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Two people were shot and a third was grazed by a bullet at a 4/20 marijuana rally in Denver on Saturday, according to the Denver Post and Denver TV station KMGH.
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Jered Weaver was shelled for eight earned runs in two innings Saturday in a spring start against the A's.
Angels acquired INF Danny Espinosa from the Nationals for RHP Austin Adams and RHP Kyle McGowin.
Jonathan Papelbon is not currently looking to sign with a major league team.
Mike Berardino of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that Twins prospect Yorman Landa was killed in a tragic car accident in Venezuela.
Phillies signed 1B/OF Daniel Nava to a minor league contract.
Diamondbacks signed RHP Fernando Rodney to a one-year, $2.75 million contract.
Cardinals signed OF Dexter Fowler to a five-year, $82.5 million contract.
Derrick Goold and Ben Frederickson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch write that the Cardinals "could become more aggressive than previously believed," with Mark Trumbo and Edwin Encarnacion as "possible pursuits."
Koji Uehara has reached a deal to join the Cubs, per Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports.
Red Sox signed 1B Mitch Moreland to a one-year, $5.5 million contract.
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- The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: correlation with the ROSAT-ESO flux-limited X-ray galaxy cluster survey
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- Hilton, Matt; Collins, Chris A.; De Propris, Roberto; Baldry, Ivan K.; Baugh, Carlton; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Bridges, Terry J.; Cannon, Russell D.; Cole, Shaun; Colless, Matthew; Couch, Warrick J.; Dalton, Gavin B.; Driver, Simon P.; Efstathiou, George P.; Ellis, Richard S.; Frenk, Carlos S.; Glazebrook, Karl; Jackson, C. A.; Lahav, Ofer; Lewis, Ian; Lumsden, Stuart L.; Maddox, Stephen J.; Madgwick, Darren; Norberg, Peder; Peacock, John A.; Peterson, Bruce A.; Sutherland, William J.; Taylor, Keith
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- The ROSAT-European Southern Observatory (ESO) flux-limited X-ray (REFLEX) galaxy cluster survey and the Two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS), respectively, comprise the largest, homogeneous X-ray selected cluster catalogue and completed galaxy redshift survey. In this work, we combine these two outstanding data sets in order to study the effect of the large-scale cluster environment, as traced by X-ray luminosity, on the properties of the cluster member galaxies. We measure the LX−σr relation from the correlated data set and find it to be consistent with recent results found in the literature. Using a sample of 19 clusters with LX≥ 0.36 × 1044 erg s−1 in the 0.1–2.4 keV band, and 49 clusters with lower X-ray luminosity, we find that the fraction of early spectral type (η≤−1.4) , passively evolving galaxies is significantly higher in the high-LX sample within R200. We extend the investigation to include composite bJ cluster luminosity functions, and find that the characteristic magnitude of the Schechter-function fit to the early-type luminosity function is fainter for the high-LX sample compared to the low-LX sample (ΔM*= 0.58 ± 0.14) . This seems to be driven by a deficit of such galaxies with MbJ∼−21. In contrast, we find no significant differences between the luminosity functions of star-forming, late-type galaxies. We believe these results are consistent with a scenario in which the high-LX clusters are more dynamically evolved systems than the low-LX clusters.
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 363, no. 2 (Oct 2005), pp. 661-674
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- 2005
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- Catalog; Catalogue; Clusters; Cosmology; Digital sky survey; Galaxies; Evolution; K-band properties; Luminosity function; Mass function; Observations; Rich clusters; SDDS; Spiral galaxies; Star-formation; Velocity dispersion; X-rays
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In an interview prior to this evening's game, Dan Haren was asked about Jered Weaver's stellar, personal single game strikeout record breaking performance on Sunday. He laughed and responded in an affectionate sounding tone that it was getting harder and harder to follow Weaver in the rotation. How do you follow a performance like that? Well, if you're Dan Haren, you stride out to the mound, throw first pitch breaking ball strikes and other nasty stuff and pitch a one-hit complete game shutout! Boys? This one-upmanship thing? It's seriously working for me. You can keep that right on up all season. Please!
