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Watch Dinner: Impossible
Dinner: Impossible, from Food Network, follows celebrity chef Robert Irvine, and for one season guest chef Michael Symon, and their crews as they are sent to top secret destinations in order to set up a themed dinner in a limited amount of time. Neither Robert nor Michael are told in advance where they will be sent for the challenge, they only find out when they receive a Mission: Impossible themed kind of secret message. The message includes all of the information the chefs need to complete their task from the location of the meal, whom the meal is for and any special challenges that may be part of this particular mission.
While on the missions, Robert and Michael work with a number of seasoned sous chefs, including David Britton, Lee Lucier, George Galati and George Kralle, all of whom are very familiar with the hectic pace of preparing these special meals. In addition, Robert and Michael have some special guests who help out on certain missions from fellow Food Network celebrity Guy Fieri, to people who are less in the know regarding food preparations like students from the University of North Carolina, who help Robert and his crew with an especially hard dorm room challenge.
Robert and Michael are also thrown a number of curve balls after arriving at their Dinner: Impossible locations in regards to the menus and meals. Some examples of these curve balls are when Robert and his crew head to the headquarters of Ben & Jerry's and have to plan their whole menu around some of the company's craziest ice cream flavors. Another challenge, based on the television program Lost, finds Robert and his fellow chefs unable to cook on anything but the most basic of cooking surfaces. The chefs race around preparing a world class dinner as the timer counts them down towards success or failure.
Dinner: Impossible is a fun show that helps teach viewers the creative ways in which every day items can be used to create delicious meals that appeal to a wide variety of guests.
- Wednesday 10:00 PM et/pt on Food Network
- 8 Seasons, 77 Episodes - Canceled/Ended
- January 24, 2007
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Dinner: Impossible Full Episode Guide
- Episode 13 - Spring Training Tangle
Chef Robert must create a meal for the major and minor league Philadelphia Phillies baseball players.
- Episode 11 - Impossible: Caffeine Crash
Robert's mission is to make a meal using coffee or tea in every dish.
- Episode 8 - Impossible: Judgment Day
Robert divorces some tired food marriages and rematches them into new pairs.
- Episode 7 - Impossible: Speed Dating Downfall
Robert creates a date friendly meal for 100 speed daters.
- Episode 6 - Mission in the Mud
- Episode 5 - Impossible: Pirate Peril
- Episode 4 - Impossible: Ironman Obstacles
- Episode 3 - Impossible: Dorm Food Doom
- Episode 2 - Impossible: Boxed in: Terminal Troubl...
- Episode 13 - Robert And Guy's Holiday Havoc
- Episode 12 - Newseum: Museum Mayhem
- Episode 11 - WWE: A Mission on the Mat
- Episode 10 - Double Jeopardy
- Episode 9 - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Rock the Ch...
- Episode 8 - Sesame Street Scramble
- Episode 7 - Block Party
- Episode 6 - Ice Cream Meltdown
- Episode 5 - Food Court Fiasco
- Episode 4 - Feeding Frenzy at the Zoo
- Episode 3 - Amusement Park Adventure
- Episode 2 - Candy Catastrophe
- Episode 1 - Roller Derby Debacle


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Marvel's quest for total cinematic dominance at your local movie theater has had its risky moments, but with "Guardians of the Galaxy" we're seeing just how much cojones they have. Sure the idea of having several B-list superheroes like Iron Man, Thor and Captain America share a common movie universe was a brave move, as was making Robert Downey Jr. — an actor with a history of drug problems and bad behavior — the centerpiece of that campaign. And bringing that all together to pull off the genuine movie miracle that is "The Avengers" was no easy feat either (kudos to Joss Whedon).
But this? A movie about aliens, intergalactic warlords and bizarre creatures in deep space that features a talking raccoon with a bazooka and a giant tree monster that can say only one phrase? And it's directed by a guy whose biggest credits are "Super" and "Slither," two movies that almost nobody saw in theaters (including me)? To even make this movie, let alone spend the money required of a summer blockbuster these days, is an act of supreme confidence, deranged lunacy or some combination thereof. And yet, here we have it. It's a brave new movie world.
We've had screenshots and other bits of info about "Guardians" for months, but late Tuesday night saw the release of the first official trailer on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." For those of you who aren't perpetually tied to the geek/superhero movie ecosystem, here it is:
I'll admit it took me about three viewings to get on this movie's wavelength; it's so different from every other Marvel movie to date, let alone most other superhero movies. In fact, the most immediate reference point that came to mind was "Star Wars," followed by pre-J.J. Abrams "Star Trek" and the Vin Diesel "Riddick" movies. Once I got myself in the right frame of mind, though, I was pretty excited; we've been seeing variations on the same old thing in blockbusters for so long that something that's trying so hard to break the mold is really refreshing. A handful of impressions:
* As mentioned, this doesn't look like a "superhero" movie; what I mean by that even though "Guardians" is based on a Marvel comic, we're not seeing another movie about one guy who is special or unique in someway fighting to protect the innocent or whatever. This looks like straight-up sci-fi, with no "origin story," no training sequence, no "with great power comes great responsibility" and so on. It also doesn't appear that any of the Guardians is a "good guy," at least at first, though one expects that they'll find a reason to end up on the right side. This isn't a bad thing in and of itself, it's just noteworthy because Marvel hasn't done it before.
* This movie also looks like it's flipping the ratio in terms of action and comedy that we usually see in Marvel movies. All of the Marvel movies have had their moments of levity (this scene from "Iron Man," these two moments from "Thor," the "puny god" scene from "The Avengers," etc), but they're mostly action-comedies, with the emphasis primarily on the former rather than the latter. ("Captain America" is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the movie with the least laughs, but it never reaches the grim and gritty levels of "The Dark Knight" or "Man of Steel.") "Guardians," though, looks like it's going to mostly be a comedy with some action scenes thrown in. This can be seen in the trailer's first moments: After Star Lord grabs whatever that orb is, he's confronted by some bad guys who ask who he is, and it turns out Star Lord's not the "legendary outlaw" he believes himself to be. This tongue-in-cheek approach continues throughout the trailer. Taking a lighter approach is probably the right call here; again, we're talking about a movie with a talking raccoon named Rocket.
* Chris Pratt, fresh off the massive success of "The LEGO Movie" (which you need to go see if you haven't yet), looks right at home as the latest in a long line of roguish space captains dating back to Han Solo and Flash Gordon. In fact the whole cast looks pretty great, even if many of them don't actually look like themselves. I bet he'll prove a solid anchor amid all the crazy creatures and bizarre locales.
* Speaking of crazy creatures and exotic locales…from what we know so far it doesn't look like much, if any, of the action in "Guardians" takes place on Earth. This, too, is a good thing I think; this is a separate team from the more Earth-centric Avengers, so let's see them run amok all over the galaxy. All of the locations we see in the trailer look very vivid and detailed, as do the various aliens. After entirely too many "Earth in peril" plots in blockbusters (both of the J.J. Abrams "Star Trek" movies never got very far away from Earth, for instance), I'm excited to see what Marvel has dreamed up for audiences here.
* Last but not least, any movie or trailer that brings back Blue Swede's version of "Hooked on a Feeling" is all right by me. The song solidifies the infections fun and relaxed mood of the trailer. Whoever decided to use this song in the movie and trailer deserves a lot of credit.
"Guardians of the Galaxy" is currently slated for release on Aug. 1. Call me cautiously optimistic.

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On 31 July, 2012, a Global Environment Facility (GEF) grant in the amount of USD 3.3 million was endorsed by GEF's Chief Executive Officer to fund a new GEF and World Bank partnership - the Badia Ecosystem and Livelihoods Project (BELP), one of five projects under the Middle East and North Africa-Desert Ecosystems and Livelihoods Program (MENA-SELP). The project aims to enhance communities' capacity and provide them with the tools and opportunities necessary to improve socioeconomic circumstances in the long term. The project will be implemented by the National Centre for Agricultural Research and Extension (NCARE) over a four year period, from 2013 to 2017.
