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As scripted, Cole Hamels pitched another beautiful post-season game, going seven innings, mixing his fastball and changeup to keep the Rays off-balance, and pounding the strike zone. He allowed two runs, one a homer on a hanging curve to Carl Crawford, the other a double on a nice piece of hitting by Akinori Iwamura, but never surrendered an early lead. Ryan Madson and Brad Lidge were perfect out of the bullpen, and just like that, the Phillies had a measure of control of the World Series.
You can't say enough about Hamels, who even when he was giving up a couple of runs never seemed likely to lose the lead. Not to move too far from the realm of measurables, but there is a fluidity to him, to his mechanics, that makes him enjoyable to watch. The aesthetics don't get him any extra outs, but as I said last night in the Game One roundtable, I was pretty sad when he left the game after seven innings. He's probably been the MVP of October.
Hamels had an early lead because Chase Utley failed. With one on and one out in the first, the Rays used a shift on Utley, the kind that has become de rigueur for many lefty pull hitters. It seemed a strange choice given how hard it is to pull Scott Kazmir, but the Phillies went with it. With the right side of the infield unguarded, Utley tried to lay a bunt down for an easy single, but fouled it off. A few very close pitches later, he yanked a ball into the right-field grandstand. The very best player on the Phillies had the biggest hit in his first World Series game, perhaps chipping away at his status as one of baseball's most criminally underrated stars.
The 2-0 lead would later stretch to 3-0, and it held up in part because B.J. Upton didn't run. Twice. In the first, Upton checked his swing and hit a grounder to second that became a 4-6-3 double play. The ball was hit slowly, and probably should have been just a forceout, especially given Upton's speed. Upton, however, not only broke slowly from the box, but didn't speed up when he could clearly see that a double play was developing. His lack of effort, whatever the reason, cost the Rays a baserunner and an out; there's really no question that Upton would have been safe on the play had he run.
In the third, Upton came to the plate with one out and the bases loaded, Tropicana Dome's noise level reaching "ouch" for the fourth time that evening. This was one of those showdowns that makes you thrilled to be a baseball fan, a fantastic young pitcher in the midst of a great run against a fantastic young hitter who's been killing the ball. Each was the biggest reason their team had made it through two post-season series, and each would be key for their teams in the World Series. Now, they were facing off, and even though it was the third inning, it felt much later.
Hamels fell behind 2-1, then threw a changeup that Upton ripped to the left of Pedro Feliz, who made a terrific stab and began a 5-4-3 double play. Once again, though, the focus was on Upton, who loped down the line. Whether a furious charge down the line would have changed the outcome isn't quite as clear as it was on the earlier play, but the outcome isn't the issue. At the point of contact, Upton has a chance to create a run with his legs by staying out of the double play. I'll say that again: a run was on the line, in the World Series, and Upton didn't work to get it in.
I really, truly feel about 25 years older writing these things. To me, "hustle" is a meaningless word, used to prop up mediocre players who are good playing to the populist notion of visible effort, and criticize talent-laden ones who understand the concept of a long season. Upton, however, showed a lack of effort in a situation that materially affected his team's chance of winning. It's a burden, perhaps, to have so much speed that you would be criticized when a slower player's sloth would be hand-waved away, but that's the price you pay for otherworldly talent. It's the continuation of a cycle with Upton, who cost the Rays runs and outs earlier this season with his lack of effort.
This isn't about putting on a good show for the fans. This is exactly the same as criticizing a player for air-mailing a throw that allows runners to advance, or a manager for screwing up a pinch-hitting decision, or a GM for a terrible trade. There was an action, and we can quantify the impact of that action, and by doing so, determine that the action was costly. The difference in expectation between two out and no one on, and one out and a runner on first, is about four-tenths of a run, and there's little question that Upton could have beaten the throw. On the double play, his chance of being safe was less, but the payoff-a run-was definite. The Rays lost 3-2; you tell me how important it was.
Joe Sheehan is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Oct 23, 2008 11:00 AM
I think "blatant as you'll ever see" is a bit of a stretch. It was certainly a questionable non-call, but Hamels' right leg never crossed behind his left, nor did his right toe ever point toward home plate. His right foot came down a bit forward, which is questionable.
