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HOUSTON — Torn anterior cruciate ligaments in the knees of athletes, especially running backs, can be worst-case injuries. Throw in a torn medial collateral ligament and sometimes you're done — kaput.
This is a case where logic doesn't seem to apply. Not only was the surgical reconstruction of Adrian Peterson's left knee not career-threatening, it seems to have been career-enhancing.
Less than a year removed from surgery performed by Dr. James Andrews — both ligaments were ripped clean through and the cartilage also was damaged — Peterson has slashed and gashed opposing defenses so effectively this fall that he's suddenly within striking distance of Eric Dickerson's NFL single-season rushing record. Not coincidentally, the 8-6 Vikings, who finished 3-13 in 2011, must be taken seriously as a postseason contender.
He needs 294 yards over the final two games, the next Sunday against the Houston Texans at Reliant Stadium, to surpass the 2,105 Dickerson accumulated for the Los Angeles Rams nearly three decades ago.
To be sure, 294 is a lot of yards for anybody to pick up on back-to-back weekends, certainly at the end of a grueling season. It would seem to be too many, in fact.
But so are 1,313. That's how many Peterson has run for since Oct. 21, most in the NFL all-time for an eight-game stretch. And only O.J. Simpson, Jim Brown and Walter Payton have gained more over 14 games than his 1,812.
Another tidbit about Peterson's total — it's the same amount Houston's Arian Foster has run for all season.
Fast company for a guy who could have been crippled by the shot he took to the outside of his knee from Redskins safety DeJon Gomes on Dec. 24, 2011. Merry Christmas.
But as soon as Peterson woke up after renowned knee surgeon Andrews had put his knee back together again, he was "on a mission."
"To be honest with you, I had in my mind from the moment I got out of surgery that I was going to be back, that I was going to be good and be healthy," Peterson said. "I know that might sound crazy to you guys, but that was my mindset. Throughout the process, there were times where I was kind of down and feeling bad, but ultimately 98 percent of the time my mind was still stuck on what I'd told myself. That pushed me to continue to work hard."
Peterson insists he "envisioned myself having this type of season." But his opinion cut against the grain of conventional wisdom. If folks close to the former Oklahoma Sooners' star didn't laugh out loud at him for believing that, it was only because of their respect and affection for the man.
Vikings coach Leslie Frazier isn't the only one teetering on the brink of hyperbole lately.
"To see Adrian come back from an ACL as a running back and play the way he's playing — to be the best again — has been just amazing to watch," Frazier said.
Physical therapist Russ Paine, who supervised Peterson's rehab in Houston, did not for a moment believe a season of this magnitude would have been possible.
"I've treated a lot of people who have gotten back to their sport fairly quickly and played well," Paine said. "But for him to do it better than anybody else, maybe better than anybody is history ... that's ridiculous."
But Paine has a theory as to why it was possible.
"The intensity Adrian showed on the field translated into his rehab," he said. "But he didn't have the bravado, which takes away the focus from some guys. I learned from another therapist that when (an athlete) has surgery, he's either not as good as he was before or he's better. But he's never the same. Going through this brought out something in (Peterson's) brain, in his thought process, and in his body that drove him to another level."
On the first day of training camp, Peterson told Frazier he was ready to go. The Vikings, of course, weren't remotely willing to take any chances. They kept Peterson completely out of harm's way until opening day, when he carried 17 times for 84 yards against Jacksonville.
"Going back to that first ballgame, the way he played when you consider he hadn't had any real contact in the preseason, I was like 'Wow!'" Frazier said. "I knew then there was something different (going on). But I couldn't have imagined he'd have more than 1,800 yards after 14 games."
Peterson exploded for 212 in the Vikings' 36-22 win at St. Louis last week, the second time he has surpassed 200 during his eight-week charge. And while he's adamant leading the Vikings into the playoffs is his highest priority, he admitted breaking Dickerson's record is on his mind.
Dickerson, from Sealy, was a hero of Peterson's when he was young. In fact, Peterson wanted to wear Dickerson's No. 29 in high school in Palestine, saying, "The only reason I got 28 instead was because (29 wasn't available). To pass that milestone that's been there for what, 28 years (since 1984), it would mean a lot. (Dickerson) set the bar for running backs. It has inspired me to get there and break it."
Only three running backs, all of them Pro Football Hall of Fame members, have run for more yards in 14 games in the same NFL season than the Vikings' Adrian Peterson:
Player Team Year Yards
O. J. Simpson Bills 1973 2,003
Jim Brown Browns 1963 1,863
Walter Payton Bears 1977 1,852
O. J. Simpson Bills 1975 1,817
Adrian Peterson Vikings 2012 1,812
Note: NFL changed from 14- to 16-game regular season in 1978.
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I could not get the face right and used water to remove the paint on her face. When it dried and I tried to clean it up suddently [sic] the face of Jesus appeared so clearly. It struck me that Jesus face on the Statue of Liberty sends an incredible message that the real light that our country has sent in the past, and needs to send once again today, is we are a nation that stands on His Word This was only my 4th try at a painting I had no idea of how to paint the face of Jesus, nor was I trying to do so.
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Arroje aquí todo lo que corrompe (Throw away everything that corrupts here); that was the slogan that the Argentinian collective Grupo Escombros printed in 1993 on a rubbish bag to accompany the magazine-box Biopsia 2. Striking slogans and plays on words, combined with powerful images, have often been used by many artists, groups and movements over the course of the last century. Under the title On the Margins of Art. Creation and Political Engagement and curated by Guy Schraenen, the
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Through a selection of printed materialsmagazines, artists books, posters and flyersthat weave together three strands (art, political cause and print dissemination), the exhibition On the Margins of Art. Creation and Political Engagement illustrates the different ways in which art and political engagement came together during the second half of the 20th century. Most of the pieces date to the period from 1960 to 1980, when artistic forms underwent a particularly profound transformation. In order to embrace certain historic precedents, however, the exhibition begins chronologically with two surrealist tracts (loose sheets of text put out to broadcast declarations of principles) dating to 1933 and 1936 respectively, before jumping to the 1960s, a decade which saw the publication of numerous periodicals devoted to informing about developments in art, politics and culture.
