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Lost Planet 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition which is also made by Capcom, taking place ten years after the events of the first game, on the same fictional planet. The story takes place back on E.D.N. III 10 years after the events of the first game. The snow has melted to reveal jungles and more tropical areas that have taken the place of more frozen regions. The plot begins with Mercenaries fighting against Jungle Pirates. After destroying a mine, the Mercenaries continue on to evacuate the area, in which a Category-G Akrid appears and attacks them. After being rescued, they find out their evacuation point (Where the Category-G appeared) was a set-up and no pick up team awaited them. The last words imply possible DLC additions to the game, "There's nothing to be gained by wiping out snow pirates... unless you had some kind of grudge."
While we see the new drivers on the ASUS HD 6970 give us a slight boost over the Sapphire using the older 11.4s, we can see the AMD cards do continue to struggle under this game.
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I picked up this book on Saturday from a charity shop in Kilburn. It's called Simple Oriental Cookery and it's from 1960, published by Peter Pauper Press and compiled by Edna Beilenson (a quick search reveals that similar titles existfor a range of other cuisines, Beilenson was fairly prolific, it would appear!).
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TechRadar and The Verge are both claiming that the Lumia 920 will be released on November 2nd on AT&T. TechRadar also reported that T-Mobile US will start selling the Lumia 820 in the first week of November.
CNET reports that Verizon is planning to introduce multiple unspecified Windows Phone models in the fourth quarter, with Verizon representatives saying that the company has been in talks with Nokia. TechRadar's source gave specific information on this too, saying that Verizon would be selling a version of the Lumia 920, possibly also in the first week of November.
Further, Reuters has sources claiming that the Lumia 920 will also go on sale in Europe in November.
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It is now time to catch up with Alexander Barclay. After the 1870 U.S. Federal Census, George left for Brainerd and then headed to Pine River leaving his brother Alexander Barclay behind in Dakota County, Minnesota.
It would be interesting to know the reasons these two brothers went their separate ways. I do know they kept in touch.
In the post dated August 19, 2010 "After the Civil War- George and Alexander Try Farming?" I describe the 1870 U.S. Federal census and the 1875 Minnesota State Census. In these census Alex is living alone or rather in a separate household, yet he is next to the Giles family. George Barclay his brother is not listed as we have noted before.
Alex is in Eureka Twp., Dakota County, Minnesota in the 1880 U.S. Federal Census and the Giles family are included under his household listing? I think R.J. should be R.I. for Rhode Island?
Line 4, 157, 267 Barclay, A.A., male, 40 years old, born in Connecticut, parents both born in Scotland, occupation farmer, single.
Line 5, 208, Giles, Francey, W, F, 50, widowed, keeping house, born Mass, parents born Mass. Giles, Lorence, W, M, 14, son, single, farm laborer, born Minn, father born [R.J.] , mother born Mass.
Line 8, 158, 209, Giles, [Leonza] w, m, 31, married, farmer, born R.J., father born R.J., mother R.J. , Giles, mary, w, f, 26, wife, married keeping house, born [Canada], parents born Ireland. Giles, Hattie, w, f, 7, daughter, born Minn. Giles, Edward, w, m, 5, son, born Minn. Giles, Sarah, w, f, 2, daughter, born Minn. Giles, George, w, m, 2/12, son born Minn. Giles, Henry, w, m, 22, brother, farm laborer, born Minn.
Source: 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Eureka, Dakota Co., Minnesota, pg. 18, SD 2, ED 801, enumerated on June 22, 1880. Ancestry.com.
According to the Minnesota Cemetery Inscriptions Index at Ancestry.com a David D. Giles died on 25 July 1879 and is buried in Corinthian Cemetery. He was 59 yrs. old, 6 mos and 5 das. His spouse was Fannie Anderson Giles. He is in the SW section of the cemetery. I have been to this cemetery and it is in Farmington, Dakota County, MN.
What the relationship is between Alexander and the Giles family is still a bit of a mystery and if Fannie's maiden name is Anderson, I am now more puzzled?
The interesting fact is that if you fast forward to 1896 Alexander was living in Lakeville Township not Eureka Township which indicates perhaps the boundaries changed?
I have not had the opportunity to do deed research on Alexander. The Family History Library has very little on land records for Dakota County, Minnesota and Minnesota as a whole. So I guess that means another trip to Minnesota?
The location is section 34 in Lakeville to the south and east right on the border of the two townships of Lakeville and Eureka.
Source: Plate book of Dakota County, Minnesota, by Bertine F. Pinkney, The Union Publishing Co., Philadelphia 1896, pg. 19 and 20. I consulted a copy while researching in Minnesota in 2007. The Minnesota Historical Society has a collection of these atlas' on line at "Minnesota Maps Online." http://www.mnhs.org/collections/digitalmaps/index.htm


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1871 … Thomas Gawthrop died aged 14 in Cowling, West Yorkshire. His parents were Joseph Gawthrop and Susannah Benson. He is my 1st cousin 3x removed.
1878 … Harriet Paley (nee Richmond) died at Threshfield in Yorkshire. She is the wife of my 2x great grand uncle.
1934 … Ellen Hurtley (nee Paley) died in Cononley, Yorkshire. She is my great grandmother.


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Happy Fourth!
Before you light up the grill and pull out the sparklers, click on over to the Jerusalem Post and check out a couple of recipes in my Come to the Table column. This month we're talking about rose water and orange blossom water, two floral extracts that have a history longer than that of vanilla.
You might have noticed that I bake orange blossom water into any sweet that contains almonds. In my research for the article, however, I came across several savory recipes that incorporate orange blossom water and it's now my new secret weapon, er, ingredient. Look out, because another salad with orange blossom dressing is coming your way soon and it's a winner.
Until then, happy sunning and eating!
Beet, orange, and feta salad
This recipe, adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi's vegetarian cookbook Plenty, is a spin on the classic Moroccan salad of oranges and olives, meant to cool down the palate from spicy foods. The addition of beets makes a more substantial hearty and earthy side dish, and I followed Elise Bauer's beet roasting instructions . I've replaced the olives with feta as the salty counterpart to the sweet beets and acidic citrus. The orange flower water in the dressing provides a sharp, slightly bitter flavor to round out the dish – use a very mild oil to really let the orange blossom shine. Be careful when handling beets as they stain everything that gets in their way, including your hands. I've provided a few time- and effort-saving shortcuts for several of the steps.
Serves 6 as a side dish
– 4 large beets
– 3 T olive oil, divided
– 1 head of radicchio
– 3 oranges
– 1/3 C crumbled feta cheese
– 1/3 C grapeseed or other mild oil (canola or vegetable oil will work too)
– 2 t orange flower water
– 3 T red wine vinegar
– salt and pepper
– 3 T chopped parsley for garnish (optional)
Roast (or boil). Preheat oven to 400ºF. Line a roasting or cookie sheet with foil. Scrub the beets, remove their greens, and place in the pan. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and cover tightly with another piece of foil so that the beets don't dry out. Roast for 1 – 2 hours, depending on their size. They're ready when tender and easily poked with a fork. Once the beets have cooled for a few minutes, but are still warm to the touch, peel off their skins. Cut them into small, bite-sized chunks. If you don't want to turn on your oven, instead of roasting, boil the cleaned beets in salted water for 45 minutes to 1 hour until fork tender, and proceed as above.
