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It is documented that the Pentecostal Church began in Vandalia with outdoor meetings in 1917, led by two evangelists, DeWitt Spencer and Earl Hill.
The Rev. Pete and Pam LeDuc and their daughter, Aimee, will offer special thanks this year as they gather together with the rest of their family around the table.
Hattie Anderson, who was born on Nov. 12, 1912, now lives at Fayette County Hospital Long Term Care.
This is the third in a series of introductions to the children's day care and learning centers located in the area.
Fayette Faces is focusing on the day care/child care centers in the area, and this week's visit was made to the recently established Bright Beginnings managed by Amie LeDuc.
Fifteen years ago Audra Critcheloe was born with a challenge that she has faced with courage and determination … and an ability to understand and help others with similar challenges.
It has been said that our children are tomorrow's leaders, our hope for the community's future.
Therefore, it is important that they receive proper guidance and encouragement, and are taught respect and caring for others, as well as integrity and character, while retaining their own personality and individuality. Vandalia and the surrounding areas are fortunate to have many young families with children. The parents, guardians and other caregivers are also fortunate to have several child care and learning center/facilities available.
To harvest means to reap; to share means to give. That is what many Fayette County folks have been doing this year becasue of a drought, loss of jobs and higher costs of the grocery bills.
Jeff Bradley became a member of the Boy Scouts of America 11 years ago. He is 17 now, a senior at Vandalia Community High School and an Eagle Scout. Bradley has earned the required 21 merit badges, and for his Eagle project, he provided a new sign for the Brownstown VFW Post 9770.
Dr. Glen Skow was born and reared in New York City, but has just a subtle "city" accent.
Though the sound of the horses' hooves and stagecoach wheels turning have faded long ago into our heritage and history, the stories and memories handed down through the ages have preserved at least a glimpse into those days.
Continuing with the second of three stories in this series of the old Cumberland Road stagecoach stops and the tradition of providing food and rest for travelers and local folks, the focus this week is on the Good Old Days Catering and Banquet Hall at 365 W. Cumberland Road.
The late Clifford Nickels, who lived on the road now known as Ill. Route 185, across from the area on which the 4-Mile Store once stood, shared many of his memories of the long-ago days of his youth.
Thomas "Tom" Sutton, who completed his freshman year at Vandalia Community High School in the spring, was one of only eight chosen from the state of Illinois to attend the coveted 2012 NASA WINGS Camp.
Pamela Wallace is a new "Fayette Face," having recently moved to Vandalia to assume the responsibilities of the manager of the American Legion Home.
Darel and Mary Hayes recently celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary, and they remember – with smiles– their first meeting as children, when Darel was a new student at the school Mary was attending.
"Now unto Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us."
Ephesians 3:20
This is Patty Sprague's favorite scripture, which she feels has given her the strength through the years.
Wilma Kruger, a life-long resident of the area, doesn't recall when she began entering the competitions at the Fayette County Fair; she only remembers that it has been many years.
A visit to the Fayette County Fair-grounds Saturday afternoon found that, although the temperature was in the three-digit range, area 4-H kids were braving the heat to participate in the rabbit competitions.
The word "mutual" can be defined as "generally shared in, or participated in, by members of a community," which is probably the reason the word was incorporated into the title of Vandalia Mutual Fire County Insurance Co. when it was chartered on March 29, 1888, and organized on April 7, 1888.


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NWSB Insider and Seattle Mariners blogger Danny Ferguson weighs in today with his thoughts on M's young pitching arms. He says the M's are doing the right thing in waiting for the future to arrive instead of trying to time travel there immediately.
Time travel always ends up resulting in mind blowing problems anyway. James Paxton, Danny Hultzen, and Taijuan Walker your time will come.
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Storytelling is second nature to direct marketers, and I was so glad to see that confirmed recently at the terrific BtoB Digital Edge Conference in New York City.
I almost didn't go. A direct mail piece for the conference had languished in my purse for weeks until I decided at the last minute to fly up from south Florida. I said hi to Bob Felsenthal (@bobfels), BtoB's publisher, and then settled in to pick up new ideas.
And there were ideas galore, but that old-school idea of storytelling made me sit up and smile.
When I taught the DM Course at NYU, I often talked about an apple farm in Washington State that sold its fruit via direct mail. One of its owners was a Madison Avenue advertising exec.
One day his partner in Washington called with bad news. "Wow, we're in trouble", he said. "We were going to start picking and shipping today but last night a hail storm knocked most of the apples off the trees and a lot of them have pock marks. Looks like we'll lose this whole season."
"Give me a few minutes," said the ad guy. "I'll call you right back." He sat down and wrote a short, powerful story which he faxed to Washington and then he called his partner. "Get the story printed on small cards and insert one into each shipment."
The card read: "You will notice that your apples have pock marks on them …" and went on to explain that the marks were caused by hail and were proof that the apples had been grown in the cool, clean air of Washington's high country, closing with "We hope you enjoy them!" None of the shipments were returned and, the next year, many customers returned their order forms with hand-written notes: "Hail-damaged, if possible."
Lesson: Tell the truth, spin a story, make it work.
It works in print, the best example, probably being John Caples's legendary "they laughed when I sat down at the piano, until I started to play" ad for the Cody School of Music which ran for decades.
My favorite example of story spinning in direct mail is Martin Conroy's phenomenally successful "Two young men" letter for The Wall Street Journal. It started "On a beautiful late spring afternoon, twenty-five years ago, two young men graduated from the same college. They were very much alike, these two young men. Both had been better than average students, both were personable and both – as young college graduates are – were filled with ambitious dreams for the future." One of them was highly successful, one less so. Guess which one read the WSJ?
Does story spinning work in our digital age? It sure does as I saw when I sat in on the Bringing your Brand to Life session presented by Erich Parker, Director of Strategic Corporate Communications at Dupont.
He showed us an amazing video of a family in Vietnam that couldn't grow rice; their farm's soil was too salty because they'd been raising shrimp on it. Dupont engineers created a chemical that desalinated the soil and increased the rice crop by 30% over their pre-shrimp yield. Now the family is doing well and thinking about how their children will get a fine education. The video is here: Dupont Hybrid Rice
The story is so clear: Dupont helps improve lives.
So many TV commercials these days are actually tightly drawn short stories, especially for high end cars like Audi, Mercedes Benz and BMW. They're online, too.


