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Today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined heads of state and foreign ministers from over 50 countries, as well as representatives of the United Nations and the African Union, at the London Conference on Somalia. Hosted by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, the conference is dedicated to building stability and peace in Somalia. Secretary Clinton discussed the importance of cutting al-Shabaab's remaining financial lifelines, strengthening development and fighting piracy. The Secretary said, "...The Transitional Federal Government was always meant to be just that: transitional. And it is past time for that transition to occur and for Somalia to have a stable government.""...[T]he goals we expect to achieve under this timeline are ambitious, but the people of Somalia have waited many years. They have heard many promises, they have seen many deadlines come and go, and it is time -- past time -- to buckle down and do the work that will bring stability to Somalia for the first time in many people's lives. The position of the United States is straightforward: Attempts to obstruct progress and maintain the broken status quo will not be tolerated. We will encourage the international community to impose further sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes on people inside and outside the TFG who seek to undermine Somalia's peace and security or to delay or even prevent the political transition.
"As we proceed with political action, we must also keep advancing security, and there has been progress this past year. The AU mission in Somalia and the Somali National Security Forces are now in control of all of Mogadishu and are expanding their control beyond the capital. And a few weeks ago, the United States announced that the famine that killed tens of thousands of Somalis and displaced tens of thousands more has ended -- though food security remains a serious concern. Now we must keep the pressure on al-Shabaab so that its grip on Somalia continues to weaken. The UN Security Council's vote on Wednesday to increase AMISOM's troop ceiling by nearly half and expand its mandate significantly is an excellent step.
"More and more Somalis are seeing the threat that al-Shabaab poses to Somalia's peace and security, as well as to the peace and security of Somalia's neighbors. Especially in south-central Somalia, it has turned an already bad situation into a nightmare. It has dragged fathers and sons from their homes, forced them to fight in a hopeless, bloody conflict. It has forced young girls to marry foreign fighters. And when extreme food shortages struck last summer, al-Shabbab mercilessly helped turn those food shortages into a famine by blocking humanitarian assistance and letting children starve.
"With its recent announcement that it has joined the al-Qaida terror network, al-Shabaab has proven, yet again, it is not on the side of Somalis but on the side of chaos, destruction, and suffering. It has also proven something else as well. It is weakening. Al-Shabaab and al-Qaida have turned to each other because both are embattled and isolated, especially now as the democratic revolutions, underway in many countries, are showing young people who might once have been attracted to extremist groups that a more constructive path is open to them. That is the future; Al-Shabaab and al-Qaida are the past.
"Now all those who have not yet joined this effort to unify Somalia, who are sitting on the sidelines or actively obstructing progress, have a choice to make. They can support this movement and join their fellow Somalis in moving past the divisions and struggles for power that have held their nation back or they can be left behind. For our part, the United States will engage with all Somalis who denounce al-Shabaab's leadership and the violence it espouses and who embrace the political roadmap and the fundamental rights and freedoms that all Somalis deserve. But we adamantly oppose negotiating with al-Shabaab.
"Now the international community has a responsibility to provide effective help, and when I say international community, I include the people of Somalia, whether they live within Somalia in refugee camps outside the country, or as members of the large and thriving diaspora here in the UK or the U.S., Canada, Italy, Kenya, and elsewhere. Our success depends in no small measure on their participation, because after all, they are the ones with the most at stake."
Secretary Clinton outlined three specific issues. She said, "First, we must cut al-Shabaab's remaining financial lifelines. One of the reasons that they apparently agreed to join with al-Qaida is because they think they will obtain more funding from sources that unfortunately still continue to fund al-Qaida. We welcome the Security Council's decision to impose an international ban on imports of charcoal from Somalia and urge the international community to begin implementing it immediately. The illicit charcoal trade provides funds to al-Shabaab while also causing environmental harm and threatening food security.
"Second, we must seize this opportunity to strengthen development, particularly in areas recently liberated from al-Shabaab. Somalis need to see concrete improvements in their lives. For our part, the United States will work with Somali authorities and communities to create jobs, provide health and education services, build capacity, and support peace building and conflict resolution. And today I am announcing the United States is providing an additional $64 million in humanitarian assistance to the Horn of Africa countries, bringing our emergency assistance since 2011 up to more than 934 million, including more than 211 million for lifesaving programs in Somalia.
"Third, we must continue to fight piracy, which is still rampant off Somalia's shores. The United States supports programs that strengthen the Somali judicial system so it can tackle piracy from onshore. We are considering development projects in coastal communities to create alternatives to piracy for young men. And we support additional international coordination, for example, to the regional anti-piracy prosecutions intelligence coordination center, soon to be launched in the Seychelles. We welcome the increased willingness of many of Somalia's neighbors to incarcerate pirates. And as the UN helps build judicial and prison capacity in Somalia, it is imperative that more nations step forward to jail and prosecute pirates who have been caught seizing commercial vessels that are flagged, owned, and crewed by citizens of their countries. And we welcome the UK's initiative to create an international task force to discourage the payment of ransoms to pirates and other groups to eliminate the profit motive and prevent the illicit flow of money and its corrosive effects.
"As the security and political situation improves, the U.S. will look for ways to increase our involvement in Somalia, including considering a more permanent diplomatic presence. We will continue to deliver support of all kinds and to help build a broad and durable partnership with both the Somali Government and people.
"For decades, the world focused on what we could prevent from happening in Somalia -- conflict, famine, terrorism. Now, we are focused on what we can build. I think the opportunity is real, and now we have to work with the TFG as it transitions out of power to build a durable peace for the Somalia people and to support a government that delivers services and offers democracy and prosperity, uniting Somalia after so many years of division and chaos."
You can read the complete transcript here.
W.W. writes:
what international community is not doing is more shameful then what assad is doing
John P. in Greece writes:
I think you mean … "thAn what assad is doingâ€. (keyboards, I know…)
Well, I wouldn't go that comparatively because,
1. Assad is a serial killer
2. The international community has plenty of "kids†that is trying to help.
Unfortunately my dear W.W. the international community –as you call it- cannot save the world in just one day. Assad could! But, he chose the wrong way to date his egoism with the history pages.
I' d like once again to congratulate Madam Secretary Clinton and the Staff for the fantastic job they are doing all over the world.
W.W. writes:
@ John in Greece
P.S. however LGBT rights got protected !
Yeah and Kids won't be ever bullied again at school
W.W. writes:
@ John in Greece
I think of those who want to live a life of solidarity and love in a world where the only things that seem to matter are the logic of profit and one's personal or group interest.
I think too of those who work for peace and who see new outbreaks of war erupt and grow worse in different parts of the world; I think of those who work for human freedom and see people still slaves of themselves and of one another. I think of those who work to ensure love and respect for human life and who see life so often attacked and the respect due to life so often flouted.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Every day that al shebab, or al-Assad, or the ayatollahs in Iran are doing their totalitarian thing is another day without peace and security in the world.
The biggest test for US diplomacy is whether the policy makers can accept that at this point, that "behavior change" isn't a viable result of all the options on the table in their usage.
That if folks want the killing, the murder, the terror, to stop..., then it won't be diplomacy that causes it to, but a willingness on the part of this gov. and the willing to physically eliminate those who are perpetrating these crimes against humanity.
