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KABUL, Afghanistan - The Islamic State group's main stronghold in eastern Afghanistan collapsed in recent weeks, according to American and Afghan officials, following years of concerted military offensives from U.S. and Afghan forces and, more recently, the Taliban.
President Ashraf Ghani recently claimed that the Islamic State, often known as ISIS, had been "obliterated" in Nangarhar Province, the group's haven in the east. And in an interview in Kabul on Sunday, Gen. Austin S. Miller, the commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said the group's loss of the terrain it stubbornly held for few years would severely restrict their recruitment and planning.
But Miller also warned that the Islamic State could remain a threat in Afghanistan even if it does not hold territory, with attention required to track militants on the move and the group's remaining urban cells.
"It was instructive in Iraq and Syria - when you take away big terrain from them, they move into smaller cells and they pop up in strange places," Miller said.
Miller's reluctance to affirm any type of major victory over the offshoot is indicative of the broader inroads Islamic State cells have made in Afghanistan - and of a long history of militant groups in Afghanistan bouncing back after seemingly unsustainable losses.
Western and Afghan officials see a combination of factors that led to the Islamic State's losses in the east, forcing many of the fighters to either move or surrender. One Western official estimated that the group's strength was now reduced to around 300 fighters in Afghanistan, from an estimated 3,000 earlier this year.
The Islamic State's presence in Afghanistan has been cited by military officials and lawmakers as one of the reasons to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan following any peace settlement with the Taliban. Those officials have long argued that the Taliban would not be able to defeat the group, and that the insurgents still had not done much to distance themselves from al-Qaida, the group responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
What particularly worried officials was the Islamic State's continued ability to plan attacks and recruit within Kabul, the Afghan capital city, despite intensified campaigns against the group there. Some of the recruits involved in the planning or execution of deadly bombings there came from the city's top schools, officials say.
But for Karimullah, a resident of Jawdara, a small village in eastern Afghanistan where a suicide bombing attributed to the Islamic State killed more than 70 people in October, battlefield victories, political posturing or even the recent death of the Islamic State's supreme leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, means little.
"If he's dead or not, what does it matter?" said Karimullah, who uses just one name and lost his uncle in the blast. "We were destroyed."
His ambivalence is not uncommon here. To many Afghans, the group's name or differences from the Taliban are barely noteworthy. But there is no doubt that extreme violence by the Islamic State has become an enduring facet of the war, deepening the already egregious suffering across the country.
The Islamic State has managed to penetrate parts of Afghan society that had been mostly untouched by the broader war for years. And the group's resilience, even in light of its recent defeats, raises the grim prospect of an unending war even if the Taliban negotiate a peace.
Far from the central ISIS branch in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State in Afghanistan started as a collection of disenfranchised Pakistani Taliban fighters who pledged allegiance to al-Baghdadi in early 2015. It has since slowly turned into a formidable threat in Afghanistan's mountainous east, with a reach that extends across the country, including in Kabul, the capital.
Though the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria sent money to its Afghan affiliate to support its initial growth, the connection between the two groups is minimal, said Arian Sharifi, who was the director of threat assessment of the Afghan National Security Council until late last year.
One of the group's goals, officials say, is to hold territory in Afghanistan and elsewhere in south and Central Asia, trying to establish a caliphate much like the group's earlier iteration in the Middle East.
Sharifi thinks that the Islamic State in Afghanistan will try to become the group's global hub in the coming years, after losing territory in Iraq and Syria following concerted Western-backed offensives and airstrikes.
The Afghan government noted that more foreign fighters were slowly arriving in Afghanistan to fight for the group there as the central branch lost territory in Iraq and Syria, an assessment supported by U.S. intelligence officials.
But, Sharifi cautioned, "The Islamic State in Afghanistan is much less ideological than its Middle Eastern counterparts," he said in a recent interview. "It is very much influenced by regional politics as well."
U.S. officials have been divided over how much global threat the Islamic State in Afghanistan poses. While military officials emphasize the group's ambitions, some intelligence officials believe the group remains more of a threat within the immediate region.
One thing the Afghan branch shares with the central body is a hatred of Shiite Muslims, and a tendency to single them out for attacks. Still, the militants are not exclusive with their violence, as was the case in Jawdara, a mostly Sunni village.
There, Karimullah and some other residents think it was more personal: The village had stood up to the Islamic State in a dispute over the town's water supply, and they believe the mosque bombing was meant to break their spirit.
In its early days, the Islamic State in Afghanistan distinguished itself from other terrorist organizations operating in Afghanistan, including al-Qaida, by taking another cue from counterparts in Iraq and Syria: Its media arm distributed gruesome videos of beheadings and fighters forcing victims to sit on explosives before detonating them.
But when the Islamic State detonated a suicide bomb in a wedding hall in Kabul over the summer, killing 63 people, there was little mention of ideology or local aims.
"I think ISIS is just a name in Afghanistan," said Hajji Hussain, the owner of the wedding hall. "We don't know who they are, and we can't trust anyone."
He added, "They just enjoy killing people."
And that is what makes the Islamic State stand out in Afghanistan's unending war. The Taliban often try to justify or disown attacks that killed civilians, Sharifi said.
The Islamic State, he added, does not bother.
While the number of Islamic State attacks declined in recent months, according to United Nations data, American officials attributed more than 20 high-profile attacks in Kabul alone last year.
For years, U.S. and Afghan Special Operations forces, on the back of a relentless airstrike campaign, had kept the pressure to try to contain the group. The Taliban, also, increased their operations against the group in Nangarhar, according to Western and Afghan officials. Some reports claimed that the insurgents had sent some of their elite units to the province to strike at the Islamic State.
The timing of the Taliban intensifying its offensives against the Islamic State was particularly interesting, as the insurgents tried to persuade the Americans in peace negotiations that they would act against international terrorist groups.
But following any peace agreement, the number of hard-line insurgents defecting to the Islamic State to keep fighting has been a concern among Afghan and western officials.
But still, with the group constricting, its damage to Afghanistan, by way of cruel bombings in the capital and rampant death among innocents, has reshaped Afghans' understanding of violence, a trauma that will linger for years to come.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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This workshop is taught by some of the most experienced people in the field of equine facilitated mental health and learning, giving participants a change to see what is current in the field. The workshop is team taught by an Equine Specialist/PATH Intl. Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor in collaboration with a mental health professional working with several equines.
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|BB&T Field at Groves Stadium
|Groves Stadium
|411 Deacon Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27105
|Broke ground
|September 21, 1968
|Wake Forest University
|Wake Forest University
| FieldTurf: 2006 to present
Natural grass: 1968 to 2006
|Construction cost
| $4 million (USD)
($26.7 million in 2012 dollars)
|Walter Robbs Callahan & Pierce
|Former names
|Groves Stadium (1968–2007)
|Wake Forest Demon Deacons (NCAA) (1968–present)
BB&T Field (the playing field contained in Groves Stadium) is a football field in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons. The stadium opened in 1968 and holds 31,500 people. It is the smallest football stadium, by capacity, in both the ACC, and in all BCS Automatic Qualifying conferences.
In September 2007, Wake Forest University and BB&T, which is headquartered in Winston-Salem, announced a 10 year deal to officially rename the stadium "BB&T Field" starting with the first 2007 home game against Nebraska.[1] The deal is part of a larger development process to secure funds for stadium renovations and upgrades.
