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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Maybe there's something to this team of destiny vibe for the Baltimore Ravens. And the magic of Ray Lewis' last ride. And Joe Flacco's emergence.
The Ravens are off to Super Bowl XLVII, something that seemed like a pipe dream a month ago for a lot of good reasons.
Deal with it. They have earned the right to crow.
BOX SCORE:Ravens 28, Patriots 13
RECAP:Ravens extend Ray Lewis' ride
"There is no room left on the bandwagon," Terrell Suggs, the boisterous linebacker, declared in the middle of the festive visitor's locker room after the 28-13 statement.
"None of y'all picked us last week," Suggs grumbled to reporters. "And nobody picked up this week."
In another corner of the room, Ray Rice still had on his full uniform a half-hour after the game. He sat plopped in a folding chair, tapping on the screen of his smart phone. This is the same running back who went out on a limb and labeled his a team of destiny.
"It's not going out on a limb if you really believe," Rice said. "When we were at the lowest of lows, we still believed. Everybody else wrote us off."
In the middle of December, the Ravens hit the skids with a three-game losing streak. They looked pretty finished, destined for a quick playoff exit. But hope flickered with a division title-clinching victory against the New York Giants in Week 16. Then last weekend, they pulled off a miracle and beat Peyton Manning.
On Sunday, they took down mighty Tom Brady. That's special.
RAVENS:Ray Lewis gets emotional during national anthem
The New England Patriots had never lost an AFC Championship Game at home, but the Ravens will tell you that it should have happened last year.
"Against any other team, this wouldn't have been the same," Suggs said. "Especially with how the game was lost last year."
This was sweet revenge. There was no game-winning touchdown pass dropped in the final seconds. No chip-shot game-tying field goal sailing wide left. That was last year.
This time, the Ravens sealed the deal to set up a Harbaugh Brothers Super Bowl in the Big Easy.
Never mind the Patriots mystique. The Ravens were hardly fazed. Battle-tested and playoff-scarred, they are not the Houston Texans, the outfit the Patriots blew out last weekend. They knew they could win here. It happened with a playoff rout three years ago, and the last time the teams met, in Baltimore on Week 3, the Ravens won that one, too.
So, this was a matter of some unfinished business.
As linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo put it, "That was a long plane ride home last year."
New England's speed offense? The Ravens don't have the dominant defense that carried the franchise to its only other Super Bowl appearance a dozen years ago, but on Sunday night, Tony Siragusa and Rod Woodson would have been proud. The Ravens defense still has the DNA of the great units of the past. They were better prepared than most for the NFL's No. 1-ranked offense, with a second-half shutout that included two Brady interceptions.
In the fourth quarter, which often belongs to Brady, they proved it with one big play after another to snuff out visions of a mad-dash comeback. Bernard Pollard forced a fumble with a crushing blow on Stevan Ridley. Haloti Ngata forced a wild Brady incompletion on a fourth down. Dannell Ellerbe intercepted a deflected Brady pass.
And with a minute left, the celebration began in earnest with Cary Williams' end zone pick.
Meanwhile, Flacco took a giant step toward erasing any more doubt about whether he should be considered an elite quarterback. He's 3-2 now in lifetime matchups against Brady, but in his biggest win yet it didn't matter who was flinging for the other team.
The Ravens offense sputtered in the first half, when Flacco completed 6 of 12 passes for 81 yards. But at least they didn't crack. Field position was a bear that could have doomed Baltimore. They started their first-half drives at their own 13-, 10-, 8-, 10- and 14-yard lines.
ODDS:Who is the early Super Bowl favorite?
The next half was a different story as Flacco went with a no-huddle shotgun attack, a la Brady.
Said coach John Harbaugh, "We kind of made a decision to cut it loose."
Suddenly, the deep passing game was back in the mix as the Patriots secondary struggled without Aqib Talib, who left in the first half with a thigh injury. The short passing game clicked, too. On a 10-play, 87-yard go-ahead touchdown drive in the third quarter, Flacco threw nine times, with six completion. He was officially in rhythm. The touchdown came on a quick, 5-yard strike to tight end Dennis Pitta that made it 14-13.
Then it was two fourth-quarter TD passes to Anquan Boldin for two fourth-quarter scores to provide the cushion, which was protected by the defense.
So here they are, AFC champs. It is not every season that a team fires its offensive coordinator with three games remaining in the regular season -- Cam Cameron out, Jim Caldwell promoted -- and makes it this far.
Not every team can look back on their season and wonder if they would have even made the playoffs without a fourth-and-29 conversion by Rice, which is exactly what happened to spark an overtime win at San Diego in late November.
And, of course, it's not quite the normal thing for the team's leader, Lewis, to miss 10 games with a torn triceps muscle and return for his final ride. When Lewis announced in early January that he would retire after this playoff run, it seemed that his career would last another week. Maybe two.
Turns out, Lewis had four more games to play -- including the really big one at the Superdome in Super Bowl XLVII.


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The first morning I met Kevin Crain, a Managing Director at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, he was feeling tired, as he did most days.
We were at a conference Kevin was hosting for the institutional retirement team and a group of their corporate clients. He'd invited me to the event to speak about managing personal energy.
Before my talk, we got to chatting and Kevin mentioned that he'd gotten less than six hours of sleep the night before, and that he didn't often get much more.
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ROME, Ga.—Playing in the rain and freezing temperatures, the Birmingham-Southern women's golf team finished ninth at the Coosa Invitational, hosted by Berry College at the Coosa Country Club in Rome, Ga.
The Panthers carded a two-round total of 704 (357-347), led by senior Ellen Chun who finished 12th with a score of 161 (81-80). Senior Kaleigh Toole was second for BSC, followed by sophomore Wallis Fairvalley and Justus.
"The girls had to battle some very rough conditions on Monday," Head Coach Jason DeJiacomo said. "Senior Katie Skeeles had to withdraw from play with a wrist injury that has plagued much of her collegiate career. This put a lot of pressure on my lone freshman, Allison Justus, knowing that her score was going to count no matter what now, and especially with it being only the fourth competitive golf tournament she has ever played in! I am VERY proud of this team though. They stuck it out and gave it 100% both physically and mentally."
Cumberlands, ranked fourth in the NAIA fall national rankings, won the tournament with a score of 625 (311-314), followed by Trevecca Nazarene with 633 (324-309) and Huntingdon with 665 (334-331). SAA members Oglethorpe and Berry also participated; OU placed fifth with 672, and Berry was sixth with 685. Cumberland's Rachel Pingleton was the individual winner with 150 (78-72).
The Panthers travel to the Jekyll Island Invitational, March 14-16 at Indian Mounds Golf Club on Jekyll Island, Ga.


