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MCLEAN, Va. — Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon's behest and whose failed 1980s nomination to the Supreme Court helped draw the modern boundaries of cultural fights over abortion, civil rights and other issues, has died. He was 85.
Son Robert H. Bork Jr. confirmed his father died Wednesday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va. The son said Bork died from complications of heart ailments.
Brilliant, blunt, and piercingly witty, Robert Heron Bork had a long career in politics and the law that took him from respected academic to a totem of conservative grievance.
Along the way, Bork was accused of being a partisan hatchet man for Nixon when, as the third-ranking official at the Justice Department he fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in the Saturday Night Massacre of 1973. Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned rather than fire Cox. The next in line, William Ruckelshaus, refused to fire Cox and was himself fired.
Bork's drubbing during the 1987 Senate nomination hearings made him a hero to the right and a rallying cry for younger conservatives.
The Senate experience embittered Bork and hardened many of his conservative positions, even as it gave him prominence as an author and long popularity on the conservative speaking circuit.
Known before his Supreme Court nomination as one of the foremost national experts on antitrust law, Bork became much more widely known as a conservative cultural critic in the years that followed.
His 1996 book, "Slouching Towards toward Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline," was an acid indictment of what Bork viewed as the crumbling ethics of modern society and the morally bankrupt politics of the left.
"Opportunities for teen-agers to engage in sex are … more frequent than previously; much of it takes place in homes that are now empty because the mothers are working," Bork wrote then. "The modern liberal devotion to sex education is an ideological commitment rather than a policy of prudence."
Bork, known until his death as "Judge Bork," served a relatively short tenure on the bench. He was a federal judge on the nation's most prestigious appellate panel, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, from 1982 until 1988, when he resigned in the wake of the bitter Supreme Court nomination fight.
Earlier, Bork had been a private attorney, Yale Law School professor and a Republican political appointee.
At Yale, two of his constitutional law students were Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham.
"I no longer say they were students," Bork joked long afterward. "I say they were in the room."
Nixon named Bork as solicitor general, the administration's advocate before the Supreme Court, in January, 1973.
Bork served as acting attorney general after Richardson's resignation, then returned to the solicitor general's job until 1977, far outlasting the Nixon administration.
Long mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee, Bork got his chance toward the end of Ronald Reagan's second term. He was nominated July 1, 1987, to fill the seat vacated by Justice Lewis F. Powell.
Nearly four months later the Senate voted 58-42 to defeat him, after the first national political and lobbying offensive mounted against a judicial nominee.
It was the largest negative vote ever recorded for a Supreme Court nominee.
Reagan and Bork's Senate backers called him eminently qualified — a brilliant judge who had managed to write nearly a quarter of his court's majority rulings in just five years on the bench, without once being overturned by the Supreme Court.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., summed up the opposition by saying, "In Robert Bork's America there is no room at the inn for blacks and no place in the Constitution for women."
Critics also called Bork a free-speech censor and a danger to the principle of separation of church and state.
Bork's opponents used his prolific writings against him, and some called him a hypocrite when he seemed to waffle on previous strongly worded positions.
Despite a reputation for personal charm, Bork did not play well on television. He answered questions in a seemingly bloodless, academic style and he cut a severe figure, with hooded eyes and heavy, rustic beard.
Stoic and stubborn throughout, Bork refused to withdraw when his defeat seemed assured.
The fight has defined every high-profile judicial nomination since, and largely established the opposing roles of vocal and well-funded interest groups in Senate nomination fights. Bork would say later that the ferocity of the fight took him and the Reagan White House by surprise, and he rebuked the administration for not doing more to salvage his nomination.
The process begat a verb, "to bork," meaning vilification of a nominee on ideological grounds. In later years, some accused Bork of borking Clinton nominees with nearly the zeal that some liberal commentators had pursued him.
Bork denied any animus, and said he was happy commenting, writing and making money outside government. Even friends did not entirely believe that.
"He was very embittered by the experience," said lawyer Andrew Frey, a longtime friend who worked for Bork in the solicitor general's office. "He was not well treated, and partly as a result of that he did become more conservative."
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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Friday, February 3, 2012
Let's take a walk along Avenue A in the East Village in 1997
Previously on EV Grieve:
Let's take a walk along First Avenue in the East Village in 1997
Let's take a walk along Second Avenue in the East Village in 1997
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Nice shot of Alt Coffee. There was something about hat place. Miss it.
- February 3, 2012 at 7:37 AM
wish ray still sold newspapers.
- February 3, 2012 at 7:38 AM
- Alex in NYC said...
Fun fact: The couple standing in front of Two Boots Pizza is Kembra Pfaller and guitarist Samoa from The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.
- February 3, 2012 at 8:01 AM
- Brodsky Organization said...
We love this look back to the East Village! Will you be doing more posts like this one taking a look back in New York?
- February 3, 2012 at 9:20 AM
- Marty Wombacher said...
This was a great series of posts! And that's a cool factoid that Alex in NYC supplied!
- February 3, 2012 at 9:39 AM
- James Campbell Taylor said...
I must say I was sad to see Alphabets changed their sign recently.
This series is great and makes you realize just how much the vibe of downtown Manhattan has changed in the last decade.
- February 3, 2012 at 9:40 AM
- esquared™ said...
oh wow, Korova Milk Bar -- much better than that Momofuku Milk bar
and yes, Alt Coffee, and pretty much everything in this post.
good times, good times.
- February 3, 2012 at 9:50 AM
- NYCDreamin said...
As the Handsome One once sang...
Benny got a new tattoo
Down at the St. Mark's Zoo
He walked down to the park
Drinkin 40's, till it's dark
Talkin to a grey haired man
In a tie-dyed shirt and ragged pants
He said,
That's where the hippies used to play
Down on Avenue A
Susie got a new pair of shoes
Now she don't know what to do
So she's sitting in the Park
Smokin pot till it's dark
Talking to a toothless man
With spiky hair
And leather pants
He said,
I knew Stiv in the day
And that's where the junkies used to play
Down on Avenue A
When every memory is gone
and everything you know is wrong
Takin the edge off on a beautiful day
with a Frappacino and a creme brulee
yeah, it's all over when you see a Range Rover
and to my bodega, I say hasta luega
it's not what you do, it's what you say
and it's not who you know, it's who you pay
Down on Avenue A
- February 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM
@Alex in NYC It is them! I'll send her a link.
- February 3, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Wow- takes you back. Reminded me of a different journey down Ave A around 4th of July '93. I could hear small explosions coming from 14th street and getting closer and getting louder. Then the explosions got really loud about every minute. Finally I could see the source from my window- some guy with a bag full of M-80s walking south down Ave A lighting them and throwing them into the street as he walked along. I could hear him for another ten minutes. Ah, the days.
- February 3, 2012 at 10:53 AM
- esquared™ said...
All Over Me and Kids also has good shots of the EV in the mid 90's.
- February 3, 2012 at 11:06 AM
- esquared™ said...
*have (initially meant to say or. ok, done spamming the comments)
- February 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM
- February 3, 2012 at 12:00 PM
@ Alex in NYC.... I though I recognized Kembra and Samoa! Thanks for the clarification.
- February 3, 2012 at 12:15 PM
I remember going to the Bank for my friend's 17th birthday. We drank cosmos all night and were way too perky (i.e. drunk) to be in a goth club.
- February 3, 2012 at 12:32 PM
No picture of Cafe Pick Me Up on 9th street? I work there and I'd like to see if the facade looked any different.
