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July 15, 2014 — This week on "Federal Tech Talk", host John Gilroy interviews Chris Carlson, CEO of Retriever Consulting.
Most listeners are familiar with virtualization when it comes to servers or, perhaps, desktops. Today we'll take a look at a new aspect of virtualization – a concept called containers.
Here is the problem that federal information professionals face: they are getting strongly encouraged to move applications to the cloud. They are also strongly encouraged to use agile software development methodologies.
The problem is that if you are a project leader and want to move an app to the cloud you must first go through multiple tests, then pre-production environments, then into production.
Each step along the way can cause a team to conflict. The developers bump heads with the testers and the operations people don't communicate clearly to the developers.
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Using containers allows for continuous delivery because the DevOps team doesn't have to set up an entire operating system just to test an application. They can use Docker to put that application into a closed environment that just uses the part of the operating system that is relevant.
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How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time
Very interesting article by Dr. Jonathan Berger! "One evening, some 40 years ago, I got lost in time. I was at a performance of Schubert's String Quintet in C major. During the second movement I had the unnerving feeling that time was literally grinding to a halt. The sensation was powerful, visceral, overwhelming. It was a life-changing moment, or, as it felt at the time, a life-changing eon.
It has been my goal ever since to compose music that usurps the perceived flow of time and commandeers the sense of how time passes. Although I've learned to manipulate subjective time, I still stand in awe of Schubert's unparalleled power. Nearly two centuries ago, the composer anticipated the neurological underpinnings of time perception that science has underscored in the past few decades."
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July 21- Soundgarden- Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
July 30- Rage Against the Machine/Muse- LA Coliseum
Oct 21- Portishead- Berkeley Greek
Nov 18- Pixies- Fox Theater Bakersfield
Thank you, where have you been, I got my new custom...
this a joke or something?
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Sure David, they are totally gonna play this at APW right?
denimgaze huh?
complete with 20 minute 'yodel and washboard' solo
I feel that this is a rickroll.
I will listen anyways.
"It began as a mistake" - Charles Bukowski
1. Nachos
2. Puppies
This IS a rickroll, but worse.
"It began as a mistake" - Charles Bukowski
1. Nachos
2. Puppies
Also, this is TOTALLY a mashup.
Oh yes, I am stating the obvious, I know.
"It began as a mistake" - Charles Bukowski
1. Nachos
2. Puppies
July 21- Soundgarden- Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
July 30- Rage Against the Machine/Muse- LA Coliseum
Oct 21- Portishead- Berkeley Greek
Nov 18- Pixies- Fox Theater Bakersfield
aw, my hopes were up for a tiny bit
I got excited, thinking I was going to hear this at my Richmond gig in a few weeks.
Damnit, David....
Damn you for having a Richmond gig to go to in a few weeks!
5/15 - Muse - Mayan
5/23 - Ceremony - Echoplex (?)
5/26 - Refused - Roxy
5/27 - Neutral Milk Hotel - Warner Grand (?)
5/30 - Spoon - Wiltern (?)
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4/8 Ride @ The Roxy, 4/10 St. Vincent @ The Cosmopolitan, 4/14 Barry Manilow @ Staples Center, 5/2 Desert Daze, 5/8-10 Levitation, 5/16 The Juan Maclean @ The Regent, 6/10 Emmy the Great @ Hotel Cafe, 6/12 Emmy the Great @ Hotel Utah
That they do. Well done, Norva. I'm tempted to go to that gig.
you're really welcome...they're only snippets but its better than nothing.
'cowboy song'
'bilinda's song'
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Kevin Song www.mediafire.com/?zmygjz2d3lc
Bilinda Song www.mediafire.com/?wgwzaom5qmn
Cowboy Song www.mediafire.com/?j1mwoxyttnm
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i assure you, no joking this time...
if those are in fact real i enjoyed kevin's song and belinda's song very much. city girl has been my favorite post my bloody valentine song, and probably my favorite soundtrack all-time. have been looking forward to a new album. hopefully we see soon rather than later.
cowboy song is an isn't anything era demo from the late 80's but the other 2 are post creation/tremelo material. based off the drumming alone which is not programmed and most definitely colm, i think these are legit.
