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Britain's Mad-House Foreign Policy
The best and cheapest way of protecting our national security is simply to eject the madmen from the Foreign Office and stop pimping for the US and its mad-dog protegé.
Let's see how quickly the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with Mr Bellingham's help, can get their skates on and straighten out the simple matter of Palestine's status so that Israel's strutting psychopaths can finally be brought to book.
It is an outrage that the British Government, which is supposed to work for us the British people, aligns itself in our name with such evil. This revolting intimacy with the thugs of the Israeli regime is the scandal of our times. Since 1948 what exactly have those "frank discussions" achieved? Has Israel ended its illegal occupation and stopped its murderous assaults? No. Has it lifted its blockade of Gaza and closure of the West Bank? No. Has Israel brought its huge nuclear arsenal and other WMDs under international inspection and safeguards? No. Is Israel nice to its neighbours? No.
And what are the Government's sanctions against Iran going to achieve? The cruel starvation of another half-a-million children like before, in Iraq?


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What is Computational Thinking (CT)?
Mitch Resnick and Jeanette M. Wing are the two main people who best describe Computational Thinking (CT).
Mitch Resnick, Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab and creator of Scratch published this paper with Karen Brennan in 2012. Computational thinking has three main parts: Concepts, Practices, and Perspectives.
- Concepts are the actual computer science ideas.
- Practices are the ways of thinking and problem solving.
- Perspectives are beliefs about oneself and having a mindset that is open to being a computer scientist and/or thinking like a computer scientist.
Jeanette M. Wing, head of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, explains Computational Thinking in a 2006 article
Here are Wing's everyday examples of people using computational thinking:
When your daughter goes to school in the morning, she puts in her backpack the things she needs for the day; that's prefetching and caching.
When your son loses his mittens, you suggest he retrace his steps; that's back- tracking.
At what point do you stop renting skis and buy yourself a pair?; that's online algorithms.
How do Completely Automated Public Turing Test(s) to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, or CAPTCHAs, authenticate humans?; that's exploiting the difficulty of solving hard AI problems to foil computing agents.
Prefetching and caching, back-tracking, algorithms, and solving AI problems are all computer science concepts. All this takes place in your daily life.
Wing suggests that computational thinking is not just about programming computers but thinking like a computer scientist. A computer scientist is a creative human problem solver that thinks with computers, not a boring human who tries to think like a computer, says Wing.
Who is Teaching Computational Thinking?
As coding and computational thinking have been written into curricula around the world, we are seeing people working to understand what it means. Here is a collection of sites and projects of people making sense of CT.
Coding and CT in the United Kingdom
Computing At School Barefoot (aka CAS Barefoot) is an project in England designed to support primary school teachers to understand and teach computational thinking. Here is how they define and explain CT.
What does it look like in UK schools?
Marc is a teacher and Apple Distinguished Educator in the UK has been integrating coding into his early years curriculum for several years. Here are some examples of the activities he has been doing:
Unplugged Activities February 2, 2015
Programming Apps for Early Years July 13, 2013
He also has a book Enabling Environments: A Computing Curriculum Beginning in Early Years
And, here is a blog post if you are looking for apps for teaching coding from a teacher in the UK.
Coding and CT in the United States
33 states allow students to count computer science courses toward high school graduation.
Google is conducting research in the area of computer science education in the US.
Google has also put together a course on Computational Thinking for Educators.
ISTE has compiled many resources to support educators and parents in understanding CT.
Coding and CT in British Columbia, Canada
British Columbia has recently launched a new curriculum that explicitly includes coding and computational thinking. Coding and CT are found within the new Applied Design, Skills and Technologies (ADST) curriculum, last updated June 27, 2016.
Here are K-3 Coding Resources compiled by Karen Lirenman.
Questions I have about Coding and Computational Thinking:
- Is it a requirement to teach coding in order to teach Computational Thinking?
- In Ontario, should we be teaching computational thinking and coding even if it is not in the curriculum?
- If we decide to teach coding and CT in Ontario, do we have to cut back on something else? If so, what are we cutting back on?
- Many subjects have habits of mind that we are trying to develop in students. In math we want to develop powerful math thinkers, in social studies we want critical thinkers, in language we want to be able to express ideas in sensitive and culturally responsive ways. How does focusing on CT help or hinder these existing habits of mind and ways of thinking that we are already trying to emphasize the in the existing curriculum?
- Computational thinking and algorithmic thinking are all about logic and being highly systematic. Dr. Donna Kotsopoulos has asked whether this is counter to what we have been saying about divergent and creative thinking relating to 21st Century skills. Does computational thinking run in opposition to 21st Century learning ideals? In what ways does computational thinking compliment or detract from the 6Cs: character, citizenship, communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity?
- How often do we lead coding activities that teach coding concepts like sequencing and debugging but do not go deeper into thinking and beliefs? How do we go beyond the pure computer science concepts and into deep thinking?

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Frugal Friday~
Here are a few of my faves for this week's Round-up...
First up, Cottage Hill shared her be-au-ti-ful DIY trompe l'oeil grandfather clock. Simply fabulous!
I adored this stencilled ceiling share by Not Just a Housewife.
Need some new art? Try this paint chip wall art idea shared by Life, Crafts and Whatever.
Beautiful Inspirations Design shared their DIY bedframe.
And finally, Inspired by You shared her $10 Auction Chair. So. Jealous.
Now it's your turn.
You know the rules...
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2. Please link back to The Shabby Nest so that others can enjoy the frugal goodness.
3. Please leave comments for the authors of the posts you visit.
I reserve the right to remove posts that are not in keeping with the spirit of Frugal Friday including but not limited to those posts that link to your giveaway, and those that promote your products or shop. Please play fair. m'kay?


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Elite Colleges Not Necessarily Best Ticket to High Earnings, Study Says
Going to an academically elite college does not necessarily boost your earnings potential compared to a less elite college, according to a study by Princeton University economist Alan Krueger.
In his paper " Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College ," published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a school's selectivity, as measured by matriculants' average SAT scores, does not correlate with students' later income, once the abilities of the students upon entering college are taken into account. This finding challenges previous studies positively linking earnings to a college's prestige. The researchers did find, however, that for a subset of students -- those from a financially disadvantaged background -- an elite education did bring greater financial rewards.


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I talked about Damariscotta in my last post. This time, I'll be talking about Cecchetti.
Most of my designs are either inspired by a detail I've seen around which I build a garment or they are an interpretation of a theme or idea someone has proposed. In this case, Cecchetti may somewhat fit the former category but in many ways it's an interpretation of a sort of nostalgia I feel for things that aren't so much a part of my life these days.
I'm a little bit bottom heavy (perhaps "pear shaped" is a more acceptable description) and I have always found drape neck designs, with their delicate folds of fabric framing the face, to be quite flattering on my figure, especially layered under the many suit jackets I no longer wear, now that I work from home. (I'm not complaining, working in my PJs with my dogs by my feet, beats looking fashionable, any day of the week.)
Along with the subtle drape at the neck (for which I provide notes in the pattern for modifying it to be more or less draped) I also tried to capture the aesthetic of the warmup clothes my classmates and I used to wear when I (long ago) took ballet lessons. I was amazed at how overly long sleeves and leg-warmers, would make one's extensions and arm placements look even longer and more graceful. Cecchetti has a little more ease than those pieces I used to wear, and the soft, decadent silk and merino yarn is surely not meant for sweating and leaping, but the vertical body darts, sleeves that slip past the base of the hands and the hip length all serve to elongate and flatter the body.
I think that people who knit this piece will find it very comfortable as well as flattering and very easy to modify as you go to get a good custom fit. As with most of my designs, it's knit seamlessly in the round, including the set in sleeves. And do not worry about it being all in reverse stockinette, the instructions allow you to knit it either right side (purl side) out or wrong side (knit side) out.
Check out Cecchetti or any of the other beautiful Spring and Summer pieces over at Twist Collective.


