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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is bringing in some heavy firepower for the close of its inaugural season, as both Cobie Smulders and Samuel L. Jackson will be making appearances, the former during sweeps week, the later for the season finale. But we're curious how invested Disney and Marvel are in this project, as it may be a series finale.
The news of Smulder's involvement comes from TV Line, while it was Vulture that got Jackson to reveal he was coming back. What makes this interesting is how it reflects on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, so there's spoilers from here on out. At the end of Cap 2, both Smulder's Agent Hill and Jackson's Nick Fury have left S.H.I.E.L.D. behind because they found out it was infiltrated by HYDRA. Hill has joined the private sector, while Fury has left for parts unknown. But more importantly, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been corrupted to the point that it seems unlikely the government would want it around. That was reflected in last night's episode of the show Turn, Turn, Turn which introduced some of this into that world.
This change in direction (or some would say "actual stakes," scratch that, we would say actual stakes) could be the jolt in the arm the series needed, but that wasn't reflected in the ratings from last night. The show hit a series low of 4.91 million viewers, and scored a low 1.7 rating in the 18-49 demo. S.H.I.E.L.D. was a gamble as a show, and it's one of the more costly hour-long dramas on air, so something big needs to happen for the show to either level out or rise again. One would think that would be Cap 2, which directly impacted the world of Agents in such a way you would think there would be a bigger audience for last night's episode, but it didn't bring back the 11.9 million viewers (and 4.6 rating in the demo) that the season premiere offered.
Marvel has laid groundwork for Netflix-based limited edition series, and a possible Agent Carter spin-off, though S.H.I.E.L.D. was seemingly meant to be a flagship. It would make sense to keep it around for a second year leading up to the premiere of The Avengers: The Age of Ultron, but the connective tissue between this organization and group of characters and The Avengers has now been severed and director Joss Whedon has said he no interest in bringing back Coulson. Perhaps the series has more value in synergy, but we're not entirely sure we'll be getting a sophmore season. If it does, Marvel and Disney will likely give it a short order and keep an eye on it.
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Con Report: Anime Expo 2009By Courtney Kraft - Posted Jul 06, 2009
July 4th weekend means fireworks and barbeque to some, but to otaku like me, it means Anime Expo! This year's AX, held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, saw a record attendance of over 44,000 people. Oddly enough, the unwashed masses didn't smell too bad. Plus, everyone was very polite.
Anime Expo hosted two concerts this year from girl group Morning Musume and visual kei band Moi dix Mois which is quite a treat for J-pop and J-rock fans who don't have the means to fly to Japan to see them. I only glimpsed Moi dix Mois during the autograph singing session, but yes, they really do dress like that. Ah, if only I had $10,000 lying around to build my own visual-kei wardrobe...
Speaking of shopping, I think I could have spent the entire con in the exhibitor's hall. Imagine the south hall of E3... now imagine it filled with anime, manga, toys, costumes, art, video games, and the occasional random girl group. AX is a great place if you're looking for goth, rock, and steampunk clothing and accessories. Sweet, sweet bliss. Thy name is dealer hall shopping. I swear if I had a spare $1000, I would have bought a lot more. In the end, I snatched up a corset, a hat, a skirt, and a t-shirt for my boss. I couldn't afford the $450 red leather cloak.
Cosplay, oh the cosplay! I always feel a little left out when I'm not dressed up, but I was there as a member of the press after all. Being press has its perks. I didn't have to wait in line to go to the Legend of Zelda Mythbusters panel (not what I thought it would be), plus I didn't feel so bad about getting close to panelists to take photos. I did, however, bust out my new corset, skirt, and hat the next day to join in on the fun.
AX 2009 taught me three valuable things about cosplay:
- Tulle is not comfortable to sit on.
- Those face masks not only complete an outfit, but they also help prevent the spread of nerd flu.
- Anime nerd girls are the hottest kind of nerd girls. I have the photos to prove it.
As much as I wanted to don my Integra Hellsing costume on the third day, it was probably best that I didn't. I went to artists and directors panels in the morning, and it just so happened that the Hellsing OVA writer Yosuke Kuroda was on one of the panels. In addition to him were other prestigious directors including Seiji Mizushima (Fullmetal Alchemist), Satoshi Nishimura (Trigun, Black Lagoon), Toshimichi Mori (BlazBlue), and Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann). Wouldn't want to look unprofessional, now would we? The artists' panel was composed of Atsushi Nishigori, Daisuke Ishiwatari, Takashi Okazaki, Yasuhiro Nightow, and Yuu Kouga. My favorite moment of these guests of honor panels was when a fan dressed as Vash the Stampede from Trigun offered Nightow and Nishimura a box of donuts.
I also attended panels for Viz and Funimation, two of the largest North American manga and anime distributors. Needless to say, both companies are putting out a metric ton of new content this year. Funimation is also launching a new networking site called ShoDojo that will allow members to screen anime together and chat about it live. Sweetness! It kind of defeats the purpose of having anime night at my place. Then again, more pizza and sushi for me!
I couldn't make it on Thursday because I have this silly job writing a news ticker for some show called X-Play. Unfortunately, this meant that I had to skip the AX Idol auditions. The world will just have to wait to hear me belt out "Toki Ni Ai Wa" another year. AX Idol is a contest for singers and voice actors for the chance to win either a demo recording or an audition with Bang Zoom! Entertainment. One guy competed in full-on Darth Maul cosplay which made his young boy voices all the more hilarious.
Anime Expo had five rooms showing anime movies and series, a karaoke room, voice acting workshops, a manga café/library, console gaming, and tabletop gaming. That was all on top of a costume contest and masquerade ball, concerts, and massive number panels ranging from guests of honor to industry panels to otaku debates to ParaPara dancing. There was so much to do and never enough time to do it. Note to self, get a hotel room next year or bring an inflatable mattress.
Now gentleman, I will share the wisest teaching Anime Expo had to offer. If you want a room of girls to scream and fawn over you, all you need to do is kiss another dude. Here's the thing, yaoi (or "slash" as we call it in the Western hemisphere) is very popular among girls. Remember how earlier I said that the hottest girl nerds are anime girl nerds? Therefore kissing another dude gets you hot anime girl nerds...somehow.
This has been the biggest Anime Expo to date. It's no Comic Con, but it's still the largest anime convention in the country. There seemed to be fewer industry panels overall, but the con did a great job of making up for them with other events.
Oh man...I am one tired Teggy. Guess I'd better get started on my Sailor Jupiter costume for next year!
For the full photo gallery from Anime Expo 2009, click here!