- February 3, 2012 at 1:13 PM
Wow. I was hoping to see the beloved Raven and its beautiful French windows (now long gone and replaced by fugly glass). It's nice to see Accidental again, and I miss La Cieba and its mural that is now the mega-bland Westville space. Also, it can never be said enough, RIP Old Devil Moon (and your chicken-fried tofu steaks).
- February 3, 2012 at 1:34 PM
- Laura Goggin Photography said...
Amazing how so many of these places are still here. RIP Old Devil Moon...ah, Korova!
- February 3, 2012 at 1:51 PM
not to be a nitpicker, but i wish there was a better shot of brownie's.
- February 3, 2012 at 2:09 PM
- jw said...
Limbo! But sadly no Eshasi. dwg, I was just thinking about those M-80 days, though it was across from my apt in the LES and our dishes would shake. They must be illegal now.
- February 3, 2012 at 3:12 PM
Yesterday I got to reminisce about the old record shops and now see the spot the I lived above for so many years. Thanks for he photo of Korova Milk Bar. I lived upstairs for nearly a decade. Marque was the door guy. Anybody remember him? The coolest and nicest dude in town. That man, was real. You could walk by and just wrap about anything with him.
- February 3, 2012 at 4:16 PM
I love these pictures, but I have a lot of regrets that I didn't take more and I missed places like Pick Me Up. I was a Alt regular with tunnel vision. In my defense it was the first time I had ever used a digital camera, and this crappy Kodak(RIP) didn't even have a display on it. You never feel like you're living in nostalgic times until they're gone. I feel like doing a walk through the E.Vill every year now, while it's no longer home, no place will ever feel so much like home. It's much easier to document now than it was the 8 Billion years preceding.
- February 3, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Yo, a follow up from my comment about Korova. Too bad no one can land a photo of the skate shop that was across the street (now a pizza joint). Half pipe was set up every day in the street :) Gotta get a photo of the Sound Library too..Or a pick of the Cock in 1995 at 3:00AM with everyone dressed in drag. Or the mom and pop spanish place that...uhh shudder...houses west vill east. Yo, their dish was Camerones enchiladas. That was dope. I forgetting many others, my brain can only remember one block at a time..
- February 3, 2012 at 4:28 PM
Man, do I miss Limbo!
That was the last place that I can remember where you could just get your nosh (loved their little goat cheese, tomato, and basil on ficelle) and your great cup of joe, grab a magazine or a paper from their great magazine rack, and then say to some other patron; "Hi, do you mind if I sit at this table with you?".
Place was friendly and filled with great sunlight.
- February 3, 2012 at 4:39 PM
4:28, the skate shop! I forgot all about that place until just now. I loved seeing the skaters out front ... and I used to collect their discarded broken boards to customize this boring IKEA-type bookshelf, covering it in old stickered, graffitied and splintered decks. I miss those days. Thanks for the memory jog :)
- February 3, 2012 at 5:23 PM
Never remembered Nice Guy Eddies and Psychomongo's being open at the same time. Dig the Marlboro Light sign in the Psycho window.
- February 3, 2012 at 6:08 PM
And standing in the doorway of 2A, you have Handsome Dick Manitoba of The Dictators and actor Larry Fleischman!
- February 3, 2012 at 7:53 PM
Ahhh...not ONE person on a cell phone! Those WERE the days!
- February 3, 2012 at 11:13 PM
You're breaking my heart Grieve. Great series. Miss Alt Coffee and early Old Devil Moon.
- February 3, 2012 at 11:19 PM
- Uncle Waltie said...
Does anyone remember a place called Beulah-Land on Avenue A ?
- February 4, 2012 at 7:13 AM
Lived on 9th between 1st and A in the 90s. Lots of great memories. Loved Limbo, but when Pick Me Up opened, that was my regular. Old Devil Moon, also a fave.
And what a dream, having a 24 hour record store nearby. I made some questionable purchases in the wee hours of the morning after a night out.
- February 7, 2012 at 12:21 PM
- geoffism said...
Awesome stuff. I moved here in '99 and have some fond memories. Thanks for posting. I would love to see the whole collection from Dave. Is that possible?
- February 8, 2012 at 2:12 PM
Well, this thread is 3 yrs old, but I was thinking about Beulahland and just ended up here.
Pretty sure the awesome bar Beulahland was long gone by 1997... It was on Ave. A between 10th and 11th St. (next door to Anton Von Dalen's stenciled building and across the street from Brownie's when it was a kinda-scary REAL afterhours place and not the live music venue....)
Gracie Mansion gallery was on that block for years as well.
Wouldn't it be great if a "Dave Buchwald" had shot similar strolls over the years on Ave A (or B... or St Marks place, etc) and we could all go "ah yes, THERE'S my long-lost bodega/laundomat/weedshop/etc...." ??! (Lunch counter place on A between 9th and 10th, anyone??!!)
I personally got to the hood in 1983 (11th and B) and was a bartender at Beulahland, amongst other fun things...
There's a slide show on today's (11/3/15) NYTimes website about the newly discovered/released photos of Paige Powell of Jean-Michel, Andy W, Keith Haring et al... reminiscing about them days and mentioning Beulahland and the great Susan Hannaford-Rose (owner)...
- November 3, 2015 at 2:28 PM
I saw this invite to Beulah Land that in turn lead me to this thread.
- December 31, 2015 at 6:42 PM
I was just reminiscing about the East Village, Kiev and pierogies at 2am and found this thread. BEULAHLAND was my favorite spot on the strip, chill and good music, nice crowd. Miss it lots. Thanks for keeping this thread up. Great photos and feels from my old hood.
- May 12, 2017 at 10:00 PM
Babka at the Kiev!
- April 19, 2019 at 5:34 PM
- Unknown said...
I do. I went there often.
- May 21, 2019 at 12:50 AM
Sigh. I remember buelah land. Lived in the apt above where Westville is . The storefront was empty the whole time. Lost innocence. Sigh. Can't say I miss Korova milk bar noise & shaking the building. Can't sleep. Housing court tomorrow, again. F.U. Empire biscuit.
- October 18, 2022 at 4:55 AM

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A Most Beautiful Birthday Cake
Surely no one can disagree with the title I chose for the latest cake I made? I came across this cake a few months ago and thought it to honestly be one of the prettiest cakes I'd ever seen! There was even a tutorial on how to achieve this masterpiece. I stored all this information mentally, knowing one day I would have to make that cake.
Well that day arrived last week! It was my favourite 10-year-old girls birthday. Along with her two brothers, I have looked after this little girl since she was born. The last 12 years of my life not only have flown by but have been filled with these three wonderful children and what a blessing it has been. Sandwiched in between the two boys is Minnie, the sunshine of my life. That gorgeous birthday cake was my project for her 10th birthday cake.
Although I love baking, fancy cakes are not really my forte, I do like the cakes I make to look nice but I possess neither the patience or steady hand required to make delicate icing decorations. So this was a challenge for me!
Prior to making the cake I made up a batch of buttercream and following the tutorial video I practiced piping roses onto baking paper. I recommend doing this, if like me fancy icing is not usually your thing. On i am baker's crusting buttercream page there are a lot of comments about changing shortening for butter. Concerns over melting and whether the butter would be able to hold its shape were worrying, but I have a problem with cakes that look nice but don't taste nice and the thought of eating and feeding to the children raw shortening was not even a consideration so I made my roses with buttercream. It was a fairly warm day, at one point the kitchen got up to 25 c but the buttercream held its shape and even a couple of days later the last piece looked fine despite just been kept covered on the counter. So maybe if you live in a really hot climate and aren't in an air-conditioned room butter may not be suitable but for me butter was no problem at all and definitely tastes better than shortening!
