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How To Keep All Your Fingers Intact During Root Vegetable Season
Knife Skills
Fall is open season on cook's fingers. Why? All those root vegetables and tough winter squash, of course! Have you ever been in fear for your digits while dismantling a pumpkin or a butternut squash? Have you ever come close to losing a thumb while peeling a rutabaga? I still have a scar from a run-in with a tough little potato, of all things. Here are some safety tips on keeping your fingers safe and unharmed during the root vegetable season!
Here are my own little reminders for knife safety this time of year. I try to slow down and remember these each time I have a big batch of tough vegetables to slice.
Keep Your Fingers: 5 Good Knife Skills
1. Use a sharp knife!
The biggest thing you can do to chop safely is use a well-sharpened, honed knife. The sharper the knife, the less pressure you have to put on it when peeling or cutting a large vegetable. Then, if you slip, you only nick yourself — instead of hacking off a finger.
→ See expert tips on how to tell if your knife is sharp enough. Also, do you know what kind of cook is really hard on their knives?
2. Stabilize your cutting board.
Place a rubber mat under your cutting board (or a damp paper towel) so it doesn't move around. This will not only make your cutting safer, but speedier, as you're not constantly adjusting and pulling your board around to straighten it.
→ See more in this video on how to stabilize your cutting board.
3. Go slow and focus.
My worst kitchen injury ever came while I was chopping a big batch of potatoes and chattering with friends at the same time. I looked the wrong way, missed the potato, and hit my finger. Several stitches later, I was renewed in my resolve to pay attention to what I'm doing when I have a knife in my hand. Go slow, tell your friends to set the table; bodily harm is never worth the distraction.
→ Some etiquette pointers on kicking guests out of the kitchen.
4. Soften the vegetable first, if possible.
Some vegetables can be softened up in the microwave or oven before cutting. Sometimes I roast half a squash for half an hour, then peel and cut it up. It's much softer and easier to handle.
→ Some tips on roasting squash whole (and pumpkins too!) before cutting them up.
5. Cut off the top and bottom of the vegetable first.
Just like stabilizing your cutting board, the beet or cabbage or squash you're cutting should be stable too. Cut the top and bottom off first so you can lay the vegetable flat and firm on your cutting board. (Especially good to remember when using a knife to peel something hefty!)
→ Peel, cut, core, dice: 20 tips for cutting up all kinds of vegetables.
Have you ever received an injury courtesy of an autumn vegetable? Any other safety tips or advice you've learned in handling these unwieldy treasures of fall?
More Knife Skill Tutorials and Reminders!
• How To Learn Basic Knife Skills: The Video
• How To Peel Squash: An Easier Way
• Knife Skills: Keeping Your Knife Sharp
• Knife Skills: Do You Know the Best Way to Clean Knives?
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Thanks, Faith, but this arrived four days too late.
I think the advice given for cutting up difficult vegetables is good. However, winter squashes like acorn squash, pumpkin and yes, the butternut squash pictured are not root vegetables. Root vegetables grow underground like carrots, potatoes, parsnips, and turnips. Winter squashes grow above the ground on vines and are technically fruits. Since root vegetables and winter squashes are both dry, starchy foods, they can be cooked in similar ways. I like mine oven roasted!
Ouch! Speedy healing to you....
Still have a scar on my thumb from where I nicked the tip trying to cut a butter nut squash in half... I now try to buy the smallest ones possible so they are easier to manuver!
Was just last week at The Brooklyn Kitchen in Williamsburg. If you need to take knife skills a class, this is where to take it. Ask to have a look at the Japanese handmade knifes in the drawers, the staff will be very happy to show them to you. If you go, also check out the staircase ironwork made out of knife cast-offs.
Go slow and focus...definitely the best advice for my ADD mind! Stable cutting boards are important too. I have one with sticky "nubs" on the bottom, which really helps. I believe it's from Sur le Table. I must say, though, I've sustained much worse knife injuries since upgrading my knife set! The tip of my thumb has lost sensation after a particularly poor slice.
Great advice, Faith. To your advice to "use a sharp knife" I'd like to add something I learned in a knife skills class. The answer to how often to sharpen your knife is every time you use it. In practice, I manage two out of three times, not every time, but my knives have all become noticeably sharper. So just keep your steel handy and quickly sharpen your knife before you start cutting.
@fabricwench good point! But yes, while of course the squash isn't a root vegetable, this is still root vegetable season...
@Dormilona oh no! What happened?
What a great reminder on knife safety! I've been fortunate enough to avoid injury while cutting winter veggies (most likely due to a healthy dose of fear), but instead I tend to hurt myself while doing "safer" kitchen tasks. For instance, I can't seem to use a box grater without mangling a finger or two. Stay safe out there, kids!
my trick is NOT to peel squash/pumpkins/etc....i chop them in half, roast them in the oven, and scoop out the inside.