This evening's 2 – 0 win over the Indians was, quite simply, one of the best games I have been privileged enough to attend. I am absolutely euphoric as I sit here typing this and, at the beginning of the evening (Hey, I haven't gone to bed yet, so it's still the same evening!), I had no reason to believe I would even be in a good mood. I never leave work when I intend to and this evening was no exception. Still, I was making good enough time plop into my seat next to Seth more or less when the teams were delivering their lineup cards…until the freeway came to a dead halt a mere two offramps from my destination around a five car fender bender, roughly 15 minutes before first pitch.
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Fortunately my comedy of errors getting to the game did not extend to the field. What. A. Game! Dan Haren! Peter Bourjos' first homerun of the season. Dan Haren! Mark Trumbo's first major league homerun ever! Oh, and did I mention Dan Haren?😉 And then, just when it looked like the Indians were going to get a solid extra bases hit with the potential to bust the game wide open, who should come flying from right to center and seemingly straight up the high part of the wall but Spiderman himself, Torii Hunter. No lie, in the middle of one of the best pitching performances I have seen live at the stadium, this was one of the best catches I have ever seen live at the stadium. You will surely see it on the end of the week highlight reels. But even with that play, this was entirely Dan Haren's show. He never let a runner get to second the entire game. He got the leadoff hitter out in all nine innings. He struck out eight batters. And it looked like he was able to throw all of his pitches for strikes tonight. It was a masterful performance.
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That sounds like an awesome game to be at! Thanks for sharing the pics!
Very exciting about Haren! And combined with the exploits of Weaver, it sounds like the pitching is impressive. I'm jealous.🙂
I love those seats. For several years I had upper deck seats behind home plate at Wrigley before moving down to the lower deck box. I may be closer to the field now, but you can't get that great overall view of the park like you can from *good* UD seats.
And like I said on your last post, Haren was great last night. I've seen all his starts this year and the guy just seems to be focused and ready to make Every Single Pitch count.
Ahhh …. Danny Haren… can't help but think of how awesome the Cards would be if they still had him alongside Waino and Carp. Alas, we had to have a year of Mulder and injury woes ad nauseum ever after….
Ron – It was such a fun game! You're welcome.
Jane – Thanks, they are just both amazing right now…then we get to the 4th and 5th spots and I start to get queasy. Hopefully Pineiero is able to come off the DL soon.
Russel – They turned out to be pretty sweet seats. Now that I know, I won't hesitate to grab them again. I think being on a team where he is the second ace instead of the only ace has inspired Haren to even greater focus. If he and Weaver can keep pushing each other all season it can only be good for the team.
Jeff – Eh, hind sight is 20/20 and all that. Look at the Scott Kazmir deal. That seemed brilliant to me at the time, LOL. Besides, he might not be the same pitcher if he stayed with the Cards. You never know how much of a player's development is self-motivated and how much of is having to impress a new team all over again every few years.
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"Yikes" is the perfect word for the current streak of extra-innings games that seems to be going around the league(s). At the bottom of the 8th inning between the Sox and the Angels tomorrow, I think I'll put on a pot of coffee and make myself some spaghetti. Get myself adequately caffeinated and carb-loaded to make it through the inevitable 27 innings we'll probably have to endure.
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"Yikes" is the perfect word for the current streak of extra-innings games that seems to be going around the league(s). At the bottom of the 8th inning between the Sox and the Angels tomorrow, I think I'll put on a pot of coffee and make myself some spaghetti. Get myself adequately caffeinated and carb-loaded to make it through the inevitable 27 innings we'll probably have to endure.