During the last 20 years, anthropogenic and natural forces as well as climate change have severely degraded the Badia's land and unique biodiversity. Most of its ecosystem services have been depleted, impoverishing the natural environment and negatively impacting the Bedouins' livelihoods. The BELP is designed to enhance the overall sustainability of the ecosystem and improve livelihoods by capitalizing on the region's natural and cultural assets, diversifying community income resources, implementing preservation and sustainable use of the natural and rangeland resources, and developing the capacity of the Badia people to use and conserve their resources consciously.
The project comprises three components and will focus on three major poverty pockets in the southern and northern Badia. The first component focuses on a 250 kilometer ecotourism corridor in the northern Badia, beginning in Al Azraq and ending in Burqu' in the east, as a means to enhance communities livelihoods and biodiversity conservation. The second component looks at piloting adapted sustainable community-based rangeland management and developing alternative livelihoods activities in the Al Jafr and Al Husseinieh sub-districts within the Ma'an Governorate in southern Badia, supporting three sub-components: (i) water harvesting, (ii) adaptive rangeland management, and (iii) alternative livelihoods. The third component seeks to establish an effective project management unit (PMU) capable of directing and supporting project implementation, liaising with stakeholders, carrying out monitoring and evaluation according to agreed indicators and conducting all fiduciary tasks. The project is closely linked to the Government of Jordan's vision for the Badia, which looks to reduce poverty and unemployment, and improve the living conditions of Badia communities.
GEF was established in 1991 and has worked with FAO since 1992. In the case of the BELP, FAO's Investment Centre Division has participated throughout all project preparation to appraisal and negotiations. The Investment Centre will continue to assist with the launch of the project and will provide implementation support services.
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The US: A Nation In Dire Need of Energy and Climate Policy
A new Harvard University study finds that world methane emissions have recently spiked, and that the US appears to be the site of most of the increase.
A new Harvard University study finds that world methane emissions have recently spiked, and that the US appears to be the site of most of the increase.
Over the weekend The New York Times published what could very well be the dumbest column Thomas Friedman has ever written.
•Here's Why The Carbon Regulations EPA Will Announce Monday Are So Important •A guide to Obama's new rules to cut carbon emissions from power plants •EPA unveils far-reaching climate plan targeting power plants •Obama's New Plan To Fight Climate Change Is A Really Big Deal
LNG exports have become a hot-button issue and enmeshed with the fate of an energy efficiency bill and a vote on approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Despite all the hype about our supposed 100-year reserve of natural gas our natural gas industry has not been doing very well of late.
If the US could supply Europe with large amounts of fuel, that would reduce the Continent's dependency on Russia while depriving Putin of needed revenues.
For nearly four decades, every American president has promoted alternative fuel vehicles as a way to secure the country's energy independence.
Historically high temperatures in recent years have been accompanied by droughts and extreme heat waves, more wildfires than usual, and several intense storms that caused power and fuel disruptions for millions of people. These trends are expected to continue, which could further impact …
The USA's Secretary of Energy, the Nobel Prizewinner Steven Chu, has decided to leave Washington and return to California. His thoughts about his past four years as Secretary of Energy were given in a letter to the employees of the Department of Energy. Before we look a little more closely …
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Liverpool's class act
Liverpool has hosted what is believed to be the first conference of a British university using a synagogue to train teachers in handling controversial religious issues.
The 48 trainee teachers from across the north west, who are studying for their PGCE at Liverpool Hope University, used Childwall Synagogue as a venue for part of a day conference. Trainee teachers observed pupils from five non-Jewish schools who were asked to confront religious identity issues at the synagogue.
The conference collaborated with the Religious Education Council, which specialises in a Government recognised project to boost RE teacher's ability to handle religious contention.
Childwall Synagogue's Avril Lewis, who co-ordinated the synagogue sessions, spoke on antisemitic abuse, attacks and marginalisation.
Conference organiser Joy Schmack, a senior lecturer in religious education at Liverpool Hope, said many of the teachers "had never been into a synagogue. Because Liverpool Hope trains teachers we want them to have the means to discuss contentious issues and challenge stereotypes."
Many of the teachers had never been in a synagogue
Joyce Miller, REC vice-chair, said the conference would become a model to be taken nationally. "This is the first time our project has done anything like this at a university. It was very unusual to have teacher training and a conference of pupils at the same time, we are hoping to have the same model replicated around the country."


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Efficacy of Seroquel SR in Combination With an Antidepressant in Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (ONYX)
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To evaluate the efficacy of quetiapine fumarate sustained release (Seroquel SR™) in combination with an antidepressant versus an antidepressant alone in patients with Major Depressive Disorder.
PLEASE NOTE: Seroquel SR and Seroquel XR refer to the same formulation. The SR designation was changed to XR after consultation with FDA.
Major Depressive Disorder
Drug: Quetiapine
Drug: Amitriptyline
Drug: Bupropion
Drug: Citalopram
Drug: Duloxetine
Drug: Escitalopram
Drug: Fluoxetine
Drug: Paroxetine
Drug: Sertraline
Drug: Venlafaxine
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|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Multi-Centre, Double-Blind, Randomised, Parallel-Group, Placebo-Controlled Phase III Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Quetiapine Fumarate Sustained Release (Seroquel SRTM) in Combination With an Antidepressant in the Treatment of Patients With Major Depressive Disorder With Inadequate Response to an Antidepressant Treatment
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- To evaluate the efficacy of quetiapine fumarate sustained release
- (Seroquel SR™) in combination with an antidepressant versus an antidepressant alone in patients with Major Depressive Disorder.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- If quetiapine SR in combination with an antidepressant improves health-related quality of life of patients with MDD, compared to an antidepressant alone.
|Study Start Date:
|May 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2007
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female aged 18 to 65 years
- A documented diagnosis of major depressive disorder
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with a DSM IV Axis I disorder other than MDD within 6 months of enrolment
- Patients with a diagnosis of DSM IV Axis II disorder which has a major impact on the patient's current psychiatric status
- Patients whose current episode of depression exceeds 12 months or is less than 4 weeks prior to enrolment
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00351910
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McIntyre RS, Gorwood P, Thase ME, Liss C, Desai D, Chen J, Bauer M. Early Symptom Improvement as a Predictor of Response to Extended Release Quetiapine in Major Depressive Disorder. J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2015 Dec;35(6):706-10. doi: 10.1097/JCP.0000000000000416.
Weisler R, Montgomery SA, Earley WR, Szamosi J, Eriksson H. Extended release quetiapine fumarate in patients with major depressive disorder: suicidality data from acute and maintenance studies. J Clin Psychiatry. 2014 May;75(5):520-7. doi: 10.4088/JCP.13m08624.
Weisler R, McIntyre RS, Bauer M. Extended-release quetiapine fumarate in the treatment of patients with major depressive disorder: adjunct therapy. Expert Rev Neurother. 2013 Nov;13(11):1183-200. doi: 10.1586/14737175.2013.846519. Review.
Bauer M, Demyttenaere K, El-Khalili N, Thase ME, Papakostas GI, Szamosi J, Earley WR, Eriksson H. Pooled analysis of adjunct extended-release quetiapine fumarate in patients with major depressive disorder according to ongoing SSRI or SNRI treatment. Int Clin Psychopharmacol. 2014 Jan;29(1):16-25. doi: 10.1097/YIC.0000000000000011.
Clayton AH, Locklear JC, Svedsäter H, McIntyre RS. Sexual functioning in patients with major depressive disorder in randomized placebo-controlled studies of extended release quetiapine fumarate. CNS Spectr. 2014 Apr;19(2):182-96. doi: 10.1017/S1092852913000631.
Bauer M, McIntyre RS, Szamosi J, Eriksson H. Evaluation of adjunct extended-release quetiapine fumarate on sleep disturbance and quality in patients with major depressive disorder and an inadequate response to on-going antidepressant therapy. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 2013 Sep;16(8):1755-65. doi: 10.1017/S146114571300031X.
Vieta E, Bauer M, Montgomery S, McIntyre RS, Szamosi J, Earley WR, Eriksson H. Pooled analysis of sustained response rates for extended release quetiapine fumarate as monotherapy or adjunct to antidepressant therapy in patients with major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord. 2013 Sep 5;150(2):639-43. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2013.01.052.
