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We spotted our first bald eagle high in the winter sky over Sauk City, Wis. Brown wings unfurled into a wind gust. Striking white head held high. It would have been downright majestic, were it not for the fact that this was just a picture of a bald eagle painted on the little town's water tower. ...
We spotted our first bald eagle high in the winter sky over Sauk City, Wis. Brown wings unfurled into a wind gust. Striking white head held high. It would have been downright majestic, were it not for the fact that this was just a picture of a bald eagle painted on the little town's water tower.
But it was a good sign--that image meant that after almost three hours of driving north from Chicago, we'd reached our destination.
In the coldest months of the year, the adjacent towns of Sauk City and Prairie du Sac, nestled beside the Wisconsin River, host bald eagles from throughout North America and the bird-watchers who marvel at them. Eagle-watching is well known along the Mississippi River in winter, but the Wisconsin River also lays claim to some great viewing.
"Along the rivers, anyplace where there is open water in winter, is a good place to look for eagles," said Patricia Manthey, avian ecologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. "This usually means locations near power plants that use [and warm] river water or at locks and dams where the turbulence keeps ice from forming."
The first eagle-watching spot we hit was just north of the Eagleview Dental Center (476 Water St., Prairie du Sac). It's little more than a parking lot with a small viewing deck outfitted with a viewing scope and educational sign about bird-watching.
The regulars are more informative. I began chatting with Mitch Spillane, a bird-watching volunteer who explained that the colder it gets, the easier it is to spot bald eagles.
"All the other water freezes except this patch of the Wisconsin River," he said, noting that the dam about a mile upstream keeps this water warmer and wavy, which lures the fish, which lures the eagles.
The birds feed most actively around sunrise, plucking gizzard shad from the water. But they're active throughout the day, performing their pulse-quickening dive-bomb assaults on fish, soaring with mates in the crisp air. At rest, they perch in bare trees and stoically face freezing winds.
As Spillane and I were talking, we spotted a juvenile (no white head feathers yet) soaring high above an island, and we saw a few adults gliding near a bluff in the distance.
Our next viewing post was half a mile up Water Street beside a VFW hall (700 VFW Drive, Prairie du Sac). Here we parked on the water's edge and spotted a beautiful bird perched 50 feet up in a tree across the water, its white head a striking sight amid the brown bark. Overhead on our side of the river were huge nests built into the trees, jumbles of twigs and feathers that seemed too heavy to stay aloft. Empty, unfortunately, but still a sight.
Our final stop was the best, at the southern foot of the Alliant Energy Dam, another short drive up Water Street off Dam Heights Road.
We rumbled down a snow-packed path lined with frost-kissed trees to find a small group of eagle-eyers.
Huddled beside the bubbling water was John Brugge of Madison, who peered through the spotting scope he had gotten as a Christmas present. "They're majestic birds," he answered when asked why he braves the cold to watch the winged set.
Here we spotted eagles soaring over the dam and crashing talons-first into the water. Brugge fixed his scope on birds squatting on tree branches like muscular linebackers on sideline benches. A few birds hopped along the rocky shore opposite us, perhaps chasing rodents or just playing chase.
My clutch was growing restless, our toes were growing cold, so we called it a day and headed to the Eagle Inn (655 Water St., Prairie du Sac). We took a booth with a view of the river, right near the display case with the porcelain eagles, and chuckled at the "Eaglet" meal on the kids' menu, which comes with coffee.
The residents of these two towns are proud of their feathered squatters. Around here you can get your porch built by Eagle Carpentry and have it financed by Eagle Mortgage. As a proud American I was proud, too, seeing our national symbol removed from dollar bills or presidential crests and soaring and splashing or even just sitting in a wild setting.
It makes you remember that these are real birds, not bland logos.
Out here, the bald eagle becomes less iconographic and, in doing so, more awesome.


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Bad Bob? Another listen to Dylan's most derided era
'Self Portrait', Dylan's first album of the 1970s, was his attempt to besmirch his image as a cultural icon. It worked. Will the most recent trawl of the archives change any minds?
'I wanna do something they can't possibly like, they can't relate to. To me, it was a joke,' said Bob Dylan of his 1970 album Self Portrait
'I wanna do something they can't possibly like, they can't relate to. To me, it was a joke,' said Bob Dylan of his 1970 album Self Portrait
'I am still unable to see in him anything other than a youth of mediocre talent. Only a completely non-critical audience, nourished on the watery pap of pop music, could have fallen for such drivel."
Noted folk singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl had little time for Bob Dylan; MacColl wrote this negative critique in 1965, clearly indifferent to, if not wholly blinkered towards, Dylan's marked achievements in the first half of that decade.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but from 1962 to 1966, Dylan (and this is obviously not discounting what arrived later) became as much a part of the development of humanity as any political speechifying or any era-defining work of art. Indeed, if art can ever be deemed to be representative of history, then the work of Dylan from 1962 to 1966 can be viewed as such.
Just look at the albums: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), The Times They Are a Changin' and Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), Bringing it all Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited (1965), and Blonde on Blonde (1966). Over the course of these albums (and more besides), you knew something was happening, but you didn't necessarily know what it was, did you, Mr Jones? And so on.
Not everyone got it, which, inevitably, made Dylan's lyrics sound even more important to those who did. People such as MacColl, however, were in the minority – the fans welcomed the Jewish American singer with curly hair, tight jacket, drainpipe jeans and shades into their lives, clutching him to the collective chest, proclaiming him theirs and theirs alone. Such adulation can turn a man sour, however, especially someone as idiosyncratic and private as Bob Dylan.
And so, from 1966 onwards – following the release of one of rock's most acclaimed albums, Blonde on Blonde, as well as a period recuperating following a motorbike crash – Dylan consciously embarked on a period of counter-counter culturalism: in other words, he aimed to upend his own reputation by releasing somewhat less iconic records (and viewed in some quarters as commercial concessions towards the country music market) such as John Wesley Harding (1968) and Nashville Skyline (1969). Nothing, however, prepared the adoring fan base for Dylan's first album of the 1970s, Self Portrait.
A critical mauling
"What is this shit?" was the opening sentence of the Rolling Stone review of the album by an outraged Greil Marcus, a Dylan fan through and through. As music from the album filtered through, however, Marcus's critique quickly solidified into common opinion: after the spartan sounds of John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait was absolute proof that Dylan's creativity had upped and walked.
So what was this shit, anyway? Well, noted the critics (including fans and arbiters of taste alike), the double album was little more than a mottled collection of covers, country-and-western songs and some originals. Of the two dozen songs, only eight were credited to Dylan – two of these were instrumentals, one song had a two-line lyric, four were recorded live at the 1969 Isle of Wight festival, and another was little more than a rewrite of a 1950s hit song.
Where were the urban-amphetamine narratives, man? Where were the sacred texts, man? Where was Dylan the oracle, man? Well, Dylan the oracle was alive and kicking against the pricks.
The Bootleg Series, Vol 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)
According to Dylan, Self Portrait was an attempt to smash the glass case that surrounded him and his songwriting, to besmirch the image of him as an all-round cultural icon, seer and sage.
"That album was put out," said Dylan in the early 1980s, "because at that time I didn't like the attention I was getting. And I was getting the wrong kind of attention for doing things I'd never done. So we released the album to get people off my back. I wish these people would just forget about me. I wanna do something they can't possibly like, they can't relate to. To me, it was a joke."
How has it aged?