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However, at the level of everyday ethical decisions - should the whereabouts of sex offenders be made known publicly? Should government seek to influence the nature of the family? - such "I don't knows" really do become offensive to the properly religious, of all stripes.
"When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Eastertime too/ And your gravity fails, and negativity don't pull you through..." Bob Dylan aka Robert Zimmerman - the secular-Jew-turned-fundamentalist-Christian- turned-orthodox-Jew, whose Zen grappling with religion and religiosity lies as near to the core of the poetics of the post-bomb 20th century as any other body of literature - speaks for me in this cold, awful, vernal equinox, as he voices for us all the unnaturalness of the rest of the emotional year: "I've never seen spring turn so quickly into autumn."
I hate Eastertime - and, by extension, I hate Easter. Not that I really know anything of Easter itself at all. There's a Venn intersection between Radio 4, the laity of the Church of England and the rest of what laughably calls itself the fourth estate in this country, which means that the rituals of the organised and semi-state-sanctioned religions receive a vastly disproportionate amount of consideration. At the exhausted fag-end of a century that has seen so many human lives snuffed out in such physically obliterating ways - conflagrated to ash; gassed to ordure; machine-gunned to pulp; exploded to inhumanly less than the sum of their parts - it would seem to me that to seek redemption in the 40 extra days between Easter and Pentecost putatively allotted, 2,000 years ago, to a self-proclaimed Messiah is - how can I put it with even a scintilla of respect for people's beliefs? - utterly ridiculous.
I've now been to Golgotha. Been to that Unholy Land. There's nothing more risible and historically disorienting about the environs of Jerusalem than those road signs that read "SODOM 20 KMS". And there's nothing more destructive of the Star Trek view of the Resurrection - a peculiar scenario involving a being with amazing powers marooned on a remote, backward planet - than a stroll around that cramped quarter wherein Jesus spent his final mortal hours. In the Star Trek view, Jesus is, of course, Caucasian. Pilate has a toga and a laurel-style eyeshade. The Temple priests - the quisling Klingons of their day - have exaggeratedly curled and perfumed beards; unctuous and unguent in one. And everyone observes the most important convention which renders this outlandish primitivism endlessly relevant: they speak Standard - RP even - English.
The cross is plywood - and anyway, a criminal from central casting, complete with standard-issue off-white dhoti, gets to carry the thing. The Way of the Cross is like any picturesque stroll through an ancient medina; the stations are spiritual time clocks; the crucifixion itself is mercifully televisual - when the sign is placed above his head with the dreaded ascription "King of the Jews", it's more in the manner of a title sequence than an abusive, cosmologically evil singularity.
To complete the teleplay, the garden of Gethsemane is just that, a municipal- cum-Olympian agglomeration of miniature cypresses, gravel paths and well- tended ornamental beds. The womenfolk, who are beautifully, cleanly attired in freshly laundered blue robes with white borders, arrive to make that epoch-creating discovery. Now, at this point in the gospels, it's easy for us cross-legged, nineteen sixties, late baby-boomer, Vietnam-as-TV- spectacle-witnessing kids to understand how it should be that the rock placed at the mouth of the tomb has been rolled to one side. Clearly, like all those bits of other worlds which are forever being hefted around by the crew of the Starship Enterprise, this alien stone is made from polystyrene, or foam rubber, or moulded plastic. Suffice it to say - even a flabby Kirk could've thrust it aside, and we know what a demigod he is.
Yes, I hate Easter, and the very movability of the feast makes it still more hateful - for I never know, in any year, when it will heave into view, freighted down with its groaning cargo of unpleasantness. It's not the Council of Nicaea which bothers me - although as a half-Jew with Catholic children from my first marriage I would seem purpose-built to respond to doctrinal disputations. Even that half-Jewishness requires some clarification - I mean, is it strictly possible to be half-Jewish?
The Jews might well claim me for their own, as my mother certainly was Jewish. But so intent was she on making her entire life a performance act of deracination, that I was uncircumcised, not bar mitzvahed, and only ever went to synagogue in my early teens, accompanying thoroughbred school friends in order to get in with them. On the other hand, my philosophically inclined, Anglican father - "I think of Jesus as a remarkable personality, rather like Plato" - did make a claim on my soul. I was christened - as was my brother before me - by the fantastically ancient vicar of All Saints, Hove, the Reverend Bickerstaff.
Throughout my childhood our father would take us two squealing, atheistically perverted (courtesy of my Jewish, anti-Semitic mother) brats, along to whatever empty, prayerful barn happened to be in our vicinity when either Christ's birthday or death day fell. What a thankless, graceless task it was for him. Try as he might to enthuse us with the sonorous beauties of the King James Bible, as declaimed by middle-class, middle-aged men in dresses, it was far too late. We had already been claimed by the split infinitives of Star Trek, were already preparing to boldly go into a world where ethics, so far from inhering in the very structure of the cosmos, was a matter of personal taste akin to a designer label, sewn into the inside lining of conscience.
My mother died at Easter. She who thought all religion was an out-and- out con, in that beautifully wiseacre fashion only a native New Yorker can achieve. She died in the Royal Ear Hospital of lung cancer - an irony which she might have appreciated, were it not for the fact that, in dying, my mother was fearful, alone, angry and devoid of any humour, no matter how black.
She had said to me a few weeks before her death: "The greatest thing about being a pessimist is that you're always starting off on the race of life with the understanding that you're bound to lose." Whether this was intended to give any comfort to either her or me I've no idea - since it certainly did neither. In the event, her pessimism was of no use anyway: she died utterly unconscious, shoved deep beneath the meniscus of sentience by barbiturates and opiates.
They had admitted her to the University College Hospital, where her oncologist was the consultant, but - wasn't it ever thus? - there were no beds available, and my brother and I had to follow her supine body as it was pushed through the subterranean passageways that connect this central London necropolis, until we rose up in a lift to the Royal Ear. This process was, on reflection, my mother's crucifixion: the cruel, iron trolley they wheeled her on was her secular cross; in place of the vinegar which was thrust into Christ's mouth by bystanders, nutriments were fed into Mother's arm via a transparent drip; and instead of the Roman legionnaire's sword, thrust into Mother's side were the increasing dosages of diamorphine which ensured that for all time she would remain dead.
