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QUESTION #7: Tommy has led this team now for a year and a half and has come out victorious more often than not. The team rallied around him after Crist's injury in 2010, then again after Crist's benching in 2011.
Would starting Golson have negative ripple effects in the locker room?
Steve Herring (Team Golson): Switching quarterbacks is something I have lengthy experience with as a player (for better & worse). I played offensive line on teams that made an offseason or in-season QB change with the incumbent still on the roster in High School, Junior College and at I-AA Wagner. When I think about those times … well actually, the situations are rather unmemorable. It happened, we played football. The end.
We talk about how Brian Kelly sees 99% more of these players than we do; that applies tenfold to their teammates who see them play, prep for games, interact outside of practice with teammates, and everything involved with living on campus (not that I'm referencing anything particular). They eat together, study together, chase co-eds together and talk about coaches, practices, games, and teammates for hours at a time. The reason I mention this is because when a change is made at any position, they all have seen it coming in some regard. Trust me – it's been discussed by them as much as us.
Reality – the world athletes live in is much different from our own. They are competing for their spot every day. Their best friend is too. The teammate they can't stand is. The guy they think is underused is. The guy they think is overused as well. Battling for their playing time is part of their day-to-day. If a player lets the change at QB affect their own play or attitude then the team has a bigger problem.
Notre Dame Football isn't a Disney movie. If Golson is named the starter no player in Blue & Gold is sacrificing their own Saturday playing time in protest. Manti Te'o isn't laying his jersey on Kelly's desk and proclaiming, "For Tommy coach". ("You're an All-American and our Captain! Act like it!" …) The team is going to accept the coach's decision in their own way and each player will keep working to get on the field. Period. In Tommy's defense, I would expect his teammates might call this decision slightly more memorable than I remember my own.
Tyler Moorehead (Team Rees): I don't think that the locker room consequences of starting someone other than Tommy would be catastrophic, but I don't think it would be a very popular decision either. It is absolutely true that the team has rallied around Tommy Rees and views him as a winner. Has he made his mistakes? You bet. But in his freshman campaign he took a sinking ship and made it float, and then was seen as a savior yet again after he had to step in for Dayne Crist. He has been the shot in the arm for the Irish time and time again.
Players definitely take note of this, and while they trust the coaching staff to make the right decision, they definitely have their own preferences as well. It was just a year ago that Michael Floyd was urging Brian Kelly to make Tommy Rees the starter , and I would say that Floyd's opinion is one that should be valued. The fact that Floyd was confident enough in Rees to speak out is A) a testament to Rees' ability, B) evidence that he commands the respect of his teammates, and C) evidence that players are going to make their preferences known.
The reason players having preferences is exceptionally important this year is that almost all ND's big receiving targets are likely in Tommy's camp. As discussed yesterday, Tyler Eifert already has excellent chemistry with Tommy, and Tommy Rees has been roommates with both TJ Jones and Robby Toma previously, both of whom are figured to be heavily involved in this year's passing attack.
Now, this isn't to say that Tommy Rees should be named the starter simply because he is well-liked or friends with the receivers, but it is definitely something that does not hurt his cause. Knowing that your teammates trust and have faith in you is a huge confidence boost. That, combined with the fact that he has been a spark the last two years, bodes well for Tommy Rees.
QUESTION #8: The Irish are expected to try to pound opponents on the ground this year. Does this have a signficant effect on which quarterback is chosen, or does it give either guy an advantage?
Steve Herring (Team Golson): The short and long answer here is – Yes. Stop me if I've mentioned this before: of these two quarterbacks, only one can run the option. The option game with a running threat at QB sets up backs and puts defenders out of position. In 2012, the running game in general should be setting up the entire offense and starting Everett Golson should give it the needed jump start into the ranks of rushing elite.
Last round we discussed ND utilizing schemes like the Oregon Ducks to take advantage of defenses and their deep backfield depth chart. I hope Irish fans realize how far the run game would need to go in order to approach Chip Kelly's atmosphere and his mastery of multiple backs. Oregon has averaged nearly 4,000 Rushing Yards and 42 touchdowns per season in 2010, 2011. Under Brian Kelly, Notre Dame has 3,731 Rushing Yards and 36 Rushing Touchdowns in two seasons … COMBINED. The difference is the Ducks averaging over 6 Yards/Carry and the Irish under 4.5 Yards/Carry. To get over 3,000 on the season ND would need to total 70 more yards rushing per game and to touch Oregon add 150 yards/game to ND's 2011 totals. Tell me how Rees passing 38 times/game helps this happen.
I don't think it's a reach to say Notre Dame's 2012 stable of running backs compares to what Oregon has worked with of late and Notre Dame could get themselves in that 3,000 rushing yards club with Golson leading the way. It would be beautiful to see defenses separate on simple stretch handoffs because of concern for Golson's legs or witness backside rushing lanes appear as the DE spies contain on the inside hand-off. These types of numbers are a near impossibility with Rees taking snaps and closing the field down on our backs.
One area where Rees has been mostly solid is making line of scrimmage checks into quality run plays. There is valid concern that Golson cannot replicate some of these adjustments and that is fair. Where we counter is his ability to check into plays that Tommy cannot himself. In every series and every game Tommy Rees can't take what the defense gives him on plays where Everett Golson can. In my humble opinion, that outweighs the portion of playbook Rees has a better handle on.
It's getting drilled home at this point, but the ceilings are absurdly higher now, and later, for Everett Golson in the run and pass game. As he gains that experience on fall Saturdays there could be no limit to how much he could improve the careers of Wood, Riddick, GAIII, Carlisle, Mahone, Russell, Neal, and more. More importantly there is no telling how many more W's could be piled up and that is the only stat we're really counting, right?
Tyler Moorehead (Team Rees): First off, no matter WHO is named quarterback, it is fantastic for the Irish that they will have a great offensive line and strong running game to rely on. The running game is any quarterback's best friend. That being said, I think that because of the presence of a strong running game, Rees is the better choice for several reasons.
For starters, Tommy Rees' pre-snap reads are second to none on the team. He knows where his players are supposed to be, and lines them up accordingly. He is pretty good at identifying what defenses are going to do in advance, and has shown good capability and willingness to change the play at the line to get into something that works if he does not like what he is seeing. Many times last year he audibled into runs on key third downs and it paid off as he found where the holes in the defense would be.
And why were his audibles from passes to runs so effective? Plain and simple, because all he does is pass. Golson supporters will argue over and over that the blueprint for how to stop Tommy is out, and that you beat him by dropping 7 or 8 players into coverage and making him force throws. Defenses know that if they do not drop so many back, there is a good chance that Tommy leads a march down the field. But if they are going to just sit back, the Irish rushing attack is going to absolutely dominate this year. Teams will have to pick their poison whether to respect Tommy's arm and drop guys back, or stack the box and let him throw wild.
Defenses will absolutely not respect Everett's arm as a newcomer. Therefore teams will stack the box and really make him prove that he can beat them. Additionally, if teams DO drop 7+ guys into coverage on third down, Golson just isn't ready to change the play the same way that Rees is.
Absolutely, the presence of the running game is going to benefit the quarterback regardless of who is in. But Tommy Rees' style, combined with the rushing attack, forces defenses to keep guessing. They are more likely to be exposed in bad schemes, because Rees' pre-snap abilities allow him to take advantage of whatever he is facing.
