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Borenstein, Hynick among Angels' stars
Short on top prospects, system had banner year in Cal League
By John Parker / MiLB.com | November 13, 2013 5:00 AM
This offseason, MiLB.com will be honoring the players -- regardless of age or prospect status -- who had the best seasons in their organizations. We're taking a look at each team to determine the outstanding seasons in Minor League baseball. Select a team from the dropdown below.
The Angels entered the 2013 season with the worst farm system in the game, according to Baseball America, having given up their first-round Draft picks in 2012 and 2013 after signing free agents Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton and traded away several prospects to acquire since-departed righties Dan Haren and Zack Greinke. They have just one player in MLB.com's list of Top 100 Prospects, outfielder Kaleb Cowart, who batted .221/.279/.301 as a 21-year-old at Double-A this season. And the system is particularly bare in the pitching ranks, which the Angels attempted to address by drafting hurlers with each of their first seven 2013 picks.
Nevertheless, the organization enjoyed Minor League success in 2013. Triple-A Salt Lake and Double-A Arkansas both reached the Championship Series in their respective leagues, while Class A Advanced Inland Empire won the California League title, despite a 69-71 regular-season record. The Angels hope those positive playoff results can translate into help for the big league club sooner rather than later.
Angels Organization All-Stars
Catcher -- Zach Wright, Burlington (30 games), Inland Empire (68 games): A 2012 12th-round pick out of East Carolina, Wright went straight to Class A Cedar Rapids that summer and posted an impressive .385 on-base percentage with six homers in 52 games while throwing out 30 percent of potential base-stealers.
The 23-year-old took a step backward after opening the 2013 season with Inland Empire. Though most hitters get a boost playing in the California League, Wright batted .253/.345/.356 and caught only 11 of 72 potential base-stealers. Returning to the Midwest League in late July, he saw his slugging percentage jump 100 points and he ended the season with a flourish. In his penultimate game of the campaign against Wisconsin on Sept. 1, he went 4-for-5 with a homer, double and six RBIs, capped by a walk-off grand slam in the 14th inning of Burlington's 9-5 win.
First base -- Efren Navarro, Salt Lake (134 games), Los Angeles (four games): Navarro has come a long way from his humble origins as a 50th-round pick in 2007 -- in seven Minor League seasons he owns a .295 average, with his finest year coming in 2013.
The 27-year-old UNLV product ranked second among full-season Angels farmhands with a .326 average, was fourth with 81 RBIs and led both the system and the Pacific Coast League with 39 doubles. Navarro was particularly dominant in the first half of the season -- he hit .387/.452/.495 in 25 May games -- and proved comfortable with two strikes, batting .287 when behind in the count. His .404 on-base percentage ranked fourth in the PCL, which named him a postseason All-Star. Navarro also is considered a stellar defensive first basemen, winning a Gold Glove in 2011.
While he lacks the power one would like in a first baseman -- he slugged seven homers this season in the offense-friendly PCL and has reached double digits once in seven years -- he's a proven hitter. Along with his great regular-season numbers, Navarro went 16-for-27 (.593) with eight walks and nine RBIs in eight PCL playoff games.
Second base -- Alex Yarbrough, Inland Empire (136 games): Yarbrough thrived in the offensive-minded Cal League in 2013, clubbing 11 homers in 136 games after failing to go deep in 63 games the previous season, his first as a pro. A 2012 fourth-round pick out of Mississippi, Yarbrough's numbers put him among the top hitters in the system, where he ranked third in batting (among full-season players) and doubles and fifth with 80 RBIs. His .313 batting average placed him fifth in the Cal League.
A 5-foot-11, 180-pound switch-hitter, Yarbrough batted over .300 from both sides of the plate but showed slightly more power as a lefty. He proved more than adequate defensively with a .982 fielding percentage -- committing 10 errors in 127 games -- that was among the best in the league at the position.
Although Yarbrough drew only 27 walks (while striking out 106 times), his 182 hits were tops in the Minor Leagues during the regular season. The Angels' No. 7 prospect added 13 in 11 playoff games, including a walk-off single in the semifinal clincher, as Inland Empire rolled to the Cal League title.
"Alex's walk numbers weren't ideal, but he sees a lot of pitches and has a real knack for getting deep into counts and fouling off borderline strikes," Angels director of player development Bobby Scales said. "His defense at second was outstanding and his footwork turning double plays visibly improved during the season."
Third base -- Cal Towey, Orem (70 games): Drawing walks was not a problem for Towey, a 17th-round pick out of Baylor in the June Draft. The 23-year-old walked an incredible 67 times (to go along with 73 hits) in 70 games for the Owlz, giving him a .492 on-base percentage that was tops in the Minor Leagues -- 49 points better than the next closest player.
Not coincidentally, Towey led the Pioneer League with 69 runs scored and still tied for third with 53 RBIs.
"The big thing is that he controls every at-bat," Orem manager Bill Richardson said of Towey. "He will not swing at pitches he can't do damage on, and that's the hardest thing for a first-year hitter to do -- to be able to command the strike zone. Guys like that have a chance to go to the big leagues."
Scales echoed Richardson's praise. "For me, walks are a byproduct of a mature approach at the plate. We talk about hitting zones -- strike zones are for pitchers -- and [Towey] has an excellent sense of both. He refuses to swing at balls and only likes to swing at pitches he can drive."
Shortstop -- Tommy Field, Salt Lake (81 games), Los Angeles (15 games): Field rebounded nicely from a subpar 2012 in his first season with the Angels, hitting .303/.391/.484 in 81 games with the Bees.
The 26-year-old did not fare as well in the field, where he committed 15 errors on 182 chances (.918) in 46 games at shortstop. Field was more surehanded at second, making three miscues in 30 games. Nevertheless, his bat was his most valuable tool for Salt Lake, which tied Las Vegas for the league lead in team batting.
Zach Borenstein, Inland Empire (112 games): Cal League offensive stats can be taken with a grain of salt, but it's hard to ignore Borenstein's success. He led the circuit in hitting, homers and slugging and batted .367/.461/.657 with 45 RBIs in 47 second-half games, earning a MiLBY nomination for Offensive Player of the Year.
The 23-year-old Illinois native won the Angels organization Triple Crown with 28 homers, 95 RBIs and a .337 average that led all full-season hitters.
"He's a patient hitter, has power and is able to hit the ball to the opposite field," Inland Empire manager Bill Haselman said. "He puts together good at-bats and goes about preparing for games in a professional manner."
Borenstein's .631 slugging percentage -- second-best in the Minors -- was .146 higher than his 2012 mark, so it's fair to expect some regression as he climbs the organizational ladder. Still, no one else in the Cal League put up those kinds of numbers, which is why he was named Most Valuable Player.
"In a league with so much offense, sometimes the numbers can only tell you so much," Scales said. "Sometimes you've got to go back to the old ways and look at how a player plays the game, and he really passes the eye test. He handled left-handed pitching very well and showed great plate discipline."
Randal Grichuk, Arkansas (128 games): Forever fated to be compared to Mike Trout, whom the Angels selected one pick later in the 2009 Draft, Grichuk established himself as the organization's No. 4 prospect after clubbing a career-high 22 homers in the Texas League.
Grichuk, who turned 22 in August, surged toward the end of the season, hitting .304/.333/.574 in 27 games in his birthday month and sharing Texas League Player of the Month honors with Tulsa's Kyle Parker.
A solid fielder (he notched nine outfield assists), the only weak area of his game appears to be his ability to get on base: his .306 OBP was below the Texas League average of .320.
Matt Long, Arkansas (32 games), Salt Lake (100 games): Despite spending the bulk of the 2012 season at Triple-A and hitting a solid .282/.344/461, Long opened the 2013 campaign back in the Texas League. Undeterred, the Santa Clara product collected hits in 14 of his first 15 games and was named league Player of the Week in mid-April.
Back in Salt Lake by early May, Long again was a strong performer, batting .307/.397/.496 against right-handers, scoring 79 runs in 100 games (he led the system with 96 for the season) and playing all three outfield positions as well as 19 games at second base. He also hit 14 homers, drove in 71 runs and stole 20 bases overall. A 2009 30th-round pick, Long has shown an ability to thrive in almost any situation.
Designated hitter -- Michael Snyder, Inland Empire (137 games): A burly 23rd-round pick out of Florida Southern in 2012, Snyder is an old-fashioned slugger who generates a lot of homers, RBIs and strikeouts. He led the system in the last category, fanning 149 times in 137 games, and finished second to teammate Zach Borenstein in the first two, going deep 25 times and driving in 92 runs.
