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The arrival of Bobby Wilson from Triple-A Salt Lake means the Angels can now have Mike Napoli's lethal bat in the lineup every day if they choose to do so.
It seems like a slam dunk, given how Napoli has produced in the designated hitter role: 10 for 17, bullets and bombs flying everywhere.
"I like the whole DH thing," Napoli said before Tuesday night's game against the Red Sox at Angel Stadium. "I also like catching, too."
When Napoli catches, however, it means their best receiver — Jeff Mathis — is not in the lineup. Napoli is a big Mathis fan, being his roomie and best buddy, and vice versa. In their perfect world, they're both in the lineup on a regular basis. And the only way that can happen is for Napoli to DH or play first base, something that could happen down the road.
Steady Robb Quinlan is Kendry Morales' backup at first now. Quinlan is eligible for free agency after the season, and he's expected to pursue greener pastures — and more at-bats — elsewhere. That means there could be at-bats available for Napoli at first, where he has played and played well according to teammates, in the Minor Leagues.
The whole point is to keep Napoli healthy and in the lineup. He has missed chunks of the past two seasons with injuries, playing a total of 153 games in 2007 and 2008. That's about as many as he should play in one season, something he can do as a DH/first baseman.
It's remarkable, given his frequent absences with shoulder, hamstring and ankle injuries, that Napoli has the highest home-run ratio for a catcher in MLB history — 51 bombs in 790 at-bats.
Imagine what he could do without the wear and tear of catching, with his legs, serving as his foundation, fresh in the late innings rather than worn down.
Napoli is a good athlete, but Mathis, a high school sensation as a quarterback in Marianna, Fla., is an extraordinary athlete. He makes plays few catchers can even consider, notably on dribblers and bunts near home plate. His hands and feet are amazingly quick, and pitchers rave about his pitch selection.
"It's incredible, the things Jeff can do back there," Napoli said.
Angels pitchers, overall, have fared better with Mathis. His catching ERA is about a half-run lower per game than Napoli.
Wilson, with a strong arm and a presence behind the plate, also is a quality receiver — and he can hit, using the whole field.
Wilson provides protection in the late innings, and Angels manager Mike Scioscia said he wouldn't hesitate to use the new guy.
All of this is temporary, it needs to be pointed out. When Vladimir Guerrero returns from his torn right pectoral muscle, presumably sometime next month, he'll usurp the DH role until he can return to right field. But Napoli can savor the opportunity now.
"It's a lot less stressful, DHing, than catching," Napoli said. "You can think about hitting all the time. I watch the game — I'm still into the game — but I can go down in the video room and check out the pitcher between at-bats and do my routine I've developed to stay loose."
He certainly sounds like a guy who thoroughly enjoys this role.
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I sure hope Napoli wakes up his bat tonight. He's been going ice cold lately. Nobody else in this lineup seems to know how to hit anymore. How do you load the bases in the first and second and get one stupid run total? This team is always about pitching and they have all the pressure on them. No more. I say it's time for the offense to start doing their job. Napoli, please, hit a couple homers tonight.
Who are you talking to in these threads, Brian? It seems every MLB article I read has you moaning and wailing in the comment section like some lonely coyote about everything and nothing. This ain't a gameday thread; let's respect the writer and get with the context, okay?
The Angels have just come off a sweep, and Napoli is hitting a .333 avg with a 1.051 OPS over the past week. Hardly "ice cold".
So how does this work when Vlade comes back? Got a relatively happy and VERY productive Gary Matthews in the OF now. He's also about 4X the OF as is Vlade now. Vlade needs to be at DH so Bobby, Jr. and Tory roam the OF.
It's a nice plan as things are today. But once Vlade comes back, whether they send down Budde or Willits, Napoli is going to have to catch to get into the lineup.
BTW: how many more times can Willits be sent down? He's gotta be getting close to being out of option? Do NOT want to lose him for nothing.


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Posted about a week ago, the film, simply called "Dancing," has nearly three million hits on YouTube alone, and it is featured at many other Internet sites. The film features a 31-year-old computer programmer turned filmmaker doing a goofy dance in just about every imaginable corner of the globe.
Matthew Harding has made similar videos in the past, but the stars of this year's film are actually the hundreds of people he's met in his journeys around the world. The video's haunting soundtrack features the singing of 17-year-old Palbasha Siddique, who lives in Northeast Minneapolis.
Siddique is a native of Bangladesh and sings the song in her native language. It is a translation of the poem "Stream of Life" by Rabindranath Tagore. You can visit the Dancing with the Universe Web site to learn more about Palbasha Siddique and get a translation of the words of her song.

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Downward-Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana) is one of the first poses that yoga students learn, on its own or as part of Surya Namaskara. Because it's a familiar favorite, the tendency is to slip into Down Dog like a beloved pair of sneakers, often without noticing that the arches are sagging or the heels are worn down. To keep this asana fresh, approach it with a beginner's mind:
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Mourinho on Friday described Wenger as "a specialist in failure'' - referring to Arsenal's eight-year trophy drought - after the Gunners boss implied the Premier League title was Chelsea's to lose.
Wenger insisted his comments stating any team which says they are not in the title race - as Chelsea manager Mourinho has done countless times this season - does so out of fear of falling short of their ambition.
The Frenchman claimed his comments were not aimed at Mourinho and following his side's FA Cup fifth-round win over Liverpool on Sunday he slammed his rival for his controversial riposte.
"I do not want to go into that silly, disrespectful remark,'' Wenger told BT Sport.
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Wenger and Mourinho endured a fractious relationship during the Portuguese's first spell and a fragile truce was eroded on Friday.
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Mourinho had further to say on the subject following Chelsea's FA Cup loss to Manchester City on Saturday as well, with the 51-year-old pointing the finger of blame at "Monsieur polite" Wenger for their current spat.
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MONDAY, June 23, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Nerves of steel may not be enough when teaching your child to drive. For parents who want to boost their teen's safety on the roads, an Internet-based driver's education program might help, researchers say.
A new study estimates that an experimental program, funded by State Farm Insurance, could prevent about one out of 12 teenagers from failing driving tests. Beginner drivers who took part in the program with their parents were 65 percent less likely to fail the test than others, the researchers found.
"As adults, we need to acknowledge that not all of us have been the best driving role models throughout our children's lives," said Corinne Peek-Asa, associate dean for research at the University of Iowa's College of Public Health.
"Helping parents understand their role in modeling safe behavior is important, as is having good guidance to parents on how to best help our teens mature into safe drivers," she noted.
Peek-Asa is lead author of a commentary about the study, published in the June 23 online issue of JAMA Pediatrics.
