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World Series Game 3: Cardinals get improbable walk-off win
ST. LOUIS — Ever see a walk-off obstruction call? You have now. Allen Craig got tripped by third baseman Will Middlebrooks in the bottom of the ninth inning on Saturday night, and the St. Louis Cardinals won Game 3 of the World Series 5-4 after coughing up a pair of two-run leads.
The third base umpire was Jim Joyce. "Tough way to have a game end, particularly of this significance," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. Here's how it happened, as it happened.
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For the Red Sox, first baseman Mike Napoli tooks a seat, with David Ortiz going to first base after playing six games in the field all season. Jonny Gomes also hit the bench, replaced in left field by Daniel Nava. Third baseman Xander Bogaerts, who batted ninth in Game 2, jumped to the No. 6 spot in the order.
Jacoby Ellsbury led off, playing center field, followed by right fielder Shane Victorino, second baseman Dustin Pedroia, Ortiz, Nava, Bogaerts, catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia, shortstop Stephen Drew and pitcher Jake Peavy.
Pevey is a a career .173 hitter, although he went 1-for-15 in interleague games this season for the Chicago White Sox and Red Sox.
Allen Craig is the odd man out for the Cardinals, with Matt Adams staying at first base and Pete Kozma back at shortstop after Daniel Descalso got the Game 2 start. Second baseman Matt Carpenter led off for St. Louis, followed by right fielder Carlos Beltran, left fielder Matt Holliday, Adams, catcher Yadier Molina, third baseman David Freese, center fielder Jon Jay, Kozma, and pitcher Joe Kelly.
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First inning
Kelly, a righthander, had a good pace to his work as he opened the game by striking out Ellsbury on four pitches, the last a 98 mph fastball with movement that froze one of the hottest hitters in the Sox lineup.
Victorino hits a chopper back to the mound that Kelly, falling off to the first base side of the mound, jumped to field with a bare hand — risky decision, but one totally based on instinct. He was unharmed by the impact of ball on hand, and threw to first base for the out. Pedroia hit a grounder to the well-positioned Adams, who flips to Kelly covering first base, and the opening frame is over after just 11 pitches.
Carpenter got the Cardinals going with a hard-hit single to right field, a low sizzler that Pedroia has no chance to field as it went through the infield. The Red Sox shifted the infield for Beltran, leaving the left side open, and Beltran tried to exploit that with a bunt. He pushed his effort just a bit too much into the middle of the field, allowing Peavy to field it. Beltran settled for a sacrifice, and Carpenter moved up to second base.
Holliday followed with a single to right, and after three batters, the Cardinals had their first run. Adams hit another ball hard for another single to right, and Molina ripped a single to left, bringing home Holliday to make it 2-0.
Peavy's 0-3 record and 10.31 career playoff ERA include starts against the Cardinals in 2005 and 2006 when he was with the San Diego Padres. In those starts, he gave up 13 runs in a combined 9 2/3 innings, so this is bringing unpleasant memories.
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It's also a potential disaster for the Sox because the health of scheduled Game 4 starter Clay Buchholz is a question. Peavy managed to avoid further damage in the first inning by getting Freese to fly out to right and Jay to ground out to second base.
Second inning
Ortiz continued the Red Sox's procession of ground balls by leading off the second inning with one right to Adams, who took it to first base himself. Nava finally hit a ball that requires a Cardinals fielder to move more than a few inches, but Carpenter was up to the task with a diving stop and a throw that Adams made a good stretch to grab. Bogaerts hit an easier-to-handle grounder to Kozma to wrap up another 11-pitch inning.
The bottom of the second offers Peavy something of a respite. Kozma plays because of his glove, and he's followed by the pitcher, Kelly. If Peavy struggled again in this inning, he would really be in trouble. Kozma pops up, and Kelly strikes out. Carpenter pops to shortstop, and the Red Sox can breathe a small sigh of relief with regard to blowing out their bullpen ridiculously early.
Third inning
Kelly struck out Saltalamacchia swinging at a 96 mph fastball, and then gets Drew on a 79 mph curveball. It's hard to believe this is the same pitcher who struggled so mightily against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS, but easy to see how he had a 2.69 ERA in 37 games (15 starts) for the Cardinals this season.
Peavy is the only batter in the inning to put the ball in play—a ground ball to second base gets Kelly through three innings without a ball having been hit out of the infield. Boston's ability to grind out at-bats is nullified by Kelly's strike-throwing: of his first 34 pitches, only 10 have been balls.
Peavy gets his sixth consecutive out when Beltran foul tips a third strike into Saltalamacchia's glove. A seventh out appeared easy on Holliday's pop-up, but after a long run in from center field, Ellsbury drops the ball. Holliday, though, strayed too far off first base, and Ellsbury threw behind him. Ortiz puts on the tag, and one mistake cancels out another. Adams strikes out looking to end the inning.
Fourth inning
Another ground ball started the fourth, but this time the Red Sox got their first baserunner, as Ellsbury's grounder snuck under the dive of Carpenter. Victorino followed with a foul pop to first base, the first ball in the air against Kelly, and then Pedroia sent a deep drive to center field that Jay ran down.
First base was not open, but second base was, and with Ortiz and his two homers in the series representing the tying run at the plate, Kelly pitched carefully and issued his first walk. That gave the Red Sox a runner in scoring position for the first time, but as some would say, Ortiz was in scoring position when in the batter's box. Kelly went to a full count on Nava, but got the switch-hitter to swing at a changeup to get out of his first mini-jam.
Molina's second single of the night was not a rocket like the one that drove in a run three innings ago, but it's plenty effective just the same, a flare that dropped between the retreating Pedroia and charging Ellsbury. Freese walked, and Peavy was in trouble once again. Jay sent a single into center field, and even though Ellsbury appeared to be conceding the run, third base coach Jose Oquendo threw up a late stop sign for Molina. The catcher picked up the red light as he rounded third, and returned to the base, so the Cardinals had the bases loaded with nobody out.
The problem for the Cardinals was that it was now up to the bottom of the order to deliver, and Kozma did Peavy a big favor by leaving the bat on his shoulder to strike out looking. Kelly popped up for an automatic out on the infield fly rule — Pedroia made the catch. For the second consecutive at-bat, Carpenter popped up to Drew, and the Cardinals allowed Peavy to escape.
Fifth inning
Bogaerts led off the fifth inning with his first hit of the World Series, a triple to right-center field. Once again, that meant the Red Sox had the tying run at the plate, as the Cardinals' missed opportunities loom a little larger. In the more immediate sense, Kelly had to deal with a runner in scoring position with less than two out for the first time in the game. Saltalamacchia drew a walk, and the Cardinals put their infield at double play depth, with Freese even with the bag at third and Adams holding Saltalamacchia.
Drew struck out swinging, and Mike Carp pinch-hit for Peavy, whose night ended after four innings in which he gave up two runs on six hits and lowered his career playoff ERA to 9.27. Carp gave Kelly a ground ball, but not quite the one he wanted. It was hit too slowly to Carpenter for a 4-6-3 double play — the Cardinals settled for the 4-6 forceout and the halving of their lead to 2-1. Kelly blew a 96 mph fastball past Ellsbury for his sixth strikeout, escaping further harm.
