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The next episode of "South Park" on Comedy Central will parody the George Zimmerman case.
The episode is titled "World War Zimmerman."
A preview clip released on SouthParkStudios.com features the shows main character, Cartman, grabbing a gun from a box marked "Emergency Use Only" in his dresser. He then runs down the street waving it around.
"The world faces death, destruction, chaos and Eric Cartman in all-new episode of 'South Park' titled 'World War Zimmerman' ... Cartman is deeply disturbed by a single person who he sees as a threat to all humanity. He races around the country to put an end to Patient Zero, the ticking time bomb that is Token," the show's press release says.
The show airs Wednesday at 10 p.m.
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Pokemon Black Review
Rest assured in the knowledge that Black and White are damn fine games; the best the series has to offer.
I was recently asked my most anticipated game of 2011. The answer? Pokémon Black and White. This response was met with looks of bewilderment and disgust, gradually evolving into a chorus of laughter - I'd chosen a children's game over the likes of Uncharted 3, Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim. But as a big RPG fan, the most hardcore eastern offering of 2011 is arguably the new Pokémon. It hasn't been too long since I retired SoulSilver to its box, however, and the sting of losing in the first round of the 2010 national Pokémon championships still lingers, was I really ready to wave goodbye to another two hundred hours on a new poké-adventure? The endorphins swimming through my veins after finding the sleek black cartridge that had appeared on my desk alluded to a resounding yes.
The start of the game presents you the age-old choice of three Pokémon: Snivy, the serpentine grass starter; fire pig Tepig; and Oshawatt the otter. After making your choice, you're handed a Pokédex from female professor Juniper and then leave the small town of Nuvema to make a name for yourself in the Unova region. Sharing this quest are childhood friends Bianca and Cheren, whose paths repeatedly intertwine with yours over the duration. Unlike your rival in previous games, the two remain on good terms with you despite nagging for battles every five minutes.
It's good to have friends, though, because the nefarious Team Plasma is attempting to do what all villains want to do - separate Pokémon from their trainers. They justify their shenanigans with PETA-esque morals this time around, though, arguing that keeping these poor creatures cooped up in balls all day long is unethical. Their argument is militantly enforced by King N and the Seven Sages (the upper echelon of Team Plasma). This N (quite why his name is a single letter is never explained) is your true rival; a misguided youth who walks a path similar to your own, only on the 'dark side' of life. The narrative feels far more poignant than in previous titles, and despite being somewhat cheesy, with words such as destiny, truth and courage bandied around with alarming frequency, it's interesting to follow.
The biggest addition to Black and White is that each and every creature in the game (including older critters from previous titles) now has its own individual animations to accompany it in battle. They flex their muscles, wag their tails and flap their wings. My Emboar, the final evolution of Tepig, shifts his weight from foot to foot, as flames on either shoulder flicker with visible intensity. He looks totally badass.
With a few exceptions, the new Pokémon designs are excellent. Whilst more obscure creatures like Litwick (a candle) and Vanillite (an ice-cream) take some time to adjust to, you can't help but admire the creativity of Game Freak's art team, who have managed to add an impressive 156 new creatures to the 500-strong roster. In fact, until you reach the end-game content, each and every critter you come across is brand new. Interestingly, each pays homage to another of the original 150 Pokémon from 1996's Red and Blue. Tracing their roots feels like a game in itself for the long-time fan.
Black and White also makes use of 3D cutscenes for the first time in the series, alongside conversations taking place with character artwork in the background - a JRPG staple heavily reminiscent of Tales of Symphonia (and its sequels). Architecturally, this is the most ambitious Pokémon game yet, with cities spanning several screens, filled with skyscrapers, alleyways and dockyards. As you cross the several huge bridges in the game, the camera shifts perspectives, zooming in and out to give a sense of scale. The world of Unova is certainly impressive, complimented perfectly by new camera angles, fancy artwork and an upgraded graphics engine.

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At the same time, she turned aside any suggestion that the system be taken off line until it could be fixed fully. Doing so "wouldn't delay people's cancer or diabetes or Parkinson's" disease, she told the Senate Finance Committee.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and the panel's chairman, said Sebelius must be "candidly, fully totally" forthcoming with Congress about the repair effort, "so that we don't wake up at the end of November and find out we're not there yet." He referred to the administration's goal for completing the repairs.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the panel's senior republican, was harsher.
"While I am glad that you are accepting responsibility for this disastrous rollout, I would have preferred that you and the rest of the administration were honest with us to begin with," he said.
"It is simply inexcusable that the members of this committee were not told earlier that these problems were occurring," Hatch said.
Sebelius acknowledged that using HealthCare.gov - the troubled website where millions of people are supposed to be able to purchase coverage - "has been frustrating for many Americans."
But she told the Senate Finance Committee that the site's problems are being steadily fixed and will operate smoothly for most people by the end of this month. And she said the insurance marketplaces that the law is setting up are resulting in lower rates, citing figures for some premiums that she said are 16 percent lower than estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and other data from Oregon, New York and elsewhere.
"The fact is that the Affordable Care Act delivered on the product: quality, affordable health insurance," she said.
To the chagrin of increasingly nervous Democrats, Republicans are also on the attack about the millions of Americans whose health insurers have told them their current policies are being canceled. Obama has said that people who liked their coverage would be able to keep it.
Sebelius testified a week ago to the Republican-run House Energy and Commerce Committee.
At that confrontational session, she apologized for the troubles dogging the website where uninsured Americans and those buying coverage privately are supposed to be able to purchase health insurance. The secretary, who numerous Republicans have said should resign, has promised the site would be fixed by the end of this month and says it is secure.
Insurers are sending cancellation notices to customers whose current policies lack enough coverage to meet the law's more demanding standards - at least 3.5 million Americans, according to an Associated Press survey of states.
The Obama administration has said people facing cancellations will be able to find better coverage from their current insurance company or on state or federal exchanges where competing policies are being offered.
Lawmakers of both parties have introduced rival bills that would let people retain their existing health insurance policies. But administration officials refused to state their views Tuesday on those proposals.
White House spokesman Jay Carney suggested the White House would resist letting insurance companies continue offering substandard plans, saying that would undermine the law's fundamental promise of better health care.
"We're focused on implementing the Affordable Care Act," Carney said, using the law's formal name.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., kept his distance from a measure by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who faces re-election next year, that would force insurers to reinstate canceled policies.
"There are hundreds of bills introduced every week, and we have to sort through those that have opportunity to be voted on," Reid said.
On the defensive about the law, Democrats have started trying to refocus Americans on its benefits.
The law requires most Americans to have health coverage by the start of 2015 or face fines. Middle-class people who don't get health insurance at work will qualify for federal subsidies for the private coverage they buy. More lower-income people will qualify for Medicaid in states that have agreed to expand that federal-state health care program for the poor.
"The real train wreck is what people are experiencing every day because they can't afford care," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said Tuesday at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which he chairs.
At that hearing, Marilyn Tavenner, who runs the agency most directly involved in implementing the health care law, said the website was being improved.
"We obviously underestimated demand," said Tavenner, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She added, "We obviously had more bugs than we realized."
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Yesterday evening I made this salad along with our Sunny Sunflower Seed Burger recipe (in our cookbook), Herbed Oven Roasted Potato Fries, and a loaf of freshly baked french bread. It was a delicious summer meal!
