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I'm trying to buy a kettle for my boyfriend for xmas and am hoping for some help. He has never brewed before, but has a "kit". He thinking he wants to do 10 gal. batches, but it sounds like we'll have trouble heating something that size on our electric stove. PLEASE HELP
Turkey fryer setup is the way to go.
10 gallons of on a stove will be likely be pretty hard. The general rule of thumb is that if you have a pot twice as large as the batches you'll do, you'll be in the clear. That being said, I have an 8 gallon pot and got five gallon batches and it works well. I also do the five gallons indoor on my stove. So its certainly possible. Not sure what your price range is, but something like this: http://www.austinhomebrew.com/produc...oducts_id=2319 would certainly work. You could also go with aluminum as it is cheaper. Best of luck to you!
It would be cheaper and easier to start out with 5 gallon batches. I agree with GoldMiner that a turkey frier is the way to go, and they're usually good for 5 gallons. Once he becomes addicted, like most of us here, then he can move up to 10 gallons. All he would need then in a larger pot.
Ten gallon batches aren't very realistic for someone who has never brewed before and who only has a "kit". Boils of that size on regular stoves are all but impossible (if not completely impossible) However, I'm all for jumping in head first. My philosophy is buy big at the beginning...buying small at the beginning and realizing you need "bigger" later sucks, and it is a waste of money. He needs a propane burner and an adequate sized brew kettle. You are looking in the range of $300 - $400 for those alone. Then you have chilling considerations, etc, etc, etc. If money is no object, hit me up and I'll hook you up. If money is tighter, stick with the pot cford1 posted. Good luck.
if he's serious about 10 gallon batches this kettle would work http://www.austinhomebrew.com/produc...ducts_id=10461 one nice thing about the turkey fryer is that you brew outside and any boil overs are a simple rinse with the hose to clean up. Boil overs on stoves are not an easy cleanup (don't ask me how I know this). It will boil over at some point unless you have a much larger kettle than boil size (typically to end up with 5 gallons you start boiling with 6 or so gallons) You would also need one powerful stove to get 10 gallons boiling on the stove, and the weight could warp it. 5 gallons is a lot of work for a stove.
if he is serious he will begin brewing outdoors. Many of us use "keggles" which are regular Stainless steel kegs from Bud light or the similar which we cut open and use as a huge kettle. Check craigslist. He will then grab a propane burner / stand and will be happy as hell. good luck and great to see that you are supporting such a great hobby of his.
I agree with "Doc Robinson." 10 gallon batches are no way for a beginner to start. That much wort in a single pot is going to weigh the better part of 100 pounds including pot, thus creating far more complex logistical issues when it comes time to chill / transfer the wort. If he insists on going that way, I agree that a turkey fryer setup is probably the way to go.....but for 10 gallon batches, that pot will have to be big, at least 12 gallons. That being said, I brew 5 gallon batches, full boils in a cheap $40 stainless steel 30 qt brewpot. Since I do all-grain, that's a 6.5 gal. boil in a 7.5 gal. pot. I put a few drops of a product called Fermcap-S into the boil to suppress the foaming. It works.
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Thank you! I'm looking at spending around $200 for the whole set up, so the next question is what about a ball valve & thermometer? looks like it will be "easier", but you can buy different set ups that included just the ball valve or both. Thanks


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At the audio launch of his upcoming film Netru Indru , director Padmamagan recalled how he, after the failure of his first film Ammuvaagiya Naan, struggled to find a producer for his next venture as it revolved around a 7-year-old boy. After spending two frustrating years, he decided to produce and direct Netru Indru , an out-and-out commercial film. He hoped that the money he would earn from films such as Netru Indru could be used to make the meaningful cinema he aspired to.
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I have made the decision that once the antibiotics kick in and my fever stays down, that we will be weaning off breastfeeding. Since I managed to get sick twice in one month, which now has me thinking it was not the flu and likely mastitis earlier this month, I figure six times is enough for me and with my history a few more mastitis bouts were in my future if we continued nursing. I am in the fortunate position that DS does take bottles and hypoallergenic formula without any struggles so I don't think the transition will be too difficult for him. I'm worried that I will become super engorged but my PCP assured me that if I drop one nursing time every few days starting with the last night one and only express enough milk during a warm shower to relieve pressure but not stimulate my milk making that I should be able to wean completely in about three weeks time. It's amazing to me that I about flipped my lid when DS was so scrawny at birth and the post-partum nurse told us we had to supplement with formula for a little while because he wasn't gaining enough weight. This baby process has been a lesson in compromise and letting go of all my preconceived notions of how I thought it would go. Now a lot of the things that were such emotional triggers because I thought they would threaten my ability to bond with DS or mean that I wasn't trying hard enough, don't have the same effect one me. So, it has been decided and another one of my goals (nursing until a year old) will just have to shift a little.
Thanks again to everyone who provided so much support when I was dealing with the whole dairy elimation diet and supply issues. When I've weaned successfully, hopefully I'll be a good resource for how to do it without causing engorgement, etc.
Christina, I am glad you have made a decision that will end the mastitis nightmare. I hope all goes well with weaning and you don't get too engorged and NO mastitis flareups.
And well said about the shifting goals and notions... I was SO upset when we supplemented with formula early on and now I would be happy if babe took it. Anyhow, you've done great sticking it out so far and I hope all goes smoothly!
Excellent, Christina! I had it 10 times and finally had my milk cultured so maybe you should ask about doing that, too, just to make sure you really really kill off the mastitis this last round of antibiotics before weaning. My girly just started to be able to handle a little formula a few days ago so I too am in the process of weaning -- well, from 2 babies to 1. So far so good dropping one pumping session and giving one bottle of Alimentum at night. It's such a crazy relief and I can start to enjoy the babies a little. I hope your weaning works out smoothly and gives you some relief, too!
Well we are down to one nursing session (first thing in morning) and my boobs have decided not to seek revenge...yet. Bottle feedings are going fine and any time I get a little sentimental about weaning early, I just remember what it felt like when every joint in my body hurt, burning up like a furnace, exhausted and nauseated...no thank you! I hope to wean off the last session this coming week as my milk production continues to slow down. I have been taking the No More Milk tea but it is hard to tell if it helps or if my body is just making adjustments on its own after skipping a nursing session for several days.
This last dropped session has been the hardest as my boobs do not seem to be getting the hint that the shop is closed. Doesn't help when I read stuff saying it can take several weeks, months even, before everything dries up. I so badly want to pump or nurse just to get some relief but know that would just make things take longer. I've been going on a dairy bender so nursing may not be good idea anyway. So right now I'm sitting with wilting cabbage leaves in my bra...fun stuff
Ugh, I am not looking forward to getting to that point. I knew babies can have a hard time with weaning if they are old enough but this weaning thing seems so tough on the body! Does the cabbage help at all? I've heard there's some milk-stopping tea. (Edit: Oh hi, DUH, I guess I read it from you.) Have you heard any other ideas?
I am still nursing my boy on demand (which is approximately a billion times per day) and have been dropping pumping sessions for my girl, who now gets about 50% formula. So I'm down to 3 pumping sessions per day. I thought I was doing it slowly enough but I'm waiting now for the babies to wake up from their nap to pick up my antibiotics. This is my twelfth round of mastitis.
