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EDMONTON — Margaret Marceniuk inhales her medical marijuana through a pharmaceutical puffer and a head-shop pipe.
Tamara Cartwright vaporizes her pot with a machine called a Volcano, then inhales three to four bags of the vapour while locked away in her bedroom, away from her toddler.
Ian Layfield in Victoria swallows cannabis-infused oil capsules he makes himself, frying olive oil with pot leaves, then straining it with cheese cloth and pouring it into gel caps. He also mixes cannabis into a topical cream he rubs into his left foot and ankle, which was crushed in October 2006 after being rolled over by a grader.
Todd Kaighin, an HIV patient in downtown Toronto, largely smokes traditional joints, while Janice Cyre outside Edmonton presses her marijuana leaves into steeped tea. Many users also nibble on the odd brownie or cookie baked with cannabis leaves, pot-infused oil or canna-butter.
All have their federal licences to legally take medical marijuana to help dull pain, boost appetite and curtail nausea or diarrhea associated with multiple sclerosis, colitis, severe arthritis, HIV or fibromyalgia. But all laugh disdainfully at the dried marijuana grown by the federal government in a mine in Manitoba, describing it as "dust" or "catnip in a bag" that has little therapeutic benefit and brings headaches.
They either buy their medical pot illegally through compassion clubs or legally grow their own plants in their basements, with some occasionally and reluctantly forced to buy from street dealers when their supply runs low.
Marceniuk, who recently moved to a small community west of Edmonton, has never smoked cigarettes and didn't rebel as a teenager by getting high on pot.
She refused to try medical marijuana for her constant pain while working as a school teacher and wasn't keen on using it while her two sons were still living at home.
But since she's been on disability for seven years, Marceniuk has slowly incorporated marijuana into her daily routine to help her with the debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis. She's one of 108 with the disease in Alberta — 480 across Canada — who can legally use marijuana under Health Canada's medical marijuana program, according to 2001 to 2007 data. More multiple sclerosis patients are allowed to use medical marijuana than any other patient group in Alberta. They make up 29 per cent of those with government approval. The next highest group, at 13 per cent of the total, are those with severe arthritis.
Diagnosed with MS at age 28, Marceniuk has experienced blindness, migraines, balance issues, chronic pain and fatigue. At 55, conventional medications only hold the pain at bay for so long.
"I have breakthrough pain," said Marceniuk, who is currently on 13 different medications, including one conventional pain killer. About seven years ago, she started using marijuana, first with Sativex, a legal synthetic marijuana she inhales in a puffer form similar to an inhaler for asthmatic patients.
Her doctor prescribes it like any other pharmaceutical and doesn't have to apply to Health Canada for a medical marijuana licence or use triplicate subscriptions, which are needed for opiates and narcotics such as morphine that have the potential for misuse or abuse. A vial of Sativex lasts about one month for Marceniuk, who inhales four puffs for each daily treatment. Three to four hours later, the associated high brings relief and dulls the pain.
But the Sativex didn't seem to help that much until Marceniuk began smoking dried marijuana in a pipe, about once a week. The relief from smoking was almost immediate, and the doctor believes the smoked leaf opened pathways that allowed the synthetic compound to work better.
"It doesn't get rid of the pain completely. As my son says, it makes me not care about the pain," she said. "It helps me get through the pain."
Marceniuk can legally take both forms of marijuana, since she has received approval from the federal government, but it took her two years to find a doctor willing to spend the time to fill out the lengthy forms for a licence. In January 2010, figures from Health Canada suggested 153 Alberta physicians supported marijuana prescriptions, compared to 685 in British Columbia and 939 in Ontario.
Marceniuk only smokes her pipe at home, occasionally supplementing with cannabis-infused brownies made with special oil. When out with friends, she takes Sativex, a more socially acceptable option that can be discreetly used in the washroom and leaves no odour.
She purchases her pot illegally from a compassion house in Vancouver she visits once or twice a year.
Until recently, she wasn't even aware Edmonton has had its own compassion house since 2004, easily found on the Internet, but quietly and purposefully kept under the radar.
"The stuff coming from the government is literally just dust," Marceniuk said. "I'm not impressed by it."
Nor are others, who say when the government harvests its crop, workers separate the cannabis leaves and buds from the crystals, the snowflake-like compounds that grow on the bud and contain most of the active ingredient called tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. The extracted THC is then made into a tincture or liquid form, and sprayed back onto the plant so that the THC levels are standard in all the product, at about 12.5 per cent, according to the Health Canada website. But critics say tests have shown levels far lower, at six per cent. They suggest variety in strength and plant types is important for patients with different medical needs.
Growers say leaves at the top of marijuana plants are naturally stronger than those at the bottom, so THC levels range from about 15 per cent to 22 per cent in marijuana available at most compassion clubs. Batches may vary, so clubs try to get to know their suppliers, who can estimate THC levels, since chemical testing is expensive and prohibitive.
While the government offers only one strain, compassion clubs offer many more so patients can personalize their prescriptions.
Marceniuk took her licence to a West Coast compassion club where a list of marijuana types is posted on the wall, including Sativa strains that infuse a person with energy and Indica strains that tend to make a person sleepy. Then, Marceniuk said, it was up to her to figure out how much of what kinds she needed, even relying on basic advice from her sons, now in their late 20s, since she wasn't so naive as to believe they had never smoked pot.
She still doesn't know how many grams she uses each day, but likely an amount that falls safely inside the Health Canada guidelines of one to three grams of dried marijuana. A typical joint contains between 0.5 and 1.0 gram of cannabis plant matter, Health Canada states.
But the guesswork is part of what troubles physicians like Edmonton's Dr. Rufus Scrimger, who has worked as an oncologist for 25 years. Scrimger said he doesn't feel comfortable prescribing medical marijuana for his cancer patients because doctors are given no training to understand the different strains, strengths or types of marijuana they should be prescribing for each ailment. Nor can doctors control the supply, which could be tainted with other ingredients.
"There's not a lot of good medical data out there to support its use, evidence that says it's better than all the other medications that we have available to us for nausea or pain," said Scrimger, the Alberta Medical Association's section head for oncology. "We don't know how to prescribe it. There's no real accepted dose. There's no standardized strength. There's an ignorance, I guess, on the part of most doctors, to prescribe it even if they wanted to."
He said he doesn't discourage patients who tell him their pain or nausea is controlled by smoking pot. But he said it goes against the culture of his training in cancer prevention.
"I basically spend all day treating people who have cancer as a result of smoking," Scrimger said, adding he didn't know about other methods to consume cannabis. "It's hard for me to prescribe something that is highly carcinogenic, even though (I sometimes know) it probably isn't going to make a difference to somebody who is already dying of cancer."
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta recommends physicians not prescribe medical marijuana because scientific research hasn't proven its clinical benefits. The Alberta Medical Association strongly urges doctors to "think twice" before prescribing or dispensing marijuana, a stance laid out in association president's letters in 2001 and 2003. The topic hasn't been revisited since, but the letters describe the Health Canada 2001 regulations as unacceptable because they place doctors in an untenable situation. If patients receive a prescription, then experience dangerous side effects, can the physicians be held liable?
Palliative doctors, who may be more likely to consider medical marijuana as a final option to reduce pain in the last weeks of life, are also advised against prescribing pot.
