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Pants Determend Wmn are cross-country skiing pants intended for high intensity training. They feature a combination of softshell material and 4-way stretch panels for ultimate comfort and mobility. Wind and water resistance is found in the front down to the knees as well as in the seat area. The pants are made of high quality thermo fabric, which provides optimum ventilation and good stretch. The soft, brushed inside boosts warmth and Bionic Finish Eco® delivers additional durability in the form of long-lasting colors and weather resistance. Form-fit legs give a great fit and the draw cord in the waist allows for easy adjustment. The pants also come with a convenient key pocket inside and zippers on the ankles.
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BRET MICHAELS Settles Lawsuit Over 2009 Tony Awards Mishap
Oraganizers of Tony Awards have settled a lawsuit filed by POISON singer Bret Michaels over a mishap that occurred during a production number featuring the "Rock Of Ages" cast, which resulted in a head injury for Michaels. The terms of the settlement will not be made public.
"Mr. Michaels would like to thank his fans for their continued support," Bret's attorney, Alex Weingarten, said of the settlement.
A copy of Michaels' March 2011 lawsuit can be viewed as a PDF file at this location.
The suit, originally filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, states that Michaels was told by the producers that he should simply exit from the stage rear after he was done with his performance. The suit states that Michaels was never told the scenery piece would be descending or given "any warning of the existence of the dangers it presented."
According to the lawsuit, Bret nearly died in April 2010 from a subarachnoid brain hemorrhage, which he believed was caused by the injuries he suffered at the Tony Awards. In his suit, Michaels claims, "One of the most common causes of this type of hemorrhage is head trauma — exactly like the one Michaels suffered at the hands of the Tony Awards." Michaels notes, "Through his sheer will to live, to see his children grow up, [he] was able to survive this trauma."
Shortly after the Tony Awards incident, Tonys spokeswoman Christina Stejskal said the rocker "missed his mark," which resulted in him failing to get back to the stage in time (as did the rest of POISON) and trying to jump up, only to have a descending set piece smack him on the head and knock him to the ground.
Back in June 2009, Michaels told People.com that he had no plans to file a lawsuit over the Tony Awards incident, insisting, "I want to make very clear to everybody that — first and foremost — I was honored to be asked to be at the Tonys. I'd never done it before and in all my life it's not something I thought I'd be on. I was really excited. There's no lawsuit. I'm not doing any of that. I'm taking the high road."
Michaels' neurologist Dr. Joseph Zabramski held a press conference for reporters in May 2010 and responded to speculation that the POISON frontman's brain hemorrhage could be related to his onstage injury at the Tony Awards. "I do not believe that that [a connection between the brain hemorrhage and the Tony Awards injury] is a possibility at all," said Zabramski. The doctor added that far too much time had passed for the incidents to be related. "A hit in the head can cause a subacute hemorrhage, but it causes it immediately," Zabramski explained. "If that had caused a problem that led to this hemorrhage, we would have seen a problem with his blood vessels."

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Mars Express factsheet
Mapping Mars and searching for water
Name The name Mars Express originally came from the short time to define, prepare, and launch the mission.
Description Mars Express is Europe's first spacecraft to the Red Planet. At launch, it carried seven instruments and a lander. The orbiter's instruments are now performing remote sensing of Mars from subsurface layers all the way up to free space. The lander, Beagle 2, would have performed on-the-spot investigations of the surface, using geochemical, exobiological and atmospheric parameters, but it was declared lost on 6 February 2004 after no signals were received. It was also designed to look for signs of past or present life.
Launch 2 June 2003 (on a Soyuz/Fregat launcher at Baikonur, Kazakhstan).
Status In operation
Journey Mars Express took six months to reach the Red Planet, arriving 25 December 2003.
Notes On 27 August 2003, Mars makes its closest approach to Earth for 17 years. The timing of the Mars Express mission has taken this into account.
Most of the velocity needed to send Mars Express on its journey to Mars was provided by the fourth stage of the Soyuz (the Fregat stage). It placed the spacecraft on a Mars-bound trajectory before separating from the spacecraft. The spacecraft used its on-board engine for Mars orbit insertion and orbit corrections.
Six days after separation from Mars Express, the lander entered the Martian atmosphere. Its rocky ride through the atmosphere to land on the surface should have taken no longer than ten minutes. No signals were received by orbiting spacecraft or Earth-based radio telescopes.
One of the main objectives of Mars Express is to comprehensively search for traces of water from deep underground up to the highest layers of the atmosphere.
Mars Express can also provide relay communication services between the Earth and the two NASA rovers, deployed on the surface in early 2004, so forming a centrepiece of the international effort in Mars exploration.


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Mario Batali Quotes
Mario Batali's Quips on Restaurants Today
To kick off the third morning of the NYC Wine & Food Festival, four of the industry's top tastemakers, restaurateurs Mario Batali and Marcus Samuelsson, TV host Andrew Zimmern, and Food & Wine editor in chief Dana Cowin gathered for a panel discussion to talk about what makes the best restaurant experience.
They all had plenty to say about the state of dining — especially the jocular Batali. Here are just a few of his one-liners.
- On turning tables: "We have loud music at Babbo while you're eating soigné food. From 7:30 to 8:15 p.m. we turn it up and make it faster to get people out of there."
- On tables in New York: "The beauty of New York is, even if five million people on Yelp hate me, there are still eight million left."
- On how far the industry's come: "Thirty years ago, restaurant staffs were people who just got out of jail or people who'd just gotten out of the military and were on their way to jail."
Keep reading for the rest of Mario Batali's restaurant zingers.
- On menu must haves: "Joe Bastianich says we have to have Caesar salad, salmon, and tiramisu."
- On food photography: "Flash photography in a restaurant ruins the experience. But you want to pick up a phone, take a picture? Doesn't bother me."
- On how to get the ultimate restaurant experience: "Even the fanciest restaurant can be a lot of fun if that's what we establish up front. The best way to get the best restaurant experience is to announce your intentions beforehand. Then, you're no longer 'show me,' you're 'share with me.'"
- On what restaurants should be: "Authentic, genuine, inspired, tasty, and fun!"
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Google tweeted Tuesday that all its services are inaccessible in Syria, where a bloody civil war is ongoing and Israeli airstrikes were conducted over the weekend.
Google reports that Internet traffic from the beleaguered Middle Eastern nation suddenly stopped at about 11:45 a.m. Pacific Time.
Other traffic-monitoring services confirmed the outage. Renesys also tweeted:
Renesys confirms loss of Syrian Internet connectivity 18:43 UTC. BGP routes down, inbound traces failing.
This isn't the first time the country has fallen off the digital map in recent months. A similar outage last November lasted for two days.
Almost immediately, potential work-arounds were being distributed, such as this one from a Twitter user who generously offered dial-up login credentials:
Google is also pointing people to use its Speak2Tweet service:
...those who still have a phone connection can still use Speak2Tweet by leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+90 212 339 1447 or +30 21 1 198 2716 or +39 06 62207294 or +1 650 419 4196). Press 1 to leave a voicemail and # when you're done, and the service will tweet the message. No Internet connection is required, and people can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet.So far though, there's been almost no use of the service, which might be explained by reports that came in about an hour after the news of the Internet outage that landlines and mobile phones in Syria are also down.
The reaction to the outage inside Syria is likely one of further heightened anxiety. There are reports that the power is out in Damascus, and AFP reports that in the past, such outages have come in advance of a new military offensive. The government laid blame for the November outage at the hands of "terrorists."
The significance of the communications blackout stirred something of a mini-debate between two journalists who cover the region on Twitter. Al Aan TV's Jenan Moussa wondered if the outage was something that Syria's activists are accustomed to, while Al Jazeera English journalist Basma Atassi pointed out it was only the third outage since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, adding: "This *is* dangerous."
Others on Twitter offered up some one-liners about needing to reset and do a power cycle on the country's routers. While the jesting might have been in poor taste, it ironically might not be far from the truth.
Most of the bandwidth coming into Syria runs through the government-controlled Syrian Telecommunications Establishment, with the few major ISPs operating out of the same building. As All Things D reports:
..the routers in the telecommunications building have been reset and have stopped announcing themselves to the rest of the world, making them essentially nonexistent until they come back on.


