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Location: Hard Winter Wheat Genetics ResearchTitle: Genic and non-genic contributions to natural variation of quantitative traits in maize Author
|Li, Xianran
|Zhu, Chengsong
|Yeh, Cheng-ting
|Wu, Wei
|Takacs, Elizabeth
|Petsch, Katherine
|Tian, Feng
|Bai, Guihua
|Buckler, Edward - Ed
|Muehlbauer, Gary
|Timmermans, Marja C. P.
|Scanlon, Michael
|Schnable, Patrick
|Yu, Jianming
Submitted to: Genome Research
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/15/2012
Publication Date: 6/14/2012
Publication URL: http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2012/06/14/gr.140277.112.abstract
Citation: Li, X., Zhu, C., Yeh, C., Wu, W., Takacs, E.M., Petsch, K.A., Tian, F., Bai, G., Buckler Iv, E.S., Muehlbauer, G.J., Timmermans, M., Scanlon, M.J., Schnable, P.S., Yu, J. 2012. Genic and non-genic contributions to natural variation of quantitative traits in maize. Genome Research. 22:2436-2444. Interpretive Summary: Many important traits in crop species are quantitative traits and are controlled by many genes with minor effects. The complex genomes of these crop species are major challenges to understand the genetic control of these traits. Here we conducted whole genome scans of quantitative traits to identify trait-associated DNA point mutations and assessed their genomic distribution in maize. The point mutations collectively explained 44 to 59% of the total variation across maize quantitative traits, and 79% of the explained variation could be attributed to mutations located in genes or within upstream promotor regions. Focusing on those regions is a cost-effective approach to study quantitative traits in the species with complex genomes.
Technical Abstract: The complex genomes of many economically important crops present tremendous challenges to understand the genetic control of many quantitative traits with great importance in crop production, adaptation, and evolution. Advances in genomic technology need to be integrated with strategic genetic design and novel perspectives to break new ground. Complementary to individual-gene targeted research, which remains challenging, a global assessment of the genomic distribution of trait-associated SNPs (TASs) discovered from genome scans of quantitative traits can provide insights into the genetic architecture and contribute to the design of future studies. Here we report the first systematic tabulation of the relative contribution of different genomic regions to quantitative trait variation in maize. We found that TASs were enriched in the non-genic regions, particularly within a 5 kb window upstream of genes, which highlights the importance of polymorphisms regulating gene expression in shaping the natural variation. Consistent with these findings, TASs collectively explained 44~59% of the total phenotypic variation across maize quantitative traits, and on average, 79% of the explained variation could be attributed to TASs located in genes or within 5 kb upstream of genes, which together comprise only 13% of the genome. Our findings suggest efficient, cost-effective GWAS in species with complex genomes can focus on genic and promoter regions.


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In Every Marriage There's a Tradeoff — What's Yours?
We all take some bad with the good, in any relationship, right?
-Melissa Chapman, www.marriedmysugardaddy.com
I love my "sugar daddy" — madly, desperately and passionately. But I realize now, at almost 38, something I didn't really consider at 25 when I was marrying a 40-year-old man: this age difference will be a factor, simply because no matter how young at heart we feel, the physical body is its own beast that ages (and dies just a little) every day.
That's right — my husband is 53, aka, he's eligible for AARP and most of his friends have kids who have already graduated college and some who are even getting married. He's middle-aged, and while when I look at him and his graying temples and the deepening furrows in his brow, I love him all the more. But, physically he is not on par with that of a 38-year-old man (or woman). He just doesn't have the energy that I do, and while I've never felt our dramatic 15-year age difference before, recently I have started to, and it just makes me wistful (and wonder how my life would be different had I married someone my own age).
Don't get me wrong — the man is in really good shape. He goes running every day and even takes cholesterol medicine (sheesh my husband takes cholesterol medicine!). He can run circles around me during the day, but when the clock strikes 6 p.m. he's ready for bed (yes, he's an Early Bird Special enthusiast) and, well, I'm not. Getting him to go out and party into the wee hours of 10 p.m. on a weekend night, well, it's a struggle to say the least. I know it's not that he doesn't want to — rather his internal clock just doesn't work well at that time in the evening. At almost almost 38, mine is RARING to go.
But I get it. This is my marital tradeoff: I married someone older because he possessed a maturity level that I simply couldn't find in someone my own age. (When I got married at 25, my husband, who was 40, was still good to go after 10 p.m.!) I married someone who was ready to settle down and start a family and be as hands-on a father as I could possibly hope for.
I don't regret my decision at all. I know it's part of my path, and I love my husband … I just wish every once in a while he could stay up past 10 p.m.!
So, what's your marital tradeoff?!
Melissa Chapman blogs about her marriage and everything in between at http://www.marriedmysugardaddy.com/. Her work has appeared in The Staten Island Advance, Care.com, ABC News, BlogHer, Baby Center, Momtourage, Lifetime Moms, Babble, The Washington Post, Time Out NY Kids and iVillage.

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Effect of Lactulose on Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy and Health-Related Quality of Life
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Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) has a negative effect on patients' daily functioning. No study has so far investigated the effect of treatment related improvement in cognitive functions on health related quality-of-life (HRQOL). This study was carried out to determine the influence of treatment on psychomotor performance and on HRQOL in patients with MHE.
The mean number of abnormal NP tests decreased significantly in patients in treated group compared with patients in untreated group MANOVA for time and treatment, P =.001). Mean total SIP score improved among patients in the treated group after 3 months compared with patients in untreated group after 3 months (MANOVA for time and treatment, P=.002). Improvement in HRQOL was related to the improvement in psychometry. In conclusion, treatment with lactulose improves both cognitive functions and HRQOL in cirrhotic patients with MHE.
|Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy Hepatic Encephalopathy
|Drug: Lactulose
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Improvement in minimal hepatic encephalopathy and health related quality of life
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2004
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2004
The study has been published in March 2007 in Hepatology
Lactulose Improves Cognitive Functions and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Cirrhosis WhoHave Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy.Srinivasa Prasad, Radha K. Dhiman, Ajay Duseja, Yogesh K. Chawla, Arpita Sharma, and Ritesh Agarwal. (HEPATOLOGY 2007;45:549-559.)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- All the patients diagnosed as having cirrhosis of liver
Exclusion Criteria:
- Overt HE or a history of overt HE;
- History of recent (< 6 weeks) alcohol intake;
- Infection, recent (< 6 weeks) antibiotic use or gastrointestinal bleeding;
- History of recent (< 6 weeks) use of drugs affecting psychometric
- Performances like benzodiazepens, antiepileptics, psychotropic drugs;
- History of shunt surgery or transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for portal hypertension;
- Electrolyte imbalance;
- Renal impairment;
- Presence of hepatocellular carcinoma;
- Severe medical problems such as congestive heart failure, pulmonary disease, neurological or psychiatric disorder, etc., that could influence quality-of-life measurement;
- Inability to perform NP tests and to complete the SIP questionnaire due to bad vision.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00375375
|Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
|Chandigarh, UT, India, 160012
|Principal Investigator:
|Radha K Dhiman, MD,DM, FACG
|Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh-160012, India
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00375375 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
Minimal hepatic encephalopathy
|Study First Received:
|September 12, 2006
|Last Updated:
|March 1, 2007
Keywords provided by Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research:
Minimal hepatic encephalopathy
Hepatic encephalopathy
Subclinical hepatic encephalopathy
Health related quality of life
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatic Encephalopathy
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Liver Failure
Hepatic Insufficiency
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Brain Diseases, Metabolic
Metabolic Diseases
Gastrointestinal Agents
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Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake reunited with their Friends With Benefits director Will Gluck this morning at a photo call atop Moscow's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The trio were together last night as well, hitting a red carpet for their Russian premiere. Mila wore white Elie Saab for the screening, and that color was her pick today, too. The overseas press tour comes after a grueling month of promotions for Justin, Will, and Mila in the US. Justin was able to break from the duties over the weekend to chat up In Time at Comic-Con. Mila will likewise need to take a break soon, as she'll be needed on the set of Oz: The Great and Powerful. Justin, however, hopes to work with Will again soon. Justin said of Will Gluck, "We will make plenty of movies together. . . . You feel great being in a movie like this when your director wants you to succeed in every way. He wants to see the guys relate to you, and the girls fall in love with you."
Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake Pictures in Moscow
Justin Timberlake Poses With Mila Kunis and Talks Up His Director Friend Will Gluck
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Yesterday afternoon, Facebook held its first earnings call with Wall Street analysts to discuss its second quarter results. There's plenty of discussion on the Internet about the actual results so I won't rehash them here, but during the Q&A there were a few questions that alluded to Facebook's future that I found interesting. As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about social commerce, I found the discussion between by Lauren Martin, equity analyst at Needham & Company, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sheryl Sandberg the most fascinating part of the conference call. I've posted a portion of the transcript for you to read but the point I found interesting is that Facebook is approaching each industry (advertising, gaming, music, media, and commerce) in a unique way that will require a nuanced approach in the business model and user experience. They key phrase that Mark highlights is how "more nuanced experiences will become social." It's unclear exactly how this will translate to commerce but philosophically, I agree with his approach. Facebook, and the industry in general, will need to continue to experiment to uncover this nuanced approach to commerce in social.
(Transcript provided by SeekingAlpha)
Laura A. Martin – Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division
A couple for Mark. So Mark, we've been writing a lot about the optionality or the option value of the Facebook platform globally. And I guess, I'm really interested outside the visible revenue streams, which today are payments in advertising. Could you talk through how you're thinking about commerce on this platform? And also video, because video is one of the most shared things, as you know. As we think about over the next 3 to 5 years other revenue streams, how do you think philosophically about what Facebook could become over a longer period of time in terms of revenue streams?
Mark Zuckerberg
Sure. Well, the basic approach that we have for now is we're building out this platform and other companies can build on top of that. And you can view our business as an advertising and payments business or you could view it as there will be these companies that help to transform these industries, and we will get some portion of the value that comes from that, that we're helping to provide, right? So in gaming, for example, we think that we're helping to provide a lot of the value, so we end up getting a relatively high percentage of the revenue that comes into those companies. Whereas in something like music or some of the media companies that are now getting built using Open Graph, I think we aren't providing quite as much of the percentage of the value as with games, so the overall amount of the revenue that comes to Facebook through, whether whatever the breakdown of ads and payments is, I think, will be somewhat less. But a lot of people will do that stuff, too. So I think the real way to think about this is that over time, more and more nuanced experiences will become social. So gaming is such a basic thing that people want to do with their friends, so even with a relatively basic platform, people could build that ecosystem out. Some of the media stuff required more nuance. I think commerce will require a little more and so on. But as these things get built out, I think we'll build out the tools to both enable those products to get built and to be able to capture some percentage of the value that we're helping to create. But I mean, I don't really have any more plans that I'm going to share with you today about our product roadmap or anything like that.
Sheryl K. Sandberg
One thing to think about in the commerce area or in other areas like video is that our view of the world is things become increasingly social. And that takes time. Gaming was obviously first. But people are informed when they purchase things by their friends, and the commerce companies that are really adopting social are seeing good responses. Fab is one of them. Fab is very early on in its history, but it's a truly social shopping experience. And they're seeing near 20% to 40% of their traffic from Facebook on a daily basis, as well as a very good return on their investment on ads that their CEO has been talking about publicly. We look out at what people's shopping behaviors are. And so much of them really — so much of their shopping behaviors really are social, that we think there's a big opportunity for the social context that we offer to be a major part of how people discover products.


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This is part of the Pokémon Diamond/Pearl Walkthrough, with the following locations: Valor Lakefront, Route 213, Pastoria City, Great Marsh, Route 212 and Trophy Garden.
Valor Lakefront
- Main article: Valor Lakefront
Valor Lakefront is found between Route 214 and Route 213. This map is the entrance to the Lake Valor, and also a luxury resort with a Seven Star Restaurant.
If you first visited here from Veilstone City and heading to Pastoria City, there is no important events here, so head to Route 213 now. However, you will be required to return here later in your journey.
Lake Valor Blocked
Two men stand at the entrance of Lake Valor. You cannot access the lake. But you will have to return here when you completed most of your journey.
Route 222 Is a No-Go
A man stops you from going to Route 222. He explains that Sunyshore City, where this route leads to, is experiencing a major blackout. As a result, this route is closed.
After you complete most of your journey, this route will be open. Pokémon found at this route are above Level 40.
Suspicious Galactic
The Galactic runs away from you again at Route 213. This time he is tired beat. When you talked to him near the restaurant, he called you a pest and then ran away north to the lake.
But he is very tired and just stood there. You enraged him when you talked to him, and he will battle with you so that you don't follow him again.
|Galactic Grunt
|Glameow ♀
|Lv. 25
|Money: 1000
After he loses, he will walk slowly towards the lake. You will follow too, but he is gone. Instead, you met Cynthia next to the lake. Apparently, the lake is closed and she has just arrived. You talked to her and then she asks you whether you have seen a Psyduck at Route 210, blocking the route.