Despite having only a season and a half of pro ball under his belt, Snyder can draw on the experience of his older brother, Brandon, who spent 2013 with the Red Sox, and their father, Brian, a 12-year Minor League pitcher who made 17 big league appearances.
Right-handed starting pitcher -- Brandon Hynick, Arkansas (24 games): Once a top prospect in the Rockies organization -- he was 2007 California League Pitcher of the Year after winning 16 games for Modesto -- Hynick spent time with the White Sox, Reds and Rockies again before signing on with the Angels. Although he has fared poorly at Triple-A, going 14-22 with a 5.08 ERA in 59 games, he's been stalwart at Double-A and was again with Arkansas in 2013. The 28-year-old won 12 games -- his highest total since 2007 -- and ranked third in the Texas League with a 2.80 ERA.
Hynick pitched a number of big games for the Travelers, his 10th Minor League club. He held host Northwest Arkansas to two hits over seven innings June 11 and limited Tulsa, his former team, to a single hit in seven innings July 25. Hynick went 0-2 in the playoffs, despite a 1.38 ERA. In Game 1 of the Finals, he suffered a complete-game loss to San Antonio after allowing one run on four hits over eight innings and retiring the final 17 batters he faced.
Left-handed starting pitcher -- Ryan Crowley, Burlington (26 games): Crowley struggled mightily in the California League in 2012, posting a 1-8 record and a 7.76 ERA in 14 outings (12 starts) before returning to the Midwest League.
The 22-year-old bounced back with a strong 2013 campaign, going 10-7 with a 3.28 ERA for Class A Burlington. He was particularly strong at home, where he was 6-2 with a 2.62 ERA, and tossed 20 consecutive scoreless innings over three starts from May 25 to June 6. Crowley's 123 strikeouts ranked second in the Midwest League and fourth in the organization. He issued 35 walks in 151 innings to post a 1.17 WHIP, good for fourth in the MWL.
"When you take it on the chin the way he did [in 2012], you can kind of go two ways -- you can pout and say 'Woe is me' or you can get mad and work to get better," Scales said. "Ryan really did that. He came into Spring Training in excellent condition and willing to look critically at his game. This season, he really made a point of pitching inside. He mixed his speeds well and he got great results."
Reliever -- Mike Morin, Inland Empire (30 games), Arkansas (26 games): Morin led the system with 23 saves (in 25 opportunities) and a 0.94 WHIP (among pitchers with at least 40 innings) after issuing 10 walks in 70 innings. His 76 strikeouts were the most by any Angels farmhand who did not make a single start.
A 2012 13th-round pick out of North Carolina, Morin split his first full season between the Cal League and Double-A Arkansas. Not only did he shine personally, he helped Inland Empire teammate Mark Sappington develop his changeup. After pitching four hitless innings in the Texas League playoffs, Morin has been equally impressive in the Arizona Fall League, where he did not allow a run in his first eight appearances for Mesa.
John Parker is an editor for MiLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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FITCHBURG, Mass. – The Fitchburg State football team hosted the Bears of Bridgewater State at Elliot Field this afternoon, falling 44-14 in New England Football Conference Bogan Division action.
Bridgewater State jumped out to a 21-0 lead with scores from Mike McCarthy (Edgartown, Mass.), Jake Scott (Somerset, Mass.), and Nick Pistacchio (Johnston, R.I.) before Fitchburg State got on the board at the 7:15 mark of the second quarter.
McCarthy opened the Bears scoring in the first quarter, capping an 11 play, 67 yard drive with a two-yard TD plunge. Scott hauled in a 30-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Caleb Gelsomino (North Scituate, R.I.) late in the opening period, while McCarthy hooked up with Pistacchio on a 30-yard TD scoring strike with 8:56 remaining in the second quarter.
Spencer ended the Falcons scoring drought with a 15 yard TD reception from Christian Lopez (Bronx, N.Y.), but Bridgewater State closed the second quarter with a 39 field goal from kicker Jarred Diorio (Kingston, N.H.), his first of three field goals on the day, for a 24-6 advantage at the break.
In the second half, Bridgewater State wasted no time increasing its lead, using a 27-yard interception return for a touchdown from Dillon Huber-Parker (Longmont, Colo.) to post a 31-6 margin.
The Falcons quickly answered as junior Jordan Burris (New Bedford, Mass.) took the ensuing kick-off 72 yards to set Fitchburg State up, first and ten at the Bears 18 yard line. Seven plays later, Burris connected with Lopez for a five-yard TD strike.
Fitchburg State would not inch any closer over the final 26 minutes of action however, as the Bridgewater State defense kept the Falcons off the board for the remainder of the contest. The Bears offense tacked on 13 more points with a pair of kicks from Diorio and a four-yard TD plunge for McCarthy to secure their seventh victory of the season.
On the game, running-back Mike Gentili (Leominster, Mass.) led all rushers, posting 118 yards on 15 carries, while McCarthy threw for 145 yards with one passing TD and two rushing TD's. McCarthy added 56 yards on the ground on 12 attempts.
Freshman Luis Feliz (Clinton, Mass.) led all Fitchburg State rushers with 84 yards and 13 carries, while Lopez tacked on a pair of scores and 84 yards on the day.
The Bridgewater defense was outstanding all game long as the Bears picked off three passes and forced four turnovers. Along with Huber-Parker's pick six, junior safety Eddie Jewel (Amherst, Mass.) also intercepted a pair of passes.
The Bears defense limited the Falcons to just 212 yards of total offense, including just 84 yards through the air.
On the defensive side of the ball, juniors Talib Barksdale (Hudson, N.Y.) and Alex Alcala (Leominster, Mass.) paced the Falcons with ten stops apiece, while Andrew Anderson (Portsmouth, R.I.) led a balanced Bears approach with five solo efforts.
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Sunday Sweets: At The Movies
Well, I think Jen took pity on me this week, after I admitted in my last Sunday Sweets post how terrified I was of... well, pretty much every movie ever made during my childhood. So today, we've arranged for Completely Happy Non-Scary Movie Sweets!
Now, I just have to try not to let it slip that Wall-E totally made me cry. Dang it.
Submitted by Lizzie S. and made by Charm City Cakes
This baker really captured Wall-E's sad little rusted robot eyes. And look, he's all dressed up for Eve in a bow tie! Gah! I need a tissue!
Ok, this one will cheer me UP. I literally said "WOW!" out loud, about seven times, and that was before I had even looked closer at the weather vane, and shingles, and garden hose.
Submitted by Jean C. and made by Classic Cakes and Confections
Did you see the garden hose?!
Incredible. And just who is that hanging out on the porch? A Wilderness Explorer, friend to all, be a plant or fish or tiny mole...
Submitted by Renee C. and made by Cake Central member KayB4262
Russell! I didn't know a cake could look enthusiastic! I love the errant collar poking out over his bandana, and of course, that hair. I would feel like a soulless brute slicing this cutie up to eat!
But speaking of slicing, you'd better get out your katana, because these Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are ready for action.
Submitted by Jeffrey K. and made by Zhanna Zubova
I can't imagine the time it took to sculpt one of these dudes, let alone all four, plus decorate the whole exquisitely detailed cake! I bow to you, baker sensei.
And this next baker didn't bat an eye when someone requested a knife-wielding one-eyed weasel named Buck to adorn their son's birthday cake.
Submitted by Mary Beth S. and made by Sweet Talk Custom Cakes & Confections
Inspired by Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, another movie that I'm totally not going to admit made me cry. Why can't Scrat just catch that darn acorn for once, WHY?!
I have nothing but love for Tim Burton's version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which I think we can all agree, is way less creepy than the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Submitted by Reagan H. and made by Sweet Designs by Larissa
I also love the subtle simplicity of this cake, about as subtle as an everlasting gobstopper perched atop a giant Wonka-hat cake on a purple pile of edible satin can be, that is. And the golden ticket! How ever did they make that?!
Luckily this next cake must not remain untouched by human hands, because it looks delicious!
I call the piece with the chocolate waterfall! Both of them!
I love how this cake chronologically represents the scenes and characters from The Wizard of Oz: from Dorothy to Glinda, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, the field of poppies and finally, the City of Oz.
Submitted by Elizabeth J. and made by Good Gracious Cakes
So much fantastical detail here. And did you spot the tiny tier representing the Wicked Witch of the East? I guess she would be at the bottom, huh?
Um, excuse me? There's some hair on my cake?
Submitted by Jasmin Y. and made by Sugar & Spice Custom Cakes
And it's FABULOUS!
