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Chesapeake Bay Soft-shell Crab "Sandwich"
Hi there. Can you hang on a sec? Thanks. I'll be right back.
::::: takes a long sip from her glass of wine :::::
Whew. Much better.
It was either a glass of wine or a trip to the mental ward. Why, you ask? Because I just cut the faces off half a dozen soft-shell crabs. Cut their faces off. With scissors. WHILE THEY WERE STILL ALIVE. Do you want to know what happens when you cut their faces off? Do you? DO YOU!!?! Well, read on then. 'Cause I'll tell you. It's not pretty folks. Not at all.
But first, let's talk about the dish as a whole, look at the other elements that went into it, and how I prepared it. As a resident Marylander, I was pleased to do a dish that involved local fare from the Chesapeake. Unfortunately, this has been a bad year for soft-shell crabs. The population is sparse, which means they're expensive. Restaurants aren't really serving them, and most folks are taking this summer off in terms of eating them. Not me. Go figure, I decided to make this dish when soft-shells are at their most expensive in twenty years. I am so awesome. Soft-shell crab sandwiches are a local favorite here in the DC/Baltimore area. They're quite simple -- softshell crab body in between two slices of white bread or toast. Maybe a squirt of lemon. Perhaps a dash or two of hot sauce. Some tartar sauce, if you're feeling lucky. Fries and coleslaw on the side.
People either love 'em or hate 'em. Me? I've always hated 'em. Had a bad experience with them once, was sick for two days, and haven't been able to try them since. Or look at them. Or touch them. Or think about them without my salivary glands acting up (and not in the good way, if you catch my drift).
But, I stepped up and made the big sacrifice for you people, so I hope you'll appreciate it. Plus, I trusted in the almighty Thomas Keller not to steer me wrong, and hoped against hope that this preparation might just change my mind about these little suckers. Last night, I read the recipe many, many times to make sure I had all the ingredients on-hand, and was ready for the prep this afternoon.
This morning, I called a bunch of places to see who carried live soft-shells, and only one place had them -- BlackSalt Fish Market and Restaurant on MacArthur Boulevard. The fantastic fishmonger, Scott Weinstein, hooked me up with six soft-shells. They were fresh, alive, and kicking. Thanks, Scott!
I got home from the fish market, and after doing some work got started on this dish in time for the neighbors to enjoy it before they left for their Saturday night plans.
First up? The sauce. Here's the mise en place:
I mixed the hard-boiled egg yolks, cornichon juice, chicken stock, and dijon mustard in the blender. Then, I slowly added the canola oil. When it was done, I transferred it to a bowl, then added the minced cornichons:
Next, I added the minced shallot, minced flat-leaf parsley, and the brunoise you see in the photo above. I stirred it, and here's the final product:
The sauce on its own was delicious, and I'd make this again instead of tartar sauce or tzatziki next time I make crabcakes. But I digress.
The next item to prep was the tomato confit. I've made this a few times before, so you can read the directions here. But, for your viewing pleasure, here are the before and after photos of the confit:
While the tomatoes were in the oven, I deep fried the capers. I did this once before, too, and you can read about it here. But because I am a giving person, I give you... this photo of the capers boiling in oil:
It's hard to get a photo of those little things once they're done, so you'll see them in the final plating. When I get a new camera (happy birthday to ME!), it'll be easier to shoot things like fried capers and have them come out looking like what they're supposed to look like, so you'll just have to wait a month or so.
Sauce = check. Tomato confit = check. Capers = check. I don't have any photos of the brioche crouton process, because you've seen brioche quite a bit these past few posts, and once again, I bought it at the local co-op and toasted it myself. You'll see it in the final plating.
So let's get to the main attraction of this dish: the soft-shell crabs. There were six of them. If you'll recall when I made lobster in May, I used Canadian lobster and decided to name them all Celine, because what better Canadian to suffer the wrath of being steeped in boiling water than Ms. Dion?
I was coming up with all sorts of names for these crabs when I realized that the prep involved holding a live soft-shell crab, cutting its face off, then tearing off its legs. I wondered, are there six people I would wish this upon? And, are there six people from the Chesapeake Bay region I would wish this upon? And that answer was no. I called in my crack Crab-Naming Squad (previously known as my "lobster-naming strategy team") and asked: Is there a Group of Six known for having their faces hacked up or their legs torn off? After ZERO response to my urgent plea, I was thinking about naming them Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan and Cindy, when once again, the fabulous Catherine came to the rescue.
Allow me to introduce Jackie, Marlon, Randy, Tito, Jermaine, and Michael!
It was between the Jackson family and the Osmond family, but the Osmonds have better plastic surgeons so the whole face-hacking angle fell flat. But back to the food!
Naming the crabs and shooting the blurry video was fun and all, but then it came time to actually prepare them. This is where the fun ends, my friends. I thought I was ready for this. I really thought this wouldn't be a problem. I read and re-read the instructions in The French Laundry Cookbook: "Using a pair of scissors, cut off the crabs' faces and discard. Cut off the two large claws where they meet the body and reserve. Cut off and discard the smaller legs, and trim the sides of the body for a smooth edge." Sounds easy, right? It was hell.
With my left hand, I picked up one of the crabs from the platter and held him from behind. In my right hand, I held the scissors. As I got the scissors close to the crab's face, it started twitching and writhing, and I couldn't do it. I don't know if you've ever held or touched a soft-shell crab before, but instead of a skeletal underbelly and a hard shell on top, the underbelly is not very hard, and felt as thin as a shrimp shell. The top shell feels like thin leather, or perhaps fish skin -- probably the same thickness/texture as halibut. So, when the crab started moving around, I could feel his insides moving, too.
