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YOUNGSTERS across Dudley borough are being encouraged to get a wiggle on and help raise funds for a leading children's charity.
Action for Children is teaming up with The World of Eric Carle and encouraging local children's centres, nurseries and groups for under-5s to host a Giant Wiggle event on March 20 for The Very Hungry Caterpillar Day.
The day, celebrated annually, marks the start of the 45th anniversary celebration of the UK's most read children's book, and 2014 marks Action for Children's 145th year.
Children will be sponsored to wiggle along in giant caterpillar conga lines and throughout the day will be encouraged to help others and open up their imaginations through storytelling and creative activities.
Amanda Quinn, fundraiser at the charity, said: "What better way to celebrate the anniversary of Eric Carle's beloved book than by getting kids active and having fun. "By hosting a sponsored Giant Wiggle, you will be helping us continue to support vulnerable children, young people and families in the heart of communities in Dudley borough, and across the UK."
For more information, and to register for a fundraising pack to host a Giant Wiggle, visit www.actionforchildren.org.uk/giantwiggle or call 0300 1232112.


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I woke up at 5am on Saturday, May 4th to hit the road for the 40-mile drive to Kenosha, WI for the Wisconsin Marathon.
This was my first marathon since 2005 – after being a fairly decent distance runner in the early-to-mid-00s, I had to take a very, very long period off of running – which caused me regular sadness – due to a very pesky persisting health problem (which as a healthy male now in my mid-30s should not be). Finally, it was found – a sleep disorder of all things. The sleep disorder is not perfect now, but I have worked with it enough to finally start running again…thank God.
Perfect weather. High 40s; light breezes; mix of clouds and sun. The day before at this time it was pouring steadily and it was cold and windy, so weather was kind. Running tank top, running shorts, and gloves were all I needed – felt perfect the entire time.
My first mistake was underestimating the size of the marathon in relation to all participants (including half-marathoners), supporters, and available parking spaces in Kenosha. I had (incorrectly) read reports online that parking close to the start line was a virtual breeze. So, after parking about a half-mile or more away (and it now being about 6:45), I had to actually run just to get to the start line on time. Idiot (me)!
At any event, after getting to the start line, I was so nervous I would be late. It was about 6:52, and I still had to rip off my long, outside clothes, bag them, and get them to the bag check (and of course, I couldn't find it which freaked me out further). I finally found it – there was a very cool and helpful volunteer (the first of very many I would encounter) who totally saved me time there and took care of my stuff. It was now 6:56 or so. Then, I had to pin my four GU's on into the insides of my shorts. I snaked through the start line masses up to the lineup area between the 8 minute-mile and 9 minute-mile pace signs. Was still shaking a bit, but managed to get my 4 GU's pinned in at 6:58. Disaster averted. Lesson to self: get there way earlier next time.
National anthem, moments for Boston…and we were off (marathoners and the much bigger pool of halvers).
While this race is relatively small (1,060 marathoners and about 2500 halvers), given the size of the Kenosha streets that you start off on, it was quite crowded and slow going to start.
Immediately, I was struck by the paces I was observing around me. I was forcing myself to jog, go slow, enjoy some early sights, and not be swept in of the emotions of people passing me. I decided to GPS / time myself for the first four miles, to keep myself honest-but-slow, and then to stow my iPhone for the next 11 miles and just run those by "feel". I think ultimately, this strategy worked OK.
I was shooting to run this in 3:45 or less, and I think in retrospect, my first four miles were OK, although perhaps I was just a tick too slow with them:
1: 8:34
2: 8:39
3: 8:33
4: 8:41
These miles felt extremely easy, and I was just more observing the bigger-than-expected crowds of supporters. Running through Kenosha streets and downtown, I was surprised by the vocal support that really turned out (aided I am sure by the weather).
One thing I was really surprised at though – and I do not mean this in a snooty way whatsoever (I am just an average running noob myself), but I was amazed by mile 2, how much extremely heavy breathing I was hearing around me. I wanted to tell some of the folks, "people, you do realize that you have 11 more miles to go, correct?"
At any event, I then shut down my electronics and ran by feel. Miles 4 through 15 were run at a very relaxed pace (probably too relaxed a bit in retrospect). We ran much along the scenic Lake Michigan shoreline, winds were steady but nothing bad, temps were perfect.
The half marathoners finally broke away around mile 12, and that was a highlight. It was great having more room, more quiet, and more people after similar paces and goals around. It really did get quite quiet…and now it was more about running, as spectators became sparser as well. We were starting to get into the more high-end, suburban Pleasant Prairie residential neighborhoods, and then shortly thereafter into rural areas (including some miles of rocky, gravel laden trails).
By mile 15, I contemplated turning my mobile device back on to GPS / track time. I considered not doing so, because no one was passing me, my pace felt strong and steady, and I was giving a fairly full effort. However, ultimately I decided to turn it on, and I am glad I did. I was at about an 8:50 pace, which was not really an acceptable pace for me to be at. At that point, I decided, "do I continue to just run the rest of this thing, or do I try to correct my lazier pace from the last 10 miles, start really running an actual race, and try to get close to being under 3:45 like I should be?" I opted for the latter. Sitting here today, I am glad I did.
Once I realized I was at a 8:52 clip, and I guesstimated that I must have been running at or near that clip over the last 11 miles, I knew I needed to start upping the tempo and pushing my body a bit to have a shot at 3:45. I was partially mad at myself, and partially just driven to start to push.
Immediately, I started passing a number of folks. I was struck, once I upped my pace that my body responded very well. It felt strong. My breathing was effortless. Cardiovascular-wise, I knew I would be fine. My worry was my muscular status – I was already feeling my legs.
Splits after the iPhone went back on:
15: 8:41
16: 8:45
17: 8:20
18: 8:27
19: 8:23
20: 8:22
21: 8:15
22: 8:09
23: 8:05
24: 8:15
25: 8:40 (yes, 24 to 25 is where I started to feel the slog)
My shining moments in this race came from mile 19 through 24 – not only by split time, but also by how I was running. I was running at an actual "race" tempo now, and my body was responding brilliantly (to me at least). I knew that my 3:45 goal was a barrier, but still achievable, and my body just kept in lock-step motion like I was on mile 9 rather than 19. I started passing folks left and right. A few aid stations I just barreled on through, and I started to pass guys that I thought I had absolutely no chance of passing a few miles back. At this point, no one was passing me – from miles 19 through 24, I probably passed 20 to 30 people.
I remember feeling so good, and so strong, that at mile 22, I blurted out in an ultimate foolish act of bravado "screw this; no more aid stops – I am running this through to the finish!"
Well, then, all of a sudden, right around mile 24, boom – I wouldn't say I hit "the wall"…but my body started to finally get into rebellion mode. Cramping wasn't an issue, but leg muscles not used to yet running 21+ miles started to cry out. And now, for the first time, I was breathing fairly more pronounced. I wasn't going to let folks pass me – and I wasn't going to crash. But I wanted to now. All of a sudden, I had to force through pain to keep going. 2.2 miles felt like it would be an eternity.
Mile 24 was painful but still fairly fast-ish, keeping me on the chance to break 3:45 or come darn close. An aide station came up at mile 25, and I had to decide going through it (better shot at breaking 3:45 but also risking finally more of a real wall) or stopping to walk through and grab a Gatorade. I opted for the latter. And I ended up walking a few more seconds than I had wanted - or hoped, while sipping Gatorade.
My body wanted to be done, but I forced myself to break out again hard (put away the iPhone – now it was me and 1.2 very hard miles to give it all I had). Some spectator / volunteer (middle aged fellow) was so super cool here, as he was pushing me hard with encouragement when I got to the aid station…I think he was slightly disappointed (though didn't say anything) that I was lingering for a few seconds and he may have thought I was crashed. And when I bolted away again, he started bellowing encouragement to me again as I sprinted away. I really appreciated that guy's efforts.
I was now really hurting, and the last 1.2 miles were a beast – they seemed to last forever. Yet course volunteers were so cool, spectators kept encouraging, pushing, etc. Finally I saw the finish line, and made a final sprint / push. I heard one guy say "you are doing great – you're at 3:44 right now – you are almost there!" "3:44?!!" I thought – I pushed hard. I was proud to be able to pass 3 or 4 final folks on the way to the finish line. My wife, kids (ages 8, 6, and 2), and folks had come and camped out near the finish, and when they saw me, the genuine shouts and smiles that I saw and heard from them were like gold. I finished…and I knew that I had come so very close to 3:45.
(Clock showed 3:45:25 when I finished, but I knew I hadn't crossed the start line for quite a bit at the start, so I thought I had a chance at 3:45).
