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The lights had gone out again. Henry racked the bar, stepped out of the squat rack, and flailed his arms in the air until the motion sensor picked him up and flicked the weight room lights back on. The fact that the sensor couldn't pick him up in the rack was the only downside to Josey's late-night workouts. The runningback sat down on a bench and took a minute to catch his breath. He'd been lifting for a few hours now; a short break would do his body good. He swung his legs up on the seat for a quick stretch and took a quick look around the room. His gaze flowed from one poster to another until it fell upon the countdown to game-time. That big red number that continuously shrank. It wasn't until he had watched a handful of seconds tick away that Josey noticed a light outside the weight room door.
He was usually the only one in the building this late, so an unknown light source merited a quick investigation. Cautiously, Josey stepped out into the hallway. The light appeared to be coming from the coach's office, which was strange. Coach Pinkel had a strict routine for the day before games: an early checkout from practice, a few glasses of wine, and a good night's sleep. Josey had never seen his coach deviate from this pattern, yet here he was. Something was wrong, there was no other explanation for this behavior. Henry took a step into the office and saw his fearless leader staring blankly at a video of the Toledo/Florida game, his brow furrowed in frustration. The sight troubled Josey, so he decided to see what the problem was.
"Coach?" He said, knocking on the door. "Something up?" Startled, Pinkel swung around to see his diminutive runningback standing in his office.
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"Yeah, I always get a late workout in the night before games." Josey said timidly. He wasn't sure if his coach would be pleased with him, or mad that he snuck in the facilities. Smiling, Gary slapped him on the shoulder.
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"Is there something I can do to help?" Henry asked. He wasn't quite sure what was bothering the man, but he knew he had to get him out of his funk. "I know somethings messing with you, coach. Maybe I can help." Pinkel sighed and turned away from the film.
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone
A flabby farce that might win a pass at the box office because it's just so cute and family friendly. But where's your edge, guys? Where are the laughs that walk a tightrope? show more
Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle
This vaguely funny film is also the saddest and most depressing movie of 2013. show more
Claudia Puig USA Today
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson may be the worst interns since Monica Lewinsky. show more
Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal
You need only watch the trailer to know that The Internship is a promo for Google; think Google for Dummies, as well as Summer Comedy for Dummies. It's as if the writers googled "how to write a script" and nothing came up, so they wrote this anyway. show more
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer
The Internship itself would be kind of charming, too, if this Google-recruitment film, this 119-minute commercial for Googliness, weren't so downright creepy. show more
Joe Neumaier New York Daily News
Who let an unfunny, irritatingly acted two-hour commercial for Google onto multiplex screens? show more
Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter
The actors do what they can to supply the texture missing from the script. Vaughn and Wilson riff together with pleasing professionalism. show more
William Goss Film.com
In fact, The Internship rivals the aggressively bland "Larry Crowne" for sheer tepidness, if not worse due to the exhaustive product placement for a company whose real-life presence is unlikely to soon wane. show more
Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times
The Internship is the movie version of a goofy dog that knows only a few tricks but keeps on looking at you and wagging his tail, daring you not to like him. Down, boy. You win. show more
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Shawn Levy's occasionally uproarious, warm-hearted comedy is about different generations educating each other, but it never seems rote. show more
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Just bag of lies. No one deals with pathological loosers these two guys are. Especially companies like Google.
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So sorry we didn\'t check the reviews before seeing this lousy movie. Sick of the filthy language too. Apparently movies are made for illiterates or juveniles these days who only know how to converse in foul language.
July 08, 2013 jacquejo
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Fun movie! I love these two guys together.
June 26, 2013 mm00000000154751
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I loved it because I could totally relate.
June 26, 2013 taylorsomeone
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Movie was great and full of humor that made all of us laugh until we couldn\'t breathe. Loved Vince and Owen. Daniel was adorable to my two thirteen year old daughters. 5 stars for us. Might not be good for little kids because of the sexual scenes but it is a definite movie to take your teens.
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Took two 13-year-old boys and was horrified by the amount of sexual stuff (jokes, strip club scene, bad language). Nothing in the reviews I read even mentioned that, so I thought it was safe. Almost walked out. Otherwise, I thought it was funny with a good story line. Better for older kids/adult
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good story line but filthy language. Why does Hollywood keep putting out crap like this? very sorry i paid good money to see this.
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I don\'t know why this movie is getting so much negativity. Me and my boyfriend went to see it, we had a great time. And for the \"I walked out\" people, sheesh, how boring are you? Sure its not the best comedy of the year but it was funny and had a nice ending.
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Very interesting movie. I was pleasantly surprised. It may be the best one of the year. Do not ask for butter on your popcorn if its the sweet guy. I had a large greasy spot on my grey slacks when I exited the theater. The blond girl is by far the most beautiful lady I have ever seen on this planet
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Typical Vince/Owen movie unfortunately showed the best lines on the commercial teasers. Vince seems to be on speed but is tempered with Owen\'s more laid back personality (thank goodness). I enjoyed it even though you could almost predict the outcome.
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DERRY — A local student continues to make his mark on the world.
Dylan Mahalingam, 16, of Derry has been named one of 25 most powerful and influential young people in the world by Youth Service America and The Huffington Post.
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For those of you in NYC, Motos twitter page is giving clues to places you can snag free tickets to tomorrows event. Also, they tweeted that the event wont have a live stream. What kind of event is this exactly? Doesnt seem like a typical announcement.


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The Giants have finalized the players they will be sending to the Arizona Fall League. Previously they had only announced that Joe Panik, Gary Brown, and Ricky Oropesa would be heading to Scottsdale, and we had confirmation from Heath Hembree's Twitter feed that he would be playing in the AFL as well. Today the team announced the remaining four players they will be sending to Arizona.