Lefthander Felix Doubront replaced Peavy on the mound, and Beltran turned around to hit righthanded against him. The result is a pop-up to center field, and then Holliday grounded out to shortstop. The lefty-swinging Adams naturally got St. Louis' first hit against the southpaw, a double down the right field line that might have been a triple for someone not nicknamed Big Mayo.
The Red Sox decided that with Molina already 2-for-2 on the night, they would rather try their luck with Freese, so an intentional walk was issued. The move worked as Freese sends a lazy fly to right field, his second F-9 of the night.
Sixth inning
Kelly was up to 81 pitches as he entered the sixth, and there was danger looming with Victorino, Pedroia, and Ortiz coming up to face him for a third time. A leadoff walk to Victorino was precisely the opposite of what Kelly wanted to do, and Seth Maness and Randy Choate warmed up in the Cardinals bullpen. Pedroia hit quite possibly the hardest ball of the night allowed by Kelly, but his line drive is caught by Freese, saving a sure double down the left field line, and probably a run. Kelly was not going to get the chance to face Ortiz when he was clearly fading, and Choate came in from the bullpen.
The 38-year-old Choate had not had great success against Ortiz in the past — Big Papi is 3-for-9 against him — but to this point, the side-slinging southpaw kept the slugger in the yard. One thing that Choate had going in his favor was that his assortment of soft breaking stuff was a big visual difference from the flamethrowing Kelly, and Ortiz did not look good swinging and missing at a 1-1 pitch.
Then, however, Ortiz ripped a single through the shift, advancing Victorino to third with the tying run. Unable to do his one job, Choate was replaced by Maness, who inherited quite a pickle—runners at the corners with one out.
Nava swung at the first pitch and laced a single into left field to tie the game and get Peavy off the hook for a third career playoff loss to the Cardinals. Maness then got the double play he was looking for, as Bogaerts bounced into the 4-6-3 twin killing, but for the second straight inning, a leadoff baserunner came back to haunt the Cardinals — first Bogaerts' triple, and then Victorino's walk.
Jay tried a drag bunt, and it doesn't work at all — he pushed the ball much too hard, and right to Pedroia, who came charging in from second base from the time Jay squared around. Kozma gave a ball a ride, but it died on the warning track, settling in Naa's glove for the second out. With nobody on base and two outs, Matheny went with Shane Robinson as his pinch-hitter for Maness, and a pop-up to second base ended the inning.
Seventh inning
Matheny went with left-hander Kevin Siegrist to start the seventh, his last southpaw in the bullpen, and that meant that unless Siegrist faced seven batters, the next time David Ortiz hit will be against a right-hander.
Saltalamacchia struck out on four pitches, swinging through a fastball. Drew, having already struck out twice, was lifted for pinch hitter Will Middlebrooks, who popped up to center field on the first pitch he saw. Jonny Gomes pinch hit for Doubront, and lasted two pitches longer with the same result.
Having had to throw as many actual pitches as warm-up pitches in the 1-2-3 inning, Siegrist kept himself a contender to maybe stay in for that looming Ortiz at-bat, although the Cardinals would hope to be turning things over to closer Trevor Rosenthal for the ninth inning after another 1-2-3 in the eighth and a run in one of their next two trips to the plate.
The top of the St. Louis order got to face Craig Breslow, in search of redemption after his throwing error brought home the decisive run in Game 2. Middlebrooks remained in the game at third base, with Bogaerts moving to shortstop.
Bogaerts was tested immediately on a ground ball from Carpenter, and the play went as an infield single when Ortiz couldn't scoop Bogaerts' throw out of the dirt — it appeared that Carpenter beat the play anyway. Beltran was hit by a pitch without making any discernible effort to get out of the way, but that rule is hardly ever enforced — just ask Victorino, who has become a master of taking one for the team. Veteran savvy got Beltran on base, pushing the go-ahead run into scoring position and Breslow out of the game in favor of Junichi Tazawa.
Holliday ripped a double down the left field line, past the dive of Middlebrooks, and both Carpenter and Beltran came in to score, giving the Cardinals a 4-2 lead. Nava threw home, which allowed Holliday — running hard all the way after his earlier blunder — to cruise into third base. It's arguable that Drew made the play on Carpenter's single, and that Bogaerts snared Holliday's ball, but both were very difficult plays, and it was hard to truly say that Farrell's defensive shuffle backfired — there's no guarantee those plays get made.
Carlos Beltran scores (AP Photo)
With an insurance run on third and nobody out, Adams did the one thing he can't do, and struck out. After walking Molina intentionally his last time up, with a runner on second and two outs, Farrell decided this time to have Tazawa pitch to the Cardinals catcher, and Tazawa validated the decision with another strikeout. Freese walked, and Matheny had Descalso pinch run — he was going to be a defensive replacement anyway.
Jay flied out to right-center, a near disaster for the Red Sox as Ellsbury almost collided with Victorino, but the center fielder made the catch to end the inning.
Eighth inning
Carlos Martinez relieved Siegrist after the very long bottom of the seventh inning. Ellsburth grounded a single up the middle, and the tying run was at the plate in the person of Victorino — once again highlighting the missed opportunity the Cardinals had in the seventh, not to mention earlier failures to break the game open. Victorino was hit by a pitch he does try to get out of the way of, and the Red Sox had a very similar-looking threat to what the Cardinals just had last inning.
The runners take off as Pedroia hits a ground ball to shortstop — it might not have been hard enough to have even thought about a double play, but with the runners in motion, the only play is at first. Matheny decided to give a free pass to Ortiz, loading the bases instead of facing him as the potential go-ahead run at the plate, and Trevor Rosenthal came in to face Nava, with Kolten Wong entering the game at second base and Carpenter going to third base, ending Descalso's short stint in the game.
Nava hit a little dipping ball that Wong had to sprawl for, and the rookie just into the game made a nice play to save it from being a tying hit. He nearly wound up getting a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning, but Nava beat the rap at first base, and it was a 4-3 game. Bogaerts followed with a chopper that Kozma couldn't grab. The ball went off his glove for what was charitably called an RBI single. Nava made it all the way to third base in what was now a tie game. Rosenthal got out of the inning by getting Saltalamacchia to ground out to second.
Brandon Workman came in from the BoSox bullpen and got Kozma to fly out to left field. Wong, in his first at-bat, rips a single to left right field. Wong took off on a hit-and-run, but Carpenter popped up to shortstop for the third time in five at-bats — the two times he reached base were the two times the Cardinals scored. Wong stole second on a 2-1 pitch to Beltran that missed, so the Red Sox finish the walk intentionally to move on to Holliday and the three RBI he already has in the game. Holliday couldn't get a fourth — he flew out to left field to end the inning.
Ninth inning
Middlebrooks struck out, so Workman got a chance to hit for himself, which was somewhat odd with Napoli available on the bench. To the surprise of nobody at all, the American League relief pitcher struck out. Ellsbury grounded out to third, and it's an easy inning for Rosenthal, aided by an absolute gimme out against a non-entity at the plate in Workman.