"Research in the palliative population is urgently needed as the regulations have outstripped research in this area, due to restrictions on smoked marijuana," reads the position statement from the Edmonton zone palliative care program, developed in 2001, then revised in November 2010. "Until such a time that stronger evidence is available, the Edmonton Regional Palliative Care Program will not support the application for permission to use marijuana for medicinal purposes under the new regulations."
"We just don't see the important role for it," said Dr. Robin Fainsinger, a palliative care doctor and medical director for the Edmonton zone palliative care program. "We have so many other options for it that are very effective."
Over the last 20 years, Fainsinger has only prescribed the pharmaceutical pill form of cannabis called Nabilone for five to six patients. He has never prescribed it in leaf form.
Dr. Brian Knight, an anesthetist with expertise in chronic pain medicine, said he wouldn't call marijuana an important tool, but his "third-line option," largely prescribed only after his patients have had little success to manage chronic pain through physiotherapy, psychology, anti-depressants, anti-convulsants and opioids, which are controversial themselves. Knight also prescribes the pharmaceutical pill or inhaler before trying the leaf variety of cannabis, even though the synthetic marijuana doesn't usually work for patients, or brings more side effects than smoking a joint, he said.
The problem, Knight said, is that even though an estimated 30 per cent of the population suffers from chronic pain, there aren't sufficient resources such as therapy to help them to the same extent as for those with other chronic health issues such as diabetes.
"We don't have a lot of tools available to us," he said. And patients already wait about one year to see him in his pain clinic at the Misericordia Hospital in Edmonton or at the HealthPointe Medical Centre. "Right off the bat, when we're talking about treating a (pain) patient, we're really starting behind because we really don't have access to the multi-disciplinary care that the patients really need."
That becomes a problem when Knight does a thorough history and examination of patients, gathering background documents and ordering urine tests that reveal they have cocaine in their blood and suffer from addictions or a mental illness in addition to chronic pain. When that's the case, Knight generally doesn't prescribe medical marijuana.
"I don't give a rubber stamp to everyone who comes in the door. I like to get to know them first," said Knight who, back in 2001 when the federal government first allowed marijuana prescriptions, had a lot of men in "leather ball caps" complaining of back pain and asking for pot. Knight wouldn't prescribe. "I think a lot of people are using medical marijuana as an end run around legalization."
But a few months ago, he felt pressure to prescribe marijuana for a man whose parole officer had given him Knight's name. Knight said he doesn't like to advertise the fact that he prescribes marijuana. But the man, who suffered pain after a work injury, had been caught with marijuana and was told by the judge he would get a complete discharge if he could get a doctor to authorize his marijuana use as medical.
"That's putting a little bit of pressure on me," said Knight, who wrote the man a prescription but resented being "blackmailed" into helping the patient avert jail time. "I said, 'I normally don't do authorizations on the first visit. I like to examine you and get to know you a bit.' He was quite desperate."
Most of the patients for whom Knight authorizes legal marijuana use are those he has seen for several years who arrive one day saying they shared a toke with a friend and felt pain relief. Such personal stories are what encouraged Knight to try marijuana for patients in the first place. At the time, he said he worked at a different Edmonton hospital pain clinic under a director who prohibited physicians from prescribing the drug.
"After a while, I said, 'These guys found something that works for them and what am I doing prescribing medications that are making them sick and not helping them,'" Knight said. Now, he estimates about 20 of his 100 to 200 patients use medical marijuana. He knows at least two other pain doctors in Edmonton who are open to it.
When Cartwright, 41 and a mother of four, couldn't find a sympathetic local physician in 2007, she flew to Ontario and paid $100 to a doctor known for providing authorizations for medical marijuana. Some doctors in B.C. now do the authorization via Skype, but charge $400 for the service.
Cartwright's Ontario doctor required proof from a medical specialist that Cartwright had a diagnosis of colitis with debilitating symptoms untouched by conventional medical therapies.
"I didn't want to be a doctor hopper," Cartwright said. But she had tried prednisone, codeine and other steroids that are known to soften teeth and bones over time. Nothing but marijuana cut down the inflammation of her intestine that doubled her over in pain, or stimulated her appetite without causing subsequent terrors she would have "pucker butt," a not-so-funny sensation right before Cartwright started having diarrhea running down her leg.
In her teens, Cartwright's disease wasted her away to 80 pounds. Now, the four-foot-nine hairdresser weighs about 103 pounds and lives in a rented ranch house in east-central Alberta.
Yet even though she's legally allowed to grow 39 plants in her basement, and use eight grams of pot each day — she has her pink authorization forms in public view — Cartwright still worries about children's services somehow becoming involved.
She has a toddler at home, who isn't allowed downstairs or in Cartwright's locked bedroom, where she keeps dried marijuana and a vaporizer, which grinds the leaves, then fills three to four bags full of vaporized cannabis rather than the burned, toxic smoke from a joint.
Cartwright's son, who turns two on Dec. 12, once thought mommy was playing with a balloon machine, so Cartwright hides the vaporizer, and inhales only when her son is napping or busy watching television in a separate room. Neighbours and friends don't always understand the subtleties.
"That's my medicine," said Cartwright, president of the southern Alberta Cannabis Club, which advocates on behalf of medical marijuana users. The club has about 50 active members, but about 100 who took part in a fundraiser in Lethbridge, Alta., from where Cartwright recently moved.
"It's no different than using insulin for diabetes."
Cartwright said she isn't looking to get "blazed" or high from marijuana with lots of THC. Instead, she wants her plants to have high levels of cannabidiol or CBD, another cannabinoid she said focuses on pain relief.
But Cartwright, who smoked pot quite regularly through her 20s and 30s, admits she's gone to the streets to sometimes fill her legal prescription when none of her plants were in the flowering stage. She doesn't like it, but she's also learned the hard way that patients aren't allowed to share their stash, even if they have an unexpected bumper crop. In August, Cartwright pleaded guilty to trafficking after she mailed a friend four grams of homegrown marijuana in thanks for a jar of hemp-based ointment. She said she had no intent to make money or commit a crime, but viewed it as if she had sent a bottle of wine or bouquet of flowers as a thank you.
Cartwright quit drinking when she was 35, but her six-month conditional sentence prohibits her from drinking alcohol or using intoxicants, except her daily eight grams.
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BANGOR — The wife of an Ellsworth man shot last week by a Maine State Police tactical team member during an armed confrontation and standoff said Sunday he is in a medically induced coma.
"He's still in critical condition," Vicki Barnard, 56, said of her husband of 19 years. Jeffrey Paul Barnard, 50, was shot by Trooper Scott Duff on the morning of June 1 after a shootout and standoff with police that occurred the day before.
"They wanted to kill him," she said. "He was shot in the right tear duct, and it came out his left jaw. The doctor doesn't know how he's going to fix his jaw. There is nothing left."
Barnard said her husband — who has a lengthy criminal that includes federal, state and California convictions, as well as prior police standoffs — was placed in the coma by doctors to help him heal. He is also on a respirator. She said he does not like police, and they do not like him because he is a convicted felon.
The Barnards are both medical marijuana patients, she said.
The couple had been growing their medical marijuana in a shop and living in a camper, located at 303 North St. for three years on land owned by a disabled veteran, who was being cared for by the couple, Vicki Barnard said.
"We've never had a problem in the three years until his daughter moved in," she said.