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Ms. Banks is a Senior Social Worker at BIDMC who has been practicing in the field of medical social work for more than 20 years. Prior to her arrival in 2005, Ms. Banks worked for more than a decade providing care to home hospice patients and their loved ones in the Boston area, as well as community, student, and professional education pertaining to multiple aspects of end-of-life care and bereavement. Ms. Banks joined the Palliative Care Consultation Service at BIDMC in 2005 to expand upon the service's existing commitment to addressing the psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of patients, families, and staff as they face serious illness and death. Ms. Banks spearheaded development of the medical center's bereavement program and, in 2008, development of the Palliative Care Volunteer Visitor Program - created to mitigate the feelings of isolation many seriously ill and dying patients experience during hospitalization. Along with fellow KSG Associate Faculty, Julie Knopp, NP, Annie developed and continues to coordinate Intern Forum - a monthly mutual support and discussion group providing interns with the opportunity to share their experiences as developing physicians. Also with Julie Knopp, Annie facilitates monthly Palliative Care Rounds with house staff involved in oncology and hematology rotations and Reflection & Renewal Rounds, which provide a venue for a multidisciplinary group of providers involved in a particularly interesting or challenging case to share their experiences with other professionals. Annie is a recipient of one of the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center's Compassionate Caregiver Awards in 2010, has served on the Ethics Committee of the Hospice and Palliative Care Federation of MA, and is a member of the Association for Death Education & Counseling, the Social Work in Palliative Care Network, and the Society for the Arts in Healthcare.
Dr. Bell earned her M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). After serving as Chief Medical Resident at BWH, she studied at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and contributed to public health and clinical efforts in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Brazil, Israel, and South Africa to better understand the HIV epidemic and patients' experience of illness on a global scale. She completed her fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), where she now practices, focusing on HIV care. Her book "Biography of AIDS" focuses on historical, social, medical, and political aspects of the HIV epidemic - as part of an integrated curriculum for high school students. She is the BIDMC site director for the Harvard Medical School Patient-Doctor III course, and former director of a medical student Writing Program. Both courses emphasize reflective practice and humanism in medicine. Interested in understanding what patients, families, and clinicians experience following medical error, she co-developed a curriculum based on filmed narratives of patients and families across the country who experienced harmful mistakes. As part of a national "Train the Trainer" program, she provided educational leaders with key tools to teach this curriculum focusing on the human dimensions of error in their own institutions, and studied doctors' and students' experiences with disclosure, in order to promote transparent communication that improves patient safety. As a recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Professorship, her research also probes the effects of organizational culture and the "hidden curriculum" - the customs that shape communication and moral decision-making in the clinical learning environment - on patient safety and humanism. Her interest in involving patients directly in medical education and transparent medical care also extends to her efforts on OpenNotes, a clinical technologic innovation that allows doctors to share their visit notes directly with their patients, and creates a new platform for "360 degree evaluation" that incorporates direct feedback from patients.
Dr. Heidi Blake practices palliative medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Her academic interests include patient-physician communication, particularly how the cultivation of mindfulness may improve communication. Along with fellow KSG Associate Faculty member Michelle Dossett, she is co-leading a pilot program for internal medicine interns this year, which focuses on developing mindfulness in clinicians with the aim of promoting professionalism, humanism, quality care, and physician well-being in trainees.
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Dr. Curry is Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 1992 and completed residency at University College Hospital Galway and Gastroenterology Fellowship at St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin. He also completed an advanced Hepatology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and has been a faculty member in the Department of Medicine and Gastroenterology since 2002. Dr Curry is an extremely busy clinician managing a large population of patients with end stage liver disease, evaluating patients for liver transplantation and caring for liver transplant recipients. He teaches medical students, internal medicine residents, gastroenterology and hepatology fellows and co-directs the advanced hepatology fellowship program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr Curry has published over 30 original research papers and over 20 reviews and book chapters in areas related to viral hepatitis, end stage liver disease and liver transplantation. His main research interest is the outcomes of patients waiting for liver transplantation with specific interest in quality of life. He has served on the United Network for Organ Sharing Liver and Intestinal Committee and also the New England Consortium for liver transplantation.
Dr Curry has received awards from the National University of Ireland at Galway, the Irish Medical Organization, the American Association for Study of Liver Disease and has received the Katherine Swan Ginsburg Faculty Award in 2011 from the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Deblanco is the Richard and Florence Koplow - James Tullis Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School. Until 2002, he was Chief of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a unit he created and led for more than 30 years. Educated at Harvard College and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr Delbanco trained in internal medicine at Bellevue, Harlem, and Presbyterian Hospitals in New York. In 1971, he came to Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and created one of the first primary care practice and teaching programs at an academic health center. In 1974, Dr Delbanco developed one of the first residency training programs in general internal medicine and primary care, and in 1979 he created and led the Harvard Medical School Faculty Development and Fellowship Program that has now trained more than 250 general internists for academic careers. In 1978, he spent a year in Congress as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow. Dr. Delbanco has directed three Salzburg Seminars, the first on alcoholism, the second on AIDS, and the third, 'Through the Patient's Eyes,' developing a health system that focuses on the patient perspective. One of 5 founders of the Society of General Internal Medicine, an organization of 3,000 physicians and social scientists in academic general internal medicine, he served as its President in 1986. He has been a Council member of the American Public Health Association, served on the Program Committee of the Institute of Medicine, and was a director of the National Public Health and Hospitals Institute. He was the founding Chair of the Picker Institutes in the USA and Europe, organizations that document patient experiences with care and work with patients to improve health services. An internist who practiced at the BIDMC for 40 years, Dr Delbanco is the author of numerous scholarly papers and has co-edited three books: Alcoholism: A Guide for the Primary Care Physicians; Manual of Clinical Evaluation: Strategies for Cost-Effective Care; and, Through the Patients' Eyes. Writer and Director of an award-winning film and educational DVD, "When Things Go Wrong: Voices of Patients and Families," he was featured in Bill Moyers' television series and book, Healing and the Mind, and is senior editor of a monthly case study series, "Clinical Crossroads," published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In 1998, Dr. Delbanco was named a Master of the American College of Physicians, and in 2003, he received the Robert J. Glaser Award, the highest honor awarded by the Society of General Internal Medicine. In 2006, Harvard Medical School gave him the William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award. Dr Delbanco and his colleague, Jan Walker, lead "OpenNotes," a national effort to promote and examine the impact of increasing transparency in care by inviting patients to read and contribute to their medical records.
Dr. Drews is Director of the Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). After graduating from Harvard Medical School (HMS) in 1983, he served as internal medicine intern and resident, Chief Medical Resident, and clinical and research fellow in hematology-oncology at Beth Israel Hospital (BIH) from 1983-1989. In 1989 he joined the BIH (now BIDMC) Hematology-Oncology Division as faculty member, where he pursues clinical practice in hematology-oncology, teaches medical students, internal medicine residents, and hematology-oncology fellows, and carries out scholarly activities in the specialty of hematology-oncology. In addition to his role as Program Director for the BIDMC Hematology-Oncology Fellowship since 1997, he has served as Associate Director of Education for the Hematology-Oncology Division at BIDMC (since 1997), Assistant Chief of Medicine for Medical Student Education in the Department of Medicine at BIDMC (2001-2008), and Co-Director of the Core Medicine I Clerkship for 3rd-year Harvard Medical students rotating at BIDMC (1997-2008). In 2001 he received the S. Robert Stone Award for Excellence in Teaching at BIDMC and the Stephen H. Robinson, M.D. Memorial Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching in Hematology-Oncology at BIDMC. In 2003, 2005, and 2007, he was a nominee for the HMS Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Years 3 & 4). In 2005 he became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), serving as a member of the ACP's Scientific Program Subcommittee for the 2007, 2009 and 2011 Annual Sessions. In 2010 he became a member of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Committee on Training Programs, and in 2011 he became a member of the ASH Medical Education Subcommittee and the ASH Annual Meeting Subcommittee. Since 1998, he has served as Section Editor of Complications of Cancer for UpToDate in Oncology.
