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Dog Cancer Diets
Veterinarian Reviewed on March 29, 2014 by Dr. Janice Huntingford
Dog Cancer Diets
It is sad when your valued pet receives a Dog Cancer diagnosis. There are various treatments to consider, as well as the devastating possibility that your dog may not be with you much longer. While you are discussing treatment options for your dog that has cancer you could look for dietary options to aid in their recovery and offset the effects of treatment.
Dogs and Cancer
It has been said that most dogs will not die from cancer, but from the effects of treatment on the other major organs. Dog Liver Disease and Dog Renal Failure are quite common in dogs that have cancer and can be a side effect of the cancer itself or the treatments being used. There is little you can do to alter the treatment plan, as this will be dependent upon the type and location of the cancer. Surgery, chemotherapy and even radiation may be used to try to arrest the growth of abnormal cells.
The one thing you can directly control is their Dog Diet and through dietary changes, you can actually improve their odds of survival. The first thing you should understand is that dogs were never created to consume grain products. In the wild canine breeds will never be found grazing a wheat or cornfield! Their natural diet is primarily meat; however, commercial dog foods depend upon grains as filler. If you are going to be using a commercially manufactured dog food, make sure the first ingredient on the list is meat. Here are a few things to keep in mind about dog cancer diets:
• Limited carbohydrates
• Dog Antioxidants are an essential supplement for any animal undergoing cancer treatment as they address the problem of free radicals
• High amounts of protein, preferably animal
• Amino supplementation
• Omega 3 fatty acids- The recommended amount of Dog Omega Fatty Acids are 1,000 mg fish oil per 20 lbs. of weight
• Increase proteins from raw chicken, fish or other raw meats slowly
• Grate or food process various uncooked vegetables such as tomatoes, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and Romaine lettuce along with raw egg
• Adding Essential fatty acids
• Liquid cold pressed flax seed oil
• Avoid manufactured dog kibble especially the commercial cereal types
Cancer fighting herbal supplements
There are a variety of cancer fighting herbal supplements available to add to your dog's diet to help give an added bonus and aid in recovery and treatment. These are the most common herbs used to treat cancer in dogs and have been used for centuries. Only use them if you know what dosage and quantity of each herb or use a product that is premixed for Dog Cancer treatment.
• Burdock: Used to treat flaky, oily and inflammatory disorders of the skin
• Sheep's Sorrel: Aids in treating internal hemorrhages in the stomach
• Slippery Elm: Long used for intestinal and digestive tract issues it has lubricating and astringent properties to aid in swallowing and moving toxins out of the body
• Chinese Rhubarb: Colon supporting herb also aids in salivary and gastric flow in a safe and expelling manner
• Vitamins A, B complex, C, E and K
• Calcium, Magnesium, Selenium and Sodium supplements
• Wheat sprout, Barley and Alfalfa Grass
The goals of a cancer diet for dogs are to boost the immune system, encourage proper bodily functions and keep them at a healthy weight while they fight the disease. Many times this process will be complicated by the type and location of the cancer. For example, a dog with mouth cancer may find eating at all to be difficult. Talk to your veterinarian about your dog's condition and the best possible diet and treatment options.
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GREAT FALLS – He may be small, but Little Big Chief has a survival spirit that surpasses many adult warriors.
Born premature at 24 weeks, Scott Thomas Price has fought battle after battle since his birth on June 25.
Weighing only 1 pound, 5 ounces, the 12-inch long infant came into the world almost four months before his projected birth date.
He could be held in the palm of your hand, his grandmother, Debra Terry, said.
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Listen up, New Year partiers. This is your fair warning: Find yourself a designated driver or stay home. Because if you drink and drive this weekend, there's a good chance you're going to cross paths with law enforcement officers.
The campaign taking place this weekend is called Sober or Slammer and involves a range of law enforcement organizations focused on one goal – keeping drunk drivers off the road.
The Lancaster News, like many other newspapers, looks back at the top stories at the end of a year.
Here are the stories that we put on our Top 10 list for 2010:
(1) Mulvaney goes to Congress
INDIAN LAND – Fashion is a dream job for many young women, but Annelise Manns is making it her reality.
"You can't hope for it, you have to force your foot in the door," said Manns.
That determination has paid off with two stints at New York City's Fashion Week and a summer internship in New York City working for a fashion designer to help them launch a new line of women's clothing.
INDIAN LAND – The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fire at a vacant home in Indian Land on Tuesday night.
Authorities said firefighters from Indian Land, Charlotte Road/Van Wyck, Pleasant Valley and Waxhaw volunteer fire departments were dispatched about 9 p.m. to the home at 7156 Ander Vincent Road.
The small wood-framed house, located about a mile down a dirt road off S.C. 75, was fully involved when firefighters arrived.
County Councilman Jack Estridge spent Monday night in the hospital after being involved in a car accident in Kershaw County.
County Administrator Steve Willis heard the news early Tuesday morning about the councilman, who represents District 6 on council. He didn't have many details about the accident, but said Lancaster County Emergency Management Director Morris Russell and Lancaster County Emergency Management Service Director Lanny Bernard have been following up on the crash.
What began as an early morning duck hunt for Tony Pope quickly turned into a fight for his life.
The Lancaster man left home early Tuesday morning to go duck hunting with a friend on the Catawba River on the Lancaster/Chester county line. At about 5:30 a.m., Pope eased his 2001 Toyota Tacoma down the S.C. 9 boat landing under the Catawba River bridge, aiming his trailer and boat toward the water.
Are you 60 or older and concerned about issues affecting the aging population?
If so, the S.C. Silver Haired Legislature might be right for you.
The statewide group, which identifies issues and vouches for legislation impacting seniors, is seeking candidates for membership for 2011.
The group has 152 members, with representation from each of South Carolina's 46 counties. Members serve two-year terms.
Below-freezing temperatures and a multi-layer roof made putting out a blaze a challenge for firefighters Monday night.
Firefighters got a call shortly after 9 p.m. about a fire at the S&M Mini Mart on Kershaw-Camden Highway in the Pleasant Hill community.
Crews arrived minutes later to find the left rear section of the building on fire, said Patrick Helms, chief of the Heath Springs Fire Department.
Fire departments battled two fires on Dec. 22, one of which involved the arrest of a man who allegedly tried to steal fire equipment from the scene.
Gooches Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Randy Hardin said firefighters responded about 6:30 p.m. to 1125 9th St., Lancaster.
Hardin said flames were visible through the vacant mill house's roof when firefighters arrived.
He said the home was a total loss. A cause of fire has yet to be determined.
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Wollumbin /Mount Warning has been listed in many tour guide books as a must climb experience, especially for the sunrise. The thing that most the guide books don't mention is that it is a sacred place for the Bundjalung people and they request that uninitiated people not climb the mountain. Some people chose to ignore this request and climb it anyway, this is disrespectful and equivalent to walking into a church in a bikini.The Bundjalung men would hold ceremonies on the mountain and as such is it a sacred place for men. The only way to respectfully experience Wollumbin is to admire it but not climb it or if you must climb it, ask a Bundjalung elder for permission. You can see the mountain on from many vantage points, such as Crams Farm (photo), hot air ballooning, Cape Byron, Saddle rd to name but a few.
