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Ray of hope in Iran nuclear talks
Iran's supreme leader says he is skeptical about the nuclear negotiations in Geneva due to start again later on this week. Many news analysts point out that no major breakthrough could be expected. What do you think?
I think yes, something new will happen in these negotiations, although since 2010 when the US rejected a deal proposed by Turkey, we haven't heard anything new from the negotiations. From that time on, direct negotiations between the US and Iran have been a new material to discuss. New measures will be discussed between them. I think that media expectations of additional protocols on the Iranian side will be something new to be discussed.
On the other hand, some degree of expectation of Iranian enrichment from the American side is necessary for a breakthrough. So, we are closer to that agreement. Of course, that doesn't mean they will talk about all the problems in three to six months that were scarcely mentioned a couple of weeks ago or last month. But I think we have to be optimistic on this point.
Some time ago a group of US Senators said they're willing to consider suspending sanctions against Iran, BUT only if Tehran takes significant steps to slow its nuclear program. Is the Iranian government ready to comply with this demand and other demands put forward by the West?
We have to bear in mind that Rouhani was the one who was negotiating when Iran unilaterally decided to stop some part of their nuclear program in order to build confidence at the negotiations. It's possible to think that Rouhani is conducting some similar steps. Of course, there is no consensus in Iran to promote that kind of policy. Rouhani should be very careful about the kind of policy he will implement as a kind of unilateral policy because he absolutely needs the support of the parliament and the supreme leader. So he can't take any unilateral decisions in order to gain more confidence in the negotiations.
On the other hand, he needs to prove his willingness to start a new era in the negotiations. So I think that Iran is prepared to chance some kind of policies or at least some kind of ambitions in the negotiations. But I don't think they will stop the whole nuclear process. It is something that is very important to all political elites. Maybe they will consider slowing down or reduce or to become more transparent on the whole process.
Let us now look at how an agreement in the future could look. How far is the West prepared to go to reach a long-awaited nuclear agreement with Iran?
I think the US is already prepared to discuss it, having in mind that they started this round of consultations. I think they are prepared to accept some degree of nuclear enrichment on the Iranian side. They need guarantees, of course, but I think there are other actors in the region that are not convinced at all, specifically Israel. I think that Europe was prepared even before to accept a nuclear Iran but, of course, they need safeguards that Iran's nuclear program won't be dangerous for Israel or for the neighbors and the region. I think that the West was prepared long time ago. It's not the equivalent thing about negotiations going on for the last eight to ten years.
We've mentioned Israel. What other countries might be rather outspoken when it comes to another agreement with Iran? Anybody in Europe?
Not especially. I don't know any country in Europe that would be against, I mean France, the UK and Germany have already been involved in the discussions with Iran in the previous period and they've never abandoned the discussions. So I don't think any of them will have a problem with accepting of Iran's nuclearization. Of course, they are interested in preventing any militarization of the program. This is the main problem. Iran has not been transparent enough to provide guarantees to Europe or to the UN, and because of that we are still discussing all of this. The Iranian parliament never approved the additional protocols that showed they were not 100% supportive of the agreement reached in 2003. But this is a different case.
Iran will resume negotiations in Geneva with six world powers, including the United States and Russia, on Thursday. The talks are aimed at ending a standoff over the country's nuclear program. Tehran has consistently denied it's weapons-related.
Tehran, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the six international mediators are about to attain their objective and close Iran's "nuclear dossier". The decisive round of consultations involving IAEA inspectors is due in Tehran on November 11th, while the mediators (the five UN Security Council Permanent Members plus Germany) are scheduled to meet Tehran officials in Vienna on the 7th and 8th of this month to reach a new settlement agreement.
All of Iran's latest proposals to the IAEA are top secret. But it follows from statements by US and EU officials that the sluggish negotiating process has been clearly boosted. According to the US presidential press secretary, Jay Carney, Iran's latest proposal is by far more serious and richer in terms of content than any previous initiatives, while the EU Foreign Policy Coordinator, Catharine Ashton, described the Vienna-held round of talks with Iranian negotiators on October 30th and 31st as the most productive of all negotiations on Iran's nuclear problem.
According to diplomatic sources in Vienna, Iran and the IAEA will now consider Tehran's nuclear problem as technological, rather than military, to bring Iran-IAEA relations back to normal. The IAEA should from now on monitor Iran just as any other country, which actually amounts to closing Iran's "nuclear dossier".
Iran must have told the six mediators it's prepared to make really big concessions, or else the mediators wouldn't be brimming with optimism.
Meanwhile, Russian experts point out no progress would have been possible without Washington's change of heart. The US President Barack Obama badly needs breakthrough foreign policy initiatives in the wake of a spate of scandals around global surveillance. Closing Iran's "nuclear dossier" and normalizing relations with Tehran is exactly what both the Democrats and Republicans have urged the White House to do.
Iran's "nuclear dossier" may indeed be closed, which does not mean that Iran will shut down its nuclear programme, Professor of the Military University of the Russian Defence Ministry, Oleg Kulakov, told the Voice of Russia in an interview. The point is that the United States is radically changing its decades-old policy on Iran. This means the US will start changing relations with all regional nations, including Saudi Arabia and Israel, Oleg Kulakov says, and elaborates.
The ongoing changes in Iran's relations with the IAEA and the United States have been prompted by the realization of the fact that there is no point in studying Iran's nuclear programme under a microscope. Everyone is aware that Iran has already passed the point of no return, Tehran's nuclear programme has become irreversible, and it makes no sense to discuss it any longer.
Iran's "nuclear dossier" will obviously be closed. On the one hand, now that Iranians have elected the moderate reform-minded politician Hassan Rouhani as their President, Tehran is prepared to make concessions to the world community. On the other hand, even diehard conservatives in the United States have grown tired of the sluggish talks on Iran's nuclear problem, the head of the Centre for Oriental Studies of the Russian Diplomatic Academy, Andrei Volodin, told the Voice of Russia, and elaborated.
"The US has had no diplomatic relations with Iran since early 1980s, which has in no way benefited Washington politically. The US European allies are fed up with what bans have been imposed on selling arms to Iran. Saudi Arabia has actually lost control of the Middle East due to the recent Arab revolutions. So Riyadh will have to comply with what decisions the US will make."
When Iran began to develop its nuclear power engineering in the 1960s, it was aided by the US, Germany and France. When Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, he said nuclear programmes ran counter to Islamic standards and had them wrapped up. Tehran was largely prompted to resume its nuclear research by the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
Uranium should be enriched to 90%, to be used in a nuclear warhead. Iran said in April this year that it would not enrich uranium above 20%, the concentration required for scientific research. Israel insists that Iran can enrich its uranium to 90% in a matter of 90 days, and thus get a nuclear bomb. Russian experts claim, for their part, that it would take Iran 5 to 10 years to get the 90% concentration.
But then, Iran could follow in the footsteps of Japan. Tokyo has the full cycle of nuclear technology and is able to manufacture nuclear arms, but has thus far rejected the idea.


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Roughly 1,200 student-athletes have gone through the Waconia cross country program in the last 22 years, all under head coach Clark Machtemes.
Now after two decades, countless meet wins, conference championships, section titles, and state entries, "Machto" (as he's known to his runners) is stepping down from his role.
As a high school sophomore in the 1970s, Machtemes ran in a struggling Waconia cross country program, a sport that was dropped the following season due to lack of numbers.
In the late 1980s, when the girls' tennis team was dropped for the same reason, the school district searched for another alternative. Machtemes, who coached junior high volleyball at the time, was approached by then-Activities Director Wayne Mortenson asking if he would like to restart cross country.
With no available funding from the district, the Waconia Booster Club offered to fund the program for the first two seasons, but only if it was successful.
The first season of the new WHS cross country team began in the fall of 1990. Only 20 runners from grades 7-12 came out for the team, many hailing from the dissolved girls' tennis team.
"Distance running wasn't really a big deal in Waconia at the time," Machtemes said.
But that first season, Waconia runner Julie Ploecher not only qualified for state, but went on to finish eighth in Class A.
"That was huge," Machtemes said.
As the years continued, team numbers grew and Machtemes consistently coached at least one individual to the state meet each season …
Read the rest of the story in the Feb. 21 Waconia Patriot.

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CURE Commits More Than $1.5 Million in Research and Fellowship Grants
Here at CURE Childhood Cancer, we are committed to finding a cure in our lifetime. The most important way to make this happen is through supporting childhood cancer research initiatives. CURE Childhood Cancer's Research Initiative has invested more than $1.5 million this year alone to support research aimed at finding a cure.
Executive Director Kristin Connor says, "CURE is extremely pleased to be partnering with outstanding scientists to continue our search for cures and better treatments for children with cancer and to improve the quality of life of childhood cancer survivors. CURE has a 36 year long history of supporting promising research and we are proud to continue that effort."
This year, CURE is funding two fellowship grants as well as 11 specific research projects focused on the types of children's cancer most difficult to cure. To read about each of these research projects, click here.
On top of the $1.5 million, The Press On Fund is expected to raise an additional $200,000 to be awarded to promising AML and Neuroblastoma research projects.
We are excited about the research CURE is funding this year and are thankful to all of our supporters for making this research possible. With all of your help, we are one step closer to finding a cure.


