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The LA Galaxy season may be over, but LA Galaxy Insider Adam Serrano will spend the next few weeks offering an evaluation of each member of the squad. VIEW CALENDAR
The LA Galaxy Player Ratings will begin with players who appeared in the least number of games this season starting with goalkeeper Brian Rowe and concluding with Sean Franklin who played in all 34 of the club's regular season games. There will also be an evaluation of head coach and general manager Bruce Arena and his moves at the conclusion of the list.
We will have two to three evaluations per day and focus on what each player did well, what they need to improve on ahead of next season as well as a select thought from the player on their performance and a rating from myself out of four stars.
POSITION: Center back
APPEARANCES IN ALL OFFICIAL COMPETITIONS: GP: 21 [6 in MLS Cup Playoffs, 1 in CONCACAF Champions League], MIN: 1777, G: 2 [1 in MLS Cup Playoffs], A: 1
RESERVE LEAGUE APPEARANCES: none
HIGHLIGHTS: When Gonzalez returned to the field for the first time since his knee surgery on July 4 against the Philadelphia Union, a loud cheer overtook The Home Depot Center, but the 24-year-old defender would give them plenty more opportunities to cheer. The 2011 MLS Defender of the Year was at finest during the MLS Cup Playoffs as shut down the powerful attacks of the San Jose Earthquakes and Seattle Sounders FC along the way. But Gonzalez saved the best performance for last as he was integral in helping LA defeat the Houston Dynamo in MLS Cup 2012. With the club down a goal in the 60th minute, Gonzalez sparked LA's rally with a remarkable header off a diagonal cross from Juninho. From there, the comeback was on as five minutes later, a Landon Donovan penalty kick goal would put LA up for good. After giving his team the lead, Gonzalez continued his work on the defensive side as he shut down the Houston attack en route to becoming the first defender ever to be named MLS Cup MVP.
LOWLIGHTS: When Gonzalez lifted the MLS Cup in December, the defender completed an incredible journey that began with him tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during his training session with German club Nurnberg in Turkey. After the injury was diagnosed, it was projected that Gonzalez would miss seven to nine months with the injury, but he returned to full training ahead of schedule by returning to practice in June. After returning to action on July 4, Gonzalez missed three more games before returning to the field on July 21. He did not miss another MLS match for the remainder of the season.
HIS THOUGHTS: "I think that's just what I have to do, game in and game out. That's what I'm known for; it was just like any other game. I had to get out of the nerves out of it and just focus on playing a good game. The whole team did well. For me, winning MVP is great. I never thought that I would be winning it, it was pretty emotional for me because at the beginning of the year, I didn't see myself getting back to this level and I was just thinking if I was ever going to come back the same way. Today was really special for me; I know that I'm able to go even further now." - Gonzalez after MLS Cup on Dec. 1 discussing his aerial ability and role in LA's win.
One can make the argument that no player was more important to the Galaxy's run to a second straight MLS Cup than Gonzalez. When Gonzalez returned to training in mid-May, a level of confidence seemed to return to the Galaxy locker room and when he came back for good in mid-July, the club was fortified by his inclusion. Although Gonzalez was consistently strong in the regular season, he was at his best when the Galaxy needed him most—during the postseason. On LA's path to their second straight MLS Cup title, Gonzalez helped shut down the powerful offenses of Vancouver Whitecaps FC, San Jose Earthquakes, and Seattle Sounders FC before his virtuoso performance against the Houston Dynamo in the final. Expect more of the same from Gonzalez in 2013.
Adam Serrano is the LA Galaxy Insider. Read his blog at LAGalaxy.com/insider and contact him at email@example.com


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( Oumu no Jutsu: Seika no Torioumu) Parrot Arts: Psittaciformes' Chant
Rank: B-A
Range: Short-Long
Chakra Cost: 20-30
Damage Points: 40-60
Description: The Psittaciformes' Chant is a sound genjutsu where the parrot or a parrot art's user sings a succession of tone known as Shepard Tone. Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upward or downward, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower. The user will begin chanting in a seemingly eternal lowering tone, which will make the opponent's body and limbs feel heavier, stuck on the floor as if powerfully nailed to it. If the user is A rank or Jounin (or higher), he or she will be able to follow up with a second scale (making the technique A ranked), now going eternally high, which will then make the opponent feel as if his body and limbs are being pulled up. Which results in excruciating pain as the opponent feels his body being thorned up and ripped apart by the opposing forces.
*The Psittaciformes' Chant can be perfomed with or without handseals.*
*Without handseals, the genjutsu will take effect immediately, but the user won't be able to use any other jutsu as he or she chants*
*With 5 handseals, the genjutsu will take 2 seconds to begin, but afterwards the user is able to use any technique he or she wants, as long as it doesn't require the usage of the mouth (like spitting fire)*
*Does not affect the user, it's summoner or it's summons, nor it's allies*
*Can only be used twice, each lasting 3 turns max. Must have a 3 turn break between usages. Breaking the chant will break the genjutsu effective immediately*
~Leaving for Roku as it is more like Music Arts rather than Sound Release~
(Ninjutsu: Utsusemi no Sonata ) Ninja Arts: Cicada Sonata
Rank: A
Range: Short
Chakra Cost: 30
Damage Points: N/A
Description: This jutsu is an enhanced version of the Empty Cicada Shell Technique. This allows the user to disperse, multiply and amplify the sound produced by any being or object short-range from the user and spread those sounds all around the area, long range from the user. The user is required to preform 5 handseals, after which any sound the user wishes is spread out to the field. This can disperse and augment sound genjutsu, yet only those created with his own chakra and/or his summon's chakra. Apart from those, the user won't be able to defend other members unless they are connected with the user's and user's summon's chakra (directly by touch, or using a seal that releases chakra (if there is such a thing)).
*Can only be used 3 times per battle, lasts up to 2 turns*
~Pending~ I'm leaving those two for either Mugiwara or RokuNR.
~Declined~ You need sound release to do this jutsu
( Bushijutsu: Watarimono ) Samurai Arts: Wanderer
Rank: A
Range: Short-Mid
Chakra Cost: 20
Damage Points: 40
Description: The user charges chakra on his sword, and, with a whip like motion, will release a thin slice of chakra that will move flexible and chaotic towards it's target, differing from the normal crescent slice that goes straight forwards. Despite it's flexibility, it will move somewhat forward, even though it can curve and seemingly change directions, it will not be able to do a 360º turn.
~Declined~ First of all, restrictions? Secondly, the difference between your jutsu and the normal crescent shaped attack are almost nonexistent. Instead of being rigid it's flexible...ok and what does that change? You didn't elaborate on the only uniqueness of your technique. Also, how can it change direction? Can you control it. More details in the next submission.