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Now that it is holiday season, our family tends to have a lot of wine. I do try my best to buy organic wine but I have a really hard time finding it. Was wondering if you had some suggestions of where to find some?
Hi Nancy,
Glad to hear you're trying to buy organic wine. Many people tend to forget that wine comes from grapes, and grapes are typically heavily sprayed with pesticides. I agree that finding organic wine can be tricky at times. This is partially because if it contains sulfites (which most wines do) it can't be labeled USDA organic. Here is an excerpt about wine from my book The Conscious Kitchen that I think will be helpful:
"Organic standards do not permit the use of sulfites, the bacteria-killing preservatives used in making pretty much all wine. Some producers use organic grapes and add varying degrees of sulfites, resulting in wine that cannot technically be certified organic. These wines are often labeled "made with organically grown grapes" and are a good option….'Biodynamic' is a third-party-certified method and term (Demeter-USA.org) that's a bit confusing to explain. Basically biodynamic farming shares many tenets with organic farming (no synthetic pesticides or fertilizers are permitted–some people call it a forerunner to the organic movement) but takes it several steps further. Biodynamic vineyards have not only vines but also other plants, trees, and animals, all of which work together as a unified system–this is call biodiversity. "
So when it comes to looking for sustainable wine to drink, here is a sliding scale of what to look for:
- Biodynamic
- Certified Organic
- Labeled "Organically Grown" or "made with organically grown grapes"
- Bottles marked "sustainably grown" or "made with sustainably grown grapes"
Hopefully this will help you locate a bottle or two. You can also always ask questions in local wine stores. There tend to be producers who don't bother to label their wines as organically produced, and the shop buyers can point you in the right direction. Here is a previous post from my old intern, Glenny, about her favorite organic wines that might also be of use.


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I am spending some time in Nepal and also started seeing a Tibetan Medicine doctor every week. He has prescribed several medicines that I am excited to start seeing results from. Is there an online guide with description of the ingredients and usage by name of the Tibetan medicine? I have only been able to read information on a few common names like "Bimala", Semde, etc... but I would love to read about the ones I am starting to take!
Thank you for your help with finding the link to this online resource or website!
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This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington. Linguist David Crystal describes the English language as a vacuum cleaner: Our speakers merrily swipe some words from other languages, make others up, adopt some because they're cool and others because they sound classy.
Take the word debt, for example, originally from the French, but that silent B inserted as a reference to ancient Latin at a moment when many English speakers though the language needed elevation. Linguist David Crystal says there's a story behind each and every word, even one as commonplace as and.
And in a new book, he tells the story of the English language in 100 select words. He acknowledges that others could easily propose a different list. So what's one word you think tells an important story about the English language? Please note this is a rebroadcast, we're not going to be able to take any new calls today.
Later in the program, a son flies off to war, a father wants answers from Washington. But first, David Crystal joins us from his home in Holyhead in North Wales. His latest book is "The Story of English in 100 Words," and David Crystal, nice to have you back on the program.
DAVID CRYSTAL: Neal, it's a delight to be with you again.
CONAN: And a word as simple and commonplace as and?
CRYSTAL: Absolutely. You know, when you're asked this question, 100 words to sum up the English language, well, I mean, the idea of course didn't come from language as such. It started when the director of the British Museum over here, a man called Neil MacGregor, another Neil, he wrote a book and did a radio series called "The History of the World in 100 Objects."
And his idea was that if you could choose 100 objects, each of which told a story about the history of everything, put them all together, you get the history of the world. And I thought: Well, I wonder if you could do for language, if you could find 100 words, each of which tells an individual story and then put them all together, and you get the history of the language.
Now a word like and, you see, one of the most frequently occurring words in the language, you've got to have a strand that represents them, too.
CONAN: So these connective words, these are, well, functional words. They're kind of grammatical words.
CRYSTAL: Yes, that's right, all these terms you've just used are out there, function words, grammatical words. You know, when you look at word books, any of your listeners who go into a bookstore will see word books all over the place, and most of them deal with the really sort of punchy, meaty words in the language, you know, the longer words, the fascinating words.
And these poor little words like and and the and of, you know, they don't get any press at all, and this is a great shame because without them, we have no syntax, we have no grammar, the whole language falls apart. You can't communicate just by, you know, using a word. People say: What do you mean? Put it in a sentence, and then it'll make sense.
And so you've got to give amount of page distance to these little words if you're going to write a real story of the language.
CONAN: And interestingly enough, you also point out that, well, we tend to think of contractions and abbreviations as modern inventions. Well, you go all the way back to and.
CRYSTAL: Yeah, and, one of the first abbreviated forms in the language. If you look at an old Anglo-Saxon manuscript, you know, 700, 800, 900 A.D., and you see the way the scribe has written things out, one of the things you'll notice straight away, even if you don't know any Old English at all, is you'll see these little signs like a seven, like the number seven, all over the place.
And that was the abbreviation for the word and in those days. It's a bit like an early attempt at shorthand, and you can see why they did it because if you're writing something out, and you want to get as many things onto the line as possible, you take some of these frequent words and just shorten them a little bit, and the writing becomes more efficient as a result.
CONAN: So our language comes originally from the German, and, well, there's a word for and in German, too, a very similar word, unt.
CRYSTAL: Yes, indeed. Now, it comes from the German. Now, this is where the story really starts, of course, because we've got over 1,000 years of English vocabulary history here. And if you went through the entire biggest dictionaries in the language, like Webster and Oxford and so on, what you'd find is that something like 80 percent of the vocabulary in English doesn't come from Germanic at all.
And that's because - you mentioned it earlier on - English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
Every language that English has come into contact with, it's pinched some of the words, thousands and thousands of words in many cases, and something like 600 languages have loaned or given words to English over the past 1,000 years. And so again, a word book has got to represent those trends, too.
CONAN: And as we go through this history, it's interesting, the second book on your list, and you do it in roughly chronological order, but the second book - the second word on your list is lea, meaning a meadow. It's a word we generally encounter in old poetry.
CRYSTAL: Yes, that's right, L-E-A, lea. And you - you wouldn't think twice about that one because yes, it's a poetic word, isn't it. You know, Thomas Grey's Elegy in a Country Churchyard, the curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing her winds slowly o'er the lea, L-E-A, a word for a meadow or a, you know, green field and so on, hardy ever used. So you think what's that doing in the book.
Well, of course, it's a trick there, a bit of a cheat because we actually encounter the L-E-A word much more frequently than anybody thinks because it turns out to be a place-name ending. In this country, in Britain, in the early years, huge numbers of place names ended in L-Y because the word lea in those days simply meant a clearing, a space.
