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Where are they now? 2009 Elite 11 QBs including Gardner, Bolden & Boisture
I was wondering about this today after hearing the news that Robert Bolden has disappeared from PSU. Maybe too early to judge this class (now Juniors/RS Soph), but their outlook is not good. Hopefully Gardner will reach his potential unlike the other star Michigan QBs that year (Bolden-uncertain status at PSU, Boisture-retired at MSU).
Full list:
Blake Bell (committed to Oklahoma) - RS Soph backup who plays Tim Tebow role for Oklahoma in red zone with Landry Jones entering his final season.
Joe Boisture (committed to Michigan State) - retired from football.
Robert Bolden (committed to Penn State) - Junior who lost starting QB to Matt McGloin last 2 years. Not attended summer workouts and classes this year and future status uncertain.
Tyler Bray (committed to San Diego State) - Switched commitment to Tennessee. 2 year junior starter at Tennessee. Should be one of the elite QBs in college football this year.
Barry Brunetti (committed to West Virginia) - Junior who transferred last year to Ole Miss. Supplanted as starting QB midseason last year and now battling for starting job again.
Devin Gardner (committed to Michigan) - obvious.
Jake Heaps (committed to BYU)- Junior who just transferred this year to Kansas along with Dayne Crist. Charlie Weis: the refugee camp for failed Elite11 QBs?
Austin Hinder (committed to Cal) - RS Soph not on the two deep depth chart.
Nick Montana (committed to Washington) - RS Soph who just transferred this year to JC.
Jesse Scroggins (uncommitted) - RS Sophomore battling for backup position at USC behind Matt Barkley.
Phillip Sims (committed to Alabama) - RS Soph who just transferred this year to Virginia.
Chandler Whitmer (committed to Illinois) - RS Soph who transferred to JC last year due to lack of playing time (behind Scheelhaase) and just enrolled at UConn. Maybe Michigan sees him next year in 2013 when play at UConn.
The 2009 Elite11 preview: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/football/columns/story?columnist=luginbill_tom&id=4324030
Full list of Elite11 QBs on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_RISE_Elite_11


text: justin1287 1 Report post Posted November 19, 2012 I have read that one doesnt need to put kiln wash on Silicon Carbide kiln shelves cause the glaze wont stick.....anyone know if this is true? I emailed kilnshelf.com to ask them as well. I really want to glaze the bottoms of my pieces, and think this may work. Are there materials that people can think of that glaze wont stick to when being fired. The bottoms dont have to be perfect when coming out of the kiln cause i have a sweet grinder, but need to find a way to glaze my bottoms....thanks.....Justin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites

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Maida Parota :
Maida/All Purpose Flour - 4 cups
Huli Mosaru/Sour yogurt - 1 cup
Method :
1. Mix all of them to make a firm dough. Cover and keep for 3-4hrs.
2. Take a small ball size dough and roll it to make a 8cm circle. Apply oil. Be generous. Fold (Chinese fan fold) it to make a cigar. Fold the cigar to make a circle as shown the picture below. Apply oil to its surface and leave it in a container.
3. When you want to serve, flour the surface and roll these rounds to make 10cm diameter circle like chapathis. Fry them on a hot girdle/tava with oil and serve hot. Strictly serve hot, cold parathas taste no good!
4. These days we get frozen stuff, but home made ones taste much better than frozen parathas.
Peas, Potato, Tomato Curry
Dried Peas : 1/2 cup (soak for 8 hrs and pressure cook till soft)
Potato : 2 medium sized (boiled, peeled and cubed)
Tomato : 1 big or 2 small (chopped into small pieces)
Onion : 1 big (chopped into small pieces)
Redchilli powder : 1/2 tbsp
Coriander Powder : 1 tsp (toasted coriander powder)
Jeera Powder : 1/2 tsp (toasted jeera powder)
Cinnamon Powder : 1/4 tsp
Marathi Moggu Powder : 1/4 tsp
Black Pepper Powder : 1/4 tsp
Oil - 2 tbsp
Heat oil in a pan. Add onion when oil is hot. When onions turn pink, add tomato and fry well. Add all the powders mentioned one by one. Fry for a min and add boiled peas, potato and water to make up the desired volume. Add salt and bring to boil.
If curry is too runny, add a tablespoon of rice flour and mix well and boil again. Taste and adjust flavors. Serve hot with hot parathas.
Onion Salad
White Onion : 1 (chopped into fine pieces)
Pepper Powder, Salt and Lemon Juice
Toss everything and serve. Simple yet tasty.
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Sending this awesome threesome combination to Pari's The Combo Event at Foodelicious


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Is There Really An Idea/Expression Dichotomy In Copyright?
from the it's-difficult-to-see dept
The latest example of this is the ruling banning the publication of the "modern" sequel to The Catcher in the Rye. If there really were a distinction between the idea and the expression, then a sequel would never be seen as infringing, unless it used significant text directly from the original. Yet, in this case, the ban on publication is making some wonder where that mythical idea/expression dichotomy really exists:
First, it exposes the lie that is perpetuated in the legal community that copyright laws don't protect "ideas", but rather only the "concrete expression" of ideas. In practicality, this statement is pure nonsense as evidenced by the fact that a copyrighted work seals in monopoly protections of "characters" and "derivative works" - even if such derivative works don't include any actual "copying" of cloned material from the underlying work.I'm sure we'll get angry comments from some of the copyright defenders who are always quick to chide, but I'm curious how they can use the so-called idea/expression dichotomy as a defense against a First Amendment violation, when that dichotomy doesn't really seem to exist. Copyright system defenders, for years, have relied on the whole "idea/expression" split to explain away how copyright law can be compatible with the First Amendment's insistence that "no law" may be passed that inhibits freedom of speech. If you realize that said split doesn't really exist (or, at the very least, is not enforced by the courts), you have a big, big constitutional problem.
For instance, if I feel that I have a far better script or storyline that utilizes the character of James Bond, but without utilizing any previous cloned image from a Bond film and without copying previously used dialogue beyond a minimal instance of "My name is Bond...James Bond." or "Shaken...not stirred.", I still would not be able to create it, because Ian Flemming's estate and/or Sony Pictures, etc. has a monopoly over the IDEA of James Bond.
I would argue that by protecting "derivative" works, copyright effectively asserts control over ideas - except for those envisioned at the most abstract levels.


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So I survive running around the rocky trails of western PA for two days, including opening day of bear season, to draw more blood on an out-and-back here on the home roads!
I opened the door to see what the temperature was like. I was stoked to see it was between 55 and 60 degrees! Wheee, I was out the door!
A bio break called around 3 miles. A dash into the woods. I caught some briars on the leg, saw a little pinprick of blood. I glanced down a few minutes later, blood is pouring down my leg. I try to swipe it off, but all I do is smear it around. I caught some good looks from some Amish kids walking down the road to the schoolhouse!
I was pleased to see my running mileage for last week was 64.8 miles. My goal was 50, push for 60 miles. I am planning on trying to get my weekly mileage up a bit.
This week's goal is get back to journalling and following WW Points system. Well, I probably won't journal on Thanksgiving (maybe I should try though) but I don't go hog wild on that day either.
Ok! Now off to get that stretching done!


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As many of you will already know, today Ubuntu 11.04 introduced Unity, Ubuntu's new interface, which is simpler, easier to use and more beautiful than previous editions of Ubuntu. We want to say a big well done to everyone who has contributed. For more on Ubuntu 11.04 see ubuntu.com.
Along with Unity there are some great improvements to Ubuntu One. Once upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 you will see that Ubuntu One is more easily accessible in the launcher. We gave Ubuntu One preferences an all new look, new features, and even a new name, Ubuntu One control panel. The control panel allows selective syncing so you can easily manage the cloud folders you want synced locally and easily view which folders have been shared with you.
Some other great news is that for some time now the team has been working hard to improve overall speed and performance. Many of you will notice this already and over the next few weeks, as we finish our server upgrades, everyone will be getting their files synced up to 200x faster. Yes, we've seen real world performance gains of up to 200x faster!