I put him back on the platter and paced my tiny, tiny kitchen trying to talk myself off the ledge. I saw a bottle of Ketel One on my wine table and thought maybe a shot of liquid courage might help, but I didn't do it. Instead, I grabbed a pair of tongs and used those to pick up the crab. I opened the scissors and let out a "aaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'msosorry" as I cut its face off. Things started to ooze out of the front of his head, and I just repeated a mantra of "thisisgross-thisisgross-thisisgross-AAAAACCCCCKKKKK" as I cut off the large claws, then removed the remaining legs. I did this for each crab to get all the cutting overwith at once.
Here's a photo of the crab bodies and claws in a colander, about to be rinsed under cold water:
What you can't tell from this photo is that even though I cut off their faces, claws and legs, THEY WERE STILL TWITCHING.
I'm totally squicking myself out reliving this as I type. ACK! THIS WAS THE WORST! I WILL NEVER MAKE THIS AGAIN. EVER!
Before rinsing them, I removed their aprons and lungs, and cleared out all the other "matter" (which is just a fancy word for "all the yellow and gelatinous crap beneath the apron"). I washed the bodies and claws, patted them dry with paper towels, seasoned with salt and pepper, dredged them in a little bit of flour, and cooked them in a large sautée pan in clarified butter:
People started arriving at this point, so I drained the crabs on paper towels and started plating:
Oh, WHOOPS! That's not the final dish. That's a bag full of CRAB FACES and LEGS that I HAD TO CUT OFF MYSELF. I needed to share this lovely sight with you so that I might be able to transfer the trauma to you and away from me. Ugh.... my shoulder blades are twitching.
Okay. Let's pull ourselves together here. Here's the final plating:
Gorgeous, yes? I put a spoonful of sauce on the plate, topped it with a brioche crouton, then a crab body, then a piece of tomato confit, followed by two crab claws, then topped with baby arugula and the deep-fried capers. Everything smelled and looked great. But the true test was in the taste. And, as reluctantly as I will admit, it was damn good.
When I told my neighbors earlier in the week what I'd be serving today, I had very few takers. Usually, there are four adults and three kids that taste most dishes I make as part of this project, but only one of the four adults likes soft-shell crabs. I found out my neighbor's husband loves soft-shells, so he was required to attend. The rest of us just figured we'd try it and see how it went. We thought the three kids would haaaaaaaaate it. Boy were we wrong. Two out of three loved the dish and nearly cleaned their plates:
Here's "C" mid-repast --
Here's "G" with a mouthful of crab goodness --
And, here's "M" (at least she liked the brioche and the sauce) --
M's mom and I cut apart the crab and ate the meat out of it, along with everything else. G & C took big bites of everything and loved it all. G & C's mom tasted bits of theirs, but ended up being as grossed out as I am about the whole notion of soft-shell crabs. M's dad and G & C's dad? Cleaned their plates. M's dad is a major fan of the traditional soft-shell crab sandwich fan and said he really liked this preparation. High praise, indeed!
Was it good? Absolutely. Would I make this again? Absolutely not.
Up Next: Nectarine Salad with Green Tomato Confiture and Hazelnut Sabayon
[because nectarines DON'T TWITCH WHEN YOU CUT THEM]
Brands Used:
Soft-shell crabs from BlackSalt
Eggs from Smith Meadows Farms
Roland brand Cornichons
365 canola oil
Clarified butter by me
Thyme for the tomato confit from my garden
All produce from Safeway
Brioche from the TPSS Co-op
Music to Cook By: Johnny Cash; The Sun Years. It was the perfect accompaniment to making this dish. I can't explain why. It just was. I love me some Johnny Cash.


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Far from ushering in a utopia, blockchain has given rise to a familiar form of economic hell, says Nouriel Roubini.
NEW YORK: With the value of Bitcoin having fallen by around 70 per cent since its peak late last year, the mother of all bubbles has now gone bust.
More generally, cryptocurrencies have entered a not-so-cryptic apocalypse. The value of leading coins such as Ether, EOS, Litecoin, and XRP have all fallen by over 80 per cent, thousands of other digital currencies have plummeted by 90 to 99 per cent, and the rest have been exposed as outright frauds.
No one should be surprised by this: Four out of five initial coin offerings (ICOs) were scams to begin with.
Faced with the public spectacle of a market bloodbath, boosters have fled to the last refuge of the crypto scoundrel: A defence of "blockchain," the distributed-ledger software underpinning all cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain has been heralded as a potential panacea for everything from poverty and famine to cancer. In fact, it is the most overhyped – and least useful – technology in human history.
In practice, blockchain is nothing more than a glorified spreadsheet. But it has also become the byword for a libertarian ideology that treats all governments, central banks, traditional financial institutions, and real-world currencies as evil concentrations of power that must be destroyed.
Blockchain fundamentalists' ideal world is one in which all economic activity and human interactions are subject to anarchist or libertarian decentralisation.
They would like the entirety of social and political life to end up on public ledgers that are supposedly "permissionless" (accessible to everyone) and "trustless" (not reliant on a credible intermediary such as a bank).
Yet far from ushering in a utopia, blockchain has given rise to a familiar form of economic hell. A few self-serving men pretending to be messiahs for the world's impoverished, marginalised, and unbanked masses claim to have created billions of dollars of wealth out of nothing.
But one need only consider the massive centralisation of power among cryptocurrency "miners", exchanges, developers, and wealth holders to see that blockchain is not about decentralisation and democracy; it is about greed.
