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In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on 1 January 1863, this exhibition features the pen Abraham Lincoln used to sign the document. Visitors can learn how the MHS acquired this extraordinary pen as well as view paintings, broadsides, engravings, and manuscripts that tell the story of how Boston celebrated Emancipation.close


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Siri Made to Control Philips Hue Lights [Video]
Developer Brandon Evans has made Siri control the Philips Hue light bulbs using SiriProxy. He's posted the code and instructions on how to get this working on GitHub.
The first thing that I wanted to do with the Hue bulbs is get them working with Siri. I had seen last year someone created SiriProxy (in Ruby, luckily for me), and that it should allow me to do this. I'm actually using the The-Three-Little-Pigs fork as it has active developers, although I'll continue to just call it SiriProxy. The other part of making this work was the Hue API. Philips has said that they want to release an SDK at some point, however quite a few people have sniffed the API already and gained almost full control of the system.
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Do you know how diet people tell you that when you want to lose weight you should tell everyone around you so that you are held accountable? Well, I'm hoping that same idea works for me; that is, showing you what I'm making will help me get to my finish line of making this super cute shruggy sweater out of my own recipe of Banana Fiber (which you can get by clicking here). I just started it and aside from knowing it's my own "brew" of banana silk fiber yarn, I am so in love with the lush shiny nature of this it. I also love the little bit of lumpiness that comes with working with the banana silk fiber yarn. It just reminds me that there was a person at the other side of the creation of it not a big ol' machine. It's so soft too! And since I'm incredibly tough on my clothes, I know the banana fiber will hold up to my test and my washer!


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Gwen Ruta is Senior Vice President of Climate and Energy at Environmental Defense Fund, and her role is to ensure that EDF delivers world-class execution of its strategies to protect human health and the environment.
Gwen builds clear shared goals among the EDF program staff, ensures that resources support strategic priorities, and works to embed management practices that allow EDF to deliver transformational results. Her responsibilities include program planning, execution and adaptation; budget development and execution; management and staff development, and new opportunity assessment.
Previously, Ms. Ruta held the position of Vice President, Corporate Partnerships at EDF. There, she spearheaded EDF's work with multinational companies to accelerate environmental innovation in business products, services and operations. Ranked #1 for effective environmental partnerships by the Financial Times, Ms. Ruta's team kicked off transformations in market sectors from shipping to retail to fleets. Notable initiatives included slashing supply chain greenhouse gas emissions with Walmart, creating a market for hybrid trucks with FedEx, and launching an innovative business internship program to catalyze energy efficiency in business.
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ECC travels to Sheffield tonight
The Elk County Catholic Lady Crusaders evened their District 9 League record at 2-2 with a 52-48 victory over the Brookville Lady Raiders Saturday night at the ECCHS gym.
The Lady Crusaders controlled the first half of play when they outscored the Lady Raiders by a 30-18 margin. In the second half, Brookville outscored the Lady Crusaders by a 30-22 margin.
"This was a hard-fought game. Brookville played exceptionally well tonight. They are a well-coached team," said ECCHS coach Ken Pistner.
"I thought we played well in the first half with only eight turnovers, but in the second half we had 15. That's way too many times," he said. "But on the bright side, we were able to win a close game and that experience is going to help us down the road. It's also the end of a four-game week for us."
The Lady Crusaders had three players in double figures led by Ellie Petrosky with 12 points on five field goals and a two-for-four night from the foul line. Abbi Petrosky and Lexie Meholic each scored 10 points. Petrosky scored her points on three field goals and a four-for-seven night from the foul line. Meholic scored her points on four field goals and a two-for-two night from the foul line. Leading rebounders for Elk Catholic were Taylor DaCanal, A. Petrosky and E. Petrosky with five each.
Kaitlyn Hill led Brookville with 13 points on three twos, one three and a four-for-six night from the foul line. Lanae Newsome and Karly Reinsel each added nine points.
The Lady Crusaders took the early 7-0 lead as Meholic scored twice and A. Petrosky scored on a field goal and later a foul shot. Stephanie Wolfe scored on a putback for the Lady Raiders, making the score 7-2. A. Petrosky scored at the 4:46 mark and E. Petrosky scored at the 4:11 mark on a putback, 11-2. Reinsel sank one of two foul shots for Brookville. DaCanal made the score 13-3 with a field goal. Brookville went on an 8-0 run to close the gap to 13-11. A three by Hill with four seconds left in the period gave Brookville the 14-13 lead after one period.
E. Petrosky opened the second quarter with a field goal on a putback. Emily Gregory scored off a steal to give Elk the 17-14 lead. Newsome sank a foul shot before DaCanal scored. Alyssa Byerly sank a foul shot for the Lady Raiders, 19-16. A. Petrosky sank two foul shots, Meholic scored on a putback and Kristy Hanes hit a three as Elk went up 26-16 with 1:45 left in the first half. Reinsel and Elk's Karly Carnovale traded buckets. Hanes hit a two with four seconds left as the Lady Crusaders took a 30-18 halftime lead.
A. converted a three-point play as Elk led 33-18. Hill and E. Petrosky exchanged field goals, 35-20. Brookville went on an 8-0 run, cutting the score to 35-28. DaCanal made it 37-28 before Hill converted two foul shots and hit a field goal. Reinsel made the score 37-34 with 2:05 left in the period. E. Petrosky scored a field goal and Carnovale hit a foul shot, 40-34. Hill hit a field goal at the buzzer, making the score 40-36 with eight minutes left.
Meholic scored for ECC and Brookville scored four points, making the score 42-40. A foul shot by Chey Ross cut Elk's lead to 42-41 as A. Petrosky fouled out. E. Petrosky gave Elk the 44-41 lead, then Newsome sank two foul shots, cutting Elk's lead to 44-43 with 4:19 left. Gregory hit a field goal with 2:46 left. E. Petrosky sank two foul shots to give Elk the 48-43 lead, then Reinsel made the score 48-43 with 1:28 left. In the closing minutes, ECC sank six of eight foul shots, two by Carnovale and four by Gregory, to lead 52-45. Ross hit a three as the buzzer sounded, making the final score 52-48 in favor of Elk Catholic.
Game notes
The Lady Crusaders are now 11-4 overall and 2-2 in District 9 League play. Elk is 4-1 in the Allegheny Mountain League.
The Lady Crusaders return to action tonight when they travel to Sheffield for an AML game. Junior varsity begins at 6 p.m., with varsity set for a 7:30 p.m. start.
The Lady Crusader Grade School Appreciation Night will be held on Friday, when the Lady Crusaders take on the Punxsutawney Lady Chucks in a District 9 League game. Girls in grades 3 through 8 will be recognized by the Lady Crusaders during the junior varsity and varsity contests.