Dr. Farris graduated from Brown University in 2004 with a dual concentration in Spanish and Portuguese. She went on to graduate from Brown Medical School in 2008. She completed her internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Farris now sees patients as a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and is part of the Katherine Swan Ginsburg Humanism in Medicine Program Associate Faculty. Her interests include professionalism in medicine, medical humanities and end of life care.
Dr. Groopman holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and is Chief of Experimental Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He attended medical school at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York before serving his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His held two fellowship positions in hematology and oncology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Children's Hospital/Sidney Farber Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston. In 2000, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He writes regularly about biology and medicine for lay audiences as a staff writer at the New Yorker Magazine. Dr. Groopman's research has focused on blood development, cancer and AIDS. Currently, his basic laboratory research involves understanding how blood and vascular cells grow, communicate, and migrate. He also is studying how viruses cause immune deficiency and cancer, the role of endocannabinoids in hematopoiesis, mechanisms of liver injury due to hepatitis C virus, and the effects of novel cell cycle inhibitors against mantle cell lymphoma.
Dr. Fernandez is a general internist at BIDMC in the Division of General Medicine and Primary care and Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received her BA from Princeton University and her MD degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine training at Boston City Hospital, where she co-founded the Latino Clinic. At BIDMC she serves as Associate Firm Chief for the Tullis Medical Firm where she plays a leading role in teaching medical residents. She also teaches the cultural competence curriculum for the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program. Dr. Fernandez is Medical Director of Schwartz Rounds at BIDMC, a very well-attended inter-disciplinary forum on the human and social dilemmas in healthcare.
Dr. Fernandez' current work focuses on reducing disparities in health outcomes and she is the associate Course Director for a new Harvard CME course, "Getting to Equal: Strategies for Improving Care for All Patients". Her workshops are designed to teach communication skills and highlight institutional changes that help clinicians understand and transcend many common cultural, linguistic and social barriers in the doctor-patient relationship. She has particular expertise in the field of immigrant health and speaks many languages. She is married to George Philippides, a cardiologist, and they have two sons, ages 4 and 8.
Dr. Hartzband is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Attending Physician in the Division of Endocrinology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. A magna cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College, Harvard University, she received her MD from Harvard Medical School. She served her internship and residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and her specialty fellowships in endocrinology and metabolism at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Hartzband is a noted endocrinologist and educator specializing in disorders of the thyroid, adrenal, and pituitary glands and in women's health. She is regularly featured among America's Best Doctors.
Julie Knopp is the Associate Director for the Palliative Care Consultation Service and has been a team member since the service first started seeing patients in 2000. An Adult Nurse Practitioner, Julie has worked at Beth Israel Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for the past 26 years. She received her Bachelor of Science from the Univeristy of Rochester in New York and her Masters of Nursing Science from Simmons College in Massachusetts. She has a strong interest in working with patients with chronic illness and their families. Her work experience includes many years of providing home health care working as a visiting nurse, hospice nurse, and a nurse practitioner in a home-based primary care practice. She has been recognized several times for her passion and compassion in caregiving, including being named the first ever recipient of the Katherine Swan Ginsburg Faculty Award in 2010.
Ms. McHugh has been in professional practice as a Critical Care Nurse for over 2 decades included the evaluation, coordination and implementation of care to critically ill patients following trauma, cardiovascular, neurosurgical, vascular and general surgical procedures. Ms. McHugh participated in the seminar, Focus on Excellence, which encouraged the use of written clinical exemplars to evaluate and promote comprehensive, compassionate nursing care. In 2004, following the completion of the Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, Ms. McHugh was appointed the first Clinical Nurse Ethicist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In this role, she provides individual ethics consultations to patients and staff members as part of The Ethics Support Service. She helped create the BIDMC Ethics Liaisons Program, which involves over 60 representatives from clinical and administrative departments throughout the medical center. As part of her role on the Ethics Support Service, Ms. McHugh coordinators and presents at the monthly Ethics Case Conference at BIDMC, attended by between 50-75 hospital staff members and facilitates monthly Ethics Rounds in a variety of intensive care units, clinics and in-patient wards at the medical center. In 2008 she joined the Intern Forum group where a social worker and a nurse meet with a firm of medical interns on a monthly basis to provide support and group conversation in a confidential setting and in 2011 she developed a program to educate and support eleven staff members who will become part of an ethics consult team. Ms. McHugh also provides in-service ethics education to various groups of volunteers and provides mentorship to ethics fellows in training. As a member of the Ethics Advisory Committee she assists in policy development and program evaluation. Wendy began working with the Critical Care Health Care Quality group in 2008, conducting satisfaction surveys by interviewing the families of critical care patients using the validated tool of the FS-ICU. As the Coordinator of the Person-Centered Care Project she provides leadership on a team that utilizes these surveys, in conjunction with the advice from the ICU Patient and Family Council, to create and implement ICU quality initiatives.
Dr. Rock is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and an attending physician in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Dr. Rock's professional activities include attending in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, teaching, and communication education research. As the Director of the Simulation Core Faculty in the Department of Medicine, she designs and teaches numerous courses for learners ranging from students to faculty, including: communication with family of critically ill patients, interprofessional code leadership and team training, 'rapid response training,' individual training in clinical decision making and communication, central line insertion, and pulmonary procedures. She is a co-investigator and faculty director for a simulation-based course to teach residents leadership and communication skills for family meetings in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU). The course, and related research project, emphasizes strategies to improve empathic behaviors and a patient-centered approach. She was selected as the 2011-2012 Putnam Scholar, a scholarship of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare. Dr. Rock is active in Harvard Medical School courses as a tutorial leader and preceptor as well as integrating simulation into preclinical pathophysiology courses. She received the Harvard Medical School Excellence in Tutoring Award in 2009, an award granted by students' evaluations. Other teaching responsibilities include teaching medicine house staff and critical care fellows in the medical intensive care unit. Dr. Rock has several educational interests including the use of high fidelity simulation and providing feedback with an emphasis on curiosity and respect in the simulation and clinical setting. Dr. Rock's clinical practice involves serving as the attending physician in the MICU.
