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In January 2003, the secretary of state appointed the Kansas Election Advisory Council to comply with Section 255. The advisory council is a committee of appropriate individuals who met on a monthly basis (February through May, 2003) to assist with development of the state plan. Secretary Thornburgh is chairman of the group and each member of the advisory council serves on one of four subcommittees.Accessibility Subcommittee
|Melissa Wangemann, Chair
|Legal Counsel, Kansas Secretary of State's Office
|Mark Braun
|Director, Kansas Office of Administrative Hearings
|Robert Bugg
|Commissioner, Kansas Advisory Council on African-American Affairs
|Michael Byington
|President, Kansas Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
|Elias Garcia (replaced Tina DeLaRosa)
|Executive Director, Kansas Hispanic and Latino and American Affairs Commission
|Anthony Fadale
|Coordinator, Kansas ADA Compliance
|Martha Gabehart
|Executive Director, Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns
|Brad Hamilton
|Former Director, Kansas Office of Native American Affairs
|Scott Letts
|Kansas Advocacy & Protective Services
|Betty Musick
|Cloud County Clerk
|Pat Rahija
|Wyandotte County Election Commissioner
|Patrick Terick
|Director of Governmental Affairs, Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation
|Mary Tritsch
|Associate State Director, AARP Kansas
Finance Subcommittee
|Brian Henson, Chair (replaced Mindy Miller)
|Legal Associate, Kansas Secretary of State's Office, Elections & Legislative Matters Division
|Randall Allen
|Executive Director, Kansas Association of Counties
|Bill Gale (replaced Marilyn Chapman)
|Sedgwick County Election Commissioner
|Rebecca Floyd
|Executive Vice President & General Counsel , Kansas Development Finance Authority
|Randy Mettner
|Special Assistant to the Governor
|Don Proffitt
|Linn County Clerk
|Neil Woerman
|Director of Information Technology, Office of the Insurance Commissioner
|Ryan Wright
|Director of Public Affairs, Kansas Treasurer's Office
Central Voter Registration Subcommittee
|Bryan Caskey, Chair
|Administrative Assistant, Kansas Secretary of State's Office, Elections & Legislative Matters Division
|Cheryl Adelhardt
|Harper County Clerk
|Tim Blevins
|Chief Information Officer, Kansas Department of Revenue
|Rebecca Bossemeyer
|Geary County Clerk
|Elizabeth Ensley
|Shawnee County Election Commissioner
|Don Merriman
|Saline County Clerk
|Denise Moore
|Director, DISC
|Kathy Peckman
|Miami County Clerk
|Mike Stewart
|Chief Information Officer, Kansas Secretary of State's Office
|Carmen Alldritt (replaced Sheila Walker)
|Director of Vehicles, Kansas Department of Revenue
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|Brad Bryant, Chair
|Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Elections and Legislative Matters Division
|Emily Bradbury
|Executive Director, Kids Voting Kansas
|Doug Anstaett (replaced Jeff Burkhead)
|Executive Director, Kansas Press Association
|Keith Lawing
|Wichita State University
|Mark Simpson (replaced Partick Murray in 2004)
|Executive Director, Kansas Democratic Party
|Ann Havenhill
|President, Kansas League of Women Voters
|Scott Poor
|Executive Director, Kansas Republican Party
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|Johnson County Election Commissioner
|Dr. Harvey Foyle
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Even Fraser called it a penaltyTopper wrote: Exactly what made it dumb. Nothing wrong with standing up for yourself however Kassian and Sestito crossed the line to stupid. Despite what Garret whined about all night, there was nothing wrong with Nolan's attempted hit on Henrik thus no need for any sort of retribution.
The good thing that came out of it is that a couple of 6 foot 195 lb players started playing like they are 6 foot 195 lb players.
Despite what you think you know, Nolan's hit deserved a penalty more than the 12 minutes handed out to each of Kassian and Mitchell for their little pushing match in the corner.Tom Sestito only lasted a second on his first shift of the game for speed bagging Jordan Nolan who, by the way, should have been penalized for charging Henrik Sedin. A timely penalty call against Nolan would have been a perfect opportunity for the refs to send a message of their own in an effort to establish some control and to bring the temperature down early. It was a 'gift' handed to the men in stripes that was ultimately rejected! It became a constant uphill battle for them from that point in the game.

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A Throwback to the Quintessential Low-Buck Hot Rod
Steve Carpenter wanted to sell this 1957 Ford before he even started on the Galpin Gasser III project—the car was in that bad of shape. Carpenter knows how to sell; he's the sales manager for Galpin Ford's Galpin Auto Sports division. Maybe it's just that he doesn't know how to buy—which would be surprising since he's been around cool cars and car magazines since he was a kid hangin' with his dad, Phil Carpenter, who worked at Popular Hot Rodding, Super Chevy, and 1001 Truck and Van Ideas for Argus Publishing back in the '60s and '70s.
He's built a few cars before his golden gasser and wanted to start with a good, cheap driver, and boy, did he get one. Hitting the "Buy It Now" button on an eBay auction, let's just say the cheap '57 he received wasn't exactly as advertised. He wanted to flip it for a loss and chalk it up as a lesson in how not to buy old cars. But, his coworkers got him to stand back, take a deep breath, and just fix what was wrong on the old Ford—which was just about everything. He was advised to take it one rust-out at a time.
Much of the floor was missing, as were the bottoms of the doors and fenders. It was hard to tell at first because the previous owner had glued clothes to the floor to cover up the holes. The steering column was held to the dash with an old pair of Levis—this guy was obviously into fashion fabricating—and much of the rest of the sedan was paid that same amount of special attention. As if the rust holes weren't enough, the car had also been used as a race car in a former life; the inner doors were torched-out, as was some of the inner structure of the body.
And so began the two-year build of the Galpin Gasser III. Since the body was the worst part, he started there. "I worked backward—I did the cosmetics first, because that's what was really bad," Steve recalls. "I couldn't get past it. I had to get it over with." The Galpin Ford gang was involved in many aspects of the build starting with the body. Steve says, "I got a lot of support from the Galpin team."
I worked backward—I did the cosmetics first, because that's what was really bad.
New Dennis Carpenter floors, door, and fender bottoms were welded in, and the windshield and cowl areas received patch panels or repair. The Galpin Ford Auto Body shop in Van Nuys, California, fixed it all and got the restored body in primer before the chassis was tackled.
Steve initially liked how the old gasser sat and looked and wanted to retain as much of that as possible, but he didn't want to get bogged down in a period-perfect, fussy build. "Gassers were never period correct. People just used what they used, so they were just cars up in the air with straight axles—that's a gasser," Steve says.
Currie Enterprises in Corona, California, supplied a hot rod housing 9-inch with 31-spline axles, 4:11 gears, and a limited-slip. These rearends look like the smooth pumpkin '57–'59 station wagon rears so coveted (and so hard to find) today. The car came with original Lakewood ladder bars, which Steve definitely wanted to keep. They were chromed and attached to the rearend with flame-cut brackets. Monroe shocks with coilover helpers and new stock leaf springs complete the rear.
Up front, Steve wanted an old Econoline van I-beam axle and brakes. He didn't want a new tube frontend with discs, feeling they are expensive and don't look right. "I was trying to keep the costs down, as I was starting to get buried with the bodywork, and I just like Econoline frontends on gassers—it's what guys were doing back then," Steve says. He liked the old-school aspect of using what was available and what looked the part—on the cheap. So new drums, brakes, kingpins, and Econoline springs were added to the I-beam. He had been advised to go with discs, but he's happy with the look and stopping power of the drum brakes.
Not surprisingly, the stock steering was shot—really sloppy, and just plain sucked. Lee Manufacturing in Sun Valley, California, fixed Steve up by rebuilding the box with a quicker ratio and stronger bearings to make it better than new.