Only by the threat of the use of force will those who use force to destabilize nations undserstand how far the internatioonal community is prepared to go to seek a peaceful outcome in the long-term.
To talk about it without doing anything about it to put a halt to their activities is to live in infamy as democracies, unable to hold our values as sancrosanct, for they will be compromised in the lack of decision making to physically come to the aid of innocent peoples and remove the dire threats imposed upon them by dictators, theological extremism, and those who serve them.
The choice for nations is simply this;
Doing nothing means the slaughter of innocents, doing something involves slaughtering the guilty, before they can slaughter more of the innocent.
Thing about putting up with it so long is a testiment to diplomacy's ability to make the inevitable solution self-evident in its failure to change the behavior of the depraved.
Some in this gov. would describe them as "rational actors"....well so was the mass murderer from Norway who planned, and rationized all the parameters of his mission, and carried it out on an island of innocents, yet the civilized have declared him insane.
I hope the Chairman of the Joint chiefs accepts my rebuttle as merits the truth of the matter.
Being "rational" does not rule out having insane motives.
But it also conversly may be said that putting up with the insane may not be rational policy among democracies, where it regards questions of regime replacement therapy and the use of force to achieve that end state, with prospects for eventual peace moving forward.
Billy C. in Georgia (U.S.A.) writes:
Madame Secretary Clinton. I realize how they have kept you busy since you were sworn in and I'd like to let you know that you have one fan out here who still wants to see you as president. I believe they've kept you busy to keep you out of the way because you are the one person who will call their game as it is. Please, I know you're tired, but will you think about running again. We need you and that amazing political mind you have and the unique way you can read BS for what it's worth. Please consider running again. I'm sure you will make it this time.
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The money aspect is not really a big deal. I get discounts on hotels, so I won't be booking the package through the waterpark. Just gonna buy the one day pass for the park and stay at a hotel on my own.
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Grand jury indicts Dikken in Granite Falls shootings
GRANITE FALLS – A grand jury has indicted the man accused of killing two people in Granite Falls on six counts first-degree murder, Yellow Medicine County court records said.
An indictment was filed against Andrew Joseph Dikken on Tuesday for two counts of first-degree premeditated murder, two counts of first-degree murder while committing burglary, and two counts of first-degree murder while attempting to commit arson. Dikken, 28,of Renville, made a first appearance on those charges in Yellow Medicine County District Court on Monday afternoon. Dikken allegedly entered a home in Granite Falls in the early hours of Sept. 2 and shot Kara Monson, 26 of Granite Falls, and Christopher Panitzke, 28, of Redwood Falls, multiple times. Monson died at the scene of the shooting, and Panitzke died Sept. 8 from complications from his wounds. Investigators also found that the gas lines had been cut in the house where the shooting took place.
After the shootings, Dikken was the focus of a two-week manhunt. On Sept. 17, he was turned in to law enforcement by family members. Dikken was originally charged with two counts of second-degree murder for the shootings.
In October, Dikken had filed court documents stating his intent to plead guilty to the second-degree murder charges. However, the court denied that request, and prosecutors said they wanted to pursue first-degree charges. Under Minnesota law, only a grand jury can give an indictment for first-degree murder charges.
The maximum sentence for first-degree murder is life in prison without possibility of release.
Dikken remains in custody in the Yellow Medicine County jail, with bail set at $3 million.


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"E. Coli Pervades Harvest Area
Salinas Valley waterways are known to carry the bacteria that poisoned at least 145 people and killed one who ate tainted spinach.
By Marla Cone, Times Staff Writer
September 21, 2006
The bacterium that has sickened people across the nation and forced growers to destroy spinach crops is so pervasive in the Salinas Valley that virtually every waterway there violates national standards.
"There are many sources of water coming into the watershed, and I guarantee you that they all have generic E. coli," and many carry the deadly E. coli strain linked to food poisonings, said Christopher Rose, an environmental scientist at the state's Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, which tests the region's waterways."
"E. coli is a national problem, but it is especially severe in livestock areas. A single cow can shed as much as 100 billion fecal bacteria per day. The food-poisoning outbreak could pit vegetable growers against livestock owners, both economic powerhouses in the state.
Monterey County's spinach fields are downstream of the Gabilan Mountains, where beef cattle, dairy cows and horses graze. En route to the Salinas River, many tributaries flow through the livestock areas, picking up bacteria. The water then flows through the low-lying valley where vegetables are grown.
Cattle and other livestock graze near the banks of the creeks, and their manure can easily contaminate the water with millions of E. coli organisms. "In some areas, grazing has resulted in manure lining the banks of channels of tributaries to the Salinas River," a June report by the Central Coast water board stated.
How much of the region's water contamination comes from cattle is unknown. "What is certain is that livestock are a source of E. coli, including E. coli O157:H7," in several creeks that flow into the Salinas River, the board's report concluded. It also found that "the most frequent occurrence of E. coli O157:H7 occurs at sites flanking areas used for grazing purposes.""
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Nevada City Farmers Market: Local farms for this year
The Nevada City Farmers Market begins on June 16 (Father's Day weekend) and runs until November 17, 2012 (Weekend Before Thanksgiving). Here's a list of the farms for this year:
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- BRANT – On April 27, troopers from Collins charged Douglas Bastedo, 22, and Derek Bastedo, 20 both of Porter Avenue in Silver Creek for endangering the welfare of a child, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument.
Seneca Nation of Indians Marshals called troopers to the Seneca One-Stop on State Routes 5 and 20 after a store employee alerted the marshals of a suspicious car in the parking lot. The employee reportedly witnessed the two men injecting themselves with drugs.
After the troopers arrived and spoke with the employee and the marshals on the scene, they detained the two men.
Reportedly troopers found numerous used and unused needles inside the car as well as Douglas Bastedo's infant daughter. The child was turned over to a family member who came to the scene.
The Bastedos were processed at state police barracks in Collins and are to appear in the Town of Brant Court.
State Police at Collins
COLLINS – On April 22, troopers charged Jasper Wolfe, 36, of Main Street in Arcade and Samantha Guizzoti, 20, of Church Street in Yorkshire for unlawful possession of marijuana
Troopers stopped the car Wolfe was driving for a reported equipment violation on State Route 62. The officers reported smelling marijuana coming from inside the car. Wolfe reportedly possessed a silver pipe containing marijuana as well as a plastic baggie with 3.5 grams of marijuana in it. Guizzoti reportedly possessed a plastic baggie containing one gram of marijuana in it.
Both are scheduled to appear in the Town of Collins Court at a later date.
BRANT – On April 27, troopers charged Cody Haring, 21, of Brant Reservation Road in Irving with unlawful possession of marijuana, after a traffic stop on Brant Reservation Road.
Troopers reported that Haring had 1.5 grams of marijuana in his possession.
He is due in the Town of Brant Court at a later date.
CATTARAUGUS – On Wednesday, troopers charged Pamela Clees, 21, of North Franklin Street in Cattaraugus with driving while intoxicated following a personal injury accident investigation.
Troopers responded to Leon Road in New Albion after Clees' vehicle left the road and hit a utility pole. Reportedly, she swerved while driving to avoid a deer in the roadway and lost control of her car.
Numerous first responders from the Cattaraugus Volunteer Fire Department and ambulance assisted at the scene. A passenger in the car was taken to Erie County Medical Center by Star Flight with non life-threatening injuries.