OMG! As if nursing wasn`t difficult enough without the mastitis. The ONE time DS slept almost through the night I woke up with nasty plugged ducts that took a week to clear up. Dreadful.
Sheila once you're done pumping for your girl will you put your son onto formula as well?
I'm tempted to try the formula again for my son. He wouldn't take it last I tried. I started eating dairy again and so far so good but the last few nights he's been up a million times so I am not sure if he's teething, if it's the reintroduction of milk (finally) or if he's just making life hell for no good reason. We have a ped appointment next week and I will bring it up.


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The airlock should not be an issue but five packs of yeast...just a lot to me. But then again the only time I use bread yeast is JMAO.
Motto: quel che sara sara
Just because something CAN ferment, does not mean it SHOULD be fermented.
Well I did say I was a newby.Is there anyway I maybe able to lighten the awful taste of the bread yeast?
If it has not been too long I am wondering if you can scoop the yeast off?
It's been thumping away for the past two days!!!!
My recipe was much simpler. I just used 6 welches grape cocktail (wasn't suppose to be the cocktail) concentrate, 5 pounds sugar, and 1 package of red wine yeast (don't know what kind). OG was 1.070 and today I got curious and it was 1.050. That reading might be off because it was still throwing off bubbles. Tasted pretty good but too sweet still. Back to the closet with it. Is there a way to stop fermentation if I want a sweeter wine? This is my first batch btw.
Saramc ,after my must gets done how many packs of turbo yeast and sugar should I add ?
Saramc,I took your advice and got a hydrometer and the reading right now is sg 1.030/abv 3.5/balling 6.5 and I did get a pack of turbo yeast like you suggested I also got a bottle of brewers best artificial flavoring(peach)but since I'm a newby I'm still not real sure on how to use the hydrometer since I didn't take a reading before I pitched the yeast,so how much sugar would you suggest adding and should I wait to add the flavor after I stabilize?THANKS....


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There were mixed reaction when AB de Villiers was bought by RCB. Let us accept he is a terrific player when in form. Looking at him so far in the world cup let us hope he continues with his form in IPL too !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The way he played spinners, improvised and kept his cool are very good signs for RCB and its fans. But the problem is with his injury currently he is fighting with. He was rightly rested against Ireland. Hope he is fully fit and in greater form in IPL.
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A Buffet of Sensory Interventions focuses on middle and high school students whose sensory needs are often overlooked. The book emphasizes the importance of fostering independence, self-advocacy and self-regulation as a way for teens with autism spectrum disorders to take ownership of their needs as they transition into adulthood. Using simple terminology and lots of illustrations, it explains sensory integration basics, and helps develop daily interventions through assessment of sensory needs.
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I'm not usually one for young, cooked pu-erhs. A lot of the time, they have this fishy, composted taste that I just don't find appealing. Aged about five years or more, they take on more earthy characteristics. This was…something completely different. A cooked pu-erh without a fishy taste. It was woodsy, minty, and strangely herbaceous – reminding me of echinacea and cinnamon bark for some reason. A smoky underpinning also kept me sipping.
A peculiar and taste-worthy pu-erh.
I've kinda been living on this all week. But I hadn't had it prior to a work shift. Luckily, I was up early enough to gongfu the heck out of this as a pre-funk for the work day ahead. I was on a bourbon barrel-aged tea drunk high all morning. Even broke out into song. At least five times.
Don't judge me.
If you want to know the origin story of this tea, well, I was a witness!: http://steepstories.com/2014/01/07/bourbon-barrel-pu-erh-origin-story/
Since I've spent the better part of the weekend knee-deep in flu plague, I've been on a white tea kick. However, this Monday morning, I wanted to go for something a little more pu-erh-y. I split the difference and went for this "white bud pu-erh". I use quotations on that because I'm still unsure what the difference between a white bud pu-erh and an aged white tea are? Neither really go through a wet-piling, and sometimes aged white teas (and young white teas) are compressed into cakes. So, how does one classify that?
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I guess I'll leave my philosophical question aside and just answer with, "NOM!".
It's two days after Christmas, and this arrived with all the fanfare of an opening mailbox door. I noticed the label on the package, and immediately ducked inside. I'd been waiting to try this tea the moment I first heard about it. Heck, I was there during the initial brainstorming session. Over beer!
I've notched off a few barrel-scented teas, and this one is the strongest yet. The earthiness of the pu-erh is there, but it's a runner-up to the rich, strong, smoked fruit notes of the bourbon barrel scenting. Wood, peat, gasoline, earth, and fireball sweetness all took turns pummeling my tongue. And that was just with gongfu-style.
Yesterday, I made a trip out to Smith HQ with my mother. Usually, I end up with a pot of Darjeeling, and she goes for the Lord Bergamot. This time we did TWO pots of Morning Light – a Douglas Fir tips-'n-rosemary-laden black tea blend out for the holidays. I've had fir tipped teas before, and had an earlier variation of this a year prior.
This years was better by a longshot. The rosemary adds a spicy tickle to the woodsy mintiness already in play. Very relaxing and tasty.
We went through two pots of the stuff in about an hour.
you have enabled me—i just placed an order (we get SST at one of the groceries here but they never carry the more interesting stuff).
Let me state for the record that I don't normally go for peppermint. I don't hate it per se; I just don't care for it. For me, the mint taste is a bit too pungent and harsh. That and it gives me crazy heartburn.
So, when I received this alongside some of the other AdventureTea wares, I dismissed it as yet another peppermint. That changed when curiosity got the better of me, and I opened the bag. Now, I know candy canes are made from peppermint, but I'd never run into a peppermint leaf that smelled exactly like candy canes.
Today, I shared a pot with my mother. I'll be struck by lightning if I don't admit that it's the single most perfect mint herbal I've ever come across. I've never considered mint a perfect taste, but this Northern Canadian stuff hits all the right marks – clean, refreshing, (obviously) minty, sweet and relaxing.
The perfect Christmas herbal.
Down to my last vestiges of this. I've had this tea for almost a year now; I'm surprised I held onto it this long. It was the first aged oolong I ever tried. Can't say I recognize any remnants of its Oriental Beauty heritage…but it's still quite fantastic in its own right. The Taiwanese measure tea by the overall sensation, not just taste. And with this one, I can see why.
At first, on initial taste, the aged nature of it is a little oft-putting. But done with short steeps over a period of minutes, it lends something unique and wonderfully medicinal. Oh, and I happen to like the taste of "ancient Buddhist calm". I can dig it.
I'm at the start of the busiest day at work I've had in awhile, and I needed a li'l happy juice calm. Already on my second mug.
Now that's old! If I wasn't so old already, I'd give aging oolongs a go. Fort Collins has a perfect climate for aging oolongs. It's high and dry. (Not so great for Puerh without a humidor).
You have to give aged oolongs a try. They'll get you tea-drunk like a partying Buddhist in ten seconds flat.
Just got this in the mail today. On Black Friday, no less. Oh wait, I just said it was Black Friday one post ago. Oh well, moving on.
