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I haven't had much of an interest in Soccer. I played one season when I was a kid, and all I remember of that season was the one time, when playing goalie and given the instruction 'Be Aggressive'... I tackled a kid.
So, I'm coming into a round with the entertaining Football Manager 11 with a bare bones knowledge of the sport. It's touted as absurdly deep and realistic, and I can agree thus far on the 'deep' part.
As far as realistic, well... it seems so. I created my manager as an Unemployed American with the minimum experience ("Yeah, I played soccer that one time back in, uh, you know."), and spent the first year basically getting rejected for jobs.
Yeah, that was pretty much my entire first season, starting in December of '09. Around the beginning of 2010, I decided to uproot my dude and live in Germany. Got a secondary nationality, and got the added realism of having my manager speak the languages I actually speak (English, Spanish, German). That, and there are more low-league clubs in Germany. The US is dominated by MLS, and I just was NOT going to get a job hanging around with no experience hoping Sporting KC suddenly wanted to hire some schmuck off the street.
Sometime around June of 2010, I was approached with a job offer.
Woo! Kind of amusing that my early high point after about a couple of hours with a football management sim was actually getting the opportunity to manage football.
Erm. The offer was for a 'Premier League' team in Iceland. The semi-pro team Valur Reykjavik was offering me 400 bucks a week. I haggled them up to $500 and took the job. Moving to Iceland.
Valur was sporting a pitch that allowed for the grand attendance of 2000 fans, 500 of whom could actually have seats. Condition was 'Very Bad'. Basically, a field of Icelandic tundra with some bleachers.
I made a few decent signings, but for the most part relied havily on my staff ("Hjalmar, what is 'You Suck' in Icelandic? Okay, go tell Bjornsson that.")
The first few months involved a great deal of pointing and saying 'Hey, you!'.
I was running a base 4-1-2-1-2 that suited my squad fairly well. The only major holes were one of the D slots, and a revolving door at GK up until actually the last match of the season, when the Hot Prospect 17 year old kid I'd scouted out of Denmark came in and offered up a shutout in his first match.
Valur finished the season 5th, and came dangerously close to winning some big matches. The cup semifinals match against the then-ranked #1 club went into overtime.
I brought in four or five very solid foreign players, although it didn't go well. The kid I brought in from Mexico as well as the older player from Ireland were both on leaves of absence by the end of the season (Reason: Bascially being depressed from having to live in fricking Iceland). My starting striker was from Camaroon. No-racist, but he was pretty easy to spot out on the pitch in an Icelandic Semi-Pro match. Many a match disintegrated to a game of 'Pass it to/Keep it from the black dude'.
At the end of the season, the Valur board (Whom I had managed to convince to overhaul the stadium. Now it supported -4000- fans!) expressed their happiness with my performance, looking forward to the second year of my two-year contract.
Then, I applied for a 3rd league position back in Germany. This leaked to the press, and one of the reporters I'd been a bit short-of-patience with brought this tidbit of information to my board. I received a nasty e-mail from them telling me I had the choice of maintaining my reputation and resigning immediately, or being subjected to an ugly public firing and running out of town.
I resigned.
I didn't get the German job.
Now I'm back to sitting around on vacation and applying to any and every job that comes by! Woo!
I'm kind of surprised to find myself recommending a sports management sim in which I've spent MOST of my playing time unemployed, but it is good stuff.


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April 18, 2009
SANTA BARBARA- Calif. - The UCSB golf team will look to extend its yearlong campaign at the eight-team 2009 Big West Golf Championship at San Luis Obispo Country Club on Apr. 20-21. Monday and Tuesday will be the first time the Championship has been held at SLO CC, after five years at Tijeras Creek.
Competing teams include Cal Poly, Cal State Northridge, Long Beach State, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UCSB, and Pacific. UC Davis, currently ranked No. 33 in the country in the Golfweek/Sagarin ratings, secured the number one seed of the tournament thanks to seven top-three finish and a pair of tournament crowns, most recently at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic, Apr. 6-7
UC Irvine and Pacific earned the number two and three seeds in the tournament, respectively. UCSB is the fifth seed, finishing in the top-ten twice during the spring campaign.
Coming into the tournament, the Gauchos are averaging 292.87 strokes per round in 10 competitions on the season. Since finishing second at November's Sycuan Invitational back in November, the best finish UCSB earned was 9th place at the Braveheart Classic in early March.
Tyler Weir has been swinging a hot stick for the Gauchos of late, fresh off consecutive t-20th and 19th place finishes and the Western Intercollegiate and the Wyoming Cowboy Classic. At the Cowboy Classic, Weir averaged 70.67 in three rounds, topped off by a 1-under 69 in the second round. Weir boast the lowest scoring average on the team with 73.56, three percentage points better than the next best player.
Usually a solid player guaranteed to shoot in the low 70's, Brian Hollenbeck has struggled of late, finishing in consecutive 73rd place ties in the Gauchos' most recent two tournaments. For Hollenbeck, who has three sub-70 rounds on the season, this weekend is a legitimate shot at regaining the form that has made him UCSB go-to player.
Filling in for an injured Matt Grush in the Gauchos top-five is sophomore Andrew Gunson. In five tournaments during the spring season, Gunson has averaged 73.79 stroked per round, his best coming in the form of a 2-under 68 on the final day of the Cowboy Classic. Before his injury, Grush led the Gauchos with a 73 stroke per round average.
The 54-hole tournament includes 36 holes on Monday and 18 on Tuesday on the 6,769 yard, par-72 track. Tee times start at 7:10 am each day. Admission to the event is free and live scoring can be tracked on www.golfstat.com.
A recap of first-day results will be available on the UCSB Athletic Department website at http://ucsbgauchos.cstv.com/.

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Voice-activated camera shutter
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Super thin, feather-light - but can it rival the new dual-core brigade
Menus open slightly slower than expected, apps launch after a pause and the touch input is short of being perfect.
NOVA display for improved readability
Dual-core Tegra 2, Fast browser
Solid design, Great value
Good build quality
Pure Ice Cream Sandwich, Dual-core power
Impressive sound quality
Simple, attractive and classy low weight phone
BB OS 7.1, Good battery life
Text-to-speech functionality
Cheap but capable handset with pleasant design
Innovative features
'Quad-band support.'
'built-in WebKit 2.3-based browser'
3.2 megapixel camera
Affordable price
'poor viewing angles'
Very good battery life
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Greetings! Some of you have noticed that we have been on hiatus for a while; well, the reason is that Anat is on break and has her hands full with baby Gil, born on May 29, 2006. Yes, she is still diving, and we will be editing Issues 4 and 5 of ScubaCore as soon as we get our new schedule worked out. Issues 1, 2 and 3 are in stock and shipping.
If you haven't already heard it, Anat participated in Divester's first podcast. A review of ScubaCore DVD Issue 3 is also posted on Divester; check it out! Here is a link to some of the comments that our viewers have emailed us.
Anat was out on a very cool 2-day trip to the California Channel Islands of San Miguel and Santa Cruz. You can read her trip report on Divester, and there's a short video clip here. Anat has also put up some snapshots from her latest dives in the Channel Islands.
ScubaCore DVD Issue 3 has some great shows:
• Hawaii's Kona Coast
• Safari Diving and Boutique Hotels in Bali
• Wall Diving in Turks & Caicos
• Costa Rica's Pacific Diving and Rainforest
There's also a special report on sharks, and previews of upcoming issues.
Trailers for Issue 4 and and Issue 5 of ScubaCore DVD (featuring Australia, Komodo and Fiji) are now online; check them out.


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The broader you target your paid search buys, the more important your aim. Good aim results incremental top line growth at an acceptable margin. Bad aim means wasted spend.
Aim in paid search is all about excluding people who aren't likely to buy. It looks like this:
At every stage of the process, our goal is to exclude out the people who are never going to convert, thus saving money.
Simply adding negative keywords isn't enough. You need to understand the full breadth of ways to exclude bad prospects.
Level of Targeting
Negatives are a filtering tool that limits your potential impressions. There are no account level negatives. At the highest level, you can exclude people from either campaigns or ad groups.
- Campaign – campaign negatives are an umbrella that prevents any ad group from displaying an ad when that negative is included. The most frequent application of these negatives is for commonly avoided terms like "free" or "cheap" if you're a luxury company, or adult terms.
Negatives aren't just about exclusion; they can also be used for prioritization. In some cases, multiple ads can be eligible to run against a given search query. This is especially true for brand terms. "j crew sweaters" is a great example. Should AdWords display ads in the branded campaign, sweaters campaign, or a special brand + sweaters campaign?
If you want to force Google to show your branded campaign, you can add your brand terms as a negative in the campaigns you don't want to run against certain queries. This is an advanced technique detailed here.
- Ad Group – Within a specific campaign, some ad groups may take precedence over others for a given query or require a more granular level of exclusion. Like campaign negative, this can be a good place to force some ads to show for specific queries.
Keywords or Lists?
The most common way to add negatives is through keywords combined with a match type.
A more efficient way to add negatives across your account is keyword lists, which are a relatively new feature of AdWords:
Keyword lists allow you to create groups of commonly used campaign negatives. Go to the Shared library section of the campaigns tab.
Once you build a list, you can apply them more efficiently than adding individual keywords over and over again:
This is a great way to exclude frequently avoided terms (cheap/free, jobs, adult terms, etc.). Several blogs and tools provide readymade keyword lists that you can copy or buy, making it easier to apply quickly.
If you've never built a keyword list before, Google will also suggest lists from existing keywords that you commonly use. Click on "List Suggestions" under Campaigns > Shared Library > Campaign negative keywords.
