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(This note is jointly authored by David Hull and Noah Mendelsohn) As you all surely could not fail to observe, the two of us have been particularly active and on somewhat different sides of the question: what should we do about multicast in the one-way MEP? Over the past several days we've made some effort to resolve as many of those differences as we can manage, and we offer this status report in the hope that it will be useful to the rest of the working group in deciding what to do next. A few days ago, David posted a summary of what he took to be the open issues [1]. We are now in agreement that all of these can be reasonably easily resolved, regardless of whether we choose to do multicast or not. A few turned out to be misunderstandings, and on others we either can propose specific resolutions, or we believe that the remaining work to be done is unlikely to be seriously controversial. A summary of the issues and their suggested dispositions is at the end of this note. That leaves the big question, which is whether to do multicast at all. Our preferences on this remain somewhat different, but we have agreed that each of our concerns has been amply communicated to the group, and that the remaining step is to find consensus with the other members of the workgroup. As input to that, we suggest that the following options be considered. For now, we assume that any MEP(s) to be published would be as W3C Notes. With each option, our (somewhat differing) personal preferences are listed: Option 1: Publish a single MEP to be named something like "One Way Point-to-Point SOAP MEP" This would allow only a single message to a single destination. (Noah's personal preference; David can't live with.) Option 2: Along the lines of our first working draft, a single MEP renamed to be something like "One Way Multicast-Capable SOAP MEP". As in the first working draft , this would allow bindings to restrict themselves to a single message and destination, and would allow other conforming bindings to support multiple messages (but with identical envelopes) to multiple destinations (multicast.) (Noah's 3rd choice. David's first choice). Option 3: Publish two Notes, each with one of the MEPS. In other words, publish both of the MEPs given in options 1 and 2. This is a new option the WG has not considered, but it may be an appealing compromise. While it does involve publishing two Notes, we agree that once you do the multicast one, the diffs to create pt-to-point are measured in a few hours, if not a few minutes. Both MEPs would be published at the same time. (Noah's probable second choice, and his preferred way if we do multiast. David's second choice, behind option #2). We suggest to the chair and the workgroup that the above be among the options considered. Regarding our personal positions: David believes that, from the standpoint of applying SOAP to existing protocols, multicast and unicast are equally important primitives. David's main priority is thus to have first class support for multicast, one way or the other, and while he has some preference for doing a single MEP with a switch (option 2), he can live with option 3. Noah believes that unicast is the more fundamental abstraction in computer networking. He therefore feels it's desirable to have a pure exposition of unicast in a separate MEP. He believes that such an MEP will be the natural one for UDP, IP (should we wish to put SOAP directly in IP), and for the many physically point-to-point networks that are created by direct wiring. Thus, Noah's preferences are, in order: unicast-only (option 1); 2 MEPs (option 3); one MEP with switch (option 1). Thus, while our preferences are different, it appears that we can both live with the option of publishing two separate notes, one with a unicast MEP and one with a multicast. The text in the two should be very similar, and in both cases easily adapted from our FWD. We acknowledge this is an option the WG has not seriously debated to date. As to the specific issues from David's note at [1], the summary of our progress on those is: > Rewriting of destinations [2], corrected for loss of formatting > in [3], discussed in [4], [5]. This is independent of > multicast For example, re-writing can occur with XMPP chat and > (IIUC) email to a single address. Follow precedent in existing MEPs, which makes clear e.g. that ImmediateSender need not have the same value as ImmediateDestination. > "MEP instance" vs. "MEP" [6]. This is a trivial editorial fix, > independent of everything. Some remaining distance between the two of us as to what's really intended by the original text. Shouldn't be to hard for the WG to resolve. So, specific wording TBD. > Inconsistency of number of properties [7]. This is independent > of multicast. Having separate names for the sender's and the > receiver's view of the Message appears to make every mention of > the Message property longer. As the issue name suggests, it's > also inconsistent with the treatment of the other two properties. Keep the property names, which are derived from the existing ROR, but split into two separate property tables, one for sender properties (ImmediateDestination and Outbound message) and one for receiver (the other two). > Description of ImmediateDestination [8], discussed in [9]. This > broke into 4 parts (see following), but I agree that the issue > as a whole is only an issue in the context of multicast. If we > were to abandon multicast, we would instead face a somewhat > differently formulated set of similar issues. > - "immediate destination" is not a > very informative description of > ImmediateDestination. Editorial. We can tune up, but note that this same sub-optimal explanation is in the existing MEPs. > - material about multicast should be > consolidated in section 2.2 Suggest adding high level intro to 2.2, but in the case of any multicast-capable MEPs, do talk in the property tables about the fact that an ImmediateDestination may indeed be interpreted as causing transmission to multiple receivers. Specific wording TBD. > - no need to talk about "multicast group" Replacement wording TBD. > - discussion of "standard means of > representing"? Replacement wording TBD. We both hope that this, which represent our joint suggestion for how to move forward, is useful to the workgroup in considering next steps. Thank you. David Hull Noah Mendelsohn [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2006Sep/0010.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2006Aug/0046.html [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2006Aug/0048.html [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2006Sep/0000.html [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2006Sep/0008.html [6] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2006Aug/0047.html [7] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2006Sep/0001.html [8] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2006Sep/0005.html [9] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2006Sep/0007.html -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------Received on Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:26:02 UTC
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Banderas' blind-faith meter must have been soaring when he and Almodóvar reunited to make "The Skin I Live In," a Hitchcockian hybrid of thriller, melodrama and horror film that opens Friday. It's the two Spaniards' first collaboration since Banderas costarred with Victoria Abril in "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" (1990), playing an escaped psychiatric patient who kidnaps an actress in hopes of making her fall in love with him.
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Although Banderas, 51, now lives in the United States, while Almodóvar, 62, resides in Madrid, the two have kept in close contact and see each other intermittently.
Banderas said the director first approached him about making the film a decade ago, at Cannes, after Almodóvar had bought the rights to the story, which is based on a novel, "Tarantula," by the French crime writer Thierry Jonquet.
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For Banderas, working with Almodóvar again after years playing caped crusaders ("The Mask of Zorro") and cartoon cats ("Puss in Boots") in Hollywood was like re-confronting himself as performer, flayed to his essence. "It was an amazing re-encounter on many different levels, the personal level of course and the professional level too," he said.
"When you go to Almodóvar, if the bag is filled with accumulated experiences with other directors and other movies and other stuff — tricks — he doesn't like that. He opens the bag, looks at it, closes it again and throws it out, and says, 'No, we're going to start as we used to work, Antonio, in the '80s, from zero. And zero is a very uncomfortable place, I know, because you're going to have fears.'"
The director concurred that his reunion with Banderas, who first attracted Hollywood's attention after starring in Almodóvar films such as "Matador" (1986), "Law of Desire" (1987) and "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" (1988) was long overdue. "It was a very satisfying experience," he said by phone, "because we recuperated each other as friends, and as director and actor."
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When the two men last worked together two decades ago, Spain still was reveling in the all-night party atmosphere that followed the collapse of the Franco dictatorship.
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Banderas said that working on movies like "Law of Desire" and dealing with the subsequent outrage voiced by critics and clerics over its moral values helped "liberate" him personally from guilt instilled by his Roman Catholic upbringing.
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Perhaps the biggest difference between the past and present, Almodóvar said, is that the pair no longer spend their off-camera hours indulging in youthful pleasures. Banderas is a confirmed family man who hangs out with his wife, actress Melanie Griffith, and children. The director practices meditation and yoga to limber up after long hours of writing.