Seriously, call your daughter or niece or little neighbor kid over to the computer and watch her eyes light up as she beholds these Tangled-inspired sweets. Then break out the fondant kit, because she is going to want one.
Submitted by Raine C. and made by jess9375
Heck, I want one. I want this one!
Oh my gosh, cuteness overload! My eyes can barely take it all in!
But that's nothing a Night Fury munching on some dead fish can't cure.
Submitted by Jess M. and made by Rouvelee's Creations
Nope, sorry Toothless, you're just as cute, too! And so are all the teensy flowers and foliage spilling over the sides of this cake. Even the rocks are cute!
And there are exaketededly zero ways to improooove these Alice in Wonderland sweets.
Submitted by Janie S. and made by Kelly's Cakes
Oh, that hookah-smoking Caterpillar! He's such a fungi. (Sorry, that's the only mushroom joke I know).
And finally, an appropriately topsy-turvy cake to celebrate the wacky world of Wonderland.
I love the tiny tea set, and the daisy and daffodils (they always get overlooked!), and the curve in that Ace of Hearts. It's all in the details!
The only things missing are the words, "Eat Me!"
Hope you enjoyed today's Sweets, guys! And remember, if you have a Sweet to nominate, just send it to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.


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MONDAY, Aug. 5, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Obese white Americans are twice as likely as obese blacks to have weight-loss surgery, even though more black adults qualify for the procedures, a new study says.
Researchers analyzed rates of weight-loss (bariatric) surgery in the United States from 1999 to 2010 and found that 22 percent of black women and 11 percent of black men met medical eligibility guidelines for the procedure, compared with 12 percent of white women and 8 percent of white men.
However, twice as many whites as blacks underwent gastric bypass or other types of weight-loss surgery, according to the study, which was published Aug. 5 in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
Insurance coverage appears to play a role in this discrepancy, the researchers say. They found that about 70 percent of whites had private health insurance, compared with 50 percent of blacks.
"Our new findings suggest that differences in insurance coverage are part of the reason why black Americans are less likely to have bariatric surgery, but it may not be the whole story. We need more research to look at whether cultural differences, perhaps a greater acceptance of obesity, lack of awareness of the risks or mistrust of doctors, might also be contributing," Dr. Sonia Saxena, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London in England, said in a college news release.
People who undergo weight-loss surgery have changes made to the stomach and digestive system that restrict the amount of food they can eat.
Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for moderate to clinically severe obesity, and it can resolve or improve diabetes and hypertension in most cases, said Arch Mainous III, from the Medical University of South Carolina, said in the news release.
"Consequently, this health disparity in treatment has implications for health care costs and morbidity due to common diseases like diabetes and hypertension, conditions that are highly prevalent in the African American community," Mainous said.
More information
The U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has more about weight-loss surgery.


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#3 Mount Saint Mary - 2, #5 Farmingdale State - 1
Newburgh, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's soccer team fell, 2-1, in the Championship game on a last minute goal by Mount Saint Mary to capture the 2013 Skyline Men's Soccer Title. The Rams finished the season with a 9-7-4 record, while the Knights receive the conference's automatic bid and head to the NCAA Tournament with a record of 13-4-3.
Mount Saint Mary grabbed a 1-0 lead in the eighth minute on a goal 18 yards out by junior forward Matt Garcia (Wappinger Falls, N.Y.). The Knights would lead 1-0 at the break as they held an 11-3 shot advantage. Farmingdale State's senior goalkeeper Angelo Viteritti (Huntington, N.Y.) tallied five saves in the half.
In the second, the Rams tied the game 1-1 with a goal by sophomore midfielder J.T. Famularo (Levittown, N.Y.) who tipped in a rebound in front.
With only 57 seconds remaining, Mount Saint Mary sophomore midfielder Michael Ennis (Carmel, N.Y.) broke free from the defense on the left side and sent home the game-winning score to the lower right corner for a 2-1 Knights victory.
Viteritti finished with six saves for Farmingdale State, while senior goalkeeper Matt Darling (Staatsburg, N.Y.) made just three stops for the win.
Mount Saint Mary will await word of their NCAA opponent, which will be announced on Monday, November 11th at 1:00 p.m. on ncaa.com.


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LISLE, Ill. - The Benedictine University football team opened its home schedule in style by rallying from down 28-7 at the half to stun Albion 32-28 in front of a raucous homecoming crowd.
In a story of two halves Albion opened a 14-0 lead in the first quarter around a three and out. Benedictine clawed within 14-7 on a 13-play drive capped with a one-yard dive from quarterback Cyle Schultz. Back-to-back touchdowns in the second quarter extended the lead to 28-7.
Ben Lockton registered a sack on the first defensive possession of the second half on a 1st and 10, forcing a fumble which was recovered by Grant White. Benedictine converted the opportunity into points when Schultz hit John Borsellino for a 17-yard touchdown. A botched snap on a punt led to the first of two safeties, clawing Benedictine to 28-16.
Schultz and Borsellino connected again following the ensuing kickoff for a 44-yard score, pulling to within 28-23. Another safety at the start of the fourth clawed Benedictine to 28-25. Borsellino returned the kickoff 77 yards to put the Eagles ahead 32-28 with 12:46 left. Albion threatened but the defense was able to come up with consistent stops to hold on for the win.
Borsellino amassed 324 total yards, leading the team with 155 yards receiving on nine catches with two scores. Borsellino also posted 162 yards on kick returns. Schultz finished 18-31 with 236 yards and also led the team with 38 yards rushing.
Lockton led the defense with a season high 13 tackles including a sack and 1.5 tackles for loss with a forced fumble. Chris Buonavolanto logged 11 tackles with two tackles for loss and a fumble forced. Mike Theriault was also in double figures with 10 tackles to lead the defense. Albion (2-1) defeated Wheaton last week, who downed Benedictine 48-7 in the season opener.
Benedictine (2-1) will enjoy a bye week before welcoming Concordia Wisconsin on September 29.
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LISLE, Ill. - The Benedictine University football team opened its home schedule in style by rallying from down 28-7 at the half to stun Albion 32-28 in front of a raucous homecoming crowd.


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IMG Academy trainee, Cam Newton, featured in GQ
He's android-perfect, a video-game avatar of a quarterback. Last year Cam Newton busted NFL records, threw for a historic 4,051 yards, and fulfilled all the promise of his number-one-draft-pick hype. And that was just his rookie year. This season? Prepare to be entertained
"This is kind of a weird time to be meeting me," says Cam Newton. And, sure, you can see what he means: The Carolina Panthers quarterback is midway through the off-season following perhaps the best season ever recorded by an NFL rookie, and the thing about a best-ever rookie season is that it demands a best-ever sophomore season. So, "weird" as in a time of transition. Right?
Well, no. The awkward moment dissolving in a mischievous grin tells a different story. It dawns on a visitor that Newton has been holding one hand conspicuously out of sight behind the door from which he's just emerged...the door marked with familiar "man" and "woman" icons, the hand, oh right, holding a small cup of freshly produced pee. "Sorry, man," he says, grinning wider and handing the cup to a scientist wearing a Gatorgum-green polo shirt.
We are at the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI), in Bradenton, Florida. The lab announces itself as "committed to helping athletes optimize their health and performance through research and education in hydration and nutrition science." It is also, unmistakably, a showplace: as polished and high-tech and ready for its close-up as a CSI set. In addition to the quarterback and a clutch of scientists, the room is crowded with a Gatorade PR team, two of Newton's agents, a crew shooting footage for a partnership with NFL Films, an ESPN photographer, and me.
Newton now lies on a sleek, hard, gray plastic bed. He is strapped down and told to stay still as a mechanical arm inches across the length of his body, measuring his bone density. Through a glass wall, we regard him, hushed Lilliputians observing a sleeping giant. Unlike 99 percent of people experienced primarily through the -aggrandizing frame of a TV camera, Newton is actually bigger than expected in person: His hands are enormous, his calves the size of lampposts and pocked with a Jackson Pollock skein of scars, scrapes, and bruises, though when asked to narrate them later, Newton can't remember where a single one came from. "Just wounds," he says. "If you don't get a few of these every game, you haven't played."
These are the legs that propelled Newton to a record fourteen rushing touchdowns, the arm that threw for 4,051 yards. This is a body—six five, 245 pounds—that suggests enough speed, bulk, and athleticism to play nearly any other position on the field, from receiver to linebacker. (For that matter, it's a body that led NBA players, in a Sports Illustrated poll, to vote him among the most likely to succeed in their league.)
