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So What Is Objective Journalism?
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- Post 21 March 2017
- Last Updated on 21 March 2017
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'Just The Facts, Ma'am'
So what is objective, impartial journalism?
The standard view was offered in 2001 by the BBC's then political editor, Andrew Marr:
'When I joined the BBC, my Organs of Opinion were formally removed.' (Marr, The Independent, January 13, 2001)
And by Nick Robinson describing his role as ITN political editor during the Iraq war:
'It was my job to report what those in power were doing or thinking... That is all someone in my sort of job can do.' (Robinson, '"Remember the last time you shouted like that?" I asked the spin doctor', The Times, July 16, 2004)
'Just the facts, Ma'am', as Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi wryly describes this take on journalism.
It is why, if you ask a BBC or ITN journalist to choose between describing the Iraq war as 'a mistake' or 'a crime', they will refuse to answer on the grounds that they are required to be 'objective' and 'impartial'.
But actually there are at least five good reasons for rejecting this argument as fundamentally bogus and toxic.
First, it turns out that most journalists are only nervous of expressing personal opinions when criticising the powerful. Andrew Marr can't call the Iraq war a 'crime', but he can say that the fall of Baghdad in April 2003 meant that Tony Blair 'stands as a larger man and a stronger prime minister as a result' (Marr, BBC 1, News At Ten, April 9, 2003). Nick Robinson can report that 'hundreds of [British] servicemen are risking their lives to bring peace and security to the streets of Iraq'. (ITN, September 8, 2003)
The 'Wham, bam, thank you, Ma'am' version of 'impartiality', perhaps.
Journalists are allowed to lose their 'objectivity' this way, but not that way - not the way that offends the powerful. Australian media analyst Sharon Beder offers a further example of the same double standards:
'Balance means ensuring that statements by those challenging the establishment are balanced with statements by those whom they are criticising, though not necessarily the other way round.' (Sharon Beder, 'Global Spin', Green Books, 1997, p.203)
The second problem with the no-opinion argument is that it is not possible to hide opinions by merely 'sticking to the facts'. The facts we highlight and ignore, the tone and language we use to stress or downplay those facts, inevitably reflect personal opinion.
The third problem is indicated by the title of historian Howard Zinn's autobiography: 'You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train'. Even if we believe it is possible to suppress our personal opinion in reporting facts, we will still be taking sides. Zinn explained:
'As I told my students at the start of my courses, "You can't be neutral on a moving train." The world is already moving in certain directions - many of them are horrifying. Children are going hungry, people are dying in wars. To be neutral in such a situation is to collaborate with what is going on.' ('The Zinn Reader', Seven Stories Press, Howard Zinn, 1997, p.17)
Matt Taibbi gives a striking example:
'Try as hard as you want, a point of view will come forward in your story. Open any newspaper from the Thirties or Forties, check the sports page; the guy who wrote up the box score, did he have a political point of view? He probably didn't think so. But viewed with 70 or 80 years of hindsight, covering a baseball game where blacks weren't allowed to play without mentioning the fact, that's apology and advocacy. Any journalist with half a brain knows that the biases of our time are always buried in our coverage...'
A fourth, closely-related problem is that not taking sides - for example against torture, or against big countries exploiting small countries, or against selling arms to tyrants, or against stopping rather than exacerbating climate change - is monstrous. A doctor treating a patient is biased in seeking to identify and solve a health problem. No one would argue that the doctor should stand neutrally between sickness and health. Is it not self-evident that we should all be biased against suffering?
Finally, why does the journalistic responsibility to suppress personal opinion trump the responsibility to resist crimes of state for which we are accountable as democratic citizens? If the British government was massacring British citizens, would journalists refuse to speak out? Why does the professional media contract outweigh the social contract? Journalists might respond that 'opinion-free' journalism is vital for a healthy democracy. But without dissent challenging open criminality, democracy quickly decays into tyranny. This is the case, for example, if we remain 'impartial' as our governments bomb, invade and kill 100,000s of people in foreign countries. A journalist who refuses even to describe the Iraq war as a crime is riding a cultural train that normalises the unthinkable. In the real world, journalistic 'impartiality' on Iraq helped facilitate Britain and the United States' subsequent crimes in Libya, Syria and Yemen.
This is the ugly absurdity of the innocent-looking idea that journalists' 'organs of opinion' can and should be removed.
So if we reject this flawed and immoral version of objectivity behind which so many corporate journalists hide, what then is objective journalism? Are we arguing for open bias, for a prejudice free-for-all disconnected from any attempt at fairness? Not at all.
Equalising Self And Other
Objective, impartial journalism is rooted in the understanding that 'my' happiness and suffering do not matter more than 'your' happiness and suffering; and that it is irrational, cruel and unfair to pretend otherwise. Objective journalism rejects reporting and analysis that prioritises 'my' interests – 'my' bank account, financial security, company, nation, class - over 'your' interests.
Objective journalism does not take 'our' side at 'their' expense. It does not count 'our' dead and ignore 'their' dead. It does not refuse to stand in judgement on 'our' leaders while fiercely condemning 'their' leaders. It does not hold 'them' to higher moral standards than 'us'. It does not accept that 'our' nation is 'exceptional', that 'we' have a 'manifest destiny' to dominate 'them', that 'we' are in some way 'chosen'.
A central claim of Buddhist and other mystical traditions is that we really can 'equalise self and other' in this way. Many intellectuals, including leftists, dismiss all such analysis as irrelevant piffle. But at a time when the Vikings were ravaging Europe, the ninth century Buddhist sage Shantideva asked:
'Since I and other beings both,
In wanting happiness, are equal and alike,
What difference is there to distinguish us,
That I should strive to have my bliss alone?' (Shantideva, 'The Way of the Bodhisattva', Shambhala, 1997, p.123)
If this is an astonishingly reasonable thought, it is surpassed by an even more remarkable declaration:
'The intention, ocean of great good
That seeks to place all beings in the state of bliss,
And every action for the benefit of all:
Such is my delight and all my joy.' (p.49)
After four billion years of evolution ostensibly 'red in tooth and claw', Shantideva was here asserting that caring for others is a source of delight and bliss that far exceeds mere pleasure from personal gain.
The claim, of course, is greeted with scepticism by a society that promotes unrestrained greed for maximised profit. But if we set aside our groupthink and take another look, it is actually a matter of common experience. The Indian spiritual teacher, Osho, commented:
'Have you never had a feeling of contentment after having smiled at a stranger in the street? Didn't a breeze of peace follow it? There is no limit to the wave of tranquil joy you will feel when you lift a fallen man, when you support a fallen person, when you present a sick man with flowers – but not when you do it [out of duty] because he is your father or because she is your mother. No, the person may not be anyone in particular to you, but simply to give a gift is itself a great reward, a great pleasure.'
The existence of this reward has been confirmed by some very interesting and credible science (see here).
Objective journalism is thus rooted in two claims:
1) that human beings are able to view the happiness and suffering of others as being of equal importance to their own.
2) that, perhaps counter-intuitively for a society like ours, individuals and societies dramatically enhance their well-being when they 'equalise self and other' in this way.
In other words, this is not a sentimental pipe dream – human beings can be fair and just, and they do experience benefits from being so.
The value of objective journalism, and indeed objective living, in this sense is clear enough. We know from research (see here) and our own experience that people who think only of themselves are as miserable as they are biased.