In addition to improvements in Ubuntu 11.04, we've also improved contacts on the web. For starters, there's an all new look and feel that makes it faster and easier to manage your contacts. You can now delete and merge contacts in bulk. Not content with plain old merging, we also added smart merging. Click the new Find & merge duplicates button and it will find any duplicate contacts and allow you to merge them in one click.
The enhancements to contacts are great, but it would be even better if you could pull in your contacts from Facebook. Now you can. Seamless import from Facebook includes your friends' profile pictures, first, middle and last name, birthday, 'about me' and any website they have listed. What's really cool is it will merge existing contacts automatically for you.
Want to give importing your Facebook contacts a try? Follow the steps on our project wiki. Don't worry, we don't send messages to your contacts, post to your Facebook wall, or do anything other than import your Facebook contacts.
Well that's it for now folks but keep your eye on us for upcoming news about updates to our Windows beta, Android file sync app and more.Read more


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PowerPoint demonstrations, be darned. It's too early to pinpoint the best and brightest of the Canadian networks' annual fall presentations to ad buyers in Toronto.
Based on the first day of the week-long event, though, Rogers Media and Citytv appear to be off to a promising start. If nothing else, mainstream broadcasting's newest Johnny Come Lately has signalled that, even as a relatively new player on Canada's coast-to-coast network scene, it wants to be taken as a serious player.
It's not just the nine new series that will bow on Citytv stations this fall - five dramas and four comedies, including a new homegrown comedy, Paperny Films' Vancouver-based Dussault Inc. - nor the changes on six of seven nights of the week.
Nor is it the complete dismantling of Citytv's Monday schedule (How I Met Your Mother is the only holdover from the class of 2010-'11) nor the canny pickups of comedies Raising Hope, The Middle and Grey's Anatomy spinoff Private Practice, nor the decision to move homegrown hit Murdoch Mysteries into the prime Sundays-at-9 time period.
No, the real coup - though Rogers' own buyers may not have realized it yet - is that, in picking up the J.J. Abrams drama Person of Interest, the Steven Spielberg-produced dinosaurs-and-time-travel thriller Terra Nova, and the sitcoms 2 Broke Girls and New Girl, the network may have inadvertently bagged four of the most buzzed-about new shows of a notably buzz-free fall.
Buzz, of course, doesn't mean a thing if the shows don't deliver. That's why a new series' second week is so much more telling, ratings-wise, than opening night.
Still, Citytv has served notice that, even though it doesn't have a station in Montreal - nor hardly any reach in Canada's second-most populous province, for that matter - it sees itself as a viable competitor to CTV, Global and CBC.
2 Broke Girls was created in part by Whitney Cummings, a name you may not be familiar with now, but which you may well be in the not-too-distant future. Cummings is still in her 20s. She's a former cast member of the MTV show Punk'd; she's a semi-regular on the E! show Chelsea Lately; she's toured the comedy circuit with Denis Leary; and this fall, she will add TV producer, creator and series star to her resume: In addition to co-writing 2 Broke Girls with Michael Patrick King, she's the star of the eponymous NBC sitcom, Whitney.
2 Broke Girls reportedly broke records as CBS's best-testing pilot, comedy or drama, in the network's history.
And while audience testing is notoriously unreliable - last fall's late, still lamented drama Lone Star was reportedly one of the highest-testing series in Fox's history, and it lasted all of two episodes - it's better to have a show that test audiences like. As opposed to, you know, one they can't stand.
In Person of Interest, Citytv didn't just grab the new J.J. Abrams drama that CBS has thought so highly of that it's moving it into CSI's cushy Thursday-night time period and banishing CSI to Wednesday nights in the fall. Citytv also exercised an option to pick up Abrams' other new series, the made-in-Vancouver Alcatraz, which Fox has pencilled in for mid-season.
Ordinarily, when a mainstream broadcast network makes wholesale changes to six nights of the week, it would be a sign of panic.
It's all about the shows, though. And when you're ditching Monday-night dogs like The Event and Chase, and replacing them with Terra Nova and 2 Broke Girls, you know that, sometimes, change can be for the good.
Whether it's change we can believe in will have to wait for the fall. Right now, though - based strictly on first impressions - Canada's newest player on the network scene appears to be sitting pretty.
Appearances aren't always deceiving.


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Jan. 22, 2008
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - MIT's squash team took on Navy on Saturday afternoon as part of the weekend-long Yale Round Robin, and the young Engineers struggled to assert themselves against the powerful Midshipmen. Navy, ranked No. 10 nationally, swept the Cardinal and Gray, 9-0.
MIT fell to 1-6 on the season with the loss, while Navy improved to 10-5 with the victory.
Six of Tech's nine competitors were either freshmen or sophomores, and the match served as the intercollegiate debut for four MIT rookies. Joey DeRosa, John Kucharczyk, Sonny Thai and Edward Sung were all competing in an intercollegiate squash match for the first time in their careers.
The Engineers will return to action on Saturday, Jan. 26, when they will host Fordham University at 2:00 p.m.


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As July 4th approaches, we're thinking about fireworks and hotdogs, sure … but we're also pre-occupied with the alarming threat climate change impacts — especially coastal flooding — pose to some of the places that are central to our history and identity as an independent nation. From sea to rising sea, many of the United States' most iconic landmarks and historic sites — places that will be in millions of people's travel plans this summer — are at growing risk.
As July 4th approaches, we're thinking about fireworks and hotdogs, sure … but we're also pre-occupied with the alarming threat climate change impacts — especially coastal flooding — pose to some of the places that are central to our history and identity as an independent nation. From sea to rising sea, many of the United States' most iconic landmarks and historic sites — places that will be in millions of people's travel plans this summer — are at growing risk.
According to a recent report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, "National Landmarks at Risk," Faneuil Hall, which is a stop on Boston's Freedom Trail and among the nation's best-preserved historic structures, is one such landmark. Ironically, merchant Peter Faneuil, who built this so-called "Cradle of Liberty" at his own expense, amassed much of his wealth through the slave trade. While the current building dates from 1806, when Charles Bulfinch enlarged Faneuil Hall and moved the cupola, it was first built as a commercial center in 1742 and located on the site of a small cove, which was filled in to accommodate the structure in an area called Dock Square. Over the years, Boston has grown in much this way — through a practice of "wharfing out," or constructing wharves and then filling them in. Consequently, Faneuil Hall is now a little more than a quarter-mile west of the present shoreline.
Even this far inland, Faneuil Hall and the Blackstone Block are vulnerable, lying within the city's 100-year tidal flood zone. Since official tidal records began in Boston in 1921, extreme high tides — more than three and a half feet above the average high tide — have occurred 20 times, and half of those tides took place within the past 10 years. As a result, several times a year exceptionally high tides already flood parts of the nineteenth-century warehouse neighborhoods around Fort Point Channel and the historic Long and Central wharves.
The public meeting space on the original second floor is what gives Faneuil Hall its fame. Here, Samuel Adams and other Sons of Liberty held public meetings and planned protests against such British colonial policies as the Stamp Act. It is also the site of the initial meeting about the Tea Act, which prompted the Boston Tea Party.
During the winters of 2013 and 2014, nor'easters caused storm tides to rise even higher than those from Hurricane Sandy in 2012 — one rose a foot higher. Yet so far Boston has been lucky, as these storm surges have all coincided with low tides. If the worst of the storm surges had hit at high tide, major flooding could have occurred, inundating much of the waterfront, past Faneuil Hall up to City Hall, and the part of the North End where Paul Revere began his ride.
The National Landmarks at Risk report names some 30 treasured places across the country that are at risk due to sea level rise, floods, and more frequent and larger wildfires. And if these historic and cultural sites are at risk, so are many of our neighborhoods. Given the scale of the problem and the cultural value of the places at risk, it is not enough merely to plan for change and expect to adapt. We must begin now to prepare ourselves to face worsening climate impacts; climate resilience must become a national priority; and we must allocate the necessary resources.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ranked Boston the eighth-highest metropolitan area worldwide in expected economic losses, estimated at $237 million per year between now and 2050, due to coastal flooding. The city of Boston is highly aware of the dangers posed by sea level rise and heavier rains, and is proactively planning resilience strategies. Boston has improved its emergency warning systems for flooding, high winds, and winter storms. For example, all new municipal construction must include both an evaluation of climate risks through the year 2050 and a description of ways to avoid, minimize, or mitigate those risks.