Dr. Amy Ship is an internist and educator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received a B.A. with Honors in English Literature from Swarthmore College, an M.A. in Art History from Columbia University, and her M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Before becoming a doctor, she did curatorial work at two major art museums and was a reporter for a national newspaper. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital and served as Chief Resident in Primary Care. She has completed two fellowships in Medical Education at the Shapiro Institute for Medical Education at BIDMC. For more than a decade, she has co-directed the BIDMC site for Harvard Medical School's introduction to clinical skills course, called "Patient-Doctor II.," teaching history-taking, examination skills, presentation, write-ups, and clinical reasoning, as well as professionalism and "doctoring." She has taught since 2004 in the "Primary Care Clerkship," teaching a third year student in clinical practice sessions for a year, and she serves as a tutor for the 3rd year course, "Patient-Doctor III." Dr. Ship supervises the work of four medicine residents annually in weekly clinic sessions and teaches in the ambulatory medicine curriculum at BIDMC. Since 1999 Dr. Ship has been a Deputy Editor of the "Clinical Crossroads" conference series, published monthly in the Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA). Dr. Ship lectures locally and nationally on diverse topics including "Giving Bad News," "Improving the Art of Physical Diagnosis," "Giving Effective Feedback," and "Primary Care for Breast Cancer Survivors." Since 2007, Dr. Ship has led workshops for clinicians using literature to facilitate discussion of complex issues and to enhance empathy. Currently, she facilitates the "Literature and Medicine" program sponsored by the Massachusetts Council for the Humanities at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Ship has received numerous awards for teaching, mentoring, and humanism, and was the recipient of the Kenneth Schwartz Compassionate Caregiver of the Year Award in 2009 and the prestigious S. Robert Stone Award for Excellence in Teaching from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2010.
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Today, my boyfriend and I arrived at our pre-paid hotel for a romantic evening. When we went to sign in, they had no reservation for us, however they did yesterday. The payment is non-refundable. FML
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Today, I called security at my school because I left my mittens in a classroom and it was locked. When the security officer showed up, he asked if the mittens I was looking for were the ones on my hands. I even had to take one of them off to call them. FML
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Today, I saw a lady who had fainted. I ran over to help, only to find out that she was unstable and had a knife in her hand. She was pointing it at me, and growled threateningly every time I tried to move away. It took the cops an hour to defuse the situation. FML
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Today, I was dragged to a Super Bowl party. While there, the host's kid threw 3 cups of apple sauce at my feet, which then exploded and covered my jeans. 10 minutes later, the host's wife announced that she was pregnant with twins. All I could come up with was, "You're making more!?" FML
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Today, I had my gallbladder removed. I have a very painful incision in my belly that makes any kind of movement excruciating. I've had the hiccups 5 times so far. FML
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Today, on my way to work, I hit a pothole about the size of Alabama, bending my wheel and flattening my tire. After changing it and having to explain myself to my furious boss, I went back on that road in my other car to take a picture of the pothole. While looking for it, I hit it again. FML
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Today, I walked in on my mom drenched in tears, barely able to speak. I ran to get her some tissues and a nice cup of tea to calm her down. After a few minutes of sitting in silence, I asked her if she wanted to talk about what happened. She watched an episode of Gossip Girl. FML
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Today, I found out that I have a highly irrational fear of little people. I made this self discovery when my mother introduced the family to her new fiancé. FML
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Today, while checking out a couple at work, I handed them their receipt and wished them a good day. The woman promptly pulled her husband to the side, and whispered to him about how much of a "fucking idiot" I was for making the prices so high. I work at McDonald's. FML
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Today, my mom accused me of stealing money from her purse. Being totally innocent, I reminded her that the only other person with access to it is her boyfriend. She said she trusts him because she loves him. They've been dating for 2 months. I've been her daughter for 25 years. FML
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--- Quote from: RapidRod on March 26, 2010, 12:09:57 PM ---There is no one that has HIV and or AIDS acts like that. --- End quote ---Rodney I totally agree, then again his familiarity he has shown he has of some of us makes me wonder. --- Quote from: ATorrez on March 26, 2010, 12:36:53 PM ---Another personal attack with no warning or consequences.--- End quote ---Just going with your story hombre, so now you're the victim here?
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--- Quote from: ATorrez on March 26, 2010, 12:30:17 PM ---I'll probably get banned for this, but Tim Horn, if you look at this post where Moffie calls me out of my name and makes personal attacks, you will see below it that all Ann did was say "you know better than that". I, who just got here, get warned, but people who have been here for years don't?I was simply using the same tone and attitude that was presented to me when I posted something. Should I sit and be attacked and say nothing back?http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=31756.msg391149#msg391149--- End quote ---In yesterday's thread, Ann reminded both you and Moffie to watch your language. And here you are today, accusing a member -- and, quite frankly, it makes not difference whether it's a veteran member or newbie -- of meth use 24/7. So, yeah, you're officially warned. To keep yourself out of trouble, simply report any personal attacks to the moderators.
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Chi Running: Mix Martial Arts with Cardio To Boost Endurance
It might sound crazy to blend tai chi with running, but surprisingly, it can enhance your overall endurance and form. Here are the basics—and how to get started.
Chi Running—a combination of the Chinese martial art Tai Chi and cardio—might sound a bit weird. But believe it or not, it can improve your workouts, build your endurance and prevent running-related injuries—whether you're a serious marathoner or simply a once-in-a-while jogger. To find out how it helps, we checked in with Danny Dreyer, ultra marathoner, Chi Running teacher, President of ChiRunning, and co-author of Chi Running: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running. Here's a rundown of what it is, who it's for, and how it can boost your overall athleticism.
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Nine-Goal Run Sends Rollins Past West Chester
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WEST CHESTER, Pa. – Fifth-ranked Rollins College used a nine-goal spurt and a packed in defense to turn its non-league women's lacrosse match in its favor en route to a 12-9 victory over second-ranked West Chester University Thursday afternoon at Vonnie Gros Field.
West Chester (9-1) saw its nine-game winning streak to open the season come to a close while Rollins (10-1) won its fourth straight game. It marked the first time the Tars have beaten the Golden Rams in four meetings dating back to 2010, including the 2012 NCAA Division II semifinal.
Rollins held West Chester scoreless for a little over 34 minutes while rattling off nine unanswered goals to erase a 7-2 deficit and take control of the game. The Tars packed it in their defensive zone and junior goalkeeper Elyse De Lisle made a couple of key saves, one on a free position, during the scoreless drought to electrify the visitor's momentum.
The Tars outshot the Golden Rams, 18-7 in the second half and scored three extra-man goals in five attempts – all in the second half. West Chester trailed 9-7 with 13:43 left when senior Jamie Dolan was whistled for a slash, her second yellow card of the game, and sent off. The Golden Rams had to finish the game without their second-leading scorer. Rollins capitalized on that EMO and then added another tally five minutes later to open up an 11-7 advantage, before the Rams could put another ball in the Tars' cage.
Lauren Glassey scored on a free position with 6:48 remaining, and Theresa Giunta added another unassisted effort with 2:40 to go that pulled the Rams within two, 11-9. West Chester won the ensuing draw control, but turned the ball over and did not regain possession until 29 seconds remained.
West Chester seemed to be in control of the game through the first 20 minutes of action. The Golden Rams raced out to a 7-2 lead, scoring five straight times with the match tied at 2-all. Dolan netted a pair of back-to-back goals 30 seconds apart that broke the 2-2 tie. Giunta then scored her first goal of the game 39 seconds after Dolan's pair, and the Rams were out in front, 5-2. When Heidelbaugh and Hannah Cowan added markers over the next seven minutes, the hosts looked like they were in control.
However, after Cowan's goal at the 11:05 mark of the first half, West Chester would not score again until Glassey's free position goal with 6:48 left in the game. From there, Rollins seized the momentum, dictated the tempo and took West Chester out of its game plan offensively.