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John Vonderlin: New Coastal Trail at Cowell Beach A Beauty
Story by John Vonderlin Email John ([email protected]) Hi June, A while ago I sent a posting to you about an adventure Meg and I had exploring "Secret Beach, a ways south of the Ritz Carlton." The highlight of that trip was clambering … Continue reading
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Aug 1928: Eli D. Moore Passes
From the "Redwood City Standard," August 2, 1928 "Eli D. Moore, California pioneer and the oldest member of the Native Son's order in San Mateo county, passed away at his home in Pescadero Monday. His last illness was the first … Continue reading
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John Vonderlin: "Holes in Pescadero" (Part 2A)
Story & Photos by John Vonderlin Email John ([email protected]) I believe the Worley of Worley Flats fame (almost) was William L. Worley. In "San Mateo's 1870 Federal Census, Page 410B, Sixth Township, Post Office Pescadero" there is only one listing for … Continue reading
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There's this "Hole in the Wall" Photos by John Vonderlin
[Note: If you could not enjoy John Vonderlin's stunning "hole in the wall" photos in his earlier post of the same name–because there were red x's there instead of beautiful images–you should be able to see them here now. My … Continue reading
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John Vonderlin: What happened at Spaulding Corner?
Story by John Vonderlin Email John ([email protected]) Hi June, Spaulding Corner is a shady grove of redwoods at a wide, flat, pulloff along Pescadero Creek, about seven-tenths of a mile west of Loma Mar. There is easy access to the creek, … Continue reading
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Winter 1976: Raw Material
While looking for something else, I came across a few fragmented notes taken at a Pescadero Historical Society meeting in December 1976. I don't recall the meeting–but I must have been there because I was working on a book called … Continue reading
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1907: Frederick N. Steele; 1955: Ida J. Steele, 90-year-old Pioneer Passes
1955: "Death claimed one of San Mateo County's oldest pioneers last night when Mrs. Ida J. Steele, 90, died after a brief illness in the home in which she had been born in Pescadero. "The home, the first American-built home … Continue reading
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Linda: Is this the cave your dad talked about?
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"The Fist" Great Book Cover? South Coast Painting?
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John Vonderlin On Mushrooms: Incredible Edibles
Incredible Edibles Story & Photos by John Vonderlin Email John ([email protected]) Hi June, Sometimes as winter approaches I feel an amost perverse excitement about the impending onset of foul weather. Landslides, flooding, dangerous wet roads, and long, wet, cold, and … Continue reading
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Is there a way see if any of the apps on my phone have updates available?
I occasionally get a notification that updates are available but is there a way of checking manually?
If I clear the notification area is there a way to see what apps had updates available?


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Opinion recap: Court strengthens municipal immunity for prosecutorial violations
On March 29, 2011 in Connick v. Thompson, the Court "" by a vote of five to four, in an opinion by Justice Thomas "" reversed a fourteen-million-dollar award in favor of John Thompson, who served eighteen years in prison for murder and armed robbery before his convictions were vacated. The Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office conceded that prosecutors failed to turn over, in violation of Brady v. Maryland, evidence to Thompson's defense team that would have been exculpatory, but it maintained that it could not be held liable under Section 1983 for failing to properly train its attorneys. The Court agreed, holding that the district attorney's office cannot be held liable under Section 1983 for failure to train its prosecutors based on a single violation of Brady.
To prevail on his failure-to-train claim, Thompson bore the burden of proving that (1) District Attorney Harry Connick, Sr., as the policymaker for the DA's office, was deliberately indifferent to the need to train his prosecutors on Brady; and (2) the lack of training actually caused the Brady violation in Thompson's case. The Court began by emphasizing the rigorousness of the "deliberate indifference" standard, which requires proof that the municipal actor disregarded a "known or obvious consequence" of his action; the contours of this deliberate indifference standard were the central issue in Thompson. In Canton v. Ohio, the Court held that deliberate indifference is ordinarily proven by showing a pattern of similar constitutional violations by untrained employees that is subsequently ignored by policymakers. However, the Court also hypothesized in Canton that there might be a situation in which the need for training was so obvious that failure-to-train liability could be premised on a single violation "" for example, if a city were to arm its police and send them out into the community to capture fleeing felons without training them on citizens' constitutional rights. Although the Court has never recognized such a situation in practice, Thompson argued that his case fit squarely within the Canton hypothetical: the violation was such an obvious consequence of failure to train on Brady that it substituted for the ordinarily requisite pattern of violations.
The Court roundly rejected the comparison of the Canton hypothetical to Thompson's situation, emphasizing that the Canton example is fundamentally different from an alleged deficiency in Brady training of prosecutors. Rather, the Court explained, the Canton example was meant to illustrate a situation in which the need for training in constitutional requirements is so obvious ex ante that failing to train employees amounts to deliberate indifference to constitutional violations. First, the Court reasoned, while there is no reason to assume that police academy recruits are familiar with the constitutional restraints of the use of deadly force, a district attorney is entitled to rely on prosecutors' professional training and ethical obligations unless there is specific evidence (e.g., a pattern of violations) which alerts him to the need for training. Second, the Canton hypothetical assumes no knowledge whatsoever of the constitutional limits of deadly force, while in the instant case, the prosecutors were demonstrably generally familiar with the Brady rule, even if they were ultimately incorrect in their application of it. Third and finally, unlike police officers, attorneys are trained during and after law school to "find, interpret and apply" legal principles. Just because some Brady decisions are difficult or even unsettled does not make it "so obvious" that violations will occur without certain training. Thus, absent a pattern of violations, Connick was not on notice that such violations were "highly predictable."
Justice Ginsburg authored (and read from the bench) a dissent that was joined by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. The dissent countered that Thompson's case actually does fall under the Canton example for single-incident failure-to-train liability. Much of the dissent is dedicated to discussing the record and the multiple ways in which the DA's office failed in its constitutional obligations. Contrary to the majority's view, the dissent contended, there are many ways to demonstrate deliberate indifference short of an established pattern of violations, and the evidence presented at trial was more than sufficient for the jury to find deliberate indifference. Connick did not ensure that new prosecutors knew about their obligations under Brady, he did know of the need to train and monitor on Brady, and his "cavalier" approach to his staff's Brady knowledge led to a "culture of inattention" to Brady in his office. These factors, according to the dissent, easily rise to the level of deliberate indifference.
Justice Scalia authored a brief concurring opinion that was devoted primarily to addressing and refuting several points made in the dissent. In particular, he complained about the dissent's "lengthy excavation of the trial record," emphasizing that the question presented was a legal one. He also contended, however, that Thompson had failed to meet the "rigorous" standard of causation required by Section 1983, reasoning that no amount of training would have prevented the prosecutor's willful suppression of the Brady evidence. Finally, Justice Scalia contended, it is possible that there was no Brady violation at all; the blood evidence in question was untested, and this type of evidence, which is "on the frontier" of the court's Brady jurisprudence, is not subject to obvious training standards. Thus, if there were a Brady violation, Justice Scalia would not have found the causation necessary to assign liability.
Recommended Citation: Jessica Fitts, Opinion recap: Court strengthens municipal immunity for prosecutorial violations, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 5, 2011, 10:26 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/04/opinion-recap-court-strengthens-municipal-immunity-for-prosecutorial-violations/


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The Innovation Unit Dilemma
Innovation is a hallmark of the digital revolution yet for many companies innovation remains hard. The popular book The Innovator's Dilemma notes that companies often either ignore a disruptive technology or if they recognize it, they try to manage it like their traditional business. The book says companies need to recognize the disruptive technology and then set up a separate unit to manage it.