When Steve bought the car, it already had the 302ci Windsor engine, and after running the numbers and finding it was a high-performance version, he decided to punch it out and go with it. A "friend of a friend" rebuilt the motor originally, which never ran right before unceremoniously spinning a bearing in front of everyone in Bob Tasca's pits during the World Finals at Pomona. Steve asked around and had Don Barrington Motors in West Los Angeles, re-rebuild the engine with a forged Eagle crank, Eagle rods, DP Pistons, and a special Isky cam from Ed Iskenderian himself. It's a solid-lifter cam with Isky solid lifters and pushrods. Edelbrock aluminum E-CNC 185 heads and water pump were also used, as was a tunnel-ram intake topped with two 450-cfm Holleys jetted up. Punched to 331 ci, the little Ford puts out 520 hp at 7,700 rpm. Says Steve, "It lopes like crazy—I love it."
Steve went to McCloud for an aluminum flywheel with a single-disc clutch, "because I like to rap the engine like crazy." A Borg-Warner Super T-10 trans finishes off the drivetrain. Brian Shostle got the nod for the fenderwell headers, as well as wiring, some of the metalwork, and major installs.
When it came time to paint, Steve was in a jam. "I was running out of money, so I figured since it's going to have lettering covering it and we got it straight, I could go with cheaper factory-pack paint in the Inca Gold color from a Plymouth Prowler and use a light primer. The primer really helps the paint pop, even though it's not a custom color."
With the striking gold paint finished, Mike Venditto did the lettering, including all of the decals. There are no vinyl stickers on this Ford. Wrapping things up, all-new factory tinted glass was installed, "despite Dave Shuten hollering at me to go with yellow Plexiglas because it was period-correct."
For the interior, Javier Perez at Chatsworth Upholstery, just down the street from Galpin, did the interior in pearl white panels with white vinyl sides and gold-fleck black carpets—a suggestion of Shuten's that Steve took. Ace Plating in Van Nuys, California, did the rollbar and all of the interior and exterior chrome.
Team III in Northern California made the two-piece Fueler wheels to Steve's specs. "They're not cheap wheels, and they're the reason the rear wheel openings are not cut," he says. M/T cheater slicks are mounted in the rear with inner tubes to alleviate the swishy tendencies that normally come with slicks on the street. Racemaster tires are mounted to E-T Gasser wheels up front.
Steve best sums it up, "I wanted to build a show, street, drivable car within a certain budget I can take to the burger stand, drive on the freeway, have fun with, is pretty, makes the right noises and doesn't overheat, and you can actually drive and enjoy. These don't have to be $200,000 cars—that's no fun."
They don't have to be $200K cars—that's no fun.
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Is this car firing on all eight? Here's the score from a poll of HOT ROD readers, 1 piston is the worst score, 8 is the best.
Overall: 7.5 pistons
Stance: 7.5 pistons
Engine: 7 pistons
Exterior: 7.5 pistons
Interior: 7 pistons
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The chalet Basti is located along the Plantret ski slope in the Chenus area of Courchevel 1850, a few meters from the center of Courchevel.See full details for Basti
Courchevel has for many years attracted the world's rich and famous and this trend remains unchanged today. As a resort it has few Alpine rivals for comfort and cuisine. This home of Alpine chic is orientated towards pure luxury and Courchevel luxury ski chalets are really amongst the best in the world with catered chalets being the most popular.
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WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The world's richest nations can strengthen their efforts to combat international bribery and financial crime by pooling their resources and cooperating more closely, a top anti-bribery cop said on Thursday.
Drago Kos, the new head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's Working Group on Bribery, said the Group of 20 leading industrial nations and the OECD's taxation, financial crime and good governance arms could have greater success by working together on anti-corruption.
"If the Working Group could serve as a facilitator of enhanced cooperation and synergies, I would be very glad to assist in these efforts," Kos said in a telephone interview. "I cannot see any reasonable objection to this. It does not cost anything. It just means using what is already there."
Kos takes over the leadership of the Working Group on Bribery this month at a challenging time. The Anti-Bribery Convention, which the working group implements, was a breakthrough agreement in setting global standards to prevent bribery in international business transactions when it was adopted 15 years ago.
But today its 40 signatory countries represent a shrinking share of the world's trading nations, and it needs to recruit more of the emerging economic powers if it is to retain its importance as the global standard setter for addressing business graft.
Attracting the superpower China to join its ranks, however, is proving tough – a task that the G20 could assist in, said Kos.
"It will be difficult because for the time being China does not see any benefits from joining the Working Group and submitting to monitoring," he said. "So we will have to prove that these standards are enhancing international business relationships and are not hurting them."
To join the Anti-Bribery Convention, a country first must criminalise bribing public officials to win international business contracts. The Working Group then has a three-step monitoring process, where member countries evaluate how effectively each country implements and enforces the anti-graft measures, and then it issues progress reports on each country's performance.
While China under President Xi Jinping the past year has been cracking down on domestic bribery, it has shown little appetite for halting what reportedly is the widespread practice of Chinese companies bribing foreign officials to win international business.
Kos said the G20, which discusses anti-corruption issues and has China as a member, could help by applying political pressure on China to adopt the international standards.
"It is much easier for them (the G20) to influence each other and bring countries along," he said.
Kos also would like to see India and Indonesia join. But expanding the membership comes at a cost. Too many countries raise capacity concerns for the Working Group. Members fear it will become unwieldy and water down the quality and effectiveness of their peer-review mechanism and compliance reports.
Its work depends upon countries sending public officials to the week-long quarterly meetings in Paris, participating in country visits and agreeing on reports. Kos said member countries have made clear they have no additional resources to offer.
However, by cooperating with other G20 and OECD groups in the finance arena such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Working Group on Bribery could focus on key target areas and use their resources more efficiently, Kos said. For example, he is considering the following reforms:
- Tightly focused country reviews: Conduct a cross-country analysis to identify the most frequent arenas for spotting foreign bribery. If for instance taxation and auditing were identified as key areas, monitoring could be targeted here. The information also could be shared with the taxation group at the OECD.
- Central registry of mutual assistance requests: Investigators would send requests to other countries for help in probing foreign bribery. Enforcement of anti-bribery laws is a major problem with only one-quarter of members pursuing cases. Failure of other countries to cooperate is frequently cited as a stumbling block. Kos suggested setting deadlines for responding to requests and a registry to monitor responses.
- Publicity: Kos said country reports could be better used as a campaigning tool to pressure political leaders to enforce their anti-bribery laws.
Kos, a native of Slovenia, is no stranger to anti-corruption efforts. A criminal lawyer, he earned a reputation for integrity and political toughness as head of the organised crime unit in his native Slovenia and as chair of the Council of Europe's Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO). He also chairs the Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Group combating fraud, bribery and corruption in Afghanistan.
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|A member of the Buddhist Church of Santa Barbara holds a nenju
(Photo credited to the owner of the blog at http://tedmills.com//)
Namu Amida Butsu
This work is especially dedicated to Zuiken Saizo Inagaki, who sheds light on the pristine and original teachings of Jodo Shinshu (Shin Buddhism) for many people, including myself. I regard him as my soul teacher and I am very much influenced by his words and thoughts, which are deeply imbued with the Wisdom of Compassion of Amida Buddha. I read most of his writings available in Chinese language and I wish to share some of his golden words in this blog in English. Rev. George Gatenby and Mr. Gabriel Schlaefer have been kindly and untiringly assisting me to edit the translated essays so that they are readable and true to the intent of Sensei. May all partake of the wisdom of Shinshu teaching and be overpowered by the light of Amida Buddha.
Namu Amida Butsu!
Sunday, April 23, 2017
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Department of Revenue News Release
February 15, 2012Department of Revenue Provides Tax Filing Tips
Tax Filing Deadline is April 17
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - With tax return filing season under way, the Missouri Department of Revenue has several suggestions to improve the processing, speed and accuracy of submitted tax returns. The Department is also reminding Missourians that this year's tax filing deadline is April 17, which is two days later than the traditional deadline.
File electronically. Electronic filing is a secure way to avoid errors and ensure a faster refund. E-filing is a service provided by almost all tax preparers, or individual citizens can purchase tax preparation software. More than 70 percent of Missourians now file electronically.