In mourning my mother - whom I loved very deeply - I went through all the recognised stages of anger, denial and eventual acceptance. Like the disciples, in the days and weeks immediately succeeding her death I would see "fake" mothers wandering the streets of London much as she did in life. However, since neither of us believed remotely in the existence of personal immortality (and she in no kind of transcendence whatsoever), these visitations were mute and hazy. If Mother had felt driven to communicate anything to me from beyond the grave, it would doubtless have been a sardonic remark about the cost of her cremation.
As with so many of the most important and resonant facts about our lives, I have opted to block out the exact date in April when it was that we stood in the plastic cubicle and watched the mutant cells finally push mother out of her own head and into oblivion. So Easter is, for me, for the rest of my life, that time of the year when death comes to visit for a while. Western death: painless, medicalised, and about as ethical as a tooth extraction. It's a pity there are false messiahs - just the way that there are false teeth.
Yes, there will be no resurrection for Mother, just as there will be no resurrection for all the millions upon millions of dead souls that clutter this world of ours, like so much psychic lumber. Yes, they're gone - and they're not coming back.
So it is that I suppress my memory of the date my mother died and I never know the date upon which Easter is going to fall. As winter fades, a council quite as doctrinally hairsplitting as that of Nicaea begins its first convocation of the year.
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LP radio has been updated with some new music and words.
EDIT: For people outside the US, listen on this page (the widget for listening is on the right):
LP radio has been updated with some new music and words.
EDIT: For people outside the US, listen on this page (the widget for listening is on the right):
Idk if this was new or not but I just noticed the Crystal Castles track on there. I've been listening to them for a while now, its pretty good stuff. I would say LP and Crystal Castles are the best of examples of changing my understanding of what music is and can be. If you want to collaborate with them it would be cool with me.
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lp radio yay 🙂
ps:hey jpkaukonen i remembered you from your art tattoo 😄 it was like 3 years ago omg ..wow…time passed me by rather surprisingly
That's great. I like that you speak about Download to Donate. So people still know that you are supporting them. It would be awesome if you'd make a Linkin Park Radio widget for Google Chrome so that we haven't to go every time to this link. It would be easier for us. =)
oh, and I forgot to mention, sometimes, I don't know,depending on the time, maybe, the service it's not available to listen it live. It says it's a service exclusively for the U.S. I don't know if you could fix that, I guess that's a web problem , I don't know if somebody has that problem too. Anyway, I insist that the idea is amazing!
Wow Mike, this works GREEAAAAT!!!! And I'm from Honduras, so I guess that anybody can listen it. It worked out with the link that I got from e-mail. I can't be stick to it at all time (cuz of my job and school), but I'll try my best to follow it from my laptop, 'cause it's just an amazing idea.
Congrats and thanks for that!
Oh I can listen to it now 🙂
Mike, if it wasn't for you there wouldn't be this!
My new wall paint:
Love you Mike! ❤
wow thanks for the radio and put the other members also on the radio mike 😉
works world wild 😀
For the ones who cannot listen because you're not in US try the link that Colin posted. Im in Argentina and it works fine for me
As if I could heard that radio since it´s not available in my country;.;
That´s me when I found out about it:
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Oh Rob is also on this time 🙂
Heard some music already. Love the talking though. & Thanks Colin for the right link 🙂
Great! Gonna listen to it now.
Are you guys sure, that it's only available in the US? It works fine for me, and I'm in Germany, which means that either we've been occupied by the US (again) or it works in other countries, too.
Hey Mike can you configure the radio so the ones we're not in U.S can listen to it???? The last time, I play it without problems, but now it doesn't let me 😦 im in Argentina by the way
Awesome Mike thanks!
Thank you mike! 🙂
Amazing! Thank you, Mike 🙂
why cant we pick up radio station in uk anymore it says only available in america thats hardly fair!
also this is the link that works – http://www.iheartradio.com/cc-common/news/sections/special/linkinpark/?_show
has anyone heard my name being mentioned yet?
Awesome! Can;t wait to hear the music you chose this time 🙂 LP Radio is always a great way to discover new music!
That's great news! Can't wait to listen to it when the connection is better. Your Spotify has great music already… Any more phone calls included?
Your new background here looks great btw 🙂 Good luck in the studio.
Awesome stuff Mike, the LP Radio helps me find some awesome new music. BTW, you could check this Indian Indie band out!
Mike, a shoutout to the Indian Linkin Park community on Twitter or here, please!
We've been dying to see you guys and we all might really DIE (XD), if you guys don't make it soon enough. A shoutout would actuate the masses to stand up, ask for it and compel the dormant sponsors/organizers to set it up! We are a huge fan base, and you know that! 😀
Nice 😀
Btw Mike, can't wait to hear new stuff, there are so many rumors about the album being almost done and it being very loud… The curiosity is killing me!!
Oh cool! Is this some of the stuff you recorded during the LPU Chat last month?
Hope you had a good holiday season ^_^
Cool story, now what about Fort Minor?
Thanks for updating it mike!,,
Oh, when i will have the best band ever all the time? =/
Yeah, Mr. Shinoda, your link is completely messed up lol. The page kinda.. half loads… mostly it's a white screen…
and your link is screwy.
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Lena Dunham's "Girls" returns Sunday for its second episode, which is hard to believe given the amount of media coverage and musings about realism, feminism, race and likability already generated by the show. Heading into that installment, which is sure to automatically infuriate plenty by delving into the topic of abortion, here's a rundown of some of the things already upsetting people about the season's most divisive series about four young women doing nothing that out of the ordinary.
The Show's Name:
Christopher Owens, the frontman of the indie rock band Girls, has taken to Twitter to express annoyance that the show shares the same name as his group (a word also commonly used to refer to a not insignificant portion of the female population). As Hitfix reports, Owens tweeted that "It's a bit sucky to be informed by a giant company like HBO that you don't matter enough culturally to not have your name taken away or used… Do you think that TV show even thought twice before using our bands name for their show? I'll bet they were just like 'fuck it, fuck them'," he continued, making any claims that the characters on the series are unrealistically self-involved pale in the harsh bluish light of the real-life internet.
Not Representing the Sisterhood:
Interviewed in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Dunham was asked is she'd "ever read a book about girls or women" that made her "angry or disappointed or just extremely annoyed?" Her response was that she doesn't "have a taste for airport chick-lit, even in a guilty-pleasure way. Any book that is motored by the search for a husband and/or a good pair of heels makes me want to move to the outback." This displeased "In Her Shoes" author Jennifer Weiner, who took to Twitter to chastise Dunham for tearing down other women when she "could have not taken the bait. 'No comment' or 'I'd rather talk about books I love' is always classy." She later wrote that she found it better to "keep quiet about women-written books I don't love, knowing how hard it is to get pubbed and get noticed, and how slams can sting."