After pricking the skin a few times with a knife, I soften the whole squash in the microwave for maybe 2 minutes on hi. Just enough to make it easier to halve or quarter it to remove the seeds and for further baking.
The tip about pre-baking or nuking is the best. I discovered that last year and it makes cutting up a winter squash SO much easier.
By coincidence, I took an excellent knife-skills class at Portland Culinary Workshop last weekend and shared that tip with the class...
@AButler and @ hennef7 what a great recommendation! I adore butternut squash, but the one thing I HATE is trying to cut through a huge and very hard squash. I am quite literally pounding the squash down on the counter with the knife in it, trying to cut through the darn thing! Quite a sight to see, ha, ha!
Anyway, my favorite way to cook it is cutting it into cubes and roasting it in the oven with lots of onion, salt, pepper, olive oil, and sage. Just made this Sunday night...yum!
Cannot emphasize enough the trick about microwaving butternut squash before cutting. It's a lifesaver. Well that or go to Costco where it's already cut up for you.
The position of the stabilizing hand is important, too. The fingers in the photo are in prime position to get whacked-- pull those fingers back and brace the squash firmly with the arch of the hand between the thumb and forefinger.
Yes! A sharp knife is a safe knife - but a quick run over a steel as you describe is honing, not sharpening, and should be done as frequently as you say (which also makes one look like a total badass, if that's one's thing...). Sharpening is also an important maintenance step, but that kind of removal-of-steel-to-reestablish-edge needs to be done less often on a good knife that one keeps honed at home. I let the pros sharpen my F. Dick but I hone on a steel every third or fourth time. Practice makes perfect!
I know it's probably safer to cut a butternut squash in half and roast it unpeeled, but it tastes so much better if it's roasted peeled and cut up.
One thing no one's mentioned about dispatching winter squashes is that a bigger knife is better. I don't even own an 8" chef's knife, preferring the added leverage of a 10" model. It felt a bit like a short sword for a minute, but now every other knife I own seems too small.
Lastly, get the largest, thickest cutting board you have space for. I have a 24x18" Boos cutting board and tile countertops. I keep it pushed up against the backsplash and the thing does not move. Takes up a lot of valuable space, but it's definitely worth it.
for bigger and TOUGH squash like Hubbards, wrap them in a sturdy plastic bag and drop them from a height. They'll break into smaller more knife-friendly pieces.
@fabricwench- the title includes "root vegetable season", the author refers to
"root vegetables and tough winter squash" and then "an autumn vegetable" . Nowhere did the author call squash a root vegetable. If you are going to chastise an author, you may want to first read what she/he wrote. And no, I have no connection with the author, Just getting tired of all the "experts" correcting people. And yes, I do realize I am now firmly in that camp.
@limes I totally agree. I am so scared that I only buy squash and other large, hard veggies cubed. I know - very lame and I'm missing out on stuff. But I have heard one too many stories of friends ending up in the ER with a kitchen towel wrapped around their hands!
Butternut squash are not that hard. That's one of the reasons I grow them. Th other is that they taste great.
This post should be the best post on knife safety.
What an attractive title: Use a sharp knife!. I want to add, if your knife is dull use knife sharpener to sharp it!


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Author's Response: I'm sorry for the cliffhanger, but I figured that I needed to hold off on anymore drabbles. It's so easy for me to just KEEP writing, you know? I felt that I should spread the wealth around and wait until tomorrow. Please do read my other fics :) I would love you dearly. And a locker of fame?!??! AWW! I'm touched :D Thank you so much Lisse! -Whisper
Whisper, I have reread your drabbles for the 20th time. I cannot believe you have not been swamped with reviews. The poetic beauty of it staggers me. Words and phrases are so well chosen to give huge detail, and telling insight. With the mere phrase scarred fingers you give Telon's history and that of the males of his culture. I fell in love with him when he put the jay feather in his sister's hair.
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This might be the last loving moment they share. The self imposed ban (from Elrohir) allows only their songs to swirl about each other. What you have done is beautiful and mystic. I love it and thank you for all the effort you put into your writing. I know words of gold like yours do not just effortlessly jump onto a page.
Thanks Zig!
With Love, Candy
Author's Response: Pippin is wonderful- easy to write and just great fun. I like writing him. You are right- it's hard work but such a joy to get comments back- the best thing in the world is to see that someone actually reads and enjoys what I've written. It makes it worth all the work. Hope you liked your little extra candy! xx
Once again I have read this chapter almost daily since you posted it. I am thrilled that the twins have broken the silence. One of the most touching things I have read is Elladan healing Elrohir. So true, their father is the greatest healer imaginable and did not recognize his own son's emotional trauma. What a great job you did with this.