Well, who's laughing now? Fast-forward 43 years, and we have the imminent release of Bootleg Series Vol 10: Another Self Portrait. Dylan's Bootleg Series was initiated by his manager, Jeff Rosen, in 1991, and has within 20 years and 10 volumes fastidiously sorted through specific era recordings of Dylan's that have often uncovered nuggets from the songwriter's archives.
There is a lot of detritus in the Series output, too, of course, but if you're into joining the Dylan dots then the "bootlegs" are instructive items to browse through.
And Another Self Portrait is especially so, primarily because it hopes to rescue from the bargain bin the most critically derided (and, perhaps, most misunderstood) of all Dylan's records. Context is all; sometimes years need to pass and information needs to filter out in order to discover and then walk through various entry points.
No one is saying Dylan's rep has been saved by this most recent trawl through the vaults, but there's enough going on to change some opinions. If the plan behind John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline was to strip down myth, then the intention of Self Portrait was to build some kind of reality.
Adorned with, yes, a different (somewhat more technically advanced) self-portrait, Another Self Portrait is available as a two-CD set, a vinyl version, and a de-luxe edition four-CD set.
The first of these features 35 tracks, gathered from 1969-1971 and bridging gaps between Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait and Dylan's next "proper songwriting" album, New Morning (1970). The vinyl version includes 35 tracks on three LPs plus a 12-inch booklet.
The de-luxe edition is the money maker; it comprises two hardcover books, featuring revisionist liner notes by Greil Marcus, and four discs. One disc is dispensable: the full 1969 Isle of Wight concert, which features a rollicking version of Highway 61 Revisited, but not much else that matches it. One is both enjoyable and frustrating: the remastered, slightly altered version of the original album (covers of The Boxer, Blue Moon and Let it Be Me, for example, have been dropped, while lachrymose orchestral overdubs supervised by the album's producer, Bob Johnston, have been sonically excised). Two discs of out-takes and rarities are intriguing, and are, therefore, of special interest.
There are nine previously unreleased tracks taken from the original album sessions, and, as usual in these vault-grabbing exercises, there are gems. One such is a previously unknown version of Wallflower (a song written by Dylan in 1971, and not released until 1991, when it appeared on Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3); another is Days of 49, which evokes character-driven images cut from the Gold Rush era.
A different perspective
Whether the whole package is worth your time and money depends on what level of Dylan fan you might be.
Perhaps the most valuable aspect of Another Self Portrait, however, can be found in the title: it reframes all the fuss, bother and disdain about the original album and allows us to look at it from a different perspective.
Is it rubbish, as Greil Marcus thought 43 years ago? Not at all; rather, it's a meandering sidebar sketch of Dylan's love of old blues, folk and country (as well as an album that can be directly connected to his twin covers albums more than 20 years later: 1992's Good As I Been To You and 1993's World Gone Wrong).
Besides, within five years we'd be listening to Blood on the Tracks. But that, as Dylan himself might say, is a whole different cup of meat.
The Bootleg Series, Vol 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) is released on Friday. It is available to stream now on irishtimes.com/culture


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Tyson Fury Responds To Those Cocaine Rumours
Tyson Fury has hit back against claims that he tested positive for cocaine in his usual zero-fucks-given manner.
After all, what better way to spend a Saturday than to dress up as Cuban gangster Tony Montana from Scarface and make your very own cocaine mountain?
I wonder what he used to make it…
Judging by this, the heavyweight champion does not seem concerned over the possibility of being stripped of his world titles.
The tweet is an unbelievably bold reaction to the allegations that the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association confirmed the presence of drugs in his system, the Metro reports.
The response on Twitter is a mixture of people calling him a legend, and concern for his mental health.
This news comes after Fury pulled out of his October 29 rematch with Wladimir Klitschko on the grounds of being 'medically unfit' due to mental health concerns.


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The slow down in economic growth compares to a 5 per cent growth in the previous quarter and a 10.5 per cent growth in the same quarter of 2011, the Dubai Economic Outlook 2011 report stated.
According to the report, it is estimated that the fiscal deficit in Dubai will continue to decline in 2012. The budget deficit declined from 4.3 per cent of Dubai's GDP in 2009 to less than 2 per cent in 2010 as a result of the rationalisation of expenditures.
The report estimated a deflation of -0.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2011 and forecast an inflation of 1.5 per cent in the first quarter of this year. This is compared to 0.3 per cent in the third quarter.
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Based on the wave of recent reports detailing the declining interest in Occupy Wall Street, let's just bite the bullet and publish the final obit: Occupy Wall Street, Dead, 213 Days Old.
At the University of North Carolina, The Daily Tar Heel recently observed, "Occupy Chapel Hill-Carrboro meeting attendees once packed a plaza, but these days they barely surround a coffee table."
Other encampments around the country are in similar decline. While Occupy New Haven recently celebrated its six-month anniversary, the encampment is on its last legs. This despite a dose of legal life-support it received from a federal injunction overturning an earlier decision in which judges sided with the city in their efforts to evict the protesters.
A prominent member of Occupy New Haven has even joined city officials in calling for an end to the occupation. "The longer we stay [encamped] on the Green, the more damage we do to our cause," he wrote in a statement.
This hasn't stopped some occupiers from ignoring the doom right before their eyes as if they are the dinner guests in a sordid reproduction of the "Death" scene from Monty Python's Meaning of Life—just look at last month's re-occupation at UC-Davis.
Some occupiers just can't let go.
But numbers don't lie. While Zucotti Park, the epicenter of OWS, saw as many as 15,000 protesters one day last October, the most recent occupation last week could only boast 75 participants.
The decline of the occupy movement has had a happy side effect—arrest numbers are down. Forget headlines like "Occupy Wall Street Movement Reports 80 Arrested Today in Protests." Today, they read more like "3 Arrested in Manhattan as March Turns Into a Melee."
In addition, the hideous outbreak of murders, rapes and disease infestations at Occupy camps will not be missed.
The collapse of the Occupy ethos is even more pronounced in our nation's capital. The much-vaunted Buffett Rule went down in defeat yesterday, effectively killing the only piece of legislation arguably begot by the Occupy movement.
While a majority of Americans supported the Buffett Rule, it's not clear that OWS did anything to move the dial on tax reform generally. In fact, the most recent CBS News/New York Times poll shows that fewer people today believe that the rich need to pay more than they did last year (55% compared with last year's 65%).
Ultimately, OWS failed because it didn't channel all the excitement it generated into political action. In a democracy it takes "50% plus one" of the populace to bring about change. In fact, OWS earned the opposite of "50% plus one" among the citizenry.
The movement could have ended differently. Whether conservatives like it or not, the main thrust of the Occupy movement dovetailed well with the feelings around the country that something was amiss after the taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailouts were followed by a jobless recovery.
We are fortunate, then, that most Americans only flirted briefly with OWS. Doubtless, many were turned off by the "I want a bailout, too" mentality of the protesters, not to mention the sheer absurdity of their demands. A popular demand was forgiveness of all consumer debt—an untenable idea to an increasingly deficit conscious public.
Its consensus-driven organizational structure made OWS's mad gallop to the fringe inevitable. Effective organizations require tangible goals and good leadership. OWS had neither.
OWS had its moment, but let it pass on by. No amount of "spring training" can bring it back to life.
Fix contributor Anthony Dent is a student at the University of North Carolina.
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Padres 8, Giants 7: Barry Zito, world's most expensive BP pitcher
It's time to start worrying, Giants fans. Barry Zito may have hit a new low.
And for Zito, that's saying something.
