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Joe Pappalardo was caught in a tangle of elbows and knees at the start of the 4x800m relay and was thrown to the ground in a wild stampede. As wave after wave of baton-wielding distance runners trampled him, Pappalardo fought to his feet.
By the second lap, almost half of the field was behind him. In all three legs of the 4x800m relay, Southington athletes had to weave through hand-offs, elbow their way to open space, and battle their way through the melee.
Pappalardo paved the way. Andrew Bielecki followed, and Colin Murphy began to pull away. By the time that Ben Gibbons fought to the finish line, the Knights (9:03.48) had beaten all but one team in the race.
"There were 19 teams starting in the same race, and that made for some crazy, crazy starts and crazy handoffs," said Blue Knight indoor track coach Annie Groom. "But we still ended up getting second place. That's because we've got smart kids. They've got great chemistry, and they've been working together for a couple of years now. It just wasn't a problem. I was concerned about the handoffs, but they were fine."
On Friday, Jan. 11, the Blue Knight indoor track team battled the crowds at the McReavy Invitational meet in Middletown, and it was a break-out performance for the Southington team. The Knights qualified for the state meet in two more events and just missed a third. They qualified for the conference meet in two others. Wesleyan University's field house can be too tight for some teams, but Southington embraced the challenge.
"It can be very crowded, and that can be a little overwhelming for runners that aren't used to it," said Southington coach Annie Groom, "but they all did a great job."
Alyssa Lombardi qualified for the Class LL competition with a ninth place finish in the 1600m (5:40.48). Murphy and Gibbons partnered with Mike Sullivan and Kyle Summa to claim a fourth place finish in the 4x400m (3:46) to earn another state berth.
Lauren Perkowski's time in the 1600m (5:55.2) beat the conference meet qualifying time by just four one hundredths of a second (.04), and Damiean Florian qualified for the CCC meet with his 10th place finish in the 1600 (4:53.79).
"They just clicked," said Groom. "They keep surprising me at every meet. We changed up their speed workouts, and it really seemed to do the trick. Everything just seemed to come together."
Seventeen Southington athletes competed at the meet across eight different events with a handful of top 10 finishes. Matt Bennett cleared 43 feet, 5 inches to claim fourth place overall in the shot put. Alyssa Lombardi, Raquel Romano, Sarah Palko, and freshman Jess Howe missed a state qualifying time by just one second in the 4x400m (4:49.4), and Howe went on to place 12th out of 46 runners in the 55-meter dash (8.26) at the elite meet.
"I think it's been great for the kids' motivation," said Groom. "They're getting to see that all their hard work is paying off. It's really nice to see the kids with medals and ribbons. I know that they say it's not a big deal, but it's a big deal to me. I'm glad that they're getting something for their efforts."
With less than two weeks remaining until the conference meet, Groom expects a few more individuals and relays to reach their postseason goals. A handful of athletes will compete this week at a Hartford meet while most of the others head down to New Haven for the Yale Invitational.
On Saturday, Jan. 26, the postseason begins.
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MEXICO CITY — An explosion rocked the headquarters of Mexico's state-run oil monopoly Pemex, killing 25 people, injuring 101, and damaging three floors of Mexico's second tallest building before sending plumes of smoke into the Mexico City skyline.
The blast ripped through the lower level of a building adjacent to the Pemex tower in central Mexico City at about 3:45 p.m. local time (4:45 p.m. ET) Thursday, forcing the evacuation of 3,500 employees, company officials said.
The cause of the blast has not been confirmed. Local media reported that machinery exploded in the basement of an administrative center next to the Pemex tower in Mexico City, which has more than 50 floors.
The Mexico City government sent rescue teams with search dogs to look for victims buried in the basement of a building known as B2. Government spokesman Eduardo Sánchez said rescue workers were trying to reach approximately 30 people still trapped inside the office complex. At least one person was pulled alive from the debris late Thursday, the Interior Ministry said.
President Enrique Peña Nieto said via Twitter that searching for survivors and attending to the injured were the top priorities. He tweeted that he would go to the Pemex site to personally oversee rescue operations.
