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Matthew Kirschenbaum talks to The Atlantic about his book on the history of word processing, what early word processing looked like, early adopter Len Deighton, and how writers of all kinds adapted to the new technology.
Who Tells Your Story? Historical Fiction as Resistance
What my favourite historical fiction has done for me, besides make me happy in the way that good books do, is teach me more about justice, and silence, and perspective. These are the questions I want to spend my time examining and writing about. The limits placed on many women's lives are the very reason they are conveniently written out of the dominant historical narrative, in a circular argument as old as misogyny itself: "Women do not appear in the record because they didn't do anything of note, and they didn't do anything of note because they don't appear in the record."
Memory, Law, and Recording
Sci-Fi Author (and Metafilter's own) Charlie Stross has an interesting thought experiment: Could you get to a technological society without the use of writing? And if so, what would that look like?
215 Of The Best Longreads Of 2015
"I do not consider literary forms to exist in a hierarchy,"
History v Historical Fiction by Jane Smiley [The Guardian] Historical fiction is not a secondary form – I was condescended to by a conservative historian who cannot see that he too constructs stories.
"The condescender was Niall Ferguson, a conservative historian about 15 years younger than me, who wanted to be sure that I understood that the historical novel is all made up, but that historical non-fiction, written by historians is truth. He referred to his research. I referred to my research. He wasn't convinced. I suggested that the demands of history and fiction are slightly different – that since a novel is a story, it must be complete, and since a history must be accepted by the reader as accurate, it must be incomplete."
"Writing is healing. Writing is art. Writing is learning."
The Role of Writers in a STEM Obsessed Society
"As writers, it's easy to think of how we matter to literature classrooms, but what the appointment of writers-in-residence in hospitals, history classrooms, foreign language learning spaces, and cooking schools reminds us is that we are relevant wherever there is humanity—which is to say, wherever humans are with their stories. Writing is healing. Writing is art. Writing is learning. As such, writing across the disciplines matters. Many models of artist residencies depend upon the retreat model, wherein the artist sequesters herself away with a small community of other artists. While these models have value, especially when considering how solitude relates to the creative process, it's heartening to me to see more models catch on that value the place of the writer in society, rather than hidden away from it."
The Empathetic Camera
Frank Norris and the Invention of Film Editing: "At the heart of American author Frank Norris' gritty turn-of-the-century fiction lies an essential engagement with the everyday shock and violence of modernity. Henry Giardina explores how this focus, combined with his unique approach to storytelling, helped to pave the way for a truly filmic style."
Lyrical Extinction
Wild Ones Live is an arresting reading accompanied by music, a collaboration performed as part of a live magazine by author Jon Mooallem, a science and nature writer whose book Wild Ones ruminates on the strange, ignorant, hopeful and poignant ways humans imagine other animals, and the musical project Black Prairie. Listen at your desk if you must, but if you can, pop in your earbuds and go outside for a long walk while you take it all in. [more inside]
Thomas King wins Governor-General's Award for fiction.
Thomas King wins Governor-General's Award for fiction In February, King won the British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. On Tuesday, he won the Governor-General's Literary Award for Fiction for The Back of the Turtle, his first novel in 15 years. [more inside]
The History Of The New York Times' Style Section
"Despite its youth, the section has a much longer history, one that encompasses the long effort of women in journalism to be taken seriously as reporters and as readers, the development of New Journalism, large-scale social changes that have brought gay culture into the mainstream, shifts in the way news is delivered and consumed, and economic consolidations and disruptions that the section has, sometimes in spite of itself, thoroughly documented and cataloged. The Styles section may well be pretty stupid sometimes. It's also a richer and more complex entity than any of us would like to believe." - Bonfire Of The Inanities - Jacqui Shine writes a long, detailed history of the New York Times Style Section.
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If you've ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write.James Somers (previously) introduces Draftback. [more inside]
This is possible because every document written in Google Docs since about May 2010 has a revision history that tracks every change, by every user, with timestamps accurate to the microsecond; these histories are available to anyone with "Edit" permissions; and I have written a piece of software that can find, decode, and rebuild the history for any given document.
The Sexual Outlaw At 83
83 year old Chicano author John Rechy (City Of Night, The Sexual Outlaw, Rushes) talks to Lambda Literary about gay assimilation, being mistaken for white, melding truth and fiction, the post-Stonewall peroid, and hating the word 'queer.'
"A pantry full of ingredients"
My goal here -- beyond the selfish utilitarian aspect of organizing my research -- is much in parallel with that of sites like the Medieval People of Color blog, or Kameron Hurley's award-nominated essay "We Have Always Fought". I want to help change the unexamined assumptions about the place and nature of lesbian-like characters in historic fact, literature, art, and imagination. I want to do it to help other authors find inspiration and support for the stories they want to tell. And I want to do it to affect the reception of my own writing. My project will be flawed in that it will privilege topics and interpretations of personal interest to me. (A geographic focus on Europe and it's neighbors. A temporal focus that ends before the 20th century and focuses strongly on the pre-modern. An examination of the data through a lesbian lens even when other lenses, such as transgender ones, are equally valid.) This is a caveat but not an apology. If I weren't doing it for selfish reasons, I wouldn't be doing it at all.The Lesbian Historica Motif Project is a series of posts at The Rose Garden looking at source material about lesbian women throughout history.
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The view from here
This is my window. Or my windows—the view from my living room, where I sit and write. Might not seem very inspiring. I wish I could offer green mossy lava, roaring waves, a glacier mountain top. I do have other spaces—in an abandoned powerstation, a favorite fisherman's cafe by the harbor, a summer house on the arctic circle—but this is my honest view, what I really see most of the days. This house was built in the 1960s when people were fed up with lava and mountains; they were migrating to the growing suburbs to create a new view for themselves. The young couple who dug the foundation with their own hands dreamed of a proper garden on this barren, rocky strip of land. They dreamed of trees, flowers, shelter from the cold northern breeze. What is special depends on where you are, and here, the trees are actually special. They were planted fifty years ago like summer flowers, not expected to live or grow more than a meter. The rhododendron was considered a miracle, not something that could survive a winter. It looks tropical, with Hawaiian-looking pink flowers; Skúli, the man who built the house and sold it to me half a century later, took special pride in it. I am not a great gardener. We are thinking of buying an apple tree, though they don't really thrive in this climate. I would plant it like a flower, not really expect it to grow, and hope for a miracle. —Andri Snær Magnason [more inside]
Fictitious Minneapolis street addresses: A guide for writers.