Depictions of Race:
"Girls" writer Leslie Arfin picked fights with a lot of people all at once when she published a since-deleted tweet announcing that "What really bothered me most about 'Precious' was that there was no representation of ME." While I assume that was meant to reference the many reviewers that fault the characters' place of privilege as not reflecting their own twentysomething experiences, Arfin's poorly chosen quip enraged people already upset about the show's lack of diversity. Pieces like Kendra James' in Racialicious and Jenna Wortham's in The Hairpin have outlined frustrations felt by women who turned to "Girls" with the expectations of something closer to their own lives, for the realism the marketing and early reviews have touted, only to feel isolated by the fact that the show's overwhelmingly white. At the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a wonderful and more measured response in which he suggests, "It is not so wrong to craft an exclusively white world — certainly a significant portion of America lives in one. What is wrong is for power-brokers to pretend that no other worlds exists."
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A Photoshopped poster of the "Girls" campaign started making the rounds online a few days ago — it retitled the show "Nepotism" and labeled the castmembers as "Bad Company's drummer's daughter," "NBC's Brian Williams' daughter," "artist Laurie Simmons' daughter" and "playwright David Mamet's daughter." All true, but an undeniable cheap shot — to leave the last word with Twitter, the main battleground for many of these brawls, let's turn to Grantland's Andy Greenwald, who tweeted "I love the way people throw around 'Laurie Simmons's daughter' as a withering example of nepotism when no one knows who that is."


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Strawberry Ginger Tart Recipe
"This tart heralds lazy summer days when strawberries are at their sweetest and juiciest. It's entirely customizable, too. You can substitute any refrigerated cookie dough for the crust." —Chantal Bourbon, Montreal, Quebec
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 large egg white
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh gingerroot
- 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 package (8 ounces) reduced-fat cream cheese
- 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- 2 tablespoons 2% milk
- 4 cups halved fresh strawberries
- 1/4 cup seedless strawberry jam
- 1 tablespoon crystallized ginger, finely chopped
- 1. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg white and ginger. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Press onto the bottom and up the sides of a greased 9-in. tart pan.
- 2. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Sprinkle with chips. Bake 4-5 minutes longer or until chocolate is melted; spread over crust. Cool on a wire rack.
- 3. In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and milk until smooth; spread over chocolate. Top with strawberries. In a small microwave-safe bowl, microwave jam in 10-second intervals until melted; brush over strawberries. Sprinkle with ginger. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving. Yield: 12 servings.
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1 slice: 293 calories, 12g fat (7g saturated fat), 27mg cholesterol, 201mg sodium, 41g carbohydrate (28g sugars, 2g fiber), 5g protein.
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At least twice during the set, we expect to see a big laugh (5-9 seconds) which is scored as 2 solid laughs. Great laughs (10 seconds or better) are scored as 2 big laughs (= 4 solid laughs).
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We're looking forward to receiving your audition video.
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Late last year, president Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process. Peaceful protesters in Occupy movements all over the world have been labelled as terrorists by the authorities. Initiatives like SOPA promote diligent monitoring of communication channels. Thirty years ago, when Richard Stallman launched the GNU project, and during the three decades that followed, his sometimes extreme views and peculiar antics were ridiculed and disregarded as paranoia - but here we are, 2012, and his once paranoid what-ifs have become reality.
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I'll try again. Prev. message was incomplete, due to my stu pid defective keyboard. Here I'll try again:
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I was scrolling down the thread and wondering why noone seem ed to notice the obvious flaw in this article - that there is NO connection between the bad laws and anything rms ever predicted!
It never does mention excactly what rms said 30 years ago t hat was an accurate prediction of the future.
Neither does it explain what these laws have to do with fre e software and I start to suspect that the author of the a rticle does not have enough technical knowledge to know that� �all these bad laws would be perfectly possible in a world with only free software.


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- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 4 tablespoons plus 1-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 3/4 cup cold water
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3 cups fresh blueberries
- 1 cup fresh raspberries
- 1 cup fresh blackberries
- Pastry for double-crust pie (9 inches)
- In a saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch. Stir in water and lemon juice until smooth. Add berries; stir gently. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly. Remove from the heat; cool.
- Line a 9-in. pie plate with bottom crust. Add filling. Roll out remaining pastry; make a lattice crust. Seal and flute edges. Cover edges loosely with foil. Bake at 400° for 10 minutes Reduce heat to 350°. Remove foil; bake 40-50 minutes longer or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool completely. Yield: 6-8 servings.
Originally published as Ozark Mountain Berry Pie in Taste of Home
June/July 1999, p51
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Cardinal Keith O'Brien resignation 'hugely significant'
25 February 2013 Last updated at 12:46 GMT
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the most senior Roman Catholic in Britain, has announced he is to step down as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
The announcement came after it emerged that accusations of "inappropriate behaviour" had been made against the cardinal by three priests and one former priest.
Catherine Deveney, who revealed the allegations in The Observer newspaper at the weekend, told BBC Scotland's John Beattie why she wrote the story.


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High-Profile Defense Attorney Weighs In On Baby Justice CaseSamantha Green's Facebook pictures show the 23-year-old in happier times with her fiancé.
Why Did Detectives Wait To Name Samantha Green A Suspect In Her Baby's Death?Authorities announced Samantha Green was arrested early Saturday morning – three days after her baby froze to death in a slough, detectives say.
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LOUISBURG - Francis Newell Cash, 96, of Louisburg, died Monday, June 18, 2012, at Franklin Regional Medical Center. He was preceded in death by his wife, Bertha Callihan Cash; his son, Hoyt Kirby Cash; and his sister, Alma Thorne. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at Mountain Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. T. Daren Smart, Jr., officiating. Burial will follow in Lancaster Memorial Park.
He is survived by his son, Dennis Bradley Cash and wife, Lalage of Louisburg; his sister, Hazel Bobbitt of Louisburg; his brother, Elmo Cash and wife, Dot of Richmond, VA; his grandchildren, Jason Cash, Bradley Cash and wife, Amanda, Houston Cash and wife, Shayla; and one great-granddaughter. Arrangements are being handled by Lancaster Funeral and Cremation Services, 804 N. Bickett Boulevard, Louisburg. Online condolences may be made to www.lancasterfcs.com.Paid Obituary
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Kings pull off blockbuster deal for Richards
June 23rd, 2011, 1:10 pm by Eric Stephens, Staff writerLAS VEGAS -- The Kings have acquired Philadelphia Flyers captain Mike Richards for winger Wayne Simmonds and former first-round pick Brayden Schenn, which TSN first reported Thursday.
