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According to Rovell, Costas will host original programming on the channel and play-by-play commentate for a "select group" of regular season games for MLB Network but won't be ditching NBC. Costas will debut his own hour-long talk show, "MLB Network Studio 42 With Bob Costas" this Thursday, where he'll sit down with Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre. I wonder if they'll talk about that little book he co-wrote.
The bittersweet part of this news is that this deal is it officially ends the"Costas Now" era. Yes, the show that will inextricably link one huffy Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and one apple-cheeked blogger from Mattoon, Illinois together forever will no longer be part of HBO programming. It's bad for Costas too, since he most likely won't get the opportunity to utter the words "fetus-faced windbag" or "good riddance, fuck face" on the MLB Network anytime soon. Oh, also? What about that whole "Costas Now" 90-minute program devoted to "Race In Sports" that he promised? Reparations are in order for that.
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Associations between physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and obesity in Mexican children
Karla I Galavíz, MScI; Mark S Tremblay, PhDII; Rachel Colley, PhDII; Edtna Jáuregui, PhDIII; Juan López y Taylor, MD, MScIII; Ian Janssen, PhD.I
ISchool of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University. Kingston, ON, Canada
IIChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
IIIInstituto de Ciencias Aplicadas a la Actividad Física y al Deporte, Universidad de Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
OBJECTIVE: To examine the independent relation of physical activity (PA) and cardiorespiratory fitness (fitness) with measures of obesity in Mexican children.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Children (N=193) in 5th and 6th grade from Guadalajara participated. Body mass index (BMI), sum of skinfolds (SS) and waist circumference (WC) were measured. PA was measured over four days using pedometry and fitness was measured using the 20 meter shuttle-run test.
RESULTS: Fitness and PA were negatively related to the obesity measures in boys and girls (r=-0.57 to -0.64 and r=-0.18 to -0.23 respectively). Age adjusted significant differences in WC, BMI, and SS were observed between the lowest and highest fitness tertiles for boys and girls (p<.01). Age, gender, and PA adjusted fitness explained 23 to 34% of the variance on WC (r2=0.23, p<.01), BMI (r2=0.23, p<.01), and SS (r2=0.34, p<.01).
CONCLUSION: Fitness is a stronger correlate and better predictor of obesity than PA in this sample.
Key words: Obesity; children; physical fitness; exercise; Mexico
OBJETIVO: Examinar la relación independiente entre actividad física (AF) y acondicionamiento cardiorrespiratorio (fitness) con obesidad en niños mexicanos.
MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Participaron 193 niños de Guadalajara en 5to y 6to grado de primaria. Se midieron índice de masa corporal (IMC), suma de pliegues cutáneos (SP) y circunferencia de cintura (CC). La AF se midió con podometría durante cuatro días y acondicionamiento usando la prueba de 20 metros shuttle-run.
RESULTADOS: Acondicionamiento y AF estuvieron negativamente relacionados con obesidad en niños y niñas (r=-0.57 a -0.64 y r=-0.18 a -0.23 respectivamente). Ajustando por edad, se observaron diferencias significativas en CC, IMC y SP entre los terciles de acondicionamiento bajo y alto en niños y niñas (p<.01). Ajustando por edad, género y AF, el acondicionamiento explicó de 23 a 34% de la varianza en CC (r2=0.23, p<.01), IMC (r2=0.23, p<.01) y SP (r2=0.34, p<.01).
CONCLUSIÓN: El acondicionamiento es un mejor predictor de obesidad que la AF en esta muestra.
Palabras clave: obesidad; niños; acondicionamiento físico; ejercicio; México
There is a high prevalence of overweight and obesity among children around the world.1 In Mexico, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in schoolage children, as determined by body mass index (BMI), has increased at an alarming rate in the last two decades,2 reaching 26% among 5 to 11 year olds.3 This trend is concerning given the health problems that obese children are more likely to develop including elevated cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors and decreased quality of life.4-6 It has been shown that a lack of physical activity and a low cardiorespiratory fitness (hereafter referred to as fitness) are associated with total obesity7,8 and with abdominal obesity9,10 in children. What is unclear however, is which factor, fitness or physical activity, has the strongest association with obesity in children.
There is evidence that body fat in children and adolescents is associated with both physical activity, especially moderate-to-vigorous intensity activity,11-14 and with fitness. 15,16 However, studies investigating these associations in a developing country such as Mexico are non-existent and findings from developed countries are mixed. Some studies have demonstrated that physical activity has a stronger association with obesity in children and adolescents than fitness, 9,17,18 while others have demonstrated that fitness has a stronger association with obesity in children and adolescents than physical activity.19-21 Collectively, these studies demonstrate that physical activity and fitness are independently associated with obesity in children, suggesting that these variables affect adiposity through different mechanisms. Further, physical activity and fitness are different entities that should be treated separately; the former is a behavioural construct whereas the latter a set of physiological traits.22 Therefore, it is imperative to investigate the independent associations of fitness and physical activity with obesity in children, especially in Mexico where obesity levels are high and these associations are unknown, to inform future intervention strategies for this population.
Given that evidence is inconclusive and that no studies have investigated these associations in Mexican populations, the purpose of this study was to examine the independent relation of objectively measured physical activity and fitness with measures of total and abdominal obesity in Mexican children.
Materials and methods
This cross -sectional study was conducted in Guadalajara, the second most populated city in Mexico. The study sample was selected by convenience and included 193 boys and girls in grades 5 and 6 from four public elementary schools in an urban zone of Guadalajara. Two schools had a morning shift and two an afternoon shift; all of them were of a low socioeconomic status. Data were collected in November of 2009. Children's assent to participate was obtained as well as signed informed consent from their parents/caregivers. This study obtained ethics approval from the institutional ethics boards at the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara and Queen's University (Kingston, ON, Canada).
Anthropometric measures
Anthropometric measures were taken by trained anthropometrists following the protocol from the Canadian Physical Activity, Fitness, and Lifestyle Approach.23 Waist circumference was measured with a K-E anthropometric tape positioned horizontally mid-way between the bottom of the rib cage and the iliac crest. A single measure was taken at the end of a normal expiration and recorded to the nearest 0.1 cm.
BMI was calculated by dividing children's body weight by the square of their height. Height was obtained with a Seca Road Rod 214 Portable Stadiometer and recorded to the nearest 0.5 cm. Weight was measured with a Tanita HD-313 Digital Weight Scale to the nearest 0.1 kg. Three skinfolds were measured using a Harpenden skinfold calliper; triceps, biceps, and medial calf, with each recorded to the nearest 0.2 mm. Skinfolds were measured twice each and an average of these two measures was calculated. The averages from the triceps, biceps, and medial calf skinfolds were added to calculate a sum of skinfolds measure.
Physical activity
Physical activity was measured with Digiwalker Yamax SW200 pedometers over four consecutive week days. Children were provided with pedometers and instructed on how to use them. Teachers were also instructed about the use of the device and about how to demonstrate its use to children. Children were instructed to wear the pedometers during all waking hours; from when they awoke until they went to bed and repeated this process each day. Members of the research team attended the schools to provide instruction and to record step counts at the start of each school day. The average daily step count over the four day measurement period was used as the summary physical activity measure.
Cardiorespiratory fitness
The 20 meter shuttle run test24 was used to measure fitness. All testing was completed on a firm and level surface (concrete play area at each school). For this test, children were required to run back and forth between two lines placed 20 meters apart. A sound signal was emitted from a pre- recorded tape to dictate running speed. Frequency of the sound signals increased such that running speed increased by 0.5 km/hour each minute from the starting speed of 8.5 km/ hour. The test ended when children could no longer keep pace with the sound signal. The last stage that children reached was used to predict maximal oxygen uptake (VO 2max) from the running speed corresponding to that stage (VO2max = 31.025 + 3.238 X - 3.248 A + 0.1536, where X = the final speed and A= age).
