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Outside of HeroesCon, my favorite type of comic shows are the small press shows. I adore mini-comics. Small press shows are a mecca of mini-comics. The Small Press Expo (SPX) is two glorious days of mini-comics and other wondrous indie comic finds.
It's a big year for SPX with a rather impressive list of special guests: Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware (one of Seth's favorites), Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, and Francoise Mouly.
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Some Favorites:
|Animal Alphabet Mini Comic Cover by Ben Towle
- Lamar Abrams: In the aftermath of HeroesCon, it dawned on me that I totally missed seeing Lamar and his smile at this year's con, but never fear, SPX draws near so I can see what new fun he's bringing to the world of comics.
- Adhouse Books: Chris Pitzer is sure to have an awesome collection of indie books. We were lucky enough to pick up a copy of Jim Rugg's Notebook Drawings at HeroesCon and if you haven't flipped through this wondrous, pink spiral notebook yet, do yourself a favor and head over to Adhouse for this and more!
- Alphabet Press: Back in 2011, a drawing challenge was issued by Rob Ullman and Ben Towle: each week following the letters of the alphabet, new animal drawings would be created and posted on tumblr. The participation seemed to grow each week and when the end of the alphabet was reached with the animals, AlphaBeasts was born and then followed AlphaBooks which is currently ongoing. This year at SPX, you'll find a table dedicated to these AlphaProjects with works including mini comics, postcards, flashcards, and prints from artists like Ben Towle, Rich Barrett, Sam Wolk, Issac Cates, and Rob Ullman. Some of the participating artists that are unable to attend SPX will be mailing Alphabet items in to the table organizers making this your one stop alphabet mini stop at SPX!
- Last Dollar Comics: At the last SPX, this was on my list for one comic: "Don't Mess with the Pink VooDoo Bunny", however instead of coming away with one comic, I walked away with the Total Package of all of his comics, plus a toy surprise. It was awesome and I'm looking forward to visiting Last Dollar Comics again this year.
- Alec Longstreth: I'm not sure it is possible or wise to discuss Alec without mentioning what might be the most well known beard in indie comics (maybe in all of comics). Just do a google image search and you'll see what I mean (some people even keep time based on that beard!) [Update: I was informed via twitter that the beard is no more! A moment of silence for the beard.]
- Nobrow Press: If pretty European comics and art books are your thing be sure to stop by the Nobrow table and delight your eyes.
- Chad Sell: Admittedly, I did not discover Chad through my normal comic channels, but rather Drag Queens. One of the queens competing on the last season of RuPaul's Drag Race tweeted a portrait done by Chad and I knew I had to see more. I ordered both 30 Queens and Shadow Play and loved both books. I cannot wait to come home with 40 Queens and maybe some prints for my Drag Race loving law partner and friend, Paula.
- Ed Piskor: Ed might just be one of my favorite guys in comics. He's super nice, interesting to talk to and has an extensive collection of Public Enemy attire. Beyond that, he's just had his hacker web comic, Wizzywig published in a sweet hardcover. Be sure to also check out Ed's Hip Hop Family Tree over on boingboing.
- Jim Rugg: What is with these guys from Pittsburgh? Could they be any nicer? Not only is Jim talented on the page, but he shares the knowledge on his new podcast, Tell Me Something I Don't Know. And as mentioned above, be sure to stop by the Adhouse table and pick up Jim's beautiful Notebook Drawings and marvel at what he does with a ballpoint pen.
- Top Shelf Comics: Not only does Top Shelf have an excellent all ages comics section, but their graphic novels of late are nothing short of amazing. If you haven't picked up Jeff Lemire's The Underwater Welder, be sure to stop by their table for a copy or two.
- Ron Ullman: Do you like pretty ladies? (who doesn't?) You should stop by to pick up some pretty ladies of your very own from Rob (his are much less maintenance than real women). Rumor has it that you may even be able to pick up some pretty lady art to wear, just in case you missed the super cute HeroesCon Indie Island shirt by Rob this year.
- Joey Weiser: One of my favorite mini comic series has to be Mermin. I love that adorable little sea creature on land. If you haven't read Mermin yet, you're in luck as there are now five issues out for your reading pleasure.
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Not only do all of these guys hail from North Carolina, but they all participated in the Alphabet drawing projects.
Not only do all of these guys hail from North Carolina, but they all participated in the Alphabet drawing projects.
|AlphaBeast prints by Rich Barrett
- Rich Barrett: Based in Charlotte and member of the local sketch group, Sketch Charlotte, Rich is in the progress of publishing a graphic novel both page by page on the internet as well as in print. Nathan Sorry is a twist on a 9/11 story in which the title character believed killed in the Towers is actually on the run with money and fake identity that he accidentally procured. Rich plans to have both volumes one and two as well as Alphabet Press items. This is his first time setting up at SPX.
- Henry Eudy: Also planning his first time behind the table at SPX is another Sketch Charlotte member and one of the funniest and self-depreciating guys I know, Henry Eudy. Henry will have a selection of minis, prints and original art.
- Ben Towle: Ben is manning the Alphabet Press table, but he'll have some non-Alphabet related books with him (if not displayed on the table). Be sure to ask for Strikes, the Star Wars fan comic written by Ssalefish Comics' own Bret Parks and illustrated by Ben.
I cannot wait to explore all the tables at SPX and fill my bag with mini comics wonders. Be sure to check back here the week following SPX to see for yourself everything we picked up! Seth and I will be there to check out the best indie comics around, and will have plenty of info and postcards about the Heroes Pop Swap, Charlotte Mini Con and HeroesCon '13. If you see us make sure to say hello.
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This is the second part of a 3-part post series in which we describe how we use HBase at Sematext for real-time analytics with an append-only updates approach.
In our previous post we explained the problem in detail with the help of example and touched on the suggested solution idea. In this post, we will go through solution details as well as briefly introduce the open-sourced implementation of the described approach.
Suggested Solution
Suggested solution can be described as follows:
- replace update (Get+Put) operations at write time with simple append-only writes
- defer processing updates to periodic compaction jobs (not to be confused with minor/major HBase compaction)
- perform on the fly updates processing only if user asks for data earlier than updates compacted
Before (standard Get+Put updates approach):
The picture below shows an example of updating search query metrics that can be collected by Search Analytics system (something we do at Sematext).
- each new piece of data (blue box) is processed individually
- to apply update based on the new piece of data:
- existing data (green box) is first read
- data is changed and
- written back
After (append-only updates approach):
- Writing updates:
- Periodic updates processing (compacting):
- Performing on the fly updates processing (only if user asks for data earlier than updates compacted):
Note: the result of the processing updates on the fly can be optionally stored back right away, so that next time same data is requested no compaction is needed.