Let's say you're a writer, working a novel set in Minneapolis. Your protagonist arrives home after a long day of doing whatever it is your protagonist does all day. To this point, you've been very specific with local landmarks and a general feeling of the city — your protagonist rides the 21A, eats breakfast at the Grand Cafe, and meets his or her attorney in an office on the 12th floor of the Rand Tower. All good so far. You've set the scene very effectively. People are going to say, "This is a great Minneapolis novel" after they read it. However, the time has now come for you to insert a specific street address into the text. You like specifics, and you need a real-sounding mailing address for, say, a situation where the protagonist receives a mysterious letter. How will you accomplish this? Here you have a problem. You only have two options, neither one very good. [more inside]
The Rules Of The Game
Anne Helen Petersen, the voice behind "Scandals Of Classic Hollywood" (previously) and "doctor of celebrity gossip" gives us an academic rundown of the hows and whys of the last hundred years of Hollywood Star Making, celebrity, PR, marketing, fandom, and scandal management.
Cities and the Soul
With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. December 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of Invisible Cities -- the sublime metaphysical travelogue by author-journalist Italo Calvino. In a series of pensive dialogues with jaded emperor Kublai Khan, the explorer Marco Polo describes a meandering litany of visionary and impossible places, dozens of surreal, fantastical cities, each poetically reifying ideas vital to language, philosophy, and the human spirit. This gracefully written love letter to urban life has inspired countless tributes, but it's just the most accessible of Calvino's fascinating literary catalogue. Look inside for a closer look at his most remarkable works, links to English translations of his magical prose, and collections of artistic interpretations from around the web -- including this treasure trove of essays, excerpts, articles, and recommended reading. [more inside]
Medieval Writing
Medieval Writing is your one-stop shop for all things medieval paleography. [more inside]
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, a podcast in which writer and game designer Robin D. Laws (Hamlet's Hitpoints, The GUMSHOE system) and game designer and writer Kenneth Hite (Tour De Lovecraft, GURPS Horror) (previously) talk about stuff. Stuffs include: Why vampires are assholes and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, stopping WWI and Beasts of the Southern Wild, Margaret Atwood and the difference between a mystic and an occultist, why no invented setting is as interesting as the real world and Woodrow Wilson, Gencon and sundry RPGs, Neil Armstrong, HP Blavatsky and theosophy, the ebook prcing settlement, what big publishing could learn from RPG publishers, and the many crazy fictional possibilities of Charles Lindbergh and his UFO investigating chums, and Dungeons and Dragons edition wars and Aliester Crowley.
"Jumping the rope is not good exercise, for it jars the body too much"
The Iron Gall Ink Website
Presenting your source for all things iron gall ink. [more inside]
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Tea should be hot.
A Guide to Writing Sherlockian-Tea Habits. In which EnigmaticPenguin (of death) schools fanfiction authors in correct English tea theory and practice. Follow up: Biscuits.
Zone of Thought
"...though we may have our differences, we are one people, and we are one nation, united by a common creed."
Founded in 1857, The Atlantic is one of the oldest publications still being produced in the US. They have created a commemorative issue for the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War that includes articles published in the magazine over a century ago, an extensive gallery of images, as well as a few essays and analyses by modern writers, including President Obama. Editor's note. (Via: James Fallows' Reddit AMA) [more inside]
The Written World - A History of Writing
The Written World is a five part radio series put together by Melyvn Bragg as part of the In Our Time BBC radio project. The programmes look at the history of written word, and how it has shaped our intellectual history. Each episode is available as a podcast and has an accompanying page (1 2 3 4 5) with images and links for further exploration. Also: The books that shaped history (narrated slideshow); the British Library page. [more inside]
Games and resources from museums for children
Show Me is a site collecting games and resources for children from UK museums. [more inside]
Aloha, mahalo
The history of Hawaii, as told in plate lunches, by Sarah Vowell.
Brains 101
The Library of Dream
This is all rooted in a vision I had, of William S. Burroughs as a CIA agent, and Philip K. Dick as his young henchman, going head-to-head with notorious gangster and pervert Adolf Hitler somewhere in Hamburg to find out where Hitler is shipping all the computers he can get his hands on. - In another world Charles Stross wrote this sprawling work of Alternate History instead of the Merchant Princes books. Fictional books are of course themselves a common them in Alternative History stories, from The Grasshopper Lies Heavy in The Man in the High Castle to Adolf Hitlers pulp novel Lord of the Swastika in The Iron Dream. Stanisław Lem was particularly enamoured with the idea of the fictional book, and wrote two volumes of reviews and introductions for them, lovingly described here by Bruce Sterling.
Quoth the Raven, Baltimore!?!
Today marks the 200th birthday of Edgar Alan Poe, and as happens every year the mysterious Poe Toaster marked the date by placing three red roses and a half-filled bottle of cognac at his Baltimore grave. The identity of the toaster isn't the only question surrounding Poe - his presence in Baltimore and the circumstances of his death remain a mystery. Some speculate that he may have had rabies, others that he may have been a victim of cooping. And while Baltimore embarks on a year long celebration of Poe some argue that his body shouldn't be there at all.
2008 AD: Horace Rumpole makes an FPP
70,000 BC: The Earliest Known Examples of Paleolithic Art
668 BC: Ashurbanipal Attempts to Collect all Knowledge
150 BC: Earliest Analog Computer
593 AD: First Mention of Printing in China
1454 AD: The Gutenberg Bible
1964 AD: Creation of ARPANET
From Cave Paintings to the Internet, a timeline of the history of information technology. [more inside]
668 BC: Ashurbanipal Attempts to Collect all Knowledge
150 BC: Earliest Analog Computer
593 AD: First Mention of Printing in China
1454 AD: The Gutenberg Bible
1964 AD: Creation of ARPANET
From Cave Paintings to the Internet, a timeline of the history of information technology. [more inside]
20 significant American comics
"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor..."
The Willa Cather Archive is an incredible resource provided by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, including biographies, letters, photos, and even full (often annotated) text of much of her writing, including scholarly editions of two of her greatest (and most famous) works, My Antonia and O Pioneers. About the archive.
