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Thursday's lineups: Tigers vs. Twins
Leyland told reporters in his office this morning that he had a tough time weighing whether to start Quintin Berry today against Scott Diamond, who has given up a .324 batting average and .940 OPS to left-handed hitters this year. Ultimately, the fact that Raburn has seen Diamond before — and he's supposed to hit lefties — won out.
"I tossed and turned with it today to play Berry or Raburn. I ended up playing Raburn," Leyland said. The thought process is if Raburn doesn't help us against left-handers then we have issues. You give him the benefit of the doubt to see if you can maybe get him going a little bit."
It sounds very much like Leyland is sticking with the idea of using this stretch to see if Raburn can turn it around.
"I'm kind of playing the string out right now to see if Raburn's going to do something," Leyland said.
- Austin Jackson, CF
- Ryan Raburn, LF
- Miguel Cabrera, 3B
- Prince Fielder, 1B
- Delmon Young, DH
- Jhonny Peralta, SS
- Brennan Boesch, RF
- Gerald Laird, C
- Ramon Santiago, 2B
P: Rick Porcello
- Denard Span, CF
- Ben Revere, RF
- Joe Mauer, DH
- Ryan Doumit, C
- Justin Morneau, 1B
- Trevor Plouffe, 3B
- Darin Mastroianni, LF
- Brian Dozier, SS
- Jamey Carroll, 2B
P: Scott Diamond
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raburn batting 2nd was just like rich said. props.
berry isn't exactly ripping the cover off the ball either…s'why i said bat boesch at 2nd…
@Tom Gage Leyland about Raburn: "I'm kind of playing the string out right now to see if he's going to do something."..
We heard that before but someone could be ending his tenure
Raburn was awful last night. He clearly isn't the same guy he was last year or the year before. He grounded to the middle infielders 4 times last night and should have grounded into two double plays. Enough is enough with this guy. They should have left him at Toledo until he proved he could hit. His defense it terrible and he's doing nothing to help the Tigers win games, which is the goal after all, isn't it.
like i said before he's play bad this week….he's played OK since his return. Give it another week.
.676 OPS since return isn't bad enough to run him outta town quite yet
Couple questions for the board: Peralta and Valverde are free agents after this season. Do you re-sign them in the offseason or look elsewhere?
If you were setting the Tigers' playoff rotation now, who would be the #2 guy?
I pickup his $6M team option next year. And Scherzer.
and NO way JOSE on VV
I can tell you this So-called fans are going to make damn sure he doesn't succeed. He was getting booed ferociously last night. Whether he should be on the team is not even my point, being booed like that is going to ensure failure. Hell good players fail 70% of the time at the plate, so even if he gets on base 1 out of his 3 plate apearences he will get boos. . Hell it worked on Inge and Jason Grilli (back in the day) and now people are working on Ryan. All I'm saying s what god does it do? And who's gonna be next after you don't have Raburn to make the scope goat…..Boesch, Young, Peralta, Fister, Avila, Kelly, Santiago? Ryan is a secondary player, there are some bigger failures here than Ryan Raburn. Lots and lots and lots of blame to go around from David Dombrowski, JL to the players. Booing doesn't freaking help anything, only puts more unneeded pressure on a person already struggling.
agree 100%. I blame Mr. I as well (forcing the Fielder albatross)
On last night game thread, Tigergirl posted a good expalanation about why Rraburn and not the others. I agree with her
I went back to read what she said … My thought is that she said people remember what his failings were now and last year. What I remember is that he had 14 homers last year and 49 RBI….2010 15 homers and 62 rbi's. And I remember him getting hits a week ago when he was on the road when he wasn't getting booed for every out he made and this week at home getting booed incessantly and coincidentally or not the hitting has faltered as well.
Blame Mr I? Without his money where would the Tigers be? It's Leyland's team to manage! Show some nads!
Actually DD makes personnel decisions.
DD basically said one day "Prince not a fit here….unlikely". Then the next day "Oh we got 'em! Mr. I wanted him!"
which is why Mr. I is to blame too…..maybe not for this year…but it'll be apparent in the future i promise.
Got two words for the boo-birds: Delmon Young, Him hitting 5th is the biggest problem we've had, not some secondary role players. But you keep on booing Raburn and then cackling at his failures. Have fun.
lol – and Delmon goes deeeeep for ya, rich!
booing is for the birds. Delmon batting 5th might be the biggest or second biggest offensive problem…..but not being able to get starters/bullpen, hitting and fielding all hot at the same time seems to be the biggest problem to me.
Porcello should of fielded his position a lot better than he did there. He cost himself a run.
certainly did. Cabby and RABURN played pretty well tho….
I know its only acceptable to boo Raburn, but nice job there throwing him out at home. Everything is finding a hole today with Ricky. At least 2 of those hits I believe should of fielded.
I think we're saying that these yahoos pick one guy to ride. That is a fact. Just boo them all if it's that much fun.
I can only watch the highligts and look in so I will say only: nobody has ever doubt he has a powerful arm. The problem is getting to the ball and keep it on the glove.Still he is an around avg OF
Boy Rick isn't fooling anybody today. I'm nervous.
They've got one run on seven hits. This is the kind of game we should win in the end. You know it would be if the roles were reversed.
3 innings…..Twins 6, Tigers 0. Hits, that is. A couple of Twin squibbles. Can anyone tell me why in 3 games this series the Twins hits find holes while the Tigers hit the ball right at a fielder? Any "experts" out there?
Here is my no- hit jinx. No- Hitter no- hitter no hitter…… Diamond making it look awefully easy right now.
Prince screwed tat up big time.
Now 8 hits. And a 3 Stooges, Keystone Kops act .
Screw up number 2… Don't agree with Rod I don't think that was Fielders. There should be to outs this inning. Typical.
I can't hardly stand to watch this. I may seriously have to stop.
This game is a dang joke through the top of the 4th. And again these Tigers hitters can't get a hit. Pitch count is escalated. Umps also squeezing Rick quite a bit.
Should of been out of this inning 20 pitches and 4 batters and 2 runs ago. I'm smelling another game of being ticked off.
God help us, they're getting worse! Two perfect pegs by Laird and neither Prince or Cabrera can apply a simple tag. This is the worst they've played all year, if that's even possible.
I guess you can kill an elephant by pinching it.
I think your right. That inning looked like a little league game.
That about does it. They are REALLY going to lose 3 out of 4 at home to the Twins? 12 Twin hits, many of them "accidents." Now Porcello maybe injured. Tigers have just one of anything…..an error.
Well my no- hit jinx worked!🙂
Or shut out. No shock AJ and Cabby involved. Now can Prince do anything?
Nope he looked pretty pitiful.
At least were a not Twins fans 12 hits , 1 e and only 3 runs to show?
Leyland makes the line up, not DD,
Ya but who ya gonna replace him with? Don Kelly, Danny Worth ( now in Toledo).? There's nobody better in the farm, the only infield prospect I've even heard anything about is Castelsnos. ( I must of spelled that wrong). Unless he trades for something this is what we have. That's on DD, not Leyland.
Note to DD: If they do lose this game, it is time to start cleaning house. First, you are stuck with Prince. MI says so. But what is his problem? Is American League pitching that much better? Are American League parks that much bigger? Still, anyone else with his stats would be great. It's just that we expected more from him, I guess.
Next, you do not have a 2nd baseman. Sorry Ramon. Something even has him distracted from his usual good play and hitting. But keep him as a back-up for sure. And don't even count RR as a 2nd basemean.
So what's wrong with Peralta? Would a contending team take him off your hands in exchange for 2 better hitting, better fielding, base-stealing players? Then do it.
Keep Cabrera, obviously.
to be continued…………………
It aint over until is over
What glaringly obvious in that 5th inning… Their fielders get to balls and our don't.
continuing……I guess leave the catching situation as it is. Unless you can get something better for Laird and bring up one of the younger catchers.
The outfield. Can DD get JL to try batting DY 3rd and moving Miggy and Biggie down one place? If that doesn't help DY then I guess he needs to go. Again, can you get 2 speedy scrappy players for him? Let's hope Dirks can come back as good as he was. Keep Berry untilunless he totally falls apart. He does provide speed and some scrappiness. Send Boesch to work with Durham in Toledo.
Darin Down last game in Venezuela:
Sorry Beck i did not know it will show that big
Pitching…..Hire a private investigator or whatever to figure out what is wrong with Fister. And that means you only have 3 dependable starters. The rotating door of #5 starter has not worked. And I've lost track of all those minor league relief pitchers. Schlereth, Weber, Ortega, Putkonen, etc.
Sometime you just have to shake things up a bit. the way things are going right now, this team is not going to make it with the present personnel.
…………….if only JL and Lloyd could hit the road.
Well Texas laid a turd in Chicago, white Soxs walked all over them.
For his first 3 innings anyway, Darin Downs looked good. Let's hope.
He was good. Ith his story it's a guy anyone would cheer for.
Ortega, Downs, Villareal. Not that bad for the rookies
Freaking hilarious Dotel may get out of this yet. Being rewarded or not paying attention at ll to the base runners.
Cannot waste this………triple
What I meant was Leyland plays Raburn and bats him second. If anyone gets boo'd, it shuld be JL. Where is the fire? Oh Yeah, in GR, it is 101 degrees
I think delmon just got one too.
It was that hot here yesterday but with the rain this morning it's only ( lol) 92 at my house but muggy. Tomorrow 100 again.
It's about time! Yes boys!
OK, so the jinx worked. JL puts in Berry. Sweet! Prince hit a 3 run homer! Watch out second half!
That ball was crying all the way out
Valverde non -save situation???
Wouldn't you know. I had to leave after the 7th inning. I missed what was one of the few Tiger rallies. Oh. well, there are the highlights.
Washington has not named his starting pitcher for the ASG, but admitted giving consideration to Price. The Yankee announcers mentioned him as well yedterday.
So "baseball protocol" was played out again, in that the team with the early wasted opportunities ends up on the losing end. Or as Leyland calls them, games that "didn't smell good."
We actually witnessed two unusual events this week. One was Prince's game changing 3-run jack and the other was two separate 2-game win streaks inside a week by the Tigers.
JL got testy in his postgame over something about Raburn and some Twitter thing, I didn't catch the gist of that. He made his comment than told the guy he could put it on Twitter or E-Bay or wherever he wanted. Classic Jim there.
No matter what happens with Darin Downs going forward, he'll always have this day, and that's one of the wonderful things about baseball.
I'll be the first (I think) to say it: Austin Jackson is kicking Grandy's butt so far this season. I don't think anyone foresaw Austin being this good.
Raburn joins the long list of Tigers who have crushed one to CF for a long out. I don't think you have to decide between him and Berry, they both do what they do and it depends on what you're looking to accomplish at any given time. I sure do like Berry's enthusiasm and wish more players displayed it. There's nothing bush league about that.
We've got two chances in three to at least finish this weird first half with a .500 record. Today's game was a microcosm of the entire season. We kept screwing up badly yet remained in the game.
Got home from work and read the comments before even checking the game outcome……..yeah, I don't know why I do it either………..but you guys and ladies are hilarious:-)
Quite a game today. enjoyed it. WOW is our starting pitching INCONSISTENT
Tomorrow. raburn again in second spot. Cabrera DH and DY in LF. Leyland said
SI reported Tigers are scouring the market for pitching. Garza and Marcum were noted to be possible targets.
I wonder about the legitimacy of the Marcum idea. He is having arm problems and I think he remains on the DL with a salary of nearly $8M.
awesome game, got home from work and caught the last three innings. Need to take this game tonight, sick of all the hype and momentum then loose the next day, but according to Leyland there is no momentum in baseball, dont believe that at all but lets take tonights game and get at least two from KC to be .500 into break! Terry Francona was saying on ESPN that he thinks Tigers will be the team to make the most noise in 2nd half, boy I hope so. Also, Miggy's reaction was priceless to Fielder's HR, hes a kid out there, have to love it! Go Tigers
MLB.com featured Cabrera and Raburn on their back-to-back out plays to Laird on Must See video. Poor Raburn even had his name misspelled by MLB in that feature item..
There's no Y. The name is Ran Raburn.
Entertaining baseball yesterday. I could have done without some of the early game entertainment the Tigers provided, but I tuned into Nationals-Giants last night. The scrappy Nats, sporting 1924 Senators uniforms, came from behind and walked off on the 1924 New York Giants. Washington swept the series of games started by Tim Lincecum, Madison Bumgarner, and Matt Cain. A pretty good week's work. Edwin Jackson remains a favorite of mine. If the Nats ever play the Tigers in the WS, we have a pact to attend every game, even if we spend all of our retirement money.
Good morning:
In the middle of the 7th. yeterday, of all things, I lost my power, and it's still off. I am at the new library in Roanoke, and will offer three things about yesterday's game:
1. Gene Money's defensive game was outstanding. He is a true grit player, even if Biggy thinks he's a knockdown toy.
2. Downs gave us a chance to win. You couldn't have asked for more.
3. Delmon had a walk; I passed out.
I didn't get to see or here abut the two HR's by Biggy and Delmon; just really excited about a Tiger needed win. Good day to all.
Oh, so you missed the good and only got the bad and the ugly. Well that's not right.
I think Laird should get more time back there. There's no reason to run Avila into the ground when you have another very capable catcher. I liked the way Gerald blocked the plate on those two plays, although granted they were both in front of him. Not such an easy task to block the plate when the throw is coming from the right side and the oncoming runner is on the catcher's blind side. For the first seven innings it did appear to be the G$ show. Seems like he was everywhere.
Watching the replay, and not very attentive, I saw Prince swipe at the runner getting back to first and missed. Bad luck or bad break. It seems like nothing has gone the Tigers way in the first half. I think the AS break is just what the team needs. September is the key month. We need to be healthy. Yes, rotate those catchers and man do we need a 5 hole hitter! Go Tigers!
rumors swirl about Matt Garza to the tigers…….*sigh* i do not think starting pitching is something we should be upgrading. We need scutoro if anyone.
Scutaro , price to high.
Garza. Cubs scouting Erie. Not serious talks yet.
Morosi on tweeter
Lineup Jackson 8, Berry 9, Cabrera dh, Fielder 3, Young 7, Raburn 4, Peralta 6, Avila 2, Santiago 5. Smyly 1
I know this Sanchez guy has been good in the past….but he is struggling right now. I think Prince is the only player to see him more than a handful of ABs….hits him pretty well too.
I assume there is some reason why Cabrera is the DH tonight?
He announced it yesterday. Also that Fielder would be given the option of DH during the weekend but Monarrez only reported that the decision was easy after the thursday game. No explanation
My buddy just said "why isn't boesch in"; which brings up an interesting point…because boesch is def. hitting lefies better….this week and month. It's that JL basically testing RR to see if we need to cut him. Because the reason boesch isn't playing is that berry is playing a little better than him this past month. Not to mention speed and defense.