Seems to be a Taiwanese sorta day. First a Taiwanese black tea, now a white. Nary an oolong on the tongue. How strange.
This is a very floral and leafy white tea. Brings me back to thoughts of a wild Chinese white, only lighter-bodied and more – I dunno – layered? It almost reminds me of white teas produced in the U.S.
And, yes, that's tall praise.
Black tea to get me through a Black Friday at work. Fitting. What else could impart some feeling of Zen while corralling Canadian children playing hockey in the hallways. Answer: An aged Taiwanese black tea. This stuff tastes like Buddhist chocolate. Or at least how I imagine chocolate Buddhists would taste.
I'll stop now…this is getting weird.
It being Thanksgiving Day – and given the fact that I'm working – I figured it a perfect time to down at least two pints of an American-grown tea. Not just American, one grown and processed in my own state. The leaves for this black tea were picked from a small tea garden as part of the Minto Island Growers outfit. J-TEA International purchased a heap of their leaves and processed them into a black tea product. Similar to a Taiwanese black.
This is my go-to tea when I'm on the go. I can steep it forever, and it doesn't bitter. The taste is malty, sweet, kinda fruity and…well…'Merica.
I even had to visit the garden it was grown from once WITH the tea in question. (http://steepstories.com/2013/08/14/tea-garden/)
Happy Thanks-Teaing, Steepster.
begging! I would love some of this tea to try with Eric at Happy Luckys! (I was born in Portland when my dad was at Seminary after WWII and Eric went to College in Washington). We've been waiting for the Oregon tea's. I've had the Skagit Valley tea…very nice.
Is this tea hard to get?
If I had more, I'd pass some on…but I've gone through quite a bit of it in the month I've had it. However, it is still available.
Link: http://jteainternational.com/tea-shop/black-tea/ (Top one.)


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23 And it came about that on the Sabbath day he was going through the grain-fields; and while they were walking, his disciples took the heads of grain. | 23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. |
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Doms is explaining how he's living life so fast that he's growing out of his youth. He has to face all the problems and pains that come with getting older.
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Should Chacarron be on the PA
Notre Dame High School has been playing rap on the PA system in the mornings for some time now. I feel this should stop now. Now is the time to let them know what torment this is to us, and I propose that we show them. By playing the song Chacarron on the PA system, it will give us the satisfaction of letting them know what we feel like, and hopefully end the practice that seems to have developped, of playing shit music (or any music at all for that matter [if we can\'t get along, no music should be played]) od playing rap in the mornings. Thank you.
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Taste of Chicago
Taste of Chicago is the nation's premier outdoor food festival showcasing the diversity of Chicago's dining community. The delicious array of food served at Taste of Chicago is complemented by music and exciting activities for the entire family. Every summer since 1980, Chicago's beautiful Grant Park on the city's magnificent lakefront has been home to the world's largest food festival.
CITY: Chicago
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Festival of the Vine
Geneva restaurants create an array of specialties under an outdoor tent at the "Flavor Fare" partnered with wine and live musical entertainment. The Fall Harvest Market offers food and floral demos, unique displays plus Kid's Patch activities. An arts and crafts show, flower market, horse-drawn carriage rides and several exceptional wine tasting and dinner events also take place around the historic downtown.
CITY: Geneva
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Chicago Flower & Garden Show
There's even more color, fragrance and roll-up-your-sleeves, good ideas at the next Chicago Flower & Garden Show presented by Mariano's, March 14-22, 2015 at Chicago's Navy Pier, the No. 1 tourist destination in Illinois. More than 20 feature gardens from top designers bring visitors the first joys of spring and exciting ways to "Do Green. Do Good." The Marketplace's 100 exhibitors is a shopper's paradise; the Kids Activity Garden is so much fun, kids don't realize how much they're learning about greening our world. Garden Gourmet features top chefs with cooking demos. Experts present seminars on the best tricks and tips of gardening; Tablescapes show the most gorgeous, dreamy decor for indoor or outdoor dining, and the "Art of Floral," features interpretive floral designs. For more information and tickets, including group tour rates, visit www.chicagoflower.com/
CITY: Chicago
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Long Grove's Annual Strawberry Festival
The pleasures of summer are celebrated with "berry" wonderful strawberry-inspired treats. Strawberry lovers of all ages flock to Long Grove's renown fest to enjoy chocolate covered strawberries, fruit smoothies, and other strawberry drinks, ice creams, strawberry donuts, baked goods and, of course, the farm-fresh berries themselves. There is free live entertainment all three days at venues all over town and most of Long Grove's many shops, galleries, cafes, and restaurants offer variations of strawberry-themed foods, drinks, and merchandise. Fun for All Ages Strawberry Fest features plenty of activities and fun for children, including a variety of kiddie rides, face painting and outdoor activities and tents full of family and education-oriented products.
CITY: Long Grove
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Findlay Walleye Festival
This yearly festival has plenty of entertainment, food and fun. The Walleye is a feature for the festival with the fish being served daily. There will be plenty of entertainment (bands), an ice cream social, fireworks on Friday (which will be moved to Saturday if there is rain), kids games, a farmer's market, tractor pull, car, truck, & motorcycle show, a 5K event and plenty more. A large parade starts at 10am on Saturday and there will be plenty of kids activities and games both days.
CITY: Findlay
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Cobden Peach Festival
Celebrate the local peach harvest, sponsored by the Cobden Lions Club. Join us for fresh peaches from local orchards, carnival rides and games, crowning of 'Miss Peach Queen', homemade food and peach cobbler & pie with a 5K run/walk and parade on Saturday. Free admission.
CITY: Cobden
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Long Grove's Annual Apple Festival
The distinctive Long Grove shops and restaurants help celebrate the Apple Festival with unique seasonal gifts and foods, including cider donuts, caramel apples and the Long Grove Apple Haus' famous brown bag apple pie. Live toe-tapping music, carriage rides, hayrides and children's activities round out the fest.
CITY: Long Grove
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12th Annual Spores N More Mushroom Festival
Come and enjoy the thrill of the hunt for the elusive morel mushroom or come and bid at the auction. Friday night kicks off the event with a welcome dinner, reception and speaker in Windsor. Saturday morning, come and join the hunt for a fee. If you like morels but not the hunt, come to the auction and bid for your winning batch. The 2015 hunt and auction will be based out of Shelbyville's Forest Park.
CITY: Shelbyville
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Windsor Harvest Picnic
Come and enjoy this family-friendly festival which is in its 118th year. Entertainment comes to you in gospel, country and rock, with entertainers from as far away as Australia.. Fountain City Amusements provides a carnival atmosphere with plenty of food as well as the Ice Cream Social. There is also a 5K run/walk, a pedal tractor pull, parade, and a raffle drawing. This year for one show only is Country Legend Marty Stuart.
CITY: Windsor
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HerrinFesta Italiana
"Ciao" on delicious Italian food and delight in a grand parade. There will be midway rides and games, live music, a bocce tournament, a grape stomp, a pasta cook-off, a kids pet and bike parade, a road race and an art contest.
