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January 20th, 2011, 9:45 pm by KEVIN DING, OCREGISTER.COMDENVER -- In light of Carmelo Anthony's ongoing trade-me saga with the Nuggets, I asked Kobe Bryant what would've happened to the Lakers if he didn't speak up in 2007 and make his trade-me demand that ultimately was never met (but has been followed by three consecutive NBA Finals runs).
Bryant had interesting things to say about his 2007 request, which is the root of my column meant to provide some context about what has and hasn't changed about Bryant over the years. Bryant also had some comments on wider-ranging topics, including the future of NBA collective bargaining. Bryant wasn't making any firm predictions, but he did offer optimism that is rare to hear these days:
"I'm sure our business folks will work out that end of the deal. And it'll be all good," Bryant said.
Bryant made clear, though, that he doesn't think the free agency that the players have right now is nearly as good as what Shaquille O'Neal had back in 1996 in leaving Orlando for the Lakers' big bucks. Bryant mentioned LeBron James and Dwyane Wade (and Chris Bosh should be included, although he wasn't mentioned) facing a "sacrificial pay cut or whatever" in exploring leaving their former teams without sign-and-trade deals.
"You're seeing the power of the league controlling players in not having the freedom to be able to move wherever they want," Bryant said. "Free agency isn't free agency anymore. It's just not. ... Players that go other places, they take significant pay cuts to go play someplace else, less years. … It's not the same as free agency like when Shaquille was a free agent in 1996. That was true free agency, because you could go to whatever team of your choice and have a similar contract, similar structure and all this other stuff. The way it is, it's not the same way."
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Lil B has released at least one mixtape each month throughout 2012 so far—becoming probably the first musician, let alone rapper, to achieve such a feat—and he totals his annual output to 14 today by gifting Illusions of Grandeur 2—the sequel to last year's standout tape, which boasted the very non-Lil B-like "Base For Your Face" produced by 9th Wonder and featuring Jean Grae and Phonte.
Much like its predecessor, Illusions of Grandeur 2 is noticeably more condensed than its fellow projects, clocking in at an abrupt 13 tracks with zero guest features. Still, that's more than enough scope for the Based God to get dreamy ("Broken Levee"), introspective ("Lost") and socially impactful ("Cant See B").
Stream Illusions of Grandeur 2 below and download it on Dat Piff to add yet more rare, classic and, of course, Based cuts to your rapidly growing Lil B collection.
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This encounter got off to a lively start with both sides looking eager to attack. Aaron Ramsey forced David Stockdale into making a routine save early on as the visitors got out of the blocks quickly. But good play from Fulham and Bobby Zamora in particular, redressed the balance and ensured an entertaining opening few moments.
Gervinho volleyed over from close range after the ball found him lurking in a dangerous position at the back post on eight minutes. Steve Sidwell was certainly making his presence felt in the middle of the park, winning possession back for the Whites in key areas.
Arsenal took the lead on 21 minutes through Lauren Koscielny who had the simple task of heading past David Stockdale from close range, the cross from Aaron Ramsey took a slight deflection allowing it to drop invitingly to the Arsenal centre back.
The Fulham goal line then came under intense pressure following the goal and only a fine double save from Stockdale prevented the Gunners from extending their lead. The Fulham goalkeeper denied Ramsey and Song in quick succession.
Arsenal continued to press and the Whites needed a number of clearances on the edge of their penalty area to alleviate the danger. But Fulham soon started to regain their foothold on the game and create a number of encouraging situations – the most promising of which saw Bryan Ruiz have a penalty appeal turned down after going to ground under a challenge from Alex Song.
A cross from John Arne Riise soon after found the head of Bobby Zamora but his glanced header flew just wide of Szczesny's left-hand post.
Arsenal continued to threaten on the break with the pace of Robin Van Persie and Theo Walcott a major factor of concern for the Whites.
Bryan Ruiz warmed the palms of Szczesny early in the second-half as Fulham made all the running in the opening moments. Bobby Zamora was certainly seeing more of the ball than in the first-half, receiving a number of long passes and successfully involving his team-mates.
Certainly Arsenal appeared to be missing the penetrative attacking play that characterised their first-half display – with Fulham successfully preventing the counter-attack. However, the visitors were quick to establish their defensive shape once out of possession, leaving the Whites to try and thread their way through two banks of four players.
John Arne Riise grew in the second-half as an attacking force with a number of forward runs keeping Johan Djourou confined to his defensive post. A 63rd minute header from Philippe Senderos almost got Fulham back on level terms after Szczesny failed to reach Danny Murphy's dangerous delivery.
Fulham were getting closer and Clint Dempsey climbed high above his marker soon after only to place his header just wide of the post after a cross from Bryan Ruiz. Kerim Frei replaced Danny Murphy as the game entered its final phase.
Szczesny then produced a vital save on 74 minutes to keep out Bryan Ruiz's goal bound effort out. The Costa Rica international met the ball well with his instep but Koscielny spread himself well.
Johan Djourou was shown his second yellow card of the match on 77 minutes after he brought down Bobby Zamora in a dangerous position on the edge of the area – making for a dramatic finale.
The equaliser that Fulham has threatened for so long finally came in the 85th minute when Szczesny failed to deal with a ball into the penalty area. Philippe Senderos planted a header back into the danger zone whereSteve Sidwell was waiting to nod home from one yard out.
Fulham pressed for the winner and the grandstand finish was complete when Bobby Zamora volleyed home from the edge of the six yard box – capping a wonderful comeback display from the Whites.
Competition: Barclays Premier League
Date: Monday 2 January 2012
Kick-off: 5:30pm
Venue: Craven Cottage, London
Attendance: 25,700
Referee: Lee Probert
Line-up: Stockdale; Kelly, Senderos, Hangeland, John Arne Riise; Ruiz, Sidwell, Murphy (Frei 69'), Dempsey; Dembélé; Zamora
Unused substitutes: Etheridge, Baird, Hughes, Gecov, Duff, Sá
Manager: Martin Jol
Line-up: Szczesny; Djourou, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Coquelin; Song, Arteta; Walcott (Rosicky 65'), Ramsey (Squillaci 81'), Gervinho (Benayoun 74'); van Persie
Unused substitutes: Almunia, Miquel, Arshavin, Chamakh
Manager: Arsène Wenger
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Drupal 6 is out now for almost 5 months, but a lot of modules haven't been ported to D6. Yet people seem to screaming for them and with cck and views 2 almost being ready, maybe it's time to join forces and help out other contrib module maintainers. I've got a couple of thoughts I want to throw out in the wild and see if anyone else is interested in this topic.
Which modules?
This won't be easy to decide. It's not because I'm not using module foo for reason bar while other people use it everyday that we should ignore this. Au contraire, there are a lot of them out there used by many people (read: non-technical-geeks with little programming knowledge) which can't be ignored at all. There is a list on http://groups.drupal.org/contributed-module-status where mostly maintainers themselves post the status of their module. Maybe we could create a list (wiki-style) in this group with modules people would like to see ported where activity in that direction seems to be non-existant.