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It's difficult for some of us to resist clicking links or opening emails with provocative titles. That's what hackers count on. Recently, one of many successful malware attacks was a file named Real kamasutra.pps.exe. Sophos reported that it really is a PowerPoint slideshow, but don't get your hopes up. You'd have to infect your computer to see the images.
What I will do is warn everyone, once again, not to be fooled by the old double extension trick. Even though you may think .PPS (slideshow), the .EXE on the end of the file makes it an executable file. When it's launched, the slideshow above actually did display some rather unique images, however, it also installed a backdoor trojan. The trojan, called Troj/Bckdr-RFM, allows hackers to silently gain access to your PC. Once inside they can steal your data, your identity, and use your machine for any number of illegal activities.
Most of the time, you'll see files with double extensions in email. One of the most famous email exploits was the I LOVE YOU.TXT.VBSfile. The .VBS on the end made it a Visual Basic Script, which installed a virus on millions of PCs back in 2000.
These days, your biggest risks come from clicking shortened links in social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Thankfully, most of the short URL providers, like Goo.gl and Bit.ly, try to make sure that the links don't end up at known bad websites.
If you've waited patiently hoping for a glimpse of the images in that Kama Sutra slideshow, visit the Sophos blog.


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In July 1995, an Islamic fundamentalist group called Al Faran kidnapped six foreign tourists, including two Americans, in Kashmir. For a few weeks, the world's attention was fixed on the Himalayan valley as the allegedly Pakistan-backed militants negotiated with Indian security officials and foreign diplomats.
Eventually, one of the Americans escaped. Another hostage, a Norwegian, was beheaded. The other four were never found.
"The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 — Where the Terror Began," a staggeringly well-researched new book by two respected journalists, Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, concludes that the hostages were killed by local mercenaries funded and controlled by Indian army and intelligence.
The authors argue that the drawn-out negotiation, during which Indian intelligence allegedly knew the hostages' whereabouts, was a charade, part of India's larger effort to portray Pakistan as a sponsor of Islamist terror, thereby delegitimizing the Kashmiri struggle for freedom.
Certainly, India today no longer needs to highlight the role of the Pakistani army and intelligence in sponsoring extremist groups. It has also succeeded in shifting international attention away from the appalling facts of its counter-insurgency operations in Kashmir — tens of thousands killed, and innumerable many tortured, mutilated and orphaned. The tallying in 2009 of 2,700 unmarked graves containing the remains of people (often buried in groups) killed by security forces barely provoked any comment in the international media, let alone expressions of concern by Western leaders.
Killers in Khaki
But India's diplomatic and public relations success has been achieved at considerable costs: the rise of militaristic nationalism, the assault on civil liberties, and a dangerously enhanced role in politics for men in uniform.
Most of the million-plus men and women in the Indian military still manifest what Shashi Tharoor once described as "increasingly rare" qualities in India: "high standards of performance, honesty, hard work, self-sacrifice, incorruptibility, respect for tradition, discipline, team spirit." As a child, I had myself wanted, like many Indians of my generation and class, to acquire the virtuous glow of an army officer's uniform, and even attended a military school.
It was therefore shocking and demoralising to encounter, during a visit to Kashmir in 2000, accounts of extrajudicial killings and torture and rape by Indian soldiers — stories that, though commonplace in Kashmir, were largely kept hidden from the Indian public by a patriotic media.
But to those who reported from Kashmir in the past decade and a half — as opposed to the many more who were content to disseminate briefings from Indian army and intelligence officials — "The Meadow" presents a disturbingly familiar picture.
I was there when, during Bill Clinton's visit to South Asia in March 2000, Indian army officers allegedly kidnapped and killed five Kashmiri villagers and presented their mutilated corpses to the international news media as the Pakistani killers of the 35 Sikhs who had been murdered by unidentified gunmen just hours before Clinton's scheduled arrival in India. It has taken 12 years for India's legal system even to acknowledge this well-documented atrocity: Last week, the Supreme Court gingerly asked the army how it wishes to prosecute the officers suspected of the coldblooded murder.
Since 2000, the number of armed militants has steadily decreased in Kashmir. But the human rights situation has not improved. Under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in effect in Kashmir and the northeastern states (where the Indian army was first deployed in counter-insurgency), soldiers can kill on the basis of mere suspicion while continuing to enjoy near-total legal immunity.
Regime of Impunity
The result is a regime of impunity. A coalition of Indian human rights groups in a report to the United Nations this year documented 789 extrajudicial killings in the northeastern state of Manipur alone between 2007 and 2010.
In recent years, the army has also been dragged into Operation Green Hunt, the Indian state's extraordinarily big, armed offensive against Maoist insurgents in central India. Predictably, the use of scorched-earth tactics once deployed in border areas has undermined the general rule of law in the states of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and West Bengal.
The widened powers of the military against the new electronic media's background chorus of hypernationalism have given army officers a public role they never had. Breaking with old protocols, the previous army chief openly speculated about a "limited" war under a "nuclear overhang" with Pakistan.
It is also not at all clear if there is any proper governmental oversight of the Indian intelligence agencies, which, mimicking the doomed Pakistani quest for "strategic depth," have been trying out potentially useful proxies in Pakistan's Balochistan province as well as Afghanistan. These adventurist spies and the perennially belligerent men in uniform now seem to constitute as formidable a lobby against peace between India and Pakistan as the Islamic zealots on the other side of the border.
Backed by Hindu nationalist leaders, they even dare to overrule elected politicians such as Omar Abdullah, Kashmir's chief minister, who has been pleading in vain for a withdrawal of the much-despised special powers act.
Their jingoism, echoed by hawkish think tanks and websites (India's own military-intellectual complex), goes necessarily together with dubious arms purchases. India is now the world's biggest arms market; a series of scandals have not stopped spending sprees that, as the recent outbursts of the outgoing army chief reveal, do little to prepare India for any conceivable war.
No Banana Republic
Things are about to get worse. The next Indian army chief comes into office later this month, trailed by allegations of his involvement in an extrajudicial killing in Kashmir. He was also in charge of Indian peacekeeping soldiers accused in 2008 of sexual misconduct in the Congo.
Unlike its Pakistani rival, the Indian army remains firmly under civilian control. A sensationalist recent story in a major Indian newspaper claimed that unauthorized movements of soldiers near New Delhi earlier this year had "spooked" the government. But it is hard to imagine the foolhardy army officers who would attempt a coup in India. Although beset by internal wars and draconian laws and chaotic governance, India is very far from degenerating into, as an exasperated Ratan Tata feared last year, a "banana republic."
Yet there are plenty of reasons for alarm and dismay over a process that, starting in obscure battles in the northeastern states in the 1960s, was accelerated during the two previous decades in the valley of Kashmir. Levy and Scott-Clark's book mainly excavates one of the many murky incidents of the 1990s. But its revised draft of history also sheds light on the present — how a democratic state's addiction to colonial-style dirty wars has damaged not so much the Kashmiri cause of freedom as India's frail democracy and one of its last uncompromised institutions.
(Pankaj Mishra, whose new book, "From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia," will be published in August, is a columnist, based in London and Mashobra, India.)
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Anarchy wrote:We could all RP students, and maybe teachers to a lesser extent, from the school, and perhaps reference characters like Potsdam and Grabiner.
Hence ive made this thread in order to start the discussion, and to feel the vibe/interest for such an activity...Soulbringer wrote:what kind of forum RP would be preferable, if id venture a guess it would be rather freeform and all the players agree to a certain set of bounderies to be within.
The players invovled just needs to agree to a frame that all can adhere to
For those who knows a bit about RP, this thread is considered OOC (Out Of Character), while the main thread would be IC (In Character)...
IF you are interested dont hesitate to post and give your 2 cents about it ^^