Brookville 48
Alyssa Byerly 4-0-1-4-9, Kaitlyn Hill 3-1-4-6-13, Jamie Peer 1-0-0-1-2, Stephanie Wolfe 1-0-0-0-2, Lanae Newsome 2-0-5-7-9, Karly Reinsel 4-0-1-2-9, Chey Ross 0-1-1-3-4. Totals 15-2-12-22-48.
Emily Gregory 2-0-2-4-6, Abbi Petrosky 3-0-4-7-10, Lexie Meholic 4-0-2-2-10, Karly Carnovale 1-0-1-2-3, Taylor DaCanal 3-0-0-2-6, Kristy Hanes 1-1-0-0-5, Ellie Petrosky 5-0-2-4-12, Maggie Sorg 0-0-0-0-0. Totals 19-1-11-21-52.
Score by quarters
Brookville 14 4 18 12 48
JVs lose
The Elk Catholic junior varsity squad lost a 21-17 contest to the Lady Raiders.
The Lady Crusaders took a 7-2 first-period lead. Brookville outscored Elk 6-1 in the second period to knot the game at 8-all.
The Lady Crusaders outscored the Lady Raiders 8-6 in the third period. In the fourth quarter, Brookville outscored ECC 7-1 to win the game 21-17.
ECCHS scoring: Michelle Imbrogno 4, Morgan Onink 7, Hayley DaCanal 4, Chiara Genevro 2.
Brookville scoring: Shidds 4, Newsome 6, Byerly 7, Deal 2, Blose 2.
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Gallery: 10 MW Dubai Skyscraper Makes 10X More Renewable Energy Than It...
Studied Impact, headed by architect Robert Ferry, is also responsible for designing the Almesien Tower, another solar concentrating skyscraper. Ferry's newest design is planned for the Al Quoz neighborhood in Dubai, and would be located on an empty lot with clear access to sunlight on all sides. The bottom three floors would include shopping, commercial areas and restaurants and would be designed to fit in with the surrounding architecture, although the soaring tower would stick out compared to the low lying buildings surrounding it. On top of the retail podium would be a living roof top garden watered with condensate from the building's air handling units.
Renewable energy systems have certainly been incorporated into buildings before, but never on such a grand scale. The design and architecture for the 10 MW Tower is actually centered around the renewable integrated systems. Based upon meteorological data for the Al Quoz site, the 5 MW horizontal axis wind turbine is capable of operating for 1,600 hours per year, while the two solar systems could operate for 2,400 hours per year, adding up to a yearly output of approximately 20,000 MWh. The estimated embodied energy of the tower is 360,000 MWh, so the energy generation would be able to neutralize its environmental impact in less than twenty years, which no other skyscraper has ever done.
The solar concentrating system is built into the south facing facade and consists of 1,600 heliostatic mirrors that direct the sunlight to a receiver mounted above the mirrors on a cantilevered arm. Molten salt is used as the working fluid to run a steam generator at 500 deg C. The mirrors shade the building partially, but also allow some sun in, which strikes a double curtain wall. Behind the wall is an interstitial greenhouse space reaching all the way to the top of the tower. Air is heated and rises up the 600 m tall chimney and turns the blades for the 2 MW solar updraft turbine.
This incredible design for a skyscraper moves far beyond energy efficiency and sustainable materials. This mixed-use residential and office building could potentially have a negative impact. Although it's located in a questionable spot without much else around it in terms of public transportation or an urban core, the concept is really fascinating and certainly deserves more study.
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May 24, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Very ambitious indeed. Of the three systems mentioned the up draft system may not generate 2 MW unless of course it is of special design, but the attempt to incorporate three systems in a building is commendable, and if all buildings are designed in the same manner, the city may not require additional source of energy. Compliments to the lead architect Robert Ferry
March 10, 2010 at 1:10 pm
a certainly ambitious concept. I hope that Dubai Worlds recent debt crisis doesn't impact the progression of projects like this.
I have to commend the ambition and quick progression the UAE present with projects of this nature. I just wish that we in the western world could get behind ambitious and creative projects like this in our cities with equal speed.
March 10, 2010 at 11:33 am
2 MW solar updraft is just impossible, just hype.


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Signs of promise again did not translate into much as Toro Rosso joined Caterham, HRT and Marussia at the bottom of the Indian timesheets...
Signs of promise again did not translate into much as Toro Rosso joined Caterham, HRT and Marussia at the bottom of the Indian timesheets...
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Daniel Ricciardo: "I enjoyed driving this track last year and it's been even more enjoyable today in what is a quicker car than I had back then. I had a good time out there, while also pushing as hard as we could to be in good shape for tomorrow. In general, I think we achieved what we set out to do. We were good straight out of the box this morning, so we did not make many changes in FP1 and the general balance of the car seemed quite good. In the afternoon, it was clear that the track evolution affected the balance and we have to keep that in mind, as it will evolve even more tomorrow and we have to plan our changes on the car to take that into account."
Jean-Eric Vergne: "Today was my first time at this track and it is really fun to drive, keeping you busy throughout the lap. However, my pace was not that good and we definitely need to look at the data and decide what to do because we're about a second away from where we should be. As for the tyres, there seemed to be a big difference between the performance of the Prime and the Option, but no problems on this front. Daniel and I ran different set-ups to evaluate various choices and clearly, what he had worked better than mine, so we will keep that in mind tonight."
Heikki Kovalainen: "Having sat out FP1 the key for me was getting through as many laps as possible and I'm pleased with what we achieved in FP2. The balance has been pretty good all afternoon on both tyre compounds - we did have some understeer in the high speed corners on the first run on the soft tyres but we dialled that out for the long run and the car felt good as the grip levels kept improving. It's good to see clear air between us and the cars behind and maybe we can play with the tyre strategy tomorrow to push closer to the cars ahead - that has to be the aim."
Vitaly Petrov: "FP1 went well for me. Even though there wasn't a lot of grip early on the car felt pretty good and we got through a lot of aero work that gives us data to work on tonight. In FP2 we were again running well but on my second run on the soft tyres it looked like we might have had a problem with the engine so we ended the session a little early to let the Renault Sport F1 guys take a look and make sure we prevented any damage. Until that point the car had again felt good and we'd found a balance where deg levels on the tyres were very manageable. I think we're in quite good shape for tomorrow and Sunday so hopefully we can have a strong weekend here in India."
Pedro de la Rosa: "I loved the circuit. It's really nice and also very challenging. You have to use the kerbs a lot and the car really suffers, so we have to drive carefully. Overall I had good sensations with the balance of the car, especially in the afternoon when I was able to do more laps. But we've still got a lot of room for improvement and if we're able to improve the balance of the car we'll be able to run better. Especially in changes of direction because we lose too much time on quick corners and we can correct that. Now we must continue working on the set-up of the car to have a good qualifying session tomorrow."
