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"He threw it away! He threw it away!"
– Jon Weisman
Former ESPNLosAngeles.com colleague Tony Jackson has made the leap into independent blogging with Dodgerscribe. Read about his plans, and join me in welcoming him back.
Meanwhile, the Dodgers are going with a lineup against Tampa Bay lefty ace David Price that only a mother or believer in the Dodgers' overall hotness could love.
Mark Ellis, 2B
Nick Punto, SS
Adrian Gonzalez, 1B
Yasiel Puig, CF
Jerry Hairston Jr., LF
Juan Uribe, 3B
Tim Federowicz, C
Skip Schumaker, RF
Chris Capuano, P
Though the defense remains solid, Juan Uribe's offense has deteriorated since his seven-RBI game July 5. He has a .247 on-base percentage and .266 slugging with three walks and 18 strikeouts in his last 86 plate appearances, dropping his 2013 OPS from .800 to .708.
Variety (in association with Sports Video Group) will be hosting its third annual Sports Entertainment Summit on August 15, all day long at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills.
It's a great event with tons of behind-the-scenes information passed along about the present and future of sports in the media world — particularly television — and also a tremendous networking opportunity.
Among the top participants are:
• Dodgers executive vice president and chief marketing officer Lon Rosen
• Kings Hall of Famer Luc Robataille
• Clippers forward Matt Barnes
• Fox Sports Media Group COO and co-president Randy Freer
• NBC Olympics executive producer Jim Bell
• Time Warner Cable Sports senior vice president and general manager Mark Shuken
I'll be moderating three sessions:
10:15 a.m.: The Future of the Sports and Entertainment Business
12 noon: The Power of the Regional Channel – Industry is Cheering, Are Audiences?
4:45 p.m.: Keynote Conversation with Luc Robitaille, president of business operations and alternate governor, Los Angeles Kings
Other sessions include:
9:45 a.m.: Keynote Conversation with Randy Freer, COO and co-president, Fox Sports Media Group
11:15 a.m.: Can We Score with TV Everywhere and Sports Programming?
1:45 p.m.: Beyond the Game Programming Technology – Companion Mobile, Online Experiences
2:30 p.m.: Masters of Game-Time Storytelling
3 p.m.: Branding the Athlete – Winning in a Jungle of Social, Entertainment and Endorsement Choice
4 p.m.: What is the Next Major? Sports on the Rise
The full agenda can be found here. Registration can be done online here. Until 11:59 p.m. Friday, you can get $100 off the $595 cost.
If you can't make it, look for coverage of the event on Variety.com on August 15.
A Carl Crawford liner knocked St. Louis starter Shelby Miller out of the game after two pitches, a six-run second inning knocked around emergency reliever Jake Westbrook and the Dodgers more or less cruised thereafter to 25 baserunners (Crawford reached five times) in a 13-4 victory.
I rushed through that description so that I could get to what I wanted to talk about – the developing batting eye of Yasiel Puig.
After drawing skepticism and a bit of derision for his wild, swinging ways – seven walks in his first 42 games (against 43 strikeouts) – Puig has dramatically turned things around. With three walks tonight, Puig now has 12 walks in his past 13 games (against 14 strikeouts). That's a 150-walk pace over a 162-game season.
Only one of the 12 walks has been intentional.
It's not that Puig has been timid in the plate. Emerging for a slump that lowered his OPS to a season-worst .967 (yeah, season-worst) on July 22, Puig has gone exactly 20 for 50 with those 12 walks, two hit-by-pitches, four doubles and three home runs. That's a .400 batting average, .531 on-base percentage, .660 slugging percentage and 1.191 OPS during that stretch.
Puig has drawn five walks in the four games that Hanley Ramirez has missed this week, but that alone doesn't account for his improved showing. And it means that 240 plate appearances into his career, Puig still has an OPS well over 1.000.
His ups were followed by some downs, and his downs have now turned into some ups. The ride will continue, but it's hard not to be excited by his ability to show power with restraint.
Facing St. Louis pitcher Shelby Miller and his 2.89 ERA, the Dodgers could stand to get something extra tonight from Ricky Nolasco, who hasn't made it through the sixth inning in the last four of his five Dodger starts.
Nolasco hasn't been pounded — no more than three runs have scored against him in any of his Dodger appearances — and he has taken only one loss. It's just that he could do mo' better for the Blues.
Miller, for his part, has a 4.89 ERA in seven starts since June 22.
The joy in this Dodger summer is not just in the winning, or being in first place.
It's that the Dodger summer is about the game.