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Rising expectations could make next Budget most difficult of all
Published 22/05/2014 | 02:30
THE Cabinet's Praetorian Guard. That was the description of Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte in a recent interview in the 'Sunday Independent'.
The Praetorian Guard, of course, were responsible for protecting the Roman emperor. But they had an unfortunate reputation for doing away with their charge if they thought he wasn't up to the job.
Mr Rabbitte perhaps is better likened to a Roman Consul; sent out to do battle when the barbarians are at the gates. On the other hand, some on his own side may have detected, in that interview, the sound of a sword being loosed in its scabbard.
But enough of the classical metaphors. What we can say is that Mr Rabbitte has had a key role in maintaining relations between the coalition partners. He keeps in close touch with Finance Minister Michael Noonan. His comments on budgetary strategy are therefore worthy of note.
Whether they are a warning to Fine Gael, or even the Labour Party, or just an early attempt to maintain good relations before there is any fracture, is a matter of conjecture. But they do illustrate the growing difficulties for a Government faced with rising expectations but with severely limited financial leeway.
Everyone is jumpy before elections. While denying that he was doing any such thing, Mr Noonan as good as promised last week that the reduced Universal Social Charge rate will be extended in October's Budget.
Once tomorrow's elections are out of the way, nerves will have to calm and serious thinking begin. Mr Rabbitte thinks it should start as soon as possible.
This time, the kind of spats which preceded all the troika Budgets have the potential to bring down the Government. In many ways 2014 will be the most difficult Budget of them all. The troika certainties are gone and next year's Budget will be an out-and-out election special. But what to do in October?
Mr Rabbitte wants an early decision on how much leeway the Government has. Curiously, he seemed to go on to say that it had no leeway at all – at least as far as further correction goes.
On tax, he argued that it is not acceptable that citizens become liable to the top rate of tax at the average industrial wage and singled out the USC. On spending cuts, the public understood that the Government has difficult decisions to make but had run out of tolerance. Water charges "had better be the last piece of the austerity jigsaw".
No doubt this is an accurate description of the reaction politicians got on the doorstep during the campaign. But there is every doubt as to whether the Government is in a position to say goodbye to austerity just yet.
It is possible that it is in a position to do nothing – or at least very little. This, as we know, is the view of John FitzGerald of the ESRI. He thinks the €500m due from water charges would be enough to keep the public finances on track. But even that figure is beginning to look shaky as ministers nibble away at the water proposals.
Besides, they are not being asked to do nothing. They are being asked to provide substantial reliefs. Clearly, the marginal rate for income tax and USC is under review. The appetite for spending cuts has all but disappeared, and now there are wage demands as well.
The terms from the public sector union Impact are particularly interesting. A possible claim for a 6pc rise depends upon the Government reaching its target for a deficit of 3pc of GDP. That may be deemed a responsible attitude by the union, but it gives the impression that reaching 3pc is the end of the road.
There has been so much fuss about this inherently meaningless figure that one can understand why such an impression might have been created. In fact, we are entangled in a forest of targets, of which the 3pc is just one branch.
The most important may well be the spending ceiling set out under eurozone rules for indebted countries. Government spending is supposed to be frozen – as it is in the Government's own plan – until the elimination of any underlying deficit when the economy is growing normally.
I have mentioned before that there is huge disagreement about what that means in practice. Arguably, we have already eliminated it, in which case public spending could rise in line with economic growth, but, officially at least, the EU commission says we have not.
There is some room for some sleight of hand.
Charges for public services and indirect taxes in some cases count as spending cuts. They have already done so, which helps explain why the official figures for the balance between lower spending and higher taxes do not accord with everyday experience.
But the only way to avoid what would be a very disappointing Budget may be to openly spurn Brussels' calculations and say that the bulk of the original €2bn correction is no longer required.
There would probably be a fearsome row. The ink is hardly dry on the new eurozone rules but the credibility is uncertain. The French are looking for another delay and internal EU politics are so febrile that enforcement of the rules by the commission seems hard to credit.
But the dangers of an Irish demarche would be immense. These rules are the price Chancellor Merkel extracted for agreeing to thoroughly unpalatable measures like ECB promises to buy government debt.
Around half of the fall in Irish borrowing costs, and the increase in its credit standing, are due to the implicit German backing, via the ECB. Despite all the talk, we are in no condition to go it alone and stand on our own in the markets.
Even the optimistic budgetary analyses from institutions such as the ESRI are predicated on a continuing eurozone recovery. That is far from guaranteed. A senior fund manager argued in last week's 'Financial Times' that investors have become far too bullish about the indebted states. Markets tend to do that, but they then swing back.
A dispute between Dublin and Brussels could be just the thing to cause them to swing violently. Even without that, an Irish Government reversing fiscal engines could be badly caught by a renewed crisis which was not of its making.
If the Irish people really have had enough of cuts, they are in a dangerous dilemma. Disaster may have been averted but the problems are far from solved. Depending on how they are handled, or mishandled, disaster could yet return.
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At Oxegen's main stage the crowd grew eagerly waiting for last night's headliners, the multi-platinum selling Black Eyed Peas.
Surviving some shameless self-promotion from the band who stream the music video to their latest collaboration with David Guetta 'Getting' Over You'.
Soon enough the curtains fell to reveal the biggest stage production of the day, a futuristic ensemble of huge screens and a double stage.
Dancers accompanied the band through the set, first dressed as robot speakers, and later in Star Trek-inspired latex bodysuits. It was what you'd expect from a headliner and so much more.
It was the kind of set you'd see at an arena tour and that they've brought such a huge production to a festival is a hugely impressive feat.
The four-piece were certainly ready for this Oxegen crowd, and ran effortlessly through their huge collection of pop hits.
Each took their turn in the shared spotlight, but Fergie couldn't help but steal the show as she sexily strutted her stuff around the stage, belting out tune after tune.
The multi-talented Will.I.Am got to showcase his rapping skills too with a (quite literally) breathtaking super-fast solo rap, and at one point accidentally calls Oxegen 'o2', but made up a very smooth freestyle rap about the festival which won them over instantly.
He later ascended over the stage on a raised podium for a half hour DJ set mid-show. The DJ set went down well to begin with but is a little drawn out and the crowd started to thin a little, but the full band returned on top form with more classics and even a birthday tribute to a fan at the front of the crowds.
Two hours of lights, laser shows and pure pop perfection closed the main stage, and Black Eyed Peas lovers at any level of fandom were left happy from hearing every BEP classic in a stellar live performance.


