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Multipoint mechanisms with deadbolts, hooks, mushrooms or pin bolts to repair faulty or broken Upvc doors.
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For many people, the flare-up of an arthritic knee or shoulder appears to signal a change in the weather—usually hinting that a storm is imminent.
The belief that achy joints accompany a weather change is so widespread, in fact, that it has just about been accepted as reality. Many doctors listen to patients complain that they experience stiff or aching joints before, during, or after changes in temperature, barometric pressure, or humidity.
Yet, in spite of the widespread belief in a connection between aches and pains and inclement weather, medical researchers have come up with little evidence to support it.
Evidence for the Health Claim
Changes in the weather such as barometric pressure, humidity, and temperature could theoretically affect the synovial fluid that lines and lubricates the joints if, for example, they had a chemical effect on the fluid which somehow increased inflammation (which causes pain). However, there is no conclusive evidence that supports this theory.
Since at least the mid-1800s, a number of medical, and so-called bio-meteorologic research studies have been carried out in an effort to establish a connection between health and changing weather conditions.
The results of these studies have been varied. Based primarily on a compilation of patient anecdotes (reports of arthritis sufferers, for instance), increased barometric pressure (in fair weather conditions) has been associated with increased joint pain. Conversely, others studies have shown a relationship between increased joint pain and decreased barometric pressure (in stormier weather). Still other studies have suggested that changing weather conditions can cause immediate pain in some patients and delayed pain in others.
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It is important to note that because most studies on this subject have been based on anecdotal reports rather than carefully designed observational studies, their conclusions don't constitute reliable scientific evidence. Furthermore, many doctors claim that the wide variety of arthritic conditions and sheer complexity of atmospheric variability makes coming up with meaningful connections between joint pain and weather conditions next to impossible.
There is also a psychological aspect to this belief. What are the chances that the connection between health and the weather is simply coincidental? Is it possible that arthritis sufferers link their stiff and achy joints to changes in the weather as a way of explaining an otherwise mysterious exacerbation of their condition? Some doctors suggest that patients who observe weather conditions when they experience pain may pay little or no attention to the weather when they don't have any pain.
Furthermore, there is no definitive evidence that moving to a warmer or drier climate provides a cure for aching joints. Some doctors report that many patients claim that the pain disappears for a while, only to return a few months later.
In spite of researchers' failure to find a meaningful connection between weather changes and health, some doctors consider their patients' unwavering belief that changing barometric pressure is responsible for their aches and pains to be proof enough. This notion is innocent enough as long as it doesn't interfere with their patients' motivation to change the things they actually can control. Anticipation of a favorable weather forecast is no substitution for exercise, weight loss and medication when necessary.
Aches and Pains Index. UK Weather Channel Interactive Web site. Available at http://uk.weather.com/activities/health/achesandpains/achesandpainsindex.html . Accessed July 25, 2006.
Cold Weather Can Cause More Aches and Pains for Arthritis Sufferers. Marshall University Orthopaedics Web site. Available at http://musom.marshall.edu/medctr/orthopaedics/cold-weather.asp . Accessed July 25, 2006
Shmerling RH. Whether Weather Matters For Arthritis. Available at http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/8799/9273/35323/341624.html?d=dmtHMSContent . Accessed July 25, 2006.
Weather and Joint Pain. Any Connection? Mayo Clinic Web site. Available at http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/joint-pain/AN00102 . Accessed July 25, 2006.
Weather and Our Physical Health. BBC News Web site. Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/weatherwise/living/effects/ . Accessed July 25, 2006.
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Nancy Hechinger is on the full-time faculty at NYU's Interactive Telecommunication Program. She has a diverse background in technology and education—including multimedia and film production, the development of interactive museum exhibits, and publishing—and in the strategic uses of information and telecommunication technologies, focusing particularly on how technology might make science more accessible, and also promoting the teaching and learning of essential twenty-first-century skills. She was the founding Director of the National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; a founding partner and the Director of Technology for the Edison Project; on the Senior Design Team of Apple's Multimedia Lab (1988-1990); and had her own interactive media production company, Hands-on Media. She received her B.A. in 1969 from Sarah Lawrence College, and an MFA in Writing (Poetry) in 2009. Her book Letter to Leonard Cohen was published in 2011 by Finishing Line Press, and her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Red Wheelbarrow, Salamander, Gargoyle, The MacGuffin, Wisconsin Review, Sanskrit, and River Sedge.
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Notice: This Wiki is now read only and edits are no longer possible. Please see: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/wikis/Wiki-shutdown-plan for the plan.
JDT UI/How to Contribute
This page is a starting point for where to begin when wanting to contribute to the project. Contribution means not only contributing code but also reporting bugs, triaging bugs, answering questions on newsgroups, documentation, and even spreading the word by blogging or giving a talk on your local Eclipse DemoCamp. The goal of this wiki page is to educate and to be as up front as possible with expectations so that the process can be as efficient as possible.
Reporting Bugs
Report the bug for the change you want to see in the world.