Yes, you did see those Psyduck. (Click here to refresh your memory.) So she gives you an item called SecretPotion. This item will move those Psyducks out of the way.
This item sound familiar if you have played Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal version before. Yes, this is the same potion that used to treat Jasmine's Ampharos in the tower of Olivine City!
Now you have the item, click here to go to Route 210 now to deal with the Psyducks. Fly to Solaceon Town now then head north to Route 210.
Hotel Grand Lake
Hotel Grand Lake is found at Valor Lakefront. Part of it is at Route 213. This is a luxurious hotel for those having a holiday. There is a Seven Star Restaurant at the center.
Seven Star Restaurant
No, you do not eat here. Instead, you get to battle the trainers inside. Simply talk to them and they will engage you into a tag battle.
Lost Suite Key
A woman at the house at the north-eastern of the hotel area has dropped her key by accident, and now she is trying to find it. Locate the key around the hotel using your Dowsing Machine app on your Pokétch, which is found near the entrance (see picture below).
After you found the lost Suite Key, return to her and she will thank you. Head inside and talk to her to receive Lava Cookie.
Get TM92 Trick Room
Enter the house near the entrance of the hotel and talk to the clown. He will give you TM92 Trick Room.
Meet the Game Director
Enter the house above the swimming pool. If you have completed your Sinnoh Pokédex, talk to him to receive a reward.
Get Coin Flip App
If you can use HM08 Rock Climb, enter the house that requires to use that move to access, and talk to the person there to receive the Coin Flip app for your Pokétch. It allows you to make decisions.
Restoring Your Pokémon Health
Talk to the security guard at the reception house. He will say that the hotel is booked and you made no reservations. But he will heal your Pokémon.
Route 213
- Main article: Route 213
Found between Pastoria City and Valor Lakefront. You require to come to this route after you visited Pastoria City, click here to head to Pastoria City.
Dr. Footstep's House
A man in the house located at this route can tell how much your Pokémon feel about you just by looking at their footsteps. When you interact with him, he will look at the footstep of your first Pokémon in your party.
If the Pokémon feel very happy to be with you, you will receive the "Footprint Ribbon" and placed it at that Pokémon.
Suspicious Galactic
You catch up with the Galactic grunt who ran away from you just now at Pastoria City. He mumbles about the plan again, and caught you eavesdropping. He then lies again and speeds off to Valor Lakefront.
Click here to go to Valor Lakefront now.
Pastoria City
- Main article: Pastoria City
A city found between Route 212 and Route 213. This city holds a safari zone called "Great Marsh", a muddy place for certain rare Pokémon. The city mascot is Croagunk. There is also a gym in this city.
Get Chimchar Mask
Talk to the lady holding an umbrella to receive the Chimchar Mask, an accessory.
Get a Scarf
A man in the house found at the far northeastern of the map can give you a scarf if your Pokémon are looking great. This means that you have to feed the Pokémon many Poffins.
- If you maximized the Cool condition of your Pokémon, you will receive the Red Scarf.
- If you maximized the Beauty condition of your Pokémon, you will receive the Blue Scarf.
- If you maximized the Smart condition of your Pokémon, you will receive the Green Scarf.
- If you maximized the Cute condition of your Pokémon, you will receive the Pink Scarf.
- If you maximized the Tough condition of your Pokémon, you will receive the Yellow Scarf.
You cannot received the same scarf if you already have that scarf, so you can only have a maximum of five scarves.
Get a Rare Berry
A woman in a house near Route 212 gives out rare berries daily. Talk to her to receive a rare berry. Take note that the berry you receive is random - you may not get the same berry everyday.
Suspicious Galactic
When you get your HM05 Defog from the Great Marsh, you will see a Galactic standing outside the entrance. Interact with him and he will talk about his plan.
He will see you eavesdropping, then lie that what he said is rubbish, and run way to the right. Follow him and talk to him again. Then he will run away again.
Then your rival will run and bump into you.
Click here to continue.
Rival Battle #3
Your rival bumps onto you after the Galactic run away. He then wants to battle with you again.
|Rival's Pokémon (if you choose Turtwig)
|Starly ♂
|Buizel ♂
|Roselia ♂
|Monferno ♂
|Lv. 26
|Lv. 25
|Lv. 25
|Lv. 28
|Rival's Pokémon (if you choose Chimchar)
|Starly ♂
|Ponyta ♂
|Roselia ♂
|Prinplup ♂
|Lv. 26
|Lv. 25
|Lv. 25
|Lv. 28
|Rival's Pokémon (if you choose Piplup)
|Starly ♂
|Buizel ♂
|Ponyta ♂
|Grotle ♂
|Lv. 26
|Lv. 25
|Lv. 25
|Lv. 28
|Money: 2800
After the battle, your rival comment on your Pokémon, then he talked about the suspicious Team Galactic grunt. After that, he ran off as usual.
Head to Route 213 now to follow the Galactic grunt.
Pastoria Pokémon Gym
This place is the water-based gym. All the trainers and the gym leader here uses the Water-type Pokémon. You cannot get to the gym leader directly. You must press the switches the raise or lower the water level to move the plank so that you can access another platform.
- The orange button lowers the water level until it's disappeared.
- The green button lowers or raises the water level to the middle height (same as the height when you first enter the gym).
- The blue button raises the water level to the maximum.
Gym Leader Wake
After pressing the buttons and crossing the wooden planks, you will reach to the end - facing Crasher Wake. His Pokémon have the same levels as the Veilstone Gym Leader, Maylene's Pokémon - two Level 27 and one Level 30. A Grass-type or an Electric-type Pokémon will certainly have an advantage.
|Gym Leader Wake
|Gyarados ♂
|Quagsire ♂
|Floatzel ♂
|Lv. 27
|Lv. 27
|Lv. 30
Money: 3600
After you won the battle, he will award you the Fen Badge. This badge allows you to use HM05 Defog outside battles. He also gives you TM55 Brine.
Do you want to get the HM05 Defog? Head to the Great Marsh in the city now.
Great Marsh
- Main article: Great Marsh
Great Marsh is found at Pastoria City, a safari zone with unique species of Pokémon living there. The rarest Pokémon there are Croagunk and Carnivine.
The entrance fee of the Great Marsh is 500 Poké, and you will be given 30 Safari Balls.
There are six areas in the Safari Zone, and a tram that will take you to the area (saving your steps). Each areas have different Pokémon, and the Pokémon will change daily.
When you encounter a Pokémon, you have four options:
- Ball: Throw a Safari Ball at the Pokémon to catch it.
- Bait: Throw a bait for the Pokémon to eat it, making it easier to capture.