The idea is simple and not a new one, but given the specific qualities of HBase like fast range scans and high write throughput it works especially well with HBase. So, what we gain here is:
- high update throughput
- real-time updates visibility: despite deferring the actual updates processing, user always sees the latest data changes
- efficient updates processing by replacing random Get+Put operations with processing sets of records at a time (during the fast scan) and eliminating redundant Get+Put attempts when writing the very first data item
- better handling of update load peaks
- ability to roll back any range of updates
- avoid data inconsistency problems caused by tasks that fail after only partially updating data in HBase without doing rollback (when using with MapReduce, for example)
High Update Throughput
Higher update throughput is achieved by not doing Get operation for every record update. Thus, Get+Put operations are replaced with Puts (which can be further optimized by using client-side buffer), which are really fast in HBase. The processing of updates (compaction) is still needed to perform the actual data merge, but it is done much more efficiently than doing Get+Put for each update operation (see below more details).
Real-time Updates Visibility
Users always see latest data changes. Even if updates have not yet been processed and still stored as a series of records, they will be merged on the fly.
By doing periodic merges of appended records we ensure data that has to be processed on the fly is small enough and does fast.
Efficient Updates Processing
- N Get+Put operations at write time are replaced with N Puts + 1 Scan (shared) + 1 Put operations
- Processing N changes at once is usually more effective than applying N individual changes
Let's say we got 360 update requests for the same record: e.g. record keeps track of some sensor value for 1 hour interval and we collect data points every 10 seconds. These measurements needs to be merged in a single record that represents the whole 1-hour interval. Initially we would perform 360 Get+Put operations (while we can use some client-side buffer to perform partial aggregation and reduce the number of actual Get+Put operations, we want data to be sent immediately as it arrives instead of asking user to wait 10*N seconds). With append-only approach, we will perform 360 Put operations, 1 scan (which is actually meant to process not only these updates) that goes through 360 records (stored in sequence), it calculates resulting record, and performs 1 Put operation to store the result back. Fewer operations means using less resources and this leads to more efficient processing. Moreover, if the value which needs to be updated is a complex one (needs time to load in memory, etc.) it is much more efficient to apply all updates at once than one by one individually.
Deferring processing of updates is especially effective when large portion of operations is in essence insertion of new data, but not an update of stored data. In this case a lot of Get operations (checking if there's something to update) are redundant.
Better Handling of Update Load Peaks
Deferring processing of updates helps handle load peaks without major performance degradation. The actual (periodic) processing of updates can be scheduled for off-peak time (e.g. nights or weekends).
Ability to Rollback Updates
Since updates don't change the existing data (until they are processed) rolling back is easy.
Preserving rollback ability even after updates were compacted is also not hard. Updates can be grouped and compacted within time periods of given length as shown in the picture below. That means the client that reads data will still have to merge updates on-the-fly even right after compaction is finished. However using the proper configuration this isn't going to be a problem as the number of records to be merged on the fly will be small enough.
Consider the following example where the goal is to keep all-time avg value for particular sensor. Let's say data is collected every 10 seconds for 30 days, which gives 259200 separately written data points. While compacting on-the-fly this amount of values might be quite fast for a medium-large HBase cluster, performing periodic compaction will improve reading speed a lot. Let's say we perform updates processing every 4 hours and use 1 hour interval as compacting base (as shown in the picture above). This gives us, at any point in time, less than 2430 + 460*6 = 2,160 non-compacted records that need to be processed on-the-fly when fetching resulting record for 30 days. This is a small number of records and can be processed very fast. At the same time it is possible to perform rollback to any point in time with 1 hour granularity.
In case system should store more historical data, but we don't care about rolling it back (if nothing wrong was found during 30 days the data is likely to be OK) then compaction can be configured to process all data older than 30 days as one group (i.e. merge into one record).
Automatic Handling of Task Failures which Write Data to HBase
Typical scenario: task updating HBase data fails in the middle of writing – some data was written, some not. Ideally we should be able to simply restart the same task (on the same input data) so that new one performs needed updates without corrupting data because some write operations were duplicate.
In the suggested solution every update is written as a new record. In order to make sure that performing the same (literally the same, not just similar) update operation multiple times does not result in multiple separate update operations, in which case data will be corrupted, every update operation should write to the record with the same row key from any task attempts. This results in overriding the same single record (if it was created by failed task) and avoiding doing the same update multiple times which in turn means that data is not corrupted.
This especially convenient in situations when we write to HBase table from MapReduce tasks, as MapReduce framework restarts failed tasks for you. With the given approach we can say that handling task failures happens automatically – no extra effort to manually roll back previous task changes and starting a new task is needed.
Below are the major drawbacks of the suggested solution. Usually there are ways to reduce their effect on your system depending on the specific case (e.g. by tuning HBase appropriately or by adjusting parameters involved in data compaction logic).
- merging on the fly takes time. Properly configuring periodic updates processing is a key to keeping data fetching fast.
- when performing compaction, scanning of many records that don't need to be compacted can happen (already compacted or "alone-standing" records). Compaction can usually be performed only on data written after the previous compaction which allows to use efficient time-based filters to reduce the impact here.
Solving these issues may be implementation-specific. We'll bring them up again when talking about our implementation in the follow up post.
Implemenation: Meet HBaseHUT
Suggested solution was implemented and open-sourced as HBaseHUT project. HBaseHUT will be covered in the follow up post shortly.
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One of the most popular songs of all time, Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," has been sold at auction for more than $2 million.
Sotheby's offered the working draft of the finished song in Dylan's own hand for auction Tuesday. It says the selling price is a world record for a popular music manuscript. It includes a buyer's premium.
The draft is written in pencil on four sheets of hotel letterhead stationery with revisions, additions, notes and doodles.
Dylan was only 24 when he recorded the song in 1965.
The song is about a debutante who becomes a loner when she's cast from upper-class social circles.
The auction house says it is "the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem."