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Malta has the highest turnout for elections in the world, despite not having compulsory voting it ranks higher than a number of countries where voting is compulsory, such as Australia.Read More
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Held every two years at McCormick Place in Chicago, the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) is the one of the largest (over 110,000 attendees), most comprehensive (~2,400 exhibitors), and longest (six days) manufacturing shows conferences in the world, certainly North America. This year's event marked IMTS's 31st edition. First timers and long timers are overwhelmed by the sheer size of this event. At over 1.3 million square feet, you better dress comfortably and prepare for an overload of manufacturing technology sights and sounds.
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Hi, just wondering how much you guys would pay for these 2 figures
Hi, just wondering how much you guys would pay for these 2 figures
Hey he man fan aus
It depends mate, maybe 5 bucks, that Sorceress looks banged up. Zoar looks ok though and it looks complete.
Personally I've given up on anything thats not perfect. The Sorceress is leaning up against that wall so I doubt that she will stand on her own
Hi, thanks for the info anybody in australia have a sorceress for sale/trade?
Actually I'm pretty sure Zoar is missing the base of the stand.Originally Posted by Gimporama
Here are some pics of my collection (not much ) lmk what yuo guys think
Looks good.
I particularly like the way you have them split up based on factions.
Your collection is good I'm impressed!!
I'll have to post some pics of mine one day.
Hey he man fan ausOriginally Posted by he man fan aus
Looking REALLY good, I like the way you've planned ahead and left space. Its addictive isn't it?
Hows the collecting going? Are you having trouble finding good condition figures for good prices like I am?
Hi, Yes i am having trouble finding some figures easpecially in decient condition right now i am thinking about getting a ninjor but he is missing his nunchucks you reckon he is worth around 40.00?
Ninjors a really hard one to estimate because he is so hard to get complete.Originally Posted by he man fan aus
If he's only missing his nunchucks and has his hood then I would say yes.
Maybe you'll be able to pick up the nunchucks in a weapons lot you see on ebay?
yeah or maybe hit someone up for a cast. the collection looks great he man fan ausOriginally Posted by Gimporama
sorry bro i scroll'd back and didnt notice the quote.
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Nah thats he man fan aus's collection.Originally Posted by Hemat
I'll post mine when I get the dial fixed on my digital camera
Today I finally got a good condition loose Faker and a good condition loose Prince Adam with a tight belt....woohoo
Hey he man fan aus - Theres another better looking Sorceress on ebay now.
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Very nice. Cool display too, lots of room for expansion!!Originally Posted by he man fan aus
I see you are having the same problem I have come across, getting figures without weapons and then having to try and complete them. It's not easy cause you can see what you want in some weapons lots, but then they go for so much. I have tried to stop getting incomplete figures now cause it is to hard to finish them.
As for Ninjor.....I got mine from the US ebay about 9 months ago. It was in mint condition and complete but it was the only thing the seller had for sale so there was not a lot of interest from people trying to win multiple auctions. Ended up getting it for about $20US plus postage. I don't have the time at the moment scour ebay for bargins like that now though.
Ok fix'd my post
Has anyone put orders in for the dvd and staction yet
just realized its only a month or so away.
thanks Gimporama and again sorry he man fan aus
Originally Posted by Gimporama
Hi, i won that other auction with the sorceress and zoar for 15.00 you guys think it is worth It? any way i will proberly bid on that auction too.
Hey he man fan aus, i like your display loks cool. Viceroy i also would like to see your collection. I had a nice surprise today as i arrived home from my honeymoon (11 nights on the pacific sun cruiseliner, mainly visited the islands of vanuatu) anyway it was the 13 figures ive been waiting for from florida, 3 months i waited but there finally here, ah the collection is getting closer to the finsh line.Originally Posted by he man fan aus
Evil Army of the Horde!!
Hey lorde trooper for sure I will have to post some pics of my collection. I was only talking about that to a mate of mine today.
Hi, i am gonna sell or trade my new he man figs thought i would post here i have the ones you can see in my collection pics they are all near mint to mint. i also have the gold Battle sound he man moc with the video and snake armour moc lmk if you are interested in anything.
Just to clarify what do you have moc?Originally Posted by he man fan aus
HI, i have gold battle sound he man and snake armour he man mocOriginally Posted by Viceroy
Hey Guys, the thread has been a bit dead lately,has anyone picked up any new figures . Did anyone win any of Daviono1089 auctions on ebay Picked up a few figures myself. Does anyone have a ton of mini comics they would be interested in trading as i have a ton and there is a couple i still dont have.
Evil Army of the Horde!!
Yeah I did, Daviono must have had the largest motu collection in the world. In some instances Daviono had over 60 figures for sale....on the one figure!!Originally Posted by lorde trooper
I ended up buying the Evil Lyn busts - classic and normal bust with the same number. I also ended up buying a Tri-Klops statue as well.
Crazy stuff but at least there is three pay weeks this month!!
damn sounds like this dude had been everywhere and brought everything.
just look'd at case fresh regarding the wave3 stactions they've been moved back to june, which is a good thing money wise but it getting to be a regular thing.
I know what you mean, MOTU and all the Marvel Legends being released this year, makes me eat 2 minute noodles several times a weekOriginally Posted by Hemat
Regards Jakes12
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Originally Posted by Viceroy
Hey Viceroy, congrats on winning the auctions from dave, he has to know some people either from mattel or neca with the amount of stuff that he has and not only that but the numbering of busts etc, i think he had the first 5 hordak busts. I sent him an email saying that he has the best collection that ive ever seen (except for mine) He released a thread about the tri-klops statues about a month ago so lucky for me he has put one aside till the end of may for me as it is 3 pay weeks for me aswell. If you dont mine me asking do you have alot to collect still, my main items still to collect are keldor, heman comic con figure and skeletor statue.
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The time Mayor Bob Filner took off to attend therapy hasn't helped alleviate the mounting troubles awaiting him at City Hall. Things have only gotten worse for the leader of the nation's eighth-largest city.
More than a dozen women, including a university dean and a retired Navy rear admiral, have gone public with sexual harassment accusations against Filner. Some contend he cornered them, groping and slobbering them with kisses.
The accusations have prompted an avalanche of calls for Filner to resign. Even the local Hooters restaurants posted signs saying he's not welcome there.
When Filner took a two-week hiatus to get treatment for what he acknowledged has been unacceptable behavior — but did not term sexual harassment — he said he'd be back at work on Aug. 19. But whether he actually shows up Monday is anybody's guess.
A recall campaign kicked off in earnest Sunday and if he does go back to work, Filner faces an uphill battle to prove he can still govern.
Filner's former communications director, Irene McCormack Jackson, has filed a lawsuit claiming that he asked her to work without panties, demanded kisses, told her he wanted to see her naked and dragged her in a headlock while whispering in her ear. The latest accuser came forward Thursday — a 67-year-old great-grandmother and volunteer city worker who assists senior citizens.
U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer are among a slew of California politicians who have called on the fellow Democrat to step down. And he's now under investigation for his handling of city finances, including questions over a trip to Paris.