- Mud: Throw mud at the Pokémon, which will anger the Pokémon, also making it easier to capture.
- Run: Run away from the Pokémon.
Take note that the Pokémon will fled from the battle. Strong and rare Pokémon are hard to catch.
There is a time limit in terms of number of steps. You will leave the Great Marsh automatically if you
- have taken 500 steps; or
- used up all the 30 Safari Balls.
As mentioned, there are six areas with different Pokémon appearing. They changed daily, so check out the binocular at the second floor of the entrance for 100 Poké.
Get HM05 Defog
When you entered the marsh, talk to the green-haired guy near the entrance to receive HM05 Defog. You need the Fen Badge to use it. This move allows you to clear away fog. One example of a place with fog is the north of Route 210.
Click here after you head out of the Great Marsh to Pastoria City.
Route 212
- Main article: Route 212
This route links Pastoria City and Hearthome City. The southern part of the route always rains, and there are lots of bog at this part. There is also many wooden planks only for bicycle to ride through. At the northern part of the map (below Hearthome City), there is a Pokémon Mansion with a garden called "Trophy Garden".
If you are heading to Pastoria City now, click here.
Marshy Areas
If you access this route from Pastoria City, you will found many bog lying around. You will get stuck in there when you walk through. But you wriggle it out by tapping the direction key repeatedly. Your bicycle cannot rode through the bog.
Shards Collector
At the southern part of the route, there is a house. A woman in the house is collecting shards. If you have 10 shards of the same colour, you can exchange for a Technical Machine (TM).
The exchange items are:
- 10 Red Shards - TM11 Sunny Day
- 10 Blue Shards - TM18 Rain Dance
- 10 Yellow Shards - TM37 Sandstorm
- 10 Green Shards - TM07 Hail
If the time on your Nintendo DS is set at night, the policeman at this route will battle you.
Pokémon Mansion
The Pokémon Mansion is found at Route 212. There is a Trophy Garden here.
Catch New Pokémon
If you got a National Pokédex, talk to the owner of the mansion. He will say that there is a Pokémon that can be found at his garden, Trophy Garden. However, the butler said there isn't. Then the owner will whisper to him, and the butler will leave the house. The owner then said that there is a Pokémon there, because the owner told the butler to put those Pokémon he said in the garden.
These are the Pokémon he will say:
- Cleffa
- Clefairy
- Igglybuff
- Jigglypuff
- Meowth
- Happiny
- Chansey
- Mime Jr.
- Eevee
- Porygon
- Azurill
- Marill
- Bonsly
- Plusle
- Minun
- Castform
If he did not mentioned the Pokémon you don't want to capture, reboot the game and talk to him again.
Get a Soothe Bell
Talk to the woman at the second door on the left hallway. She will give you a Soothe Bell.
Trophy Garden
- Main article: Trophy Garden
Trophy Garden is found at the back of the Pokémon Mansion. If you get your National Pokédex, talk to the owner of the mansion and he will put a special Pokémon there. Click here to view more information.


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This article was published 20/8/2013 (1461 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
GRASSY BUTTE, N.D. -- On the western fringe of North Dakota, not far from the Montana border, a ribbon of highway known as U.S. Route 85 crosses the rolling hills and kaleidoscope-coloured badlands of Little Missouri National Grassland.
This is the rugged country where a young Theodore Roosevelt, fed up for a time with politics, tried his hand as a rancher and wound up falling in love with the wildlife struggling to survive amidst what was then a rapidly developing frontier.
"We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune," the future U.S. president told a Fourth of July gathering in nearby Dickenson, N.D., in 1886.
After becoming president in 1901, Roosevelt founded the U.S. Forest Service and wound up protecting approximately 230 million acres of land. He later said he would never have embraced environmentalism if not for his time in western North Dakota.
'I call it the curse of the Bakken'-- cattle rancher John Heiser
The legacy of the "conservationist president" is commemorated by Theodore Roosevelt National Park, which protects three parcels of badlands to the west of U.S. 85.
As recently as five years ago, this highway and this region were among the loneliest in the continental U.S. But the Bakken oil boom has brought a development boom back to the Little Missouri country.
Heavy truck traffic now flows 24 hours a day along U.S. 85 between the Bakken boom town of Watford City and U.S. Interstate 94. Natural gas flares, drill rigs, pumpjacks and temporary housing camps can now be glimpsed on almost every vista.
A herd of bighorn sheep reintroduced to public land suffered such high mortality from highway crossings, it had to be rounded up and moved into the park. Prairie-dog towns on public land are getting shot up by rednecks for the first time in decades.
Some people living along this highway -- who chose to remain in this region because of its natural beauty and solitude -- are beyond heartbroken.
"I call it the curse of the Bakken," seethed John Heiser, who raises cattle on a fourth-generation ranch near Grassy Butte and works as a backcountry ranger in Theodore Roosevelt National Park's north unit.
The 62-year-old rancher-ranger is a rare outspoken opponent of the oil boom that has fattened up the State of North Dakota's bottom line. Fed up with the traffic, road construction and influx of what he describes as rednecks, he's now trying to delay any further fracking in the region, especially as oil companies begin to exhaust private holdings and eye up 1.1 million acres of public land.
"None of us would oppose some oil development. None of us would oppose 50 rigs on the land," he said. But there are more than 200 rigs drilling horizontal wells into North Dakota's Bakken shale right now -- and each one must be served by dozens of trips by trucks delivering water and sand for hydraulic fracturing and hauling away saltwater to disposal sites.
That traffic and road construction can make the 22-kilometre commute from Heiser's ranch to his job at the park take as long as 90 minutes this summer. He now tries to minimize any driving and refuses to visit any nearby oil boom town, including Kildeer, where he went to school.
Some of his friends and neighbours have given up and moved away. Heiser figures their absence will compound an inevitable oil bust.
"You think the oil guys are going to learn how to sow seed or rope cattle? They're just going to leave," he said. "Whether it takes 10 years, 20 or 30, this infrastructure is going to be useless."
Outside the region, the exploitation of the Bakken shale can be seen as a necessary evil -- a scarring of the landscape rendered tolerable by the U.S. need for self-sufficiency in oil production.
Heiser rejects this argument, noting the U.S. already consumes more than a fifth of the world's oil and has made no real effort to use less of it. He said North Dakotans are losing their reputation for being sensible and prudent. How else, he asks, can anyone justify flaring off a third of the Bakken's natural gas, all in a rush to get at the oil below?
"That ought to be a bottleneck right there," he said. "It's just an absolute disaster."
