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Murray Hill is an under-the-radar, down-to-earth district in Midtown that over the last couple decades has become the go-to neighborhood for post-grads seeking affordable rent and convenient access to transportation around Manhattan. The side streets are lined with rows of brownstones and landmark buildings, while newer residential buildings have risen between First and Third Avenue.
With the surplus of salons, fitness studios, and spas that thrive off the young population, Murray Hill could be an ideal location for any company looking to attract young employees or customers. Startups and small companies seeking Midtown East office space will find the lower prices of Murray Hill very attractive.
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Despite increasing costs as more residential development occurs and demand for the area increases, Murray Hill remains very affordable. Commercial tenants pay an average price-per-square-foot of around $59 for all classes and $64 for Class A buildings, compared to the Midtown averages of $79 and $87.
Murray Hill's has more than 14 million square feet in commercial real estate inventory with a vacancy rate of 7.2%, the second lowest in Midtown.
What Brokers Say About Murray Hill Office Space for Rent
Murray Hill has immediate access to a hiring pool of hard-working talent due to its steady population of young professionals. With Grand Central Station within walking distance, Murray Hill is also an ideal location for companies with employees around the city and in the northern suburbs.
The proximity of the United Nations Headquarters has led to many embassies, consulates, and permanent missions to the U.N. settling within Murray Hill, often located within the historic mansions to the west of Third Avenue. Companies with global or international interests should consider office space in Murray Hill if being near to the U.N. Headquarters is a priority.
Murray Hill also attracts a variety of medical and financial service organizations. Non-profits are prevalent in the area as well and benefit from the lower rent for office space. A few notable tenants include Morgan Stanley, HSN, Manhattan Wellness Group, MedXwaste, L3 Technologies, Sumitomo Corporation, Pajama Program, Misys, and Honest Mail.
Getting Around Murray Hill
Murray Hill is the 19th most walkable neighborhood in New York City according to Walk Score, and many residents walk to work. The district is decent for biking, with the East Side bike path along the river, protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues, and a handful of CitiBike stations.
Grand Central Terminal resides at the northwest corner of Murray Hill, and services the area with the Metro-North Railroad, subway lines 4, 5, 6, 7, and S, and multiple bus lines. The N and W trains are only a few blocks west.
Drivers will find it easy (as easy as driving in Manhattan can be) to access the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and Queensboro Bridge to Long Island City, and commuters also have access to the East 34th Street ferry stop.
Nearby districts include Gramercy, Flatiron, NoMad, Plaza District, Park Avenue, Fifth-Madison, and the Upper East Side.
Murray Hill Neighborhood & History
Named after an 18th century family of Quaker merchants, Murray Hill was once considered Uptown Manhattan and its rows of brownstones and mansions were filled with wealthy and upper-middle-class families. Murray Hill still possesses old New York City charm from that era, now with more lively and youthful energy.
Locals and daytime workers enjoy the affordable dining and bar scene Murray Hill has to offer. Favorite spots include Sons of Thunder, Gingerman, Bareburger, and Cask Bar & Kitchen. Our team recommends exploring Curry Hill, a cluster of highly rated Indian restaurants including Dhaba, Muglahi Indian Cuisine, Darbar, and Deli Galli.


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The family-friendliest movie comedy this holiday season is also the sappiest and schmaltziest.
And thanks to Billy Crystal, the shtickiest.
"Parental Guidance" is a mild-mannered riff on parenting, then-and-now. It contrasts the top-down/career-first mentality of one generation with the coddled "nurturing" of today, but never takes a stand on which is better.
Basically, it's a vehicle for Billy Crystal, and to a lesser degree Bette Midler, to riff on the spoiled, over-indulged and sometimes uptight kids their kid is raising.
Artie (Crystal) is a minor league baseball announcer who never got to his dream job, covering San Francisco Giants games. He's content to make homespun wisecracks in front of the mike for the Fresno Grizzlies. Until they lay him off before being not hip, not social media savvy.
"I'll tweet! I'll make whatever noise you want!"
His retired "weather girl" wife Diane interrupts her pole-dance aerobics class to comfort him and listen to his lies about how young he "feels."
"You're 38? Paint the house!"
Daughter Alice (Marisa Tomei) is a web designer living in Atlanta with husband Phil (Tom Everett Scott) in the totally computerized house Phil designed.
Their kids - 12-8-5 - have play dates, ball games and rehearsals. Violinist daughter Harper (Bailee Madison) would discover boys, if she wasn't stressing over a big audition that sets up her Berlin Philharmonic life plan. Turner (Joshua Rush) is a bullied stammerer whose little league doesn't keep score, denying him the chance to excel at anything. And Barker (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf) is a mop-topped terror with an imaginary kangaroo friend.
Into this world come "the OTHER grandparents," the West Coast couple that never sees them because Artie has been all about the job all his life. They're not the first choice, but Phil and Alice have a get-away planned – if only Alice can let go.
Whatever Artie and Diane did with Alice isn't good enough for Alice's kids.She takes their finicky dinner orders, by text. The kids aren't allowed sugar, are ferried hither and yon to appointments - touchy-feely speech therapy for Turner, violin lessons from a Russian "Tiger Mom" for Harper. Tofu mom Alice never lets them hear the word "No."
Crystal delivers tepidly caustic rants, Midler invokes the occasional inappropriate life lesson to Harper and Tomei struggles to find anything fun about playing a smothering mother. The laughs are, to use the old fashioned term, telegraphed, with director Andy Fickman ("The Game Plan") clearing the decks to make every laugh line a stale showcase moment for his stars. A Billy and Bette duet of "Who Wrote the Book of Love" is cute, but the setup is sluggish it has no life. A quicker, more cluttered movie would have been funnier.
There are sparks between generations, but with the exception of Madison, the child actors are in over their heads and the adults seem as if they've just met.
At least the sentimental stuff works. And the toilet jokes.
2 stars out of 4
MPAA Rating: PG for some rude humor
Cast: Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, Tom Everett Scott, Bailee Madison
Credits: Directed by Andy Fickman, written by Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse. A 20th Century Fox release.
Running time: 1:40
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Skincare at every age is important if you're trying to carry your youthful glow well into your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond. What worked in your 20s won't exactly help you in your 30s. For lifelong radiance, it's important to tailor a daily skincare regimen to what your skin needs each year.
That's where Brea O'Donnell comes in. She's a talent specialist and licensed aesthetician with PRIV, a new app that's considered a GlamSquad on steroids. Aside from just hair and nails, you can order spray tans, facials, massages, personal trainers and more straight to your home. And they're expanding—the app just hit Miami and Chicago in July and August, respectively.
O'Donnell's clients always ask how they can get back their youthful skin, and her biggest piece of advice is paying attention to your specific needs at every age. Here are O'Donnell's tips for what to do, and what products to use, to stay youthful no matter what stage your skin is in.
By starting early with a good skincare and facial routine, specifically in your early- to mid-20s, you have the ability to significantly slow down the aging process.
