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The shape of the Star of David is an example of the hexagram, a symbol which has significance for many beliefs and the use of the hexagram pre-dates the use by Jews. Actually the Star of David is rarely used in Jewish literature and artwork, and it is commonly thought of a new age symbol for Jews. There are some that speculate and attribute theological significance to the symbol combining the upward and lower facing facets of the Star. For the most part there is no real basis or historical fact that supports these theories.
The Star of David began showing up in artwork early on. In "Eshkol Ha Kofer", a literary source, mentions the Shield of David in the middle of the 12th century CE, where seven Shields are used in an amulet for a Mezuzah. It appears to have been in use as part of amulets before it was in use in formal Jewish contexts. Over the years the Star of David has been used in the Menorah and Star of David Necklaces, Bracelets and Handmade Jewelry is very popular the world over. The Hexagram is a Mandala symbol found in ancient Indian temples built thousands of years ago. It symbolizes the "Nara-Narayana", or perfect meditative state of balance between man and God, and results in "Moksa", or "Nirvana" (release from the bounds of the earthly world). Some researchers have theorized that the Star of David represents the astrological chart at the time of David's Birth or anointment as king. The Star of David is also known as the "King's Star".
There are various versions of "Kabbalah" and the Star of David, arranging the Ten spheres in it, and placing it on Amulets. In terms of the Kabbalah (Book of Zohar), the Star of David symbolizes the six directions of space plus the center: Up, Down, East, West, South, North, and Center.
The popular folk tale has it that the Star of David is literally modeled after the shield of the young Israelite David (later to be King David). The Star of David can be found on the tombstones of religious Jews going back hundreds of years in Europe. Use by Christians; most Christians, especially independent Anglicans, Baptists, and other Protestant are supportive of the nation of Israel, and, one may see the Star of David or other Jewish symbols in their churches, and Stained Glass windows. The first appearance of the symbol in Jewish scriptures was in oriental Kabbalistic writings.
The Star of David is also used by Arabs, the Arabs and Muslims were interested in arithmetics, and strongly drawn to biblical tales. One of the most important persons in Arab literature was King Solomon and it is possible the King Solomon Seal was altered in the Arab tales. The Islamic Turkish beyliks of the Karamanid Dynasties used the Star of David on their flag, even today, the Star can be found in Mosques and on other Arabic artifacts.
Six pointed Stars have also been found in cosmological diagrams in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
Our large selection of Judaica Gifts includes Bat Mitzvah Gifts, Bar Mitzvah Gifts, Jewish Wedding Gifts, Menorahs and Mezuzah Cases that all include the Star of David.
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Agricultural subsidy
An agricultural subsidy is a governmental subsidy paid to farmers and agribusinesses to supplement their income, manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and influence the cost and supply of such commodities. Examples of such commodities include; wheat, feed grains (grain used as fodder, such as maize or corn, sorghum, barley, and oats), cotton, milk, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, oilseeds such as soybeans, and meat products such as beef, pork, and lamb and mutton. Such subsidies are extremely controversial, both because of their complex effects and because of their political origins, which involve heavy lobbying from groups representing the interests of agribusiness.[1]
- 1 Agricultural subsidies by region
- 2 Impact of subsidies
- 3 Alternatives
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 Further reading
- 7 External links
Agricultural subsidies by region
European Union
In 2010, the EU spent €57 billion on agricultural development, of which €39 billion was spent on direct subsidies.[4] Agricultural and fisheries subsidies form over 40% of the EU budget.[5] Since 1992 (and especially since 2005), the EU's Common Agricultural Policy has undergone significant change as subsidies have mostly been decoupled from production. The largest subsidy is the Single Farm Payment.
Increases in food and fertilizer prices have underlined the vulnerability of poor urban and rural households in many developing countries, especially in Africa, renewing policymakers' focus on the need to increase staple food crop productivity.
A study by the Overseas Development Institute evaluates the benefits of the Malawi Government Agricultural Inputs Subsidy Programme, which was implemented in 2006/2007 to promote access to and use of fertilizers in both maize and tobacco production to increase agricultural productivity and food security. The subsidy was implemented by means of a coupon system which could be redeemed by the recipients for fertilizer types at approximately one-third of the normal cash price.[6] According to policy conclusions of the Overseas Development Institute the voucher for coupon system can be an effective way of rationing and targeting subsidy access to maximize production and economic and social gains. Many practical and political challenges remain in the program design and implementation required to increase efficiency, control costs, and limit patronage and fraud.[6]
New Zealand
New Zealand is reputed to have the most open agricultural markets in the world[7][8][9] after radical reforms started in 1984 by the Fourth Labour Government stopped all subsidies.
"In 1984 New Zealand's Labor government took the dramatic step of ending all farm subsidies, which then consisted of 30 separate production payments and export incentives. This was a truly striking policy action, because New Zealand's economy is roughly five times more dependent on farming than is the U.S. economy, measured by either output or employment. Subsidies in New Zealand accounted for more than 30 percent of the value of production before reform, somewhat higher than U.S. subsidies today. And New Zealand farming was marred by the same problems caused by U.S. subsidies, including overproduction, environmental degradation and inflated land prices."
As the country is a large agricultural exporter, continued subsidies by other countries are a long-standing bone of contention,[10][11] with New Zealand being a founding member of the 19-member Cairns Group fighting to improve market access for exported agricultural goods.
United States
The United States currently pays around $20 billion per year to farmers in direct subsidies as "farm income stabilization"[12][13][14] via U.S. farm bills. These bills pre-date the economic turmoil of the Great Depression with the 1922 Grain Futures Act, the 1929 Agricultural Marketing Act and the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act creating a tradition of government support.
The beneficiaries of the subsidies have changed as agriculture in the United States has changed. In the 1930s, about 25% of the country's population resided on the nation's 6,000,000 small farms. By 1997, 157,000 large farms accounted for 72% of farm sales, with only 2% of the U.S. population residing on small farms. In 2006, the top 3 states receiving subsidies were Texas (10.4%), Iowa (9.0%), and Illinois (7.6%). The Total USDA Subsidies from farms in Iowa totaled $1,212,000,000 in 2006.[15] From 2003 to 2005 the top 1% of beneficiaries received 17% of subsidy payments.[15] In Texas, 72% of farms do not receive government subsidies. Of the close to $1.4 Billion in subsidy payments to farms in Texas, roughly 18% of the farms receive a portion of the payments.[16]
"Direct payment subsidies are provided without regard to the economic need of the recipients or the financial condition of the farm economy. Established in 1996, direct payments were originally meant to wean farmers off traditional subsidies that are triggered during periods of low prices for corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton, rice, and other crops."[17]
Top states for direct payments were Iowa ($501 million), Illinois ($454 million), and Texas ($397 million). Direct payments of subsidies are limited to $40,000 per person or $80,000 per couple.[17]
The subsidy programs give farmers extra money for their crops and guarantee a price floor. For instance in the 2002 Farm Bill, for every bushel of wheat sold, farmers were paid an extra 52 cents and guaranteed a price of 3.86 from 2002–03 and 3.92 from 2004–2007.[18] That is, if the price of wheat in 2002 was $3.80, farmers would get an extra 58¢ per bushel (52¢ plus the 6¢ price difference).