Closer Koji Uehara started warming up in the Red Sox bullpen while Workman struck out Adams. Molina singled to right field, so here came Uehara — by letting Workman hit, Farrell squeezed two extra batters out of the right-hander, and allowed the winning run to reach base. Craig pinch-hit for Rosenthal, and he ripped a double down the left field line. Molina stopped at third.
Jay hit a ground ball to Pedroia, who threw home to nail Molina, running on contact, at the plate. Saltalamacchia then threw to third to try to get Craig, and the throw got away from Middlebrooks.
As Craig got up, Middlebrooks tripped him, and although the throw home to get Craig at the plate was in time, interference was called against Middlebrooks for tripping Craig — correctly — and the Cardinals had one of the most bizarre walk-off wins in World Series history.


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Dreaming of Better Sleep
Can't get enough zzz's? You're not alone. Two-thirds of all women have trouble sleeping at least a few nights a week. It's time to stop tossing and turning: We've got the remedies to help you rest.
Unable to Get a Good Night's Sleep
"So, are you sleeping?" my gynecologist asked me at my annual exam last year. I had to laugh. That was funny. Not ha-ha funny. More wry, isn't-this-sad funny. Because I hadn't had a solid night of rest in years.
I'd always considered myself a good sleeper. But when I hit 40, everything changed. I suddenly had trouble falling asleep, and even when I did, I'd be wide-awake again hours later, working or puttering around the house. Not surprisingly, in the morning it was like slogging through muck just to brush my teeth and get dressed. I sometimes drank six cups of coffee to get through the a.m. hours, followed by an equal number of Diet Cokes in the afternoon.
At first I chalked it up to stress. A few years back my husband and I moved from Las Vegas to Orlando, Florida. We bought a house that I loved, but one that also made me worry that we'd overreached. Between concerns about the mortgage and saving for my son's college costs, I was popping out of bed every night like a jack-in-the-box. When weeks of not sleeping turned into months, I realized I'd become a card-carrying insomniac. Exacerbating matters was my husband, who snored more loudly than an entire construction crew. Many a night I weighed whether a jury of my peers—and by that I mean the 67% of American women who also have trouble sleeping—would understand my fatigue-fueled desire to smother him.
My doctor initially prescribed me a sleep aid. At first it seemed the ideal fix, but after a few weeks, one pill no longer lulled me to sleep. So I switched to Valium. Though not typically prescribed for insomnia, I knew from dental work that it could knock me out quite nicely. And just to hedge my bets, I often chased it with a cocktail. I knew that what I was doing wasn't smart, but I was desperate. It began to infuriate me that I had to be drugged to sleep in my own bed while my husband snored on, oblivious. To avoid nightly arguments, we started sleeping apart. Sex? Forget that. I was hardly in the mood. Suddenly my worries about getting shut-eye grew to concerns about my marriage and my overall physical health. I was miserable.
The Gender Divide
Research shows that when we don't sleep well we're at greater risk for accidents, weight gain, depression, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and overall premature mortality. While well more than half of all Americans have trouble sleeping, the effects of sleep loss hit women a lot harder than men. For instance, recent research suggests that when women lose sleep, they gain more weight than men. And there's more: Last year a British study found that sleep loss puts women at greater risk for hypertension than it does men. In a German study, sleeping five hours or less a night tripled women's risk for heart attacks, but not men's. And earlier this year researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, showed that women who took longer than 30 minutes to fall asleep had blood levels of C-reactive protein elevated enough to be associated with a high risk for heart disease. "It appears that sleep loss may be indicative of a disruption of the process by which the amino acid tryptophan is converted into serotonin and then into melatonin, a hormone that promotes sleep," says Edward C. Suarez, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center, who led the study. Women, it turns out, are far more sensitive than men to these disruptions, which then ripple out to influence appetite and weight, blood platelet stickiness and inflammation in the body (both which may affect the risk of heart attack and stroke), and mood. When men in the Duke research program didn't sleep well, they showed no signs of stress. The women? They got angry and depressed.
Fuming on the couch as my husband snored away in the bedroom, I would certainly attest to the rage. And I worried about depression, too, because it runs in my family: My sister, mother, and grandmother have all experienced the condition. Doctors used to believe that insomnia stemmed from depression, but now it's thought that it can work the other way, or that the two can go hand in hand. According to a recent University of Pittsburgh study that followed about 600 people for 20 years, up to 50% of those who had insomnia for more than two weeks experienced major depression later on. I had already gone through one terrible bout of depression about five years earlier, and I didn't want my insomnia to trigger another one.
A Search for Answers
I went to see William Kohler, M.D., director of the Florida Sleep Institute in Spring Hill, for an overnight observation to figure out why I wasn't sleeping—and what I could do.
Dr. Kohler's take was that I'd developed something called psycho-physiologic insomnia, or "learned insomnia." This can happen after some event or stressor triggers an initial episode of sleeplessness. For many, once they have a few difficult nights, the anxiety that builds up and the habits born of the desperation to fall asleep compound the problem. "Even after the stress gets better, the habits continue," Dr. Kohler explains. In other words, my husband's snoring aside, a big chunk of my problem was that I'd conditioned myself, like one of Pavlov's dogs, to associate going to bed with not sleeping.
Sadly, I'm hardly alone. As the Internet, BlackBerrys, and iPhones have made it possible to be on the job even when we're not in the office, we're all working more and sleeping less. "Partial sleep deprivation sneaks into our lives because we have more to do than hours in the day to do it," explains Craig Keebler, M.D., medical director of Medical Weight Management at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. "Losing a few hours of sleep seems manageable. The problem is, once you've been working late for a couple of nights, it's harder to go to bed at 10 or 11," he says.
Working women may get hit the hardest, regularly pulling a second shift on the home front. Indeed, the National Sleep Foundation reports that 52% of women forfeit sleep when pressed for time. "Children's activities, family responsibilities, having time with your spouse—it all chips away at the time women really need to be sleeping," explains Qanta Ahmed, M.D., associate director of the Sleep Laboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
That's certainly me to a T. Long after my son and husband have fallen asleep, I'm still plugging away—paying bills, answering e-mails, picking up, trying to get one more thing done.
A New Prescription
When the results from my night at the sleep clinic came in, Dr. Kohler phoned to discuss his findings. I braced myself for a stern lecture about my dependence on alcohol, sedatives, and caffeine. But surprisingly, Dr. Kohler offered a simple prescription. I didn't have to give up my morning French roast. (Of course, he thought my caffeine consumption was "really high," but figured that when I started sleeping better I wouldn't need as much.) Amazingly, I could hold onto my Valium too. It wasn't his first choice of sleep aids, but as long as I didn't feel foggy, experience memory loss, or increase my dose, I was okay for now. But he was adamant that I lay off the alcohol. A shot of vodka would help me fall sleep, he explained, but because alcohol metabolizes within five hours it would wake me up as it left my system. That certainly explained why I was prowling the house at 3 a.m. The other thing fueling my insomnia, he told me, was an inconsistent bedtime. The sleep log I'd filled out prior to my study showed that some nights I'd turn in at 9:30; others I'd be up past midnight. "The brain likes routine," he explained. "Stabilizing when we go to bed and when we get up helps with sleep quality."