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It was worth the wait.
This cake has been on my list to bake for so long and finally I got around to baking it……well, that's not quite the whole truth. My son made it! He made it for a class project for school. This is the classic foreign language project where you make a dish and take it to class. When my son said he would be doing this project for Spanish class, I asked what he was planning on preparing. He mentioned a few suggestions such as queso with chorizo or guacamole, but I had an ulterior motive and nudged him in this direction. Secretly I have been wanting to make this cake for like forever but never seemed to get around to it, so I seized the opportunity, sorta, and suggested that he make it for school. And he did!
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J. Craig Venter, the biologist and entrepreneur, made a cameo appearance on WSJ Startup of the Year. We asked him what in the world of science he's most excited about nowadays. Find out what he said. #guestmentor
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ENGS 142: Intermediate Solid Mechanics
Exact and approximate solutions of the equations of elasticity are developed and applied to the study of stress and deformation in structural and mechanical elements. The topics will include energy methods, advanced problems in torsion and bending, stress concentrations, elastic waves and vibrations, and rotating bodies. Although most applications will involve elastic deformation, post-yield behavior of elastic-perfectly plastic bodies will also be studied. The course will also include numerous applications of finite element methods in solid mechanics.


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Adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and interjections: students will get a grammar overload in this lesson! Grammar can serve as a jumping-off point for exploring language. This lesson extends students' knowledge of parts of speech and encourages them to look critically at how language functions. Students begin with a review of the parts of speech. Using Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky," students look closely at the nonsensical words to identify their parts of speech and meaning. After experimenting with the Word Mover mobile application, they create their own magnetic poetry kits, which they use to both revise and reinterpret Carroll's poem and write their own original poems.
Lesson originally published in March 2007. Revised October 2012 by Christy Simon, NCTE staff.
- Word Mover: Students can use this mobile application to help them create their own poetic masterpieces.
Roberts, S.K. (2002). Taking a technological path to poetry prewriting. The Reading Teacher, 55, 678687.
- Roberts says about online magnetic poetry sites, "the engaging visuals replicate the idea of magnets on the refrigerator, so students are pleased with quick results."
- Writing is a journey that takes place in many phases. The computer can be used for all the stages of writing, from prewriting to the finished product.
Pikulski, J.J., & Chard, D.J. (2005). Fluency: Bridge between decoding and reading comprehension. The Reading Teacher, 58(6), 510519.
- Students need to be "familiar with the syntax or grammatical function of the words and phrases they are reading and with their meanings."
- It is best to recognize words on sight. But, if that's not possible, having strategies on hand to aid with decoding and comprehension is important. Knowledge of the parts of speech is one such strategy.
Bloodgood, J.W., & Pacifici, L.C. (2004). Bringing word study to intermediate classrooms. The Reading Teacher, 58(3), 250263.
"Students can become excited about language and how it works if the topic is presented in an active and engaging manner." Thus, word play and exploration is an important facet of a language arts program.
Richek, M.A. (2005). Words are wonderful: Interactive, time-efficient strategies to teach meaning vocabulary. The Reading Teacher, 58(5), 414423.


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The program will analyze the function of cannabis medications in treating pain, cancer and inflammatory diseases.
It follows calls from some MPs for legalization of cannabis on medical reasons, with such calls being backed by 58 per cent this past year.
In the last few years, studies have supported the medical value of cannabis for treating ailments for example multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and arthritis, and for coping with nerve pain.
The new program is a partnership between Kingsley Capital Partners and Oxford University, who are investing £10m an attempt to create an international center of excellence in cannabinoid research.
Professor of Gynaecological Oncology at Oxford, Ahmed Ahmed, said studies had began to make exciting biological discoveries, which might lead to new treatments for a host of different ailments.
"This area holds great promise for developing innovative therapeutic opportunities for cancer patients," he said.
The program has received uncommon support – from actor Sir Patrick Stewart, who uses medical marijuana to treat ortho-arthritis.
He told the Telegraph: "Two years ago, in Los Angeles I was examined by a physician and given a note which gave me legal permission to buy, from a registered outlet, cannabis-based products, which I was advised might help the ortho-arthritis in both my hands."
Routine usage of an ointment and chewy bar had enabled him to sleep through the night, while spraying his hands during the day had brought back mobility in his hands, he said, allowing him to make fists.
"As an outcome of this experience, I enthusiastically support the Oxford University Cannabis Research Plan," he said.
The actor said he expected the research would help him and millions of others.
"This is an important step forward for Britain in a field of research that's for too long been held back by prejudice, fear and ignorance."
Now neither the Conservative nor Labour Party officially supports legalizing cannabis for medical use. Both Liberal Democrats and the Green Party have called for legalization for medical use for a while.
Sativex – a prescription-only drug used by patients afflicted by Multiple Sclerosis – is the sole licensed cannabis-based product in the Britain and is given to help facilitate muscle spasms. Nonetheless it's doesn't cause a high and is non-psychoactive.
NHS rationing bodies have rejected its use saying it was too costly to justify.


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A powerful and mysterious supervillain has imprisoned the world's greatest superheroes, forcing them to fight to the death until there is but one victor. It's kill or be killed as we settle the score on all those hypothetical superhero match-ups in this new ongoing series by Paul Jenkins (SENTRY, INHUMANS) and artist Carlos Magno (PLANET OF THE APES) with covers by Whilce Portacio (WETWORKS, INCREDIBLE HULK). DEATHMATCH #1 is just $1 and will be in stores on December 26th!
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EXHIBITION SYNOPSISAbout THE FAMILY OF MAN - UNESCO Memory of the World
The Family of Man comprises 503 photographs by 273 artists from 68 countries, and was brought together by Edward Steichen for the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Presented for the first time in 1955, the exhibition was meant as a manifesto for peace and the fundamental equality of mankind, expressed through the humanist photography of the post-war years. Images by artists such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Robert Doisneau, August Sander and Ansel Adams were staged in a modernist and spectacular manner.
Having toured the globe and been displayed in over 150 museums worldwide, the final, complete version of the exhibition was permanently installed in Clervaux Castle in 1994. Since its creation, The Family of Man has attracted over 10 million visitors and entered the history of photography as a legendary exhibition. In 2003, the collection was inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World register.
On July 5th, The Family of Man will reopen its doors to the public at Clervaux Castle. The collection's historic photographs have been restored, and the exhibition rooms have been renovated under the direction of the National Department of Sites and Monuments, in order to adapt the technology and design to today's standards.
The Centre national de l'audiovisuel (CNA) was created in 1989. Its mission is to preserve and honour Luxembourg's national photography, film, and sound heritage. The institute actively collects and archives documents from a wide range of origins.
Today, the photography collection comprises over four hundred thousand documents and testifies to the richness of past and contemporary photographic practices and image creation in Luxembourg. The CNA safeguards and displays two Steichen collections from MoMA: The Family of Man and The Bitter Years. Presented for the first time in 1962, The Bitter Years is now on permanent display at the water tower in Dudelange.
Edward Steichen was born in 1879 in Bivange, Luxembourg. A painter and renowned photographer, he became director of the photography department at MoMA, New York in 1947. The two exhibitions were bequeathed to the Luxembourg Government at Steichen's request in the 1960s.


