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In that same vein,
I hope to apply that same kind of pressure to the owners in all
of my leagues by beating my opponents to the punch in regards
to personnel moves. Sometimes, reaching a conclusion about a player
too quickly is much like trying to blitz Peyton Manning –
dangerous and painful. However, coming to a correct conclusion
two weeks or two minutes quicker than your opponents is considered
foresight. Fantasy owners can be a uneasy lot, knowing that one
two-or-three-game losing streak can wreak irreparable damage to
his/her team's chances to make a visit to the fantasy postseason.
But just as it is in the NFL and in life, it's hard to land
the big prize by playing scared. Thus, I will strive each week
to help each of you become a smart blitzer, so to speak.
While there have been several variations of this saying over
time, I think it holds particularly true in fantasy football.
In a sport where each passing week eliminates 6.25% of our potential
16-game fantasy schedule, nearly 20% of the season is over before
we get to reach the trend stage. Unfortunately, in most competitive
leagues, we have to make our decisions on players - particularly
free agents or unexpected consecutive huge performances from a
later-round pick - long before they string together three consecutive
strong games. Likewise, a number of owners who drafted Matt Forte
No. 1 overall may be staring at an 0-2 record and feel as if they
can't afford to see if OC Ron Turner will make him the centerpiece
of the offense again. Sometimes, it is not about the number of
touches (although that helps), but more about the manner in which
those touches are received. After saying all offseason about how
they would remain a running team, the Bears have been Jay Cutler-centric,
attempting 36 and 38 passes in the first two weeks of the season.
(For what it is worth, expect the "old" Forte to return
this week.)
For as much as drafting your team is the apex of the early part
of the fantasy football season, then setting your lineup each
weekend can sometimes be one of the most excruciating aspect of
this game.
"Free Ronnie Brown!"
Case in point: just like many of his owners, my biggest dilemma
this week on each of my money-league teams centered on Ronnie
Brown. Anybody who has read my columns or e-mailed me about
the Dolphins' RB over the summer knows that I am extremely high
on him. Of course, I can manufacture all the enthusiasm I want
to on a certain player, but if that enthusiasm isn't returned
in kind by the team's coaching staff, my opinion on that player
means next to nothing. In Week 1, Brown saw 13 touches vs. Atlanta
in a game that was never all that much out of hand. Because I
was limited in how much of that Week 1 contest I was actually
able to watch, I steadfastly stuck to Brown in my starting lineup
until HC Tony Sparano unleashed his gem of a quote this past weekend
to the Palm Beach Post, "There is no real star in this bunch of
guys." While that quote would have been spot-on about his receivers,
it couldn't be further from the truth at RB, which is why coaches
can only be trusted some of the time in the media. Although Ricky
Williams looks very quick and light on his feet for a 32-year-old
back (and would be a good alternative to some of the backs currently
starting in the league), he is merely just another RB at this
stage of his career. Brown, as he showed on Monday Night Football,
is special. And the truth of the matter is that if the Dolphins'
coaches really felt Brown was not clearly a better back, Williams
would steal a snap every now and then in the "Wildcat".
Because I was fortunate enough to land high-quality RB depth
on each of my money league teams, I begrudgingly placed Brown
on the bench in every league I had him because – although
I won each game with him in the lineup in Week 1 - even the best
fantasy teams will struggle if their RB2 is only going to see
13 touches. Certainly, if Sparano has "no real star"
among his RBs, then I had little reason to believe that he or
OC Dan Henning would do anything to help Brown prove him wrong.
After all, the Falcons are not too dissimilar to the Colts in
terms of how the teams are built or their defensive personnel.
Thus, like much of the fantasy football nation, I wanted to take
a really hard, uninterrupted look at the Dolphins' offense on
Monday Night Football. In what was one of the most entertaining
yet perplexing games I have seen in some time, Miami not only
evoked visions of the Jacksonville Jaguars' legendary trampling
of the Colts' run defense back in 2006, but also brought to mind
Super Bowl XXV (1991) in which the Bill Parcells-coached Giants
controlled the clock for over 40 minutes behind a punishing ground
game to stymie an explosive Buffalo Bills' offense. From
a fantasy perspective, in the end, I saw exactly what I had hoped
to see from Brown - a powerful and explosive RB working out of
the "Wildcat" 10-15 times behind a dominant run-blocking
offensive line who finished off his runs. Though I am not anti-Ricky,
Williams was seeing the hole just like Brown, but he was not falling
forward on contact.
It was after watching the MNF game I started thinking about this
week's article and how I was going to describe my feelings on
how I feel about running back by committee (RBBC), time-shares
and all the different kinds of specialty backs in the game today.
Throwing out a game like the Dolphins-Colts tilt in which Miami
ran the ball 49 times (because those types of games just don't
happen all that often), RBBC - or whatever you want to call it
- is really a pretty good idea from a NFL football standpoint,
although it can be quite the drain for fantasy owners. Even though
the NFL continues to evolve into more of a passing league each
year, most coaches are sharp enough to realize that running the
football effectively will always be every bit as important, if
not more so. RBBC would also appear to preserve the long-term
health of backs as well.
My problem with "sharing the load" is how some teams
execute it and what it means when teams get inside the red zone.
As for how they share the load, most teams have one clear-cut
RB that coaches have no reservations about starting (the Dolphins
are a fine example). For those teams, it blows my mind that the
coaching staff believes that alternating series is the best way
to go. For teams like the Dolphins, the coaching staff is voluntarily
taking opportunities away from their best player to give more
touches to a lesser player. For Brown or any other RB of his ilk,
most NFL RBs don't require a 15-20 minute break to recover from
the last series. From a strategic standpoint, I believe it would
also be harder for a defense to prepare if they didn't know when
Williams would replace Brown during a drive. I have a much easier
time understanding sprinkling a dash of Williams into each drive
than I do giving a player a set number of series because, in the
end, that methodology will lead to games in which Williams will
see more touches than Brown because the former is more of a plodder
than the latter, thus requiring more carries to put up the same
In my quest to illustrate why Brown needs to see the ball more
often, allow me to put some numbers into perspective since the
new coaching staff took over in Miami prior to the 2008 season,
the Dolphins are 6-1 and average 22 points/game in contests where
Brown sees at least 15 carries, in which the RB averages 4.9 yards/carry
and over 18 fantasy points/game in non-PPR leagues. In the 12
non-15-carry games, the team is 5-7 and averages 19 points/game,
in which Brown averages 3.6 YPC and less than eight fantasy points/game.
While the team point differential isn't as much as one might expect,
the Dolphins are bound to get into a lot of close, lower-scoring
games with their brand of football where a field goal difference
can easily be the difference between a win and a loss. From a
fantasy perspective, the YPC and fantasy point differences are
very telling. There are any number of reasons why the disparity
is what it is in both cases - including the quality of opponent
or his fatigue near the end of last season after recovering from
ACL surgery - but it might also suggest that Brown simply isn't
getting enough work.