Giants' prospects play for the Scottsdale Scorpions, who also take players from the Los Angeles Angels, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, and New York Yankees.
The 8 Giants:
Joe Panik, 2B/SS
Gary Brown, OF
Ricky Oropesa, 1B
Chris Dominguez, 3B (that's how he's listed on the roster)
Chris Gloor, P
Jacob Dunnington, P
Heath Hembree, P
Dan Runzler, P
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I came up with this idea the other night. I haven't had the opportunity to travel to many Bears games, but I have been to a few. I've been to New Orleans, Jacksonville and Tampa. Of the three they were all great fun for the most part, none of my experiences were exactly the same.
New Orleans- Great place to party before or after the game and there are plenty of Bears fans all around, Saints fan for the most part were very nice and a lot of good natured ribbing. Bears lost the game though so that was a bit of a downer. Superdome is a pretty cool place to watch a game though seemed like the sight lines were good no matter where you sat.
Jacksonville- Again a Bears loss but this experience was way different from the New Orleans trip. This time my buddies and I decided to have some fun and throw on some afro wigs and Elvis type glasses, found a great group of Bears fans to tailgate with and just maybe had a drink or two to many. Jacksonville fans were rude and obnoxious and a few even tried to start a fight in the parking lot. One in particular was by himself with his girlfriend talking all kinds of trash to 6 of us. Not so good with the math in Jacksonville. Food at the stadium was pretty good, I recommend the pulled pork sandwich if you get there.
Tampa- Great game not only becuase we won and it was a close one if any of you remember the game a few years ago. I took my dad to his first Bears game ever, since he and my mom retired to South Florida it gave me a great opportunity to do this with him. Tampa fans were great, one even bought me a few beers and they like New Orleans were quick to rib in that nice fun way. Overall experience was a great one. (Side note: Even convinced a Bucs fan to take a picture of my dad and I infront of the scoreboard)
Haven't had the chance to see a game at Soldier field but I hope to get there some time soon. My son is only 4 months old but I'm going to do my best to let him have that experience that I never had as a kid. I did take him to our first cubs game at Wrigley last year when my wife was 5 months pregnant (it was against Colorado when they were down 4 runs in the 1st and came back to win) just a great game and overall great experience.
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The Dodgers were supposed to be poor, remember. Their owner was a billionaire who spent like a multi-billionaire, and though we can all empathize because we've all been there, his resulting fiscal problems didn't do a lot for the Dodgers' financial forecast.
But the Dodgers didn't sit the offseason out. They were aggressive, signing players early and often. The offseason ledger:
Aaron Harang - two years, $12 million
Chris Capuano - two years, $10 million
Jerry Hairston, Jr. - two years, $6 million
Mark Ellis - two years, $8.75 million
Juan Rivera - one year, $4.5 million
Adam Kennedy - one year, $800,000
It's a list to study, to walk around like it's a sculpture in the MOMA, your hand on chin, studying and analyzing. It's a list of players most of us have heard of. They were worth a combined 15 wins above replacement in 2006! But as a group of reinforcements, that's just about the most boring group of players imaginable in 2012.
All of them make sense in isolation. Need a fourth starter? Aaron Harang's peripherals have been in decline for a few years, but he should do just fine. Need a fifth starter? Chris Capuano returned from injury purgatory for a decent season with the Mets. You can do that for every player on the list, justifying why they're on a major-league roster, with good chances of doing exactly what the Dodgers want them to do.
But it's a list devoid of upside. What's the upside of Capuano, Ellis, and Rivera? How good could they possibly be? Probably not a whole lot better than they were last year. And what's the downside? Injuries, plague, pestilence. Juan Rivera is a three-win player, according to Baseball Reference. For his career. Three wins above replacement in his 11-year career. Capuano and Harang have been fighting injuries of all sorts for several years, and neither of them is a great bet for 30 starts.
The Dodgers had the best hitter and pitcher in the National League last year. The Dodgers barely finished over .500. Those things don't match up. It was almost as if the other 23 players on the roster didn't … help. Some of them helped more than others, but the Dodgers had the best two-player head start of any team in the league, and they needed a late surge to squeak over .500. The reinforcements brought in to help that team are completely underwhelming. Considering that the Dodgers lost Hiroki Kuroda and Jamey Carroll, it's not too much of a stretch to suggest that they got worse this winter.
That's $42 million that the Dodgers committed to those six players over the next two years. That's less than it would have taken them to get someone like C.J. Wilson or Mark Buehrle, but for that kind of money, they could have built a more interesting batch of free-agent help. Edwin Jackson, Carlos Peña, and re-signing Jamey Carroll would have left them about ten million to burn, and it probably would have made for a better team. That's just one permutation. You can mix and match the players as you like, but if the Dodgers were really willing to spend a little bit, they could have rustled up some better players.
This isn't to suggest that the Dodgers are hopeless. Again, they have the best hitter and pitcher in the league. That's how they'll fill the first two spots of their 25-man roster. Clayton Kershaw cut his walk rate dramatically last season. One of the things I've harped on in this series of season previews is that when a player has a magical, amazing season, it's probably not a good idea to expect it again. But considering that Kershaw is just 24 -- and his control has already snapped into place, three full seasons before Sandy Koufax figured out how to throw strikes -- I don't think it makes sense to be surprised by anything he does going forward. Kershaw is amazing.