In his collection of spontaneous talks, 'Ta Hui – The Great Zen Master', Osho gave a powerful example of objectivity, in the sense intended here, from his own childhood:
'It happened that in my village, between my house and a temple, there was a piece of land. For some technical reason, my father was able to win the case if he took it to court - only on technical reasons. The land was not ours, the land belonged to the temple. But the technical reason was this: the map of the temple did not show that the land was in their territory. It was some fault of the municipal committee's clerical staff; they had put the land onto my father's property.
'Naturally in court there was no question; the temple had no right to say that it was their land. Everybody knew it was their land, my father knew it was their land. But the land was precious, it was just on the main street, and every technical and legal support was on my father's side. He brought the case to the court.
'I told him, "Listen" - I must have been not more than eleven years old – "I will go to the court to support the temple. I don't have anything to do with the temple, I have never even gone inside the temple, whatever it is, but you know perfectly well that the land is not yours."
'He said, "What kind of son are you? You will witness against your own father?"
'I said, "It is not a question of father and son; in the court it is a question of what is true. And not only will your son be there; your father I have also convinced."
'He said, "What!"
'I had a very deep friendship with my grandfather, so we had consulted. I had told him, "You have to support me because I am only eleven years old. The court may not accept my witnessing because I am not an adult, so you have to support me. You know perfectly well that the land is not ours."
'He said, "I am with you."
'So I told my father, "Just listen, from both sides, from your father and from your son... you simply withdraw the case; otherwise you will be in such a trouble, you will lose the case. It is only technically that you are able to claim. But we are not going to support a technical mistake on the part of the municipal clerk."
'He said, "You don't understand a simple thing, that a family means... you have to support your family."
'I said, "No, I will support the family only if the family is right. I will support whoever is right."
'He talked to my grandfather who said, "I have already promised your son that I will be going with him."
'My father said, "That means I will have to withdraw the case and lose that valuable piece of land!"
'He said, "What can be done about it? Your son is going to create trouble for you, and seeing the situation, that he will not in any way be persuaded, I have agreed with him - just to make his position stronger so that you can withdraw; it is better to withdraw than to get defeated."
'My father said, "But this is a strange family! I am working for you all. I am working for you, I am working for my son - I am not working for myself. If we can have a beautiful shop on that land you will have a better, more comfortable old age; he will have a better education in a better university. And you are against me."
'My grandfather said, "I am not against anybody, but he has taken my promise, and I cannot go against my word - at least as far as he is concerned - because he is dangerous, he may put me in some trouble. So I cannot deceive him; I will say whatever he is saying. And he is saying the truth - and you know it."
'So my father had to withdraw the case – reluctantly... but he had to withdraw the case. I asked my grandfather to bring some sweets so we can distribute them in the neighborhood. My father has come to his senses, it has to be celebrated. He said, "That seems to be the right thing to do."
'When my father saw that I was distributing sweets, he asked, "What are you doing? - for what? What has happened?"
'I said, "You have come back to your senses. Truth is victorious." And I gave him a sweet also.
'He laughed. He said, "I can understand your standpoint, and my own father is with you, so I thought it is better that I should also be with you. It is better to withdraw without any problem. But I have learned a lesson." He said to me, "I cannot depend on my family. If there is any trouble they are not going to support me just because they belong to me as father, as son, as brother. They are going to support whatever is true."
'And since that time no other situation ever arose, because he never did anything in which we had to disagree. He remained truthful and sincere.
'Many times in his life he told me, "It was so good of you; otherwise I was going to take that land, and I would have committed a crime knowingly. You prevented me, and not only from that crime, you prevented me from then onwards. Whenever there was a similar situation, I always decided in favor of truth, whatever the loss. But now I can see: truth is the only treasure. You can lose your whole life, but don't lose your truth."' (Osho, 'Ta Hui – The Great Zen Master', 1987, free e-book)
Objective journalism insists that 'I will support the family only if the family is right. I will support whoever is right.' If the facts show that the Iraq war was an unprovoked war of aggression, then objective journalism will describe it as such.
Unfortunately, of course, most corporate journalism says:
'I will support my family, my party, my newspaper, my corporation, my advertisers, my arms industry, my military, my country, my class, whether or not they are right. I will support whatever benefits me. I will highlight facts and voices in a tone that benefits the powerful interests that reward me. I will ignore facts and voices that might harm my career.'
Osho's father perceived his son's challenge as an attack: 'you are against me'. But in fact Osho was not against his father, nor was he for the temple – he was for the truth.
In 2012, Media Lens compared media reaction to the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a US soldier, with a massacre of 108 people in Houla, Syria, for which Western media found Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad personally responsible. We asked what evidence would be required before journalists found Obama personally responsible for such a massacre. Obviously, the involvement of US forces would need to be confirmed beyond doubt. These forces would need to have been acting under orders. Presumably, Obama would need to have signed these orders, or been aware of them and agreed to them on some level. But Syrian forces were instantly declared responsible, with Assad held personally responsible, even before the killers had been identified.
We were inviting readers to consider if ostensibly free, independent journalists treat foreign governments, especially Official Enemies of state, the same way they treat their own government and its leading allies. We were not against Obama any more than we were for Assad – we were for the truth.
Ironically, our attempts to challenge biased reporting in this way are regularly denounced as examples of ugly bias - we are described as 'pro-Assad', 'pro-Gaddafi', 'pro-Putin' 'genocide deniers', 'apologists for tyranny', and so on, often by people waging a kind of propaganda war against anyone challenging power.
More recently, we commented on the muted coverage of an Islamic State massacre of 38 people in an Afghan hospital:
'If Islamic State's attack had been on a French hospital, shooting doctors and patients, it would have been one of 2017's defining traumas.'
Again, this comment was no more 'pro-Afghan' than it was 'anti-French' – it pointed to a deep and dangerous bias in the way corporate media respond to suffering in the world.
Why do we care so much about this bias? Because, as Osho's anecdote suggests, all is not as it seems. It turns out that there are hidden costs to mendacity, just as there are hidden benefits to truth.
After decades spent honing its talent for suppressing profit-hostile fact and opinion, the corporate media system has become incapable of reporting truth even in the face of imminent disaster. The cost, in this age of catastrophic climate change, is becoming very clear.
David Edwards is co-editor of www.medialens.org


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Game #153: Jays at Yanks pregame
Toronto (77-75) at New York (88-64)
at 7:05 p.m. ET at Yankee Stadium
Today's lineups:
Reed Johnson, RF
Matt Stairs, 1B
Alex Rios, RF
Frank Thomas, DH
Aaron Hill, 2B
Russ Adams, 3B
Gregg Zaun, C
Adam Lind, LF
Ray Olmedo, SS
PITCHING: RHP Roy Haladay (15-7, 3.82 ERA)
Johnny Damon, LF
Derek Jeter, SS
Bobby Abreu, RF
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Hideki Matsui, DH
Jorge Posada, C
Robinson Cano, 2B
Doug Mientkiewicz, 1B
Melky Cabrera, CF
PITCHING: RHP Chien-Ming Wang (18-7, 3.82 ERA)
NOTES: Toronto called up INF Joe Inglett to have an extra man on the bench. He can help out if needed around the infield and in the outfield. The Jays could use an additional player, considering 1B Lyle Overbay isn't starting and 3B Troy Glaus and CF Vernon Wells have been shelved for the year. Inglett was claimed off waivers from the Indians on Sept. 14. … SS John McDonald is still out with a sore left hip flexor.
