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Annual to shrubs, generally glandular, some green root-parasites
Stem generally round
Leaves generally alternate, simple, generally ± entire; stipules generally 0
Inflorescence: spike to panicle, generally bracted, or flowers 12 in axils
Flower bisexual; calyx lobes generally 5; corolla generally strongly bilateral, generally 2-lipped (upper lip generally 2-lobed, lower lip generally 3-lobed); stamens generally 4 in 2 pairs, generally included, a 5th (generally uppermost) sometimes present as a staminode; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 2, placentas axile, style 1, stigma lobes generally 2
Fruit: capsule, generally ± ovoid, loculicidal or septicidal
Seed: coat sculpture often characteristic
Genera in family: ± 200 genera, 3000 species: ± worldwide; some cultivated as ornamental (e.g., Antirrhinum, Mimulus, Penstemon ) or medicinal (Digitalis )
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include only Buddleja, Scrophularia, and Verbascum in CA; other genera moved to Orobanchaceae (Castilleja, Cordylanthus, Orthocarpus, Pedicularis, Triphysaria), Phrymaceae (Mimulus), and Plantaginaceae (= Veronicaceae sensu Olmstead et al.)
Key to genera by Elizabeth Chase Neese & Margriet Wetherwax.
Annual to subshrub, green root-parasites
Leaves sessile, entire to dissected
Inflorescence spike-like; bracts becoming shorter, wider, more lobed than leaves, tips generally colored
Flower: calyx generally unequally 4-lobed, generally colored like bract tips; corolla upper lip beak-like, tip open, lower lip generally reduced, 3-toothed to -pouched; stamens 4; anther sacs 2, unequal; stigma entire to 2-lobed, generally exserted
Fruit loculicidal, ± ovoid, ± asymmetric
Seed generally ± brown, attached at base; coat netted, net-like walls sometimes aligned ladder-like
Species in genus: ± 200 species: especially w North America
Etymology: (Domingo Castillejo, Spanish botanist)
Reference: [Chuang & Heckard 1991 Syst Bot 16:644666]
Highly variable within and between populations.
Hybridization and polyploidy common;polyploid forms may have separate ranges or be ± identifiable within populations by minor characters. Biologically consistent taxa very difficult to define
Horticultural information: TRY with host; usually DFCLT.
Annual 1030 cm, generally much-branched and decumbent, puberulent
Leaf 1050 mm, lanceolate to ovate; lobes 05
Inflorescence 312 cm, 34 cm wide, often dense; bracts 1525 mm, oblong to ovate, tipped white to rose-purple, lobes 39, central lobe generally rounded
Flower: calyx 1220 mm, divided 1/2 in front and on sides, 2/3 in back, lobes linear; corolla 1425 mm, pale yellow or rose-purple, beak 45 mm, straight, puberulent, lower lip 34 mm, pouches 37 mm wide, 12 mm deep, generally purple-dotted at base, teeth 13 mm; stigma generally ± exserted
Fruit 812 mm
Seed ± 12 mm; coat shallowly netted, tight-fitting
Chromosomes: 2n=24 (all subspp.)
Ecology: Coastal bluffs, salt marshes, grassland
Elevation: < 150 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, s North Coast Ranges, n&c Central Coast
Distribution outside California: to British Columbia
Highly variable and difficult; many local, ± ecological forms; needs more study
Synonyms: Orthocarpus castillejoides Benth
Plant much-branched, not fleshy
Inflorescence ± rose-purple; bract tips acute or rounded
Flower: corolla ± rose-purple, lower lip teeth 1.52 mm
Seed ± 1 mm
Ecology: Grassy coastal bluffs
Elevation: < 100 m.
Bioregional distribution: c Central Coast (Monterey, San Luis Obispo cos.)
Synonyms: O. c. var. i. Jeps


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There is a Heavy Metal pedigree afforded to Donington Racetrack that can not and will not ever be surpassed by another venue. It doesn't matter how many metal gigs you put on or even which bands. This famous circuit is steeped in tradition of the filthiest kind.
It is nice to look back on it all with rose-tinted glasses and stand under that giant Dunlop tyre archway and think of all the famous drivers who raced under the now-decrepit monstrosity; nice to imagine that the man who first thought of filling an empty bottle with piss and then flinging it stageward with venom and malice may have stood where you stand now.
Well, forget about all of that. The fact of the matter is that Download 2006 is here, it's happening and there's a motherf*cking heatwave going on right above our heads.
It's fitting that the festival should begin in such inauspicious fashion. Amplifier are the first to trundle onstage with their post-grunge space-rock. Eventually someone's got to tell them that they sound like the same band that I was watching five years ago. Stagnation is a clear and present danger. It's only just got 1pm and I've already had enough of the Main Stage.
Raz meets Matt Tuck
Part 2
The Snickers Stage is different from the Snickers Bowl. This is only comforting if you know this and don't have to walk the three miles or whatever, having already made the mistake and missed the first few minutes of the band you wanted to see. I took this into consideration and got there early. Just in case. There was no way I was going to miss Gojira.
This meant that I caught the last couple of songs of Orange County bruisers, Throwdown. They've got heavy metal and they've got breakdowns. It's nothing that anyone has to think about too much. I caught up with one of the notorious straight edgers – Matt Mentley (bass) – and promptly offered him a sip of my beer. Oops.
Raz: "What bands do you want to see today?"
Matt: "Coheed & Cambria and All-American Rejects."
Raz: "Err…"
Matt: "Yeah, I really like them."
Raz: "Ok."
By then I'd had enough small talk about crap pop-punk bands and it was definitely time for what I was hoping would be the best band of the weekend. Having seen Gojira play their first UK show in Brighton last month, I was doubtful whether they could top that performance but even if they played at 75% the French heavier-than-heavy metallers would still put in the finest performance of Download 2006.
|Jason 'Jay' James, Bullet For My Valentine bassist explains how drunk he is
What happened was Gojira played approximately 12% better than they did in Brighton. That was almost the end of the weekend for me as I soon found that my brain was literally melted onto the turf. They have songs about whales. Lostprophets don't even sing about Wales. Gojira: mental French eco-warrior motherf*ckers.
The rest of Friday was taken up by Deftones being a bit crap – obviously they used up all their powers during their storming retro show at The Scala a couple of nights before – and by two hours of Tool being a whole load of self-indulgent brilliance for far too long, far too skilfully. The prog-metal pioneers soon drove me to drink and I passed out safe in the knowledge that the fully publicised, secret Main Stage openers awaited me in the morning.
I had been waiting to see Khoma again for a few weeks as the heavy post-rock found on their album has grown on me considerably. Sadly, upon arrival to Camp Donington I received news that the ultimate heavy metal supergroup, DOWN, were to open up the Main Stage on this morning. An eyebrow was duly raised.
Apparently, Phil Anselmo initially thought they were on at 11pm. When he discovered they were on in the morning he simply muttered something about "motherf*ckers" a few times. He hadn't completely gotten out of that bad mood but had managed to wake himself with a steady diet of Bacardi and dope. It worked, of course.
Soon afterwards, Berkshire metallers Exit Ten played the Gibson/MySpace Stage. Sadly, due to my cancellation of my MySpace account, I was unable to attend but I did catch up with singer, Ryan Redman soon after his favourite bit of the weekend (his band playing) had passed.