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[QUOTE=KathyH;1002780]The best sources of vitamins are whole foods. Are you vitamin deficient? Have you been tested? Why would you want to eat processed vitamins. We don't even know their effectiveness. They may even be harmful for all we know.[/QUOTE]
Ok, well thank you for your opinion about it. I know the best way to get vitamins is through whole foods, but as I stated before, there are things that my diet is lacking. I take a fish oil supplement too, because I seem to have a very hard time digesting fish. Go ahead and flame me for that as well, lol!!! I'm just trying to heal my body and get to the best health that I possibly can. I'm obviously not nearly as extremist as you are. To each their own.
Do you only come to this webiste to argue with people? You seem like you are really argumentative.


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Denham Spring High School defensive tackle Tevis Lawson became LSU's seventh commitment one day before the Tigers spring game in Tiger Stadium.
There could be more. Several recruiting websites are reporting that Winnfield defensive end Michael Patterson (6-3, 235) will commit to LSU at the spring game. Several other recruits will attend the event.
Lawson was offered by Ole Miss and Auburn but has made it clear LSU was his first choice all along and didn't want to draw out the recruiting process.
"LSU is the only place I'm going to," he told The Advocate. "I'm glad I did it today, got it off my chest and now I can focus on school."
2013 LSU commitments
ATH Jeryl
WR Chuck Baker 6-2 193 Salmen
CB Tre'Davious White 5-11 160 Green Oaks/Shreveport
DB Jeremy Cutrer 6-3 175 Jewell Sumner
OL Josh Boutte 6-4 305 Westgate/New
ATH John Diarse 6-0 210 Neville/Monroe
DT Tevin Lawson 6-4 275 Denham Springs


text: If I was discriminated at school and had to drop a class because of it, I would definitely fight hard to get my tuition refunded and a sincere apology, at the least. First off, if I was forced to move into a building that I was not interested in living in because of a disability I have no control over, I would be upset and feel harassed. I can only imagine how Cindy Leland feels after having to drop a class that was mandatory for her degree because of a disability; that's just ridiculous and unfair. The university pretty much delayed the plans she had towards getting her master's degree and in my opinion that's worth even more than $1 million; After all, time is money.


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Candidate field for likely Nov. 6 election includes LaToya Cantrell; two others weighing a run
By slamming the door on Errol George's interim appointment to the District B seat on the New Orleans City Council, Mayor Mitch Landrieu today opened a window for the urban planner to run for the post in what's likely to be a Nov. 6 open primary. But George, whose nomination for the temporary position was doomed by questions about his residency, said it's "highly unlikely" he will put his name on the ballot.
"I think all of us have to decide what our contribution to the world is going to be, and I don't think mine is going to be a lifetime of service as an elected official," George said Tuesday. "But I was willing to make the sacrifice to do this temporarily."
Under the City Charter, an interim council appointee cannot seek election to the office.
While George appears to be out of the running, one candidate -- Broadmoor community leader LaToya Cantrell -- kicked off her campaign last week, and two others say they're thinking about joining the field.
Bright coral-colored lawn signs touting Cantrell, who ran unsuccessfully in 2004 for the Orleans Parish School Board, have begun appearing across the district, and a single-page website announces her slogan: "Neighborhood-Focused Leadership. Internationally-Recognized Results."
Meanwhile, Dana Kaplan, the executive director of the Juvenile Justice Program of Louisiana and a board member of the Irish Channel Neighborhood Association, said Tuesday she's considering whether a run for the District B post "would be the best way to serve the city." Unnamed supporters have set up a Facebook page in an effort to "draft Dana" for the campaign.
Keenly interested in youth issues and community justice, Kaplan said she hasn't set a deadline for making a decision. The three-day qualifying period begins Aug. 15.
Also considering a run is Rosalind Peychaud, a former Democratic state legislator who served as deputy chief of staff to former U.S. Rep. Ahn "Joseph" Cao, a New Orleans Republican. Peychaud also has been executive director of the New Orleans Neighborhood Development Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps low- and moderate-income families become homeowners.