BREAKING EVEN…Toronto needs to post a 5-5 record over its final 10 games to finish the season above .500.
entering Friday
1. Boston 90-63 (–)
2. New York 88-64 (1.5)
entering Friday
1. New York 88-64 (–)
2. Detroit 83-70 (5.5)
entering Friday
1. Los Angeles 91-62 (–)
2. Cleveland 90-62 (0.5)
3. Boston 90-63 (1)
4. New York 88-64 (2.5)
121 Comments
nah just playing, keep up the good work Jordo, I think you do an awesome job on the site and i hope that you get to work some playoffs, so we get to read your columns on that too.
I see JM isn't playing tonight, I guess he's hurting more than we were told or all thought. We need a big game from Stairs tonight in order to have a chance to win.
Good luck in your game with Tampa tonight.
By the way it's Jordon, not Jordo. I find it really irritating when you spell his name wrong.
GOOOOOOO Jayssssssss….now i am going to eat . Wonder what "sauce" I can get into tonight …..lol…. Maybe see you later . Take care all
no comment-lol
Good one, except for the fact that his name is JordAn not JordOn…
True, it is Jordan. One other point; do you realize when you hit your caps lock you write everthing in capital letters. Capital letters on the web stand for shouting-did you know that.
Didn't think so-but please refrain from using them again-thank you
Where are you man, is your wife keeping you off here tonight? lol
Second time Zaun has a chance to put us ahead-let's hope he performs.
The team that gets a home run wins.
Is this fight nite again.
indigo sorry about the sauce remark.
Hey bosox where are you we have no one to insult lol.
i think it's going to take more that one HR. No fight night-just Make it right night
game over.
The Jays didn't blow it but Zaun did twice so far.
good one gsumner.
pat tabler should be a yankee.
WOW did you see that my god.
No, it's not game over-we have the Dr. in the house-trust and be patient.
Pat Table was a Yankee and likely still is
I meant Tabler-Tom Gaston, before you respond. lol
come on guys-let's take Ho Chi Mien outta here. lol
Boston 3-Tampa Bay 1
But, Beckett's already thrown 77 pitches in 3 innings-so it ain't over yet.
everbody is trying to hit it out just hit the d ball,did I spell the d right tomgo lol.
Ya have to come back and tell us what sauce you made tonight. BOth Garry and I are hungry. lol
Man do we have the good Dr. tonight.
now the doc must perform.
indigo I bet the sauce was sweet not sour lol by bosox.
Lordy lordy, you folks certainly like your sauces.
And man oh man, am I the only one who wishes he could hear the conversation at first between Stairs and A-Rod?
I bet they talk about pudding and how delicious it is.
I'd like to hear that conversation as well. Id on't think Stairs was complementary. lol
If they talk about food I'm in.
I doubt they talked about pudding. lol
Come on guys-get one more run and make it a successfull home visit by the Dr.
Thank you Alex Rios
Like I said the first home run wins lol.
Bosox-where are you-we're saying your butt tonight and you can't even stop by and say hello.
Now that's bad…..
You're right as always. What a time for one. Good for Rios.
I don't know about you, but I'm starting to look for a sauce.
Indigo where are ya?
bosox is with indigo lol.
Maybe bosox is cleaning the trailor park.lol.
Now we need 6 outs, and the good Dr. has only thrown 82 pitches, so I think he's in till the end
1 out
gsumner rye or vodka.
hey hemgold sober tonight lol.
2 out
Garry_ I like both whatcha serving?
3 outs-I think the good Dr. smells the finish line. No one takes it home better.
3 more in the 9th to come.
thegarry: I'm only high on life.
And graham crackers.
nouthing tonight.
hey you sound like the count on sesame street ahahaha.
Garry-do you watch Sesame Street? Amazing!!!!!
Hey Graham crakers are good. lol
I've been told I bear a striking resemblance to the Count. I think that means I'm incredibly handsome.
graham crackers are good yum yum.
hem lol lol lol lol
Halliday at 90 pitches-should easily finish.
Here we go bottom of the 9th
no more crackers for me I'm on a diet I'm down to half a steer a day.
That's what I get for letting the Jays fill out my blog's lineup card tonight. KIDDING. Also, I don't care if anyone refers to me as "Jordo" — some of my friends do. JB works, too. Or, if you want to go all baseballish about it, just call me by my last name. Third-base coach Brian Butterfield calls me "Jordy." What're you gonna do?
Anyone else see Rios almost get beaned by a ball thrown by a fan during his home run trot?
That's pretty low class….
I was thinking "Jordanator"….
Or maybe the "Jordster"….
Or maybe "Lord Jordan: Gentleman Amongst Scholars."
I bet you don't want us to play with your last name Bast— ROFLOL.
Come on Dr. shut them down
That was a big mistake.
I've got faith in Acey McAce — he'll get Posada here….
Man oh man! Aaron Hill, you're breaking my already fragile heart!
This is UNBELIEVABLE.
what happened. I left for 15 minutes and we're tied
Halliday is a fool for staying with this team.
Why the H did Abner leave him in after the first visit fire that goof and JP the other goof.
Halliday was right to stay in after the Detroit fiasco. We only needed 1 out . The umps won't give it to it the jays. They have not be fair in calling all night . Right now Janssen is getting treated to their biased calls. Like I said before , they want Boston and NY close…..its good for business and we can't forget baseball is a business
np about the sauce comment . I found it amusing since I rarely drink
So what kind of sauce did you make tonight?
Furious late-inning rewrites are not cool — NOT cool. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Great night for Doc otherwise.
A great night-only if we win; I don't think the Doc considers it a great night any other way.
Would you consider gravy as sauce…..lol…..I might have to take up drinking with this game.
Jordan you do a great job and I want to thank you before the year is finished and I forget . Happens at my age…..lol
Thanks, Indigo. I do hop on here from time to time to check out the comments and it's nice to see the blog growing since it started with basically me talking to myself last year. This offseason, I'll obviously steer away from the formatted entries and do more commentary. Keep up the convos. And I have to give a shout out to Bosox — the blog has been quite lively since you joined the mix. Instigators are always welcome (not that Bosox alone fits the bill there from time to time).
Now that Bonds will be a free agent next year , I wonder if Riccardi will sign him … (rolling my eyes here)
Also, in case anyone didn't catch it, i stopped by the MLB.com studios here in New York last night and made an appearance on the ol' Under the Lights show. I believe there's a link on the jays home page. JB out…
The nice thing about talking to yourself is you can get the answers you want to hear …lol
Given me a compliment I think. lol….
Michigan State will lose tomm. sorry to say.
Notre Dame 24
Michigan State 23
If you argue with yourself, that is the problem, just ask gsumner…lol…just kidding…
With Chamberlain pitching tonight for 2 innings. At the earliest he will not pitch until Monday. How pathetic is that rule!!!!
Jays win and it will happen around 12:20 a.m.
How great would that be????
Beckett won the Cy Young with his 20th win tonight.
I think Bonds could end up with one of the following teams.
Mariners, Angels, Nationals, Orioles, Padres.
If I would guess I would say Angels!!!
I don't argue with myself , its Jordan that talks to himself….lol… I have workers I can argue with .
Congrats on your win tonight, Bosox
I'm watchin babel the game is not worth it.
bonds will go to the mariners.
Jordan may be on the sauce lol.
good to see you here jordan this blog is great a lot of nice people here and then there is bosox lol.
I'm glad they won. Talking about a team that was desperate for a win.
With Beckett on the hill, I felt like they would win.
Kazmir either shuts down the Sox or is so so against them. Alot of baserunners tonight for Boston against Kazmir, the score could have been higher.