As much as alternating series gripes me, the concept of goal-line
backs irritates me even more. Sure, just like any other part of
football, there are certain players who perform better in certain
aspects of the game better than others. No one would question
current players like Kevin
Faulk or former ones such as Larry Centers, Warrick Dunn and
Michael Pittman were usually (or currently are) their team's best
"receiving" backs and, thus, receive the bulk of their team's
passing game work at the RB position. But unlike a 3-point specialist
in basketball or a lefty specialist in baseball, I firmly believe
the idea of a designated goal-line back is, for the most part,
unnecessary. Again, there are exceptions, but I am hard-pressed
to understand the notion that one player is a better runner for
the first 80-90 yards of the football field and then another runner
is better at finishing it off. The same qualities that enable
running backs to succeed on the back half of the 50 are the same
ones that enable them to thrive on the front half. Anyone who
watched RBs such as Marcus Allen 10-20 years ago or Priest Holmes
earlier this decade will be the first to tell you that converting
at the stripe is less about being the Incredible Hulk and more
about vision and balance - the same qualities that allow rushers
to succeed in the middle of the field. For every "power back"
like Emmitt Smith, Walter Payton or John Riggins that appear on
the all-time leaderboard for rushing TDs, there is a "finesse
back" like Shaun Alexander, Barry Sanders, Holmes, Allen or Tony
Dorsett who have also been every bit as proficient at the goal
Even RBs that used to get knocked for their goal-line woes (Edgerrin
James, Fred
Taylor to name a couple) were brought in to Seattle and New
England, respectively, with the idea they would assume goal-line
duties. I assure each of you that one offseason did not change
either back's profile, but in a football world where many teams
alternate series with their RBs, I suppose it only makes sense
that some teams need a third RB to do the job that one runner
used to be able to do all by himself less than 10 years ago. In
the age of specialization, this is one specialized area that I
will probably never understand. I think what it provides in terms
of making two or three players feel like they are contributing,
it subtracts in terms of the offense's overall effectiveness.
With that topic off my chest, I suppose it is only appropriate
that I continue discussing workloads. However, rather than continue
to"Free Ronnie Brown" diatribe, I would like to introduce a RB
workload and WR/TE target tool that I feel will assist owners
in any kind of league. It's not so much a creation as it is a
different (but what I believe to be a more efficient) way to present
the same material you can find on any site that provides that
kind of information. Essentially, rather than going page-to-page
looking at workload/touch totals, I feel it is more helpful to
put them all on one page so it is much easier to compare and contrast,
something I feel is particularly helpful when trying to come up
with trade offers. I'll spare you the background story, but suffice
it to say that when I have put the time into doing this research,
I have generally been able to uncover some diamonds in the rough.
For RBs this week, I drew the line at 18 touches (nine/game)
and for WRs/TEs, I stopped at five targets/game. Those are hardly
foolproof limits, but once we get lower than those numbers, we
are typically dealing with role players at best, which should
be available on your league's waiver wire or on the cheap
from an owner holding onto that player to fill out his/her roster.
As you will see, there are some notable exceptions on each list,
but expect most of those players to find their way back up the
chart before long.
Quick Hits: In the unlikely event
an owner landed Cedric Benson and Fred Jackson with the idea that
a former first-round bust and a Coe College product would lead
the league in touches after two weeks, congrats. My opinion on
Benson hasn't changed – even though this is the best
he has looked as a pro – because he just does not offer
the breakaway threat than can make a good offense a great one.
As for Jackson, he may have just worked himself into a fairly
substantial share of playing time once Marshawn Lynch returns.
I was bearish on Portis before the season and I'm afraid
it's not going to get any better. I had hoped that the Redskins'
offensive woes in 2008 were due to the transition in learning
HC Jim Zorn's offense. After observing most of Washington's
first two games this season, it's become clear to me that
Zorn is just not a very good play caller and game manager. With
Ladell Betts stealing more and more of his field time, Portis
may struggle to post RB2 numbers some weeks.
With 19 touches last week, it may be time to buy Moreno. If the
first two weeks are any indication, Buckhalter is going to get
his fair share of work, but apparently McDaniels isn't holding
the rookie's preseason injury woes against him.
Notable players left off the list:
White, LaDainian
Tomlinson, Felix
Jones, Chris
"Beanie" Wells
Quick Hits: It's no surprise after
two weeks the WR leaderboard looks a tornado went through every
fantasy owner's rankings; it happens just about every year. However,
the Panthers' Steve
Smith could be poised for one of his biggest seasons yet.
We all know how Jake
Delhomme tends to lock onto him, but at his current rate,
the mighty mite is on pace for 224 targets. He probably won't
get quite that many, but Carolina's defense is going even worse
than I thought it was going to be, so Carolina's passing game
may be forced to air it out a lot.
Not many people have ever questioned the potential of Laurent
Robinson or Mario
Manningham since they came into the league, but it is quite
surprising to see how quickly they have started this season. Staying
healthy has always been Robinson's biggest question mark while
Manningham had been stuck behind Amani Toomer and Plaxico Burress
since he entered the NFL. I suspect we haven't heard the last
of Domenik
Hixon or Hakeem
Nicks just yet, so don't go too crazy with your expectations
for Manningham. With that said, his off- and preseason work with
longtime WR Keenan McCardell is paying off and with another strong
showing or two in the coming weeks, he may just lock down the
starting job and produce like a low-end fantasy WR2.
Two games, 32 total targets for the Pats' slot WRs, with 16 coming
in each game. If you enjoy the unappreciated science of handcuffing
your WR, it may be worth it for Welker owners to secure Julian
Edelman. The rookie will be useless in fantasy leagues if
Welker finishes out the schedule, but if the former Dolphin continues
to have problems with his knee, Edelman does a fine Welker impression
and would produce at a level just south of the vet if he were
asked to fill his shoes again in Week 3 or beyond – he is no fluke.
Here's an idea for the Bears…rather than removing
your best possession receiver (and Cutler's favorite target)
Earl Bennett from the game, how about if you consider having deep
threat Johnny Knox share snaps with deep threat Devin Hester?
That way, Hester could return to full-time special teams work
and the team wouldn't be out both a starting WR and punt
returner if he were to get injured.
Consider picking up Jerramy Stevens if you are in the market
for a TE with a bit of fantasy upside. Once former OC Jeff Jagodzinski
was canned late in the preseason, I wasn't sure the Bucs
would feature their TEs all that much. With 33 targets between
Stevens and Winslow, they are definitely still getting their opportunities.
Notable players left off the list:
Percy Harvin,
Owens, Zach
Miller, Laveranues
Coles, Bernard
Berrian, Antonio
College Spotlight
I'd like to cap off this edition of the Blitz by following
through on a segment I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. I won't
always pick the most obvious college players, but I will tend
to focus my attention on a player who I firmly believe has a chance
at being fantasy-worthy in 2010. Just like any good talent evaluator,
I will only write about a player if I have seen him play on multiple
occasions. (If by chance I break that rule, I will make it known
in my evaluation.)
