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Braun out of lineup with lingering thumb issue
CHICAGO -- Little has changed since Ryan Braun first spoke in depth in early April about the nerve issue in his right hand that has bothered him since last season. It still flares up on occasion, forcing him out of the lineup as it did Thursday for the first time in a month. And there is still no definitive answer for how to fix it.
"We've discussed a lot of different options," said Braun, who is under contract through at least 2020. "We've looked into a lot of different things. We're constantly evaluating it. We've talked to a lot of people.
"There's some thought that it could just eventually go away. And I think if there was a surgery that everybody was really confident would heal the injury and there wouldn't be any side effects, we would have already done it. But because it isn't something there is a lot of information on, it's not something that's been done often -- we just need to continue to gather information. It's not like I can't play. I obviously can play."
Braun has started 98 of the Brewers' first 122 games and batted .279 with 14 home runs and 67 RBIs.
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke didn't like the defensive swings he saw from Braun in Wednesday's 4-2 loss to the Cubs, so he held his three-hole hitter out of the lineup for Thursday's afternoon finale. Braun had one hit in his first 12 at-bats in the series.
"A week ago, he was swinging the bat great," Roenicke said. "Probably the last four, five, six days, somewhere in there, it's been bothering him. If he has a couple at-bats where he doesn't square up the ball right, sometimes it flares it up, and then you see difference in swings, which I saw [Wednesday] -- a lot different swings from him."
Braun has experienced pain in the hand since last May resulting from an inflamed nerve near the base of his right thumb. Because none of the surgical options were guaranteed to work, the hope was that an extended shutdown period from the start of Braun's suspension last July into Spring Training in February would resolve the issue, but it did not.
He remains a vital and expensive piece of the Brewers' future plans. Braun will earn $12 million next season before his salary jumps to $19 million in 2016 at the start of a five-year, $105 million contract extension.
Over the course of this season, Braun has worked with medical director Roger Caplinger, head athletic trainer Dan Wright and other members of the Brewers' medical staff to develop methods of padding his bat without costing him "feel" during at-bats.
"At this point, my only focus is dealing with it the best we can, managing it," Braun said. "The trainers have been great. We're trying to stay on the field and compete the best I can.
"Like I've said many times, we all deal with challenges physically, and this game is all about making adjustments. We all have different ailments, especially as you get to this point in the season. This is a unique and challenging one, because at times it really alters the way I hold the bat, the way I swing, my approach and some different things. It's frustrating, but I try to deal with it the best I can."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Marlin Madness
I pray that no yearning, no passionate love of sea fishing or of angling may ever take possession of you, my young friends. -- Plato
Frank Flynn is frantically punching numbers on his cell phone as he shuffles toward the boarding gate for American Airlines Flight 1845 at the Miami airport. His face is a mixture of perplexity and determination this Thursday morning, June 12. Late last night, he'd gotten word that Dream Catcher, a brand-spankin'-new 52-foot fishing boat that he expected to carry him to big prize money in a few days, had blown its transmission or its engine or both. Or possibly neither. Maybe the mechanical problem was entirely routine and, with some luck, right at this moment, the 2,600-horsepower craft is zipping down from San Juan to the Caribbean isle of Antigua.
Flynn is about to embark on the second leg of a five-contest tourney among the six teams of the Billfishing Xtreme Release League, and he has invited me along to get a firsthand look at the unpredictable and adrenalin-infused world of deep-sea billfishing.
Flynn smells victory. In March, his Mercury World Team drubbed Team A-Fin-ity to win $50,000. The team happened upon a cluster of sailfish, and although this species doesn't yield the high points that marlin do, the team managed to tag and release five of them in a flurry of reeling. Flynn is proud of the opening victory over Team A-Fin-ity, a team he describes as "a fishing machine" because it won the $250,000 grand prize last year.
Upcoming Events
The Billfishing Xtreme Release League, or BXRL, approaches big-game fishing like no other competition. It's elite, expensive, hard-core and hard-partying. Thirty-six of the best anglers and captains from the Western Hemisphere compete for the largest marlin and sailfish and the biggest stories about marlin and sailfish. They spend tens of thousands of dollars sailing from contest to contest around the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico in million-dollar fishing machines. Standing in boat cockpits the size of pickup truck beds, these anglers battle pitching seas and hours of anticipation. Then, like a meteorite crash, a 300-pound marlin will burst through the water, snagged and brawling. A fisherman might toil for hours bringing in this unpredictable and rowdy billfish only to lose him in the last crucial seconds. Once ashore, the anglers share the camaraderie of drink, food, and fish tales, all the while scheming for the next day.
Flynn has been riding high on his team's victory in March, but you can't rest on your laurels. Not in this high-stakes sport. So he keeps dialing numbers, anxious to find out whether the Dream Catcher stands a chance of getting to Antigua in time for the three-day competition that begins Monday. He learns nothing, and minutes later a flight attendant seals the cabin door and instructs everyone to turn off all phones.
There's still no word about the Dream Catcher as Flynn hops a connecting flight to Antigua in Puerto Rico. Half a dozen fellow anglers are onboard this small half-filled jet. They've all met before, and even though some haven't been to Antigua before, the predictability of what lies ahead draws them together: a wooden dock, rum and beer, familiar faces, ocean spray. Whatever anxiety Flynn had about the Dream Catcher seems to melt away in the company of fishermen. The 40-year-old Flynn owns Dania Boats, a boat sales and repair business in the heart of South Florida's thriving sport fishing industry. He possesses a piercing voice that has no difficulty in overcoming the roar of jet engines. Despite having lived in Fort Lauderdale for the past 12 years, his working-class Boston accent remains thick. He sports short-cropped hair and a goatee, and his face resembles Robert DeNiro in the final scenes of Raging Bull. He filters little of what comes to his mind before it exits his mouth.
Directly in front of Flynn sits Christopher "Percy" Gomes, an Antiguan who now lives in Miami. Flynn met him just a week earlier in Antigua during a local fishing tournament and, as with most fishermen Flynn meets, it's as though they're lifelong buddies. They begin reminiscing about the fishing and boozing. Flynn and Gomes describe a particularly aggressive night of intoxication. So did you fish the next day? someone asks. "I tell ya," Flynn says, "the only angling I was doing that day was deciding whether to be vertical or horizontal."
He waxes philosophical about the boat breakdown. That's just one of the hundreds of variables that might work against you or might work for you in a fishing contest. "Deep-sea fishing is all about missed opportunities, capitalizing on others' mistakes," he explains. Worst-case scenario, he says, his team will lease a local charter boat. Yes, that might seem a handicap, but who knows what unforeseen benefits could arise from this Hobson's choice. He clowns with Gomes, who earlier had commiserated with him. "I've got a boat!" Flynn bellows as he pulls the imaginary oars of a farcical substitute. "I've got a boat!" Last week, the marlin were running fast and big, and Flynn gets pumped thinking about them. The jet circles around the edge of the island and tips slightly, filling the small window with a blue ocean speckled with whitecaps. "There's marlin out, there's fucking marlin!" he howls with a faith others will come to doubt.
The league, now in its third year, was the brainchild of Norm Isaacs and his son Darrin Isaacs, who for years have run charter fishing businesses out of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, and hosted fishing programs for ESPN. The elder Isaacs hosts the Xtreme series, which is shown on the sports network in the fall.
A Kansas native, the 58-year-old Isaacs was signed by the New York Yankees after he graduated high school in 1962. But an injury and too much "runnin' and gunnin'," he says, ended that career after several years. From there, he flew charter airplanes, then moved into the deep-sea-fishing business. He's strikingly handsome, with a full head of white hair, a strong jaw, and a genuine smile. He has an uncanny memory for names.
"It's designed to be run like, say, teams in a professional football league," Isaacs says of the Xtreme league. "You have an owner and it's up to him to go out and surround himself with the best talent he can find and then compete in a level playing field and catch more fish than the next guy." Each team must also foot the bill for fuel, slippage, boat upkeep, and crew salaries -- all of which can run more than the $125,000 entrance fee.
As his flight makes its descent toward V.C. Bird International Airport in the late afternoon, Flynn points out the whitecaps on the sea. "It's rough out there," he comments casually, though from up here, it's easy to underestimate what such waves can do to a fishing boat. From several thousand feet, Antigua looks more brown than green, evidence of the persistent drought the nation of 68,000 has been experiencing. To the east of the island lies only the vast expanse of the cobalt Atlantic Ocean, which provides a constant and refreshing eastward breeze.
Christopher Columbus discovered the island during his second Caribbean expedition in 1493 and named it after a Seville saint, Santa Maria la Antigua, but evidence of human settlements discovered here go back to 2400 B.C. The British colonized the isle in the late 1600s and developed the sugar-cane industry using African slaves. Today, the Antiguan economy relies mostly on tourism. Landing the BXRL competition is considered a major achievement by many Antiguans.
Ground zero for the contest is the dock in front of the St. James Resort on the isle's southeast. By the time Flynn and his old and new friends from the flight arrive, boats from four teams have already docked. Flynn looks around for his team members and finds two gabbing on the pier: Darrin Isaacs, who is Norm's 35-year-old son and a cofounder of the league, and Robert McCullough, the owner of Dream Catcher. The 46-year-old McCullough resembles a short-haired, beardless Eric Clapton and sports a golden cross in his left earlobe. He retired recently after selling a Budweiser distributorship. Now he splits his time between his home and family on the Florida Panhandle and fishing tournaments. He's holding a can of Bud. He appears to have a lot on his mind. His role in the team is simply as an angler. But boat ownership entitles him to both more authority over the team and more headaches because of it. He and Flynn routinely haggle over team decisions.