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Donna's Pistachio Breaded Salmon on a Bed of Spinach & Pasta with Pomegranate Honey Dressing
There are many health benefits to the Mediterranean diet which includes eating more vegetables, fish, olive oil, and nuts. You can eat the Mediterranean way with this healthful salad with lots of color and flavor.
1 pound skinless salmon fillet, cut into 4 pieces
1 egg, lightly beaten dash of salt and pepper 1/2 cup Panko bread crumbs 1/2 cup pistachio nuts, finely chopped 1 tablespoon canola oil
1/2 cup pomegranate juice
2 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1/4 pound penne pasta, 51% whole grain
6 cups fresh spinach
1 medium red pepper, thinly sliced 1/2 cup Greek olives 1/2 cup reduced fat feta cheese, optional
Remove salmon from wrappings and set aside. In a shallow bowl, combine egg with salt and pepper. Place panko bread crumbs with the chopped pistachios in another shallow bowl. Dip each piece of salmon in egg and then place each fillet in nut mixture. Press firmly to coat on both sides. Place on a plate and set aside. Cover and refrigerate until ready to cook.
Prepare dressing. In a small sauce pan, bring pomegranate juice to a boil. Continue to boil gently until reduced to 1/4 cup. Add remaining ingredients and whisk until well mixed. Set aside.
Cook pasta in boiling salted water according to package directions. Drain well.
In 4 individual serving dishes, layer spinach, pasta, pepper, olives, and feta cheese. Set aside.
When ready to cook salmon, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Heat oil in a non stick skillet. Add salmon to the skillet and cook over medium heat until brown on both sides of each piece of salmon. Place skillet in oven and bake for 10 – 15 minutes or until salmon is cooked through. The time will depend on the thickness of the fillets. When salmon is done, place a salmon fillet on top of the spinach salad in each serving dish. Drizzle with dressing.
Serves 4
Nutritional Information per serving:
Calories: 480
Fat, gm.: 20 Protein, gm.: 31 Carbs, gm.: 45
Cholesterol, mg.: 100 Fiber, gm.: 5.8
— Recipe by UW Health Nutritionist Donna L. Weihofen, RD, MS


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Michael Dresser got it right in describing the trajectory of the Baltimore school facilities bill as going from "non-starter to law," but the story goes far beyond the elected and appointed officials who worked hard to make the deals and shepherd the legislation to passage ("City schools bill a political showpiece," May 17).
The deeper story must include the herculean efforts of the Baltimore Education Coalition (BEC), the innovative policy advocacy work done by the ACLU of Maryland and the powerful community organizing of groups like BUILD and Child First. Our elected officials don't do this by themselves. They were propelled to act by the incredible urgency and public will created by the BEC. BEC made the problem of broken-down, substandard schools real, laid out a vision for a solution and created the imperative so elected officials had to act.
Over the last three years, BEC organized hundreds of meetings in schools, neighborhoods and churches to train and mobilize leaders. Coalition members held dozens of meetings with elected officials, gaining commitments that decent school buildings would be their number one priority for 2013. BEC organized huge rallies in Annapolis including February's 3,000-person rally for new and renovated schools.
Congratulations to all the elected and appointed officials who worked hard to make our vision a reality, but also look behind them at the thousands of parents, students, non-profit advocates, teachers and citizens who pushed them forward and enabled them to pass this bill. BEC and its member groups expect to stay on it to ensure that the money is spent well and we continue to create the kind of schools our children deserve.
Karen DeCamp, Baltimore
The writer is director of neighborhood programs for the Greater Homewood Community Corporation.


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Speaking at a general session of Shareholders Service Group's first annual conference in San Diego, Charles Goldman shared his view of the advisor universe on Thursday afternoon, and urged every advisor to "be paranoid about your business," and to not fall prey to its opposite, "arrogance".
He also said he had come to appreciate the importance of each advisory firm to have a "UVP"—unique value proposition—but urged advisors to focus on the "value proposition" part of their mission.
The former Schwab Institutional COO and Fidelity Investments custodial and clearing president, now a consultant and board member of several charities in the Bay Area, said he had learned about the value of being 'paranoid' from his former Schwab colleague Debby McWhinney. And while he had long pooh-poohed the management mantra that every successful firm must have a vision or mission statement as part of its UVP, he had come to appreciate its importance in business.
He warned, though, that just having such a vision isn't sufficient: advisors and most important "their staff need to be able to articulate" that vision to others, particularly clients and prospective clients. He made the comments in response to questions from SSG's executive VP Dan Skiles (left), another former Schwab colleague (and Investment Advisor's Technology Coach columnist; see Dan's latest column for IA at AdvisorOne).
Goldman, who joked that since he left the rarefied air of corporate America, he had to learn how to do his own PowerPoint slideshows, began his presentation by looking at "what's really happening in the wealth management marketplace." He proclaimed that for the estimated 16,000 RIA firms, "assets under management are back" to where they were before the 2008-2009 markets and economic crisis, and that RIAs account for about $2 trillion in AUM (citing Cerulli data) with those assets growing at a CAGR of 10%.
He noted that assets are concentrated, however, at the largest RIAs. He also sought to dispel two myths: that every advisor should focus on the high-net-worth and that the wirehouses were on their deathbeds.
"The average account size at Schwab and Fidelity" is between $300,000 and $400,000, while the average household account is about $800,000, he reported, and that relatively lower-net-worth Americans represent a significant market opportunity for advisors. That brought up another myth of sorts: that advisory firms need to grow larger to survive. "Scale is being brought to you by your custodian" and by other advisor partners, such as technology firms, a model which he said was unique among American businesses, and which allows advisors to efficiently and profitably serve those relatively lower-net-worth clients.
As for the possible demise of the wirehouses, Goldman admitted that independent RIAs and broker-dealers were ahead of the wirehouses in growing AUM, but that the wirehouses "had learned from independents" the value of providing fee-based and even fee-only services to clients and that they still held the majority of AUM in the country.
However, one of the wirehouses' problems is their size: "At big firms, most leaders are spending only a quarter of their time" on truly valuable activities to grow their businesses, and urged advisors not to make the same mistake in their own time management. When asked by Skiles what he would do if he were running a wirehouse, Goldman said simply, "I'd make it very hard" for brokers to leave, since the periodic movement of brokers from one wirehouse to another made it more difficult to sustain a profitable enterprise.
After mentioning that his departure from Schwab occurred after a "disagreement in the executive suite about the direction of the company," he touched on the issue of whether the SEC will impose a universal fiduciary standard on all advice givers, at a conference where regulatory and compliance issues were prominent, Goldman spoke with conviction (and also recalled in passing that he served a stint on SIFMA's private client group, where he recalled, "I wasn't very popular"). He argued that "it would be criminal and unfortunate" if such a fiduciary standard were to become rules based rather than principles based, as it is and has been for RIAs. He also spoke encouragingly of the efforts of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard to promote such a universal standard.
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MONTEREY, Calif. — Farm Bureau members attending a state convention here have unanimously re-elected Paul Wenger to his third two-year term as the statewide organization's president.
Wenger, who took the California Farm Bureau Federation's reins in December 2009, told delegates Dec. 11 he intends to "double down" in his efforts to "support, protect and promote this great industry and all of you."
Wenger, a walnut and almond grower from Modesto, has held a statewide office since 1997 and is the CFBF's 15th president. During his tenure, he has sought to boost political fundraising to increase agriculture's clout in Sacramento.
He is joined by First Vice President Kenny Watkins and Second Vice President Jamie Johanson, who were also re-elected to third terms.