If you find a bug or have a new feature request, log in to Eclipse bugzilla system and open a bug on the Eclipse > JDT > UI component via this link: Open JDT UI bug. See the description of how a great bug report looks like. If you find a bug that you think is a duplicate, is not a bug, etc. feel free to comment saying so.
If wanting to track bug changes in JDT UI there are a few ways:
- Via e-mail. If you want to receive e-mail when a bug is logged you can watch the firstname.lastname@example.com user. You will receive e-mail anytime a new bug is logged to this user or an update is made while assigned to this user. To set this up see Preferences -> Email Preferences -> User Watching. This will e-mail you for all incoming JDT UI bugs.
- Via Atom. You can convert any query in bugzilla to a feed that will update when a matched bug changes. To convert a search to a feed perform a search and select "Feed" at the bottom of the search results.
Contributing Code
Whether you're wanting to fix a typo in javadoc or to implement the next whiz bang feature for JDT UI you'll need to know a few things before you contribute code. The JDT UI code is contained in a Git repo. Use git or EGit to clone this repo. If you are using the Eclipse Git team provider, see Platform-releng/Git Workflows#Clone a repo on suggestions on how to clone a repo and set up a branch.
Getting the code into your workspace
The JDT UI code is contained in the Git repo at
- You may not need to import all projects in the repo to your workspace. The important JDT UI plug-ins are listed here.
- To satisfy dependencies on test projects you need to clone the following git repositories
for org.eclipse.core.filebuffers.tests, org.eclipse.jface.text.tests, org.eclipse.text.tests
for org.eclipse.test.performance
- It is also recommended to clone the JDT/Core repo and have the 'org.eclipse.jdt.core' project in your workspace
Our current branches:
- master - development towards the next Eclipse IDE release
The documentation of the Eclipse platform projects including JDT UI can be found in
Eclipse installation requirements
- For development in the master branch, the Eclipse IDE you are using should be the latest I-build for the currently developed release. This latest build can be found on http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ By default, the Eclipse SDK will use the Running Platform as the target platform.
Configuring the workspace
Getting the code is the first and the biggest step, but there are a few more steps
- JDT UI uses project-specific settings for compiler warnings/errors, code formatting etc, which you will automatically get when you clone the Git repository. So you do not have to worry about configuring these.
- However we have the following Save Actions enabled in our workspaces:
- Format edited lines
- Organize imports
- Remove trailing white spaces on non-empty lines
- Enable API tooling, and specify an appropriate API baseline. For example, for Eclipse 4.13 development the baseline should be 4.12.
- For each project in your workspace make sure that the corresponding JDK version is installed (usually 1.4 to 1.8).
- On Mac, only 1.6 to 1.8 are available. Let the EEs for Java-SE 1.4 to 1.6 point to the installed JDK 1.6. To get rid of the errors in your workspace, set 'Project Properties > Java Compiler > Building > No strictly compatible JRE for execution environment available' to 'Warning' for each project and hide the modified settings files from Git by using 'context menu > Team > Advanced > Assume Unchanged'.
Contributing a change
Provide a contribution using Gerrit
- First, make sure you have agreed and signed the Eclipse Contribution CLA.
- Then, read carefully this documents: Gerrit to set up Gerrit. We recommend to use EGit. There make sure that the options Add Signed-off by and Compute Change-Id for Gerrit Code-Review are selected in the Commit dialog.
In case you're not using EGit:
- Make your change locally, and git commit --signoff them in your local repo. Commit message must contain Bug Number.
- when you're ready, git push your change to Gerrit using the following command: git push ssh://firstname.lastname@example.com:29418/jdt/eclipse.jdt.ui.git HEAD:refs/for/master
- After the push, the log tells you about an URL which tracks the contribution
In any case
- Share this URL on the bug you're working on.
In case you want to provide a better patch for the same change, don't forget to repeat the Change-Id in the footer of your commit message so Gerrit will be able to link it to existing contribution.
or use Bugzilla
We accept patches on Bugzilla. While attaching a patch on Bugzilla, you need to add an explicit Certificate of Origin sign-off comment on the bug. See Contributing a patch via Bugzilla.
Unit Testing
Testing is imperative to the health of the project. We have a significant amount of tests. The quantity of tests will keep growing as more functionality is added to JDT UI. If you are contributing a fix or writing an enhancement, it is a requirement that tests are written. If you don't write them a committer will have to and that could slow down the contribution process.
There are a couple of things that you should know about our testing process:
- Most tests are included in org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests and org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests.refactoring, but you will need the other test plug-ins as well to satisfy dependencies.
- The main test suite for org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests is org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests.AutomatedSuite, and the main test suite for org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests.refactoring is org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests.refactoring.all.AllAllRefactoringTests. Those two test suites must be green before submitting or committing a change.
- If you create a new TestCase make sure to add it to the correct test suite.
- If you want to make a good impression, write tests. This goes for any project, of course.