Halladay pitched a gem, no surprise there. I saw where the Jays were winning 4-0 in the 9th but all of a sudden it was in the 10th. I was like you have to be kidding me. Yankees never say die, that speaks volumes of the character of that team.
Jays bats have been silented here in extra innings.
Rios os Thomas will win it with a homer. Here's hoping!!!
You're probably right about Bonds. I would think he will want to stay on the west coast .
I have the TV on and gameday , is it just me or is the strike zone all over the place ?
Homeplate umpires have been all over the place all year but then again that is the case every year.
If the Jays didn't have Thomas signed for next year I could see a scenario where the Jays would go after Bonds. With Thomas signed for next year, I don't see it happening.
I would think Bonds would go to a contender on the left coast, that is why I say the Angels.
What would happen if the Mariners went after Dusty Baker, Bonds' old manager.
That could change it I guess.
I think there is a chance that Bonds replacement could be Manny Ramirez. Just a hunch!!!!
Don't forget I just had my eyes checked and I am only in my 20s ( yes gs you are right ) so no negative comments about my sight .
I was joking about signing Bonds….like we need another "seasoned" player , to put it nicely.
Start eating your carrots like I do. It can only help there Helen Keller!!!! lol…
I don't think many fans would be too high on Bonds coming to there team. You can rule out Boston, not too long ago he said Boston is a racist city. Even though his kid went to school in the area. I certainly wouldn't want Boston to go after Bonds. That guy is nothing but a freaking headache!!!! I wish he would retire but with all that $$$$ out there for him, why retire.
I wonder what kind of contract would he get. I would assume a 2 year deal.
Jeter with a leadoff single.
That guy always starts it. Clutch, clutch!!!
I would assume a 1 year deal for Bonds.
Why would you give him a 2 year deal.
Would Bonds do a Clemens type of deal?
Join a team during the season.
That would be interesting.
Joe Kennedy? You've got to be kidding me!
Yikes…..why not let Wolfe keep going. What a twit
I'm also feeling the Bonds with the Angels scenario — I don't see any N.L. teams wanting to have him screwing around in the outfield anymore….
I would rather have gsumner or garryugy pitch than Joe Kennedy.
Is Dennis Lamp available?
Kennedy is such a dud — I have no idea what the Jays are trying to do with him. I understand giving him some innings in the minors, but he has not looked good for ANY big league team this year.
Bosox, really? You're taking a team with no offensive touchdowns over the allpowerful, undefeated, mean Green Machine from East Lansing? Ha…OK, who am i kidding? MSU should win, but they always have a knack of playing down to poor opponents, and ND always plays them tough as it is. I say MSU 24, ND 17 …
and yeah, Kennedy? Really? This is the guy you want on the mound with the game on the line? [Sigh] Maybe it'll end my night a littler sooner anyway…
You don't even have to throw Molina a strike to get him out. He is a hacker!!!
Well, isn't my face red — Kennedy gets the job done!
(Albeit, Molina's no Babe Ruth. Or even Royce Clayton for that matter.)
Ok , who gagged gs and garry ?
This game is getting REAL sloppy.
Why football the bloody game is on the line oh it's your blog.
Notre Dame is poor.
Michigan State has beaten who?
U.A.B., Pitt and gsumner and garryguy. LOL….
Not too impressed.
Notre Dame is a huge underdog and they have NEVER started the year at 0-4.
Last year Michigan State should have won but a great comeback ( Notre Dame ) or meltdown ( Michigan State ) in the rain.
I don't like Notre Dame but they will win.
You heard it here first Les Miles ( Michigan alum ) will be roaming the sidelines at Michigan Stadium next year and years to come. Worst thing ever happened to Ohio State was Michigan losing to App. State. Lloyd Carr will be hanging out with Gary Moeller.
Your old coach Saban is doing a monster job at Bama. He built L.S.U. into a power and Bama will be there very soon.
It sure is hem. Lets see who comes out next inning for the jays … Towers? Talet? or Frasor?
Make it TOWER POWER.
wb garry . I thought maybe I poisoned you with that sauce i sent over…..lol
Darren Flutie just got in to the C.F.L. hall of fame.
That was the best when the C.F.L. had teams in the U.S. playing!!!
Las Vegas, Baltimore and some others I believe!!!
INDIGO bosox is in his 50s.
I'm not in my 50's….
I can't believe you once pitched to Babe Ruth….
What did you throw him?
lol…thats ok I am not looking for a date plus it just means my eyes are so much better than his…….lol..
My eyes are great.
I just watched Beckett win the Cy Young. Sabathia has pitched well this year but not good enough.
With these wonderful eyes, I just watched the great Joe Kennedy pitch!!!
With these great eyes as well, I might watch the Spartans ( sorry Jordan ) lose to Notre Dame on N.B.C.
Notre Dame
Move over Russ Adams — I've got a new hero and it's a catcher with an awesome intro to his website!
Is that Shelly Duncan or Shane Spencer?
Spencer was the next great back in 1998. A few years later, nobody knows where he is. Another Yankee prospect that failed!!!
Duncan like his brother, either a strikeout or H.R.
Joe Kennedy is apparently a man of miracles….now if only Frasor can close this bad boy out….
Beitimet, a bust with the Yankees. He gets about as much playing time as I do.
YESSSSSSS..now i can go to bed . .night all and take care
I think the umpire just gave the Jays a very charitable call….he wanted to get out of there as much as everyone else.
But who cares! A win's a win, especially against the Evil Empire….
Adios, friends. Have a great night!
The Doc got the shaft tonight bummer.
Gotta Love those Jays!!!!
What a game. I go out for 15-20 minutes with the Jays leading 4-0, come back and the game is tired.
It did not look good for our guys winning at that stage with all that mo in The Yanks favor so after watching the 10th I pack it in.
What a great surprise to see we won in the 14th. I see our pen kept them scorelsess for 5 innings-now that is an achievement.
It also looks like the Yanks fully used their pen, so Jaba doesnt go today.
It will be a tough game today, but if we manage to win, I think we mightt see a little panic in Suday's game.


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Ever since it was first introduced at CTIA 2010, the anticipation and hype surrounding the HTC Evo 4G has taken on a life of its own. Of course, this type of device comes with a whole set of expectations, which can either be met with joy or disappointment. Fortunately, for Sprint and HTC, it's more of the former than the latter, but we certainly have our gripes about the handset, too. Overall, the HTC Evo 4G is, hands-down, the best smartphone that Sprint has to offer and certainly ranks as one of the best Android phones on the market today. It's feature packed and powerful, and shows the promise of 4G. Admittedly, we had higher hopes for 4G speeds, but it made good on Sprint's claims and is definitely a step up from 3G.
That said, it's a shame that only a limited group will be able to really enjoy the full potential of the Evo 4G at launch, given the limited reach of Sprint's 4G network, but what's worse is the mandatory $10 premium data add-on. It's not the $10 charge for WiMax that upsets us; that is a completely fair price in our opinion. However, making it mandatory for everyone, regardless of whether you live in a 4G market or not, seems unfair. Yes, in the grand scheme of things, Sprint's data plans are much less than its competitors' plans, and there is no data cap with the premium add-on, but still, it's a bit maddening to have to pay for something you're not getting. Why not just make it a requirement for those in a 4G coverage area and offer it as an a-la-carte option for those who live in 3G markets and might travel to a 4G market?