Narain Karthikeyan: "It was a great feeling racing in India once again, at home. The first session went pretty well and in the afternoon we decided to change the balance of the car to improve certain aspects. We'd just set the soft tyres when, unfortunately, we suffered a hydraulic failure which impeded us from improving our times. But the problem should be fixed for tomorrow so I hope to have a good qualifying session."
Timo Glock: "Today was a pretty normal Friday. The track was very dirty to begin with and FP1 didn't work that well for us because we struggled a bit with traffic and I never got a clear lap. In FP2 we worked on the set-up programme and it went pretty well with the tyres. The start of the session was okay and the long run was good, so that's important for the race on Sunday."
Charles Pic: "It has not been a straightforward day today. This is another new track for me and I'm enjoying the layout and characteristics. While FP1 went well for us, we have struggled in FP2 and I have experienced a few small issues which have interrupted our flow. There is more we can do to improve ourselves for tomorrow, however our long run pace was good which is positive."
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If the walls are not at right angles, you can use a T-bevel to measure the angle between the walls. If you don't have a T-bevel, you can hold a piece of light cardboard against one wall and fold it so the crease is against the other, which you can use as a template for cutting the shelves.
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Operation Rescue
News about Operation Rescue, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Selected Articles About Operation Rescue
Icon for Abortion Protesters Is Looking for a Second Act
Randall Terry, the charismatic, hyper-aggressive founder of Operation Rescue, who personified the anti-abortion cause, is being ostracized by the very movement he helped create.July 20, 2001 News
Abortion Foes in Boot Camp Mull Doctor's Killing
Operation Rescue recruits have been agonizing over the killing of a doctor who performed abortions, and who they clearly believed was a mass murderer.March 19, 1993 usNews
Face of Protests in Wichita Is Religious and Undoubting
A month of protests organized by the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue have resulted in thousands of arrests.August 12, 1991 usNews
The Stories We Tell
The story about a pending abortion case is less about a grandmother counseling women than it is a claim by religion for primacy in the public square.
February 6, 2014, Thursday
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Texas: Grand Jury Clears Abortion Provider
A grand jury found no evidence of criminal behavior by a Houston doctor who performs late-term abortions and was accused by anti-abortion groups of killing live-born babies.
December 24, 2013, Tuesday
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New Mexico: Abortion Limits on Albuquerque Ballot
A bill banning abortions in Albuquerque after 20 weeks of pregnancy will be on the Nov. 19 ballot.
September 18, 2013, Wednesday
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Albuquerque Becomes Latest Focal Point in Abortion Wars
Operation Rescue, the militant anti-abortion group based in Kansas, is calling Albuquerque the "late-term abortion capital of the country."
September 5, 2013, Thursday
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Texas: Investigation of Abortion Doctor
The Harris County district attorney's office said that it would investigate charges that a Houston doctor, Douglas Karpen, had delivered live babies during abortions and killed them.
May 16, 2013, Thursday
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Courage in Kansas
Four years after the murder of an abortion provider in Wichita, a new women's medical clinic has opened.
April 14, 2013, Sunday
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A website hosting a searchable database of doctors who perform abortions seems intended to frighten the brave individuals who help women in difficult circumstances.
January 23, 2012, Monday
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Delay in Trial for Abortion Doctor Killing
Lawyers disagreed about how far the defense for Scott Roeder should be permitted to go in presenting opposition to abortion as a reason for the killing.
January 12, 2010, Tuesday
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Kansas: Anti-Abortion Struggles
The anti-abortion group Operation Rescue has told its supporters it is facing a "major financial crisis" and is close to shutting down.
September 16, 2009, Wednesday
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Nebraska: Abortion Fight Moves
An anti-abortion group from Kansas is moving its fight north to Nebraska, preparing for a weekend demonstration and holding a workshop.
August 29, 2009, Saturday
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- Adam Burk
- Portland, ME
- United States
Founder/ Director, Treehouse Institute
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How will you help to fulfill Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish?
Jamie's wish: "I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity."
At TED2011 we saw an update from many TEDprize winners including Jamie Oliver. The Food Revolution has some exciting new initiatives underway including new community kitchens and the mobile Revolution.
My full-time job is dedicated to fighting obesity, particularly through improving school food. I am currently releasing funding to 10 schools in Maine to begin or improve school garden programs and have been working with these schools to improve their wellness policies including nutrition standards.
Obesity is a large issue (no pun intended) and it takes whole communities to engage in the readily available solutions we have to end the obesity crises. So what part are you playing? What's working? What challenges are you facing? What can you offer to others to help them do more in their communities?
Apr 6 2011: Without meaning to run an advertisement here for my website, I'll just say that half of my site is dedicated to Childhood Obesity. I try to give parents tools to help, as well as information on important complications like diabetes. I have a reasonably large list of culinary tips to cut down on calories while improving flavor. Most of all, I try to give parents support. We answer questions from parents everyday - as quickly as we can - and I think the "direct contact with professionals" we offer is really having an impact. I'm sure most people can't spend all their time building websites like ours - this is my personal and professional passion - and that THIS level of commitment isn't needed by everyone. It's just that THIS is how I spend my life. I sure wish our society was different, and that I didn't have to do it.
Apr 6 2011: Dr. Katz, thanks for your sensitivity about ensuring you were telling your story and not promoting a business. Thanks also for your dedication and perseverance. May our collective efforts for health be successful!Apr 6 2011: Dear Dr. Katz,
You write: "I have a reasonably large list of culinary tips to cut down on calories while improving flavor", so I went to your site (accessed through your profile) anticipating recipies using fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs. There are quite a few advertisements on your site for prepared foods that are not particularly healthy and expensive, in my perception, Your web site looks impressive, but all the advertisements for the pre-packaged foods was disappointing. Am I missing something?
Merry Selk
Apr 3 2011: Visit http://www.CaliforniaConvergence.org to see how low-income California communities are successfully changing the local "environment" for health -- including better school lunches! See profiles of community-led changes at http://www.californiaconvergence.org/members/map
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A whole low-income community works together -- including schools, neighborhood groups, public health departments -- to improve the "environment," that goes beyond individual change, to changing the possibility for whole communities to have better health:
• Changing school lunches.
• Engaging youth in community change (http://bit.ly/youthzine and http://www.werefedup.com).
• Creating safe places to play (community joint use of schoolyards at http://www.jointuse.org).
• Bringing healthy food to communities, including market makeovers for corner stores (http://www.marketmakeovers.org).