Many parents can play a better role in driver education. Although most states require adult supervision and practice behind the wheel, "parents usually don't receive much guidance on the best ways to supervise their teen's driving to maximize different types of driving experience and to motivate safe behaviors," she explained.
Parents may not expose their teens to a variety of driving situations, said study lead author Jessica Mirman, a research scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The new program -- called the Teen Driving Plan -- uses 53 short videos aimed at building skills such as scanning and merging. It also takes newbie drivers from parking lots to residential streets, highways, business districts and windy rural roads.
In addition, the experimental program allows parents and teens to track their practice-driving and reach certain goals.
For the study, pairs of parents and teenagers with learning permits were randomly assigned to either use the program or simply use the state driver's manual. The families were from southeastern Pennsylvania and took part for 14 months starting in December 2011.
Six percent who took the web-based program -- five of 86 -- failed their driver's tests, compared to 15 percent (10 of 65) who didn't use the program. The families enrolled in the program reported more practice in five of the six driving environments and at night and in bad weather compared with the others.
Peek-Asa said the program has pluses and minuses. "One benefit of a web-based program is that it can be widely available to many parents, and web-based approaches tend to be low cost," she said.
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On that note, I decided to get the girls up and ready before we were guilted into a ridiculous choreography of maddening rearrange-cleaning. By noon, we were on a train Manhattan-bound, taking photos and enjoying each other - a lot, as usual.
Maya is a budding photographer with a great eye, and for her birthday she got a killer camera from her BD and Sanne, for which Maya agreed to pay half. She worked that camera out in the LES!
Here are my three favorites:
Capturing Mina perfectly.
Capturing us in a store-front window. Awesome photo, Maya! We went uptown, at Mina's request, because she wanted to go to FAO Swartz and to see the Empire State Building. Mina believes that the gods and goddess of Mt. Olympus live at the top of the ESB because anyone who has read the Lightning Thief series knows that! Maya got this great picture for her.FAO Swartz is what it is, and Mina didn't ask me for TOO many things (none of which she got anyway) but at least going in there was a relief from the 100 degree NY heat beat down we were receiving outside. One thing about having a kid photographer is that they are always putting the camera up in your face and though you don't want to squash their enthusiasm to take many, many, many pictures at your expense, sometimes you're like, damn enough already. She took this picture on the escalator of FAO Swartz. The photo started out angry, then goofy and in a split second turned glamorous. Maya looked at the screen after she took it and said, "How'd you do that?" I said, "I dunno, but stop taking pictures of me because I don't know if I can do it again."Then there were pic's like this that you gotta love - Lego Chubaka, man!Before we left the LES for midtown, I took them to lunch at Teany and when arriving, the waitress said to me, "You really like this place, huh?" which kinda pissed me off and made me laugh at the same time. I said, a little flushed, "Couldn't leave before my girls ate here too." We ate vegan BLT's and spring salads and lavender lemonade so yea, I really like this place -- sans stupid, harmless observations.
I then took the girls to the Tenement Museum on Orchard. Betsy and I had stumbled onto it when walking around the neighborhood a few days before and though we didn't go on any tours, we sieved through the gift shop thoroughly. At this gift shop is where Betsy bought me my very early birthday present, The Most Killer Necklace Eva:When I took the girls to the museum, I wanted to show them the gift shop for sure, but after reading more about the tours I really wanted to partake. We got in on the last one of the day and ran across the street into the old, narrow building where the tour had stared 7 minutes before. The Tenement Museum bought the five story building, across from the gift shop, in 1988 after it had been boarded up, unused since 1937. For over fifty years this building had not been touched and when the museum unboarded it, they realized that the incredibly rich immigrant history of the entire LES was still alive in the walls, in the molding, the hall paintings, the garment inventory notches on the peeled wallpaper and in the gorgeous mahogany banister that was smooth and polished from seven thousand people of many cultures touching it from 1863 until everyone was evicted in 1937; evicted because of that very banister. The fire codes had changed at the time stating that a building could not have a wood banister. The landlord would need to replace the banister or board up the building. Since it was The Depression, a new banister was not affordable. The Tenement Museum researched real families that lived in certain apartments in certain times and tried to replicate their exact lives, telling their stories of struggle and adaptation. It was an incredible social commentary on immigration and shed light on the fact that the tension of this subject has hardly changed; someone was always looking down on someone else, especially the darker the arriving immigrants got. It was also an empowering historical validation about how women are the rock of a society because even when economies crumble, whether during the Great Panic of the late 1800's or The Great Depression or even now, women get creative and keep food in their families mouths. The second apartment we visited was set up to showcase the lives of an Italian family living there in the mid 1930's. The daughter of this family, as an old woman, happen to stumble upon the renovation of the tenement and she was able to give them exact details about how they lived and how the apartment looked, down to morning glories her father had planted in the window for her mother in the empty government cheese boxes to remind her of Palermo, which she would never see again. The daughter did a voice recording for the tour to tell us what their lives were like very vividly. In the midst of The Depression, a year before the tenement was boarded, the father lost his job and the mother got a part time factory job. FDR at the time started a food box program to help families in need, but the stipulation was that no family member could have a job in order to receive the food. The mother stood in line and told the officials that she did have a part time gig but it wasn't enough. They turned her away. The second time she went, she lied, and said she had no job so she could receive the food. The tour guide then asked us what we thought of that, an undocumented woman lying to receive food on the government's dime. One woman spoke up and asked very terse, conservative questions about the legality and morality of it. I felt very uncomfortable because I could feel her angle, but just then Mina raised her hand. The tour guide, also shifting on his feet from the woman's energy, asked Mina what she thought. Mina said, "The woman had a choice. To feed her family or not feed her family. I woulda lied." I laughed and nodded. The tour guide said, "I think I would have lied too." Mina made all kinds of great comments throughout the tour, Maya a couple too, which meant that this tour and this information had meaning to them, not just to me. I was fascinated and completely in love with the entire project, but to see the girls engaged and thoughtful and compassionate about the issues and conditions made me almost pass out from pride in the sweltering apartment.
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Movie Theater Shooting: Suspect Said He Was 'The Joker'
James Holmes, the 24-year-old who surrendered to police after killing 12 and injuring dozens more at a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo., early this morning, told police he was "The Joker" when he was arrested.
According to reports from ABC News and TMZ, Holmes had his hair painted red and told them he was The Joker — an arch-enemy of Batman.
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We have some information, most of it is public. It clearly looks like a deranged individual. He had his hair painted red, he said he was 'The Joker,' obviously the enemy of Batman."