Three years ago, two years ago, the Dodger universe was mired in L'Affaire McCourt. Even last year, in the months following the ownership change, there was still a detox period.
This year, good or bad, the conversation has been about the game. The worst it has gotten was the debate over the fate of Don Mattingly in the spring (here and here, for example) — a debate that clearly wasn't a figment of our imagination. There's been all the injuries, carping out this player's performance or that one's. But it's all about the game.
Meanwhile, baseball at large is enveloped in a conversation about performance-enhancing drugs and punishments that Los Angeles is not really a principal part of. It's not that Dodger fans don't have a tangential interest in it, just as it wasn't that baseball fans didn't have a tangential interest in the McCourt trauma.
But mainly, we get to go our merry way, winning and losing, living and dying with our team, the way we were meant to, the way we were deprived of from the moment Frank and Jamie figured out they couldn't make it work.
Of course, the more it remains about winning and not losing, the better.
I wasn't able to see tonight's 5-1 Dodger loss to St. Louis, but it was one of those games that obviously Los Angeles was long overdue for amid all the various hot streaks. Tonight it was the Dodgers who hit into the double plays, who couldn't bail out their starting pitcher, who gave up the late-inning insurance runs out of the bullpen, who didn't have the managerial magic.
It was as unpleasant as it was inevitable – and obviously vexing in that Clayton Kershaw is winless in his past two starts despite an ERA of 1.29 – but a good team puts it behind them and goes right back after it. Work on the nitty-gritty details but keep an eye on the big picture.
On April 16, 2011, the St. Louis Cardinals led 2-1 against Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers heading into the fifth inning, then broke the game open with a two-out, three-run home run.
Kershaw, who had been dodging baserunners the entire outing — 11 in 4 2/3 innings — and had reached the 111-pitch mark, was pulled from the game.
He hasn't been knocked out of a game before the five-inning mark since.
In 85 starts since that day, Kershaw has thrown fewer than five innings only one time, and that was his 2012 Opening Day outing at San Diego, when he pitched three shutout innings before leaving because of the flu ("Kershaw Hurls. Dodgers to victory").
In fact, the reigning National League Pitcher of the Month has thrown at least six innings in 75 of those 85 starts, including his past 18 in a row. He has gone at least seven innings in 16 of those past 18.
And during that 85-game run? A 2.23 ERA with 609 strikeouts in 605 innings.
Kershaw, as you might have heard by now, is within range of the lowest ERA for a season by a Dodger pitcher since Sandy Koufax, which would be the lowest in Los Angeles Dodger history. What might be lost in that discussion is that because of the different eras, Kershaw is on pace for the best adjusted ERA in Dodger history, dating back to 1901.
He is 25 years old. I hope you are appreciating what you are seeing.
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Hanley Ramirez is on the sidelines – for days or weeks, we're still not sure.
Kenley Jansen was on the sidelines – for a breather after an intense run of success.
But no one could sideline the Dodgers' winning ways.
It was another close one, but thanks to just enough hitting and starting pitching and the right stuff from a young lefty in the bullpen, Los Angeles won its 15th consecutive road game, defeating St. Louis, 3-2.
The Dodgers are now 32-7 in their past 39 games, 15-2 since the All-Star break and are two away from the National League record for consecutive victories on the road, set 97 years ago by the New York Giants. They are a full six games ahead of idle Arizona in the NL West, and within three games of St. Louis, a team that on June 21 held a 16-game margin over them.
During their 32-7 run, the Dodgers are 10-0 in one-run games. They have won 10 of past 11 and were tied in the ninth inning of game they lost in that stretch, at home against the Yankees.
Though they led most of the way, it was a comeback victory for the Dodgers. Los Angeles fell behind in the first inning thanks in part to some spotty glovework by Yasiel Puig (who made a throwing error) and Nick Punto (whose throw home later that inning wasn't good enough to prevent a run), but came back to take a 2-1 lead in the fourth on a walk to Adrian Gonzalez, a double by Puig, an RBI single by Andre Ethier and a run-scoring groundout by A.J. Ellis.
Then in the fifth, Puig, returning after a day off, and Punto, starting in place of Ramirez, reversed their fielding fortunes and teamed up to take a Cardinal run off the scoreboard. Puig barehanded David Freese's double off the wall and rifled the ball to Punto, the shortstop who was in short right field to take the throw. Punto whipped the ball home to A.J. Ellis, who shorthopped it and tagged out Allen Craig trying to score from first.