These include Konkret, a radical left-wing publication which first began to circulate around German university circles in 1961. The editor-in-chief of Konkret, which described itself as an independent cultural and political magazine, was Ulrike Mainhoff, who left in 1969 to join the armed group Rote Armee Fraktion. A few years later, Provo, a Dutch movement that embodied an amalgam of Dada, anarchism and irony, launched the magazine of the same name (1965-1967). The first issue of Provo, subtitled Revo, was immediately confiscated and destroyed by the police. For their part, the magazines Internationale Situationniste (1957-1969) and The Situationist Times (1962-1967) stand out amongst the many publications circulated by the Situationist International to report on the intense theoretical activity generated by the movement, which was in stark contrast with uses being made of the visual arts. The appropriation by fine artists of resources from popular culture with the aim of simplifying their messages and reaching broader audiences is a constant throughout the history of engaged art, as is clearly illustrated in the pamphlet Ten Days that Shook the University, jointly published by the Situationists and Strasbourg University students in 1967, during the preliminaries to the May68 revolts.
Many fine artists were also members of the countless groups that rose up in protest in spring 1968, some designing the posters printed and distributed from the ateliers of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the direction of Gérard Fromanger to spread protest messages. Most went unsigned, however, for the individual artists eschewed any protagonism in order to place all the emphasis on the content. These posters are characterised by their powerful visual impact and simple slogans, at times subtle, indirectIl faut du noir pour sortir du rougeon a poster by Degottexat others clear, forceful: Voter contre [le] capital ne suffit pas.
Similar ideas to those defended in May68 began to circulate again the following year, at the festival held in Charlottenburg, Denmark, to commemorate the second centenary of the citys Royal Academy of Art. For the occasion, the historian Troels Andersen, who supported non-violent anarchist ideas, created the 200 Festival Bulletin, which was published daily from 8 to 18 June 1969 and featured contributions from many artists, including Herman de Vries, Marc Adrian and Tom Kugiers, who used such techniques as collage, image manipulation and combinations of typed and handwritten texts for their interventions in this publication exploring to the full the dual levels of readingssemantic and visualto which the printed page lends itself.
Radically creative use of language is amongst the most important resources employed by visual artists seeking to transmit striking messages aimed at awakening consciences. There is little doubt, moreover, that the powerful influence of visual and concrete poetry is noted in such works. Although such art forms have nearly always remained the domain of the few, the habitually low print runs condemning them to limited circulation, visual poetrys capacity to exploit and transcend linguistic conventions, combined with its innovative combination of word and image on the two-dimensional support of the page, exercised a powerful influence over politically-engaged movements and art groups throughout the 20th century. The exhibition includes several publications that occupy a position on the border between visual poetry and engaged art, including the series of materials by the Textruction group published by the École Spéciale dArchitecture of Paris in 1972, and Ovum, a Uruguayan magazine published by Clemente Padín at around the same time.
Many Latin-American artists built on these uses of language throughout the second half of the 20th century, particularly during the dictatorial periods in the 1960s and 70s, when they frequently fell victim to aggressive policies of state repression. In such cases, however, the motivation behind this creative use of language was not only aesthetic, but was also born, to a large extent, of the need to get around the censor and evade government control in order to put social protest messages into circulation. The slogan ¡Basta de corturas!, coined by Clemente Padín (s.d.), is an illustrative example of such ploys, and more can be found in much of Edgardo Antonio Vigos vast output over the course of his life, as well as the post-art works that Vigo himself did so much to promote. For this exhibition, we have selected two magazine-boxes edited by Vigo: Biopsia 2 (1993), by Grupo Escombros, a protest against corruption headed by the slogan Arroje aquí todo lo que corrompe on a rubbish bag; and Biopsia 4 (1997), by Juan Carlos Romero, entitled Memoria de la material, paying homage to the disappeared and other victims of repression during the Argentinian dictatorship.
Two particular cases in point are the Black Panthers, a black civil rights group active above all in the 1960s and early-70s, and the Guerrilla Girls, who rose to fame in the 1980s, their members remaining anonymous in order to ensure that the focus of attention remained firmly set on their messages decrying gender inequality. However, protests about discrimination are not exclusive to groups that consider themselves minorities, but often have a sadly general nature, responding to situations in which institutional or any other power becomes an instrument of domination. The image that Klaus Staeck chose to frame symbolically in his 1975 poster, accompanied by the slogan Lart daujourdhui na pas lieu au musée, shows a policeman beating a demonstrator; in his artists book T.V. Folk-Dance: Tango of Violencia (1977), Jürgen Harten replicates a similar situation in which the characters featured in the struggleone in uniformare simplified, reduced to silhouettes; Jenny Holzer takes this reductive process even further, embodying her protest in the single phrase that occupies the entire cover of a book published in 1983: Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise.