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Yes, the rhetoric in California's never-ending budget crisis is that neither Gov. Schwarzenegger nor the top Democrat in the state senate, Darrell Steinberg, are in any hurry to agree on a budget, as the Sacramento Bee noted today. In fact, they don't see the need to do a budget this year -- unless they get concessions from the other side. This comes on the heels of similar rhetoric from Assembly Speaker John Perez, who is counting the days until there's a new governor.
Why the brinksmanship? Steinberg and Perez feel like Democrats have compromised too much for too long, in accepting cuts to programs they support. Schwarzenegger feels like he has one last chance -- in this budget negotiations -- to get structural reforms in the budget process, and in the state's pension system, that he has sought since he took office nearly seven years ago.
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And there's another factor: the voters and courts have put so much spending on cruise control that there isn't much pressure to do a budget. Yet.
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so, this post finally catches up on pictures from May and some pictures taken in June after Brenna's dance recital. Above, my mom and Brenna before the dress rehersal. Below, my beautiful birthday cake that Dustin's parents did for me - isn't it pretty!
Brenna and I playing in the backseat on the way to a wedding.
Daddy and Brenna at the hot outdoor wedding...
shortly after my birthday, Brenna's school had a face painting day - I did all the painting on the kids faces, but before we got there, we had to stop at all our railroad tracks (we cross 3 on the way to school each day) for these little "trains"
Brenna's class with all the face painting
I did Brenna's face at home before we went to school to save some time (which was a good thing as I finished all the kids shortly before lunch)
Last week when the weather was nice, Brenna and I went up to the Akron zoo. Brenna of course enjoyed the carousel, farm land, and the jelly fish wall the most. We also had our first experience with the touch tank being open - I think Brenna really enjoyed touching those animals...
giving the snow leopard a hug before we left...
Brenna after her first night of Acro classes - she loved all the tumbling. I didn't get any pictures, but Brenna also started hip hop classes this week. I think she will really enjoy having both of these classes this summer!
Hello All!!!!
Hope all is well out there! Things have been good here - I am really surprised how fast June is flying by here!
Brenna had last week off from dance class, so we tried to fill our time in other ways (especially with Dustin being in Detroit all last week). We went to the zoo, made some homemade sidewalk chalk paint, took lots of walks, and had some friends over for the day. This week has been pretty quiet so far - lots of rain here this week (the weather has been so terrible this year, Brenna hasn't been in her new sand box at all :-(
Brenna is very excited that her preschool class gets to "perform" at the church's community event tomorrow. They have several songs that they will be singing - I will try to get either pictures/video of it - I'm sure it will be cute!
Speaking of cute sayings, I told Brenna last week that she was a bed hog - she woke up the next morning (she tends to crawl into our bed in the middle of the night these days) and asked if she was a hedgehog. It was really cute when she asked me about it!
Well, that is about it for now!
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Quote of the Day - Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Font Row Seats For The Rose Bowl Parade
The sun is rising oh-slow-slowly on the far East side of Colorado Boulevard with the palm trees silhoutted against the pale blue sky with twiges of light orange. Behind me the sky is still dark blue and black. A fire crackles in a rusted-out half drum on the grass, and people are still sleeping on tarps and air mattresses nearby. Some enterprising company has erected stadium-style seats just across the street and the liquor store down the street is pedaling coffee and donuts. Surprisingly cars are driving up and down the street and carts are pushing horns, blow-up characters and stuffed toys.
The street is littered with silly string, marshmellows and tortillas.
Tortillas. You have to have cruised Colorado Boulevard (not at all related to the Rose parade) as a kid to understand the tortillas and marshmellows. As it has been explained tome, they were used as "weapons" against other cuisers who had the temerity to roll their car windows down. Go figure. It's Pasadena. Home of the newly wed and nearly dead.
A quiet plan flys overhead and suddenly the conversation turns to the Stealth figher flyby at 8:00 a.m., hours from now. The sun is up high enoughthat the neon signs are flickering off, but it's still so dark that it can't read the signs. Half the street lights are off, half still on. In case you've got your map browser handy, MIPTC is at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and San Marino.
Most of the plastic chairs are empty, still waiting for people. The nearby Volvo dealership has cleared out its inventory of cars and rented out its lot to big, rock-star recreational vehicles.
I've seen the after-effects of the parade before, but never the parade itself. For several days afer the parade, they display the floats on certain side streets in Pasadena, and it's really cool to see and touch them up close and personal. This time, there will be no toching, just looking. Plus there will be bands and dancers.
Maybe I'lleven be able to see Stephanie Edwards, the -on-the-street reporter for KTLA channel 5. The other co-host on the TV, Bob Eubanks, will be gushing over the horses in the parade. A stick of cotton candy just walked by with green and pink spun sugar in plastic bags. The American RedCross pickup truck drove by. Where's the disaster? Some 30,000 feet overhead, a jet leaves abright pink contrail in the sky. People are startingto wake up. Me? I've been up since 3:30 a.m. to get ready to drive here.
Parade time is getting closer. A young man in a white suit on a red scooter with a Rose parade sticker quietly scooted by, followed by a pickup truck towing a horse trailer.
The parade is waking up. A group of runners ran by, followed by my fiance's shouted question to them: "Why are you running? There's no one chasing you. After all, we have a bus system and cars." Humor this early in the morning is lost on me. I'm still not awake.
That's about it for the on-site report so far.
The rest you already know. You've seen it on TV.


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(1) Pants. JT's Evolve Lite pants have an elastic waistband with a ratchet locking system that allows 2 inches of give. We tested a size-32 pant that will comfortably fit a waistband range of 31 to 33 inches. JT Evolve Lite gear has a 3/4-mesh netting stitched into place at the bottom of the knee. Stitching in the netting helps keep it from being pulled up by the Velcro on knee braces. The pant has an ergonomic, pre-curved design, with spandex that runs from top to bottom on both sides for a contoured race fit. JT tried something a little different and went with stretch Kevlar on the inside of the knee area for increased durability and flexibility. Test riders were irritated by a very long manufacturer's tag, so we just ripped it out.
(2) Jersey. JT's Evolve Lite jersey is made from polyester. It has an athletic cut for a more tailored fit. The front half of the collar is elastic and runs a little big, which makes the jersey run low on your neck. There are stretch gussets at the wrists that help the sleeves stay in place without restricting your arms. The rear of the jersey is equipped with a drop tail and grip strips that keep the jersey tucked in.
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Celebrate a history of looking forward on the NFB's 75th anniversary. This short trailer captures the essence of the NFB's illustrious life as Canada's public film producer through the people, places, and events that have shaped Canadian and global cultures, identities, and histories through film.