CITY: Herrin
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Murphysboro Apple Festival
The Murphysboro Apple Festival is the oldest and largest, alcohol-free festival in Southern Illinois. Over 45,000 people attend the festival each year. During the five days of the Apple Festival, there are numerous activities drawing large crowds such as evening stage shows, carnival/concessions, Queen Contest, Prince and Princess Contest, contests from apple pie eating to apple core throwing, firefighters' water fights, marching band competition, car shows, Appletime 5K Walk/Run and much more. In addition, the festival's Grand Parade is one of the largest parade in Southern Illinois. The parade features an average of about 160 total units, 25 of those marching bands, and a variety of groups and organizations.
CITY: Murphysboro
Country Corner Farm Market & Pumpkin Patch
Farm, Fresh, Fun! Explore acres of pumpkins, a giant interactive adventure corn maze, farm-fresh produce, a petting zoo, craft barn, tree house and playground. Hayrack and pony rides, Mine for gems, ride the famous cow train. Special event weekends and concessions are also offered.U-pick pumpkins, interactive adventure corn maze and flashlight maze available in month of October. Ample parking and a nominal charge for activities. May through September 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Month of October Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and S
CITY: Alpha
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Long Grove's Chocolate Festival
Enjoy the sweet life! Back by popular demand, Long Grove invites you to enjoy the annual Long Grove Chocolate Fest, held every May. Families can fill a day – or a weekend – with chocolaty treats, live music, great food and distinctive shopping in charming Long Grove. Enjoy chocolate demonstrations and workshops, wine parings, live music all over town and plenty of children's activities. Long Grove combines the best of trendy shopping and dining with the ambiance of yesteryear. You will discover beautiful gardens, trendy shops, art galleries and one-of-a-kind restaurants.
CITY: Long Grove
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Pope County Deer Festival
The Pope County Deer Festival is a local tradition, held during the 1st shotgun deer season in Golconda, the 'Deer Capital' of Illinois. Held Thursday thru Saturday featuring vendors, food & music. A Deer Queen coronation on Friday night, a parade on Saturday at 2pm. On Sunday morning, a community breakfast and town sweep are held.
CITY: Golconda
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German Valley Days
This 41st annual hometown festival offers a Car Show, 5KRun/Walk, Parade, Stage Entertainment,Contests, Lil Miss and Mister Pageant, Punt, Pass and Kick Contest, Kiddie Tractor Pull, Pork Chop Barbecue, Pancake Breakfast, Water Fights, Fireworks, Concession and more! Friday: 5 pm - 10 pm; Saturday: 6 am - 10 pm; Sunday: 11 am - 4 pm.
CITY: German Valley
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Vernon Hills Summer Celebration 2015
Join us for 4 days of food, fun, carnival rides and free entertainment and a huge beer tent. There will also be children's activities, bingo, live bands every night and fireworks on Thursday. Friday night enjoy Modern Day Romeos and Mike & Joe. Saturday Bella Cain and headliner Lonestar will perform along with a car show from 9am-2pm. Sunday enjoy a bags tourny and the music of Kaleidoscope Eyes. Please visit the website for updated entertainment schedule. Bring a blanket but leave the coolers home; no alcohol can be brought into the park.
CITY: Vernon Hills
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Tower Hill Fall Festival
Held in the Village Park. This is the 29th year for the festival which has unique activities such as the Produce "500" which features vehicles made from produce from as small as a grape to as large as a watermelon. It also has a car and motorcycle show, garden tractor pulls, a tractor show, plenty of kids games a parade Saturday at 4:00 pm and entertainment along with the annual demo derby on Sunday.
CITY: Tower Hill
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Woodstock Groundhog Days
In 1992, something astonishing happened in the historic city of Woodstock, Illinois. People came to town and roped off the picturesque city square, moved all sorts of equipment into the park and started playing the Pennsylvania Polka, over and over and over again. They were filming a movie that has become a favorite of young and old for more than 20 years, and the city gathers each year to remember the fun and celebrate the special community that Woodstock has always been. There are events for everyone during this celebration: Groundhog trivia, free viewing of "Groundhog Day" at the movie theater, walking tours of the film sites, a Chili cook-off, a dinner and dance, bowling, and pancake breakfasts. The main event for Groundhog Day is the annual prognostication. Gather on the Woodstock Square to see Woodstock Willie emerge from his tree trunk home. If he sees his shadow, it means there will be 6 more weeks of winter and if he doesn't see his shadow, it means we will have an early Spring.
CITY: Woodstock
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30th Annual St. Charles Scarecrow Festival
More than 100 handcrafted Scarecrows on display. View and vote for your favorites. Huge juried craft show, carnival, great food, continuous free live entertainment, many free children's activities, make your own scarecrow, and much more! A celebration of the autumn season!
CITY: St. Charles
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Stephenson County Fair
Old fashioned county fair, with food, carnival rides, animals, entertainment, tractor pulls, Home Ec displays, animals, youth night, musical entertainment, commercial exhibits, 4-H and more.
CITY: Freeport
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Moweaqua Pow Wow Days
Come and enjoy this family-friendly festival with plenty of food, entertainment, and vendors everyday with a parade on Saturday. All of the events at the festival are located in the downtown park.
CITY: Moweaqua
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8 Miles of Ag-tiques
8 Miles of Ag-tiques begins on Highway 26 north of Orangeville. Each stop will feature different tractors including John Deere, Massey Harris, International Harvester, Oliver, Minneapolis-Moline, Allis Chalmers, and other old machinery from the Good Old Days. There will be food, craft shows, tractor drives on Saturday.
CITY: Orangeville
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87th Annual Lake County Fair
Come out and enjoy 5 days of fun at the 87th Annual Lake County Fair. Events at the fair include live entertainment, food vendors, carnival rides and games, live animals, motor crossing, banana derby, demolition derby, flower show, expo hall and so much more. Please visit the website for updated information.
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need help with this prog..
Write a program that reads in any 25 decimal numbers from standart input
source (terminal), determins the actual and absolute lowest & largest
values, and computes average of all the given numbers. You may use
any/all programming techniques we have learned in class, and only those
(no arrays, no recursion, no ADTs).
Sample run:
Please input 25 decimal numbers for processing:
5 d 6 7.4 8.23 0.216 -45.7 3 56 124 532 5.237 67.3 45.2 56.9
34.3 361.238 02 -34.2 348.2 32.45 0.33 1.56 7.45 -3.276
Actual Min: - 045.70
Actual Max: + 361.24
Absolute Min: + 000.22
Absolute Max: + 361.24
Absolute Total: 1887.187
Average: 75.487
if sample output inside the message is not formated, look for formated
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All output must be strictly formated:
- decimal points are aligned
- all min/max numbers are printed with precision of 2 decimal places
- total & average are printer with precision of 3 decimal places
- all min/max values have their signs printed, also with strict
formating (one column)
- always use absolute value to compute average
1. Do not write your own functions to handle input of all the special
cases, e.x. negative numbers, decimal, etc.
C++ library for cout/cin functions perform all that processing for you
2. you will have to write your own routeen to compute average
3. for that you will have to keep track of all the required
information, ex.
- real min/max
- absolute min/max
- absolute sum
4. you don't need to keep count how many numbers you totaled for
average computation - it is given to you in the problem statment - 25.
