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Price enjoys competing in first rehab outing
BRADENTON, Fla. -- The setting may have been different, the hitters much less experienced and the temperature quite a bit warmer, but Rays left-hander David Price was no less excited to get back into the routine of starting a game.
But he was a little nervous, too.View Full Game Coverage
BRADENTON, Fla. -- The setting may have been different, the hitters much less experienced and the temperature quite a bit warmer, but Rays left-hander David Price was no less excited to get back into the routine of starting a game.
But he was a little nervous, too.View Full Game Coverage
"My legs, they were shaking," Price said. "It felt like the first Spring Training outing or the first game of the year, it feels like you're pitching in the postseason with those jitters. It was good to have that feeling back, because I haven't had it in a long time."
Those butterflies faded, and the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, on the disabled list since May 16 with a left triceps strain, said he felt "great" after his first Minor League rehab start on Friday for Class A Advanced Charlotte at McKechnie Field.
Wearing a No. 40 jersey rather than his usual No. 14, Price allowed two runs (one earned) on two hits and two walks while striking out four over 2 1/3 innings against the Bradenton Marauders. He threw 49 pitches, 29 of them for strikes.
"That was the biggest thing, getting out there and facing opposing hitters, hearing the walkup song, hearing the PA announce the hitter. It's all new to me," Price said. "It's been 5 1/2, six weeks. It feels good to get back out there and work on my craft in a game environment. I'll take it."
Price, who left his May 15 start early due to injury, doesn't know what the next step in his recovery will be. He should make at least one more rehab start, possibly two, before returning to the Rays' rotation at some point before the All-Star break.
Price said he felt better after Friday's outing than he has at any point this year, but he still made sure not to overdo anything on the mound. His rehab schedule was pushed back a few days after he overexerted himself in a simulated game last week and, as a result, felt some additional soreness afterward. To make sure he was fully recovered, he threw an additional bullpen on Tuesday.
Price threw 41 pitches in his first two innings on Friday, but wanted to get used to the feeling of sitting down and getting back in a game, so he came out to face two batters in the third, giving up a single and inducing a groundout before tipping his cap and waving to the crowd as he left to a small ovation. The inherited runner went on to score the only earned run charged to Price, but he was more encouraged with how his arm felt than how his final line looked.
"I felt good," Price said. "I definitely felt like I had more in the tank that I could've used."
But he also wants to get back to the Rays, rejoin the rotation and improve a pitching staff that has gone through some uncharacteristic struggles this season. That includes Price, who was 1-4 with a 5.24 ERA in nine starts before the injury.
And when, ideally, would he like to be back in his No. 14 jersey facing Major League hitters?
"Uh, four days from now?" Price said, smiling. "That's my day."
Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry.


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Despite Obama's stirring vow in his inaugural address to change the culture of politics in Washington ("On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics."), the early evidence is that Congress is operating under a political dynamic remarkably similar to what occurred during the eight years of the Bush presidency. As most of you know by now, Obama failed to attract a single Republican vote – not one! – on the most important piece of legislation of his young presidency to date (see the nytimes article). On Wednesday, the House passed an $819 billion economic recovery package by an almost straight party vote 244-188. No Republican voted in favor of the legislation, while all but 11 Democrats did. The Senate begins debate on its own version of the stimulus package on Monday.
The lack of Republican support in the House is a stark reminder that despite Obama's lofty rhetoric promising an end to partisan politics, the House remains a highly polarized body. As a result, on most issues involving economic policy, Obama is likely to follow a legislative "strategery" remarkably similar to what George Bush utilized to push his tax cuts through Congress: stake out an initial policy position close to your own party mean in the House, and then moderate that stance as necessary to win opposition party votes in the Senate. I expect a stimulus bill to eventually pass Congress, but only after significant concessions are made to Republicans in the Senate. That will set up a showdown with the much more polarized House as the two chambers seek to resolve their differences in legislative conference.
Why haven't we seen the much-ballyhooed movement away from partisan politics promised by Obama? Because the fundamentals that dictate how politics is played in Washington have not changed. As I noted in an earlier post, Obama's electoral victory – while decisive – fell far short of a mandate for change. Consider the following polling data (source here) – it indicates a significant split among partisans in the public regarding the stimulus bill:
Dem Rep Ind D-R Diff
Obama: Good start on economy 82% 42 60 40 pts
Support $800b stimulus 84 52 69 32
Support it "strongly" 58 22 44 36
More important:
Stimulus spending 62 38 50 24
Controlling deficit 34 58 46 -24
In Obama's economic program 92 43 74 49
That it'll have adequate controls 66 27 39 39
Larger govt, more services 62 21 41 41
Smaller govt, fewer services 33 77 55 -44
Given these numbers, it makes little political sense for Republicans to support the stimulus legislation as it is currently constructed. If Obama wishes to truly pass a bipartisan stimulus bill, he will need to make significant concessions to Republicans in the form of broader and deeper tax cuts. To do so, however risks losing support of his own party's left wing. Much of the media coverage of the House debate describes the stimulus package as Obama's bill. But in fact it is as much Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's bill as it is Obama's. The House is designed to empower the majority party. Given this institutional constraint, there was little Obama could do to bring Republicans on board. Like most presidents, he simply is not that powerful.
My broader point is that the polarization critics often associate with the 8 years of the Bush administration had less to do with Bush's governing strategy and more with the composition of Congress. By virtue of the constitutional-derived incentives, members of Congress react to different electoral influences than does the President. Obama may have "won" the general election, but he received fewer popular votes than most Republicans and many Democratic legislators (I'll present more data on this in a later post). Consequently, in the absence of significant legislative concessions by Obama, Republicans and many Democrats feel little obligation to follow his legislative lead.