Corn is the top crop for subsidy payments. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandates that billions of gallons of ethanol be blended into vehicle fuel each year, guaranteeing demand, but US corn ethanol subsidies are between $5.5 billion and $7.3 billion per year. Producers also benefitted from a federal subsidy of 51 cents per gallon, additional state subsidies, and federal crop subsidies that can bring the total to 85 cents per gallon or more. However, the federal ethanol subsidy expired December 31, 2011.[19] (US corn-ethanol producers were shielded from competition from cheaper Brazilian sugarcane-ethanol by a 54-cent-per-gallon tariff, however that tariff also expired December 31, 2011.[20][21])
|2004 U.S. Crop Subsidies[22]
|Millions of US$
|Feed grains, mostly corn
|Upland cotton and ELS cotton
|Soybeans and products
|Minor oilseeds
|Wool and mohair
|Vegetable oil products
|Other crops
|This section requires expansion. (June 2012)
Farm subsidies in Asia remain a point of contention in global trade talks.[23][24]
In 2009, Japan paid USD$46.5 billion in subsidies to its farmers,[25] and continued state support of farmers in Japan remains a controversial topic.[26]
South Korea has made attempts to reform its agricultural sector, despite resistance from vested interests.[27]
Impact of subsidies
Farm subsidies have the direct effect of transferring income from the general tax payers to farm owners. The justification for this transfer and its effects are complex and often controversial.
Global food prices and international trade
Although some critics and proponents of the World Trade Organization have noted that export subsidies, by driving down the price of commodities, can provide cheap food for consumers in developing countries,[28][29] low prices are harmful to farmers not receiving the subsidy. Because it is usually wealthy countries that can afford domestic subsidies, critics argue that they promote poverty in developing countries by artificially driving down world crop prices.[30] Generally, developing countries have a comparative advantage in producing agricultural goods,[citation needed] but low crop prices encourage developing countries to be dependent buyers of food from wealthy countries. So local farmers, instead of improving the agricultural and economic self-sufficiency of their home country, are forced out of the market and perhaps even off their land. This occurs as a result of a process known as "international dumping" in which subsidized farmers are able to "dump" low-cost agricultural goods on foreign markets at costs that un-subsidized farmers cannot compete with. Agricultural subsidies often are a common stumbling block in trade negotiations. In 2006, talks at the Doha round of WTO trade negotiations stalled because the US refused to cut subsidies to a level where other countries' non-subsidized exports would have been competitive.[31]
Others argue that a world market with farm subsidies and other market distortions (as happens today) results in higher food prices, rather than lower food prices, as compared to a free market.[citation needed]
Mark Malloch Brown, former head of the United Nations Development Program, estimated that farm subsidies cost poor countries about US$50 billion a year in lost agricultural exports:
"It is the extraordinary distortion of global trade, where the West spends $360 billion a year on protecting its agriculture with a network of subsidies and tariffs that costs developing countries about US$50 billion in potential lost agricultural exports. Fifty billion dollars is the equivalent of today's level of development assistance."[32][33]
Poverty in developing countries
The impact of agricultural subsidies in developed countries upon developing-country farmers and international development is well documented. Agricultural subsidies can help drive prices down to benefit consumers, but also mean that unsubsidised developing-country farmers have a more difficult time competing in the world market;[34] and the effects on poverty are particularly negative when subsidies are provided for crops that are also grown in developing countries since developing-country farmers must then compete directly with subsidised developed-country farmers, for example in cotton and sugar.[35][36] The IFPRI has estimated in 2003 that the impact of subsidies costs developing countries $24 billion in lost incomes going to agricultural and agro-industrial production; and more than $40Bn is displaced from net agricultural exports.[37] Moreover the same study found that the least developed countries have a higher proportion of GDP dependent upon agriculture, at around 36.7%, thus may be even more vulnerable to the effects of subsidies. It has been argued that subsidised agriculture in the developed world is one of the greatest obstacles to economic growth in the developing world; which has an indirect impact on reducing the income available to invest in rural infrastructure such as health, safe water supplies and electricity for the rural poor.[38] The total amount of subsidies that go towards agriculture in OECD countries far exceeds the amount that countries provide in development aid.
Haiti and US rice imports
Haiti is an excellent example of a developing country negatively affected by agricultural subsidies in the developed world. Haiti is a nation with the capacity to produce rice and was at one time self-sufficient in meeting its own needs.[39][40] At present, Haiti does not produce enough to feed its people; 60 percent of the food consumed in the country is imported.[41] Following advice to liberalize its economy by lowering tariffs, domestically produced rice was displaced by cheaper subsidised rice from the United States. The Food and Agriculture Organization describes this liberalization process as being the removal of barriers to trade and a simplification of tariffs, which lowers costs to consumers and promotes efficiency among producers.[42]
Opening up Haiti's economy granted consumers access to food at a lower cost; allowing foreign producers to compete for the Haitian market drove down the price of rice. However, for Haitian rice farmers without access to subsidies, the downward pressure on prices led to a decline in profits. Subsidies received by American rice farmers, plus increased efficiencies, made it impossible for their Haitian counterparts to compete.[43][44] According to Oxfam and the International Monetary Fund, tariffs on imports fell from 50 percent to three percent in 1995 and the nation is currently importing 80 percent of the rice it consumes.[45][46]
The United States Department of Agriculture notes that since 1980, rice production in Haiti has been largely unchanged, while consumption on the other hand, is roughly eight times what it was in that same year.[47] Haiti is among the top three consumers of long grain milled rice produced in the United States.[48]
As rice farmers struggled to compete, many migrated from rural to urban areas in search of alternative economic opportunities.[49]
Impact on nutrition
Peer-reviewed research suggests that any effects of U.S. farm policies on U.S. obesity patterns must have been negligible.[50] However, some critics[who?] argue that the artificially low prices resulting from subsidies create unhealthy incentives for consumers. For example, in the USA, cane sugar was replaced with cheap corn syrup, making high-sugar food cheaper;[51] beet and cane sugar are subject to subsidies, price controls, and import tariffs that distort the prices of these products as well.