I loved Legolas telling Arogorn exactly what he would be doing and where for the rest of the night. It made me laugh out loud. Now it was a surprise when Elrohir came to him and was the voice of reason. But Legolas does not want reason, he wants comfort. I feel his disappointment and very endearingly his youth also. As you say he is considered young among his folk.
I take such a long time to review because I really think about what to say. You are a marvel Ziggy and I think every single word is perfect. You really have the gift to take your readers to another place and make them feel like it is real. I love and care about your characters. As always, a great big thank you for writing for us. I brag about you to everyone who will give me even half an ear. You truly are better than Tolkien, but I am glad to have him because with out him you would not be writing this for all of us.
Love Candy
Author's Response: I am so glad Elladan is generous an dso very very kind. As L8 says, he does need some sort of recompense and that is mulling around in my head - I'm not sure when I iwll have any time to write though so it will be a little whle before another update I'm afraid. Yes, Aragorn isn't a fool even though he has quite underestimated Gimli - I have a little scene in my head for later. And I was as surprised as anyone that Elrohir is so reasonable, but htink he has calmed because Elladan has begun healing him and so he is albe to see through his rage. He has hidden it for so long that it is his reaction to Legolas that unlocks his desire and passion so perhaps it is hardly surprsing that he has been able to hide. I like to get reviews any time- so late ones are just as welcome as early ones.Never worry about that as long as you send me a comment. I get very demorialsied when there are few comments. I am flattered by what you say and it is Tolkien's world we are in and to be so convinced it is 'real' is his great and epic imagination. But I love that you think that - soooo good for my ego!!xx
Zig, I can definitely see how confident Elrohir is in Legolas' love. And it is a welcome and most beautiful change from the usual self loathing and self doubt Elro usually suffers from. One of the main points of the story is Elrohir's healing and it is so good to see.
Author's Response: Yes you are right of course and we'll have to see how he copes now as he confronts the Mouth...and as you know, things don't always go smoothly and we've still got seven Nazgul left to deal with!!
Again a very beautiful moving chapter. The fact that the horses were all overjoyed to when Legolas came into the stable was as charming as could be. I can just see Legolas walking briskly into the stable and whistling tunelessly as you say.
Legolas is so brave. I love what he said about impossible odds and great danger, that's what wood elves are good at.
I was absolutely delighted when he smiled at the herald and made the poor lad forget his own name.
Oh and Zig, don't tell me you were not trying to break my heart when Eomer told Legolas he would love him again if only the elf would let him. My goodness! Poor dear smitten Eomer. He seems so infatuated. I know what must happen. I also know Legolas lovers Elro, but Eomer love Legolas just the same. He is so tender and caring and I love that he tosses his pride away to sink to his knees and help Legolas with the army he commands streaming around them. Eomer is a beautiful soul, strong, strong enough to be gentle.
Many thanks for this!! I am endlessly glad you are still posting here for us. What a great loss to the site it would be if you were not here.
Author's Response: I am still posting here for the time being, Lisse, but I am also posting on ESteliel's new site- which is full of wonderful writers I have not read before and an easy site to use. I will give Keith a chance but to be honest, I like waht he has been saying on his blog less and less. I don't liek the veiled threats that say things like - nothing will change yet - and suggestions tha tthese things can be looked at again later. But give the guy a chance too. My suspicion is he has seen a chance with the new Hobbit film and expects a massive upturn- which will happen. And then seek to seel the site or sell advertising. Anyway- I could go on. Ah, Eomer. He just won't lie down, will he. And he is lovely in htis. And Legolas has to be very very gentle, doesnt he. And if Elrohir does reject Legolas, the last thing the lef should do is go and revive what eh had with Eomer on the rebound...isnt it? Well... you know...Legolas is unpredictable. So he could go one way or the other. LOve Zig
So sorry it has taken me so long to review, but I will review you a dozen times to keep you writing, and no matter the place you post I will read and review you. I just needed to say this and will read again and say more.
Legolas stronger than Elrohir? Of course! And oh what an image of your beautiful Legolas submitting yet remaining in control as he kneels for Elrohir. I can just see all that long blond hair spilling over his shoulders, fluttering in the breeze! And I love Legolas come back when Ro says he will destroy him… "You flatter yourself Noldor." We know what Elrohir means of course.
If Elrohir was not possessed by the Nazgul he would not have treated Legolas so harshly. He will hate himself all the more now for his abuse of his beloved, and for failing to protect Legolas.
Thank you for another incomparable chapter or two. Love you Ziggy. So looking forward to more!
Love Candy
Author's Response: Hello my dear Candy! Thank you for the lovely support you always give-it's worht writing just for you! And there's a new chapter waiting for you when you look next. Love Ziggy
It seems L8 has spoken for me in her review! I mean we talk about every chapter and are in agreement about your work. I do have to add that the Nazgul as living gargoyles is so imaginative and spooky. I read this oh so perfect chapter on Halloween for the first time and it was so appropriate to the evening.