The San Diego Padres thumped the Giants pitcher for five runs on seven hits (five extra-base hits) and three walks in three innings.
And it took Zito 69 pitches to get through those three innings. He threw only 34 strikes.
Here's how his outing went.
- Cameron Maybin walked, then picked off first base
- Orlando Hudson walked
- Chase Headley lines out to right
- Jesus Guzman doubles to left, Hudson scores
- Nick Hundley doubles to left, Guzman scores
- Kyle Blanks singles to left, Hundley scores
- Chris Denorfria flies to right
- Everth Cabrera singles to right
- Dustin Moseley sacrifices Cabrera to 2nd
- Maybin grounds to short
- Hudson flies to center
- Headley grounds out to 2nd
- Guzman walks
- Hundley doubles to center, Guzman scores, Hundley out trying to advance to 3rd
- Blanks doubles to left
- Denorfria triples to center, Blanks scores
- Cabrera grounds out to first
Zito recorded nine outs, but two were recorded on the basepaths and a third was recorded on a sacrifice (on a 3-0 pitch to the pitcher, thank you very much).
Zito finished Cactus League play allowing 15 earned runs in 19 1/3 innings. And his last two starts were his worst — 10 runs in 5 1/3 innings.
Zito has been battling himself and his new pitching mechanics all spring. And now, with the season looming, he's looking to make more adjustments.
"It's not 'Scrap the whole thing,' " Zito said after Friday's debacle. "It's just make a small adjustment. … It's about starting tomorrow morning with (pitching coach Dave Righetti), finding out what the adjustment is and go with it."
Everything Zito threw was up in the zone. And when it's up and coming in at 74-82 mph, it's going to get clubbed.
"It's funny how when everything is up, it seems everything is off-kilter," Zito added. "But it's one click."
Sounds more like a cha-ching to us, like $19 million this season, $20 million next season, then a $7 million buyout in 2014. And that's not funny at all.
Zito has just one more preseason start coming, next Wednesday at AT&T Park against the A's — and two more bullpen sessions — before the start of the season.
So unless Zito develops some kind of ailment like bicep tendinitis (that's what Jonathan Sanchez had when he stunk it up last season) or some other ailment, it looks as if he'll be on the mound on April 9 at Colorado for his 2012 debut.
And by the looks of things, it won't be pretty.
PADRES 5, GIANTS 1: Freddy Sanchez may open season on DL
First, we heard it was going to be last Wednesday.
Then, no, it was Friday.
Then possibly on Saturday.
And now it's Monday, the Giants have a day off, and we still don't know when second baseman Freddy Sanchez will play his first game in the field.
It won't be Tuesday. Wednesday?
Bochy said Sanchez was still throwing tentatively during his last full-speed infield drill last week, and the manager wants to see him game-ready in practice before putting him into a game.
"Once he takes a good infield and feels like he can play in a game, we'll put him out there," Bochy said. "But not until then."
Sanchez could take infield practice on Tuesday or Wednesday, then take a day off, and could be ready to play the next day. But the uncertainty has led Bochy to admit that his second baseman could open the season on the DL.
"We're down to two weeks, and he hasn't gotten out there yet," Bochy said. "We're still optimistic that we'll get him out there, but each day that goes by the possibility grows a little bit that he's not going to be ready."
Mike Fontenot, Ryan Theriot and Emmanuel Burriss are battling for backup infield jobs. It figures that only two will make the team. Henry Schulman of the SF Chronicle said Theriot has not looked good in the field or at the plate this spring. Theriot is hitting .200 (6 for 30).
The Giants covet Theriot for his experience, his right-hand bat and his ability to hit lefties. But they have also starting give shortstop Brandon Crawford more opportunities this spring against lefties. Crawford hit his first spring home run off a lefty, the Mariners' Hong-Chih Kuo.
"Any home run feels good," Crawford said. "That is came off a lefty, it probably feels better."
Burriss went 2 for 2 with a triple and a walk Sunday, raising his spring average to .441 (15 for 34). He also has five steals.
If Sanchez opens on the DL, all three infielders should make the team. Another option is to put Ryan Vogelsong on the DL to open the season, activating him on April 15 when the Giants first need a No. 5 starter.
Then, the Giants could open the season with 11 pitchers, allowing them to keep an additional position player on the roster at least for the first nine days of the season.
- Brandon Belt had a double in three at-bats, leaving his spring average as .368 as Aubrey Huff sat out with a sore back.
- Madison Bumgarner looked ready for the season, giving up four hits and no walks in five scoreless innings. He wanted to pitch into the six, but Sunday's less-than-ideal conditions led Bochy to have MadBum finish his day with 20 pitches in the bullpen.
- Clay Hensley gave up three rusn on three hits in one inning, although two runs were unearned.
The Giants will keep their rotation intact by having Matt Cain throw a minor-league game Monday. Barry Zito will get the start Tuesday against the Diamondbacks at 1:10 p.m.
Giants 5, Padres 2: No worries about Bumgarner
With all the talk about Madison Bumgarner throwing in the No. 2 spot in the rotation in spring — and the possibility of him doing the same during the season — Bumgarner has gone out this spring and show that he's capable of filling the role.
Bumgarner pitched three scoreless innings, giving up two hits and a walk while striking out five as the Giants improved their spring record to 4-2 with a 5-2 win over the Padres.
"My command feels pretty good," Bumgarner said. "Everything seems to be on schedule. It's better than usual. I'm just trying to focus as if it's the regular season."
At least for MadBum, too bad it isn't. He's been great.
Other highlights
- OF Gregor Blanco, a non-roster invitee, is giving the Giants reason to consider keeping him on the roster, going 2 for 3 with a walk, two runs scored and a stolen base. After a slow start, he's hitting .429 this spring.
- RP Clay Hensley pitched a 1-2-3 seventh inning with one strikeout in his first spring outing. Hensley is the leading candidate to lock down the final spot in the bullpen. He's been limited this spring by a strained hamstring.
- The Padres scored both of their runs on a pair of solo home runs in the fourth inning off reliever Andrew Kown.
- Four relievers (Jeremy Affeldt, Clay Hensley, Sergio Romo and Dan Otero) set down the final 12 Padres in order. Only one ball left the infield, and four batters struck out.
Up next
Matt Cain makes his second spring start as the Giants face the Reds in Scottsdale at 12:05 p.m. PST. Buster Posey and Freddy Sanchez are expected to make their spring debuts.
Southern California is lovely in April … except for the Giants
Sorry, it's Spring Break and MoreSplashHits was away from the computer since our last post. Just as well as there wasn't much good news to report.
The schedule makers really didn't like the Giants when they made out the 2011 schedule.
First, they only schedule nine of the Giants' first 31 games at home and only 15 of their first 44.
Then, they didn't have the World Series champions open at home (I know, the schedules are put together like a year ago, but it's still annoying).
Then, they go and have the Giants open at LA and San Diego. Couldn't have picked a nice road trip to Phoenix and Denver? Trips to Southern California in April have not gone well for the Giants.
Counting this season's 1-4 road trip (so far), the Giants are 2-15 in April in games at Los Angeles and San Diego over the past three years.
Remember, the Giants had a 1-5 road trip to SoCal in April last season and still went on to win the World Series. This road trip is a bit more annoying because it's to open the series.
So if the Giants can scramble and get a win Wednesday with Tim Lincecum on the mound, a 2-4 road trip might sound just fine. Compared to last season, the Giants will be one game ahead of last season.
Latos loses again to Giants
Another spring day, another win for the Giants.
