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Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Florentino Ariza wrote every night. Letter by letter, he had no mercy as he poisoned himself with the smoke from the palm oil lamps in the back room of the notions shop, and his letters became more discursive and more lunatic the more he tried to imitate his favorite poets from the Popular Library, which even at that time was approaching eighty volumes. His mother, who had urged him with so much fervor to enjoy his torment, became concerned for his health. 'You are going to wear out your brains,' she shouted at him from the bedroom when she heard the first roosters crow. 'No woman is worth all that.' She could not remember ever having known anyone in such a state of unbridled passion. But he paid no attention to her. Sometimes he went to the office without having slept, his hair in an uproar of love after leaving the letter in the prearranged hiding place so that Fermina Daza would find it on her way to school. She, on the other hand, under the watchful eye of her father and the vicious spying of the nuns, could barely manage to fill half a page from her notebook when she locked herself in the bathroom or pretended to take notes in class. But this was not only due to her limited time and the danger of being taken by surprise, it was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line. Desperate to infect her with his own madness, he sent her miniaturist's verses inscribed with the point of a pin on camellia petals. It was he, not she, who had the audacity to enclose a lock of his hair in one letter, but he never received the response he longed for, which was an entire strand of Fermina Daza's braid. He did move her at last to take one step further, and from that time on she began to send him the veins of leaves dried in dictionaries, the wings of butterflies, the feathers of magic birds, and for his birthday she gave him a square centimeter of St Peter Clavier's habit, which in those days was being sold in secret at a price far beyond the reach of a schoolgirl her age. One night, without any warning, Fermina Daza awoke with a start: a solo violin was serenading her, playing the same waltz over and over again. She shuddered when she realized that each note was an act of thanksgiving for the petals from her herbarium, for the moments stolen from arithmetic to write her letters, for her fear of examinations when she was thinking more about him than about the natural sciences, but she did not dare believe that Florentino Ariza was capable of such imprudence.
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston
Fielding's Journal, January 17, 1932
Dear Father:
You were a Doctor, a "chest man," scornful of your profession because you loved your patients and pitied them for having no one better to turn to for help than, as you put it, "the likes of me." If you muttered aloud in your consulting room the way you did at home about some man who, for all you knew, your remedies were inadvertently murdering by slow degrees, your patients must have been a fretful lot.
You inherited from your father a reprint of a pamphlet that was written in the sixteenth century by a John Fielding, who was probably not an ancestor or ours, though you liked to believe or pretend that he was. The pamphlet described in great detail a medial procedure that you called mental ventilation, that is, the drilling of holes in the skulls of the sick to let the "evil spirits" out. You loved to read the pamphlet aloud. "This yeere have we the skull drille employed with great success. Three men died who woulde anywaye have perished, but three still live and showe signes of recoverye that we hope will soone make possible a seconde application of the drille."
You were my mother's husband when you were home and aware of her existence, which wasn't often, not nearly often enough. You worked long hours. We lived in a place, you said, where nothing thrived except disease. My mother was from Boston and went back there when I was five. And moved from there to New York when I was ten.
For a long time I believe, and was probably right in believing, that you wished my mother had taken me with her when she left. There was no question of her doing so, of course. Even a widow with a child would not have made a good marriage prospect, but a woman who, however justifiably, had left her husband and had in her care a constant reminder to herself and other of that fact would not have fared well in Boston. My mother had no resources and no means of getting them but marriage. She could not have had any confidence when she thought of setting out from Newfoundland that she would soon or ever be able to support a child.
I have only the faintest, possibly counterfeit, recollections of my mother. I don't remember her saying goodbye to you. There was apparently a divorce worded with sufficient vagueness as to absolve both of you with faint blame. My mother's father came from Boston to escort her home. He did not come into the house, or perhaps he did and I was kept form seeing him, I'm not sure. I think I remember my mother walking down the driveway with her father, presumably to waiting cab. I remember her crying, squatting down to embrace me.
What I was told was happening and by whom, I don't remember, but I'm sure I wasn't told she was leaving us for good. Nor do I remember when I realized she wasn't coming back.
You did not purge the house of her after she went back to Boston. As if to prove you were neither broken-hearted nor humiliated, you left her picture on the mantelpiece. My mother as she was not long after you first met. Perhaps that was the point, to distinguish the girl you fell in love with from the woman you divorced. You did not so much show me as leave where I might find them the albums in which there were pictures of you and her together, Dr. and Mrs. Fielding and with them, sometimes, Baby Sheilagh.
The kind of silence that follows the slamming of a door persisted in that house for years. It was there even while the radio was playing and when relatives to visit, and when we talked. We were never quiet in each other's company if we could help it; the silence made her absence so palpable. It was as though life as it would have been if she had stayed was taking place in some room in the house that, no matter how long we searched for it, we could never find.
You cursed your body's need for sleep and, in token protest of it, slept while sitting in a chair with all your clothes on. I was always in bed before you got home, always in bed but never asleep. Even the housekeeper, on your instructions, never waited up, but left something in the stove for you to eat, which was often still there in the morning.
After I heard you coming up the steps and opening the front door, I waited for you to settle down, then tiptoed out to see if you were still awake, which you sometimes were, tipped back in your recliner, staring at the ceiling.
You rarely noticed me until I was standing right beside you, though the site of me never startled you. As though you were immobilized as one of your patience, you turned just your head and smiled and reached out your hand for mine, squeezing it lightly. "Hello there," you said. You looked at me, and as if my very age was an expression of unwarranted optimism, you shook your head in fond disbelief that anyone could be so naïve as to be five years old. You didn't see the girlhood so much as a stage in life as a character trait. I was girlish, you were mannish; these things would always be the case.
And so you told me everything, things five-year-olds should not hear, I suppose. You told me of patients to had died or were going to, and of others who were getting better, always speaking of the latter with a tinge of irony, as if to say that however much better they got, the world they were returning to was still the same.
Sometimes, you fell asleep while talking to me, or I came out and found you asleep, your arms folded across your chest. If you were wearing your hat, I took it off and put it on the floor beside your chair, as you did when you remembered to. I didn't have to be especially careful not to wake you, for, once asleep, you slept soundly, deeply, as if your body was making the most of the few hours it had you in it's care.
It was a strange sight to see you sleeping. It was hard to believe you'd trust something so unreliable and treacherous as your body to sustain you without your supervision. I stood beside you, marveling that there existed in you something more basic, more fundamental than your will, something that made your chest move up and down, drew air into your body and forced it out again. It always made me think there must be more to your waking self then met the eye, not that you seemed to me lacking or deficient in anything exactly. Perhaps it was your sleeping in your clothes, sometimes even in your hat and coat, that did it. It seemed to me that your impressive hat and coat and vest and pants and shoes were sleeping too.
In the way you would say of someone, "he's not himself today," I thought of you as being permanently not yourself. Lack of sleep, overwork, your wife's absence, made you what you seemed to others to be, but I believe that there was another latent Dr. Fielding and was always waiting for him to show himself.
