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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Smuggling illegal immigrants into Florida is not against state law, but the House has unanimously passed a bill to change that.
Human smuggling already is a federal crime, but state and local law enforcement officers cannot arrest suspects they may come across - often while patrolling state waters. That's allowed suspects to get away before federal agents can arrive.
The bill passed Friday would permit state and local officers to arrest smugglers and charge them with a first-degree misdemeanor.
The likely scenario, though, is they'd then be turned over to federal authorities.
The maximum penalty under the bill would be a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
It now goes to the Senate, where a similar bill (SB 502) is awaiting a vote.
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Perform a Test Deployment in Your Lab
Updated: March 28, 2003
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2
By reading the design sections earlier in this chapter, you can develop a good idea about which remote site connectivity features are appropriate for your organization. However, before you deploy any technology in your production network, it is a good practice to perform a test deployment in a lab first. Testing in a lab familiarizes you with how the technology works and gives you the opportunity to experiment with different features when alternatives are available.
When testing how to deploy a remote site connection, evaluate the following key issues in a lab setting before deciding how to deploy the technology in your production environment:
Whether to deploy a dial-up connection, a PPTP VPN, or an L2TP/IPSec VPN.
Whether to deploy an on-demand connection or a persistent connection.
Whether to deploy a one-way initiated connection or a two-way initiated connection.
If you plan to deploy a VPN connection, what type of perimeter network you want to use.
Whether to use certificate-based EAP-TLS or password-based MS-CHAP v2 for user-level authentication.
If you plan to deploy an L2TP/IPSec VPN connection (the only connection type that offers computer-level authentication), whether to use computer certificates or preshared keys.
Whether the encryption method, such as a dial-up or PPTP VPN connection using MPPE encryption or an L2TP/IPSec VPN using IPSec for encryption, influences your decision about which connection type to use.
Whether to use an Active Directory account (and join your routers to the Active Directory domain) or use a local account for your router user accounts.
Which dial-up options to set in the router user account.
Whether to use a default remote access policy, a common policy, or a custom policy.
Which static IP addresses and which static routes are needed.
Which routing protocol or protocols are needed.
Whether your demand-dial routers will support Internet traffic.
Whether to enable multicast connectivity between your sites.
Whether to deploy a DHCP server in each site.
Whether to deploy a domain controller in each site.
For a tool to assist you in evaluating some of the remote connectivity features presented in this list, see "Example: Contoso Connects Remote Sites" (DNSREM_1.doc) on the Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit companion CD (or see "Example: Contoso Connects Remote Sites" on the Web at http://www.microsoft.com/reskit). This job aid shows you how to deploy a PPTP VPN and a dial-up connection in a lab environment.
For additional test lab deployment examples, including information about deployments that include certificates and L2TP/VPN connections, see "Routing Scenarios" and "Virtual Private Network Implementation Examples" in Help and Support Center for Windows Server 2003.


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I had six months to live - then tiny beads killed off my tumour
Full recovery: With the help of this radical new surgery, Robert Price beat his cancer
Each year, thousands of Britons are diagnosed with cancer that has spread too far to operate, but now a procedure can destroy a tumour using tiny beads fed up through an artery.
Robert Price, 80, a retired solicitor from Criccieth, North Wales, had the procedure.
As a town councillor, a school governor and busy solicitor, I've always been in pretty good health. But one night in March 2007, I had a severe stomach pain that lasted all night, even though I took painkillers.
My GP saw me the next morning and thought it might be gallstones, so I had an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan two weeks later.
It showed no sign of gallstones, but the doctor said he'd seen a shadow on my liver, so I was referred the liver unit at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, where they ran more tests.
These revealed I had a massive tumour - around 15cm wide, or around the size of an ostrich egg - that was growing in my liver and into my bowel.
Surgery would mean cutting away so much of my liver that I would die of liver failure, yet without being operated on I'd only live about six months.
The news was incredibly frightening, and was very hard on my family, especially my wife Ann.
I didn't understand why I had developed this cancer, and the doctors were also unsure. While I'd enjoyed a couple of glasses of wine in the evening, I hadn't drunk to excess or had a viral infection like hepatitis B or C, which can damage the liver.
But then came a glimmer of hope. The doctors explained that the hospital had started a new procedure called trans-arterial chemoembolisation, which meant feeding beads containing high doses of chemotherapy through the arteries to the liver to fight the cancer. It sounded amazing.
Meanwhile, I made plans to retire: I wanted to spend time playing golf and being with my wife and little grandson.
I saw Dr Jonathan Evans at the Royal Liverpool in June and had a blood test to measure a substance produced by a tumour that indicates its severity. I knew friends who'd had a count of over 300 and they'd died. My count was over 1,000, so I thought I was a goner.
The following week I had the new procedure under local anaesthetic. I lay on the bed while Dr Evans threaded the beads through the arteries from my groin to reach the tumour.
Doctors looked at a monitor and I heard them gasp at the size of the tumour.
I was tired for weeks, but it was better than having all the nausea of ordinary chemotherapy, or recovering from an operation.
When I saw Dr Evans in September, a scan showed dead tissue in the tumour, which was great.
I had my final session in November, and Dr Evans gave me the incredible news that the tumour was totally dead. My cancer cell count was just two.
It was a miracle. Being told I had only months to live and then that all the cancer cells had been eradicated was staggering.