More examples of successful community action for change at http://HealthyEatingActiveCommunities.org
Video on Filling the Food Desert at: http://bit.ly/HEACVideoFoodDesert
Videos of community change at: http://bit.ly/HEACVideos
Apr 4 2011: Merry, this is all excellent work. I know there are good resources on the sites you offer, but I am interested in what advice and suggestions you might offer to others.Apr 7 2011: I am a chef at a homeless shelter in Vancouver BC. I fight this fight on a daily basis. No budget, abundant hungry people, in all states of nutritional danger. I am trying in vain to implement a proper food security system, and instead of buying the evil frozen cabbage rolls from sysco, buying locally, and taking the time to make them by hand. but we are a low priority...amazing since we are the people that feed the most at risk people, and instead of feeding them healthy meals, we bow down to the budget, and the ennui of a great many cooks and chefs in this industry and buy frozen to plate. a sad place...we waste Styrofoam cups by the bucket, because cups are too expensive, and people will lose them, but we are filling landfills, killing our world, and at the same time improving nothing. handing out fish, instead of teaching people how to fish, or cook as Mr. oliver points out. there is so much to do, and so little support by which to do it. I stay at my job because i know that everything i make is by hand with love and with the best products i have , but i am one cook, and not even a lead....but i will never stop trying, and with the support and amazing ideas of people such as mr. oliver....i gain more voices to fight the most important fight...healthy eating.
Apr 7 2011: Casey,
I applaud your compassion, dedication, and perseverance. I used to work as a homeless outreach worker and empathize with the challenges you are up against.
Does Vancouver have a food policy council? If so, I suggest plugging into their efforts, if not, I suggest thinking about convening one. There's a great conference coming up in Portland, Oregon, focused on food policy councils. http://foodpolicyconference.org/portland/ Even if you can't make it to the conference, there are lots of great resources that the Community Food Security Coalition provides on the website.Apr 5 2011: After watching Jamie's wish last year I was really excited to start cooking, even though I had never done it before. So I downloaded Jamie's app for iPhone and started to learn some basic stuff. My family used to be terrible at cooking, so one day I decided to encourage them to cook with me, and they did. It was amazing, funny and delicious. We made one of Jamie's recipes from the app, it took about 30 minutes and it was really easy. So since then we've been making great meals, and even my 4 year old siblings join us at the kitchen. We've also bought some recipes books, and I encourage you guys to download Jamie's app for iPhone, or, if you have an iPad, download the "How to cook everything" app, it's very good and both teach some basic techniques.
This year I'm organizing a TEDx event at my school here in Brazil, therefore I'll try to find someone to talk about food education and inspire my friends to do the same as I did, but if I don't I'll certainly play his TED Wish. Great post by the way, Adam!
Apr 6 2011: Lucas, your story is very inspiring, thank you for sharing! Good luck on your TEDx event if you need any help feel free to contact me.Apr 5 2011: Hello! My sophomore year at Vanderbilt University, I founded an organization called Healthy Head Start that promotes healthy and active lifestyles in elementary-high school classes in the Nashville Community (www.healthyheadstart.com). Each year, we hold "Healthy Thanksgivings Feasts," lead gym classes, teach healthy lessons, and promote other events to show that eating healthy can taste good and living actively is fun and easy! Currently I am studying at Columbia University to receive a masters in molecular nutrition. This fall I am returning to Nashville to work for Vanderbilt's Center for Health Services to get back into the Nashville community not only promoting nutrition and healthy lifestyles but also partnering with Nashville's Brand NEW "Nashville Mobile Market" (http://www.nashvillemobilemarket.org/) helping to distribute fresh fruits and vegetables in low SES communities that are typically considered 'food deserts.'
I think what everyone is doing is amazing and I'm just happy to be apart of this food revolution that is sweeping the nation. Good luck to everyone in their endeavors! I hope one day we can all join forces and solve this nation's growing obesity epidemic and prevent these growing health care costs from consuming our disposable income for us and future generations.Apr 3 2011: We're organizing our first TEDxTucsonSalon about Food. We're also helping educate and organize our community about local food, urban agriculture and permaculture. http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2633
Apr 4 2011: This is great Lewis! I look forward to watching the talks and learning from your local leaders!
Kunal Chawla
Mar 20 2011: Starting next month (April 2011), I will be a grade 6 science teacher at a school in New Delhi, India. I am passionate about teaching and curriculum design and plan to teach my students about food. This should uncover several topics in the classroom -- from the components and sources of food to the changes in the molecular structure of food as a result of frying.
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My ultimate hope is for my students to make good decisions about the foods they choose to consume and for them to learn to cook in their kitchen at home and in our make-shift kitchen at the school.
I wonder if anyone on this forum can lead me to curriculum that helps teachers teach students about food. I hope to enhance on the work done thus far and then share my work using a creative commons license.
Mar 20 2011: Kunal, first of all I applaud your intentions! Here are some websites that will either have resources or connect you to others that do. I am not going to list the website itself for fear that so many links would bounce my post.
Center for Ecoliteracy
Agriculture in the Classroom
VT Feed
Farm to school.org
Jaime Oliver's Food Revolution-teacher's toolkit
The Lunch Box.org
Grassroots International-Food for Thought and Action: A Food Sovereignty Curriculum
Having looked at many of these, I can tell you that your plans to enhance these resources and share your work through a creative commons license would be a tremendous gift to the effort. Thank you.Mar 21 2011: Here is another curriculum resource:
Mar 25 2011: Thanks Adam. The curriculum should be ready within 2 weeks. I can share it back with everyone on this forum.
Mar 25 2011: Wonderful! Thank you!Jun 19 2011: I am a grade 6 science teacher at a school in India, and for the past few weeks I have been working on designing video lessons on nutrition for middle school students.
Those who are interested can access the video lessons here -- http://sites.google.com/site/lessonsinscience/
I look forward to hearing your feedback. Finally, I have shared these video lessons and the corresponding presentations using a non-commercial, creative commons license. So feel free to use, share and improve on these lessons.Mar 19 2011: First of all, I want to clarify that I was in a garden way before Jamie Oliver was even a twinkle in his mom and pop's eyes:>) LOL!
64 years ago, my mother was in the garden when she went into labor for me. We went to the hospital, did our thing, and she brought me back home and into the garden again:>) I've been in the gardens ever since, growing food for my family and sharing with friends and neighbors. I know exactly what is going into the body when I pick fresh herbs, vegetables and fruits for a meal. In addition to the food, I also have over 500 varities of perennials (come back every year) annuals, tropicals, water features, etc. The gardens have been featured in 4 publications, in a TV segment, and they are open to the public, so I have an opportunity to connect with many people and often give tips on growing food and flowers. I've created many "garden addicts" along the way, when people realize all the benefits of growing their own food, and having the beauty of a garden in their space. Gardening is a wonderful physical exercise, meditative, creative process, healthy and joyful:>) I can't even imagine a life without a garden:>) Jamie is doing a GREAT job in helping me with a focus on healthy eating...healthy living! LOL:>)
Mar 19 2011: Colleen, this is wonderful. Your mother truly gave you a gift that most of us don't get. Do you have interest in helping more kids connect to the wonders and benefits of gardens?