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Paleography: Reading Old Handwriting, 1500-1800. And don't forget to use your new skills to save the accused woman from the Ducking Stool.
This is fiction
Writing has been around for a long time, but that doesn't mean we've mastered it yet. Want to make fiction? Perhaps it makes itself, perhaps it makes you... Self reference breeding infinite hyperrealities. Which world will you choose?
Verne's Cerntury
Mythmaker of the Machine Age. In the statue erected above his grave in Amiens, in Picardy, Jules Verne, who died exactly 100 years ago, resembles God. He is, after all, the second-most-translated author on earth, after Agatha Christie. To celebrate the anniversary, there's a Verne exhibition at the Maritime Museum in Paris, one of a series of events from Paris to the western city of Nantes, where Verne was born on Feb. 8, 1828, to the northern town of Amiens, where he died on March 24, 1905. His many fans, some of them quite famous, will be treated to exhibits, concerts, films and shows in Verne's honor. "Underground City", a lost classic written by Verne and never before published unabridged in English, emerges this month in not one but two new unique editions. 100 years later, questions remain about his life: Why did he have two homes in Amiens? Why did he burn all his private papers? Why was he shot in the foot by his nephew, Gaston, in 1886? Gaston was locked in an asylum for 54 years after his attack on L'Oncle Jules. Was Gaston, in fact, Verne's natural son? More inside.
Ye Olde Writings
AncientScripts.com : discover introductions to more than 70 ancient and modern writing systems, from LinearB to hPhags-pa to Cherokee. View languages by type, family, or region. Many links to further reading on each subject, plus other goodies.
memento mori
Obitpage, dedicated to the writer's art of the obituary. Recommended among the greats in the (partial) "hall-of-fame" archive is Idi Amin's: "One of the Most Reviled Figures In Recent History."
A sad day for lovers of good writing. In addition to Stephen Jay Gould, historian Walter Lord has died. (NYT, blah blah) Lord's 1955 book A Night to Remember arguably touched off the modern world's fascination with the Titanic, and his 1957 Day of Infamy is an exciting account of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Great article about the decline of obituary writing in American journalism. Notable obits it names include Hunter Thompson's unflattering rendition of Nixon and H.L. Mencken's scathing posthumous indictment of William Jennings Bryan.
Should we go back to obits like these? Damn right we should, says suck.com.
Should we go back to obits like these? Damn right we should, says suck.com.
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Dead Man Down is the English-language debut of Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev (OG Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). The film is a boilerplate revenge thriller in several ways, but Oplev brings enough of his moody, stylish flares to the table that it feels fresh. And by the third act, he just throws the revenge rule book out the window and dishes out one fierce, explosive finale. The film follows two neurotics out for revenge. Beatrice (Noomi Rapace) is a stunning beautician who was left scarred by a driving accident. She has barely noticeable pink scars on one side of her face, so she's still gorgeous, but not gorgeous enough! She's out to kill the drunk driver that turned her into this hideous monster! Colin Farrell (S.W.A.T.) plays Victor, a Hungarian thug whose apartment is directly across the street from Beatrice's. I have no idea why he's Hungarian - it adds nothing to the story. I thought the writer made that decision because Hungarians have some kind of bloodlust culture, but more than likely it's because Irishman Colin Farrell's American accent sucks so they figured "let's make him Hungarian. A sexy Hungarian." He's seeking retribution against his employer, Alphonse, played with style to spare by Terrence Howard. I like Howard, who recently praised Oprah's tits in an interview. Victor has infiltrated Alphonse's organization in order to get revenge on him for killing his wife and daughter a couple years ago. He starts sending Alphonse anonymous threats - pictures with his eyes crossed out and such. Alphonse believes they're coming from a Hungarian he thought he killed two years ago. Which they are, he just has no clue it's Victor because he changed his name and the film refuses to acknowledge gaping plot holes. If the plot sounds a bit convoluted, that's because it is. Even more so when Beatrice starts blackmailing Victor after she spies him murdering someone on his balcony. Now instead of brooding over his wife and daughter and sending Alphonse hate-mail, Victor has to become her personal hitman. Farrell and Rapace do manage to be engaging enough to hold our interest throughout the preposterous plot twists and coiled story. He broods really well and she plays the damaged Beatrice in a chillingly psychotic manner. Howard is great, as always, even if the Aplhonse character is too dimwitted to realize Victor is the Hungarian he thought he killed. Don't mob bosses perform background checks on their new muscle? Yeesh. The intricate plot is thrown away during the finale to make way for a bombastic, outrageous action scene. I'm not complaining though - it kicks ass. Victor becomes a frothing, battering ram of violence. It's a scene that makes absolutely no sense at times but is admirable for its cavalier delivery. When I was walking out of the theater, I heard some guy complain about there were never any cops around in the movie. "He drives a truck into a house and nobody calls the cops?! C'mon!" I hate those types of viewers, man. Like they would really rather watch Farrell have a stand-off with the police for 30 minutes than see him dropkick Terrence Howard in the face. Anyways, Dead Man Down is a stylish, moody film with solid performances and a batshit climax. It sticks to a standard revenge thriller story, but breaks away to do it's own thing enough times to be interesting. If only the drab first hour was as entertaining as the last, we'd have a great movie on our hands instead of just a good one.


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Objectives: Very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants are dependent on parenteral nutrition after birth. A parenteral lipid emulsion with a multicomponent composition may improve growth and neurodevelopment and may prevent liver injury, which is often observed in association with long-term parenteral nutrition with pure soybean oil. Our aim was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a multicomponent lipid emulsion containing 30% soybean oil, 30% medium-chain triacylglycerol, 25% olive oil, and 15% fish oil compared with a conventional pure soybean oil emulsion in VLBW infants.
Methods: We conducted a double-blind randomized controlled trial in VLBW infants randomized to parenteral nutrition with the multicomponent (study group) or pure soybean oil emulsion (control group) from birth at a dose of 2 to 3 g · kg−1 · day−1 until the infants were receiving full enteral nutrition. We assessed efficacy by growth rates and measuring plasma fatty acid profiles (representative subset). Safety was evaluated by assessing hematologic and biochemical parameters, potentially harmful phytosterol concentrations (same subset), and clinical neonatal outcome parameters.