I have scans every year, and each one shows the tumour is shrinking. Six years on I'm still going strong. Now I'm loving retirement - we go for walks and I read.
I'm so grateful to Dr Evans and the staff at the Royal, because without them, I wouldn't be here.
Dr Jonathan Evans is consultant interventional radiologist at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Around 4,000 Britons a year are diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma - a primary liver cancer, where a tumour starts in the liver - and about 20,000 have a cancer which starts somewhere else, such as the bowel, and spreads to the liver.
Primary liver cancers can happen when the liver has long-term damage, often by alcohol which causes cirrhosis (irreversible scarring of the liver).
Viruses such as hepatitis B and C can also damage the liver, and so can diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which is a build up of too much fat in the liver.
Exciting new treatment: Tiny beads containing high doses of chemotherapy are injected. They starve the tumour of oxygen without damaging healthy cells
Around 70 per cent of those diagnosed with primary liver cancer are over 65, and 63 per cent are men because of factors like alcohol - though women are catching up fast.
Doctors could try treating small tumours via a needle, using radiofrequency ablation to heat and burn away the tumour, or by injecting alcohol, which is toxic and kills the tumour.
Some patients might also be offered a liver transplant, though transplant organs are in short supply and not often offered to over-70s, or to those with tumours larger than 5cm. Only around 5 per cent of patients are eligible for a liver transplant.
We can also offer surgery, though in many cases so much of the liver is damaged due to cirrhosis that removing part of the organ would mean the patient would die of liver failure.
Sadly, for patients not eligible for open surgery, life expectancy can be just six to 18 months.
But a new treatment developed in the UK around eight years ago, and now used successfully for colorectal cancer as well as liver cancer, means we can inject tiny beads containing high doses of chemotherapy drugs into the artery supplying the tumour.
These beads attack the cancer by delivering high doses of chemotherapy direct to the tumour, cutting off the blood supply to the tumour and starving it of the oxygen, without damaging healthy cells.
This is incredibly exciting. In a study at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, out of 34 patients with this type of liver cancer, 50 per cent of cases found the size of the tumour was reduced after the procedure, and in a further 25 per cent the tumour stopped growing.
So life expectancy can be extended considerably, while side-effects from chemotherapy - such as nausea - are greatly reduced because the chemotherapy is delivered direct to the tumour.
The treatment has huge potential to treat inoperable cancers which cannot be removed surgically.
We target the tumour using tiny beads one-tenth of a millimetre in diameter and which have been treated in the laboratory to release the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin.
We inject around 200,000 beads into the artery leading to the tumour that supplies it with blood. The procedure takes about an hour under local anaesthetic.
I make a tiny 3mm incision in the skin over the groin and pass a thin plastic tube into the groin artery. Using X-rays to guide us, I slide a fine catheter just 2mm in diameter through this tube. We then inject a little dye so we can check its position via X-ray.
Then, using a syringe, I inject 2ml of the fluid containing these beads into the catheter, which takes around 20 minutes.
Then we simply take out the catheter and press on the wound to close it.
The beads will gradually get stuck in the tiny arteries, partly blocking them and starving the tumour of oxygenated blood.
They also deliver chemotherapy direct to the tumour in higher doses than we could give by mouth. If the treatment doesn't work, we can do it again.
We follow up patients every year, and with Robert there is no sign that the cancer has returned.
The tumour is still there but is dead, and it should go on shrinking naturally year after year - a remarkable result for patients like Robert who would otherwise have had only months to live.
The treatment costs £2,000 to £3,000 privately, and a similar cost to the NHS.
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Potential Trade Partners for Cubs
I don't know about you guys, but I've haven't been this disinterested in a Cubs team since the mid 90's. It might just be continuing resentment over how 2008 ended or the fact that I disagreed with the majority of their moves since then and since most of it's not working, I just feel no connection to the team. But personal feelings aside, the Cubs are 5 games below .500 and 6.5 back in the division and 7 out of the wild card. They could turn it around, of course, but they probably won't. Knowing Jim Hendry and the Cubs desire to sell seats, they'll wait far longer than most of us would like to pull the plug on 2010, but if they do, here are some possible trade partners with my reasoning. I'm sure you guys will have your own ideas.
Derrek Lee & Xavier Nady:
Pretty much all the teams interested in Derrek Lee would probably be interested in Xavier Nady as a cheaper option. Nady has a NTC through June 15th, Lee has one for the rest of the year. I'm sure Lee would rather play for a contender then go down with the sinking Cubs 2010 ship. Before I get into the teams, one obstacle to most of the Cubs trading chips is the rather large sums of money they are owed. But if you're the Cubs and can move Lee or Lilly, why not just offer to pay the bulk of the rest of their 2010 salaries? It's not like that money wasn't already accounted for in the Cubs budget and the Cubs may actually get a decent prospect or two if they're paying the freight. When it comes to Soriano, Fukudome or Ramirez, I can see why the Cubs wouldn't want to pay future years, but maybe offer to pay the rest of 2010 to unload them?
Back to our suitors for Lee and Nady ranked from least likely to most likely.Another part of the puzzle is there are plenty of other potential 1b options available such as Berkman, Branyan, Konerko, etc.
Colorado Rockies: I highly doubt they'd bench Todd Helton, but there is a need there.
Seattle Mariners: More likely they're sellers, but if they make some kind of run in the next few weeks, the AL West is still very much up for grabs and they need offense and plenty of it.