(Bell Rings – End of Round 4 – We can attest both fighters are exhausted)
For the 5th & Final round the questions will take a completely different, fresher turn. Only so many times we can say Tommy is experienced and Golson is talented. It will be worth the final look.
Please continue judging the rounds for yourself below. It's looking like it will go the full five.
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17 Responses to "Tommy Rees v. Everett Golson Rd 4: How The Run Game & Locker Room Affect Notre Dame's QB Decision"
1. "He has been the shot in the arm for the Irish time and time again." He has been lousy, time and time again. More bad games than good. And ZERO good games against good teams.
2. Why does everyone accept the blather that "he makes good calls and checks us into good plays"?
How do any of us know what play he was checking OUT of? This is blather perpetrated by Kelly to justify his decision to play this guy, and the media, fans and you guys lap it up like it's gospel. Let me ask you this: If he's always checking us into good plays, why is the offense so below average with him at QB?
No TDs with Rees vs. USC
No TDs with Rees vs. Stanford
1 TD with Rees vs. FSUHis performances against weak sisters like Maryland and Wake weren't all that great either. He stunk against Pitt. I could go on. Point is STOP THE NONSENSE about him checking us into good plays. I don't buy it.
Darron Thomas of Oregon is 6'3" and he excelled in that offense because he made instant decisions at the line that were usually right. Pretty retarded that he went to the NFL cuz he probably has no shot at doing anything. Golson is probably like 5'9" you guys saying he'll do some of the same things are not getting it.
Hendrix is at least 6'1" and ran the option in HS. If ND is going to score like Oregon then he's the right dude for the damn job. Then it's onto Kiel running that spread like Weeden. Yeah I said it. Kiel to Daniels and Chris Brown bitches.
What did Tommy audible to when that cop told him to stop walking? Went about as well as the pooch punt against Stanford.
There was an update in here since the morning. The link in Tyler's comments about Michael wanting Tommy as QB are now this:
Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but it's a little more direct in saying Tommy & Mike were good off the field. More specifically is OC Charley Molnar saying "Dayne DID (have a good relationship with Michael Floyd) too" just days after USF. "DID". Poorly chosen I'd think.
I'm not one to defend Tommy here, but it must be mentioned that this theory came straight from Jonas Gray's mouth after the Maryland game. Fair to expect that Tommy is somewhat ahead of other QBs in the in-game checks but the point of emphasis is that I think that advantage can be negated in the short and long term.
I disagree wholeheartedly with the idea that because we have a strong running game defenses would have to pick their poison as to whether they want to stack the box or drop 7-8 guys into coverage. Nick Saban has a really easy answer for that, and its called the Zone Blitz. Show a 5-6 man rush at the line and then drop 2 of them back into coverage at the snap and Rees' checks are often voided. Especially since they'll be dropping into zone and not man coverage like you would expect on most zero blitz schemes. The point here is that there is too much value placed on checks at the line for Tommy. Just because he can check into a HB Sweep from a PA Rollout doesnt mean defenses will be stumped. I would sooner believe that defenses would be on their toes more having to anticipate whether Golson is going to check into a Speed Option, Read Option or PA Pass just because he actually poses the threat to bust open huge runs.
RD 4 – Golson. (see where im going with this by now?)
We're on the same page entirely. 7-8 guys in coverage against Rees is a differnt defense than 7-8 guys in coverage against Golson and it has nothing to do with respecting his deep game and everything to do with respecting his running ability. His threat makes bigger rushes and passes possible on every single snap of the football.
Love the Saban reference. Maybe should have used Bama's run defense as an ND measuring stick over Oregon's absurd stats the past two years which are highly attainable with this schedule I'd think.
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Floyd passed that ball to himself about 15 times against FSU and it was so badly thrown by Tommy that it caused him to get injured and cost us the game. Hendrix will fire those right in there.
Big Jonas fan. Remember when Mayock said after the USF fumble he'd likely never play again in 2012?? haha. Why the hell can't we get Gus Johnson on that NBC game?? Goddam Hammonds reflects what America thinks of this team. Old, slow, and boring as hell.
I bet commits would come just to hear Gus Johnson call their TDs for their highlight reel. Madden knows what they're doing and ND's board should take notice before it's too late.
Excellent point Marcus, about Everett being miniscule. People have dogged Tommy about his size, but Everett is legitimately only like 5′ 10″, 185 lbs. ANY of the other QBs are able to withstand hits better, and furthermore, Golson may not even be able to see over the line by the time he's a senior (recruits that are 6′ 7″, 6′ 8″, and 6′ 9″ already). Only half joking there.
What percentage of plays would Golson be sitting back in a 3-5-7 step drop? 5%? Maybe. Dude will be rolling out, Play Actioning, optionging, and keeping everything on it's toes.
Gr8shane if Tommy can't read the zone blitz you speak of there is no way in hell Golson will read it!
Saban? how'd that zone blitz work in the NFL?? We sure as hell won't ever know cuz he skipped town like a joke. Zone, man, whatever. Hendrix is gonna light it up this year and if not it's Kiel Kiel Kiel. I know plenty of people that were at the Maryland game and they all said the same shit – Tommy can't cut it but ND had more talent than they expected everywhere else.
Don't even get me started on this dude Randy Esdall. How the hell we lost to that uconn team he coached is pathetic. Whole goddam team hates his guts. I hope it's not like that with Kelly if he lets Tommy get another shot. damn i hope not.
Can I say I'm kinda surprised that nobody commented on my sweet "Just Hand Off The Ball" pic with our backfield boys … I mean, c'mon!
First off, get your facts straight. I am a current student at ND and Golson is 6′ even, while Hendrix is all of 6'3. Golson is also the best natural athlete I have ever seen/competed against. His speed and agility is unmatched on that roster.
Kelly would be smart to employ a two QB set with Golson easily evading pressure with his slippery athleticism and Hendrix pounding LB's with his powerful drive. Both have strong, NFL arms, and it would be a total waste for one of them to rot on the bench all season.
With that said, I think Golson should get the majority of the snaps (as evidenced by his strong spring game performance). Not only would he standout at QB, but Mike Brey would be wise to try and get this kid into a bball uniform because he would be better than anybody on that roster as well.
"Competed against". Where did you compete against Everett Golson? Football? Bookstore basketball?


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When Dodge's original Durango debuted for the 1998 model year, it offered "just-right" sizing: more spacious than the ubiquitous Ford Explorer, more manageable than the full-size Ford Expedition. For 2004, the second-generation Durango arrived with the same mission--to cover the middle ground between popular segments. The current Durango is bigger and more powerful than the vehicle it replaced, and it's still larger than the Explorer and less cumbersome than the Expedition. The Durango is offered in five flavors: ST, STX, SLT, Limited, and Adventurer, each bringing to the upper-mid-size-SUV market a compelling array of powertrain options and intelligent packaging borrowed from the Chrysler Group's well-loved minivans.
Dodge stylists drew upon both the Peterbilt-inspired look of the original Durango and the current Ram pickup when designing the current Durango exterior, creating a tall, boxy vehicle with shortened overhangs, crisp edges, and a minivan-esque rear. Gazing out over that big-rig-style front end is an instant power trip (and, conversely, the view of that front end looming in your rearview mirror can be more than a little intimidating). Despite the driver's elevated vantage point, however, outward visibility isn't the best: An high beltline and tree-trunklike A-, B-, and C-pillars obscure large swaths of the view, which can make piloting the Durango--especially in city environments--more challenging than other midsize models. As with most large SUVs, loading people and cargo requires a fair amount of hefting, thanks to a high step-in and an even higher cargo-area liftover.