Raw Mediterranean Kale Salad
I used Red Russian Kale for this, but I imagine you could use any variety of kale you have on hand. Try varying the recipe to what you have on hand: replace the currants with raisins and the oregano with fresh basil. The pine nuts could be replaced with sunflower seeds to save money (pine nuts can be a bit pricey). This salad serves 2 adults and a few small children. You may want to double it if serving to a larger number of people. It needs to be eaten the day it is made so don't make any extra for the next day. Enjoy!
1 large bunch of kale, thinly sliced
1/2 cup currants
1/4 to 1/2 cup raw pine nuts
handful of grape tomatoes (optional)
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 to 2 small garlic cloves, crushed
1/2 teaspoon Herbamare or sea salt
freshly ground black pepper, to taste
small handful of fresh oregano leaves
Place all ingredients into a large bowl and toss together. Let the salad rest for about 10 to 20 minutes before serving. The lemon juice and olive oil with soften the kale and take away some of the bitterness (though young kale leaves are much sweeter and not as bitter compared to more mature kale).


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Jarred, Garrett, and Caitlin are all virgin kissers...sad!
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Two empty egg cartons and a stainless steel tea kettle ride in the back seat of my car. The two-bulb table lamp sits up front.
Don't ask why. I wish I knew.
Odd things collect in my car.
Mostly, I blame my wife.
But sorting through the odds and ends, I discover that I've left a few of them there myself. For example, the deflated wheelbarrow tire, seven baseball caps and the two Thornton Burgess books I got on my sixth birthday.
Why? Again, I wish I knew.
Odd things collect in my car.
It is normal for parents to discover marvels and treasures buried inside the family vehicle. A typical family van consists of one engine, one steering wheel, four tires and seven seats.
It also contains - this is a partial list - three melted Crayolas, six crumbled Oreos, 17 Cheetos pieces, seven socks (none of them matching), three shoes (also not matching), four Matchbox cars, two Barbies, 137 Barbie accessories, two sippy cups containing some sort of gelatinous life forms, and one family pet, not necessarily belonging to your family.
Why? No one knows.
Odd things just collect in their cars.
That's the primary purpose of families with fleets of young children - to stock minivans with curious collections. I used to dig through my daughter's car seat for discarded quarters so I could buy a can of Coke. The kid carried more cash than I did.
I say used to. Our children are 30 and 26 and live hundreds of miles away. They have their own vehicles to populate with curious collections. They are not why odd things collect in my car.
I just don't know why. I decided to ask the source.
''Why,'' I asked my wife,''have I been chauffeuring empty egg cartons around in my car?''
''For the families at church who have chickens.''
''It's been five weeks. Why are they still in my car?''
''There are no chickens in your car.'' Terry paused. ''Not anymore.''
''Not chickens. Egg cartons. Why are the egg cartons still in my car?''
''So we'd remember to give them to the families at church,'' Terry said.
''What I remember is we drive your car to church.''
''So why didn't you pull the egg cartons out of your car and take them to church with us?''
I threw up my hands. ''I didn't know I was supposed to.''
''Well, why else would you have empty egg cartons in your car?''
''I don't know. Odd things collect in my car.'' I narrowed my eyes. ''Wait a minute, there were chickens in my car?''
''No, I don't think so. Why would there be chickens in your car?''
''Why is there a tea kettle? Or a table lamp?''
Terry shrugged. ''So the chickens can see to read the Burgess books while sipping their Lipton herbal, would be my guess.''
If you hear some wild tale of a church where a lunatic wearing seven caps marches down the aisle during the opening congregational, flinging empty egg cartons - cartons that appear to be indented by deflated wheelbarrow tire markings - it just might be true.
Odd people collect in my car.
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You were the brunette at the group meeting last night. You had one pigtail going straight up on the top of your head, which is the opposite direction in which most girls wear pigtails. When I say most girls, I mean normal girls, not the girls in group, who usually don't even have hair at all, so the direction of pigtails would be a silly thing to spend much time thinking about. I'm sorry, even writing this I'm nervous. Did I mention I have throat cancer? I do. My power animal is the double-wattled cassowary.
I tried to say hello to you at the refreshments table. You were smoking a cigarette, and I was going to say that seeing someone who wasn't letting disease govern her life was all the refreshment I needed, but we were interrupted by that guy who rudely pulled you away without even trying to say something interesting. I know it sounds mean, but I hope his cancer goes into remission so that he has to answer for all the rude things he's probably doing every day while thinking he's got a free pass from responsibility. I could tell you didn't even want to talk to him, or cry with him when we paired off. You would have been much happier with me. My cave is made of peanut butter. Creative, right? I also hunt. I'm full of surprises once you get to know me.
If you'd like to meet up sometime so we can talk, please respond. Also, know that this is sort of time sensitive, so the sooner you can get back to me, the better. No fakes. Tell me the type of doughnut at group that no one ever eats so I know it's you, and don't you dare say maple because that hardly counts, since everyone already knows it's disgusting.
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Hi! I met you in the VIP room of a club. My name is Helga. We were introduced, but I'm not sure if you remember me. I'm about 5 foot 4 inches, I have blonde hair, and I was wearing the fuchsia Steve Madden pumps with the matching purse. Fuchsia is my favorite color, and NO, not just because it's fun to say! I sat next to you for a little while and we drank a shot of tequila together. Remember? I blew you in front of all those people while that man held a gun to your head. Oh, and I had a Tiffany bracelet! The girl with the bracelet, that was me!
I hope you haven't forgotten. I thought you were really sweet, and I wish we had more time to chat. I remember your hair had frosted tips and you did a great job on that code thing everyone asked you to do. You are so smart! I know we were both working that night, but I got the sense that maybe you liked me a little. I liked you too, so it honestly didn't even feel like work to drink tequila with you, or deal with that guy's cigarette smoke (blech!), or blow you in front of all those people. We should get coffee sometime! Or a bagel, I'm obsessed with bagels lately, especially with almond honey cream cheese. Hmmmm!
Please respond if you're the guy. I forgot your name, but you are definitely circumcised. When you write or call, tell me what earrings I was wearing so that I know it's actually you. You were good with computers, so I'm sure you'll see this. No cigarettes this time! :D
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When you bring kids to a baseball game, make sure they pay attention. Always.
Nothing can ruin a fun night out at the ballpark quicker than a laser beam foul ball or bat flying into the stands. When it hits a child, it's incredibly scary.
One of those heart-stopping scenes played out during the Curve's last homestand, on May 23, when 10-year-old Zach Konicky took the brunt of a flying bat right in the face. It broke the youngster's nose, but thankfully, he sustained no other injuries.
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Curve honorary team captain Zach Konicky shakes hands with umpire Tom Honec before the game Tuesday.
"It hurt really bad," said Zach, a 4th-grader at Conemaugh Valley Elementary School in Johnstown. "When it hit me, I blacked out for a second, and my dad pulled me up. It was scary."
Imagine how scary it was for his parents.
"It was horrific," said Zach's dad, Jeff, who was sitting with his son behind the first base dugout. "His glasses were laying in pieces there, and I just grabbed him and tried to get him looking at me and calmed down."
At least Jeff Konicky could tell right away his son was OK. Zach's mom, Wendy, had to deal with gutwrenching uncertainty a little longer. She and the other parents of the Little League team on hand were sitting in the upper deck when the Curve's Gift Ngoepe lost control of his bat.