The Giants improved to 12-4 on the spring as Tim Lincecum gave up just one earned run in four innings of work.
Lincecum gave up three runs on four hits, but only one run was earned.
It's a good news/bad news situation. The Giants committed four errors in the game with Pablo Sandoval getting charged for two.
However, one of those Panda errors was debatable. In the third, Sandoval made a double-saving stop of a liner to third. But his throw to first was in the dirt and Brandon Belt couldn't dig it out. The Padres PR guy was the game's official scorer, and he charge Sandoval with an error. As the Mercury-News's Andrew Baggarly tweeted: "Someone is still bitter about 2010."
If the play is ruled a hit, then Lincecum would have been charged with two earned runs.
So there's good and bad.
One indisputable good thing out Friday's game was that the Giants tagged Padres' starter Mat Latos with four runs in the first inning. Any time you can shut up Latos — even in spring — it's a good day.
Other highlights:
AARON ROWAND: Batting leadoff again (UGH!), Rowand reached base all three times he came to the plate, going 2 for 2 with one HBP.
PABLO SANDOVAL: The Panda had a single, run and RBI in four ABs.
BRANDON BELT: Belt was 2 for 4 with a double, run and RBI.
Mat Latos and his offensive balls
San Diego Padres pitcher Mat Latos is causing problems again with a baseball.
A San Diego-area sports memorabilia store advertised three balls with Latos' signature and the words "I hate SF" inscribed on them. The balls sold for $1,100 with half going to the MLB Alumni Association, according to the Associated Press.
Latos said it was a playful jab toward the Giants and only intended to raise money for charity.
"I did it all in fun," he said. "No disrespect to them."
You may remember last May, when Latos taunted some fans during batting practice at AT&T Park by throwing a ball over the left-field bleachers and out of the stadium. The ball ended up landing in parking lot behind the stadium and smashing a sun roof on a car owned by Giants announcer Dave Flemming. Latos later apologized and offered to pay the $1,200 damage to Flemming's car.
And now this.
Well, we all enjoy a little joke. And we can understand Latos' animosity, feigned or not.
The Giants eliminated the Padres from the postseason on the final day of the season in 2010, and Latos was on the mound that day for San Diego. Latos also set a major-league record last season with 15 consecutive starts in which he threw at least five innings and gave up two earned runs or fewer from June 10 to Sept. 7.
When did that streak end? On Sept. 12, when the Giants tagged Latos for five runs in four innings.
So it makes sense for Latos to write "I hate SF" on those balls.
But if Latos decides to something like that again, we only ask that he do it right, by writing "I hate SF, WSC."
Don't know what "WSC" stands for, Mat? Just think back to Nov. 1 of last season and it may come to you.
Giants' hitting woes hit a new low
Padres 1, Giants 0
LP: Sanchez (1-1)
Record: 8-6, 1st in NL West, tied with San Diego
There's just other way to put it, without engaging in a little French.
Or a lot of French.
The Giants' inability to show any kind of plate discipline, or any time of clutch hitting reached an all-time low on Tuesday night in San Diego.
Jonathan Sanchez pitched his best game of the short season, maybe his best performance since last year's no-hitter. He pitched seven innings, struck out 10 and gave up just one hit …. and lost.
Yes, lost.
Are you ready for the "highlights" from Tuesday's fiasco?
- In five of the nine innings, the Giants put the leadoff runner on base. And failed to score.
- In four other innings, the Giants went down 1-2-3.
- In the first, Eugenio Velez led off the game with a walk (the second time in four days he's done that), but Edgar Renteria hit into a double play. Pablo Sandoval followed with a single.
- In the third, Eli Whiteside led off with a double. Sanchez tried to bunt him to third, but Whiteside was thrown out a third. Velez followed with a single. Then Renteria his into ANOTHER double play.
- In the eighth … the coup de grace! Nate Schierholtz led off with a triple to left-center .. and got stranded there. Whiteside grounded to third; Bengie Molina popped to first; Velez struck out looking.
- In the ninth, Sandoval drew a one-out walk. Andres Torres ran for Sandoval. (That's how desperate the Giants have become that they were taking out their best hitter for their worst hitter). But the moved looked to pay off with Aubrey Huff singled to center, sending Torres to third. Then Juan Uribe flied to shallow right. Torres did not attempt to score. Not sure why, given how poorly the Giants have performed in the clutch. If he'd gone, he probably would have been thrown out. The throw from right was on target, but high. Who knows? But Torres stayed at third. Then John Bowker struck out to end the game.
And how did the Padres score? Chase Headley had a leadoff single (the Padres only hit) in the fourth. He stole second (it was his third stolen base off Sanchez on the night). Headley took third when Huff made a nice play on a foul pop, but fell into the photographer's well, sending Headley to third. Scott Hairston plated the run with a deep fly to right.
Can it get much worse than that? Well, we'll find out Wednesday as the series ends with a 3:30 p.m. game. Do you get that feeling that Wednesday will be the day the starting pitching or the bullpen implodes under the tremendous weight the anemic offense is putting on them?
If there's good news, it's that the Giants still are in first place. We can only hope they still are when they leave their offensive black hole known as Petco Park.
Another one-run loss in San Diego
Padres 3, Giants 2, 10 innings
LP: Affeldt (2-2)
Giants HR: Uribe (2)
Record: 8-5, 1st in NL West, 1 game ahead of San Diego
Well, Giants fans have seen this before: a one-run loss in San Diego. You'll remember last May when the Giants were swept by the Padres in San Diego, losing all three games by one run, and in none of the games did the Giants score more than two runs.
And like we've seen before, what hurt the Giants was not the inability to get hits. It was the inability to get hits when they needed to get hits.
The Giants managed 10 hits on Monday night, same as the Padres. But when given the opportunity to put a crooked number on the board with a simple single, the Giants couldn't seem to find one.
In the fourth after the Giants pushed across the tying run, they had the bases loaded and one out. But that rally was killed when Andres Torres grounded into a double play.
Yeah, double play. Like we have seen that before.
Torres continues to get the starts against lefties, even though he's hitting .111. He went 1 for 4 on Monday. His only hit came when he was actually trying to sacrifice Juan Uribe to second in the seventh inning. But Torres' bunt slipped past pitcher Clayton Richard and Torres reached on an infield single.
Nate Schierholtz then bunted the runners to second and third. And then the Giants did another thing we've seen too much.
Mark DeRosa came into to pinch-hit. All he needed to do was make solid contact. An outfield fly gets the tying run home. An infield grounder also does the job. The Padres were playing back. They didn't want to play in because that would increase the odds of a single slipping past them and allowing two runs to score.
But DeRosa struck out. To make matters worse, Eugenio Velez followed with another strikeout.
The Giants struck out nine times Monday. They walked once.
The Giants are 1 for 16 with runners in scoring position in the past two games. After early-season success at the plate, the Giants have seemed to regress to the habits that kept them from being a playoff team in 2009. Having Aaron Rowand and Mark DeRosa sideline hasn't helped matters.
The Giants desperately need to avoid another San Diego sweep. This road trip has started with three losses in four games. Things don't get any easier when they return home, with six games against the Cardinals and Phillies. They'll face Adam Wainwright and Roy Halladay.
Those guys are certainly more intimidating than Mat Latos and Jon Garland, the two pitchers the Padres will send out next against the Giants. Neither Latos or Garland are lefties, so maybe we won't see Torres in the lineup.
Spring training: Padres 7, Giants 0
Kevin Pucetas, a batle for the No. 5 starting pitching spot, took a hit on Sunday, giving up two runs on four hits and two walks in three innings as the Giants were shut out by former Giant Kevin Correia in a 7-0 loss to the Padres on Sunday.