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Durasole is an iodine based preparation formulated to thicken and toughen the equine exfoliating sole and frog. Durasole is ideal to alleviate sole soreness and widely used on horses that work or perform in hostile environments. Also effective in control of thrush and white line disease. Read More
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Durasole™ Sole HardenerDurasole is an iodine based preparation formulated to harden the equine exfoliation sole. The anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, fixing agent, formula is designed to thicken and toughen the equine exfoliating sole and frog. Durasole is highly concentrated, extremely effective and does not affect the proximal sensitive sole. It works by swelling and thickening the cell membranes of the exfoliating sole.A little bit goes a long way. It is ideal to alleviate sole soreness and is widely used on horses that work or perform in hostile environments and in transitioning horses from shod to barefooted. Effective in the control of Thrush and White Line Disease when aerobic conditions are established and maintained at the infection site. Recommended by Vets for thin soled or bruised feet!
Durasole™ Key Benefits:
- thickens and hardens the sole and frog
- anti-bacterial
- anti-fungal
- fixing agent
Instructions For Use:Apply dropwise to dry sole and frog and spread with a small brush. Do not apply more than the sole and frog will absorb at one time. Repeat daily for 1 to 2 weeks until the sole is hard enough, and repeat once or twice a week for maintenance. Always wear gloves and safety lenses when applying, and do not inhale vapors.
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Great to harden hooves, even for those horses that like to stay in the pond. A little bit goes a long way.
"Best stuff for hooves"
Been using for over 20 years. Used to only be able to get through Ferrier supply place. Glad that it's available everywhere now. I apply twice a week especially in wet weather
"Very Effective!"
I have been using Durasole for years now. I live in Ohio with muddy conditions over the winter. I apply Durasole to the frog and white line and it keeps them from developing any thrush or white line disease. If used regularly will also toughen up the sole. I don't use it when it is very dry as often as it seems to dry out the frog too much.
"Great product!"
I have always been skeptical of products applied to the hoof and not had success with anything other than Gen-A-Horse biotin supplement. When my horse got white line disease a good friend said her farrier highly recommended Durasole for treatment. After five weeks of treatment the white line disease is resolving and an added benefit is Durasole truly toughens up the hoof! I was amazed! Highly recommend! Remember to wear gloves when you apply it - otherwise you will have purple hands.
"Great product"
My vet recommends this product. In SC we have wet humid conditions and this product really helps my horse keep healthy.
This was a tough summer here in Florida in terms of constant rain and muddy conditions. Durasole saved my horses feet and quickly resolved wicked seedy toe on one of my donkeys. As another said - Durasole contributes to a better quality of life for my horses and donkeys.
"Must have in my hoof care products"
I live in wet, humid Florida and I trim my horses myself, I find Durasole to work great in hardening my horses soft feet and also at combating thrush. I always keep a bottle in my trimming supplies to treat their hooves after every trim and I use more often if needed. Wear gloves though as you shouldn't get it on your hands, it will make your skin feel hard and stain them if you get it on you (also unhealthy).
"Sole relief"
This is a great product that helps soft soles and tender frogs during varying summer wet/dry seasons. One bottle will do 8 large horses 4 feet!
"Does the Job!!!!"
This product really works on my horse with chronic thrush even during the wet season. I like the way it absorbs into the hoof immediately. The formalin really knocks out those resistant bacteria and toughens the hooves. Wear gloves as this will stain skin.
"Recommended by Equine Podiatrist"
This product was recommended by the DVM Equine Podiatrist who treated by horse. He recommended transferring the liquid to a spray bottle to apply. I tried this but it is still difficult to apply by myself. I ordered an empty bottle with a brush attachment. Hoping this helps keep the solution on the hoof sole and off on my hands and sleeves.
"Great stuff"
I have a TB mare with typical TB mare feet. She does great on this product. Her feet don't get tender at all. The Farrier notices a difference in her feet too.
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This works great on soft feet. Clears up beginning thrush and hardens hooves. Ideal for rainy season to keep ahead of hoof issues.
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My farrier recommended Durasole. My horses are on irrigated pasture and their hooves have softened up and one is prone to thrush and seedy toe. Since I've been using Durasole, their feet have hardened up nicely and the thrush healed up after only one use. Seedy toe is also gone after about 3 applications.
"Very helpful"
I've only used Durasole for one week, but already notice more horse more willing to go forward. My farrier recommended this product for my thinned soled horse. We've been plagued with white line disease and tender feet for a while. Glad he finally suggested this. I'm looking forward to the continued progress.
"great product"
After a rainy summer and our Florida heat our horses were getting white line disease and cracks. With several weeks of Durasole use all hooves are improving. We won't get caught without it again!
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Surgery on Teixeira's wrist a success
MINNEAPOLIS -- First baseman Mark Teixeira had the tendon sheath in his right wrist repaired on Monday in a procedure performed by Dr. Keith Raskin at New York University Hospital. He is expected to be ready for Spring Training.
"Successful surgery yesterday, doc said it couldn't have gone better," Teixeira said on Twitter. "Looking forward to watching my #Yankee teammates tonight vs the Twins."
Teixeira, 33, played in just 15 games this season, batting .151 with three homers and 12 RBIs. He initially sustained the injury in March while hitting off a tee with Team USA while preparing for the World Baseball Classic.
Successful surgery yesterday, doc said it couldn't have gone better. Looking forward to watching my #Yankee teammates tonight vs the Twins.- Mark Teixeira (@teixeiramark25) July 2, 2013
The injury was aggravated during the Yankees' West Coast trip in June, and a cortisone injection did not provide relief. Team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad, hand specialist Dr. Melvin Rosenwasser and two other New York-based hand specialists concurred in recommending the season-ending surgery.
Approximately $7 million of Teixeira's $22.5 million salary was covered by insurance from the World Baseball Classic because he was injured as a participant.
Team president Randy Levine said that the responsibility for Teixeira's salary reverted to the Yankees when he made his season debut on May 31, but the Yankees also have insurance that will cover a majority of his 2013 salary.


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BERLIN - The German government has proposed holding the country's general election on Sept. 22.
A spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that the date has been formally submitted to President Joachim Gauck. His approval is considered a formality.
Merkel will be seeking a third term as chancellor of Europe's biggest economy.
Recent polls put Merkel's centre-right coalition slightly ahead of the main opposition bloc of Social Democrats and Greens.
But despite Merkel's personal popularity among voters, observers say she may have to enter into a "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats if her current junior partners of the pro-business Free Democrats fail to make the 5 per cent threshold needed to enter Parliament.