The GSSI is located in a featureless concrete building on the campus of IMG Academy. The place is a Shangri-la of elite jock culture, a destination for the fortuitously gened from around the world. Zipping around its 450 acres by golf cart, you pass immaculate expanses of football, soccer, and baseball fields, rows of tennis courts, shimmering in the sun like perfect blue David Hockney swimming pools; on call are mental conditioning coaches, improv teachers running leadership exercises, vision-training specialists, all clad head-to-toe in Under Armour, the Academy's main sponsor. Somewhere, one assumes, are the hidden greenhouses where lithe, tan boys and girls are grown like so many hydroponic turnips before being packed off to kindergartens where they learn to recite interview clichés in perfect, affectless unison. Just driving past the Under Armour-wearing guard at the entrance, you get the feeling you have raised the campuswide BMI by a significant factor.
Newton grew up in College Park, outside Atlanta; did time in Florida, Texas, and Alabama during his infamously peripatetic college career; and now owns a $1.6 million condo in the same downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, building as Michael Jordan. But here, resting behind glass, inside a private lab operated by one of his sponsors, on a campus owned by his management company and under-written by another company he's paid to endorse, with the media waiting outside and a blue Truman Show sky above, is perhaps as close as he or any modern sports superstar gets to a natural habitat.
Newton's mom, Jackie, a smiling woman in a brightly colored dress, slips into the room. The whole family is here this weekend for the IMG Academy football program 7-on-7 National Championship, in which Newton's foundation is fielding a team, and for the kickoff event: the Cam Newton Skills Challenge. Jackie watches as the scientists measure the circumference of her son's arms, legs, torso, as though fitting him for a suit. Cam leans his forehead on the wall.
"He's tired," she murmurs. "Baby boy, you needed to get to bed at a decent hour!"
"I did," Newton says, sheepishly.
Now the fun tests begin, the Six Million Dollar Man stuff, though, of course, that number seems laughable in light of a reported $22 million, four-year contract with the Panthers. Newton is put on a treadmill for a so-called FatMax test to measure how his body processes calories. His face is covered with a mask from which two plastic hoses protrude to measure his air intake and output. Over the next ten minutes or so, the speed of the treadmill increases until Newton is flat-out running, grimacing beneath the mask.
When he finally calls uncle, unable to go any more, he tears the mask off, his face a mass of sweat and spit.
"Thirsty," he manages to gasp. There's a flurry of activity from the various PR people.
Someone rushes in with a frothy protein shake, but Cam brushes it away.
"Are you sure you don't want one of these?" somebody says significantly, pressing a carton of Gatorade 03 into his huge hand.
Newton looks down, then up at the room of expectant faces, all the cameras. Over his shoulder, printed right on the wall, are the words "03...consumed shortly after training and competition will promote protein synthesis and glycogen restoration."
A big, brilliant smile splashes across his face.
"Well, yes, I do!" he says, and takes a big slug.
Whatever the tests may reveal about his bone density, his ability to oxidize fat, or his carbon dioxide output, one thing is conclusive: Cam Newton is that thing known as the Whole Package. On the field, a tantalizing glimpse of the One—a player who unifies the speed of the great modern running QBs like Michael Vick with the pocket skills of more traditional passers like Tom Brady. Off it, a star in the making.
What's hard to fathom is that, less than two years ago, all of this was in doubt. In the weeks leading up to the 2011 draft, serious, professional football prognosticators took to the airwaves, warning against taking Newton with the first pick. The Auburn offensive system, they said, was too simple, dumbed down to take advantage of Newton's physical gifts without taxing his—it was implied—dim mental ones. They rehashed the incidents that marred his college career: forced to leave the University of Florida after being found with a stolen laptop (he claimed to have bought it from a fellow student, and charges were eventually dropped); reported to be the subject of an academic cheating investigation; most recently, and seriously, plagued by a cloud of suspicion about how he wound up at Auburn after a year of exile in junior college.
The quarterback showed up at IMG Academy straight from the draft, a copy of the Panthers playbook in his hand and a chip on his shoulder. He spent hours in the classroom under the tutelage of Chris Weinke, himself a onetime Panthers quarterback and now head of the Academy's football program. Weinke claims to have never seen a better work ethic as, day after day, they picked their way through the byzantine language of an NFL offense.
"You've got to understand, it's like trying to teach a guy French," he says. "Not only teaching him French but asking him to speak fluently. And then asking him to speak fluently while a 300-pound man is trying to kill him."
In his first professional game, on the road against the Arizona Cardinals, Newton threw for 422 yards, breaking Peyton Manning's record for a rookie debut. Mission, it was fair to say, accomplie.
How he got here is both as simple and as complicated as anybody's passage to age 23. By 8, Newton was four feet eight and almost 100 pounds, a winner at whatever he did. Aware of his middle son's trajectory, Cecil Newton drove him hard.
"I was all about preparation for my son," says Cecil, himself an ex-football player, now a minister, with hawkish eyes and the same severe cheekbones that, in his son, soften into something approaching prettiness. "Not just how far you can throw the football, how athletic you are, but 'Who are you when the lights in the stadium are off? When the band is no longer playing? Who are you, Cam?' "
"He was like my superhero," Newton says. "If something was broke, he could fix it. If I was lost somewhere, he would find me. If I was crying, he could cure it. I knew that if I had my father with me, everything was going to be all right."
For all that, it's easy to understand a young man's exhilaration at being on his own for the first time. "Elated isn't even the right word," Newton says. "It was the first time I could say, 'This is mine.' I'm out here by myself. I've got money from the scholarship. There are females everywhere...." And it's easy, too, to understand the shock a freakishly talented kid might feel upon -finding himself, for the first time, not the best player on the field. The Gators, it happened, already had a quarterback—by the name of Tim Tebow. It was a unique opportunity that, by his own admission, Newton failed to understand.
"If I had said to Tim, 'Man, can we spend some extra time to study the playbook?' he would have done it. I didn't take advantage of what was right in front of me. If I had, maybe his mentality would have hit me sooner," he says. Instead, he whined to friends and coaches. He thought constantly of leaving. "Basically, I was immature and unfocused. I would never, ever make that mistake again."
When he finally left Florida, he and Cecil endured the long drive to tiny Brenham, Texas, home to the two-year Blinn College. It was the farthest Newton had ever been from home, as humiliated as he'd ever been. "I sometimes cried myself to sleep at night. But I was thinking, 'I've got to grow up. Either I'm doing it right now or I'm going home a screw-up.' I was force-fed it, and I ate it. It was like divine intervention. It was like a whole new core of Cam, of myself, being created," he says.
The Blinn Buccaneers went 11-1 that year. More important, Newton was forged into the kind of man his father had hoped—even if, as is the fate of all fathers, it came at the expense of his own autocratic power.
"It's funny how, when you're growing up, they're the ones helping you to live. And now that I've gone through the things I have, like, I'm taking care of them,"Newton says. He had reason to experience this soon after returning triumphant to Division I football, when suddenly it was Cecil in the harsh spotlight. The elder Newton was accused of demanding from Mississippi State a $180,000 donation to his church in exchange for his son's services. An NCAA investigation couldn't conclude whether Auburn had been asked to pay such a fee, but it also found that Cam had had no knowledge of what his father was doing.
Both father and son say that, rather than estrange them, the crisis brought them closer together. Did Cam ever sit down and ask his father what happened?
"No. I was more concerned with how he was feeling.When my father was going through all that stuff, I was like, 'I'm here for you, bro.' And it wasn't 'Pops' anymore. It was 'bro.' "
At the Cam Newton Skills Challenge, Rick Ross blares from a loudspeaker while hundreds of young men, some of the nation's best high school players, mill nervously about a perfectly manicured field.
Newton is much revivified, busting the chops of the cockier kids, egging on the shyer ones. They cluster around him like iron shavings to a magnet as he bops up and down the sideline.
"I was once in those guys' shoes, you know," Newton says. "It was fun, man. It was raw. Just like playing football in the backyard."
Those days are forever over. There are now quite a few more people than just Cecil waiting for Newton's transformation to manhood to take its next step. For all his heroics, the Panthers went a disastrous 6-10 last season. An abysmal defense was mostly to blame, but Newton's proclivity for throwing interceptions didn't help, nor did his tendency to sulk after losses. If running for yet another touchdown was one indelible image of his season, hiding petulantly under a Gatorade towel was another—not exactly the association the company is paying for.