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Syntroleum Synthetic Fuels Showcased at North American International Auto Show
6 January 1999Syntroleum Synthetic Fuels Showcased at North American International Auto Show
DETROIT, Jan. 5 -- "In our view, the most exciting thing at this year's Auto Show isn't a car, it's what's inside," said Mark Agee, President of Syntroleum Corporation . A Tulsa, Oklahoma-based energy technology company, Syntroleum is the developer of the designer fuels being showcased by DaimlerChrysler in its Dodge Power Wagon concept car at this week's 1999 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Syntroleum's fuel, produced using the company's proprietary process for converting natural gas into synthetic liquid hydrocarbons, contains no sulfur or aromatic molecules, the components of conventional petroleum-based fuels that create emissions problems in conventional diesel engines. The fuel also has the advantage of being able to run in today's vehicles without modification, as well as the ability to be distributed through today's existing pipelines and gas stations. "We are very pleased to be working with DaimlerChrysler to explore the potential for our synthetic fuel technology to provide an abundant source of clean, affordable and higher-performing fuels for the future," said Mr. Agee. "We have been very impressed with their commitment to cleaner and more efficient engine technology, as well as their obvious technical expertise." In October, Syntroleum and Chrysler signed an agreement to jointly develop designer fuels, lubricants and automatic transmission fluids using the Syntroleum Process. In addition to producing synthetic transportation fuels, lubricants and other specialty products, Syntroleum's GTL technology offers a number of other potential benefits for the environment and economic development. These include: -- alleviating the need for flaring natural gas, which is believed to contribute to global warming and has been outlawed in a number of countries; and -- helping to meet increasingly stringent environmental standards and the requirements of the 1992 Energy Policy Act, which requires the federal government and many large cities to convert an increasing percentage of their transportation fleets to alternative fuels. Syntroleum licenses its proprietary process for converting natural gas into synthetic crude oil and transportation fuels. Current licensees include Texaco, ARCO, Marathon Oil, Kerr-McGee, ENRON and YPF. This document includes forward-looking statements as well as historical information. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the testing, certification, characteristics and use of synthetic fuels and alternative fuels, the Syntroleum Process and related technologies and products, GTL plants based on the Syntroleum Process (including the development of planned plants), the economic use of such plants and the continued development of the Syntroleum Process. When used in this document, the words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intent," "may," "project," "plan," "should," and similar expressions are intended to be among the statements that identify forward-looking statements. Although Syntroleum believes that its expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements involve risks and uncertainties and no assurance can be given that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements include the potential that commercial-scale GTL plants will not achieve the same results as those demonstrated on a laboratory or pilot basis or that such plants will experience technological and mechanical problems, the potential that improvements to the Syntroleum Process currently under development may not be successful, the impact on plant economics of operating conditions (including energy prices), competition, intellectual property risks, Syntroleum's ability to obtain financing and other risks described in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. "Syntroleum" is registered as a trademark and service mark in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.


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25th anniversary: Mark McGwire, king of the 16th inning
Today marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most improbable and unlikely achievements in baseball history. For it was 25 years ago that Mark McGwire hit a home run in the 16th inning—for the second straight day.
Yes, really. Yes. Really.
In back-to-back games on back-to-back days, Mark McGwire homered in the 16th inning. It's almost impossible to describe how unlikely that is. Teams often won't play in a 16-inning game all season, and if they do, it's even less likely they'll play in two. And if they play in two games that go that long, it's pretty much a given that they won't happen in consecutive contests.
And even if they do happen back-to-back like that, the odds are greatly against one man coming to the plate in the 16th inning both times. And for a man not only to come to the plate in the 16th inning in two straight days, but belt a game-winning homer each time? Yeah, that's what you call bucking the odds.
Let me put it to you this way. A few years ago, I researched guys who hit homers in extra innings. I looked at a few hundred of the best sluggers in baseball history. Not only is McGwire the only person to hit homers in the 16th inning of two consecutive games, he's the only guy I know of to have two 16th-inning homers in his entire career—and he did it in back-to-back games! It's insane. He did in less than 48 hours what no one else has done in a lifetime.
Of course, McGwire's feat depended heavily on circumstance. He needed the games to go on that long.
On July 3, 1988, young McGwire and his Oakland A's teammates were playing the final game in Toronto in a series against the Blue Jays. Oakland led 6-2 early, but Toronto fought back, tying it on a Tony Fernandez double in the bottom of ninth on a rare blown save opportunity by star closer Dennis Eckersley.
The game soldiered on, and in the 12th it looked like the A's had it wrapped up when McGwire's Bash Brother Jose Canseco smashed a two-run homer for an 8-6 A's edge. But those pesky Jays battled back, with Fernandez again playing the hero, this time with a two-run homer to make it 8-8. Finally, in the top of the 16th, McGwire hit a homer that gave the A's a 9-8 lead, and this time they held on for the win.
The next day the A's were in Cleveland, celebrating Independence Day against the Indians.
This game wasn't nearly as dramatic. In an apparent effort to save his tired bullpen, Tony LaRussa kept starting pitcher Bob Welch in a little too long, and it backfired, as Welch surrendered a run that tied the game 2-2 in the eighth.
However tired Oakland's bullpen might've been, relievers Jim Corsi and Greg Cadaret pitched brilliantly, allowing just two hits in six innings of scoreless work. Most impressively, Cadaret worked out of a 14th-inning, bases-loaded jam by striking out the last two batters to keep the game going on.
And of course it went into the 16th, when McGwire became the first, last, and only man to homer in the 16th inning on consecutive days. Teammate Stan Javier added another solo shot later for a 4-2 A's win.
But the results weren't the memorable part. A player hitting a homer that deep into games in two straight contests is more memorable, and that's what Mark McGwire did 25 years ago today.
Aside from that, many other baseball items today celebrate their anniversary or "day-versary" (which is something occurring X-thousand days ago). Here they are, with the better ones in bold if you'd prefer to just skim.
1,000 days since the Braves top the Giants, 5-4 in 11 innings, in Game Two of the 2010 NLDS. The Giants have the bases loaded with one out in the 10th but ground into a double play to end the inning.
4,000 days since 20,000-plus fans show up at Fenway Park for "Ted Williams: A Celebration of an American Hero."
5,000 days since Game Three of the 1999 World Series sees the Braves blowing a 5-1 lead to the Yankees, losing 6-5 in 10 innings.
8,000 days since Hank Majeski dies.
8,000 days since the Brewers trades Candy Maldonado to Toronto.
8,000 days since the big league debut of Jose Hernandez.
8,000 days since the Giants top the Dodgers, 1-0 in 13 innings, on a walk-off hit-by-pitch. It's the first walk-off HBP in a 0-0 game since the 1970s.
15,000 days since respected manager Gene Mauch suffers his 1,000th loss.
15,000 days since Bert Blyleven surrenders a home run to a pitcher for the only time in his career. Fellow Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry hits it.
15,000 days since former big leaguer Del Bissonette kills himself at age 72.
20,000 days since the Braves top the Yankees, 4-3 in 10 innings, in Game One of the 1958 World Series.
25,000 days since Cardinals star Stan Musial enlists in the army. St. Louis replaces him with minor leaguer Red Schoendienst.
50,000 days since Danny Murphy, second baseman and right fielder, is born.
1859 Hall of Fame 300-game winner Mickey Welch is born.
1880 George Mullin, workhorse pitcher from early 20th century, is born.
1881 Mickey Welch celebrates his 22nd birthday by tossing two complete-game victories for Troy over Buffalo (which are both major league cities back then), 8-3 and 12-0.
1884 Louisville pitcher Guy Hecker throws two complete games in one day.
1900 Cub fans celebrate a doubleheader by firing their guns in the air whenever the team scores a run. They manage to rattle the visiting Phillies into blowing a ninth-inning lead.
1900 Giants player Jack Doyle slugs umpire Robert Emslie, causing fans to pour onto the field and authorities to arrest Doyle.
1904 New York's Happy Jack Chesbro sets a then-AL record by winning his 14th straight decision. He'll win 41 games this season, the 20th-century record.
1904 Bump Hadley, pitcher, is born.
1905 It's the first 20-inning game in baseball history as Boston's Cy Young and Philadelphia's Rube Waddell both go the distance. Waddell's A's win on an error, hit-by-pitch, and two hits in the final inning. The game is the second part of a holiday doubleheader.
1905 Charleston Sea Gulls pitcher Bugs Raymond throws two no-hitters today in the South Atlantic League.
1906 Chicago's Mordecai Brown and Pittsburgh's Lefty Leifield throw dueling one-hitters against each other. The Cubs win, 1-0. In fact, they sweep both games in today's doubleheader by that score.
1908 Hooks Wiltsie pitches a 10-inning no-hitter. His only base runner is opposing pitcher George McQuillan, who Wiltsie plunks with two outs in the ninth. Wiltsie's Giants top the Phillies, 1-0.
1908 Chicago's Mordecai Brown hurls his fourth consecutive shutout.
1910 Hall of Famer Elmer Flick appears in his final game.
1911 Ty Cobb's hitting streak ends at 40 games when Chicago ace Ed Walsh shuts him down.
1912 George Mullin celebrates his 32nd birthday by throwing a no-hitter. He also gets three hits and two RBIs in a 7-0 Tigers win over the Browns. It's the second game of a doubleheader. In the first game, Ty Cobb stole second, third, and home in the fifth inning.