Many artists turn to subverting the symbolic systems on which power rests as a way of denouncing social injustices and inequalities. This often involves not only manipulating the iconography of maps, as in Julio Plazas book Poé/lítica (1977), but also the creative alteration of official documents and symbols: Alfredo Jaars passport and maps (1992); the dollar notes perforated by gunshots in Samarals Bang, bang, bang: 3 billetes; Cildo Meireles and his counterfeit Brazilian cruzeiros; and the redesign of the German flag proposed by K. P. Bremer in the poster Korrektur der Nationalfarben (1973) all provide examples of such graphic reinterpretation and critical appropriation. However, political power and its representatives are not the only object of such protests: as the media became more and more powerful socially, artists reacted against this new hegemony with such works as Rabascalls poster for the exhibition Villeparisis (1974) and Richard Serras message You are consumed. You are the product of television (1973). Moreover, a similar stance is often taken against the art system itself: amongst other materials, Les Levines poster No New Artists (1992) and the message that provides the title to Jean Toches book I Piss on the Arts (2001), illustrate such attitudes to perfection.
From the 1980s on, other social and political found their reflection in art: the ecology, questions relating to ethnic and national identity, the fight against Aids, gay and lesbian visibility and the exclusion of immigrants are amongst the other issues highlighted in the materials selected for this exhibition, which reach our times with violent protests against the Iraq War and the Guantanamo detention centre, amongst other causes.
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Roberts Blossom, a veteran character actor who played the old, white-bearded next-door neighbor who befriends young Macaulay Culkin in the hit movie "Home Alone," has died. He was 87.
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In New York in the '60s, he formed Filmstage, which has been described as a seminal multimedia avant-garde theater troupe. He retired from acting in the late '90s.
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Google shows a YMCA at 26111 Ynez Rd (Winchester and Ynez). Is this the one? I don't know of any courts there -- but I'm pretty new to the area. Temecula Valley High School would be closer for me.
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A day after the Fort Worth ISD sued Chesapeake Energy over its royalty payment practices, the Star-Telegram filed its own suit against the natural gas producer, alleging two Chesapeake units improperly deducted costs from royalties on one lease and has failed to pay royalties on another. The suit seeks between $200,000 and $1 million in damages. A number of royalty owners in the Barnett Shale, including the cities of Fort Worth and Arlington, and in other states have sued Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake over similar issues. In one of the largest such cases, the company last year paid $7.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleging underpayments of royalties.
According to the Star-Telegram's suit, filed in state court in Fort Worth, the Star-Telegram signed two leases with Chesapeake, one in Tarrant County in 2007 and one in Johnson County in 2010. On the Tarrant County lease, the suit says Chesapeake "impermissibly deducted certain costs and expenses from the royalties due Star-Telegram. Further, it appears as though Chesapeake has failed to properly pay Star-Telegram on the full volumes of gas that are applicable to Star-Telegram's royalty share." In the Johnson County lease, the suit alleges Chesapeake began production from wells on a unit that includes the Star-Telegram's lease as early as March 2011, but the Star-Telegram has never received any royalties on it.
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Citizens have the right to open government and to the information their governments have.
Sometimes we all need to be reminded of that core constitutional principal, and we need to remind our elected, appointed and hired public servants at all levels — from Washington, D.C., to our local villages — that they don't own their jobs or the information and processes they use to do those jobs. Data collected and information obtained with taxpayer money, for use by elected officials and bureaucrats, is the property of the taxpayers, not the bureaucrats or their elected or appointed bosses.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo used the annual Sunshine Week — an initiative to raise awareness of the importance of open government and freedom of information, this year March 11-17 — to announce a new web portal that might go far in satisfying the public's need for and access to the information and data it owns.
Open.ny.gov is the URL address of the new website, which provides user-friendly, one-step access to data collected by state agencies, local municipalities and authorities and the federal government. The site features economic development, health, recreation and public services information. It was launched specifically during Sunshine Week, the governor said, to "raise awareness about the importance of open government."
The governor signed an executive order directing all state agencies to aggregate information and put it on the site. He cannot, however, order counties, towns or villages to do the same.
Several counties and cities, including Suffolk County, had already signed on to provide data to the public through the website at its inception. Within three days of the launch, Nassau County and the City of Long Beach joined them. Nonetheless, while some 25 towns and several villages have signed on, the Town of Hempstead has not.
Susan Trenkle-Pokalsky, the town's spokeswoman, told the Herald that the town was never asked to join the governor's web portal. "We were not aware of the website," Trenkle-Pokalsky said, "but now that we are aware of it, we will take a look and consider perhaps signing on."


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5 Ice Creams We Will All Scream For
Ice cream is one of my favorite things to eat. Not only because it's readily available, but it also comes in a plethora of flavors. There truly is an ice cream out there for everyone no matter what ingredients you prefer. You can even opt for dairy-free ice cream!
If you're a straight up ice cream lover, you'll most definitely want to try the Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream recipe from Dinner And Dessert — it truly sounds like an ice cream lovers dream! If you want something a little less dairy filled, the Tropical Dairy-free No Churn Ice Cream from Simply Gluten-Free sounds absolutely delicious.
See, that's the thing about the wonderful world of ice cream, there's really no wrong or right way to do it. It's all about what you want out of your ice cream, because after all, it makes people happy! Here are 5 ice cream recipes we will all scream for:
• Tropical Dairy-free No Churn Ice Cream, Simply Gluten-Free
• Blueberry Frozen Yogurt, One Ordinary Day (Not technically ice cream, I know!)
• 1 Minute Berry Ice Cream, Jamie Oliver
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream, Dinner And Dessert
• Dairy-Free Chocolate Coconut Ice Cream, Savory Sweet Life
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Ozzy Osbourne Announces Show In South Korea
Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne has been announced as a headliner for the Hyundai Card Citybreak Music Festival, taking place at the World Cup Stadium in Seoul, South Korea on August 9 and 10.
The Korea Herald reports that Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, who recently debuted his upcoming single 'Lightouse', is also slated to perform during the festival, as will Psy of 'Gangnam Style' fame. Hoobastank and Maroon 5 are two of the other major Western acts on the bill. Last year's inaugural event featured Metallica, Muse and Iggy & the Stooges.