The city of Boston and the commonwealth are national leaders both in reducing the carbon pollution that causes global warming, and in preparing for those impacts which unfortunately are now inevitable. But this problem is much too big for one city or state to confront alone. We need strong federal policy to minimize the risks by quickly reducing the carbon emissions that cause global warming if we want to ensure that our Independence Day celebrations can take place at some of our most treasured monuments and iconic historic sites for generations to come.
Kate Cell, of Shutesbury, is a senior campaign organizer for the Climate Impacts Initiative at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She is one of the authors of the UCS report, "National Landmarks At Risk: How Rising Seas, Floods and Wildfires are Threatening the United States' Most Cherished Historic Sites."


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Mark Dean helped build the original IBM PC, which officially celebrates its 30th birthday on August 12. Dean was part of the 12-person IBM engineering team that designed that first machine in 1981 and helped ignite the PC revolution that has reshaped industries and forever changed the way humans work.
Today, Dean is IBM's CTO for the Middle East and Africa (where you'll find some of the fastest growing economies on the planet). On the eve of the IBM PC's 30th anniversary, he unequivocally stated that the PC era is over and that what's next is even more innovative.
In a blog post on August 10, Dean stated,
"PCs are being replaced at the center of computing not by another type of device — though there's plenty of excitement about smartphones and tablets — but by new ideas about the role that computing can play in progress. These days, it's becoming clear that innovation flourishes best not on devices but in the social spaces between them, where people and ideas meet and interact. It is there that computing can have the most powerful impact on economy, society and people's lives."
My interpretation of what Dean is saying is that computing is no longer about a box but is being absorbed into everything and is now about creating experiences that connect people and enable them to do work wherever there — instead of just when they're sitting at a desk in front of a PC screen.
Dean also admitted that he rarely uses a PC anymore. He wrote:
"I, personally, have moved beyond the PC as well. My primary computer now is a tablet. When I helped design the PC, I didn't think I'd live long enough to witness its decline. But, while PCs will continue to be much-used devices, they're no longer at the leading edge of computing. They're going the way of the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records, CRT and incandescent light bulbs."
Last week I wrote that people who are proficient with PCs can feel handcuffed and disappointed by the tablet experience. But, as I've said before, executives like Dean who spend their whole day in meetings and direct other people more than creating their own documents are perfect candidates for tablets.
Still, I think the future of the PC is that it will become embedded in smartphones and tablets and available for mobile use when you're on the go but also available for use with mouse, keyboard, and large screen when you need to sit down at a desk and do creative work. When that reality arrives on a large scale, then I'll be ready to say that the post-PC era has arrived in all its glory. Until, it's still "coming soon."
IBM PC: The beginning
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1981 marketing video for IBM PC
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Prominent Houston Bishop James Dixon, cousin of James Edwards, the 15-year-old charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Australian baseball player Christopher Lane, has publicly voiced his disappointment in his cousin and apologized to Lane's family, reports KHOU.com.
"A life is a life," said Dixon. "It's important for him to understand that someone's life has been needlessly taken, a family's total existence has been forever altered and you're responsible."
Dixon plans to travel to Duncan, Okla., to meet with his cousin and with local clergy.
"I'm hoping that my presence will serve to strengthen the unity between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics and others," Dixon said.
See Bishop Dixon's interview below:
Edwards and bi-racial teen Chancey Luna, 16, were charged with first-degree murder, while White teen Michael Jones, 17, was charged with accessory after the fact.
Bishop Dixon has also found himself on the other side of the law. KHOU reports that In 2010, he was charged with assault of a family member after being accused of physically abusing his wife, Tanisha Dixon, during an argument.
Read more http://newsone.com/2701292/james-dixon-james-edwards-christopher-lane/


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Location: a Dutchie in HongKong
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:05 am
Post subject: Microwave cooking and baking
Today it's my turn to come up with new topics
We talked a lot about living without a microwave - and I can!! But in this mini-appartment with a tiny tiny kitchen we're living in for now (two electric burners for cooking) I do have a microwave and sadly, sadly no oven. As it has to stay the way it is I cannot change that. So one option would be: find the plug, unplug, remove microwave and use room for storage. But...maybe, just maybe we could all together come up with some microwave succes stories? I would love to make use of whatever knowledge you guys can come up with. (Spongecake maybe?)
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:33 pm
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Dear Swan,
It's funny, because I have the same setup in my new Paris apartment, two electric burners and a microwave (and a small fridge). Actually, the microwave just broke so I'm down to the two burners. I plan to eventually buy a microwave-sized toaster oven.
I don't have much experience cooking with a microwave, but a friend once told me they're great for cooking fresh asparagus: just clean the asparagus under running water, place on a paper-towel lined plate and the residual water on the stalks is enough moisture for cooking, then zap. I have never tried it though.
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Location: Paris
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:45 pm
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Our first appart in Paris had just a burner in the draining board of the sink and a microwave. Very frustrating.
There are heaps of things you can make in the microwave, and you can even cook for a dinner party if you want so take heart.
I did find that cakes made in the microwave did not keep as well as normally baked cakes, but if you are making for visitors then it isn't a problem as you can turn out a cake as they walk in the door.
One frustration for us was no roasts as the microwave was just a plain one with no "extra's" so we couldn't brown etc.
Will have to look up my old files, but I have heaps of recipes that I developed for the microwave.
Think of foods cooked "en papillote" and you will find the sort of foods that go well in the micro. You can also buy fabulous cookware that makes it easy to prepare and cook meals in one go. Stacker type containers that will regulate the cooking so long as you follow directions of what goes in which level.
Good luck!
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:28 pm
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Debbie, your post is so helpful! You're right, microwaves would be great for cooking "en papillote." I'm picturing all kinds of fresh fish and veggie dishes...
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Location: Central Kentucky
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:52 pm
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En papillote works in the microwave for a simple reason: most "cooking" in a microwave actually is steaming. The moisture in the food is heated, from the inside.
Once you understand that, however, you can get a bit creative. Anything using a liquid as the cooking medium can be adapted to the microwave: including poaching and braising.
You'll have to experiment with times and power settings, but you can be surprisingly creative with one of them.
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:32 pm
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i do risotto in the micro.....recipe in the Barbara Kafka book Microwave Gourmet.....veggies (asparagus or broc. mostly), taters (cut up in chunks & doused with olive oil, garlic, rosemary).....i have done salmon ....esp if i'm serving it cold (prefer it broiled if serving hot)......
a recent discovery is that u can cook papadums instead of having to fry.....simply put on a couple of layers of paper towels & micro on hi a couple of min....depends on size....
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:56 am
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Melinda, thanks, you've just given me an excuse to buy a new cookbook
. Will try the potatoes and go look for that risottorecipe, sounds good!
And Deb, yes, that does make sense, ' en papillotte'. In the still to arrive shipment I have some special microwave-steamingbags, picked up on one of my travels, can use those if and when they arrive.
And will add funny microwave-cooking items to my shopping list for today - houseware shopping and looking for an immersion blender.
Love to do chores like that
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Location: Madison, WI
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:32 am
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I really do recommend getting a toaster oven along with the microwave cooking apparatus. Of course I don't know your setup, but I have a toaster oven even in my office. I am the queen of toaster ovens. In the U.S. you can get them pretty cheap, and they really really expand your cooking possibilities. Of course I realize I am not answering your question and may be frustrating you as well.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:37 pm
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Dory, could you expand a little on your use of toaster ovens?
I haven't had one since I was a kid, and Mom used it. I was thinking of getting one, but then America's Test Kitchen did a comparison of them, on units ranging from low prices to top of the line.
They concluded that none of them were worth having. Which is, obviously, the opposite of your experience. So I'd like to hear more about how you use it, and what you cook in it.