Because that deep-seated polarization in Congress did not go away with Obama's election, I don't expect much change in the nature of legislative politics, Obama's stirring words in his inaugural address notwithstanding: "What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them; that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply." Call me acynic, but the evidence indicates the ground hasn't shifted much at all. As my students know, I'm not much for rhetoric – show me the numbers. In my next post, I'll take a closer look at those numbers to document the rise and sources of party polarization in Congress.
For now, however, we simply must lower our expectations regarding Obama's ability to bring change to Washington. Campaigning is not governing. Except in very rare historical instances, presidents cannot remake politics – it is the politics that make the president. On economic issues centered on taxes and government spending, Obama will appear every bit as divisive as Bush.
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It's almost time again for the Tokyo Motor Show, Japan's biennial auto show that is famous for showcasing the latest and greatest concept cars. This year's show doesn't take place until October 24, but we've caught a sneak peek at some of the incredible green rides that will be on display – read on for our favorite electric vehicles from this year's show!
1. Nissan Land Glider
This leaning concept car is tricked out with a flight deck-like dashboard — an appropriate feature for a vehicle and that glides and dips like an airplane. The whole thing is extremely compact, with room for just two passengers in the 3.6 foot-wide vehicle. No word on potential pricing, but the Nissan vehicle, which leans up to 17 degrees, will be all-electric.
2. Subaru Tourer
The hybrid Tourer concept, which is Subaru's first attempt at building a hybrid, is powered by a lithium-ion battery, a boxer engine, and a pair of electric motors. Information on the sleek-looking car is scant, but the car will contain Subaru's direct injection turbocharged boxer engine–a feature that is expected to be present on many future Subaru vehicles.
3. Honda EV-N
This retro concept EV from Honda is notable for one unique feature: the capacity to hold a U3-X gyroscopic electric unicycle in its passenger door frame. The EV-N also comes with a solar roof and swappable seat fabric system.
4. Honda Skydeck
Honda's other hybrid concept vehicle, which is inspired by Honda's Odyssey station wagon, Stream, and the CR-Z concept car, has scissor-like doors for front seat passengers and conventional doors in the back. Unlike in past Honda hybrids, the Skydeck sits in the center console along the floor. Honda is mostly remaining mum on other details, but we love the minimalist interior.
5. Mitsubishi Concept PX-MiEV
The hybrid PX-MiEV is what Mitsubishi dubs a "plug-in crossover", meaning that it contains elements of both traditional and plug-in hybrids. The vehicle's plug-in system lets drivers recharge at any 100 or 200 volt outlet, and EV mode can be switched on for 30 miles, with the option to switch between front wheel and four wheel drive. Mitsubishi's hybrid is comfortable, too, with heat reflective paint and glass, individual air-conditioners, an oxygen-enriching system, and a fatigue-detecting camera that keeps drivers from snoozing.


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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Genealogy Angels....
I'm not sure but I have a feeling a lot of our genealogy angels out there, have time on their hands & most of their own genealogy done....as we all know, one's genealogy is "never" finished/completed....& they've come to love the excitement of busting through those pesky brick walls, wanting others to experience the same thrill. :-) For me, they are the best of the best & I will forever be grateful they are out there.
Here's my story with my own genealogy angel: To give a bit of back story first. Back when my Dad passed away & the family was all just sitting around in the living room chatting, my Mom looked at my aunt (Dad's sister) & made the comment, "You do know you have a 1/2 sister out there somewhere, right?" WHAT? Talk about grabbing everyone's attention, that is definitely one way of doing it. :-) My aunt was stunned to say the least.
Seems like several years earlier my Dad got a letter from a lady who said she thought they were related, as her father's name was William Dodds Evans....same as my Dad's dad. She was going to be in the area & would love to visit with my Dad. Well, he didn't take to kindly to this lady claiming she was related to him, he wrote her back telling her in no certain terms that they were NOT related & he didn't want her to bother us ever again.
You need to know that Granddaddy had a reputation of being a bit wild back in his younger days, such as taking a nip now & then. Then there is Grandmother who was very religious & wouldn't hear of anything that might soil her views.
Notice that my Mom didn't mention that Granddaddy had been married before, just that there is a 1/2 sister out there somewhere. So we're all thinking, especially my aunt, he was a bit wilder than just taking a nip here & there. Ever since Mom dropped that bombshell on us all, I've tried to find his 1/2 sister. My Dad passed away 12 years ago & my Mom could no longer remember any of the particulars since it was so many years ago when they got the letter.
After my Mom passed away last year, I thought maybe, just maybe, she had kept the letter. Yet after going through everything of her's, I found nothing. I guess it was about 6 months ago when I was talking to my older sister about not having any luck on finding Daddy's 1/2 sister, when she gave me another piece of the puzzle. Seems like when she was a teen, & all of the family had gone out somewhere, she got to snooping (as kids do) in Grandmother's (she was living with us at that time) room & found, hidden in a drawer, a divorce decreed for Granddaddy! WOW....so was not expecting to hear that. Though it doesn't surprise me that Grandmother never mentioned it, there is no way she would want it to be known that he had been married before. Divorce was a BIG no-no back then.
Now I'm thinking I'll have better luck in my research on him. Yeah, in my dreams. I never could find anything about his 1st marriage or child. And being that, due to my life nowadays, I had to let my subscription go at Ancestry, which hinder my search even more. I didn't give up though! My thoughts were, most likely Granddaddy's 1st child had passed away by now, but maybe she had a family of her own & they are looking for us as well. I do what we all would do & leave a post on all of the genealogy boards that I knew of, inquiring about Granddaddy & his first family.