Greinke, who earlier had a sacrifice bunt, hit an RBI single to right-center to push the Dodger lead to 3-1. That hit raised Greinke's 2013 on-base percentage to .476, currently the highest of any pitcher in baseball history with at least 40 plate appearances.
The hit also provided an important insurance run. To start the bottom of the seventh, Greinke walked pinch-hitter Abron Chambers, who was batting .200 with no career homers. Matt Carpenter followed with a hit, putting runners at first and second as Greinke neared 100 pitches. Surprisingly, Carlos Beltran bunted, putting runners at second and third but giving up an out.
Chambers scored on an RBI groundout by Craig against Ronald Belisario, but the Dodgers escaped with their one-run lead heading into the eighth.
Greinke's bottom-of-the-seventh struggle essentially eliminated any hope that the Dodgers wouldn't agonize about getting through tonight's game without Kenley Jansen, who entered the action with 25 consecutive batters retired (13 by strikeout) but with appearances in nine of his past 13 games, including 13 pitches Saturday and 15 Sunday. After Paco Rodriguez threw only six to get his three outs in the eighth, he remained in the game to start the ninth against the 8-9-1 spots in the St. Louis lineup, while Jansen sat in the bullpen with his coverup on. Brandon League warmed up in support of Rodriguez.
• Left-handed hitting Daniel Descalso struck out on three pitches.
• Left-handed pinch-hitter Matt Adams, with an .836 OPS and eight home runs in 174 at-bats, grounded out to Gonzalez on the second pitch from Rodriguez.
• Left-handed hitting Carpenter went ahead in the count 2-0, swung and missed, then hit a fly ball to center field that Ethier flagged down.
Rodriguez had his second career save (the first by a Dodger of at least two innings since Ramon Troncoso in 2009), Jansen had his night off, Greinke had his 100th career victory and the Dodgers had yet another win. Incredible, ain't it? Simply incredible.
Previously on Dodger Thoughts: Phenomenal bullpen key to Dodgers' revival
Atlanta: 10-0 in past 10 games, 13-4 since All-Star break
Cleveland: 9-1 in past 10 games, 11-5 since All-Star break
Detroit: 9-1 in past 10 games, 12-3 since All-Star break
Kansas City: 9-1 in past 10 games, 13-3 since All-Star break
Los Angeles: 8-2 in past 10 games, 14-2 since All-Star break
Tampa Bay: 7-3 in past 10 games, 11-4 since All-Star break
No losses for the Dodgers in their past 14 games on the road.
No runs for the Cubs in their past 24 innings against the Dodgers.
No baserunners against Kenley Jansen in his past 25 batters (with 13 strikeouts).
But no relief from the injuries for Los Angeles.
The Dodgers lost yet another top hitter today when Hanley Ramirez toppled into the stands at Wrigley Field at the end of a long run to catch a foul ball. Ramirez left the Dodgers' 1-0 victory with his arm in a sling and an MRI scheduled for his shoulder Monday.
No matter what consoling or optimistic messages come from the Dodger clubhouse, Ramirez is a prime candidate to join Matt Kemp in making a third trip to the disabled list this season. Hopefully, Yasiel Puig will be back to cushion the blow after his day off today, but the Dodgers are far less equipped to deal with Ramirez' absence at shortstop.
At least the Dodgers made hay while the sun shined. Winning their 31st game in their past 38, the Dodgers moved 5 1/2 games ahead of Arizona in the National League West, a gain of 15 games against their top rivals in the division in six weeks. Eight weeks and 52 games remain.
It's hard to overstate the importance that Hanley Ramirez and Yasiel Puig have had in the Dodgers' turnaround from a 30-42 to a 30-7 team. They have had an enormous impact on an offense that otherwise has not performed much better in the second 54 games of 2013 than it did in the first 54.
A.J. Ellis, Adrian Gonzalez, Mark Ellis, Juan Uribe, Carl Crawford, Scott Van Slyke, Nick Punto and Jerry Hairston Jr. – five starters and three key bench players – all had lower OPSes in the middle third of the season, when the Dodgers went 36-18, than at the outset, according to Eric Stephen of True Blue L.A.
The starting pitching has been steady as she goes during the hot streak, with everyone – including, of late, Chris Capuano – keeping the Dodgers in games. In addition, the team has been better hitting with runners in scoring position, some recent events in Chicago notwithstanding.
But when you look at how the Dodgers have been playing .811 ball since June 22, winning games like they were free throws, much of it comes down to this – the bullpen simply just keeps getting guys out.