1913 Hall of Fame outfielder Harry Hooper leads off today's game with an inside-the-park home run versus Gettysburg Eddie Plank.
1913 Star pitcher Smokey Joe Wood sets a batting record for pitchers by belting two doubles in one inning.
1916 The Browns and Red Sox battle for 17 innings in a scoreless tie before darkness falls.
1922 Hall of Fame first baseman George Sisler plays in his 36th straight game without striking out. He's 65-for-145 in that span for a .448 average.
1922 Shortstop Heinie Sand handles 18 chances for the Phillies in a game against the Giants.
1923 Dazzy Vance wins, putting his career record at 25-24. It'll be over .500 for the rest of his career.
1924 For the first of 39 times in his career, Ted Lyons records at least 28 outs in a game.
1924 Hall of Fame hurler Eppa Rixey wins, pushing his career record to 157-156. It will stay over .500 for the rest of his career.
1925 Herb Pennock and Lefty Grove engage in a big pitchers' duel that Grove loses in 15 innings. Pennock throws a 15 inning, complete-game shutout for a 115 Game Score while Grove allows one run on 14 hits and five walks for a Game Score of 85.
1927 Edd Roush joins the 2,000 hit club. It takes him just 1,636 games to join it.
1927 In a doubleheader, Babe Ruth goes 5-for-7, but Lou Gehrig hits two home runs to pass Ruth in the year's home run race. One of Gehrig's homers is the third of his 23 career grand slams.
1928 Charlie Root, the winningest Cubs pitcher of all-time, suffers through his seventh consecutive loss, his worst such slump.
1928 The Yankees lead the AL by 12 games, the most ever on July 4 in the pre-divisional era. They are 53-17 at the moment.
1929 Chuck Tanner, long-lasting manager, is born.
1929 I don't what's going on, but Cub slugger Hack Wilson is in a bad mood. After singling, he jumps in the Reds dugout and decks Ray Kolp. Later, at a train station, he fights Kolp's teammate, Pete Donohue.
1930 George Steinbrenner is born.
1931 Dazzy Vance wins, putting his career record an all-time high of 60 games over .500 (172-112). In the last eight years, then, he's gone 147-88.
1932 In the International League, Baltimore's star slugger Buzz Arlett hits four homers in one game. He did the same thing five weeks previously.
1932 200-game winner Earl Whitehill enjoys the best Game Score of his career: 86. His line: 9 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, and 3 K. It's his only complete-game one-hitter. Goose Goslin got the hit against him. Today is also the only time Goslin starts a game at third base.
1932 There's a nasty brawl in today's Yankees-Senators doubleheader. Washington's Carl Reynolds crashes into New York catcher Bill Dickey in a play at the plate, and an enraged Dickey responds by assaulting Reynolds, breaking his jaw. Dickey will be suspended for several weeks for his actions.
1933 Jimmie Foxx homers four times in one doubleheader against the Red Sox.
1934 Negro League legend Satchel Paige wins two games—in two different cities. He no-hits the Homestead Grays in Pittsburgh and then drives to Chicago to defeat the American Giants in 12 innings.
1937 The A's and Red Sox play a doubleheader and then leave town on different trains. Somehow, Boston's Eric McNair and Oscar "Ski" Melillo get on the A's train.
1938 The Phillies debut in Shibe Park, the home of the A's. In a doubleheader, they lose their first game but win the second.
1939 Gabby Hartnett, a 38-year-old catcher, legs out an inside-the-park home run. Added bonus: it's a pinch-hit shot.
1939 Hank Leiber smashes three home runs in one game.
1939 Jim Tabor belts three homers in one game, including two grand slams. He adds a fourth homer in the other half of a doubleheader, too.
1939 It's Lou Gehrig Day at Yankee Stadium. Gehrig tells the crowd that he considers himself to be the luckiest man on the face of the earth, as the Yankees retire his number. He is the first person ever to have his number retired.
1940 In the American Association, Ab Wright hits five homers and a triple in a doubleheader, all but one of the homers coming in the second game.
1940 Former star center fielder Wally Berger plays in his final game.
1944 Oriole Park, built for Baltimore's Federal League team in 1914, burns down.
1945 Somehow, the Yankees play an entire game with zero defensive assists recorded.
1946 Johnny Mize smashes his 200th home run.
1946 The Boston Braves sign amateur free agent Alvin Dark.
1947 Bucky Harris becomes the sixth manager to win 1,500 games. His record is 1,500-1,562.
1947 Jackie Robinson's best hitting streak peaks at 21 games.
1947 Lou Boudreau's best hitting streak maxes out at 19 games.
1947 Morganna the Kissing Bandit is born.
1948 Leo Durocher is ejected from the game by umpires and then told that Dodger team boss Branch Rickey wants his resignation. Rickey is maneuvering to make Burt Shotton the team's skipper.
1948 18-year-old Johnny Antonelli makes his big league debut.
1948 Roy Campanella belts his first home run—and then gets No. 2, too.
1949 Billy Pierce suffers through his seventh straight loss, his worst-ever stretch.
1950 At the Polo Grounds, a fan is shot dead from a .22 caliber gun from the nearby housing projects. This inflames fears people already had about going there to watch a game.
1951 Dodgers manager Charlie Dressen is ejected from both ends of a doubleheader against the Giants. His Brooklyn club sweeps the games. Afterwards, to his ever-lasting regret, Dressen utters to the press, "The Giants is dead. They'll never bother us again." The Giants, of course, will win the pennant that year.
1952 Braves slugger Eddie Mathews hits the first of his eight career walk-off home runs.
1955 Charlie Grimm loses his 1,000th decision as skipper. His record: 1,212-1,000.
1960 Mickey Mantle becomes the 18th member of the 300-home run club.
1960 Baltimore signs free agent slugger Bobby Thomson.
1961 Willie Mays becomes the 19th member of the 300-home run club.
1961 Billy O'Dell sets a record (since broken) with 13 strikeouts in a relief appearance. He fans 13 in nine innings for the Giants, who beat the Cubs, 19-3.
1961 Harmon Killebrew legs out his only inside-the-park home run.
1961 Milwaukee purchase veteran pitcher Johnny Antonelli from the Indians.
1961 Julio Becquer hits a pinch-hit, walk-off grand slam for the Twins in a 6-4 win over the White Sox. For a long time, it's the only walk-off slam in Twins history.
1961 Orlando Cepeda has a career-high eight RBIs. He's 5-for-5 with a pair of doubles and a home run in a 19-3 Giants win over the Cubs.
1962 Mickey Mantle, who homered twice in yesterday's game, does it again in the second game of today's doubleheader.
1962 Willie McCovey has one of the greatest games of his career, going 3-for-3 with two home runs, two sacrifice flies, and a personal-best of seven RBIs. He's also caught stealing once.
1963 Jose Oquendo is born.
1964 Manny Jimenez hits three home runs in one game for the A's but never gets a shot for a fourth one when rain cuts the game short after six innings. The team does its fireworks display despite the bad weather.
1966 Houston signs future Hall of Fame pitcher Robin Roberts.
1966 Ron Santo's best hitting streak peaks at 28 games. He only has 39 hits in the 28 games.
1967 It's the first Niekro vs. Niekro game as Phil tops Joe, 8-3, when Atlanta plays Chicago.
1967 Sparky Lyle makes his big league debut.
1967 The Mets, having lost 19 straight to Juan Marichal, finally beat him for the first time in franchise history.
1967 Vinny Castilla is born.
1968 Andy Messersmith makes his big league debut.
1969 Willie Stargell sends a Tom Seaver pitch over the right field roof at Forbes Field.
1969 Mickey Lolich wins his ninth straight decision, his longest stretch.
1970 Roberto Clemente, who homered twice in yesterday's game, does it again in the first game of today's Pirates doubleheader.
1970 St. Louis uses three pinch hitters in the eighth inning—and all strike out.
1971 Bruce Kison, pitcher, makes his big league debut.
1972 A would-be no-hitter by Tom Seaver is foiled with one out in the ninth by San Diego's Leon Lee. It's the only hit they get against the Mets ace.
1973 Ron Santo belts his sixth and final walk-off home run. It's a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th for a 3-2 Cubs wins.
1974 Luis Tiant loses his 100th decision, giving him a career record of 129-100.
1977 Boston sets a record by hitting eight home runs in game.
1977 The Kansas City Royals' all-time franchise record hits .500 (682-682). It's the 13th time it's been there over the last 12 months, but after today it will stay over .500 for 25 years straight.
1977 Rangers owner Brad Corbett walks into the press box, breaks into tears, and calls his players "dogs on the field and dogs off the field."
1979 Today is the closest Steve Carlton ever comes to a no-hitter. He allows only one hit, a seventh-inning single by Elliot Maddox. He never does throw a no-hitter.
1979 Dwight Evans hits his 100th homer. It's a walk-off home run, too.
1980 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,000th victim, Cesar Geronimo, who as it happens was also strikeout No. 3,000 for Bob Gibson.
1982 The largest crowd in minor league history, 65,666, sees a game and fireworks display at Denver's Mile High Stadium.
1983 Dave Righetti throws a no-hitter for the Yankees over the Red Sox.
1984 Jim Rice has the greatest game of his career. He caps off the only five-hit game of his career with a walk-off grand slam for a 13-9 Boston win over Oakland.