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Sounds like a great game! A one-hit shutout could certainly cure any foul mood of mine🙂
Wow, what a heck of a view. Wish I could go to Yankee games! But I'm 1) not rich enough to pay for their seats! and 2) live in Iowa, bit difficult lol
Keleigh – Coffee and carbo loading, eh? Sounds like a plan to me, though over here I'm more likely to dive for the wine, even if they just play the standard nine.🙂
Catherine – It was a completely mood altering game, that's for sure. I still get a big silly grin thinking about it.
Alissa – Angels fans are lucky in that we can usually find cheap tickets on the fan sale sites, I know that's harder at other stadiums and have heard Yankees games are expensive. I think the commute from Iowa certainly adds a level of difficult though or, you know, like 25.😉 I don't know what part of Iowa you live in, but maybe you could plan a weekend one of these seasons to go see the Yankees play the Royals or the White Sox.
— Kristen
Well The Angels might have the best 1-2 punch in the American League and that's a FACT, but do they have the best 1-2 punch in the Major Leagues? I say No but there close the phillies do with Halladay and Lee back to back complete games earlier this week you'll be seeing more of that this season and if it wasn't for the 9th inning on Wed it would of been back to back shutouts how bout that. Both teams could be the only two to have two starters in the all-star game. Yes I know there's other good 1-2 combos in baseball like in Milwaukee but Zac hasn't even pitched yet so we can't judge them yet.
Go Phillies and Angels that would be a bad match-up if they were to meet in the World Series. The Angels should are a good team it's too bad they have Texas in there Div.
BigEJac – You're right. I don't know that I would say Weaver and Haren are quite as strong a 1-2 pitching combo as Halladay and Lee but they're certainly up there. Weaver and Haren also don't have an Oswalt or a Hamels following them at the moment. I hope you're right about the All-Star game, that would be fun. As for the rest, Texas is tough, that's for sure, but I think the Angels can compete this season…though I'm not thrilled that we have the weak part of our rotation facing them starting Monday. Thanks for dropping by my blog!
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Jump Around – Pitchers & Catchers Report in a Little Over Two Weeks!!
I was out running errands this afternoon listening to a pretty decent punk set on one of our local radio stations – Bad Religion, Social D! – when the DJ threw House of Pain's Jump Around into the mix, a fun hip hop song from my high school days now known to Angels fans everywhere as the Rally Monkey's song. I was already kind of rocking out in my car to the Social D but I happened to be at a stop light when House of Pain came on and, I couldn't help myself, a full on car dance ensued. That song has so many great memories for me – fun with friends, school dances and many, many Angels rallies – that I did not care who saw my goofy display. What? Like they've never given in to the urge to car dance before? Anyway, Jump Around lead to Blitzkrieg Bop and then what do you think the DJ played next? Yeah, no joke – Muse's Uprising, the song played in the middle of the 1st inning before the Angels' first at bat. Strange Clear Channel pre-programmed play list coincidence or Angels fan DJ in mid-Winter withdrawals? My evidence is entirely circumstantial, but I prefer to believe the latter.
My point in sharing this (other than offering yet another example of how Uprising has been following me everywhere, haunting me all winter long and hopefully a small amount of entertainment) is that, in addition to my usual instant goose bumps, Angels related songs are finally starting to make me feel giddy excited again instead of just wistful. Pitchers and catchers report in a little over two weeks!! I am excited about the Angels 2011 season, something I definitely was not a few weeks ago when every free agent so many of us coveted for a Halos uniform donned other baseball caps instead.
A large part of my excitement stems from reports that the Angels and Jered Weaver are starting to talk long term contract extension instead of just the standard salary arbitration talk. Honestly, if the Angels can make this happen and keep Weaver in a Halos uniform well beyond 2012, I would consider this a pretty successful offseason. Seriously, pay the man. It doesn't sound like he's being unreasonable and, to all appearances, last year was just a taste of what he's capable of achieving in the years to come. Even more important? It's my birthday in a little more than two weeks and a long term Angels contract extension for Weaver would be simply the best birthday present this girl could ask for. Yes, I am sure the Angels understand the significance of the birthday argument and care deeply. Why do you ask?