"I deeply regret the deaths of Pemex workers and colleagues. My condolences to the families," Peña Nieto said via Twitter.
"We're going to get to the bottom of this, to carry out these investigations to, first, know what really happened, and if someone is responsible in this case, apply the full weight of the law," Peña Nieto told the El Universal newspaper.
Before the blast, Pemex — Petróleos Mexicanos — announced it had evacuated the tower as a precaution because of electrical problems.
The El Universal newspaper reported that an overheated air conditioning unit may have caused the blast. Another outlet reported it may have resulted by a buildup of natural gas.
No suggestions of sabotage or terrorism have been made, although some of the president's most persistent critics floated conspiracy theories.
The Associated Press reported that the blast blew out windows on three floors of the auxiliary building.
"Glass flew in all directions, parts of objects that I don't know where they came from. All the car alarms went off; I froze," Pemex worker Indira Rojas told the newspaper Reforma.
One worker on the 10th floor described to NPR "an amazing explosion" and being thrown from his chair.
McClatchy Newspapers' Mexico City correspondent wrote that the blast hit at "the end of the Mexican lunch break when hundreds of people would have been moving about the complex."
After the explosion, outpourings of condolences from the country's political class poured in, a reflection of Pemex's importance to the country.
Pemex produces petroleum that provides approximately one-third of federal revenues, but the company has been plagued by operational difficulties.
A September accident at a Pemex gas processing plant near the U.S. border at McAllen, Texas, claimed 26 lives, while the theft of combustibles from its pipelines is rife – and often blamed on organized criminal groups. Investigations into such incidents are often unsatisfactory, says Houston-based energy analyst George Baker.
"Accidents come and go, but knowledge of the causes will not become public information," says Baker, publisher of Energia.com.
Mexico produces 2.5 million barrels of oil daily, a figure in decline due to overproduction and a lack of new reserves.
The Mexican oil industry was nationalized in 1938 and only Pemex may commercialize the country's reserves.
Peña Nieto has pledged to open Mexico's oil industry to outside investment, while keeping Pemex in government hands.
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Post subject: How do fry chicken for max tenderness?
We have an electric stove and a microwave oven. My wife won't use an electric fry pan. Sometimes our stir-fry chicken is overdone.
How can I set the stove power level, the thickness of the chicken, and the length of time to cook for max tenderness?
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At first I thought the question was for deep or shallow frying chicken, but I think you're asking about stir-frying. My tips:
1. Before slicing the chicken for stir fry, freeze it for 15-20 min. to harden it up - this will make it easier to cut thin slices
2. Slice thinly and evenly. Try to make 1 mm slices. Leave in slices or cut into small pieces as desired for your dish.
3. Marinade as you normally would (for example, soy sauce with cooking wine and corn starch, etc.)
4. When stir frying, Heat up the pan with some oil (depending on size of pan but 2 Tbs. is probably a good amount). When the oil starts to shimmer and perhaps whisps of smoke appear, it's ready. If it really starts to smoke, you've waited too long and over heated your oil - start the pan over.
5. Lay the chicken pieces down onto the hot pan and if any pieces are folded over or clumped, break them up and spread them with a wooden spoon or other utensil. If it's too much chicken to do in one layer then cook the chicken in several batches (THIS IS IMPORTANT). The chicken will cook very fast this way, so multiple batches doesn't really increase the time. Not doing it in multiple batches will definitely result in overcooked chicken because by the time all the chicken reaches temperature, the rest of the chicken is overdone.
6. Wait a minute and once the chicken pieces are starting to cook, you can toss them around the pan and start them moving. With a hot pan, they should all be done after another minute or so. If liquid starts to pool in the pan, then either your pan is not hot enough or your trying to cook too much chicken at the same time. All the liquid should evaporate quickly, so you don't end up poaching the chicken.
7. Remove the chicken from the pan when it's done. Cook the rest of the stir fry components (vegetables, etc.) and as the last step, toss the chicken and sauce in to complete the dish.[/list][/list]
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In order to answer your question on burner settings, you will have to experiment a bit. All other things being equal, I have several standard settings for different pans on my electric stove.