Grill (or don't). Heat a grill pan (or a grill if you have one) over medium-high heat. Quarter the radicchio, leaving the core intact, and drizzle with the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Grill the radicchio for several minutes on each surface until the leaves start to soften and brown. When cool, cut out the core and chop into bite-sized pieces. If you like the bitterness inherent in radicchio, skip the grill and just chop the leaves into small pieces.
Segment (or slice). Cut the tops and bottoms off of the oranges and then slice down the sides to remove all the peel, including the white pith. You'll be left with round, naked oranges. Over a small bowl, use a paring knife to remove each orange segment by slicing between the membranes (then throw out the membranes). Or, slice the orange flesh into circles.
Compose. Spread the beets and radicchio on a large plate. Dot with orange segments and crumbled feta.
Dress. In a jar, mix together the grape seed oil, orange flower water, and vinegar. Taste for salt and pepper. Drizzle the dressing over the salad and garnish with parsley, if you'd like.


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Are You Sure You Know What's Broken?
Last week, I described a bug in a multipass compiler in which:
- One of the compiler's passes would sometimes — but not always — complain about spurious characters in the input that it had obtained from the previous pass.
- It was possible to capture the file that the previous pass produced for this pass as input.
- When I did so, and ran the failing compiler pass on the captured file, it would always work.
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I invited readers to speculate about what might cause such a state of affairs, and got a number of interesting comments. In fact, several of these comments are closely related to what turned out to be the actual problem, as we shall see.
Let me simplify the description of the situation by calling the two compiler passes A and B. What I had learned was:
- If I run A and send its output to B, it sometimes fails.
- If I run A, capture its output, and run B with the captured file as its input, B always succeeds.
One reader speculated that the problem must be in how the file is being passed from A to B, and that's what I thought, too. However, when I looked at what was happening, the framework around the compiler was doing exactly the same thing that I was doing: Run A with its output directed to a temporary file, then run B with its input coming from the temporary file.
After thinking about this situation for a long time, I realized that there was one crucial difference between how the compiler was normally run and how I ran it when I was trying to provoke a failure:
When the compiler ran normally, phase A ran afresh every time; when I captured the output and ran phase B with the captured file, I ran A only once and then ran B repeatedly.
What if I was looking in the wrong place? That is, what if the problem was not that B was behaving differently with the same input, but rather that A was sometimes producing different output? Such questions are easy to answer once asked: I wrote a shell script to run A repeatedly and compare its output each time with that from the previous run.
Sure enough, once in a while, compiler phase A would produce different output from what it normally produced. Moreover, that difference was that occasional characters would be replaced by zero characters. Not a byte with all bits zero, but the ASCII representation of the digit 0.
What I had just learned was that regardless of what might or might not be wrong with phase B, there was something wrong with phase A — and until I found that problem, there was no point in looking further at phase B. More generally, when a program occasionally produces different output from the same input, maybe you're mistaken about it being the same input.
Of course, I now had to figure out why phase A occasionally produced output with spurious characters in it. Next week, I'll reveal more details about what I learned.


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7 Best Free and Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS)
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A content management system (CMS) is a software used to simplify the management and publication of HTML content such as documents and images. It provides authoring and other tools designed to allow users with little technical knowledge of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content with relative ease. Most web CMS use a database to store content, metadata, or artifacts that might be needed by the system. Content is commonly stored as XML, to facilitate, reuse, and enable flexible presentation options.
For those of you who are interested, I have here a list of some of the most well-known and perhaps the best free and open source content management systems (CMS) available:
WordPress is widely considered as the most popular blog publishing application, and is used by over 2% of the 10,000 biggest websites. It is powered by PHP and MySQL and offers many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. The templating system includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. WordPress features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles are also included. WordPress has a rich plugin architecture that allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.
Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. It is utilized as a back-end system for at least 1% of all websites worldwide, which ranges from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites that includes whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk. Although Drupal offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration. Its standard release, known as Drupal core, contains basic features common to most CMSs. These include the ability to register and maintain individual user accounts within a role-based permission/privilege system, create and manage menus, RSS-feeds, customize page layout, perform logging, and administer the system. Drupal was also designed to allow new features and custom behavior to be added to extend Drupal's core capabilities via installation of plug-in modules.
Joomla! is an open source content management system (CMS) platform for publishing content on the internet along with a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL, and contains features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization. Inside its first year of release, Joomla was downloaded 2.5 million times. As of today, over 4,000 free and commercial plug-ins are available for Joomla.
Movable Type
Movable Type is a weblog publishing system written in Perl. It supports storage of the weblog's content and associated data within MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Movable Type optionally supports LDAP for user and group management and automatic blog provisioning. Features: Multiple weblogs; Standalone content pages; Asset and File Manager; User and user role management; Customizable templates; Tags; Categories, sub-categories and multiple categories for articles; TrackBack; Bookmarklets.
Plone is a content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for in principle any kind of website, including blogs, webshops, and internal websites. It is also well positioned to be used as a document publishing system and groupware collaboration tool. The strengths of Plone are its flexible and adaptable workflow, very good security, extensibility, high usability and flexibility. It excels when compared to other content-management systems in standards conformance, access control, internationalization, aggregation, user-generated content, micro-applications, active user groups and value. All of Plone's features are customizable, and free add-ons are available from the Plone website.
PHP-Fusion is a light-weight open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. It uses a MySQL database to store a web site's content and comes with a simple but comprehensive administration system. PHP-Fusion includes features common in many other CMS packages such as easy integration of articles, forums, photogallery, web links, downloads, polls, shoutbox, search, and themes. It also offers users the opportunity to expand the standard packages with so-called "infusions". These infusions can be easily uploaded, installed, and managed.
XOOPS (eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System) is a CMS written in PHP that uses a modular architecture allowing users to customize, update and theme their websites. It aims to serve as a web framework for use by small, medium and large sites, through the installation of modules. For example, a small XOOPS installation can be used as a personal weblog or journal, but this can be expanded upon and customized, for example users might add the appropriate modules to store content in news, forums, downloads, and more.
If you have other favorite web content management systems that I failed to mention above, you can share them with us via comment.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
TV/Media Notes for LMS Weekend
SPEED has added the Thursday Sprint Cup practice live from 3 to 4:30PM. Steve Byrnes will be paired with Larry McReynolds and Jeff Hammond. Bob Dillner and Wendy Venturini will report from the garage area.
Regan Smith will appear on Trackside Friday night at 11PM on SPEED. Also appearing as a guest will be Jessica Simpson, who will be doing a pre-race concert and performing the national anthem on Saturday night.
Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure (click here to view homepage) will sponsor 66-year old Morgan Shepherd's entry into the Nationwide Series race on Friday night at LMS. DJRA is a racing school and ride-a-long experience. Shepherd's regular sponsor will share signage with DJRA. Smart move.
Ricky Craven will be back on Monday as a panelist on NASCAR Now at 5PM. He will be joined by Ray Evernham and Mike Massaro. Allen Bestwick is the host.