Again, the Evo 4G is Sprint's premier smartphone and you'll get a great device regardless of our quibbles. We just hope Sprint starts to light up those 4G markets faster, so everyone can take advantage of the 4G capabilities and get their money's worth. The HTC Evo 4G will be available June 4 for $199.99 with a two-year contract and the aforementioned data plans. Though Sprint requires a $100 mail-in rebate, Best Buy and Radio Shack do not, so you get the $200 price tag instantly.
Cut from the same cloth as the HTC HD2, the HTC Evo 4G isn't what you'd call a dainty phone. It measures 4.8 inches tall by 2.6 inches wide by 0.5 inch thick and weighs 6 ounces, so you're dealing with a good chunk of hardware. It's right on the cusp of being too big, but HTC was able to keep the Evo relatively thin, making it more manageable.
The good: The HTC Evo 4G delivered respectable 4G speeds, and the mobile hot-spot feature lets you connect up to eight devices. The smartphone has a front-facing camera for video chats and also comes with an 8-megapixel camera with HD-video-recording capabilities. The Evo ships with YouTube's HQ video player, Android 2.1 with HTC Sense, and an HDMI port. Other highlights include an extra-large 4.3-inch touch screen and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.
The bad: Sprint's 4G network is limited at this time, making the mandatory $10 premium data add-on tough to swallow for anyone outside of the coverage area. The Evo lacks support for Bluetooth voice-activated dialing. Battery drains quickly with 4G.
The bottom line: The HTC Evo 4G is easily Sprint's best smartphone and one of today's top Android devices. It also shows the promise of 4G, which will grow as Sprint's WiMax network expands, but until there's broader 4G coverage, it's hard to agree with the mandatory premium data add-on fee.


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Thanks to the benefit of having a college degree, my wages are approximately $10,000 more yearly than the job I was performing prior to returning to school. For the first time since the birth of my children I will have the money and the actual benefit of paid vacation time to take us all on a family vacation. I have since become a first time home owner, and we have purchased a long overdue newer vehicle, and my kids and I have some security along with medical insurance and retirement. I can hold my head high and know that I set a proper example for my children as to what it takes to achieve your goals, and the fact that they too cam do it if they really want to and make the proper choices and work hard. The payoff in the long run is worth the sacrifices.1
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Published at Monday, April 22nd, 2019 - 05:10:38 AM. Trekking Poles. By Lacyann Delaunay.
My eight-year-old poles are still going strong, and I've heard nothing but positive feedback from others who have purchased them. (I did have to rebuild the grips with Aquaseal, but that's reasonable after nearly a decade of use.) At 8.5 ounces per pole, they're slightly heavier than the Cascade Mountain Tech poles, and I'd love to see these an ounce or two lighter. But I don't see how Black Diamond could cut weight without sacrificing strength, durability, or a few features—in other words, the things that make these poles great. If you can justify the extra expense, the Black Diamond Alpine Carbon Cork trekking poles are worth it.
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OMG, did you guys see that awesome lesson that Piecu submitted today? It's freaking awesome. I think that he did a wicked clean drawing on chibi Kisame. As a matter of fact, I think Piecu should draw and submit more lessons so that everyone can benefit from his skills. Anyway, let me move on to what I'm going to upload as my first tutorial which is going to be on "how to draw Ho-Oh", step by step. I know I said that I wasn't going to do anymore Pokemon character tutorials, but I figured, what the heck might as well. This is a character that was requested by a member the other day, and today I will be teaching you guys how easy it's going to be to draw Ho-Oh. This Pokemon species is a fire/flying type. The head, neck, and top half of Ho-Oh's body and feathers is colored red, and then the rest of the torso is white. The ends of the wing's feathers are a minty green color, and the tail and crown is yellow or gold. What I like about the Ho-Oh species is how they look very much like the phoenix bird. Their majestic stature and bold personalities makes this Pokemon species one to really hold onto. Even though there is not much to say about the Ho-Oh's personality, I can tell you that this species is the official mascot of Pokemon Gold. The lesson shouldn't be too complex to tackle, and the end results should come out looking awesome. In general, if you are going to try and draw Ho-Oh using this tutorial, I'm almost certain that you will have a blast. I have to jet away from this submission because I still have two more to upload for now. When you are done, you can color in this creature using a variety of rainbow shades. I will be back in a bit with more drawing fun so try and stay tuned in. Adios amigos.
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In 1989, Chae-Jin Lee, BankAmerica Professor of Pacific Basin Studies, succeeded Professor Haley as director. Fluent in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French, and English, Professor Lee focused the strategic mission of the Center on Asian Pacific studies.
In recent years the Center has sponsored scholarly conferences on the United Nations, U.S.-European relations, Russia, U.S.-Japan relations, Germany After Unification, the Korean War, and the Chinese state and society. It also has sponsored lecture series on "The Future of Communism in Europe and Asia," "The United States and Europe," "The Changing Power Relationships in the Global Economy," "The United States and the Pacific Rim," and "Desert Storm-Desert Peace?," "The Problem of Nuclear Proliferation," and "Ethnic Conflict in the Modern World."
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The current director, Hilary Appel, is the Podlich Family Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow. She is an expert on Russia and Eastern Europe.
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The plan was a collaborative effort involving the various County agencies, the Town of Riverdale Park, residents, business and property owners as well as state agencies, and local institutions, such as nonprofits and civic associations.
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An international team of scientists, with Spanish participation, has shed light on cannibalism and infanticide carried out by primates, documenting these acts for the first time in the moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax). The mothers, which cannot raise their infants without help from male group members, commit infanticide in order to prevent the subsequent death of their offspring if they are stressed and in competition with other females.
"Infanticide is an extreme behaviour, and in most species is used by males to eliminate competitors and make females become sexually receptive more quickly", Yvan Lledo-Ferrer, one of the authors of this study and a researcher in the Psychobiology Department at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and at the German Primate Centre, tells SINC.
However, in callithrix primates (the primate family that Saguinus mystax belongs to), it is the females that perpetrate infanticide. "Genetic analysis enabled us to show that the mothers themselves take the lives of their own offspring", says Lledo-Ferrer.
The study, which has been published in the journal Primates, observed three different groups of moustached tamarins in the Peruvian forest from 1999 to 2008 in order to determine how help from male members of the group and the absence of competition between females helped to ensure the survival of infants.
The results show that 75% of infants survive when at least three males are helping, but only 41.7% survive if the group has one or two male helpers. With regard to competition with other females, 80% of infants die at less than three months of age if there are two gestating females in the group. This figure falls to 20% if there is only one reproductive female.
Unexpected observations
The scientists were surprised when four infants died within the space of a year and the autopsies carried out did not reveal any pathology that would have compromised their survival. In only one of the unexpectedly observed deaths did the mother kill her own offspring. The rest died "without any help".
"Normally, if infants fall to the forest floor from a height, the group keeps picking it up until the infant no longer has the strength to hold on to its carrier's back. At that point they abandon it on the ground. However, in one of these cases the mother killed her own offspring without it having followed the normal pattern of falling to the ground", the expert explains.
The researchers say that reproductive dominance is not well established in cases where infanticide takes place, and there is competition between females to occupy the dominant position. "This competition leads to high levels of prenatal stress, which can affect the foetus and therefore the viability of the offspring and the mother's milk production", the Spanish scientist points out.
Mothers kill infants that have poor prospects for survival due to the social make-up of the group (low number of helpers and the presence of another gestating female). In the cases observed, "the mother consumed her offspring's brain, thereby obtaining a high-quality supplementary source of nutrients, which somewhat offsets those invested during gestation", says Lledo-Ferrer.