Cast iron skillet - medium high
Calphalon stir fry pan - a touch over medium
Cuisinart saute pans - right between medium and medium low. If I set to medium, I have to listen to my smoke detector.
A recommendation on "heating a pan with oil": Pre heat the pan dry. You can let the pan sit on the burner almost indefinitely while you do some final prep work and have no issues. Once you add oil, you are committed and need to cook and do nothing else. When you are ready, add your oil and let it heat for 10-20 seconds (until it shimmers, wisps of smoke along the edges) and then your food. Some people recommend removing the pan from the heat when adding oil to minimize flare-ups. YMMV.
This technique does 3 things for me:
1) Gets the pan up to temp. I am impatient and tend to add the food before the pan is heated thoroughly otherwise.
2) Encourages me to double-check my mis en place before food is in the pan. (Oil, check, salt, check, etc)
3) Allows me to use water to "sprinkle test" the pan temperature
adding the oil. Put a drop or two of water into the pan and observe its behavior. If it just sits there, the pan is too cold. If it skitters around or immediately turns to steam it's way too hot. Again, your results may be different. Experimentation is key.
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Traditional stir-fry is done over the highest heat possible with meat sliced so thin you can see through it. It should take less than 90 seconds for the meat to cook through (cook first, separately from the veggies), and there should be no liquid in the pan, else you are 'steam frying'. The trick for tender stir-fry beef beef is to sprinkle the slices with baking soda and let sit for 20 minutes or so then rinse, might want to try it with the chicken, though it may tenderize to mush.
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Thanks for all the info. I expect to put it all to the test very soon!
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best thing to do is poach it!
wrap in cling film and stick in boiling pan of water
when cooked remove and stick in the stir fry
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Manny Ramirez says "Hi" while eating Breakfast
Message from Juliana Ramirez, the lovely wife of Manny Ramirez. (Yes, I'm not joking, it's Juliana, she loves my blog)
Good morning. Manny says hi. We are having a healthy breakfast and hitting the gym after. Have a great day!
Huevo con caldito! lol No one will understand what I just said....
Thanks Juliana. Hopefully this breakfast will provide some power into his bat :)
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- KempKershaw said...
Egg with something.
Spanish classes actually paid off!
- June 23, 2010 at 9:48 AM
- Charles said...
Some egg and soup for breakfast. Manny's wife loves your blog? That's pretty awesome man! Manny being on the Dodgers is a dream for me... I've followed Manny since his rookie season with the Indians.
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if shes reading this...
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Those eggs even look latino! Reminds me of the ones I used to eat in Nicaragua.
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lol Enjoying the blog like always Roberto
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I just read a post on FB written by the friend of a friend. He's a 21-year old guy. I'm a 44-year old woman, just to give it some perspective. His is a bible-thumper (I'm not friends with him on FB, he just posted on a friend of mines wall, but I know him and his family through mutual friends). He said if a woman doesn't want to get pregnant, she shouldn't have sex. I know I should just let it go, but I let him have it. So the only reason to have sex is to get pregnant? Then he said something about if she gets pregnant she has no right to 'kill the kid'. I mentioned rape and incest and the fact that not everyone believes a fertilized egg is a 'kid' yet, and if he doesn't believe in the right to have an abortion, don't have one, and it's a personal decision,etc. I KNOW I shouldn't have argued with him. But it's 4 a.m., I can't sleep, and now I let myself get pissed-off by someone I know is a fundie. Ugh. lol. I will ignore the post if he posts again. There are too many of them to piss me off. I'd have a coronary if I let them all get to me...
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Let men bear the babies for a few years - then we'd see a change in legislature....
I once heard a woman say that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. That's probably right.
Here Here!!
Why any man thinks they have any right to impose their view on women's reproductive rights, pisses me off!
I couldn't agree more.
A lady on Bill Maher last night (excuse me, I can't remember her name) said "Fine, if that is the way you want it, us women will only give out sex when we want a baby and at no other times. Let's see how long the guys last".
