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Wood Fired Pizza Oven
Restaurants all over the world operate wood ovens for making pizzas. Many people dream of cooking pizza in a back-yard oven. Is the pizza always better because the oven is heated with wood? No. The secret to "the best" pizza is a hot oven, not the fuel source. While wood fired ovens potentially make incredibly fine pizza, simply heating an oven with wood does not guarantee success. The oven has to be really hot -- pizza baking temperature is 750F (400C).
The wood fired oven is at approximately 750F (400C) after the oven is first fired with wood. Here is how it works. Remember that in traditional settings -- homes, village ovens, bakeries -- the main reason to fire up the oven was to bake bread, not make pizza. The traditional method for heating an oven to bake bread is to fill it with wood, get the oven walls so hot they glow white, and then, after about one and a half hours, to sweep out the embers, wait some time for the oven to cool from 750F (400C) to 450F (230C), and then load the oven with bread dough. For those of you who might use this description as a practical guide -- these temperatures can be used as rough guides -- as goals. The traditional moment to bake pizza and other hearth breads is just after the oven is swept clear of embers and before the oven cools from the initial post-firing 750F to 800F (400C to 425C) to a more realistic bread-baking temperature of 450F (230C). Pizza, and other hearth breads fit into traditional bread baking as treats. Whenever my mother made cookies I was allowed to lick the bowl and spoon clean. In a traditional oven firing pizza is like the dough snack.
Even when baking pizza at home for a party, the period of extreme heat will probably not last long enough to bake all the pizzas you need. The solution is to do what pizza restaurants do, rather than sweep out the embers, after the main oven firing push them to one side against the oven wall and then continue to add wood as needed to maintain the oven's 750F (400C) temperature.
While it is easy to maintain the oven temperature in the vicinity of 750F (400C), you just have to keep burning wood, this can turn into a great expense in a commercial setting. It is my that most restaurants skimp on the wood -- and thus operate their ovens well below the ideal temperature for pizza.
Pizza should take no more than three minutes to bake. Fast baking implies a thin crust and thin toppings. High heat creates flavors through canalization of sugars are usually not created when pizza is cooked more slowly. High heat also creates interesting textures -- crisp crusts are guaranteed as is some browning of the cheese and other toppings. High heat can lift pizza into another realm -- into more than tomato and cheese heated up on top of some dough.
In planning a restaurant oven it is obviously important to consider the amount of food the oven can produce. Think of production in terms of recipe timing. If you can afford to keep a smaller oven hot enough to cook pizza in three minutes you may find that the smaller oven can actually produce more food -- not to mention more distinctively tasking food -- than a larger oven operating at a cooler temperature.
Is there such a thing as a pizza oven?
What is the difference between a "pizza oven" and a "bread oven?"
A pizza oven is a bread oven being used to bake pizza. You can bake bread in a pizza oven, and pizza in a bread oven. This said, here is a more complex answer.
A classic bread oven, one designed for daily use by a commercial baker, or an oven designed for sharing by an entire village, is designed to be as massive as possible so the oven will retain as much heat as possible for as long as possible. For those of you new to the world of retained heat ovens, I will explain in a little more detail. Your kitchen oven is a metal box. The air is heated by gas or electricity. No heat to speak of is stored in the metal wall of the oven. When the gas or electricity is turned off there is no need to take into account the tiny amount of heat stored in the oven's metal walls. Bread ovens work differently. Heat from a fire burning inside the oven is stored in the walls of the oven. Traditionally, once the baker feels enough heat is stored in the oven's walls, the wood, now embers, is swept out and the oven operates for hours, even for a day with no further addition of heat.
What differentiates a "pizza oven" from a "bread oven" is the mass of the walls and the amount of insulation. An oven designed for pizza will typically retain enough heat in its walls to bake off a batch of bread, roast a chicken, some potatoes, and bake a pie. Since this is all that most of use our backyard ovens for, an oven of limited mass and even modest insulation is sufficient.
If you want to be able to bake for eight or ten or twelve or eighteen hours on a single firing of wood, then you require an oven that has substantial mass, and that is well insulated. The ovens made by the master oven-builder Alan Scott are designed to bake several batches of bread on a single firing.
In terms of numbers, an oven made with a refractory concrete shell that is between 1 and 2 inches (2.5 and 5cm) falls on the pizza oven, light baking side of the scale while an oven made of bricks falls into the bread oven, heavy baking side of the scale. In both cases insulation does matter, and a super well insulated thin oven might perform similarly to a poorly insulated thicker oven.
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Weekend work will close additional I-670 ramp
The Columbus Dispatch - March 22, 2012 10:56 AM
An additional I-670 ramp will be closed this weekend as crews work on the drainage system in theI-71/670 construction zone.
Eastbound traffic won't be able to exit at Cleveland Avenue between 8 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.
Drivers on Cleveland Avenue will have access to one southbound lane, and northbound traffic will be detoured to Mount Vernon Avenue and 4th Street.
Next week, eastbound I-670 will be reduced to one lane from Cleveland Avenue to Joyce Avenue each night from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. The first closing will start Monday night, and the last will end Friday morning. Lanes will open back up each day in time for morning rush hours.
In that area, crews are making improvements to the shoulder so ODOT can open a third eastbound lane by April 2.


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My main concern is after I do everything is there a possibility that there will be no growth? Can I do anything to it to make growth? Any Ideas on how to go about this?
Im also wondering about, how hard it will be to dig with a bulldozer?
hard to tell but its that pen outline on the left. The trees on the top side is the creek
if you have the capabilities of manipulating the creek, to allow for flooding your adjacent acreage, you may be a great candidate for a Moist Soil Management (MSM) impoundment. basically you would berm your acreage using the creek as one side, so to speak.
MSM impoundments are the mother of all duck holes!!! i will be starting one myself on a 6 acare parcel this spring. while my other pothole properties are killer duck holes (thanks for the compliment by the way :)) they didn't have the required water source to that allowed water manipulation.
i could type a whole bunch of stuff, but to get started, please read the attached Army Corp MSM Impoundment Bulletin. it is chucked full of all the info you need to know.
once you digest that info, let's talk about the lay of your land with regard to the creek.
in short, MSM impoundments involve flooding, then drawing down to expose the "mud flat", which is then planted or existing vegetation managed, then slowly reflooded again before the migration!!!!!!!!!! it is absolutely THE BEST land management if ducks are your goal!! :D you can throw up a couple woodie boxes in the trees and you will be making it even sweeter.
enjoy the reading and i look forward to continued discussion.......(the seasons done and this is what i do for 8 months :D)
ps, if it turns out this is not for you, i will gladly continue the conversation relating to a basic pothole scenario. by the way. sounds like the soil is perfect for water retention for both MSM or basic pothole. just so you know, when you construct a pothole, either with a dozer or excavator (i prefer an excavator, i can explain why later) you cast back top soil, sort of randomly, into the excavated bottom. this gives the pothole some organic seeding. if you don't have the WRP Pothole Construction manual, i'd be happy to attach it to a post for you.