The former stadium name of Groves Field goes back to the original stadium at the original location of Wake Forest (Wake Forest, North Carolina). The old stadium was financed by Henry Groves, and when the school announced the move to Winston-Salem, he and his brother, Earl, decided to make a further contribution to the school to keep their name on any new stadium. After moving to Winston-Salem, many games were played in Bowman Gray Stadium while the project to build a new stadium met with many setbacks. It was not until 1966 that the final fundraising was done, and the stadium opened in September 1968, with the Deacons losing to old rival NC State. The former Groves Stadium became the home football field for Wake Forest-Rolesville High School and is today known as Trentini Stadium.[2]
The current stadium consists of two bowed grandstands on either side of the field. The southeast endzone is known as "Deacon Hill," and is used for berm seating during games. The Bridger Field House, originally built in 1968 with the stadium, was demolished in early 1996 and rebuilt during the 1996 football season. It opened midway through the 1997 football season. The structure is located behind the northwest endzone. In the summer of 2006, the natural grass surface was replaced with FieldTurf.The stadium is part of a larger complex east of the main campus at the corner of Deacon Boulevard and University Parkway, which includes Gene Hooks Field at Wake Forest Baseball Park and Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
In 2006, the Wake Forest Athletics Department announced plans to further the renovations on BB&T Field (then Groves Stadium) with the construction of Deacon Tower which will house a new press box. Deacon Tower opened prior to the 2008 season. The press box is the centerpiece of the third of six levels of renovations set to take place at BB&T Field. The old press box, built in 1968, was successfully imploded & demolished on the morning of January 14, 2007 as numerous Demon Deacon fans watched on. Previous renovations included the bricking of the facade of the grandstand in 2005 and the implementation of FieldTurf in 2006.
BB&T Field is just west of Gene Hooks Field at Wake Forest Baseball Park, home of the Wake Forest baseball team (previously Ernie Shore Field which held the Winston-Salem Warthogs minor league baseball team; now known as the Winston-Salem Dash which play at BB&T Ballpark located in downtown Winston-Salem).
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- ↑ Daniels, Rob. "What's in a name? $$$$", 2007-09-06.
- ↑ Demon Deacons Facilities: BB&T Field. Wake Forest Sports. Archived from the original on 5 December 2007. Retrieved on 2007-12-29.
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Jadore Deluxe Hotel & Spa
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Jadore Deluxe Hotel & Spa is located just a short distance from the sand and gravel beach, a 10 minute drive from Karaalioglu Park. The complex boasts outdoor swimming pools, a kids club, fitness centre and spa with indoor swimming pool. The hotel is within easy reach of city centre.
How far is the nearest beach?
This hotel is located 600m from the beach.
Distance from Airport
The hotel is located 70km from Antalya Airport.
All guest rooms feature a private bathroom, TV (pay per view), minibar, air conditioning, internet access, heating, hairdryer and safe.
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There is 6 onsite restaurants and 8 bar/lounges.
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Guests can relax on the sun terrace by the 3 outdoor swimming pools. Other facilities include a kids club, children's playground, fitness centre, Wi-Fi access and spa with sauna and indoor swimming pool.
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text: Volume 1.17 | Jul 17 Intestinal Cell News 1.17 July 17, 2015 In this issue: Publications | Industry News | Policy News | Events | Jobs TOP STORY 3-D Views Reveal Intricacies in Intestines That Could Lead to Discoveries for Inflammatory Bowel Disease A technology whose roots date to the 1800s has the potential to offer a new advantage to modern-day medicine. Case Western Reserve scientists detail how stereomicroscopy can provide physicians with an invaluable diagnostic tool in assessing issues within the gastrointestinal tract. [Press release from Case Western Reserve University discussing online publication in Nature Communications] Press Release | Full Article PUBLICATIONS (Ranked by impact factor of the journal) INTESTINAL CANCERS & DISEASES Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Regulated SATB1 Promotes Colorectal Cancer Tumorigenesis and Progression Using several colorectal cancer cell line models and the APC min mutant zebrafish in vivo model, researchers established that SATB1 is a novel target of Wnt/β-catenin signaling. [Oncogene] Abstract miR-135b- and miR-146b-Dependent Silencing of Calcium-Sensing Receptor Expression in Colorectal Tumors The authors demonstrated that miR-135b and miR-146b target the calcium-sensing receptor and reduced its expression in colorectal tumors, reducing the antiproliferative and prodifferentiating actions of calcium. [Int J Cancer] Abstract Carnosic Acid Inhibits STAT3 Signaling and Induces Apoptosis through Generation of ROS in Human Colon Cancer HCT116 Cells Investigators revealed that carnosic acid (CA) treatment significantly reduced the viability of human colon cancer HCT116, SW480, and HT-29 cells. Treatment with CA induced apoptosis, which was associated with the induction of p53 and Bax, inhibition of Mdm2, Bcl-2, and Bcl-xl expression, activation of caspase-9, and -3, and the cleavage of PARP in HCT116 cells. [Mol Carcinog] Abstract Distinct Roles for Intestinal Epithelial Cell-Specific Hdac1 and Hdac2 in the Regulation of Murine Intestinal Homeostasis To determine the role of Hdac1 and Hdac2 in the regulation of intestinal epithelial cell function and the establishment of the dual knockout phenotype, investigators generated villin-Cre murine models expressing one Hdac1 allele without Hdac2, or one Hdac2 allele without Hdac1. [J Cell Physiol] Abstract Heterogeneity of Subordination of the IL-18/IFN-γ Axis to Caspase-1 among Patients with Crohn's Disease Scientists showed a correlation between secreted IFN-γ/IL-18 levels, and caspase-1 activation, with inflammation intensity of intestinal Crohn's disease mucosa explants. [Lab Invest] Abstract Comparing Two Intestinal Porcine Epithelial Cell Lines (IPECs): Morphological Differentiation, Function and Metabolism IPEC-J2 was found to be a morphologically and functionally more differentiated cell line in comparison to IPEC-1. [PLoS One] Full Article Derlin-1 Is Overexpressed in Human Colon Cancer and Promotes Cancer Cell Proliferation Researchers examined Derlin-1 expression in colon cancer cell lines and human tissues and investigated its role in colon cancer. 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For the present of course, researchers are discovering how far they can go with this. We know that solar cells can be printed and doing the same with battery tech is an obvious fit. This also suggests that folding can produce larger batteries. Again it is early days for the art itself.
The objective most attractive is to store solar energy without moving it at all. That way we avoid unnecessary movement and storage and the related wastage. Having the energy stored for example on the back of a solar panel is clearly most efficient and convenient.
That is the promise anyway.
I wonder if the ultra capacitor powder can be also printed. This is much more promising and in time it will be more useful if it can be done.
As I described in my article on the reverse engineering of an UFO, several layers needed to be laminated together to produce the necessary working shell. One layer been energy storage made good sense but was not necessary.
We are presently mastering the necessary arts.
Japanese Researchers Seeking to Print Out Li-polymer
Jan 7, 2010 15:57
A Japanese research group developed a lithium polymer battery that can be manufactured by printing technology.
The group is led by
Advanced Materials Innovation Center (AMIC) of Mie Industry and (MIESC), a Japan-based incorporated foundation. Enterprise Support Center
The sheet-shaped battery is expected to be used with a flexible solar battery or display and to be attached to a curved surface. If the battery is integrated with a solar battery formed on a flexible substrate, it is possible to realize a sheet that can be used both as a power generator and a power storage, AMIC said.