You were a good "chest man," but not an especially good one, not, as you said of other doctors in other fields, "top-notch." I was ten before I realized this, before I realized that others did not see you as I did, were not as awed by you as I was, that there were men in the world in whose company you felt inferior, deficient. I noticed you never referred to other "chest men" as "top-notch," not even those who visited St. John's from places like New York and London. There were, and still are, a good many "chest men" in St. John's. This was thee specialty where you could not only do the most good but make the most
money, and you wold leave it to me, you said, to decide which of these two considerations mattered most to your colleagues.
I think that over the years, you made some sort of peace with your limitations. Not that admitting to yourself that you would never be top-not made you any less inclined to push yourself or more inclined to sleep. But you were motivated now by guilt, not by ambition. You were still trying to compensate for being unexceptional, but you were doing so for your patients now.
When I was twelve, you asked me if I wanted to go to a private school in Scotland like so many other girls my age were doing. I told you I would go if that was what you wanted. You took me in your arms and hugged me. "We'll send you to Bishop Spencer instead," you said. "How would that be?" I nodded and you kissed me on the cheek. It was the only time in my life that you ever hugged or kissed me. I didn't understand then that the point of the question was not to try to get rid of me, but to see if I wanted to be rid of you.
We drifted apart after they released me from the San. Not that we saw each other any less frequently. I still went to the old house on Circular Road, but I could see in your eyes that you wanted me to stay away. I knew why, though we never talked about it. We would sit there on Sunday afternoons and often, in spite of yourself, you let me make you laugh.
You were so shamed of yourself, you couldn't bare to see me, couldn't forgive yourself. You thought I didn't understand, or that I was pretending not to understand, how profoundly you betrayed me by not coming to the San to say goodbye. But it was because you stayed away that I knew how much you loved me. I didn't feel abandoned or betrayed.
And you thought I didn't know that you had done something else for which you thought you didn't deserve to be forgiven. But I knew.
In the end, you found what you must have thought was the perfect way of making restitution.
You told the other Fieldings not to send for me.
You knew that they would do as your said, that they thought you didn't want me there because, like them, you were ashamed of me, because you had come to your senses at last and disowned me.
You fancied that by this, it was yourself you were denying. You had abandoned me and so you deserved to be abandoned. An eye for an eye. How could you not have known that this, of all the ways you might have hurt me, was the worst?
Still, you cannot stop me from remembering.
On those rare occasions when you were able to make time for me, you used to give me make-believe check-ups. You put your stethoscope on the soles of my feet and listened with an air of grave concentration. You put it on my forehead and claimed that you could hear what I was thinking. You tapped me on the head with your little rubber hammer and looked and my quizzically, appraisingly, as if awaiting some result. To test my eyes, you put your tongue depressor on your own tongue, said, "Ahhhh," and asked me to tell you what I saw.
You were nominally, perfunctorily, a Methodist. We went to church regularly because, you said, "Patients like to think their doctors are in God's good books." But whether you believed in God or some promised land, some happy sight, some "Bonavista" that was waiting for you on the other side, I don't know. Asked to declare yourself on the subject, you once said, "The grave's a fine and private spot / where none I think do ought but rot."
I love you now no less than when I was just a girl. To quote the inscription on the headstone of your favorite writer, "He has gone where savage indignation can lacerate his heart no more."
Robert Mapplethorpe, from Heads and Flowers.
"The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don't stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying."
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A Proposal.
Stolen Kisses, Francois Truffaut, 1968.
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Last night I dreamed of a twilight picnic. My friends and I were set down at a very long family-style table. The woman I used to think of as my sister and her boyfriend were seated at the far end. We looked at each other. I spoke with my friends for a while about nothing in particular, feeling feelings I cannot name, when I looked back to where she was seated to see that she and her party were gone.
When I woke up I realized that for all intents and purposes my dream was not really a dream. She is still gone. It still feels like a death in the family.
What it's like to be an administrator the first week 'back-to-school'
The Paris Review interviews John Waters
PR: In Role Models, I love when you say, "Fiction is the truth, fool!"
JW: I've had people say to me, really educated people, "I don't have time for fiction." Well, what do you think literature is? That is what life is!
But do you know how widespread that reaction is? Well, you probably do know! People say they're "too busy" to read fiction. Or they say that you only really learn if you know facts. Come on!
As if you don't learn from a novel.
Yes! But they don't think you do. Which means they're stupid.
"Talking like touching
Writing like punching somebody"
Susan Sontag
"To be born a woman has to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men. The social presence of women is developed as a result of their ingenuity in living under such tutelage within such a limited space. But this has been at the cost of a woman's self being split into two. A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another….One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object — and most particularly an object of vision: a sight."
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Jesus fuck.
This quote punched me in the face. John Berger put words so clearly to a feeling, a way of being, a self, that I have never been able to fully grasp or articulate myself. I googled him after I read the quote and learned he's an art critic! An art critic! Made me smile.


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[Roy Edroso dissects the right-wing blogosphere in this weekly feature]Hey, who's up for another foreign war? Hard to believe that just last year, on the 10th anniversary of America's less-than-excellent adventure in Iraq, rightbloggers seemed too demoralized for such activities. And when Obama poke ... More >>
This year's mayoral election is doubling as a kind of history lesson, as taught by two increasingly cranky middle-aged men who can't stop sending out passive-aggressive press releases about each other. First, we learned about Bill de Blasio's past as a young uber-liberal who spent time in Nicaragua, ... More >>
Much of the mayoral race's mudslinging this past week has centered around whether Democratic nominee Bill de Blasio is, in fact, a class warfare-loving "Marxist playbook" user, as his Republican counterpart Joe Lhota has suggested. And since we were all wondering, the Paper of Record confirms it: th ... More >>
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Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 17, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 38 A Day at the Buckleys: Big Blight at Great Elm By Barbara Long SHARON, Connecticut -- Several months before Apollo 13's crew walked out on "Hair," setting us straight once and for all on just who the ... More >>
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Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 1, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 29 Obvious Believers by Robert Christgau I think people are missing the point of "Nashville Skyline," which is as it should be, since they were probably supposed to. The beauty of the album is that it is tota ... More >>
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Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Wax Museum Souvenir Guides from Miami, Dallas, and Scottsdale, Arizona Date: 1960s & ... More >>
As we close out MLK Day for the year, let us not forget what he was really fighting for: the Republican Party, and small government. King was a registered Republican, which prompts a dizzying peroration by the blogprof, who scorns the Democratic Party for supporting the Confederacy in the Civil War, ... More >>
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Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 8, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 51Bobby in the Village: 'Mommy, He Touched Me'By Jack NewfieldRobert F. Kennedy evoked Beatlemania, laughter, and tears during a tour of Greenwich Village Friday night. The Democratic-Liberal Senate candidate ... More >>
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Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 30, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 45 The Fight for Little Italy By Stephanie Gervis Not since home and motherhood has there been a cause like the fight against the Lower Manhattan (Broome Street) Expressway. It's everybody's fight. Politician ... More >>
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As more and more people populate Vermont, wildlife habitats in the Green Mountain State continue to shrink. But, state officials and conservation experts say smart forest management can reverse the trend and create a bit of green.
On a sunny, but chilly Saturday, Vermont Audobon Conservation Biologist Karen Sharpless leads a group into 39 acres of forested land. The Huntington property belongs to the Green Mountain Audobon Society, but those on the trek aren't looking for birds, they're looking for trees.