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:59 pm
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Found and made a banana bread recipe. Needs some fine-tuning, mostly in cooking time I guess, flavour is great, it just turned out very dry..
But...not bad for a first try!
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:03 am
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The "toaster" oven I use is a bit on the big size and is one of those combination portable ovens/convection ovens. It is also on the more expensive end for toaster ovens. The brand name is Toastess and I think I paid $100 for it. It has literally changed my life. I have no air conditioning, and my kitchen is open to the rest of the house. Summers here in Wisconsin can be surprisingly hot. I had quit doing all baking, grilling and roasting in summer, because turning on my big oven heated up my house to the point where it was intolerable. I set up a summer kitchen on my back porch. I now use the oven almost every day in summer. I grill meat, South American style for my husband. I make grilled summer vegetables for me. My favorite dish is chopped up potatoes and dead ripe summer tomatoes drizzled with a little olive oil and with salt and black pepper to taste. I won't bother with winter tomatoes. I find them disgusting, but our garden tomatoes are delicious this way. I also make cakes, bread and cobbler. The oven is a bit too small for something like Angel food cake, but I can make layer and loaf cakes. My only problem is that the spring in the door is getting a bit worn after 3 summers of almost daily use, but I have to say I have gotten my money's worth. I am now looking for a portable hot plate that is actually worth something, because I also avoid things like soup on those hot summer days.
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:18 pm
Post subject: steamed cakes?
I was just thinking of the small kitchen microwave issue, and I was also thinking of Chinese ways of cooking. Something just occurred to me. I make steamed pudding, English American style at Christmas, and it comes out great. I know that South Americans make some kinds of steamed but sweet tamales. I also have a distinct memory of once making a light yellow cake or muffins in a steamer, and having the recipe come out really well, although I never repeated it, or marked the recipe. I bet it would be possible to make steamed cupcakes in the style of sweet dumplings or Chinese steamed buns. I am going to try to remember where I found the recipe. I remember the top being slightly moist and I am tempted to say rubbery but that word sounds unpleasant, and this sensation was definitely pleasant-- at least to me. If I had no oven and no way to get one, I would probably try steaming rather than a microwave to make "baked" goods. OF course I am not sophisticated with microwaves, using mine for only a few purposes-- defrosting meat, warming dog food that has been in the refrigerator, reheating leftovers, and slightly pre-cooking beets I am going to steam or roast so they don't take so long. Real cooking in a microwave is beyond me.
P.S. Here are two sources I found for steamed desserts. One is a Thai site and the other is English. When I make steamed pudding I use either the top part of a double boiler or a springform pan lined with aluminum foil as a pudding basin, depending on how big my recipe is. The Thai desserts look so enticing I want to try them.
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:05 pm
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Great microwave recipe:
Potatoes, in slices
Onions, copped in rings.
Butter, cream, s&p
Give some butter in a microwave-safe vessel. Layer over it potatos and onions.
Mix cream (or milk or both) with pepper and salt and give it over the potatos and onions. There has to be some liquid that the potatoes won't dry out during the cooking.
Close with a plastic wrap and cook in the microwave for 10 minutes at maximum power. Be careful when opening (steam!)
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in my library ive already written wrappers for these opencv functions
the struct related to create-image is IplImage and i have it defined like this
;; ;(cffi:foreign-type-size '(:struct ipl-image)) = 144
(cffi:defcstruct ipl-image
(n-size :int)
(id :int)
(n-channels :int)
(alpha-channel :int)
(depth :int)
(color-model :int) ;;Ignored by OpenCV - was :pointer, changed to :int so the struct values would match OpenCV's
(channel-seq :int) ;;Ignored by OpenCV - was :pointer, changed to :int so the struct values would match OpenCV's
(data-order :int)
(origin :int)
(align :int)
(width :int)
(height :int)
(roi (:pointer (:struct ipl-roi)))
(mask-roi :pointer)
(image-id :pointer)
(tile-info :pointer)
(image-size :int)
(image-data :string)
(width-step :int)
(border-mode :pointer)
(border-const :pointer)
(image-data-origin :string))
so when i call the above functions and then print the struct values with the below
code it looks like this
CL-OPENCV> (defparameter capture (create-camera-capture 0))
(defparameter frame (query-frame capture))
(defparameter img-size (get-size frame))
(defparameter img (create-image img-size +ipl-depth-8u+ 3))
CL-OPENCV> (cffi:with-foreign-slots ((n-size id n-channels
alpha-channel depth color-model
channel-seq data-order origin
align width height roi
mask-roi image-id tile-info
image-size image-data width-step
border-mode border-const image-data-origin)
img (:struct ipl-image))
(format t "n-size = ~a~%id = ~a~%n-channels = ~a~%alpha-channel = ~a~%depth = ~a~%color-model = ~a~%channel-seq = ~a~%data-order = ~a~%origin = ~a~%align = ~a~%width = ~a~%height = ~a~%roi = ~a~%mask-roi = ~a~%image-id = ~a~%tile-info = ~a~%image-size = ~a~%image-data = ~a~%width-step = ~a~%border-mode = ~a~%border-const = ~a~%image-data-origin = ~a~%"
n-size id n-channels
alpha-channel depth color-model
channel-seq data-order origin
align width height roi
mask-rOI image-id tile-info
image-size image-data width-step
border-mode border-const image-data-origin))
n-size = 144
id = 0
n-channels = 3
alpha-channel = 0
depth = 8
color-model = 4343634
channel-seq = 5392194
data-order = 0
origin = 0
align = 4
width = 640
height = 480
roi = #.(SB-SYS:INT-SAP #X00000000)
mask-roi = #.(SB-SYS:INT-SAP #X00000000)
image-id = #.(SB-SYS:INT-SAP #X00000000)
tile-info = #.(SB-SYS:INT-SAP #X00000000)
image-size = 921600
image-data =
width-step = 1920
border-mode = #.(SB-SYS:INT-SAP #X00000000)
border-const = #.(SB-SYS:INT-SAP #X00000000)
image-data-origin = NIL
I'd rather not have to call the with-foreign-slots function with all that code every time id like to access slot values id rather do exactly like in c and call img->depth for example to access the IplImage struct member depth....Is there a way i can have this exact functionality in lisp with the above struct or any other....if i did have to call (img depth) i guess that would be ok but id rather create some sort of dereferencing operator equivelant to do this as easy as in c....either way can someone show me how to dereference pointers in the tiniest way possible like in c


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Mass Surveillance In America
Stephen Lendman
It shouldn't surprise. It's longstanding policy. Post-9/11, it escalated. Previous articles said Big Brother is real. It's no longer fiction.
Mass surveillance is official US policy. It's not for national security. It's not about discovering terror or other threats. None whatever exist. Claiming otherwise doesn't wash. Big Lies substitute for vital truths.
What's ongoing reflects unchecked power. It's for unchallenged global dominance. It's secret with no oversight for good reason. It's unconstitutional. Societies governed this way are lawless. People living in them aren't free.
America never was a democracy. It wasn't created to be one. It's not one now. Freedom is verboten. It's vanishing in plain sight. Wealth, power and privilege alone matter. Police state terror targets non-believers.
Money power runs America. Powerful interests alone matter. What they say goes. What they want they get. Obama's their nominal front man. Complicit congressional and judicial officials are involved. So are media scoundrels.
They serve wealth, power and privilege. They spurn populist interests. They pretend otherwise. Policies belie official rhetoric. A previous article said impeaching Obama is vital. It's a national imperative. What's ongoing now may be prelude for much worse to come.
Police states operate this way. They tolerate no opposition. People wanting to live free and saying so are considered enemies. Challenging government of, by and for privileged elites is criminalized. Expect much worse ahead.
Mass surveillance is all-embracing. There's no place to hide. Everyone is watched. Non-believers are targeted. Privacy no longer exists.
Orwell envisioned the future. "Big Brother is watching," he said. "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment."
"How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to."
The worst of what Orwell foresaw is real. It's worse than he imagined. State-of-the-art technology is frightening. It's used repressively. It's a dagger at the heart of freedom. It's being destroyed in plain sight.
NSA is nicknamed No Such Agency. It's the crown jewel of mass surveillance. It's Big Brother writ large. It's too great a menace to ignore.