Because the battery is made by using printing technology, it can be reduced in thickness, increased in area and laminated. Furthermore, when combined with a roll-to-roll production method, its costs can be reduced, AMIC said.
The lithium polymer battery was developed in a research project participated by MIESC, Toppan Printing Co Ltd, Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co Ltd, Kureha Elastomer Co Ltd, Kinsei Matec Co Ltd, Meisei Chemical Works Ltd, Mie University, Suzuka National College of Technology and Mie Prefecture Industrial Research Institute.
They prototyped two types of batteries. One has an output voltage of about 4V at a room temperature while the other has an output voltage of about 2V. The thickness of the battery is about 500μm, but the battery capacity was not disclosed. Its negative and positive electrodes were formed on a flexible substrate by using printing technology.
This time, the research group used a normal sheet-shaped flexible substrate but employed a printing technology that can be applied to roll-to-roll production, it said. When a roll-to-roll production method is used, the thickness of the flexible substrate can be reduced, enabling to manufacture thin batteries.
The group did not use a printing technology to package polymer electrolyte this time. It did not disclose the details of the polymer electrolyte or the negative or positive electrode materials.
The research project is a three-year project that will end in March 2011. In the final year, the research group plans to improve manufacturing technologies for commercial production, seek appropriate applications of the battery and set numerical targets such as of battery capacity.


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Bonhomie? C'est Fini as Trump and Macron Seek to Defuse Tension
PARIS — They shook hands politely and patted each other on the arm stiffly. Their tight-lipped smiles appeared strained and forced. No cheeks were kissed, no friendly rubs were given, none of the bonhomie of their earlier meetings was on display.
So much for the bromance.
After a promising start, the relationship between President Trump and President Emmanuel Macron of France has soured. By the time they met in Paris on Saturday, the trans-Atlantic alliance that was to be showcased by this weekend's commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I appeared to be fraying instead.
"The honeymoon is well and truly over," said Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. "Trump's visible contempt for allies over trade and the Iran nuclear deal are humiliating for Macron. There were high hopes of Macron's charm offensive, but Trump's actions have shown that it had no policy impact and that it is dangerous for any political leader to tie his reputation to the mercurial mood swings of the American president."
It did not help on Saturday that Mr. Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery at the foot of the hill where the Battle of Belleau Wood was fought. Aides cited the rain; the Marines who pilot presidential helicopters often recommend against flying in bad weather. But that did not convince many in Europe who saw it as an excuse and another sign of disrespect.
"They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realDonaldTrump couldn't even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen," Nicholas Soames, a Conservative member of the British Parliament and grandson of Winston Churchill, wrote on Twitter. He added the hashtag: #hesnotfittorepresenthisgreatcountry.
Ben Rhodes, who was deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, dismissed the explanation. "I helped plan all of President Obama's trips for 8 years," he tweeted. "There is always a rain option. Always."
Mr. Trump will have another chance to pay respects to the war dead on Sunday with a scheduled visit to the Suresnes American Cemetery outside Paris following the ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe marking the anniversary of the armistice at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. But he will not stay for a Paris peace forum that Mr. Macron is sponsoring to bring together world leaders to discuss ways to avoid conflict.
"Trump's absence from the Peace forum tomorrow, apparently alone among the 72 heads of state and government, will have a negative impact — the man who did not even pretend to work for peace, as it were," said François Heisbourg, chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a research organization.
In a five-minute session with reporters before their meeting on Saturday, Mr. Trump and Mr. Macron sought to defuse simmering tension over security and trade. Mr. Macron reassured his visitor that his proposal to create a "true European army" was in harmony with Mr. Trump's repeated insistence that Europe stop relying so much on the United States for its defense.
A 100-Year Legacy of World War I
World War I demolished empires and destroyed kings, kaisers and sultans. It introduced chemical weapons and aerial bombing. It brought women into the work force and hastened their legal right to vote.
"I do share President Trump's views that we need much better burden-sharing within NATO, and that's why I do believe my proposals for European defense are utterly consistent with that," Mr. Macron said with Mr. Trump at the Élysée Palace.
Mr. Trump, who had called the idea of a European army "very insulting" in a tweet three minutes after Air Force One landed in France on Friday, said he was glad to hear Mr. Macron's reasoning. "He understands the United States can only do so much, in fairness to the United States," Mr. Trump said.
The flap may have resulted from misleading accounts of Mr. Macron's comments, which came in an interview in French with Europe 1 radio this week. In the interview, Mr. Macron said that Europe needed to defend itself against the United States as well as Russia and China, but he was referring to cyberthreats, not the American government. The discussion of a European army actually came up later in the interview, and he characterized it as lightening America's burden, not defending against it.
Still, Mr. Macron was critical in the interview of Mr. Trump's move to scrap the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, a three-decade-old agreement that eliminated a whole class of missiles stationed in and aimed at Europe. The United States has accused Russia of violating the treaty and Mr. Trump seems focused on whether such missiles might be useful in countering China, but European leaders see it as reopening a threat to their own countries.
"When I see President Trump announcing that he's quitting a major disarmament treaty, which was formed after the 1980s euro-missile crisis that hit Europe, who is the main victim?" Mr. Macron said in the interview. "Europe and its security."
The tense meeting with Mr. Trump contrasted with Mr. Macron's joint appearance with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany later in the day. At a solemn ceremony in the woods outside the northern town of Compiègne where the armistice was signed on Nov. 11, 1918, the two leaders stood in front of a plaque celebrating peace and Franco-German friendship.
It was the first time a German leader had returned to the spot where both World War I and World War II armistices were concluded. After conquering France in 1940, Adolf Hitler forced the defeated French to return the same railway car used in 1918 to consecrate Germany's defeat, a way of humiliating his vanquished foe.
On Saturday, Mr. Macron and Ms. Merkel entered a similar car that now sits inside a museum at the site and sat glumly side by side for a few moments. The original car was destroyed during the second war and much at the site razed on Hitler's orders. The ceremony, simple yet symbolic, was over in 45 minutes, after the French and German national anthems were sung.
"The symbolism of it is, it's not just a question of military victory, or military defeat, but of friendship between France and Germany, and also that both sides have overcome this defeat," said Sylvain Fort, a top aide to Mr. Macron. "We've overcome this defeat to build a friendship that's lasted 70 years."
The meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Macron earlier in the day seemed decidedly chillier than their warm session in Washington in April when they smiled broadly, hugged, kissed each other on the cheeks and lavished praise on each other. During their short appearance before reporters, Mr. Trump remained formal and distant. When he avoided sharp language in front of the cameras, Mr. Macron appeared relieved and patted Mr. Trump's leg appreciatively.
"We have become very good friends over the last couple of years," Mr. Trump said, with none of the enthusiasm of last spring. "We have much in common in many ways — perhaps more ways than people would understand. But we are — we're very much similar in our views."
Mr. Macron referred to Mr. Trump as "my good friend" and said they had "worked very closely together" in countering Syria's use of chemical weapons. "Our people are very proud to have you here,'' he said.
A major point of contention is Mr. Trump's decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran following his withdrawal from the multinational accord intended to curb the country's nuclear program. The French want to continue doing business with Iran and resent pressure by the Americans.