Final time? Officially: 3:44:59 - I beat my goal time by...one second.
I was so happy to see my kids when I was done. It was a real privilege to finish and to see a happy, encouraging family. However, I was also a bit dead – my legs were killing me, just killing me. I remembered back to when I finished my first marathon – in Albuquerque, NM – in 2005, in far better time – 3:35 – how much better I felt at the finish. Here, I felt so sore, exhausted, and while cardiovascular-wise I felt great, like I could've pounded out 10 more miles, my leg muscles felt otherwise.
At this point, I realized that while I was officially back to being a marathoner, and was overjoyed for that fact, I knew that I was in much poorer shape – and slower – than I was at the finish line in '05. I was happy to have beaten my goal, but I felt – and feel now – like it should not have been *quite* that hard, and likely, with better training and conditioning, I should probably be about 15 minutes faster. I partially feel like I accomplished quite a bit, yet, I know that this should not be my best effort (however, to my level of training, on May 4th, it was).
So…mixed emotions for sure. I guess it gives me a goal to shoot for in the fall: to finish faster, and feeling stronger / better. I AM back to being a marathoner again though, and that is the biggest thing. I would not trade Saturday, May 4th 2013 for anything in the world.
(By the way, the free post-race beer tasted better than I could have ever imagined! And oh…what an underrated marathon the Wisconsin Marathon is. Tremendously friendly, encouraging, and numerous volunteers – they were great. And the spectators were all great too. Just a very fun race that was very well organized).


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First, if you haven't done so, please do take the time to read my previous article, What I Use: Hotmail and Exchange for Email as well as the relevant email consolidation articles cited within. I spent much of last year examining the different ways in which one can consolidate email accounts through a central "master" account, and what I've found is that it's better to forward email from what I think of as the sub-accounts (that is, your "non-master" email accounts; the "other" email accounts) than it is to collect email from sub-accounts using your master account. If that doesn't make sense to you, check out Email Consolidation: How To Forward Email To Other Accounts for the details.
Here's what I'm doing.
I had previously configured all of my personal/secondary email accounts to forward to Gmail. And aside from my Hotmail account, they are all still doing so. The advantage of forwarding (vs. what I call "collecting") is that it's immediate. When an email comes in to another account, it's forwarded immediately. With collecting, things aren't immediate.
I have several accounts forwarding to Gmail. These include two secondary Hotmail accounts, one with a custom domain, a secondary Gmail account with a custom domain, a Yahoo account, a MobileMe/iCloud account, a personal account on its own system, and so on. When I was using Gmail as my primary email account, I had configured it to send mail as all of these accounts. So I could start a new email and then choose the account from which to send it. But the truth is, I almost never needed to do this.
When switching to Hotmail, I first stopped forwarding the mail from Hotmail to Gmail, of course. Then, I configured Gmail to forward all of the mail received there to Hotmail, and to archive that mail so it didn't just sit in the Gmail inbox. This is configured in Mail Settings, Forwarding and IMAP in Gmail.
Since all of my other (secondary) email is still being forwarded to Gmail, it is, in turn, automatically forwarded to Hotmail now, thanks to Gmail's own forwarding. I could have reconfigured every secondary account to forward instead to Hotmail, but why bother? It works fine as is.
Once Gmail was set up to forward all of its mail, the effect was instant. As mail comes in, it's forwarded automatically and never hits the Gmail inbox (since its archived). This means email delivery to Hotmail is effectively instant, or at least appears to be, no matter where the email is delivered originally.
OK, so email is coming into Hotmail. Check. The next step is configuring Hotmail properly. And there are a few things I did here to make Microsoft's webmail service work a bit more to my liking. Most of these settings can be found in Hotmail Options, which certainly presents a lot of information, but it's worth stepping through each to make sure everything's the way you like.
For me, there are a few critical options. First, in Sending/receiving email from other accounts, you can configure Hotmail to send mail as if it were another email account. Here, I configured Hotmail to be able to send mail as if it were Gmail, simply because so much of my personal email still goes through Gmail. That may change over time, I'd imagine, but being able to send mail as if from Gmail is currently useful to me.
In the past, I had described Gmail as "more efficient" than Hotmail, and while there were a few reasons for that description, Microsoft has been kind enough to eliminate one of the big ones. Now, you can navigate to Sent Message Confirmations in Hotmail Options and choose "Skip the sent message confirmation page and go directly to the inbox." This means you'll no longer be asked--every single time you send an email reply--if you'd like to add the recipient to your contact list. This is huge for me because I answer a lot of listener and reader emails and don't ever want to add those people to my contact list.
You might also want to take a look at the Keyboard Shortcuts area. If you're coming from another popular service--currently Yahoo! Mail or Gmail--Hotmail can be configured to use the keyboard shortcuts that work in those services. And I actually did configure this for Gmail originally. But since the other two accounts I'm currently using--Exchange 2010 and Exchange Online in Office 365--all use the same native keyboard shortcuts as does Hotmail, I've since decided to learn these and have configured Hotmail for "Hotmail and Outlook Web Access (OWA)." I'm getting the hang of it.
Hotmail also includes ways to import Google-based contacts and calendars, which makes the Hotmail migration all the easier.
To import your Gmail contacts into Hotmail, navigate to Hotmail Options, Customizing Your Contacts, Importing Contacts. Gmail is one of the supported services, so just pick that and step through the wizard.
To import your Google Calendar-based calendars, first export your Google Calendar via Calendar Settings, Calendars, Export Calendars. This will create a ZIP file that contains an ICS file for each of your calendars. Extract each of the calendars to your Windows desktop or whatever. Then, in Hotmail, navigate to Hotmail Calendar and click Subscribe. Select "Import from an ICS file" and then choose one of the ICS files you extracted. (You must do one at a time.) Give the calendar a name, choose a color, and click Import Calendar. Done!
Since doing all this a few weeks back, I've been using Hotmail regularly and have really grown to like it. In fact, I've pinned Hotmail via Internet Explorer to my Windows taskbar (this works in Windows 8 and 7) and added my work related-email and Office 365 in other tabs, so each time I open Hotmail I get all my email in one window, much as would be the case with a native application.
This pinned web app even provides new email notifications, though only for Hotmail:
Coincidentally, both Microsoft and Google have made some webmail-related moves in the past week that relate to my own conversion from Gmail to Hotmail.
First, Microsoft has posted its own post about this kind of migration. Called Turn over a new leaf and switch from Gmail to Hotmail in 3 easy steps, this post describes why you might want to make such a change--Hotmail and Facebook integration, easier sharing of photos via email, Office integration, and Hotmail's excellent graymail capabilities--before going on to explain how to make the switch. And this post highlights something I've not described: How to import your old Gmail messages into Hotmail. So if this is a need, be sure to check out the Microsoft post.
Meanwhile, Google this week fixed two issues with Gmail and Google Calendar with regards to Windows Phone. This undercuts a few of the advantages of using Hotmail with Windows Phone, which was a consideration for me in making this migration since I do use Windows Phone. And while i wrote about this a bit yesterday in my own post, Google Now Supports Multiple Calendars on Windows Phone 7.5, it's worth reiterating what these changes are here.
First, as suggested by my blog post title, Google now explicitly supports multiple Google Calendar-based calendars on Windows Phone 7.5, which is great because you previously had to know a workaround to get this to work. Second, Google is now supporting the Gmail "send as" feature I describe above on Windows Phone, meaning that you can configure your Gmail account on Windows Phone and then send mail as if from other email accounts too. That's pretty slick.
In fact, it's so slick you may be wondering why you can't do that with Hotmail. It's a fair enough question, but there is a workaround. And I coincidentally wrote about this very topic just last week in Windows Phone 7.5: Linked Inbox for Email Consolidation. The trick is to set up each email account in Windows Phone and then use the Linked Inbox feature to have a single, integrated email client that can send mail from each account.
In any event, my move from Gmail to Hotmail has gone so well I'm a bit surprised. Further surprising is that I had this notion in the back of my head that I'd one day move this centralized account over to Office 365, but after struggling through the custom domain process and a few other issues I'll be writing about in the coming weeks, I'm now not so sure. Hotmail is free, supports custom domains, and works well. It integrates nicely with the products and services I use everyday like Windows Phone, Xbox 360, SkyDrive, and Office, and even has some interesting features--SkyDrive-based email "attachments", graymail parsing, and so on--that other services can't match.