I'd be a little more suspicious of Matt Kemp's transcendent year, but not by much. The only kinds of players who can keep up 10-win seasons are players like Willie Mays, Ted Williams, and Mickey Mantle, and it's probably a good idea to ask Kemp to do it again before we quietly lump him in with that class. But he had a superlative year last season, and even if he's just 80 percent as productive, he'll be an MVP candidate.
If the Dodgers are going to contend again, they'll have to get help from their young players and their sorta kinda not really young (but inexperienced) players. If Juan Pierre played a fantabulous defensive shortstop, he'd be Dee Gordon. Snicker if you want, but imagine what Pierre's 2004 season would have looked it if it were grafted onto Omar Vizquel. That's the upside, and it's real and insane. The downside is that every average-dependent player is going to have seasons of iffy luck and general wretchedness, but as long as the speed and defense stay true, Gordon should be a nice player.
Jerry Sands : Juan Rivera :: Brandon Belt: Aubrey Huff. Except Huff has actually had several good seasons in his career, while Rivera wasn't even that good for the Dodgers before they extended him. That was a curious decision, and I have a feeling that the Dodgers will figure out the right outfield alignment by June.
The "sorta kinda not really young" crack had to do with Justin Sellers (26) and A.J. Ellis (30!), who could both be average to above-average players if given the opportunity. If Mark Ellis continues his struggles from last year, Sellers should get a crack before Kennedy and Hairston (though that scenario is unlikely).
But at least A.J. Ellis is getting his first starting gig; his strikeout-to-walk ratios in the minors were obscene, and he translated them into fantastic on-base percentages in brief major-league trials. He'll be one of the surprise players in baseball this year.
So if you play up the best-case scenarios, the Dodgers could contend. Maybe. With Kershaw and Kemp doing things that mortals usually don't do, it wouldn't be the biggest surprise in baseball this season.
But the team spent a lot of money to get weaker, most likely. Neither Capuano or Harang will flirt with an ERA around 3.00, like Kuroda; no one in the middle infield will flirt with an OBP around .360 or so, like Carroll. It's a team that needed a moderate amount of help, but one that got a lot of players to act as a little help. They'll be watchable. But it's hard to see them making a push for 90 wins.
Coulda Shoulda Woulda (Hole they didn't fill)
So we're on Year 5 of the James Loney Experience, and he's still the starting first baseman, making a not-insignificant amount of money. It's pretty rare to remain a starting first baseman when you are as punchless as Loney. And the Dodgers made a small run at Prince Fielder, which would have been a huge improvement. But they also decided to forsake the modest improvements. In the last two months of the season, Loney was something like Albert Pujols, and it probably saved his job. But it sure would have been an easy position to upgrade, if it turns out that the last two months were a fluke.
Wild Card
Andre Ethier didn't hit for power last year, ostensibly because of his balky knee. He's just a year removed from three straight seasons with an OPS+ over 130, and he could provide a lot of the offense the Dodgers were missing last year. Or he could keep hitting as many homers as Shelley Duncan and Jason Varitek.
Chad Billingsley could also qualify for this spot, as he had his worst season. His walks went up, his strikeouts went down, and he continually failed to pitch deep into ballgames. He has more talent than this.
Vague Predictions
Some ninny will accuse me of bias even though I tried my best to be fair. A.J. Ellis is a revelation. Dee Gordon doesn't hit .300 this year, but he will soon. Clayton Kershaw finishes in the top three for the Cy Young and finishes in the top three of the Reverse Beard Cy Young in the same year.
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Steady growth for Caribbean economies
WASHINGTON, USA (CMC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Latin America and the Caribbean are "on a glide path to steady growth" as the global economy picks up pace.
But the Washington-based financial institution is warning that "dangers remain".
In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the IMF said the swings in risk aversion in global markets over the past six months have had significant effects on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) forecasting "moderate" growth of 3.75 per cent in the region this year and four per cent in 2013.
Specifically, the Caribbean economy is expected to grow by 3.5 per cent.
"High public debt and weak tourism and remittance flows continue to constrain the outlook for the Caribbean. The outlook for Central America, like that for Mexico, is closely tied to developments in the United States," the IMF said, noting that "spillovers to the region, both real and financial, from renewed crisis in Europe are likely to be limited".
And while economic activity in LAC is still subdued, strong real linkages with the United States "offer some upside prospects as the United States slowly recovers," according to the report.
"Spillovers to the region through trade, financial, and banking channels were active during recent months but with only limited effects on activity," the report said.
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Henderson Police tell KLTV that the vehicle veered off of Highway 259 just south of FM 2276. The vehicle rolled over and hit the City of Henderson sign.
The woman and her child, who was seated in the backseat of the car, both walked away from the accident un-injured.
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Burlington, Vermont - April 27, 2010
Stacey Parnitzke was wide-mouthed in stunned silence when a jury of eight women and four men delivered guilty verdicts for Parnitzke and her co-defendant Shane Casey. The husband and wife were convicted of using an elementary schooler as a sex slave when Parnitzke was supposed to be caring for the girl in her Burlington apartment in 2005 and 2006.
"I think she just feels like justice was done and she feels really validated, which was so important in this case," said Kristine Bickford, the executive director of the Children's Advocacy Center in Burlington.
The jurors spent more than eight hours deliberating. Nearly half that time was spent listening to audio recordings of the victim's often tearful testimony, in which she described how Parnitzke would force her to watch pornographic movies then act out what she saw with adult men.
"Like, they'd be doing the same thing to her. Or she'd just sit there and watch," the teen testified during the trial.
"You can't cry on cue," Chittenden County Prosecutor T.J. Donovan said. "You can't have a 14-year-old girl respond with those types of emotions if she were making this up."