The results are often a good start, but you'll almost always need to tighten the list before you apply it. Here's an example:
Match Type
The most commonly underused tool in negatives is match type. Just as regular keywords can be used to widely or narrowly include potential search queries, negatives can be fine tuned with match types.
By default, Google adds negatives as broad match, but you can use any type:
- Broad
- Broad Match Modifier
- Phrase Match
- Exact Match
The difference with negative match types is that you don't have bidding as a regulator. It's binary: either the search queries are included or they aren't.
The more confident you are that anything similar your keyword should be excluded, say "jobs" in a brand campaign, the less restrictive your match type choice. But, if you're Apple, you would probably want to negative [careers] instead of jobs, so you can still capture Steve Jobs brand queries.
When in doubt, use exact or phrase match.
Negatives for Other Ad Types
Ad formats are proliferating in AdWords and each type of ad requires the same degree of filtering to opt-out of potentially useless clicks.
Product Listing Ads, which work by connecting your product feed from your Merchant Center account, also have negative keywords. This is especially important to handle product + modifier queries, such as size, color or material. PLAs hand a lot of matching control over to Google, so you need to be especially vigilant about building out negatives before and after campaigns launch.
Display campaigns also have two types negatives
- Excluded placements: Specific sites/URLs you don't want your ads to show on. Add these in Networks > Exclusions > Exclude placements. For example, you might want to prevent your display campaigns from appearing on apps or mobile sites.
- Excluded audiences: Groups of people you have cookied with an AdWords tag, such as for retargeting/remarketing, whom you suppress from a larger population. A common example is to suppress people who have actually converted from retargeting campaigns.
Finding New Negatives
Finding negatives is easy to do running a search query report (aka search term report). There are also some less than obvious ways to discover additional negatives:
- List Suggestion – Google's list feature saves a lot of time, but it's also a way to avoid the human error that comes from having to remember to apply certain negatives over and over again. Google will actually suggest possible lists to you based on the negatives you're already using. Go to Campaigns > Shared Library > Campaign Negative Keywords > List Suggestions. It's a quick way to build out some custom lists and apply them across campaigns.
- Keyword Research Tool – Rather than just accept the list of negatives or search queries you have, run them through your favorite keyword research tool to come up with synonyms and related terms. This is especially helpful if you're planning on using more restrictive match types with your negatives.
- Find or Buy Premade Lists – You can find some pre-made negative lists online. Engine Ready put together this comprehensive negative keyword list and KoMarketing Associates created one specific to B2B.
If you've got some budget and a more specific niche, services like Zenya and tools like Wordstream can help you expand negatives more quickly.
- Keyword Suggestions – Google's Keyword Suggestion tool, Opportunities > Ideas > Keywords) are often so off the mark that they, ironically, make good candidates for negatives.
- Organic Keywords – Filter your organic keyword report for any words that have a sufficient number of clicks, but haven't converted
Excluding People Without Negatives
Even if you've built out an extensive negative list, you can filter prospects with the advertising and landing page experience.
Text ads are the best way to qualify people before they click. Is your product for small businesses? Consider adding the price in to attract (or remove) price conscious buyers:
Is your business geographically specific? Let people know, so locals can opt in and browsers will filter out:
The Value of Negatives
The work of adding negatives never ends. You need to constantly be building lists to use for new campaigns and weeding through search queries as you optimize over time.
The good news is that it's an often underused tactic in paid search. If you can master it, that means more efficient campaigns that allow you to compete more aggressively.
What are your unusual negative tools and tactics?
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'SNL's' Kristen Wiig Shows How Liza Minnelli Turns Off Her Lamp
It's 1982 on 'Saturday Night Live' and Liza Minnelli (played by Kristen Wiig) and her fella Jonah Hill have tickets to see the Broadway musical 'Cats.' But before they can leave their swanky apartment they need to turn off some of the lamps.
While this normally wouldn't be a problem, Minnelli seemed a little too — how should we say? — jittery. "I just need to find the clicker or the switch that turns this whole cuckoo thing down," she told her date as she spent about three minutes struggling to do just that.
Wiig's impersonation of Minnelli, which she's done on the show numerous times before, was spot on as usual. She really nailed the legendary performer's old Hollywood colloquialisms and apparent prescription pill haze.
However, at this point, the question becomes, How much of 'SNL's' audience even knows what Minnelli sounds like in real life? If younger fans don't even know who Billy Crystal is, how would they possibly know anything about Minnelli.


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Today we can also preview the much anticipated Christopher Kane Fall 2013 Collection. The young British designer is one of the most promising talents in the fashion business and impresses since a couple of seasons also with exciting menswear collections.
For Fall 2013 he was inspired by 30s horror movies and its characters, including Frankenstein, Count Dracula and The Mummy, all featured on his popular graphic t-shirts. The leopard print is also very present, while the rest of the line stays basic and simple in appearance.
Check out the full Christopher Kane Fall 2013 Collection in the above gallery.
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to the institution of slavery where it exists.
I believe I have no lawful right to do so,
and I have no inclination to do so.
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
Lincoln, the latest production from Steven Spielberg, was released on Friday, November 16. The screenplay was written by Tony Kushner of Angels in America fame. The movie focuses on the struggle for the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, so right away the audience is taken into the thick of the political wrangling in Congress at the tail end of the Civil War.
Tony Kushner should be applauded for letting Lincoln's words largely speak for themselves. The speeches are very eloquent, and though we've heard them many times before, it's always a pleasure to hear them again. Daniel Day Lewis is astonishing as Abraham Lincoln. Really, he's the spitting image of "the Great Emancipator" and brings just the right amount of gravitas to the role. One really feels that Lincoln has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Interestingly enough, Lewis gives his Lincoln a high-pitched voice that detracts not a bit from the austerity of the time. In addition, Lincoln could quote Shakespeare from memory, and those quotes were very uplifting.
Mary Todd Lincoln, played by Sally Field, is exquisite as Lincoln's conscience. Field brings out all the power that Mrs. Lincoln possessed as an equal to a truly good man. Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens also deserves mention as an arrogant politico.
The Thirteenth Amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. The movie narrows its focus to the final period in the ratification of the amendment. The political horse-trading and log-rolling, which the middle class intelligentsia takes to be the acme of political struggle, is captured with a deft hand. The tension and suspense, as Lincoln tries to win over some wary Democrats up to the final hour, is palpable and makes for great entertainment.
What is most striking about Lincoln is not what takes place but what doesn't. The masses are entirely absent from the whole production. The politics of the Civil War, in Lincoln, largely takes place in the ministerial antechambers, where Lincoln buttonholes allies and wins over foes. The masses, in the form of soldiers serve as a breathtaking backdrop, corpses on the battlefield, while the "ones who know" get on with the business of politics.
The losses from the Civil War were horrendous. In total, 625,000 people died and 412,200 were wounded. It need not have happened like that.
The Communist Manifesto was issued in 1848 on the eve of the European revolutions of that year, that is, twelve years before Lincoln and the Republicans won the presidency in 1860, mainly on their opposition to the spread of slavery. It is unclear whether or not Lincoln had a chance to look at that outstanding document before he achieved the presidency. It is well known that he was personally opposed to slavery, but that was for personal consumption, not applicable to practical politics. Here is what Lincoln wrote to Horace Greeley as late as 1862, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union" [Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862]. Lincoln's allegiance was to the Union first and foremost and the ending of slavery came secondarily. It's not necessary to have fully assimilated the materialist conception of history to understand that when the Slaveocracy rose in rebellion, it was a fight between two incompatible social systems. Hostilities began April 12, 1861 when the Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter. Lincoln chose to take his stand on a chimera like the union of capitalism and slavery and not on the destruction of a clearly reactionary system. For did not the Declaration of Independence announce, "All men are created equal?"
Ironically, because of his fixation on saving the Union, Lincoln was forced into decreeing the Emancipation Proclamation. His troops were suffering setbacks, and victory looked uncertain. But Black soldiers were proving to be tenacious fighters on the battlefield. By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln was able to open the gates to many more such fighters who were eager to join the struggle, given that their own freedom would accompany victory. These soldiers then played a decisive role in the victory of the North. Lincoln did not emancipate the slaves, as we are often told. They emancipated themselves, and unfortunately this element was overlooked by Kushner's Lincoln.
Long ago Leon Trotsky wrote that a political struggle is essentially a contest of interests and forces and only secondarily ideas (The Revolution Betrayed). And we would add ideas battled over in an unwieldy Congress. As soon as the Confederates fired the first shot, Lincoln could have made an appeal over the heads of the recalcitrant northern politicians to the black and white workers for a struggle to the death to destroy the slave-owning oligarchy. He could have issued an appeal to the slaves of the south to rise up, thus decisively crippling the southern economy. To the northern capitalists that remained unconvinced, he could have offered a share in the southern wealth confiscated as booty. Capitalists, let it be known, are quite adept at calculating, and they would have been only too happy to pitch in had they found it profitable. The slave-owning apparatus would have been suspended in mid-air. One good blow by the northern army would have pulverized it, and the war would have been won in a year or less with negligible loss of life to the northern forces. As Teddy Roosevelt put it, the presidency is a "bully pulpit" where one can rally the forces outside Congress to wage a struggle at decisive turning points in history. Lincoln did not do this because he was too preoccupied with palliating the South and trying to "keep" the frontier states from joining the South. He mainly thought of the politicians and wasn't sufficiently focused on the people below these politicians. He really believed that capitalist American politicians alone were the "government of the people, by the people, and for the people," when, as it has always been, the people were more radical than their representatives.