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Rally Demands Tax Increase Action from Illinois Lawmakers
Up to 15,000 people are participating in one of the biggest rallies in the history of the Illinois state Capitol.
The secretary of state's office says about 12,000 people marched the streets of Springfield on Wednesday. Even more were on the Statehouse grounds, bringing the total to about 15,000.
The event was billed as a "Save Our State'' rally. It drew state employees, teachers and advocates from social service organizations.
Fired-up speakers urged the crowd to turn to the Statehouse. They shouted slogans such as "Show some guts!''
Don Dixon is a teacher at Jefferson Middle School in Champaign and a board member of the Illinois Education Association. He brought 20 students to the state capitol for the rally. Dixon says there will be more layoffs in his district unless the state puts more money into education.
We just laid off 153 people in the second round. The first round we laid off about 50. And it's only going to get worse," Dixon said. "The state has pretty much screwed up entirely as far as funding anything. So bills are being paid late. Eventually we're just going to have to close down if we don't get an increase in revenue and get some sillier things cut out."
Gov. Pat Quinn wants a 33 percent increase in the income tax, but House Democrats have been reluctant to back a hike.


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Pitchers Warmed Up…Where?
Veteran baseball people were barely done scratching their heads at the sudden rush to declare Opening Day starters in February – to tentatively hint at a violation of the mix of superstition and inchoate fear they call "tradition" – when injury claimed a pitcher who was merely scheduled to start the Spring Training opener.
Adam Wainwright may not only miss pitching in this Cardinals' camp; he may not experience Spring Training again until 2013. The ligament damage near his elbow is profound enough to shelve him until sometime during the '12 season, and could have as big an impact on a team and a franchise as any such injury in recent history, maybe since Sandy Koufax's retirement put the Dodgers into a funk that lasted eight seasons. Not only does it neuter a Cardinal team that fell behind Cincinnati last season, and Milwaukee last off-season, but it could even impact the team's ability and willingness to commit huge money to Albert Pujols next off-season.
The larger question pertains to the feeling that these injuries happen more now than they did 'in the past.' This question itself has been around long enough to become a baseball tradition of sorts. Surely they don't happen that much more often. Koufax quit before his fragile elbow might have snapped like a twig. Don Drysdale retired in mid-season just three years later. 1958 Cy Young winner Bob Turley blew up a year later. And countless careers ended as did Mel Stottlemyre's: with a run in, a man on, and nobody out in the top of the 4th at Shea Stadium on June 11, 1974 (he'd come back for two more innings two months later, then pitch a little the following March, but his rotator cuff was gone).
But the reality is that more pitchers today are warned in advance of these potentially career-ending events. Wainwright isn't necessarily a victim of some awful turn in pitching mechanics, but rather the beneficiary of greater understanding of their impact, and far greater options in terms of repair. Given how little pain he reported, if this ligament issue had sprung up in Spring Training 1911, he would've tried to pitch through the pain, because contrary to today, his livelihood depended on not resting an injury. He might've struggled to an 11-12 record this year, had constant pain, started '12 0-3 and wild as anything, and gone to the minors, never to be heard from again.
Still there is the nagging suspicion that we are doing something to our pitchers that makes Complete Games chimerical dreams, and the four-man rotation and the nine-man staff as comically antiquated as the horse-and-buggy. Denny McLain spent August 29, 1966 – as The Sporting News merrily noted – "struggling to a 6-3 decision over the Orioles…McLain allowed eight hits, walked nine, and struck out 11." He threw 229 pitches. Two seasons later McLain started 41 games (and won 31 of them). Three years later, he started 41 games (and won 24 of them). The other stat – 51 Complete Games in the two seasons – was not repeated not because of arm problems but due to a suspension for associating with gamblers (the arm problems came a year later).
We know pitchers no longer "save" anything for the 9th Inning (that went out with Jack Morris; it used to be true of the top 25 starters in each league), and that without a fastball in the high 80's you will now never get signed, and unless something else about you is spectacular, even that will only get you a career serving as the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotter Prospects in the minors.
But I have long wondered if one tiny change of rituals might have contributed just enough to the wear-and-tear on pitchers to have actually made a difference. The ritual is represented by the smiling fellow at the left, Galen Cisco, the long-time pitching coach who hurled for the Red Sox, Mets, and Royals from '61 through '69.
On August 7th, 1964, Al Jackson of the Mets gave up three runs in the first inning. The next day it was two off Cisco; a day later, one off Tracy Stallard in the first. Then came two consecutive scoreless firsts, followed by a doubleheader in which Jackson surrendered one in the first of the opener and Stallard three in the first of the nightcap. Finally on August 15th came the deluge: six first inning runs off Jack Fisher. So as they sent Cisco out to start on August 16, manager Casey Stengel and coach Mel Harder did something radical.
Cisco promptly retired Tony Gonzalez, Dick Allen, and Johnny Callison, and an ecstatic Lindsey Nelson told his Mets radio audience: "Galen Cisco, who warmed up in the bullpen, where there is a mound, in an effort to be better prepared in the top half of the first inning, gets them out in order!"
Your inference is correct. In 1964, starting pitchers did not automatically warm up in the bullpen. When I first heard this old tape I was flashed back to the summer of my tenth year, and the newfound joy of seeing a doubleheader from behind the screen at Yankee Stadium. There, in my mind's eye, are the starters in the nightcap, Stan Bahnsen of the Yankees and Joe Coleman of the Washington Senators, warming up, on either side of the plate, throwing to catchers whose butts are pressed up against the backstop.
Years ago, Cisco, by then pitching coach of the Phils, insisted to me that he had been no trailblazer, and he had warmed up in the bullpen before August 16, 1964, and that other pitchers had, too. But I know I saw Elrod Hendricks, wearing a mask, warming somebody up long before a game at the new Yankee Stadium, dating it no later than 1976. I was on the field and I had to walk all the way around he and his pitcher. I photographed Goose Gossage throwing, and throwing hard, to somebody in front of the visitors' dugout in New York that same summer, and it was four years later that I got trapped in a space beyond the third base camera well at Shea Stadium because Scott Sanderson and another Expo twirler were airing it out, pre-game.
Somewhere in the twenty year span of the '60s and '70s, the idea that relievers warmed up in the bullpen because they had to "get ready fast," but starters should warm up from a rubber just on the foul side of either the first or third base foul line, changed into what we see today: everybody warms up in the pen, before, during, or after a game, and again between starts.
Ever had a workout with a trainer? Or just a well-led class at a gym? From yoga to weights, if the guy or gal wants to punish you, they'll have you do whatever you're doing, on an uneven surface. Incline or decline, it's tougher if you're not on flat ground. To really burn you, they'll even have you stride downwards or upwards as you lift that weight or try to balance on one foot.
This is not offered as an explanation for all of the woes of the modern pitcher. But a warm-up pitch thrown from a mound is a distant cousin of a pitch to Pujols with two on and nobody out in the 5th. A warm-up pitch from the flat ground is a distant cousin of…playing catch. In short, if Denny McLain had 229 pitches in him on one day in August, 1966, he didn't use up 20 or 30 or 50 of them before they played the Anthem.
Maybe that's why Casey Coleman of the Cubs is really one percent likelier to get catastrophically hurt (and 90% likelier to not throw a Complete Game) than his dad Joe did that night in the Bronx (WP: Coleman, 7-7. CG. 11 K, 2 BB, 2 H, Time: 2:37).
Just a thought.
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Something I never realized, that there was an era when pitchers didn't warm up from the bullpen mound. Maybe there's something to the idea that just playing catch is what's needed to loosen up a pitcher, not throwing from a mound in what feels like game conditions. Plus, there's such an emphasis on the specialists — whether it be the set-up man in the 8th or the powerful closer in the 9th — that I don't think we'll see many complete games unless it's a unique situation, such as going for a shutout or a no-hitter/perfect game.
Here's old film footage of the A's Howard Ehmke warming up before pitching at Wrigley Field in 1929 (3:20). Youtube link
Also remember that the movie Eight Men Out got this period detail right…there is a scene with Sox "busher" Dickie Kerr warming up in foul territory before Game 3.
olq3Cq Very true! Makes a change to see someone spell it out like that. 🙂
I can identify with Tom! The eight years of Countdown came at a time when I had been unjustly fired from my teaching position, for a quote that appeared in our local paper above the fold…asking why the school board had to pay out two million to the super upon her exit. (She had exposed corruption!) During those years, you made me laugh so hard, and you were the voice I did not have! YOU fought for all of us through your program! That is why we are so devoted to you now! I don't know jack about baseball, but my dad used to have one game on TV, one game on the transistor in his ear, and the sports page spread out under the supper in his lap. (He wagered!) He was a yellow dog democrat and my hero! He passed in the seventies, but I am proud to say that YOU are my hero
# two! You are so brilliant and such a fine writer, I would read your baloney blog, if you had one! Like millions of others, I love ya!
Your trainer being mean to you, Keith? 🙂
There's nothing wrong with a little thigh or butt burn! I'm well acquainted with those one-footed squats using heavy weights, and lunges on an incline. I'm told they build character. And tight buns.
I can't even imagine the pain management these ballplayers must have to engage in so that they can continue to play even when they're injured. Yikes.
Hi Profpatti:
Its nice to hear that someone else had a similar positive experience with Keith.
Though my high regard for him is becoming a point of frustration. I spent several week editing a very high tech, funny and touching music video (to the tune ""Centerfield") that I know he and his family would love. I have done longer versions for rich clients for as much as $15,000. This I offer to him as a free gift, but he will not respond to any of my postings on Twitter or the BB Blog. I understand celebrities need to protect their privacy and I respect that…all I want to do is send him the dvds. But to no avail after several weeks of attempts to contact him. It would be a shame if he missed this opportunity to enjoy a project that was my way of saying thanks, on the sport he loves so much.
This is interesting. I just finished the article in the current ESPN mag about pitchers long tossing to develop arm strength and the reluctance of organizations to let them throw much farther than 120 feet. It seems that once an idea takes hold in baseball it is very tough to shake.