I made the sponges the day before I intended on decorating them, using Delia Smith's basic sponge recipe. The buttercream I made on the day. I separated a little of the buttercream and mixed in some purple food colouring which I used to sandwich the two sponges together. I liked the idea of making the vertical layers seen on i am bakers blog and one day I will but for this time it really was too much for me to attempt along with the roses! So I settled on just adding a little colour to the buttercream in the middle of the cake. When the cakes were sandwiched together I gave them a thin coating of buttercream, spreading it as smoothly as possible. I then put the cake into the freezer for 30 minutes, this was an important step for me as it allowed any roses that I wasn't happy with to be easily scraped off without damaging the crumb coat. It also allowed me time for a much needed coffee! To decorate with the roses I started on the side of the cake then did the top. This really gets easier as you go along, after the first 3 roses I knew it was all going to be ok and relaxed, getting speedier at piping the roses.
I was delighted with the results of this cake! It really wasn't difficult to decorate, the tutorial video is brilliant, if I can do this then anyone can! This was a wonderful cake for visual impact but importantly it tasted good too, and the birthday girl? After blowing out the candles and staring at the cake for a while she turned to me and said " I love you".
The Most Beautiful Birthday Cake (adapted from this Rose cake from i am baker)
For the cake
I used this recipe from Delia Smith but instead of using a 7 inch cake pan I used an 8 inch cake pan and put all of the cake mix into it, I then repeated this, resulting in 2 larger sponges. I decided not to double up the ingredients as I've heard that by doing that you may get a heavier cake. So I made one sponge and while it was baking I prepared the other one.
For the frosting
I based the frosting on this recipe from i am baker, it is sweet and there is a lot but I wanted to be sure that I had enough for any mistakes! This makes more than enough, with some left over. I tried to keep it slightly drier by adding less butter and milk than the recipe which seemed to work well for me.
- 200 gram (7 oz) butter at room temperature
- splash of vanilla extract
- 500 gram (18 oz) icing (confectioners) sugar
- 60 ml (2 fl oz) milk
- Using a mixer or food processor cream together the butter and vanilla until well softened.
- Add the icing sugar in a few stages, stopping every now and then to scrape the sides of the bowl
- Add the milk a little at a time when the mix becomes too stiff.
Follow the video tutorial to decorate the cake


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Home Energy Carbon
How carbon offsets can change low-income weatherization programs.
The low-income energy efficiency movement still needs to leverage money. Most everyone who is involved in residential energy efficiency is aware that DOE's Weatherization Assistance program received $5 billion to weatherize low-income homes under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Recovery Act) during the 2009-11 time frame. DOE expects approximately 600,000 homes to be weatherized with this unprecedented stream of federal funds. However, the fact remains that even after the Recovery Act money is expended, there will still be 30 million low-income homes that have not been weatherized. The need for funding to tackle that enormous task will remain great, and the environment for continued large-scale federal appropriations for low-income weatherization will be challenging at best.
Many low-income advocates had hoped that government policies to place a price on greenhouse gas emissions would produce a financing mechanism to help weatherize more low-income homes. On its face, this seems to be a promising opportunity. After all, placing a price on CO2 and other greenhouse gases would create a market for carbon offsets, a mechanism whereby polluters would be able to buy a reduction in emissions from someone else at a lower price than they might pay to reduce their own emissions. Low-income energy efficiency programs can produce just such offsets, with the reduction in greenhouse gases from comprehensive weatherization of low-income homes estimated at 2.65 metric tons of CO2 per home per year, or 53 metric tons over the life of the measures for heating and cooling alone. Why not sell the emissions reductions as offsets and use the proceeds to weatherize more low-income homes?
The prospects for a nationwide emissions reduction market now seem rather dim, with the failure of Congress to pass a cap-and-trade law. Such legislation would have capped emissions of greenhouse gases and reduced them over time. It would also have created a market for allowances, or the right to emit 1 ton of CO2 equivalent, along with a companion mechanism for the sale of offsets to help reduce the cost of compliance. As allowed emissions ratcheted down, the value of an allowance or an offset would have increased, providing a potential funding stream for offset providers like low-income weatherization programs.
The demise of cap-and-trade in the 111th Congress does not mean that the potential for the sale of offsets to fund weatherization has been eliminated, but it does complicate matters. Greenhouse gas emissions reduction programs -- both mandatory and voluntary -- remain in the United States and in other parts of the world. In Europe, one such program is the European Trading Scheme (ETS). It forms part of the European Union's effort to comply with the 1997 Kyoto Protocols, following the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The ETS is a mandatory program, and the purchase, sale, and trading of allowances and offsets therefore take place in what is called a compliance market.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is the first market-based regulatory program in the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states have capped and will reduce CO2 emissions from the power sector by 10% by 2018. Similar programs and markets may emerge among some U.S. states and Canadian provinces.
In addition, there are voluntary markets for emissions offsets in which businesses, institutions such as universities and hospitals, and even families and individuals can purchase offsets in order to reduce their carbon footprint. Anybody with a modicum of computer savvy can Google "carbon offsets" and find organizations willing and ready to help calculate his or her carbon footprint, and sell corresponding offsets to reduce it. Bloomberg News Service estimates that in 2009 the world market for carbon offsets was 94 million metric tons with a value of $387 million, though this value is likely to have declined in 2010, with the continued sluggish international economy and the failure of the United States to pass climate change legislation. American sources provided 56% of the offset supply in the voluntary markets.
Residential energy efficiency poses some unique challenges in the sale of offsets, some of which are discussed below. The General Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, in its examination of voluntary markets, found that 85% of U.S. offsets came from three categories of activity. The three were methane capture from mines and landfills (49%), carbon capture and storage (19%), and biological sequestration (17%), largely through planting and reforestation. Methane capture and biological sequestration are relatively inexpensive to implement and are easily measured. Nonetheless, EPA estimates that about 18% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from residential energy use, so the potential for efficiency-based offsets is substantial.
Meeting the offset standards poses numerous challenges for residential energy efficiency projects, and that includes weatherization projects.
While the market for emissions offsets still exists, the challenges for low-income efficiency programs that are trying to develop and sell offsets are substantial. These can be categorized in three ways -- as challenges posed by standards, by costs, and by prices.
Not all offsets are equal. The requirements placed on offset providers to demonstrate the validity of their product vary enormously. At one extreme, the United Nations has created the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This program is designed to encourage organizations that need offsets in the industrialized countries, such as those of the ETS, to invest in and purchase emissions reductions from the developing world. CDM offsets, called Certified Emissions Reduction (CER) credits, are high in value, selling for over $16 a ton in summer 2010; however, it is difficult to gain regulatory approval for them from the United Nations. In its most recent review, the CDM rejected 22 out of 43 projects. At the other end of the spectrum are voluntary projects, sometimes bilateral in nature between individual buyers and sellers, where no third-party verification is involved at all.
In general, offsets that are being sold or traded in various exchanges have to meet certain standards; they must be proven to be additional, quantifiable, real, and permanent.
Additionality is the standard for demonstrating that the emissions reductions claimed as offsets would not have occurred without the funding stream provided by the purchase of the offset itself. In other words, they would not have occurred in a business-as-usual world. According to the General Accountability Office, a variety of tests have been created to measure additionality. These tests include financial, regulatory, or timing tests -- all of which are intended to demonstrate that the emissions reductions would not have occurred without the purchase of the offset.