This is where my genealogy angel comes in. She lives in Kentucky & loves to help those with Kentucky inquiries, which mine did. On her own, she found a marriage license for Granddaddy, as well as few other things. But the ultimate find was, she spotted on their marriage license, this wasn't his "first" marriage, it was his second!!! So here I am jumping for joy to have their marriage license, as well as trying to wrap my head around the fact that he was married not twice but THREE times! Cause of my genealogy angel, I have found an obituary for his second wife, her father's name, her siblings & their child's name. I have yet to find anything on his 1st wife though. No matter, my genealogy files have been so enriched by this wonderful lady who just wanted to do a kind deed in helping someone else.
My genealogy angel has no ties what-so-ever to my family, but she took time out from her own life to help me. Dorann not only used the computer in her research, but she also spent time on the phone, for 2 or 3 days, to the court house. I will forever be grateful to her & all of her help. Thank you Dorann!!!
May you all be so lucky to have a genealogy angel in your life one day, if you haven't already. AND hopefully we'll all take a page out of her book & help someone out when we can.
Later, Deb
6 comments:
- Greta Koehl said...
What would we do without those genealogy angels! Perhaps one of them can help me find a couple of "extra" wives (shown on the marriage number on the census, but I haven't found them, yet). Hope to read about that first wife of your grandfather's some day.
- November 12, 2009 at 9:51:00 PM CST
- Deb said...
Greta....I hope one of those Genealogy Angels come your way too soon. Nowadays it does a heart good to know such nice people are still out there. :-) And they seem to come when we least expect them.
Later, Deb
- November 12, 2009 at 10:55:00 PM CST
- Rose Mary said...
Aunt Deb, I think the 'Genealogy Angels' is the perfect term for those strangers that reach out to help us find our past! I just know, that eventually, Granddaddy's first wife will be 'found' and added to the family story!
- November 14, 2009 at 4:50:00 PM CST
- Judith Richards Shubert said...
Loved this post, Deb. Those angels are wonderful. I enjoy your blog and want to give you the beautiful new Kreativ Blogger Award. You can pick it up at Tennessee Memories.
- November 17, 2009 at 11:37:00 PM CST
Just loved your post. What would we do with our those Angels? I have a question about your Evans. You said Kentucky, did any of your Evans come from Tennessee into Kentucky?
- September 24, 2010 at 1:28:00 PM CDT
- Deb said...
Hey Tammy....I'm glad you liked my post. :-) I hope to one day soon to be a "Genealogy Angel" for someone too.
And yes, my Evans' did come from Tennessee! My grandfather (Wm. Dodds Evans) was born in Hardin County, TN. His parents names were Thomas J Evans & Alice L Trantham.
Their children: Unknown, Wallace, Benjamin F, Wm Dodds, Daisy Maude, Samuel Dewitt & Jesse T. Do any of those names sound familiar to you?
Later, Deb
P.S. If you'd like to email me privately, please feel free to do so.
Email: djsroom845ATyahooDOTcom
- September 24, 2010 at 3:53:00 PM CDT


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These inspiration boards were the basis for the design and décor of RIT's Global Village. Patterns, designs, and landmarks from all over the world were researched and incorporated into the concept for Global Village.
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A mural in the lobby of Global Village, building 400 shows a compilation of every student photograph used throughout the complex. Photo by David Lamb Photography.
RIT student-submitted and commissioned photographs taken from around the world are displayed throughout Global Village to provide a visual, global experience for students to reference when they travel overseas. Large photographic murals are installed outside of each residential suite entrance, adding a distinct and international appeal to each floor. Extra-large murals are also installed in lounges and common areas and match the floor's global theme. Additionally, framed photographs adorn the walls throughout the residential suites, lounges, common spaces, and commercial areas. This is a one-of-a-kind project and the photographs displayed at Global Village join the university's elite collection of on-campus artwork.


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The lead up to Master's Worlds in Louisville
It's only a matter of days now. My head is spinning a bit given the maelstrom of things going on from business to family to training...all leading up to the big show in Louisville KY. My last foray at a World Championship was in Mol, Belgium some 5 years ago. The lead up then was intense....although almost all self-imposed stress. This time it's sort of a good 'stress'. Much positive energy coming from all seats of my teeter-totter. It's just a lot of energy to handle at the moment!