San Francisco Giants: The call-up of Buster Posey probably took them out along with the signing of Pat Burrell. Nady could at least play an outfield position if necessary.
Texas Rangers: They're in the hunt and prospect Justin Smoak is struggling a bit and I think they're done with Chris Davis as an option.
Anaheim Angels: They lost Morales of course, but hope to get him back in September.
Ryan Theriot
Right, who the hell would want him? Well he's cheap and can play 2b or SS and when he does get hot, he has his uses.
Phillies: I see it as more of a utility role and back-up for Jimmy Rollins if he keeps having leg issues.
Mets: I think they just benched Luis Castillo, doubtful though.
Tigers: Adam Everett is their shortstop and the Cubs and Tigers seem to value the same type of players. This is the team that traded for Neifi.
Ted Lilly
A left-handed starter will always be in demand. Cardinals, Reds, Tigers, Angels, Rangers, Phillies, Mets, Nationals, Dodgers to name a few.
Aramis Ramirez
Other than him not hitting and no one would want him right now, he also gets his 2012 option guaranteed if he's traded. The Angels have a need at 3b as do the Tigers and the deep pockets to afford his contract if he does start to turn it around.
Kosuke Fukudome
He hits like a center fielder, but plays right field and has quite a bit owed to him next year. As I suggested earlier, if the Cubs pay for the rest of 2010, maybe someone will take his 2011 contract. Of course, he also needs to waive his NTC and apparently needs his Japanese hitting coach blankie with him at all times to be effective.
Rangers: Cruz keeps going on the DL and Borbon isn't doing much, but they do have David Murphy.
Padres: Doubtful they take on any salary at this point, but don't have much going for them in the outfield and had liked Fukudome when the Cubs signed him, although that was a different GM.
Giants: Rowand is slumping bad and guess it depends if Andres Torres can keep up a mid 800 OPS.
Alfonso Soriano
He's hitting, but they'll be worries that he'll slump like 2009 or needs Jamarillo around to hit. I can't think of anyone that would be willing to absorb any of his contract at this point except maybe the Giants.
Carlos Zambrano
I'm sure whatever loyalty he felt to the Cubs has evaporated with his trips to the bullpen. Of course, he'll need to pitch well now that he's back in the rotation for anyone to even consider it. Teams will wait out the Cliff Lee and Roy Oswalt situations first.
Dodgers, Angels, Tigers, Mets, Nationals
Of course, injuries may befall some pennant hopefuls and that could open up the trade market. Lilly, Lee, Nady and Theriot are the most likely trading chips that the Cubs will move as they have the least amount of future burden for another team.
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He did what no pitcher in baseball has ever done, got 28 players out in a row...
Re: 28 in a row perfect game.
Yeah, Galaraga needs a special place in the HoF for that. And his 1 hitter should still be recorded as a perfect game.. Asterisk please!
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Let the record show that I was quoting someone else.
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you must have taken a long nap in 2005-06.
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I was just starting my job, with free blogging time to bitch about the Cubs in 2005. My harping on every dumb move Hendry/McFail/Baker made really raised my ire.
Unfortunately the past 2 years have really just been ugh. Hendry keeps making the same mistakes over and over again.
When Ricketts makes the inevitable Front office change. Hopefully I can get some Cubbie fire back?
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Hendry keeps making the same mistakes over and over again.
What mistakes are you referring to, especially this year. Grabow I'll give you, but beyond that, Silva, Byrd, calling up Castro, etc look pretty good at this point.
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Everything he does is a massive overreaction from the previous year.
-Get more lefthanded
-Needs more fire in the clubhouse
-Needs new hitting coach
-Guys that catch the ball
-Trash guy in media to ensure they have negligible trade value
Most of the mistakes usually get compounded by taking/signing more bad contracts to dump the failed ones from the season before.
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according to wscr aram has the worst plzyer replacement rating (not sure of acronym ) at -2.6
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I know the Cubs have been a disappointment so far, but I just think it is too early to be talking about giving up on the season. A season by the way that is only 1/3 over.
Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but I'm encouraged by the fact that they are only 6.5 games out of the division lead despite the fact that their # 3 & 4 hitters have been horrible. If/when they come around, things will look a lot better. Of course, they need to turn things around quickly to make their efforts meaningful to the team this year.
Remember, the Cubs are chasing the Reds and the Cardinals. Neither team is exactly a juggernaut. If the standings look like they do now (or worse) at the end of June, then I'll consider jumping on your bandwagon. But for now, it's just too early.
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But we're losing games to the Pirates! What difference does your record or who you're chasing or your team playing to potential mean if you're 1-8 against the Pirates?!? That's all that matters: your record against the Pirates.
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I get the sarcasm, but i still think you make a good point. The Cubs have lost 7 to the Pirates and are just 6.5 games out of first. Turn things around against the Pirates and you turn around your whole season (kinda, sorta).
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That's well-played sarcasm, The Real Neal: All the good teams go 1-7 to the Pirates. And why not with aces like Charlie Morton?
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Yeah, the Cubs MIGHT make a run and win the division (not the WC), but so what? They probably would trade our best prospects for aging rentals then get swept in the first round.
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jim joyce today...feeling it...
shame. he's a good dude.
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There's no crying in baseball.
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Couldn't agree more. Insanely impressed with his reaction. You can definitely tell he truly cares about his job.
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A bit of a difference between he and Joe West, then?