"We were just sitting there, and I said, 'Oh my gosh, someone got hit with the bat,'" Wendy Konicky recalled. "So of course all the moms are at the banister, and then I'm like, 'Ohhhhh, it's Zach!' I just came running down, and by then Jeff had him pretty calm, and the EMTs were looking at him.
"I didn't know how bad it was until I got all the way down. Those couple seconds, it seemed like it took me forever to get down there."
Zach said he never had a chance to react quickly enough to avoid getting hit. A friend had just jumped onto the dugout and Zach asked him what he was doing right when Ngoepe swung the bat from the left side of the plate.
A split second later, the bat hit Zach in the face.
"It was too fast," Zach said.
That's how it goes. Too fast. Whether you're paying attention or not, there's so little time to react in that situation. Still, any fans who sit directly behind the dugouts must be keenly aware that they are in the most dangerous spot in the ballpark, and that's especially true for kids.
Jeff Konicky said he learned that lesson.
"Pay attention. Pay closer attention," he said.
Luckily Zach's story has a cool, happy ending.
The little boy - looking no worse for wear - returned to Peoples Natural Gas Field on Tuesday to serve as honorary team captain for the Curve. He got to meet Ngoepe before the game and received a signed bat, to go along with the bat he got to keep when it hit him in the stands (the hitter usually gets that back, but Zach was allowed to keep it).
Ngoepe wrote a message to Zach on the bat he gave him Tuesday that read, "Stay strong kid," and he also drew a smiley face on it.
"He was happy that I was OK, and he said that he felt really, really bad about it," Zach said of Ngoepe. "Then I got some pictures with him, and then I got a picture with the whole team."
Ngoepe is just glad Zach turned out OK after the scary incident and enjoyed spending time with the youngster Tuesday.
"It's good that I could make a positive influence on him," Ngoepe said. "We got to speak for a little bit today, and he got to hang out. It's just something for me to say, hey, I didn't do it on purpose. I said to him, 'I'm sorry,' and he forgave me."
To top it off, Zach got to bring out the Curve lineup card to home plate and met with the umpires before Tuesday's regularly scheduled game.
"That was really, really cool," Zach said.
Zach and his parents had a little laugh at the beginning of the evening as the Curve and Reading completed a suspended game. Ngoepe came up to the plate, swung and lost his bat, and it went flying all the way to the grass in fair territory to right field.
"We almost saw it happen again tonight. Same guy," Jeff Konicky said with a laugh. "We were just joking to him saying, 'Gift's up to bat, you better watch out.' And then the bat went flying again."
Those kinds of things happen at a baseball game, and it's up to every fan - young or old - to pay attention and give yourself the best chance possible to avoid injury if the ball or bat is heading your way.
Zach Konicky was lucky. He only broke his nose, but he still came out smelling like a rose because of the treatment he received Tuesday.
"This is the best day of my life," Zach said.
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Great question! I always wondered what reasons beside health issues made women choose the bottle.
With my first I was very young, and my mother didn't even metnion BF-ing to me, except to say "Only poor people and hippies breastfeed".
I never even tried, and I regret that.
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if the OP was genuinely asking why people chose to FF over BF, that's fine, but Adding in the OP: As well as those who find breastfeeding gross why do you feel this way? What do you attribute that opinion too? changes the attitude a bit...
I ended not able to breastfeed for medical reasons (I take meds for a kidney transplant I had in 08), although my doc did say I could try and we could test the baby a month out to see if the meds were passing to her. I had decided long before she was even concieved that I didn't want to BF. Breastfeeding just seems like alot more work to me than FFing. I was not interested in pumping, I would rather scoop some formula into a bottle of room temp water. No need to warm frozen or refrigerated BM. Easier when we go out, I don't have to find a place to BF or figure out how to keep the stored BM cold for the outing. I have had several friends that either did or tried to BFeed and have horror stories of the pain and emotional frustration when LO is unable to latch. It is not always as easy just sticking them on the boob. I wanted my SO and others to be able to feed the baby as well. I have seen too many babies that are basically addicted to the boob and really don't like taking a bottle, so I really didn't want to have to try and get her used to both drinking from the breast and bottle. I have had an experience with a baby that I cared for, she loved her mama's boob and when I would watch her she would pretty much not eat all day because she hated drinking from the bottle. This was a six month old that would drink maybe 4 ounces for a 10 hour day, simply because she couldn't have it directly from the breast.
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My biggest reason was "medical". However, I did try to BF for a short while and other reasons to not BF were the excrutiating pain I experienced when DS latched. He was apparently 'a power feeder' (nurses called him that at the hospital) and would stay latched for hours and hours and hours if I let him. My nipples were cracked and bleeding all the time. Creams didn't help, repositioning didn't help, nothing helped and only made the pain worse. Awful is the only way to describe it. It was too much stress, too much pain, too much work.
Add to that my medical reasons and I am very pleased we made it nearly two weeks. When DS discovered that the bottle was food, he never even looked back at my boobies.
I am a one and done momma, but if we change our mind down the road, I will not even attempt BFing. Not worth going through that again. I spent two weeks stressing so much I couldn't really enjoy and bond with my DS during that time.
hard workin' wife & mom extraordinaire to ~J.E.~ *doggie mom*
Because I felt it was right for my family. DH wanted to be a part of feeding LO and I felt like sleeping occasionally. My body, my family, my choice.
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And our furkid- Brady -Lab- 2/8/07
Because I tried and tried to breastfeed and my son wanted nothing to do with it. I had lactation people and tried every position. So after several days, my son was losing weight and he was starving. I got out the bottle. After that he was bottle hooked and still wanted no boobies. I was fine with it. My goal was to feed my child, the vehicle was secondary.
I'm a Gemini so I have a sweet side and a not so sweet side. I'm also half Yankee, half Rebel and half Italian. Which side will you get today?
What qualifies as a "medical" reason? That's what always gets me about posts like this.
I had great plans to BF. I took lactation / BFing classes, read up on how to do it, you name it. I was ready.
Then DS was born with breathing issues. And I discovered I have inverted nipples. I went through 2 LCs in the hospital and neither of them could get DS to have a good latch. Neither could I. I hand-expressed him colostrum (OMG that hurt so much) and tried to pump and got a fat load of nothing.
I had a screaming, wailing, crying, miserable baby who wasn't eating. I had bruises all over my breasts from him trying to latch - on my nipples / areolas but also all over because he was so confused (since he couldn't really find my nipples). I was bleeding and miserable. And I had a DH who thought BFing was "stupid" anyway. (grumble) So...I could have kept trying - which I've been told numerous times in my 10+ years on BBC would have been the "right" thing to do. But instead, I gave my poor starving week old child a bottle of formula.
And I realize now that I probably could have kept trying to BF and hoping I'd get a latch, and supplement with formula in the meantime. But I'd been told by the well-meaning LCs that I couldn't do that - it would lead to nipple confusion and supply problems. So I didn't. I felt I had no choice - keep trying to BF and starve my baby, or switch to EFFing.
I wish I'd been successful. I really really do. My failure at BFing hit me very hard emotionally and still bothers me at times - although, my kid is now 10. I couldn't tell you which of his friends were BF, FF or both - it just no longer is a subject of conversation.