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"Twist" in the Sensation Search: While hunting for the location of the long gone Westminster Kennel Club (WKC) clubhouse in Babylon, we've been visualizing the veranda facing east, overlooking Southards Pond. A recent clue has sparked mental "Hokey Pokey". We're shiftingthe whole clubhouse 90 degrees to the right, and now facing it south. Turning the clubhouse both clarifies and clouds information already uncovered. The clubhouse was part of a clubhouse/shooting house complex so this revised thinking is more than a change of scenery. From 1880 to 1904, besides breeding and boarding champion dogs here, Westminster hosted pigeon shoots, often with the scores recorded in the NY Times. If the clubhouse did face Alexander (or Southards Lane, as it was called long ago) the gunners fired east out over the pond, a direction we long disputed, but now accept. (Are you new to the Sensation saga? About 20 "Pets" columns are archived online, while Beacon Feb. 5, 2009 gives a quicker synopsis.) The Buried Clue: "Pets" March 19, 2009 cited evidence that in 1887 Sensation, WKC's logo Pointer, died at age 13 in Babylon. His final resting place was at the foot of a flagpole on the front lawn of the clubhouse near the shooting house. The flagpole had a Pointer weather vane. Westminster owns a close-up photo of the flagpole with a handwritten inscription on the back saying the flagstaff marks the burial of Sensation and "many other Pointers that cost a mint of money and were the greatest of their day". (A stone on the right is the grave of a female Pointer named "Whiskey".) We spend a lot of time looking at old maps and pictures, trying to piece the puzzle together. Sometimes we stumble on a detail we've missed. That's what happened with the same close-up flagpole photo which appears on page 21 of Mr. Stifel's book-The Dog Show: 125 Years of Westminster. When I asked about the picture, Mr. Stifel found something that technological enhancement confirmed.In jest he compared his discovery to a far-fetched movie where a man denies ever meeting the woman he murdered although a snapshot he took of her when enlarged showed his reflection in the cornea of her eye. Esteemed WKC historian Mr. Stifel zoomed-in on copies of the page 21 photo focusing on the stationary NSEW under the Pointer weather vane. He couldn't believe what he saw. Since the resolution was still a bit blurry, he fetched the original from the WKC files and took the slightly torn artifact to a color lab. Theresults were crystal clear. Keep in mind that Mr. Stifel is extremely analytical. He has examined our clues from every angle- even trying to interpret the wind direction references in various pigeon shoot accounts. He drew a floor plan of the clubhouse based on remarks in four 19th C. journals and sketched a map of where each artist and/or photographer must have stood to capture particular glimpses of the buildings and property. Based on the position of the shooting house we see in this picture, Mr. Stifel realized that the N of the weather vane is pointing to the (unseen) front door of the clubhouse which means that the clubhouse faced almost due south. The shooting house, perpendicular and forward, would be overlooking the pond. Gunners aimed east over the water but the dogs did not retrieve birds. "As the Clubhouse Turns": How does this new direction theory jive with other findings? The 1928 aerial photo plus the 1902 and 1915 Hyde maps seem to agree. Theclubhouse was 40' by 60' and the long part of the funny rectangle faces south on all of these. The1918 aerial shots taken by a WWI bi-plane are similar to reading a sonogram or inkblot. I see what I want to see. These amazing pictures were taken right before the former WKC complex burned down on Oct. 14, 1918, and they suggest a cluster of bright buildings oriented the same way. An 1888 map shows a circular driveway that would serve this positioning. The Ewells bought the property from WKC in 1904. Several Ewell photos show a clematis type vine on the post of the front porch in full bloom. Might the plant thrive from southern exposure? The old journal articles detailing the WKC buildings at times contradict each other, especially about placement of the kennels. Outing June 1888 mentions the "charming view from the upper veranda, which overlooks the pigeon-shooting ground" but no description definitively says all 3 sides of the wraparound porch faced the water. Sticking to My Guns: I still believe the mystery mound east of the bridle path between Gwynn and Pilcher is the clubhouse site. Several native Babylonians ranging in age from 60 - 75 have stated that before the development circa 1955, this mound was an odd, deep depression filled with sand. Theydo not recall any other disturbed places in the woods. Thisspot matches all the old aerials. Why was there an arbitrary, concave sandpit? Had something else, possibly something that had a wine cellar and a huge firebeen there previously? Subsequently people dumped junk there, transforming the deep trench into a raised mound. Thelower area south of the rise could accommodate the shooting house. We took measurements again. The WKC complex would fit,but it would be tight, not as spacious or flat as it looks in photos. A retrospective in the July 18, 1930 Babylon Leader mentions that if the pigeons "escaped the aim of the club members, and flew south, they were usually brought down by a crowd that stood on Southards Lane." If we are right about the sandpit and new orientation, the locals were doing more than waiting for pot shots. Theywere watching the matches from the Westminster bleachers.
For Adoption: Waiting at Babylon Town Shelter (643-9270) Lamar St. W. Babylon, "Katie" is an affectionate 4-year old calico, part of a large feline family given up because of an eviction and "Harvey" (aka "Mazey") a lovable red Shepherd mix was abandoned by his owner. Cats: "Phantom" the big tuxedo; "Shirley" a sweet talker. Dogs: red Chow found in Babylon Village; from the Pit collection- Amelia, Hallie & Miss Piggy.


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RoundHouseTech necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 15 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
We are a tech company that provides cloud-based server support for web applications. We primarily focus on supporting Ruby on Rails applications. See our mockup
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"A roundhouse is a building used by railroads for servicing locomotives." Except we are servicing servers, not trains. It has nothing to do with houses.
Here are some of our competitors that have designs that we like:
(We'd like to stay away from using much red. Only a splash at most)
We are looking for only the homepage design.
We want to be understood to be reliable and stable, but also very forward-thinking and cutting-edge. We are primarily business-to-business, but service is our number one mission, so an air of openness and accessibility is important.
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The mockup DOES NOT DICTATE the POSITION, FONT, BORDERS, etc of the page. That is entirely up to you! I am flexible with what goes on the page and where. The whole goal of the site is to give the visitor information about what we do and lead them to another page for signup & more information. The exact copy is also very flexible, so PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PLAY.
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Kim Kardashian Won't Keep Any Jewelry in New Home
(TMZ) -- Kim and Kanye's new mansion -- the one they spent years renovating and finally moved into a few weeks ago -- has its first house rule ... NO JEWELRY ALLOWED!!!
TMZ's Kardashian sources tell TMZ Kim decided to put the policy in place at the Hidden Hills home because she doesn't want it to be a target for thieves. In essence, she's throwing up her version of the bat signal ... NOTHING TO STEAL HERE!
TMZ was told Kim's huge collection of bling worth millions is being stored elsewhere -- under constant supervision -- with very elaborate security measures to get to it. And despite the lack of jewelry at their new place ... TMZ was told armed security's still on guard 24/7.
The move makes it clear ... the trauma of the Paris robbery is still on Kim and Kanye's minds. Especially with a new baby due this month.
As TMZ was reported ... there have also been a string of celebrity burglaries over the past year, with 'Real Housewives' Kyle Richards being the most recent victim.