The Trump administration waived the sanctions for eight countries, but France was not among them. One of Mr. Macron's senior advisers complained about bullying by Washington earlier this week. "Europe refuses to allow the U.S. to be the trade policeman of the world," Bruno Le Maire, the economy minister, told The Financial Times.
The two sides remain at odds over broader trade issues as well. Mr. Trump has slapped steel and aluminum tariffs on Europe and other trading partners, and has threatened tariffs on cars manufactured in Europe.
Mr. Trump said negotiations to ease the tariff war have been promising. "We've made a lot of progress," he said. "We'll see if we can get it over the line, as they say."
Mr. Trump remains deeply unpopular in Europe, especially in France, where just 9 percent think he will do the right thing in international relations, according to the Pew Research Center. The president's seeming indifference to European sensibilities was reinforced by a report in Le Monde, the French newspaper, that in a meeting with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania earlier this year, Mr. Trump confused the Baltic states for Balkan states and blamed them for the war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Mr. Macron understands the importance of maintaining the relationship, said Karen Donfried, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. But "domestically," she said, "it may be better for him if the bromance has cooled visibly."
Charles A. Kupchan, a former Europe adviser to Mr. Obama, said that Europe has all but given up on Mr. Trump and is focused instead on developing its own "strategic autonomy" to make it less dependent on the United States.
"Trump might be able to retain decent working relationships with populist governments in Italy, Poland, and Hungary," he said. "But the rest of Europe is resigned to running out the clock, hoping and praying that Trump is a one-term president."
Peter Baker reported from Paris, and Adam Nossiter from Compiègne, France. Alissa J. Rubin contributed reporting from Paris.


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Contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), Vetter, has won this year's (2018) ISPE Facility of the Year Award (FOYA) in the Facility of the Future category for its Center for Visual Inspection and Logistics.
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The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) awards companies that have shown outstanding foresight, care and innovative creativity in the design and implementation of their facilities. The judges for the award were impressed by the combination of location design, technologies and innovative processes at the Ravensburg Vetter West site.
"We are very pleased to have received this important international award," said Vetter managing director Thomas Otto. "Being selected by the jury is not only a great honour, but also an incentive to maintain our focus on quality in terms of products and processes."
"In our future-oriented Center for Visual Inspection and Logistics, we combine many years of expertise in optimizing supply chain processes," added Otto's management colleague Peter Soelkner. "In this way, we can offer our customers — including the world's top 20 pharmaceutical and biotech companies — ideal conditions for transport, storage and quality assurance of their products."
This latest award follows on from Vetter being honoured with the CMO Leadership Awards 2018 in five categories — quality, expertise, reliability, capabilities and service. Life Science Leader, one of the leading trade journals in the pharmaceutical industry, awarded the prize for the seventh time.


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Bloomberg touts city's fight against pain pills
ORLANDO, Fla. -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave the keynote address at the National Prescription Drug Abuse Summit Wednesday, touting his administration's effort to curb the epidemic of painkiller pill abuse in New York City.
Bloomberg told the gathering in Orlando of about 1,000 public health, law enforcement and substance abuse treatment professionals that the city had helped create NYC RxStat, a database that provides law enforcement agencies with prescription-related robbery and burglary police reports, along with related data, in the metropolitan region.
The database, modeled after the NYPD's CompStat crime-tracking program, is helping local and federal health officials and police identify drug-related crime trends and pharmacy security gaps, he said.
"It's a very sobering problem," Bloomberg said of prescription drug abuse. "Lots of people are dying because of it. Fatal overdoses occurred at the rate of more than one every other day" in the city in 2011.
The RxStat database, begun in January, includes information from Long Island. New York City officials have said the shooting deaths of four people inside a Medford pharmacy in June 2011 and the killing of an off-duty federal agent at a Seaford pharmacy later that year spurred the creation of the database.
Bloomberg also hailed the city's launching this year of new guidelines for all city-run hospital emergency departments, which recommend that ER doctors prescribe no more than three days worth of many powerful painkillers and stop refilling opioid prescriptions that patients say were lost or stolen.
The policies have been adopted by all 11 public hospitals in the city, as well as eight private hospitals.
The mayor said public officials across the country must respond to the opioid abuse crisis by creating policies that curb addiction and deaths.
"If they don't want to do it, or are too lazy to do it, the public will hold their feet to the fire," Bloomberg said.
Bloomberg described other city innovations in the battle against pain-pill abuse, including an initiative to deter drugstore holdups by placing decoy bottles of OxyContin that contain a GPS device -- instead of drugs -- at some city pharmacies.
The program, which began last month, allows authorities to track criminals immediately after robberies or burglaries take place.
"It is getting to be Big Brother, but Big Brother has a role to play as well in terms of stopping our kids from dying, from using painkillers, and we've got to use all the technology that's available to try to stop some of these crazy things," Bloomberg said.
Between 2005 and 2011, unintentional overdose deaths involving opioids increased by 65 percent in the city, Bloomberg said.
"It's clear that painkillers are causing an awful lot of pain -- and certainly also an awful lot of deaths. This is, by any definition, truly a crisis, and it's a crisis that's growing."


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Dow Chemical Co. on Wednesday reported its best quarterly results in more than a year as it benefited from growing demand and price increases.
Net income rose to $466 million from just $24 million a year ago. The nation's largest chemical maker said the results show that demand is growing in developed markets, which were hit hardest by the recession. Strong growth in emerging markets continues to boost the manufacturing sector, Dow said.
Dow also said that consumer spending has strengthened in areas such as electronics, appliances and automotive, echoing comments made Tuesday by chemical maker DuPont, which also posted strong results.
"Overall the global economic environment is on a stronger footing and there are signs that this will continue for the foreseeable future," CEO Andrew Liveris said in a statement. "This is good news for Dow."
The company did not provide a specific earnings or sales forecast for the current quarter or full year.
On a per share basis, profit rose to 41 cents per share, after paying preferred dividends, from 3 cents per share, in the same quarter last year. Excluding certain items, Dow earned 43 cents per share.
The Midland, Mich. maker of components used in products such as paint, cosmetics and plastic bags says revenue rose 48 percent to $13.42 billion from $9.04 billion.
Wall Street expected earnings of 30 cents per share on $12.9 billion in revenue, according to a Thomson Reuters survey.
In recent weeks, there have been signs of strengthening in the U.S. economy. The Consumer Confidence Index rose in April to 57.9, according to The Conference Board, a private research group based in New York. That's up from a revised 52.3 in March.
The April reading is the highest since September 2008's 61.4, but below the 90 reading that is considered healthy.
Dow Chemical raised prices by 17 percent in the first quarter and logged a 16 percent increase in sales volumes as demand grew across all of its regions.
Revenue gains were led by higher sales in its basic plastics business, which posted a 49 percent sales increase. Performance products revenue climbed 41 percent.
Revenue in its electronic and specialty materials segment and its performance systems unit rose 30 percent, while revenue from its coatings and infrastructure business grew 21 percent.
The company's health and agricultural segment suffered a revenue decline due to an oversupply of glyphosate, which hurt demand for the herbicide.
Last year, Dow acquired Rohm & Haas for $16.5 billion to expand into the more profitable specialty chemicals business. The company said the acquisition and cost cuts allowed it to save $275 million in the period.