Another part of my excitement? I keep reading and listening to more interviews with Vernon Wells and, I have to say, his excitement about joining the Angels and assertions that this is a competitive team that doesn't sit at home in October are infectious. I may be a stat loving (recovering) math geek, but I am far more moved by those intangible player traits – heart, clutch, grit – and my own gut reaction to certain players. Yes, he's streaky and I understand about the splits but I have a good feeling about this. Right now, listening to Vernon Wells' interviews, it sounds like he is genuinely excited to come to Anaheim this season, ready to move to wherever the team needs him to move in the line-up and in the outfield and eager to get out there and win – all traits that remind me of other successful Angels players and make me think Wells will fit right in. I recently learned that Torii Hunter had been lobbying hard for the Angels to sign Wells – silly perhaps, but that endorsement carries a lot of weight with me. Perhaps my gut is overly optimistic but right now it's telling me that 2011 is going to be one of Wells' strong years…and I say that after never having felt truly optimistic going into the 2010 season.
Oh, and most exciting of all? Kendry's coming back!! This is reason enough to prompt its own happy dance, car, Angels related music or no. Hey, it's been 11 whole days since I've mentioned this and I thought it was worth repeating…yes I counted. Recovering math geek, not recovered math geek. Now where did I put that iPod? I feel a little House of Pain coming on!
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Happy early birthday. Be sure to have some beer or wine and relax a bit before Spring Training starts and it's fast and furious until November.
On a totally unrelated note, just wondering what your favorite authors are when it comes to historical fiction and fantasy?
Kristen –
Great blog!!! I have to agree with you that sometimes certain songs 'follow you'. It's awesome when you get a DJ who plays just the right songs in just the right order when you're listening to the radio!
Good luck to your Angels! As you saw in my b Blog I'm a Rockies and Rangers guy…😉
Thanks for the kind comment on my blog as well – I'll be following your and maybe (depending on your time frame and if you go) we'll run into each other at Spring Training! The wife and I will be there March 19th to March 26th – and you know I'll be blogging about it!
All the best!
Glad you're feeling better about the Wells signing. I have a feeling he'll be rejuvenated as an Angel and fit in well with the rest of the team. And yes, they should pay Weaver!
Maybe a change of scenery and having a teammate like Tori Hunter will help Wells out this season. Personally, I think he's going to be a good fit with the Angels. As for the music, give me Steve Goodman's "Go Cubs Go"!!!!
Smitty – Thank you for the compliments and for dropping by and commenting! Yes, I saw that you are a Rangers fan as well as a Rockies. I love chatting with other baseball fans, especially rival team fans. As happy as I am getting about the Angels coming season, I still really envy the Rangers offseason – well done. That's roughly when we hoped to go to Spring Training too, but I think it's probably not in the cards for us to go this year.
Jane – Thank you. I hope you are right!
Ron – That is my hope and gut feeling too and I wouldn't have pegged you for any other song. I wonder, do you every randomly hear Go Cubs Go on the radio or is that strictly a stadium song?
Mike – Thanks! Oh, fun question, and one I could go on for pages answering🙂. The short list: For historical fiction – David Liss, Kenneth Follet, Larry McMurtry, Emma Donoghue, Arturo Perez Reverte, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, and I love, love, love Harry Turtledove – alternate history, yes, but the man seriously knows his history. For fantasy authors – I will always have a soft spot for Tolkien and Lloyd Alexander and also love Neil Gaiman, Sergei Lukyanenko, Joe Abercrombie, Jim Butcher and Charlaine Harris. Christopher Moore is another favorite author and he crosses over into both historical and fantasy fiction. Who are some of your favorites?