Ozzy's appearance at the festival will be his first solo show in quite some time. He, of course, has been busy touring the world with Black Sabbath on their massively successful tour in support of their album, '13.'
Speculation has recently run rampant over precisely what the future of Black Sabbath holds. Ozzy has said that if their early July show in London does indeed mark the end of the band, that they will be going out on a high note. Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, however, has said that the band is approximately at the halfway mark of making a new album.


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We are working with the above languages and techniques. We also use Elastic Search so its evident you have a broad experience with that.
Your job is to build and maintain the platform for these apps. Your direct partner is the product owner and together you will create magic!
We believe strongly in teamwork and therefore we invest in finding and keeping the best developers. We are a very small and effective young company thats (will be) disruptive in the travel industry. No long meetings or other bureaucratic shit. Just make beautiful apps that make people happy.
So if you have 3 to 5 years of experience with the above mentioned skills you could be one of us. However, we are looking for people that really can think in the team spirit and write code by seeing a smiling end user in front of you. Show us the amazing work you did so far and perhaps we become best friends.
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Rio de Janeiro: Ronaldinho says his former Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi will one day be overtaken as the world`s best player by Brazil`s promising star Neymar.
Ronaldinho said he expected Messi to win the Ballon d`Or for a record fourth consecutive time in January ahead of Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo but Neymar will be the best in the future, reports Xinhua.
"Cristiano has been making history for many years now, but Messi is the best in the world, and one day Neymar will be the best," Ronaldinho said.
At 20, Neymar has already scored 54 goals from 102 first-team appearances for Brazilian top-flight club Santos. He has also netted 17 times in 27 matches for Brazil`s national team.
Ronaldinho paid tribute to Messi, who Sunday became the highest goalscorer in a calendar year by surpassing German great Gerd Muller`s record of 85 set in 1972.
"For me Messi is the best in the world," he added. "For the last few years he has played at a level of football we have never seen before."
"I`m very proud to speak of him, because I was there when he started off and now he is the best in the world, it makes me so happy."
"The game I remember the most is when he scored his first goal, because it came from my pass and I remember this game most vividly because he was just getting started."
"I had the chance to be there and live that moment. I`m very happy that his first professional goal came from a pass from me. Messi knows that there will always be a place in my heart for him."


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Friday, May 21, 2010
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It can be found at http://dezsays.net
I will ocassionally be posting posts over here to allow for feedback but the most update to date info can be found at the new site.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Friday News and Notes
After a HR and some hard hit balls, the Twins found themselves down by one. The next inning, the Hometown kid, Joe Mauer tied the game with clutch a two out HR. Next inning, Gardner singles with Teixeira driving him in next at bat with a single. The bright spot of the bottom of the inning was a beautiful throw by Delmon to nail Teixeira at the plate.
The seventh inning was the most important inning of the game. In the top of the seventh, the M&M boys got it going with two RBIs. The bottom of the inning couldn't have gone worse for the Twins with a single and then a double. The Twins then walk Teixeira to load the bases for Alex Rodriguez. Gardy decides to bring in Matty Guerrier (who was 4-6 with two HRs A-Rod) to face Rodriguez. Rodriguez gets a ball that hung and drove to left-center to give the Yankees a 7-4 lead. The Twins could not recover after this. This was a huge key to the game. Gardy went against numbers (claiming he never knew them). By putting in the gopher-baller Matty Guerrier, Gardy could have ultimately cost the Twins the game and possibly the series.
Interview: Jeff Manship
Dez: When did you first play baseball?
Jeff: I first started playing T-ball when I was five in a local Little League.
Dez: Did you play any other sports growing up?
Jeff: I played basketball up until high school. After completing my 8th grade season, I realized it was not in my best interest to pursue a career in basketball. Living in the warmer weather in south Texas allowed me the opportunity to play baseball year round so once basketball ended I played with several traveling teams in the fall and winter months.
Dez: What do you do when you're not playing baseball?
Jeff: I enjoy fishing, hunting, and playing video games.
Dez: Who was your favorite player to watch when you were growing up?
Ken Griffey Jr. was my favorite player growing up. Since Griffey played for the Mariners, they were my favorite team to watch. During my first spring training with the Twins I got to pitch in a big league game against the Reds in Sarasota. The first hitter of the inning and first big league hitter that I ever faced was Griffey. It was one of the greatest moments getting to face my childhood hero.
Dez: How popular is baseball at Notre Dame?
Jeff: Although we always had a successful baseball team, we still had trouble gaining the same popularity as the football and basketball teams, but that was no surprise really. Kinda hard to compete with such a storied program like the football team. The cold weather really wasn't too favorable for the fans. The first month of our season was played down south, usually in tournaments in Texas and Florida.
Jeff: I'd have to say all the friends I've made. The Twins have an organization filled with great guys and it's been a pleasure getting to know them. Everybody has gotten along well on every
team that I've played for and that always makes things more fun.
Dez: What is the hardest of your career in baseball?
Jeff: The travel and being away from family for so long is probably the toughest aspect in professional baseball.
Dez: What is your greatest achievement so far?
Jeff: Receiving the call-up to the big leagues and earning my first victory against the Royals were my greatest achievements so far.
Dez: Is there a favorite player that you like to have play behind you?
Jeff: Probably Denard Span. He is a very gifted outfielder and has the ability to run down balls and make plays that many can't.
Dez: What is the hardest part about being a pitcher?
Jeff: I would say pitching effectively even when you know you don't have your best stuff that day. It happens to every pitcher, but you have to find a way to still get the job done. I feel like those are the days that really show what a pitcher has internally. You really have to fight and work so much harder to achieve favorable results.