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Anytime! We could even submit a session or a BoF at the upcoming Drupalcon in Szeged or even sit down with some people during the code-sprint and see who's willing to take up what during that time. I'm also proposing a new irc-channel called #drupal-porting (duh) to announce your porting time. After that, your idle time should at least be one hour before you may speak again ;)
Easy: submit patches into the issue queue so people can review and test. Using the coder module, you should be able to get small modules ported in no time at all. You're free to use vim and your knowledge of the api any time if you rather want to do it the hard way of course.
Who will do what ?
That's for every individual to decide. But, if we have a list, we can somehow try to delegate so not everyone is working on the same port at the same time. Everyone is invited to help out, but let's organise and make Drupal 6 a pre-killer release :)
Off topic, I just signed up to Drupalcon Szeged. I you haven't , now is the time as the deadline untill the 1st of july is almost there. It's cheap, just go for it!


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Singapore: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapeutics market value in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, Australia, China, India and Japan, is expected to increase moderately over the coming years, climbing from USD1.8 billion in 2012 to USD2.9 billion by 2019, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.3 percent, forecasts business intelligence provider GBI Research.
According to the company's latest report, Japan and China had the largest shares of the region's NSCLC market in 2012, with 48.5 percent and 41.5 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, Australia and India had lower shares of 5.9 percent and 4.1 percent.
Ms. Sravanthi Addapally, Senior Analyst for GBI Research, says that an aging population and increasing number of NSCLC incident cases, especially in China and India, will be the main drivers behind the anticipated market growth.
"Additionally, the expected launches of premium-priced novel antibodies and immunotherapies in the first and second lines of therapies, targeting both Squamous and Non-Squamous NSCLC patients, will widen the eligible treatment population. This will ultimately maximize the patient share and provide a boost for the market," Addapally says.
Currently, the NSCLC pipeline is strong, with a total of 290 active molecules in development, either as monotherapies or in combination with chemotherapy. Promising candidates in the late-stage clinical trials include second-generation Tyrosine-Kinase Inhibitors, such as Pfizer's dacomitinib and Boehringer Ingelheim's Gilotrif. This latter therapy is currently a pre-registration drug in Japan for Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-positive patients.
Ms. Addapally concludes, "In spite of many expected drug launches, growth in this treatment market is forecast to be marginal due to the dominant generic penetration of NSCLC drugs in India. A complex and lengthy regulatory pathway and limited reimbursement from national insurance programs in China, as well as regular price cuts in Japan, will also hinder further market expansion in the APAC region."
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July 14, 2011 Painting the BlackMid-season Heroes and Goats, Part 2To recap my methodology, here is what I wrote in the positional players' piece earlier this week: In the numerical sense, the halfway point of the season arrived about a week ago. However, the All-Star break marks the arbitrary end point of the first half, bringing a few days of festivities and vacations to the forefront. That period of inactivity in games that matter offers a window into the frozen stats for each team, allowing us to see who is leading the charge and who is failing the team so far. And here are the pitchers, as promised:
Arizona: Daniel Hudson (3.0)/Armando Galarraga (-0.7) The D'backs continued a weird 12 months of dealing and acquiring pitchers over the offseason by adding Galarraga. Galarraga has never been particularly good, so agreeing to pay him $2.3 million in order to find out if he could survive in the National League West seemed pointless. The Snakes demoted Galarraga after 42 2/3 innings pitched, as he allowed 13 home runs, walked 22, and struck out 28.
Atlanta: Derek Lowe (4.2)/Scott Proctor (-0.3)
Baltimore: Zach Britton (1.4)/Brian Matusz and Josh Rupe (-0.6) Matusz is spending his days in the minors as well, after struggling mightily in six starts. He is one of the league's promising young left-handers, and the O's need to figure out what—if anything—is physically wrong with him. Absent an injury, it would be tough to explain away 51 baserunners and nine home runs in 25 2/3 innings pitched.
Boston: Josh Beckett (1.6)/Tim Wakefield, Dan Wheeler, and Felix Doubront (-0.2)
Chicago (A): Edwin Jackson (2.5)/Brian Bruney and Tony Pena (0.0) Perhaps a team will pay him for potential rather than production, but this isn't an Oliver Perez situation waiting to happen, as Jackson is in the midst of recording his fourth two-plus WARP season in his last five tries. Perez, for comparison, has three such seasons in his career.
Chicago (N): Matt Garza (2.1)/Scott Maine (-0.5)
Cincinnati: Mike Leake (1.8)/Chad Reineke (-0.2)
Cleveland: Justin Masterson (2.8)/Tony Sipp (-0.5)
Colorado: Jhoulys Chacin (2)/Clay Mortensen (-0.2)
Detroit: Justin Verlander (3.3)/Daniel Schlereth (-0.5)
Florida: Anibal Sanchez (1.8)/Brad Hand (-0.6)
Houston: Bud Norris (2.7)/Fernando Abad (-0.4) Norris' career numbers: 56 games, 4.34 earned run average, 23.3 percent strikeouts, 10.5 percent walks, and 5.4 Wins Above Replacement Player. The mystery hurler's numbers through his first three seasons: 64 games, 3.73 earned run average, 23.9 percent strikeouts, 11 percent walks, and 8.1 Wins Above Replacement Player. I don't expect anyone to have guessed this, but the mystery fellow is Scott Kazmir. The comparison falls apart beyond the numbers, as Norris is both a righty and more chunky than the young Kazmir was, but it sort of works stylistically, in that both were hard-throwing aspiring aces for cellar dwellers.
Kansas City: Jeff Francis (1.8)/Vin Mazzaro (-0.4)
Los Angeles of Anaheim: Jered Weaver (3.4)/Michael Kohn (-0.4)
Los Angeles: Clayton Kershaw (4.3)/Lance Cormier (-0.5)
Mat Latos Meanwhile, shiny new toys like Michael Pineda, Rubby De La Rosa, and Danny Duffy were all born within a year of Kershaw, and none of those guys has his major-league experience. It's easy to lose sight of Kershaw and the other worthwhile players on the Dodgers' roster given the ownership zoo, but at worst, their stars might make them the best video game team in the league.
Milwaukee: Zack Greinke (2.4)/Daniel Ray Herrera (-0.2)
Minnesota: Scott Baker (2.0)/Jim Hoey (-0.6)
New York (A): CC Sabathia (3.1)/Lance Pendleton (-0.4)
New York (N): Jonathon Niese (3.9)/Blaine Boyer, Manny Acosta, and D.J. Carrasco (-0.2) Boyer, Acosta, and Carrasco were attempts to find suitable bullpen arms on the cheap, and while the trio hasn't produced, the Mets have been able to get some decent relief work out of Pedro Beato (acquired through the Rule 5 draft), Taylor Buchholz (a cheap free-agent signing), Tim Byrdak (ditto), and Jason Isringhausen (once more, with vigor). When it comes to cheap relievers, sometimes quantity is quality. Should the Mets deal one of the older, less controllable arms for anything interesting, you'd really have to applaud them for getting a good return on meager investments. Frugality in Flushing: it's a beautiful thing.