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(WBNG Binghamton) Two people are dead and more than 180 were sent to the hospital after a passenger plane crashed while landing at the San Francisco International Airport.
The plane, an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777, was coming from Seoul, South Korea.
Authorities said the plane burst into flames when it crashed just before noon.
Of the more than 180 people sent to the hospital, CBS News reports 49 have serious injuries.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
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For starters, there is no real reason t fear eating at night. Your body will digest food the same way regardless of time. The association between time and weight gain is another product of CW; a mere correlation really. Why do sme people gain weight from night snacking? Two main reasons.
1. They eat crap at night (ice cream, chips, etc). But why are they hungry in the first place?
2. They eat crap during the day. All the cereal, bread, and sugar screws up tye metabolism and digestion while booming ajd busting insulin levels causing hunger spikes.
The lesson: eating at night leads to weight gain if you are eating more than you need in combination of what you ate during the day. If yiu don't spike your insulin with crap food, you will not be as hungry. If yiu are genuinely hungry, regardless of time, eat primal food until you are satisfied. Eating at night does not cause weight gain, it just does not maoe evolutionary sense.


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School buses at Gateway Regional in Gloucester County are bearing "Your ad here" signs, the last step before real advertising could appear.
In Washington Township, ads are already being applied to the sides of buses. Two districts in Cape May County are not far behind in turning their school buses into rolling billboards.
The Times opposed the state law allowing ads on school buses before it was enacted in 2011, and we're pleased that districts have not rushed to implement the shilling. The few districts statewide that have opened this door seem to be doing so responsibly, but we still have some concerns.
According to officials at Gateway, all ads must be approved by the school board while sales are handled by an independent contractor. Advertisements featuring alcohol, tobacco, firearms or suggestive material are prohibited, and the dimensions are limited. At Gateway, each ad would be no more than 18 inches high, with no more than four ads on each bus.
Nevertheless, a troubling aspect of district school bus ads is the perception that the school district endorses the product or service being advertised. The sales contractor for Gateway, Fox School Bus Media, mentioned dentists and doctors as potential advertisers. More troublesome might be other professionals, such as tutoring services or child psychologists.
Then there's the question of what's appropriate in these ads. Nothing in the law restricts candy, sugary soda, snacks or fast food.
Some advertisers are clearly OK. Colleges and universities, for example, although there's some obvious irrationality in one public entity buying ads with another public entity. In Washington Township, the ads for Sahara Sam's water park are unlikely to be mistaken for a school district "endorsement" of an amusement venue.
It's good that both Washington Township and Deptford have partnered with the non-profit Educational Information and Resource Center (EIRC) to sell and screen ads. Its service is available in several South Jersey counties.
Overall, we agree with Pittsgrove superintendent Henry Bermann. "There's really no benefit to students," the superintendent said.
Or, little benefit to the bottom line. Washington Township's take, for ads on 53 of its buses for 14 months: Just $800 a month.


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A snowplow travels through a white-out in the Ruby Line area this morning as a blizzard plays out on the eastern part of Newfoundland. Photo by Keith Gosse/The Telegram
Snow will continue for most of Newfoundland today and tonight, with the wind stepping it up to blizzard conditions.
According to Environment Canada, snow will be heavy at times today and blowing snow is presently occurring over the Avalon Peninsula. The storm will move westward today and tonight.
Total snowfall amounts are predicted between 35 and 45 centimetres for the Northern Avalon Peninsula and east coast. Between 15 to 25 centimetres can be expected for the Southern Avalon and Burin peninsulas with lesser amounts expected over the remainder of the island.
As well strong northerly winds gusting up to 90 km/h are forecast for eastern Newfoundland and combined with the fresh snow will give blowing snow and blizzard conditions.
Most schools and training centres have been closed for the day, with many businesses, government buildings and offices closed as well. Many flights have been cancelled and bus routes and ferry schedules have been affected.


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School district lowers fees, supplies list
Sequim Middle and High School students are expected to pay less when registering this year.
Kelly Shea, Sequim superintendent, brought the idea to the school district's finance committee last school year which made the proposal recently to reduce middle and high school fees by nearly $31,000 between the schools.
The district also added $5,000 to both Helen Haller Elementary and Greywolf Elementary's budgets to purchase tissues and hand sanitizer rather than have students bringing them in.
"This is a beginning," Shea said. "We want to make it where children can come to school and not have to break the bank to do it."
At the high school, eliminated fees include: Auto mechanics $10 per semester; biology notebooks $3; ceramics $35 per semester; chorus $35; cooking $20 per semester; drawing $25 per semester; engineering technology $25 per semester, farming $10 per semester; floral design $30 per semester; glass fusing $50 per semester; painting $30 per semester; photography $20 per semester; welding $30 per semester; and woodworking $20 per semester.
Sequim Middle School eliminated art fees at $20 per semester and a science/engineering fee for $10 per semester.
Of the nearly $31,000 generated from fees, $4,860 came from the middle school.
Career and Technical Education, CTE vocational classes totaled more than $13,000 in fees for 163 students compared to nearly 13,000 for more than 700 students in non-CTE classes.
Shea said it would be up to the high school's ASB students to vote on eliminating additional fees at the high school for the annual, ASB card, band cleaning fee, freshman band T-shirts, campus permits and physical education sweats and uniforms.
The middle school ASB could eliminate its fees for the annual, ASB card and P.E. uniform, too.
However, by time both ASBs meet, the fees will have been paid already, so these fees will be discussed for eliminating next school year.
Shea thought of reducing the fees after learning students must pay for a biology notebook, for which the state mandates the course. He said most of the fees were created to fill in the gaps when funding was taken away from the state years ago.
"Now we're in a position to fill some of that back in," he said.
Reducing other fees such as paying to play for sports will be discussed through the school year with the school board.
Virginia O' Neill, board president, said with more than 50 percent of Sequim students at free and reduced lunch rates this is very exciting for families.
"It shows we're putting our kids first," she said.
For more information on class lists, visit www.sequim.k12.wa.us.
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When it comes to U.S.-listed Chinese companies, the shoes are dropping faster than at a barefoot marathon for octopuses.
Last week, A-Power Energy (Nasdaq: APWR ) became the latest Chinese small cap to be halted. That came after the company's auditor and two independent directors resigned. The auditor had flagged certain transactions at the company for further investigation and told A-Power to talk to the hand when it didn't take any steps to investigate those deals.
Meanwhile, AutoChina endured a beating Friday after the company revealed it will be restating past financial statements and is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The former may not be much to freak out about -- it's the accounting for an earn-out agreement with management -- but it's hard not to be concerned about an SEC investigation.
Where we've been
Investors will have to wait to see what unfolds in the AutoChina situation, but A-Power joins an infamous group of companies including Wonder Auto Technology (Nasdaq: WATG ) , Duoyuan Global Water (NYSE: DGW ) , and Puda Coal (Nasdaq: PUDA ) whose stocks have been halted for months. Many more, such as China-Biotics and China MediaExpress have already found their way to the ignominy of the pink sheets.
To date, the vast majority of companies that have left investors with a pit in their stomach and a hole in their portfolio have come to the U.S. markets through reverse merger transactions. In short, in this process a U.S. shell company acquires a Chinese company, allowing the Chinese company access to U.S. investment capital. Because there is generally less diligence and oversight than in the traditional IPO process, this is a great route for anyone with rotten intentions.
Up ahead?
At this point, though, the small-cap, reverse-merger companies may not be the biggest concern for investors that are sniffing around China. I still think there will be plenty more trouble to come out of that group, but there's no hiding out there -- the entire bloc has been firebombed by short-sellers and fleet-footed former longs.
Meanwhile, it's beginning to look like there may be reason to be concerned about a broader swath of Chinese companies, including larger companies and ones that have hit the markets through traditional IPO processes.
Sino-Forest has been listed for years and was a multibillion-dollar company prior to the Mac truck that short-seller Muddy Waters drove into the stock when it accused the company of overstating its timber holdings. Longtop Financial (NYSE: LFT ) went through a full IPO process run by Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank and is technically still a billion-dollar company. However, Longtop's shares haven't traded since mid-May after its auditor figured out that some of the company's cash balances were about as real as Willy Wonka's Oompa-Loompas.
Really ready for the big leagues?
In the cases of Sino-Forest and Longtop, we're talking about the possibility of true-blue fraud. And there may be more of that to come out of larger, IPO'd Chinese companies.
But investors may not be able to rest easy even if the company they choose isn't involved in full-on fraud. There also seem to be quite a few Chinese companies with poor, or downright questionable, business practices that may not be fraudulent, but still may harm investors down the line.
VisionChina Media (Nasdaq: VISN ) has plunged over the last couple of years as its supercharged growth strategy of making earn-out based acquisitions -- that is, get the acquisition now and pay later -- fell flat. Of course, one can't help but wonder how management really felt about this strategy since executives signed on to sell millions of their shares in a secondary offering in the midst of the earn-out-acquisition binge.
Renren (Nasdaq: RENN ) , aka "China's Facebook," makes me shudder even more. Prior to its IPO, Renren got a black eye when it basically said, "Hey, remember we said our user base grew 29%? Well, really, it was more like 19%." The company's IPO filing is also very clear about the fact that its internal financial controls aren't up to snuff.
Perhaps my favorite bit of this indigestion-inducing story is the funny fact that when the company was started as Xiaonei, it so fully and blatantly copied Facebook that it even included "A Mark Zuckerberg Production" at the bottom of every page.
And while NetQin has been doing everything it can to polish the muck off its name, earlier this year, China's state-run Chinese Central Television aired a report accusing the mobile-phone antivirus company of bundling malware with its product to help increase sales.
Watch out!!
I can't blame investors one bit for avoiding individual Chinese companies altogether. But if you, like Austin Powers, like to live dangerously, here are a few basic things you can do to protect yourself.
- Watch the cash. Many of the questionable companies have presented killer profitability and bottom-line growth, but have shown a very different story on the cash flow statement. When a company's cash flow from operations consistently lags its net income or it is spending gobs of cash on acquisitions, incredulity may be warranted.
- Read the filings. In the examples of VisionChina, Renren, and NetQin above, the troublesome facts I noted are, for the most part, clearly noted in their SEC filings. But you won't find them if you're not doing your homework.
- Global diversity. So you think there's value in individual Chinese stocks. Fine. But China is still just a piece of the global economy and there are individual stock values all over the world. Perhaps my (and others') fears about China are overblown, but I'd still advise against betting the house on it.