"They've got one guy working on it," McCullough informs Flynn. "Then the chief mechanic is coming in with the same parts tomorrow afternoon in case that guy can't fix it. Oh my god, I'm..." he trails off, befuddled, shaking his head and taking a deep drag on his cigarette. The boat beside them blasts a '70s-vintage Bad Company album.
The signs of commerce on the dock are ubiquitous: Every T-shirt carries the logo of a fishing or boat product, and product endorsements hang, stick, and flutter on each boat. Teams seek out corporate sponsors to help underwrite the costs of competing, but for the most part, this is not about the money. This is about passion, the thrill of the hunt. The teams respect, even honor, one another. Sure they want to win, but not through cutthroat means.
There's an unwritten honor code at work here. The most coveted of local boats and captains have already been snapped up by other teams for prefishing on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Of course, the issue is moot if the Dream Catcher arrives. If it arrives. McCullough tells Flynn that he'd called around the island and one boat captain informed him that another team, Duraflame, had reserved the boat a month ago. The captain, however, had not yet received the deposit, and he offered McCullough the boat. "I said, 'I can't do that to those guys. That ain't fair. '" He ponders the idea a moment, then says, "Bad karma."
"Yeah, to do that, yeah," Flynn responds.
"We'll play it by ear," McCullough chirps. "We will know tomorrow. It's just a buzz away [from San Juan]. That ain't nothin', baby."
That night, the Antigua sport fishing club holds a barbecue bash at a nearby cottage and invites the visiting fishermen to what becomes the unofficial kickoff of the tournament. They treat Flynn like visiting royalty, providing him with a steady supply of scotch and sodas. He regales them with exaggerated versions of last week's events.
Kyle Maikath, a young sales rep from MaxSea, which produces software that gauges currents, depth, and temperature in the sea, sets up a laptop computer and projector. A large map of Antigua and Barbuda, which is 30 miles north, appears on a patio wall. As though mesmerized by a flashy lure, several boat captains glide to the detailed chart. They're responsible for leading their teams to waters that might be home to the elusive marlin and sailfish. When trolling for fish, a captain scans the horizon while standing atop the bridge, which is about 15 feet above the sea. But this software makes a captain virtually omniscient, as though he floats high above and swims deep below. "I've got a real hard-on for this stuff," one captain mutters about the technology.
The easy camaraderie between BXRL crews doesn't preclude behind-the-scenes strategizing. Captains have been vying for the services of Frank Hart, a local who's considered by many to be the best marlin fisherman on the island. Hart is a slim unassuming fellow with a puffy white beard. He talks at length with Robert "Cujo" Brinkmeyer, captain of Team Galati, a new addition to the league who recently set a record by catching or tagging 287 blue marlin in a single season. With the build of a bullmastiff, Brinkmeyer earned his sobriquet after biting someone during a bar fight. He's managed to snag Hart for a sea outing tomorrow, a coup he believes will give him an edge on Monday.
A short time later, Darrin Isaacs coaxes Hart over to the software demonstration. He asks if certain currents and depths shown on the charts correlate with areas Hart knows to be good for fishing off the island's east coast. They do.
Norm Isaacs shows up late with his wife, Julia, who is executive producer of the Billfishing Xtreme Release League series. She's a gregarious blond who appears considerably younger than her husband. Wearing a BXRL jersey, she brags about Norm's charisma. "Norm has such a way with people," she says. "ESPN recognized that right away."
Past midnight, after drinking the better part of a bottle of scotch, Flynn crashes for the night on a cot inside the lodge. He's up early the next morning, Friday, to deep-sea fish with some of last night's revelers. "You wanna catch marlin, you gotta be up early," he bellows on his way out the door.
Marlin are the deep-sea grail for hard-core anglers.
"It's like a Little Leaguer who wants to play the major leagues because that's the height of the sport," explains Mike Gautreaux, the BXRL's general manager. "You want to challenge yourself as much as you can. And billfish are harder to catch and require more out of you than any other fishing. It's much easier to catch a tuna or a mahimahi or any other fish. You need to entice marlin. There are a lot of things that have to go right from the time he shows up until the time he's released."
Marlin, however, like many of the sea's largest fish, are facing extinction, primarily because of indiscriminate commercial fishing. While U.S. commercial fishing boats are required to release all billfish accidentally caught in nets, they are kept and sold for food by most other fishing fleets, according to Jim Chambers, a fisheries ecologist who analyzed rates of extinction in a 2001 article in The Big Game Fishing Journal. If population trends continue, he concluded, the blue marlin will approach extinction by about 2008. He calls on sport fishermen to set an example by promoting catch and release and refraining from fishing during the marlin spawning season in spring and early summer. The solution, he contends, is outlawing multihook longlines and gillnets used by commercial fishermen.
"Killing fish is bad for the sport," Norm Isaacs says. He criticizes tournaments that promote trophy-taking, and that's why he was adamant that the word release appear in the league's name. "I thought we needed to show people protecting the resource."
A healthy saltwater fishery equates to a robust economy. Florida hosts more than 2.4 million saltwater anglers a year who spend almost $3 billion on trip-related costs, equipment, transportation, food, and lodging, according to 2001 figures by the American Sportfishing Association.
Isaacs' passion for billfishing began as a young man, when he joined his father on a deep-sea outing off the coast of Texas. It was then, he says, that "I got my hat handed to me by a 400-pound marlin that I didn't catch. He won the fight, but it was me who was hooked after that.
"Marlin are probably the hardest fish to go out there and catch on a regular basis. It takes some dedication. Marlin are pretty tough fish. Most will try you a little bit. It takes time and effort and physical power, or at least a good technique.
"What they have is a lot of muscle, and when they get scared and want to get away, it's hard to stop them. They're big, strong, and fast. They have a high metabolism and have to eat frequently. You can be there when they're not hungry. You have to keep mowing the lawn and mowing the lawn. I've seen five boats go over the same spot and the sixth one -- bang! -- there's the marlin. He probably wasn't hungry during the first five. I mean, when you drive down a street in Miami, you go by four Burger Kings and five McDonalds and finally you stop at one. Well, why didn't you stop at the others? You weren't hungry. Same deal."
The Billfishing Xtreme Release League competitions come with rules that make this battle between fish and human all the more challenging. There are few limitations on the kinds of equipment or boats that can be used for the contests. Teams can travel as far as they wish each day, as long as they're back at dock time, which varies but is usually around 6 p.m. Only eight people are allowed aboard during tournaments: a judge, an ESPN cameraman, and the six-member team. The league uses International Game Fish Association contest rules but with a few significant differences. Teams earn 100 points for sailfish, 150 points for white marlin, 300 points for blue marlin, and 500 points for blue marlin more than 500 pounds. (Because all fish are released, their weight is estimated by their length.) Judges make deductions if a hooked fish breaks a line, the fish is released with more than three feet of line connected to the hook, or a fish is tagged incorrectly. Fish are tagged for later monitoring by the Billfish Foundation, a nonprofit group devoted to preservation through research and education.
As if the task of hauling in and tagging a 500-pound bruiser weren't tough enough, the strength of fish line is limited by the league -- in the case of the Antigua contest, 50-pound test line. Thus, manhandling will lead only to broken lines.
In most tournaments, a fish is considered caught if it's reeled in to the swivel that connects the fishing line to roughly 30 feet of leader line to which the hook is attached. "I just don't consider that caught," Isaacs says. "I personally have had my butt kicked frontways and sideways -- three or four times by the same fish -- after I got hold of the leader and still never caught him. I believe they're leaving a little bit on the table. The fish can still be 25 feet away. That's like automatically giving you a putt for anything within five feet of the hole. I don't know about you, but I miss plenty of five-foot putts."
On the more practical side, the additional rules make for gripping television, Isaacs asserts. "It's good action because it's so close to the boat," he says.
The boatside skirmish can get dicey. Dick Tanner, a judge and tackle wholesaler from Fort Lauderdale, recalls the last hours of the last day of a BXRL tournament near Venezuela in 2001. He was the judge for the World Team, then owned by Norm Isaacs. They'd hooked a 150-pound marlin in choppy waters producing 12- to 14-foot waves. The boat had a small cockpit, which is the rear section of the boat where the anglers maneuver the rods and reels. It's separated from the sea by only a one- to two-foot gunwale. The marlin kept heading into the waves, so the boat kept backing up as the anglers reeled in.
"They finally had a fish that would win the tournament," Tanner recalls. "We kept backing after this fish down sea and filling the cockpit with water up to our knees. Norm was on the bridge. I got concerned because the boat was sluggish. The bilge pumps were running. I think Norm and I said it at the same time that we needed to get the water out of the pit. The captain said it was sealed and no water could get down there. If so, then why were the pumps running? So we opened the hatch as we're going forward to get the water out and it's almost full underneath. If we'd kept backing... well, we were 25 miles off-shore, there were no other boats in sight, and we had no radio.
"The captain was being aggressive. That was a $50,000 fish for that tournament. Everybody's hearts were just pumping. I believe that if we'd kept backing into the water, though, eventually the stern would have dug in and the bow would have been like this." He holds his arm at a 45-degree angle.
The World Team tagged that fish and won the three-day tournament.