To reacquaint my body with the idea that bed is a place for sleep, not stress, Dr. Kohler wanted me to get up and do something boring if I didn't doze off within 20 minutes of turning in. When I felt sleepy, then I could go back to bed and try again. And given that I'm a champion worrier, he suggested that before going to bed I write out a "worry list," noting all the things (like my fear of financial ruin) that get my mind spinning. And last but not least, he urged me to get my snoring husband to a sleep specialist. I wasn't arguing, though I was at a loss as to how. After all, we were already sleeping apart. If that wasn't motivation enough, I wasn't sure what would be.
So I focused on what I could do for myself first. I immediately ditched the alcohol and even the Valium (I'd fallen asleep without it at the clinic). Setting a bedtime was more challenging, as I still couldn't resist the urge to get one more thing done before bed. But each night I made an effort, aiming for lights-out between 11 p.m. and midnight. In the mornings, I cut down to three cups of coffee, and in the afternoons, I drank only caffeine-free beverages.
Sleeping Well
So how am I sleeping now? Much better, thank you. I no longer wake up at 3 a.m. and reach for my laptop. And since I've become more aware of when I should go to bed, I've noticed that I do get tired around 11, and if I can turn in then, I fall asleep faster and feel more rested in the morning than when I push myself to stay up.
Still more surprising, my husband and I have reached a detente of sorts in our sleep battles. I'm not sure if he got tired of sleeping apart or if my nagging ("You're going to die of a stroke or a heart attack if you don't stop snoring!") just reached critical mass. He recently went on his own to a sleep specialist, who promptly diagnosed him with borderline severe sleep apnea. That's a dangerous condition in which your airway collapses while you sleep, waking you frequently because you're not breathing. He did two overnight studies, and he got a prescription for a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) mask that will keep his airway open and stop the snoring.
Sure enough, he is no longer snoring. This may just save his life: A new study reveals that untreated severe sleep apnea quadruples the risk for dying of any cause. The diagnosis is also saving our marriage. The journal Chest reported that partners' quality of life improved tremendously after the people snoring next to them started using a CPAP mask. The machine does make a low whirring noise, but that's a small price to pay to once again sleep peacefully alongside my husband. Besides, I have plenty of earplugs.
7 Ways to Sleep Better Tonight
- Make your bedroom sleep-friendly. Not only should your mattress be comfortable and your room dark, quiet, and cool, you shouldn't do anything except sleep or make love in there: No eating, working, or watching TV. Light from screens signals your brain to stop producing the sleep hormone melatonin, so it takes longer to nod off.
- Hide the clock. Or at least turn it away while you're sleeping. Digital clocks are particularly bad because their precise readouts are constant reminders that the night is ticking away and you're still awake, says Daniel McNally, M.D., medical director of the University of Connecticut Sleep Disorders Center in Farmington.
- Spend less time in bed. "Most people spend more time in bed to try to increase their hours of shut-eye," says Bruce Rybarczyk, Ph.D., associate professor of clinical psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. But lying there awake breeds frustration. Instead, hit the pillow only for the hours that you are actually slumbering. This creates a greater desire for sleep so that when you finally do get in bed, you fall asleep faster and stay that way longer. As your sleep improves, you can gradually roll back your bedtime until you're sleeping for a full night.
- Don't eat late. Eating at night affects levels of ghrelin, a hormone that regulates hunger and sleep. Ghrelin levels naturally rise in the evening, readying us for bed. But if we nosh at night our ghrelin levels drop so we don't feel as sleepy. "One of the ways people keep themselves going until 1 a.m. is by eating late at night," explains Dr. Keebler.
- Avoid nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol. These are notorious sleep-stealers. Nicotine is a stimulant, plus cigarette cravings can wake you up at night. The effects of caffeine can last up to seven hours, so switch to decaf after 3 p.m. Alcohol's sneakier: It's sedating, but because it leaves your system quickly, that can wake you up and cause trouble getting back to sleep.
- Have a bedtime ritual. "You need a half-hour of unwinding time before bed," says Aparajitha Verma, M.D., medical director of the Methodist Sleep Disorder Center in Houston. "You can't be doing all these active things, then suddenly switch it off and expect to sleep. You have to prepare yourself. Read, meditate, listen to music, whatever calms you down before getting in bed."
- Clear your head. A steady diet of shock media will surely keep you up at night. So if you tend to ruminate on the world's ills, avoid material that will bother you, advises Ralph Pascualy, M.D., director of Sleep Medicine Associates in Seattle. "As people get tired, problems become much larger." One way to deal with worries that keep you up is to write down your concerns along with some possible solutions. Things don't look so dire when you see them on paper, notes Dr. Pascualy. This simple act allows your brain to let go of your fears so you can get some rest.
Is Insomnia Making You Fat?
It's possible. Research shows that sleep loss affects two hormones—ghrelin and leptin—that regulate hunger and satiety. When we don't get a full night's rest, ghrelin levels remain high, making us think we're hungry when we really are tired. At the same time, leptin levels plunge, so we can't tell when we're full. But there's more to the story. Not only does sleeping less make us hungry, but it causes us to yearn for junk food. When University of Chicago researchers reduced the hours their study participants were allowed to sleep, the volunteers were 23% hungrier and their cravings for sugary, starchy, and salty foods increased by as much as 45%.
Originally published in the December 2008 issue of Family Circle magazine.

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The I Hate My Teenage Daughter actress recently tweeted a pic of her latest haircut, courtesy of stylist Jonathan Hanousek, who referred to Pressly as a "Hawk Star."
But doesn't this faux hawk look awfully familiar? Pressly's new slicked-back chop looks a lot like Miley's.
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We've all learned (and continue to learn) to adjust to a life with multiple sclerosis. After some bumps and bruises, we learn to move on with (or without) things that MS brings (or takes) and fill our lives as best we can. Like the person who gives up coffee when they quit smoking, I guess that I just take myself out of situations where I'm reminded of some of those losses. This weekend, during a joyous occasion, a couple of those old loves were unavoidable.
Wrung out as I was from my week, I had to rally as this weekend held not only our local Walk MS, but also the wedding of friends which I was slated to officiate.
The wedding was held at a beautiful resort lodge in the wine country of western Washington. A dog-friendly resort, we were able to bring the whole pack along to enjoy the weekend. Walking into our room, absolutely shagged-out from the week's travels and preparations for Walk MS, we were welcomed by a fireplace and massive soaking tub.
Little can relax a weary traveler like a long soak in a hot tub — perhaps with a glass of something from a local vineyard — and then wrapping up in a big, fluffy robe with a snifter of something nearly old enough to drink itself, in front of a roaring fire. Many of us know, however, that hot water and that roaring blaze (particularly when we've burning our personal candles at both ends) are kryptonite to we of the compromised myelin.