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Robert Blecker
Professor of Law, Emeritus
With a gleam in his eye, Robert Blecker, a nationally known retributivist advocate of the death penalty, has managed to alienate both sides of the debate on the politically divisive and morally complex issue of capital punishment. But his position as designated outcast is nothing new, nor is his strongly held conviction that the most vicious and callous offenders deserve to die and that society is morally obliged to execute those "worst of the worst" criminals.
A radical at heart, like many who grew up in the 1960s, Professor Blecker railed against prevailing academic assumptions about the evils of capital punishment during his undergraduate years at Tufts, where he refused to major and nevertheless in 1969 earned a B.A. with honors in three fields, while vehemently protesting against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
At Harvard Law School, where he won the Oberman Prize for the best graduating thesis, Professor Blecker was one of only two students to publicly defend the death penalty. He went on to prosecute corrupt lawyers, cops, and judges and saw up close how the rich and powerful were given breaks denied to poor and powerless offenders. Later a Harvard University Fellow in Law and Humanities and also a playwright, Professor Blecker's production "Vote NO!", an anti-federalist case against adopting the Constitution, premiered in 1987 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and traveled to 16 states, convincing even staunchly patriotic audiences to vote against the Constitution.
Still rebellious, Professor Blecker espouses his carefully considered, yet almost universally unpalatable position in the academic community. Based on 13 years of interviewing convicted killers, and hundreds of hours inside maximum security prisons and on death rows, he makes a powerful case for the death penalty as retribution, but only for the "worst of the worst" offenders.
The sole keynote speaker supporting the death penalty at major conferences and at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, he was also the lone American advocate at an international conference in Geneva on the death penalty sponsored by Duke University Law School.
Professor Blecker encourages emotional debate in his teaching and has cotaught his death penalty course with leading abolitionists—most recently Kevin Doyle, Director of New York's Capital Defender's Office—in order to give students both viewpoints. He also teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional History, and Criminals and Our Urge to Punish Them.
Frequently appearing in The New York Times, on PBS, CourtTV, CNN, BBC World News, and other major media outlets, and with privileged access to death rows across the country, Professor Blecker made a documentary chronicling life on death rows and contrasting them with maximum security general population: Are they "living hell" as commonly portrayed? He was also the subject of a feature documentary, Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead, which chronicles his odd relationship with Daryl Holton, executed by Tennessee.
The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice Among the Worst of the Worst. Palgrave Macmillian (2013).
Roots "Resolving the Death Penalty: Wisdom from the Ancients." Chapter 6 in America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction,2nd ed. at 169–231 (J.R. Acker, R.M. Bohm & C.S. Lanier, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2003).
"Policing the Police." Chapter 13 in Police and Policing: Contemporary Issues, at 169–180, edited by D.J. Kenney. Praeger, 1989.
"A Poster Child for Us (Symposium: The Effects of Capital Punishment on the Administration of Justice)," 89 Judicature 297-301 (2006).
"If I Implore You and Order You to Set Me Free (New York Law School Faculty Presentation Day II)," 49 New York Law School Law Review 561-576 (2004-2005).
"The Death Penalty: Where Are We Now?" (Special Issue: Reflecting on the Legal Issues of Our Times. New York Law School Faculty Presentation Day), 46 New York Law School Law Review 665–674 (2002–2003).
"Haven or Hell? Inside Lorton Central Prison: Experiences of Punishment Justified." 42 Stanford Law Review 1149–1249 (1990).
"Beyond 1984: Undercover in America–Serpico to Abscam." 28 New York Law School Law Review823–1024 (1984).
"Who Deserves to Die? A Time to Reconsider," 231 New York Law Journal 2 (July 22, 2004).
"To Live or Die? Is There a Moral Obligation to Execute the Worst of the Worst? (Point/Counterpoint: Yes)," 1 New York Law Journal Magazine 10–11 (September 2002).
Book Review. "When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition, by Austin Sarat," 225 New York Law Journal 2 (May 11, 2001).
"Among Killers, Searching For the Worst of the Worst." Washington Post (Outlook), at B01 (December 3, 2000).
"Getting the View From Lorton." Washington Post (Outlook), at B04 (December 3, 2000).
"How Does Congress Define 'Perjury'?" Wall Street Journal, at A22 (December 9, 1998). Reprinted in 17 In Brief 12 (Spring/Summer, 1999).
"The Right Way Out." 220 New York Law Journal 2 (December 16, 1998).
"Truth in the Iran-Contra Affair: Making the Constitution Work." 10 National Law Journal 22 (December 7, 1987).
"The Standards of Truth and Trust After the Iran-Contra Hearings." 10 National Law Journal 20 (December 14, 1987).
"Vote No!" An Antifederalist Monologue [a play that premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on December 1, 1987, and has been performed in many places throughout the country, including Tufts University, Harvard University, the National Association of
Attorneys General State Dinner, the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and the Air Force Academy].
"Readers' Reaction to Bolan-Cohn Article." 187 New York Law Journal 2 (May 21, 1982) (with J. Glekel, S. Stein, S. Rifkin & J. Boutiller).
Professor Robert Blecker discusses his new book entitled "The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice among the Worst of the Worst."


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Petrochemical America Limited-Edition Box SetPhotographs by Richard Misrach & Ecological Atlas by Kate Orff
Availability: In stock
The limited-edition box set of Richard Misrach and Kate Orff's Petrochemical America pairs the award-winning book with a photographic print by Misrach and a drawing by Orff. Misrach's image of a shopping cart abandoned in the middle of a vast parking lot subtly weaves together themes explored throughout the book. The plastic of the shopping cart is made of petroleum, as is the expanse of asphalt, which is petroleum in a sticky, black, viscous form. The haze enveloping the streetlamps calls to mind the pollutants hanging in the air throughout Louisiana's "Cancer Alley." In Orff's drawing, a modified version of a map of the region, the chemical names of pollutants and the logos of multination corporations cluster around an inky black ribbon signifying both Mississippi River and the contaminated state in which it finds itself.
The cloth folio and box were crafted by John DeMerritt Bookbinding in Emmeryville, California. Each folio encompassing the book is stamped with an ironic reinterpretation of the classic image of evolution, which features increasingly erect species of humans. Here the spectrum of evolution ranges from a giant mammoth to the plastic shopping cart.