This may sound repetitive, but it's said over and over for good reason: wear sunscreen! UV exposure is the leading cause of aging, and unfortunately most of the damage is done at an early age. By incorporating sunscreen into your daily regimen, you are significantly slowing down the aging process. Think of it less like a sunscreen and more like a moisturizer or BB cream. By using one that smells less like the beach and more like a foundation or cream, you'll be much more likely to use it on a daily basis.
Don't forget to apply SPF to your hands and décolletage as well; the skin in these places is very thin and more susceptible to wrinkles. Prevention is everything—you'll thank yourself later.
Glossier Invisible Shield - No greasiness. No white finish. No effect on makeup. No excuse not to wear sunscreen every single day.
HydroPeptide Solar Defense Tinted SPF 30 - This creamy sunscreen adjusts to your skin tone as you blend it in. The finish is rather luminous, giving your complexion a healthy radiant glow. Ingredients like aloe, green tea, acai and hyaluronic acid round this product out to be equal parts sun protection and skincare.
St. Tropez Self Tan Express Bronzing Face Sheet Mask - Fake it 'til you make it! This revolutionary facial sheet mask is infused with a hydrating tanning serum to nourish skin, while providing a radiant, dewy glow. It's the best of both worlds.
Stop it, you are not old! Before you rush out for a quick fix like Botox, try falling in love with your skincare regimen first. If you don't love it, if it's expired, if it doesn't seem to be doing anything for you, toss it. There are so many incredible products on the market, don't waste your time or money on one that you're not excited about.
Rather than viewing it as a chore, consider your regimen more like a daily indulgence. That also goes for facials. I know what you're thinking—you don't have the time, right? Make the time. You only have one face, and later on you'll wish you had taken the time for a skincare regimen and facials.
If you do decide to use a little filler, don't consider it a replacement for good, solid skincare. One does not replace the other.
Jan Marini Skin Research Skin Care Management System - A repeat award-winner for good reason, this powerful, all-inclusive kit helps kiss signs of aging goodbye for truly transformed skin. Lines, wrinkles and sun damage will be a thing of the past.
Kevyn Aucoin The Sensual Skin Primer - This lightweight primer blends with creamy concealer to give skin a radiant, dewy finish while simultaneously helping makeup stay on longer. It also helps protect your skin against environmental pollution. The primer is formulated with botanical extracts, antioxidants and hyaluronic acid to prime and plump.
Tatcha Water Cream - What makes this moisturizer a must-have? Well, for starters, the gel-like texture feels lighter than water. As for the formula, ingredients like Japanese botanicals work to tighten pores and smooth skin, while green tea, rice and algae restore radiance and youth in your complexion. Skin is left feeling nourished and hydrated without any sticky or greasy residue, making it a great option for all skin types.
You want to age gracefully and look like the best version of yourself. So how do you do that? Collagen. By the time you are 50 years old, you've lost approximately half of the collagen you were born with. Supplements will work with your own body to rebuild what you have lost over time.
Not feeling so adventurous? Moisturize. When it comes to maximizing the potential of antiaging ingredients, or any ingredients for that matter, it's always important to moisturize. In being faithful to a good, long-lasting moisturizer and drinking plenty of water, you are slowing down the aging process significantly. Be sure to always apply your cream in an upward motion (think lifting your skin rather than pushing it down).
Lumity - Take three soft gel tablets when you wake up and three before bed. That's it. And no, it's not too good to be true.
Perricone MD H2 Elemental Energy Hydrating Booster Serum - Not a fan of thick moisturizers? Here is the perfect product for you. As a high-powered hydrating serum fueled by hydrogen, this product visibly plumps skin while also reducing the rough texture of a dry, stressed-out complexion.
Environ Intensive Revival Masque - This product is referred to as a facelift in a bottle thanks to the intense active ingredients that directly address signs of aging. It'll leave your skin looking more radiant and youthful after just one use. Lactic acid helps to boost hydration and lightly exfoliate.
They say that your eyes are the first thing to give away your age, and O'Donnell agrees. By 55, years of hard work chasing babies and husbands around have left you—well, tired.
How do you combat tired eyes? They call it beauty sleep for a reason. Countless studies have proven how important sleep is for your skin (not to mention just about everything else). Consistently aiming for eight hours of sleep, changing your pillowcase regularly, and applying a good eye cream twice daily will "wake you up" and give you a brighter and more youthful appearance.
When choosing a cream, look for one that does more than just "reduce fine lines and wrinkles." That's a given. What you need is one that hydrates, resurfaces and reduces inflammation. Retinol/Glycolic blends are your friends. While we can't control what happens at the office and at home, we can now, luckily, better control how it shows up in the mirror.
Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Concentrated Recovery Eye Mask - After 10 minutes with these eye patches, the evidence of those long days and late nights will be drastically reduced, lines will be plumped and your eyes refreshed.
KORRES Black Pine 3D Sculpting, Firming & Lifting Super Eye Serum - Taking a 360-degree approach to aging, this serum even takes your lids and lashes into account when turning back the hands of time. Panthenol moisturizes skin and nourishes lashes for younger-looking eyes, while three types of hyaluronic acid and oat-derived sugars smooth and "lift" the area for a smoother, younger appearance almost instantly.
ReVive Renewal Serum - Improve the appearance of sagging skin and wrinkles while creating a visible youthful lift. This product promises that the skin around your eyes will look more vibrant and illuminated.
Over time, skin starts to lose elasticity. It tends to take on more of a slack appearance, particularly affecting the lower part of the face as well as the neck. As we age, the skin around your lips becomes very thin, so taking care of that area becomes even more important.
Anything you can apply around your eyes can also be applied around your mouth. So after applying your eye cream, put a small amount on your finger and apply around your mouth in a light tapping motion. Don't forget your smile lines!
Le Mieux Eye & Lip Cream - This rich cream is formulated with potent antioxidants to reduce fine lines and wrinkles for a more youthful smile.
Total Eye Repair Cream by Renée Rouleau - Intended for both the eyes as well as the lips, this product is formulated with the highest concentration of wrinkle-repairing and firming ingredients to improve and correct the appearance of dryness, fatigue and expression lines. The result: radiant and smoother skin with less visible wrinkles.
Elizabeth Arden Prevage Neck and Décolleté Firm and Repair Cream - This product takes the anti-aging benefits of its Prevage line and puts them to use in a neck cream that firms skin while improving radiance.


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As a landscape professional, you may already agree with, and even employ, some of the principles of eco-green sustainable (also known as organic) landscape work.
But one important hesitation remains. How do you fight the aphids, grubs and chinch bugs that suck the life out of ornamental plants and grasses—and can ultimately kill them—without resorting to chemical pesticides? Not to mention the mosquitoes, ticks and fleas that mar people's enjoyment of their yards and gardens and spread diseases.
You're not an exterminator, but your customers expect you to control or eliminate these pests. Can you really fight them effectively, and to your clients' satisfaction, without using every weapon available?
This article started out to be about eco-green pest control—and only eco-green pest control. However, as the writing progressed, it became clear that considering organic pest control in isolation is impossible.