Also included in the major transaction is a 2012 second-round draft pick that the Kings sent to Philadelphia while getting in return minor-league center Rob Bordson, a former Ducks prospect.
Richards, 26, had 23 goals and 43 assists in 81 games for the Flyers last season. The former 2003 first-round pick has averaged 28 goals and 70 points over the last four seasons and is three years into a 12-year, $69-million extension that he signed in 2007.
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What is the NHBCC Support Services Fund?
The NHBCC Support Services Fund is a resource for patients who have exhausted all other options for financial assistance. Funds are available on a case-by-case basis. Virtually any request is considered, but funds are limited. A five-member NHBCC committee adjudicates and makes a decision on each application.
Who is eligible for the Support Services Fund?
Anyone with a diagnosis of breast cancer living or being treated in New Hampshire is eligible to apply to the New Hampshire Breast Cancer Coalition Support Services Fund.
What is covered by the Support Services Fund?
The Support Services Fund Committee considers virtually any financial need. Typical requests for help include breast imaging or diagnostic services, cost of treatments (including prescriptions), transportation, childcare, or household expenses.
How can I access the Support Service Fund?
Patients must access the NHBCC Support Services Fund in collaboration with their health care provider (social worker, oncologist, nurse, surgeon), or through their hospital or clinic Social Services or Financial Department.
First, download the application and information forms. Then, meet with your health care provider to complete the application for submission.
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Written on: 01/08/2011 by Robin65 (4 reviews written)
First off it takes alot to impress me in rap and in music in general. I have listened to rappers such as Nas, Eminem, Dr Dre, JayZ and Kanye West.each have brought out a defining album that made their career. The best managed to change flow and style and yet still keep their fans.
Drakes Thank Me Later, in my opinion, is a great collection of song that work well when listened togetherl. I think the album has changed the hip hop game and persuaed rappers to tell their own stories through their songs. Maybe we won't have references to money, cars and hookers as much in the next decade of rap?I hope this is the way forward and am eagerly awaiting his next album to drop, "Take Care".
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June 17, 2005
Cover Story
This post, however, is about the book's tattered cover, which unearthed a painful tragic childhood memory. It was the third standard, the year I became the universally loathed usurper by defeating the pretty and popular girl who stood first in class an awful lot. My teacher, at least, was a kind soul who loved me like her own child. Or so I thought.
One day I went up to her to get my homework checked. She noticed that my notebook had no cover. A notebook without a cover was guilty of indecent exposure in my convent school. The teacher asked why my notebook was, well, unclothed. I replied that since my Dad was out of town, he could not replace the old cover, which had given way a couple of days ago. This was a true story, for the record.
The teacher did something I could never have imagined. She laughed out loud, waved my naked notebook in front of the class and said, "look everyone, here is a girl who cannot cover her own notebook."
The devils I used to study with laughed like hyenas. I was too shocked to be embarrassed. I knew that half of these morons had trouble tying their shoelaces, and each one of them had her notebooks covered by Daddy or Mummy, but they had the nerve to join the teacher in laughing at me.
That day, I started covering my books myself. All my fourth standard books had higgledy piggledy covers carefully snipped and fitted by yours truly. In a year or two, I learnt many covering techniques and the covers became neat and elegant, and much better than Dad's!
Some years later, we were visiting family friends. The son was two years ahead of me, and I saw his dad covering his Class Nine notebooks! I heard the class of eight-year-old devils laughing in my head.
I've seen people laugh at others so many times now: and known that they are guilty of the same crime. I cannot bear to do that. If you tell me a joke and I don't laugh, that's probably the reason why. Either that, or you're a guy, and consequently so typical and boring.
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I remember an incident when my Marathi teacher, with the intention to praise student x's good scores in a language that was apparently alien to her, ended up reproaching a couple of Maharashtrian students for having flunked in Marathi and the whole class went into a roar of mocking laughter, while I just couldn't bear sitting there. I guess teachers shud be made to take a course in child psychology before they are hired.
--kk - 4:23 AM
- Miss Sea said...
u were laughed at because of exposure and I because of the lack of it ;)
you sure learnt covering well..thanks for covering my books till...errr...psst, when do u plan to teach me?! :P - 6:50 AM
- Kahini said...
MAJOR signs of insecurity your class shows.
I always covered my books myself, it was one of the few pleasures of a new school term. I went to Crossword the other day and looked at the stationery section... man, the school supplies looked SO good. - 9:28 AM
- Ash said...
lol !
that wa sthe one chore at the beginning of school term that I sorely detested ! - 9:46 AM
how could the teacher do that? very mean of her.
and yup dad used to it for me till about class IV *guilty as charged*
lemongrass.blogdrive.com - 12:56 PM
- Handful Of Hell said...
Sometimes we learn things the hard way. Envision your dad coiffing notebooks for you till you were in high school, a chore you were very capable of executing yourself from years before. May be your teacher used sarcasm to bring about a paradigm shift in your attitude rather than resort to corporal punishment. For all you know, you could have gotten one tight slap like little kids in school get and promptly have your book covered or be let off with a warning only to never bother covering your book till dad lent his hand. But here, she appears to have transformed you into a self sufficient person albeit with the mental scar you still carry which I conjecture could also be cuz of your way of looking at it.
Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. I understand what is going on your head, I was once sent out of an English class for not being able to control my cough but then I wonder now, if it was because I was a guy, and consequently so typical and boring. - 10:27 PM
- Sonia said...
"Either that, or you're a guy, and consequently so typical and boring. " lol! LOVE that line!
- cactusjump said...
this post comes full circle so beautifully :)
- Stone said...
thats y I say, Govt. schools r the best :-)
Kids and even teachers can be extremely cruel sometimes.... And the worst part is that these teachers think they are "tyring to improve" our lives by resorting to such lowly methods!
I can relate to KK's comment.. I was in X's shoes and one Maharashtrian girl was insulted by the teacher.. I ended feeling miserable as I watched that girl get yelled at by our Marathi teacher.. it was cruel, insensitive and disgusting! - 1:03 AM
- Rash said...
very thoughtful comments...hmmm..all I want to say is...but jokes are jokes...so what's the trouble in laughing?