I hope you do not mind my saying, I found a bit of humor in the fact that Eomer and Elrohir nearly fell into hand to hand combat over Legolas under the threat of death in an impending battle with Darkness. It just goes to show what males think with. Hehehe!
The humor aside, my heart still breaks for Eomer.
I am so pleased about your hints and flirtations between Elladan and Imrahil. Imrahil seems so gallant and courageous. I love the fact he thought so quickly to offer every hope of success to the soldiers by keeping their provisions. This is exactly the kind of love interest Elladan deserves, one with a good heart and piercing elvish eyes. Squeals of delight from slash fangurl!
This was a perfect chapter. But perfection is what your writing is!
Thank you beautiful Zig! Looking forward to more.
Love Candy
Author's Response: Thank you my dear Candy!! Love the fact that you seem so pleased by Imrahil's developing crush and Elladan's blissful ignorance! That is for you and L8. And I am delighted you thought it so humourous that Eomer and Elrohir almost come to blows- it IS very adolescent and I hope too that Elrohir comes acorss as very confident in Legolas' feelings for him. I have two chapters pretty much finished but lovely Anar is snowed under so it will be a little time before she gets to it. Much love
This review is being done on my I pod so it will be brief with another to follow. First, please prolong the sweet agony. Write as much as you want because I do not think it you could possibly write until I have had my fill of reading. Second, this is saying a lot but this is your best chapter. I was almost too much for my heart to take. There are only a few authors who can break open my chest, extract a beating heart, break it, return it, and expect me to go on with my day. You are one. Your writing leaves me changed.
Once again, love and graditude
Author's Response: You are an angst queen, Lisse! I'll see how it goes although I am not sure if they can hang on any longer! Poor Legolas- would you have him endure poison AND heartbreak? Hm- yes, I htought you would! xx
"Elrohir felt suddenly envious that Mirkwood's children were so free, so unashamed, unlike the Noldor for whom sex was about wedlock and binding and for whom desire was supposed to fade. It had never been so for him and he wondered if he might have been happier had he been born in Mirkwood."
L8bleumer (Melissa)and I were just talking about this quote from your chapter 14.
There are a few things I forgot to mention. First, as others have mentioned, I appreciate the insight into Gandalf and enjoyed reading it.
Second, I noticed your mention of our dear Melusine. She is working on her lovely het right now. Those that love slash are in for a real treat in reading her. It was Melusine's exquisite slash that prompted a change of heart for me. Now I LOVE it.
Author's Response: I love that you and L8 were talking about this- how intensely flattering. Yes- thank you for finding it - it takes me ages to remember where things are. AH- interesting that Melusine inspired your het fics. When I was writing the prequel to Sons, I started off wanting Legolas ot be with Eowyn- but Eomer was very insistent and even though I really wanted Eowyn most readers wanted slash- isnt it funny. I think slash is ..I was just going to say uncomplicated and then I remebered what I was writing! And what Spiced is writing and thought what nonsense!
Most of us would prefer that sex be about love, but that is not always the case. At times it is about dominance or instinct, or something we cannot understand. It is about raw emotions we are not in touch with. It is about survival, just like eating or breathing. There are people who are going to gasp and say I am horrible for saying this, but Elrohir did not commit the terrible crime he has been carrying the guilt of. He almost raped his mother. But he did not. He watched. He was aroused. It was a visceral, gut level reaction, coming from a place too deep and primal for his cultures mores to reach, yet he himself pulled himself back from the edge of the unforgivable. This took self control, for which he should be commended. Elladan is guilty of breaking his traditional morals as well, if in their culture sex is about bonding and wedlock, for he wants Legolas. (Who wouldn't want Legolas?) I feel sorry for both of the brothers, they both need comforting. But my heart goes out to Elrohir because he is only guilty of a thought, a touch, not rape. He has been flogged with a rod of morality for an evil he did not commit. And unless every other intelligent being has complete thought and impulse control at all times they are in no position to judge him.
Written to twist our hearts out of our chest, this chapter is perfect in its anguish!
With all my ardent devotion, yours, Candy.
Author's Response: Well wonderful Candy- you expressed that perfectly. It is what I have been trying to express and grapple with myself actually- I have taken out that particualr line on ffnet because it is les mature and open minded, but here I can explore htat more fully. I hate that Elrohir did waht he did, and it cannot be excused BUT. as you say, he did not do anything and I hope at some time, someone wil lsay that tohim. But he did stand by and do nothing when the outlaws he rode with 'punished the vanquished' as they would see it and I did not want to shy away from that- the truth about war. I am sure that men are not all honourable as the Dunedain or elves, and that event he elves knew rape (Maglor for example) so I wanted to acknolwedge that hidden side of Tolkien's elves... but as you say, Elrohir did nothing.And you have to wonder if Elladan would be as horrified if it had been some orc-female.The truth is Elrohir likes domination and is probably repressed because hte Noldor were repesssive about sex. He wonders at some earleir point if he would have been happier had he been born in Mirkwood and the truth is, he proably would be! Thank you for understadning that. Love Ziggy
Ziggy, It is 7:20 a.m. in Gahanna, Ohio and when I saw that you had posted this I actually cheered.Now I get to spend my morning in my favorite way, reading the most excellent of fan fic and drinking tea. ALONE!