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What is it about jam that has charmed me so? It's a relatively simple thing. It's not a Plaisir Sucré, a fabulous dessert by Pierre Hermé requiring many steps and much attention. It's not a soufflé that calls for skill and confidence. It's jam. Simple. Sweet. Sticky. Sensational.
Have you ever experienced a moment so perfect you wanted to bottle it up and keep it forever? That, for me, is what jam is to fruits (and even some vegetables!). The perfect snapshot of a seasonal treasure. A way of taking what would have otherwise lost its luster in a week sitting at you countertop, and turning it into a jewel that remains brilliant for months to come. That's magic. That's jam.
I have only made jam once before. We have no winter here that requires canning and preserving, so the process was not something I really experienced when I was growing up (except for my grandmother's & dad's mango jam…which is amazing and will warrant a separate post someday). After my first brush with jam-making however, I was eager to try it again. I browsed through cookbooks and blogs, finding a lot of scrumptious sounding entries on jams of every kind of berry imaginable. Unfortunately, every kind of berry imaginable does not really grow on my shores. As luck would have it though, a blogging moment of gastronomic serendipity led me to a marvelous post from Marketman about his successful attempts at mangosteen jam.Mmmm…mangosteen. Delicious and tropical, and what's better, available! Mangosteen is right up there with mangoes in my list of favorite fruits. Their flavor is fantastic! It is described best here and here. Why do I keep looking across oceans for fruits to jam when we have so many gorgeous specimens here? Hmmm…must be something to do with that grass being greener myth…
In any case, I finally attempted it, soon after I saw Marketman's post, and this is the result. I bought 2 kilos of mangosteens which yielded about 480 grams of fruit. I let this steep for two hours with the same amount of sugar. When the mix turned all liquid-y, I poured it into a heavy bottomed pot and cooked it on medium low, stirring quite often. I cooked it for 60 minutes exactly and what was left filled 2 jars. The texture was perfect. I used the plate-in-freezer test which I think works well and is actually quite fun in my opinion. The color though, as you can see, was a very light blush compared to Marketman's brilliant burgundy (and compared to the mangosteen jams on the market). I will try cooking it longer next time, although I don't want to sacrifice any of the texture. Suggestions are welcome! The taste was oh-so-very good and I happily stuck my fingers in the empty pot once it was cool and did a pretty good "pre-clean" ;)Marketman and his readers have already thought up of great ways to use it, and I am happily taking notes. But for now I can say, on toast with a good strong cheese it is sublime.


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Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee predicted that gay marriages would spread through all 50 states unless Congress approved a constitutional amendment banning such unions.
"It is becoming increasingly clear that Congress must act," Frist said, noting that the Senate would vote this year on such an amendment. "We are gambling with our future if we allow activist judges to redefine marriage for our whole society."
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday passed resolutions opposing a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages.
The supervisors voted 3-2 in favor of a resolution by Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky; voting against the resolution were Supervisors Don Knabe and Michael Antonovich. The City Council voted 14-0 in favor of a resolution introduced by Eric Garcetti, Tom LaBonge and Jack Weiss.
Oregon and New York are among 12 states whose laws do not specifically address the issue of same-sex marriage. Thirty-eight states ban the practice outright, but four of them -- California, New Jersey, Vermont and Hawaii -- offer limited privileges to same-sex couples. Only Massachusetts law allows specifically for gay marriages, beginning May 17. Lawmakers in that state will meet next week to consider amending the state constitution in order to ban such unions.
Clashes over same-sex unions have varied from state to state: In New Mexico, a county clerk issued wedding licenses to 26 couples before she was blocked by the state attorney general. In Georgia, black legislators have stalled an effort by other lawmakers to halt gay marriages by passing a state constitutional amendment.
The volatile issue surfaced Wednesday in Portland, where Multnomah County Chairwoman Diane Linn ordered clerks to issue wedding licenses to same-sex couples. Linn said she took the action after a county attorney determined that restricting marriage to the union of a man and a woman discriminated against gay and lesbian couples and violated the state constitution.
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, a Democrat, said he favored civil unions but questioned the legality of the decision to issue marriage licenses in Multnomah County, one of the state's most liberal and populous areas.
"Reasonable people can differ," he said, "but I think when you read it [the state marriage statute] at the time in history when the statute was written, I think it is clear they were thinking about a man and a woman getting married," the governor said in a statement.
Kulongoski added that it would be up to state Atty. Gen. Hardy Meyers to decide what, if any, enforcement action to take against Multnomah County. A spokesman for Meyers said he expected to issue an opinion in a few days.
As word of Linn's decision spread Tuesday night, hundreds of couples started lining up at the county courthouse, huddling under umbrellas. They poured into the building when it opened Wednesday morning. Hours later, Oregon had its first two same-sex wedded couples.
Mary Li, 40, a county employee, and Rebecca Kennedy, 43, a self-described stay-at-home mom, were the first to exchange vows.
"We are here today to witness the marriage of Becky and Mary," said retired Oregon Supreme Court Justice Betty Roberts, who conducted the ceremony. Kennedy's 9-month-old daughter, Ava, was cradled in a friend's arms nearby as the celebration unfolded.
"I'm beyond excited," said Li, adding that the couple had been together for four years. "I'm nervous too. When you're a couple, you have dreams of getting a house and building a life with your family. It started today. It's a great day."
Stephen Knox, 43, and Eric Warshaw, 40, were next to exchange vows. The Portland-area doctors said they had been together for 10 years. Their three adopted children, ages 3 to 5, attended the ceremony.
"As a child, I always thought I was going to be married, but as I grew up society told me I couldn't," Knox said. "Obviously I can. Eric and I already felt married, but now we have the paper."