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A prolific, eclectic, alt-country band based in Denton, Texas, Centro-Matic began in 1995 as a side project for singer/songwriter and guitarist Will Johnson. Though Centro-Matic released a few singles that year, it wasn't until 1997 that the project began to resemble a full-fledged group. After recording the 23-song debut album Redo the Stacks at his friend Matt Pence's home studio, Johnson enlisted Pence as the band's drummer, along with cellist/violinist Scott Danbom and bassist Mark Hedman. The fully formed Centro-Matic recorded over 60 songs in a Milstadt, Illinois studio space owned by Son Volt's Jay Farrar; of those, some of the quieter, more emotional songs ended up on the 1999 Idol Records album Navigational, while some louder lo-fi tracks were collected with B-sides and other unreleased material on the same year's Quality Park release The Static vs. the Strings, Vol. 1.
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Given Canada's record of success in able-bodied curling, the wheelchair variety of the game is certain to be one of the most followed events on the 2010 Paralympic calendar.
One of the newest of the Paralympic sports, wheelchair curling's roots go back a little more than a decade. The idea was first broached before the World Curling Federation in 1999 and one of the board members, Kate Caithness of Scotland, volunteered to be the project leader.
"In January of 2000, I attended a workshop in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, where the concept was taking shape," Caithness explained at the 2009 World Wheelchair Championships at the Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre. "The Swedes and the Swiss had been experimenting with it, but their idea was to use smaller rocks and on a shortened ice surface."
Caithness, however, was convinced the best way for wheelchair curling to become popular was to keep it as close to the able-bodied game as possible. The official version of the sport that emerged utilizes the same 146-foot sheet of ice and the same 44-pound rocks as able-bodied curling. The only major difference is the absence of sweeping.
In wheelchair curling - which employs eight-end games, rather than the 10 played in other international competitions - curlers deliver the rock from their wheelchairs from behind the near hog line with a team member helping stabilize the chair.
Curlers have the choice of either using a delivery stick - which was developed by Canadian Rusty Drew - or releasing the rock directly out of their hand, with the vast majority choosing the stick.
The only stipulation on the delivery is that it must be released with the outside edge of the stone within 18 inches of the centre line. As in the able-bodied game, the skip calls the shots from the house at the other end of the sheet.
With no sweeping, the draw game predominates in wheelchair curling, although teams from Korea and China have been increasingly demonstrating an ability to throw the bigger weight and therefore more takeouts.
With no sweeping, shooting percentages - even at the top level of wheelchair curling - are lower than in the able-bodied game, with a 60-to-70 per cent average considered excellent.
From a spectator's point of view, however, lots of rocks in play and lower shooting percentages can be seen as a plus. Leads can evaporate quickly in wheelchair curling, making the game more difficult to predict or handicap.
As for the makeup of a wheelchair curling team, the only stipulation is that it must be of mixed gender. In international competitions, most teams are composed of three men and two women - with one of the team members serving in a reserve role. At the recent 2009 championships, some countries took a calculated gamble by bringing four men and just one woman. Had the female player been injured or fallen ill, the team would have had to forfeit games until she recovered.
While there have been official WCF-sanctioned world wheelchair championships since 2003, Caithness says the key moment for the sport came in 2006.
"The biggest day for wheelchair curling was when we made a presentation to the International Paralympic Committee during the 2002 Salt Lake City Games," she says. "They fell in love with it. What they liked most was the mixed gender aspect. They made a decision right away to include it in the [2006] Turin Games."
Although Canada has dominated able-bodied curling the same can not been said for the wheelchair variety. Canada did win gold at the 2006 Paralympics - with Chris Daw of Ontario skipping the team - but it wasn't until the 2009 event in Vancouver that Canada won its first world title.
A key factor in that triumph was the decision by six-time former Brier participant Jim Armstrong of Richmond to take up the game. Armstrong, a 58-year-old retired dentist, turned to wheelchair curling in 2007 after losing much of his mobility following a 2003 car accident, which seriously damaged both his knees. Facing a steep learning curve, Armstrong nevertheless skipped a B.C. team to a national title in 2008 and was chosen to head Canada's gold-medal team at the 2009 worlds.
After three successive years off the podium at the world championships, Canada, by virtue of its 2009 title, is now among the favourites for 2010 Paralympic gold. Canada did not dominate the round-robin at the 2009 worlds - finishing fourth - but caught fire in the playoffs to defeat the U.S., Germany and finally Sweden in the championship game. Curl Canada has already named four-fifths of the 2009 world championship team - skip Jim Armstrong, third Darryl Neighbour, second Ina Forrest and lead Sonja Gaudet - to the 2010 Paralympic squad. Still to be determined is the fifth player. Since skipping Canada to the 2009 world title, Armstrong - who recently lost his wife Carleen to a battle with cancer - went on in March to defend his Canadian crown in Lower Sackville, N.S., by leading a B.C. rink of Frank La Bounty, Whitney Warren, Jacqueline Roy and Neighbour to a repeat victory.
Winner of the previous two world titles prior to the 2009 championships, the Norwegians slipped to a disappointing seventh here this past February. Fortunately for Norway, it had accumulated enough points from its showing in 2007 and 2008 to still qualify as the top team in points (28) for the 2010 field of 10 rinks. Whether the team of Rune Lorentsen, Jostein Stordahl, Geir Arne Skogstad, Lene Tystad and Anne Mette Samdal can hold their roster spots for 2010 remains to be determined by Norway's curling authorities. There were signs two years ago Norway was beginning to falter a bit. Despite winning the 2008 world crown, the Norwegians had the lowest shooting percentages at those championships until improving their play in the medal round.
Like Norway, Scotland is a two-time world wheelchair champion (2004, 2005) but did not perform up to expectations in the 2009 event, finishing fifth overall. Despite a second consecutive sub par worlds, the Scottish Curling Federation is sticking with its team of skip Michael McCreadie, third Aileen Neilson, second Tom Killin, lead Jim Sellar and fifth Rosemary Lenton for the 2010 Paralympics. During the 2010 Games those Scottish curlers will represent Great Britain. McCreadie threw third stones on the Scottish team that won the worlds in 2004 and 2005 and also held that position on the Great Britain team in 2006 in Turin.
Korea is quickly moving up the world wheelchair rankings. After a seventh-place finish at both the 2005 and 2007 worlds, Team Korea was a surprise finalist in 2008, losing the championship game to Norway. The Koreans slipped to seventh in Vancouver, but gained enough points (19) from the past three worlds to qualify fourth overall for 2010. The Koreans are becoming proficient at the takeout game, one of the few teams that can consistently throw the bigger weight. Korea did not qualify to curl at the Turin Games.
The Americans haven't yet announced their team for 2010, but it's a good bet that Augusto "Goose" Perez will be its skip. The 36-year-old native of Madrid, now living in Syracuse, N.Y., has headed up the American team at the last two world championships. In 2008, the Yankees gained considerable confidence when they upset Team Canada 8-1 for the bronze medal. This past season, the U.S. failed to duplicate its podium finish of 2008, but did qualify for the four-team Page Playoffs, where they lost to Canada and Germany. The U.S. has qualified as the third seed for 2010, with 20.5 points accumulated since the last Paralympic Games in Turin.