For example, a small group of companies – mostly located in Russia, Georgia, and China – control between two-thirds and three-quarters of all crypto-mining activity, and all routinely jack up transaction costs to increase their fat profit margins.
Apparently, blockchain fanatics would have us put our faith in an anonymous cartel subject to no rule of law, rather than trust central banks and regulated financial intermediaries.
A similar pattern has emerged in cryptocurrency trading. Fully 99 per cent of all transactions occur on centralised exchanges that are hacked on a regular basis. And, unlike with real money, once your crypto wealth is hacked, it is gone forever.
Moreover, the centralisation of crypto development – for example, fundamentalists have named Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin a "benevolent dictator for life" – already has given lie to the claim that "code is law," as if the software underpinning blockchain applications is immutable.
The truth is that the developers have absolute power to act as judge and jury. When something goes wrong in one of their buggy "smart" pseudo-contracts and massive hacking occurs, they simply change the code and "fork" a failing coin into another one by arbitrary fiat, revealing the entire "trustless" enterprise to have been untrustworthy from the start.
Lastly, wealth in the crypto universe is even more concentrated than it is in North Korea. Whereas a Gini coefficient of 1.0 means that a single person controls 100 per cent of a country's income or wealth, North Korea scores 0.86, the rather unequal United States scores 0.41, and Bitcoin scores an astonishing 0.88.
As should be clear, the claim of "decentralisation" is a myth propagated by the pseudo-billionaires who control this pseudo-industry.
Now that the retail investors who were suckered into the crypto market have all lost their shirts, the snake-oil salesmen who remain are sitting on piles of fake wealth that will immediately disappear if they try to liquidate their "assets."
As for blockchain itself, there is no institution under the sun – bank, corporation, non-governmental organisation, or government agency – that would put its balance sheet or register of transactions, trades, and interactions with clients and suppliers on public decentralised peer-to-peer permissionless ledgers.
There is no good reason why such proprietary and highly valuable information should be recorded publicly.
Moreover, in cases where distributed-ledger technologies – so-called enterprise DLT – are actually being used, they have nothing to do with blockchain. They are private, centralised, and recorded on just a few controlled ledgers.
They require permission for access, which is granted to qualified individuals. And, perhaps most important, they are based on trusted authorities that have established their credibility over time.
All of which is to say, these are "blockchains" in name only.
It is telling that all "decentralised" blockchains end up being centralised, permissioned databases when they are actually put into use. As such, blockchain has not even improved upon the standard electronic spreadsheet, which was invented in 1979.
No serious institution would ever allow its transactions to be verified by an anonymous cartel operating from the shadows of the world's kleptocracies.
So it is no surprise that whenever "blockchain" has been piloted in a traditional setting, it has either been thrown in the trash bin or turned into a private permissioned database that is nothing more than an Excel spreadsheet or a database with a misleading name.
Nouriel Roubini is CEO of Roubini Macro Associates and Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University.
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8 – January 8
"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps—we must step up the stairs."—Vance Havner
Thinking positive is your first step to living rich, inside and out. But it is not enough. You have to take action to achieve your goals. I call this "Sending Out Ships."
In the nineteenth century, the merchants in London built grand, tall-masted sailing ships. It would take many months, sometimes years, to build them. Then they would hire a crew, outfit the ship and store provisions for the long sea voyage. One fine day, the ship would weigh anchor, hoist her sails, and sail out of London harbor, on her way to visit foreign ports and trade for gold, jewels, silks, and spices. The trip would take many months—often years—and there were no communication lines open then: No ship-to-shore radio, no telegraph, no cellular telephones. Once the ship had sailed, the merchant could do nothing more; only wait for that future day when the ship would return, sailing into London harbor laden with treasure. On that day, the merchant's fortune was made. And that's where the expression "I'm waiting for my ship to come in," comes from.
But some people are going down to the dock, waiting for their ship to come in—but they haven't sent any out! If you want the fortune, your responsibility each day is to send out some ships. And you had better send out more than one, because stuff happens to ships: One runs aground just outside of the harbor, another sinks in a hurricane. A few get commandeered by pirates, the whirlpool gets one, and on the next one there's a mutiny and they sail off to Pitcairn Island and aren't heard from for another twenty years. Then, of course, there's the one that hits the iceberg! Once you send the ship out, it's out of your control. You are only in charge of sending it out, not when it comes in.
When you get into the habit of sending ships out on a daily basis, even if you know some ships aren't going to make it back home, you are still confident and optimistic because you know you have a whole fleet sailing out there. It creates a positive expectation that ships are going to be sailing in, docking at your pier and unloading riches for you any minute. Positive energy shines from you. You feel good about yourself because you've been doing what it takes to succeed. This is what Tony Robbins, in his book, Awaken the Giant Within, calls "massive, positive, constructive action on a daily basis." (Although that sounds a little too much like hard work to me.) I prefer the image of breaking the champagne bottle and waving goodbye to a proud clipper ship on a beautiful spring day as it sets forth on my behalf. And then celebrating the ship's safe arrival with all my wealth.
Send those ships out every day. Then prepare to unload your treasures.
Today's Affirmation:
"Today is a big money day!"
Every little action you take towards getting your goals pays off. Even the ships that sink are adding to the energy you possess that helps build the next ship. It doesn't matter that some ships sink, it matters that some of the fleet make it into port unloading treasures at your dock.