Heiser maintains the primary motivation beyond the Bakken oil boom is greed, not national security. Theodore Roosevelt, who railed against another boom in the region 130 years ago, would not have approved, he said.
"He'd have led a charge up the God-damned buttes years ago."


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The Coney Island hot dog stand in Bailey has closed, and owner Ron Aigner hopes to find a buyer for the world-famous landmark.
Aigner said the selling price is $500,000, which includes only the structure — plus condiments. He said he has two offers and had inquiries from as far away as Brooklyn.
The structure, in the shape of giant hot dog, has been moved three times, from its creation in 1966 on West Colfax, to Conifer in 1970, and to Bailey in 2006. Coney Island's next owner will decide its next location.
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One of my favorite recipes from Ellie Krieger is her Penne with Roasted Tomatoes, Garlic, and White Beans. Ordinarily, I'm no fan of out-of-season, winter tomatoes, but when you roast them, it deepens their flavor and makes them sweeter. And the garlic in the recipe is roasted, too, making its flavor more mellow and sort of nutty. The roasting part of this recipe takes about 40 minutes, but if you've got the time, it's totally worth it; it makes it seem as if tomato season wasn't seven months away.
The roasting is inactive so you'll be able to do something better with your time while you're waiting for the tomatoes to be ready. Once the tomatoes are done, the recipe comes together in about 10 minutes.
Penne With Roasted Tomatoes, Garlic, and White Beans
Yield:4 (1 1/2 cup) servings
3 large tomatoes, cut into wedges
4 cloves garlic, unpeeled
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1(15 ounce) can cannellini beans
1/2 pound penne pasta
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, torn
2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
Slice each tomato into 8 wedges and discard the seeds. Put the tomato wedges and garlic into a 9 by 13-inch roasting pan. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and sprinkle with salt and a few turns of pepper. Roast in the oven, uncovered, for 40 minutes.
Drain the beans into a large colander in the sink. Cook the pasta according to the directions on the package. Drain the pasta into the colander containing the beans, so the hot pasta water will warm the beans. Return drained pasta and beans to the pasta pot.
When the tomatoes are done, pick out the garlic cloves, squeeze the garlic out of the skin into a small bowl and mash with a fork. Pour the roasted tomatoes into the pasta pot, add the garlic, the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil, the basil and additional salt and pepper, to taste. Toss to combine. Serve topped with the Parmesan.
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Are you craving crunchy freshness right about now? When meltingly tender slow-cooked stews and soups predominate. They are welcome, but sometimes you want some bite-y food.
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Mix it in a minute, then stash it in the fridge. Some say it is better made ahead, and it does change over time. The dressing magically multiplies, the cranberries swell and soften. Everything turns a pretty pale pink.
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Cranberry Cole Slaw
|Yield 6-7 cups
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|14 oz shredded cabbage and carrot blend
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LONDON (Reuters) - With their songs of Third World revolution, cries for social justice and broadsides against U.S. foreign policy, British punk rockers The Clash inspired a generation of young Latin Americans who heard their message from the other side of the globe.
Now, more than two decades after the band's demise, a new wave of Latin stars is paying homage to The Clash in a concert featuring versions of their songs put though a blender of salsa, reggae, Mexican and other flavors.
"Spanish Bombs: A Tropical Tribute to The Clash" debuted at London's Barbican Theater on Tuesday night. Backed by a 15-piece band complete with horns, congas and cantina-style accordion, guest singers tore through a repertoire of Clash favorites from "London Calling" to "Guns of Brixton" in true fiesta spirit.
"The attitude, the soul of the band, the songs have been an inspiration, something to follow, to learn from for all Latin American bands," producer Toy Hernandez told Reuters prior to the show.
"They had an awareness of our culture, we got that. It's really interesting lyrics-wise, not just music-wise," said Hernandez, a Mexican producer who has worked with Shakira and Manu Chao and was born about the time The Clash first came charging out of West London.
The Clash -- Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon --made their mark in the punk boom of the mid-1970s, singing of urban riots, unemployment, youth despair and the other ills afflicting Britain.
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One album was named "Sandinista" in honor of the revolutionaries who had just seized power in Nicaragua. They sang of death squads in El Salvador, U.S. support for Latin American dictatorships, and name-checked people such as Chilean singer Victor Jara, murdered by the Chilean military after General Augusto Pinochet's coup.
Their music also developed to embrace other styles, particularly reggae, ska and Latin twists.
The classic line-up broke up in the early 1980s and Strummer, its lead singer and main activist, died in 2002.
The audience on Tuesday night featured a fair amount of middle-aged, paunchy British men who may or may not have once been punks. But there were also a lot of young Hispanics.
"I love The Clash. I've been listening to them since I was aged 12," said Andrea, a 23-year-old English student from Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
The songs at the show sometimes sounded like a Tijuana bar band on a good night and at other times were thumping deliveries of reggaeton -- the mix of reggae, salsa and rap that sprung from the Hispanic barrios of New York.
"Washington Bullets," perhaps with deliberate irony, was sung by Blanquito Man of Latin Ska band King Chango with Colombian cumbia accordion flourishes. "Bank Robber," performed by Sargento Garcia, was half-punk, half-meringue. "Rock the Casbah" featured a thick salsa horn line and clanging cowbell.
Texan cult singer Alejandro Escovedo reworked "Straight to Hell" -- a song about Vietnamese-American children abandoned in Vietnam after the war -- into a Mexican border lament that evoked the tragedy and violence of that present-day situation.
"Spanish Bombs," about the Spanish Civil War and the execution of poet Federico Garcia Lorca by Franco's forces, was fittingly sung by Amparo Sanchez, who hails from Lorca's hometown of Granada.
Images of the band, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and various Latin American rebels were projected against the backdrop and it all ended with cries of "Hasta la Victoria Siempre," the leftist war cry.
The Clash's message still resonated with the youth of Latin America even today, Hernandez said.
"They have been with us for the past 30 years."
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Pronunciation: fi-lê-bê-stêr • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun & Verb
Meaning: 1. A pirate, buccaneer, a free-booter, or a sea-faring adventurer who lives outside the law. 2. A tactic peculiar to the US Senate whereby a speaker may refuse to yield the floor in a debate for as long as he or she can keep talking, thereby preventing a bill from coming to a vote.
Notes: When President Bush submitted the same slate of candidates for judicial positions that were rejected by the Senate last year, the Democrats, now in the minority in the Senate, threatened to filibuster the nominations. The rules of the Senate provide each senator with only one opportunity to speak, but no senator can be silenced unless "the question is called", i.e. a vote on cloture, ending debate, is taken. A cloture vote requires a 3/5 majority to pass (2/3 on a question to change the rules). So, a filibuster succeeds so long as one senator continues to talk and the vote to cut off debate cannot be mustered. A person who filibusters is a filibusterer and the activity is filibustering.
