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Is Your Fitness Routine Tough Enough
While we all have different fitness goals, most of us workout to lose weight or to help our bodies stay fit and healthy longer. We may even be training for a marathon or a different sort of sports competition. So, how can we determine if we are working out at the proper level of difficulty to ensure we keep seeing the necessary results? It can be truly difficult at the beginning of our fitness routine to know what our limits may be and how hard we need to work to progressively achieve our fitness goals.
Assess your current fitness level
When you are new to a fitness routine it is very important to determine your current fitness level. You need look at many different aspects of your fitness routine. If you lift weights you can look at how much weight you can lift, how many reps you can do, and how you feel the next day. If you are doing cardio or running you can measure your speed, how long you can maintain that speed or the length, which can include the time or distance of your runs. There are many ways to evaluate your runs without the needs of a personal trainer. However, it may be much easier for a personal trainer to gauge your fitness level, but the choice is up to you.
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This goes along with your evaluation. Once you evaluate your fitness level make sure to take all the necessary notes. You do not want to forget everything in your evaluation and having a written record will ensure that you don't. It can also help you see when you are plateauing and will help you see when you need to increase or relax your fitness routine. Your notes will let you make sure that you do not take it too easy or push yourself too hard. You do not need to have a pen and paper journal these days. You can use the internet or your smartphone to track your fitness routines. There are many different tools available to help you keep track of your fitness routine.
It can be easy to give up on your fitness routine in the beginning. However, you need to stick with it to ensure you can achieve the results you are seeking. No one sees results immediately, and the first few workouts you do may have you feeling sore and strained. But, if you can stick to your fitness routine, you will soon find your rhythm and start feeling and looking better.


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A SURGE IN MEMBERSHIPS IS prompting one of the area's oldest and largest private golf clubs to upgrade.
The Plantation Golf & Country Club, in Venice, expects to begin demolishing its pro shop, card room and entry bridge today for a $3 million facelift. Improvements will include member lockers, updated amenities and new landscaping. All of the changes will be paid for with current membership collections, club officials said.
For the 33-year-old equity club, the renovations are further evidence the region is coming back after a recession that caused memberships at luxury clubs to plummet, caused home sales in those communities to stall and left discretionary spending on golf in an economic bunker.
Clubs that debuted during the downturn, including The Founders Club in Sarasota County and The Concession, in Manatee County, have reported recent similar gains.
"Our membership has made it easier to ride through tough times," said John Leinaweaver, general manager of Plantation Golf & Country Club. "When you have over 1,000 members and you lose 100, it's not as big of a deal as a club with 500 members."
Developers began constructing the 2,500-home community, on Rockley Boulevard in Venice, in 1978. Members bought out the club in 1992, making it private.
Nearly half of the club's 1,029 active members do not live in Plantation, he said. Membership tiers at the club range from $5,000 for entry-level equity memberships to plans that cost up to $30,000.
Plantation features a ballroom and dining area that can seat 750 for dinner, 13 tennis courts, a private restaurant and a swimming pool. But the top draws are two 18-hole golf courses, home to LPGA qualifier tournaments each fall.
Memberships at golf and tennis clubs in Southwest Florida are often synonymous with luxury real estate. Ideally, when the housing market is thriving, retirees move to these golf course communities and join their clubs. But like many private clubs of its kind, Plantation suffered during the second half of the last decade as home sales sputtered and recession-battered retirees ditched their memberships to pay for non-discretionary items.
Leinaweaver said that trend is starting to reverse now, though, with membership numbers rising since late 2010. He believes the club's upcoming investment will allow it to add even more members and make other improvements.
Construction on the new facilities is expected to begin in May, with completion slated for January 2014, the beginning of the next winter high tourism season.
To kick off the project, the club plans to host a demolition luncheon today.
"We got caught up in that whole Venice-North Port downturn, and it really hurt," Leinaweaver said. "But all of these areas are starting to sell again. Expanding is the only way to stay alive in this tough market."
Of the approximately 2,500 homes that have been built in Plantation, only about 35 are for sale, MLS records show -- the result of strong buyer demand and a tight inventory of available properties that is gripping the entire region.
Meanwhile, a group led by developer Steve Lattmann is building homes in the last residential phase of Plantation, called St. Andrews East. New homes in the neighborhood will range from $249,900, to $516,900 for a 2,920-square-foot model known as the Balmoral.
The builder has sold 35 homes there in the past six months, with another 110 developable lots remaining.