Raz: "What's the craziest thing you've seen at Download 2006?"
Ryan: "The amount of people who are sunburnt to f*ck."
Raz: "Not a fan of sunburn then."
Ryan: "All those people are gonna get skin cancer. Put some suntan lotion on."
Raz: "I've got a suntan."
By then it was about a million degrees outside so I thought it would be for the best to stand in the sun for a while and watch Arch Enemy. Sadly, I got a bit bored so set up camp inside to watch England play shit football. The football was so boring that I decided to get sunstroke instead.
It was a wise choice because Alice In Chains were onstage and it was almost like Layne Staley had never died. Seriously. It's almost as freaky as when Matt Heafy from Trivium does his Hetfield impression. Talking of Trivium, I grabbed their bassist Paolo Gregoletto for literally not very long. I did ask him some questions though.
Raz: "What are the best bands you've seen other than Metallica?"
Paolo: "I haven't seen many bands apart from Metallica."
Raz: "Ok. What's the last thing you downloaded?"
Paolo: "I'm too cheap to download porn. I just get the 10 second clips."
Raz: "Good man. Send me some links."
|Michael 'Padge' Paget, Bullet For My Valentine guitarist, explains how drunk he is
Korn were hampered by Jonathan Davis' newfound blood condition but their variety of guest vocalists spiced up proceedings. While Davis would have stifled the charismatic output of his colleagues, this evening it was their duty to take his mantle and I've never seen Fieldy interact with the crowd like he did here. This was a welcome improvement for everyone but Davis.
Metallica played Master Of Puppets and loads of other songs for bloody ages. Do I really need to say any more?
Watching Hatebreed is one way to wake up in the morning. The heavy-as-hell metal warriors bludgeoned their way through 25 minutes of breakdown filled riffery with all the brutal anger one can muster up at 11am.
Greater things were expected of Dragonforce. There weren't any trampolines or anything. They just played their music and ran around a lot. It wasn't enough to distract the restless crowd. Excitable keyboardist, Vadim Pruzhanov was belting across the stage "wearing a strap-on. I shouldn't really call it a strap-on."
Raz: "What's the craziest thing you've seen at Download 2006?"
Vadim: "I saw Matt Tuck and he just ignored me. I love looking at boobs."
Raz: "I saw a girl who was literally just wearing sellotape."
Vadim: "She must really hate her parents."
Raz: "In this heat, this free beer really goes to your head."
|Vadim Dragonforce is angry that Raz got his photo taken with Matt Tuck
Luckily 36 Crazyfists bring you straight back down to Planet Metal. There was talk of Your Favourite Alaskans cancelling because vocalist Brock Lindow contracted a gammy throat but all was well and they proceeded to batter out their formidable melodic screamo-metal. I collared their rather tall drummer, Thomas Noonan to talk about stuff.
Raz: "What's the craziest thing you've seen at Download 2006?"
Thomas: "Brock got a shot in his ass just before we went on. I don't know if it actually helped or just pissed him off a bit."
Raz: "What's the last thing you downloaded?"
Thomas: "The last thing I downloaded was Underoath. The very next day I found out our record had been leaked online. I think it was automatic payback."
Raz: "That's called karma."
I got my hiking boots out to get to the Snickers Stage in time for ridiculously young American emo-rockers, From First To Last. Onstage, the quartet was greased up and ready for action, baiting the crowd into throwing bottles at the stage while they rocked their experimental emo to the masses. Matt Good, guitarist with the band almost managed to sit still long enough to talk to me. Almost.
Raz: "What's the craziest thing you've seen at Download 2006?"
Matt: "There's some crazy shit that I'd like to keep off the record."
Raz: "Tell me just one thing. Please?"
Matt: "Our bus almost wrecked and we all almost died."
[Stormtroopers walk in]
Matt: "I'm a huge Star Wars fan."
[Matt runs off]
Raz: "Ok."
|WiL Francis rates his band out of 10 while Raz agrees
Those pesky stormtroopers always thwart my plans. One band that owes FFTL a couple of drinks is Fightstar. The crowd wasted some bottles of piss on the American teenagers but Charlie et al were sadly still pelted for the first two songs of their fine, beefed up set. The post-hardcore troupe stuck it out though and even called some crowd members rude names. Ooh err.
Next on stage in the Chocolate Dome was Aiden. Face-painted frontman WiL Francis complained about the stage being wet and how much he and his band were slipping around on it while they performed their overblown emo bombast to the impressionable youths before them. I think I was delirious with sunstroke at this juncture but here is a short extract from a four-hour conversation I had with the burly Aiden singer.
Raz: "You're my hero."
WiL: "Thanks."
Raz: "What's the craziest thing you've seen at Download 2006?"
WiL: "The sun in England. What the f*ck?"
Raz: "WTF!"
I didn't see a single chocolate bar all weekend but I left the Snickers Stage none the less and bounded over to the newest goth-pop princess, Betty Curse. Having performed her Riot-lite set in the other Snickers venue earlier in the day, ultra-fashionable Ms Curse had just enjoyed the delights of WiL and his merry chums. I saw her eating food.
|Betty Curse is unimpressed by Raz's rancid chat and won't hold his hand
Raz: "What's the beef, Betty?"
Betty: "I'm just chilling out now with a drink and a cigarette. Except without a cigarette."
Raz: "Any plans?"
Betty: "I want to see Cradle Of Filth but I'm doing interviews."
Raz: "They're on now. Oh, you're doing an interview."
I, however, did get to see the mighty CoF and bore witness to the even mightier Dani Filth spew some vitriol about a "rubbish wanker" – an impressive cuss from the leather-clad goon. Talking of vitriol, it was at this point when I literally walked into Som Wardner from My Vitriol. He wasn't playing and was wearing a leather jacket. Is he completely bonkers?
There was no impressive cussing, nor was then any excessive use of bovine-fashioned garments from Welsh metallers, Bullet For My Valentine. Instead the quartet concentrated on just being bloody great. Despite playing the same set that they were playing 18 months ago, it still sounded as fresh and invigorating as it ever did except now there was a new confidence and surety that was absent, or at least imitated, before. An even brighter future beckons.
Guns N Roses came on early and promptly got covered in piss.
It generally didn't go well after that.
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Two weeks ahead of the show's premiere, HBO has posted the first 12 minutes of their ren-fair series online.
"Game of Thrones" is an adaptation of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of fantasy novels. David Benioff and Dan Weiss are lead writers and producers, and the cast includes Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage, Iain Glen, Lena Headey, Richard Madden and Sophie Turner.
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Here's the official synopsis for "Game of Thrones," which premieres April 12:
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.


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Second Annual Suicide Prevention Event to Take Place Saturday in Sioux Falls [VIDEO]
The second annual Step Forward to Prevent Suicide event will take place on Saturday morning at Falls Park.
Mary Ellen Dirksen, a board member at the Helpline Center, says the event includes a 1.5-mile walk, a 5K fun run and a remembrance ceremony with a balloon release. The event will begin at 8:30 a.m.
Check out the video with Mary Ellen Dirksen, who lost a family member to suicide.


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Crew restraint
The experiment is aimed at testing new crew-restraint equipment, which uses astronaut's knees to hold them in position during operational activities. Almost all current restraint devices use the feet to restrain the body. Experts generally believe that this unnaturally overloads the smaller muscle groups of the feet. Restraining the crewmember at knee level reduces the forces needed since the knees are closer to the centre of gravity of the astronaut and larger muscle groups are relied upon to a greater extent. Coordinator: P. Mitschdoerfer (ESA).