Britain was forested, trees everywhere, and if you wanted to settle in a part of the country, you'd clear the trees away, make yourself a clearing, it was a called a lea, a (unintelligible) it would have been said in those days, and you're - depending on who you were, if somebody called Neal had made a clearing in a forest, they would call it Neal's lea, so Nealey or something like that.
And so you get lots of words like Burnley(ph) and Ashley(ph) and Rowley(ph) and Langley(ph) and Moorly(ph) and Dingly(ph) and so on. And a fair number of them came across to the United States eventually, too.
CONAN: Where they were borrowed because they were borrowing place names, not necessarily because there was a clearing, and the place next to Oakland they decided to call Berkeley.
CRYSTAL: I guess so.
CRYSTAL: I don't know, there may have been a forest at once upon a time.
CONAN: Once upon a time. Let's see if we can get some callers in on this conversation. Take a word that you think says something important about the history of the English language, 800-989-8255. We'll start with Hillary(ph), Hillary on the line with us from Phoenix.
HILLARY: Oh hi.
CONAN: Hi, go ahead please.
HILLARY: Well, the word I chose was liberty, and I chose that one because it just has such a worldwide meaning. It doesn't really change in other languages. I speak quite a few languages, and it just has such an impact on meaning. It can be used in different words in different ways, like liberation and liberate.
And it just means such an empowering thing throughout our history to liberate, you know, liberate the Jews, to liberate, you know, the women vote, to give liberty to America when they got away from the British colonies, to liberate the people of France during the Revolutionary War. And it just doesn't have the same powerful wording as freedom. Freedom doesn't mean the same thing.
And so I think it just plays such a powerful role in the history of just humanity.
CONAN: And David Crystal, she reminds us of (speaking foreign language). Is this from the French?
CRYSTAL: Yes, absolutely, well, Latin originally, of course. But it's interesting, what Hillary's done is she's picked up two words side by side, freedom and liberty, and she senses an important difference between them. Now historically, of course, there is this big difference. Freedom is an Old English, Germanic word, (speaking foreign language), and liberty is the Latin French word.
Now, this tells its own story, and in my book, I've got another example, which is very similar. The story is how English picks up words in parallel, as it were, and uses them for different purposes.
So if I change the example a little bit and take something like kingly, royal and regal, they all mean roughly the same thing, but of course kingly is a Germanic word, royal is a French word and regal is a very Latin word. And they all have different feelings.
HILLARY: (Unintelligible) when I was studying medicine was that we had to learn different root words for our pharmacology and anatomy, and we had to break down the words, like histological, so is like the study of - I mean histo is a story, and then ology is the study of.
CRYSTAL: That's right, and most of those medical words would have come from Latin and Greek, wouldn't they?
HILLARY: Yeah, and if you look at the words, you can break it down, and so many people don't just (unintelligible) and break it down into the roots and realize what the words if they just sat down and broke it apart. And there's so much history just looking at the word without ever knowing that it came from such an old language and such old history, and it's really kind of sad that people are losing that.
CRYSTAL: Absolutely.
CONAN: Hillary, thanks very much for the call. But David Crystal, if you could peruse - pursue those - that triplet for us just a little bit and the differences and how they evolved between regal and royal and kingly.
CRYSTAL: Yeah, that's right. I mean, kingly comes in first. It's a good, old Anglo-Saxon word, Germanic word, king, based on king. And then the French come along, and they decide that they want a rather more elegant word for their rulers, you see. A king was a bit too Anglo-Saxon for them, a bit too down-to-Earth, and royalty is a little more up-market. And so the term royal came into the language.
And then a little later, when the classicists came along and looked at Latin and Greek and found another word which meant more or less the same thing, and they chose regal. Now, you'd think three words mean the same thing more or less, but of course over the course of time, they go in different directions.
So things that are royal are not necessarily things that are regal, and when you think of the way the words are used in the English language, you find that actually royal is used in one sort of direction - I mean we have the Royal Shakespeare Company, for example, in Britain, we don't have a Regal Shakespeare Company, do we?
CONAN: Some would say we do, but there's a comment on it.
CRYSTAL: Exactly, and as soon as you say that, Neal, you see, you make the joke. And that's the point. Once we've got two words, and one is normal and the other is abnormal, soon as you switch them, you've got a humorous point to be made or an ironic point, and that's of course how the language grows, by allowing these nuances of meaning to develop.
CONAN: But I haven't heard anybody use kingly all that much lately.
CRYSTAL: No, I suppose kingly - and queenly, of course, is the opposite one - that they've fallen out of use a little bit, really, over the last 100 years or so, probably because the terms that subsume both turn out to be rather more useful.
CONAN: We're talking with David Crystal about his new book, "The Story of English in 100 Words." Which words do you think tells a meaningful story about the English language? Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan. To my guest, David Crystal, language is made up of special words packed with extra meaning, words that reveal something about the culture and priorities of a people. He picked 100 words that tell the story of the English language for his new book that range from the common to the current to the, well, silly like fopdoodle, a lost word from the 17th century.
A mix of the words fop and doodle, he says it means a fool twice over. You can read more about lost words and how ladies in white dresses linked up with stablehands in the word bridegroom in an excerpt from "The Story of English in 100 Words" at our website. Just go to npr.org, click on TALK OF THE NATION.
So to the linguists and armchair word lovers in our audience, what's one word you think tells a great story about the English language? David Crystal is our guest. He joins us from Wales, and let's go to Victor(ph), Victor with us from Madison.
VICTOR: Hello, thanks for the show, it's great.
CONAN: Thank you.
VICTOR: Mr. Crystal, the word that I was wondering about was the word cow.
CRYSTAL: Cow as in C-O-W?
VICTOR: C-O-W, yes, and I was thinking of it in contrast to the word beef.
CRYSTAL: Oh right, yeah. Well, that's another one of these pairs of words that has grown up - cow is a nice, good, old Anglo-Saxon word, you know, along with pig and all of these others, and beef, boeuf, is of course a Romance word, comes along in the early Middle Ages, when the French arrived.
And one of the big things that the French did is take the language up-market, really. The French were culturally miles ahead of the Anglo-Saxons, or so they though, and they introduced into the language, you know, hundreds, well actually thousands of new words. Something like 40,000 or 50,000 new words come in from French over the Middle English period.
And one of the early areas of development were the food words. So this is the point in time where you get, you know, beef coming along, alongside cow and pork coming in alongside pig and all the other words that are related to food: mutton and sheep, you know, veal, all of these. They all came in at more or less the same time, fascinating development.
CONAN: Illustrate the...
VICTOR: About 1066 or so.
CONAN: Well thereafter.
CRYSTAL: A bit later than that, about 1200.
VICTOR: True enough.
CONAN: But in any case, the function of class in the English language were the English, the good, strong, old Anglo-Saxon words are somehow relegated to, well, being vulgar.
CRYSTAL: Yes, they are, or being ordinary or not being classy enough, not being up-market, not being cool, I suppose we'd say these days. I mean, of course, to the ordinary person in the street, the old words were cool enough, and a lot of the words did sort of fight each other for a while before they became established.