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Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of Britain's most beautiful buildings are places of worship. Head to one of these five architectural wonders and prepare to drop to your knees in awe, if not necessarily in supplication.
Ely Cathedral, Ely
Ely Cathedral (pictured above) was created to invoke a sense of awe. Constructed over two hundred years, it's an architectural tour de force, all the more impressive for standing apparently in the middle of nowhere – Ely isn't exactly a big city. Perched atop the "island" of Ely, the cathedral looms over the dykes, drains and rich, black fields of the Fens. Pancake-flat and desolate in winter, this is perhaps the most melancholic landscape in England. Thanks to the Fens, Ely's enormous West Tower can be seen for miles, a castle guarding the shore of a dried-up sea. God-like indeed to the monks that came across the watery marshes to serve here in the Middle Ages – for the folk that lived in wattle-and-daub huts, it must have seemed miraculous.
Not that it seems any less so today. The West Tower rises 215ft, most of it (incredibly) constructed in the twelfth century. Under the tower the great west door is the main entrance to the cathedral, a fine early English Gothic porch built of Barnock stone and Purbeck marble. Aficionados of English architecture are in for a real treat inside, beginning with the nave, surely one of the most inspiring interiors in England. It's the fourth longest of the English cathedrals, but its Norman architecture, with distinctive round arches, is exceptional. Its crowning glory is the Octagon Lantern tower in the centre, which replaced the original tower that collapsed in 1322. Take your time studying this masterpiece of medieval engineering – critics often describe it as one of the most spectacular spaces ever built in an English church.
Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire, www.elycathedral.org.
Rosslyn Chapel, Roslin
Even if you don't believe the fanciful stories that Rosslyn Chapel conceals Masonic or Templar secrets in its sculpture, or perches on top of secret underground vaults, or is a resting place for the Holy Grail, it's still a very odd place indeed. This weirdness has something to do with the chapel's incongruous location, almost within touching distance of Edinburgh's suburbs, and also the chapel's bizarre appearance – it looks as if someone began building a miniature cathedral and downed tools halfway (and indeed this is probably precisely what happened: construction work seems to have halted when the chapel's donor, Sir William Sinclair, died in 1484).
The chapel's strangeness, however, is mostly due to its rare and wonderful profusion of stone sculpture. Across arches and architraves, voussoirs and vaults, hardly a stony surface lacks decoration, and the symbolism of some of it is intriguing. There's a bound, upside-down Lucifer, a bagpipe-playing angel, a Dance of Death scene and over a hundred representations of the fertility figure known as the Green Man, some of them stunningly realized. Behind the altar stand the Prentice Pillar (or apprentice pillar), Master Pillar and Journeyman Pillar, all of which have attached legends.
Since 1997, the chapel has been half-buried under a protective canopy but in 2010 this was finally removed, revealing the chapel's flying buttresses in all their glory.
Rosslyn Chapel, Roslin, Midlothian, is seven miles from Edinburgh - (www.rosslynchapel.com).
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Neasden
One of London's greatest architectural feats is in a place where you would never expect to find it. Just off the North Circular road, through the unremarkable suburb of Neasden, lies the largest active Hindu temple outside India. Its full name – BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir – will win no awards for catchiness, but its majestic design, both inside and out, is a showstopper. It's almost how Angkor Wat might appear if made of limestone: its seven tiered pinnacles bear similarity with that other great Hindu complex, as do its staircases and elaborate carvings of dancers and deities.
The miraculous nature of the temple is further enhanced by the manner of its construction. Built in only 27 months, it is made primarily of 2000 tonnes of Indian marble and 3000 tonnes of Bulgarian limestone; uniquely for a modern British building, it contains no iron or steel for support. All that material was shipped to India, where an army of sculptors carved it into 26,300 separate sculpted stones. Those pieces were then transported to Neasden, where the temple was assembled much like an IKEA kit.
On the ground floor inside is an assembly hall, a shrine to the eighteenth-century saint Bhagwan Swaminarayan, to whom the temple is dedicated, a small museum and a shop. But the real reason to come in is to visit the mandir upstairs, the central shrine. In this magnificent marble space, filled with intricate carved pillars, are seven murtis, or icons of divinities – one underneath each of the seven exterior pinnacles. The air is cool, a near silence prevails, worshippers prostrate themselves. It's here you're reminded that this is a living, breathing temple, and not just a mind-blowing piece of architecture.
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, 105–119 Brentfield Rd, London, londonmandir.baps.org.
St Paul's Cathedral, London
In a secular city St Paul's Cathedral continues to reign supreme as the greatest building inherited from a more generous past. Standing high at the top of Ludgate Hill, and with the view of the building from many directions still protected by planning laws, it dominates a large part of the city, and for many Londoners it remains a source of tranquillity and wonder long after the city's other notable sights have become over-familiar.
What makes the building so great? There are many answers to this question. One of its triumphs is the marriage of a strong and immediately intelligible form – the dome, the barrel, the great walls turning and folding – with a wealth of beautiful detail. It's also a wonderfully balanced composition: one of Wren's greatest achievements was to give a structure with a dome, rather than a spire or a tower, a truly vertical emphasis. Climb up to the dome's galleries inside and you'll discover its secrets and find out how he managed to raise the dome so high. The dome itself is not a hemisphere: it is taller, egg-shaped – another brilliant touch that adds unmistakeably to the building's impact.
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St Paul's Cathedral, London EC4. www.stpauls.co.uk
The stained-glass wonders of York Minster
It's hard not be overwhelmed by York Minster. It took around 250 years to complete, is the second largest Gothic cathedral in Europe and one of the most visited sites in northern England, a gorgeous pile of carved limestone with three towers rising to nearly 200ft high. Yet the real genius of York lies in that most underrated of art forms: stained glass.
It should be called "Gothic glass art" instead. For many, "stained glass" conjures up images of cold, dull Sundays in church, or boring museums. York isn't like that at all; the Minster has one of the finest collections of stained glass in England, with 128 windows containing around two million individual pieces of glass. You'd have to be a real aficionado to work your way through every one, but there are some obvious highlights.
The 76ft-high Great East Window is truly monumental, a massive construction dating from 1408 and comprising an ornate tracery and 117 panels of carefully crafted biblical scenes, everything from the Creation to startling images of the Last Judgement. The Great West Window, completed even earlier in 1338, is known as the "Heart of Yorkshire" thanks to the heart-shape pattern in the tracery. Finally, the strangely modern Rose Window, which glows like a mighty star, its 73 panels of glass emblazoned with white and red roses, symbolic of the union between the houses of York and Lancaster. Completed around 1500, the window commemorates the marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, effectively ending the Wars of the Roses.
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York Minster, York, www.yorkminster.org.
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For more great buildings and interesting days out in Britain, get Make The Most Of Your Time In Britain.