Indications are that Todd Wellemeyer is about to be named the No. 5 starter. So Sunday's outing may not have mattered as to Pucetas' status.
If there was some good news on the mound for the Giants Sunday, it was that Brian Wilson, Jeremy Affeldt and Guillermo Mota each threw scoreless innings late — although Wilson made it a bit exciting by giving up two hits and a walk in his inning of work.
Inside the box score
Aaron Rowand was 1 for 3 with a walk.
Edgar Renteria was 1 for 3.
Pablo Sandoval was 1 for 3.
Aubrey Huff was 1 for 3 with a double.
John Bowker, getting the start in right field, was 1 for 3.
Matt Downs, entering late and playing some 1B, was 2 for 2 with a double.
Buster Posey continued his late-spring slump, going 0 for 2.
Up next
Jonathan Sanchez takes to the mound as the Giants (19-9) play the Brewers at 1:05 p.m.
Spring training: Padres 7, Giants 1
Relievers Guillermo Mota, Denny Bautista and Brandon Medders also pitched well over the first four innings before the Padres jumped on Osiris Matos during a seven-run fifth innings, as the San Diego Padres beat the Giants split-squad 7-1.


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uth's Chris, the upscale steakhouse chain rooted in New Orleans, moved its headquarters to Lake Mary four years ago in a high-profile exit after Hurricane Katrina.
Now, from its Heathrow offices, the company is up against a different sort of tempest brought on by the global recession — with a decidedly low-profile chief executive in control.
Michael O'Donnell took over at Ruth's Hospitality Group Inc. a year ago.
Aside from the obligatory earnings calls, he's made few, if any, public appearances as the company contends with a heavy debt load and a vanishing customer base.
O'Donnell's hiring, say industry insiders, suggests that Ruth's board of directors is looking to slash expenses and turn attention inward, a departure from the growth-oriented focus we saw under Central Florida native Craig Miller
who was ousted last year.
It's unclear exactly how O'Donnell intends to revive Ruth's Chris, which is fighting among a crowded field of upscale steakhouses — Capital Grille, Morton's, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar to name a few — for a dwindling number of diners willing to pay those restaurants' big checks without heavy discounts.
O'Donnell, who declined to be interviewed, isn't a warm and fuzzy marketing guy with a knack for reinventing brands.
His history suggests a more direct, cost-cutting focus with a résumé built on short stints as the leader of mostly struggling restaurant companies.
Some call him a turnaround specialist.
But his track record is mixed.
O'Donnell made a name for himself in the executive ranks of TGI Friday's in the 1980s and has worked for a number of chain companies.
He was forced to resign as chief executive of then- Massachusetts-based Ground Round in 1995 amid that company's struggle to find its identity.
In September 2003 he was hired as the first non-family member to become president and chief executive officer at stressed Sbarro Inc., based in Melville, N.Y. He resigned less than two years later in March 2005 to try to revive Champp's Entertainment Inc. as Sbarro's sales had improved, but was still operating at a loss.
Littleton, Colo.-based Champp's never regained its footing, and O'Donnell and another executive attempted to purchase the company's assets for $75million with the backing of a private-equity firm. But that deal fell through before it was eventually sold to another restaurant company in July 2007.
The exception to his short spells as boardroom leader is a four-year run ending in 2002 at Outback Steakhouse Inc., where he served as president of new concepts and oversaw Outback's rollout of upscale Roy's and Fleming's.
At Ruth's Chris, where same-restaurant sales fell 23percent last quarter, O'Donnell has already cut costs by closing restaurants in Denver, Naples and LasVegas. He's also renegotiating leases at other locations.
Though he has local ties — he graduated from Rollins College in 1978 — he hasn't emerged as a leader among the local business community.
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His daughter, Catherine, is a star on the golf team at the University of North Carolina and was recently named the Atlantic Coast Conference's freshman of the year.
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text: Putin did not respond directly to a question on Ukraine's avoidance of a customs union with Russia [Reuters]Russian President Vladimir Putin portrayed Moscow's bailout of Ukraine as a "brotherly" act to stave off an economic crisis and said it was not designed to keep Kiev away from the European Union. Russia agreed on Tuesday to buy $15bn worth of Ukrainian bonds and cut the price Kiev pays for Russian natural gas, weeks after Kiev spurned a trade pact with the EU, touching off anti-government protests that have been going on for more than three weeks. "Now we see that Ukraine is in difficult straits ... if we really say that they are a brotherly nation and people then we must act like close relatives and help this nation," Putin told his annual news conference. "In no way this is related with the Maidan [protests in central Kiev] or the European talks with Ukraine." Putin reiterated that the decision to reduce the gas price was a temporary move but he hoped to "agree on long-term cooperation" in the energy sector. According to the Kiev-Moscow deal, Ukraine's Naftogaz energy company will pay Russia's state-owned Gazprom $268.5 per 1,000 cubic metres of natural gas, on which it is heavily dependent, instead of around $400. Putin 'believes in' Kiev The Russian president acknowledged that Ukraine's credit rating was not high but said Moscow believed in the competitiveness of its neighbour's industry. Ukraine, the second most populous ex-Soviet state, has a population of 46mn, which is a third that of Russia but has an ailing economy of less than a tenth of Russia's size. The data raises concerns on the capability of Ukraine to pay-off the bailout in the future. Putin did not respond directly to a question about his failure to persuade Ukraine to join a customs union with Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus which he hopes to build into a larger trading and political bloc. Putin previously said that there had been no discussions on Ukraine joining a Russia-led union during the talks regarding the economic deal. Moscow has been pushing Kiev to join the initiative. The president's annual question-and-answer session is being attended by hundreds of journalists from across Russia and it was being broadcast across the nation. The annual news conference has often lasted more than four hours. SOURCE: Agencies Europe


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Tub time couldn't get any sexier! New GuyBone Guy and utterly adorable otter, Colton Rivers, sudsed up with gorgeous, buff Brian Bonds for a scintillating soak! Rub a dub dub, boys! They sat opposite in the large bubble bath, knees bent, hands roaming under the foam. Colton got his hands on Brian's third leg and began massaging it as they made out. Warm water and bubbles ran down their toned bodies and wooden cocks as they stood up to sword fight. One raging erection pressed against the other, throbbing, slippery with sweet smelling soap.
Brian took both boners in his palm and stroked them side by side. Seeing their stiff dicks stacked together had me hard in seconds. He splashed some water on his cock, rinsing off the suds so Colton could blow him. That was all the invitation the young, eager buck needed. He knelt and devoured Brian's big dick balls deep. What a cocksucking pro! Brian spit into Colton's mouth and I nearly fainted with excitement! As Colton worked over Brian's hung cock, Brian fingered the boy's tight ass. He turned him around and rimmed him, making sure that hairy hole was sufficiently spit-filled for the fucking.
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Brian fucked raw then pulled out then pushed back in. I could imagine my own pulsing cock inside Colton, his tight ass wrapped around my pole. Fuck, I throbbed as violently as Brian did. He thrust mightily into Colton's hole, Colton resting against the tub wall, pulling his cheeks apart so we all could get the maximum view. Brian's giant meat hammer was veiny and like stone. It must have felt magnificent bashing against Colton's prostate. Fuck and rim was on repeat and I smiled huge every time Brian recycled the move. He was loving eating that ass as much as he was enjoying tapping it.