By late Friday afternoon, the teams are returning to Mamora Bay empty-handed and pummeled by an exceedingly rough sea. Frank Hart stands on the bow of the Team Galati boat as it docks. "Poor, poor," he says when asked how they did. Someone asks the same question of the mate on the nearby Team Freedom boat. "No luck," he says. "Pretty bumpy out there." Flynn, who spent all day at sea and never so much as saw a billfish, is still pumped by the memories of great fishing a week ago. "Trust me, they're here," he shouts to the naysayers.
Everyone's talking about the green water that's moved into the area, which is anathema to marlin. You want dark blue, almost purplish water. Captain Cujo says they found birds circling an area, normally a good sign that there are small fish below, which means that's where big fish will go to eat. But the color of the water was off. "It was green," he says. "No fish."
McCullough arrives after spending the day on another charter boat. "Wasn't shit, wasn't shit," he sums up in his laconic style.
Saturday morning, however, is bright and sunny and provides hope anew. "You like to check around during prefish so you can get things straight in your mind," Darrin Isaacs explains. "The best feeling in the world is to go to sleep the night before a tournament and know exactly where you're going the next day."
Isaacs and other World Team members Flynn, McCullough, and Sam Peters, who's just arrived from Savannah, gather on a charter boat for their first day out as a team. Peters is part-owner of the family business, Release Marine, which manufactures, among other things, the "fighting" chairs bolted to the decks in the back of most fishing boats. The 42-year-old has been deep-sea fishing for 20 years but is new to the Xtreme league this year.
There's good news from the last two members, Ken Ross, the captain, and Erik Rusnick, the mate. They're on the Dream Catcher, which reportedly is repaired and underway to Antigua. Given the luck so far, no one is about to jinx the journey with hoots and a victory dance.
The team sets out just after 8 a.m. on the 45-foot Hatteras, a 34-year-old vessel that has a formidable time pushing through the eight- to 12-foot waves stacked close to one another. At times, the bow breaks through, then crashes down into the watery vale. After about an hour of this, Peters crawls down the ladder from the bridge and sheepishly admits to McCullough that he feels a bit green around the gills. Confessing to seasickness in this hypermacho world isn't easy; it's akin to a surgeon fainting at the sight of blood. McCullough roars with laughter.
Perhaps it's the power of suggestion, but at this point I begin to feel slightly queasy. I'd eaten a light breakfast, but in effect I feel as though I've been on a carnival ride for more than an hour. Soon I'm draped over the gunwale going for the "Technicolor yawn," as Norm Isaacs describes it. I crumple down near the door to the cabin, which reeks of diesel fuel. The mate hands me a black bucket.
Deep-sea fishing has one thing in common with all types of angling: There's a lot of waiting for a few episodes of exhilaration. Thus, the spectacle of someone collapsing from seasickness provides a welcome respite from tedium. "Hey, Frank," Peters whoops, his own stomach and ego apparently buoyed by the suffering of another, "I thought we had Superman, not cub reporter Jimmy Olsen, onboard." Surveying my scrunched-up remains, he announces, "Gentlemen, we just saw a six-foot man shrink to a foot and a half. It's like an alien came down and sucked his vital juices out and left a shell behind."
The anglers pull in one mahimahi, whose flopping about on the cockpit floor forces me into the gaseous cabin. Eight hours later, we dock.
Once again, no one has so much as seen a marlin. For the World Team, however, that disappointment gives way to the arrival of the Dream Catcher. The World Team will have one day to prefish as a team atop its own boat.
Flynn boards the Dream Catcher Sunday morning and regales the crew with gossip from last night, which, for Flynn, lasted until roughly 2 a.m. By Flynn's telling -- which is likely adorned for drama's sake -- he'd gone to join several people at the resort's casino bar, a group that included Cujo. The resort's dress code required men to wear long pants to the restaurants and casino in the evening, apparel that Flynn and many others had neglected to pack. So not surprisingly, Flynn was stopped last night at the casino bar entrance and told he wouldn't be allowed in with shorts. He asked to speak with a manager, then went on in anyway and joined the others, who were also wearing shorts. The manager did indeed appear but for some reason chose to lecture only Cujo about his attire.
As the boat begins to chug away from the pier, Flynn concludes the tale with flourish: "Cujo started yelling, 'Do you see the boats we're on? We're all millionaires here. I own shorts worth more than most guys' pants. '"
The 52-foot Dream Catcher is better-equipped than the Hatteras to take on the wallowing waves, and the crew is soon setting up the cockpit for marlin fishing. Going after billfish requires a finely oiled machine of people, hooks, lines, lures, and diesel engines. The crew must anticipate every potential move its quarry might make. Marlin are usually lone hunters, but the right waters will attract more than one. The hunt begins as Isaacs and Rusnick tether glittering, neon-bright lures, or teasers, the size of beer bottles to the outriggers on both sides of the boat. The outriggers are then lowered so that the hookless teaser lines run parallel to the boat. Ross controls these from the bridge and pulls a teaser in if a marlin starts chasing it. "The fish will follow the teaser all the way to the side of the boat," he says. "When I pull it out of the water, the fish will do a U-turn and go back out." By this time, the anglers will have tossed out hooks baited with large mackerels that the fish sees immediately on turning around.
It's the original bait and switch, a technique that deep-sea fishing pioneer Harlan Major described drolly as a dance between hunter and hunted in his 1939 book, Salt Water Fishing Tackle. The fish seems to grow exasperated with the teaser tango and slashes wildly. Then his eye catches a different, clumsier dancer, and he releases all his fury. "This one, however, does not dodge him; at last his pride is vindicated, and he swallows gleefully -- only to find himself hooked," Major wrote.
Ross is more prosaic: "He's pounding at the lure and he can't get it, and it's pissing him off."
But marlin behavior is hardly predictable. "I've seen them stick their heads up on the side of the boat looking for something to eat," Ross says. "Sometimes we've had the teaser out of the water, and it'll be rocking back and forth, and you look and there's one laying there watching it. I've seen a marlin jump into a boat next to me. Everybody was up on the bridge. He just tore the cockpit up. It died, killed itself by tearing around. People have gotten bills through the chest."
Today, however, the marlin are as predictable as past days: none shows up. Peters feels queasy again and spends part of the trip lying down in the cabin. With the help of an antiseasickness patch, I felt fine. The World Team heads to the dock by early afternoon to reconfigure its outriggers and rods. With the contest upon them tomorrow, the marlinless state of affairs has many anglers edgy. Dave Noling, captain for Team A-Fin-ity, which took first place last year and won $407,000 in prize money, chats with McCullough. A long-time charter-boat captain, Noling has helped clients land more than 5,000 billfish. He offers up the possibility that nary a billfish will be tagged during the next three days. "I'd like to see Norm deal with that one," he muses.
Marlin fishing is as much about telling and retelling events as it is about the catch. Sure, there's rivalry among the six teams, but the secrets are few because it's just no fun if you can't brag a bit about the trick you played on a crafty marlin or the discovery of the perfect deep-blue current. Besides, rum cocktails have a way of loosening even the most taciturn of tongues. No one here feels joy when a team returns from prefish with the news there "wasn't shit" out there. That deprives everyone of new stories and new hope.
The tournament's official kickoff soiree is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Piccolo Mondo, a hillside restaurant, but team members gather two hours early beside an adjoining studio for on-camera interviews by Julia Isaacs. The footage will later be edited into the series. The men are subdued, almost downcast as they wait outside for their turns. It's one thing to have a cameraman aboard filming them as they go about the task of fishing, but to sit for an interview, well, that's something to grouse about. A few of the guys kill time by razzing the captain of the Duraflame team when he kvetches about prefishing in rough waters. He'd piloted the boat 250 miles to Antigua three days earlier through brutal waters and looked like a man disembarking from a blender at trip's end. He sputters, "I've got three days of fishing coming in this mess. I don't need this recreational shit." The men chortle. "There's no way I want to fish until 4 o'clock and then go through this dog-and-pony show," he says, motioning toward the studio.
In reality, though, Xtreme tourneys are as much about television as they are about fishing. When Isaacs steps up minutes later and announces she's ready for the Duraflame team, someone tells her that the captain has been planning trouble. "He doesn't want to be difficult with me," she says. "I can make his life really difficult." She laughs. No one else does.
Most anglers show up at the party promptly at 7 p.m., no doubt coaxed by the open bar. A calypso duo strolls between tables, strumming and singing. After dinner, BXRL general manager Gautreaux reiterates the contest rules over a booming sound system. The room is quiet each time he pauses, save for the agitated voice of Frank Flynn. He and McCullough are standing together at the bar, still hashing over where they'll commence fishing in the morning. The overheard snippets are shorthand for ocean topography around Antigua. "Forget the fucking blue hole," Flynn cajoles. "If we run up there," Flynn declares during another of Gautreaux's pauses, "I guaran-fucking-tee you that everyone will be following us up there." The only thing that's certain is that Flynn will need to be up by 6 a.m.
A short time later, Flynn is laughing it up with his Antiguan buddies. Then he saunters toward the door and shouts, "C'mon, we're going to the casino." He's wearing shorts.
Five days after the tournament ends, Flynn is back in his office. Gone from his voice is the jubilation of the chase. The tournament proved as frustrating as the days leading up to it.
The first day, they headed to a patch of deep indigo just east of Antigua that seemed to offer the surest fishing. "We hooked a 450-pound marlin and worked it for three hours and 45 minutes," he recaps. "It was foul-hooked in the shoulder, which means we'd lose some points. But when we got it up to the boat, it got away, and we didn't get a tag in it. So we didn't get any points. Then after that, there was nothing."