People often ask me to give them examples of ships. If you're in business for yourself, ships are sales and marketing. Here are some of my ships:
This blog
My website
My Dolphin Club
Email newsletters
Email ads
Building relationships on Social Networking sites:
Building relationships at live networking events
Calling people I've met at networking events
Giving speeches
Answering email questions
Answering phone questions
Follow up, follow up, follow up
An attorney in Texas named Lucy, gave a great example in one of my Financial Stress Reduction® Workshop teleclass. She said she had signed up for my newsletter, read them for months, then signed up for my 365 daily pages from "The Wealthy Spirit". As she read them each day, so many of them spoke to her that she started printing them out and putting them in a notebook. When she got so many the notebook was messy, she decided to just buy the book. When I announced in my newsletter that I was having a free teleclass "Confidence, Charisma, and Cash" she signed up for it and listened. She wrote me to say thank you and that she enjoyed every minute of it, and she wanted to sign up for my workshop! That's when I called her and closed the sale.
This is how sending out many little business ships that finally cumulate in someone becoming your client. Some people refer to this as the sales "funnel". You provide free information and newsletters, then some low cost services, and then a bigger sale. It takes sending all the little ships to produce a big ship coming that brings you the treasure. But it all starts with sending out a ship. And then another one…


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Alma Maseda, 25, is reflected in a mirror in her North Miami home with a book she uses to write her poetry. Maseda will read some of her poems at a literary event on Saturday. Maseda was imprisoned for ten years for the murder of her grandmother and since her release has concentrated on her poetry and school. EMILY MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Never forget what it was like to be caged in that forest of lustful, hopeless confusion and rage.
In her dark poetry, Alma Rosa Maseda explores the jagged emotions of her troubled teen years, a creeping sense of loneliness and isolation — and a burst of seemingly inexplicable violence.
Just some of the details of her past — drugs, gangs, mental illness — would weave a complex, painful narrative. But Maseda's life plumbed depths few young women ever reach.
Just six months months ago, she was released from Homestead Correctional Institution after doing nearly 10 years. For murdering her grandmother in North Miami.
Prison is filled with broken souls. It strips away the societal mask and leaves the anarchist bare, showing the pure hearts of those who shouldn't be there, as well as the dark hearts of those to whom justice was fair.
On Saturday, Maseda will join a small group of well-known writers invited to read at a literary brunch at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Coconut Grove — including, ironically, a retired Miami-Dade Circuit judge who now writes murder mysteries.
In her poetry and in person, Maseda does not shy away from her past, nor downplay her culpability in the slaying of her 72-year-old grandmother and namesake. But Maseda, who in addition to writing is studying to be a barber, hopes others will benefit from the story of a broken girl who came of age behind bars.
"My poetry is very personal and it's very raw," Maseda said. "Some people, I don't know how they're going to take it, but for those people out there who need it, I hope they get whatever it is that they're searching for."
Maseda, now 25, lives today in the same North Miami house where she grew up with her father and grandmother, Alma Rosales Maseda. She was 16 when she was arrested.
Slender, her hair cropped short, Maseda could still easily pass for a high school student were it not for a quiet, steely demeanor and weary eyes.
Her mother, who had been addicted to drugs, abandoned the family when she was a small child. While her father worked, she and her grandmother cared for a great-grandmother stricken with Alzheimer's disease, who later died.
Maseda says she adored her grandmother — " La luz de mis ojos. The light of my eyes," she said.
The elder Maseda took her on trips to the toy store, played her Disney movies on the old living room TV and cooked her favorite Cuban dish, saffron-flavored rice with chicken.
Happy memories, oh how you used to smile, stolen by the thief within barbed wire. Too painful to remember, now that you exist alone in a patch of briar.
But as a teenager, Maseda became more withdrawn, even cutting and burning herself. Doctors diagnosed her with bipolar disorder and manic depression.
She began taking the anti-depressant Wellbutrin, which her defense team said could have spurred aggressive behavior. Maseda was kicked out the Lincoln Marti private high school. She enrolled in a school for at-risk children but wound up joining a gang there, bent on embracing a "thug life."
"I was a ticking time bomb," Maseda said.
At home, the family also began was falling apart. Her grandmother wallowed in depression, she said, then turned angry when Maseda told her she was bi-sexual. "My house felt like it had a black cloud hanging over it for years," she said.
The night of the murder haunts Maseda, though she says many details remain murky — along with the reason she did it. Her mind, she says, simply snapped.
She had smoked pot at school early that day, then took a Xanax, the first time she ever took the powerful painkiller. She became so incoherent that her father had to pick her up from school.
Maseda slept it off. That night, her father went out for dinner. Maseda ate with her grandmother, then took her Wellbutrin. Her grandmother took to a rocking chair to watch Wheel of Fortune.
"I even remember the time: 10:35 p.m. But I felt like I was in a dream," Maseda said. "I had a profound sense of detachment to reality that night."
Maseda went into to her father's closet to get his pistol. Hiding it in a stack of mail, Maseda knelt down next to her abuela and embraced her one last time. "I love you," she whispered.
"No you don't," she recalls her grandmother replying.
The words tore at Maseda. In a split second, as though still in a dream, the teenager lifted the gun and shot her grandmother once in the head. Maseda remembers her grandmother looking at peace, a trickle of blood dripping from her nose.
Panic instantly set in. Maseda called the police, but not before turning the gun on herself.
"She shot herself, claiming that a robber had broken into the house and shot her," recalled her defense lawyer, Lorna Owens.
From there, it all gets fuzzy. But Maseda remembers her dog in the middle of the street staring as the paramedics drove her away in the ambulance.
Maseda soon confessed to North Miami police detectives. Had she gone to trial, Owens would have used an insanity defense, with the claim that the Wellbutrin had contributed to her bizarre behavior.