Use electronic forms. Even Missourians choosing not to E-file can still save time and reduce errors by using electronic forms, which can then be printed out and mailed in. Missouri tax forms for Tax Year 2011 and other years are available on the Department's website at http://dor.mo.gov/forms/.
These forms, which can be completed in one or more sittings, include a 2-D barcode that helps speed up the processing of the forms after they are mailed to the Department. Direct deposit of a refund is also an option by those choosing to use the 2-D barcode forms. Saving drafts of confidential tax returns would not be recommended for people using public computers, such as in a library, where computer access is open to anyone.
Ask questions over the phone or online. The Missouri Department of Revenue answers many frequently asked questions about filing tax returns on the Department's website at www.dor.mo.gov. Missourians can also call (573) 751-3505 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, or by e-mailing the Department at firstname.lastname@example.com with questions about filing tax returns.
Ask questions in person. The Department also has tax assistance centers located in seven Missouri cities. The centers are in Cape Girardeau; Jefferson City; Joplin; Kansas City; St. Joseph; St. Louis; and Springfield. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Contact information and office addresses are available at http://dor.mo.gov/contact/assistance.php.
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Welcome to the Visit Eastbourne Guide
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..feel the energy of our endless blue skies, sweeping South Downs countryside, colourful art scene and warm sunshine, as Visit Eastbourne guides you through charming places to stay, vibrant events and bucket-loads of things to do. A short break in Eastbourne will leave you feeling…
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Citrus Hotel Eastbourne
A 50 bedroom designer budget hotel on Eastbourne's seafront, offering fantastic value for money, great sea views and exciting new horizons in interior design.
Beamsley Lodge
Family run providing a relaxed atmophere on a prime seafront location with some private parking. All rooms have en-suite.
The Langtons Guest House
Karen and Mark welcome you to their stylish Victorian seafront guest house. High quality en-suite accommodation, fantastic home-cooked breakfasts, close to pier and all amenities, easy parking. A superb seaside break.
Southcroft Guest House
Friendly family home with comfortable rooms and relaxed atmosphere. Located in the Meads area of town, a short distance from the start end of the South Downs Way National Park and close to the theatres, conference facilities and Town
Terry & Carolyn welcome you to Devonia,situated in a superb location on Eastbourne's elegant seafront with wonderful sea views and stylish comfortable rooms. All rooms en-suite. Freeview TV, Free Wi-Fi internet connection. Private car park.
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Eastbourne Beer Festival will return to Devonshire Park in October 2019.
Eastbourne Beer Festival brings you over 90 cask ales on offer, specially selected by the local CAMRA team. Choose from award winners, local favourites or those with a suitably quirky name! A great selection of ciders & perries are also available if beer isn't for you, plus a variety of international bottle beers & wines.
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Sheet Pan Chicken and Veggie "Stir Fry"
Wow, it just hit me this morning that Barclay and I leave for Barcelona in eight days! So soon!!
Which means that all of the things on my to-do list that need to be checked off before the trip need to happen…oh right…so soon. ?
The two items at the top of our wedding planning list happen to be two of the biggest ones — booking a venue and ordering a dress. Oh my goodness, guys, I had no idea that the world of booking wedding venues could be so complicated! Or so full of hidden up-charges. It seems that every place we've visited has been wonderfully within our budget, until — oh yes! — they mention that they only work with the most expensive florist in town. Or — oh yes! — chair and table rental and turnover fees. Or — the biggest bomb — catered alcohol prices. Yeesh, I'm pretty sure I could whip up some top-shelf killer cocktails for the fees some of these people charge for the cheapest box wine. Not my style.
Thankfully, dress shopping has been a much more encouraging experience. My little sis flew in from Chicago this past weekend, and joined me and my mom and my future mother-in-law for a day of playing dress-up all over town. But unfortunately, a huge ice storm also decided to fly into town over the weekend, and most of the stores we wanted to visit were either understaffed or closing early because of the weather. So there's still one more store — owned by a friend of a friend — that I really want to visit and check out before making a final decision. But, I did find two dresses on Saturday that I completely loved and would be totally happy going with. Both weren't at all what I thought I wanted going in, but — as seems to happen with many of my friends who have shopped for wedding dresses — both felt right and made me feel so happy and pretty. And once they pinned that veil on for the first time, I couldn't contain the happy tears. It was the first time I really felt like a bride. ? So surreal, but so good.
Anyway, clearly there are some fun new things on the to-do list lately. But this wedding planning gig is starting to take more time on nights and weekends (and venue scouting trips during the days) lately. So I've been trying to get on the ball with some more proactive meal planning to make life a little simpler. And — you guys — I've finally jumped onto the sheet pan dinner train. And I'm loving it.
Especially this recipe.
If you follow my Instagram stories, it's no secret that I make a lot of stir-fries. ??
And why not?
They're so easy. Just grab some veggies, maybe a protein, and some sort of sauce or seasoning, cook it all up together in a saute pan, and voila! Couldn't be easier!
Ohhhhh, but yes it could.
Turns out that if you grab some veggies, maybe a protein, and some sort of sauce or seasoning, then spread them all out on a sheet pan and pop 'em in the oven, that brilliant oven of yours will do all of the work for you. And it will save you some time babysitting the stove. And you can use less oil and get those yummy roasted edges on all of your veggies. Brilliant.
This recipe was one of my latest faves. I just marinated some chicken in a simple sesame-soy marinade…
…while I chopped up a bunch of veggies. (Feel free to use whatever you have on hand! Just be sure that they will roast well, and that you cut them into evenly-sized pieces that will cook in about the same time.) Then I stirred everything together (with the marinade)…
…turned the mixture out on a sheet pan, then roasted it for about 15 minutes or so (stirring once halfway through) until the chicken was cooked through…
…and then this gorgeous pan of dinner was ready to enjoy!!
I served some of it for lunch over brown rice…
…but then dished up the rest into little storage containers for easy lunches for the week.
So simple. So flavorful. So healthy. And so good.
Perfect for my week ahead, and hopefully, perfect for yours as well. Enjoy, friends!
Sheet Pan Chicken and Veggie "Stir Fry"
All of the delicious stir-fry flavors you love…baked up into one delicious sheet pan meal!
Chicken and Veggies Stir-Fry Ingredients:
- 1.25 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1 batch stir-fry sauce (see below)
- 1/2 pound asparagus, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 3 cups broccoli florets
- 2 cups Brussels sprouts, halved (with ends trimmed off)
- 1 bell pepper, cored and sliced into bite-sized pieces
- 1 small red onion, peeled and thinly sliced
- optional: thinly-sliced green onions and toasted sesame seeds, for garnish
Stir-Fry Sauce Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons avocado oil or olive oil
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 teaspoon freshly-cracked black pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
How To Make The Stir-Fry:
- Heat oven to 425°F. Grease a large baking sheet with cooking spray, and set aside.
- Combine the chicken and stir-fry sauce together in a large bowl, and toss until combined. Refrigerate and let the chicken marinate while you chop the remaining veggies. (Or you can let it marinate in the refrigerator in a sealed container for up to 8 hours in advance for maximum flavor.)
- Once the veggies are ready, add them to the bowl with the chicken, and toss until the veggies are evenly coated with the sauce.
- Turn the chicken and veggies out onto the prepared baking sheet, and spread them out so that they are in an even layer.
- Bake for 14-16 minutes, stirring once halfway through, until the chicken is cooked through and no longer pink inside.
- Remove from the oven and serve immediately.
How To Make The Stir-Fry Sauce:
- Whisk all ingredients together until combined.
If you make this recipe, be sure to snap a photo and hashtag it #gimmesomeoven. I'd love to see what you cook!
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51 comments on "Sheet Pan Chicken and Veggie "Stir Fry""
This sounds perfect – a stir-fry without actual stir-frying? So trying this out.
Charmaine Ng
This looks amazing! You are my favorite cooking blog! Have made lots and lots of your recipes and have never once been disappointed. Happy wedding planning!??
Looks good! I don't have oyster sauce, what can I use instead? Thanks!