Oakland: Gio Gonzalez (2.1)/Guillermo Moscoso (-0.6) As for Moscoso, this WARP value might cause some confusion given his tidy 2.16 earned run average in 50 innings pitched. Keep in mind, though, that Fair Run Average takes Moscoso's high flyball rate into account, and it seems very unlikely that Moscoso will continue to yield so many balls in the air yet only allow a home run every 10 innings, even though he pitches in Oakland.
Philadelphia: Cliff Lee (3.9)/Dave Herndon and Danys Baez (-0.3)
Pittsburgh: Paul Maholm (1.8)/Tim Wood, Michael Crotta, Joe Beimel, and Ross Ohlendorf (-0.2) It's also worth noting that the Pirates have gotten useful contributions from a number of cost-effective relievers, in spite of a few failures.
San Diego: Tim Stauffer (2.2)/Pat Neshek (-0.4) Stauffer has tinkered with his approach and stuff and has averaged 91 innings for the Padres since 2009 with a 2.80 earned run average, shifting between the rotation and the bullpen. He might not have the ace stuff you dream about from a fourth overall pick, but then again, so far, he has been the ace of this Padres team.
Seattle: Felix Hernandez (2.8)/Jamey Wright (-0.3) There is nothing bad to write about Hernandez, but somewhat interestingly, Eric Wedge and the Mariners are riding him a little more aggressively this season than they have before. Prior to this season, Hernandez had thrown 120 or more pitches only five times in his career (a testament to his efficiency and the Mariners' proactive approach to keeping him healthy), yet halfway through the 2011 campaign, Hernandez has gone over the 120-pitch mark five times.
San Francisco: Madison Bumgarner (3.6)/Santiago Casilla and Barry Zito (0.1) Nevertheless, Bumgarner has improved his peripherals, generates groundballs, throws lefty, can up his velo into the mid-90s when needed, and started drinking legally last August. The Giants are blessed with pitching talent, and while it would be easy to think of Bumgarner as a mediocre asset next to Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain, it wouldn't be accurate. Oh, and the worst pitchers on the Giants are still above replacement level—as if the fan base didn't have enough reason to be smug about their pitching staff.
St. Louis: Jake Westbrook (2.6)/ Ryan Franklin (-0.5)
Tampa Bay: James Shields (3.0)/Andy Sonnanstine (-0.7) Sonnanstine refers to himself as a professional gentleman of leisure sports, and for a time there, his baseball career fit the bill. Despite being up all season, Sonnanstine appeared in only 14 games. He made four appearances in April—three within the first week and a half of the season—then went without an appearance for 16 days. Sonnanstine replaced Jeff Niemann in the rotation in May and made a spot start in June, but after the allotted rest period for a starter (four days following a start), he made three appearances from June 8 through his demotion on July 9. That's not to say that the Rays were upset about keeping him out of the game, as he allowed as many home runs (10) as batters fanned (10) and had 12 walks in 34 2/3 innings pitched.
Texas: C.J. Wilson (2.7)/Neftali Feliz and Brett Tomko (-0.4)
Toronto: Brandon Morrow (2.1)/Kyle Drabek and David Purcey (-0.1)
Washington: Jordan Zimmerman (3.1)/Collin Balester (-0.2) With that factoid in mind, it should come as no surprise that Zimmerman has recorded a quality start in more than three-fourths of his starts this season. That will be a difficult pace to keep up going forward, but if Washington can get Stephen Strasburg and Zimmerman in the same rotation for any length of time, watch out.
R.J. Anderson is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @r_j_anderson
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Utley among leaders in Phils' All-Time 9
Howard, Rollins also garnering plenty of fans' votes
By Todd Zolecki / MLB.com
More than 4.1 million votes have been cast since the 9/9/09 debut of the "All-Time 9s," a platform for fans to debate the greatest single-season performances for all 30 Major League franchises. The voting marks the start of MLB.com's Lineup Card campaign, a gathering place for the posting and never-ending discussion of the greatest past and present lineups.
Here's a look at how the Phillies' closest races are shaping up:
Catcher Mike Lieberthal has about a 1,000-vote lead over Darren Daulton. Lieberthal caught 1,139 games for the Phillies, more than any other catcher in franchise history. His 1999 season (.300, 31 home runs, 96 RBIs) is going against Daulton's '93 season (.257, 24, 105).
The other races aren't nearly as close. Richie Asbhurn (.344, 4, 63, in 1951), Chuck Klein (.386, 40, 170 in '30) and Greg Luzinski (.309, 39, 130 in '77) outpace the other outfielders.
Mike Schmidt's 1980 season (.286, 48, 121) is ahead of the other third baseman.
Rollins (.296, 30, 94 in 2007), Utley (.309, 32, 102 in '06) and Howard (.313, 58, 149 in '06) are crushing the competition.
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So, I was going to raise meat rabbits...does this plan sound good to you?:: -Have one pen (3x4) with three does in it. That means each doe gets four square feet. They will "mingle," and live with each other until one week before they are about to give birth. At that time, I will place dividers in the pen, giving each doe their own four square foot area. The kids will live with the does until six weeks, when they will be weaned. -Have one pen, (8x8) with all the kids (about 18) in it. That means each kid gets a little more than 3 square feet. They will live and grow together in this pen until slaughter weight, at ten weeks of age. Is that the age I should plan to slaughter? -All the pens will be made out of PVC pipe and chicken wire. They will be on the grass, giving all the rabbits the ability to munch on it. Every now and then, when it appears they have eaten a large part of the grass, I will move then pen. I will plan to move two or three times a month for kids, and once a month, if that, for the does. Now for some QUESTIONS!!: - I am going to raise California meat rabbits. I have heard they will be about eight pounds at slaughter. Is that accurate? -I have also heard that a rabbit consumes about four pounds of feed to produce one pound of body weight? Is this true, especially for Californias? This would mean they will consume about 32 pounds of feed by slaughter. - Is a 17% protien feed acceptable to feed the rabbits all their life? What about the does? The buck? -How much feed should the California does get? Thanks so much
Rabbits might chew pvc, if you raise them for 4 1/2 monthes they might be 8 pounds. But i ususally harvest mine at 12 weeks and 4 1/2 pounds. Cals are not near as good as white new zealand or champayne d argents. If you raise them to be 4 1/2 monthes your going to need a seperate cage for each as they will fight and breed each other.
Oh, ok. Then I may change my mind to raising New Zealend. What will their live weight be at eight weeks? Twelve weeks? Can you get a 65% carcass weight?