Jahvid Best, RB Cal (5-10, 195)
After a pair of strong games to start of last season, Best burst
onto the national scene with a three-game run to close out the
2008 campaign. Over that stretch, he posted a mind-boggling 698
rushing yards and nine total TDs (in which his lowest rushing
total in a single game was 186 yards) despite not seeing more
than 20 carries in any of those contests. Say what you will about
Pac-10 defenses, but Best is averaging over eight yards per carry
in his career. We should get a good idea of just how much his
game has grown in a couple of weeks when the Golden Bears host
USC, which was the last opponent to hold Best under the 100-yard
mark (seven-game streak of surpassing the century mark).
Unlike some of the recent Cal backs to make it into the NFL (J.J.
Arrington, Justin Forsett, to name a few), Best will be more than
a situational RB when he decides to go pro, which will probably
after the completion of the 2009 season. When the 20-year-old
junior first receives the ball from quarterback Kevin Riley, he
is more patient than most NFL rushers waiting for the offensive
line to create a crease for him to run through. Once the hole
develops, Best has the vision to recognize it and is powerful
enough to break an arm tackle or elusive enough to make the first
defender miss. From that point on, his acceleration allows him
to pull away from opposing defensive backs. Furthermore, he is
NFL-ready as a receiver. On a number of occasions vs. Minnesota
last Saturday, Cal split him out wide and utilized that aspect
of his game as well. Don't dwell on the fact that he has only
seven catches through three games as his numbers in passing game
numbers would likely be better if the Golden Bears had needed
him late in their first two games of the season. The one knock
on Best right now would be his size, but like most young RBs,
he'll likely keep adding muscle over the next few offseasons and,
in his case, be up to 205 by the start of next summer. He already
has the leg strength necessary to be a good blocker in pass pro,
but he will want to get a bit thicker above the waist to excel
in that area of his game as well as to better absorb the punishment
that an NFL running back takes. Because of his natural talents
and Cal's strong o-line, I have yet to see if Best has some of
the moves (spin move, stiff arm) necessary to make him even more
of a nightmare for opponents – which is one more reason why I
want to see him vs. USC.
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Our final list lets you take a break from all that reading. Find out what our DVD selector Kate thinks are the best and brightest from 2012.
Feature Film and Mini-Series
The Raid: Redemption
An astonishing action film – and when I say action, I mean non-stop "how-did-they-think-of –so many ways -to-fight" action – and it was made impressively on a shoestring budget. The story is creative, but it's the fighting that will keep you watching. Be sure to watch the special features included in the DVD, as well.
A presentation of the 1994 Rwandan genocide told from a personal level in a way that demonstrates the devastatingly simple and direct consequences of our actions. Though I am familiar with this time in Rwandan history, this film made me understand the conflict as if I were "on the ground."
This year marked the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking. This is an engaging, award-winning mini-series about that ill-fated voyage.
Mysteries of Lisbon
An adaptation from the book and an epic in the true meaning of the word, this a wonderfully detailed treatment of the unfamiliar world of 19th century Portuguese royalty, a story that stretches across three generations. The acting is superb, with many in the cast speaking three different languages. The cinematography is rich with an incredible number of filming locations. A true work of art!
Woman with the Five Elephants
This amazing Kiev-born woman, Svetlana Geier, has accomplished a 20-year, mind-boggling project of re-translating five Dostoevsky novels that she calls "The Five Elephants." This film tells the story of her life as a literary translator, giving us insight into her painstaking process and also into her life as Russian exile in Germany.
Corman's World
A tribute to Roger Corman, a filmmaker you may never heard of but who nevertheless is one of the most influential Hollywood personalities. He's not only launched many an acting and directorial career (Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro, Dennis Hopper, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Sylvester Stallone, Ron Howard…), but he has also changed the shape of filmmaking in many, many ways.
Into the Abyss: a Tale of Death, a Tale of Life
In 2001 a young man, his friend, and his mother were murdered, apparently because the killers wanted the red Camaro in the garage. One of the killers is on death row; the other is serving a life sentence. Werner Herzog's characteristic documentary does an admirable job demonstrating the "anguish and absurdity" of killing, "wanton or sanctioned" without being preachy – it's "rigorously humane…" (quotes from the 11/10/11 New York Times review).
The War Room
President Clinton's 1992 election campaign concept, dubbed the "war room," was innovative and set the standard for campaigns to come. In 1992, the Internet was new and had a profound impact on the way the war room functioned. For some, nothing could be more boring than the thought of a documentary about a political campaign, but this is not only a trip back in time, it conveys the intensity of the campaign process and the thrill of the win.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Something exceedingly strange is happening at the John Edwards trial: all four alternate jurors dressed in red shirts Friday. They each wore bright yellow the day before.
Coincidence? Few here think so.
The demeanor of the alternate jurors and their behavior has become the talk of the courthouse. The alternates enter the courtroom each day giggling among themselves. One of the alternates, an attractive young woman, has been spotted smiling at Edwards and flipping her hair in what seems to some to be a flirtatious manner. On Friday, she wore a revealing red top with a single strap and an exposed right shoulder.
Her actions have not gone unnoticed by courtroom observers, some of whom have chatted about her in increasingly anxious tones during the long stretches of down time while the jury, now in its sixth day of deliberations, meets behind closed doors to decide whether Edwards should be convicted on six campaign finance and conspiracy charges.
The case centers on nearly $1 million in payments from the heiress Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and the wealthy lawyer Fred Baron that prosecutors say was used to cover up Edwards's affair with videographer Rielle Hunter and the child he fathered with her.
The alternate jurors play a supporting role in this drama. They watched the testimony, but will not vote on the verdict unless one of the 12 members of the main jury is removed. Two members of the jury also wore red tops on Friday. At times during breaks in deliberations, some jurors have gestured toward alternates, who sit at the opposite end of a small federal courtroom here that is packed each day with reporters awaiting a verdict.
The sight of all four alternates in red drew titters from an audience that had already noted that Edwards had ended his streak of wearing a green tie to court for four straight days. NBC's Lisa Myers asked Edwards whether he was wearing his lucky tie on Thursday, and he responded with a smile, "I'm not saying'."
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Thus I have read ( ), the question was posed by the user "Shadow Dancer" in January 2007:
The Rev. Eijo responds:Hello. I remember when I was looking at information on Vajrayana Buddhism and Tibetian Buddhism that Shingon was the other major school of Vajrayana. Out of curiosity in what ways in this tradition similar to Tibetian Buddhism and different? Also is the book Bardol Thodol of interest (I don't mean on an individual level) to Shingon Buddhists? Or is it viewed as something purely for Tibetian Buddhists?
Hmm. Since the East Asian esoteric Buddhist traditon is older than the Tibetan, I consider Tibetan Vajrayāna the "other" form. Just kidding, I know what you mean
Setting aside the issue of whether or not it is appropriate to call Shingon "Vajrayāna,", and not really knowing the level that you are asking your question at, the basic differences might be summed up as:
1. There is no anuttarayoga-tantra in Shingon, and none of the practices and iconography associated with it. Shingon has what corresponds to the kriyā, caryā, and yoga tantras only. Shingon practices no form of "sexual yoga" at all.