"My life is very based in my work. I have to take care of myself," Almodóvar said, laughing. "So the life we share in 2011 is, we say, the opposite of what we led in the '80s."
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
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I've been on Spring Break, can you tell? Seems I have been doing everything BUT crafting lately. Spring does that to a person I think. I'm sharing a little something from my seasonal soundtrack. It's an oldie but a goodie! Surely I'm not the only one with season-song associations, right? What is your Spring song?
Remind me to share my summer song with you in a few months - I move all the way up to the nineties with that one!
Spring cleaning fever has hit HARD lately and I am doing my best to go with that flow before it fizzles out. I started using an online 'guide' so to speak and I have to say I love it! Yes, it is embarrassing to me that someone has to tell me how and what to clean in order for me to get it done but, hey, it's working so who cares? All the daily tasks are very manageable and it really does help to keep things under control. It also prompts you to tackle those icky jobs that I for one would probably never do until I had to, say, sell a house or something like that. My goal of course with this house is to be ready to sell it at any moment. I'm kidding of course but I have lived through two unexpected and rushed moves so I tend to keep these things in the back of my mind.
One other thing I crossed off the perpetual 'to-do' list this Spring sounds pretty boring but I am actually pretty darn happy about it. We finally managed to make the tedious and daunting task of switching from our megabank to a kinder gentler credit union! It was not unlike trying to move an entire household using only a Volkswagen beetle. Slow and a little scary - but so worth it. Yea!
I realize I could hardly be any more boring these days so perhaps I should stay away from the blogging but I miss you guys and wanted to at least stop on and say 'hello'.
I promise to get back to making after I work through some roadblocks there - hopefully soon!
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I'm glad you posted! I do love your blog.
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Fox's Jim Angle Hides Paul Ryan's Budget "Sleight Of Hand"
During a speech [1] yesterday to the Associated Press, President Obama described Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget [2] proposal as a "Trojan Horse" that is using the disguise of a deficit reduction plan, but is actually "an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country." Obama laid out the possible implications of the cuts in the Ryan budget "if the cuts were to be spread out evenly." Soon after, Ryan responded to the speech on his Facebook [3] page suggesting that "the assumption that our budget makes these kinds of indiscriminate cuts is false."
And Fox News has Ryan's back.
On America Live, Fox News chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle, ostensibly part of Fox's "straight news" division, accused President Obama of using "sleight of hand" when describing the potential cuts under the Ryan budget. He went on to say Obama was "assuming across the boards cuts, but the cuts he mentioned are not part of the Ryan budget." Fox's analysis of Obama's speech is almost identical to Paul Ryan's response.
However, as Fox News contributor Sally Kohn pointed out [4] later in the same show, Obama was filling in the blanks in Ryan's budget, which proposes large cuts in certain areas of federal spending but does not specify which programs should be cut.
As The Washington Post's Ezra Klein has explained [5] Ryan's budget lays out numbers for "categories of spending" but does not specifically identify cuts in each particular category.
So while the cuts likely wouldn't be spread out evenly within those categories if Ryan's budget were enacted, it would be "unfair for Obama to assume which functions those would be, and how large the cuts would end up being":
This is an argument over semantics, and both sides have a point. Ryan's budget sets numbers for categories of spending (see the tables at the end of this document). So "Transportation" gets $787 billion over the next decade. "Income Security" gets $4.7 trillion. "Global War on Terrorism" gets $494 billion. But there's no specificity within these categories. It doesn't drill into those categories to say what, exactly, gets cut, and how much it gets cut by.
So how big of a cut does the Bureau of Land Management take? We don't know. How big of a cut does the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's weather forecasting services get? No clue. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? Sorry. The "Concurrent Resolution on the Budget" offers some "Illustrative Policy Options" for each category, but nothing like a specific list of cuts to programs.
So Ryan is right: the cuts won't be spread out evenly. But Obama is right, too; Ryan doesn't say how they will be spread out. If the cuts aren't spread evenly, then certain governmental functions will have to take much larger cuts than Obama is proposing in his speech. But it would be even more unfair for Obama to assume which functions those would be, and how large the cuts would end up being.
Since Ryan does not identify in what cuts he actually plans to make, Obama had to make some "assumptions" in order to discuss the implication of Ryan's budget. If Angle got his way, Obama would be unable to discuss any of the specific harms that could come about from Ryan's budget since Ryan hasn't laid out where he wants to cut.
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Soy is a superstar in your arsenal against breast cancer, and has been a food stable in the Asian diet for thousands of years. Asia has far lower rates of cancer than the United States does, and researchers think that eating a lot of soy may be one of the reasons. Japanese men and women eat about ten times more soy than American men and women. According to many studies, if you eat an adequate amount of soy often enough, your risk of breast cancer will drop by 30–50 percent. For instance, a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in June 2003 found that women who ate three bowls of miso soup a day had a 40% lower risk of breast cancer. . Those who ate two bowls of miso soup a day cut their risk by 26 percent.
There are several substances in soy that are active against breast cancer. A particular type of phytochemical (a naturally occurring plant chemical) called genistein (pronounced gen-is'-teen) appears to be one of the most important protagonists. Genistein is classified as a phytoestrogen, or plant estrogen, because it has a weak estrogenic effect. There is currently a lot of confusion and misinformation about phytoestrogens. It is important to understand that plant estrogens are not the same as the estrogens our body makes or synthetic estrogens found in HRT or BCP. They are very different. Most act more like selective estrogen modulators or SERMS (Tamoxifen is a SERM) and as aromatase (an enzyme used in the production of estrogen) inhibitors like the new anti-cancer drug, Arimidex. In other words, phytoestrogens act more like estrogen blockers rather than estrogen which I explain in more detail below. These types of plant chemicals act in so many complex ways that we may never fully understand them all. Two other major phytoestrogens in soy are daidzein and glycitein. Genistein is the most abundant and well-researched of the three and is usually the only one that is listed on the label of soy products. Research shows that genistein is extraordinarily effective at reducing the risk of breast cancer. It has been shown to stop tumor growth, prevent metastasis, and shut off new blood vessels in growing tumors.
One reason why genistein is able to prevent and fight breast cancer is because it blocks the cancer-promoting estrogens from attaching to the estrogen receptors on breast cells. Breast cancer is a hormonal disease—which means a hormone causes the cancer to develop by inciting cells to grow and divide. For breast cancer, that hormone is estrogen. The more estrogen you are exposed to, the higher your risk of getting breast cancer is.
Estrogens come in different strengths and behave differently. Strong estrogens increase your risk of cancer because they tell cells to grow and divide rapidly. Phytoestrogens and other weak estrogens decrease your risk of cancer because they slow down cell division. Genistein acts like a weak estrogen in the body. It blocks the effects of strong estrogens and slows down cell division. Genistein is very weak—in fact, less than one one-hundredth of the strength of estradiol (the most potent type of natural estrogen). So, if genistein attaches to an estrogen receptor, the rate of cell division is only one one-hundredth of the speed that it is if estradiol attaches to the receptor. The more genistein there is to compete with estradiol, the slower the rate of cell division is and the lower your risk of breast cancer is.