Filner, a feisty liberal who served 10 terms in Congress before being elected mayor last November — has long had a reputation for berating employees and has been dogged by rumors of inappropriate behavior toward women. But nothing in his past approaches what has surfaced in the last six weeks, leaving even his supporters wondering how he can survive.
"He is a ferocious campaigner, but this will be most difficult campaign of his life," said Steve Erie, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego. "This is a monumental hill that he has to surmount. The allegations are like Chinese water torture, the way they keep coming out. It's like drip, drip, drip. At this point, I'm waiting for the first woman who has been around Bob to say 'he didn't manhandle me."'
The 70-year-old has become a punch line for comedians and regularly mocked on national programs such as "The Daily Show." A cable television affiliate of the local newspaper, U-T San Diego, recently produced its own musical parody that shows a man's body with Filner's face superimposed on it hip-thrusting and chasing women in short skirts and high heels.
The video by U-T TV was criticized for making light of a serious situation.
Before going into therapy, Filner asked voters to be patient while he gets help.
"Before I even think of asking for forgiveness, I must demonstrate that my behavior has changed. And that will only happen over time and only if such incidents never, ever happen again," Filner said.
He vowed when he returned that his "focus will be on making sure that I am doing right by the city in terms of being the best mayor I can be, and the best person I must be."
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His lawyers and his office did not respond to interview requests.
Filner has agreed not to meet with women alone on city business and has delegated broad authority to a new interim chief operating officer, Walt Ekard, a highly regarded former county administrator.
Since the allegations surfaced, the city's first Democratic mayor in 20 years went from near-daily appearances around town to vanishing from public view. Last month, he was caught on video fleeing from camera crews and reporters to a waiting driver who accelerated through a red light.
It's uncertain now whether he will keep running from the cameras or face them.


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Many of the good things in my life are intertwined with bike rides.
My first date with my husband was a bike ride from Prospect Park, Brooklyn out to the ocean edge at Reese Park. As we left the city of New York behind us that day, wheels spinning beneath us, it was clear to me from that there was something special going on.
And since marriage and the two children that have come with it, we have navigated many a city street and mountain path as a family. First, our children perched on the back seat, sometimes napping, sometimes kicking us with delight. Then they progressed to trail-a-bikes. And now they lead the way, fierce mountain bikers in their own right.
So biking for me carries many a good memory. It's been a core part of my emotional health. And it's been a core part of how I keep my body healthy too.
When it comes to exercise, a bike may be one of the best pieces of equipment you can ever invest in. It's easy on the body but still gives you a tremendous workout. And it opens a world of exploration to you.
But less often discussed is how a bike may become a favorite piece of office equipment for your home business. I've used biking effectively to help me work better and keep work in perspective.
In college, when I got on my bike for exercise, I could escape the books, deadlines and pressures. On my bike, I flew off to farm country and fields, leaving campus far behind.
I still use biking when I'm lost in a sea of work. On a bike I reconnect with my thoughts, problem solve, peddle off stress, and facilitate transitions between work and family.
It's been an important part of my healthy home business arsenal.
So in this article you'll get two sets of tactics. You'll find out not only how to get the most out of your bike as an exercise tool, but also how to use it as a home business tool.
Bike To Exercise – Bike For Biz Tactic #1: Prepare Your Body
Biking is probably one of the best low-impact sports you can do. Bad knees, squeaky hips, tender ankles won't stop you. You can still bike.
My father has terrible knees. Biking is one of the few activities he can do besides swimming.
But this being said, you can still do more to make it easier on your most vulnerable joints. By preparing your body.
When you strengthen the muscles around your joints, you take the pressure off of them causing less friction and strain.
We have a slew of exercises that strengthen your legs. And we use these diligently year-round to help with biking. The payoffs in biking pleasure are immense.
Exercises for your back and core can also help make biking more enjoyable.
With some pre-biking conditioning you'll be strong enough to get more out each biking workout and more enjoyment.
Bike To Exercise – Bike For Biz Tactic #2: Set Your Bike Up Right
Most muscle strains on bike rides can be fixed with better equipment or resolved by adjusting your bike's settings.
If you're experiencing knee discomfort, make sure your seat is set so that on the upside of your peddle rotation your knee is directly over your ankle, not angled forward. And on the downside of your rotation (with your heel resting on your peddle) make sure your leg is almost straight with just a slight bend of the knee.
If you ride a road bike but your back or neck is bothering you, try a mountain bike. You sit up more with these bikes making it easier on your back.
Make sure you have a bike that is not too long so you're straining to reach the handlebars. You should be leaning forward at a nice 45-degree angle with a slight bend of the elbows.
If your bottom is giving you pain, invest in a more cushioned seat or bike shorts with padding on the bottom.
Bike To Exercise – Bike For Biz Tactic #3: Make It Short
Like most exercise plans, we often put off biking because it just seems like such a big enterprise. Don't – this preconception just defeats the best intentions to go out and get biking.
Instead, tell yourself you're just going for quick ride. I've squeezed in short 30-minute rides before I have to get back for a client call. Knowing I have an appointment makes me ride harder.
To make up for a short ride, make it hard. Sprint hard in intervals. Spin on the downhills and really work up a sweat.
Bike To Exercise – Bike For Biz Tactic #4: Go Long And Explore
If biking is a regular activity, it can sometimes lose its appeal. It becomes utilitarian, a must-do that you just do to get it over with. Similarly, often we get so caught up in running our home businesses that we lose track of one of the best advantages of this work situation. Flexibility and control over your schedule.
So, if you're losing your taste for biking, change things around and tell your boss (you) you're taking the afternoon off.
Find a great destination or a place you've never explored and go by bike. Meet a friend for lunch, check out a new park, or even make a run to the library through a new neighborhood. You never know what you'll discover.
Biking's beauty is that it can take you places. I used to love exploring new neighborhoods in Brooklyn by bike. And now I explore old logging roads in New Hampshire.
Just be sure that you give yourself time to explore and carry with you essentials to make it a good trip: Hydration (like water), healthy snacks, a cell phone, money, a first-aid kit and extra layers of clothing.
Bike To Exercise – Bike For Biz Tactic #4: Make It Social
One of the dangers of working from home is that you can lose touch with other people. If you have a family, this may not be such a problem. But even then, you may be struggling to make time to spend with your children and spouse.
Biking provides a great way to remedy this. When you bike with a partner or group . . .
1. You get time with someone to talk, observe, share the moment.
2. You increase the safety factor. If you have an accident or injury, someone's there to help. And two or more people are much less likely to be targeted for attack by someone up to no good.
3. You increase the motivation and challenge. A biking buddy can help you push over one more hill or go a little faster.
My husband and I go biking together all the time. If you got kids like we do you may also want to take the whole family on a bike ride.