Roey Thorpe, executive director of Basic Rights Oregon, a gay advocacy group, predicted there would be hundreds of same-sex marriage ceremonies in Portland over the next few days. Previously, the county had allowed gay and lesbians only to register as domestic partners.
"Remember, some of these couples have been waiting years for this," Thorpe said.
Between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, the county issued 290 marriage licenses. Many of the couples who had waited in line at the courthouse then traveled across the Willamette River to Keller Auditorium, the city's performing arts center, where clergy performed their ceremonies.
The line to get inside the auditorium wound around the block. Once a couple made it through the door, they were asked a few brief questions and had to fill out a form before being led to the officiant of their choice for a 10- to 20-minute ceremony.
By 4 p.m., organizers said, the number of couples married in the building had reached well above 200.
Samantha and Reyanna Stephens of Portland held back tears for much of their ceremony, then broke down immediately afterward. Both are students at Portland Community College. They wore white robes, and Samantha, 31, carried a bouquet of roses. Friends took pictures.
"We love each other so much, and we've wanted to do this for so long," said Reyanna, 32.
Reaction was swift.
Lou Beres, chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition, which long has opposed gay marriage, said the county's decision "makes a mockery of thousands of years of traditional behavior" and threatens "to usher in an era of perversion."
"We are facing the most well-funded, well-connected and well-organized attack on our fundamental beliefs ever," Beres said in a statement. "The militant homosexual movement is one of the most powerful forces in Oregon. Unless we take a determined stand now, marriage as the union of one man and one woman will be nothing more than a memory."
In New York, the gay marriage controversy surfaced last week when the mayor of New Paltz, a small town 75 miles north of Manhattan, performed 25 same-sex wedding ceremonies and said he had a waiting list of 1,200 couples. Mayor Jason West called it a "civil rights issue," and bitterly criticized state officials' refusal to issue wedding licenses.
Gov. George E. Pataki promptly criticized West's action as illegal and said that if people want to change the law, they should do it through the legislative process.
As pressure mounted on him to take action, state Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer issued an opinion stating that New York law defines matrimony as a union between a man and woman.
Speaking before a packed news conference in New York City, Spitzer said he personally supported same-sex marriages, but warned that any New York officials performing such unions could be subject to "severe repercussions." He said such ceremonies were "not proper or legal," but added that the courts ultimately would resolve the constitutionality of any state laws restricting gay marriage.
But West, who has been charged with 19 criminal violations, said he would ignore such warnings.
He pleaded not guilty during a brief court proceeding Wednesday evening, and vowed to continue performing gay marriages this weekend -- even though he could face jail time.
"I don't plan to spend time in jail," West said on NBC's "Today Show."
"I think that the judge before whom this case will be heard will see that the constitution is clear on this, will see that our laws are clear on this and will see that these marriages are in fact legal."
In an act of solidarity, Mayor John Shields of nearby Nyack, N.Y., said he too would perform same-sex marriage ceremonies this week.
Shields said he would be marrying his longtime male companion, and told reporters: "What do you do when you're faced with injustice? What did the women do in the suffrage movement? They marched. They were arrested. They did what they had to do to get their rights."
Tizon reported from Portland, Getlin from New York. Times staff writer Elizabeth Mehren in Boston contributed to this report.


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BOSTON (Reuters) - Nearly 300 items related to U.S. President John F. Kennedy and to Kennedy's assassination, including a lock of the president's hair and Lee Harvey Oswald's wedding ring, were put up for auction in Massachusetts on Thursday.
The sale at the Omni Parker House hotel in Boston, billed as the most extensive auction of Kennedy-related memorabilia this year, comes just weeks before the 50th anniversary of the president's assassination in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Among the items offered for sale was a gold wedding band that belonged to Oswald, Kennedy's assassin, along with a letter written last year by Oswald's widow, said Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of RR Auction.
"She tells us she doesn't want the ring in her possession because it connects her to the worst day of her life," he said of Marina Oswald Porter. "She wants nothing to do with Lee Harvey Oswald."
The ring, purchased at a jewelry store in Minsk and left on a night table next to Marina's bed in Irving, Texas, on the day of Kennedy's assassination, was confiscated by the U.S. Secret Service and later returned.
It remained forgotten in a lawyer's files for 49 years and was returned to the family of Marina Oswald Porter last year, Livingston said.
The auction includes other items of Oswald's: a revolver, his U.S. Marine Corps knife, a raincoat, a rifle score book and a chess set.
Among the auction items linked to Kennedy was a lock of his hair collected in July 1963 by his barber and a gold ring given to him by his wife, Jacqueline, according to an auction catalog.
The 18-karat ring, bearing the presidential seal and engraved with "J.B.K. to J.F.K.," was among several engraved items that included a brass shaving kit, cigarette lighters and Kennedy's "well-worn" rosary, Livingston said.
Bidding for the 290 items in the auction, which began online a week ago, was expected to continue until about 5 p.m., with several pieces, including Oswald's wedding ring, expected to fetch six-figure amounts, he said.
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It was on my 8th birthday when I received a gift that influenced the rest of my life: the red-box D&D Basic Set.
I remember staring at the cover of the box, the dragon, the gold, the heroic figure ready to do battle, and getting a chill up my spine. For the next several years, I delved in dungeons, explored castles, wandered forests and accumulated wealth, magic, followers, lands, and experience.
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Sadistic. Sociopathic. Deeply disturbed. These are but a few of the compliments Hyde has received from those who've seen his handiwork. What bothers Hyde most about this job isn't the sheer amount of death and destruction the Monster has caused – it's that even with his Minigun, Toxic Grenades, and Flamethrower, it makes him only the second most frightening thing on the planet.