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It only took a hug for Sarah Mascorro to figure out something was wrong with her little boy."I noticed his heartbeat was pumping really fast," she said. Her son, Andrew, went through a series of tests that eventually found his thyroid was extremely overactive. That was 14 years ago, and Andrew subsequently has been diagnosed with a series of afflictions that affect his autoimmune system: Graves', Hashimoto's and, most recently, Addison's disease, which attacks the adrenal gland. None of it stopped Andrew, now 16. "It doesn't keep me from doing what I want to do," he said. That includes playing games and hanging out with his family. Those games include the typical teen-boy variety of hit-em-up, smash-em-up video games, but also the more traditional variety, including baseball with his dad, Mike, and 15-year-old brother, Alexx. "If he gets tired, we just rest for a bit and then we get back at it again," Mike said. Through all his tests and diagnosis, Andrew has maintained a positive outlook. "He's got a great attitude," Sarah said. "He always says, 'It could be worse.' " Over the years, Sarah said, she's learned much about autoimmune diseases, including how rare they are. She said she diagnosed the symptoms of Addison's and had to badger doctors to test Andrew for it. Among them, curiously, is a great tan. "He said, 'Mom, how come my left arm is so much darker than my right arm?' " Sarah said. Sure enough, it was true. Addison's turns the skin darker, particularly around the joints. "It was a gorgeous tan. He looked like he had just come back from Hawaii." In an effort to raise awareness of autoimmune diseases -- and money for the organization that helps with research and patient services -- Sarah is organizing an Autoimmune Disease Walk in Turlock on Saturday. It's the first year the Autoimmune Disease Association is sponsoring walks. Nationally, three events are planned in the next few months, in Washington, D.C.; Evanston, Ill.; and New York City. Virtual walks are being held in other locations; Sarah said she decided to do one of those after being invited to take part in New York's. Mike -- known to most as "Buddha" -- has a team from Wal-Mart, where he works. Other friends have expressed interest, and the family has pasted fliers around town, seeking support for Team Dragonfly. That's Andrew's team, named for the nickname his family has bestowed on him as the "Dragonfly Whisperer." "He attracts dragonflies wherever he goes," Sarah said. "They land on his hand, his arm, sometimes his nose." The day coincides with the Love Turlock event organized by several churches for good deeds throughout town. "They gave us a spot on their Web site, and they're going to barbecue for all the walkers that day," Sarah said. The family will be out at the park all day, walking as much as they can. That includes Andrew, who for now said he feels pretty good, though he's had some twitching muscles that have him undergoing more medical tests. The Mascorros hope to make the walk an annual event that grows every year. "Let's see what happens that day," Mike said. "But it always starts with one." Bee staff writer Patty Guerra can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (209) 578-2343.
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4/30/12 Orioles at Yankees: Yankee Stadium
The whole time I spent before the gates actually opened was shaped by two things: 1. my home printer wasn't working and 2. Avi Miller wanted a ticket stub from Buck Showalter's 1000th win (he was sitting on 999 at the time). Due to these two things, I actually bought a physical ticket *at* Yankee Stadium for the first time in… a while:
Usually, the tickets for the bleachers are priced at $15. This day, however, they were $7.50 for whatever reason, so I lucked out and actually spent less than I would have had I bought the ticket at home. This is because I would have bought it from Stubhub and the *charges* on the ticket would have exceeded $10.
Right after I bought the ticket, I checked my phone only to find out it was only 3:45. Since the gates at Yankees Stadium open at 5:00 for a 7:00 game, I took a little tour of Yankee Stadium going around it clockwise. It started in the Babe Ruth Plaza:
then I went to Gate 6, probably Yankee Stadium's most popular gate because of its proximity to the B, D, and 4 subway lines. It is also the gate I have been using this year. Last year I thought, for whatever reason, that this gate was behind Home Plate when in reality, it is by RF:
Soon after, I passed by the Press Gate -which, little known fact, I have actually been cleared by. If you ever see me with my red backpack, I still have the tag they put on as of May 1st, 2011. Here we have the Press Gate with the "welcoming commitee":
Following which, I saw Gate 2, which is connected to the entrance to the Yankee offices, which I have also entered:
and took a picture of the side of the main parking garage connected to the stadium, which I have also entered once in what I believe is the first year of the stadium:
passed Gate 8, the CF gate that I used to use before I started using Gate 6:
then I took the sidewalk picture next to arrive back at Gate 6:
To pass the time until I "had" to get in line to be the first one in said line, I just sat on a bench, because I was simply exhausted from going to 8 games for my high school in 7 days and all the work that they produced. There, I sent a more or less cryptic tweet with this picture:
Soon after I arrived back at the gate, there was a whole crew of ballhawk related people. This time I actually asked them if they would mind posing for a picture since I rarely document the other ballhawks who go to the ballpark through posed photographs. Most times if I document the other ballhawks who are there, it's a candid picture while we are out in the seats. Here are the people just outside Gate 6:
That would be:
1. Ben Weil– A New York based ballhawk that I run into a lot and occasionally exchange texts with whenever he needs to know where an umpire tunnel is, wearing the Garfield hat and Green Day t-shirt.
2. Billy- A friend Ben brought to this game.
3. Zack Hample– Most of the audience reading this will probably know who he is, but for those who don't, he is best categorized as "that guy who catches all those baseballs". He also has already written a blog entry about this game.
After I took this picture, Zack wanted a picture taken for his blog. Billy took Zack's camera for two takes and here was the result:
I can understand if you don't know what I look like since I don't post THAT many pictures of myself in entries, but I'm the one on the right in this picture.
Once the gates opened, Zack, Ben and I hastily descended upon the RF seats. It was just us for a couple of minutes. In those couple of minutes, Zack managed to get on the board with two quick snags. I mention this because one of them was an opposite-field shot by Alex Rodriguez that was hit to our right. All three of us moved over to our right, but the ball was slicing back to our right. We kind of moved in step with each other from our individual spots. Ben had the spot furthest from the field and was closest to the landing spot of the ball, but missed it; I was in the spot closest to the field and knew I would have no shot at catching it on the fly, so I turned around and awaited the ricochet; and Zack was in between us two. I think he misjudged the ball, or it was hit too hard for him to react; as the ball was hitting the seats behind him, his momentum was carrying him towards CF, but he jumped and reached back with his bare hand and caught it. I can say with almost 100% certainty that I would have snagged that ball had he not been there, because my glove was directly in line with the path of the ball.
After our two minutes of solitude, this is what the seats to our left looked like:
As you can see, I've noted Billy walking over to us. As you can also see, I've pointed out another fan by the name of Erik. He is a regular at Yankee Stadium and is of the breed of ballhawk that only goes for hit baseballs. As he put it for me the following day, "If I get a thrown ball, it's by accident." He usually stands in the spot that I was taking the picture from, but I suspect he thought it would be better to stand over there because all three of us were in the RCF sections.
Also of note is that after a few balls were hit and Zack managed to snag another ball, we switched spots. Here is a picture that he took from his new spot at the front of the section:
I have included four annotations to the picture. Two are to point out myself and Ben awaiting a hit ball. The other two are pointing out two seemingly random people.
Guy 1- I went out to Yankees Stadium for all three games of their series with the Orioles (this was the first). He was there every game as well and we chatted about various things along with the usher for this section -not pictured. From what I can tell, Guy 1 goes to a bunch of games in different stadiums as well. Admittedly this isn't that exciting, but I figured I would point him out while I was pointing out things from this pictures. Guy 2, however, was pretty exciting in my opinion.