One of the explanations for these acts is that the callithrix are a very unusual kind of primate. They have a cooperative baby care system, in which all the members of the group participate, and raising infants is an "extremely" costly activity - the whole group must work together in order to for it to be successful.
In this family of primates, only one female can successfully reproduce in each group, while the rest inhibit their ovulation. They have a six-month gestation period.
Culot, Laurence; Lledo-Ferrer, Yvan; Hoelscher, Oda; Muñoz Lazo, Fernando J. J.; Huynen, Marie-Claude; Heymann, Eckhard W. "Reproductive failure, possible maternal infanticide, and cannibalism in wild moustached tamarins, Saguinus mystax" Primates 52(2): 179-186, april 2011.


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Guns are an unfortunate and dangerous reality in the lives of our children and adolescents. It is estimated that 50 million Americans own over 200 million guns. Over one-third of all homes contain guns, and despite continuing educational efforts, the majority of these guns are kept loaded, unlocked and potentially accessible to children. Research indicates that if a gun is stored in a home, the risk of homicide increases threefold and the risk of suicide increases fivefold. Guns also are 43 times as likely to be used to kill a family member or someone known to a family than to kill a stranger.
Children and adolescents have easy access to guns. Over 5% of high school students indicated that they carried a gun in the past month, and it is estimated that approximately one million children bring guns to school each year. Many students who carry guns do so because they are afraid or influenced by peer pressure.
The United States has the highest rates of firearm-related deaths among industrialized countries, including homicide, suicide and unintentional deaths; young people are often the victims. Gun violence accounts for over 3,000 deaths and over 15,000 injuries each year among children and adolescents. The rate of firearm-related homicides for U.S. children younger than 15 years of age is nearly 16 times greater than the rates in 25 other industrialized countries combined.
Gun violence is a product of many issues in our society including the erosion of the infrastructure necessary to support healthy child development. Some of these supports include adequate funding for comprehensive healthcare, including coverage for mental illness and substance abuse treatment, safe, affordable and appropriate housing, and effective education for all children.
The most effective measure to help prevent firearm-related deaths and injuries to children and adolescents is to reduce the presence of guns in homes and communities. This is particularly critical for homes or families in which the threat of personal violence exists.
The AACAP supports all efforts to educate children and the general public about the danger of guns, and the increased risk of accidental injury and death associated with gun ownership. Access to firearms by youth must be restricted, controlled and closely supervised, due to the inherent impulsivity in this population. The AACAP further supports increased funding for research on gun safety, the prevention of gun related violence, and the mental health needs of children and families affected by gun related violence. Additionally, the AACAP encourages the strict enforcement of existing laws pertaining to the purchase, ownership and storage of firearms, as well as safety measures such as trigger locks, extended waiting periods, mandatory background checks for all transactions related to gun ownership, and other initiatives designed to protect children and reduce the incidence of gun related violence. The AACAP also supports increased funding for the treatment of children exposed to or affected by gun related violence. Finally the AACAP believes that child and adolescent psychiatrists and other physicians must be able to ask patients and their parents about the presence of and access to firearms in the home, and opposes legislative efforts to limit, restrict or interfere with such clinical inquiries by physicians.
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core.async can help them too.
To provide some background, I'm working on a client project which is sourcing MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport) events from sensors and processing them with Storm. If you haven't heard of MQTT, it's the protocol driving the 'Internet of Things'. For my test harness I'm publishing test messages using a Java-based MQTT API client-library, Eclipse Paho.
When publishing messages using this async API to a broker, the broker responds by acknowledging delivery. Clients can choose to resend messages that may have been lost in transit. This is important, because MQTT is designed to work in harse conditions where the network may be unreliable.
How does this work?
A device using this Java API connects to a broker by instantiating an instance of
MqttAsyncClient with the url of the broker and a client id.
client = new MqttAsyncClient( "tcp://emergency-room.hospital.nhs.uk:1883", "Malcolm's nose");
To publish a message, the device calls the
publish method with a topic name and a message (some bytes). The method returns a token so that the client can track the delivery of the message.
IMqttDeliveryToken token = publish(String topic, MqttMessage message);
The tracking is achieved by registering a callback on the client.
client.setCallback(MqttCallback callback);
The callback interface looks like this :-
interface MqttCallback { void deliveryComplete(IMqttDeliveryToken token); }
When a message has been delivered successfully, the token is used to signal this through the
MqttCallback interface. This is pretty simple and not unlike many other async APIs.
Let's imagine that messages usually get through after 10 seconds but if we don't get an acknowledgement we should send the message again. How do we write this?
Normally this would involve keeping track of each message in a data table, along with the time it was sent. Periodically we would check the table for any entries that were sent more than 10 seconds ago but where no acknowledgement had been received. This could get tricky, and we'd have to take care not to cause any race conditions between the threads publishing the messages and the thread doing the checks. If we ran the checks too infrequently, we may delay the resend of an important message. If we ran too often, we risk contention and impacting the overall performance of the system.
However, with Clojure's core.async library, life has got a whole lot easier.
To show this, let's switch to writing in Clojure. We publish messages via the Java API in the usual way
(.publish client "sneezing" (.getBytes "achoo! [80 m/s]"))
This returns our delivery token.
For each token we can create a new
core.async channel (channels, unlike threads, are super light-weight). We'll need to store each token with an associated channel. Let's use an atom for this.
(def tok->chan (atom {}))
Here's how we associate the token with a channel in the map.
(let [tok (mqtt-publish client "sneezing" "achoo! [80 m/s]") c (chan)] (swap! tok->chan assoc tok c))
Now, the point of creating a channel is so our callback interface can handle the delivery acknowledgements by simply placing something on the channel.
(reify MqttCallback (deliveryComplete [_ tok] (when-let 1 (go (>! c :arrived)) (swap! tok->chan dissoc tok))))
When an acknowledgement is received, the token is used as a key to look up the channel. The keyword
:arrived is then 'put' on the channel, and the channel is removed from the map, as it is no longer needed. Note the put operator is
>! (which must occur within a
go block, don't worry about that yet).
Now, here's the neat trick. We can code the message retry logic in the same block of code that publishes the original message.
Let's wrap the original message publishing code in loop, so each message is retried after 10 seconds.
(go (loop [] (let [tok (mqtt-publish client "sneezing" "achoo! [80 m/s]") c (chan)] (swap! tok->chan assoc tok c) (when-not (alts! c (timeout 10000)) (recur)))))
The last expression uses
alts! to select over 2 channels. The first channel,
c is the one we're hoping to take the
:arrived keyword from. Competing in this race is a second channel, created by the
timeout function, which will close (returning nil) in 10 seconds. The winner of this race tells us whether the message arrived ok (if we 'take'
:arrived from
c) or nil (if the 10 second countdown expires). If we get a nil, then we go to the top of the loop and try again. Simple. Magic. Amazing.


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These days it's unfashionable to disparage pork belly in any form, but when it comes to chowder recipes I am firmly anti-bacon. Clam, corn, salmon, no matter the variety, too many chowders are marred by flotsam of limp lardons in this creamy stew.
My stance stems from a New England upbringing in an opinionated food-loving family where we routinely taste test chowders while dining out and debate their merits. Is it too thick? Are there enough clams? Too much potato? We rarely agree 100% except on one point: Any chowder is ruined by the overbearing wood-smoked flavor from excessive bacon.