Didn't noticed the change in rules. Disregard this technique if you check this post before November's 7th
( Bushijutsu: Semishigure ) Samurai Arts: Buzzing Cricket
Rank: A
Range: Short
Chakra Cost: 30
Damage Points: N/A
Description: The user charges chakra on the sword, making it vibrate. After the user grazes it on a second sword or piece of metal, it will release an wave all around the user, which will quickly dispel any sound based technique up to the rank of the technique. Iado users will be able to perfrom the technique at such speed that they will be able to emit the vibrations before they are actually affected by a sound technique, despite being after it reaches the user. Other users will need to have the sword and the second medium already unsheathed in order to achieve the same effects.
*Iado Masters will be able to dispel the technique it such ferocity that they will send the vibrations back to their user as a burst of sound, with half the damage, up to mid-range*

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Beginning today, Georgia will be preparing to take annual cuts to their federal budget ranging from $240 million a year to $20 million a month
The cuts will mainly affect federally funded programs for early childhood education, senior citizens and transportation maintenance and repairs.
"We'll feel everything a little bit, I don't know that we feel any one thing incredibly hard," State Rep. Terry England of Auburn told WSB Radio.
The cuts will have a major impact with the state's military installations and defense companies.
"If they're looking at a 20 percent cut in salary, they're going to slow down on a lot of their spending," Rep. England said. "They're going to delay buying a new car… they're not going to go to as many movies, they're not going to eat out as much."


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Matching funds needed for Water Street buyouts in Jamaica
JAMAICA -- The 75 percent of buyout money that the Community Development Block Grant Program has pledged to the four Water Street property owners cannot happen until the town finds non-federal funding to make up for the remaining 25 percent.
"The other 25 percent can come in a variety of ways," said Kevin Geiger, of Two Rivers Ottauquechee. "How you want to split it, I suppose, can come in a variety of different ways."
Geiger came to the Jamaica Selectboard meeting on March 25 to give the property owners and the board a CDBG Disaster Recovery subgrant agreement. He went through a few steps that the town and property owners should know before moving forward on potential buyouts.
The property owners being addressed had been denied by FEMA. Then their applications were deemed ineligible during a second attempt at seeing if their homes could be bought out using FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program through the use of a different analysis.
They were hopeful that FEMA would pay 75 percent of the buyout. The CDBG program had pledged the remaining 25 percent. When the FEMA buyouts fell through, the property owners did not know what would happen.
A few weeks ago, Gov. Peter Shumlin and the CDBG program announced that the state would still be helping these homeowners with 75 percent of the buyout. The Stratton Foundation announced that it would be contributing $80,000.
The CDBG program has $870,000 for buyouts to those whose homes were destroyed during Tropical Storm Irene. In order for the buyouts to move forward, the 25 percent match will need to be $220,000. With Stratton Foundation funding, another $80,000 could become available for the buyouts.
"So, obviously there's a hole," said Geiger. "In general, the way that would be met is kind of the way if there was no CDBG money and there was a Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. Homeowners will take part of their earning and (give it to the town). Windham Regional Commission and the town are welcome to look for non-federal sources. It's got to get filled to a certain extent."
Some property owners were concerned with how expenses after Irene may affect overall buyout funding. They will have to make duplications of benefits for funding already received from FEMA for assistance after the flood.
"Hopefully this program goes through," said David Kaneshiro, a Water Street property owner.
Selectboard Chairwoman Alexa Clark told Geiger the town attorney would look at the agreement before the board signs anything. She asked if a rough estimate could be figured out, which Geiger said Two Rivers Ottauquechee could send the Jamaica Selectboard.
"The Selectboard doesn't want a surprise after we sign all this," said Clark.
The estimated costs as of March 25 seemed pretty high, some Selectboard members and Geiger thought. Removing septic systems may be done cheaper and all the costs had been estimated separately by each property in case any property owner backs out of a buyout.
Selectboard member Paul Fraser, who worked intensively on HMGP applications with the property owners, thought the town could get better prices, which would decrease the overall cost of the buyouts. "Everyone knows we've paid several thousand on the HMGP," said Clark. "We can't do the same process and come up with nothing, then face the taxpayer and say we spent this money. I'm not worried about management costs as much as removing septics and other stuff."
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I can
Who are the actors...
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boring no tongue action who wants to lick my pink pussy
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disapointing - xpected more
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J'aimerai tellement y etre
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Trop bonne :D
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no me gusto
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May as well be the one to post it.
4yrs/42M. Pretty ballin' deal. Gallo could have played the money game, waited till FA, and pounced on free agency, amidst desperate teams like the Nets.
About half of Melo's annual salary, fwiw.
You have to wonder about what could have been:
Moz, Douglas, Shumpert, Novak off the bench. And a 2012 1st rounder.
I'll just say it. That is the best team in the NBA. And as "homegrown" and fun as even OKC.
4year (minimum) prime, of upper crust contention.
The stank of James Dolan lives on, as we still continue to navigate our franchise and roster to something resembling a complete NBA team.


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'Times' Sends McCain Rejection Letter, McCain Cries Like Little Girl
This is great. The McCain campaign is crying bias and went running to Drudge because the New York Times wouldn't print their stupid editorial. See, the Times printed an editoral by Barack Obama called "My Plan for Iraq." So McCain "wrote" an editorial about how Obama's plan for Iraq was to lose just like we lost Vietnam and John McCain's plan was to win the war. So the Times said, hey, why don't you try another draft of this where you articulate what "winning" means? The McCain campaign took this as a rejection and now they're all whining like the embittered nation of recession-imagining whiners they hate.
An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES — less than a week after the paper published an essay written by Obama, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
The paper's decision to refuse McCain's direct rebuttal to Obama's 'My Plan for Iraq' has ignited explosive charges of media bias in top Republican circles.
'It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece,' NYT Op-Ed editor David Shipley explained in an email late Friday to McCain's staff. 'I'm not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written.'
In McCain's submission to the TIMES, he writes of Obama: 'I am dismayed that he never talks about winning the war-only of ending it... if we don't win the war, our enemies will. A triumph for the terrorists would be a disaster for us. That is something I will not allow to happen as president.'
NYT's Shipley advised McCain to try again: 'I'd be pleased, though, to look at another draft.'
[Shipley served in the Clinton Administration from 1995 until 1997 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Presidential Speechwriter.]
A top McCain source claims the paper simply does not agree with the senator's Iraq policy, and wants him to change it, not "re-work the draft."
Of course there is bias at the New York Times Op-Ed section. It is the Opinion section! We call BIAS on the Wall Street Journal for not running our op-ed, "everyone who reads this section is a retard."


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Ackley won't blame bum ankle for down '12
Mariners second baseman aims to improve on offense this season
By Greg Johns / MLB.com
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Dustin Ackley didn't have the type of 2012 season he or the Mariners expected offensively, but the young second baseman said he's worked hard over the offseason to refine his swing and get healthy.
"It's a new season, a new spring," Ackley said Sunday. "I'm ready to go. I had a full year last year under my belt, so that's always a huge part of it. So we'll see where it takes me."