Instead, Maseda's father — shattered but forgiving and not wanting to lose his daughter — blessed a plea deal of 10 years behind bars. She entered prison a scared girl.
It's a place where your personal space is reduced to the top bunk in your cell. Sometimes you're unlucky and don't even have a room to escape the hell. You can't cry because of preying eyes. Chaos reigns to distract from pain.
Not much of a student before prison, Maseda soon began to devour books, everything from the Bible to Anne Rice vampire novels. She also found friendship and eventually love with Diedre Hunt, who is serving a life term for murder.
Hunt urged Maseda to enroll in Art Spring, a creative arts program for inmates at Homestead Correctional.
"Alma was very quiet, very shy, very uncomfortable," said Leslie Neal, the program's longtime director. "As she was participating, she slowly came out of her shell."
Maseda soon penned poems with names like "Lost Innocent," "Beautiful Misery" and "Magician."
When she was released in November, she was overwhelmed with emotion when she walked back into the home where the shooting had happened.
But soon, Maseda called Owens. They agreed to have breakfast.
"She said, 'I have something to show you.' When she read her poetry to me, the hair on the back of my hand stood up," Owens said. "They were dark. I found it troubling, but not in a bad way because it's her story. It didn't bother me. It was intriguing."
Owens runs the Footprints Foundation, which works to empower at-risk women. She asked Maseda to read her poetry at Saturday's literary brunch, which features Patricia Schultz, author of the best-selling1,000 Places to See Before You Die.
Also speaking: retired Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Barbara Levenson, who did not preside over Maseda's case and now writes mystery novels.
One of the poems Maseda will read is called simply "Penitentiary."
I've loved the best. I've befriended the worst. I've lost myself as well as found, what I'm made of upon this ground.
"This poem was definitely a cathartic experience. It showed me what I went through. It's like the blood running through your veins," Maseda said. "You don't know what it looks like until you actually cut yourself and spill it on a page."
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/16/4120741/after-serving-nearly-10-years.html#storylink=cpy


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LOS ANGELES – Kirk Gibson and Mark McGwire gripped each other's tops and faced off nose to nose as the nasty brawl escalated.
No, this wasn't 1989.
It was Tuesday night.
When Ian Kennedy hit fellow starter Zack Greinke with a pitch and a full-on melee broke out between Arizona and Los Angeles, several stars from another generation were right in the thick of it.
Take out the baseball cards, kids, it wasn't just Miguel Montero and Yasiel Puig mixing it up. Several coaches who dominated the game as players in the 1980s and '90s produced some of the fight's most memorable moments.
There was McGwire, Los Angeles' hitting coach, clutched in a tense standoff with equally solid Diamondbacks third base coach Matt Williams. Big Don Baylor, Arizona's hitting coach, held his ground among a surge of Dodgers. Don Mattingly wrestled someone to the ground as he tried to get at fellow manager Gibson. Williams had Mattingly in a bear hug at one point.
Gibson, McGwire and Diamondbacks assistant hitting coach Turner Ward — who was nearly thrown over a railing near the Arizona dugout — were among the six ejected from the game.
"Everything happened so fast," Mattingly said. "It just gets a little crazy out there."
Things got out of hand in the seventh inning of the Dodgers' 5-3 victory, when Kennedy hit Greinke in the shoulder — the ball caromed off his helmet.
That was payback for Greinke hitting catcher Miguel Montero in the top of the inning after Kennedy hit Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig with a ball that caught Puig's nose in the sixth.
Generally, coaches try to remain peacemakers when benches clear after a player is hit with a pitch. Not this time, with two sides full of gritty former players.
Perhaps best known for his limping trot around the bases after homering to give the Dodgers a win in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, Gibson refused give in when McGwire, the former single-season home run record holder, screamed at the D-backs manager.
"We're certainly not going to try and jeopardize anybody's career. We respect those guys too much," Gibson said. "They responded and it was certainly obvious. And beyond that, things just got out of control."


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What is personal productivity and how do you improve it? Follow these easy steps and achieve your productivity goals.
You might be used to thinking about productivity in terms of your team – but what about your own productivity? Whether you're a manager, team member or freelancer, there are many simple things you can do to get more out of your day. Let's take a look.
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What is personal productivity?
Personal productivity refers to the efficient management of your time, energy, and resources to achieve your goals. It involves strategies, tools, and a focused mindset to work smarter and maximize your potential.
This includes setting clear objectives, prioritizing tasks, and organizing work effectively. Personal productivity also emphasizes self-care and well-being to sustain long-term success. It is a lifelong journey of self-discovery and optimization, empowering us to take control of our time and accomplish our goals while leading fulfilling lives.
Why is personal productivity so important?
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world of work upside down. Businesses have had to be super-agile - pivoting their services, reorganizing their workforces, and making a rapid move to flexible or remote working.
This has increased the focus on productivity. Organizations are worried about whether people will still be as productive when working remotely, In fact, 78% of business leaders think hybrid and home-working will harm productivity, according to the World Economic Forum.
But while the jury is still out, the signs so far are pretty good. Several studies have noted an uptick in productivity rather than a fall. In one survey, 94% of employees said their productivity was higher or the same as it was pre-COVID. Another piece of research shows remote employees are experiencing less unproductive time and fewer distractions than office-based staff.
As organizations focus on measuring employee productivity and team collaboration, how are we, as individuals, evolving the way we work? Remote working means having more responsibility for managing our personal productivity, but how do we do it?