I don't know about percentages and so much is going to depend on your feed and genetics. I butcher NZW at 10 weeks, the whole litter. Some will be small and the larger ones I either sell them for breeders or keep them for my own breeders. Usually the nicest ones are 4 3/4 pounds. ocasionally they hit 5 pounds. At that age the bucks are bigger, but the does out grow them latter. But it depends on your rabbits how fast they grow.
Your doe enclosure is nowhere near big enough for three does. That is only 2'x2' when you put in the dividers. The grass will be eaten down in one or two days. I don't know what you intend to use for wire mesh, but it needs to be predator proof and there needs to be wire on the bottom to keep the rabbits from digging out. I'm sorry, but it doesn't sound to me as though you have enough experience to handle this kind of set-up. I really think individual cages, 30"x36" would be better for your rabbits. Either build a shed or a shelter to contain them, depending on the climate where you live. Make sure they have shade in summer and plenty of air circulation. In winter they need protection from wind and precipitation. A good rabbit book, such as Bob Bennett's The Storey Guide to Raising Rabbits will give you good general information on viable rabbit set-ups.
Thanks Guys! And I forgot to mention...I will extend the enclosure at birthing time to allow for more space. And there will be mesh on the ground. I will start looking for that boook
The doe pens definitely need to be bigger at least while there are kits. 4sq ft is about half what I give my caged does with kits. I'm not sure pregnant does will get along in that size space either when the dividers aren't in. They might be fine for awhile but mine have a tendency to go a bit territorial about a week after being bred and I get scuffles throughout my colony with 3 does and their last litter in 12x12' horse stalls. With that much space they settle things again without injury and then are fine until they get close to giving birth and then they'll stake out a corner or box and not let anyone near it while they prepare it until after they've given birth. In just 3x4' I'm not sure your does will settle their territorial disputes during pregnancy without injury from the lack of space they can claim as their own. The smallest successful space I've used is 8x8 for sibling does or 3x6 for a mother and daughter mini rex so at least half to 1/3rd the size of my meat rabbits. Rabbits can destroy chicken wire. So can everything else but a chicken. Chicken wire is good for nothing but keeping chickens in. It won't keep determined rabbits in or predators out. I used chicken wire to divide colonies just because I had it on hand and it's not a huge deal if they get through. My one doe who gets a bit hormonal and crazy when she is ready to breed has torn through it 3 times to get to the champagne buck kept in the other colony and some young rabbits went through it once to the other side probably just out of boredom. Do your pens have bottoms? Rabbits will dig out, predators will dig in. Chicken wire will rust quickly against regular soil and again be torn by both rabbits and predators.
I second Maggie's response that three does will not have ANY grass in a 3x4 pen after a month. In fact, I'd be surprised if they had any after a day--not to mention the amount of feces in this limited space! In this type of setup you would move the kits 2-3 times a DAY and the does DAILY.
If you switch your rabbits to free feed pasture suddenly you won't have any rabbits. They will gorge themselves on the greens, bloat and die. Same with the kits. All greens need to be introduced gradually. If there are raccoons, foxes, coyotes, cats, or stray/feral dogs in your area you need to keep your rabbits safe from them. Chicken wire won't do that. 17% is acceptable. But the protein percent is not the only thing you should be looking at. The feed pellets should have a high percentage of alfalfa or other forage products. Corn is the first ingredient in a lot of feeds, not good. Also you should have access to good quality grass hay. Rabbits do best of they have good quality grass hay available all the time.
I agree with 30x36 cages for the females, you can get a triple stack and it will not take up much room and if you are only going to have three breeding doe you should have no trouble picking plenty of greens in the summer to give them with the pellets. I know some people do not like stacking cages because the trays have to be emptied but I have never had an issue with it. I have 20 cages and it takes less than an hour to empty all of them IMO keeping the ones that you will be eating past 12 weeks is a waste of feed, after 12 weeks the growth rate seems to slow and they still eat a lot. Are you going to breed all three at the same time? Personally I prefer to stagger the litters so that I have fresher meat and do not have to clean 20 rabbits all at once
My two Cali does I raised together do ok in the same pen, but if I put them in a grazing pen with other does, they act like they're in a kick boxing ring trying to stomp the other does.
It's really rare for adult rabbits to NOT fight. When I was short of cage space I had two black New Zealands in a 10'x2.5' growout pen. They fought each other daily and I quick like butchered some to make room for them, because they couldn't be kept to gether. They were sisters and raised together, too. MOST female rabbits will become territorial, bred or not. Pen size is way to small. My cage size is 30x30, which does get cramped with a doe and her litter at 6 weeks, but being her litter and young to boot, everybody gets along fine. For growout, I have a 10'x30" cage. I've put as many as 27 at a time for growout, and as long as there was food/water everything was great, Everybody had room to stretch out and I never noticed any fighting. There is only rabbits in there frm 6 weeks to about 10 weeks of age, however.
Oh wow. The original scenario described sounds like a disaster on so many levels. You have some good advice on this thread, definitely take notes!
Ive raised new zealand and Californian crosses for meat for over 5 years, and have marketed them quite sucessfully, I can tell by reading your posts that you WANT to know the right way to do things, but dont quite get it yet......you go ahead and find that book , and read it cover to cover, then youll have a new set of questions, and through the suppot of folks who have gone before you ( such as those here) you will eventually find your way....I wish you the best of luck. rabbits really are a great project for so many different reasons.


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Richard Aldington is probably best known for being one of the first three Imagist poets, along with Ezra Pound and
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September 27, 2012
87 comments:
- ndspinelli said...
No vampires tonight.
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- Marshal said...
No post rejoicing that our long national nightmare is over?
- Tyrone Slothrop said...
Who knew garlic had a Cold War history?
A few of the kinds of garlic now in America came in with Polish, German and Italian immigrants over the centuries, but most of them came in all at once in 1989. The USDA had been asking the Soviets for permission to go to the Caucasus region to collect garlics but permission had always been refused because there were many missile bases in the area and this was where their spaceport was and is.
Finally, as the Soviet Union was disintegrating in 1989, they suddenly invited the Americans in to collect the garlics. They were under continuous armed guard and were allowed to travel only at night so they wouldn't see anything of military importance. They went from village to village along the old Silk Road buying garlic from local markets and naming the cultivars after the town or village where they were purchased. - 9/27/12, 12:26 PM
- ndspinelli said...
Garlic is something many cheeseheads never experienced until recent decades. my bride's grandfather was anti-Catholic and Italian. There was NEVER garlic in their house in the 40's-60's. He died in the 60's. Well, as Chris Rock says, "Be careful who you hate because you're daughter will surely marry one." When I married into the clan I couldn't make enough dishes w/ garlic. Who doesn't love the smell of garlic simmering in olive oil?
- traditionalguy said...
Cafe thoughts: Human intelligence functions by naming and labeling/coding the things that are done on earth.
That's how important words are to us. We cannot think and act without them. An enemy will try to change our accepted meanings of words by a misapplication to create chaos that allows for his theft and murder of the weak.