2. The system mentioned above of classifiying tantras into four categories is not used in Shingon. Instead, in Shingon tantras are classified into zōmitsu 雑密 and junmitsu 純. Zōmitsu practices have mundane goals, like practices praying for blessings, health, the prosperity of the nation, good harvests, rain making, the ability to memorize Buddhsit texts and so on. Junmitsu practices are for perfecting the Mahāyāna bodhisattva path. Both exist in Shingon, with junmitsu being the main practice and zōmitsu existing as a form of skillful means.
3. Shingon lacks Tibetan cultural influences, and has instead East Asian cultural influences.
4. Japan had no significant awareness of even the existence of Tibetan Vajrayāna until the 19th century. Since the Bardo Thodol was composed in Tibet, it is utterly unknown to the East Asian tradition. It was first known of in Japan from the Japanese translation of Evan-Wentz's English translation.
5. Not really part of Vajrayāna, but since we are comparing the Shingon and Tibetan traditions, I might note that Shingon doctrinally does not give the most emphasis to Mādhyamika thought. Traditional Shingon doctrinal studies involve a number of areas, including Yogācāra and Mādhyamika in their East Asian forms, called Sanron/Sanlun 三論 and Hossō/Faxiang 法相. To go out on a limb, Shingon thought is perhaps closest to Kegon/Huayan 華嚴 thought. Its practice is not that of Huayan, however; it is tantric practice. Deity yoga is the core practice of Shingon.
There are many details about practice which are different between the two, but with many major features being generally the same. If you can be a little more specific about what you wanted to know, I might be able to answer in more detail.


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Legislature passes flurry of bills in session's closing hours
Hartford — In the last three hours of the 2014 legislative session House and Senate lawmakers read legislative bills more quickly, chose select bills to debate and threw previously agreed-upon bills on the consent calendar, which nearly always gets approved.
In the last 30 minutes the Senate passed a bill to create a Connecticut Port Authority and a bill that permits municipalities to create regional dispatch centers. The vote was final passage and the bills go to the governor for signature or veto.
Both the House and the Senate passed the omnibus bill that implements the state's fiscal year 2014-15 budget and includes legislative surprises such as a reduction in judges' pensions, property tax relief for Montville and Norwich and the development of a bioscience promotion program in southeastern Connecticut. The 300-page bill will also go to the governor.
"The last two years have been the privilege of a lifetime," said House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden. "We as a whole House are a family, and I believe that when we work together we work best. When we are wrong we must reconcile, when we are wronged we must respond, and it has been my privilege to have the support of all of you."
The Department of Economic and Community Development would be required to work with Connecticut Innovations Inc. and Connecticut United for Research Excellence Inc. to design a program to market and support bioscience businesses in southeastern Connecticut, according to the implementer bill. The legislation does not include specific funding for the program.
The original bioscience bill for southeastern Connecticut was not called for a vote. It would have required the DECD commissioner to send out a request for proposals and award a grant to the organization that would create a bioscience marketing and development plan. It would have required the DECD to provide a grant of an unspecified amount to the organization.
Under the implementer bill the state would provide $1.1 million worth of property tax relief for towns and cities in order to hold them harmless. Municipalities whose combined state-owned property Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT), nonprofit college and hospital PILOT and the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund grants are lower next year than this year would receive this funding. Two towns that would get additional payments are Montville, $345,327, and Norwich, $3,211, according to the bill.
Norwich was also given another benefit in the omnibus bill. The city's requirement to pay for at least one-third of the costs for improving the Rose City Senior Center if it were to receive a $690,000 grant was waived. The State Bond Commission initially approved the grant funds on Jan. 9, 2014.
A solution to lawmakers' complaints about judges being able to receive pensions of about $100,000 annually after serving for three or four years was also provided in the implementer bill.
Under current law judges must retire at age 70 and get a full pension, two-thirds of their annual salary, no matter how many years they have served. When New London attorney Timothy Bates, 66, and Anthony V. Avallone, 66, were nominated by the governor and approved by the House and Senate, lawmakers took the opportunity to question current law.
"Our constituents, I know many of mine, are shocked to hear that under the current system, that you can be a judge for as little as one year and still draw a pension of $100,000 for life," said state Rep. Steve Mikutel, D-Griswold, last month.
The bill would reduce a judge's pension by 10 percent for each year less than 10 years served. For instance, a judge who retires after three years of service would receive an annual benefit of about $30,133 instead of $100,443, according to the bill.
The bill also clarified that $635,000 was appropriated to the state Department of Veterans Affairs for the administration of the Soldiers', Sailors' and Marines' Fund. The fund, which was established in 1919, helps state veterans in need and their families with their rental or mortgage interest payments, utility and medical bills, funeral expenses, food and clothing. About 3,000 families are helped by the fund each year.
During the House debate, state Rep. Dan Carter, R-Bethel, asked whether the American Legion was comfortable administering the fund with about $600,000 because the organization had initially asked for $900,000.
State Rep. Toni Walker, D-New Haven, said that the American Legion had worked with the appropriate legislative committee on the funding proposal. They have tried to come up with a solution that works within the constraints of the budget, Walker said.
The 300-page bill also included $400,000 for the Office of the State Comptroller to support the establishment of the Connecticut Retirement Security Board that would study whether it was feasible for the state to create a state-administered retirement program for private, low-wage workers to invest in. Many House Republicans said they were opposed to this part of the omnibus bill because a state-administered retirement program for private workers would burden private businesses, they said.
"We are concerned with the costs that this will entail for private companies," said state Rep. Gail Lavielle, R-Wilton. "It's concerning that employees will be automatically enrolled unless they choose to opt out." One part of the bill that both Republicans and Democrats could agree on was $500,000 for a comprehensive tax study.
This is the result of a bipartisan effort, said state Rep. Sean Williams, R-Watertown.
Individual bills of interest to southeastern Connecticut that were passed in the last 30 minutes of the legislative session included the following:
-- The development by Oct. 1, 2015, of the Connecticut Port Authority, which aims to bring more business to Connecticut's ports in New London, New Haven and Bridgeport.
-- The state gave permission to municipalities to create a governing board for their regional dispatch centers. New London, Waterford and East Lyme had requested the legislation and would likely create a governing board made up of local representatives to run a police, fire and emergency services regional dispatch center if passed.
The House also passed a bill that would create a three-year moratorium on the storage of fracking waste and require the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to create regulations in the last five minutes of the session. It was final passage and the bill goes to the governor for his signature.
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Rays take charge with big inning to back Odorizzi
ST. PETERSBURG -- Big innings for the Rays are as rare as rain drops inside Tropicana Field.
No umbrellas were opened Saturday afternoon, even though the Rays scored six runs in the sixth en route to a 10-3 win over the Blue Jays at The Trop.View Full Game Coverage
ST. PETERSBURG -- Big innings for the Rays are as rare as rain drops inside Tropicana Field.