You can't see me, but I am quietly weeping with joy. David, where did you find these?
Oh and when I clicked on your Kevin's song link Mr. Nipples I got another a version of cowboy's song.
So here. It's just a demo but it's awesome. (from 1989 has been said?)
Kevin's song
Where's the rest of the tracks, it made a unreleased and remastered album these are songs 3,6,7, the rest would be gold...
Anything that I haven't heard from MBV makes me happy.
These are soooo delicious. I can't get enough, I've listened to them 4 times on repeat already. Bilinda's Song is the best. Cowboy Song not quite as awesome as the other two but still a tasty little treat. Thank you Nipples.


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iTunes | Download (mp3) | RSS | iPhone AppComedian, podcaster, rogue philosopher and magick maker Duncan Trussell returns to shake things up in this corner of the multiverse. Trussell talks about fighting cancer, spiritual growth and pot pie dinners. Tune in.
Tag Archives | Cancer
Why Cancer Conspiracy Theories Really Piss People Off
Cath Ennis, an expat Brit working as a cancer genomics project manager in Vancouver, Canada, explains why she's feeling so crabby about cancer conspiracy theories in the Guardian:
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I remember exactly where I was the very first time I learned that I was part of a global conspiracy, raking in millions of dollars and laughing sadistically as people died all around me: I was at my friends' 2004 Christmas party, and had just told a fellow guest that I was a research scientist and worked at the BC Cancer Agency.
The millions of dollars were news to me, given that as a freshly minted PhD I was making C$35,000 (£22,000) a year at the time. However, what really took me aback was the sheer vehemence of the anger being directed at me by my friends' new neighbour. He jabbed his finger at me as he raised his voice and ranted about how "all you scientists are sitting on a 100% effective cure for cancer" ("a bunch of vitamins smushed together with proteins" were his exact words), watching millions of people die as we counted the royalty money from the "useless poisons" we were forcing people to take.
Seven Year-Old Girl Battles Leukemia With Medical Marijuana
Stanislaw Burzynski and the Antineoplaston Scam
[Note: the opinions expressed below are those of the contributor alone and publication does not indicate that The Disinformation Company endorses those opinions. This post was submitted as a response to the earlier post Burzynski: Fighting the Big Pharma Cartel to Cure Cancer.]Over 10 years ago, a friend of mine whose son had spent the better part of the past year fighting a brain tumor called me and said that her boy was too sick to be included in an experimental trial at St. Jude's. She was truly disconsolate and desperate. She told me that she had heard of a doctor "out West" who was treating cancer patients with an extract of human urine and was reported to have cured all sorts of cancers. With a very heavy heart I had to destroy the last hope for a cure for her son; if he had really cured cancer, he would have multiple Nobel Prizes for curing one of man's most universally feared scourges. She was devastated, but she saved her son the trial of a last long trip, and he died peacefully at home a few weeks later, which I guess is worth something. I never forgave that doctor for putting me in that position, and only last year I found out who he was. His name is Stanislaw Burzynski. He works out of his clinic in Houston. He is the discoverer, manufacturer, prescriber, and dispenser of what he calls "antineoplastons" (ANP), which he first extracted from human urine in the 1970s but now produces synthetically. I learned his name because an occasional employee of his had sent legalistic threats to bloggers who questioned the validity of his treatments, which he has given for over 30 years under the guise of "clinical testing" with staggeringly unpromising results. What brought Burzynski back to the attention of the blogosphere was the way that Burzynski's shill and occasional hired help, Marc Stephens, not only threatened teenageer Rhys Morgan's family with legal action but also sent them a picture of their house, the unmistakable message "we know where you live." Despite the thuggery of some of his supporters (which included the creation of a website at the same IP as burzynskipatientgroup.org that defamed numerous skeptics, myself included, as pederasts), his decades-long failure to produce a single convincing study about ANP's efficacy...