I can't tell if you will be able to tell, but in this picture the black arrows are a hill that starts at the road shown in white. (maybe runoff can help) There is a pond in the middle. The yellow is where the hill stops and becomes flat. The red is a slough that fills up when there is alot of rain. It has been filled this last year but im not sure when it is usually. The blue is the creek and it runs north east. The left outlining next to the creek is 2 acres and the other is 1.8 roughly. The whole field is 17 and I can expand. The other side of the creek is not our land
The Creek is around 20 feet deep and 10 to 15 ft. wide, and its water level changes all the time. I dont know if its from the rains because this January is was very low and this summer it was half full? Definatley floods, county says 2 to 5 times a year. It is outlined with trees but there are areas that open for 15 yards without any.
i will give it some thought. will likely come up with some more questions. gotta go get ready for the super bowl. i'll be back to you in a day or two.
you have some fantastic potential!!! this will be a slammerization duck hole for sure. :)
and yes, MSM impoundment relies on manual manipulation of water levels to acheive desired results. Potholes rely soley on mother nature to fill or dry up. the big difference, of course is, MSM maximizes a properties potential. having access to water is the key. and you have it. given a choice, MSM is a no brainer if you're a duck hunter. is the land in question, (within that 17 acre parcel) fairly flat? you could impound the entire 17, grow corn or soybean or millet, then flood it for the hunting season. or you could impound half of it and incorporate some seasonal potholes in the other half (fantastic nesting habitat)........or any combination thereof. the key here is to harness the creek water. since you don't own both sides, consideraton of your neighbor is a must.
last question of the day.........do you have access to heavy equipment and/or do you have some cash to invest in this process. a lot of what i can suggest, depends on your available funds.
take care
The land in question is flat as can be. It has some trenches but nothing that will affect the project. MSM is definately what i want to go with. I have talked to local heavy equipment retailers and have weekly rental prices which i can work with. For right now, this year, I want to start off creating the main objective (MSM) and next year I am definately going to either add onto the MSM size or created the seasonal potholes you have suggested until the whole 17 acres is a duck mecca. A couple of questions: how long does a task like this take? and what kind of water control strucutre are the best to use? I have seen flashboard risers and screw gates, also I dont know if the work well but flap gates.
let's move the chains ahead a little and assume for now that the water from creek to impoundment issue is resolved.
i'm a retired contractor and always went on the idea that bigger is better when it comes to digging holes and pushing dirt. there always exceptions, but this isn't one of them. therefore, i would recommend using a dozer (D6 Cat) would be perfect, if you can afford it. always remember one thing, a bigger machine, although seemingly more costly by looking at rental rates, can get the job done faster than its smaller, cheaper counterpart and therefore saving money over the life of the project. i can't see you using anything smaller than a D4 for this project.
if not yourself, find someone who is really good in the seat and you will move some dirt!!
the MSM manual recommends 5 acres as the smallest impoundment. you will encompass the entire impoundment with a levee (berm). think of it as a shallow bath tub. optimum depth of the water at full flooding is 18" to 2 feet. so you will want to have your berm height at no less than 3 feet. this will give you one foot of "freeboard". incorporate a spillway in your berm that will let excess water out and maintain your 2 foot maximum level. the dozer will strip off and stockpile the topsoil from underneath the footprint of the berm. the soil you use to build your berm can come from either the inside of the impoundent or the outside. we'll discuss that later and estimate the amount of soil required to build the berm. first you have to decide how much of that 17 you want to impoundment to get started. if you took it from inside, perhaps you could take it from both ends, leaving you two deep water areas with MSM over the rest. that might be awesome! it would give you a diverse impoundment. i have read that ringnecks really like the deeper holes in a MSM impoundment.
i''l be doing a 5 acre impoundment, same berm height as you etc. i'm estimating about 2 weeks of dozer work to complete the berm. beyond that i haven't given much thought.
i'll take a break now. the next time we talk, i'll give you a link to my recommended water level structure and a cross section on how to properly build a berm.
this is very interesting to me. as i mentioned, while i have 2 other properties that i have developed, this is my first MSM. although the construction of it is not new stuff, the whole concept is. so it will be fun as you and i go along with this. my property is being funded 100% by the federal government through WRP program. it took 2 full years to get it to this point. the land will be forever wetland as part of the agreement. but it's a swamp!!!.........so it's all good!
also, you are in texas and i am up here in upstate ny where the snow is still falling as we speak. you're going to likely get a head start on me.
1. inline water structure.... www.agridrain.com
the above 3 foot high structure should work. check out the agridrain site, lot's of good wetland goodies!
2. Berm (low embankment) Construction Design Sheet
3. Pothole Construction Design sheet
the notes on these drawings pretty much say it all.
i did some quick math. since i will be doing a 5 acre MSM......
no matter what the configuration (my property is long and narrow) we will need 2200 lineal feet of berm to impound 5 acres. the standard berm design is bottom of berm is 5 feet wide for every 1 vertical foot. we will be 3 feet high therefore 3 feet requires 5 x 3 wide at the bottom or......15 feet wide at the bottom. FYI, we want a minimum of 6 feet across at the top.
so............2200 lineal feet at required dimensions is aprox. 3000 cubic yards of excavated soil to build the berm. i did the math and if you excavate 1/2 acre at 2 foot deep, at both ends, that gives you the 3000 cubic yard. at full flood stage you have two, one half acre "ponds" at each end leaving the remaining 4 of the 5 acres as 2 foot deep MSM. (at full flooded levels).
during full draw down you would have the two 1/2 acre ends of the impoundment holding 2 foot of water. that would be fine! the manual says that draw down sometimes displaces new born ducks and they will have water and protection within the impoundment.
i may very well do the same thing. i have the WRP engineers to deal with, but they generally are very open to the landowners ideas.
if there is anything unclear here, let me know and i will try again. maybe i can send you a diagrahm or something if i need to.
the impoundment doesn't have to be that irregular in shape, but i hope this gets my point across with regard to getting the soil you need to build the berm. if you increase the size of the impoundment, then just increase the size of the excavated pothole/ponds at each end.
now it's a matter of figuring out how to get the water from the creek to the impoundment. you could always pump it in from the creek......
more discusson later
One other thing to keep in mind, for smaller dozers, anything much over a 500' push for the mass earth moving and the dozer gets to be very inefficient. If you're paying for the equipment time or paying someone else to do it, your money would be better spent on a track-loader, like a 953 Cat or ideally a track loader and truck if getting anywhere near a 1000' move.