No umbrellas were opened Saturday afternoon, even though the Rays scored six runs in the sixth en route to a 10-3 win over the Blue Jays at The Trop.View Full Game Coverage
The Rays have won 10 of their last 14 and are 19-11 since June 11. Prior to June 11, they had lost 14 of 15 games. Sunday will afford the Rays the opportunity to claim their fourth series win in their last five series heading into the All-Star break.
Only one other time this season had the Rays scored as many as six runs in an inning. That happened June 29 in Baltimore, when Tampa Bay crossed home seven times in the sixth inning of a 12-9 win.
Saturday's explosion unfurled slowly at first and gained steam when Rays manager Joe Maddon went against the grain with a decision at a critical juncture of the sixth.
With the score tied at 2, the Rays loaded the bases with no outs against Drew Hutchison, who hails from nearby Lakeland, Fla. The Blue Jays right-hander recovered to strike out Jose Molina for the first out. Sean Rodriguez was set to bat next, bringing to mind the majestic, game-tying three-run homer he hit Friday night.
But Maddon pulled the plug on Rodriguez and sent Cole Figueroa to the plate. He explained that even though Rodriguez has been swinging the bat well, he was not faring well against Hutchison. Meanwhile, left-hander J.A. Happ was warming in the Blue Jays' bullpen.
"Hutchinson has more of a tendency to walk lefties than righties," Maddon said. "Had they gone to the lefty, here comes [Right-handed hitting Logan] Forsythe. I liked it either way."
The Blue Jays opted to pitch to Figueroa, and the little-used infielder came through, drawing a walk on nine pitches to force in the go-ahead run.
"There really wasn't much thinking about [the at-bat]," Figueroa said. "I hadn't seen pitching in a while, so it was one of those things where I just wanted to have a good at-bat, and luckily I was able to foul off some of his tough pitches."
Happ took over for Hutchison to face leadoff hitter Kevin Kiermaier. After falling behind, 0-2, the rookie chopped a two-run single over third baseman Juan Francisco's head.
"It was one thing where I told myself to be aggressive, bases loaded against the lefty," Kiermaier said. "I figured he'd come with the fastball, but he placed them really good. He made two perfect pitches.
"At 0-2, I said, 'I really need to battle here and put the ball in play.' And he threw something that was a little up, and I threw my hands at it. It was, ah, smart hitting by me to find that hole right there. So it was nice to see that one go through and get things going there a little bit."
Ben Zobrist followed with an RBI single before Matt Joyce employed the Kiermaier method by chopping a two-run single over Francisco to give the Rays an 8-2 lead.
"It was a good ballgame until it imploded on us, but that's battle," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "[Hutchison] wasn't as sharp as he normally is, but he kept us right there. He had the walk, they scored the go-ahead run, but he competed."
Jake Odorizzi started for the Rays and produced his seventh quality start of the season, allowing two earned runs and striking out seven in 6 2/3 innings to pick up his fifth win.
"We executed," Odorizzi said. "We made pitches, a lot of weak contact. Some runs happened out of it, but when you get weak contact, there's not that much you can do about it. I'd rather have that than screamers off the wall."
Kiermaier plays with his hair on fire. That style cut both ways in the early going.
In the first inning, he stretched a single into a double, moved to third when Zobrist flied out to center and scored on Joyce's sacrifice fly to give the Rays a 1-0 lead.
That same go-for-broke style worked against the Rays in the second when Colby Rasmus hit a sinking drive to center. Kiermaier charged in and dove to try and make the catch. The ball rolled passed him, allowing Rasmus to reach third with a triple. Francisco's sacrifice fly drove home Rasmus to tie the score at 1.
"I guess you can call it 'hair on fire,' but it's the only way I know how to play, 100 percent all out," Kiermaier said. "I look like an idiot sometimes, but for the most part I try to be under control with everything and know when to push the limit and when not to."
Kiermaier's aggressiveness could be forgiven based on the way the Rays feed off his energy. He finished with three hits and a walk, scoring twice and driving in three to raise his average to .310.
Maddon smiled when asked if he would like more of his players to employ Kiermaier's style of play.
"The whole industry would like to see more players play like Kiermaier plays," Maddon said.
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Clarkson University Wins National Fundraising Award
Clarkson University has been awarded the 2013 Education Fundraising Award for Overall Improvement from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
The citation, signed by CASE President John Lippincott and CASE Board Chair Paul E. Sheff, reads: "The CASE Educational Fundraising Awards honor superior fundraising programs at educational institutions across the country. We congratulate your staff, volunteer leaders and donors for notable achievement in advancing the mission of your institution. It is with great pride that the Council for Advancement and Support of Education honors Clarkson University with an Educational Fundraising Award for Overall Improvement."
Clarkson is one of only three institutions to be honored in 2013 for Overall Improvement in Category 1: Private Research/Doctoral Institutions. The others were Duquesne University and Texas Christian University (TCU). The Overall Performance winners in Category 1: Private Research/Doctoral Institutions were Brown, Harvard, Stanford and Yale.
The award is based on data Clarkson submits annually to the Council for Aid to Education's Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey and a three-year review of trends in fundraising results.
Clarkson's overall fundraising results in those three years were: fiscal year 2010 - $6.676 million; fiscal year 2011 - $9.859 million; and fiscal year 2012 - $11.616 million.
"This award represents a terrific achievement for the Clarkson community and the University," said Clarkson President Tony Collins. "We are incredibly thankful to our donors, whose generosity made this award possible."
"The E2E Campaign has definitely propelled increased giving from our alumni, individuals, corporations and foundations," said John Brilbeck '68, co-chair of Clarkson's ongoing Evolution to Excellence (E2E) fundraising campaign. "It is gratifying to be recognized alongside institutions like Duquesne and TCU, as well as Stanford and the Ivies."
The E2E Campaign is shaping both what Clarkson looks like today and helping underwrite the vision for Clarkson's future. As of July 31, 2013, Clarkson has raised commitments totaling $220.13 million toward the campaign's $225 million goal.
"We nearly doubled our yearly gift revenue over the period of evaluation, which led to this welcome award," said Dick Johnson, vice president for philanthropy and alumni relations. "Clarkson's fundraising success is directly attributed to the generosity of our donors and the hard work and diligence of our staff and numerous, dedicated Clarkson volunteers. We want to extend our gratitude and congratulations to everyone who has contributed to the E2E Campaign. Together, these thousands of donors have helped improve the Clarkson experience for current students and enable new resources, which will strengthen the experience of future students."
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It's a new season.
As spring turned to summer, WORLD on June 21 broke the news that the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) had received $1 million over several years from the National Campaign for the Prevention of Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (NCPTUP). That organization promotes contraceptives for the unmarried. Many evangelicals had heatstroke.
NAE reacted at the end of June by flashing on the home page of its website two questions and answers: "Does NAE promote biblical sex in biblical marriage? Yes. Has NAE endorsed contraception for unmarried Christians? No." But the real question was whether NAE was helping NCPTUP promote its unbiblical message-and whether NAE, which has an annual budget of only $1 million, was asking NCPTUP for new money.