The one consistent message that every single expert interviewed for this story had is that environmentally safe pest control is only one facet of a complete, holistic approach known as Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
That's the method advocated by Beyond Pesticides, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. Their mission is "to provide the public with useful information on pesticides and alternatives to their use."
IPM, as defined by them, includes using tools such as "pest population monitoring and living biological controls, and then, only if nontoxic options are unreasonable and have been exhausted, [using] the least toxic pesticides."
"We call the old, conventional approach 'S.A.S.—See'em and Spray- 'em,'" said Philip Catron, president and CEO of NaturaLawn, a chain of eco-green lawn care franchises. "Unfortunately, many companies still practice that as opposed to doing IPM."
The organic philosophy has paid off for Natura Lawn.
Started in Catron's basement in 1986, the Frederick, Maryland-based company now has 24 locations across the U.S.
IPM was a concept also touted by Thomas Kelly, co-owner of Natural Technologies, an Auburn, New Hampshire-based company that makes organic soil amendments.
The firm also distributes natural pest control products exclusively to landscape companies that are members of its "BeeSafe" network.
"When you're using organic practices, insect control products are seldom necessary," says Kelly. "When soil biology is very active, the plants that grow from that very healthy soil are strengthened by it. When you use fertilizers and pesticides, you're sterilizing the environment that you are growing from."
"You're killing the biology of the soil and all the beneficial bacteria in it. This opens you up to all kinds of problems, and allows insects to be much more damaging," he added.
When you're thinking about eco-green pest control, these professionals stress that you don't just look at the bugs, but look at the soil first. Organic practices build stronger plants, according to them. And stronger plants stand up to the attack of insects, weeds, and disease much better.
Kelly uses an illustration from his New England region to explain. "When you're driving down those rolling hills in Vermont, there's all this pasture that's the greenest green you've ever seen in your life. There's no chinch bug or grub damage visible. Why? Because it's been pooped on by cows for 200 years. Nobody's fertilizing it or spraying it. It's biologically active."
"When you're taking a more holistic approach to growing turf and plants in general, the idea is to keep them healthy," said Catron. "You don't need to apply what I call the 'systemic antibiotics' (which includes pesticides.)" Just as a doctor starts a physical with a blood test to get a baseline, NaturaLawn begins their program with a "soil blood test," to see what amendments are needed, if any. This test is repeated throughout the year.
"The most important thing to know is that when you're taking the organic road, it's not a simple product-for-product swap-out," says Chip Osborne, owner of Osborne Organics, LLC in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
A horticulturalist for 40 years, he used to run a commercial greenhouse and was "a frequent pesticide user." Fifteen years ago, while still in the greenhouse industry, he taught himself how to grow organically after suffering headaches, dizzy spells and shortness of breath from pesticide exposure.
Now he does eco-green turf management and consulting for large estates, horse pastures and football fields.
Through Beyond Pesticides, Osborne teaches workshops for other green industry professionals making the transition to eco-friendly.
"It's very common for someone who hasn't been trained in these methods to say, 'Okay, I've used this product to kill a bug, this one to kill a weed, this one to fertilize—what are my organic alternatives?' That's a recipe for immediate failure." You can't simply plug green solutions into the conventional ones, he says. Instead, one needs to get a complete education and training in organic practices.
Osborne said that in his pre-green days, he would "pump plants up with synthetic fertilizer. They would get soft and lush, and then insects and diseases would move in. Then I needed to constantly apply pesticides to control that. It sets up a vicious cycle. The more synthetic fertilizer you put in, the weaker the plants get, and the more you need the pesticides."
"Weeds, insects and diseases are all symptoms of systemic problems," said Bob Dahm, an environmentally-friendly landscape contractor, and owner of Organic Bob, LLC in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. "They're like wolves around a buffalo herd, going after the weakest member. If you've got a bug attacking a particular plant, you have to look at the microbiology of the soil and treat the underlying problem, not the symptom."
Dahm grew up on a farm in Iowa. He embraced the organic method after watching his father, grandfather and several other relatives— farmers all—succumb to cancer. He believes their cancers resulted from their lifelong exposure to farm chemicals, especially pesticides.
If you want to do eco-green pest control, you'll have to change your mindset, not necessarily your customers.' They may be ahead of you.
Catron's NaturaLawn franchises span the country from the East Coast to California, and he's seen "no pushback" from any particular region. "I [started the business] because I figured that there was a big niche market out there. But you have to be honest with people and tell them the truth."
And that, according to Catron, means debunking the "green myth"—that lawns will always be absolutely weed-free and constantly green, all year 'round. It includes the notion that there's a chemical answer to every problem.
"About ten percent of people don't care if you use a nuclear cocktail on their lawns if it keeps away things that they perceive to be "bad," weeds and insects," says Catron. "But the vast majority, 80 percent, want reasonably nice-looking lawns, and are willing to understand and live with a few problems. They understand that a lawn is a living system."
You can find a list of the least toxic pesticides on the Beyond Pesticides website at www.beyondpesticides.org. It includes boric acid, dessicant dusts such as diatomaceous earth and silica gel, microbe-based pesticides and pesticides made with essential oils (not including pyrethrums).
However, we're not going to conclude this article by giving you a list of eco-friendly substitutions for chemical pesticides.
Yes, you can use nematodes and milky spore to kill grubs, boric acid to kill chinch bugs and citrus extracts to kill fleas. There's also neem oil, orange oil and others. But remember what Osborne said. To institute an organic pest control system successfully, you have to educate yourself about the entire holistic method. And that starts, literally, from the ground up.
It's about building better plants, not bigger biological bombs to nuke the bugs with.


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The end of 2010 is upon us and perhaps this difficult economy is waning as well. It appears that the nonprofit sector may have brighter times ahead. Indeed, the philanthropy that funds it is arguably on the rebound. I'm excited to see what the new year will bring for a sector that has had a very difficult couple of years, but has adapted and innovated despite the challenges.
Here is what I think (hope?) we will see more of in the nonprofit sector in the coming year:
- More Confident Funding Strategies: A more confident nonprofit sector will emerge that stops chasing funding, any funding. Instead nonprofits will strive to pick a path and raise money around that path. In so doing nonprofits will increasingly learn to "fire bad donors", as David Henderson encouraged, and instead strategically go after the funding that integrates well with their long term vision and business model.
- Diversified Funding Sources: Along with more confident funding strategies will come more diversification of funding. This diversification will not be just for diversity sake, but because of a growing realization that putting the majority of your funding eggs in one basket (foundation grants, for example) is unwise and terribly risky, particularly given this economic climate. Nonprofits will increasingly become more strategic and savvy about their overall financing structure and in so doing will strengthen and diversify accordingly.
- Greater Investment in Organizations: Nonprofit boards, staff and donors will increasingly recognize that "overhead," or administrative costs, are absolutely necessary to successful program execution. They will increasingly invest in their organizations (staff, technology, training, systems, space) in order to strengthen and grow their impact. The revamp of nonprofit rating systems, like Charity Navigator, that are moving away from penalizing organizations that spend on "overhead" will help move this process along.