It isn't as though it is just women that want to have sex for fun, guys want it too and in some cases more than we do! (actually, in most cases lol). If we were to close our legs at all times other than for procreation, guys would be going nuts everywhere. Just remember, every sperm is sacred, so when you jack off, you are killing innocent children.
I was told by a fundie yesterday that if it wasn't for religion, we wouldn't be able to read as it was the church that started schools and helped everyone learn to read and I should read Harvard's motto and research it's history to prove it!!!!!!. I don't know what Harvard's motto is and the fact that it is written by man (like the bible) seems to make no difference, and I doubt that reading a school motto will change my religious views. There are no answers for these people, and there is no reasoning.
I think the history of literacy is more complex than that, and depends on the religion. Sacred texts/artifacts/charms have always been restricted as to who my see them, but the ability to read non-sacred writing was not. On the other hand, there is no doubt that the early xian's ruling elite were against teaching reading to the "unwashed masses", and until more recently actively suppressed literacy of the 'lower classes".
Sadly, you can't reason someone into a position they weren't reasoned into in the first place. To our disappointment, they will stick by their illogical comforts, even given the evidence on a silver platter to the contrary.
Ha ha, no doubt!
Been there... And Chris Breman how true. If men could get pregnant there would be a clinic at every Starbucks location *sigh*
Remember, a man can divorce his wife for refusing to have sex with him. Of course, a woman can divorce hubby for the same reason, but still, a woman should be able to protect herself from unwanted pregnancies in all cases.
And why isn't male B.C. more of an issue here? Who is he having sex with?
Booklover - You did exactly the right thing. Everyone must stand up to such situations. For far to long atheists have stood by not responding. It got us nowhere. Silence to such people means complete agreement.
Not using his age as any excuse - he certainoly feels FREE to state his opinion (an opinion I find disgusting) and so we have the obligation and freedom to respond.
He is certainly not your friend. I wouldn't ever claim to have friends that are controlling, hateful and bigoted against women and/or other minorities - such as atheists and homosexuals/transgender people.
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The hydrogen explosions that shattered the tops of two reactor buildings at the Fukushima 1 nuclear complex followed the venting of hydrogen and steam by plant operators desperate to prevent a far greater disaster: a high-pressure explosion of the primary reactor containment shell and radioactivity release, a former senior U.S. nuclear official concludes.
In an analysis shared with other U.S. nuclear experts Saturday, Lake Barrett, who led the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's investigation of the Three Mile Island accident, describes the burning of zirconium cladding on fuel rods in the reactor cores after normal cooling operations failed because of a lack of electric power. A perilous buildup of hydrogen and steam followed within the concrete primary containment shell surrounding the reactor pressure vessel in units 1 and 3, and then in 2.
"To prevent a catastrophic primary containment system failure the operators vented the primary containment through the safety venting system trying to reject heat and excess gases up the 100 meter tall stacks at the plants," he wrote. "Normally there are operable fans and filters to control this dangerous mixture, but there was no electrical power for the fans. So most, if not all, of this dangerous mix of hydrogen gas seeped into the reactor building in Units 1 and 3. The hydrogen, being lighter than air, mixed with air in the upper large refueling floor area."
Some source ignited the explosive mixture, blasting away the sheet metal roofs and sides of the top section of the outer secondary containment building in units 1 and 3, he said. Braving dangerous conditions, workers had time to remove a wall panel at the top of the unit 2 reactor building providing an exit for hydrogen, avoiding a similar roof-level explosion, he said. The damage to the buildings 1 and 3 and the opening in 2 created an exit route for radioactive releases from the spent fuel pools at the top of the reactor pools.
Barrett's analysis is shared by many officials and experts. A series of slides created by Matthias Braun, with the German office of Areva SA, the French nuclear reactor builder, depicts the sequence of events Barrett describes. It is also being widely shared among U.S. nuclear experts.