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The 3D pictures that will be obtained with this camera will provide illustrative aids for future technical mission aspects and astronaut training. For example, 3D pictures will help improve ISS simulators. Coordinator: D. Isakeit (ESA).


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Shield of Poseidon Pendant
Jewelry Design Focus: Shield of Poseidon Pendant
A Good Jewelry design example, the Shield of Poseidon is a creative Pendant design. Shield of Poseidon was designed in 2011, and here is a how it is described by its designer: When Poseidon was defeated in his last battle, the pendant fall from his neck and disappeared to the abbyss. The shield of poseidon was forgotten in the depths of the ocean for millenia, until it was found in 1942 by artifact hunters. The hunters made drawings of the object and stored them in a container. However a terrible storm took place that night and their ship was sunk and pendant got lost again. The container containing the drawings of the pendant was found at a coastal village and taken to the museum of constantinople. It is told that whoever wears the Shield of Poseidon can breath under the sea.
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Pentagon limits F-22 fighter flights
Updated 6:15 p.m. ET
(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has limited the flights of the F-22 fighter jet to regions where pilots can quickly land the plane if they experience oxygen problems.
Panetta ordered the Air Force on Tuesday to take new steps to address undiagnosed safety problems with the jet.
CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that according to the Air Force, there have been 22 unexplained cases over the past four years in which pilots experienced symptoms of oxygen deprivation.
The F-22 was grounded last year while engineers searched for something that could be contaminating the cockpit air, but the Air Force returned it to flight, sending the F-22s to the Persian Gulf, without finding the cause.Is the Air Force's F-22 fighter jet making pilots sick?
The F-22 pilots who talked: Why they did it
The new restriction does not affect the war effort in Afghanistan because no F-22s are deployed there. The limit on flight distances means the routine mission of patrolling U.S. airspace in Alaska will be done by other aircraft.
Pentagon press secretary George Little said the jet will not be grounded.As 60 Minutes reported earlier this month, the Raptor - the most expensive fighter ever - has been plagued by a mysterious flaw that causes its pilots to become disoriented while at the controls from a lack of oxygen.
Pilots of the stealth fighter have complained that those oxygen-deficit problems have resulted in pilot dizziness, blackouts and other symptoms.
Lawmakers press the Air Force for additional info on the F-22 jet
Air Force: No punishment for F-22 whistleblowers
In a segment that aired on May 6, Maj. Jeremy Gordon and Capt. Joshua Wilson told 60 Minutes as a result of the problems they have chosen to stop flying the F-22. They are concerned about their safety in the air, as well as the long-term health consequences.
Wilson said that during a routine F-22 training mission in February 2011, he suddenly realized he was losing control.
"Several times during the flight, I had to really concentrate, immense concentration on just doing simple, simple tasks" he said. "Our training tells you if you suspect something's probably going on, go ahead and pull your emergency oxygen and come back home. When I did make that decision to pull the emergency oxygen ring, I couldn't find it. I couldn't remember, you know, what part of the aircraft it was in."
Air Force officials say they have taken steps to fix the problem, but still haven't pinpointed what's causing it.
Panetta has also ordered the Air Force to expedite installation of backup oxygen systems in the aircraft; directed that all F-22 flights remain "within the proximity of potential landing locations" so that they can land quickly in the event they encounter a physiological problem in the cockpit; and he told the Air Force to provide him with a monthly report on progress toward finding the root cause of the problem.


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Just did my first co-op Eidolon battle and can now say this game is definitely legit! Reminds me of the FFXIV Eidolon battles if the attack pattern was random and they succumbed to elemental weaknesses.Also the ability crafting system is probably the best feature in this game. Right now I have a Cure I'm quite proud of with added Protect and Regen effects.
deflect is love, deflect is life. It's important to the point I put it on a lot of other melee classes even though it takes up double load. There are some attacks later on that you can't deflect though.
fun facts, there is a final fantasy tactics style infinite CP glitch.
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Youk can't be serious
In light of the tragic events in Newtown, Conn. this morning – a tragedy that hit rather close to home – I thought it might be nice to blog about something good, or at least go back to Yankee matters. Instead of ending the day on a sad note, it might be nice to write about something positive, because positivity is what we all need right about now. Once again, thoughts and prayers are with those affected here in Newtown.
Within the last 72 hours, the unfathomable has occurred. Longtime Yankee nemesis, third baseman Kevin Youkilis, has jumped ship. The former member of the Red Sox signed a one-year deal valued at $12 million, and will indeed play for the "Evil Empire" in 2013. Youkilis will be filling the void at third base which will be left by an aging and ailing A-Rod, who will not return to the team from rehabbing from his hip surgery until mid-season.
Yes, it's really happening.
Youkilis joins a number of former Red Sox who have made the switch from Red Sox Nation to Yankee Universe, and even he admitted he was shocked that he's changing teams – coming to the Yanks being painted so heavily with Red Sox colors. According to Yankee beat writer Bryan Hoch, Youkilis was said to be "humbled" and "amazed."
It's important to keep in mind Youkilis was moved to Chicago last season and played for the White Sox before becoming a free agent this off-season, and the Red Sox never made him an offer to return. That might take a little bit of heat off him in the eyes of the Boston fans, but the reaction he receives when the Yankees first visit Fenway Park on July 19 this season will be interesting.
What will also be interesting will be his relationship with (now) teammate Joba Chamberlain.
Youkilis and Chamberlain have a noted past – and by "noted" I mean hostile. Chamberlain has thrown at Youkilis multiple times over the years, and the so-called "Greek god of walks" never took too kindly to it. However, I did read earlier today that Chamberlain has already reached out to Youkilis on the phone – but Youkilis has said he hasn't had time to return the call.
Hmmmm. OK.
Now, the Yankee fans can only hope Youkilis will help them, as oppose to punishing them, as he has in the past wearing the Sox; do some great things for them rather than against them. With Boston and Chicago Youkilis smacked 13 lifetime home runs vs. the Bronx Bombers, including one of the loudest blasts this writer has ever heard on April 24, 2009 – when he smashed a walk-off home run over the Green Monster off Damaso Marte; a well-struck shot to lift the Red Sox past the Yankees.
If history shows us anything, this move could be good for the Yankees and has the potential to pay dividends. A few noted former BoSox have gone on to thrive in pinstripes.
It all started with
Babe Ruth
Yes, the Sultan of Swat. The Colossus of Clout. The King of Crash…and every other one of his nicknames we learned in "The Sandlot." The Babe brought his power and might to the Yankees, as we all know, after a stint in Boston.
It seemed almost instantly when Ruth joined the Yankees they became relevant. The Bombers won their first World Series in 1923 and the rest is basically history. His presence made the Yankees a better team – and before he got there, he was a member of the Red Sox.
Of course later in the century there was
Wade Boggs
Boggs brought his six batting titles from Beantown to the Bronx, where he rode off into the sunset in 1996. The one picture that remains printed in everyone's mind is undoubtedly Boggs on the back of the horse after the World Series that year.