The lower price of energy-dense foods such as grains and sugars could be one reason why low-income people and food insecure people in industrialized countries are more vulnerable to being overweight and obese.[52] According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, meat and dairy production receive 63% of subsidies in the United States,[53] as well as sugar subsidies for unhealthy foods, which contribute to heart disease, obesity and diabetes, with enormous costs for the health sector.[53]
Market distortions due to subsidies have led to an increase in corn fed cattle rather than grass fed.[54] Corn fed cattle require more antibiotics and their beef has a higher fat content.[54]
Cross-border movement of businesses
Tariffs on sugar have also caused large candy makers in the USA to relocate to Canada and Mexico, where sugar is often half to a third the price.[55] The Dominican Republic Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), though, does not seen to be very impact in this area but known to not amounting to much. The sugar issue causing alarm had reasoning due to what plausible effects could come through the tariffs as well as the undetermined future of these types of negotiations considering sugar importation in the United States. Due to various continuing disputes in trade, Mexico began to have fewer exports of sugar into the United States, where the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) allowed. Those who left and sought out other companies for sugar have leaned marginally more towards Canada than Mexico. The tariffs are what keeps the large pressure from competition from south of the Rio Grande at bay.[55]
Non-farming companies
Subsidies are also given to companies and individuals with little connection to traditional farming. It has been reported that the largest part of the sum given to these companies flow to multinational companies like food conglomerates, sugar manufacturers and liquor distillers. For example in France, the single largest beneficiary was the chicken processor Groupe Doux, at €62.8m, and was followed by about a dozen sugar manufacturers which together reaped more than €103m.[citation needed]
Public economics implications
Government intervention, through agricultural subsidies, interferes with the price mechanism which would normally determine commodity prices, often creating crop overproduction and market discrimination. Subsidies are also an inefficient use of taxpayer's money. For instance, in 2006, the Department of Agriculture estimated that the average farm household income was $77,654 or about 17% higher than the average U.S. household income.[56] From a public economics perspective, subsidies of any kind work to create a socially and politically acceptable equilibrium that is not necessarily Pareto efficient.[57]
Environmental implications
The monoculture system associated with subsidized large-scale production has been implicated as a contributory factor in Colony Collapse Disorder which has affected bee populations. Bee pollination is an essential ecosystem service essential for the production of many varieties of fruits and vegetables. Subsidies often go towards subsidising meat production which has other nutritional and environmental implications; and it has been found that out of the $200Bn subsidies to subsidise crops from 1995-2010 around two thirds of this went to animal feed, tobacco and cotton production.[58] On the other hand, farmers producing fruits and vegetables received no direct subsidies. The environmental impact of meat production is high due to the resource and energy requirements that go into production of feed for livestock throughout their lifespan, for example, a kilogram of beef uses about 60 times as much water as an equivalent amount of potato.[59] The subsidies contribute to meat consumption by allowing for an artificially low cost of meat products.[60]
Neoliberals argue that the current subsidies distort incentives for the global trade of agricultural commodities in which other countries may have a comparative advantage. Allowing countries to specialize in commodities in which they have a comparative advantage in and then freely trade across borders would therefore increase global welfare and reduce food prices.[61] Ending direct payments to farmers and deregulating the farm industry would eliminate inefficiencies and deadweight loss created by government intervention.
However, others disagree, arguing that a more radical transformation of agriculture is needed, one guided by the notion that ecological change in agriculture cannot be promoted without comparable changes in the social, political, cultural and economic arenas that conform and determine agriculture. The organized peasant and indigenous based agrarian movements, e.g. Via Campesina, consider that only by changing the export-led, free-trade based, industrial agriculture model of large farms can the downward spiral of poverty, low wages, rural-urban migration, hunger and environmental degradation be halted.[62]
See also
- Protectionism
- Free trade
- Agricultural policy
- Price support
- 2007–2008 world food price crisis
- Electrical energy efficiency on United States farms
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- ^ Hoesktra et al 2012
- ^ Yale Rudd Centre
- ^ Anderson, Kym; Will Martin (13 September 2005). "Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda". The World Economy 28 (9): 1301–1327. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00735.x.
- ^ Altieri, Miguel (July 2009). "Agroecology, small farms, and food sovereignty". Monthly Review 61 (3): 102–113. doi:10.14452/mr-061-03-2009-07_8.
Further reading
- Sumner, Daniel A. (2008). "Agricultural Subsidy Programs". In David R. Henderson (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Library of Economics and Liberty. ISBN 978-0865976658. OCLC 237794267.
- Farm Commodity Programs: A Short Primer, a Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, 20 June 2002.
External links
- Rethinking the Export-Import Bank by Aaron Lukas and Ian Vásquez
- Steel Trap: How Subsidies and Protectionism Weaken the U.S. Steel Industry
- Why Congress Should Repeal Sugar Subsidy
- Ten Reasons to Cut Farm Subsidies by Chris Edwards
- Should the United States Cut Its Farm Subsidies? – Daniel Griswold, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies, and Bob Young, chief economist for the American Farm Bureau, debate whether the United States should be subsidizing its farmers
- Farm Security: The mohair of the dog that bites you – Comedy writer Dave Barry on farm subsidies
- You Are What You Grow – Article on farm subsidies from The New York Times.
- Kick All Agricultural Subsidies (kickAAS) – a campaign run by The Guardian newspaper in the UK
- Ripe for Reform: Six Good Reasons to Reduce U.S. Farm Subsidies and Trade Barriers by Daniel Griswold, Stephen Slivinski, and Christopher Preble (5 September 2005).
- Still at the Federal Trough: Farm Subsidies for the Rich and Famous Shattered Records in 2001– a paper presented by the Heritage Foundation arguing that farm subsidies are corporate welfare and do not benefit small family farms.
- Environmental Working Group's Farm Subsidy Database


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All goals by the norm are achieved. I finished school, I traveled, I fell in love, I fell out of love. I got heart broken and I even broke some hearts on my way through my twenties.
I partied, made foolish stuff and faced difficult situations and people. But I was never in danger. I never got hooked on drugs or alcohol, developed bulimia or anorexia. Had abusive boy friends or ended up in violent relationships. I just did normal stuff. You know.
I worked, got myself a flat but never dared to drill into the walls. I had laundry time on Thursday evenings and went to the gym regularly and grabbed an after work beer on Friday nights with my girl friends downtown Stockholm city. I tried different professions and always did my best. Put my mind to whatever I wanted to achieve and achieved it. But one day I wanted to jump off the "normal" life and I quit my job - at the top of my current career - and went traveling for adventure and clarity.
I met a man who was totally different from any other man I had known and we got married. I left my home country, my language, my culture and my roots. It was easy at the time. It felt so right. After years of drifting it felt like coming home although it was in a foreign world. Maybe this part wasn't really normal stuff, you know, but it felt so normal at the time.
I had children, I raised my children and gave up my own being in the process. I became a full on Mama on every level. Their needs before my own. I was riding faaaar back on the priority train... In the luggage wagon actually... It was my call, my purpose, everything I wanted. Not very comfortable or fulfilling, kind of hard but still so so wonderful. Just normal stuff. You know.
Now the kids are older, more independent and in less need of me, unless they need a ride or some cash. And I'm a full on Mama who is trying to find her way back to that woman she once was, before all these things happened. Or, let me re-phrase that... I'm trying to figure out who Annette is today, AFTER all these things happened... Because I'm not the same, I'm different. And I truly feel a bit lost. I'm in the middle of a mid life crises, questioning where I am, what I've done and where I'm going. Reflecting upon choices I've made, or not made and choices I will be making or not make. If you ask some of my friends they would say I'm always in crisis of some sort... I guess that is partly true. And there is nothing wrong or bad in that. Quite the opposite, it's a sign of growth. Learning. Discovery. Embrace crisis, reflection, striving for answers and directions, purposes and meaning. Go with it. After all it is just normal stuff. You know.
PS Bless Prince Harry for finally allowing himself to express his thoughts and feelings so openly in public, lifting that lid off expected royal perfection and showing people that he is only human like the rest of us. Being royal or not, it was never his choice to be brought to the world as a prince, it just kind of happened, and his life is filled with as much "just normal stuff" like yours and mine. No one has the right to tell him to not talk openly about it. Not in 2017.


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Rangers purchase contracts of INF Leury Garcia and LHP Joe Ortiz; acquire RHP Jake Brigham from Chicago Cubs for RHP Barret Loux and player to be named later
Arlington, Texas – The Texas Rangers announced today that the club has purchased the contracts of infielder Leury Garcia (pronounced luhr-EE) from Frisco (AA) and left-handed pitcher Joe Ortiz from Round Rock (AAA), adding them to the 40-man roster.