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- 1-1/2 cups biscuit/baking mix
- 1/3 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 3 tablespoons oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, drained and finely chopped
- 1-1/2 teaspoons butter, melted
- In a large bowl, combine the biscuit mix, cheeses, Italian seasoning, onion powder and garlic powder. Stir in buttermilk and tomatoes just until moistened.
- Drop by 1/4 cupfuls 2 in. apart onto a greased baking sheet. Bake at 425° for 8-12 minutes or until golden brown. Brush with butter. Serve warm. Yield: 6 biscuits.
Originally published as Sun-Dried Tomato Cheese Biscuits in Country Woman
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2 intruders killed at Puyallup marijuana grow home | www.kirotv.com
The guy was growing pot in his house. Two masked thugs broke in to steal his pot, and he killed them. I guess it is best to call the cops and report the intruders that you killed, and get busted for the drugs, than it is to not call and probably get charged with murder if you try to cover up the killing.
I like what the sheriff had to say though: "It may be stupid and reckless to have an illegal grow operation in the house, but it does not waive your lawfull right to self-defense."
They took care of the sittuation, then waited outside for warrants to show up. The sheriff says they will probably not charge the guy for shooting, but may pursue drug charges. It is made even more interesting that his 9 year old son was with him.


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With the creation of the new board, the Obama administration is taking an important step in fulfilling its own strategy that was laid out in May 2010, which recognized that the prevention of mass atrocities and genocide is central to U.S. national security.
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ABC Entertainment president Paul Lee professes to be a big fan of his Tuesday-night comedies "Happy Endings" and "Don't Trust the B— in Apt. 23."
But even with all that love, there's no guarantee they'll stick around for next season.
First, the good news. "We love those two shows," Lee said Thursday (Jan. 10) at the TCA winter press tour. "They're incredibly distinctive — they're water-cooler shows. They're incredibly well-written."
Lee also says the double runs of the two shows on Sundays and Tuesdays shows the network's dedication to them, as he hopes to get more people to sample the show (although it also burns through episodes quicker, making room for ABC's spring lineup). He also thinks they have a chance to grow on Tuesdays after a fall run that was disrupted by the presidential election and Hurricane Sandy.
"We know ['Happy Endings'] has to stand on its own — it did a great job with 'Modern Family,' but every show has to stand on its own, and 'Happy Endings' is ready to do that," Lee says. "We're going to back it as we go through the season."
That's nice to hear, but both shows are squarely on the bubble. "Happy Endings" averages about 4.9 million viewers and a 1.9 rating among adults 18-49, and "Don't Trust the B—-" comes in at 3.9 million viewers and a 1.6 in the demographic.
Lee says the network hasn't made any decisions about its 2013-14 lineup yet, "but I can tell you these are shows that we love." So there's that, at least.


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Grilled Pita Pizzas
- 3 medium tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for brushing and drizzling
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 3 cups baby arugula
- 1/2 cup pitted kalamata olives, roughly chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, roughly chopped
- 1 large red onion, cut into 1-inch-thick rounds
- 4 6-to-8-inch pocketless pitas
- 1/2 cup ricotta cheese
- 1/4 pound part-skim mozzarella cheese, diced
- Pinch of red pepper flakes
Core the tomatoes and halve them crosswise, then squeeze the juices and seeds into a large bowl. Whisk in 1 tablespoon olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Add the arugula but don't toss; set aside. Dice the tomatoes and toss in a separate bowl with the olives and rosemary.
Preheat a grill to medium high. Brush the onion rounds with olive oil and season with salt. Grill until soft, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate and separate the rings. Reduce the grill heat to medium.
Brush both sides of the pitas with olive oil and grill until marked, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Top with some of the tomato-olive mixture, ricotta, mozzarella and onion. Cover and grill until the cheese melts, 2 to 3 minutes.
Toss the arugula with the dressing and pile on top of the pitas. Season with salt and the red pepper flakes and drizzle with olive oil.
Per serving: Calories 564; Fat 35 g (Saturated 9 g); Cholesterol 31 mg; Sodium 798 mg; Carbohydrate 46 g; Fiber 3 g; Protein 18 g
You can make the pizzas on a cast-iron grill pan, too. Transfer to a 400 degree F oven to melt the cheese.
Recipe courtesy of Food Network Magazine Great Easy Meals by Food Network Magazine.


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The only combat they showed was artillery shooting.
The only combat they showed was artillery shooting.
Lets have a bit of NATO discussion- what tanks do we use?
Ive got the Abrams and the Challenger, and I see no point in using either. Both are far too expensive and Ive never seen them pay back their cost. I like the MBT-70 because its only 75 points, it has ATGM's, and an MG and Autocannon so if you rush a group forward you can kill some Hind's and Havoc's if you are lucky. Plus they are fast, have decent armour, and a lot of fuel.
Starship M60AE2's are really nice too, because you can use the same tactic for even cheaper. So long as you have a recon unit your entire tank army can fire a crap ton of ATGM's before the enemy is even in cannon range, you can rush forward and knock unwary heli spammers out of the sky, and you can move them quickly from place to place without worrying about fuel.
Between the Challenger 1 and M1, I prefer the baseline M1.
Unless its a heavily forested or urban area my tank force is always the same; 1-3 vett'd heavy tanks (Challenger, T-64BV, M1A1, T-80U) supported by small groups of medium, cheaper tanks, (Chieftain 5/10, MBT-70, AMX-30B, M8 AGS, T-62M-1/T-55AMV-1/T-72B, also vett'd if you can afford it) the amount depends on the map but I usually go for a pair of mediums for each heavy, and a platoon (4 groups) of infantry. Heavy tanks in the centre and the medium tanks on the flanks, with infantry. Support the force with mortars/light artillery/attack helicopters and keep a mix of auto cannons and heavy AA in the rear. I also like to bring some logistics vehicles along with the force rather than buying them when they're needed, or having to rely on choppers when there could be enemy AA in the area. If I'm playing pact I bring a flamethrower tank for each flanking group.
I know who whole main battle tank thing is meant to replace light/medium/heavy but I think with the range of vehicles on offer in this game its still viable to call them that.
The game will be unlocked soon, man I'm going to explode.