If emissions reductions are to be sold as offsets, they must also be quantifiable and real. After all, a market requires a standard measure of the commodity, in this case generally 1 metric ton of CO2 equivalent, so that buyers know what they are getting. The offset provider has to have a mechanism for measuring the emissions reductions in these terms, and proving that the claimed reductions can be, and are being, measured by agreed-upon metrics.
Finally, offsets must be proven to be permanent. An offset project may produce initial emissions reductions that are measured and quantifiable -- but will the reductions persist over the time period claimed?
The CDM applies only to projects in Kyoto Annex signatory countries in the developing world. Kyoto Annex signatory countries are those which comply with the Kyoto Protocols. In addition, a number of organizations have emerged to establish and validate standards for offsets, both voluntary and compliance. These standards may apply to projects outside the Kyoto Annex. Among these standards are the Gold Standard and the Voluntary Carbon Standard. The Gold Standard, created by the World Wildlife Fund, is a nonprofit organization recognized by environmental organizations around the world and acknowledged to have stringent criteria for measuring additionality, thorough project review for effectiveness and sustainability, and third-party verification. It recognizes only renewable-energy and energy efficiency projects. The Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) is also a nonprofit organization. VCS's founding partners -- the Climate Group, the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and the World Economic Forum -- convened a team of global carbon market experts to draft the first VCS requirements to establish a recognized and standardized carbon offset marketplace. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) joined the effort soon after. The VCS recognizes all projects, as long as they follow an established VCS methodology.
Meeting the offset standards poses numerous challenges for residential energy efficiency projects, and that includes weatherization projects. Perhaps the greatest challenge, however, is establishing the validity of energy savings estimates in a cost-effective way. While weatherization can be shown to realize substantial average savings in a large group of households, the amount saved varies considerably from home to home. It is therefore necessary to establish a recognized project basis that includes a large enough group of homes to make it possible to measure savings through vendor energy bills, and to establish a baseline against which to measure these savings. Another problem is how to measure persistence over time. This has always been a challenge in program evaluation for residential energy efficiency programs, given the mobility of households, and the fact that the number, and lifestyles, of the residents may change.
The leader in the effort to establish a methodology for qualifying weatherization projects for the sale of offsets has been the Maine State Housing Authority (MSHA), DOE's weatherization grant manager for the state of Maine. MSHA, with its partners at the Pennsylvania and New Jersey housing agencies and its consulting experts, has been working with the VCS to establish an accepted methodology for weatherization projects. Their system, now under review, would cover comprehensive residential energy retrofits, building envelope and heating/cooling system retrofits, and appliance replacements. The process would include pre- and postretrofit audits, energy bill analysis with control groups, and deemed energy savings.
There is no question that effective residential energy efficiency programs not only save energy and reduce energy bills, but also reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to DOE's Energy Information Administration, every gallon of home heating oil contains 22.5 lb of CO2, and every therm of natural gas contains 11.7 lb of CO2. Reductions in electricity emissions due to improved efficiency vary depending on the fuels used to power the generators, but they are very large in places where coal is the primary energy source.
The challenge for residential energy efficiency is not simply to reduce emissions, but to do so at a cost that is competitive with other offset projects. As noted above, weatherized households are expected to reduce emissions for heating and cooling by an average of 53 metric tons over the life of the measures. At an estimated cost of $3,030 per weatherized household, emissions reductions would cost $57 per ton, well above the price now being paid for offsets in the ETS, the most stringent, and therefore the most costly, market.
In order for weatherization to participate in the tradable offset market, it will have to develop mechanisms to identify the most cost-effective energy efficiency measures with the highest related carbon emissions reductions -- most likely those involving electric energy efficiency -- and package those separately from other energy efficiency measures. This also means that areas with the highest energy savings from the most carbon-intensive fuels are most likely to be able to jump the cost-effectiveness hurdle. For example, home heating oil is 38% more carbon intensive than natural gas per million Btu of energy, so New England, with high home heating oil usage and high heating degree-days, is probably a good candidate for early offset sales. Similarly, electrically heated and cooled homes in the Midwest, where much of the electric generation is coal fired, might also provide an early market for weatherization agencies.
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To learn more about emissions and low-income weatherization, visit the Weatherization Plus website, www.weatherizationplus.org, to download PDFs or read reports online.
The other side of the cost issue is the market price for carbon emissions reductions. If buyers are unwilling to pay for carbon offsets, all other questions are moot. The failure of cap-and-trade or carbon taxes to gain legislative traction, together with the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference of 2009 to establish mandatory emissions reductions requirements, has dampened interest in the purchase of carbon emissions offsets. The price of emissions offsets has reflected this dampening. For example, bids on the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange for offsets for December 2010 for the RGGI were $1.91 per ton. The slow pace of both domestic and European economic recovery has also dampened the price of emissions offsets. The slow economy has meant diminished electricity demand. This has made it relatively easy for emitters to meet targets for reductions in both RGGI and ETS, without having to compete for allowances or offsets. This situation is likely to be reversed as the pace of economic recovery picks up and as the reduced emissions standards under RGGI and the individual states begin to gain traction.
Still other issues remain to be addressed as weatherization programs seek to compete in the emissions offsets markets. One of these is the issue of ownership. Ownership rights must be clearly established before emissions offsets can be sold or traded. The funding under weatherization comes from the federal government through grants to the states, funding local subgrantee weatherization activities in individual residences. Utility ratepayer funds often supplement DOE funding. The DOE, the Department of Health and Human Services, utilities, state governments, local community action agencies, and individual homeowners are all potential claimants.
The prospects for the sale of emissions offsets as a means of funding low-income weatherization remain real, but they will not be soon or easily realized. Pioneering this work are some members of the weatherization network, such as MSHA, who are laying the groundwork for weatherization to participate in carbon offset markets when conditions in those markets improve. Even so, carbon offset sales are likely to be profitable for a subset of the weatherization community where residential energy use is both high and carbon intense.
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Phasmophobia is currently in Early Access and has seven locations that players can investigate.
When starting out, players have access to small maps:
At Level 10, players will have access to the following medium maps:
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Cocaine Bear - Official Trailer
On a rampage for blow and blood. Meet Cocaine Bear. Check out the oddly comical yet extremely terrifying trailer for Cocaine Bear, an upcoming movie starring Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, Ray Liotta, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kristofer Hivju, Kahyun Kim, Christian Convery, Brooklynn Prince, and Scott Seiss.Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild thriller finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500- pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow … and blood. Directed by Elizabeth Banks (Charlie's Angels, Pitch Perfect 2) from a screenplay by Jimmy Warden (The Babysitter: Killer Queen), Cocaine Bear is produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. The Machines) and Aditya Sood (The Martian) for Lord Miller, by Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman (Pitch Perfect franchise) for Brownstone Productions, and by Brian Duffield (Spontaneous). Robin Fisichella (Ma) will executive produce.Cocaine Bear will open in theaters on February 24, 2023.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey - Official Trailer
Check out the unsettling trailer for this violent new take on a beloved childhood classic. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey sees Piglet and Pooh embark on a twisted rampage after being abandoned by their friend, Christopher Robin. Journey into 100 Acre Wood as you've never seen it before.Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and starring Maria Taylor, Amber Doig-Thorne, and Danielle Scott, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is coming soon.