This is all very strange to me because there's a perception out there, especially among the technocrati, that Hotmail is somehow old fashioned or passé and that no one in the know would ever use this service. That's nuts. Overall, Hotmail works just as well as Gmail does, and once you factor in all the integration benefits, it's almost no contest. There's nothing wrong with Gmail, mind you, but only someone who's not really used Hotmail would criticize it. This service works very well. And I'm happy to stick with it.


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DIAMOND BAR – A LifeStream blood drive will be held Dec. 22 at Sky Blue Pools, 23545 Palomino Drive.
The drive will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Donors receive (while supplies last) a free movie ticket.
All prospective donors should be free of infections or illness, weigh at least 110 pounds, and not be at risk for AIDS or hepatitis.
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Available in December of 2012, the i-Pilot Link enables your Minn Kota trolling motor and Humminbird fishfinder to talk to each other. i-Pilot Link delivers automatic boat control and the power to find, store and revisit your most productive fishing spots and tracks. And you can take command of it all from either the wireless remote or the Humminbird fishfinder. It's less time positioning your boat. More time catching fish. Now you're talking.
Together, Minn Kota & Humminbird give you the power of automatic boat control and the ability to create, store and revisit productive spots and paths - all while retaining the original i-Pilot functions. Add a LakeMaster digital GPS map into your Humminbird and you can follow any depth contour you choose, automatically, or cast to it from a set distance with Contour Offset. All with unparalleled GPS accuracy. It's the missing link to better fishing.
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WISErg, a bioclean technology company, announced that its WISErganic All Purpose Organic Liquid Fertilizer passed inspection by the California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA) and is now approved for use by California organic growers. WISErganic is compliant with all CDFA regulations as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program standards. With this certification, California's organic crop producers and environmentally conscious landscapers now have a natural alternative to fish fertilizer, one with no offensive odor and even higher levels of nitrogen and other nutrients required for healthy soil.
WISErganic is a premium organic liquid fertilizer that is derived from discarded food scraps using an innovative, low-impact technology process that rescues and reuses organic material before it begins to decompose. This is an important consideration given that food scraps account for more than 20 percent of all landfill methane emissions. With WISErganic, California based food growers -- from agribusinesses to backyard gardeners -- now have a pesticide-free product for replenishing soil nutrients that won't clog irrigation systems, leads to sustained crop performance and is produced in an environmentally sustainable way.
"We don't look at food scraps as waste, but as an untapped resource for a complete circle that takes us from grower to grocer and back to the grower," noted Larry LeSueur, CEO, WISErg. "By using the WISErg Harvester and our patent-pending conversion process, we can capture and stabilize food scraps at a retail, restaurant or campus facility before they decompose and become unusable. The process is completely natural, produces no harmful by-products or emissions and results in WISErganic, a nutrient-rich fertilizer for organic food production."
WISErganic is also certified and approved for use by organic growers by the Washington State Department of Agriculture's Organic Program.


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Hello and thank you for reading my 1st edition of KimoTherapy. I want to use this and future entries to voice my opinion on specific wrestlers and storylines going on in the E.
I'd like to use this first edition of KimoTherapy to discuss Dean Ambroses' character as well as The Shield and their booking.
First Dean Ambrose, I know i'm not the only one who watches his character


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Composer. He wrote the first important German Romantic opera, "Der Freischutz" ("The Free-Shooter", 1821). The plot, taken from an old folk tale, concerns a hunter who makes a pact with the devil for magic bullets that never miss their targets. Thoroughly German in sound and setting, it challenged the Italian style (epitomized by Rossini) that dominated European opera at the time. "Der Freischutz" was also one of the earliest music dramas to employ leitmotivs (recurring musical themes), a technique subsequently developed by Richard Wagner and his followers. Weber's other major operas were "Euryanthe" (1823) and "Oberon" (1826), though only their overtures are still heard today. His most popular instrumental work, the "Invitation to the Dance" (1819) for piano, is more often performed in an orchestral transcription by Berlioz. Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was born in Eutin, Holstein, Germany, and studied music with Michael Haydn and Abbe Vogler. He first won fame as a pianist and wrote two piano concertos (1810, 1812) and the "Konzertstuck in F" (1821) for his own performance. From 1813 to 1816 he was director of the Prague Opera and he was appointed director of the Dresden Opera in 1817. As a conductor Weber helped pioneer the use of a baton to lead the orchestra, replacing the Classical method of conducting from the piano or Concertmaster's desk. His advocacy of a German brand of opera, along with his headstrong personality, met with fierce opposition from defenders of the Italian tradition in his country. Even after "Der Freischutz" enjoyed an unprecedented success in Berlin he had to struggle to get his stage works played, and the experiences undermined his health. In 1826 Weber traveled to London to supervise the Covent Garden production of "Oberon", despite the fact that he was gravely ill with tuberculosis. He died soon after the premiere and was interred in the chapel of London's principal Catholic church, St. Mary Moorfields. Weber's nationalist aspirations profoundly influenced future German composers. In 1844 Richard Wagner, one of Weber's successors as head of the Dresden Opera, arranged to have the composer's remains brought back to the city and buried in a grave of honor. Wagner noted in his eulogy that as a youth he had "learned to love music by way of my admiration for Weber's genius".
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Date: Thursday, June 19, 2014
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Over the past two seasons, Starter A has these numbers: 31-11, 3.63 ERA, 384 innings and a .247 opponents' batting average.
Starter B: 30-11, 3.11 ERA, 399 1/3 innings and a .243 opponents' batting average.
So why is Starter A, otherwise known as Zack Greinke, expected to fetch a record deal as a free agent while Starter B, a.k.a. Kyle Lohse, sits around waiting for Greinke's leftovers?
OK, there's age. Greinke, 29, holds a decisive advantage over Lohse, who is 34. Greinke also has better stuff, with a fastball that averaged 92.4 mph compared to 89.5 for Lohse, according to fangraphs.com.
But are those really enough reasons to give Greinke a deal worth upwards of $100 million more than what Lohse is expected to score?
Only for teams that like to throw away money.
Seriously. For at least the next two years, there is no reason to believe that Greinke will pitch any better than Lohse.
Greinke isn't even viewed as a No. 1 starter by some teams. Lohse might not be, either, but he was the St. Louis Cardinals' No. 1 last year. He beat the Miami Marlins on opening day with six innings, he was the winner in the wild-card game against the Atlanta Braves and he went 16-3 with a 2.86 ERA.
Yet Lohse was listed on only four out of 32 ballots cast for the NL Cy Young award and, despite a strong first half, rated barely a mention for All-Star consideration. When I asked him about this lack of respect, he laughed and said, "Have you seen my career?"
Well, for a good part of his career, Lohse didn't merit great respect. When he broke in with the Twins, he was known as a guy who wanted to strike out everyone. When he ran into trouble, a Twins executive says, "he would try to throw the ball threw the wall." The Twins eventually gave up on him, and he bounced around for a couple of years.
Landing with the Cardinals during spring training 2008 turned around the Californian's career. Specifically, working with then-pitching coach Dave Duncan turned around Lohse's career. Under Duncan, he went from trying to miss bats to trying to miss the barrels of bats. He became a pitcher instead of a thrower.
He won 15 games and scored a four-year, $41 million deal. He then endured two miserable seasons because of a nerve issue in his right arm but once that finally was fixed, he picked up where he had left off and became one of the NL's most consistent pitchers.
The Cardinals deemed Lohse expendable because they already have four starters under contract and a host of youngsters ready for a chance.
Lohse isn't looking for a Greinke-sized deal and figures to land anything from three years, $36 million to four years and $60 million. Since his agent is Scott Boras, his deal likely will lean to the latter. Mainly, Lohse wants to play for a contender.
With no shortage of contenders seeking starters, he should get his wish. And whoever lands him will be glad they did—more so than whatever team gives Greinke so many millions more.


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Thanissaro Bhikkhu wrote:So don't think that the elementary practices are just for people on an elementary level. They're for everybody. That's how everybody gets started and everybody keeps going. You build on them. You don't abandon them. You build on them. You include more and more subtle levels. But the basic levels stay there as well, until, as the texts say, generosity is no longer something you do for your own sake or for the sake of other people. It becomes just a natural expression of the mind. All the steps of the practice become a natural expression of the mind once it's fully trained.
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Beijing Gold Rush starts Saturday
Over 10,000 athletes have come to Beijing, China with one of either two goals – represent their country proud or win a gold medal.
That's the hope that everyone will be carrying as they march into the opening ceremonies tomorrow for the 29th Summer Olympic Games, which runs from Saturday, August 9 to August 24. Some are just happy to be there but others have high expectations of coming back with some hardware.