Results: Ninety-six infants were included (subsets n = 21). The multicomponent emulsion was associated with higher weight and head circumference z scores during admission. Plasma eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid concentrations were higher in the study group. The hematological, biochemical, and neonatal outcomes were not different between groups, whereas the plasma concentrations of phytosterols were higher in the control group.
Conclusions: The multicomponent lipid emulsion was well tolerated and associated with improved growth and higher plasma fatty acid profiles in VLBW infants in comparison with the pure soybean oil emulsion.
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Doctor Who Series 7 Part 1 (aka S7a) is released today on DVD and Blu-ray, right in time for Christmas! But should you buy it? Should you jot it down at the top of your Christmas list (or second, just behind that full-scale Dalek replica)?
Well, yes. Yes you should.
The fact is, this is a collection of episodes that gives a glimpse of what Doctor Who would look like on the big screen (regardless of the size of your TV set), offering a scale not seen in the series since Waters of Mars.
Matt Smith stars as the Eleventh Doctor, effortlessly treading that fine line between madman in a box and man-you-wouldn't-want-to-cross, while Karen Gillan is breathtaking in her final few episodes as Amy Pond. Take The Girl Who Waited, mix it with We'll Take Manhattan and throw in some Vincent and the Doctor and you'll get the mature, older take on the Pond. Criminally prone to be overlooked in some reviews is Arthur Darvill, whose Rory has delivered a dose of grounded humanity to the series since The Eleventh Hour.
Doctor Who Series 7 Part 1 is of course the story of Amy and Rory's departure, through five big, blockbuster-movie, standalone episodes featuring everything from Daleks to Dinosaurs, Cowboys to Angels and an alien with a grudge. An impressive array of guest stars has been assembled, including Mark Williams, David Bradley, Rupert Graves, Stephen Berkoff, Mike McShane, Ben Browder, Adrian Scarbourgh and Anamaria Marinca.
Collected together on disc 1, you'll find Asylum of the Daleks, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and A Town Called Mercy, presented with optional subtitles. The Power of Three and The Angels Take Manhattan follow on disc 2, along with the extras, which we'll get to below.
It's interesting how these episodes sit together as a single unit. A five hour viewing will bring you closer to the story than the weekly viewings can afford, and the various ups and downs of the episodes and their individual emotional hooks could quite easily leave you with your head buried in a pillow/box of tissues by the time the Doctor reads the final page of the Melody Malone book in The Angels Take Manhattan.
One wonders what effect Chris Chibnall's missing prologue P.S. would have had if included…
All in all, these are episodes that any fan of nuWho needs to own. Their presence in half a boxset (scheduled in time for the Christmas market), however, suggests a similar half-a-series release next year, as in 2011, alongside a full box of the run. If you're keen to avoid duplication, you may prefer to avoid these DVDs for a few months.
On disc 2 come the extras. Both editions feature the following:
Pond Life – an Ood for breakfast and various other surprises for Amy and Rory occur in this series of shorts, released online before Series 7 was broadcast. They're fun, quirky, and set the scene for the Pond's domestic harmony falling into tatters.
Asylum of the Daleks Prequel – the mysterious Darla von Karlsen lures the Doctor to Skaro. Released online by BBC America (to the chagrin of British fans) this is a great teaser for the main event (and of course, is misnamed: it's a preface or prologue if anything).
The Making of The Gunslinger – voiced by Adrian Scarborough (Kahler Jex) this short extra provides a video guide to the cybernisation of the Gunslinger and is directed by Neill Gorton.
Meanwhile the limited edition (that's the one with the Weeping Angels cover sleeve, and a poster, kids) also features a special extra.
The Science of Doctor Who – running to almost 45 minutes, this is the real special feature, including footage from the series to illustrate how science is used. Attempting to ground the show's science to anything currently possible or under research, it's an entertaining show featuring plenty of talking heads (including Steven Moffat). The Science of Doctor Who first aired on BBC America in the run up to Series 7a airing, and is presented here for the first time for British audiences.
Released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 29th, the Doctor Who Series 7 Part 1 boxset comes in two editions, the standard box and the Weeping Angels sleeve, which includes the extra detailed above.
All versions can be found on Amazon, with the DVD versions both priced at £17.99 and the Blu-ray editions priced at £20.99 and £24.70 for the special edition.
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Kittens and Puppies Meeting for First Time Is Epitome of Adorable
If there's one thing the internet loves more than cute dogs, it just may be cute cats. So, what happens when they meet? An explosion of cuteness is what happens.
If there's one thing the internet loves more than cute dogs, it just may be cute cats. So, what happens when they meet? An explosion of cuteness is what happens.
Is this what they mean by the dog days of summer?
Puppies are adorable. Puppies racing for food in slow motion? Even more adorable.
Four against one seems unfair in tug-o-war. But, this mom is determined to show her four offspring who's boss. So, who wins the battle?
There's a reason they call it March Madness and one of the reasons is the crazy way people pick the team that will win the championship. In this case, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon used puppies pick the national champion.
With the huge success of the movie 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,' it's only fitting that someone would come up with a less scary, let's say even cute, version of the movie using pug puppies.
In this incredibly cute commercial for McVitie's Original Digestives, there appears to be a confusing message for those not familiar with the product.
Puppies are just naturally adorable. Puppies learning to walk is not only adorable but funny, too.
Mick is a six week old Boston Terrier who was born with a disabling birth defect known as 'Swimmer Puppy Syndrome'. With some help from his human friends, Mick is learning to walk.
As dog owners, we often project human characteristics and emotions onto our canine companions. This video seems to prove that perhaps there may be some truth to that as this dog appears to carefully and respectfully bury another animal.


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New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Science and history are always interesting. You never know what new concept or fact you might discover when stepping into a building dedicated to the past and potential of the future. On your visit toAlbuquerque, you can find all of these things in the New Mexico Museum of National History and Science.
Within the walls of the building, there is something for everyone. Exhibits range from dinosaur fossils to amazing traveling exhibits, such as the Titanic artifact exhibit. Science includes bioscience collections, geoscience pieces, and even an informational section showing the history of volcanic activity inNew Mexico.
Don't forget to visit the planetarium as well for an education in stars, planets, and the universe. Guides will take you to different constellations, let you visit planets in our own solar system, and discover the wonder of the possibilities of new worlds out in the far reaches of space where life may currently be thriving – and perhaps even looking back at us!