Bike To Exercise – Bike For Biz Tactic #5: Make It Work For You
We live in a world of information overload where time to mull over things – actually the ability to think! – is quickly disappearing. A bike can take you away from the hubbub of the computer and restore this time and space for deeper thoughts.
Have a specific problem or project you're stuck on? Look it over and then hop on the bike.
Nothing like putting your body in motion and focusing your conscious mind on navigating the road to let your subconscious mind do some serious problem-solving.
Copywriter Pete Savage recounts in his fantastic home biz book, The Wealthy Freelancer, how he used biking to solve a problem directly. Every afternoon, he'd plop his child into the bikeseat and take him for a ride. This little excursion helped his son take a nap, gave him a little thinking time during the workday and gave his wife a break.
Bike To Exercise – Bike For Biz Tactic #6: Make It Early
Especially in the summer when the days get hot, there is nothing like an early morning bike ride. The world is fresh and so are you.
As I've written before, getting some early morning activity in is better than coffee for getting your brain juices moving.
We often grab a few bites of banana or peanuts and then jump on the bike before the sun hits too hard.
Additionally, research is showing that working out when you're in a fasting state (before you breakfast) can help you lose more weight and regulate your blood sugar better.
A hint here, however: If you're going out before eating, make sure you bring a small snack and don't make it too long. You want to push your body to wake up a little but not drive it into that serious hunger mode. That's not good for you.
Bike To Exercise: Bike For Biz Tactic #7: Make It Late
When you work at home, saying goodbye to your office and hello to your family can be hard to manage each afternoon. The siren call of work seems to seep out your home office door.
For this reason an afternoon bike ride solo or with your family can serve as a great way to break things up and transition.
Better yet, often enough it's sometimes hard after a long day of work to muster up the energy to get the next phase of life done – making dinner, helping with homework, working out sibling spats and getting a few evening chores done.
Biking, like any activity, can give you that second wind you need to get through the evening until bedtime arrives.
Bike To Exercise – Bike For Biz Tactic #8: Make It Indoors
Biking is such a good activity – but unfortunately it usually has to be done outdoors. Buying a whole separate exercise bike may seem like an unnecessary expense.
However, there's an easy compromise for biking indoors when the weather won't cooperate. You can put your bike on a simple stand that isolates the rear wheel. This wheel is connected to the gears and when you raise it up your bike stays in place. Voila! You've got an indoor stationary bike.
Not only do I use this regularly in the winter, sneaking in a few 30-second to 1-minute intervals when I need a quick pick-me-up. But it also served me well when I was pregnant.
Biking is not always so great with a big pregnant belly. Your sense of balance is off and moving quickly to navigate can be tricky. For this reason I spent lots of time during both pregnancies biking indoors on my trusty little bike stand.
Finally, a bike stand is much more affordable than a treadmill for indoor fitness options.
Get Exercising On Your Bike And Build Your Business!
Unfortunately as home business owners we can't apply the lovely bike to work tactic that folks in the other work world can use. But we've got options and I've put a lot of them down here.
Here you have 8 great tactics for using your bike to not only keep you healthier but to also help keep your business going strong. With these tactics in mind, when you bike to exercise, bike to build your home business too.
Please share with us all other ideas you have to make this piece of fitness equipment an indispensable part of your fitness plan – and your healthy home business.
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Home Ec: How to Shop for Olive Oil
When I was first learning how to cook, Chez Panisse held a contest, open to all employees, seeking a better (tastier? more clever? more original?) tomato sauce recipe (using canned tomatoes) for use through the winter months. There weren't many rules beyond this: we were to use only ingredients that were readily available in the CP kitchen (i.e. local, seasonal and organic).
Having only just started to cook, I was too intimidated to enter myself and felt like I had too little authority to even try, but it felt like pretty much everyone else, from bussers and wine runners to porters and, of course, cooks, submitted a recipe. The prize was $500 and having your name on the menu every time the sauce was featured, so people got really into it, as you might be able to imagine.
Entrants were instructed to bring in their sauces for a blind tasting on a weekday afternoon, and a team of impartial judges (a.k.a. the chefs and Alice) set about the arduous task of trying the veritable panoply of sauces. Some had seasoned their sauces with dried oregano, others fresh marjoram. Some crushed their canned tomatoes by hand while others painstakingly seeded and diced them. Others added chili flake while still yet others channeled their inner nonnas and pureed their sauces, pomorola-style. It was tomato mayhem, and in the kitchen we were all atwitter, waiting to hear who the finalists were.
At one point, Russ came back into the kitchen to get a glass of water, and I'll never forget what he said when we asked him how things were going:
"There are a lot of great entries. So many, in fact, that it's hard to narrow them down. But it's a shame that some of the particularly good recipes were made with bad olive oil."
What they couldn't understand, and understandably so, was why all of the employees wouldn't have cooked with good olive oil, especially when it was always available to us to buy at cost through the restaurant.
While some of the chefs were able to imagine cooking a sauce made with bad olive oil with better ingredients at the restaurant, Alice, he said, in particular, couldn't get past it, because her palate was so sensitive. She couldn't separate the "what is" from the "what might be."
Never before had it occurred to me that olive oil, or any oil--the cooking medium itself--would have much effect on the flavor of a dish. This was my first glimpse of understanding that not only did it have an effect, but that as the foundational ingredient, the flavor of olive oil pervades every single molecule of a dish.
So, in the same way that an onion cooked in butter tastes different than an onion cooked in olive oil, an onion cooked in good olive oil tastes different (and in this case, better) than one cooked in a lesser quality oil.
So, before considering even one of the many political/health/outside reasons for using a better olive oil in your cooking, know that the way your olive oil tastes is directly related to how your food will taste.
Choosing an olive oil can be a daunting task. Just at my local food market, there are probably four dozen different brands of extra virgin olive oil on display. Then, there are all of the virgin and pure oils. If I hadn't had the good fortune of living in Italy, where I got to familiarize myself with some of the most talented oil producers throughout the country, I'd probably have adverse reactions to olive oil shopping, traceable back to the levels of stress they'd cause in my body. I mean, virgin or extra virgin? Italy or France? Organic or not? Is that olive oil on sale any good? Why is some olive oil $30 for 750ml while another is $10 for a liter? What is going on? And how can you tell the difference?
I get it. I mean, I usually know what I'm looking for and I still get an accelerated heartbeat every time I enter that aisle at Berkeley Bowl. Sheesh.
It's why when Jen asked me to help her learn how to choose an oil, I figured there must be more folks out there wanting to know the same information, and I took the opportunity to dive headlong into answering the age-old question of how to know what olive oil to buy.
How to Choose an Olive Oil
Taste. Taste. Taste.