The United States is sending close to 600 athletes and here we'll try to highlight some of the local faces that you'll see competing throughout the next two weeks as well as notable Black athletes in other sports.
Tayshaun Prince (men's basketball, 1st Olympic appearance): The Detroit Pistons forward and former McDonald's All-American at Dominguez High School will try to help Team USA seek redemption and reclaim its first gold medal since 2000.
Lisa Leslie (women's basketball, 4th) – In her final Olympics, the Morningside High School and USC alum will try to be the second four-time gold medalist for women's basketball, behind Teresa Edwards. She's also in the running to join a select company of Olympians who won a gold medal in an event for four consecutive Games (including Carl Lewis).
Allyson Felix (200-meter dash, 2nd): The L.A. native out of Los Angeles Baptist High School is looking to improve on winning a silver medal in the 200-meter dash at the 2004 Athens Games. She finished first at the Olympic trials in July and is the overwhelming favorite in the event.
Venus Williams (tennis, 3rd) – The defending Wimbledon champion is looking to improve on being eliminated in the round of 16 in 2004. One of Compton's finest already won two gold medals back in 2000 and she'll be back in both singles and doubles competition.
Serena Williams (tennis, 2nd) – Along with her sister, the Compton native won gold in doubles competition at the 2000 Sydney Games. She missed the 2004 Games due a knee injury but she's back to compete in both singles and doubles.
Natasha Watley (softball, 2nd) – The UCLA and Woodbridge High School (Irvine) alum already won gold in 2004 and the sweet-hitting shortstop is looking for more hardware in Beijing. Unfortunately, this will be the last year for softball at the Games as the International Olympic Committee voted to drop it along with baseball.
Chaunte Howard (high jump, 1st) – The Riverside North High School alum won the Olympic trials after taking off 2007 to become a mother. Prior to that, she was the No. 1-ranked American in the high jump in both 2005-06.
Tina Thompson (women's basketball, 2nd) – Just like Leslie, the Morningside High School/USC alumna will be trying to add another gold medal to her collection. The Houston Comets forward is already one of the best to ever lace them up and she's ready to add another chapter to her legacy.
Torri Edwards (100m dash/4 x 100 relay, 2nd) – The Fontana native and USC alum finished second in the 100 at the Olympic trials and is on her own personal quest toward redemption. She was banned from competition from 2004-05 and also saw her relay gold medal from the 2000 Olympics stripped due to Marion Jones' admission of steroid use.
Angela Williams (4×100 relay, 2nd) – Arguably the most decorated sprinter in USC history, the former five-time state champion at Chino High School is looking to help the relay squad improve from their disappointing showing in 2004.
Monique Henderson (4 x 400 relay, 3rd) – The former UCLA Bruin won gold in the 4×400 relay in 2004 and she's looking to repeat.
Dawn Harper (110 hurdles, 1st) – An All-American at UCLA, Harper finished third at the Olympic trials.
Kobe Bryant (men's basketball, 1st) -The MVP may have lost his chance to win another ring, but he can join Michael Jordan as the only players to win a gold medal in the same year as the Most Valuable Player trophy.
Candace Parker (women's basketball, 1st) – The Sparks' talented rookie will attempt to join a rare club of athletes who have won an NCAA title and a gold medal and an even rarer group who have done it the same year (Patrick Ewing, Christian Laettner).
DeLisha Milton-Jones (women's basketball, 2nd) – The Sparks' forward won gold in 2000 and is back for a second tour of duty.
Maurice Edu (soccer, 1st) – The Fontana native and former All-American out of Etiwanda High School is off to a stellar career in Major League Soccer, being named 2007 Rookie of the Year, and he'll try to help Team USA to a strong showing.
Jeanette Bolden (track-and-field) – The women's coach and Compton native will return to the Olympics 22 years after winning a gold medal in the 4 x 100 relay in the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.
Jonathan Williams (400 hurdles, 1st) – This former Bruin will be running for Belize.
In addition to the local stars, there's also several notable Black athletes in other sports. Cullen Jones, the third African-American to qualify for the U.S. Swim Team, will compete in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay where he shares the world record.
James Blake will make his Olympic debut in both singles and doubles competition for the tennis team, Keeth Smart will make his third trip with the fencing team while his sister Erinn will be making her debut. In addition to Maurice Edu, the soccer team also features Freddy Adu and Jozy Altidore.
Which of these stars will come back Olympic heroes? Time will tell but we'll keep you posted on how our athletes perform as the best in the world show off their talents for everyone to see.


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Economy and Monetary Policy
Esther L. George President and Chief Executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Central Exchange Kansas City, Missouri January 10, 2013
The views expressed by the author are her own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve System, its governors, officers or representatives.
I'm pleased to be back at the Central Exchange. This is an important organization for women in Kansas City who contribute actively to our community in so many different ways, and it provides an important forum to share ideas, experiences and opportunities. The Kansas City Fed supports these goals, which are also reflected across all levels of our organization. Women play an important role on the Boards of Directors of our four offices and on our executive management team. In fact, several members of our leadership team are members of the Central Exchange, and I know their involvement here has benefited both them and the Kansas City Fed. I'm also honored to begin the New Year by continuing the tradition of first sharing my 2013 outlook for the economy here at the Central Exchange. Last year when I spoke, I was relatively new to the job as president of the Kansas City Fed. Over the past year, I have participated in meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee and traveled thousands of miles around the region and globe. In doing so, I have gained insights on the state of the economy in this region, in the nation and around the world, from sawmill operations in Hulett, Wyo., to international conversations in China. I also would note that although I have worked for the Kansas City Fed for more than 30 years, I have developed, in this broader role, a renewed appreciation for the Federal Reserve's structure, which provides 12 independent regional views on the economy in addition to the seven members of the Board of Governors in Washington. As a policymaker and Reserve Bank president, I have benefited tremendously from the insights of business leaders, financial market professionals, and others in our seven-state region who provide real-time perspectives on the economy and give me a forward-looking view of economic conditions. And those perspectives contribute importantly to my policy views at the Federal Reserve's monetary policy deliberations.
Later this month the FOMC will meet for the first time in 2013. Although each of the 19 participants at that meeting always engages fully in the discussion, only five of the 12 regional Reserve Bank presidents vote in a given year. I am a voting member this year. Given the current state of the world, much may yet change before this next meeting. Nevertheless, today I want to share with you my outlook for the U.S. economy and its ongoing recovery from a deep recession. I will then outline my perspective on the current stance of monetary policy and the challenges ahead.
The pace of recovery We are now in the fourth year of the economic recovery. It has been a slow and uneven recovery. The unemployment rate remains a relatively high 7.8 percent, and most estimates for GDP growth going forward suggest a modest 2 percent rate. There are several reasons why this recovery has been slower than in the past. For example, consumers have been deleveraging, perhaps wisely so. Based on analysis by staff at the Kansas City Fed, the percentage of consumers taking on more debt fell sharply during the last recession and has only modestly recovered. This reduction in debt has occurred across a wide variety of income groups and among individuals with widely varying access to credit. This reduced willingness to borrow, even at the current low interest rates, reflects recognition among households of the need to repair their balance sheets and restore their credit standing. Its effect also then is to slow consumer demand and to constrain GDP growth. Consumers' balance sheet adjustments are not the only factor hampering the pace of the economic recovery. Corporations also have been strengthening balance sheets, hoarding cash and often times borrowing to buy back shares or build cash reserves rather than build productive
capacity. And among these corporations are our nation's largest banks, which, during most of the past four years, have focused on repairing their own balance sheets while struggling with persistent double-digit delinquency rates on home loans and trying to manage the legal and regulatory uncertainties related to mortgage lending. These factors have impeded their willingness to lend for growth. Indeed, the four largest banking companies are 30 percent larger today than they were at the start of the financial crisis, but their business lending still has not returned to its 2008 peak. And finally, it is hard to find any news report that does not highlight the global uncertainty affecting business and consumer choices and their willingness to hire and spend. Concerns about fiscal policy here in the United States, or the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, all are playing a role in making this a difficult economic recovery.