Police issued a criminal threatening summons to Jeff Barnard on Friday morning and served him with a protection order, according to Ellsworth police Lt. Harold Page.
Vicki Barnard said both complaints involved the veteran's daughter.
The landowner complained to police about 8:03 a.m. May 31 that Barnard had stolen the keys to a tractor. Officers went to the scene to investigate, and the confrontation with Jeff Barnard began immediately, Page said.
Ellsworth police said Sunday they could not answer questions about who made the initial call to police and said to call back Monday to speak with Page. A Sunday email to Page about who made the call — the veteran or his daughter — was not returned.
Vicki Barnard said the couple had possession of the tractor keys for the last three years and refused to give them to the responding police officer, who called in reinforcements.
Ellsworth police summoned state police for assistance. State police negotiators went to the home, but the agency's tactical unit was at a fatal shooting in Aroostook County and didn't arrive until early Sunday. Bangor police also provided assistance. A portion of Route 179, also known as North Street, was shut down for most of Saturday, May 31, and didn't reopen until 11 a.m. Sunday, June 1.
When police units converged on the scene, Barnard and his wife refused to come out of the camper, Page said.
"At one point, he displayed a five-gallon can he said was full of gas and threatened to blow the place up," the lieutenant said.
The convicted felon also brandished a .22-caliber rifle during the standoff, he said.
Police used a truck mounted with a battering ram in an attempt to get the couple to exit the camper. In doing so, "they pushed my bedroom all the way up to my bathroom," Vicki Barnard said.
"He was extremely upset," she said. "That is why he didn't leave the camper. My husband is paranoid of cops."
The tactical team was able to shoot a can of tear gas into the camper, and her husband pulled the items away from the door he placed there to barricade the couple inside, Vicki Barnard said.
"The minute he opened the door — they shot him," she said. "I said, 'Where are you hit?' He said, 'In the face. They shot me in the face.'"
Blood was everywhere.
"He said, 'Baby, I'm dying.' He asked me not to leave, but [after about 30 minutes] I finally convinced him he needed medical attention. He told me to take the dog and leave, so I did. He said, 'I'll be right out.' He took his leg off — he wears a prosthetic — and he crawled out on his hands and knees."
"It took four officers to put him on the ground, when he was already on the ground," Vicki Barnard said.
Barnard has not been charged by police, but he is facing a host of potential charges for being a felon in possession of a firearm, firing shots at police officers, threatening to blow up the camper with a can of gasoline, and throwing a Molotov cocktail during the standoff, according to Page.
Vicki Barnard was charged with creating a police standoff but was not arrested.
"If he recovers, my husband is not going to be the same," she said. "It's in God's hands. [Whether] my husband survives is in God's hands."
BDN reporters Jen Lynds and Bill Trotter contributed to this story.
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Environmental Entrepreneurs: Mexico's YoReciclo Recycles for a Profit
Two entrepreneurs recognized a business opportunity in Mexico, where recycling rates lag far behind those in Europe and the United States.
One man's trash may be another man's treasure, but in the case of YoReciclo, a company supported by New Ventures Mexico [3], one man's trash is another man's business opportunity. YoReciclo [4], Spanish for "I recycle," is in the business of collecting what was once perceived as trash—paper, cardboard, plastics, aluminum, steel, glass, and electronics. It makes its profits by selling these materials to paper mills, plastic manufacturers, steel smelters, and glass manufacturers for reuse.
A Business Opportunity in Recycling
The entrepreneurs behind YoReciclo, Luis Duarte and Hector Elizondo, recognized a business opportunity in Mexico, where recycling rates lag far behind those in Europe and the United States.
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The two YoReciclo entrepreneurs joined forces after discovering they both wanted to return to Mexico, their home country, to boost its nascent recycling efforts and contribute to its "green" growth. Commercial recycling collection programs are uncommon in Mexico, and the recycling rate is a mere 3% of municipal waste [11], compared to 24% in the U.S. and around 35% in many European countries. While the recycling rate in Mexico may seem disheartening, to Duarte and Elizondo it presents a market for growth.
They designed their business to create positive environmental impacts alongside profits. YoReciclo develops recycling programs for schools, businesses and other institutions. YoReciclo's clients increase recycling and thus benefit financially from reduced waste collection fees. YoReciclo is able to generate revenue by selling the recycled materials from its clients to material processors.
Finding the Right Strategy to Grow
Although Duarte and Elizondo designed a viable business model, they initially struggled to attract clients. The clients that they did sign up did not yet generate enough revenue from their recyclable material to allow YoReciclo to grow. YoReciclo, like many other small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets, did not have a clear growth strategy. New Ventures Mexico, which specializes in helping environmental SMEs scale, advised YoReciclo to change its growth strategy and find a different source of revenue in its early stages.
Hector Elizondo and Luis Duarte. Photo courtesy of YoReciclo.
YoReciclo initially focused solely on finding new clients and creating revenue from recycling these clients' waste. After working with New Ventures Mexico, the company began purchasing recyclable materials directly from recicladoras, collection centers that are supplied by waste pickers, in their first year of operations. YoReciclo then cleaned, sorted, and sold that material at a higher cost to generate revenue. This new, temporary revenue stream provided the company with the resources to effectively recruit new clients and succeed with their initial business model. Duarte notes, "[Our mentors] helped us reach equilibrium much faster. Once we reached equilibrium [and were not operating at a loss], we were able to focus again on recruiting new clients and recycling programs."
With the revenue from recicladoras to keep YoReciclo afloat, the company was able to build their client base from one client to fifteen by the end of its first year of operations, demonstrating the company's market potential. YoReciclo's success stems from a joint effort—a combination of Duarte and Elizondo's vision and passion alongside the support and advice of the New Ventures Mexico team and mentors. Duarte credits YoReciclo's New Ventures mentors for helping his company avoid big losses early on. Now, YoReciclo is well-positioned and poised to grow, demonstrating the value of business mentoring to SMEs that may otherwise struggle to survive.
Making an Impact
As YoReciclo grows, it will be able to expand its already considerable environmental impacts. The company's first customer increased the quantity of recycled materials by 900% over the course of one year. YoReciclo has to date recovered 1,922 tonnes of material, which in turn saves millions of liters of water and kilowatt-hours of energy from the avoided use of virgin materials. Employees from institutions that have implemented YoReciclo recycling programs even bring recycling from home to their workplace. YoReciclo has begun to create better environmental management at both individual and institutional levels in Mexico.
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The Roberta's cookbook tells the tale of the storied Bushwick pizza-and-more restaurant from its ramshackle beginnings through its growth into a dining destination. It's packed with a profusion of Instagram-worthy photographs that lend the book a creative and honest dynamic; it's just as much fun to read the book as it is to explore the food. There is, however, a tension between the light-hearted nature of the writing and the super-strict directions in the recipes.
Chef and co-author Carlo Mirachi allows for few substitutions for the hard-to-find, expensive, and rare ingredients scattered throughout the book. In a cookbook this lighthearted in appearance, I found it frustrating that so many of the recipes were out of reach. These are the types of rules I would expect from Thomas Keller, not a casual Brooklyn joint. The idea is, of course, to encourage the reader to seek out and cook high-quality food, but there should be some kind of limit to the rigidity. Roasting a heritage chicken should come with a list of suggested sources, not a decree to find one particular breed of bird from one particular purveyor. Those of us who cook at home need options.