In addition, the club has re-acquired right-handed pitcher Jake Brigham for the Chicago Cubs in exchange for right-handed pitcher Barret Loux and a player to be named later. Brigham has also been added to the Rangers' major league roster, putting that list at 38 players.
Arlington, Texas – The Texas Rangers announced today that the club has purchased the contracts of infielder Leury Garcia (pronounced luhr-EE) from Frisco (AA) and left-handed pitcher Joe Ortiz from Round Rock (AAA), adding them to the 40-man roster.
In addition, the club has re-acquired right-handed pitcher Jake Brigham for the Chicago Cubs in exchange for right-handed pitcher Barret Loux and a player to be named later. Brigham has also been added to the Rangers' major league roster, putting that list at 38 players.
The team has also signed right-handed pitcher Johan Yan to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training.
Garcia, 21, batted .292 (110-377) with 12 doubles, 11 triples, 2 home runs, 30 RBI, and 31 stolen bases in 100 games with Double-A Frisco in 2012. The switch-hitter split time between second base and shortstop last season, and also appeared in center field. Garcia ranked among Texas League leaders in both triples (2nd) and stolen bases (5th), while posting the 4th-highest batting average among Texas farmhands in full season leagues. He is currently playing in the Dominican Winter League with Cibao and batting .288 (23-80) with 4 doubles, a triple, 2 home runs, 7 RBI, and 3 stolen bases in 20 games, logging time at second, third, shortstop, and center field. He was originally signed as a non-drafted free agent in 2007.
Ortiz, 22, combined to go 2-3 with 6 saves and a 2.15 ERA (15 ER/62.2 IP) over 51 relief appearances with Frisco and Triple-A Round Rock last season. The southpaw tallied 52 strikeouts against just 9 walks. Ortiz limited left-handed batters to a .216 average (21-97) in 2012, with opponents batting .242 (57-236) overall. The Venezuela native held the opposition to a .220 average (13-59) with runners in scoring position. Ortiz is currently with La Guaira in the Venezuelan Winter League, going 0-2 with a 3.95 ERA (6 ER/13.2 IP) over 16 relief appearances. He was originally signed as a non-drafted free agent in 2006.
Brigham, 24, opened the 2012 season at Frisco (AA), going 5-5, 4.28 (59 ER/124.0 IP) with 116 strikeouts in 21 starts for the RoughRiders. He was traded to the Cubs on July 31 in exchange for catcher Geovany Soto and was 0-2 in two starts (8 ER/3.2 IP) at Tennessee (AA) before going on the disabled list on August 9 for the rest of the season with a right elbow strain. Brigham was selected by Texas in the sixth round of the 2006 First Year Player Draft and was added to the major league roster for the first time in November 2011.
Loux, 23, was 14-1 with a 3.47 ERA in 25 starts at Frisco (AA) in 2011, his second professional season after signing as a free agent with Texas in November 2010.
Yan, 24, combined to go 1-1 with 11 saves and a 3.98 ERA (23 ER/52.0 IP) over 45 relief outings between Frisco and Round Rock last season, tying for the 2nd-most saves among Texas farmhands in 2012. The side-winding righty held opposing right-handed batters to a .217 average (26-120), while opponents hit .254 (50-197) overall. Opponents hit just .174 (12-69) with runners in scoring position against Yan. He is currently pitching in the Dominican Winter League for Cibaenas, where he has gone 1-0 with a 3.52 ERA (3 ER/7.2 IP) in 11 relief appearances. Yan, who was signed by Texas as an infielder in 2005 and converted to the mound in 2009, will be in big league camp for the first time.
The Rangers also announced today that left-hander Matt Harrison has been selected as the team's 2012 Pitcher of the Year in voting conducted by the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Harrison was 18-11 with a 3.29 ERA in 32 starts with the Rangers in 2012. He ranked third in the A.L. in wins and complete games (4-tied) and placed seventh in ERA and innings (213.1), leading the staff in all four categories. His 18 victories tied the club record for wins by a left-hander with Kenny Rogers (2004). Harrison was just the second Rangers pitcher ever with 18+ wins and a sub-3.30 ERA for a season, joining Ferguson Jenkins in 1974 and 1978.
Harrison, who earned Pitcher of the Year honors for the first time, and Rangers Player of the Year Adrian Beltre will be among the award recipients at the 2013 Texas Rangers Dr Pepper Awards Show, which will be held in conjunction with Texas Rangers Fan Fest on Friday, January 11 at the Arlington Convention Center. Other award winners will be announced in upcoming weeks. Tickets for Fan Fest, which will take place January 11-12, are on sale at texasrangers.com/fanfest or by calling 972-RANGERS.
RANGERS HOT STOVE EVENT REMINDER: The First Texas Rangers Hot Stove Event will be held next Thursday, November 29 from 4:00 until 9:00 p.m. in Captain Morgan Club at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The Hot Stove Event is open free of charge to all fans. Rangers pitcher Tanner Scheppers and coach Jackie Moore will be on hand to sign autographs from 6:00 until 7:00 p.m. There will be discounted food and beverage items on sale in Captain Morgan Club, and the adjacent Kids Zone will also be open. In addition, the Kids Zone Retail Store will have a selection of Rangers Merchandise discounted up to 80% off of the original price. Fans attending the Hot Stove Event can park in the B Lot at the corner of Ballpark Way and Randol Mill Road and enter Rangers Ballpark and Captain Morgan Club through the Center Field Gate.
OLSEN SIGNS MINORS CONTRACT WITH NO INVITE: Texas has signed left-handed pitcher Scott Olsen to a minor league contract, and he will be in minor league camp this spring. Olsen, who turns 29 on January 12, has gone 37-49 with a 4.85 ERA over 130 games/127 starts in his major league career with the Marlins (2005-08) and Nationals (2009-10). He signed with the Chicago White Sox last January and spent the first three months of the season on the minor league disabled list with left rotator cuff inflammation. He made 3 minor league starts in the Chicago-AL organization before being released on July 7.
ARIZONA FALL LEAGUE RECAP: INF Chris McGuiness, who was named the AFL MVP on Saturday, led the league with 27 RBI and also ranked among the leaders in home runs (T3rd, 4), total bases (T6th, 43), hits (T7th, 26), and walks (T10th, 13)…INF Hanser Alberto capped his Fall League debut with a 4-hit performance on November 15 to raise his season average to .397 (25-63), 3rd-best in the league…SS Luis Sardinas batted .318 (14-44) in 11 games with Surprise…LHP Jimmy Reyes posted a 0.68 ERA (1 ER/13.1 IP) and held opponents to a .152 average (7-46) over 9 relief appearances…RHP Ryan Rodebaugh compiled 9.0 scoreless innings with 7 strikeouts over his last 7 relief appearances…Rodebaugh recorded at least one strikeout in 9 of his 10 appearances with the Saguaros…RHP Ben Rowen registered 7 strikeouts over 5.1 innings in his final 4 relief outings.
Dominican Winter League: OF Engel Beltre (Licey) ranks among the league leaders in triples (2nd, 5), batting (6th, .323), and RBI (T10th, 14)…3B Mike Olt (Licey) hit his second home run yesterday and has hit safely in 7 of his last 8 games.