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is open every day (except most major holidays) from 9 to 5. Admission prices will vary depending upon which venue you choose, as well as the age of the visitor. There are occasional free days, so be sure to check the museum's main page to pick the right day to visit, as well as see what events they may have in store. That way you get to see exactly what you want when you visit Albuquerque! Who knows what you might discover?
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About 7 million people around the world have a heart attack each year and heart diseases are the most common cause of death in Europe. A serious heart attack leaves behind damage that the body can never fully repair. Why can't the human heart heal itself, whilst some other parts of the body like the skin or blood are constantly renewed and repaired? Could stem cell research give us new ways to mend broken hearts?
On average, your heart muscle cells are around six years younger than you are. So our adult bodies must be making new heart cells.
A developing mouse heart; the cardiomyocytes can be identified using proteins on the surface of the cells (see below)
A developing mouse heart; red indicates a cardiomyocyte protein is present and green marks a protein found on certain cells in the inner most layer of the heart
A cardiomyocyte (heart muscle cell) obtained from stem cells and identified using a 'bar code' of proteins found on the surface of the cells
The heart is the first organ to form during development of the body. When an embryo is made up of only a very few cells, each cell can get the nutrients it needs directly from its surroundings. But as the cells divide and multiply to form a growing ball, it soon becomes impossible for nutrients to reach all the cells efficiently without help. The cells also produce waste that they need to get rid of. So the blood and circulatory system, powered by the heart, together form the first organ system to develop. They are essential to carry nutrients and waste around the embryo to keep its cells alive.
Throughout our lives, the heart continues carrying out the vital job of pumping blood around our body. But vast numbers of patients suffer from diseases that impair the heart's ability to do its job. Once damaged, the adult human heart cannot completely heal. This has led scientists to search for ways to replace damaged cells in the heart. They are looking for an alternative to the only replacement therapy available for heart disease today – heart transplantation.
In the early 2000s, research suggested that cells from the bone marrow might help repair the heart. Mouse bone marrow cells were transplanted into mice that were made to have a heart attack, or myocardial infarction. The results suggested that bone marrow cells could form new heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes (something that has since been proven wrong). Not surprisingly, the potential for a possible new solution to the enormous problem of heart disease meant these early findings were translated rapidly into clinical trials in humans.
The results from these clinical trials have been mixed: some have shown small improvements in the hearts of patients treated with bone marrow cells, while others found no improvement. The methods used to measure how well the heart is working have differed from one study to the next. While some studies have used modern state-of-the-art imaging technologies to evaluate how much blood the heart is pumping, others have used more old-fashioned imaging techniques based on radiology. These older radiological techniques can sometimes appear to show an increase in heart pumping even if in fact the heart just 'stiffens'. Overall, even the most successful clinical studies have failed to show an improvement in the heart that is better than using existing medicines.
The original research that suggested mouse bone marrow cells could turn into heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) after transplantation has since been proven wrong. The study looked for certain genes in the cells to identify cardiomyocytes in the heart as cells that were thought to have developed from the transplanted bone marrow cells. However, more recent research using different genes to identify the cells has given different results. It is now well established that bone marrow cells do not have the ability to convert into cardiomyocytes when transplanted into the heart. Instead, the bone marrow cells join together (fuse) with the existing cardiomyocytes in the heart. Clinical studies using bone marrow cells have nevertheless continued with the hope that these cells could have other positive effects on the heart.
For some time, scientists believed that the adult heart had no capacity to make new heart muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes, at all. Nuclear bomb tests changed that view. Nuclear bombs were tested above ground from the 1950s until 1963. The explosion of test bombs loaded up the atmosphere with a radioactive type of carbon called C-14. Archaeologists have been using this information for many years to calculate the age of once-living materials based on the amount of C-14 they contain. Biologists have now used this same 'carbon dating' technique to examine the age of cardiomyocytes in living people's hearts. They have found that on average the cardiomyocytes in an adult human individual are six years younger than the individual themselves. That means that our adult bodies must be making new cardiomyocytes.
Unfortunately, our body's production of new cardiomyocytes declines with age. In the first decades of our lives, about two percent of our cardiomyocytes are replaced every year, but by the time we are in our 70s only a fraction of one percent of the cells are being replaced. In other words, our heart's capacity to make new cardiomyocytes when we need them most, for example when we have a heart attack, is very limited.
The discovery that the adult heart does make new cardiomyocytes, although at a very low rate, has opened up a new field of research and created fresh hope that it may be possible to make a patient's damaged heart produce new cells to repair itself. Researchers are trying to find out where new cardiomyocytes come from, and to understand how production of these new cells is controlled in the healthy body. Several research groups have suggested that there might be heart stem cells in the adult heart that are making the new cardiomyocytes. However, there is no consensus amongst scientists about the identity of heart stem cells and their existence has not yet been confirmed.
Cardiomyocytes can be made in the lab from stem cells that are not found in the heart:
However, there are many challenges still to be addressed. For example, any beating heart cells transplanted into a patient's heart would need to beat with the rest of the heart. It is also vital to learn how to obtain ONLY the right cells for transplantation. Both embryonic stem cells and iPS cells are known as pluripotent – they can make all the different types of cell found in the body. Unfortunately, when these very unspecialized cells are transplanted into adult individuals, they tend to form tumours. It is therefore very important to be able to separate the pluripotent stem cells from the specialized cells they can produce, like cardiomyocytes. Only the cardiomyocytes should be transplanted into the patient. One strategy that can be used to pick out cardiomyocytes is to identify a unique combination of proteins that is always found on the surface of the cells, very much like a bar code. Methods like this for selecting a particular type of cell very accurately and reliably are an area of current research.
The future holds many questions and hopes. Will we be able to stimulate the heart to generate new muscle in adult patients without transplanting cells? Will we be able to make cardiomyocytes in the lab and select out specialized subtypes of cells for transplantation, for example pacemaker cells to generate biological pacemakers? How could these transplanted cells be made to work in concert with the patient's heart? To answer these questions and develop new therapies, more research is needed to understand the heart and the mechanisms that control the generation of new heart cells. For example, studies in zebrafish are providing new clues: the adult zebrafish heart has a remarkable capacity to regenerate (or repair). Recent research has also shown that the hearts of newly born mice can regenerate, but they lose this ability as the mouse matures. Current studies are investigating how this change in the ability of the heart to repair itself happens; an improved understanding of this process may eventually reveal new possibilities for treating patients by turning on the heart's own repair mechanisms.