"We're creating things like openings in the forest canopy so light can hit the ground, new trees can get started," said Sharpless.
Large-scale logging operations clear-cut Vermont's forests more than a century ago. The growth in Huntington is about 80-years-old.
"In this particular site we're managing for birds that really do best in older forests," said Sharpless, "so we're adding a lot of diversity to a section of woods that's pretty simple."
Trees marked with blue paint are coming down. Smaller trees will be left behind to provide cover and forage. Larger trees can be sold for timber.
Sharpless says they won't make much money now, but in the future, a well-maintained forest could provide a rich natural resource for the Audobon society - one that can pay the bills.
Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Secretary Deb Markowitz joined students, land-owners and other interested individuals on Saturdays outdoor class. "One of the things that I love about this Forestry for the Birds approach is it's really innovative," she said.
Markowitz says forest is critically important for Vermont habitat, the landscape, and as traditional working lands, "and that means that we need to make sure that there's an economic benefit to landowners in keeping their land forested."
She says the Foresters for Birds Project - which began in 2008 - shows the model works. Not just for birds, but bear, bobcat and deer.
Humans get more than a scenic benefit too. A well-maintained forest translates to better air and water quality as well as flood resilience.


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Tinapa Lakeside Hotel, Calabar, Cross River State has some great career opportunities for graduates all over Nigeria. If you have a passion for the hospitality industry and fulfill the criteria as set out you just may be the person we are looking for!
The following Vacancies exist:
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A University degree in related fields (Masters will be an added advantage)
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Learn the basics of anchoring objects inside text using InDesign's anchor options.
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A.J. Wood talks about bulleted and numbered lists in InDesign. These tips include how to create a forced line break inside a bulleted list, how to import lists from other documents, how to create paragraph styles to use with bulleted lists.
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AJ Wood shows viewers how to use clipping path options to separate image subjects from their backgrounds when working with InDesign documents.
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Three conversion metrics tips that help you optimize your online efforts
Gone are the rose-colored-glasses days of "Gee Whiz." Return on investment is the imperative. Your bottom line depends on your ability to market intelligently. And your ability to market intelligently depends on the accountability you design into your online efforts. As Jim Sterne of Target Marketing wrote for us, "There is no such thing as a perfect website, there is only … change. Do not expect to ever reach the final version of your site. You want people to buy? Keep trying things and measuring the results."The underlying beauty of a conversion system based on the principles of Persuasion Architecture lies in its accountability. For Call to Action, Jason Burby, Director of Web Analytics for Zaaz, offered these "number tactics" to help you shape the accountability of your conversion system.
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After receiving bids from other providers, Del Puerto Hospital directors have decided the district will operate its own ambulance and paramedic service.
A 14-year-old Patterson girl, Donna Ashlock, is hospitalized in San Francisco and may need a heart transplant. Her parents are Ray and Mary Ashlock.
Genevieve Borgeson, a cook at Mil's restaurant, is the winner of the week-long trip for two to Hawaii given by the Chamber of Commerce as a part of a fundraiser for new downtown Christmas lights.
Senior John Chavez was named MVP and junior Jerry Noah landed on the all-tourney team as the Patterson High Tigers won their own cage tourney here last weekend. They used a big comeback to nip Livingston 53-52 in the finals.
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The Board of Trustees of Rising Sun School has voted against participating in a Tracy unification study. About 25 percent of the Rising Sun district lies in San Joaquin County.
Four local high school students have earned straight-A grades in the first quarter of the school year. They are sophomores Laurie Harrison and Cathy Hector and freshmen Constance Foiada and Susan Satterberg.
A rash of thefts of outside Christmas lighting displays has been noted by police Chief Alex Kosich.
Patterson 4-H Club members delivered 25 holiday tray favors to patients in the tuberculosis ward at Stanislaus County Hospital. Involved in the project were 4-H'ers Clarice Foiada, Krissi Kjonaas, Linda Reynolds, Sharon Bookwalter, Carolyn Traina, Steven Foiada, Diana Reis and Linda Lucas.
Dec. 20, 1935 — 75 years ago
Patterson ushers in the yuletide season with special events and decorations. Colored lights are displayed all over the downtown area, and the living Christmas tree is glowing in Plaza Park. On Saturday, the Patterson Theatre will offer free shows for the kids, with up to 800 expected for the continuous matinee. Santa will be on hand throughout the day. The annual gift distribution to children is scheduled for Monday afternoon around the tree, while a Christmas pageant will be presented Sunday in the high school gym.
Local businessmen A.F. Gervasoni and James Lynam have purchased the Emerald station of the Standard Oil pipeline at the south edge of town. The sale includes residences on the property and the two large brick pump houses. Heavy equipment had previously been removed. At Vernalis, A.R. Rennie, El Solyo Ranch department head, has bought the entire plant and has leased it to the ranch for a five-year period.
The new Garden Club, headed by Mrs. George Thoming, has begun planning its spring flower show.
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Sponsored by the Woman's Board of the Chicago Horticultural Society, this event offers plants that are particularly well suited to the Chicago area, reviewed by the Garden's director, Kris Jarantoski, and a team of Garden horticulturists for their ability to perform well in local growing conditions. The sale includes more than 25,000 annuals, ferns, fruit and vegetable plants, geraniums, herbs, native wildflowers, ornamental grasses, perennials, roses, shade perennials, shrubs, and vines.
"Ninety percent of the plants we offer are locally grown. These old standbys and new introductions know our soil and climate," said Mary Hill, president of the Woman's Board of the Chicago Horticultural Society.
New to the sale this year are many plants that will be sold directly by vendors that the Garden has worked with over the years. They will be joining other vendors at the Festival who will be selling baked goods, fresh honey, pottery, mushrooms, and much more. Don't forget to bring your gardening tools to be sharpened so they're ready to use in planting all your Bloomin' Festival purchases!


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Investigators say they recorded the Garden City mom arranging the hit with an undercover Nassau County Police officer she believed to be a hit man, supplying him with her husband Peter Williams photo, work address, and license plate number. The couple was in the middle of a bitter divorce.
"That this defendant so casually decided to organize the murder of her husband shocks the conscience," said District Attorney Kathleen Rice. "She was given numerous opportunities to call this off, yet she pursued it vigorously until the very end." Susan Williams is scheduled to be arraigned Friday Morning.


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They've perplexed researchers for centuries, and now, even more have been discovered.
A couple in New Jersey got a special surprise while positing for their wedding photos.
A Maine woman came across and odd, two-headed snapping turtle hatchling.
From giant crystals to boiling lakes, these unbelievable areas aren't from another planet.
After years of mystery, Ido Wachtel of Hebrew University uncovers clues that reveal the true history of this ancient stone monument.
Florida dog makes friend with a manatee.
You'll wonder how he kept his cool with a nervous father swan lurking.
Red tide is killing sea turtles, sharks and fish in the northeast Gulf of Mexico and is threatening the waters and beaches that fuel Florida's economy.
Great things can happen when we mimic nature. Here are ten examples.
A major new study finds that the rate of species extinction is growing worse over time.
Turns out, paradise comes in all shapes, sizes - and colors.
A black bear cub decides a golf course is one fun place to play, so he puts on a show.