But, you know, the history of language is the history of society and that means the history of class as much as anything else, and that's always ultimately the reason why some words win and some words lose.
CONAN: Victor, thanks very much for the call.
VICTOR: Thank you.
CONAN: Here's an email from Roger(ph) in Phoenix: My nominee would be that most globally used American-associated phrase OK. I've heard derivations from Native American languages to Wolof from West Africa.
CRYSTAL: OK, yes, well, we're in total agreement about that because that's one of my 100 words, as well. Yes, OK, I love OK, and one of the reasons why I love it is because of the point that Roger has made, and that is that it has had so many guesses for its origins. I stopped counting at 50, I have to say.
CRYSTAL: And thought oh well, I'll just choose some of the main ones for discussion in the book. Well, I think we do now know where OK comes from. There was a great American lexicographer called Allen Walker Reed(ph) who many years ago did a huge study and found out that the word OK first appeared in the 1830s, I think it was 1839, in a newspaper in Boston because at the time, there was a vogue for inventing humorous abbreviations using initial letters.
And OK came at that point in time from oll korrect, you know, O-L-L for all and K-O-R-R-E-C-T for correct. Now, there were dozens of other abbreviations in the Boston newspaper at the time, and most of them have disappeared, but this one didn't. OK stayed. And the reason is it had a completely fresh boost of life the following year, when it began to be used as a slogan in the U.S. elections in 1840.
President Martin Van Buren came from Kinderhook in New York state, and Old Kinderhook, OK, became his sort of nickname, and his supporters used to go out onto the streets and say, you know, OK, this is their slogan, you know, down with the Whigs, boys, OK, and so on.
CRYSTAL: So the combination of the two things, the original jokey thing from Boston plus this political slogan, kept the word alive and made it what we know it is today.
CONAN: Well, let me play for you an example of - well, this is jargon or slang from a somewhat later generation. Let's listen to a little bit of "Valley Girl."
MOON UNIT ZAPPA: I'm freaking out. I'm sure. Like those thing that, like, stick in your mouth. They're so gross. Like, you get saliva all over them. But, like, I don't know, it's gonna be cool, you know, like see my smile. It'll be like totally cool. But my, like, teeth are like too small. But no biggie. It's so awesome. It's tubular, you know.
Well, I'm not like really ugly or anything. It's just like I don't know. You know me, I'm like...
CONAN: Well, grody to the max, David Crystal. About half of those words are still around, and maybe half aren't.
CRYSTAL: Yeah, that's right. You know, I was thinking of awesome as one of the words to put in, and I sort of didn't go for it in the end. I went to some others instead. You know, it's a great clip, and one of the reasons why it's so funny is because it slightly exaggerates the situation. You know, it's a bit of a pastiche in some ways based solidly in reality but nonetheless...
The problem with words like this, like the Val-speak stuff, is that you don't quite know how many of them are going to stay in the language and how many of them are not. And so you might always back the wrong horse, you know. You've got to be a little bit careful.
But certainly in any word book, there has to be some representation of this kind of speech. You see, it's not enough to say oh, it's sloppy, or it's below par and so on. It is actually a feature of the language. In my book, I've got examples of all sorts of vocabulary, vocabulary that people like and people hate, vocabulary that's standard, vocabulary that's non-standard.
The language as a whole has got to represent everything, even though some bits of it some people won't like at all.
CONAN: Some bits of it people won't like at all are rude words, and you've got some very rude ones in the book. Let us talk about one that American ears will have an easier time with, and that is bloody.
CRYSTAL: Yeah, well, bloody is one of those fascinating words. You're absolutely right. You can't miss out on the taboo words in a word book. You may not be able to say them on the radio or on the television, but everybody knows what they are. And interestingly, bloody is one of those words that has gone around the world and attracted different kinds of reaction.
In Britain, it very early on became a very strong word indeed. I mean, it made headline news when it was first used in the theater back in the early 1900s in, you know, "My Fair Lady," as it were. And the flower girl says it out loud, and everybody thought: They'll never say that in the theater. But she did, and there was almost a riot, and it made headline news the next day.
Meanwhile, back in Australia, and indeed in America, people were scratching their heads and wondering what's the fuss all about because a lot of the punch of the word had already disappeared then. That's the thing about rude words: Their effect, their force comes and goes over time.
CONAN: Interesting, also it's an intensifier, a bloody bad day or whatever, like that. We were talking earlier about the word royal and how it has become, similarly, an intensifier.
CRYSTAL: Yes, that's a right royal row they've just had over there. Yes, people use it in an intensifying way. Isn't that fascinating, though, Neal, the unpredictability of that? I mean, who would have predicted, you know, a couple of hundred years ago, that a respectable word like royal would end up being used as a kind of everyday intensified by people from, well, on my side of the pond, you know, Lancashire and Yorkshire and so on. I don't know how far it's used on your side, but...
CONAN: Somewhat. Let's get Jen on the line, Jen with us from San Francisco.
JEN: Hi, hi. It's a great topic.
CONAN: Thank you.
JEN: I'm curious about the word ravel and which I don't know the etymology of an how it's become unraveled, which is what ravel means, and like flammable and inflammable and how those become acceptable.
CRYSTAL: Oh yeah, I mean, you've picked on some of the really difficult examples there, words that have developed two parallel uses over time so that people begin to mix them up.
CONAN: I think the example you use is disinterest and uninterest.
CRYSTAL: Disinterested and uninterested and then flammable and inflammable. The reason is because the prefixes, these little prefixes like dis- and in- and so on have developed many different meanings over the past 1,000 years, and sometimes they'd used in an intensifying way, and sometimes they're used in a kind of negative way.
So when you get a development where you get both of them happening at the same time, like disinterested and uninterested, and people desperately trying to work out the difference between them, they get into a hopeless tangle, and as a result, some people then distance themselves from these words and try to avoid using them because they're never quite sure how they're going to go down.
And the same point applied, of course, for flammable and inflammable, except there lives were at risk. You know, if you put a notice on some chemical and say it's flammable, and then you put a notice on some other chemical and say it's inflammable, what do you mean? Do you mean it's going to blow up or it's not going to blow up? And as a result, some of these words have got a bit - have come to be avoided a bit, really, because of their ambiguity.
JEN: OK. Thank you.
CONAN: Thanks very much. There are also words that we think of as modern, very modern words that refer to, well, all kinds of machines, all kinds of technology. But I was curious to ask you about the word blurb and why you picked the word blurb.
CRYSTAL: Well, I picked blurb because it's one of the rare examples when we know exactly when a word comes into the language. You know, people often ask the question: When did such and such a word start to appear in English? And you look up in the history books and the dictionaries, and it will tell you, oh, at the beginning of the 17th century or in the 1830s or thereabouts. Nobody exactly knows when a particular word comes into English.
But in the case of blurb, we do, because this is a perfect example, been well recorded. The American humorist Gelett Burgess, back in, oh, 1906, '07, something like that, he was at a dinner and he was advertising a book. And he drew a little picture on the jacket of the book that was being circulated and called it a blurb. I mean just like that. I mean he invented the word there and then. And it caught on.