Will you just look at that bright pop of purple color from those onions! LOVE it. Your photos are amazing as always.
Thanks for the recipe…I am excited to try this one. I would never have thought to use Brussels Sprouts in a stir-fry…but why not!
OMG I know!! Wedding planning is SO EXPENSIVE. I'm getting married in June in KC (the Weston Red Barn Farm–check it out!) and the number of places that either require you go through them for everything or would charge you to use an outside vendor was ridiculous!! Try looking at how much it would cost you to get married in the off-season–some places charge less if you get married during not-peak times (i.e. August-November, no holidays, or even Friday or Sunday evenings instead of Saturday!). My sis is getting married at the Berg and I believe they charge like $1000 less if you book them during the off-season. Also, if you were feeling a country wedding, the Red Barn Farm is an open vendor facility (you could even bring your own food!); the only thing they require is that you use a bartending service for insurance purposes or something.
Best of luck!!
I love this idea so much! When I make stir fry, I always fry the chicken first, then remove it from the pan, then fry the vegetables (or vice versa), and then add everything back together again. Your recipe for doing it all on one pan is so much easier and way less work! I'm making this for dinner for SURE!
Yum! I am all about one pan dinners!
I love sheet pan dinners (one can also add some sweet potatoes to the veggie mix, or regular potatoes or butternut squash, etc.), and this one sounds great. I like that the chicken is marinated. Definitely want to try it, soon. Good luck with your venue hunt.
Looks so yummy, thanks so much for you recipes, look so forward to them. I am allergic to Soy Sauce, what could I use instead.
Thanks for your help, Enjoy your day, have fun planning your wedding.
Love a good stir fry – your marinade is delicious and simple! All best wishes for the wedding plans!
Here are some places to check out for venues:
http://missiontheatrekc.com/ Just remodeled.
I believe all allow you to bring in your own caterers and bar service.
Good luck! Excited to see where you find!
Easy, healthy and delicious, just the kind of meals I need these days.
And Barcelona – how exciting! I haven't been in a while, but if you're looking for vegetarian places to eat, I can give you some recs.
Looks delish and easy. Can't wait to try this out. A
One of the hidden wedding fees that drove me bonkers was the cake cutting fee – $3 per guest! So instead, we chose to have cupcakes rather than a cake. They were slightly more expensive to buy, but cheaper overall because we avoided the fee!
This looks like the perfect solution for a week full of meals! Gonna have to give this a go soon.
This looks delicious!
I made this tonight and it was delicious!! I did not have oyster sauce so I used hoisin sauce instead. I also used green beans, mushrooms in addition to the bell pepper and onion since that's what I had on hand. Super easy and delicious and plenty for lunches for the week. Thanks for another great recipe!
I recently got married, took us 3 years to find a venue that was affordable and had no fine print- best of luck to you two!
Could I sub fish sauce for oyster sauce?
For those who have tried this- it sounds delicious, but does this really serve 8 people with only 1.25 lbs of chicken? That is only 2.5 oz of chicken per person. Yes, it has a lot of veggies, but for a dinner, would think you need more protein per person.
Made this tonight … whole family loved it!! This will be making the week night rotation for sure! Thanks for posting
Hi Ali!
So glad I came upon your Sheet pan recipe! I will be trying this out tomorrow. Thanks for the recipe. Just When I was running out of ideas, Haha.
This is the epitome of the most perfect meal! I love chicken stir-frys, but I also love sheet pan dinners! THis is the best of both worlds :)
I made this recipe this week and it was delicious! I used two bell peppers in place of asparagus, and it turned out great. This is definitely a keeper recipe :)
I really like the looks of this recipe – I am watching calories and the info regarding nutrition (info) would be so helpful. Thanks…
First I have to say – I LOVE your blog – and your recipes have been so helpful to me to eat more healthy! I enjoyed this recipe – but I found it was not so great as leftovers… the chicken was a bit dried out. So – my recommendation is – this is a GO – but plan to have it all in one night! Next time – I will cut the recipe down! Thanks again for everything you do!
I have to tell you, this turned out UH-MAZING! So easy and so so delish!! Even made a vegetarian version for my friend by replacing the chicken with tofu. So good! This will definitely feature on my weekly menu. Thanks for sharing! :)
This was so good! I'm trying to find recipes with more veggies and this was perfect! My kids like their veggies too so this worked for the whole family (my son traded his Brussel sprouts to his sister for her asparagus ?) I made this almost exactly as is but omitted the oyster sauce. There wasn't much marinade left over but I poured maybe a tablespoon on top of it all. My only complaint is it was pretty watery coming out of the oven. Any suggestions?
this works! The flavors look spot on and sheet pan of course makes everything so much easier, so thank you for this!
This looks wonderful! How drastically would the cooking times be off if I used shrimp instead of chicken?
I prepped this for lunch this week and WHOA! So yummy!
This sounds so good. I'm wondering if it'd be ok to chop and throw everything into a bag with the marinade and freeze it until it's needed. Then thaw it out, and throw it on the pan?


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Its some sort of Tessa`s audio log book.
It came to my surprise that FMP Artbook was out like 6 years ago. Can anybody shed some light on Full Metal Panic - The Anime Mission contents. Maybe some thumbnail pics...
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Cheap price and notion of "complete pack" is a warning flag of it being an illegal bootleg. Support your favorite anime by buying the actual version in our R2 DVD format, or wait until it is released in your country through proper and legal means.
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If you are in the states you can go to www.netflix.com They have FMP DvDs 1-7 and Fumuffo god i always mispell it 1-4
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I haven't heard about a complete collection for Fumoffu, I bought mine per volume with the first one with artbox. Maybe there will be in the future, but it seems that complete collection gets released in 1 or 2 years after the last volume came out.
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go here if u are looking for the ones after TSR. the ones after TSR are A Dancing Very Merry Christmas,and Continuing On My Own.
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Questions, questions... can anybody tell me Kalinin's codname? Does Tessa have one? Does Mardukas have one?
How exactly are the crew of TDD-1 organised? There's the SRT, and I've heard of a PRT... what are the divisions, who (named characters) is in which, and what are their ranks? What are the responsibilities of each group? Do we know how many unnamed characters work in them? I believe Kalinin referred once to 200 crew.
Kurz's guitar is a Gibson. Any information on what make? Has it ever been illustrated?
AS pilots appear to use fairly normal looking weapons (I know nothing about the military). Would these be the same weapons they would use on foot? If not, what are they? Particularly with regards to Kurz.
What are the medical facilities on the TDD-1 like? Who is in charge? Do we know their name? Have they appeared in the anime? How well would they know the rest of the crew? How often do people end up visiting the medical facilities? Considering how few characters we know well and how often they seem to wind up requiring treatment, would it be fair to assume it might be a busy place, or are many of the crew in less rough jobs?
Classic rock music. That's how Kurz's taste is referred to in the information thread. Are there any specific examples of this given? In the English manga Kaname says excitedly "He can sing just like Steve Tyler!" So what language would he sing in? Presumably Japanese would feel most natural, but there's German too and the comparisons make me wonder if English would be a possibility. I guess it depends if it's covers or his own songs. Or does he do both? (BTW the books mention him singing "Take Me Out Mariana Trench" somewhere, don't they? To the students. I've seen a translation of this song somewhere, but I can't find it now. Does anybody know where I could get one?)
Yeah, I'm having another go at my fanfic. *sigh* Could someone have a really good look at these questions for me please? Some of them might seem a bit silly, but I'm trying really hard to create a realistic story without much to work with. Each question is there for a reason. Kj? Anyone?
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ISLAMABAD � Pakistan is holding 700 suspected militants without charges under a controversial law that has been criticized by human rights groups, the country�s attorney general said Thursday.
The attorney general�s admission, made during a Supreme Court hearing, will likely fuel concerns about Pakistan�s conduct during the past several years as it battled a domestic Taliban insurgency in the country�s northwest.
The suspected militants are being held in internment centers in the country�s semiautonomous tribal region along the Afghan border � an area that is the main Taliban sanctuary in the country, Attorney General Irfan Qadir said.