Taste, not price, is your best guide in choosing an olive oil. This might require a leap of faith on your part if you don't know what you're tasting for. All of those words, like fruity, pungent, spicy and bright might seem confounding if you've never considered that olive oil can taste like much of anything besides, well, oil, but it's true, a good olive oil has multiple dimensions. The only way to familiarize yourself with them is by tasting, and paying attention to what you sense. If you taste something expensive and don't like it, then it's not for you. If you find a ten dollar bottle that's delicious, then you've scored! In this way, olive oil shopping is much like wine shopping.
Before you bother with anything else, taste and trust yourself. You have to taste, and ultimately, you have to let your own taste buds be the judge, because food is alive, and ever-changing, and inconsistent, and magical, and even an olive oil that I or another cook may rant or rave about is different from bottle to bottle, batch to batch.
I will say, though, that while it's harder for me to tell you what a "good" oil might taste like, it's fairly simple for me to describe a "bad" one. There are several main reasons why I won't buy an olive oil, including: bitterness (to the point that I'm coughing or gagging), overwhelming spiciness, a "dirty" or "smelly" flavor, and rancidity. These are all deal-breakers. There's a place in my pantry for almost all other flavor-manifestations of olive oil.
Once you are comfortable with a brand and you are confident that you know what a "good" oil tastes like, then hopefully you'll feel empowered to take a risk and try a different oil, and over time you can familiarize yourself with the characteristics of different oils and different regions. I've found that coastal olives produce milder, sweeter oils (like that Ligurian one below), and oils from the Tuscan hills are peppery, bright, and powerful. But even within a region, oil can differ widely, so again, we return to the ultimate arbiter to help us judge: the palate.
Ay, there's the rub.
How can you taste an olive oil before you spend twenty bucks on a bottle?
Well, you can't. So sometimes you have to take a blind leap. Some markets might host tastings or let you try a product before purchasing. Other markets will let you return items if you're not pleased with them. And finally, by all means, before spending big bucks on a bulk tin of oil, buy a small bottle to experiment with. If you don't go through olive oil quite as quickly as I might, it might be smarter to buy it in smaller amounts anyway (or to split a larger bottle or tin with a friend or two) so that you can use up the oil before it goes rancid.
For olive oil, unfortunately, the term "organic" is practically meaningless, since international regulation of organic standards is totally irregular. Unless an olive oil is coming from an organic farmer or producer who you are already familiar with, don't let this be an indicator of whether or not to buy (though I will say that the organic Costco oil is tastier than the regular, and when buying oil from a producer of that size, I'd prefer something to nothing in terms of regulation). Instead of "organic," there are a few other things to look for on the label of a bottle of olive oil that may suggest higher quality, including:
- A harvest date. Olive oil is good for about a year--fourteen months max--before it goes rancid. If you're spending thirty bucks on a bottle of oil, make sure it's from the current press. Olives are pressed in November, sometimes December, so the current press right now is 2011. The harvest date is not the same as the "use by" or "sell by" date, so take a careful look.
- A dark green glass bottle or a stainless steel tin. Keeping olive oil out of direct sunlight, and purchasing olive oil that has been kept out of direct sunlight are of utmost importance since the light accelerates loss of nuanced flavor and leads to rancidity.
- A DOP seal for European oils or a California Olive Oil Council (COOC) seal for California Oils. A DOP is a Protected Denomination of Origin, which is a type of government-regulated quality control that actually means something. Other examples of DOP (sometimes called AOC, DOC, DOCG, etc.) foods throughout Europe that you may be familiar with are Parmigiano-Reggiano, Chianti Classico, Jamón Serrano, and Prosciutto di Parma. The California Olive Oil Council is a trade association with certified olive oil standards meant to help raise the quality of California oils on the shelves, promote producers, and protect customers.
- A specific producer name and location. Though the location can be hard to recognize if you're not a pro at reading Italian addresses and deciphering all of the insane two letter abbreviations (FI = Firenze, SI= Siena, etc.), it's worth it to try, and to at least be sure that the oil is made in a particular place in Italy (or Spain, or France). As Tom Mueller writes, "Made in Italy" is not the same thing as "Product of Italy." Most of the big olive oil brands, like Bertolli and Filippo Berio have admitted to buying olives from other countries (such as Tunisia, Greece, or Spain), importing them into Italy, and pressing the oil there only to sell it as "Made in Italy." Though there isn't anything innately wrong with olives grown in any of those countries, since the fruit is picked and then transported over such great distances, it's safe to say that it's not at its peak when being pressed into oil (and imagine the fermentation happening on the bottom of those truckloads of olives!). Most of the small olive oil producers, like Capezzana, who I visited when I lived in Italy had their own frantoios (or olive mills) on the premises, so that olives could be pressed within hours of picking. Something like only four percent of olive oil exported from Italy is a made exclusively of Italian olives, so look for the name of the producer, the location, and/or the words "Product of Italy" to ensure you're getting the real thing.
Things that aren't a necessarily indicator of quality:
- Color of the olive oil. Light oils can be delicious. Dark, green oils can be gross. And vice versa. Color, in and of iteself, doesn't matter, so don't make a decision based on it.
- Unfiltered vs. filtered. Unfiltered olive oil is simply...unfiltered. Not better, not worse, just unfiltered.
- Single-varietals vs. blends. As with wine, a blend can be truly delicious. Just because an oil is made of a single cultivar of olive doesn't make it "better" in any way, so don't fall for that. Let taste be your guide.
What to do with it after you bring it home:
- Keep your oil out of direct sunlight. And don't store it above or too close to your stove, as temperature fluctuations will negatively affect flavor and encourage oxidation, which leads to rancidity.
Glossary of terms
Extra-virgin--this is the highest quality (and usually most expensive) oil derived from olives. Extra-virgin is always made by pressing raw olives soon after they are harvested. It's low in acid, and often offers the widest range of flavors, so it's best used unadulterated, in things like salads and condiments, since heating it up will change its chemical makeup and diminish its delicate flavors.
Virgin--this is also a high-quality oil, which is produced by the same exact methods as extra virgin. The only difference is that it tests at a higher acidity level so it cannot technically be called extra virgin. Virgin oils are also good for salad dressings, mayonnaises, condiments and light cooking.
(Pure) Olive oil--When a label reads "pure olive oil," or simply "olive oil," it usually means that the bottle consists mostly of refined oil, which has been treated with heat and/or chemicals to balance out the flaws and neutralize flavors, with a small percentage of virgin or extra virgin oil added back in for flavor. It's usually pretty light in color. Since it doesn't have much going on, flavor-wise, this oil is great for browning meats for braises and making anything long-cooked. I also sometimes use it as a base for mayonnaise and then go back and add good oil to finish. It's a great, affordable, neutral cooking oil.
Extra light olive oil--Similar to pure, but without any good oil added back in for flavor. This means that this oil is totally refined and basically void of any of the characteristics that make olive oil olive oil. It's not bad, just not really anything special. Would be good for browning meats for braises or slow-roasted anything. The "extra light" doesn't denote that it has any less caloric value--it's just as fattening as regular old olive oil.