"The demand has been strong, and we're starting to see baby boomers retire here," said Lattmann, who was one of Plantation's original developers in 1980.
The influx of buyers could help the club reach its goal of attracting new members.
Phil Wigginton and his wife, Sandy, purchased a home in St. Andrews East 14 months ago and joined the Plantation club for its amenities. He, too, expects the planned improvements to help bolster membership sales.
"We are starting to see an influx right now," he said, "which will certainly help attract more people."
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Once upon a time, the rulers of China, especially the Ming Dynasty emperors, decided to build a very big and very long wall, in order to keep the Manchurian and Mongolian raiders at bay. Maybe you've heard of this "Great Wall of China?" It's kind of well known.
If you find yourself in China, in or near Beijing, you could do like the most of the tourists do and visit a famous portion of wall for an afternoon, like the sections at Badaling (八達嶺), Mutianyu (慕田峪) or Simatai (司马台). You'll walk up and down snaking wall-covered hills with thousands of other people, and have your photo taken with your friends, while making the international peace sign with your fingers. Yes, you could do this, or you could opt for a multi-day trek along the Great Wall of China instead, getting you away from the tourist crowds so you can really soak up the magnificent sights.
Sleeping on the Great Wall used to be prohibited for foreign visitors (the author had to bribe a guard in order to do it), but tourist money reigns supreme, which means you can now book a lengthy hike along the Wall for a varying amount of days, and camp out in a watchtower while sleeping under the stars, or if the bugs scare you, safely inside your tent.
Your best bet is to organize a trek and tour with a reputable travel company, thus avoiding any hefty fines you might incur if caught camping solo. Since 1,500 miles of Great Wall are still intact, it's entirely possible to get a map, find a starting point away from prying eyes, and head out on your own. The rules governing different sections of the Wall tend to vary, making it hard to predict where you might run into problems. You'll only get into real trouble if you get caught, and can't sweet-talk the guards out of hitting you with a fine. If this happens, we recommend you play the "dumb foreigner" card.
Regardless of how you manage your trek along the Great Wall of China, you'll be glad that you put in some extra effort and experienced this manmade marvel away from the tourist throngs. Then you can stand on top of a watchtower at dusk, and in the words of Roger Waters, yell out, "All in all, I'm just another brick in the Wall!" You're so dramatic.


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If we found life on another planet, the discovery would go a long way toward answering the deepest open questions in biology: How did life originate, how widespread is life in the universe, and are there alternative recipes for life?
There's no obvious sign of life on any of our neighbors in the solar system. But desolate, frozen Mars keeps calling scientists back. In the Martian landscape, geologists see dry riverbeds and flood plains that hint at a warmer past that just might have allowed life to originate.
All life on Earth appears to be related, using DNA and RNA molecules to pass down assembly instructions and other information. We share stretches of this genetic code with bacteria, yeast and amoebas.
But if life originated on Mars, it might use a completely different way of storing and transmitting information. And so, if the Mars Science Laboratory lands safely next week, instruments will begin to analyze the soil, air and rocks for life, past or present.
The warm period was early in the history of the solar system — it looks to have begun freezing up by 3 billion years ago. The Martian atmosphere today is too thin to hold in much heat, but perhaps greenhouse gases once blanketed the planet and were later lost.
Experts say the nice period happened early — around 4 billion years ago. By 3 billion years ago Mars was already starting to dry up. But that somewhat balmier time corresponds to when life was getting started on our planet. According to chemical analyses in ancient rocks, life had already taken hold here 3.8 billion years back — not too long after the planet cooled off enough to have a solid surface.
The Mars Science Laboratory will release an SUV-sized rover called Curiosity into a crater where water just might have once pooled. Andrew Knoll, a professor of Earth and Planetary Science at Harvard, says he's excited about some of the novel science the rover is equipped to do.
Some of its instruments will look for signs of methane and other organic compounds in the atmosphere. Others will seek them in the soil. Finding them wouldn't necessarily mean Mars once had living matter, but the Curiosity rover could turn up new clues in the search for life there.
The fact that life started so early on Earth gives scientists some hope that it might have sprung up elsewhere in the universe. Life has also been found in some seemingly hostile environments — in Antarctic ice, boiling hot springs, and buried a mile underground living on geothermal energy and minerals.