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Hey Rob, don't have time to read the replies, but Lee should (will?) be gone, and I'd love to see them unload soriano for a ham sammich. I love your picking up 2010 idea, and I think that's a legit chance.
2 questions/comments for the group--
Byrd's working hard to make us love him and I think he's got me won over (despite his shaky D). Thoughts?
Lilly's been the de facto ace of this rotation nearly his whole time here, I wouldn't be heartbroken for Jim to give him another (preferably not overblown) contract, despite his age.......
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I hate Byrd's swing, not that that means much. But what does mean something, I think, is that he's going to live and die by contact--discipline, speed and really power are not big parts of his game, and his D in CF is average at best (I think, even though I know some commentators disagree). I'd gladly trade him if the Cubs can get something useful in return. I'd rather trade Fukudome or Soriano if the Cubs can rid themselves of significant payroll by making one of those deals, and then I'd let Tyler Colvin take over in CF and move Byrd to one of the vacated positions. I'd trade as many of Byrd, Fukudome, and Soriano as possible, really, and give playing time to Colvin, Fuld, and Brad Snyder along with whoever else warrants it and/or whoever the Cubs got in return in a trade. I dont' see Soriano moving to 1B. That has the potential to be a disaster.
Trading Ramirez now could be extremely difficult. The Cubs would have to get a 3rd baseman in return or sign one in the offseason (surviving with Tracy/Fontenot/Baker there for the rest of the season). Vitters is not taking over 3B in 2011.
Trading Lilly seems like the surest bet right now, followed by Nady and/or Lee. And I agree with Rob that offering Lee and Lilly arbitration is no problem, and shouldn't be for most other teams either, which should only add to their trade value.
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I hope he doesn't get butchered.
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Steve Stone wept.
Stoney let this gem fly tonight after Freddie Garcia beat the Rangers.
"if someone told you that the 5th starter had the best record on the team you would say they were in first place" What?
Wrong on both sides of the town. Whatever Hawk has must be contagious.
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Baseball Prospectus has a mock draft up (free) with the Cubs taking Ohio State's ace, Alex Wimmers, who is expected to move quickly through the minors.
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Kaleb Cowart at #27 is a bunch of crap.
well, it's not horrible, but if he lasts to the 20s then "damn"
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ah, money.
hell of a talent, imo.
he's one of those kids who's father produced a baseball player. he had the dad that made him do things left handed and eventually learn to switch hit...all that crap. fun. hell, at least it'll pay off even if his father took over his youth...
hits well, understands the mechanics of hitting very well, decent D at 3rd with a good arm...throws low 90s off the mound with an advanced curve, though it's doubtful anyone will take him for a pitcher...
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here's BP's writeup on Az Phil's draft catching recommendation...I believe Phil was thinking 2nd round but BP projects him at the end of 1st.
31. Tampa Bay Rays: If the Rays go big at 17, they could end up playing it safe with their second first-round selection. Canadian catcher Kellin Deglan has been rumored in many first-round slots as a pre-draft deal for some of the more conservative selections, but he's still a premium talent with athleticism, a plus arm, and good power potential. If he doesn't go here, it's unlikely he'll get past 34, where the Blue Jays would love to add a Canadian player to the mix.
Pick: Kellin Deglan, C, R.E. Mountain Secondary School (B.C., Canada)
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I talked with someone who played with Tyler Colvin at Clemson, and he said that Colvin was a good defensive 1st baseman (he played 1B in HS), and that the only reason he was moved to LF was to take advantage of his speed and athleticism. So if D-Lee gets moved sometime this season, or just isn't brought back in 2011, Colvin could replace him at 1B.
Of course there will be a strong temptation to move Alfonso Soriano to 1B if there is an opening there, but think about how many throwing errors he would add to the other Cubs infielders, not to mention the dropped infield pop ups.
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it is tempting to move soriano to 1st, but him being right handed and his (at least for now) improved defensive worth ethic (and health) is probably being taken into consideration.
i didn't know colvin ever played 1st, but that along with him being a left handed fielder would probably push him to 1st.
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He played a little bit of first while at Clemson as well. I certainly wouldn't mind him giving it a try with the Cubs, if he's certain he can avoid Floyd-Leeing himself over there.
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I had read that Colvin could play 1B as well and have always felt if D. Lee is not re-signed (more than likely) or traded during 2010 (hope, hope), then Colvin could go to 1B which puts another LH bat in the lineup.
53 games into this mess, I wish they could unload Lee, Fukudome, Zambrano, Soriano, and just about anybody else. Then build your core around Castro, Colvin, Soto, Dempster, Wells, Cashner, Marmol, and Marshall......and (hopefully) Brett Jackson, Jay Jackson, Vitters, and Carpenter in the very near future.
But then, I'm tired of overpaid has-been's being managed/coached by a disinterested, soon-to-be-retiree. Pretty much why I've been watching more high school baseball and college baseball this year.
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Deadspin has some video of Bryce Harper getting ejected from the JUCO world series. Can't really blame the kid, the ump called him out on a strike about 3 foot off the plate and he demonstrated to the ump where the strikezone should be, lol.
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He's doing everything he can to let everyone know he's a headcase, isn't he? That pitch was closer to the batter's box line than to home plate - but he probably showed up the umpire earlier and was paying the price for it.