Perhaps no moment epitomized that more than when the Dodgers inserted Brandon League, simply horrible for much of this season, into the seventh inning of Saturday's game with Cubs at the corners and the tying run at the plate.
Since entering the All-Star break with a 6.25 ERA, League hadn't allowed an earned run or an inherited run in eight innings over six appearances, with opponents OPSing a scant .343. Don Mattingly had slowly moved League out of mop-up situations into higher-leverage moments, but this was the first time League had been used to protect a lead of three runs or less in nearly seven weeks since June 25.
League threw four pitches, induced the Dodgers' fourth double play of the game, and strolled off the field.
In the next inning, Ronald Belisario gave up two singles to the four batters he raced – a relatively shocking development for a bullpen that has been so reliable – and then making matters worse, Paco Rodriguez came in and threw six straight pitches out of the strike zone, loading the bases with a 2-0 count to the go-ahead run, Chicago's cleanup hitter, Welington Castillo (admittedly, not your prototypical cleanup hitter).
Rodriguez got the count back to 3-2, then struck Castillo out.
If teams don't score against you, they're not going to beat you. The Dodger bullpen has smothered nearly every single fire they have encountered since the fourth week of June.
Keep in mind the bottom four guys are not really relevant to the conversation, having mainly pitched in the rare garbage situations the Dodgers have been in since June 22. The four primary relievers (five if you count Withrow) have ERAs below 2.00, opponents' OPS below .600 and have stranded 31 of 34 inherited runners. Thrown in a temporarily improved League as a bonus, and that's a hellacious bullpen that could also find addition by subtraction if Carlos Marmol is jettisoned for someone more reliable, unless Marmol follows in League's footsteps.
Can they keep this up? Well, no. Not bloody likely. Relievers don't stay hot forever, particularly guys who are proven inconsistents like Belisario. The question is whether it will be a blown save here or there, or the more frequent meltdowns of the season's first 72 games.
There's also concern over how many games some of the relievers have been appearing in – especially Kenley Jansen. But the good news is that Jansen has been so efficient lately – he has retired 22 consecutive batters with 10 strikeouts – they've essentially been low-stress outings. Here are Jansen's daily pitch counts since June 22 …
There was an eyebrow-raising stretch the week of June 23 and another following a 28-pitch outing July 23, but for the most part, Jansen has kept his pitch counts in check and had a nice checkerboard of days off.
Of course, the fastest way for the closer to get rest is for the Dodgers to start losing again. Otherwise, yeah, there will be a day when the Dodgers are in a tight one and they'll want to try to get by without using their big ex-catcher.
The Dodgers' surge has been too good to be true, but there's no denying it has happened. Whether you should believe it can continue should depend in large part in your belief in this bullpen.
If the Dodgers win today, they'll have started the season 30-42 and followed that by going 30-7.
Happiest of birthdays to Young Master Weisman, who is 9 today!


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broken structures: the Burning Legion had made its mark on Splintertree Post
following the short yet brutal siege they laid to it and its occupants. Where
the orcs of the Red Blade thought they had slowly gained the upper hand in
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ensure the Post would remain standing, but they did so at a price. The entire
attack turned out to be one big, elaborate distraction which allowed
infiltrating Satyrs to sneak in through the back and pillage through their
The worst of it all, however? It was not even the
supplies they were after. In the thick of the battle, they came for but a
single item that was in the orcs' possession, and the defending forces learned
too late before the demons and their ilk could make off with it: the prized
Scepter of the Shaman-king. For many years, it had been in the tribe's
possession since they recovered it from other sinister forces, but the ancient
relic of Clan Redblade had once again fallen in nefarious hands. There was no
telling what neither demon nor Satyr would possibly desire the scepter for, but
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serve as a catalyst for their own, evil gains. It was too late to pursue the
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make way back to Orgrimmar. What was hoped to be a quick retreat, turned out to
be an arduous journey back into the relative safety of Orgrimmar's walls,
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demonic taint forever cleansed from the face of Azeroth. For the Red Blade tribe,
there was a personal score to settle as well, however. With the Scepter of the
Shaman-king taken, it would be a dishonour upon the tribe's name to allow it to
remain in demonic hands. Moreover, its former keeper, True Blood Sadok
Sharptongue, had fallen to the demons' fires. He was the first of no doubt many
more deaths to come. It would be a heavy price the tribe, the Horde and indeed
the entirety of Azeroth would have to pay to see the demonic forces gone for
good, if such a thing were ever possible to even begin with.