- Testing code against different Java versions should follow a common file name pattern:
Class file name | Java Version |
CleanUpTest1d7.java | Java 7 |
CleanUpTest1d8.java | Java 8 |
CleanUpTest9.java | Java 9 |
CleanUpTest10.java | Java 10 |
.. | .. |
Coding Conventions
- Follow the Eclipse Platform's Development_Conventions_and_Guidelines, and the additional rules used in JDT UI.
- Don't duplicate code and don't reinvent the wheel. Consult the Javadoc of JDTUIHelperClasses and reuse existing code.
- The copyright header goes before the package declaration, starting in the very first line.
- For new files, list yourself "and others" instead of "IBM and others" in the first line.
- For each changed file:
- Update the copyright year (if not the current year)
- Enter your credentials by filling out the following template and adding it to the header comment:
Your Name <email@example.com> - Bug Title - https://bugs.eclipse.org/BUG_NUMBER
- It is considered good practice to write code that does not have warnings. If possible, fix warnings existing whenever you see them, they can crop up due to compiler changes occasionally.
- Non-externalized strings are considered errors, do not ship non-externalized strings.
- Write/update Javadoc for all API you introduce/change. See Evolving Java-based APIs by Jim des Rivières to understand what it means to maintain an API.
- It might also be useful to read the detailed document on things to remember when contributing code to JDT UI
Before You Check In
- Commit comments are required for all code commits, bugs should be logged to track work and the bug number and a description is then used in the commit comment to describe the change. For example when fixing a bug, use: "Fixed bug xxx: <title of bug>". The "bug xxxx" part is really important as this is what is used to relate code changes to bugs.
- Before committing changes, catch up to all changes made by others, and then run the tests.
- Don't commit your changes if this will cause compile errors or API errors for others, or when there are test failures.
- Check for spotbugs errors. Jenkins has got a separate build to check for spotbugs errors in jdt.ui since 4.18 at https://ci.eclipse.org/jdt/job/eclipse.jdt.ui-SpotBugs/.
The Build
We commit a change only when the tests are green, hence build failures should not occur normally. Even so things can go wrong, hence sign up for the platform-releng-dev mailing list. You'll receive e-mails when builds complete and when build and test failures occur. It's always good to pay extra special attention on the mornings after you make a commit or someone makes a commit on your behalf. The normal reaction to "breaking the build" is to log a bug, notify the platform-releng-dev list about it so that others can gauge the quality of the build, and then fix the bug.
We try to be prompt and responsive on the newsgroup but there's always room for improvement. If you know the answer to a query feel free to respond. It is also helpful to answer questions on stackoverflow which are tagged 'jdt' or 'eclipse-jdt'.
The wiki is open and can be edited by all. If you find a typo, a broken link, or anything that you view as a small issue, feel free to fix it. If you plan to contribute a significant amount of information or create a new article, we request that you log a bug so that we're aware of what you're contributing. This is so that we can ensure consistency structurally and in the message conveyed.
In addition to the wiki we have website. Unlike the wiki the website is not open. However, if you see something wrong please feel free to provide a patch. The website contents are in a git repository


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San Francisco's mayor says he doesn't know what it is. Police say it's not their jurisdiction. And government inspectors are sworn to secrecy.
Google is erecting a four-story structure in the heart of the San Francisco Bay but is managing to conceal its purpose by constructing it on docked barges instead of on land, where city building permits and public plans are mandatory. Construction became obvious a few weeks ago.
The Internet giant's actions at Treasure Island appear legal. But the mystery surrounding the bulky floating building — and a similar one off Portland, Maine — is generating rumors and worries.
Privacy experts, environmentalists and legal authorities say that whether it is a store to sell Google's Internet-connected glasses, a data storage center or something else, the secrecy may backfire because Silicon Valley residents are highly protective of one of the most scenic and environmentally sensitive bays in the U.S.
"At some point they're going to have to unveil what it is they're doing, and it will be sad if they have put a lot of money into something that is simply not allowable in the bay," said Deb Self, executive director of the environmental group Baykeeper.
Self said whether the barge-mounted structure is a store, as is widely rumored, or a data center powered by wave action, for which Google has a patent, there are going to be grave concerns.
"We don't really want to see the bay used as a shopping mall. Unacceptable," she said. And environmentalists warn that water-cooled data centers might warm the sea and harm marine life.
Google's usually responsive media relations team did not respond to repeated calls or emails over several days, but records and other official accounts identify the project as Google's.
Google has dodged public scrutiny by essentially constructing a vessel, not a building. Thus it doesn't need permits from San Francisco, a city with copious inspection and paperwork requirements for builders.
Google has also avoided the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, a state agency that governs projects on the water and has its own long list of public reviews and permit requirements.
If, when the project's ready, Google wants to sail it out the Golden Gate and into the Pacific Ocean, the tech giant won't ever need to explain what it's been up to.
But if Google wants to do anything with the structure in the bay, it will have to face public scrutiny, said BCDC executive director Larry Goldzband. He said the agency has had a few meetings with Google, but "they've been less than specific about their plans."