One of the big challenges is being able to recognize signs of past life and not overreact to false alarms. In 1996, NASA made the explosive announcement that a team of researchers had found signs of fossil bacteria in a meteorite that fell to Earth from Mars. Organic compounds called polycyclic hydrocarbons resembled similar compounds made in living things here.
Soon after the announcement, though, biologists quickly pointed out that the shapes NASA thought were bacteria and the compounds could be explained by processes that involved no life. And so it all hangs in doubt.
One of those skeptical voices was paleontologist John Grotzinger, then at MIT and now at Caltech. NASA apparently doesn't hold a grudge against naysayers since he's now chief scientist on the upcoming mission.
There is little doubt, at least, that this rock, called ALH84001, and others like it did come from Mars. Tiny bubbles of trapped gas match the composition of samples studied by the Viking mission back in the 1970s.
The discovery that the rock and others originated on Mars opens up the possibility that life crossed the divide between the two planets. It's slightly more likely that life would go from Mars to Earth, since Mars cooled off sooner and Earth is larger and therefore a bigger target.
Whatever Curiosity turns up, Mars does have a story to tell. The Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997 found evidence of massive past floods, during which water threw rocks and even boulders around the landing site. Still, scientists aren't sure how much water flowed over Mars, how warm it got, or what kind of an atmosphere it had.
And nobody is quite sure what changed to make Mars into the dry, frozen wasteland it is today. "We don't know what happened but we know it was something big," said Grotzinger. "Even if life never evolved on Mars we would want to know what happened."


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Mayor Don Wesely has appointed City Council Member Terry Werner as Chair of United Nations Day activities for the Lincoln Chapter of the United Nations Association. International United Nations Day is celebrated every year on October 24, the date the U.N. Charter was ratified in 1945.
As local Chair, Werner will participate in organizing U.N. Day events in Lincoln and will work to increase awareness of the U.N. and its impact on the quality of life for people around the world.
Mayor Wesely will issue a U.N. Day proclamation at a raising of the U.N. flag at the County City Government Center in late September. Other activities include a U.N. Day banquet Sunday, October 20 at the UNL East Campus Student Union.
The Lincoln Chapter of the U.N. Association has about 250 members. For more information, contact Rev. Carl Schmitthausler at 484-8453.
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OFB e-procurement system has been launched from May 09, 2011 for procurement of Raw Materials, Components, Plants & Machinery and Civil Works of estimated value of Rs 10 Lakhs and above by Ordnance Factories.
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Deck cleaning methods depend on the type of lumber we will be cleaning, and just like you wouldn't wax your car before cleaning, you wouldn't want to apply a sealer or stain to any deck that hasn't been properly cleaned first.
A clean surface ensures proper adhesion of the sealer or stain, it helps with the longevity of any finish applied, and most importantly; it conforms with manufacturers application speifications regarding terms of the warranty.
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While boat recalls are not commonplace, they do happen. Unfortunately, there's a good chance a manufacturer will have no way to contact you if your boat model is found to be in non-compliance with Coast Guard regulations or contains a safety defect. That's because while federal law requires boat builders to recall and make repairs for a period of ten years, manufacturers are only obligated to send recall notices to original owners.
However, most vessels change ownership at least once during their first ten years of life, leaving manufacturers no way to reach subsequent owners to let them know they have a fix available to remedy a safety problem. BoatU.S. has stepped in to fill this important gap between boat builders and owners with its online National Recall Alert Registry located at http://www.BoatUS.com/recall
"The existing system is deficient because there is no consistent way for manufacturers to reach second or third owners," says Caroline Ajootian, BoatU.S. Consumer Protection Bureau director. "However, by being proactive and using our free Registry, boat owners will be kept in the loop," she notes.
The system allows boaters to register their less than ten-year old vessel so a manufacturer may contact them directly in the event of a recall action. Boats, engines and trailers of any age can be registered, as some companies also conduct voluntary recalls on older products. In addition, boaters can view a list of current recalls as well as visit the U.S. Coast Guard's Recall Database.
The online system is also a plus for manufacturers. "It can help a difficult situation get better because it demonstrates that the manufacturer is being proactive and helps reinforce the positive image of a company and its product," says Ajootian. The system is also secure - each manufacturer can only view the database of owners having their product.
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- The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) has been designed to support the long-term efforts of targeted countries to further develop their capability to successfully identify, design and implement holistic adaptation and disaster risk reduction programmes that are aligned with national development priorities. This report provides insight into the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) and its related country project profiles. The AAP has shifted into implementation, with Namibia and Tunisia as the first countries to complete national inception workshops. Eighteen out of the total twenty programme countries will complete national inception processes and start full-fledged implementation in the coming months.
- Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment
- This comprehensive atlas provides data, satellite imagery, and analysis of the environmental conditions and issues relevant to each African country, and several surrounding island nations. The atlas also covers trans-border international issues in Africa.
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- This publication is an overview of major global environmental issues and policy decisions during the course of 2007.
- Labour and the Environment: A Natural Synergy
- This report presents examples of tools and practices that promote workers' health and safety as well as environmental protection, public health, and corporate responsibility. Issues include climate change, hazardous materials,
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- Urbanization is a global phenomenon that has transformed and continues to alter landscapes and the ways in which societies function and develop. For this issue of UGEC Viewpoints, the editors collected case-studies presented at the Open Meeting that span across regions and themes: from Australia and the United States, as well as the less developed nations in Africa, megacities of Asia such as Dhaka, Bangladesh and Delhi, India, vulnerable coastal areas of the Yucatan Peninsula, and the largest rainforest in the world, the Brazilian Amazon. Currently, more than half of the world's population lives in cities; the United Nations projects that by 2030 the world will advance to the 60% urbanization threshold. Rapid urbanization effects will not only be present within the immediate locations (cities and their metropolitan areas), but will be experienced regionally and globally. The UGEC project seeks to better understand these implications and the complex dynamic systems of urban areas that affect and are affected by global environmental change (e.g., climate change, natural disasters, loss of biodiversity, freshwater ecosystem decline, desertification, and land degradation). Several commonalities are readily identifiable in the authors' research, some of which include an attention to the roles of the governance structures within cities; the functioning of ecosystem services, water, food, and sanitation service provision; as well as the role of research in assisting the successful development of sustainable urban plans and policies.


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Wasted 2 years being loyal to Woods, says his ex-caddie
Steve Williams says he wasted the last two years of his life standing by Tiger Woods through injuries and eruptions in the golfer's private life.other Updated: Jul 22, 2011 14:52 IST
Steve Williams says he wasted the last two years of his life standing by Tiger Woods through injuries and eruptions in the golfer's private life.
In frank interviews about his dismissal published on Friday in his native New Zealand, the 47-year-old caddie said he had lost "a tremendous amount of respect" for the game's biggest star.
Williams told the New Zealand Herald "realistically I could look back, and I've wasted the last two years of my life because he's played infrequently, he's been injured and played poorly."
"I was prepared to hang in there through thick and thin," Williams said, "so I find the timing extraordinary."
Williams said he had no idea he was going to be fired after a dozen years as Woods' caddie until Woods called him to a meeting at the AT&T National tournament two weeks ago.
"Sometimes you get an inkling that something's going to happen ... And I basically didn't have much to say with him. I was somewhat in a state of shock, but I just listened to what he thought," Williams told the Herald. "I didn't agree with what he was telling me but at the end of the day that wasn't going to make a difference so I just took it on the chin."
Williams told the newspaper he was not upset at being fired, but at its timing and after his staunch loyalty to Woods' during the upheaval in his private life.
"I understand that's part of the game ... To be let go after staying incredibly loyal during the most difficult time in his life and then for him to decide that he needs a change, I think that the timing has been very poor," he said. "When Tiger went through the Tiger scandal, as it's known, I was obviously very disappointed in him, as everyone was. Obviously I lost a tremendous amount of respect for him ... and I told him that he had to earn back my respect. Whatever respect he may have earned back, he's just lost."
Williams said he had not spoken to Woods since their working relationship was terminated.
In a separate interview with Television New Zealand, Williams said he felt his loyalty to Woods had not been repaid.
"I'm a very big stickler for loyalty and I stuck with Tiger through his difficult period when a lot of people thought I should have left his side," he said. "That was the most difficult period that I've ever been through in my life. I'm pretty hardheaded and took it probably a lot better than my wife and family did, but there's no way that I should have been put through that."
Williams said he felt like he'd been considered guilty by association after sticking with Woods during the scandal.
"My name should have been cleared immediately. It wasn't and that's what makes it even more disappointing what's transpired." he told TVNZ. "I never really got pardoned from that scandal so the timing of it is extraordinary. You could say I've wasted two years of my life."
Williams also repeated his previous assertions he had no knowledge of Woods' extramarital affairs.