The Durango ST and STX feature standard seating for five; SLT, Limited, and Adventurer models include a third row (solid bench or optional 50/50-split bench) that ups the passenger capacity to seven. Unfortunately, the aft seat doesn't quite fold flat, diminishing effective cargo space. From the driver's seat, the Durango's user-friendly dashboard layout recalls those of Dodge's lauded minivans: instruments are bright and legible, and controls and switchgear are smartly arrayed. The materials used in the passenger compartment are durable if not luxurious, and fit and finish are fairly good, yet not quite at the level of those in Ford's Explorer and Expedition.


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Seattle's bread bakers blend science and art for those perfect loaves
Great bread bakers are fascinated with fermentation and the endless possibilities inherent in the modest marriage of flour, water, yeast and salt.
Seattle Times food writer
MICHAEL SANDERS is an alchemist, obsessed with a loaf of bread: the one he mixes, nurtures, shapes and bakes in the quiet of the kitchen at The Corson Building in Georgetown.
You'll find him there most mornings, alone.
On a good day he bakes 50 loaves, each bronzed batard weighing roughly two pounds.
Hoist one and admire its crust, a study in rusticity and caramelization. Slice it and watch the crust shatter into shards. Smell it, and revel in the aroma coaxed, over time, from a sourdough starter whose wild yeasts are plucked from the air. Taste it and marvel at an impossibly moist crumb that needs no butter.
Know, if only for the moment, that man could live by bread alone.
Like every great bread baker — and Seattle has many — Sanders is fascinated with fermentation and the endless possibilities inherent in the modest marriage of flour, water, yeast and salt.
"For me, it's complicated," he says of his relationship with the ancient ingredients that define his artisanal loaf, sold to a lucky few at Sitka & Spruce in Melrose Market. "On the surface, it's so simple." In reality, "there's a million things to learn about that one loaf of bread."
One loaf. That's how it begins.
One loaf, crafted by your own hand, perfected until Seattle comes clamoring for it, insisting you make more, then more, and still more until you grow out of your corner of the kitchen, set yourself up in a bakeshop, hire a night baker and a day baker and a lead baker and a general manager and a sales manager and a wholesale manager who needs another van and more warehouse space.
It's enough to have you standing in an alley outside your bread kitchen, cellphone in hand, crying for help. Which is exactly what Leslie Mackie did in 2006 when she realized, with Macrina Bakery & Cafe, she'd become a victim of her own success.
The Realist
Leslie Mackie was 29, a Portland native, San Francisco culinary-school grad, accomplished Boston pastry chef and obsessed Los Angeles bread baker when she came to Seattle in 1989 hoping to persuade Tom Douglas to open a bakery — and hire her.
"Even then," says Mackie, "Tom was the man of all ideas." One of them involved opening a restaurant and bakery. (Later that year, Douglas' first restaurant, Dahlia Lounge, made its downtown debut. Dahlia Bakery followed in 2001.)
Over coffee at Pike Place Market, "Tom said he wasn't quite ready to do this project," Mackie recalls. "He told me to look elsewhere." And so the pixie baker walked to Pioneer Square to stroll the streets, admire the architecture and imagine a life in Seattle.
That's when "elsewhere" appeared. It smelled like cinnamon rolls.
Mackie had stumbled into Grand Central Bakery, her résumé in her handbag.
Born in 1972 as "The Bakery," Grand Central was the newly launched vision of co-founder Gwen Bassetti, whose Earth-muffin sandwich shop and pastry stop in the old Grand Central Hotel building had recently been rejuvenated, remodeled and renamed. Fueled by San Francisco's artisan bread movement and the European ideal of a crusty Italian loaf, the shop's signature Como bread was baked in the basement in a newly acquired hearth oven.
Mackie was awe-struck: "First, I saw the cinnamon rolls, but down on the bottom of the case was a really rustic loaf. They said they made it there. I said, 'You're kidding! This is the bread I'm doing: I want to work here!' "
Within a week she was on the 2 a.m. shift, training with Tomas Solis, a consultant imported from San Francisco to create Grand Central's bread program. "I had a lot of baking experience," Mackie says, "but I had never run anything that was just bread."
She ran a lot faster after Solis returned to San Francisco — and The Seattle Times restaurant critic John Hinterberger wrote a public love letter to the Como loaf. Grand Central Bakery was on the map.
With Bassetti running the business and Mackie as head baker, "I'd work from 2 a.m. to noon, stay 'til 2 p.m. and try to get to bed by 6 so I could get eight hours of sleep," Mackie says. There were times when she'd bolt out of bed, jump in the shower, then realize she'd been bit by the baker's curse: "It was 7 o'clock. I'd only been asleep an hour."
Despite the Como's clarion call, educating a city that worshipped at the altar of Gai's French rolls was no cakewalk. Customers complained her loaves were burnt. Or stale. Or overbaked. "We'd have to tell them, 'This dark crust is flavor. Those holes aren't incorrect. That is what we're looking for.'"
Mackie today insists, "what we were doing was not off-the-charts unusual: it was just delicious, crusty bread."
Bread that some of the city's best restaurants began to proudly put on their tables. Bread that rose beyond the confines of Pioneer Square to encompass an expansive new wholesale operation on East Marginal Way. Mackie was involved in the planning and the layout, she recalls. "And then we made our big move."
Soon after, she made hers.
Macrina Bakery opened in August 1993 in an 847-square-foot storefront in burgeoning Belltown.
On the ground floor of a new condo complex, Mackie installed a French Bongard oven, a commercial mixer, an espresso machine and an antique display case. Bread was the focus, pastries a sweetener. A handful of employees worked alongside her in cramped quarters — their efforts visible through a big window onto First Avenue.
"I thought, if it's going to be my own, I'm going to have a small layout so it can't get too big," Mackie says. "I went into it with the idea the bakery would be part of my life — not my entire life."
A year later, she expanded into the store next door, adding a sit-down cafe, doubling capacity and advancing her wholesale bread business. "My first customers were my friends," Mackie remembers: "Tom at the Dahlia, Tamara Murphy at Campagne, Scott Carsberg at Lampreia, Marco's Supperclub — places we could walk to."
Restaurants' standing orders were handwritten on index cards and stowed in a recipe box; Mackie used them to calculate the amount of dough needed for specific breads.
As business increased, space became tighter. She formed bread in the daytime and hired a night shift to bake, cursing the summer sun that streamed through the bakeshop window and the lack of refrigerator space that stymied efforts to proof and retard bread dough.
In 1997, Mackie leased a basement a block away and built a new plant. At 4,000 square feet, "it felt like a football field." And preparing for the expansion, Mackie knew she had to take one for the team, moving to the business side, hiring a lead baker and delegating more to her managers.
"Getting out of production was the hardest thing in the world," Mackie insists. "But it was the natural progression. And in that role I had to learn how to articulate my passion through other people's hands."
Two of those hands belonged to Phuong Hoang Bui.
A Vietnamese immigrant, Bui was one of the first dishwashers at the original Macrina. By 2001, when Mackie opened a second bakery/cafe on Queen Anne Hill, he was managing 20 bread bakers in Belltown.
Today, Bui is the maestro behind Macrina's bread and pastry department, overseeing a crew of 70. All but a handful are native Vietnamese who each month transform 100,000 pounds of flour and 8,000 pounds of butter into the breads, sweets and savories that provide a paycheck for nearly 200 employees.