Around here rental on a 953 is less than a D6 and hourly rates are only slightly more than for a D5. A good operator can do a fine job of finish grading the berm w/ a track loader.


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Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - Text by Gayle Alleyne | Badmintonphoto
Badminton World Federation, in partnership with Dubai Sports Council and Peace and Sport, will stage the inaugural Peace and Sport Cup in Dubai next month, featuring a two-day competition for women from ten Arabic-speaking countries.
Slated for 26-30 April, the event will see two badminton players and one coach from each of the countries participating in various components, including a doubles tournament among the 20 players; coaching workshops (for players and coaches) and training for technical officials. The unique format of the tournament is that each player will be designated a partner from another nation for the doubles competition that will be the inaugural Peace and Sport Cup.
The participating countries are: Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.
Spearheaded by BWF's Women in Badminton Commission, The Peace and Sport Cup – Women in Badminton – Dubai 2014 is an initiative being organised and delivered by women in celebration of International Women's Day marked earlier this month. The venture ties in with the vision of the Dubai Sports Council which is keen to promote badminton in the United Arab Emirates and Gulf region.
The tournament is intended to encourage women's participation in sport and physical activity locally and regionally while fostering cross-cultural goodwill, friendship and peace. It is envisaged that the competition's mixed-pairs approach will positively impact these women from differing backgrounds.
To maximize the development opportunity in bringing these women together, there will be workshops, coaching education and evaluation sessions for the technical officials and players to enhance their knowledge and skills. An experienced female coach will attend this event to serve as a role model and to deliver the training and development activities.
Furthermore, an active or recently retired international female star will attend to educate and inspire players like Egypt's Hadia Hosny (above) who will be among those participating.
BWF is working closely with Peace and Sport, the Dubai Sports Council and Badminton Asia to secure this project's legacy benefits in key ways, such as making the Cup an annual event and ensuring the continued participation of women in the region and also by harnessing the interest in badminton created by Cup-related events to propel the implementation of BWF's Shuttle Time programme in the region.
It is also hoped this experience will motivate the players and coaches to share their new skills and knowledge when they return home, thereby teaching other young women and girls about the value of sport – particularly badminton.
About Peace and Sport
'Peace and Sport, L'Organisation pour la Paix par le Sport' is a politically neutral international organization based in Monaco. It was founded in 2007 under the High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco.
Peace and Sport puts sport and its core values at the heart of local development projects led within communities in crisis around the world. Conducting its missions in post-conflict zones and areas marked by extreme poverty or a lack of social cohesion, Peace and Sport uses sport as a vehicle for tolerance, respect, sharing and citizenship at the service of sustainable peace.
Supported by governments, global sport governing bodies, international organizations, major international private companies and international sports champions, Peace and Sport creates synergies between different stakeholders to carry out four areas of action:
Peace and Sport was founded by Joël Bouzou, current President of the organization. Joël is an Olympic medallist and World champion in the modern pentathlon and President of the World Olympians Association. He is also an Advisor to H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco.
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Robert J. McGarry
SARANAC LAKE – Robert J. McGarry, 84, of Saranac Lake, died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2012, at home.
Robert was born on Dec. 29, 1928, in the Bronx, the son of Anthony and Anna (Greene) McGarry. He graduated from Good Shepherd and George Washington High School. He attended John Jay College and was drafted into the U.S. Army, serving as a motor sergeant with the 73rd Tank Battalion in Korea from 1949 to 1952.
In October 1952, Robert went to work for the New York Police Department and worked there for 24 years. Robert was married to Doris Wilson in 1955. They had two children, Kelly and Robert. He was a devoted father. Robert retired from the NYPD in 1975 as a gold shield detective. After retirement, Robert moved to Lake Clear, where he worked various jobs bartending. Robert also worked as a dispatcher for the Saranac Lake Police Department for eight years. Robert was a life member of American Legion Post No. 447 in Saranac Lake. He was also a member of Moose Lodge No. 457 in Saranac Lake.
Survivors include one son, Robert, of Kodiak, Alaska, and his loving companion, Joan Stratford of Saranac Lake.
Robert was predeceased by his parents, his wife and his daughter.
Robert will be cremated and the family will have a service at a later date. Funeral arrangements are in care of the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in Saranac Lake.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Saranac Lake Volunteer Rescue Squad in care of the funeral home.
Family and friends can also share their memories and sign the online guestbook at fortunekeoughfuneralhome.com.


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Targeted at social-media novices 30 and up, here's a getting-started guide for social media for us crotchety old folks who haven't really dived in so far.
Short Version / Super Quickstart:
It's worth trying out social media if only to see what all the rage is about. No guarantee you'll "get-it." It may not be your thing — sort of like how Justin Bieber may not be your idea of good music, but it's at least satisfying to know what's going on. That said, I've seen graphics that show that Facebook's largest population is 45-54 year olds, so maybe Facebook, at least, is more Rolling Stones than Ke$ha. Jump in. Give it a try. Here's a start:
Get a Facebook Account
- Go to facebook.com
- Give them your real name so others can find you (that's the point).
- Tell Facebook a little about you. High School, College, age, all help make connections.
Find your friends who are already on. FaceBook will step you through this. It wants you to make connections. Go for it. Make 'em. That's the point.
Get a Twitter Account
Twitter is crazy popular but folks who don't get it worry about inane posts such as "I'm getting a haircut. " That's not really the case. Give it a try. Start out by reading, later consider tweeting:
- Go to twitter.com
- Sign up with a handle/username — probably something recognizable by others in case you want to later choose to post/tweet.
- Find people you want to follow. Click "Who to Follow" at the top right and browse the categories. Once you find an account to follow, just click "follow" on the person's twitter page. From now on, any posts/tweets from that person will appear on your twitter page. Do this for a few others and you've got your twitter feeds running well.
- Visit Twitter later and see what's up.