What's now public knowledge may be the tip of the iceberg. Much more needs to be known. Free societies require sunshine. It's the best disinfectant. It's the only one.
Hopefully more insiders will tell all. Preserving what too vital to lose depends on them. Freedom's too precious to lose. It's practically gone now. Reclaiming what's lost depends on mass opposition against ruthless state terror.
Governments subverting popular interests lack legitimacy. America's Declaration of Independence said so. Governments "deriv(e) their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Whenever government ill-serves, "it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Governmentâ¤|."
When longstanding "abuses and usurpations" become despotic, "it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government (and replace it) for their future security."
Colonial America rejected British tyranny. Challenging what replaced it is vital. It's same old under new management. It's old wine in new bottles. It's draconian. It's technologically threatening. It's too intolerable to permit.
Collective activism has power. What better time to use it than now. Americas waging political, social, financial, and hot wars.
Its doing so globally. Its happening at home and abroad. Constitutional protections are vanishing. Americas social contract is being destroyed.
Militarization, permanent wars, and unchallenged global dominance reflect policy. So does police state harshness. Dissent is endangered. Privilege is entrenched. Fundamental freedoms are disappearing in plain sight.
Electoral politics doesnt work. Money power runs America. Vital change more than ever is needed. Authority must be challenged disruptively.
Resisting tyranny is a universal right. Jefferson said doing so "is obedience to God." Women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony said the same thing.
In his second Treatise of Government, John Locke addressed the "Right of Revolution," saying:
"....acting for the preservation of the Community, there can be but one Supream (sic) Power, which is the Legislature, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the Legislature being only a Fiduciary Power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supream Power to remove or alter the Legislature, when they find the Legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them."
"When government fails the people, its "trust must necessarily be forfeited, and the Power devolve into the hands of those that gave it, who may place it anew where they shall think best for their safety and security."
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote:
"If the law purports to require actions that no-one should ever do, it cannot rightly be complied with; one's moral obligation is not to obey but to disobey."
"If the lawmakers (i) are motivated not by concern for the community's common good but by greed or vanity (private motivations that make them tyrants, whatever the content of their legislation), or (ii) act outside the authority granted to them, or (iii) while acting with a view to the common good apportion the necessary burdens unfairly, their laws are unjust and in the forum of reasonable conscience are not so much laws as acts of violence."
"Such laws lack moral authority, i.e. do not bind in conscience; one is neither morally obligated to conform nor morally obligated not to conform."
"All who govern in the interests of themselves rather than of the common good are tyrants."
"Against the regime's efforts to enforce its decrees, one has the right of forcible resistance; as a private right this could extend as far as killing the tyrant as a foreseen side-effect of one's legitimate self-defence."
Martin Luther King said:
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
"I am convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good." King championed "creative protest." Passivity is no option in the face of injustice."
Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" remains a landmark essay.
"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree resign his conscience to the legislator," he asked?
"The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right."
"All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable."
"Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?"
The state "is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion....They can only force me who obey a higher law than I."
Gandhi said throughout history, "there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always."
Ralph Waldo Emerson believed unjust laws must be resisted. His "Representative Men" essays expressed strong abolitionist sentiment.
"I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom....If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own," he said.
Slavery today exists in new forms. Abolishing freedom best explains it. Tolerating what demands challenging assures much worse ahead. It's happening in plain sight.
Mass surveillance permits it. London's Guardian revealed more. On June 8, it headlined "Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data."
The Guardian obtained another leaked document. Hopefully many more will come out.
Boundless Informant (BI) is a data-mining tool. It's used to record and analyze "where its intelligence comes from." It's capability "raise(s) questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communication."
BI "count(s) and categoriz(es) the records of communications, known as metadata, rather than the content of an email or instant message."
BI documents show NSA collected almost three billion pieces of intelligence "over a 30-day period ending in March 2013."
An NSA fact sheet says BI "allows users to select a country on a map and view the metadata volume and select details about the collections against that country."
It's used internally and abroad. It's a global spy tool. It's watching everywhere all the time. It can if it wants to. In March, DNI head James Clapper testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Senator Ron Wyden asked: "Does NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of American?"
"No sir," said Clapper. He lied saying so. Virtually everyone in America is monitored all the time. NSA is Big Brother writ large. Guardian obtained documents prove it.
NSA capabilities keep improving. What's ongoing now will be technologically advanced ahead. It's used for unchallenged control. Perhaps Orwell explained best.
Power is sought "for its own sake," he said. Ruthless rulers aren't "interested in the good of others." They're "interested solely in power, pure power."
"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me."
Orwell also said "(u)ntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at email@example.com.
His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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Impact, good value, bang for your buck.
These are some of the terms you'll be hearing from the Red Sox over the next couple of months. This rebuilding process could be longer or shorter, depending on what the Sox do and how they go about doing it.
Ben Cherington wants more Cody Rosses and Vicente Padillas and fewer Carl Crawfords.
So what do you do for this lineup? Remember the days of patient hitters wearing down pitchers? The Red Sox need to get back to that.
They need a pure middle-of-the-order hitter.
They need someone who can hit — I know this is old-fashioned — for average, and they need someone who can produce a strong OPS.
Who could that be?
A name that was out there over the summer for a while probably would fit the bill: Joe Mauer.
The Twins may not be in a rush to deal him, but Mauer satisfies the "pure hitter" component for a lineup that used to have it in Adrian Gonzalez and Kevin Youkilis. The Red Sox will likely go all out to re-sign David Ortiz, who also adds that element.
Defensively, Mauer would be the part-time catcher/part-time first baseman. They could then use Jarrod Saltalamacchia or Ryan Lavarnway as the other catcher, and at first base, they could find a righthanded hitter to platoon with Mauer.
Mauer has six years and $138 million left on his contract. Would Minnesota take on some of that? He also had a full no-trade, but Boston was one of the teams he seemed interested in before signing his mega-deal with the Twins. He also lives in Fort Myers, Fla.
Ross started taking ground balls at first base in anticipation of a possible platoon. And also keep this name in mind: Justin Morneau. The Twins first baseman may be available, with one year at $13 million remaining.
Option 2: Can't get the pure hitter? Then bid for Nick Swisher.
The free agent switch hitter's personality would be welcome in a drab clubhouse. The Red Sox miss that high-end character guy who adds levity.
Swisher seems to be looking for more than the Sox want to spend, but if the money isn't out there elsewhere, maybe he will take less. He isn't that pure hitter type, but he is a good hitter with power and the ability to produce clutch hits. He's also a decent right fielder and can play an average first base.
Option 3: Add a power righthanded versatile bat like Mike Napoli.
The catcher/first baseman had an off year in Texas, and given the Rangers' disappointing ending — a loss in the wild card — there might be changes.
Napoli, who will be 31 on Oct. 31, could be part of that catcher/first base platoon. The Sox could even keep both Saltalamacchia and Lavarnway and use Napoli/Salty as the platoon.
Napoli had a disappointing season, hitting .227 with 24 homers and 56 RBIs. He managed an .812 OPS after a 1.046 OPS a year ago, when he hit 30 homers, knocked in 75 runs, and batted .320. He has a career 1.107 OPS at Fenway, with 7 homers, 17 RBIs, and a .306 average in 62 at-bats.
Another first base consideration would be Adam LaRoche, who played briefly for the Red Sox in 2009 and had an excellent season in Washington, where he will likely decline a $10 million mutual option.
Option 4: Sign B.J. Upton and trade Jacoby Ellsbury.
This suggestion will make many people crazy. Ellsbury is beloved by the pink hats in Boston, and there might be a mutiny if Cherington trades him. But if they believe they can't re-sign him, then a deal could be in the offing.
Don't know if it could happen, but trading Ellsbury to Texas for shortstop Elvis Andrus does make sense. With Jurickson Profar on the scene, the Rangers could address their own needs and protect themselves in case they lose Josh Hamilton in free agency.
Whether the Rangers want a player who has had problems staying healthy — and one who flashed 32-homer power in 2011 and then nowhere near that in 2012 — is another issue. But it could be worth their while, especially in Arlington, where hitters love to hit.