It is in the face of these dire times that new heroes and
leaders alike must stand up to carry the banner of the Red Blade forward into
the fires of hell itself. As ships are sent out into the maw of the beast to
cull this threat for good, so too do the Red Blades set sail for the Broken
Isles to avenge the fallen, regain their honour and, most important of all, to
fight for a worthy future for generations to come. For peace and prosperity.
For death and glory. For the Horde. And for the Blood of the Tribe.
OOC information:
World of Warcraft: Legion has at long last come, and as
is common with every single new expansion by now, Orcs of the Red Blade strives
to make the best and full use of everything all of the new content has to
offer! Through a chain of introductory events, the stage has been set for the
tribe's upcoming Legion plot, which will provide for yet another countless
amount of stories, developments, characters and drama alike throughout the
months to come! To ensure both new and present members know what the stakes
are, you can read the introduction to the Legion plot above. Below, however,
you will find all the OOC information you will need to know in order to be up
to date for what to expect these coming weeks!
As with every new expansion, we are going to allow our
members to take their time to explore all the new expansion content without
having to worry about missing out on any RP experiences throughout the initial
urge to explore the new zones and level up. To this end, we will have a
two-week hiatus from official guild events following the initial release of
Legion. That doesn't mean RP will cease to exist, however!
As the tribe embarks to set sail for the Broken Isles,
the storms and tides of the Maelstrom will split the tribe and its several
ships up, initially scattering the tribe as they land upon the shores of the
Broken Isles. Those who desire to continue on RPing, be it by themselves or
with companions both in and outside the guild, will be quite welcome to
continue to do so before the tribe eventually manages to come back together in
the third week of Legion's release. The tribe's official landing location, and
therefore place of rendezvous, will be the area of Highmountain. So you will
know where to make your way towards when the time has come for the tribe to
continue its arduous adventure into the Broken Isles together!
We hope to be able to welcome you all again when that
time comes. Until our RP campaign continues, you can be certain that there will
be plenty of people in the guild around to share new experiences with and to
explore Legion's content together with, should you so choose to. Not only is
the end of the world a good time to rise up and become a hero, but so too is it
to make new friends for life!
For the Blood of the Tribe!
The last remaining member of our current officer team who still awaiting his very own spotlight is none other than Kargnar Bloodpaw! As one of the oldest of the currently presiding Elders of the tribe, he's sure to have seen his share of adventures and experiences within the guild and its history! Time to see what stories he has to share with us! As a little extra, he also just so happens to be the tribe's number-one Rrosh-tul, so who knows he might even give away a few tips and pieces of advice on how to be moulded into one of the best fighters of the tribe!
So, what can you tell us about your first memories with the tribe?
Trailer Throwback Tuesday
While one would think we're slowly running out of trailers to showcase, there are in fact some very old clips of the good, old tribal life taken as far back as ten years ago! One such example is this little movie, once made by former Red Blade Yorla. Though primarily just made for fun, it still showcases the tribe from a time long forgotten in a - to say the least - fun and playful way. See how many old faces you can recognize!
This month in the member spotlight, we have Kogra Windwatcher! As Alpha of the Gosh'kar, she's slowly been working her way up in the ranks and might soon even find herself in the venerable position of the tribe's Thur'ruk! As a result, we have three orcs in a row belonging to the Path of Wisdom that are being featured in the Member Spotlight. Perhaps the path is on to something, with its consistently active and reliable members? Read on, however, and you'll find that Kogra has plenty of different experiences from both Rhonya and Srelok as both a person as well as an orc!
To start off, what
can you tell us about your first encounter with the guild? Any particular first
memories that you can recall?
My first encounter with the guild I cannot truly recall.
This must've been somewhere during Cataclysm but that was only on an OOC basis
due to the ganking going on and there was this pact going on between the guilds
to help each other out.
My first RP experience with people from the guild,
however, would be me having to RP a sibling of Grogona due to her venturing to
Nagrand for some journey. The true intent of that journey I cannot recall. All
I remember was that it was some extremely amusing RP involving several members
of the guild that were asked to act according to a script that was written
down. I do not know whether it was the fact that we were also on Skype at the
time, or the fact that everything was planned already, but the whole session
spiraled out of control with us laughing about it on Skype.
Several years later some of the guild members decided to
venture to the Netherlands and attend Castlefest. With me knowing Rhonya
already, she dragged me into you crazy lot and forced me to socialize, the
terror! But all jokes aside, I got to meet several people on that joyous
occasion and they piqued my interest to join ORB and so I did.