"I had no idea what was going on and that was the hardest part ... it was a difficult time," he told the New Zealand Herald. "I'm a straight-up person, I'm a loyal person — if I knew something, then I'd say I did."
Williams is often described as New Zealand's highest-paid sportsman — a definition stretched to encompass the caddie who may have banked around $9 million during his association with Woods. He operates a charitable foundation which makes regular donations to an Auckland children's hospital and is highly respected by New Zealanders.
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 17, 2012) - OneMove Technologies Inc. ("OneMove" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:OM), the provider of the leading web-based real estate transaction platform and the creator of the largest and fastest growing online community of conveyancing professionals, announced today the resignation of Matthew Proud ("Proud") as Director and Chairman of the Board. Proud has resigned in order to proceed with his intent to acquire, together with Plantro Ltd. ("Plantro", together with Proud, the "Offeror"), all of the outstanding common shares of the Company not already owned by the Offeror (the "Transaction"), as announced in the Offeror's news release dated December 14, 2012.
OneMove also announces the formation of a Special Committee of the Board of Directors comprised of two independent Directors in order to review, evaluate and guide the Board of Directors in connection with the Transaction.
OneMove also announces the appointment of Mr. Adrian Turchet to fill the Board seat vacated by Mr. Proud, and the appointment of current Director Paul Henri Schelfhout as the new Chairman of the Board. Messrs. Turchet and Schelfhout are the two Board members who are Plantro's appointees as previously agreed between Plantro and the Company.
Mr. Turchet has extensive experience in the investment banking industry and is currently employed with Integral Wealth Securities Ltd. in Toronto, Ontario since 2011 and acted as an institutional equity sales representative of Pollitt & Co. between 2008 and 2011.
About OneMove Technologies Inc.
OneMove Technologies Inc. (TSX VENTURE:OM) is the leading provider of web-based real estate transaction platforms and the creator of the largest and fastest growing online community of conveyancing professionals. Through econveyance™, its proprietary web-based conveyancing software solution, OneMove™ simplifies and expedites the process of buying and selling real estate. Econveyance connects all participants in the property transfer process, offering a secure and efficient means of completing the transaction online. Additional information about OneMove can be found at www.onemovetech.com or www.sedar.com. Professional users site www.econveyance.com.
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The way of the body, by André Cognard
The practice of Aikido Kobayashi Hirokazu (1929-1998), student of the founder Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969), involves use of the body that goes well beyond simple control of it by will or the development reflexes. The founder Morihei Ueshiba had developed his techniques by analogy with the movements of nature, especially watching the water.
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Healthy Yadi fuels Cardinals' faith in stretch run
MILWAUKEE -- The St. Louis Cardinals won what amounted to a split decision Wednesday.
On the plus side, they won a game and a series from the Milwaukee Brewers with an 8-6 victory at Miller Park. And they demonstrated a continuing faith in the notion that their invaluable catcher, Yadier Molina, would be able to play on a truly regular basis.View Full Game Coverage
MILWAUKEE -- The St. Louis Cardinals won what amounted to a split decision Wednesday.
On the plus side, they won a game and a series from the Milwaukee Brewers with an 8-6 victory at Miller Park. And they demonstrated a continuing faith in the notion that their invaluable catcher, Yadier Molina, would be able to play on a truly regular basis.View Full Game Coverage
On the minus side, Jake Westbrook's slump was not ended.
Over the last five starts, Westbrook's ERA has ballooned from 2.95 to the current 4.49. In this game, Westbrook was handed a 7-0 lead, but could not get through five innings to record a decision, giving up five runs, four earned. He did have three innings in which he kept the Brewers off the scoreboard, but after getting the first two outs in the fifth, he gave up four straight hits. At that point, Kevin Siegrist was summoned from the bullpen, and he got out of the inning with a 7-5 lead.
"Getting two quick outs there in the fifth and not being able to finish it off was pretty frustrating for me," Westbrook said. "The way that I've been throwing, the string of hits that I'd just given up, I guess it's tough to leave me out there. But the bullpen came in and did a great job."
Westbrook did his bit with the bat in the Cardinals' six-run second, ripping a two-run double.
"I was happy to be able to contribute in that sense," he said.
Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, asked if Westbrook's status in the rotation would be reviewed, responded: "We review everybody, all the time."
On the good news front, Molina has started and played with no ill effects in six of seven games since he returned from a knee injury and a stay on the disabled list.