Dez: If you were not a pitcher what position would you play?
Jeff: I'm not really sure about that. Maybe a DH. I used to play the middle infield and started pitching when I was 10. Once I began pitching, that's all I wanted to do. I would get more frustrated with myself for making an error in the infield than I would if I gave up a homerun. Maybe it was due to the fact that I felt like I was letting the pitcher down if I didn't make all the plays. When I was a senior in high school I played third base and made about five errors in three games. If I managed to catch the ball I'd throw a sinker to first base that usually bounced a foot in front of the first baseman. The coach and I decided it was probably not in either of our best interests for me to stay at third so I moved to DH when I wasn't pitching. I always enjoyed hitting and found some success in that role.
Dez: How was it coming up to the big leagues in August?
Jeff: It was a dream come true. I felt great knowing that I had accomplished a goal that I had set for myself at such a young age.
Dez: Did you learn anything while up in the Majors and if so how would this differ from what you could have learned down in Rochester?
Jeff: I was made aware of how necessary it is to throw more strikes. Hitters are much more patient and will make you work much harder. They don't make mistakes by swinging at bad pitches and helping you out. Also, hitters aren't afraid to hit with two strikes. I still had to make a very solid pitch to retire a hitter even when I was ahead in the count.
Dez: When did you start preparing for the 2010 season?
Jeff: I started working out right after the World Series ended. My workouts started out light and gradually built up over time.
Dez: What are your goals for the 2010 season? Is there an area you would like to improve in?
Jeff: I would definitely like to either make the team right out of spring training or get called up soon after. In addition, I'd like to establish myself as a reliable starter and stay with the team and out of the minors. An area I'd like to improve in would be to get ahead in counts more often and retire hitters with fewer pitches. I felt that I wasted too many pitches last season which prevented me from going deep into games.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Saturday New and Notes
The Twin-Keys Show. We had Seth Stohs and Jack Steal on when the news broke.)that Jose Mijares would be going down to the DL. The Twins recall Alex Burnett who was optioned down to Rochester on Wednesday(Burnett has yet to throw a pitch at Rochester this season).
In a much shorter game, the Rockies' Ubaldo Jiménez threw the first no-hitter in Rockies history. Jiménez threw out of the stretch and was still throwing strong in the 9th inning with his fastball being clocked at 95. Jiménez becomes the first player to throw a no-hitter with a first name starting with U. It is also the first no-hitter in Major League history to have a balk in it.
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Friday, April 16, 2010
Under the Lights
Here are the lineups for tonight.
David DeJesus - RF
Scott Podsednik - LF
Billy Butler - 1B
Jose Guillen - DH
Rick Ankiel - CF
Alberto Callaspo - 3B
Jason Kendall - C
Yuniesky Betancourt - SS
Chris Getz - 2B
Starting Pitcher: RHP Zack Greinke
Span - CF
Hudson - 2B
Mauer - C
Morneau - 1B
Kubel - DH
Cuddyer - RF
Young - LF
Hardy - SS
Harris - 3B
Starting Pitcher: RHP Scott Baker
Keys to the game
Key 1: Patience
When one wise Chinese Proverb says " Patience is a virtue", they must have been referring to Zack Greinke. If the Twins are going to tonight, they need to take pitches, extending not only the inning but also the pitch count. The AL Cy Young winner had a rough last outing giving up four earn through six and two-thirds innings.
Key 2: The Little Things
The need to capitalize on the weak throwing arm of Jason Kendall. This will help move runner into scoring position. The Twins will need men to get runners on and advance them. Small ball could help win this game if that bats don't get going right away.
Make sure to check out my podcast tomorrow morning at 10 Central. We will have Seth Stohs of sethspeaks.net , Jack Steal of Fanaticjacktalkstwins.blogspot.com , Thrylos98 of tenthinningstretch.blogspot.com and Jim Mandelaro who is a beat writer for the Rochester Redwings.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Twin-Keys Behind the Name / April 11-Game 3
Span, CF
Hudson, O, 2B
Mauer, C
Morneau, 1B
Cuddyer, RF
Young, D, LF
Hardy, SS
Harris, B, DH
Punto, 3B
Blackburn, RHP
Pierre, LF
Beckham, 2B
Quentin, RF
Konerko, 1B
Kotsay, DH
Rios, CF
Pierzynski, C
A. Ramirez, SS
Teahen, 3B
Buehrle, LHP
Key 1- Bulpen
It is no surprise that the bullpen is the key to this game. In order for the Twins to win, the Twins need to get into the bullpen. After two extra-innings, the White Sox bullpen is exhausted.
Key 2- Starting Pitching
If the Twins want to win, Nick Blackburn needs to get the team off to a good start. Blackburn is his last outing went 6 2/3 innings while allowing only three runs. Blackburn needs to throw first-pitch strikes. When doing this opponennts bat .280 against, and it get significantly lower with a 0-2 count, .220.
Key 3- Situational Hitting
In low scoring games, every run matters. That is what the Twins have been faced with these past two games. The "bunt to get the runner over" or "hitting to the right side" could be the difference maker in this game. Pay close attention to both teams and how they advance runner
On a side note, the Twins have the best record in baseball. Let's hope they continue this today as the Tigers are not far behind.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Podcast Tonight
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Up 34 to 13 late in game, 4th and about a foot the classy thing wouldve been to kick the fg. Instead he goes for it and runs up the score.
Sure, we shouldve been able to stop them, but it was a classless move on his part.
I guess this gives us ammo for next year.


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Catalog Spotlight! Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam ~ !Post Reply
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Hey guys,
SailorBee here, and we're starting up a new feature each month where we introduce and discuss an awesome title from Crunchyroll's HUGE catalog library! This month, we're going with one of my personal favorites from many years ago: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam ~ !!!