That said, Roberta's does offer an eclectic and compelling mix of recipes. There is plenty of pizza, of course, complete with two different recipes for dough (the pizza chapter is the one exception to my complaints above), as well as several pasta recipes using both freshly made and dried pastas. The remainder of the book consists of dishes added to the Roberta's repertoire over time: seasonal vegetables, roasted meats, a few desserts, and cocktails. Vegetables are where Mirarchi's creativity really shines. A Caesar-like salad is tossed with crisp candied walnuts in lieu of croutons, snap peas are plated with pickled rhubarb, and a cabbage trio is tossed with savory bonito butter.
The recipes themselves work reasonably well; as is the case with many restaurant cookbooks, there seem to be a few places where the process of scaling down from restaurant preparations to a size for home kitchens missed a few steps. Directions are short, but relatively clear. Roberta's pasta and pizza are the most challenging on an introductory level, as their doughs are tender and finicky. A few rounds of practice should smooth things out if one is committed.
This week, we'll tackle a range of recipes from Roberta's. First, we'll bake a Speckenwolf pizza and braise a duck ragu to serve atop homemade pappardelle pasta. Then we'll toss a romaine salad before ending the week with that roasted heritage chicken, complete with buttery cabbage and roasted turnips.
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Another samurai film from the director of Twilight Samurai? How did I miss this?
Gonna rent it tonight, for sure.
I only saw Twilight Samurai for the first time a couple weeks ago, and when I watched the interview supplements where Yamada mentions that he's working on another similar period movie, I got excited. And now here it is, patiently waiting for me at the library!


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Ozzie offers pointers, takes grounders with infielders
JUPITER, Fla. -- A guest instructor for the third straight spring, Ozzie Smith wasted no time Tuesday making himself available as a resource. In fact, he found his way straight into drills.
As infielders gathered to take ground balls on the first day of full-squad workouts, Ozzie grabbed his glove and made his way to third base. He and Matt Carpenter took turns fielding ground balls at the position, after which Smith made his way around the diamond to pass along pointers to various infielders.
He came, eager to be a resource.
"That's why we're here -- to be able to share with the young players and answer whatever questions they might have," said Smith, a 13-time Gold Glove winner and Hall of Fame shortstop. "It's my life and I spent most of my life doing this. To have the chance to come back and visit with the guys and enjoy the weather, being able to get away from that cold, is great. And it actually gives me a chance to exercise some muscles that I haven't exercised in a while."
Smith has talked hitting with Pete Kozma, who he encouraged not to pull the ball so much. He's talked defense with Jhonny Peralta, the newcomer at Smith's old position. He's talked baserunning and footwork and the Cardinal Way.
"I was thinking about it today as he was standing there talking to us, just how lucky we are to have an opportunity to have a guy like Ozzie Smith come out," Carpenter said. "Not only to hang out and be around him, but for him to teach us and impart some of his wisdom is a huge luxury of being in a great organization like the Cardinals. They not only have a lot of Hall of Famers, but they welcome them to teach so we can learn. It's just a real awesome thing."
Smith is working with an infield group that changed from a year ago. Carpenter is transitioning back to third after a spring of crash-course work at second. Peralta is in at short after signing as a free agent. Matt Adams and Kolten Wong are ready to make an impact as everyday players for the first time.
Smith said he expects this infield to be a stronger defensive unit than the one the Cardinals featured last season. The organization is simply pleased to have Smith put his fingerprints on the preparation.
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What's not to love about Google Doodles? They're so popular, in fact, that Google's hiring a new doodler to keep the lively tradition going. If that means even more Google Doodles, we're all about it!
NBC Bay Area reports a job posting on Google's website for a doodler at its Mountain View headquarters. Think you've got what it takes? Check out the description of the doodler's role at Google:
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You heard that right—Red Letter Christians are the True Cause of world poverty. This is the logical conclusion to the Neo-Marxism of Red Letter Christianity. Neo-Marxism being linked with chronic poverty of Third World Countries and the Third Way of the Emerging Apostate Pastors—this conclusion is not only logical but obvious. Here is what Saint Brannon Howse, Gruppenführer of the Calvinazi GOIPview Weekend had to say a few years ago about Red Letter Christians and liberals' roles in causing world poverty:
"Hurricane Katrina has brought to the nation's attention the plight of the poor in America. While Jesse Jackson and other liberals attempt to blame poverty on racism and the President and other republicans look to throw money at the problem, few are discussing who and what are really to blame for the root cause of poverty in America.
The issue is not racism but anti-Christian bigotry on the part of the ACLU, the NEA, the DNC and Barry Lynn and his group, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. The sad stories of the poor should be laid at the feet of the liberal, anti-God "intellectual elite" known as the secular left.
Decades-long brainwashing by liberal-leaning social engineers has so altered the worldview of the underclass that they have little choice but to live in the mire of their culturally bankrupt caste."—–Anti-Christian bigotry causes poverty! Separation of Church and State causes poverty! Liberal-leaning social engineers cause poverty!
Astounding isn't it but wait there's more Brannon has to add:
Anyone who regards with even a shred of honesty the destruction of unregenerate people in the underclass knows the liberals' time is up. Their social experiment is as bust as the former Soviet Union's Communism. The Christian worldview is the hope that is left—and a genuine hope it is. Christians must reach out to the underclass, seek to change hearts, renew minds, and reframe their deformed worldview by showing them the need to embrace Christianity and biblical morality and reject the secular left's destructive, humanistic, anti-God religious worldview.
We agree that poverty is a sin and in the traditional and Biblical notion that the poor are poor because they are lazy and it is their and Red Letter Christians' fault that they're poor. Red Letter Christians in giving handouts to the poor not only cause their poverty but promote the idea that the sinful lifestyle of slothfulness/laziness is ok in God's eyes instead of an abomination. Afterall, following Jesus and esteeming His words above the other biblical writers is unbiblical and anti-Christian especially when one holds Jesus' words about giving to the poor in high regards—for that promotes socialism, communism and a Leftist agenda. What Jesus really meant when He said follow and believe in Him was to pay lipservice to Him and instead believe in Calvinism and that John Calvin is the Final Prophet, final word and final authority on Christianity and to follow Final President Reagan and the political Gospel of Reaganism. "The cherished idols idol-ologies beliefs of Brannon Howse and God's Only Inerrant Party are just that—Calvinazified Reaganism which promotes The American Jesus, capitalism, every-man-for-himself, exploitation and promotion of the democratic way as well as True Republicans being the only regenerate Saved Elect of God." This is exactly why we need to send more Todd Friels to Third World countries instead of foolish Red Letter Christians.
In conclusion, follow Jesus, Red Letter Christians, Democrats, Emergents and Liberals go to hell–follow John Calvin, Charles Spurgeon, John MacArthur, Brannon Howse, the Republican agenda, Ken Silva, Todd Friel, Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron, all online discernmentalists, God's Only Inerrant Party and us (OD Mafia) go to heaven.


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No, that's not hype. Released last year on PC under the title The Next Big Thing, Hollywood Monsters is a hilarious adventure game from the creators of Runaway, and its coming to your iDevices December 6.