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* Undergraduate student David Zong wins a Mary Gates Scholarship! Congratulations David!! (3/2013)
* Undergraduate student David Zong wins a Mary Gates Scholarship! Congratulations David!! (3/2013)
* Check out the latest [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ykJZhcOwI&feature=plcp gro simulation with 84,000 cells]! (9/2012)
* Check out the latest [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ykJZhcOwI&feature=plcp gro simulation with 84,000 cells]! (9/2012)
* New paper in PNAS: [http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/21/1205693109.abstract Fine-tuning gene networks using simple sequence repeats]!! The paper is highlighted on [http://www.genomeweb.com/blog/week-pnas-180 GenomeWeb] too! (8/2012)
* New paper in PNAS: [http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/21/1205693109.abstract Fine-tuning gene networks using simple sequence repeats]!! The paper is highlighted on [http://www.genomeweb.com/blog/week-pnas-180 GenomeWeb] too! (8/2012)
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- Undergraduate student David Zong wins a Mary Gates Scholarship! Congratulations David!! (3/2013)
- The second annual UW Workshop on Synthetic Biology is on Monday, Jan 21, 2013.
- Check out the latest gro simulation with 84,000 cells! (9/2012)
- New paper in PNAS: Fine-tuning gene networks using simple sequence repeats!! The paper is highlighted on GenomeWeb too! (8/2012)
- Sonia Singhal (Kerr Lab) and Rob Egbert made a cool movie of E. coli exposed to a burst of ampicillin in our ONIX system. The CellAsic company has put it on their web page here. Click on "Antibiotic Burst". Poor little cells. (8/2012)
- New paper: A synthetic approach reveals extensive tunability of auxin signaling. (7/2012)
- The first paper on gro is accepts to ACS Synthetic Biology. (7/2012)
- Robert Egbert successfully defends his thesis! Congratulations Rob! (7/2012)
- Josh Bishop successfully defends his thesis! Congratulations Josh! (5/2012)
- Check out some of the gro simulations made by undergrad students in our Introduction to Synthetic Biology course on youtube. By the way, congratulations to Rehana Rodrigues who was voted to have the best simulation by the class! (12/2011)
- UW's first workshop on synthetic biology will be held Jan. 9. (12/2011)
- UW's iGEM Team wins the Grand Prize at the 2011 iGEM Jamboree. Congratulations to all the students and advisors who showed that UW has the best synthetic biology students in the world! (11/2011)
- Alpha testers for the gro Programming Language needed! You can make your simulated bacterial micro-colonies grow into interesting shapes! (10/2011)
- Fayette Shaw successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations Fay! (10/2011)
- Slides for Eric's DNA 17 Tutorial on stochastic biochemical systems are available here. (9/2011)
- We have a new grant to study pattern formation in bacteria: Harnessing Intercellular Signaling to Engineer Pattern Formation (with Jeff Tabor, Ben Kerr, Oleg Igoshin, and Georg Seelig), NSF. (8/2011)
- We have a new paper on implementing control systems with molcules: K. Oishi and E. Klavins, A biomolecular implementation of linear I/O systems, IET Systems Biology, July 2011, vol 5, no. 4, p.252–260. url. (7/2011)
- Josh Bishop passed his General Exam! Congratulations Josh! (5/2011)
- The 2011 Molecular Programming Project Workshop will be held Jun 16-18 at Friday Harbor.
- Nils Napp has received his Ph.D. and is off to Harvard to be a postdoc! We'll miss you Nils! (1/2011)
- Graduate students Shelly Jang and Chris Takahashi pass their qualifying exams. Congratulations! (11/2010)
- Our auxin synthetic biology project, in collaboration with the Jennifer Nemhauser, has been funded by the Allen Foundation! (11/2010)
- UW's 2010 iGEM gets gold again, plus ties in the best health and medicine category. (11/2010)
- New grant from the National Science Foundation: Estimation & Observation of Stochastic Biochemical Networks. Congratulations to co-PI David Thorsley, on whose research this grant is based. (6/2010)
- NAKFI has awarded the participants in the robustness subgroup a grant to form a competition to make the most robust synthetic biological systems. The contest is called CAGEN, for critical assessment of genetically engineered networks. (5/2010)
- UW's iGEM team goes to Cambridge and brings back a gold medal. Congratulations! University Week Article, Daily Article. (11/2009)
- The SOSLab 2009 Retreat was October 3, 2009. Kevin Oishi wins best presentation!
- The 2nd Workshop on Stochasticity in Biochemical Reaction Networks will be held in Banff, Sept. 25-27, 2009.
- UW's iGEM team goes to Cambridge and brings back a bronze medal. Congratulations! (11/2008)
- Caltech and UW are awarded $10M from the National Science Foundation for the Molecular Programming Project! Read the press release or visit the MPP website. (9/2008)
- J. M. McNew successfully defends his thesis on Nondeterministic Modeling and Verification of Networked Robotics Systems to become the SOSLab's first graduated Ph.D. Congratulations J.M.! (8/2008)
- SOSLab postdoc David Thorsley awarded best presentation in session for both of his American Control Conference papers presented June 11, 2008 in Seattle, WA. Congratulations David!
- SOSLab awarded an "A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award" from Microsoft to study stochastic processes inside single cells of genetically engineered bacteria. See David Thorsley's ACC 2008 Paper for the main idea. See also this obituary of A. Richard Newton, in whose honor these awards were given. (3/2008)
- The Center for Molecular Cybernetics, an NSF Chemical Bonding Center dedicated to the study of single-molecule robots, launches its new web site (12/2007).
- SOSLab PI Eric Klavins is co-PI in a new $2M NSF grant: EFRI-ARESCI: Controlling the Autonomously Reconfiguring Factory with MIT, Cornell and U. Penn. (8/2007)
- Sam Burden has been awarded with a UW Research Fellowship for Advanced Undergraduates. Congratulations Sam! (8/2007)
- The programmable parts appear on the cover of the August issue of Control Systems Magazine! (7/2007)
- SOSLab graduate student Fay Shaw passes the ME qualifying exam. Congratulations Fay! (5/2007)
- 3/2007: SOSLab graduate student J.M. McNew passes the EE general exam. Congratulations J.M.!
- 3/2007: We are gradually moving all online content to a new wiki. Check it out. The BioCircuits course is the first big section.
- 1/2007: We are developing a new course for Spring 2007: An Introduction to BioCircuits! Sign up!
- 10/2006: Josh Bishop (with Fay Shaw and Eric Klavins) wins Best Poster in the UW Center for Nanotechnology's Poster Competition. The title: "Improved Repeatability of a DNA Nanomotor".
- 9/2006: The latest videos of the programmable parts have been posted.
- 4/2006: SOSLab gets visitors as part of the COE open house.
- 2/2006: Chandy (Caltech), Doyle (Caltech), Klavins (UW), Murray (Caltech, PI) and Parrilo (MIT) receive MURI Award for their proposal: "High Confidence Design for Distributed Embedded Systems".
- 2/2006: Eric goes to physical biology bootcamp at the Rob Phillips Lab.
- 12/2005: SOSLab Undergrad Sam Burden wins Mary Gates Fellowship -- again.
- 11/2005: SOSLab Graduate Students Josh Bishop and Nils Napp pass their qualifying exams! Congratulations!