Ackley declines to blame a bum left ankle for his .226 batting average last year, but he underwent arthroscopic surgery to remove a bone spur the day after the season ended and some in the organization -- including trainer Rick Griffin -- believe the injury made it difficult for him to drive off his back foot at the plate.
Ackley said he's had soreness in the ankle since his college days at North Carolina, but he finally decided to have surgery after last season when it became apparent the problem was affecting his production.
"I never really thought it was an excuse because I could always play on it," said Ackley. "There are probably tons of guys out there with nagging things they probably never talk about it."
But Ackley admits the injury definitely impacted his ability to run, not to mention his preparation. So how much affect did it have on his hitting?
"It's hard to tell," he said. "When you're in the heat of the game and the adrenaline is going, you really don't feel anything. So it's hard to say if it affected it or not. When I was in there, I didn't think it affected me. Then again, it might have and I just didn't know it.
"But just the daily work and pregame and postgame workouts in the weight room, it would be hard to do things on my legs, especially my left leg," Ackley said. "My left calf was almost half the size of my right just because I couldn't really work that leg out, so that was the tough part."
But Ackley gutted out the season, admitting only now that he had a hard time loosening up for day games in particular, and played 153 games, two behind Kyle Seager's team-high for the year.
Now Ackley's working back from the bone-spur surgery and said all he's feeling now is some soreness from the adjustment to the early days of Spring Training.
"It's getting there," he said. "If I had to go out and play today, I think I could. I don't think they'd let me do that, but it's been feeling great."
Ackley kept most of his struggles to himself last year. He admits now it was by far the toughest season of his baseball career offensively, though he takes pride in improving his defensive play at second base to the point where he was a top-three finalist for an American League Gold Glove Award.
But the Mariners expect Ackley to hit. He's always been a hitter. He was the second overall pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft and there is pressure -- both from himself and others -- to produce at a higher level. So, yeah, even though he never showed it, the low-key North Carolinian was feeling it inside.
"There were a bunch of times when I wanted to boil over, but I don't think you really can," he said. "You have to stay within yourself and keep playing games, keep day to day with everything."
Manager Eric Wedge thinks the ankle was only a small part of Ackley's struggles at the plate, but said he does expect the left-handed hitter to be more of a factor on the bases after stealing 13 bags in 16 attempts last year.
Wedge likes Ackley in the leadoff role and feels there is a lot more there than people have seen.
"I think he's very capable of stealing bases," Wedge said. "He's quick. Even with the ankle, he gets down the line as good as anybody before it started to really flare up on him. And he had a little hamstring issues we kept quiet just for competitive reasons. I think he's a guy that's going to be able to steal some bases for us."
Wedge believs Ackley's struggles should motivate the quiet competitor.
"I think after awhile as a player, you get tired of hearing about it," Wedge said. "Which is a good thing. You should get tired of hearing about it after awhile. The only way you can quiet the critics, so to speak, is to go out there and perform."
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Cartoons and Power Outages
During today's afternoon baseball game the Rays had one of their annual Park and Recreation days. If you are unaware of this special day for Rays fans, it is the time of the year where 5,000 plus youngster from all over the Rays viewing area get to come out to the ballpark for an afternoon contest and get the best gift ever from the Rays………. Rays Thunderstix! Now if you are one of those people who complain about the cowbells and their constant clanging, you would have a field day during the Thunderstix days.
I mean as you leave the game the carnage you see all over the stadium floor of damaged and forgotten Thunderstix can be kind of overwhelming to someone who values collectibles. But to most of these kids they are just props to keep them occupied and happy for at least half the game before they get their hot dogs, cracker jacks and soda. I actually love these days more for the facts it is the one time during the entire year you can sit behind 10 rows of kids and even if they all stand up, you can still see the field. It is not like when adults, who tend to be above 5 feet tall occupy those same seats and become instant black-out elements at any time during the game.
But things did get a bit testy for a few moments when a few of the Trop's banks of lights flickered and the umpires decided that we needed to wait for 20 minutes until the light came back full force again. You could see up in the Raysvision booth that they were scrambling to find some suitable entertainment for the young crowd and actually brought out a Bugs Bunny classic "Baseball Bugs", where the frisky rabbit takes on the Gas-House Gorillas in a game of baseball.
But for some reason the Rays forgot they had the best cartoons in the business, and it featured players and people that the kids have seen over and over on television and on the Trop's big screen. The Rays came up with a cartoon based on the "Defenders of the Game" which featured Carl Crawford, B J Upton, Scott Kazmir, James Shields and Carlos Pena. They even had special places for Rays Manager Joe Maddon and Rays Senior Advisor Don Zimmer. What a special cartoon moment that would have been as even the players were sitting on the dugout steps and near the bullpen grass checking out the action on the screen above rightfield.
Raysvision and the Rays had a captive audience that they could have used to parlay their "Defenders of the Game" scenarios for a long time, but instead went with a old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Now do not get me wrong, I love Bugs, and the cartoon they did show is a sure baseball classic, but at least they did not show that Rockey the Mudhen "Infield Fly Rule" buzz kill video that sometimes pops up late in the games on Sundays. Kudos to the boys in the booth for not subjecting us to that baseball definition video one more time.
And even during his post-game interview Maddon spoke about the Bugs Bunny cartoon about how the guys were enjoying it and that it seemed to go over well with the mostly kid crowd. Maddon did ask via the assembled media in the clubhouse if they can maybe get some Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote videos for the next rain delay/power outage. Because we do not have rain delays, but power outages in Tampa Bay, and we do not have to wait for a tarp or a grounds crew to signal the go ahead to resume play.
So with that recommendation by Maddon I decided to try and find some alternative cartoon if the Raysvision crew could not find a baseball-related Warner Brothers cartoon. I decided to dig into the dusty cartoon vault really deep and into the dark recesses of the bowl to see if they did have any cartoon with the road runner and the coyote that might have a baseball background. I could not come up with a single episode, but I did come up with a few where the coyote had decided that a baseball bat would be a good weapon of choice against that pesky sprinting bird.
The "Defender of the Game" cartoons can be found on Youtube right now from the first episode , to the final one after their second season. They are classic cartoon where the Defenders tackle the evil Umpreror, and then Doctor Stats. They are pretty tongue-in-cheek cartoons, but are fun to watch during a power outage/rain delay. But there are other variation out there like a classic Woody Woodpecker cartoon called, The Screwball" where he tries to get into an outdoor baseball field. Then you have the old 1948 classic cartoon "Baseball Brawl" which featured woodland animals as players in the baseball game.
But the end result is that during the outage, the cartoon did bring about some sense of order to the stands and kept the kids occupied with harmless fun for everyone. And that is the special problem that can surface on a day like today with a crowded house of pre-teens all coming out to watch a baseball game.
But in the end, everyone left with a smile both in regards to a Rays victory, and from the classic baseball cartoon they will be telling their parents about tonight. And who knows, that might transfer into a Family Fun Day this Sunday where the family of four can come to the ballpark with FREE parking and discounted food and tickets. I guess the cartoon could be called a community ticket experience now.