Kevin Goldstein on Harper:
It's impossible to find any talent evaluator who isn't blown away by Harper's ability on the field, but it's equally difficult to find one who doesn't genuinely dislike the kid. One scout called him among the worst amateur players he's ever seen from a makeup standpoint, with top-of-the-scale arrogance, a disturbingly large sense of entitlement, and on-field behavior that includes taunting opponents.
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"but he probably showed up the umpire earlier and was paying the price for it."
Nice job of assuming stuff straight out of your ass.
If i get called out on a pitch about 3 foot off the plate i wouldn't have been as calm as Bryce Harper was in that video. It was a bullshit call, and he knew it and he had fun with it, instead of blowing his lid and getting in a 5 minute shouting match with the ump.
It was pretty obvious the Ump was trying to show up a 17 year old kid. Thats the pathetic part of the video, that the umpire couldn't even do his job right and had to resort to that to get him out.
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People in houses of toilet paper, shouldn't throw bullshit.
Look at my speculation - a known punk gets a really bad call against him, probably in retribution for previous punk-like behavior.
Look at your assumption "It was pretty obvious the Ump was trying to show up a 17 year old kid. "
Why would the ump want to show him up, because he was bored?
In every level of the game, doing what Harper did would get you ejected. It didn't look like he was "having fun with it" - where did you get that from?
if anyone should throw bullshit, it's someone who lives in a house of toilet paper. Matches is what they shouldn't throw. Or water balloons.
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like i was saying in parachat...you're not gonna believe this kid...especially as someone who doesn't care for milton bradley.
he's in a pretty unique headspace...
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Oh good, another TRN/Mike C hate fest on its way. You guys should set up a PayPal link and start charging for this stuff.
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Yeah I know it makes for riveting reading. I think the totally random nature of it is my favorite part. What made Bryce Harper MikeC's favorite amateur player, a Jesus like indvidual beyond all reproach? Curious readers would love to know...
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Maybe you would have been happier with a temper tantrum ala Milton Bradley? Spitting on umpires, attacking them?
The fact is Harper is going to get his fair share of shit no matter how he reacted. His reaction to an obvious bullshit call was pretty tame, he drew the ump a line and walked away. He could have bitched and complained and went on a tizzy fit and really earned his ejection and status.
Is he my favorite amateur player? Hell no, but i am excited to see what he can do.
Bobby Cox is the most ejected manager in the history of baseball. Does that make him a bad seed, a horrible person? Bryce Harper got ejected from a baseball game because an ump made a horrible call. And for that he is SATAN!
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Do you reference Bradley in every post now because it's funny?
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Is that what happened, your Milton Bradley gag reflex got set off?
How is it that you hated Milton Bradley so much before he ever came to the Cubs, but after reading "It's impossible to find any talent evaluator who (sic) doesn't genuinely dislike the kid." you come up with "am excited to see what he can do"?
If he's showing up umpires at age 17 in juco playoffs, a lot of people are going to be excited to see what he does next. You have to really like that team-first attitude he displayed, getting suspended for the remainder of the season. What does he care? He's going to get $7 million next week.
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harper has shown up umps, coaches and players (both his team and others) and is known for his self-important flashiness.
he's had fun toying with his competition in the amateur ranks...hell, he actively taunts them.
just wait til you get a load of this kid.
Sports media has been gushing over Milton Bradley's success since returning from one of his annual mid-season vacations.
Bradley's resurgence powering offense
MLB.com - Rhett Bollinger - May 29, 2010
Milton Bradley's Mind Is Clear and His Bat Is Hot New York Times
Bradley comfortable in cleanup spot
MLB.com - Mike McCall - May 26, 2010
Franklin Gutierrez's leadoff single off a full-count pitch might've been the harbinger, but Perry regrouped to strike out hot-hitting Milton Bradley.
Wow. Great. Sounds like Uncle Milty has really turned it around, right? So I took a look
at his numbers since returning....
55 PA's .235 .273 .294 .567 not to mention a negative WPA
I guess that's "hot" on Mars where Bradley comes from, but ...WTF?
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I'm sure as a beat writer it get's pretty boring writing: Ichiro hits, rest of team can't, should've kept Silva, Bradley didn't even do anything controversial. Can't even shaving cream Griffey's hand in clubhouse anymore. *Sigh*
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Dan Connolly @ The Baltimore Sun lists Sandberg as one of 12 potential candidates to manage the Orioles - thoughts?
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Is Sandberg really bad about that? Where do you find sac bunt stats for minor leagues?
After '84 he only sacrificed 12 times in the majors, so hopefully he understands the folly... on the other hand, if we continue to get one no-hitter per week, the sac may come back into vogue for good reason.
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Dusty's lineup orders didn't bother me as much as the names on the card did.
I would think that Adduci is going to beat Camp in OBP by the end of the year, and it wouldn't shock me if Barney did as well.
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i didn't like dusty's "contact hits 2nd" addiction...he loved a guy who could put the ball into any part of the field to move a runner, but when a runner wasn't on it usually turned into "cross your fingers."
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Well, when you replace Derrek Lee with Neifi Perez, you've got to bat hims somewhere.
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i dunno what this means.
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It means, when you fill the lineup with 8 hitters, some of them are going to wind up in different places.
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ryno currently pulling 3.7% of the vote in connolly's poll...
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3.8 - the tremor is building...
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davey johnson leading...hehe
i guess he's separated long enough from the players he pissed off in the early 90s funneling kangaroo court and bribe fines to his wife's charity.
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3.9! andy,the people are speaking!