- Larger Focus on Impact: Nonprofits will increasingly focus on the social change they are working towards, as opposed to the service they are providing. Although it is true that many nonprofits exist to simply provide services to our most needy fellow human beings, there will be an growing demand from funders to articulate how even those services fit into a larger theory of change. It will no longer be enough to be a charity for charity sake, but rather nonprofits must analyze and articulate how their services fit into a larger solution to the problems they exist to address.
- More Strategic Use of Social Media: More nonprofits will make bigger, better, more strategic forays into the world of social media, not just because everyone is telling them to do it, but rather because of a realization that in order to get more change done, nonprofits must build support, partnerships, alliances, advocates from outside their own walls. Social media is a cheap, effective and available way for organizations to exponentially expand their force, resources, ability to make change happen. If used effectively, social media can be a tremendous gift to the nonprofit sector.
I think we will start to turn a corner in 2011. The recession has been a wake up call for the nonprofit sector. Those organizations that have recognized the game-changing nature of this economic downturn will emerge stronger, more confident, more capable of creating change.
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Upcoming Exhibitions
'The Colours of Expression'
Gallery One, The Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, Kent CT5 1AF, UK
5 - 16 December 2019
Colour - to what extent does it reflect and affect our mood? How do we respond to positive versus negative emotions? These themes are explored in this exhibition.
Colour is at the heart of this exhibition as it examines the extent to which colour reflects and affects our emotional life. Living on the English coast, I am fascinated by how often the sea reflects my mood back to me and so the exhibition includes a series of seascapes in expected and unexpected colours, reflecting different moods. From this develops an examination of our internal seascapes with colour-charged paintings exploring how we see ourselves.
The exhibition will also include the Colour Potential Card Deck.
Sat 7 Dec 2:30pm: An illustrated talk entitled 'Emotion and the Baroque – an examination of the power of expression in Baroque art'. Free Admission.
Sat 14 Dec 2:30pm: A workshop exploring The Colour Potential Card Deck combining the power of colour with the power of positivity. Free Admission.
Loving Leaf!
Pop-Up Exhibition at the Linden Hall Studio, 32 St George's Road, Deal, Kent CT14 6BA
23-26 April 2020
During the past year I have fallen in love with metal leaf, gilding the canvas with gold, silver, copper and even variegated leaf. Once sealed onto the canvas, the leaf provides a thrilling, glowing base for the paint as it glints between the brush marks. But the real glory is how the paint feels as it touches the leaf. The entrancing colours glide along as if painted on silk.
This Pop-Up exhibition is a celebration of the glories of metal and water with sea-inspired paintings on metal leaf in a variety of themed colours.
Pop-Up Exhibition at Eight Squared Gallery
64 The Old High Street, Folkestone CT20 1RN
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Covering the Bases: Game 20
FIRST: What was the main thing we learned tonight? How about the fact that the Blue Jays' bullpen needs some help.
Jeremy Accardo has been struggling. Merkin Valdez has been rarely used, and struggled when he has found work. Jason Frasor has been off. Casey Janssen hasn't looked sharp recently. Scott Downs and Shawn Camp have taken their lumps, too.
Well, the Jays did something about it after Monday's 13-12 mess at Rogers Centre.
Accardo (8.10 ERA to go along with all six of his inherited runners scoring) has been optioned to Triple-A Vegas and Valdez (20.25 ERA in two outings) has been designated for assignment. Josh Roenicke (0.00 ERA in 8 2/3 innings) has been recalled from Vegas and Rommie Lewis (2.35 ERA in seven games) had his contract purchased from Triple-A as well.
Over the past three games — all losses — the Jays' bullpen has yielded 17 runs on 20 hits over nine innings. It has not been pretty and a three-inning performance from starter Dana Eveland only made matters worse on Monday.
Jays sure could use a complete game right about now. Paging, Mr. Marcum.
SECOND: The offense at least looked good (or was Boston's pitching that bad?).
Eight Jays had hits. Five had more than one hit. Three had three hits. Seven Jays scored at least one run. Five drove in at least one. Toronto churned out a season-high 12 runs on 16 hits and went 7-for-14 with runners in scoring position. An RBI single from Aaron Hill in the third actually snapped an 0-for-22 for the team with RISP.
And that third?
Try 10 hitters, six runs, six hits, one walk, two singles, two double, one triple and one home run — a monster of a three-run blast from Jose Bautista. That gave the Jays a 6-5 lead after Eveland dug a 5-0 hole. That one-run advantage proved to be short-lived in light of the bullpen's woes, though.
THIRD: Leading the way for the Jays was none other than first baseman Lyle Overbay. He went 3-for-5 with a home run and four RBIs. How bad has his month been going? Overbay had five RBIs in the first 19 games and his big night upped his average to .183. He's showing signs of life, though.
Overbay had an RBI double on Friday. He had a homer and two hits on Saturday. And then, after a day off on Sunday, Overbay collected three hits in Toronto's loss to Boston. Baby steps. The Jays are hoping this is a sign that Overbay is pulling himself out of his month-long slump.
Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston said it would be nice to have another solid lefty in the lineup beyond just Adam Lind.
HOME: That brings us to Travis Snider. He's the third lefty in the lineup, but his performance on Monday has him hitting .133 right now. Gaston insists that Snider looks improved at the plate right now than he was at this point a year ago. That said, the young outfielder went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts in Monday's loss. Every other Blue Jay had a hit.
Play GM for a minute and discuss…
Is it better to keep running Snider — still just 22 years old and a big part of the team's future — out there every day with the hope that he turns this around? Or would he be better served going back to Triple-A like he did in May of last year during a similar slump?
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Keep Snider and give him a chance !
Snider is improving every day and sees more pitches in each at bat than virtually anyone else. In addition he is hitting the ball hard, unfortunately right at someone. Sending him down to AAA will only slow down his ultimate break out and possible put him back in development.
However, switching him back between left and right field and not batting him against lefties does not help the process. He's got to be stabilized at one spot or the other and he's got to be in the lineup each day. The more we run him out there, the faster he progresses and frankly any talk of sending him down does him no good whatsoever.
If he is going to be our future then lets treat him like he is or trade him to someone who's prepared to continually work with him as he progresses and keep him in one position.
Maybe those two guys from ESPN were right.
Keep Snider in the bigs… there is nothing left for him to prove in Vegas. He is getting many at-bats and he is hitting the ball very ball – he's had some bad breaks, but Travis needs some on the job training. If he fails, then at least he failed trying to be developed in Toronto. The kid is only 22, we have to be patient with him – even if he sucks the rest of the year, lets see what next years coaching staff will do.
rickishi38-Please he's only had 6 at bats against lefties. Are you going to send Wells, Overbay and Lind down because they're not hitting against lefties, because they're worse than Snider is in that regard? Why do you think it'll help his self confidence, in fact it would do the reverse. If we want to evolve Snider into what he can become we simply need to keep running him out there. He is hitting the ball hard, and everyone on this team is striking out too much, not just Snider, he's actually having better at bats than most guys on this team.
brother-Is Lewis an integral part of this team going forward-I think not, so why would you want to keep him instead of Snider?