Clees was processed at state police barracks in Collins where her blood alcohol content was reported to be .14 percent. She is due in the town of New Albion Court later this month.
CATTARAUGUS IND-IAN RESERVATION – On Friday, troopers charged Brandon Bennett, 28, of State Route 438 with aggravated driving while intoxicated following a stop on State Route 438 for alleged speeding.
The troopers administered a series of field sobriety tests and reported Bennett was intoxicated.
He was processed at state police barracks in Collins where his blood alcohol level was reported to be .21 percent, nearly three times the legal limit of .08 percent.
Bennett is due in the Town of Collins Court later this month.
Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office reports DWI incidents
PORTLAND – Ari Paff, 29, of Brocton was charged with driving while intoxicated, and failure to signal a turn.
On Friday at about 1:30 a.m., deputies stopped a vehicle for reportedly failing to signal a turn at the intersection of Webster Road and Route 380. Paff was the operator of the vehicle. Deputies investigated and report that Paff was intoxicated.
He was released with traffic tickets and is scheduled to appear in the Town of Portland Court at a later date.
POMFRET – David J. Belovarac Jr., 22, of Bemus Point was charged with driving while intoxicated and failure to maintain lane.
On Saturday at about 4:15 a.m., sheriff's patrol stopped Belovarac when he was reportedly observed swerving out of his lane of travel on Route 60
He was later released and is scheduled to appear in the Town of Pomfret Court at a later date.
ELLERY – Meryl L. Roush, 28, of Ellicottville was charged with driving while intoxicated.
On Saturday morning at about 5:20 a.m., deputies responded to a one-car property damage accident on Route 430. The officers found the vehicle but no one around the vehicle. They located Roush walking away from the scene. Investigation led to the charge.
The defendant is to appear in the Town of Ellery Court at a later date.
GERRY – Jacob Meier, 25, of Falconer was charged with driving while intoxicated and speeding.
On Sunday at about 2:05 a.m., sheriff's patrol stopped Meier for reportedly speeding on Route 60, 72 mph in a 55 mph zone. According to officers, Meier was intoxicated.
Meier was released and is scheduled to answer charges in the Town of Gerry Court at a later date.


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Larson, Charles R(aymond)
Charles R(aymond) Larson 1938–
American critic, essayist, novelist, and editor.
Larson is a foremost scholar of Third World and minority literature. In his first critical work, The Emergence of African Fiction (1972), Larson examined what he considered representative examples of the best African writing. The works of Chinua Achebe, Camara Laye, Wole Soyinka, and others are discussed in terms of plot and characterization, and then related to African literature as a whole. Larson's next critical work, The Novel in the Third World (1976), is a comparative study of novels from various Third World countries. As he did in The Emergence of African Fiction, Larson analyzes individual works and then attempts to define them in a larger context. He notes, in particular, the way in which African writers reflect their country's attempt to assert a national character in the face of Western cultural domination. American Indian Fiction (1978) has been called "the first critical and historical account of novels by American Indians." Much of this work focuses on the difficulty of determining authentic "Indianness." Despite objections concerning Larson's premises and conclusions in this work and in his commentaries on African literature, his scholarly efforts are important contributions to studies of world literature.
In addition to his critical studies, Larson has also written three novels: Academia Nuts (1977), a satire on university life; The Insect Colony (1978), which explores the confrontation between African and European cultures; and Arthur Dimmesdale (1982), a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter from the perspective of Arthur Dimmesdale.
(See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 53-56 and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 4.)
The Times Literary Supplement
[The] steady superiority of Professor Larson [in The Emergence of African Fiction] is a reflection of his real familiarity with both classical and contemporary fiction, and of his finer critical judgment. The former prevents him from applying some strict and inappropriate notion of the "proper" novel to the material before him, while the latter enables him to look carefully at what is actually present in the work under review. Thus he makes some really interesting observations on the relative "plotlessness" of the first part of Things Fall Apart, on Achebe's preference for exhibiting character in action rather than through description or extensive dialogue or monologue, and on his use of short conte-like sequences within his novel to create a density of background for the principal action.
Professor Larson is also at least adequate in his discussion of [Wole Soyinka's] The Interpreters, and correctly identifies it as belonging with the later work of Armah rather than with the more situational novels of the first generation of African writers. But he goes badly adrift in failing to recognize the intensely African nature of Soyinka's approach to tragic action and fulfilment. This probably results from his failure to look at Soyinka's work as a whole; for an intensive reading of his plays and poems is essential to a full understanding of what is hap-pening in The Interpreters and to a grasp of mythological structure in that novel. Likewise, Professor Larson fails to see that Armah's Fragments, while registering the distance that the contemporary Ghanian bourgeoisie has travelled from African tradition, is not seeking to bury that tradition with the dying Naana, but (like Soyinka) to provoke a search for new ways of articulating it in modern life.
Thus he devotes far too much space to an attempt to untangle what "happens" in each chapter of the novel, but totally ignores the importance of a number of crucial incidents within it….
The Emergence of African Fiction suggests that breadth of reading, open-mindedness and adequate critical skills will carry any author a long way, regardless of his ethnic origins; but there is no substitute for a bit of preliminary work on African oral tradition, mythology, religious ritual and symbolism if the critic is to avoid the danger of missing a number of important clues and connexions.
"Through the Drum," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 3695, December 29, 1972, p. 1573.∗
Omolara Leslie
[With] some thought, the sources of irritation [in Charles Larson's book] become manifold. First, there is the title itself—The Emergence of African Fiction—which indicates a scope not attempted. African fiction is not merely African prose literature since World War II, because fictional arts existed in Africa since traditional times. Neither did African fiction in European languages emerge only after World War II; such fiction goes back to the 1880's in Portuguese Africa…. Mr. Larson's study is as generally weak on history as it is on non-Anglophone African fiction as a whole.
It appears that "emergence" is used, not in an etymological but in a figurative and personal sense of "emerging into the mainstream of Western tradition," the note on which the study's last chapter ends. (pp. 91-2)
[The] authorial personality in The Emergence of African Fiction obtrudes, moving further and further away, as the chapters progress, from careful consideration and scholarly statements to ex-cathedra dicta, exhibitionism, hearsay and personal prejudice….
African scholars such as Irele, Nwoga, Echeruo, Ogunba and Wali, among others, demonstrate more humility before their subject matter than Mr. Larson, who ascribes to himself the right to appoint deans of African letters, to challenge Amos Tutuola about his writing habits, to throw aside African culture as passing anthropology, to pretend to inside knowledge of Africa for having taught some time there, to claim knowledge of "the African reader," to intimate to this "African reader" what his aesthetic and literary preferences should be, and to speak for him regarding reasons for his likes and dislikes—which in summary are that the "average" African reader (who is never identified) cannot appreciate the lyrical, the subtle, the complex, or the cerebral….
In the opening chapter, "Critical Approaches to African Fiction," which is a fitting start to such a work and a potentially interesting study in itself, Mr. Larson does not accomplish the required scholarly task of collecting the major critical ideas or critical approaches regarding African fiction and discussing them in some depth. Rather, this first chapter skims the surface of critical thought and excludes the theoretical ideas of practising African critics. (p. 92)
Unfortunately, Mr. Larson is guilty of all the faults he self-righteously condemns. His main points are: 1. the reception of African literature by the West has, for the most part, been sympathetic (Who needs sympathy?); 2. anthropologists have been favorable to African literature because they have been interested in African cultures per se, and not literature itself; and 3. literary critics have been unsympathetic simply because they have attempted to force the African writer into a Western literary tradition to...