"When they decide to let us know what they plan to do with it, or hope to do with it, then we can decide if it's allowable," he said.
Work on the barge is kept under wraps, literally. Supplies are kept onshore in hangars rented by a Delaware corporation named By and Large, (a play on the word "barge"?), under a $79,000-per-month lease that expires next August.
The name and number for By and Large on the lease led to a man named Mike Darby, who seemed baffled by a call from The Associated Press. "I'm not sure how my name got on the lease," he said. "I have nothing to do with it. I'm in Singapore and it's the middle of the night."
A second man on the lease, Kenneth Yi, could not be located.
There is one agency keeping an eye on things: The Coast Guard has been routinely inspecting the two barges on the East and West coasts, as it would any vessel under construction, but spokeswoman Lt. Anna Dixon said she couldn't talk about what the agency has found, citing nondisclosure agreements with an entity other than Google.
Such agreements, she said, are "not a standard practice" at her agency. She said she didn't know the name of the entity.
A similar four-story structure was built this summer in the New London, Conn., harbor, and has now moved north off Maine. The Day newspaper in Connecticut found details tying that barge to Google in documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Santa Clara University law professor Dorothy Glancy said nondisclosure agreements involving inspectors are common for land-bound Silicon Valley construction projects because there are plenty of trade secrets in the clean rooms and laboratories where computer chips are built and technology is developed.
But she said Google might want to take a lesson from another bay-area mystery barge. In the 1970s, billionaire Howard Hughes docked an enormous barge called the Glomar Explorer just off Mountain View, Calif., where Google is now headquartered. Hughes said the Glomar was going to mine manganese from the ocean floor, but in reality it was being used for a top-secret CIA mission to search for nuclear missile codes in sunken Soviet submarines.
"That experience should have told Google that being mysterious like this tends not to build public confidence," Glancy said.
Privacy advocate Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, said it is ironic that the company that wants to open the world's information to everyone "so zealously guards its own corporate secrecy."
"The barge is a perfect metaphor for a company that likes to ask forgiveness for its transgressions rather than permission," he said. "It's also a symbol of how far from mainland values the company is going with Glass and its privacy problems."


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How Projects Work at Freeside
A big part of the mission at Freeside is to host group projects involving as many curious tinkerers as possible.
If you'd like to manage a project or host a meeting at Freeside, all you have to do is answer a few questions about what you'd like to do and we'll help you schedule and promote it!
Scheduling for Projects
Being crafty engineers, we have developed a system to schedule project meetings and classes around the highest availability of members and Project Managers.
Fill out this form expressing your interest in participating in different projects and classes and we will take your availability into consideration when recommending schedules for them. If you include your email address, we will contact you for rare and one-time events that coincide with your schedule.
Active Projects
- Vuvuzela, Open Source Access Control (trello github)
- QRatitude, Open Source Inventory System (github)
- Makerspace Automation
- MEME Cabinets (trello)
- 3D Printer(s) Build - The Kraken, The Lathon
- Learn To Solder events
- Power Racing Series car
- Project Straylight Low Cost, Open Source educational Lightboard build
- Phone System
Past or Idle Projects
The following projects are either complete or on a hiatus.
- 3D Printing in Surgical Research
- Off-Road Wheelchair (trello)
- UAV Hexacopter (trello)
- CNC Build
- Infinity Portal, an interactive art installation
- Gaze Tracking research
- 300zx Project ChumpCar Race Car
- Inside Freeside Podcast
This is a brainstorm list of projects we might work on, or projects you work on already that you want to bring to the hacker space.
Please feel free to add anything you are interested in to the list but please link to your member page so those who are interested can find you.
- Blender Render Farm
- BGP trust modeling and research.
- Self-forming, robust, self-defending networks
- WiFi Scanning (emptyset)
- IP Geolocation
- Radiation dosimeter deployment
- Honeynet Project
- Biodiesel from algae
- supercritical oil extraction
- flat plate algae bioreactor
- Organic hydroponic vegetable production w/ Arduino-based regulation of environment and nutrients
- puredata for systems control and visualization
- Fungi cultivation for filtration systems and DIY pharmaceuticals
- supercritical compound extraction
- Satellite Hacking
- CO2 Laser
- Applications of nVidia's CUDA SDK
- Modeling Dynamic Systems
- Homebrew aerogel
- Free-to-air satellite tinkering (who first?)
- (Airsoft) Phalanx Anti-(Nerf) Missle system
- Notification to IRC channel of events in the space
- Audio Circuits
- TUBE Amps
- Synthesizers
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And I'm Renee Montagne. President Obama arrives in Mexico today to meet with Mexico's president and Canada's prime minister. It's been dubbed the meeting of the Three Amigos. The one day summit of North America's leaders will focus on trade and commerce, but also on the agenda: security, energy, border issues and immigration. NPR's Carrie Kahn is in Toluca near Mexico City, where the summit begins later today. Good morning.
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And Carrie, is there any single issue that's likely to dominate this summit?