- If you're so inclined to up the ante a bit, post your status any time you'd like. Share your twitter name with your friends so they can follow you.
Live with those two big-players for a month or so. Visit the sites frequently to catch up. Visit more often if you would like. Ask yourself if you "get it." If not, keep trying. Connect to more people.
Be Smart
As a person new to social media, it's easy to forget that you're really not just sharing with people you know. At some point you may be followed or friended by folks you don't know. Your privacy is dictated by what you share.
- Careful of what you share. Although there are decent privacy settings in Facebook, they can get reset to wide-open quite easily. You should assume that everything you put on the web will be found by your family, boss, mom, kids, neighbors, and strangers. Whatever info you share, do so with that in mind.
- Things you just shouldn't share on Social Media sites:
- address
- phone numbers
- names of other family members
- personal or financial information
- Don't sell out your friends. Facebook will ask you if you want to send your non-facebook friends an email inviting them to join. I suggest waiting on this move. I don't think anyone likes form-letter invites to join in on something.
A Bit More – The Real Getting Started Guide:
What is Social Media?
Social Media is an umbrella term for web sites that let people write or upload things and share them with other people through the web site. You can share things like how you're feeling or a funny photo and your friends can see it on the site. Or, you can pay attention
The Number of Sites Can be Overwhelming
A few years ago in the course of my work at Colorado Law, I saw a graphic that blew me away. It came to my attention from a presentation given by Gen-Y interns to their staid and presumably out-of-touch supervisors about how to get smart kids being interested in NASA again. The graphic was about Web2.0 technology and sites they used on a daily basis. The crazy part for me is how many sites there were and how many I wasn't using:
Achieving the same overwhelming effect several years later, here's a 2010 infographic showing another crazy amount of social media sites — this time organized according to type:
As overwhelming and massive as these graphics show Social Media sites to be, you really don't care about all the little or specialized social media sites. You're not trying to be the first on them. You just care about the big ones. That means Facebook, Twitter, and maybe a few others.
Why Do It?
Not to get famous.
Not, as Descartes, to proclaim your existence by tweeting and updating your status on Facebook.
Everyone has their own goals, of course, but I suggest that you have one of two overarching reasons to jump into the social media world:
Reasonable Social Media Purpose 1:
See what it's about; Make connections with existing friends and family; Even make new friends based on common interests.
Reasonable Social Media Purpose 2:
Follow through on a specific purpose such as promoting a restaurant, sharing information on a given topic, or another predictable and consistent message.
I'm sure there are other reasons, but the key here is that it is not a place to get famous or prove your existence. But it could be a place for targeted communications or connecting/reconnecting with friend and family.
No, let's get to it. Get ready, I'm suggesting that you jump in and sign up right now. Here's a quick guide:
The Big Ones
As described above in the super quick-start section, getting on Facebook and Twitter are really all you need to experience most of what Social Media has to offer.
Facebook – connect with friends, family, and people from your past
This is the #1 most popular web site in the world. People come to facebook.com and they stick. There is a lot to do. The coolest part is connecting with folks you may have lost touch with or have common interests with. I have Facebook friends from high school and others who connect over mutual fan-worship of Poi Dog Pondering.
Twitter – Real-time News Feed from Folks All Over the World
This one is a bit harder to grasp, but I like to compare it with an old ticker tape machine where rich business men would watch news of stocks and perhaps other news as it rattled off the wire. Twitter can function in the same way. This is your live feed from people you find interesting talking about things you like. You never need to post anything to get a lot out of Twitter. Use the "Who to Follow" link on the Twitter web site to choose a few people's posts to monitor.
Once you get comfortable with watching Twitter feeds, you may want to expand or enhance your reach by starting to tweet yourself (quite easy, just do it). And if you like Twitter, as most people who use it do, look at the huge number of tools to enhance your experience in all sorts of ways.
I use HootSuite as recommended to me by Bill C. Berger and have been quite happy with it. It works on the iPhone and makes reading and posting quite easy. But HootSuite is just the beginning. Want to be overwhelmed by another infographic? Take a look at this amazing graphic of the Twitterverse.
Quora – Ask Questions, Answer Questions, Read the Conversation
This is the trendy site of the moment. It's the next big thing. Questions and answers. You can ask questions or answer them. You can follow questions or people. It's really a terrific concept. Search questions, post your own questions, and because it's trendy and folks are pouring in as members, your questions get answers. I asked "What makes a good IT department" and got several very helpful answers.
The Specialized Ones
Flickr – Post and share your photos. Find other photos.
This old-standard is really terrific for putting photos up for your friends and family to view. Flicker not only lets you share your photos and see others' photos, but you can find lots of wonderful shots that you can use — just remember to check the copyright notice and look for Creative Commons. Flickr also integrates with other sites quite well.
YouTube – Post and share your videos. Find other videos.
Most people think of YouTube as a place to watch funny videos. Well, I guess that's mostly what it's about. But you can treat YouTube as the Flickr for your videos. Sign in, create an account. Share away. Other can follow your YouTube "channel" so when you share your videos those following you will be notified.
FourSquare – Use GPS phone features to tell your Twitter Friends your location, play the FourSquare game
I should admit that I just don't get FourSquare. I am not into announcing my location all the time on twitter. But some folks love it, and it was the big thing just a little while ago. The thing that does seem kind of fun is that you can "check in" from your favorite cafe location over and over and eventually be dubbed "king" of that location in the FourSquare game. Check it out or not.
The Ones You Can Ignore
LinkedIn – Business networking
I'm on LinkedIn, and while I do believe in the power of business contacts, I'm not sure if this accomplishes it. LinkedIn just feels not that worthwhile to me. I think this is mainly because there aren't enough people on it. It doesn't feel like a big deal. Still, it might be worth joining to see if there are connections that you can make worthwhile.
MySpace – Skip It, just use Facebook
'nuf said.
Delicious – Social Bookmarking Site is Dead
I think Delicious is actually dead already — they're pulling the plug on it soon. But I include it because I loved Delicious as a universal bookmark set. I didn't care so much about sharing those bookmarks with others. I think that others may have felt the same thing. (By the way, for bookmarks I use XMarks now).
The Ones I Missed
What did I miss? Tell me in the comments below.


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I just wanted to get some thoughts on how I did in my fantasy draft last night. I picked 4th, 10 team league. Regular scoring. Starting lineup is 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 K, 1 D/SP.