Mar 19 2011: Absolutely! For years the kindergarten class came to the gardens for field trips. They came in the late spring/early summer, usually when the strawberries were producing, so we had fun with that:>) The teacher prepared them a couple weeks in advance with stories and information about gardens. They were always very curious, sweet and respectful. Although they are always invited, there is a new teacher, who apparently does not see the value in a field trip to the gardens. The neighbor kids are often wandering through with their friends and enjoying the gardens too:>) You are right Adam...it is a great gift, given to me by my parents. We all have the opportunity to connect with gardening however. Even if we have very little land, there are many varities of fruits, veggies and herbs that can be grown in pots. Thanks for bringing this to our attention Adam:>)
Mar 20 2011: Colleen, the pressure to get through standards are perform well on standardized tests are eroding joyful learning in many places. Pair that with severe budget crises and the money just isn't there for field trips anymore. Teachers have to be grant writers too, just to do anything outside of the classroom or innovative these days. It's a sad state. In my work I have found that the closer gardens are to classrooms, particularly for the little ones the more time teachers can spend there with students. That's why a lot of the projects I am working on are right outside the classroom, next to the cafe, or playground!
And you're right food can be grown in side, on the side of building, on decks, in containers, bags, and more. The vital link that has been lost at large, and is being rebuilt in communities (see Ruth's comments) all over, are caring mentors who have the time to garden with kids.
Thanks Colleen!Mar 20 2011: I understand the limits we have created in our world Adam. We can all take small steps toward changing the perception and practice of healthy eating/healthy living. My gardens are 1/8 of a mile from the school. It takes people in the school system who are ready, willing and able to change patterns:>) Keep up the good work:>)Mar 25 2011: Wow, Colleen- it sounds like a paradise.Mar 18 2011: I have initiated a Victory Garden 100 project that will connect 100 households in my local communities with gardens of their own to grow based on their household size. This will be supported with local resources and the passion of making real food connections to at risk populations. This will be made possible with connections I have made with generous individuals growing seeds from donated resources and bringing on board a local university to help grow the needed plants. Our work goal is to then have a nutrition plan that will support households in education about foods they are growing and foods they have not tried into quick easy recipes. I want to write a cook book. I am also reviewing all menu items and purchasing to remove all high fructose corn syrup in any menu planning. I firmly believe in this mission, and support Jamie Oliver's approach and passion in helping to save lives.
I have recently signed up for and in the middle of taking a Garden 4 Humanity course that addresses the needs in the communities in which I work to help support the mission from a ground up manner.
I also work with local school districts food service and plan to share this video with them for reference and inspiration.
Adam Burk
Mar 19 2011: Ruth, this is great. Can you tell me more about how the project works? How are households chosen and how are they supported in growing gardens?
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I am so happy to hear that you work with the local schools. These connections are vital to help food services do what they may not otherwise be able to, because of budget constraints or simply because they don't know that the community support for change is there.
Mar 20 2011: I started a garden at work for two reasons. 1) To expose employees fresh quick healthy options with demonstrations how to cook produce. 2) For the emergency food pantry I oversee to provide organic produce.
From there I realized quickly the need for these consumer of the emergency food pantry to learn how to grow their own veggies. I surveyed pantry consumer for 1 month and well over 90% desired to learn to grow. I was surprised by the statistics that of the 100 households more than 33% are families of 5 or more. The households who have children are my primary focus. With the local extension office we are connecting families with garden mentors through Master Gardeners and Garden 4 Humanity. Each household will receive a pack of live plants and seeds based on their household size. We will also provide a Victory Garden Handbook that contains recipes and will offer them opportunities to learn how to preserve their harvest by canning, freezing, etc. An important piece to this is showing them how to save seeds from the heirloom varieties.
Thank you about the schools. I work with three different school districts. I am planning to send them this link.
Mar 20 2011: This is a comprehensive effort Ruth, obviously based in real needs and expressed desires. Kudo's to you!
Folks in my office are working with food pantries too. Some pantries are growing their own food and others are looking for closer connections with farmers. We also support a program where local chefs volunteer to teach cooking classes based on food either picked directly off the pantry shelves or with $10 worth of ingredients from the market. These classes are taught in series of six to provide a wide array of skills and recipes. We also support community gardens, and work largely in rural areas. So we are looking for innovative ways to practice this concept, such as gardens based at affordable housing complexes.
I am going to look into Garden 4 Humanity as I have not heard of this effort before. Thanks Ruth!Mar 20 2011: http://ccetompkins.org/garden/community-school-gardens/gardens-4-humanity
Nice! We are all out there marching one step forward at a time! The heroes are the volunteers.Mar 11 2011: My son is 15 years old and since he was age 2 and attending school he has brought his lunch from home. Early on I was appalled at what they were feeding the kids at the various schools he has attanded. Since about age 8 he has been making his own lunch daily--we shop together and pick out his lunch food together and it always includes fresh vegatables, like carrots, and fresh fruit like apples and oranges that he can pack along with a sandwich. He is allowed to pack a couple cookies or other small dessert item, mostly cookies that we bake at home.
If you could get most parentsto teach their kids to make and take a healthy lunch to school maybe the schools would have to compete with that and offer better fare.
Mar 19 2011: I applaud you and parents like you. But if you dig deeper and look at the larger systemic issue with schools and poverty the children this affects the most are the low income families who don't have the resources to do what you do. So we all agree children need to eat healthier. Now look at the state education system and their current focus on how they procure food. Their system is broken. They truck in foods as commodities which we all know are highly processed, high fat, sodium and sugar. They are very nutrient deficient. They do try their best with what they have however programs like Head Start have been attempting to work with these school districts to improve the quality and advocating exactly what Jamie Oliver is saying. Speaking for myself I have been doing that for 15 years. I am but one voice when many are needed.
If schools focused on local fresh options and connected with farm to plate our nation's addiction to junk foods would be better equalized. And it all starts with our seeds of education.
Mar 20 2011: I do agree with the fact that low income families do not have the resources to do it, but I also believe that your diligent efforts, such as raising awareness among us, will benefit even those in the low income stratum. I am a strong believer in sharing of information, and those who are poor are also strongly related to poor education. Given the tough economic times, I could consider myself and family poor right now, husband unemployed and I going to school. We have a daughter and life is tough, but my decisions of keeping my daughter healthy, by always trying to eat at home, and cooking from scratch, having our fruits and vegetables always readily available, is a matter of decision and being well informed. I benefit from food stamps right now, but i never go to the store to buy soda or prepackaged frozen meals. The only difference between me and the others who are unfortunate right now is probably the lack of information and interest in being educated. I often go to the families and children department for regular check-ups with my daughter and I see parents giving their children coke in their feeding bottles. It is appalling...I wish parents...first and foremost stop the vicious cycle we have gotten ourselves in. I think that fast food should be very expensive, with high taxes incurred, so that people can be stopped from having such quick access to it.