I can accept that. Sure it would have felt good — really good — to relax with some candles, some nice music, and dogs sleeping by the fire in the other room while Caryn and I sipped and steeped in bubbles. That's just not something I can do if I've got to marry two people (or do anything, really) within days of my immersion.
The barb I didn't expect, nor did I prepare for, came at the post-wedding dinner. As the DJ began to move from dinner music to tunes intended to move the party to the hardwood, I really missed dancing…
Caryn and I didn't have dancing at our wedding for a couple of reasons. It's wasn't because we don't like music — we both do. It wasn't for reason of cost, though I'm sure our guests didn't mind us throwing the extra funds not spent on a band to one of the best chefs in Seattle. Rather, we both knew that it wasn't a part of the party from which I, nor many of our guests who live with MS, would have derived much joy.
We took an obligatory turn — Caryn being the matron of honor and I the officiant — to something slow enough that I didn't look like Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein. But the joy of dancing at a friend's (or family member's) wedding is one of the great ones in life, and it was a little bit sad to watch from the sidelines.
As always, I'm not trying to make this a platform for whining, rather I am acknowledging a loss — something that I've been doing a lot these past few months — and by acknowledging, trying to move past.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
Don't forget that you can also follow me via my Life With MS Facebook page, on Twitter, and our new group on MSConnection.org. Check out our bi-monthly blog I'm doing for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of the United Kingdom, A Yank's Life With MS, as well as our very special new monthly blog for the National MS Society.


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1955 —1962 Arranged by Subject
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Harold W. Scott
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John W. Queenan
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American policymakers have a tendency to ignore the viewpoints of other nations. Such was the case when Gen. David Petraeus complained that Pakistan saw India rather than the Taliban as the more significant security threat. I made the simple but still important (in my view, anyway) point that Pakistan had reason to fear India, including the latter's role in detaching East Pakistan from what had been a geographically divided state.
Yet there appears to be predilection by some pundits to read a lot into a short blog post. Matthew Yglesias apparently believes that to point to India's role in the 1971 war is to gloss over Pakistan's ignoble conduct in what became Bangladesh. Others may have seen "a happy Pakistan bouncing along" until victimized by a "rapacious" India, but my post said nothing of the sort. In fact, in contrast to Mr. Yglesias, I was alive during the war and remember stories about Pakistani atrocities.
Nevertheless, the point remains: there is a reason leading Pakistanis fears India more than the Taliban and other extremists. And lecturing them that they are misguided, that Pakistan's artificial geographic and social configuration was doomed and that the Khan government's brutality gave India good cause for intervening, is not likely to change the current threat assessment of those in power, especially in the military. So the point remains: Washington policymakers have to deal with rather than dismiss Islamabad's fears.


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MTV VMAs host Kevin Hart has threatened to put a seatbelt on Kanye West so he doesn't storm the stage again on Thursday (06.09.12).
The rapper caused controversy at the Video Music Awards in 2009 when he interrupted Taylor Swift's speech, after she won the award for Best Female Video, to insist Beyonce Knowles should have won and Kevin is taking no chances this year.
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Women's Fencing adds two newcomers to it's roster for the 2011 season. (Courtesy Havard Athletic Communications)
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The Crimson newcomers will be joining some talented company as the squad finished the season with an 18-5 record and a national champion on their roster. Rising sophomore Alexandra Kiefer took top-honors in the NCAA Fencing National Championship, while earning All-American accolades with fellow juniors Caroline Vloka and Noam Mills.
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When river guide "Mouse" told Madison Robuck he was going to run a "triple-decker" – three rafts stacked together – she wasn't sure it would work until he started rigging.
"He just kept telling me to trust him," Robuck said, a fellow employee at Kremmling-based Adventures in Whitewater. "Tell Mouse he's not going to do something, and he'll do it."
Robuck joined Mouse on the rig as he ran it down the Colorado River on Thursday, Aug. 15, marking the 1,800th run of his career. He's worked as a river guide for 23 years and joined Adventures in Whitewater when it opened for business in 2005.
"I just did it because I can," Mouse said. "I wanted to make the 1,800th a special run, something everyone would remember. I feel blessed I could put in as many runs as I have, I look forward to it every day."
Mouse grew up in Golden. He received his nickname when he was 8-years-old, after he dove into a small hole to avoid trouble with the principal after a prank at school. He came to Grand County to ski, but found his true calling after a float down the Colorado River.
"I think the thing I enjoy the most about rafting is reading water," he said. "You only know that if you're a raft guide – how to read the river and judge where you need to be. Now it's almost automatic for me."
While the water levels fluctuate and flows vary, Mouse said he's noticed other changes on the Colorado during his career. His greatest concern is boaters who lack respect for the river. He has seen many private boaters floating with improper equipment, like kiddie pools and inflatable chairs, and without taking personal safety measures, like wearing lifejackets.
"This is serious, it's not Disneyland," he said. "Safety is my most important issue. You might look at me in my triple decker, you wouldn't think that's very safe. But it is very safe, otherwise I wouldn't do it."
Mouse has substantial experience with safety and rescue. As a highlight of his rafting career, he notes the time during the 1996 season when a van full of 18 people lost control and drove off the highway into Clear Creek. Mouse was able to help rescue the passengers, getting them all out of the river unharmed.
"As a guide, you're going to encounter situations when you need to stay calm, be proactive and rescue people," he said.
In his years spent guiding, Mouse said the variety remains his favorite thing about guiding on the Upper Colorado, from the people he meets each day, to the diverse wildlife, to the water's subtle flux.
"It's so scenic and stress-free, it's a beautiful place to be," he said. "My ultimate goal is 2,000 runs. I normally average about 65 to 70 a year, so it's only about four years away, God willing."
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The Marvelous Lyre of Olympus II (11 strings) – ancient lyre with Cedar wood
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"He took the lyre upon his left arm and tried each string in turn with the key so that it sounded awesomely at his touch. And Phoebus Apollo laughed for joy; for the sweet throb of the marvellous music went to his heart, and a soft longing took hold on his soul as he listened." – Homeric Hymn to Hermes, line 414-435
This is one of the most advanced models of our ancient Greek lyres, named after the great ancient musicians Olympus, one of the two fathers of the Greek music in antiquity.
Olympus' compositions were ancient melodies appropriated to the worship of particular gods, the origin of which was so old as to be unknown. The greatest of his inventions was that of the third system, or genus, of music, the Enharmonic.
Manufactured at the premises of the ancient Europos (Northern Greece) by a family of musicians and luthiers, the "Lyre of Olympus – Collector's edition" is made of (and only) natural materials available during the antiquity. This ancient artefact was evolved to become a modern music instrument ready to be used by both amateur and professional musicians (for example, a modern tuning method was chosen instead of the ancient hard-to-use one). For all the minor (but very important) alterations, latest technologies were used during the prototyping phase (such as 3d Scanning and 3d Modelling).