Still, everyone onboard remained hopeful. After all, Team Freedom hooked two fish the first day and managed to tag both, though they lost points for a bad tag in one. And Sharkey's Revenge, out of Miami, tagged a 700-pound marlin for 300 points, but it broke free before they could measure it and possibly garner another 200 points for a fish longer than 115 inches.
By the third day, however, the other four teams remained scoreless. Team Freedom buzzed 70 miles to the north coast of Barbuda and tagged a fish. By midday, all the teams were in the vicinity. Only Team Freedom had any more luck, however, scoring one last fish and winning the tournament. With the exception of second-place Sharkey's Revenge, the other teams were skunked. The World Team has now dropped to third place.
But none of that bothers Flynn. "These tournaments can turn around with just one fish," he explains, gaining some vocal zest back with thoughts of the July tournament in waters around the Dominican Republic. "It's like I was just telling Rob, next time we have to fish as a team for six straight days," he says, "we need to get fishing early so that by the end of the tournament, we know exactly what we need to do and where we need to do it."
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.Russian school and the Polish gymnazia which were established during German rule, as were the two Jewish cultural schools, and were under government control. The parties continued to exist. The Bund and Poalei Zion, which supported the new situation, participated in the government institutions and mobilized their members into the militia. The Tze'irei Zion [Zion Youth] managed their organizational and cultural activities and were satisfied with administering the Folks Shul [Hebrew Cultural School] and library. However, in general, community life was basically paralyzed.
The Soviet authorities didn't have sufficient resources to finance their
activities in town, and therefore imposed a kind of contribution, a special
tax on the bourgeoisie. This was administered in an original way: one morning
the Cheka (the secret police) arrested a few dozen merchants. They
were asked to pay a special tax amounting to a few thousand zlotys.
The merchants didn't take the decree seriously, and sat down together, prayed together in a minyan, and even started laughing at the new administrators who they said couldn't even sign their names correctly and didn't know how to manage a city. The arrested merchants were guarded by the militia members of the Jewish parties and they were permitted to visit their relatives. After keeping them in custody for a week or so, the merchants paid the tax and the Jews were overjoyed.
In the meantime, the Polish army started chasing the Bolshevik forces back to Russia. The Poles in Nyesvich, who were quite numerous, heard that the Polish forces were approaching the town, and started organizing their own forces to assist the Polish army to liberate the town. A group of armed Poles took over the town council [Soviet], and in the struggle two militia members died: the communist Tatur and Catriel Greenblatt of Poalei Zion. The rebels immediately took over all Soviet institutions in town. The Soviet authorities escaped from Nyesvich to the Horodzy [City] train station. From there they got in touch with Minsk. To their great disappointment they found out that the Polish army was actually far from the city. The next evening the Red Army recaptured Nyesvich. The Russians began to arrest Poles, five of whom were shot. The Jewish community was almost untouched by the events.
At the end of the summer, the battles intensified and in October 1919 the Polish army marched into town.
Under Polish Rule (1919-1920)
The Polish takeover of town took place peacefully. Along with the Soviet army, whoever worked under their administration departed together with them. The Polish authorities put themselves in place and were tolerant to the Jewish community. There were a few incidents where the police didn't control anti-Semitism. In their opinion, the Poles considered all Jews to be Bolsheviks. There were occasions when the Jewish community suffered from the hallertshikas and poznanchikas (military units headed by General Haller and Poles originating from the Posnan region). The hallertschikas would cut off beards of Jews.
After administrative order was restored, business started functioning
again, which improved the economic situation, even though many members
of the community were in need of assistance. Links with the United States
were restored and many residents received assistance from there. International
aid organizations also worked in town and set up a soup kitchen for needy
children who would receive a glass of cocoa from conserved milk and cooked food. A number of Zionist activists came to Nyesvich: Yoel Rozovsky, Baruch Shmushkovich, Dov (Boris) Meisel, Aharon Goldin, Pinchas Bumstein and
Binyamin Eisenbod. Religious volunteers were also active: R. Yerachmiel Bergman, Moshe Lachavitsky, Mordechai David Alperovich, Shmuel Kravets and others.
The left-wing parties, such as the Bund and Poalei Zion, cut back their
activity because many of their active members left for Russia. Those who
remained got involved in the activity of the Jewish Cultural School. Among
the activists it's worth mentioning Leibel Eisenbod, Moshe Arke Shkolnik,
Avraham Eliyahu Lieberman and Golda Halperin. The Tse'irei Zion continued
their activity and continued running the library and the Tchlenov Hebrew school. Among their active members were: Binyamin Eisenbod, Moshe Melnick, Zalman Shifres, Moshe Rabinovich, Binyamin Yevelevsky (Yoely), Avraham Tsudik, Elisheva Kaplan-Eshkol, Moshe Steinhaus (Ben-Artzi), Lippa Brevda (Levi Ben-Amitai), Shmuel Eisenstadt, Yaakov Andrusyor, Aharon Heller and others.
The Jewish Community Council was established at that time, and was the
central body that dealt with the community, cultural and social issues,
and had a significant impact on the Jews in town. The Community Council
also represented the Jewish community in dealings with the Polish authorities,
and supervised the work of the Zionist activists whose activity in Nyesvich
was greatly respected.
At the end of 1919, an election committee was created that included representatives from ideologies, and democratic elections were held at the beginning of 1920. The following groups participated in the elections: General Zionists, Ze'irei Zion, Poalei Zedek, Tiferet Bachurim, Mizrachi, and the congregants of various synagogues. Only the Left," who were affiliated with the Folks Shul didn't participate in the elections.
Twenty-three members were elected to the Community Council: Yoel Rozovsky, Boris Meisel and Baruch Shmushkovich from from the General Zionists; Binyamin Eisenbod, Rabinovich, Shifres, Yevelevsky (Yoely) from Tse'irei Zion; Bumstein and Alperovich from Poalei Zedek; Rabbi Yerachmiel Burgman from the Old Synagogue; Rabbi Yitzchak Davidovich from Mizrachi; R. Yochanan Molovitsky, who later became rabbi in Lachavits, from the Chassidic synagogue; Aharon Goldin and Mendelevich from the merchants; Yehoshua Bashinevich from Tiferet Bachurim, and others.
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At the first meeting, Yoel Rozovsky was elected chairman, and a presidium [executive council] was established, as was a charity committee, a finance committee and an audit committee. The Jews showed interest in community meetings. The minutes of the meetings and bookkeeping were written in Hebrew.
The community supervised and maintained the social and educational institutions in town: the Talmud Torah, the public bath, the Guest House, funds for communal religious purposes, the charity fund, the burial society and community outhouses. The council imposed a special tax the Jewish residents had to pay. The community also remained in contact with immigrants in America and requested assistance from them. Nyesvich immigrants in New York sent two of their representatives, Dr. Mogalensky and Landau, to Nyesvich with financial assistance for the various institutions.
The events in Eretz Yisrael, the battle in Tel Hai and the pogrom in Jerusalem during Passover 1920, gave an impetus to the Tse'irei Zion movement to organize a group of pioneers to emigrate there. The aliyah committee was affiliated with the regional committee in Minsk. The Nyesvich members were: Hirsh Nota Eisenbod, an old Zionist who had visited Eretz Yisrael before the First World War, Yoel Rozovsky, Binyamin Eisenbod, Zalman Shifres, Binyamin Yevelevsky (Yoely) and Moshe Steinhaus (Ben-Arzi). The pioneers decided to emigrate before the city fell to the Soviets. The following pioneers actually emigrated: Sarah Leah Angelevich, Shraga Feivel Levin, Moshe Menker, Shaul Meckler, Yosef Sirotta, Mordechai Krepach, Yosef Kirszner, Meir Shabbat, Moshe Steinhaus (Ben-Arzi), Zalman Shifres, Elisheva Kaplan-Eshkol, Lippa Brevda (Levi Rabinovich.
Under the brief Soviet rule (1920)
When the Poles started to leave Nyesvich because of the oncoming Soviet army, the Jews began to face awful times. Their businesses were robbed and women had their jewelry stolen. In addition, other horrid acts were committed by the soldiers of the Polish army. Eliyahu Kirzner was killed when he was shot by Polish soldiers as he protested their robbery.
Thanks to the intervention of the chairman of the community, R. Yoel Rozovsky, who had put himself in danger when he appealed to the Polish gendarmerie for help at the most critical moment, some huge tragedies were prevented.
Therefore, the Jewish community was overjoyed when the Soviet army marched
into town and treated everyone with respect. At that time a revolutionary
committee was created in town and became involved in town affairs. Various
individuals became involved as officials in social affairs, regardless
of their party affiliation. Members of the left-wing parties such as the
and Poalei Zion assumed responsible positions. At that time, the Communist Party was being organized, and attracted many Jewish members.
At the time a general mobilization was announced, many Jews were mobilized into the Red Army. A state of military preparedness was declared in town and a night curfew was imposed. The economic situation deteriorated and businesses were empty. Farmers didn't bring any produce into town.
All schools approving of the new regime were able to provide normal classroom studies. The Hebrew school was turned into a Yiddish one, and community and Zionist activity was discontinued. The communist youth organization, Komsomol, was established in town and opened an unsavory social club furnished with furniture from Radziwill's castle. That club attracted many Jewish youth who wanted to spend their time there and read newspapers.