The girl's testimony stood up to a sophisticated defense in which lawyers argued the child was coerced by police and Parnitzke's ex-husband into telling her story on the witness stand, not once, but twice. A jury last summer could not arrive at a unanimous verdict, apparently deadlocked over a lack of physical evidence. But prosecutors did not doubt the victim's credibility.
"That trumps everything. If somebody is believable, if somebody is credible, that usually wins the case," Donovan said.
Shane Casey rubbed his face with his lips quivering as his lawyer double-checked with jurors if they all agreed to send Casey to prison for the sex crimes. They did.
"I think this speaks volumes that we have zero tolerance for this happening," Bickford said.
The defense attorneys declined comment.
Parnitzke and Casey could each face life in prison. But a sentencing date has not been set.
Prosecutor T.J. Donovan called it extremely disturbing to hear the victim say there are other men in the Burlington area who raped her and he promised to bring them to trial if investigators can ever connect offenders to this victim.
The victim seems to be doing well. WCAX News talked to the girl and her family after the verdict came in. They said they now have a wonderful and healthy life in California and they were enjoying seeing the snow in Vermont. They thanked the jury for their focus on the case and said they are looking forward to putting this ordeal behind them and focusing on the girl's happy growth.
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Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt won't be a guest instructor at spring training for the Philadelphia Phillies for the first time in 10 years because of an undisclosed illness.
Roy Halladay is retiring from Major League Baseball after a 16-year career in which he won 203 games, a Cy Young Award in both leagues and pitched a no-hitter in his first postseason start.
Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay said he'll have shoulder surgery to repair an injury caused by a bone spur and that he hopes to return this season.
Roy Halladay became the fifth pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in both the National and American Leagues after a season in which he threw a perfect game and pitched his best at the close of the season.
The injury-depleted Philadelphia Phillies might be missing two-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Roy Halladay until July as they try to win the National League East division for the sixth straight season.
Roy Halladay extended Major League Baseball's year of the pitcher by throwing the second no-hitter in postseason history.
Roy Halladay was placed on the 15-day disabled list after allowing 17 earned runs in his past two Major League Baseball starts.
Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay retired 27 consecutive Florida Marlins batters last night for the 20th perfect game in Major League Baseball history and the second this month.
Juan Uribe's two-run homer in the eighth inning sent the Los Angeles Dodgers to the National League Championship Series with a 4-3 victory that eliminated the Atlanta Braves from the Major League Baseball playoffs.
Roy Halladay pitched a no-hitter in his first postseason start, giving the Philadelphia Phillies a 4-0 win against the Cincinnati Reds in the opening game of their National League division series.
"The doctors seemed pretty optimistic that if what they saw was correct that I could come back and be a lot more effective and have a chance to pitch this year."
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Since some 30,000 California prisoners launched a hunger strike July 8 against the practice of long-term solitary confinement and other abuses, participants have faced punitive retaliation and censorship of newspapers and other media that backed their fight. Abuses continued after prisoners suspended the strike Sept. 5.
January 2, 2013
California's Proposition 37, the genetically-engineered (GE) foods labeling initiative, failed to pass by a very narrow margin. But that does not mean the labeling fight is over, nor does it mean proponents of honesty in food labeling cannot get even with the opposition by actively boycotting the corporations responsible for helping kill the initiative.


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Chesterfield County Public Schools said that Harrah was removed from the school following the incident.
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Just three ingredients make delicious short ribs.
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Friday, November 01, 2013
Cynthia Keller of the Culinary Institute of America tells us how to master the basics of cooking at home—from equipment to ingredients to technique. Cooking at Home with the Culinary Institute of America covers basic knife skills and essential cooking methods like braising and grilling. features hundreds of recipes, ranging from the very basic to the more complex, and covers almost every kind dish, including soups, starters, salads, meat, poultry, fish, grains, breads, and desserts.
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Friday, November 01, 2013
Perfect fried chicken to go with buttermilk waffles and maple syrup.
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Friday, November 01, 2013
This recipe is based on Chef Jeff Henderson's granddaddy's bread pudding.
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Friday, October 25, 2013
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Jared Koch tackles how to eat organic and well. The Clean Plates Cookbook: Sustainable, Delicious, and Healthier Eating for Every Body offers sensible, sustainable, and healthful home cooking ideas and shows readers how to shop for the best ingredients no matter what their diet (omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans) and how to prepare food that's simple and delicious. And his Clean Plates Manhattan 2013 guide includes over 100 reviews of restaurants serving organic, local, sustainably raised plant and/or animal foods.
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The Main Face starts at the 3-foot step up to the base of Intertwine and ends at the right side of the practice face. It sees a lot of traffic from leaders and top ropers, alike, as it offers the highest concentration of moderate climbs. Although the area sees a reasonable amount of sun, the right side stays wet longer than the rest of the cliff (and longer than any rock in the state, probably).
Getting There
Walking north along the cliff base, you'll know you're at the Main Face when you step up to the rock shelf at the base of the cliff, or by looking up at the chockstone roof in the middle of the wall.
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Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Main Face:
Outersite 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b PG13 Trad, 2 pitches, 55'
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Intertwine 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c Trad, TR, 1 pitch, 45'
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"Pair of amulets in the shape of camels," Late 19th-early 20th century. Central Asia or Iran; Yomut? The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf, 2009. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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This exhibition of 19th- and 20th-century Turkmen jewelry and decorative objects features some 50 works from the collection of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf, and celebrates their recent gift and promised gift of more than 250 works. On view are fire-gilded silver crowns, earrings, and pectoral ornaments that are part of the traditional attire of Turkmen women. Decoration often includes inset carnelians and turquoise, granulation, and small bells suspended from chains. The repertoire of motifs varies according to the tribe of the maker and owner, and the exhibition highlights distinctive designs from Teke, Yomut, and Kazakh jewelry-makers. To complement the jewelry, Turkmen costume and carpets are also on view.