Glassey finished with four points on the afternoon (2 goals, 2 assists). Giunta posted three points (2 goals, 1 assist), and Dolan scored twice. Tori Dugan, Cowan and Heidelbaugh had West Chester's other goals.
Erica Pagliarulo, Kelly Thayer and Caroline Lamere each registered a hat trick for Rollins. Pagliarulo added a pair of assists to her totals as well.
De Lisle (10-1) made four saves in goal for the Tars while the Golden Rams' Jess Henderson (9-1) made 10 saves in the cage.
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Myanmar frees rebels as peace talks begin
Amnesty prior to ceasefire talks and Brunei summit
October 8, 2013
Myanmar's president today pardoned 56 political prisoners in a move considered to be linked to looming peace talks with ethnic armies, although critics say many still remain behind bars.
The majority of those released from prisons across the country are members of Shan and Kachin rebel groups who were charged under the Unlawful Association Act. The government is beginning another round of talks with the Kachin Independence Army on Tuesday in an effort to negotiate a ceasefire after two years of conflict.
President Thein Sein has vowed that no political prisoners will remain incarcerated beyond the turn of the year, but the pledge has drawn skepticism.
"We welcome the release of more political prisoners but doubt the president's pledge of zero political prisoners in Myanmar, as new arrests are happening and some political prisoners are charged with criminal charges but they are not acknowledged by the government as political prisoners," said Thet Oo from the Former Political Prisoners Association in Yangon.
Around 130 political prisoners remain behind bars in Myanmar, he added.
Yaung Yo Chun, 70, was among those released today from Mawlamyine prison in southern Myanmar. He was accused of playing a role in a bombing in 2003 and was sentenced to 30 years in jail.
"I thank the president for his release but I'm sorry for my fellow six political prisoners who are yet to be released," he told ucanews.com. "And I feel that my verdict was unfair as I was jailed with a lengthy sentence despite not committing a crime."
Thein Sein ordered the release on Tuesday, just ahead of a forum in Brunei to be attended by leaders from across Southeast Asia and the Pacific where Myanmar is also expected to face questions about ongoing anti-Muslim violence in the country.
The prisoner release follows a pattern of amnesties prior to high profile international summits. Rights groups claim political prisoners are being treated as bargaining chips by the government, which has released hundreds of prisoners since Thein Sein came to power in March 2011.
In February the government appointed a 16-member committee to review all cases of individuals classified by the opposition and advocacy groups as political prisoners.
Church kicks off relief efforts after deadly Aceh quake
Rescuers search for survivors after temblor rocks Indonesia's Sumatra island, killing at least 100 people
Wanted: Healthy and humble priests
Vatican updates guidelines for educating priests
Bangladeshi gangs target Hindu homes
The incident, part of a series of attacks, is indicative of a culture of intolerance, priest says
Sri Lanka halts bid to erect world's tallest Christmas tree
Tree had been criticized as a waste of money by Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo
Indonesian Muslims ban Christian prayer meeting
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Experiencing the World Around: Still the best way to learn science
By Sally Jongsma
People across the United States are concerned about science education today. Some worry that not enough students are choosing to specialize in the sciences. Many focus on the fact that U.S. science students continue to lag behind those from other countries.
Science teachers at Dordt College have their own take on the situation that focuses less on United States superiority in the sciences and more on responsibly exploring and developing God�s good creation, but they share some concerns.
In his Avian Biology and Conservation class, Dr. Robb De Haan has his students explore the musculature and skeletal structure of cooked birds. The preserved specimens that can be ordered from suppliers come complete with unpleasant chemical preservatives, whereas working with cooked birds is very pleasant�even tasty, says De Haan
�Kids don�t seem to be getting excited about science,� says Dr. Charles Adams, dean of the natural science division at Dordt College. While it pains him to say it, he says he thinks (public) television, even with what he describes as its secular bias, does a better job of presenting science in an engaging manner than do some school curricula.
Adams believes that students need opportunities to explore God�s world and relate what they are learning to life. Providing hands-on exploration of creation is crucial. In addition, telling stories about scientists, the problems they�ve explored and the solutions they�ve found, may give curious students a more interesting context for learning, he suggests.
Interest in science has always been at its best when connected to experience, as Dordt�s science professors will attest. Agriculture Professor Ron Vos says that curiosity and good experiences when he was a child are what attracted him to his current career. Dr. Doug Allen from the physics department says he was always curious about how things worked, and Engineering Professor Ethan Brue enjoyed problem solving and found an outlet for it in engineering. Physics Professor John Zwart enjoyed �messing around on the workbench with old appliances.�
�I believe that students are drawn to science by the same type of curiosity about the creation that is so common in younger children (Daddy, why is the sky blue?),� says Zwart. This interest is nurtured by teachers or by family interests as the child grows up. �Interaction with creation is what makes good science education,� Zwart says.
�We live in a culture that often has a narrow view of science and yet is concerned that more students are not being drawn to science programs,� says Adams. He believes there is a relationship: if curricula treat science only as a technical field, only �science types� will be attracted to science.
Adams and his colleagues� ideas parallel those of a growing number of people today and reflect how science education is changing. Educators continue to learn more about what makes effective teaching and learning. And while national concerns about science education today apply to elementary and high schools, they also apply to colleges.
Most colleges and universities, including Dordt, Adams believes, have strong science curricula for talented students who are already interested in science�who need and want the kind of specialization currently offered. The curricula haven�t always been as effective for non-science majors. Dordt�s commitment to training students as whole people rather than specialists means that it needs to be as concerned about how to offer science education for non-majors as well for majors. Non-majors will be the future teachers and parents who help children develop a curiosity and love for God�s creation.
For Allen, good science education needs to be fun. �Boring science is an oxymoron,� he says. �There are so many neat experiments, demos, and problems in each field that can motivate interest.� Active learning happens through labs, reports, and field trips as well as class presentations.
Brue believes good science education needs to expose the mysteries of the natural world all around us, developing in students a passion and desire to unfold the world�s complexities. At the same time, it needs to help students understand the limits of scientific knowing.
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Partly in response to these issues, partly in response to Dordt College�s last accreditation process, and partly because it�s their job to stay current and be relevant in their programs, members of Dordt�s natural science division are continually asking what it takes to offer quality science education.
�On average I probably spend a few hours per week reading physics pedagogy literature,� says Zwart.
Each academic department at Dordt College asks the question anew when it goes through a curricular assessment every seven years. Faculty look at what has changed in their field, explore what colleagues at other institutions are doing, engage an outside evaluator to critique their program, and consider how students are responding to the program.
Accreditation processes are also good spurs for such questions. They do much more than give a �license� to offer accredited degrees for the next ten years because they require all parts of the institution to take an in-depth look at their programs. They also offer a professional evaluation by other experts.
The last North Central accreditation process confirmed some things that Dordt College science professors already knew: meeting the needs of non-science majors and keeping up with scientific and technological developments for majors will mean making periodic changes�tweaking curricula, adding new emphases, purchasing more equipment, continuing to change some of the ways we teach. Those, in turn, will put new demands on facilities.
�This realization pushes us to discuss how our view of science teaching can be enhanced by or expressed in the facilities we have,� says Adams.