For any Gundam fan, the UC (Universal Century) is where it's at.
For those of you who may be new, or just newer fans of the iconic franchise known as Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is a pillar among the fandom.
I don't even like saying "for the 1980's the animation was great" since I personally think almost ALL of the anime in the 80's looked better than the stuff today. BUT -- For the 80's Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam had some of the VERY BEST ANIMATION.
The presentation of the entire series is grandiose and full of overly dynamic characters who do not lack flaws, are ambitious and quirky. Completely likeable, shippable and above all relatable. It's the classic, "massive collection of self-interests and conspiracies" clashing on the intergalactic battlefield. Heard this one before? Not like this you haven't!!!
The year is Universal Century 0087.
Humanity has once again settled into an eerie sense of "peace", the One-Year War is over. In order to maintain this status quo, the Earth Federation has given a special military division, the Titans, the authority to monitor the colonies.
This division uses any means necessary to force compliance, whether it is propaganda, forceful censorship, or genocide. In order to combat the Titans' tyranny, the Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG) has assembled a group a dissidents and amassed the funds and weapons to wage another war. The AEUG's ranks are significantly bolstered when a Newtype (awakened psychic) named Kamille Bidan joins the fray in a Gundam.
For those of you who wonder just why the Gundam franchise has lasted so long, look no further than Zeta Gundam.
Despite its age (it originally aired from 1985 to 1986), the show is still revered by much of the Japanese anime community, and the fame is not without substance. This series is, without a doubt, one of the core Gundam series' greatest incarnations as well as the milestone that solidified the franchise for the ages.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam uses a similar plot structure as the original Mobile Suit Gundam, but the story is crafted with the hands of experience and maturity. Gone are the loose strings and redundant plot devices. The show has a tight script acted out by a dynamic cast. The characters are both calculating and political, but they are also hindered by their emotions. They know what they want and how to get it, but they never are truly satisfied. As circumstances change, people die, moral stigmas emerge and characters lose sight of their initial goals and unwittingly become pawns of other, more ambitious individuals. The continuous, almost episodic, string of fights set the stage for the all this drama to play out.
In the end, the only "flaws" the show has is the heavy reliance on the back story of its predecessor, Mobile Suit Gundam.
Every self-respecting fan of the mecha genre should watch this anime. Hell, you don't even have to be a mecha fanboy/girl to enjoy this show. It is a classic that sparked a phenomenon that is still burning strong. For those still skeptical because of the show's age, I must remind you that all great stories are timeless and Zeta Gundam is no exception.
We will be having special features focusing on Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam as well as all the other Gundam series on our site this month, so start up the discussions and feel free to share with everyone your thoughts on this amazing series ~ !!! !
In honor of of very special Gundam-centered month, EVERY FRIDAY WILL FEATURE A SPECIAL DEAL OF THE DAY with Gundam related merchandise ~ !!!
♥ Streaming at the speed of Japan, DATEBAYO~ !
yes! Zeta was my most favorite of all the Universal Century series. to this day i feel like no Gundam series has reached the level of character and story development of Zeta.
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I don't know, if I were to watch any gundam I feel like I would have to watch every single gundam anime to get the right experience, if I'm wrong and have just been keeping myself from a good thing tell me why I should start watching gundam.
Nice! I definitely want to see more spotlights on the title in Crunchyroll's catalog library. Just because there's new stuff out there doesn't mean you should forget slightly older titles or the classics. And in my mind, Zeta Gundam is a classic. Hell I found the original Mobile Suit Gundam's storyline to be extremely groundbreaking and ahead of its time even for today. For a Mecha Anime, I find it odd how realistic and believable the original Gundam's storyline is and how the characters act like real human beings. It was so free (at least for the first few episodes I've watched) of a lot of mecha anime cliches we see over the years to this very day.
In any case Zeta Gundam's quite nice.
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although I was very surprised at the sheer amount of trouble Kamille caused in the first episode. I was introduced to Zeta Gundam through the first Dynasty Warriors Gundam game and he didn't seem like such a hothead in there.
I started it a while back, but didn't finish because I was distracted by other things, but I may just start it back up again. Now if only CR would pickup ZZ Gundam to complete the original trilogy. I find ZZ to be highly underrated, although I can see why no one ever brought it over to the states. Maybe people took it's intro song too seriously and thought it really wasn't an anime...
the thing with me is that if i never seen it as a child, than there no way i can handle the graphics.
and im a pretty big gundams fan, but i think the graphics and style of this one is just barable for me to watch enough to get use to the graphics. 1 more week for i can watch it though.
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Zeta is definitely a classic. Everything about it just screams gundam, and I think I might enjoy this series more than the original mobile suit gundam.
Zeta Gundam is like a fine wine, it only gets better with age. Very few Gundam shows can match up to the level of quality Zeta set, and they all have Zeta's success to thank. One of the best things about Zeta is you don't have to watch the original Gundam to understand and enjoy what is happening. If you are a mecha fan you owe it to yourself to see such a great mecha show.
I've been blasting through the entire Gundam franchise in order this past year. I'm on Victory Gundam now, but I'm missing the awesome mid-80's art style of Zeta.
i like zeta gundam but zz gundam wasnt that great i think if they hadent made chars counter attack may be i would have liked zz gundam more because it would have been interesting to have char and armuro back in zz
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I don't know, if I were to watch any gundam I feel like I would have to watch every single gundam anime to get the right experience, if I'm wrong and have just been keeping myself from a good thing tell me why I should start watching gundam.