Reading Now.
Author's Response: sounds lovely - my favourite thing too.
After reading this chapter at least a dozen times, I am still not ready to review, but I have to. It would be a crime if I did not tell you how perfect it is. Your description of the Nazgul attack from Elrohir's pov is the best "battle" scene ever. It is just like we are there.
Then Elladan's introspection, guided by the evil mind twisting of the Nazgul, very good. I cannot help but feel immense sympathy for him, "generous soul that he is". Again, L8bleumer and I were talking and as she says in her review, can't we have a little love for Elladan? He is so beautiful.
Oh and I noticed the contrast between the brother's implements of war. Elrohir has a fiery sword that Legolas and many fear. Elladan has a pure white sword. I find both appealing. Legolas, however, needs someone as strong and passionate as himself. Elrohir is his challenge answered. Elladan would have made a sweet love, but would have had his heart broken like Eomer. I see Legolas likes a strong lover, and hope Elro gives him all he deserves, ;).
While he is gentler than his brother, Elladan is no wimp. I love the image of him charging up the stairs 4 at a time. How very strong. I Love that he takes control and commands the archers!
In the end, It seems Legolas is finally healed and faces his fear. Oh he is so brave! No one but Thranduilion could have stood the gruesome attack.
Ziggy, surely it will take more than a few chapters to wrap this up. We have the battle and the aftermath.
Thank you for this and I look forward to reading your spicier version on the other site!
Love, Candy
Author's Response: Ah Candy - you and Mo!! OK- Elladan can have something but probably after this is finished- I cant cope with more right now... and it might not be in the AU but another one so it may be he ends up with Legolas and Elrohir can stil be all hatey and fiery about Mirkwood...oh I dont know. Or maybe Imrahil... I did sow a little seed back at Pelennor for that so perhaps I'll pick it up... or maybe write an AU of my wn AU with Elladan to be a follow on for Below Decks. Anyway, you two are great for my ego so I will keep writing even if I only post it to you two until it gets so rubbish even you dont want ot read it anyway:) XX


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Obit of the Day: "Lightning Doesn't Strike Twice"
Ches Tebbo lived in Newfoundland. Like many of the blue collar men in the province he had to travel to find work. For Tebbo that meant heading to Inuit territory to earn a salary. His "commute" involved flying first from Newfoundland to Yellowknife, taking nearly twelve hours on three flights. From Yellowknife to Resolute Bay is another four hours. Tebbo, and others like him, would spend months away from their families to earn money to send home.
During the second week of August, Tebbo's boss bought him a ticket home to Newfoundland to serve as a pallbearer in his sister's funeral. After returning to Yellowknife, he boarded First Air Flight 6560 for the flight to Resolute Bay. Flight 6560 never landed, crashing into a hill a few miles short of the runway. Of the fifteen passengers and crew on board, twelve died, including Ches Tebbo. (Of the survivors, one was a seven-year-old girl.)
Tebbo, who died on his birthday at the age of 49, had survived a previous incident in December 2008 where his flight home from Yellowknife overshot the runway on landing. There were no fatalities but it made Tebbo forever nervous about taking to the air, telling friends "I know lightning doesn't strike twice, but I'm afraid."
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Abed, the floor can't be lava forever. The game's got to end.
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*Note: The Netflix Instant version dubs Arnold. Get the original in order to grasp the full hilarity of this film.
The production meeting for this stagnant piece of horse manure must have been a hoot.
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An early Schwarzenneger flick I caught on late night tv. Didn't care for it.
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What a stinker of a film! Not supposed to be a comedy, but I laughed as hard at this as anything I've ever seen. An Arnie with his dialogue dubbed is still a bad Arnie. Although I have to say he looks fantastic -- this was made when he was just a pup winning all the awards. Not t... read more
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Now you're probably asking why in the world would I review Hercules in New York. Well my friend made a bet with me that I couldn't sit through the whole movie, I did, and I should have left sooner.