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I saw some comments in another thread about the money the Braves will have to spend next offseason after some of our contracts expire at the end of the year. I decided to write up an assessment of what the Braves' situation will be in the coming offseason. My goal is to present the information as clearly as possible. While I do have to speculate a little, I tried to be conservative. I don't want to overstate nor understate the opportunities Frank Wren will have to better our ball club as we move forward.
We all know the Braves are going to have money to spend. But exactly how much will they have? What holes will they need to fill with that money in the coming offseason? And do they have a real chance to make a splash in free agency or by acquiring a high-cost player through a trade?
A mid-season trade involving either Derek Lowe or Jair Jurrjens would change things to an extent, but whether they're traded tomorrow or seven months from now, it's all the same, really.
The contracts of Kenshin Kawakami, Nate McLouth, Alex Gonzalez, Scott Linebrink and George Sherrill will expire after this season. Combined, that is $18.867 million coming off the books. If Chipper retires after this season, and I think most of us expect him to, the Braves will free up $31.867 million with the departure of those players.
The players with guaranteed contracts for next season that receive raises are Dan Uggla and Brian McCann. Uggla's salary increases by $4M and McCann's increases by $2M. Eric Hinske will receive a slight raise if the Braves exercise his option, which they probably will. His salary will increase by $0.15M. That's a total of $6.15M in raises before arbitration.
The Braves have four players that will be arbitration eligible for the 2012 season. Martin Prado, Jair Jurrjens and Eric O'Flaherty will enter their second year of arbitration. Peter Moylan will enter his third year of arbitration.
If the Braves decide that they they're going to hold on to Jurrjens rather than trading him, we could very well see them sign Jurrjens to a three year contract, similar to what the Giants did with Matt Cain. Jurrjens isn't likely to be interested in a longer deal. If this hypothetical contract were to be similar to Matt Cain's deal, Jurrjens would likely receive something like $5.5M in '12, $7.5M in '13 and $15M in '14. If the Braves decide not to extend him and either take him to arbitration or avoid arbitration with a one year deal, I would guess that Jurrjens will make around $6M.
Martin Prado should, in my opinion, be signed to a long term extension after this season. The Braves should buy out his last two years of arbitration and extend him for three or four years after that. Seeing as how Prado is not a top tier third baseman (Zimmerman, Longoria, Bautista, A-Rod), I think he is the perfect player for a mid-market team like the Braves to lock down with a long term contract. He is the best of the second tier, and can probably be signed to a deal like 12: $5M, 13: 7M, 14: 9M, 15: $9M, 16: 9M, 17: $9M. That is a six year deal worth $48M, which I think is a reasonable and fair estimation for what it would take to keep Prado in Atlanta through his age 33 season.
Either way, Prado's salary will probably be in the vicinity of $5-6M in 2012, which is all that really matters as far as this post is concerned. The raises for O'Flaherty and Moylan will be between $2-4M combined.
If neither of Jair Jurrjens or Derek Lowe is traded, the Braves will be left with roughly $18M dollars to spend next offseason. At least one of them will be dealt, however, and I actually think both will be traded after the season (Lowe could possibly be dealt during the season).
With Minor and Teheran, the Braves can replace both of them next year without a detrimental drop-off in production. Jurrjens is fantastic, but the two guys we have waiting in the wings are extremely talented themselves, and they're a lot cheaper. Honestly, I don't under-appreciate Jair Jurrjens. I'm as big a fan of his as anybody. I just think this is the best course of action.
Another advantage we have is that Hudson will still be here in 2012 and could have his option picked up in 2013, which gives us insurance that our prospects (Delgado, Vizcaino, Clemens, Hoover, Oberholtzer) will have time to develop before we have a need for starting pitching.(2012 Rotation = Hudson, Hanson, Teheran, Beachy, Minor)
Jair Jurrjens is making $3.25M, so if we eat $8M of Lowe's salary, trading the two of them will free up a combined $10.25M in our payroll. Our holes will be in left field, center field and at short stop. We could also use a couple of dependable late inning relievers. I expect Schafer to be our centerfielder, so that solves one problem.
-32.867 + 6.15 + 7 - 10.25 = -29.967
In total, that's $30M coming off the books after this season. Wren will have that money, plus a king's ransom in trade pieces (including Jurrjens) to bolster our bullpen and fill our holes at left field and short stop. There are some intriguing options on the potential free agents list, which I know have already been discussed here before. What's really interesting is the potential to trade for a young player, entering or at least approaching his prime, that is still under team control. I don't want to start a rosterbation thread. This is just meant to provide a clear understanding of where the Braves stand in terms of payroll going into next season.
Looking even further into the future, none of these players will reach free agency until after the 2015 season at the earliest: Jason Heyward, Tommy Hanson, Jonny Venters, Craig Kimbrel, Freddie Freeman, Brandon Beachy, Mike Minor and Julio Teheran. It's likely that Liberty Media will sell the Braves within the next few years, which makes it impossible to look too far into the future. What we do know is that the Braves have a clear opportunity to build another dynasty.
If I screwed something up, forgot to include something that changes the entire outlook for the Braves or did anything that renders this entire post useless....please, be gentle.


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How complete are DNA tests at determining ethnic / racial background?