This shark has been extinct for 270 million years, but you have to see inside its mouth.
The manchineel is a beautiful tree, but it can also be deadly.
There may be as many blue whales living off the coast of California as there were before humans started hunting them to near extinction 110 years ago, a new study shows.
Check out some of the most beautiful natural wonders in Florida.
New research points that men are way more likely to get bit by a shark than women.
A Florida fisherman got a surprise at the end of his line on a nighttime fishing trip this week when he pulled an 18-inch-long creature from the water that scientists think could be a mantis shrimp.
A boa constrictor was spotted this week on the menu board at an Illinois Burger King.
Wildlife officials captured the albino monocle cobra, which had been loose at least since Monday evening, when it bit a dog in Thousand Oaks California.
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Folks in Circleville, Utah, are wondering what created a huge round crater inside a pond. A geologist debunks several theories and has an explanation, but adds, "There are still some unanswered...
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Hundreds of beachgoers in Massachusetts are pulled out of the water Monday when a great white shark is seen just about 100 yards offshore.
Video shows an unexpected surprise during a day kayaking on Monterey Bay.
More than 400 swimmers are stung by jellyfish at Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach in Florida.
Spiders living in urban areas are getting bigger and multiplying faster than other spiders, scientists say.
A video shows a goliath grouper swallowing a 4-foot shark whole off Bonita Springs on Florida's Gulf Coast earlier this month.
Anglers Adventures & Outfitters in Ketchikan, Alaska, captured some amazing footage last week of a sea lion getting tossed into the air by a killer whale.
A 57-year-old fisherman dies after he is attacked an albino crocodile known as "Michael Jackson."
An Alabama family snagged a record-breaking 15-foot alligator on the first weekend of gator-hunting season.
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In the months leading up to Wang's death, he suffered both emotionally and physically.
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Did you celebrate Valentine's Day traditionally with chocolates, red roses, and/or a romantic candlelight dinner? Bill and I aren't much for rituals, but we do enjoy treats and desserts on special occasions. My sister, Victoria, had given us some lovely 'Hidden Rose' apples for Christmas. I had saved the last 5 for a baking project.
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At the end of this storm, the most snow was in the northwest corner of the state. There were reports of 2.6 inches in Bethlehem and 2.5 inches in Torrington. The rest of Connecticut got less than 2 inches of snow with a few 2 inch amounts in Hamden and In Madison. The rest of the amounts ranged from 0.5 inches in Norwalk to the amounts in Litchfield County.
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'Lucy becomes a Texas guest requiring careful handling
A museum exhibit of one of the most important scientific discoveries in the search for the roots of mankind has left its Ethiopian home and is now in the United States and some folks aren't happy about it.
The fossilized remains of a 3 1/2-foot-tall adult ape-man dating back three or four million years known as Lucy arrived in Houston where it will be on exhibit from late this month to next spring. The stop at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is the first stop of a six-year tour. Some, like the Smithsonian Institution, object to the U.S. tour, arguing that the Lucy fossils are simply too valuable to science to risk damage to them. The national museum experts say that not even Ethiopians have an opportunity to view the exhibit in its home at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum, so fragile is the fossil; the Ethiopian museum displays a replica.
The Lucy exhibit is no doubt priceless, but the Ethiopians are strapped for cash. Paleontologists working in Ethiopia have found the country to be a treasure trove of fossils that offer a glimpse into the beginnings of human existence. But for all its richness in fossils, Ethiopia is a desperately poor country. By getting paid -- the Ethiopians won't say how much -- for Lucy's visit, Ethiopian government officials hopefully won't have to make a choice between spending money on a better museum or trying to meet more immediate human needs.
Guarding a treasure
Houston museum officials say they are up to the task of protecting Lucy, and we hope that's true. The exhibit of the fossils in Texas offers a rare glimpse into our collective past. The question of whether Lucy should have left Ethiopia is moot; it's already here. Texans should view this old gal with great respect for the story it tells in its bones. And we should be very very careful with her.


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Math in Action 2013
Strategies for Student Success
Saturday, February 9, 2013
7:30 am 4:00 pm
Mackinac Hall, Allendale Campus
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Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
Online registration for this event is now closed.
Download a mail-in registration form (PDF, 1.4MB)
Download this year's program here (PDF, 514Kb)
Links to slides and other conference materials:
Conference Highlights:
Math in Action is of interest to K12 inservice and prospective teachers of mathematics; curriculum directors; administrators; parents; and college and university mathematics education, mathematics, statistics, and education faculty. The conference features five concurrent interactive sessions. During sessions, participants engage in hands-on activities they can use with their own students in learning mathematics. SB-CEUs will be available for most sessions.
Conference fee is $30 and includes coffee, tea, and ice water in the morning and lunch.
Registration for 0.5 SB-CEUs: Registration is on February 9th during conference registration (7:308:30 AM). PLEASE NOTE: Each session is worth 0.1 credit and you MUST attend 5 sessions. To be eligible for 0.1 credit for a session, you must attend the full session. Sessions begin at 8:30 AM. Plan to arrive early to complete SB-CEU registration. If you earned SB-CEU credit in 2012 for a session that is being offered in 2013, you may not earn SB-CEU credit for the same session in 2013.
Future Mailing: (A brochure announcing the full program for the conference will be distributed to area teachers, administrators, mathematics teacher educators, and mathematicians in early December 2012. To be added to our mailing list, please contact Math in Action, email@example.com. Email is preferred though a limited number of paper copies will be available. Please support our efforts to keep conference fees low while also preserving the environment in reducing paper use.
Speaker Proposals: Proposals for sessions are being sought with a firm deadline of October 5, 2012.
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· The CCSS Mathematical Practices
· Intricacies in CCSS that teachers need to know
· Transitions in the Common Core
· GLCEs/HSCEs versus CCSS, crosswalks and comparisons
· Common Core tools and word press
· Vocabulary Strategies
· What the assessments will be like
In addition, sessions are being sought to address the following topics:
· Lenses on Learning
· Formative Assessment
· Curriculum Crafters
· Problem-Based Learning
· Geogebra
· Iteration (measurement)
· Adventures with Mathematics
· Strategies for Arithmetic
· Early topics in Probability and Statistics (e.g. Dot Plot)
· Ratios, Fractions
· Modeling
Also of interest are sessions that address uses of particular technology to develop conceptual understanding of specific mathematics content. In particular, sessions sharing the use of the following technologies in K-12 school settings are being sought:
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Art of the Unconscious – St. Louis Art Museum
After World War I, modern ideals of scientific progress and rationality appeared absurd to many artists in the devastating wake of 20th-century warfare. Psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung identified the unconscious mind as the source of humanity's primal creative and destructive drives.
In response, artists experimented with a variety of ways to represent the unconscious. Pablo Picasso's freely drawn compositions suggest dreamlike, often violent imagery. Paul Klee sought to access the unconscious by emulating the art of children and the mentally ill, which he celebrated as more sincere than traditional art. Robert Matta used automatic writing as a way of exploring suppressed creative impulses.
During the 1940s, the emphasis these European artists place on the importance of the unconscious influenced a generation of American abstract painters. Other American artists such as Kay Sage used representational forms to suggest the mysteries of the unconscious.