Fictorie, who graduated from Dordt�s chemistry department in 1990, describes the kinds of changes that have occurred between his student and professor years.
�Classes were lectures accompanied by working problems, and labs were �cookbook labs,�� The term �cookbook labs� has come to refer to labs that are very structured and have a specific result. Students who follow the procedures correctly get it right. Fictorie isn�t running down his chemistry education, and, in fact, believes there is a place for these labs alongside a broader, more experiential style of learning. But teaching has changed. Today, he uses many demonstrations that used to be left to labs, melding the line between classroom and laboratory and creating different demands on his classroom space. Chemicals and equipment that were previously only used in the lab now need to be transported to a classroom that was built primarily as a lecture space. Labs that were built for individualized structured learning, now need to be used for more group work and learning.
Fictorie emphasizes the value of interaction and collaboration between students. He likes to use a method of peer instruction he learned from physics educators. He puts a multiple choice question on an overhead. Students work out their individual answers, and then once they find out they had different answers, try to convince each other of their answer�s validity.
�If it�s a good question not all students will have the same answer, and they will have to explain why they arrived at the answer they did,� he says. Teaching or telling others always helps imprint an idea more firmly in students� minds, he believes. Working in groups in class is more difficult in spaces with permanent lab tables set up for individual work.
Fictorie and his colleagues� labs are also more collaborative today and more open-ended as they attempt to more closely model actual experiments and research. Instead of being asked to follow a procedure to figure out the percentage of an unknown compound in a liquid, Fictorie may ask his students, for example, to confirm that the bottle of three percent hydrogen peroxide he gave them actually has three percent hydrogen peroxide. Students need to both devise a procedure and do the experiment. These kinds of activities, Fictorie believes, are valuable because they use the kind of empirical, inductive reasoning scientists need to use in research. They work best in open, multi-use classroom/laboratory spaces.
Other changes and expectations in today�s culture affect learning, too, say science professors. Experts and instructors are realizing that humanizing lab and study spaces leads to better working and learning. Adams is not surprised by this trend and believes it makes sense because of the way God created people to be whole beings, even when they engage in specialized study.
Biology Professor Delmar Vander Zee says that students are always going to have to make the real connections between the various parts of their education, but curriculum and facilities contribute to that process.
��Talking and doing� is the most effective way to teach,� says Vander Zee. And more and more institutions are finding that providing spaces for students to work together on lab projects to study together with ready access to research data, computers, and resources, and to meet easily with faculty and fellow students encourages students to use the space and creates a better learning environment.
Dordt�s science professors will continue to improve and challenge one another, in their efforts to give their students what they believe is the best science education they can offer. They also continue to dream about new ways they can help students understand how the good creation God made can be better understood and cared for.


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Ozzie & Ricky Nelson Before there was Ozzy and Jack , there was Ozzie and Ricky. Ozzie and his wife gave us one of America's most endearing sitcoms and institutions, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. The show could be seen on our television sets from 1952 to 1966. During the show's run and after, son Ricky was busy making hit records. In fact, over 53 of his songs made the Top 100 Billboard charts from 1957 and 1973. (credit: AP)
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The alpaca belongs to the family of the camels are bred mainly for the production of wool. There are two types of alpacas, the Huacaya and the Suri, they differ predominantly in the wool. In the Suri alpacas turn the hair slightly curly hair and are close to the body and Huacaya have curly hair. Alpaca are mostly held in South America (Peru, Bolivia). An adult alpaca is size from about 75 to 100 cm, they have a weight of about 50-80 kg.
Alpaca wool is one of the most valuable natural fibers of the world gives. Alpaca - wool is characterized by many positive desirable properties.
Alpaca wool is very soft, up to 2 times stronger and up to 7x warmer than sheep wool, has its own luster, 22 natural colors.
Alpaca - Awayo - Chiffon - Felt - Wood - Nubuck - Tocuyo
Awayo is a traditional fabric and one of the main features of the Bolivian culture. It is widely distributed in the Andean regions. The word "Awayo" comes from the Aymara culture (Aguayo), often it is associated with certain products, it has no certain translation and Legend is the name of the substance.
The emergence of the Awayo goes back thousands of years, an accurate and reliable information was not to make unfortunately find. In general, the Awayo at hand woven by women. The poncho is an exclusively male Awayo clothing. The women wear blankets Awayo.
The Awayo find many uses, they are used to transport food and material or as a diaper bag for babies. It is used as clothing and nowadays for the production of bags and handbags.
All colors and symbols of the "Awayo" have a certain significance. A "Awayo" consists of "pampa" and "pana". "Pana" is the basis, ie, the background color and "Pampa", the inlaid symbol.
Colors: In the ancient "Awayos" are dyes from animals, minerals and plants used. Today, synthetic colors are used very often. synthetic The handmade "Awayos", are very costly and time-consuming and contain more errors than manufactured Awayos, but just this error make any "Awayo" a special and unique work of art. The colors will be used factual and subjective. They depend on the community or of social rituals. When a person dies or for historical recognition is the color black is used. For example, the famous "red ponchos (ponchos rojos)" of Achacachi, were used only worn for an important event. Today, you are worn frequently, but only by so-called leaders of the communities. This poncho has thick red and thin black lines.
The used symboles are very different, often become gods, presented geometric figures or animals. You'll meet one of the most famous symbols of South America, the so-called "Andean Cross. For example, in the town of Jesús de Machaca, one of the most important symbols is the squirrel. Awayo Jalka "Jesús de Machaca" in the district of La Paz - Bolivia, a poncho in the same way, but here the black and red lines of the same thickness and are. These ponchos are "Guairurus called. "Andrés de Machaca" in the district of La Paz - Bolivia, are the characteristic colors are black and cream with thick and thin lines. These ponchos are called "Chinchilla
". The best known are Awayos "Jalka (Jalq'a) and" Tarabuco. "Tarabucos" have a variety of colors and tell a story. The front and back as a perfect negative. The "Jalkas are" black and red and ebenfals tell a story, but here both sides are equal. These two species from the district Chuquisaca - Bolivia.
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Chiffon is a transparent, veil-like fabric. It is very soft, tender and feels very pleasant on the skin.
Chiffon is a very easy and pleasant to supporting Stoffl. Chiffon is quick drying and wrinkle-resistant.
The properties of chiffon makes it a very desirable material for the manufacture of dresses, lingerie and shawls.
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Felt is a textile fabric structure by which the inherent properties of the felting of wool or other animal hair under the influence of pressure and moist heat is generated.
Felt is organic, temperature, a noise, very warm and humidity, and pressure-expandable.
Because of its many positive qualities sit Felt is very versatile in its uses. For this reason, I want to name a few, Felt, felt boots, sound and heat insulation.
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Tocuyo is a more or less coarse cotton cloth from the Andean region.
Tocuyo is very tough, skin-friendly and has a good moisture absorption.
The use of Tocuyo in the Andes widespread. Tocuyo e.g. used in the manufacture of clothing and handbags.
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Nubuck leather is a very soft and velvety leather. The leather is polished to a smooth grain side and strongly roughened, that it has obtained the velvety surface. To prepare for mainly beef and veal leather are also used leather from llamas.