It became part of the publicity for the book. Ever since then, the stuff that you read on the back of a book, which advertises its great properties, are called blurbs. So you can actually pinpoint that particular word down to a particular day, even, a particular moment in linguistic history. And that's very rare indeed.
CONAN: We're talking with David Crystal, the linguist, whose latest book is "The Story of English in 100 Words." You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION, which is coming to you from NPR News.
And let's go next to Jeff, and Jeff's with us from Avon in Minnesota.
JEFF: Hello.
CONAN: Hi. You're on the air, Jeff. Go ahead, please.
JEFF: Hi. I'm happily employed as an English teacher at Central Lakes College in Brainerd, and I'm wondering if the good professor shares the delight that I take between a couple of words that I think there's a wonderful simile - symmetry in.
The first word is thesis, which originally meant to place down or place before. And we also have the word critical, which, I believe, came from critin(ph) or crinaean(ph) - you'll have to help me out with the pronunciation - and that meant to pick up, to take up with the hand.
And I just - I think it's neat, you know? All the writers and speakers of the world need a thesis, and hearers need to think critically. I just think it's neat that it evokes the physical and the important parts of human action.
CRYSTAL: Yeah. Absolutely. I think that's what you find when you go back to a lot of these early classical terms, when they came into English. I mean, why did they come into English in the first place? The period we're talking about is the sort of 1600s, really, where tens of thousands of words came into English from Latin and Greek and other European languages as well, but mainly Latin and Greek.
When they came in, they were called hard words very often. They were sometimes called ink-horn(ph) words because they took a lot of ink to write - some of the longer ones, anyway. And they came in because there was a kind of feeling about them, a kind of learnedness about them, a scholarly resonance about them which appealed to the people who, at the time, remember, very, very interested in the classics indeed. This was a period just after the Renaissance. And so that's when, I think, you get these very subtle differences coming in. We've kept them still, and I find them fascinating too.
JEFF: Thank you.
CONAN: Jeff, thanks very much for the call. And we have to go to some very modern words: muggle, for example, of course from the "Harry Potter" novels; unfriend in its most recent usage on Facebook. And you wind up your book with Twittersphere.
CRYSTAL: Yes, I do, don't I? You know, I had to bookend the book. You know, you have to have a beginning and an end if you're telling a story, don't you?
CONAN: Mm-hmm.
CRYSTAL: And the beginning was easy because I was able to find the first recorded word in the English language, which was the word roe, R-O-E, a type of...
CONAN: As in the...
CRYSTAL: Roe deer.
CONAN: Yeah. Deer as opposed to row, row, row your boat, or fish eggs, for that matter.
CRYSTAL: Absolutely. Yeah. No, roe deer. Indeed, indeed. So that was the beginning. Now, what do you do for the end? How do you wind the book up? I'd love to put in, you know, the latest word in the English language. And, of course, there's no such thing because as soon as you put that in a book, it's out of date because another word is going to come into use tomorrow. So I thought, what is a word that will point us towards the future? And so I looked around, and I felt it had to be something Internet-y, really.
So I focused on Twitter, which, at the time I was writing, was, you know, still developing as one of the latest and coolest developments online. And I suddenly realized there was a huge family of words out there that Twitter had begun to generate. I've collected, over the months since it started, something like a thousand words, all based on Twitter in some shape or form.
So you've got, you know, not just Twittering and tweeting and so on. You've got the Twittersphere, which is the word I use in the book to capture all this. You've got for people who tweet too much, they're suffering from Twittoria, which I thought was a very nice coinage, didn't you?
CONAN: Yes, it was good. Or Twidiction you have.
CRYSTAL: We've got a Twidiction here. You can look all these things up in the Twictionary.
CONAN: Of course. So as you go ahead with these words - and, as you say, there's one - new one every minute - how can you decide roe was the first one?
CRYSTAL: Well, it's the first recorded one, the first one we know that is actually written down in the language. Of course, nobody would ever know the words that were originally spoken. But this little word was found in a site in Norwich in Norfolk where they were doing a lot of excavation. And they found an urn filled with tiny little bits and pieces, including a fragment of a deer, a roe deer, a bit of its ankle bone. And somebody at the time had actually carved onto this ankle bone, in runic letters, the Anglo-Saxon word for roe, which was raihan, R-A-I-H-A-N. And this is the earliest word we know in the English language. It was a perfect choice to begin the book.
CONAN: David Crystal goes from roe to Twittersphere in his new book "The Story of English in 100 Words." He joined us today from his home in Holyhead in North Wales. Thank you, David Crystal, as always. We appreciate your time.
CRYSTAL: It's been a real pleasure, Neal. Thanks for your interest.
CONAN: Coming up, sending your loved one off to war. David Freed just said goodbye to his son and worries that politicians who send troops to combat don't understand what it's like for families back home. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
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Letter to the Editor,
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So you're going to be a new dad and have no idea what to expect, aside from many sleepless nights. Help is on the way – in the form of daddy boot camp. No, you won't have to do nursery army crawls or diaper bag crunches. But you will learn the basic fathering survival skills – from diaper changing and swaddling to managing a work-life balance and creating a parenting partnership.
Lance Somerfeld developed one such boot camp through his organization, NYC Dads Group, and teaches new dads about fatherhood in his three-hour parenting crash course.
His key to learning is having real babies. 'Veteran dads' are invited to each class; these are boot camp alum, who bring their babies to class so the expectant dads - or 'rookies' as they are called in boot camp - can become familiar and comfortable with young children.
Boot camp can be about dispelling the fears of new dads. The biggest fear, according to Somerfeld, is 'will I break the baby?' Dispelling these fears is the goal of boot camp. "At the beginning of each class, participants share their biggest fear or concern about fatherhood. The goal is to have that concern addressed before they leave," says Somerfeld.
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Somerfeld, who is a stay at home dad, created NYC Dads Group and daddy boot camp in a response to the lack of support for men compared to new moms. Similar groups are popping up nationwide as the gender roles continue to shift and more dads are becoming the primary childcare provider in the household. New dads should reach out to local organizations to find support systems in their community...and get some sleep now!


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escutcheon(redirected from a blot on (one's) escutcheon)
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1. a shield or something shaped like a shield.
2. the shieldlike pattern of distribution of the pubic hair.
Pattern of distribution of pubic hair.
[M.E., fr. Norman Fr. esochon, fr. L.L., scutio, fr. L. scutum, shield]
escutcheon/es·cutch·eon/ (es-kuch´un) the pattern of distribution of the pubic hair.
Etymology: L, scutum, shield
the pattern of distribution of coarse, adult pubic hair, rhomboid in the male and triangular in the female.