So i've been playing then suddenly I got booted and now i'm not using the correct version, Am I missing something here?
game is about to be released.
And then there was no option to preload the rest of the game.
I think you'll have to download some more stuff once the game gets released.
23 hours still to go, unless i'm missing something?
Or does US get it slightly ahead
I was thinking the opposite, EU gets it earlier no?
I don't know, maybe UK has it's own seperate time because we hate being in the EU lol I see on the forums mention of it going out at midnight or earlier though, I guess I should know not to pay attention to steam time :)
Release changes:
I haven't even managed to play a match yet but I'm still happy of the nerfs
People will just switch to the Malka, but the Dev's are on the right track.
People don't use the Malka?
the Msta was OP though because even though it costed less than the French AMX Auf1, it was better in every single way.
It even had a goddamn stabilizer.
FFFFFFUCK someone help me convince my brother to buy this with me! We're twins we're supposed to want the same things dammit.
Buy it for yourself and let him test it
It's what I did with my brother
No, I didn't. We held 60% of the map when that happened.
Is it just me or is Wargame saying your version is out of date? Because I restarted steam, checked integrity and defragged. No new updates on steam, yet I'm still getting the message.
They are talking to Valve about releasing the game early, so the beta servers are down atm.
releaes is doomed
release it now pls
I have to go to bed soon
It's the release!
I like how active the devs seem to be on the forums.
I don't see no release :c
Nothing seems to be changing, verifying game cache now...
All the new maps perhaps and maybe single player stuff.
Trying to uninstall/re-install, Steam servers are too busy FFFFF
D-M posted:
aka the releache
Browsing through the forums, it appears the full version is/has been put up on steam's servers and should soon be fully available. Gentlemen(and women?), my body is ready.
Change your region to Washington DC for a guaranteed download, DC is always the first steam server to get updates.
What's a decent NATO tank? I hate the M60, it was a bad investment.


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Clashing things
Leiboff, Marett (2002) Clashing things. Griffith Law Review, 10(2), pp. 294-316.
Law has an ambivalent relationship with artistic and cultural material, for the artistic is malleable and unstable. Law assumes and prefers the stable and reliable, and the closed, and distrusts the vagaries that typify the artistic. Law likes to keep its distance from the artistic, though it is happy to be its judge, and to have its own views on art. It then firmly intrudes into the artistic, especially where rogue aspects of art and culture operate. While law is unable to trust its judgment about the artistic and cultural, it will still make art experts and institution subject to the overriding truth of the law.
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The Sysadmin's Daily Grind: Dnsgraph
A partly overloaded DNS server can slow down all the workstations on the network. Dnsgraph is an early warning system that gives administrators a graph of critical values. Your Dnsgraph charts will help you keep your systems serving names.
Just recently I heard about a memory genius who could remember the value of pi to several thousand decimal figures; at the same time, this person couldn't explain the practical value of this exercise. People like that don't need a DNS server; instead they could just memorize a few thousand IP addresses. But normal folks prefer DNS. And if you run a name resolution service yourself, I'm sure you will appreciate Dnsgraph [1]. The project name indicates a similarity with projects such as Mailgraph and Queuegraph, and Dnsgraph is actually based on Mailgraph. The tool parses a file for the status information generated by my Bind 9 DNS server [2], and converts the figures into a graph.
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LJWorld.com weblogs Broken Bat Single Kansas City Royals Blog
Was pinch hitting for Alcides Escobar the right call?
In the last inning of last night's Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays game, the Royals were down by two runs with the bottom of their order due to bat. Every team's last three batters are the most woeful on the team, but the Royals last three are worse than average. Chris Getz, Brayan Pena and Alcides Escobar currently have on-base percentages of .318, .295 and .241. So, the odds of overcoming the two run deficit were looking slim.
Predictably, Chris Getz grounded out to second base for the first out. However, Brayan Pena stroked a ball to center field for a single which put the tying run at the plate. A tying run which was represented by Alcides Escobar and his .210 batting average and matching .242 on-base percentage and slugging percentage. He isn't just the worst batter on the Royals, he's likely the worst option in the Majors to bat in that situation..
A logical strategy in that moment would have been to utilize the well-known Rule 3.03:
A player, or players, may be substituted during a game at any time the ball is dead. A substitute player shall bat in the replaced player's position in the team's batting order
However manager Ned Yost decided to waive his right to use Rule 3.03 and left significantly better hitters Mike Aviles and Mitch Maier on the bench.
Escobar watched the first pitch go by for a called strike and fouled off the next two offerings attempting to go to the opposite field. The fourth and final pitch of the at-bat was a called strike that looked to be outside, but seemed to be a good pitch to hit the other way. The strikeout was followed by an RBI double by Alex Gordon and a just-too-short bloop by Melky Cabrera to end the game.
When asked after the game if he thought about pinch hitting for Escobar Ned Yost replied:
"Do I think about pinch-hitting for him every time in those situations? Yes, yes, I'm dying to. But I know it's in our best interest right now, that we don't do it -- for big picture thought."
But thinking about it and doing it are clearly two different things. He also said:
"Not right now, I'm not gonna do it. I don't care what anybody says, I'm not gonna do it."
"This is a kid that I think is going hit some day and I want him getting as many at bats as he can get, because one day there's going to be in line to win a championship and I want him to be able to handle himself in those situations."
Leaving Alcides Escobar in to hit in that important game situation wasn't a matter of inept managing; it was a development philosophy. It's easy to scream at the manager for making a bone-headed decision, and in the context of last night's game, that's exactly what it was.
This decision goes deeper than that, what's better for the Royals as a franchise: a 15% increase in the probability of getting the tying run on base in a relatively meaningless game in June, or trying to improve a player who is going to be a contributor for the next five years?
The answer depends on who are. If you are fan who goes to a couple games a year and last night was one of them, then you want to see that walk-off win – screw the development of Alcides Escobar. It's just one at-bat! If you are building a franchise and you feel that Alcides Escobar is an important component, then things look a bit different. That slight increase in probability for a single game becomes much less important.
Context matters, sometimes you have to lose a battle to win the war. It's not a guarantee that Escobar will eventually turn around his offensive game. Leaving him out to fail in clutch situations could eventually crush his confidence. It's all a calculated risk.
I believe it's a risk worth taking. What does the Royals franchise gain in the long haul from giving Mike Aviles or Mitch Maier that chance last night? At best, they win one game -- a game that will be forgotten in a week's time. Neither of those players are going to be on the Royals when they are in the playoffs, while Alcides Escobar just might. Developing him at the cost of a small win probability increase is the right call.