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The chief justice ordered a judicial probe into Faisal�s death on Wednesday.
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Also on Thursday, a bomb planted in a hollow concrete block killed four people, including two police officers, in the southern city of Karachi where there has been a surge of violence. Ten other people were injured, said senior police officer Alilm Jaffery. He said the victims responded to a report of an explosion near a garbage bin and then were killed by the second blast after they reached the scene.


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KeyCreator Version 925 Mar, 2010 By: Joshua Stollar
History-free 3D modeling software can give you an edge in producing manufacturing-ready models.
Editor's note: This article was originally published in the Winter 2010 edition of Cadalyst magazine.
Cadalyst didn't approach me to write this review; I went to Cadalyst first. I am so passionate about KeyCreator that I want to spread the word. I wanted to tell more people about KeyCreator after realizing two things. First, I read a post on the KeyCreator discussion forum and realized I am not the only one who has a passion for this software. Second, customers and suppliers alike often approach me to help accomplish their modeling tasks — that's how I know I have great software.
Because I use KeyCreator every day, I see the advantages of the software firsthand. With all the talk lately about direct model editing, I believe users should take a hard look at their current software to make sure it is exactly what they need. Can you produce manufacturing-ready models, and do so in a timely manner? Can you complete changes — big or small — with ease? How much time do you spend studying or learning the history tree or recreating a model from scratch because you don't have the tool necessary to interact with the model? In my role as the casting engineer for an aluminum sand foundry, KeyCreator and its direct-modeling approach give me an edge in performing all these tasks.
KeyCreator is a great example of a history-free modeler. It offers users a clean interface, extreme flexibility, effective tools, and the speed to complete any task, among other things. Another notable feature of KeyCreator is its interoperability, which I will discuss in more detail below.
What's New in Version 9
The most prominent change in modeling is the marriage of two already strong functions: Dimension-Driven Editing (DDE) and Quick Dimension. DDE allows you to modify your geometry simply by changing a dimension. With DDE, the dimension becomes a control; select the middle of the dimension to affect both sides of the geometry, or select either end to affect only one side. You can add constraints on the fly to get the results you desire. Quick Dimension is a function used to place dimensions on your geometry. Simply select an edge or set of edges, then place the dimension in the desired location. To simplify the use of Quick Dimension, Kubotek has improved the automatic placement of dimensions based on common faces or implied planes of the selected geometry. This improvement means you don't have to rely so heavily on construction plans to get the dimensions you need.
After invoking the DDE function, KeyCreator will ask you to select an entity. It can be an already placed dimension or current edges of your solid. If you select the former, the function will continue with KeyCreator's DDE function and allow you to control which faces will be affected by this dimension edit. If you don't have any dimensions on your model, selecting any edge (or pair of edges) will automatically invoke the Quick Dimension function and allow you to place the dimension and edit the geometry accordingly.
KeyCreator implemented Geometry Mating in V8, and has taken it one step further by adding the option to implement associative mates between entities when using Geometry Mates. When a relationship must be remembered, the software places an Entity Mate on the screen that actually stores the mating conditions inside a label. For now, the constraints are static in nature, but they will add flexibility and ease of use to assemblies.
For users seeking a more dynamic method for moving geometry, KeyCreator offers its new Transform Dynamic (XForm Dynamic) function. This function uses a 3D DynaHandle to manipulate geometry. Right-clicking on any of the seven controls will give you a menu with all the options available for that control. This function allows you to move the geometry freely in 3D space, move along a specific axis, or to rotate around a specific axis.
The overall performance of KeyCreator has been improved. Files will not only open and close faster, but solids modification will greatly improve. In fact, the more edges and faces you have in your files, the more improvement you should see. According to three benchmark files used by Kubotek, users should see an improvement in performance of more than 50% on average.
I can personally attest to this improvement on real-world files. When designing new tooling, I like to develop external casting models and internal core models separately; then, with both models completed, I Boolean subtract the core to create a final casting. On a customer file with approximately 6,400 faces, I saw a 55.5% increase in speed! By spending less time waiting, I remain more focused on my tasks at hand and stay more productive overall. In cases in which performance is relative to hardware configuration, KeyCreator has a new add-in to test and help optimize the different settings that could influence hardware performance.
Real-World Application
I have used KeyCreator for five years (since V3), and I have come to rely on its flexibility and power. I learned to model with history-based software and have since used, in one way or another, three other packages in my short engineering career. KeyCreator and its approach to direct modeling stand out among all the modeling tools I've worked with over the years.
The best way to convey the benefits of KeyCreator is to describe a typical project. You receive a request for quotation (RFQ) from a customer, and in the RFQ package you receive solid models in any of several file formats. With KeyCreator, this is no problem. You can import SAT, SRF, DXF, DWG, IGES, STEP, Parasolid v21, SolidWorks 2009, Inventor 2010, CATIA v4 and v5, Pro/ENGINEER, PRT (NX), and OBJ files. I have yet to encounter a customer or supplier with whom I couldn't share 3D files. After you get the model into KeyCreator, it becomes a native CKD file and then you can perform any necessary healing. You can repair models in many ways, and the software provides some excellent documentation to help in this area.
Once you import the model, the fun begins. You quickly realize that the designer doesn't have the slightest clue about making the part manufacturable. In most cases, you get models with no draft, little understanding of pull directions, and undefined or impossible parting lines.
At this point in this common scenario, you have a decision to make. Do you rebuild the model from scratch, or use the imported geometry as building blocks to create a new model? Or can you use the tools provided by your CAD software to alter the model to fit your needs, thus saving countless hours of work and headache?
With KeyCreator, the answer is unquestionably the latter. No other mechanical CAD product that I have used or seen has the ability to interact directly with the geometry with such ease, and with little or no concern about how the model was created. This freedom allows me to get customers' castings delivered faster, more cost-effectively, and with fewer errors.
Final Thoughts
KeyCreator is a complete direct-modeling MCAD solution for creating everything from 2D drafting to 3D assemblies. Kubotek has done an amazing job of keeping flexibility and ease-of-use in its software. The unparalleled ability to use the data for what it is truly meant to represent — geometry — is something I value every day. In my opinion, KeyCreator could be used in any design or manufacturing facility that relies on solid modeling. I rely on the software for many tasks, such as weight estimating for quoting, producing tool path–ready models for my suppliers, and conveying ideas to nontechnical audiences.
I find myself among the fortunate group of CAD users who get to make their own decisions about which tools they use. At the very least, I would encourage any CAD professional to compare KeyCreator with his or her current package. I think many people will be pleasantly surprised. As for me, Kubotek KeyCreator V9 will continue to be my tool of choice.


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A few months ago, fewer Americans gave a high priority to energy exploration, and more favored conservation. But the survey, conducted June 18-29 among 2,004 adults, found that an increasing proportion says developing new sources of energy - rather than protecting the environment - is the more important national priority.
Nearly half of those polled (47 percent) now rates energy exploration as the more important priority, up from 35 percent in February.
The proportion saying it is more important to increase energy conservation and regulation has declined by 10 points (from 55 percent to 45 percent).
The poll also finds that half of the Americans surveyed now support drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, up from 42 percent in February.
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In surveys dating to 2001, majorities or pluralities had consistently said that greater energy conservation and regulation on energy use and prices was more important than increased energy exploration, the Pew Research Center says.
Much of the increase in support for energy exploration has come among groups that previously viewed this as a less important priority than energy conservation - young people, liberals, independents, Democrats, women and people who have attended college.
Half of young people ages 18 to 29 now say expanding energy exploration is a more important priority for energy policy than increasing energy conservation and regulation. Only about a quarter of young people (26 percent) expressed this view in February.
The proportion of liberals who say expanded energy exploration is the more important priority also has doubled (from 22 percent to 45 percent).
The gender gap in attitudes about whether greater exploration or greater conservation is the more important priority has disappeared, as women have become much more supportive of expanded exploration (up 18 points).