Statistical analysis
Descriptive statistical analyses were conducted to explore the characteristics of the data and to assess statistical assumptions. Independent samples t-tests were used to test for gender differences in the study variables. A one-way analysis of covariance, using Bonferroni post hoc comparisons, was used to test for differences in the obesity measures across the low, moderate, and high physical activity and fitness tertiles with age as covariate. The strength of the associations between variables was determined using Pearson correlation coefficients. Finally, hierarchical linear regression was used to determine the independent contributions of physical activity and fitness on predicting the obesity measures. Statistical significance was set atp < .05. All statistical analyses were performed with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 18 for Windows.
Study participants consisted of 98 boys (51%) and 95 girls (49%) in grades 5 and 6 with a mean age of 11 years. As shown in table I, fitness and the three obesity measures were not significantly different across gender (p >.05). Similarly, there were no significant differences in the prevalence of overweight and obesity between boys and girls as determined by BMI. Physical activity was significantly higher in boys than in girls (17996 vs. 13372 steps/day, p < .001).
The Pearson correlation coefficients (table II) indicate that fitness and physical activity were modestly correlated with each other (r = 0.32 boys, r = 0.26 girls). As expected, fitness and physical activity were negatively related to the three obesity measures for both boys and girls, although some of these associations did not reach statistical significance for girls. The associations between fitness and the obesity measures (r = -0.57 to -0.64) were stronger than the associations between physical activity and the obesity measures (r = -0.18 to -0.23).
To further explore the dose-response patterns of the relations, children were divided into low, moderate, and high fitness and physical activity tertiles (table III). After controlling for age, boys and girls in the moderate and high fitness groups had significantly lower waist circumference, BMI, and sum of skinfolds values in comparison to boys and girls in the low fitness groups (p < .05). Furthermore, boys in the high fitness group had significantly lower sum of skinfolds values than boys in the moderate fitness group (p < .05). There were no significant differences between waist circumference and BMI between the moderate and high fitness groups. The curvilinear nature of the relation between fitness and the obesity measures is further illustrated in figure 1. Unlike the differences that were observed across fitness tertiles, the differences in waist circumference, BMI, and sum of skinfolds values across physical activity tertiles were small, and with one exception (difference in waist circumference in low and high groups in boys), were not statistically significant.
Finally, hierarchical linear regression was used to determine the independent effects of fitness and physical activity on the obesity measures. After controlling for age, gender, and physical activity, fitness accounted for 23% of the variance in waist circumference (r2 = 0.23, p < .01), 23% of the variance in BMI (r2 = 0.23, p < .01), and 34% of the variance in the sum of skinfolds (r2 = 0.34, p < .01). Conversely, after controlling for age, gender, and fitness, physical activity did not account for a significant proportion of the variance on any of the obesity measures (r2 = 0.004, p >.05).
Objectively measured physical activity and fitness were negatively associated with measures of total (BMI, sum of skinfolds) and abdominal (waist circumference) obesity in this sample of 10-13 year old Mexican children. The associations with the obesity measures were stronger and more consistent for fitness than they were for physical activity. Furthermore, when fitness and physical activity were considered in the same regression model, only fitness was a significant predictor, explaining 23 to 34% of the variance in the obesity measures.
The results of the present study of Mexican schoolchildren suggest that fitness is a stronger correlate and predictor of total and abdominal obesity than is physical activity. Although few studies have compared the strength of these associations, those existing have found similar results. For instance, within a sample of 244 children aged 7 to 10 years old from Dublin, Hussey and colleagues found that fitness and physical activity were related to waist circumference, with the stronger correlations being observed for fitness.20 In that study, fitness was assessed using the 20 meter shuttle run test and physical activity by accelerometry during four days. Similarly, Ekelund and colleagues found that fitness, measured by indirect calirometry, was significantly associated with body fat estimated by skinfold thickness, whereas physical activity measured through the minuteby-minute heart rate monitoring method was not, in 82 adolescents between 14 and 15 years of age.19 Finally, Tell and Vellar found that fitness, measured during submaximal bicycle exercise, was a stronger correlate of BMI and triceps skinfold thickness than self-reported physical activity in a sample of 413 boys and 372 girls, ages 10 to 14 years.21
It has been reported that fitness is a powerful marker of health given that is associated with both total and abdominal obesity,25 which is consistent with findings presented here. The strongest association observed was that of total adiposity, followed by abdominal adiposity and BMI. Because BMI does not measure fat mass or fat distribution directly, it can misclassify individuals (e.g., a mesomorphic child may be incorrectly classified as obese). Consequently, additional obesity indicators were used in the present study which provided better estimates of adiposity.
Given that our findings differ from those that suggest that physical activity is a strong correlate of obesity in children,9,17,18 it is important to consider some factors that may explain our finding. First, we used pedometry to measure physical activity, which provides an estimate of children's total physical activity but no information about intensity, which may need to be of moderate- to vigorous-intensity to significantly affect body fat.11,13,14 Second, pedometers do not provide information about the frequency and duration of physical activity26 and given they were worn for four days only, they may not reflect children's habitual physical activity. Third, given that physical activity measures among children are typically more difficult and less precise than fitness measures,27 the observed associations between the physical activity and obesity measures in the present study may have been underestimated. Finally, fitness is partly determined by genetics28 and perhaps the genetic determinants of fitness also play an important role in obesity.
Even though our findings showed that fitness is a stronger correlate and better predictor of obesity than physical activity in Mexican children, the importance of physical activity in preventing childhood obesity should not be diminished. It has been established that physical activity has a positive influence on both fitness and fatness in children13,18 and that moderate-to vigorous-intensity physical activities are positivelyassociated with improved fitness.11,17,29 The small association between physical activity and fitness found in the present study may be due to the inability of pedometers to capture the intensity of physical activities and that only more intense activities impact fitness.13,18,20 Furthermore, given that genetics account for around 40 to 50% of fitness,30it can be assumed that the other 50 to 60% can be accounted for by environmental and behavioural factors that are modifiable such as physical activity.31 Therefore, directing efforts toward improving physical activity, especially in children with the poorer fitness and physical activity levels, seems to be a good avenue for battling obesity in children.
Because children spend a significant amount of their time at school, strategies for promoting physical activity and fitness among children can be implemented in this setting. The physical education class provides an opportunity to engage children in vigorous-intensity physical activities that can improve fitness. For example, physical educators could promote fitness during the class by including aerobic physical activities such as running, that are of a prolonged duration and that make children work at a moderate-to-vigorous intensity. Finally, given that fitness is associated with obesity in both boys and girls, the regular assessment of fitness in schools could help identify unfit children that are at a higher risk of obesity and its related health ailments, and remedial activity programs could be employed.