QB -- Phillp Rivers, Matt Leinart
RB -- Larry Johnson, Maurice Jones-Drew, Ronnie Brown, Cadillac Williams, Fred Taylor, Warrick Dunn
WR -- Marvin Harrison, Marques Colston, Braylon Edwards, Terry Glenn
TE -- LJ Smith
K -- Olindo Mare
D/ST -- Miami
I'm concerned about WR depth and my QB position. I obviously took a lot of RBs; but there was just too much value in the later rounds. Hopefull I can move a RB for a solid WR down the road.
Any insight is appreciated.


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At 50, after a successful career selling magazine advertising, Rod Baird became a high school English teacher at an affluent high school near New York City. Counterfeit Kids criticizes education fads — Baird thinks the "sage on the stage" makes a lot of sense — but the book's real target is overprotective, esteem-boosting, college-obsessed parents.
Baird's privileged students don't like to read books, think or learn. Victims of the "cult of college," they've been pushed by their parents to earn good grades and get into a "good" college. Nothing else matters.
In his first year, he taught non-honors English to 11th graders — B and C students — who'd figured out they'd already lost the college race.
"A palpable contempt had set in, they way they slouched in their seats, the way they openly cheated. . . . they no longer cared."
Thanks to their parents, they had way too much self-esteem to blame themselves for their lack of success, Baird writes. Instead, they assumed the system was unfair.
Teachers are too student-centered, Baird writes.
We are trying so hard to teach that we are accepting their responsibilities. With all of our elaborate rubrics and review sheets and methodologies and layers upon layers of special education services and ever-changing pedagogies and assessments, we are smothering them, preventing them from learning the basics, from how to think for themselves, to self-discipline, to English grammar, stunting their growth . . .
Students who've been told they learn by doing believe they have no obligation to listen or read, Baird writes. Group work — "collaborative learning" — teaches them to follow the group leader, who does most of the work. "We love group work," a student tells him. "Usually you don't have to do anything until the teacher comes around with her clipboard and rubric. Then we pretend we are doing what she asked us."
His students are good at following specific directions — if there's a grade to earn. Asked to think for themselves, they flounder.
Baird shares his techniques for jolting students out of their complacency and getting them to think.


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Comic book enthusiasts and sci-fi fanatics will soon take over the Palm Beach County Convention Center as The Palm Beach County Comic Book and Collectibles Show, better known as PalmCon, comes to town on Saturday, September 21 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Now in its third year—first at the Palm Beach County Convention Center—PalmCon, which is presented by Cosmic Times, has grown in scope, now taking over the center's 50,000-squre-foot Hall A with nearly 100 exhibitors on hand. Among the thousands of comic books, collectibles and art from local artists and vendors, which guests can peruse and purchase, attendees are also encouraged to dress in their cosplay finest for the third annual PalmCon Costume Contest, take in a flick at the indie-film screening room, explore "The Art of Akira" in a special traveling exhibit, and demo the latest roll-playing games.
Like all comic book conventions, special guests will be on hand to meet attendees, sign memorabilia and take a picture or two. Among the lineup, actor Deep Roy, probably most famously known for his roll as all of the Oompa Loompas in Tim Burton's adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, will make an appearance to discuss his acting career, which spans nearly five decades, and some of science fiction's most hallowed franchises, including Star Wars and Star Trek. Among his credits, Roy has appeared on Doctor Who, The Never Ending Story, Planet of the Apes, Flash Gordon and as a recurring character on the HBO series Eastbound and Down. Other notable guests scheduled to appear include comic book artist Ethan Van Sciver, whose credits include Green Lantern: Rebirth and DC's Batman: The Dark Knight and special guest Allen Bellman who, as a teenager, did the backgrounds for Syd Shores' Captain America in 1942. Throughout the years, Bellman has contributed to The Patriot, The Destroyer and The Human Torch among many others.
- General admission costs $9 at the door ($7 in advance) and $30 for VIP access.
- For more information and to purchase tickets, visit cosmictimes.net/palmcon.
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Our current economic and pricing mechanisms simply don't square with physical reality: that is the hypothesis of two new, widely-celebrated books, which lead with Global Footprint Network statistics.
The ecological facts on the ground are clear, environmental scientist Lester Brown attests in his book World On the Edge, which he was writing as heat-induced wildfires vaporized almost half of Russia's wheat harvest, put a fifth of Pakistan underwater and sent food prices spiraling. Yet economic policies continue to be based upon an endless supply of cheap and available natural resources. It's a disconnect he likens to the theories of astronomy in the days just before Copernicus.
"No previous civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural supports," Brown writes. "Nor will ours. Yet economists look at the world through a different lens."
Brown cites Global Footprint Network statistics that show that humanity is using resources and producing carbon dioxide at a rate it would take 1.5 Earths to regenerate and reabsorb. Accounting systems that don't take such factors into account are "a formula for bankruptcy," he writes.
Author and entrepreneur Paul Gilding, who cites the same statistics, ascribes such disconnect to denial. In his book, The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World, Gilding says: "When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required." (Read New Yorker columnist Thomas Friedman's column, The Earth is Full, about Gilding's assertions.)
Gilding believes physical limits will throw the brakes on economic expansion, and prompt a crisis-driven charge to devise new models of progress. Fortunately, he asserts, consumption-based prosperity has always had a tenuous relationship to human happiness. "How many people," he asks, "lie on their death bed and say, 'I wish I had worked harder or built more shareholder value,' and how many say, 'I wish I had gone to more ballgames, read more books to my kids, taken more walks? To do that, you need a growth model based on giving people more time to enjoy life, but with less stuff."


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State Rejects Requested Ban on Expanding Irrigation
Farmers in Cochise County lose petition to to stop further development in their area.
Farmers in Cochise County lose petition to to stop further development in their area.
Megan Kimble on her new book 'Unprocessed: My city-dwelling year of reclaiming real food'.
Keeping product fresh longer and speeding up wait times at border are key, industry workers say.
Tucson Unified School District food services staff say fruit is one of the most popular lunchtime items.
Robotic lettuce thinner in Yuma's winter fields can do work of 60-member crew in one day.
California spinach problem in 2006 led to measures now in effect there and in Southern Arizona.
Looking at the state's growing craft brewing industry and legislation that could soon be affecting it.
Total Economic Impact Exceeds $600M in 2013; numbers of small-scale breweries in Tucson has doubled.
$100K grant from feds may help the cause.
Syndrome kills species when young, causing entire crops to be lost; scientist finds way to detect it early on.