Mar 20 2011: Ana-Corina, I agree with you and applaud you for going the extra mile for yourself and your family. Raising awareness and ensuring access are two components necessary to help more people eat healthy foods.Mar 19 2011: Christine, I, too, applaude you for ensuring that your child has eaten well and understands the connections between food and health.
In addition to Ruth's point that many families simply can't afford to pack healthy options for their kids, schools are incredibly ill-suited to compete with your packed lunch. Food services have to make meals for around $2 per student. That $2 needs to cover ingredient and labor costs; sometimes rent and utilities too! Unless a school board grants food services budget leeway they have to stay in the black, all on $2-2.50 a meal. Now we now the business model that sustains on that model. It's called fast food.Jul 6 2011: Last month, I helped launch a "boat to school" program at a Maine high school. This entailed connecting the school with Maine fisherman, getting underutilized and sustainably caught fish, working with a local chef to develop recipes for student taste testing, and serving the winner from the taste tests on the menu. It was a great success, the cafe sold out, and they plan to continue selling the fish next school year approximately once per month.
In addition to getting a tasty, nutritious meal, students got to hear the story of how the fish were caught, landed, and hand-filleted by one of the fisherman. Creating this connection of story and place with our food is vital.Apr 7 2011: and btw, any suggestions or ideas are obviously greatly appreciated.Apr 3 2011: Make the subject of Health, Fitness & Well-Being a subject of study from 1st through 12 grade with a curriculum designed by the best minds in the field.
Adam Burk
Apr 3 2011: Jim, I just saw a screening of the film, Nourish, which is 26 minutes long and a good kick off for anyone (including in schools) to look at our food and food systems. Along with the Center for Ecoliteracy (some of those best minds you speak of) they have developed a middle school curriculum and are working on a high school and elementary curriculum too.
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One very interesting thing I learned was that research from Stanford has shown that the study of food systems and social impacts has greater impact on individual diet change as opposed to the traditional medical/scientific study of nutrition in schools. This could mean a radical overhaul of curriculum.
More on the film and the accompanying movement, http://www.nourishlife.org/
Apr 5 2011: Looking forward to learning more about Nourish - thank you! Yes, I agree - the "subject" lesson must be taught in a way that children see the connection between lifestyle choices and their personal happiness.
A radical idea for schools to consider is the creation of working gardens at schools that are used as a laboratory for learning about how food impacts on health, fitness & well-being... even more radical would be for communities to establish a garden for growing flowers, vegetables,fruits for sale to the local community. More radical would be for communities to maintain an animal barn and yard to raise chickens, eggs, etc.
Things like this would re-define who we are and have a profound impact over the long-term on how we function as a society.Mar 27 2011: I teach the community about Oriental Medicine and Ayurveda. These 2 traditions can contribute greatly to fixing the food problem. Fix it first, research it later.Mar 25 2011: this always comes back to mind when I hear about Jamie's work and wish.
as well as this Alice Waters http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5088169n
to me, this is the TedTalks at its best Sprouting conversations and TedXtalks all over the world
a smorgasbord for us to pick from as the spirit moves them
this is Salman Khan's insights taking flight
this is our all bringing our insights to the table to fill in the blanks of the big picture.
looking at the even bigger picture, or wish we could top JAmie's wish with ours, which is peoples turning the sod to plant gardens. with vegetables and flowers. it is about growing your own oxygen, as Kamal Meattle share in his TedTalk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmn7tjSNyAA. .
like we just do not see the missing link being the quality of the oxygen we breathe. . . and the scents of all the plants being our true medicine. . and look at the relative importance of the air we breathe compared to the food we eat.
I also happen to come upon this article about hempseed. . http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed2.html
If this is so , it is criminal not to seed it by planes over logged out areas and not feed the world by fall. and think of our all having the sweet sweet green grass of earth growing as high as the elephant's eye. and having enough fiber left over to make folks without any new shirt. Top this by the fact we'd have a near instant 5 foot ground cover which surely would have some effect on global warming . . and yes, loved that they had a garden in the white house the next spring.
So naturally the Chancess of Jamie's wish coming true depends on how grand or as the latest word is, when the thoughts of growing our own food in our gardens, has us breathe in health and peace, when we walk into the garden and the flowers' greet us with their heavenly bouquet of sweets nuff to have your spirit remember you can breathe easy and deeply again.Mar 23 2011: last night my 10 year old cooked sugar snap pea's from her own 4ft x 4ft garden -she harvested her first crop on Sunday- and the plants are thriving- she has 3 other veggies planted that are comming up underneath the pea's --and it's thrilling to get the plants through the 2 frosts that we had (covered her raised bed garden, for those nights). She has also harvested cilantro from the yard, and rosemary to use in her cooking. -her school had a farmer raising fresh veggies to use in the school cooking -so, she started with pulling weeds there with her class sometimes- and has graduated to having her own garden at home provide fresh ingredients. --Perhaps it helps that we are in the Real South Texas near the Rio Grande River, and the Gulf of Mexico. -at least it gives us three growing seasons.
My wife and I signed Jaime's petition a while back after his TV episodes -that he showed here in the TED Talk air'd -and the change will need a massive push from society- Schools -even Charters like the one my daughter goes to -are resistant to any change.Mar 7 2011: I saw the video and am greatly inspired. I am a 22-year-old woman from Indonesia. I am a Chinese-Indonesian and I grew up in a family where homemade food is the center of our lives. I admire my mother for cooking for her children and I feel grateful she did a good job in it. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think about my mother is her sweet and full-of-love cooking. When you cook for your family and the people you care about, it matters. You can feel it grow in your bones and you will naturally hold that healthy lifestyle and pass it on to other people.
I am nobody, and I don't have a lot of money. But I love to cook and I am applying for a scholarship to study Culinary Arts and Food Safety in America. I haven't got the grant but I hope I will. I want to study what is right and wrong, I want to follow Jamie's footsteps and I want to participate actively in his program. I want to be inspired more. I want to use my youthful energy and my healthy food philosophy and help Jamie with the program. I want to return to my home country one day and empower people to know more about food. Indonesia is a country with a large population of poor people and they have not got any idea of what food is good to eat. We have the land, we have the soil, but we do not have the education. I am applying a scholarship to study in USA (because I believe I can learn so much from such an educated country) and that is how I'm fulfilling Jamie's wish.
Wish me good luck in getting granted.
Mar 7 2011: Bernadette, I do wish you great luck! Your inspirations are noble and for you and those whose lives you touch I hope the grants come through.
You don't have to be "anybody" to affect change in the meantime. Jaime has put out a lot of resources through his website, http://www.jamieoliver.com/foundation/jamies-food-revolution/ You can arm yourself with knowledge and review the toolkits to learn how you can take action as a student, parent, teacher, student, administrator, or community member! it takes champions from all directions to make these changes happen.
Mar 8 2011: Thank you so much, Adam, for the kind wishes.