Taking a microphone, Cam delivers a passionate kickoff pep talk. He talks about having no fear, about wanting it with every bone of your body, about how anything you want—cars, girls, a house for your mom—can be yours if you commit totally. The son of a preacher is in full effect; he's all but falling to one knee, dabbing at his face with a handkerchief. The kids are transfixed. On the sideline, Cam's 13-year-old brother, Caylin, a gangly kid with braces and a wingspan that speaks of future glory, is less so. "If we're ever getting out of here, he better put that mike down," he mutters.
Sibling eye-rolling notwithstanding, this is a level of pure charm that, as they say, you can only hope to contain. Back before the draft, it seemed that Newton's biggest crime—worse than the Florida stuff, worse than the recruiting stuff—was declaring to Sports Illustrated that he wanted to be more than just a quarterback, that he wanted to be an "entertainer and icon."
"If I come out and say, 'I will be the greatest to ever play this game,' that's a no-no. If I come out and say, 'I will not be stopped this year,' that's a no-no. People want to see humble," Newton says. Never mind that icons and entertainers are precisely what the entire sports-industrial complex runs on. Or that IMG's own "proprietary methodology" for its clients is called Icon Engineering.
But Newton has already been around enough to understand the game and its rules.
"The only thing that's going to get you away from all the talk is winning," he says. "Winning excuses everything."
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We all know that kitties are, well, rather drowsy. Cats can sleep up to 20 hours a day! However, what you may not have realized is that Fluffy will adjust her snoozing schedule to match yours. If you work nights, and sleep during the day, she'll doze while you're gone, but still snuggle up with you in bed. Kitties also sleep more than usual in cold, dreary weather.
Fluffy Thinks She Owns You
Ok, you may have very well suspected this one. When Fluffy rubs against your legs, she may look like she's just being affectionate. In fact, your feline overlord is actually rubbing her scent on you, which is a way of claiming you for her own.
Furry Little Divas
Kitties spend about a third of the time they are actually awake grooming themselves. Fluffy takes her beauty regime very seriously!
Leftie or Rightie
Cats have dominant paws, just as people have dominant hands. Boy kitties tend to be lefties, while females use their right paws more.
We all know that whiskers are cute, but did you know that cats use them to see if they can fit into an opening? Needless to say, this doesn't always work with chubby kitties!
Telling Tails
Although no one is quite sure why, only domesticated kitties hold their tails upright. Stray cats tend to let their tails hang down. Maybe this is Fluffy's way of announcing that she has successfully found a human to adopt her?
In the wild, trees make the perfect scratching posts. When kitties scratch tree trunks, they mark them with their scents. This may very well mean that they are sending signals to other cats, or leaving signs for them to read. No one is quite sure what message our feline pals are trying to send, though. Perhaps these 'kittygrams' just are Fluffy's way of saying 'I was here?'
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For some reason, it seems as if everyone's grandfather at one point in time recommended to use the right tools for the job. That's practical wisdom from my point of view, one that is certainly an issue for agile development.
One of the primary messages, I hope, of the Agile Scaling Model (ASM) is that context counts. Although the focus of the ASM is on describing a contextual framework for tailoring your process to meet the needs of the situation that you find yourself in, it's also applicable to your tooling selection. For example, the tool choices of a co-located team will be much different than that of a geographically distributed team. A co-located team will likely use a whiteboard or paper for their agile modeling efforts, whereas distributed team members may need to capture their diagrams using a more sophisticated tool such as Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) so that their work can be shared electronically. Having said that, RRC would be overkill for a co-located team (unless they had regulatory compliance issues). Different teams, different situations, therefore different tooling choices.
One of the concerns that I run into from customers is that some of our legacy products don't support agile very well. Once again, it's a matter of context because many of our legacy products reflect the realities faced by more traditional teams. The challenge occurs when you try to take a legacy product which is well suited for traditional development, such as Rational ClearCase, and try to apply it on agile projects. Although ClearCase makes sense in certain scaling situations, particularly very large teams that are geographically distributed, you'd be better advised to use something like Rational Team Concert (RTC) for configuration management on most agile teams (note that RTC does far more than just SCM).
So, if you're taking an agile approach you should consider Rational tools such as RTC, RRC, Rational BuildForge, Rational AppScan, and others which support agile development. Granted, some you would only use at scale -- for example Buildforge is a good option in really complex environments, but if you don't face that complexity then you'll likely find that RTC's build engine is sufficient. Similarly, if you're taking a traditional approach to development then you'll likely consider products such as ClearCase, Appscan, RTC, and Rational Software Architect (RSA) instead. Different situations, different tooling choices.
What's even more confusing is that some products support a range of process paradigms. For example, RTC supports agile, lean, iterative, and traditional approaches to development. The same can be said of Appscan and several other products. Notice how I listed RTC and Appscan for both agile and traditional development above.
So, if anyone tells you that Rational tools don't support agile development don't believe them. Ask them which tools that they're talking about, and ask them if they're aware of the Rational products that do support agile development. Context counts.
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Context Counts - Choose the right tools for the job
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Today House Republicans gleefully announced that they've done away with the biodegradable food containers and utensils Nancy Pelosi introduced to House cafeterias, because as everyone knows, protecting the environment is for wussies. They also did away with the House's composting program, which the chair of the House administration committee said costs $475,000-per-year and is "neither cost-effective nor energy efficient."
Instead, members of Congress are using cheaper plastic and Styrofoam products. An anonymous Congressional staffer sent TreeHugger photos of the garbage generated during lunch today and said cafeteria employees had to empty cans about every 10 minutes. In response to the end of her green initiatives, Nancy Pelosi Tweeted, "#SoBeIt GOP brings back Styrofoam & ends composting—House will send 535 more tons to landfills #TalkAboutGovtWaste"
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Bridging Gaps in Durban: What Can China do?
This post originally appeared on ChinaFAQs.
By Angel Hsu, Max Song, and Jonathan Smith
Interview with China energy expert Jiang Kejun, Energy Research Institute, NDRC
As the first week of the UN climate negotiations in Durban are underway, one of the most persistent themes has been how to bridge gaps – the divide between the developed and developing countries, many of whom disagree about whether the Kyoto Protocol should be extended into a second commitment period; the hole in climate finance pledges from developed countries; and the ambition or emissions gap between the Copenhagen pledges and the stabilization of global temperatures below a 2 degrees Celsius increase from pre-industrial levels.
These three major gaps must be addressed in Durban. One major question will be whether developing and some developed countries, Europe in particular, can work together to find a solution that enables the Kyoto Protocol to be extended. When it comes to money, there are questions about where some $2 billion USD out of the $30 billion promised to developing countries at Copenhagen and Cancun to assist them in mitigation and adaptation efforts will come from.
Perhaps the most prominent issue being discussed in Durban is the emissions or ambition gap between Copenhagen emission reduction pledges and the goal to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius. To help facilitate the negotiations, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released a report Bridging the Emissions Gap which concludes that even if countries fully implement their Copenhagen commitments, the world would only be about halfway towards the emission reductions necessary to ensure global temperatures do not warm more than 2 degrees Celsius. However, the good news is that we have the technological and financial capacity now to achieve the emissions reductions necessary to avoid such an increase. Focusing on projections of global greenhouse gas emissions in the year 2020, the report looks at the "emissions gap" between:
- the level of emissions needed to ensure an average global temperature increase below 2 degrees C; and
- the level of global emissions in 2020 we're likely to see given the voluntary emission reduction pledges in the Copenhagen Accord.
The report finds that even if all Copenhagen reduction pledges are met, total emissions would still exceed the level necessary to prevent a 2-degree increase by 6 to 11 gigatonnes. This is about 1 gigatonne greater than last year's gap, an increase brought about by some countries such as Australia and Brazil having clarified how they calculate the baseline emissions from which their reductions would be made – effectively weakening their Copenhagen pledges.
But on the bright side, the full implementation of current technologies could more than make up for the gap, and at an economically feasible price. Existing energy efficiency technologies, renewable energy sources, and agricultural practices will be enough to put us back on the right track. In other words, we no longer need to wait for the next great technological breakthrough, just the next great policies to deploy the technology we have now. The report also emphasizes the need to improve measurement and accounting for market-based incentives such as the carbon reduction projects through the Clean Development Mechanism and from land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF).
Negotiators here in Durban have been actively discussing the report and referencing the emissions scenarios that show global emissions must peak sometime before 2020 if temperature rise is to be contained below 2 degrees C. Delegates have been referring to the 6-11 gigatonne gap on the plenary floors and in the working groups over the last week.
We had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Kejun Jiang of China's Energy Research Institute and a lead author of the UNEP report, about their analysis and what China can do here in Durban to help bridge the gap.