Richard Misrach (born in Los Angeles, 1949) has a long-standing personal connection with New Orleans and the surrounding region. Destroy This Memory, his latest published monograph, shows a record of hurricane-inspired graffiti left on houses and cars in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina, which garnered Aperture a nomination for a 2010 Lucie Award for Book Publisher of the Year, and won the award for Best Photobook of the Year 2011 at PhotoEspaña. Another standout success was his 2007 large-format Aperture book On the Beach, a sublime visual meditation on the relationship between humankind and the environment, which is as spectacular as it is unsettling. Earlier, Aperture published Violent Legacies, which addressed, in part, the contamination of the desert due to nuclear testing. Richard Misrach's other books include Golden Gate, also being released by Aperture in spring 2012, on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the iconic bridge.
Kate Orff (born in Maryland, 1971) is an assistant professor at Columbia University and founder of SCAPE, a landscape architecture studio in Manhattan. Her work weaves together sustainable development, design for biodiversity, and community-based change. Orff's recent exhibition at MoMA, Oyster-tecture, imagined the future of the polluted Gowanus Canal as part of a ground-up community process and an ecologically revitalized New York harbor.


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Alan Jacobson is the bestselling author of the Karen Vail mysteries, beginning with The 7th Victim, Crush, Velocity, and most recently, Inmate 1577. He has spent a number of years researching with the FBI, especially in the Behavioral Analysis Unit. He was previously interviewed on BookBanter with the release of Crush. In this interview, Jacobson talks about how he writes one of his thriller, the intense amount of research Inmate 1577 required, and why he feels this research is important, and where he sees Karen Vail headed in his next novel. Read the interview . . .
The BookBanter website has gone through a bit of a facelift and change, all for its improvement. I've switched to a two-column method, so that way you don't feel like you're being bombarded with material of all different varieties. I've gone for simplification, however all the information that used to be there is still on the site, just not on the homepage, but under various other pages.
From now on the homepage will feature the latest BookBanter interview, the latest Links Roundup, the Review of the Week, a BookBanter Blog post, a listing of the four latest interviews, the latest twelve book reviews, and the latest BookBanter columns. This will all be on the left column and will be update daily and accordingly, with the latest update appearing at the very top.
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GDPR | Seers Article
The Right of Access for data subjects was one of the rights introduced under GDPR.
In general terms, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides individuals with the right to request information on how companies are handling their personal data. This is known as a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR). A data subject can request an email, or a form (online), or in any other form of communication. Then, a company will verify the requestor's identity and his data in its data ecosystem and lastly track the request to resolution.
This process takes approximately 30-45 days.
The DSARs include:
Also, GDPR and CCPA data subject access requests are mostly shown through an online privacy rights request form.
It sounds simple, but there are various challenges in fulfilling subject data requests. The most complex step for many organisations is finding personal data and tying it back to the data subjects.
Consider the following points:
Unluckily, as compared to massive growth in data accumulation, there has been no matched effort for data management and data governance.
Therefore, the potential consequences are amplified such as data breaches, data misuse, loss of customer's trust and more.
In response, companies have put more resources into implementing security controls to restrict access to their data. However, security focuses on who uses the data, and Privacy is about how the data is being used and also the purpose of its usage.
Companies are under strict obligations to respect and respond to the requests about the Data subject rights, such as "right-to-be-forgotten".
To accomplish basic compliance, a company must understand what personal data they possess, also its location and purpose.
Until now, the basic data inventory is a manual one which consists of application data owner survey and spreadsheets.
Intake, verify, search, deletion, and response are five DSAR processes and fulfillment capabilities. Fulfillment of DSAR is important for the compliance requirements of both the California Consumer Privacy Act and the General Data Protection Regulation.
Though, CCPA and GDPR have a unique take on data subject access requests processes. Below five capabilities are crucial for data privacy and data management initiative.
1) Intake
Data subjects make requests through a process known as intake. The request can be made via an online form, whereas law requires data subjects to make a request by an email or other communication means.
The company will track and manage the request through to resolution.
2) Verify
The verification of the requestor's identity is the next step. Companies are providing online services; many require customers to login and verify their identity.
GDPR requires that the enterprise should confirm the data subject's existence form their ecosystem and then locate the corresponding info to include in the response.
3) Search
For fulfillment of the request, enterprises need to search and locate a requestor's personal data in their data ecosystem. An information type an enterprise search for can differ, which can be based on data subject type.
The searching process identifies relevant personal data attributes, categories, and a company's purpose to collect and process the subject's information. Then, the search process will identify specific systems and locations containing the data subject's personal data.
4) Deletion
To respond for deletion, an enterprise must validate which systems data can be deleted from is based on regulatory or business constraints.
A business constraint could be a warranty registration database containing personal information. An enterprise can refuse to delete a data subject's information from the database as it impedes fulfilling a legal obligation to render a customer with, say, an extended warranty on his purchase.
5. Response
Templates help to ensure that the DSAR fulfillment process is efficient and consistent. All communications and activities must be recorded into a reporting dashboard and audit trail to demonstrate accountability, compliance, and progress towards resolving requests.Conclusion
The subject access request is thus the request whereby an individual legally exercises their right to access data collected on them. They may then decide if there is an issue with the data or if they would like to exercise their right to erasure or not.
Every organisation that falls under the jurisdiction of the EU must grant each subject access request to be dealt with privacy, security and in an in-depth manner to comply with the law. Failure to manage or to cater to the subject access requests has resulted in massive penalties and fines against large companies in the past.
Frequently Asked Questions:
1) Can a company refuse a subject access request?
Section 53, DPA 2018, states that if your request is unfounded or if you make excessive requests, your employer can refuse to provide your information or charge a reasonable fee for it.
2) What does a subject access request show?
Under Data Protection legislation, a consumer can exercise their rights to collect information held on them. The process is called a subject access request, which entitles an individual a right of access. Through this right, they can verify information held on them on police computers.
3) Can a subject access request be vexatious?
An authority can refuse a request if the requester is vexatious. However, if a data subject has requested information on himself, the authority must tackle the request as a subject access request under the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Grapevine, Texas (June 21, 2017) - This summer, LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Dallas/Fort Worth is hitting the road and inviting members of the public to help create a massive, Ninjago-themed LEGO® brick mosaic.
With more than 20 man hours of work to be done, the LEGOLAND Discovery Center Master Model Builder will be onsite at stops around Dallas-Fort Worth armed with 79,320 bricks, enlisting the help of LEGO® brick fanatics of all ages to build the nearly 6-foot-tall by 10-foot-wide mosaic featuring Sensei Wu and all six ninjas from the popular LEGO® Ninjago toy line and TV show. Similar to a paint-by-numbers system, the public will use bricks to build small LEGO® tiles that will combine together to create the massive image.
Follow the building process on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #ninjagomosaic. The completed, permanent mosaic will be unveiled in LEGOLANDDiscovery Center's new Ninjago City Adventure obstacle courseon Friday, September 22,opening day ofthe new animatedaction-comedy "The LEGO Ninjago Movie" by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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Friday, July 21 – Dive-In Movie at NRH20 featuring "The LEGO Batman Movie" from 5 to 7 p.m.