As a team, the production crew works 24/7 at the company's sprawling Sodo bakery, a LEED-certified flagship fronted by a handsome cafe.
The culmination of Mackie's vision for Macrina, it opened in 2008 — a year after she forged a partnership with Matt Galvin, Pat McCarthy and Pat McDonald, the investors whose holdings include two other iconic Seattle brands: Pagliacci Pizza and DeLaurenti. A fifth partner, Scott France, is in charge of wholesale operations and manages a sales force of seven.
Together, they're considering another cafe location, perhaps on the Eastside. And they're running low on production space in Sodo, expecting it won't be long before they'll need to lease more real estate to support endeavors like their partnership with Overlake Hospital Medical Center, serving Macrina products to 18,000 patients each month. Meanwhile, "We continue to ask ourselves, 'How do we keep doing what we're doing?' " says Galvin, the lifeline Mackie called from the alley in 2006.
"What we're not doing," Galvin says, "is thinking about how to shrink from 200 employees to five so we can have big machines do the work."
The Scientist
Evan Andres thinks about the mechanics — and the challenges — of running a successful small bakery every day.
His Columbia City Bakery, open since 2005, is a magnet for neighbors who gather for pastries and coffee, while his breads get marquee status at Seattle's most-talked-about restaurants, where patrons pay a premium to eat it.
A Berkeley transplant, Andres grew up among San Francisco Bay Area bread winners like Metropolis Baking Company, where he first learned his trade, or at least tried to.
"At Metropolis," he says, "I was learning from bakers who'd been working there only a few months longer than me." Seduced by the science, he'd pepper his cohorts with questions: "They'd say, 'We do this because this is what we do. We call it that, because that's what it's called.' No one knew what a biga was, or what that meant," he says of the traditional starter dough used in small quantities to produce a secondary fermentation. They just knew that "it needed to ferment for this amount of time before we added it to that dough."
But why? he'd wonder.
He found answers in stacks of bread books, chief among them "The Italian Baker" by Carol Field. And by hanging on the every word of mentors like Didier Rosada, whose intensive class he'd taken through the national bread-bakers guild in Minneapolis.
A master baker, Rosada lit a fire in Andres' oven, explaining the difference between a French poolish and an Italian biga, and how variations of time and temperature, flour and water, conspire to confound — or enchant. With that schooling, says Andres, "I became more science-driven than ever."
But it was Leslie Mackie who showed him the spiritual side of the craft.
"Leslie was really into the magic of it all, the bread gods, the intuitive side of things," says Andres, who flew to Seattle for an interview in 1997 and relocated a week later, stepping into Mackie's clogs as her lead baker.
"She was so intuitive it drove me crazy, and it took me awhile to understand it, to appreciate it, but it comes around to this: You can study the science of it all, but that doesn't mean you can bake a good loaf of bread."
Leading a team of fewer than a dozen bread-bakers, he lived and breathed bread at Macrina, marrying art with science, learning along the way.
"I told myself, 'If only I could know as much as Leslie knew!' and asked myself, 'How did I get someone like Leslie to hire someone who didn't know anything?' "
The answer, says Mackie, is that she saw in him a young talent whose ambition made up for his brief resume, a guy enamored with bread baking, possessing a need to excel.
In a way, she saw herself.
But after two-plus years at Macrina, with Mackie intent on building her business, Andres began to mourn the loss of a mentor. "I longed to know more, and the only way to do that was to go someplace else."
He left to study baking in Europe, spent six months at Ballard's Tall Grass Bakery, and for three years was lead baker for Tom Douglas' restaurants.
Today, in a tiny office above a compact bakery, he finds himself torn by his greatest challenge: remaining small and putting as few hands as possible on Columbia City's product while keeping up with the demand for it.
"Bread can change depending on who's mixing it, who's baking it, who's deciding the next step: when to divide it, when to shape it," says the baker, whose workday might begin at 4 a.m. and last until 8 at night.
Pointing to a batch of baguettes with imperfect slashes, causing an inconsistent rise, Andres posits, "If we're standing side-by-side, I can explain what I want this loaf to look and taste like when it's done. But if I'm not standing there looking at it, it's not exactly the loaf it would be if I had made the final call.
"If I had to be an 'office baker' and not have my hands in it, I just couldn't do it."
The Soloist
Just before 2 p.m., Michael Sanders props open the door of Melrose Market with his sneakered foot, and after several trips to his car, makes his way through Seattle's foodist destination to Sitka & Spruce with his bread delivery: half the 40 loaves he'd baked that day at The Corson Building.
Most are destined for dinner at Sitka, though he takes time to carefully stock a cart outside the restaurant, bagging two $7 batards for a woman who insists the loaves are the city's best.
Proofed for 20 hours, rested briefly, shaped in baskets, refrigerated overnight and baked in a pair of restaurant ovens jury-rigged with masonry tiles to mimic a stone hearth, those breads will soon be available to a (slightly) broader audience when Matt Dillon, the mastermind chef behind the restaurants Sitka & Spruce, The Corson Building and Bar Sajor, opens London Plane — a Melrose Market-like entity in Pioneer Square.
Come spring, Sanders expects to be baking there, keeping it small.
"Smallness is where you can control something and make it great. It's an integral part to what my bread is. Smallness allows focus and attention, and bread likes that." He hopes it can get a little bigger and not lose that.
But, he says, "You never know."
Nancy Leson is The Seattle Times food writer. John Lok is a Times staff photographer.


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A Walmart Rant
I know what you are thinking. When you see the title of this article, "A Walmart Rant" you are probably expecting to here another angry, disgruntled employee going off about the big evil company that is sweeping through the country and destroying the small-town mom and pop hardware stores and grocery chains. I have read several of these kinds of complaints from former employee's complaining that Walmart is unfair and even demeaning to their employee's. The wages are to low. It's too hard to progress in the company and move up the ladder. There aren't many opportunities to move up. They expect too much out of their employee's. The list could go on and on of the complaints that I have read about.
However, just the other day I read an interesting article from a man who is now employed by a news agency but was previously employed at Walmart. His take on Walmart was very interesting because we know that there are always to sides to every story and he was telling the other side of this story that you rarely hear. He talked about enjoying his time and employment with Walmart. He explained that he tried to work hard and stay positive and that positions DID open. He said that though his pay was never tremendous, his pay DID increase. He talked about those former employees who are very vocal their displeasure with Walmart and how he worked along side many of them. The problem he said that many of these employees had was not a lack of opportunity but a lack of work ethic. They wanted something for nothing. And in the end, that is exactly what they got out of their employment, nothing.
I guess my point for this rant is to see if can look at Walmart or any other store for that matter in a different light? I don't really care if you like Walmart or not, but before you just assume that they are the bad guys, ask yourself why. Is it because they pay their employee's so much less than the mom and pop store in town? No, their wages are competitive. Is it because most of their products are imported from other countries? This is true but so are most of the products on the shelf of your local hardware store.
My approach with Walmart is just the same as it is with any other store. If they have a better price, I'm probably headed there. And just like with any other store, you can increase your chances of getting the best prices when you snag a coupon before you go. I love these websites out there that help you find coupons. Frugaldad.com is an awesome site for that. They even have some occasional coupons for things like groceries at walmart, etc.
Wherever you shop just keep an open mind and go off of your own experience, not a disgruntled employee. They tend to be slightly biased.