That's completely wrong. Most Gundam series aren't actually connected to one another, most of them just exist on their own with one show with maybe a sequel and a few spinoffs. You should watch Gundam because the majority of series are well done war dramas with political conflict and moral ambiguity. If you like those sort of things, odds are you'll like Gundam. If not, go watch G-Gundam, it's more of a crazy super robot show like Gurren Lagann. If you're looking for a traditional Gundam series that you can just jump into I'd recommend the original(simply titled Mobile Suit Gundam), Gundam Seed, or Gundam 00. All three are available legally online, though Seed is only available on Youtube and not Crunchyroll.
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I love Zeta just got the last half of the series back in October at a small con. I was lucky since that was the only Gundam series they had not to mention the only collectors box so I snatched it up.
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I was interested in watching this until I saw that it followed that "all Gundam must be 50 episodes" rule. No thanks. I've seen about 5 Gundam series and my favorites are 13 episodes or less (War in the Pocket is only 6 and it's my favorite). Those massive ones just drag on forever and they start throwing in dumb crap and stumbling all over themselves for about 15-26 episodes before recovering.
I didn't like Zeta as much as I thought I would, something about Kamille being an idiot and not enough Amuro for a lead. Char, I mean Quatro was great.
That and about 2000 other things, if anything I say Zeta is a show that is good in spite of it's faults.
You want to make me happy about Zeta by the way Crunchy, add the sequel.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam brings back memories...Still love it. For some reason I am favoring 00 as my favorite right now, however, I love the gundam franchise. Now all I need is for the Big O to be added to the library. (I do have all volumes on dvd)
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I don't know, if I were to watch any gundam I feel like I would have to watch every single gundam anime to get the right experience, if I'm wrong and have just been keeping myself from a good thing tell me why I should start watching gundam.
The thing about the Gundam franchise is that there are multiple series, and each series are divided into different universes and timelines. For example, the original Gundam creator's primary series take place within the universe known as Universal Century (UC) and follows the Mobile Suit Gundam (MSG), MS Zeta Gundam, MS ZZ Gundam, MSG Char's Counterattack, MSG Unicorn, MSG Victory etc. ultimately following up almost a hundred years of war and history, showing recurring characters and plenty of new ones. The history and events that take place in that century won't have anything to do with the other Gundam series like say Gundam Seed (Cosmic era universe) or Gundam Wing (After Colony universe). To watch Zeta, at most all you'd need to do is watch the original MSG (and maybe MSG: War in the Pocket, 08th MS Team, and Stardust Memory if you want to really get a feel for other events during the first war and leading to the 2nd), but luckily Zeta was made to be easy to jump in to whether a person has seen the 1st one or not. For people who don't know about Gundam, the first thing they need to understand is that it's EXTREMELY (can't stress this enough) popular/famous in Japan. It's not just another anime, it's a household name and nationally recognized icon there, to the point where it has even been used as a recruitment symbol by the Japanese military in the past.
As far as Zeta goes itself, it is widely recognized as a masterpiece and was designed by Tomino to be as such. The Universal Centuray series are generally thought to have the best shows. First off, it's not a Super Mecha Robot show like Gurren Lagann (another fav of mine) with themes of "with hope and determination, you can overcome anything." UC Gundam is much more dark, realistic and scientific with a lot of research and theories put into it during it's creation. Characters are portrayed a lot more understandable and "human" than you would find from animes today. The plots are littered with politics carried by a serious war tone with logical combat situations. But that doesn't make it anywhere close to boring because of the aged-but-still-well-animated action, deep deep story, and understandable characters who you'd almost swear were real. Trying to write this unbiased, but I believe that it's worth a watch from any mecha/anime/Japan-loving fan(s).


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is brightness. It is the brightness
gathered up of all that went before. It lasts.
And when it does end
there is nothing, nothing
Climbing up the slope of Pilot Peak ridge into the park, the trees grew denser, diameters thicker, topography grander, history more pronounced in glacial U's and successional ecosystems, fire scars and granite. And finally, for the first time the entire trip, I came to a road I had walked before – the 1 mile stretch of trail from the Merced Grove to Hwy 120 in Yosemite National Park.
From here to the end, I followed the directions of Peter and Donna Thomas, as far as I know the only other people to have completed the walk in any official sense since Muir in 1868. The manuscript of their guidebook, soon to be published, was essential to finding my way to the Old Big Oak Flat Road that once carried stage coach passengers into the valley. Thanks to Peter and Donna Thomas, and be sure to look at their website: http://www.johnmuir.org/walk/
The Thomas's directions led uphill through Ponderosa and Sugar Pines, through the first snow crossing of the trip, and deep into the fiery late afternoon light so unique to California. The whole world was silhouetted in "hammered gold and gold enamelling," making the difficult uphill climb seem almost out of a dream. At the top stood the Crane Flat Fire Lookout, around 6600 feet above sea level. Across the helipad to the East, the frosty Sierra crests, like waves frozen before breaking, stood lively against the sky. To the West, the verdant foothills rolled into the central valley, and beyond them in the hazy distance, the coast ranges.
"My God!" I thought. "I've come all that way?" The thought was no less perplexing than when several months ago I looked east from the summit of Mt. Diablo near Oakland, and saw the white caps of the Sierra barely discernable in the distance, and thought, "My God, I'm going all that way?"
I stood for a while at the lookout, taking in the state of California. For a moment, it all made sense. No wonder Muir stayed here. No wonder he came up with a powerful and personal philosophy about conservation. He walked the state. More than once. He knew the details, from rock to plant to person and up to mountain top. He attached a significance to the story of the land itself that few others could. He inserted himself into that story bodily, intellectually, and spiritually, beginning in his second day in the state. Then the flash was gone. "Do what is right," I thought. Then I began to descend. One day left. 16 miles. Then the valley. The jewel. The end and the last. All the work, the ideas, the love of the entire trip gathered into one place for one moment. Lastness is brightness.