Nubuck leather is a very robust and insensitive leather. Warm and very kind to skin.
Nubuck leather is used for the manufacture of handbags and clothing.
Rain can certainly drop by his spots left on the leather. If you run into a rainstorm, they should note the following: they rubbed the moisture with a soft, lint-free cloth. Let the leather dry and rough refinement crepe with a brush again. If you pay attention to those advices, you will enjoy the beauty of this leather for a long time and the rain will leave no traces.
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We use traditional wood (eg Tarara) from the different regions. All woods are from environmentally sustainable sources, which are often protected by local communities themselves, as they are a part of nature and culture.


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CHICAGO (CBS) — An advocate for the surviving players from Negro league baseball is hoping a new film about Jackie Robinson – who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball – will lead to more recognition for the former players.
WBBM Newsradio's Mike Krauser reports Gary Crawford, founder of NegroLeagueLegends.com, is probably the biggest and loudest supporter for the remaining Negro leagues players.
"I'm talking about honoring the men that are still alive. Jackie's passing has not caused every player to die," he said at an event on the South Side to help shine new light on the league, which started in Chicago in the late 1800s.
There are about 175 former Negro leaguers still alive today.
To hear Crawford tell it, the surviving Negro leaguers largely have been ignored by MLB, cultural institutions, and even the White House.
"The league started here. What excuse is that? There's no excuse," he said.
Why does he think that is?
"Out of sight, out of mind is one reason," he said. "The other reason is a lot of people don't give a … they don't give a you know what."
Crawford introduced some former Negro league players to help get the word out about the importance of honoring the league's history.
Hank "Baby" Presswood played in the late 1940s and early 50s with the Cleveland Buckeyes and Kansas City Monarchs.
Now 91, Presswood said he still likes to strap on a pair of roller skates, much to his wife's chagrin.
"At my age, I still ride my skates. My wife say she's going to hid them, because she's scared. She's saying I got no business on them. You know how womens are," he said.
Presswood said he and his wife have separate TVs during baseball season.
"I love baseball, and it hurts me so bad when the Cubs or White Sox lose," he said. "Ooh, that hurts me so bad. I want the teams in the city to win, you know? But they can't win all the time."
Lou "the Grey Cat" Clarizio, who became the second white player to sign a contract in the Negro League in 1950, shared a story about his first at-bat against Hall of Famer and legendary Negro leagues pitcher Satchel Paige, when Clarizio played for the Chicago American Giants.
"Swish, boom, it was in the catcher's mitt already. So I went to the dugout and I said to "Double Duty," [Ted Radcliffe] I said 'Hey, Duty, you know Satch for a long time, how do you hit that knuckleball of his?' He said, 'Lou, just pick one out and swing," he said.
Clarizio, 81, also explained how he got the nickname "the Grey Cat."
"Nowadays, they call everybody a dude or a stud. At that time, the men were all called cats," he said. When they saw him, black players asked "who's that grey cat?" and the name stuck.


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Girl's School Lunch Blog Stirs Up International Controversy
The tweet came early Friday morning: "Stay strong Martha."
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver—a major supporter of healthy school lunch fare—was the author of the tweet, and he urged his 2.3 million followers to retweet the message to show support for a nine-year-old Scottish girl banned from blogging about her school lunches.
That tweet, along with a massive outpouring of international support, led local officials to reverse their actions, reports BBC News.
Martha Payne, of Argyll, Scotland, set up her blog, NeverSeconds, to document the lackluster nutritional value of her school's lunches. She photographed each meal she was served at Lochgilphead Primary School, then rated it with a "food-o-meter" and a health rating. The ratings were often low—a recent lackluster cheeseburger merited only a "2." (Payne also has a sense of humor. Each entry also lists "pieces of hair" as a category.)
In addition to keeping tabs on her lunches, Payne was also using the blog to raise money for Mary's Meals, a global hunger charity. But school officials weren't keen on their lunches being showcased on the web, and last Thursday, Payne posted a "goodbye" on her site:
"This morning in maths I got taken out of class by my head teacher and taken to her office," she wrote. "I was told that I could not take any more photos of my school dinners because of a headline in a newspaper today."
An explanatory note posted on the blog by her father read: "I contacted Argyll and Bute Council...and they told me it was their decision to ban Martha's photography."
What prompted school officials to ask Payne to shut down her blog? A story in the local paper, which boasted the headline, "Time to fire the dinner ladies." (Lunch is called "dinner" in this area of the world.)
The local government agency, the Argyll and Bute Council, said press coverage of the blog caused the cafeteria staff to fear for their jobs.
So the council banned Payne from taking pictures of her lunches, claiming "the unwarranted attacks on its schools catering service which culminated in national press headlines which have led catering staff to fear for their jobs," reports the BBC.
That resolve didn't last long. On Friday, council chief Roddy McCuish reversed himself in a radio interview.
"There is no place for censorship in Argyll and Bute Council. There never has been and there never will be," he said.
"I have just instructed senior officials to withdraw the ban on pictures in the school dining hall. It's a good thing to change your mind, and I have certainly done that."


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When the Coen Brothers pulled off the coup of persuading Jeff Bridges to take the role of Rooster Cogburn in their new film, an elegant and quite moving western called True Grit, they got what in Hollywood terms is a rare bargain: two actors for the price of one.
The first was Bridges, 61, a grizzled superstar who last year cemented his place in entertainment history when, at the fifth time of asking, he was summoned at the Oscars to pick up a trophy that declared him to be the film industry's Best Actor of 2010.
The second was Loyd Catlett. At 56, he shares the flowing grey hair and laid-back demeanour for which Bridges is famed. And he has starred in almost as many hit films.
But unlike most actors, he earns his crust by staying in the shadows.
For 40 years, Catlett has been Bridges' official stand-in. The men, best of friends off-camera, have collaborated on dozens of live-action films, from The Big Lebowski to Crazy Heart and both versions of Tron.
They look similar, sound identical (both say "groovy" a lot), and in many famous scenes are quite literally interchangeable.
It turns out that almost every Jeff Bridges film you've ever watched features two versions of Jeff. One is the accomplished veteran actor the world knows and loves.
The other - often used in long-range shots and scenes involving camera angles where viewers cannot see the star's face clearly - is Catlett.
"If people ask, then I generally tell them that I sell bar napkins and swizzle sticks for a living, so I don't have to answer a lot of questions. But if I have to, I tell them that I have three job titles: I'm an actor, I'm a stuntman, and I stand in for Jeff Bridges."
Catlett has a sprawling CV. Several of the riding scenes in True Grit, for example, show him on galloping horses in the costume of Rooster Cogburn, using equestrian skills he honed as a child on a farm in Texas.
He also performed Bridges' impersonations for many of the action sequences in Iron Man, stepping into Obadiah Stane's heavy superhero outfit while the real Bridges watched from the wings.
For most of his adult life, Catlett's role has been kept hidden. But Bridges lifted the lid on the existence of his alter ego at last year's Golden Globes, when he won Best Actor. He declared: "I want to thank my stand-in, Loyd Catlett. Thank you, Loyd!"
