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Obesity is an abnormally high proportion of body fat. The doctor can often determine if you are obese by looking at your body and assessing the percentage of body fat. Methods of assessing body fat are discussed below.
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Aim for healthy weight. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute website. Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/lose_wt/risk.htm. Accessed February 27, 2014.
Barlow SE, and Expert Committee: Expert Committee Recommendations Regarding the Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity: Summary Report. Pediatrics. 2007;120(Suppl)S164-S192).
Clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/ob_gdlns.pdf. Published September 1998. Accessed February 27, 2014.
Deurenberg P, Deurenberg-Yap, Guricci S: Asians are different from Caucasians and from each other in their body mass index/body fat percent relationship. Obesity Rev. 2002;3:141-146.
Deurenberg-Yap M, Schmidt G, van Staveren WA, Deurenberg, P: The paradox of low body mass index and high body fat percentage among Chinese, Malays and Indians in Singapore. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2000;24:1011-7.
Heart-Health Risk Assessment. American Heart Association website. Available at: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/More/ToolsForYourHeartHealth/Heart-Health-Risk-Assessments-from-the-American-Heart-Association_UCM_306929_Article.jsp. Updated November 13, 2013. Accessed February 27, 2014.
How Are Overweight and Obesity Diagnosed? National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute website. Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/obe/diagnosis.html. Accessed February 27, 2014.
Obesity in adults. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated February 19, 2014. Accessed February 27, 2014.
Obesity in children and adolescents. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated November 8, 2013. Accessed February 27, 2014.
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Chicago (Feb. 18, 2009) Deadheads and classical music fans unite! Saint Xavier University will host a performance of the Dead Symphony, an orchestral tribute to the music of the iconic San Francisco rock band, The Grateful Dead. The performance will be at 7:30 on Tuesday, March 10, in the Ensemble Performance Space at SXU's Chicago Campus, 3700 W. 103rd St. To view a previous performance of the Dead Symphony by the Russian National Orchestra, please visit SXU's blog: http://sxuinthenews.blogspot.com/2009/01/saint-xavier-hosts-orchestral-tribute_23.html The performance will be just the second time this groundbreaking composition will have been performed in the United States. Lee Johnson, who wrote the piece, will personally conduct the performance with SXU's University Symphonic Orchestra. Marian Catholic High School student Pat O'Hara and several musicians from VanderCook College of Music will perform alongside SXU's musicians. "We think this unique interpretation of the Grateful Dead's music performed by local musicians will give everyone something to enjoy," said SXU music professor Margaret Young-Weitzel, who organized the event. "We're also excited to once again host concerts here in SXU's Ensemble Performance Space for our university community." For additional information or tickets, please call (773) 298-3421 or (773) 298-3422 or visit www.sxu.edu/music/programs.asp or www.deadsymphony.com. -SXU- FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact: Rick Ducat 773-298-3325 or email@example.com


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NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (Feb. 26, 2014)—The Indiana Heart Gallery, a compelling exhibit featuring portraits of children in need of adoptive families, is stopping in Noblesville. The Gallery will be part of the Indy Kids Sale at the Hamilton Co. Fairgrounds March 6 and 7. The Indiana Department of Child Services uses the Heart Gallery to help bring attention to children in foster care in need of a forever home. Though the exact number of Indiana foster kids seeking an adoptive home varies day-to-day, DCS is actively recruiting adoptive families for 75 to 100 youth.
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Indiana's Heart Gallery is a traveling photographic exhibit the Indiana Dept. of Child Services created in 2007 to help find forever families for children in foster care. Each year, it navigates to over 65 public exhibition spaces across the state. Venues include hospitals, libraries, museums and churches. There are more than 120 Heart Galleries across the United States and the exhibits have resulted in 5,000 children around the country finding adoptive families. More than 1,300 Hoosier foster kids found forever homes in state fiscal year 2013, in part because of the Indiana Heart Gallery.
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Barring a last-minute deal that neither side expects to happen, Chien-Ming Wang will hit the open market later tonight.
The veteran right-hander is one of eight recently declared free agents on the Nationals roster who will be free to negotiate with other clubs when the clock strikes midnight. Wang is joined by fellow right-handers Livan Hernandez and Todd Coffey, catcher Ivan Rodriguez, infielder Alex Cora and outfielders Laynce Nix, Rick Ankiel and Jonny Gomes.
That said, Wang still is expected to re-sign with the Nationals at some point in the near future, according to a club source.
The Nats have been hoping to retain Wang, who after spending two years recovering from major shoulder surgery went 4-3 with a 4.04 ERA in 11 starts in August and September. The Taiwanese nativeRead more »
- CN - Nov 2, 2011 at 9:14 PM
thanks, mark. any idea what he'd be looking for in terms of years & avg $/yr? given that marquis was given an avg of $7.5/yr on his recently expired contract, it seems this team is willing to pay, but i'm not sure what his perceived market value is.
- Gonat - Nov 2, 2011 at 9:29 PM
Please say it ain't so. I was really hoping to be wrong with my cynical look at the situation when he was re-signed last year to the 1 year deal.If he truly walks to another team, that kid in me is crushed. It means Wang walked for money when he said money wouldn't be an issue, it was about LOYALTY. I allowed people to sway me to Wang was different.
- Anonymous8 - Nov 2, 2011 at 9:31 PM
Don't fear Gonat, Amanda Cormak is saying the deal is done but not expected to be finished right away.