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The Kitsch Painter should not be judged on national, racial or religious grounds in his depiction of life-- but on the basis of timeless qualities. The Kitsch Painter is not protected by the time in which he lives. He strives to represent history's most sublime qualities, and should be judged in accordance with these. A work of Kitsch is either good or bad, and good Kitsch must not be classified as Art. This would be an error of judgment. Kitsch is not Art. Kitsch refers to the sensual and the timeless. The Kitsch Painter is committed to the eternal: Love, death, and the sunrise. Innovation is of no importance, nor is originality. Going in depth is the goal, for in the depiction of nature itself lies the individual expression. Because Modernism and Art are the same, Kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion. --Odd Nerdrum, Kitsch--The Difficult Path (23)
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By Ryan Maquiñana
WBC super middleweight champ Carl "The Cobra" Froch has been sparring with middleweight contender Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin, and the New Yorker feels the Englishman has more than a fighting chance to win his Dec. 17 date with WBA boss Andre "S.O.G." Ward in Atlantic City.
"A lot of people don't give him a shot to win, but if he didn't have a chance, you wouldn't see this buzz behind this fight," Quillin told BoxingScene.com from the Trinity Boxing Club in New York City. "I hit him with some big shots and he never shows any sign of pain. Right when I hit him with a good shot, I can't pose because I know he'll come right back. He's in great shape right now."
Froch (28-1, 20 KOs) is entering the final stages of preparation for Ward (24-0, 13 KOs), where over the past week he has also sparred with an unnamed cruiserweight, doing anywhere from a combined eight to 12 rounds depending on the day.
"Carl has an awkward style. He throws punches from all over. As long as he hits you with them, that's O.K. with him," Quillin said. "It's not like a standard jab, cross, left hook, uppercut. He'll start with an overhand right, maybe he'll throw left hooks…he'll throw everything to get you off-balance."
Quillin not only commented on his stylistic observations of Froch but also to address misconceptions on the Englishman's demeanor, one that has been labeled as abrasive by some.
"This guy is totally not the guy people make him out to be," he added. "He's down to earth, and I feel like when I talk to him, it's like I've known him for years. I like people like that. Things are different when it comes to fighting, and he's just a competitor."
Quillin (26-0, 20 KOs) is on the rise in his own right, having made a successful debut on HBO last month in a sixth-round stoppage of Craig McEwan. The Cuban-American is hoping for a title shot early next year.
"Things are under wraps right now as far as who I'm fighting next, but I'm staying in shape and staying ready," he said. "I'm ready to go whenever they call me."
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The Hawaii Mamo bird is a tiny black honeycreeper with golden yellow feather accents on its shoulder, tail coat and legs. Because of its deeper hue of yellow, Mamo's yellow feathers were much more valued and used to plait the magnificent feathered ornaments which were reserved only for the ali'i (chief) and high-ranking warriors in Hawai'i.
Endemic to the Island of Hawai'i, the bird is now extinct due to the change of their habitat. Some reports indicate that the last time the Mamo was observed, was in Kaumana (Hilo) in 1895.
Though we can't see them flitting about the velvety Hawaiian forest canopy anymore, we can still admire their beauty in the treasured cloaks and other feathered works from old Hawai'i. Their beaming yellow color is so vibrant that they not only uplift the heart of viewers but also teach us how Hawaiian people lived in harmony with the surrounding ecosystem.
One of the most lavish cloak ever made, is the full-length ʻahu 'ula (feathered cloak) of King Kamehameha I. 450,000 individual Mamo bird feathers wrapped the silhouette of the statuesque king, forming the golden ripples of waves. They used naturally fallen yellow feathers of the Mamo birds, applying a sticky latex paste on their favorite Lobelia trees. Lured by the sweet nectar of the tree, Mamo birds would visit the tree and their loose feathers would get caught on it. It was against the Hawaiian Pono (motto) to disturb the delicate balance of nature by over-catching the precious birds. After providing a few feathers, the birds were released and returned to the forests to continue their paths to pollinate flagrant native flowers with other endemic birds.
The rich symbol of royalty, was also a symbol of abundance and a sustainable lifestyle for the Hawaiian people. It was a celebration of their life deeply enmeshed into the thriving environment.
Back in March, people in Hawai'i welcomed the return of such symbolic Hawaiian relics from New Zealand. For the first time in 237 years, the long-gone treasures of the islands, 'ahu 'ula and mahiole (feathered helmet) were flown back to Hawaii. They were the gifts from the chief of Hawai'i Island, Kalani'opu'u, to Captain James Cook when his ship entered into Kealakekua Bay in 1779.
Despite the bitter footprints of the history that followed after, the return of the glorious feathered ornaments gave us a chance to remember the impeccable craftsmanship of our ancestors, their respectful relationship with nature and the lost species of the Islands. Through the color of vibrant yellow still intact, the legacy of the Mamo still travels freely in our hearts beyond time and oceans.
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She is also a lecturer for agile project management and self-management at the Designakademie Berlin.


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Senior School Camp 2015
23rd – 26th June 2015
This year our senior students accompanied by Mr Sullivan, Mr Dorozenko, Mr Richardson , Mrs Ziaja, Mrs Forder and Mrs Higgins, travelled to Forest Edge in Waroona. The outward bounds style camp exposed the students to activities that challenged their personal spaces and comfort zones. Some of these include the Zip line, climbing tower and canoeing on the Waroona Dam. It provided a unique opportunity for the students to interact with their peers in an environment away from the general constraints of a school setting.


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The Turkish Military Academy (TMA) Martyrs' Monument was built to immortalize the sacred memory of the martyrs who graduated from the TMA and to let following generations be aware of the sacrifices these distinguished men have made. The TMA has trained many statesmen, commanders, leaders, and before all else, our Great Leader Atatürk since its establishment in 1834.
The Turkish Military Academy Martyrs' Monument consists of three main sections: the Pillars of Victory and Officers' Statues, the Path of Immortality and Eternity, and the Ceremony and Victory Square. These sections cover an area of 80.000 m2.1. Section
The first section of the monument displays 5 officers charging forward between the Pillars of Victory who are holding the TMA flag. The TAAA flag symbolizes the honor of the Turkish Armed Forces and the willingness to sacrifice themselves and win more victories in the name of the motherland.2. Section
The second section, the Path of Immortality and Eternity, consists of thousands of spruce and cedar trees with each tree representing a martyr: their names were printed on a plaque at the base of each tree. This section symbolizes the ascent of the spirits of our martyrs to the sky and our nation's gratitude to them for their sacrifices. The lion statues on both sides of the path symbolize the might and heroism of the Turkish Army.3. Section
The third section is the Ceremony and Victory Square. On the walls to the right and left of the steps, key battles fought since the establishment of the academy are represented. The battles shown in relief include the Gelibolu Campaign, the War of Independency, the Korean War, the Cyprus Peace Operation and the Internal Security Operation.
Initially, it was the aim to write all TMA Graduate Martyrs' names on the monument; however, due to difficulties in ascertaining these names, the fallen officers during the wars, battles and campaigns shown below have been represented by a marble plaque for each.
These marble plaques have been placed on the Martyrs' Hill at the base of each Pillar of Victory.
In order to immortalize the fallen officers who lost their lives during the War of Independence, the Korean War, Cyprus Peace Operation, the Internal Security Operation and on other various missions, a cedar tree has been planted. Each tree represents one fallen officer; their identification tags carved on marble plaques have been placed under these trees.