Lincoln delivers an exciting view of the struggle for the parliamentary mystery of majority and minority. For the middle class intelligentsia, who fear the titanic rumble of the class struggle, politicos twisting each other's arms, pulling off wigs and hitting each other with canes is the absolute apex of politics. The masses, aside from cannon fodder, figure very little into their calculations. This obvious weakness aside, Lincoln is a good movie and his speeches are spine tingling. It is just too bad that he wasted so much time defending a political mechanism when the destruction of slavery was a far more secure means of defending the Union. Lincoln was an eloquent speaker, of that there is no doubt. However, as everyone knows, even President Obama can make a pretty rousing speech on occasion. That doesn't stop him from being a typical capitalist politician and turning his back on the masses of working people.


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US Commerce Secretary Sides With RIAA: Warns ISPs To Become Entertainment Industry Cops
from the sad deptIt's no secret that US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is quite confused over intellectual property issues. There has yet to be a case where he's actually questioned a highly biased or debunked industry study on the issue, and he seems to enjoy celebrating with the entertainment industry, even as the government has debunked the studies he relies on. But it's really sad that he doesn't even seem to consider the other side at all. His latest move is to side with the RIAA and effectively warn ISPs that they need to become copyright cops for the entertainment industry establishment.
As you go through the text of his speech at Belmont College in Nashville (where I once spoke as well), it's really quite stunning how either uninformed Locke is or how purposely misleading he is. Neither speaks well for him:
Congressman Jim Cooper has made intellectual property protection a top priority of his as a co-sponsor of the pending Performance Rights Act. He is an outstanding senior member of congress who is committed to ensuring that the voices of Nashville are heard in Washington.Except that the Performance Rights Act is not really about "intellectual property," at all. It's about the RIAA trying to squeeze more cash out of radio stations, despite the fact that in an open market, they know damn well that they get so much value out of radio that they constantly feel the need to pay radio stations under the table for the promotion. In other words, the Performance Rights tax is really an attempt to get radio stations to pay the record labels for the right to promote the music the RIAA wants to promote. It's a huge wealth transfer, and Locke should be ashamed of supporting such a policy that does little to actually help musicians, but plenty to help the middlemen.
Governor Bredesen has been at the forefront of protecting individual property as well in Tennessee. In November 2008, he signed into law a Campus Piracy Bill that requires public and private colleges and universities in the state to ensure that computers connected to their campus network are not being used for illegal file-sharing.Only problem? An analysis of this law showed that it would actually cost Tennessee taxpayers over $10 million with absolutely no evidence that it would help musicians at all. Gary Locke is apparently all in favor of faith-based legislating on copyright law. That's scary.
Worldwide and certainly in the United States, consumers are spending less on recorded music in all formats. Recorded music revenues are down by almost half over the last decade.Note that Locke conveniently ignores the fact that if you look beyond recorded music, overall spending on music and music related products has gone way up and (more importantly), much more of that money goes directly to artists, rather than to the middlemen. After talking about the Nashville floods -- which were indeed quite devastating -- Locke seems to compare them to file sharing:
But there are other problems that we have within our power to solve. And one of them is the rampant piracy of music, and of intellectual property, that are the lifeblood of this region's economy.Is it worth reminding people that Biden once was famous for his plagiarism of a law review article while he was in law school? Or is that just a cheap shot. Biden begged off that "mistake" by saying it wasn't "malevolent," so it should be forgiven. And yet, oddly, he doesn't seem to take that same stance towards people sharing the music they love.
And I think it's important to lay down a marker about how the Obama administration views this issue. As Vice President Biden has said on more than one occasion, "Piracy is flat, unadulterated theft," and it should be dealt with accordingly.
This isn't just an issue of right and wrong. This is a fundamental issue of America's economic competitiveness.Which is why you would think that Locke would actually be interested in all of the research showing that there's greater economic benefit with weaker copyright laws. Wouldn't you? Odd that he is not.
As the president has said before, America's "single greatest asset is the innovation and ingenuity and creativity of the American people. It is central to our prosperity and it will only become more so in this century."Indeed. But no one should confuse copyright law with innovation, ingenuity and creativity. The two are not the same and, the research has shown, not even correlated.
Our founding fathers understood this as well as anyone, which is why they put in place a set of rules and laws to reward and protect the ideas and inventions of the artists, engineers and scientists who create them.With clear limitations and statements of concern that such laws might be abused. Locke ignores that copyright law today looks nothing like it did when the founding fathers put it in the Constitution -- and that the concerns they raised have been totally ignored.
But this copyright and patent framework needs to evolve to meet the evolving challenges of the 21st century.Hey, one thing we agree on... though I'm guessing that his form of "change" looks nothing like what it should actually be.
Recently, I've had a chance to read letters from award-winning writers and artists whose livelihoods have been destroyed by music piracy. One letter that stuck out for me was a guy who said the songwriting royalties he had depended on to "be a golden parachute to fund his retirement had turned out to be a lead balloon."Well, there's your problem. Copyright was never supposed to be about welfare or a pension. Copyright has always been about providing the incentive to create in order to more freely share works with the world and -- eventually -- to increase the public domain. That Locke appears to think that copyright is supposed to be a musician's pension and welfare program is especially troubling. It suggests he doesn't even know what copyright law is.
To take just one area that I know is important to this group, in our government-wide strategy, we endorsed and affirmatively encouraged the private sector -- including content owners and Internet service providers -- to work collaboratively to combat intellectual property infringement online.And there it is. Dear ISPs: become copyright cops. Even though the RIAA admits that it's impossible for them to combat such infringement, we feel that you should magically know how to do so, even though you have no way to know what is infringing and what is not.
Especially to combat repeat infringement.
None of this is surprising, of course, but it's too bad that no one calls Locke out when he makes such statements.
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Most of Northwoods will have anterless deer to hunt
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- The DNR released their forecast for the hunting and trapping seasons coming up in the fall.Most of the Northwoods will have a regular unit where Bucks plus bonus antlerless permits will be available.However unit 34 in Vilas county, unit 29B in Oneida County, and unit 39 in parts of Florence and Forest counties will be for bucks only. Meaning no anterless deer permits. Youth, disabled, and military on leave will have permits available to them. This will allow them a greater chance for success. DNR wildlife biologist Jeremy Holtz says more units will have more tags available. However the harsh end to winter earlier this year, did make a negative impact."We're still keeping our antlerless harvest low in the majority of the north," Holtz explained. "In fact the hunters in Oneida county in units 36,37, and 38 we have a reduced number of permits than last year. We're more conservative than the year before."More than 243-thousand deer were shot during the state's nine-day gun season last year.
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Lifestyle-Nutrition Combo for Bones
Apr 26th, 2017
California Salmon Burger
From: California Olive Board
Quick Facts
Servings: 6
Cook Time: 10 min.
Try this healthy variation as a delicious alternative at your next backyard barbecue.
- 1 1/3 lbs boneless, skinless salmon, cut into chunks
- 1 cup sliced olives, divided
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh chives
- 2 tsp crushed fennel seeds
- 1 tsp minced lemon zest
- 3/4 tsp kosher salt
- 6 whole-grain hamburger buns
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced shallots
- 3 cups loosely packed arugula leaves
- 2 Tbs lemon juice
- Place salmon in bowl of food processor and pulse 3 to 5 times until coarsely ground. Transfer to clean mixing bowl and stir in 3/4 cup olives, chives, fennel seeds, lemon zest and salt. Form into 6 patties and grill over medium-high heat for 4 to 6 minutes on each side.
- While burgers are cooking, slice buns in half and place on grill until lightly toasted, then transfer to serving plates. Combine shallots, arugula, lemon juice and remaining olives in small mixing bowl. Set aside. Place 1 cooked burger on the bottom half of each bun. Top with arugula mixture and remaining buns.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 298
Calories from Fat 98 (33%)
(17%)Total Fat 11g
(11%)Saturated Fat 2g
Polyunsaturated Fat 3g
Monounsaturated Fat 3g
(15%)Cholesterol 45mg
(28%)Sodium 678mg
(17%)Potassium 580mg
Total Carbohydrate 23g
(12%)Dietary Fiber 3g
Sugars 3g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(53%)Protein 27g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Nutrition facts are calculated by a food expert using nutritional values provided by the USDA for common products used as recipe ingredients. Actual nutritional values may differ depending on the amounts or products used and can be affected by cooking methods.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
The Pulitzer Project
You may participate solely on your own blog (and I will link to it at right) or post to this one. Anyone interested in participating on this blog should submit an email address in a comment to this post. To prevent spamming of the email, please submit it in a format similar to the following: janedoe--gmail or janedoe atttt gmail dotttt commm.
You may post a review of each book you've read, even if it was several years ago. Or, you could also put the year read beside the title and not do a full review. It's up to you.
If you are a participant on this particular blog, please follow these guidelines for labeling:
1) Always use your name as a label.
2) "Progress" should be used for list updates.
3) For each book read, use the year won and the title of the book. See the August 2007 entries for an example.
134 comments:
- Laura said...
I'd like to join!
lindsacl ATTT comcast DOTTT net
- August 13, 2007 at 7:02 PM
- Nyssaneala said...
I'd love to be included!
You can email me at alisiab at mail2world dot com
- August 14, 2007 at 9:23 AM
- Camille said...
Hi! Thanks for the invite! Sure, I'd like to be added to this blog. I'm reading them in order from the beginning and I'm up to Alice Adams now. I haven't been able to work on my blog lately so I haven't been posting very much about it but I will soon! Thanks again! Camille
two underscore munks---yahoo
- August 15, 2007 at 11:23 AM
- Sherry said...
I'd like to participate. My eamil is sherryDOTearlyATgmailDOTyouknowwhat
I have some reviews alredy posted at Semicolon that I could copy/cross post to this blog, and then I'll make up a post of books already read and the ones I'm interested in reading soon.
- August 15, 2007 at 6:34 PM
- Dewey said...
So exciting! A challenge with no time limit. I love this idea, and I would like to participate. My email is dewpie gmail. I know I will post all reviews in my own blog, but I would also like to be able to post them here, if that's ok. Thanks for starting this!