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Ever heard of European Placement Organisation??? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Ever heard of European Placement Organisation??? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Europe Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message deniseritaJoined: 03 Nov 2009Posts: 50Location: Chicago, IL Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:49 am Post subject: Ever heard of European Placement Organisation??? Hi all, I just received an email from European Placement Organisation. Has anyone ever heard of them? They are saying that I am able to teach in Western Europe and do not need a EU passport....all the other recruitment agencies have told me that I do need a European Passport. There is a fee to use their service. I have heard people on Dave's say that you shouldn't pay recruiters. I am just waiting for my final document to come back to send off to Korea for an ESL job. When I first started looking for teaching positions I wanted a Western European country but ultimately realized that was not going to happen so changed to look as the Asian market and did accept a job there. So after all of that, now I get an email stating that yes I can work in Europe without an EU passport. Have anyone every heard of them? Here is the link. http://www.tefl-europe.com/ Any input would be great! Thanks Denise Back to top spiral78Joined: 05 Apr 2004Posts: 11531Location: On a Short Leash Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:48 pm Post subject: Quote: First of all you need a valid contract in order to apply for a work permit. The duration of this process depends on the country. Once in Europe the process of becoming legal (for non-european-citizen) is relatively simple. To get a residency permit you need to provide proof of work, proof of health insurance, and proof that you have made arrangements for paying into the pension fund. In addition, you have to provide a local address. The best approach is to go to the local registration office as soon as you have a teaching contract. They will tell you what additional steps you need to take and will give you a temporary 6-month visa while you fulfill the requirements. Sounds like you are essentially on your own. Valid teaching contract is the first (insurmountable in most cases) hurdle. Getting local health insurance and proof that you are paying into the pension fund? Local address means that your landlord must sign a paper saying that he/she is renting a place to someone (currently) without papers. They say it's 'relatively simple,' but you'd want to ask someone who's actually been through the process. The problem, again, is that you need an employer willing to jump through all the legal hoops to hire you, provide you with the contract, health insurance, and tax id numbers - when they can usually get an EU national without any hassle whatsoever. Ask them how much it costs:-) And whether they will wait for payment until you are settled into the Western European country of your choice with all the legal documents you need to live and work there legally in your hands. Back to top artemisiaJoined: 04 Nov 2008Posts: 875Location: the world Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:01 pm Post subject: They have job adverts with some odd starting dates (eg. July/ Dec for Europe?) While these jobs (assuming they exist) are probably not in international schools, what I read recently from the information on international schools included in job mailers sent out by Teachanywhere.com on Europe might be something to consider: Quote: Europe, however, is often another story. With the formation of the European Union, most British and International schools located in Western Europe are finding it very difficult to get authorisation to hire teachers from outside the European Union. (A list of EU countries is HERE). This is because the European Union was formed to provide both increased political power and a highly mobile workforce and the feeling is that schools should be able to find sufficient staff within the many member states before going outside of the EU. In our mailers, you will see references to EU Passports needed, meaning that non-EU teachers will not be considered. You will be wasting our time and your own if you apply for these jobs without having an EU passport in hand. Some schools, such as those using US curricula, have been able to get permission to hire outside the EU but even this requires a long lead time many months. Usually they will require that you have very specific experience such as at least 1 year of teaching US Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) level to prove to the immigration authorities that your skills cannot be found locally. We do not have many of these clients, however, and when they have last minute vacancies they frequently require teachers who already have EU passports to avoid delays. Non EU countries such as Russia do not have this requirement and are allowed to sponsor teachers, and some of the newer EU countries are more flexible. Therefore, we find that European placements for non-EU teachers are difficult to find through our agency- impossible in some countries such as Spain, Italy and France - and we recommend that teachers without an EU passport also think about other regions such as the Middle East, Far East, Southeast Asia and Africa where sponsorship is always provided, as well as Eastern Europe. Back to top Teacher in RomeJoined: 09 Jul 2003Posts: 1286 Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:29 am Post subject: Quote: The best approach is to go to the local registration office as soon as you have a teaching contract. They will tell you what additional steps you need to take and will give you a temporary 6-month visa while you fulfill the requirements. Hilarious. They obviously haven't been to Italy. Finding anyone who knows what additional steps you need to take will be interesting. And a temporary six-month visa? The local registration office (i.e. in your comune) can't give out visas... Back to top deniseritaJoined: 03 Nov 2009Posts: 50Location: Chicago, IL Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:57 am Post subject: Thanks for the input..Yea I knew it couldn't be as easy as they were making it seem. I'll keep my plans for Korea:) Thanks Denise Back to top jonniboyJoined: 18 Jun 2006Posts: 751Location: Panama City, Panama Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:23 pm Post subject: You could work in Europe yes, but not in Western Europe or the "old EU" (the 15 countries that were EU members pre 2004.) Without specialised quals you have very little chance of getting legal work in places like Spain or Italy. Eastern European countries are often possible for non-EU passport holders to teach in. Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15341 Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:48 am Post subject: Is their ISP located in Abuja, Nigeria. 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While Game On will continue to be The Denver Post's main site for video game news and reviews, and DenverPost.com/VideoGames will continue to run the best national video games articles from the print edition of the paper, we thought we should tell you about a new player in town.
We've recently launched a video games column on The Cannabist — our brand-spanking new site dedicated to marijuana culture — called High Scores (haha), which looks at the long and loving relationship between video games and cannabis.
So far we've got our introduction piece, which looks at the historical dance between the two, as well as an interview with the author of a fascinating new book called "God in the Machine: Video Games and Religion."


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It's the white-knuckle trailer for a new scifi flick with Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith (yes, they play father and son). The effects look sweet, and I like the idea that — as Smith says in the trailer — "everything has evolved to kill humans."
Yes, it's directed by The Happening and The Last Airbender schlockmeister M. Night Shyamalan, but shut up! Those mega-birds look freakin' awesome.
Here's the official synopsis:
A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an unstoppable alien creature that escaped during the crash. Father and son must learn to work together and trust one another if they want any chance of returning home.
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Eighties boy band Bros are getting back together - more than 20 years after they called it a day.
Twin brothers Matt and Luke Goss - who enjoyed a huge hit with the track When Will I Be Famous? - will play London's O2 Arena on 19 August next year.
The pair, who are now 48, inspired teenagers to wear bottle caps on the shoes in their heyday.
Matt, who has enjoyed a solo career since they split, said: "As the lead singer of the band, my musical connection has always been with Luke. Bros is Matt and Luke."
Bros last played together in 1989 and split in 1992.
Matt recently dismissed speculation about a reunion, saying: "Bros is always surrounded by rumours. I think if it was going to happen it would come out of my mouth and my brother's mouth."
The band will perform their old hits. Luke said he is excited about the reunion, and a little nervous.
"I'm like a big kid right now. I'm pinching myself," he said.
He said he always wanted to reunite with his brother and "didn't want to resist it any more. I have always wanted it to happen in my heart but wanted it to be at the right time," he said.
"This is a dream come true. It's always something I've wanted to do but at the right level."
Matt promised the concert would be a "spectacle" and the best show Bros have ever performed.
He said he and his brother "were in a good place together."