I agree with you and Jamie - every individual effort matters. But imagine what I can do if I have the knowledge I can share with everyone - just like what Jamie is doing. I am so glad you release funds to empower the improvement of gardening programs. People like make things happen.
Good luck with your dedication! As an inspired person to another, I salute you.


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Well you also have to think that the players are shooting for the stars, trying to get as much money out of the organization as they can.
Eventually once the times boils down they will budge from their first viewpoints and have realistic demands
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as far as sean smith and hartline.... this could be their one chance to make some serious dough in their career. that's how they and their agents view it. these two both have never really been paid by this organization. you're talking about a late 2nd and a 4th round pick. I don't blame them they've both started for a while, and this year they absolutely were our #1 corner and receiver. but the problem is those 2 areas sucked on our team.... catch 22 really. not good enough to be our starters but were, and now wanted be paid like they are. Now is probably the time to replace them. As much as I want to see Starks, Hartline, Bush, Smith, Long back... This draft and free agency have wideouts, corners, and offensive line, and runningbacks too. We also have young guys behind some of them chomping at the bits (Odrick for Starks) (miller/Thomas for bush) (maybe martin for long)
Im not so sure letting them test the market is so bad. If someone pays them a fortune, so be it. They arent worth that much. But most likely seeing their market value will be a huge reality check and they may come crawling back to Miami.
Hartline will be resigned imo.
Everybody is replaceable and many in house replacements are already on hand. Let them hit the market and see what is there.
The best way to figure out their worth is let them test the market and come back to allow us to match. If not bye-bye. The only guys we should be signing now is guys that want a deal done for long term security giving contract value to the team.


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Jamie Stancliff named Atlantic Sun Volleyball Player of the Week
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
MACON, Ga. (September 7, 2010) - After helping ETSU sweep through the Radford Tournament and earning tournament MVP honors, junior middle blocker Jamie Stancliff (Advance, N.C.) has been named Atlantic Sun Volleyball Player of the Week, the league office announced on Tuesday.
"Jamie is the type of player who gets in the gym early and always wants to get a couple of extra reps when everyone leaves," said head coach Lindsey Devine. "Her dedication and hard work is paying off."
Stancliff started out the tournament strong in helping the Bucs defeat Canisius in a tough five set match on Friday evening. Stancliff tied a career-high with 13 kills on 26 attempts for a .423 hitting percentage. She also added two block assists in the match.
In game two of the tournament Stancliff continued her solid play as she came away with 10 kill on 18 chances for a .444 attack percentage. She also added three digs and five block assists in the tight 3-2 victory over Davidson.
Stancliff capped off the tournament with three kills on just six attempts for a .500 attack percentage in a quick 3-0 defeat of Norfolk State. She also had four service aces and three blocks in the tournament finale for the Bucs. ETSU would go on to win the tournament as they were the only team to finish undefeated on the weekend.
The player of the week honor given to Stancliff was the first of her career and is the first for the Bucs since Amanda Youell won the award in September of 2007.
ETSU returns home this weekend as they will host the Buccaneer Classic presented by Holiday Inn. The Bucs will face Austin Peay, UNC Greensboro and UNC Asheville in the event.
For more information on the ETSU volleyball team please go to ETSUBucs.com and click on the volleyball link.
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How did that granet cut on your chop saw? I have some scraps from a remodel and I was thinking of adding it to the side "shelves" of my grill
Hi Bigtow,
Yes well I purchased the correct blade but it just did more damage than good. I then purchased a diamond tile saw blade for my 4 " angle grinder and it cut it like butter. The key to getting a good result is to clamp it rigidly as any vibration will make the granite crack and fall apart. Same when drilling full support is required or the drill will blow out the back.
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Gotta love absolute black granite. My sister just did her whole kitchen in 3cm. Cool trophy! I like the rim around the granite, very nice touch.
Cutting granite by hand works with a diamond wheel on your grinder, spraying a small stream of water makes it not chip. Drilling it, you should use diamond bits with a little water too. You can get them pretty cheap from Home Depot.


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HANOVER — Many years from now, the La Plata Warriors and their fans will still be talking about Tuesday's memorable 5-4 walk-off victory via an exhilarating comeback over the Stephen Decatur Seahawks from Worcester County in the Class 3A state baseball semifinals at Joe Cannon Stadium in Anne Arundel County.
The improbable win propels La Plata to its second state championship game in three years at 7 p.m. Saturday at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, facing Bel Air of Harford County.
Determined to avoid playoff elimination for the second straight year in the state semifinals, La Plata rallied from a 4-0 hole with three runs in the fifth inning and then completed its late-game heroics by dramatically plating the tying and winning runs with aggressive, opportunistic base running while down to its final out in the bottom of the seventh.
"That was the craziest game I've played in my life," said La Plata cleanup hitter Jimmy Monaghan, who continued to dazzle this postseason as a sophomore with a clutch, two-out single to right-center field in the fifth that drove in a pair of runs to bring the Warriors within 4-3.
Monaghan was intentionally walked with one out in the seventh, while Colin Stine, who led off the frame with a double on a one-ball-two-strike count, was at third to set the stage for La Plata's comeback magic.
"I've never seen so much energy in all our team in that last inning, and I've got to thank our fans so much. They were so loud," a still-stunned Monaghan added after he and his teammates converged in a raucous victory pile while their fans basked in jubilation when the winning run slid across the plate. "That was the funnest game ever, and I wouldn't want to be anyone else.
"That was the best moment of my life."
La Plata winning pitcher Alex Calvert tossed the final four innings in solid relief with one run allowed on three hits but popped out in the infield in the seventh with one away and runners at the corners, seemingly the vital out Decatur needed to escape the jam. But La Plata refused to surrender down to its final out.
"My adrenaline is still high right now, it's just ridiculous," Calvert said. "I still don't feel like we won. It's going to hit me sometime soon, but my adrenaline is so high that I just can't think about anything. Going down 4-0 and coming back, it's just awesome."
Stine slid head-first across the plate on a two-out wild pitch in the seventh to tie the game at 4 for La Plata. On the play that drew a throw from Decatur catcher Zach Adams to starting pitcher Grant Donahue covering the plate, La Plata pinch-runner Simeon Spruill went from first to third when the ball squirted away as Stine slid home.
Spruill, running for Monaghan, hustled home for third with the winning run on a planned base-running play called by La Plata head coach John Childers.
Labeled the "Pickle Play" by the team, Childers called for La Plata base runner Troy Konzen, who drew a two-out walk after the tying wild pitch, to force a throw to first that would get him a rundown with the notion that Spruill would hustle home from third to end the game in the walk-off — rather, run-off — fashion before Konzen would get tagged out.
The "Pickle Play" worked to perfection even though Decatur first baseman Jacob Hickman only briefly headed Konzen's way before throwing home as Spruill was barreling toward the plate.