- Mark'd - Nov 2, 2011 at 9:41 PM
Did you last 2 bother reading Mark's comments or go off the title?
- Anonymous8 - Nov 2, 2011 at 9:43 PM
Mark'd, guilty as charged. I actually read the the top and went to the comments and responded to Gonat. ITS ALL GONAT'S FAULT
- ehay2k - Nov 2, 2011 at 10:07 PM
I liked the way Wang pitched this year, especially when he didn't have his best stuff. He is yet another example of a guy who knows HOW to pitch vs. a guy who throws good pitches. Takes a lot longer to learn HOW. Our young guys will learn from him, assuming he re-signs with us.
- Gonat - Nov 2, 2011 at 10:13 PM
http://washington.cbslocal.com/?podcast_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%2Fnyc.podcast.play.it%2Fmedia%2Fd0%2Fd0%2Fd0%2FdZ%2Fd4%2FdR%2FdB%2FZ4RB_4.MP3%3Fauthtok%3D5561604608948420633_fyx5eBuLafmyPc4UqqhOyrUnDA&podcast_name=11%2F2+-+Segment+2&podcast_artist=106.7+The+Fan&station_id=114&tag=pages&dcid=CBS.WASHINGTONThat's the 14 minute interview with Davey Johnson today on 106.7 radio. Try to get a read on what he says. Sounds like no Prince Fielder, no Albert Pujols, and a less heralded outfielder in Free Agency—-sounds like Coco Crisp or Marlon Byrd and not Carlos Beltran.
- swang - Nov 2, 2011 at 10:22 PM
Thank the lord no Fielder or Pujols. I've always liked Coco Crisp, but would be sad if we didn't at least make an attempt to get Beltran.
- John C. - Nov 2, 2011 at 10:36 PM
For starters, everyone in the "heartbroken" camp just calm down. Mark, Amanda Cormak and Bill Ladsen are all reporting that it's just a matter of ironing out details at this point. So you shouldn't be heartbroken unless you don't want Wang on the team. I'm in the pro-Wang camp (steady there, y'all). He's likely to be more productive then Marquis was (even this year) for less money. As for Beltran, put me in the suspicious camp. Yes he was great last year, but he turns 35 in April and before this year had not played more than half a season since 2008. He's going to want more guaranteed money than I think is wise to pay him, even in the crazy world of baseball. Pass.
- John C. - Nov 2, 2011 at 10:37 PM
In an aside, a big THANKS to Mark for adding the ticker to the site. 110 days!
- Gonat - Nov 2, 2011 at 10:49 PM
Sports Illustrated saying Wang for 1 year is a done deal:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/baseball/mlb/11/02/nationals.chien-ming.wang/index.html?
- Anonymous8 - Nov 2, 2011 at 10:51 PM
1) Strasburg2) JZim3) CJ, Buehrle, Oswalt, Wandy4) Lannan5) WangThat is a top rotation if Rizzo can get that #3
- Gonat - Nov 2, 2011 at 10:55 PM
With Wang signing it means Peacock and Milone to start in AAA and if Rizzo gets the #3, Detwiler to a trade or to the bullpen.I think all that is positive. Peacock can hopefully continue to work on his pitches and same with Milone. Detwiler can park himself in the bullpen and maybe become another Clippard.
- Anonymous - Nov 2, 2011 at 11:03 PM
i think the idea is bring up harper and go after kemp next year. hello playoffs.
- Gonat - Nov 2, 2011 at 11:05 PM
Matt Kemp should be available on July 31st at the trade deadline if the Dodgers are out of contention.
- Anonymous8 - Nov 2, 2011 at 11:06 PM
Buster Olney said "There are other highly regarded assistant GMs telling friends they would not consider O's job if called. O's have major perception problem. Source says that Jerry DiPoto withdrew from O's job consideration when he was team's top choice. So in effect, two assistant GM's turned them down (with LaCava and DiPoto)".
- jd - Nov 2, 2011 at 11:11 PM
Gonat, Forget about Kemp. You pay a billion to buy the dodgers and you let your best asset go? I don't think so. Look for the new owners to lock up Kemp, Kershaw and Ethier soon after they take over.
- Gonat - Nov 2, 2011 at 11:13 PM
jd, it takes 2 to tango. I think Kemp will RUN to Free Agency.
- JD - Nov 2, 2011 at 11:13 PM
I don't think it's a done deal that Peacock and Milone spend another year in AAA. Stuff happens which you don't anticipate. I for one don't see what Milone especially has to gain from another year in AAA. He may be moved to another team or he may join the rotation if Lannan is moved.
- jd - Nov 2, 2011 at 11:17 PM
Gonat, I disagree. Under strong ownership the Dodgers are a premium franchise and they will compensate him such that he won't run. Keep in mind; he will likely win the MVP this year. Do you think he will want to chance that he has a down year next year or cash in on his current status?
- Gonat - Nov 2, 2011 at 11:19 PM
jd, of course trades could change things. Its still good not to rush Peacock and Milone. By the way Byron Kerr will be doing a story on Sammy Solis new breaking pitch.Hoping Peacock and Milone both work on perfecting another 'plus' pitch in AAA.