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Humorous Wedding Poems
Humorous wedding poems sometimes don't include one very common topic: jealous guests! A lot of people don't want to admit it, but sometimes, the single people in the audience can feel a little jealous of the bride and groom.
That wedding dress seems kind of tight,
It doesn't fit exactly right,
I think the veil has got a snag,
That lacy hem looks like it sags.
The bride, she looks a little tired,
The groom however, he looks wired,
I think that bridesmaid winked at him,
His hair could use a little trim.
To be a "single" really means,
That you just feel so in-between,
You really just wish you were wed,
So jealous thoughts fill up your head!
by Lucilla Moretti
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Everyone has felt a little jealousy at some time or another, and attending a wedding can inspire a little harmless jealousy sometimes. This poem takes a sort of lighthearted view of those feelings, acknowledging the kind of thoughts such a person might have, but pointing out that it's only because he or she wants to be married, too.
When I was a bride, I knew that a few of my friends were very jealous of me. Some of them were outwardly critical of some of the choices we made for our wedding, making remarks about the band we chose or the flavor of the wedding cake. It's kind of a nasty thing for someone to do, but if you try to look at things from their perspective, they simply wish that they could be the center of attention as well and that they were being wed to a true love of their own.
If you look at it that way, it just goes to show that you can rise above that sort of pettiness. Even better, poke a little fun about it! Humorous wedding poems are a great way to say things you want to say in kind of an indirect way.
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Week 2 of it's growth and no ID
posted by: CWatson89 on 03.26.2013 at 12:40 am in Growing from Seed Forum I posted this about 1 week or so ago in the rose forum because I thought the seedling on the right in the pic was a rose seedling when it was still just coming out of the soil. I still have yet to identify it. The soil in the container I bought at lowes and the only thing I've veer grown in it is the mini rose bush and it has been that way since christmas. But one day I looked in the container and there was a random sprout. The container has never been outside, I never open my window, and I never handle seeds near the container ever. Any idea what it is? When it sprouted it had 4 leaves, now it has what to me looks like pepper leaves coming from the center but I cannot identify this with any pepper seedling image online.
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This Should Help Everyone
posted by: CWatson89 on 03.19.2013 at 01:25 am in Growing from Seed Forum So I'm taking classes online and one of the assignments included making a chart of some sort and I decided to make a Seedling Chart to keep track of seeds that have been planted and the progress of them weekly. I've decided to share what I made with everyone on here so you guys can keep track of your seed progress after planting. Hope it's helpful to you guys!
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uw9voavb8bx49c3 I decided to upload 3 different charts to mediafire in one file. There's a Week 1-6 Chart, 7-12, and a 13-18. They're simple charts, nothing special. I wasn't sure where to post this but I figured posting in the seed section would be the best. NOTES: <none>
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Peach Tree Gloria
posted by: CWatson89 on 03.15.2013 at 03:40 pm in Fruit & Orchards Forum So my roommate decided to order a peach tree through burpee and its arrived. I've gone online and read a few things and watched a few videos but no one clearly states how to care for or whats the proper planting method. So I was curious if anyone was willing to share a few tips with me on how to care for this tree since my roommate is clueless and has assigned me the task of caring for it,lol. It's a Gloria Peach Tree. I live in fayetteville, nc or Zone 8 if it's easier.
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Easy Propagation Chamber
posted by: little_dani on 10.05.2005 at 08:34 pm in Plant Propagation Forum I make a little propagation chamber that is so easy, and so reliable for me that I thought I would share the idea. I have not seen one like it here, and I did look through the FAQ, but didn't find one there either. I hope I did not miss it, and I hope I do not offend anyone by being presumptive in posting this here.
That said.... This is what you will need.
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Propagation Chamber
posted by: jbest123 on 08.14.2007 at 03:50 pm in Plant Propagation Forum Let me start by saying that, I used the propagation box from Freeplants.com with great success. The box filled with wet coarse sand and an aquarium weighed 60 to 70 lb, which was a little to heavy for me to be moving around (I'm almost 70 yrs old). I made 6 boxed and they are still in good use by my Daughter and Son in law. I liked the idea of little_dani's Easy Propagation Chamber but thought it would be a little to small for my use.
I found 2 food storage containers at Walmart one a 20 quart and one a 12 quart with the same dimensions around the perimeter. I drilled six 5/8 in holes for drainage in the 12 quart container, and lade a piece of hardware cloth on the bottom to keep the potting soil from washing out. (photo 1) There is a little gap at both ends of the containers, allowing for ventilation, no need for further holes. ( photo 2) . For the potting soil I use 50/50 peat moss and vermiculite. What I like about the near transparent container for the bottom is you can see root development and water needs. Photo 3 shows root development and beads of condensation which indicates adequate air space and water. Each container will hold 120 to130 cuttings and all seem to be doing well and pass the tug test. (photo 4) When I stick the cuttings, I will leave them outside in the shade for 1 week and then move them to the greenhouse. Six chambers fit on an 8 ft shelf very nicely. (photo 5). I also use a 24 in bungie cord to keep the two containers aligned. NOTES: <none>
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Is this a seedling?
posted by: CWatson89 on 03.14.2013 at 01:00 pm in Rose Propagation Forum I'm use to growing roses from cuttings and placing them in soil and growing that way but I just happened to check on my mini rose plant this morning that I've had for almost a year and I spot this tiny sprout int he container...what is it? could it be a rose sprout? There's nothing else around that would place seeds in it.
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HAVE: Prickly Pear Cacti Seeds
posted by: CWatson89 on 03.14.2013 at 01:40 am in Seed Exchange Forum As you can tell from the pic I have plenty and I get way more every year from the cacti I have in my yard when I harvest the fruits. I'm willing to trade but I'm not sure what for yet,lol. Any Ideas? I already dried them and cleaned them the best I could and I've even grown more from the seeds so I know they're healthy. Not sure of the variety but I do know they have the violet color fruits and look like beating hearts when cut open. People where hate dealing with the cacti in their yard and don't realize the fruit it bears and I get more all the time and I even give them some of the fruit when it's ripe.
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Need Tips on Dragon Fruit
posted by: CWatson89 on 03.14.2013 at 12:57 am in Growing from Seed Forum I live in Fayetteville, NC and I've been trying to grow Dragon Fruit from the seed for over two years now and have barely found any info online that would help someone like me who lives in my region. I've grown Carolina Reaper Peppers, Roses, Mints, Tomatoes, pretty much the whole nine yards around here with no issue and I even have a a ton of prickly pear cacti that I've grown and they bloom fruit every year. But I was wondering if anyone could give me any tips on DF. I know they can't withstand the cold, they don't like a lot of water, I grow mine in a burpee self watering tray which has a greenhouse lid for it and now for the first time im using a grow light as well to hopefully increase my chances. I'd really like to grow these in NC and basically have a monopoly on it in my area lol. Any tips would be nice.
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BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Delaware North Companies, a global leader in hospitality and one of the largest privately held companies in North America, marked the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by announcing that it is partnering with Habitat for Humanity to sponsor the entire cost and building of two homes in one of the most devastated areas of New Orleans. Delaware North is proud to lend its support to Habitat's commitment to help rebuild New Orleans for some of the region's most devastated families. As a sponsor of these two homes, Delaware North Companies associates will work side by side with other volunteers; and it's the company's hope that one of its world-class chefs will prepare the first meal for these families in their new homes.