Puerto Rican Winter League: C Jorge Alfaro (Ponce) batted. 314 (11-35) with 2 home runs and 7 RBI through his first 9 games…OF Mike Bianucci (Ponce) has hit .314 (11-35) with 4 doubles, a home run, and 7 RBI through 9 games.
Mexican Winter League: C Jose Felix is batting .325 (13-40) with 3 doubles and 7 RBI in 14 games for Guasave.
Venezuelan Winter League: RHP Wilfredo Boscan still leads the league with a 0.65 ERA (2 ER/27.2 IP) in 6 games/starts for Zulia.


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Piano is such an intriguing instrument. Not only can one pound the hell out of it, but it can also be played softly, almost caressingly, to a point that one wonders if it's the same instrument.
Gene Lees, the eminent Jazz story-teller, recounts a time when he and pianist Bill Evans walked into a club to catch a set by Oscar Peterson who could, and often did, play the piano very aggressively. During a lull in the performance, Gene turned to Bill and asked him why Oscar didn't employ Bill's method of understated and implied chords voicings. Bill replied: "It wouldn't fit with what he was doing."
Since the piano doesn't have a personality, one's approach to the instrument may have more to do with a player's own personality than the instrument itself.
Although Oscar Peterson could certainly play quiet ballads on the piano, he preferred to play it in a percussive manner often employing riotous tempos and the full orchestral range of the instrument through the use of highly accented and syncopated rhythmic riffs. At times it seemed that his style of piano trio Jazz could generate the intensity of an entire big band.
Indeed, there are a couple of example of recordings featuring Oscar with big bands in which Peterson gave the entire band a run for its money! Oscar, who at times could seem as big [both physically and in terms of his aura] as the piano itself, appeared to have a personality that sought out the instrument's more percussive qualities, not to mention that, in Oscar's case at least, employing 10 'fingers' onto eighty-eight keys could generate many notes flying by at a very rapid pace.
When I'm in the mood for it, there's nothing I like better than fastening my seat belt and letting Oscar transport me into a world of foot-stompin, finger-poppin' and heart-pounding percussive piano trio Jazz excitement.
But there are times when I like to enjoy Jazz that unfolds slowly, quietly and very introspectively; the quiet moments made possible by a pianist who display a softer touch. This does not necessarily imply slower tempos and ballads, but a softer touch does connote a more controlled expression and one in which notes and phrased are doled out more selectively and with more spacing.
Recently, I was in a pensive mood and the pianism of Karl Boehlee of The Netherlands formed a perfect complement to it.
Boehlee's penchant for sensitively played piano offers plenty of room for him to display his quite exquisite touch on the instrument. If you love the ringing sounds of the piano keys with all of their stated and implied overtones, Karel creates a piano sounds that is simply gorgeous.
Even on medium and the up-tempo tunes, Boehlee is very much a minimalist,. He is able to express a variety of emotions with what always seems like just enough notes.
Although he has been playing professional for about twenty-five years, Karel Boehlee is perhaps
's best-kept Jazz secret. The following
comments about him were offered in an interview with Karel's bassist, Hein van
de Geyn, who is also the owner of Challenge Records: Holland
I remember hearing him play in the early eighties, when I just returned from the
. He was the first pianist of
this kind of modern class I had ever heard in United
States .
And on what level! Over the years Karel has improved and improved. The lines
became more thoughtful, the harmony more precise; the rhythm was always very
strong, but became larger, more in the pocket. Yet underneath all these ingredients
there was always something more powerful: the sound! Karel's sound is unique;
his touch just seems to reach you right in the centre of where music enters the
soul. With impeccable taste Karel will always come up with something fresh,
something his own and makes it sound so good. Holland
Hein had this to say when asked why Karel is such a well kept secret or why is it that so few people in the Jazz world know about him.
Karel is a real player; he simply loves to go out and play. He will play with his old pals in little cafés, he will play with young and upcoming musicians, he will play with the best pop singers. Karel is a musician at heart. And the business doesn't know how to deal with this. The business wants exclusivity, wants to put a label on someone, wants an image. And somehow Karel is not playing that game. He is not chasing record deals; he is not showing his face at the right spots at the right time, he doesn't search for journalists to do interviews with him. He is busy doing what a musician should do: play music!
"On top of being a pianist, Karel is a very original composer as well. Over the years he has written quite a large repertoire of strongly individual originals. And I must say that it is through his original compositions that I hear most clearly what Karel wants to portray. To put it in words is not easy, so it seemed best to me to record it on my label, and share my enthusiasm with the listeners in this way
Perhaps it takes people with a broader outlook to recognize Karel's sublimity. People like Mikoto Kimata, the owner of M&I records based in
who has recorded ten CD's by Karel for his
Japanese label; roughly at a pace of one album a year, Tokyo
And while Karel Boehlee is largely unknown outside The Netherlands, he is well-known and very popular in
and his CDs
continue to captivate Japanese
fans. Perhaps one of the reason for his
popularity there is that he was the founding member of the anonymous-sounding
European Jazz Trio, which helped ignite the "European jazz boom" in Japan nearly two
decades ago. Japan
Aristotle once noted: "How different we all are with regard to those things we hold in common."
The wonderful thing about Jazz is that it communicates itself to us in so many different ways.
And the wonderful thing about the Jazz pianism of Karel Boehlee is how quietly and almost unsuspectingly his music can overwhelm us with its beauty and its majesty.
See [and listen] for yourself as Karel performs Gato Barbieri's theme from the movie, Last Tango in Paris, with Hein van de Geyn on bass and Hans van Oosterhout on drums on the following video.


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DeKALB – Northern Illinois University alumnus Marissa McGrath will return to campus on Wednesday, Nov. 20, to present "Demystified: Uncovering the Women Who Shaped Our Communities."
McGrath will speak at 7 p.m. at the Barsema Alumni & Visitors Center, 231 N. Annie Glidden Road. In this free presentation, she will discuss her small business, The Good Time Girls, which offers historical walking tours of Bellingham, Wash.
Bellingham is a pioneer town which boasted legally-regulated prostitution for 90 years, inspiring the Good Time Girls to write a tour exploring the community's relationship with sex work. During her talk, McGrath will tell her audience how to research similar stories in their own community and how to mold that history into a narrative. She will talk about the challenges of rewriting history and engaging audiences.


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Lembeh Strait March 2012
Posted 28 March 2012 - 02:28 AM
DSLR underwater video compilation of short trip to Lembeh strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. 04~08th Mar 2012.
Filmed with Canon 7D & SmallHD DP4 in Nauticam housing, 60/100mm lens(full-time manual focus), SubSee +5/10, SOLA lights, XIT404 tripod.
Special thanks to NAD Lembeh Resort.
Cheers EJ,
Posted 28 March 2012 - 03:12 AM
Edited by SwiftFF5, 28 March 2012 - 03:12 AM.
Public Safety Diver
Posted 28 March 2012 - 04:12 AM
Nauticam Rossa / GH4 / 7Dmk2 / 1Dx
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 05:09 AM
Another good one, i'm going to have to go and get some video soon
Step 1: Go diving..........
Step 2: See Step 1
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 05:15 AM
Join us for an Underwater Photography Workshop in the Lembeh Strait at NAD Lembeh with Doug Sloss in 2018
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 05:37 AM
Posted 28 March 2012 - 09:53 AM
Thanks EJ!
nikon n90s/ikelite housing/twin SS-200 canon G2/ikelite/DS-50/optical TTL slave
sony V3/ikelite/DS-51/Heinrich DA2 slave
Posted 28 March 2012 - 01:03 PM
Really amazing that you could get so close on some of those shots without using diopters and capture such wonderful shots.