(Pictured: For the Wind to Tear, Kay Sage, 1964)
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waw ok auch, so this question have been circling on my mind since like a couple hours ago, the time when i heard it (again). Well, again, because probably people had been throwing this question since the first time i choose it (even I questioned myself that time) but I only remembered being asked frontally to my face twice that i know of, the first time is from a friend's father, who i can totally tolerate and understand because he know me and i 'know' how (un-openminded) he is, but this one.. the recent person that have just throw it in my face come from this big fat ugly pale guy that I've just met! (technically he met me) hell he doesn't even remember my momma when my aunt mentioned her name and he spit it out in the open
just. like. that.
as it cut me from the inside with shame because he said it infront of my aunts, who was just finished asking me about my current part time job (and my future ones), i was shocked and then comes the anger. heeellll who do you think you rrrr? you cant just throw a question like that you rude fat ugly guy! but then i realize, o.. you see that's actually what in most of everybody's mind.. theyr just polite enough not to say it OUTLOUD. so the hell with this guy, he's got issues, he's got BIG FAT MANNER issue but then again he's probably right to say that judging by the fat contents he has he's probably got alll the nutrition he needs (and *a little* too much).
I tell you what big guy, "saya mau kerja yang ga bikin gendut kayak om". puhlease he maybe got the money and the food but he certainly dont have a happy life, i just knew (a little observation on this Homo sapiens behavior). I may have a few doubts in the past about this 'job' (not future) thingy, but then as I always say in my prayer back then "i hope this is the right one for me" and it is!
I may study out of my interest, i'm not fond of all the biology stuff but it does an amazing subject to be (in my case, have to) know of! well hello it's about life.. it's about things that are ALIVE and what are you trying to do day after day after weeks and years? STAYING ALIVE (now i sound like the hiv-aids campaign, which remembered each year yesterday, happy aids awareness day! stay safe). and oh wow now I can even explain what HIV is! what type of virus (retro) and why is it so dangerous (it can reverse it's genetic matter to dna which the body will recognize it as oneself) HA! and how do i know those? because i study THE CRAZY WORLD OF GENETICS and thank you Lord I sucked at it and got a B! praise to God.
Now, the question is what r you going to work with this degree on biology, which i assume he meant what am i gonna do with it in THIS COUNTRY. because in our beloved country we dont see pure science as an honorable and full of prospective study, no no we DONT do those, we DONT learn what's happening in our universe (problems) from our own home, no we USE the one (technique, theories, whatevs) that's already been mapped or typed or published out there from the much more advance and 'richer' country THEN we try to match it to our own! if it dont fit, well then we dont know what to do! or just push it until it can match on it's own (on God's will)! YUP WE'RE A COUNTRY OF A BUNCH OF DODOS AND LABORS, WE CANT DO STUFF IF IT WERENT TOLD OR LAID OUT OR EXPLAINED BEFORE, WE LOVE OFFICE HOURS BECAUSE IT TELLS AS WHAT TO DO (or be) AND WE GET PAID AND GOT INSURANCE FROM IT! WHOOPIE!
what. a. life.
oh dont get me wrong, I myself must introspect myself. see, how many times have i 'work' as a conservation biologist that i wanna be? let's see hmm i have about 6 experiences, and let's see how many 'advance and richer country' peeps that r involve (or in most, become my boss)? FIVE! FIVE OUT OF SIX, and that 1 work experience is because i was interning for the GOVERNMENT and as much as i want to say i have a blast, yeah I HAVE MY MIND BLASTED!
sooooooo, get it?
no? okay let me put this simple and blunt. We are a growing (developing) country. we only been 'unlabored' for like what (2013-1945=68) 68 years, whoa that's actually a big number. well i mean, for a country that has tooo many challenges (separate islands, loaded amount of natural resources) it is OKAY to be dodos for awhile. NOW HENCE THE 'FOR AWHILE'.
but we cant just relay on other country forever. (yeah why not? we got good money? I'm an engineer and i guarantee I can get min 10-20 million rupiah a month for working 'hard' for those guys. I'm a social based major and I get paid a lot to deal with the masses and to handle our people by 'them'). well suuuure U are :) you also wish that in the next decades there will still be 'goodies' in our country for the people who paid you to 'work' with. you wish that allll the food will always be there at the market, the branded clothes, the gadgets, so you can retire at homes watching tv playing games while the kids go to the same corporate job that you do, or government that paid well because there's taxes from those corporate job (or the 'easy money' from the shutthef*up) right?
well guess what? we scientist DONT BELIEVE that. nah.. no chemist nor physicist believe that 'the energy in one place will always be available and supplied, no change and transferable it will always be there for you' (if you dont get the sarcasm then you better go back to school and ask your teacher…err no, just google 'energy' and there'll be this bunch of guys called newton and einstein with lots of equations in it.. read.)
the point is we have to start WORKING FOR OURSELVES. it's not about WHERE r you gonna work, how much the sallary, and what benefits that you'll get TO SURVIVE, what matter is about every job that's expected to become, the ones that you'll do, will be for a greater good, for everyone to have some, FOR EVER. and i may add? pure science is the answer. for they're the ones understanding what's already out there and we're the ones who called our self 'SCIENTIST' we found things.. well at least we tried. we try to solve a problem from deep it roots from the very atom, molecule it composed of so the society and human survival will be the fittest.
(r fellow scientists out there screaming "you fooollll we dont have the mooneeey to found things, we dont even have the tools to take picture with to prove us scientist!")
as i was saying, we're still new to the world, we're like toddlers. it's okay to learn (and take) some things from the adults, but in the end we have to stand from our own two feets, think with our own brain, and use the blessings, no matter how limited and confusing they are, to make us a person, that worked in harmony just like a body in sync for every cells in the body to stay alive. (and try as you may, as i'm noting this to myself, dont infect other stronger body just to keep your cell alive, no, well go infect one to grow an immune system and bring it back to our still growing body) *hopefully everyone gets this :)
ps: - sorry all a biologist need is a microscope to prove we're a biologist and we've got lottss of picture with it :p
— kenapa pake bahasa inggris? yaaa kan katanya kita harus 'ngambil' dari orang-orang yang sudah maju ini dan bahasa internasional yang digunakan adalah bahasa inggris. jadi kalo kalian mau maju dan tidak bisa berkomunikasi yah wassalam.
—- last but not least, I'm so in love with the living things that it's so hard to watch it die. so conservation biology is the right one for me :) (die=cease to exist forever. extinct)
—— oh! oh! one more thing! please let me remind you this disney or tumblr quotes or some saying phrase: that EACH ONE OF YOU IS SPECIAL AND UNIQUE, YOU ARE HERE FOR A PURPOSE THAT ONLY YOU CAN DO, so GET THE JOB THAT YOU WANT TO. the one that suits and use what you've got best. Even if you dont get the money, at least you got the fun, that's the pleasure of life right?