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|NCT00351910 History of Changes
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|D1448C00007 ONYX EUDRACT No: 2005-0055053-22
|Study First Received:
|July 12, 2006
|Last Updated:
|January 25, 2011
|Health Authority:
|Belgium: Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, FAMHP
Australia: Department of Health and Ageing Therapeutic Goods Administration
Czech Republic: State Institute for Drug Control
Finland: Finnish Medicines Agency
France: Afssaps - Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (Saint-Denis)
Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
Norway: Norwegian Medicines Agency
Poland: Ministry of Health
South Africa: Medicines Control Council
Sweden: Medical Products Agency
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Major Depressive Disorder
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Depressive Disorder
Depressive Disorder, Major
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Mood Disorders
Mental Disorders
Behavioral Symptoms
Duloxetine Hydrochloride
Venlafaxine Hydrochloride
Antidepressive Agents
Amitriptyline, perphenazine drug combination
Quetiapine Fumarate
Serotonin and Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitors
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Neurotransmitter Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Psychotropic Drugs
Dopamine Agents
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7/6: Around the Cubs Minor League System
Cubs minor league recaps for Friday July 6.
The AZL Cubs scored two runs in each of the first three innings and they continued to add beating the AZL Giants 10-3. Daniel Vogelbach only had one hit today, but made it count connecting on his third home run of the season. He was also the only Cub to drive in more than one run on the day. Timothy Saunders was 2-for-5 with a double, a run scored, and an RBI. Carlos Escobar had two doubles and drove in a run. Cubs also got RBI's from Justin Marra, Carlos Penalver, and Izaac Garsez. Ryan Hartman got his first win of the season in relief. He gave up two runs on five hits in 3.1 innings of work. Matt Ianazzo was outstanding in his two innings of relief as he struck out four in two scoreless innings.
Boise lost a tough one on Friday night falling to Tri-City 5-4. James Pugliese got the start and gave up three runs, two earned on six hits in five innins. Pete Levitt couldn't hold the lead giving up a run in the seventh. Michael Heesch then came on to strike out four in two scoreless innings. Bryce Shafer who has been really good for Boise gave up a run in the eleventh which proved to be the game winner. At the plate Jeimer Candelario was 2-for-5 with a double and a run scored. Chadd Krist was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Bijan Rademacher was 2-for-5 with double and an RBI. Wilson Contreras also had two hits and drove in two. It was a tough loss for the Hawks as they had a lead for most of the game.
Burlington scored two in an inning four different times to beat Peoria 8-3. Offensively Dustin Geiger stayed hot hitting his fourth home run in three days, he drove in two on the night. Taiwan Easterling had two hits, a run scored, and an RBI and Javier Baez was 2-for-4. Starling Peralta got the start and took the loss, but was let down by his defense giving up six runs, only two earned on four hits in five innings. Sheldon McDonald pitched well in relief striking out four in 2.1 innings of work.
Daytona had a nice win on Friday beating Dunedin 5-1. Matt Loosen got the start and very impressive improving his record to 7-3. He struck out 10 while only giving up three hits and allowing no runs in seven innings of work. Matt Spencer and Scott Weismann each pitched a scoreless inning in relief to preserve the win. At the plate the Cubs had some really special nights. Arismendy Alcantara was a single a way from the cycle. He ended the night 3-for-5 with two runs scored and two RBI's. Rubi Silva also was impressive going 4-for-5 with an RBI. Ronald Torreyes and Taylor Davis each drove in a run and John Andreoli had a triple and also scored a run.
Game one of the double header belonged to Eric Jokisch and the Smokies beating Jacksonville 5-1. Jokisch pitched six inning allowing one run on five hits while striking out two and walking one. Marcus Hatley threw a scoreless seventh to close the game out. Offensively Justin Bour and Michael Burgess each recorded a hit and two RBI's. Greg Rohan also drove in a run and scored one ending the game 1-for-3 with a double. Nelson Perez and Michael Brenly each had a hit and Brenley scored a run.
Game two was a different story as Jacksonville came out on top beating Tennessee 3-1. Nicholas Struck took the loss, but didn't pitch that bad as his defense let him down. He struck out six in five innings pitched and gave up three runs, only one earned in five innings. Tony Zych who struck out three and Frank Batista each pitched a scoreless frame. Offensively there wasn't too much to talk about Logan Watkins, James Adduci, Juan Apodaca, and Nate Samson were the only Smokies to recored hits. Apodaca drove in Adduci for the only Smokies run in game two.
Alfredo Amezaga played the part of the hero on Friday delilvering a base hit in the 11th inning to give Iowa a 5-4 win. The unsung hero's in this game were the bullpen. Casey Coleman got the start, but only lasted three innings and gave up three runs. Frankie De La Cruz pitched four solid innings of relief allowing no runs on three hits. Jay Jackson followed suit pitching a scoreless inning. Michael Bowden did blow the save, but was able to pitch a scoreless tenth and eleventh inning in route to his second win. Offensively Dave Sappelt was 2-for-5 with a double and two runs scored. Blake Lalli also had two hits including a double. Welington Castillo hit his third home run of the season and had two runs scored and two RBI's. Josh Vitters kept his average at the .300 mark going 1-for-3 with a double and a run scored. Adrian Cardenas also added a hit and an RBI on Friday. Brett Jackson missed his second game in row.
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7/1: Around the Cubs Minor League System
A look at the Cubs minor leaguers on Sunday, July 1.
The AZL Cubs held on to beat the AZL Athletics 9-7 on Sunday. Dan Vogelbach kept up his torrid pace going 4-for-5 with a triple, homer, two runs scored, and three RBI's. He is now hitting .471. Timothy Saunders had two more hits and and also drove in one run. His average now stands at .483. Carlos Escobar and Izaac Garsez each had two hits and a run scored on Sunday. Ben Carhart and Carlos Penalver each had an RBI in the victory. Nathan Dorris got the win pitching a scoreless inning in relief and Alvido Jimenez recorded his first save of the young season.
In a well pitched game Boise came up short losing 2-1 to Tri-City in ten innings. Rafael Diplan struggled with his comand walking three in .2 of an inning to take the loss. James Pugliese got the start and struck out five in four scoreless innings. Eduardo Orozco and Michael Heesch each pitched two scoreless inning on Sunday. Not much to talk about offensively in this one as Boise could only plate one. The lone RBI came off the bat of Dong-Yub Kim who was 2-for-4 with game-tying solo homer in the seventh. Jeimer Candelario and Chadd Krist continued their hot hitting as Candelario had two hits and Krist had three.
Starling Peralta pitched eight solid innings allowing three runs, two earned on four hits, but took the loss as Peoria lost to Kane County 7-2. As good as Peralta was Larry Suarez was not so good in relief giving up four runs in one inning of work. The offense didn't do much damage, but Taiwan Easterling was 3-for-3 and Dustin Geiger had two hits of his own. Chiefs got RBI's from Zeke DeVoss and Wes Darvill. Top prospect Javier Baez collected a hit and scored a run.
Matt Loosen and Daytona fell to Lakeland 5-3 on Sunday. Loosen started and gave up four runs, three earned in six innings pitched. A.J. Morris pitched well in relief striking out two in two innings of work. From an offensive standpoint Daytona couldn't get much done recording only four hits. Rebel Ridling was 2-for-3 with two doubles, a run scored, and an RBI. Matt Szczur also had a double, scored a run, and drove one in. The other Cubs hit came from Elieser Bonne and the other RBI came off the bat of John Andreoli.
Tennessee couldn't get much going at the plate and fell to Chattanooga 3-0. Nicholas Struck pitched well enough to win, but took the loss, giving up two runs, one earned in five innings pitched. Casey Harman and Casey Weathers each pitched in relief. Not too much excitement from the offense, but Justin Bour was 3-for-4 with two doubles. Nate Samson had two hits of his own and Jae-Hoon Ha and Juan Apodaca each had a hit on the night.
Iowa's frantic rally comes up short on Sunday dropping a high scoring game to Nashville 13-12. At one point the Cubs were down by nine runs headed to the sixth, but after scoring eight runs in three innings, they failed to score in the ninth. Offensively Iowa pounded out 16 hits and 12 runs. Adrian Cardenas and Josh Vitters each had three hits, including two doubles a piece, two runs scored, and an RBI. Blake Lalli also had three hits including a double, two runs scored, and three RBI's. Dave Sappelt hit his fourth home run of the year and Matt Tolbert drove in two runs and also two hits. Brett Jackson raised his average to .261 going 2-for-5 with a double, triple, two runs scored, and two RBI's. Frankie De La Cruz got the start and, but didn't last long giving up nine runs, seven earned in just 4.1 innings pitched. Jay Jackson threw another scoreless inning out of the bullpen and also struck two out. Michael Bowden struck out three in a scoreless inning.
