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Eric Corvis, Jonny Mangue, Chase Burnett, Zane Silver vs. The Pitboss, Matthew Justice, dany only, Stryknyn:**3/4
This is my first time watching Beyond and also my first time seeing any of these men besides maybe Team Beyond who I may have seen once. That being said this was a pretty decent match. They started off with all out brawling and that helped get the crowd involved which is the goal of an opener, get the crowd excited. Mangue I guess is a guy who is going to get to show his stuff off in some other companies working for Wrestling is Fun! so I wish I saw more of what he could do in this match. Matthew Justice was pretty impressive to me but Chase Burnett and Silver seemed like some spot monkey tag. Maybe I need to see more of them to get a fair judgment.
[B]Submission Squad vs. Arik Cannon, Darin Corbin, Christian Rose: **[/B}
]Wasnt doing it for me. It had the traditional Corbin slow motion sequence but that was the highlight of the match. Fifteen minutes I guess was just too long for these guys to keep things interesting.
Remi Wilkins, Dale Patricks, Heidi Loveface vs. Reed Bentley, Tripp Cassidy, Nate Stone: **3/4
There was quite a bit to like about this match. I have seen a couple reviews down on this match but hey maybe I am overrating it but I DON'T CARE.School-of-Roc has gotten a few showcases all around but this was my first time seeing 5/6 guys. Saw Tripp at the CHIKARA Syracuse show but he was in it for about 4 minutes so didnt get a whole lot from it. Really liked the story here. Tripp and Reed were heeling it up, clearly not wanting Stone on their team. Speaking of Stone he looked pretty decent for the little bit I saw of him. Reed and Tripps interactions with Heidi were equal parts disgusting and great with them throwing their ball sweat in her face and Reed having a pin attempt on Heidi with his lower region right by her face. Good stuff. That format also helped the match not feel stagnant.
Davey Vega & Eric Ryan vs. Kentucky Buffet vs. Hooligans: ***1/4
Good match right here. Pretty spotty but I dont care. Everyone looked good. You get 6 young talented performers together and they just went out there and put on a good show. Hooligans are chubby highlander guys who were doing moonsaults and running at their opponents a mile a minute. Not like they were trying to put on anything massive but they put on a real good fast pace exciting midcard match.
Mark Angel vs. Drew Gulak:***1/2
Weird seeing Angel outside of CHIKARA. Honestly never seen a Drew Gulak match but he for sure made a fan out of me. Angel is real damn good at being a heel. He just beats up Gulak for quite a bit of the match but does what not a lot of wrestlers can do, make a workover segment entertaining. After seeing Gulak I want to see him face one of the guys higher on the independent wrestling totem pole. Besides the BS finish this was a damn fine match. But the BS finish means that it isnt over so maybe they can top this match down the line.
Johnny Gargano vs. ACH: ***1/2
Hell of a fun match right here. Gargano played the veteran seeming like he studied a little more than ACH for this. ACH was able to counter a few of Garganos moves, such as the spear through the ropes, but Gargano had plenty of stuff scouted and looked ready for it, such as ACHs running over from behind-kicking-the-guy-then-coming-back-to-kick-the-guy-in-the-face thing. ACH is hot right now and though Im not sure how his ROH match went but I can only expect that the sky is the limit for him. These guys are almost guaranteed to face each other again somewhere down the line and whenever it wherever it does I hope we get a clean finish so we can have an even better match.
#KOA vs. Slaughterhouse: **1/2
A match with okay wrestling and decent comedy. Favorite part of the match had to be when I Believe I Can Fly came one. I was like SPACE JAM. Didnt quite have the payoff I wanted though. This went on over 20 minutes which hurt things considerably. There just wasnt enough interesting stuff going on. You could still have had comedy and some Slaughterhouse killer moments and had it be closer to 15 minutes with it all coming off better.
Dan Walsh vs. Rickey Shane Page:**3/4
This match is for the St.Louis Anarchy Championship. So this match got 7 minutes. I dont understand at all. Take 5 minutes off the last match and add it here. These guys went all out. RSP goes over the top to hit Walsh before the match even starts. They then proceed to beat eachother up on the outside using chairs. Walsh even suplexes RSP through 4 arranged chairs. First time I have ever seen Walsh and I still dont know what to think. RSP on the other hand still impresses the hell out of me. Feels like St.Louis Anarchy got shafted hear cause this could have been a really good match for them but instead is a match that will just be seen as one that didnt get a lot of time. Nothing more and nothing less. Which is a shame. Not saying it would have set the world on fire by any means but it at least could have competed with any of the other best matches on this card.
Johnny Cockstrong vs. RD Evans:***1/4
Went on a tad too long but I was never bored so that is saying something right there. RD Evans is a wrestling GAWD! His mannerisms are just impressive. He works Cockstrongs midsection for about the entire match. Cockstrong when he got offense in tried to lean with the cock (a strategy that I dont know why isnt used more). Cockstrong was a great FIP for RD Evans fantastic heel work. And I was buying into the false finishes because they didnt go crazy with them. Loved how it ended to. Felt like that big move to finish the match a year in the making.
OVERALL: REALLY fun show. Never had seen Beyond Wrestling before and I've heard this doesn't quite have the Beyond feel but I dug a lot of it. With some shows you have extremely high exceptions and you just get incredibly disappointed. Didn't have any coming in so this surpassed them in some respects. I didn't think this would be a blow away ACH vs. Gargano match just yet in their careers. Yet Angel vs. Gulak caught me by surprise. A lot of different stuff here which really made everything enjoyable without comparing it to any other match on the show. Didn't have a blow away MOTYC but a smaller show doesn't really need to. Just consistent funness will do the trick. I would say if you have the spare money their could be worse purchases for sure.