Then after Boggs was
Roger Clemens
Like Youkilis, Clemens spent time with another team after his time in Boston – the Toronto Blue Jays – before making his debut in New York in 1999. The Rocket accomplished with the Yankees what he couldn't with the Red Sox: winning the World Series (in '99 and 2000).
Clemens also captured the AL Cy Young in 2001, and remains the last Yankee to ever win the coveted award (CC Sabathia won the AL Cy in 2007, but as a member of the Cleveland Indians).
It might even make sense for Youkilis to take Clemens's number, 22. I don't think there's a chance they give him number 20, which belonged to Yankee fan-favorite Jorge Posada for 16 years.
Anywho, the next notable BoSock to turn heel was
Johnny Damon
Or, as the Red Sox fans called him, "Judas DamoNY."
In making the leap from Boston to New York, Damon had to shave his beard and cut his hair; and it obviously didn't affect his play on the field. The outfielder gave the Yanks four remarkable years of service, capping it off by stealing the show in the 2009 World Series.
Damon, in one of the most heads-up plays of all-time, stole second base and third base in one deft move, putting himself in scoring position to line the Yanks up for a 7-4 Game 4 win over the Phillies.
There are also a number of other players to go from Boston to New York and vice versa: Derek Lowe, Ramiro Mendoza, Alan Embree, Doug Mientkiewicz, Mark Bellhorn, Mike Myers, Don Baylor…the list can go on and on. Some have made lasting impressions, other haven't.
Of the players mentioned, Ruth, Mendoza, and Damon are three that have won the World Series with both Boston and New York. Youkilis, a World Champ in 2004 and 2007 with Boston, will look to add his name to that list.
If the history among Ruth, Boggs, Clemens, and Damon is any indication, it's certainly possible. And from a fan's perspective, maybe Youkilis can serve as a lightning rod; spark the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, which was in a lot of ways dormant for most of 2011 and all of 2012.
In other news
Ichiro has decided to return to the Yankees, agreeing to come back on a two-year deal worth between $12-13 million.
The Yankee Stadium outfield, through 2014, can be called "Area 31."
It surprised me to see Ichiro get two years, being 39 years old. The reason may have been because of the Phillies – they might have forced the Yanks' hands.
From what I gather, Philly was ready to offer Ichiro two years and close to $14 million, probably looking to fill one of their outfield holes. Last year Philadelphia traded away center fielder Shane Victorino to the Dodgers – and now Victorino has signed with Boston for three years.
Lucky the Yanks were able to negotiate with Ichiro and get him back before Philly snagged him, being that Nick Swisher is basically gone and the option of signing Josh Hamilton is off the table. Not that I expected the Yankees to make a run for him, anyway, but nonetheless the option no longer exists with Hamilton's agreement with the LA Angels yesterday afternoon.
Next year's Yankee outfield is looking like:
CF Curtis Granderson
LF Brett Gardner RF Ichiro
If nothing else, the Yanks will have an awful lot of speed and athleticism in the outfield.


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It's the first day of spring 2001, and Maxine Tarnow, though some still have her in their system as Loeffler, is walking her boys to school. Yes maybe they're past the age where they need an escort, maybe Maxine doesn't want to let go just yet, it's only a couple blocks, it's on her way to work, she enjoys it, so?
This morning, all up and down the streets, what looks like every Callery Pear tree on the Upper West Side has popped overnight into clusters of white pear blossoms. As Maxine watches, sunlight finds its way past rooflines and water tanks to the end of the block and into one particular tree, which all at once is filled with light.
Mom?" Ziggy in the usual hurry. Yo."
Guys, check it out, that tree?"
Otis takes a minute to look. Awesome, Mom."
Doesn't suck," Zig agrees. The boys keep going, Maxine regards the tree half a minute more before catching up. At the corner, by reflex, she drifts into a pick so as to stay between them and any driver whose idea of sport is to come around the corner and run you over.
Sunlight reflected from east-facing apartment windows has begun to show up in blurry patterns on the fronts of buildings across the street. Two-part buses, new on the routes, creep the crosstown blocks like giant insects. Steel shutters are being rolled up, early trucks are double-parking, guys are out with hoses cleaning off their piece of sidewalk. Unsheltered people sleep in doorways, scavengers with huge plastic sacks full of empty beer and soda cans head for the markets to cash them in, work crews wait in front of buildings for the super to show up. Runners are bouncing up and down at the curb waiting for lights to change. Cops are in coffee shops dealing with bagel deficiencies. Kids, parents, and nannies wheeled and afoot are heading in all different directions for schools in the neighborhood. Half the kids seem to be on new Razor scooters, so to the list of things to keep alert for add ambush by rolling aluminum.


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Earlier this week, amidst all the hype over the launches of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the Bloomberg news service took a step away from the wall-to-wall coverage of the new consoles to discuss Nintendo and the Wii U. They say no press is bad press, but...
"Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. each sold more game consoles in 24 hours than the Wii U maker did in nine months," read the story. "[Nintendo] sold just 460,000 Wii U machines in the six months ended Sept. 30, about 5 percent of its target for the fiscal year."
Christmas may represent a big part of Nintendo's yearly business, but it sure as heck isn't 95 percent. Hey, at least things couldn't get any worse! Oh, wait: Apparently in Japan, Nintendo's big holiday release Super Mario 3D World has stumbled out of the gate. In fact, it seems to have had the worst launch week of any game in the series ever. But why shouldn't it, when it's the fourth Mario in two years? We criticize publishers like Activision for annualizing their games, and meanwhile Nintendo is semi-annualizing them.
The single major advantage that Nintendo had over Sony and Microsoft this console cycle was a one-year lead, which it has squandered. And we're going to see a lot more statements like the one from Jason Rubin, the former head of THQ, who said recently that Nintendo is "irrelevant as a hardware manufacturer in the console business" and that it should put its games on Xbox One and PS4 posthaste.
What the hell is happening? And is there any feasible way to stop it?
Price Is the Problem ——————–
Nintendo's portable 3DS had a similar stumble when it launched in 2011. Nintendo's plan to get it turned around was not especially complicated: It drastically lowered the price within a few months and released compelling software titles. Today, although it's not nearly as much of a cash generator as the original Nintendo DS, 3DS is in a much better place for Nintendo and for some third parties – Capcom said this week that it has shipped 4 million copies of Monster Hunter 4 on 3DS.
Capcom might be happy with the 3DS, but ain't nobody happy with Wii U. As Nintendo was gearing up to launch Wii in 2006, third parties were slowly backing away – ultimately, each committed a teensy bit of effort to making one or two cheapo games for Wii that tested the waters on this oddball piece of against-the-grain game hardware. They had already been cooling on Nintendo, since its GameCube console proved to be rather inhospitable to third party efforts. But after Wii hardware sales exploded, everyone (except Ubisoft, which had fully backed Wii from launch) was sent scrambling to gin up a slate of Wii products aimed at its new casual audience.
With Wii U, there's no such pressure, because third parties aren't exactly leaving dollars on the table by not releasing Wii U software. Additionally, back when Wii launched, there was still a middle ground in the videogame market. Publishers could produce triple-A games, but also single-A or B games too. These days, it's almost a competition as to who can make their lineups smaller. The middle has fallen out of the market – the big publishers are either doing the biggest of big games, or 99 cent mobile apps.