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My dear friend and fellow Brit Bee, Terri wanted to know how to do the little linky things. Terri has just started blogging (about time too in my humble opinion! She's a hoot!) so if everyone would like to go give her a big bloggy welcome, I would be much obliged. Anyway, I digress... onto the linky things. And blogging from my phone.
I use an app called BlogPress. I think it was about £1.99. There is a free app called Blogger, but I find this one MUCH easier/better to use.
To start with, you have to link your google account to the app so that it can post for you. This is under the settings tab, access by clicking the settings button on the bottom right of the screen. NB: These screenshots are taken from the iPhone version of the app. It may be slightly different from an iPad.
My blog is already linked, but to add one I would click "Add another blog". This takes you to the screen where you can input your service provider (it supports many) and account details.
After it is linked, click the "Write" tab to start writing a post. It looks like this when you first open the app:
You can add a title, and a geotag, and then tap into the main body of the text to start your post.
This will bring up the keyboard and you can start typing. I am going to write "This is a link to google." And I want to make the "link to google" part a web link so that people can click on it and go to google. To do so, I write the text before I want the link to appear, then I click the Insert HTML button which looks like this: "</>" and is in the top right corner.
There's lots of things you can do here, but I'm just looking at adding a link. I click the "A" section, labeled insert text with hyper link. (For inquiring minds, it is labeled A because the html tag is known as an anchor, and starts "<a....")
This brings up a screen where you add the link information. You want to type the URL (the bit that starts www) into the "Link" box, and the link text as you want it to appear in the text box. Then tap "done".
It will now show you the write screen again, and you can see it has added the html code to make a link. I just stuck a full stop at the end, after the html code, to end my sentence.


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Washington State Patrol detectives are looking for witnesses to a drive by shooting that occurred at 4 p.m. today, April 13, northbound on state Route 167 between Central Avenue and 208th Street South.
A white Mercury Mountaineer was merging onto northbound SR 167 from Central Ave when the passenger in an older dark blue or black 1990's model Honda Accord four door fired two shots out of the driver's side window at the Mountaineer striking it each time. A third shot was fired from the passenger out the passenger side window.
The occupants of the Honda are believed to be Asian or Hispanic males approximately 19 years of age.
Witnesses are asked to contact Detective Medeiros at 425-401-7719.
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The Hallmark 2012 Ornament Dream book came into my work yesterday and I lucked out cause today was my last day at work and as a parting gift I got my own copy of the dream book. We also get a preview of the 2012 Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Christmas ornament featuring Edward and Bella in their wedding attire. The detail looks fantastic.
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26 Taconic is a nice house – it has its problems, but don't we all? It's been up for sale since September 2006, first at $7.895 and now, 2 1/2 years later, 25% less – $5.980. Buyers seem scarce so it's also available for rent – that started at $20,000 and today it's dropped to $17,000. So: can't sell it away, rent it away, when does he try giving it away?
I wonder if this house's difficulties cause any sleepless nights for the builder of the 12,000 sf spec house around the corner on Byfield lane? That one hasn't hit the market yet but when it does, it might land with a thud and a splash. Ow.


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The Boston Red Sox enter the weekend with a legitimate shot at leaving the AL East cellar. All they have to do is sweep the Tampa Bay Rays on the road, facing David Price in the first game.
That should be easy enough, right?
Either way, the Red Sox have cooled from their peak 14-1 hotness, and suffered an ugly loss in the series finally vs. the Toronto Blue Jays.
Here's the AL East outlook as of Friday morning:
1. Baltimore Orioles: 56-45
2. New York Yankees: 53-48, 3.0 GB
3. Toronto Blue Jays: 54-49, 3.0 GB
4. Tampa Bay Rays: 49-53, 7.5 GB
5. Boston Red Sox: 47-55, 9.5 GB
(Red Sox remain 6.5 games out of the Wild Card)
Programming note: All NESN games this series, with the Sunday matinee intact.
Schedule and probable starters
Friday, July 25, 7:10 p.m. - LHP David Price vs. LHP Jon Lester
Radio: 93.7 FM (Boston) / 105.5 FM (Springfield)
Saturday, July 26, 7:10 p.m. - RHP Chris Archer vs. RHP John Lackey
TV: NESN, MLB Network
Radio: 93.7 FM (Boston) / 105.5 FM (Springfield)
Sunday, July 27, 1:40 p.m. - RHP Jeremy Hellickson vs. RHP Jake Peavy
Radio: 93.7 FM (Boston) / 105.5 FM (Springfield)
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Five Things to Watch
1. What's the status of David Ortiz
Ortiz went to Jamaica while he was up in Toronto but left Thursday's game with back spasms. Will the Red Sox lose their DH for an extended period? We'll find out when the lineups come out.
2. Game 1: There's your ace matchup
You can't ask for much more these days than a Jon Lester-David Price matchup to open the series. Lester's third in the AL in ERA with a mark of 2.50 and sixth with 142 strikeouts. Meanwhile, Price is 10th in ERA at 3.06 and leads the league with 173 strikeouts. Let's do this thing.
3. The return of Hellickson
Former Rookie of the Year Jeremy Hellickson is back on the mound after missing most of the 2014 season with injury. He'll face the Red Sox in his second start after coming off of the DL. In his first start back (against the Royals), he lasted 4 1/3 innings, giving up just one run with two strikeouts on 84 pitches. Hellickson's still working his way back from elbow surgery, so he probably won't see a full workload right away. Still, he's shown he can be effective.
4. PSA: The Red Sox are now 11th in the AL in runs scored
After the offensive outburst in Toronto, Boston leapfrogged a few teams, moving up to 11th in the AL with 401 runs scoted, which is just two short of the Rays' 403. If the Red Sox managed to sweep the series, they're mathematically guaranteed to move past them.
5. The Mastrodonato Jinx?
Brock Holt is 0-for-7 and sat out for the first time in 59 games since Part 1 of Jason Mastrodonato's great feature on Holt ran on July 22. Coincidence? Who knows?
But he went 5-for-6 the day he did the interview for it, so... RT @brianmacp Brock Holt is 0-for-3 since @JMastrodonato wrote his biography.— Jason Mastrodonato (@JMastrodonato) July 23, 2014