The normal female escutcheon is a triangle pointing downward, sharply cut off at the level of the pubic symphysis; the male escutcheon is diamond-shaped with both downward and upward angles; a male pattern in a woman may indicate pathological excess of androgen, or be a familial trait without significance
the shield-like pattern of distribution of the haircoat in the area below the vulva, down to the top of the udder, in the cow. The escutcheon itself is composed of hairs which lie vertically downwards; its edges consist of a well-demarcated ridge created when this vertically inclined hair meets the horizontally inclined hair of the lateral aspect of the thigh. Wishful-thinking herdsmen used to read predictions of milking capacity into the shape of the escutcheon of a dairy cow.


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Washington Post: Obama May Lose 'Good Will' of Republicans if He Nominates Rice
I'm agnostic about whether PBO should nominate Rice for Secretary of State after Hillary Clinton leaves Foggy Bottom next year, but this lead paragraph from a story in today's Washington Post has to be about the most brain-dead thing from a non-RWNJ source I've read in months:
The choice of a successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state has turned into an unexpectedly nasty political fight that could cost the White House valuable goodwill with Republicans.
Seriously, Washington Post? There's GOP "good will" for the White House? Have you been paying attention to anything in the past four years?
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Project Wreckway
Cake expert, Tom Gann: "Pastry chefs, I am leaving you with five minutes to finish your cakes for this week's show. I'm egregiously consternated that some of you might not finish in time, but I am confident that you all have the Sturm und Drang to 'wow' me. Your desserts to this point have consistently been astrudently bralifiscent! So, make it work!"
{moments later}
Hilga Flan: "Designers, welcome to the runway. Your challenge this week was to design a cake where your only limit was your imagination. As you know, in baking, you're either thin or you're stout. Let's start the show."
Kelly: "I wanted my design to be whimsical and childlike, but still fashion forward."
Judge #1, Editor of Gourmet Cake Monthly, Mia Gonzales: "I don't get it. We wanted a high fashion cake, not an arts and craft project."
Judge #2, Founder of Cols Frosting, Daniel Cols: "Butterfly flotsam is SO last season."
Judge #3, Supermodel, Hilga Flan: "It's a hot mess."
Mikeal: "I'm not afraid of colour, and I love to stand out."
Mia: "Mikeal, I don't even know where to begin. I'm really beginning to question your taste level."
Daniel: "I agree with Mia; this is just painful to look at. There's way too much going on! The swirls... the ribbons... the flowers... the horses... the swirls... pick a theme and GO WITH IT!"
Hilga: "It's a hot mess."
Lindsay: "I love couture, so I wanted to keep my design elegant and chic."
Mia: "Lindsay, it's like you've never decorated a cake before in your life. This is... It's just... I am speechless."
Daniel: "I'm really not getting it. Is any of this even edible? If this is couture, get me out of the cake business, NOW."
Hilga: "It's a hot mess."
Frederick: "My design was inspired by my mother. She was a florist."
Mia: "More like, she was a BORIST. What a snoozefest."
Daniel: "I see how it was inspired by your mother. It's like, mother of the bride meets the spray paint department at K-Mart. And it's so matronly! What's with the stripes? I... I just don't get it."
Hilga: "I kind of like this one. It's like it's had a kiss from a rose."
Daniel: "Ugh... you would like this one."
Santiago: "I spent last summer in China, and it inspired me."
Mia: "Santiago, this is outstanding. I would take this cake to a party right now."
Daniel: "I agree. This is just stunning. I think the dragon is now, it's modern, it's hip. The kiwis and cherries are what's happening in cake decorating... it's really well thought out. Bravo."
Hilga: "Santiago, it's really hot. You're this week's winner! Congratulations! You will have immunity in next week's challenge, where you will all have 20 minutes to decorate a wedding cake while hog-tied and blindfolded."
Chasity B., Sue M., Alex N., Shawn B., Shana C., I recommend that you accessorize your designs thoughtfully; perhaps by adding some piping and a few more layers? (Get it? Cause there are layers and piping in both cake and clothes?) Seriously, make it work.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 Index gaining for a fifth consecutive session, buoyed by optimism that Republicans and Democrats will eventually reach a deal to prevent the automatic spending cuts and tax hikes set to go into effect early next year.
The technology sector led the market higher, with Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.63% and Texas Instruments Inc. TXN, -0.80% posting particularly strong gains. See: Apple, Texas Instruments lead tech rally.
The S&P 500 SPX, -0.21% advanced 9.29 points, or 0.7%, to 1,427.84 — its highest closing value since Nov. 6, the day of the U.S. presidential election. The technology sector was the biggest gainer Tuesday among the S&P 500's 10 major sectors. Read: S&P 500 cracks major resistance.
The mood was buoyed by a report in The Wall Street Journal late Monday that budget negotiations between the White House and House Speaker John Boehner have made steady progress in recent days.
Addressing the House of Representatives Tuesday, Boehner said he was "hopeful" an accord would be reached. The Ohio Republican also said his party was waiting for President Barack Obama to outline specific spending cuts. Read: Republicans try to shift debate to spending.
Stocks pared gains after Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday afternoon that a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff will be difficult to reach before Christmas.
"The markets are holding out hope this is all a big bluff," Ethan Harris, co-head of global economics research at Bank of America, said of the back-and-forth on Capitol Hill that has not yet resulted in an agreement.
Common sense would dictate that the White House and Republicans would reach a compromise to avoid going over the fiscal cliff, but allowing the battle to linger on raises the risk that a deal won't be reached, according to Harris, speaking at a BofA Merrill Lynch conference in New York Tuesday.
"It'll probably go to the last second, and there's a decent chance we go over the cliff and it will be spring before this is resolved. There is a high risk Obama and Boehner agree in principle to a deal and Congress doesn't approve it," he added.
After surging as much as 136 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.23% closed up 78.56 points, or 0.6%, to 13,248.44, its highest closing level since Oct. 22.
The Dow rose for a fifth consecutive trading session, marking its longest win streak since mid-March. Chip manufacturer Intel Corp. INTC, -0.41% was the top gainer in the Dow, rising 2.8%.
The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.27% climbed 35.34 points, or 1.2%, to end at 3,022.30.
More than 690 million shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange; composite volume topped 3.6 billion.
Shares of TripAdvisor Inc. TRIP, -0.14% rallied after Liberty Interactive Corp. US:LINTA said it acquired voting control of the hotel-reviews site.
Apple's shares rose 2.2%. ISI Group cited China Unicom's announcement of more than 300,000 preorders for the iPhone 5 set to go on sale Friday. China Unicom is China's second-largest wireless carrier.
Shares of Delta Air Lines Inc. DAL, -0.91% rose 5.1% after it agreed to acquire a 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. from Singapore Airlines.
American International Group Inc. AIG, -0.07% climbed nearly 6% after the Treasury Department said it would sell its remaining shares of the insurance company, nearly closing out its largest rescue that came with the 2008 financial crisis. Read: U.S. selling last AIG shares — booking billions in profit.
Federal Reserve officials started a two-day policy-setting meeting on Tuesday, with Wall Street expecting central bankers to opt for more bond purchases when Operation Twist expires this year. Read: Fed to do what it can to ease fiscal-cliff uncertainty.