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Soo, okay let me get my views on this one. Briefly, i think this novel is no other than a romance novel. uniquely (or weirdly) it takes on a very different (and disturbing) 'type' of obstacle why these two lovebirds cannot be together. it's not forbidden love nor vampire-human relationship, but it's…sex. you see that intercourse the ones that you can produce babies out of it or something that supposedly viewed as a 'good thing' when it comes to human relationship. so yeah, it's interesting how E L James can make it as a horrible horrible thing (said it twice, cause really it just awful). but as the 'scenes' goes by you just gone numb, it's icky at first (truthfully, even it's too vulgar for moi) cause it really does erotic, no sweetyhearty no loveydovey just…that. As a whole, it's a good book, the plot lined up slowly so you really do can feel the struggle insides Ana and her two innergoddes-subconcious thingy while the erotic scene brings out the conflicts. Ends pretty good also. Just hope they dont make exaggerating movies out of it -_- coz just reading the way Ana talks i can sense "here comes Bella number two"
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Tuna with White Bean-Cucumber Salad
Randy Mayor; Bob Gager
The creamy cannellini beans, the crunchy cucumber, and the tangy dressing make for a refreshing meal.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 tuna steak and about 1/2 cup bean salad)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 353
- Calories from fat: 23%
- Fat: 9.1g
- Saturated fat: 2.3g
- Monounsaturated fat: 2.7g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 2.9g
- Protein: 44.9g
- Carbohydrate: 19.5g
- Fiber: 4.9g
- Cholesterol: 66mg
- Iron: 3.6mg
- Sodium: 684mg
- Calcium: 72mg
- 2/3 cup chopped cucumber
- 1/4 cup minced red onion
- 1/4 cup fat-free Italian dressing
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 2 tablespoons fat-free buttermilk
- 1 (15.5-ounce) can cannellini beans or other white beans (such as Goya), rinsed and drained
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper, divided
- 4 (6-ounce) Bluefin tuna steaks (about 3/4 inch thick)
- Cooking spray
- Lemon wedges
- Heat a large nonstick grill pan over medium-high heat.
- Combine the first 6 ingredients, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Sprinkle tuna with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add tuna to pan; cook 3 minutes on each side or until desired degree of doneness. Slice tuna; serve over bean salad. Serve with lemon wedges.
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Depression Self-Check: Goldberg's Depression Test
The symptoms of depression may be all too common that some people find it hard to distinguish them from the normal sadness. Some people may have miserable days and lose interest in activities they used to enjoy without even knowing that what they are experiencing can be a form of depression.
To find out whether an individual is suffering from depression, health professionals use depression tests to assess whether what the person feels are positive symptoms of depression. Among these tests, Goldberg's Depression Test is the most popular.
The Goldberg's Depression Test was developed by the psychiatrist Dr. Ivan K. Goldberg. The test consists of 18 questions answerable by the following: Not at all (0), A little (1), Somewhat (2), Moderately (3), Quite a lot (4), Very much (5).
Although this test is very helpful in determining whether an individual has symptoms of depression or not, the results of this test cannot be treated as the final diagnosis and cannot substitute for professional help. This test is also helpful to the ones who are undergoing therapy to monitor their improvements.
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My poor starving boysRecently, a study found that formula-fed babies don't necessarily overeat, as had previously been thought -- many do know how to stop when they've had enough. It's good to know and I'm glad, but regardless of what this study or that study or a million other studies say, it wouldn't have changed the fact that my twin babies are formula-fed.
That's not to say that I didn't breastfeed at all. I did, for several months, but with my low milk supply, I needed to supplement with formula from the very beginning. Still, I kept at it -- I nursed and pumped like a madwoman, trying to squeeze out (no pun intended) whatever meager amount of breast milk I could. After three months though, I was barely getting four ounces a day, so I decided to move to formula only. And I don't feel one ounce of guilt about it.
Obviously, I know that breast is best, which is why I did it for as long as I could. And I loved it, I really did. Well, that's not entirely true. I wasn't crazy about tandem-feeding, which felt complicated and awkward, but I loved the rare moments when I got to feed just one of my baby sons at a time. Heaven. But, when they started wailing on my breast because they weren't getting enough milk, or I'd pump for 20 minutes just to get two ounces, I felt frustrated and sad and inadequate. I was so happy to be able to give them the breast milk that I had for the first few months of their new lives, but when I finally switched to formula, life got a whole lot easier. No, I didn't stop nursing because I had twins -- there are plenty of moms in my twins group who are still exclusively breastfeeding without issue. I simply just didn't make enough milk to feed my two babies. End of story.
Sure, many studies have proven just how much better breast milk is for babies. And I don't deny that! But this is my reality, these are my babies, and I'm not going to waste any time beating myself up because I can't nurse them anymore. Come on, I beat myself up enough as it is.
Mainly though, the proof is in the pudding, the "pudding" being my scrumptious, healthy baby boys. Knock on wood, they are growing and thriving and happy as can be. They've never been sick (even when Mommy has gotten sick herself), they are handling a variety of foods without issue, rolling all over the place, and babbling like two old biddies at a bridge game. Although they're average height and weight, they have big, pink chubby cheeks and roly-poly thighs that make them look pretty robust. No, I'm not going to feel badly about feeding them formula because I can't imagine them doing any better than they already are. Not to mention the fact that my brother and I were never breastfed and, growing up, we rarely had to stay home sick from school. Of course, maybe that's all just genetics, but how can I think that formula is so bad when I was weaned on it myself?
Study after study tells us what's "best" for our babies and, in an ideal world, we want to give it to them. But, I say, screw the studies! In real life, not lab life, babies thrive in all sorts of "less-than-ideal" environments, becoming happy, well-adjusted little people despite the fact that they weren't breastfed or spent too much time in the baby jumper or were sleep trained. Somehow, a lot of babies turn into remarkable children and adults, despite the fact that Mommy works full-time or they don't have a Daddy or a sibling or a backyard.
Want to know why? Because a baby who is loved and cared for is already getting the best. A baby with a happy Mommy and a happy Daddy (or two of each) is already getting the best. A baby whose family is making choices for him or her based on their lifestyle and what works for them is already getting the best. Love, care, patience, joy, affection. I don't think anything could be better for a baby than that.
Do you feel guilty about giving your babies formula?
if babies were meant to drink cow's milk, they would be calves... most moms "don't produce enough" because they are doing the schedule thing or too uptight. I have always thought maybe if you don't want to feed your baby the way nature intended (especially if it is because you can't drink alcohol...GEEEZE!) maybe you should rethink your desire to be a mom...
I to formula fed both my boys it was the right choice for my family at the time they are now 9 and 5 healthy boys. I will never regret my decision to formula feed my boys I was lucky enough to have a hospital that also supported my decision no matter what thay were 100% behind me. Nobody should feel ashamed of formula feeding.
I had ff my first DD... she was born early, and couldn't latch on. She's a healthy 10 year old today, and pushing 5 foot!! My 2nd DD was exclusively bf. She refused a bottle... even if it had breast milk in it.
Nope -I feel no guilt for formula feeding my two sons! I was just like you (only with one baby) with my first. I spent 4 months of being hooked to either baby or pump and supplementing and finally just completely lost my milk. With the second, the milk supply was no better, so after about 6 weeks I said, "To hell with this!" I had a two year old running around and a newborn, and quite honestly I could think of about 100 better uses of my time -and ones that still benefitted my kids.