A rough day for the Cubs minor leaguers dropping every game except the AZL.
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Full 2012 Cubs Draft Recap
That was a long three days for everyone involved, I will try to break it down to the best of my ability for you. It's obvious that the Cubs needed to fill their system with pitching depth and it appears that they did so.
The Cubs had 42 picks in this years draft, 40 round plus two compensation (or sandwhich) picks. In years past the draft has been 50 rounds, under the new CBA the rounds were reduced to 40. The breakdown of the 42 picks is as follows, 22 pitchers (18 RHP, 4 LHP), seven infielders, eight outfielders, and five catchers. Of those players 20 were college players, seven were junior college players, and the Cubs drafted 15 high school players.
Here's the full list…
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– George
Live Draft Blog; Round 2 – Round 15 Starts NOW!
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Cubs 2nd Round Pick (67th Overall) –
Underwood is everything you'd want from a high school pitcher: athletic with arm strength, a chance to have three at least Major League-average pitches and outstanding mound presence.The Georgia product will sit in the low 90s with his fastball typically, but he can reach back for 95-96 mph occasionally. His secondary offerings aren't as good as the fastball, but both his curve and changeup have a chance. When he throws them right, his curve can have a very good 12-to-6 late break and his changeup can be very deceptive.He doesn't throw either consistently right now and he does have some issues with command at times. His poise, knowledge of the game and athleticsm say he'll continue to evolve as a pitcher, meaning he could start moving up charts this spring. —Round 3 through Round 15 after the jump.


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Danilo Rea at Umbria Jazz 2014
"The melody is the king"
The 2014 edition of the Umbria Jazz Festival was, as always, a wild extravagance of music and an endurance sport. Every day for 10 days it began at noon (with dignified recitals in palazzos and undignified street parades down Corso Vannucci) and ended around 2 a.m. (when the last encore was played in Teatro Morlacchi). In this onslaught of music, two standout concerts involved Danilo Rea. In the United States he is a less familiar name than Stefano Bollani or Enrico Pieranunzi, but he is their peer as a pianist and he is a star in Italy.
One of the most popular groups in the history of Italian jazz was Doctor 3. It was Rea, bassist Enzo Pietropaoli and drummer Fabrizio Sferra. They made eight albums between 1998 and 2007, won many Italian awards and polls, then all went on to other projects. (Sferra, for example, joined Enrico Rava's quintet.) Doctor 3 was known for its bold incursions into pop/rock repertoire. They did it before the Bad Plus, and with a very different sensibility. Doctor 3 was the furthest thing from punk. Rea is a shameless romantic, albeit one with merciless ass-kicking chops.
The trio has just released a new album on the Jando label (Doctor 3), and on the second day of the Umbria festival they played a reunion concert in the Morlacchi. Doctor 3 likes to string together tunes in twos and threes, including older pieces from the American and Italian songbooks. "How Deep Is Your Love" might become "Cheek to Cheek." In its freedom and lushness, a Doctor 3 performance feels a little like a Keith Jarrett solo concert, but with songs long embedded in the audience's collective memory coalescing out of the improvisational stream. In the Morlacchi they played pieces from the new album. "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" and "Moon River" contained only fragments of the songs, and so much more than the songs, yet were sincere acknowledgements of Carole King and Henry Mancini. Among the great adventurous piano improvisers in jazz, Rea is the most devoted to melodicism. "The Nearness of You" and "Unchained Melody" were dead slow and rapt, relinquished almost reluctantly, in suspenseful hesitations. But some songs hit hard, like "Ain't No Sunshine," where Pietropaoli and Sferra set the hook deep.
In conversation after the show, Rea, in his imperfect but expressive English, said, "In the beginning I worried because Doctor 3 was something different, playing melodically but improvising. But I remember that when we played Town Hall in New York in 2001, people were very emotioned by the trio. It's totally improvised and we never play exactly the melody but the melody is king."
On the last afternoon of the festival, Rea also participated in the "Omaggio ad Armando Trovajoli," featuring a very capable orchestra from Rome led by Dino and Franco Piana. Enrico Pieranunzi, Enrico Rava and Roberto Gatto were also guests. Trovajoli was a composer of film scores and musicals who died at 95 in 2013. Most of the songs were extroverted big-band celebrations, like "Jazz Prelude" and "Sette Uomini d'Oro." Elegant Trovajoli melodies were spread across the sections of the orchestra. Only a couple of moody, atmospheric pieces were explicitly cinematic. The best was "Filumena Marturano," from Trovajoli's score for Marriage Italian Style, named for Sophia Loren's character. It was like a smear of wistfulness and yearning. Alto saxophonist Ferruccio Corsi took a plangent solo that sounded understandably awed by Filumena/Sophia.
The 19-member band often roared with one voice, yet the most powerful performance in the "Omaggio" was Danilo Rea's solo feature, "Roma Nun Fa' La Stupida Stasera." It is a Trovajoli love song, fervent with hope still unfulfilled. Rea's rendering was all about contrast: darkness and light, tumultuous bass chords and delicate tremolos, headlong force spilling free into lyricism.
But Rea's single most memorable moment came in the Doctor 3 concert. There are few songs better suited to his sense of the dramatic, his lover's touch on the keyboard, than Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." In Rea's hands, "Hallelujah," that clutch of bittersweet intimate memory, was devastating. A hush fell over the Morlacchi. Everyone stopped breathing because they were very emotioned.
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Even back in the 1950's, when the American youth culture first began to rebel against the mainstream society, Disney was on the cutting edge of what the kids wanted. Back when Disneyland first opened, they put out a booklet to encourage the children, the youth and even some adults to rebel against the status quo…well, temporarily, anyway. Temporary rebellion was something Disney could handle, something that screamed individuality but that could be washed off before going back to a status quo existence.
At one point in Disneyland early years, an entire booklet of Disneyland-theme temporary tattoos was up for sale. Why this no longer exists is anyone's guess. I'm guessing it was fear of hippies dousing temporary tattoos with LSD in the 1960's that was to blame for the death of this souvenir, but no one really knows.
Look closely at the characters. A grinning Goofy has his sleeves rolled up as though he's about to try his first sweet taste of that Disney tattoo. Beware, Goofy, the first one is always free. Donald remains somewhat anonymous behind a wall as his chipmunk minions hand over what is to be Goofy's first step into getting hooked on the tattoo craze. Also, read the front cover closely and you'll see that it was approved by the Dept. of Agriculture. So, the even the Eisenhower administration was supportive of the temporary rebellion being marketed by Disney.
Yup, even the marketing men at Disneyland were able to predict that someday tattoos and rebellion would both be iconically represented by turn-of-the-century automobiles and double-decker buses. So, yes, it is safe to say that much of the counter-culture of today has carriages, trains and wooden Indians to thank for its very existence.
This nonsensical mish-mash contains everything from trains, animals and an angry native that resembles Lionel Ritchie to a cannon being fired (presumably at an invasion from the cannibalistic Ritchie tribe). NOTE – At no point in Disneyland's history has there ever been a moment when they employed working armory, so not sure what that tattoo is really trying to convey.
This glimpse into the future of 1985 is a real eye opener into the atomic world of tomorrow. Not only will there be motorized boats (wow!), but also giant squids attempting to strangle themselves every chance they get, roads that go in circles and what appears to be convertible space rockets (gravity is for suckers). Oh, and missiles. Lots of missiles. The Red Scare will be very much alive in the future, so we will be responding to threats with annihilatory retaliation.
This booklet is actually pretty charming and is something I would purchase regularly if it were still made available at the many gift shops that fill Disneyland. This is but a dream. *sigh*
If you want a temporary Disney tattoo, you're out of luck. However, real ones are just a tattoo parlor away. So, if you wanna be more like George Reiger, the Disney Tattoo Guy, save up your money and get yourself tattooed into Walt Disney's personal billboard.
Apparently, the ladies love it.