I'd definitely send him down. It seems that 99% of Blue Jays fans want him to stay up because of his "potential". I'd say he has a few weeks at most to get his average heading the right way, or he's off to Vegas. Unfortunately, it seems he was rushed to the majors, and he has probably stuck around for this long because of PR reasons. Expectations are simply too high for him, and it isn't fair. When EE is off the disabled list, I think they'll keep Lewis in as a full-time outfielder and send Travis to the minors.
He is getting many at-bats and he is hitting the ball very hard*
This is a rebuilding year and Snider is probably one of the most important parts to the process along with Romero, Rzep, Wallace and Arencibia.
The question all fans should ask if Snider is sent back down, is what is the Jays commitment to rebuilding…If indeed there is such a commitment, then no one would even consider sending Snider down, since everyone agress he has nothing left to prove in AAA.
On the other hand, they Jays would also keep him in one outfield spot and bat him against lefties, righties, every single day and that isn't happening.
He's not hitting the ball hard! He's swinging and missing…especially against left handers where he's struck out half the time he's faced one.
I agree that he has nothing left to prove in the Minors, but at least going down would help his self confidence!
"especially against left handers where he's struck out half the time he's faced one".
He has had 6 at bats Vs left handers so to pick on that stat. to prove your point is a little lame. To show how little stats mean with such a small sample size , he now has higher avg, OBP and SLG against LHP as opposed to RHP
I agree with gsjays , he needs to play everyday.
Cito Gaston said ""We would not have brought him here with us if we thought that we were going to platoon him," . "That's just not the way. We'd send him out [to the Minors] before that happens."
If only Gaston was as good as his word and played him everyday not only this season but last then I think he would be further along in his development.
Last season he started off real well but after his two homer night Vs the Twins he hardly played for the next few weeks as he was sat against all LHP .That started his slump.
gsjays – I don't think it's a question of who's more important in the long term – it's Snider over Lewis. It comes down to where he needs to go to develop. I've read many people say, including on this thread that "Snider has nothing to prove in the minors". Is that true? Many players do extremely well in the minors, come to the bigs, then get sent back down. It happens all the time. I'm not sure why Snider is somehow an exception that he has to learn everything in the bigs not in AAA. I'd love to see his average improve and stick it out for the entire year. But I don't think you keep him with the big club for much longer if he doesn't start hitting the ball. He's young, has options, and you can send him down to improve in all aspects of the game.
"you can send him down to improve in all aspects of the game."..I would agree with that if I felt sending him down would actually improve him, but I don't think it will, in fact I think it'd do the reverse.
All players need adjustment time going from AAA to MLB, albeit them pitchers or position players, some more than others. There are few kids that come up here from AAA and rake it right away because the caliber of pitching is a lot better than in the minors. Snider is not going to see MLB caliber pitching in AAA, he's going to see AAA level pitching which he's already mastered.
Check out Brandon Wood of the LA Angels, a high ceiling prospect in a similar situation as Snider. and you'll note they're doing the same thing with Woods as we are with Snider. There is absolutely no discussion about sending Woods back down for the same reason, he's already mastered AAA.
Snider has improved a huge amount from last year. He's much more patient at the plate, working the count and his strike out ratio has improved dramatically from last year and is better than a lot of guys on this team including Lind, Overbay, Buck, Gonzalez, Encarnacion, Ruiz and Lewis. Point is Snider isn't striking out any more tan others and he has dramatically improved, his hits just aren't dropping in…If in fact his k ratio had risen from last year, I might agree with you, but that's not the case, its improved.
I would give Snider another month. I think alot of it is in his head right now, I guess you could argue that farming him out would maybe relieve the pressure and let him relax a bit. But I feel that he is going to figure it out in the bigs, and when he does its going to be awesome! I dont know what is going to happen when Encarnacion comes back because I like Fred Lewis in the leadoff and Jose Bautista is doing pretty well right now. If Snider doesn't pick it up soon he could unfourtunatly become the odd man out.
I think when Encarnacion comes back it will be either Ruiz, Lewis or McCoy going down, not Snider. My take is probably Ruiz and if not Ruiz then Lewis..
Point is Encarnacion, Lewis and Ruiz will not be part of our contending team in 2012, Snider will be and McCoy could be a good piece as well.
Snider is only 22. Lind did not start pounding the ball until he turned 24. What's the rush? Let Snider continue to develop at the major-league level. One thing that we can all agree upon is that Snider is not going to learn how to consistently hit major-league hitting at AAA. It can't happen. Therefore, he needs to stay put. As for a guy like Wallace, it makes sense to keep him at AAA until he learns how to consistently rake AAA pitchers. Once accomplished, he needs to follow the same development path as Snider at the major-league level. Remember, the Rays had a number of loosing seasons and it was not all the result of poor pitching. They allowed their potential laden hitters to struggle at the major-league level until they learned how to hit the pitchers in the American league. Our guys are going to struggle, too. There are very few AAA players who come up and do not struggle. It is a different game at the major-league level where each night you are facing the best in the world. Once Snider finds his stroke, he will have the confidence that he needs because he will know that he belongs. Sending him to AAA only tell him that he does not belong among the 700 major-league players.


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Your stress level could be measured on the Richter Scale. It's the week before Christmas, so there are a zillion people at the airport. Your flight has been delayed. The kids are crying. Your husband is yelling. Starving, you find the nearest food vendor and order a $12 basket of chicken fingers with fries.
Been there? Done that? Eating healthy on the road has long been a struggle for holiday travelers. It's one of the many reasons people tend to gain a couple extra pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's.
The good news is that consumers are demanding more nutritious options when they fly -- and the industry is responding, says Renate DeGeorge, director of culinary services for HMSHost, which operates dining facilities at more than 100 airports worldwide.
In recent years HMSHost has made several changes to their menus, including adding a variety of new salads, offering hummus plates as an appetizer and providing whole-grain bread for sandwiches.
"Most places now offer a variety of healthy options no matter where you stop, so that every traveler can find something they are looking for," DeGeorge wrote in an e-mail.
Here are five ways you can make sure you eat right while flying this holiday season:
Have a plan
You know your departure time, arrival time and the time you'll -- hopefully -- have during a layover. Use that schedule to plan full meals throughout the day.
"A meal in general is typically the same calories as many snacks," says Charles Platkin, founder and editor of DietDetective.com. But if you eat a real meal, "you're actually going to get decent nutrition... and you're going to feel a higher level of being satiated."
For example, if you leave early in the morning, plan to eat breakfast at home. If you'll be on the plane during lunch, decide what you'll eat in the air before you get to the airport. If dinner will be late because your plane lands after 8 p.m., make sure to eat a bigger protein- and fiber-filled lunch to tide you over.
When mapping out your meals, remember to prepare for the possibility that your timing and/or location could be thrown off by a delayed flight or missed connection. Which leads us to our next hint...
Know your airport
Every year the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine reviews the food served at the busiest airports in the United States. In 2012, the group found that on average 76% of airport restaurants sell at least one low-fat, high-fiber, cholesterol-free vegetarian entrĂŠe.
In other words, the excuse "there's nothing healthy to eat at the airport" is no longer valid (sorry).