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We did this pool remodel a few years ago and I thought I would share it. This is a patio home with a 20' x 20' outdoor space with 12' brick walls enclosing the space. We started out by painting the white exterior brick walls orange, yellow and blue (Mexican contemporary colors). We found and installed the cast aluminum suns at a local design yard for a song.
We hired a pool company to complete the pool remodel which included tear out of existing pool (they had to go through the house, no back access) build platform to support new waterfall, new plumbing, skimmer, equipment, new deck with flagstone cap, new Sam pool light and grey plaster.
Once they were done my wife and I decorated with plants, table, chairs, Palapa umbrella, I wired and installed Bose speakers, wheeled in the Big Green Egg and we were in business.
As you can see from the living room picture it's like part of the house. The master bedroom also overlooks the pool. It took us several years to get to this point but well worth it.
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The New York Rangers are going to the Eastern Conference final, a feat they managed while making franchise history.
Never had the Rangers come back from a 3-1 deficit in a best-of-seven series to win and advance in the Stanley Cup playoffs, but that changed on Tuesday at the Consol Energy Center.
Backed by the two players who have defined success in Game 7 in recent years, the Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 and will meet the winner of the conference semifinal between the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins.
Henrik Lundqvist became the first NHL goalie to win five consecutive Game 7s, and Brad Richards increased his personal record in a seventh and deciding game to 7-0 in style, scoring the series-winning goal in the second period.
"What a feeling," Lundqvist said. "We battled so hard as a team the last three games. We had such a good start in the series and then had a big letdown.
"When you face a challenge like that, it's how you answer it. We did it the right way. We came together as a group."
Years from now, you can bet the Rangers will be telling their grandchildren about the trials the team endured in a one-week stretch and how the experience strengthened their resolve.
Fresh off a loss in Game 4 on home ice — one that threw some self-doubt around the New York dressing room — the Rangers arrived in Pittsburgh last Thursday and learned that Martin St. Louis' mother had died. St. Louis made the decision to play in Game 5, a show of perseverance that the club used as a rallying point.
They needed another terrific game from Lundqvist, who made 35 saves on Tuesday, to win the series, marking the first time in five playoff meetings the Rangers have eliminated the Penguins.
When Richards scored on a power play to restore a one-goal Rangers lead, there was a feeling the Rangers would not require another goal.
"I don't know if I have been with a group of guys who went through what we did the last seven days," Richards said. "Nobody gave us a chance. Marty's situation falls upon us. It was not a good day after losing Game 4. To have this feeling after all that, it's unbelievable."
Naturally, it played out that 10 years after they won a Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning, St. Louis set up Richards for the winner.
"I know she was with me the whole way," St. Louis said of his mother, France. "The passing of my mom puts everything in perspective.
"The boys have really embraced my situation and supported me. We came back three games, one at a time. Hank is a our backbone and he has played like that nickname he carries, the King."
As much as there was relief in the Rangers' room, there was more crushing emptiness for the Penguins, who won't forget they had the Rangers on the ropes and were coming home with a 3-1 series lead.
The Penguins needed Sidney Crosby to be at his best and follow his lead, but the team's captain had a miserable series, producing just one goal and two assists, with no points in the final three games.
"I would have liked to have scored more and contribute more, it was not a lack of effort," Crosby said. "I would love to tear it up every series, but that is not always the case. It's tough losing as it is, but when you are not able to contribute as much as you would like, it is even tougher. It's disappointing."
Brian Boyle scored in the first period for the Rangers, beating Marc-Andre Fleury, who couldn't match Lundqvist's heroics when the series called for it.
Jussi Jokinen tied the game early in the second. Richards, with his fifth point in Game 7s, scored less than four minutes later as Pittsburgh defenceman Matt Niskanen served a tripping minor.
Will Lundqvist watch Game 7 between the Bruins and Canadiens on Wednesday?
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British and US authorities have moved to seize 36 domain names associated with websites being used to traffic in stolen payment card data. The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) said in a release issued today that the sites used Automated Vending Carts, a type of Web e-commerce software that allowed criminals to rapidly sell large volumes of credit card and banking account data.
According to a report by Computerworld UK's Anh Nguyen, two men in Britain were arrested on April 24 in a connected case. They were alleged to have made large-scale purchases of stolen payment data from AVC sites, and an AVC site operator in Macedonia was arrested by the Macedonian Ministry of the Interior's Cyber Crime Unit.
According to SOCA, the agency has been monitoring the development and use of AVC sites worldwide. Its efforts, in concert with the FBI and law enforcement agencies in Germany, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Australia, and Romania, resulted in the recovery of 2.5 million "items of compromised personal and financial information" over the past 2 years. The agency claims that the identification of those exposed details prevented more than £500 million ($809.3 million) in financial fraud.
But the moves make barely a dent in the ongoing trade in credit card and bank payment data. Many sites allowing for the anonymous transfer and sale of such data, such as the Russian website undercover.su, are still operating in the open. Romanian hackers who stole payment data from Subway point-of-sale systems between 2008 and 2011, used public filesharing services to transfer credit card data to fraud-minded customers.