While traditional productivity trackers look at tasks, perhaps it's time to look at productivity more flexibly. Maybe we should even start to measure productivity 'backwards.' To begin looking at output first and then find the actions and behaviors that led to success – and those that got in the way.
We've got to look at productivity holistically in terms of wellbeing, too. It's widely known that there's a connection between productivity and stress: The more stressed someone is, the less productive they're likely to be, while a drop in productivity may be a sign that there's something wrong with a person's mental wellbeing.
How to measure personal productivity?
There's a simple equation for measuring productivity: The amount of value you create divided by the number of hours you work. A person with high productivity will create the same amount of value for an organization in a shorter time or create a more significant amount of value in the same amount of time.
The problem is, it's hard to measure personal productivity this way as you won't always have a clear understanding of the value you create. This is especially true if your work doesn't involve creating a physical product, making output harder to measure.
So it might be easier to think about productivity in terms of the total number of productive hours you have on an average day or week. A productive hour is one where you get stuff done - where you feel you can concentrate on a task and complete it, free from distractions.
Many of us feel more productive at certain times of the day or week than others. And distractions range from sudden meetings and phone calls to chat notifications to having too many small or odd jobs getting in the way - all of which prevent you from getting the "big stuff" done.
A 2019 study reported by the UK's Economic Research Council found that the UK average worker was only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes in every working day. Assuming the average working day is around 8 hours, this leaves nearly 5 hours of doing... not so much. This leads to the eyebrow-raising conclusion that if your personal productivity is above 3 hours per day, you're already more productive than the average employee.
When it comes to measuring your personal productivity, you might want to ask yourself questions like:
How much time do you have on an average day to focus on one specific task?
If your calendar is full of admin blocks or if you tend to work on two or more projects simultaneously, this may affect your productivity.
How many meetings do you usually have in a day?
Do you regularly find yourself juggling multiple tasks or unrealistic deadlines?
If this often happens, it suggests you need to reassess your approach to work – do you need to delegate more?
Are you able to take regular breaks, including a lunch break?
Breaks are essential for maintaining focus, so you need to carve out time to step away from the screen.
Top tips to improve your personal productivity
The most important thing to keep in mind when it comes to maximizing your productivity is that it begins with a shift in mindset. All the time management apps or productivity tracking software in the world won't make a difference if your head isn't in the right place.
Here are our top 10 tips for switching your brain into a higher gear:
1. Think about what's holding you back
Do you feel distracted, overwhelmed or bored at work? Being aware of your workload and your feelings is the first step to understanding and improving your productivity.
2. Visualize what a productive day looks like for you
Try to picture the thoughts and feelings you associate with being productive. Where are you? What sort of mindset are you in? What does your working pattern look like?
3. Create stepping stones to try and achieve this ideal day
Don't assume that you can achieve the vision in your head just by wishing for it, and don't try to do everything at once. Instead, work out a strategy to make it happen, then go through it step-by-step.
4. Set yourself a productivity plan (to-do list) for each day
Using a productivity planner to map out each day is a great way to approach the day more productively. It also helps you visualize your priorities – so if extra work arises, you'll instantly know where it slots into your schedule.
5. Get the big stuff out of the way early
If there's a task looming over you, be sure to tackle it as early as you can in the day or week. Getting your most stressful job done can help you feel much more positive about approaching the other things on your to-do list.
6. Break big tasks into smaller ones
If you feel overwhelmed looking at the sheer scale of a project, try breaking it down into lots of smaller responsibilities. Once you start ticking little things off your to-do list, you'll feel like you're making progress towards completing the bigger goal.
7. Reward yourself with small incentives
For every task you tick off your to-do list, give yourself a treat. Whether it's a 10-minute screen break, a drink or a few minutes scrolling your social media feed, you'll feel much more incentivized to complete your work quicker if something is waiting for you at the end.
8. Make sure you take your scheduled breaks
Taking a break helps with everything from concentration to reducing stress. So while you might think working through lunch is the key to getting your work finished, you might be slowing yourself down.
9. Delegate or automate tasks if and when you can
When you find yourself with too much on your plate, don't be a martyr. Instead, find someone to help you, or better yet, find a way to let technology do the work for you - like using a bot to send and collect survey results, for example.
10. Track your productivity over time and look for trends (e.g. things that regularly trip you up)
Keep track of the hours you spend and be honest about recording your productive and non-productive time. Once you've collected some information, take a look at the data and try to find a pattern of things that made you more productive and those that slowed you down. You can use this as the basis of a strategy for working smarter.
9 methods to boost your personal productivity further
Of course, if you want to boost your personal productivity further, you can always teach yourself tried-and-tested productivity techniques – there are lots to choose from, so you can find the one that suits you.
Here are some to try:
SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Bound. First defined by Peter Drucker, this method is a step-by-step sequence to help people set realistic goals, then achieve them by working in a consistent, straightforward way.
Francesco Cirillo's time management technique follows a simple system of working in 25-minute bursts with regular breaks in between these short sprints. It's named after the Italian word for tomato because Cirillo used a tomato-shaped egg timer to create the technique while he was a university student.
Kanban is a simple but effective project management technique. All you need are some sticky notes and a table with three columns labeled "To-do," "In progress," and "Done." By moving the notes left to right across the table, you help to visualize how you're completing tasks while getting a full overview of your other responsibilities for the day.
A method inspired by Mark Twain's quote, "Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." Brian Tracy framed this productivity hack around one simple concept: Get the most challenging task done first thing in the morning and the rest of the day will feel much more straightforward.