High school students build relationships through intergenerational project in South Tucson.
AZPM reporter, spouse try for 4 days what food stamp recipients must do; nutrients with a dollop of tension.
Survey participants used Twitter to document everything they ate and drank, and why, for 3 days.
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This course introduces practitioners at the state, county, metropolitan planning organization (MPO), or local level to the new techniques and knowledge in the HSM. The users and professionals described above include, but are not limited to transportation planners, highway designers, traffic engineers, and other transportation professionals who make discretionary road planning, design and operational decisions.
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FUDU wrote:Bo ran the fastest 40 time ever in combine history, not that I needed to say that to validate him as being a superior athlete to Cam.
deon Sanders set the combine 40 track on fire .
In the 100 year history of the NFl there has never been a bigger better combo of size to speed playing QB .
newton was the best athlete in the draft and the best athlete on either side of the ball vs anyteam he plays agaist .
man can play every position on the field and throw the pill too.
Bo is fetchin his donuts .


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I have been trying to get my green tea to taste like the China Green Tips at Starbucks. I know this not the best green tea, but there is something about the taste that I really like. Anyways, I bought a few boxes of it and have trying to make it at home. At first my results were pretty bad. I ended up with something that had almost no flavor. I also notice that the tea I make looks much more oxidized (a lot darker and it leaves a brownish film on the cup) like it had been sitting out for a long time.
I checked the tea kettle and it was full of a film from water deposits. So I threw that out and got a new stainless steel tea kettle and some bottled water. The results were a lot better. There was no more oxidation or tea film on the cup, but it still lacked a lot of flavor. It is like there is just a hint (a strong hint) of the flavor of a cup at Starbucks. I have tried different temperatures and have even used the same cups that they use at Starbucks.
What else should I try? Should I get distilled water? Never let the water reach a boil? What am I doing wrong?


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Yvonne Rummele Shafer, 60, of Quinton, Ala., formerly of Equality, passed away 4:47 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, at the Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala.
She was born on March 26, 1953, in Harrisburg, the daughter of John and Frances (Bradley) Rummele. Yvonne is survived by her husband, Lewis Perry of Quinton, Ala.; daughter, Jamie Shaffer of Herrin, Jerry Ray and Pam Barnard of Harrisburg; mother, Frances and Ed Sieverding of Equality; five sisters, Johnna and Bob McPeek of Carmi, Carla Perry of Duluth, Minn., Barb and John Skuzinski of Zimmerman, Minn., Linda Rummele of Chicago, Mary LeRoy and Jerry Hedgepath of Sturgis, Ky; one brother, Tom and Audrey Rummele of Amsterdam, Neatherlands; five stepsisters and one stepbrother; six grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father and twin infant sisters, Margaret and Theresa Rummele.
Visitation for Yvonne will be held 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8 at the Vickery Funeral Chapel in Equality. Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 9 at the funeral chapel with Father Steven Beatty officiating. Burial will be at the St. Joseph Cemetery near Equality.
Internet condolences may be sent at the website, www.vickeryfuneralchapel.com.
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The Checkout – Live at Berklee with Jaleel Shaw February 7
January 31, 2013. Posted by Brandy Wood.Add new comment | Filed under: Berklee, berklee college of music, Boris Kozlov, Cafe 939, jaleel shaw, Johnathan Blake, Lawrence Fields, Live Music, npr music, The Checkout, The Checkout Live at Berklee Archive, wbgo
WBGO presents saxophonist Jaleel Shaw Live from the Red Room at Cafe 939, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, on Thursday, February 7 at 8 p.m. Shaw will be joined in the concert by fellow Berklee alumnus Lawrence Fields on piano, bassist Boris Kozlov, and drummer Johnathan Blake.
Watch the concert live right here or listen to our on-air stream with host Josh Jackson, and join the conversation below.
Like WBGO's other live broadcasts every month, these shows live on in our video archive and at NPRmusic.org.
If you like what you hear, tune in to WBGO's sister station, The Jazz Bee, to hear recordings by Shaw and other cutting-edge performers. Enjoy!
The Checkout – Live at Berklee brings critically acclaimed, New York-based Berklee alumni back to their alma mater for concerts. Shaw is a member of the Roy Haynes Quartet and the Mingus Big Band, and has performed with Christian McBride, Jason Moran, Stefon Harris, Roy Hargrove, Dave Holland, Jimmy Cobb, and more.
Upon graduating from high school in his native Philadelphia, Shaw received a full-tuition scholarship to attend Berklee, where he graduated with degrees in music education and performance. At Berklee, he received the Billboard Endowed Scholarship, two Woodwind Department Awards, the Outstanding Student Teacher Award, and the Boston Jazz Society Award. Shaw then earned a master's in jazz performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.
The Checkout: Live
July 6, 2011. Posted by Brandy Wood.Add new comment | Filed under: 92Y, 92Y Tribeca, bassist, Ben Williams, jazz, Jazz Alive, josh jackson, npr, npr music, Pedro Giraudo, The Checkout, wbgo
Last month, The Checkout: Live at 92Y Tribeca made its debut. The first performance in this new series featured Dan Tepfer and Noah Preminger. You can hear excerpts from that performance during The Checkout on July 19, 6:30pm on WBGO Jazz88.3FM and online at wbgo.org.The next installment takes place Tuesday, July 19 at 8pm with Ben Williams Sound Effect and Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra
"By definition the bass player is a pivotal figure in jazz, a steward of tonality as well as tempo. Determining a good one can require close listening: that quality reveals itself in the cohesion of the band as well as in the handling of line and phrase. All of this was accounted for in Mr. Williams's set, which also involved a pair of harmonically sound original compositions and a balance of tradition and novelty." -Nate Chinen, New York Times
Washington, DC-born, New York-based bassist Ben Williams' is celebrating the release of his debut album State of Art out on Concord Jazz. The album is a result of Williams' first prize in the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Competition for double-bass. Recently, Williams has been touring with vibraphonist Stefon Harris & Blackout, a R&B and hip-hop-tinged group, which calls on Williams' unique connection with go-go, from his native Washington, DC to inform its sound and pianist Jacky Terrasson's Trio. State of Art marks Williams' first album as a leader and features tenor/soprano saxophonist Marcus Strickland, guitarist Matthew Stevens, keyboardist Gerald Clayton, drummer Jamire Williams (who also appeared with the bassist on Terrasson's Push) and percussionist Etienne Charles, joined on three tracks by alto/soprano saxophonist Jaleel Shaw.