Matt said Craig Logan - who left the band in 1989 - was welcome to join them, but he was focused on his career as a music executive. Asked whether there would be more gigs, Luke said the duo would "see how it goes".


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The degree in Translation and Interpretation Studies provides students proficient in both English and Spanish with an opportunity to develop and perfect their linguistic skills and cultural knowledge to pursue a career in the field of translation and interpretation. The areas covered by the B.A. in Translation and Interpretation Studies include technical vocabulary acquisition (legal, medical, business, technical, etc.), written translation research methodology (including the identification and use of primary and secondary sources), sight translation, and consecutive and simultaneous interpretation. The training covers memorization and concentration techniques in terminology acquisition and in both consecutive and simultaneous interpretation such as decalage and the incremental sentence. Instruction includes terminology and methodology resources, extensive use of the internet, court and medical transcripts and documents, video tapes, and numerous audio tapes. Students are trained in the classroom and in the new state-of-the-art simultaneous interpretation laboratory at CSULB. Students work both individually and in groups in written and sight translation, and in the consecutive and simultaneous modes of interpretation, to prepare to work in State, Federal and Immigration courts, in the medical and business sectors, in civil legal litigation, for state agencies such as the Department of Social Services, the Housing Authority and the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the film industry, and conference interpretation. The purpose of the B.A. is to provide students with in-depth training which is at the same time extensive and varied enough to make graduates highly marketable in both the public and private sectors. The B.A. in Translation and Interpretation Studies also provides invaluable training for students pursuing degrees in Business, Chicano and Latino Studies, Criminal Justice, Finance, Real Estate and Law, Health Sciences, International Studies, Journalism, and Political Science, among many other fields.
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In a Washington Examiner column last night, Gregory Kane made several quite valid points in comparing the media firestorm over Rush Limbaugh's comments about Sarah Fluke to the virtual silence over Des Moines Register columnist Donald Kaul, who, if he were in charge, "would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner ... to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control." Kaul also wrote that he would, "If some people refused to give up their guns," make "that 'prying the guns from their cold, dead hands' thing" operative.
Confirming what readers here would expect, a search at the Associated Press's national web site on Kaul's last name comes up empty. Key paragraphs from Kane's column follow the jump (HT Instapundit; bolds are mine):
Let's go back to 2012, when talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh called "women's reproductive rights" advocate Sandra Fluke a slut. Remember the reaction?
There were calls for Limbaugh's head. Some sponsors pulled out of his show. He was soundly criticized, and rightly so. I was one of the critics.
Fast-forward to late December of 2012, when an American newspaper published an op-ed piece in which the writer calls for the government to declare a perfectly legal organization whose members had broken no laws a terrorist group and make membership in it illegal.
The writer further suggests leaders of the opposition party in Congress be chained to pickup trucks and dragged around until they changed their views to those of the party in power.
As sort of a coup de grace, the writer then suggests that Americans unwilling to surrender their firearms to the government be summarily executed in their homes.
If that sounds like the writer was advocating a totalitarian state with a government that commits mass murder, that's because that's precisely what he was advocating.
... If some of Limbaugh's sponsors abandoned him, shouldn't the paper's advertisers yank their ads?
... Now let's briefly recap: Limbaugh calls Fluke a slut, gets universally condemned and has sponsors abandon his show. Fluke gets a call of support from President Obama.
Neither McConnell nor Boehner should hold their breath waiting for that call from Obama. Kaul's vitriolic invective will be viewed as good old left-wing civility.
Indeed. And I should empahasize that what Limbaugh said cannot be credibly construed as "hate speech." Sandra Fluke defined what she is for us in her own "testimony" at a bogus, non-official "hearing"; Limbaugh merely summarized it one questionably appropriate word.
Continuing Kane's final thought, I won't hold my breath for negative blowback at the Des Moines Register, where Kaul's column still resides, for Obama to consistently apply his calls for "civility," or for any more than a very few establishment press members to condemn Kaul.
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YG Acoustics Anat Reference II Professional loudspeaker
I could go on: William Z. Johnson of Audio Research Corp., and Bill Conrad and Lew Johnson of Conrad-Johnson, bucking the solid-state hegemony of the 1980s with tubes. The insistence of Naim's Julian Vereker on the primacy of the power supply. Meridian Audio's Bob Stuart touting just about any of his unconventional designs (was there any other kind?). Progress is not made by reasonable menand it's arrogance only if, in the end, you're proven wrong.
In the end, the question of whether YG Acoustics' Yoav Geva, in his ads, is arrogant or merely stating the obvious would be answered not by reading his ad copy, but by diving in and listening to his speakerswhich is what I decided to do when Geva invited me to his factory in Arvada, Colorado, for a factory tour and an extended listening session.
In person, Geva was more modest. "It may not actually be the best loudspeaker in the world," he said. "I maintain that it belongs in the category of the best loudspeakers in the world." But he was unable to leave it there. "And it is the best-measuring loudspeaker in the world."
Oh. Really?
You're Camembert
The Anat Reference II Professional ($107,000/pair) is a modular loudspeaker consisting of three discrete modules: the Anat Reference Main Module (108 lbs), the Studio passive subwoofer (160 lbs), and the Professional powered subwoofer (400W, 172 lbs). Yes, that's 440 lbs per channel. When you buy the AR II Pros, one thing you should expect is that your dealer install and position them in your listening room.
For all of the details on this loudspeaker, go to YGA's website; here, I'll list a few of the highlights. Each YGA module is machined from aircraft-grade 6061 T651 aluminum; the front baffles of the Anat-series speakers are made of a "ballistic-grade" alloy of aluminum and titanium. Geva claims that this compound is stiffer and stronger than other aluminum alloys, and offers "faster propagation of sound and resonance evacuation." The Anat Reference 's crossover uses a proprietary topology set at 1.75kHz, and offers a nominal load of 4 ohms (2.75 minimal). The Professional subwoofer modules that were supplied had the 800W class-A/B amplifier module (a 400W version is available).
Geva insists that by using the stiffest material he can machine, he can make his speakers "virtually" resonance-free; he claims that they're the "deadest, stiffest, strongest, least diffractive, and acoustically most desirable" speakers made. Using a sophisticated computer program of his own design, Geva says he has achieved "ruler-flat frequency response," making the YGA speakers "the only loudspeakers optimized in both frequency and time domains."
One last thing: Geva claims that his loudspeakers are not voiced, or otherwise created with any "human bias." Seeing my shocked expression, he hastened to add that he verifies by human experience, but establishes the speaker's performance solely through measurements. Does that mean that if he produced a speaker that measured right but sounded wrong, he wouldn't change it? "I would question the measurement in that case and refine my methodology."