Sounds like we
partially have Rhonya and Grogona to thank for your present-day activity then!
Are there any other particular members that you feel contributed to you staying
for as long as you have so far? Any other particularly memorable plot-lines or
campaigns, perhaps?
I think that Rhonya and Grogona, and the people that I
met on Castlefest which reveals another big name for the guild namely Sadok,
are the people to blame that you have to suffer from my presence initially. But
if it were not for the community itself that is the guild, I would have been
long gone. I don't think that there are certain people that have me stay in the
guild but the entirety of the guild instead.
As for memorable moments or plot-lines, I think that the
one that has made the most impact on me would be the assault on the Dark Portal.
I think that it was a glorious time RP-wise due to the sacrifice that the tribe
was about to make for the greater good. Of course they did not perish during
their suicidal assault, which kind of contradicts the purpose, but I still
think that this has been one of the more memorable moments within the tribe.
A close second would be the plot that we had together
with the Hand of Agony in the Southern Barrens with the dreaded Razorfen Downs
Syndrome. A lovely campaign with a lot of foreshadowing and the cooperation
between orcs and their forsaken allies.
Speaking of
campaigns, it's no secret that you've recently begun to take more of a
pro-active role within the guild in organising a few events here and there and
helping the officer team. How do you see your character fit into all this? What
is it that moulded Kogra from the orc that she was since the day she joined the
tribe, and in what ways?
Character progression is what makes RP fun and since the
first day I've RPed Kogra, she has gone through a lot of progression. When
first she joined she was very timid and unsure of what she could do herself.
This changed once she started to get to know more of the tribe's people. The
insecurity that she had diminished over time as she found that more people
started to believe in her abilities. And now she is the Alpha of the Gosh'kar.
At this moment she realises that many of her superiors
have stepped down and gone missing and has to step up. Especially since she is
basically the right hand of Srelok at this moment. She tries to live up to that
position by taking the lead in some of the tribal matters, but is not always as
confident as she should be.
On the topic of
character progression, do you have any advice for any fellow roleplayers?
Never make too many plans about your character. I
personally find it more entertaining to see how certain things develop
themselves. I also think that you have a more natural flow of development then.
Often enough I also find that things that happen in RP
are applicable in real life. So I suppose that you should also take lessons
from the things that you encounter in the digital world and put those to good
use in the other world (not Azeroth, nor Draenor). It is how I started to
combat my social anxiety and look where I am now. In a way, I think all
characters are a reflection of the person behind them in some way or the other.
Kogra is no different. There are quite a few similarities, albeit some are a
slight exaggeration from mine such as the selflessness, patience, and secrets
that have yet to be revealed.
Secrets? So
Kogra's story is still unfinished in your mind, then?
I personally believe that the story is finished once the
final page has been written. This page could contain the epilogue of the
adventure, the death of a character, or sometimes even what he or she brings
from beyond the veil of death. Kogra's story is not over, nor do I think that
it will come soon but I could be mistaken in that.
With Legion coming up, we will just have to see, no? With
hell breaking loose (again) and a demon invasion upon us (again), who knows
what we may find? With a new area to explore I am sure that we will find enough
things to do and new plots to discover, be these guild wide or personal.


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Doctors will face annual assessments so licences can be removed from poor performers, under proposals to be outlined by the Chief Medical Officer today.
GPs, hospital consultants and private practitioners will also have to renew their licences every five years under plans to be announced by Sir Liam Donaldson.
He will call for senior doctors to assess others who are practising in their area to ensure they are not putting patients at risk.
Patients will also be asked for their feedback during the assessment process.
Sir Liam's report, Medical Revalidation: Principle and Next Steps, will also suggest steps to ensure that doctors keep up to date with medical advances.
The annual assessments will look at prescribing habits, adequate assessment of a patient's condition and any personal issues which might affect their work, like a problem with drugs of alcohol.
Harold Shipman, the GP who murdered at least 215 victims by giving lethal morphine injections between 1975 and 1998, was addicted to the painkiller pethidine and was convicted of prescribing it for personal use.
He also unlawfully acquired the diamorphine he used to kill.
He was convicted in January 2000 of murdering 15 of his patients and jailed for life but hanged himself from his cell window at Wakefield Prison in January 2004.
Today's report is expected to say that regular assessment would raise standards among the 150,000 doctors practising in Britain rather than being a way to discipline those who do cause concern.
The General Medical Council (GMC) has been discussing the revalidation of doctors for almost a decade and has considered the Shipman case in its discussions.
It was part of the working group which created today's report.