Cold pressed--the olives and oil were not heated above a certain point during processing, resulting in an oil with more integrity of flavor and nutrients.
First pressed--the oil is the product of the first press of the olives. Sometimes olives are pressed a second time, and the resultant oil is of lesser quality (a second press will usually yield "pure" or "extra light" oil).
What & Where to Buy
What I use at home:
I'm always changing things up, based on availability, curiosity, the current state of my finances, and of course whim. But the one constant is taste--I won't buy crappy olive oil. These are all great olive oils that I rotate through the kitchen. I usually have a few on hand, but for most home cooks who don't toe the line of insanity like I do, one cooking oil and one fancy oil are enough.
Take a look at these oils, and if one seems to catch your interest, familiarize yourself with its label and maybe you'll find it on the shelf of your local natural or specialty foods store. If you trust me and my taste buds, spend the money, buy the oil, and bring it home to taste and cook with.
Where to buy olive oil:
Many of these olive oil producers sell to distributors who import throughout the US, so most of these are going to be somewhat easy to find in a shop like Bi-Rite, The Pasta Shop, Dean & Deluca, or Zingermans. In the Bay Area, local grocery stores like Rainbow, Berkeley Bowl, and Monterey Market have great selections of olive oil, as does Genova Delicatessen.
Even though I've noticed that Whole Foods has a huge selection of high quality olive oils, I wouldn't buy fancy oil there unless pressed to, because I think most of those bottles just sit on the shelves for a really long time, aging and creeping ever-closer to rancidity, which is inevitable in olive oil around the 14 month mark. Since you're paying a premium for good oil, it's worth it to make sure you're buying from a retailer with quick turnover.
I have my own issues with and try not to shop at Trader Joe's because of their lack of transparency, and their behavior throughout the whole Immokalee situation (even though I suppose it's technically been resolved), but I totally get that for a lot of people it's the best or only option, or that they just plain like it. The thing is, since most everything is a house brand there, there's no way of knowing what you're getting, really, until you buy it and taste. But since things are pretty affordable there, it's an easy way to put your taste buds to the test.
Olive Oils I Use & Love
- Katz: Chef's pick is a fantastic deal and well-balanced. I usually have a bottle of this around for both cooking and salads.
- McEvoy Ranch
- Yolo Press
- O Olive Oil
San Giuliano Oils: Affordable and relatively mild, these oils have been the mainstay cooking oils in my kitchen for the past few years. I like their pure and their extra virgin, as well as the delicious Cannonau red wine vinegar. I use the neutral pure oil for browning roasts, all-purpose, and things like mayonnaise base that I then finish with better, more full-bodied oils.
- Mastri di San Basilio: I particularly like Due Sicilie and usually have a bottle of this soft-spoken, yet delicious oil on hand for salad dressings and salsas where I don't want the oil to have too much personality.
- Olio Verde: one word--delicious
- Stephen Singer Olio: This is the oil that has been at the base of CP cooking for decades, though now there is a lot of California oil in that kitchen as well. My favorites here are the San Giusto and the flagship oil.
- Badia a Coltibuono
- Tenuta di Capezzana
- Frantoio di Sommaia
- Laudemio Frescobaldi
- Tiger Brand: This is a pure olive oil I LOVE to use for cooking because it's so neutral and affordable.
Francesco de Padova: The 5 Liter tin is a STEAL! Howard Case has had a relationship with these Pugliese producers for years, and imports these oils and sells them himself, keeping costs relatively low. I really like these oils--the pure is great for cooking and the extra virgin is a wonderful all-purpose oil.
Costa dei Rosmarini: I went through a seriously obsessive phase with this olive oil in 2004 and it remains a favorite.
Siurana olive oil: This isn't a brand, but rather a DOP. Kelly brought me some Siurana olive oil recently, and it's delicious. I'm not really educated when it comes to olive oils from beyond the borders of Italy or California, so this was a really great introduction to high-quality Spanish oil. Thank you, Kelly!
- California Olive Oil Council
- 8 Tips for Choosing and Using Olive Oil by David Lebovitz
- Yolo County Olive Oils: I've heard that Yolo Press makes some excellent, affordable oil, but they are all worth tasting.
- AmorOlio: Nancy Harmon Jenkins' Olive Oil Intensive in Tuscany
- Olive Oil Source: lots of great information if you have the time to dig around
Articles & Books
- Slippery Business by Tom Mueller in the New Yorker
- Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller
- Michael Pollan uses Organic Costco Extra Virgin Olive Oil for everyday cooking at home in an interview with Emily Thelin in the Wall Street Journal (I used to really raise my nose at this, but I have to say, for everyday olive oil, it's totally fine.)
- California's Olive Oils Challenge Europe's: Julia Moskin's excellent piece on California Olive Oils in the New York Times
- The Olive Oil Secret, a pretty good document with a thorough shopping and tasting guide
- Olive Oil: From Tree to Table by Peggy Knickerbocker


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RPI athletic director Jim Knowlton today announced the appointment of Ralph Isernia as head football coach. A veteran of 22 years in coaching, he brings experience from Division III, Division II and the Football Championship Subdivision, formerly I-AA.
- More moves in Coaching Carousel
- Bodor replaces Falbo (June 2012)
- Falbo replaces Landis (February 2012)
- Landis replaces King (March 2011)
Isernia will be RPI's fifth head football coach in 21 months, not counting former D-III head coach Bob Surace, who was the interim choice after longtime coach Joe King left. He follows Bob Bodor, who led RPI to a 5-4 mark last season despite being the third person to have the position in a five-month span.
"I couldn't be more excited about the opportunity to join the Rensselaer community," Isernia said. "Being a head coach has always been a career goal of mine and to do so at Rensselaer is a tremendous opportunity. The people I met while visiting the campus were very impressive and showed me why the Institute is held in such high regard. I am especially eager to get to know the student-athletes and assist them as they continue to strive for success."
"Our national search for a football coach produced an exceptionally strong pool of candidates, and it is clear that Ralph Isernia is the right person to lead the Rensselaer football program as we anticipate even higher levels of success in the future," said Rensselaer president Shirley Ann Jackson. "He is an experienced mentor and educator, and his experience in three different college football divisions will serve us well as we seek to build on our tradition of achievement in football."
"We are excited to welcome Ralph to the athletic department team," said Knowlton. "He has a track record of success over many years and will help us continue to provide an exceptional developmental experience for our student-athletes."
Isernia comes to Rensselaer from Ferrum, where he was the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator for the Panthers. In his two seasons he helped the team to a share of the 2012 USA South Conference championship and coached two different quarterbacks who each won league Offensive Player of the Year honors.