- 9/2005: SOSLab's programmable parts are featured at the NSF's Exhibition of U.S. Robotics Research.
- 6/2005: SOSLab's 16-processor cluster is up and running (check usage) -- thanks to Richard Kreisberg.
- 4/2005: SOSLab opens its doors to local K-12 students as part of UW Engineering's Open House. (See photos.)
- 2/2005: SOSLab's "programmable parts" are self-assembling! (Read more.)
- 1/2005: New grant: "DNA Machines" funded by UW's Royalty Research Fund.
- 12/2004: SOSLab Undergrad Sam Burden wins Mary Gates Fellowship.


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on November 28, 2012 - 12:01 AM
Cohen & Lombardo partner James J. Nash was elected to the Bison Scholarship Fund's board of directors for a two-year term. The Bison Scholarship Fund is a privately subsidized tuition assistance program for low-income children living in Erie, Niagara, Genesee, Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Wyoming and Orleans counties. Families awarded a Bison scholarship can send their child to a private elementary school of their choice.
Combined Insurance, a provider of individual supplemental accident, disability, health and life insurance products, named Tony O'Dierno senior divisional manager. O'Dierno joined the company in 1980 as a sales agent and has since held several management positions.
L&M Financial financial adviser Joseph Lipsitz attained Certified Financial Planner designation.
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The Ramada Hotel & Conference Center's first "Girls' Weekend" was recently given the outstanding event award from the Buffalo Niagara Event Professionals. The Ramada's Girls' Weekend was held in March. A percentage of the proceeds was donated to breast cancer research. The second annual Girls' Weekend is scheduled for Jan. 26 and 27.
Niagara Recycling will fund the new $71,000 Niagara Training & Employment Agency program, an after-school respite program that will support eight children at a time, ages 5 to 18, who have a variety of special needs, including medical, behavioral, autism and mental health diagnoses. The after-school program will operate from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday throughout the school year in the Donald L. Reilly Centre in Niagara Falls.
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PITTSBURGH - The following are the highlights and lowlights from the Steelers' 16-13 overtime victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night at Heinz Field:
Play of the game: On the second offensive play of overtime, Steelers linebacker Lawrence Timmons intercepted a pass by Matt Cassel intended for Dwayne Bowe and returned it 23 yards to the KC 5-yard line.
Offensive player of the game: Kansas City's Jamaal Charles rushed for 100 yards on 23 carries and scored one touchdown.
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Mike Wallace makes a touchdown catch over the Chiefs' Brandon Flowers in the second quarter.
Defensive player of the game: Timmons didn't just have the key interception. He finished with seven tackles and broke up a third-down pass in the second quarter.
Most telling statistic: The Chiefs were penalized six times for 76 yards. The Steelers had just two for 19, and they came on the same play.
Hidden statistic: The Steelers are undefeated at Heinz Field on Monday nights.
Best pass: Cassel fired a 27-yard strike to Bowe on fourth-and-15 with time running out in regulation to set up a game-tying field goal.
Worst pass: It was Cassel's interception in overtime. On the Steelers' end, Ben Roethlisberger underthrew Mike Wallace on the first play of the second half and was nearly intercepted by Javier Arenas.
Best run: Charles cut up the middle and broke away from a tackle attempt by Will Allen to score on a 12-yard run in the first quarter.
Best catch: Wallace made a one-handed scoop of a Roethlisberger pass in the back corner of the end zone in the second quarter. Wallace controlled the ball between his knees before gaining complete control of it.
Dropped pass: Five plays before his touchdown reception, Wallace missed a deep throw that would have been a 44-yard touchdown. In fairness, it was a tough catch to make.
Best block: Steelers left guard Willie Colon pulled and took out safety Eric Berry on a Jonathan Dwyer 17-yard run in the second quarter.
Missed block: Chiefs left guard Jeff Allen was beaten by Brett Keisel for a first-quarter sack of Cassel.
Best tackle: Kansas City linebacker Derrick Johnson tripped up Pittsburgh's Isaac Redman for a 1-yard loss on fourth-and-1 at midfield in the third quarter.
Best hit: Timmons shot through the line and brought down Peyton Hillis for no gain on a third-quarter carry.
Missed tackle: Pittsburgh safety Ryan Clark was run over by Chiefs tight end Tony Moeaki on a 38-yard reception in the first quarter.
Best coverage: Steelers cornerback Ike Taylor broke up a long pass to Jonathan Baldwin in the fourth quarter.
Worst coverage: Arenas was out of position and interfered with Emmanuel Sanders on a third-and-3 pass late in the third quarter. It resulted in a 22-yard pickup for the Steelers.
Best kick: Kansas City kicker Ryan Succop made a 46-yard field goal with no time remaining to send the game into overtime.
Worst kick: Succop was wide right on a 33-yard field goal in the third quarter and also had a kickoff go out of bounds in the second quarter.
Best return: None worth noting.
Worst return: The Chiefs' Shaun Draughn fumbled a kickoff in the second quarter and made it out to the 8-yard line.
Best decision: The Steelers didn't waste time after Timmons' interception and immediately had Shaun Suisham kick the game-winning field goal.
Worst decision: Running Redman, instead of Dwyer, on fourth-and-1 at midfield in the third quarter was questionable.
Costliest penalty: A holding call on Kansas City's Branden Albert took away a 22-yard touchdown reception by Bowe in the third quarter.
Best effort: Keisel finished with eight tackles and two sacks.
Unsung hero: Byron Leftwich didn't do anything spectacular but didn't lose the game for the Steelers.
Replays: A Leftwich fumble in the third quarter that was returned for a touchdown by the Chiefs was changed to an incomplete pass.


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quote: First, you have to separate out Win9x from NT/XP since Win9x has little/no security
quote: Again, don't bring DOS into it, because NT has nothing to do with DOS
quote: Bottom line is, NT has excellent security if you use it. In many cases, people don't use it.
quote: In most *nix environments during the install process usually some kind of notification comes along and tells the user to create a normal user login and not to use root access for general purpose use. During the XP install process it asks the user to set up user names and passwords then sets them all as admins! And you still think that windows was designed with security in mind? You sir have been brain washed.
quote: Follow ME Apple zealots, I am your leader! I am so much smarter than these people that it gives me wood tearing their arguments apart. In fact, I'm hard right now. I can't see it under my belly but I know it's there!
quote: TomZ, I won't go as far as to say you are brainwashed...
quote: building SENSIBLE and WELL BALANCED security shell for the user.
quote: Everything would be MUCH better if
quote: Just because it doesn't have the same flaws that Windows has doesn't mean it's some super-OS here to save mankind.
quote: Now, how do YOU like THEM apples?
quote: You have reasoned quite enough and well
quote: I feel the "don't run as admin" is just a bandaid designed to hide the real problem. If you can be attacked while running admin level privileges, you have a real problem. Fix the problem...don't hide it by running as a lower-level user.
quote: I think you misunderstand me. I agree that running non-root access for day-to-day activity is a good thing. I disagree though with the implication that encouraging (or even enforcing) this behavior is the sole metric by which you judge system security.
quote: I've been using computers 25 years now, and never gotten a single virus. So the technique is, while useful, certainly not a hard and fast requirement for a desktop user.