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Data Dump At the Quarter Pole - Part 1: Even Strength
In academia, (for the physical sciences anyway) there are publications known as data dumps. They're frowned upon because they're basically just a collection of data without any real story to tell or any conclusions of note. They manage to get published once in awhile for a number of reasons. Maybe because of a frenzy around a hot topic, like nanotechnology or biofuels, or because the reviewers and editors are asleep at the wheel. Or maybe just because the authors were shrewd at disguising it. Anyway, this is the intarweb so I'm just going to tell you straight out: This is a data dump. I'm going to give you a couple more too. ;)
The Oilers' story at even strength is pretty simple. They haven't been very good and I'm tempted to say it's the goals against and not the goals for. So far I've got them at 37 GF and 38 GA at the quarter mark. In the Oilers' last twelve quarters, they've only had 3 with more 5V5 GA. Meanwhile they've had just four quarters with more 5V5 GF in that time period - streaks to the finish in 02/03 and 03/04, the 2nd quarter last year, and an almost equivalent +38/-39 3rd quarter back in 2002-2003. Given that the team has a shooting deficit of 78 shots in 20 games and Roloson's .922SV% thus far, it's pretty hard to lay the blame anywhere except with the skaters.
The player breakdown looks like this:
Note: This is just 5V5 with no EN GF or GA. Smyth's obviously been the star of the show and he's on pace for a stellar year. Without looking and just going by memory, I'd say his icetime has been pretty difficult among Oiler forwards as well, so the fact that he's getting results in that context means he's my MVP skater. Other positive notables include:
1) Horcoff who was something like +4/-10 after about 12 games, but has finally come around.
2) Bergeron who's getting butter soft minutes but getting results.
3) Staios has very impressive numbers considering the fact that his blueline partner is 20 yrs old and they aren't being sheltered too much.
4) The fourth liners Thoresen and Winchester who have been outstanding bottom sixers IMO.
The negatives are lowlighted by Lupul's astronomical GA rate and Smith's atrocious EV results thus far. Now I suspect that these two things go hand in hand a little bit - Lupul probably drew some tougher assignments early on while Smith was behind him. The thing that's frightening about Smith though are the awful GF numbers. Basically he's got the worst GF rate number out of anyone playing regular minutes and naturally that goes along with the worst ESP/hr number as well. (Actually Smid trumps him by 0.01, but that's just quibbling.) Stoll and Torres have been pretty underwhelming too and it would be nice if the Hemsky/Sykora pair had a better GD at 5V5 than just +1 or +2, especially with the minutes they're playing.
The rates are here:
Smyth's the man here again given the context. You also can't complain about Sykora's production. I've ragged on him a little bit to Dennis, but you just can't argue much with the points. It seems like he's converting all the chances he was probably ringing off the iron or just plain missing the net with last year. Winchester again looks good in all of these rates. Pisani's an interesting case - I'd imagine he's got a higher event rate than we've seen from him in the past. He did start the year with that knee injury though and he's coming up from a bad start that mirrors Horcoff's since they play together a fair amount.
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Here are some blurry iPhone pictures from Saturday's super fun Book Arts Fair! It's an event that OCAD University holds every year, and vendors are an always lively mix of students and non-students with tons of pretty things to show and sell. It was my first year exhibiting, but it definitely won't be my last!
I had a lot of fun, talked to some really kind, friendly folks and saw some amazing, inspiring book arts. And I sold a bunch of my stuff! Yay! Huge thank you to anyone who came by and said hello, and a double thanks to everyone who purchased my wares!
There's my helper Daniel, looking ecstatic (as always) to be helping me out with my table. He helped carry a bunch of my stuff to the venue, so I couldn't have done it without him. Thanks Daniel! (You can say hi to him and check out his work on Twitter and Tumblr.)
Business cards, pins, sachets (these are the pure definition of handmade – seriously, I did everything from start to finish, other than weaving the fabric), and handmade journals (the cover paper is made from recycled cotton t-shirts).
Here's something I spent Friday afternoon silkscreening – it's called "Toad Bone Rite," and it's an edition of 6 perfect prints and 6 not-so-perfect prints. I used a HUGE screen to print these, and had to use a really epic large-format screenprinting machine-esque thing which I'm not super accustomed to using, but am very excited to perfect my technique on. I've conquered small-scale printing, I'm excited to try to perfect large format! Each of these babies measures 22 x 30 inches, it's gold and black ink on cream stonehenge paper. I sold all of them except for one misprint (a steal for $5) and two perfect ones (a steal for $20). If you want one holla, they're going fast!
This is a zine I just finished! It's 16 pages and it's full of magic and folklore about apples, pears, and plums, featuring (of course) my illustrations and original writing by yours truly. These are $10 and will be available online very very very soon, and again if you want one let me know!
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New Zealand High Commission Canberra, Australia
Closure for Christchurch Earthquake Memorial Service
We wish to advise that the New Zealand High Commission in Canberra and Consulates General in Sydney and Melbourne will be closed from 10.30am to approximately 12.00 noon on Friday 18 March so that staff may attend memorial services.
On 7 March Prime Minister John Key announced that a National Memorial Service for the victims of the February 22 earthquake would be held in Christchurch, also on Friday March 18.
Further information can be found at the Beehive website.