The cedar trees and plaques for the Martyrs of the War of Independence have been planted and placed on Martyrs' Hill and the plaques of the remaining Martyrs' have been placed on sections surrounding the hill.
Thanks to this monument, the Spirits of our Martyrs have become a united whole with the Turkish Nation, members of the Turkish Armed Forces and the TMA cadets in the literal sense. This unification is the ultimate assurance of our great nation and the Republic of Turkey.
The construction of the monument has started September 1995 and it was opened on October 8th, 1997.


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Print service providers whose major offerings include direct mail may be concerned that these campaigns will soon fade from the marketing playbook, driven off by email, social media and the other channels that have become defaults in the millennial era. For marketing departments to keep investing in mail-based campaigns, they'll need reassurance that this is still a creatively vital and statistically effective way to attract customers. Fortunately, reaching an audience via physical mail remains a valuable approach, despite its differences from the digital status quo – or maybe even because of those differences.
The printing industry has historically equipped companies with their main methods of communication, both internally and externally. While that era has passed, pushing printers into a more niche and specialized role, some of the legacy methods of marketing have held on, taking on new positions in the world of customer outreach. Direct mail is one of these, and today's responsive and quality-driven printing business is well-equipped to keep this approach going for years to come.
Campaigns that reflect modern marketing
While direct mail is a marketing method as old as the mailbox, it's not outdated or obsolete in the era of digital data collection and detailed targeting of prospects. Instead, physical letter and postcard campaigns have subsumed elements of modern online marketing to become more effective in their own right.
Target Marketing contributor Summer Gould specified that companies should be using detailed customer and prospect lists and varying their mailings based on the level of someone's investment in the company. Prospects will potentially receive more mail than individuals who have already made a purchase, and there is room to customize both the schedule and content of each piece of mail.
Of course, in an age before digital printing, such variable campaign tactics would have been difficult to execute correctly. Today's printing industry, however, has come a long way. Solid integration between digital data reserves and the letters going out to consumers can strengthen an organization's appeal and create the kind of personalized connection that has come to define highly targeted online outreach. This mix of tactile media and precision tactics can help organizations of all kinds make sales and promote ongoing loyalty.
Gould added that it helps to include coupons and other special offers in mailings. These, too, can be nearly as customized as the product recommendations that adorn the bottom part of the Amazon website. When people receive discounts on products related to ones they own, it's a clear incentive to buy. Sending such an invitation via direct mail is a way of drawing extra attention to its value, as a letter in the mailbox may seem more special to a digital-native consumer than an email relegated to the commercial section of a digital inbox.
Marketing that has synergy
No company should limit its marketing to only one method. In fact, even launching many different closed-off and siloed campaigns is likely a sub-optimal approach to outreach. Modern marketing is driven by data, and companies that can pool and attribute the information from their many channels can become more relevant through each of those many platforms. Despite its essentially analog nature, direct mail can and should be a cog in such a system.
DMN editor-in-chief Kim Davis recently suggested that marketing can thrive in a diverse and non-linear model, reflecting the fact that customer journeys are taking more circuitous and self-driven routes than ever before. Whether a campaign focuses on business-to-business contracts or business-to-consumer products, there is room for physical and digital outreach to exist side by side.
Davis noted the physical persistence of direct mail is one of its key traits, a fact that ensures its staying power in such a system. Once someone has received a piece of mail, getting rid of the item takes time and effort. Carrying something to the recycling bin or leaving it where others can see it grants its message a few critical seconds of extra exposure. Deleting an email is remarkably easy, and some poorly delivered messages may be caught in spam filters and never seen at all. Direct mail retains the power to draw the eye, even in an IT-driven world.
Past and future methodologies
Keeping direct mail as part of the marketing mix doesn't necessarily mean going "retro" or resisting modern trends. Instead, companies can turn to this outreach method as a solid part of a compelling overall strategy. Emails, banner ads, social media campaigns, video, influencer marketing – all of these are good approaches that have their place. Direct mail, analog as it is, falls into the same category.


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No photos in this post, sorry. 🙂 I was reading a blog about how to write successful blogs the other day, and the lady suggested that we be REAL in our blogs. Ok, well, this is as real as it gets. Truth be told, I guess I've been known for my funny "poop stories" ever since I was a kid. My husband appreciates them. 😉 Why the obsession with poop? Maybe because I knew something was wrong with mine. Maybe it was on my mind because it was happening so often in my day.
Let me ask you a question, do you think it's possible to be constipated and have diarrhea at the same time?
Let me answer my own question, now! I think the answer is YES. And I think that's what I've suffered probably most of my life.
We went out of town right after Christmas, for 3 days. We ate out quite a bit. I tried to stick to the diet as much as possible, but I did eat rice pasta and some beans that probably had not been soaked. My body just can't handle these foods. What happened to me?
I gained EIGHT POUNDS in three days time. Do you know what those eight pounds were? Poop. Seriously. I'm convinced. My belly was bigger. I felt bloated and icky. I felt like I had a lot to get out that wasn't coming out, but I was also having to go often. Does that make sense?
Did you know that having to go often, whether it's watery or loose or not is diarrhea? If you're going more than 3 times per day (my usual pre-GAPS, and my usual after 3 days of eating out), you've got chronic diarrhea.
I've figured out what's happening in my body. When I eat foods that my body can't handle, MORE of my food turns into poop. That means LESS of my food is being used by my body. So what happens for me, when my food isn't being absorbed and it's just going into the toilet multiple times per day?
~~I get weak and shaky.
~~I get arthritis and aches all over.
~~My immune system gets weak. Immediately after this, I got a cold that lasted a good week and a half, and I felt weak, weak, weak….
~~I feel like I still need food and my blood sugar is low. I used to reach for chocolate (preferably my large stash of Mini Cadbury Eggs) when I felt like that.
My body suffers when it's eliminating most of the nutrients that I take in!
When I'm on GAPS, I poop 1x or maybe 2x per day (I know, you wanted those details). My poops don't hurt on GAPS. I don't feel bloated. My tummy doesn't look puffy. I don't feel like I've always got more to eliminate but can't. I have SO much more energy (I am absorbing WAY more from my food!!). I feel SO much better.
I'm convinced it's the starches and the grains, for my body. Now I'm looking around at the big bellies I see in our country (you don't have to go far to see them) and wondering how much of the problem is really fecal compaction?? It's gross, I know–but I wonder.
So there you go–me being real–me unplugged (pun intended ;)), sharing my poop story with the world wide web. Hope this blesses you, and that you can start feeling better too!!


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There are not many things I dislike more than the White Sox giving up a lead in the late innings and losing on a walk-off homer.
So, you can't be surprised when I tell you I got little sleep last night after the Tigers 5-4 triumph.
On our way to the deflating loss, Jake Peavy was magnificent in eight innings of work and Gordon Beckham gave further hope that he's on his way back with a single, double and two-run blast that gave us a 4-2 lead. Just a few days ago, his batting average was well under the .200 mark. He's now at .233. The fact these performances were wasted, made Jhonny Peralta's two-run, game-winning clout that much more disturbing.
New Sox Closer
Chris Sale couldn't have been much better in his first foray as a major league starting pitcher (3-1, 2.81 ERA), but the Sox are moving him into the bullpen as the closer to preserve his career. Evidently, the youngster has had soreness and tightness in his elbow and the club is concerned it could cause problems down the road if he continued to start. It appears that Dylan Axelrod will have the first shot at replacing Sale in the rotation.