At its annual staff and associate specialist conference last month, the British Medical Association said legislation is expected early next year to allow it to introduce licensing later in 2009.
A government White Paper published in February 2007 set out a programme of reform for the regulation of health professionals.
Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the BMA, said he was "anxious" to see the system would be proportionate and wouldn't take doctors "unduly away from their patients".
"We support the idea that doctors should be looking to improve themselves and in fact are already doing something along those lines already," he said on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"It has to proportionate and we cannot have doctors spending hours and days on end both preparing for and undergoing this.
"Equally, patients want to be reassured and doctors want to reassure patients that they are keeping up to date."
Asked if the assessments would pick up another Harold Shipman, Dr Meldrum said: "We hope that Harold Shipman was a one-off terrible person. He was a criminal, he wasn't necessarily a badly performing doctor in the sense of his clinical practice being good but he was a murderer.
"We are not really devising a system purely to pick up murderers, we are trying to do a system that for the majority of doctors, helps them to improve their practice.
"It may help to identify those who are poorly performing...but we would be totally wrong if we thought this system was all being done to pick up another Harold Shipman."
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|Thin ginger slices
|3 Clove (15 gm), minced
|Bay leaf
|Jalapeno pepper
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Microwave on high for 1 minute, or until heated through.
Remove and discard the bay leaf and ginger slices.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 443 Calories from Fat 71
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 8 g12.3%
Saturated Fat 2.1 g10.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 80.2 mg26.7%
Sodium 1342.2 mg55.9%
Total Carbohydrates 48 g16.1%
Dietary Fiber 5.5 g22%
Sugars 10 g
Protein 45 g89.8%
Vitamin A 29.5% Vitamin C 42.5%
Calcium 11% Iron 23.8%
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Robin Myers is one of the very cool young translators that I met for the first time at this year's ALTA conference. In many ways, she's the perfect example of the benefits of ALTA's fellowship program . . . A student at Swarthmore who is focused on translating Spanish poetry, I can't imagine she would've ever attended ALTA if she hadn't have received a fellowship. But thanks to that, she was able to attend a lot of panels (which I think she liked), meet a lot of fellow translators (such as Stephen Kessler who talked to her about translating Luis Cernuda), present her own translations (which must be an amazing experience), and have a great night out at Liquid Kitty (and yes, I'm just going to let that statement ride).
It's meeting people like Robin (and Erica and Sarah and Andrea and Wendy and Lucas and Jason and J.P. and a host of other young, hip translators, many of whom will be featured here in the near future) that makes the ALTA conference so much fun, and gives me a great deal of hope about the future of the organization and translation as a whole. That there are so many energetic, brilliant, passionate people involved in this field is incredibly encouraging and exciting.
Anyway, on to the questions and comments:
Favorite Word in Any Language: Luciernaga ("firefly")—for the sound!
This really is a beautiful word to pronounce—or hear pronounced. Much more so than "firefly." What's really funny about Robin's answer is that "luciernaga" was Megan McDowell's second favorite word, and at one point, Robin tried to change her answer to "murcielago," which is Megan's absolute favorite word.
Best Translation You've Done to Date: "Don't Copy Pound" by Gonzalo Rojas
Again, I can't find a copy of the English version of this poem online (Robin—you should post it in the comments or e-mail it to me), but here's a write up on Rojas from Poetry International that mentions it:
Rojas is a hard-to-classify, somewhat enigmatic poet, whose work nonetheless convinces instantly. He admonishes, jokes, complains and protests, in a poetry that defies all existing hierarchies. It is even anarchistic, in every possible way. There is a constant tension between colloquial speech and poetic license, between the ordinary and the absurd.
Rojas likes to drop names, from the past as well as the present. Past and present freely intermingle. Nor does he leave out the future. The dramatic unities of time, place and action are abandoned with an obvious vengeance and even the syntax is free. All in all, one might argue that he is not unlike Ezra Pound. Significantly, one of Rojas's funniest poems bears the title 'Don't copy Pound'. Rojas does not copy Pound, but he shares the American's awesome vitality. And he, too, needs many words. There is, indeed, a talkative quality to this poetry. We are continually being talked to, engaged in polemics, in dialogue. We, the readers, are kept on our mettle. The poem rarely shows us where it is going until we have reached the end. While reading, we seem to be determining the outcome ourselves.
'Desocupado lector' (To the idle reader) has such an ending, which determines the perspective in retroaction. In this case the perspective is abysmal, yet the effect is bracing rather than depressing. It is all part of Rojas's careful design.