Of interest
United Nations Handbook
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Although I would require a Work Permit, I have already engaged the services of an immigration and relocation consultancy and they have informed me that I would be eligible for a work permit for a position of employment that is comparable with my skills and experience.
I you know anyone of needing an IT Manager / Network Administrator please PM me.
Silverlight, does it work at Android 2.3? Before we buy some tablets for users, we need to know it.
hey community,
anyone the same problem since spiceworks 6.0 ?
The "Edit-Button" does not react - response, note and purchase functions the same.
And i miss...
down loading an update from the task bar doesn't work?
i have to download the update manually then install.? any idea's why?
a bit late , but downloaded, and testing... Thanks guys for making the product more AWESOME!!
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Hi guys as you know me and my wife , daughter are immigrating to Canada.
now we are starting a whole process.
so if you know of any openings let me know
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Tandberg Data and their team just partnered with Spiceworks...
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Thanks Tobinator for giving me a SpiceRex Plush.
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SHEBOYGAN, WIs. (WHBL) - A Glenbeulah man has been formally charged after causing a weekend accident that injured three people near Greenbush Saturday night. 46 year old Brian Manier was charged with 2nd offense OWI causing injury - a felony - and 3 other charges after the incident, which occurred shortly before 9pm. According to the criminal complaint, officers responded to the accident on Hwy "A" near 23. When officers asked Manier how much he'd had to drink, his response was "too many". Manier, along with two people who were injured in the vehicle he hit, were taken to Memorial to be treated for their injuries. Manier is facing up to 10 years behind bars if convicted.
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Penis Prepuce | Gallery Show (2012) A space created for the digestion of proper medical and social discourse about the penis prepuce. It is the celebration of the site PenisPrepuce, which will continue to exist and create further imagery for discourse. So far I have received prospects for collaboration and recognization for the work. This is the end of the beginning.
There is two animations. First: the depiction of the prepuce on the phallus, as previously omitted from medical depictions. Second: a sequence of animations showing the foreskin (prepuce) movement, which familiarizes the audience with its mobility. Since western culture doesn't recognize the mobility and the terms as normal, these images seek to challenge the notion of normalcy.
Other media repeats the same intent (to challenge normalcy, and to educate). There are 4 informative cards. These cards can be placed anywhere, which increases the chances of others encountering the subject.
The Consent Forms allow viewers to be placed in a position to digest the extensive risks and information that parents are not told when making the decision for their kid. This is a vision of what could be placed in hospitals, or what could be said to patients at the moment they should make the decision. In the past, parents have neglected the responsibility or the awareness of the impact of circumcising their child. Upon reading this form in the gallery, the participants are given the utencils to contemplate and make their decision. Putting back the form with out using the pen is an act of declining to fill out a form, which may encourage further rejection of circumcision in the future.
The book is a documentation of discussions that have already happened on Tumblr. This discourse encourages readers to derive a conversation from those remarks.
The shirt is the most public declaration. First, the individual needs to be comfortable with having obscene imagery on their person in public, second is the responses they might get. The shirt allows individuals to make a statement questioning normalcy, and allowing them to encourage personal conversations with others. Since their t-shirt is the prompt for talking about the prepuce or dicks in general, it becomes more approachable. The conversation is less likely stemmed from perverted intentions (not that there is anything wrong with perverted intentions).
The Info Cards (4 separate cards, 500 total printed) have facts regarding the functionality of the prepuce, and the impact of circumcision. These cards are intended to be taken and placed anywhere the participant wants to place them. This may include books, water fountains, wallets, under doors, the list goes on.
Soon some of this material will be available for purchase. In fact, it is the next step of the project, along with further image creation.
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Shame: Secret Ally of Illness (cont.)
When we feel bad about having failed or about having done something we think is wrong, we feel guilt or shame.
"Guilty people feel bad about their behavior. Shamed people feel bad about themselves," Tangney tells WebMD. "Guilt is a less overwhelming feeling. It is less self-esteem related, and doesn't affect our sense of who we are."
Guilt motivates a person to repair the damage done by bad behavior and to make positive changes in their lives. Shame works in the other direction. It makes us want to disappear.
"When people are ashamed, the defense mechanism is hiding," Joseph says. "We become like little kids who are ashamed and hide their faces in their mothers' aprons. It is hard to get past that."
As adults, we don't have our mothers' skirts to hide behind. But our reaction to shame often isn't any more mature.
"When people feel ashamed they are more likely to hide, deny, escape, and externalize blame," Tangney says. "When people feel guilt they are motivated to face the music. When people feel shame they want to duck the heat."