Independent game makers using digital distribution are stepping up to fill in those gaps, producing the games that are somewhere between huge and tiny. You'd think they'd be a natural fit for the lower-powered Wii U, and yet despite Nintendo's push for more indie content, there isn't much of that happening either. While the fact that publishers are still making games for PS3 and Xbox 360 will benefit Wii U, which got ports of Batman: Arkham Origins and Call of Duty: Ghosts (but precious little else), a console needs exclusives.
"Lower the price and make games people want to buy" is of course much easier to say than it is to actually do. At this point, and with more big exclusives on the way, the quality of the first-party Wii U software that exists is pretty high even if nobody's buying them yet. So in the absence of some big game-changer, a Brain Age or a Nintendogs equivalent, Nintendo might decide that the most direct way to jolt the Wii U business out of its slumber would be a big price cut like it did with 3DS.
This, too, is easier said than done. In August, Nintendo said that at $350 it was taking a loss on each Wii U it sold, and then it lowered the price to $300. So it may be taking an even bigger loss now. Could Nintendo stomach lowering the price to a point where it might have a huge effect – say, $199.99? One of the problems with that is the fact that each Wii U includes the GamePad controller, with its built-in touch screen. How expensive is it? In Japan, where Nintendo says it plans to sell extra GamePads at retail, it's priced at $135.
This inspired an epic Twitter speech from The Gaming Intelligence Agency's Andrew Vestal about GamePad-as-albatross: "I wonder if it's technically possible for Nintendo to patch out GamePad support and relaunch Wii U at $200 w/ classic controller only," he wrote. This is an interesting question, as maybe there's some technological reason that Nintendo simply can't do it; that the Wii U requires the GamePad to function now and forever. Well, let us assume arguendo that the two are severable. Is it a good idea?
Although Nintendo launched Wii U with NintendoLand (a suite of mini-games that all required the GamePad controller), most of its current crop of games and everything in the foreseeable future do not actually require the pad. If anything, I thought playing Pikmin 3 with the Wii remote and nunchuk was preferable to the GamePad. I played Super Mario 3D World with the classic controller, only using the touchscreen when the game absolutely required me to. Nintendo is adding a couple of little touches to these games that use the GamePad's second screen, but by and large they are optional. Mario Kart and Donkey Kong, coming next year, don't look to be changing that paradigm.
Purely based on where Nintendo is going with its software lineup, GamePad is becoming an optional accessory. All that's left is to make it an optional purchase. If selling GamePad separately might allow Nintendo to reduce the price of Wii U to just under $200 (with a game pre-installed on the console for extra value, of course) it would look much more appealing next to the $400 PS4 and $500 Xbox One.
If it seems unlikely that a game console would climb down so dramatically and remove the one thing that it pitched as its defining feature, think again. It's already happened twice this year: Microsoft's preemptive reversal of all of its Xbox One DRM policies (and making Kinect optional) and Nintendo's release of the 2DS, which removes the 3-D screen that gave 3DS its name in an effort to knock the price down even further.
Is There Another Way? ———————
Perhaps the most compelling argument for the idea that Nintendo might remove the GamePad is that it may be out of other solutions. I certainly wish it hadn't made such a total dog's breakfast of the Virtual Console classic games service, but even if that were to change overnight into a "Nintendo paradise" service, a one-stop shop full of every major game from Nintendo's decades of history at impulse-buy prices, that wouldn't fix Wii U by itself.
And Nintendo releasing another Wii Sports or Brain Age-like killer app is unlikely. Those games predated the iPhone, and so it's possible that the conditions that allowed those breakout hits to even happen in the first place might be long gone. 3DS has become more successful without such a game-changing title, just with well-made traditional Nintendo software.
The Super Smash Bros. fighting series has always been extremely popular on Nintendo's platforms. Could the next entry in the series make it a must-have for the hardcore? Possibly. But consider what happened when fans who loved the 2001 GameCube version played the 2008 Wii version (in a nutshell, they thought it lost everything that made the GameCube game good)–it may be that Nintendo will just continue to alienate them. (Attempting to shut down their big tournament surely wasn't a help, either.)
And what about the thing that Jason Rubin and countless others have suggested – that Nintendo get out of hardware and put its games on others' platforms? I've written before about why this is a bad idea. It might be tempting in the short term, but it's a poison pill. Nintendo's games sell millions of copies because it makes hardware, not in spite of that. The idea that Mario on Xbox would sell Call of Duty numbers is a pipe dream.
Yeah, Nintendo totally missed the boat on the future of games, and that sucks. Not embracing indie development fast enough, sluggish adoption of digital game sales, screwing up Virtual Console, no Blu-ray movie playback, a terrible "account" system for users – all of these things and more were unforced errors, own-goals that just never seemed to Nintendo to be problems until it was too late. And the fact that it went ahead with the very expensive GamePad controller without having a killer app that justified its existence was uncharacteristic of the company. But it can fix this stuff.
It's important to remember that Nintendo has been here before. Right here, in fact. 3DS started weak and turned around. And even if Wii U doesn't turn around – well, Nintendo's been there, too. When GameCube was a few years into its cycle and getting killed by Sony (and, after a fashion, the first Xbox), we were hearing the exact same things: Nintendo is irrelevant, the hardware is only for Nintendo fans, give up, put Mario on Xbox. It tried to get GameCube turned around, and it didn't. And instead it just had to suck it up, grin and bear it for a few years, then release the Wii.
Nintendo's current management can turn things around. Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto have screwed up, but they don't do that a lot. They learn from their mistakes. They try weird things, and when those things work they work really well. Now, if Nintendo were to release another console in five years that does even worse than Wii U, that would be an indication of serious systemic problems. But stumbling once isn't a reason to give up, no matter how big the screwup is.


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Mark Driscoll on 3 pieces of advice for Easter.
Please pray for your preacher this week. This is not a normal week for them. They have already been running hard since the new year started and are exhausted, overwhelmed, and probably have a lot going on in their personal life that is taking their energy in addition to the ministry. Give them some grace and space. Encourage them. Let them know you are praying for them. Do all you can to take any other duties off of them this week.
Justin Taylor on Christianity is the world's most falsifiable religion and has survived.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on I've earned my place in heaven.
The New York Times reports: But if he senses that he may not have as much time left as he would like, he has little doubt about what would await him at a Judgment Day. Pointing to his work on gun safety, obesity and smoking cessation, he said with a grin: "I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I'm not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It's not even close."
So what should we do? Well, precisely what we should have done before and after Roe. We should recognize where the courts and the culture are, and we should work for justice. That means not simply assuming that most people agree with us on marriage. We must articulate, both in and out of the church, why marriage matters, and why its definition isn't infinitely elastic.
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It didn't happen exactly as I planned…which ended up being fabulous. Carly interviewed Ayla weeks later at the South Shore Music Circus in Massachusetts where Ayla was performing with Josh Turner. Carly had not only rehearsed her questions (look out Diane Sawyer!) but she also carried out her interview with perfection and has us laughing hysterically with her question about Simon Powell. The two of them ended up singing "Beat by a Girl" for 2,000 adoring fans and then signing autographs all night long. It was a glorious mentoring moment that none of us will soon forget.