Guy 2- If you read my last entry, you know that I was running back and forth for foul balls all game long. Given that the crowd was under 100 people for the game, I got to see most of the people in the stadium that night; Guy 2 was one of them. I know because he was wearing the same exact sweater as the previous night. As I mentioned, this is Zack's picture that he sent to me in an e-mail, but until I opened the picture, I had no idea this guy was at the Yankee game, probably because I was so focused on the batter that I never looked up to the bleachers. Serendipitous, isn't it?
My first ball of the day came when some Yankee lefty hit a ball to my right. I went through my row, tracking the ball, and managed to catch it on the fly despite stubbing my toe on the way over and almost falling over. Here is the view of the field from where I caught the ball:
and here is the spot of how much I had run to get to the ball. It isn't much, but I just wanted to show you for reference. The spot I started from is about where the guy in the blue jacket is standing, but in case you can't find that, I provided an arrow as well:
After Zack got his third ball of the day, I realized it was time to go, so after taking a picture of Zack reenacting his double-milestone snag (it was both his 5,900th career ball and 200th snagged at the New Yankee Stadium) and saying namaste to Ben, I left for left, field that is. There I quickly missed my first ball that I just misplayed. However, I also quickly got a second chance and capitalized on it:
The solid arrow shows my path to the ball and the dotted arrow shows the path of the ball. Obviously, those people now in the path of my solid arrow weren't there when I ran, but I took the picture after the snag itself. What happened was that I sprinted to around where I thought the ball was going to land. Meanwhile, the ball hit a seat and bounced in the air where I caught it mid-air.
My next ball was hit by Wilson Betemit, batting right-handed, about ten feet to my right. I drifted to it and caught the ball right in the row I had set up in. Here is the view of the field from the spot where I caught it:
The notable thing about this ball came after the snag, though. I thought it was about time for me to give away a baseball, so I quickly found a kid and tossed it to him. He initially accepted it, but then said, "No, you take it." Obviously I'm more than fine with giving balls away to deserving kids, but I am always proud of them when they don't accept a ball and try to get a ball on their own. I actually got a picture of him handing it back to me:
This was my third ball of the day, by the way.
My fourth ball of the game came after Zack came over and all three of us were together once again, as Ben had already been there for the last snag. It was also once again the same order: Zack on the bottom, myself in the middle, and Ben behind me. Some other righty hit a ball a little to our left. I thought the ball was headed pretty much to me, but Zack for some reason bolted to his right. Since I never trust my judgment on fly balls, I moved with him a little, but then realized my judgment was correct. At that point, I had moved down the steps just enough to be slightly out of position for the ball. I had to jump and came up with the ball. Right then, Zack yelled "Oh, robbed!" I turned around and saw that Ben had been right behind me with his glove up in the air.
Around this time, there was a drought of hit balls for quite some time. So far this season, I have tried to not ask for balls as much as I can. No, I'm not turning into one of those ballhawks that only catches balls hit off the bat, but sometimes my thought process when going for toss-ups affects my overall mentality more than it should and I wanted to just work on catching hit balls and then add asking players for balls after I have confidenc in my ability to snag batted balls. Long story short, all of the Orioles either ignored me, couldn't hear me, or both. The main target of my verbal barrage was this guy right here:
Wei-Yin Chen is a reliever for the Orioles who happens to be from Taiwan. Once I suspected that he was Taiwanese, I started dropping my Chinese translation of "Can you toss me the ball, please?" I think he heard me because he turned around twice when he was beginning his motion to throw the ball back into the field, but he then went on to toss the ball to other fans both times. I'm a naturally quiet person, so yelling out to players has never been a strong suit. As Ben described me calling out to Chen, "I heard the first part, then the rest was like a whisper."
Also in this lull, I made sure to take a picture of Ben behind me and it went very well despite my unintentionality in doing so:
I love it because it perfectly describes the situation for the second half of this batting practice in that we were both smiling… Time out: okay, I can't prove that I'm smiling, but trust me when I say that I had an equally goofy smile to cause Ben to strike the pose. Time in… and then you have Zack up in the bleachers with what seems to be a slightly less happy face, because he wasn't getting anything up in his bleachers. This was pretty nice since it is usually the opposite during games because Ben and Zack both get field level tickets while I get bleacher seats. I'm pretty sure I then caught my fifth ball of the day soon after.
I take pictures of the seats to remind myself of the baseballs I have caught, but sometimes I confuse the spots of the baseballs a little. However, I'm pretty sure that I caught it in the following spot, designated by the orange arrow:
Again, I caught it on the fly off of some righty, who I could not identify's bat. Soonishly after that, ushers started checking tickets and I moved over to RF. From what I could tell, it is a new feature they added in about RF still being open until the end of bp. The reason I only went thrice to Yankee Stadium is that I was constantly in fear of getting shutout, but with this set-up, I can still try for balls in RF until the end of bp.
Here's the view from my spot in RF:
There I would come close two a couple of balls, but I didn't come up with any because of the two guys in the following picture:
Before I start explaining t he situations, I want to clarify that both weren't mean about the balls they cost me; I'm pretty sure they don't even know that they cost me baseballs. The first ball was to my left. I ran towards the spot where I thought the ball would land, but the guy with a rectangle surrounding his head ran after every ball full speed blindly and this ball was no exception. As I was slowing down to catch the ball, he was still running and his momentum pushed me out of position for the ball and he caught the ball. I would have normally stopped, but he was about to run into me and so I kept going as to not have a big collision with him. I did make contact with him, but had I not kept going it might have been a bigger hit than it was.
The second ball was hit to my right and I ran in the row between the guy in the circle and the guy in the rectangle. I was camped under the ball, but then suddenly the guy in the circle's glove reached up and in the process nudged my glove out of position and he caught the ball.
That was it for batting practice. As for the game, I was in the bleachers. This was my view of the field:
Sadly, though, the better via TV was probably better in this scenario:
The game actually went pretty quickly. The Yankees won 2-1 on an Eric Chavez HR and the game only lasted 2 hours 22 minutes.
Since I was approximately 5 miles from Home Plate, I decided to wander for a chunk of the game and found something interesting:
I feel like an old person reminiscing, but it's interesting because I can clearly remember when the prices for this exact item were $4.50 and $5.50 instead of $6.00 and $7.00 respectively. Is that just a product of inflation, or is it the Yankees jacking up the prices once they got into the new stadium? I don't know, but it makes me that much more glad to be leaving New York for college. I will be going to the University of Minnesota this next fall.
- 5 Balls at this game
- Numbers 235- 239 for my career
- 17 Balls in 4 games= 4.25 Balls Per Game
- 13 games with at least 1 ball
- 4 straight games with at least 3 balls
- 5 Balls* 36, 890 fans= 184,450 Competition Factor
- 31 Balls in 10 games at the New Yankee Stadium= 3.10 Balls Per Game
- 10 straight games with at least 1 ball at the New Yankee Stadium
- Time at Game 3: 27- 9:38= 6 hours 1 minute


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I'm looking for help porting OLPV to work with the deffered lighting verison of the T3D engine. The current setup up is plugged into the shading pipeline and I'm trying to port to the lighting which is what the current verison of T3D is based on..
The idea would be to get it ported so it can be tested and possibly added to the main repo. Ultimately becoming an out the box feature.
Currently it works well for the deferred shading pipeline and if the lighting verison works as good as the shading verison, then there isn't a reason why it shouldn't be added. IM me if interested.