Bend it Like Beckham
Let's call it the Gordon Beckham factor.
I think all of us would agree that if the White Sox's No. 1 draft pick from 2008 can recapture the kind of offensive production and excitement he generated in his rookie season, our Sox would have a lot better chance to contend in the A.L. Central.
Gordo reminded us of what he can do with a 3 for 4 effort with this first homer of the season and two RBIs in last night's 7-2 Sox win over the Indians.
After the past two seasons, which saw Beckham hit .252 and and .230, respectively, with disappointing power numbers–9 HR and 49 RBI in 2010 and 10, 44 in 2011–it's been hard to remember that he came on the scene in '09 with 14 homers, 63 RBIs and a .270 batting average in his first 103 games.
By far his best offensive game in a long time (he has already proven to be one of the best defensive second basemen around). Beckham has given hope that he's turned the corner. One game doesn't make a season, but it's something to build on.
In 2009, Beckham was named the A.L. Rookie of the Year in two different polls. It was then that he was pegged as our next big star and the new, fresh face of the franchise. But life intervened and something happened, whether it was in his head or a flaw in his swing.
Maybe it's wishful thinking to look at this performance against the Tribe and think Beckham will now return to elite status. But I, for one, choose to believe it.
Time will tell.
We Needed That
We certainly can't be happy with losing three of four to the Red Sox at home, but it doesn't seem as bad when you salvage the series finale and end a five-game losing streak. Now the White Sox head into an off-day with a satisfying 4-1 win and get back to .500 at 11-11–tied with the Tigers for second place and just a game behind the Tribe, who invade the Cell for a three-game set on Tuesday night.
Gavin Floyd was the "man" today as he headed into the seventh inning with a no-hitter. He lost the no-no on a Dustin Pedroia single and the shutout on a Cody Ross RBI single and was replaced by Addison Reed. In 6 2/3 frames he allowed just the one run, three hits, one walk and nine strikouts. Reed pitched a scoreless inning and Matt Thornton was perfect in 1 1/3 with two strikeouts for the save. Even more impressive is that Thornton retired the heart of the Bosox lineup–Pedroia, Adrian Gonzalez and David Ortiz–in order in the ninth.
The Sox offense, with red-hot Paul Konerko out of the lineup with a stiff neck, held up their end of the bargain after the 1-0 loss on Saturday night. In a three-run first, Alex Rios had a RBI single and Adam Dunn a long two-run homer. The South Siders scored an insurance run in the eighth on a clutch two-out RBI by Dayan Viciedo.
Despite Three-Game Losing Streak, Sox Still in Early A.L Central Hunt; Is it Time for Reed to Take Over as the Closer?
As deflating as last night's 10-3 loss to the Red Sox was, look at it this way. Despite the current three-game losing streak the Sox are still in a virtual tie for the A.L. Central lead. It seems that the division rivals, including the Tigers who just got swept at home by the Mariners, are struggling a bit as well.
It was only a few days ago that the Sox swept Seattle, won the opener of the A's series and were at 10-6. That's just baseball. And the current slide aside, I feel good about how the Sox are playing. Just wish Gordon Beckham and Brent Morel could turn it around and Hector Santiago can avoid the long ball.
Beckham and Morel are mysteries. Will they turn it around? Will one or both spend some time in Charlotte? Will the Sox turn elsewhere at second and third? Stay tuned.
As far as the closer situation, the Sox certainly have options if Santiago's problems continue. Addison Reed (pictured above) seems like the logical choice, but Matt Thornton and Jesse Crain (once he's healthy) will be the mix as well.
I hope Hector overcomes his woes, but the thinking is here that Reed will be the closer by the All-Star break–maybe a lot sooner.
The Red Sox are Coming! The Red Sox are Coming!
You think that you have problems? Take a look for a moment at the Bobby Valentine Red Sox.
Although they just swept a three-game series from the Twins, the Bosox stand at 7-10 and are in the basement of the A.L. East as they invade the Cell starting tonight for a four-game series. And I'm sure they haven't forgotten last Saturday's debacle when they blew a 9-0 lead to the Yankees and lost to their bitter rivals, 15-9.
If that weren't enough, they've lost two-thirds of their regular outfield with serious injuries to Carl Crawford and Jacoby Ellsbury, have a decimated bullpen that was severely weakened by an injury to new closer Andrew Bailey on the eve of Opening Day and the starting staff has been far from stellar. Add a little bit of smugness and unfortunate rhetoric from their new skipper and you have a team, as presently constituted, that will have trouble contending with the likes of the Yankees, Rays and even Blue Jays. That said, it will be interesting to see how the sweep in Minnesota has lifted their spirits.
Our Sox come in at 10-8 and in a virtual tie with the Tribe for the division lead after a 4-2 road trip to Seattle and Oakland. It'll Philip Humber on the mound tonight, fresh off of his perfect game. He'll be facing promising youngster Felix Doubront.
Friday night it will be John Danks vs. converted reliever Daniel Bard, unbeaten Jake Peavy vs. Jon Lester on Saturday and Gavin Floyd vs. Josh Beckett on Sunday.
It wasn't an oversight: No, I didn't overlook yesterday's 14-inning loss to Oakland. Just didn't have the heart to revisit the bad memories.
How About These White Sox…and Tommy Lasorda's Big Mistake
Jake Peavy did his best Philip Humber imitation, pitching a masterful three-hit, complete game shutout. The back-to-normal Adam Dunn and red-hot Paul Konerko hit back-to-back homers in the fourth inning, giving Peavy all the support he needed to offset the outstanding outing by the A's Bartolo Colon. And, in the end, the Sox went on to win their fourth straight with a 4-0 victory last night in Oakland.
Furthermore, take a look at the standings this morning. The only American League team with a better record is Texas at 13-4. Right behind are the Sox and Tigers tied for the A.L. Central lead at 10-6 and the Yankees and Blue Jays knotted up for the A.L. East lead with the same record. Everyone else is behind these five leaders.
I know it's early, but this is a lot of fun and I'm going to enjoy it.
Konerko on verge of 400th homer
Konerko's homer last night was the 399th of his career, tying him for 48th place in major league history with Al Kaline and Andres Galarraga. One more and he joins the "400" club.
Paulie's standing as one of the game's Top 50 home run hitters brings to mind Tommy Lasorda's comment when the Dodgers traded Konerko to Cincinnati for reliever Jeff Shaw (the Sox acquired PK from the Reds for Mike Cameron). The Hall of Fame manager said, and I paraphrase, that he was comfortable making the deal because he didn't see Konerko as a 20-homer guy in the major leagues.
As wrong as Lasorda was in judging Konerko's home run prowess, he was right about one thing. Paulie isn't a 20-homer slugger. From 1999-2011 in a White Sox uniform, No. 14 averaged 30 homers. He's had 40 or more twice, 30 or more five times and 20 or more on five occasions.
So much for Lasorda as a talent evaluator.
White Sox Sweep; Next Up: A's and Bartolo Colon
The impressive Robin Ventura White Sox brought out the broom today, completing a three-game sweep of the home-standing Mariners.
The Sox overcame another so-so John Danks effort and some shoddy defensive to defeat the Mariners, 7-4. The heroes? The resurgent Alex Rios, who went 3 for 4 with three RBIs including a triple that tied the score at four; Kosuke Fukudome, who drive in his first two runs in a Sox uniform; and the bullpen in the persons of Addison Reed (7th inning), Matt Thornton (8th) and Hector Santiago (9th), who shut down Seattle with each pitching a scoreless inning.