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Thursday, August 10 – Klyde Warren Park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.*
Saturday, August 26 – Haggard Park in Historic Downtown Plano Arts District featuring "The LEGO Batman Movie" from 6:30 to 8 p.m.*
*Free and open to the public.
Attraction Hours and Tickets: Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. - last admission two hours prior to closing. Admission is $21 for guests 3 years of age and older, and free for kids 2 and under.
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About LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Dallas/Fort Worth: LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Dallas/Fort Worth opened at Grapevine Mills Mall in March 2011. The 35,000-square-foot indoor attraction geared towards children ages 3 to 10 and their families, features millions of LEGO® bricks and offers a fun, highly interactive and educational two to three hour experience. Interactive features include hands-on play areas, a 4D cinema, LEGO® rides, outdoor water playground, special party rooms for birthdays and other celebrations, and signature MINILAND exhibit, featuring replicas of North Texas landmarks made out of LEGO® bricks. Admission is $21 for guests 3 years of age and older, free for kids 2 and under. Adults must be accompanied by children to enter. For more information visit www.LEGOLANDDiscoveryCenter.com/dallasfw. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram @ldcdfw. About Merlin Entertainments: MERLIN ENTERTAINMENTS plc is the leading name in location-based, family entertainment. Europe's Number 1 and the world's second-largest visitor attraction operator, Merlin now operates 114 attractions, 11 hotels/3 holiday villages in 23 countries and across 4 continents. The company aims to deliver memorable and rewarding experiences to its almost 63 million visitors worldwide, through its iconic global and local brands, and the commitment and passion of its managers and 26,000 employees (peak season). Merlin has twenty four attractions and one hotel in North America - including two stunning LEGOLAND Resorts – LEGOLAND Florida with its theme park, water park and hotel; and LEGOLAND California theme park with water park, SEA LIFE aquarium and themed hotel; Madame Tussauds celebrity wax attractions in New York, Washington DC, Las Vegas; Hollywood; and San Francisco; LEGOLAND Discovery Centers in Chicago; Dallas/Fort Worth; Kansas City Missouri; Atlanta, Georgia; Boston; Westchester, New York; Toronto, Canada; a Dungeon in San Francisco; and SEA LIFE aquariums in Phoenix, Arizona; Kansas City, Missouri; Michigan; Dallas/Fort Worth; the Mall of America in Minneapolis and Charlotte – Concord - underlining the company's position as the world's biggest global aquarium operator. Visit www.merlinentertainments.biz for more information
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Two people were shot and killed in two separate medical marijuana clinic robberies Thursday night in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles police Robbery-Homicide detectives early Friday were at Hollywood Holistic in the 1600 block of North El Centro Avenue, where someone was killed shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday.
At Higher Path Holistic in the 1300 block of Sunset Boulevard, near Dodger Stadium, another person was fatally shot about 4:10 p.m. Thursday. A second person was critically wounded.
The names of the victims were being withheld. No arrests were made in either killing. Los Angeles police Robbery-Homicide Division detectives were handling the investigations.
On North El Centro, "the sole employee in the store was found dead by the owner of the store," Sgt. Don Lawrence of the Hollywood Station said.
East LA Insider has more about the Echo Park homicide here.


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Entertainment Weekly's home page trumpets its main coverage subjects directly beneath its logo: TV, TV Recaps, Movies, Music, Books, Video.
The addition of TV Recaps came in late April, and its presence — independent of TV and ahead of Movies and Music — says much about how people currently experience entertainment and its coverage and how mainstream outlets are trying to cater to them.
In the old media world, writers were expected to tell readers what they didn't know. In the current, online-dominated one, writers often gain more traction telling readers what they already do.
Hence: recaps, which exist less for the we-watched-it-so-you-don't-have-to benefits ("Catfish" excluded) than for the pleasures of returning to a landscape you've already visited, albeit often from a fresh perspective and in the company of fellow travelers.
"I can't imagine reading a recap if you haven't watched the show," said Matt Zoller Seitz, who, as New York magazine's television critic, writes recaps for its Vulture website. "What would you possibly get out of it?"
The recap phenomenon is not new; the website Television Without Pity, which folded in April after being bought by Bravo in 2007, generally is credited with launching it after its founders began recapping "Dawson's Creek" episodes under the moniker Dawson's Wrap in 1998 (with the site expanding and changing its name to Mighty Big TV in 1999 and subsequently to Television Without Pity). Or you can go further back to those what's-happened-on-the-soaps recaps that newspapers ran for decades.
But those soap opera summaries tended to occupy one dry paragraph, in contrast to the lengthy, sometimes rambling tomes being inspired by a broad cross-section of today's television shows. The recaps' cultural prominence has risen to the point that they're overshadowing traditional reviews.
The middle column on The New York Times' Television page details Series Recaps: "Watching 'The Americans,'" "Watching 'Fargo,'" "Watching 'Game of Thrones,'" "Watching 'Mad Men,'" "Watching 'Orphan Black,'" "Watching 'Penny Dreadful.'" Recaps have become a staple of other journalism sites as well, including The Washington Post's and Los Angeles Times'.
"Even places you would never expect, like The Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone, are into the recap game," said Television Without Pity co-founder Tara Ariano, now West Coast editor (and co-founder) of Previously.TV. "If you're into a show, you're interested in reading as much as you can about it."
Then there's this sign of the times: In early April, Entertainment Weekly laid off its original and only remaining dedicated film critic, Owen Gleiberman, along with music critic Nick Catucci and five other staffers. Later that month Kristen Baldwin, who had been recapping "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" for the website while serving as the magazine's executive editor for integrated content, was promoted to deputy editor. About a week later, TV Recaps assumed their prominent spot atop the magazine's home page.
When asked about the Web traffic generated by recaps, Entertainment Weekly senior publicist Mari Dwyer responded: "On average, around 45 percent of our unique visitors in a month interact with TV recaps, according to (the Web analytics business) Omniture."
"Recaps are more and more popular, and more and more people are reading them," said Baldwin, who began writing her cheeky "Bachelor"/"Bachelorette" recaps in 2009.
The Entertainment Weekly site lists recaps for 32 current series covered by various writers. Among those highlighted on the TV Recaps home page last week, the ones generating the most comments were for "Survivor" and "Game of Thrones"; the finale of the latter airs Sunday night and is sure to set off a veritable recapper's delight.