I am SO sick of the cult of the breastfeeders. I think it's great, fine and perfectly normal to breastfeed if you have a great supply and you want to do it -bravo! But these women who freak out about anyone using formula or just go on and on and on about how superior they are for breastfeeding FOREVER in some cases -I'm sorry, but I think they must have had pretty sad, empty lives where they've never been good at anything else. They're crazy! A happy mommy (and daddy) who love and show love to their baby = a happy baby. My two have no allergies, no overeating issues, above average intelligence and haven't been sick at ages 3 and 6 any more than any other kid in preschool and kindergarten -in fact quite a bit less than many I know.
I had a double mastectomy at 20 years of age due to breast cysts and the fact due to a family history my doctors knew by my 27th birthday they wouldve turned into a very progressive form of cancer.
I was at a resturant a few years back and torn apart by a women for formula feeding. She told me I was lazy and lying. I ended up taking her into the bathroom and showing her the tatteoos where my nipples should be. She gapped like a fish and walked away in a daze.
My children were all formula fed, we dont have banks near us or anything like that either. Not that I would feel right about that either. All my kids are slender, healthy, happy kids. I know my newborn knowsl when to stop because he just does. He just stops eating and turns his head to knock out the bottle. I am healthy but for the genetic issues, and was formula fed, my brother was breast fed and has pulmanory fibrosis, a lung problem that will kill him sooner rather then later sadly. He is 22, and is hospitalized at least once a year for the common cold. He has always had a weak immune system for no reason that anybody can fnd.
I was also once told I should never have had children knowing I couldnt breast feed, because having the mastectomy was completely a choice of my freewill.


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Alcides Escobar Rumors
Odds And Ends: Hardy, Johnson, Mets
More links as we await the next waiver trade…
- The Brewers put off J.J. Hardy's free agency until after 2011 by keeping him in the minors for 20 days, as Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel points out. This should boost Hardy's trade value after the season, when the Brewers will presumably listen to trade offers, now that Alcides Escobar is contributing in the majors.
- Randy Johnson expects to return to the Giants as a reliever, according to the AP (via FOX Sports).
- MLB.com's Marty Noble suggests Jayson Werth and Derrek Lee would be good fits for the Mets this offseason.
Full Story | Comments | Categories: Alcides Escobar | Derrek Lee | J.J. Hardy | Jayson Werth | Milwaukee Brewers | New York Mets | Randy Johnson | San Francisco Giants
Perrotto's Latest: Twins, Damon, Franklin, Penny, Dye
John Perrotto of Baseball Prospectus brings us his latest from around the leagues:
- When they come off the DL, Francisco Liriano and Glen Perkins will be used in relief. So, the Twins are hoping to add a starter who can pitch in the playoffs. This means they have until tomorrow at midnight to do so.
- The Yankees would like to re-sign Johnny Damon to a one year deal and give Austin Jackson a second year to develop at Triple-A, while pursuing Matt Holliday and Jason Bay in the offseason.
- The Marlins and Giants are frontrunners to land Brad Penny.
- The Cardinals expect to exercise Ryan Franklin's $2.75MM club option and then sign an extension with their closer for 2011.
- The Royals want to extend G.M. Dayton Moore who is signed through 2010.
- Perrotto says the Cubs are likely to deal Milton Bradley this winter, even if it means eating a large portion of the $21MM owed to him through 2011.
- Jermaine Dye will more than likely not see his $12MM option exercised by the White Sox after a dip in production in tandem with the salary demands of Alex Rios and Jake Peavy.
- For the postseason, the Dodgers are seeking "a left-handed bat with power" for their bench.
- The Nats are auditioning Livan Hernandez as a veteran innings eater for 2010.
- The Diamondbacks may non-tender Conor Jackson.
- Brewers manager Ken Macha said G.M. Doug Melvin "scoured the area for pitching" before the deadline but was unable to add a starter because he refused to trade Mat Gamel or Alcides Escobar.
- After making seven trades this year, the Pirates are the youngest team in the MLB.
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Brewers Rumors: Hardy, Escobar, Sheets
Lots of Brewers news this Wednesday morning. Here's the latest:
- MLB.com's Adam McCalvy reports that the Brewers fired pitching coach Bill Castro and demoted J.J. Hardy to Triple A. The Alcides Escobar era begins in Milwaukee.
- In a different article, McCalvy writes that the Brewers are still looking for a starter on the waiver wire, though no top arms are available.
- Brewers GM Doug Melvin has not heard from Casey Close, who represents Ben Sheets and wonders if the agent's silence means Sheets won't pitch this year: "I think he would call clubs if [Sheets] were going to pitch, wouldn't he?"
- Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel files the team's moves under the "What Have We Got to Lose?" category.
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Brewers GM On Trades, Free Agents, Draft
Brewers GM Doug Melvin said on 1250 WSSP in Milwaukee that he's glad he didn't go after some of the free agent arms that were available last offseason. Here's the clip and here are the details:
- Melvin admits that pitchers like John Smoltz and Oliver Perez were tempting, but says he's glad he resisted.
- The Brewers were interested in Jarrod Washburn at the deadline, but didn't have enough young pitching to complete a deal with the Mariners.
- The Brewers were in on the Roy Halladay sweepstakes, but were reluctant to give up Alcides Escobar and Mat Gamel.
- Melvin sounds hesitant to experiment with Rickie Weeks in center field.
- The Brewers will have some "some flexibility" to add free agents this offseason.
- Melvin expects the Red Sox to pursue free agent position players aggressively.
- As of today, Melvin says he's not motivated to move J.J. Hardy, but hints that the Brewers could move him after the season to make room for Alcides Escobar.
- Melvin's pleased with the progress 2009 first rounder Eric Arnett has made.
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Failed Deadline Blockbusters
Today was hectic, but imagine how much wilder it would have been if these two deals had gone through:
- Via Twitter, Jon Heyman of SI.com reports that the Padres almost dealt Heath Bell and Adrian Gonzalez to the Dodgers for James Loney, Russell Martin, Blake DeWitt, James McDonald and Ivan Dejesus. Wow.
- Danny Knobler of CBS Sports confirms that the division rivals considered a blockbuster deal involving those players.
- Knobler also says the Rangers and Angels both pursued Heath Bell aggressively this afternoon. The Angels and Padres were discussing Jose Arredondo, Sean O'Sullivan and Sean Rodriguez.
- Brewers GM Doug Melvin says his team was involved in a "big one that didn't happen," according to Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
- The Crew also had interest in Jarrod Washburn and Brian Bannister.
- Melvin says everyone asked the Brewers for Mat Gamel and Alcides Escobar. Since the Brewers didn't want to deal either prospect and don't have the young pitching to offer rival teams, they had limited options.
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Deadline Roundup: Mets, Washburn, Nats, Rays
Two Cy Young Award winners were traded this deadline and neither one of them was Roy Halladay. It's been a wild few days. Here's a recap of the action and here are some more details and reactions:
- Omar Minaya told Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post that the Mets couldn't find a trade partner because of what other teams were asking for.
- MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo says Aaron Thompson is a pretty good return for Nick Johnson. it sure beats losing him for nothing after the season.
- Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports that the Mariners told the Yankees they had to give up an Austin Jackson-type player for Jarrod Washburn, who was dealt to Detroit.