- August 16, 2007 at 7:51 PM
- Suey said...
I'd like to join this one, since it's sort of a subconcious goal to make my way through these books anyway. Might as well make it official.
jenstusue-- yahoo
- August 17, 2007 at 11:46 AM
- Stephanie said...
You are SUCH a temptress!! I have always wanted to read the entire list. I even printed out a bunch of copies of the Pulitzers, the Bookers, the Edgar's, etc. with hopes of getting to them all some day. I think out of all the Pulitzers, I've only read 3! Isn't that sad? Though I do have a few on the list for the Book Awards challenge.
So, I guess that's my wordy way of saying...sign me up!!
Stoland at ameritech dot net
- August 17, 2007 at 2:29 PM
- Nymeth said...
This is a great idea, and I definitely want to participate. My e-mail is untuneric at gmail dot com.
- August 17, 2007 at 2:58 PM
- Jill said...
3M - this is an awesome challenge - please count me in. My e-mail is mrstremereads AT yahoo DOT com.
- August 18, 2007 at 6:35 AM
- Bonnie Jacobs said...
I'm in, but had forgotten to tell YOU ... lol. Yes, I'd like to post reviews here as well as on my own blog. emerging DOT paradigm AT yahoo DOT com. Having gotten into too many challenges already, I found that my sidebar is too full. So I have also made myself a separate blog just for my challenges.
My first post on Bonnie's Books is here:
and my first post on Taking the Challenge is here:
- August 18, 2007 at 6:58 AM
- gautami tripathy said...
I would very much like to be a part of it. I have read some of those. Review. I don't think so. I will post those reviews soon and read the rest.
My email id:
gautami DOT tripathy AT gmail DOT com
- August 20, 2007 at 10:33 AM
- Pour of Tor said...
I'm in (if you will have me)! arieldiva -- aol
- August 20, 2007 at 2:29 PM
- Girl Who Wants To Quilt More said...
Great idea...I'm still building my blog, but would like to participate
I am Terri
terristem at pertechman dot com
Thank you so much!
- August 24, 2007 at 10:49 AM
- gautami tripathy said...
I posted a review of a play which won Pulitzer in 1949. Is that ok?
- August 27, 2007 at 12:25 PM
- the individual voice said...
Count me in. I'm a binge reader and it's time for a binge. No time limit is great. drglo at rcn dott com
- September 2, 2007 at 10:45 AM
I must one of the few people in the world who don't have a blog yet. But I have a name--Joyce! I'm at jlagow att gmail dott com. And I'd like to be included.
- September 19, 2007 at 6:43 AM
- Lee's River said...
Oh, Lord. I dropped in from the individual voice's blog. I have a novel presently going through Phase 1 of the publishing process (i.e. being rejected by every agent who receives it.) In it, there's an alcoholic who has worked the Pulitzer Prize List into his personal 12-step sobriety program.
So now - something new to worry about: What if the book ever gets published in my lifetime? You guys are going to think I got the idea over here when I didn't and then...(haven't worked out the catastrophic implications of that yet but trust me, I will.)
P.S. Yours is a great project. Can't join in right now; my local library doesn't do Pulitzer, unfortunately.
- October 2, 2007 at 8:57 AM
- Andrea said...
I wish I had found this site awhile ago since I am now reading my 55th Pulitzer (The Known World). I am jumping around the list in no particular order, and I've been at it almost exclusively for about 2 years. It is difficult to find some of the older winners without spending some money. That's okay - because it's part of the fun! kelberts at yahoo dot com.
- October 3, 2007 at 5:52 PM
- Athena said...
I can't believe I did not know about this, but I love Pulitizers overall. So email is email@example.com Cheers!
- October 7, 2007 at 2:42 PM
- Jaimie said...
Sign me up! I've already read several and can't wait to get to the rest!
- October 11, 2007 at 10:08 PM
- Ms. Jan said...
I'm already doing the Book Awards Challenge, so might as well jump in on this one. The new blog format is wonderful!
msjanquilts AT comcast DOT net
- October 14, 2007 at 10:09 PM
- DaBookLady said...
I'd like to join up.. readernutcase at msn dot com
- November 5, 2007 at 9:42 PM
I'd like to join! grammarchick at hotmail dot com
- December 10, 2007 at 11:27 PM
- J.C. Montgomery said...
Please add me. I would like to take this on as a personal growth challenge. After reading this list, (for the first time, sad as it sounds), I realized that I have seen many of the movie adaptations - but have only read a few of the novels. My bad entirely, and one which I would like to rectify.
- December 14, 2007 at 6:02 PM
- J.C. Montgomery said...
DOOOH - you may need this. (OK, no more holiday nog for me *hic*)
cappsmontgomery at hotmail dot com
*sheepish grin*
- December 14, 2007 at 11:57 PM
- Kara said...
I would like to join the challenge. I am trying to broaden my reading and have been wanting to read the Pulitzers - no time like the present - LOL.
Here is my email ktulanko at aol dot com. I will more than likely post my reviews on my challenges blog but wouldn't mind posting here too.
- December 17, 2007 at 11:36 PM
- Amanda said...
I'd love to join! My email is acabrams-gmail.
- December 23, 2007 at 6:59 PM
- Ex Libris said...
I'd like to join the challenge. My e-mail is slgoforth ATTT ameritech DOTTT net. Thanks!
- December 23, 2007 at 10:57 PM
- Margaret said...
What a wonderful idea. I would love to join. My email address is megr at datavia dot com
- January 2, 2008 at 9:27 PM
- Phoebe said...
I'm in for this one. You can e-mail me at...
- January 9, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- Marg said...
I am joining really late I know, but I would like to participate now.
My email is diamondlil at dodo dot com dot au.
- January 12, 2008 at 5:51 PM
- CQ in DC said...
I'd like to join in as well:
colleen_quinn AT hotmail
I've read a few of these already, but was sad to realize that I've never even heard of some of these titles. Time to hit the library!
- January 21, 2008 at 2:24 AM
- bethany said...
me too, me too!!! Thanks for hosting this. ;p
my email:
bethany dotttt canfield atttt gmail dottt commmm
book blog:
- March 7, 2008 at 5:08 PM
- BooksPlease said...
Can I join too, please?
My email is booksplease attt btinternet dottt com
- March 10, 2008 at 2:37 AM
- Nadine said...
I've been working on reading all the Pulitzer winners for fiction for many years now - I thought I was the only "nerd" out there! It's great to find this blog - I'd love to join...
You can e-mail me at:
ntgoranson at gmail dot com
- March 20, 2008 at 6:23 PM
- Summer said...
Sounds like a great idea. And I love that there isn't a time limit!
my e-mail is
itsokimablonde107 ATTT gmail DOTTT com
- March 30, 2008 at 3:36 PM
- Bybee said...
To celebrate the announcement of the 2008 Pulitzers in a day or so, I'd like to join this challenge. My email is suz19612003 AT yahoo DOT com
My bookish blog, Naked Without Books! can be found here:
- April 6, 2008 at 6:53 AM
- aaron said...
I'd like to join!
My email is aaronkropf(at)gmail(dot)com. And I'll be posting my reviews on my blog which can be found at
- April 8, 2008 at 4:52 AM
- Rose City Reader said...
Me too, please!
dumashaus AT comcast DOT net
I've been actively reading the Pulitzer winners for several years, so I look forward to discussing them with other similarly driven readers.
- April 8, 2008 at 11:27 PM
- Aaron said...
I've posted on Edward P. Jones' The Known world. The link for this post is:
- April 19, 2008 at 1:23 AM
- Rebecca said...
I would like to join. rebecca ATTT reid-family DOTTTT org
- May 1, 2008 at 3:06 AM
- Tiffany Aller said...
I am very interested in joining in! My email is tatters0506----yahoo.
I run a book review blog called Read and Release: Tiffany's Tomes. I have a few books already lined up in queue for that blog (and, unfortunately, am backlogged on reviewing ones I've already completed since April) but I'm going to slate myself to start this challenge in early summer. To my pleasant surprise, I've already read a few of the books...but I'm going to challenge myself to go through and read them all in order of the year they were awarded.
Thanks for hosting such a cool site!
- May 9, 2008 at 11:22 PM
- Intergalactic Bookworm said...
Sign me up! I belong to a Pulitzer Prize book group at Yahoo! and this will fill in nicely. Judy
- May 20, 2008 at 7:24 AM
- katrina said...
Add me please katrinathomas underscore uk at yahoo dot co dot uk
- May 27, 2008 at 12:52 PM
- Tammy said...
I'm in!!
missporkchop -- yahoo.