Mobile is quickly becoming a second home to the point-and-click adventure game, what with tablets and smart phones being so good for pointing and all. Pendulo Studios and publisher BulkyPix continue to lead the charge for adventure publishers not named Telltale, bring over the former's stable of highly-polished, cinematic-quality joints to a more touching place.
Hollywood Monsters takes place in a 1940s Tinseltown where the big-name movie monsters are played by actual monsters. When those monsters get fed up with being forced to act in children's movies and romantic comedies, things get ugly. It's up to Liz Allaire, a talented journalistic idiot and Dan Murray, the manliest of men, to make a mess of things until they eventually stumble upon some sort of solution.
I have played this game, yet I will play it once more for the sake of a much more appropriate name and the ability to play it in the bathroom without burning my thighs with a laptop.
Hollywood Monsters hits the iTunes app store on December 6.


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From this on June 3rd 2009:
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To think that up to 2009, "FGR doesn't release his projects" was quite the prominent Massassi shtick. 'oof!
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Aztec, self name Culhua-Mexica, Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztecs are so called from Aztlán ("White Land"), an allusion to their origins, probably in northern Mexico. They were also called the Tenochca, from an eponymous ancestor, Tenoch, and the Mexica, probably from Metzliapán ("Moon Lake"), the mystical name for Lake Texcoco. From Tenochca was derived the name of their great city, Tenochtitlán, and from Mexica came the name for the city that superseded the Aztecs capital and for the surrounding valley, which was applied later to the whole Mexican nation. The Aztecs referred to themselves as Culhua-Mexica, to link themselves with Colhuacán, the centre of the most-civilized people of the Valley of Mexico.See alsopre-Columbian civilizations: Aztec culture to the time of the Spanish conquest.
The origin of the Aztec people is uncertain, but elements of their own tradition suggest that they were a tribe of hunters and gatherers on the northern Mexican plateau before their appearance in Mesoamerica in perhaps the 12th century ce; Aztlán, however, may be legendary. It is possible that their migration southward was part of a general movement of peoples that followed, or perhaps helped trigger, the collapse of the Toltec civilization. They settled on islands in Lake Texcoco and in 1325 founded Tenochtitlán, which remained their chief centre. The basis of Aztec success in creating a great state and ultimately an empire was their remarkable system of agriculture, which featured intensive cultivation of all available land, as well as elaborate systems of irrigation and reclamation of swampland. The high productivity gained by those methods made for a rich and populous state.
Under the ruler Itzcóatl (1428–40), Tenochtitlán formed alliances with the neighbouring states of Texcoco and Tlacopan and became the dominant power in central Mexico. Later, by commerce and conquest, Tenochtitlán came to rule an empire of 400 to 500 small states, comprising by 1519 some 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 people spread over 80,000 square miles (207,200 square km). At its height, Tenochtitlán itself covered more than 5 square miles (13 square km) and had upwards of 140,000 inhabitants, making it the most densely populated settlement ever achieved by a Mesoamerican civilization. The Aztec state was a despotism in which the military arm played a dominant role. Valour in war was, in fact, the surest path to advancement in Aztec society, which was caste- and class-divided but nonetheless vertically fluid. The priestly and bureaucratic classes were involved in the administration of the empire, while at the bottom of society were classes of serfs, indentured servants, and outright slaves.
Aztec religion was syncretistic, absorbing elements from many other Mesoamerican cultures. At base, it shared many of the cosmological beliefs of earlier peoples, notably the Maya, such as that the present earth was the last in a series of creations and that it occupied a position between systems of 13 heavens and 9 underworlds. Prominent in the Aztec pantheon were Huitzilopochtli, god of war; Tonatiuh, god of the sun; Tlaloc, god of rain; and Quetzalcóatl, the Feathered Serpent, who was part deity and part culture hero. Human sacrifice, particularly by offering a victim's heart to Tonatiuh, was commonly practiced, as was bloodletting. Closely entwined with Aztec religion was the calendar, on which the elaborate round of rituals and ceremonies that occupied the priests was based. The Aztec calendar was the one common to much of Mesoamerica, and it comprised a solar year of 365 days and a sacred year of 260 days; the two yearly cycles running in parallel produced a larger cycle of 52 years.
The Aztec empire was still expanding, and its society still evolving, when its progress was halted in 1519 by the appearance of Spanish explorers. The ninth emperor, Montezuma II (reigned 1502–20), was taken prisoner by Hernán Cortés and died in custody. His successors, Cuitláhuac and Cuauhtémoc, were unable to stave off Cortés and his forces, and, with the Spanish capture of Tenochtitlán in 1521, the Aztec empire came to an end.
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pre-Columbian civilizations: The rise of the AztecA major characteristic of the Postclassic, in contrast to the Classic, is the abundant historical documentation. The Aztec record is particularly rich, and much of it is undoubtedly genuine, although there is always the possibility that records were rewritten or tampered with for political…
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The Squier Vintage Modified Tele Custom comes stock with a humbucker in a Wide Rangestyle housing and a Duncan Designed bridge pickup. Photo courtesy of FMIC
Premier Guitar's editor in chief, Shawn Hammond, is a huge fan of taking well-built, affordable guitars and customizing them to sound as good as axes many times their price. He's already had me do work on a Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster '50s, which he upgraded with Fender Custom Shop Jim Campilongo pickups. This time around, he's asked me to really go to town on a surprisingly great, brand-spankin'- new Squier Vintage Modified Telecaster Custom, which has a street price of $299. We're going to turn this Tele into a head-turning, twang-bangin' monster!
The Vision
When Shawn first bought this Squier, it was mainly so he'd have at least two Teles on hand in case one died or had a string bust during a gig. What Shawn wanted to see when I was done with it was a guitar that sounds and looks great. He's not concerned about knee-jerk reactions that other players might have to the headstock decal. In fact, he hopes to maybe help a few players out there realize it's not the price or the brand name that matters, but knowing which things to change to get a fantastic-sounding guitar for a very reasonable price.
To that end, the first no-brainer upgrade for almost any guitar this affordable is new pickups. Shawn wanted authentic Telecaster twang—sparkly, complex tones with some spank—from the bridge pickup, so he went with a handwound Curtis Novak TEL-V. The more he thought about the project, though, the more he wanted to have some fun with it.
Shawn's also a big Bigsby fan, and given that Teles with Bigsbys are pretty rare on the whole—let alone at a low price point—he added that to the upgrade list, too. He was also intrigued by Tele-forum talk of keeping the ashtray bridge rather than using the standard Bigsby Telecaster kit (which requires replacing the ashtray assembly with a chromed pickup surround that has a Mustang-style bridge attached to it), so he asked me to mod the ashtray bridge to work with the B5. He also wanted to replace the Squier's original steel saddles with compensated brass ones that would facilitate better intonation while maintaining old-school tones.
Because Shawn usually prefers single-coils and often finds neck pickups too bass-y for his band's original "indie-twang-punk" tunes—and because he still hasn't been able to add a Jazzmaster to his collection—Shawn decided to swap the Tele Custom's stock humbucker with a Jazzmaster-style pickup. "I want to be able to get that hollowed-out, ghostly twang without having to pick way back by the saddles," he told me. Having heard great audio samples online, he decided to go with Novak's JM-V, which is based on the pickup in the builder's own 1963 Jazzmaster. The pickup is narrower and has different screw placement than a Wide Range-style humbucker, so this also required a new pickguard. Shawn chose a visually striking gold-anodized aluminum model from Tone-Guard.com. He also wanted the guitar set up to play with .011–.052 string sets.