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'One of the finest writers of literary SF ever to emerge from America' dies at 68
Thomas Disch, author of The Brave Little Toaster and other books, died Friday in Manhattan. Douglas Martin reported in the New York Times that he shot himself after a series of personal setbacks www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/books/08disch.html.
"Mr. Disch's work was voluminous and included many forms and genres," Martin wrote. "In addition to writing speculative fiction (his preferred term for science fiction), he wrote poetry from light to lyric to dramatic; realist fiction, children's fiction and historical fiction; opera librettos and plays; criticism of theater, films and art; and even a video game.
"One of Mr. Disch's best-known works is The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances (1986), in which a toaster, a clock radio and an electric blanket come to life. In the New York Times Book Review, Anna Quindlen said the book was more sophisticated than it seemed: 'Buy it for your children; read it for yourself,' she advised."
Disch tomsdisch.livejournal.com/ also wrote The Genocides, which Stephen E. Andrews and Nick Rennison named one of the "100 must-read science fiction novels" in a recent guide to the genre. The book centers on aliens who sow the Earth with seeds that grow into giant plants, which begin to destroy the planet's ecological balance and undermine civilization.
"The Genocides is an invasion story with a difference: what chance can humanity have against beings who consider us to be nothing more than garden pests?" Andrews and Rennison say in 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels (A & C Black, 2007). They add:
"The Genocides is packed with black wit, mordant observation of characters and the kind of self-consciousness present in the very best contemporary art. This was the start of a glittering career for Disch, whose novels, poetry and criticism have won him considerable acclaim … Despite his occasional remoteness of tone, Disch is nevertheless a humane author whose highly accomplished and often very funny work marks him as one of the finest writers of literary SF ever to emerge from America."
© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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Ice fishermen prepare for live bait restrictions — again
As ice fishing season gets underway, understanding bait regulations is vital, both for anglers and the longterm health of area fisheries.
For time-tested anglers, minnow restrictions are just part of the game, but for budding fisherman they can be confusing. Even experienced anglers can be left scratching their heads over the multilayered rules.
Live bait restrictions have been in place since 2008, a move the Department of Natural Resources made to thwart the spread to viral hemorrhagic septicemia, a deadly fish disease.
The restrictions require anglers to use certified, disease-free bait in all waters that have not tested positive for VHS, which includes northern Michigan's inland lakes.
VHSv has been spreading in Michigan waters. Fish in Lake St. Clair and Baseline Lake are some of the most recent victims. Following the bait restriction is crucial to keeping VHSv out of northern Michigan's highly valued fisheries.
Though both, Lake St. Clair and Baseline Lake are in southern Michigan, the presence of VHSv in Baseline Lake is of more concern to northern Michigan residents. Baseline Lake is only the second inland lake in Michigan to be contaminated with VHSv and proves that inland lakes across the state could be in danger.
"There is no known treatment for VHS," he said. "Our best defense against it is trying to prevent and slow its spread."
VHSv has been detected in the Lake Huron waters near Cheboygan, Alpena and Rogers City, which raises the threat to Cheboygan County's cherished lakes: Burt Lake, Mullett Lake, and Black Lake. Thus far the virus has not been detected in any of these lakes to date.
Being able to identify fish infected with VHSv is important for novice and experienced angles alike. There are a few telltale symptoms to look for.
As the name suggests, infected fish usually show signs of hemorrhaging in the skin, generally in large red patches and on the head, but not always.
According to DNR biologists, infected fish will sometimes exhibit very minor external hemorrhaging or none at all.
Internal bleeding is another issue, according to Whelan. All organs are usually congested with hemorrhages, especially the liver, spleen, intestines and swim bladder.
Sick fish often appear listless, swim in circles or hang just below the surface of the water, he added.


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A farm horse adapts to life as a cavalry mount and more in World War I
War Horse. By Michael Morpurgo. Scholastic, 165 pp., $6.99, paperback. Ages 8 and up.
By Janice Harayda
War Horse is narrated by a horse that has mastered the use of the semicolon. If you can accept this, you will probably have no trouble believing the rest of his adventures, which begin when a Devon farmer sells him to a British officer in World War I and which take him to the Western Front, where he serves as a cavalry mount and a hauler of guns and carts full of wounded soldiers and ammunition.
Joey has a white cross on his reddish brown forehead and bears his suffering with the saintliness that the mark implies. He gallops through so many odds-defying escapes that the suspense depends less on whether he will survive than on whether he will again see Albert Narracott, the farmer's son who misses him back in England.
Michael Morpurgo invests this plot with an anti-war message uncluttered by the ambiguities that combat involves. He gives no sense that some ideals are worth fighting for or that World War I had causes beyond "some old duke that's been shot somewhere." After being commandeered by Germans in France, Joey falls under the care of a soldier known as Crazy Old Friedrich, who insists that he is "the only sane man" in his regiment:
"It's the others who are crazy, but they don't know it. They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not know why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language. And it's me they call crazy!"
Adults may hear a faint echo of Catch-22 and All Quiet on the Western Front in the observations of Friedrich and others. But preteens who haven't read those books are likely to find the ideas in War Horse fresh and expressed in terms they can understand. And the historical setting of the novel offers 8-to-12-year-olds an appealing change from the contemporary realism and paranormal fantasy more often pitched to them.
Like Black Beauty, War Horse takes the form of an interior monologue by a beloved English horse whose hardships reveal a purity of spirit. Joey has a gentle nature and treats his companions better than many characters in recent children's fiction treat their classmates. His friends, human and equine, repay his kindness and support the ageless theme of War Horse: People and animals comfort each other amid the sorrows of war. For all of Joey's valor in combat, the title of his story has an ironic aspect. War Horse could have been called Peace Horse.
Best line: No. 1: "Within minutes the mist began to clear away and I saw for the first time that I stood in a wide corridor of mud, a wasted, shattered landscape between two vast unending rolls of barbed wire that stretched away into the distance behind me and in front of me. … This was what the soldiers called 'no-man's-land.'"
Worst line: "For just a few short moments, we moved forward at the trot as we had done in training." All moments are short.
Recommendation: The direct, conversational writing style of War Horse lends itself well to reading aloud.
About the author: Morpurgo is a former children's laureate in England.
Published: 1982 (first UK edition), 1910 (Scholastic paperback edition).
Links for the movie version: Watch the trailer and see an interactive map of the trip Joey takes in the film.
You can follow Jan Harayda (@janiceharayda) on Twitter by clicking on the "Follow" button at right.
© 2012 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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Three North Faces, Solo, in Winter. Check.
The British alpinist Jonathan Griffith has soloed the three North Faces of Les Droites, Les Courtes and Aiguille Verte in winter, in the same day, and, most notably, under his own power—he descended without technical assistance, often down soloing.
The British alpinist Jonathan Griffith has soloed the three North Faces of Les Droites, Les Courtes and Aiguille Verte in winter, in the same day, and, most notably, under his own power—he descended without technical assistance, often down soloing.
The climbs, located in the Argentiere basin outside Chamonix, France, are big, cold and serious undertakings with a glacier approach and substantial objective hazards from seracs, bergschrunds, plus the mundane rock and icefall and avalanche dangers. In February, two Lithuanian climbers became stranded in storm on the Lagarde on the Northeast Face of Les Droites, and died there.