Book that Needs to Be Published in English Translation: Poems of Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Argentina) and Hernan Bravo Varela (Mexico). Both are young gifted poets, and are themselves wonderful translators into Spanish.
Not a lot available online about either of these poets, but is that all that surprising? I'm echoing something Erica told me (and hopefully not overlooking some kick ass website), but there really does need to be a better hub for information on international poets. There is lyrikline.org but they can only do so much . . .
Prose translators will likely disagree, but I believe translating poetry requires a significant level of talent, a commitment to the text, and near mania, all of which suggests that the undertaking is the greatest possible challenge. The task is to. . .
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This paper studies competition in prices and opening hours in a model with free entry. It is shown that under free competition a market failure arises: Entry is excessive and opening hours are under-provided. Restrictions on opening hours aggravate this failure. I analyze the impact of a liberalization of opening hours. The model predicts that in the short run prices will remain constant, but increase in the long run. Concentration in the retail sector will rise and opening hours will increase in two steps, immediately after deregulation and further over time. Finally, employment in the retail sector increases.
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Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Asking Price: £25,000
This is a profitable opportunity to purchase a professional mobile valeting service with huge potential for growth and development. They currently service both commercial and domestic vehicles, of... More details
Annual Turnover: £14,000
Tenure: Relocatable
Car Valeting
Coventry, Warwickshire
Asking Price: £399,000
This 56-year-old Coventry garage has been offering car owners in the area a complete range of motoring services for a long time. As such it is well established with a broad and loyal customer base p... More details
Annual Turnover: £100,000
Tenure: Freehold
Garages and MOT Centre
Coventry, Warwickshire
Asking Price: £149,000
This is a fantastic opportunity to purchase a well-established motor vehicle garage, favoured by locals for its expert and reliable services at cost-effective prices. Since its inception in 2010,... More details
Annual Turnover: £90,000
Tenure: Leasehold
Garages and MOT Centre
Asking Price: £29,950
This driving school business is respected, popular and in demand. It has more customers looking to get on its books than its current owner can handle and so it is a great investment for someone lo... More details
Annual Turnover: £45,000
Tenure: Relocatable
Other Motor and Transport
Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire
Asking Price: £34,995
This is an exceptional opportunity to acquire a well run and profitable car and van hire business which has provided excellent service and rent solutions to customers since it began trading in 2003.... More details
Annual Turnover: £85,000
Tenure: Relocatable
Car and Van Hire
Coventry, Warwickshire
Asking Price: £2,900,000
This is a brilliant opportunity to takeover a long established recycling business located in Coventry. The company offers a range of scrap metal recycling services and prides itself on operating in a... More details
Annual Turnover: £7,200,000
Tenure: Leasehold
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NSDate objects encapsulate a single point in time, independent of any particular calendrical system or time zone. Date objects are immutable, representing an invariant time interval relative to an absolute reference date (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 2001).
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NSDate class provides methods for comparing dates, calculating the time interval between two dates, and creating a new date from a time interval relative to another date.
NSDate objects can be used in conjunction with
DateFormatter objects to create localized representations of dates and times, as well as with
NSCalendar objects to perform calendar arithmetic.
NSDate is "toll-free bridged" with its Core Foundation counterpart,
CFDate. See Toll-Free Bridging for more information on toll-free bridging.
Subclassing Notes
The major reason for subclassing
NSDate is to create a class with convenience methods for working with a particular calendrical system. But you could also require a custom
NSDate class for other reasons, such as to get a date and time value that provides a finer temporal granularity.
Methods to Override
If you want to subclass
NSDate to obtain behavior different than that provided by the private or public subclasses, you must do these things:
Declare a suitable instance variable to hold the date and time value (relative to an absolute reference date).
Override the
timeIntervalSinceReferenceDateinstance method to provide the correct date and time value based on your instance variable.
init(timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate:), one of the designated initializer methods.
If you are creating a subclass that represents a calendrical system, you must also define methods that partition past and future periods into the units of this calendar.
Because the
NSDate class adopts the
NSCopying and
NSCoding protocols, your subclass must also implement all of the methods in these protocols.
Special Considerations
Your subclass may use a different reference date than the absolute reference date used by
NSDate (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 2001). If it does, it must still use the absolute reference date in its implementations of the methods
timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate and
init(timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate:). That is, the reference date referred to in the titles of these methods is the absolute reference date. If you do not use the absolute reference date in these methods, comparisons between
NSDate objects of your subclass and
NSDate objects of a private subclass will not work.


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