March 4, 2012
How complete are DNA tests at determining ethnic / racial background?
I am researching the phenomena of "Black Indians"--African American people who also have Native American ancestry. One of the dilemmas that has faced many Black people in recent years is whether to take and how to interpret the results of genetic tests, used to demonstrate ethnic and racial heritage. How complete are these tests? Is there a significant margin of error, due to incomplete profiling?
Tina Turner believed that she had significant Navajo and Cherokee ancestry, but genetic testing revealed that she was only
1% Native
. Is that 1% likely to be a truly accurate number?
I have heard that the tests often only look at part of one's ancestry. For example, only the paternal or maternal line. Could Turner thus actually have a lot of Native ancestry, perhaps 10% or more, despite being told this small number, because only some ancestors are revealed by the testing?
Any insights into rates of error, or advice for interpreting such tests, would be greatly appreciated.
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I can't speak to the race ethnicity question except to say that I view the socially constructed categories unhelpful at best.
But I can tell you that Tina Turner can only test for her mother's lineage. She would need a man in her family to do the test and test for the paternal line. (a brother or her father..obviously not her mother's brother). Men can test for either side-- but they're two separate tests.
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I think vitabellosi is talking about mitochondrial DNA and paternal Y-chromosome haplogroups but I don't think thats what you're asking about.
You might want to check out the
HapMap project
which uses reference populations to try to determine global genetic variation. African, for example, is compared to a
reference population
of Yoruba in Nigeria.
Usually, if you sign up for sites such 23andme.com, they'll also try and determine how much your DNA matches pre-colonial distributions (gotten from the reference populations) to try and determine your ancestry. Mine, as a for example, comes to about 2/3 European and 1/3 Asian/Native-American. I'm Mexican and that mix is about right for Latin Americans.
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on March 4, 2012
New autosomal tests can test all your chromosomes, from all your ancestors, regardless of their (or your) gender. Up until recently you could only test your direct maternal line (mother's mother's mother's...mother) through mitochondrial DNA, or males could test their direct paternal line (father's father's father's...father) through y-chromosome testing. Those tests are still very useful for genealogy purposes, but there are more options now. Examples of the new autosomal tests would be FamilyTreeDNA.com's "Family Finder" test, or 23andMe.com's v2 or v3 tests.
In terms of testing
, though, the new autosomal tests can pretty much only pick up on the last six to eight generations. This will get better in time, but not yet.
The other downside of using genetic genealogy to determine ethnicity is that many smaller and minority populations are still vastly under-sampled in the comparison DNA databases. This too will get better in time, but not yet.
Finally, most commercial DNA firms are not sampling the whole genome yet, just a lot of it.
I would compare the whole situation to something like an early digital camera with limited megapixels; you can tell that the photo it takes is of a tree, but it's still sort of blurry, and what kind of tree is it? Still hard to say, but promising for the future.
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Part of the problem with any kind of genetic test is that people tend to think reductionistically about genetics. There is no gene for African or Native American or Chinese or whatever. There are isotypes that are more common among people from different places (and rare or absent in people from others) and you can figure things out statistically to some level, but after a while things fall into the noise as Asparagirl says.
You get 1.5% of your DNA from each great great great great great grandparent, but if the 1.5% you got from you ancestor who was, oh, let's say Eskimo–Aleut, doesn't contain any of the genes that are particularly concentrated in the Eskimo–Aleut population it's not going to be very noticeable using current technology.
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I recently had my DNA analyzed by 23andMe.
First, yes, they can tell you both your maternal (mitochondrial DNA) and paternal (y-chromosome DNA) lines. These haplogroups give you a pretty good idea where those two lines of ancestors lived thousands of years ago. Because Native Americans likely migrated to the American continents > 10,000 years ago (before the end of the last Ice Age), you can fairly accurately pick out the genetic lines that identify them.
But those are only two lines of ancestors, when of course you have many more.
The second way they can try to pin down your ancestry is by comparing your DNA to other people who have some knowledge of their ancestry. They keep a database in which people enter the known ancestry of their grandparents, and they can match up bits of your DNA with other peoples' DNA. They then tell you what those other people report as their ancestry. For example, for me, 70% of people whose DNA is like mine identified their relatives as coming from Ireland, 50% identified France, and so forth.
That's probably somewhat less accurate, but at least in my case, it coincides with what I know about my own ancestry.
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on March 4, 2012
Nthing that your understanding of "ethnicity" and ethnic background is far more nuanced, socially constructed, and complicated than the questions most DNA testing can really answer.
23andMe was able to figure out that I was likely related to a bunch (okay, twenty or thirty) of its users - but the sorting of that list improved significantly when I told the site places my recent ancestors had lived, and gave it surnames I know they had - up to that point, it was sorted by haplogroup only. I know the site is using information from outside the "figure out your ethnicity" test, and/or guessing, because I'm female and it's turning up people I'd be related to on my father's side. On the ethnicity page, I still look exactly like my mother's mother's mother - it hasn't yet told me I have any Jewish ancestry, or Eastern European ancestry, something it'd need paternal y-chromosone stuff to know about.
(I am hard at work on my dad and his brother to join, too, for this exact reason.)