– Kristen
Kristen, I have a lot of favorite authors, so here goes: Steve Alten, Matthew Reilly, Jeremy Robinson, James Rollins, Dan Brown, Preston & Child, and Vince Flynn, just to name a few. I work midnights, so reading and baseball help pass the time when it's slow. Here's a link to last years 'Star Wars' day if your interested:
Happy Birthday! I'm using it as an excuse to drink this whole bottle of wine in front of me. Even though I'm at work. Also, I hope Vernon's excitement translates to good, solid, productive play.
Mike – Those photos are fantastic! Your kids will remember times like that forever I'm sure. That's a pretty good book list too. I like Dan Brown and have a couple of the others on my list of to-reads.
Jeff – Thanks! Always pleased to offer someone a wine break excuse. I actually usually claim the entire month of February – my birthday being right in the middle – so, there, you have 28 more excuses.
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Eating right, exercising not hard to start
We all want to get in shape and live an all-around healthier lifestyle.
The problem is that just the thought of all the time and energy it seems to take can be exhausting, let alone getting up off the couch and actually doing something about it.
Instead of focusing on the long haul, it can help to think of actions and steps you can take right now -- today -- to start living and being healthier.
Eat Better
The first step to eating better is not to think of it as a diet. A diet suggests a finite plan, a temporary adjustment to eating habits with a short-term goal of losing five or 10 pounds. Instead, simply think of it as a commitment to eat better and healthier one day at a time.
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Dinner can be the biggest pain of the day because it can take so much time and energy to prepare a meal, let alone a healthy one. And if you have a family and children, Hamburger Helper can be an all-to-easy option.
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And healthy doesn't have to mean tasteless and bland. Does corncakes with maple-yogurt topping sound bland to you? The kids might even prefer it to the dehydrated noodles in sauce.
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So, you haven't read any of the recent literature on smoking? Haven't gotten the news that an estimated 483,000 people die in the United States alone from tobacco use? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since 1964, 29 surgeon general's reports on smoking and health have concluded that tobacco use is the single most avoidable cause of disease, disability and death in the United States.
Of course, most everyone knows the dangerous health risks associated with tobacco. But despite this, an estimated 20 percent of the U.S. population smokes cigarettes. And most smokers who are hooked on nicotine know the only thing harder than trying to quit is listening to non-smokers lecture them about smoking.
But how do you start on the path toward a smoke-free lifestyle?
SmokeFree.gov gives all sorts of tips and support options for the wannabe-ex-smoker, from toll-free telephone quitlines to information on the different prescription and non-prescription medications available to help you quit. So put that cigarette down now to feel better today.
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Whatever your choice of exercise, the important thing is to start. Right now. Today. Go ahead, we'll wait. The Internet's series of tubes will still be here when you get back.
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Jogging is free -- except for the shoes -- and you can get started now. Maybe just a long walk the first time out is the way to go.
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"musical minds," oliver sacks, and the nicu
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the NOVA program "Musical Minds" was playing when I returned home from my first day of work. Coincidence! It was so well-done, and for that I'm thankful that it was not a steak. Instead of delicious char and even more delicious cholesterol, the program featured Oliver Sacks explaining how the mind can experience music in magnificent ways, using case studies to exemplify his point. Much of the content is taken from his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
Oliver Sacks' tour through the musical mind featured four fascinating cases: Derrick Paravicini, a blind and autistic musical savant, Matt Giordano, a sufferer of Tourrette's syndrome who copes through drumming, Anne Barker, a member of a musical family who is diagnosed with amusia, and Tony Cicoria, an orthopedic surgeon who experienced sudden musicality after getting struck by lightning. The program also features Sacks submitting himself to an fMRI to compare the activity of his brain in several instances: listening to and imagining the same song, as well as listening to a song he liked and another he disliked.