Speaking of Evernham, getting email about both owners and their Monday TV shows. Evernham was not asked about the Patrick Carpentier incident on NASCAR Now and Michael Waltrip was not asked on TWIN about his driver line-up for LMS this weekend. Do you think this is fair because they are acting as commentators, or should they get the same treatment as anyone else in the news?
NASCAR on Fox commentator Jeff Hammond is the media guest on Tradin' Paint this weekend. How do you feel about a fulltime SPEED and Fox TV commentator appearing on this show? Is the show better with TV and radio types or print/Internet journalists?
Thursday at 1PM on ESPN Classic fans will get to see action from Rockingham Speedway. This track is been off the schedule for years, so new fans might enjoy seeing the style of racing that the sport grew-up with in the South. Richard Petty and Bill Elliott battled for the win in the 1983 Carolina 500.
If you have a comment on the topics above, just click on the COMMENTS button below and follow the easy directions. The rules for posting are located on the right side of the main page. Thank you for taking the time to stop by The Daly Planet.
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- rb218 said...
On the driver changes, I don't think either were mentioned on those Monday shows because neither had been confirmed when the shows were taped.
In regards to Jeff Hammond being on Tradin Paint, what else should they do? They need new opinions on the show, and because of ESPN's exclusivity clause, there's a smaller pool of guests they can pull from.
- October 8, 2008 at 11:49 AM
- Anonymous said...
I don't see Hammond as a real journalist. He has wonderful insight as a commentator but does very little reporting. Tradin' Paint is one show that I always try to watch because I get a chance to see and hear the print reporters in a situation that requires them to respond without the time for research and editing. The "off the cuff" discussions are always interesting and entertaining. We also get varied opinions that are not always the "company line". It's refreshing to hear something other than the pap we get from the other shows. That said, I do not feel that bringing in one of the network cheerleaders is beneficial to Tradin' Paint.
- October 8, 2008 at 12:35 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
I understand that the results were published on Tuesday. My point was that shouldn't Ray have been asked about what happened?
Over on SPEED, shouldn't Waltrip have been asked who would be in his third car at LMS?
Even if they both decided not to comment, at least the questions would have been asked.
Fine line to walk I guess...
- October 8, 2008 at 12:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
If owners are hosts on the shows, then they need to be asked the same questions (and expected to answer them) as if they weren't hosts.
Having said that, I agree that neither of these stories/deal were fully resolved (esp. MWR and AJ) when the shows were taped.
- October 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
Having Hammond (who I love) on TP defeats the purpose of having the show in the first place.
Find actual journalists who cover NASCAR--there are a bucnh of them.
- October 8, 2008 at 1:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
Why of course Jessica Simpson should be on Trackside. Heaven forbid we have any knowledgable females like Krista and Wendy on there. How did Erin Crocker and Chrissy Wallace ever make it on the show, I don't think they were singing the national anthem the weekend they were on, were they?
- October 8, 2008 at 1:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
Ray was asked about Carpentier being released on Sirius and he supposedly said he was totally out of the loop about it and all he knew was the same as everyone else - what he read in the press release. He has very little input into decision making at Evernham these days as he is apparently only a minority owner now and seems mostly involved in a consultant type role on the competition side. So maybe he's not being asked questions on the show because they know he doesn't really have any answers.
As for TWiN, if it's not yet confirmed or ready to be announced who is driving the #00 it seems to me to be a waste of time to ask Michael about it if he's only going to say "no comment." I'd much rather them spend time discussing things they can talk about. Of course the other issue is that when Michael is asked questions about himself or MWR, some complain that he promotes his own interests too much.
- October 8, 2008 at 1:31 PM
- majorshouse said...
I think it is great that DJ is helping to ssonsor one of the nicest guys in NASCAR who runs a limited budget and is out there because he truly loves the sport and we definitely need more drivers like him. I think that the people that own teams and appear on shows l;ike NASCAR Now and TWIN should not be treated any differently than anyone else and I personally do not have a problem with tv commentators like Jeff Hammond appearing on Trading Paint and frankly with some of the strong opinions that he has, it should definitely be one interesting show.
- October 8, 2008 at 2:12 PM
- Lisa Hogan said...
I will probably watch the opening segment of Trackside and that's all.
Glad that DJ is sponsoring Morgan and hope that will also get him more TV time. :)
Monday afternoon has gotten to be rather hectic in my household and I simply forget that Nascar Now is on TV. I doubt that this Monday will be any different.
Mikey has been asked before on TWIN if there is any news about MWR and he will answer the question. Don't find him not being questioned on the last show to be strange.
I will watch Tradin Paint as I do every week. I think having Jeff Hammond on the show will be interesting.
- October 8, 2008 at 2:27 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
If only he had told AB that on Monday.
- October 8, 2008 at 3:42 PM
- stricklinfan82 said...
If the TV listings I read are accurate, I'm very disappointed in this week's NASCAR TV schedule. Speed Channel is nowhere in sight this week as far as on-track action goes, so we have next-to-nothing:
Thursday Cup practice: no TV
Friday 1st Cup practice: no TV.... but ESPN2 will be on the air at the same time with NASCAR Now. It's one thing for live NASCAR to get pre-empted by another sport. It's extra ridiculous in my eyes to pre-empt live Cup practice with a NASCAR studio show.
Friday Happy Hour: joined already in-progress after another NASCAR(?) Show - "Auto Racing Explained". And if the normal production pattern holds true, we'll see MAYBE 5 minutes of on-track action in between all the full-screen nonsense.
Enormous letdown indeed. ESPN's lack of dedication to the sport is no surprise. Speed not jumping in this week to fill ESPN's holes is very surprising however.
This should be a great weekend of racing. NASCAR should have huge momentum off of FOUR straight fantastic finishes in Cup. This is the home of most of the teams. Lots of rookies and new teams are popping up all over the place, so there are larger-than-normal car counts in both series. Scott Speed, Brad Keselowski, and Bryan Clauson could make their first Cup starts.
But all of that basically means nothing, because NASCAR and their ridiculous TV contract have completely taken the air out of their own sails big time. The Cup coverage on ESPN has been a complete joke. The awful coverage and accompanying decline in TV ratings at Talladega certainly bore that out. And now with this huge weekend with countless storylines looming, we're going to see almost nothing on TV. Two Cup practice blackouts, one joined-in-progress Cup practice that will be ignored and covered up by ESPN will full-screen nonsense. Two qualifying sessions with presumably true-live coverage, studio guests, and more full-screen nonsense that will negate all the storylines and go-or-go-home drama.
Be proud of the mess you've created NASCAR. I think the lack of buzz in the air surrounding the Chase and this weekend in particular can be traced back to one thing - TELEVISION. I don't think we can ask for anything more on the track than what we've gotten the last 4 straight weeks. I sure as hell can't say the same about the TV coverage though. Sitting at home it's hard as hell to get excited about what's going on during the preliminary sessions leading into the races and what's going on in the races themselves WHEN WE CAN'T SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING ON TV!