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Brain cancer survival improved following FDA approval of bevacizumab, study finds
A new population-based study has found that patients with glioblastoma who died in 2010, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of bevacizumab, had lived significantly longer than patients who died of the disease in 2008, prior to the conditional approval of the drug for the treatment of the deadly brain cancer. Bevacizumab is used to treat patients with certain cancers whose cancer has spread. The study appears in the journal Cancer.
"There has been a great deal of debate about the effectiveness of bevacizumab in treating patients with glioblastoma," says lead author Derek Johnson, M.D., a neuro-oncologist at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center. "Our study found that, at the population level, treatment strategies involving bevacizumab prolonged survival in patients with progressive glioblastoma."
Researchers analyzed data on 5,607 adult patients from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database before and after the conditional approval of bevacizumab for the treatment of glioblastoma in 2009. The SEER database covers 18 geographic areas of the U.S., which collectively represent 28 percent of the U.S. population.
Researchers studied survival in 1,715 patients with glioblastoma who died in 2006, 1,924 who died in 2008 and 1,968 who died in 2010. "The difference in survival between 2008 and 2010 was highly significant and likely unrelated to any advancements in supportive care," Dr. Johnson says. "This study provides the strongest evidence to date that bevacizumab therapy improves survival in patients with glioblastoma."
Glioblastoma, is an aggressive cancer in which tumors grow rapidly and spread rapidly to new sites. It is the most common malignant brain tumor in adults and accounts for about 22 percent of all brain cancers. About 3,000 people develop a glioblastoma each year in the U.S.


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UCLA true freshman Adarius Pickett entered training camp as a cornerback but has been switched to running back.
"The way the depth is at defensive back, I don't know if he would get in the rotation," coach Jim Mora told the Los Angeles Times. "Running back is a spot where we're looking for some depth. He seemed like the perfect guy."
Pickett gained more than 1,800 yards as a senior at El Cerrito High.
Former Saint Mary's College guard Stephen Holt signed to play in Germany for MHP Riesen, a Basketball Bundesliga side in Ludwigsburg. Holt played with Atlanta during the NBA's Summer League in Las Vegas.
Missy Franklin won the 100-meter backstroke at the U.S. national championships in Irvine, leading a 1-2-3 Cal sweep. She finished in 59.38 seconds, followed by Rachel Bootsma (1:00.71) and Elizabeth Pelton (1:00.76).
Katie Ledecky broke the world record in the 400 freestyle, becoming the first woman since Janet Evans to own world marks in the 400, 800 and 1,500 freestyles at the same time. The 17-year-old finished in 3:58.86. Federica Pellegrini (3:59.15) is the only other woman to break 4 minutes. It was Ledecky's third win of the meet. Michael Phelps placed sixth in the 100 backstroke (53.95). Matt Grevers won in 52.75.
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Mountain Ridge-Las Vegas scored nine times in the top of the first inning and went on to an 11-2 win over Pacifica American in the West Region final at San Bernardino. Nevada advances to the World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.


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Thank President Obama for supporting solar for all
Solar is often viewed as an option only available to the upper middle class and wealthy. President Obama just took an important step to help remedy that and make sure that all Americans have the right to choose clean energy.
Thank you for sending a letter to the President thanking him and letting him know we back his efforts to expand solar energy for all.


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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:20 pm
Post subject: Sailing sites around Windsor, Ontario
May be moving to Windsor next year. What are the best sites for Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair? What are the wind conditions in the summer months June - September? Thanks.
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:02 am
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Here are my picks. I should probably put these into Google Maps for easy reference but you can find them on a map. You're surrounded by water so there are a lot of access points but they can be small as most waterfront is privately owned.
Lake Erie:
Cedar Beach (Eastern side of the pier), Colchester Harbour, Seacliffe beach. Rondeau too if you want to sail in a bay (about an hour down the 401).
Detroit River:
The mouth of the river where it empties into Lake Erie, underneath the Ambassador Bridge (launch from the boat launch area, lots of current here), the foot of Lauzon Road acroos from Belle Isle (there is an empty lot just east of Abar's that you can park and launch from, lots of current here too and works through a large range of directions).
Lake St. Clair:
BeachGrove (just west of the golf club is a small launch area), Belle River Marina (friendly sandy launch) and best of all, the front of my cottage as I don't have to pile anything on top of the car
There are a lot of launches but the 3 main ones I use are Cedar Beach for Lake Erie for S to WSW (or SE), underneath the Ambassador Bridge for S-SW, ABars for SW to W, and Belle River Marina for W to N to E.
Lake Erie has a bubble in the spring when the water is cold and the warm winds don't penetrate to the surface. It can be windy driving all the way there and as soon as you hit the lake, there's barely a whitecap .... Try the river instead in the spring if the water is still cold.
The reverse seems to happen with Lake St. Clair. It can be windier there than any of the surrounding sites.
In the fall when the cold fronts go through and winds are over 25 knots, head up to Kettle Point on Lake Huron for near mast-high sets that line up for a couple hundred yards. Great stuff if you are a port-tacker.
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Wow - thanks for the detailed descriptions. We're looking at a house on the Detroit River near Boblo Island - fairly narrow there and there seems to be lots of current - so doubt if I'll be able to sail from there.
Nice to see there are so many sites nearby. Are there a lot of windsurfers in the area?
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Not as many as there used to be ... Jobs, families, all that stuff that competes for your time.
There are launches on the river close to where you are looking at buying that I didn't mention.
Don't worry about the current, it's fun once you get used to it because you can be broad reaching all the time. The current makes it easy to get back. If the wind is light, just head way downwind to sail so if you have to limp back to shore in light wind you won't miss your launch. It makes for some nice waves too with the wind working against the current. If the worst happens and you break down just swim to shore and walk back. It might be inconvenient but it's not dangerous (just get out of the shipping channels as soon as you can).
Oh, yeah, the lake freighters cast a big wind shadow, don't play chicken with them. Leave a 1/4 mile clearance to be safe. The channels are well marked and it's kind of a buzz to sail along side of them when they are cruising by, just stay on the right side of the buoys!
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Check out the attached link for sites around Michigan. Brian Lefeve runs the store and can help you out with locations as well. Kettle Point which is just South of Grand Bend on Lake Huron is outstanding on a NW. It is just like Daytona Beach where you drive out onto the beach and park right by the water.
There is also a great group of guys on Yahoo who work together to get the most out of the local windsurf scene. Check them out at:
If you sail in the river channels where the freighters are running be very careful. They move a lot faster than you think. Safe bet is if you can see them get out of the water and restart again after they pass. They can't stop and can't turn to avoid you. Also, wear booties since some areas have razor sharp clam shells littering the bottom that will cut you to ribbons if you step on them in bare feet (mostly in Lake St. Clair and Detroit River. Huron seems to be alright these days).
Have a great time.
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Bun Recipes
Banh Bao Recipe (Vietnamese Steamed Bun)
Bánh bao literally translates to "cakes that wrap something" in Vietnamese. The dough is made of flour, milk, sugar and a hint of oil. Once the dough rises, it's formed in the desired shape, usually dumplings similar to a pointy turban, then steamed until plump and perky. In general, they're stuffed with savory meat or sweet egg custard (called bánh bao cadé).