"People have always talked about favorite shows; it's just now they can do it instantly and regularly," said TV historian Walter Podrazik, of Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications. "'St. Elsewhere' would have lent itself to this type of discussion because of the ongoing story arc. Friends got on the phone and talked about it."
The shows recapped most often are serialized dramas — shows such as "Mad Men," "Breaking Bad" and "Game of Thrones" that advance the story week after week — and reality series that prompt a playful sort of sports reporting. "Saturday Night Live" recaps serve the utilitarian purpose of letting you know which sketches to skip on your DVR.
You're less likely to see recaps for sitcoms or police procedurals regardless of their popularity, so although the audience for CBS' "NCIS" dwarfed that of AMC's "Breaking Bad," Seitz said a Vulture recap for the former would generate maybe eight comments, while one for "Breaking Bad" would tally 200 to 300.
"I don't think procedurals are very recap-able because they're all about what happened, not what it meant to the characters," Seitz said. "But 'True Detective' was very recap-able because even though it was a mystery show, it was more about the characters."
Yet, Baldwin said, the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" did become popular for recaps because it was a serialized story leading to the resolution of its title mystery. Writers also enjoy digging into the deeper meanings of "Louie."
The ever-mysterious "Lost" was one of the first shows that Huffington Post TV critic Maureen Ryan regularly revisited, along with "Battlestar Galactica," when she covered television for the Tribune. (Ryan is still based in the Chicago area.) Her blog/column, The Watcher, strayed from traditional critics' coverage in that instead of writing about a series at the beginning of the season and then devoting her coverage to new TV events/movies/programs, she returned to individual shows throughout the season and tapped into fans' enthusiasm. Her gaudy online numbers demonstrated the benefits.
Even now, Ryan said, "I get far more queries about 'Why aren't you writing about "Game of Thrones" weekly?' than 'Are you writing about (the new) "Gang Related?"'"
Ryan credited Television Without Pity with popularizing recaps and Alan Sepinwall, now HitFix's television critic, with "driving the art form forward, especially with his recaps of 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos,' which I was addicted to."
Sepinwall, a self-described "TV junkie," began writing recaps/reviews when he was a University of Pennsylvania undergraduate musing about the previous night's "NYPD Blue" on the campus' Usenet system. Later, when writing about television for the Newark, N.J., newspaper The Star-Ledger, "every time I would write about a show that had already aired, I just noticed the volume of response was so much greater than whenever I wrote an advance review of anything, including a returning popular show," he recalled. "People really wanted to talk about what they already had seen."
Sepinwall doesn't refer to his current work as recaps but "reviews published after the fact" — a point that underscores writers' varying approaches to the form. Sepinwall's work is analytical, usually focusing on key thematic points and then returning for "some other thoughts." Ryan's pieces also include much analysis while feeling conversational, as if she's sharing her personal observations in a lengthy email.
Seitz said of a Vulture recap: "I almost liken it to a performance, like these writers are performers, and they're giving you a performance in print based on the show they're reviewing."
He likened the recapper's role to that of the Japanese benshi, who would offer live narration and interpretation during silent films.
"I'm one kind of benshi, and Alan Sepinwall is another. Maureen Ryan of The Huffington Post is another. Alyssa Rosenberg of The Washington Post is another. You kind of get to choose your benshi."
You also can find plenty of recaps that are strictly that — stultifyingly functional paragraph-by-paragraph recitations of this-happened-then-that-happened. Previously.TV, where Television Without Pity co-founders Ariano and Sarah D. Bunting now toil, has been trying out new recap formats, such as "Particles" (articles broken up into multiple parts using various graphic elements such as screen shots), "Show-O-Matic" (breaking down a particularly formulaic episode in terms of its familiar elements) and "Rankled" (offering rankings and superlatives such as "MVP" and "Best Reaction Shot").
"It's more fun for us to give the reader a more media-saturated experience of the episode than just a narrative write-up, though those are great too," Ariano said.
None of these approaches would work without shows that can spark long conversations from large audiences — as well as the quick ones that take place in real time on Twitter. While Hollywood focuses increasingly on blockbusters and spectacle, networks are producing more serious dramas that tell stories over long arcs, just the kind of series made for lengthy online analyses.
"There's more to engage with (on television)," said Seitz, who also edits the film-related RogerEbert.com site. "Television is no longer something you sort of half watch while you fold your laundry. A lot of it is meant to be watched more than once and discussed and argued about."
Yet are recaps deepening critical thought, or is the purpose more to indulge fans' insatiable appetites for minutiae while traditional criticism wanes?
"To me, it's less critical analysis and more fandom, which is OK," said Steve Jones, communications professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "I think it's great that these sites help people get more deeply into stories and be more attentive to what (the shows) are saying. But how much of this goes beyond drilling down into particular episodes and broadens out into larger issues? If you look at the rise of popular criticism since World War II, the trajectory had been an engagement with larger social issues with relation to popular culture. I don't see recappers doing that now."
Ryan acknowledged recaps as "a branding opportunity. It's a way to get people to return to your work, and it's a driver of clicks, and anything that's a driver of clicks online is going to get preferential treatment."
But she said recapping doesn't bring out her best writing, and she has wearied of writing about shows week after week, so she has cut back on the series she recaps.
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"My sense from talking to other critics is there's something of a move away from the weekly reviews," she said, noting a growing concern over "seeing the forest through the trees. Sometimes you can lose that ability, and I really like more of a bird's-eye perspective on what's happening on TV."
Said Baldwin: "I don't know that recaps are creating better TV in any way, but they are certainly both benefiting from each other. The television industry benefits when people have to go online and read (recaps). That's a level of engagement (the executives) want. And it's definitely a benefit to us that people want to go somewhere after a show and read theories and talk about it with like-minded fans."
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literally and figuratively -- on the agenda for Tuesday's meeting between the Sarasota city and county commissions.
Four items are on tap, and all are important. Yet none is more vital than the need for continuing discussions about the potential for collaboration and problem-solving.
City Manager Tom Barwin has recently met with a work group -- including private-sector and government leaders -- to discuss how Sarasota can tackle the personal and public problems associated with chronically homeless people congregating on streets, in parks and on business properties.
Among the early outcomes of the work-group sessions, according to city-county documents, is Barwin's plan to seek money from a local foundation in order to hire one full-time and two part-time caseworkers.
Those workers would help not only chronically homeless people but the police officers who regularly encounter them. This is an excellent idea: People who are homeless frequently require help navigating the social-service "system" or need guidance in order to accept services and treatment; police officers could use the assistance from social-services experts, so they can focus on policing and protecting the public.