Burzynski: Fighting the Big Pharma Cartel to Cure Cancer
[Note: the opinions expressed below are those of the contributor alone and publication does not indicate that The Disinformation Company endorses those opinions.]My friend Talitha Thayla organized a screening of Burzynski: The Movie at Traditions Cafe in downtown Olympia, WA. It's a movie about the legal struggles of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, a physician whose antineoplaston cancer treatments has earned the ire of the United States Food and Drug Administration. The movie depicts patients being cured of aggressive brain cancers when the only alternative was crippling doses of radiation and chemo. You can watch the video in this post. As I watched the movie a familiar pattern unfolded: A monopolistic big business cartel uses the legal system to conduct a witch hunt against an individual who threatens their hegemony in keeping themselves rich and the public powerless. Only this time there is a refreshing twist: Burzynski is making headway in the fight. He's beaten the Texas Medical Board's and the FDA's malicious prosecutions Five times. One thing the FDA in its witch hunt against Dr. Burzynski never denied: His natural, non-invasive non-toxic therapy cures cancer. Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business from BurzynskiMovie on Vimeo.
The Pro-Cancer Lobby In Washington D.C.
In the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof describes what he terms the "cancer lobby" — how major industry spends millions of dollars to influence Congress in support of carcinogenic chemicals:
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Who knew that carcinogens had their own lobby in Washington? Just consider formaldehyde, which is found in everything from nail polish to kitchen countertops, fabric softeners to carpets. Largely because of its use in building materials, we breathe formaldehyde fumes when we're inside our homes. According to government scientists, it causes cancer.
The chemical industry is working frantically to suppress that scientific consensus — because it fears "public confusion." Big Chem apparently worries that you might be confused if you learned that formaldehyde caused cancer of the nose and throat, and perhaps leukemia.
The industry's strategy is to lobby Congress to cut off money for the Report on Carcinogens, a 500-page consensus document published every two years by the National Institutes of Health, containing the best information about what agents cause cancer.
Mounting Research Shows Marijuana Fights Cancer
Will the jaws of future generations drop in amazement when they learn that marijuana was banned in our society as a criminal substance? Via the Daily Beast:
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Mounting evidence shows 'cannabinoids' in marijuana slow cancer growth, inhibit formation of new blood cells that feed a tumor, and help manage pain, fatigue, nausea, and other side effects. [This] offers hope of a non-toxic therapy that could treat aggressive forms of cancer without any of the painful side effects of chemotherapy.
Cristina Sanchez, a young biologist at Complutense University in Madrid, was studying cell metabolism when she noticed something peculiar. She had been screening brain cancer cells [and realized] the cancer cells died each time they were exposed to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive ingredient of marijuana.
Sanchez had stumbled upon the anti-cancer properties of THC. Subsequent peer-reviewed studies in several countries would show that THC and other marijuana-derived compounds, known as "cannabinoids," are effective not only for cancer-symptom management (nausea, pain, loss of appetite, fatigue), they also confer a direct antitumoral effect.
Study: Sunbed Tanning Kills 800 People In Europe Every Year
When the quest for the outward appearance of vibrant health hastens death. AFP reports:
Sunbed users run a 20 percent higher risk than non-users of developing skin cancer, according to a report that blamed some 800 melanoma deaths in Europe every year on indoor tanning.
About 3,400 of some 64,000 new cases of cutaneous melanoma diagnosed in 18 European countries every year are related to sunbed use — more than five percent, said a statement issued by the BMJ medical journal. The risk doubled if tanners started before the age of 35.
The findings were based on an analysis by researchers of 27 studies on skin cancer and sunbed use conducted between 1981 and 2012 in Britain, France, Germany and other countries.
Nifty Neat Fluorescent Bulbs Cause Ultraviolet Skin Damage
From the office of unintended consequences:
A recent scientific report highlighted at Popular Science indicates that those energy-saving fluorescent bulbs may not be all they're – ahem – cracked up to be. The study, led by a team at Stony Brook, revealed that microscopic fissures in the bulbs can expose skin to harmful UV rays, resulting in potential cellular damage.