"An opulent listening experience of modern, orchestral jazz, brimming with passionate improvisations, deliberate contrapuntal melodies and plush harmonies." — John Murph, DownBeat Magazine
Since his arrival in New York in 1996, Pedro Giraudo has performed and recorded in a wide variety of musical projects and prominent ensembles, ranging from tango to jazz, in addition to his own Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra. He has collaborated with 9-time Grammy® award winner Paquito D'Rivera, Grammy® award winner Pablo Ziegler, Latin American icon Ruben Blades, as well as with Branford Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, Regina Carter, among many others and has performed in venues such as The Blue Note (Japan & USA), Birdland (Austria & USA), Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Iridium, Jazz Standard, Jazz Gallery, Blue Note, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall (NYC). His latest CD, his fifth, is titled Córdoba — the name of his home city and province in Argentina— released in June 2011 on the ZOHO Music label.
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Slices of Toast: The Bad Plus New Year's on JazzSet
December 23, 2010. Posted by Alex Rodriguez.Add new comment | Filed under: concerts, JazzSet, live at the village vanguard, npr music, The Bad Plus, toast of the nation
The latest edition of JazzSet, produced by WBGO Senior Producer Becca Pulliam, features music from last year's Toast of the Nation extravaganza (which happened to be my first gig with the station, as an assistant producer.) Follow the link for the full hour of music and Becca's rundown of the evening.
David Sanchez: Interview and Shuffle
March 17, 2009. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: david sanchez, interview, Interviews, live at the village vanguard, living with music, npr music, shuffle, village vanguard, wbgo
We're presenting Grammy-winning saxophonist David Sanchez and his quartet at the Village Vanguard tonight at 9pm.
Be sure to join us - on the air, online, or on the intertube.
I talked to Sanchez yesterday, just as he was arriving to his hotel room.
Listen to the interview:
Then I grabbed his iPod and set it to Shuffle. Hear the mix:
David Sanchez - City Stories
March 4, 2009. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: City Stories, david sanchez, Jazz Alive, live at the village vanguard, npr music, Video, wbgo
On Tuesday, March 17th at 9pm, WBGO and NPR Music are presenting saxophonist David Sanchez for our next installment of Live at the Village Vanguard. Since it's so rare to see a jazz musician get wide exposure, I thought I'd share this installment of City Stories, a series of ads for Banana Republic. My favorite part? David recommends a visit to the Village Vanguard as one of the must-do jazz experiences in New York. Hope you'll join us on March 17th.


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Apricot Cobbler {turned healthy} By GreenChef Juli Novotny
Contributing Monkie Juli Novotny
Published on April 6, 2012
I am SO excited about the summer season – TONS of fresh, local and my fav fruits in season. I have this theory that I made up a few years back – EAT tons of local seasonal fruits and veg and you will boost your immune system. The local and seasonal part is the key. I do it with my kids and they seem to be flu and cold-free most of the year {maybe one a year if that – SO FAR}! Roman has yet to be sick and he's a almost 14 months old.
Anyways…so… I woke up last night dreaming of apricot bars {I definitely don't eat those anymore}. My girlfriend Kelley Lilien and I used to make them with oats, flour and butter as a crust then topped with apricot preserves {store bought}. They were to die for. So I thought to myself, hmmmm, wonder if I could come up with something comparable? Luckily I had local seasonal apricots on hand.
My recipe makeover turned out AMAZING, but not as firm as I'd liked. So, I am calling it a cobbler! The whole family enjoyed it, together with a scoop of Tomberlies raw vegan ice cream! YUM!
For the Preserve
4 apricots
1.5-2 lemons, juiced {depending on size}
2/3c agave nectar
1 tsp Kuzu {wild root starch} OR chia seeds
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Redemption can be found in sport/Paul Peterson
Some years ago I can recall a young Houghton High School female athlete who burst upon the local scene as a freshman.
She competed in several sports, but excelled in track in particular. But as sometimes happens, she lost her interest in sports a year later and stopped competing.
But she returned to competition as a senior, and while not as dominant as she had been as a freshman, helped the Gremlins to conference and regional titles by placing high in a couple of events.
That's the beauty of sports: Redemption can be just a good performance or two away.
We have a couple of good examples of that this sports season in Hailey Gervais of the Finlandia University women's basketball team, and Jacob Givens of the Hancock High hockey team.
Gervais had been a basketball standout at Hancock High a couple of years ago, gaining all-league and All-U.P. laurels. A fine three-point shooter, she seemed like a good fit for the Finlandia team when she enrolled there.
But things didn't go as planned and Gervais eventually left the team.
This season saw her ask coach Jason Keefer if she could show up for a tryout and Keefer agreed.
Gervais not only made the team, she's currently the leading scorer for the Lions.
"Hailey (Gervais) has been a pleasant surprise for us," Keefer said. "She hustles all the time and has been a leader for our younger players to follow," he said.
Givens is another example of what can happen when you provide yourself a second chance.
After failing to make the Bulldogs roster last year as a defenseman, he returned this year and tried out as a goaltender.
Givens made the team and was the backup netminder early on. But sterling performances last week against Kingsford, Marquette and Fond du Lac, Wis. have vaulted him up coach Dan Rouleau's depth list.
Against a previously unbeaten Fond du Lac team, he came up with 43 saves as the suddenly hot Crimson and Gold took a 1-0 win.
As everyone around here well knows, a hot goalie can take you pretty far at this time of the year.
Another good example was that of former Houghton High standout Bill Hauswirth.
One of the finest all-around athletes ever produced around here, Hauswirth didn't make the HHS hockey team as a sophomore.
Instead, he went out for basketball and did rather well there, averaging 13 points a game.
He tried out – and landed a spot – on the hockey team a year later. As a senior, he played a key role as the Don Miller-coached Gremlins won a state championship.
As stated earlier, redemption sometimes isn't that far away in the sports world.


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HPBA Staff and Members Attend DOE Hearing
HPBA Staff and Members Attend DOE Hearing
- DOE's Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NOPR).
- DOE's presentation at the hearing.