This type of work to develop new cell- or regeneration-based therapies will take time. In the shorter term, researchers hope to use cardiomyocytes grown in the lab to test or identify new medicines for the heart.
EuroStemCell FAQ on heart disease and stem cells
Interview with Christine Mummery: A physicist's take on stem cell biology
Fact sheet on Regeneration: what does it mean and how does it work?
Image blog describing some recent research on zebra fish
How carbon dating works from How Stuff Works:
Heart Hub, from the American Heart Association
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA
World Health Organization (WHO) page on cardiovascular diseases
This factsheet was created by Stefan Jovinge, coordinator or the EC funded project CardioCell.
Cell images by Stefan Jovinge. Lead image of human heart by Gordon Museum/Wellcome Images. Nuclear testing photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office.


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Graduate Diploma of Rehabilitation
James Cook University (JCU)
James Cook University (JCU) is ranked among the top four per cent of higher education institutions worldwide*. A JCU education equips graduates with the knowledge, work-ready skills and networks for careers that make a difference.
Graduate Diploma
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Registered Australian Physiotherapist or completed an overseas recognised physiotherapy qualification
Course Description
Students will develop advanced assessment and clinical skills in the broad context of rehabilitation. The main areas of physiotherapy practice included are orthopaedics, neurology and cardio-respiratory physiotherapy across the lifespan.
Subjects you can Study
Occupational therapy; Physiotherapy; Speech pathology
Graduate Diploma
- External = 1 year
24 credit points of subjects
Entry Requirements
Registered Australian Physiotherapist or completed an overseas recognised physiotherapy qualification
Note: Completion of this program will not enable Australian registration of overseas qualified physiotherapists.
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Physiotherapists assess, treat and prevent disorders in human movement caused by injury and disease.
Rehabilitation Counsellor
Rehabilitation counsellors assist people with disability or medical conditions or who are experiencing social disadvantage to attain individual rehabilitation goals, including return to paid employment. They assist people with physical or psychological disabilities, refugees, ex-offenders, disadvantaged youth and those experiencing long-term unemployment.
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James Cook University (JCU) is committed to top-quality teaching, learning and research that delivers practical benefits to communities, industries and the global environment. Our students and researchers are equipped with skills and knowledge to meet the demands of the global workforce in the Tropics and throughout the world.
JCU's commitment to providing students with the skills needed to be job-ready is consistently rewarded with a five-out-of-five-star rating for 'Getting a Full-time job' (The Good Universities Guide, 2012 to 2016).
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JCU is ranked in the top two Australian universities and top 30 in the world in Environmental Sciences and Ecology (US News and Global Report Rankings 2016).
Flexible learning options
Students can choose an on-campus university lifestyle or many students choose to study online and externally, or a combination of both. Within the degree students also have the flexibility to enrol in a major from one discipline and obtain broader knowledge from taking electives from other JCU disciplines. For example, mixing creative media with electives from business.
Many students have the exciting opportunity to undertake part of their degree overseas .
Campus locations
JCU is a multi-campus institution with our main campuses located in the tropical cities of Cairns, Singapore and Townsville. There are smaller study centres in Mount Isa, Thursday Island and Mackay.
Fabulous facilities
Huge investments in university infrastructure ensure our students enjoy modern facilities, including technologically advanced lecture theatres that support teaching and learning, a dental clinic, a variety of wet and dry laboratories, a speech and language clinic, exercise physiology and movement analysis labs, a veterinary hospital, modern libraries, computer labs, a recording studio, a video production unit, a lighting studio, editing suites, art galleries and accommodation halls of residence.
Field work at amazing locations
JCU's access to the most spectacular and diverse natural laboratories in the world offer advantages to researchers and students that cannot be overstated. Field site environments for research on coral reefs, tropical rainforests, coastal wetlands, woodland savannahs and the arid outback are all available in our backyard. The university has working field research stations that many students visit for field trips, study or research, including Fletcherview Research Station, Orpheus Island Research Station, Paluma Rainforest Field Station, JCU Veterinary Teaching Resource Centre (Malanda) and Daintree Rainforest Observatory Research Facility.
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Georgia Langdon
Senior fisheries officer and data manager with the Ministry of Marine Resources in the Cook Islands
A few months after finishing her final exams, Georgia Langdon found herself in the Cook Islands, working in a role with the Ministry of Marine Resources.
'I was called a pearl biologist and I was based in an outer island of the Cooks in an atoll called Manihiki.'
Georgia says she fell in love with aquaculture because of its application to communities and societies around the world and the direct impact of aquaculture on people's lives is something she has seen firsthand in her role.
'I could see aquaculture had the ability to have an impact on people's lives for livelihood and income and food security.'
Georgia spent a year and a half in the role on Manihiki before moving to the department's offshore fisheries division as a senior fisheries officer and data manager.
'I'm in charge of the monitoring of catch and effort all our commercial fishing vessels; and reporting on that.'
The role has come with many travel opportunities, which has allowed Georgia to meet and collaborate with regional experts.
'Pacific fisheries is like one giant family, everyone knows each other, even though you live on one side of the Pacific to the other, but you get to know people who have been in this game for 20 years or more. There's just some incredible people that work in the region who can teach you great things and I really enjoy that part.'
She has also found the local people to be engaged in the work and projects she is involved with.
'Our community here in the Cook Islands are very passionate about their marine resources. The ocean is everything to these people and they're very much involved in the developments of the offshore fishery, which is really, really great.'
JCU's tropical focus is something Georgia says has helped her in her roles with the Ministry of Marine Resources.
'We have similar issues over here in terms of the things that coral reefs might suffer. We've got cyclones, we have bleaching, we have crown of thorns, all of those things that I learned about at university are here, so it was all familiar already, which was great.'
During her studies, Georgia says she was amazed that the people she was quoting in her assignments were the people teaching her at JCU.
'I'm quoting the experts in something or other and that's the guy who's standing in front of me, telling me about it. There are world expert people at JCU, why would you learn from anyone else when you can learn from them?'