Piano Man
Derrick, now in his 30s, lost his sight due to oxygen treatments meant to sustain him in the hospital after being born three and a half months premature. His autisim and learning disabilities put him at the functionality of a four-year-old, with no knowledge of his addres or phone number. But he was shown twinkling away on his piano with a prowess I associate with jazz and blues greats and is able to play back any piece of music after hearing it just once. He started playing piano at age two and when he was brought to a school for the blind at four, he finalized his attachment to the instrument. His teacher noted that it took him years to learn proper fingering technique because he was only able to comprehend the proper method when taught tactiley; his teacher needed to press his fingers on the keys over and over and over again before the lesson stuck.
The Need and Wont to Drum
Matt first developed his affinity for the drums at age two when he began to drum along to the Moody Blues song, "I'm Just a Singer in a Rock n' Roll Band." The most interesting part of Matt's story for me was that his penchant for drumming coincided with the onset of his psychological symptoms. After realizing that drumming quelled his symptoms, he began to almost self-medicate with the instrument to the point that when asked about his life without music, he said, " I probably wouldn't be here." He now teaches drum therapy classes to other Tourrette's sufferers, and the classroom transform from a cacophony to orchestration as soon as the drumming begins. Sacks commented that music demands focus and while the Tourrette's doesn't go away, the order of the music becomes a force against "the bastion of chaos."
Cacophony, or Lacking Harmony
I feel most sorry for Anne, for whom music is an ugly noise. Amusic, she has the musical equivalent to colorblindness and is essentially deaf to melody and harmony in music. She has the auditory equipment to hear music as sounds, but lacks the perceptive capabilities to understand it as musical. She cannot sing or dance along to music, even though she would love to be able to do so. When listening to a (beautiful) Chopin nocturne, she described how much she hated the thumping of piano keys. Submitted to a series of those musical grammar tests I mentioned a few posts back, Anne got two out of ten correct and admitted after each sample that she was just guessing. It is especially hard for Anne because she comes from a musical family: her family owns a shop for traditional Irish instruments, and all of her siblings have been engaged with Irish dancing and music-making for their entire lives. Anne struggled with Irish dancing for six years until she realized that while she was able to learn the movements during her seemingly endless home practice sessions, she was unable to align her movements with the music at lessons
The Lightning Symphony
Tony Cicoria's story is one of the most fascinating I have ever heard. When I was watching "Musical Minds," I remembered exactly where I was when I first read about Cicoria in Sacks' book. It is that kind of tale. Struck by lightning at forty-two, this former orthopedic surgeon experienced an out-of-body experience following cardiac arrest. Three to four weeks later, he suddenly developed an insatiable passion for listening to piano music. This passion for listening soon transformed into the desire to play and, eventually, compose music. Despite his strong desire, he had none of the music theory and did not know how to read music, so he would wake up at 4 a.m. and practice until he had to work, then return to the piano until he was too exhausted to see the page. An unfortunate but understandable detail of Cicoria's story is that he does not want Sacks, or anyone for that matter, to study his brain in order to maintain the mystical, religious feeling he has about his sudden musicality.
The Brain Behind the Brains
Sack describes a bit of his musical and scientific history. His home was full of science, music, and medicine, so it was only natural for him to combine the three. For example, his father, a surgeon, was known to "read" scores between surgeries, apparently able to conduct them in his mind. Sacks became particularly interested in the power of music when he was working with patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in New York City who were suffering from a form of encephalitis known as "sleepy sickness." Before it was discovered that the drug L-Dopa helped ease them out of their catatonic state, Sacks observed that music freed them as well. Singing and dancing happened where speaking and walking did not. Amazing! This finding inspired the creation of the Institute for Music & Neurological Function at the hospital.
Two short segments of "Musical Minds" focused on Sacks' brain. (I almost capitalized brain; perhaps it should be in this case.) An fMRI was taken of his brain while listening to one of his favorite songs, Joseph Horowitz's "Diversion." Then, another scan was taken when he was imagining the song. The brain performed in the same way during both of Sacks's engagements with the song, except an additional area in the frontal lobe involved in creativity and higher mental functioning was activated when he was told to imagine the song. Sacks's brain activity also aligned with his preference for Bach and apathy towards Beethoven, with many brain areas activated during the Bach but none during the Beethoven.