- natsfan1a - Nov 2, 2011 at 11:42 PM
Sounds like there's reason for optimism that a deal with Wang will go through. (Oh, wait. I forgot to do the headline knee-jerk panic reaction first. My bad. :-)) On a related note, after watching a replay of the first game of the Taiwan series, here's hoping that they have better weather for the rest of the games. It looked like quite a quagmire had developed in the first game, and I'm glad that nobody was hurt. Hope that our guys don't bring back that lame antler gesture with them. Yuck.
- UNTERP - Nov 3, 2011 at 12:05 AM
I here Wang has signed a one year contract!
- UNTERP - Nov 3, 2011 at 12:07 AM
with Nationals…
- UNTERP - Nov 3, 2011 at 12:08 AM
I hear (sp)
- jd - Nov 3, 2011 at 12:26 AM
Anon8, I don't think the O's have a perception problem. They have a meddling owner who insists on keeping a manager who not too many GM's will want to work with.
- Anonymous8 - Nov 3, 2011 at 12:32 AM
jd, that was a quote from Buster Olney. I hope the team implodes further.
- Ztown17 - Nov 3, 2011 at 2:39 AM
I don't understand our apparent need to go get another starting pitcher/#3 guy. Here's my rotation:StrasburgZimmermannLannanDetwilerWangWhen Strasburg gets shut down, we can easily have Peacock or Milone take over, and those are 2 guys I'm disappointed I can't find room for in the rotation next year. Detwiler has a chance to be one of our best pitchers next year, not sure why people seem to forget about him. And I hate to say it, but aren't we still paying May around $2 million to play minor league ball? Just saying we have plenty of good pitching. Where's the respect for Ross, especially since he is the only "rookie" who will be part of the rotation?
- Dawn - Nov 3, 2011 at 2:56 AM
Always thought Wang was going to say with the club, especially with Davy offering his salary to sweeten the pot. Hope it gets resolved soon.BTW, see that Alex Cora, Maya, Atilano and Pudge are all playing for the same team in Puerto Rico (along with Pudge's son Dereck). First game is Friday, they should have some fun.
- Drew8 - Nov 3, 2011 at 4:08 AM
It's 12:01, fire up that hot stove, baybee!(Norris, who is hitting .346, had a passed ball, but also threw out a runner tonight. His on base percentage is so high that he hit second in the lineup.)
- Jeeves - Nov 3, 2011 at 10:23 AM
right on, z-town-my sentiments exactly.
- Anonymous8 - Nov 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM
The team can't take 2 chances on the back of the rotation. Wang has a surgically repaired shoulder. With Detwiler you fear he can't go deep into games. Having Detwiler and Wang back to back in the rotation could put a strain on the bullpen.If Rizzo can't get a #3, then Detwiler becomes the defacto #5.


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Hector Noesi took a no-hitter into the fifth inning against a powerful Angels offense the last time he trekked to the mound. But the Los Angeles bats eventually found life, and Noesi couldn't stop the bleeding.
Noesi was credited with five earned runs over the next two innings of Tuesday's 8-4 loss, and still remains a question mark in the White Sox rotation for the long term after being claimed off waivers on April 25.
Noesi spent the last two seasons in Seattle before moving to Texas and landing in Chicago. He has only faced five current Mariners during his career, and has held slugger Robinson Cano hitless in five at-bats.
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• The Mariners have lost seven of their last nine games at U.S. Cellular Field and are 5-22 since the start of the 2008 season. Seattle hasn't won a series against the White Sox in Chicago since 2007.
• The White Sox have hit 12 home runs over their last eight games, four of which have come from league-leading Jose Abreu. Chicago is 34-18 when hitting at least one home run, 20-6 when recording a multihomer game and 6-29 when homerless.
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At once naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck's, The Grapes of Wrath is perhaps the most American of American classics. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. From their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of this new America, Steinbeck creates a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, tragic but ultimately stirring in its insistence on human dignity.
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Yes, the story is wonderful. The narrator is excellent and does a great job with all the character voices. He seems to be channeling Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, for he sounds just like him.
Overall the book was wonderful except for the jolting harmonica music transitions from each chapter that were so loud I had to turn down the volume. I absolutely HATED that. I appreciate that the tunes were of the period and the instrument would be easily carried on the road. But it doesn't work for me and spoiled an otherwise wonderfully written and narrated story.
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I enjoyed the introduction of Tom Joad. When the trucker picked him up and started to talk to him he knew right away he was being sized up. Having just been released from prison, he was edgy, truthful and proud and wasn't going to be looked down upon. The dialogue and characterization in this scene brought his character to life as the hopeful hero.
From start to finish each one of the characters, because they were so well formed and realistic, evoked empathy but never to the point of pity. Every character bore their share of hardship. You walk away from this experience feeling stronger for having been in their company. These were people to be admired.
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Replace farmers from Oklahoma with migrant workers from Mexico and I doubt you'd be able to tell that this novel was written back in 1939. And that's what really stuck me about this novel - how relevant it still is - in some ways even more now than then.
The first similarity is economic. As I write this we are still either going through a 'great recession' or are slowly emerging from an economic downturn. The causes are different, of course, here in the novel it was bad farming techniques mixed with new technology that drove the farmers from their land. Today it's an over-saturated housing market - people banking all their futures on the bubble of hope that perhaps the value of their own home will increase enough for them to make a tidy profit. And just like land that's been worked too hard, people worked the housing market too hard and it collapsed. Banks came to take the farms in the novel and banks came to take the homes in our own time.