(The entire section is 1185 words.)
Bud Foote
[On a reading of] Academia Nuts, I am forced to the critical conclusion that Charles R. Larson … has been drinking coffee laced with rum. He needs to be warned away from that stuff; it is dangerous….
[This] is a very funny book that will get handed around every English department in the country with chortles and snickers and the occasional howl of glee. What I hope is that its public is not that limited, that everyone who has ever had to write An Interpretation of a Literary Work, or everyone who has ever shaken his head, bemused, at the number of academically certified readings that can be hauled out of a book by Freudians, Jungians, Marxists, and Structuralists will find joy in watching Professor Larson avenge them.
Bud Foote, "The Sole in Oedipean Tragedy: Laughing Through English Lit," in The National Observer, June 6, 1977, p. 19.
Peter S. Prescott
["The Insect Colony"] is about useless Americans scratching at each other in West Africa…. [The] characters are afflicted by irresponsibility and a sense of alienation;… illicit sex is the spring that propels the narrative….
[Larson] conveys the illegitimacy of his characters' presence in a landscape that has no need of them, that they cannot even profitably exploit. It occurs to Hunter Schuld, toward the end of his sojourn in a remote village of Cameroon, that he and generations of white interlopers had been blind to the reality of Africa; callous and inefficient predators, they gave nothing in return. Poor Hunter: a lonely entomologist who might have been content had he been left to study his African spiders, he awoke to only half the truth, the other half being that he is himself a victim, caught in a web set for him by a devouring woman. Hunter is vulnerable because he is innocent. He stands 4 feet 7 inches tall and has never been to bed with a white woman. Myrna Jeffers changes that: the wife of a defeated USIS official and a pathological liar, she seduces Hunter handily. Too late, Hunter tries an act of atonement but he fails, and that failure, it is hinted, precipitates his own abrupt demise.
This is a remorseless story strongly told. The sex fairly steams and the symbols are painted with the kind of bold brush that eases the lives of freshman English instructors. I particularly like the use to which Larson has put that most troublesome of structural devices, the split narration. Myrna tells much of the story; her husband, some; the wretched Hunter, being so early dead, must rely on the author to carry his part of the tale. There is a point to this diversity: because of his need for Myrna, Hunter must accept the fantasy she offers. The reader will not know for a long time that it is a fantasy, and Hunter never finds out. At the book's end, Myrna is still spinning her self-deception, confirming with every strand what her former lover feared was true about the white man in the black man's continent.
Peter S. Prescott, "Hot Tickets," in Newsweek, Vol. 92, No. 14, October 2, 1978, p. 94.∗
Peter Nazareth
Surprisingly—because we tend to dismiss critics turned novelist—The Insect Colony is a fine novel. Larson has a novelist's sensibility. He uses various novelistic techniques such as split narration, varying levels of perception, movement through time zones and the ending of every chapter with a startling revelation or question. Hunter Schuld, an entomologist, has returned to West Africa to study spiders. Metaphorically, everybody gets caught in a web of connections—an image Larson may have picked up from West African writers like Wole Soyinka, but one which works both because of the details of web construction and because we are made to see connections between people, sensibilities and histories....
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Jack L. Davis
The title of [Charles Larson's] pioneering study [American Indian Fiction] is somewhat misleading, for Larson intends a discussion of novels only, not shorter fiction as well. One suspects this restriction owes to the author's self-admittedly brief acquaintance with imaginative literature written by Native Americans. Unfortunately, the limitation leads the author into generalizations based upon but 16 works, from Simon Pokagon's Queen of the Woods (1899) to Leslie Silko's Ceremony (1977). If Larson had consulted, for example, Kenneth Rosen's collection of contemporary Indian stories, The Man to Send Rain Clouds, he would have found a dozen and half examples of how many gifted young...
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Larry Evers
[American Indian Fiction] is the first book-length study of fiction written by American Indians. Larson treats novels by twelve authors: Simon Pokagon, John M. Okison, John J. Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, N. Scott Momaday, Dallas Chief Eagle, Hyemeyohsts Storm, Denton Bedford, George Pierre, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Nasnaga. Though the book is titled American Indian Fiction, Larson discusses only novels, ignoring the fine short fiction of Simon Ortiz, Leslie Silko, and others for plodding discussions of the third-rate novels of Nasnaga, Pierre, Bedford, and Eagle. Larson gives some interesting readings of individual novels, but the study is marred by a curious and often imprecise conceptual...
(The entire section is 563 words.)
Richard Bjornson
[In The Novel in the Third World, a] collection of essays on ten representative novels from Africa, India, the Caribbean, Papua New Guinea, and the Black and Native American communities in the United States, Larson proposes an evolutionary schema according to which third-world fiction can be defined in terms of its common characteristics, and not in terms of its relationship to Western literary models. Based primarily on narrative content, this schema distinguishes various stages in a process which has presumably repeated itself each time an European-American culture has sought to dominate non-Western peoples whose value systems are rooted in communal consciousness, a holistic view of history as cyclical...
(The entire section is 833 words.)
Kirkus Reviews
[Arthur Dimmesdale is] Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter revisited—to no apparent purpose. Dimmesdale, you'll remember, is the Puritan minister tortured by his association with the sin for which Hester Prynne wears the scarlet letter "A" on her breast. Larson's Dimmesdale, however, is an explicit adulterer who gets Hester with child and damns both; his suffering afterwards is mental (a Puritan conscience and hell-fire fear inflamed beyond balm) and physical (stigmata—an "A", naturally—that appears on the skin of his chest). Indeed, Dimmesdale appears about to be consumed alive with guilt when Roger Chillingworth intervenes, offering Indian shaman cures and hypnosis. And the ordeal ends only when Hester,...
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Publishers Weekly
["Arthur Dimmesdale," a] recasting of Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," from the viewpoint of the pusillanimous young minister, gets high marks for vision. However, so overwhelming is the convoluted psychic landscape of Minister Dimmesdale that the reader wilts under his vacillations and can only marvel that Hester aroused passion in such a one. Larson's version of the sin that Puritan Boston deemed a crime is forthright, differing from the studied ambiguity of the original…. [Larson] gives some unique Gothic touches to a classic.
A review of "Arthur Dimmesdale," in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 222, No. 6, August 6, 1982, p. 58.
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The fourth time, there will be a security guard in a black Rancher will start to chase you.
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Developing a Training Plan Part III: Consistency
"Practice makes perfect" goes the old adage. If you want to be good at something, you have to commit your time and energy to it in order to adapt and thus experience improvement.
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The key elements of a successful training plan are just like the corner pieces of a jigsaw puzzle—find them and it's easier to fill in the rest.
Through my experiences as a running coach and elite runner, I've identified four training "corner pieces" that will help you to develop reliable and predictable performances: simulation, effort, consistency and lifestyle. Last month, I discussed effort (you can read that post here); this month's segment is consistency.
As I have said before, the corner pieces are not groundbreaking findings; they are simply tried-and-true training techniques that, when interlocked, will help you achieve running success.