We all have dreams. Markov's just happens to be dying in glorious battle. This explains his desire to go toe-to-toe with giant Monsters. But his deadly arsenal consisting of a Lightning Gun, Arc Mines, and an impenetrable Personal Shield means that dream may never come true – and that's just fine with his fellow Hunters.
A quiet woman with a past shrouded in mystery, Maggie is a loner. For years her only companion was Daisy, her faithful pet Trapjaw. Who needs friends when you have a 400-pound alien dogbeast at your side? When Daisy finds their prey, Maggie relies on her Machine Pistol and Harpoon Traps to bring it down.
They make horror movies about the things mounted on Griffin's wall. This veteran Trapper relies on deployable Sound Spikes to keep tabs on the Monster's movements. But when it's time to face off with his prey, he breaks out his Harpoon Gun to pin it down – like shooting a giant, angry fish in a space barrel.
What kind of medic purposely lets his comrades die? One with a badass gun and the ability to restore life to the dead. Slipping past predators with a Silenced Sniper Rifle and Personal Cloak, Lazarus brings fallen allies back from death – even if they're now technically zombies.
Sniper and Medic. Two jobs that normally don't show up on the same résumé. Then again, Val doesn't apply for just any type of position. Her Armor-Piercing Sniper Rifle and Hunter-healing Medgun are the perfect qualifications for someone stalking prey the size of a small asteroid.
Normally charged with flying the ship, Bucket uses a modified repair drone chassis when the time comes to support his human comrades on the ground. His Guided Missile Launcher, deployable Sentry Guns, and detachable UAV make him more than a match for anything organic.
Hank believes in the simple things, like the value of a hard day's work or the joy of indiscriminately firing a Laser Cutter at bloodthirsty predators. Which is why he cherishes the quiet moment after calling down an Orbital Barrage on whatever creature is currently pissing him off. The ensuing bombardment of fiery death really puts things into perspective.
If the dictionary ever decided it needed a new word to describe the mix between waking nightmare and ungodly horror, it would undoubtedly include an image of Kraken. This tentacled monstrosity unleashes electric death on Hunters who get too close and even those who think they are safely out of range.
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We'll be trying a little DD game over the next few days called the Dungeon of the Day Scoring Challenge. If it's successful, this might become a regular "play-by-forum" activity around here. Any players are welcome to participate, regardless of whether you're a veteran or beginner. Even if you're new to Desktop Dungeons and can only manage one or two medals, feel free to post your experiences here. The rules are as follows:
At 8:00 PM Pacific time (4:00 AM GMT, about 4 hours 40 minutes from now), I will roll a 12-sided die in order to select a dungeon at random from the following list of directional dungeons:
Rock Garden (1), Creeplight Ruins (2), Hexx Ruins (3), Havensdale Bridge (4), Cursed Oasis (5), Berserker Camp (6), Slime Pit (7), Magma Mines (8), Shifting Passages (9), Hard Halls of Steel (10), Ick Swamp (11), or Labyrinth (12)
I will immediately post my roll, which will open the competition. Any DD player can then submit a screenshot showing a successful run. You can use any race or class you want; so long as you win the dungeon run it's eligible for the contest. Points are awarded based on which medals you win, based on the scoring below:
Warmonger and Hoarder = 5 points each
Purist = 4 points
Faithless, Unstoppable, Parched and Miser = 3 points each
Ding! Max = 2 points
Specialist and Cheeky = 1 point each
Tie scores will be resolved by how long it took you to beat the dungeon, with the faster time winning.
The contest ends once the devs release their Friday update (so we don't run across more than one game version), and the highest-scoring user at the time is declared the winner. If the devs skip the Friday update for whatever reason, the contest will close instead at 8:00 PM Pacific time, 48 hours after it began. Users may submit as many entries as they like, but only the highest-scoring will be counted.


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Hundreds of interstate highway fatalities have been prevented in multiple states by relatively inexpensive safety devices that were not in place at the site of a fiery bus-truck collision last week in California that killed 10 people.
While interstates are statistically the country's safest roadways, they're also vulnerable to one of the deadliest kinds of crashes, where one vehicle crosses the median at a high speed and strikes another traveling the opposite direction.
At a time when states are pinching their transportation pennies, the installation of steel cable median barriers has helped states improve highway safety without a lot of investment.
"It's very effective at capturing the vehicle," said John Miller, a traffic safety engineer with the Missouri Department of Transportation. "We've seen a lot of great benefit from it."
On April 10, a FedEx double-trailer truck crossed from the southbound to the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 in Orland, Calif., slamming into a motor coach that was taking a group of Los Angeles-area high school students on a visit to Humboldt State University.
The drivers of the two vehicles, five students and three chaperones were killed. Some victims were thrown from the bus, while others died in the ensuing fire. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.
More than 300 fatal cross-median crashes happened on interstate highways in 2012, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Despite improved highway safety in states that have installed barriers along rural interstates in recent years, the federal government doesn't require them in the medians of divided highways. Missouri and North Carolina, which have installed the barriers on parts or all of their interstate highways, have seen cross-median fatalities cut by as much as 90 percent. Others, such as Kentucky, are in the process of installing more.
"The widespread deployment of cable barrier in recent years has, in my opinion, saved many lives in our country," said John Njord, who was Utah's transportation secretary from 2001 to 2012.
At the location of last week's deadly collision, the highway median lacks a steel cable barrier, which is designed to prevent regular-size cars and trucks from crossing into oncoming traffic. Though they're not designed to stop heavy trucks, they often do.
The left shoulders of the California roadway also are equipped with rumble strips, grooves in the pavement that warn drivers when they start to veer off the roadway because of distraction or drowsiness. The Federal Highway Administration recommends rumble strips on the left and right shoulders of divided highways, citing a study that showed vehicles were just as likely to veer left off the road as right.