The Gap
Q: The UNEP report concludes that global emissions will need to peak before 2020 if the "emissions gap" is to be closed. How likely do you think it will be for countries to agree on this here in Durban and what about the time frame for when China's emissions will peak?
A: It's necessary for the world to see emissions peak by 2020. We can get there supposing China's emissions peak in 2025, and developed countries will have significantly reduced emissions by 2025. This way, it's still possible to control global average temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius. It's not quite possible to observe the global peak before 2015. For China, emissions are expected to peak around 2030. However, if we look at clean tech development in China now, the speed is very fast and it's still possible to see major changes coming from China in 3 to 4 years to help close the gap.
Q: So is China's Copenhagen pledge to reduce carbon intensity 40-45 percent enough to help bridge the emissions gap?
A: Actually, the 12th-Five Year Plan was made according to a target of 45 percent carbon intensity reduction. There are a lot of policies and actions in the plan on energy efficiency and non-fossil fuel energy. If all this work could be done well, it is possible for China to do better than the target.
Clean Tech
Q: Technology transfer continues to be a very hot-button issue in the UN climate negotiations. Will China be pushing for technology transfer to contribute to their ability to help close the emissions gap?
A: There is much capital from China looking for investment opportunities, however domestic investment has been pretty much saturated, and they are now looking at overseas investments. Clean tech investment is a good choice because China has the most competitive technologies that can bring down the cost of wind and solar power. So this is what we want to convey here in Durban: it's not just emission reductions, it's also about the country's future competitiveness in the clean tech sector.
China will have a lot of capital in the future, like I just said, and China is not really in need of CDM money, which is only a tiny little part of GDP. What China needs is high-end technology.
The Durban Agenda
Q: What do you think can be accomplished here in Durban?
A: So here are my suggestions for us observers this time in COP-17. First, we want to leave some more room for the negotiators. Copenhagen was about debating; Cancun was about moving forward, and Durban is a working conference where countries don't really want to fight each other but to finish the "homework" left from Copenhagen and Cancun. Also, countries in Durban want to nail down some technical details. For example, the EU wants to promote a "road-map" this time, and countries like China are waiting for that proposal to see how much it can be promoted. If Durban fails again, then countries will start to doubt UN's capability.
Also China is changing very fast, and the negotiators need time to follow up. For example, China expected financial support in Copenhagen, but this time, this is not a major issue for China.
Q: If Parties fail to decide on a second commitment period before the Kyoto Protocol expires next year, what do you think China's response will be?
A: I think this [failure to agree on the Kyoto Protocol] would be unimaginable. Without the KP – the minimum-level of agreement – it would be a mess. Ideally, we should have an improved KP, both considering the needs from G77+China and developed countries. China can also compromise on some issues here in Durban.
Q: If a new agreement can only be made for 2020, do you think that would be too late?
A: Certainly too late. There is possibility for some countries to make new adjustments to their 2020 emission goals. So I think countries should start to make targets for 2025 and 2030. If those targets are made very clear, then we can start to place less emphasis on emission targets for 2020.
Angel Hsu is a PhD candidate at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a contributing expert to ChinaFAQs.org; Max Song is a MEM student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; and Jonathan Smith is a JD/MEM candidate at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. They are all attending COP-17 in Durban.


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Alternatives to Abortion Program (ATA) In Jeopardy
Missouri Department of Health proposes funding cuts to ATA
In response to Governor's Nixon's request for state departments to identify programs that can be cut to address the current state budget crisis, the Missouri Department of Health is recommending cuts to the Alternatives to Abortion program (ATA). ATA funding for fiscal year 2010 could be cut entirely or reduced severely.
ATA provides a wide range of emergency services to women facing crisis pregnancies. The Missouri Department of Health contracts with a consortium of faith-based providers, including Catholic Charities of St. Louis and Kansas City-St. Joseph. Services provided include housing, counseling, prenatal care, job placement assistance, and adoption referrals. Research shows that providing alternative services encourages more women to carry their unborn child to term thereby reducing the number of abortions.
On Tuesday, July 14, Governor Nixon decided against cutting $1.5 million for the Tour of Missouri bike race. See this link for more information. Surely saving unborn children is more important than a bicycle race!
No one disputes that the state budget is under severe constraints. Governor Nixon plans to withhold $325 million from the state budget proposed by the Missouri General Assembly. Some budget cuts are certainly necessary, but the ATA program merits more budget protection than, say, enrichment programs for gifted children (surely, these kids can get along without enrichment for a year in order to save unborn children).
In the context of the multi-billion dollar state budget, the $1.9 million allocated for the ATA program represents a very modest investment toward saving unborn children and assisting women in crisis pregnancies. Ultimately, a state budget is a moral document: it shows what our state's priorities are. Missouri has been a leader in reducing abortions and the ATA program has been a key component of that pro-life effort. Cutting ATA would be a step backward in our state's efforts to save unborn children and to support pregnant women.
In January, Governor Nixon promised to fully fund ATA (see the MCC Press Release or Life News article). This is one campaign promise citizens need to make sure Governor Nixon keeps!
Contact Governor Nixon immediately!!! See contact information below.
Please don't cut funds from the Alternatives to Abortion program. This program offers women in crisis pregnancies a wide range of services, such as emergency housing, counseling, prenatal care and adoption referrals. ATA is one way our state can reduce abortions while supporting women in need. In the context of a multi-billion dollar state budget, the $1.9 million allocated for ATA is a very modest investment in protecting unborn children and helping women in crisis pregnancies. Saving unborn children is more important than a bicycle race!
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PO Box 720
2nd Floor State Capital Bldg
Jefferson City, MO 65102
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Well, the clock just struck 12am over in Asia… which means that for those who celebrate it, it's Christmas!
My family doesn't really celebrate Christmas, but it's always a good excuse to spend some time and make it special with those we love, even if we have to do it online ;)
So I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, or just good o' fashion Happy Holiday season in whichever way you choose to celebrate.
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07.16.11 by Jackie
As I promised earlier this week, here's the recipe for the condiment that traditionally accompanies the Northern Vietnamese dill fish dish. The dipping sauce is called mắm tôm, which literally translates to "fermented shrimp sauce". It's made from fermented shrimp paste sauce (mắm ruốc, whose aroma smells very pungent), garlic, sambal oelek chile paste, sugar and freshly squeezed lime juice. The preparation is very similar to mắm nêm, the dipping sauce used for bỏ nhúng dấm (Vietnamese beef fondue), except it doesn't contain pineapple. Both spicy sauces are very strong in taste, so if fermented paste is too overwhelming for your palate, you could ultimately use nước mắm chấm (fish sauce) for a milder flavor.
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Sept. 4, 2007 -- An experimental new drug may prove to be new way to treat schizophrenia, new research shows.
A study published in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Medicine highlights the new schizophrenia drug, which doesn't have a catchy name yet.
The drug, which is being developed by the drug company Eli Lilly, is currently called "LY2140023." That name refers to the drug's chemical structure.
Lilly scientists tested LY2140023 on nearly 200 adults with schizophrenia in Russian mental institutions.
The patients had been hospitalized for worsening symptoms. They were 40 years old, on average, and typically had had schizophrenia for more than 15 years, according to the study.
During the four-week study, patients either took two daily pills containing LY2140023, a daily shot of the antipsychotic drug olanzapine, or a pill containing no medicine (placebo).
Patients taking LY2140023 or olanzapine had a reduction in their schizophrenia symptoms, compared to patients taking the placebo.
Overall, the new schizophrenia drug was "safe and well tolerated," the study states. Side effects were typically mild to moderate and included insomnia, nausea, and headache.
In addition, patients taking LY2140023 "seemed to be more emotional than before," write the researchers, who included Sandeep Patil, MD, PhD, who now works for Takeda Pharmaceutical Company.
LY2140023 has antipsychotic effects but works differently than other antipsychotic drugs, targeting a brain chemical called glutamate, which has long been suspected of playing a role in schizophrenia, note the researchers.
They call for longer, larger studies to test LY2140023 as a new schizophrenia medication.


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If you're looking for a cross-section of the housing market in the Southeast, Miami, Louisville and Atlanta are in varying stages of recovery, and each seems to be playing out a different style of rebound from the housing market's colossal bust.
Miami is characteristically on the go once more, Atlanta has perhaps just recently awoken from the dead, and Louisville's recovery is, like the city itself, steady and calm.
Let's start with Miami, through the eyes of one of its foremost real estate watchers, Alex Sanchez, CEO of the Florida Bankers Association.
For four decades, Sanchez has watched the Miami real estate market go from boom and bust and back again. Now, after his hometown has survived a deep and long real estate collapse, Sanchez shows relief and perspective.