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Apple will be broadening its retail relationship with Target by opening mini-Apple stores within the retail chain's doors.
AppleInsider reports that an unnamed source shared the company's plans and that Apple will create branded areas in 25 Target stores. Apple is reportedly specifically seeking locations which can't sustain an Apple store. From the report:
The initial opening would be a small start, given that Target, the second-largest discount retail chain in the US, operates 1752 stores in the US. Apple has opened 359 of its own retail stores globally, 245 of which are in the US.
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This isn't the first time Apple has done a store-within-a-store. Apple already does so in more than 600 Best Buy locations, but is looking to expand even more. Target began selling the iPad in October 2010 and a month later began selling iPhones in 850 locations.
It's obvious why Apple is partnering with Target. With more than 1,700 stores, it's an easy and inexpensive way to extend Apple's retail arm across the United States. Apple recently paid $5 million for a 10-year lease in Grand Central Station, but the tech company can't be expected to lay out millions across the country -- especially in areas that marketers have already determined couldn't support a standalone Apple store.
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UNTERSCHLEISSHEIM, Germany, April 23 (UPI) -- A newly developed coastal radar by Cassidian of Germany successfully demonstrated its capabilities in a series of field tests.
In tests in France, South Africa and the Middle East, the radar "reliably detected small and fast-moving targets" in rough seas at distances of as much as 11 nautical miles, as well as individuals on the shore.
"SPEXER 2000 Coastal is the worldwide first security radar using the latest radar technology of Active Electronically Scanning Array, which provides a multitasking and multimode capability and increases the detection and target assessment capability substantially," said Elmar Compans, head of Cassidian's Sensors and Electronic Warfare unit. "Therefore, one SPEXER 2000 Coastal can replace two or more conventional radars."
Cassidian said SPEXER 2000 Coastal features an instrumented range of 21.6 NM, high Doppler and velocity resolution and high sea clutter suppression for surveillance of coastal areas and maritime infrastructure, such as oil fields and harbors. With a unique signal processing architecture, it is able to detect not only sea activity but also land and air targets, thus eliminating the necessity of deploying different sensors for simultaneous surveillance of each sector.
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Every legit competitive sport has rules of conduct governing how the game is to be played, all conceived to maintain the fairness, honesty and integrity of the process. Umpires, referees, linesmen, field judges and alike don't hesitate to impose sanctions the moment they spot an infraction. Break a rule, you're penalized, benched, fined, out of the game, out of the sport, maybe even for good. Congress and the media repeatedly tell us the American public would tolerate no less, even though the overwhelming majority of sports fans have nothing more than a mere rooting interest in the outcome; no "skin" as it were, in the game– except gamblers, who have all the more reason to want it to be on the level, unless they've already fixed it.
How bizarre then, that on Wall Street, repository of the hopes, dreams and what's left of the hard earned cash and retirement savings of American investors, the most basic of rules enacted to protect the fairness, honesty and integrity of the process are routinely ignored and dishonored.
Like it's predecessor, the Obama administration has thus far assiduously avoided examination, pursuit or punishment of those most responsible for plunging us and the rest of the world into a financial calamity that did not have to happen— and from which many believe we will never recover.
In fact, in the name of "avoiding" financial Armageddon, they've bent over backwards to provide cash and cover for, if not actively participate in, a thoroughly corrupt status quo that selectively eschews the rule of law to enable manipulation of a broad range of markets that hugely profit the most greedy and lawless among us– to the permanent detriment of everybody else. That might not be the intention at the very top, but the scoreboard still reads: Wall Street 10, Public minus 10 plus interest, payable forever.
A seminal element of the enormous problems we face today is little known or understood by the general public and most investors: the government's abject failure, via the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency charged with protecting investors and the integrity of the markets, to enforce the most basic, rudimentary business axiom: that when a buyer pays, the seller must deliver that which was sold– (obliquely: he who sells what isn't his'n, must make good or go to prison).
Congress passed the Securities Exchange Acts of 1933 and `34 to restore greatly diminished public confidence in our capital markets and mandated the SEC: "having due regard for the public interest, the protection of investors, and the safeguarding of securities, to facilitate the establishment of a national system for the prompt and accurate clearance and settlement of transactions in securities."
But incredibly, the SEC has done just the opposite by empowering the Wall Street owned and operated black box Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation to create a Three card Monte style, bait and switch, non-settlement, non-delivery of securities system that facilitates the unlimited sale of securities that the seller is never required by anybody to actually deliver, so that the transaction is never properly "settled." Known as naked short selling or failure to deliver, the scam has the same effect as counterfeiting because by definition and design, it dilutes the actual value of real shares by overpowering the natural laws of supply and demand.
The government's long toleration of this fraud at the very core of the system has enabled Wall Street banks, broker-dealers and hedge funds running all kinds of hot, dirty and foreign money along with their own, to reap huge, often tax free profits, by selling and never delivering unlimited quantities of phantom stock, options, bonds, and even US Treasuries, with total impunity. Over the years, the practice has destroyed countless companies and crushed the hopes and dreams of millions of investors worldwide. Yet the SEC, self-proclaimed as "the investors first line of defense against securities fraud" and "the pre-eminent gold standard of enforcement of securities laws," has not brought a single enforcement action to stop it or punish the perpetrators. Is it any wonder the bad guys have come to feel invulnerable?
Even more incredible (and more profitable for Wall Street insiders), the "Stock Borrow Program" of the Depository Trust's National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) subsidiary allows the exact same parcel of shares to be loaned and reloaned over and over again to create an ever-metastasizing cancer of freely tradable "security entitlements." These illusions of ownership overhang the market (just like naked shorted shares) artificially depressing share prices, They are not backed by an equal number of duly authorized certificates, and lack the full bundle of ownership rights a buyer thinks they are getting with their purchase (ie. voting rights, having dividends taxed at preferential rates, etc.). Most investors looking at their monthly statements have no idea they may not reflect actual shares bought, received and held in their account, but only IOUs from their trusty brokers, who consistently violate the duty of fair dealing owed their clients by failing to insist on delivery of shares they were paid a commission to purchase for them. That's because to keep the scam going, the SEC-approved system quietly provides incentives for them not to.
For at least the past dozen years, evidence of gross conflicts of interest, fraud and derelictions of duty and principle up and down the political/financial food chain, have been abundant, but ignored. We are now living with the consequences. Deregulation and non-enforcement of statutes, rules and regulations designed to provide a measure of integrity, fairness and stability to banking and the capital markets (ie. limits on leverage, usury laws, separation of commercial from investment banking), and basic investor protections like those mentioned above, have been systematically ditched. Honest accounting standards that used to prohibit cooking the books, offshore special purpose vehicles, and performing auditing services while simultaneously giving tax avoidance advice were simply bought off. Time was, assets had to be marked to their actual fair market value ("mark to market") instead of numbers totally contrived to enable insolvent banks to illude otherwise.