In Play: There are plenty of apolitical uses for the second meaning of this word, especially in reference to verbal bullies: "The discussion was going well until Lotta Bolloni came in and began a filibuster that squelched everyone else." Don't forget that this word does the work of a verb as well as that of a noun: "Lotta filibustered the meeting until most of the attendees politely bowed out and went home."
Word History: Today's word set out as Dutch vrijbuiter "free-booter, pirate". English, however, preferred the more posh-sounding late 18th century French variant, flibustier, with the mysterious substitution of [l] for the original [r]. In the mid-19th century, the word changed to "filibuster," possibly under the influence of Spanish filibustero "buccaneer." The point, however, is that the word started out referring to the senatorial buccaneers who flew off on their own during debate. Later, the meaning slipped over to the process itself. Side note: The boot in free-booter is related to "booty and the phrase "(receive X) to boot," where boot originally meant "advantage, profit".
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Filibuster reminded me of gerrymander, which could be put forth as a word of the day. It would be interesting to talk about its pronunciation, because I've read one orthoepist say that the g there would be properly hard, since the proper name that originated gerrymander (Gerry + Salamander, if my memory serves me right) was pronounced with a hard g.
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Languages rule!
I never thought about this before, but is it called booty because the "treasure chest" was called a boot...? (Just as the Brits still today call the "trunk" (of the car) the "boot"...)
Oh, and as to the origin of gerrymander, Elbridge Gerry was the Massachusetts governor's name, but I don't know squat about how he pronounced it.
Oh, and as to the origin of gerrymander, Elbridge Gerry was the Massachusetts governor's name, but I don't know squat about how he pronounced it.
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Brazilian dude wrote:Filibuster reminded me of gerrymander, which could be put forth as a word of the day. ...
Indeed, despite our discussing it in some detail (on two separate threads, as one was lost in the Great Deluge) on the other forum, the word still remains distressingly apt. A leader in today's New York Times, however, shows that the problem is not unamenable to solution if the political will to resolve it exist (please not[e] the subjunctive)....
May 30, 2005
Ending the Gerrymander Wars
Congressional redistricting has become a blood sport. Texas kicked off a new era in 2003 when it redrew its lines for a second time after the 2000 census to give the Republicans five more seats. Now, there could be similar midcensus redistricting in several other states. In these partisan machinations, voters are the losers. The new lines eliminate contested elections, and contribute to the bitterly divisive atmosphere in Washington. A new bill in Congress calls for national standards for drawing Congressional districts. It would vastly improve the functioning of our ailing democracy.
Gerrymandering has always been part of American politics, but it has reached disturbing new lows. Party operatives now use powerful computers to draw lines that guarantee their party as many seats as possible. The longstanding tradition that Congressional districts are redrawn only once every 10 years was obliterated in Texas in 2003, when Tom DeLay pushed through a partisan "re-redistricting." Democrats are now talking about doing the same thing in states they control, such as Illinois, New Mexico and Louisiana.
Partisan redistricting puts the interests of political parties ahead of the voters. The parties want districts they know they can win, and they have done a good job of creating them. In the last election, there were only a handful of competitive Congressional races; most races were decided by landslides.
The voters, however, are best served by competitive districts in which candidates need to work to win their votes. The decline of swing districts is having a corrosive effect on Congress, which is more than ever made up of members from the extremes of both parties, who do not need to appeal to voters in the middle for re-election.
Redistricting reform is difficult to achieve at the state level. Most state legislatures have a vested interest in the status quo. And in these partisan times, a party that controls a state government is likely to oppose any redistricting that gives Congressional seats to the other side. National standards are needed that would require every state to draw Congressional districts in a way that put the voters' interests first.
Representative John Tanner, a Tennessee Democrat, introduced a bill last week that would do just that. His bill would create nonpartisan redistricting commissions in every state. The commissions would be prohibited from taking the voters' party affiliations or voting history into account when drawing lines. Instead, the bill would emphasize continuity of counties, municipalities and neighborhoods. The bill would also limit Congressional redistricting to once every 10 years.
It is no surprise that the bill's sponsor, Mr. Tanner, is a moderate Democrat from Tennessee. Southern Democrats, Northern Republicans and moderates from both parties and all regions are the ones being pushed out of Congress by partisan redistricting, and re-redistricting.
Drawing less partisan lines would reinvigorate the center in American politics, and make House members pay more attention to their constituents and less to their party leaders. That is why Mr. Tanner's bill is likely to have a hard time in today's Congress. It is also why it is important for everyone who wants to improve American politics to support it.
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For those who have a collection of TV Guides or know where you can buy old issues, look for the TV Guide for April 28 - May 4, 1956. It has a color feature entitled "The Ship That Sank in Brooklyn" about the Kraft Television Theatre live performance of "A Night to Remember". The production was the largest ever mounted at that time and was directed by George Roy Hill, later to direct "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". It utilized seven cameras, 31 sets (some built to flood and to tilt) and 107 actors (72 with speaking parts). It was performed first live and then a kinescope was shown a few weeks later by popular demand.
In the scene where Thomas Andrews is staring at the clock in the Smoking Room and the wall gives way to flood the set, the dummy standing in for Andrews lost its head during the final dress rehearsal. The head was quickly taped back on and stayed in place during the live performance.
I purchased a legal copy of the show on VHS tape from a Television Museum in Chicago, Illinois and donated it to the Marine Museum at Fall River. I think there are copies available every so often. Robert H. Gibbons


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They used to be the stuff that fueled childhood nightmares: forkfuls of overcooked broccoli or endless orbs of bitter Brussels sprouts that had to be endured in order to tackle, finally, the chocolate ice cream. But today's renditions of green vegetables don't require nose-holding or the camouflage of cheese in order to win over legions of fans. From the once-maligned spinach that only Popeye fancied to the leafy kale that went on to wildly successful oversaturation, here's a passel of formerly shunned vegetables (and a few equally undesirable fruits) that chefs have helped give miraculous makeovers. Read more


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This article was published 3/12/2012 (1724 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Bryant Turner has been quite content to roll up his sleeves and get his finger nails dirty in the relative obscurity of football's trenches.
But when the spotlight does occasionally shine on the work he has done along the line of scrimmage, well, he's more than content to step forward and take his bows, too.
Bryant, a defensive tackle, was the only Winnipeg Blue Bomber named to the Canadian Football League's 2012 All-Star Team announced Monday after voting was conducted by The Football Reporters of Canada, CFL coaches and fans.