Soviet rule in Nyesvich didn't last long. The Soviet retreat from the Vistula resulted in the surrender of Nyesvich by the Bolsheviks.
Independent Poland (1920-1939)
The Jewish community had mixed feelings about the independence of Poland. On one hand, they hoped that the economic and social situation would improve, however, on the other hand, they feared anti-semitic outbreaks by the Poles, who were well-known for their hatred of Jews. Thanks to chairman of the community, Yoel Rozovsky, the situation of the Jews in Nyesvich was relatively good, because he knew how to develop relationships with the ruling regime and soften its dealings with the Jews.
The Community Council was connected to the.....
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Documents tell the story
Hebrew Kindergarten in Nyesvich named after Chaim Nachman Bialik. A celebration was held in honor of the opening of the Chaim N. Bialik
Hebrew Kindergarten. The kindergarten was established thanks to the active involvement of WIZO, which during its entire existence has always been seen at the forefront. The example should be followed in other towns as well.
A. Mutter (Heint newspaper, 1934, no. 218, 17th Tishrei 1934).
Above right: Chiuta Blatchinsky from the Land of Israel during her visit to Nyesvich
Regional Conference of the Tarbut teachers in Nyesvich
At the initiative of the central committee of Tarbut [Culture], there will be a regional conference of the Tarbut teachers held on Shabbat and Sunday, the 13th and 14th of this month in Nyesvich, with the participation of the Tarbut visitor, Mr. Avraham Einstein. At the conference participants will include the school and teachers of the schools in Baranovich, Horodzy, Lachovits, Malzads, Nyesvich, Stolptsy, and Kletsk. The conference mainly will deal with issues relating to Hebrew studies and organizational problems of the Tarbut movement. During the conference, there will also be practical lectures at the Nyesvich school that will provide the basis for the discussions of the participants.
(Moment, Warsaw, 2/14/1937)
[Handwritten letter]
Nyesvich Hebrew Community Council
February 23, 1926
To Mr. Eisenstadt
In Petach Tikvah
I very much wanted to write you, my dear friend, but I didn't have a chance. And if I am do not deserve to call you friend, then at least my dear one"! I read your wonderful letter with great excitement. First of all, because it was written in the land of my hopes, and second of all, and this is the main thing, that it was written in clear, living Hebrew, and in detail, and also because it contains information about the wild children, who are called pioneers. What can I say, and what I tell? I am beginning to believe all the old wives' tales about the 36 righteous men, that an angel came each night to each of the righteous men and taught them 70 languages on one foot! You must have learned the language so beautifully and yet so simply at night! Maybe [letter ends here]
A letter from Rabbi Yoel Rozovsky, the chairman of the Nyesvich community,
to Shmuel Eisenstadt in the Land of Israel.
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Fundraising for the Refugees from Germany (42nd List) Nyesvich: At the initiative of the chairman of the Jewish community, Mr. Yoel Rozovsky, a large fundraising meeting of the representatives of local businessmen, political organizations, etc. was announced. An Aid Committee was selected and was made up of the following members: Chairman - Mr. Yoel Razovsky; Vice-Chairman, Rabbi Isaac Rabinovich.
Members: Mrs. Frumma, Benharav [Son of Rabbi or just a name] Segal,
Dr. Yaakov Ginsberg, Dr. Binyamin Eisenbod, Dr. Nachman Kagan, Dr. Eliyahu Zecharyavich, Dr. Yeshayahu Kessel, Yosef Vasilevsky and Meir Tennenbaum. The following persons made contributions:
Dr. Yaakov Ginsberg, Dr. Nachman Cohen, Shlomo Greenwald, Shmuel Neifeld, Moshe Shereshevsky,
Yosef Cohen - 20 zlotys.
S. Itskovsky, M. Slonimsky,
T. Skokolsky - 18 zlotys. Tarbut Hebrew Culture School teachers - 16.5 zlotys.
Dr. B. Eisenbod, S. L. Danielovich, Dr. E. Zecharyavich, the Charlap brothers, Y. D. Levin, Attorney M. Messita, Dr. S. Kessel, A. Kaufman, L. Kaufman - 15 zlotys.
Y. Vasilevsky, R. Svidsky, the Farfel brothers - 12 zlotys.
Mrs. H. Baumstein, A. Glass, Mrs. Kreina Meisel, Avraham Yitzchak Malyer, Y. Nun, Leib Kaufman, A. B. Katzanovsky, Hirsh Rodstein, Wolf Schwartz - 10 zlotys.
David Altman (and son-in-law), S. Albensky, Baruch Ardzyansky, Wolf Gorion, Ber Gurwitz, Binyamin Gurwitz, M. Donyetz, Yisrael Weingrad, Yaakov Waxberg, N. Zaturensky, David Charlap, Shmuel (Ben-Aharon), David Lipovsky, Avraham Lipovsky, Mrs. Chana Lifshitz, Mordechai Mendelowitz, Leib Enstein, Aharon Zinman, Shmuel Kletzkin,
Pesach Schwed - 6 zlotys.
Aharon Leib Angelowitz, Mrs. Rachel Eisenstadt, anonymous, M. M. Bashinkewitz, Shlomo Goldberg, Chanan Goldin, Chanan Greenwald, Yaakov Yereshevitz, Moshe Lusky, Aharon Landau, Mrs. Sarah Molovska, Isser Meritsky, Yosef Svirschek, Yerachmiel Soltan, Yitzchak Sragovitz, Moshe Fayaness, Hirsh Kalmanovitz, Miss Rachel Shriftzetser - 5 zlotys.
[Bottom of handwritten letter:] Request for a loan from the Jewish
Cooperative National Bank dated 8/20/1925 signed by L. Werzel.
Menachem Polliak, Shmuel Perlman, Aharon Zitterman, Mrs. Hinda Kaufman, Hirsh Klitienick, Yisrael Kabrinsky, Yoel Rozovsky - 4.5 zlotys.
Mrs. Fruma Eisenbod, Reuven Bliatsinsky, Mrs. Golda Kilievitz - 4 zlotys.
David Aginsky, Yosef Isaacov, Yosef David Alperin, Meir Alpert, Yosef Bliacher, Avraham Bratkovsky, Mordechai Gurwitz, David Gabrelyov, Shlomo Gabrelyov, Yehoshua Meir Goldberg, Yaakov Dovavsky, Yitzchak Heisenblazen,
Yechiel Hungeriker, Yosef Witzig, Brother [sic], Leib Zmudchak, Naftali Chayutin, Abba Tennenbaum, Avraham Turtsin, Yeshayahu Tarn, Yaakov Levkovitz, Yosef Lipkovsky, Mordechai Lekech, Mrs. Bracha Rivka Landau, Michel Leit, Lippa Yerenberg, Yerachmiel Malyavsky, Yaakov Selibovsky, Mrs. Tsesha Svershtsik, Mrs. Tsira Pollack, Morris Pentsovsky, Yitzchak Farber, Yitzchak Baruch Tsechanovitz, David Koliesh, Kiel-Sorovitz [sic], Yehoshua Kravitz, Eliezer Katzanovitz,
E. Rozovsky, Zelig Remez, Moshe Aharon Shkolnick, Mrs. Ch. Spielberg, Hirsh Shklyar, M. Lyachovsky, Chaim Zvi
Rabinowitz - 8 zlotys.
Leib Hertz Davidovsky - 2.5 zlotys.
Mrs. Chana Alpert, Leib Eisenbod, Yosef Izraelite, Mrs. Itka Berkovitz, Mordechai Beneroff, Chaim Brock, S. Gabrelov, Leib Gelfand, Charny [sic], Mendel Tennenbaum, David Lemud, Notta Livshitz, Yaakov Leit, David Meir Lubetsky, Aharon Eliyahu Margolin, Yaakov Mendelowitz, Mordechai Menker, Beinish Mandel, Hertz Sragowitz, Yitzchak Sragowitz, Avraham Svirshtsik, Yisrael Sirkoy, Dvozsha Svirshtsik, Yitzchak Pialka, Moshe Frank, Avraham Pomerantz, Yitzchak Kreps, Sarah Kravetz Dunsky, Mrs. Bracha Steinhaus, Wolf [sic], Shmuel Kravitz, Chaim Remez, Mrs. Z. Roshuster, A. Puchovsky
and his son Yosef. - 2 zlotys.
Rabbi Isaac Rabinowitz, Yaakov Blyacher, Yaakov Blumess, Avraham Reitman, Shmuel Bergman, Yehoshua Bashenkevich, Koppel Berkowitz, Meir Ginsberg, Ozer Garfinkel, Moshe Gabrelyov, Yaakov Gass, Mrs. Zlata Deretsinsky, Moshe
Vinakur, Moshe Zuback, Shlomo Chalavsky, Koppel Turzin, Peitel Tsechenowitz, Mrs. R. Reinstein, Ber Shmerkowitz,
Chaim Shifres, Baruch Shapiro - 1 zloty.
[Printed Certificate:]
Jewish National Fund Committee in Nyesvich Celebrations Album Dept.
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand wither
REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE No. 390
THE SUM OF 5 [currency covered by stamp] FOR OUR FUND.
[Stamp of the Keren Kayemet (JNF) and illegible signatures].
Registration certificate in the Celebrations Album in memory of Zvi
Potashnik's visit to his hometown dated Lag BaOmer, 1938 [May 19, 1938].