And both examples were of people running as fast as they could just to stay a little ahead of disaster. The farmers grew crops that destroyed the soil because they had no choice - they couldn't compete with the new farms, the corporate farms and machine efficiency. A family can't compete with a fleet of harvesters and tractors - working the land by hand can't keep up with a tractor. And the same goes for the people with houses these days. Everybody borrowed on cheap credit from the bank to hopefully 'buy low' and then 'sell high', but when everyone does it then there isn't no value in any of it and it all falls apart and everyone still owes the banks. And all they wanted was a piece of a dream, a chance to stay afloat economically, to send their kids to a good college, to make the car payments, put food on the table.
In the novel the Californian's hated the Oakies, called them lazy, called them animals, called them thieves; in today's world we call the homeowners who lost it all idiots, greedy, lazy. But we also hate the banks. Call the banks greedy, inhumane, a great machine that's too big to die and too big to fail and everybody has to keep feeding it because nobody is really too sure how to control it anymore.
But there is one difference, and that's the work. When the people lost the value on their homes, when the banks realized that the amount of money in the economy was based on a weak speculation and that there was actually a lot less money than there really was, when that caused credit to dry up, and when that caused smaller businesses to close up because they couldn't run the businesses with no credit, which in turn caused people to lose their jobs, and that caused the economy to drag down deeper and created a vicious cycle that made it worse and worse - after all that, the people had nowhere to go because all the 'poor jobs', the type of work Steinbeck writes about in the novel had all been taken by the immigrants.
And that cussed more issues. The poor American middle-class blamed the Mexican's and now militia patrol the borders to kick the Mexican's out or do worse things in the desert at night when nobody is looking. A man like Casey in the novel is no different than a immigrant getting killed by some militia border patrol.
And that causes resentment on all sides and the center can't hold.
And that's just the economic similarity between the novel and today's times. Politically it's the same too. A conservative will say the poor just gotta work, but the conservative will also be on the side of the businessman and when everyone needs work, the businessman can keep wages down and in turn keep the poor really poor. But that's supposed to be ok because the conservative will say the poor can take help from a charity or a church - but that's easy to tell someone else when it's not you having to beg and take charity, easy to tell another man to beg. But the conservative man is holding on by a thread as thin as can be too and he's causing his own demise because soon the corporation will put him out of work too, his job will be lost and he'll have to go begging and he won't be so mean and conservative anymore. He'll see the value of sticking by your fellow man instead of blaming him for his troubles.
And that's what the book is about - about family, about sticking together, about helping, about not letting the fruit on the vine rot when others go in need. And that's why it's an even more radical novel today than when it was written because it 'smells' of Communism or of Socialism. And the conservative man doesn't want to hear about that, he doesn't want a union because union men are lazy and he doesn't want socialism because the government will tell him what to do and he doesn't want communism because he can take care of his own family.
That is until he can't, then he'll be singing a different tune or he'll be turning on his own people like some of the people in the novel who turned against their own just to put food on the table; the great selfishness.
That's the saddest thing about the book - how spot on Steinbeck was about human nature. And for as beautiful as the novel is, as well written as it is, nothing can compare to how true it is. And maybe that's the thing that makes people still so angry about it - that it reveals a truth we don't want to accept about ourselves, that deep down we know that they way we live, that the American dream is not working, that it never really worked and that we either side with the people who will toss us on the heap of irrelevance or we fight the powers that be. And maybe if we worried a little more about if their neighbor has enough in his bowl and a little less about if we have enough in our own then maybe things would be better.
The novel is a microcosm of American, then and now. And that's quite an achievement because how many novels ring this true 75 years after they were written? And the novel is a damning indictment too, and that's why it still scares people.
And that ending. What an ending too. It's both hopeful and sad. It's religious and it turns religion on it's head too. It's bleak and yet it's also comforting.
Now I didn't realize it at first, but this is the third in a series of books I've been reading that deal explicitly with society - 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom' talked about a people fighting for their independence in the deserts of Arabia, '100 Years of Solitude' about a village coping with modernity, and now this novel about a country having to find a new direction. And they are also about the poor, about people who have been taken advantage of by a government or an economy and have been cast aside. And that's been a struggle since man understood ownership and it will continue to be a struggle as long as some men side with the very forces that could steamroll everyone in the end.
'Don't turn on your own kind', Tom says. Well I hope Tom is still somewhere out there keeping an eye on everyone, helping where he can, beat up and bloody but still fighting. The world needs more Tom's and more Ma's. Someone's gotta keep the family together.
Anyway, brilliant novel. Pure genius.
"Wish I could give it 10 stars!"
I don't give many 5 star ratings. I listen to too many books to be impressed by many of them but I honestly wish I could give both this book and this narrator 10 stars. They were perfectly matched and I did not want this story to end.
Like most people of my generation (mid 60's), I read this book in high school and found it boring and didn't like it at all. It is wasted on the young who haven't faced any hardships in life yet and they can't possibly understand the impact of it's lessons.
But now when I listen to it I can feel the dust in my throat and the bugs biting my skin and the heat beating down on me. I know the pain of the parents watching their children starve and the humiliation of the men , especially, who could not take care of their families.
And, I could see how we as a country are starting to repeat those same mistakes that culminated in the massive poverty of the majority of Americans in those years.
This is a must read for all adults.
Great Story, Great Performance. Must not miss out on! This is my favorite so far!