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From Loretta to Laughter: Kaitlyn Dever on 'Last Man Standing'
Kaitlyn Dever wowed audiences when she played the headstrong Loretta McCready on FX's Justified, holding her own with Timothy Olyphant's Raylan Givens. Now she's doing something completely different: making us laugh as Eve Baxter, the youngest daughter of the Baxter family, on ABC's sitcom Last Man Standing. Kaitlyn recently chatted with BFTV about making the change from drama to comedy and what she's learned from her current gig.
"I had done comedy before in several TV roles and in the film Bad Teacher, so the switch to comedy wasn't new," she said of joining the Tim Allen-led show. "The challenge was that this was [my] first time working on a live audience multi-camera show. It's very fast-paced compared to film, and performing in front of an audience is almost like doing theatre. It's exciting!"
What attracted her to the series in the first place? "Having the chance to work with a comedy veteran like Tim Allen was enough for me," she explained, "but also the fact that this type of show was something I hadn't done before. I was really looking forward to the challenge.
"I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy," she added. "There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally."
Now that she's actually got the role, "It is a lot different than what I thought it might be!" Kaitlyn said. "I learn new things everyday! Because of the fact that it's shot in front of a live audience, I've learned to be more versatile and 'on my toes'. Sometimes, when a joke doesn't work in front of the audience, the writers come in with new lines and I have to be able to deliver them on the next take as if I've prepared them for weeks.
"Also, working with the other actors on the show and seeing the different methods that everyone uses when working on a scene has really taught me a lot as well."
"My character has definitely gone through some hilarious, unexpected changes this season," she continued. "I love all of the jokes the writers come up with. They are great at writing amazing material that works perfectly with Eve's dry sense of humor."
As for particular highlights, "I really liked our holiday episode this season. It turned out great! I think it's one of those great family sitcom episodes that are relatable to a lot of people," she said. "Also, we shot a fun 'western' episode where I get back to my Justified roots firing a gun. That should be airing in a few weeks."
While she's enjoying playing Eve, Kaitlyn still looks back on Loretta fondly, and recommends her Justified stint to anyone who wants to see more of her. "It's an unbelievably cool show with an amazing cast," she said. But TV's not all she's up to: "I also have some movies coming out soon - The Spectacular Now with Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller, and Short Term 12 with Brie Larson. They should check those out too! The Spectacular Now is premiering at Sundance Film Festival this year so I'm really excited."
You should also keep your ears open for her: Kaitlyn is a musician as well as an actress. "I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting," she said. "I've been writing some music and have recorded a couple cover songs with my sister that we're going to release soon."
Multi-talented, charismatic, and now bringing the laughter: one would imagine that Raylan would be proud with how Loretta's turned out.
Last Man Standing is new tonight at 8 PM ET/PT on ABC. You can also keep up with Kaitlyn on Twitter (@KaitlynDever).
For more from Brittany Frederick, visit my official website and follow me on Twitter (@tvbrittanyf).
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Ah, do you feel that? The trade wins are a blowin'. Fresh off a rehab start cut short by rain, Cliff Lee's name has begun to pop up in hypothetical trade scenarios. Lee's value is clouded by all sorts of variables: is his elbow OK? How much money will the Phillies eat? He has been traded as an elite starting pitcher three times and all three returns were horrendous, what gives?
Ok, the last statement isn't as much a variable as it is a matter of fact. Let's acknowledge the elephants in the room: in hindsight, and even at the times of the trades, Lee was traded three times for below-average talent. The Phillies acquired Lee for what amounted to a reserve infielder, a fourth starter, a back-up catcher, and a fireballing starter that missed a few years of professional baseball and just returned to pro ball this year. Then, the Phils dealt Lee to Seattle for what amounted to a control-challenged reliever, a really bad reliever, and an outfielder whose on the field and off the field issues were just too much to handle. Finally, Seattle dealt Lee to Texas for what amounted to a below-average first baseman, a fifth starter, and someone I would prefer not to acknowledge based on his transgressions.
Lee commanded those hauls at a time when his value was much higher: in 2009, Lee was coming off a Cy Young win and then was traded twice after winning four postseason games for the Phillies, including a complete game in Game 1 of the World Series. Lee was a much younger man, traded twice at 30, once at 31, and had no (recent) arm issues. Oh, and he was a lot cheaper. A lot, lot cheaper. The Phillies got Lee for a pro-rated $6 million and then dealt Lee while he was making only $9 million. Lee is now 35 and makes $25 million per year through 2015 with a $27.5 million dollar vesting option/$12.5 buyout in 2016. Yikes.
When doing a historical comparison for trading Burnett yesterday, I was able to find some deals to compare a hypothetical to and the results weren't pretty. At least I found them – a trade of a pitcher of Lee's caliber at Lee's price tag at Lee's age would be borderline unprecedented. The closest historical result I could find was the Dodgers trading a 39-year old Kevin Brown to the Yankees in December 2003. At the time of the trade, Brown had two years at $15+ million left on his deal. At the time, it was the seventh-largest per-year salary in the NL; Lee currently has the second largest. Brown had had some injury concerns in 2002 but bounced back and became an unexpected All-Star in 2003.
Brown was dealt from the Dodgers to the Yankees for Brandon Weeden, yes, the professional quarterback was a solid A-ball pitcher and former second round pick, along with 28-year old reclamation project Yhency Brazoban, who would not reach the Major Leagues with the Yankees, and former top pitching prospect Jeff Weaver, who at age 26, was about to be bumped up to a $6+ million deal in arbitration. In the end, the Dodgers essentially cleared $9 million in payroll for 2004 and a virtual $6 million in 2005 due to Weaver's arbitration raises. They received a well-regarded but underperforming young starter who was rapidly getting more expensive, a lottery ticket arm that did not pan out, and a reliever that never pitched for them.
The only other close comparison is the November 2003 deal that sent Curt Schilling to the Red Sox for Casey Fossum, Brandon Lyon, and Jorge De La Rosa but even this trade is much different. Sure, Schilling is one of Lee's top comparables through age 35 according to Baseball Reference but Schilling was making 33% less than Brown at a time when a $5 million difference was a lot and was certainly more durable. Fossum was already a fifth starter at age 26 when traded while Lyon showed some promise to be a closer of the future at a time when closers were overpriced. De La Rosa was traded two days later to Milwaukee where he became a fourth starter.