5. You must use some sort of a loop to read in all 25 numbers and
perform processing on each input as it comes in.
6. Do NOT write your own function to determine absolute value - use one
already provided to you in math library.
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ohk i wrote this in my prog
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
using namespace std;
void main()
//how can i declare 25 numbers?? thts y i m confuse i cant use array for this prog//
if someone can tell me how can i declare 25 numbers then i might able to do it
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Your assignment says to READ the numbers from STDIN. None of the statistics you're computing require you to have all 25 numbers at once so you can simply take each number as it's entered and run all your checks against it then return for the next number until you've read all 25.
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Now that we've arrived at the end of the century, one can glance back over the decades and pinpoint the influential titans who shaped the music we hear in our heads, homes, and Walkmans: Robert Johnson. Hank Williams. Muddy Waters. The Beatles. Bob Dylan. And New Kids on the Block.
Yes, that's a joke or is it? The current invasion of dance-happy, earnestly harmonizing boy bands owes a huge debt (or at least an extra large tube of Oxy) to the New Kids, five Boston teens who were transformed by producer-songwriter-Svengali Maurice Starr into an adenoidal money machine in the '80s. All the ingredients that constitute a typical Backstreet Boys or 'N Sync hit can be glimpsed in the New Kids' Greatest Hits, the first-ever overview of their recorded oeuvre. The contemporary style of reedy, lover-boy ballads like Backstreet Boys' ''I'll Never Break Your Heart'' is rooted in ''I'll Be Loving You (Forever),'' just as the concept of injecting black-music rhythms into white-bread teen pop (think: 'N Sync's ''Tearin' Up My Heart'') is heard in the tinny-machine electro-funk of ''You Got It (The Right Stuff).'' (Greatest Hits makes clear that Starr merely updated the Pat Boone formula co-opting black music for white audiences for a new generation.) When the current boy bands try to show off their hardened side, they rap; the New Kids, operating in the days before hip-hop was mainstream, preferred flaunting ersatz metal guitars (''Hangin' Tough''). What cargoes are to parachute pants, the Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, 'N Sync, and Boyzone are to New Kids.
Besides an inevitably short shelf life, New Kids (who collapsed after one last album in 1994) share one other element with their late-'90s heirs: Their success had more to do with the marketing of a teen-dream fantasy than the music itself. As Greatest Hits repeatedly demonstrates, Starr had about, oh, two memorable moments in him: ''Step by Step,'' whose propulsive chorus makes you forget the song's lame ''step one...step two...'' midsection, and ''Let's Try It Again,'' a well-crafted homage to '70s upscale harmonizers the Stylistics. Otherwise, the Kids were saddled with a string of cliched, mall-bland pop (and, in the genuinely strange ''Tonight,'' their own slice of psychedelic pop call it Sgt. Pimple's Lonely Hearts Club Band). Their legend stands tall, but their music still doesn't.
Slipped inside the Greatest Hits CD is a card promoting the first solo work by a New Kid the artist formerly known as Joe (now Joey) McIntyre's Stay the Same. McIntyre may have added an extra letter to his first name to shave off a few years (he's 26), but he works overtime to convince us that he's beyond Kid stuff. One moment he's a Babyface-style balladeer (''I Cried,'' ''Stay the Same''); the next, he makes like a grown-up new-jack love man cruising with his posse (''Give It Up,'' ''Let Me Take You for a Ride''). Whatever it takes for a comeback, McIntyre's ready and willing. Want the retro-soul moves of Jamiroquai (''Because of You'')? No problem! Need to hear pallid rap shout-outs in the songs? You got it! Crave the overemoting of a male diva (''Without Your Love'') or a rewrite of the disco-era Frankie Valli/Bee Gees hit ''Grease'' (''We Can Get Down'')? Comin' up!
In that sense, McIntyre who just a few years ago forsook teen pop and was filming the starring role in an unreleased movie adaptation of the Off Broadway show The Fantasticks is still a New Kid at heart, shamelessly plundering any number of soul styles. There's no doubt he's a pro: His singing and the overall presentation are effortless and assured. But even coming from a former New Kid, Stay the Same is an oddly hollow project. McIntyre may be in sync with the charts and the trends, but it appears as if he's still a stranger to himself.
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5 If I ever forget you, Jerusalem, let my fingers wither and fall off like leaves. | 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill]. |
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After all the soprano singing and stepped-up heaviness of Njord, this EP is dominated by acoustic tracks in a much greater proportion than Leaves' Eyes' albums are - four of the seven songs here are acoustic. The title track, 'At Heaven's End' is sure to satisfy devotees of this band, as it has all the same elements as songs like 'Solemn Sea', 'Legend Land' and so forth - "heavy", chugging guitars, catchy and slightly Viking-like melodies and a sense of epic scale. Mandatory growls of the chorus by Mr. Krull, who is essentially Leaves' Eyes' Bez. In fact, they should give him some maracas to keep him occupied on stage, seeing as he just wanders around occasionally yelling the title of the song.
'Angus and the Swan' is a fitting showcase of lovely Liv, whose breasts have noticeably dominated album covers to a greater and greater degree of late. The choral chants toward the end remind nostalgically of Sirenia in better days, while the folky melodies are more at home in this sparse setting. 'Irish Rain' is another simple, compact acoustic number, featuring Liv's sister Carmen Elise , who isn't a bad singer in her own right, as can be heard from her own folky symphonic project Midnattsol.
'The Battle of Maldon' is a more impressive evolution in style for the band, and although it starts damply things really get going later on with crashing drums and an anthemic chorus fitting the woman who brought the world' first lady metal band to attention. It's nice to hear some soprano from Liv as well, rather than just the sugar-sweet crooning that dominates 95% of things she sings on - here she's more intimidating, as on her appearance in Cradle of Filth's 'Nymphetamine.'
There is also yet another version of 'Scarborough Fair', which has now appeared on two EPs and the album Njord. Although Liv's performance is frickin' fine, nice and clear with an honest sound to it, there is too much going on. The fragile beauty of Simon & Garfunkel's reimagining of this wonderful traditional ballad was in its minimalist aesthetic. Here, there are punchy, strumming guitars, leaping synths, strings, tribal drums, bagpipes, all sorts. The simple wist of the song is buried beneath a ton of add-ons and studio tricks. 'Nine Wave Maidens' has an impressive orchestral stomp over its acoustic plucks, and an impassioned performance by Liv. The remix of 'My Destiny' is fairly damp, just a lot of synthesized strings and clomping computerized drums.
There is nothing much special here, considering that the only new tracks are the first two (the other songs appeared variously on Njord and the EP My Destiny) yet Leaves' Eyes must be admired for sticking to their quirky brand of gothic and symphonic metal. Overall it's a decent background listen and a reasonable investment if you follow the band, as there is a good deal of exclusive stuff if you don't possess the aforementioned EP, but I can't recommend it to new initiates. Plump for any of the band's albums you don't already own, if you can't bring yourself to delve further back and get your Liv-fix through an album like Aegis or Velvet Darkness They Fear.


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Jeff Szilagyi, 56, Oak Lawn
What are your hobbies?