Cheers, Simon
Posted 28 March 2012 - 09:05 PM
Some fantastic shots in there EunJae. Well done!
Posted 28 March 2012 - 10:59 PM
Cheers Pete.
Owner of Down Under Aquatic Imaging.
Posted 29 March 2012 - 01:13 AM
He is using diopters Simon (SubSee +5/10).
LOL I should get back into the habit of actually reading things on message forums before I post. I could swear that you don't pay as much attention when using an iPad...
Posted 29 March 2012 - 06:59 AM
The super macro scenes are amazing.
The music selection is excellent too.
No narrations needed, the images speak for them self.
Andres Cuevas
Nikon D7000, Tokina 10-17, Aquatica AD7000, Aquatica Mini Dome, 2xInon Z-240 type 4.
Posted 30 March 2012 - 12:04 AM
Nikon D7100, Nauticam NA-D7100, Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes
Posted 30 March 2012 - 02:41 AM
Great music also adds to the quality of the footage.
Posted 03 May 2012 - 03:48 PM
When I just switched from still to video, I was just using front lighting with two SOLA 1200 on the short arm. It was very easy to lit everything, just light on (wide beam) and push rec button on the camera, that's it. But then I got boring, flat & videoish(?) footage.
So, I start using light on long arms and spot beam to avoid lit water between the lens and subject and background. It's works very well but of course, required long time for setup before start recording.
The other method of lighting is using custom made snoot on lights.
As you can see in the photo, this snoot have 67mm thread so I can use diopter (ex: subsee +5/+10) to get more strong and spot beam for macro footage. Of course, it's very hard to use this setup on conventional arm setting(now I'm often use it on gorilla pod).
I'm always thinking how to shooting video more artistic(?) way and need more ideas - different lighting, shallow dof, focus in&out, framing differently.
FYI, almost all footage in this video, shot on 1080/30p (conformed to 24p in post edting) , shutter speed fixed at 1/60sec, changed only aperture(iris) & iso (100~320).
Hope this help.
Edited by escape, 03 May 2012 - 08:04 PM.
Posted 03 May 2012 - 07:48 PM
Also, are slowing your footage down from 30p to 24p, or resampling it?
Posted 03 May 2012 - 07:59 PM
Is it hot under that light?
Also, are slowing your footage down from 30p to 24p, or resampling it?
Editing 30p to 24p, I use this method in Sony Vegas.
Timeline are set to "disable resample" and then set playback rate by 0.800.
Then export to 23.976fps with AviSynth, MeGUI (for Vimeo).
So, I guess it's 25% slowing down but not resampling.
BTW, can't fry the eggs with that diopter attached lights.
Posted 04 May 2012 - 07:38 AM
Does anyone have snoots built for the sola 4000's? If so how did you do it?
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Posted 04 May 2012 - 07:55 AM
Posted 04 May 2012 - 04:38 PM
This is amazing footage. Thanks for posting about how you got it!
Does anyone have snoots built for the sola 4000's? If so how did you do it?
Very easy DIY. It just piece of pvc pipe and $3 step-down ring (67mm thread) glued on it.
But you need some test for decide length of pvc pipe.


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Yesterday, 27 March, Estonian Ambassador to the UN Margus Kolga presented a letter of ratification of amendments to the Rome Statue to UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Patricia O'Brien in New York. The amendments primarily address the crime of aggression.
Also present at the presentation of the letter of ratification was President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court Tiina Intelmann, who expressed satisfaction over the ratification and encouraged other countries to follow Estonia's example.
Ambassador Kolga said that Estonia is the second country in the European Union and the fifth country in the world to ratify the amendments on the crime of aggression. "The goal of the amendments is to make it possible to bring to trial political and military leaders that have initiated acts of aggression," Kolga noted. "The amendments also protect potential victims of aggression," he added.
The International Criminal Court will gain the right to investigate crimes of aggression as of 2017, on the condition that the Kampala amendments have been ratified by 30 countries. This is why it is essential that the amendments be ratified by as many of the participating countries as possible.
Estonia has repeatedly called on countries to join the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court and for the member states of the court to join the Kampala amendments.
In order to hold an individual responsible for a crime of aggression, an act of aggression must have been committed. A crime of aggression means the planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position that allows him or her to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a state. Therefore crimes of aggression can first and foremost be committed by heads of state and government, as well as military leaders. An act of aggression means the use of armed force by a state against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another state. In addition, an act of aggression by its character, gravity and scale constitutes a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations.
In Kampala, the capital of Uganda, in June of 2010, the primary points of contention in reaching an agreement were related to the conditions in which the court can exercise its jurisdiction. A compromise was reached by which the court can first and foremost start an investigation when a situation is referred by the UN Security Council. Under certain circumstances the start of an investigation can be requested by the state itself, or the court can initiate a request.
The need to compile the Kampala amendments to the Rome Statute came about because during the negotiations of the Rome Statute in 1998, which ended in the creation of the International Criminal Court, a consensus was not reached regarding the definition and jurisdictional conditions of crimes of aggression.
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1) I'm used to mangastream's translation so FORGIVE me about that. You're probably right since i recall the anime also calls it the fiore kingdom.
2) No one's heard of them because they were supposed to be the kingdom's special elite forces.. like how u would never know who are the agents of the British Secret Service BUT u do know they are capable men who serve Britain. okay, shitty example but u get the point. About that Saber Tooth thing, i alr mentioned, it was totally bs to me. I mean really, hailed as the strongest guild + dragon slayers able to go into DF at will = still no match for Natsu without DF alone is too much of a hax for me to take. To me its just Mashima saying: [_l_ u sabertooth now that FT's back you're going to shit]
And i reiterate again, they aren't random executioners just because no one heard of them. I think if the kingdom were sure anyone who faced the executioners were set for doom the executioners must be really looked upon in the ranks of the fiore army. I never said that "works for the kingdom" should automatically mean "Is stronger than most of the strongest members of some of the strongest guilds in the kingdom"., i'm merely saying no matter the opponent whoever Mashima wants to win he'll definitely hax pwn his way to victory.
3) i don't really think its so much of turning the world against them, seeing how Fairy Tail's very motto is LIVING WITH FREEDOM, i don't think they'd give 2 shits. Basically the Kingdom's army aren't any pushovers. in fact i forgot why this even needs questioning.
regardless... all i'm saying is we shouldn't take their power levels seriously anymore because it'd be redundant. i rly feel mashima likes to glorify characters just to allow FT to stomp them to make FT look epic, which i guess should happen since their the main good guys.. but u know, it kinda gets
*i'm sorry for the excessive crude language, can't really think straight today*
|2012-12-01, 20:17
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Let me ask you one question.
Name me on character not affiliated with a guild who is even remotely strong? Besides Zeref and Acnologia
|2012-12-01, 20:30
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|2012-12-01, 20:38
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I'm talking humans, not dragons.