About the same proportions of Democrats (46 percent) and Republicans (43 percent) now say expanded exploration, rather than increased conservation, should take precedence. In February, far more Republicans than Democrats expressed this view.
In contrast with overall opinions about energy exploration, views about drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, ANWR, remain politically divided.
As was the case in February, about twice as many Republicans as Democrats favor drilling in ANWR (75 percent vs 36 percent).
Support for oil and gas drilling in the Alaska wildlife refuge has increased sharply among Republicans (12 points), but only modestly among Democrats (five points).
Support for ANWR energy drilling has increased across age groups, but Americans ages 65 and older continue to support this at much higher levels than do those younger than 30 (62 percent vs. 37 percent).
More women favor ANWR drilling than in February, the survey shows, but women continue to be less supportive of drilling for oil and gas in the Alaska wildlife refuge than men (45 percent vs 56 percent).
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2 police officers shot dead near Indonesia's capital days after terror raids, arrests
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Unidentified gunmen killed two police officers near Indonesia's capital, days after security forces made multiple arrests and killed suspects in anti-terrorism raids, police said Saturday.
Two men on a motorbike followed an officer who was heading to a police precinct in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, on Friday night. They allegedly shot him dead and fled, said National Police spokesman Maj. Gen. Ronny Frengky Sompie .
They were pursued by a police car that hit the motorbike before plunging into a drain. Sompie said the gunmen then allegedly killed another officer in the car. Police returned fire and apparently injured one of the men, but they managed to escape on a villager's motorbike that they stole.
It was the second attack against police in less than two weeks. Two gunmen on a motorbike killed a police officer on Aug. 7 when Indonesian Mulims were preparing the Eid al-Fitr holiday to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
"There are similarities between the two attacks," Sompie said. "We are mobilizing our forces now to search for the perpetrators to reveal their motives and their possible links with terrorist groups."
He added that police are now investigating the damaged motorbike left by the gunmen near the scene.
The latest police raid involved Muhammad Syaiful Syahbani, 26, a suspected fund raiser in an alleged plot to attack the Myanmar Embassy to protest that country's treatment of Muslims. He was arrested Aug. 9 in Yogyakarta on main Java island.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has been hit by a string of terrorist attacks since 2002, when Muslim militants carried out suicide bombings on two crowded nightclubs on the resort island of Bali, killing 202 people.
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As the campaign for mayor of Los Angeles has played out over the last two years, the complaints I've heard most often are that none of the candidates has reached for big ideas, that the field has lacked big personalities and that the two finalists are hard to distinguish from each other. There's some truth to each of those, but with the campaign concluding Tuesday, it's also worth noting that all of them also are overstated.
Start with the personalities. Neither Controller Wendy Greuel nor Councilman Eric Garcetti is the commanding figure that many would like to see in a mayor. But both are smart, dedicated, fundamentally honest public servants.
Moreover, both have devoted much of their lives to improving Los Angeles and have records of genuine achievement: issues confronted, projects shepherded, audits performed.
No, they don't bring to mind the magnetic Antonio Villaraigosa or the towering Tom Bradley or the charming, sometimes eccentric Richard Riordan, or even the earnest, surprisingly brave James Hahn. But those mayors didn't arrive with the stature they later enjoyed. They accumulated it over the course of their terms. A year from now, the winner of this week's mayoral race will feel like a mayor. The office will enlarge the winner. It generally does.
Regarding the dearth of big ideas, there's again some merit to the criticism. Despite a long campaign and scores of debates, neither Garcetti nor Greuel has presented a real plan for balancing the city budget. How much will employees be asked to contribute toward their pensions or healthcare? Are new sources of revenue needed?
And what about the L.A. of the future: What would it look like at the end of a Garcetti or Greuel mayoralty? Again, neither 50-some debates nor hundreds of community meetings, mailers and TV ads produced evidence of a grand vision.
As one considers the candidates' vagueness in those and other areas, though, it's important to recognize another recurring phenomenon of Los Angeles politics: Most successful mayoral candidates run not only against their opponents in the race but also against their immediate predecessor, at least tacitly.
Riordan came to office as an outsider intent on reinvigorating a government that, by the end of Bradley's long reign, seemed weak and ineffective. The 1992 riots highlighted the peril of Bradley's decline, and Riordan seemed an antidote — "tough enough to turn L.A. around," as his slogan had it. After eight years as mayor, Riordan had succeeded with big projects — enlargement of the LAPD, completion of Disney Hall, election of new school board members, enactment of a new charter — but he was also embroiled in conflicts with the City Council and frustrated by the constraints of working within city government.
City Atty. Hahn, a second-generation politician and veteran of Los Angeles government, offered the reassuring skills of an insider. But by the end of his first term, Hahn — who staved off San Fernando Valley secession and dumped LAPD Chief Bernard C. Parks — nevertheless struck many voters as a dull, small-issue technocrat. Enter Villaraigosa, with charisma to burn and no shortage of grandiose ideas.
Today, the gap between Villaraigosa's big ideas — taking over the school district, planting a million trees — and his more modest achievements has worn out a lot of voters, including those who supported him most fervently. That's not entirely fair. He will leave office with significant accomplishments — a reenvisioned transportation agenda, a historic decline in crime, a more environmentally conscious Department of Water and Power, the fashioning of a new role for a mayor in public education — but his failure to fulfill his early promise has given big ideas a bad name. Partly as a result, Garcetti and Greuel have played small ball and emphasized their attention to detail.
Finally, there is the question of whether Garcetti and Greuel are really that different from each other. If not, some have asked, why does it matter which one wins?
In fact, they are different, not so much in terms of policy as in leadership and style. And that too is a reflection of the contours of the office they're seeking.
Consider, for example, the experiences of Riordan and Villaraigosa. One was a venture capitalist and multimillionaire, the other a former labor organizer, but they compiled records that are in many ways similar. Both made big strides in public safety, and both insisted that a mayor, despite the lack of formal authority over schools, nevertheless needed to help shape this city's education system. Both sought to make the city more accommodating to business, particularly small business, and both worked to stimulate job growth.
The lesson: Los Angeles mayors are fundamentally problem solvers, not ideological champions. There is no Republican way to pick up trash, nor is there a specifically Democratic approach to policing or potholes. Mayors of all political stripes exist to make life better for residents, or at least to try to.
Both candidates this time have real strengths, but they are far from identical people. Garcetti would, I think, be a more creative and daring leader, willing to try new things in areas such as technology and community organization. Greuel would be a more reliable mayor, a solid, dependable steward of the government and a determined advocate for residents.
Both would struggle to please their backers, though Greuel may have the tougher job there, as her coalition contains irreconcilable elements — she supports a proposed increase in the minimum wage for some hotel workers, for instance, which endears her to their union, but she also has run with the support of the Chamber of Commerce, which will fight that idea when the time comes.
On Tuesday, voters will have to choose between two promising leaders who would be quite different mayors. Both have run small campaigns, but one is about to inherit a big job. And judging by the past, he or she will grow into it.
Jim Newton's column appears Mondays. His latest book is "Eisenhower: The White House Years." Reach him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter: @newton_jim.


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Think of the maintenance.
Ditto the milk maids, drummers, pipers and leaping lords. Even a one-percenter would have trouble lodging that much staff.
What you want are 12 days of luxury books. All they need is a shelf and an occasional airing. Hey, you could even read them.
Art and artists, architecture and interiors, fashion and rare birds are delicious diversions for the holidays. Here are a dozen delights. Pursue them.
Monumental Venice (Vendome, $150): Jacques Boulay's panoramic photos of Venice unfold to nearly 6 feet wide in this glorious tribute to a luminous city of echoing plazas and shimmering canals. Taken in summer sun and winter mists, the images lovingly record sparkling canals, crumbling palazzos and gilded churches. He captures all of the iconic spots: the Doges palace: the wedding-cake interior of La Fenice opera house, rebuilt after a 1996 fire; the market stalls near the Rialto bridge, and the Gesuiti church whose marble pulpit is carved to resemble velvet brocade.