In addition, Delaware North Companies is making an important donation to Kids Cafe New Orleans. Kids Cafe is part of a nationwide program sponsored by America's Second Harvest-The Nation's Food Bank Network, the nation's largest food relief organization. Kids Cafe provides a safe place for children living in low-income areas of the city to eat a meal in a restaurant-style setting versus a soup-kitchen line, and allows older children and teenagers to learn valuable hospitality skills as they assist with all facets of running the cafe, giving them the skills for future opportunities. At Kids Cafe New Orleans, children serve as hosts, wait tables, help in the kitchen, and of course enjoy a delicious restaurant-style meal. Kids Cafe New Orleans is a place beyond poverty and hunger and Delaware North Companies is proud to support its effort to reopen its doors to New Orleans' children.
"We are proud to continue our support of Habitat for Humanity and are pleased to partner for the first time with Kids Cafe," said Wendy Watkins, vice president, corporate communications, Delaware North Companies. "From days after the hurricane to this anniversary, we continue to be touched by the personal stories of heroism, commitment and determination. We are certainly grateful that our company can make a difference in these communities."
"Delaware North's support of New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity through this donation, and its associates' plans to come to New Orleans to help build the homes they are sponsoring makes the company one of our partner families; and we are proud to claim that relationship," said Jim Pate, executive director, New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity. "Their support is a hand up that empowers families, builds communities and renews hope at a time when hope is a much-needed commodity. As a partner, Delaware North is making an investment that will pay dividends for years to come as lives and neighborhoods are transformed."
"It is because of donations like this one from Delaware North Companies that our programs are able to expand to reach the needs of our ever-changing community," said Mel Jones, community outreach manager, Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana.
About Delaware North Companies
Delaware North Companies is one of the world's leading hospitality and food service providers. Its family of companies includes Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, Delaware North Companies Gaming & Entertainment, Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services, Delaware North Companies Sportservice, Delaware North Companies International, TD Banknorth Garden and American Park 'n Swap. Delaware North Companies is one of the largest privately held companies in the United States with revenues approaching $2 billion annually and 40,000 associates serving half a billion customers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. For more information, visit www.DelawareNorth.com.
About New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity
New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity (NOAHH), founded in 1983, is an autonomous Louisiana non-profit corporation that serves the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. John the Baptist. In its 22-year history, NOAHH has built over 140 Habitat homes. For more information, visit www.habitat-nola.org.
About Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity International is an ecumenical Christian ministry that welcomes to its work all people dedicated to the cause of eliminating poverty housing. Since its founding in Americus, Ga., in 1976, Habitat has built more than 200,000 houses in nearly 100 countries, providing simple, decent and affordable shelter for more than 1 million people. For more information, visit www.habitat.org.
About Second Harvest
Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana provides food to over 100 charitable agencies throughout its 23-parish service-from the Mississippi border to the Texas state line. In the year since Katrina and Rita, the Food Bank has distributed over 51 million pounds of food and supplies, more than three times its annual distribution amount before the storms. For more information, visit www.no-hunger.org.
Source: Delaware North Companies


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Kelly Clarkson has a taste for flesh now. RUN!
None of us are safe.
None of us are safe.
[yawn] boring…
here piggy, piggy. here piggy, piggy. SUEEEYYYYY!
wow, that dude looks just like the bad guy from die hard 2. is that him??
What the hell is this scale buster doing to our local weather man? run Sam run…
she's famous & rich, wtf is up with no plastic surgery. She should have already been lipo'd, stomach stappled, and boob implanted. I mean it's only her career.
dat's a biiiiiiiig bitch
Umm Kelly can you please either A. lose some weight and wear tight clothes or B. cover your gross body up. Thank you.
Okay, here's the thing… if you want to be fat, fine. I get it Kelly, it's your bodytype, whatever. Could you please do us all a favor and wear clothes that fit you?
i'd still hit
The sad part is she is probably only a size 10 or 12, which is still under the "average" woman size…….. but yea, lose the spandex lady. At least she's not wearing bright colors!
Now I know why she "does not hook up"
umm…when did she get so fat? pic #3 is just scary. I can visulize that ass slap and then the ripples going around her body for the next 5 minutes.
I know most of you are way too good for her, but I would hit that like a golfball.
That is absolutely dreadful!
That is absolutely dreadful!
Hey Kool-Aid!!!
How about fixing this site so it doesn't take forever to download all the crappy ads just so I can see some who cares about singer stick her tongue out.
Agreed, Naven. I ain't to good for that.
Lower….lower….*zipp*….that's it. Good girl. You'll know when you're done. You'll know.
She shits gravy.
Be honest, you'd still bang that from behind.
#18 The internet is obviously too complicated for you; please turn your computer off before you hurt yourself. If you had a clue as to what you were doing, you wouldn't get the ads to begin with.
I'd hit it.
Id still bust a nut on her man chest.
Fat girls are fat.
Damn she's huge, Im all about women with curves but these chicks are are bordering the obesity line forget that looking like (.) means you got 1 curve, not curveS. So yea real women have curves and then pigs have only 1.
Hit it with a turkey leg……..and a sausage on a stick….and a funnel cake…..and a corn dog……and a box of salt-water taffy…etc please don't eat me
CaptainMorgan- we need to talk….seriously
You're all being to hard on her. There's a long-standing precedent of fat chicks singing stuff.
who is the guy in the picture?
I like 'em big, I like 'em chunky
I like 'em big, I like 'em plumpy
I like 'em round, with somethin something
They like my sound, they think I'm funky
My name is Moto-Moto, ya you say it double
Say my name girl (Moto-Moto)
Say it again (Moto-moto)
I'm nice and smooth, so nice and sassy (sassy)
No other hippos don't wanna get next to me
I like em chunky, chunky, chunky
Plumpy, plumpy, plumpy
chunky, chunky, chunky
Plumpy, plumpy, plumpy
I like em hippos
That's in the wild
I like they attitude
I like they style
The way they walk, walk
The way they talk, talk
I like em witta appetite
To eat a shark, shark
And when a dog barks, she'll eat em too
I love every inch,
Oh yes I do
I like em chunky, chunky, chunky
Plumpy, plumpy, plumpy
chunky, chunky, chunky
Plumpy, plumpy, plumpy
Ain't nottin wrong
With lovin chunky
I like em funny
I like em spunky
I like em witty
I like em smart with brains
Girl I Like your big.
What you say
Your big ol heart
Girl you crazy
She drive me crazy
I love my lady
She nice and shapely
She nice and spacey
Take so much space up
Like a big ol spaceship
Movin so gracious
It's all in the way she moves
It's all in the way she moves
It's all in the way
It's all in the way she moves
When she do, what she do
What she do, what she do, what she do, what she do
Get it girl
Ain't nottin wrong
Ain't nottin wrong
Moto- what in the hell was that?
CM- still we need to talk
Still would.
shelly – I will talk….you cannot. It's rude to speak when your mouth is full.
I totally thought she was trying to eat his face in that first picture.
None of us IS safe. None is the subject and it is singular.
CM- a place where you can anonymously act like that while sitting in your cubicle at work. I love it! More!
forward an email address so I can tell you what I REALLY think.
A body only a black man can love……..oh wait im a blackman id hit it and quit it!
I'm sorry, normally im the last guy to tell celebs to lose weight because they're perfect the way they are but this is just gross. Kelly Clarkson use to be so hot and now she just looks unhealthy and unattractive. Her face is massive with all the fat rolls on her chin and her arms are like tree trunks. Get a trainer Kelly, stat!