Create a NASCAR channel or give everything to Speed Channel so we can see the on-track action and nothing but the on-track action all weekend, every weekend. And get rid of ESPN and their junk coverage. The suits at ESPN obviously don't respect NASCAR, many anchors and production staff members at ESPN's sports programs (Sportscenter, PTI, ATH, ESPNEWS, Mike & Mike, etc.) obviously don't respect NASCAR, and one or more of the members of the ESPN NASCAR production truck itself obviously don't respect NASCAR and find it "boring". That's way too much for NASCAR to overcome and "wait out", in my opinion. ESPN will never change. Get rid of them now and find someone else that will actually cover this sport in full, and with respect - cable network or not.
Oh yeah, JD, while I'm on the subject, what happened to the Memphis article you've been working on? Anything to report yet or is there still talk going on behind-the-scenes regarding this 'issue' as we speak?
- October 8, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
On the right side of the main page is the weekend TV line-up. Just added yesterday was Thursday coverage of practice on SPEED from 3 to 4:30PM.
All of the other issues are correct. This should be a critical time for ESPN as fans are not going to take the entertainment and interview show again while cars are at speed on the track.
The Memphis issue is being resolved as we speak, I should have news on that shortly. I have been cooperative with the networks involved and NASCAR, so hopefully things will work-out for the fans.
- October 8, 2008 at 4:32 PM
- Sophia said...
Well strick,
You right what I and many others feel. I was downright depressed to hear ESPU is covering on Friday. with the HORRIBLE TV coverage, I would rather "Watch NASCAR practice and Quals on SPEED with the boys" and skip the stinking ACTUAL race.
THAT's HOW HORRIBLE ESPN's coverage is.
And we know the practice and quals is NON existant when PSPN covers the stuff on Friday. So much JUNK on the screen we could be watching tennis for all we know by the pictures flying through the air.
TPTB at NASCAR better start paying attention and stop the all is well ostrich in the head syndrome. :(
SPEED is not available to all and I know we pay extra to have it. But it would be nice to put it on basic in MORE HOMES and let EVERYBODy see the extra shows, Trucks, and get to know the SPEED gang period.
Some many find the guys a little goofy (especially the Sunday shows) but I love the shows.
EXCEPT the OUTSIDE SHOWS that are ruined with SCREAMING FANS and dizzying/vertigo inducing moving signs. You'd think Speed folks could say "if you want to watch the show be quiet, or we will tape later when you all are sleepin!?" :-)
I remember Mikey YELLING at a crowd member to be quiet last year!! LOL
ESPN just annoys me to no end. (Surprise I know!) I will read about NN here if it has a worthy show.
- October 8, 2008 at 4:57 PM
- stricklinfan82 said...
Thanks for the Speed practice and Memphis TV updates JD. The NASCAR.com, Speedtv.com, and my DirecTV program guide did not include the last-minute Speed update.
Thanks Speed for jumping in there at the last minute and doing your best to help out the on-track action starved TV viewers like myself that have been dealing with ESPN's ignore-the-track junk for far too long now. It's just a shame NASCAR won't let Speed cover everything like they did under the old TV contract.
I still stand by everything else I commented on regarding ESPN. Ignoring the on-track action while they're on the air because someone in the truck apparently thinks NASCAR is boring is incredibly disrespectful and insulting to me as a fan. Add in the treatment of NASCAR by the ESPN schedule-makers and the lack of respect the sport receives across the board on all of ESPN's platforms and I don't see what NASCAR has to gain by sticking with ESPN. ESPN needs NASCAR and its big ratings numbers a lot more than NASCAR needs ESPN and their lack of commitment to growing and promoting this sport, in my opinion.
- October 8, 2008 at 4:59 PM
- Anonymous said...
i won't be tuning in at all this weekend due to family responsibilities and i can't say that i'm upset about missing the races. espn has done such an unprofessional job since taking over cup broadcasts that i can't even anticipate watching the race any more. i might miss watching n'wide but not so much that i'll go out of my way to find time to catch a few minutes. (now, if it were the trucks . . .!)
so, i'll catch up with everything on sunday evening sometime and i will decide if i want to actually sit thru the re-run of the cup race after reading the comments.
jessica simpson? really? seriously? yeah, she strikes me as a big nascar fan. pandering, pure and simple.
props to dale jarrett racing: one classy gentleman helping another. true racers, both of them.
jeff hammond on trading paint: this show is tanking fast. hammond is an analyst, not a journalist (not that there are many journalists in nascar either but that's a different discussion!) TP used to be a driver and a journalist, going toe to toe over controversial issues. not so much now and not worth my time.
finally evernham and waltrip: all i can say is that the networks have been hoisted by their own petard. they decided to have (even name-only) owners on the shows as regular panelists so they have created the mess. if i cared enough to watch, the only thing i could suggest would be that the "host" set the discussion parameters VERY clearly and then ask the question. i'm not certain that's something those shows can manage.
basically, i'm pretty much done with the "stuff" that's out there and generally only watch the actual races. that's a serious change from the time when i waited for coverage and watched every moment i possibly could. internet helps me catch up with what i may have missed that interested me -- all it requires is my ability to find it on the 'net and then watch on my laptop's smaller screen.
- October 8, 2008 at 5:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
Amen Stricklin & Red,
You both said it best. Nicer than I could. I will attempt to watch the espu "coverage" - I will watch the practice added on SPEED ( Thanks Guys @ SPEED) If the actual race "coverage" coverages the cars on the track off goes the TV sound & possibly the tv set, I'm Still Honked about Dega.
Why Hammond on Tradin Paint? OK he writes a column on Fox.com - but really here now- why not a "real" journalist? C'mon there has to be 1 out there thats not tied up in a #$%^ contract!
Which brings me to Jessica - why???
I mean - I thought eye candy was on Wind Tunnel? Why not get another not so well known driver to get him some air time? You know the ones who get no mention, anyone not in the Chase?
I really don't get it. I guess I'm old...
- October 8, 2008 at 5:59 PM
- Anonymous said...
I actually expect more candor and objectivity from Hammond than several well-known, so-called journalists.
I would like to see Bob Margolis on Tradin' Paint, and wonder whether he's never been asked or whether he has been asked but has declined.
- October 8, 2008 at 6:08 PM
- Haus14 said...
How about Claire B. Lang or Dave Moody? I don't recall seeing them ever on TP. They both have call in shows that reach alot of fans. I think that would be a good perspective to hear from. What about JD? I hear he is available too! He does more writing than most of the NASCAR journalists on TP anyway. He should qualify.
- October 8, 2008 at 7:01 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
richard and haus,
I have repeatedly written columns about having a wider assortment of media personalities on the show.
Margolis and many other veteran NASCAR writers are apparently not on the SPEED or NMG list for this TV series.
In addition, considering changing the format next season to having Roberts with two guests and eliminating "the driver" is an idea that was kicked around.
A constantly changing panel worked for Bestwick this season on Mondays, so why not TP?
- October 8, 2008 at 7:36 PM
- Karen said...
Sophia, your tennis analogy cracked me up.
- October 8, 2008 at 8:05 PM
- Karen said...
If any of you watched the TWIN video extra on nascar.com, SB did say something to MW about Dinger and he confirmed it.