"Once again Miami will be saved," he says. "It's the story of Miami for the past 100 years. People from all over the Western Hemisphere come to Miami. The U.S. is stable, and they know that no matter what, they can invest here and never lose their investment. That's why Miami is Miami."
In fact, the Miami Association of Realtors says the city had a strong 2011, thanks mainly to these cash-rich international buyers, who choose South Florida over any other market.
The association notes foreign-born buyers pay more than their domestic counterparts, with a median home price of $222,500; what's more, 90 percent of international buyers purchase properties with cash.
Total sales for condos and single-family homes in 2011 at 24,929 units were 46 percent higher than in 2010. Equally important is that the number of transactions was actually 4 percent more than in 2005, the peak of Miami's housing bubble.
Sales of luxury homes rebounded crisply; Some 1,160 were sold in 2011, according to the Realtors association, versus 928 the year before. The median sales price tipped $1.6 million, up slightly from 2010, and the homes sat on the market fewer days (207 vs. 224).


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Local animal lovers read local Short Leash writer
If you read Marley and Me and cried like a baby, we may have the book club for you.
The readers in this club carry their passion about animals into their taste in books. They'll read any animal-themed book. They started on The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein and The Pitbull Placebo by Karen Delise.
This month the young, unnamed group — mostly Anne Arundel County SPCA volunteers — is reading local memoirist Janice Gary's Short Leash.
In these readers, Gary has her natural audience.
Her canine sidekick, Barney, was a rescue from the Annapolis SPCA shelter.
Short Leash is a comeback story for both dog and human. Together Gary and Barney recover from what she calls "undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder." A once free-spirited 20-something, Gary became cautious after an assault. Her burley Lab-mix satisfied her need for protection.
But Barney was dog-aggressive, scaring off potential threats like the dog that attacked him when he was a pup.
The two grew into a codependent pair.
They could stay home, avoiding both people and dogs. Instead they went on walks.
Slowly but surely, through these therapeutic walks they recovered. She began to trust strangers and not fear every wind whisper, every stick breaking. Barney too, became okay with his status as a dog, willing to sniff and be sniffed by other dogs.
Their life-changing experience was a story Gary needed to share. At Goucher College, she earned an MFA in creative writing. Short Leash followed over five years. Gary now teaches creative writing at Anne Arundel Community College.
Meet Gary and SPCA book club readers November 30 at book signings (11am; 2pm and 7pm) at Barnes & Noble, Annapolis Harbour Center on November 30. Each copy bought that day brings $3 to the Annapolis and Anne Arundel SPCA, whose volunteers also do gift wrapping for donations all day.
On December 7 (1pm), Gary talks on Walking Out of Fear at Celebrate Recovery, 513 Center Dr., Severna Park.


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Where once, on Walnut Street, was the Philly Chocolate Company, now there is Potito's.
The chocolate company has moved, and Potito's has opened a center city outpost of their bakery, which is based in South Philadelphia.
And of course CakeSpy has visited. How could you NOT visit a place that offers a huge cannoli filled with millions of baby-cannoli?
Dudes, I know. I know. It's like witnessing the miracle of cannoli birth.
At the bakery, you'll be greeted with a generous display of baked goods, ranging from Italian classics (cookies by the pound, cannoli, lobster tails, etc) to American sweets (cupcakes, pies, etc). Because the bakery prides itself on being Italian-American, I decided to stick with an Italian roster of sweets to sample.
First up, the cannoli. At $3.95 each, I consider them fairly heftily priced, but obviously made with love and care. I've been told that in Chicago, there is a place that sells them for $9.00 per, though, so maybe I shouldn't focus so much on the cost, but rather tell you that the filling was dreamy?
A rainbow cookie was highly satisfactory, a solid version of the Italian bakery staple.
Next up, an Italian ricotta tart. It's that lovely featured at the top of the post. Clearly they know their ricotta filling, which was a very nice texture and flavor. Lightly sweet and nicely complemented by a cocoa topping and strawberry on top. The crust was lightly sweet, making for a pleasant backdrop for the tart.
Potito's Bakery, two locations (Center City and South Philadelphia); online here.


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New Leadership From the South
International environmental leadership is a scarce commodity at the moment. The vacuum was evidenced most dramatically by the U.S. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001, and then by the complicity of many governments in the weakening of environmental and social commitments being negotiated during the run-up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002.
Against this backdrop, the world's environment ministers gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, in early February for the UN Environment Programme's Global Ministerial Environment Forum. Although the official agenda of the meeting was a post-mortem on the Johannesburg conference, this topic generated less enthusiasm than did some recent political developments right in Kenya.
In late December, the Kenyan people had unseated President Daniel arap Moi's Kenya African National Union Party, which had been in power since the country's independence from Great Britain in 1963, in a peaceful political transformation via the ballot box. Wangari Maatthai, founder of Kenya's famed Green Belt Movement, was named assistant environment minister. Beaten and jailed just a few years earlier for her efforts to protect the country's threatened forests, Maatthai is now a key figure in the new Kenyan government's efforts to protect the country's ecologically rich forests by cracking down on illegal logging, charcoal production, and other harmful activities.
Encouragingly, recent events in Kenya appear to be part of a larger pattern in which democratization in the South is bringing to power a new generation of environmentally minded leaders. In Brazil, the 2002 victory of Luiz ("Lula") da Silva's Worker's Party led to the appointment of Marina Silva as environment minister. Silva is a Senator representing the Amazonian state of Acre. She rose to this position after a childhood spent as a rubber tapper in the heart of the Amazon, where she worked with the late Chico Mendez to fight against forest destruction by creating extractive reserves where rubber-tapping and other activities would provide livelihoods for local people based on protecting rather than decimating the surrounding forests.
These two recent appointments follow on the heels of events in Mexico in 2000, when the victory of President Vincente Fox's National Action Party ended 71 years of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Fox appointed Victor Lichtinger, who helped found the "Group of Like-Minded Megadiverse Countries" in February 2002, as environment minister. The Group, consisting of 15 developing countries that are collectively home to over 70 percent of the world's biological diversity, is pooling its political clout to push for stronger protection of the planet's ecological wealth and for fairer international rules to protect traditional knowledge.
All of these new environmental leaders face great obstacles, including entrenched opposition from other ministries with more power, such as those dedicated to finance, trade, and construction. Nonetheless, their emergence on the international stage is a hopeful sign.
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KNOXVILLE � Skylar Diggins scored a career-high 33 points and No. 2 Notre Dame built a 19-point lead in the second half before withstanding a late Tennessee rally in a 77-67 victory Monday night over the ninth-ranked Lady Vols.
KNOXVILLE � Skylar Diggins scored a career-high 33 points and No. 2 Notre Dame built a 19-point lead in the second half before withstanding a late Tennessee rally in a 77-67 victory Monday night over the ninth-ranked Lady Vols.
Notre Dame (19-1) won its 14th straight game and snapped the Lady Vols� nine-game winning streak. Notre Dame also became the first school ever to defeat both Connecticut and Tennessee in three consecutive seasons. The Irish won 73-72 at Connecticut on Jan. 5.
Before the game, Tennessee hung a banner at Thompson-Boling Arena in honor of former Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt, whose 1,098-208 record in 38 seasons gives her the most career wins of any Division I men�s or women�s basketball coach ever.
Summitt, who led Tennessee to eight national titles and 18 Final Four appearances, already had the playing court named after her. The Hall of Fame coach stepped down in April after announcing in 2011 that she has early-onset dementia, Alzheimer�s type. She remains on Tennessee�s staff as head coach emeritus, attends just about every practice and sits in the stands for all home games. Former Lady Vol greats Chamique Holdsclaw, Tamika Catchings and Candace Parker attended Monday�s game.
Tennessee (16-4) used the emotion of that pregame ceremony to take an early 7-2 lead, but the Irish answered with a 12-2 run of their own. Diggins scored 11 points in the first 10 minutes of the game to help the Irish build an eight-point lead.
Notre Dame had chances to build an even bigger lead.
Tennessee guard Meighan Simmons, who entered the night averaging a team-high 17.6 points per game, picked up two early fouls and played just 11 minutes in the first half. Tennessee�s frontcourt endured a major loss when center Isabelle Harrison took a spill after driving to the basket and had to be helped to the locker room. The Lady Vols had announced before the game that Harrison was playing with a meniscus injury in her left knee.
But the Irish didn�t take advantage in the early going and only led 33-29 at the half. Diggins didn�t get much help from her teammates, who shot a combined 8 of 30 in the first half.