Artists in Love: A Century of Creative and Romantic Partnerships (Welcome Books, $65): In a fascinating mix of art and biography, Veronica Kavass smartly focuses on 29 of the 20th century's most famous artist partnerships at the moment of their greatest creative sizzle. Illustrated with wonderful art and photos, the book is rich in unexpected poetry and tender insights into the tangled lives of, among others, Picasso and Françoise Gilot, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Lee Miller (shown bathing in Hitler's tub!) and Man Ray, whose heart she broke.
The Art Book: New Edition (Phaidon Press, $60): From Abramovic to Zurbaran, this endlessly absorbing tome introduces one work each by 575 alphabetically arranged artists spanning 700 years of paintings, sculpture, photography, performance and video art. It's the unexpected juxtapositions that make the book so compulsively readable -- Bernini's St. Theresa swooning in religious ecstasy across from Joseph Beuys' felt suit. Fun!
Vogue: The Editor's Eye (Abrams, $75): Cleverly framed by eight trend-shaping stylists, "Vogue" successfully argues that these imperious, funny, willful women -- and the photographers they championed -- altered the way we looked, moved and thought about everything from clothes to work, sex, popular culture and our bodies for the past 50 years and more. And the photos are stunning.
The Iconic Interior: Private Spaces of Leading Artists, Architects and Designers (Abrams, $65): Encompassing 100 years and 100 interiors by as many designers, this handsome book offers a world of eye candy for armchair voyeurs. Organized chronologically with short bios of the owner/designers, the interiors are wonderfully eclectic, ranging from Eliel Saarinen's Finnish arts-and-crafts home to film star Dolores del Rio's art deco Los Angeles manse and the Barcelona cement factory that Ricardo Bofill converted into a surrealist retreat.
Houses of the Presidents (Little, Brown, $40): Some were born in mansions, but a surprising number of American presidents had humble origins, including wealthy John F. Kennedy, born in a modest frame house in Brookline, Mass., and George W. Bush, who grew up in a banal ranch house in Midland, Texas. An engaging mix of presidential history and biography, "Houses" is seasoned with architectural details, restoration discoveries and odd period details like the two Citgo gas pumps sitting by the driveway of Dwight Eisenhower's farm at Gettysburg, Pa.
Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Houses: Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu (Abrams, $50): When O'Keeffe bought her adobe home in Abiquiu, N.M., in 1941, it was a ruin that stole her heart. Over the next 40 years she restored its traditional character while injecting a modernist sensibility, plus electricity and plumbing. The spirit of the place infused her paintings and is reflected in these incisive images of her home, garden and self aging wisely.
Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man (Little, Brown, $40): Focusing on 20 of Adams' most iconic photos, including "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" and "Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake," his former assistant Andrea Stillman explains their origins, his many changes to their printing over the years, and how they fit into his passionate environmentalism and wilderness concerns. Insightful, affectionate and revealing.
Drawn From Paradise: The Natural History, Art and Discovery of the Birds of Paradise With Rare Archival Art (Harper Design, $45): Since they arrived in Europe from New Guinea in the 16th century, birds of paradise have driven artists gaga with their exotic plumage. Here is the story of 40 paradise species and the art they inspired.
The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection (Getty, $40): The rediscovery of Pompeii in the early 1700s launched three centuries of art, theater, exhibitions and eventually photos and films, many of them reproduced and annotated here. Mirroring the obsessions and anxieties of each succeeding generation, Pompeii remains an enduring metaphor for our own apocalyptic era of tsunamis and terrorism.
Nineteenth Century European Painting: From Barbizon to Belle Époque (Antique Collectors' Club, $249): In this eccentric doorstop of a book, perennially popular Impressionism merits a mere 37 pages while lavish attention goes to Orientalist, Romantic, Pre-Raphaelite and Academic art as well such lesser known stuff as the Newlyn School, named after an English fishing village, and "Cardinals," i.e. jolly pictures of Catholic clergymen at play. Elegantly boxed and impressively illustrated, the book accurately surveys the century's eccentric byways but overemphasizes second-tier pictures, many of them apparently for sale by its author, New Orleans art dealer William Rau.
Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance (Getty, $65): This beautiful and scholarly catalog accompanies a traveling show of Early Renaissance panel paintings, illuminated manuscripts and stained glass by Giotto and his contemporaries, whose statuesque figures seem suspended between familiar Earth and golden heaven.
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it has a clause in there that if you send something to QA that they think you could have gotten, then you are charged for QA's time, cannot remember how much, and it is docked from your pay. My objection to that is, who is to say I could have gotten it or not? What sounds like mumbles to me might be clear as a bell to someone else.
However, if this is your first time at an at home job, they would probably understand that and give you a break. I agree with the other poster. Just do the best you can. Most all companies would rather have you leave a blank than guess.
Good luck!
You're not supposed to be sending intercompany information anywhere. I would get it in writing first that your ISP isn't going to be tracked and your info handed over to Transcend so they can fire you. With all the info on this board about what they are doing, Transcend still has their weekly cattle calls on the job seekers' board, so it doesn't look like Transcend is going to lose anything.
Just be very careful.
It can mess up your Word program so that some of your commands won't work any more (if you use Word for anything else).
In case you have not read the MQ board lately, 70% of controlling stock has been sold to CBay Holding Systems, an Indian company, that will probably/possibly begin offshoring work to their Indian transcription company. There is much debate over this, and I would caution you before giving up a good offer with another company.
As far as flexibility goes with MQ, it all depends on your supervisor. Mine was great. The pay was awful - no raise in 5 years. Not to mention, ASR/voice recognition cuts. See below.
MQ pays 70% (currently) of your base rate for voice recognition, which is pretty good in comparison to other companies. About 75% of my paycheck was ASR. If the other company is straight transcription, you will make out much better than ASR at MQ.
After reading what SS reportedly promised you about upping you to 9 cpl when removed from QA, that jumped out at me. If they were unethical enough to do as they did to the other MT, why would you be any different? Just something to think about.
I hope I'm wrong. Truthfully, I had no idea that this co. was uncool. I'm glad that names are being dropped so the rest of us will know intead of having to dig around and hope they get lucky re the proper info.
Hope you keep us posted.
Julie you are so right!!! I once came here and posted some rather unflattering comments about company I was working for at that time. Well my boss saw everything and she knew it was me. At one time I had a pretty good relationship with my supervisor, but needless to say, after the posting she was rather cool towards me. It was very uncomfortable and she did finally confront me regarding my post and warned me that if I posted again like that, I might lose my job.
I am just warning everyone here that you might think you are anonymous here, but they can find out very easily your identity. Just be careful what you say here -- it could come back to haunt you.
how you fill out your return. We had an accountant who was under investigation by the IRS which led to our being audited and we found that much of what he said was allowable was NOT. i.e. You cannot deduct a room for an office unless that is all the room is used for. A guest bedroom with a bed in it is not an office.
tried to get service through them but it wouldn't work. Their service also goes through your computer, whereas digital phone doesn't, so if you have anything happen to slow down your internet speed it will effect your phone.
I spent 3 days talking with people in India to resolve my issue and what a major headache. All I should have had to do was plug in 2 plugs and it should have worked but it didn't.
I went with my cable internet provider and they actually have someone come to your house and set everything up. So much nicer than having to deal with offshore customer service. My ISP is Earthlink, although Time-Warner actually provides the service.
I have just found out that the management of my old company has been spying on everything we post. It is kind of embarrassing in a way. That is why I post -- certainly do not want my boss and their management to see these posts. So, girls word of caution to everyone out there. Be sure it is anonymous and really be careful what you say. It can come back to haunt you and you just might lose your job over it. Beware!!!


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By Dirk Hayhurst
The 2014 season is quickly becoming the year of the Tommy John surgery. There have already been 34 instances thus far, and now, with early National League Cy Young candidate Jose Fernandez sidelined with an elbow injury that will almost certainly land him on the operating table, the number feels less like front-loaded seasonal attrition and more like a contagion.