Room for optimism If you look a little closer, however, you will also see a recovery that is building momentum despite the barriers impeding progress—and the progress is notable given the debt burden our economy carries and the depths of the financial crisis and recession we have suffered. Our economy's production of goods and services is back to its pre-recession level. Key sectors of the economy are showing marked improvement and are strengthening as we enter 2013. In particular, the housing sector has been showing convincing signs of healing after its fall during the crisis. House prices are now about 5 percent higher than a year ago and construction activity is steadily picking up. The auto sector is also benefitting from strengthening demand. Auto sales for 2012 came in 13 percent higher than in 2011 with 14.5 million vehicles sold—the highest level in about five years. Manufacturing activity has also held up reasonably well near
the end of last year, despite concerns that the United States might go over the so-called fiscal cliff. Part of the improvement in housing and auto sales reflects some improvement in the labor market. Employment growth averaged a bit more than 150,000 jobs per month in 2012—enough to keep up with population growth and slowly absorb some of those who are unemployed. To be sure, unemployment remains high and growth during this recovery has been only moderate despite more than four years of zero interest rates and aggressive large-scale asset purchases by the Fed. Pulling all these factors together and sorting through the fog of uncertainty, I expect that the economy will continue to grow a bit more than 2 percent in 2013 and that the level of unemployment will continue to decline, perhaps by another half a percentage point. This of course will depend on what happens in the Congress and across the globe. The economy also will be affected both in the short run and long run by Federal Reserve policies. So, let me turn now to monetary policy.
Monetary Policy Challenges The deep recession of 2007-2009 and the slow pace of the subsequent recovery prompted forceful action by the Federal Reserve and other central bankers around the world. As the severity of the recession and the financial crisis became clear, the FOMC lowered the federal funds interest rate on overnight loans, its traditional policy instrument, to within a target range of between zero and ¼ percent. With short-term interest rates effectively at zero since late 2008, the Federal Reserve has turned to unconventional policy tools designed to reduce longer-term interest rates in order to
provide additional support for the economic recovery. These unconventional tools have taken the form of large-scale asset purchases and announcements regarding the FOMC's intentions for future policy actions. Taken together, the monetary policy actions of the past few years have provided the economy with an unprecedented level of accommodation and a commitment to maintain an extraordinary level of accommodation well into the future. At its last meeting, the FOMC announced that, provided the inflation outlook does not move above 2½ percent, it expects to keep the federal funds rate close to zero until the unemployment rate reaches 6½ percent. In addition, the Committee decided to continue purchasing $85 billion in securities each month. Large-scale asset purchases were first introduced as an emergency measure in response to the financial crisis in 2008. The policy was continued into the following years to speed up the recovery, most recently with the announcement of open-ended purchases of both Treasury and agency mortgage-backed securities. These purchases, as intended, add reserves to the banking system and are designed to lower longer-term interest rates, affecting investments and borrowing. The policies have been supportive for the housing and auto sectors, as consumers are more likely to borrow and purchase a home or new car when interest rates are low. To a lesser extent, accommodative monetary policy also supports housing and equity prices so households can strengthen their balance sheets. These purchases also have their own set of risks and are not without cost. At their current level and pace of growth, I believe they almost certainly increase the risk of complicating the FOMC's exit strategy. The Fed's large holdings of both Treasury and agency MBS will eventually need to be shed from the Fed's balance sheet. Although such actions are likely only
well into the future, actively selling a large amount of agency MBS, as stated in the exit strategy principles, could be potentially disruptive to markets and market functioning, or cause an unwelcome rise in mortgage rates. Moreover, these purchases reinforce the perceptions that monetary policy will remain highly accommodative for a prolonged period, regardless of circumstances, thus risking an announcement shock when the Committee at last must reverse policy. To be clear, I agree that the depth of the last recession warranted a highly accommodative monetary policy response. Further, a recovery marked by high unemployment and low inflation may well warrant low rates for a longer period than usual. But, while I agree with keeping rates low to support the economic recovery, I also know that keeping interest rates near zero has its own set of consequences. Specifically, a prolonged period of zero interest rates may substantially increase the risks of future financial imbalances and hamper attainment of the FOMC's 2 percent inflation goal in the future.
Risks to financial stability A long period of unusually low interest rates is changing investors' behavior and is reshaping the products and the asset mix of financial institutions. Investors of all profiles are driven to reach for yield, which can create financial distortions if risk is masked or imperfectly measured, and can encourage risks to concentrate in unexpected corners of the economy and financial system. Companies and financial institutions, such as insurance companies and pension funds, and individual savers who traditionally invest in long-term safe assets, are facing challenges earning reasonable returns, and so they may reach for yield by taking on more risk
and reallocating resources to earn higher returns. The push toward increased risk-taking is the intention of such policy, but the longer-term consequences are not well understood. Of course, identifying financial imbalances, asset bubbles or looming crises is inherently difficult, as policymakers were painfully reminded during the financial crisis in 2008. Public transcripts of the FOMC's discussions from as early as 2006 show participants were clearly focused on issues in the housing market and yet did not fully appreciate the risk to the economy from the financial sector's exposure to risky mortgages. Accordingly, I approach policy decisions with a healthy dose of humility when considering the long-run effects of monetary policy. We must not ignore the possibility that the low-interest rate policy may be creating incentives that lead to future financial imbalances. Prices of assets such as bonds, agricultural land, and high-yield and leveraged loans are at historically high levels. A sharp correction in asset prices could be destabilizing and cause employment to swing away from its full-employment level and inflation to decline to uncomfortably low levels. Simply stated, financial stability is an essential component in achieving our longer-run goals for employment and stable growth in the economy and warrants our most serious attention.
Risks to the stability of inflation expectations The exceptionally long period of extraordinary monetary policy accommodation could also become a threat to the stability of longer-term inflation expectations. Theoretical analyses of monetary policy suggest that committing to a prolonged period of low interest rates can reduce unemployment and raise inflation, possibly above the FOMC's 2 percent goal. The FOMC has put this idea into practice by expressing, with its adoption of thresholds for inflation and unemployment, its tolerance for having the inflation outlook exceed 2 percent.
There is, however, an important caveat to such analyses: they assume the FOMC's longer-run inflation goal is never in doubt. In reality, a willingness to let inflation rise above the 2 percent goal for a protracted period carries the risk that longer-term inflation expectations may slip above levels consistent with the Committee's 2 percent goal and calls into question the Committee's commitment to its inflation goal. Restoring such a dent in the Federal Reserve's credibility would no doubt be very costly for the economy. In fact, history provides a valuable lesson here. With the benefit of hindsight, economists have concluded that in the early 1970s the growth in the economy's productive capacity slowed. By some accounts, the Federal Reserve's attempts to speed up the economic recovery in the face of lower growth potential ultimately contributed to a decade of high inflation. Discerning such slow-moving trends as they unfold in real time is extremely difficult, and failing to recognize them, or worse yet, ignoring them because they are so gradual, can be tremendously costly for the Federal Reserve and the economy.
Conclusion In promoting its longer-run goals, the FOMC must weigh the benefits and the risks of maintaining an unusually accommodative monetary policy stance for a protracted period. Like others, I am concerned about the high rate of unemployment, but I recognize that monetary policy, by contributing to financial imbalances and instability, can just as easily aggravate unemployment as heal it. Economic models tend to highlight the benefits of such a policy, but cannot fully account for the future risks.
I have highlighted the risk of financial instability and the risk of higher inflation because, although some say they are unlikely, history shows that becoming too sanguine about either can lull us into thinking we can avoid them.


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What would really be nice, in addition to translating the Chinese stuff, is if the Tibetan Agama material would also be translated. It is a shame that the Tibetan opted not to include a full Agama collection in their Kangyur, but there is, nonetheless, a fair amount of material just waiting to be translated, and I would hope it would be done along the lines of Lamotte's translations.Sylvester wrote:His forthcoming work (with Bucknell) on the translation of the complete Madhyama Agama from Chinese to English would be a fantastic supplement to this present work.
Keep your eyes peeled. 2012 should be a bumper year, what with Vol 1 of the said translation scheduled for print, as well as BB's AN translation.
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Weekend Box Office Report: 'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones' Gets 'Frozen' and Other Exciting Puns
Over the past few years, the 'Paranormal Activity' series has established itself as one of the most inexpensive and reliable horror franchises around. Produced for (non-literal) pennies, they've consistently opened strong at the box office, ensuring a fast and efficient turnaround. The latest film, 'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones,' has already accomplished that goal, but it did so without grabbing the number one spot. Sure, people may love found footage demons, but it turns out that they love animated singing princesses more.


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For decades, the conventional wisdom about energy production was that the world was slowly but surely depleting its supplies of recoverable oil and natural gas. Someday, substitutes would have to be found to keep our cars going, our factories humming and our homes functioning.
This assumption – combined with environmental concerns about fossil-fuel pollution – has led to billions of dollars in privately and publicly funded research into and development of cleaner but costlier sources of energy in the United States and around the world. Especially as concerns about global warming escalated, this has led to a presumption that the era of fossil fuels was in decline.