KAHN: It's trade. That's the talk at this summit. It's been exactly 20 years since the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect and business is booming across the three countries. Trade between Mexico and the U.S. alone is more than $1 billion a day. And officials in all three countries were asked in the run-up to the summit, you know, would NAFTA be reopened for negotiation?
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MONTAGNE: Well, to another very different issue. Mexico has been fighting a war with its drug cartels since 2006, and of course the cartel's main drug market is here in the U.S. Will the three leaders be talking about that much?
KAHN: A senior White House official did say there will be talk about U.S. ongoing cooperation and support of Mexico's fight against drug trafficking, but that was about it. But President Pena-Nieto's been in office here for 14 months and during that time he does not like to talk about the violence here, especially drug trafficking. He's downplayed it quite a lot.
He prefers to focus on the economy and his ambitious reform agenda. But the summit is being held just 60 miles from the state of Michoacan, where President Pena-Nieto last month sent in thousands of federal troops. He wanted to head off a violent confrontation between a powerful drug cartel and this growing number of armed civilian militias that have popped up around the country - not only in Michoacan. There's vigilante groups now active in at least five states.
And so the situation in Michoacan has been an embarrassment for Pena-Nieto. He was at Davo, Switzerland last month at the World Economic Forum and that was one of the first questions he was asked, about violence in Michoacan, not about Mexico's economy, so he's really not anxious for a repeat of that here with President Obama or Prime Minister Harper.
MONTAGNE: Well, as you said, Enrique Pena-Nieto has been in office just over a year, but his popularity is already dropping and a lot of protestors are expected at this summit. So what's the security like?
KAHN: It's pretty tight. Streets are blocked off around where the summit is being held. And there's - protestors say they'll be out and they have a lot of different issues. There's teachers upset about Pena-Nieto's education reform, there's leftist activists upset about an administration's opening up of Mexico's oil industry, and there's people upset about the economy.
Now, on a macro level, Mexico looks good. It has low inflation, just got its bond rating raised to an A, but consumer confidence dropped dramatically last month and President Pena-Nieto's new reforms raised taxes on everything from soda to dog food. So people are feeling it in their wallets and his approval ratings are dropping and they're upset.
MONTAGNE: Carrie, thanks very much.
KAHN: Thank you, Renee.
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for me, I just see more New York City based elitism from a pretentious bloviator in that clip. Why would he make no reference to the team owned RSN which could put them in a different economic playing field… it's not as though Cano would be playing in a dry state, there's plenty of local establishments that will accept a portion of his $200m+ contract
The Mariners dismal history really has no retort for anything Olbermann says here. I wouldn't call it "New York City based elitism". I'd call it "Stating the obvious." The Mariners suck and have for some time. The chances of the Mariners landing a high-profile free agent are about the same as Mario Mendoza getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Owning the local RSN isn't going to change institutional incompetence. Anybody who's been paying attention sees an organization going nowhere, fast.
And Seattle night life, comparable to New York? Um, no. Maybe Rochester.
There are some people in baseball who view Seattle as a "sleeping giant," in that they have a great ballpark, play in a great city, are 1 of only 2 major sports teams in a good size market (sorry, soccer doesn't count), and now will have some capital to go get players with their new TV deal.
Even with that though, it'll take a hell of a sales job by Jack Z to bring any big-name free agent here. And even if one came here, it'll take a lot more than that to win the fans back. Ten years of putrid baseball is tough to overcome…
The problem is that there's no real monetary incentive for Mariner ownership to truly make the team competitive. They're raking it in hand over fist with the new TV deal, and people are still buying tickets to see a perennial 90-loss team. (Granted, ticket sales have gone down that last few years, but not enough to cause concern.)
The Mariners have an MLB baseball monopoly that stretches from Alaska to Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and probably still into Japan to some degree. Why spend money when you don't have to (yet, anyway)?
True. And they fought tooth and nail to make sure Chris Hansen didn't impede on their market share.
I have to think that M's management sees what's going on across the street and would want to have at least a little bit of that for themselves. To just keep going at the same rate as they've been makes zero sense.
Of course, crediting them with any sense at all is probably a mistake…
I'm not sure what to make of all this sudden ESPN attention. The gushing over the Seahawks and Russell Wilson last night and now Olbermann opens his show with a feature on us.
I guess I will just accept it all in the time-honored Seattle way. Complain that no one pays attention to us nationally, and then complain when the national media pays attention to us.
Hey! Hey! Over here! Now leave us alone!
Olberman's right in that the M's don't need one All-Star bat. They need several. If they spend big on Cano they won't spend much beyond him. Better to go after several good free agents instead of one big one. Or just let the current team grow some more.
Seattle has to be an attractive destination for Free Agents. This would do it in many ways. But he wants too many years. I would go no more than 5.
Why would free agents want to be a Mariner? Pitchers are worried when they hear that the fences were moved in and hitters see how anemic the offense is here and think that Safeco Field sucks even though the fences were moved. It's reputation precedes itself. And then if a contract is loaded up with bonus incentives based on wins and playoff appearences, well, that's not gonna happen in Seattle.