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I've literally waited 5 years for this audio to be released of what is hands down the best piece of American literature ever written. I think the pace and clarity of the narrator is perfect. It does have odd, blunt interludes of harmonica music that can snap you out of the trance the book puts you in, but other than that its a pretty flawless rendition of an American Classic.
"Worth the wait !!!!!"
Dorthea Lange and Walker Evans captured the great depression in images. John Steinbeck captured it in words. Dylan Baker does an excellent job of bringing Steinbeck???s beautiful words to life. The plight of the Joad family, which has become a pseudo family for all the victims of the dust bowl, is the touching reality of the dark days that our ancestors endured in the 1930s. In my opinion, The Grapes of Wrath is one of the greatest American works of literature and a classic that should be listened to by all. I have had this audio book on my wish list for 5 years. It was worth the wait. Audible you didn???t disappoint. Thank you.
"Magnificent classic, relevant to modern Australia"
Listening to Dylan Baker's brilliant interpretation of this classic was an emotional and intellectual journey. The Grapes of Wrath wasn't just about the excruciatingly difficult challenge facing this tough little family. It was also about society as a whole: how it is governed by politicians, manipulated by bankers, dominated day to day by the complacently rich or economically safe, the self righteous, the cruel, the uncaring. And how people with the qualities of decency, love, strong morality try to survive against these monolithic factors.
Because every word has weight and implication, listening compelled a depth of appreciation that visual reading may not have offered: such was my concern for this family that I could have been tempted to skip the superb analysis of Steinbeck's overviews.
The characters are real: they live. It is an extraordinary feeling listening and needing, wanting, to reach out and be right there with them. Help them. Change things for them.
My favorite? Of course, hard to say, but I think it would have to be the Preacher: he is the philosopher, observer of realities but ultimately, in his questioning, hopeful of something better.
The ending: I have never before finished listening to book in tears. But the ending is not a completion: it is a culmination of lives to that point, a blending of the analogies and themes that weave richly throughout the novel.
Among the many emotional impacts for me, was the realisation that this was a novel for today. Written in 1939, it describes key issues confronting my own country, Australia. Our capacity for cruel exclusions, inward looking, complacency, injustice, manufactured fears and prejudices. And the capacity of so many for bravery, compassion, cooperation, fairness, empathy.
Steinbeck was delivering an uncompromising mirror to society, his emotions powering the novel. That it was recognised as such through the accolades and awards that poured upon this book (and him as an author, Nobel Prize included), shows that his message was received and understood by many then, and ever since. He was imploring his American to be a generous and understanding society, to build on the capacity for love and caring that the journey of the Joad family, and many thousands like them, exemplified.
"America's Desperate Migration to Caleeefornia"
This has been one of my favorite novels for decades...film also. I had this tucked away in my wish list for a couple of years and decided to treat myself. Don't wait to purchase this! Dylan Baker gives this wonderful novel a new life. Ma and Tom Joad he nails to perfection! The 'women's committee' at The Weed Patch Camp have distinct personalities and bodies. Dylan reads each one with hilarity, yet gives them the respect they deserve. Grandpa Joad is even more obnoxious and stubborn if that is possible. His stubbornness is born out of fear and a deep loss.I still feel a great sadness with every read when Grandpa becomes a shell of a man being forced off his tenant farm, then dies while on the road to Caleeefornia. His sad yet dignified burial in a unmarked grave with a note written by Tom on a filmy blank page torn from a bible, stating who this dead man was, why he died (not of murder) but from a stroke. Because 'the law' is more interested in the welfare of a dead man over a live one. Steinbeck was threatened with death if he stepped one foot into California after he published this book. It wasn't only California exploiting the decamped tenant farmers. Oregon and Washington had their big fat greedy hands in the unscrupulous business of working men, women, children and the elderly into early graves. However, Ma Joad was right when she says they are the people that survive. A wonderful book indeed.
Putting books on the back burner.
"Reading a Classic"
For those who have been following my reviews, you might notice a pattern in my reading habits. I like to read different types of books all the time. I don't like to stay with one genre for most parts, just because I like to expand my mind with all types of literature.
Reading a classic like "The Grapes of Wrath", makes me appreciates at what I have and how much they use to struggle at their journey to the west. I've always wanted to read Steinbeck's masterpiece, but I heard that it was depressing.
A family traveling cross country during the dust bowl to have a better life in California is still relevant for many immigrants, crossing the boarder. Reading these types of stories about our early settlers makes me wonder what obstacles that the newcomers are facing in this cruel world.
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Gomez leads Crew vs. Mets to open NYC series
New York returns to Citi Field after 11-game road trip
Carlos Gomez still loves going back to New York. Not because it means playing against the Mets, the team that signed him, brought him to the big leagues and traded him away, but because it means some good Dominican cooking.
"I have so much family there, a lot of aunts, and my wife has even more family there than me," Gomez said. "It's like I'm home."
Gomez will be "home" from Tuesday through Thursday, when the Brewers finish the first portion of their travel-heavy June with a three-game series at Citi Field.
Gomez has already played six regular-season games at Citi Field as a visitor, plus the 2013 All-Star Game, so the novelty has worn off. But it's another chance for Mets fans to see the type of difference-maker Gomez has become, all these years later after New York shipped him to Minnesota in the Johan Santana trade. He entered Sunday third in the National League with 31 extra-base hits and was in the top 10 in OPS, total bases, slugging percentage, runs, doubles, batting average, home runs and stolen bases.