Stock-index futures drew an early lift from an unexpectedly upbeat gauge of German investor sentiment, which rose sharply in December.


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Penal Code Violations
NOTE: These cakes may have been meant for children, but the commentary is not. Double entendres ahead!
Do you ever get the feeling that certain bakers are up to some...er...monkey business?
I think this monkey lacks a certain...appeal.
I mean, maybe it's just me, but it seems like some of today's wreckerators are getting downright...
(I had two different readers send in two different pictures of this cookie cake, btw. See?)
There's something kind of awesome about having a pair of photos of a pair of...um...pink blobby things.
(Swinging plums? Low riders? Crown jewels? Man tonsils? Pant Potatoes? Scroto Baggins? Ok, internet, you've earned your keep tonight.)
Oh, and I *think* they were going for a heart. Maybe. And before you ask, no, the baker should not be sacked, because this is far too entertaining.
I'm sure some of you may think I'm being unfair. Well, not to worry, wreckerators; you'll get your day in court.
Just no dribbling, please.
There's a certain bakery chain (which shall continue to Remain Nameless) that has a rather curious carrot cake design. It looks like this:
You guys have sent me a bunch of examples, so I can assure you: this really is how the cake comes:
So my question is this: if we all sat around discussing the failings of this particular design, would that make it a circle jerk?
And while I'm being inquisitive, bakers, I've got to ask: do your wrecks ALWAYS have to look like dongs?
Ok, never mind.
Please bring the ding dongs back.
Thanks to Carrie C., Beth M., Rachael, Becca S., Nick D., Michelle W., & Richard for enabling me to make it four whole days into the new year before making a wiener joke. NEW RECORD!
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Database schema interoperabilityWe all know what a MySQL schema looks like: I bunch of CREATE DATABASE, CREATE TABLE CREATE this-and-that, all together in a file. Usually, when someone asks for a schema, this is what they get, and this is independent on if the user is using PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle or whatever database.
In some way, most SQL based databases follow some variation of the SQL standard, but as they all, without exception, also have extensions (which they are allowed to, even if the follow the SQL standard) and they all also interpret things differently. At least in the case of MySQL, there is also the schema "translation" effect to take into account. A column defined as BOOL doesn't actually appear as BOOL when you look at the create schema, neither in the actual type used, nor in the actual semantics (more values that TRUE (1) and FALSE (0) may be represented), and this is not the only example.
All in all, although databases use SQL to define the schema, the schema isn't portable, at all. At least in the case of MySQL, we have to add the different features of the different versions, meaning that an exported schema is full of those /*!40110 WEIRDO_SYNTAX */ comments.
In conclusion, the schema isn't really portable at all, and to an extent not even between different versions of the same database server software. The big issue is that the features supported are part of the actual syntax of the statements that create the schema. But there should be a better way of doing it, and us Open Source folks could well be the ones to do it, i.e. create a way to represent a schema that makes the schema portable across versions and across different databases and in the case of MySQL also across storage engines, where application. And what better format to do this than JSON?
The detailsThinking a bit about how to represent a schema in JSON, I came of with a few ideas:
- A bunch of top level objects, like GRANTS and DATABASES and also a top level object that defines the source of the schema.
- Some other common objects, like TABLEs, VIEWs and ROUTINEs.
- A means to provide versioned schema information.
- A means to provide both proprietary (like STORAGE ENGINE) and standardized (NOT NULL) attributes, and also some kind of suggested mapping (like in the case of MySQL, a column type might be both the proprietary MySQL type, like MEDIUMINT, and the best standardized fit for this type, INTEGER).
For this to work, we need to decide on some basics, like what to contain in the schema and how to name it. Basically I think that the best common denominator would be SQL-92, so that anything that is SQL-92 and is not ambiguous, should look the some in the exported JSON schema, independent of what database we are exporting from.
What is more needed is some tool to export and import schemas to these different database system, but in most cases, I don't think that would be terribly complex. The neat way of this way of doing stuff is that we have a common vehicle, or JSON schema, that allows to to easily migrate a schema, once we have the schema export / import tool ready. On top of this, we should be able to migrate data, but again I think JSON would be brilliant for this (yes, I am a big fan of JSON, but you probably know that by now).
Some coding also is necessary for this, but that is what we Open Source dudes and dudettes are good at, right? If someone else than myself thinks this is a good idea, let me know, and we could do some work. I would really like some PostgreSQL, Oracle etc. folks involved, and not only MySQLers! I truly believe that interoperability is the next big thing, the thing that will make Cloud computing real valuable!


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Thomas Nagel studied visual communication at the HfG academy of art Offenbach under professor Friedrich Friedl.
1988-1994, he was a designer, art director and project manager at MetaDesign Berlin and San Francisco.
Since 1994, Thomas is partner and managing director of xplicit Gesellschaft für visuelle Kommunikation mbH, based in Frankfurt/Main and Berlin, where he works as a graphic designer, texter, type designer and project manager.


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Angels manager Mike Scioscia told reporters in Tempe that the Angels will continue to allow beer in their clubhouse this season.
That's notable only because new outfielder Josh Hamilton is an alcoholic. He is accompanied by an accountability partner employed by the team, Shayne Kelley, to try and avoid a relapse like those he suffered away from the ballpark in 2009 and 2012.
"We've talked for a number of years about what we can do to help players with their environment, controlling alcohol and things like that," Scioscia said before the team's first full-squad workout Friday. "And it won't be an issue. Our guys are all responsible. It's not an issue with Josh."
Also …
The Angels announced the club is partnering with Ticketmaster to create "Angels Ticket Exchange," a unique website for fans to purchase and resell their tickets. The team said it will announce "soon" when the site is going live. Dodgers prospect Yasiel Puig impressed onlookers during batting practice Friday by launching a fly ball at least 400 feet over the outfield fence, slightly left of center field. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said that shortstop Dee Gordon weighed in at 160 pounds, up from 140 two years ago. Mattingly, asked to identify which pitchers stood out to him so far: "Aaron Harang looks like he's in great shape to me. He's like the first guy that comes to mind." Prime Ticket will televise an additional four Dodgers games this spring: Feb. 25 vs. the Chicago Cubs, Feb. 28 vs. the Angels, March 7 vs. the Texas Rangers and March 18 against Arizona. Vin Scully will call all four telecasts, in addition to his KCAL-9 games on March 17 vs. Milwaukee and March 26 vs. Colorado.


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BOSTON, Mass. - Senior Michaelann Rodriguez (Florence, Ala.) scored the lone goal of the day to lead the #15 ranked MIT women's soccer team to a well-fought victory against Simmons College on Monday evening, after the game was rescheduled from Sunday afternoon due to thunderstorms. The Engineers, who opened their season this past weekend, are now 1-1, while the Sharks dipped to 0-1.