The completed project features Curtis Novak JM-V (neck) and TEL-V pickups, a Tone-Guard anodized-aluminum pickguard, a Bigsby B5 vibrato, compensated brass saddles, and upgraded pots, output jack, tone-pot capacitor, and knobs.
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Although I knew what Shawn wanted from the final product when he dropped off the guitar and the main parts, I still needed to give the Squier a thorough exam to see if there were any other issues to address in the process. When I did, I found that it has a good, solid feel and really nice fretwork for its price. But once it was on my workbench I noticed the neck angle was slightly crooked—the low E was almost off the edge of the neck near the body (Photo 1). Luckily, when I took the neck off to see what was causing the misalignment, I found that it was due to a bit of sawdust and polishing compound wedged in the pocket. Cleaning that out allowed me to remount the neck at the proper angle.
When I plugged the Squier in, I was surprised by the quality of the pickups. The neck pickup looks like the Wide Range unit used in the first Telecaster Customs from 1972, but it sounds like a very generic stock humbucking pickup. Shawn told me before dropping off the guitar that he was surprised how good the Duncan Designed bridge pickup sounded. "It's a little thin sounding," he admitted, "but it does have that essential Tele character." I plugged it in to hear for myself and found that the bridge pickup indeed had a lot of that classic Tele twang. It also had decent output and balance after some height adjustment.
LEFT: Photo 1. The Squier's low E was originally misaligned, but cleaning excess sawdust and polishing compound out of the neck pocket remedied the issue. RIGHT: Photo 2. The Tele's interior was nicely shielded and grounded straight from the factory.
Moving on, I noted that the volume and tone potentiometers had a slightly loose but smooth feel, but most of their taper was all at one end of the rotation—and every now and then the bridge-pickup volume pot shorted out when I turned it up all the way. Gotta fix that! The knob and switch placement were comfortable, but though I liked the look of the press-on, amp-style knobs, they felt a little less than robust. I decided to replace them, too. Lastly, I love the simplicity of the Tele output jack, but I knew from experience that it will eventually come loose and either require annoying tightening every time someone plays the guitar, or possibly fail at a critical moment. For that reason, I suggested to Shawn that we install an Electrosocket jack mount, which screws directly into the body to prevent loosening of the jack. I also figured I might as well install a sturdier output jack and drop in some more reliable CTS pots and different capacitors while I had the Squier in pieces.
After finishing the external exploration, I moved on to looking at the guts of the Vintage Modified Tele. First, I had to lose the strings. Next up, I removed the 16—yes, 16—screws that keep this kitchen table of a pickguard on! Once they were off, I saw that the guitar was clean inside. There's shielding paint and it's fully grounded (Photo 2)—nice work. When I saw the Alpha mini pots, I worried about whether the full-size CTS pots would fit in the existing body route, but first things first. Although I wasn't going to start with the electronics, I removed the bridge, desoldered and pulled the output jack and ground wires, and clipped the leads on the bridge pickup. Voilà—a clean slate to work from.
Photo 3. When I first placed the ashtray bridge and Bigsby, I worried that the string width was too wide from the saddles to the vibrato, but it ended up fitting just right.
Installing the Bigsby
I decided to start with the new vibrato first, so I covered the adjacent area on the guitar's top with blue painter's tape both to protect it from scratches and to give me a place to write notes with impunity. I put the bridge back on and took some measurements to start my layout. I needed a centerline and some horizontal lines to keep everything nice and square, and the 3-saddle ashtray tailpiece proved to be great for finding center locations. It has a hole in the center of the back, so I used that as a reference and used a T square positioned at the edge of the body to mark a centerline to work from.
To get an idea how the strings would lay out as they passed over the saddles, I mocked up the Bigsby and used a string to estimate where the strings will fall when I'm done. Based on pictures I'd seen online of other Bigsby-fied Teles, I already knew they wouldn't clear the back of the ashtray, but at first glance I also wondered whether the overall spacing of the six strings would be too wide to fit the Bigsby's roller guide (Photo 3). Fortunately, once I put strings in both E positions, I could see that there was just enough width in the roller guide to facilitate straight string pull from the saddles to the Bigsby's axle pin (where the ball ends will be anchored). I could also clearly see where I'd need to cut away material from the back of the ashtray bridge to allow the strings to pass through (Photo 4). At this point, I took the bridge back off and set it aside.


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With the inaugural meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance (FACI, pronounced "fah-key") now in the record books, it is clear that at least initially, the group's focus will reflect FIO Director Michael McRaith's perspective on broad, global themes.
McRaith steered the group's first meeting – a nearly 3.5-hour-long conversation between a collection of disparate forces from across the insurance industry – toward one of the overarching trends he believes needs attention: the demographics of Western society, with its growing middle class and aging/longevity issues.
While McRaith spotlighted the importance of internationalization of insurance, and the priority of the U.S. to receive fair play globally, he cautioned participants to not focus on specific countries or to get enmeshed in overly specific issues in their FACI advisory roles. Instead, McRaith suggested, they should look at supervision on a broad scale, and to address insurance supervision systemically.
There is ample evidence that insurance is now viewed at Treasury as part and parcel of a growing global financial sector. Indeed, McRaith cautioned after the meeting that he doesn't want the FACI to get lost in the "minutiae" of policy forms and reserving debates, but rather, to address large issues viewed as part of the international landscape.
(McRaith, it should be noted, is seeking ever-more knowledge and coordination at all levels. He recently hosted a meeting across federal agencies on their supervisory role in insurance. The group, a self-styled new assembly called the "Federal Government Insurance Forum," met March 22 and revealed the massive internationalization of the insurance markets, according to McRaith, who noted the "numbers are staggering." The Forum, which included representatives from over 20 U.S. agencies – as far-flung across the supervisory spectrum as the Federal Aviation Administration, the United States Trade Representative's office and the Overseas Private Investment Corp. – will continue to meet.)
The scope of his grasp of insurance regulatory matters reaches far beyond any of the participants' specific issues, as they were all representing their constituency's interests, from state regulatory regimes to the insurance industry itself, to consumers, to shareholders to policyholders. As such, McRaith was able to turn the meeting's direction on its head by bringing the focus to the demographics issue, and away from the pet issues of many of those on the FACI, sich as international regulatory hurdles for larger insurers or aligning global systematically important financial institutions' (G-SIFI) capital requirements with domestic SIFI requirements.
McRaith, at the outset of the issues discussion – after a seemingly interminable time spent on necessary housekeeping and bylaws, and ethics rules – asked if interest rates, demographic trends and the aging population would be an area the committee would like to talk about. The so-called "silver tsunami" – the wave of people in the U.S. who are either at or are nearing retirement age – is of deep interest to the life insurance and retirement industries.
McRaith later reassured the group by noting that the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) does not intend to recommend any companies for designation as G-SIFIs until first quarter 2013 at the earliest, and that there will be some coordination. FIO is now a member of the IAIS Executive Committee.