This acronym stands for "must have," "should have," "could have" and "would have." It's a simple method of putting your tasks into a hierarchy of most to least urgent. "Must" tasks are the ones you should focus on right away (like replying to an important message), while "would" tasks are the vague goals you set yourself in the future (like getting a promotion).
The brainchild of a computer science student, the Systemist method combines with the Todoist app to streamline multiple workflows while also helping to balance other responsibilities on the side.
David Allen's well-known GTD technique works by treating your mind like an email inbox and designating tasks in five categories: capture, clarify, organize, reflect and engage. It encourages users to focus on one thing at a time by allowing other, less critical tasks to be stored – or even thrown in the recycling bin.
8. Zen to Done
Zen to Done, or ZTD, takes David Allen's GTD one step further. Building on the behavior changes necessary to adapt to GTD, ZTD removes the need for people to pause and think about their tasks and instead encourages them to push on. It's much more useful for people who prefer action rather than reflection.
Also known as the Seinfeld Method (although Jerry himself claims to have had nothing to do with it). Don't Break the Chain teaches the user to think of every item ticked off their to-do list as another step towards building a better version of themselves in the future. It's a great way to incentivize people who value personal progress.
Best personal productivity tools
When it comes to the best personal productivity tools, you've got a choice:
Productivity planners
Productivity planners can help you keep track of you and your team's schedules, tasks, projects and goals. There are lots of digitized planners - and some people still prefer the paper variety.
Time trackers
Time Trackers can combine project tasks and milestones with to-do lists. You can also use them for scheduling in advance. One advantage they offer is that you can use the stats they generate to see how long doing different tasks takes you.
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Index Trade Fairs to Be Held From the 26th to 28th May 2023 at JIO World Convention Centre, BKC, and Mumbai
Over 500 exhibitors to display 4000+ brands
India's Furniture sector is likely to reach USD 40 billion by 2027; annual growth estimated at 14 per cent
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 11: India's biggest and longest-running trade exhibition on furniture, interiors and design, Index Trade Fairs, will be held from the 26th to 28th of May 2023 at the Jio World Convention Centre, BKC, Mumbai. Here, international and Indian companies display hi-tech and state-of-the-art offerings in furniture, interiors, materials and design.
Since its inception in 1989, the organization has facilitated companies to engage in impactful joint ventures, B2B deals, and long-term business alliances. With a focus on the furniture segment for homes, offices, and hotels, Index prides itself on a substantial display of interior products and materials, lighting products, kitchen appliances, furnishings, and sleep products, art & artifacts, hardware, and fittings.
The Indian furniture market is one of the most promising markets in the world, currently valued at approximately USD 23 billion, and grows at over 14 per cent annually. It is estimated to reach USD 40 billion by 2027 due to the central government's emphasis on rapid infrastructure development and progressive policies in the manufacturing and hospitality sectors. The index is a key facilitator of business in this growing sector.
Index expects 300+ exhibitors from across India and overseas, displaying the best Indian and international creativity, showing more than 700 brands over 200,000 sq. ft. of area. It features a Design Pavilion, New Products Demonstrations and Launches, Pre-Fixed B2B Meetings, Knowledge-sharing and Networking Seminars, Conferences, and Award functions.
This year its design is at its best with what Index is known for, stunning design initiatives in the Index Design Boulevard, showcasing the creativity of top architects and designers at REIMAGINE the Indian Swing Seat. Apart from this, there are art installations and gallery displays across the halls. But the showstoppers are always the suppliers with great products for home, office and hospitality and other uses.
The 3-day expo is expected to attract more than 40,000 buyers from across India and the surrounding nations comprising traders, dealers, distributors, wholesalers, architects, designers, hospitality managers, builders, procurement teams, and bulk buyers.
Mr. L A Khan, MD, UMG Trade Fairs P Ltd says, "The fair pioneers not simply in interiors with a leading trade fair, but is a frontrunner providing knowledge-sharing and powerful networking platforms for the trade and the sectoral communities to explore business partnerships".
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Great tips. I especially liked the one on leaving the lights and TV on. We actually do that at home, but never thought of doing it in a hotel.
It seems like nearly everyone is on the road for a short trip or extended vacation this summer. If staying in a hotel will be part of your summer travel plans, it might be a good time to brush on some security basics. Business and leisure travelers can often become victims to theft and assault by intruders, other guests, and even unscrupulous hotel staff. Whether your stay is in a high-end, mid-range, or decidedly down-scale establishment, keep yourself and your family safe by following a few simple guidelines. (See also: The Best Credit Cards for Budget Hotels)
Though they don't offer the complete security picture, online hotel reviews from real customers are a great place to start. Look for previous guests' comments about security, front desk coverage, staff availability, noise levels, etc.
That little sleeve for your hotel room keycard typically has the room number written on it. Combined with the hotel logo on the keycard, it doesn't take much for a lost or stolen card to be opening the right door for the wrong person. Memorize your room number (or enter it in your cell phone if you're forgetful) and toss the envelope.
We all see those little emergency exit maps on the inside of our hotel room doors, but few of us really study them. Take a moment to get a lay of the land of the hotel, your floor, and the nearest exit in case of fire or other emergency. Make a quick primary and secondary exit strategy for you and your family and choose a landmark outside as the collective rendezvous point once everyone's safely out of the building. Remember, emergencies can happen anywhere at any time.
Call me cynical, but I don't assume that hotel cleaning staff or maintenance workers are detailed enough to check the battery in each smoke detector in every room. Do a quick check to make sure the battery status light is on and that there's a functional battery in each detector.