- May 29, 2008 at 11:06 AM
I'd love to be added also:
justareadingfool AT gmail DOT com
- June 6, 2008 at 12:50 AM
I have read them all> here are the dates I read each one:
134 The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder (read Nov or Dec 1943) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1928)
260 The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (read 15 June 1946) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1932)
280 So Big, by Edna Ferber (read 2 Sept 1946) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1925)
355 The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck (read 17 Mar 1949) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1940)
362 Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis (read 16 July 1949) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1926)
363 The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (read 31 July 1949) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1939)
464 The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II, by Herman Wouk (read 31 Jan 1954) (Book of the Year) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1952)
498 A Fable, by William Faulkner (read 3 June 1956) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1955) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1955)
524 The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir, by John P. Marquand (read 29 Oct 1957) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1938)
533 Journey in the Dark, by Martin Flavin (read 7 Apr 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1944)
534 The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington (read 13 Apr 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1919)
535 The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (read 20 Apr 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1921)
536 Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington (read 24 Apr 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1922)
537 His Family, by Ernest Poole (read 27 Apr 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1918)
538 The Able McLaughlins, by Margaret Wilson (read 2 May 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1924)
539 One of Ours, by Willa Cather (read 11 May 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1923)
540 Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady, by Louis Bromfield (read 17 May 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1927)
541 Scarlet Sister Mary, by Julia Peterkin (read __ May 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1929)
542 Laughing Boy, by Oliver LaFarge (read 27 May 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1930)
543 Years of Grace, by Margaret Ayer Barnes (read 31 May 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1931)
545 The Store, by T. S. Stribling (read 14 June 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1933)
546 Lamb in His Bosom, by Caroline Miller (read 24 June 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1934)
547 Now in November, by Josephine Johnson (read 29 June 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1935)
548 Honey in the Horn, by H. L. Davis (read 19 July 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1936)
549 Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (read 6 Aug 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1937)
550 In This Our Life, by Ellen Glasgow (read 12 Aug 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1942)
553 Dragon's Teeth, by Upton Sinclair (read 13 Sept 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1943)
554 A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey (read 16 Sept 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1945)
555 All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren (read 21 Sept 1958) (Book of the Year) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1947)
556 Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener (read 30 Sept 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1948)
557 Guard of Honor, by James Gould Cozzens (read 12 Oct 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1949)
558 The Way West, by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (read 18 Oct 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1950)
564 The Town, by Conrad Richter (read 14 Dec 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1951)
565 Andersonville, by MacKinlay Kantor (read 27 Dec 1958) Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1956)
566 A Death in the Family, by James Agee (read 4 Jan 1959) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1958)
573 The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway (read 15 May 1959) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1953)
577 The Travels of Jamie McPheeters, by Robert Lewis Taylor (read 25 June 1959) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1959)
620 Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury (read 9 June 1960) (Book of the Year) (Pulitzer Fiction prize 1960)
651 To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (read 8 May 1961) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1961)
698 The Edge of Sadness, by Edwin O'Connor (read 4 June 1962) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1962)
981 The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron (read 27 Nov 1968) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1968)
983 The Reivers A Reminiscence, by William Faulkner (read 30 Nov 1968) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1963)
984 The Keepers of the House, by Shirley Ann Grau (read 1 Dec 1968) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1965)
985 The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud (read 5 Dec 1968) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1967) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1967)
986 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (read 8 Dec 1968) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1966) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1966)
1097 House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday (read 27 Nov 1970) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1969)
1103 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (read 24 Jan 1971) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1970)
1164 Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner (read 27 May 1972) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1972)
1634 A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole (read 21 May 1981) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1981)
1635 The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty (read 22 May 1981) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1973)
1637 The Killer Angels A Novel, by Michael Shaara (read 29 May 1981) (Book of the Year) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1975)
1642 Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow (read 8 July 1981) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1976)
1652 Elbow Room: Stories by James Alan McPherson (read 8 Aug 1981) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1978)
1653 The Stories of John Cheever (read 17 Aug 1981) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1979) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1981) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1978)
1823 The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (read 28 Jan 1984) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1983) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1983)
1981 Foreign Affairs, by Alison Lurie (read 26 Feb 1986) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1985)
1987 Ironweed, by William Kennedy (read 9 Mar 1986) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1984) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1983)
2046 Lonesome Dove a novel by Larry McMurtry (read 17 Jan 1987) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1986)
2086 The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer (read 20 Jun 1987) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1980)
2106 A Summons to Memphis, by Peter Taylor (read 1 Nov 1987) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1987)
2186 Beloved A Novel, by Toni Morrison (read 11 Feb 1989) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1988)
2291 Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler (read 5 May 1990) (Pulitzer fiction prize in 1989)
2359 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos (read 19 Feb 1991) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1990)
2386 Rabbit Is Rich, by John Updike (read 17 May 1991) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1982) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1982) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1981)
2390 Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike (read 22 Jun 1991) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1991) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1990)
2527 A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley (read 8 Aug 1993) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1992) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1991)
2568 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Stories by Robert Olen Butler (read 15 Jan 1994) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1993)
2628 The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx (read 19 Jul 1994) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1994) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1993)
2739 The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields (read 2 May 1995) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1995) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1994)
2812 Independence Day, by Richard Ford (read 1 Oct 1996) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1996)
3024 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, by Steven Millhauser (read 18 Oct 1997) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1997)
3075 American Pastoral, by Philip Roth (read 10 May 1998) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1998)
3202 The Hours, by Michael Cunningham (read 30 May 1999) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1999)
3416 Interpreter of Maladies Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (read 8 Mar 2001) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 2000)
3436 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay A Novel by Michael Chabon (read 24 Apr 2001) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 2001)
3568 Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (read 12 Apr 2002) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 2002)
3743 Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (read 11 May 2003) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 2003)
3842 The Known World, by Edward P. Jones (read 1 Jan 2004) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 2004) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 2003)
4016 Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (read 26 Apr 2005) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 2005) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 2004)
4202 March A Novel, by Geraldine Brooks (read 24 Aug 2006) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 2006)
4312 The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (read 13 May 2007) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 2007)
4421 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz (read 23 Mar 2008) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 2008) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 2007)
- June 19, 2008 at 9:37 PM
- traveler one said...
I'm happy to take part and advertise this delightful challeng on my blog www.wearebookworms.blogspot.com
Cheers! Kim
- June 27, 2008 at 7:48 AM
- The Mookse and the Gripes said...
I'd love to join! My email:
I hope to post short review on this site, but longer reviews will be on my website: "The Mookse and the Gripes"
- July 9, 2008 at 9:19 PM
- The Mookse and the Gripes said...
Hi, I am happy to be aboard! I just noticed, however, that the link to my blog is incorrect. I initially started the blog on blogspot, but changed it to wordpress. Unfortunately, I can't fully kick the blogspot one. Can you make my linke to The Mookse and the Gripes link to http://mookse.wordpress.com
? Thanks!
- July 10, 2008 at 11:14 AM
- LD said...
I would like to join. darrowenator ATTT gmail DOTTT com
- July 10, 2008 at 6:18 PM
- hemlokgang said...
I have read 32/82......This site looks great!
- July 12, 2008 at 9:28 AM
- Kelly Cooper said...
I'd like to join. Please e-mail me at kellyjcooper atttt gmail dot com. My blog link is kellyspulitzerproject dog blogspot dot com.
- August 19, 2008 at 10:55 PM
- Sarah Mehrens said...
Oh! I'd like to participate. I've read some, but not all. My email is: sarah at mehrens dot com. Thanks!
- August 31, 2008 at 11:00 PM
- Nicole said...
I'd lie to be added. nicolebonia at gmail
- September 1, 2008 at 5:30 PM
- Meryl said...
Hi there,
I'd like to join. I will be blogging on my blog at www.mybitofearth.net
- October 1, 2008 at 11:13 PM
- Chain Reader said...
I would love to join this:
saz AT chainreader DOT com
- October 16, 2008 at 10:58 PM
- Jenny said...
I'd like to join this challenge. I've only read 2 on the list. The yearling and Gone with the Wind.
jennykaesimpson at yahoo dot com
- October 18, 2008 at 8:28 PM
- farmlanebooks said...
I'd love to join in.
My email address is ja dot bailey at lineone dot net
Thanks very much!
- October 28, 2008 at 9:44 AM
- LegalMist said...
I'd like to join:
I'll be posting reviews on my own blog, with links to yours if that's ok with you.
- November 7, 2008 at 3:15 PM
- zbtjkarapilot said...
I'd like to join!
Email me at zbtcseipai ATTT gmail DOTTT com
- December 4, 2008 at 3:31 PM
- Jessica said...
I've been unofficially doing this challenge for a while, but I thought I'd officially sign up.
thebluestockingsociety AT gmail
- December 29, 2008 at 4:24 PM
- Gabby said...
Count me in! Please add gabby29 gmail to your participant list.
- January 2, 2009 at 9:55 PM
- Grad said...
I would love to participate. I read The Known World (2004) not too long ago and it was a stunning book! I like the fact there is no time deadline since I have a lot on my TBR shelf as it is.
- January 9, 2009 at 11:51 AM
- Angela said...
Sign me up, please.
Angela Reads 812 at gmail dot com
No spaces, of course. :)
- January 20, 2009 at 12:24 AM
- Bellezza said...
Please count me in; I'm crazy about the Pulitzer prize winners and have already read many, many of them.
Blog: www.dolcebellezza.blogspot.com
- January 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM
I'd love to join! To keep my confusion to a minimum lol, I'll keep my reviews on my blog. Thanks for posting this!
- January 29, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- Laurel said...
I stumbled across this notable site by the purest chance. I have read 30-some Pulitzers; currently I am reading The Known World. My goal this month is to finish all the books of the "aughts" decade. I will start on the 20s next. For some reason, these are the decades for which I have the fewest titles remaining. I am so happy to find this site of like-minded people!!
- February 5, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- fantaghiro23 said...
Hi! I've been doing this challenge unofficially for the past couple of years, so I might as well make it official. Do let me join.:)
My blog's at: http://fantaghiro23.blogspot.com/
I post all my books read there.:)
- February 7, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- Sandra said...
I wrote up my post for the challenge a while back but never contacted you. I would like to join please. Here is my post link. Thank you.
- March 11, 2009 at 1:53 AM
- spo said...
I just found this,and I have actually been doing this as a personal project since June 2008, I just finished #16 (6 of those I read already before starting the project). Please include me in this blog!
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- April 16, 2009 at 9:18 PM
- AK said...
I need to be participating in this!
akreadsbooks--gmail dot com
- April 27, 2009 at 7:25 AM
- Lily said...
Hi! I'd like to join this challenge. I'll be posting on my own blog and my challenge page is here:
- April 28, 2009 at 9:53 PM
- Bybee said...