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UFC pay scale reminds me of the CFL
After reading a few fighter profiles and the last 3 or 4 years of UFC pay outs it reminds me of the Canadian football league salaries but the UFC has alot more viewers and payperview events.Alot of the Canadian football players have other jobs just like some UFC fighters.I would say the UFC ratings are closer to the NFL then the CFL so I dont get the low pay.I almost choked when Joe stevens spent his life savings $35000 to fight BJ and was left broke when he did not win.Chris Lytle still a fireman after 20 UFC fights I dont know how Dana and the Fretia brothers sleep at night I suppose a bed of a $100 would be a real big help.Also when the UFC started making huge profits why dont they increase salaries.Do the fighters pay for there own training this would make it worse also what about health insurance who pays that.Bottom line is how do the top athletes get payed like second rate competion.
I think for the most part fighters are fairly compensated with a few exceptions.
Comparing the NFL and the UFC is a little rediculous IMO. The UFC's revenue is probably comparable to a mid-tier NFL franchise.
For the most part NFL teams get to keep 100% of the gate/concession/parking. The UFC has to give a percentage to whatever arena is hosting them. Also the NFL receives a sick amount of money from their network deals, and it is a predetermined amount not dependent on ratings. The UFC on the other hand has to rely the amount of buys to get their money. And even then they still have to share some of that revenue with the cable companies.
Look at the companies that gave out huge fighter salaries (Pride, Affliction), where are they now?
The first rule of business is that the boss has to make his first. Right now the Fertitas and Dana are making some good money. Eventually that will overflow to the fighters.
It would be impossible to get a group plan for professional fighters, so fighters are required the self-insure. The UFC pays for any injuries that are suffered during a sanctioned bout.
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To be honest it really comes down to basic supply and demand. Yes some previous organizations overpaid and went backrupt because of it, but the UFC won't be able to rely on this forever. MMA is bigger than the UFC, and when more well run companies like Strikeforce come around the UFC will have to pay more or risk losing their stars.
It's already happened with Hendo and Fedor, and might happen with others in the future. As long as Strikeforce can balance this with revenue growth, they will be in it for the long term. If they pull an Affliction and basically try to outgun the UFC from the start, they will get trampled. But that's not what they are doing, they are attempting to seperate themselves from the UFC in many ways.
From my recollection, the UFC spends 7% of it's revenue on fighter salaries (including win bonuses).
By way of comparison, NBA players receive 52% of the league revenue in salary.
Only a small percentage of fighters get a cut of the pay-per-view. Couture, Liddell, Ortiz to name a few (how much is Dana getting screwed by Ortiz, haha).
They do, however, make a large amount of money of sponsorships. I don't know exactly how much, but I would imagine it could be about twice as much as their disclosed purse. Again this more than likely depends on the fighter, whether they are the main event or even on the pay-per-view at all, and whether or not they put their shirt on when the decision is announced, lol.
In my opinion the UFC has both been exceptionally smart with their business and somewhat lucky with the timing. They are going to milk it for all it's worth, and why wouldn't they? They are the brand, not the fighters. It will take a Strikeforce or two or three legitimate competitors before pay for the fighters starts to rise to where it should be. Either that or an organized fighters union, which while most fighters would go for Dana would stomp out in a heartbeat.
In the meantime, fighters will do whatever they can to fight for the UFC knowing that putting some gauky Affliction shirt on after they win or lose will earn them $20000. It's a shame because it reduces the legitimacy of the sport in my opinion.
it is not nearly as bad as you're making it out to be. A couple headlines/big events, not to mention if you ever win the belt, and you're living large. Look at Chuck and many others. The lower guys, yea they're not driving hummers, but they still do pretty good compared to other organizations where they make a couple hundred a fight at best.
Even in boxing it's more extreme. Guys on the undercard will get paid $1000 to show and $1000 to win where Gayweather gets $20 million guaranteed. The big difference is Floyd is the brand, UFC is the brand in this discussion. So why shouldn't the UFC make the big bucks?
This is why Fedor is the man in my opinion, laying the foundation for future MMA fighters.
Only a handful of UFC fighters take a cut of PPV revenue: GSP, Brock, Ortiz, and Couture are the only names that I am aware of that are regularly mentioned as roster members who receive any revenue from PPV's.
I have never heard of, read of, any source that claims Joe Stevens receives PPV revenue.
The most plausible estimate of how much UFC fighters make outside of fight purses is that it's often 100% of their UFC salary.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4552?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Rick Hillegas updated DERBY-4552: --------------------------------- Bug behavior facts: [Deviation from standard, Seen in production] (was: [Deviation from standard]) Labels: derby_triage10_8 (was: ) > Allow application to manipulate the transaction state while NOT inside a distributed transaction > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: DERBY-4552 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4552 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Bug > Components: JDBC > Affects Versions: 10.4.2.0 > Environment: Geronimo 2.2 with Jetty, OpenJPA 1.2.1 & Derby 10.4.2.0 > Reporter: Alexandros Karypidis > Labels: derby_triage10_8 > > Enhancement http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1236 prevents applications from modifying the transaction state when using a global transaction. However, an application may access Derby using the XA adapter and issue statements without a global transaction being active. In that case, the auto-commit should be allowed. > This issue is revealed when trying to use the schema-generation facility of OpenJPA. I contacted the OpenJPA folks and you can see the details in this thread: http://n2.nabble.com/Schema-generation-uses-auto-commit-mode-breaks-on-XA-data-sources-tp4583095p4583095.html -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Publication Date: 7/28/2006
Citation: Luo, M., Lee, R.D., Guo, B. 2006. Microarray gene expression profiles of maize in response to drought stress and Aspergillus infection [abstract]. Phytopathology. 96:S71. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Aflatoxin contamination of corn in the field is known to be influenced by numerous factors. Drought stress is conducive to Aspergillus flavus infection and aflatoxin accumulation. Drought tolerant germplasm could reduce preharvest aflatoxin contamination. The objective of this study is to understand the changes of gene expression in response to drought stress, and to identify the associated biochemical pathways and resistant genes. The maize inbred lines of Tex6 and B73 were used in this study. Tex6 has been reported to have reduced aflatoxin contamination and resistant to A. flavus. B73 is used as a susceptible control. Transcriptional profiles of kernels at the 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 day after pollination (DAP) were compared under normal and water deficit conditions using the 70-mer maize oligonucleotide arrays from Maize Oligonuleotide Array Project. Based on the preliminary data, 117 genes related with adversity resistance were used as probes using real-time RT-PCR to evaluate the gene expression in the preharvest kernels at 35 DAP from inbred lines Tex6, A638, LO964, LO1016, B73 and MO17. A638, TEX6 and LO964 had more up-regulated genes in comparison with B73. If B73, LO1016 and MO17 were used as reference lines, respectively, there were 10 cross-talking positive genes which can be selected from A638, TEX6 and LO964. These genes are related with drought response and disease resistance.