Maybe I stay in particularly sub-par establishments (highly likely), but modern hotels may be the flimsiest and most quickly built structures on the planet short of carnival tents. As a result of fast and low-cost construction, windows seldom close or lock properly, and when I'm on the ground floor, this lack of basic security worries me. Check to make sure the windows lock and lock them when you leave or turn in for the night.
Use common sense when working online via the hotel's unsecured Wi-Fi connection. Avoid any financial transactions or work that displays personal information like social security numbers, passwords, account balances, or secured business data.
Even if you leave the diamonds at home, most of us are traveling with a small fortune in mobile electronics. Use the hotel safe to store your valuables when you leave the room. Oh, and an off-topic word to the wise — if you don't use the safe, check your receipt for a "safe fee" anyway. Many establishments try to slip this charge into the room total each day without a word to their guests.
Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. Though not the greenest solution, it never hurts to leave a light and the TV on in your room when you go out. Establishing the appearance of an occupied room puts a bit of doubt in the mind of a would-be criminal. It's Personal Security 101, and it works.
If an unknown or unexpected person arrives at your door, ask them to meet you in the lobby or call you from the front desk — even if that person is in hotel uniform. It never hurts to err on the side of safety when someone unknown is asking you to open the door for any reason.
I'll be the first to admit that I might be hyper-cautious. But when I know I'll be away from my hotel room all day, I really try to make it look (to whoever might be watching) like I'm simply stepping out for a quick cup of coffee. It's never a good idea to spread out the maps and ask the receptionist the most efficient way to make the 150 mile trip to Timbuktu. Simply put, a bit of discretion about your daily schedule makes you a less-likely target.
A high-end resort in the Midwest was scandalized earlier this year when it uncovered an employee theft ring. Hotel clerks were stealing credit and debit card data from guests and using the information to make purchases once the guests had checked out. Closely review your credit card statements after a hotel stay, paying special attention to unauthorized charges that begin on or immediately after your checkout date.
In our era of discount options for everything, hotel security is often a casualty of low-price lodging. Being an active guest and an active observer of your surroundings can help you avoid situations where your personal safety is at risk.
What tips do you have for hotel security? What methods have you used to keep you and your family safe while on the road?
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Great tips. I especially liked the one on leaving the lights and TV on. We actually do that at home, but never thought of doing it in a hotel.
Jam a rubber door stop on the inside of the door. If someone, including cleaning when you're sleeping in, tries to enter the room with a key card they will struggle to be able to move the door at all. $2 and you'll be a lot safer.
Probably #1 on this list should be always use the security latch/chain and deadbolt when you are in your room. Don't stay in a room that doesn't have one -- otherwise anyone from the hotel can get into your room while you are sleeping.
I really like numbers 1, 6 and 10 you included in this list. Researching reviews can give you a VERY good sense of how the hotel operates because anyone can take nice pictures and throw them up on the internet, but reviews from real guests say a lot. Being smart with free wifi is essential when traveling, this is one of the easiest ways for people to acquire personal information and use it against you. Being discrete is a very good tip. When I'm traveling and go off on an excursion for the day and don't want to being important items, I will usually hang the do not disturb sign on my door and pass up the cleaning service for the peace of mind that no one will be going into my room.


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Two of the main reasons we've heard over and over about why Republicans did so well in New Jersey and Virginia in November and why they continue to poll so well for 2010 races are that they're more motivated to get out to the polls than Democrats and that independents are leaning their way. Those things are definitely true and we're seeing them in Massachusetts too. One emerging problem for Dems getting less attention is that there's a decent amount of opposition to the health care bill within the party ranks and that's driving some of those voters over to the Republican side.
We stopped asking about health care in our NJ and Va. polling about a month before the election but in late September we found that Bob McDonnell had a 61-33 lead over Creigh Deeds with Democrats who opposed the health care plan and that Chris Christie was up 38-31 on Jon Corzine with those folks as well.
In Massachusetts it's a similar story with Scott Brown up 61-24 with those folks, which based on our current projection of likely voters accounts for 20% of Massachusetts Democrats. One of the keys to Democratic success in 2008, for all the bluster about the PUMA crowd, was a high level of party unity. Barack Obama held onto 89% of his party's voters. If health care creates bigger divisions within the party ranks than that this year it's just going to be one more strike against Democratic candidates in close races.
5 days to go...
Thursday, January 14, 2010
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- Conan776 said...
Meh, most of the opposition to the current health care bill "within the party ranks" is coming from progressives like me, who might stay home, but wouldn't ever shoot themselves in the foot by voting Republican.
That said, I'm voting Coakley, and might even be manning the phones on her behalf if Brown keeps polling well into the weekend. - January 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM
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"When Sylvia Earle began diving in 1952, the ocean was pristine. These days, things are different.
'For the past 30 years I have never been on a dive anytime, anywhere, from the surface to 2-1/2 miles deep, without seeing a piece of trash,' says the renowned oceanographer and former chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ...
Dr. Earle's experience illustrates the rising tide of plastic accumulating in the world's oceans. And while the Pacific Ocean has garnered much attention for what some call the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' -- a vast expanse of floating plastic deposited in the middle of the ocean by circulating currents -- the problem doesn't stop there.
New research shows that plastic has collected in a region of the Atlantic as well, held hostage by converging currents, called gyres, to form a swirling 'plastic soup.' And those fragments of plastic could also be present at the other three large gyres in the world's oceans, says Kara Lavender Law, a member of the oceanography faculty at the Sea Education Association (SEA) in Woods Hole, Mass., which conducted the study."
Kristen Chick reports for the Christian Science Monitor June 18, 2009.
Other Oceans Collect Plastic Trash
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 06/19/2009


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