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on February 21, 2013 - 11:30 PM
By Michael Weiner and Paul Atkinson
In recent years, the governor and Legislature have taken steps to address New York State's budget crisis, and in doing so have advanced us down the path toward a vibrant future. This year's budget process presents not only the challenge to meet continuing substantial need with limited resources, but also the opportunity to invest in services that will yield significant returns.
We appreciate that this year's executive budget includes a number of progressive initiatives, including funding for full-day pre-K, implementing the Affordable Care Act and increasing the minimum wage, while holding the line on taxes and promoting jobs through economic development efforts. At the same time, proposed flat or reduced funding for a number of important health and human service programs will lead to even greater challenges.
Many of the key prevention and health and wellness programs slated for funding cuts or restructuring are aimed at addressing the needs of high-risk, low-income families. Over the past several years, state funding for these programs has gradually eroded. While funding cuts may appear small on an annual basis, over time these reductions have had a devastating impact on the health and human service organizations that deliver these services.
Community-based prevention and early intervention services can significantly improve quality of life for children, youth, families and communities while reducing costs in the long term. These services include home visiting programs that assist at-risk families, after-school programming and youth development and delinquency prevention. To forgo adequate investment in these is to risk far greater future expenditures.
Restructuring and overall funding reductions for health and nutrition programs, including the Prenatal Care Assistance Program, Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program, and Women, Infants and Children also jeopardize the well-being of financially fragile families. Prenatal care is proven to improve birth outcomes, and adequate nutrition is vitally important for all people regardless of income level. Reducing overall funding for these programs will lead to increased spending as poor maternal and child health outcomes, poor nutrition and obesity take their toll.
Frederick Douglass said, "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Reducing funding for prevention, health and nutrition programs erodes our most vulnerable citizens' ability to ensure the health and strength of themselves and their children – and also ensures that all of us will pay a far higher financial and human cost in the future. We urge the governor and Legislature to take steps to build strong children and families across New York.
Michael Weiner is president and CEO of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County. Paul Atkinson is president of the Agency Executives Association.


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Thursday, April 25, 2013
If you happened to be driving through the Frances Marion Forest April 4, 5 or 6 you may have seen something that made you doubt your eyesight or your mental wherewithal: teenagers dressed in pioneer garb emerging from the forest pulling 400-pound handcarts across a paved highway.
Yes, 21st century girls were wearing cotton bonnets and floor-length cotton dresses—with bloomers underneath. Boys donned straw hats, overalls, and, of course, the requisite bandanas.
If you chose to follow this anachronistic spectacle, you would have learned that the 122 teenagers and almost half that many adults walked 19 miles along the South Carolina's Jericho Trail — in the rain.
Why? To re-enact a Mormon migration, this began in Nauvoo, Ill in 1846 and ended 1,300 miles later in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The first wave of 19th century Mormon pioneers started the trek west to flee persecution from hostile neighbors and politicians. But they weren't just running from danger; they were following a dream: that they could find a place to flourish and practice their religion.
The journey lasted up to a year and was taken by about 70,000 men, women and children between 1847 and 1868. Violent mobs, starvation, disease, attacks from Indians, and extreme weather stole the lives of nearly one in twenty.
None of the Lowcountry re-enactors lost their lives, but their short journey was not without incident. One girl got entangled in a briar patch and another was run over by a handcart. One adult nearly passed out from a kidney stone and another took a heroic leap into a five-foot deep "puddle" to keep a handcart from falling into the mire.
Within hours of beginning the simulation, everyone's clothes were wet and caked with mud. Food was meager: a clementine, a stick of beef jerky, and a couple of saltine crackers for lunch. The youth, divided into families of ten children with a "Ma" and "Pa," slept in canvas tents and lean-tos atop roots, rocks, and holes.
Re-enactments of hardships and crises faced by the pioneers began in the first hour when they were driven into the forest in a cold drizzle by a mob bearing guns and clubs. Other re-enactments included an encounter with the "angel of death" -- death of an infant, a ferry crossing, and a rescue by pioneers who had blazed the trail in better weather.
These South Carolina pioneers did not have their eyes on a western utopia, nor were they feeling persecution.
So what were they doing?
Pennye Hallam of Mt. Pleasant, coordinator of the re-enactment, called "trek," explained, "The vision from the beginning was to help kids think beyond themselves and gain a greater appreciation of their heritage, family and church. They need to understand what hardships their ancestors endured and face physical and personal challenges that build character and testimony."
From everything that the youth shared at the final gathering on Saturday morning, Mrs. Hallam should be satisfied that this vision was realized.
One participant confessed that she often complains at home when she's asked to help out. She explained, "Now that I have an understanding of what the pioneers went through, I've asked myself, why I complain?
"As I pulled the handcart, I felt cold on the outside but warm on the inside," said another.
Many shared that the experience helped them appreciate the sacrifices that the pioneers endured and the strength of the religious beliefs that empowered them. Buoyed by the faith of their forefathers and foremothers, many of the teenagers shared that their confidence, religious convictions, commitment to teamwork, and gratitude for their families grew with each bump in the road and drop of rain.
The next trek will take place four years from now. In April 2017 if you happen upon a handcart in the Frances Marion, rest assured you're not crazy and neither are the people dressed up in sunbonnets.
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DELAND, Fla. – The Stetson University sand volleyball team made it 10 in-a-row, with victories over FGCU and Jacksonville, Saturday at the sand courts in DeLand. For the second straight day, the Hatters swept Florida Gulf Coast 5-0, and then edged Jacksonville 3-2, to begin conference play, a perfect 4-0.
The first match of the day pitted the Eagles against the Hatters who took a 2-0 lead with victories from the pairings of Maren Rygh/Jordann Dierickx at the No. 4 seed (21-16, 22-20) and Kristin Lind/Tiffany Creamer at No. 5 (21-17, 21-15).
To secure the win Savannah Byl and Catherine Coston won at No. 2 (23-21, 21-11), and then Rachael Farrell/Julie Bassett also added a victory at the No. 3 seed (21-17, 21-15)
After dropping the first set 21-15, No. 1 seeds Kaylee Anderson and Kaley Melville stormed back to take two straight 21-12 and 15-13 to complete the sweep.
In the afternoon match vs. Jacksonville, Stetson's No. 4 and 5 seeds held the home sand, with Maren Rygh/Jordann Dierickx winning 21-19, 21-16 and Kristin Lind/Tiffany Creamer walking away with 24-22, 21-16 victories.
The Dolphins tied things up after victories at No. 2 and 1, leaving it up to Rachael Farrell and Julie Bassett to keep the win streak alive. The pair did just that, cruising to a straight set victory 21-14, 21-18 over JU's Emily Laskelle and Rachel Miller.
Stetson (10-0, 4-0) completed the weekend in perfect fashion, taking 10 of 10 matches played with FGCU and then six of 10 from Jacksonville.
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- Phone: 512-463-4070, Toll-free: 1-800-531-5441 ext. 3-4070
For Immediate Release
October 16, 2012
Comptroller Offers Matching Scholarships, Tuition Grants to Students in State's Prepaid College Tuition Plan
(AUSTIN) – There is a new way to save for your child's college tuition.
To encourage families to put aside money for the cost of higher education, the Texas Comptroller's office is offering competitive matching scholarships and tuition grants to 150 students this year through the Texas Match the Promise Foundation®.