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Aharon Yosinovsky
My first exposure to Nyesvich took the autumn of 1909 when I was called for military service in the 40th artillery brigade, which was stationed there. Since I knew Russian well, the commander of the artillery, Pestov Polkovnick, appointed me as a writer in his office. (At that time it was customary to appoint a Jew as a writer in army units).
My first meeting with Nyesvich Jews was in my official capacity. Polkovnick used to frequently send me to sign Goldin's accounts. The contractor Chalfin and his son-in-law, Zuber, used to come to the office also. They would get meat, grain, animal feed and other products for the brigade.
At that time I also became friendly with Mr. Eisenstadt and his wife, as well with the elderly Kaplan, who had a writing instruments business. I would but writing materials from him for the office.
Until today, I can still see the image of my wife's uncle, R. Bentshe Goldin. He was a devoted community leader in town. He was always concerned about the Nyesvich Jews. I remember the Passover seders he used to arrange for the Jewish soldiers in his brother Feive Goldin's woodshed. Once he even invited Supreme Commander General Romanovsky from Minsk to the seder. At that seder a Jewish soldier greeted everyone in Russian on behalf of the Jewish soldiers. The general gave him a kiss on the forehead. The next day the Russian newspapers gave extended coverage to the participation of General Romanovsky at the Passover seder, and called him the Jewish general.
Using my position as a writer in the offices, I would do favors for the Jewish soldiers. I would assume responsibility for releasing them for the Jewish holidays, and Jewish soldiers would thank me for the release papers which enabled them to enjoy the holidays with the householders of Nyesvich.
In 1917, during the Bolshevik Revolution, I was chosen for revolutionary
Second row, first on right: Yaakov Blumess, far end ..
Third row, first on right: Yisrael Beshinkevitz, far end: Feivel Zeitz
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This year Square Enix has extensively expanded their Play Arts Kai collection to include several other video game licenses such as Uncharted 3, God of War 3 and the best comic-based video game in the franchise, Arkham Asylum. With an incredibly successful first assortment and second shipping now, Batman fans have a lot of great Play Arts figures to look forward to however, there is yet another set which will only be available for purchase at Comic-Con this week and boy are these some awesome figures. The Dark Knight and Clown Prince of Crime will be available in a limited edition Black and White version and we are happy to share this advanced review of the figures with you today.
The limited edition of Batman and Joker are packaged within the same exact window box package as the colored versions. The box features an eye catching composition of visuals of Arkham Asylum and images of the action figures in several different poses. The window box features open panels on both sides and the top offering collectors a nice all around view of the figure inside. The dramatic and eye-catching package design will appeal to mint-in-box collectors and will entice openers to pick up a second set to display packaged. The Black and White exclusive Batman and Joker have a unique Black and White silhouette sticker which is placed on the left bottom corner of the plastic window in the front of the package.
The sculpted details on both Batman and Joker are rendered flawlessly and bring these two iconic comic characters to life in three-dimensional form. The texturing on Batman's suit gives it a rough Kevlar-like look that is amazing and the cape has dynamic folds and wrinkles that significantly enhances the overall look of the figure. The piece of the cape which flows over Batman's shoulders and connects into the seam of the cowl is made of a flexible rubber which does not restrict the shoulder joint movement as much as it were a solid material. The cape is composed of two separate parts which connect to the back of Batman's back via two ball-swivel joints. There is an additional third cape piece which can be interchanged on the left back joint to create an awesome wind-blown effect. The head sculpt on Batman is flawless and looks like a carbon copy of the in-game look of the caped crusader. The utility belt and underwear are made of a flexible rubber material also which allows a wider range of movement for the legs.
The Joker is presented in his iconic pin-striped suit and pants with ruffled sleeves and pointy shoes. This is a great sculptural representation of the Clown Prince of Crime as he appears in the first Arkham Asylum video game. The portrait sculpt illustrates Joker cracking a sarcastic smile with his eyebrows raised which looks very similar to his look in the video game. The suit's pin stripes are actually sculpted in rather than just painted on which adds a lot of depth to the figure overall. Joker features a tall and extremely slender physique which sticks out like a sore thumb when placed next to Batman's Herculean body frame. When it comes to sculpt, no detail was spared on the Joker from his flashy pointy dress shoes to the sewn-in patches on his suit.
The black and white color applications on this set of figures is applied flawlessly and adds a unique classical and dramatic look to the hero and villain. Although both figures feature only black and white hues of paint, there is dry-brushing and airbrush shading all over the bodies to accentuate the fantastic sculpt work on both pieces.
The amount articulation on both the Batman and Joker figures is simply stunning. Both of the figures feature ratcheting joints at the elbows and ankles which helps lock-in poses very well and also assists with keeping the figures from falling over.
Batman includes two closed fists and one trigger hand that can hold the batarang and bat claw. Which are also included with the figure. The Joker includes a two-fingered trigger pistol and a set of open hands, a trigger hand and closed fist.
Whether you already own the original colored Play Arts versions of Batman and Joker or not, picking up this exclusive Black and White set should definitely be on your to-do list this week. Both of these figures are available for purchase now at the Square Enix booth during Comic-Con or at their website
Photos and Review by: Jorge Pelaez
Review Samples provided by: Square Enix


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Stephen Jackson is a SF playing out of position.
Peja, Danny and Shawne are clearly all SF's.
We are weak at PG and C.
What is Bird doing? Is this another brilliant decision like Sarunas?
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Stephen Jackson is a SF playing out of position.
Peja, Danny and Shawne are clearly all SF's.
We are weak at PG and C.
What is Bird doing? Is this another brilliant decision like Sarunas?
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
and weak at the 2 guard
08 and Beyond
It tells me two things:
1. Saras is going to be the starting PG.
2. Jax isn't going anywhere.
3. They're going to let Peja walk (though they'll make some half-hearted offer like they did with Brad Miller, just to save face with the fans)
4. Winning next year is not a priority.
I just don't like what this says about what we are going to do about our backcourt situation. I just get the feeling that we are just going to cut one of our points loose and stand pat.
I'm afraid!
Originally Posted by Mr._Basketball
My thoughts exactly...you just got them out a little quicker. I'm scared!
...Still "flying casual"
Psst, that was more then twoOriginally Posted by Mr._Basketball
There's no question the G situation has been left out to dry. I initially thought Williams could play some 2 somewhere down the line, but, even if that were to happen, it wouldn't be until well beyond our immediate help time line.
It will be interesting to see what, if anything, transpires the rest of the summer. I hope other moves are forthcoming. And not just the Peja decision one.
I'm kinda upset we didn't draft Farmar but, oh well. I don't care what Bird says about the JO rumors; you don't draft two PF's and say you aren't looking to trade your PF. They are shopping JO, and probably have a deal they are looking to get done for a guard and a shooter. That can be the only logical reason why the draft two PF's. JO won't be in Indy next season.
We didn't draft two power forwards... eventually.
1 and 2 are impossibilitiesOriginally Posted by Mr._Basketball
I don't see where this draft tells us a darn thing... not a darn thing. After the selections, I'm clueless in trying to apply any analysis whatsoever to figuring out what Bird might be trying to do.
The only thing I can come up with is that there might be more moves to take place than what we first imagined.
And... I got home just a little while ago and missed the whole thing. What's up with the Alexander Johnson pick and then trade? What did we trade for?
It seemed to me like Johnson was quite a catch. A player that at one time was projected even as a late first rounder that fell to us at 45. His bio seems to indicate that he would make a fine bench player for the frontcourt.
What gives?
Edit: Just caught up to other threads... James White, huh? Now, he looks like a player that we can use even more than Alexander Johnson. Good trade.
We picked up 2 athletes. Not a bad start.
We didn't get a starter in this draft, didn't fill any holes and didn't pick anyone that's going to "take anyone's job". We got two athletes and, while Marcus Williams, Shannon Brown, Douby and Lowry all may end up as better pros, it's tough to call it one way the other. (For the record, I wanted Douby most of those four and would have taken any of them over Shawne Williams.)
Basically, we got a #17 pick in a draft that didn't contain 17 impact players. We know he's a good athlete though. And with White, we got someone who will be a crowd favorite if he can make the roster, and may could be a potential 7th-8th man down the road.
Not a lot more to say about these guys.
On another note, I still can't believe Portland got the two best players in this draft. Now they can just straight up waive Darius Miles. Or just trade him to Isiah.
Read my Pacers blog:
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It tells me that this team's goal is to ultimately have every player on the floor playing out of position.
And also that Bird is a complete idiot.
Kegboy wins
Originally Posted by Mr._Basketball
Brad Miller never got an offer from the Pacers...
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
OK, I don't know what scares me more, disagreeing with TPTB or agreeing with Chauncey...Originally Posted by Mr._Basketball
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
Let me repeat what I've been saying for months now, there are going to be major moves coming very soon. So don't bother trying to figure out where the two new guys fit into the current roster because the current roster is obsolete
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you


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Unprecedented Efforts To Cut Carbon Footprint In Downtown Denver Breaks Ground
GSA Begins Modernizing the 25-year-old César E. Chávez Memorial Building
January 27, 2011
Contact: Sally Mayberry
DENVER – Today, the U.S. General Services Administration will break ground on a massive modernization project at the César E. Chávez Memorial Building that will boost our clean energy economy and create jobs by transforming the outdated federal building into an innovative, state-of-the-art, high-performing green building.