On September 1, 2011 the Department of Energy (DOE) held a public meeting on its July 22, 2011 proposed rule that would regulate decorative vented gas fireplaces and log sets. HPBA opposes the proposal because DOE continues to improperly and illegally classify decorative vented gas fireplaces as "direct heating equipment" (DHE), and now also includes vented gas log sets as DHE, despite gas logs having been expressly excluded from the definition in the April 2010 final rule. In doing so, DOE has proposed to require that gas log sets (a) be certified to Z21.60, (b) do not have a thermostat (and the aftermarket addition of a thermostat would invalidate the warranty), (c) are not marketed as heaters, and have a statement to that effect on their rating plates, and (d) do not have standing pilot lights.
During the public meeting, HPBA staff and member companies opposed the proposal and asked that DOE immediately terminate the rulemaking due to the total lack of technical support documents, analysis, or supporting materials in the public record, as required by law. HPBA member companies appearing at the public meeting included Empire Comfort Systems, R.H. Peterson Company and Rasmussen Gas Logs & Grills. Comments were also submitted by Big Woods Hearth Products, Inc. and Lennox Hearth Products. HPBA's allied associations, the American Gas Association (AGA), National Propane Gas Association (NPGA) and the Air-Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), also participated in the meeting and voices similar concern and opposition. After pressing DOE officials on a number of issues, HPBA and other participants received what amounted to a series of "no comment" responses from DOE on all questions.
Below are the comments presented in person by HPBA staff and member companies:
- Jack Goldman (HPBA)
- Ken Belding (Empire Comfort Systems)
- Leslie Bortz (RH Peterson Company)
- Rett Rasmussen (Rasmussen Gas Logs & Grills)
Comments submitted for the record by HPBA member companies:
DOE's Transcript of the Meeting:
- Direct Heating Equipment Energy Conservation Standard Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Hearing Transcript
Comments may be submitted to the DOE as late as October 14, 2011. Please follow these directions when filing comments.


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Chat Session
By JOHN C. COTEY AND DAVID MURPHY
Published April 13, 2007
The first baseball game between Pasco and Nature Coast was a pitchers duel. The second? Well, you can find out tonight at Death Valley in Dade City.
JOHNCOTEY: So it's rematch time, and I gotta be honest with you, the second go-round between Nature Coast and Pasco isn't giving me goose bumps.
DMURPH003: It isn't an R.L. Stine book. It's a baseball game. And I'm a little taken aback that you referred to it as "meaningless" in the comment you posted on my MySpace page
JOHNCOTEY: Well, for your guys, maybe it means something. But sheesh dude, the least they coulda done is NOT lose to Hernando.
DMURPH003: Nature Coast ran into a really hot team. But let's keep in mind, since the last time these teams played, the Sharks have beaten Zephyrhills and a team from Key West that was ranked in the state at one point.
JOHNCOTEY: And lost to Hernando.
DMURPH003: I realize Pasco already has the No. 1 district seed locked up, and Nature Coast has the No. 2 seed locked up, but the players aren't taking it lightly.
DMURPH003: Nature Coast has "little man's disease." They've got that chip on their shoulder; they desperately want to beat Pasco.
DMURPH003: It's like Rocky II. Not as good as Rocky I, but still worth watching.
JOHNCOTEY: Well, that's too bad, considering the Pirates are throwing Apollo Creed ...errr, Dustin Brown again. Oh wait, Apollo lost in Rocky II didn't he?
DMurph003: You're telling me you weren't impressed with Nature Coast the last game? You certainly were impressed with their hamburgers. Plural.
JOHNCOTEY: I prefer cheeseburgers ...and not having to wait for the fifth inning so the grill can get hot. You won't have to worry about that at Death Valley (note to self: call Pasco concession crew; make sure they have my back).
DMURPH003: What's not to like about Nature Coast? They're scrappy: six players with on-base percentages over .400. They're fast: leadoff hitter Kyle Kuzniar has 27 stolen bases. They've got good pitching: Bryan Daniels is 6-2 with a 1.88 ERA.
JOHNCOTEY: Yawn. Didn't you hear me? Brown is pitching. They haven't hit him in six straight innings. Can Kuzniar steal first?
johncotey: I will say this. The district is looking more wide open now. Nature Coast loses to Hernando (wow). Zephyrhills loses to Springstead (Holy smokes!). And Pasco needs a late run to beat Nature Coast, and back-to-back homers to beat Zephyrhills.
JOHNCOTEY: Nature Coast might just crack it open a little wider tonight. If they can hit Brown.
DMURPH003: Their bats have been hot and cold. They pounded ZHills, but came back and struggled against Central. And, like you said, they didn't hit Brown for the last six innings. Which is why I'm interested in this game.
JOHNCOTEY: Over-under for how many NC batters go down before the first hit?
DMURPH003: Well, I think it was one last time.
JOHNCOTEY: Because Brown was playing with Josh Schofield's Blackberry instead of warming up properly. But in light of the last six innings, whatta ya say?
DMURPH003: I'd say I'm more interested in what's the over-under on how many cheeseburgers you're going to eat.
JOHNCOTEY: Take the over.


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Google Avoids Paying $1.6 Billion USD In Taxes, UK PM Speaks Out
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David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, said that companies like Google are immorally minimizing tax bills
Google has managed to skip paying about $1.6 billion USD (£1 billion)
in taxes
by way of the island Bermuda -- and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom isn't happy.
Google sent £6 billion through Bermuda over the course of last year, which halved its 2011 tax bill. In fact, Google funneled 80 percent of its global revenue through the island and ended up paying about £1 billion less to the government.
Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said this "is called capitalism."
"We pay lots of taxes; we pay them in the legally prescribed ways," said Schmidt. "I am very proud of the structure that we set up. We did it based on the incentives that the governments offered us to operate."
David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, said that companies like Google are immorally minimizing tax bills and need to be stopped. He even wrote a letter to fellow leaders of the G8 requesting a global crackdown on tax avoidance for large companies such as Google and Starbucks.
"I do believe we all have a common interest in being able to tell our taxpayers who work hard and pay their fair share of taxes that we will make sure others do the same," wrote Cameron in an open letter to the G8.
Google's UK Head Matt Brittin said politicians are the ones who set tax rates, and that Google is playing by their rules.
Google funneled £2.6 billion of British revenue through Bermuda, which cut its UK tax bill by £200 million.
In April of last year, it was reported that
Apple made $9.5 billion USD
in Britain for 2011, but only paid 0.16 percent in taxes. Amazon was also targeted for its
headquarters in the tiny European Union nation of Luxembourg and Google's placement in
Ireland with subsidiaries in the Caribbean and Luxembourg for more tax dodging gains.
The New York Times
blamed Apple for dodging billions in taxes
in a lengthy article last year.
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