I've also seen them plain and shaped into a taco-style envelope at a few dim sum places. This is the version I used to finish the leftover braised duck leg from the night before. I shredded the tender duck meat and added pickled carrots and daikon and cilantro. I drizzled the bánh bao with a mole sauce using the reduced braising sauce adding 2 ounces chopped unsweetened chocolate, which tied the dish together beautifully. I was tempted to post this bánh bao bun in my second cookbook, Bánh Mì: 75 Banh Mi Recipes for Authentic and Delicious Vietnamese Sandwiches but decided to keep the recipes more traditional. Still, they're a a lot of fun to make and quite versatile.
Since it's the weekend already and I usually post a dessert, I'll also mention that the leftover bánh bao wraps can be turned into sweet treats with the right filling. Dried fig spread, lemon curd (I had jars of the lemon curd I made last winter) and chocolate mousse or the more traditional sweet egg custard are all great choices.
If you live in the Bay Area, don't forget to pencil in next Saturday (May 25th) for my cooking demo and cookbook signing for Haute Potato at Los Altos Library. Hope to see everyone there. Have a great weekend!
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Vietnamese Grilled Beef Rolls (Bo Cuong Hanh Huong Recipe)
Bò nướng hành hương is a wonderful South-Vietnamese specialty. It's a dish of beef wrapped around sliced yellow and green onions, then grilled to medium doneness. The beef is infused with the aromatic scent of green onions and five-spice powder rub with honey. The blend of all the flavors gives the meat a sweet, sour, bitter, pungent and salty taste.
The dish is traditionally served with vermicelli rice noodles (bún) and aromatic Vietnamese herbs, but I served mine with nước chấm, ginger guava sauce and crushed peanuts. The main component of ginger guava sauce is guava jam. It can be difficult to find, but it's available in some Indian stores. Make the effort to find it because the flavor is amazing, and it contrasts with the beef very well.
I make this dish quite often for parties because it's easy to eat in one or two bites and doesn't interrupt conversations. Try it as an appetizer at your next dinner party. Your guests will love you!
Note: Glossary of relevant Vietnamese cooking terms.
Bò = beef
Bún = vermicelli rice noodles
Cuốn = rolled
Hành = onions
Hành hương = aromatic onions
Nướng = beef
Thịt = meat
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Have you ever agreed with someone on a topic only to realize later, after closer consideration that you didn't agree at all, and you wish wish wish you could go back in time and change your answer?
Just me? Oh.
As a guest on the online radio show Coparenting Matters, one of the co-hosts Talibah asked me this question (I'm paraphrasing): "Would you agree that it's not divorce itself but how parents can conduct themselves after divorce that hurts children?"
It's an interesting question and something that I've heard before and yet never carefully considered.
It sounded logical enough. We all know that parental conflict whether it's pre or post divorce hurts children. That research is well documented. It would follow, that in such cases a child would benefit from divorce. Most would also agree that happy parents are more effective in their parenting, so again if a marriage is making parents unhappy, their children will benefit from a divorce. And with children benefiting from divorce, all parents really have to worry about is co-parenting effectively while keeping conflict to a minimum and well beyond their children's eyes and ears. By doing so, their children will be just fine.
So…I agreed. But it bothered me. I kept thinking about that question. And when I really thought about it, I was surprised by how much I didn't agree. In fact, I don't know if I could disagree more.
The statement, 'Divorce doesn't hurt children, only conflict does' says to me, 'Don't worry about helping children with their negative emotions related directly to divorce because there aren't any. Coparent effectively while conducting yourself appropriately and children of divorce shouldn't have to any negative emotions at all.'
It's an almost ridiculous premise.
And yet, I agreed. I can't believe I agreed. Because in that agreement I essentially sold out all of my fellow children of divorce. Shame on me.
So I'm going to fix it.
Divorce in and of itself, emotionally hurts children. Even if at the same time it benefits them. And if divorced parents don't acknowledge that, they are doing their children a disservice.
I understand my parent's divorce. It doesn't make me angry and I've never once in my whole life wished for them to reconcile. I do not believe that parents should remain in unhappy or conflictual marriages for the sake of their children. Don't believe me? Check out this post I wrote months ago. But does any of that mean my parents' divorce didn't hurt me? Of course not. It hurt me on a fundamental level.
My parent's divorce shattered my core senses of stability, family and love. I was no longer a kid simply worrying about kid things. Suddenly I was navigating immense changes to my family while realizing it would never look or feel the same again. From then on, I was always either missing my dad or missing my mom. My belief in unconditional love came to a screeching halt and I started to wonder what might negate their love for me too. And the fact that my parents never talked badly about one another and never involved me in anything inappropriate didn't help me deal with any of those emotions.
If you're not a child of divorce, put yourself in our shoes for just one minute. Imagine having your family torn apart and there's not a darn thing you can do about it. Imagine everything in your life changing and you don't know where it's headed or if you'll recognize anything once it stops. Imagine everything being turned upside down and being told that you have focus on reorienting yourself to being upside down for the rest of your life, because that's just the way it's going to be from now on. Loved ones away from you, not knowing what the hell is going on or what's going to happen, and learning to live your life inverted.
Now that you've walked a minute in my shoes, try the 'divorce doesn't hurt' statement out. See if you can not shake your head at it's absurdity. It would be like saying 'someone living the rest of their life upside down shouldn't really be bothered by that fact. The only thing that hurts the upside down ones is when others point and laugh at them.' The fact that insult isn't added to injury doesn't mean the injury doesn't exist. The same goes that just because divorced parents work well together in the aftermath of their divorce, doesn't mean that their divorce hasn't shaken their children to their cores.
The belief that 'divorce doesn't hurt' is a fallacy that I think parents need to be careful not to adopt. A child's long term or even immediate benefit does not counteract divorce's pain. And acknowledging that, is the first real step in helping your child cope. Allowing guilt to blind you to the reality that your actions, your divorce, has hurt your child is understandable. Nobody wants to believe they've hurt their kids. But by not accepting, acknowledging, or validating your child's pain, not only are you not helping them to work through it, you are actually encouraging them to both question their own feelings and consequently bury them deeper.
So come on divorced parents! Get comfortable with your guilt. Look it in the face and then get ready to do the hard work that's required to be rid of it by actually helping your kids. Divorce hurts everyone. You have the benefit (hopefully) of your knowledge, hope and understanding that it's pain will fade or be outweighed by it's benefits. Your children do not, so don't expect that from them. Don't allow them to comfort you and take away your guilt by showing you how 'unaffected' they are. Accept responsibility for the pain you've caused and then do something about it.
In short, you be the parent. Let them be the child.
Even if they never say the words, they'll thank you for it.


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Ricky Nelson
Who would've thought a teen heartthrob could rock out?
Although he was known as a teen idol, Ricky Nelson was not just another pretty face. He jumped from a career in TV into the music world, where he blew skeptical rock and rollers away with his own rock chops.
Ricky Nelson was an early teen idol who had a considerable amount of talent to complement his blue-eyed good looks.
On television, he and his older brother David acted out their real-life roles as the sons of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
As a rock-and-rolling teenager on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Ricky Nelson practically grew up in the nation's living rooms. For a period of years beginning in 1957, each episode would conclude with a song by Ricky Nelson and his band. Many teenagers tuned into the show because of him, and these performances—a harbinger of the kind of impact MTV would have decades later by bringing popular music to TV—helped keep Ozzie and Harriet on the air until 1966.
Nelson was a handsome Fifties teen idol who wore his hair in a fashionable flat-top with a ducktail. For his musical debut, he did an Elvis Presley impersonation on Ozzie and Harriet in order to impress a high-school sweetheart who had a crush on Presley. Thereafter, Nelson became a self-contained rock and roller in his own right. His principal influences were Presley, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. On Presley's side, the feeling was apparently mutual, as he told guitarist James Burton that he never missed an episode.