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Tony Dovolani Dishes On Dancing With The Stars Season 14 In New Interview
Tony Dovolani made a special appearance at the 10th anniversary celebration of Eredi Pisano's flagship store in New York City this week. In a new interview on the Red Carpet for the event, Tony says the premiere date for Season 14 of Dancing With The Stars is March 16th. He says he's excited because he "doesn't think nobody will know who the stars are this season." He thinks it's will be "interesting and one of the best seasons." Tony is also asked who he'd like to be paired with and he says Jennifer Aniston, Oprah, and any of the girls from The View. They show the photo takes with he and his beautiful wife! I can't embed the video, but, you can see it in full here.
Hmmm, we will see, Tony! I bet we know on some of the stars who will be dancing before March 16th. We will see. 🙂


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Sqoop /*+ parallel */March 27th, 2012 — ddelmoli
It's often useful to keep one's ear to the ground when one is responsible for database performance and/or efficiency — it's a talent that I wish more DBAs had: a sense of curiosity about how the database is being used to support particular application use cases.
Today's post deals with something rather basic, but it speaks to this idea of "agile" collaboration between developers and DBAs around something that has a lot of buzz right now: processing "Big Data" with Hadoop / MapReduce. In particular, a process that someone has already deemed to be "too big" to be accomplished within an existing Oracle database.
Opinions aside about the appropriate tool for the job, I happen to overhear some application developers explaining that their process to extract data from the database for Hadoop processing was the "long pole" in the time their entire process was taking. Of course, having only basic database and SQL knowledge, this time delay was attributed to the database being "slow".
Normally this is enough to set off even the most mild-mannered DBAs (at least the ones who care anyway), but in my case I decided to just take a look and see if I could help them.
Turns out that they were using Sqoop to pull data out of Oracle for several tables, and then using the MapReduce framework to "correlate" them (i.e., join them).
Of course, there were limits to this approach as doing joins in MapReduce required custom code to map and hash column values, or they could always use Hive (which they actually ended up using — it could have worse: they might have used Pig). But it was a distraction from what they were actually trying to do.
So, I volunteered to help them — first by creating a view that joined everything they needed together, complete with an id column that uniquely identified each row. Bingo! No more Hive code necessary.
While this helped them by eliminating the extra code in their project, they were still disappointed with the speed at which they were able to extract the data using Sqoop. They even tried "adding threads" by using Sqoop with parallelism.
From the Sqoop User Guide:
Sqoop imports data in parallel from most database sources. You can specify the number of map tasks (parallel processes) to use to perform the import by using the -m or –num-mappers argument. Each of these arguments takes an integer value which corresponds to the degree of parallelism to employ. By default, four tasks are used. Some databases may see improved performance by increasing this value to 8 or 16. Do not increase the degree of parallelism greater than that available within your MapReduce cluster; tasks will run serially and will likely increase the amount of time required to perform the import. Likewise, do not increase the degree of parallism higher than that which your database can reasonably support. Connecting 100 concurrent clients to your database may increase the load on the database server to a point where performance suffers as a result.
Of course at this point the competent performance DBA can see a problem right away — specifically in the following description of how parallelism is achieved:
When performing parallel imports, Sqoop needs a criterion by which it can split the workload. Sqoop uses a splitting column to split the workload. By default, Sqoop will identify the primary key column (if present) in a table and use it as the splitting column. The low and high values for the splitting column are retrieved from the database, and the map tasks operate on evenly-sized components of the total range. For example, if you had a table with a primary key column of id whose minimum value was 0 and maximum value was 1000, and Sqoop was directed to use 4 tasks, Sqoop would run four processes which each execute SQL statements of the form SELECT * FROM sometable WHERE id >= lo AND id < hi, with (lo, hi) set to (0, 250), (250, 500), (500, 750), and (750, 1001) in the different tasks.
In the absence of an index on the id column, the example above would require 5 full-table scans — my view was actually making things worse as I had assumed they were simply dumping ALL of the results from the view from one connection, not 4 attempts to slice it up.
In the end I simply materialized the results of the view into a table and indexed the id column — resulting in much happier developers and a blameless (for the time being) database.
Of course, the next thing they wanted was the full result set as an array of JSON objects, but that's another story…


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In one of my very favorites wins of the year, one that appeared unlikely early on, the Yankees gutted out a big, come-from-behind 5-4 win in Tampa Bay last night. Grandy continued his terrific play by going 2-3 with 2 runs, 2 stolen bases, and 2 walks. Gardner continues to shine, going 1-3 with a run, a stolen base, 2 walks, and a huge break-up of what would have been an inning-ending double play that allowed the tying run in Swish to score in the 8th inning. Andruw Jones had a big walk to load the bases, and Russ pushed across the winning run with a bases-loaded walk, in the 9th. Swish was 1-3 with 2 walks. Cano had an RBI single in the 2nd.
To be fair, even though he was all over the place and, when he was close to the plate, getting squeezed by home plate umpire Ed Hickox, AJ hung in there after a dreadful first inning. He kept the game close while the stellar Yankees bullpen allowed but a hit and a walk–both from Noesi who looked good–in the remaining 3 2/3. Robertson is so dominant, fanning two in the 8th last night to lower his ERA to 1.21, and raise his K total to an amazing 59 in just 37 2/3 IP. That's officially ridiculous. Mariano, His Eminence, got his 24th save of the year and his 583rd of his incomparable career on a mere 8 pitches, making Upton look silly on a K.
This win was huge, allowing the Yanks to keep pace with a surging Boston, padding the lead in the loss column to 7 over TB, and stealing one when it looked so unlikely early on. This was one I was extremely glad to stick with.
Edit: One would be hard pressed to find a bigger difference maker in the Yankee lineup right now than Gardner, who really ought to be batting lead off. He is highly disruptive on the bases as last night's great, clean wipe out slide also showed. While he ought to bat first, that he is batting above ninth more often at least solidifies a bottom third that has scuffled. Still, Girardi needs to do the right thing and move Gardner up.
I was reminded of Geoff from The BPS last night when Teixeira smack yet another one into the teeth of the shift–the shift works, and has done much to tamp down on Teixeira's average. Heck, Tampa even employed it when Teixeira batted right-handed. I like that Teixeira has steered the ball to the other side a couple times lately, for it shows that he's adjusting, but he needs to drive the ball the other way with consistency to reduce the shift on him, and I don't see it happening any time soon. I love the guy, and his defense (including a terrific catch by the stands to end the game) is first rate. But his declining average (.239) is worrisome, all the more so as A-Rod recovers from surgery.
I'd like to see Noesi pitch quite a bit more. He is nasty when he keeps the ball down, and I am a big fan of the mid-90s heat.
Hard to imagine where the Yankees offense would be without Grandy. He is every bit the player I had hoped for when they traded for him, and this season stands right with his monster 2007 season as his best.


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As President Barack Obama and congressional leaders prepared for budget and tax talks on Friday aimed at preventing the U.S. economy from falling back into recession, a top Republican vowed to overhaul the U.S. tax code next year.
Democrats and Republicans dug in on their long-held opposing positions on the eve of the talks, with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell warning, "What we won't do is raise tax rates."
But raising income taxes on the wealthy to help shrink the deficit was exactly what Obama highlighted during his first post-election news conference on Wednesday. Twenty-four hours later, Obama spokesman Jay Carney argued that public sentiment was firmly behind the newly re-elected president.
Obama "will not sign, under any circumstances, an extension of tax cuts for the top 2 percent of American earners," Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to New York to survey recent devastating storm damage.
Later on Thursday, Republican Dave Camp, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, said his panel will move to overhaul the U.S. tax code next year.