The present study has some limitations. The sample size was small and selected by convenience, which compromises the generalizability of the findings to a broader Mexican population. Furthermore, the crosssectional design prevents us from drawing more robust conclusions on the causal relations between fitness and physical activity with obesity. Another limitation was the physical activity assessment, which, although objective, was subject to problems. Specifically, children may not have worn the pedometer properly or may have tampered with it. Moreover, pedometry measures were only obtained on weekdays, which prevented us from capturing the physical activities that children performed during the weekend. Another limitation of the pedometers used in this study is that crucial information about the intensity and frequency of physical activities was not obtained.26 Accelerometers, on the other hand, can measure both the intensity and frequency of physical activity and provide a better measure of this complex behaviour. Information about the physical activity intensity could contribute to a better understanding of the relationships among physical activity, fitness and obesity and may explain the apparent inconsistency of the present findings with some of the research discussed above.9,17,18
This study investigated the strength of the independent associations of physical activity and fitness with total and abdominal obesity in Mexican 5th and 6th graders. We conclude that fitness is a stronger correlate and better predictor of total and abdominal adiposity than is physical activity in this sample of Mexican schoolchildren. Nevertheless, the importance of physical activity in preventing obesity and promoting improved fitness should not be discounted as physical activity is the only modifiable determinant of fitness. This evidence is important given that it can help guide future public health initiatives aimed at battling childhood obesity in Mexico. Research involving larger, more representative population samples is required to further explore these associations in Mexican children.
The authors thank Ma. Teresa Acosta Álvarez, Simón Barquera, Citlali González, Mariane Héroux, Gabriela Ibarguchi, Ma. del Carmen Inojata Medina, Donna Ivimey, Juan Antonio Jiménez, Lucie Lévesque, Robert M. Malina, Luis Ortiz Hernández, Margarita Safdie, Jesús Valdés Flores, Cecilia Vallejo Ponce and Marisol Villegas Balcázar, for their involvement in organizing and teaching at the 3rd Annual CAMBIO Short Course for Obesity Researchers. We are grateful to all of the short course participants for the assistance with the data collection. The research team wishes to thank the students, teachers, administrators, staff, and parents at the schools which participated in the study in Zapopan, Jalisco: Emiliano Zapata, Cuauhtémoc, Aurelia L. Guevara, and José Ortíz Domínguez.
Declaration of conflict of interests. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.
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Corresponding author:
Karla I. Galavíz
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University #28 Division Street
Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
E-mail: email@example.com
Received on: January 11, 2012
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The Texas collection of comedias sueltas at the Ransom Center contains over 14,000 titles that provide valuable insight into Spanish literature from the second half of the seventeenth century through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thanks to a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program, the cataloging work on this collection continues and is expected to be completed by February 2014. The cataloging of these items has revealed numerous interesting titles and phenomena, including illustrated sueltas.
There are several categories of illustrations found in the sueltas: scene illustrations, character and author portraits, and stage diagrams. These illustrations can help scholars better visualize a performance and improve the scholar's understanding of the appearance and character of Spanish theater. Most sueltas were not illustrated. Because the sueltas were primarily intended for performance and not general reading, illustrations may have been an extraneous expense for publishers. Furthermore, the cost of paper dictated that as many words as possible be squeezed into available space. This makes the items that do have illustrations all the rarer and more interesting.
Scene Illustrations
A scene illustration is often an engraving of the characters in a moment of action. The actors are shown in costume, and the viewer can see the emotions on the faces of the actors. These illustrations are perhaps the most informative about the actual conception of a play. They are also, however, the rarest type of illustration. Images of the following scene illustrations can be seen in the slideshow.
The earliest illustrated suelta dates from 1775. The sueltas at this time generally consisted of text alone. One illustrated suelta includes a fairly crude scene illustration of a child being bathed and a woman ironing. The suelta, titled Letra a la tonadilla de la planchadora, was bound with a manuscript suelta called Sacristan y la viuda. Both items have received significant conservation work to separate and repair them. Ransom Center conservators also removed a sheet of tissue mounted onto the illustration.
The suelta Misantropía y arreptentimiento features a scene illustration unique for a number of reasons. First, the item is dated 1800, which is early in the suelta publishing phenomenon and even earlier in terms of suelta illustration. Furthermore, it pictures an artist's elegant conceptualization of a dramatic moment in the play outside the confines of the theater. This engraving shows the moment taking place in "real life," rather than on the stage. This illustration is far more artistic in nature than typical scene illustrations.
The illustration in Roberto el Diablo is more typical in style of the scene illustrations found in the sueltas. For instance, note the stylized, almost cartoonish, faces and bodies of the characters and their exaggerated body language. The action is being emphasized, while the scenery lacks detail. The presence of illustrations printed on the wrapper is also uncommon. It was not until later in the century that illustrated wrappers and the use of colored ink became more wide spread.
Character Portraits
Character portraits are among the most visually interesting illustrations. They are often reproduced from photographs, so the details are generally easier to make out than those of scene illustrations. One can see what the actor looked like in full costume. Some character portraits are produced as engravings that offer artistic representations, but still provide insight into the costumery of a main character. Character portraits tend to be of particularly interesting characters, such as the portraits of Boquerón and Nina featured in the slideshow.
Boquerón and Nina are both exceedingly flamboyant characters and the namesakes of the respective plays in which they are featured. Boquerón is a female actress dressed as a ridiculous male character. Note also that an enterprising reader has added a mustache and beard to Boquerón's face. Nina is a scantily clad woman warrior. She is later featured in a sequel called Seña Manuela in which her costumery may be noted to be equally spectacular, but certainly less risqué.
Stage Diagrams
Stage diagrams are particularly illustrative of the mechanics of the Spanish theater. A diagram shows how the stage was designed and where certain important props or scenery were placed. In an adaptation of Victor Hugo's last novel Ninety-three, the stage diagram shows how a stage is altered after a set change. Particularly interesting is the presence of the "puerta secreta," or secret door. Furthermore, this diagram helps the reader understand how the stage blocking would have looked to a theatergoer.
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Orexigen Therapeutics Receives Dispute Response Indicating FDA is Highly Supportive of Exploration of a Faster Path to Resubmission of the Contrave NDA
-- Light Study enrollment surpasses 7,000 patients; the Company plans to continue enrollment to approximately 9,000 patients by year end, speeding the time to interim analysis
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Orexigen® Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX) today announced that it has received a response to a formal dispute resolution request (FDRR) from the United States Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).
The response indicates that CDER highly supports further discussions regarding a faster path to resubmission of the Contrave® (naltrexone SR / bupropion SR) New Drug Application (NDA). Orexigen plans to explore with the FDA the possibility of resubmitting the Contrave NDA in advance of the interim data from the Light Study, the cardiovascular outcomes trial evaluating Contrave. Under this scenario data from the planned interim analysis would be provided during the anticipated review period. Although procedural details need to be addressed, the Company is optimistic that these discussions could result in a faster path to resubmission of the Contrave NDA.
Orexigen also announced that it has surpassed its goal to enroll 7,000 patients in the Light Study and plans to enroll approximately 9,000 patients through the end of 2012. With the resulting increase in observation time in the study, the time to accrual of the 87 major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) needed to conduct the interim analysis should occur up to two months sooner, potentially as soon as the second quarter of 2013.
"We are encouraged by the ongoing dialogue with the FDA and are happy that FDA recognized the benefit of being prepared to act on Contrave soon after the interim data are available," said Michael Narachi, CEO of Orexigen. "We and our commercial partner, Takeda, are excited that the possibility of an earlier resubmission coupled with higher patient enrollment may result in a reduction in the time to potential approval for Contrave."
Orexigen's FDRR
Orexigen requested that Contrave be considered for approval on the basis of existing data together with a postmarketing requirement to supply the interim cardiovascular outcomes data shortly after approval. CDER denied this request, reaffirming that cardiovascular outcomes data from the interim analysis of the Light Study is required prior to approval; however, CDER indicated that it was highly supportive of the exploration of a faster path to resubmission of the Contrave NDA.
Light Study Enrollment Update
Orexigen has now enrolled more than 7,000 patients into the Light Study. To take advantage of ongoing enrollment momentum and potentially speed the time to the interim analysis, Orexigen is continuing to enroll up to 9,000 patients through the end of 2012.