The Third Corner Piece: Consistency
"Practice makes perfect" goes the old adage. If you want to be good at something, you have to commit your time and energy to it in order to adapt and thus experience improvement. Apply the adage to running. As simple as this premise sounds, many aspiring—and even veteran runners—struggle to implement the necessary efforts to fully allow this principle to unfold. If you want to become a better runner, it's not enough to just run, your training plan must also be consistent in both volume and intensity.
Fitness gains are made through the process of adaptation. The more you repeat a specific movement or type of activity the more conditioned your body becomes to that particular effort. In other words, the more often you run a certain workout, your body learns to recognize the particular demands associated with it, and then expects and welcomes them the next time you perform that workout. In addition to repetition (running regularly), gradually increasing duration (time spent running) also yields fitness gains because it enables your body to efficiently utilize energy stores while improving your running economy.
For example, when we first started working together, my client Rachel was running five miles four days a week. Rachel wanted to train for a half marathon with the goal of besting her current time of 1:57. She expressed discouragement in her inability to run the second half at a pace that would put this time goal within reach. Clearly, Rachel was in great five-mile race shape, however, her longest run was five miles, making the additional eight miles of a half-marathon a real struggle.
Her body was not used to running that far and was not responding positively to the additional demands. Once she started varying her mileage and incorporating weekly long runs of 10 to 15 miles over a period of eight weeks, her body learned to recognize that the long run was now a staple in her training and she was gradually able to complete the long runs feeling as good as she did during her five milers. After eight weeks of training this way, Rachel entered a half-marathon and dropped her personal record to 1:46.
While her mileage was consistent from the beginning, it was consistent only for a limited distance and any attempted runs beyond that recognizable length felt challenging as her body had not yet been exposed to the additional stimulus (mileage increase). Once she applied a consistent dose of longer runs to her daily training routine, her body was able to efficiently respond to the increase in race distance.


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California's Monterey Coast
"The greatest meeting of land and water in the world" is how landscape artist Francis McComas described Point Lobos, just south of Carmel, Calif. Many would agree.
Granted, some other stretches of coastline around the world are worthy rivals. Put it to a vote, though, and the top spot would probably go to the Monterey Coast. Moreover, some of the world's most intriguing five-star lodgings are perched upon and tucked away into seaside properties that take full advantage of this region's spectacular views.
The area has many claims to fame, one of which is golf. Although Pebble Beach is well known, you may not be aware that several other courses are on the peninsula, making it possible to play a different one every day for more than a week, all within a few miles of the jet-capable Monterey Peninsula Airport. (This facility is a definite plus for business jet travelers, as the nearest commercial airport is an hour and a half north by car.)
But you don't have to be a golfer to find ways to stay busy in Monterey. It's a one-stop shop for deep-sea fishing, scuba diving, kayaking, whale watching, sailing and a variety of other excursions and active sea sports. The justly famous Monterey Bay Aquarium is here (montereybayaquarium.org). So is the Monterey Fairgrounds, site of one of the world's longest-running jazz festivals (montereyjazzfestival.org), which takes place on the third full weekend in September. (The Monterey International Pop Festival, which famously helped to introduce Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Janis Joplin and others in 1967, occurred here as well.)
On the west side of town, near the aquarium, you can begin a great drive around the perimeter of the Monterey Peninsula and past the town of Pacific Grove. This is first-class leg-stretching, tide-pool-browsing and ocean-watching coastline. The trails are alive with visitors and locals, though not so many as to make them seem crowded. Bicycles are available for rent in both Monterey and Pacific Grove, and for some that's the best way to tour the peninsula.
The drive leads to Carmel, that community of quaint storybook houses beside a white-sand beach that is flanked north and south by natural and architectural splendor. You could begin and end an enjoyable holiday without leaving the Monterey Peninsula–especially if you have a penchant for golf, sea sports, wine tasting or attending racing events at Laguna Seca.
From Carmel, consider heading south, toward Big Sur. Still quite small in terms of population, it offers charm and grandeur that have been trumpeted by the poetry of Robinson Jeffers; the writings of Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson; and the photography of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
Nepenthe is a superb restaurant that got its name from a classical reference to an herbal antidepressant (nepenthebigsur.com). Nearby, on the land of the Post family cattle ranch, you'll find the Post Ranch Inn (postranchinn.com), upon which the travel magazines have justifiably heaped accolades for its amenities, accommodations, atmosphere and spectacular vistas. Across the road, Ventana Inn & Spa (ventanainn.com) offers lofty sea views from a 1,200-foot elevation. Small electric vehicles shuttle guests from their lodging and spa area through a deep grove of redwoods to the restaurant.
To get away from it all from either of these resorts, you simply need to pull on hiking boots. Hiking trails and one road lead directly from both inns up into the Ventana Wilderness. This mountainous area between the California Highway One coast road and U.S. Highway 101 remained relatively unmapped much longer than other parts of the western U.S., due to its steep and rugged terrain, and it is still one of the West Coast's most remote and road-free areas. The few roads that do exist lead to a wealth of hiking, mountain-biking and off-road-driving opportunities. (Keep in mind that the roads through the wilderness are best suited for four-wheel-drive vehicles.) One of the most scenic of these tracks is Coast Ridge Road, which meets Highway One in the vicinity of the Ventana and Post Ranch Inns and leads up into the Ventana Wilderness.
Going south about 25 miles from the inns you'll find the Nacimiento-Ferguson Road, the only route through the wilderness area from the coast road to U.S. 101. It passes through the Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation and can be traversed in an ordinary vehicle (depending on weather and road conditions). Turning off from it is Cone Peak Road, a winding dirt road that leads, as the name implies, to Cone Peak. At 5,155 feet elevation, it's the highest coastal mountain in the lower 48 states. Only three miles from the sea as the crow flies yet almost a mile high, it's a steep climb with sheer drop-offs to the side.
If you'd be nervous about traveling in an SUV on such terrain, you might have more fun elsewhere. Otherwise, it's a great adventure that can fit within a tight time frame, a way to get well off the beaten path and yet remain within convenient reach of luxury accommodations and aircraft. Even if you aren't bothered by rough, steep and twisty driving conditions, however, you'd do well to avoid these roads in the rainy season. The area is notorious for winter landslides.
Going south from Big Sur, you'll come upon the Esalen Institute, granddaddy of New Age retreats. The founders named it for the Esselen tribe of Native Americans, who lived in the area for 6,000 years. The natural hot and freshwater springs make the spot ideal.
Since the Esalen Institute (esalen.org) began operating on the site a half century ago, residents and seminar leaders here have included architect and futurist Buckminster Fuller, scientist and peace activist Linus Pauling, writer Aldous Huxley and many others. There are also performance events at Esalen, which over the years have featured Joan Baez, George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen, Ravi Shankar and many other noteworthy artists.
Esalen today offers workshops, seminars, massage, yoga, tantra and a wide variety of other treatments, training, education and entertainment. There is lodging on the premises, but programs are equally available to those who choose to stay elsewhere.
Meander farther south and you'll arrive at the place where a local resident named Patrick Cassidy milled fallen wood into salable lumber. Silvery, sun-bleached limb remnants were strewn around his property, leading locals to refer to the place as "Treebones."