The thought of Upton, who hit 28 homers and stole 31 bases for Tampa Bay this season, makes many cringe as well. Another Tampa Bay guy?
His five tools have never really come out all at once, but he is a righthanded hitter with power and speed, plays a good outfield, and is 28, a year younger than Ellsbury.
The Sox are also high on Jackie Bradley Jr., who could be a year or less away, and they feel that Ryan Kalish, once he is over his shoulder issues, could be the player they thought he was.
Option 5: Sign Josh Hamilton.
The feeling among baseball people is that, considering his personal issues, a high-profile market like Boston or New York would be bad for him. But the Dallas area isn't exactly low-profile. It has a tough media and fan base. Believe me, Hamilton hasn't been able to hide there.
His recent attempt to beat his addiction to chewing tobacco caused some controversy. Team president Nolan Ryan thought he chose the wrong time — late in the year, when his performance in important games was affected.
The Red Sox don't want to get into mega-contracts again, so the Braves or Giants may be a better fit for Hamilton. But let's dangle his stats in Boston's face and see if the Sox can resist one of the top five hitters in the game.
He hit .285 with 43 homers, 128 RBIs, and an OPS of .930. He faded in the second half: .259, 16 homers, and 53 RBIs (but even that's not so bad). According to Bill Chuck, Hamilton had the best "isolated power" (a stat derived from subtracting hits from total bases and dividing by at-bats) at .292, followed by Edwin Encarnacion and Miguel Cabrera at .277.
I know, stay away. Not a good fit for Boston. Sure. But if he's out there for a while and you haven't done much to improve your team . . . what a splash.
Option 6: Trade for Indians right fielder Shin-Soo Choo.
He's a good outfielder and lefthanded bat. He's one of those players the Red Sox could seize on. Play him in right and move Ross to left.
Option 7: Pitchers. Among the choices would be free agents Jake Peavy, Zack Greinke, Shaun Marcum, and Ryan Dempster. Trades could be made for Matt Garza and Josh Johnson. James Shields may be available, but the Rays aren't going to deal with Boston.
The Red Sox need someone of significance to add to their rotation. The prevailing thought is that Greinke either stays in Los Angeles or goes to Texas. Garza could be had, but would the Sox give up the prospects? Johnson would be the best choice given that he's 28, a proven commodity, and has the ability to be a No. 1 starter.
Peavy, who will have his $22 million option with the White Sox declined, seems to be over his injury bug. If he doesn't stay with the White Sox, he could be a three-year solution for the Red Sox or some other team.
Two-time National League Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum had a miserable regular season — 10-15, 5.18 (though 3.83 since mid-July) — and the Giants would listen. Could some other team straighten him out? Lincecum, 28, will earn $22 million in the final year of his contract.
Others worth looking at: Dan Haren, Roy Oswalt, Ervin Santana, Francisco Liriano, Edwin Jackson, Kyle Lohse, Chien Ming-Wang, Gavin Floyd.
Apropos of nothing
1. Pawtucket manager Arnie Beyeler should be considered for Boston's opening but won't — because he doesn't have major league experience. Yet he can manage players who go up to the majors. Strange restriction.
2. Bobby Valentine received what he termed "incredible" messages from, among others, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz, Jose Iglesias, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Cody Ross, and Jacoby Ellsbury. "It was really amazing, some of the things," said Valentine. "I really appreciated it and I'll never forget them. It was great being around those guys. Great people." Valentine also said he got a great visit and note from Vicente Padilla, who thanked him for resurrecting his career.
3. Valentine on Will Middlebrooks: "I expect big things. The ball sounds different when he hits it. He's got some kind of power."
4. Don Orsillo and Buck Martinez were superb calling the Detroit-Oakland series for TBS.
5. Next season, Wade Boggs's No. 26 should be retired, right?
6. Thinking out loud: Why wouldn't the Dodgers take on Alex Rodriguez? The Yankees would gladly eat some of the contract. With Carl Crawford joining them in May (or sooner) after his surgery, the Dodgers will likely not re-sign Shane Victorino, saving a few bucks (not that money matters).
7. Astros scout Paul Ricciarini on Brad Ausmus: "I recognized 18 years ago that Brad was going to be a major league manager someday." By the way, Ausmus was 25 at the time.
8. So many Fox Business stories about John Henry possibly selling or taking on a limited partner. Sox keep denying. Could there be something to it?
Apropos of something
James Shields remains the Rays' biggest trade chip now that he's in an option year at $9 million and likely unaffordable after that. After a season in which the Rays might have made the playoffs had they had one more productive bat in the middle of the lineup, the feeling — at least on the outside looking in — is that they will finally bite the bullet and trade pitching to get offense.
They need a starting shortstop and catcher, and with B.J. Upton likely leaving in free agency, they will move Desmond Jennings to center and try to find a corner outfield bat.
"Texas would be a decent trading partner," said a National League general manager. "The Rays could pick up someone like Elvis Andrus and someone else for Shields. The Rangers will look for pitching. With shortstop phenom Jurickson Profar fully developed, they have a shortstop surplus. They could move Profar to second and use [Ian] Kinsler in the outfield, but if they can get a top pitcher still around 30 years old, why not do it?"
Some baseball officials haven't ruled out the Rays dealing Cy Young candidate David Price to fill a couple of positions.
It's odd to some that with such a good pitching staff, the Rays haven't had a good solid catcher to help the staff. Jose Molina was overused and may be over-the-hill offensively and — surprisingly — defensively.
The Rays also need better production at first base and DH. Luke Scott and Carlos Pena didn't exactly pan out.
"It just seems they're wasting some good pitching talent by not supporting them with enough offense and a better defense," said the NL GM.
Updates on 9
1. Shohei Otani , 18, Japanese pitching prospect — Here we go again. He is 6 feet 4 inches, about 200 pounds, throws almost 100 m.p.h, and is the next best thing in Japan. While Daisuke Matsuzaka didn't work out, the Sox have a lot of hope for Junichi Tazawa. They are expected to get asked a lot about Tazawa this offseason if they're trying to make a deal for a significant player.
2. Joe Torre, commissioner's office — Talk is still strong that he would consider managing again, and why wouldn't Boston appeal to him? Torre had been pretty much hired after the Red Sox fired John McNamara in 1988, but Joe Morgan derailed that. Torre has always had an affinity for Boston. So far, he has refused to answer any questions about the possibility, especially with the postseason under way.
3. Mark Loretta, special assistant, Padres — The former Red Sox second baseman is pretty close to Brad Ausmus. If Ausmus gets the Red Sox managing job, you wonder whether Loretta would be on the coaching staff. Ausmus also has a relationship with Sox bench coach Tim Bogar and Tampa Bay pitching coach Jim Hickey.
4. John Farrell, manager, Blue Jays — He keeps saying he is the manager of the Blue Jays, but as colleague Pete Abraham notes, he never comes out and says he's not interested in Boston. While we understand the familiarity with a few pitchers still remaining on the staff, players like David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia, and Jacoby Ellsbury never had much interaction with Farrell. Also, Toronto's prospect talent base seems to be greater than Boston's. While the Red Sox appear to have more resources, the Jays may be ready to spend. So is the Boston job better?
5. Matt Stairs, NESN analyst — He has been a baseball lifer and would love to continue being one. He would love to manage or be a hitting coach, and some teams have bandied about his name.
6. Luke Scott, DH, Rays — The Rays will have an interesting decision to make on Scott, who has a $6 million option or can be bought out for $1 million. Overall, he was a disappointment, but sported an .845 OPS the second half.
7. David Ortiz, DH, Red Sox — Word is, he might accept a two-year deal for $26 million-$28 million if offered. The sides are talking and hope to have a deal before free agency. But if the Sox can't go two years, Ortiz may very well roll the dice and see if the Orioles, Yankees, Blue Jays, or Rangers bite. The Yankees are trying to get younger, so they may not be interested, but . . . Ortiz at Yankee Stadium?