But this presumption has been demolished by rapid technological advances in oil and natural gas extraction.
"From the high Arctic waters north of Norway to a shale field in Argentine Patagonia, from the oil sands of western Canada to deepwater oil prospects off the shores of Angola, giant new oil and gas fields are being mined, steamed and drilled with new technologies," The New York Times reported in a 2011 special section on energy. "Put together, these fuels should bring hundreds of billions of barrels of recoverable reserves to market in coming decades and shift geopolitical and economic calculations around the world."
Instead of the era of fossil fuels coming to a close, nations around the world are joining in a drilling boom that will proceed no matter how much the U.S. government or U.S. environmentalists object. After years of economic drift and high unemployment in much of the world, worries about climate change are taking a back seat to desire for growth.
"Use whatever hackneyed phrase you want, like tectonic shift or game-changer," Edward L. Morse, global head of commodity research at Citigroup, told the Times. "These sources will dramatically change the energy supply outlook, and there is little debate about that."
In the United States, one of these technologically transformed drilling processes – hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking – is already having a huge impact. In the process, high-powered streams of water mixed with chemicals and some solids are used to blast away rock formations and access natural-gas and oil supplies.
Contrary to many media reports, fracking is not new and has only in recent years been depicted as "controversial." It was pioneered in the 1940s and has been used on more than 1 million wells. In the late 1970s, it played a key role in an unexpected U.S. natural-gas boom. For regulators in Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the presumption was that fracking was no dirtier or riskier than the typical heavy industry, and that its downsides could be addressed with proper oversight.
Now, however, fracking has become far more efficient thanks largely to advances in information technology. Drillers can take the equivalent of an intensely detailed MRI of square miles of underground, then know precisely where to aim their water cannons to free up supplies. There's also more use of horizontal drilling – rather than vertical drilling – easing access to reserves.
This new sophistication has led to productive natural-gas and oil drilling – and economic booms – in North Dakota, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and a growing list of states. The results are startling: The International Energy Association now forecasts the United States is on track to become the world's leading oil producer in coming years. A glut of natural gas in the U.S. has produced the cheapest prices in years. With many utilities switching from coal to much-cleaner natural gas, 2012 saw greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S. fall to a 20-year low.
This has occurred even though many of the areas in the U.S. with the greatest potential for hugely productive, wide-scale fracking have yet to be touched.
That list starts with California, which is believed to have more recoverable oil than the rest of the nation combined.
According to a 2011 Federal Energy Information Association report, the state's primary oil shale resource, known as the Monterey Formation, has at least 15.4 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil – and that is an estimate that's very much at the low end of the spectrum among energy analysts. Even that small figure is four times greater than the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and the Upper Midwest, where unemployment has plunged and tax revenue exploded. It suggests that California – at the least – has oil reserves comparable to Saudi Arabia.
The Monterey Shale can be found under large areas of Central and Southern California, including thousands of square miles on and off the coast from Orange County to Santa Barbara. But the primary focus of energy-exploration firms has been in the Central Valley, where the shale resource ranges from the east edge of Silicon Valley south to Kings and Kern counties.
Illustrating how the federal estimate may be on the low side, Occidental Petroleum estimates there are more than 20 billion barrels of potential oil just on shale reserves in California land that it already controls. While the Golden State's underground geology is more complex – thanks to seismic activity – than in states like North Dakota and Texas, the resulting complications are not expected to prevent successful extraction of oil reserves. Under Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, Occidental can only tout "economically producible" reserves in its SEC filings and the representations it makes to shareholders and potential investors. The third-largest U.S. oil and gas producer stands by its claim.
But even if the lower federal estimates of accessible reserves are accurate, their potential to transform California's economy is immense. The California Independent Petroleum Association says one oil rig alone creates 100 relatively well-paying jobs, which generally only require a high-school education and some training to perform.
Though California remains the fourth-largest oil-producing state, its production has declined since 1985. There are estimated to be only about 50 operational oil rigs in the state – down vastly from the 1920s, when California produced about one-quarter of the world's oil.
That could change immensely if the Monterey Shale were to be developed. Job creation, however, wouldn't be the only upside. Because California is the only major oil-producing state without a severance tax – sometimes called an extraction tax – on every barrel that drillers produce, there is a perception that increased oil production wouldn't be the bonanza here that it is in a state like Alaska, where the state imposes a 25 percent extraction tax, or that it is in Saudi Arabia, where oil wealth has so transformed the lives of residents that some compare life there to living inside a charitable foundation.
But a City Journal report in 2012 outlined how a Golden State oil boom would yield a prodigious revenue gusher: "Oil drilling ... produces plenty of revenue for the government. For starters, there are the sales, income and property taxes that oil producers pay – and it's worth noting that the state's property assessments take the value of proved reserves and extracted oil into account, meaning that the more oil is discovered, the higher the assessment and the higher the tax revenue. Then there's the 16.67 percent royalty that California takes from oil pumped from state-owned land and waters ...
"The state also gets half of the royalties on oil pumped from federal land in California, as well as 27 percent of royalties from oil produced in federal waters up to six nautical miles offshore. ...
"The state government would reap these rewards [from development of the Monterey Shale] without having to spend much initially, since the oil industry provides its own infrastructure of pipelines, tanks, pumps, drilling rigs, and refineries. All the drillers need is a green light."
But getting that green light is going to be an arduous process in the state that is arguably ground zero for world environmentalism. Green groups are vastly influential in California's dominant Democratic Party. The state's landmark 2006 environmental law, AB 32, which forces the state to gradually shift to cleaner but costlier types of energy by 2020, is a huge obstacle. Its cap-and-trade program on greenhouse-gas emissions is a de facto tax on oil and gas exploration. Complex rules meant to force a reduction in emissions of all transportation fuels over their entire history – from when they are first produced to when they are conveyed to storage facilities and then to users – also have the effect of giving imported oil a potential cost advantage over state oil produced by fracking.
Meanwhile, the environmental movement seems to be coalescing around an all-or-nothing strategy that depicts fracking as a threat to water supplies and air quality, a contributing factor to earthquakes, and an all-around unparalleled menace to America. This demonization is proceeding – and intensifying – even though fracking has been used for decades with little evidence that it is the environmental wrecking ball that green groups assert.
Next Sunday, we'll look at the claims that hydraulic fracturing is a Faustian bargain – a deal with the devil. And we will examine a fact that the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups never mention.
It isn't just Occidental, ExxonMobil, and other oil and gas giants who believe that the old conventional wisdom about fracking remains true – that it is no more of an environmental threat than any typical heavy industry. It is the administration of President Barack Obama.


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Braves' rally comes up short after Minor struggles
Left-hander tagged for six runs on 10 hits over three-plus innings
ATLANTA -- Given that Nathan Eovaldi and Henderson Alvarez stand as the opposition in the final two games of this four-game set, the Braves certainly did not want to drop two straight to the Marlins. But when evaluating the big picture, they had reason to be much more concerned by the fact that this second straight loss came courtesy of Mike Minor's most recent struggles.
Minor has been exposed to routine disappointment for more than a month now. But the Braves southpaw said that all of the previous frustration he has encountered this season was trumped by what he experienced in another shellacking in Tuesday night's 6-5 loss to the Marlins.
"I had a good mindset coming in after the break," Minor said. "It was one of those things where you come in and you feel like this is a clean slate and we're going to try to have a good second half here. Then, I come out and give up [10 hits]. We scored five runs. We should have won the game."
Long after Minor allowed 10 hits and six runs in a season-short outing of three-plus innings, the Braves put themselves in position to complete what would have been a spirited comeback. Jason Heyward's two-out, two-run single in the eighth inning cut the deficit to one run. Chris Johnson then provided further hope when he opened the ninth with a single off of Steve Cishek.
When Jordan Schafer replaced Johnson as a pinch-runner, it was obvious that he was going to attempt to steal second base. But after Cishek made four straight pickoff attempts, the Braves' decision to stick with this plan backfired as Jeff Mathis made a strong low throw that easily retired Schafer, who had been successful with 15 of 16 previous attempts. Cishek had foiled just one of the previous six runners who had attempted to steal against him.
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said he did not want to give up an out by having Andrelton Simmons attempt a sacrifice bunt before Schafer attempted to steal second base.
"You don't want to give up an out there and you've got Schafer sitting on the bench, you felt like you had a good chance stealing the base there and Mathis made a nice throw," Gonzalez said. "It wasn't in the air, it was a one-hopper, but that's almost better really and we didn't steal it."