The modernized building will produce 5 percent of its energy through renewable energy technologies and will cut its energy use by 30 percent. By making smart choices now, we are lowering our energy costs, saving taxpayer money, and giving innovative American businesses a chance at competing with any business in the world. This project is part of our broader efforts to make investments now that will create jobs immediately and build our economy for the long term by fostering a new, clean energy economy.
The building, located at 1244 Speer Blvd., is expected to attain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design silver certification, meeting federal energy and water conservation goals by combining exceptional architectural form with state-of-the-art building systems. The highlight of this modernization project will be a new state-of-the-art building exterior comprised of an aluminum-and-glass curtain wall system that will reduce the building's energy consumption by 30 percent, protect against the effects of a blast, and enhance the natural light and view for the building tenants.
Other sustainable features include a solar sculpture on top of the neighboring parking garage, capable of producing 110 kilowatt hours of renewable energy. This means it will be capable of offsetting the building's energy consumption by 5 percent over a year, and it will be capable of reducing hot water energy use by 31 percent. Lastly, this project will provide significant replacement of critical building system mechanical equipment. New building controls and equipment will work in concert with the new exterior to bring the energy consumption and carbon footprint of the building to levels usually only met with new construction and the latest technologies.
"This project will directly create and save more than 100 jobs in our local community in construction and innovative green industries. GSA is committed to investing in our infrastructure with sustainable design principles that will create jobs now and save taxpayer money in the future. The César E. Chávez Memorial Building is a shining example of both meeting tenant needs and honoring those principles," said Susan Damour, GSA Rocky Mountain Regional Administrator.
The César E. Chávez Memorial Building is in a developed urban area within the Denver city limits known as the Golden Triangle. Currently the area is experiencing renewed growth along mixed-use and transit-oriented development models as Denver's urban population expands. Working with the city of Denver, local neighborhood groups, and the local arts community, GSA is planning to develop an Art Park. The park creates an opportunity for GSA to engage more community stakeholders while actively contributing to the overall site plan and connecting the space to this emerging art district. This highly visible parcel of land will display three sculptures by Mexican artist Sebastian, titled "Three Movements."
This 180,000-square-foot office building is home to five federal agencies, approximately 290 workers. GSA awarded the contract to a design-build team led by GE Johnson Construction on March 23, 2010.The design-build delivery method helps the project meet its tight schedule, as parking garage demolition and other work can begin while the building design details are finalized.The project is expected to be complete in November 2012.
The design-build team includes GE Johnson (serving as the design-builder); Tryba Architects (serving as design architect and architect of record); Jacobs (serving as the construction manager for the GSA); Martin and Martin (structural engineers), BCER Engineering (mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer), Walker Parking (parking consultant), and ME Group (serving as the commissioning agent for the GSA.)
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GSA provides a centralized delivery system of products and services to the federal government, leveraging its enormous buying power to get the best value for taxpayers.
• Founded in 1949, GSA manages more than 11 percent of the government's total procurement dollars and $30 billion in federal assets, including 8,600 government-owned or leased buildings and 213,000 vehicles.
• GSA helps preserve our past and define our future, as a steward of more than 480 historic properties, and as manager of USA.gov, the official portal to federal government information and services.
GSA's mission to provide superior workplaces, expert technology solutions, acquisition services, purchasing and E-Gov travel solutions and management policies, at best value, allows federal agencies to focus on their core missions.


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Bloggasm Interview with Kalyn
Kalyn's First Podcast (Hear Kalyn's Voice)
Best of Blogs Awards 2006 Finalist Best Cooking Blog
Kalyn's Kitchen Featured in Woman's World Magazine
Kalyn's Story published in Blogger Stories
CalorieLab Calorie Counter News Raves About Kalyn's Kitchen
Kalyn's Diet Success Featured on Weight Loss Tips
2006 Food Blog Awards Winner Best Food Blog - Theme
Story about Kalyn's Kitchen and Kalyn from Davis County Clipper
Kalyn's Kitchen and Kalyn featured in Deseret News Food Section
Kalyn's White Bean and Tuna Salad Recipe in Utah's Deseret News
Kalyn's Grilling Tips and Marinade Recipes in Provo Daily Herald
Salt Lake Tribune mentions Kalyn's Kitchen in Laptop to Stovetop
Kalyn's Kitchen featured on Epi Blog at Epicurious.com
Kalyn's Kitchen in Article on Food Blogs in St. Petersburg Times
Kalyn Featured on Is It EDible
North Coast Journal's Talk of the Table Includes Kalyn's Kitchen in Food for Blogs
Kalyn's Kitchen featured with other food blogs in Blogger and Podcaster Magazine
Provo Daily Herald includes two of Kalyn's recipes for leftover turkey in Give Thanks for Leftovers.
Kalyn's Kitchen featured on The Daily Special at Elastic Waist
Kalyn's Kitchen included in 100 Food Blogs to Inspire Your Healthy Eating
Blog Nosh Magazine features Kalyn's Post on "How to Cook Spaghetti Squash as a Vegetable"
Kalyn answers the Cookthink Questionnaire
Kalyn's Kitchen was mentioned in Get Cooking with Food Blogs on the Fox News Kansas City website.
Kalyn's Thanksgiving tips were included in Thanksgiving 2.0 newsletter from New West Knifeworks.
Kalyn's Recipes for After-Thanksgiving Turkey Leftovers featured on Blissfully Domestic.
Two if Kalyn's recipes and photos featured in Unwrapping Breakfast: Spend the Morning by the Christmas Tree Instead of in the Kitchen from Provo Daily Herald.
Kalyn's Kitchen featured in Blog Appetit, Salt Lake Tribune Food Section article on Utah food blogs.
Kalyn's Kitchen listed at one of Utah's Ten Best Food Blogs by Utah Stories.
Nose to Tail posted a link to download a recording of a South-by-Southwest Panel on Successful Food Blogging that Kalyn participated in.
Examiner.com featured two of Kalyn's recipes in an article about 10 Easy Recipes for Leftover Easter Eggs.
Kalyn's Kitchen listed among Top 100 Food Blogs You Can't Afford to Miss at FoodVu.
Kalyn's recipe for Baked Swiss Chard Stems with Olive Oil included in Health Benefits and Recipes for Olive Oil at Chicago Sun Times (written by Maris Callahan from In Good Taste.)
Kalyn talks about her love of the food processor in an article in the September 2009 Costco Connection Magazine (written by Nanette from Cooking in Color.)
LifeScript includes Kalyn in Top Bloggers Dish Up 7 New Pumpkin Treats.
Daytona Beach New Journal Food Writer Laurie Sterbens converts her husband with Kalyn's Roasted Brussels Sprouts.
Kalyn's Kitchen was featured as part of Holiday 2009 at Oprah.com, and many of Kalyn's recipes were featured there.
Utah food writer Virginia Rainey writes about Kalyn's Kitchen for City Weekly.
Provo Daily Herald reporter Cody Clark mentions the blog and quotes Kalyn in a piece about SuperFoods.
Kalyn's Kitchen picked as one of Top 50 Blogs to Help You Live Healthy at The Nurse Nut.
Kalyn is picked as a BizyMom's Top Blogger and interviewed about the South Beach Diet.
Kalyn's recipes for Parsley Hummus and Slow Roasted Tomato Hummus are included in a slideshow of hummus recipes from food bloggers on ReadersDigest.com.
Kalyn's Kitchen picked as a favorite blog in an article on mom bloggers on Woman's Day.com.
Nicole from Pinch My Salt features Fattoush from Kalyn's Kitchen for Food Blog Friday.
Kalyn's Kitchen included as one of 100 Best Blogs for Healthy and Delicious Recipes at NursingSchools.net.
Extanz includes Kalyn's Kitchen (on an impressive list!) of A Baker's Dozen of the Best Food Blogs.
Saveur.com features Kalyn's tips for Perfectly Grilled Chicken Breasts on their site and in the online newsletter.
Foodista.com features Kalyn's Kitchen as Food Blog of the Day.
Canadian Living includes Kalyn in a piece on Our Favorite Food Bloggers Share Their Ingredient Phobias.
Blisstree features Kalyn's Kitchen as one of Five Recipe Sites to Get You in the Kitchen.
Mushrooms Canada and Canada New Report feature Kalyn's Kitchen in Food Bloggers We Love.
LA Times Onlines features Kalyn's Kale Chips.
The Whole Gang features Kalyn as a Food Rock Star.
Guide to Culinary Schools includes Kalyn's Kitchen in a list of Top 100 Food Blogs.
Ted Scheffler from City Weekly Magazine includes Kalyn's Kitchen in a piece about the internet's Best Food Sites.
Foodnow features Kalyn's Easy Cheesy Zucchini Bake in a feature about The Best End of Summer Recipes.
Daily Bites featured Kalyn's thoughts about Eating Well on a Budget.
California Olive Oil featured one of Kalyn's recipes in Summer Squash is in Season.
Babble.com features Kalyn's Kitchen in Ten Food Blogs to Inspire You if You're Trying to Lose Weight.
Cooking Club of America featured Kalyn's Roasted Butternut Squash with Rosemary and Balsamic Vinegar in "Online Finds."
Sigonas's Farmers Market featured Kalyn's version of Roasted Winter Squash and Sausage with Herbs in their E-Newsletter, on their blog, and in the store.
Three of Kalyn's recipes for Brussels Sprouts are featured in A Vegetable Side Dish You Should Be Thankful For on WebMD. The post was written by Janet from Nutrition Uplugged, who also shared the Brussels Sprouts Recipe Ideas on her blog.