Isernia spent the six years prior at the University of Charleston, where he was an assistant head coach, the offensive coordinator and interim head coach. He was a regional finalist for the Division II Assistant Coach of the Year Award in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
His accomplishments with the Golden Eagles included directing an offense that set numerous school records while helping the team become a contender for the conference title each season. The offense was consistently ranked among the best in the league in points per game, rushing, pass efficiency and sacks allowed. Among the players on the team, which was nationally ranked in 2009 after a 9-2 finish, were two who signed NFL free agent contracts.
Isernia has also coached at Bucknell University (2004-05), Mansfield University (2001-04), Defiance (2000-01), Methodist (1994-00) and Western Connecticut State (1991-94). He served as offensive line coach at Bucknell, helping the Bison to a 7-4 record – its best finish since 1999 – and a No. 30 national ranking. Offensively, the team was ranked ninth in rushing offense and 11th in pass efficiency among NCAA Division I-AA schools.
In his 22 years of coaching, Isernia has coached more than 70 All-Conference players, nearly 20 All-Americans, four Academic All-Americans and two AFCA Good Works All-Americans. From the seven different schools he has coached, Isernia's offenses have established the all-time leading passer six times, the all-time leading rusher twice and the all-time leading receiver four times.
A member of the American Football Coaches Association, Isernia is a frequent speaker and clinician at the organization's events as well as at football camps around the country. He has had various articles published including; "On Sportsmanship: A Letter to My Son" in the Elmira Star Gazette and "Offensive Line Blocking Progression" in Gridiron Coach Magazine.
A native of Long Island, Isernia is a graduate of Davidson, where he was the first known two-sport captain, having led both football and baseball. On the gridiron he was a four-year starter as a running back, leading the team in numerous offensive categories, including rushing, receiving, and scoring as well as punt return yardage. In baseball he was one of the top hitters in the league, earning All-Big South in 1991.
Isernia received a bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology from Davidson and his master's in counselor education from Western Connecticut. He and his wife Lynn have three children, Rett, Grace, and Ryan.


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Governments around the world routinely invest massive sums of money into taxpayer-supported venture funds, extravagant office parks, and even whole cities, in the hopes of "creating the next Silicon Valley."
But Silicon Valley cannot be replicated from the top down with money and facilities.
Why, you ask?
Because Silicon Valley is not a place. It's a mindset.
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1. Accept Failure
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley fail more than entrepreneurs anywhere else in the world, but it is their "ability to fail" that helps them ultimately take risks and succeed. When a culture can accept and mitigate the risks of failure — both financially and socially, and through both public policy and social constructs — then entrepreneurship can prosper and true creativity can be unleashed.
2. Embrace Your Geeks
Every community has super-smart people, but in most places, they are dispersed across separate industry circles and rarely interact. Silicon Valley "geek culture" is inclusive, open minded, diverse, and quirky. Why? Because smart people generally share one common trait — they are creative. Implement and encourage creative projects in your community to attract, gather, and support your geek culture.
3. Create Networks of Capital
Yes, Silicon Valley has the brand name VCs, but more importantly it has vast, informal networks of angel investors that pool their money to seed promising projects. AngelList's "Syndicates" is a step toward formalizing these networks, but the more you can tap into, educate, and gather existing networks of wealth around startups, the better your ecosystem will be. In the end, if great companies are built somewhere, the capital will follow.
4. Foster Collaboration
Above all else, Silicon Valley is an amazingly tight-knit and collaborative culture. People of all skill sets, backgrounds, and experiences get together almost nightly here to share ideas, best practices, and metrics, and to provide each other feedback. Why? Because we understand that helping each other and sharing expertise leads to faster iteration, more efficient innovation, faster market growth, and ultimately a larger pie for all.
Entrepreneurs have so much to gain by working together, because ideas don't matter — execution does. Forget the NDAs, and stop creating "competitions." Instead, start creating ways for people to collaborate and share knowledge with the next generation of founders. It will make your community infinitely more successful.
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Solving laundry at UC Berkeley
Nearly a million people have watched UC Berkeley's PR2 folding towels and sorting socks on YouTube, and it's easy to understand why: having a robot that can do your laundry is a fantasy that's been around since The Jetsons, and while we're not there yet, it's not nearly as far off a future as it was before the PR2 Beta Program. Since those demos, one of the research groups at Berkeley has been working on ways of making the laundry cycle faster, more efficient, and more complete, and for starters, they've taught their PR2 to reliably handle your pants.
The goal of Pieter Abbeel's group is to teach a robot to solve the laundry problem. That is, to develop a system to enable a robot to go into a home it's never seen before, load and unload a washer and dryer, and then fold the clean clothes and put them away just like you would. The first aspect of this problem that the group tackled was folding, which is one of those things that seems trivial to us but is very difficult for a robot to figure out since clothes are floppy, unpredictable, and often decorated with tasteless and complicated colors and patterns.
Last year, the Berkeley PR2 (unofficially named Brett, for "Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks") showed us that it could pick a towel out of a pile of clean laundry one by one and neatly fold and stack them, which was an impressive demo. Somewhat less impressive was the fact that the robot would take between 20 and 25 minutes to neatly fold one single towel, which, let's face it, isn't entirely practical. That time has now been cut down to under six minutes, with the potential for as little as two minutes per towel if they really crank the robot up.
The way that Berkeley has been able to improve the performance of the folding software so dramatically is by reducing the dependence on a complex vision system and instead relying on gravity and the properties of cloth. The PR2 now just picks up a towel wherever is convenient and then drags it across a folding table, knowing that as it does, the piece of the towel furthest away from the gripping point must necessarily be a corner. By grabbing that corner and repeating the procedure, the robot is able to quickly pick up two opposite corners of the towel. This puts the towel into one of two states, and from there, the PR2 has no trouble folding it. This general approach also works on shirts and pants and whatever else a robot might find in your laundry.
the actual folding is what we care about most, the trickiest part for
the robot is just getting a random piece of crumpled up laundry into a
state where it can tell what kind of clothing it's got, and that's what
grad student Arjun Singh has been working on. Specifically, he's taught
the PR2 to unfold
and identify complex items of clothing like shirts, skirts, and pants.
This is an essential capability for the PR2, since it enables the robot
to grab a whole bunch of random laundry out of the dryer, uncrumple and
identify each piece, reorient its grip, and then fold it properly.
At this stage, the laundry problem as a whole is "almost in principle solved," as student Stephen Miller explains. "There are tiny little things that keep us from being able to put all the pieces together reliably, but the detection problem and the folding and unfolding, all of that is pretty much a non-issue regardless of what article of clothing you're looking at." Other students are working on getting the PR2 familiar with how to work a washing machine, how to unload a dryer, and even how to put clothes on hangers. Plus, all of Berkeley's experience with deformable objects has led to some clever ROS packages that could also be adapted to (say) teach a robot to make your bed every morning.