Is it anything to worry about? Probably not, but it's a reminder that there is always a potentially hazardous side to any technological innovation, some of which aren't apparent until its too late.
I'm reminded of the "radium girls" who worked the lines painting clock dials with the radioactive substance at the Waterbury Clock Factory in Ottawa, IL. They'd lick their brushes to keep the tips pointed between clocks, and some of them would paint it on their buttons for fun. After all, radium was harmless, right?… Read the rest
"Stop Fucking With the Soy": Anti-Monsanto Activist Faced Anonymous Death Threats
Lucia Graves writes at the Huffington Post:
For 13 years Sofia Gatica has organized opposition to the aerial spraying of agrochemicals that threaten human health and the environment in Argentina — and for almost as long, she and her children have faced physical threats from anonymous agents.
Gatica, who lives in a working-class neighborhood of 6,000 in central Argentina surrounded by soy fields, began organizing against Monsanto after she noticed a disturbingly high rate of cancer and birth defects in her community. Her own 3-day-old daughter died of kidney failure in 1999, and a neighbor had a baby die of the same uncommon birth defect.
"I started seeing children with mouth covers, mothers with scarves wrapped around their heads to cover their baldness, due to chemotherapy," she told Grist in an interview, explaining what inspired her to co-found Mothers of Ituzaingó. The efforts of those half-dozen mothers, who began going from door to door collecting information on health problems in their community, led to the first epidemiological study that showed cancer rates in Gatica's hometown of Ituzaingó were 41 times the national average, with high rates of birth defects and infant mortality as well.Within a few years of the study's publication, and as her advocacy work gave her a higher profile, Gatica began to receive death threats, culminating in an incident in late 2007…
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Will Goldston
Will Goldston, (1878–1948), was a popular English stage magician in the first half of the 20th century.
He was born in the city of Liverpool and became interested in the subject at the age of eleven. As well as being a performer he was involved in the merchandising of "magic tricks" and was employed by the Gamages department store in central London, 1905-1914. During this time he edited the Magician Annual (1907–1912) and, in 1912, Will Goldston's Exclusive Magical Secrets in an edition of one thousand that was republished in 1977.[1] Later in his life he was noted as the person who cracked the "Zancig Code" used by the Danish illusionists of that name and was employed to 'prove' the authenticity of mediums and similar people.
He was a lifelong friend of Harry Houdini.[2] Goldston was the founder and president of the London-based Magicians' Club which he founded in 1911.
Goldston was one of the very few magicians to ever be converted to spiritualism.[3] He believed psychic phenomena and Spiritualism to be real, however, he also wrote that many mediums were frauds who used conjurer tricks. He summarized his views on Spiritualism in his book Tricks of the Masters (1942).[4]
- Tricks of the Masters (1942)
- Secrets of Famous Illusionists (1933)
- Simple Conjuring Tricks that Anybody Can Perform (1922)
- Tricks You Should Know (1920)
- The Young Conjurer: A Book for Amateurs (1919)
- Will Goldston's Easy Road to Magic: In Seven Lessons (1916)
- Will Goldston's Exclusive Magical Secrets (1912)
- Secrets of Stage Hypnotism, Stage Electricity, and Bloodless Surgery (1912)
- Secrets of Magic for Professional and Amateur Entertainers (1904)
- Crystal Gazing. Astrology, Palmistry, Planchette, and Spiritualism (1903)
More Tricks and Puzzles with Patter (1915)
- ^ Exclusive Magical Secrets by Will Goldston
- ^ John Clucas Cannell. (1931). The Secrets of Houdini. Dover Publications, Inc. p. 64
- ^ William Lindsay Gresham. (1959). Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls. Holt. p. 111
- ^ Will Goldston. (1942). Tricks Of The Masters. G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd. pp. 1-13
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After the Seine-Normandy caravan, our Breton office is now geting action with another educational caravan! From the 2nd to the 28th of June the Hissez Eau caravan will be anchoring in seven major ports that characterise Brittany's natural and cultural heritage in partnership with some of its most magnificent sailing boats. With these partner vessels and their crew, but also organisations and artists from the region, Surfrider will be holding Ocean Initiatives, awareness-raising workshops, conferences and art exhibitions. Do not hesitate to come and see the events to learn more about the sea and how to protect it. After all, it is the wealth and beauty of the Breton coastline!