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Famously, the Queen does not carry money.
Just like the deliberate engineering of our financial illiteracy through primary school and high school, this is a marvellous piece of class warfare.
The people who have all the money do not talk about it. It's somehow impolite. Beneath them. And it's a behaviour we ape. Which makes it a lot easier to steal from us when we don't know we're being stolen from.
And so it is with food.
Promoting dietary health among low income earners is somehow perceived as an attack. "Hey poor people, just eat more salad!" And phrased that way, it certainly is.
However, the notion that access to life-sustaining food is somehow elitist is an insidious form of double-think, an archonic reverse psychology. Because it's the seats at McDonald's that are being widened, not the seats in Lear Jets.
Periods of severe economic disruption always impact the food supply and our relationship to it. Anyone who has ever learned about the Great Leap Forward or Mao's Cultural Revolution knows the truth of this.
But we also have closer, more relevant examples that we are assiduously ignoring.
There is something bittersweet and heartbreaking about reading though the Ministry of Food's suggested recipes of things to make with wartime and post-wartime rations.
For instance, instructions to turn leftover mashed parsnip or potato into a mock cake for your child's birthday. Just go ahead and picture that.
During and immediately following the war, our interests and those of our 'betters' were in alignment; the robust health and long-term survival of the population. Today, when it comes to food, the interests are diametrically opposed.
Commodity trading is a literal weapon of war, used to collapse entire countries and regions (Arab Spring) or bankrupt historic farming regions so that they are forced to sell their land to transnationals, go hungry or grow drugs. (South America.)
In the developed world, EU farm subsidies go to dukes and princes and Big Corn literally selects the next president. Added to this, it is vastly more profitable to have us all die of eminently curable and/or avoidable diseases than it is to redesign the food supply.
For instance, Type II diabetes has a cure. An actual cure. It's fasting. In a high-profile documentary about juice fasting from a few years ago, it was pointed out that the cost of a heart attack is more than USD $50,000 versus around $14 a day for a 60 day juice fast. Even treating your kids for ADHD is expensive. ADHD… which French kids don't get. (Guess why.) A bad health diagnosis is the single greatest cause of bankruptcy in America.
So the discussions need to be had… even if they run the risk of mythologising the poor. Because almost a third of British school kids thinks cheese comes from plants. You may have heard of Campodimele -called the village of eternity because of the longevity of its residents. I tried reading the book but couldn't get past the romanticising of the noble peasant.
The underlying science is solid, however. Campodimelans remain moderately physically active by necessity and eat cucina povera… mostly greens and vegetables. They still drink and smoke as much as other (awesome) Italians.
However, you're unlikely to live in a stunning, medieval, hill town. In fact, if you're not eating cucina povera by choice then it's more likely you live in a sprawling suburb as suburbs are now poorer than urban areas.
And it's that suburb thing that has me thinking of a very specific hack. Historically, if one were to suggest turning a suburban back yard into a high yield vegetable plot, you'd get the standard responses that nobody has the time and it's a very "let them eat cake" response to the challenges of a low income.
However, even that argument lacks historical validity. Prior to the end of the war, if you had land, you did grow your own vegetables. I've been to enough stately homes and ruined Elizabethan palaces and Norman castles to know a mind trick when I see one. After the war… growing vegetables in your yard was something immigrants did. Upstanding white people had lawns, pools and flamingoes. Fuck that.
In terms of resistance, you may also get this deceptive little gem: That the percentage of disposable income allocated to food has fallen every decade since the 1930s. Take a look at how this beaming moron celebrates the comparative affordability of American food. But you see, your grandparents and great grandparents didn't buy bags of potato chips the size of bathtubs and call it food. We are spending less on shit food. It's the worst of both worlds.
So there are other reasons beyond cost reduction to pray for Tyler Durden's vision spread across suburban backyards rather than up the sides of skyscrapers. And it's not food miles. The numbers don't work on widespread hyperlocalism because there are scale efficiencies in keeping… say… corn centralised rather than randomly distributed.
The first, and most pressing for Americans, is that the food supply is alarmingly compromised. Watch this terrifying and mercifully brief video about Monsanto and how they test:
The second reason is to strip demand out of the market. A market that, even if it isn't riddled with genetic modification, is still at the lower end of the nutritional scale. From the New York Times:
Wild dandelions, once a springtime treat for Native Americans, have seven times more phytonutrients than spinach, which we consider a "superfood." A purple potato native to Peru has 28 times more cancer-fighting anthocyanins than common russet potatoes. One species of apple has a staggering 100 times more phytonutrients than the Golden Delicious displayed in our supermarkets….
Supersweet corn, which now outsells all other kinds of corn, was born in a cloud of radiation. Beginning in the 1920s, geneticists exposed corn seeds to radiation to learn more about the normal arrangement of plant genes. They mutated the seeds by exposing them to X-rays, toxic compounds, cobalt radiation and then, in the 1940s, to blasts of atomic radiation. All the kernels were stored in a seed bank and made available for research.
In 1959, a geneticist named John Laughnan was studying a handful of mutant kernels and popped a few into his mouth. (The corn was no longer radioactive.) He was startled by their intense sweetness. Lab tests showed that they were up to 10 times sweeter than ordinary sweet corn. A blast of radiation had turned the corn into a sugar factory!
Mr. Laughnan was not a plant breeder, but he realized at once that this mutant corn would revolutionize the sweet corn industry. He became an entrepreneur overnight and spent years developing commercial varieties of supersweet corn. His first hybrids began to be sold in 1961. This appears to be the first genetically modified food to enter the United States food supply, an event that has received scant attention.
Within one generation, the new extra sugary varieties eclipsed old-fashioned sweet corn in the marketplace. Build a sweeter fruit or vegetable — by any means — and we will come. Today, most of the fresh corn in our supermarkets is extra-sweet, and all of it can be traced back to the radiation experiments. The kernels are either white, pale yellow, or a combination of the two. The sweetest varieties approach 40 percent sugar, bringing new meaning to the words "candy corn." Only a handful of farmers in the United States specialize in multicolored Indian corn, and it is generally sold for seasonal decorations, not food.
The third, and it is related to the one above, is to lob your own soil-encrusted chaobomb in defense of what we might call post-apocalyptic biodiversity. Because, make no mistake about it, 'they' are coming for your seeds. The aim is to have a limited number of species available from the fewest possible outlets… GM seeds that die after a generation to keep you coming back for more.
In the meantime, we still have the internet which means we have access to awesome companies like Seeds Of Italy (est 1783!). Let's get crazy and diverse in our underwater suburban backyards.
All of this is a dream, of course.
It occurred to me yesterday while shopping at one of the many independent grocers on the high road that, in the five years I have lived here, there has been close to zero inflation from the independent grocers versus around 100% in the supermarkets a few metres away. To me, this indicates a functioning market. There is clearly a price ceiling. Certainly the type of produce for sale has varied. Five years ago, you'd get French wild garlic and coeur de boeuf tomatoes. Now you get what the nearby farming areas have actually grown to sell. Some years more cob nuts, some years less.
But that's London. I don't have to try very hard to get the craziest range of fruits and vegetables. And with a little effort, they're ludicrously cheap. (The origin of my area's name actually comes from the Saxon for 'cheese farm', ches wick, that once occupied this bend in the river.) The further out from centres you get, the less the range. Call it the Borough Market effect:
Indeed, that's one of the most common rebuttals to the earnest suggestion that we should be eating purple carrots rather than orange. It's all well and good in London, but what about Alice Springs?
Except that's kinda the point. I wish it wasn't this way but it is. I wish we lived in communities of abundant, varied, decentralised, non-GM agriculture but we don't. And in the meantime we're getting fatter and dying of preventable diseases while our food supply is invaded by archon seeds.
We have got here because of class warfare. And it is an ongoing war. But don't let deter you from making use of some pretty powerful short-term options already in your hands.
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This part of the "Mastering Eclipse" series takes a detailed look at Eclipse's Java editor. The editor is where developers spend a majority of their time, so understanding its advanced features can significantly improve your productivity.
Organize Imports command
Organize Imports command adds missing imports and organizes existing import declarations in your Java files. You can run this command in the current editor by using Ctrl+Shift+O. To apply the
Organize Imports command to your whole project, right-click the project in the Project Explorer and select Source > Organize Imports.
Suppose you used a class somewhere in your Java file, but you've forgotten to import it;
Organize Imports can automatically import it for you. If the command is unsure about the class's location, a window opens with a list of options for you to choose from. For example, if you use the
List class in your code, when you run the
Organize Imports command, it may pop up a window asking you to choose between
java.util.List and
javax.swing.List because the command can't decide on its own.
Organize Imports also breaks the commonly used
.* style import declarations into individual imports. For example, suppose you have an import like
import java.util.* in your file, and you use only the