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- 2/3 cup water
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- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
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- In a small saucepan, bring water and sugar to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat; stir in the mint, lemon juice, orange juice and peel. Cover and let stand for 1 hour.
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Wang, formerly Asia's richest woman, died in April last year, but the existence of two conflicting wills has complicated the inheritance of her estate, which media reports estimate to be more than $12 billion.
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This is a discussion on From Editor of Columbia, MO, Newspaper.... within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Maybe a few light switches are turning on.... http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/...628Comm002.asp (Found on the nra.org website)...
Maybe a few light switches are turning on....
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Some of that argument would have come from opponents of the law, like me. I could see nothing but potential trouble from encouraging thousands of citizens to hide and carry little handguns with no purpose except to shoot other human beings.
Improper gun use still is a problem, but conceal-carry is not.
"When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer himby force.
"... No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own." -John Galt, Atlas Shrugged
"Killers who are not deterred by laws against murder are not going to be deterred by laws against guns. " - Robert A. Levy
"A license to carry a concealed weapon does not make you a free-lance policeman." - Florida Div. of Licensing
Kind of dispels the 'wild west' myth.
"If we loose Freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the Last Place on Earth!" Ronald Reagan
Columbia is a very far left community. Home of Univiersity of Missouri. I was kind of surprised that no provisions for readers comments to that article.
On another note:
Individuals of known terrorist ties have lived in Columbia and believed to have had an al Quada cell there at one time. A Columbia resident once secured a Satellite Phone and spare batteries and charger for it that went to Osama Bin Laden. IIRC, the batteries and charger was sent in a separate shipment was delivered to Bin Laden when CBS reporters met Bin Laden in Afghanistan and interviewed him.
It was a big issue in Ramsay Yousef's trial after the first WTC bombing in '93. Sleepy lil ol Columbia, MO. in the middle of the Heartland.
Makes ya sleep easier, doesn't it?
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"The gun is the great equalizer... For it is the gun, that allows the meek to repel the monsters; Whom are bigger, stronger and without conscience, prey on those who without one, would surely perish."
A partial step, but a step nonetheless. I'm afraid that I'd fall into his "excessive ownership" category, though.
"We're paratroopers. We're supposed to be surrounded!" Dick Winters
"When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer himby force.
"... No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own." -John Galt, Atlas Shrugged
agreed it will take baby steps...that's the way that we lost a lot of our rights and that is going to be the only way to get them back...can't expect to win the war with one battle. It might be a backhanded compliment but it is a publisher saying "hey maybe guns aren't that bad after all"...it's a small step but it's certainly better than the typical "all guns are evil" junk we get enough of.
I have no idea why Mr Waters would write this, as he is 100% anti-gun. Columbia is the far, far, far left.
I wonder what he would have said if there had been a significant DE-crease in violent crime in MO.


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If you see Peter Facinelli on the subway, don't be afraid to say hello—and then make sure you still have your wallet. The actor learned how to swipe iPhones, wallets, and even briefcases for his role as a career pickpocket, whose playground is the New York City subway system, in the recent film Loosies, which he wrote, starred in, and produced.
Shoot locations for Loosies, including Grand Central Station, the Brooklyn Bridge, Wall Street, and, of course, the subway, were all too familiar to the Queens-born actor, who also stars in Showtime's Nurse Jackie, which is filmed in Astoria and returns for a fourth season this Sunday. Later this year, Facinelli can be seen reprising his role as Dr. Cullen in the conclusion of that little vampire series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2, bringing mass chaos to a theater near you this November.
In between shooting Nurse Jackie and sourcing new projects for his production company, Facinelli Films, we caught up with Dr. Cullen—who will always be Mike Dexter (from 1998's Can't Hardly Wait) to us—to chat about Loosies and why you should always make eye contact with people on the subway.
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PETER FACINELLI: I studied theatre at NYU and I would take the subway in every day. It fascinated me, this underground world of different people, cultures, and noises. I'd be in one subway station and there'd be people playing music on buckets, and then go to another and someone was playing the violin. I wanted to capture all that. So I imagined this pickpocket whose office was an underground world and what [would happen] if he was forced to come above ground and live.
Working on a big budget franchise like Twilight is a far cry from producing a smaller, independent film like Loosies. Which do you prefer?