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What fun it was at the game! And the cartoon? AWESOME!!!! Great job sweeping the Jays. And sorry that 'Los was not voted into the ASG.
I actually had a feeling after the 2 pm MLB Final Vote update that the race was over.
But I still plugged away hoping something might happen.
I love the old Bugs Bunny cartoon, but once you have seen it 50 times, it is time for another one.
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Great job Rays, I am happy that the Rays were able to sweep the JAYS (hey that rhymes.) I voted Los but was sad to see him not be on the all star team! Inge??!! What? Fans are horrible voters.
I actually think that Brandon Inge was going to be the Tiger's lone rep before Edwin Jackson got picked as a pitcher.
He is hitting more for power than Miguel Cabera, but is not hitting over .300 like Cabrera.
Cabrera might have gotten the edge in the player's voting, so he made the squad over him.
If Carlos did not get in, I wanted Inge there.
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I have taken kids to the Parks and Recreation day every summer for the last 3 years (not this year).
The kids love it.
I can remember them giving away Aki Thundersticks one year. I think my eardrums are STILL recovering!
I have a great time hanging with the kids at the ballpark. That's what it is all about and I am glad to say our hometown team puts it on every year.
Love the Rays cartoon. That was fun to watch before games last year. Cool stuff.
My two daughter do not like baseball becuase it is so slow, but thye love hockey and hockey players lol.
Most Season Ticket people try and give up the tickets for these games because the kids drive them nuts, but that is part of the fun too.
There were 2 seasons of the Rays " Defenders of the Game" series, and I believe thye put them all up on Youtube for the kids to enjoy at home too.
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I remember they gave away action figures of Carl Crawford too.
Alas, I was too old to get one of those. And too moral to steal one from a kid. ;)
Thanks for bringing up the memories…
Heck I still have my seat cushion from the first game in 1998.
The best giveaway I ever got was one time in Cleveland when they gave out Drew Carey bobbleheads.
Now that was a fun giveaway during a Rays road trip.
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What a great way to bring kids into the game and make them fans forever. Very smart marketing by the Rays. As we all know, once a fan of a team….always a fan of the team.
I agree with that so much it is silly.
But for some reason here in Tampa Bay the kids have to fight the parents loyalty challenge most nights.
You know, the parent is a fan of some team up north because their father or mother came from that region, and they have to support that team even if they now live in the sunshine and no where near the North Church or the harbor.
But kids can be bold and also relentless at asking for things, so that might be a plus for future Rays attendance.
All I know is the Park and Rec days can be murder if you are hungry or need to use the bathroom, but after that as long as a players doesn't come over and talk to you, you can be at peace most of the night.
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I like those cartoons, renegade! And sorry about Pena not going to the ASG, I still think he deserved it as much as Inge.
Thanks 3R's,
Yeah, Pena getting tossed by the wayside at about 2 pm yesterday was a bit of a let down, but he is still focused and ready to do whatever he can.
But people forget he was tossed around by some great ballclubs that did not need him before he found a home in Tampa Bay.
You hate to say "maybe next year", but we learned some valuable lessons this season.
If he gets a shot again, or any Rays player, we will try and get an NL team and stack vote the way they did in Detroit and Philly.
That proves that stacked/combination voting forces can make a huge difference in the outcome.
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Of all of this year's movies in which a lone hero is tasked with saving the president when a violent paramilitary group seizes the White House, "Olympus Has Fallen" is certainly one of them.
Getting out in front of the very similar "White House Down," the Channing Tatum-Jamie Foxx actioner set to hit theaters June 28, is the best thing that could have happened to this exercise in excess. (Unofficial motto: Why kill someone with two or three bullets when you can kill them with a dozen?)
Because once you get past the novelty of seeing guerrilla warfare erupt on the White House lawn, "Olympus" rings nearly as hollow as most everything else that comes out of Washington.
As the head of President Benjamin Asher's (Aaron Eckhart) Secret Service detail, Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is practically an honorary member of the first family. When he isn't boxing with the prez at Camp David, he's quizzing Asher's young son (Finley Jacobsen) on emergency protocols.
Then Banning is unfairly blamed for a terrible accident and spends the next 18 months riding a desk at the Treasury Department, longing for a way back in.
His chance finally comes when North Korean terrorists launch an absurdly ambitious, multipronged attack involving suicide bombers, heavy artillery, precision commandos and a stolen Air Force plane that strafes the sidewalks and decimates the White House's tactical teams. The whole thing is over — with the bad guys zip-tying the president, the veep and his top advisers in an impenetrable bunker 120 feet below ground — in 13 minutes.
As outlandish as all that may sound, it's still more plausible than anything the North Koreans pulled off in last year's "Red Dawn" remake.
And just think how much more work Dennis Rodman will have to put in once his pal Kim Jong Un gets wind of this.
Banning sees the carnage unfold from his desk, with its million-dollar view of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and rushes into harm's way. Somehow, while the entirety of the White House security forces is being Swiss-cheesed, he's able to make it inside the building, unscathed, before the bad guys seal it off. From there, Banning has to find a way to John McClane his way out.
The problem is, while McClane was clearly out of his depth and on unfamiliar ground in Nakatomi Plaza, Banning has better training and an intimate knowledge of the building's secrets. If you're going to make " 'Die Hard' in the White House," you need a hero with at least a few vulnerabilities. And some better one-liners. Banning's best — "Why don't you and I play a game of (expletive) off? You go first." — is serviceable. But he certainly deserves better than "I'm gonna stick my knife through your brain."
Speaking of brains, director Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day") and first-time writers Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt seem more interested in splattering them all over the White House walls, Jackson Pollock-style, than in putting them to work behind the scenes.
"Olympus" is the kind of movie where, once the villain's (Rick Yune) ultimate plan is revealed, an instantaneous, real-time graphic simulates the devastation, even though the nation's top military minds apparently never considered such an event a possibility. That's just sloppy. (So is a typo I swear I saw in one of the onscreen headlines.)
And after taking time to establish President Asher's boxing skills, not to mention his seething, upper-crust machismo, "Olympus" denies the formidable Eckhart his chance to go all "Air Force One."
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The former couple's spat began before they had even ordered their food at L.A. eatery Yamato Friday night. After about ten minutes of arguing, an infuriated Gomez stormed out of the restaurant and drove away; Bieber followed her home, and begged her to allow him inside, a witness says. (To no avail, unfortunately. The "Boyfriend" crooner -- who was "swearing and yelling" -- was refused entry once Gomez came outside and realized he was the one causing the ruckus outside her home.)
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it's the same shit, different title
Really? I thought PBP was different. I think Pro Perl Parsing/Debugging was different. The O'Reilly books are updates in a lot of ways that I would't agree with your statement on.
But what is beyond forgiveable is that Perl 6 has made the market of new Perl books nonexistent.
But in context he is wrong. Whether it is the "same old same old" or "new"; people are buying those books. The market is obviously still there.