A timely opportunity
Here is a timely opportunity for philanthropists to partner with local government to test the value of funding caseworkers, with the hope of improving the lives of individuals, giving police the tools they need to effectively deal with homeless people and benefiting city neighborhoods and business districts. We hope funding for this project comes to fruition. (In a similar example of private-sector assistance in public issues, the Gulf Coast Community Foundation recently funded, to its credit, caseworkers hired by the YMCA to aid homeless schoolchildren in Sarasota County.)
A positive response by the County Commission to the city of Sarasota's initiatives would be welcome. Homelessness, in its many forms, is a problem countywide. The quality of cities is a huge factor in the quality of the county; furthermore, city residents pay county taxes.
Sarasota County has, in fact, funded treatment and housing. But other opportunities might also come to light as a result of open discussions between city and county governments, extending to the private sector.
For instance, since many chronically homeless people are arrested and incarcerated would it make sense to seek private dollars to help local governments hire caseworkers who could be assigned to the county jail? In light of the costs of arrests, incarcerations and courts, efforts to keep homeless people out of jail and off the streets could be cost-effective.
Other questions
Other questions to examine:
� How could mental-health and substance-abuse services be made more accessible? How could recalcitrant people be enticed, or required, to obtain such care?
� Are facilities that offer treatment with the support of public funds adequately and efficiently providing services?
� Can service providers become more collaborative with public and private financial support, combined with training?
� How can previous community-based efforts to tackle homelessness be revived and used to shape the current debate?
� What additional facilities and services are necessary, and would be most effective, in the city of Sarasota and countywide?
One of the challenges facing the city and county commissioners is to ask and answer these questions in an order that results in a long-term strategy -- while also producing the demonstrable, short-term gains necessary to boost public and private confidence in the community's ability to make progress.
Performing that balancing act is easier said than done, and the community's failure to gain momentum is frustrating. But there will be no progress without persistence, collaboration and commitments to act.
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The first peach of summer is the piece of fruit that I look forward to the most. Even more than lemons and citrus, which brighten up the cold snowy days of January and February, and berries in June, which bring the promise of summer that hasn't quite arrived yet...
Ripe peaches are summer. Hot days and floaty skirts, pedicures and freckles on my shoulders, icy drinks and treats...
Selecting the best ones is an art. I never buy them the first week they show up in the grocery store. I've learned to wait, at least a few weeks, until the display counters are abundantly full, and I can have my pick of the sweetest and juiciest. I gently press a finger against the fuzzy skin, and if I like how it feels, then I give it a little sniff. A good peach will smell, well, sweet and peachy!
Peaches are so fantastic on their own, that a pile of them sitting in a bowl on our table are in danger of being eaten before they ever make it into a pie or crumble. I adore them sliced on top of cereal.
After bringing back a bag of rhubarb from Jamie's parents' garden earlier this month, I chopped and froze the fruit so that I'd be able to use it as I had time. His mom had made a strawberry rhubarb pie while we were there, and I've come to love the combination of the tart rhubarb with a sweeter fruit. With peaches in abundance, I thought I would make a Peach Rhubarb Pie with an Oat Crumble Topping.
For a thickener, I used tapioca instead of cornstarch; however, the peaches were so juicy that I was skeptical that the filling would even thicken in the oven, so I cooked my filling first before baking the pie. You may find that step to be unnecessary, but after my failed Rhubarb Blueberry Pie, which remained completely liquidy and did not thicken at all in the oven (that one with cornstarch), I've decided to always cook my filling first. It just makes me feel better, knowing that I won't have to wait and wonder if it's going to turn out or not, since every piece of fruit is different and produces a different amount of juice. I also have come to like the taste of tapioca as a thickener much better than cornstarch, but that's just a matter of preference.
The pie filling was a wonderful combination of sweet peaches and tangy rhubarb, and the oat crumble topping gave it the feel of a deep-dish crumble dessert.
In my opinion, a wedge of summer fruit pie isn't complete without a generous dollop of whipped cream or a scoop of creamy ice cream plopped on top. I've been wanting to try a Peach Buttermilk Ice Cream, and this was my opportunity.
I cooked more peaches with a little brown sugar, butter and rum, just for a few minutes until they became very caramelly and juicy. Reserving a few chunks of peaches to stir into the ice cream, I pureed the rest, which, when whisked together with cream and buttermilk lended such a fantastic peach flavor to the ice cream, with the rich sweetness of brown sugar. Jamie said the tang of the buttermilk made the ice cream taste like a peach cheesecake. Which would be pretty wonderful, too.
But peach pie with ice cream - that's just the epitome of summer.
Peachy Rhubarb Pie with Oat Crumble
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crust and filling:
- 1 single pie crust (click here for my all-butter perfect pie crust recipe)
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 4 cups rhubarb, chopped
- 2 cups peaches, peeled, pitted and sliced (about 4 medium peaches)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/3 - 1/2 cup minute Tapioca
- juice and zest of 1 lemon
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
Preheat the oven to 375. Line a baking sheet with foil.
Prepare the pie crust and place in a deep-dish pie pan. Sprinkle the bottom of the crust with the tablespoon of flour to prevent it from becoming soggy. Place in the freezer while you prepare everything else.
In a large bowl, combine the rhubarb, peaches, sugar, tapioca, lemon juice and zest. Let stand for 15 minutes. Depending on how juicy your fruit is, you may need more or less tapioca - I used the full 1/2 cup, though, since the peaches created a lot of juice.
Pour fruit mixture into a saucepan; stirring occasionally, bring to a boil over medium heat. Once it boils, stir constantly until the juices thicken, about 4-5 minutes. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, combine the topping ingredients, using a pastry cutter or fork to mash the butter in until coarse and crumbly. Place topping in the freezer.
Pour the filling into the prepared crust; set pie on the baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes. Sprinkle chilled topping over the filling and bake for an additional 25-30 minutes, until topping is browned and filling is bubbling.
Place pie on a wire rack to cool completely before cutting.
Yields 8-10 servings.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen
Peach and Brown Sugar Buttermilk Ice Cream
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- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 ripe peaches, peeled and chopped
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum
- 1 cup 2% buttermilk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the peaches, brown sugar and rum; cook, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes until the peaches release their juices and the sugar is dissolved. Using a slotted spoon, scoop out half of the peaches into a container and set aside.
Pour the remaining peaches along with the liquid from the pan into a blender and puree until smooth. In a large bowl, whisk together the pureed peach mixture with the buttermilk, cream, salt and vanilla. Stir in the reserved caramelized peaches. Refrigerate mixture overnight, or until very well chilled.
Churn mixture according to the manufacturer's instructions of your ice cream maker, then freeze until firm, about 4-6 hours.
Yields almost 2 quarts.
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