PF: With an independent, you have less money and you have to be more creative, but often more interesting things [happen]. I remember there was this street performer we were walking past and we asked if we could film him. He agreed to be part of the movie and he was perfect. There was a sense of real edginess, because we captured something that was live and real. Had we written him into the script and hired an actor to play that part, it would have been a completely different thing.
How did you train to play a pickpocket? Any tips for New Yorkers on not being a target?
PF: I worked with this magician and his whole routine was pickpocketing the audience. I got good at picking watches and learned there are certain watches that are easier to pick than others. Wallets are simple, if they're in the back pocket. If they're in the front, they're almost impossible to pick. You know the saying, 'Always keep your wallet in your front pocket?' That's pretty true.
What I did realize is how easy people make it for pickpockets. They leave their purses open right next to them. People are sleeping and most are in their heads, in their own worlds. It's almost a cardinal rule NOT to look at people when you're on the subway, because you don't want to engage, you know?


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A second university professor has been sacked within a week for falsifying his academic credentials amid mounting public cynicism over the higher-education system.
Beijing University of Chemical Technology said Professor Lu Jun , from the college of life sciences and technology, had admitted that he committed plagiarism and that his academic credentials were fake, Beijing Times reported yesterday.
Lu, 39, was accepted by a government-sponsored programme that sought to recruit foreign professionals. Under the programme, Lu was entitled to receive a 500,000 yuan (HK$613,100) subsidy.
The authenticity of Lu's academic qualifications was questioned by fraud investigator Fang Shimin, better known as Fang Zhouzi.
Fang found that the academic essays listed in Lu's resume had the same title as the papers written by a doctoral graduate of Yale University, whose name has an identical spelling to Lu's in English.
Lu claimed to have graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto in 1999, but Fang found that the university had a master's degree graduate in 1999 by the name of Jun Lu, whose parents hailed from Taiwan.
The Beijing University of Chemical Technology later issued a notice denouncing Lu for what he did.
Lu's sacking followed Xiamen University's dismissal last week of a medical school professor for also using fake academic credentials.
The scandal was also exposed by Fang.
The professor, Fu Jin , 45, admitted that she held a fake doctoral diploma that she claimed was from Columbia University.
Fang said that the website of Columbia's medical school showed a resume that said Fu was a pharmacology major in 1999, but another of Fu's resumes said that she earned a doctoral degree in physiology and biophysics.
Fu worked as a visiting professor at Xiamen University from 2004 and won a full-time teaching job in 2009, thanks to her fake credentials.
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The Los Angeles Angels have been busy, adding the best remaining starting pitcher on the market (C.J. Wilson) minutes after they added the best right-handed hitter of this generation (Albert Pujols). After those moves, and assuming some common-sense deployments of the players already in the organization, you could make a case they're a 95-win club with a chance to win 100.
The surprise for me with their addition of Wilson is that with Jered Weaver and Dan Haren, the front of their rotation wasn't a weakness; they needed another starter, clearly, but could simply have chosen to add someone to the back of their rotation for less money than the five-year, $77.5 million contract they gave Wilson. But having a guy who's a No. 2 in many rotations as their No. 3 (or even No. 4, since we shouldn't slight Ervin Santana here) puts the Angels' rotation among the best in the big leagues. Wilson in effect replaces some combination of the filler the Angels used in the No. 4 and 5 spots last year, including the now-traded Tyler Chatwood, and another season from Wilson like the past two he's had would be worth five wins or more above what they got from the Chatwood/Jerome Williams class of pitchers.
The Angels could still stand to upgrade third base, and (as I mentioned in my blog entry on the Pujols deal) they need to give Vernon Wells' playing time to Mike Trout, but even without those moves they're in excellent shape.
The one issue I have with the Wilson deal is that he's a good bit riskier than the typical starter at his level. He's had just two years of starting after several years in the bullpen, and his walk totals have been high in both of those years, leading the AL in 2010 while improving his walk rate in 2011. He's a ground ball guy, so probably doesn't derive quite as much benefit from the Angels' homer-killing ballpark as the average pitcher would, but will benefit from the Angels' tendency to field strong defensive clubs, including a plus defender at second in Howie Kendrick and, at least right now, a plus defender at first in Pujols.
The Texas Rangers take a direct hit, losing their best starter to their closest divisional rival, so even though it's clear they weren't interested in giving Wilson a five-year deal, the five wins the Angels might gain are, in theory, five wins the Rangers might lose, although the impact should be lessened by the shift of Neftali Feliz to the rotation. I said on Thursday's Baseball Today podcast that I thought the Rangers were the most likely landing spot for Yu Darvish; they have a solid rotation overall, but don't have a true No. 1 starter and may not have anyone you'd comfortably call a No. 2. That distinction doesn't mean that much in the regular season -- a rotation full of No. 3 starters plus a good bullpen and a defense that saves a ton of runs can still win a division -- but in the postseason, front-line starters are more important, and Darvish is the only ace available at the moment through any means.
I also think this ends up boosting the appeal of Edwin Jackson, the best remaining free-agent starter now that Wilson and Mark Buehrle are gone, and the one guy left out there who at least looks -- if you squint -- like a potential No. 1 or 2 starter because he has high-end velocity and can hold it deep into games. He doesn't have the reliability of Buehrle or the strong recent history of Wilson, but if you still need a starter who's more than a back-end guy, he's the top of the market.
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By signing Albert Pujols to a 10-year, $250 million contract, the Los Angeles Angels made themselves substantially better for 2012, replacing out-machine Mark Trumbo (.291 OBP in 2011) at first base while avoiding any reliance on Kendrys Morales coming back from a career-altering injury that could even be career-ending. With the Angels also signing C.J. Wilson -- and weakening the Texas Rangers in the process -- they are at least a co-favorite in the division and in excellent position for the wild card thanks to the unbalanced schedule.