That's why the Mariners get middle of the pack free agents to one year deals at best. They're basically showing other teams what they can do and they hope they'll get traded to them in mid-season or get picked up the next offseason.
Art, I didn't tell Obermann about Bo Jackson/Russell Wilson, did you?
Well, having Russell Wilson play shortstop wouldn't cause a major scheduling conflict for him. After all, the Mariners' season will probably be pretty much over before the Seahawks start training camp in late July.


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Peabody has recently moved to a beautiful new house and to celebrate that she's throwing a Housewarming Party, pot luck style.
She's such a lovely person, so talented and generous, and one of my all-time favorite cooks/bakers - I had to take part in her event!
I thought of many dishes to "bring" to her party and decided that dessert would be a good choice - we rarely have dessert at home. Also, I had been meaning to make something with the fantastic Green & Black's bars Valentina gave me when she came to Brazil. So, there you have it: a silky, smooth and delicious dessert (recipe taken from this book). Excellent for when you have people over – it can be made in advance.
I decorated the pots of crème with some whipped cream and lemon rind, but feel free to use your imagination - my first thought was to use raspberries, but couldn't find any that day. I did find some beautiful and shiny blackberries, but they were so tart I had tears in my eyes after tasting one.
Pea, I hope you like my contribution to your party. May you have wonderful moments and lots of love in your new home!
Chocolate pots de crème
from The Williams-Sonoma Collection: Dessert
1 1/3 cups (11fl oz/340ml) heavy cream
1 1/3 cups (11fl oz/340ml) whole milk
185g (6oz) bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped – I used 72% cocoa solids
1 tablespoon instant espresso powder or instant coffee powder – I used the latter
6 large egg yolks
¼ cup (1 ¾ oz/50g) sugar
Preheat the oven to 150ºC/300ºF. Have ready 6 size ¾-cup (6fl oz/180ml) ramekins and a shallow roasting pan.
In a saucepan over medium-low heat, combine the cream, milk, chopped chocolate and espresso powder and cook, whisking frequently, until the chocolate is melted and the liquid is hot – do not allow to boil. Remove from heat.
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Divide the custard evenly among the ramekins. Place the ramekins in the roasting pan and pour very hot water into the pan to come halfway up the sides of the cups. Cover the pan with foil.
Bake the custards until they are set but the centers still jiggle slightly when a cup is gently shaken, 55-60 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and leave the ramekins in the water until cool enough to handle. Cover and refrigerate until well chilled, at least 2 hours or up to overnight. Serve chilled.
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"Ah, how sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have coffee....", Johann Sebastian Bach in 1732.
Until now, I have very rarely blogged about beverages. It is not that I don't like to drink, it's just that I never really think about writing on that subject. Well, thanks to Zarpandit from "Cikolata & Istanbul" (Turkey), I'm about to change things a little...
Since she sent me a packet which contained two little cups and saucers as well as some "Turkish Coffee" and a "cezve", there was no way that I was not going to grab the opportunity to blog about that unique drink.
"Turkish Coffee" is a very fragrant, strong and dark coffee prepared in a "cezve", a small pot that holds either one or two servings. Compared to other coffees, this one is made by putting water, sugar and ground coffee in a pot, bringing that mixture to the boil and serving it unfiltred.
This way of making coffe was introduced to Turkey over four and a half century ago, not long after a Turkish governor brought back beans of coffee Arabica from Yemen. Within a century, first Venice, then London and Paris were introduced to coffee via the Ottomans, which naturally acquired its epithet "Turkish" to become "Turkish Coffee".
At the origin, coffee comes from Ethiopia, the true home of the plant, where it still grows wild in the forest of the highlands. It is believed that its cultivation as well as use began as early as the 9th century and that Ethiopian ancestors of today's Oromo people were the first to have discovered and recognized the energizing effect of the coffee bean plant. Knowing that, one can imagine that it is their coffee ceremony that has been exported to Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus and the Balkans where similar methods of preparation exist.
I am a real sucker for good coffee and I must say that since I have discovered "Turkish Coffee", I can't drink any other coffee without thinking that it is less flavorful and pleasant. Divine!
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Recipe for one cup.
1 Cup Water
2 Tsps Ground Turkish coffee
Cristallized sugar, to taste
A "cezve" or Turkish coffee pot
1. Place the water in the "cezve".
2. Add the coffee and the desired amount of sugar.
3. Stir well.
4. Place "cezve" on low heat.
5. Slowly bring to a boil (the coffee is ready when a layer of foam appears on the top of the pot).
6. Serve.
Don't put the pot over high heat, leave it alone otherwise you'll have no control over the high-rising foam.
Seving suggestions:
Turkish coffee is always served with a glass of water. You need to drink the water first to clean your palate!
Find a comfortable spot in which to savor your delicious coffee and remember, drink it sip by sip.
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Recette pour une tasse.