Oct 23, 2008 12:00 PM
Doug Thorburn
I have to agree with beegee. LHP's have the option to step off the rubber with the back (left) foot and make a quick snap-throw to first, or the more common front leg lift-and-throw toward the bag. If the LHP crosses the rubber with his lift leg/knee, then he must go toward the plate (this is when most runners break for a steal vs. a LHP, unless they are going on first movement). So many Lefties have adapted their deliveries to just lift the front leg straight up (without crossing the rubber), such that a runner can't get a jump until they show an obvious move toward the plate. Cole never made such an obvious move, as Pena's early jump didn't give him the chance.
Oct 23, 2008 18:48 PM
Doug Thorburn
I should also mention that Cole does not employ a slide step, unlike many of the pro's we see these days. Instead he uses his natural leg lift, whether from the windup or the stretch. The popularization of the slide step has made the lift-and-throw move somewhat moot for those pitchers that use it, so it makes sense that Cole's move looked somewhat irregular.
Oct 23, 2008 18:51 PM
Good analysis as usual, Joe. Thanks.
Oct 23, 2008 11:05 AM
I was about 420 feet away from the mound, so I couldn't tell in real time.
Oct 23, 2008 11:16 AM
Noel Steere
Bad night for the 1st Base umpire. Not only did he mess up with the balk no-call, he should have called Burell out for interference on the Pena bobble (he was running in fair territory).
Oct 23, 2008 11:23 AM
I believe Burrell has three feet on either side of the baseline, as per the rule book. Didn't see anything about the runner having to stay in foul territory.
Oct 23, 2008 11:52 AM
You don't get 3 feet on the inside going to first. That long rectangle is the required running area, and if you're mot in it, and there's a play that you could possibly interfere with, you're supposed to be called out. I couldn't believe Maddon didn't scream for the ump to ask for help.
Oct 23, 2008 12:15 PM
I'm pretty sure there has to be actual contact/interference for the runner to be called out. (The usual call is a throw from the catcher to first -- if you miss the runner he usually isn't called out, hence the coaching advice to catchers to aim at the runner's back.) As Howard didn't make the throw, I think there's no way the runner could be called for interference.
Oct 23, 2008 13:32 PM
This is also not true. Runners are frequently called out when a bad throw is made near the runner and the play is not made. Any time the runner has an effect on the play and isn't running inside the box, even if he's just straddling the line as he runs up it. The ball doesn't have to hit the runner, though if the fielder squares up and dots the runner in the back, it's a lot more obvious.
Oct 23, 2008 22:14 PM
Please quote the rule that states this. Only thing I can find in the official rule book about the baseline is this:
Oct 24, 2008 10:11 AM
Never mind. I was wrong. I found the rule:
Oct 24, 2008 11:13 AM
Hey Joe, why are you "(17)" and I am "(14055)"? Is this some sort of crude BP depth chart? I think I'm self-conscious... ;)
Oct 23, 2008 13:02 PM
Whoa... Evidently we're on the same page, jramirez! That's pretty weird. (Your post was not up when I started typing mine!)
Oct 23, 2008 11:06 AM
Not sure that "sloppy" is the right word to describe the game. Mistakes were made, yes, and in Upton's case, a lackadaisical approach may have cost the Rays. But sloppy? Did you see Feliz play third? Did you watch Zobrist in right? What of Upton's throw to the plate? And since when is going 0-11 with RISP an index of sloppiness? That's mainly pitchers overmatching hitters, no?
Oct 23, 2008 11:18 AM
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Oct 23, 2008 11:19 AM
W. Clark
Jimmy Rollins swung at a belt-high fastball more middle than in. It was undoubtedly a strike, and by pretty much any standard a good pitch to hit. It doesn't always work out, but that's the goal.
Oct 23, 2008 11:27 AM
Completely agree about the television coverage. Why was the first pitch not until 8:39? Did we really need to see The Backstreet Boys (!!!) sing the national anthem in four part harmony? Did ANYONE say "I'm not sure I'll be watching the World Series tonight. What's that? The Backstreet Boys are singing the anthem! I'm definitely watching!" If I'm a casual baseball fan, am I more or less likely to watch Game 2 because I watched 40 minutes of pregame and 80 minutes of baseball between 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm or three hours of baseball between 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm? Regular season games are routinely played in less than three hours. Even adding 20 or 30 minutes for the slower pace of postseason play, a game that starts at 8:00 pm on the east coast and that has reasonable breaks between innings should finish relatively close to 11:00 pm. Instead, I head for bed after just a few innings knowing that I won't be willing to stay up until nearly midnight for the finish.