Switching from seawater to fresh water cooling
Another former senior NRC official, speaking on background, said he believed -- based on the still incomplete evidence from Fukushima -- that hydrogen was vented from the primary containment through duct work that allowed the hydrogen to collect in units 1 and 3 in the refueling floor in the secondary containment building. Normally, an exhaust system could have filtered and removed the hydrogen, but it was not working because of the loss of outside electric power. When the hydrogen accumulated above the 8 percent detonation limit in air in units 1 and 3, it exploded.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said today it intends to switch from pumping seawater to pumping fresh water into the three reactors, to prevent corrosion and salt buildup on the remaining fuel units and the molten residue in the core bottoms. Salt deposits could interfere with the flow of cooling water as operators try to bring down temperatures inside the units.
The focus on operators' actions during the peak of the crisis to relieve high pressures inside the containment structures points toward one of the central unanswered question in the accident: How did hydrogen escape from the venting system into the top area of the reactor buildings?
Almost immediately after the onset of the crisis, U.S. industry officials and regulators stressed that U.S. versions of the General Electric Mark I reactor were modified at the direction of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the late 1980s, after the Three Mile Island reactor accident. Reactor owners were required to strengthen the venting system to prevent a leakage of hydrogen into the secondary containment building.
In the Mark I design, the reactor pressure vessel is fitted within a concrete primary containment shell that resembles an inverted light bulb. At the bottom of the shell is doughnut-shaped water pool, the pressure suppression system, or torus. During the accident, when pressures rose inside the primary reactor containment structure, the exit path was into the torus. The venting system at the Fukushima units, leading from the torus into the secondary reactor building, evidently could not contain the pressure.
At the Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry plant near Athens, Ala., the Mark I reactors were fitted with 14-inch diameter carbon steel piping that leads from the primary containment and then out of the secondary containment building, said Ray Golden, senior manager of nuclear communications at TVA. The pipes go to a gas scrubbing unit and then to tall stacks near the reactor buildings.
The original venting system would not have been able to contain high pressure gas at the levels reported from the Fukushima reactors, he said.
Possible leak from the top of the reactor
Bill Borchardt, NRC executive director for operations, was asked at an NRC meeting Monday whether the Fukushima Mark I units had hardened venting systems. "That we're not clear on. I'm not sure. I can't really answer that question."
David Lochbaum, chief nuclear safety official of the Union of Concerned Scientists, has another possible explanation. As steam and hydrogen built up within the primary containment shell, high pressure may have forced an opening between the primary containment shell, called the drywell, and the metal cap that is bolted onto the shell. A pressure test decades ago at the Brunswick Nuclear Plant in North Carolina demonstrated that such a high-pressure leak could occur in Mark I reactors built at the Fukushima plant, Lochbaum said.
"This tragedy will be closely examined for its causes, what happened and why," Lochbaum said. "That scrutiny must determine how hydrogen got into the reactor buildings to cause the catastrophic explosions. The drywell head pathway may be that answer. We need to stress that we're not putting this forward as the only answer for this question, but it's the most plausible explanation that we've heard to date."
In his email, Barrett apologized to colleagues for a delay in his unofficial assessments and adds, "based on the imperfect information publicly available, I believe I have a preliminary speculative understanding of the basics of the situation. ... It is based on very incomplete information and I am filling many blank spots with what I think happened," he said.
"In summary I believe we are on the downside of the first phase of the accident: getting thermal control," he wrote in the message Saturday. Although he expressed concern about the condition of Unit 2, he said, "the worst should be over now."
Barrett predicted that the melted reactor cores at the three Fukushima units resemble those of Three Mile Island's reactor 1: "a bed of rubble with localized melting of composite materials of steel, zirconium, and uranium. Sort of like a highly radioactive steel mill slag-like material. These cores are likely still in the reactor vessels, and are being cooled by seawater injection using highly pressurized fire engine pumps," he said. Venting continues to contain pressures in the primary containment.
"This current 'feed and bleed' method of cooling with salt water is not a sustainable long term cooling method. Salt deposits are likely building up in locations in the thermally heterogeneous core rubble pile. This configuration is completely unknown. But the Fukushima reactors, I believe, are much more damaged and contaminated than TMI was and there are three of them in this state."
Once the reactors have been sufficiently cooled and stabilized, weeks of environmental assessments lie ahead, with decisions on how to cope with radioactive contamination, he said. The cleanup will take years.
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