You're a Coolidge dollar
Setting up the Anat Reference II Pros is not for wimps. They're shipped in six custom aluminum flight cases, leaving you with a curbside weight of nigh unto a ton. YGA has no dealer in New York City, so they shipped the AR II Pros to my house. Sales manager Dick Diamond arrived to help me schlep them inside and assemble them. Did I get preferential treatment? Hell noI can't imagine any customer who can buy +$100k loudspeakers winding up on the heavy end of a 172-lb subwoofer or having to clean and jerk a 108-lb Anat Reference to its mounting height of 4' atop the Studio woofer module which in turn sits atop the Professional woofer module. On the other hand, I did get a good look inside the Professional subwooferit needs to be partially disassembled onsite so that it can be rigidly bolted to the Studio. (No such disassembly is required to bolt the Anat to the Studio; their rail systems provide solid connections, and are then bolted solidly together.) The end result is a single rigid unit for each channel. Final adjustments in focus are accommodated by use of floor spikes of different size, a process best left to last: once you spike 'em, the YGAs aren't going anywhere.
At this point, we ran into a snag. Dick Diamond asked me for two identical pairs of speaker cablesone for the Anat, one for the Studio subwoofer (the Professional sub was hooked up with balanced interconnect). Well, geez, even audio reviewers (this one, at any rate) don't have two identical pairs of expensive speaker cable just lying around. We compromised on a pair of Kimber Monocle jumpers to connect the Anat Studio's binding posts to the amplifier output posts on the Professional module.
At first, I'd assumed that Diamond's insistence on an ultra-high-quality 6' length of speaker cable was pickiness, but as I continued to listen to the AR II Pros, I discovered that they could reveal extremely small differencessometimes surprising ones. Any setup tweaks you might normally perform will pay huge dividends. Ayre Myrtle wood blocks under the Ayre KX-R preamplifier? Huge. Cable dressing? Ditto.


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The first rule of winter driving: Slow down in slick conditions. The second rule of winter driving: Leave plenty of braking room when visibility drops. These guys get it completely wrong. To be fair, so did about a hundred other drivers. (Warning: NSFW due to gratuitous profanity.)
This massive pileup occurred outside Helsinki, a place where you'd think competent snow driving would be all but inborn. No one was killed, but cumulative insurance claims are sure to be significant. We hope that one of the on-scene cops got out in front of this with some flares or something before too many others came bumbling in, or else this chain reaction could back up all the way to Lahti.
Essentially all of Europe is still in the grip of a winter cold front that has killed well over a hundred people and endangered thousands more. Conditions are expected to remain brutally cold for weeks to come.


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I have a desktop that I put on the floor. I put my iPhone on top of the desktop, and accidentally I stumbled on the desktop and the phone dropped to the floor.
When I picked it up the screen was OK, the phone was still functioning as normal. And it appeared as if it never dropped. But what I worried is that it may suffer internal damage that I can't see from the surface.
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Friday ReadsPosted: November 2, 2012 Filed under: morning reads | Tags: child sexual assault, CRS, grave goods, Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, Superstorm Sandy, Tammy Baldwin, Tammy Duckworth, tax rate study, trickle down economics lies 92 Comments
Good Morning!!
I'm going to start out with an economics link today because I really get mad when partisan politics pushes an agenda that puts ignorance ahead of unbiased studies. This is a prime example of why I no longer trust a single Republican to do what's best for our country. Congress asked for a study from the CRS –a nonpartisan, highly respected research source for Congress–on the relationship between high tax rates for high incomes and economic activity. It didn't produce the results sought by Republicans so they squashed it. I've shared a lot of studies over our years together that show the same thing including one a few weeks ago. This is just one study showing that taxing rich people really doesn't hurt the economy. This just makes me want to scream.
The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a central tenet of conservative economic theory, after Senate Republicans raised concerns about the paper's findings and wording.
The decision, made in late September against the advice of the agency's economic team leadership, drew almost no notice at the time. Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, cited the study a week and a half after it was withdrawn in a speech on tax policy at the National Press Club.
But it could actually draw new attention to the report, which questions the premise that lowering the top marginal tax rate stimulates economic growth and job creation.
"This has hues of a banana republic," Mr. Schumer said. "They didn't like a report, and instead of rebutting it, they had them take it down."
Republicans did not say whether they had asked the research service, a nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress, to take the report out of circulation, but they were clear that they protested its tone and findings.
Don Stewart, a spokesman for the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said Mr. McConnell and other senators "raised concerns about the methodology and other flaws." Mr. Stewart added that people outside of Congress had also criticized the study and that officials at the research service "decided, on their own, to pull the study pending further review."
Senate Republican aides said they had protested both the tone of the report and its findings. Aides to Mr. McConnell presented a bill of particulars to the research service that included objections to the use of the term "Bush tax cuts" and the report's reference to "tax cuts for the rich," which Republicans contended was politically freighted.
They also protested on economic grounds, saying that the author, Thomas L. Hungerford, was looking for a macroeconomic response to tax cuts within the first year of the policy change without sufficiently taking into account the time lag of economic policies. Further, they complained that his analysis had not taken into account other policies affecting growth, such as the Federal Reserve's decisions on interest rates.
"There were a lot of problems with the report from a real, legitimate economic analysis perspective," said Antonia Ferrier, a spokeswoman for the Senate Finance Committee's Republicans. "We relayed them to C.R.S. It was a good discussion. We have a good, constructive relationship with them. Then it was pulled."
The pressure applied to the research service comes amid a broader Republican effort to raise questions about research and statistics that were once trusted as nonpartisan and apolitical.
This is just one of a series of topics important to our future where we can depend on Republicans to ignore data, theory, and scientific evidence. The worst ones come within the hard sciences like those dealing with in utero fetal development and climate change but this is just more of the same. They want their ideology and have no regard for empirical evidence found through scientific research that shows just how wrong they really are. More evidence that Republicans are insidious.
So, it's Friday and we're going to entertain my weird obsession of learning about people through graves and grave goods yet again. Here's my secret treasure trove of links and how Hurricane Sandy has exposed an interesting grave site.
Superstorm Sandy shut down Archaeology News for two days, and uprooted a tree in New Haven, Connecticut, that revealed a human skeleton. Authorities think the burial dates from the colonial era, when the site was used as a cemetery. The tree was planted in 1909 to commemorate the 100thanniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
In the 1950s, a skeleton with metal spikes through its shoulders, heart, and ankles was found in central England, but a report on the discovery has just been made available. The burial dates to between 550 and 700 A.D. Such treatment of the dead was considered to be appropriate for individuals thought to be capable of returning to life and causing problems for the living. Scholars are no longer sure where this particular rare burial is located. "Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period the punishment of being buried in water-logged ground, face down, decapitated, staked or otherwise was reserved for thieves, murderers, or traitors or later for those deviants who did not conform to society's rules: adulterers, disrupters of the peace, the unpious or oath breaker. Which of these the Southwell deviant was we will never know," said archaeologist Matthew Beresford.