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Wouldn't help here, but it's a useful fact anyway.and that can then construct a diffeo from RP^3 to SO(3)
As u say! But the followingWell clearly SO(3) is a subset of R^6, so need show the identity map from SO(3) into R^6 is an embedding
can't be done, as SO(3) as vectors, is contained in R^9. We must show three dimensions vanish.Here it seems that one could just add zeros to the vectors in SO(3), but this must be too simple.
We prove the embedding in the following steps:
Note that all rotations leave a line fixed (Euler's theorem). This is a nice fact, but irrelevant here
(ii) All elements of can be written as , .
Actually, the x's in the previous relation are related, so call this relation .
Apply the standard matrix operations to to get a matrix of the form . Here are 3x1 vectors, with entries to and to respectively.
The operation is a diffeomorphism between SO(3) and . (Ok, this is long, but at least it's not difficult)
(iii) can be embedded in .
For this, we show that the differential of the inclusion map has maximum rank (=6 here) everywhere.
Consider Then for ,
where is the 6x6 unitary matrix. So has matrix for all , and thus has rank 6.


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November 28, 2007
"We'll see"
I have several friends, Tom Elliott, Philip Klein and particularly Charlie Prince spring to mind, who are huge Giuliani fans and have been for some time.
I am too, I've detailed it before, but I have struggled to find a different candidate to support for the presidency for all the reasons I've outlined on this site previously (starting with my feeling that we'll end up with McCain if Giuliani seems like he'll win the nomination).
I settled on Fred Thompson because he fit in so many ways. A true conservative, well-spoken, and a man with presence, ideas and enthusiasm. Except it turned out that the last one, well, not so much.
I'm still hoping Fred can turn things around but it's not looking too good and I admit that. That doesn't seem to be enough for Charlie, who sent me an extensively researched email which shows that Fred's numbers are too low to turn around in time and that I should give up hope. Here's the money part:
Now, as you know, I am a big proponent of the theory that this year, with so many polls moved up to Feb. 5th, early states and the South play a far smaller role than they have in the past. I think it is increasingly becoming like a general election in that the bigger states carry far more weight (CA, FL, NY, OH, PA, etc.). And this is where Thompson has really not made much of a dent at all, presumably because he had to pick his battles. Polls show Fred trailing with gaps in excess of 20% behind the front-runners in California and Pennsylvania, and in other key states (Ohio, Michigan, etc.) he is normally about 15% behind. Arguably a key win in early states NH and IO might generate a surge to give a candidate enough momentum to be competitive in overcoming a 15% gap in the polls in other states, but that only helps Romney, as, again, Thompson hovers in or near last place in IO and NH, so a 15-20% gap in the larger states is almost certainly insurmountable.
Perhaps worst of all, his momentum is actually negative, as he had been gaining ground (capping out at around 14-15% in states like PA in June and July, but since has slipped to a consistent 10-11% in recent months). And in turn Huckabee and especially Romney have gained momentum, as the press will increasingly focus on them the closer we get to the polls in the early states where Romney leads. Ominously, some head-to-head pollsters are no longer bothering to poll Thompson at all.
So, in conclusion, I present you with the obvious: I boldly declared it in February, I wrote definitively about it on your site in April, I have hammered it home throughout the summer and fall, and now, moments away from Thanksgiving, I feel obliged to once again point out the giant elephant in the room that gets larger by the day.
You know too much about politics to continue to ignore these facts. I admire enthusiasm and positive thinking as much as the next guy, but with where we are today in the primary cycle, I demand a reality check. This email is a gauntlet. Think of this as a subpoena on political wishful thinking. You run a successful political website, you are an influential figure in NY GOP circles, you are ranked as one of the top 40 under 40 politicos in NY, and as a result, you cannot stick your head in the sand — you have an obligation to face the music and acknowledge it loud and clear in all those circles in which you travel (as they say in Pulp Fiction): "[Fr]ed's dead, baby, [Fr]ed's dead".
And he's right. Fred's team is now hoping for third in Iowa which isn't too inspiring. I'm readying myself to let go of Fred. I'm just not there yet.
Fred's plans have been getting great press and my overlord Allahpundit writes: "He should stick to the "true conservative" stuff and start hitting the fact that while Rudy and Mitt are throwing punches and Huckabee's chattering about faith, he's rolling out one policy proposal after another."
The truth is, I remain wed to the belief that Fred is the guy. He's the one that can win both the primary and the general election and do it on true conservative positions. I'll let go of this, I promise, as soon as a few results roll in and prove me wrong. Here's what I want from my Giuliani-fan friends in return: if McCain has some upset in either NH or Iowa, I want all of you Giuliani people to admit at that time that McCain's surge will be due to the fact that Republican primary voters just won't vote for a pro-choice, anti-gun, ex-Mayor of New Yawk. They will be choosing McCain as a direct reaction to Giuliani. They will be worrying about Romney or Huckabee in the general and they will find McCain to be conservative enough to support in both. If you don't believe me, believe Patrick Ruffini who writes "This is going to sound crazy, but I've got a simple message for my friends in the Rudy, Mitt, Fred, and Huck camps: watch your backs for John McCain."
If Giuliani walks away with the nomination, you won't find a bigger supporter than me. I will cheerlead for him like no ones business. I will go door to door. I will write glowing posts and tell you all stories about a pre-Giuliani New York that was practically a warzone. He is the man, he will be my man, just not yet.
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The point where Fred lost it was when he couldn't even be decisive about an official announcement. Dude, you're running for President of the United States, someone who has their finger on the button which makes nations go *poof!*. If you can't even figure out what day you're going to start your campaign, how're you going to figure out whether or not someone needs to be presented with a multi-kiloton gift after supporting a terrorist attack on a major city? How're you going to steer something to fix Social Security through Congress? The list goes on.
Bottom Line: The Presidency is like a Nationwide commercial: "It comes at you fast." Fred gave no indication that he was prepared for the job, and having a Senatorial resume, conservative credentials, a Hollywood career, and a smoking hot, uber-intelligent driven wife will only get you so far…like third in Iowa.
Fred is teh gay!Posted by: BJ at November 28, 2007 at 2:59 pm
1. How can Thompson be "the guy" if he doesn't have the enthusiasm? Without the will to win, it doesn't matter what else he has in his favor. (But this makes me wish he was viable: http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010918)
2. Why should anyone "admit" that a hypothetical McCain victory in Iowa or New Hampshire comes in response to Giuliani? Why wouldn't it come in response to Romney, who happens to be leading in both of those states? He has spoken in favor of abortion rights, gay rights; some of those Republican primary voters you describe could object to his religion.
3. Giuliani will get a boost from Hillary in that if she wins Iowa, Republicans will start contemplating the best way to beat her nationwide, and — true or not — he's perceived as her strongest opponent. That's the "direct reaction" Giuliani can count on.
Fred Thompson is far and away the best candidate. He is the only one on either side actually offer plans on the issues. He is the only true conservative in the field, fiscally and socially.
Unfortunately, he can't get a fair shake from the media. They've spent the past two months doing everything they can to tear the guy down. If you listen to what he has to say, his answers are the most thought out, the most logical, and make the most sense to move our country forward.
On top of that, he's the only candidate who actually tells you exactly how he feels. He's not a flip-flopper like Romney, the Huckster, and Billary.
Alright, that's progress. If you think McCain still has a chance, clearly the general concept of "polls are not meaningless" hasn't sunk in yet, but I'll gratefully accept "readying myself to let go of Fred" as a big step in the right direction for now. Btw, as if to help Karol along in her decision, Fred hit a new low today in NH clocking in at only 2% support in a new Suffolk poll (which puts him in 6th of 6, with Ron Paul having 4x the support that Thompson has!!!). 2% has to be pretty close to the amount that any candidate will get simply from the percentage of people that accidentally press the wrong number on their phones.
As for McCain, in all seriousness, Thompson has a much better shot (which is still none) of winning the nomination at this point than McCain does. For starters, I note that a new poll was released last week for Arizona that shows McCain is actually projected to narrowly lose HIS OWN STATE. Which must be really frustrating for him, seeing as that was the only state he had a lead in. And, to beat the dead horse, you could of course point out that he has no shot at picking up momentum from the early states, as he has only a pathetic 4% support in the latest Iowa poll (behind Ron Paul at 5%), and is in a dead-heat for coming in 5th in South Carolina. Is it good news for him that he's in approx. 3rd place in NH, falling 17% behind the front-runner?