MIT played aggressively right from the beginning of the game. Junior Ambika Krishnamachar (Darien, Conn.) led the charge against goalkeeper Briana Hayes by taking four shots at the net within three and a half minutes, all but one of them being threatening enough to force Hayes out of the box. Tech took 11 more shots throughout the first half, with five of them being knocked out by the keeper. With neither team able to score, the game went into the second period with a tied score of 0-0.
Just two minutes after returning to the field, MIT broke the stalemate as Rodriguez collected the ball on the right side and drilled a high shot past Hayes to take the lead. Simmons was close to tying the game when Greer Gilbert shot a long ball from the left side and hit the cross bar but, after a scramble in front of the MIT net, the Cardinal and Gray were able to clear the ball free of the cage and maintain their 1-0 lead.
Both the Engineers and the Sharks had a handful of opportunities to score a goal but were thwarted by the defense on the opposing team. Freshman Tamar Weseley (Weston, Conn.), in her first appearance in net this season, was tested multiple times but was able to successfully defend MIT's goal. Sophomore Zara Perumal (Poway, Calif.) and freshman Kathleen Chen (Chappaqua, N.Y.) took shots at goal within a minute of each other, both of which were blocked by Hayes. With neither team able to get past the opposing defense, the game ended with an Engineers' victory.
Tech outshot the Sharks 29-15 and only had to make five saves, compared to the 16 that were made solely by Hayes in Simmons' net. Freshman Lauren Ullmann (Princeton, N.J.) earned her first win of the season in goal, spending 45 minutes in the cage and making two saves. Weseley also spent 45 minutes in goal and made three saves.
MIT will face Worcester State University tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. at its first home game of the season. Live stats and video will be available.


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I'm particularly proud of today's lyrics, so for the full effect, hit play and start scrolling:
I found the species of this land
Often aren't all there
This one took some time for me to understand
They gave me words I just can't say
Somehow this sells
Proving Cake Wrecks is still here to stay
'Cuz even though they don't like me sooo snide
That's the thing that makes me feel alive!
The Mayans show
You just can't know
Why some people are so slow
But weeee're stiiiiill heeeeere
If they were right we'd all be gone
But big surprise: THEY WERE WRONG
And weeee can cheer:
Thanks to Stacey L., Nancy H., Kimm W., Julie G., Ben M., Kama K., & Lisa N. for the staying power.
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US Olympian, daughter of Ohio ballplayer, healed after father's death
She's her father's daughter, no doubt. U.S. skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender is tough, fearless, determined and resilient.
Just like her dad.
Sadly, she didn't realize it until he was gone.
A hard-nosed major league outfielder who raised his little girl to love baseball, Ted Uhlaender also taught Katie to work hard, dive headfirst into anything she tried and win. He died in 2009 of a heart attack after battling cancer, and less than a year later, she went to her second Olympics with a broken heart.
Katie Uhlaender didn't know where to turn and arrived at the Vancouver Games with a mind filled with thoughts of doubt and guilt. She didn't want to be there. One of the medal contenders, she finished a disappointing 11th, and in the days following her competition, the 29-year-old of Breckenridge, Colo., struggled to make sense of her life.
"I was mentally unstable and lost," she said. "I was trying to figure out how to live without my dad. He was the one I would always turn to when I started to freak out or panic or doubt myself.
"When I lost him I had no purpose."
That's when Picabo Street entered her life. She's been there ever since.
Through a mutual connection, Uhlaender was introduced to Street, a 1988 gold medalist in Alpine skiing. The two free spirits bonded immediately.
"She was in a real bad spot, a funky spot," Street said Monday at the Sanki Sliding Center, moments after giving Uhlaender a pep talk as she prepared for competition Thursday and Friday. "I grabbed her and we went for a walk and I asked her, `What's up with you?' She told me the whole story and told me that her father had passed and how hard of a time she was having. She was confused and I just became a friend to her."
More than that, Street helped fill the void left by her dad.
The first time they talked, Street, who has two children of her own, sensed Uhlaender was in serious trouble. Street's instincts told her Uhlaender was sliding to a dark place.
"The first thing I told her was, `Look, dude, this too shall pass. Calm down, we'll get there. Just settle down. You're going to be all right,'" Street said.
"I thought she maybe was on a path to self-destruct and I was like, `No, dude, we're going to be all right. We're going to get through this.' And that vulnerability, it hit me hard and I just kept real good track of her and stayed right on her."
Uhlaender now feels healed, whole.
Since taking up skeleton in 2003 after dabbling in other sports, she has overcome numerous injuries, including twice shattering her kneecap. She once raced an entire season with two broken bones in her foot and has undergone several surgeries on her knees and hip. In October, Uhlaender sustained a concussion during a training run in Lake Placid, N.Y., and only recently stopped having symptoms.
The injury contributed to an inconsistent World Cup season, but she's healthy, focused and feeling energized for her third Olympics. She'll race on a track where she finished second a year ago behind teammate Noelle Pikus-Pace, a medal favorite in Sochi after missing the podium by one-tenth of a second in 2010.
"She's in a way better place and it took a while," Street said. "It would take a while for anybody to get there. Ted was her rock. He was her idol. He was her daddy. He played so many roles in her life and I think what has happened over the last four years is that she has realized that she's her own person."
On Thursday, Uhlaender, her hair dyed American flag-red and wearing a helmet with a bald eagle painted on its front, will tear down the starting ramp and launch herself onto a sled that will reach 85 mph.
As always, her dad will be ride along. On a necklace, Uhlaender wears the 1972 National League championship ring Ted won with the Cincinnati Reds.
While learning to cope with his death, Uhlaender was drawn to the farm in Atwood, Kan., where Ted raised cattle. She goes there often and feels his spirit in the open spaces. She has grown to love farming and the 2012 world champion wants to one day own her own ranch.
Street has gone there, too, and seen it transform Uhlaender.
"There's a peace about her there," she said. "Her brain moves slower. It's a calming place for her. It's become kind of this safe haven and she feels much love there. It's raw and it's real there."
After her father died, Uhlaender spread some of his ashes at Denver's Coors Field. She took the rest to the farm, where Ted Uhlaender, baseball player, hunter, dad, was sent off in style by his little girl.
"We had the ceremony during pheasant season," she said. "We shot off a lot of guns and dynamite and spread the ashes. It was perfect."


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A while ago, the pub had a half-hearted makeover that made it worse: it felt even more like a clubhouse. I'm glad to say that's been fixed: the pub looks smart and feels modern and welcoming, and there's new outside furniture too. It's also gained real ale, which is very welcome, and food.
…which is where I was disappointed.
At time of writing, the website says food is served 12:00-20:00, and I'm told if you view on an iPad, it says light bites available up to 14:30. The sign outside says "food every day".
Either way, having settled down with an (to be fair, excellent) pint, it was dissapointing to be told the kitchen had closed when I tried to order food at 14:01, so we drank up and went back down to the bustling centre of Walsall Wood and the Boatman's Rest. Shame really, we'd have been set up for the afternoon…
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To be fair, now things have settled, it's a great pub with decent food and excellent beer, and you can usually hear over the music or TV.


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