"Horseshoes. I've been throwing horseshoes many, many years. There's not a lot of effort. I've been throwing 40 years, but you'd never know it. It's something to do."
What's the last movie you saw?
"I guess it was 'El Dorado' starring John Wayne. It's 'The Duke.' Robert Mitchum. James Caan, he was a kid then. Who's the other guy? Christopher George. He was great. These guys are great in these movies. I always follow 'The Duke.' "
What do you like about living in Oak Lawn?
"There's a lot of diversity, a lot of things to do here. Golf. Swimming pools. There are some good people in this town, other than the murders that took place a few weeks ago."
What would you do if you were mayor for a day?
"I'd probably ask why they wanted to privatize the 911 dispatchers. We had to have my mother taken to the hospital in October, and they were right there. Professional people. Absolutely. I'd ask why they changed the dispatchers."
Which person from history do you want to meet?
"Karen Carpenter. She was a great drummer. I saw her sing at the Arie Crown (Theater). I've got all the albums. Her sound can't be matched. Karen Carpenter was the greatest singer ever."
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There was a time when scratch games all but sold themselves. But in the past two decades the competition for the gambling dollar has dramatically increased. As a result, many state lotteries have redesigned their tickets. One important strategy involves the use of what lottery designers call extended play. Although extended-play games—sometimes referred to as baited hooks—tend to look like miniature spreadsheets, they've proven extremely popular with consumers. Instead of just scratching off the latex and immediately discovering a loser, players have to spend time matching up the revealed numbers with the boards. Ticket designers fill the cards with near-misses (two-in-a-row matchups instead of the necessary three) and players spend tantalizing seconds looking for their win. No wonder players get hooked.
Srivastava had been hooked by a different sort of lure—that spooky voice, whispering to him about a flaw in the game. At first, he tried to brush it aside. "Like everyone else, I assumed that the lottery was unbreakable," he says. "There's no way there could be a flaw, and there's no way I just happened to discover the flaw on my walk home."
And yet, his inner voice refused to pipe down. "I remember telling myself that the Ontario Lottery is a multibillion-dollar-a- year business," he says. "They must know what they're doing, right?"
That night, however, he realized that the voice was right: The tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of studying his tickets and some statistical sleuthing, but he discovered a defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential information about the digits hidden under the latex coating. Nothing needed to be scratched off—the ticket could be cracked if you knew the secret code.
The trick itself is ridiculously simple. (Srivastava would later teach it to his 8-year-old daughter.) Each ticket contained eight tic-tac-toe boards, and each space on those boards—72 in all—contained an exposed number from 1 to 39. As a result, some of these numbers were repeated multiple times. Perhaps the number 17 was repeated three times, and the number 38 was repeated twice. And a few numbers appeared only once on the entire card. Srivastava's startling insight was that he could separate the winning tickets from the losing tickets by looking at the number of times each of the digits occurred on the tic-tac-toe boards. In other words, he didn't look at the ticket as a sequence of 72 random digits. Instead, he categorized each number according to its frequency, counting how many times a given number showed up on a given ticket. "The numbers themselves couldn't have been more meaningless," he says. "But whether or not they were repeated told me nearly everything I needed to know." Srivastava was looking for singletons, numbers that appear only a single time on the visible tic-tac-toe boards. He realized that the singletons were almost always repeated under the latex coating. If three singletons appeared in a row on one of the eight boards, that ticket was probably a winner.
The next day, on his way into work, he stopped at the gas station and bought a few more tickets. Sure enough, all of these tickets contained the telltale pattern. The day after that he picked up even more tickets from different stores. These were also breakable. After analyzing his results, Srivastava realized that the singleton trick worked about 90 percent of the time, allowing him to pick the winning tickets before they were scratched.
His next thought was utterly predictable: "I remember thinking, I'm gonna be rich! I'm gonna plunder the lottery!" he says. However, these grandiose dreams soon gave way to more practical concerns. "Once I worked out how much money I could make if this was my full-time job, I got a lot less excited," Srivastava says. "I'd have to travel from store to store and spend 45 seconds cracking each card. I estimated that I could expect to make about $600 a day. That's not bad. But to be honest, I make more as a consultant, and I find consulting to be a lot more interesting than scratch lottery tickets."
Instead of secretly plundering the game, he decided to go to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. Srivastava thought its top officials might want to know about his discovery. Who knows, maybe they'd even hire him to give them statistical advice. "People often assume that I must be some extremely moral person because I didn't take advantage of the lottery," he says. "I can assure you that that's not the case. I'd simply done the math and concluded that beating the game wasn't worth my time."
When Srivastava reported his finding, he was referred to Rob Zufelt, a member of the lottery corporation's security team. After failing to make contact for a few days, he began to get frustrated: Why wasn't Zufelt taking his revelation more seriously? "I really got the feeling that he was brushing me off," Srivastava says. "But then I realized that to him I must sound like a crazy person—like one of those people who claims that he can crack the lotto draw because last night's number was his birthday spelled backward. No wonder they didn't want to talk to me." Instead of trying to get Zufelt to return his calls, Srivastava decided to send him a package. He bought 20 tic-tac-toe tickets and sorted them, unscratched, into piles of winners and losers. Then, he couriered the package to Zufelt along with the following note:
In the enclosed envelopes, I have sent you two groups of 10 TicTacToe tickets that I purchased from various outlets around Toronto in the past week… You go ahead and scratch off the cards. Maybe you can give one batch to your lottery ticket specialist. After you've scratched them off, you should have a pretty solid sense for whether or not there's something fishy here.
The package was sent at 10 am. Two hours later, he received a call from Zufelt. Srivastava had correctly predicted 19 out of the 20 tickets. The next day, the tic-tac-toe game was pulled from stores.


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..... C.C? O.o;;; It's good <3 Ha ha. Too bad I don't like her D:
Hey Pyro!! Did ya see my new siggy?? Huh?? Did ya?? ^_^ I really like it!!!
*blush* Not really. I'm just super glad I met some wonderful ppl on here. I really am. Things would be different if I hadn't met them.....
Thank you very much! Daww how sweet of you <33 You're a very kind person Renn =]
lolz Of course. I'm glad to have met you!! You're really cool Pyro!! XD
Oh yea xD Thank you for the mention there hon ^^ It was kind of you <3
I see you're already viewing my journal!!! XD You're in it!!! ~wheeee~
Oh that sounds really awesome, I wish you luck then deary!
lolz I am going to try to do a solo for tri-state (which is a contest.) I'm so nervous.....
I like singing too, just not one of my strong points, I sing ok. I suppose xD;; Not the best but eh, made it to honours choir like that.


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Why would anyone want to play football anywhere but Oregon when you see another August day with 75 degrees, a breeze, and no humidity? Get outta here! You don't get this and endure long winter months either…it is so temperate, and so lush and green unlike the fried brown states of SoCal, Arizona and Texas. It doesn't get any better than today for football practice….