He has no momentum, his fundraising numbers have consistently made headlines in how low they are, he has no base of poll support anywhere (in the Southwest not only is he at risk of losing his own state primary, he has a total of only 8% support in neighboring NV!). He is not at all competitive in the South (in GA, Thompson has 333% more support!) or the Northeast (where Giuliani has 3 to 4x the support McCain has). In large swing states, (PA, Oh, etc.) he has usually half to a third of the support of the front-runner. In other words, not only does he not lead anywhere, he is not close to leading anywhere except his home state of AZ (which he is actually losing). Seriously, think for a moment how lethal that fact is. It's incredible.
So, yes, needless to say I will gladly accept your challenge re: a McCain upset, flying elephants, alchemy or any other similar proposal.
PS: I note today's topical LA Times article "No Buildup in Support for McCain".
If Fred worked 20 hours a day, the media would say "what is he doing with the other four hours in the day?"
Even those being less than dishonest are making the negative claims about his work ethic and his enthusisasm level into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Cut it out and let him participate.
Why do we have to choose from this insipid field of candidates?
I don't see any reason why we should accept some sort of substandard nominee just because the Dems choose to. This mentality is what got us Dole, Ford, Bush, Nixon, etc., etc., ad nauseam.
Giuliani as governor, or Solicitor General? Fine. McCain as Sec'y of the DoD? Splendid. Romney as head of the RNC? No problem. But I don't see why anyone should feel compelled to vote them into the White House.
The fact is that there's a huge, disgruntled swath of the electorate that will rally behind some independent candidacy next year. Why not preempt them by nominating someone who is a Republican that they can actually stomach?
I don't care if it's Palin, or Steele, or Petraeus, but someone needs to get this conversation started.
I personally don't have a problem voting for Fred Thompson-he's the most tolerable "viable" candidate I see on Republican side-but I don't see how he can craft a compelling meta-narrative that will sway millions of voters who are already firmly ensconced-or drifting towards-the enemy camp.
Notwithstanding the puerile attention given to his wife's appearance by the NYT Style section-and the occasional sophomoric jibe by that gibbering idiot Joe Scarborough-how exactly is the media out to get Fred Thompson?
Hope is Emo: Presidential Edition
Karol– To start, I don't share quite the same level of contempt for McCain that you do. But even if I did, I think it's a stretch to say his nomination would be "a direct reaction to Giuliani." If anything, I think Giuliani's presence in the race has hurt McCain, because it has split the vote among moderate, national security voters concerned with electability. If Romney or Thompson were able to close the deal as the across-the-board conservatives, or if Huckabee weren't so liberal on economic issues, McCain would be stopped regardless of Giuliani. As for Thompson, I think Fredheads are in denial if they blame the media for his problems. I've seen him speak at a number of conservative forums, and he's completely underwhelming. This isn't based on my personal opinion, but based on talking to audience members after the events–many of whom were predisposed to Thompson to begin with, who found him low energy. He simply isn't working very hard, and has been hardly campaigning. His rivals often pack more events into a day than he does in a week. He may have rolled out policy proposals in the past few weeks that he deserves credit for, but his rivals have been rolling out proposals on health care, energy, immigration, etc. for months. The man is at 2 percent in New Hampshire, behind Ron Paul. I just don't see it happening for him.Posted by: Philip Klein at November 28, 2007 at 5:25 pm
I think the substandard nominee question could be a threat on its own. Seriously. I'm not excited (well, fine, Hillary excites me, but in a "Can I afford the second mortgage to buy Dick Cheney's undisclosed location?"-sorta way) about anyone in this race on either side.
This is the best that a nation of 300 million can do?
Have to agree with Charlie on this. If you watch recent news coverage, Thompson is only mentioned, if at all, as a footnote in discussions of the Republican candidates. The darling of the "true conservatives" seems to be Huckabee, rather than Thompson. And because of this, I predict that Huckabee is likely to be the V.P. candidate under Giuliani. I also predict Karol will be a solid Giuliani fan by this weekend.Posted by: LJ at November 28, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Fred simply has failed to meet up to expecations since he was being billed as the GOP savior. He looks like a big time flop to say the least. Come to think of it, he has not offered any rationale for why he is running which is pretty amazing when one considers his opponents. This comes from someone who thinks Thompson is the best of the big 4 in the GOP field.
There is no bloody way I would ever vote for a supporter of partial birth abortion and sodomite marriage like Rudy. I suspect this next month will see a lot of mud being thrown his way and today's Politico story is just the tip of the iceberg. Ah, the taxpayers were being tapped for adulterous flings in the Hamptons. We went after Bill Clinton for a lot less mortal an offense not that long ago.
I know, I know. We have to stop Hillary. The Grand Old Party comrade. Kind of getting hard to make out the pigs from the humans down on Animal Farm.
I think you hit the nail on the head, i.e. would any of these folks have a snowball's chance if the dreaded Hill-monster wasn't looming on the horizon?
I hope GOPers don't wake up with buyer's remorse after the primaries because quicker than you can say, "Ross Perot" movement, you'll have another Clinton get into the White House thanks to a third party candidate.
The debate between you and your friend seems to be about whether other people are going to vote for him or not. That's quite a bit different from the question of whether or not you personally will vote for him. I decided to vote for him, and Funkypundit, I don't see how whether or not the candidate is viable should affect one's primary vote … since it's the primary vote that decides whether or not he's viable. Unless you are saying by "viable" that the apparent lack of will to win (and I wouldn't say I agree) would mean he would lack the will to govern effectively.Posted by: Anwyn at November 29, 2007 at 1:36 pm
This campaign began way too early and things quickly change, with the exception of Thompson all the other candidates are running like Rabbits however, at the end of the story I recall that the Hare won.
For example, Huckabee on Nov 28 was taking off like a rocket…today Dec 5 his rocket is about to crash.


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Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the influence of prior heavy- and severe-intensity exercise on the oxygen uptake (V˙O2) kinetics and the power-duration relationship.
Methods: Ten cyclists performed 13 exercise tests during a 4-wk period, consisting of a ramp test to determine the gas exchange threshold (GET) and the peak V˙O2, followed by a series of square-wave tests to exhaustion under three conditions: no prior exercise (control), prior heavy exercise (6 min at a work rate above GET but below critical power [CP)], and prior severe exercise (6 min at a work rate above the CP). Pulmonary gas exchange was measured throughout the exhaustive exercise bouts and the parameters of the power-duration relationship (CP and the curvature constant, W′) were determined from the linear work-time model.
Results: Prior heavy exercise increased the amplitude of the primary V˙O2 response (by ∼0.19 ± 0.28 L·min−1, P = 0.001), reduced the V˙O2 slow component trajectory (by 0.04 ± 0.09 L·min−2, P = 0.002), and increased the time to exhaustion (by ∼52 ± 92 s, P = 0.005). The CP was unchanged (control vs prior heavy: 284 ± 47 vs 283 ± 44 W; 95% confidence interval, −7 to 5 W), whereas the W′ was increased by heavy-intensity priming (16.0 ± 4.8 vs 18.7 ± 4.8 kJ; 95% confidence interval, 0.3-5.2 kJ). Severe-intensity exercise had a similar effect on the V˙O2 kinetics but had no effect on the time to exhaustion, the CP (275 ± 45 W), or the W′ (16.7 ± 4.7 kJ).
Conclusions: Prior heavy-intensity exercise primes the V˙O2 kinetics and increases the amount of work that can be performed above the CP.
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By Ed Rippy, 9/23/05
"Conspiracy theories"—a term of derision applied indiscriminately to any and all claims that our government might be working dishonestly, illegally, against us, the people. Some of these claims are wacko—but many others are supported by such mountains of evidence that it is insane to deny them. Let's take a few examples.
First is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In 2000 Robert Stinnett published the results of seventeen years of research, supported by thousands of government documents and interviews. There is no longer any doubt that the US Government deliberately provoked the Japanese attack and ensured its success by clearing the path for the Japanese fleet, curtailing reconnaissance flights that would have discovered the fleet steaming toward Pearl Harbor, and holding up crucial intelligence reports to the naval commander there.