Oh an for these super tough hyped up guys that were taken down and only saw two chapters of total screen time. Can you tell me all five of their names?
|2012-12-01, 20:47
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|2012-12-01, 20:51
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Not Enough Sleep
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|2012-12-01, 22:30
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http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Cait_Shelter , I apologize for the linking, but it's officially Cait Shelter. Also Xellos, sorry man, but a Guild Master is the one mostly related with a Guild, since, you know, Master and all.
|2012-12-02, 00:54
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Senior Member
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Just got back from the anime and am reminded of why we're having this extended FT hax in the manga...
man, that horrible loss from Lucy to Flare still needs to be atoned for... where's those Raven Tail members? shouldn't they also be jailed up in the palace?
|2012-12-02, 13:53
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Not Enough Sleep
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|2012-12-02, 16:44
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He thought they were going to be super tough. No idea where the assumption came from. They were never mentioned before, they had a total of maybe 3 chapters from first showing up to defeat. We didnt' even get all their names.
I was pointing out that no one in the series is worth a damn strength wise unless they are affiliated with some magic guild, official or dark. Asked him to name me anyone who isn't part of some guild that is even remotely strong.
Not sure how Cait Shelters guild master qualifies. He was a guild. Sure he was his entire town, guild and everything, but still he was a guild.
The only person that I can think of this entire series that isn't part of anything has been Jelall. But that is even stretching it, cause he had infiltrated the magic council and even now he is sort of in his own guild. Simlar to a dark guild.
The fiore kingdom is pathetic. The only time we have seen anyone even remotely decent in their military has been in anime fillers.
|2012-12-02, 17:39
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Yeah, I highly recommend FT moving out of Fiore since clearly they don't appreciate them. The council constantly tries to find something to use against them to disband them, the kingdom wants to use one of their own for their anti-Zeref plan, hell, I'd probably move after the first time they'd mess with me.
|2012-12-02, 18:38
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|2012-12-02, 18:43
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If you'll allow me to delve into anime filler then Byro and perhaps Gattman would be considered as strong individuals not affiliated with a guild. I mean Byro was supposed to have one of the top 5 offensive magics in the kingdom and may have beaten Gildarts if he wasn't handed a case of the idiot ball and forgot he could do more than punch.
I also would really like it if Mashima explored some of Fiore's neighboring kingdoms. Get a taste of how Fiore wizards compare with the rest of the world.
|2012-12-02, 22:34
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But heck, those filler guys were before Fairy Tail's big jump in strength though too, so they are probably weak again by comparison. Byro should still be relatively strong since I don't know how the cast compares to Gildartz as he did during that time.
|2012-12-02, 23:37
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Everybody knows that sports are contests of skill in which a winner emerges, but what are supersports? Judging from the Bentley Supersports, which pairs the automaker's expected refinement and elegance with supercollider acceleration and centrifugal corner stickiness, Supersports are something altogether more strange, like a mixture of various sports. Think WhirlyBall, which mixes bumper cars with elements of jai alai and basketball; or paintball, which mixes participants shooting one another with not dying.
Bentley already has superhero-level Continentals in the family—the Speed versions of the GT, Flying Spur, and GTC—but the Supersports models are more thoroughly changed beasts. This particular one takes the Bentley Continental GTC (GT convertible), strips out nearly 200 pounds, drops the suspension 0.4 inch and stiffens it by up to 33 percent, and wrings another 21 hp out of the 6.0-liter W-12 engine. Weight primarily comes out of the seats, brakes, and wheels. At 5400 or so pounds, it's still hardly light, but 621 hp does a fine job of overcoming the mass. Bentley claims 0 to 60 mph should take 3.9 seconds, and given the quickest time we've wrung out of a Continental GTC Speed is 4.3 seconds, that sounds pretty close. Shifts from the six-speed ZF gearbox are quickened—you can hear how quick they are on the Supersports coupe in our weekly "Name That Exhaust Note" blog feature.
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Like all members of the Continental family, this convertible is relaxed and tremendously composed at supersonic highway speeds. It's just that it gets to those speeds more quickly and can maintain them through tighter turns and with greater composure. Although the push of 590 lb-ft of torque is never subtle, brief turbo lag and all-wheel drive mean the first half-second or so of this Bentley's launch is a bit soft. Where it really impresses is at higher speeds, when the 621 hp batter aerodynamics into submission and the car continues to pull to ludicrous velocities. Bentley claims a top speed of 202 mph.
Anything weighing 5400 pounds and turning 20-inch, 275-width Pirellis at each corner is going to feel planted, but other GTCs tend toward understeer when the kinks tighten. Not the Supersports. Its torque split is tweaked from 50/50 front to rear to 40/60, balancing cornering behavior. For the first time in a Continental droptop, really hammering the throttle midcorner can induce some oversteer. Body roll is completely absent. Bentley chairman Franz-Josef Paefgen says the Supersports will turn a Nürburgring lap time similar to a Ferrari's, but the accuracy of that statement depends on your definition of "similar." Both are measured in minutes and seconds, but the Supersports time of about eight minutes 30 seconds isn't going to worry anyone in Maranello.
Heavy cars at high speed need good brakes, and Bentley claims the carbon-ceramic units it fits to the Supersports are the most powerful binders currently fitted to any passenger car. At 16.5 inches up front, they are certainly supersized. Although the pedal feels spongy, the immediacy with which the brakes haul the car down from speed will have your ribcage feeling spongy as well. We measured a 157-foot stop from 70 mph in a Supersports coupe, and the convertible should be able to mimic that feat. Despite the superb braking performance, the driver's best connection to the Continental Supersports is the steering wheel. Although not providing much in the way of feedback, it is nicely weighted, progressive, and wrapped in leather so fantastically grippy you can steer with your palms.
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The cabin is swaddled in similar tactile treats, with Alcantara everywhere, including the carbon-fiber bucket seats. Manually adjustable thrones in a Bentley might seem appalling, but those seats are responsible for 90 pounds of the Supersports's weight reduction. The coupe benefits further from the loss of its rear seats, but in the convertible, those seats house the rollover protection hoops. Even if Bentley had removed the cushions, the structure hidden in the headrests would still have to be there, so the engineers left the seats in.


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Katie Pursell is leading the Lady Bisons with a first round score of 77, tying her for 16th place Monday.
Mary Leigh Baker is tied for 33rd with an 81.
Brie Rowdon is tied for 41st with an 83. Ashlee Catlin is two strokes behind in 46th place with an 85. Lindsey Beard is fifth with an 87..
Playing on its home course, Stetson posted its best team score in its history with a 298.
Hatter junior, Danielle Jackson, ended the day as the lone golfer among the field of 50 to beat par, shooting a one-under, 71. She finished one shot clear of Campbell's Belen Diaz Cisneros, a runner-up last year, and ETSU's Sinead O'Sullivan. Jackson's teammate, Lauren Cate sits in fourth, two strokes behind at one-over 73. Both Jackson and Cate sprinted out of the gate as Jackson birdied three of the first four holes, while Cate, a freshman, opened her A-Sun Championship with an eagle on the first hole.
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In many professions, badges from a school of some kind are a necessity. Cooking for restaurants is heading that way, says Executive Chef William Ruiz of the Woodside Bakery & Cafe. But for now, for himself, for longtime Pastry Chef Jesus Mendoza and for Sous Chef Ismael Guido, they don't need no stinking badges.