The primary endpoint of the Light Study is the time to MACE during randomized treatment with Contrave compared to placebo. After at least 87 MACE have been adjudicated, the study's independent Data Monitoring Committee will conduct an interim analysis. The exclusion of a doubling of risk of MACE at the interim analysis was established as the threshold for approvability of Contrave during discussions with the FDA prior to the start of the Light Study. The timing of the 87th MACE will be dependent upon the observed rate of MACE in the study, which at this time is too early to predict. With today's recommendation from the FDA, Orexigen will work with CDER to define a path to expedite resubmission in advance of an anticipated completion of the interim analysis, in order to enable a potentially earlier PDUFA date for the Contrave application.
About the Orexigen – Takeda Alliance
In 2010, Orexigen and Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc., entered into an exclusive partnership to develop and commercialize Contrave® (naltrexone SR/bupropion SR), Orexigen's investigational drug for the treatment of obesity, in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Conference call this morning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time
Orexigen will host a conference call and webcast this morning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the Formal Dispute Resolution Response and the Light Study update.
To listen to the conference call, please dial:
866-700-6293 from the United States and Canada or
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The access code for the call is 36479938.
A playback of the call will be available beginning today at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time through November 5, 2012, and may be accessed by dialing:
888-286-8010 from the United States and Canada or
617-801-6888 (International)
The reservation number for the replay is 31255609.
Additionally, you may access the live and subsequently archived webcast of the conference call from the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.orexigen.com.
About Orexigen Therapeutics
Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of obesity. The Company's lead product candidate is Contrave, which has completed Phase III clinical trials and for which a New Drug Application has been submitted and reviewed by the FDA. The Company has also reached agreement with the FDA on a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) for the Light Study, the Contrave cardiovascular outcomes trial. The Company's other product candidate, Empatic™, has completed Phase II clinical trials. Further information about the Company can be found at www.orexigen.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Orexigen cautions you that statements included in this press release that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking statements. Words such as "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "indicates," "should," "will," "intends," "potential," "suggests," "assuming," "designed" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the Company's current beliefs and expectations. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding the possibility of resubmitting the Contrave NDA in advance of the interim data from the Light Study, the potential to accelerate resubmission of the Contrave NDA; the timing of patient enrollment and MACE in the Light Study; the ability to enroll the targeted patient population; the ability to enroll approximately 9,000 patients; the potential for, and timing of, the accrual and adjudication of MACE and the potential resubmission of the Contrave NDA; the safety and effectiveness of Contrave; and the potential for, and timing of, approval for Contrave. The inclusion of forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by Orexigen that any of its plans will be achieved. Actual results may differ from those set forth in this release due to the risk and uncertainties inherent in the Orexigen business, including, without limitation: the possibility that the procedural details are not able to be worked out with the FDA resulting in the inability to resubmit the NDA prior to the receipt of the interim data from the Light Study; the SPA is not binding on the FDA if public health concerns unrecognized at the time the SPA agreement was entered into become evident, other new scientific concerns regarding product safety or efficacy arise, or if Orexigen fails to comply with the agreed upon trial protocol; Orexigen's ability to conduct the Light Study and the progress and timing thereof, including risks associated with recruiting and enrolling patients in the Light Study; Orexigen's ability to demonstrate in the Light Study that the risk of MACE in overweight and obese subjects treated with Contrave does not adversely affect the product candidate's benefit-risk profile; the potential that earlier clinical trials may not be predictive of future results in the Light Study; the potential for the FDA to not approve Contrave even after the resubmission with the MACE event data; the potential for the Light Study to cost more than what is projected; the potential for early termination of the collaboration agreement between Orexigen and Takeda; the costs and time required to complete additional clinical, non-clinical or other requirements prior to any resubmission of an NDA; the therapeutic and commercial value of Contrave; Orexigen's ability to maintain sufficient capital; and other risks described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, and Orexigen undertakes no obligation to revise or update this news release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. Further information regarding these and other risks is included under the heading "Risk Factors" in Orexigen's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission August 9, 2012 and which is available from the SEC's website (www.sec.gov) and on Orexigen's website (www.orexigen.com) under the heading "Investor Relations." All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. This caution is made under the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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Media Contact:
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A new means of tracking school performance will be presented at the Douglas County School Board meeting 3:30 p.m. today at the Zephyr Cove Public Library. The Nevada School Performance Framework is a 100-point index that shows how schools are performing. Implementation of the framework will prompt revisions to the district's data dashboard.
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May 5, 2012
I began the next session by returning students' papers on A Lesson before Dying, congratulating them on their solid work, and inviting them to meet me during office hours if they had questions about my comments and their grades.
Returning to our discussion of King's letter, I said that effective logos, the substance of any argument, requires more than presenting evidence in support of a claim, that it requires leading the reader through the evidence toward a conclusion, using deductive and inductive methods of reasoning. To begin demonstrating the inter-connectedness of the deductive and inductive processes, I referred them to three sentences on the board, quoted below, each extracted from King's fifteenth paragraph, the one alluding to Martin Buber and Paul Tillich and their condemnation of segregation as sinful. Together, the three sentences, I said, represent a syllogism, a three-part deductive statement:
Major Premise: All laws that degrade the human personality are unjust.
Minor Premise: Segregation laws degrade the human personality.
Conclusion: Segregation laws are unjust.
All syllogisms, I explained, begin with a major premise, a generalization about a class or genus—all laws—a premise that King rightly assumes his primary audience, the clergymen, will accept without challenge. The minor premise, I continued, then makes a generalization about a member or species of that group, "segregation laws," asserting that they "degrade the human personality"; therefore, the deductive logic runs, if the major premise is true, and if the minor premise is true, then it necessarily follows that all segregation laws are unjust.
"But where," I continued, "has King provided his proof—beyond these allusions to Jewish and Christian theologians—that supports the minor premise, that segregation laws 'degrade the personality'?" Hearing no response, I referred the students to King's fourteenth paragraph, where King presents abundant and passionate evidence that "segregation laws degrade the personality," and he does so, I explained, by using inductive logic, which begins with an hypothesis, then moves through a series of experiments or examples to confirm or contradict the hypothesis. I then referred the students to the inductive outline of King's fourteenth paragraph, which answers the clergymen's question about waiting for freedom and, in so doing, tests the hypothesis about the degrading effect of segregation:
Hypothesis: Segregation laws degrade the personality.
Results of Testing Hypothesis:
Experiment #1: "Vicious mobs" lynch your family members.
Experiment #2: "Hate-filled policemen…kick…brothers and sisters."
Experiment #3: Twenty million African Americans live in an "airtight cage of poverty."
Experiment #4: African American children are excluded from amusement parks, and fathers have no explanation.
Experiment #5: African American adults are barred from motels.
Experiment #6: African American women and men are never accorded respect, never called by their names; they suffer, therefore, a "degenerating sense of nobodiness."
Conclusion: Segregation laws degrade the human personality.
After reviewing this inductive process, I asked the students to note that the inductive conclusion becomes the minor premise for King's syllogism two paragraphs later. This blending, I said, quoting from Questioning,
shows that our minds work inductively, helping us interpret to experience, and that our minds also work deductively, helping us to reason from our discovered premises to further conclusions. Persuasive writing…makes transparent this blending of inductive and deductive thought. To put it negatively, had Dr. King omitted paragraph 14, with all its examples—proofs—of the damaging effect of segregation laws, then his minor premise in paragraph 16, that segregation laws damage the personality, would be a logical fallacy. That is, King would have been guilty of begging the question, the fallacy of assuming as proven the very idea that needs to be demonstrated. (156-57)
This blending of induction and deduction, I continued, also further strengthens King's ethos, as "he offers his readers cool logic and sound evidence to persuade them that they cannot ask his followers to 'wait' any longer for freedom" (157).