"I thought I was a low-radar guy, honestly, but this shows that maybe I wasn't," said Turner Monday from Maryland where he is visiting family. "That's really good news. I'm pretty excited about it and it means a lot.
"It's a little motivation to keep working hard and striving to be the best. Playing defensive tackle, it's not one of the glory positions. But it shows that hard work can pay off."
Playing in just his second season with the Bombers, Turner finished with 20 defensive tackles, six sacks, two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery in 14 starts, including one at defensive end.
The Alabama at Birmingham product vows to get stronger in the off-season and hopes that with a couple of years under his belt he can develop more consistency in his game. He had three sacks in Week 1 last year and two a week later, but just one in his final 12 games.
"I'm on my way to the gym right now," said Turner. "I'm actually starting my preparations for next year today. I wanted to take some time off after the season to get my body back together because that's a long season up there. I've got to do a little treatment on my ankle to get everything back to 100 per cent.
"I still have a lot way to go. I played better against some teams and worse against others. I had trouble against Montreal... they've got a well-coached offensive line and the scheme they run where they get rid of the ball quickly makes it tough. I feel like I've got a lot more to learn."
Turner is thrilled to be back working with Casey Creehan, announced last week as the Bombers' new defensive co-ordinator, and figures the Creehan-Tim Burke combination will work wonders for the defensive dozen.
"That's a great idea," said Turner. "Casey and coach Burke... It's like a Kobe-Shaq deal where they feed off each other and make each other better. That's what I think, anyway.
"He's got a different style of coaching and a lot of players have to get used to it. But he's a great coach, one of the great defensive minds in the CFL."
The CFL All-Star team does include Winnipeg's Andrew Harris, the B.C. Lions star tailback, along with two former Bombers: safety Kyries Hebert (Montreal) and placekicker Rene Paredes (Calgary).
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2012 CFL All-Stars
Quarterback: Anthony Calvillo, Montreal Alouettes
Running Back: Jon Cornish, Calgary Stampeders
Running Back: Andrew Harris, B.C. Lions
Centre: Luc Brodeur-Jourdain, Montreal Alouettes
Guard: Scott Flory, Montreal Alouettes
Guard: Dimitri Tsoumpas, Calgary Stampeders
Tackle: Josh Bourke, Montreal Alouettes
Tackle: Jovan Olafioye, B.C. Lions
Receiver: Weston Dressler, Saskatchewan Roughriders
Receiver: Nik Lewis, Calgary Stampeders
Receiver: Chad Owens, Toronto Argonauts
Receiver: Fred Stamps, Edmonton Eskimos
Defensive end: Charleston Hughes, Calgary Stampeders
Defensive end: Keron Williams, B.C. Lions
Defensive tackle: Armond Armstead, Toronto Argonauts
Defensive Tackle: Bryant Turner, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Linebacker: Adam Bighill, B.C. Lions
Linebacker: Shea Emry, Montreal Alouettes
Linebacker: JC Sherritt, Edmonton Eskimos
Defensive back: Korey Banks, B.C. Lions
Defensive back: Ryan Phillips, B.C. Lions
Cornerback: Joe Burnett, Edmonton Eskimos
Cornerback: Pat Watkins, Toronto Argonauts
Safety: Kyries Hebert, Montreal Alouettes
Punter: Rob Maver, Calgary Stampeders
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The Strain, the new vampire series on FX Canada, is a bit like the swoopy wig of its main character, Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather (played by the usually bald Corey Stoll). Eph's hairpiece, which has become a media talking point, is fake, funny, bizarre. It's also curiously compelling. I can't take my eyes off that crazy hair -- or the fabulously repulsive, ridiculous vampire action swirling around it.
Since The Strain's July debut, Guillermo del Toro (along with co-creators Chuck Hogan and Carlton Cuse) has been getting credit for revamping vamps. Forget those defanged existential brooders who've been moping around the pop-culture universe. Del Toro, an acclaimed film director and professional fanboy, has made vampires into monsters again. The Strain's lead leech is less of a romantic Byronic antihero and more of a fast-moving three-metre tapeworm.
These aren't improbably chaste high-school-boyfriend vampires. They aren't guilt-ridden "vegan" vampires trying to subsist on synthetic blood. They aren't exquisitely bored esthetes or decadent aristocrats or club-kid Goths. And they aren't over-thought archetypes who are so busy being metaphorical that they've forgotten how to be scary. Del Toro's vampires are giant mindless parasites, spread by worms that wiggle into your orifices and under your skin. (It's no surprise that billboards advertising the show had to be removed because they were frightening children.)
The series' vampire mythology is blood-soaked and biological. Above all, it's yucky, at times comically so. That's the other fresh thing about The Strain. Del Toro's assault on "classy" vampires comes with an equally brash challenge to classy television. The Strain may air on Sunday night, a viewing slot often reserved for prestige dramas and posh period pieces, but it's cheerfully cheesy and gratuitously gross. When critics talk about the show, they often end up referencing the drive-in theatres, midnight movies, cult classics and B-grade creature features of their childhoods. This is unrepentant popcorn TV. It's not necessarily good, but it is fun.
Known for alternating between independent, ambitious Spanish-language films like The Devil's Backbone and Hollywood genre pics like Blade II, del Toro is able to combine high intensity with goofy hokum. He's a master of grotesquerie, creating standalone scenes that tread the queasy line between disgust and laughter. Del Toro's unerring instinct for how closely those two reactions are related can be seen in one of the show's first big horror set-pieces, which involves some hot worm-on-coroner action along with an ironically deployed Neil Diamond song. The final effect is hilariously icky.
The body-horror in The Strain is over-the-top oogy. What Eph half-admiringly calls the "brand-new flesh" created when a vampire parasite invades a human host is unsexy in the most basic sense: One of the first symptoms is the shedding of now-extraneous anatomical features, meaning that the genitals just drop right off. The third episode's squishiest moment involves the unforgettable sound of a newbie vampire's defunct penis plopping into a toilet.
Sex is right off the table, then, and we're left with feeding and excreting. (Oh, we knew that "ammonia spray" mentioned in the opening sequence was going to come up again.) The Strain is powered by primal repugnance for filth and stink and pests and vermin. One of our heroes might be a venerable vampire hunter with an antique silver sword, but another is a New York City exterminator who just happens to love his work.
The Strain also chomps down on high-low TV tropes. Del Toro really enjoys his cliches, deliberately offering up flat characters and hammy dialogue.