Guess we'll have to wait to see what they think about this newest find.
So, I think we need a little more female representation, experience and wisdom in our government so I'm so happy to see that Tammy Baldwin is ahead in Wisconsin and will play a key role in what goes on in the Senate in the upcoming Congress. She's been targeted by the worst of the worst and is running against Tommy Thompson who is a Republican favorite son.
New polls show Rep. Tammy Baldwin, the Democratic candidate for Wisconsin's vacant U.S. Senate seat, with a four-point lead over her Republican challenger, former governor Tommy Thompson, in a race which may determine control of the Senate and had previously been considered a lock for Republicans. If Baldwin is elected she would likely follow in the footsteps of Wisconsin's Russ Feingold and be one of the more independent and progressive members of the U.S. Senate.
Outside groups like Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity are spending millions on ads tagging Baldwin as "too liberal" for Wisconsin, and a variety of Democratic groups have criticized Thompson for his work at a lobbying firm with ties to outsourcing, helping make the state's close Senate race the second-most expensive for outside money in the country and themost expensive in state history. The intensity of the race has also made it exceptionally negative , underscoring how close the race has become and its national importance.
Another race that is exciting is in Illinois where Tammy Duckworth will most likely take down Joe Walsh who is one of the worst of the worst Tea Baggers. However, tons of big money is flooding into the race so we need to show Tammy all of our love and support.
Though the latest polls say U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh is likely to lose to Democrat Tammy Duckworth next week, key members of Chicago's corporate community and a couple of huge super PACs are coming to his aid, leading to a furious exchange of verbiage over whether at least the spirit of the law has been broken.
The corporate cash comes from the Exelon Corp. PAC, the Hospira Inc. PAC and Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Chief Operating Officer John Carpenter, each of whom donated $2,500 to Mr. Walsh's campaign committee in reports filed with the Federal Election Commission earlier this week.
There's nothing particularly controversial in those donations, though some Republicans say privately that the money could have been better spent elsewhere.
But much bigger cash — and a much larger flap — has arisen over a late $1 million "independent" expenditure on Mr. Walsh's behalf by the Missouri-based Now or Never super PAC.
If you'll recall, Now or Never spent $2 million and said it was "seriously considering" dropping in another $2.5 million here, but then said it changed its mind. But last night, the group sent reporters an email saying it had changed its mind again and decided to spend another $1 million on anti-Duckworth TV ads.
"This is a resource and opportunity-based reversal," Now or Never spokesman Tyler Harber emailed me. Recent negative reports about Ms. Duckworth "presented us with an opportunity to deliver an effective closing message."
But Mr. Harber didn't respond when I asked him who paid for the late blitz. That's pertinent because earlier this year, Now or Never had been getting the vast bulk of its funding from another group, Americans for Limited Government, which does not disclose its funding. And the Duckworth campaign says ALG Chairman Howard Rich and his wife both have donated to Mr. Walsh's personal campaign committee in the last year, raising questions of whether the ALG/Now or Never spending truly is uncoordinated, as the law requires.
Please send the Tammys some money!! Donations to Tammy Baldwin can be sent here. Donations to Tammy Duckworth can be sent here.
The CSM has an interesting article up on Penn State's former President–Spanier– who was indicted for a variety of things related to Sandusky's horrible, serial, long term acts of child sexual assault. I find this an interesting set of law suits given similar actions by Bishops and others from Catholic Archdioceses all over the country and the hierarchy of the Boy Scouts. Both organizations have engaged in similar patterns of behavior when confronted with the sexual assault of young boys on their watch and have not been confronted with the same tough legal retributions. Schultz here refers to a now retired VP who is yet to be charged. Hasn't there been evidence of prior knowledge and cover-up in other institutions? Why can't we protect our children and decrease the incidence of sexual predators in our society?
Schultz kept a file about the 1998 and 2001 incidents involving Sandusky at his campus office and told staff members never to look in the file, Kelly said.
It was removed from the office on the day charges against Sandusky were announced and delivered to Schultz's home.
The file's existence, along with other information relevant to the grand jury investigation, was not disclosed until after Spanier was fired and trustees ordered full cooperation with the probe, she said.
I'm going to end with a thought from a female Buddha since I've just about had it with male energy after reading that article. She's an emanation of female wisdom and wow, do we need some of that today.
"When you arrive at the extinction of reality, there is nothing but the spontaneity of pure potential. There is no other way to dance in the sky."
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Congressman Alan Grayson gave an interview to Wall Street Cheat Sheet's Damien Hoffman, which includes the following bombshells:
H.R. 1207 is one of the simplest bills imaginable. Unlike the healthcare bill which is over 1000 pages, H.R. 1207 is a page and a half. The bill lists the existing exclusion of the Federal Reserve from oversight by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and allows the GAO — an independent body — to audit the Federal Reserve Bank.
The Federal Reserve Bank has not had an independent audit since it was created almost 100 years ago, and it needs an audit. Many times we have exposed gross acts of irresponsibility on the part of the Federal Reserve. So, we need to dig in and get details.
Just a few weeks ago, while Chairman Bernanke was testifying to Congress, we examined the Fed balance sheet and P&L statement only to find what looked like the Fed handing over half a trillion dollars to foreigners. This was very surprising! When I asked Chairman Bernanke if this was true, he said, "Yes." When I asked him who got the money, he said, "Fourteen foreign Central Banks." And when I asked to who did they give the money, he said, "I don't know." "I don't know" is not good enough when you're talking about $500 billion. That's $1700 for every man, woman, and child in this country...
They are performing a truly remarkable, surreptitious transfer of wealth from public to private hands. They are taking their ability to print money and shore up failed banks. They are simply stuffing money into the pockets of private interests.
In the case of the half a trillion dollars, they stuffed the money into foreign private pockets. In the case of another $230 billion, it has been tracked as a secret bailout to Citicorp in the US. The fact is the Federal Reserve continuously puts all of us on the hook for decisions they make to play favorites with private interests to the tune of trillions of dollars...
The Federal Reserve's own website has some incredibly interesting information about the general state of the US economy and the distribution of wealth in our country. I was recently reading our national wealth capped out at $62 trillion two-years ago has crashed to $50 trillion since. Those are Federal Reserve statistics on their website.