For his first recording, Nelson cut a double-sided smash: "A Teenager's Romance" backed with Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'." Both songs made the Top Five shortly after the single's release in April 1957, instantly launching Nelson's musical career. He was all of sixteen years old, and this was just the beginning. All totaled, Nelson would score three dozen hits, making him one of the most successfully prolific of all rock and rollers.
Even though his role on TV had been the launch pad, he more than made the grade as a rock and roller. As unlikely as it may seem, he turned out to be the real thing: a mellow-voiced singer/guitarist with an instinctive feel for the country-rooted side of rockabilly. Moreover, he had good taste in musicians, hiring guitarist extraordinaire James Burton as the mainstay of his band. With his arsenal of expert rockabilly licks, Burton brought serious credibility to Nelson's musical endeavors.
His less frantic, more poppy brand of rockabilly went down easily with America's suburban teenagers. After the success of his first two singles on Verve, Nelson quickly signed to the Imperial label, where his hit streak extended into the early Sixties. In 1958 Nelson reached Number One with "Poor Little Fool" (written by Sharon Sheeley, Eddie Cochran's girlfriend at the time). His discerning taste in material also led him to "Hello Mary Lou"—his signature song, penned by Gene Pitney—and "Travelin' Man," both of which topped the charts. During a three-year period from 1957 through 1959, Nelson owned the pop charts, placing eighteen songs in the Top 40 for nearly two hundred combined weeks.
For his sixth album—Rick is 21, released in 1961—Nelson dropped the "y" from his name. As the maturing Nelson's appeal with the teen audience waned, he foundered for direction in the mid-Sixties. However, he got back on track when he turned his attention to a more country-flavored sound toward decade's end. A well-received performance at Los Angeles' Troubadour nightclub, yielding the album Rick Nelson in Concert (1969), helped fuel his comeback. One of the first country-minded rockers—he had cut an album called Bright Lights and Country Music in 1966—Nelson experienced a creative flowering on such albums as Rick Sings Nelson (1970) and Garden Party (1972).
He formed the Stone Canyon Band, whose mellow, California-based country-rock sound anticipated the laid-back likes of the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt. One of his band members, in fact, was bassist Randy Meisner, a founding member of Poco who would later find fame with the Eagles. During this era, Nelson had a minor hit with his easygoing remake of Bob Dylan's "She Belongs to Me." All the while, he resisted the idea of becoming a nostalgia act, pointedly addressing the issue in "Garden Party." Based on his experience appearing on a bill of oldies acts at Madison Square Garden, the song became one of the biggest hits of his career, reaching Number Six in October 1972. Somewhat ironically, early rockers Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley were also in the Top Ten at the same time.
Although Nelson stopped having hits in the Seventies, he remained a hard-working musician who performed up to two hundred dates a year. The decade wasn't entirely kind to him, as personal problems (including a cocaine addiction) began to mount and his popularity waned. His life ended tragically in 1985 when his tour plane caught fire and crashed near a highway in DeKalb, Texas, killing him and six others.
Nelson's four children with wife Kristin have kept the family name alive. Tracy Nelson became a successful actress, while twin sons Gunnar and Matthew enjoyed a spell of popularity in the early Nineties as the rock duo Nelson. The debut disc by youngest son Sam Nelson and his band H Is Orange appeared in 2000.
Inductee: Ricky Nelson (vocals, guitar; born May 8, 1940; died December 31, 1985)


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Franklin Carmichael
Canadian, 1890–1945
La Cloche Landscape of Cranberry Lake Looking East, c. 1935–1945
watercolour on paper
29 x 34 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of John R. Mastin
An original member of the Group of Seven, and considered one of Canada's premier watercolourists, Franklin Carmichael's most enduring and characteristic contributions to the medium appeared in the final decade of his life. In 1935 he built a family cottage in the Algoma region of Ontario, north of Lake Huron in the La Cloche Mountains. In his paintings from this region, especially in the watercolours he produced outdoors, Carmichael pays close attention to the interplay of atmosphere and meteorological conditions and the effects of light and shadow. Carmichael secured an indelible mark on watercolour painting in this country when, in 1925, he helped found the Canadian Society for Painters in Watercolour.
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Rueben Gets His Due
As John Chrysostom preached, Reuben shows us that "no advantage comes to us from natural advantage unless accompanied by good deeds of free will" (Homilies on Genesis, 67.5). We cannot expect to escape God's discipline when we transgress ...Read More
The Twelve Tribes of Israel
Because we are grafted into the tree of Israel by faith when we trust in Christ alone, we can be assured that we will enjoy the future glory promised to Israel. Even when things look darkest for the church, we ...Read More
Simeon and Levi Divided
The different destinies of Levi and Simeon show that Jacob's words could be tempered by grace. Though cursed and scattered, Levi was later exalted not of his own merits but because of the Lord's mercy. Our God is ...Read More
Judah's Scepter
The King and His kingdom will be the subject of tomorrow's study. For now, consider that Judah's repentance and exaltation illustrates the biblical principal that "whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matt. 23:12). Judah's greatest son ...Read More
The Messiah's Kingdom
Ambrose of Milan comments on today's passage, saying Jesus "is the Lord by nature but a brother by grace" (The Patriarchs, 4.17). God is not a person with whom contact is impossible; He is not "wholly other." Without ...Read More
Issachar's Servitude
What do you desire for yourself and your family? Are you looking to maintain a comfortable existence? Are you unwilling to take a risk by sharing Christ with friends and neighbors? If you have children, will you be disappointed if ...Read More
Dan the Serpent
Hebrews 12:1–2 says the Christian life is a marathon. Even though all with true faith are justified in God's sight and are secure in their salvation from the moment they first trust Jesus, believers are not those ...Read More
Gad, Asher, and Naphtali
Matthew Henry reflects on the different skills and personalities of Jacob's sons in Genesis 49. "Among God's Israel then," he writes, "is to be found a great variety of dispositions, contrary to each other, yet all contributing to ...Read More
Joseph, a Fruitful Bough
Our Savior said that "the one who endures to the end will be saved" (Matt. 24:13). Confessing Christ once is not enough, our profession of faith is useless if we do not possess a living faith in God and ...Read More
Benjamin the Wolf
For good or for ill, mothers and fathers have the greatest influence on their children. If parents imitate the example of the righteous and trust in the Lord and His promises, their children will be far more likely to follow ...Read More
Jacob's Last Words
Matthew Henry comments: "It is proper to show our respect to the poor body, of which we look for a glorious and joyful resurrection." Scripture does not forbid cremation, but most Christians have buried their dead for the same reasons ...Read More


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Even though I'm a die-hard chick flick fanatic and always have the latest guilty-pleasure chick lit novel queued up on my Kindle, the last thing anyone who knows me would call me is "romantic." So Valentine's Day themed merch—and all its loved-up, red-rose, chocolate truffle gooeyness—doesn't really tug at my heartstrings. But I do love Sarah Chloe's new "heart.beat" jewelry collection—a cool, offbeat take on the love holiday's heart-motif.
Check out the rings ($79), bangles ($119), and mini-necklace ($98) in sterling silver and vermeil—the necklace is also available in a splurge-tastic diamond-covered edition ($798).