In 1986 the great French alpinist Jean-Marc Boivin linked the North Faces of Les Droites, Les Courtes, Aiguille Verte and the Grandes Jorasses in winter, but used a paraglider and a hanglider, where were pre-stashed on the summits, as transport from peak to peak. While Griffith did one less North Face, he covered more terrain under his own power, having climbed up three faces, down two and a ski descent of the third (Boivin also used skis for one of his descents.) After an illustrious/extreme/radical alpine career, Bovin died in 1990 while BASE jumping from Angel Falls in Venezuela.
Griffith's outing accounted for some 13,500 vertical feet of climbing, plus a near equal amount of descending. The descents can't be underestimated—typically, climbers go up and over the peaks, descending the lower-angle backsides. The North Faces, which are mostly snow and ice, have little in the way of anchors for retreat or rappel. Griffith isn't giving out the times for each climb and descent or even for his overall time, saying, "All these speed ascents are always based around a time that is completely pointless as mountains in winter are all about conditions. For sure I was two hours up the Verte and that was going at a slow speed for me, but if it wasnt in good nick I could have easily spent four or more. Same for the others. Achieving a certain time means nothing in winter."
Griffith began pre-dawn on March 3. First up was the Aiguille Verte via the Couturier couloir, a classic French Alps line with 3,300 feet of snow up to 55 degrees, and fodder for extreme skiers. Finding good conditions, Griffith tagged the top after a couple of hours, turned around, and downclimbed.
After a quick ski to the adjacent Northeast Face of Les Droites, Griffith found dangerous conditions for the bergscrund crossing, and accepted a rope for the hazardous move onto the face from a friend who met him there, also to solo the face, also by the Lagarde Direct. Once across the 'schrund, Griffith was on his own again.
Griffith had chosen the Lararde on the Northeast Face over the Messner on the North Face proper, believing the former would be easier and faster and have better conditions, but discovered that no one had been on the route ahead of him, and he had to break trail up steep, rotten ice and snow. The time-consuming conditions caused him to climb at a slower pace than planned. "I went from hoping to make the Courtes summit at sunset, to starting the Courtes at sunset, to simply getting off the Droites before sunset," he noted on his blog alpineexposures.com
After summiting and then another long descent back down a North Face, Griffith arrived at the base at sunset. After debating whether to continue or call it quits, "You can feel a bit vulnerable when its cold, dark, and you're on your own," he decided to press on. "I knew I had more than enough in me to do another north face, and the Courtes would be the easiest as it was steep and therefore wouldn't hold too much snow," he says.
Surprised by initially poor conditions of blown snow on the Swiss Route of Les Courtes, Griffith fortunately encountered good neve higher up, and summited in three hours. From there, he skied off the back via the Col de Droites, encountering hard conditions and a traitorous ski binding that made what should have been an easy downhill run into three and a half hours of attention to reach the Courvercle hut.
While soloing big north faces might seem common due to media attention,in fact only a handful of alpinists participate in the game, and fewerstill commit to the big link-ups. Griffith's March achievement is astandout, up there with Kilian Jornet's speed solo of the Innominta on Mont Blanc last October.


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Dinner with Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews: 1957 season re-release and a trip back to the 1950's with friends Willie, Mickey, Duke,
The DYNASTY League Baseball 1957 season board version card set is being re-released this Summer in the new color format with updated vs. LH and vs. RH batting and pitching splits. The 1957 season Windows version will also be updated with new vs. LH and vs. RH splits.
What would have it been like to sit in the empty chair and have dinner with Eddie Mathews (middle) in what looks like a typical German restaurant in Milwaukee?
First off, you haven't eaten unless you've been to one of Milwaukee's famous German restaurants the king of which is Karl Rausch's.
Most of you are like me. We never had the chance to see the great stars of the 1950's. So here is your chance to learn a bit more`and take in some of the images of what Baseball was like in 1957.
My Grandfather from my father's side of the family owned an Optical company near Mitchell St. in Milwaukee. In the 1950's, Mitchell St. was a thriving area and some of the Milwaukee Braves would come in as customers including Eddie Mathews. The unique thing about the Milwaukee Braves and their fans is that it was a mutual love affair. It was more than the Milwaukee attendance records that were set while outdrawing larger markets in Chicago and New York. The fans loved the Braves and the Braves loved the fans.
From the new book "Milwaukee Braves: Heroes and Heartbreak" author William Povletich explains the love affair: "People ask me what the common theme is for all the guys I talked to, and it's almost like they all have been brainwashed with the same script," Povletich said. "It's 'We loved Milwaukee. When we came here our money was no good. They installed lockers in the dugout and filled it with meat and dairy products and ice cream. When we came home from a game, there'd be cases of beer on our front porch.
Shortly after Pursue the Pennant began in September of 1984, Bob Allen and I took the Amtrak train from Milwaukee to Chicago to meet with the Advertising agency that we were designing the Pursue the Pennant logo and Ad campaign with. Bob was the Milwaukee Braves PR Director for all 13 winning seasons of Milwaukee Braves history from 1953-1965 and was also Hank Aaron's agent. He actually had the Milwaukee Braves Championship trophy in his house! Bob did not want to have the Braves memorabilia taken to Atlanta when the Braves were hijacked to the deep south.
Bob Allen borrowed his 1957 Official scorebook to me so I could research the Milwaukee Braves vs. LH and vs. RH splits. I sent copies of his scorebook to retrosheet.org to help with the project of finding original scorebooks from past seasons.
Bob Allen appears in the dugout at the start of this incredible video with rare color footage of Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Joe Torre and Eddie Mathews in Milwaukee County Stadium. How lucky is this kid? Best day ever? You bet. When you get right down to it isn't this really what Baseball is all about?
My parents took me to St. Louis to see the Cardinals play vs. the Atlanta Braves in August of 1973. I became a Cardinals fan in 1967, but had never seen them play in St. Louis. We went to the historic Chase Park Plaza hotel that the Braves were staying at and sure enough here comes Hank Aaron walking through the lobby. Hank was in the midst of his chase of Babe Ruth's home run record. I went up and told him I was from Milwaukee and Hank signed my baseball.
Later that day we went to Stan Musial's restaurant and as soon as we walked in there was "Stan the Man".
Stan was extremely friendly and asked me where I was from and "Can you hit?" I said, "Yeah!" Stan signed the same baseball Hank signed. Best day ever? Certainly right at the top of the list.
This Spring while at the St. Louis Cardinals camp in Jupiter, FL I ran across Peter Gammons and told him about the 1957 Milwaukee Braves winning the DYNASTY League Baseball ESPN.com Greatest Teams bracket style tournament. Peter's reaction was, "How did that happen?"
Peter would put the 1939 Yankees at the top of his list, but what about the 1957 Milwaukee Braves?
Below are Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract rankings for the Milwaukee Braves:
Del Crandell, C____________30
Red Schoendienst, 2B_______28
Eddie Mathews, 3B___________3
Johnny Logan, SS___________39
Hank Aaron, RF______________2
Joe Adcock, 1B_____________43
Bobby Thomson, RF__________59
Warren Spahn, P_____________5
The big three of Eddie Mathews (3), Hank Aaron (2) and Warren Spahn (5) may be the highest ranking trio of any greatest team.
By comparison, the 1939 New York Yankees big three had Joe DiMaggio (5), Joe Gordon (16) and Bill Dickey (7) as their highest ranking trio. Below: Joe DiMaggio playing casino on a train trip with teammates. Too bad Joe and the rest of the Yankees didn't have a copy of the DYNASTY League Baseball board version on the train to have their own tournaments! The 1950's marked the last decade that players would travel by train. In 1957, the furthest most western team was still Kansas City.