1984 Phil Niekro fans his 3,000th batter.
1984 Orel Hershiser fans 11 batters, the most he ever has in a nine-inning game.
1985 The Mets and Braves begin a game that will last 19 innings, ending at 3:55 a.m. the next day. The Mets win, 16-13, but the highlight is Braves reliever Rick Camp homering on an 0-2 count with two outs and no one on to tie the game in the bottom of the 18th. Keith Hernandez hits for the cycle in the game, as well. After the game ends, the team has its fireworks display. It awakens frightened nearby residents, some of whom call the cops to report that Libyan terrorists were bombing the city.
1986 San Francisco signs free agent pitcher Steve Carlton, who the Phillies just cut.
1986 Rich Gossage wins his 100th decision. His record is 100-85.
1987 Phil Neirko gets a win, giving him and brother Joe Neikro 530 combined wins, one more than Gaylord and Jim Perry had.
1988 Charlie Hough fans four batters in the first inning.
1988 At age 36 years, nine months, and one day, Dwight Evans hits the only inside-the-park home run of his career.
1988 Kansas City releases veteran relievers Dan Quisenberry and Gene Garber.
1988 After working today's Cubs-Giants game, veteran NL umpire Lee Weyer dies of a heart attack at age 51.
1989 Kevin Tapani makes his big league debut.
1989 Tom Browning is three outs from a second career perfect game when Dickie Thon ruins it with a double.
1992 Jeff Blauser homers, the 1,776th home run ever hit on July 4.
1992 Larry Walker gets the assist on the rare 9-3 ground out, nailing Tony Fernandez of San Diego. A few days earlier, Fernandez was caught stealing twice in one inning, so he's really having a bad week.
1993 The Astrodome hosts the first Mexican League game in a major league stadium. Jalisoc tops Monterrey, 2-1.
1993 Oops. Matt Turner surrenders the rare walk-off balk as the Braves top Florida, 4-3.
1994 Will Clark receives the only walk-off walk of his career. Texas 4, Detroit 3.
1996 Curt Schilling has a personal-best game at the plate with three RBIs.
1996 The Yankees purchase Darryl Strawberry from St. Paul in the Northern League.
1998 The Dodgers make a terrible trade, sending Paul Konerko and Dennys Reyes to the Reds for Jeff Shaw. Tommy Lasorda is in over his head as GM.
1998 Chipper Jones lays down his third and final sacrifice bunt. He never had another one.
1999 It's one of the most ghastly injuries in memory as Jason Kendall ruins his ankle. The Pirates catcher bunts in the fifth trying to break up a Steve Woodard perfect game and hits the bag awkwardly, absolutely destroying his ankle. He lies there, with his foot hanging awkwardly and wrongly from his leg.
2000 Jon Garland makes his major league debut.
2000 In his first big league at-bat, Keith McDonald hits a pinch-hit home run. Not a bad way to start a career.
2000 Shane Halter catches in relief in today's game, meaning that over the course of his career he's now played all nine positions, including pitcher.
2001 50 fans are stranded on the Ferris Wheel at Comerica Park for two hours in a Tigers-Royals game until firefighters and emergency workers rescue them.
2001 A parachutist at Milwaukee's Miller Park breaks his ankle when he misses the opening in the retractable roof and lands on a beam several hundred feet over the ground.
2002 The Royals lose a heartbreaker to the A's, 3-2, with two runs scoring on a walk-off error. The error came right after a walk and hit by pitch, too.
2002 Don Baylor manages his last game.
2003 Bobby Abreu gets his 1,000th hit.
2003 Barry Bonds becomes the fourth man to draw 2,000 walks, joining Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Rickey Henderson.
2003 Moises Alou hits three home runs in one game.
2004 Barry Bonds draws his 2,191st career walk, passing Rickey Henderson as all-time leader.
2005 Frank Robinson manages his 2,000th game. His record: 963-1,036.
2006 Ryan Zimmerman enjoys the best one-game WPA any batter has ever had for the Expos/Nationals franchise: 0.965 WPA. He's 2-for-3 with two walks, a stolen base and a home run as the Nationals top the Marlins, 6-4.
2007 San Diego tops Florida, 1-0, on a walk-off error.
2008 Albert Pujols hits his 300th home run. He's the 117th man to do this.
2008 Coors Field hosts its highest-scoring game since it got the humidor: Rockies 18, Marlins 17.
2010 Drew Stubbs of Cincinnati hits three home runs in one game.
2011 If you include the 1871-75 National Association as a major league, baseball has its 200,000 game (Reds-Cardinals, based on the day's start times).
2012 Houston trade aging outfielder/first baseman Carlos Lee to the Marlins.
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The Yankee game in 1945, it was the home Indians who recorded no assists.
in the 1930s, pittsburgh to the south side of chicago, was a 12 hour drive.
an eight train trip.
interesting thought, but probably due more to satchel's apologists than reality.
and the south side park did not have lights.
Thanks for pointing this out to me. I particularly like the Venn diagram, and it fits well with where i think SM is – the juncture between one-to-one (telephone, telegraph) and one-to-many (broadcast) communication. Of course, I'm starting to think there is distinct such thing as social media, it's all just the natural evolution of the Internet. Might be less sexy to think of it in that way, but it also means its here to say and more than just a passing fad.


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Spiced Rhubarb Pork Chops Recipe
My husband and I own a small restaurant in the middle of Amish country. Our menu often features recipes using rhubarb from our garden. This savory pork dish is a favorite. —Connie Hamilton, Hazelton, Iowa
- 1-1/2 cups chopped fresh rhubarb (1/2-inch pieces)
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Red food coloring, optional
- 4 bone-in pork loin chops (3/4 inch thick)
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1. In a saucepan, combine the rhubarb, broth, sugar and honey; cook over medium heat until rhubarb is tender. Stir in the cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and food coloring if desired.
- 2. In a large skillet, brown pork chops in oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour rhubarb mixture over the chops. Cover and simmer for 35-40 minutes or until meat juices run clear, turning once. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 each: 288 calories, 12g fat (4g saturated fat), 86mg cholesterol, 181mg sodium, 13g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 1g fiber), 31g protein.
Reviews for Spiced Rhubarb Pork Chops
Average Rating
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2011
"Sorry, but we really didn't like it. I normally love rhubarb but this didn't do it for me. If anyone makes this, I would suggest using the optional food coloring. I didn't and it was green which is not very appetizing."
Reviewed May. 15, 2010
"The rhubarb sauce was sweet and tangy, yet not overpowering. So simple to make. This would be a great dish to make in the fall. I will definitely make it again."
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Weatherford CEO: We'll Have News On Asset Sales Soon
Weatherford International didn't give investors much to cheer Tuesday as a record quarterly revenue was overshadowed by continued tax accounting problems that sent shares tumbling 13%.
But there may be positive news on the horizon. Chief Executive Bernard Duroc-Danner said the oilfield services company may report news on the first of its planned asset sales "in the next few days."
Weatherford said last summer that it planned to shed some $1 billion worth of non-core assets.
The company hasn't specified what's on the block, but Duroc-Danner told Dow Jones Newswires in June that "we have a number of smaller product lines and assets that are either non oil and gas, or just very marginal at Weatherford," whicih would be better off in others' hands.
On Tuesday, Duroc-Danner told investors that the sales process was "progressing" but that Weatherford wasn't in a tremendous hurry to complete any deals.
"As I described it when we initiated it, it would be a long process and sort of … slice by slice," he said. The first deal, he said, has to be "completed in the next 60 days or so," he said.
Even then, Weatherford may wait to report details until it releases first-quarter results, Duroc-Danner said.


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Jefferson County, Mississippi
The Shaw Cemetery is located adjacent to US 61 at Lorman, Mississippi. Going south toward Natchez, it is located on the right side of the highway approximately 3/10 mile south of the historical General Store at Lorman. The cemetery has a chain-linked fence which is in need of repair. Recently someone cleaned the cemetery and repaired some of the gravestones. Ten graves have gravestones, in addition, there are approximately 10 grave sites which have no gravestones
This information was compiled on 27 July 2001 by Larry W. Little <firstname.lastname@example.com> . The order of the information is Name, Date of Birth, Date of Death, Inscription or Comment.
Hodge, Julia; 27 Aug 1837 Note: Julia Shaw Hodge wife of William T. Hodge
McMurchy, Alex M.; Sept 1852; Age 40 years
McMurchy, James A.; Aug 1817; 28 May 1848
McMurchy, Margaret; 14 Dec 1835; 28 May 1837
Shaw, Dr. Charles; 22 May 1832; In the 29th year of his life
Shaw, Mary; 15 Sep 1828 Note: Mary "Martha" Shaw
Shaw, Thompson B.; 29 Jan 1794; 31 Mar 1854;
Shaw, William; 14 Sep 1815; In the 45th year of his life Note: Father-in-law of T. B. Shaw
Shaw, James ; 22 Apr 1833; Age 32 years
Shaw, Margaret; 1846; Age 62 years Note: Margaret Cromartie Shaw, the wife of William Shaw who died 6 May 1846
A special thank you to Larry Little for sharing these cemeteries with us and letting us put them online. If you have transcribed one of the Jefferson County cemeteries and would be willing to share the information with us so we could put it online here, please contact Carolyn Switzer firstname.lastname@example.com . We would also like to share pictures of cemeteries and/or gravestones that have been photographed.