A quality throw would have probably nailed the hustling Spruill. But Hickman's off-balance throw was thrown into the dirt and bounced away from Adams as Spruill approached, sliding across the plate with the game-winning run that has La Plata one victory away from its second state title since 2008.
"The 'Pickle Play,' I save it for the right situation. I don't do it early in the game usually," Childers said. "[My mind] was just blank [as we scored the winning run]. It was just all happening so fast. It's unbelievable. We were down, 4-0, to a good team with a pitcher that's dealing like that.
"For the first five innings, [Decatur's defense] catches everything that's near them. At that point [in the fifth], I'm trying to convince [my players] that we could still come back and win this game. And they never quit, to their credit."
About winning the game in the seventh with small-ball, base-running tactics instead of La Plata's usual long-ball weaponry, Childers half-jokingly added, "I feel a little dirty doing it. I like to let them swing the bats, but that was a situation where you put a little pressure [on Decatur's defense with our base running] and maybe they make a mistake."
A couple of breath-taking plays in the field is what enabled Decatur to be in command of the game through 4 1/2 innings with a 4-0 lead.
After Decatur scored a run in the first, La Plata would have responded with a tally of its own if not for Monaghan's belted grounder down the first-base line being snagged on a big hop by a diving Hickman, who then got to his feet and hustled to the bag for the inning-ending out that kept Zach Snell stranded at third following a two-out triple and took away an extra-base hit from Monaghan.
In the third with one down and a runner on first, La Plata's Denzel Johnson cranked a deep fly ball to right-center field that would have exited most high school parks. But Decatur center fielder Dallas Harrington robbed Johnson with a tremendous over-the-shoulder catch while on a dead sprint. La Plata never scored in the frame, despite a couple of singles, due to Harrington's defensive gem.
But the defense that kept Decatur ahead for much of the game let the team down late, committing two errors amid three straight breakdowns in the sixth before the seventh-inning wild pitch and errant throw to the plate that enabled La Plata to tie and win the game.
"It's pretty tough," Decatur head coach Rich Ferro said, gracious amid a bitter defeat afterward. "We've won a lot of close games that could've gone the other way, so today we were on the other end. [Our first baseman] was moving toward second base [on La Plata's 'Pickle Play'], it was a tough throw [home]. He should've just held it and run [toward home for the throw]."
La Plata 5, Stephen Decatur 4
Decatur 102 010 0 — 4 8 3
La Plata 000 030 2 — 5 7 0
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Rodded follow-up visit re: duck soup
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On Thi's rec., went there with the Chow-pup last night (we'd been to one of the other two Thai places on the same block on the same side of the street about a year ago).
Parking is a problem, particularly at near-rush-hour; three restaurants in that block, none with a parking lot; Thi's hang-out coffee place on oposite side of the side street, with no lot; NEW coffee place ("Lithium Cafe"; I didn't believe it either when the Pup pointed it out and had to go past again to read it myself) on the other side of the street; Torung a block up...
Service (we were getting take-out) was fast and accomodating.
Menu is starch-intense, even for a Thai place. Noodles, noodle soup, wonton, and rice.
We had:
glass noodle pad thai (Pup's choice; interesting texture variation, but a little on the blandish side; perhaps waitress had us pegged as gringos from our "mild" duck soup order; improved by shot of hot sauce and several squeezes of lime)
Pad see yew (pretty good; not as ily as some; could have used more gai lan though) and
the aforementioned duck soup (available with wide noodles, thin noodles, rice thread noodles, egg noodles, etc., you get the idea) which, even ordered "mild", was pretty wonderful.
$17. before tip.
Now I must go repeat Thi's A-B comparision with Ruen Pair myself, and also with duck noodles soup at Thai Wat, which in the Chinese-ness of their spicing (lots of 5-spice) invoke in me a nostalgic memory of the Far east Cafe in San Francisco in about 1966.
I've tried some other things now, including the glass noodle soup.
Nothing else there seems to come close to the duck soup.
Though they seem to have a serious dedication to won tons, judging from the menu.
Though I note that the duck soup is based on their duck stew (perhaps just a diluted version), and the duck stew is available pure, in pretty much every version you could one. One is... served over fried egg noodles. Hmmm...
Try the kou jub soup too, while you're at RP. If that ain't overload.
We finally ate here after all these years. I remember reading this post and decided that we would one day eat here. There was always something else in the area that took us off track, but now I can check Rodded off the list. My wife was craving Boat Noodles at Sapp, but I spotted Rodded as we drove down Hollywood Blvd. and quickly found parking.
We ordered the duck nooodle soup, half stewed duck, and spicy eggplants with pork. Every dis was outstanding. The dwell duck soup broth was properly spiked with Thai spices. The stewed duck was sliced, served on top of some Chinese broccoli, and eaten with the tangy Thai salsa from the tableside jars. The final dish of spicy Chinese eggplants was a savory pile of al dente pile eggplants interspersed with onions, pork and chili. I'm saddened that it took so many years to make it to Rodded, but I am sure glad we finally got to try it. Thanks Thi, RFSG, and Chowhound.
re: mpken
How long ago was the original write-up? Like, 2003? Almost every place I loved in 2003 has declined, gotten boring, been replaced and surpassed... but I still love Rodded pretty damn hard and still eat here on the regular.
They also have my favorite Hainan Chicken rice in town - only on weekends, and they run out by noon or soon after... but *damn* it's good.
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Your original review was in 2003:
My review:
Dropped by Rodded today. Is this a fusion joint or what? Thai/Vietnamese/Chinese influences, almost like a chiu chow thai restaurant.
Ordered the duck noodle with egg noodles and the tom yum noodles
1. Duck Noodles - No skin on the duck. A pretty healthy chunk of duck to boot. Got it mild, and it was still fairly spicy. Noodles had great texture as did the duck. However, the soup was a little blander than I expected. Duck flavor for sure, as well as lots of spices, but wasn't as "ducky" as I expected it to be. I'll give the nod to Hoy Ka here - while the noodles aren't as good, I thought the soup had better balance/flavor (tends to run a little sweeter vs a little spicier at the mild level). The heaping of fried garlic was also much bigger @ Hoy Ka.
2. Tom yum noodle soup - WTF is this? It's like bun rieu had sex with tom yum and this was the offspring. Seriously, it was like a bun rieu broth w/ anantto oil, except sour like a tom yum with pork accoutrements. Not "bad", but I wouldn't order this again
3. Fried banana - heard good reviews on Yelp so decided to check it out. Very crispy, not very greasy. They add sesame to their batter, so it's like chinese sesame balls w/ banana instead of mung bean.
Overall the duck noodles were pretty good but I'd probably go to Hoy Ka - overall better noodle bowl (imho) and better hours. Do not get the tom yum here. Based on Thi's comments, I'll come back for another bowl of duck noodles and some hainan chicken.