Today, the site is still called that, though it has been transformed into an unconventional place to stay, relax, wander and enjoy the views (treebonesresort.com).
At the core, Treebones is a collection of 16 yurts, five campsites and a "human nest" with its own campsite. To these are added a hot tub, a swimming pool with an ocean view, a gourmet restaurant and an outdoor sushi bar.
At around $300 per night, a stay in a yurt is a bit down market from the much-lauded and multi-starred inns mentioned above. But, hey, it's a yurt! Then again, the views are so impressive, it might not matter much what it was. Perhaps it's best to regard it as camping in a spacious and luxurious tent, since the shower and restroom facilities are a short stroll away.
If you're staying elsewhere, you might still check out Treebones' Wild Coast Restaurant and Sushi Bar. It features an international menu that uses fresh, organic farm-to-table ingredients and the only sushi for many miles in any direction.
Traveler Report Card
ACCOMMODATIONS (A+): There's a wide selection of five-star accommodations from suites in the heart of Monterey's Cannery Row to hotels and inns on cliffs overlooking the sea in Big Sur.
FOOD AND WINE (A+): The area has a strong appeal for seafood aficionados. Locals flock to Fishwife (fishwife.com), on Sunset Drive in Pacific Grove, but virtually all the better restaurants offer excellent seafood. If you like artichokes, note that the area between Monterey and Santa Cruz is their principal growing region. During harvest season, it's doubtful that better 'chokes can be found anywhere on Earth. Some local wines are quite good, though many people still consider the region an also-ran behind the Napa and Sonoma valleys.
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES (A+): Hiking, mountain biking, surfing, scuba and snorkel diving, wind surfing, golf, tennis, sailing (sailmontereybay.com), whale watching (montereywhalewatching.com), deep-sea fishing, kayaking (adventuresbythesea.com)–it's all here.
NIGHTLIFE (B): This isn't New York or San Francisco, but you will find jazz that is "cool" in the word's original sense. In Carmel, check out Doris Day's Cypress Inn (cypress-inn.com) and Clint Eastwood's Mission Ranch (missionranchcarmel.com). In Monterey, try the Cibo Ristorante Italiano (cibo.com).
QUIETUDE (A+): Quietude at the Big Sur resorts, Post Ranch Inn and Ventana Inn & Spa, is about as good as it gets. Even the luxury hotels on Cannery Row are relatively quiet, especially those with bay views. Beaches are not crowded and hiking trails in the Santa Lucia Mountains are remote.
Traveler Fast Facts
WHAT IT IS: A section of California's Central Coast from Monterey south to below Big Sur, known for its beautiful seascapes and outstanding musical events, and for the authors, artists and photographers who have called the region home.
WHERE IT IS: On California Highway One, roughly 125 road miles south of San Francisco and 350 north of Los Angeles.
AMBIANCE: It varies dramatically, with posh and rugged places within walking distance of each other. Spectacular coastline views are omnipresent.
FLYING IN: The nearest commercial airport is San Jose International, 80 miles north by car. For private jets and the occasional feeder airline, Monterey Peninsula Airport (montereyairport.com) offers a 7,616-foot asphalt runway and a full range of services. As morning and evening fog can be a problem on the California coast in summer, note that it's also possible to land a little farther inland on the Salinas Municipal Airport's 6,000-foot asphalt runway.
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UPDATE: This is what went down at the event launch and we are glad to share. Thanks for stopping by even if you missed the event proper.
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And the official launch is over. Great stuff happening at BlackBerry. Name change. New devices. New People. Culture Change. #BlackBerry10
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The VP of Business Development speaking on partnering with various 3rd party content producers.
This is the new BlackBerry. They've been working hard with 3rd party content producers including movie studios, music artistes and application developers.
Now, BlackBerry Story Maker allows you to build stories by bringing together pictures, videos and sound tracks too to make a motion picture.
BlackBerry 10 camera has an inbuilt picture editor so you can have those great camera moments.
BlackBerry Remember – not just the emails but everything you have worked on even down to your notes and you can organize your things better.
Introducing BBM video – make video calls directly from your BBM. Simply astounding. And also BBM Screenshot.
Everything on the new BlackBerry devices is realtime and deeply integrated into social networks, both professional and personal.
Introducing Blackberry Balance for the enterprise and the individuals who run the enterprise. Everything is different in both sides.
The new keyboard recognizes most languages and even switches in mid-sentences. That is just awesome and the best typing experience on any device.
The calendar is also included in the Blackberry hub, so apart from notifications, you can also see your next appointments and it will pull every detail from social networks so you know exactly who and what you are doing.
The BlackBerry Hub brings every notification to one single spot – facebook, twitter, email, linkedin and so much more. All your activities in one place.
The gesture is fluid, flowing, fast and fantastic. BlackBerry Flow delivers real multitasking.
The cover was specially designed for the products, you won't find them anywhere else. Lighter, stronger, clearer.
BB10 integrates social messages with your work. We heard you loud and clear and here it is – the physical keyboard stays.
After a list of people Heins wants to thank, we've moved on to our first big announcement: RIM has changed its name to BlackBerry.
Over the past few years, BlackBerry has fallen quite hard and RIM is hoping that this will be the beginning of a great come back. The share price has recently started increasing from a very low that it was in August 2012.
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Even though I was never superb at graffiti, as an artist (I'm a pop/abstract artist ) I still appreciate the intricate technique and innovative expression that goes into slashing a wall. While far away it may appear to some as just a bunch of colors, the above picture is just one example of how epic slashing a hotel room can truly be.
Graffiti artist Tilt designed this original hotel room, Panic Room, for the Au Vieux Panier hotel in Marseille, France. The concept of Panic Room basically takes on this avant-garde expression of minimalism meets an explosion of vibrant colors & words. With the help of graffiti artists Tober, Grizz, and Don Cho, Tilt and his crew were able to come up with a stunning design that exudes an air of originality I haven't scene in interior design.
The picture above is just one of the many pictures taken by Big Addict (aka Roudet Benjamin) that shows off the essence of Panic Room, but the behind-the-scenes exclusive video is priceless. When discussing the project, Tilt said:
"The hotel Au vieux panier asked me to design a room, I first told them that I wasn't interested doing just decoration in the room but I wanted to create something that will look more like an installation. I thought about it also as a huge canvas where I needed to think about the composition and play with the empty white part of the room to accentuate more the idea of Chaos on the other part. Then I asked my friend Tober who gat a great old school style for tags, Grizz who is also the man behind the camera and Don Cho who is a Hip Hop singer from Marseille but who used to be a tagger from my home town Toulouse. It took one week to do the whole thing cause the idea was to exaggerate what you can usually see in some abandoned places. Too much tags, too much drips, too much sentences, too much throw ups … What I also wanted to show is that people can appreciate any type of graffiti, even the more basic, it's just a matter of point of view …"
I really love Tilt's perspective on point of view. He was able to truly take such a huge canvas and design such an exhilarating point of view that is exaggerated, yet still basic.It kind of goes with the saying, more is less. While one side of the room has quite a bit going on, everything is balanced out by the white space on the left side of the room. It would have been cliche for Tilt to slash the entire room, but the dual personalities of both spaces create a riveting statement.
The pictures are great, but the video speak to the full aura of the room. Yet, even then, it's probably even more phenomenal to see this room in person. But needless to say, the pictures and video are more than award-winning, they are epic visions of abstract creativity brought to life.