Basic principles of insurance law which require an insurable interest (ownership or risk of commensurate loss) in that which you insure (especially regarding someone else's life or property), were legislatively trashed to enable rapacious, ethically bereft speculator banks and hedge funds to erect a new and extremely lucrative swindle using a kind of debt insurance product they called credit default swaps (CDS); so named, because by their rightful name, bond insurance, they would violate every state's insurance laws and be void as against public policy without ownership of the underlying bonds—which was certainly not in the predators game plan. Parlaying never having to actually buy or own the underlying bonds along with the ability to broadly manipulate and malign their market price downward, made 40-1 leveraged CDS bets almost sure winners; outcomes dictated from the sidelines by greedy gamblers with little or no risk of commensurate loss. And they're still at it today, unregulated, and operating in almost total secrecy; a Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Death-Star that may well some day implode all.
Getting away with so many fraud-based practices for so long has emboldened the wrongdoers to almost obsessively believe they can get away with anything. Years of successfully bilking the public without fear of being caught or punished has imbued them with the kind of blinding arrogance that boldly shoves 3 pages at Congress and says with a straight face: Give us the dough ($700 billion)– ours to do with as we will, free from liability or accountability—or else. And now they're being rewarded for it with the biggest profits and bonuses ever. Why?
Why were all the safeguards so intentionally set in place in 1933 and 1934 abandoned? Because those empowered to make and enforce our laws— sworn to be good stewards of the public interest— allowed themselves to be seduced and inducted to serve private interests, not the least of which their own, courtesy of campaign contributions, lobbyist largess, lucrative job prospects, and other co-optive emoluments known anywhere else in the world as bribes. When will we learn that it's not about politics, ideology or principle? It's about the money! But drop me a line the next time you hear any corporate or mainstream media pro daring to talk or write about it in those terms. Somehow, as obvious and pernicious a role as it plays in our political process, discussing venal motive is off limits, part of the pretense that our elected officials actually represent the best interests of the people who voted for them (as distinguished from those who bankroll them).
The Wall Street banksters, of course, are not the only corrosive anti-social force at work here. Other divisions of the corporate kleptocracy Army of Avarice that dictate our national policy and exploit our national wealth (big oil, insurance, agra, pharma, health care, telecom, and defense) also spend generously to keep feasting at the public trough. It's just that Wall Street's misdeeds (even to the dismay of their co-predators) have brought us to the edge of a full-scale long term national/international disaster.
So one has to wonder whether the announcement of a new federal Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to combat financial crime is to be taken any more seriously than Peking University economics students took Treasury Secretary Geithner's assurance that "Chinese assets [invested in US dollars] are very safe." Their raucous laughter came from knowing what more and more of the world now knows– that assets invested in US dollars are not so safe at all.
Of course, TBTB do not want any of that nonsense getting around. They definitely don't want people knowing the true magnitude of our financial problems, or that many savvy, independent economists, financial experts and market observers believe America is not only broke– but in great peril as a nation if we continue on the present course. As they watch the steadily sinking value of the dollar, they foresee a time not too distant when real joblessness will be 30% or more; when the value of your house will drop another 30%, same as your pension or 401k; a time when governments are taking in far less than needed to cover Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, transportation, police and yes, even national defense, requiring drastic cuts in all government services, federal and state, along with markedly increased taxes of all kinds, in a climate of rising interest rates, energy and commodity prices, and alas, civil unrest. In order to pay our creditors $700 billion plus in annual interest on a $12 trillion and counting national debt, they see Americans being required to turn in a portion of what's left of their retirement plans in exchange for long-term, low yield US government bonds. In short, they see us being screwed blue, now and later, condemned to a steadily deteriorating standard of living that for most, will turn the American Dream into a nightmare.
Our leaders don't want us to know that today's crisis was the inevitable result of massive unchecked fraud by mortgage lenders, auditors, investment banks, ratings agencies, securitizers, regulators and insurance companies like AIG, which wrote credit default swaps both they and the purchasers knew there were far too insufficient reserves to cover—and that could only be paid off by a taxpayer funded bailout.
They don't want us to know that the so-called stress tests the banks underwent last Fall were an exercise in wink, wink, nod-nod misrepresentation; or about the bloated valuations of hundreds of billions in toxic assets the privately owned Federal Reserve continues to unlawfully purchase from their too big to fail bankster buddies. The banks were supposed to loan the proceeds out to ease the alleged credit impasse and help stimulate the economy. Instead, what they haven't used to artificially inflate the equities market or invest abroad, they've mostly redeposited with the FED, who then, fairy godmother-like, has gifted them back risk-free 3% interest in a round-trip razzle dazzle that seamlessly and shamelessly transfers even more taxpayer dollars into bankers' bonus-bloated pockets.
They don't want us to know that most big banks, if their assets were marked to current fair market value, and government handouts removed, would in fact, be insolvent; that Fannie, Freddie, the FDIC, and the all important Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), insuring the pensions of some 34 million private sector workers and retirees, are also insolvent—as are most pension funds across America.
They don't want the public to see the future too clearly because they fear the truth would be too much for us to handle, and cause panic they are unready to cope with, along with deep resentment at the government for allowing things to get so bad (let alone for their failing to curtail wrongdoing after it's been brought to their attention). So they distract, dissemble and offer promises of reform, saying: Hey, It's okay. We dodged the bullet. Things will be difficult, but in the end, we'll come shining through because were America, and we can do anything!
Except pay the bill. The fact of the matter, the undeniable, irrefutable arithmetic is that we are not going to be able to pay the bill as it comes due and keep the country reasonably free from soaring misery and discontent.
US Senator Byron Dorgan speaks of "modern-day bank robbers" deploying "anything goes" capitalism in a system they've rigged so they "always win" by wielding "unfair advantage over average consumers and taxpayers"— with "no accountability." Americans "watching selfishness prevail over the public interest" he says, is not only "injuring the economy" but "undermining the public's trust in government." (where many of the Teabaggers are coming from).
For those who follow the subject closely, selfishness is PC for plain old stealing. But then Wall Street has long considered Main Street "the dumb money." theirs, almost by right, and certainly by tradition, for the taking. Not surprisingly, they created a culture of corruption that's proven itself bad to the bone. What other industry has literally dozens of words and phrases characterizing unethical, illicit conduct? (Backdating, Channel stuffing, Cherry picking, Churning, Cookie jar reserves, Cooking the books, Dummy accounts, Earnings management, Flipping, Fomenting, Free-riding, Front running, Insider trading, Late trading, Lulling, Market timing, Marking the close, Matching orders, Naked options, Naked short selling, Off balance sheet, Painting the tape, Ponzi scheme, Puffing, Pump and dump, Pyramid scheme, Round-tripping, Scalping, Selling away, Short and distort, Spinning, Spring loading, Tipping, Touting, Trading ahead, etc., etc., etc.) God's work, indeed.
Instead of facing reality now, telling the people the truth about what's occurred, demanding accountability, enforcing the laws made to protect you and me, and taking steps to prevent wrongdoers from continuing to profit from their misdeeds (a classic principle of jurisprudence), our government, aided by a thoroughly captured, moribund mainstream media that's forgotten how to speak truth to power, keeps trying to shove the dirt under the rug. Extend and pretend. They say one thing and do another, hide the truth, avoid transparency, and engage in even more lies and deceit. Do they not understand that the false expectations they are perpetuating will only evoke greater outrage as people more and more realize they have been played for suckers and left to founder in despair? And that none of this would have happened if the people in charge had upheld their oaths and acted to insure that "liberty and justice for all" were more than just words.