The panel "will write, act on and pass comprehensive tax reform legislation in 2013," Camp said in the text of a speech to be delivered in the evening. "We intend to move a comprehensive tax reform bill in 2013 - no matter what."
Obama at 10:15 a.m. EST (1515 GMT) on Friday will bring together the four top leaders of Congress for the first time since the November 6 election.
McConnell, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi are scheduled to talk with him for about an hour at the White House.
"Let us go to the table in good faith that we want something to happen," Pelosi told reporters, adding, "If nothing happens, the consequences will be great."
While all five leaders have registered the need for cooperation after Democrats scored a healthy win in last week's elections, all signs point to difficult negotiations on how to avoid the "fiscal cliff" on January 1.
That is when about $600 billion worth of broad tax increases and deep spending cuts occur if Congress cannot decide how to replace them with less extreme deficit-reduction measures.
The overall push for fiscal responsibility is being fueled by budget deficits that have topped $1 trillion for each of the past four years, pushing the country's debt beyond the $16 trillion mark.
Uncertainty about the fiscal cliff prompted analysts this month to cut early 2013 U.S. economic growth expectations, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday.
Investors are also rattled. The S&P 500 is down nearly 2 percent for the week, further eroding the market's 2012 gains.
The Obama-led talks begin amid growing fears there will be new demands on Washington for bailouts that could further increase deficit spending.
The U.S. Postal Service announced on Thursday a record net loss of nearly $16 billion last year, more than triple its loss the previous year.
The cleanup from East Coast wreckage brought by Superstorm Sandy could require Congress to approve billions of additional dollars in aid - just as the U.S. Federal Housing Administration is indicating it might need a bailout for the first time in its 78-year history because of bad loans.
Much larger bailouts of U.S. financial and automotive industries a few years ago sparked outrage among many lawmakers and voters.
In the run-up to Friday's White House gathering, Republicans and Democrats were jockeying for the upper hand in the negotiations and in public opinion.
McConnell, speaking on the floor of the Senate, said, "It's the president's turn to propose a specific plan that brings both parties together. That's what a president is elected to do."
Before the election, lawmakers speculated that if Obama won a second four-year term, he would promptly unveil a new comprehensive set of proposals for averting the fiscal cliff.
But Obama's solid win, coupled with an expanded Democratic majority in the Senate and a larger Democratic minority in the House, has caused the president to pivot, according to some Democratic congressional aides.
An emboldened Obama, the aides say, will now focus on urging Republicans to accept a Democratic bill passed in the Senate last July to extend expiring income tax cuts - first enacted by President George W. Bush - except for those families making more than $250,000 a year in adjusted income.
"If Republicans have other ideas on how to raise revenues now, they should bring them" to the White House, said one Senate Democratic aide.
While differences over raising income taxes are large, some have spotted in the week's rhetoric some openings for compromise. Those include raising Obama's $250,000 income threshold to $500,000, or letting the top income tax rate rise to something less than the 39.6 percent Obama wants, from the current 35 percent.
There is also growing talk of extending a payroll tax break for 160 million American workers to stimulate the economy by putting about $1,000 a year in extra spending power in their pockets.
The payroll tax is set to expire at year's end and will be part of the White House negotiations, leaders said.
The negotiators will also have to decide what to do about $109 billion in across-the-board spending cuts set to be triggered on January 2.
Even if Obama and Congress can forge a deal to avert the fiscal cliff by December 31, they will still have plenty of work ahead of them early next year on tax and budget policy. That is when the most arduous work is expected on revamping the outdated U.S. tax code and retooling expensive "entitlement" programs such as Medicare, the government healthcare program for the elderly.
"We are open to a grand bargain - however we get to the place where we can have significant deficit reduction," Pelosi told reporters.
In the meantime, the Obama talks likely will aim for a partial solution to get the country past the cliff and into the new session of Congress that starts in January.
"The bland bargain," was how Chris Krueger, senior policy analyst at Guggenheim Washington Research Group in Washington, described it.
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Emma and I only made two trips to the State Fair this year. I brought along my old iPod and took a few pictures, which I rarely do because my general philosophy is that you can experience an event or record it. And okay, if experiencing recording something is your idea of fun, fine, but it ain't mine. So most of our State Fair experience is not recorded here.
Emma does like to take pictures sometimes. On our first trip, she decided to take pictures of things that amused her, so I decided to take pictures of her taking pictures. (Yes, inside, I'm still thirteen.) If she posts hers, I'll add a link.
Click pics to bigify them.
A warm-up picture that I like, even if it's not in focus.
My favorite picture of Emma taking a picture.
Just because.
Emma realizes I've been taking pictures of her taking pictures. (That sign amused her.)
Steampunk made it to the fair.
Dr. Who did, too. In seed art, like the next few pics.
I wish I had a better picture of the piece on the right. Emma thought it would inspire a great book cover.
Anti-racists have yet to convince Minnesota's Asian community that "Oriental" is offensive. (ETA: As noted in a Twitter discussion, I don't remember hearing anyone refer to a person as Oriental in ages. But the word is still very common in business names.)
Butter sculptures being carved of Princess Kay and the princesses of the Milky Way. No, I didn't move—the platform rotates so everyone can get a good look at art in progress.
A bird of prey at the DNR area.
Emma and Betsy Pucci Stemple.
Proof that Republicans are stealth socialists.
A selfie.
A twofie.
This is a horribly unrepresentative record of our time at the fair. Maybe next year, I'll take pics of what we eat. Which always includes deep fried cheese curds in the food hall, honey lemonade, honey ice cream, all the milk you can drink, and craft beer. We had the beer-battered onion rings at the Ball Park Cafe for the first time, and they were mighty fine. But really, it's the greatest state fair. You can't go wrong.


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"She's just bad-a**! How many pop stars do you know crowd surfin' and still managing to hit perfect notes?" her sister, Solange, tweeted after the footage made the rounds on YouTube, according Marie Claire's British edition.
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Almost eighty years after its 1935 premiere in New York, Director Diane Paulus and Chorographer Ronald K. Brown have polished the style of The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess into a more beloved masterpiece brimming warmth and humility.
Featuring Nathanial Stampley and Alicia Hall Moran as the ill-fated lovers Porgy and Bess, this impeccable production tells the story of a proud local and disabled beggar named Porgy and his fight to rescue the town harlot Bess from the control of her lover, the clutches of her drug dealer and her own self-sabotaging ways.
As Porgy and Bess, there are no shortages of extraordinary moments between Stampley and Moran. Together and individually, these two artists offer an explosion of creation as they jump out of their skin and make their characters real and complex. With emotionally impactful performances, their voices are sleek and command every note—Stampley and Moran beautifully encapsulate the spirit of Catfish Row in more ways than one.
With a hint of snappy comedy, the women of Catfish Row expose Bess before she even saunters on the stage. Deeply rooted in their community, these audacious women want nothing more than to distance themselves from Bess and her toxic habits of men, booze and drugs. At the helm of this confident group are Mariah (played by Danielle Lee Graves) and Serena (played by Denisha Ballew) with playful and radiant performances.
Sumayya Ali and David Hughey as Clara and Jake award the audience with a fearless portrait of lovers whose marriage and romance in not impeded by the slums of Catfish Row.