Also our administration of justice when done well names a common definition
for our activities.
But when our Referees are confused and not reliable we lose the order that created the peace for successful human life. In other words many hate good lawyers and judges out of ebvy until they are MIA. Then like the NFL's recent experience we appreciate what we lost.
- Inga said...
Nothing better than fresh garlic, how are to going to keep it, in the fridge or leave it out ? I hate smashing and peeling and pressing garlic before cooking , but it's well worth it, that minced stuff in the jar at he supermarket, just doesn't cut it. And don't even dare bring garlic powder into my kitchen, and most definitely not onion powder.
The best mashed potatoes I've had have been roasted garlic mashed potatoes. And yes I do occasionally eat potatoes, sweet and white on low carb/paleo. - 9/27/12, 12:35 PM
- edutcher said...
Named and labeled sounds like the way the Democrat Party treats people.
PS Isn't "anti-Catholic AND Italian" oxymoronic? - 9/27/12, 12:36 PM
- Inga said...
Spinelli, not immigrant families like mine. Lotsa garlic, lotsa onions, tomato sauce, but not Italian, it's made with a roux , delicious! Also lots and lots of Paprika. I understand that in certain parts of Italy they make tomato sauce the same way.
- MadisonMan said...
Who doesn't love the smell of garlic simmering in olive oil?
I like a hint of garlic in food. Trouble is, most people love it and make the garlic oppressive. - 9/27/12, 12:43 PM
- Inga said...
Never ever burn garlic, it becomes very bitter.
- traditionalguy said...
America was once the garlic producing capital of the world, centered in Gilroy California.But then China took over by setting a cheaper price. And the story goes on.
- Shouting Thomas said...
Saugerties, NY has a great garlic festival, going on very soon.
Worth a visit.
The Old Dawgz came along too late this year for that one, but we'll be there next year. - 9/27/12, 1:05 PM
- ndspinelli said...
Madison Man, Never go to Gilroy, Ca. The whole town smells like garlic.
Inga, fka Allie, I'm talking the Irish, Norwegians, Wasps..you know the inferior immigrants who eat white bread and mayo sandwiches. - 9/27/12, 1:21 PM
- FleetUSA said...
Forget the mythology around garlic.
It is just yummy on almost everything. Buon Appetito.
Also, take a pod if you have a headache. - 9/27/12, 1:24 PM
- chickelit said...
Crushing garlic cloves releases an enzyme called alliinase, which transforms alliin into the pungent and potent allicin.
Translated: Crushed cloves release an enzyme called allienase, which transforms alliein into the pungent and potent Alliesin from Wisconsin. - 9/27/12, 1:27 PM
- MaggotAtBroad&Wall said...
Off Topic: It's likely already been mentioned, but Drudge is winking today.
- Hagar said...
I hate rolled up wallpaper paste.
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- Inga said...
Spinelli, don't bash Scandinavians, they have great Lingonberry syrup and Danish pancakes, which are really Palachinka, which are really Crepes.
- Inga said...
Did someone just call me pungent?
- Nathan Alexander said...
One thing has been bugging me:
Democrats have been criticizing Romney for wanting to lower taxes for the rich, off-shore or out-source American jobs, and other such Evil Rich Republican schemes.
But I have never heard them explain one simple point:
One could argue that Cheney wanted policies that would make him even richer. One could argue that W was overly sympathetic to oil company complaints, or even that he wanted to be even richer.
But Romney is retired. How does he benefit if jobs are outsourced or off-shored?
Romney gives more away in charity than he pays in taxes. How would he benefit at all from lower taxes for the rich?
Romney fixed the Olympics in Salt Lake City because he wanted to. He didn't take a salary.
What possible hold would any rich constituency have on him?
Better question: what possible hold would any rich constituency have on him that wouldn't have an even stronger hold on Obama, Pelosi, Harry Reid, et al?
Romney can earn millions w/o any special insider trading opportunities from being in Congress like Pelosi and Reid. Romney can earn millions from his own efforts, no need to make speeches or write books or have his wife get a $300k job to be able to live at the quality of life they want, no need to be President to have posh vacations like the Obamas had to.
Is there any evidence of a rich cabal conspiring to keep the poor down?
Or would the rich prefer a comfortable middle and lower class that has enough money to purchase the luxuries that the rich sell?
Is there any evidence of a secret cabal of rich people looking out for each other?
Why would that secret cabal of people looking out for each other exclude Democrat rich people? And how could the Democrat rich people stay rich if you need a cabal of rich people looking out for each other to stay rich?
I do agree that large corporations have too much power to prevent upstart startups from competing with them by using the govt to create regulations that raise the hurdles for new entries into an established market.
But the supposedly evil business owners only make money when people buy stuff. Unlike how Democrats get rich: by making deals to buy land cheap, and then using their role in govt to pass legislation that increases the value of their land...or by being able to invest in the industries that they regulate (Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are great examples of that).
But Romney can tell all those pressures and special interests to pound sand.
So where is the logic behind liberal progressive accusations toward the rich? - 9/27/12, 1:48 PM
- chickelit said...
Just for pun...
- Inga said...
OK Chickie, that makes you a gent.
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
Garlic and shallots are the only things I was able to grow in my garden area this year because the deer will eat everything else. I mean everything. They destroyed two young peach trees in the orchard that hadn't been caged in yet. Damn them!!! They are like giant rats. Furry locusts.
Next year we will have a deer proof fence around the area and I can go back to normal gardening.
Give us a review on which of the types of garlic you like the best :-) - 9/27/12, 1:58 PM
- ndspinelli said...
The nihiists in The Big Lebowski ordered lingonberry pancakes. The killed Donny. Therefore I hate lingonberry pancakes.
- ndspinelli said...
One of the nihilists ordered pigs in blanket. So, I won't eat that either.
- Shouting Thomas said...
I have a pretty sturdy fence around my garden. The deer leave me alone.
I also plant something called "gopher purge." Gets rid of moles and gophers because they hate the smell.
Don't think the deer like it either. - 9/27/12, 2:03 PM
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
gopher purge
OMG I just googled that. I thought it was a weed and have been trying to get rid of it.
Now I have to try to save it. LOL - 9/27/12, 2:09 PM
- Shouting Thomas said...
Gopher purge is kind of weed like, in that, when it goes to seed, it will propagate like crazy.
You only need one in each corner of your garden. - 9/27/12, 2:13 PM
- bagoh20 said...
This brings to mind a question:
Why do we fume our homes with flowery scents like lavender or gardenias instead of something like lasagne or bacon? I can see doing both at different times, but nobody does bacon, except by accident. You would think that there would be lasagne incense or Glade garlic bread air spray. Oh yea, how about just fresh-baked-bread-scented incense. I want that. - 9/27/12, 2:13 PM
- Marshal said...
Dust Bunny Queen said...
Garlic and shallots are the only things I was able to grow in my garden area this year because the deer will eat everything else
Exactly the ingredients for shrimp scampi, with a little white wine and crushed red pepper.