8. Cody Ross, RF, Red Sox — The Sox are trying to hash out a multiyear deal, but Ross will have a fertile free agent market if he chooses to wait. We've mentioned before the Yankees and Phillies, but the Braves, who offered Ross a two-year deal last season, also would be major players. Ross wouldn't mind a Western team, as he resides in Scottsdale, Ariz. The Diamondbacks have excess in the outfield, but Ross's old team, the Giants, may have interest with Melky Cabrera out of the picture.
9. Ryan Madson, RP, free agent — He'll be a free agent again after missing the season with Cincinnati. There are reports already linking him to the Phillies, who let him loose to sign Jonathan Papelbon last winter. Madson may want to explore the market.
Short hops
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Deep vein thrombosis — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment, prevention of this blood-clotting disorder.
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) occurs when a blood clot (thrombus) forms in one or more of the deep veins in your body, usually in your legs. Deep vein thrombosis can cause leg pain or swelling, but may occur without any symptoms.
Deep vein thrombosis can develop if you have certain medical conditions that affect how your blood clots. Deep vein thrombosis can also happen if you don''t move for a long time, such as after surgery, following an accident, or when you are confined to a hospital or nursing home bed.
Deep vein thrombosis is a serious condition because blood clots in your veins can break loose, travel through your bloodstream and lodge in your lungs, blocking blood flow (pulmonary embolism).
Deep vein thrombosis signs and symptoms can include:
Deep vein thrombosis may sometimes occur without any noticeable symptoms.
If you develop signs or symptoms of deep vein thrombosis, contact your doctor for guidance.
If you develop signs or symptoms of a pulmonary embolism — a life-threatening complication of deep vein thrombosis — seek medical attention immediately.
Deep vein thrombosis occurs when a blood clot forms in the veins that are deep in your body, often in your legs. Blood clots can be caused by anything that prevents your blood from circulating normally or clotting properly.
Many factors can increase your risk of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and the more you have, the greater your risk. Risk factors for DVT include:
A concerning complication associated with deep vein thrombosis is pulmonary embolism.
A pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood vessel in your lung becomes blocked by a blood clot (thrombus) that travels to your lungs from another part of your body, usually your leg.
A pulmonary embolism can be fatal. So, it''s important to be on the lookout for signs and symptoms of a pulmonary embolism and seek medical attention if they occur. Signs and symptoms of a pulmonary embolism include:
A common complication that can occur after deep vein thrombosis is a condition known as postphlebitic syndrome, also called postthrombotic syndrome. This syndrome is used to describe a collection of signs and symptoms, including:
This syndrome is caused by damage to your veins from the blood clot. This damage reduces blood flow in the affected areas. The symptoms of postphlebitic syndrome may not occur until a few years after the DVT.
You usually won''t have time to make any special preparations for a doctor appointment to diagnose deep vein thrombosis. DVT is considered a medical emergency, so it''s important to get evaluated quickly.
If you do have time before your appointment, it''s a good idea to prepare some information. Here''s how you can help get ready for your appointment, and what to expect from your doctor.
Preparing a list of questions can help you make the most of your time with your doctor. For deep vein thrombosis, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions, such as:
To diagnose deep vein thrombosis, your doctor will ask you a series of questions about your symptoms. You''ll also have a physical exam so that your doctor can check for any areas of swelling, tenderness or discoloration on your skin. Depending on how likely you are to have a blood clot, your doctor may suggest further testing, including:
Ultrasound. A wand-like device (transducer) placed over the part of your body where there''s a clot sends sound waves into the area. As the sound waves travel through your tissue and reflect back, a computer transforms the waves into a moving image on a video screen. A clot may be visible in the image.
Sometimes a series of ultrasounds are done over several days to determine whether a blood clot is growing or to be sure a new one hasn''t developed.
Deep vein thrombosis treatment is aimed at preventing the clot from getting any bigger, as well as preventing the clot from breaking loose and causing a pulmonary embolism. After that, the goal becomes reducing your chances of deep vein thrombosis happening again.
Deep vein thrombosis treatment options include:
Blood thinners. Medications used to treat deep vein thrombosis include the use of anticoagulants, also sometimes called blood thinners, whenever possible. These are drugs that decrease your blood''s ability to clot. While they don''t break up existing blood clots, they can prevent clots from getting bigger or reduce your risk of developing additional clots.
Usually, you''ll first be given a shot or infusion of the blood thinner heparin for a few days. After starting heparin injections, your treatment may be followed by another injectable blood thinner, such as enoxaparin (Lovenox), dalteparin (Fragmin) or fondaparinux (Arixtra). Other blood thinners can be given in pill form, such as warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven) or rivaroxaban (Xarelto). Newer blood thinners also may offer additional options in the near future.
You may need to take blood thinners for three months or longer. If you''re prescribed any of these blood thinners, it''s important to take your medication exactly as your doctor instructs. Blood-thinning medications can have serious side effects if you take too much or too little.
You may need periodic blood tests to check how long it takes your blood to clot. Pregnant women shouldn''t take certain blood-thinning medications.
Clotbusters. If you have a more serious type of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, or if other medications aren''t working, your doctor may prescribe different medications.
One group of medications is known as thrombolytics. These drugs, called tissue plasminogen activators (TPA), are given through an IV line to break up blood clots or may be given through a catheter placed directly into the clot. These drugs can cause serious bleeding and are generally used only in life-threatening situations. For these reasons, thrombolytic medications are only given in an intensive care ward of a hospital.
Compression stockings. These help prevent swelling associated with deep vein thrombosis. These stockings are worn on your legs from your feet to about the level of your knees.
This pressure helps reduce the chances that your blood will pool and clot. You should wear these stockings during the day for at least two to three years if possible. Compression stockings can help prevent postphlebitic syndrome.
Once you receive treatment for deep vein thrombosis you need to watch your diet and look for signs of excessive bleeding, as well as take steps to help prevent another DVT. Some things you can do include:
To prevent deep vein thrombosis, some common preventive measures include the following:
Avoid sitting still. If you''ve had surgery or have been on bed rest for other reasons, try to get moving as soon as possible. If you''re sitting for a while, try not to cross your legs because this can limit blood flow. If you''re traveling a long distance by car, stop every hour or so and walk around.
If you''re on a plane, try to stand or walk occasionally. If you can''t do that, at least try to exercise your lower legs. Try raising and lowering your heels while keeping your toes on the floor, then raising your toes while your heels are on the floor.


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Arab League, also called League of Arab States (LAS), Arabic Al-Jāmiʿa Al-ʿArabīyah or Al-Jāmiʿa Ad-Duwal Al-ʿArabīyah, regional organization of Arab states in the Middle East, formed in Cairo on March 22, 1945. The founding member states were Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan (now Jordan), Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Other members are Libya (1953); Sudan (1956); Tunisia and Morocco (1958); Kuwait (1961); Algeria (1962); Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (1971); Mauritania (1973); Somalia (1974); the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; 1976); Djibouti (1977); and the Comoros (1993). (When Yemen was a divided country, from 1967 to 1990, the two regimes were separately represented.) Each member has one vote on the League Council, decisions being binding only on those states that have voted for them.
The aims of the league in 1945 were to strengthen and coordinate the political, cultural, economic, and social programs of its members and to mediate disputes among them or between them and third parties. The signing on April 13, 1950, of an agreement on joint defense and economic cooperation also committed the signatories to coordination of military defense measures.
In its early years the Arab League concentrated mainly on economic, cultural, and social programs. In 1959 it held the first Arab petroleum congress and in 1964 established the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO). Also in 1964, despite objections by Jordan, the league granted the PLO observer status as the representative of all Palestinians. This was upgraded to full membership in 1976.
Under the leadership of Mahmoud Riad, the third secretary-general (1972–79), political activity increased. The league, however, was weakened by internal dissension on political issues, especially those concerning Israel and the Palestinians. After Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel on March 26, 1979, the other members of the Arab League voted to suspend Egypt's membership and to transfer the league's headquarters from Cairo to Tunis. Egypt was reinstated as a member of the Arab League in 1989, and the league's headquarters returned to Cairo in 1990.