Kalyn's Guacamole Tostadas were featured in Celebrate This: National Guacamole Day at Celebrations.
Photos and recipe links from Kalyn's Kitchen are being featured in food mosaics at Pasplore.
Blogs.com includes Kalyn's Thanksgiving Top Ten Thanksgiving Recipe List in a post about The Best Thanksgiving Recipes 2011.
Delish.com includes Kalyn's Turkey and Guacamole Quesadilla in Ten Stellar Sandwich Ideas for Leftover Turkey.
Kalyn's Kitchen included in a post on Babble.com by Aggie of Aggie's Kitchen about Favorite Healthy Food Blogs to Read for New Year's Inspiration and Motivation.
Kalyn's Baked Swiss Chard Stems with Olive Oil and Parmesan included in a post about Foods for Beauty at More.com.
The Saturday Evening Post features Kalyn's recipe for Hummus and Cucumber Appetizer Bites.
A nice write-up about Kalyn's Blogs as a Second Career Path from the Salt Lake Tribune.
Kalyn is interviewed for A Success Story with the South Beach Diet from SlimKicker.
KwikMed features Kalyn's Kitchen in 20 Weight-Loss Blogs of Distinction.
Cision includes Kalyn's Kitchen in Top 50 Food Blogs.
Kalyn's Kitchen is included in 12 Most Readable Blogs by Women.
Kalyn's Kitchen is featured in 9 Amazing Healthy Food Blogs.
The Huffington Post includes Kalyn's Kitchen in Food Blogs for Post 50s to Sink Their Teeth Into.
Edaman featured one recipe a day from Kalyn's Kitchen as part of their Edamam's Fresh Picks.
HellaWella picks Kalyn as one of 25 Must Follow Food Pinners on Pinterest.
LaaLoosh posts an interview about The Story Behind Kalyn's Kitchen.
HellaWella picks Kalyn's Kitchen as one of The Best Recipe Blogs of 2013.
The Salt Lake Tribune features Kalyn's tips and a recipe in a great article on How to Get Kids to Eat Whole Grain Pasta.
Kalyn's gluten-free recipes get a nice shout-out on The Pinterest Blog.
Kalyn is featured at FoodieCrush in 5 Food Bloggers Weight Loss Success Stories.
Food Writer Friday posts a nice piece about me and my blog.
Kalyn's Kitchen is featured in How to Write an About Me Page on Rachel Cooks.
Business Insider includes Kalyn's Kitchen as one of The Top Ten Pinterest Accounts You Should Follow Right Now.
Make Your Body Work includes Kalyn's Kitchen in The 50 Best Healthy Food Blogs for Clean and Lean Eating.
Daily Tekk includes Kalyn's Kitchen in The 100 Best, Coolest Pinterest Users/Accounts to Follow.
Zulily.com features my Easy Cheesy Zucchini Bake Pin in Zulily's Weekly Pinterest Round-Up - Easy and Tasty Dinners.
Kalyn was featured in this post on Ten Women Who Started New Careers in Midlife - And Never Looked Back on Tuenight.com
Kalyn was featured by American Express in this post on Take it Slow: The Best Slow Cooker Secrets.
Kalyn's Kitchen was included in Top 100 Food Blogs with Best Recipe and Cooking Ideas Every Cooking Fan Must Follow on Feedspot.
The BEST Easy Cauliflower Rice with Garlic and Green Onions was featured in The Salt Lake Tribune.
Kalyn's Kitchen was included in Best Cooking Blogs for 2017.
Kalyn's Kitchen was included in Best Healthy Eating Blogs on the Planet from Feedspot.


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Remains found in rubble at farm siege property
Forensic bomb experts combing through rubble from a massive explosion at Derrinallum in Victoria's west have found what appears to be the remains of property owner Glenn Sanders.
The discovery comes as more evidence emerges that the man believed to have caused the devastating blast was obsessed with bombs.
The site is in lock-down and Hamilton Highway is expected to remain closed until Tuesday afternoon.
The explosion happened at about 1.20am on Saturday.
Glenn Sanders, aged in his 40s, is believed to have detonated a massive blast that levelled a building on his property and injured two Special Operations Group police officers.
One officer was flown to The Alfred Hospital with head injuries, where he remains in a stable condition.
The second officer, who suffered minor injuries, has been discharged from Geelong Hospital.
A seven-hour siege developed after police tried to arrest Sanders at 7pm on Friday night in relation to a violent incident earlier in the week.
Bomb experts believe there are more explosives on the property and are clearing the way for detectives from the Homicide Squad and Professional Standards Command.
It is understood Sanders had no children and had rarely left his property in the past 18 months.
Derrinallum publican Wayne Parkin said Sanders, who lived with his mother before she was hospitalised at Ballarat, had become reclusive after his wife died.
''He's just a quiet, lonely sort of bloke. Very good with machinery and repairs, maintenance, making stuff, fabrication, that type of thing.
''A bit of a loner over recent years since his wife passed away, but he's just a general runaround normal bloke.
''I think everybody's pretty much down a little bit.
''There's a bit of solemnness and there's not many people around; everybody's pretty quiet.
''No one in the town really knows what happened up there, to be truthful.''
Derrinallum Post Office owners Margaret and Larry Howard said they often heard Sanders "working" at night and every now and again they would hear a couple of explosions.
Derrinallum CFA member Geoff Henderson said the sound of Saturday's explosion ''threw him out of bed'' just before 1.30am.
''I'm devastated. I knew him [Sanders] and it's sad that it came to this. It's just one of those things that you don't need happening.
''... I think everyone is in a little bit of shock.''
Sanders had built a torpedo-shaped mailbox and a homemade rocket complete with nuclear symbols at the rear of his modest timber home.
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Don't blame the American public or "agriculture chemical interests" for the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde act that is the Environmental Working Group.
The EWG seems to want to praise fruits and vegetables but to bury fruit and vegetable producers. A recent column by Alex Formuzis tries to clarify the EWG position. In a piece titled "EWG wants you to eat your fruits and vegetables," Formuzis said that one question the group often receives from consumers is: "Should I eat fruits and vegetables on your Dirty Dozen list? Because it certainly sounds like I shouldn't."
No, I kid - that isn't how the FAQ reads that Formuzis reproduces. Here is the excerpt from the column:
This comes from the Frequently Asked Questions section in last year's edition of EWG's "Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce:"
Should I stop eating celery or blueberries or other produce items on your Dirty Dozen list?
No, that has never been the Shopper's Guide message. We would certainly recommend produce from our Dirty Dozen list in lieu of other, less-healthy foods or snacks, like fat-, sugar- or additive-laden processed products. But with the Shopper's Guide you can have all the benefits of eating more produce while substantially reducing dietary exposure to pesticides.
No group in the public interest community has done more than EWG to advocate for shifting federal resources away from large commodity crop growers and toward conventional and organic fruit and vegetable production and healthy food initiatives for families and schools. One of EWG's top priorities in the current fight over the 2012 farm bill is to take $1.5 billion in tax dollars that have been going to grain and cotton growers and use that money instead to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to the 30 million+ kids enrolled in more than 100,000 schools served by the federal school lunch program.
EWG has been loud and clear all along that consumers should eat a diet rich in fruits and veggies, but we're also concerned about dietary exposures to pesticides -- particularly in young children -- and that's the glaring difference between us and the AFF trade group, its members and other chemical agriculture interests.
TK: Somehow consumers can't connect with the message "Enjoy the heck out of your fruits and vegetables, even if they are on our Dirty Dozen list." Eating these pesticide-laden fruits and veggies might be better than injecting lard into your bloodstream, EWG seems to say.
EWG can't continue to have it both ways. Either they are for conventional blueberries or they are against them. Either the federal safeguards in place for pesticide use on fresh produce are sufficient or they are not. If EWG really believes in fruits and veggies, the group should drop all references to "Dirty Dozen" from its website immediately.
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Lord McAlpine's lawyer has warned that legal action was being prepared against ITV's This Morning and a lengthy list of Twitter users who identified the peer's name in connection with false sex abuse claims - and that it would cost them "a lot of money".
The warning came as the former Conservative Party treasurer neared a settlement with the BBC over false claims made in a Newsnight report, which led to the resignation of BBC director-general George Entwistle.
Lord McAlpine said the damage "can't be repaired", and that he has to live with the legacy of suspicion.
He said that his legal team would ensure that anyone who brought the matter up again would be "very, very foolish".
In an interview for Radio 4's World At One, Lord McAlpine said the BBC could have saved "a lot of agonising and money" by simply calling him before the programme went out.
Ofcom said that it was investigating the broadcast, which has further fuelled the crisis which has gripped the corporation since the Jimmy Savile scandal broke.
The regulator is also investigating ITV1's This Morning after presenter Phillip Schofield brandished a list of names of alleged abusers which he had found on the internet and handed it to the Prime Minister during a live interview, asking if he would investigate them. The stunt provoked fury last week, and ITV said that disciplinary action had been taken.
Lord McAlpine was mistakenly implicated by Newsnight's November 2 broadcast in a paedophile ring that targeted children at a care home in Wrexham in North Wales.
Although the programme did not name the peer - referring only to a senior Conservative from the Thatcher era - he was quickly identified online.
Lord McAlpine's solicitor, Andrew Reid, told the World At One programme that action would be taken against "a lot of people" who linked the peer's name with the unfounded allegations. And he called Schofield's actions "very low".