Gomez is hitting cleanup these days and has been taking some very confident swings on this road trip, on more than one occasion going down to one knee after a whiff. But manager Ron Roenicke shrugged off the idea that Gomez is swinging harder while hitting fourth.
"He was doing that leading off, too. I don't think it's [more pronounced]," Roenicke said. "I can remember the first pitch of a game doing the same thing, down on a knee with the helmet off. Gomey, from game to game, he's different. Sometimes he's a little more subdued and he's trying to hit the ball to right field, and some days it's the full gorilla, trying to hit it 600 feet pulled down the line. I don't know what I'm getting from day to day.
"It seems to be working, so let him do whatever," Roenicke said.
Given the state of the Mets generally and their outfield specifically, they probably wish they had a player as dynamic as Gomez. With center fielder/leadoff man Juan Lagares and reserve outfielder Eric Young Jr. both on the disabled list, the New York outfield hasn't packed much of a punch. Curtis Granderson and Chris Young are both batting close to .200.
They will be among those trying to turn things around following the Mets' 11-day, 11-game, three-city, sub-.500 road trip that concluded with a series loss to the owners of the best record in baseball, the Giants.
Not that they get any real break now. After an off-day Monday -- their first since May 19 -- the Mets get the Brewers, who have the second-best mark in the NL at 37-26, for the first half of a six-game homestand.
Brewers: Estrada fighting through funk
Brewers starter Marco Estrada posted a 3.13 ERA in his first six starts and a 5.30 ERA in his last six, and he has surrendered a Major League-leading 18 home runs. He was one of the pitchers Roenicke had in mind this weekend while discussing the Brewers' recent results.
"It's not so automatic like it was, that everybody was having a great outing," Roenicke said. "I still think they're doing a good job of keeping us in ballgames. The offense, obviously, is great for 2-3 weeks and they're keeping us at a point where that offense is able to take over and we get some wins.
"Kyle [Lohse] is locked in, [Matt] Garza's last couple, I thought, were really good. So I think those guys are good. But [Yovani Gallardo] is a little off, Marco's a little off and Wily [Peralta] is a little off. So hopefully we get that figured out."
Wednesday against the Twins, Estrada gave up four runs in six innings. He allowed three walks and six hits, including a homer for the ninth straight start.
Mets: Recker and Teagarden to split time
With regular catcher Travis d'Arnaud working out the kinks in his swing at Triple-A Las Vegas, Anthony Recker and Taylor Teagarden will split time behind the plate for the Mets.
Recker has struggled to make contact consistently at the big league level, striking out 32 times in 90 plate appearances entering Sunday's play. But he does bring power to the lineup, with seven of his 18 hits going for extra bases.
Teagarden, 30, already has six partial Major League seasons on his resume. The Mets informed him of his callup late Saturday night, and Teagarden took an early-morning flight from Las Vegas to meet the team in San Francisco. He spent the entirety of Spring Training in big league camp, so he is plenty familiar with the Mets' pitching staff.
"It's not like I'm coming into a brand new team," Teagarden said. "Hopefully it shouldn't take too much to get acclimated to these guys and get on the same page, so that there's no learning curve."
Worth noting
• Right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka will make a second turn through a Major League rotation for the first time since last September. He's been quite versatile for New York since joining the team late last season by appearing in 25 games, including nine starts and all sorts of different relief situations.
Matsuzaka has been effective over the course of those 72 1/3 innings, too, posting a 3.86 ERA, 1.26 WHIP and 8.3 strikeouts-per-nine-innings rate. Matsuzaka even recorded a save on April 24.
• The Mets' losing streak, which reached six games following their 6-4 loss to San Francisco on Sunday, was their second of at least five games in the last month. They also lost five straight May 5-10. The team's seven walk-off losses are the most in the Majors.
• The Brewers are 18-13 on the road. Their starters this series -- Estrada, Peralta and Lohse -- have a combined 3.95 road ERA this season.
Tim Healey is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Hendo83 5pts The Focus EV makes 143hp not 123hp. It accelerates from 0-60 slightly faster than the Leaf.(maybe 0.5s quicker). The Focus is also a much sharper handler, it is better looking and with it's liquid cooling system it gets up to 16miles more range in real world driving.(according to a mass EV test done by Edmunds.com on their EV test loop in LA.)
danwat1234 5pts Only 85MPH for the Focus EV? Why not make it 130MPH or at least 115MPH?Sheesh not that smart of a move to add that computer limitation.
wmshearer 5pts One more comment. In my opinion Nissan did themselves a disservice marketing the Leaf using the blue. The car looks a whole lot better in the red. That's just my opinion. http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/gallery/view/car/6
wmshearer 5pts On range: Many of us are multi car families. In my case, the wife drives 4 mi to work, daughter, 6 mi to school, I work at home one week, and drive 600 mi the next. I'll drive my 33 mpg Hyundai when I travel, and we'll all fight over the electric when I'm home(because I don't have to buy gas and dad pays the electric bill). The electric will get driven 358 days a year, and we'll use the $1,000+ savings (based on our drivin habits and current gas & electricity costs)to help pay for the gas on our annual driving vacation when we need to use the SUV. By the way...if your a one car family, you can rent a helluva sweet car with $1,000 when you need to go on that trip.