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The travelling echo
"Do you spin it? Rotate it? How about...?" These are but a mere sprinkling of the questions that will race through your mind when playing echochrome, a brainteaser with a twist. Or is that a turn? Maybe a slight adjustment here...
'chromed out
Perspective. While not literally the name of the game, it plays a large part of puzzler echochrome. You must help a mannequin called the Walker to its goal of collecting all the echoes around a number of 3D mazes that look like they've stepped right out of a MC Escher art gallery. However, the Walker has a number of problems stopping this noble quest - each maze is full of impassable gaps, holes and other hazards that can prevent it from reaching the echoes.
While the Walker is bound by the laws of physics, you are not, and the power is in your hands to change its fate. You can do this by switching the screen's perspective and viewpoint to alter reality and make the Walker's journey easier. For example, by spinning the maze a certain way, holes temporarily cease to exist simply because you can't see them, making it safe to pass until you're ready to show them on-screen again. Magical...
Look at it this way...
Like any form of magic, these little tricks have rules. Five of them, in fact:
1. The Law of Perspective Travelling - when two separate pathways appear to be touching, they are.
2. The Law of Perspective Landing - if one pathway appears to be above another, it is.
3. The Law of Perspective Existence - when the gap between two pathways is blocked from view and the pathways appear to be connected, they are.
4. The Law of Perspective Absence - when a hole is blocked from view, it does not exist.
5. The Law of Perspective Jumping - when the Walker jumps, it will land on whatever appears to be beneath it.
With these in mind, you're soon shaping the Walker's world to solve its intricate problems, trying to get yourself into a mental zone where the solution is only a head scratching moment away. echochrome is entrancing in its gameplay, drawing you into its uniquely monochrome landscape with soothing classical music and an essence of purity and depth that all great puzzle games possess.
While the Walker is alone in its pursuit of echoes, solitude is the last thing you'll be experiencing in echochrome. It's the perfect portable game, as you literally look for fresh viewpoints and pass it on to others who can try their hand at a particularly difficult puzzle that may have stumped you. Add that to the ability to pick up and play the game whenever you want and you have a truly addictive and social experience on PSP.
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Even if you somehow manage to get through the 315 levels that await you, it's not the end of echochrome's appeal as there's also the opportunity to create your own mazes and share them with friends via Ad Hoc Mode. So not only can you give your brain a workout, but your imagination too - before setting challenges for your friends to engage in.
echochrome's world may be inhabited with mazes inspired by artist Oscar Reutersvärd's impossible constructions, but it's a game that's far from impossible, open to all comers through its fresh and inventive take on the puzzle genre. Fancy a spin?
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Continuing from yesterday's post, here are the second five books I've found to be the most helpful, meaningful and enjoyable, in no particular order (probably):
Agape Leadership
by Robert L. Peterson and Alexander Strauch
R.C. Chapman is relatively unknown today but a man all believers would do well to see a role model in our pursuit of holiness. In Agape Leadership: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership from the Life of R.C. Chapman, authors Robert L. Peterson and Alexander Strauch introduce us to Chapman and his commitment to not only preaching Christ, but living Christ. And live Christ he did. This short and convicting read is a must for all who wish to grow in Christlike leadership.
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"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God
by J.I. Packer
"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God was first published 51 years in the midst of the British "Fundamentalism" controversy of the 1950s—a controversy centering around the authority of Scripture. In this work, Packer offers rebuttal and sharp rebuke to those who would unwisely seek to sit in judgement of Scripture, who have fallen prey to perennial error of subjectivism, and reminds readers that as Christians, we are not to stop thinking, but to stop thinking sinfully.
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The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment
by Tim Challies
We live in a culture where "anything goes" is the epitome of all wisdom, even in the church. That's why author and blogger Tim Challies wrote The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment—a book for those who look at all that is said and done and ask the hard question, "how can this be right?"; for all who (rightly) believe it is "the duty of every Christian to think biblically about all areas of life so that they might act biblically in all areas of life."
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Religion Saves & Nine Other Misconceptions
by Mark Driscoll
Inspired by 1 Corinthians, Pastor Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church in Seattle began the "Ask Anything" campaign on their website. 893 questions and 343,203 votes later, the top nine questions were selected for the sermon series, Religion Saves & Nine Other Misconceptions, which was then reformatted and expanded into this book. Driscoll handles an extremely diverse and difficult series of subjects, including dating, sexual sin, grace, predestination, the emerging church and humor, all the while trying to point readers to the risen, exalted Christ. The result is a book that ended up being his most mature to date and one that I believe most anyone would benefit from.
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Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor
by D.A. Carson
I first read Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor in February, 2009, and I was amazed by the story of this "ordinary" pastor who is truly anything but. Learning about this man who, ultimately, never realized how far his influence reached (and I suspect wouldn't really care)… He is a true hero of mine. Without question, this book is my favorite of 2009 and I'm grateful that D.A. Carson chose to honor his father with this memoir.
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And that wraps up my top ten of 2009 and there were other books that might have made the list if I did it again. Heck, I'll probably think of one or two that should switch out tomorrow.
But what about you? What were your favorite reads of this past year?