Oct 23, 2008 11:29 AM
Count me as one of the people who tuned out last night due to the late start and the extended game. I know going in that I am going to have to be up until, if not past, midnight if I want to watch an entire post season game.
Oct 23, 2008 13:02 PM
How much money were the players making while they were standing around waiting for the commercials to end?
Oct 23, 2008 11:56 AM
Matt L.
I agree that Utley is underrated (particularly considering the perception of many that he's the second or third most valuable position player on his team), but the man has started the past 3 All Star games, so it's not like he's toiling in obscurity. (The best player in the NL, on the other hand, has taken a back seat to Lance Berkman and Prince Fielder the past two years in the 1B voting). Perhaps that says more about lack of depth at Utley's position in the NL, though, and I believe the underrated aspect of this (and what Joe is probably getting at) is that Utley is an outstanding player -- one of the best in baseball -- by any measure (and more particularly in light of his playing an up-the-middle position), rather than just "pretty good for a second baseman."
Oct 23, 2008 12:07 PM
Fwiw, Utley had the most All-Star votes in the NL this year, and was a hair behind ARod for most in the majors.
Oct 23, 2008 12:34 PM
Vinegar Bend
Rays beat writer thinks Upton wasn't dogging it down the line on the two DPs.
Oct 23, 2008 12:54 PM
I'm glad "one guy" asked the question, although I disagree with both Upton's characterization and the description of the plays in the piece. There's no way he was running as hard as he could. The video was clear on that. Maybe the second DP happens anyway--he hit a rocket--but the first one...uh-uh. He never accelerated.
Oct 23, 2008 15:08 PM
Joe, be careful. Scoop Jackson will be offended at your criticism of Upton since he thinks that, "He's the role model, he's the torchbearer, he's the savior," of baseball.
Oct 23, 2008 13:05 PM
I totally agree with axing the additional time between innings. But let's not stop there! Get rid of FOX in the post season, they have underperformed time and time again. I think that the broadcast teams should be made up of one neutral play-by-play person and one color person from each of the regular season broadcast teams that represent the World Series teams. As a viewer of MLB Xtra-Innings, I would much rather listen to anecdotal stories from mostly ex-major league players who know the team they cover inside and out, than listen to the likes of Joe Morgan or Tim McCarver. McCarver last night, "I think it is safe to say that these two teams are after entirely different rings than those," (after discussing the catwalk rings and ground rules). This guy kills me. No, he really kills me.
Oct 23, 2008 13:13 PM
Mike M
Worse yet, McCarver blew the description of the ground rules concerning the catwalks, even when it was there in writing on the screen.
Oct 23, 2008 13:32 PM
Steve D.
I'd like to commend Joe on an entire article free of Howard-platooning and strike-zone bashing. We've come a long way, baby.
Oct 23, 2008 13:17 PM
I love the Howard platoon argument from him. Howard, over his ML career, has averaged around 35 HR and 110 RBI per 600 PA (about a seasons worth for a clean up hitter, I'd think) against lefties, but somehow, that's not good enough to be out there.
Oct 23, 2008 13:31 PM
W. Clark
To add to the relative impetuousness of Sheehan's platoon player argument made repeatedly over the last month, not once has he addressed the very real roster implications involved in such a claim. For a player to be a "platoon player" rather than just a player with big splits, it has to make sense to actually platoon the player.
Oct 23, 2008 14:31 PM
I spent some time this afternoon looking around at who - if anyone - could actually fill the role of Howard platoon partner, because it doesn't seem like an easy role to fill. My criteria was a guy who hit lefties well, didn't hit righties well, and could play a decent first base. I don't know minor league systems well enough to know if there's a lefty-killing, righty-flailing glove man down in the minor leagues who could stand to apprentice with Howard while he got acclimated to the majors, so I might have missed a perfect fit there.