Stung by these rude revelations of the truth, the National Security Agency has been feverishly removing relevant documents from public archives.
Then there's the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: in a civil trial in 1999, a Memphis jury found that agents of the City of Memphis, the State of Tennessee, and the US Government conspired, in league with New Orleans mobsters, to do away with King because he was bringing together civil rights issues, antiwar issues, and economic justice issues. King was calling for a general strike in Memphis and a Poor Peoples' March on Washington. (The government and the Mafia were already on cozy terms, with military spooks stealing weapons from the armories and handing them off to the dockside thugs for sale. Military Intel used its half of the take for covert ops.)
In 1985 a Miami civil jury found that old CIA hands Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt, among others, conspired to assassinate President Kennedy (the key witness, Marita Lorenz, had traveled with them to Dallas but had gotten cold feet and left). The right-wing newspaper Spotlight had published an article alleging Hunt's involvement and he had sued, winning the first trial, but the Spotlight's publisher won on appeal.
Another giant conspiracy—actually admitted by the US Government—is the CIA's protection of its allies' cocaine smuggling in the 1980s. The late Gary Webb's groundbreaking series in the San Jose Mercury News detailing this conspiracy caused such an outcry that the CIA Inspector General (IG) investigated.
In his official report he said that the Agency had cut a deal with the Justice Department relieving it (the Agency) of its duty to report drug dealing by its allies. The report also included two cables from the Drug Enforcement Administration promising to leave the CIA's friends alone. Cables from CIA Headquarters warned a Central American station not to ask "assets" too many questions about drug smuggling.
These are only a few of the worst examples with the best documentation. They show clearly that the US Government (or elements of it) will resort to conspiracy when it sees the need. Those who deride all conspiracy theories as such are simply out of touch with reality. Rational thinkers will examine the evidence and see how a given theory fits with known conspiracies. (Here we do not mean a theory of history, i.e. that conspiracies fundamentally drive history, but that they are historically significant along with many other things.)
Given this background, claims that elements of the US Government permitted, abetted, or even instigated the 9-11 attacks take on a new color. It is not so much an individual censored story as an entire frame for reporting that has been censored. We do not (yet) have government admissions or jury verdicts regarding them. We do have several FBI whistleblower accounts of investigations into al Qaeda being shut down and investigative reports of multiple military exercises that drew fighter jets away from New York on the fateful day. Other investigative reports conclude that Mohammed Atta (the "lead hijacker") had been in the US months before the government says he was (and the FBI is still trying to cover this up!) Even the "mainstream" press has reported that the war on Afghanistan had been planned months before 9-11, that the US told the Taliban through back channels that they were going to attack, and that other countries' intelligence agencies had sent our government at least two dozen warnings.
There's more, much more. We cannot treat either 9-11 or the historical context of US government conspiracies in any depth here; it would take volumes. But from the available evidence, we can see that not only individual stories but an entire interpretive frame needs to be dragged into the light.
1. Robert B. Stinnett.
Day of Deceit
(New York: Touchstone Press 2000), xiiif, 144f, 149-152, 292-296.
2. Robert B. Stinnett. "The Pearl Harbor Deception."
The Independent Institute Newsroom
12/2/02 (
3. William F. Pepper.
An Act of State
(London: Verso Press 2003), 6ff, 76, 96, 107ff, 148.
4. Mark Lane.
Plausible Denial
(New York: Thunder's Mouth Press 1991), 1, 296, 303.
5. Gary Webb.
Dark Alliance
(New York: Seven Stories Press 1998), 470.
6. Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General.
ALLEGATIONS OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CIA AND THE CONTRAS IN COCAINE TRAFFICKING TO THE UNITED STATES Vol II
); for a guide to the deeply-buried key passages, see the author's Guns and Drugs: The CIA's Admissions (
7. Greg Palast, "Has someone been sitting on the FBI?" Transcript of BBC
11/6/01 (
); James Vicini,
Agent Complains FBI Covered Up Moussaoui Case
, Reuters 5/24/02 (
); see also James Risen and Davis Johnston, "Agent Complaints Lead FBI Director to Ask for Inquiry,"
The New York Times
5/23/02 (
); John Solomon,
Agent: FBI Rewrote Moussaoui Request,
Associated Press 5/25/02 (
); James Risen, "FBI Agent Says Superior Altered Report, Foiling Inquiry,"
The New York Times
5/25/02 (
); Judicial Watch,
News Conference With Robert Wright
5/30/02 (
8. Mike Ruppert.
Crossing the Rubicon
(Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers 2004), 336ff.
9. Daniel Hopsicker. "FBI Cover-up of Mohamed Atta's Last Days."
4/18/02 (
10. George Arney,
US 'planned attack on Taleban'
US planned for attack on
5/16/02 (
); Michael Elliott, "They Had a Plan,"
8/4/02 (
11. Jonathan Steele, Ewen MacAskill, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ed Harriman, "Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack"
The Guardian
12. David Ray Griffin.
The New Pearl Harbor
(Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press 2004), 68ff.


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Friday, November 7, 2008
I vaguely remember my mom seeing one of the dogs rubbing themselves on the couch in the living room and complaining "Why can't I have nice things?" And my thoughts as a child went something like, "Why would you want nice things?" If things are too nice, you can't live in them. Hence my bedroom that I shared with my older sister was plastered with pictures torn from magazines. We wrote on our walls and ceilings. There was a hole in the drywall by the door from a fight I had with my older brother, and another hole by the bed where my sister and I did flips off our bunkbeds.
Now that I'm about to have my fifth child, my fourth boy, I am coming to terms with the fact that my house will never be clean, will never have perfectly white walls, clean counters, or toilets that don't smell like pee. It was actually sort of liberating when I found out this child would be a boy because I felt a physical sense of relief about housekeeping: I can give up that fight. I was counting on having another girl to maintain the order in our house, though when I remember the room I shared with my sister it becomes clear how absurd my hopes were.
I am now joining the refrain with my mother, "Why can't I have nice things?" when I see the banister that has been hung on one too many times starting to break free of the wall. Kids do not make for a designer home. Keeping things sanitary has become my goal in housekeeping, not keeping things beautiful. And now that bending over to clean those dark corners of the bathroom has become physically impossible for this pregnant body, even sanitation is suffering.
There was a great line in "A Thousand Acres" about how when the power grid came to the rural areas, all the farmers' wives did not say, "Look how bright things are!" They said, "Look how dirty things are!" I'm going to comfort myself through these next few weeks, and as long as necessary after that with the thought that people survived before they knew how dirty their houses were.
7 comments:
- Sara said...
You may not have the best furniture, but you'll have a very happy family!!
- November 7, 2008 at 6:40 PM
- JenX67 said...
I neeeded to hear this today. I worry way too much about having a clean house. My son goes to peeing and half the time doesn't hold his wee, and then there's the pee, running down the wall. I'm like, "YOU HAVE TO HOLD IT! NOW YOU HAVE TO SHAKE THE PEE OFF OF IT." I take a deep breath and wonder if I'm damaging his future manhood, and maybe pee on the wall isn't the worst thing that can happen to us.
I had no idea you were pregnant. That makes that video that much harder to endure. Oh, how I remember the pain of bending over. Be well and take care of yourself, Betty. You are in my prayers tonight.
- November 7, 2008 at 10:15 PM
- Emily said...
Okay, Sister, you are giving boys a bad rap. Just have to clarify here: it was your knee through the wall, pushed in a tussle with me, not your brother (although does that make for a better story?) And I think it was your foot that went through the cheap door as I held it shut. My version of the story goes that most of the detritus around the house that Mom railed about was deposited by you and me; although army guys and legos occasionally littered the floor, most of the boy stuff stayed upstairs. And we all know that our Little Brother is by far the neatest person in the family, (even if he did pee in cups). But it is true that the boys' bathroom smelled far worse than the girls'. Dan just uprooted our toilet while touching up the bathroom and the entire wax ring had been melted away by urine (some of that, though, came through the crack between the seat and the stool when little girls sat there to pee.)Guess you'll just have to get busy trying to conceive a girl after Duffy is born. Try early in the cycle.
- November 9, 2008 at 7:23 AM
- Betty Duffy said...