On June 15 NCPTUP chief program officer Bill Albert had written to me that NAE and NCPTUP were discussing a second grant: "The second award is still under negotiation and has not been finalized." The goal of the second award would be "to continue the work started under the previous grant." Albert added on July 9, regarding the NAE grant, "Funding has been extended through the end of the year."
But NAE has received a lot of summer heat from individuals and denominational leaders. On July 10 NAE vice-chairman David Neff told me flatly, "We are not applying for another grant." (Neff is also editor-in-chief of Christianity Today.) NAE's "Generation Forum" project, funded by NCPTUP, will close down later this year.
It will be important to watch whether future NAE-sponsored events include NCPTUP speakers, as did a Los Angeles gathering in 2010 and the Christian Student Leadership Conference in 2011. It will be an improvement if future NAE announcements, publications, and videos stop echoing NCPTUP's failure to distinguish between married and unmarried contraceptive use. (See the "Generation Forum" video below and the Spring 2012 issue of NAE Insight for examples of such lumping.)
NAE President Leith Anderson's seven-paragraph June written response to WORLD, all of which is online at worldmag.com, included these two sentences: "Evangelicals are conflicted about contraceptives outside of marriage because we never want to promote or condone sexual immorality. But we are told that contraceptives can reduce abortions and we want to stop abortions."
The "but" is key: Should evangelicals accept the NCPTUP notion that to reduce abortion we should promote unmarried contraceptive use? Pastors writing to WORLD in late June and early July overwhelmingly said no to adultery. They proposed five alternatives.
• FIRST, many said we should fight the recent tendency to marry later. (Since 1971 the median age for first marriages has jumped from 23 to 28 for men and from 21 to 26 for women.) Paul Mulner of Winston-Salem, N.C., wrote, "I have counseled certain young people to get married sooner than they had planned. I am opposed to the practice of long engagements and I let our young people (and their parents) know that."
That advice reflects what Paul told Corinthians: "If they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion" (1 Corinthians 7:9). This was in line with common Jewish practice of the time, as later recorded in the Talmud: One sage, Rav Huna, said, "He who is 20 years of age and is not married spends all his days in sin."
Pastors' comments to WORLD also match up with what University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus has found: "Most young Americans no longer think of marriage as a formative institution, but rather as the institution they enter once they think they are fully formed." That's a problem, because marriage pushes men and women to maturity, and late marriage means extended adolescence for millions.
Others mature without marriage, but for many single men this crucial developmental delay underlies both sexual recklessness and job fecklessness: Earnings for men between the ages of 25 and 34 have fallen by a fifth in the past 40 years, accounting for inflation. The change also contributes to abortion and poverty among single moms: Many unmarried women, competing for eligible men, feel the need to be sexually available. Parents of both men and women are complicit, because they often urge children to have a firm career foothold before considering marriage.
• SECOND, we should show the consequences of sin: John Piper in Minneapolis wrote that promoting contraceptive use is "opposite from Jesus' approach. Instead of suggesting a way to soften the impact of sinning he intensified it." Piper cited Matthew 5:27-30 and Galatians 6:7 ("God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap"), then concluded: "Abortion is caused by illicit sex the way stealing is caused by unemployment. We don't give the unemployed person money so he won't steal. We help him see that work is better, and then help him find it."
• THIRD, along the lines of helping young Christians see what's good, Mike Singenstreu of Victoria, Texas, wrote that our churches should "promote integration of ages so they hear these messages from other adults." This also goes with what Regnerus has found sociologically: "Weddings may be beautiful, but marriages become beautiful. Personal storytelling and testimonies can work wonders here, since so much about life is learned behavior."
Worldmag.com is beginning a series of profiles of couples married for at least 35 years. It's important for 20-somethings to see the positive side of earlier marriages to which Proverbs 5:18 alludes: "Let your foundation be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth." As Regnerus writes, "Young adults want to know that it's possible for two fellow believers to stay happy together for a lifetime, and they need to hear how the generations preceding them did it."
• FOURTH, Tim Keller in New York City preached in May about how we should foster covenant rather than consumer relationships. He pointed out that living together outside of marriage is not a trusting and giving relationship, but a consumer one in which those thinking about possible marriage market themselves to others. For this reason, it's not surprising that those who cohabit and eventually marry are more likely to divorce than those who did not cohabit: The former often become accustomed to thinking like consumers.
Keller noted that rapturous passages about sex in the Bible show it's supposed to be about giving and not just receiving-but sex outside of marriage is typically selfish, because one or both partners requires sex in order to keep the relationship going. Keller called sexual preoccupation a form of idolatry: Instead of thinking that we cannot be whole people and happy without sex, we should realize that the only Person we really can't live without is God.
• FIFTH, Eric Olson of Omaha, Neb., noted that the selling of extramarital sex is not new: "Just a couple of weeks ago, when preaching in ... Judges 2:6-3:6 on the proclivity of the children of Israel to forsake Yahweh for the Baals and Ashteroths and 'play the harlot,' we studied the history of the fertility cults and what orgies they promoted, committing fornication with a temple prostitute every time they brought a sacrifice. We suggested that the sexual appetite was a big part of the draw to the pagan fertility cults." It's a big part today as well.
• OTHER pastors also noted the concern that some contraceptives, by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg, produce early abortions. All recognized that the problem of extramarital sex is not going away. We've heard for a decade about the 10-40 window for evangelism, but the biggest open window domestically is the 10-30 window regarding sex, with puberty coming earlier and marriage later. We live in a highly sexualized culture where it's hard to surf the web, watch television, or drive past billboards without seeing appeals to adultery.
Some pastors mentioned that True Love Waits and other abstinence programs have succeeded in pushing back the age when sexual relations commence, but they apparently have had little effect on individuals in their 20s. Pastors recognized the temptations to adultery that plague many young adults, but saw passages like that of James 1:2-4 vital for just such a time: "Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."
My takeaway: When we face difficult problems, we can choose to follow the world's prescription, or God's. If the NAE speaks with worldly wisdom in the name of evangelicals, it undermines pastors, parents, and young adults striving to do what's right. The Holy Spirit is real and can change people: Giving in to the contraceptive lobby is like saying the Holy Spirit is powerless to help us obey God.
The signs of an NAE summer change are welcome. When the NAE board of directors meets this fall, evangelicals will be watching. For example, the general assembly of one NAE member, the Presbyterian Church in America, has resolved to monitor NAE doings and then decide whether to stay in or leave.
The PCA is not the only group on alert. The Institute on Religion and Democracy has criticized what it calls the NAE's "leftward drift" over the past six years. It has critiqued NAE leaders who have advocated job-killing regulations to try to fight global warming, worked to shield entitlement programs from reductions in projected spending growth, or hinted at support for unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Those may or may not be good proposals, but the Bible does not clearly state what our position on these issues should be. On the issue of unmarried sex, though, the Bible could not be clearer: Do not.