Due to its superior quality soundbox (thanks to its dimensions and its thin resonator) and its soundboard made by cedar wood, the sound produced by this instrument is amazingly rich and deep! What differs this lyre from the Marvelous Lyre of Olympus II, is the cedar wood that was used for its soundboard and body, adding more clarity and volume on its sound, a one of a kind collector's piece of art.
"So then, I will give you this lyre, glorious son of Zeus…" – Homeric Hymn to Hermes, line 490
This a one of a kind one piece collector's edition, meaning that the first to place an order is the only one that will have it.
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40+ ancient melodies
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This lyre has 11 nylon & gut strings (a set of additional strings are included). The soundbox is made by wood manufactured with modern luthier techniques to have the deeper and richer sound possible, the sound-board by cedar wood, the arm, the tailpiece, the crossbar, the tunings keys and the bridge and plectrum by maple wood.
The lyre's height is 69 cm with 45-50 cm width (11strings: 45 cm), while its soundbox dimensions are 28 x 29 x 13-14 cm, and the length of its vibrating strings is 49-53 cm (the player can adjust this length by moving slightly the position of the bridge).
Along with every lyre, a handbook is provided including all the different ancient Greek scales (for tuning the lyre) in the Aristoxenian tradition such as the Mixolydian, the Phrygian, the Dorian etc. What's more, the oldest music melodies that had survived are also included such as the Hellenistic "Seikilos Epitaph" (2.000 years old, the oldest complete melody of the human kind), and further descriptions regarding what modes were used in the antiquity for evoking specific feelings such as sorrow, happiness, bravery etc. Last, a full-color 68-page book (in the form of a .pdf file) will be given, with more than 100 photos, describing the research behind our lyres and the whole design process.
Since the beginning of 2015, every Luthieros lyre comes with a wooden plectrum, an extra set of nylon strings and a unique hand-strap (in Greek: "τελαμών"). A premium package, for a premium and authentic music instrument! A beautifully handmade premium wooden case for storing and moving around the instrument is also available here.
The lyres available for purchase are very limited. Needless to say that no animals were harmed…
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"All of these beautiful lyres, lovingly hand-crafted by Luthieros are indeed, divine artifacts, reintroduced into the modern world… " - Michael Levy, a world-renowned lyre player. Read his extended review here.
"The Koumartzis familia have been making replicas of ancient Greek instruments for many years, used by famous lyre players. They also contribute to their musical passions through research and collaborations." - Ancient History Encyclopedia. Read the extended tribute here.
"My ancient Kithara, handcrafted by Luthieros Music Instruments, is for me a very interesting challenge. As an instrument is both old and new. It carries a history of many centuries and at the same time_ it is a very modern challenge that requires a creative approach to musical archetypes. After many experiments […] I discover that this instrument has but many extensions and features that are not noticeable at first glance. The construction is both sturdy and thin, and made of quality woods, which are eclectic, stylish and durable." - Ross Daly, a professional world musician of Irish descent.
"Electric guitars are very often provided with vibrato, tremolo or whammy bars. That concept was in fact invented by the ancient Greeks twenty four hundred years ago. Kithara was a musical instrument very popular during the Golden Age of Ancient Greece. This is a reproduction that was made by the Greek master luthier Anastasios Koumartizis of Luthiers Music Instruments." - Peter Pringle, a professional Canadian musician, and well-known ancient instruments player. Watch his extended video review here.
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Learn how InteQ's InfraDesk 5.0 helps improve service desk strategy through increased service delivery and operations.
InfraDesk 5.0 is an on-demand service desk application that's delivered over the Web. It's based on InteQ's ITIL process automation approach.
With embedded ITIL-based processes, InfraDesk 5.0, from InteQ Corp., includes service-level management, configuration management, approval engine, change management, user interface, workflow automation, and reporting and integration capabilities.
The enterprise service desk application also has a global search function, which allows IT professionals and end users to find and log solutions.
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Here are some other features in InfraDesk 5.0:
- It defines service targets and thresholds with service-level agreement (SLA) management.
- It holds relationships between all system components with a configuration management database.
- Global Search and its canned searches have pre-defined queries that find information about making business decisions, managing services and measuring trends.
- It enables integration with third-party applications and service providers through several engines.
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Pricing: A per-user license fee with a one-time implementation fee. Fixed-user licenses are $95 per user, with the option to add floater licenses at an additional cost. Implementation fee is $7,500.


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Chandra X-ray image of the supernovas remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). The red, green, and blue regions in this Chandra X-ray image of the supernovas remnant Cassiopeia A show where the intensity of low, medium, and high-energy X-rays, respectively, is greatest. The red material on the left outer edge is enriched in iron, whereas the bright greenish white region on the lower left is enriched in silicon and sulfur. In the blue region on the right edge, low and medium energy X-rays have been filtered out by a cloud of dust and gas in the remnant.


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A holiday in Santa Fe is likely to be one spent sightseeing and enjoying the cultural and artistic sights of the city and its surrounds. In order to make the most of your time, you will not wish to be bound by the conventions of many types of holiday accommodation and renting your own holiday property is likely to prove the most beneficial option. Whether you choose to rent a townhouse in Santa Fe itself, or perhaps a more rural farmhouse conversion, keeping the cost of your holiday to a minimum could well be an additional benefit.
If you have an appreciation of history, in Santa Fe you will find yourself in one of the oldest cities in the United States. An excellent place to begin your exploration of the city is the Plaza. This is the main square in Santa Fe and is where the Palace of the Governors can be found. Dating back to the early seventeenth century, this is the oldest building in Santa Fe and one of the oldest governmental buildings in the United States. The area around the Plaza is renowned for Native Americans displaying and selling their traditional crafts and is home to a great many festivals and celebrations at different times of the year.
Museum Hill, on the outskirts of Santa Fe, is the area to visit to find representative examples of Santa Fe's culture down through the ages. The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture provides a unique opportunity to learn of the history of the indigenous population of the area of Santa Fe, while the Museum of International Folk Art is home to the largest collection of its type in the world. Although representative of a slightly more modern era, the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art is an insight in to the earliest days of Spanish rule in this part of the United States and the influence it has had on particularly the Santa Fe area's development.
Holiday Activities around Santa Fe
The freedom which your Santa Fe holiday rental allows you will be of benefit both in the town and beyond. Santa Fe is famed for its huge variety of foods, from cultures around the world. Fine dining on different style cuisines is therefore possible during every night of your stay. In order to work up an appetite, you may wish to explore the rugged surrounding scenery on foot, by bike, or even on horseback. The Santa Fe River Park and the St John's College both afford interesting routes for hikers and walkers alike, with distances variable depending upon your ability and preference.


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March 28, 2010, 8:49 pm
Ernie Bjorkman has gone to the dogs
Ernie Bjorkman says he's always had a connection with animals, but it's doubtful he could have foreseen himself trying to save the life of a horse attacked by a mountain lion.
Today, he's doing just that as a veterinary technician in Poncha Springs, at the southern edge of Chaffee County.
"I'm enjoying the simpler life," the former Denver television news anchor said the other day. "We got rid of all our credit cards."