What about you guys? Do you go all-in for super-romantic Valentine's Days and love-themed presents? Tell us what you're planning for V-Day, we want to know!
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Posted on Dec 19, 2013
Healthy Holiday Treats and Professional in Home Care for Seniors
If your elderly loved one is anything like mine, they are probably overdoing it in the kitchen; baking up a storm that very few can contain. Many seniors find baking to be very therapeutic and can find themselves in a sea of peanut brittle, cookies, chocolate covered pretzels, cheesecakes, candies, and pies. While these delectable treats are tasty, they aren't always the healthiest choice for a snack; especially for an elderly person who may be coping with health issues such as diabetes.
There's no reason to believe that a healthy holiday treat will be tasteless or boring. There are many ways to make a traditional holiday treat better for you. You could substitute unrefined whole wheat pastry flour, natural sweeteners, and nutrient-packed ingredients such as heart-healthy nuts, dried fruits and 60 percent dark chocolate to your tasty holiday treats. Many recipes allow for a substitution of olive or canola oil in place of fatty butter.
The holiday season makes it a lot easier to overindulge at dinner parties and holiday get-togethers. For some people, sugary foods increase appetite and consumption of goodies. It's good to be aware that for some, a sugary snack can trigger a desire to eat more than one should. Festive feasting has been known for causing five to ten pounds of weight gain that will need to be tackled at the beginning of the New Year.
This holiday season, it is possible to avoid the dreaded festive feast weight gain by replacing our usual snacks with healthy holiday treats. Some delicious examples include oatmeal toffee cookies, whole-wheat sugar cookies, gingerbread pumpkin bars, and light egg nog. It might come as a surprise that chocolate covered strawberries are a delicious alternative to those high-fat and sugary pies. If you switch the chocolate with 60 percent dark chocolate, you've done something good for your heart. Dark chocolate improves blood flow to the brain and heart, controls blood sugar, and is full of antioxidants.
Initially, it may sound unappealing to switch out traditional snacks for healthy holiday treats. With just a little bit of research, there are many ways to substitute unhealthy ingredients in subtle ways that will still be tasty and better overall. It's important to remember that no matter how healthy a treat is, portion control is still key to combatting the festive feast weight gain.
If you would like to learn more about professional in home care for seniors during the holidays and the many benefits of in home elderly care or dementia and Alzheimer's care, call Senior Helpers of Crown Point to speak to a senior care specialist today 219-662-2999! The compassionate senior care specialists at Senior Helpers can also guide you through the process of receiving the Veterans Administration Aid and Attendance Benefit if your elderly loved one is a veteran. In home senior care allows your loved one to stay in the comforts of their own home for as long as possible while receiving the level of care they need. Senior Helpers of Crown Point provides a wide range of services including Alzheimer's and dementia care, personal assistance, companionship, and so much more to all areas of Crown Point, Valparaiso, Schererville, Whiting, and Merrillville.


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Crunchy Turkey Salad on Greens
Oct 31st, 2014
Asian Beef Steaks & Noodles
Quick Facts
Servings: 4
Cook Time: 15 min.
Soybeans, garlic, and chiles in the hoisin sauce contribute to the sweet and spicy taste of these steaks.
- 4 beef eye round steaks, cut 1/2 inch thick (about 1 pound)
- 1/4 cup water
- 3 Tbs hoisin sauce
- 1 Tbs red wine vinegar
- Vegetable oil
- 1 small cucumber, peeled, seeded, sliced
- 1 small red bell pepper, cut into thin strips
- 1/4 cup sliced green onions
- 3 oz Chinese noodles, broken, cooked
- 4 tsp chopped fresh cilantro
- Combine water, hoisin sauce and vinegar in small bowl. Heat large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Brush skillet with oil. Add cucumber, bell pepper and green onions; stir-fry 1 minute. Stir in noodles, 1/2 of cilantro and 1/2 of hoisin mixture. Remove.
- Heat same skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Place beef steaks in skillet; cook 2 to 4 minutes, turning once. Do not overcook. Add remaining hoisin mixture; turn steaks to coat. Serve over noodles. Sprinkle with remaining cilantro.
Recipe courtesy of the National Cattleman's Beef Association
Nutrition Facts
Calories 366
Calories from Fat 146 (40%)
(25%)Total Fat 16g
(20%)Saturated Fat 4g
Polyunsaturated Fat 3g
Monounsaturated Fat 8g
(14%)Cholesterol 43mg
(13%)Sodium 307mg
(17%)Potassium 600mg
Total Carbohydrate 27g
(8%)Dietary Fiber 2g
Sugars 3g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(52%)Protein 26g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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A Worthy Opponent - Defeat one of the powerful champions of the Pandarian races that wander the continent.
Could We Find More Like That? - Defeat one of each type of Pandarian champion.
Glorious! - Hunt down and defeat each and every one of the Pandarian champions.
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|Earning the Achievement "Could We Find More Like That?"
Bananarang: Throws a banana that flies all around, its very obvious and easy to avoid.
(Some extra shadow resistance couldn't hurt with these guys)
Dark Bolt: Shoots the enemy with a dark bolt increasing weapon damage by 35%, pretty basic attack, not much to worry about.
Shadowbolt: 200% weapon damage (shadow), can be interrupted.
Voidcloud: 10% shadow damage aoe per second to those who stand in it, looks like a voidzone, very VERY easy to see and move out of.
Devastating Arc: frontal attack that deals 65% of your max health, but not difficult to move out of. Melee can run through him to the other side.
Summon Quilen: summons an add to assist, the add does little damage though and can be cc'd or ignored until it disappears after 30 seconds. (I just used ice trap on them or ignored them entirely.)
|Using my Hozen Beach ball and Pandaren Firework Launcher
Getting the "Could We Find More Like That?" achievement by killing Korda Torros in Kun-Lai Summit:


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James Richard Craft, 72, Wabash, passed away 7:35 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, at his home. He was born to the late James F. Craft and Wilma (Thurwachter) Mossman on Oct. 20, 1940 in Columbus.
He was a Wabash High School graduate of 1958, and he attended Manchester College. He married Sandra Smith on June 29, 1968; she survives. After 35, years James retired on June 30, 2004 as the Northeast Supervisor from the State Board of Tax Commissioners. He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church, Wabash. He enjoyed antiquing over the years.
He is also survived by son, Brent (Paula), Craft Wabash, and daughter, Wendy Short, Wabash; grandchildren, Jarrett Craft, Jaron Craft, Kaelyn Short, Jessica Beane, and Jordon Beane; two great grandchildren, Briliegh Beane and Braya Beane.
Funeral service will be held on Tuesday, July 2, at 10 a.m., at Zion Lutheran Church, 173 Hale Drive, Wabash, with Pastor Jeremy Yeadon officiating. Burial followed in the Falls Cemetery in Wabash.
Visitation for family and friends will be from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Monday, July 1 at McDonald Funeral Home, Wabash.
Preferred memorials are to the Zion Lutheran Church building fund, 173 Hale Drive, Wabash, Indiana 46992 and Wabash County Animal Shelter, 810 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, Indiana 46992. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.mcdonaldfunerals.com


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Krista and Jill The Almost Invisible Intern recently visited Lemon Drop to play dress up and try on several ball gowns. Jill and I had such a great time that we were both wishing that we had our own balls to attend. If you have a Mardi Gras ball, prom, or special occasion in your future, Lemon Drop is the place you must visit for all of your needs.