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I like long fermentations, but I think the fridge is a bit too cold.
The AC is my home AC - you see it in the ambient temp (outside of the cooler) - not the cooler temp. The 1.5kg water is in the containers to simulate having a mass of dough in the cooler.
Craig-- So now both boys have their science projects?
They both won first place and are headed to district. Neither was pizza related.
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This is something I've been looking into recently.First I tried the Brod and Taylor Folding Proofer. It turned out to be a floater. At that point I was ready to go DIY but at the last minute I decided to give this a shot and I'm glad I did. It'll comfortably hold 8 of these and it has no problem maintaining 58 degrees in a 72 degree room.


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Phil Harris vs. Darren Uyenoyama
Round 1:
Nick Gamst is the referee for the card's opening fight. Uyenoyama comes charging out of the gate and assumes Octagon control. Soon thereafter, he clinches Harris against the cage. They switch position several times before Harris scores a takedown. Uyenoyama right back to his feet, but Harris is dogged in going for another takedown. Uyenoyama fights it, but Harris gets the sweep and the takedown. Uyenoyama manages to maneuver Harris into a solid triangle choke, but Harris manages to pop out and get back to his feet. Uyenoyama goes for a somersault kick. Uyenoyama throws occasional kicks in the final minute. Stronger finish for the latter, but Harris early work makes the difference.
Round 2:
Opening minute features both guys throwing occasional single strikes, DU with kicks and Harris with right hands. Uyenoyama bulls forward, throws a knee, and sends Harris back against the fence. Harris goes for a takedown, but Uyenoyama manages to turn it into a rolling Kimura, briefly gets Harris' back, and ends up in top position with two minutes left. DU again gets Harris' back, gets his hooks in for a rear naked choke, and that's it, as Harris taps.
Darren Uyenoyama def. Phil Harris via submission (rear-naked choke) at 3:38 of round two.
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Diego Nunes vs. Bart Palaszewski
Round 1:
Nunes has long been know as a defense-first fighter, but he tags Palaszewksi with a big right hand and chases after him, landing another blow which opens a cut over his left eye. But the veteran Palaszewski swiftly manuevers Nunes into a triangle choke. while it's tight, Nunes manages to hang on. Nunes still in the triangle, but not nearly as tight. Two minutes into the fight. Nunes finally pops free and gets top position. He lands several big elbows. Nunes stands, is wary of an upkick, but lands a punch. Both scramble to their feet. Gigantic right hand by Nunes drops him. Palaszewski somehow keeps his wits and covers up. Final minute. Nunes stands again, then passes guard and lands several more blows in the closing seconds.
Round 2:
Less frenetic pace in the opening moments. Palaszewski throws a combo. But Nunes tags him with a spinning back first, then scores a takedown. Palaszewski fends him off and gets back to his feet midway through the round, then connects on a body kick. Nunes throws a big right which glances his opponent's temple. One minute left. Nunes mixing up his strikes. Nunes with a late takedown.
Round 3:
Palaszewski knows he needs a finish to win the fight, and connects on a left hook. He wobbles Nunes with a combo. Nunes still looks dazed. He throws and misses a spinning back kick. They trade kicks for awhile. Three minutes left. Both fighters look tired. Nunes throws a right and Palaszewksi answers with a combo. Two minutes left, Palaszewksi is going to have to summon one more big flurry. Nunes playing it more cautious this round. He halfheartedly attempts a takedown, nothing comes of it. One minute left, Nunes looks more energetic. Spinning kick lands to the ribs. Drops him with a big right, Nunes unleashes the ground and pound but Bart's saved by the bell.
Diego Nunes def. Bart Palaszewski via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 30-27).
Shane Roller vs. Jacob Volkmann
Round 1:
Volkmann, the hometown favorite, doggedly pursues a single-leg early, but Roller frees himself. Volkmann connects on a combo. Volkmann goes for a takedown, gets it and takes Roller's bac. Roller's on his knees, covers up as Volkmann rains down punches. Volkmann trying to maneuver into position for a rear-naked choke. He does so, sinks it in, and Roller taps.
Jacob Volkmann def. Shane Roller via submission (rear-naked choke) at 2:38 of round one.
Marcus LeVesseur vs. Carlo Prater
Round 1:
LeVesseur swings and misses on a wild overhand right out of the gate. The exchange ends up with Prater bodylocking him along the cage, where he lands an occasional knee. A minute in, still locked up. Prater mixing knees and shoulder strikes. But LaVesseur counters with a trip. Stalemate on the ground and refereee Josh Rosenthal stands them up. LeVesseur darts in and out. Prater catches him coming in, goes for a flying triangle, but LaVesseur picks him up and carries him over to the fecne. Two minutes left. LaVesseur still carrying Prater, who has a standing guillotine. He lets go of the choke and lands on his feet. About a minute left, a positional clinch battle emerges. LaVesseur tries for a takedown, doesn't get it. Close round
Round 2:
Another clinch fest along the fence breaks out. LaVesseur's the wrestler here but he's yet to score a takedown. Prater goes for a trip, doesn't get it, and LaVesseur pops him off the break. Prater's gone for the Thai clinch several times but hasn't been able to do much with it. Two minutes left, Prater takes his foe to the floor and gets a guillotine, but not particularly tight. LaVesseur breaks it and comes out swinging as the two scramble to their feet. One minute left. Fight's back out to center Octagon. LaVesseur goes for a double-leg, but Prater anticipates it and ends up with a half-hearted choke as the round ends.
Round 3:
Opening minute features both fighters again clinching along the fence. LaVesseur throws a couple big uppercuts, but Prater again closes the distance and they're once again tied up. Rosenthal breaks it up and resets them in the middle, midway through the round. 90 seconds left, Prater gets his tightest submission attempt of the fight, but LaVesseur manages to get out of the guillotine choke. LaVesseur on top, but Prater's doing a good job covering up. Another late sub attempt in the closing seconds.
Marcus LaVesseur def. Carlo Prater via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28).
Mike Pierce vs. Aaron Simpson
Round 1:
Daryl Guthmiller is the referee for this welterweight fight. The two Greco clinch in center Octagon and break about 30 seconds later. Pierce clinches Simpson against the fence. Simpson with a high kick coming off the break. Two minutes left. Pierce stalks Simpson but Simpson tags him and lands a knee. Pierce grabs a single leg and won't let go. My TV feed goes out for about 30 seconds. By the time it's back, Simpson has Pierce in a choke as the round ends.
Round 2:
Simpson gets sloppy coming in and Pierce absolutely tags him with a short right hand on the jaw. Pierce follows up with a series of right hands and that's all she wrote.
Mike Pierce def. Aaron Simpson via TKO at 0:29 of round two.
I like both guys but was rooting for Aaron. I hope Dana doesn't cut him, although his overall record is good, he's had far too many decisions for a fighter who started out with TKOs and a sub for the earlier half of his record. I wonder what happened? Maybe he just reached his pinnacle and that's it?