"We" includes his wife Susan, who lives with the 59-year-old Bjorkman in their home in South Fork, a considerable distance from his five-day-a-week job at Poncha Springs' Animal Care Center.
He rents a home in Salida, near Poncha Springs, to avoid what would be a huge daily commute from South Fork.


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As the show opens, Adam talks with Lisa Lampanelli about her weight loss and experiences with dieting and food rehab. The guys also recall some Celebrity Apprentice experiences, and Adam rants about an argument with his wife over the kids selling candy bars for school.
Alison begins the news by discussing California's allowance of testing driverless cars. They also talk about the growing McDonalds TV channel, and share experiences about hotel TV service. Also in the news, Green Day frontman Billy Joel Armstrong had an expletive-filled rant on stage, and the Insane Clown Posse is suing the FBI for claiming their fans are gang members. As the show wraps up, the guys discuss baby-free zones on planes, and why anxiety dogs are ridiculous.
For more on today's guest, visit http://InsultComic.com and follow her on Twitter @LisaLampanelli.
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Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., outlined Tuesday his own "way forward" to avoid the looming fiscal cliff and "break the deadlock" among lawmakers as they come to a "grand bargain" in the upcoming lame-duck session and move forward with reforming the tax code next year.
In a speech before a packed room at the National Press Club in Washington, Schumer, the Senate's third-ranking Democrat, told reporters that if you "ask policymakers–Democrats, Republicans and independents alike–what the broad outline of tax reform might look like, you get a startlingly consistent answer: dramatically lower the rates and broaden the tax base by getting rid of loopholes in the tax code."
However, this approach–which was invented by President Ronald Reagan and Congress in 1986, and recently endorsed by the Simpson-Bowles plan as well as the "Gang of Six," a bipartisan group of senators–should be "scrapped" in the upcoming talks on the fiscal cliff, Schumer said.
(The New York Times reported that Republicans, embodied by a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, decried Schumer's speech.)
Schumer said "old style" tax reform is now obsolete because there are two new conditions that exist today that didn't exist when the Tax Reform Act of 1986 was passed: "a much larger, more dangerous deficit, and a dramatic increase in income inequality."
Schumer laid out his own three-pronged approach to tax reform, noting that "any path forward on tax reform that promises to cut rates will end up either failing to reduce the deficit or failing to protect the middle class from a net tax increase."
Schumer said his approach to tax reform prioritizes reducing the deficit and protecting the middle class and forgoes a reduction in the top rate. He then outlined the "three principles" of his proposal.
- First, he said, "as in 1986, it makes sense to reduce the number of expenditures in the code to the extent possible."
- Second, the top rate for the highest earners should probably return to Clinton-era top rate levels of around 39.6% and 36%. But Schumer conceded that this idea will come as "heresy" to some Republicans, who believe that cutting the top rate as low as 25% "is a necessary ingredient to spurring an economic recovery."
- Third, Schumer said, is reducing, not eliminating, the tax preference for investment income.
While Schumer said he's confident a deal can be struck during the lame-duck session, he also said that if lawmakers "don't change the direction of tax reform, we're never going to get a deal. There is a genuine agreement that people [on both sides of the aisle] want to get to a deal."
What has stood in the way of striking a deal to reduce the deficit thus far? "Every time we've come to a deadlock it has been on revenue, not entitlement reform," Schumer said.
The "Gang of Six," which recently expanded to the "Gang of Eight," is meeting this week to hash over what published reports say are possible ideas for a framework of revenue increases and budget cuts that both parties could agree to. At the press briefing, Schumer said that he believes the eight Senators "can be a very constructive force." The Gang of Eight includes four Republicans: Sen. Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), Sen. Mike Crapo (Idaho), Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.), Sen. Mike Johanns (Neb.); and four Democrats: Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), Sen. Kent Conrad (N.D.), Sen. Michael Bennet (Colo.)
Schumer noted too that even presidential candidate Mitt Romney is rethinking his approach to tax reform, going to "great lengths" in recent weeks "to moderate his tax proposal to appeal to a broader audience, and going so far as to promise [in the recent presidential] debate that he would not reduce the tax burden on the wealthy at all."
Republicans, Schumer said, can be lured to come to the table around a grand bargain because of the potential "for serious entitlement reform, not the promise of a lower top rate in tax reform." Democrats, he said, should be "prepared to make significant reforms to entitlements."


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Several IUCN Mediterranean projects will be presented at the 3rd International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC3). The Congress will take place in Marseille and Corsica, France, from October 21 to October 27, 2013 and will bring together major marine specialists and other maritime stakeholders every four years to assist in the conservation and sustainable development of the oceans. Impact 3 is organized by IUCN together with the French Marine Protected Areas Agency.
The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, in participation with MedPAN (Network of MPA managers in the Mediterranean) will address key issues of monitoring tools for invasive species, networks of marine protected areas, marine protected areas for fisheries and conservation of Open Seas. Case studies from Morocco, Mediterranean, West Africa and the Caribbean and the MedPAN North and MedOpenSeas projects will be highlighted during different workshops, discussions and presentation events as well.
Mediterranean participation:
* Ocean + evening event: How regional MPA networks contribute to implementing the CBD Aichi targets? Sharing Mediterranean experience with other regional seas initiatives - Invitation
* Ecoregional analysis - This Café, organised by MedPAN, will deal with several issues:
- Workshop -Sustainable Ocean Initiative and regional experiences: fisheries, from threat to partnership
- Workshop - Blue Carbon - Posidonia case.
Other IUCN programmes implemented through and with the support of IUCN offices in Europe will be presented at the 3rd International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC3). The knowledge café organized by the BIOPAMA (Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management) Programme will address the challenge of identifying "Inspiring Solutions for Developing Capacity for Marine Protected Areas" and will provide a better understanding of the programme's role in the management of marine protected areas and how the different regions can participate. Participants from Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, as well as Europe and other regions of the world will be welcomed to take part in this debate. The BIOPAMA knowledge café event will take place on October 25, during the "Regional approaches" day.
IUCN EU Overseas Programme and the Global Island Partnership (GLISPA) will be holding an event on Championing Aichi Targets: Islands Key role and bright spots for marine biodiversity conservation. After assessing the recommendations, and through the use of participatory facilitation techniques, a range of Island Bright Spots that can be potentially replicated will be highlighted during the event.
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It was the fall of `92. We had just arrived in the country and needed to buy a PC for my grad school work. We opted for a mighty 386 computer (and sprang for the 40Mhz rather than the 33) and after considerable soul-searching had a ridiculously excessive 1Mb video card installed (how good was this machine? When I discovered Doom a couple of years later, much of the game played as a blinking, growling, slideshow accompanied by the occasional delayed weapon blast). I don't even remember how we found the particular machine, probably through the newspaper (we were young and stupid). At any rate, it began having some issues pretty quickly. So I took it back to the rent-a-box place where we'd bought it, somewhere in the anonymous light industrial depths of the city of Orange. The sales person wasn't at all happy to see me but quickly established, as I'd suspected, that the motherboard was defective and offered to replace it for me while I waited. Then he sat me down in front of another PC with an attached joystick and started up a game called Wing Commander.