There have other comparable players traded, like when Mike Flanagan, a similar late bloomer to Lee, was dealt in 1987 for Jose Mesa but the similarities end at the player. Flanagan was making only $625 K, a fair salary but not among the Majors' most expensive, when he was dealt for the then-starter Jose Mesa. Mesa showed exceptional promise in the minors but a large reason the Orioles netted Mesa in return was because Flanagan was affordable. Similarly, John Candelaria, at age 35 and of similar ilk to Lee in his career to that point, was dealt in 1989 for Mike Blowers in a pretty fair trade but the Candy Man was only making $800 K for 1989 and on a one-year pact. The next year, Candelaria was dealt again at an even more affordable $500 K and netted the Twins Nelson Liriano and Pedro Munoz who both became steady ballplayers.
Unfortunately for the Phillies, there are no historical comparisons that quite line up to what they have with Lee on their hands and Lee has already been dealt three times without landing any sort of huge return. All three teams went for quantity over quality at times when each team had better options available. Historically, no player of Lee's cost, age, and injury history has been dealt but there have been instances where it has been close.
If I had to guess a hypothetical return for the Phillies, I would bet the Phillies would take on a bad contract in return plus they'd have to eat a large part of Lee's contract. After that step was complete, they would likely have to settle for an A-ball, non-top 100 arm and some sort of fringe team top-10 prospect from their trade partner's system. In a lot of ways, think of the return for Hunter Pence except amplify the money heading with Lee and think someone less well regarded than Tommy Joseph. At that point, is a trade even worth it?
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The more of Lee's salary that the Phillies pick up, the less of a historical comparison there is to be made. Lee's injury is the killer, I think he needs to finish the rest of the season pitching well and healthy and then traded over the winter.
Lee isn't helping the situation by stating that there still seems to be something different with his elbow even though he feels great and has no problems throwing. Who in his right mind is going to trade for a player who admits his elbow isn't normal? who's crazy enough to exchange a real prospect for a pitcher with an elbow that could be on the verge of disintegrating?
I agree that no one will be interested unless he shows that he can still pitch effectively over the entire remainder of the season. And at age 36, no other team will be taking a big chance by offering a really good prospect for him even if he's still pitching well at year's end.
This dude is much more optimistic: http://www.nj.com/phillies/index.ssf/2014/07/phillies_trade_rumors_cliff_lees_possible_landing_spots.html
I still think they need to wait until the offseason and pick up at least $30 million of the remaining $37.5 million (25 + 12.5 buyout) to get anything of value back.
Ian, The answer to your question as posed, is absolutely no in my mind. I think Scotty I. has the right idea. I think the best thing is to wait until fall after Lee can -hopefully- pitch a decent number of good games and prove his health. I understand that a part of his salary has to be paid, but I wouldn't trade him for a garbage/mediocre prospect. (again)
What about sending cliff back to Seattle, hopefully for a better return this time… They are playing good baseball and just spent a lot of money this offseason, if they're in win now mode and we eat some money, maybe we can get a deal done
I love Hamels, but he's probably the guy to move if you want a significant return: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/sports/phillies/Phillies-trade-deadline-preview-Cole-Hamels-Cliff-Lee-and-the-starting-pitching-market.html
I'm usually in lockstep with Murohy, but to not consider the Yankees as a major buyer for pitching after the injuries they've had?
Should have mentioned that McCarthy is hardly a replacement for CC. They'll need more to compete in that division.
…ever the antagonist, Missanelli wasted little time making small talk and lobbing softballs, and dove right into the hard-hitting questions.
"I gotta ask you straight up: how could you not have anticipated that these guys would play like this when all the statistics would indicate that they would play like this?"
That brief moment of clarity, however, was followed immediately by one of the more undignified portions of the interview.
"You're out of line because you're uninformed, Mike."
"Well, I look at the standings, and you're in last place, Ruben."
That was a great interview. Maybe Missanelli is an antagonist….but he was completely justified in boring into Ruben like he did. And Ruben, for his part, was completely out of line calling Missanelli "uninformed".
Great radio drama on a lazy, hot midday afternoon.
I agree. In fact, via the magic of replay, and the chance to digest it, I don't consider it drama, just a real pressing interview. And Ruben said some typically smooth, but stupid things. He's too hot to trot on older players and the ability to sustain.
Score a plus in Missanelli's column. Good pressure.
Ruben Amaro Jr. is in charge of managing all personnel involved with the Phillies, and therefore responsible for the mess the team finds itself in right now. He is also a public spokesman that has to answer any and all press inquiries, fair or not.
That said-
I don't like anything about that a-hole Missanelli, and most of the time he does spout off uninformed. Not this time, but most of the time.
I specifically had to go at him once when he insisted that Cole Hamels "people" told him that Hamels would not discuss his upcoming contract extension during the season. He wrote back to me, and told me I was an A-hole who knew nothing, and didn't have his sources. I told him I didn't need his sources because Hamels publicly stated that he/ his agent would discuss the extension during the season. Of course Hamels did eventually sign the extension during the season.
I don't like Amaro's performance in his job, I don't like Missanelli, period.
Yep, Missanelli IS uninformed (and woefully so compared to someone like Ian, for example), but he's usually entertaining, and that's his main objective.
Missanelli, in particular, was way off on Utley and Rollins.
Utley has been the 5th best 2B in MLB this year, and 2nd best in the NL.
Rollins has been the 8th bes SS in MLB this year, and 6th best in the NL.
Both have been "very productive".
The old guys are not the issue, and it's kind of baffling that that's what MM chose to pound on.
(other than Howard, clearly)
They both seem to be fading though. It's a long season.
Rollins OPS: April .710 May .800 June .643 July .468
Utley OPS: April .978 May .830 June .616 July .656
Mikey wasn't making a full year projection (wisely). Rollins at least is historically a second half player.
I think it will be prudent to keep at least one of these Aces around. Partly for the remaining fans enjoyment. I be honest i didnt think the Phils would be so bad. I thought Howard would have some thing of a bounce back year. Do we trust Rube handling a trade at this point. I think we have no choice.
If no decent offer comes in then hold on to him and if they wish trade in December or just keep Lee around.


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