Re: Jeff Hammond. Nothing could have been better than Ray Dunlap last week. It was the best TP I've seen in a long time. Hoping for just as good a show this week, but I doubt JH has the same fire in him as Ray.
Re: Jessica Simpson. Oh, she's cute. Should be fun if the guys don't drool all over her.
- October 8, 2008 at 8:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
Well, if someone thinks Jessica Simpson has anything to do with Nascar, and can appear on Trackside, then I guess Jeff Hammond on Tradin' Paint isn't a problem.
In all honesty, I have absolutely no idea why a racing show needs to put on a minimal talent like Ms Simpson. Did any of see her on Dancing with the Stars? She can't sing, for heaven's sake. I don't give a rip that she's singing the National Anthem, she's got absolutely no business being on Trackside. She needs to stick to sitting in the luxury boxes cheering on her boy toy, Romo.
As for Hammond, while I like him on the Speed and Fox race broadcasts, he's not a journalist and therefore should not be on Tradin' Paint. He has the ability to express his thoughts on Trackside, so why does he need to be on another show. I want to see the likes of David Poole or any other true race journalist and not a TV personality.
- October 8, 2008 at 8:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
@majorshouse--I agree about Mr. Morgan :). I'm very happy to see DJ helping him :). I know DJ has bought him some tires in the past.
I'm excited that SPEED is stepping in to help with practice tomorrow. My guide is updated (TWC in DFW).
I don't get Jessica being on either. Hopefully she'll be on the last 5 minutes like Keliie was. But I'll be watching on the DVR so regardless I can skip it.
I don't mind Hammond being on TP...will be an interesting to see how he does. I'd love to see more journalists on as well. I wish they'd let Waid come back, I miss him on TV :(.
I look forward to seeing what they're going to do about Memphis. I hope it's something that will allow a good majority of the fans to watch live.
- October 8, 2008 at 8:26 PM
- Newracefan said...
I'll DVR Trackside so Jessica will be very brief on my TV. Not to sure about Hammond, this entire show is not what it use to be with all the Speed guys as guests, need to use outside (for lack of a better word) talent if they want to have credibility (although Dunlop was pretty good). Glad Speed added practice and my guide also has it listed.
- October 8, 2008 at 9:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am a Petty fan, so not really unbiased, and I do enjoy seeing Kyle and believe he is always candid. I do believe TP needs to have a driver or other insider on the show to keep the media honest.
I suspect the pool of available media candidates may be shrinking with the economic downturn, the incresed cost of travel, and the increasing downturn in the newspaper business. I believe David Poole missed a couple of races before the Chase started and Mulhern has missed more races this year than in the past.
- October 8, 2008 at 10:06 PM
- PammH said...
JS on Trackside, as a woman who is quite knowledgable about Nascar-turns my stomach. But not susprising...And Hammond on TP-not so much. But I'm open-minded on that one, since his column on a certain website is pretty good. So I guess I'm a reverse sexist! Imagine that...;) And I'm out!
- October 8, 2008 at 10:07 PM
- Sophia said...
JS is a bad singer. If it wasn't for studio technology and reverb live and vocal enhancement, she would not be the 'singing star' she is and I use the term loosely.
If the crowd is not screaming I will tune in to the show but will expect Hammond to wear a bib for his drool re: Jessica! (J/kidding Jeff!)
Well, not sure about Trading Paint but he has had some good opinions online...so I will give that a wait and see approach. sorry I missed last week. NP was so disappointing as it was GUEST TALK (zippy) instead of tech talk.
JD I noticed you mentioned new SPEED execs? How new?
Love the guys on our cameras but worry about the guys in suits continuing to ruin our NASCAR related shows on the station. :(
P.S. I watched the TWIN bonus and totally forgot about Mikey mentioning AJ.. Duh
P.P.S. And hear I have been screaming about producers and directors...but sometimes the head Execs can micromanage. I saw it happen years ago on a couple soaps I used to watch when a certain Daytime creep took over the network. :( His opinion on people over 50 and in "nursing homes" still makes me cringe. And the soaps got violent and very misogynistic and insulting to longtime fans. Sure it's just a couple of soaps but it's happening all over tv (Guys in "suits" insulting tv viewers)
Thanks again to SPEED for trying to save Friday racing coverage from that 4 letter network.
- October 8, 2008 at 11:27 PM
- Dot said...
@ Strick, don't hold back. Just kidding. I agree with you 100%. And you too, Red.
@Jo, I'm with you about Jessica Simpson. I guess our ages are showing. I have no idea what she can offer on Trackside. Well, maybe if I were a guy, I probably could. If she can match a driver to the car he drives, I'd be amazed.
Regarding DJRA sponsoring Morgan, what a guy. I have LOVED DJ since 1996. He will always be my driver. If he wasn't in the booth, I swear I would not watch the Cup races on ESPU.
@ Sophia, I read you when I was previewing my comment. Right on, sister.
- October 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hammomd on Trading paint, NO. He has kept up with all the changes on the cars, and knows the sport. For the most part he is another NASCAR yes man. Also he cannot say three or four sentences, without saying what me an DW did, just as he des in the booth, and on FOX.
- October 9, 2008 at 12:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
Just out of curiosity ... Were those complaining about Jessica Simpson being on Trackside this week also complaining back in May when they had Kellie Pickler on the show ??
If the show is like it was back in May, Pickler had a "concert" after the show was taped ... and that may be the same reason why they're having Jess on this time ...
Having worked in the entertainment industry & news media ... Pickler has more "post production" work done than Jessica ...
Plus, they've also had Sadler's buddy Blake Shelton on the show ... and he's a singer ... Remember the infamous stage dive into the railing by Sadler ??
I'm glad that DJ is sponsoring Morgan ... I hope he gifted him with a fast engine and tires as well ... It would do a lot of good will for Morgan to win ... More drivers/teams should gift Morgan with sponsorship & equipment like DJ, Smoke, Harvick & others have done ... C'mon Kyle Busch - Give some assistance to Morgan as it might help you gain some credibility ...
- October 9, 2008 at 6:24 AM
- Tracy D said...
For any of you who like to read about Nascar, Larry Mac's autobiography has an interesting bit about Morgan Shepherd. He drove for Larry Mac at one time...you might like to read about it. Not so sure LM is a MS fan,or at least, he wasn't at one time.
Still and all, props to DJ,Stewart, Harvick, and the guys who support a driver from the old days who still has the fire to race.
- October 9, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
LMS weekend? espn has right now a PRE SEASON basketball game on!?!
Why did they bid for broadcast rights for NA$CAR? PreSeason BB???
WOW That should tell us Louder & Clearer than anything what TPTB think of NA$CAR as a sport & its fans. We get ignored for PreSeasonBB. Amazing.
- October 9, 2008 at 1:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
I don't care if it's Simpson, Pickler, Tim McGraw or any other singer/actor, if they aren't involved with racing, they shouldn't be on Trackside or any other racing program. But, this is just Speed. This is a "racing" network who thinks Unique Whips, Barret/Jackson auctions, Big Shots Golf, guys driving wreckers and nearly naked babes as show hosts, are auto racing shows. But, I guess if ESPU tries to sell domino tournaments and the spelling bee as sports, then Speed can do something similar and get away with it.