Diggins then took over the game early in the second half.
The senior guard dominated the Lady Vols on both ends of the floor. She had six points, three steals, one block and an assist during an 11-0 run that gave the Irish a 16-point lead.
Diggins started the run by sinking a 3-pointer and making a conventional three-point play. Tennessee called a timeout, but Diggins stole the ensuing inbounds pass, drove to the basket and sank one of two free throws after drawing a foul.
Diggins then made another steal that eventually led to a 3-point basket by Madison Cable. She got one more steal on Tennessee�s next possession and passed to Kayla McBride for a jumper that capped the spurt.
In a 72-44 victory over Tennessee last season, Notre Dame broke open a close game in the second half and proceeded to hand the Lady Vols their second-most lopsided loss in Summitt�s tenure. This time, the Lady Vols fought back.
After trailing by as many as 19 points, Tennessee rattled the Irish with a furious rally over the final 10 minutes and cut the lead to 69-64 on Taber Spani�s free throw with 3:54 remaining.
That�s when Diggins took over again.
She found Madison Cable for a layup that got the Irish out of danger.
After Spani and Jasmine Jones missed jumpers on Tennessee�s next possession, Diggins sank a 3-pointer to make it a 10-point game.
Notre Dame�s lead wouldn�t drop below eight again.
Jewell Loyd added 10 points for Notre Dame, while Kayla McBride had nine points and 10 rebounds.
Bashaara Graves had 19 points and 13 rebounds for Tennessee. Taber Spani added 12 points and Simmons had 11 points.


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Electoral Farce or Imperfect Democracy? Part IV in an in-depth look at the 2011 presidential elections
Political Regrets: Arturo Cruz Porras, who says he ran a "fake candidacy" against Daniel Ortega in 1984, says Nicaragua should learn from his mistake and participate massively in Sunday's election. (photo/ Tim Rogers)
By Tim Rogers/ Nicaragua Dispatch
MANAGUA – In a country where "voter fraud" is a relative transgression, the 2011 electoral process has been about as smooth of a democratic exercise as Nicaragua can hope for under the circumstances, according to veteran political analyst and former opposition candidate Arturo J. Cruz Porras.
Cruz, who campaigned briefly against Daniel Ortega in the 1984 presidential elections before dropping out of the race shamefacedly, says abstention was a mistake then and would be an even bigger mistake now.
"The candidates have an obligation to run," Cruz, 87, told The Nicaragua Dispatch in a recent interview in his bucolic home in the hills south of Managua. "In 1984 we were in the context of the Cold War, but now it's about the survival of Nicaragua. And Nicaragua has to survive—the international community and the people of Nicaragua want that to happen."
Only one of the four opposition candidates—Enrique Quiñonez, of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN)—flirted briefly with the idea of boycotting this year's elections. Several left-wing protest groups, organized under the banner "Don't count on my vote for this electoral farce," also claim participation in the elections will only legitimize Ortega's "illegal reelection."
Cruz, however, urges all Nicaraguans to vote on Sunday. He acknowledges that the electoral magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Council's (CSE) have a lousy track record counting votes, but he shrugs it off as one of many imperfections in Nicaragua's democracy.
"You know how they are," Cruz says, referring to Nicaragua's electoral magistrates as if they were a group of wayward teens. "But we don't have any others."
Though there has been a litany of complaints about this year's electoral process, Cruz says it has been remarkably peaceful compared to years past. He says any last minute efforts by disgruntled groups to undermine Nicaragua's hard-fought right to universal suffrage would be a serious mistake.
And he's speaking from personal experience.
In 1984, Cruz says he was used by the CIA and Nicaragua's "extreme right wing" to run a "fake candidacy" against Ortega's first attempt to legitimize his continuance in power through the ballot box.
In the forthcoming second installment of his political memoires, "Chronicles of a Dissident," Cruz dedicates an entire chapter to what he calls the "absurd" role he was unwittingly suckered into playing in the "electoral farce of 1984." His advice to candidates and voters now is simple: learn from my mistake and make an honest effort to defend Nicaragua's democratic advances, before it's too late.
Cruz's history of political dissidence began in the 1970s as a vocal opponent of the Somoza dynasty. He eventually became a member of the Sandinistas' so-called "Group of Twelve," a group of erudite intellectuals who gave an international voice to the Sandinistas' revolutionary cause.
After the triumph of the revolution in 1979, Cruz was named the Sandinistas' first Central Bank President. He was then sent to Washington, D.C., to serve as the government's Ambassador to the United States.
But Cruz's fling with the Sandinista Front was short-lived. Before the second anniversary of the revolution, Cruz defected from the ruling party with serious concerns about the moral and ethical direction of the revolution. The Sandinistas, he says, "had no moral brakes" and "Sandinista ethics permitted any type of action or behavior for the cause."
So when the Sandinistas announced presidential elections in 1984, Cruz, who was working for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington at the time, was the first to scoff at the idea. He said he was convinced the Sandinistas, with their absolute grip over the state electoral machinery, would orchestrate an electoral farce to try to justify their continuance in power. And anyone who agreed to participate in the elections under those terms was a fool, Cruz thought.
Despite taking a vocal stance against the '84 elections, Cruz was identified by the CIA and several prominent Nicaraguans, including business leader Enrique Bolaños, as an ideal candidate to run against Ortega.
The CIA's plan, however, was to get Cruz to campaign against Ortega just long enough to rally anti-Sandinista sentiments in the countryside, but drop out of the race before the vote. The plan, Cruz says, was to use the elections as an excuse to campaign openly against the Sandinistas, but then withdraw his candidacy to deny Ortega the satisfaction of winning a legitimate poll.
After a series of secretive meetings with CIA handlers in Washington-area bars and in his home in Bethesda, Maryland, Cruz says he started to warm to the idea of running a fake candidacy, and started to seriously contemplate his counterfeit campaign. But before he could make up his mind whether or not to run, Cruz discovered that the CIA and extreme right were already moving forward on the plan by publically announcing his candidacy in Managua.
At that moment, Cruz writes in his yet-to-be-released memoires, "I was for the first time forced to cross the bridge that the CIA had laid out in front of me."
As he was dragged into the campaign—now somewhat reluctantly—Cruz went on the CIA's payroll, receiving "six or seven thousand dollars a month" in income, which he says he reported dutifully on his IRS income tax returns, even though it was listed as coming from phony companies.
But once Cruz returned to Nicaragua and got into campaign mode, he started to have a change of heart. He said that Managua Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo, an erstwhile adversary of the Sandinistas, and former Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez both encouraged him to run for real. But it was the overwhelming support from the campesino voters themselves who convinced him that it was a mistake to play with people's emotions and hopes by running a fake campaign.
Cruz's determination to "run for real" became even stronger as his campaign was met with Sandinista violence in the countryside. On repeated occasions, Sandinista mobs armed with rocks and clubs attacked his campaign rallies, destroying vehicles and stages and attacking his supporters.
"The Sandinistas wouldn't allow me to campaign anywhere in the country, not even behind closed doors," Cruz said.
But when his supporters started to fight back and—on at least one occasion— chase away Sandinista mobs, Cruz realized peoples' rejection of the Sandinista government was genuine and decided they deserved an opportunity to vote for a real opposition candidate.
Cruz told his CIA handlers he wanted to make his fake candidacy real. But when he did, his situation went from bad to worse. The frustrated candidate said he felt like he was stuck in a "crossfire" between the Sandinistas on one side, and the CIA and extreme right on the other. Neither side wanted him to be a real candidate.
"There was a strange symbiosis between the two sides: (the Sandinistas) didn't want to have any opposition in the government system, and the (CIA) didn't want to ruin the possibilities of a (military) victory for the contras."
Trapped between two poles, Cruz withdrew from the race. Ortega won what was essentially an uncontested election with 62 percent of the vote, and the contra war escalated for the next five years.
Looking back on the frustrated electoral events of the 1980s, Cruz says a lot of mistakes were made by all sides. Uncle Sam's mingling in the '84 elections was a mistake, he says, and so too was the U.S.' support for the counterrevolutionary war.
In hindsight, Cruz says, the U.S. would have been a lot smarter to "Let (the Sandinistas) fry in their own lard."
Ultimately, he says, the lesson learned from the electoral debacle of 1984 is that abstention is much more damaging to democracy than participating in a flawed system. And even though Cruz says he still feels "dirty and used" by his brief venture into politics in the 80s, he insists it would be even more foolish to sit out on Nov. 6 and risk repeating the "folly of '84."