It's a Pyrrhic victory for the Angels, however, because it's almost unthinkable that this contract will look like a good one in 2021 when we look back on it after its conclusion. Offering Pujols -- or any player past the age of 30 -- a 10 years is just not rational; there's no way we can accurately project a player who will spend more or less the entire decade of his contract in his decline phase, and even if we assume Pujols' listed age is accurate, a 10-year deal takes him to an age when most hitters are shadows of their former selves.
Per Fangraphs, Pujols was worth just over eight wins above replacement every year from 2003 to 2009, but he hasn't reached that level the last two seasons due to some injuries and very slight signs that he's getting slower, probably the first indications that he's starting his decline. He'll still be very valuable the next two or three seasons, if healthy, but by the midpoint of this deal, he'll probably be overpaid relative to his production, and the last few years of it will be ugly, as they would be for any player signed to a deal this long that takes him past the age of 40.
But in the meantime, the Angels were an 86-win team with some fairly serious offensive holes, one of which was just upgraded by 4-5 wins with the addition of Pujols. Even if they do nothing else on offense beyond this and give Mike Trout most of Vernon Wells' playing time, they are, at least on paper, a 92-plus win club. I fully understand their desire to avoid a second season where they just miss a playoff spot because of a hole that was easily patched, but the problem for the Angels is the inevitable point in Pujols' contract where his salary exceeds his on-field value.
Meanwhile, the St. Louis Cardinals had a rough 24 hours, losing Pujols as well as scouting director Jeff Luhnow, who was hired by the Houston Astros to be their GM. Luhnow was a major reason the team's farm system went from one of the worst in the game to one of the best over the last seven years. There's nothing on the market to reasonably replace Pujols for 2012, and unless the Cardinals make a panic move and deal some of their top-end pitching prospects (like Shelby Miller), I don't see them filling that hole in trade. They still need a shortstop and second baseman, and I don't see Jon Jay as a full-time solution in center. It's an unfortunate position for the club in the short term, but they may secretly be relieved that the Angels blew them out of the water on Pujols because it kept them from experiencing the end of Pujols' contract, when there's a good chance he's an albatross because of the size of his deal.
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The Albert Pujols era is officially over in St. Louis.
The future Hall of Famer signed a 10-year deal worth $250-$260 million with the Los Angeles Angels this morning, leaving a bittersweet taste in the mouths of Cardinals fans. Pujols undoubtedly helped lead them to an unlikely World Series championship in 2011, but he'll take no part of their title defense next season. One of the most beloved players in the storied history of the franchise has moved on to, quite literally, greener pastures.
Losing Pujols is tough both emotionally and in terms of replacing significant production, but it isn't a death blow to the Cardinals playoff odds. If they spend the freed up $22 million — or a portion of it — wisely, the team can absolutely come back strong next year.
Dave Cameron broke down the deal from the Angels point of view, but how the Cardinals react is equally interesting. In fact, the entire Cardinals offseason is noteworthy, because the pursuit of Pujols clearly affected their ability to make other material moves over the last few weeks.
His deal with the Angels not only impacted the Cardinals in terms of missing out on him, but also the opportunity cost of being unable to pursue, say, Jose Reyes. Given their desired payroll for the 2012 season, Pujols was the premiere free agent on their docket. Reyes could potentially come close to replacing that production while occupying just one roster spot, but the Cardinals were never able to join that sweepstakes given the uncertainty surrounding Pujols.
However, the Cardinals don't need to replace his production with one roster spot, even if that's more ideal. Adam Wainwright will be back next season, and can probably be counted on for at least 4 WAR — and potentially much more than that depending on his availability — at just $9 million in salary.
Lance Berkman can shift to first base, where his defensive struggles are further masked. As a poor defensive outfielder last season he matched Pujols's production of 5 WAR. Assuming a decline in his bat is somewhat offset by an improved fielding mark at an easier position, he should produce similarly. Suddenly, that one year, $12 million extension is looking even smarter than it did at the time.
His shift to first base opens up a permanent spot for Allen Craig, who tallied 2.6 WAR with a .312/.362/.555 line in just 200 plate appearances last season. He can clearly hit, and is more than a lefty-crusher who benefited from selective playing time. We can't simply extrapolate Craig's 2011 performance over a full season for 2012, but it isn't out of line to suggest he could hover around 3.5-4 WAR next year.
A full season of David Freese — as opposed to 97 games and 363 PAs would add 1-1.5 wins above replacement as well, and the same can be said of Matt Holliday if he comes closer to 150 games played. Suddenly, the Cardinals have added value without even signing someone, by virtue of welcoming Wainwright back and moving to Berkman to his more natural position.
But they do have $22 million freed up by not signing Pujols and a couple glaring areas of need on the roster. The most notable position to fill is shortstop.
The Cardinals acquired Rafael Furcal towards the end of the season but he's a free agent now. Reyes has signed with the Marlins and Jimmy Rollins is expected to sign with the Phillies. The Cardinals might not be able to sign a free agent shortstop capable of serving as more than a warm body — though they could certainly get back in on Rollins if they were so inclined — but the available payroll means they could stand to afford someone already signed in a trade.
Whether that means John Mozeliak calls the Orioles about J.J. Hardy, the Indians about Asdrubal Cabrera — who may have priced himself out of the Tribe's comfort zone in extension talks — or the rebuilding White Sox about Alexei Ramirez, the Cardinals are able to do more than merely make inquiries.
The Cardinals could also sign Carlos Beltran to fill an all-encompassing outfield role, as well as the pinch-hitting and interleague DH role. He could occasionally spell Jay in center field and split time with Craig in right field. He would cost more than a typical role player but would give the Cardinals arguably the best outfield in baseball.