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Minnesota could become the next hub for brain research and treatments.
Brain researchers are reaching out to one another in an effort to move their field forward at the "Brain Science: The Next Frontier" conference, hosted at the University of Minnesota this week. Conference organizers have proposed creating a new International Center of Excellence in Brain Research. It would be a joint research and collaboration between Minnesota and Norway. A group of scientists, investors and policymakers are drumming up support for the idea.
In the proposed research partnership, Norwegian researchers would get access to state-of-the-art technology that they currently don't have.
Minnesota is well-known for its collection of powerful magnets used in medical imaging, its vibrant medical device industry and its commitment to medical research, said Stein Lorentzen-Lund, CEO of the Nansen Neuroscience.
"It has a great university. It has a lot of capabilities and capacities that we don't have. So, we're a small country, but then we can work with these large groups with specialists," he said.
In return, Minnesota researchers could tap into Norway's biobanks — an extensive collection of blood, urine and tissue samples that can help scientists better understand diseases and possible treatments.
Biobanks were created to enhance Norway's public health care system. Lorentzen-Lund said most of his countrymen are proud of their biobanks and believe they are contributing to the greater good by voluntarily submitting biological samples.
"In Norway in certain areas, large areas, you have 60 to 90 percent of the population have participated in these databases, these biobanks," Lorentzen-Lund said. "And in certain areas, you now have data back to 15, 20 and 30 years where you can follow people."
Access to this type of information would be particularly helpful to Aviva Abosch, a neurosurgeon at the University of Minnesota who recently launched a deep-brain stimulation project to treat patients with depression.
Medications don't always work for many depressed people, Abosch said. As her project progresses, she will be able to compare her results against other patients in her clinic. Abosch said it would be much more useful to examine long-term data from a biobank that may contain robust data about entire families with depression.
"Being able to ask questions about a whole cohort of people who have a particular disease is a very useful way of investigating a particular illness."
Biobanks can also be used to track differences between entire populations of people.
A biobank could reveal some striking differences between the incidence of brain diseases in the U.S. and Norway, said Dr. Husseini Manji, head of all neuroscience research at Johnson and Johnson in New Jersey.
"Can we by studying different populations even get insights as to okay why is it? Is it a genetic difference? Is it an environmental difference? Is it a lifestyle difference?" Manji said. "So it's an invaluable resource."
Efforts to build more collaboration among researchers are not new. But advances in the brain sciences have lagged many other areas of medical research, in part because of the complexity of studying and treating conditions of the brain.
Conference organizer Ellen Ewald said recent advances in medical imagining have revolutionized neuroscience. She hopes that new opportunities for collaborations with Norway will do the same.
"There's been too much silo research going on, where research groups kind of hold on to their data, don't share with other research groups that are studying other diseases and some of these diseases are on the same continuum. And we need to really open up and have scientists talk to each other," Ewald said.
Minnesota wouldn't be the only hub for brain research in the U.S. Collaborations are already underway at in Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C.


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LAKE ALMANOR -- Alone, seemingly dazed and with second-degree burns on her paws, a baby bobcat nuzzled against a hand crew supervisor's boots at the north end of the Chips Fire.
The hand crew came across her Saturday, checked her for injuries and decided to leave her as she was wandering by herself alongside a back road.
But she kept following them.
Every time they stopped, she would curl up on Mad River hand crew supervisor Tad Hair's boots and snuggle into his chaps, said Brad Pitassi, fire information officer.
"Your heart kind of breaks for it," he said. "It melts."
The crew couldn't find her mother or tracks, so Hair contacted supervisors and brought the cat to the incident command post, Pitassi said.
"Firefighters showed their soft side and brought her in," he said.
Hair named her Chips.
Along with the good news Tuesday that the baby bobcat was eating and doing well at a wildlife care center, fire crews continued to increase containment of the Chips Fire, Pitassi said.
The fire that started July 29 near Belden has burned 73,193 acres of Plumas and Lassen National Forest and stands at 71 percent containment. More than 1,500 personnel are working to control the blaze. No structures have burned.
On Tuesday, "islands" of unburned forest ignited inside the containment lines, causing smoke that worried some residents in surrounding communities, Pitassi said.
Pitassi expects that crews will continue working against the wind this week, mopping up and conducting burnout operations, to "beef up" containment lines, he said.
"Our main objective right now is to hold the lines where they are," he said.
The Plumas County Sheriff's Office's mandatory evacuation remains in effect for Canyon Dam and Big Meadows, as well as a voluntary evacuation for Rush Creek and an advisory for Prattville residents.
Though wildlife does a good job of getting away from fires, Pitassi said, "It's not the typical Bambi scene with all of them running out of the forest."
Fire crews normally leave animals to take care of themselves, he said. But Hair wanted to do the right thing for the cat that appeared to have difficulty seeing.
A Feather River College biology professor and volunteer for Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care arrived at the command post soon after the crew found the bobcat, Pitassi said. The cat was taken to the center for care.
The nonprofit raises, rehabilitates and releases orphaned and injured wild birds and animals.
Pitassi said fire crews are happy she is doing well.
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"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt."
"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion."
"Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?"
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
"The most striking aspect of the data this year was the intensity or volume of the decreases. This is the largest single-year decrease in the raw numbers of deaths that we've seen since the 1940s."
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Paly team headed to National Science Bowl
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a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Feb 5, 2013 at 10:16 am
Congratulations students and Paly! Well done.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 5, 2013 at 10:19 am
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Feb 5, 2013 at 10:50 am
Can anyone lead a club for middle-school-level competition of this kind at JLS? I heard that Mission San Jose elementary school had one for elementary version already.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Feb 5, 2013 at 11:21 am
Congrats, you guys!
I hope you enjoy your trip back East!
I am especially pleased this is a team effort - this is especially the type of activity that I favor, as opposed to secretive, individual competitive competitors that are so typical of our local high school students.
Let us know on this forum if you will hold a fundraising event - I think your community will/should support you.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Feb 5, 2013 at 11:37 am
Congratulations to all the members of the team - all the students and their coach/teacher! Great to see continued success from Paly.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Feb 5, 2013 at 11:44 am
Nice job, nerds! (Trust me, they are proud to be nerds). You've made us proud! Good luck at the Nationals!
a resident of Gunn High School
on Feb 5, 2013 at 1:45 pm
I just love this nerdy town! My geek son and daughter are just having a blast in and outside of school and having these things celebrated publicly is so affirming for them.
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 5, 2013 at 2:39 pm
Way to go!
Are any of these types of "bowls" open to the general public for viewing? It would be truly inspiring for my elementary-aged daughter, who loves all things science, to see these fine young folks competing.
We Palo Altans should be very thankful that we have so many resources, excellent teachers, and a supportive community.
Good luck at the National Science Bowl!
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 5, 2013 at 4:38 pm
To the mother of the elementary-aged science lover...
Some are open and some are not. Check out this link. There is a local one this weekend!