How did we go so far astray from the original? Long ago, every good Yankee cook depended on salt pork, fat trimmings from hogs preserved, or cured, in salt. This multipurpose cooking fat flavored thrifty dishes with hints of meat. Bacon took its place. The trouble is that bacon goes one step further, cold smoking the salt-cured pork belly over wood chips to produce a distinctive, versatile and notably addictive foodstuff. These days, conventional wisdom says everything's better with bacon, right down to dessert. I'm not immune to its allure, but enough is enough: Put more bacon anywhere but in my chowder.
Clearly, the chowder I'm speaking of is New England clam chowder, the most popular of the three varieties -- the other two being tomatoey Manhattan and brothy Rhode Island. The version that migrated all the way from Cape Cod to Cape Kiwanda in Oregon lost something in translation. Or rather, the favorite Friday soup du jour gained too much of a good thing. Think about your last bowl of chowder: What taste stood out from all the ingredients in the bowl?
I thought so.
What's the solution? Old-fashioned as it seems, salt pork is still sold and you could hunt down a cube to use for your next pot of chowder. But it's not really worth it when bacon's easier to find than a decent bar of soap. Instead, try cutting four strips of bacon one-half-inch wide and cook them in a wide 4-quart or larger pot over medium-low heat until all the fat is rendered and you're left with pools of golden fat and extra-crispy bacon bits. Use a slotted spoon to remove all the cooked bacon and set it aside to drain on paper towels.
Now, you have a smoky pork-infused essence to make your chowder base, and a side of tempting snacks. I try to reserve them for a spinach salad to serve with the finished chowder. However, even I'll admit the bacon by-product is a wonderful, crunchy garnish for topping a steaming bowl of chowder.
Dedicated as I am to my East Coast roots, I'll eat chowder in the middle of a sweltering July day. But for most people, the cold and rainy shoulder season seems the most fitting time to indulge in bottomless bowls of this warming, wintery white soup. Using an all-purpose base (see recipe), I make a satisfying chowder out of anything from canned clams to last summer's frozen corn to a single leftover salmon filet. A quick and hearty midweek meal for my family, it's also a surprising hit at potlucks.
Serve the chowder in wide bowls to allow plenty of surface area for oyster crackers. Because when it comes to those little ridged crackers, you can't have too many. That's something I believe all chowder lovers, native-born or not, can agree on wholeheartedly.
All-Purpose New England-Style Chowder
There are two basic ways to obtain rendered bacon fat:
1. Cook bacon strips cut into narrow pieces in a wide pot or over medium-low heat until all of the fat melts and the lean meat begins to brown.
2. Reserve and cool the fat from frying or baking strips of bacon from a weekend breakfast and store in the refrigerator where it will keep, arguably, indefinitely.
Serves 6-8
2 tablespoons rendered bacon fat, salt pork or butter
1 medium onion, finely chopped (about 2 cups)
2 pounds Russet potatoes (about 3 large), peeled and diced ½ inch
1 teaspoon sea salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
2 cups clam juice or vegetable broth
2 cups heavy cream or half and half
½ teaspoon dried thyme
1½-2½ cups milk
1-3 cups (8-16 ounces) of drained canned clams, frozen corn, cooked and flaked salmon or other fish, or baby shrimp
1. Heat the bacon fat in a wide, heavy-bottomed pot, 4 quarts or larger, over medium-low heat. Add the onion and cook until it turns translucent, about 6 minutes. Add the potatoes, salt and pepper and stir to coat the potatoes in fat. Add the clam juice, bring it to a simmer and cook uncovered until the potatoes are tender to the bite, about 12 minutes.
2. Scoop out 1½ cups of the potatoes and purée in a blender with the cream until very smooth. Stir the cream mixture back into the pot with the thyme. This makes a very thick soup base that you can prepare 1-2 days in advance and even freeze.
3. Add the milk to thin to the chowder to your desired consistency and rewarm the pot over medium heat, stirring occasionally, just until it is steaming but does not fully simmer. Add the clams or the other ingredients of your choice to flavor the chowder, using as much as little as you like or have on hand. Stir until heated through and taste for salt and pepper before serving.
Top photo: All-purpose New England-style chowder. Credit: Lynne Curry
Zester Daily contributor Lynne Curry is an independent writer based in the mountains of eastern Oregon. The author of "Pure Beef: An Essential Guide to Artisan Beef with Recipes for Every Cut" (Running Press, May, 2012), she also works as a private chef and blogs about rural life at www.ruraleating.com.
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Cheesy Au Gratin Potatoes
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- Potatoes:
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 large yellow onion, chopped
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 cup milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese (8 ounces)
- 26-ounce bag frozen shredded hash browns
- 1/2 cup light sour cream
- Topping:
- 3 cups cornflakes, lightly crushed
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
Servings 8
Step 1
Melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onion and cook until the onion is softened and translucent,a bout 5-6 minutes. Stir in the flour and cook, stirring constantly, for about a minute. Combine the chicken broth and milk in a liquid measure and slowly whisk in the mixture. Add the salt, pepper and thyme. Stir to combine. Bring the mixture to a boil and then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring frequently, until the mixture is slightly thickened, about 5 minutes.
Take the pot off the heat and stir in the cheese until smooth. Mix in the frozen hash browns, lifting and folding the mixture until well combined. Finally, stir in the sour cream.
In a medium bowl, toss the lightly crushed cornflakes with the butter until evenly combined. Scoop out the potato mixture into a 9X13-inch baking dish and top with the buttered cornflakes. If baking the potatoes by themselves, bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, until hot and bubbly around the edges. If baking the potatoes with a ham (my ham recipe bakes at 300 degrees), bake the potatoes for 90 minutes at 300 degrees then crank the oven to 400 degrees and bake the potatoes for 10 minutes more. In both baking situations, let the potatoes rest for 10 minutes before serving.
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VOORHEES, N.J. -- Excited to be a part of it all, Wayne Simmonds watched with interest Wednesday night as the Washington Capitals beat the Boston Bruins in overtime of Game 7 of their first-round series. Simmonds talked about what a great game he saw, and how he was looking forward to two other Game 7 classics scheduled for Thursday night.
Yet here Simmonds was after another long and hard Flyers practice at the SkateZone ... talking race.
All because Twitter also gives voice to the underbelly of sports fans.
'People can be as gutless as they want,' Simmonds said. 'They just throw a comment out on the Internet and it's getting kind of ridiculous.'
Simmonds was referencing a slew of racist tweets that went out after Washington's Joel Ward scored the game-winning goal in Boston, giving the Capitals a 2-1 win and an upset series triumph over the defending Stanley Cup champions. It should have been a great story, with Ward, an undrafted product of the Canadian college ranks who didn't stick in the NHL until the age of 27, scoring the biggest goal of his life.
Instead, the story would eventually focus on Ward's skin color. The son of a couple that emigrated to Ontario from the island of Barbados, Ward became the subject of tweets that apparently came courtesy of Bruins fans, perpetuating Boston's less-than stellar reputation when it comes to matters of race.
Simmonds, 23, hails from Scarsborough, Ont., where Ward grew up. Simmonds also happens to be a person of color. Hence, he has to deal with questions about an incident that, in Simmonds' apt words, is 'disgusting.'
Then again, it can't be surprising since Twitter was the tool for the fools.
'Things like that have happened to me before,' said Simmonds, who was on the ice Sept. 22 in London, Ont. for a Flyers preseason game when a 'fan' threw a banana peel on the ice. 'It's not something you want to happen, but it's sad in this day and age that it continues to happen.'