Losing Pujols certainly hurts, but the Cardinals now have enough wiggle room to move players around and make other acquisitions to bolster their odds of succeeding next year. They have a chance to form a more complete team, without committing 10 years and $220 million to any one player.


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Adorable 4-Year-Old Sings Bruno Mars on 'Ellen'
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Watch out, Bruno Mars! Four-year-old Kai rocks a fedora just as well as the 'Locked Out of Heaven' singer, who performed 'Grenade' on 'Ellen.'
Kai emotes like a pro, closing his eyes, raising his arms and uh, ad libbing a lot of Mars' lyrics to 'Grenade.' Mars loved Kai's performances so much that he arranged for DeGeneres to give him and his family VIP passes to one of his concerts. We're crossing our fingers for an onstage duet!


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A 'Lively' Rant on Popular Film, McCarthyism, and Genre Fiction
The writer, critic, editor, filmmaker, television pioneer, and broadcaster Gilbert Seldes comments on censorship, a favorite topic, in this 1953 broadcast of The Lively Arts.
This episode centers around Seldes's thoughts on a speech made the day before by newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in which the president publicly crossed his longstanding nemesis, Sen. Joseph McCarthy. In related asides, Seldes also manages to cram comments on the following into this 21-minute show: Dartmouth's Great Issues course, the recently released blockbuster film "Julius Caesar," the general dumbing down of the culture, the use of children in advertising, the deleterious effect of mixing news and entertainment, and detective fiction (a genre he also wrote in, under a pseudonym).
By the mid-1950s, Seldes had been a respected writer for more than two decades, and had authored seven of the 21 books he would publish in his lifetime. These, along with his ongoing articles and criticism, discussed a wide range of cultural issues and media, and he used his radio show to discuss any topic that struck him. His observations, delivered in an abrupt, often impromptu, and occasionally self-referential stream of consciousness that prefigured much experimental radio of the following decades, often proved prescient.
Seldes was born in 1893 in Alliance, N.J., and is credited as the first U.S. intellectual to recognize and celebrate the artistic and cultural value of the popular (or "lively") arts. Although he grew up without electricity or running water, working on his father's crumbling farm, he became an avid fan of the theater at age 7, and recalls being "indoctrinated with the idea of individualization" early on, his father regarding conformity as a "criminal act," a betrayal of the self and consequently of society.
Seldes won a scholarship to Harvard, where he began to publish his writing, becoming the editor of the Harvard Monthly. Graduating in 1914, he published an article lamenting the decline of "every cultural activity" at the school, save The Harvard Lampoon which "alone resists." Soon after, he moved to London as a foreign correspondent, publishing his first book, The United States and the War, in 1917.
After a brief stint in the military, he was hired as an editor at The Dial, the nation's pre-eminent literary journal, whose contributors included some of most innovative and influential writers and artists of the 1920s. In 1924, Seldes published The Seven Lively Arts, his seminal collection of cultural essays, for which his radio show (and a later television show) was named. In a chapter on popular song, he wrote:
…our whole present music is derived from the negro and most composers of popular songs haven't yet discovered that the musical structure is applicable to other themes as well.
Seldes's promotion and respectful analysis of popular entertainments like ragtime, movies, vaudeville, burlesque, and comics like Krazy Kat, combined with his intellectual grounding in the classics and a lively imagination, made him a unique force in both assessing and predicting cultural trends.
It was this reputation, along with Seldes's 1937 article, "The 'Errors' of Television," that convinced William Paley to hire the writer as CBS's first director of programming. In his eight years at the network, Seldes brought much innovation to the fledgling medium, as well as programming ideas based on his own eclectic tastes.
But by the 1950s Seldes had begun to view modern pop culture as profoundly different from the flourishing of popular arts in the 1920s. In 1957 he warned that "with the shift of entertainment into the area of big business, we are being engulfed into a mass-produced mediocrity." In this 1953 broadcast, Seldes decries the increasing power of media that "thrive on ignorance," and imagines a future in which:
…people learned to read just enough to spell out short captions under pictures,…They could be amused more easily, they could be sold in more sense than one, much more easily. No critical questioning attitude of mind would get between the comedian or the advertiser and the public….
He concludes,
The lights haven't yet gone out in our scientific laboratories, but the lamp of the scholar doesn't burn as bright or as often or as long as it used to.
Equally chilling are Seldes's comments on the Eisenhower speech, in which the president found it necessary to condemn book burning, after several American titles were destroyed at overseas U.S. Information Service libraries in response to McCarthy's insistence that such subversive works be removed. Quoting Eisenhower's response -- "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed…" -- Seldes notes that the president:
…puts it under the rubric of courage: How it's always taken courage to preserve our freedom,…But the idea that you need a great deal of courage merely to think,…And the fact that there's enormous excitement about [the speech], and repercussions in Washington,…it's as if it's a new and startling thing to have a president of the United States uphold the absolutely fundamental principles upon which the United States is built.
After his radio show went off the air, Seldes became the host of his own television program, "The Subject is Jazz," on NBC. In 1959, he was appointed the first dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, a title he held until 1963.
In 1966, Seldes wrote, "In my own lifetime I have witnessed more changes in the modes of communication than occurred in all recorded history before."
Seldes died in 1970, leaving an unfinished autobiography whose text was used by Pulitizer Prize winner Michael Kammen to write his 1996 biography, The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism, published by Oxford University Press.
Seldes is the brother of the celebrated journalist George Seldes and the father of the award-winning actress Marian Seldes.
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection.
Note: Some poor audio quality due to condition of original recording.