List class from that package. The
Organize Imports command replaces the original
import statement with
import java.util.List.
Pick out part of string
Often, you need to concatenate a variable between two strings. Most of the time, these strings are part of a single statement, and it's easy to make the mistake of leaving out a space on either side of the strings. For example, you may end up with output like
You have5seconds left, instead of
You have 5 seconds left. Eclipse helps prevent you from falling into this trap:
- Type your string as you would normally within your code:
static String getMsg(int time) { return "You have 5 seconds left"; }
- Select the portion of the string you want to replace with a variable — in this example, the numeral 5.
- Press Ctrl+1 and select Pick out selected part of String.
Figure 1. Select Pick out selected part of String
The result is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Selected part of string is picked
- Replace the string in the middle with your variable.
Figure 3. Replace the string with your variable
Now you can rest assured that you made no mistakes about the spaces.
Automatically create locals
You often need to call a method and assign its value to a new local variable. Eclipse makes this so easy that you'll never again assign locals the old way:
- Type the call to the method:
public void foo() { getMsg(3); }
- Without moving your insertion marker, press Ctrl+1 and select Assign statement to a new local variable (see Figure 4). You can select Assign statement to a new field if you want to use a field instead of a local variable.
Figure 4. Select Assign statement to a new local variable
A new local variable of the same type as the method's return value is created for you. It's given an appropriate name, but you can change it if you'd like (see Figure 5). Press Enter to accept the name.
Figure 5. You can change the variable's name
Quick Outline
Outline view is useful because it lets you easily jump to methods in your Java file. But this view takes up a lot of your precious on-screen real state.
Quick Outline view provides all the functionality of Outline view without needing the view to occupy your screen. To activate Quick Outline view from inside your editor, press Ctrl+O. A pop-up window appears that shows an outline of your file.
Figure 6. Pressing Ctrl+O brings up Quick Outline view
You can navigate to any method by using your arrow keys. To jump to a method even more quickly, begin typing its name. The list begins to filter, showing you only methods that begin with the characters you're typing.
Figure 7. Start typing and Outline view begins filtering
Quick Open Type
The Open Type window does for Package Explorer what Quick Outline does for Outline view.
Press Ctrl+Shift+T from your editor. A window pops up, in which you can type the name of any class in your workspace (see Figure 8). Click OK, and that class opens instantly in the editor. No need to hunt through trees in Package Explorer to open the class you want.
Figure 8. The Open Type window lets you instantly jump to any class in your workspace
You can use wildcards when you type the class name to filter the list below the text box. For example, type
*Exception to show all
Exception classes.
Breadcrumb bar
The breadcrumb bar was introduced in Eclipse V3.4. It sits at the top of your editor window, just below the tabs, and provides the functionality of both the Package Explorer and Outline views (see Figure 9). If it isn't enabled, you can enable it by pressing Alt+Shift+B.
Figure 9. The breadcrumb bar
The breadcrumb bar points out the path of the current editor relative to the current workspace. Clicking one of the black arrows shows you the contents of the element, thus allowing you to browse your entire workspace from the bar.
Figure 10. Breadcrumb bar lets you browse your workspace from the bar
Quick Javadoc
Are you trying to figure out what a method does? Eclipse can easily show you the Javadoc for any method. Just hover your cursor over the method and a Javadoc window appears.
Figure 11. Hovering your cursor over any Java element shows related Javadoc -- in this case, the
indexOf method
But this functionality doesn't end there. Move your cursor inside the pop-up window, and the window becomes scrollable (see Figure 12). The buttons at the bottom let you open the Javadoc in an external window and go to the declaration of the element whose Javadoc you're viewing.
Figure 12. Moving your cursor inside the pop-up turns it into a scrollable window
Auto format
You can use Eclipse's auto-format functionality to automatically format documents. Right-click a document in the Package Explorer and select Source > Format. You can even format your entire project by right-clicking the project instead of an individual file in Package Explorer.
To configure how Eclipse formats your code:
- Choose Window > Preferences. then browse to Java > Code Style > Formatter.
Figure 13. Editing how Eclipse formats your documents
- Create a new profile for formatting by clicking New and entering a name in the window that opens.
- After you create the profile, click Edit to begin editing formatting preferences for that profile.
- The Profile window that opens contains detailed settings for configuring the formatting of your source code (see Figure 14). You can configure everything from how much indentation is required for each element in the source code to how many blank lines appear between import groups.
Figure 14. Eclipse lets you configure your formatting settings in detail
- Click OK to close the Profile window. Click OK again to close the Preferences window.
Note that the new formatting settings will apply the next time you format your source code.
Save Actions
Save actions are triggered when you save a document. They let you do things like format your code and organize imports automatically when you save your document. To configure save actions:
- Choose Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Save Actions to open the Preferences window.
Figure 15. Configuring Save Actions in the Preferences window
- Select the Perform the selected actions on save checkbox.
- Select all the actions you want to be performed on save. Click Configure to see more actions.
Figure 16. Clicking Configure displays more actions
For example, you can select the Convert for loops to enhanced check box on the Code Style tab to convert all your
forloops to Java 5-style enhanced loops every time you save your document.
Save Actions can save you a lot of time. For example, you can type your code any way you want, without worrying about the formatting, and it will still be formatted perfectly automatically each time you save your document.
Code folding
Code folding lets you literally fold pieces of code so the editor doesn't get too cluttered. To fold a method, click the
- icon on the left ruler.
Figure 17. Clicking the - sign folds the code
When you fold code, the
- icon turns into a
+, which you can click again to unfold the method. If you hover your cursor over the
+ sign when the method is folded, a pop-up window displays the text inside the method.
Figure 18. Hovering your cursor over the + icon shows a preview of the code that has been folded
hashCode() and
Eclipse lets you automatically generate the
hashCode() and
equals() methods for your classes so you don't have to do it yourself. This way, you can avoid making errors while writing these methods. To generate the methods:
- Choose Source > Generate hashCode() and equals().
- The window that opens asks you which fields you want to include when the
equals()methods are called on your class.
Figure 19. Select the fields on which to generate
- Select the fields you want and click OK. The
hashcode()methods are generated for you.
Overview ruler
The overview ruler is embedded to the right of the editor window. It lets you instantly see any errors, warnings, or other markers that require your attention in the editor. If there are any errors in your editor, then the upper-right corner of the bar displays a red box.
Figure 20. The red box in the overview ruler indicates one or more errors in the editor
A yellow box, on the other hand, means there are warnings in the editor.
Figure 21. Overview ruler indicating the presence of warnings in the editor
Using the overview ruler, you can jump instantly to any error/warning in your editor. The ruler displays little yellow/red markings wherever an error/warning appears in your editor (see Figure 22). If you click the marking, the editor instantly jumps to the appropriate position in your code.
Figure 22. The overview ruler showing two warnings and one
TODO comment
The overview ruler can also indicate other points of interest in your editor. For example, if you have a
TODO comment, or if you perform a search, the related lines are marked in the overview ruler; clicking the markers takes you to the corresponding line.
As the name suggests, the overview ruler gives you an overview of the lines of interest in your editor. You'll find it an invaluable companion as you write Java code.
This article has examined some of the advanced features of the Java editor in Eclipse. You've seen how to generate common pieces of code automatically. You also learned how to close Eclipse views and still use their functionality, thanks to shortcuts offered by Eclipse editor. The article also discussed other features of the Java editor that can significantly improve your productivity.
- Start this series with "Mastering Eclipse V3.4, Part 1: The Eclipse IDE workbench." The series continues with "Mastering Eclipse V3.4, Part 2: The JDT."
- Find more information in the Java Development User Guide in Eclipse Help.
- Read the Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide.
- Visit the official Eclipse FAQs.
- Read Eclipse for Dummies.
- Read Eclipse Distilled.
- Check out the "Recommended Eclipse reading list."
- Browse all the Eclipse content on developerWorks.
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Bottom of 8th, Red Sox 2, Orioles 2: Bergesen is done after a double by Scutaro....Only Boston's 5th hit, but the O's are playing percentages. When you're 24-54 and the guy has a 5-hitter, is this really necessary?
Top of 7th, Red Sox 2, Orioles 2: Two homers for Drew tonight, lifting his team. Ortiz almost hit a broken-bat homer around Pesky's Pole. Wakefield has been breezing, Bergesen has a 4-hitter. Wakefield walked a man to open the 7th.
Top of 4th, Red Sox 1, Orioles 1: Three innings in 33 minutes. Did all the players leave their cars running? Just think, in the olden days, every game was like this. Bergesen is a notably fast worker, and Wakefield used to be, too. Markakis' homer in the fourth was only his 4th, that's hard to believe. Another reason the O's might lose 110 games. Julio Lugo got booed; I guess hitting .365 in the 2007 World Series didn't count.
Middle of 3rd, Red Sox 1, Orioles 0: This game is flyin', man. Cash threw out a would-be stealer, Drew homered in the second and all is just fine with Team Medical Center.