Web Link
There is a number to call with questions.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Feb 6, 2013 at 2:07 pm
Thank you Palo Alto Weekly for writing a story about the student scholars in our schools.We often hear or read about the triumphs of our student athletes, indeed you select student athletes weekly. There are plenty of other kids to write about who are doing interesting things in the arts, with math and in the sciences. Why not have a student of the week in the Weekly?
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There's a guy on the corner with a clear, plastic bag full of aluminum cans, maybe $2 worth.
There's a woman across the street pushing a bright blue baby stroller.
It's 1:30 p.m. on Rodman Street, on a Wednesday.
There's a guy on the corner with a clear, plastic bag full of aluminum cans, maybe $2 worth.
There's a woman across the street pushing a bright blue baby stroller.
It's 1:30 p.m. on Rodman Street, on a Wednesday.
At 168 Rodman, Community Consignment is open. The store's windows are soaped with a list of services and goods offered.
"Toys." "Books."
Inside, the store is crowded with consigned goods. Clothes. Purses. Small figurines of Santa Claus.
Surrounded by used clothing, store owner Renee indicates where she was hit when the store was robbed last month. Renee used her first name only for the interview because her family has children in the local schools. She believes her trouble should not be their trouble.
"Here," she says, touching her side. "Three broken ribs."
Renee's been in business for eight months, selling used clothing in a neighborhood where everything is used. Even the gray tenement houses have been recycled through thousands of families.
"This is a low-income neighborhood," she says, explaining why she does business here. "We want to help out."
"We eat, we pay the rent," husband Arthur says from behind the register. "We're not getting rich here."
"Prices keep getting higher and higher," Renee says of retail in general and used goods in particular.
She's a thin woman, hair pulled back into a tight ponytail and she offers me a chair and I sit in it, back to the store windows, hot sunlight streaming over my shoulders.
Renee and her husband figure they can make a living with low prices in a small space, in a neighborhood with a limited number of shopping choices.
But wanting to help is not the same as not knowing where you are.
"We don't buy anything outright," she says. "The neighborhood we're in, we're afraid it might be stolen."
The trick to living in a city neighborhood is knowing who's dangerous and who just dresses like he's dangerous, expecting cruelty but expecting kindness, sometimes from the same person. In the rolling hills of suburbia, the truth can hide. On a hammered-flat concrete sidewalk, the truth is as one-dimensional as a chalk outline.
Renee talks about the day a customer broke her ribs.
Renee says the woman brought in a stroller, some children's shoes and clothing.
"She wanted $20," Renee said. "I gave her $5 up front.
"We sold the stroller," Renee said. "I gave her $20."
The argument began, the woman saying she wanted more money, Renee trying to return the rest of the woman's consigned items.
"She got irate and was going to break everything in the store," Renee said.
The store is quiet. The walls are white. The floors are light tan wood.
It wasn't quiet that day, the day Renee took a couple shots to the ribs.
"People love us," Renee says. "I've met so many wonderful neighbors."
And that's what you have to do in the less gentle parts of the city, separate the bad from the good, real fast.
"I think she's in a desperate time in her life," Renee said of her assailant.
An arrest was made. Renee said neighborhood people, feeling bad about what happened, told police where the suspect had been seen.
"The police were wonderful," Renee says.
She's staying.
Marc Munroe Dion's "Side Streets" column draws on his knowledge of the area and his affection for the city where he was born. It's about people and places and history and the voice that comes only from one corner of southeastern Massachusetts.


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The Fire head back home Sunday afternoon after picking up a hard fought point in Kansas last weekend. Though the team didn't score for the third game in a row, the solid performance despite missing key players was encouraging. Sunday's opposition Chivas USA come to Bridgeview full of confidence after picking up four points in their last two games. Here are some things to look out for from a tactical perspective on Sunday (Coverage at 3:30pm CT on My50)
High pressure - Chivas players will not stop running
El Chelís, the new Chivas coach, has his team playing a 3-4-3 system with an emphasis on pressuring the opposing team very high up the field. Anyone who has watched Barcelona under Pep Guardiola/Tito Vilanova or Athletic Club under Marcelo Bielsa knows that the high pressure tactic can be very effective, especially against an opponent who is not prepared for it.
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Chivas' three attacking players hound their opponents' defense and try to not allow them to play out of the back. This tactic will put a lot of pressure on suspected midfield starters Daniel Paladini and Jeff Larentowicz to drop deep and collect the ball from the defenders. The goal of the 3-4-3 with the high pressure is to try and win the ball back from your opponent as high up the pitch as possible.
A recent example of this tactic working to perfection was in Chivas' only win to date in week two against FC Dallas. The winning goal came from forcing the Dallas defensive midfielder into playing a suicide ball back to center back George John whose lax first touch allowed Oswaldo Minda to waltz in and score. With this tactic in mind, concentration and communication between the defense and the central midfielders will be very important Sunday.
Balls over the top/in behind - how to beat the 3-4-3
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The downside of Chivas 3-4-3 tactic is that it leaves a lot of space on the outside for the Fire to exploit. In Chivas' last two games against LA and Dallas, the wingers got caught too far up the field on multiple occasions, especially when the opposition was able to force a turnover and transition quickly into attack.
In recent games for the Fire, wingers Dilly Duka and Patrick Nyarko have been required to help out the defense but against Chivas they will find that space will be a lot easier to come by and should be looking to make forward runs into space whenever possible. The Fire must look for the long ball into space constantly because getting a ball in behind can really open Chivas up.
UPDATE: Duka listed as 'Questionable' for Sunday
When the Fire inevitably get a ball in behind, they must get more players into the box, especially against a three man back line. In Chivas' opening games, often times it was a defender who had to drift wide to pick up the runner, leaving less numbers and more space in the middle for the opposing team to exploit.
Fouls fouls and more fouls - Fire must stay calm and focused
In Chivas' last two games, they have committed a whopping 40 fouls, something that clearly frustrated their opponents. Part of the reason for that many fouls is the high pressure tactic, trying so frantically to win the ball back, leading oftentimes to a foul.
That being said, another key aspect of Chelís' tactics is to try and stop the other team from getting in any sort of rhythm. How do you do that? By fouling your opponent and slowing the game down, of course.
READ: Can Pause go at right back Sunday?
When a Chivas player is beaten by his man, the natural response is to foul the player. The LA/Dallas players and coaching staff were constantly yelling at the officials for the amount of fouls Chivas committed, but this frustration played right into Chivas' hands.
On the other side of the ball, when Chivas attack, they often look to pick up set pieces in their opponents half. Their players hit the deck when they feel the slightest bit of contact, another aspect of their game plan that can really get under the skin of the opponent. The Fire players and coaching staff must keep their cool, especially if the score line isn't to their liking, because despite their coaches claims to the contrary, Chivas would gladly leave Bridgeview with a point.
Prediction: 2-0 Fire with goals from Chris Rolfe and Dilly Duka.