Airport restaurants in Newark, New Jersey; Las Vegas; or Detroit are most likely to offer a healthy option, according to the PCRM report, while Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport landed at the bottom of the group's ranking for the third year in a row. So if you're passing through D.C. or Atlanta, stock up on some healthy fare beforehand.
Know your airline
Platkin publishes an annual food investigation survey that ranks the snacks and onboard food-service offerings from most major airlines.
"When you're a passenger on an airplane, you don't really have much choice," he says. "You're a captive audience and that creates a higher standard that airlines need to have."
Virgin America and Air Canada each earned four stars on Platkin's site for offering plenty of healthy options and providing calorie information for consumers. Platkin recommends Virgin's snack boxes -- like the protein meal with hummus -- and Air Canada's Roasted Chicken Wrap with salsa. You can check out his recommendations for other airlines here.
Pick wisely
Most of us have at least a general idea of what's good for our bodies (a fruit plate) and what's not (a king-size chocolate bar). Making smart decisions is half the battle.
The other half is knowing where hidden dangers lie. Platkin cautions consumers to be wary around anything that comes with a sauce, whether it's salad dressing, mayonnaise on a sandwich or caramel dip for your apple slices. Even an extra tablespoon can add unnecessary calories.
Also be on the lookout for packaged snack foods like chips or crackers that are probably high in sodium. "Look for things that are in their natural state," he says.
Most importantly, avoid fried food, DeGeorge says. Anything smothered in batter then dipped in hot oil isn't good for your health, even if it did at one time resemble a vegetable.
Pack for emergencies
You always pack an extra pair of underwear in your carry-on, so why not some extra healthy snacks too?
"We often underestimate the amount of time a trip can take," Platkin writes on his site. "A two-hour flight could mean four or five hours of travel."
Although liquids are restricted, most foods can be taken through security, according to the Transportation Security Administration. Platkin recommends dry cereal like shredded wheat, energy bars or cold cut sandwiches. Raw fruits and vegetables are also easy to pack and carry onboard.


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It was in the middle of the week and we had our Norfolk spot for live lining caught by 7am. Jumping up on plane, we headed toward the Bay Bridge. It was already too late. The concrete supports where we had had such great luck a day earlier had two skiffs anchored at each, and our third and fourth choices were being eyeballed by a couple of approaching charter boats.
Perhaps the most exciting and demanding of the angler's art
It was minutes short of sundown. The shadows were getting long, blending into a solid blackness along the nearby shoreline that hinted of the night about to fall. My casts were tempting the fates as they landed just off the edge of the riprap where I hoped a striper was lurking. Another foot or so and I would foul the top-water plug among the rocks. In water this skinny, I would have to break it off.
Cracking crabs speaks volumes
The water was 90 degrees, murky with algae and the skies overcast. We all peered intently at the barely visible trotline gliding through the water next to our skiff. One chicken neck bait after another appeared, slid over the roller and went back down. But there was no mistaking the first blue crab to appear. That jimmie was seven inches across.
To catch in this heat, you've got to fish early or fish lucky
My alarm clock sounded at 4:30am. Shutting it off, I took a deep breath and laid my head back for just a second to collect my thoughts. If the cat hadn't knocked its dish off the table downstairs two hours later, I probably would have slept on until noon.
… A white perch will do. If you can't catch either, God bless you.
Setting up just north of the Sandy Point Light in 40 feet of water, our chum bag was soaking deep on its weighted line, and we were waiting for the rockfish to start to eat.
It's the dawn bite that pays off this time of year
July is here, and with it the heat waves that inevitably mark summer on the Chesapeake. Ninety-plus degrees with a blazing-hot sun will slow the fish. Even if it doesn't, that sun can make being on the water after high noon uncomfortable if not unhealthy.
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How about them Texans??
Dan offered up his insights of the last couple of torturous wins by the hometown squad, and I have a few thoughts of my own.
The Texans are 2-0 in comeback fashion after two hard fought come from behind victories. I'm very proud of the grit and determination our Texans have shown, but a tad bit concerned that the had to pull a proverbial rabbit out of their helmets in both games.
After allowing the Chargers to take a commanding lead in the first 35 or so minutes of the season opener, they let the Titans, a division opponent at home, take a decent lead on them in the home opener.
Don't get me wrong here, okay folks? I'll take any "W" we can get, but going into the future one has to ask if this is what we should expect each and every week. Because if the answer is yes, I can assure you there's going to be plenty of games where we don't pull out the come from behind miracle. Surely we can dominate some of the upcoming games from start to finish, right? We need to be the team taking a lead into the final minutes at some point or we can dash any playoff hopes.
So what's the answer? Well, there's a few things that I've seen that have killed drives that concerns me. My main concern is Schaub's continuing trend of throwing the ball low and away. He's consistently throwing balls behind his receivers, or throwing it at their feet. This has to stop. I'm not even talking about the scrambling throws. I'm talking about almost all of them. This has got to stop. When we're facing a 3rd and 7 and he throws a 5 yard dump pass, he has got to hit the receiver in stride so they can get those yards after the catch and the first down. By making them stop or turn around for the ball it kills their momentum and gives the defenders time to make a stop. I've watched this happen too many times over the past two games and frankly, it has me quite concerned. I haven't seen many drops that I can blame flat out on the receivers. The talent around Schaub is making him look very good, when in reality they're making some superb catches. I don't know how we fix this, it isn't the first time it's been discussed.
Then we have the great big question of Randy Bullock. It's my opinion we're again settling for field goals when we shouldn't have to. We have the weapons to score TD's. But having said that, when Bullock's number is called, he's got to deliver. Currently he's making a paltry 20% of his field goal tries. He's 1 of 5 in two games. That has him on pace to make 8 whole field goals out of 40 tries. Now we all know that's not going to be the end number, because either he starts making kicks or the coaches and management are going to have to make some tough decisions. I'm ready for them to bring in someone else to try out right now. 1 of 5 is flat out unacceptable. And I don't understand the problem, because we've seen the kid kick better than that in pre-season. That's got to be fixed. We have to be able to count on our kicker. 'Nuff said.
With the exception of the first half of the Chargers game, which they played without Antonio Smith, I can't really fault our defense. They've played outstanding when we needed them to and come up with big plays when called upon. They haven't drawn a lot of penalties and despite my early groaning, Shiloh Keo has actually held his own. Our line is getting pressure and our linebackers are playing outstanding. All in all I think our defense is going to be fine. I'd like to see Ed Reed get on the field, but I'm not pinning my hopes on him making a huge impact. I still think he'll be an obvious upgrade but how much of an impact he will make remains to be seen.
Overall I'm still very proud of our Texans. They never gave up and they showed a lot of heart in both wins. I just want to see them take it to their opponents from start to finish like the dominating team we know they can be. We have the weapons on both sides of the ball. Andre Johnson has been his usual awesome self. DeAndre Hopkins has been outstanding. The Foster/Tate one-two punch has been effective. JJ Watt and Brian Cushing continue to prove why they're the leaders on defense. Let's just hope these first few games were motivation enough to push them to the next level.