Please add the newest winner to the list.
- May 17, 2009 at 9:13 PM
- jason said...
fridayteenagelife atttt berkeley dotttt edu
I found this site when I searched online to see if Early Autumn had sequel, which led me to We Came Along with a Hammer, which linked here.
I'm reading a majority of the Pulitzer winners, plus a bunch of books from Harvard Classics, Great Books, and Nobel winners. Partially for fun, enlightenment, exposure to Great Literature, partially because I'm thinking about going to grad school for English.
- June 16, 2009 at 4:52 AM
- Paperback Reader said...
I have just posted a blog entry about my own Pulitzer Project and Nymeth directed me to this blog to join.
I can be emailed at claire dot boyle at gmail dot com.
- July 13, 2009 at 7:51 AM
Me and my blog partner would like to participate.
diablevert atttt alongwithahammer dotttt com
- July 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM
- Sadako said...
Awesome blog--don't think I can participate but just wanted to say that I'm enjoying it!
- July 22, 2009 at 10:16 AM
- Bonnie said...
I thought I had already joined but do't see my post so I'm doing it now.
- July 28, 2009 at 3:17 PM
- Nancy said...
Wow, just found this blog! I would love to join as I am ready to start my own Pulitizer Project. I'm found at
- September 13, 2009 at 10:17 AM
- Nancy said...
Oops - I messed up. I'm found at ndavis1201^^^^g^^^male-you know the rest.
Can't wait to get started. Also have a blog at nancylovestoread.wordpress.com/ where I'll be posting my thoughts. Thanks for setting this up!
- September 13, 2009 at 10:21 AM
- J-rad said...
I'm so happy that I found this blog! I'm in on the challenge.
jaredpence attt gmail dottt com
- September 14, 2009 at 10:50 PM
- Don said...
I set a goal for myself a few years ago to read the Pulitzer Prize winning novels, and have enjoyed many of them.
I would like to join this project.
ddubya8ch at yahoo dottt com
- October 2, 2009 at 5:15 PM
- Mulled Vine said...
Can I join? mulledvine AT gmail DOT com
- October 3, 2009 at 3:31 AM
I've been meaning to do this for a while so I will sign up. I have One of Ours on my bedside as I adore Willa Cather and I'm working my way through all her books as well.
steele85 at gmail dot com
- October 8, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- Dog-Eared Books said...
I would love to join as well. Better late than never, I suppose!
My email is karynyts attt yahoo dottt comm dottt au
- October 26, 2009 at 5:14 PM
- George said...
Finally finished all the Pulitzer Fiction Books in 2009. Onward and Upward to the other Pultizer Categoies. The Last Fiction book IO read was Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair. This is a very good series and I want to read the rest of the books in the series.
I didn't know a sight like this existed. I started reading before I found out about the challange.
- December 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- George said...
American Lion is the Last Pulitzer book I've read. It's a Biography of Andrew Jackson's Presidency and give a lot of interesting peronal facts and cover's the major issues. I belive this is a period of American History that gets lost in the school and every American should be aware of the issues during this time and how they affect us today
- December 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM
- George said...
I do not want to receive solicitations of any kind. I only want to receive comments regarding the Pulitzer project. Thanks
- December 3, 2009 at 3:02 PM
I'd love to join!
I'll be posting reviews to my own blog but would be happy to post them here as well.
- December 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM
- Susan said...
I would love to join your group!
sthmpsn at gmail dottt com
- February 1, 2010 at 8:22 PM
- Susan said...
Correction to my previous post... sthmpsn ATTT sonic DOTTT net
- February 1, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- The Project said...
Hey there,
A friend and I are currently on a journey that I have a feeling you and your readers would like to, not necessarily experience or have a part of, but follow. You can check it out at www.thepulitzerblog.blogspot.com.
What you're doing here is a great and good thing -- thank you so much for your dedication in keeping the legacy of these books and authors alive! I've really liked perusing through some of the titles and reading the reviews.
Feel free to email me at drewmoody 3 2 1 at G mail.
- February 11, 2010 at 3:08 PM
- porcelaine said...
I would like to participate in the challenge and will host the reviews on my blog (http://literarylolita.wordpress.com/). I plan to read 5 books for 2010.
Please add porcelaine at(literarylolita--gmail) Thanks!
- March 2, 2010 at 1:09 PM
- Bibliobabe said...
I posted a page with ALL current reading challenges. Let me know if you want me to add any other information about yours. I hope it brings even more readers to The Pulitzer Project!
Reading Challenges.
Rachelle (Bibliobabe)
- March 23, 2010 at 4:28 PM
I have just finished reading all the Pulitzers on the list! My last one was "The Store" by T.S. Stribling. Although now that the latest one was announced, I guess that's one more to read. I've been working on this on and off since 2003 and have gotten pretty serious in the last few years and exclusively reading only Pulitzers.
- April 16, 2010 at 9:54 AM
I found your challenge on Bibliobabe's website and would like to join your challenge.
I will post on my blog and here also.
jgoffice(at)cox dottt net
- June 8, 2010 at 5:09 PM
I started in 2005 with a goal of reading all the winners since my birth year (1959) following a circuitous route. I first read Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, then went forward, then back toward 1959. I read a decade's worth of winners each year. Last year I started from 1918 and His Family. Now I'm in the 20's and about to start The Able McClaughlins. It's been a great journey and helped me through some tough times. Glad to join.
- June 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM
- Harry Lime said...
I'd like to join! I've been reading the list for a few years and I've just started at the beginning. I completed So Big and have my comments in my own blog.
- July 9, 2010 at 7:08 PM
- Harry Lime said...
Please include me rhmnlc ATTT gmail DOTTT com
- July 9, 2010 at 7:10 PM
- amy said...
i would like to join! just started last week, working my way from tinkers back. currently on olive kitteredge. amyfletcher04 attt gmail dottt com.
- July 28, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- randy said...
I'd like to join-
river1 ATTTfuse DOTT net
I've been collecting and reading Pulitzers for years- I own 80 copies- I plan to read (or reread) them all and will provide comments-
- September 10, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Hi Iam Prabhu from chennai,joined today in this forum... :)
- September 10, 2010 at 10:20 AM
- Melody said...
Can I join too?
melody dot spano at gmail
- October 16, 2010 at 8:24 PM
- Aaryn Bierly said...
I'd like to join, please.
aaryn DOTTT bierly ATTT gmail DOTTT com
- October 29, 2010 at 8:01 PM
- Debra said...
i'd like to join. Reviews won't be long for most of them. Its a project I started on 3 or 4 years ago and I'm a little over half way through. My email is dlords atttttt gmail dottt commm
- November 2, 2010 at 11:02 PM
- Nan said...
I'd like to get in on this. historian_nan at hotmail.com
- December 15, 2010 at 10:51 AM
- Dusky Literati said...
I'd like to join. duskyliterati ATTT gmail DOTTT com
- December 23, 2010 at 5:59 PM
- Dusky Literati said...
2007 The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- December 23, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Chinoiseries said...
I'd like to join :) I will post reviews on my own blog. zenissima -- Gmail
- January 15, 2011 at 2:51 PM
This is a fantastic idea! Sign me up. babykat1901 AT aim DOT com
- May 25, 2011 at 10:29 PM
- Sara said...
I'd like to join! saraklind -- gmail. I'll be posting reviews on my blog (http://diaryofabook-lover.blogspot.com/) and will post on here as well. Thanks!
- June 28, 2011 at 10:37 PM
- John Coffey said...
I'm doing something similar. Check out www.readingthepulitzers.blogspot.com
- July 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM
- Linda said...
I would like to join. I have been reading old Pulitzers this year. My name in Linda, and my email is lafrom11 at gmail dot com
Thanks very much for the opportunity.
- July 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM
- Athena said...
Yes I'd love to as well..
my email is athenainchina AT gmail
and my blog that I've just started is
- July 25, 2011 at 9:11 PM
- Martha said...
Hi there! I didn't know this site existed. I've read them all but Olive Kittridge, Tinkers and Good Squad -- and they're pending.
May I join?
memarthamcc att aol dot com
- July 31, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- Scott Huckaby said...
Bitter sweet. Only 3 titles left to read from the winners. Started in 2008. Fav so far, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Using to start campfires, A Fable by Faulkner. Thanks for posting your Pulitzer Project!! Teresa at windriverfoto attt geemail DOTTTT com
- August 11, 2011 at 11:13 AM
- Kata Kollath said...
I would love to join in the fun. My e-mail is k_kollathatsbcglobaldotnet. I will be posting on my blog http://www.katachimesin.blogspot.com/
- October 20, 2011 at 9:37 AM
- rkbbecca said...
what a great idea. please sign me up. rkbbecca ATTT yahoo DOTTT com
- November 5, 2011 at 3:14 AM
- raidergirl3 said...
Hey all, I've been forgetting to check this. I've added the most recent requests - check your spam folder if you havent' received it.
- November 6, 2011 at 1:36 PM
I have just decided to read all the Pulitzer Prize winners. I have read 7 so far. I was excited to find this site.
lesliekoons yahoo dotcom
- February 9, 2012 at 10:25 PM
- Angus Miranda said...
Hello, I was wondering what happened to the rest of the contributors? It seems that I have been the only person posting write-ups recently.
- May 3, 2012 at 4:57 AM
- liar, liar, im on fire said...
So excited to learn about this blog! This is somethng I decided to do a few weeks back. Rpate8 at Gmmail dotcom
- May 9, 2012 at 3:47 PM
I want to participate, please. My email is mcvandeventeratttttttjunodotcom
Thank you!
- May 29, 2012 at 6:39 PM
- DallasBookWorm said...
I have been working on this project for the last 6 months or so, and I just found your blog. I would like to participate and will be posting reviews on my blog at dallasbookworm.blogspot.com if you want to link over to my blog.