To the NICU
Aside from the stories mentioned above, Sacks discusses anecdotal evidence concerning "the fetus question" which has shown that fetuses demonstrate preference for music they were exposed to while in utero. Research in this area is in its infant stages (ba-dum-chh), but what if the evidence consistently supports the anecdotes? It has definitely been shown that infants react more to music they prefer, so if prenatal music intervention can create musical preferences, the effects of this music on the stress reduction will be even greater.


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Need a distraction from boredom at work this week? Two penguin chicks were born in Long Beach, Calif., at The Aquarium of the Pacific in June, and you can see just how cute they are thanks to a live penguin camera.
The Magellanic penguin chicks are being raised separately from their parents because they were abandoned as eggs.
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Solo Sara Bareilles makes big impression in small room
The voice of Sara Bareilles could fill, and has filled, venues larger than the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center Auditorium, which sold out its 435-seat capacity when she stopped there Friday night.
Bareilles was in the midst of her first-ever solo tour and evidently wanted the intimacy of a smaller venue - combined, perhaps, with the assurance that if she failed, she would do so in front of a smaller crowd. »Read Full Article(2)
Super Bowl ads were better than the game
Anyone who remembers any of last year's Super Bowl commercials - raise your Buffalo chicken wing.
Like Cinderella's midnight transformation back into a charwoman, Super Bowl ads are famous for one night only. The next day, they reverse-engineer back into those damn things we fast-forward through. »Read Full Blog Post(10)
Bruno Mars' Super Bowl show: A Summerfest preview?
Looks like Summerfest is going to have a good opening night.
Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show with soulful pop star Bruno Mars offered a sneak peak at the Big Gig's headliner June 25. While naturally the scale of the 13-minute spectacle — with its stadium-wide firework finish to "Just the Way You Are" — isn't going to fit inside the Marcus Amphitheater, what stands a good chance of making the transition is Mars' showmanship. »Read Full Article(2)
Third-quarter Super Bowl commercials: Dylan and Sarah McLachlan
Well, the commercials finally became more interesting than the game.
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Second quarter: Seattle, and Super Bowl commercials, keep rolling
That pick six by Seattle wasn't the only highlight of the second quarter. »Read Full Blog Post
First-quarter Super Bowl ads? Underwhelming
This could be the year the game will be more entertaining than the commercials.
It's hard to believe Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos won't be able to turn this into more of a contest, but at this point, the game is going the Seattle Seahawks' way. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Philip Seymour Hoffman dead at age 46
Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan apartment at the age of 46, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Next Act Theatre keeps communication honest in Mamet's 'Race'
However earnest and well-intentioned it may be, politically correct thinking is pernicious in life and boring on stage. The invariable result is mind-numbing, feel-good stories exonerating all of us from thinking harder — and talking better — about difficult issues like race and gender.
The iconoclastic David Mamet is thinking a lot about both hot-button topics in "Race," his provocative play exploring the dynamic between three lawyers — two black and one white — as they wrestle with their latest case, involving a rich, older white man accused of raping a young black woman. »Read Full Article
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Don't stand between a man and his chocolate pudding.
A man in the Czech Republic was arrested for taking a chainsaw to the door of a restaurant after waiters wouldn't let him finish his dessert, PoliceOracle.com reported.
Petr Svacha, 36, was eating in a restaurant in Zlin when staff members told him to leave because it was closing time.
Not pleased, Svacha came back with a chainsaw and cut a hole in the door.
"He sliced a hole in the door, climbed inside and went to his table, but when he grabbed the half-finished dessert he was overpowered by a waiter and handed over to police," Zlin police spokesman Ales Mergental said, according to Orange News.
He faces up to a year in prison if convicted.