Tangney lists five ways shame can be destructive:
Because we tend to feel more shame about our bodies than about other aspects of ourselves, health issues are particularly likely to evoke shame. And no health issues evoke shame more than those involving sex, says Ilan Meyer, PhD, associate professor of clinical sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
"If people are embarrassed to talk about their sexuality, they are not going to be seeking out services, testing or counseling on the topic," Meyer tells WebMD. "People often don't seek treatment for an STD [sexually transmitted disease]. Or when they do, they lie or pretend it is something else. I know of someone with an STD who called the doctor and said he had a cold, and wanted antibiotics. Of course this would be the wrong drug for both conditions, but this is a case of a person acting out of shame, trying to manipulate the situation to get care."
In the Bible, God often punishes people by making them ill -- often with humiliating diseases.
"That is very much lodged in people's minds," Friedman says. "When something goes wrong with our health we think, 'What did I do to deserve this?' People feel -- and this may be an unconscious feeling -- that if something befalls them, they somehow did wrong."
It's a pernicious feeling. If we feel bad because we are sick, we can be treated for the sickness and feel better. But if we feel sick because we are bad, we are powerless.
Religion isn't the problem here. If we feel that our fate is in God's hands, we aren't afraid to seek treatment. We become powerless only when we believe our illness stems from a moral flaw that we must hide from everyone, including God.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
One of the oldest stories of healing shame is in the Old Testament, Friedman notes. God punishes Miriam by giving her leprosy. He answers Moses' prayer that she be healed, but insists that she must be shamed by being expelled from the Israelites' camp for seven days.
Even though they are in dire circumstances -- they are escaping Egypt for the Promised Land -- the Israelites do not move from camp until Miriam has served her sentence. Then they welcome her back from her shame.
"Miriam had to be marginalized so that her shame could be recognized. But then the whole camp waits for her to welcome her back from her shame," Friedman says. "But if you are marginalized, who is inviting you to dinner? If you are someone who has fallen through the cracks, who is thinking of you? A fact of modern cultural life is that there is a decreased attention to integrating marginal people into some kinds of communities."
One relatively recent positive change is that more and more celebrities are speaking out about their own shame-associated conditions.
"When celebrities come out with their stories -- like Brooke Shields talking about her postpartum depression -- that is a very big thing," Tangney says.
But often, simple human contact is the most important thing for a shamed person. Even this can be difficult to offer because shame makes people withdraw.
"The most important thing is to keep up contact with someone -- for example, the kid who drops out of college and is now a strung-out marijuana addict," Tangney says. "Marginalized people -- and nobody is more marginalized than the mentally ill -- need to have a place in society. That is a very powerful message that should be attended to by communities, whether they are religious or family or neighborhood communities."
Approaching a shamed person can be tricky, Josephs warns.
"If you see shame preventing someone from getting health care, you can confront it as irrational," he says. "You can say there is nothing to be ashamed of, and if people hear it, they hear it. But when you point out that they are ashamed, people can get touchy and angry. If you point out their shame, you could get into a fight. So bring it up, but in a tactful way, knowing this is a tough issue."
Tangney says that the best approach is to avoid further shaming. The first thing to offer is support and empathy. Rather than confront a person's shame, it's better to point out -- very, very gently -- how a person's behavior is harming areas of life that the person really values.


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Millions of new genealogy records go online … that's right, many millions in fact. Online data for genealogy seems to be booming … the big online companies have been releasing new records at a phenomenal rate over the past few weeks. Everyday there seems to be an email advising of new records added online somewhere, it is hard to actually keep up with them …Full Story »
Millions of New Genealogy Records Go Online – September 2011
Three Million Criminal and Convict Records to be Digitised
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Millions of Cheshire Records Added to FamilySearch
If you're researching your Cheshire ancestry, FamilySearch is a must-visit site, as they've just added millions of parish records and bishop's transcripts online. This is in addition to the Land Tax Assessments, Non-conformist Records, Probate Records, School Records, Workhouse Records, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, and Register of Electors already there.Full Story »
National Burial Index for England and Wales Drops in Price
Everyone loves a price drop, and us genie mad people, love it even more when it's on genealogy products! So the good news for today is that the always popular 3rd edition of the National Burial Index for England and Wales has now dropped in price to $59.50 (AUD).Full Story »
A Treasure Trove of Ship Passenger Records Go Online
Passenger lists are a treasure of information for historians, and online UK family history website GenesReunited has just put 1.1 million page images of ship passenger lists (listing 24 million passengers) online. The lists include people onboard ships departing British ports for long-distance voyages across the world from 1890 to 1960.Full Story »
1 Million New Cambridgeshire Records Go Online
Here's some exciting news for researchers looking for reli's in Cambridgeshire. Findmypast.co.uk have just added over 1 million new parish records for Cambridgeshire online. The vast quantity of records and the wide date range they cover, make them a hugely valuable resource for family historians.Full Story »
New Genealogy Titles – 10 September 2010
Check out 20 new titles that have recently been added to our list. Australia, England, Scotland, Canada and Heritage Scrapbooking all have new titles added …Full Story »