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham
Ok, let me just say right off that I kind of love Andrew Jackson. I knew very little about him before starting this book, but as I read it I found myself bringing him up in conversation and going on and on. It's like a history-crush or something. Weird, right?
Here's what I love: He was just this rough and tumble guy… kind of a mess really. His family all died when he was really young and he was raised poor. He didn't go to college and wasn't exactly a scholar. He had bullets lodged in his body and he was really good at fighting. He had a hot temper and loved a good argument.
He was also madly in love with his wife and his country. He had a code of ethics that he carried close to his heart and he let that guide him in nearly every decision in his life.
A lot of the presidents before Jackson kind of favored the individual states, but Jackson was really the first president to see the country as this cohesive group. The decisions that he made as president were made with that in mind. He didn't favor any state or any state's laws. His end goal was to have this country that functioned as a unit, so that is what he went for. When other countries threatened any part of that unit, he took action. I love that.
I thought that this biography was kind of great. Unlike most of the bios I've read, it was almost exclusively about Andrew Jackson's time in office. Because his family, including his wife, had already passed away at that point, there really wasn't a whole lot about them. I thought that this would bother me, but honestly it didn't.
While there was a lot of focus on the drama in his cabinet and the different political issues of the day, I felt like at its heart this book was about the man of Andrew Jackson and how he responded to situations and how we can still see his fingerprints in our current government. I walked away with a huge amount of respect for Andrew Jackson. I kind of want to hug him.
Like John Adams, this book was written almost like a novel. It wasn't a chore to read it at all and I really found myself getting into it. It was written for readers more so than historians or academics which I appreciated.
One of the things that has kind of caught me off guard while reading these bios is that every single president knew that slavery was, at some point, going to be an issue. It's not like one day it just creeped up on the country. Every president up until this point has had to deal with it in one way or the other and they all have just pushed it aside hoping that someone else would take care of it. Andrew Jackson did the exact same thing. I guess I didn't know much about the history of the civil war, but I really had no idea that it had been brewing for the entire history of the U.S. Crazy.
Even if you are not participating in the Presidential Challenge, I recommend this wholeheartedly.


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This fragrant side dish was born out of an argument between Bruce Aidells and Nancy Oakes on whether an entire head of cauliflower could be filled like dolma, the Middle Eastern family of stuffed grape leaves and vegetable dishes. "Nancy thought it could be done; I didn't," he says. Aidells turns the idea of dolma inside out by topping a rice casserole with cauliflower florets. "I'm the lazy, more practical cook," Aidells says. "That's why Nancy has the big fancy restaurant and I have this kitchen." Slideshow: More Healthy Vegetable Dishes
How to Make It
Preheat the oven to 425°. Separate one head of cauliflower into 2-inch florets and the other into 1-inch florets. On a large, rimmed baking sheet, toss the 1-inch florets with 3 tablespoons of the oil and season with salt and pepper. Roast the cauliflower for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until golden in spots and tender.
Meanwhile, bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Add the 2-inch cauliflower florets and cook until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain and pat dry.
Spread the pine nuts in a pie plate and toast until golden, about 5 minutes.
In a large, deep skillet, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Add the onion and cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until softened and just beginning to brown, about 10 minutes. Add the turmeric and rice and stir to coat. Stir in the chicken broth and 1/2 teaspoon of salt and bring to a boil. Cover tightly and cook over low heat until the broth is absorbed and the rice is tender, about 20 minutes.
Transfer the rice to a large bowl. Fold in the roasted cauliflower, toasted pine nuts, currants and cilantro. Spoon the rice into a 2 1/2- to 3-quart soufflé dish and press lightly on the top. Arrange the boiled cauliflower florets on top.
In a small bowl, combine the melted butter and paprika. Brush half of the butter mixture over the cauliflower and bake for about 15 minutes, until heated through.
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It is with enormous pleasure that I welcome the first ever guest blog post on DigitalShakespeares. Over the past summer, Mary Odbert, one of our wonderfully talented MA students at the Shakespeare Institute, has been acting as a research assistant on this project, and she very graciously agreed to write up some of her final thoughts on the work she's been doing. As you'll see, much of this has involved watching and studying a selection of Shakespeare broadcasts, so, without any further ado, here's Mary!
The Eye of the Camera in Filmed Theatre
Shakespeare's presence in the digital world has opened up innumerable new modes of thought in both creative practice and criticism. In the process, a fledgling art form has emerged somewhere between the stage and the cinema in the form of the live theatre broadcast. It has been my pleasure this summer to work with Dr. Sullivan on her exploration of this new medium. To me, the most fascinating aspect of the live theatre broadcast is the means by which the camera affects the broadcast spectator's experience of the theatrical production.
The camera's control over our perspective may be written off as an understood necessity in the context of film. Its angles, distances, and movements are accepted as part of the calculated art of filmmaking and the spectator experiences the film through the lens for better or worse. However, in the case of a theatrical broadcast film, this trust in the camera is somewhat ruptured by the film viewer's awareness of the in-theatre audience. While, on the one hand, in-theatre audiences are restricted to a single perspective by their physical stasis, they are nonetheless in control of their more specific focus. Although unable to cut to close-ups on facial expressions or wide birds-eye-view shots for dramatic effect, the in-theatre audience controls where they look and when. The spectator's bodily autonomy may be obviously self-evident to anyone who has ever turned their head to look at something, but it's a luxury which registers as taken for granted when the camera operator makes a choice you wouldn't have done.
The Globe On Screen and The RSC Live use a fascinating array of camera techniques from self-contained framing to a complete avowal of the theatrical space, all to varying effect, but all nonetheless representative of specific stylistic choices. As a space wherein the theatre itself is as much a part of the experience as the production on its stage, The Globe On Screen tends more toward wide shots which include the building and the in-theatre audience. This choice is also partly driven by necessity simply due to the practical layout of the building. Apart from a straight shot from the front and center of the yard, there is essentially no angle which doesn't inevitably include audience members in the background.
As a result, the films maintain a diegetic distance from the plays themselves, always reminding the viewer of the constructed nature of the drama. This result is by no means a reflection on any inability of the actors to engage the spectator into their world. In fact, this is often successfully the case for the standing spectators in the yard sharing the space of the characters. But by including the in-theatre spectators' experience in the film, Globe On Screen adds a layer of non-diegetic reality between the diegetic scene on stage and the engagement of cinema spectators. Rather than watching the play itself, Globe On Screen viewers watch The Globe put on a play. In its own almost voyeuristic mode, The Globe On Screen film puts its viewers in a position of watching an audience watch a play.
The RSC generally takes a more cinematically-minded approach in their broadcasts. With more lighting technology and elaborate sets, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre has more tools with which to explore their own style of mise-en-scene in the filming process. Their films feature camera work which does more to exclude the audience from the frame, therefore keeping the diegetic engagement less disrupted for the broadcast spectators. High angled shots swooping down into powerful close ups enhance the impact of emotional moments. While the camera still enacts a certain authority over the film viewer's point of view, moments like this exemplify the ways in which the camera provides perspectives otherwise impossible to the in-theatre audience.
In some ways, the divide in new opportunities for experimental effects between The Globe and its indoor counterpart is one which echoes back to the days of the Blackfriars Theatre in the early modern period. To a certain degree, it almost feels as though The Globe's focus on original practices perhaps hinders its development in the filmic realm. Then again, to read The Globe's approach more as a documentary of the theatrical experience rather than embracing the temptation to see it as a film adaptation of the play recasts the work as a success within its own multi-generic classification. Meanwhile, The RSC continues to experiment and discover as much with their live broadcast techniques as they do with their stage adaptations.