Some organizations with Washington, D.C.-area offices fuzz the basics as they start opining about all kinds of policy matters. Many are like Sir Brian Botany in the wonderful poem by A.A. Milne, which describes a man full of himself: "Sir Brian had a battleaxe with great big knobs on. / He went among the villagers and blipped them on the head. / On Wednesday and on Saturday, / Especially on the latter day, / He called on all the cottages and this is what he said: 'I am Sir Brian!' (Ting-ling!) / 'I am Sir Brian!' (Rat-tat!) / 'I am Sir Brian, / 'As bold as a lion! / 'Take that, and that, and that!'"
But here's a spoiler alert: The villagers finally have enough of Sir Brian. He gets his comeuppance and the poem concludes: "Sir Brian struggled home again and chopped up his battleaxe. / Sir Brian took his fighting boots and threw them in the fire. / He is quite a different person / Now he hasn't got his spurs on, / And he goes about the village as B. Botany, Esquire. / 'I am Sir Brian? Oh, no! / 'I am Sir Brian? Who's he? / 'I haven't any title, I'm Botany; / 'Plain Mr. Botany (B.)'"
A plain NAE can be of great use in representing evangelicals by standing for religious liberty amid what looks increasingly like the "crooked and twisted generation" described in Philippians 2:15. Now that the NAE's Generation Forum, paid for by NCPTUP, is on the way out, an NAE that will "shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life" would be wonderful to see.


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What fortune will the Year of the Snake bring you?
February 8, 2013 -- Updated 1201 GMT (2001 HKT)
- Hong Kong group CLSA has released its Feng Shui Index for 2013
- It is going to be a great year for people born in the Year of the Rooster, Dogs or Ox (Cow)
- If you are a Pig, Goat (Sheep), Tiger or Snake, it's best to fast forward to 2014
- The past five years of the Snake have been marked by inauspicious events
Hong Kong (CNN) -- If were born in the year of the Rooster, here's something to crow about: You are in for a "ss-super" 2013. Likewise, it's going to be a strong year if you're a Dog or an Ox.
Too bad, however, if you're a Snake.
On Sunday we say farewell to the Dragon and welcome the Year of the Snake.
For the occasion, the Hong Kong brokerage CLSA has brought out its annual Feng Shui Index. Now in its 19th year, the index is a guide to your investment decisions -- specifically how the benchmark Hong Kong Hang Seng Index will perform -- over the next 12 months, based on the ancient Chinese art (or science, if you prefer) of feng shui.
Geomancers predict the markets will start out strong but run into trouble in July.
How last year's Feng Shui Index predictions compared to Hong Kong's Hang Seng actual performance.
If you are wondering what that entails, this report consults the experts on bazi (fortune charts), wu-xing (five-element theory) and xuan kong (flying stars).
CLSA itself describes the report as a light-hearted exercise. But before anyone dismisses this as a mere marketing ploy or mystical mumbo-jumbo, take a look at last year's forecast. It is a pretty close match to how the Hang Seng actually performed.
The brokerage has a team of about six people plus feng shui masters -- they won't say who they are -- working on the report for several months leading up to the publication.
What do the geomancers say? First the good news. It will be a good year for the Hang Seng, particularly in the first half and March is flagged as a standout month. It's interesting that March is also the month that the U.S. Congress has to deal with the debt-ceiling.
After June the ride gets much rougher and more volatile. A trading opportunity perhaps?
The CLSA index also looks at health, relationships and work for the year to come. If you were born in the year of the Rooster, Dog or Ox (Cow), it is going to be a great year, says the report.
If you are a Pig, Goat (Sheep), Tiger or Snake, it's best to fast forward to 2014. Interestingly, those with the same birth sign as the year sign invariably have bad years.
There's something else to keep in mind. The Snake sheds its skin, which in the Chinese horoscope signals new ideas or developments, both good and bad. The Depression year of 1929 was a Snake year, as was 1989 (Tiananmen Square) and 2001 (the 9/11 attacks). In fact the past five Snake years have not been very encouraging, says the report.
But this time around it will be different because all five elements -- earth, metal, wood, water and fire -- are present. In the first half of the year, fire is strong and fire drives markets higher, according to the report.
In the second half, the fire influence wanes and water starts rising, a bad sign for the markets.
The good news is that the year ends with the index higher than the start of the year.
The bad news is, if you are actually born a Snake, the year will be, in CLSA's own words, a bit of a "hisser."


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Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual to perennial herb (sometimes short-lived, dying after flowering once)
Stem generally erect
Leaves: lower generally tapered or petioled, often wavy-margined, generally pinnately lobed, ± dentate, lobes and teeth spine-tipped, margin generally spiny-ciliate, glabrous to tomentose; upper generally sessile, ± reduced
Inflorescence: heads discoid, 1many; involucre cylindric to spheric; phyllaries many, graduated in several series, outer spine-tipped; receptacle flat, long-bristly
Flowers generally many; corollas ± bilateral, white to red or purple, tube long, slender, lobes linear; anther bases sharply sagittate, tips oblong; style tip with slightly swollen node, appendage (above node) long, cylindric, branches very short
Fruit ovoid, glabrous; scar slightly angled; pappus bristles many, plumose, ± persistent or falling in ring
Species in genus: ± 200 species: North America, Eurasia
Etymology: (Greek: thistle)
Taxa difficult, incompletely differentiated, hybridize.
Biennial (or short-lived perennial herb) 525 dm
Stem generally 1, generally simple below, openly branched above, ± white-tomentose
Leaves ± densely tomentose, lighter below; lower 1.56 dm, spiny-petioled, elliptic to oblanceolate, toothed to deeply lobed, lobes generally rigidly spreading, simple or with 12 pairs of coarse teeth or 2° lobes, main spines 320 mm; middle and upper smaller, narrower, decurrent as spiny wings, upper much reduced, often long-acuminate, generally very spiny, spines 425 mm
Inflorescence: heads in loose to crowded cyme- or panicle-like clusters (sometimes on short axillary branches); peduncles leafy, 010 cm; involucres 1.52.5 cm, 1.52 cm diam, ± ovoid, ± loosely tomentose, becoming glabrous; phyllaries strongly graduated (outer ovate, inner oblong), entire, tightly appressed, midribs of middle often with glandular area, spines 37 mm, ascending or spreading, inner with erect, ± twisted flat tips
Flowers: corollas 1625 mm, white to lavender or pink, tube 711 mm, throat 47 mm, lobes 48 mm
Fruit 3.56 mm, straw-colored to brown, generally not compressed; pappus ± 15 mm
Chromosomes: 2n=30,32
Ecology: Damp soil around springs, canyons, streams, ditches
Elevation: 4002800 m.
Bioregional distribution: East of Sierra Nevada, Mojave Desert
Distribution outside California: Nevada
Flowering time: JulOct
Related to C. douglasii and C. hydrophilum.


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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Impact Left My Head Spinning
It was fun to pretend for one night at least that it was the late-1990s and that Monday night was as much about business as it was who pinned whose shoulders to the mat. We may never see another rivalry the likes of WWF vs. WCW again, but Monday night, January 4, could be as close as we ever get.
Truthfully, player-for-player, TNA stacks up well with WWE, so this was anything but a mismatch from the perspective of talent. But as Mrs. McMahon will find out in November, it's not easy to topple the incumbent.