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What is the government hiding? The New World Order: Part OnePosted by MRXUSA at 22:01, 24 Jul 2011
What is the government hiding?
The New World Order: Part One
By Mr. X
(United States) The story of the New World Order can be traced to the end of World War II in the months before Germany fell. It was at this time that Hitler was informed of Project Wolfsschanze by General Hans Kammler and Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny of the Waffen-SS. The project named for Hitler's mountain retreat had been kept a secret from Hitler because its purpose had been considered unthinkable by the Fuehrer. Project Wolfsschanze was a black budget style program to insure the survival of Third-Reich even if Germany were conquered.
Kammler and Skorzeny are reported to have presented to Hitler the end result of their project as an insurance policy of Aryan survival. In 1944, the duo met to discuss rerouting funds which Kammler controlled prior to his appointment in 1945 as the Fuehrer's general plenipotentiary for jet aircraft. Beginning in 1939 an underground Antarctic naval and air base began construction under Hitler's orders in Neuschwabenland. The base was kept secret as it never served a role in the war. In 1944, Kammler and Skorzeny created a secret society to populate the base at Neuschwabenland. Kammler transferred advance Nazi technology to Neuschwabenland via eight U-Boats as well as 200 young personnel hand selected by Dr. Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The core team of young men and women where hand picked to form a shadow government for a Forth-Reich within the unique facility they would occupy in Neuschwabenland. The selection process which was primarily basic eugenics testing based on Nazi pseudo-science and also included psychological testing which included exposing the candidates to the horrors of the Holocaust. Any sign of a negative reaction to the work at Auschwitz disqualified the candidates. 80 men and 120 women were selected between the ages of 18 and 25, the successful candidates did not learn about their mission until arriving in Neuschwabenland. These 200 people were to be used as breeding stock for the new Germany. Shortly after 10000 soldiers, scientists, and skilled workers were shipped to Neuschwabenland. The last wave of immigration included 5000 German woman to serve a workers and breeders at the base. Long term relationships of a sexual nature and marriage was restricted to the original 200 candidates and their descendants, the remainder were encouraged to practice a type of free love as a method of creating a solid German population for the future of the Forth Reich. Two classes remain to this day at the base in Neuschwabenland. The ruling class descends from the first 200 candidates selected by Dr. Mengele at the behest of Kammler and Skorzeny.
Kammler and Skorzeny were successful in convincing Hitler to personally withdraw from Germany and establish a Forth-Reich in Neuschwabenland. Hitler learned that a doppelganger had been created of him. Hitler was shocked by the exactness at which a female actress had been converted into an almost exact look-a-like of Hitler. The replacement Hitler would soon retreat to the Führerbunker. The remainder of the Nazi leadership was not informed of the replacement only Eva Braun was informed and she stayed with the replacement Hitler to protect the Fuehrer's escape. In 1944, Hitler escaped Germany aboard one of five highly advance aircraft which had been produced prior to the destruction of their manufacturing plant in an area which is today part of the Czech Republic. The circular wingless aircraft had the ability to take off vertically, travel at incredible speeds, and had unthinkable maneuvering capabilities. Had they been developed earlier it is likely that the airships could have changed the course of the war. Hitler traveled to Neuschwabenland with Kammler who would continue to oversee the operations of the Arctic base. Otto Skorzeny chose to remain behind and ran the now famous ODESSA network through Franco's Spain.
On 26 April 1945, Hanna Reitsch, Field Marshall Robert Ritter von Greim, and Otto Skorzeny arrived at the Führerbunker in a Fieseler Fi 156 airplane. Without the knowledge of von Greim or Reitsch; Skorzeny informed the doppelganger that is was her duty to commit suicide. The doppelganger's bodyguard where order by Skorzeny not to let her fall into enemy hands and to burn her body after death. On April 28th, the trio escaped the Führerbunker aboard an Arado Ar 96 which was dangerously overweight. Reitsch and von Greim were latter capture. Reitsch later worked secretly with United States Intelligence interests; while, von Greim committed suicide. Skorzeny surrendered to the allies on May 16th 1945 and then later escaped on July 27th 1948.
The doppelganger Hitler committed suicide as ordered on April 30th 1945. The body of the doppelganger was burned by her bodyguards and the remains were recovered by the Soviets. The Soviet Union did not allow a proper inspection of the bodies by either the United States or the United Kingdom. It was widely accept within the United States government that Hitler was dead.
The United States became aware of the Nazi's Arctic base after the sinking of U-853 off Rhode Island, it one of the eight U-Boats assigned to Neuschwabenland. U-Boat patrols by the remaining seven boats were suspended. The U.S. Navy recovered information related to the Neuschwabenland base, information which was kept from the public. President Truman ordered the reformation of the Council of National Defense which remains a classified organization funded by the United States government to this day. As of 2011, it employed 10,000 compartmentalized individuals throughout the United States. The leadership of this organization is made up off approximately 100 people who have a full picture of the operations of a secret government within the United States. This inner group is known as the Council and the author of this Arcticle is a member of this group. Council of National Defense was greatly increased in size under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Shortly after taking office every newly elected President of the United States is informed of the Council unless they are an existing member. President Jimmy Carter is the only President not to have been informed of the Council of National Defense because background information and certain personally held beliefs by Carter such as an anti-Semitic worldview resulted in Carter being deemed a risk to National Security. The Council seeks in theory to ensure a stable two-party republic in the United States which effectively has resulted in one party rule of the primary resources of the government. In 1960, the Council directly interfered in the election of President John F. Kennedy because of information held by the organization on Richard Nixon. This information on Nixon was disproved by a member of the Council in 1962 and Nixon would later be elected to the Presidency in 1969.
After it formation in 1945, the Council of National Defense's primary mission was compartmentalized to the eradication of existing threats to National Security including the Nazi base in Neuschwabenland. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd was assigned the task of investigating the possibility of the existence of a Nazi submarine base in Antarctica. In 1946, a huge amphibious naval force was assembled by Byrd which included USS Mount Olympus and the aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea, thirteen US Navy support ships, six helicopters, six flying boats, two seaplane tenders and fifteen other aircraft. The total number of personnel involved was over 4,000. Byrd fleet was confronted by an overwhelming show of Nazi air superiority. Over the course of weeks Byrd's fleet was held back by advanced single wing jet aircraft and as well as disc shaped craft with an unknown source of power. The Nazi aircraft did not attack the United States fleet. Radio contact with Neuschwabenland was established and Byrd was ordered by the Council to meet with the base leadership in hopes of negotiating a peaceful settlement to the matter.
Byrd was shocked after arriving at the base by helicopter and being taken into an underground city. There he held personal meetings with Adolph Hitler and witnessed many of the advance weapons that had been developed by the Nazi's including a nuclear tipped missile code named the V-6. One of these missiles was test fired during Byrd's visit and the resulting explosion of its nuclear warhead was witnessed by thousand of American sailors and personal. The Council instructed Byrd to sign a truce with Hitler in an effort to protect the United States from nuclear attack.
To be continued.
Mr. X is the penname of a member of the Council of National Defense. All rights reserved by the author.
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Feel free to ask any questions related directly to the story.
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Feel free to ask any questions related directly to the story.
Funny. I did just that, but since they're posted on the Stream version of this post (along with a few choice comments from RPJ), they're not visible here.
To be more accurate, my suggestions were that your fictional account leans too heavily on information readily available that can easily disprove the tale.
Here's just one: 10,000 soldiers and women transported at the end of World War II to the Antarctic? You know how many submarine trips that would take? And you're forgetting the number of additional trips that would be needed to supply those people -- the size of two divisions at that time -- with food, housing, clothing and, most of all, heat.
And all this is invisible to Google Earth? (:^/)
There's a reason why the Nazis-went-south-for-the-winter subject isn't doing so hot in the book stores: it's because too much evidence has been accumulated showing how impossible that would have been.
You'd have better luck if you'd ask the right question, such as: "Why did Betty and Barney Hill see (or thought they saw) 'evil Nazis' on the UFO that supposedly abducted them?"
When you find out the truth behind that one, gimme a call. Big hint: it has less to do with Nazis, than it does with U.S. Air Force officers and their desire to create fear and panic in their test subjects.
That's the real insider's story.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so certain about the former."
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Betty and Barney Hill, interesting but I don't know if I'll go there.
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Well, I must admit that you called it: "Story". Very entertaining - a conglomeration of Antarctic Nazi bases, flying saucers and Roswell. I do hope that you understand that to say your claim to being a member of the "Council of National Defense" is fantasy would be an understatement.
Now, I like a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone, but...Really? First of all, the Council of National Defense was disbanded in 1921. Secondly, if it were, indeed, persisting as secret branch of the U.S. Government, one would imagine that it would be staffed by very bright minds with extreme clearance levels. That being said, your lack of grammatical, spelling and overall writing skills kinda shout "I'm 23 years old and I live in my parents basement".
Putting in little details, like the makes and models of cars, times of day, etc., is a nice touch. But your 4th grade writing skills kinda gave the rest of it away.
Great story though, fun! I can't wait for Iron Sky to come out!
Cheers mate,
"Be good and you will be lonesome." - Mark Twain
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I am familiar with Iron Sky. It appears that it will be an interesting dark comedy but certainly not one based on fact. The Council of National Defense shares only its name with its predecessor. It was reformed after Captain Pell recovered documents related to Neuschwabenland from the wreck of U-853.