After analyzing this series of films, most from The Globe and The RSC along with several from The National Theatre for good measure, it seems clear that the entire notion of the digital broadcast of the stage production still has a great deal of development to come. This is not to suggest the films thus far haven't been excellent, because they absolutely are! But it seems that the theatres are now reaching major turning point wherein the film is evolving beyond its point-and-shoot origins to embrace the artistry available to the cinematic mode. Rather than capturing the action on stage at its bare minimum with a static camera at the back of the audience, the filmed stage production is roaring to life as its own unique art form. The best parts of the shared theatrical experience, teleporting spectators from around the world into London's Wooden O or the pride of Stratford's riverside, blended together with the best of the cinema's compositional techniques to create an unmatchable Shakespearean experience.
Guest post by Mary Odbert, MA Shakespeare Studies (Shakespeare Institute).


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Candidate for the California Lieutenant Governor's race, Progressive Gayle McLaughlin will be a special guest on Lake County Community Radio's (KPFZ, 88.1fm) "Citizen Lake." The program can be heard on Saturday, January 13, from 9 to10 a.m.
McLaughlin has made world-wide headlines when she, as Mayor, led her Richmond CA community in their fight for justice. This included increasing minimum wage, fight for better jobs, better public education, better care for the environment. She initiated a lawsuit against Chevron for damage to the local population, She also forced Chevron to pay an additional 7.5 million per year in taxes.
Supporting Richmond CARES (Community Action to Restore Equity and Stability), Gayle endorsed foreclosure prevention, and a Community Choice program leading to cheaper and greener energy. Under her leadership homicides were reduced 75% in 8 years.
Gayle strength in fighting against the corruption of money in politics has earned her the epithet "The Bernie Sanders of the Bay Area". Endorsed by Our Revolution chapters throughout the country, she has proven her commitment to the principles of Sanders affiliates.
The public will have a chance to ask questions and listen to a woman whose accomplishments are outstanding and invigorating. With the upcoming January 20 Women's Marches, Gayle McLaughlin represents the substantial power of women.
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NEW YORK, NY – 9/6/2016 (PRESS RELEASE JET) — Dr. Patricia Ann Broderick, Medical Professor in Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience at The City University of New York School of Medicine, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at City College, Doctoral Faculty in Biology (Neuroscience) at the CUNY Graduate School, and Adjunct Professor in Neurology & Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at NYU Langone Medical Center, was selected as "Top Professor & Scientist of the Year" for 2016-2017 by the International Association of Top Professionals.
While inclusion with the International Association of Top Professionals is an honor in itself, only a few members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, longevity in the field, other affiliations and contributions to their communities. All honorees are invited to attend the IAOTP's annual award gala at the end of this year for a night to honor their achievements.
"Unique, extraordinary, pure genius and out of the box" are just some of the words that first come to mind when describing Dr. Patricia Ann Broderick. Dr. Broderick is in a class of her own and we are honored to have her with our organization as our "Top Professor and Scientist of the Year." She has been a true pioneer in the medical industry with her dynamic results-driven leadership, tremendous foresight, extraordinary knowledge and countless accomplishments; she is a pure visionary of her time. With over 30 years of professional experience as a Professor, Scientist, Author, Researcher, Lecturer, and Inventor, there is nothing that Dr. Patricia Ann Broderick cannot achieve.
With all that Dr. Patricia Ann Broderick has accomplished, it is difficult to have to streamline it down into a single press release. Among her long list of professional achievements, Dr. Broderick is the inventor of the trademarked and patented BRODERICK PROBE® biosensors and related biotechnologies. The BRODERICK PROBE®, named for her father, is a diagnostic biomedical device that sends neurotransmitter images in real time from the brain during live movement, and is able to video track the brain in order to individually and uniquely designs a patient's treatment. This brilliant invention has become an essential tool in the study of treatment options for neurological degenerative diseases and drug addictions. The probe uses a series of biosensors which Dr. Broderick also invented, developed, patented and trademarked; this unique type of LIVE IMAGING is named Neuromolecular Imaging (NMI). She also established the Broderick Brain Foundation in order to fund training for healthcare and educational professionals as well as students in their quest to discover how the brain works.
An extensively educated individual who utilizes both hemispheres of her brain, Dr. Patricia Broderick earned her Bachelor of Science Degree from St. Thomas Aquinas College, graduating Magna Cum Laude and then earned a Master of Science Degree in Biology from Fordham University. In 1979 she received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from St. John's University and also completed Postdoctoral and Research Associate work at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Cornell University Medical School. She began her career as a Senior Scientist at USV Pharmaceutical (1979-1982), before becoming Scientific Consultant and Research Investigator at Pharmacia Upjohn Pharmaceuticals Company (1982-1988). She then took the position that she has held for the last 30 years as Medical Professor in Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience at City University of New York School of Medicine, the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at City College. Dr. Broderick is in the process of finishing her book, Neuroimaging, Nanosensing Biochemistry in the Brain, and will be published by Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd., Singapore. She continues her work in the universities serves as a keynote speaker and holds editorial appointments on a global scale.
Throughout her illustrious career, Dr. Patricia Ann Broderick has been recognized worldwide for her outstanding leadership and commitment to the profession. She was the recipient of the Thomas Aquinas College, New York, Magna Cum Laude, Teacher Leadership Award; New York University, Research Fellowship; Nathan Kline Psychiatric Institute, Teaching Fellowship; St. John's University, Rho Chi National Pharmaceutical Honor Society; St. John's University, Milton Rosenbaum Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Montefiore Medical Center; the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Advanced Biomedical Studies Certificate; City College of New York, Faculty Senate Committee on Research and Publication Award; Association of Women in Science, Outstanding Woman Scientist Award; and Sigma Xi Research Honor Society. In 2014 Named Top Industry Expert by the National Association of Distinguished Professors; In 2015 named Outstanding Professional of the Year with International Who's Who and recipient of the Faculty Row Award; In 2016 Pinnacle Awardee by Continental Who's Who; "Professional Woman of the Year by the National Association of Professional Women; will be featured in the forthcoming Women of Distinction Magazine, and selected as "Top Scientist & Professor of the Year" for 2016 by the International Association of Top Professionals.
Aside from her extraordinary career, numerous publications, chapters and patents, Dr. Patricia Ann Broderick is also one of the most sought-after speakers, lecturers and symposium leaders throughout the country. She has been an invited speaker at the International Congress and Exhibition on Biosensors and Bioelectronics: Analyzing Novel Approaches to Biosensors and Bioelectronics, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is active in numerous organizations as a member of: The Society for Neuroscience; the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapies; the Association for Women in Science; the Electrochemical Society; and the American Epilepsy Society. Additionally, she is a Member of the Board, Sensors; Member of the Board, Biosensors (Basel, Switzerland and Beijing, China), The Journal of Neural Transmission; Member of the Board and Field Editor (Heidelberg, Germany), The Journal of Caffeine Research; former Member of the Board, Editor-in-Chief (New York, USA), The Journal of Biochips and Tissue Chips; Member of the Board and Editor-in-Chief (Henderson, Nevada, USA), Advisory Board, de Gruyters Open Access Chemical Sensors; Member of the Editorial Board, and E Chronicon Neurology and E Chronicon Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Looking back, Dr. Patricia Ann Broderick attributes her success and numerous significant accomplishments, to her countless hours of research, her passion and pouring out of her heart and soul to bleed for the greater good. She says her work is never finished and the best has yet to come. For the future, she will continue to throw caution to the wind and continue to improve the lives of others any way that she can.