Finally, I asked the class to recall King's deliberative purpose, to advise the clergymen and all Americans to guarantee the country's 'enduring and prevailing' by rising to its high ideals of brotherhood. Such a purpose, I said, moves him away from judicial discourse, away from accusing and defending, and toward meditational discourse, striving "to bridge the gap between 'you,' the clergymen who have criticized him and the racists who have jailed him, and 'we,' the victims of segregation"(157).
To support this claim, I asked the students to consider one more sentence on the board, a line rich with parallel rhythms and imbedded figurative language that, together, help us hear and see his vision of unity as he praises blacks and whites working together:
They have carved a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.
By juxtaposing these contrasting images, I said, King not only praises those who have carved the "tunnel of hope" but also invites his critics and those "white moderates" to join in the carving. We see this invitation again in his last sentence, where he urges all his readers to share his hope that "in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty." As noted in Questioning, "by saving this inspiring image for the end of his letter, the point where he hopes to have won supporters, not vanquished opponents, King has shown that arrangement works together with parallelism and metaphoric language to move his readers toward embracing a positive common destiny" (158).
As we neared the end of the session, I reminded the class that our next meeting would focus on an excerpt from John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, another passionate call for justice and 'prevailing' through unity. Neihardt, I explained, was a white poet from Nebraska, but his book grew from extended interviews with Black Elk, a holy man of the Lakota tribe, whose vision of tribal and world unity died in 1890 at the Battle of Wounded Knee, where the US Calvary crushed rebellious Native American tribes. From the point of view of the US government, I further explained, Wounded Knee affirmed the doctrine on "Manifest Destiny," the idea that God ordained white people to move always westward, acquiring land by purchase or by force so that the nation could grow and prosper economically.
However, I continued, from the Native Americans' point of view, the US government committed genocide at Wounded Knee, a crime made even worse by herding Indians onto reservations, essentially concentration camps, places where Indian culture died and survivors felt utterly broken in spirit, which explains the extremely high rates of unemployment, alcoholism, and suicide on reservations, then and now.
We would read another excerpt for the next meeting, I noted, this one from N. Scott Momaday's book The Way to Rainy Mountain. Another Native American with Kiowa and Cherokee blood, Momaday, I said, wrote his book in celebration of Kiowa culture, a culture also crushed when the US Army forced them onto the reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and deprived them of their Sun Dance, their religion.
Finally, as they read these works, I asked the students to keep Kings' "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in mind and to reflect on what the three works have in common as protests of injustice and as pleas for unity. "And think of historical patterns in these passionate writings, too," I said, noting that Neihardt recorded Black Elk's vision in 1932, when King was a small child, and that Momaday wrote about the fate of the Kiowas in 1969, one year after King was assassinated. To help them find a personal focus for their reflections, I distributed the following journaling prompts, asking student to pick one and to fill up at least a page of their journals in response:
- Describe a holy man or woman from your culture that you have found inspiring.
- What feelings do you have as a Kosovaran as you read about a vision that strives to avoid genocide?
- Narrate a memory of a grandparent and an old custom.
- What do you think Dr. King would say in response to these readings?


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Pope draws 3M for vigil after chastising 'exodus'
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Pope Francis drew a reported 3 million flag-waving, rosary-toting faithful to Rio's Copacabana beach on Saturday for the final evening of World Youth Day, hours after he chastised the Brazilian church for failing to stem the "exodus" of Catholics to evangelical congregations.
Francis headed into the final hours of his first international trip riding a remarkable wave of popularity: By the time his open-sided car reached the stage for the vigil service Saturday night, the back seat was piled high with soccer jerseys, flags and flowers tossed to him by adoring pilgrims lining the beachfront route.
"I'm trembling, look how good you can see him!" gushed Fiorella Dias, a 16-year-old Brazilian who jumped for joy as she reviewed the video she shot as the pope passed by. "I have got to call my mother!"
On the beach, pilgrims staked out their spots on the sand, lounged and snacked, preparing for an all-night slumber party ahead of the final Mass on Sunday. Many of those actually paying attention to the vigil had tears in their eyes, moved by Francis' call for them to build up their church like his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, was called to do.
"Jesus offers us something bigger than the World Cup!" Francis said, drawing cheers from the crowd in this soccer-mad nation.
The vigil capped a busy day for the pope in which he drove home a message he has emphasized throughout the week in speeches, homilies and off-the-cuff remarks: the need for Catholics, lay and religious, to shake up the status quo, get out of their stuffy sacristies and reach the faithful on the margins of society or risk losing them to rival churches.
In the longest and most important speech of his four-month pontificate, Francis took a direct swipe at the "intellectual" message of the church that so characterized the pontificate of his predecessor, Benedict XVI. Speaking to Brazil's bishops, he said ordinary Catholics simply don't understand such lofty ideas and need to hear the simpler message of love, forgiveness and mercy that is at the core of the Catholic faith.
"At times we lose people because they don't understand what we are saying, because we have forgotten the language of simplicity and import an intellectualism foreign to our people," he said. "Without the grammar of simplicity, the church loses the very conditions which make it possible to fish for God in the deep waters of his mystery."
In a speech outlining the kind of church he wants, Francis asked bishops to reflect on why hundreds of thousands of Catholics have left the church for Protestant and Pentecostal congregations that have grown exponentially in recent decades in Brazil, particularly in its slums or favelas, where their charismatic message and nuts-and-bolts advice is welcome by the poor.
According to census data, the number of Catholics in Brazil dipped from 125 million in 2000 to 123 million in 2010, with the church's share of the total population dropping from 74 percent to 65 percent. During the same time period, the number of evangelical Protestants and Pentecostals skyrocketed from 26 million to 42 million, increasing from 15 percent to 22 percent of the population in 2010.
Francis offered a breathtakingly blunt list of explanations for the "exodus."
"Perhaps the church appeared too weak, perhaps too distant from their needs, perhaps too poor to respond to their concerns, perhaps too cold, perhaps too caught up with itself, perhaps a prisoner of its own rigid formulas," he said. "Perhaps the world seems to have made the church a relic of the past, unfit for new questions. Perhaps the church could speak to people in their infancy but not to those come of age."
Francis asked if the church today can still "warm the hearts" of its faithful with priests who take time to listen to their problems and remain close to them.
"We need a church capable of rediscovering the maternal womb of mercy," he said. "Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness and love."
Despite Francis' critical assessment of the sorry state of the church in Brazil, the pope's reception in Rio has shown that he can draw quite a crowd. Copacabana beach's 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) of white sand was overflowing for the final vigil Saturday night, thanks also to Mother Nature which finally cooperated with chilly but dry temperatures after days of rain.
Local media, citing information from the mayor's office, said 3 million people were on hand for the vigil; calls to the mayor's office weren't immediately returned. That's far higher than the 1 million at the last World Youth Day vigil in Madrid in 2011, and far more than the 650,000 at Toronto's 2002 vigil.
Rio's mayor had estimated earlier in the day that as many as 3 million people might turn out for Sunday's culminating Mass.
"At church, it can be a bit tedious, but here it's amazing," marveled Anna Samson, a 21-year-old rising college senior from Long Beach, California.
"Seeing the pope, seeing the Stations of the Cross acted out live, seeing all these young people from all over," she said as she and two friends plied the beach in search of a place to spread their sleeping bags. "It's overwhelming, just amazing."
Even the human statues, a fixture on Copacabana beach, were pious Saturday night, drawing crowds of picture-snapping pilgrims with their oversized angel's wings.