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Weight, Guerin lead U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame classby Adam Kimelman
DETROIT -- Through all the teams, through all the years, Bill Guerin encapsulated his friendship with Doug Weight at the beginning of his speech Monday during the induction ceremony for the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.
"Dougie told me he has an A speech and a B speech," Guerin said, laughing. "So I better tread lightly."
A friendship that began in the early 1990s at an Olympic festival when the two were amateurs came full circle Monday, when they were inducted together into the U.S. Hockey Hall.
Joining them in this year's group was former Michigan State University coach Ron Mason, women's hockey pioneer Cindy Curley, and Carolina Hurricanes owner Peter Karmanos.
2013 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame blogBy NHL.com Staff
Learn more about the five icons who were enshrined in the United States Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday in Detroit. READ MORE ›
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- Guerin, Curley give thanks to Devils GM Lamoriello
- Curley thought U.S. Hall call was a mistake
- Bettman calls Karmanos' influence 'immeasurable'
- Guerin eyes advancement in his new career
- USA Today writer Allen honored with Lester Patrick
In addition, USA Today national hockey writer Kevin Allen was honored with the Lester Patrick Award for contributions to hockey in the United States.
The stars of the show here at the Sound Board Theater at the Motor City Casino, however, were Guerin and Weight. The two were teammates on three NHL teams (Edmonton Oilers, St. Louis Blues, New York Islanders), the 1996 United States World Cup team, and the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Olympics.
"It couldn't have worked out any better," Guerin said. "Dougie is not only the ultimate teammate, but the ultimate friend. He's always got your back, he's always got your best interests. He's got a great heart. He's got a great family. He's just a great guy. I love the guy."
Their friendship dates to an Olympic festival in St. Cloud, Minn., in 1990.
"We were doing one of those camps in the summer," Weight said. "He was with his Boston boys, beaking all us Michigan guys. It tended to be you knew the four or five guys from your area and four or five days into it you'd meet the other guys. We'd have a good time."
They were reunited on the memorable 1996 U.S. World Cup team that saw the Americans win the best-of-3 final against Canada by winning the final two games in Montreal. Weight had three goals and four assists in seven games; Guerin had two assists and 17 penalty minutes.
In January 1998, they were reunited again. The New Jersey Devils traded Guerin to the Edmonton Oilers, and the two formed a productive partnership.
"I had a chance to play with him in Edmonton when we got him in a trade," Weight said. "I was ecstatic. We had a great time out there. He loved it. Every time I played with Billy, it was great. I enjoyed it."
Partnerships with the Blues and Islanders cemented the friendship.
"The relationship just took off then between myself and Doug and [wives] Kara and Allison and now our kids," Guerin said. "Our kids match up. It's fantastic. It's been a lot of holidays spent together, lot of vacations spent together. They're a special family."
Guerin isn't the only member of this year's class that Weight has a deep relationship with. A Detroit native, Weight played with and against Karmanos' Compuware youth programs, and decades later they won a Stanley Cup together with the Carolina Hurricanes.
"Winning a Stanley Cup is special," Karmanos said. "Winning a Stanley Cup with a kid that played on teams that we sponsored and played on teams we didn't sponsor made it even more special."
To honor his relationship with Karmanos, Weight wore his Hurricanes 2006 Stanley Cup championship ring.
"I was thinking about wearing an Olympic ring or a World Cup ring," Weight said. "But I had to wear that because he's here and going in with me."
Karmanos was inducted as much for his success with the Compuware program as for anything he's accomplished in the NHL. The Compuware program now features teams for boys and girls of all ages, and has sent a number of players to the NHL, among them Pat LaFontaine and Eric Lindros. And it all started because Karmanos was looking for a way to spend more time with his children.
"I decided in 1973, 1974 to take my kids skating because we had started this company and I wasn't spending any time with them," Karmanos said. "Trying to start a business and working the hours you have to work and not seeing your children and the chance on a Saturday and Sunday to take them to learn-to-skate programs really seemed to go hand in hand. From that point of view hockey was as great game."
While Karmanos enjoyed working with youth players, Mason was getting them as teenagers and helping turn them into men. In 36 seasons at Lake Superior State, Bowling Green State and Michigan State, Mason retired in 2002 with more wins than any NCAA coach.
"It all comes down to recruiting them," Mason said. "You're going to go to school, you're going to get a degree. Your hockey ability is going to develop to a certain extent and hopefully we can help you get it to the next level. If not, you're going to have a great life. I think college hockey especially has that opportunity to at least put you in a position to be successful."
Mason said he always wanted to be a teacher and a coach but after some time he realized it was too much work.
"I was able to teach and I was able to coach," he said. "That all happened when I was in graduate school. I got sick of going to school. I came home one night and I told my wife, 'I can't keep this up.' Going to school all those years got to me. I said, 'I wouldn't mind being just a hockey coach.'"
It worked out well for four decades.
"It's something special," Mason said. "This isn't something that you dream about. You dream about winning the lottery maybe, but not something like this. If you put a lot of years in like I did, both as a player and as a coach and an athletic director, it's nice to be rewarded at the end of it. It tells you you did some things right and you worked hard at what you do and you loved your profession."
Curley was a pioneer in the women's game, first as a four-season star at Providence College then with United States teams, starting with the 1990 IIHF Women's World Championship. In five games, she set tournament records in goals (11), assists (12) and points (23).
"It was such an honor to put on the USA Hockey jersey," Curley said. "It was hard to know what to expect because we hadn't had a team before, but every piece was outstanding. It wasn't fun losing to Canada (the U.S. won the silver medal), but the rest of it was great."
Allen, in his 28th season as the national hockey writer for USA Today, said winning the Lester Patrick Award gave him a deeper understanding of what it meant for all the players he interviewed who had won the Stanley Cup.
"It's really been a humbling experience," Allen told NHL.com. "I've interviewed so many guys when they win the Cup and they said it's surreal and indescribable and not knowing what to say, that's kind of what I'm going with now. I guess I understand what they're saying. I'm not comparing it to winning a Cup, but I think the emotions for them, it's similar to what I feel."
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said what stood out to him about all the honorees Monday was the class and dignity with which they carried themselves.
"This is a group that not only contributed to the growth of the game in the United States, not only had careers of excellence, they're all really nice people," Bettman told NHL.com. "It's always great to get the hockey family together and celebrate excellence and accomplishments, particularly when it's really good people."


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O's home run barrage continues in series win
Joseph homers in fifth straight game while Jimenez has quality start
BALTIMORE -- The Orioles' anniversary celebration was long over Saturday afternoon, the prior night's fireworks and laser show already a thing of the past. But the O's mashing, which went to the tune of a six-homer 12-2 Friday night win? Still very much alive.