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Where has ER gone. 5pm Sky Atlantic.
It has been replaced with stargate SG1, not from the the beginning of a season but from season 3 episode 8.
on 23-01-2014 05:11 PM
Answered here by Sky:
on 23-01-2014 07:17 PM
Last post on this link gives a different answer. Who is correct.
Still not answered why Stargate was started half way through season 3


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At least one without aggressive snow tires and/or competence.
These two minutes go out to anyone who's ever slipped on ice, gotten stuck in the snow or just plain cursed the weather during this particular time of the year.
It could be worse. You could be this guy (or the 29 people he hit):


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EHS BOYS WATER POLO: Hornets' state bid washes away in overtime
The Enumclaw High boys water polo team missed qualifying for the state tournament Thursday when Auburn Mountainview snatched the fourth seed from the East Division from the Hornets' hands with an 8-7 overtime win.
The game with the Lions was close with the score tied on five occasions, including at seven at the end of regulation.
Mountainview scored the contest's first goal 17 seconds after the opening whistle. The Hornets answered when Garrett Hall, on the next possession, found the back of the net. Both teams scored once more in the first quarter, for two-all tie going in to the second period. Mountainview scored on a penalty shot midway through the second quarter, but Hall scored again on the next Enumclaw possession, to tie the game at three before halftime.
The Lions scored again early in the third quarter. Enumclaw's Travis Culp scored four minutes in to the quarter to knot the score at four, before Mountainview scored twice in two minutes to jump ahead 6-4. Enumclaw fought back, scoring three goals in the final period, while holding the Lions to one score for the tie at the end of regulation. Both teams were scoreless in the first overtime period, but Mountainview scored 36 seconds in to the second overtime and kept Enumclaw scoreless for the victory and the state berth.
The top four seeds from water polo's two divisions qualified for the state tournament, which begins Thursday at Rogers High in Puyallup.
Friday, the Hornets finished their regular season with a 7-6 overtime win over Puyallup.
The Vikings took the lead early and stretched it to 3-1 at the end of the first period and 5-3 by halftime. At the end of three periods, Puyallup was still ahead, 6-4, but the home-pool Hornets' defense tightened and goals by Bennon VanHoof and Logan Ross tied the game at six at the end of regulation.
Both teams went scoreless in the first overtime. Hornet goalkeeper Josh Musick blocked a penalty shot to deny the Vikings the lead 30 seconds into the second overtime and sophomore Gabe Sales put the game away, scoring on a lob shot from the right side with 1:22 remaining.
Scoring for Enumclaw in the win were Ross with three goals, VanHoof with two and Will Cooper and Sales with one goal each.
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The YouTube way is the simplest solution, if you really want another way, I would use Flash (having worked with it). This would just give you more control for the keybind,etc. It uses ActionScript which is not hard to pickup. Benefit would be making a desktop version of it with Adobe AIR or you could just upload the SWF to a website.
To optimize the video size, try limiting the Video FPS to ~24, and lower the bitrate. For each interaction you could stream in only the videos you actually require.


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For investors focused on lucky numbers, it may be notable that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI ) not only topped 13,000 this week but also convincingly held above it. Of course, that's only part of the bigger story, as market indexes continued to march upward this week, building on their already-hefty gains of 2012. In particular, if you're a significant investor in bank and financial stocks, the week probably treated you well, as results from the Federal Reserve's banking stress tests sent financial stocks soaring.
By the time the dust had settled on Friday, the Dow had tacked on 2.4%, while the broader Russell 3000 climbed 2.3%. But all was not well for all industries and stocks.
The 3 Worst-Performing Sectors
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The big drop in Clear Channel Outdoor's (NYSE: CCO ) stock isn't necessarily bad news for investors. What it primarily reflects is that the company went through with its plans to raise a bunch of debt and pay investors a big special dividend. When a company returns cash to shareholders, it typically leads to a commensurate drop in the stock price, as the return of capital reduces the value of the company. But the story may not end there, because some Clear Channel Outdoor investors don't like the way this debt raise and dividend was carried out, and they've sued the company.
Meanwhile, Internet telephony specialist 8x8 (Nasdaq: EGHT ) took it on the chin after an early week downgrade from an analyst at B. Riley. The stock was dropped from a buy to a neutral rating, and its target price was slashed from $5.05 to $4.76.
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Also among the week's worst performers were Abraxas Petroleum (Nasdaq: AXAS ) and Getty Realty (NYSE: GTY ) .
Abraxas' stock got whacked after the company reported results for the final quarter of 2011. Revenue for the quarter was $16.5 million, up 19% from the prior year. However, the company's bottom line plunged into the red, finishing with a $0.06-per-share loss. On an adjusted basis, the company's loss was $0.01 per share, but that was still easily short of the $0.05 that Wall Street was looking for. The company said that the quarter's results were hurt by pipeline and gas plant capacity issues.
Getty fell victim to a similarly disappointing fourth-quarter report, but that was really only the beginning of investors' concerns. Getty Petroleum Marketing, which accounted for roughly two-thirds of Getty Realty's 2010 revenue, is bankrupt and creating major uncertainty for Getty's business. One very specific and painful impact of that uncertainty was the company's decision to put off its decision on paying a quarterly dividend.
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Hardalupas, Y., Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Mechanical Engineering Department, London, UK, and Horender, S. (2001) Phase Doppler Anemometer for Measurements of Deterministic Spray Unsteadiness. Particle and Particle System Chracterization, 18, pp. 205-215.
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A method and analysis was developed to quantify the amplitude of deterministic spray unsteadiness based on Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA), which sampled timedependent droplet velocity and size measurements, in order to determine the fluctuations of droplet data rate and number density, which are quantities relevant to fluctuations of droplet concentration. The data processing method of the PDA measurements was assessed in a pulsed spray at a frequency of 20Hz injected in a swirl-stabilised burner. Comparisons between quantities relevant to droplet concentration fluctuations, measured by PDA and a light scattering technique, quantified the deterministic spray unsteadiness and agreed to within 15%. The developed PDA approach was applied in the swirl-stabilised burner to measure the amplitude of deterministic spray unsteadiness of an otherwise steady spray, which was caused by the instability of the atomisation process. The intensity of deterministic fluctuations of droplet data rate and number density, occurring at a frequency range around 600 Hz due to the atomisation process, was quantified to 15% of the corresponding mean value and this spray unsteadiness generated fluctuations on the air and droplet velocity fields. The deterministic spray unsteadiness could survive up to the end of the recirculation zone of the air flow at the burner exit and, therefore, could influence flame stability.
|Document Type:
|Additional Information:
|Phase Doppler Anemometer for Measurements of Deterministic Spray Unsteadiness
|Journal or Publication Title:
|Particle and Particle System Chracterization
|Refereed publication:
|In ISI Web of Science:
|Page Range:
|pp. 205-215
|Phase Doppler Anemometer,
|HGF - Research field:
|Aeronautics, Space and Transport (old)
|HGF - Program:
|HGF - Program Themes:
|Aircraft Research
|DLR - Research area:
|DLR - Program:
|L AR - Aircraft Research
|DLR - Research theme (Project):
|L - Flight Physics
|Institutes and Institutions:
|Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology > Experimental Methods
|Deposited By:
|Ilka Micknaus
|Deposited On:
|31 Jan 2006
|Last Modified:
|14 Jan 2010 19:20
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