- October 9, 2008 at 9:21 PM


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Design medals are almost always academic competitions and provide academic progression points in many countries for art and design fields. There is usually not a specific brief, and submissions are field-vise. Submissions are final works or working prototypes. Design Prizes : Design Prizes are events where winners are offered a monetary prize. It is important to note that most design competitions which are offering prizes are very similar to lottery tickets; you submit your design by paying the entrance fee and you could win a grand prize, which is selected by public or jury voting. Public voting or participants' voting is usually used for two reasons: firstly, to create more publicity for the event, but most importantly because the organizer wants to avoid problems arising from the selection because once there is a significant of amount of money is on the table, people could potentially create problems. Design prizes are rarely academic events, but it is important to note that most design competitions are also design prizes, as money is one of the major incentives for designers to join a design competition. Design prizes are usually multi-disciplinary, and a specific brief is not provided. Submissions could be anything, from concept to finalized products. Design Trophies : Design Trophies are events organized by companies to create publicity for the organizer. They are called trophies, because what the winner gets is usually a non-designed non-customized read-picked cheap acrylic, crystal or brass trophy. Participation to design trophies are always free, and they are usually non-academic competitions, unless when organized by very big companies for prestige because in this case, the trophy is accompanied by an exhibition, a publication and others which make it academic. Design trophies usually have a brief, that limits a special type of design to be submitted, however designers are not limited on the solutions or concepts they submit, as the aim is not to realize ideas, but in most cases to collect interesting designs that might be used for publicity or trend analysis. Submissions are usually concepts. Design Awards : Design Awards are events organized by companies or organizations that aim to create publicity for the winners. Most design awards are pay-to-join, and could be considered academic or non-academic based on the existence of a publication, jury, and exhibition. It is almost always prestigious to win international design awards, due to the amount of publicity and awareness created. Internationally organized professional design awards could create great visibility for the participating designers. Design awards require designers to submit and nominate their works. The difference between design competitions and awards is that, the participating works are not transferred to the organizer in design awards. Design awards are usually multi-disciplinary, and could have multiple submission categories, to help with the evaluation and judging. Design awards accept a wide range of submissions. Submissions are usually digital but physical submissions could also be required, especially when there is an exhibition. Design Accolade : Design Accolades are events organized by governments and design support organizations to create value added for participating brands. Usually, accolade programs require a payment to join, and there is not a particular brief, moreover the event is multidisciplinary allowing submissions from different design fields, but usually the focus is on product design. The aim of the accolade is to create awareness for design, and to award companies with good design symbols to help them sell better through differentiation. Design accolades are usually academic competitions as there is a good jury, exhibition and publication. Most accolades are nationwide programs, while the oldest programs have become more or less international. These type of design competitions usually limit the participants to send realized designs within the recent years, which differentiates them from design awards; as in design awards, in general concept designs could also be submitted. Design Challenges : Design Challenges are idea collection events organized usually by enterprises but sometimes also by governments, to especially tackle a design problem. In Design Challenges, a very specific aim and purpose is provided with the brief and designers are asked to overcome the challenge by submitting designs. Design Challenges are usually non-academic, as instead of a jury, the product that over-comes the challenge is a winner, and there is usually not an exhibition, however, winners usually get immerse amount of publicity, and could win prizes that are normally very high, up to ten, hundred folds of prizes offered in normal design prizes. Design challenges have a very specific brief, aimed to push designers to come up with solutions. Submissions are concept designs with technical aspects highly developed or accompanying a technical document. In some cases, or further stages, prototypes or working models could be physically submitted.Design Contests : A lesser form of design competition, design contests are mostly events organized by contest platforms, on behalf of companies or individuals, who wish to procure designs, in a very cheap way. These competitions are mostly organized in a way that create ethical problems because in most cases, the systems are designed such a way to make it easy to steal ideas from other participants; because in most design contests, participants could see submissions of others while the submissions are still ongoing; furthermore, organizers comment on the submissions indicating preferences and likes, thus other participants could see the feedbacks and change their designs accordingly. These are non-academic competitions, and the sole incentives provided to participants are trivial payments. Design contests do not provide prestige or fame, but still, they are good for young designers as a way to develop their portfolio, because in many cases, organizer of the competition will provide a very specific brief, teaching the industrial and technical design requirements and designers will thus come-up with realistic solutions. Currently there are many design contest platforms to organize such events, in order to crowd source design in a very efficient manner. Submissions are always digital, and usually a single image of a concept or proposal. Design Sweepstakes : Mostly marketed as design competitions, in reality design sweepstakes has nothing to do with the design competitions; these are lottery schemes that requires participants to submit designs together with their entry forms. They are marketed as competitions, because design sweepstakes attract more participants than normal sweepstakes. Should be avoided by designers as submitted entries are never judged or evaluated but winner is rather randomly picked. Design Tournaments: Design tournaments are multi-phase events, where at each round participants are eliminated, and best entries move to next stage where further work is required to be submitted, the aim is to complete a sophisticated design task by breaking it into multiple phases. Most design challenges are organized in the form of tournaments, with different briefs at each stage. Design Tournaments could also be used for procuring complicated or multi-disciplinary designs, and involve organization of multiple competitions. Design Concours : Design Concours, is a special type of design competitions open to public (including non-designers), these are also called configuration-competitions, because anyone could join and configure a product or design using the available configurator tool provided by the platforms. These types of events are organized to collect user insights and create publicity for the organizers. Participation is free, and the brief is simple, but for any professional designer, these are a total loss of time, unless you are a winner. These competitions are totally non-academic. There is usually nothing for participants except money offers, but still they are marketed as competitions. They are very similar to sweepstakes.Design Proving : Design Proving is a specific type of design competition where the involvement of public is limited to voting entries, these types of competitions are organized as a way to measure the preferences of end-users i.e. the public to understand and explain trends. Design Proving type of competitions are also good for creating publicity and advertisement for the organizers. These are always non-academic events, as calls the public to vote for entries, it is a common phenomenon to see designers with more friends winning these events rather than real talents. Design Pageant : This is a special type of design competition where the engineering or technical aspects of the designs are not considered at all, due to the inability of the jury to understand them, or to create publicity by collecting good looking designs. It is common to see that design pageants end-up with a publication due to the aesthetic appeal of mostly useless designs submitted, and could even be followed up with an exhibition. However, still they are considered non-academic because there is no jury, no brief. Most design pageants are sector specific or themed; such as a pageant for red items, a design pageant for furniture etc. They do however provide publicity for participants because the entries disseminate quite a lot, due to the intrinsic nature of the event that collects the best-looking handsome designs. To remind you once more, competition is defined in the dictionary as the act of competing; rivalry for supremacy, a prize, etc. Therefore, a design competition is rivalry for supremacy in design. Competition is also defined as a contest for some prize, honor, or advantage: Therefore a design competition could also means a contest where you use your design skill to gain advantage. But these dictionary definitions are too general and they do not reflect the whole phenomenon, so I would suggest you to stick to my definitions.Final Tips? If you are a design student, I would suggest you to join free design competitions (or medals organized by governments or associations or very large corporations) rather then the contests (organized by small or medium enterprises) as the returns will be always higher. If you are a professional, I suggest to apply for the pay-to-join international design awards to help gain publicity, fame and recognition. Exerpt:Design competitions have many idea-models attached to them, resulting in distinct meanings and natural confusion. From an expert point of view, design competitions could be categorized into awards, prizes, trophies, medals, challenges, accolades, selections, contests and competitions with each of them signifying a distinct type of event organized for a different aim. 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But, having kids over is such a delight.