Consequently, the Braves bid adieu to their ninth-inning rally and a short time later found themselves two games behind the first-place Nationals. But their standing in the National League East standings should not currently prove to be anywhere near as concerning as what has been seen from Minor, who has now allowed at least 10 hits in four of his past eight starts. He entered this troubling stretch having allowed a double-digit hit total in just three of his first 92 career starts.
"This year, it seems like I'm pitching to contact, but I'm really trying not to," Minor said "Last year, I just went after guys."
Whether it's a lack of aggression or a lack of command, Minor simply hasn't looked anything like he had while posting a 2.90 ERA in the 47 starts that stretched form July 5, 2012, through the end of last season. He lasted fewer than five innings in just two of those outings. Now, he has been unable to complete five innings three times as he's produced a 7.65 ERA in his past eight starts.
"I am a little concerned because we've seen so much better than that and we've seen a couple of good outings and then one like tonight and then a couple of good outings, so we'll keep working, we'll keep trying to work it out because he's a big part, a big piece of our rotation right now," Gonzalez said.
It looked like the Braves might compensate for Minor's struggles when they loaded the bases in the first inning. But Heyward's one-out bloop single scored the only run tallied during that frame, which concluded with Evan Gattis grounding into a double play. Justin Upton's two-out home run in the third inning accounted for the only other run allowed by Jacob Turner, who was making his first start since being moved to the Miami bullpen with a 6.38 ERA in June.
Donovan Solano paced the Marlins with four hits, including one of the three singles Minor surrendered before allowing his first run on Casey McGehee's double-play groundout in the first inning.
Giancarlo Stanton highlighted a three-run third inning with an RBI double. Minor's inability to command his fastball was evident once again when Turner began the fourth inning with a double. The Braves hurler exited two batters later, when Solano bounced a double over the left-center-field wall.
"I couldn't really throw anything on the corners tonight," Minor said. "Everything was running over the middle of the plate. Some of the balls that they mishit were still hits and still fell in."
Minor reiterated that he is physically healthy and unaffected by the fact that he essentially missed Spring Training because of a surgical procedure in January.
"I feel good and I don't want that to be an excuse," Minor said. "It's just been a rough season so far."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Back in 1974 Terry Gilliam made this tutorial film for the BBC about how he created the cut-out animations for Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Blimey - a look at my Wikio ranking (if anyone still looks at Wikio rankings) shows what happens when you don't blog for six weeks...
In case you've not been following, the reason I seem to have given up blogging is that I have to focus on my new book. It's going well: I've written about 45,000 words (about 140 pages) so far, but with a mid-January deadline I won't be having much of a Christmas, and I won't be blogging too often before it's finished.
But I just wanted to do a quick post because I went to the journalist's launch of Brew Dog's new London bar last night in Camden, North London.
And it's really just to reiterate what I said when I visited their Edinburgh bar in the summer, and express my delight that they've opened one a bit closer to my house.
No brewer divides opinion and stirs up as much controversy as Brew Dog. And they do that deliberately. Sometimes I write to slag off their childish pranks, sometimes to praise them. About two years ago half the blogosphere was devoted to discussion of their antics (oh, and their beers) and I've read some people say they gave up reading blogs because they were sick of reading about Brew Dog.
But the company is four years old now and maturing rather nicely. And the bars - which are starting to spread to many major UK cities - really are excellent.
Purists will be upset that they don't do any cask beers at all, but this would be a good experiment: if you're prepared to be open-minded, it's worth going along and challenging the keg offering to deliver. I think there's something there for everyone. Last night I was talking to someone who writes for London Drinker, CAMRA London's magazine, and we were disagreeing about keg beer - he was saying he could still taste the gas in the beers he was drinking and that he didn't like that and wished they were available on cask. But later, he tried some of the stronger beers and came back to tell me they were excellent.
So there's a great range on offer. And the other thing I love about Brew Dog bars is that when I walk in, and I feel a little bit old and that the bar might be too cool for school, this is dispelled as soon as I actually get to the bar. Brew Dog bars could so easily be too cool for school, and they're not. They're unpretentious and run by people with a genuine passion for beer, a passion they want to spread.
Finally, I went here directly from a new 'bar and kitchen' (ugh!) run by a reasonably large pub operator, that's moving with the times by stocking an interesting range of craft beers that will be familiar to geeks but you really don't see in many places at all. That's to be welcomed. But £4.25 for a pint of cask Meantime Pale Ale (4.2% ABV), brewed less then ten miles away, was taking the fucking piss. By contrast, the prices at Brew Dog were perfectly reasonable for what you were getting.
Gotta leave it there - got to go and write about Princess Margaret and the Bishop of Southwark having a lock in.
But if you're in London, go to Brew Dog Camden. And of you're not, don't worry - a Brew Dog bar will probably be opening a bit closer to you sooner than you think.
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KYOTO, Japan – Kazuo Inamori is a billionaire and Buddhist priest, a hard-headed tycoon and soft-hearted philosopher, a consensus-builder and boat-rocker. He is a study in contradictions, as is his relationship with his home-away-from-home.
He is enchanted and frustrated by San Diego.
He still hopes that this city will be the key to his dream: international recognition and respect for the Kyoto Prizes, annual awards he established to honor global leaders in advanced technology, basic sciences, and arts and philosophy. Attached to each award is a sizable check – 50 million yen, or $486,000 – and even larger hopes.
"We would like to believe that our endeavors are contributing to building a brighter future for humankind," Inamori said.
Outside Japan, though, humankind has been slow to notice. Since 2002, in a bid to win the world's attention, Inamori has sent Kyoto Prize laureates to speak at an annual post-awards symposium in San Diego.
The problem is the world has taken little notice. Ditto, most of San Diego.
"Some sessions drew only 20 to 30 people," said Tom Fat, a San Diego restaurateur who helped organize last year's symposium and related events.
The 20th annual prizes were bestowed last month during lavish ceremonies in Kyoto, Japan's ancient cultural capital. A San Diego delegation attended, anxious about losing the symposium to another city and eager for one more chance to make it work – but were they too late?
"I hope we see you in San Diego next year," one delegate told Heisuke Hironaka, a retired Harvard professor of mathematics and a Kyoto Prize executive committee member.
"Again?" Hironaka replied. "They were talking about last year being the last time in San Diego."
In the end, Inamori agreed to let San Diego host the Kyoto Laureate Symposium for another three years. The next is March 2-4.
But the Californians, led by Fat and real-estate magnate Malin Burnham, believe the extension is San Diego's last chance to be a part of Inamori's dream.
Why should San Diego care?
Why should anyone care about the dream of an engineer who grew up on the far side of the Pacific, a sickly child in a poor family from an obscure Japanese town?
Beyond death
At the age of 13, Kazuo Inamori was diagnosed with tuberculosis. The scourge had already killed two of his uncles, and the boy believed he was next.
This was in 1945, and his hometown, Kagoshima, offered many ways to die. Food was scarce and disease rampant. The night of June 17 and the next morning, U.S. B-29 bombers raided this southern Japanese port. By dawn, almost half of the city was rubble.
One day, the bedridden boy was visited by a neighbor. She brought a set of the works of Masaharu Taniguchi, a Buddhist thinker. Devouring the books, Kazuo forgot about life's inevitable destination and began pondering the varied routes along the way.
The war ended. The boy recovered. Japan's defeat meant hard times for the family, and an older brother and a younger sister left school to work. But Kazuo, an indifferent scholar, was ordered to continue his studies.
"My siblings made that sacrifice," he said. "I studied very, very hard and my academic scores rose to the top."
Still, he was not exactly on the fast track. He attended a so-so college and, after being turned down by several major corporations, took a job with a small Kyoto ceramics manufacturer.
The company offered low wages, uncertain finances and frequent strikes. Inamori responded in traditional Japanese fashion: He worked days, nights and weekends, developing new ceramic products for TV sets and other electronic devices.
In 1959, clashes with the director of engineering led Inamori to defy corporate Japanese tradition. He quit. Even more astonishing, seven colleagues walked out with him. Then, with the equivalent of $10,000, they founded Kyoto Ceramic Co. Ltd., later shortened to Kyocera.
The first years were tough. In 1961, 11 senior scientists presented Inamori with an ultimatum signed in blood. They demanded guaranteed wages, with generous raises, for the coming years.
He refused, but countered with a supremely Japanese offer: "I will share the benefits of the company so your difficult life will improve. And if we are very, very successful and I do not share with you the benefits of our work and discoveries, then you can kill me."
Inamori occasionally gambles and consistently wins. In 1985, he bankrolled a rival of the government-subsidized telecommunications giant and former monopoly NTT. His startup, KDDI, now owns 21.3 percent of Japan's mobile phone market.