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no name wrote:I would trade Glass and have the 4th line be the "league minimum line."
Bioshock wrote:This is the only thing i could come up with that retains guys but i had to do a few things:
1. Buyout Orpik
2. Iginla takes a paycut (And a unrealistic one at that)
3. Morrow takes a paycut
4. Kennedy is released
5. Murray is let go
Chris Kunitz ($3.725m) / Sidney Crosby ($8.700m) / Pascal Dupuis ($2.000m)
Jarome Iginla ($4.000m) / Evgeni Malkin ($8.700m) / James Neal ($5.000m)
Brenden Morrow ($2.000m) / Brandon Sutter ($2.067m) / Matt Cooke ($1.800m)
Tanner Glass ($1.100m) / Joe Vitale ($0.550m) / Craig Adams ($0.675m)
Paul Martin ($5.000m) / Kris Letang ($3.500m)
Matt Niskanen ($2.300m) / Mark Eaton ($0.725m)
Simon Despres ($0.840m) / Deryk Engelland ($0.567m)
Robert Bortuzzo ($0.578m) /
Marc-Andre Fleury ($5.000m)
Tomas Vokoun ($2.000m)
Buyout: Brooks Orpik ($0.000m)
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(these totals are compiled with the bonus cushion)
CAP SPACE (21-man roster): $3,474,167
I also left money on the table to account for the raise letang would get the following season. Plus, this really hinges on the idea that Geno will take 8.7 again.
DelPen wrote:I wouldn't be surprised to see Nisky get traded now for a guy like Smid. He's good as a top 4 but Smid would compliment Letang so great and help on the PK. And I'd rather have Murray on the team as a strong #6 and dump Engellend and Nisky to pay for him.
Back to Morrow, Flyers will offer him $6 million a year just to spite us
But you never know, the Cup changes everything, he could sign again if he fits and has fun, 3 years, $7 million would be good for both sides? might take more.
Admin wrote:Mango Salsa wrote:I love to watch Murray skate. Its like his skates are made of concrete
I had Francois Leroux flashbacks last night. Murray skates like kids on my son's mite team.
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I joined MOA in June, but never got around to checking it out until I needed something. (that would be about now.. I bought my 2010 g650gs two years ago and have enjoyed it almost every day since. (Even if it sits in the garage about 4 months a year.. its nice to just say hi to it every morning. Ownership changed where I bought it, and I found myself wanting a new garage to take it to. Thankfully I found one, about 60 miles further away, but worth every mile.
I recently did my first long distance solo trip from Wisconsin to Arizona, with a nice side trip to Death Valley nearing the end. My little red bike is sitting comfortably in Tucson in a family member's garage, a lot warmer than it is up here. Its about time for service and I'd like to get it done in Arizona, when I go back for a few days in December. Does anyone have any suggestions for garages down that way? I also posted something in the club pages for AZ area, not sure where I should go.
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Updating the Blog
I have made a few minor modifications to the sidebar of the blog of which I wanted to make you aware. Gone are a few links, including the entire "Moderate, Liberal, and Emergent Blogs" section. Replacing it are two new sections of links -- "SBC Issues," which is a section of blogs dealing specifically (or at least mostly) with the Southern Baptist Convention (Dr. Mohler's new website mentioned below will be included as soon as the URL becomes available), and "Other Blogs I Read," which incorporates some of the blogs in the aforementioned deleted section, as well as a few new links that will be coming in the future. Additionally, I have added a link to my My Space page for those of you into that sort of thing. Finally, I have added a new Blog group, Band of Bloggers, birthed out of the recent fellowship at the Together for the Gospel Conference (another new link added under "Ministries") that will hopefully be up and running soon.
As for the future of the blog, I had been posting sporadically (as many of you know who have emailed or posted to remind me of my infrequency), but that will soon change. I am going to start posting more, even if it is only an article or a link with a brief commentary. I hope to do more book reviews in the future, as well as some mini-reviews which will offer reaction to certain principles or ideas in other books that I skim or scan, but do not read exhaustively. The first one of these will be up soon on Kevin Phillips' new provocative book, American Theocracy. I was recently able to attend a standing-room-only lecture he gave at Bellarmine University here in Louisville on this book. Overall, look for more from Christ and Culture in the future. And thanks to those regular readers that keep me on my toes every day with your comments and emails.
**Update. Thanks to Art (see comments on this post), I have become aware of the fact that Beacon Churches has reposted a couple of my articles from the past week. I have added a link to their news page (where you will find my articles), as well as to their main ministry page. Art wanted me to point out that they do offer an open forum for discussion that is available to all that register an account on the site.


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Newt Gingrich lacks the moral character to serve as President, his second ex-wife Marianne told ABC News, saying his campaign positions on the sanctity of marriage and the importance of family values do not square with what she saw during their 18 years of marriage.
In her first television interview since the 1999 divorce, to be broadcast tonight on Nightline, Marianne Gingrich, a self-described conservative Republican, said she is coming forward now so voters can know what she knows about Gingrich.
CLICK HERE to see a preview of ABC News' exclusive broadcast interview with Marianne Gingrich and then catch the full interview tonight on ABC News' Nightline at 11:35 p.m. ET.
In her most provocative comments, the ex-Mrs. Gingrich said Newt sought an "open marriage" arrangement so he could have a mistress and a wife.
She said when Gingrich admitted to a six-year affair with a Congressional aide, he asked her if she would share him with the other woman, Callista, who is now married to Gingrich.
"And I just stared at him and he said, 'Callista doesn't care what I do,'" Marianne Gingrich told ABC News. "He wanted an open marriage and I refused."
Marianne described her "shock" at Gingrich's behavior, including how she says she learned he conducted his affair with Callista "in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington."
"He always called me at night," she recalled, "and always ended with 'I love you.' Well, she was listening."
All this happened, she said, during the same time Gingrich condemned President Bill Clinton for his lack of moral leadership.
She said Newt moved for the divorce just months after she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, with her then-husband present.
"He also was advised by the doctor when I was sitting there that I was not to be under stress. He knew," she said.
Gingrich divorced his first wife, Jackie, as she was being treated for cancer. His relationship with Marianne began while he was still married to Jackie but in divorce proceedings, Marianne said.
There was no immediate comment from Gingrich on his ex-wife's allegations. Gingrich has said during the campaign he has "no relationship" with Marianne.
While she had been quoted earlier as saying she could end his career, Marianne Gingrich defended Newt's ethics while he served in Congress and came under several ethics investigations.
"At the time, I believed him to be ethical," she said in the interview.
The former Mrs. Gingrich says Newt began to plan a run for President at the time of the divorce and told her that Callista "was going to help him become President."
In a statement to ABC News provided by the campaign, Gingrich's two daughters from his first marriage said, "The failure of a marriage is a terrible and emotional experience for everyone involved."
The daughters, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman said they would not say anything negative about Marianne and said their father "regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves."
Marianne Gingrich said Newt has never expressed any such regrets or apologized to her.
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