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I voted for Juan Samuel. I didn't really get the connection with either of them, but Juan was always a poor man's Sandberg in fantasy baseball, so they can have him.
I wonder if the Cubs would let them interview Trammel, and if he'd take the job.
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4.0! Straight A's! He's passed Bowa...always liked the script on the orioles jerseys...
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Brett Anderson supposedly done for the year. Ted Lilly would look might fine in, uh, green... er, yellow ... that is, white shoes.
Does Oakland have anyone worth coveting?
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Does Oakland have anyone worth coveting?
Brett Anderson.
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chris carter...semi-boring 1st baseman with power upside and a surprising bit of speed for a for a big, tall dude.
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I wonder if they'd look at trading Barton for Lilly and a prospect.
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Clay Zavada is a really cool name. The Pflibson just ruins it.
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his story is awesome.
dude quit baseball to take care of his household and farm after his father died (his mother died long ago). his brother was in the navy.
he went to school the whole time, driving from his farm to school to finish his degree in his year off.
was talked into returning to the game...had a nice ride...now he's getting him some arm surgery.
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I as hoping that would spark some discussion. ¿Anyone else have some Zavada anecdotes?
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I was wondering if he's related to Clay Rapada... is that an antidote?
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Yes. You just told a story about how you were wondering something, and it was a good one.
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Was mentioned in Baseball America's hot prospects (team photo section).
"Cubs RHP Chris Archer (Cubs) has all but shut out opponents in the two starts since posting the unique line of 3 innings, 3 hits, 5 earned runs. The high Class A Daytona righthander limited Jupiter to just one hit over six shutout innings on May 28. Archer, 21, followed that up on Monday with a four-hit, one-run outing in a victory against Charlotte, improving his overall record to 3-1, 3.47 with 55 strikeouts and 21 walks in 49 innings. Quite impressively, Archer has given up just 15 hits and 12 walks over 35 innings since the start of May."
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Hopefully, Archer will stay healthy, progress and make the Derosa trade look better down the road ...
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DeRosa is making the DeRosa trade look better.
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... than it did at the time of the trade.
Agree that the Cubs would not be better off today with an injured DeRosa on their roster, but the whole Aaron Miles free form jazz odyssey of 2009 still gives me the shits.
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The floor is more valuable than the ceiling. It's the same reason we drafted Kris Bryant instead of Jon Gray.
Apparently the Yankees had the choice of either Gleyber Torres or Eloy Jimenez in the Chapman deal, and they chose Torres.
Chapman shouldn't be reserved anymore on 40 man.
Interesting split on Heyward according to ESPN. As a CF, his slash line .292/.363/.375/.738. At RF: .212/.204/.300/.604. 21/72 as a CF, 58/273 as a RF.
He's also been better when batting 2nd, but he had a nice start in the 6 hole, but has slumped ever since. He was heating up before the All Star break, but is only hitting .108 in the 2nd half.
When we played the Reds with Chapman, I always thought of it as an eight-inning game. So now other teams have eight innings to try to get a lead against the Cubs. Should be a challenge, assuming three or four Cubs ever start hitting again.
I don't really try to get to know and like these players personally. I'm rooting for laundry, for the most part. Exceptions might be when a player makes trouble in the clubhouse or in the dugout. (Zambrano and Bradley come to mind. Also Papelbon.) But I don't think Chapman is one of those jerks.
Unfortunately, a pretty good summary. It looks like next year Heyward will be getting yet another batting stance adjustment.
The recent good news has been Baez. I'm afraid about the next league adjustment on him, though, which is probably right around the corner.
Bryant I don't worry about too much. Just not seeing the ball well right now. He'll turn it around. Russell's been good with men in scoring position all year and he's 22ish. He'll be fine but next year is likely to be his breakout year.
If Travis' back-to-back-to-back walks cost Hendricks the ERA title, that would really suck.
Edit: "A lifeless loss to a lousy Sox team."
This place is a real downer after a loss to the Sox.
I expect they will go 5-9 games above .500 the rest of the year. 96-98 wins will win the Division.
They should have one more 2-3 week hot streak in them.
However, several players are just "average" for the last month: Zobrist, Ross, Russell, Ceasar. Montero is terrible, plus he cannot throw anyone out. -WAR. Heyward is abysmal at the plate, but a plus in the OF. Still with RISP he has been terrible. KB has not been driving in runs as of late. But Apparently the team is still above average with RISP according to S Sahadev.
I came to that realization tonight. I kept expecting them to play better, but now I realize they aren't going to. They are a .500 team now.
- They have one reliable starting pitcher. Jake's magic is gone, and it doesn't look like it's coming back. Lester has been lousy recently. Lackey's ERA goes up every time he pitches.
- Heyward has been dead weight all year. I can't remember a single series where he was a significant offensive contributor. Not one. Great defense, but but if he were hitting .270 with 10 HR and played average defense, the Cubs would be better off.
new rule...no one's allowed to throw k.bryant a changeup
Team is .500 since early May and is playing like a .500 team. Lack of offense seems to be putting a lot of pressure on the pitchers...and they aren't handling it terribly well.
.500 the rest of the way still may win the division though.
...i hate espn.
nothing like settling into a cubs game to get a few minutes cutaway for an ortiz AB in the 6th inning of the det/bos game.
oh, at least they're doing split screen now...i guess.
I'm liking this rookie Nathan.