As for Kyocera, its ceramics are found in everything from computers to medical equipment. In the fiscal year that ended in March, the corporation posted sales of $10.96 billion.
Now semi-retired, Inamori is alive and – like all who followed him from the beginning – very, very rich.
Seduction, Japanese-style
In a hillside villa above Kyoto's ancient palaces and temples, guests reclined on cushions in a cedar-paneled room. Through floor-to-ceiling windows, gardens gleamed in the starlight. At the front of the room, geishas swayed to a shamisen's mournful twang.
"They show only a little bit of skin," a Japanese businessman sighed. "So erotic!"
The food was superb. The booze was unlimited. The service was unmatched – at the door, three valets helped guests out of their shoes and into slippers.
And this was just one of several galas Inamori hosted during the week surrounding the 20th presentation of the Kyoto Prizes.
There was the banquet, attended by Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado, eight ambassadors, dozens of university presidents and deans, hundreds of corporate executives.
There were the laureates' lectures, delivered in cavernous Kyoto International Conference Hall.
There was the prize ceremony itself, also in the conference hall, a spectacle complete with symphonic fanfares, a children's choir and a whirling "Dragon God" in crimson robes.
Most of these events were not "erotic," but they were uniformly seductive. They all affirmed that the Kyoto Prizes are a Big Deal, a Major International Event that is – remember this phrase – "the equivalent of the Nobel Prizes."
As a young engineer, Inamori dreamed "that I might win the Nobel Prize with my research." But the 103-year-old prizes, established by Alfred Nobel, are awarded in six fields defined by the Swedish scientist and inventor's will: chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, economics and peace. Nothing for engineers or musicians, computer scientists or researchers of industrial ceramics.
In 1984, Inamori established the Inamori Foundation with 20 billion yen – or about $86 million – of his savings. The next year, the first Kyoto Prizes were awarded to two American scientists, one French composer and one Swedish institution: the Nobel Foundation.
Since then, the awards have honored dozens of luminaries, from primate researcher Jane Goodall in 1990 to pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1995. In fact, San Diego can claim three laureates: Sydney Brenner, a molecular biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 1990; Kurt Wuthrich, a structural biologist at Scripps Research Institute, 1998; and Walter Munk, an oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1999.
But it is difficult for a relatively new international prize to gain international attention. The competition is ferocious.
In 2001, for instance, the Norwegian government instituted the annual Abel Prize, dubbed "the Nobel Prize for Mathematics."
The Fields Medal, established 65 years before by the International Congress of Mathematicians, makes the same claim. The Fields, though, is awarded once every four years and then only to mathematicians who have not yet turned 40.
Math isn't the sole field trying to elevate its top prize to stratospheric heights. The Pritzker Prize (founded in 1979) is "architecture's Nobel." The Turing Prize (1966), "computer science's Nobel." The Templeton Prize (1972), "religion's equivalent of a Nobel Prize." The Ramon Magsaysay Award (1958), "the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize." The Stockholm Water Prize (1991), "the equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize in the field of water conservation."
There's even the Noble Prize (2001), awarded by the United Cultural Convention of the United States.
How, then, to judge the Kyoto Prizes' stature?
a) Ask the winners.
"I think in the United States, its recognition came a little on the slow side," said Dr. Alfred George Knudson Jr., a Philadelphia-based cancer researcher and the 2004 Kyoto Laureate in Basic Sciences. "I think now it is being recognized as a different kind of prize, because of the breadth of the creativity being recognized."
b) Better yet, ask the locals.
"Not only in Japan," Inamori said, "but in every country in the world, if a local award is set up, it is usually local people who are honored. . . . Sometimes, we've gotten criticism from Japanese people that too few laureates are Japanese."
Of the 65 Kyoto Prizes awarded to individuals to date, eight have gone to Japanese. Americans top the list with 29. Inamori insists that this kind of nationalistic score-keeping is irrelevant.
"The critical thing is the contribution to the whole of mankind. That makes national borders meaningless. If we focus on the contributions to all mankind, you have to think in terms of the globe."
c) Better still, ask history.
The Nobel Prizes have had more than a century to become the gold standard of international awards. Perhaps it is too early to assess the Kyotos.
Still, there are signs that the Kyoto selection committee is shrewd and informed. To date, four Kyoto laureates – including Salk's Brenner and Scripps' Wuthrich – later received Nobels. Only one person has received a Kyoto after taking the Nobel.
Inamori is not wasting his yen. But does his passion translate in San Diego?
The Kyoto what?
Business first brought Inamori to San Diego in 1971, and business has kept him coming back. His trips became more frequent after Kyocera's North American headquarters was moved to Kearny Mesa in 1975. Today, he averages four or five visits a year.
These are tightly focused excursions.
"Actually, my route is from the airport to the hotel to the company to the plant. I know some restaurants where we eat. I went to the zoo. I've visited SeaWorld, but where else, I don't know.
"But . . . I love San Diego very much."
In 1996, the University of San Diego bestowed an honorary doctorate of humane letters on Inamori. He responded by inviting Alice Hayes, then USD's president, to attend the Kyoto Prize ceremonies in Japan.
She did, several times, and perceived a kinship between the prizes' humanistic spirit and the goals of USD's new Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice.
In February 2002, all but one of the 2001 Kyoto laureates came to the institute for three days of lectures, concerts and panel discussions. It was the first year of the post-award symposiums in San Diego.
The next year's laureates also visited USD. Though architect Tadao Ando's speech was sold out, many sessions were sparsely attended. Unhappy with the turnout, Inamori began to consider his options.
Some felt that a re-evaluation was overdue. To publicize the Kyoto Prizes, doesn't it make sense to abandon San Diego for a major U.S. media market, such as New York or Los Angeles?
"Yes, it could be that way," Inamori allowed. "However, for the Kyoto Prize it is important that it be where there are people who understand and love the Kyoto Prize. I was impressed by the enthusiasm and passion expressed by former President Hayes."
Upon hearing of Inamori's dismay over the poorly attended events, restaurateur Tom Fat began thinking of ways to raise the symposium's profile. Then he called Malin Burnham.
"I want you to help me put on a gala," he told the retired real-estate magnate.
"What gala?"
"For the Kyoto Prize."
"What's that?" Burnham asked.
Fat filled him in. Then Burnham did his own research. He was astonished to find that a major international award had a strong link to San Diego. A link that seemed in danger of snapping.
Is the problem ignorance or indifference? Even San Diegans who are familiar with Inamori and his awards might wonder why they should care whether the laureates continue coming to town. These are the Kyoto Prizes, after all, not the Kearny Mesa Prizes.
But Burnham and Fat maintain that this association could boost the region's less-advertised qualities.
"We are known for our beaches and weather," Fat said. "Can you imagine what it could mean for San Diego to be associated with these intellectual prizes?"
Moreover, San Diego's universities and high-tech and biotech firms could trumpet their advances in two areas honored by Kyoto Prizes: advanced technology and basic science.
What would sell San Diego on the Kyoto Prizes?
"Promotion and exposure," Burnham decided.
This year, the San Diego symposium opened March 3 with the gala dinner envisioned by Burnham and Fat. Scholarships of $10,000 apiece were awarded to three Tijuana students and three San Diegans. The laureates appeared at USD, as well as at the University of California San Diego and San Diego State University.
Burnham, though, wants more. In Kyoto last month, he urged Inamori to establish a full-time presence in the United States: The Inamori Institute of – why not? – San Diego.
"This would promote the Kyoto Prize on a permanent basis here in San Diego," Burnham said. "And it could encourage scholars to do research and write papers and give lectures on Dr. Inamori's philosophy, on his concerns for peace and justice and brotherly love around the world."
Is this possible?
"We may not be able to reach a conclusion," Inamori said last month, "but I am very happy to continue the conversation."
He smiled. A considerate host, Inamori has mastered the art of hospitality. The night after the prize ceremonies, he invited 100 guests to Warin-an, Kyocera's guest house. After the wine was poured and before the geishas danced, the billionaire host went from table to table serving lean steak and fat scallops.
The diners included the laureates; Japanese businessmen; a dozen San Diegans, including Burnham, Fat and representatives of USD and UCSD; and officials from Case Western University and Alfred University. The Cleveland and upstate New York universities have received large donations from Inamori.
And both are capable of hosting a symposium.
The guests boisterously toasted the 2004 winners of the Kyoto Prizes: cancer researcher Knudson; computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay; and Jurgen Habermas, a German philosopher.
Then the San Diegans lowered their glasses and silently pondered what Inamori's long-term plans might be.


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