on how to increase my visitors from search engines.You should read it for sure.There i said to check for keywords for which visitors are coming to your blog.I found 2-3 visitors or i can say newbies to blogger coming to my blog searching align widget blogger,and i was not surprised also as me too would have searched if i would have not known anything what html is ..?
And Today i was also in hurry to post,so thought why not just take my fast 10 minutes,which is very short time for my post,as usually it take me minimum of 1 hour to make a proper and easy tutorial for you.
I tried to make this 10 minute post useful for my blog readers as well as my search engine visitors.
So the post is seo with fully loaded tip to my readers.A complete package post...
How align Blogger widget To Centre Left or Right Of Page
How to align any widget to Left,right or centre Of Blogger?What you have to do for it,its very simple question with very simple answer for those who just have little knowledge about html or xml or you must have learnt while writing your post also if you dont had any previous knowledge,so you waiting for just simple answer to this simple question.
Ok just see the codes below:-
For align to center
<div align="center">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
For align to left
<div align="left">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
For align to center
<div align="right">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
Now just place your codes in place of red line and widget will align to left,right or center,whichever code you will use.
Ok i have answered this question,now i would like to talk about one tip i use to get increase my visitors from search engines sometimes when i have nothing to post and have shared it with you before also.This post is part of that trick.
As few days ago i shared a post on how to increase my visitors from search engines.You should read it for sure.There i said to check for keywords for which visitors are coming to your blog.I found 2-3 visitors or i can say newbies to blogger coming to my blog searching align widget blogger,and i was not surprised also as me too would have searched if i would have not known anything what html is ..?
And Today i was also in hurry to post,so thought why not just take my fast 10 minutes,which is very short time for my post,as usually it take me minimum of 1 hour to make a proper and easy tutorial for you.
I tried to make this 10 minute post useful for my blog readers as well as my search engine visitors.
So the post is seo with fully loaded tip to my readers.A complete package post...
Ok just see the codes below:-
For align to center
<div align="center">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
For align to left
<div align="left">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
For align to center
<div align="right">
Your Codes For Widget
</div>
Now just place your codes in place of red line and widget will align to left,right or center,whichever code you will use.
Ok i have answered this question,now i would like to talk about one tip i use to get increase my visitors from search engines sometimes when i have nothing to post and have shared it with you before also.This post is part of that trick.
As few days ago i shared a post on how to increase my visitors from search engines.You should read it for sure.There i said to check for keywords for which visitors are coming to your blog.I found 2-3 visitors or i can say newbies to blogger coming to my blog searching align widget blogger,and i was not surprised also as me too would have searched if i would have not known anything what html is ..?
And Today i was also in hurry to post,so thought why not just take my fast 10 minutes,which is very short time for my post,as usually it take me minimum of 1 hour to make a proper and easy tutorial for you.
I tried to make this 10 minute post useful for my blog readers as well as my search engine visitors.
So the post is seo with fully loaded tip to my readers.A complete package post...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Interview with New York Weddings Make up artist Leora
Today I wanted to share an interview with an expert in wedding makeup and the art of making you beautiful, Leora from Weddings by Leora. Leora is known for her flawless application and has been featured on the Style Network's "Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?"
1. What makes Weddings by Leora unique? What makes Leora Weddings unique is that Leora understands that a brides wedding day is one of the biggest events in her life and knows that the 2 most important things to choosing a makeup artist for your big day are a) you must love the makeup application and look that the artist provides and b) the experience of working with your artist will be stress free and enjoyable! Leora guarantees that the bride loves her makeup and that it lasts from the wedding ceremony until the very last dance at the reception.
2. What services do you provide?
Leora provides airbrush, individual eyelash extensions, wedding trials, customized looks, and is also available to travel for destination weddings.
3. What can you advice brides and couples to be aware of or avoid when hiring their make up artist?
I would recommend that brides and couples schedule a wedding trial with their makeup artist at least 6 months ahead of their wedding date and that the person they choose to hire be reliable and easy to work with.
4. What are the latest trends in make up?
Airbrush is really huge right now as well as individual eyelash extensions, I’ve also found a lot of brides love a light line of liquid eyeliner which provides a soft yet dramatically beautiful finish.
View and read more on Weddings by Leora by visiting her website.
1. What makes Weddings by Leora unique? What makes Leora Weddings unique is that Leora understands that a brides wedding day is one of the biggest events in her life and knows that the 2 most important things to choosing a makeup artist for your big day are a) you must love the makeup application and look that the artist provides and b) the experience of working with your artist will be stress free and enjoyable! Leora guarantees that the bride loves her makeup and that it lasts from the wedding ceremony until the very last dance at the reception.2. What services do you provide?
Leora provides airbrush, individual eyelash extensions, wedding trials, customized looks, and is also available to travel for destination weddings.
3. What can you advice brides and couples to be aware of or avoid when hiring their make up artist?
I would recommend that brides and couples schedule a wedding trial with their makeup artist at least 6 months ahead of their wedding date and that the person they choose to hire be reliable and easy to work with.
4. What are the latest trends in make up?
Airbrush is really huge right now as well as individual eyelash extensions, I’ve also found a lot of brides love a light line of liquid eyeliner which provides a soft yet dramatically beautiful finish.
View and read more on Weddings by Leora by visiting her website.
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