- rhhardin said...
Armstrong and Getty, off the air owing to suggesting insulting Mohammud universally until the Muslims grow up, start today's return to the air program with the Islamic call to prayer.
- garage mahal said...
The best Lingonberry syrup/pancakes is at Al Johnsons in Door County. So so good.
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
Exactly the ingredients for shrimp scampi, with a little white wine and crushed red pepper
I've been pondering what to make for dinner. Now I know. Scampi, sour dough bread to sop up the juices, salad and a pear/blue cheese tart (the tart I had already decided on). - 9/27/12, 2:19 PM
- crosspatch said...
So, Prof. Althouse, what is your take on the new developments in the Elizabeth Warren story re: new cases revealed (state cases this time) where she practiced in MA without being licensed there.
Here is a link to the site that had been supporting her against those allegations. - 9/27/12, 2:20 PM
- garage mahal said...
Whoops, corrected Al Johnsons link here
- Marshal said...
Glad to help, and I'm going to try the sourdough next time I make it. Sounds great. - 9/27/12, 2:25 PM
- chickelit said...
bagoh20 said...
This brings to mind a question:
Why do we fume our homes with flowery scents like lavender or gardenias instead of something like lasagne or bacon?
Probably because of female preferences. In the old days they created bacon scents and bread and no one thought to market such odors. Ladies wanted to smell the rose garden indoors.
As more and more females abandon the domestic front, perhaps someone will market those fragrances.
How about "Baconscents and Myrth"?
- bagoh20 said...
I'm in Florida right now. What a difference form California. I have not heard any presidential political ads in California yet this year, but here in Florida, it is non-stop lies and, half-truths and distortions. The ads run on every show at about 2:1 to any other commercials. It really makes me realize how my vote in CA means absolutely nothing to anyone. I live in an idiocracy.
People down here are convinced that Romney is going to end Medicare and Social Security on day one, and then execute the 47% who don't pay taxes the following week.
A few more days of these ads, and I'll be believing it too. I'm convinced that at least half the people have no idea what the candidates are really about.
One thing I notice among the hoi poi is that nobody cares one bit that Romney is Mormon, or that Obama is half-black, and virtually no one except the internet-obsessed knows anything about either man's history. Still, I see more Romney yard sign than Obama, which are very rare even in California. Nobody is proud of that pick, except Althouse. - 9/27/12, 2:32 PM
- chickelit said...
bagoh20 said...
I'm in Florida right now. What a difference form California. I have not heard any presidential political ads in California yet this year, but here in Florida, it is non-stop lies and, half-truths and distortions.
Californians are stupid when it comes to politics. Look at the redundancy we elect to the Senate: two Bay Area liberal women.
- bagoh20 said...
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- Erika said...
Garlic is something many cheeseheads never experienced until recent decades.
A few years ago I made my first upper midwestern friend and I was astounded that her family (Swedes from Wisconsin) never, ever cooked with either garlic or onions, unless it was canned French fried onions on top of a casserole. Just wasn't their thing. - 9/27/12, 2:40 PM
- Inga said...
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- Inga said...
Garage, yup Al Johnson's is great and the goats on the roof iadds to the ambiance, reminds me of a fairy tale cottage, from the outside. Breakfast is always crazy, lines of people waiting. The gift shop sells Birkenstocks!
- ALP said...
"The ads run on every show at about 2:1 to any other commercials."
I find the emphasis on commercials very odd. I mean, with the advent of DVRs and the 'mute' button on remote controls...I always wonder:
Who the hell watches ANY TV commercials these days? As far as I am concerned, if you are watching commercials, you are not watching TV correctly!
Disclosure: I make exceptions for some commercials that are really well done. Peter Stormare in Volkswagon's "Pimp the Auto" comes to mind. Classic! - 9/27/12, 3:04 PM
- Michelle Dulak Thomson said...
Tyrone Slothrop,
I hadn't known that history -- thanks! -- but had noticed how many of the garlic varieties Territorial Seed Co. (my own go-to place for stuff to grow) features come from the former USSR.
ndspinelli, in one of those tragic ironies that make you spsuect God enjoys a belly laugh occasionally, it's no longer possible to grow garlic in Gilroy -- there's some kind of endemic blight in the soil. The Garlic Festival is still running, and certainly there is garlic production near Gilroy, but no longer within city limits.
Inga/AllieOop/whatever, I actually had to go out and buy onion powder just last week, but that's because I was trying out a recipe for home-cooked gyros that required it. (The recipe was surprisingly successful, actually. I wouldn't have thought it possible.) - 9/27/12, 3:12 PM
- ALP said...
You would think that there would be lasagne incense or Glade garlic bread air spray. Oh yea, how about just fresh-baked-bread-scented incense. I want that.
I make cold process soaps with synthetic fragrance oils. You'd be surprised at what is out there...bacon, leather, tobacco, beer, dill pickle, "new car scent'.
So get yourself some bacon fragrance oil, a glass container, and reed diffusers...voila, bacon infused habitat.
No lasagna though. But I didn't look that hard. - 9/27/12, 3:13 PM
- Michelle Dulak Thomson said...
Why do we fume our homes with flowery scents like lavender or gardenias instead of something like lasagne or bacon? I can see doing both at different times, but nobody does bacon, except by accident. You would think that there would be lasagne incense or Glade garlic bread air spray. Oh yea, how about just fresh-baked-bread-scented incense. I want that.
You do? I think it would drive me nuts to smell freshly baked bread when there wasn't any to eat. At least if you generate the scent the old-fashioned way there is actual bread.
This house has a rather powerful ventilation system that seems to distribute kitchen scents all through the building. I'm not allowed to cook while my husband is teaching, because even though his studio is two floors down, the aromas waft through the system and distract hungry students :-)
And we've been here two years, and I haven't yet made one favorite curry, because it made even our old place smell like fennel for a day or so... - 9/27/12, 3:22 PM
- chickelit said...
ALP teases: "new car scent'
I've yet to smell one that actually smells like a new car. Usually they're just something malodorous that someone decided smelled "new."
I want the real thing--organic volatiles outgassing from newly processed vinyl and synthetic carpeting. Is there such a thing in a bottle? - 9/27/12, 3:29 PM
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
Have a realtor friend who spritzes her houses with a very light vanilla scent. It makes the place smell like fresh baked cookies.
Territorial Seed!!!......my bible for the garden. Love love love that place. Very close to where my husband was born, grew up and still have relatives. - 9/27/12, 3:30 PM
- Bryan C said...
"And don't even dare bring garlic powder into my kitchen, and most definitely not onion powder."
You're right about the pre-minced stuff, Inga. I keep some in the fridge for emergencies, but the fresh equivalent is so much more flavorful. I think garlic powder, though, does have its place. I like it in rubs and sauces where it's otherwise hard to impart the concentrated flavor where it's needed. - 9/27/12, 3:48 PM
- ndspinelli said...