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Cooperstown Path Cleared For Steinbrenner, Miller
George Steinbrenner is now eligible to be elected to the Hall of Fame as early as this December.
Hall of Fame Board of Directors Restructures
Procedures for Consideration of
Managers, Umpires, Executives and Long-Retired Players
(COOPERSTOWN, NY) – The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's Board of Directors has restructured the procedures to consider managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players for election to the Hall of Fame.
The changes, effective immediately, maintain the high standards for earning election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The voting process will now focus on three eras, as opposed to four categories, with three separate electorates to consider a single composite ballot of managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players.
"The procedures to consider the candidacies of managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players have continually evolved since the first Hall of Fame election in 1936," said Jane Forbes Clark, chairman of the board for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. "Our continual challenge is to provide a structure to ensure that all candidates who are worthy of consideration have a fair system of evaluation. In identifying candidates by era, as opposed to by category, the Board feels this change will allow for an equal review of all eligible candidates, while maintaining the high standards of earning election."
The Hall of Fame's Board of Directors includes:
Jane Forbes Clark (chairman)
Robert A. DuPuy
Jerry Reinsdorf
Allan H. "Bud" Selig
Joe Morgan (vice chairman)
William L. Gladstone
Brooks C. Robinson
Edward W. Stack
Kevin S. Moore (treasurer)
David D. Glass
Frank Robinson
Paul Beeston
Leland S. MacPhail Jr.
Dr. Harvey W. Schiller
William O. DeWitt Jr.
Phil Niekro
G. Thomas Seaver
� Eras: Candidates will be considered in three eras — Pre-Integration (1871-1946), Golden (1947-1972) and Expansion (1973-1989 for players; 1973-present for managers, umpires and executives).
� Candidates: One composite ballot of managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players will be considered in each era. The Expansion Era ballot will feature 12 candidates, while the Golden and Pre-Integration era ballots will feature 10 candidates. Candidates will be classified by the eras in which their greatest contributions were recorded.
� Electorates: A Voting Committee of 16 members for each era will be appointed by the Board of Directors annually. Each committee will be comprised of Hall of Fame members, major league executives, and historians/veteran media members. Any candidate who receives at least 75% of ballots cast will earn election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
� Frequency of Elections: An election will be held annually at the Winter Meetings. The Eras will rotate, with the Expansion Era Committee to vote onDecember 5, 2010 at the Winter Meetings in Orlando, Fla. The Golden Era committee will meet at the Winter Meetings in 2011 and the Pre-Integration Era Committee will vote on candidates at the 2012 Winter Meetings.
� Screening Process: The BBWAA-appointed Historical Overview Committee will devise the ballots for each era. The Historical Overview Committee currently consists of 10 veteran members: Dave Van Dyck(Chicago Tribune); Bob Elliott (Toronto Sun); Rick Hummel (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); Steve Hirdt (Elias Sports Bureau); Bill Madden (New York Daily News); Ken Nigro (formerly Baltimore Sun); Jack O'Connell (BBWAA secretary/treasurer); Nick Peters (formerly Sacramento Bee); Tracy Ringolsby (FSN Rocky Mountain); and Mark Whicker (Orange County Register).
� Eligible candidates:
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bsp; Players who played in at least 10 major league seasons, who are not on Major League Baseball's ineligible list, and have been retired for 21 or more seasons;
� Managers and umpires with 10 or more years in baseball and retired for at least five years. Candidates who are 65 years or older are eligible six months following retirement;
� Executives retired for at least five years. Active executives 65 years or older are eligible.
Timetable for Upcoming Elections
October 2010
The Expansion Era (1973-1989) ballot is devised and released.
The BBWAA Historical Overview Committee.
December 2010
Meeting and Vote on Expansion Era (1973-1989) ballot at the Winter Meetings.
A Committee of 16 individuals comprised of Hall of Fame members, veteran writers and historians, appointed by the Board of Directors.
July 24, 2011
Induction of Expansion Era Committee selections, if anyone elected.
October 2011
The Golden Era (1947-1972) ballot is devised and released.
The BBWAA Historical Overview Committee.
December 2011
Meeting and Vote on Golden Era (1947-1972) ballot at the Winter Meetings.
A Committee of 16 individuals comprised of Hall of Fame members, veteran writers and historians, appointed by the Board of Directors.
July 29, 2012
Induction of Golden Era Committee selections, if anyone elected.
October 2012
The Pre-Integration Era (1871-1946) ballot is devised and released.
The BBWAA Historical Overview Committee.
October 2012
Meeting and Vote on Pre-Integration Era (1871-1946) ballot at the Winter Meetings.
A Committee of 16 individuals comprised of Hall of Fame members, veteran writers and historians, appointed by the Board of Directors.
July 28, 2013
Induction of Pre-Integration Era Committee selections, if anyone elected.
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Far be it for your personal admiration for George Steinbrenner to color your views, but I thought it seemed obvious that the expansion era is marked with 1973 because that's the year the designated hitter began.
I'm sorry, but even in the face of all the revisionist history that has been going on, if George Steinbrenner, a convicted felon, banned from baseball for life twice, then you have to welcome Pete Rose, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens.
Jemery, if I am correct, Steinbrenner was not banned for life twice but was suspended for a set period; Fay Vincent, the last commissioner of baseball, suspended him for two years the second time, and I believe Bowie Kuhn meted out the same punishment the first time. Also, the first suspension involved a felony committed outside of baseball; not to put too fine a point on it, but what Rose, Bonds, and Clemens did or are accused of doing happened as part of their baseball careers. The second suspension, involving the Dave Winfield business, certainly is a point in favor of what you say, and should not be forgotten as some try to make Steinbrenner better than he actually was.
I should add that the previous time the voting rules changed for the Veterans Committee, it led to the election of Walter O'Malley and Barney Dreyfuss, both of whom had much to recommend them but both of whom, as owners, did terrible things to some of their players (O'Malley and the Dodgers violating Carl Furillo's contract are one example, while Dreyfuss stuck it to Honus Wagner, generally considered the greatest player of his time; other examples are out there, of course). The rules also made it much more difficult to elect Marvin Miller, who is far more deserving than many now in the Hall of Fame. I hope he is elected. Steinbrenner? I wax and wane on that one.
Historymike, one point to clarify in your post is how you mention Steinbrenner's felony occurred outside of baseball but what Bonds and Clemens are "accused" of doing… Here is my question, not being a supporter of either of them, when did we start being ok with banning people for alleged wrongdoing when they have never been convicted? The HOF committee is becoming more and more a joke. When Alomar was up for election, he didn't get in, not due to a felony conviction, but for spitting. The committee made it clear, that one incident was not in line with the type of character they want in the hall. Then people bring up Ty Cobb and others who were completely immoral and bigots, the arguement is that it was a different era. So, why should Steinbrenner, a convicted felon, having been involved in this era be voted in when Alomar isn't, due to his character, or Bonds/Clemens and others aren't due to allegations. The HOF has become less an honor for the greats of the game and more a good ol' boys club – and a complete joke.
Stevesamazins (Mets, maybe?), you bring up some good points, and you've got me thinking.
First, there's an old story about Bowie Kuhn explaining why he did nothing about a player accused of rape by saying, "He did it in the off-season." So I hear. Now, I never want to sound like Kuhn if I can help it. But Bonds and Clemens haven't been banned from anything. Writers are making noises about whether they will be voted in, and we can't know the answer yet–but I have a problem with either being denied because they had Hall of Fame careers, I would say, before any steroid allegations. Mark McGwire, for example, strikes me as having problems in part for not being much of a multi-dimensional player (Edgar Martinez has the same issue as a DH, I suspect).
Also, in terms of allegations vs. actual convictions, we can go back to rumors that Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker threw games, but there was no proof–there appears to be proof in Pete Rose's case. Further, Judge Landis banned the Black Sox after they were acquitted–admittedly, in a phony trial. That said, I think Shoeless Joe should be in there, and so should Rose. Yes, they broke the rules. But who can deny their greatness?
By contrast, there was some debate about Alomar, and his supporters made a strong case that he has behaved since and even become close to John Hirschbeck, the umpire upon whom he spat. Alomar shouldn't be denied the HoF over that (although he should have been suspended for a big chunk of time), and I am inclined to think his numbers should put him in.
Steinbrenner? Again, I go back and forth. I am not convinced that he revolutionized or greatly influenced the game in the way that Rickey or MacPhail or Veeck or O'Malley did, but I also can see the argument for him. I also have to wonder how much it counts against him that he embarrassed the game–and not simply with the two suspensions (Rickey and MacPhail blatantly broke the rules by trying to hide Pete Reiser in the minors when he was declared a free agent), but with the circus he created in New York City. That didn't strike me as anything resembling enlightened ownership.
To rattle on further, the Hall of Fame ALWAYS has been political. Ted Williams was blatant in lobbying for Bobby Doerr, unquestionably a fine player, and rumor has it that Warren Giles blocked Larry MacPhail from getting in because they couldn't stand each other–just two examples. And it always will be political, whether it's the Veterans Committee (Reggie Jackson said only uniformed players should be in, then backed off when he got some boomback) or the writers.
Huh? Who came up with that? It reminds me a lot of Glenn Beck's chalkboard nonsense.
Thanks, historymike, for correcting my assertion that GS was suspended for life. Good point. Just as good a point is that I believe GS is the only person ever to have been suspended by two separate commissioners. Which is almost as good as being suspended to life. Add to my original list of those who must we welcomed along with this convicted felon, Mark McGuire.
I seem to recall that Gil Hodges was the Manager of the New York Mets in 1969. That might also count for something.
I see the obvious has already been stated, but that never stopped me before: if you ban Pete Rose from the Hall for post-career corruption, after all he did FOR the game — how can you possibly even consider, let alone fast-track, a guy who did so much TO the game?
Rose's accomplishments fed the game; Steinbrenner's fed the business. BIG difference.
OK fine, Steinbrenner.
What about Vin Scully? It anyone deserves consideration for meritorious service it is Vinnie.
Let us first disabuse ourselves of the nonsense that there is such a thing as a "Hall of Fame Writer" or "Hall of Fame Broadcaster."
There ain't.
There is an annual award for broadcasters. Broadcasting being a business in which the coin of the realm is ego, those who win the annual award call themselves Hall of Fame Broadcasters, or, worse, Hall of Famers .
They ain't.
It's an annual award, period. Winners are not members of the Hall of Fame. Since someone must win these awards every year, there will eventually be an award for some pretty pedestrial broadcasters. By contrast. the front door to Cooperstown does not open automatically every year. Rare though it is, there are years with nobody elected.
Is there any longer record of honorable association with the game? Has there ever been a better broadcaster for a team in any sport? Connie Mack was a fair ballplayer, a mediocre manager and a horrendous owner. Yet he made the Hall of Fame on the basis of 50 years managing a bad franchise.
Scully is Dodger Baseball. Iiiiiiiiiit's tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime for Vin Scully. In the Hall of Fame. With a plaque. And it should be easy to resist the to-be-expected campaigns for all sorts of other broadcasters to be accorded a similar honor and perhaps that's why they came up with the writers and broadcasters awards.
But Vinnie is special. They should do it before he dies. And if I know it from here in Massachusetts, the entire state of California should know it, too. Maybe they can pass one of their infamous ballot propositions and prohibit baseball for profit until they put Scully in the hall.
So under this new rule would Santo, Allen, Oliva, and the likes be eligible for Hall consideration in 2011? And would the Expansion Era Ballot be comprised of Managers, Players, Execs, and Umps? Or are there three ballots, one for players, one for managers/umps, and one for execs?
I just saw this blog trying to find out the new rules for voting for veterans…Dad (Gabe Paul) used to say that if Ty Cobb could be in the Hall, it was open season. However, dad also crosses all these new eras as his service to the game was from 1920 through the late 1980's. That counts.
As the youngest GM in the game, he stayed in the background more than anyone cares to remember (see theyankeeprincess.com or The Yankee Princess..Why dad and I were in a League of our Own released this month…) With over 500 trades, he was a pioneer. I am tooting his horn, but only because if you really study his contribution to the game, he has an unbelievable record. He put the first black players in a multitude of cities..he was in both The American and National Leagues. Staying in the background was harder than you think as others stole the credit.
HE PUT STEINBRENNER WHERE HE WAS when he put him in the group to buy the NY Yankees in 1973. So what comes first…the chicken or the egg….He won Executive of the Year twice and broke many barriers. He was in the Expansion era, the Golden era and in this era he belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jennie Paul
The Yankee Princess.com