The South Siders head to Oakland with Rios (.333), Paul Konerko (.362) and A.J. Pierzynski (.348) sporting pretty gaudy batting averages. Add Adam Dunn's long balls and 14 RBIs and it's suddenly quite a middle of the lineup.
Even though red-hot Jake Peavy is on the mound tomorrow night against the A's, the Sox are going to need all that offense and more with the ageless Bartolo Colon on the mound. The former Good Guy has been out of this world thus far this season and last week even hurled 38 straight strikes.
Don't look now, but the team that most dismissed in their spring predictions is 9-6 and only a half-game behind those "unbeatable" Tigers.
Is Humber's Gem Just the Start of Something Big?
As we all know, our White Sox are a team that entered 2012 way, way under the radar, even picked by many to finish in the cellar of the A.L. Central.
In the first 14 games of the season, the Sox have mostly impressed with a respectable 8-6 record. Paul Konerko, Jake Peavy, Chris Sale, Alejandro De Aza and even 2011 disappointments Adam Dunn and Alex Rios have led the way.
Now, Philip Humber, a terrific example of talent, humility and persistence, has pitched the 21st perfect game in major league baseball history in yesterday's 4-0 victory over the Mariners. By itself, it was the ultimate accomplishment for a pitcher and an historic feat by every measure. But I'm hoping for more.
I know that they say momentum is nothing more than the next day's starting pitcher, but I'd like to think Humber's gem can put the Sox in a whole different mindset–a renewed sense of confidence that will fool the experts and create a genuine threat to the Tigers. Am I asking for too much? Maybe, but it can't hurt to think about it.
It will be a while before we can judge if this remarkable event on April 21 was a positive turning point in a season that started with much pessimism in most places outside of the Sox clubhouse. But wouldn't it be something if that celebration pictured above of Humber's teammates toasting his perfecto becomes just one of a series of South Side victory parties.
Humber is Perfect
A New Hitting Coach and a Medicine Ball Rejuvenate a Beleaguered Dunn
Poor Adam Dunn.
It now comes to light that he may not have had to endure his historically-awful 2011 season if Jeff Manto was the hitting coach.
You see, Dunn spoke yesterday of Manto's unconventional method of having the slugger swinging a bat with a medicine ball–yes, a medicine ball–between his legs to help keep him from lunging which preserves his overall balance.
So far, at least, the results are clear. Dunn's been a different hitter as of late, coming up with clutch hits and going the other way to boot. Last night, he drove in five runs in the 7-3 Sox victory over the Mariners with an opposite field, run-scoring double and a pair of homers, one a towering three-run shot.
After the first 13 games of the season he's now got three homers, 12 RBIs, a .265 batting average (more than 100 points higher than he finished last year), a .368 on-base percentage and .940 OPS.
The strikeouts (22) are still there and, let's face it, they always wil be for a hitter of this ilk. But I think that you'll agree that we can live with that, if we get those home runs and run-scoring doubles.


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Well, this month we scored a rare and (almost) unanimous hit with Robert Galbraith's (aka JK Rowling) The Cuckoo Calling! EVEN MARGARET LIKED IT!
Though not a challenging read by any means, all agreed that this is an easy-to-read page turner, that falls solidly into the very English tradition of the slightly eccentric private detective. Most of us enjoyed the larger than life characters and Rowling's uncanny ability to create an entire world which may not necessarily be realistic (some people commented on the rather sanitised, old-fashioned quality of the book) but is throughly believable if you take it on it's own terms. A lot of us were kept guessing to the end about the identity of the murderer and all enjoyed the twisty-turny plot. Interestingly, it was a hit with our avid crime fiction fans and our crime avoiders- AND with Harry Potter lovers and haters alike. And everyone will be seeking out the next Cormoron Strike novel when it hits the shelves.
A rare moment of book group consensus. Let's enjoy it while it lasts….


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In the case of Oblivion, a film in which Tom Cruise's drone repairman is haunted by vague feelings of deja vu and half-remembered experiences, the question of where it all comes from is more relevant than you might think. In the aftermath of a nuclear war with alien invaders, Jack Harper does his WALL·E thing by day, and enjoys the company of his partner and colleague, Victoria, by night. It's repetitive work, but the couple are soon to be relieved of their duties, and sent off to humanity's outer space sanctuary. But matters are complicated when a shuttle crashes to Earth, and Jack meets Julia, a woman who he believed only existed in his dreams.
This film runs to 126 minutes, and frankly, it's in no rush to unravel the dense, futuristic mystery at its own heart. It's especially interesting to note that Cruise's previous film, Jack Reacher, was another slightly nostalgic genre film, taking its sweet time to unfold, under the steady hand of writer-director Christopher McQuarrie. It would seem that although the actor hasn't really aged much, and shows no signs of slowing down himself, he's drawn to reviving the kind of film that we're seeing less and less, in these days of shortening attention spans. Director Joseph Kosinski intended this to be a throwback to the sci-fi cinema of the 1970s, (we'll get onto its other thematic debts shortly) and surprisingly, Cruise fits right into that.
In contrast to all of that business about homages and rip-offs, it's much easier to find a consensus about the director's previous film, the Disney franchise revival TRON: Legacy. Whether you liked it or not, it was a good-looking film that was ultimately inferior to its own Daft Punk-scored soundtrack, which generally served as the most memorable takeaway from an otherwise uninspired sequel. There's less danger of that in Oblivion, which still sounds temp-tracked by Hans Zimmer's scores for Inception and The Dark Knight Rises. Those are good scores, and in doing likewise, electronic band M83 can't go far wrong, but the score does show up a problem with the rest of the film in the process.
In a genre that is especially given to post-modern frolics and introspection, there's nothing particularly wrong with using lots of other references to tell an original sci-fi story. But while the plot holds its share of surprises, every neat twist is almost immediately reminiscent of a similar plot point in another sci-fi movie, and the same goes for the tone of the film as a whole. We're not talking about nods to unappreciated gems, but whole passages lifted from big sci-fi movie touchstones. It's structured to the point where these twists are still surprising in the film's own contained world, so it would spoil them to mention some of those other films and let you put the pieces together yourself. For example, however, it feels safe to say that when Morgan Freeman's character appears, as seen in the trailer, there's a definite Matrix vibe going on, and the references don't start or end there.
Oblivion is now showing at cinemas nationwide.
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{shop talk alert}
i added some fun things to the inspired mama MAKES! shop this week.
kettle dyed yarn, spinning fibers, and a couple project bags.
(there is a third project bag that i have fallen in love with and i am having a hard time letting it go... i dunno, i might list it monday and see what happens)
i am currently working on a series of gradient and self stripping colorways and hope to have them ready to list next week.
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Sitting outside as my DH and our neighbor talking about reloading and differences between brands. It sounds like Greek to me! LOL
I want to learn more about it, but with my classes going on I don't think I can take on learning about reloading right now. :( Glad DH knows this stuff.
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Ultramarines go for sale, and a Hobby Update.
Well I never thought I would sell my Ultramarines again after selling them two times previously. I took great care to make sure this one would be better than my last two. I wanted this Guilliman to be better than my last. The infantry would be a step up, and I tried to maintain that all the way through toRead more