Michelle Dulak Thomson, Thanks for the info on Gilroy. I have long believed the Good Lord does have a sense of humor.
- Lem said...
Armstrong and Getty, off the air owing to suggesting insulting Mohammud universally until the Muslims grow up, start today's return to the air program with the Islamic call to prayer.
They were taken away and reminded where their stuff was (to use rh lingo).. and now that they are back the rest of the inmates are not sure if they are "informers" or are they the same inmates they thought they knew and listened to.
Words to watch for.. sensitivity. - 9/27/12, 4:05 PM
- Inga said...
Bryan, you may be right about the powdered garlic for rubs. My son in law makes the best steaks, I don't know what his secret recipe is, he uses his own rub of some sort, we call him the Steakmeister.
- whoresoftheinternet said...
If only garlic did to lefties what it did to other vampires...
I'd be growing it and throwing it every day. - 9/27/12, 4:10 PM
- Paul Zrimsek said...
Comrades! The great leader and teacher Obama is to announcing NEP, in great tradition of Lenin! But this time is meaning New Economic Patriotism. Policy still being old.
- Lem said...
- garage mahal said...
Sending money directly to me is also patriotic. Let me know what you have for me today and I'll get you a Paypal email address. - 9/27/12, 4:41 PM
- Revenant said...
Why do we fume our homes with flowery scents like lavender or gardenias instead of something like lasagne or bacon?
We use air fresheners to cover up bad smells, but the human nose is really good at smelling something that's "off" about food. So if you cover up the smell of something bad with bacon, your brain combines the smells into "bacon that's gone bad".
We don't do that with floral smells, because we don't (normally) eat flowers. - 9/27/12, 4:41 PM
- Alex said...
China can never replace Gilroy garlic. NEver!
- Lem said...
Its Naomi Wolf approved.
- Lem said...
Garlic.. Allium sativum, commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion genus, Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, and rakkyo. Wikipedia
Its satire.. - 9/27/12, 5:03 PM
- exiledonmainst said...
Fresh (not smoked) Polish sausage has quite a bit of garlic in it. My family got ours from a South Side butcher store and had it for breakfast on Sundays.
I once made chicken with 40 cloves of garlic - a French recipe. The cookbook author assured the reader that the long cooking time "tamed" the garlic and made it quite mild. It was certainly very tasty.
The next morning I carpooled to work with friends. While we were sitting in traffic, one of them asked, "It's funny, but does anybody else smell garlic?"
Evidently the garlic was not tamed as much as I thought. I still use that recipe - but only when I'm not planning to go anywhere the next day.
- Lem said...
Wolfism: redrawn
"This is a time in which everybody is on the verge of a global awakening from a certain kind of odor," she said, eyes sparkling. "That's why there's this doubling down on the power struggle over garlic. But this is a moment for women. We are going to have to reclaim garlic as central to everything." - 9/27/12, 5:23 PM
- Chip Ahoy said...
When we were talking about hypnotizing chickens, did we mention how we did that? I forget if we did.
You grab the chicken's neck and hold their head. They submit. then you take the tip of your finger and aim it directly at one of their eyes. Cover their other eye if you want to, they're captive anyway. Then do a little zoinky-zoink finger rotation like tracing an o-o-o-o-o. Do like five Os. They hypnotize very quickly. Because they're incredibly thick. But it doesn't last long. You could probably take all their eggs without getting pecked but that's about it, and like I said, you have to have them in your hands to begin with.
So the third hummingbird feeder is very simple design if you care to see it. It's a squared truffle oil bottle with clear marbles epoxied to appear as bubbles. Small colored marbles direct attention toward the spout and surround an off-color tip similar in appearance to a flower. At the garishly wrongly colored red tip, and steadied there momentarily sipping, settled but wary, task-focused but relaxed, the bird is hypnotized by the wavering balls right at its own tiny eyeballs.
I get into their flighty little minds.
- 39924c7e-f324-11e1-aaf6-000bcdcb8a73 said...
I can't look at all those bulbs without involuntarily thinking of the on-screen nickname of the "Sons of Anarchy" actor Johnny Lewis, who just died.
I denounce myself! - 9/27/12, 5:39 PM
- Michelle Dulak Thomson said...
DBQ, I was wondering where you are. "State of Jefferson," but which side of the hated CA/OR border? I'm going to guess CA, because there's a lot more to be pissed off about wrt CA vs. OR governance, if you get my drift. Kitzhaber is not a jerk, but a sane if sorely tried man. For that matter, so is Jerry Brown, but the OR constitution is not the dog's breakfast that the CA constitution is. I think we got out just in time.
I hit on Territorial Seeds by almost complete accident -- I was visiting my parents in MD and was treated to some divine fresh produce, so spent some time reading all my mom's seed catalogues. London Springs isn't all that far from Salem; I figured what would grow there would grow here. So I have tomatoes, which I never tried to grow before (Japanese Trifele Black, Momotaro, Green Zebra), and sweet and hot peppers, and more basil and oregano and sage and cilantro than I know what to do with. (Well, OK, I do know what to do with it, but I confess to feeling overwhelmed occasionally. And it is weird to find tomato plants flowering at the end of September.) - 9/27/12, 5:40 PM
- Lem said...
The first impression I had of the picture were elicited on the condition that what I first saw was the wrapped in yellow post-it part of what at the time I did not know was a garlic stem.. and momentarily before my eyes had continued to scan downward.. the image of a certain type of home made cigarette popped into my mind.
An Obama second term would give pot proponents a push if not a platform from which to parlay pieces, points and portions that hitherto were prospectively considered way down the road.
Something to chew on while pondering who and when to kiss somebody. - 9/27/12, 5:45 PM
- Michelle Dulak Thomson said...
Bryan C,
You're right about the pre-minced stuff, Inga. I keep some in the fridge for emergencies, but the fresh equivalent is so much more flavorful. I think garlic powder, though, does have its place. I like it in rubs and sauces where it's otherwise hard to impart the concentrated flavor where it's needed.
Yes, for dry rubs, definitely. It's also useful in goosing up supermarket garlic bread. In the Thomson household there is a process we call "weaponization." It involves taking supermarket garlic bread and making it taste more than remotely of garlic, and generally involves freshly-minced garlic, garlic powder, a little butter, a little salt, and some pulverized grana padano cheese from Trader Joe's.
Yes, the second or third time you've done this, you do wonder why you're buying "garlic bread" as opposed to, well, just "bread." I can only say that if you're very tired, something that smells and tastes vaguely like garlic beats something that doesn't. - 9/27/12, 5:50 PM
- Methadras said...
Love garlic. Can't get enough of it when I do get it. :D
- Chip Ahoy said...
The first thing I thought of upon seeing the individually wrapped garlic was, "that looks Japanese," and then, "animate little faces." The roots are beards. Make them say something about Amish h84rz. Provide them toothy mouths, and frightened eyes. Make them tremble. Then perhaps abruptly shave all their beards at once as if the Amish h84r hit with ninja stealth and devastation.