The matching scholarships and tuition grants are available for sixth through ninth graders whose families have an income of $75,000 or less and participate in the Texas Tuition Promise Fund® (TTPF) – the state's prepaid college tuition plan.
"One of the greatest assets any child can have is a strong education," Texas Comptroller Susan Combs said. "Match the Promise helps Texas children realize their dreams of a college education and a bright future."
Families participating in TTPF purchase prepaid "tuition units" that can later be used toward undergraduate tuition and required fees at Texas public colleges and universities. Match the Promise will award tuition units to approved recipients, supplementing what a TTPF participant contributes to their account.
There are two levels of scholarships: a match of up to $500 worth of the same number and type of tuition units a participant purchases; and a one-time grant of tuition units worth $2,000 at today's prices.
The matching scholarships will be approved for up to 150 top scoring applicants. The five applicants who score the highest will receive the one-time grant. (A minimum of $100 must be contributed to an approved recipient's TTPF account to receive a matching scholarship or grant.)
Eligible applicants can apply for Match the Promise now through Dec. 31, 2012. Families can also enroll in TTPF during this time if they haven't already done so.
Students must write a career essay and submit a copy of their 2011-12 school report card or transcript with the scholarship application. Scholarship winners will be notified by March 31, 2013, and will have until Aug. 31, 2013, to meet contribution requirements.
For more information about eligibility requirements, the application process and selection criteria go to www.MatchThePromise.org or call 1-800-531-5441, ext. 3-7570.
Match the Promise is funded by individuals who have donated the cash value of property held in the state's Unclaimed Property program, as well as donations from individuals, businesses and organizations through www.texas.gov. The Texas Match the Promise Foundation is a 501(c)(3) federal tax-exempt public charity and is eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
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Berg and Carrillo Get Rehab Work at EXST
Sean Hoorelbeke slammed a double off the right-centerfield fence with two outs in the top of the 8th, scoring Chris Weimer from 1st base with the go-ahead run, as the EXST Cubs edged the EXST A's 3-2 in a rematch at the A's Minor League Complex Field #2 at Papago Park in Phoenix this morning.
RHP Larry Suarez was scheduled to start, but he was bumped to three innings of middle-relief to allow rehabbing Iowa Cubs RHP Justin Berg and Tennessee Smokies RHP Marco Carrillo to get some game action.
Berg, who was added to the Cubs 40-man roster in November 2008, was placed on the Iowa Cubs DL last month with a sore shoulder and has been at Fitch Park rehabbing for the past couple of weeks. His best pitch is a power-sinker, and when he's right, he gets a lot of ground balls. Well, he got ground balls today (four hitters, four ground balls), but only two outs, thanks to a leaky infield defense.
Berg worked one inning (16 pitches - 12 strikes) today, and looked very good. He did allow one unearned run, and his inning was terminated early (with only two outs) when he reached his pre-determined pitch limit, but he actually should have gotten four outs in the inning (all on ground balls) with no base-runners. But the first two A's batters reached base on errors by Cubs infielders (one by 3B Jose Made, and the other by 1B Chris Weimer), and then with runners at 1st & 3rd and no outs, 2B George Matheus bobbled a "rrom service" easy 4-6-3 DP ball, and was only able to get the batter out at 1st base, further prolonging the inning.
The only question about Berg is how his arm bounces back over the next couple of days, but if it does bounce back normally and there are no further medical setbacks, I would think the 24-year old should be back in the Iowa Cubs bullpen in relatively short order.
Fellow-rehabber (and Culiacan, Mexico native) Marco Carrillo followed Berg to the mound, and the little right-hander (he's only 5'11) pitched four innings of one-hit shutout ball, allowing a four-pitch walk to the first batter he faced, and then throwing 34 out his next 47 pitches for strikes, retiring 12 of the last 13 men he faced, striking out four. He also picked a runner off 1st base (he has an OUTSTANDING pick-off move for a RHP). Carrillo went a combined 9-8 between Daytona and Tennessee as a 21-year old last season, and based on his performance today, he looks to be ready to rejoin either the Daytona Cubs or Tennessee Smokies starting rotation immediately.
Both Berg and Carrillo were watched closely by Cubs "Rehabilitation Pitching Coach" Brad Kelley (ably assisted by videographer Billy Muldowney, who is rehabbing at Fitch Park after undergoing elbow surgery in March). Prior to this season, AZL Cubs Pitching Coach Rick Tronerud was responsible for both the 20+ AZL Cubs pitchers AND the rehab guys (including injured pitchers assigned to Fitch Park and position players being converted to pitcher), but the Cubs decided during the off-season to split the duties between two coaches, resulting in the Kelley hire.
19-year old 6'4 255 Venezuelan bonus baby (and Carlos Zambrano clone) Larry Suarez was pushed back to the 6th inning to accomodate Berg and Carrillo, but once he got into the game, he pitched three solid innings (42 pitches - 30 strikes), allowing one run on three hits, while walking none and striking out five. Suarez has really nasty stuff, and with the improved command he has shown this Spring (he was rehabbing from elbow surgery most of last year), he could be in line for a big year at Boise (or possibly even at Peoria or Daytona, if the Cubs opt to move him out of Fitch Park before mid-June). Suarez has been one of the top pitchers (so far) at EXST (RHPs Julio Pena and Su-Min Jung being the other two).
LHP Melvin Vasquez had an interesting bottom of the 9th. Protecting a 3-2 Cub lead, Vasquez gave up a single and a walk, and then the next batter reached base on a Juan Medina brain-fart (the catcher fielded a bunt and tried to get the lead runner out at 3rd base when he should have taken the out at 1st). With the bases loaded and no outs, Vasquez proceeded to induce two weak infield ground outs that resulted in force plays at the plate, and then after running the count to 3-0 on the next hitter (remember, the bases are loaded), he fired three consecutive strikes (the last two swinging) to secure the victory.
Besides Hoorelbeke's clutch 8th inning double, the one other offensive item of note was a two-hit day (plus a SF-RBI and a stolen base) for Dwayne Kemp, who played shortstop today. Kempy has been on fire at the plate, and he looks a lot more relaxed this season in the field, too. He showed off his athleticism at SS today, making four fine stops & throws. If the Cubs can become convinced that Kemp can play SS in addition to 2B, he would be more-likely to get a promotion to Peoria a lot sooner. He brings a lot of positive energy to the field, and he has surprising power for a little guy (sort of like a right-handed hitting version of Mike Fontenot).