Other insurance issues raised included market access, accounting issues, affordability, international trade, credit-related insurance and market conduct data collection and analysis, surplus lines and catastrophes' financial reserving and coverage issues. McRaith let the 14 participants have their say on these (Monica Linden, Montana's insurance and securities commissioner, could not attend, while Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Tom Leonardi attended via teleconference from overseas) and then circled the discussion back to the umbrella issue of Western aging/demographics and its promises and challenges.
"I hope this committee will be a forum for discussion as we and the U.S. and the Treasury Department face some of these international developments and the macroeconomic issues as well," McRaith said. "My hope is to have thoughtful discussion on one or two issues of the day; … we identify four, five, or six high-level issues this committee feels are important. Then we [designate them to a subcommittee or subcommittees to look at issues] of one macro issue," he said.
Throughout the meeting, after the group continued to exhort McRaith to tell them what was important to him, or to the FIO, before McRaith ultimately returned to the theme of to the aging of the Western population, which he characterized as a driving factor "It is driving much of what's happening internationally, nationally, and … [has] international implications." His question to the group was, "How is it effecting what we do in the insurance sector today?"
"Should we acknowledge it differently than we are?" McRaith asked. If so, how–or should we maintain the status quo, he posed to the FACI.
The group, having not pursued this line after the first suggestion, attempted to rally to the cause.
Brian Duperreault, the designated chair of the FACI group and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Cos., responded "If it's interesting to you, it's interesting to us."
The two subcommittees the FACI formed are focusing on the balance regulatory and supervisory efforts ought to strike between domestic and foreign insurers, a nod to trade issues and the U.S. insurance sector's longstanding claim that the playing field is tilted against them by European-driven equivalence standards. These issues will be discussed through in the context of insurance accessibility and affordability, with the aging of Western populations (particularly in the U.S.) in mind. Each of the members will choose to work in one subgroup, with Duperreault playing a part on both subcommittees.
Each group is to draft some sort of consensus document that reports back to FIO by the next meeting. The documents should each provide advice and recommendations to the FIO on how the issues under exploration may influence how the FIO could evaluate these issues both domestically and internationally, and to think of the implications of the demographic realities.
The goal, according to McRaith, is to bring clarity on the path forward for the U.S. sector by the end of the calendar year.
After, members chatted about looking forward to finding consensus and working together, and started offering ways they could approach their issues through the new lens offered by McRaith, although some were worried the demographics mega-filter wouldn't address all aspects of subjects like affordability and availability of insurance.
"I realize this is a subject none of you came in here thinking about. The last thing we want to be doing is going through the Looking Glass," said McRaith in one of several references to Alice in Wonderland. He said FACI should avoid going down "rabbit holes," ostensibly a warning to disappear into a maze of details and tangents. As New York Superintendent of Financial Services Benjamin Lawsky added, "There is a risk of biting off more than we can chew and disappearing for two years and coming back with a 1,000-page report."
But Lawsky was the first to vocally embrace the new tack on which McRaith had set the insurance advisory group.
With the AIG fallout and the market crash, Lawsky noted, regulators and industry-watchers are constantly looking backward. "What I like about this, is it has us looking at the future," Lawsky said. "This is focused on where we are headed."
We "are all trying to get our arms around it," Duperreault said afterwards.
FACI determined it would meet quarterly, in lengthy sessions.
Discussion of the FIO report to Congress was off the table. Divergent reports on the release or submission to Congress of the Dodd-Frank deliverable ranged from mid- to late April to even after the Presidential elections in the fall.


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NEW YORK >> In the thick of a playoff race, the New York Yankees were determined to avoid the letdown they had in Chicago last month — when they were swept by the White Sox in a three-game series.
One big inning wiped out any worries.
Derek Jeter ended a slump with two hits and two RBIs, Alex Rodriguez reached base twice in an eight-run fourth inning and the Yankees battered the White Sox 9-1 on Monday in a game interrupted for nearly two hours by rain.
"We've played better, there's no doubt about it. We've added a few pieces here since we played," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "I feel a lot better."
A day after wasting a late lead in a loss to wild card-rival Baltimore, the Yankees rocked reliever Dylan Axelrod and took advantage of the sloppy White Sox for their most productive inning since Oct. 1.
With thunder clapping in the first inning, Jeter had a run-scoring single off Jose Quintana (7-5) to stop an 0-for-14 slide. It was the 3,313th hit of Jeter's career, tying him with Eddie Collins for ninth on the career list.
The Yankees' bats then made all the noise after a 1-hour, 53-minute delay, helping them end a six-game skid against Chicago.
Alfonso Soriano, Mark Reynolds, Austin Romine, Vernon Wells, Brett Gardner and Jeter all drove in runs during the fourth-inning barrage. The offensive display made it easy on David Huff (2-0), who entered for Phil Hughes with one out in the second when play resumed.
"Everybody got kind of loose after that inning," Romine said. "It was fun for us."
The Yankees looked as if they were eager to wipe out the memory of that sweep at the reeling White Sox from Aug. 5-7. New York, which entered Monday 31/2 back for the second AL wild card, follows this series with 11 straight games against East rivals Boston and Baltimore.
Chicago ended a 10-game losing streak with the win Aug. 5 — the night of A-Rod's season debut — and then went on a nice run for the AL Central's last-place team, going 16-7 until being swept by Boston last weekend. Paul Konerko hit his 432nd homer for the White Sox, passing Cal Ripken to take sole possession of 44th place on the home run list.
Rodriguez led off the fourth with an opposite-field double to right. The next six batters reached — and five runs scored — before Robinson Cano popped to second base for the first out.
The Yankees had help in running up their biggest inning since scoring nine against Boston during the final weekend of the regular season.
"We have to play better than that if we're going to start winning games," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "The rest of the way out we've got guys who you're kind of evaluating jobs for next year, so it just has to get better."
Wells followed Rodriguez's double with a one-hop single that Axelrod deflected with his glove. Curtis Granderson walked on a full-count pitch and Reynolds then hit a sharp grounder that diving third baseman Conor Gillaspie fielded only to have the ball squirt out of his glove. A-Rod scored and Reynolds had a hit.
Romine laced a two-run single to center field that made it 4-0, Gardner had an RBI double to right and Jeter slapped a ball up the middle that hit Axelrod and bounced away for another fortunate hit, and another run. After Cano popped to second base, Rodriguez popped a ball directly behind home plate that catcher Josh Phegley dropped for an error. With a second chance, Rodriguez walked to load the bases.
"We were fortunate we got some bounces that went our way but for the most part we had some good at-bats," Jeter said.
Jake Petricka relieved and didn't get much help from his defense, either.
Wells grounded to first baseman Adam Dunn, who went for the force at second but was off-target with his throw for an error as two runs scored to make it 9-0. Granderson and Reynolds, the 12th and 13th batters off the inning, each grounded into fielder's choices.
Axelrod gave up eight runs — six earned — and eight hits in 2 1-3 innings.
"We weren't helping him at all." Ventura said. "You've got to be able to catch the ball and play good defense, otherwise you're not going to win games."
Huff gave up a run and five hits in 5 2-3 innings.NOTES: White Sox C Tyler Flowers will have surgery Thursday on his right shoulder. The operation will determine whether his labrum is damaged. Recovery time should take three to six months. ... Chicago pushed back LHP Hector Santiago's next start back a day to Thursday. The starter for Wednesday's series finale in New York is being listed as TBA but could be top prospect RHP Erik Johnson. ... Yankees LHP Cesar Cabral made his big league debut and got a souvenir with his first strikeout — the ball was taken out of play. He pitched a scoreless eighth. ... J.R. Murphy singled in his big league debut, a pinch-hit appearance in the eighth. Murphy became the 52nd player used by the Yankees, breaking the team mark set in 2005 and tied in 2008.