Stephen Piggott is a contributor to Chicago-Fire.com. Follow him on Twitter @irish_steve


text: I'm able to organize a group buy for Elka Shocks. I get "special pricing" right now so if anyone wants to order the pricing is pretty good. For the F800GS This would be the Elka the Stage 4 (w/ preload, high & low-speed compression, rebound) + Remote Hydraulic Preload Adjuster. Retail is $1,245 (On the Elka website they have them on a spring sale price for $995") Group Buy price is better than the special right now! The "Stage 4" shock w/ 3-way adj. w/ remote preload adjuster is $850 + $30 shipping ground + paypal fees (3% I believe). Obviously if you have special shipping needs it may be more. The Stage 4 shock w/out the preload [PM for price] US shipping addresses only though. Delivery is est. at 2-4 weeks + shipping time from the date of order. All orders will get an order conf. # and and tracking number for your order. Again, this is special "private group buy" pricing. Can be for any shock they sell as long as they make it for the model bike. Price applies to group buy. No guarantees how long they are on sale or when pricing will change. Link to what they have for different bikes. It lists which bikes have the remote preload adjuster and which are avail. w/out it. There are some bikes not listed. Ask and I will check. http://www.elkasuspension.com/download/applications/ELKA-APP-Motorcycle.pdf F650GS Dakar is part ELKA-40006 (only avail w/ remote preload adjuster) F800GS is part ELKA-40010 (only avail w/ remote preload adjuster) Other bikes like R1150GS/GS Adv., R1200GS/GS Adv, and many other makes and models are available. Both include: RDH - ride height adjsutment PRE - threaded preload adjusetment ring REB - rebound dampening HSC - High-Speed compression LSC - Low-Speed compression HYD - Remote preload adjuster (note: w/out is less but not much less so just get it) So... who's interested? :-D


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Earlier today I was cleaning the area around where I keep the battery maintainer.
It is kept on a counter top about three feet from the bike, always plugged in except
for riding.
I noticed a couple of ants on it and watched as a good number of them were going in
and out. I picked up the maintaner and there were hundreds of them under it.
Between the ant spray and the compressor, I think I got most of them out, I also painted a coating of vaseline around the perimeter of the maintainer so they won't be able to get to it again.
I don't know if it's the hum, or the heat, but it's something to keep an eye on.


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But in this story, the husband-to-be is already dead.
Set in 1893 Malaya (modern-day Malaysia), "The Ghost Bride" by Yangsze Choo is a novel straddling genres, cultures and life and death. Essentially, this coming-of-age tale is a ghost story. It is a saga where the past and the present intersect, where the old comes into conflict with the new, and where protagonist Li Lan, the educated daughter who resists the day's social mores, must come to terms with her role in a world where she, as a woman of Chinese heritage in a British colony, has little control over her romantic prospects and ultimate fate.
As the only daughter of a once-great merchant family brought to ruin through disease and other misfortune, 18-year-old Li Lan is privy to the pressures of maintaining an appearance of wealth while also understanding dearth. Her widower father, who barely functions under a constant haze of opium, is worried for his daughter's future because Li Lan is not yet married. However, when he proposes that Li Lan marry into the rich Lim family, it is an unconventional marriage that matches the breadth of this unconventional novel, and this is where the guise of what could be considered historical fiction bleeds to horror.
The Lims want Li Lan to become the "ghost bride" of their recently deceased son, Lim Tian Ching. According to the author's notes at the novel's end, in Chinese culture ghost marriages originated from "ancestor worship" in which "matches were sometimes made between two deceased persons, with the families on both sides recognizing the marriage as a tie between them."
In a culture where devotion to family, honor and legacy is extremely important, Li Lan's experience is rare, but was not unheard of. According to Choo, "Sometimes an impoverished girl was taken into a household as a widow to perform the ancestral rites for a man who died without a wife or descendants, which was Li Lan's situation." Li Lan would live in the Lim household as a widow, where she would be expected to mourn the husband she never had but would be taken care of through old age.
Beside herself with worry, Li Lan says: "I had few marriage prospects, and would be doomed to the half-life of spinsterhood. Without a husband, I would sink further into genteel poverty, bereft of even the comfort and respect of being a mother."
Here, Li Lan's struggles come to a head. Is she to perform her due filial respect and anchor her foundering family to a rich one? Can she find a way to escape the pressures to marry a dead man without facing the inherent consequences?
Li Lan's world becomes darker when her ghostly fiance begins haunting her dreams, and the nightmares permeate her waking world. As reality becomes fantasy, Choo maintains tight control of Li Lan's internal development even though she abruptly thrusts her main character and her readers into a detailed, sometimes beautiful, sometimes grotesque (and sometimes steamy) romantic spiritual existence drawn from the tenets of Buddhist views on the afterlife.
Choo's intricate ghost world — of her own invention — is not immune to the bureaucracy, social restrictions and corruption of the living, which speaks to her own propensity for creative pragmatism. Li Lan, who takes in this strange realm with a surprised, yet keen consciousness, finds herself "wondering again at this ghost world, which seemed to have so many of the vices and failings of life."
However, plenty of this story is spun from real life. Readers interested in learning more about British Malaya and the social, cultural and gender dynamics of the time are in luck; Choo assumes the reader has little to no knowledge of this history, yet has her protagonist and narrator explicate delicately. For example, the action of a mahjong game is seamlessly peppered with information about traditional dress, foods and marriage practices.
Malaya, having been colonized by the British in the late 18th century, is home to peoples from sundry cultures and religious backgrounds. Choo's depiction of the lives of Chinese descendants (and others) living in a British colony is adeptly done as she takes a territory with people living under the tensions of East and West and translates the difficulty of the experience through the considerations of Li Lan, who somberly notes that "in this confluence of cultures, we had acquired one another's superstitions without necessarily any of their comforts."
Throughout the book, Li Lan's observations highlight a hierarchy formed through wealth, nationality and race; at one point, Li Lan eludes to a nefarious, yet ingrained system of oppression, as she notes matter-of-factly that the British could "make an example" of an aberrant Chinese family.
However, Choo's messages are not heavy-handed. She deals with the struggles inherent in living in a colonized, fractured society with nuance by utilizing a character whose initial one-dimensionality is, upon closer examination, overflowing with complexity. Li Lan is caught in a multi-faceted identity crisis as she is a product of a society in which cultures coexist and overlap with much difficulty. Li Lan's primary caretaker's spirituality and superstition is tempered by her father's atheistic pragmatism; she is expected to embody the feminine and aspire to be a wife, while at the same time, her father teaches her to read and neglects to plan for her matrimony adequately. She is of Chinese descent but lives in a place where the British maintain control and many of those around her adopt the styles and habits of Western culture.
As Choo's book has come to be in the Bay Area, which is known in part for its cultural and technological mutability, it is only fitting that Palo Altan Choo, a self-described fourth-generation Malaysian of Chinese descent, represents the ideas of being tied to more than one world at once. Because Li Lan does not have her foot firmly in one world or another, she exists in a limbo that is likely familiar to many modern-day readers.