Here is today's abridged box score (Cubs players only)
1. Jose Valdez, CF: 0-3 (K, E-2, SH, F-8 - 1 R)
2. Dwayne Kemp, SS: 2-3 (1B, 1B, F-9 SF, L-7 - 1 RBI, 1 SB)
3. Chris Weimer, 1B: 1-4 (K, K, L-4, 1B - 1 R)
4. Sean Hoorelbeke, DH #1: 1-3 (1-3, BB, K, 2B - 1 RBI)
5. Jericho Jones, DH #2: 1-4 (1B, F-8, 6-3, F-7)
6a. Jose Guevara, C: 1-3 (1-3, F-8, 1B)
6b. Juan Medina, C: 1-1 (1B)
7. Kevin Soto, RF: 0-4 (L-6, 6-3, F-8, 4-6-3 GIDP)
8. Jesus Morelli, LF: 0-3 (BB, L-4, 2-3, 6-3)
9. George Matheus, 2B: 0-2 (K, BB, 6-3 - 1 R)
10. Jose Made, 3B: 1-3 (4-3, 1B, 4-3)
1. Justin Berg - 0.2 IP, 0 H, 1 R (0 ER), 0 BB, 0 K, 2/0 GO/FO, 16 pitches (12 strikes)
2. Marco Carrillo - 4.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 K, 1 PO, 4/3 GO/FO, 51 pitches (34 strikes)
3. Larry Suarez - 3.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 5 K, 3/1 GO/FO, 42 pitches (30 strikes)
4. Melvin Vasquez - 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 2/0 GO/FO
5. George Pineda - 1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 1/0 GO/FO
NOTE: Berg's inning was terminated early (with two outs) when he reached his proscribed pitch count, and an extra half-inning was played after the Cubs had already won the game 3-2 in nine innings, allowing Pineda to get his pre-scheduled inning of work
1. 3B Jose Made bobbled ground ball (E-5) allowing batter to reach base with no outs in 1st inning (runner eventually scored, resulting in unearned run)
2. 1B Chris Weimer bobbled ground ball (E-3) allowing batter to reach base and runner on 1st base to advance to 3rd base with no outs in 1st inning
3. C Jose Guevara fielded tapper in front of plate and then made errant throw (E-2) to 1st base allowing batter to reach base leading off bottom of the 3rd.
4. LF Jesus Morelli bobbled line drive single to LF (E-7) with runner on 2nd base and one out in the bottom of the 10th inning (the special extra half-inning tacked onto the end of the game), allowing runner who had stopped at 3rd base to score an unearned run.
Jose Guevara 0-1 CS
Juan Medina 1-2 CS
WEATHER 100 degrees, hot & sunny (did I mention it was hot?)
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Wow, glad to see Larry Suarez is doing that well. Arizona Phil, do you think Julio Pena and Su-Min Jung will also end up at Boise this season?
Thank you for the reports.
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Love these great reports! I figure Vasquez is a DomRep signee, but it's the first I've seen his name. What's his background? Didn't see him listed among off-season recruits for the DSL.
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Thanks, Arizona Phil. It sounds really impressive that they are doing well enough that they could be pitching at Peoria right now (especially considering their ages - Jung and Suarez are 19 and Peña just turned 20 in March).
Do you think Robert Hernandez be starting or relieving when he gets called up? He seems to have regressed since 2007, especially considering the PED suspension.
AZ Phil: What is the word on Rhee's Rehab?
I am thinking that the injury occurred about 10 months ago, so the surgery came no more than a month later. If that is correct, he should be throwing these days, or not?
BTW, these updates you give are really appreciated. I know most of these guys come and go without much noise, but it most be cool to see them play everyday at such a young age. Please, keep the write-ups coming. Hey, if you see any draft prospects working out for the scouts, let us know. I think you wrote something last year about Victor Sanchez and a pitcher I can't remember working out in a EXST game.
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Don't look now, but if my calculations are correct, Iowa has scored 50 runs in the last 3 games.
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That's ridiculous, even by PCL standards.
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Iowa has scored 50 runs in the last 3 games.
...and the i-Cubs have a (defensive) catcher hitting .390-something, and that's only the second highest BA on the team
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Phil, what is your scouting report on Jeffry Antigua?
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regarding Bradley's 1 day suspension...from the sun-times:
The Cubs were given no explanation for why the process took so long. But part of the reason for the length since last week's hearing in Houston was the weeklong deadline following the hearing given for the appealing party to submit any final arguments.
can anyone explain the above?
I thought the delay was just to yank Bradley's (and Hendry's) chain.
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It's Z, what more can you say. What's next, Standup comedy clubs?
Already ''100 percent'' and ''ready to pitch,'' Zambrano said he won't be running hard on the bases for about a month after his return -- per doctors' orders to protect his healing hamstring but against his playing nature.
''I'll be running like Geo Soto or Bengie Molina,'' said Zambrano, who took fielding practice without incident Thursday and is scheduled to make a Class A rehab start Sunday. ''I'll be running nice and easy and just taking my time and not hustling for now. And I apologize to the Cubs fans for [that]. But it's one thing to not hustle and another thing to not play good. I will still perform as good. I will try to do everything right.''
But after that first month back, he said, ''you will see me running like Juan Pierre or Jose Reyes.''
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This is why we love Big Z.
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Let's just hope that also means Lou stops using him as a PH.
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I can't figure out why Lou let AramRam play the field when he got hurt. Had he not let him play, he would be available for pinch hitting, but now he's hurt.
Ever hear of this guy called 'Dwight Gooden'? He also pinch hit. What about CC Sabathia? What about Tom Glavine?
Having Z pinch hit effectively gives the Cubs a 26 man roster. Yes he can get hurt doing it. He's far more likely to get hurt pitching than he is as an occasional pinch hitter, but he can win a game with one swing of the bat as a pinch hitter, whereas as a pitcher it could take him 120 pitches.
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A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.
rain delay...thanks obama.
Thanks again Phil. We actually were in Mesa and drove around. Hopefully, I am back for some Fall League. If not I have all of spring training (like the smart people who move here!)
What Rob G said. I can't speak for Piittsburgh, but the other end of the state has had absolute crap weather for two days. Perfect day to take it easy.
tarp came off 10 minutes ago...let's do this.
He will not pitch another game for Cubs
/Unless injury in playoffs
Today is bullpen day
10/450 if they win WS
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Even though Hammel is missing start, don't assume he'll not be on #Cubs postseason roster. Maddon says elbow problem isn't that bad
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Maddon on #Cubs postseason rotation: "I don't want to announce anything. We haven't talked to anybody yet"
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Lemon lacks remorse, won't admit the truth
The discussion of Attica Prison in the Jan. 20 News raises many provocative issues. UB professor Teresa Miller's documentary film offers a fascinating insight: inmates and corrections officers share certain parallel experiences as they are confronted with the challenge of doing "hard time," based on ego, rage and invalidation, or an "easy time" that draws on genuine self-regard and respect for others. Survivor victims of violent crime, although not confined within prison walls, encounter a similar choice. Stripped of their sense of safety and trust, do they commit to an angry, paranoid and dehumanizing vision or do they rebuild a life of meaning, compassion and wary trust?
My interest is professional and personal. As a psychologist I counsel many victims of violent crime who struggle with traumatic after-effects and a difficult choice about how to live. I am also the son of Sidney Fink and the nephew of Paul Fink, the murdered shopkeepers referenced in the profile of Matthew Lemon.
I compliment him on making a life of value in Attica and commend his family for their enduring devotion to him. I am saddened and appalled, however, by his claim that he was an innocent bystander of a "robbery went bad." This has been his mendacious personal fable for 33 years. At his trial it was thoroughly refuted by an eyewitness to the robbery and in the statement of a cousin, Michael Thompson, who participated in this incident and was also convicted of murder. Lemon's claim was rejected by the jury despite the vigorous defense offered by his highly respected private defense attorney, Joel Daniels.
Miller describes her film as "an attempt to put a human face on the entire system." Sadly, the "human face" of Lemon that emerges is that of a man committed to his family, self-improvement and helping youth, and yet completely lacking the honesty and remorse to acknowledge a fateful personal choice that inflicted enormous loss and suffering on several families.
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