The Argentine pope began his day with a Mass in Rio's beehive-like modern cathedral where he exhorted 1,000 bishops from around the world to go out and find the faithful, a more diplomatic expression of the direct, off-the-cuff instructions he delivered to young Argentine pilgrims on Thursday. In those remarks, he urged the youngsters to make a "mess" in their dioceses and shake things up, even at the expense of confrontation with their bishops and priests.
"We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!" Francis said in his homily Saturday. "It's not enough simply to open the door in welcome, but we must go out through that door to seek and meet the people."
Francis' target audience is the poor and the marginalized — the people that history's first pope from Latin America has highlighted on this first trip of his pontificate. He has visited one of Rio's most violent slum areas, met with juvenile offenders and drug addicts and welcomed in a place of honor 35 garbage collectors from his native Argentina.
He carried that message to a meeting with Brazil's political, economic and intellectual elite, urging them to look out for the poorest and use their leadership positions to work for the common good. He also called for greater dialogue between generations, religions and peoples during the speech at Rio's grand municipal theater.
On a few occasions, he looked up at the gilded theater boxes almost in awe from the stage and seemed positively charmed when a few dozen young students of the theater's ballet school sat down around him. At the end of the event, the little ballerinas swarmed Francis, and he gave each one a kiss on the forehead.
Also receiving papal embraces were a handful of Brazilian Indians, dressed in their traditional, bare-bellied garb who lined up to kiss his ring. One man gave Francis a feathered headdress, which he gamely wore for a few moments.
Marco Sibaja contributed.
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The (right) big finitistic dimension of a ring is Findim$(R) =$ sup{proj.dim(M) | $M$ a right $R$-module of finite projective dimension}. The (right) little finitistic dimension findim$(R)$ is the sup over f.g. right modules of finite projective dimension.
The right global dimension of a ring is r.gl.dim$(R) =$ sup{proj.dim(M) | $M\in R$-mod}
It is clear that Findim$(R)\leq$ r.gl.dim$(R)$. According to T.Y. Lam's book Lectures on Modules and Rings, the right global dimension of $R$ is infinite iff there is some right $R$-module $M$ of infinite projective dimension. So if r.gl.dim$(R)<\infty$ then all $R$-modules have finite projective dimension and Findim$(R)=$r.gl.dim$(R)$. If r.gl.dim$(R)=\infty$ then there must be a module of infinite projective dimension but there could also be a chain of modules of finite but increasing projective dimension, i.e. big finitistic dimension can be finite or infinite. Clearly the only way to have Findim$(R)\neq$ r.gl.dim$(R)$ is to have infinite right global dim but finite big finitistic dimension.
What is an example of a ring with Findim$(R)\neq$ r.gl.dim$(R)$?
The classical example of a ring of infinite global dimension is $k[t]/(t^2)$ or really any ring with a nilpotent element. I suspect this ring has finite Findim, but I don't have a good enough sense of what $k[t]/(t^2)$-modules look like to easily pick out the ones of finite projective dimension.
If Findim$(R)=n$, can we find such an example for any $n$?
I have also seen the term "finitistic global dimension" running around. Here it is defined exactly as little finitistic dimension above.
Are these two terms always interchangeable?


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Episode 01: The Silver Fortress! Luffy and Barto`s Great Adventure!Episode 02: An Underground Maze! Luffy vs. the Tram Human!Episode 03: The Sword Technique Heats Up! Law and Zoro Finally Appear!Episode 04: A Desperate Situation! Luffy Fights a Battle in Extreme Heat!Episode 05: Curtain-up on a New Adventure! Arriving at the Phantom Island, Zou!Episode 06: The New Warlord! The Legendary Whitebeard`s Son Appears!Episode 07: A Deadly Elephant Climb! A Great Adventure on the Back of the Giant Elephant!Episode 08: A Battle Begins! Luffy vs. the Mink Tribe!Episode 09: Garchu! The Straw Hats Reunite!Episode 10: Start to Counterattack! Great Moves by the Twirly Hat Crew!Episode 11: A Threat Descends! The Beast Pirates, Jack!Episode 12: King of the Day - Enter Duke Inuarashi!Episode 13: King of the Night - Nekomamushi AppearsEpisode 14: The Exterminated Capital! The Twirly Hat Crew Arrive!Episode 15: The Time Limit Closes in! The Bond Between the Mink Tribe and the Crew!Episode 16: The Delinquent Comes Home! Emperor Big Mom's Assassins!Episode 17:The Truth Behind His Disappearance - Sanji's Shocking InvitationEpisode 18: To My Buds! Sanji's Farewell Note!Episode 19: Let's Go and Meet Master Cat Viper!Episode 20: Luffy's Decision - Sanji on the Brink of Quitting!Episode 21: A Volatile Situation! The Dog and the Cat and the SamuraiEpisode 22: The Third One! Raizo of the Mist, the Ninja, Appears!Episode 23: A Red Stone! A Guide to the One Piece!Episode 24: The Secret of the Land of Wano! The Kozuki Family and the Ponegliffs!Episode 25: A Vow Between Two Men! Luffy and Kozuki MomonosukeEpisode 26: The Legendary Journey! The Dog and the Cat and the Pirate King!Episode 27: The Nightmare Returns - The Invincible Jack's Fierce AttackEpisode 28: A Battle to Defend Zou! Luffy and Zunisha!Episode 29: Save Zunesha! The Straw Hats Rescue Operation!Episode 30: Descending the Elephant – Setting Sail for Sanji's Retrieval!Episode 31: To the Reverie! Princess Vivi and Princess Shirahoshi!Episode 32: To the Reverie! Rebecca and the Sakura Kingdom!Episode 33: Kaido Returns! An Imminent Threat to the Worst Generation!Episode 34: A Hungry Front! Luffy and the Navy Rookies!Episode 35: The Persistent Trio – The Great Pursuit for the Straw Hats!Episode 36: The Devil's Fist! A Show Down! Luffy vs. Grount!Episode 37: Sanji's Homecoming! Into Big Mom's Territory!Episode 38: Zero and Four! Encountering Germa 66!Episode 39: A Deadly Poison Crisis! Luffy and Reiju!Episode 40: Totto Land! Emperor Big Mom Appears!Episode 41: The Emperor's Daughter! Sanji's Fiancée - Pudding!Episode 42: A Massive Attack! Mom's Hunger Pangs!Episode 43: The Capital City Falls?! Big Mom and Jinbe!Episode 44: The Emperor's Castle – Arriving on Whole Cake Island!Episode 45: A Mysterious Forest Full of Candies! Luffy vs. Luffy!Episode 46: Mom no Shikaku: Luffy to Yuuwaku no Mori!Episode 47: A Seafaring Kingdom! Germa's King Judge!Episode 48: A Battle Between Father and Son! Judge vs. Sanji!Episode 49: A Giant Ambition! – Big Mom and Caesar!Episode 50: The Land of Souls – Mom's Fatal Ability!Episode 51: A Top Officer! The Sweet 3 General Cracker Appears!Episode 52: An Enemy Worth 800 Million! Luffy vs. Thousand Armed Cracker!Episode 53: An All-out Duel! Gear Four vs. Bis Bis AbilityEpisode 54: The First and the Second Join! The Vinsmoke FamilyEpisode 55: The Benefactor's Life! Sanji and Owner Zeff!Episode 56: An Angry Sanji! The Secret of Germa 66!Episode 57: The Past That He Let Go of! Vinsmoke Sanji!Episode 58: To the East Blue! Sanji's Resolute Departure!Episode 59: A Battle of Limits! Luffy and the Infinite Biscuits!Episode 60: Power of Fullness - New Gear Fourth Tankman!Episode 61: Saddest Duel - Luffy vs. SanjiEpisode 62: A Heartbreaking Duel! Luffy vs Sanji! - Part 2Episode 63: A Storm of Revenge! An Enraged Army Comes to Attack!Episode 64: The End of the Adventure - Sanji's Resolute ProposalEpisode 65: I'll Wait Here! Luffy vs.the Enraged Army!Episode 66: Invading the Chateau! Reach the Road Ponegliff!Episode 67: A Fateful Confrontation! Luffy and Big Mom!Episode 68: Shout of the Soul - Brook and Pedro's Lightning OperationEpisode 69: Goodbye - Pudding's Tearful DeterminationEpisode 70: The History of the Left Eye - Pedro vs. Baron TamagoEpisode 71: Moist Cigarette! The Night Before Sanji's Wedding!Episode 72: The Undaunted Soul! Brook vs. Big Mom!Episode 73: Sora's Wish - Germa's Failure, SanjiEpisode 74: To Reach Sanji! Luffy's Vengeful Hell-bent Dash!Episode 75: The Chateau in Turmoil! Luffy, to the Rendezvous!Episode 76: Deciding to Say Goodbye! Sanji and his Straw-Hat Bento!Episode 77: Betraying One of the Four Emperors! The Great Brook Rescue Plan!Episode 78: The Rendez-vous! Luffy, a One-on-One at His Limit!Episode 79: Liar! - Luffy and SanjiEpisode 80: Sanji Comes Back! Crash! The Tea Party from Hell!Episode 81: A Secret Meeting! Luffy vs. The Fire Tank Pirates!Episode 82: The Deadly Pact! Luffy & Bege's Allied ForcesEpisode 83: Luffy Engages in a Secret Maneuver! The Wedding full of Conspiracies Starts Soon!Episode 84: The Family Gets Together! The Hellish Tea Party Starts!Episode 85: The Broken Couple! Sanji and Pudding Enter!Episode 86: A Deadly Kiss! The Mission to Assassinate the Emperor Kicks Off!Episode 87: Returning the Sake Cup! The Manly Jimbei Pays His Dept!Episode 88: The Mission Failed?! The Big Mom Pirates Strike Back!Episode 89: Run Sanji! SOS Germa 66!Episode 90: The Birth of Mom! The Day That Carmel Vanished!Episode 91: The Launcher Blasts! The Moment of Big Mom's Assassination!Episode 92: The Evil Army! Transform! Germa 66!Episode 93: Cutting the Father-Son Relationship! Sanji and Judge!Episode 94: Escape From the Te Party Luffy vs. Big Mom!Episode 95: The Execution Begins! Luffy's Allied Forces Annihilated!?Episode 96: The Castle Collapses! The Straw Hat's Great Escape Begins!Episode 97: The Spear of Elbaph! Onslaught! The Flying Big Mom!Episode 98: Pudding's Determination - Ablaze! The Seducing WoodsEpisode 99: A Lightning Counterattack! Nami and Zeus the Thundercloud!Episode 100: A Coincidental Reunion - Sanji and the Lovestruck Evil PuddingEpisode 101: Save the Sunny! Fighting Bravely! Chopper and Brook!Episode 102: Before the Dawn - Pedro, the Captain of the GuardiansEpisode 103: I'll Be Back! Luffy, Deadly DepartureEpisode 104: The Man with a bounty of Billion! The Strongest Sweet Commander, KatakuriEpisode 105: A Hard Battle Starts! Luffy vs. Katakuri!Episode 106: Zettai Zetsumei no Wana! Rain Dinners TotsunyuuEpisode 107: The Threat of the Mole! Luffy's Silent Fight!Episode 108: The End of Deadly Battle?! Katakuri's Awakening in Anger!Episode 109: The Forbidden Secret - Katakuri's MeriendaEpisode 110: Luffy's Counterattack - Invincible Katakuri's WeaknessEpisode 111: Crisis Again! Gear 4 vs Muso DonutsEpisode 112: The Rebellious Daughter, Chiffon! Sanji's Big Plan for Transporting the Cake!Episode 113: A Man's Way of Life - Bege and Luffy's Determination as CaptainsEpisode 114: The Cake Sank?! Sanji and Bege's Getaway Battle!Episode 115: Sulong - Carrot's Mysterious Great TransformationEpisode 116: Break Through - Straw Hat Crew's Great Naval Battle!Episode 117: Finally Clash - Yonko VS Straw Hat CrewEpisode 118: Dark King's Direct Precepts - The Battle Against Katakuri Turns AroundEpisode 119: Dark King's Direct Precepts - The Battle Against Katakuri Turns AroundEpisode 120: He Finally Returns - Sanji, the Man Who Stops the YonkoEpisode 121: Lurking in the Darkness - Assassin Attacks Luffy!Episode 122: A Man's Resolution - Katakuri's Life Risking Great MatchEpisode 123: Wake Up - To Cross Over the Strongest KenbunshokuEpisode 124: A God Speed Fist - New Gear 4 Activation!Episode 125: Finally Concluded - An Outcome of the Fierce Battle with KatakuriEpisode 126: Finally Concluded - An Outcome of the Fierce Battle with KatakuriEpisode 127: A Desperate Situation! The Iron-Tight Entrapment of Luffy!Episode 128: Pulling Back from the Brink - The Formidable Reinforcements Germa!Episode 129: The Last Stand - Sun Pirates ArriveEpisode 130: A Fascinating Taste - Sanji's Cake of HappinessEpisode 131: The Man of Humanity and Justice - Jinbe, a Desperate Massive Ocean CurrentEpisode 132: Time for Farewell! Pudding's One Last Request!Episode 133: The World in Shock! The Fifth Emperor of the Sea Arrives!Episode 134: To the Reverie! Gathering of the Straw Hat Allies!Episode 135: Sabo Goes into Action - All the Captains of the Revolutionary Army Appear!Episode 136: The Next Move - New Obsessive Fleet Admiral SakazukiEpisode 137: The Summit War - Pirate King's Inherited WillEpisode 138: One Step Ahead of the Dream - Shirahoshi's Path to the Sun!Episode 139: I Miss Him! Vivi and Rebecca's Sentiments!Episode 140: In the Dark Recesses of the Holyland! A Mysterious Giant Straw Hat!Episode 141: The Holyland in Tumult! The Targeted Princess Shirahoshi!Episode 142: An Explosive Situation! Two Emperors of the Sea Going After Luffy!Episode 143: Sabo Enraged! The Tragedy of the Revolutionary Army Officer Kuma!Episode 144: Finally, It Starts! The Conspiracy-filled Reverie!Episode 145: Marco! The Keeper of Whitebeard's Last MementoEpisode 146: Climbing Up a Waterfall! A Great Journey Through the Land of Wano's Sea Zone!Episode 147: The Land of Wano! To the Samurai Country where Cherry Blossoms Flutter!Episode 148: Otama Appears! Luffy vs. Kaido's Army!Episode 149: He'll Come! The Legend of Ace in the Land of Wano!Episode 150: Special Edition! The Strongest Bounty Hunter CiderEpisode 151: Special Editon! Luffy vs. Carbonic Acid KingEpisode 152: Save Otama - Straw Hat, Bounding through the Wasteland!Episode 153: Headliner! The Magician Basil Hawkins Enters the Scene!Episode 154: Confirmed Defeat! The Assault of the Strawman!Episode 155: The Greatest Day! O-Tama's First Oshiruko!Episode 156: Entering Enemy Territory! The Protagonists Spread into the Town of Bakura!Episode 157: The Yokozuna Appears! The Invincible Urashima Goes After Okiku!Episode 158: A Climatic Sumo Battle! Straw Hat vs. the Strongest Ever Yokozuna!Episode 159: Luffy Rages! Rescue Otama from Danger!Episode 160: Fighting for Otama! Fight Against Holdem!Episode 161: Duel! The Magician and the Surgeon of Death!Episode 162: Romance DawnEpisode 163: The Coming