Punting at times looked impressive with some 50-55 yard boomers,…and then he hit some low, line-drive 40 yarders. Rice didn't shank any, but he needs more consistency. Alejandro Maldonado has been no threat at all to his job, and the walk-on of years past (Tim Taylor) would have challenged better. It was entertaining to hear Coach "Oz" growl about guys standing around more than he'd like. "If you want to stand around and be a 6-6 team….go to Corvallis." Now I think he meant Seattle, as the Beavers have been pretty good recently, but the point was made. We are not like any of them, and are held to a higher standard. On another Special Teams play we saw Keanon Lowe field one of Rice's boomers and then turn upfield to get blasted by Michael Clay trailing the play. Welcome to Oregon! It brought a bunch of hoots from our sideline!
Noone was injured…(that I'm going to report)…and we continued to practice a formation that I love with several plays out of it….that I'm not telling you about.
I've been watching videos online of many of our games in years past to get a better feel for the entire gamut of plays that our Kelly Spread Offense contains. A play that we ran a lot in '07, and some in '08 is the triple option where we line with the backfield in the Inside Zone Read formation, (which we do a million times) with an H-back or flanker in motion. Pretty routine as you see that often. It turns into an Inside Zone Read one direction…which means that the defense is seeing the backfield lineup in advance and HAS to shift that direction to prevent a big gain up the middle, but then the QB pulls the ball and heads outside the other direction doing a double option with the flanker/H-back being the pitch man. If the defense shifts over to counter the Inside Zone Read….this is the perfect counter to their counter as we then go outside the other direction! There should be a shortage of defenders, hence I predict….SUCCESS. If they don't shift over…then the Inside Zone Read should be blocked well for success as well. Chip is a step ahead of any Defensive Coordinators…….
In previous reports I explained the differences between the Inside Zone Read and Outside Zone Read, and how to identify them primarily on backfield formation and by watching the blocking. It's not foolproof as already Gageac and I detected an anomaly to that rule, but it is consistent the vast majority of the time. These two formations are the basis for tons of play-action pass series and other play variations that spring offshoots from these two foundation plays of the Chip Kelly Spread Offense. The internet was buzzing about how Coach Kelly began Zone Reading the Defensive Tackle of the defender occupying the "3"Technique position. Then others began to chime in about how it really began back in the '08 Holiday Bowl. Today I watched Dennis Dixon in the 2007 USC game Zone Read a Defensive Tackle for an easy eight yard Touchdown. The writers/sportscasters/sound bite professionals really have no clue. Go back to my reports, take the time to learn, and you will know more than the talking heads on ESPN most of the time. (unless it's Coach Bellotti teaching us) In the USC game last year….Herbie diagrammed how the DE was Zone Read, and Carson York caved his guy in. Actually it was the DT being Zone Read, and it was WEEMS who made the key block. These guys should be ashamed; if I had spent the hours in the prior week preparing for a game as they do…I would know more!
Darron Thomas does the Outside Zone Read and hands off to LaMichael James who is headed to the corner. Eddie Pleasant is parallel to the LOS and is trying to put on the burners to meet him at the corner. These are two VERY fast warriors butting heads, and my interest was up a notch to see how this played out. Suddenly, James stopped on a dime and did the infamous "cut-up" that Coach Kelly has spoken of in his coaching clinics. It is not a cut-back, but a cut-up where you stop-plant-and-liftoff into an open gap before the sideline. You heard the collective "oohhh" from the crowd surrounding me, and LaMike cut-up for ten yards before backside pursuit made the tag. (remember…it's not a scrimmage)
Make the defense conscious of the inside….and then go outside. Make them paranoid about the breaking outside contain…and you use the double-option Inside Shovel pass. This play goes back four years at Oregon and is a staple of Urban Meyer's attack at Utah, and Florida currently, as Chip blows the dust off plays when the current personnel match up well with it. I'm assuming that the vision of both QBs allows this play to return and put pressure on the defense on the outer edges of its inside gap control, and outside contain simultaneous. A very nasty strategy that creates mistakes regardless of the preparation! Whoa baby!
Gentlemen….I need your help. The events of this last summer has illustrated a need that passionate Oregon fans who want to learn more as I did…do not have available Oregon sites to learn from. A site, Trojan Football Analysis, is an example of how they analyze their team, and study the teams they play. (Like a Cal equivalent…it is free and available for all to learn) I found it shameful to learn more about the basic plays of the Oregon Offense…from opponent's boards! I intend to create something to fill that void…either a website or a page on a current website that is accessible to all. If you are a website, a media station of some type, or a magazine and are looking to do this…we should talk. Most sites are not interested, but I see this as the next evolutionary phase of a sports website.
In particular I need help with the technology. I wish to have my explanations with VIDEO in slow motion with arrows, circles and indicators (to my voice) to help the reader learn the fine points faster than we're currently getting…which isn't much. We will learn about blitzes, blocking assignments, receiver tips, etc, thus more than just Xs and Os. As you've seen with my writing…it will be simple for all to understand, and it will be a ton of information offered. (Like my writing has shown) Everything is to be cleared by coaches as I did with the New Defense Announcement. Put my research together with good techno work….and Oregon fans will enjoy their beloved Ducks that much more. Will you work for free as I have? Jump in, help your fellow ducks, and contact me!
I glance over from the sideline to see Baseball Coach George Horton with his wife Francie, and I introduce myself and tell him how much I enjoyed attending so many Baseball games last spring. When I refer to the amazing success in only the second year, he responds with, "well, we're really going to be good this year." I thought we were good this last year! When he said it….I saw a perfect blend of confidence without being arrogant. He was sincere and clearly had high expectations without being afraid of not meeting his high bar set. When I expressed regret at the four pitchers he signed who went pro….he said "not to worry. The scholarships worked out right on the nose as he signed some highly talented players who turned down nearly 3/4ths of a million dollars to play for Coach Horton and Oregon! He felt it all worked out well, and that we were loaded for success this coming year. Wow! He spoke with a quiet confidence, but a friendly charm as he also exuded the aura of a man in command. He knows what he knows….and he's has the confidence in himself and his coaching to express it. After we finish, I return to the sideline….look at Chip, and begin to count our blessings at Oregon for the leaders that we have!
I've been trying to figure a description of Josh Huff for people to picture as I admire the thick legs of this newbie WR. Then those legs reminded me of LB legs….so think of BoLo legs with a WR upper build at six feet tall. He looks ready-made to play now, and he hauled in a long beauty from Thomas that I doubted he could catch. He had to delay his leap, contort backward,  and pull in the ball away from the DB…but the battle left him defenseless from the wicked impact on the ground. He got up slow…and went to the sideline to catch his breath and let the smarting of the whack on his side ease up. He pulled in another dandy from Bennett in the 3-on-2s that barely cleared the DB, but required him to lay out in front. He did, and got the catch and a reaction from the galley as we celebrated the effort and extreme athletic ability. Diante who?
Hoffman is acting and playing like a scholarship player that he is. The 3-on-2s is a drill where three defenders are playing a matchup zone defense against two receivers…which is something they will face. WRs must run their initial routes, and then go into predetermined ancillary patterns that the QB understands is developing. Problem is that while you explode out of your cut into the next pattern….the DB has seen this process a hundred times in practice already. Justin burns the Zone defense outside, but waits for the millisecond defensive commitment to turn upfield and haul in a longer pass where he shields the defender from the ball based upon trajectory. It is such a heady smart play done in half a second and requires the athleticism not seen from a walk-on since Jason Willis of ten years ago. (Damn good company Hoffman!) He is going to take the "possession WR…the 3rd down specialist" from Maehl as Jeff is moving up. Justin's got bulk for blocking, speed for separation, and smarts to make it happen. A Eugene duck that makes us all proud!