Baltimore piled on Cardinals starter John Lackey, picking up right where it left off in a double-digit hit contest that featured new club records -- for catcher Caleb Joseph -- and milestones for slugger Nelson Cruz. The pair each went deep, and were joined by a two-run shot by Delmon Young, to give right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez plenty of support in his return from the disabled list.
The end result, a 10-3 series victory over the reigning National League champion Cardinals, puts the surging Orioles a season-high 18 games over .500 and six games up in the American League East for the first time since Sept. 15, 1997.
An enviable position, no doubt. But manager Buck Showalter's club isn't one to relish where they are in the standings.
"These guys are as volatile each time you go out there, and if you let your guard down, there's somebody there to pop you back to reality," Showalter said following the Orioles' seventh consecutive series win. "We understand the number of games left and the opportunity we have, and I don't think the guys want to let a day pass without getting closer to their goal."
The O's keep inching toward October, lighting up Lackey -- St. Louis' Trade Deadline acquisition-- for a season-high nine runs over five-plus innings as their lineup continues to click on all cylinders. The O's, who knocked Justin Masterson out of the game early on Friday, hit nine home runs by eight different players over a 13-inning span and have scored 40 runs over the past six games, 22 of which have been in the first two games of the series.
"We've faced their guy a few times because he was over in the American League, so that probably helps a little bit," Joseph said. "You hope it's seven days a week, not just one day a week, but we're realistic and we know you're never as good as you think you are, you're never as bad as you think you are."
Joseph has had a heavy hand in the recent offensive outbreak, as the 28-year-old rookie set a new Orioles record in becoming the first catcher to homer in five consecutive games. Down two early as Jimenez struggled with command, issuing two walks before he recorded the second out of the game, the Orioles took the lead in a three-run second inning capped by Joseph's two-run shot. Shortstop J.J. Hardy, fresh off a two-homer game, singled and scored on Young's double, with Joseph clobbering Lackey's first pitch to send the crowd to its feet.
"I'm not talking about it," Showalter said with a grin when asked about Joseph's streak. "I know he is. I think I'm more impressed by the way he and Nick [Hundley] are catching our pitching staff."
Jimenez, making his first start since July 5, was able to settle down and turn in a quality start in his six innings. Despite bullpen activity as early as the fourth, Jimenez held the Cardinals to one run after the first two innings and picked up his second win in 10 home starts.
"It felt great," Jimenez said of pitching in front of the packed crowd of 40,894. "It felt like every pitch means something right now because everyone is aware of what we are doing."
Jimenez needed 27 pitches to get through the first inning, and it could have been more if not for a play at the plate. With runners on first and second with two outs, Jhonny Peralta hit a double to left field. Matt Carpenter scored easily from second, but Young fired the ball to Jonathan Schoop, who relayed the throw to Joseph at the plate to throw out Matt Holliday. After Holliday was ruled out, Matheny requested a crew chief review. After a short review period, the call was confirmed. Young also continued to give the Orioles some fantastic at-bats in a limited role, taking Lackey deep for a two-run homer in the fifth inning.
Cruz went deep before that, hitting the 30 home run mark for the second time in his career with a two-run shot off Lackey in the third inning. Cruz narrowly missed a second homer, doubling off the green padding on the center-field wall with one out into the fifth and scoring on Hardy's two-out single.
"This is a team that is swinging the bat well," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said of an Orioles team that totaled 16 hits Saturday afternoon. "But it was another one of those days. I don't think many times this year we've said, 'That's one those days' two times in a row. They just kept swinging it."
And the Orioles, who now have 116 games in the books, know they can't let up.
"They're not going to roll over and give up and neither are we, and so we need to go out there and continue to play solid defense and pitch well and get timely hits," Joseph said of maintaining their spot atop the division. "They're definitely coming after us; they're coming after us hard, so we got to keep the foot on the pedal and try and run away with it."


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My mom has an avocado tree in her garden, the reason for the surplus. They're large and lush, their insides so buttery and firm that I have a bizarre desire to rub them all over myself. Since the fruits are allowed to fully ripen on the tree, they're better than their supermarket counterparts; it's always a guessing game of the ripeness on those ones.
Times and tastes have changed since I wrote my first avocado post. Back then, I was all about sweet avocado preparations, and attempting to get a handle on handling a camera – rest in peace, my dear Canon Powershot G2.
Fast forward eight years later, and I now prefer savory avocado dishes of which I'm better able to photograph, I believe.
I eat avocados raw and naked (hmm, something's not right with that sentence), almost bereft of anything except for a hit of coarse sea salt and generous glugs of an unfiltered Italian olive oil. Here are photos of my avocado lunches on various days, iterations of avocado on toast. There's nothing to it really, and I don't even have to give you a recipe: just mash up the avocado, slap it on toast, sprinkle of salt, squirt of olive oil, and it's a power meal, nutritious and tasty. I can't ask for more.
Avocado + thickly sliced whole wheat bread + calamansi marmalade + fried egg. My take on a savory-sweet-salty combo. Silken, sultry love.
I arrive home one day with the appetite of an animal. Still wanting avocados, I prepare a slice of one and decorate it with some arugula leaves languishing in my chiller. I rummage for a tomato and find a tiny one. Lunch! But oh, wait … this looks nice … must take a photo. So I rush to my window, position my plate, grab a diffuser, and shoot. Not all of my photos can be preen-worthy but oh, how we try.
On some days, especially when work is heavy, my lunches can be downright pathetic but that's no excuse to eat poorly. My fridge is devoid of anything remotely interesting, and in dire need of being restocked. I'm neck deep in work and can't stop but a growling stomach, like my lust for sweets, is dangerous to deny. So here's my avocado toast for the day: a plain slice of Gardenia whole wheat bread grilled to unflattering flatness in my sandwich press (a mistake!) + avocado + leftover roasted tomatoes + a lone basil leaf I must've overlooked from the pesto I made last night. This toast looks so lonely that I grab a green glass just so that it can come close to attractive.
And just because I like to challenge myself by seeing how I can dramatize my food, here's this post's cover photo: an avocado slice that I licked with hollandaise sauce + peppercorns, black and pink.
I'm curious as to how you eat avocados. Let me know!


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Books 46-50 (Set)
Bud-e Reading
Jill Eggleton
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Bud-e Reading books focus on teaching children to read and write the most common high-frequency words in order to launch them into the world of independent reading. These stories have been developed with strong storylines all told in rich, colourful illustrations to give children a joyful reading experience.
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