As for my writing style it will be simple to avoid my being detected. My background, age, and to many details could reveal my identity to my friends. This is simply a record of history that I feel the need to write. It will not be taken seriously; however, it will report our plans for the future in the hopes that an informed public will stop the Council. The story is not about aliens or Nazi's in our government. There are no Nazi's in our government that I know of existing. The Secret Government in the shadows is made up of primarily good men and women who believe in their goals. I disagree with these goals but cannot voice my opposition in any other way than this.
Also thank you for the complainant "Great story though, fun!". I only wish this was just a story created in the mind of a madman but it is not.
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The Nazi themed alternative material took a bit of a nosedive many years ago. Seems to be in a revival. Your post sounds like a summary of some of Joseph P. Farrell's work, whose Nazi themed books are often a rehash or an angle on original material by other authors. Farrell's work is not bad, Reich of the Black Sun was genuinely good, and he freely admitted when he was speculating. However, in later works from his Nazi series he references his earlier works, but he references speculations and dubious sources, and I think that ceases to make him reliable. Also having since heard his philosophy of connecting the dots (he connects them his way - that's it!), I don't think you could rely on any theory or history he reports. He's just a guy that can write trying to make a living out of his arcane interests. Nothing wrong with that as long as you don't get hooked into believing what he writes.
One must care about the truth to seek it, and not care about the truth to find it.
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I have never heard of Joseph P. Farrell but I will goggle him. His work sounds interesting.
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Fair enuff, MrX! Please do continue, I find the subject fascinating!
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Thank you Captain?
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Will they get what they pay for?
The State Board of Education is poised to hire Proact Search Inc. of Milwaukee to find Florida's next education commissioner. The firm boasts a nationwide network of candidates and a track record that includes finding a chief executive of Baltimore public schools and superintendents for Seattle, Cincinnati and Hillsborough County schools. But can the firm provide the two things that the State Board has said it wants most: top-notch candidates and a transparent process? Look to the past as prelude.
The Hillsborough School Board got promises in 2005 of "diamonds in the rough," those candidates who might not consider a superintendent's job but for the prodding of Proact. Instead, board members complained, they got retreads from the firm's past searches and lots of ex-superintendents on their way out of their old jobs. "I expected more," board member Jennifer Faliero said at the time. Hillsborough ended up hiring an insider for the top position. Asked about the dearth of top-notch candidates, Proact president Nancy Noeske told the board it would have been easier if the district did not insist on some of the pesky open records rules that Florida has, like releasing the names of applicants as they came in.
Which brings up issue No. 2. Proact likes stealth, as detailed in this article about its 2002 Cincinnati superintendent search. To quote one relevant part: "'We simply didn't create a record,' Noeske says about the Cincinnati search, in which she interviewed the candidates by phone and took notes, not by surnames, but by code names, such as: 'Candidate One' and 'Candidate Two.' Indeed, it was a process similar to that used by her company ... in New Orleans in 1998, in which the search materials were, as Noeske puts it, 'sanitized.'" In Hillsborough, the School Board had to remind Noeske several times that the state has the Sunshine Law and the district, and by extension the search firm, needed to heed it.
Negotiations are under way to see whether Proact's bid to be the State Board's search firm will win the day. The board set a pretty detailed description of what it wants in a commissioner. It will be interesting to see what it winds up with in its headhunter.


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I am your father. Oh didn't you hear? Yeah, those paternity tests finally got back. Yup, double checked and everything. I'm your new daddy! Don't think this means you'll finally have a "real" family, now. Actually, it just means I have to pay child support. In fact, fuck you. Goddamn child support.
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Oh, don't give me any of this "only seven years old" crap, you little money-sucker. In fact, you don't give me any crap any more, ever. I'm paying your way so your damn mom can sit around all day doing diddly-squat, twerp, and this is how you thank me? With all your whining about "date-rape" and "restraining orders?" Know what? Screw you.
And the implications to the force!Edit
Not only do I have to pay for you, I'll also have to sense your presence every time you get anywhere near me! I'll just be in the mall, when all of a sudden I'll walk by a KB Toys and hear your thoughts about how you want some toy Lightsaber or something, and have to come in and "say hello," which is your mother's way of saying she's gonna bitch at me for thirty minutes about how I was "wrong to leave her," or that she's "better off" without me, or how I'm "late on a child support payment" how I "shouldn't have choked that hooker to death with those awesome force powers, no matter how fantastically cool they are and how much they make me want you back," or some shit like that. Either way, it's extraordinarily annoying. Dumb bitch.
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I can blow up planets, now. Yeah. Some guy built a thing. Anyways, tell your mom not to get too pushy with me, or I'll mess her up good. Yeah, you heard me, twerp. I'll do this space-rock just I like I did Alderaan. You heard me, go tell her! Anyways, I've got some Sith groupies coming over. They can't get enough of my dark side. Tell your mom that, too. Word for word. Darth out. *click*
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- Darth Vader: "No... I am your father."
- Luke Skywalker: "Gee whizz, Mister. That's the cat's pyjamas."
- — Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker
- Darth Vader:: "Luke, There's no such thing as the Tooth Fairy"
- Luke Skywalker: " no..... no that's not true!.....That's IMPOSSIBLE!!!"
- — Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker
- Darth Vader: "No, I am your father"
- Luke Skywalker: "damn..."
- — An alternate reality in which Luke has a spine on the matter.


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Cincinnati's Jay Bruce concluded April on a hitting tear, and there's reason to believe he can carry that momentum into May.
Bruce looks to continue his surge and help the Reds move above .500 for the first time in more than three weeks in Tuesday night's series opener against the Chicago Cubs at Great American Ball Park.
Bruce was named the NL Player of the Week on Monday after batting .476 with four homers, 10 RBIs and a 1.685 OPS. His solo homer in the bottom of the eighth inning Sunday against Houston lifted Cincinnati (11-11) to a 6-5 victory.
It also extended Bruce's homer streak to four games, one short of matching a club record shared by Adam Dunn, Ken Griffey Jr. and Ted Kluszewski.
"This is what you play for,' said Bruce, who leads the Reds with seven homers.
This isn't the first time Bruce has enjoyed this kind of surge. Last season, he led the majors with 12 homers, 82 total bases and 33 RBIs in May.
He has also given Chicago pitchers trouble, batting .319 with a .417 on-base percentage in 20 games against the Cubs since the start of last season. He was 3 for 9 as Cincinnati took two of three at Wrigley Field from April 20-22, and is 1 for 2 with a double, strikeout and walk against probable Cubs starter Jeff Samardzija (2-1, 4.13 ERA).
Joey Votto also homered Sunday and drove in four runs for the Reds, who have won seven of 10 after opening 4-8. They're now in position to move above .500 for the first time since April 8, when they were 2-1.
"The way we started was really ugly,' Votto said. "It was a shock to everybody. It was humbling, but I think it was a good thing, too. I'm a firm believer in that, while you don't want to start bad, it doesn't hurt. It makes you concentrate on fundamentals.'
The Cubs (8-15) started the season in worse shape than the Reds, dropping 11 of their first 13. They're 5-4 since, but arrive in Cincinnati after Monday's 6-4 loss at Philadelphia.
First baseman Bryan LaHair is batting .435 with three homers, four doubles and five RBIs during a six-game hitting streak. He hit a game-tying, two-run shot Monday and has accounted for five of Chicago's major league-low nine homers.
Starlin Castro is tied with LaHair for the club lead with 14 RBIs, but is hitting .091 - his lone hit being a homer - in 11 career at_bats against Cincinnati starter Bronson Arroyo (1-0, 2.70).
Arroyo gave up two runs and nine hits in five innings Wednesday, failing to get a decision in a 4-2 victory over San Francisco. The Reds have won three of his four starts
The right-hander was 0-1 with a 3.66 ERA in three starts against the Cubs last year after going 5-1 with a 2.18 ERA against them over the previous three seasons.
Samardzija takes the ball looking to put an end to his struggles away from Wrigley.
The right-hander has a 0.59 ERA and a 0.65 WHIP in two home starts, but in two road outings he has a 10.38 ERA and a 2.77 WHIP. Pitching at home last Tuesday, Samardzija allowed four hits while striking out a career-best nine in 6 2-3 scoreless innings of a 3-2, 10-inning win over St. Louis.
Samardzija's has compiled a 5.65 ERA in 14 career relief appearances against the Reds.
Votto is 1 for 9 lifetime against Samardzija, while Brandon Phillips is 1 for 7.
Cincinnati went 7-2 against the Cubs last season at Great American Ball Park.
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text: On this date Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of late President John F. Kennedy, turned over the first shovel of dirt for an addition to St. Coletta School, an institution for developmentally disabled people in Jefferson. Shriver's 65-year-old sister, Rosemary Kennedy, was a resident at the school for over 35 years. The Kennedy Foundation gave a $1 million gift to the school in honor of the 93rd birthday of the family's matriarch, Rose Kennedy. [Source:]


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Roman Back Street Found Beneath York Minster
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
YORK, ENGLAND—A section of Roman road has been uncovered in the medieval undercroft at England's York Minster by a team from the York Archaeological Trust. The road, thought to be part of the Via Quintana, probably ran behind the original Roman basilica. York was a major Roman military and economic hub from the first through fifth centuries.