- The Brewers were told they'd have to surrender Manny Parra, Alcides Escobar or Mat Gamel for Washburn, Sherman reports.
- Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports that Washburn is open to returning to the Mariners in the offseason, when he hits free agency.
- Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski tells MLB.com's Jason Beck that the Tigers were "not close at all" to completing any other moves.
- Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times says the Rays will look for help on the waiver wire in August.
- Any bobblehead collectors? Tomorrow night is still Victor Martinez bobblehead night in Cleveland, according to MLB.com's Anthony Castrovince.
- The Phillies, Cardinals, Red Sox and Tigers are Jon Heyman of SI.com's deadline winners. His losers? The Nats and Royals.
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FOX Sports On Red Sox, D'Backs, Bell
12:59pm: FOX Sports reports that Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski is aggressively looking for a hitter.
The Brewers are reluctant to trade Alcides Escobar and would probably hesitate to move him for Brandon Morrow and two months of Jarrod Washburn.
12:14pm: The Red Sox are "in" on Roy Halladay, but finding offense is the team's top priority, according to Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports. Here are a few more rumors:
- There hasn't been much interest in Doug Davis or Jon Garland so far, but D'Backs officials are optimistic that interest will pick up later in the week.
- Minnesota has more interest in Freddy Sanchez than any of his other suitors do.
- The Padres will listen on Heath Bell and Adrian Gonzalez, but aren't likely to deal either player. The Tigers had interest in Bell earlier in the month.
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Heyman On Halladay, Holliday, Indians, Nats
9:34am: Heyman says the Yankees inquired about Cliff Lee and were told they'd have to give up Joba Chamberlain or Phil Hughes, plus other players.
8:34am: Jon Heyman of SI.com has the latest on the biggest stars available:
- The Phillies are the frontrunners to acquire Roy Halladay. Heyman says the Jays are expected to ask for one of J.A. Happ and Kyle Drabek, one of Dominic Brown and Michael Taylor, plus others.
- The Brewers may be the Phillies' biggest threat, but they'd probably have to part with Alcides Escobar, and maybe Mat Gamel, too.
- The Mets bowed out of the Halladay talks once Fernando Martinez's name came up.
- There's a "good chance" the Cardinals trade for Matt Holliday, according to one of Heyman's sources.
- Indians GM Mark Shapiro wonders if teams are holding onto their prospects too tightly: "It's almost to the point where there's an over-evaluation of these guys. There's almost an over-correction."
- Heyman says the Nats should trade Nick Johnson, Adam Dunn and Josh Willingham.
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Roy Halladay Rumors: Wednesday
6:49pm: ESPN's Peter Gammons says the Dodgers are still in the mix for Halladay. Pros for the Dodgers are a number of Single-A and Double-A prospects and the willingness to take on Halladay's contract. Cons are a lack of near-ready pitching prospects, and absence of Toronto scouts at Dodger games.
5:02pm: ESPN.com's Tim Kurkjian says he doesn't expect the Jays to deal Halladay because their asking price is "enormously high."
3:40pm: Rockies GM Dan O'Dowd told MLB.com that Halladay is not a fit for his team because the cost would be "devastating" financially and in terms of talent.
12:59pm: Wondering what kind of haul the Jays might bring in? ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick looks back at nine trades for top pitchers and shows that not all blockbusters are created equal.
11:08am: Jon Heyman of SI.com says the Brewers appear to be a threat to acquire Halladay. He's hearing Manny Parra's name and suspects Mat Gamel or Alcides Escobar would have to be involved, too.
11:06am: Ricciardi told ESPN.com's Jayson Stark that talks are expected to intensify early next week. The Blue Jays haven't exchanged names with interested teams yet, but Ricciardi expects to tell teams what he's looking for by Monday.
That wouldn't leave much time before Tuesday's self-imposed deadline, but Ricciardi said it's a soft deadline.
Ricciardi says four teams are "really, really serious" about Halladay. The Phillies are believed to be one of his top suitors and Ricciardi confirmed that the Jays will scout Kyle Drabek's upcoming start.
8:33am: Here's what we heard yesterday: the Yankees and Mets aren't major threats to acquire Roy Halladay; the Cards are still involved; the Phillies are considering other options and may have told the Jays Kyle Drabek is off-limits; the Jays have imposed a pre-deadline of July 28th on the negotiations and GM J.P. Ricciardi says a trade is becoming "unlikely."
All that in one day? Sure, and there are more Roy Halladay rumors for you today:
- Yahoo's Gordon Edes says the Phillies want Halladay more than Cliff Lee, but bellieve the Jays are asking for too much.
- Sportsnet.ca has a clip of Ricciardi saying a deal is unlikely.
- The Phillies won't publicly admit they're pursuing Doc, but Ray Parrillo of the Philadelphia Inquirer hears they're still interested.
- Tracy Ringolsby of FOXSports suggests the Blue Jays have to consider trading Halladay because Ricciardi hasn't committed money to the right players.
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Rosenthal's Full Count Video: Halladay, Padres, Orioles, Holliday, Dodgers
FoxSports.com's Ken Rosenthal has a new Full Count Video up. Let's dive in…
- The Brewers are flying under the radar for Roy Halladay. The Blue Jays love shortstop prospect Alcides Escobar, but the Brew Crew might not have the young pitching needed to complete a deal.
- Rosenthal isn't sure Halladay would approve a deal to Milwaukee either.
- Don't expect the Padres to move either Adrian Gonzalez or Heath Bell before the trade deadline. GM Kevin Towers says it makes "no sense" to move those players now, but it could be a different story in the offseason since teams may be more willing to discuss Major League players then.
- The Orioles aren't "terribly enthused" about trading either Aubrey Huff or Luke Scott. The O's could try to retain the free agent to be Huff in the offseason by offering him arbitration, and taking the compensation draft picks if he declines. Scott is still under team control for another few seasons.
- Don't be surprised if the A's are "relatively quiet" at the deadline. Matt Holliday is drawing only minimal interest, but that could change if he heats up before the deadline.
- Oakland has gotten calls about reliever Michael Wuertz and "to a lesser degree Brad Ziegler," but they aren't in a rush to move either guy since they're cheap and under team control for the next few seasons.
In a separate video, Rosenthal says that Dodgers manager Joe Torre has "made it clear he wants Roy Halladay." The problem is that Toronto has asked for Clayton Kershaw as the centerpiece of any deal, and the money might be prohibitive for LA. The Dodgers are also looking for a setup reliever. Rosenthal also reiterates the lack of interest in Holliday.
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Oxmoor House JUNE 2006
Cut off pointed end of garlic bulb. Place on a piece of aluminum foil, and coat generously with cooking spray. Fold foil to seal. Bake at 350° for 1 hour or until garlic is tender. Remove garlic from oven, and let cool. Squeeze pulp from garlic bulb, and mash with a fork until smooth. Set aside.
Meanwhile, slice kale leaves into 1/4" strips. Heat olive oil in a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Gradually add kale, and cook 12 minutes or until kale wilts, stirring often. Add broth. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 20 to 25 minutes or until greens are tender and liquid evaporates. Stir in garlic, salt, and pepper.
Make Ahead: Roast garlic, and trim and slice kale up to 2 days ahead. Chill in separate zip-top plastic bags.
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