- caplight45 said...
Garage, check your email!
- Chip Ahoy said...
I bought a bunch of cilantro and I intend to eat the whole thing all at once. Thai. Cilantro and mint, both of those comprise half the thing. The other half is noodles seasoned as they do.
How do they do?
All over the place, that's how. Pow! all over your mouth, they're big on that. Brown sugar to duke it out with tamarind. Shriacha for significant heat. Peanut butter for soothing comfort and umami. Fish sauce for salt. Mustard powder because it's an extraordinary ingredient and has traces of everything in it that's powerful that spikes in different directions, and it blends like magic. All of that combined but amounting to only about two tablespoons to coat a small pile of cold angel hair pasta.
Then, like a cup of cilantro leaves and an entire mint plant.
And roasted shrimp. Which takes, like, a minute.
No soy sauce because, what? you think I'm insane?
And while I'm taking pictures of that and uploading those, I'll be thinking about the next thing I'm going to make and eat. The obsession, it kind of overlaps.
- garage mahal said...
I have been checking. When did you send? - 9/27/12, 6:44 PM
- Michelle Dulak Thomson said...
Chip Ahoy,
That is how to cook. I salute you, sir.
Although "an entire mint plant" is probably bigger than you think it is. I thought one had died on me last year. Fat chance; we're talking spearmint here. The following year it reappeared, basically everywhere but where it was originally planted. At least it couldn't go far; it was planted in a roughly 4'x6' space we call the Mint Containment Zone. But it's making a good try. - 9/27/12, 6:50 PM
- Titus said...
Garlic loafs and farts smell the most horrible of any loafs and farts.
tits. - 9/27/12, 7:14 PM
- Chip Ahoy said...
I thought of this then rejected it. Then thought of it again and rejected it again. Goes like this: you know how sometime you give the hummingbirds a perch to sit on while they having a sustained sip? Can you imagine having to flap your wings the whole time you're drinking something? And you have to kind of concentrate on defending against attack by those mean ones. So the idea is to have perch spaced for the flower at the spout but the flower glued onto a doll house table that hangs there with a tea set glued on top beside the flower. And a chair on the opposite side. Like the bird comes up and joins a tiny tea party at the bottom of an upside down bottle. That idea was rejected, like, six times.
- wyo sis said...
Gilroy California. My husband grew up there. We lived there for the first three years we were married.
It does smell like garlic...and tomatoes from the cannery and processing plants.
At least it did when we lived there. Like a giant pizza simmering in the heat of a summer night. - 9/27/12, 10:15 PM
- purplepenquin said...
everything is named and labeled
And labels...even if they are incorrect...are VERY important to some of the folks who comment here.
- Palladian said...
Why do we fume our homes with flowery scents like lavender or gardenias instead of something like lasagne or bacon?
Food smells tend to become disagreeable if they linger very long after a meal. The problem is that the smell of food constantly reminds us of eating, even when we're stuffed full and don't really want to think about food any longer.
Floral or other, more abstract, smells don't have that gustatory association, and so can function more easily as "ambient" smells.
I also think that there's something inherently attractive to humans about the simple alcohols that make up many basic floral odors. To quote my friend Luca Turin's review of his favorite simple lavender perfume:
Lavender is summer wind made smell, and the best lavender compositions are, in my opinion, the ones from which other elements are absent, and only endlessly blue daylight air remains. Everyone should own one to feel good as needed and as a reminder that, in the numinous words of my perfumer-chemist colleague Roger Duprey, "There is no such thing as an uninteresting ten-carbon alcohol." Lavender consists mostly of one such, linalool, and needs careful handling both during distillation and composition to remain true to its benign nature.
Linalool is a component of many, many flower and herbal odors.
- Palladian said...
You would think that there would be lasagne incense or Glade garlic bread air spray. Oh yea, how about just fresh-baked-bread-scented incense. I want that.
I can do any of those for you, dearest bagoh20, but be careful what you wish for... many of the components of those smells are absolutely horrid when detached from the context of present and consumable food.
So get yourself some bacon fragrance oil, a glass container, and reed diffusers...voila, bacon infused habitat.
No lasagna though. But I didn't look that hard.
Surprisingly, many of what we consider "simple" smells are actually very difficult, if indeed impossible, to replicate synthetically. Many of the most important molecules associated with our favorite smells are extremely volatile, and present in vanishingly small proportions to begin with. In other words, you can recreate certain smells, but only for a minute after which those fugitive but all-important components have flown away.
Mango is a good example of this. I have never smelled a convincing mango scent that lasted more than a minute, except from real mangoes. Ditto lilac, honeysuckle and gardenia.
As I said, you can do it for a minute, but afterwards it all falls apart into a disjointed (and often malodorous) mess. - 9/28/12, 12:45 AM
- kentuckyliz said...
Drudge is featuring the Obamaphone lady right over...the cover of Ann Coulter's book Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama.
- Saint Croix said...
Okay, the Obama phones are driving me up the wall.
And they say calling him the "food stamp President" is unfair.
Get your free Obama phone! - 9/28/12, 6:48 AM
- Penny said...
Twelve varieties of garlic ... yet no elephant garlic.
PROOF that forty some odd days before the election, Althouse is still sticking with her cruel neutrality. - 9/28/12, 8:27 AM
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
@ Michelle
Late to the party, but to answer your question North Eastern Calif. Equidistant from the Nevada or Oregon borders.
Being at a higher elevation our growing season is rather short. So many things like tomatoes require that I start them in a green house type environment. When I go down to places like Gilroy, Pacific Grove or Eugene area, where some of my family lives, I lust over their ability to garden with ease.
@ Palladian
I think your sense of smell must be much more sensitive than the ordinary person. Don't you make your own perfumes? It must be a blessing and a curse. Like having very sensitive hearing, which I do, where sounds can vary from wonderful or excruciating.
- Michelle Dulak Thomson said...
Late to the party, but to answer your question North Eastern Calif. Equidistant from the Nevada or Oregon borders.
That was more or less my guess.
Being at a higher elevation our growing season is rather short. So many things like tomatoes require that I start them in a green house type environment. When I go down to places like Gilroy, Pacific Grove or Eugene area, where some of my family lives, I lust over their ability to garden with ease.
We have family in Gilroy, and have spent rather a lot of time round Pacific Grove (my husband and I played for the Carmel Bach Festival for many years), and while I can't say we know Eugene well, we've a passing acquaintance with it.
Anyway. I'm new to tomatoes, so I don't know how odd it is for them still to be blooming at the end of September. Technically we had ripe tomatoes in August, because I brought some in on 8/31. Many more now, but many more not yet ripe, and now I wonder how many are salvageable. (Of course, I'm worrying much more about the decks -- we just had them power-washed, and now we would really, really like to have them stained and sealed before the rains set in.)


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