wmshearer 5pts Best looking...I'm with the masses here: Focus. But I always test drive and usually (more than 50%) end up buying the less atractive car, because it turns out to be the better car. Test driving the Leaf this Friday. Will test drive the Focus and other electrics available before I buy.
wmshearer 5pts Tax credit "really" lowers price on car. Credit: one dollar paid equals one dollar back. Deduction equals dollar paid times TaxRate. Two different things. The only thing you need to worry about is if your annual tax bill is less than $7,500. Will the govt give you a check for $7,500, or only for the taxes you paid that year. Check with a tax advisor. And no one is giving you a loan (see smythejames comment below). You need to pay the $35,200 and wait to get the $7,500 back later.
kylekeyes 5pts Ford will no doubt be first with the Lithium Air battery, and the solar roof collector. Such advancements will nullify range problems and chargingcosts.
smithejames 5pts A tax credit doesn't really lower the price of the car. As with the most tax credits, they only lower your end of the year tax amount which isn't the same dollar for dollar. Often tax credits are only hidden loans and should be avoided if you don't think you can pay the amount back when they decide to spring the paying back part on you. Why don't these cars have solar roofs and hoods and the same energy system that hybrids have where they capture the stopping energy of the car and put it back into the battery? Not because it is too expensive or too technical. I would think in sunny places that could extend the travel distance by at least double and almost eliminate the need to recharge since cars are parked most of the time anyway during the day. We aren't getting the best they have to offer and certainly not at a good price either. These cars are purposely overpriced and under developed to appease the government and fool the consumer so we can be dependant on current gasoline cars.
JeremyJames86 5pts The Ford has a nicer exterior. But hands down the Nissan's interior is futuristic, restrained and more luxurious. For the big city, the Leaf wins.
lasvegascolonel 5pts Up until today I thought all these hybrids (Volts/Prius) and EV (Leaf) were destined to be little cars, but I see Infiniti has an M hybrid. It's not a large car, but it's good sized. I drove one recently but still but a G37 Coupe. But they've proven you don't have to have a tiny car to go to other fossil fuels like coal or natural gas.
MrNissan02 5pts 2011 Nissan against a 2013 Ford product that isn't even on sale yet..give me a break..Nissan keep up the good work, they are all scrambling...
macchina_apassionata 5pts Why put 2 categories undeterminied?One come to the battle, the other is just a promise.From the bowl to the mouth the soup falls.The Nissan is real, is here. Is the winer for me.Focus is beautiful, almost a mini Aston Martin, but is just a prototype.
carboy1 5pts Electric cars.Coming soon to a museum near you!Interesting experiments that some suckers will buy, only to prove that the varied performance requirements of the average car are too complex for an electric car to achieve.I want a new Kia Forte 5-door.
CALI-LIFER 5pts they only compared what was comparable so it is a good glimps at what we may get. The leaf may still beat it, as for the looks ford copied aston and ford use to own aston, but hyundia/kia copies cars in the own segment which is what makes me angry when i confuse a hyundia for a honda/bmw/mercedes. im just saying... I think thats was the greatest idea, copying the aston!! I LOVE IT!!
glcgt40 5pts This is only the begining wait and see what electric cars are like 10 to 20 years from now. Technology will vastly improve this segment, wait and see.I'm so glad the major car compinies are starting to take all of this seriously......The future is ours to develope.
true_enthusiast 5pts To all those commenting about wanting more speeds in the transmission... It's electric, it only needs one speed. One speed is a good thing, no wasted shifting, less friction losses.
Cardw 5pts I think it's great that we are going to have a lot more choices for electric cars in a few years. I have a Nissan LEAF and it is a great car for what I use it for. It is a very well built car and there is a lot of attention to detail. I commute 20 miles to and from work. If you are going to have an electric car you need to understand its limitations. This car meets the needs of 90 percent of what we do. We have another vehicle for longer distances and hauling things.It appears that so far the battery temperature is not an issue. I haven't seen the temperature vary at all in the 300 miles I have driven. Not having to add a cooling system to the batteries is great savings of energy and complexity. And looking at current gas prices I am so glad to be driving by the gas station.
adamlink 5pts The problem with the Leaf is that they opted not to include a gas powered generator, or "range extender," which means the Leaf has a maximum range of 75 miles (according to Nissan), followed by a charging time of 20 hours on regular household current.Think about that. If you drive it to the end of its range you have to wait 2 more days to drive it again-- or plunk down $2000 for a 240v charging station, which cuts charging time down to about half of that. The Ford may be the same, I'm not sure.So it seems to me the Leaf was intended for urban driving, not long distance.
lasvegascolonel 5pts The Focus is stylish but for a small car (with a small wheelbase) it sure weighs a lot. Mid-sized cars of the 70s and 80s weighed less and they were roomy compared to these little things. But I think it's a step in the right direction. I think the future are Leafs and Focus EVs...not hybrid Volts and Priuses.
bahak86 5pts The Ford looks good and I honestly find it hard to believe that they wouldn't do whatever it takes to give it the best range possible. The Leaf just seems experimental and a little too niche... the Focus looks like it could really be groundbreaking.
TPS221 5pts just saying the focus i think will get closer to 8.5-9.0sec 0-60 keeping in its fun drive characteristics that makes it a win in my book im sure itll be the sporty electric car
Tibbz 5pts Pass X2... If i wanted an EV i would just save up and dish the money down on a Tesla Model S
LT1Boy 5pts What a waste of an article. How can you compare two cars without actually even comparing them?Must be a slow month in the automotive world... MT is making up comparos before the cars even exist.