Most fat chicks can distract you with their proportionately huge tits, but the sad thing is that Kelly Clarkson's fat migrated to her thighs. Its like a great darkness blotted out the sun the day she was born, and she was forever physically cursed.
FYI– I heard the asian eclipse was caused by Kelly Clarkson being airlifted to a Japanese movie studio for blob porn.
#39 you're an idiot. When saying none in that context it refers to a group of people. So you would use ARE not is. If he said no one then he'd use is…no one IS safe. Christ if you're going to correct someone's grammar make sure you know what you're talking about.
where's the dude who always posts the 'heeling the shit down the shower drain' comment about her?
I'll bet she'd eat the corn from my shit if I brought a five pound sack of white fudge to bed, eh?
why do chicks wear sleeves like that when they got them huge meat hock arms?
#44…. None is derived from the words "not one" but you probably already knew that. That being the case, you will find that #39 is in fact correct. Just so you know. Maybe you should try getting your GED
omg did she eat conan obrien?
and she needs to stop with the skinny tight clothes.
shes neither skinny nor tight.
she needs to start wearing tablecloths.
saves time.
She is still very beautiful. The last few pictures are just unflattering.


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With all things considered, how long will a Kawasaki 20hp air cooled engine last?
I ask only since I am considering to upgrade to a 2004 John Deere GX255. It has 612 hours. Dealer said this machine has been maintained regularily at his shop and transaxle fluid changed at 500 hours. Machine looks well cared for. Thanks |
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- Posted by justalurker (My Page) on Mon, Jun 6, 11 at 11:41
I've seen those generation Kawasaki air cooled twins with hours in the mid teens and a couple over 2000 hours. Change the engine oil and filter and air filter and do the other routine maintenance at the prescribed intervals and you should have no problems for a long time. |
I have read recently blogs about carberator issues with the Kawasaki 20 hp engine in GT245's. The GX has this same engine but I really have not come across any such issues from anyone I know. Is this really an issue? |
With regular maintenance I had one go 1650 hours before the rod broke. |
It was a real issue. I bought a used GT series (GT225) two years ago. Looked at a mint GT245 but it had the tell-tale signs (blew black smoke on start-up, blacked inner front rim, etc.). Mint tractor with 80 hrs, could have it for probably $2800, but I wasn't going to buy any known problems. I confirmed it with JD corporate that at least the one I was looking at was covered under the problem. I was given a range of engine numbers that were impacted. I read that jets could be changed, but created a lean-running problem for some. After that discovery, I limited my search to the GT225, GT235 and GX325. Unless you can confirm that the particular engine is covered, I think it would be susceptible. |
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Analysis: Syria Neighbors Fear Future Without Assad Family
April 28, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Samia Nakhoul
BEIRUT (Reuters) – From Israel to Iran, Syria's neighbors are starting to contemplate the possibility of a future without the Assad family as Lords of Damascus, and, whether friends or foes, some don't like what they see.
Indeed, some are in denial about what they are witnessing.
Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi'ite movement widely seen as an Iranian proxy in the Middle East, purports to believe the government of President Bashar al-Assad is putting down an insurrection by armed gangs of Salafi or Sunni Muslim fanatics.
In its report of the Syrian army's assault on the southern city of Deraa, epicenter of the revolt which began last month, Al Manar, Hezbollah's television, stuck to the official version that the army responded to citizens' pleas to put an end to "killings and terrorizing operations by extremist groups."
Hezbollah greeted with glee uprisings that overthrew dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt and championed the rights of Bahraini protesters against Saudi military intervention to quash Shi'ite demonstrations.
But it is distinctly unenthusiastic about the risk of losing the support of a Syrian government which is not only its main protector but the conduit for arms supplies from Iran.
Tehran, which regards Syria as a close ally in a mainly Sunni-dominated region suspicious of non-Arab Shi'ite Iran, has called the revolt in Syria "a Zionist plot."
Yet Israel too seems deeply uneasy about any change in the status quo.
Although they are still formally at war, Syria under the current president and his late father, Hafez al-Assad, has maintained a stable border with the Jewish state since 1973 even though Israel still occupies the Golan Heights.
Fear of Islamists
Israel's fear — voiced more openly by commentators plugged in to its security establishment than by politicians — is that a successful uprising might replace firm Baath party rule with a more radical government, or one less able or willing to keep radical forces on a leash.
Although Assad sponsors Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon and Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, he has played a cautious hand.
Behind the strident Arabist rhetoric and ties with Tehran he has kept the option of peace with Israel in play and sought acceptance by Western powers.
"The implications are enormous and totally unpredictable," said Lebanon-based Middle East analyst Rami Khouri.
"What makes Syria distinctive is that the regime and the system have close structural links with every conflict or player in the region: Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, Lebanon, Israel, America, Iraq, Turkey. In all these (cases) there is a Syrian link."
Demonstrations have spread across the country and grown in intensity, he said, and protesters who began calling for reform of the system were now demanding "the overthrow of the regime."
At the back of many minds is the experience of Iraq, plunged into years of chaos and sectarian savagery after the US-led invasion in 2003 and removal of Saddam Hussein.
"Everybody in the region is concerned about the destabilization of Syria, even those who don't like Assad, because there is one thing he brings to the region: a certain kind of predictability and stability," Khouri said.
"He maintained the truce along the Syrian-Israeli border, people know how his government behaves. Nobody knows what will happen afterwards."
Alex Fishman, a military affairs journalist for Israel's best-selling daily Yedioth Ahronoth, summed up Israeli apprehension after the Syrian army stormed into Deraa.
"However odd it may sound, the Israeli establishment has a certain sentiment for the Assad family. They kept their promises throughout the years and even talked about an arrangement with Israel on their terms," he wrote.
"It's hard to part with a comfortable old slipper, but the top members of the political and security establishment believe that the Syrian regime, in its current format, will change within weeks or months," Fishman said.
He added: "The sole interest guiding Israel's conduct is: if what is happening in Syria will ultimately weaken the Damascus-Iran-Hezbollah axis — we'll come out ahead."
For Hezbollah and Iran, losing Assad would certainly be a big blow.
"If it (Syria) splits into mini-satellite states that will be bad news for everybody," Khouri said, suggesting that as in Iraq this might provide an opening for al Qaeda militants.
Across the border in Lebanon, arena of a sectarian civil war in 1975-90 that sucked in regional and world powers and left Syria in control for 29 years, people are also worried.
Any prospect of a new sharpening of tensions between Sunnis and Shi'ites, Arabs and Kurds, or Christians and Muslims, all simmering across the region after being brought to the boil by Iraq, produces shudders.
"I don't think any wise man is not worried about what happens in Syria because it is a neighbor," said Talal Salman, editor of Beirut's daily as-Safir.
"Any earthquake in Syria will shake Lebanon with its fragile make-up. Syria's stability is in our interest."
For now, Assad has decided to follow in the footsteps of his father and resort to military force, not reform, to put down the protests at a cost so far of more than 400 lives, according to human rights groups.
Monday's deployment of tanks in Deraa looks like an indicator of what is to come. A source close to the Syrian military said Assad and his security establishment had taken a decision to wage war on protesters across the country.
But Ali al-Atassi, a prominent Syrian activist whose father was a former president jailed for 22 years by the elder Assad, said "another Hama" was impossible.
In 1982, Hafez al-Assad sent in the army to crush an armed lslamist uprising, killing of up to 30,000 people.
"Syria has reached a turning point. It cannot go back to where it was," said Atassi.