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Purcell rescues point for Hornchurch at Hampton
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Ryman Premier: Hampton & Richmond Borough 1 AFC Hornchurch 1
The goals continue to come for George Purcell and this may be an important one as his strike five minutes from time ensured a point for the Urchins at Hampton & Richmond
It was a quiet start to the match, with neither side creating too many chances until the closing stages of the opening half.
The hosts saw one effort fly well over the bar, before a play through from Tambeson Eyong was played back to Purcell who shot wide of the target.
Purcell then tried a delicate lob five minutes before the break over home goalkeeper Rodney Chiweshe, but it drifted just wide.
Stefan Payne went in the book late in the half, and he fired into the side netting in stoppage time.
But just six minutes of the second period had gone when the hosts had the lead as Roberts' drilled free-kick found a way past Inigo Echepare
Jimmy McFarlane's began to pick up the bookings as both Spencer and Phillips went in the book inside three minutes.
Hampton spurned a great chance after some poor Urchins defending and McFarlane brought on Carl Rook and Martin Tuohy as they went in search of a goal.
Purcell was presented with another opportunity but fluffed his shot, before Chris Bourne fired over. Bourne turned provider for Phil Starkey, but he shot over the bar.
The visitors were piling on the pressure and Payne went close before Purcell found the net as his turn and shot finds its way past Chiweshe.
No more action was to follow and Hornchurch will be pleased to have at least ended the match on a high, going into tomorrow's trip to Harrow Borough.
Hornchurch: Echepare, Rainford, Spencer (Bourne 62), Styles, Curley, Eyong (Rook 77), Starkey, Payne, Purcell, Phillips (Tuohy 73)
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Gerber Products Company is recalling some Gerber Good Start Gentle powdered infant formula because, the company says, it might have an "off odor."
Gerber has received complaints that the odor has caused some infants to spit up or have gastrointestinal issues.
The recalled formula is in a 23.2 ounce plastic package from batch GXP1684 with an expiration date of March 5, 2013.
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Thread: Which do you prefer?
July 28th, 2013 10:52 AM #1Senior Member
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Which do you prefer?
Hello :-) I'm really stuck on what to call my first daughter, so I was wondering if you could give me your favorite out of these 3 names? I would be really grateful! Also, I'm a fan of more than one middle name so if you can think of anymore, that would be great also!
Aurora Belle- I love this name. I'm a massive disney fan, and Princess Aurora and Princess Belle are my favourites!
Scarlett Hollie- I like the way that Scarlett rolls of my tongue, and Hollie is my best friend.
Elizabeth Anna- Ever since I was little I have been a massive fan of Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I, plus my other best friend is called Anna.
July 28th, 2013 10:57 AM #3
I really like Aurora Belle and Elizabeth Anna. Scarlett Hollie is okay but feels almost prematurely dated.
I also think Aurora Belle could be too much Disney in one name (and I practically live in Disneyland, so I wouldn't use the phrase "too much Disney" unless I really thought so!) Maybe Aurora Hollie or Aurora Scarlett instead?
Combos with multiple middles:
Elizabeth Anna Scarlett
Aurora Hollie Anna
Elizabeth Aurora Belle
Aurora Hollie Belle
Scarlett Elizabeth Annag w e n
❀ Viola Mireille ○ Sancia Blue ○ Cosima Vale ○ Zara Fionnuala
Dash Apollo ○ Madoc Orion ○ Mars Auberon ○ Kieran Atlas ✮
Cameron Alastor Wilde ⋆ Emmett Fidelio Scout ⋆ Zeke Borealis
Isadora Maite ⋆ Coraline Octavia Luna ⋆ Cleo Amara ⋆ Adela Seraphine Lior
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July 28th, 2013 11:55 AM #9
Aurora Belle is pretty but too Disney Princess for my tastes. They're both lovely names, I just wouldn't use them together. Scarlett is ok, I understand the appeal, I'm just not crazy about it. I prefer Hollie spelled Holly. Scarlett Belle would also be nice or Scarlett Aurora. My favorite from your list is Elizabeth Anna, two gorgeous classics steeped in history and literature and have meaningful namesakes for you. I completely agree w/ PP that I would rather be named after strong historical figures than fictional Disney characters
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The 42-year-old singer has joined the panel of the reality show following the departures of Steven Tyler and Lopez, reported New York Daily News.
Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly confirmed the news on the phone with Carey in front of television critics on July 22.
"We do, in fact, have one judge whose deal closed very, very recently. It's (Mariah) an artist that many contestants have tried to emulate, have tried to have sung the songs, have tried to hit the notes and because it really was concluded only hours ago, our judge couldn't be with us," said Kevin Reilly, President, Fox Entertainment.
Carey is reportedly the highest paid judge on any music competition show after signing an USD 18 million deal for it.
"I am so excited to be joining 'Idol'. First of all, I wanted to be there today and I wish I could've been there to tell you, but I think you know this all kind of just happened real quickly, so I can't wait to get started in a couple months," she said.
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Had a lot more bruising on right eye,had 2 numbing injections in the right, would this cause it to heal slower.Dont think right eye looks any better cant tell if it is hollowing or cheeks are raised.also tear troughs still look prominent. When i press cheeks it seems to fill hollowing,can this be lymphatic.
Remaining Eye Bags 3 Weeks After Traditional Lower Bleph? (photo)
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Lower Bleph Results
It's too early to make any judgements just yet. Wait until at least 3 months after your surgery to begin to judge the final cosmesis. You still have tissue edema present. Your results are certainly better than your pre-op pictures already. I suspect the results will continue to improve as you heal over the next few weeks. Don't seek revision surgery until at least 6 months after your surgery.
Best of luck,
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You may need to have filler or fat for the tear trough
Lower lid surgery will not fill the empty tear trough. Your lower lid results are good and the deficit that you notice could have been corrected with tear trough implants . You can get fillers or fat grafting for now.
Remaining Eye Bags 3 Weeks After Traditional Lower Bleph?
Still very early in the healing phase of recovery. Best to be more patient. Allow 2 months healing time.
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Immediate results of lower blepharoplasty
Judging from your photos it is too early to see if the problem has been corrected or not. It may very well have been done appropriately and this is swelling which is normal even up to several months. So at this time I would recommend patience.
Too early to tell
You need to wait at least six months after a lower bleph to be sure how the result will be. Some lower bleph techniques do not correct the "tear trough." Some patients need a release of the attachment there and a cheek lift. Search Cheek Lift on this site to see what can be achieved. But be patient until six months (or more) are over.
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GKN Aerospace has surfed into the Farnborough airshow on a wave of more than $1.5 billion worth of development and production contracts signed in recent months. The UK-based group says the new business will take it well "into the next decade and beyond."
In February and March, GKN signed deals worth a total of $300 million for composite winglets for the Bombardier C Series regional jet and for components for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning Joint Strike Fighter. This was followed by two 10-year long-term agreements (LTAs) with Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney, respectively; a five-year LTA with GE Aviation; and a "life of program" contract with Airbus on the A350XWB. The specific values of these deals were not disclosed.
The company will manufacture parts for Rolls-Royce Trent 700 and 1000 engines at its El Cajon, California factory. The deal with Pratt & Whitney is for supplying, through 2020, critical engine components for the F135 engine, also at El Cajon. Airbus Bremen awarded the company a contract for A350 XWB composite inboard flap components and Fokker Aerostructures another, for outboard flap parts. For GE Aviation, GKN will manufacture components for the GEnx-1B, CFM56 and GP7200 turbofans.
So while the two years since the 2008 Farnborough show certainly have not been a time of boom, they have not been a bust for the group. Financial results for the first quarter suggest that 2010 will be a fairly stable year for GKN.
At a pre-Farnborough show press briefing, GKN's instinctively bearish CEO, Marcus Bryson, declared himself delighted to have been proved wrong about the potential impact of the recession on the aerospace sector. In fact, he maintained the industry has been more resilient than expected to the extent that the long-anticipated steep downturn in airliner output has not materialized and probably will not materialize.
Meanwhile, GKN has continued to invest in its future and, even in the shorter term, still believes it can achieve its next major strategic goal of doubling the size of its business (for the second time in recent history) over the next five years. The UK-based group's board has the appetite and means for further acquisitions and substantial commitments to long-term research and development.
"Our investments in advanced composites technology have transformed our business," said Bryson. "We now have customers coming to us primarily because of the technology we can offer."
Among the more recent converts to GKN's capabilities are BAE Systems, Boeing and Rolls-Royce. The group is heavily involved in aerostructures, engines, nacelles, fuel tanks, helicopter flotation systems and transparencies.
It is the emergence of new-generation airliner programs, such as the envisioned replacements for the Airbus A320 and the Boeing 737, that are a primary focus of GKN's intensive research and development efforts.
GKN's new technical director, Richard Oldfield, has been tasked with a mission to ensure that the company is at the cutting edge of emerging, disruptive technologies such as low-drag, laminate-flow wings and improved ice protection work (such as the electrothermal unit it has developed for the 787). At the same time, he wants to maintain what GKN claims to be a leadership position in advanced composites, such as those use to make the wing trailing edges for the A350 wing.


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Posterior Mediastinal Tumor
Watch the video: Posterior Mediastinal Tumor
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In this video, you can see a tumor that has been identified by CT (Computed Tomography) or MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) being removed with robotic assisted surgery.