I'm so glad to find a group of other people who are doing this!
- June 11, 2012 at 9:29 PM
- Rachel said...
I'll join! roachalady ATTTT hotmail DOTTTT com
- September 13, 2012 at 6:29 AM
- raidergirl3 said...
Hey all, I've been forgetting to check this. I've added the most recent requests - check your spam folder if you havent' received it.
- October 8, 2012 at 8:38 PM
- mary brown said...
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- October 20, 2012 at 5:28 AM
- Aaron Grey said...
Hi, Nice post thanks for sharing. Would you please consider adding a link to my website on your page. Please email me back. Thanks!
Aaron Grey
- December 11, 2012 at 6:40 PM
- HobbyBuku said...
Hi, just found your site this year, I've been on self-project in reading Award Winner's Books, that's include Pulitzer Award for these 2 years, so I'm in in this challenge.
My email : hobbybuku ATTT gmail DOTTT com
Btw, since I'm from Indonesia, my review will be in bilingual, first in Bahasa then I added Conclusion (My Final Though) in English.
- February 4, 2013 at 5:12 AM
- Brona Joy said...
I'd like to join too. I've just finished Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons
- March 17, 2013 at 4:58 PM
- Lorcan McNamee said...
Hi, I'd like to leave a review. email address is mcnameelorcan at gmail dot com.
Blog at http://watchingandreadingandwriting.blogspot.ie/
- April 15, 2013 at 5:30 PM
- Keke said...
What an interesting project with no time limit,
My email address is: miss_yuska(at)yahoo(dot)com
Thanks so much.
- May 27, 2013 at 8:11 AM
- Jan in Edmonds said...
Love this project. The only one I haven't read is this year's award - The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson.
- August 3, 2013 at 6:31 PM


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- 1 Science
- 1.1 Scientific Documents
- 1.2 Mathematics
- 1.3 Chemistry and Biology
- 1.4 Astronomy
- 1.5 Physics
Note: For possibly more up to date selection of scientific applications, try checking the AUR 'science' category
Scientific Documents
- bc — An arbitrary precision calculator language.
- calc — An arbitrary precision console calculator.
- Extcalc — A Qt based scientfic graphical calculator.
- GCalctool — A scientific calculator included in the GNOME desktop.
- KAlgebra — A calculator and 3D plotter included in KDE EDU.
- KCalc — A scientific calculator included in the KDE desktop.
- Qalculate — A calculator and equation solver with fault-tolerant parsing, constant recognition and units.
- SpeedCrunch — A fast, high precision and powerful cross-platform calculator.
- xcalc — A scientific calculator for X with algebraic and reverse polish notation modes.
Computer Algebra System
- Fermat — A computer algebra system that does arithmetic of arbitrarily long integers and fractions, multivariate polynomials, symbolic calculations, matrices over polynomial rings, graphics, and other numerical calculations.
- Mathomatic — A general purpose Computer Algebra System written in C.
- Maxima — A Maple/Mathematica-like program with a wxWidgets based frontend.
- PARI/GP — A computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory.
- Sage — A algebra system similar to Maxima, but written in Python.
- Xcas — A user interface to Giac, a free, basic computer algebra system.
Scientific or Technical Computing
- EngLab — A cross-compile mathematical platform with a C like syntax.
- Euler — A numerical application designed for higher level math such as calculus, optimization, and statistics that uses Maxima for symbolic operations.
- FreeMat — A Matlab-like program that supports many of its functions and features a codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code, further parallel distributed algorithm development (via MPI), and 3D visualization capabilities.
- PyLab — A collection of Python modules (pyplot, numpy, etc.) used for scientific calculations.
- Scilab — A Matlab alternative used for numerical computations, its syntax is not equivalent to that of Matlab, but it can be easily converted.
- http://www.scilab.org/ || scilabAUR
- JAGS (Just another Gibbs sampler) — A cross-platform program for analysis of Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation.
- PSPP — A free SPSS implementation.
- R — A software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
- RKWard — A frontend for the statistical language R.
Data Evaluation
- Extrema — A visualization and data analysis tool.
- Fityk — A curve fitting and data analysis application, predominantly used to fit analytical, bell-shaped functions to experimental data.
- Gnuplot — A command-line program that can generate 2D and 3D plots of functions, data, and data fits.
- Grace — A WYSIWYG 2D graph plotting tool.
- LabPlot — A free software data analysis and visualization application, similar to SciDAVis.
- QtiPlot — A platform-independent application used for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis, similar to the proprietary Origin or SigmaPlot.
- ROOT — A data analysis program and library (originally for particle physics) developed by CERN.
- SciDAVis — A fork of QtiPlot with the goal of being better documented and more user friendly.
See also Common Applications#Spreadsheets
Chemistry and Biology
Computational Biology
- Biopython — Python package with tools for computational biology.
Molecule Viewer
- Avogadro — edit and view 3D molecule structures (also .pdb) and simulate
- Ballview — standalone molecular modeling and visualization application
- http://www.ballview.org/ || ballAUR
- Ghemical — edit and view 3D molecule structures (also .pdb) and simulate
- Rasmol — view 3D molecule structures
- http://www.rasmol.org/ || rasmolAUR
- Pymol — view 3D molecule structures
Molecule Drawing
- BKchem — practical and goodlooking skeletal formula molecule drawing program
- XDrawChem — extensive skeletal formula molecule drawing program (incl. spectroscopy prediction)
- EasyChem — simple skeletal formula molecule drawing program
- Chemtool — skeletal formula molecule drawing program
- Gabedit — graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages like Gamess-US, Gaussian, Molcas, Molpro, MPQC, OpenMopac, Orca, PCGamess and hem
Periodic Table
- Kalzium — periodic table of the elements with molecule editor and equation solver from the KDE project
- gElemental — periodic table of the elements and additional information
- Bioclipse — Aims to be a complete biochemistry office suite.
- http://www.bioclipse.net/ || not packaged? search in AUR
Molecular Modeling
- GROMACS — versatile package to perform molecular dynamics, i.e. simulate the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles
- Quantum Espresso — integrated suite of computer codes for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft)
Image manipulation
- ImageJ — Java-based image processing and analysing program, that provides extensibility via plugins and macros. Widely used in microscopy (e.g. for cell counting).
- Cartes Du Ciel — aka 'Skychart' - Planetarium,Sky mapping & Telescope control
- Celestia — space simulation software
- GIMP Plugins Astronomy- GIMP plugins for astronomical images, overlay mode, darkness subtraction, merge images and others gimp-plugin-astronomyAUR
- Exphem — Ephemeris & Planetarium program
- KStars — KDE desktop planetarium
- StarPlot — 3D starchart viewer
- http://starplot.org/ || starplotAUR
- Stellarium — beautiful 3D planetarium
- gEDA — electronic design automation tools
- Qucs — electronic circuit simulation
- Oregano — electronic circuit simulation
- QElectroTech — draw advanced electrical circuits
- KiCAD — design schematics for printed circuit boards
- KSimus — logical circuits simulation
- KLogic — logical circuits simulation
Physics Simulation
- Aster — simulation for civil and structural engineering
- Step — physics Simulation Educative physics simulation (KDE)
Unit Conversion
- Convertall — convert between different physical units
- Gonvert — convert between different physical units
- Units — CLI Unit converter and calculator


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This Day in Sports History — August 14
Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on August 14:
1903 — James Jeffries defeated James J. Corbett in the 10th round of their fight in San Francisco to retain his heavyweight title. (More info.)
1936 — The United States won the first Olympic basketball tournament at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. (More info.)
1959 — The American Football League formed with franchises in Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver, New York and Los Angeles. Boston, Buffalo and Oakland were later added prior to 1960. (More info.)
1964 — Pitcher Bo Belinsky of the California Angels was suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer. (More info.)
1977 — Lanny Wadkins won the PGA Championship on the third playoff hole at Pebble Beach in California in the first major tournament played under the sudden-death rule. (More info.)
1982 — Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies recorded his 12,365th career at-bat to pass Henry Aaron and set a new major league record. (More info.)
1987 — Mark McGwire of the Oakland A's set the major league rookie home run record with his 39th long ball, hitting it off Don Sutton of the Angels in Anaheim. (More info.)


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Martin, Neal To Play Saturdayby Michelle Crechiolo / Pittsburgh Penguins
Penguins coach Dan Bylsma announced following Friday's practice that defenseman Paul Martin and winger James Neal will return to the lineup for the regular-season finale on Saturday vs. Carolina. They have both been skating for the last 11 days and recently joined team practice.
Martin has missed the last 12 games with a broken bone in his hand, suffered when blocking a shot on March 28 vs. Winnipeg. He said he will wear extra padding in his glove to provide added protection.
"It feels great right now," Martin said. "Been doing some things on the ice with the guys that have been out. We've been testing it and it feels good. We'll make sure it's protected and I don't think I'll have any issues. I'm sure it will just be the reaction thing that you're not used to."
Neal has missed the last eight games after sustaining a concussion on April 5 against the NY Rangers. He said the timing of his recovery happened to work out so that he could play one game before the playoffs started, and that he's not hurrying back to play before he's ready.
"I wasn't trying to rush it back or get in a game before playoffs," he explained. "It was just how I felt. I feel like I'm ready to play now. So just get back up to game speed and get ready and ramp it up for playoffs."
Neal said he maintained his conditioning as well as he could while he was out, and acknowledged that skating on Saturday will help him regain his peak form before the postseason.
"It makes it a little bit easier when you're this far into games," he said. "You're in the best shape possible. Obviously, it takes a little bit to get back to that. (Saturyday's) game will definitely help me."