Oct 23, 2008 16:34 PM
What?? There are only 4 players in the major leagues who can hit right-handed and play first base? That's nuts. First base is the easiest position to play on the diamond.
Oct 23, 2008 18:10 PM
Yes, you're missing something. You're looking for players who can be the platoon partner for Howard, meaning they fill the hole he leaves in the lineup. That hole is hitting lefties. The hypothetical platoon partner is wasted if he can hit lefties *and* righties, so what's the point of signing a person worthy of a full-time role if he's only going to get 180 ABs a season? And what first baseman worthy of a full-time role is going to accept being Howard's lefty platoon handcuff if he has the numbers to justify an everyday role? There's plenty of right-handed first basemen in MLB, but which of them want to go be a benchwarmer for Philly, spotting Howard against lefties? And who, among them, would Philly want?
Oct 23, 2008 20:02 PM
This is a team carrying So Taguchi, Eric Bruntlett and Geoff Jenkins. Clay Condrey, too. So the argument that they don't have room on the roster for a platoon partner for Howard is void.
Oct 23, 2008 20:12 PM
"In the first, Upton checked his swing and hit a grounder to second that became a 4-6-3 double play. The ball was hit slowly, and probably should have been just a forceout, especially given Upton's speed. Upton, however, not only broke slowly from the box, but didn't speed up when he could clearly see that a double play was developing."
Oct 23, 2008 13:30 PM
Mike Kastellec
Goodness me, was that actual informed commentary on baserunning ability? I don't think I've ever seen such a thing before. Thanks, coach. [Note: "snarky" is as much my default Internet mode as anyone else, but I'm being sincere with the above.]
Oct 23, 2008 14:00 PM
I've been to plenty of Durham Bulls games to know that unless it's a clear base hit, Upton won't give it his all going to first base. I've seen scores of ground balls and choppers that he should have been safe or at least made close turn into easy outs.
Oct 23, 2008 15:20 PM
Hey Joe,
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So if the language is tolerable to use, and available everywhere, perhaps it's time to start using it.BASH is great, but you need Cygwyn to use it on Windows. How does Node compare to Bash, or to Perl?
I went to RosettaCode to look for implementations of problems in the required languages, and selected matrix multiplication as the first challenge. I expect this to perform badly in a Unix shell script, but frankly, I don't generally use arrays in shell scripts, so we'll see how their solution works out.
I used the matrix transpose and matrix multiplication implementations to create a Matrix.js file. The one change is that I added:
exports.Matrix = Matrix;
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I added a readMatrix() routine to import data from a file. If perhaps my code is inefficient, neither is it evaluated for performance. I only time the core multiplication. Here's my routine:
This function will be used as the callback to a FileSystem readFile() function. It receives either an error message or the contents of the file. Errors are dealt with at the top, otherwise data is processed character by character. Numeric values are separated by spaces, so when a space is seen, the accumulated value, num, is stored in the current matrix cell. At the end of the line, a new empty row is begun, after storing the accumulator if necessary. For digits, the current contents of the accumulator are shifted over one decimal place, and the new digit added. Clearly, this only works with integers, and no error-proofing is provided, other than handling a trailing space at the end of a line. Superfluous blank lines would result in empty row arrays being added to the matrix, but we'll simply make sure that circumstance doesn't arise.
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var fs = require('fs');
var mat = require('./Matrix.js');
var reps = process.argv[2],
file1 = process.argv[3],
file2 = process.argv[4];
fs.readFile(file1, "utf-8", function readM(err, data) {
var M = new mat.Matrix(rm.readMatrix(err, data));
fs.readFile(file2, "utf-8", function readN(err, data) {
var N = new mat.Matrix(rm.readMatrix(err, data));
var t1 = process.hrtime();
var prod, i;
for ( i = 0; i < reps; i++ ) {
prod = M.mult(N);
var delta = process.hrtime(t1);
console.log( reps + " repetitions took " +
delta[0] +"."+delta[1]+" seconds");
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Students in the Pierz Area Coalition (PAC) student network not only know the importance of protective factors, but also want to help ensure parents, community members and their peers understand and share the power of those protective factors. These students have designed a skit demonstrating the roles of various risk and protective factors in the lives of teens. The students, along with Region 4 Prevention Coordinator Nathan Sindt, performed their skit for parents and community members Monday at the Pierz Healy High School Media Center.