Mr. Mendoza, who is 35, came to the Woodside Bakery 20 years ago to wash dishes, and moved up by proving himself at various pastry specialties. Mr. Guido, 42, started as a dishwasher 18 years ago; he has some sous chef duties but not the long hours, and for a reason: He also cooks at a Stanford University dining hall. Mr. Ruiz, 48, puts in long hours at the cafe and says he refined his craft while working for other chefs. He's been the head chef at the bakery and cafe since summer 2012.
At times, it's probably a high-wire act, but always with a net: it's a family place with a menu that changes slowly, warmth that endures, and regulars who order the same thing time after time. "I think part of the magic here is being a family business. That means a lot to people. It's like comfort food," says Jan Sweyer, who with her brother Mark Sweyer bought the bakery and cafe out of bankruptcy in 2006. Their joint career began with the purchase of a deli in Burlingame in 1976 and went on to include an Irish pub in Cupertino and a bar and a cafe, both in Redwood City.
They grew up in Woodside, went to community schools and have worked with their classmates' children. "We have personally hired, and fired, the children of the children we grew up with," Ms. Sweyer says. "This is our home. This is home. We're deep in these roots."
The importance of soup
If Mr. Ruiz carries himself with the air of a street fighter, it may be a consequence of where he went to culinary school: "The school of hard knocks," he says. Culinary schools have it backward by teaching technique ahead of or instead of cooking science; because the school environment is highly controlled, graduates tend to think they know it all, he says. Acceptance in culinary school once required two letters of reference and time in a professional kitchen. Today, "if you have money, you can get into culinary school," he says. "Schools are a big machine, a big cog. You feed the machine to keep it turning. ... Cooking is like going to war. Who do you want doing your fighting? West Pointers or guys who have been in the trenches?"
To bring out his war cry, try ordering something not on the menu. "You want to enjoy your dinner?" he says in reply to such a hypothetical request. "Good. Stay here and eat what I cook. You can cook your own dinner at home. You come to my restaurant, you're eating my food."
It's partly a business decision. "If Joe Schmo comes in and asks for something completely wretched, he'll tell his friends: 'I ordered something that was putrid and the chef made it for me and it was putrid.' I'd rather have him leave upset" that he didn't get what he wanted, he says.
Chef Ruiz discovered his life's work in Seattle working for Chef Walter Pisano at Tulio Ristorante. Mr. Ruiz made a different soup every day without traditional thickeners such as cream or roux (flour browned in butter). "Working there really pushed my soup-making capabilities to the limit," Mr. Ruiz says. "When I went to work with Walter, that's when I realized that this would be my career."
Asked to name a soup from those days, Mr. Ruiz recalls a white bean puree, made with onions, cannellini beans, a bay leaf, preserved lemon and vegetable stock. At the Woodside cafe, there are two soups daily, one of them always vegan and gluten-free. Spinach and mushroom soup is popular, server Kacey Crosby says. "People come in and eat just that, just that and a focaccia."
Mr. Ruiz says that one of his first soup-related acts at the cafe was to end the use of chicken bouillon. "Throw all that out," he says he told his staff upon seeing a big box of it. "Cooking is not about convenience, nor is it about taking shortcuts, and that's what it comes down to."
Despite his emphasis on fundamentals, some members of the cooking staff do occasionally take a shorter route. "They think there's a shortcut," Mr. Ruiz says. "I tell them, 'If there is a quicker way to do something to where the end result is the same, I'd let you know that.'" They do get it, though, and it's inspiring "coming in here day in and day out and seeing them grasp it."
Don't be fat
Pastry Chef Mendoza also learned his skills on the job at the bakery. He began as a dishwasher at 15, expressed an interest in baking, and spent 18 months making Danish pastries, he says. Next came six months of cookies and a year of cakes. "Whatever station (my boss) showed me, I learned fast, quickly," Mr. Mendoza says. He became head baker and then pastry chef.
That apprenticeship trajectory continues. He's trained about 200 bakers, 20 of whom are now pastry chefs, he says. Making pastry is about love, Mr. Mendoza says, the love of customers biting into one and having the words, "Oh, it's good," arise from somewhere inside. Among his students: his future wife and his brother, both of whom still work there.
Much like buying and eating pastry, making it is about self-discipline. Is it hard not to overdo the sampling of one's work? "Yes, it's very hard, very hard," Mr. Mendoza says with a broad smile. Sample 10 different items and you may have ingested 2,000 calories. "You have to run every single day" to keep the weight off, he says.
Conscious of this, he says he tries to keep the fat content just above the point at which its absence might be noticed. "I want customers to eat, but I don't want them to be fat."
The bakery makes four sandwich breads for the cafe: Tuscan, ciabatta, rye and sourdough -- and some 600 focaccia every day. Among breads for sale in the bakery is a 100 percent whole wheat loaf. Pure whole wheat bread can be tricky in terms of taste and texture. The key, Mr. Mendoza says, is allowing the bread adequate rise time. While white breads need just two hours, whole wheat needs six. Patience and precision are important in baking, he says, adding: "I want people to eat more healthy bread."
Timing, it's everything
Mr. Guido, a man of few words for this interview, says he came to the attention of the management after they noticed his interest in cooking. "I noticed that I liked it, too, and I love it now," he says.
And the customers love it. "We try to take items away (from the menu) but people ask for it," he adds. "All the food is really good."
"I don't think anyone can touch Ismael on fish and meat dishes," Ms. Sweyer says. It's his timing, she says, his understanding of how the entree continues to cook after it's off the stove. "He cooks them to perfection. It will be perfect when it gets to the table."
How is it working for Mr. Ruiz? "I listen," Mr. Guido says. "I've got the knowledge, I've got the experience, but I listen."


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Bagel head trend is a big distortion
It would appear that the Western media have, yet again, conjured up a "Big in Japan" trend.
If "bagel head" means nothing to you, here's a recap: "Taboo," a show on National Geographic, ran a segment earlier this week on a kind of extreme body modification that has been happening in Japan's underground for years. It involves injecting saline into the forehead and then sometimes putting a depression into the bulge in a way that comes out looking like a bagel or a doughnut.
Predictably, U.S. media outlets such as the Huffington Post, CNN and Mashable, and the U.K.'s The Sun and Daily Mail quickly turned out attention-grabbing stories that insinuated that this was the latest Japanese trend. "Japan's hot new beauty trend?" asks the HuffPo headline, for example.
People outside of Japan seem to be taking the "news" at face value. A tweet from @OMGFact about the "Japanese trend" has been retweeted hundreds of times.
Most observers in Japan, however, know better. @SublightMonster tweeted "Bagel heads: hot new trend, or yet another lazy journalist turning in yet another 'wacky Japan' piece?" @Mulboyne, a British Twitter user based in Tokyo, wrote that he was surprised to run into some bulging foreheads at an underground party in 2009. He told us the hardcore body-modification fans there simply called it "seerin durippu" — saline drip. "One reaction was 'Kimochi warui!' (gross!). It looked a bit unsafe," he said. "There was a lot of amusement, too, of course."
To set the record straight, we spoke with La Carmina, a well-known subculture blogger and TV host. Her team, La Carmina and the Pirates, actually did the legwork for National Geographic. They hooked the producers up with Kerropy Maeda, the man who brought this type of saline injection to Japan in 2007 after seeing it in Canada. La Carmina and her crew even supplied the show with its models. (To learn more about Maeda and the Tokyo scene, read this excellent interview in Vice published last year.)