For more information on Dr. Broderick please visit https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/patricia-broderick
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A good friend of mine @joeprog has used one of his passion for entertainment to create a central repository of opinions and interesting information in mostly areas of the entertainment industry. There are many sites similar that are in english but very few are in Spanish and continuously updated.
The main page will take you quickly to recent news, conversations on twitter related to Vortice, latest movie trailers, reviews and essays. If you are like me that wants to keep up to date on the latest movies then going by Vórtice Online will help you with staying up to date very quickly.
Vortice's areas are divided by subjects or type of content in which I really enjoy the navigation and the user experience of getting what they need in various organized ways.
By Subject
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- Comics
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- Internet
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Type of Content
- News – Noticias
- Essays – Ensayos
- Podcast
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So if you are looking for a spanish based entertainment site including all the above mention topics feel free to visit Vortice and stay up to date.
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Go over to Brooklyn Met Fan if you don't already (what the hell is wrong with you?!) and vote for "The Hottest Met 2009." I voted Murphy, even though it's probably David Wright. Santana at #3, bringing up the rear. GET IT?
What an image…brb.
Go over to Brooklyn Met Fan if you don't already (what the hell is wrong with you?!) and vote for "The Hottest Met 2009." I voted Murphy, even though it's probably David Wright. Santana at #3, bringing up the rear. GET IT?
What an image…brb.
1. The Amanda Bynes/LOTR answers = HOLY FUCK, I forget how young he is.
2. What a cocky sonuvabitch.
3. He clearly comes from the Andre Bazin school of film criticism.
4. I need to make him a mixtape.
This is the second in what was supposed to be a series highlighting exceptional play and unbearable cuteness from the most unlikely of places, but after that first one it all went downhill for the Mets last year. In both matters, really. The last half of 2007 was full of spotty play at best, and was certainly not that cute.
But huzzah! We have found a new inspiration, a new love in our lives. Matt Cerrone calls him his favorite player. As did BMF. Greg Prince labeled him "Dandy," which is high praise indeed, considering the source. And Joe Janish has made a shirt in his honor, which I will probably have to buy. It's only been a week and rookie Daniel Murphy has captured Mets fans with his play, which reminds me of a bulldog, somehow. His leaps against walls to take away extra-base hits! His tenacious at-bats, which always seem to go deep in the count. And of course his pinch-hit two-run homer which proved to be the difference maker in Saturday's game, compelling the entirety of Shea to beg for a curtain call. And Murphy, with the egging on of Carlos Delgado, no less, obliged.
Daniel Murphy, who in a measly 23 at-bats is batting .478 and has a .571 OBP. This won't continue, certainly, but there's something about his approach at the plate–a "general air of fearlessness," says Jason Fry–that makes me believe he's going to be a valuable hitter for some time. He's the kind of player that ignites passion merely because he plays with same, in a disciplined, focused, non-flashy kind of way. A real blue-collar hard-nosed worker. Someone baseball fans will always appreciate.
And he seems like a nice young man to boot. Being interviewed by Eddie Coleman after Saturday's game, Murphy said (in his deep deep voice, swoon), "You can't say enough about ___________" maybe four or five times. About his teammates, the hitting, the organization, the pitching, about Beltran quietly taking him under his wing. Maybe he's getting his media coaching from David Wright. Move over Davey boy, there's a new heartthrob in town.
According to Adam Rubin, Mike Pelfrey has been named the NL Player of the Week.
His maturation has been something to behold. What a stud.
Last night I missed going to the SNY viewing party at the Village Pourhouse (in turn missing out on meeting a boy on whom I have the most incomprehensible crush, a boy who will go nameless, but he's got Kennedy hair and I'm not made of stone, guys) due to general malaise and weird mental things and stress and whatnot, so I decided to cook for two hours and then listen to the game. Good game! Etc. Hooray win. They'll probably lose tonight. That's what .500 teams do, right?
But mainly I've been distracted because of Wimbledon. Yes, still! It's almost over, promise. I realized something about today's matches though: back in January, when Maria Sharapova defeated Ana Ivanovic in the Australian Open final, drooling males who couldn't give two shits about the sport were deeming it the "hottest match ever." I find Ivanovic totally adorable and Sharapova completely overrated (have you seen her face? She looks like a lizard. But she's blonde, so there you go American standard of beauty), but they probably had a point.
WELL. Considering this blog, it's time to turn the tables and objectify some men, as today features the hottest ever quarterfinal matchup, though you wouldn't know it judging by media coverage (save for always-reliable tennis.com, which deemed the match "the GQ special." Well done).
Here we have Feliciano Lopez, who kind of looks like a male Gabriela Sabatini (in my mind the most beautiful woman to play the sport):
What's with the beefcake shot though? He looks like he should be on the cover of a romance novel. (Also here's an, ahem, NSFW image)
And opposing him, beautiful talent-wasting headcase Marat Safin:
Marat kinda looks like an ex's brother here. Sigh.
I promise actual substance TK.


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Jermaine Dupri threw a concert Saturday night at Atlanta's Fox Theater to celebrate the 20th birthday of his label So So Def Recordings, and a few surprise guests dropped by, including Jay-Z and Mariah Carey.
"This feels like a mother-f--king family reunion," Lil Jon, who served as the night's DJ, said to the audience, Billboard reports.
It certainly was. Jay-Z, Mariah Carey, Usher, Nelly, Kris Kross, Da Brat Xscape, Jagged Edge, Bow Wow, and more all performed to support the producer's label and incredible career.
"I do more than run So So Def," Dupri said to concertgoers. "I've produced so many hits for people outside of So So Def."
Watch performance footage below.


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Gold Engagement Ring– For many people who have experienced and learned a lot about the jewelry rings, gold engagement rings shop is a scary thing for them. This then is the underlying me to make a short article how to find the engagement ring that suits you and your bride. Keep reading this article because I will tell you where you can find the best rings at affordable prices.
Gold Engagement Ring-Review
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There are many precious metals that you can use for your gold engagement ring such as platinum, white gold and silver. You can freely express them. You are free to choose the color, size, clarity and price of the diamond according to your budget.
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UMW | OER Extravaganza!
May 13, 2016
Are you familiar with Open Educational Resources (OER)? Would you like to be? Do you care about the academic success of your students? Would you like to save students a substantial amount of money? Are you curious about what's better than sliced bread?
If your answer for any of these questions is yes, then make plans to attend the OER Extravaganza at the University of Mary Washington on Friday, May 13, 2016. And yes, there will be prizes!
Mark your calendars. The meeting details are still under development and will be posted here once they have been confirmed. If you want more information, contact Steve Greenlaw, Professor of Economics at UMW, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Another alla prima painting that I did after returning from a meeting at the Wildling Museum where we discussed plans for next Novembers Artist Studio Tour. I was preparing a canvas for a larger painting and while waiting for the gesso to dry decided to paint another small work. I painted this one to try out different sky colors and played with the distant treeline colors too. I really like this combination of colors and might just use this for the larger painting I was about to begin.
After painting in the grass I wiped out the trail using a brush and turpentine. Normally I get it really clean but this time I left it sort of stained looking with some thicker areas of "stain" and it gave the trail this sort of grungy smeared look but the colors it left were very cool....I almost didn't want to paint in the trail colors over it. I might have spent more time trying to keep that look but this is a small one that really will be used as a ref for the larger piece...I can mess with it there since there will be more room anyway.