Maehl is hurting our QBs. He is blowing up as a receiver rarely seen anywhere; he is always open and the QBs know this and focus upon him too much. It becomes ridiculous when Costa throws up a 35 yard prayer that is short and shouts pick, yet Jeff goes up, outfights the DB for the ball, and pulls it close to the body and moving the body so that the ball doesn't touch when he crashes to the ground. I couldn't decide how to react; it was an INCREDIBLE catch….but Nate should have never thrown it. Jeff's in rare air….and the comparison I made to Cristin McLemore last report began to come to mind again. McLemore felt that, "no one can cover him!" Maehl is shouting that with his body language and his results. He's hurting our QBs now, but will be quite the weapon when we strap it up for games. Good for him!
The defensive play of the game occurred when Brandon Bair blocked a DT pass and Terrell Turner caught it returned it for a TD! (I didn't know that DEs could get high enough for a leaping "bump" but TT did it well!
Coach Kelly did some "attitude adjustment" of a newbie when he told him that he is NOT to jaw at the officials. "You play and keep your mouth shut." OK…me too.
I'll let you read about the one-on-one competitions elsewhere as the defensive and offensive linemen try to root each other out backward. Many websites and Rob Moseley do a good job describing it, but I saw something that made me ponder. Some rookies surprised me by the strength and techniques. Nick Rowland, and in particular, Karrington Armstrong won in grand style. Armstrong is a big player, but his form was so superb and almost appeared effortless. My friends, that is when you have a player with extreme athleticism because it is the only way to make it look easy or routine. I've never noticed him before, but FishDuck is going to keep an eye on this member of the young guns coming up on the offensive line.
The final play that resulted in a blitz which overloaded the left side by Pleasant (Safety) and Kaddu (Linebacker) reminded me of the fourth down against UCLA where we did a similar thing and swamped that play as well. Defense wins the Competition Day on the last play again. Coach Aliotti is a wily one!
The QBs thrill and frustrate. Nate threw some sweet passes, but throws too many boneheaded picks still. Darron holds the ball WAY TOO MUCH, and he gonna get killed doing that. Add to my concerns about his pocket presence….and I see why he looks to Maehl all the time. Costa threw some nice balls to Davis, and Cantu on both long and shorter patterns. Yet DT threw a long beauty to walk-on Will Murphy that anybody would have been pleased with. I saw a wonderful Inside Zone Read fake that turned to a play-action pass. Noone was open so Thomas ran to open field for a wonderful 15 yard gain. Very Dixon-esque.
Bottom line? The offensive results would have been better against prior Oregon defenses; I maintain that this defense…this year is special. You're not going to have Rowe-Matthews-Bair-Paysinger-Boyett-Jackson-Pleasant playing together again. Some will…but not this special group, and I sense they know it and want to make the most of this unique year together. We are going to have some breathless moments from our defense. Count on it.
Ponder this one….we line up on offense and we are breathlessly moving into position in our No-Huddle Offense. This has been happening all game, and the defense is becoming fatigued and caring less about being in precise position since the primary objective is to get air in the lungs again. The defense sees that we are lined up for an Inside Zone Read to our right and the defensive signal comes in to shift over to counter it. The defense gets into position as the QB barks out signals, and as he calls out….he hesitates and then the RB shifts over to an Inside Zone Read to the left! There is no time to shift back as the ball is whipped up to the QB; in fact the defense is now shifted and slanted away from the play which means that our offense is running that play with an extra blocker to the defense's weakened side. It goes for touchdown that could not have been stopped.
I just described the game winning play in the second overtime against Arizona.
They were caught flat-footed, and our adjustment done in the second before the snap made all the difference. This is something that I didn't see until this summer, as I didn't really know what an Inside Zone Read was until a month ago. (Trust me…most don't, including many who read my report. You have to see it on replay to understand) We were practicing this and did it in today's practice. Now the variation practiced was different, but the strategy was the same; as a defense…there is nothing you can do with a last second offensive adjustment and you're screwed. It is another area that I marvel at the simple brilliance of our offense. The defense can line up right and still lose? Holy Crap!
I keep eyeing the sidelines looking for a special someone who can make my dreams come true. (Not a female…I'm happily married) He turns the corner and I approach the Sports Information Director at Oregon with a cooing voice, "how is my good friend Dave?" He has known me on the sidelines for many years, and knows of my reports. He smiles and asks, "you want in….don't you?" He knows I'm dying to get into the closed Scrimmage next Thursday, and he politely explains how NOBODY is allowed in…not even press or media. As I'm pleading my futile case….BadMotherDuck comes by to chime in and spoil my carefully crafted bullet points. "Sigh." BadMother is like a problem child….you love him, but boy he can be a pain sometimes. It was to no avail anyway. This is the last report for fall!
Final thoughts? My head says that with new QBs we get 9, maybe 10 wins if all goes well. My heart says….we can go undefeated. We have a fortuitous matching of USC reeling, a weak Pac-10, (I think only three will be in the final top 25) and we face the toughest in Arizona and Stanford at home. Not easy, but We Can Do This. I have never watched both sides of the ball be so good in the same fall camp as this year. Yeah…we can falter with injuries or brain-dead Quarterbacking, but I think we'll be OK in both those areas.
We can be as fans like our leaders; confident but not arrogant. We can state our goals and respect our opponents, and yet brave enough to articulate our dreams while believing it can happen.
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If this is too complex, then buy a TV dinner! This is a delicious recipe - light yet filling.
Hey Previous Reviewer, no one's forcing you to make this dish and I don't see it recommended for you, your kids, or your extended family. So if it doesn't agree with you, why don't you just open a flat of Cup O' Noodles which are quick and easy and your whole family can get in on the fun.


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January 27th from 5:00 - 6:30pm in Damen Student Center 216 Join us for dinner and dialogue to explore the connections leadership and positivity. Although students are are welcome to attend without contacting us in advance, space is limited and we want to make sure that we order enough food so please try to RSVP at least 48 hours in advance to Katerina Reilly at email@example.com.
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2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. | 2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras. |
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After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Deveaux has been living in Bristol under the close watch of her parents. So when her therapist suddenly suggests she return to Wexford, Rory jumps at the chance to get back to her friends.
But Rory's brush with the Ripper touched her more than she thought possible: She's become a human terminus, with the power to eliminate ghosts on contact. She soon finds out that the Shades - the city's secret ghost-fighting police - are responsible for her return. The Ripper may be gone, but now there is a string of new inexplicable deaths threatening London. Rory has evidence that the deaths are no coincidence. Something much more sinister is going on, and now she must convince the squad to listen to her before it's too late.
In this follow-up to the Edgar Award-nominated The Name of the Star, Maureen Johnson adds another layer of spectacularly gruesome details to the streets of London that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
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46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold , and said , It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you , and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo , we turn to the Gentiles. | 46 Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: "We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. |
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