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on March 4, 2012
Race is a social construct, however, there are many different "alleles" for different areas of the world. It's not "complete", as you can have alleles from many parts of the world that you wouldn't expect or know about. Not only that, but there is a huge difference in the definition of
and race. In the same way that a person might have a genetic marker from a particular area in the world, they may be from that particular are and thus be considered as a part of an ethnic group in that area, but they may not be from there at all. There is a strong biological component to ethnicity, but it's not necessarily always present. Here is an interesting article available for free that explains it more thoroughly than I could, and it has many citations for you to explore:
Perhaps we should simply recognize that getting past this is really about the dead hand of our cultural past, of vested social and material interests correlated with categorical concepts that did have some biohistorical basis (for example, black slaves were from Africa, white citizens from Europe). We waste our expertise endlessly attempting to adjudicate cultural mores with biological data, debating whether "race" is "real" when we know that the social reality of race, whatever race is, is mediated by the distribution of genetic variation but not determined by it.
Race is a conceptual construct with historical, biological, and anthropological elements. Its mix differs for each person, probably in ways he or she is not even fully aware of. None of these thoughts is new or secret, but for similar sociocultural reasons they seem hard for people, even anthropologists, to accept. The legendary baseball great, Satchel Paige (1906 –1982) (Fig. 3), veteran of the Negro Leagues, once quipped "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you!" In the study of race, it's a shame that even scientists rarely seem to look back, to
realize that we are not putting any distance between ourselves and our past. Paige finally made it to the Major Leagues and never had to look back. Maybe it's time for us to move for- ward in our race, too.
Weiss KM and Fullerton SM (2005) Racing around, getting nowhere. Evolutionary Anthropology 14: 165–169
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We did a 13andMe test for both my dad, and my maternal uncle. My dad's family was from Delhi, India (for generations upon generations upon generations). My mom's family was from a very tiny town in the Apennine mountains in central Italy (for generations upon generations upon generations).
The test for our dad was pretty much what we expected - his small paternal line pinpointing him to central Asia (India, Iran, and the Caucasus), and a much larger haplogroup for his maternal line (Indians, Chinese, Tibetans).
For my uncle and my mother's side, there was somewhat a reverse - very small maternal haplogrup, and very large paternal haplogroup. Maternal line matched populations in Poland, Ireland, and Arabs. Paternal line matched Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews, and Lebanese. I believe we have some very distant Italian Jewish cousins, though I don't know much about them. I know they're all generally very fair featured, and I believe from my maternal grandfather's side. My maternal Italian grandfather had strawberry blonde hair, and generally his side of the family has very light features (light brown or strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes, fair rosy skin) despite having roots to a tiny Italian town for centuries (where you'd think darker, Mediterranean features would dominate, related to trade routes with North Africa & the MidEast). Who knows?
I admit I know very little about this stuff, and there's much to refine, and a lot of historical variables, but it's pretty interesting and somewhat matches our inklings beyond the geographical roots we were aware of.
posted by
on March 4, 2012
You might find this
episode of Radiolab
interesting. It's one hour long but the first part is about testing DNA for race. The conclusion they come to is the ability to test for race is iffy at best.
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There are several kinds of DNA tests. Autosomal DNA testing, like at 23andMe, is a newer kind and does look at all of your DNA from "all of your relatives" (more on this in a sec), unlike Y or mitochondrial tests that only look at your direct paternal (father's father's father...) or maternal (mother's mother's mother...) lines.
However, because of the randomness in passing down DNA from generation to generation, it's hard to use it to get an accurate sense of "how much" you have of a certain kind of ancestry, especially when you're looking at smaller numbers. Think about it this way-- your father has 50% of his DNA from his mother and 50% of his DNA from his father. He passes 50% of his DNA on to you. But which 50% he passes to you is random. So it is theoretically possible (although statistically very unlikely) that he could pass down the full 50% from his mother to you and 0% of the 50% from his father. So theoretically (again, statistically very unlikely but possible) you could have no DNA in common with your own grandmother. The further back you go, the more chances you have to get less than "expected" amounts of DNA from any given ancestor.
And then on top of that there's what Kid Charlemagne mentioned, that it's not like every bit of DNA is somehow clearly marked with what ethnicity it's from, so it depends on whether the part you got passed down is even clearly identifiable as coming from that ethnic group-- plus the more times DNA gets passed down, the more likely that it splits into smaller and smaller "chunks" of DNA interspersed with eachother, which muddies the waters further.
So DNA tests are really better at demonstrating a positive-- "Wow, looks like I really do have Native heritage"-- than proving a negative, and it's always going to be possible that you have a higher percentage of something in your ethnic background than is estimated based on your DNA (although the higher above the estimate you go, the less likely, but nonetheless still possible.)
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In a new report published today, Oxfam is warning that health insurance schemes introduced in the name of universal health coverage (UHC) are excluding the majority of people and leaving the poor behind.
While the new growing momentum for UHC is welcome there is a concern that the mistakes of history could be repeated. The optimism in 1978 following the Alma Ata 'Health for All' declaration was quickly replaced by disillusionment as influential donors failed to act on the shared vision of comprehensive universal primary health care. They financed low cost selective interventions instead. Today, a similar danger exists as we witness a wide range of 'business as usual' interventions being rebranded as 'UHC' despite them bearing little resemblance to the World Health Organisation's UHC principles.
This is certainly the case for health financing. Our new report takes a critical look at the almost exclusive focus of some donors and low and middle income countries on contributory insurance schemes as the way to achieve UHC. Such schemes fail to provide coverage for the majority of citizens and serve to divert attention away from needed reforms to national and international tax systems that could raise significant additional revenues for health.
Voluntary insurance – private and community-based – has never worked to achieve UHC yet is still being widely promoted. India's voluntary RSBY insurance scheme for people below the poverty line is widely praised as a success but offers limited financial protection and has skewed public resources to curative rather than preventative care.