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The Milwaukee Braves were already a very good baseball team when Albert "Red" Schoendienst joined them in June of 1957. Featuring future Hall of Famers Warren Spahn, Eddie Matthews and Henry Aaron and a strong supporting cast, the Braves had dueled the Brooklyn Dodgers for the 1956 National League pennant, losing by a single game on the last day of the season.
Schoendienst, a 12-year veteran and 10-time All-Star, was just what the Braves needed. Acquired from the New York Giants, Red brought sharp hitting and excellent fielding to the second base position, along with a wealth of baseball knowledge and understated experience. Many people consider Scheondienst the player who transformed the Braves from a competitive team in 1956 to World Champions in 1957.
Henry Aaron recalled, "I'll never forget it. Red came in to the clubhouse and put on the Braves' uniform, and it made us all feel like Superman. We knew he was going to mean so much to our ballclub that wouldn't show up in the boxscore. He provided the leadership in the clubhouse and on the field. He was never a rah-rah college kind of guy, but he definitely became the leader of that ballclub."
Above: 1957 World Series hero Lew Burdette and wife celebrate winning the championship in Milwaukee.
What about some of the great stars of the 1950's that Eddie Mathews and the Braves played against? Let's take a look:
Above: Pull up a chair. Ted Williams, Stan Musial and Mickey Mantle all part of the new 1957 season DYNASTY League Baseball re-release.
Above: Mickey Mantle had one of his best seasons in 1957. .421 BA with A Power vs. LH and .339 with A Power vs. RH on his DYNASTY League Baseball player card. Where do you think this ball is heading?
Above: Maybe the bleachers in Old Yankee Stadium, one of the parks included in the new ULTIMATE Ball Park charts for the 1957 season.
Above: Before his knee injury, Mickey Mantle could really run and was the fastest player in the AL earning a 10 Baserunning rating on his 1957 DYNASTY League Baseball player card.
Above: Ted Williams hitting in Old Comiskey Park. Williams had one of his best seasons in 1957 hitting .388 with an OBP of .528 and SLG of .731. With RSP, Williams hit .373 with an .800 SLG easily earning him a Clutch hitting rating on his 1957 DYNASTY League Baseball card.
Left: The joy of Willie Mays playing for the New York Giants in Wrigley Field. 1957 was the last year the Giants would play in New York before moving to San Francisco. Has there ever been a better defensive CF (Mays A+/65/-3 defensive player ratings)?
What couldn't Willie Mays do? Run (10 Baserunning rating),
hit (.333 BA), hit for power (A Power), get on base (.411 OBP), and hit in the Clutch (Clutch hitting rating earned in part by hitting .361 with a .701 SLG in Close and late situations).
You'd be hard pressed to come up with better CF than in the 1950's with Mantle, Mays and Duke Snider.
Above: Polo Grounds DEEP CF distance of 430 feet for a HR off the DYNASTY League Baseball ball park chart.
Left: Duke Snider hit 40 HR in 1957 (A Power) in the last year the Dogers would play in Brooklyn.
Above: Ebbets Field. Has anyone hit a 395 foot HR into the DeSoto car dealership in RF using the DYNASTY League Baseball Greatest Team Ball Park charts?
Left: Frank Robinson in the Crosley Field clubhouse. The clubhouse is typical of what they looked like in the 1950s'.
I had the chance to meet Frank Robinson while working for the Baltimore Orioles and he is a super guy – friendly and open. On the field he was a tremendous team leader (A Intangible rating) and a fierce competitor who would cut your heart out.
Perhaps one of the most overlooked stars. Somehow he was not elected on the MLB All-Century team even though his 586 HR ranked him 5th on the All-Time HR list. Bill James ranks Frank Robinson as the third best RF of All-time.
Left: Frank Robinson is ripped! Robinson was a tremendous athlete and fierce competitor having played with Celtics Bill Russell on his high school basketball team.
In 1957, Robinson was coming off his previous rookie of the year season with the Reds and hit .322. Robinson was also an outstanding outfielder with the Reds (A+/80/-2).
Above: Ernie Banks playing shortstop. Other shortstops had more range (Banks has B range on his 1957 player card), but how many hit 43 HR?
Above: Mr. Cub. Fans could literally reach out and touch the players at Wrigley Field.
Hope you enjoyed dinner with Eddie Mathews and remember this is the Milwaukee Braves in the 1950's so remember to pick up the check!


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One of the most prevalent flavor combinations on this blog is chocolate and mint, and there's a very specific reason for that--I love it.
The refreshing breeze from the mint seems to perfectly complement the rich depths of chocolate, regardless of the vehicle in which they're traveling.
This vehicle is particularly decadent. There's chocolate everywhere and in three different forms. The foundation is a moist and fluffy cocoa-based chocolate cake that's coated in an amazing white chocolate buttercream frosting (s. woon.) and filled with clouds of mint-flavored chocolate mousse. Each bite is an exciting and enjoyable sensation.
If you're a fan of the marriage of chocolate and mint like I am, give this cake a try. It's magnificent enough for any occasion, even if said occasion is as trivial as, say, the sprouting of a new gray hair.
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Mint Cake
one recipe of your favorite chocolate cake
Chocolate-Mint Mousse Filling:
6 oz semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
2 cups heavy cream
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon mint extract
White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting:
1 cup butter, softened
2 1/2-3 cups powdered sugar, sifted
6 oz good quality white chocolate, chopped
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Prepare your chocolate cake and bake it in two 9-inch round pans. Once cool, cut each round in half horizontally.
To prepare the mousse, carefully melt the chocolate and set it aside. Place the heavy cream and sugar in the well-chilled bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the chilled whisk attachment. Whisk on high-speed until stiff peaks form. Remove the bowl from the mixer. By hand, whisk to combine 1/4 of the whipped cream into the melted chocolate until smooth and completely incorporated. Add the combined whipped cream and chocolate to the remaining whipped cream and use a rubber spatula to fold together. Stir in the extract.
To prepare the frosting, put the chopped white chocolate into a small bowl and heat it in 30 second increments in the microwave. Stir after each increment, and continue to heat 30 seconds at a time until the chocolate is melted and smooth. Set aside and allow to completely cool. Cream the butter and add the sifted powdered sugar, beating until light and fluffy and scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl as needed. With the mixer running on low speed, gradually pour the cream and vanilla into the bowl. Once the cream mixture has been incorporated into the frosting, fold in the melted and cooled white chocolate until incorporated. Increase the mixer speed to medium-high, and beat the frosting for an additional 3 minutes.
To assemble the masterpiece, slather the mousse between the halved layers (stacking as you go), then frost the sides and top in a decorative fashion. Chill for a bit to let things mingle, then slice and serve!


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Naval Anacost Annex DC DUI Lawyers
Too many people are seriously injured in Naval Anacost Annex District of Columbia drunk driving accidents.
Laws against drunk driving originated in 1906, shortly after cars were invented and New Jersey was the first state to enact a law stating that "no intoxicated person shall drive a motor vehicle." It was punishable by a fine of up to $500, or up to 60 days in county jail. Other states began to follow suit, and although early laws required proof of intoxication, they did not stipulate what level of inebriation qualified as proof. Blood alcohol levels are currently measured with a breathalyzer, or by a blood test.