With this area an amalgam of cultures, it's easy to imagine that many people who have come here internationally or even domestically find themselves in the midst of a great cultural and technological divide, the "melting pot" being one of the greatest fictions of all.
And, like Li Lan, local readers may understand the poignancy of inhabiting a sometimes uncomfortable space in which parts of themselves exist in different domains at the same time. For many, Li Lan's ghost world may be more reality than fantasy.
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Quality of Canadian Life: Social Change in Canada, 1977 (ICPSR 7879)
Principal Investigator(s): Atkinson, Tom, York University (Canada). Institute for Behavioral Research; Blishen, Bernard R., York University (Canada). Institute for Behavioral Research; Ornstein, Michael D., York University (Canada). Institute for Behavioral Research; Stevenson, H. Michael, York University (Canada). Institute for Behavioral Research
The Quality of Life Project was a five-year research program that began in 1976 and was officially titled "Social Change in Canada: Trends in Attitudes, Values, and Perceptions." The survey data for the project were collected through the Survey Research Centre at the Institute for Behavioural Research, York University, Ontario. The project's overall purpose was to develop time series measures of the perceived quality of life and of other subjective social indicators for Canada and its major regions. Three national surveys took place in the years 1977, 1979, and 1981, each including more than 3,000 respondents. A panel of about 2,000 respondents was followed through the three sets of interviews. In 1977 and 1981, the data were gathered in sample surveys of not only the general public of Canada but also selected Canadian decision-makers (top business executives, politicians, civil servants, and trade union leaders) to provide for comparisons between the two groups. This data collection contains the 1977 data, designed to measure each respondent's descriptions of, attitudes about, and satisfaction with a variety of domains of everyday life. They include: neighborhood/city/town/county of residence, life as a whole, Canadian and provincial governments, work and housework, personal finances, housing, life goals and values, personal alienation and efficacy, leisure activities and spare time, education, health and physical condition, friendships, marriage and romantic relationships, children, current Canadian political and social issues, and the news media. Background information and interviewer's observational data are also included.
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Atkinson, Tom, Bernard R. Blishen, Michael D. Ornstein, and H. Michael Stevenson. Quality of Canadian Life: Social Change in Canada, 1977. ICPSR07879-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07879.v1
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The San Jose Earthquakes' quest for the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup continues its tour of the Bay Area with a stop at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. Little might you know, the Golden Gate Park facility boasts a strong soccer heritage.
Kezar Stadium is probably best known for being the home of the San Francisco 49ers from the team's inception in 1946 to their move to Candlestick Park in 1971. In the years after the 49ers left the neighborhood stadium, Kezar more frequently played host to endless flocks of seagulls than to banks of rabid sports fans. However, the facility did occasionally open its doors for the beautiful game.
Soon after the departure of its football tenet, Kezar Stadium welcomed the U.S. Men's National Team. In early 1973, the Nats made their Bay Area debut when they played a friendly against Poland, but the facility didn't prove hospitable as they suffered a disappointing 4-0 loss. The U.S. Olympic squad also played at Kezar around that time when hosting qualifying matches against Mexico in 1972 and Bermuda in 1975. As the decade came to a close in 1979, the national team again made an appearance at the stadium, but they could not overcome a seasoned Soviet Union team in a 4-1 loss.
The stadium was underutilized throughout the '80s, and was finally demolished in 1989 before being reconfigured to its present day state. Kezar Stadium now boasts a capacity of 10,000, and has continued to be a destination for soccer. Following the move of the original San Jose Earthquakes to Houston in 2006, professional soccer stayed in the Bay Area with the formation of the California Victory. The USL first division Victory played their inaugural season of 2007 in Kezar Stadium, but were disbanded later that year. Currently, the San Francisco Stompers of the National Premier Soccer League call Kezar home.
When the Earthquakes returned to MLS in 2008, they treated San Francisco soccer fans to a preseason match at Kezar Stadium against the two-time defending MLS Cup champion Houston Dynamo that ended in a scoreless draw. The two sides would again meet at Kezar in the 2010 preseason, with another draw the result. In 2009, famed La Liga side and European champions FC Barcelona graced the pitch at Kezar much to the delight of local soccer supporters, even though it was only for one afternoon of training ahead of a friendly at Candlestick the next day.
Tuesday night will mark the first U.S. Open Cup match ever to be played at Kezar Stadium, and the Earthquakes are hoping to make it a memorable evening. Undefeated in their San Francisco home away from home, San Jose will want to add to the soccer lore of the old stadium, and perhaps make a little Open Cup history of their own.
Robert Jonas is a writer for CenterLineSoccer.com and SJEarthquakes.com. Send him feedback on Twitter: @RobertJonas


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A teenager whose battle with a rare genetic condition that accelerates the aging process inspired professional athletes and spurred medical research was honored at his funeral on Tuesday.
Hundreds of 17-year-old Sam Berns' classmates turned out for the ceremony at Temple Israel in Sharon, Mass., New England Cable News reported. Patriots owner Robert Kraft was among the mourners. Berns died Friday of complications from Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, commonly known as progeria.
Berns was diagnosed with progeria when he was 22 months old. His parents Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns, who are doctors, founded the The Progeria Research Foundation after encountering a lack of information and research on the condition, which currently affects about 350 kids.
Their work is featured in the documentary "Life According to Sam." The exposure has brought greater recognition to the condition, which causes musculoskeletal degeneration, cardiovascular problems and other symptoms associated with aging.
Berns gave a TEDx speech in Washington D.C. about three months before his death explaining how he overcomes obstacles and laid out tips for leading a happy life.
"Even though there are many obstacles in my life, with a lot of them created by progeria, I don't want people to feel bad for me," Bern said in his TEDx speech. "I don't think about these obstacles all the time and I'm able to overcome most of them anyways."
He told the crowd that when his low weight prevented him from carrying a 40 pound snare drum for his high school marching band, he worked with an engineer to design a lightweight harness that would be easier for him to carry. The new apparatus weighed about 6 pounds, he said.
"Nothing was going to stop me from playing snare drum with the marching band in the half time show," Berns said.
Despite his condition, Berns was always upbeat. He gave the audience some advice on how to be happy. Focus on what you can do, rather than what you can't do, he said. Surround yourself with "people of high quality." And finally, he said, keep moving forward.
"I always try to have something to look forward to," he told the audience. "Something to strive for to make my life richer."
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft mourned Berns' death, saying he had invited the teen to be the football team's honorary captain for Saturday night's playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts and was looking forward to spending time with him and his family.
"I loved Sam Berns and am richer for having known him," Kraft said in a statement Saturday.
Kraft, after being introduced to Berns and attending the HBO premiere of the documentary in New York in October, made a $500,000 matching pledge to the foundation. Berns, a sports fan who was invited to a Patriots practice that month, gave the players an impromptu motivational speech, the Boston Globe reported.
Berns was asked to name his favorite player. He didn't have one. It takes a team to succeed, he said.