Main character Eph is like a cartoon version of HBO and AMC's "difficult men." He's driven and self-destructive, a recovering alcoholic and non-recovering workaholic in a "complicated" relationship with his son, his soon-to-be ex-wife, and her new beta-male boyfriend.
wIn the show's weakest subplot, the global apocalypse keeps getting interrupted so Eph can go to custody hearings. Stoll embraces all this silliness with admirable, Shatner-like earnestness.
The supporting characters are even more two-dimensional. There's the Desiccated Plutocrat, who runs a corporation that's actually called the Stoneheart Group (just in case you were wondering whether a vast, shadowy global organization would be evil or not). There's the Cultivated Nazi, the Sexy Hacker Chick, the Ass-Covering Bureaucrat, and the Gangsta With a Code.
There's probably some meaning in the show's glorious mess of a storyline, though del Toro's maximalist tendencies make it hard to determine what, exactly, that might be. Constructing an obsessively detailed but weirdly undisciplined vampire cosmos, del Toro throws out subtexts all over the place -- pandemics, xenophobia, information technology, the Holocaust, 9/11, conspiratorial corporate elites. Who knows where it's all going?
Near the end of the fourth episode, the fearless vampire hunter discusses the necessity of beheading undead creatures and burning their bodies, noting rather dryly: "It's not for everyone." The same could be said for this pulpy, wormy, wildly uneven show. The Strain is not for everyone, but for horror fans with strong stomachs, there's a lot to devour.


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On meeting husband, Jim Toth, at a friend's house: "It happened out of the blue. This really drunk guy was hitting on me, making such an idiot of himself, yelling at me. He was like, [slurring, scowling, pointing finger in her face] `You don't know me.' And I was like, `Yeah, I know. I don't know you!' Jim came over and said, `Please excuse my friend. He's just broken up with someone.' Jim was a really good friend, pulling him out of that situation. That's just kind of who he is, a really good person."
Reese Witherspoon wears a white viscose jersey dress with black trim from Emporio Armani.
On thinking she wouldn't marry again: "Jim said, `I'm gonna show you every day what a good partner is, what a good person is. I'm going to take care of you. I'm gonna do this so much that you're gonna get used to it.' I was like, `What are you talking about?' I've never had anybody like that in my life."
Witherspoon wears a silk chiffon dress from Dior, with diamond earrings, bracelets, and ring from Harry Winston.
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It brings me great joy in announcing the birth... Of my book! How to Stylishly Fall From Grace: Revelations From My Perfecttly-Flawed Life is the perfect gift for the fashionista's stocking! Feel good knowing that a portion of the book's sales will benefit UNIFEM's Say No To Violence Against Women Campaign. It is a fictional memoir of a woman named Zoe, whose life-transforming journey has her thriving in the city that never sleeps, to barely surviving in a sleepy city obsessed with naps. But why would Zoe, a woman who has it all, walk away from it all? Because "shoes to-die-for" should never be part of a woman's epitaph.


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This is a public service message for a town mired in a prolonged sports slump.
Kris Bryant is must-see.
University of San Diego baseball coach Rich Hill has been asked so often to talk about his junior third baseman that he's run out of descriptions.
"You start using these adjectives about Kris as a person and a player," Hill said. "They're all off the charts."
And they come short of doing the full job. So Hill explains to the waves of questioners: "You actually have to see the kid play."
I did just that.
Rode the Toreros bus up to Cal State Northridge on Tuesday. Watched Bryant go 0-for-5 in an 8-4 loss.
All in all, could hardly have been more impressed had Bryant gone 5-for-5.
Save for one strikeout, his outs were scalding. His fearless ability to use every strike allowed was on display in every at-bat.
At 6-foot-5 and 215 pounds, he can, as they say, grow into his body. When he runs between innings, he is all arms and legs, like a baby giraffe. Yet he played right field with a grace that was practically a virtue. And he runs the bases well enough to have five stolen bases (in six attempts), eight doubles and a triple to go along with his national-best 12 home runs.
O-fers happen in baseball. There hasn't been a hitter at any level who doesn't know that many times over.
Dejected might not be strong enough of a word to describe Bryant during the first part of the trip home Tuesday. A couple hours later, he said, "It happens. I figured it would as some point. I've been going pretty good."
Yeah, true.
You know what doesn't happen too often? A stretch Bryant has been rocking that makes "The Natural" look underwritten.
Among the feats by Bryant those who saw it will be recounting for years is a home run against Saint Louis on March 9 that may or may not have cleared a light standard beyond Fowler Park's left field fence.
"It grows every time it's told," he said. "It was just so high, so deep. It disappeared into the night."
That's the stuff that spawns legends.
It was just the start.
Three home runs in a March 14 game against Brigham Young, including a walk-off shot to left field, was followed two nights later by another walk-off homer in the 14th inning.
Hill says, "I don't like to compare."
But then he makes this comparison regarding Bryant: "Jayson Werth, Troy Glaus, Pat Burrell. Three of those guys wrapped into one."
Hill didn't just pull those names from his brain's ether. The major league scouts whose livelihoods depend on getting it right when assessing college players have used those names in describing Bryant. The comparison is mainly to Werth's speed and arm, to Glaus and Burrell'spower.
Over the 14 games that led into this weekend's home series with second-ranked Oregon State, Bryant batted .449 with six home runs, 20 runs scored and 17 RBI. He was walked 18 times in that span.
Those numbers include the hitless Tuesday and left Bryant with a .364 average, 36 runs, 28 RBI and 31 walks going into Thursday night.
And Bryant's preposterous .537 on-base percentage over 121 plate appearances owes as much to his ability to work a count as to teams pitching around him.
Hill plans to settle Bryant into third base for the rest of the season after using him in right and center fields, as well as first base. He could be the team's best shortstop if Hill decided he needed a fill-in.
"He can play any position," Hill said. "… That's my favorite thing about him – besides his character – the athleticism."
The character?
Bryant carries a 3.35 grade-point average while majoring in finance, so he'll be able to balance his own books after becoming a top-10 draft pick in June's amateur draft.
Hill's son has classes with Bryant. One day he told his dad how cool Bryant is, adding Bryant is the type of guy he hopes his sister ends up with.
Ever meet someone so genuine it makes you rethink your cynicism about humans. Kris Bryant is that dude.
It may, in fact, be a part of the only knock against him.
He's not a big enough jerk.
In the nicest possible way, he says, "I'm not that laid back. I hate it when people say, "It doesn't seem he's into the game.' I get that all the time, but I am. I'm out there every day trying to get better. A lot of people say it looks like it comes easy for me … It's one of the things I don't like that people say about me. But I'm not going to change the person I am."
He shouldn't. And you shouldn't miss the chance to see him play.


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