The California Department of Transportation said last week's crash site didn't meet its requirements for installing median barriers, which include frequency of cross-median crashes, the width of the median and the daily average traffic count.
Caltrans spokesman Mark Dinger said that only one similar crash had taken place within two miles of the site within four years, below the level that would indicate a recurring problem. But he added that the agency wouldn't rule out making changes.
Median barriers and rumble strips have been used for years to prevent crashes where cars and trucks leave the roadway, especially along urban freeways with higher traffic volumes.
The standards have evolved. Early in the interstate system, a barrier was recommended in medians that were 30 feet wide or less. Now the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recommends them in medians of 50 feet or narrower. The Interstate 5 median at last week's crash site is 58 feet.
Other states have set higher standards. Missouri and South Carolina have decided that barriers are appropriate for median widths of 60 feet or less. North Carolina's standard is 70 feet.
Some highway safety advocates think that every median needs protection.
"The ideal would be to have some kind of barrier along all the interstates," said Henry Jasny, vice president and general counsel for Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.
Before interstate highways were constructed, the nationwide highway fatality rate was more than five per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. In 2010, the rate had declined to 1.1, and interstate highways boast an even lower rate.
However, the oldest parts of the 47,000-mile network, built 40 or 50 years ago, are still largely four-lane divided highways with open medians. When the roads were new and traffic was light, it might have been possible for a car to cross into opposing lanes and not collide with another vehicle.
But as traffic has increased, the chances of a collision have risen. That vehicle is now more likely to be a heavy truck, and the crash is more likely to include multiple fatalities. And drivers have a new source of distraction: cellphones.
The section of Interstate 5 near last week's crash handles about 24,000 cars a day, according to Caltrans, making it one of the least traveled segments of the highway in California.
That segment also sees 5,000 heavy trucks a day. Interstate 5 is the primary north-south highway along the West Coast, and truck traffic is projected to increase in the coming decades.
The California highway's rural character, traffic volume and median widths are comparable to the western half of Interstate 70 in Missouri, which has a cable median barrier and rumble strips on the left shoulders.
Missouri estimates that it may have saved 300 lives since it began installing cable barriers in the medians of its interstates more than a decade ago. The state now has 800 miles of median barriers, including the entire length of Interstates 70 and 44, two of Missouri's busiest roadways.
Steel cable barriers might cost $40,000 to $50,000 a mile, versus 10 times that much for concrete. Rumble strips can be installed for as little as $1,500 a mile, Miller said.
"They're almost dirt cheap," he said.
But they can't stop every fatal crash.
In March 2010, the driver of a tractor-trailer, fatigued and talking on his cellphone in the early morning, veered off the southbound lanes of Interstate 65 in Kentucky. The truck sailed over a rumble strip and a cable median barrier, right into the northbound lanes. It is struck a passenger van that was carrying members of a Mennonite family from southern Kentucky. The truck driver and 10 passengers in the van were killed. Only two small children survived.
"When the truck hit the cable median barrier," said Mike Hancock, the state's transportation secretary, "it was barely slowed down by it."
Still, Hancock said, the barriers have prevented countless fatal crashes, and the state continues to install them.
Kentucky is also giving its busiest interstates the ultimate makeover, widening them from four lanes to six, with concrete median barriers that can stop a truck.
"We've understood for quite some time that it's the best improvement we can do," Hancock said.
The NTSB recommended after the Kentucky crash that the U.S. Department of Transportation develop better guidelines on where to install median barriers, and what kind. It also asked the department to consider heavy truck volumes in barrier selection.
The agency, which has no enforcement authority, also asked the DOT to come up with a standard definition of what constitutes a "cross-median crash." Four years later, there still is no such category of accidents in the department's highway fatality database.
The absence of consistent data on cross-median crashes makes it more difficult for states to determine where barriers are necessary. Most don't have the funding to simply put them in every median.
"Under ideal conditions, every segment of the interstate would have every safety apparatus for every eventuality," Njord said. "That is not the real world."
Correction: This story originally incorrectly stated that the site of an April 10 fatal bus crash in California lacked left-shoulder rumble strips. The California Department of Transportation initially told McClatchy that the road did not have the left rumble strips, but it later said they were installed there in 1994.


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... I ... while back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... the immigration debate in this country has focused largely on low skilled workers but what about the high skilled immigrants what's happening to them ... political diary editor Wall Street Journal Editorial board member and the author of wet and and ... on immigration ... Jason Riley joins The Jason ... you've got some pretty disturbing news about the H one B V so this is that ... the piece of the high skilled immigrants what's going on as you mention in the intro of the low skill immigrants in the stock up a lot of the oxygen ... in the illegal immigration debate which is understandable um ... up most of the legal immigrants coming vast majority are ... are low skill immigrants but that a couple stories ... in recent days suggesting that we shouldn't forget about ... how broken our system is for high skill ... immigrants as well as science math technology to stand or whatever then for professionals who won a CompStudy in the U S in this day ... have a hard time that because we put his loan ... quotas numerical quotas and how many of them would allow that to happen to him with the news was on Friday was that we've once again reached ... the sixty five thousand cap on H1 B visas which are the visas for high school workers ... up prior to four for fiscal twenty oh prior government's prior to the fiscal year even starting we've already reached ... the cap and this is happen ... but repeatedly over the past ten or fifteen years who regularly reach the cap while for the fiscal year ... even vegans and the ... best of a big problem because ... 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ALM so many days of the year then you'll be on a path to ALM or you ... can receive the proper legal staff than three years now if you're in a non Arab culture industry that happens to be slightly longer be lots to discuss a I hope you can actually keep this updated libertarian or Jason Riley thank you so much for being ... with us