Ward, 31, said he was alerted to the tweets by teammate Jeff Halpern, and added they were 'shocking to see, but it didn't ruin my day.'
Capitals owner Ted Leonsis -- who made a fortune as an early internet marketer in the 1980s and went on to be a longtime senior executive with AOL -- went to his blog, 'Ted's Take,' to voice his disgust.
'What these people have said and done is unforgivable,' Leonsis wrote. 'I hope they are now publicly identified and pay a huge price for their beliefs. There should be zero tolerance for this kind of hate mongering. Their messages should now stay glued into the algorithms to place a forever warning and a mark upon these people and their actions. They shouldn't be able to escape their keystrokes.'
Leonsis went on to call Ward, 'the star of stars in our city for his heroics last night. He is a friend and a fantastic player – who delivered – as advertised for us and our fans in the playoffs.'
Even if all the Twitter twits are identified and somehow pursued for legal action, Simmonds indicated it probably won't stop something like this from happening again.
'Social media, it's not meant for that,' said Simmonds, who met the older Ward about five years ago, and the two now train together during offseasons. 'It's for, 'Hey, nice score,' or 'Congratulations.' You're not supposed to throw things out like that.'


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We are now well into the season and what a start it was!
Our first anglers of the year, Garry and Geoff Taylor, fished in sleet and snow blowing horizontally across the lake but still managed to catch 20 fish with 7x 30s and 2x 40s. You may think this is enough to put off even the hardiest of anglers, but they are coming back the same time next year!
The dredging has gone well and we have now achieved depths between 3 to 5 feet where once the silt was above the water. We have moved around 300 tons, which has taken a bit longer than we first thought but has been well worth it. The carp being inquisitive creatures made full use of our disruption and were feeding on all the food that had been uncovered on the bottom.
As we had closed the lake for the works I thought I would take advantage by doing 5 nights near the dredging area (Frogs) and had 31 fish 2x 40s and 9x 30s. Goes to show how inquisitive carp can be. It was nice to wet a line as Jez and I rarely have the opportunity to fish during the season.
We have put quite a lot of the silt onto the Poplar Grove where the cabin is to be located to help even out the ground and to give a good start for the grass. We now have the base ready to go down, and we are hoping to complete the build the second week of August. The cabin is plenty big enough for a kitchen, sitting & dining area and wood burning stove for the colder days.
We are also intending to build an outdoor kitchen with barbeque, prep area and sink and have a large dining area that makes the most of the view down the lake, and maybe throw a few hammocks up between the trees for those who just want to chill with a beer! We really hope that being able to dine looking across this special water ticks the last box to make any stay at Redmill extra special.
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MacBook Air Adamo officially launched
Slim and sexy, dahling, but mediocre inside?
Following months of teaser specifications, pictures and videos, Dell has finally decided to launch its slim'n'sexy Adamo laptop.
Dell's Adamo: sexy, but is it powerful enough?
The machine is the very "pinnacle of craftsmanship" – at least according to Dell - and many media outlets have already dubbed the Adamo as the latest MacBook Air competitor. Although this is probably mainly based on the laptop's looks and the fact that its base is crafted from a single piece of metal.
Adamo measures 331 x 242 x 16mm and has a 13.4in, 16:9 aspect ratio display. It's described as an "HD" screen, but we can reveal it's only a 720p boy.
The laptop contains Intel's Mobile 965 Express chipset, making use of GMA X4500 integrated graphics for what Dell calls its "visual juice".
It's slim, but there's no optical drive inside
Under the shell you'll find a 1.2GHz or 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of DDR 3 memory and a 128GB SSD. Again, much like Apple's Air, the Adamo doesn't have an internal optical drive, but you can opt to buy an external Blu-ray or DVD combo drive.
Fast wireless surfing is possible thanks to the integrated 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity, but mobile workers can also opt for mobile broadband technology to be included too. An Ethernet port's also included - unlike the Air.
Adamo's delivered in a plastic case with separate cable compartments
The machine has two USB 2.0 ports, a single USB/eSATA combo port and Bluetooth 2.1 for short-range data transfers. It comes installed with Windows Vista 64-bit Home Premium Edition.
Dell claimed the machine's "preliminary" battery life is around five hours. 'Prelimary' in this case means based on an early, pre-release test, so who can say what it'll be in the real world. There's no word yet on whether the battery is easily removable.
Dell will start shipping Adamo on 26 March. Its US price has been pegged at $1999 (£1419/€1536). Over here it'll retail from £1649. ®
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ALBANY -- Former Congressman John Sweeney's latest act is as a radio host. He announced Thursday he will be hosting an hour-long show on TALK 1300 beginning Monday, Feb. 11. The show will air from 11 a.m. to noon on weekdays. This is the latest chapter in Sweeney's reincarnation. From four-termcongressman representing the 20th Congressional District to twice-convicted drunken driver
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Leaked Windows 7 RC Torrents Infected With Trojan
The release candidate of Windows 7 is out. You can see out hands-on evaluation here.
Of course, every time a major release like this comes out it gets leaked on to BitTorrent, the open peer-to-peer network, and that has happened with Windows 7 as well. But downloading and installing these copies of it is inadvisable if you believe the Neowin report that these torrents have been infected with a trojan horse. They show an Avast generic detection of a trojan.
"Oh yeah, sure it's infected, they just want to trick us into not using it" you may be saying to yourself. Well, maybe, but it's a credible story from where I sit, since we know that earlier this year pirated torrents of Apple's iWork '09 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 were infected with a trojan that was used to create a botnet. It definitely could be as true of these torrents; it's not like there's any quality control out there on BitTorrent.
Neowin users have other advice: that you check the MD5 checksum against one known to be good, but that's not a guarantee that someone didn't build a new ISO with a new MD5. We're not too fond of piracy in any event and recommend that you wait for a genuine copy in the next few months.


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Maps intrigue me ~ they remind me of all the wonderful places I've been and leave me longing for the opportunity to visit new places I've never been before. Probably my favorite piece of "art" in my home is the vintage map that hangs in the sitting room. The worn patina is like none I've ever seen before. It's even been mended with some glossy tape that has yellowed over the years and is perfectly ~ imperfect.
The quest for this wonderful old map took me to Canton (it was a simple install ~ I used common "L" brackets to mount it to the wall).
I hung an old desk lamp over the map to stand in as a "map light." Read more about it here.
It's hard to believe in a day when SMART Boards are the norm in most classrooms that pull down maps were once a standard piece of equipment in schools. This map dates back to 1953.
In the neutral space, this vintage map adds just the right amount of color and creates a great focal point for the room. I often plop down here and study the map on the wall and dream about traveling the world. Where's a place you've never been before that you would like to travel to? Hoping today is filled with good things for you and yours!


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What to Expect From Alibaba's New CEO
Jonathan Lu has been named to succeed Alibaba founder Jack Ma as the e-commerce giant's CEO. The WSJ's Juro Osawa tells us what the new leader brings to the company, which many expect to go public.
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Court Throws Out Recess Picks
Long Tradition of Presidential Appointments During Senate Breaks Faces Constitutional Challenge
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution in filling labor board vacancies, a decision that could reshape a long-standing practice by U.S. presidents to make recess appointments.
Such appointments—which bypass Senate approval to install top administration personnel—have been used by presidents for at least 90 years. But in the past two decades, Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton ratcheted up use of the tactic to avert congressional obstacles. Friday's decision, if it...