Students in the Pierz Area Coalition Student Network meet twice a month to develop and implement projects that encourage and support teens to not use alcohol. The Student Network also hosts chemical free activity nights for teens. The next two activity nights are open gym nights April 13 and April 27 from 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. in the Pierz Healy High School gym. The activity nights are open to all students in grades 6 – 12.


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Arrested Development star Jeffrey Tambor, his wife Kasia and two of their four children – son Gabriel, 4½, and daughter Julia, 3½ – attended the Tangled premiere in Hollywood on Sunday (November 14).
The 66-year-old actor – who is also dad to adult daughter Molly and 13-month-old twin boys Hugo and Eli – opened up to Babble about being confused for his younger kids' grandfather: "It happens hourly. I was just taking my son for a check-up and I was goofing around with him because he gets scared. The doctor came in and said, 'Oh, your grandpa is so funny.' Hey look, I'm old! I'm 66, so why wouldn't someone say that? My only problem is when I say, 'Yeah, I'm their father,' and they go, 'Oh, come on.' That's when my blood pressure goes up a little tiny bit."
The father and grandfather went on to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of fatherhood at this stage in his life.
"It limits the amount of time on my knees. It has nothing to do with my love or my complete adoration of the kids. The disadvantages are, you know, age. The advantages are: I know much more about the world than when I was 20. I've read more, I've done more, I've traveled more, I've suffered more, I've had more elation. I've lived and I'd rather have that. In the end, I'm the one with the gift of being able to enjoy these kids. I wake up every day like it's Christmas. I can't wait to go see the babies and give them their first feedings and help my wife. It makes me more alive. I don't have time to worry or over-think. On the other hand, I'm on my ninth Kindle because I keep losing it."
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You might not know Adam Driver's name quite yet, but you're about to. The 28-year-old actor has managed to fly far enough under the radar to avoid the perils of high-stakes celebrity but close enough to it to rack up quite the impressive list of theater credits: opposite Frank Langella in Roundabout's Man And Boy, replacing Zachary Quinto in last year's Angels in America, and starring in John Osborne's recent Look Back in Anger. Now, though, he's posed to make himself known on both big and small screens. As if it weren't enough that he recently wrapped Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and has landed a plum role in the Coen brothers' upcoming Inside Llewyn Davis, Driver is to make his HBO debut this Sunday on Lena Dunham's hotly-anticipated new show Girls. We chatted with Driver about the Marines, HGTV, and the infectious positivity of Ms. Dunham.
KEELY WEISS: I guess we'll start with the basics. Has acting always been your thing?
ADAM DRIVER: I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs and then I joined the Marines.
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DRIVER: Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like "Let's join the military!" and I was the only one who actually did. September 11 was part of it, but I also needed to get out of that city. Not that I'm not grateful for having grown up in Indiana, but I needed to get out of there, and the Marine Corps was a nice, stable option. I had nothing going on, other than selling vacuum cleaners, so I made the decision in January and by February I was gone.
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DRIVER: I got out early, actually. I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse. So I got discharged and said, well, I guess I'll go to acting school now. I'd known that Juilliard was supposed to be the best so I was like, "I wanna go there, and I was just in the Marine Corps so I can do anything!" I had this false sense of...
WEISS: Not necessarily false. You got in, after all.
DRIVER: Yeah, that's true. [laughs] Then things kind of got fast after I graduated. The first job I got was this TV job in this show called The Unusuals. Then I did a play called Slipping, and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
WEISS: Had you lived in New York before you started going to Julliard?
DRIVER: No. I moved here the summer before I started to work and get acclimated to the city, and my stepmom had an uncle here who lived randomly in Hoboken and lived on the top floor of his house, so I stayed in his closet. I had two bags full of clothing and I lived in his closet until I got an apartment in the city.
WEISS: I'm sure people would be willing to pay hundreds of dollars of rent for that closet.
DRIVER: Oh, absolutely. Me and my girlfriend have these conversations all the time. We're kind of obsessed with HGTV, and we were watching House Hunters the other night and it's like you can buy a palace for what a single room costs here.