The injury to Fernandez came as a cannonball right through the hull of U.S.S. Marlin, effectively sinking their season. It just goes to show the difference excellent pitching makes for a club. Why then, with how big a role pitching plays in a team's success, aren't more drastic measures being taken to help arms stay healthy?
Maybe it's because baseball has set up a system wherein those who wouldn't otherwise have careers at all now have the chance to play longer than ever before. Over the last several decades, humans haven't made genetic leaps that allow them to throw baseballs harder. It's the training, nutrition, scouting, and body discrimination that have changed. Baseball has specialized.
It wants bigger, faster, stronger and harder-throwing products, and now it knows how to get them. Major League Baseball knows more about what helps generate fastball velocity, what kinds of mechanics generate more torque on arms, and what training regimens help high-test heat blossom than it ever has before.
Over the last decade, the average fastball velocity has trended up. But this sample size doesn't get its start in the pros. No, the pressure to increase speed trickles all the way down to the amateur levels, maybe as close as the ballpark in your back yard. For MLB to get that steady influx of heat, regimens that impact and influence the health of amateurs must be employed early and often. This means more young pitchers must throw more, trainer harder, and test the limits of their own health more often.
Data from the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Ala. suggests that overuse starting at a young age and specialization dramatically increases the likelihood of Tommy John surgery. In fact, ASMI's Dr. Glenn Fleisig says teenage pitchers who throw more than 100 innings in a calendar year are up to three times as likely to go under the knife.
But 100 innings in a single year is nothing for today's young pitcher, especially when some are playing ball four seasons a year. Travel leagues, Fall Ball, tournament leagues, spring ball, winter ball, school ball, all-star leagues, classics, camps... and the list goes on, with some kids playing in multiple leagues at the same time.
Why so much baseball at such a young age? Simple -- because the game has gotten more specialized at the top, it's become more specialized at the bottom. It's a highly competitive market, with very few opportunities the higher up the ladder you go. A young player who cannot pitch on one team will join another team where he can and play for both. If you want to be one of the chosen few who advance, you must be honed and above all, noticed.
And getting noticed means constantly being ready to audition. A young player never knows which outing will be the one that gets a college or pro scout sweet on him, or which radar gun will give him the magic number. He must sell his wares in every trumped-up league he can log an inning in. And this says nothing of all the extra innings logged during instructional settings, camps, talent mills, and tryouts.
Many of today's young pitchers have private, ex-professional grade instructors. Some even have personal strength trainers as early as little league.
In an effort to prevent overuse, baseball at the amateur levels has instituted pitch limits in hopes of protecting arms. The limits are employed early, and meant to be a guideline. However, in many cases, they only serve to make kids join more leagues where the pitching and innings limits don't cross over. Even with pitching limits, not all pitches are equal. How stressful was it on a pitcher? How much did he feel he had to overthrow to get noticed? How much throwing did he do before he took the mound, in warm-ups, in practice, in another league? Did he throw mostly fastballs or poorly taught, elbow wrenching breaking balls?
There are some that even contest that it's the pitch and inning limits themselves that break young hurlers because setting them makes pitchers too weak!
The weakness argument has been made often, but maybe none more loudly than when former New York Mets pitcher and Hall of Famer Tom Seaver made his in the aftermath of the Matt Harvey injury last year:
"You can't predict these things, and there's really not a whole lot you can do to prevent them other than refining your mechanics Rube did with us. But one way I know doesn't do anything to prevent them is babying these kids like they do...
"Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd be telling our soldiers: 'That's enough. You've fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!'"
Seaver is right about one thing: The pitchers of the past did throw more than the pitchers of today. But the argument that pitchers of the past were more resilient simply because they pitched more and always did is not really an argument at all -- especially not when the arguer himself admits "you can't predict these things" before making it. Throwing a lot and surviving the process doesn't mean it works, it means there is survivorship bias.
There will always be freaks with amazing resilience in baseball, but the "the old ways were best" argument omits that the pitchers of the past had to be freaks because that's what the old system relied on. In the 60s and 70s and early 80s, baseball brought hundreds of bodies to spring training. So many, in fact, that lunches were served in shifts and players had numbers pinned on their backs like marathon runners, with some of the numbers reaching triple digits.
There was no real sports medicine. Back then, when a player's arm gave out, there was no method by which to fix him, not until Tommy John surgery came along in 1974. Yet, even with the success of the surgery, players who complained of arm pain were often mocked as weaklings. Tommy John himself was mocked for opting for the surgery. Players believed that you could run the pain out of their arms, or should take drugs, drink, and man up. Surgery was for pussies.
To make it to the top, then, meant you had to have an unnaturally resilient arm. While many analysts and fans bemoan the rate at which injuries seem to occur to talented players, consider how many players' careers ended simply because there was never a way to fix them. Times have changed, surgery is saving careers. But a fact that remains is, pitching -- no matter how refined a pitcher's mechanics are -- is still dangerous and unnatural, whether you end up on the cutting table or not.
Before I had my first shoulder MRI, I was told that the result would show damage. Anyone at my age who'd thrown as much as I had, had damage in their arm -- it was just a matter of how much. This was years before I had my first shoulder surgery. There was already scaring, fraying, and, most alarmingly, my humerus bone was twisted. Years of reaching back over my head to throw a baseball and the catapult like action of levering it through the air had actually rotated the head of the humerus like a wound bath towel.
The doctors performing the surgery said that repairing my arm wasn't so much about getting me back to normal as it was getting me back to whatever was normal for a body that had grown accustomed to years of throwing. While Tommy John surgery is much further along than shoulder surgeries in regards to its success rates, it still turns a body back to something that is abnormal for most humans, and enables a pitcher to keep performing an unnatural act. Pitching isn't an injury waiting to happen, it's an injury happening.
So should young players stop pitching? Will baseball have to make due with the fact that, because the specialization in power arms will continue to rise, Tommy John surgery will also continue? Should it police amateur leagues in an effort to save young pitchers' bullets until they reach the pros? Or should it go back to drafting hundreds of bodies and populate pitching staffs with those resilient freaks with invincible ligaments?
Maybe the best course of action is to shift the focus off the fastball altogether. Scouts love flame-throwing pitchers because they can leave a pitch in the middle of the zone and still miss bats thanks to their pure power. They have a higher margin of error. That said, hitters have started to adjust their timing. And while velocity is great, it isn't always enough as hitters continue to specialize in hitting it.
The problem is, velocity IS enough to get your drafted. Just like a flame-throwing arm can get away with more mistakes, a scout, knowing what velocity can translate into, will take more risks on power arms than on lower velocity, less impressive, potentially more resilient pitchers.
Furthermore, throwing hard also gives you more opportunities to stay in the game. If Matt Bush, the 2004 first-round pick of the San Diego Padres, was just a shortstop with a lackluster batting average, he would have been out of the game after his first run-in with the law. But he could throw 98 mph off a mound. Thus, despite a drinking problem and a history of self-destructive behavior, he found his way through a few organizations willing to give him another chance. It's a tragic story, but one that lasted longer than it would otherwise have if a certain skill set wasn't there.
Because of the market's bias for power pitching, throwing hard is the best way to get paid to play baseball. Even if you have to get surgery multiple times in the process -- it's what the market wants.
If the market suddenly decided that throwing in the high-80 to low-90 mph range was desirable, and put a greater focus on movement and command, the shift would be felt all the way down to the bottom of the baseball food chain. If baseball wanted durability over power, there would no longer be a major push to break arms to achieve it. It stands to reason that pitchers would pitch less and keep themselves healthier.
But that's not what the market wants. And until it decides it wants something other than power, and stops being okay with how hard generating that power is on the body, expect Tommy John surgery to be a common way for a team's season to get sunk.
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Dirk Hayhurst is a former pitcher who spent nearly a decade in professional baseball between MiLB and MLB. He is also a best-selling author, and has appeared on Baseball America, Bleacher Report, Deadspin, The Score, ESPN, TBS' MLB postseason broadcasts, Sportsnet Canada and more. More from Dirk at www.dirkhayhurst.com. Follow him on Twitter at @thegarfoose.


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