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A recombinant adenovirus type-5 vector-based vaccine expressing the glycoprotein of Ebola Zaire Makona variant showed good safety and immunogenicity in a phase 1 trial of healthy Chinese adults. We aimed to assess the safety and immunogenicity of this vaccine in healthy adults in Sierra Leone and to determine the optimal dose
We did a single-centre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 clinical trial at Sierra Leone–China Friendship Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone. We recruited healthy adults aged 18–50 years who were HIV negative, had no history of Ebola virus infection, and had no previous immunisation with other Ebola vaccine candidates. Participants were sequentially enrolled and randomly assigned (2:1:1), by computer-generated block randomisation (block size of eight), to receive the high-dose vaccine (1·6 × 10¹¹ viral particles), low-dose vaccine (8·0 × 10¹⁰ viral particles), or placebo (containing only vaccine excipients, with no viral particles). Participants, investigators, and study staff (except two study pharmacists) were masked from treatment allocation. The primary safety outcome was occurrence of solicited adverse reactions within 7 days of vaccination, analysed by intention to treat. The primary immunogenicity outcome was glycoprotein-specific antibody responses at days 14, 28, and 168 after vaccination, analysed in all vaccinated participants who had blood samples drawn for antibody tests. The trial is registered with the Pan African Clinical Trials Registry, number PACTR201509001259869, and is completed.
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Love her or hate her, you have to admire Martha Stewart. She's had her ups and her downs, but the woman can do anything with a pair of tweezers, floral wire and some duct tape. She's pretty amazing.
While her recipes have not always been my favorite, I've enjoyed tinkering around with some of them to see if I could "clean them up". This recipe is a case in point.
While I was working on my slow cooker cookbook, I played around with some brownie recipes using her slow cooker brownie recipe as a guide for my test batches. (Don't worry, all the recipes in my cookbook are originals. This was just part of my creative process).
While my final brownie recipe didn't make it in to the cookbook for a multitude of reasons, I didn't want to forget about this test recipe because frankly, it was just plain yummy.
So here is the clean eating version of Martha Stewart's Slow Cooker Brownies.
Clean Eating Slow Cooker Brownies
(Makes 32 brownies)
Time: 4-4-1/2 hours
Temp: Low
Required slow cooker size: 4 quarts (for width, not depth)
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- ½ cup cocoa powder, unsweetened
- 1-1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 cup apple sauce, unsweetened
- 2 medium, ripe bananas, mashed
- 1 cup honey
- 4 egg whites
- 6 ounces unsweetened Baker's Chocolate (6 squares)
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1/2 cup walnuts (optional)
- Olive oil in an oil sprayer
- Line the bottom of your slow cooker with parchment by placing the slow cooker liner on a piece of parchment, drawing a line around the base and cutting out. After inserting the liner, spray the entire inside with an oil sprayer.
- In a large mixing bowl, blend the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder with a whisk.
- In the microwave (microwave safe bowl), melt the Baker's chocolate for 2 minutes, and then in 30 second intervals, stirring between each one until the chocolate is melted. Stir the oil into the chocolate.
- In a separate large mixing bowl, blend the apple sauce, mashed bananas, honey, egg whites, and melted chocolate.
- Combine well with the whisk. Pour into slow cooker liner and cook for 4 hours. A knife inserted into the middle should pull out clean. If not, continue to cook without the lid for an additional 1/2 hour. To remove, run a knife around the edge of the liner and flip upside down onto a clean surface. The brownie should slide right out. Allow to cool. Slice and serve.


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Men's Cigarettes and Whiskey T-Shirt
Even just reading those words brings back a whirlwind of spotty memories from a few weekends ago. So, if you ever see me out and about with red label in hand and a cigarette hanging bellow my lip, do me a favor and save me the trouble. Just punch me in the stomach as hard as possible, steal all the cash out of wallet and throw my iPhone against the ground and put me in a cab. ...so do I like this shirt? i guess you could say that I think it's OK.


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Rwanda Heroes
On February 1, Rwandans celebrate the National Heroes' Day. It is the day on which we remember National heroes and heroines and reflect on the values for which they are remembered.
Heroes and heroines are classified into three categories which include 'Imanzi', 'Imena' and 'Ingenzi'.
Imanzi are supreme heroes who demonstrated outstanding achievements indicated by supreme sacrifice, outstanding importance and example. It is worth mentioning that they are no longer alive.
Heroes in the Imena category are reputed for their extraordinary acts for the country marked by sacrifice, high importance and example.
The Imanzi category is for those known for their good ideas or outstanding achievements characterised by supreme sacrifice.
The Unknown Soldier ('Imanzi')
The Unknown Soldier represents all the fallen soldiers of the liberation struggle.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located at the Heroes cemetery in Remera, next to Amahoro National Stadium. The Tomb is a way of commemorating the
soldiers whose remains could not be identified after the Liberation war.
Maj Gen. Fred Gisa Rwigema ('Imanzi')
Born on April 10, 1957 in Mukiranze village, Kamonyi District (former Gitarama) in the Southern Province, he died on October 2nd, 1990, on the second day of the Rwanda Patriotic Army liberation war.
His parents were Anastasi Kimonyo and Gatarina Mukandilima. Rwigema and his family fled to Uganda and settled in Nshungerezi refugee camp in the 1960's following the 1959 Genocide against Tutsis. On June 20, 1987, he married Jeannette Urujeni and they were blessed with two children: Junior Gisa and Teta Gisa.
In 1974, he went to Tanzania and joined the Front for National Salvation (FRONASA), a rebel group headed by Yoweri Museveni.
Later in 1976, he travelled to Mozambique and joined the FRELIMO rebels who were fighting for the Mozambican liberation against the Portuguese colonial power.