WEISS: How did you get involved with Girls? Just a standard audition, or did you know somebody? It seems like such a tight-knit crowd.
DRIVER: My agent set it up, but there's definitely that community there. I think that's definitely how a lot of these projects work, friends working with friends, but I'm so new and I'm meeting these people as I go along.
WEISS: Yeah, at least one of the other cast members was carried over from her film Tiny Furniture.
DRIVER: Yeah, Jemima Kirke, as well as Alex Karpovsky, who's just amazing. He's an awesome dude and an awesome actor.
WEISS: It looks like a great show. I imagine you had a great time working on it.
DRIVER: It was definitely great to be involved. Lena's characters—especially her female characters—are so three-dimensional and never seem in any way stereotypical, which was amazing to be a part of. It was such a collaborative group of people on-set that you couldn't ask for better circumstances. It was just so open and young.
WEISS: Yeah, Lena Dunham is only, what, 25, and she's already a showrunner.
DRIVER: Well, she definitely has insight beyond her years. She's also perpetually happy, which is awesome to be around—having her in the room is really the best scenario if you're gonna spend that much time being really intimate with someone.
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Prosecuting George W. Bush: Charlotte Dennett on Santa Fe Radio Café
For a lot of people, what's past is past. But there are some who still believe that if you break the law, you must be held accountable—no matter who you are. That's the driving principle behind the accountability movement.
When Charlotte Dennett ran for Attorney General of Vermont, part of her platform was a promise to prosecute former-president George W. Bush for murder. The state of Vermont has good reason to be angry: we've sent a disproportionate number of soldiers to fight and die in the Iraq War that Bush waged under false pretenses. In this interview, Dennett discusses the movement and her book, The People v. Bush: One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way.
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Mary-Charlotte: So you had an encounter which was the kind of archetypal "I read a book that changed my life" encounter with Vincent Bugliosi, whose book is called The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. Tell us about that book and what followed, the chain of events that followed from it.
Charlotte Dennett: Well, a friend had told me about the book during the late summer of 2008. She knew that I had tentatively decided to run for Attorney General in Vermont, being a lawyer. I'm a member of the Progressive Party—there's three parties in Vermont—and they needed someone to run for that position, so I tentatively accepted, and she put the book in my hands knowing that I was also a journalist, that I'd had some experience in the Middle East, and she said she thought I'd be very interested in this book, and then she said rather cryptically, "I think there's something in there that we in our different separate states can do about the problem of Bush sending our troops to war on false pretenses.
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Mima: "Dear d-r Last! I'm very desperated! I'm pregnant in the 4th month and I have panic upsesion, I've been cure. The problem I have now is that I have palpitation 110-120 beats/min., my reseаrches are good but I don't feel very well. The doctor prescribed me the medicine Concor, but I not use it. Please help me to get rid of this nightmare, I can't sleep, I can't feed and I feel tired all the time. Please tell me what to do. Thank you in advance!"
Walter Last: Palpitations usually mean that there is an allergy, you need to check all your food and drinks, it may also be in the air from tobacco smoke, disinfectants or other strong smells. Also Candida can sometimes cause it. See Chapter 4 in Towards Radiant Health about allergy testing. Also your body may be too acid and then reacts much stronger, to make the body more alkaline see Chapter 5, also try just avoiding all sweetened food, cereals and grain products and cows' milk products (except butter). Also do intestinal sanitation for Candida see Chapter 2 and if a spit test shows systemic Candida take iodine for a week or two (see the new Candida book).
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In this final installment of C. J. Redwine's Defiance trilogy, a rich postapocalyptic YA fantasy perfect for fans of Graceling and Tamora Pierce, Rachel Adams has been kidnapped by enemy forces and is being taken to Rowansmark while her love, Logan McEntire, is imprisoned and awaiting trial, unable to leave Lankenshire. As uneasy alliances are tested and their enemies plot against them, will the two manage to find a way to rid their world of the tyrannical Commander and destroy the tech that controls the deadly Cursed One once and for all?