Congress recognized the public health crisis in 1966 when car crash fatalities were three times as high as they are today, and created the Department of Transportation and the National Highway Safety Bureau. Because of the serious nature of drunk driving with regard to roadway fatalities, drunk driving laws were passed at the Federal and State levels. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that roughly 40 percent of all U.S. traffic deaths are alcohol-related to some degree. It is a crime in Naval Anacost Annex District of Columbia to drive while under the influence of alcohol, or other drugs that could impair driving capabilities.
Naval Anacost Annex District of Columbia DUI/DWI
Some states refer to this illegal action as DUI (driving under the influence), and others as DWI (driving while intoxicated), but it is a serious charge with high stakes punishments attached to it. Naval Anacost Annex criminal lawyers across the country may be able to help drivers who are charged with DUI and Naval Anacost Annex personal injury lawyers could assist accident victims who have been catastrophically injured, or killed by the actions of a drunk driver necessitating the services of a Naval Anacost Annex wrongful death attorneys.
Advocates for safer roadways
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's data revealed that drunk driving arrests between the years of 1970 and 1986 increased by 127%, despite the much lower number in the rise of licensed drivers at 42% over that same time period. The laws became significantly stricter during this time period due to pressures from special interest groups including Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), leading to increased zero-tolerance laws that criminalized drunk driving behavior.
Currently, approximately one-third of all traffic crash fatalities in the United States involve drunk drivers (with BACs of .08 g/dL or higher). The ten-year period average between 2009 and 2018 revealed an average of 10,000 deaths attributed to drunk driving crashes. In 2018, there were 10,511 people killed in these preventable crashes.
Federal DUI laws
Federal DUI laws are strong and strictly enforced in Federal courts, carrying serious charges and penalties. President Clinton signed Federal DUI laws into existence in 2000 that set a new national standard for drunken driving by changing the BAC legal limit to 0.08 to save American lives. States that refused to adhere to the federal standard would lose federal highway construction funds. At that point in time, 31 states had a 0.10 BAC, or did not specify an amount. The laws were established to complement state drunk driving laws and apply to drunk drivers on federal lands including military bases and national parks. Even though it is illegal to drive drunk in every state with a BAC of .08 or higher, one person was killed in a drunk-driving crash every 50 minutes in the United States in 2018.
State DUI laws
State laws vary regarding DUI outcomes. Utah is the only state that has a different BAC than other states. Effective December 30, 2018, Utah's BAC was set at 0.05.%. 44 states, D.C. and Guam have increased penalties for drivers convicted at higher BACs (specific levels and penalties vary by state. All states have some type of ignition interlock program and judges may require all, or some convicted drunk drivers to install them. It is best for anyone who has been charged with DUI, or been involved in a drunk driving accident to seek a Naval Anacost Annex District of Columbia DUI lawyer who knows the laws of the particular state where the incident occurred.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Governors Highway Safety Association are a few of the data gathering entities that provide up-to-date statistics about alcohol-impaired, or drug-impaired driving, offer materials for campaigns against impaired driving, and prepare case studies of effective practices to stop alcohol-impaired driving.
Driving a vehicle while impaired is a dangerous crime. Tough enforcement of drunk-driving laws has been a major factor in reducing drunk-driving deaths since the 1980s. Charges range from misdemeanors to felony offenses, and penalties for impaired driving can include driver's license revocation, fines, and jail time. An arrest for even a first-time Naval Anacost Annex DUI offense can cost the driver upwards of $10,000 in fines and legal fees. Some states require offenders to install ignition interlock devices at the driver's own expense.
Insurance impacts
A conviction for a DUI in Naval Anacost Annex District of Columbia is one of the more costly mistakes a driver can make. A Naval Anacost Annex DUI violation may increase insurance rates by 71.0%. There are certain high risk insurance policies and mandatory paperwork that must be filled out, such as an SR-22, a certification that states the insurance policy an individual buys meets state requirements. Individuals can lose their driver's license, face jail time and legal fees, as well as having an ignition interlock installed in cars, or in the worst case scenario cause death to another person and live with that for their lifetime, which may include jail time.
Hire a Naval Anacost Annex District of Columbia DUI attorney
A Naval Anacost Annex drunk driver's actions immediately after a crash can build a defense platform of a case against them. The penalties for drunk driving depend on factors including blood alcohol level, age, and repeat offender status to name a few. When a drunk individual has caused an accident, or others have been injured by a drunk driver, it is best to contact a Naval Anacost Annex DUI to map out strategies in court for either scenario.


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Pearl Harbor survivor speaks at annual ceremony
Gas was 15 cent a gallon and a loaf of bread cost 8 cents when Adone "Cal" Calderone was chief petty officer aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia.
Now 94 and living in Jackson Township, Calderone said he recalls "quite a bit" of what happened on Dec. 7, 1941.
"It was a day 'that will live in infamy,'" he said quoting then-Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. "It was a bad day. Six battleships were hit pretty hard. We lost 2,400 men in 15 minutes. We had 1,300 wounded. We were hit with eight torpedoes and four bombs. Two dropped on our stern and one knocked our rudder off..."
The only Pearl Harbor survivor among them, Calderone spoke to a small group of people Saturday at the American Legion Post 44, 1633 Cleveland Ave. NW, as part of the annual ceremony commemorating the attack that ushered U.S. into the Pacific area during World War II. The ceremony included the Canton Legion Honor Guard's 21-gun salute outside the post.
A few members of two families of Pearl Harbor survivors also attended, including Jessica Miller, great-granddaughter of the late Harry Cross, who also survived Pearl Harbor. Mike Angelo, son of the late Bennie Angelo — another survivor who was killed his home seven years ago — was also attended.
Senior Chief Petty Officer Michael Pudloski, who has served in the U.S. Navy for more than 21 years and continues to serve, also spoke to the group. Pudloski is currently assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet out of Pearl Harbor — the place Calderone, Cross and Angelo were serving when the Japanese attacked 72 years ago.
Pudloski recounted the events of history, listing numbers of the cruisers, destroyers and ships that were hit among the numbers of dead and wounded.
Then he pointed to Calderone.
"Without him," he told the group, "we wouldn't have the freedoms we have today. ...This man and those like him are the only reason we are here today."
And while their numbers are dwindling with age as time passes and those who served pass away, those who remain continue to remember and to share what happened.
Calderone recalls that "all those ships that were hit were repaired, except for the Arizona and the Oklahoma. They all went back into the war and they destroyed the Japanese Southern Fleet in the Phillipines."
In 1943, he said, "We started invading those (Pacific) islands and every island was our D-Day. It was absolutely horrible, but we had to do it."
Calderone proudly recounted how the U.S.S. West Virginia earned five battle stars.
And he noted how scores of young men and women are continuing to fight battles in today's armed services.
"These young fellows are out there right now fighting for our freedom. But we have to fight all of these other battles to keep our freedom," he said.
Calderone also talked about the decision to drop the atomic bomb. The first dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. The second, three days later over Nagasaki.
"The Japanese did not surrender: They died," he said. "Was it the right thing to do? Absolutely. It was a weapon and it stopped the war. God Bless America."
CORRECTION: The annual ceremony remembering the attack on Pearl Harbor was held Saturday at the American Legion Post 44 at 1633 Cleveland Ave. NW. The address was wrong in a story Sunday in the main News section, Page A-3.
U.S. Navy 2,008 killed in action 710 wounded
U.S. Army 218 killed in action 364 wounded
U.S. Marines 109 killed in action 69 wounded
Civilians 68 killed in action 35 wounded
- American Legion Post 44


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