The mediastinum is a space in the chest that is divided into different sections, where tumors can occur. In the video, the first x-ray image shows this abnormal growth in the back of the chest (posterior mediastinum). Traditionally, these tumors would have been removed by opening the patient's chest by making an incision (cut) between the patients ribs, spreading the patient's ribs and removing the tumor under direct vision. This is very safe, but the incision is very uncomfortable and it takes a few weeks to recover.
The video shows the tumor being removed using robotic video assistance. The team of surgeons have placed small incisions, instead of the traditional single large one. Through these incisions they have introduced a video camera, as well as robotic arms which have the necessary tools. The robot arms and tools are completely controlled by the surgeon. The robot and the video tools allow the surgical team to see inside and explore the chest cavity, and safely remove the tumor without resorting to a large incision.
At the end of the video the surgical team shows you the small incisions that were used to do the procedure. The black, pencil-like device is a robotic arm that is controlled by one of the surgeons. USC is currently using the robot to facilitate several different kinds of surgeries, including valve repair, coronary artery bypass, and a variety of lung procedures.
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Here is a note of 11 things that happened on this day in history.
1. 1789 - Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to a friend in which he says: 'In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes'
2. 1927 - The Holland Tunnel, under the Hudson River connecting the island of Manhattan in New York City with Jersey City, opens
3. 1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18
4. 1949 - Whoopi Goldberg is born
5. 1969 - Britain's first live quintuplets this century are born at Queen Charlotte's maternity hospital in London
6. 1979 - The Times newspaper is published for the first time in nearly a year after a dispute between management and unions over manning levels and the introduction of new technology
7. 1985 - About 20,000 people are feared dead after a volcanic eruption in northern Colombia
8. 1997 - The musical The Lion King opens on Broadway
9. 1998 - Monica Lewinsky signs a deal with St. Martin's Press for the North American rights to her story about her affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton
10. 2009 - NASA announce that water has been discoved on the moon
11. 2011 - Mario Monti is approved as Italy's new Prime Minister by most of the Italian parliament after Silvio Berlusconi officially resigned
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A year removed from a sixth-place finish and a heart-wrenching quarterfinals loss, the Binghamton men's soccer team placed seventh in the America East preseason poll. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, which has won two of the last three conference titles, snagged first as the unanimous favorite in the preseason poll.
The Bearcats graduated several key players last spring, most notably Jake Keegan, who scored 11 of Binghamton's 24 goals, tallied a team-high 57 shots and notched four assists before being drafted by the Philadelphia Union in the Major League Soccer Supplemental Draft in January. Other graduated starters include Adam Whitehead, who recorded three goals and a team-high seven assists during his senior year, and Trey Jasenski.
"We certainly graduated a few great players," Binghamton head coach Paul Marco said. "Replacing Jake Keegan will be very difficult. I don't think you can do that in one player, certainly not one new freshman."
Still, the team will return 13 letter winners and five starters, including senior back Robbie Hughes, senior midfielder Tommy Moon and junior forward Steven Celeste. Hughes recorded two goals and two assists last year, and Marco listed him along with Moon, junior midfielder Ben Nicholson and a few others as an emerging leader on the team.
Moon, described as "terrific" by Marco, played in all 18 games and notched three assists and one goal. Celeste put away three goals, coming in a tie for second after Keegan's 11.
These veterans, as well as the rest of the team, will have to pull together to fill Keegan's void if the team wants to prove the preseason poll wrong.
"[Scoring is] not going to come from one player," Moon said. "One player is not going to magically start producing goals. It's going to be bits and pieces from here and there, it's going to be a total team effort, and I think if everybody can help out, it'll be huge."
In order to achieve such a goal, the more experienced players will have to guide the team's newest recruits — all nine of them. Despite a roster largely filled by freshmen, Marco claims that nothing has changed in terms of the team's goals.
"Every year at Binghamton we try to play in championships and this is no exception," he said. "I know that everyone outside our circle will ask us how will you do that with such a young team and inexperience even with the returning players and the lack of minutes that they've played, but I really think that this group can go far."
Marco also intimated that this particular group is the closest that he has had in a very long time. Nicholson echoed the sentiment and added that the quick bonding bodes well for the future.
Looking forward, the team has begun to string itself together, having worked on its attack and finding ways to penetrate its opponents during the spring and now drilling its defense during training camp.
Additionally, with AE all-rookie selection Stefano Frantellizzi returning in goal and the addition of Robert Moewes, goalkeeping also looks sharp. Meanwhile, Hughes credited the freshmen for their tenacity and skill and said that he believes the strength will be up the middle, between the center backs and center midfielders.
Whatever they may be, the Bearcats will be able to put these strengths to the test in their first game, set for Friday against Virginia Tech as part of the James Madison University Tournament. The team will continue in non-conference play in the George Mason University Tournament at George Mason Stadium, through Sept. 6-8. Non-conference matches will culminate on Oct. 1 against Syracuse University at SU Soccer Stadium. Conference matches will start up against University of Vermont on Oct. 5 and continue until Nov. 6.
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The characters populating Requiem, Mass., John Dufresne's latest novel, are the sort of people you meet in an Augusten Burroughs memoir. They are unconsciously eccentric, hold to a questionable moral philosophy and sometimes land on the wrong side of crazy. The novel calls up Burroughs' Running With Scissors with its premise as well, but there's a big difference between the works of these two writers.
Requiem, Mass. concerns John, a middle-aged writing professor and novelist who recounts the experience of watching his mother lose her grip on reality. John's story begins in 1968, when he is 12. His mother, Frances, has already suffered two breakdowns and teeters on the precipice of a third. With her truck driver husband often (supposedly) on the road, Frances becomes incapable of caring for her two children and accuses them of being imposters — impersonating her real kids.
Dufresne, who teaches writing at Florida International University, finds humor in people's peculiarities. Part of the fun is in John's description of Catholic school, where the nuns wield Little Town of Bethlehem snow globes like weapons and incite giggles by asking students to recite their "ejaculations." Frances' behavior, like her penchant for homemade Kotex slippers, and a long list of minor characters, including "a bartender who only ever talked about two things: the Red Sox and people who should be shot," will generate laughs as well.
At its center, though, the book is about a boy struggling with the impossible task of holding his family together. John covers for Frances creatively, but a boy can maintain only so tight a grip when he has to wrap his mother's wounds after she carves her husband's name into her arm. In these instances, Dufresne gives his characters a sense of humanity missing from similar coming-of-age stories. Whereas authors like Burroughs supposedly compose nonfiction, Dufresne's novel carries the stronger ring of truth.
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Research Topics
Genomes and Genes
K A Lawson
Affiliation: Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Country: The Netherlands
Detail Information
- Bmp4 is required for the generation of primordial germ cells in the mouse embryoK A Lawson
Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands
Genes Dev 13:424-36. 1999..The initiation of the germ line in the mouse therefore depends on a secreted signal from the previously segregated, extraembryonic, trophectoderm lineage...
- Fate mapping the mouse embryoK A Lawson
Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Utrecht
Int J Dev Biol 43:773-5. 1999..A revised fate map of the epiblast at 6.5 days gestation is provided, and the development of 3-dimensional, quantitative image analysis techniques outlined...
- Ectopic expression of the transforming growth factor beta type II receptor disrupts mesoderm organisation during mouse gastrulationA Zwijsen
Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands Institute of Developmental Biology, Utrecht
Dev Dyn 214:141-51. 1999....
- Developmental bioinformatics: linking genetic data to virtual embryosF J Verbeek
Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Utrecht
Int J Dev Biol 43:761-71. 1999..e. anatomical nomenclature. A short review of internet resources on developmental biology is also given and future prospects for the development of these databases are discussed...
- Requirement of Bmp8b for the generation of primordial germ cells in the mouseY Ying
Department of Pathobiology, University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine, Columbia 65211, USA
Mol Endocrinol 14:1053-63. 2000..These findings suggest that BMP4 and BMP8B function as heterodimers and homodimers in PGC specification in the mouse...
- Otx2 is required for visceral endoderm movement and for the restriction of posterior signals in the epiblast of the mouse embryoA Perea-Gomez
Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS INSERM Universite Louis Pasteur, BP163, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, C U de Strasbourg, France
Development 128:753-65. 2001....
- The mouse homeobox gene, S8, is expressed during embryogenesis predominantly in mesenchymeD J Opstelten
Hubrecht Laboratorium, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Mech Dev 34:29-41. 1991..This pattern differs considerably from that of most previously described homeobox containing genes. By genetic analysis, the gene was located on chromosome 2, about 20 cM from the HOX-4 cluster...
- Differential localization of TGF-beta 2 in mouse preimplantation and early postimplantation developmentH G Slager
Hubrecht Laboratory, The Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Utrecht
Dev Biol 145:205-18. 1991..The possible regulatory role of this factor in early embryogenesis is discussed...
- The Polycomb-group gene eed is required for normal morphogenetic movements during gastrulation in the mouse embryoC Faust
Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106 4955 USA
Development 125:4495-506. 1998..The data are discussed in terms of global morphogenetic movements in the mouse gastrula and a disruption of signalling activity in the anterior primitive streak...


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Simon Cowell Staying On American Idol?
Despite seeming like he's had one foot out the door all season long, negotiations to bring X Factor to the states have fallen through and Simon Cowell will be staying on as an American Idol judge! Check out what he has to say about the news.