Though Porgy's views on Bess collide often and hard with the women of Catfish Row, he is courageous in his efforts to defend her. When Bess finally makes her presence known wearing a wickedly tight red dress, it is clear this is a woman with zero concerns for her future and is simply on a quest for the next best thing. As events unfold, a husband is murdered and the women of Catfish Row turn a deaf ear; Bess finds herself in the comfort of the one person willing to provide a helping hand; Porgy.
Drug dealer Sporting Life is in the soul killing business. As a regular clown in the Catfish Row, Kingsley Leggs depiction of Sporting Life is delightful and razor sharp as he constantly bombards Bess with small doses of "happy dust." And Alvin Crawford's representation of Bess' husband Crown is that of a huge bird of prey, stalking Bess with his ruthless calm. Much like a cyclone on the loose, these men know how to unleash hell on Bess.
The sublime orchestration, along with the lighting, staging and engaging costumes truly honor this re-imaging of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.
In the final moments, Bess is at her lowest in a quiet surrender to Sporting Life. The always-forgiving Porgy is armored with a fragile ego as he throws a sack over his shoulder and heads for New York to reclaim his Bess. Porgy may falter in his steps, but there is no gimp in his love for Bess.
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I don't envy the ad execs who had to come up with a way to praise vibrators without actually mentioning sex, clits, or orgasms. But I'm also not real impressed with the cheesy "blow your hair back" joke they settled on. Nor do I get why, as AdAge writes, ads for ladysex products are more palatable to TV networks if they also include men. Is female sexuality suddenly family-friendly as long as there's a dick involved? Do they just want to make it clear that their product isn't for gross, dangerous lesbians? Whatever the case, the bro in this ad is real excited about his bride-to-be's three new Tri-Phorias. Let's hope they don't have any pre-marital massages!
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TNT's Pilot of Updated Dallas to Feature Returns of Original Series Stars Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray
Cast of Younger Dallas Generation to Include Jordana Brewster and Josh Henderson
Three iconic stars who played pivotal roles in the original version of Dallas have joined two next-generation talents in the cast for TNT's pilot of an update of the famed series.
The original Dallas ran from 1978 to 1991 and followed the Ewing family of Southfork. The modern story of Dallas focuses on the Ewing offspring – J.R. Ewing's son, John Ross, and the adopted son of Bobby and Pam Ewing, Christopher – as they clash over the future of the family dynasty.
The updated Dallas will include original series stars Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray. Hagman gained worldwide fame for his portrayal of oil baron J.R. Ewing. Gray played J.R.'s wife, Sue Ellen Ewing, while Duffy portrayed J.R.'s younger brother Bobby. In the pilot for the new Dallas, Josh Henderson (Desperate Housewives) will play John Ross. Jordana Brewster (Fast & Furious) will play Elena, who is involved in a love triangle with Christopher and John Ross.
Executive producer Cynthia Cidre, who wrote the acclaimed film The Mambo Kings and produced the TV series Cane, wrote the pilot for the new Dallas. The pilot script is based on characters created by David Jacobs. The updated version of Dallas comes to TNT from Warner Horizon Television. Michael M. Robin (The Closer) is the director and executive-producer for the pilot.
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Warner Horizon Television (WHTV) is one of the entertainment industry's fastest-growing television companies, specializing in the creation of scripted series for the cable marketplace, and primetime reality series for both network and cable. Founded in 2006, this second production entity allows the Warner Bros. Television Group to expand its programming offerings and explore creative options made possible under a new business model. WHTV is currently producing more than a dozen projects. Its unscripted shows include The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad and the upcoming Take the Money and Run for ABC, School Pride for NBC and Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew for MTV, among others. Scripted programs from WHTV include Rizzoli & Isles and Memphis Beat for TNT, Glory Daze for TBS and Pretty Little Liars for ABC Family, among others.
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MINNEAPOLIS — After serving as technology partners for a decade, Health Fitness Corp. (HFC) has acquired HealthCalc Network for $6 million. HealthCalc is a provider of Web-based fitness, health management and wellness programs to corporations, health care organizations, physicians and fitness centers.
HFC uses the HealthCalc Web-based system to track member usage and perform health and fitness assessments. As the company has expanded the focus of its health management capabilities with its customers, owning a technology platform became an important part of HFC's growth strategy, said president Jerry Noyce.
HealthCalc's 2005 revenues are projected to be about $2.5 million, of which $850,000 is attributed to HFC clients.


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For more than a decade, young Canadians have been told they were born into a golden age. They have been told that they are part of a future in which there won't be enough Canadians to fill all the jobs the Canadian economy will produce. They've been told that employers will be lining up to offer them work, that they can write their own tickets to success.
That's still the forecast, but the reality for young Canadians has been vastly different. Unemployment among 15-24-year-olds, after dipping into single digits before the market crash, has rebounded to the same range it was a decade ago, about twice that of older Canadians.
They are also facing a labour market in which blue-collar unionized jobs that used to be a secure path to a middle class lifestyle have been disappearing.
University graduates are encouraged to apply for internships that pay nothing or take service jobs that pay little more than minimum wage. In some markets, even those are hard to find.
It's against this backdrop that the federal government has been allowing in more and more temporary foreign workers, with the justification they are filling jobs that Canadians either don't want or aren't qualified to fill.
As Sun reporters Peter O'Neil and Tara Carmen detailed on Saturday, the number of temporary foreign workers being brought into Canada has increased by more than half since 2005, to about 191,000 last year.
More than a quarter of those are in B.C., where in October there were 148,000 people listed as unemployed in the Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey.
Meanwhile, 54,000 temporary foreign workers were in the province, working on farms, in construction, in trades, financial institutions, taking care of children and serving fast food.
Some of them are people with special skills that for some reason can't be found here. That's the argument for bringing in coal miners from China that has most recently shone a spotlight on the issue of temporary foreign workers in Canada.
But most of them are in jobs that employers say Canadians don't want, either because of the nature of the work or where the work is.
Canadians include immigrants, of course, but the temporary foreign workers are not being invited to move to Canada, to bring their families and live the Canadian dream.
My question is why are the wages so low? Why is it that we encourage industries in this country that are so marginal they can't produce a living wage for Canadians?
O'Neil and Carmen told the story of a greenhouse worker from Mexico, Jesus Bernardino, who is paid just over minimum wage to tend poinsettias, no doubt much like the ones that are sold by schools and community organizations to support sports and music programs for our children.
To make that happen, workers from Mexico have to leave their children behind for months at a time and work in conditions that would be illegal in any other industry.
Demographers tell us that Canada needs immigrants to continue to thrive in the face of an aging population and a relatively low birthrate. But temporary workers are not immigrants. They don't become part of our communities. Their kids don't go to our schools. They don't get to vote. They live apart.
In spite of our tepid welcome, they come here because the wages considered too low for Canadians are still more than they can earn at home.
But the access to foreign workers ensures that the wages will stay low. Employers who hire them don't have to compete for Canadian workers, who in order to stay in a job eventually have to be paid a living wage.
How much more would we have to pay for the seasonal pleasure of poinsettias if greenhouse growers had to pay employees enough to live on in Canada?
How much more would we have to pay for a Big Mac at McDonalds or a double double at Tim Hortons?
We pay a lot less for our food than our parents did. If the price for that is a dependence on migrant labourers who never get to be part of the communities they serve, are we better off for it?
I'm not so sure.


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