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the later involvement, at the request of Saudi Arabia, of Western countries—mainly the United States—in ridding Kuwait of Iraqi presence caused a deep rift in the league. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Djibouti, and Somalia endorsed the presence of foreign troops in Saudi Arabia, and all but the last three had some degree (however slight) of military involvement in the war.
The Arab League was forced to adapt to sudden changes in the Arab world when popular protests known as the Arab Spring broke out in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011. In March 2011 the Arab League voted to support the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya to protect opponents of the regime of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi from air attacks by loyalist forces. The no-fly zone evolved into a wider international military intervention that contributed to Qaddafi's overthrow in August.
In early November the Arab League announced that it had reached an agreement with the Syrian government to end its bloody ten-month campaign against peaceful protesters in Syria. Less than two weeks later, amid reports that the Syrian forces had continued to kill protesters in spite of the agreement, the Arab League voted to suspend Syria's membership.


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B doesn't stand a chance against A.
A and B are fighting with each other. :( Suppose A are taller or stronger, so B suffers more injuries. My question is, how to describe this situation? Can I say,
B cannot rival A when it comes to fighting.
B is no rival of A in fighting.
A beats B up.
What is a native-speaker most likely to say about this situation? Thanks.
B doesn't stand a chance against A.
A would eat B alive / would wipe the floor with him / would crush him / would beat the sh*t out of him ...
A is gonna lick the floor with B. :wink:
B is all over A hands down!Originally Posted by Casiopea
B gets the licking/ whipping/ B gets the crap beat out of him (sl/ very informal)Originally Posted by Natalie27
B could also get the crap kicked out of him.
that's true. hopefully they will just shake hands and walk away.Originally Posted by tdol
A is gonna open a can of whoopass on B ;)


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In the survey of more than 700 rosacea patients, 10 percent of the respondents said they rarely or never drank alcohol, and an additional 10 percent reported that consuming alcoholic beverages had no affect on their disorder.
"While alcohol may exacerbate the signs and symptoms of rosacea, today it is well documented that this disorder can be just as severe in a nondrinker," said Dr. Diane Thiboutot, associate professor of dermatology at Pennsylvania State University.
Of the survey respondents who were affected by alcohol, red wine caused rosacea flare-ups for 76 percent, while white wine aggravated the condition in 56 percent and champagne affected 33 percent.
Other common libations were cited as well. Beer caused rosacea to react in 41 percent of respondents, and 15 percent said they were affected by malt liquor or malt-based beverages. Among hard liquors, vodka was the leading rosacea trigger, affecting 33 percent of the respondents. This was followed by tequila (28 percent), bourbon (24 percent), gin (24 percent), rum (24 percent) and scotch (21 percent).
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Slumping Braves lose fifth straight game
ATLANTA -- Given that they would have to face Johnny Cueto, Jose Fernandez and Nathan Eovaldi within a four-day span, the Braves knew this was going to be a challenging week. But they certainly did not anticipate it would be as frustrating as it has proved to be.
Seemingly influenced by the tension that has mounted over the past few days, the Braves extended their offensive woes as they squandered multiple opportunities to exacerbate for the career-high three home runs an otherwise efficient Julio Teheran surrendered in Saturday night's 3-1 loss to the Giants at Turner Field.View Full Game Coverage
ATLANTA -- Given that they would have to face Johnny Cueto, Jose Fernandez and Nathan Eovaldi within a four-day span, the Braves knew this was going to be a challenging week. But they certainly did not anticipate it would be as frustrating as it has proved to be.
Seemingly influenced by the tension that has mounted over the past few days, the Braves extended their offensive woes as they squandered multiple opportunities to exacerbate for the career-high three home runs an otherwise efficient Julio Teheran surrendered in Saturday night's 3-1 loss to the Giants at Turner Field.View Full Game Coverage
"We've given ourselves plenty of opportunities to drive in runs," Justin Upton said. "We just haven't done it. We haven't come up with a big hit. That can doom you sometimes because when you're facing good pitching, when you get those runners out there, those are the times you have to score."
Since overcoming Cueto's strong eight-inning performance in last Sunday's 1-0, 10-inning win over the Reds, the Braves have seen their National League East lead weakened by a five-game losing streak -- their longest skid since losing eight straight May 21-28, 2012. They have totaled nine runs and gone 5-for-35 with runners in scoring position over these five games.
"It's a talented group of guys," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "These are the same guys that in April they were scoring some runs, so we want to get out there and keep the line moving a little bit."
While winning 17 of the 24 games that preceded this skid, the Braves relied heavily on a starting rotation that allowed two earned runs or fewer in 22 of those contests. The rotation was dented as Alex Wood and Aaron Harang produced consecutive clunkers to begin this past week's series in Miami. But Atlanta's starters have not been the primary problem during this current series.
Solo home runs have accounted for each of the five runs the Giants have totaled over the past two nights. Mike Minor surrendered two in Friday night's 2-1 loss and Teheran was doomed by the three homers he surrendered to begin innings on Saturday.
"Sometimes you feel good and just a couple of mistakes that cost you a game," said Teheran, who had surrendered just three home runs through his previous six starts this season.
The solo shots hit by Brandon Belt, Buster Posey and Michael Morse accounted for three of the four hits surrendered by Teheran, who did not issue a walk while throwing 64 of his 87 pitches for strikes.
Belt opened the scoring with a homer in the second inning, and Posey gave the Giants the lead for good with his fourth-inning shot. Morse, who had hit Friday's decisive homer, provided San Francisco starter Ryan Vogelsong some insurance when he opened the seventh with his eighth homer of the season.
"They are pretty good hitters, and I made a mistake, and I've got to pay for it," Teheran said. "They were the pitches I wanted to throw and where I wanted to throw."
While there was no reason to be ashamed of being handled by Cueto, Fernandez and Eovaldi, the Braves were definitely looking to do more the past two nights against Tim Lincecum and Vogelsong, who both entered this series with a five-plus ERA.
"Those are two guys who are capable of coming out and having a good outing any time," Justin Upton said. "They are effective pitchers. They have been in the past. You can't look at their numbers. When they have their stuff and they're locating, they can beat anybody. We've got to do a better job of what we're capable of doing."
Like Lincecum on Friday, Vogelsong limited the Braves to one run over six innings. B.J. Upton's game-tying double in the third inning accounted for the only run surrendered by Vogelsong and one of the three hits Atlanta has tallied in 17 at-bats with runners in scoring position during this series.
"That's a tough lineup," Vogelsong said after seeing his ERA drop from 5.40 to 4.60. "You definitely have to make pitches and be smart. Because if you don't, it could be a long night."
This could have certainly been a long night for Vogelsong, who escaped both the second and fifth innings unscathed after the Braves put two on with less than two outs. The veteran righty also had reason to be thankful that the third inning did not prove to be his demise.
After the Braves put two on with none out in the second inning, Chris Johnson grounded into a double play, giving Vogelsong a chance to pitch around Dan Uggla and Andrelton Simmons to get to Teheran, who grounded out with the bases loaded.
B.J. Upton's RBI double in the third inning was followed by a Freddie Freeman single that put runners at the corners with one out. Vogelsong quieted the threat by striking out Justin Upton and then ended it by getting Evan Gattis to swing at a 3-2 pitch out of the strike zone with Freeman running on the pitch. Freeman was easily thrown out second base for the third out.
"There, I'm thinking, 'Just put the ball in play,'" Gonzalez said of his decision to put Freeman in motion. "I'm not thinking we've got a double steal or anything crazy. Just put the ball in play and try to get us another run, and he swings at ball four. We had a couple of guys today swing at balls way out of the strike zone, and that's something that we need to talk about. I don't know if it's pressing."
Justin Upton's second strikeout of the night stranded two in the fifth inning. But the strikeout that provided indication that the Braves might be pressing was the one Simmons recorded when he concluded a three-pitch sixth-inning at-bat by swinging at a pitch at his eyes. Simmons had struck out in just four of his previous 101 at-bats.
"Usually when teams go in slumps or individuals go in slumps, the first thing you look at is if you're swinging at pitches out of the strike zone," Gonzalez said. "And just thinking about three or four occasions today we did that."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com.