of the Treasure Ship! Luffytaro Returns the Favor!Episode 164: Mysterious Grave Markers! A Reunion at the Ruins of Oden Castle!Episode 165: A Legendary Samurai! The Man Who Roger Admired!Episode 166: Bringing Down the Emperor of the Sea! A Secret Raid Operation Begins!Episode 167: Saikyo no Otoko - Tozoku-dan Toryo: Shutenmaru!Episode 168: Everyone is Annihilated! Kaido's Furious Blast Breath!Episode 169: Finally Clashing! The Ferocious Luffy vs. Kaido!Episode 170: Hakai-teki! Ichigeki Hissatsu no Raimei Hakke!Episode 171: Iki-jigoku! Rufi Kutsujoku no Dai Tankutsu-joEpisode 172: The Holyland in Tumult! Emperor of the Sea Blackbeard Cackles!Episode 173: It's On! The Special Operation to Bring Down Kaido!Episode 174: Rampage! The Prisoners: Luffy and Kid!Episode 175: A Great Sensation! Sanji's Special Soba!Episode 176: Goka Kenran - Wano Kuni Ichi no Bijo: KomurasakiEpisode 177: A Tale of Chivalry! Zoro and Tonoyasu's Little Trip!Episode 178: A State of Emergency! Big Mom Closes In!Episode 179: The Capital in an Uproar! Another Assassin Targets Sanji!Episode 180: Dashing! The Righteous Soba Mask!Episode 181: A Desperate Situation! Orochi's Menacing Oniwabanshu!Episode 182: Pandemonium! The Monster Snake, Shogun Orochi!Episode 183: The Flower Falls! The Final Moment of the Most Beautiful Woman in the Land of Wano!Episode 184: The Bond Between Prisoners! Luffy and Old Man Hyo!Episode 185: A Lead Performer! Queen the Plague Emerges!Episode 186: A Lead Performer! Queen the Plague Emerges!Episode 187: Climb Up! Luffy's Desperate Escape!Episode 188: Dead or Alive! Queen's Sumo Inferno!Episode 189: Gyukimaru! Zoro Fights a Duel on Bandit's BridgeEpisode 190: A Big Turnover! The Three-Sword Style Overcomes Danger!Episode 191: Zoro, Stunned! The Shocking Identity of the Mysterious Woman!Episode 192: Get the Hang of It! The Land of Wano's Haki: Ryuo!Episode 193: Tonoyasu! Ebisu Town's Most Loved!Episode 194: Shaking the Nation! The Identity of Ushimitsu Kozo the Chivalrous Thief!Episode 195: The Straw Hats Run! Save the Captive Tonoyasu!Episode 196: Zoro's Fury! The Truth About the Smile!Episode 197: Toko's Tears! Orochi's Painful Bullets!Episode 198: The Straw Hats Step In! An Uproarious Deadly Battle at the Execution Ground!Episode 199: Luffy's Determination! Win Through the Sumo Inferno!Episode 200: The Storm Has Come! A Raging Big Mom!Episode 201: A Grudge Over Red Bean Soup! Luffy Gets into a Desperate Situation!Episode 202: Stop the Emperor of the Sea! Queen's Secret Plan!Episode 203: Brutal Ammunition! The Plague Rounds Aim at Luffy!Episode 204: Launching the Counterattack! Luffy and the Red-Scabbard Samurai!Episode 205: We're Here to Win! Luffy's Desperate Scream!Episode 206: Warriors' Dream! Luffy's Conquer of Udon!Episode 207: Orochi's Hunting Party! 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One piece - Season 19, Episode 133: The World in Shock! The Fifth Emperor of the Sea Arrives!TrailerLuffy's recent exploits make their way around the world! The reputation of this mighty pirate begins to grow as all eyes look towards the Straw Hats' next move! Also - German 66 leaves an artifact behind which excites the crew!Actors: Choo, Yao Kazuki, Tanaka Mayumi, Okamura Akemi, Yamaguchi Yuriko, Nakai Kazuya, Hirata Hiroaki, Ootani Ikue, Yamaguchi Kappei, Nakao MichioDirector: Hongou Mitsuru, Miyamoto Hiroaki, Morita Hiroyuki, Sakai Munehisa, Shimizu Junji, Uda KounosukeCountry: JapanDuration: 25 minQuality: HDRelease: 2016IMDb: 8.70 CommentsSort By
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SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) -- Willie Bloomquist isn't surprised at how well the Kansas City Royals are playing in spring training. And, he said he believes it will carry over into the season.
Alex Gordon, Billy Butler and Elliot Johnson homered for the Royals as they defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 11-10 Saturday.
The Royals improved to 20-6-1, matching their spring training high in victories. They went 20-10-1 in 2011.
"I think outside looking in, it could be a Kansas City year," said Bloomquist, a Diamondbacks' utility player who played with the Royals in 2009-10. "They've got a pretty good dang team. If you ask me, I like where they are at right now. They've got a chance to be good for a lot of years. I like their team."
Gordon hit his fourth homer and Butler also connected in the first inning. Johnson hit a two-run homer in the fifth and also had a sacrifice fly.
Paul Goldschmidt drove in four runs for Arizona, going 3 for 3 with two doubles and a sacrifice fly to raise his batting average to .412.
"He's a professional. He works hard and does what he's supposed to do. Good things happen to those sort of players," Bloomquist said. "He's pretty even keel whether he's hitting .150 or .450, you would never know it. He just goes about his business the right way every day."
Miguel Montero hit a two-run homer in the Diamondbacks' five-run seventh, while Alfredo Marte homered in the eighth to tie the score. Marte returned to the big league camp after being optioned March 13 to Triple-A Reno after Adam Eaton's left elbow injury that will keep him out six to eight weeks.
Jarrod Dyson singled in the Kansas City ninth, stole second, moved to third on a groundout and scored on George Kottaras' two-out single.
Kottaras went 2 for 3 with three RBIs and two walks.
"He's one of those guys that never has a panic at-bat," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "He always stays within himself. He always knows what he wants to do. He had a great eye at the plate and he gives you a professional at-bat every time."
Right-hander Ervin Santana, who will start the Royals' second game of the season, allowed four runs, two unearned, on six hits and a walk over six innings.
"My location was very good," Santana said. "Every time when you have the ball down and locate it, it's going to be good results. I don't try to work on anything. I just go with the mentality to get people out. If I have a pitch working that day, I use it. If not, I use the other ones. That's my mentality."
Arizona starter Randall Delgado allowed six runs on nine hits, including three home runs, and four walks in five innings, throwing 59 strikes in 96 pitches.
Jeff Francoeur, the final batter Delgado faced, hit a shot off the middle of Delgado's back that Goldschmidt caught in the air between first and second.
Delgado said he was OK.
NOTES: Chris Getz has won the Royals' 2B with 2B Johnny Giavotella optioned to Triple-A Omaha. Giavotella, a 2008 second-round pick, owns a career .308 batting average in the minors, but has hit .242 in 99 big league games. He hit .267 in 21 spring training games, while Getz is hitting .378 in 22 games. ... Royals 1B Eric Hosmer has a strained right quadriceps and did not play. ... LHP Wade Miley will start Sunday for the Diamondbacks against Seattle.


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