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Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! THAT is what I love to see, or rather, hear, is something good from one of this community. Keep it up, this is top 5 material.
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This is a pretty fantastic bit of music. Excellent arrangement and melody.
I only wish the piano didn't sound so fake.
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Central European Journal of Geosciences
, Volume 5, Issue 4, pp 560-569
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Utilization of a comparison of curvatures for land surface segmentation
- Libor BurianAffiliated withFaculty of Natural sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava Email author
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Utilization of a new geomorphometric variable for land surface segmentation — the angle of absolute curvatures — is a main goal of the paper. The angle of absolute curvatures is defined as the difference between the orientation of maximal curvature (field independent) and the orientation of the greater of the profile or the tangential curvature. Land-forms separated by three types of borders (A, B, C) can be delimited from the field of angles of absolute curvatures. Borders of A type are connected with a local extreme of slope. Borders of B and C type are connected with a change to the priority of either profile or tangential curvature, as shown in computation, respectively. Fields of altitude, slope, profile curvature, tangential curvature and rotor curvature are reflected by an algorithm. Distinct borders in the field of the angles of absolute curvatures are connected with a sudden change of value and with zero isolines in the previously mentioned fields. Spatially closed entities generated by this proposed algorithm are considered to be a variant of the elementary forms of the land surface. The quality of information generated by this algorithm depends on the size of the grid mesh of the input digital elevation model. The algorithm in its current state is suitable for locating the borders of some elementary forms in the first stage of geomorphology mapping.
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- Utilization of a comparison of curvatures for land surface segmentation
- Journal
Central European Journal of Geosciences
Volume 5, Issue 4 , pp 560-569
- Cover Date
- 2013-12
- 10.2478/s13533-012-0143-6
- Print ISSN
- 2081-9900
- Online ISSN
- 1896-1517
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- Springer Vienna
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- Libor Burian (1)
- Jozef Minár (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Faculty of Natural sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia


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Michael Hague illustrates this volume brilliantly.
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Before I get to the reveal I would like to thank Linda for once again inviting me to be a part of this wonderful group of women! Also, thank you to everyone who stopped by and left comments throughout the process. It is always helpful to hear from ya'll.
When I started this project, my goal was to turn this room into a soothing retreat. Part of the plan included painting the walls and bookcase backs a warm gray. We also wanted the built-ins to have a more custom look. So we added trim detail and it made all the difference.
When it came to styling the shelves I tried to use restraint and not put everything back that was there previously. I think my edited approach worked to create a somewhat simpler space.
We took down the huge wood framed mirror that came with the dresser and hung this gold one in its place. It did wonders for lightening things up!
And now for the gallery wall...I'm so glad you all suggested that the TV be mounted on the wall! I was somewhat against it, but I'm really happy with how this turned out. I decided to keep the frames white and really like the simplicity.
Last but not least is the window seat. I brought in the striped pillows from another room and in a last minute crunch found the ikat pillow at a local store. I already had the knit throw and basket. Love shopping the house!
I'll be back tomorrow to share sources from this project. Now let's go see some amazing transformations...


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Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz is an American entrepreneur and author. She is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a non-profit global venture capital fund whose goal is to use entrepreneurial approaches to address global poverty. Acumen has invested over $90 million of patient capital in 80 businesses that have impacted more than 125 million people in the past year. Any money returned to Acumen is reinvested in enterprises serving the poor. Currently, Acumen has offices in New York, Mumbai, Karachi, Nairobi, and Accra.
Early life[edit]
Jacqueline Novogratz was born in the U.S., the eldest of seven children. She is a graduate from the University of Virginia where she studied Economics and International Relations and has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The title of her book, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, was inspired by an encounter she had while in Kigali, Rwanda. During a routine jog in her early 20's, Novogratz spotted a boy who was wearing a distinct blue sweater that upon closer inspection, turned out to be the same blue sweater she had donated to her local Goodwill a decade earlier. That blue sweater, with its decorations of a snow-capped mountain, two zebras and stripes, had her name on it. This encounter led Novogratz to realize the interconnectedness of our world, which influences her work today.
Novogratz started her career at Chase Manhattan Bank as an international credit analyst. After three years, she left banking to explore how to make a bigger difference in the world. This led her to work throughout Africa as a consultant for the World Bank and for UNICEF. As a UNICEF consultant in Rwanda in the late 1980s, she helped found Duterimbere, Rwanda's first microfinance institution. Novogratz also founded and directed The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next Generation Leadership programs at the Rockefeller Foundation before starting Acumen in 2001. Under Novogratz's leadership, Acumen has grown to serve 125 million people a year through its investments of patient capital in businesses that provide low-income people with critical goods and services.[1] She also oversaw the creation of Acumen's year-long Fellowship program that aims to build the next generation of leadership for the social sector.[2]
Novogratz currently serves on the advisory boards of Stanford Graduate School of Business and of Innovations (journal) published by MIT Press. She also serves on the Aspen Institute Board of Trustees and as a member of a World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[3]
In 2010, Jacqueline Novogratz was honored as the 2010 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) for her work with Acumen as well as for her New York Times bestseller The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, published in 2009.[4] In early March 2010, she received an honorary degree from Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Such mark of recognition of her work in Kenya inspired her to establish a book club for The Blue Sweater, using the school's honorarium to create "The Blue Sweater Challenge." The program allows young organizers from the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, who have hosted both "The Blue Sweater book club" and a TEDx in the Kibera slum, to identify and award three local groups who are doing the most to effect positive social change in their communities.[5]
In 2009, Novogratz published the New York Times bestseller The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World. The book is a firsthand account of her journey from international banker to social entrepreneur and founder of Acumen. Since its publication, the book has been picked by the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Peace College as common reading for all incoming freshmen.[6]
Jacqueline Novogratz is married to Chris Anderson, the curator of TED. She has three step-daughters, Elizabeth, Anna, and Zoe (1986-2010). Her brothers are Michael Novogratz, the president of investment management firm Fortress Investment Group, and Robert Novogratz, a designer who has been profiled in the Bravo television show 9 by Design.