He said the Western habit of accommodating dictatorships in return for stability was no longer valid.
"In Tunis, Egypt and elsewhere for years, Arab leaders and the West gave the Arab people a binary choice: stability or chaos; despotism or Islamism.
"After what happened in Tunis and Egypt, we discovered that there is a third option which is the democratic way. Sure, the Islamists will play a role in it, but they will not have the leading role," Atassi said.
While many analysts argue that life after Assad would be hazardous or that he may prove impossible to remove, others say a relatively smooth transition is imaginable over time because Damascus has institutions that can shoulder responsibility.
They include the army, whose backbone is Sunni although key posts are controlled by members of Assad's Alawite minority.
What most observers now dismiss is the possibility of reforms substantial enough to meet popular demands.
Even if Assad wanted to enact wide-scale reforms, they argue, he lacks the power to prevail over entrenched interests in the security forces and military intelligence.
"He is the prisoner of a certain structure and at the same time part of it," Atassi said.
"The next 2-3 weeks are really critical. They will determine whether he will remain in power or whether his regime will collapse," Khouri told Reuters.
(editing by Paul Taylor)
Israel May Have Planted Spy Gear in Lebanon: U.N.
October 22, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
U.N. peacekeepers inspect the site of an explosion between the villages of Meis al-Jabal and Houla in south Lebanon, October 18, 2009. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho |
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A U.N. investigation into explosions in south Lebanon indicated on Sunday that Israel had planted spy devices on Lebanese land in what a senior U.N. official said would be a violation of a ceasefire agreement.
The UNIFIL peacekeeping force in Lebanon said its preliminary probe into two explosions in the south showed they had been caused by the detonation of underground sensor devices.
The units were apparently buried by Israeli forces during the 2006 war with the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, it said.
"These do look like some sort of espionage device," Michael Williams, the U.N. special coordinator for Lebanon, told Reuters.
If confirmed, the devices would represent violations of Security Council resolution 1701 which halted the 34-day war.
A first explosion was reported on Saturday evening and a second on Sunday morning. No injuries were reported. The devices had been placed some 2 km inside Lebanese territory between the villages of Houla and Meiss al-Jabal.
"Preliminary indications are that these explosions were caused by explosive charges contained in unattended underground sensors which were placed in this area by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) apparently during the 2006 war," UNIFIL said in a statement.
UNIFIL was investigating what had caused the devices to blow up. A Lebanese security official said they appeared to have been detonated by remote control from Israel after their discovery by Lebanese security forces.
Israel did not respond specifically to the Lebanese assertion. But an Israeli military statement said Sunday's incident proved Hezbollah's military presence in south Lebanon, especially in rural Shi'ite areas along the border with Israel.
UNIFIL said it had protested to the Israeli military about overflights by drones while the Lebanese army and the peacekeepers were investigating on the ground. Lebanese army troops opened fire on the drones with machine gun and small arms fire, the UNIFIL statement said.
Williams said the use of drones was an obvious violation of Lebanese sovereignty and resolution 1701 "and not particularly helpful at a time of obvious tension in the south."
UNIFIL is also investigating another incident in south Lebanon last week at the village of Tayr Filsi, a UNIFIL spokesman said. The Lebanese army and Hezbollah said one person was wounded when a shell exploded in the garage of a Hezbollah member in the village on Monday.
Israel has said the blast showed munitions were being stockpiled in violation of resolution 1701 and has complained to the United Nations about the incident.
The next report on Security Council resolution 1701 is due to be filed later this month.
The 2006 war broke out after Hezbollah, an anti-Israeli Shi'ite group backed by Iran, launched a raid into Israel, capturing two soldiers. More than 1,000 people, mostly Lebanese civilians, were killed before the United Nations brokered a ceasefire.


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"Marty Burns is back for another
entertaining plunge into Hollywood noir...a thoughtful riff on truth,
responsibility and the price to
be paid for a few feet of celluloid." - Publishers Weekly
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noir, bringing the mythic into the every day. This is one fun
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Ghostcrawler talks a bit about Resilience {WoW}
Jan 15th 2009 12:38PM If by *BAM FIXED* you mean *INSTANT RETURN TO CRAPTASTIC VANILLA-WOW PVP BALANCE*... then yeah.
PVP rewards do not need to be ideal as everyday gear. If they are moderately 'ok', then bonus. What they *must* do is actually be ideal gear to PVP in. The whole purpose of PVP gear is to provide alternate progression for players who don't care to raid. Needing to raid to get gear to PVP in is stupid, and was the entire problem with Vanilla PVP.
Me personally, I enjoy both aspects of the game. But those of you constantly crying about PVP balance screwing up your precious PVE raiding should think long and hard about suggesting the things you do. Do you really want to be in a raid with 24 other people, half of which don't want to be there and would prefer to be in a BG or arena? That is precisely the situation you create by making the best gear in game *for every need* available by raiding.
Aside from that, the insistence of Blizzard that rating scales have to remain etched in stone is stupid. If you can only get 800 resil right now, then tweak the numbers behind the scenes so that is the cap. Add an additional effect that reduces *all* damage taken in PVP combat by X%. Next season, when there is the possibility of getting to 1000 resil, that is the new cap, tweak the numbers as appropriate.
Additionally, reduce the stam on all non-tanking PVE gear. Now you have two clear cut sets of gear progression: one set of gear that has tons of dps/heal stats, but is wholly worthless for PVP, one set that has tons of survivability (in PVP only) that is worthless for raiding. There is your fix. No need to tone down talents, or decrease the current *damage potential* of any class.
That sinking sensation {WoW}
Nov 20th 2008 8:14PM Not to sound condescending (really), but did it occur to any of you that this moral dilemma is by design? As someone else pointed out... you don't have to do every quest -- just like Arthas didn't have to go psycho in his quest for payback and pick up that cursed pig sticker.
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Bradbury Award
The Ray Bradbury Award (full name "Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation") is presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to recognize excellence in screenwriting. Originally presented in 1992 and given for specific work, the award was not presented annually and was dormant from 2001 through 2008, when it was presented for a body of work rather than an individual work.
Starting with the 2009 award, the Nebula Award for Best Script was eliminated and the Bradbury Award given in its place. While no longer a Nebula, the award will be presented at the Nebula Awards Ceremony and will follow Nebula rules and procedures.[1]
The award[edit]
Named in honor of Ray Bradbury, the physical award was designed by Vincent Villafranca.[2] The cast bronze statuette references Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, while the IBM Selectric type ball used for the figure's head is indicative of Bradbury's stated preference for using an IBM Selectric typewriter.
Winners and other nominees[edit]
- ^ "Ray Bradbury Award". Locus Magazine.
- ^ a b Nebula Awards Ceremony 2009. Los Angeles, CA: SFWA. 2009. p. 12.
- ^ a b c "Bradbury Award Information". SFWA Web Site. SFWA. Retrieved 2007-04-27.[dead link]
- ^ "2009 SFWA Final Nebula Awards Ballot". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc.
- ^ Winners: 2009 Nebula Awards, SF Signal, accessed May 15, 2010.
- ^ "2010 SFWA Final Nebula Awards Ballot". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc.
- ^ "2011 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc.
- ^ a b Scalzi, John (2013-02-20). "This Year's Nebula Award Nominees". Whatever. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
External links[edit]
- The Nebula Awards
- YouTube of Bradbury Award acceptance video by Joss Whedon 2009
- image of the Bradbury award