Frank Ingiosi's column at pwi-online.com presents an entertaining and informative timeline of the night's matchup. He even has a running scorecard and I won't ruin it by telling you his final tally. But I will say this: January 4, 2010, was far more about TNA than it was WWE. Raw has its audience and doesn't need to do anything special to impress (though bringing Bret Hart in as guest host was not an accident of timing). Impact was given an opportunity to make a first impression on Monday night channel surfers, and while we have no idea at this moment how well they scored with the Nielsen families or if this night will indeed change the course of the company's history, here are a few things that I jotted down on my notepad:
Impact could not have gotten off to a worse start. Presenting an X division match was a great call, but putting eight of them in a bright orange cage with thick bars was a huge production blunder. On long camera shots, you could barely make out what was going on in the ring. Close-ups made the wrestlers more visible, but only Super Director could have made sure we didn't miss the best spots. The no-contest conclusion was made even worse by the fans' chant that had to be bleeped. It was altogether embarrassing. Fortunately, Jeff Hardy came out, and even more fortunately, TNA was running unopposed for the first hour.
Things could only get better. In some ways they did. In others, they did not.
The positives: Kevin Nash's interview with Christy Hemme was refreshing. It's not often you get to hear a wrestler just speak and not go into promo mode … The TNA Knockouts tag team match pitting Sarita and Taylor Wilde against Awesome Kong and Hamada was superb, and a stark contrast to a very weak Maryse vs. Brie Bella offering on Raw … Sneaking in a commercial for Impact on USA Network was incredible, especially considering TNA had done the same thing a week earlier, albeit not when the two shows were going head to head … Hulk Hogan looked and sounded very good … Eric Bischoff has not lost a beat … A.J. Styles vs. Kurt Angle was tremendous, though the wrestlers went to the well with their finishers a bit too often in a match that may have been a tad long. The ending was conclusive and very satisfying.
The negatives: Everybody loves the finale of a fireworks display; Impact looked like it tried to be the fireworks finale for the full three hours. There was a lot of neat little surprises, but maybe too many. By the time the show was half over, I wasn't even thinking about Jeff Hardy anymore. He is more important to pro wrestling in 2010 than Scott Hall and Sean Waltman and The Nasty Boys, etc., and left no impression. Truthfully, TNA tried to cram so much down our throats that much of the good food lost its flavor … Speaking of Hall, he needs to go far, far away. He looked awful and sounded worse. At least he and Waltman were there to party and not to wrestle - I hope … Maybe my mind was a little numb last night, but didn't we discover Beer Money Inc. assaulted back stage and then find them in the same condition an hour or so later? … Strip poker? Ughh! … Val Venis, The Nasty Boys? Bubba the Love Sponge? Pure cronyism. Can Jimmy Hart, Brutus Beefcake, and Jason Hervey be far behind? … Finally, we saw Dixie Carter in the stands and it's kind of understandable why she did not have a role. TNA was intent on trying to build new WWE fans with characters they were most familiar with. But I think we need the TNA president to step forward and make us understand this power shift within her company. How did Hulk become her "partner," and what exactly does that mean? If Hogan is the new law in town, was Eric Bischoff deputized matchmaker? What happened to Jeff Jarrett's power? You know what he did wrong, I know what he did wrong, but what about the majority of TNA fans? One minute he's in the ring being cheered by the fans for beating the odds and keeping TNA alive; the next he's being sent to the back of the line by Mr. Hogan? What gives? How far can Hogan go before he usurps whatever authority Dixie apparently has bestowed upon him? Might he go too far (storyline and otherwise)? I'll tune in to see TNA straighten out this mess. I guess TNA would consider that a plus.
As for Raw, nothing much to report. I watched as much of both shows as I could and can't really say anything bad about WWE's offering. Bret Hart was far better than I could have imagined. His encounters with Shawn Michaels and Vince McMahon were predictable, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. One last note: The tribute to Steve "Dr. Death" Williams by Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler, while brief, was heartfelt and classy.
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- Potsy said...
I've posted most of my comments about Raw and TNA on thescoreboards.com and I'll leave them there, but I wanted to agree with some of the things you stated.
I felt that way too much of nothing happened on Impact. Hall looked drunk, Pac looked stoned, Hogan said that he'd been in the back all day when they had hyped him getting to the building for the first hour...
The show reminded me of that July evening when Goldberg won the title from Hogan, where they'd give away their best match on free tv...unadvertised...because they needed to beat WWE in the ratings.
This time, however, it didn't work, but it was nice to see 4.8 as a combined rating between the two shows...it means that the audience for wrestling DID expand, if just for one night.
- January 5, 2010 at 8:13 PM
- Colin said...
Great summation, Stu.
- January 6, 2010 at 4:33 PM
While I will admit that TNA's offering could use some polish atleast it did not revolve around Hornswoggle. TNA gave us surprises, star match quality and a change. I actually want to know what happens next. WWE as usual was predicatable and stale. A kick from an old egomanic to a stroke victim (no disrespect to Bret) left me wondering why I even bothered. Thanks TNA for stepping up and giving us a choice.
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For Geister Cachique and other farmers in Las Mercedes, cocoa represents a prosperous and sustainable future.
Geister Cachique, in blue, prepares to process cocoa beans after a harvest in Las Mercedes, Peru. Like many in his community, Geister used to depend on coca plants, which can be processed into cocaine, to earn a living. But seeking an alternative to the crime, fear and uncertainty that came with coca cultivation, local farmers began planting cocoa trees.
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In 2007, the fashion icon pleaded guilty to assaulting her housekeeper with a BlackBerry device, and was subsequently sentenced to five days of community service with New York's sanitation department.
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She tells Elle magazine, "I'm never gonna get away from it. It's part of my history… (But) I was remorseful and regretful. I've served (my sentence). I did that time. And I never want to be in that position again."
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Most of my greatest listening experiences happen while driving in the dead of night. Road trips, coming home from the bar, cruising aimlessly � something different happens after dark. Even the gentlest music is bigger, realer, more immersive.
In 2007, The Whiles� Sleepers Wake was responsible for several of those experiences. Melancholy grace was in its marrow. This was delicate but substantial music, the kind that makes you feel like your Honda Civic might float off into the atmosphere along with the song.
I remember hearing buzz about an impossibly young folk-pop band once known as Mrs. Children while studying down in Athens 2002-2006, but I wasn�t around for that early era, when Zack Prout�s angelically ordained vocal cords effervesced all over Joe Peppercorn�s carefully-crafted indie ballads. They were on a path to stardom, but that train derailed when Prout left the band after 2004 debut Colors of the Year. And not to deprive The Whiles of their well-deserved hypothetical fame and fortune, but I�d trade their would-be professional music career for Sleepers Wake any day.
It seemed like that might be all The Whiles we�d get, but after a dormant stretch, the band returned last year with a new album, Somber Honey, and regular Columbus concerts. Although I witnessed them perform as Peppercorn�s backing band for the Beatles marathon last December, their show Saturday at Kobo was my first Whiles concert for probably half a decade.
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