~ Crimedog
Now for Dan's comments:
What Next for the Houdinis of Houston?
Towards the end of "A League of Our own" after the climactic final game of the 1940's girl baseball playoffs the announcer says,
"Take me home momma and put me to bed. I have seen enough to know I have seen too much."
That is how I felt at the end of the second of two improbable opening season wins by our Houston Texans, who if they were felines would be down to 7 or less lives at this point in the season. After getting mowed down in the first half and change of the San Diego game, our hometown heroes waited even longer to pull this latest miracle win out of the fire.
Against the Chargers the defense was a major culprit along with the offense in digging a hole for the team to climb out of – but this Sunday was much more on the offense that could not finish drives and gave the Titans a freebie pick six on an errant throw due to an errant pass route. The errant toe of rookie kicker Randy Bullock had not helped things though he did miss on two long ones of 50 yards during the earlier part of the game.
Heading into the last 3 minutes of the game, down eight and with a bad track history in crucial comebacks, Matt Schaub marched the Texans to a quick six of their own thanks to some great help from the TEs Graham and Daniels and an overturned review of what turned out to be injured Andre Johnson's last play of the day. Arian Foster grunted it out to score the TD and to reach as far as he could for the tying 2 point conversion.
Then the craziness started. The Texans defense continued to be stout and stopped the Titans – getting the ball back for Schaub and company with less than a minute left. They then deftly moved it down field thanks mostly to a big run and catch by Keshawn Martin.
And then Randy Bullock (thanks to the icing tactics and one off-sides penalty) was able to do 4 of the things kickers can do – all in one 5 second time period. He made his kick (after time was called), had it blocked (by an off-sides defender), missed one (after time was called) and hit the upright. I'm betting none of us have ever or will ever see a kicker make 4 attempts in a single series again.
But the Texans save the best for last – moving the ball quickly down the field in overtime, by air and by ground. The Texans did not have Andre Johnson – but they did not seem to care. A new hero named Hopkins – got them down to the lip of the goal line and then after a stuffed Foster running play, he tried to catch one in the left corner of the end zone in front of an unfortunately visually challenged referee who could not (would not?) see the DB holding Hopkins' jersey. It did not matter as Hopkins went to the other side and caught a perfect fade pass with an iron grip and after another 5 minutes (it seemed) of review – won the game.
We've never seen two wins like this in a row for the Texans in their short time here, and our hearts are hoping for something easier next week. Take me home momma indeed.


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Man who plotted to kill Justin Bieber moved to prison
Dana Martin now behind bars at New Mexico State Penitentiary
The New Mexico inmate who admitted to hiring hit men to murder and castrate singer Justin Bieber is now behind bars in maximum security prison.
Dana Martin was moved to New Mexico State Penitentiary outside Santa Fe from another prison in Las Cruces in March.
The convicted killer lives in a small cell in the Level 6 part of the prison.
"Basically this entire facility is a 24-hour lockdown," said Deputy Warden Derek Williams.
Martin, who is serving two life sentences for the murder and rape of a 15-year-old girl, was placed in solitary confinement in the prison after targeting Bieber.
Officials recorded Martin on prison telephone in November of last year telling an alleged hit man where to find the pop star, and how to strangle him with Martin's signature paisley scarf.
"Tie it really tight, and that cuts off all the oxygen, and then tie it in the back again, really tight," Martin said.
After watching an Action 7 News report, Martin then sent a letter outlining new plans to plant an explosive on the singer's stage.
Williams said now all of Martin's mail is read before it's sent out.
"We can track, control, even reduce it if necessary," he said.
Martin, like all prisoners in Level 6 for disciplinary reasons, only receives the bare essentials in his cell: hygiene products and bedding.
When he wants to exercise, there's a recreational cage that Martin can use five times a week. Officials said inmates are brought into these cages one by one so they're never in contact with another inmate.
Back behind bars, guards check red spray paint around anything metal in the cell. If the spray paint is scratched, it's an indication the inmate has a weapon.
"(It indicates) if he's trying to sharpen it against something," said Rolando Valencia, a captain and unit manager.
Though if Martin keeps to himself and has a record of good behavior, we're told he can get books, a TV, and an MP3 player to pass the time.


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Pan Am Championships TT Report - A Birthday Present for Svein
By Denise Kelly - Team Manager
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Svein Tuft found the perfect recipe for yet another gold medal at the 2008 Pan American Championships in Uruguay - mix 17 degrees of sunshine with a 19.5 km. loop X 2. Add 50.197 km/h to offset the strong winds and it produces an outstanding winning time of 46:37.
Tuft was fastest at the two checkpoints on the course as he powered his way along the shoreline of Montevideo. He was the third last starter and he picked off his minute men one by one in a metronome-like manner. Never letting up despite a heart-stopping near-brush with a random car on the course, he rode with strength unmatched by any of the other competitors. He attacked the last four kilometres of the course seemingly as assertively as the first four. At the end, he bested the second place rider, Matias Medici from Argentina by 34 seconds and third place Louis Ferrao of Brazil by 51 seconds.
Tuft celebrated his birthday in style with a fourth gold medal of these Championships. He was stoked by this success as it was something he had wanted for awhile - a Pan Am Championship Time Trial win.
Zach Bell (who was the final starter based on his second placing last year at the Championships) also contested the race with a very strong showing, missing the elite podium by one spot. He was 5th place overall as the 4th place finisher, Jame Suaza of Columbia was the winner in the Espoir category. No doubt the past few days of excellent track racing took their toll on the legs, but competing in the time trial contributed to his Olympic preparation.
In yet another display of Southern organization, teams were informed only yesterday, that a decision had been taken at the Pan Am Congress to only allow 2 riders per country - despite having published the start list. Canada was among many astonished countries who had not received this news and had to reduce their entries. David Veilleux did not take the start.
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It was John M McAlery, a Belfast merchant, who introduced football to Ireland in 1878, having discovered it during a trip to Edinburgh in Scotland. But it was only on 1 June 1921 that the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) was formally organised in Dublin. In 1923 the 'home' countries, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, recognised the new association in the south following pressure from FIFA. At that point the words 'Free State' were included in the official title.
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In 2016, under the stewardship of manager Martin O'Neill and assistant manager Roy Keane, the Republic once again reach the EURO final round in France.
Many Irishmen learned their football trade in the Republic before departing for foreign fields, where fame and legendary status awaited them. John Carey became one of the most famous Manchester United FC captains of all time, as did Roy Keane over 50 years later. From an Irish viewpoint, Carey's finest hour was a balmy afternoon in 1949 when he led the Republic of Ireland to a 2-0 win against England at Everton FC's Goodison Park in Liverpool – England's first loss on home soil to a foreign country.
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I've been around the sun many times, but I'm still amazed at how different each human being can experience our world.
To me, the Swans "The Seer" album is insufferable noise.
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You should buy this record, if you can find itthe LP is currently in between pressings, but you can still easily find Compact Disc ($18), Special Edition 2CD/DVD ($23), MP3 ($14), and even WAV ($18) versions. Visit Young God Records for more info. I had called all my local sources, and none of them had the LP, so I wound up buying it from a dealer in Washington (state). It's gorgeous and I love it.