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~~Myles Kennedy Opens Up About 2008 Led Zeppelin Rehearsals
Alter Bridge and Slash singer Myles Kennedy has revealed more details about his 2008 songwriting and rehearsal sessions with John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page — and he's quick to point out that despite the title of this article, any collaboration between them wouldn't have been called Led Zeppelin.
"Believe me… those rehearsals I will remember to my dying day," Kennedy said on the most recent episode of VH1 Classic's 'That Metal Show.' "When we're talking about this it seems completely ridiculous — there's no way — but it did happen. We played 'The Rain Song,' which is probably my favorite Led Zeppelin song, 'No Quarter,' 'Kashmir,' it was a lot of fun."
"But it wasn't going to be 'Led Zeppelin,'" Kennedy says of the unrealized collaboration, which began with a one-day session in June 2008 and resumed a few months later. Jones and Page were looking for a way to keep performing together following Led Zeppelin's triumphant one-off December 2007 reunion show, with lead singer Robert Plant preferring to continue pursuing his solo career instead. "I don't know if they knew what it was going to be. They just wanted to play, they wanted to jam, they wanted to put a project of some sort together. They weren't sure what it was, but it was never going to be Led Zeppelin with a new singer, I mean, obviously."
In a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone, Page explains that he resisted the urge to to hit the road with Jones and drummer Jason Bonham without a full-time singer and new material. "I could see what way it was going. Various people thought we should go on tour. I thought we needed a good, credible album, not do something that sounded like we were trying to milk the O2 [Arena, site of the Zeppelin reunion]."
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler jammed with Jones and Page around this time, but in 2011 he told Howard Stern that when "it came time for [Jimmy] to say, 'You want to write a record with me?' I went, 'No.' I'm in Aerosmith. He's in the biggest band in the world and I'm in a band like that. I have such an allegiance to my band and I love it so much."
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Extreme Networks this week unveiled 100G and 40G Ethernet modules as well as SDN application support for its BlackDiamond X8 core switch.
Extreme's 100/40G XL modules are designed to help scale BlackDiamond X8 networks for virtualized multi-tenant cloud data centers, Internet Exchanges and data center core deployments. They are capable of scaling to 1 million route entries, and hundreds of thousands of addresses and flows through an upgraded TCAM, and logically segment multi-tenant networks with Layer 2 broadcast domains, Extreme says.
Extreme says they are "ideally suited" for evolving data center interconnect architectures with hardware Layer 2 over Generic Routing Encapsulation (L2GRE), and VXLAN transport with several tens of thousands of multicast groups.
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Extreme joins Cisco, Brocade and Huawei as suppliers of 100G Ethernet for data centers. Juniper and Alcatel-Lucent, as well as Cisco and Brocade, provide it for service provider core and edge routing.
The four-port 100G module supports non-blocking, wire-speed performance of Layer 2/3 services, support of 100G-SR -- 100meter -- and 100G-OR 10Km optics, and fault tolerance and redundancy with N+1 power support. The 40G modules sports 12 wire-speed QSFP+ ports.
They allow the BlackDiamond X8 to scale to 32 100G ports and 98 40G ports. Extreme also has a 24-port 40G module that enables the switch to scale to 768 10G and 192 40G ports.
Separately, Extreme says it is supports OpenFlow startup Big Switch Networks' SDN applications for network virtualization and visibility. Extreme says its ExtremeXOS switch operating system can support Big Switch's Big Tap applications for traffic monitoring and network visibility with flow filtering; and Big Virtual Switch application for network virtualization.
Big Switch just debuted these applications this week.
Customer trials of the 12-port 40G and 4-port 100G XL modules begin next year, Extreme says. The 40G module costs $6,000 per port and the 100G module costs $35,000 per port.
Jim Duffy has been covering technology for over 25 years, 21 at Network World. He also writes The Cisco Connection blog and can be reached on Twitter @Jim_Duffy.
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Monday, November 30, 2020
Don't do injustice to Gaza
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi
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More than three years ago, Gaza lived through an indescribable inferno due to criminal Israeli aggression, which resulted in the martyrdom of 2,250 people, including 590 children.
Gaza and its people stood fast, despite the sacrifices, the severity of pains and the displacement of more than 450,000 people who lost their homes and properties.
I had the honour of living for long days and nights during this wicked aggression and witnessed the human greatness represented in the solidarity among Palestinians men and women, their insistence on survival and overcoming the obstacles that are difficult for humans to endure.
Three years later, while a third of the displaced lost their homes with unfulfilled promises of reconstruction, the Gaza Strip lives a profound human tragedy. For after a stifling and a criminal siege imposed by Israel 11 years ago, after more than ten years have passed in division and after the escalation of Palestinian infighting, Gaza lives without potable water, as 97% has become polluted and salty, without electricity for 21 hours a day, and with open sewers spreading serious epidemics and flowing into the sea without treatment.
In addition to the water, soil and sea pollution, the air has become polluted due to the use of thousands of generators in order to generate domestic electricity. Hundreds of thousands of poor Gazans cannot afford to buy power because the electricity bill of the generators is four times the ordinary electricity bill.
A number of doctors in Gaza's hospitals phoned me to give a warning that the dialysis machines will stop due to the power shortages and lack of spare parts. This means definite death of hundreds of patients, and the same will happen to many people due to lack of medicines.
There are more than 1,700 patients; most of them suffer from cancer and are prevented from travelling abroad due to the decline of the remittance system. Hundreds of surgeries have been cancelled, thousands of students cannot complete their studies, and unemployment among graduates exceeds 80 percent. And Israel wants to punish the UN representatives because they issued a warning about a serious human disaster caused above all by the Israeli siege.
Everyone who does not live in Gaza knows the amount of grumbling if the electricity is cut off from homes for a few hours, and West Bank citizens know the meaning of the water outage, as Israel controls its flow to their homes in the hot summer months. What if the electricity shortages continue for years and the fresh water is totally non-existent during the searing summer heat?
Most Gazans have nothing to do with the raging conflict for power, which is escalating every year since the national unity government collapsed in 2007 and the division became entrenched. This is a matter which Netanyahu and his government have not ceased to exploit. Yet it is Gazans and their children who are paying the price.
Israel's government, which is hiding behind this division, is increasing tightening its siege on Gaza, tormenting its people and attempting to establish its secession from the rest of Palestine. The secession of Gaza is the demographic precondition for annexing and Judaising the West Bank and Jerusalem and entrenching the occupation and the apartheid regime.
Perhaps those who do not care today about Gazans' suffering due to power and water outages and reduction in salaries, remember the proverb: "never dissociate yourself from your kith and kin."
Maybe they will pay more attention to the waylayers who attempt to exploit this suffering for their own interests and dubious objectives.
Gazans do not deserve this suffering.
Our solidarity and shared compassion as a Palestinian people is the first guarantee of our survival and the termination of the occupation and historical injustice we endure.
Don't do injustice to Gaza and Gazans by leaving the occupation to entrench injustice in the strip.
The writer is secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative.
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