In addition to having a less-than-kid-safe place, I don't really cook kid food. I don't know what kid food is. But, being new to the Cambridge community, I figured I should at least be open minded. I IMed my friend Caroline, the mother of two adorable kids to get some suggestions for what to make that would be "normal food" but wouldn't leave three kiddy tummies grumbling.
Caroline is my friend Meira's sister, and the Katz family in Atlanta "adopted" me when my parents moved to California and it was too hard to travel home for Jewish holidays. I got to know the Atlanta Toco Hills community quite well and I always aspire to incorporate into my own home their warm southern hospitality.
My online conversation with Caroline went something like this:
me: i'm having people over and 3 kids. any suggestions what to make? i want to make real food
caroline: how old?
me: not entirely sure. 1 boy, maybe 2. 2 girls – 2+ and maybe 5ish? one of the moms said her kids eat 'kid stuff, you know, carbs.' UMMM, NO, I DON'T KNOW!
caroline: ok. make noodles and nuggets
me: i don't like noodles and i'm not making nuggets. i'm making one main dish for everyone. hmm…not sure what main to make, but i'll figure that out later. does orzo count as noodles? i want to make arugula pesto orzo
caroline: yum – i'd like that. it sounds good. but just make noodles. noodles and nuggets
me: i don't have noodles. i don't eat noodles. i don't make noodles. and i'm not buying nuggets
caroline: i'm telling you, noodles and nuggets
me: well, she said carbs — how about potatoes? that's carbs, right? and i prefer to make veggie carbs than pasta carbs
caroline: potatoes are good, but noodles and nuggets are a winner
me: ok, well maybe i'll find some fun shaped noodles just in case. wait…maybe I can make meira's pretzel chicken — is that sort of like nuggets?
caroline: that could work
With that direction, I created a menu, trying to follow my typical formula and determined to not cater to the kids, but to make adult food and accommodate them as appropriate.
My typical formula is: starter = soup or appetizer; salad; challah; main; 2 vegetables; 1 starch; dessert (often chocolate).
For this dinner, I made:
Chocolate & Zucchini's Cauliflower Soup with Turmeric and Hazelnuts/Soupe de Chou-Fleur, Curcuma, et Noisette
Homemade challah; hummus, baby carrots, grape tomatoes
Spinach salad with slow-roasted tomatoes and mushrooms
Meira's pretzel chicken (in lieu of nuggets)
Roasted potatoes
Roasted butternut squash with balsamic vinegar
Tri-color noodles (naked)
Lavender cake, made into cupcakes (some with sprinkles)
This was definitely a much simpler meal that I might normally have made, and the noodles for the kids was my biggest compromise. The shocker was the soup's popularity with Yedidya – the 2-year old boy who kept eating spoonfuls from his mother's bowl. Even though my soup did not look as elegant as Clotilde's (actually, Yedidya's father guessed that it might be cauliflower and mustard soup…), it still is a sophisticated soup.
The funniest part of the evening was when I had no toys for the kids to play with, but found some empty SweetRiot and Godiva Pearls metal boxes that the younger kids has a ball playing with. Forget the expensive toys…just give them some little metal boxes to play with and they'll entertain themselves all evening. Or at least for an hour of two.
Many of the recipes from this meal will follow in the coming days, but I can't leave you without the "nuggets" recipe.
Meira's Pretzel Chicken (aka, nuggets)
Based on Meira's directions. This is a very approximate recipe and quantities can be increased as necessary. This is a really easy recipe and the chicken stays quite moist even if you have to reheat it. When I made the recipe for dinner, I marinated the chicken overnight, but breaded and baked it in the last minutes before sundown, so I didn't have time to photograph the final product and there were very few leftovers. I made a second smaller batch using a slightly different process, with a shorter marinating time (which didn't much alter the taste) and a quicker, less clean-up required, pretzel crushing method (which resulted in a less even coating). The pictures are not as pretty, but perhaps more realistic for what my friend Yael sometimes refers to as "harried housewives make shabbat" – and this is how she refers to one of her favorite synagogue-sponsored cookbooks!
Serves 2-3
2 Boneless skinless chicken breasts; can also use drumsticks
1/4 C soy sauce
1 T mustard (I used moutard a l'ancien, a whole grain mustard, but this isn't necessary)
1 t lemon juice
1 T honey (optional)
Pretzels – I used a mix of regular mini twists and healthier whole wheat, low salt pretzels
Marinade chicken: mix soy sauce, mustard, lemon juice and honey (if using) in a bowl or zip-lock bag. Cut chicken breasts into strips perpendicular to the grain of the muscle (should get about 10-12 strips for 2 chicken breasts) and marinate in liquid for at least 30 minutes or overnight (depending on how much time you have).
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Make coating: crush pretzels by hand with rolling pin in a bag (will have larger pieces) or using a blender (for a finer, more even coating). Meira usually does this by hand, but I think I prefer the blender method. The pictures were taken with the rolling pin method.
Dredge the marinated chicken strips (and drumsticks) in pretzel crumbs to coat. Place in single layer on cookie sheet or pan. Bake for 30-45 minutes or until chicken is fully cooked.
Can be reheated in oven at ~200°F for 15-20 minutes.


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Dustin Pedroia had three of Boston's six hits. Only three Red Sox runners got past second base -- and just one of those came after the second inning.
Mike Lowell will DH today, with David Ortiz (.154/.241/.269, and at least two strikeouts in each of his last five games) getting the afternoon off against a lefty. Flo:
[People] have no idea how badly you're struggling mentally, and how bad you try to do your stuff. ... So when people come out and start to try to bury your ass, it hurts.Jacoby Ellsbury will also not play today. Terry Francona says
the soreness is getting a little more centrally isolated, which is good. He's still having a little trouble rotating. ... As much as we love having him out there, it's not a good thing to go too quick.Ortiz has had a terrible start to the season, but J.D. Drew (.167/.259/.292) and Victor Martinez (.229/.270/.400) are not much better. Martinez's slugging is helped out by having three doubles and a dong among his eight hits. OPS+-wise, only Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis are truly above average.
Adrian Beltre (.345 average) and Mike Cameron (.217) have reached base the same number of times (10). Beltre has not walked in 30 plate appearances. And speaking of 30 plate appearances, Marco Scutaro did not strike out in his first 29 trips to the dish, before fanning in the eighth inning yesterday.
Through eight games:
W-L RS RA PA H 2B HR BB AVG OBP SLG TBBoof Bonser will have his shoulder examined on Friday.