Professor Pieter Abbeel is optimistic that by the time the PR2 Beta Program ends in 2012, they'll be able to do an entire laundry cycle from start to finish. This of course means that at some point early next year, you'll start seeing a lot of computer science students dragging bags of dirty laundry into the Berkeley robot lab, and going home with stacks of clean clothes, neatly folded and smelling of robot.


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Downs down, but not out
DETROIT — Scott Downs wasn't using crutches and he had to be talked into wearing a protective boot for his sprained right ankle. Downs is also trying to avoid going on the disabled list for the Blue Jays.
Toronto is going to hold off on putting the left-handed setup man on the DL for a few days, because being without Downs for five days is a whole lot better than being without him for two weeks. It's unlikely he'll be able to pitch in Boston this weekend, so a decision about DLing him might not come until Tuesday, following an off-day on Monday.
Then again, it could come sooner. We'll just have to wait and see. Downs felt a pop in his ankle after rolling it during the ninth inning on Wednesday night, but there was only a little swelling. He wasn't walking with a limp on Thursday and is keeping his fingers crossed that he'll be able to come back swiftly.
Today's lineups:
TORONTO (62-59) at DETROIT (58-62)
at 1:05 p.m. ET at Comerica Park
Joe Inglett, 2B
Marco Scutaro, 3B
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Matt Stairs, DH
Adam Lind, LF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Gregg Zaun, C
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Jesse Litsch (8-7, 4.46)
Curtis Granderson, CF
Placio Polanco, 2B
Magglio Ordonez, RF
Miguel Cabrera, 1B
Gary Sheffield, DH
Matt Joyce, LF
Edgar Renteria, SS
Brandon Inge, 3B
Dane Sardinha, C
PITCHING: RHP Armando Galarraga (10-4, 3.23)
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Wow, no one commented today ? I didn't watch all of the game because I was at work but just going by the line Litsch pitched really well. 7 innings and no earned runs is fantastic against any team; you have to be pleased with that.
Sure, but the crazy thing is that we won 3 of 4 games, and are actually sitting 12 games back – worse than before the series started. Too little, too late.
12 games back and 9 games back? …. we got no chance… i started watching the olympics now… Canada still doens't do that good though.
Gsumner the reason I have been inactive on the blog is my wife fell anbd broke her arm at the shoulder and between the shoulder and the elbow they were bad breaks so I was at the hospital every day but she came home last night and now I am back.
The wild card looks like it is out of reach.
Does anyone know how many free agents we have at the end of the year? If they walk (like Burnett will likely do), I am wondering how many picks we are likely to have in the first couple of rounds of the draft. Also, those cuban pitchers that left their team in edmonton. Are they seeking asylumn in Canada? Can the jays sign them to minor league contracts?
Sorry to hear that, I hope she's ok.
We should get 2 for Burnett, 1 each for Wilkerson, Mench, Eckstein and Zaun, assuming they all sign somewhere else.
Of course, we do have some elivers coming upfor contract, but my assumption is we'd probably keep them.
Of course, theJays could sign the Cubans, BUT the real issue-I believe, is obtaining visa's for them to play in the US-that might take some time.
We do have one former Cuban national in our system now, Kenny Rodriguez who started with us this year at Dunedin. He got off to a great start, was moved up to AA New Hampshire where he floundered and is now back in Dunedin.
What we also have is a few kids from the Dominican Republic, Panama and Venezuela in Auburn, Lansing and GCL Jays, whom I think were graduatesfrom the DSL Jays of 2007-which is great to see.
We also have a number of Canadian kids coming up.Themost noticable one is Johnathon Baksh in Lansing who'hitting .341. He struggles against lefties, but ifhe can get that figured out might be a good one
I know it's early days yet, but it certainly looks like Travis Snider is liking AAA.
In 6 games he's hit 2 doubles, 1 home run, drove in 9 and stats wise is .478 BA/.500 OBP/.487 slg.


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Tom Cruise is ready to take on another impossible mission.
Cruise has signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to return for a fifth installment of his "Mission: Impossible" franchise, his rep confirms to E! News.
The 50-year-old "Oblivion" actor would star and produce the upcoming flick.
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Who will write and direct the film, as well as when it would be released, is still undecided, although Cruise's "Jack Reacher" director Christopher McQuarrie is reported to be a front-runner.
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I have been trying to pitch organized angel groups, more and more of whom are using Angelsoft. When I contact someone from the group, I normally get a response to put my deal into the Angelsoft system, which also apparently powers www.open-deals.com.
The problem is that nobody responds:
I have been an angel investor in the past, and it has always been more about coaching and personal relationships. It's not about scrutinizing a young financial model that arrives through email to evaluate hypothetical returns. It is about helping an entrepreneur to realize those hypothetical returns by sharing experiences and providing some capital.
With Angelsoft, all of the personal aspects of angel investing seem to be removed from the equation. My materials are submitted through Angelsoft forms, and then disappear into some system that encourages a group of busy angels evaluate the opportunity in a black box. Do they like it" Do they hate it" Do they even read it" I have no idea, since I have never heard anything!
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Jay-Z is one of the world's most famous rappers. He has a fashion line, a chain of upscale sports bars, and a share of the New Jersey (soon to be Brooklyn) Nets. He has sold millions upon millions of albums and married Beyoncé, with whom he now has a daughter.
What was left for the superstar? To become a Facebook game, of course.
As Mashable reports, Empire, Jay-Z's newest venture, has just launched. It's a social game that follows the highlights of Jay-Z's biography, starting from life in the projects and carrying through "from hustler, to entrepreneur, to business mogul."
Yes, you, too can rule the world! Only you can do it virtually, in a world where you only get so many moves per day without putting money into it. And make sure to tell all your friends every single time you do anything.
Empire is currently available to play but does carry a "beta" warning so is subject to frequent change. And while the big cartoonish heads, turn-based movements, and constant attempts to try to make me buy credits and tell my friends do feel just like every other Facebook game I've played this year, it's definitely the first to make rap battles a major mechanic. And I totally won my first one. I'm just still not sure how.
Jay-Z Launches Facebook Game 'Empire' for You to Take Over the World [Mashable]


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Simon Speller is really helping to raise the profile of cycling in his year as Mayor of Stevenage which started in May 2006.
He helped promote and rode the Stevenage Circular Cycle in June 2006 and ensured the success of the Stevenage Cycling Day in September.
His series of fundraising rides, including Lands End to John 0'Groats, have raised thousands of pounds for local charities.
He has nominated the CTC Charitable Trust as one of the Mayor's "causes" for 2006-2007. He helped facilitate, pump prime and, of course, ride Emitremmus, the very successful Stevenage CTC autumn ride.
He has unlocked doors and is getting recreational cycling into Sport Stevenage and recognised for its potential contribution to LAA and Quality of Life targets. He is pursuing the release of an updated and improved Stevenage cycle route guide.
Simon is very busy as Mayor and in his paid employment but his next project is to qualify for this year's Paris-Brest-Paris!