In 1981, 27 soldiers including Rwigema and President Paul Kagame, and Ugandan President Kaguta Museveni, started a liberation struggle
against the then regime of Uganda President Milton Obote.
Rwigema helped the National Resistance Army (NRA) capture state power in 1986 and was appointed the Ugandan Deputy Minister of Defence.
He was regularly at the front line in northern Uganda during the government's offensive against remnants of the ousted regime. He attained several positions in the Ugandan army such as Deputy Army Commander and Overall Operations Commander.
Despite holding all the above posts, he always held Rwanda at heart. Rwigema is remembered for being among those who greatly inspired the Rwandan refugees in Uganda to liberate their country, and on October 1, 1990, he spearheaded Rwanda's liberation struggle. He was shot at the front line.
King Mutara III Rudahigwa Charles Léon Pierre ('Imena')
King Mutara III Rudahigwa Charles Léon Pierre was born in 1911. He was the son of King Yuhi IV Musinga and Nyiramavugo Kankazi Redegonde. He became the King on November 16, 1931 after his father was overthrown on November 13, 1931.
During his reign, King Rudahigwa greatly advocated for the welfare of Rwandans and independence.
He married Nyiramakomali on October 15, 1933 and they separated in 1940. He re-married Rosalie Gicanda on January 18th 1942. There were no children in both marriages. Rosalie Gicanda was murdered on April 22, 1994 during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
The king is commonly known to have mediated between the Belgian colonialists and the Catholic Church. He highly advocated for the welfare of Rwandans, democracy and fighting against injustice through the King's Court.
He worked hard to educate Rwandans through the establishment of the Mutara Fund and requested Jesuits to establish a college in Gitarama but instead, the Jesuits stole his idea and took the college to Bujumbura.
Rudahigwa later set up the Islamic college in Nyamirambo-a Kigali City Suburb and another school in Kanyanza and offered scholarships to many Rwandans to study in Europe.
Under his monarchy, he eliminated all forms of slavery and advocated for unity and reconciliation among Rwandans.
King Mutara III Rudahigwa died under mysterious circumstances on July 25, 1959 in what many consider to have been an assassination.
Michel Rwagasana ('Imena')
Michael Rwagasana was born in 1927, in Gitisi Nyamagana of Ruhango District in the Southern Province. He attended Groupe Scolaire Astrida attaining a Diploma in Administration.
He married Suzana Nzayire in 1957 and were blessed with three children
Rwagasana attained several distinctive positions due to his integrity; he later became the Personal Secretary of King Mutara III Rudahigwa from 1954.
His unvarying advocacy for unity, independence and denouncing ethnic differences won him a job as the First Rwandan Secretary in the United Nations.
He died in prison under the regime of Gregory Kayibanda for declining to embrace ethnic segregation.
Agatha Uwilingiyimana ('Imena')
Agatha Uwilingiyimana was born on June 23, 1953 in Gitore, Gisagara District of the Southern Province. She was the daughter of Yuvenali Ntibashirakandi and Saverina Nyirantibangwa.
She got married to Ignace Barahira in 1976 and was blessed with three children.
Uwilingiyimana became the first woman to hold the position of Prime Minister in Rwanda's history from July 17, 1993 to April 1994.
Prior to that, she served as the Minister of Education where she advocated for equal rights among students
During her time in office, she advocated for the rights of women and spearheaded the fight against divisionism.
She was assassinated on April 6 1994.
Félicité Niyitegeka ('Imena')
Born in 1934, Félicité Niyitegeka was the daughter of Simon Sekabwa and Angelina Nyirampabuka.
She was killed on April 21, 1994 during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
Niyitegeka is remembered for refusing to part ways with the people who found refuge at Centre Saint Pierre in Gisenyi (currently Rubavu District).She was just a casual worker when her brother asked her to separate from the Tutsis since the military was aware of her activities, but she declined. When the militias came to her house, she already had over 30 Tutsi refugees in her house.
The Interahamwe informed her that she would be spared but her charges would have to be killed, but opted to die alongside them.
Nyange Secondary School students ('Imena')
The Senior Five and Senior Six students of Nyange Secondary School were on March 18 1994, attacked by genocidaires who forced them to divide into ethnic groups. They refused and a big number of them were massacred.
The Nyange heroes are among millions of victims of the decades of bad leadership that attempted to erase our characteristic values that were historically built around our common identity since the days of our forefathers.


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Eye For Film >> Festivals >> A-Z >> French Film Festival >> 2011
The 19th edition of the French Film Festival will run from November 9 to December 4, 2011. It will open with Romantics Anonymous.
It aims to showcase the best of the year's French cinema, and Christophe Honoré will be among this year's guests of honour.
Opening in Edinburgh, The FFF UK will screen in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Warwick plus Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Stirling, Dumfries and for the first time Bo'ness (at the recently restored Hippodrome).
View Films by Strand:
- Animation
- Chabrol in Brittany
- Christophe Honoré Showcase
- Classics
- Discovery Horizons
- Documentary
- Panorama Horizons
- Preview
- Sounds Of Silence
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A French musical about the contrasting romantic experiences of a mother and daughter.
Marie Deschamps, a 20 year old French-Canadian girl, quits college to go travel and learn English in Western Canada.
A schoolboy tries to cope with his parent's trial separation and win over the girl of his dreams.
A cat with a double life becomes embroiled in a tale of animated adventure on the rooftops of Paris.
Coming-of-age yarn which takes a cue from Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Anarchic comedy involving a fairy and a receptionist at a seaside hotel.
Two pathologically shy neurotics connect through a love of chocolate.
A touching portrayal of love against the odds.
An exceedingly French musical about a menage a trois in Paris.
Love, sex, suicide and depression filmed Truffaut style.
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