Awards and fellowships[edit]
- Bloomberg Markets 50 Most Influential in Global Finance, 2014
- 25 Most Successful Stanford Business School Graduates of All Time
- University of Virginia Distinguished Alumna Award, 2013[7]
- Middlebury College CSE Vision Award, along with an honorary doctorate by the college, 2013[8]
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Entrepreneur of the Year Award, 2010
- Wofford College's Sandor Teszler Award for Moral Courage and Service to Humankind in Spartanburg, SC, along with an honorary doctorate by the college, 2010
- Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers, 2009[9]
- Daily Beast's 25 Smartest People of the Decade, 2009[10]
- CASE Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award, 2009
- AWNY's Changing the Game Award, 2009
- Ernst & Young Metro New York Entrepreneur of the Year 2008
- Rockefeller Foundation Warren Weaver Fellow
- Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow
- Synergos Institute Senior Fellow
- Honorary Doctor of Science degree, University of Notre Dame[11]
- ^ http://www.acumen.org/areyouready/
- ^ http://www.acumen.org/fellows.html
- ^ http://www.acumenfund.org/about-us/our-team/jacqueline-novogratz.html
- ^ http://lallyschool.rpi.edu/2010EOY
- ^ Novogratz, Jacqueline (10 March 2010). "The Blue Sweater Challenge: Inspiring Social Change in Kenya". Huffington Post.
- ^ http://provost.uncc.edu/read/ & http://store.peace.edu/peacecollegesummerreading-thebluesweaterbyjacquelinenovogratz.aspx
- ^ Bromley, Anne. "From Accidental Banker to 'Patent Capital Leader'". UVa Today. University of Virginia. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^ Vision Award | Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Middlebury.edu (2015-08-13). Retrieved on 2015-08-13.
- ^ http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/30/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,31
- ^ "The 25 Smartest People of the Decade". The Daily Beast.
- ^ University of Notre Dame. "Honorary Degree". Retrieved 20 June 2011.
External links[edit]
- Acumen Fund Website
- The Blue Sweater
- Jacqueline Novogratz at TED
- Investing in the World's Poor Stanford Graduate School of Business, May 2007
- Philanthropy and Development in Emerging Markets, Business Week, March 2, 2009
- Hard Lessons Learnt in the War on Poverty, Financial Times, February 24, 2009
- Developing Entrepreneurship among the World's Poorest The McKinsey Quarterly, March 2009
- Jacqueline Novogratz and Deepak Chopra Podcast
- The Patient Capitalist The Economist, May 21, 2009
- Podcast Interview with Jacqueline Novogratz Social Innovation Conversations, April 6, 2009
- "Hard Choices: Jacqueline Novogratz," BusinessWeek, October 7, 2010
- Living people
- American chief executives of financial services companies
- American economics writers
- American financial analysts
- American financial company founders
- American nonprofit chief executives
- American venture capitalists
- American women chief executives
- Businesspeople from New York City
- Social entrepreneurs
- Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
- University of Virginia alumni
- William Peace University alumni
- World Bank people
- Writers from New York City
- Women financial analysts
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Recipe spotlight: Bluesman's B and B Muffins
Published: Monday, April 30, 2012 at 3:25 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 30, 2012 at 3:25 p.m.
Bluesman's B and B Muffins
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons milled flaxseed
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
4-1/2 tablespoons olive oil
6 tablespoons water
2/3 cup amber agave nectar
3 ripe bananas
3/4 cup walnuts
1 cup blueberries
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Whisk together whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, milled flaxseed, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a bowl and set aside.
Combine olive oil, water and agave nectar.
Mash bananas and add to the oil mixture.
Add the flour mixture to the oil-banana mixture and combine thoroughly.
Gently mix in the walnuts and blueberries until all are combined.
Spoon mixture into nine, 2-1/2-inch large paper-lined muffin tins.
Bake for 30 minutes to 35 minutes and check for doneness with a toothpick.
Remove from tins and cool on baker's rack.
Makes nine muffins.
— Recipe submitted by Patrick C. Dunbar of Houma.
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text: On 08/03/2010 08:35 PM, Kenneth Lundin wrote: > > If we can find a suitable name we could also introduce new functions > with arity 2 and 3 > replacing gen_server:call/2 and 3. > > Some suggestions on names are: > call2 > call_ex (following the style in the Windows API) > call_nt/2 (nt standing for no timeout, but does that make sense for a > call_nt/3 where the third > argument is the timout in seconds or infinity) > > Suggestions on names are welcome. gen_server:rpc/2? (It might confuse some into thinking that it is only used for distributed communication, but this should pass quickly. :) gen_server:req/2 (as in 'request')? or... gen_server:synch/2 gen_server:asynch/2 (corresponding to cast/2) BR, Ulf W