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Series: A Defiance Novel
Audience: Teenager / Young Adult
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Language: English
Number Of Pages: 480
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Frs. Pfleger and Pavone on Hillary
By Matt C. Abbott
June 11, 2016
In a recent Facebook post, Father Michael Pfleger, who was supporting Bernie Sanders, decided to endorse Hillary Clinton, albeit unenthusiastically:
Although, I supported Bernie, Hillary seems now to be the Democratic Candidate for President……what I do know is that Trump cannot win!!!!! Donald Trump is the Candidate who has rounded up the worse of America for a kind of "last Hope " for the Racists, Bigots, Sexists and Supremists to keep control!!!! While Hillary may not excite us…..Trump ought to scare us!!!!! It is not the future of the White House that is at stake, but the future of our Souls
Father Pfleger is perhaps the only priest-activist here in the U.S. who can get away with publicly saying and doing just about anything. It's been like that for years. I can't help but wonder if he knows where the bodies are buried in the Archdiocese of Chicago, so to speak.
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Where Mississippi Republicans are getting their facts is unclear, but it's clear that the majority of them have their facts wrong.
Here's the dirty lowdown: President Obama is not a Muslim.
Nonetheless, more than half of Mississippi's Republicans voters believe he is a Muslim, even though he attended Christian churches for decades and has said time after time he is not a follower of Islam.
Mississippi's inattention to facts, as least among Republicans, is borne out in a startling Public Policy Polling survey that is making huge headlines across the country: Only 12 percent of GOP voters in the Magnolia State think Obama's a Christian to 52 percent who think he's a Muslim and 36 percent who are not sure.
Neighboring Alabama's inattention to facts is almost as startling: Just 14 percent of Alabamans think Obama's a Christian to 45 percent who think he's a Muslim and 41 percent who aren't sure.
The 11-year-old Public Policy Polling, base in Raleigh, N.C., performs automated telephone surveys using Interactive Voice Response (IVR). It claims tp be able to track public opinion more often and on a wider range of issues than by interviewing in-person or via phone, or by mail-in surveys.
The PPP polling shows Mississippi Republicans still have much fondness for two high-profile conservatives despite controversial actions each has taken recently: radio gabber Rush Limbaugh and former Gov. Haley Barbour.
Limbaugh is viewed favorably by 51 percent of Mississippi GOP voters despite three days of verbal attacks he launched against a Georgetown University co-ed over the contraceptives issue, calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" who should have to perform sex acts on the Internet for his enjoyment. Forty-seven percent of the respondents to the Limbaugh question were women voters, according to Public Policy Polling.
Barbour is viewed favorably by 64 percent of Mississippi Republicans despite 62 percent of them viewing with disfavor his pardon of more than 200 inmates upon leaving office, including a number of convicted murderers.
The vast majority of Mississippi Republicans, 66 percent, do not believe in evolution. Twenty-two percent do believe in evolution while 11 percent are not sure.
Only a slight majority of Mississippi's GOP voters, 54 percent, think interracial marriage should be legal. Twenty-nine percent say such marriages should be illegal and 17 percent are still trying to make up their minds on the issue, according to Public Policy Polling.
Both Mississippi and Alabama go to the polls Tuesday for the GOP's presidential preference primary. Here's what PPP had to say at mid-day Monday about Tuesday's voting:
"Tuesday looks like it's going to be a close election night in both Mississippi and Alabama. In Mississippi Newt Gingrich is holding on to a slight lead with 33 percent to 31 percent for Mitt Romney, 27 percent for Rick Santorum, and 7 percent for Ron Paul. And Alabama is even closer with Romney at 31 percent to 30 percent for Gingrich, 29 percent for Santorum, and 8 percent for Paul.
"Gingrich and Santorum are both more popular than Romney in each of these states. In Mississippi Gingrich's net favorability is +33 (62/29) to +32 for Santorum (60/28) and +10 for Romney (51/41). It's a similar story in Alabama where Santorum's at +32 (63/31), Gingrich is at +26 (58/32), and Romney's at only +13 (53/40)."


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This week's newsletter focusses on the 'financial crisis' unfolding around us. Because that crisis may be the most profound event to happen in our lives, we explore the domino nature of the problem and the kinds of difficulties that we may face in the near to medium future. A brief diversion into the media's desire to believe professional disinformation agencies, and a recent example of why their should be soap in public school toilets. A linked and organised review of news items from the past week is followed by why this recession is different, and how the US (and Australia) is deskilling our population.
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