1 Tasse d'Eau
2 CC de Café moulu turc
Sucre cristallisé, selon goût
Un "cezve" ou pot à café turc
1. Mettre l'eau dans le "cezve".
2. Ajouter le café moulu et ajouter la quantité désirée de sucre.
3. Bien mélanger.
4. Mettre le "cevze" sur le feu et faire cuire à feu très doux.
5. Porter lentement à ébullition (le café sera prêt quand une mousse se formera en surface).
6. Servir.
Ne pas faire cuire à température trop élevée et ne pas laisser le pot sans surveilleance autrement vous ne pourrez pas contrôler la mousse qui débordera.
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Le café turc est toujours servi avec unverre d'eau car il faut la boire avant afin de se rincer le palais!
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Authorities say former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner is wanted for going on a shooting rampage that's left three dead. (AP)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Thousands of police officers throughout Southern California and neighboring states hunted Thursday for a disgruntled former Los Angeles officer wanted for going on a deadly shooting rampage that he warned in an online posting would target those on the force who wronged him, authorities said.
Police issued a statewide "officer safety warning" and police were sent to protect people named in the posting that was believed to be written by the fired officer, Christopher Dorner, who has military training. Among those mentioned were members of the Los Angeles Police Department.
"I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty," said the manifesto. It also asserted: "Unfortunately, I will not be alive to see my name cleared. That's what this is about, my name. A man is nothing without his name."
Dorner has available multiple weapons including an assault rifle, said police Chief Charlie Beck, who urged Dorner to surrender. "Nobody else needs to die," he said.
More than 40 protection details were assigned to possible targets of Dorner. Police spokesman Cmdr. Andrew Smith said he couldn't remember a larger manhunt by the department.
The hunt spread from California to Nevada, Arizona and Mexico, said a U.S. Marshals Service official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to publicly comment.
The search for Dorner, who was fired from the LAPD in 2008 for making false statements, began after he was linked to a weekend killing in which one of the victims was the daughter of a former police captain who had represented him during the disciplinary hearing. Authorities believe Dorner opened fire early Thursday on police in cities east of Los Angeles, killing an officer and wounding another.
Beck detailed Dorner's alleged crimes in an unusual press conference in an underground room at police headquarters, where extra security was deployed. The chief said there had been a "night of extreme tragedy in the Los Angeles area" and that all measures were being implemented to ensure officer safety.
Police said Dorner, 33, implicated himself in the couple's killings with the multi-page "manifesto."
A Facebook post believed written by Dorner said he knew he would be vilified by the LAPD and the news media, but that "unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name."
Los Angeles police believe the manifesto posted to Facebook was written by Dorner because there are details in it only he would know.
As police searched for him, the packed Los Angeles area was on edge. The nearly 10,000-member LAPD dispatched many of its officers to protect potential targets. The department also pulled officers from motorcycle duty, fearing they would make for easy targets.
In San Diego, where Dorner allegedly tied up an elderly man and unsuccessfully tried to steal his boat Wednesday night, Naval Base Point Loma was locked down Thursday after a Navy worker reported seeing someone who resembled Dorner.
Navy Cmdr. Brad Fagan said officials don't believe he was on base Thursday but had checked into a base hotel on Tuesday and left the next day without checking out. Numerous agencies guarded the base.
Fagan said Dorner was honorably discharged and that his last day in the Navy was last Friday.
Nevada authorities also looked for Dorner because he owns a house nine miles from the Las Vegas Strip, according to authorities and court records.
Authorities said the U.S. Navy reservist may be driving a dark colored 2005 Nissan Titan pickup truck.
The hunt for Dorner led to two errant shootings in the pre-dawn darkness Thursday.
Los Angeles officers guarding a "target" named in the posting shot and wounded two women in suburban Torrance who were in a pickup but were not involved, authorities said. It's not clear if the target is a person or a location. Beck said one woman was in stable condition with two gunshot wounds and the other was being released after treatment.
"Tragically we believe this was a case of mistaken identity by the officers," Beck said.
Minutes later Torrance officers responding to a report of gunshots encountered a dark pickup matching the description of Dorner's, said Torrance Sgt. Chris Roosen. A collision occurred and the officers fired on the pickup. The unidentified driver was not hit and it turned out not to be the suspect vehicle, Roosen said.
"We're asking our officers to be extraordinarily cautious just as we're asking the public to be extraordinarily cautious with this guy. He's already demonstrated he has a propensity for shooting innocent people," said Smith, the LAPD commander.
Dorner is wanted in the killings of Monica Quan and her fiance, Keith Lawrence. They were found shot in their car at a parking structure at their condominium on Sunday night in Irvine, authorities said.
Quan, 28, was an assistant women's basketball coach at Cal State Fullerton. Lawrence, 27, was a public safety officer at the University of Southern California. There was disbelief at three college campuses, Fullerton, USC, and Concordia University, where the two met when they were both students and basketball players.
Dorner was with the department from 2005 until 2008, when he was fired for making false statements.