The next morning I departed early, knowing a long day was in store. Early in the day, I climbed up further, above 7000 feet, as ponderosas grew taller and thicker, dwarfing me and seeming to put the "old" in old growth. This first uphill stint, with the air thinner at altitude, left me with doubts about whether I'd finish or not. It was May 9, I was a day or two ahead of schedule, but the gravity of the park ensured I would not rest that night until I reached the valley floor, even though it meant a blazing pace over difficult terrain and no stops for food (a lot of trail mix).
Near Tamarack Flat campground, my doubts grew as long stretches of the trail were covered in snow. The map showed major stream crossings ahead – Tamarack Creek, Cascade Creek, Fireplace Creek, Ribbon Creek. None of these would have bridges or easy crossings, and finding a way across the freezing, sometimes waist deep water required a slow and careful advance.
Finally I arrived at a junction with Old Big Oak Flat Road, used as a stage coach road in the latter half of the 1800's, and no longer maintained by the park service. It quickly became apparent that trail maintenance might indeed have a profound ecological impact – this unmaintained trail was often close to impassable – downed trees, washouts, overgrowth of thick chaparral. Again, would I make it? And if not, where would I sleep? No time for that now. Keep walking. In clearings I was moving quickly, but all the obstacles dropped my pace to under 2 mph, very slow.
Had the old road not been so difficult, it would have been something akin to the last stage of the tour de france, where the cyclists ride with champagne glasses, knowing the outcome of the race, and with the scenery of Paris playing center stage. I reached the old road's "O my! Point," the first view of Bridalveil falls, unexpectedly around a corner. Those Victorians must have had a different sensibility than my own – I think my exact words were "Ooo s**t!" I could see now why spring was the high season for the valley, why for the next week every campground in the park would be full every night. I had only been to the park in winter or summer, and the waterfalls never pumped like this. Though I did not share Muir's misinterpretation of the scale of the falls, I was entirely unprepared for the grandeur of the waterworks. Never before have I seen water move with such declarative, willful force, uncompromising and exuberant at the same moment. A turkey vulture swooped close overhead, accenting the grand precipice below me and the unapproachable cliffs opposite. After a long pause to try to get some reckoning of the falls, I gave up and move on.
Soon afterward, a massive rockslide covered much of the trail, making for very slow going and difficult route finding. Again, if not for the difficulty this would have been a luxurious treat. Every time I emerged from tree cover a new monument was visible: first bridalveil, then the top of El Capitan, then the entire rock face, then Half Dome and Cloud's Rest, Ribbon Creek falls, and finally Sentinel Dome (which I'd climb later in the week) and a grand view through the gates of the valley. If not for the boulders I think I might have started running.
This entire time I couldn't help marveling at the daring and splendor of this old road. At an age when man was constantly measuring himself mechanically against the forces of nature, this road would have certainly been impressive. To many, it might have been a hopeful symbol of progress, though to others, perhaps to Muir, a fearful portent of things to come.
What things? I had not seen anyone on the trail in several days. Arriving in the valley, at the base of El Capitan, I was greeted by speeding cars, swarming crowds, picnics, photographs, rock climbers, view seekers. The valley was packed, overrun even, on the second Saturday in May. While the big trees in the mountains above spoke to resource protection, the crowds certainly identified the public enjoyment stipulation of the national park system. On the one hand, I was glad to see so many enjoying the park, thinking in particular of those select few who might be inspired to work for its preservation. On the other hand, I was struck by the "Disneyland" aspect of it all – one representative sample, perhaps now a memorial, of what nature might once have been like. The grandeur of the valley walls providing enough exaggeration of the myth to demand respect. Again, I can see the underpinning for choosing "circus" landscapes, as they tell a more compelling story about the power of nature and the consequent importance of its preservation. Again it seemed clear that in spite of all the good parks do, there is a need to stretch conservation beyond park borders, and to reintegrate not just "green" products, but nature and landscapes back into the human dominated world.
Through the crowds parked on El Capitan Bridge, I saw a familiar face, and couldn't hide a smile. There was my dad, who had flown to California to meet me for the end of the trip. After calls to my mom and sister, the journey was complete. We found a likable spot in El Capitan meadow and ate bagels, cheddar, nutella, and peanut butter. San Francisco to Yosemite Valley. April 6 – May 9, 2009.
The lines quoted at the top are from the final poem of Galway Kinnell's Book of Nightmares. In many ways, "Lastness" is a poem about death. It describes the persistence of life beyond death through connections with the surrounding world. For Kinnell, many of these connections come from the natural world. Life exists outside the borders of the skin, just as nature exists outside the borders of a park. At times new perspective requires the grandeur or terror of big places and big ideas. Journeys then do not provide an end, but instead a beginning, just as in the poem, death is not an end, rather a brightness that lasts. Indeed, what ended with Muir's walk continues now through conservation efforts worldwide, and the occasional walker. For me, the end of the walk is as much a beginning as an end. The world of the walk may be at an end, and in a way that is disappointing – in Muir's words, the days of the walk were some of the "largest days of my life." But so many ideas and questions were generated, so much new perspective acquired – the brightness of the trip, from beginning to end, will last. I hope that I can generate the same kind of lastness through my own efforts, though I don't expect the same amount of acclaim or success that Muir acheived. But using experience, narrative, and perspective to fuel and to color the work and thinking I hope to do in conservation will require that kind of lastness that Muir found, the collection of experience, thought, and ambition he put into his work. And so from the end, I look back at a collection of my own time, step by step, from weary lows to triumphant highs and all the important space between. I look back at life lived differently for a while, a hearkening back to history and forward to new visions of a landscape. I look back without looking back at all, for all that took place is with me still.


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