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kcgregory 5 years, 9 months ago
I usually find myself agreeing with you, but in this case I couldn't disagree more.
If your favorite team isn't playing to win with the pieces they have then what's the point?
I get the long-term view, but not to a fault like this. Escobar should play every day, yes, but he that doesn't mean he has to get EVERY at-bat in the game. If getting pinch hit for in the ninth inning of a game (when he is the WORST hitter in baseball) crushes his confidence then he will never have the confidence necessary to suceed long term.
Here's another newsflash: if Alcides DOES eventually hit, it's not likely that he'll hit enough that we wouldn't pinch hit for him in that situation anyway. Our bench is weak at this point (though every hitter is an upgrade over him), but in theory if we're in contention then we'll have a player on our bench better than him even if he reaches his most optimistic ceiling as a hitter.
Running Escobar out there for 8th and 9th inning at-bats while losing a close game is no different than playing Mike Jacobs, Jose Guillen, or Willie Bloomquist as regulars. You're either trying to win or you're not. At some point Dayton needs to start caring about the product Kansas City fans are watching IN Kansas City.
Sorry for the rant, but I can not stand any argument that says we shouldn't be trying to win games at the major league level.
kcgregory 5 years, 9 months ago
Maybe it's not fair to pin it on Dayton as Yost clearly has a history of sticking with guys. I got a little carried away, but the point remains--play to win with what you have or don't expect me to watch every game like I have been until you care.
Shane Garrett 5 years, 9 months ago
Wait until after the all-star game. That is when divisions are won or lost. It used to be Texas would take that late summer dive. Now who knows.
Nick Scott 5 years, 9 months ago
the difference between jacobs, guillen and bloomquist is that Escobar IS a part of the future. Those guys never were.
I really don't care if the royals win a meaningless game against the blue jays in 2011. This team isn't a contender. Winning today at the expense of the future is a short-sighted approach.
I don't think that pinch hitting for escobar will crush his confidence.
kcgregory 5 years, 9 months ago
I don't think it will crush his confidence either, but isn't part of the defense Yost has been using? Possibly that's just the narrative created by writers who are just as baffled as me about continuing to run him out there in those situations.
Also, my argument is not 'win now at the expense of the future'. My argument is 'win now if it's NOT at the expense of the future'. I do not for a moment believe that pinch hitting for Escobar once a week hurts his development (would you argue that it does?), thus we could do that and try to win today.
None of these games are meaningless to me so I reject that portion of your argument as well.
Nick Scott 5 years, 9 months ago
"but isn't part of the defense Yost has been using?"
Not that I've heard.
"None of these games are meaningless to me so I reject that portion of your argument as well."
I understand that. That's why I brought up context. To you, winning yesterday was very important. That extra 10-15% chance of aviles or maier getting on base was important for you.
Ned Yost, and I pretty much agree with him, believes the long teram goals are best served by taking the chance on Escobar in the situation and giving him opportunities to try and hit in pressure situations. His 2nd to last at bat was really good, he crushed a ball that happened to go right to the CF.
If we could be guaranteed that PH for escobar would have won the game, then I'd do it. But it's only a slight probability shift, not a promise of success.
kcgregory 5 years, 9 months ago
I wouldn't classify it as 'very important' to me, but if you're not sacrificing the future then why not? I guess that's the disagreement--I don't think missing out on 2-3 ABs per month (at best--how many one run games has he come to the plate in the late innings?) is detrimental to his development.
I still don't think a fully developed Escobar will likely to be asked to hit in those situations either, but I realize that's utter speculation.
Also, Yost has backed himself into a corner he can't get out of now so I will have to get used to seeing Escobar in those situations. It's not changing this year (at least).
Nick Scott 5 years, 9 months ago
Yost said last night that in the future he wants escobar's defense on the field late in games, so he won't pinch hit for him in the future. So if he isn't going to PH for him in the future (which is debateable itself) then why PH for him in a meaningless game right now.
I see both sides, but I like the idea of putting a guy in those situations.
kcgregory 5 years, 9 months ago
We're talking about the ninth inning of a game where there will be no tenth inning for a glove to impact without plating a run. Surely you agree that in 'the future', with development of a player not an issue, the worst hitter in the league should be hit for in that situation even if he has the best glove in league? I'll listen the development arguments (and disagree with them), but Yost says some outrageous things and this is another one.
Royals 5 years, 9 months ago
"Winning today at the expense of the future is a short-sighted approach."
Then why is Bill Butler almost always pinch ran for with the game on the line?
Nick Scott 5 years, 9 months ago
"We're talking about the ninth inning of a game where there will be no tenth inning for a glove to impact without plating a run."
No "no" but "unlikely". A tie game goes to the 10th. But I understand.
"Surely you agree that in 'the future', with development of a player not an issue, the worst hitter in the league should be hit for in that situation even if he has the best glove in league?"
I do. But I think and I know ned thinks that Escobar won't be the worst hitter in the future and he believes (rightly or wrongly) that these opportunities will help him become a better hitter.
"Then why is Bill Butler almost always pinch ran for with the game on the line?"
Because Butler is NOT developing into a decent runner in the future. Pinch running for him has no long term effects. I'm not saying I always agree with the pinch running for him, in fact I typically disagree.
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text: Google and LEGO have a fun and special history... The Google company founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are both avid lovers of LEGO toys, as are many of the company's employees. This is the second LEGO Google sculpture that I've made for Google, and is installed in the lobby of their new office building in Copenhagen, Denmark. (The other one is installed in Google's New York office.) To translate the two-dimensional logo into a three-dimensional sculpture, I decided to do a few interesting things. In Google's logo, the lettering is always shown on a white background, with a light grey "drop shadow". And the letters themselves are made to look like they have a bit of depth and roundness. First, I opted to hang the logo on a white wall, so that the wall itself becomes the negative space around the logo. Next, I suspended the letters outwards so they seem to float in mid-air above their little grey shadows. And the letters themselves have a subtle bit of depth and curvature to them, so that when lit correctly, they appear to have the same highlights and shadows in the logo. It was important that the elegant, thin lines of Google's logo not be distracted by the structural supports; I think this design is very clean-looking and subtle, yet very sturdy. The sculpture extends about 4 inches (10 cm) from the wall and is 40 inches (1 meter) in length. |