He played one game and sat out one game, but has since started in five straight, including Wednesday, a day game after a night game.
"Yadi's like the guy who gives the confidence to the starting rotation and the relievers," said Carlos Beltran, who hit a two-run homer off the scoreboard beyond center field Wednesday. "Having him behind the plate is a big difference. I don't want to take credit away from our other catchers, but every year he's one of the best behind the plate, defensively."
"I feel good," Molina said. "We've been winning, and that's important."
The Cardinals, not at all coincidentally, are 5-1 in Molina's starts since his return from the DL.
Molina's importance to this team cannot be overstated. He is a Gold Glove catcher, a diligent and astute handler of the pitchers, a particularly important trait with so much youth on the St. Louis staff. And he is having an outstanding offensive season. He should be the National League's Most Valuable Player. It could be argued that he should have already won this award.
He would get the MVP vote of Brewers manager Ron Roenicke.
"And I wouldn't just say that for this year, either," Roenicke said. "When you're voting on things, his defense should come into it. It should be 50 percent of what you're looking at, for me, because of what he does behind the plate and how he handles that staff, what he does to baserunners, the whole package.
"What percentage do the writers usually give on the MVP to defense? Very small. With this, when you're talking about a catcher and what he does to a game, he should be 50/50. That outweighs, for me, any [other player's] offensive numbers. As long as he is doing well offensively, it outweighs everyone."
There had been some thought that Molina would be rested frequently when he returned from the DL. Asked about that Wednesday, Matheny made it clear that Molina's well-being at this point did not preclude regular playing time.
"This conversation is going to be very similar probably from here on out," the manager said. "He's going to get a day off when he needs a day off. We have a lot of conversation when we have young players; we do a lot of decision-making for them. When we see a veteran, we have a conversation and let him know what we see. But these are grown men. These guys know what they need, they know where they are.
"And we're all pulling in the same direction, trying to achieve the same common goal. The guys who have been doing this for a long time, they're going to be the best source of information that we have.
"We're getting clearance from our medical people that he's responding very well. And he's telling us that he feels good. And that's what we're going to have to go with. We're going to trust that.
"It might not look like everybody else wants it to look, but that's not our concern, even a little bit. What's best for our player is best for our team."
If Molina can remain at anything resembling full health while playing regularly, this is a huge plus for the Cardinals down the stretch. In that regard, Wednesday's split decision was looking more like nine out of 10 than two out of three.
Mike Bauman is a national columnist for MLB.com.


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The Chehalem Mountains run northwest to southeast and feature three distinct soil types. I love how the association's logo map shows by color the general limits of each soil. The green area represents the sandy soils of ancient ocean floor sediments, lifted over time by tectonic action. This area includes Ribbon Ridge and to my taste delivers a darker fruit expression of Pinot Noir. The red areas represent, naturally, the red volcanic basalt soils most typical in our Dundee Hills, but common here in the steep southern slope of the Chehalem Mountain and the entire Parret Mountain region on the lower right. I find the basalt soils give a redder character to Pinot Noit. Finally, the younger windblown Loess soils on the northern flank, where Raptor Ridge is located. I honestly don't have a good sense of this soil type, in terms of Pinot Noir anyway. Windblown soils are meager nutritionally, which is great for vines. I need to do more research to speak with any more knowledge though.
Obviously this diverse soil range might make terroir oriented wine lovers wonder...why not three AVAs, or growing areas? The association admits on their website that over time it would seem likely that a few subregions will emerge. For now, this broad area of the northern Willamette Valley, that happens to be the closest of our AVAs to the city of Portland, is one big region full of several top quality producers.
Adelsheim's crisp 2010 Pinot Blanc Bryan Creek Vineyard. Wished they were pouring the Auxerrois, which I've loved in the past.
Anam Cara's range of Pinots, particularly the 2008 Pinot Noir Nicolas Vineyard (by the way, I also enjoyed the '08 Et Fille Nicolas Vineyard a few nights later at a dinner in Portland).
Anne Amie's range of wines, including crisp 2010 Pinot Blanc and 2009 Pinots with a soft touch. I'm loving what Thomas Houseman is doing at this property.
Beckham Vineyard's 2011 Rose of Pinot Noir, a beautiful, juicy and dry pink wine from a producer I'd never heard of.
Bergstrom's 2010 Old Stones Chardonnay, really good Oregon chard and fairly priced in the low $20s. The Pinots were also more restrained than I remember from past years.