For those who recognise the pitfalls of voluntary schemes, social health insurance (SHI) has emerged as the model of choice. SHI has worked to achieve UHC in a number of high-income countries, but attempts to replicate in poorer countries have proved unsuccessful. In practice SHI schemes usually start with the small number of easy-to-reach formally employed and then struggle to scale up beyond. Premiums are too expensive for most and schemes become de facto voluntary, leading to large scale exclusion. Ten year old national insurance schemes in Tanzania and Ghana cover only 17% and 36% of citizens respectively. Kenya's National Hospital Insurance Fund – established nearly 50 years ago – today insures just 18 per cent of Kenyans.
Hopes that insurance contributions from those outside of formal employment would raise significant additional revenue have also not been realised. In Ghana, premiums paid by the informal sector contribute just five per cent towards the cost of the national scheme. Governments also face huge bills to cover the SHI contributions of their workers. The Government of Tanzania spent $33m on employer contributions in 2009/10; this equated to $83 per employee – six times more than it spent per person, per year on health for the general population.
Instead of importing inappropriate health financing models from high-income countries, our paper recommends that developing country governments look to learn from the increasing number of home-grown UHC success stories in other, more comparable countries.
The countries making most progress towards UHC agree that entitlement to health care should be based on citizenship and/or residency (not employment status or financial contribution) and while specific journeys differ, these countries fall into two broad camps. First there are examples of countries at all income levels, including Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Brazil, which use tax revenues to fund UHC. A second option increasingly being adopted by another set of successful UHC countries, including Thailand, Mexico, and Kyrgyzstan, is to collect insurance premiums only from those in formal salaried employment, and to pool these where possible with tax revenues to finance health coverage for the entire population. According to WHO, only eight of 49 low-income countries will be in a position to fully finance UHC from domestic resources in 2015 so international aid will continue to play a crucial role.
The focus on health insurance seems to have served as a distraction for the international health community from the key ingredient for all UHC success stories – public financing. Rather than focus efforts on collecting contributions from people who are too poor to pay, governments and donors should look to reform national and international tax systems in order to generate significant and urgently needed revenue for health. Oxfam estimates that strengthening tax administration alone could raise an additional 31 per cent of tax revenue across 52 developing countries, amounting to $269bn in increased domestic resources. Enough to double health budgets in these countries.
The growing momentum for UHC is welcome, exciting, and challenging. However, if we are to heed World Bank President Jim Kim's warning that UHC could easily become a 'toothless slogan', then UHC advocates must stand true to the WHO UHC principles to reduce out of pocket payments, introduce mandatory pre-payment, create large risk pools and scale up public financing to cover those who cannot afford to contribute. To these we add that entitlement to health coverage should be based on citizenship and/or residence, and that progress can only be considered progress if women and men living in poverty benefit at least as much as the better off at every step of the way towards UHC.
Oxfam's report 'Universal health coverage: why health insurance schemes are leaving the poor behind' is available to download from www.oxfam.org/uhc
Anna Marriott is a Health Policy Advisor for Oxfam and editor of Global Health Check
There have been some surprised emails going around amongst some of my colleagues in the NGO and academic community about a recent news item posted on the World Bank website. The title is 'Lao PDR: How Free Births are Saving Women's Lives'.
The surprise comes not from the Lao PDR government's decision to pilot free care – more and more countries are trying this. It rather comes from the World Bank's apparent public celebration of this approach. While it is not a first – we have seen the World Bank highlight the effectiveness of free care in countries like Sri Lanka and Malaysia before now – it is very rare. It is also very welcome and will hopefully send a message to other governments that they have the opportunity to consider submitting requests for similar support from the Bank, as well as other donor agencies, as part of their efforts to scale up access to health care.
In an effort to accelerate poor progress on saving women's lives the Lao PDR government is piloting free facility-based maternal deliveries in two districts – Nong and Thapanthong – as part of the Health Sector Improvement Project. The World Bank says it is supporting the project – a $15 million grant was issued in 2005 and this was extended with an additional $12.4 million in May of this year.
Further details on the pilot are not easy to find. The World Bank reports that 'the impact of the pilot is currently being studied but preliminary results suggest a significant increase in childbirths in health facilities since services being provided are for free. As such, the mothers who delivered at health facilities were at much lower risk of fatal complications.'
Any further information would be very welcome and let's hope this is a sign of things to come from the Bank.


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Cold Snap: Naples Botanical Garden prepares for chilly temps
NAPLES- While homeowners might throw some blankets over the plants in their yard, The Naples Botanical Garden is facing a much bigger challenge housing thousands of plants and flowers.
"In the past freezes, we've had significant damage to a number of our tropical palms. You can see some damage in the distance to some Atalaya palms," said Brian Galligan, Director of Horticulture.
You can still see the frost damage on these palms at the Naples Botanical Garden from a freeze nearly 2 years ago.
"This plant here, Burle Marx Philodendron, is one of the plants we covered extensively last year. We put 30,000 square feet of frost cloth," said Galligan.
So far this winter, mother nature has been gentle, but on Tuesday night temperatures are expected to dip into the 30s meaning some of the plants here need a warm blanket.
"We actually staple the cloth into the ground to keep any heat trapped within," said Galligan.
In the past, the Botanical Garden has covered a tremendous amount of plants and flowers using frost blankets. On Tuesday, employees are covering about 50 of the most costly and difficult to replace plants.
"If the frost doesn't come, there could be a lot of damage done by the cloth to the plant as well as people saying I didn't come here to see a covered garden so sometimes we just risk it."
The Botanical Garden uses a huge data base where they track each type of plant or flower and how they've handled the cold in the past. They use that system to determine which plants they cover.
Frost blankets will be removed around 8am Wednesday morning.
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