Note: The Penguins held a noon practice at Southpointe Friday. Joe Vitale (lower body) skated prior to the team's practice with strength and conditioning coach Mike Kadar. Brooks Orpik (lower body) did not practice. Both Vitale and Orpik are listed as day-to-day.
Marc-Andre Fleury also did not practice as he awaits the birth of his first child.
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I still can't decide which spelling to go with for this cake; the more I think about it the more both spellings end up looking equally wrong (if I was of a more optimistic bent I might have said "equally right").
It is generally accepted that Battenberg cake was invented in honour of the marriage, in 1884, between Queen Victoria's granddaughter to Prince Louis of Battenberg. The four squares symbolise the four Battenberg princes. However, that doesn't help to explain why two of the squares are pink, and two yellow…but they always are (except when a silly baker doesn't put in enough food colouring...ahem).
When you're making a classic you have to follow the rules so I used food colouring in this recipe - it simply wouldn't be a Battenberg without it. Sadly, I didn't put enough so had an orange rather than pink sponge, but it still looked rather attractive and had that all important colour contrast to achieve the chequerboard effect. Jamming up the sponges is one of the more fun parts of the process:
It's worth taking the time to make your own marzipan for this cake; it will mean extra work and home made is -in my experience - harder to roll out but it is so superior in taste, and that's what really matters. Not sure if I made a mistake or the recipe was wrong but I found my marzipan far too soft to roll and had to add a lot more icing sugar. Here's what it started out looking like:
I find you can get away with a softer marzipan (although not as soft as the photo above!!) if you're just covering the top of a fruit cake but this needed to be more firm to wrap the sponge. There may have been swearing but I persevered and kept kneading more and more icing sugar into the marzipan and I ended up with something, still sticky, but capable of rolling:
Once I'd cursed everything I could think of and sworn I would never make marzipan again, I tasted it...it tasted good!
The combination of classic sponge, apricot jam and soft almond paste is a joy – every mouthful delivers flavour and texture. While mine may not be the prettiest Battenberg you'll ever see I will venture it's one of the tastiest. Just make it the day before you want to eat it – that way the pain of the marzipan will be but a distant memory!
Being a caketinoholic (it is a proper addiction as my cupboards and bank statements prove) I used my Battenberg cake tin which takes the effort out of the process. You could, of course, use a normal square tin and make dividers out of foil.
Sept 2011 – Battenberg update
I made this cake again with pink colouring – if anything I over compensated for my colour failure last time as you'll notice it's somewhat lurid!
For the cake:
175g unsalted butter, at room temperature
175g caster sugar
3 eggs
175g self raising flour
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
red food colouring
Apricot jam
For the marzipan - see Sept 2011 update above for easier recipe:
115g caster sugar
115g icing sugar, plus a lot more (potentially) to bring into a dough and for rolling
2 eggs plus 1 egg yolk e.g. 3 egg yolks and 1 white
2 tablespoons lemon juice
265g ground almonds
Preheat the oven to 190˚C/fan oven 170˚C/375˚F/Gas mark 5.
Grease a Battenberg cake tin or a 20cm square tin. If using the square tin use a rigid strip of foil or baking paper to divide the tin in half.
Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and creamy. Don't skimp on this stage as it's the most important time to get air into the cake.
Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
Stir in the flour and vanilla.
Divide the batter into two separate bowls. You can weigh these to ensure the batter is evenly divided.
Add some red food colouring to one bowl of batter – add enough so that the cake is starting to look red, it will bake paler. I didn't add anywhere near enough and got an orange sponge!
Spoon the batters into their separate sections of the prepared tin and level the surface.
Bake for approximately 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the sponge comes out clean. Mine took 30 minutes.
Place the tin on a wire rack and allow the cake to cool for 10 minutes, then turn the cakes out and leave to cool completely.
When cool level the surfaces so that your cake is flat and even on all sides. If you used the square tin with a central divider, now is the time to cut each coloured sponge in two – divide them by cutting down the longest length.
Store in an airtight container until you are ready to assemble the cake.
Now make the marzipan: place a bowl over a pan of simmering water, ensuring that the water cannot touch the bowl.
Place both sugars, egg and egg yolk in the bowl and whisk for about 10 minutes or until pale and thick.
Take the bowl off the heat and stir in the lemon juice and ground almonds. It will be very sticky and not at all like a paste that you can roll! With hindsight, this is where I should've added extra icing sugar to bring to a firm dough. You're aiming for something thick enough that you can roll it out. You may need to add a lot of extra icing sugar – I did.
Wrap the marzipan in clingfilm and chill for at least 30 minutes.
Now prepare the sponges for assembling: warm the apricot jam (about 6 tablespoons) then use to glue the four canes of sponge together.
Cover the outside of the cake with apricot jam and put to one side.
Roll the chilled marzipan into a rectangle big enough to accommodate the sponge – about 30cm x 20cm should do it. I rolled the marzipan between two sheets of clingfilm. If your marzipan is still sticky dust the work surface (or clingfilm) liberally with icing sugar.
Place the cake at one end of the marzipan and roll it up ensuring that the seam is at the bottom and cutting off any excess marzipan.
If the marzipan tears at all you can patch it up with spare marzipan.
Tidy up the edges by trimming any surplus marzipan.
Serve in thick slices.
Bask in the glory of the wonderful thing you have created.


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Lower Pacific Heights is a centrally located neighborhood in San Francisco, California. The older buildings in the area point to its rich history and many Victorian Style homes line the streets. There are also popular commercial strips within and around Lower Pacific Heights. Fillmore Street is the neighborhood's central hub, with an array of restaurants and shops. A local favorite is Miyako's Old Fashioned Ice Cream, known for its affordable, savory treats. Recognized as a vibrant neighborhood with exciting nightlife activity, many people flock towards Lower Pacific Heights.
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3rd-party endorsement battles will go on
It appears dual endorsements in Connecticut are here to stay.
Those of you who bothered to vote Nov. 6 probably noticed several candidates had two lines on the ballot. Voters in the Senate race could choose to vote for Democrat Chris Murphy as a Democrat or as the endorsed candidate of the Connecticut Working Families Party. Those choosing Linda McMahon could opt to vote the Republican line or back McMahon as the candidate of the Independent Party. Indeed, McMahon the Independent Party candidate defeated Murphy the WFP candidate 46,107 to 38,202. Unfortunately for McMahon, Sen.-elect Murphy took the overall vote easily, 791,301 to 604,732.
A look at local elections also showed the Independent Party affiliation was more attractive to voters wanting to cast an alternative party vote, but failed to provide victories. In the 19th state senatorial district, for example, Republican Christopher Coutu received 2,019 votes on the Independent line to 1,208 WFP votes for Democrat Catherine A. Osten. Likewise in the 42nd House District, Republican Mike France received 322 votes as an Independent endorsed candidate, while his Democratic opponent, Timothy R. Bowles, received 246 WFP votes. In both cases, however, the Democrat won the election.
Which raises the question; what are these third-party endorsements really worth and why bother?
The Connecticut Working Families Party, which has been around about a decade and grew out of the labor movement, sees its role as trying to move candidates towards the progressive issues it cares about. The reward for the cross-endorsed is two places on the ballot. Voters can show the candidate they value the working families' platform by voting for the candidate on that line, said Taylor Leake, communications director for the Connecticut WFP.
The party's greatest highlight was providing the votes that elected Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in 2010. Republican Tom Foley, who had no cross endorsement, received 560,874 votes as a Republican while Malloy received only 540,970 as a Democrat, but the 26,308 WFP votes he received made him governor. Certainly most of those voters would have chosen Malloy anyway, but enough of them to get him elected? It's hard to say.
The WFP contends its cross endorsements helped push through the Connecticut legislature one of its primary policy goals, enactment of a first-in-the-nation mandatory paid sick leave law. And though the measure ultimately failed, another WFP policy priority - increasing the state minimum wage - was extensively debated.
While the WFP says it will cross-endorse any candidate that lines up with the progressive issues it considers important, the fact is that those endorsements have gone almost exclusively to Democrats. And in the past election Independent Party cross-endorsements likewise went to Republicans, which has not always been the case. This is reflected in a struggle for leadership of the party and what its priorities should be.
Both Michael Telesca of Waterbury and John L. Dietter of Danbury maintain they are chairman of the Independent Party of Connecticut. The Dietter faction sees the party's primary role as strengthening the hand of conservative Republican candidates in close races, a counterpoint to the WFP line for Democrats. Telesca, conversely, wants a genuinely Independent Party, willing to cross-endorse Democrats or Republicans willing to buck their parties on some issues, challenging both big government and the growing influence of corporations. In 2000 the Connecticut Independent Party endorsed anti-corporate crusader Ralph Nader, who was aghast to learn the party had this year backed the former pro-wrestling CEO, McMahon.
It is unclear how the dispute in leadership will play out, with both the courts and Secretary of the State office reluctant to get involved and in intraparty fight.
The WFP and Independent parties have had some success at the local level running their own candidates. The WFP has three members on the nine-member Bridgeport Board of Education and worked to defeat a proposed charter change that would have replaced elected board members with those appointed by the mayor, currently Democrat Bill Finch. Hartford has the only minor party registrar, WFP Urania Petit. Independent candidates have won local elections in Waterbury, Winsted, Newtown and Danbury.
But the greatest influence of these minor parties will, for the foreseeable future, remain their cross-endorsements, their vote totals in the past election securing future appearance on the ballot. In terms of registration it is not close, with about 222 WFP registered voters in the state, compared to around 13,933 Independents.
And the Independents appear to have a name advantage, one synonymous with the largest voting block in Connecticut - unaffiliated voters.
Yet whether voting WFP or Independent, with few exceptions voters will still be picking Democrats and Republicans.
Paul Choiniere is editorial page editor.
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