Actually, sister, hole in door was most definitely from Seth when I was eavesdropping on his phone conversations and he busted door to unplug phone from our wall. Hole in wall by bed was from my butt doing a flip. And yes, you're right, hole in drywall by door was one of our knees. Major damage was done on carpet and wood floors by dogs, but the boys...
1. remember the light under the boys' bathroom always leaking water from their shower?
2. Seth's room was NEVER clean.
3. Warm milk on the counter, always. (this was possibly Dad)
4. I'm just saying the boys didn't do chores. You and I always did the dishes, the dusting, the sweeping. What did they do?
And you're right, the rest of the mess was ours.
Girls are dirty too.
- November 9, 2008 at 5:02 PM
- Kate said...
John was the neatest one?!?!? You guys are gross.
- November 9, 2008 at 6:38 PM
- Kate said...
p.s. It's only up to girls to do chores if you choose to assign them thusly. So, Eliz, instead of lamenting the weener in your womb as the final nail in your fight for sanitation and order, why don't you make your boys do chores?
- November 9, 2008 at 8:19 PM
- Betty Duffy said...
OK, so I do make the kids do chores, even the boys. I think it's the pee thing that bugs me most about boys (and I count my husband among them).
- November 9, 2008 at 8:45 PM


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An eerie kind of quiet enveloped St. Joseph's Catholic School on Jan. 21. Classrooms were empty and not a young voice pierced the stillness.
Contrast the lack of sound at the campus on Bonham Street with the exuberance occurring simultaneously at the Discovery Center. There, 129 St. Joseph's students discovered the joys of hands-on science projects, space explorations and robotic dinosaurs.
Surrounded by sensory overload, one St. Joseph's third-grader saw the ultimate appeal in the daylong field trip.
"No homework!" said Sarah Wilting, 9.
The Discovery Center had need to decorate its "Dinosaurs Alive!" exhibit with greenery to enhance the visual appeal, said executive director Ganesh Gampat.
"One of our employees brought us the idea of some kind of contest with one of the local schools and offer an incentive," he said.
Andrea Rojas, the Discovery Center's weekend manager, suggested St. Joseph's because two of her sisters have children enrolled - Carla Plischke, whose son Sean is a kindergartner at St. Joseph's; and Elena Whiteside, whose daughter Alexandra, is a fourth-grader.
"We love the partnership with schools," Gampat said.
The Discovery Center's executive director told school officials that if the children could collect about 200 silk plants to help flesh out the "Dinosaurs Alive!" exhibits, he would throw open the doors to the center.
"We had a lofty expectation of about 100 pieces," Gampat said.
Well, the prospect of a free day at the Discovery Center fired up the children, said St. Joseph's Assistant Principal Geri Russell.
"We made it a competition between classes," she said.
From Montessori through fifth grade, the students brought in silk plants.
"Some went to Michael's and Wal-Mart," Russell said. "And some were brought from home."
Vanessa Carreon, 9, said her mother bought the plant she contributed to the exhibit, "but I don't know where she got it."
Whilting, a third-grader, said her mom bought her contribution to the greenery of the triceratops exhibit from a dollar store.
St. Joseph's school officials gave the students a goal of 200 plants, but they could not bring in just any plants, Gampat said. They had to be credible for the exhibit.
"We had some examples of vines and also asked for smaller types of trees and moss," he said.
When the collection competition ended right before the break for the Christmas holiday, St. Joseph's students had amassed 283 plants for the dinosaur exhibit, and Gampat made good on his promise of a free day. The reward was valued at about $600, he said, which included admission, activity guides and education classes.
To transport the entire school to the Discovery Center, the lone school bus had to make three trips, Russell said.
Putting up with transportation delays failed to wilt the enthusiasm of the students, who took in all the Discovery Center had to offer. The dinosaur exhibit drew the most scrutiny, because some of the students could find their contribution, "and the dinosaurs make noise and they move," said Lexi Gomez, 8.
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Spring is here, and that means there's a laundry list of stuff to do that's a mile long to prepare for our gardens and clean up after winter. Here's another thing to add to that list: buy yourself a decent pair of pruners this spring and it will make your vegetable harvesting, flower picking, and woody plant pruning life a lot easier for you and a lot healthier for your plants.
There are four main reasons why you'd want to prune your plants:
Restricting the growth of plants is sometimes necessary, especially in cases when trees or shrubs are planted in locations that are too small for their mature size. But some perennials and vegetable plants, like zucchini, also benefit from some size-motivated pruning. Hedges also require special attention to form and shape control.
Plant health is enhanced and ensured with proper pruning. It's important to prune out any dead, diseased, or dying branches or foliage that might carry disease or otherwise steal nutrients away from healthy growth (be sure to sanitize your pruners after pruning diseased plants with a spritz of bleach water). This is true for woody plants (trees and shrubs), and herbaceous plants (flowers, herbs, vegetables, etc.) alike.
Plant quality is enhanced with proper pruning, too. More is not necessarily better, as is the case for perennial flowers like roses, and more. Pruning out smaller, weaker flowers allows that energy to go towards supporting larger, healthier flowers. This is better for the plant and better for enjoyment. The same holds true for fruits and vegetables; pruning out those suckers on tomato plants, for instance, allows for healthier and more robust fruit production.
Pruning plants when they are young encourages proper form as they mature. In other words, plants can benefit from being trained early on to grow where we want them to; doing so when the plants are young eliminates problems later. This is especially true for woody plants, and for special cases like espaliers, proper pruning is indispensable.
But pruning needs to be done with the proper tools, or you risk injuring the plant and creating a situation that encourages disease. There are two basic kinds of pruners available: bypass pruners and anvil pruners. Bypass pruners should be the only kind of pruner you purchase, and here's why:
Anvil pruners act like an ax or a knife, where there is a single flat surface upon which a blade lands and cuts. The problem is this only works well if the blade is perfectly sharp, and in gardening situations it is very difficult to keep a blade sharp enough on an anvil-style pruner. The duller the blade gets (which doesn't take long), the harsher the cut is to the plant. Cuts become more rough and stems can be smashed more than cut cleanly. Even if you don't see it, it's happening. Ragged, unclean cuts heal more slowly and leave the plant open to higher rates of disease.
In contrast, bypass pruners act more like a pair of scissors, where the curved blade slices by another curved blade or base. The blade stays sharp much longer than with anvil pruners, and even when the blade does begin to dull, the bypass action in itself ensures a cleaner cut for the plant. Bypass pruners produce consistently cleaner, closer, better cuts.
My favorite bypass pruners come from Felco. While they are expensive, running up to $50 for a pair of pruners, they will last a lifetime. I've had my Felco pruners for a few decades now, and beyond replacing a blade that just couldn't be sharpened any more, my pair is indestructible.


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The foliage of vinca plants is dark green and leathery looking. Vinca plants bear single blooms with five petals that frequently touch or overlap. Many varieties feature a contrasting eye. If you haven't included vincas in your garden for a while, you should check out the expanded colour palette that now includes blooms in every shade of the pink, rose, and lilac spectrum. Peach and white flowers are also available.
Common name: bigleaf periwinkle, large periwinkle, greater periwinkle and blue periwinkle
Color: Blue, Multicolor, Orange, Pink, Purple, White, Yellow
Bloom time: summer
Height: Height: 4-6" Width: 3-5
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Vinca or Periwinkle is a prolific heat and drought tolerant annual, perfect for hot, dry areas. It s easy to grow, and requires little or no attention. A grower once reported that he has grown Vinca in the same location for 30 years. It successfully reseeded itself each year, with no effort on his part.
The plants are grown for its attractive glossy, green foliage, as well as its flowers. Flowers bloom all summer, and up to frost. Common colours include white, rose, pink, and red.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: 4 to 6+ hours
Soil: Clay, Moist, Sandy
Water: Water thoroughly.
Fertilizer: Fertilize vincas every two weeks with a balanced flower fertilizer to help these performers keep up the blooming momentum.
- Vinca is drought tolerant, but if you notice the leaves start to curl, it's time for a drink.
- Vincas are free-flowering and self-cleaning, and no dead-heading is necessary.
- Fertilize vincas every two weeks with a balanced flower fertilizer to help these performers keep up the blooming momentum.
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