Lovemesomecars 5pts Althought I think either of these cars are not practical to me I would choose the Focus on looks alone.....it's definitely the better of the two.The Leaf's so ugly it will make you smack your Momma
hesasmartone 5pts OK this is just getting annoying. Every time I see a post with a picture of the electric Focus I think it's something about an Aston Martin. Why does it have that grille?!?
AstnMrtn007 5pts ... as for the "it looks like an Aston" comments: Yeah, it actually does have some AM design cues; the LEDs atop the headlights are similar to the Vantage's and the upper and lower grilles each have similar shapes. That's obviously where the similarities end. Still, a bit similar.
boostaholic 5pts aston martin?? oops no its a Ford.if hyundai/kia used that most of you guys will shout out that it is a blatant copy and that they are NOT original. funny how when ford uses it, you guys are quiet. just proves that you guys are nothing but haters.
D.MAN1980 5pts i'd take the focus of the leaf anyday for the simple reason the focus has better styling. to me the leaf looks like a frog that got to much sun and it is melting.
godhainder 5pts Is it just me, or does the Focus look a little like an Aston wagon in the dark, in heavy fog, after you just had your pupils dilated, after a couple shots?
SuperCJ427 5pts That leaf got to be on the top 10 ugliest cars. No brianer ... Ford is the one to buy.
kendawg2k5 5pts Hey MT, you mention that there is no gas powered equivalent to the leaf? What about the Versa hatchback? I believe that is the platform Nissan modified into the leaf. So thats a comparo I want to see, Leaf vs Versa and Focus-e vs Focus.
AstnMrtn007 5pts Saw a black Leaf driving around town the other day. As feared, they are just as ugly in person as in pictures. That being said, the Focus electric doesn't seem particularly impressive, aside from its vastly superior styling.
The NABG 5pts Regardless of what some people think of these cars, it's exciting to see the change in the automotive industry occuring. Just imagine where the technology will be in 5 years now that the major companies are competing? I love it!
Ufo_Ninja 5pts I will take this little comparison with a grain of salt. How are you going to compare a vehicle that's out on the market to one that's still in development and the one in development wins. Makes no sense to me.
gheffty93 5pts even though the Ford could use more power, I would take it over the Nissan any-day. Interior and looks make a huge difference for me. Also nice to have a better handling car. If it had more power the Ford would win by a landslide!
Hendo83 5pts @gheffty93 The Focus EV does have more power than they quoted in the article it has 143hp not 123hp.
redbloodedxy 5pts A 3700 lb focus! Yikes! My '78 Bonnie was lighter. Sorry, but I believe that the battery powered car is the wrong way to go and hiding that 1,000 lb. nickel cadmium gorilla in a smallish car for the sake of eco-bragging rights is only part of it.73 miles? The technology is too cumbersome and too limited for anything bigger than a beach cart. I know what you are thinking...and YES, the solution to our problem is more complicated than cutting off OPEC and drilling for oil -- but the only electric motor I want to hear is the one on that drill.
bcwells09 5pts Chrisa222 in what way does being able to only go "84 MPH" make a car unsafe? Autos in the 70's and 80's routinely topped out at 80 or 90 mph ....I don't recall massive deaths from this


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Looks like fun; looking for a nice blast of nostalgia!
Wreck-It Ralph crashes onto the big screen on November 2, 2012.
Sounds like 'Dr. Steve Bruell' (ha!) was a good choice to voice this character. Ms. Silverman's 41 year old voice sounds more like 61, pretending to be 6 though... It's not bad, but it seems out of place for that character.
Still, it looks like fun... I'm plannig to see it.
I too like the voice work of John C. Rielly. I think Vanellope is suppose to be annoying. Something that Silverman is good at. That was a funny little scene.


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Youtube is blocked in China.
I don't think Africans have easy access to internet... at least the ones not living close to larger cities.
Edit: I'd like to add, in China a lot of folk use Internet Cafe's (it's more popular than here in Europe), so if there's Windows preinstalled then they'll just use that. (which most likely is the case, as they go to Internet Cafe's to play MMO/Online games.)


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Tales from the pit
i was in boise idaho a few years back, well let me tell you this isnt a story directly about slayer but 1 of their songs.i was in a little topless bar and this girl came on to dance and she started to dance to south of heaven,the whole place went fucking nuts and started sing the song.to see a girl dance to a slayer song is 1 thing but south of heaven,she must have practiced for a while because she danced perfect.but to see and hear everyone in that whole bar sing along word for word was special. to see that slayer bring all those people together singing is something i will never forget.thank you slayer!!!!!!
Comments for this Tales from the pit
Hey Slayer, my name is gustavo, I'm from Sao Paulo, Brazil and I am particularly anxious and insane to know when will be the coming of you to Brazil.
Puta que o parila, you make a sound of hell, I hear from the uncontrolled Hauting the Chapel until the last album of yours. I think Slayer Slayer, and not metal, Slayer is not trash metal, Slayer is Slayer! DAMN! We Anisio and waiting for you here!
you sent it to the wrong place my name is chris slay. and slay is my real last name.but im not affiliated with slayer just a huge fan.thanks for reading my tale from the pit.chris slay