UPDATE: If you, too, have been waiting anxiously for the vinyl, you're in luck: Revolver USA, Young God Records' distributor, hopes to have new supply to stores within the next few weeks. Revolver regrets the delay, citing enormous pre-holiday demand at vinyl pressing plantswhich, ultimately, is a sign of good things to come for vinyl lovers.
The Seer is epic in scope and scale: There are 11 tracks, including one 10-minute track, two 20-minute tracks, and a 30-minute track. There are guest appearances by Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Al and Mimi (Low), members of Akron/Family, members of Big Blood, Ben Frost, and many others. There are accordions, harmonicas, vibraphones, clarinets, contra bassoons, dulcimers, orchestral bells, pianos, acoustic and electric mandolins, fifty million electric guitars, fires, stars. The album is, by turns, noisy, chaotic, quiet, controlled, massive, miniscule, pulverizing, gentle, terrifying, welcoming, dreary, ecstatic, pious, profane; always beautiful, always moving, always compelling.
It's the coolest thing I've heard all year.
Now that I own The Seer on LP, and now that we have just about completed our Recommended Components Collector's Edition and December issues, I would love to spend the weekend doing little else but listening to the record, over and over and over again, on my home system. Instead, however, I will be traveling to Denver for the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, which, in its own ways (local beers, mostly), will also be a lot of fun.
And now I'm thinking I'll go out and buy a few copies of The Seer to pass along to friends and colleagues at the show. Perhaps I'll use it as a demo disc, sure to clear even the most crowded hotel room.
Stay tuned as John Atkinson, Art Dudley, Jason Victor Serinus, and I report from the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Also please be sure to visit AudioStream.com, AnalogPlanet.com, and InnerFidelity.com for RMAF reports from Michael Lavorgna, Michael Fremer, and Tyll Hertsens. I believe ML, AD, and I will also be providing special coverage of local beers and headache medicines.
In the meantime, you can listen to Swans' The Seer right here.
Drink it up; it's good for you.
I've been around the sun many times, but I'm still amazed at how different each human being can experience our world.
To me, the Swans "The Seer" album is insufferable noise.
Try Swans album "Cop". The Seer will be pure bliss by comparisson. :)
Hey Stephen,
That's great news you are reviewing the Traveler -- I can't wait to read your thoughts on this turntable.
Cheers, Matthew
saw Swans live last year. I told a friend that I had expected them to be brutally intense, but they turned out to also be intensely brutal.


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Re: Generation of DNA nucleotides
kolean wrote:Water is very polar, and can even form clathrins around certain other charge molecules. It can hold a protein in place with all of its hydrogen bonding.
The book "Biochemistry" by Voet & Voet (1990) refers to clathrin only as a protein.
How can water itself form a protein?
JackBean wrote:as I told you, kolean didn't mean (I guess) the proteins clathrins!!!
What other clathrins are there?
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But I didn't find anything substantial about water "clusters".
Not mentioned in the book by Voet.
says: "So little is understood about water clusters in bulk water that it is considered one of the unsolved problems in chemistry."
But we're to accept that water forms "clusters" at the right time to move molecules into DNA pol.
Aren't you curious as to how that happens?
And without a reply from kolean, we really don't know what was meant, do we? Is it possible that kolean knows something that you don't?
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I hope this helps with the (water cluster)(hydration sheath)(clathrin) discussion. Clathrin is a protein that forms an ordered structure around invaginating membranes during some forms of endocytosis, in a manner analogous to a clathrate. A clathrate is a geometrically ordered, hydrogen-bonded cage of water surrounding an insoluble substance immersed in water.
Argument for clathrate formation at hydrophobic biomolecular surfaces:
Argument against clathrate formation at hydrophobic biomolecular surfaces:
http://ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu/~lw26/b ... LDW_30.pdf
This doesn't address water, but the idea is similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate
Nice discussion in the context of biomolecules:
Here is older work describing stable water clathrates: http://www.jstor.org/pss/100444
Note that the water clathrates that are thought to blanket hydrophobic regions of biomolecules are not as stable as those described in this paper.
You can chill a mixture and make the clathrate more stable: http://bit.ly/9ds6AT
Nice pictures. I doubt such complete complexes could form stably at room temperature, but this shows the extreme case of hypothetical orderliness in a water clathrate. http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.chapl ... hrate.html
This describes gas hydrates instead of water ordered around biomolecules:
http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~kcjanda/Group/g ... cture.html
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Re: Generation of DNA nucleotides
jonmoulton wrote:A clathrate is a geometrically ordered, hydrogen-bonded cage of water surrounding an insoluble substance immersed in water.
Still not sure what kolean had in mind.
My basic interest has been the rapid motion of the nucleotides toward their parking space in the DNA pol.
Could water clathrates play a part in this?
Since they seem to be closed "structures", my initial guess is no.
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There are several factors which might increase the rate of nucleotide triphosphate (NTP) entry into the active site beyond the rate predicted from simple diffusion. For these, I am speculating. The polymerase itself might have sites on its surface with some affinity to NTPs, allowing the NTPs to "queue up" by the active site. I am also thinking of the interaction of Dicer and Argonaute, where Dicer associates with Argonaute and loads a newly-matured miRNA strands directly into Argonaute's RNA binding domain -- perhaps there is another protein that catches NTPs and loads them onto polymerase. There is lots of higher-order structure in cells that is just being explored, regions of protein interaction that lead to non-average composition; I expect these regions of local order are the rule rather than the exception. Perhaps there are yet-to-be described interactions between NPTs and cellular components that tend to concentrate NTPs near a polymerase, increasing the rate of productive collision between NTPs and polymerase by increasing the local concentration of NTPs.
However, none of these potential mechanisms need to pre-sort the NTPs so that the complementary nucleotide is always the next loaded onto the polymerase. The cell doesn't need to get the correct nucleotide for pairing, it just needs a steady supply of ATP, CTP, GTP and TTP; the Watson-Crick pairing that occurs (or, 3/4 of the time, doesn't occur) at the site of strand elongation is sufficient to elongate the strand rapidly and fairly accurately (and with the polymerases proofreading activity, the accuracy is increased). Get ALL the nucleotide triphosphates to the polymerase and let the polymerase and template strand sort them out.
Re: Generation of DNA nucleotides
jonmoulton wrote:Get ALL the nucleotide triphosphates to the polymerase and let the polymerase and template strand sort them out.
Sounds like a plan!
Thanks for all the replies by everybody. It's been very informative and interesting.
Lots more to learn.
One day we might have a microsope that will show all this in living color,
and we'll play it in slow motion.
Details at 11.
Re: Generation of DNA nucleotides
When Alexander Bell made the first telephone, he probably didn't envision the sound wave being digitized. Yet the sounds we make on the phone are broken up into tiny parts and then reassembled, enabling many conversations on one wire. Motion pictures are digitized.
I have confidence that someone will discover a similar process with light waves, to provide a "fractionated" light wave or whatever to resolve current microscope restrictions.
Then we'll see "what's happening".


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