Quan's father, a former LAPD captain who became a lawyer in retirement, represented Dorner in front of the Board of Rights, a tribunal that ruled against Dorner at the time of his dismissal, LAPD Capt. William Hayes told The Associated Press Wednesday night.
Randal Quan retired in 2002. He later served as chief of police at Cal Poly Pomona before he started practicing law.
According to documents from a court of appeals hearing in October 2011, Dorner was fired from the LAPD after he made a complaint against his field training officer, Sgt. Teresa Evans. Dorner said that in the course of an arrest, Evans kicked suspect Christopher Gettler, a schizophrenic with severe dementia.
Richard Gettler, the schizophrenic man's father, gave testimony that supported Dorner's claim. After his son was returned on July 28, 2007, Richard Gettler asked "if he had been in a fight because his face was puffy" and his son responded that he was kicked twice in the chest by a police officer.
Early Thursday, the first shooting occurred in Corona and involved two LAPD officers working a security detail, said LAPD Sgt. Alex Baez. A citizen pointed out Dorner to the officers who followed until his pickup stopped and the driver got out and fired a rifle at them, officials said. One officer's head was grazed by a bullet.
Later, two officers on routine patrol in neighboring Riverside were ambushed at a stop light by a motorist who drove up next to them and opened fire with a rifle. One died and the other was seriously wounded but was expected to survive, said Riverside police Chief Sergio Diaz.
Diaz said news organizations should withhold the officers' names because the suspect had made clear that he considers police and their families "fair game."
Dorner's LAPD badge and an ID were found near San Diego's airport and were turned in to police at early Thursday, San Diego police Sgt. Ray Battrick said.
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By Oskar Garcia And Justin Pritchard for The Associated Press
News Transportation airport security cameras hawaii san jose international airport Silicon ValleySurveillance cameras at San Jose International Airport, in the heart of high-tech Silicon Valley, captured a teenager on the tarmac as he climbed up the landing gear of a jet. But in the end, the cameras failed because no one noticed the security breach until the plane - and the boy, lucky to be alive - landed in Hawaii.
Although the 15-year-old apparently wanted nothing more than to run away, his success in slipping past layers of security early Sunday morning made it clear that a determined person can still get into a supposedly safe area and sneak onto a plane.
Video surveillance can help catch trespassers. Some airports use not just human eyes watching video screens, but also technology that can be programmed to sound an alert when a camera captures something potentially suspicious. But just because something is caught on camera doesn't mean it will make an impression.
Despite great promise, "sometimes the actual results are quite underwhelming when it gets to the real world, where people are fatigued, people are preoccupied," said Richard Bloom, an airport security expert at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona. "There's no way to guarantee security, even if you had one person per video screen."
There were no obvious efforts Monday to increase security or the police presence at airports in San Jose or Maui. In San Jose, airport officials said they were reviewing how the boy slipped through security that includes video surveillance, German shepherds and Segway-riding police officers.
While each of those measures can work for certain situations, "the problem is that each layer has its own error factor," Bloom said.
Nobody monitoring security cameras throughout the 1,050-acre (424-hectare) airport saw anyone approaching the Boeing 767 until they reviewed the footage after the boy was discovered in Hawaii, San Jose airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes said. The airport is surrounded by fences, although many sections do not have barbed wire and could easily be scaled.
Barnes said the boy went onto the tarmac when it was still dark. The flight took off at about 8 a.m. PDT, about 90 minutes after sunrise.
The boy was unconscious most of the 5 1/2-hour flight and didn't regain consciousness until an hour after the plane landed in Hawaii, FBI spokesman Tom Simon said. When he came to, he climbed out of the wheel well and was immediately seen by Maui airport personnel, Simon said.
Surveillance video at Kahului Airport showed the boy getting out of the wheel well after landing, transportation officials in Hawaii said. The video was not released because of the ongoing investigation.
The boy was not charged with a crime, Simon said.
While the Transportation Security Administration oversees checkpoint security inside airport terminals, airport perimeters are policed by local authorities and federal law enforcement.
Airport police were working with the FBI and TSA to review security.
San Jose police said they will forward the findings of their investigation to the district attorney, who can decide whether to file criminal charges in California. Maui County spokesman Rod Antone said the county was not involved with the incident or investigation because the state runs the airports.
The Hawaii Department of Transportation said they didn't plan to investigate further after turning the boy over to state human services, where officials were working to reunite the boy with his family.
Isaac Yeffet, a former head of security for the Israeli airline El Al who now runs his own firm, Yeffet Security Consultants, said the breach shows that U.S. airport security still has weaknesses, despite billions of dollars invested.
"Shame on us for doing such a terrible job," he said. "Perimeters are not well protected. We see it again and again."
Congressman Eric Swalwell, who serves on the Homeland Security committee, said on Twitter that the incident demonstrates vulnerabilities that need to be addressed.
The FAA says about one-quarter of the 105 stowaways who have sneaked aboard flights worldwide since 1947 have survived. Some wheel-well stowaways survived deadly cold and a lack of oxygen because their breathing, heart rate and brain activity slow down.
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