Dion's delicate Pinots from their 1970s era vines on the far northern end of the AVA.
JK Carriere's 2011 Glass White Pinot Noir, really a very pale rose that I usually enjoy.
Utopia Vineyard Pinot Noirs in general, with nice whole cluster aromatics, toasty but graceful.
The tasting featured an unexpected aspect, which I loved but I can imagine might be difficult for the non winemakers to appreciate - Pinot Noir barrel samples of 2011s from a few unnamed producers. The samples were arranged by the three soil types, but at this stage with many wines still going through their malolactic fermentation, all I felt you could really get was a general sense of the vintage, at least from this specific growing region.
|The view from Raptor Ridge on a beautiful late February afternoon.
The press better not make any judgements before tasting these new wines. All summer we heard about the cold season and how disaster could be upon us. Then we had a perfect autumn, most unexpectedly but still. Taste the wines when they come out later this year and all through the next. Yes, there will be lots of delicious rose from some of that lower brix fruit. Some people inevitably will produce some red wines that lack sufficient ripeness. When isn't that true? But from what I'm tasting, and believe me I don't have much 2011 wine to sell so this is no sales pitch, I cannot wait to see the 2011s hit the market. And we'll see which critics actually taste wines before making pronouncements.


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Not even a career night from Ray Gallegos could overcome Nebraska's sluggish offensive start, as the Huskers fell to UTEP, 68-52, in the championship game of the WestStar Bank Don Haskins Sun Bowl Invitational Sunday evening.
Gallegos finished with a career-high 22 points on 9-of-15 shooting to lead all scorers, but Nebraska dug too deep of hole in the opening five minutes against the Miners, who snapped Nebraska's two-game win streak.
The first half was one to forget for the Huskers, as Nebraska was just 6-of-27 in the opening period as UTEP built a 36-16 advantage. Jacques Streeter had 11 first-half points on 4-of-5 shooting while Konner Tucker had all eight of his first-half points the first four minutes of the contest.
One night after scoring the first 10 points, Nebraska fell behind quickly 13-0, as the Huskers missed their first seven shot and had three turnovers in the first 10 possessions. UTEP relied on the sharp-shooting of Tucker, who scored eight early points, including a pair of long 3-pointers, as UTEP built a 13-0 lead.
Tucker finished with 17 points, including 5-of-7 from 3-point range to earn tournament MVP honors, while Streeter also added 17 for UTEP, which improved to 6-5 on the year. The Miners have won three of its last four games since Tucker made his season debut on Monday.
Mike Peltz finally ended the Husker drought with a basket 6:29 into the contest before Gallegos finally got Nebraska's offense going with a pair of jumpers to pull Nebraska within 15-7. Nebraska was within 22-13 after an Almeida putback, but went ice cold over the final 6:40 of the half, as UTEP closed the half on a 14-1 run to build a 20-point lead. Streeter keyed the run with a four-point play as he was fouled on a desperation 3-pointer to beat the shot clock.
Nebraska trailed 56-36 before Gallegos and Ubel, who finished with 11 points and six rebounds, keyed a 13-4 Nebraska surge that pulled the Huskers within 60-49 after an Almeida basket with 3:27 left. That would be as close as the Huskers got, as Tucker drained a long 3-pointer and Nebraska never got within 12 in the final four minutes.
The Huskers return to action next Saturday, Dec. 29, as they take wrap up non-conference play against McNeese State. Tipoff is slated for 2 p.m.


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Serious Eats Goes on a Juice Cleanse
"A break from coffee, a break from heavy food, and a break from wine, beer, and spirits is pretty rare for us."
We've been hearing a lot about juice cleanses these days, online and from friends who have tried them, and friends who are considering them. We've been wary but also curious. Just juice—for three days—could we do it? How would it feel? What do these juices taste like, anyway? Are they super vegetal? Bright and refreshing? Is it enough food, or do you feel spacey, shaky, and hungry if you only drink juice (and cashew milk) all day? Our curiosity got the best of us, and when BluePrint Cleanse offered a free chance to try it out, three of us (Serious Eats editor Erin, SENY editor Carey, and Drinks editor Maggie) signed up. Let the cleansing begin!
Before you get rowdy in the comments section: please know that we're not advocating juice cleanses for any sort of health benefit; we're not nutritionists. There are plenty of opinions on the pros and cons of "cleansing" elsewhere on the Internet. We're just curious about the experience—as we're curious about any eating experience—and wanted to test-drive it for you. We'll have reports to share each day this week.