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Mixing and RPM's
I've been reading Michel Suas' book Advanced Bread and Pastry and in it, he writes about the number of rpm's in the mixer that are needed to develop dough to a certain stage. For optimal development, or what some call the improved mix, Suas writes that a dough must get 1000 rpm's in 2nd speed. This is just a baseline number, as many things can effect the amount of mixing time needed (type of flour, amt of dough being mixed, etc.). I was curious as to what the rpm's for various speeds were for my 5qt kitchenaid artisan mixer. I just heard back from kitchenaid, here's what they said:
The planetary RPM's for the 5-qt. tilt-head Artisan Stand Mixer are as follows:
Stir speed - 60
Speed 2 - 95
Speed 4 - 135
Speed 6 - 180
Speed 8 - 225
Speed 10 - 280
...so that means that after 4-5 minutes on stir speed for incorporation, it will take roughly 10 1/2 minutes on 2nd speed (1000/95) for an improved mix.
I haven't tested it out yet, but I thought others might be interested. I think the overall feel and look of the dough is more important, but it's nice to have a general idea of how long it should take. Let me know what you think:)


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Law turning heads with quirky delivery, pitch control
Giants relief prospect evokes shades of Tiant while minimizing walks
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Derek Law's unusual pitching motion has lumped him with others displaying similar traits, such as Luis Tiant, Kevin Brown and Johnny Cueto.
But among bullpen prospects in the Giants organization, nobody compares to Law.
Giants general manager Brian Sabean has indicated that Law, who made the Arizona Fall League's Top Prospects team, could reach the Majors sooner rather than later. The 23-year-old possesses not only an enviable variety of pitches but also matchless command of them, a combination that should hasten an ascent to the big leagues.
Infielder Nick Noonan, who accumulated 111 plate appearances for the Giants last year, faced Law during live batting practice Sunday and praised the right-hander's repertoire.
"I can definitely say that there's a lot of upside to his pitches, a lot of potential, and he's already captured some of it," Noonan said.
Law's control separated him from the pack last year. After successful stints with the Giants' Rookie-level Arizona club and Class A Augusta, Law ascended to Class A Advanced San Jose and walked one batter in 25 2/3 innings spanning 22 appearances, including 11 saves. For the season, Law struck out 102 and walked 12 with 14 saves. He followed that by allowing eight hits and no earned runs in 12 1/3 innings encompassing 11 games for Scottsdale in the Arizona Fall League.
Law's father, Joe, taught him the waste of throwing ball four. The elder Law pitched professionally for nine seasons in the A's system.
"I've been throwing curveballs since I was 8 or 9, getting in fights with my dad," Derek Law jokingly said.
When they weren't debating the prudence of flinging curves at a relatively early age and risking injury, Law was listening to his father.
"Most of his influence was, 'Don't give hitters too much credit. They'll get themselves out seven out of 10 times,'" Law said. "That's a pretty good ratio to me."
Law's skills further tilt the statistical imbalance in his favor. To his surprise, he gained velocity on his fastball last year, adding a couple of miles an hour to consistently reach the mid-90s range. Throwing straight overhand helps his slider, which is his out pitch, and his curveball, which travels in a sharp vertical arc -- "12-to-6," in baseball parlance.
"It doesn't have much of a hump," Noonan said.
Then there's Law's delivery, featuring an exaggerated corkscrewing so that his back faces the hitter before he releases the pitch. The turn in his motion helps him hide the ball longer and create torque, which in turn enhances velocity.
"I used to have a high leg kick with a little bit of a turn, more like a Kevin Brown," Law said, citing the six-time All-Star right-hander. "I just turned a little bit more and I was really comfortable with it. I was able to throw strikes with it and it just kind of developed over the years."
Law estimated that the evolution of his partial revolution became complete when he was a sophomore at Miami Dade College, just before the Giants selected him in the ninth round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft.
"It helped me with hiding the ball and gaining velocity," he said.
Then Law started hearing more about Tiant, who won 229 games in 19 seasons while spinning like a helicopter's rotors before he threw, and Cueto, another torso-twister who's 65-48 in six seasons for Cincinnati.
Law has sensed that he's approaching his Major League opportunity. He said that though he tries to ignore management's upbeat remarks, he can handle the encouraging words that filter through to him.
"If you're a closer or a reliever," Law said, "you kind of like pressure."


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This week we offer a belated welcome (he began with us September 4) to our newest music writer, Andy Miller, who joins the Hook every two weeks as a music reviewer. He's a quiet boy who likes good, unique (even eccentric) music. Miller takes the place of Amy Briggs, who recently moved to Richmond to study at VCU.


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Yesterday we discussed how an answer to prayer led an entire family to catastrophic ruin. In the book of Judges, chapter 1, Judah receives total victory in answer to prayer. In chapter 20, however, twenty-two thousand die in catastrophic defeat after receiving the green light from God. Why would God deliberately lead them to defeat?
A hideous sin has just occurred. A woman has just been murdered and cut up into 12 pieces. As one unified body, the tribes rise to eradicate this evil from their midst. Receiving another green light from God to go and fight, they are again devastated with the catastrophic loss of another eighteen thousand soldiers.
So the question again is, why? First, as I look back in chapter 1, I read that the children of Israel prayed to Yahweh–their covenant-keeping God. In chapter 20 they direct their initial prayer to Elohim–the mighty God. From chapters 1 to 20 Israel has lost their closeness with their personal God. As we learn in chapter 2, a whole generation has grown up without knowing the LORD (Yahweh) as everyone is doing that which is right in his own eyes. In chapter 20, they are still praying–but praying without a relationship–and the results are dismal to say the least.
Furthermore, God's people are no longer fighting the enemy as they were in chapter one; now they are fighting each other. Believing themselves to be God's instrument of judgment upon their wicked relatives, they instead became the recipients of God's wrath.
The lesson from the book of Judges speaks loud and clear.When the sins of others stir our hearts to judge and avenge, let us be mindful to judge ourselves first, lest we be judged.
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not looking promising.
Last go Sony positioned themselves as a home entertainment center...DVD player/music player/games/internet browser on your TV.
Problem is people did just that.
Now they want to constrict rather than broaden usage.
Last I saw, they were not allowing music playing
they really want people to buy and play games...and not use it for a mulch-purpose PC (which it obviously is)
Things might change, MS says they will play DVD and Music...so Sony might be forced to open up their platform.
Time will tell. But I wouldn't hold my breath.