Catlett was watching on TV at home. "It shocked me when Jeff mentioned my name. I went 'Wow!' It was very kind and quite touching. I felt extremely groovy about it. And of course I was very happy and proud and excited for him, too."
The rare name-check also helped to shed light on "stand-ins"- a little-know community of Hollywood performers. Almost every big star will use one at some stage of movie production, but only a few will admit to it. And while a small number of actors employ long-term stand-ins, most will keep the same one for only a few films at a time.
The lion's share of Catlett's work occurs when film-makers are preparing to roll cameras. "Jeff comes in and rehearses. I watch his moves and what he's going to do with the scene," explains Catlett. "Then I emulate his movements for next the couple of hours, so the director of photography can set up the cameras and lights."
For True Grit Bridges and Catlett were both required to cultivate extravagant beards. They compared facial hair by emailing each other photographs. That process only added to the close physical resemblance between the two men, which at times can cause confusion.
"If we're shooting in a small town and people know Jeff's around, I'm often mistaken for him," says Catlett. "In restaurants, people will say, 'There he is!' To make them go away, I use the old routine: telling 'em I sell bar napkins and swizzle sticks for a living."
Catlett first met Bridges when they were both cast in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show. He was a small-town boy from Wichita Falls in Texas whose ambitionsfor a career as a professional rodeo rider had been quashed by injuries. Bridges, 21, was a paid-up member of the Hollywood "brat pack", with superstar parents and a string of glamorous friends.
The two young men clicked, and Catlett followed Bridges back to Los Angeles at the end of filming. In the 40 years they have worked together, Catlett says, the duo have grown more alike, to the point where their off-screen characters are now often interchangeable. "There's been years that we've spent more time with each other than with our own families. So our mannerisms have adapted unconsciously, I think."
The men email most days and speak over the telephone a couple of times a week. If Bridges is considering a new role, he will send Catlett the script and ask whether he considers it to be "groovy". When Bridges is preparing for a role Catlett often collaborates on the research process. If life as the "other" Jeff Bridges has prevented him from pursuing an independent acting career, then Catlett isn't letting it get him down. "I'm not going to beat myself up because I'm not getting parts. I make a good living. It's a great life."
Jeff Bridges
61. Oscar winner actor and Hollywood heavyweight.
He says: "We've done over 50, 60 movies together, man. Thank you, Loyd!"
Loyd Catlett
56. Official stand-in for Bridges for 40 years.
He says: "I am expendable, he is not."


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Encore for Pedro?
Has the proverbial fat lady sung for pitcher Pedro Martinez?
It's fascinating to me how an athlete's career trajectory and that of a professional singer can have such similarities.
At the MET–as at many other opera houses–productions and performances are scheduled and cast years in advance. This is necessary because it is the only way to engage jet-setting conductors and singers who have managers securing them bookings years in advance all over the world.
One of the consequences of such early planning, however, can be that–with so much intervening time between the booking and the performances, it's possible that the artist in question could be be experiencing vocal trouble or some other malady unforseen at the time of the booking.
Or perhaps the role for which the artist was engaged was well-suited to his or her voice at the time of the booking but in the span of time before the performances, the oice has changed. Perhaps the artist has lost a bit of the "bloom" on the top of the voice or the voice has darkened. Or perhaps he/she does not possess the same tessitura–range–he/she once did.
In such cases, it is not unheard of for a singer to be "bought out": paid their fee not to sing. Another singer is then quickly found as a replacement. This is usually done by way of a public announcement stating that the initial artist has bowed out due to illness, but those in-the-know are aware of the real story.
Sometimes, though, the original artist remains in the show. Management–and the artist himself/herself (if there is any self-awareness there)–cross their fingers and hope for the best.
Often a much-beloved artist can go onstage and give it his/her best effort and, even if the singing is not as great as in the artist's prime, the adoring public will overlook any present-day flaws and give the singer the accolades to which he/she has become accustomed–even if the performance does not particularly merit that response..
Unless the artist is extremely popular, if the "suspension of belief" required to recall the artist's glory days is just too great or there are a host of glaring problems, e.g., wobbles that have developed in the voice, faulty intonation, or a lack of breath support, the artist may not escape embarassment. He or she will likely hear a few boos sprinkled in with tepid applause at curtain calls.
The latter is my fear for a Pedro Martinez return to the New York Mets.
I don't remember hearing much interest in Pedro until now: only after not one of the potential fifth-starters has distinguished himself in Spring Training.
While it's certainly possible that Pedro has retooled himself and could contribute to the pitching roster in some way, my fear is that the minute he has a faulty start, the Shea, oops, Citi Field crowd will show little patience for lack of velocity on his fastball or faulty location.
Just as I feel very sad when I hear a once-great singer onstage whose present-day performance bears little resemblance to the "glory days", I would feel similar pangs to see this three-time Cy Young award winner embarass himself or have criticisms and boos heaped upon him.
He's had too distinguished a career to go out in any other way than holding his head up high.
No, in lieu of Pedro, I don't have any suggestions for the fifth spot.
The words of the late soprano Beverly Sills come to mind:
"I retired when I was 51 so people would say 'Why so soon'?' instead of 'When will that woman shut up?"
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Funny thing about Pedro.
He is in no rush, and knows that soon a few teams will answer his $ 5 million question.
As long as he is staying fit and ready to take the mound, he will be fine. New York might be his preferred home for 2009, but he is now a pitching mercenary and might just go where the money is at the time.
I just hope he has some still in his tank. I love his confidence, and he will rejuvenate a clubhouse with his attitude…when he finally walks into one.
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Hello and welcome to Twitter! I've just added you to my small following🙂 I'm a Mets fan living in England, so greetings from across the pond. I really like Pedro, but I can't see him coming back to the Mets. Even if we splash the cash to bring a Peavy or Roy-O to the team, I'd still like to see another middle-of-the-rotation guy come in or step up. I'm not sure we can just rely on Hernandez or the combination of guys we'll be rotating around the 5th spot. Ashhttp://ashleymarshall.mlblogs.com
Pedro still wants to pitch. I'm not sure how good he'd be though. I wouldn't mind the Pirates signing him, if the price is right. We just sent Tom Gorzelanny down to the minors, maybe clearing a space in the rotation if Karstens falters.
I agree, I would rather see a favorite player leave the game with some dignity rather than have their performance descend into a farce. I guess too many of them just don't know what to do with themselves after they leave the game, and try to hang on as long as possible. And getting paid big bucks even for a mediocre performance makes it all the more enticing.
Congrats on bumping up to the #50 spot in the current rankings!
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January 24, 2012 - 2:55pm
Diablo III senior game producer, Steven Parker, has left Blizzard for no disclosed reason after working there for five years.
"Hey Twitter, I'm no longer working at Blizzard or on D3," Parker confirmed the news via Twitter. "I've had a great 5 years there and those guys are going to kill it with Diablo."
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on a separate note this is why WOW has been dumbed down, to make it easier for ppl to play, and there for easier for new ppl to play. It was for the money, not so they game itself was better. This is also why SC2's terran faction is so much better. I know this is gonna spiral into some stupid argument, but more new player will play SC2 if they find success playing as terran. ---Its about the money, not the game.--- Thats my point.


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