First, some thoughts from us about preparing for the cleanse.
I awoke on Saturday morning three days before the cleanse to an email from BluePrint entreating me to "Prepare for the cleanse!" and "Start now!" Their suggested menu, T-3: fruit for breakfast; fruit for lunch; warm vegetable broth and a salad for dinner. No alcohol or animal products or caffeine.
The day I had planned: review brunch at The Dutch; cava tasting that evening. Hmm.
So three days out looked like a normal day in my life, inasmuch as my life has normal days. An early, simple breakfast (two hard-boiled eggs and a cup or three of coffee); a work meal (two or three bites of seven different things; plus a cup or three of coffee); exercise (a seven-mile walk and a kettlebell session); and a "work" night (lots of sips of seven kinds of cava). Erin made a few gorgeous salads that I grazed on at the wine tasting, but I did avail myself of the cheese, too; how could I not?
Two days out, Sunday morning, I started taking it more seriously. No more coffee; I brewed an enormous pitcher of iced green tea that I sipped from and tried ignore the headache that crept up by 8am. No more complicated food: beets and greens only. I woke up ravenous the next day, and two meals of beets and bananas didn't really help. A spoonful of peanut butter midday calmed my stomach, but I still felt myself fading by late afternoon. I hope the sheer quantity of juice we'll be downing will stave off these low-energy spells, but I have to admit I'm skeptical.
I'm also not looking forward to the monotony; there are three levels of BluePrint Cleanse, and I'm doing the second, whereas Erin and Maggie are doing the first (it includes a beet-carrot juice, and I'm allergic to raw carrots*). It means that half of what I consume every day will be parsley-celery-kale juice. I love my salads as much as the next girl, but... eee.
* Yes, this is real; yes, this is medically confirmed. And yes, I realize that it's absolutely ridiculous to be allergic to carrots.
One of my favorite parts about this cleanse is the look on peoples' faces when you tell them you're about to start it. "You're... really? Wait. Why." Noses scrunch. They look equal parts confused, disgusted, and relieved that they're not signed up. Why would you drink only non-caffeinated, non-alcoholic juices (and one cashew milk!) for three days straight? Why? Why! Why.
I'm actually looking forward to it. Not excited about the caffeine withdrawals, actually more dreading the seltzer withdrawals (BPC encourages no gassy bubbles), but ready for the challenge. It's rare that we pause our serious-eatin' lifestyles to hit the refresh button for our bodies. No sandwiches for three days straight (very, very rare in the world of SE), no pressure to participate in the hot fudge tasting (goodness, phew), and no review meals (14 dishes for four people?).
Also, it's just three days. Long enough for the body to feel it and react, long enough to miss a few tasty-sounding meals, but short enough that it's always almost over.
On the Thursday before the cleanse started, I began the goodbye-coffee effort. Coffee is a good friend of mine, especially a glass of cold-brew in the morning. I started fridge-brewing tea with mint instead, which actually wasn't too painful after the second day. Except Saturday I caved and bought a Coke Zero. Felt so good, those cold bubbles going down. I knew this was the last for a while.
I am most worried about the caffeine situation this week, but also most looking forward to conquering the addiction. I'm accustomed to a strong shot of moka-pot coffee in the morning (my husband has perfected the art of seriously intense stovetop brews) and then a cup of tea in the afternoon—switching to a cup or two of green tea a day is daunting. So I started phasing that out about four days before the cleanse. Facing the Soho crowds while I attempted to walk (uncaffeinated) to our review meal at The Dutch, I thought I might cry. Sunday—two days before the cleanse—I felt great. So here on T-1 day for the cleanse, why is the headache back?
Foodwise, I finally got myself up to the farmers' market on Saturday (our long hours mean workday visits are tricky), knowing it was a good chance to partake in some gorgeous August produce in the days leading up to the cleanse. So I've been eating lots of vivid tomatoes and drippingly juicy peaches and (non-local) avocados.
What I've heard about the cleanse is mostly rave reviews from my friends who eat and drink for a living. A break from coffee, a break from heavy food, and a break from wine, beer, and spirits is pretty rare for us. Do we need to switch to a juice-only diet to take that break? No. Could there be healthier, less extreme ways to change our diet? Sure. But hopefully this will launch us toward cleaner, more plant-based eating habits long term, and in the meantime, hit the mental and physical reset button.
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