Danny Castillo vs. Michael Johnson
Round 1:
Josh Rosenthal is the referee for this lightweight bout. It doesn't take long before Castillo catches Johnson with a gigantic right hand, then follows on the ground with a series of hammer fists. Castillo from top position, tries to move into position for a triangle, then moves to side control. Johnson escapes a triangle, but eats a couple elbows from Castillo. Johnson, in half-guard, lands a right hand to the body and another to the head. Johnson doing his best to keep him wrapped up. Johnson doing a good job keeping Castillo tied up. Johnson briefly pushes Castillo off, but Castillo dives right back on top of him late. Johnson did a good enough job defending in the second half of the round to keep it from being a 10-8.
Round 2:
Johnson sprawls a Castillo takedown attempt and throws a front kick. And Johnson pulls off his Tim Boetsch moment. Castillo went for a low kick and Johnson hit a short left directly to the jaw. Castillo hit the mat and Johnson followed up with several big right hands before Rosenthal stopped it.
Michael Johnson def. Danny Castillo via knockout at 1:06 of round two.
I was pulling for Pierce, I like how he fights and he is one of the nicest fighters that I have met. I just wish he could have blasted Koscheck or Fitch like he did tonight.
The reports I've seen so far are that Jeremy was arrested on a felony warrant from another state but they don't say what the felony was. Sounds pretty serious. Dana was quoted as saying the fight is still on but I don't think it is. We don't have FUELTV (dang comcast :punch:) but I'm thinking it was scrubbed.
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Stress fractures can occur in various bones of the body when an abrupt increase in activity leads to excessive stress on the bone and impairs the bone repair process. Stress fractures are typically associated with recent increase in activity or intense sport/exercise. Stress fractures can also occur when activity increases or resumes after a period of inactivity. In the foot, they are most commonly seen either in the metatarsal bones (bones on top of the foot that join the toes) or the calcaneus (heel bone).
A stress fracture in the foot will present as pain with running and walking that is relieved with rest and avoiding weight-bearing. The bone that is affected will usually be tender to the touch.
The diagnosis of a stress fracture is made by your physician via discussion, physical exam, and imaging. An X-ray will initially be done. Stress fractures may not always show up on an initial X-ray. If suspicion for a stress fracture is high, an MRI or bone scan may be obtained to pick up more subtle changes.
The key to treatment of stress fractures is rest and avoiding impact activities. On average, it takes 6 to8 weeks for a stress fracture to heal, but sometimes it can take several months. How long it takes and what treatment is used depends on which bone is affected. Some bones require completely laying off of the foot by using crutches. A cam boot is often used to protect and immobilize the foot. To stay fit during the healing period, you may want to focus on upper extremity and core strengthening. Check with your physician first before participating in other non-weight bearing activities.
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The Colorado Rockies look in good shape behind the plate for the 2013 season
The Colorado Rockies look in solid shape behind the plate for the 2013 season. 23-year old righty swinging Wilin Rosario will be the starting catcher for the Rockies. He played in 117 games for the Rockies last year and he was 107 of 396 (.270 avg, .843 OPS) with 67 runs scored, 28 homers, 71 RBIs and 4 stolen bases. He needs to improve behind the plate defensively as he was horrid with the glove in 2012. Rosario played in 105 games (100 starts) behind the dish for the Rockies last year and he had 13 errors and 21 passed balls. He did throw out 24 of 88 (27.3%) base stealers last year, but Rockies' pitchers had a 5.01 ERA with Rosario behind the plate. Rosario has now played in 133 games in his first two years with the Rockies and he is 118 of 450 (.262 avg, .824 OPS) with 73 runs scored, 31 homers, 79 RBIs and 4 stolen bases. 36-year old righty swinging Ramon Hernandez and 34-year old righty swinging Yorvit Torrealba will duke it out in spring training to see who will back up Rosario at catcher for 2013. Hernandez played in 52 games for the Rockies last year and he was 40 of 184 (.217 avg, .601 OPS) with 16 runs scored, 5 homers and 28 RBIs. He played in 46 games (45 starts) behind the plate for the Rockies last year and he had 2 errors and 1 passed ball. He also threw out 7 of 43 (16.3%) runners trying to steal on him last year and pitchers had a 5.45 ERA with him behind the dish. Hernandez has now played in 1,509 games in his first 14 years in the majors and he is 1,335 of 5,057 (.264 avg, .744 OPS) with 576 runs scored, 166 homers, 751 RBIs and 8 stolen bases. Torrealba played in 64 games for the Rangers, Brewers and Blue Jays last year in which he was 44 of 194 (.227 avg, .623 OPS) with 19 runs scored, 4 homers, 17 RBIs and 1 stolen base. He played in 60 games (53 starts) behind the plate last year and he had 2 errors and 4 passed balls. He also threw out 7 of 42 (16.7%) base stealers and pitchers had a 4.04 ERA with him behind the dish.


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Few people associated with the Indian Cricket scene are as reviled as Greg Chappell, the former Australian batsman and captain, later the coach of India preceding over a disastrous World Cup in 2007. In fact the only other person who has been despised more is probably Mohammed Azharuddin in the aftermath of the match-fixing scandal.
Chappell took over the reins of coaching the Indian team in May/June 2005 after John Wright's long and successful stint. John Wright, it must be remembered, forged a combination with Sourav Ganguly that helped take India to the finals of the 2003 World Cup, and pushed India up the test and ODI rankings. Under his tutelage and Ganguly's leadership Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman became the architects of many groundbreaking victories (2001 Eden Gardens, 2002 Headingley, 2004 Adelaide), Virender Sehwag became the first Indian to score a test triple century and the Indian batting order morphed into the juggernaut that it always had the potential to become.
Tracing the Roots
During the halcyon years of the Wright-Ganguly partnership, two tours stand out: India in Australia in 2003-2004, and India in Pakistan in 2004. During the former everybody expected Australia to stomp over India. However what took most fans by surprise and changed the tone of the series was the very first match – a rain-marred drawn fixture at Brisbane. The match featured a stunning innings worth 144 runs of counterattacking brilliance from India's captain, Sourav Ganguly. The innings was surprising because it came from the least expected link in the Indian lineup: prior to the series the batting hopes had been pinned on Dravid, Laxman and Tendulkar. Ganguly was seen as an asset on the team more as a captain who could bat rather than as a pure batsman. It was before this innings that Ganguly took some suggestions on playing on the bouncy Aussie wickets from Greg Chappell. Chappell was a legendary left-handed batsman in his day and his advice to Ganguly proved invaluable.
Convinced that Chappell would be of immense help as a coach, Ganguly proved to be the catalyst in hiring Chappell when Wright retired. And so Chappell started amidst a lot of fanfare in a role that must rank as one of the toughest in all of Cricket.


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The Heath brothers I have known are not confectioners who created an English toffee bar. They played jazz. Much sweeter than candy...
Saxophonist Jimmy Heath, drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath, and the late bassist/cellist Percy Heath were jazz family long before the Marsalis clan. Separately, the sum of their music making covers the totality of modern jazz - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, the Modern Jazz Quartet. I could go on and on, but enough already! Together, the Heath Brothers were a cohesive jazz combo that brought their collective experience to the stage to form their own brand of brotherly jazz.
WBGO has recorded a number of Heath Brothers performances. They include a beautiful recording from New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Prudential Hall, as well as a club date at Iridium. And that's just during my seven year tenure at the station! In 1984, WBGO recorded The Heath Brothers on New Year's Eve. December 31, 1984 at Sweet Basil in New York. The pianist was Stanley Cowell.
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