Yankees 5-3 46 36 328 78 20 9 42 .278 .376 .459 129
Red Sox 4-4 41 37 312 78 23 10 25 .281 .344 .478 133
Well that is excellent news. Because if Congress has nothing better to do than worry about ballplayers dipping tobacco, every person must have a job, all diseases are cured, every homeless person is off the streets and we're not waging war anywhere in the world.Henry Waxman (D-CA):
We don't let baseball players go stand out there in the field and drink beer.For me, seeing Youkilis go over by the foul line and take a long pull off a tall boy in a brown bag would be pretty cool.


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The first thing that comes to mind is, "this parody doesn't even work on a surface level -- that's not how the script goes!" Panel 1 has got the revision correct, then panel 2 flies off the rails. "Why did he let her think he was dead?" Well, all he did was go through 3+ separate trials and chase her down himself, but I guess he could have kept in touch. Panel 3 implicates Westley even though he doesn't admit to murdering while being a Dread Pirate in the movie, and he wouldn't have to anyway if each Dread Pirate passes the mantle on to the next worthy captive. The Dread Pirate's ruthlessness could very well be a mass delusion, which I always took to be the joke of the Dread Pirate's very existence. But these are nerdy concerns.
I count three punchlines in the last panel: "Westley acknowledges the narrative," "Buttercup rejects the narrative/pursues Inigo," and "Westley uses 'As you wish' to desperate/bitter effect." As much as Randall's geek-movie piggybacking annoys me, I think taking characters in new directions has potential, but not like this, where we're left with a Hollywood romance flipped into a breakup. And if Buttercup were so against murder, would she necessarily prefer Inigo, a sword-for-hire? Westley (hypothetically) killed to survive on his way to Buttercup; Inigo does it for cash.
There's a better joke hiding in the alt-text, with the idea that slash writers would've rewritten the movie to fit their tastes, but the execution's just a bumper sticker in the alt-text. If only we could address Randall in person...
Randall: Why do you do this?
Carl: Because you had a beloved comic in your hands, and you gave it up.
Randall: But my fans would have forgotten me if I waited for good ideas!
Carl: Your comic lives and you rely on movies -- (to the fans) -- True comedy saved him in the early days, and he treated it like garbage. And that's what he is, the King of Refuse! So, bow down to him if you want. Bow to him. Bow to the King of Slime, the King of Filth, the King of Putrescence. Boo! Boo! Rubbish! Filth! Slime! Muck! Boo! Boo!
[tl;dr version = Comic didn't get the parody right, wasn't funny in any of its punchlines, booo]
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Day-to-day portfolio management is no longer a simple matter of growing capital or generating more income. It also includes limiting risk, dealing with unexpected shocks, and matching investment strategies with client expectations.
Along these lines, using long/short ETPs can help advisors to manage volatility, reduce risk, and even take advantage of strong directional movements in financial markets.
The long/short ETP universe offers outstanding asset coverage to stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies. Let's see how these products operate.
Understanding the Goal
Long/short ETPs come in various flavors. Leveraged products are either 2x or 3x, meaning they aim for 200% or 300% daily leverage to their underlying index. On the other hand, –1x, –2x and –3x products have the goal of daily inverse returns that are 100%, 200% or 300% opposite their benchmark. Since today's generation of long/short ETPs have daily goals, they are best used as short term trading instruments.
Another important aspect of long/short ETPs is their legal structure. Some products use an ETN wrapping, which exposes their owners to credit risk of the financial issuer. Products that use an ETF structure avoid this risk.
Regardless of their legal structure, all long/short ETPs that use derivatives are subject to counterparty risk. This can result in losses if the counterparty has difficulty meeting its contractual obligations in the securities transaction. While counterparty losses are generally rare, they are still possible.
Leverage Pros and Cons
Obtaining magnified exposure to a certain asset class without having to borrow money is one of the primary benefits of leveraged long/short ETPs. Unlike with traditional margin lending, the ETP investor pays no borrowing costs and cannot lose more than was invested.
Because of their daily goals, all long/short ETPs—even those without leverage—require careful monitoring. They are not buy-and-forget investments.
Let's analyze three market scenarios and how leveraged ETFs would typically react:
Steadily rising markets. If the underlying index moves in a linear trend favorable to the leveraged ETF (up for a bull fund, down for a bear fund), the fund's actual gain may be larger during a given period. Why does this occur? As the fund's exposure rate increases, market gains are magnified based upon favorable index movements. Likewise, the fund's assets will rise in response to sharp directional trends.
Steadily falling markets. What if the benchmark index moves sharply in an unfavorable direction (down for a bull fund, up for a bear fund) to the leveraged ETF? Interestingly, the losses for the fund in a given period might be less than expected. This happens because as unfavorable index moves take place, the fund's assets decline along with its market exposure. As a result, this process mutes the adverse impact of subsequent index trends not favorable to the fund.
Flat markets. Perhaps the least ideal case for leveraged ETFs is in trendless markets coupled with high volatility. Over long-periods of time, the negative impact of daily rebalancing is destructive to performance.
Since leveraged ETFs follow a momentum strategy, they respond to market gains by increasing their exposure at the end of each day. Conversely they respond to market losses by decreasing exposure. How can this become a problem? Because a gain leads to increased exposure ahead of a loss, which then leads to decreased exposure in advance of a gain, and so forth. At the end of a given period, the ETF records a loss when it might be expected to have provided a return of zero.
Short, No Leverage
For advisors who want to obtain inverse market exposure but without leverage, the –1x ETPs are an ideal choice. Can they be held for longer periods of time compared to leveraged short ETPs?
Most single beta inverse (–1x) ETFs still seek a daily goal and must be rebalanced at the end of each trading day. This rebalancing process of single beta causes what's commonly referred to as compounding. In turn, this compounding can cause the ETP's performance to differ from the cumulative returns of the benchmark index for periods greater than a day.
However, the volatility levels of the single inverse funds, tends to be less as compared to the leveraged (2x or 3x) products. This translates into less of a compounding effect and therefore makes it more reasonable to hold the funds for somewhat lengthier periods of time. "We would always recommend that users of these, as well the leveraged products, monitor their holdings very regularly in order to fully understand the level of market risk they are exposed to," counsels Andy O'Rourke, chief marketing officer at Direxion Shares.
While they may be less volatile than their leveraged cousins, non-leveraged short ETPs still require a hands on approach.
Strategic Plays
How are financial advisors using long/short ETPs?
"Many users of inverse ETFs do so to hedge a corresponding long position that they would prefer not to sell at any given point in time," says O'Rourke. "Additionally, the users of these products are firm believers that all markets are bi-directional, particularly in the short-term."
In the case of fixed income, some advisors believe that we are on the brink of a bubble in the asset class. As a result, they are expecting interest rates to rise and bond prices to fall. In this scenario, bearish bond ETFs like ProShares UltraShort U.S. Treasury 20+ Year ETF (TBT) and the Direxion Shares 20+ Year Treasury Bear 3x Shares (TMV) would be gainers.
The same principle applies for advisors that want to hedge against a downturn in stock prices. The Direxion Daily Total Stock Market Bear 1x Shares (TOTS) and the ProShares UltraShort S&P 500 (SDS) are designed to increase in value when stock prices fall. As with all long/short ETPs, the ideal time to enter new positions is once the market has confirmed a clear trend.


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