2015/06/25 Holland Taken to Court by Its Citizens for Failure to Take Climate Actionby Surfrider
A World Premiere! 900 Dutch citizens, supported by the NGO Urgenda, won their case against the government at the Court in The Hague, which ruled that the measures taken so far to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient and falling short of previously made commitments. There was even talk of a "human rights violation".
2015/06/16 Surfrider Campus Tour 21: Act for the Ocean!by Emilie Chavaroche
On the occasion of World Ocean Day on the 8th of June 2014, Surfrider launched the Campus Tour 21: an educational journey with the aim to raise public awareness and […]
2015/05/29 The EU commits to monitor CO2 emissions linked with maritime transportby Surfrider
On Tuesday the 28th of April, the European parliament enacted new dispositions which could constitute a fundamental step in the struggle against greenhouse gas emissions from the numerous ships which circulate in EU waters. It is not yet a reduction measure, rather a preliminary act which the commission thinks necessary : in the next several years, an MRV protocol (monitoring, reporting and verification) will be set up, allowing the EU to control certain ships' greenhouse gas emissions when they circulate between, to, and from certain European ports. While numerous countries of the Union, including France, have been showing a lack of diligence in transposing EU maritime pollution regulations into national law over the last few years, this measure is obviously more than welcome. However, its application date is still far away and it is still only a precedent to future reduction measures.
The Hissez Eau caravan sets sail in Brittany!
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#someonesmissing? Act now if you want to surf tomorrow!
Disappearing waves, beach closings, health risks, limited access to surf breaks, meteorologic extremes… as water sports lovers, we are often confronted with the threats looming over the natural environment which is essential for our favorite sports. A few months away from the COP21 (the United Nations conference on climate change) which will be held in Paris in December, and while the environmental emergency is having a hard time obtaining the media coverage it needs, Surfrider Foundation Europe wishes to remind politicians and the public of what causes conditions to degrade. Therefore, the association wishes to mobilize all watermen around one petition so as to give them a common voice – let's protect the oceans! Spots and users are in danger! What threats are actually weighing on our practice?
The Seine-Normandy Caravan: fighting litter down the water
From this 24th of April onwards, Surfrider's Seine-Normandy educational caravan will begin an awareness raising journey in France, which will include six major stops between Châtillon Sur-Seine and Rouen. The trip will end on the 31st of May, after passing through Paris where the team will organize a conference as well as various activities at la Villette. During this adventure the main focus will be marine litter, an important source of pollution that Surfrider is fighting to eradicate. The caravan will combine Ocean Initiatives, public sensitization and educational activities, which will be supported by various partners. The aim is to make sure all local residents understand that the marine litter issue affects everybody and not just those living in coastal areas.
There is no time! Calling for an international agreement on climate change and large-scale mobilization in our society
With regard to the 2015 climate conference and on the occasion of two newly published CESE (French Council for Economy, Society and the Environment) reports, namely "Making the 2015 climate conference a success" and "20 years of fighting against climate change in France: results and prospects", organizations *CFDT- FNH- FNE – LPO – RAC F – SURFRIDER –H&B- UNSA* wish to make a common statement on the necessity to act in the state of emergency we are in.
The ocean, largest lung of the Earth: learn more about the ocean thanks to the Ocean and Climate platform!
The Ocean and Climate 2015 platform was founded in 2014 by a number of actors from the civil society, including Surfrider Foundation Europe, all of which are concerned with putting the ocean in the center of negotiations and international measures on climate. With COP 21 approaching (the United Nations conference on climate change to be held in Paris in December, which will define the next international commitments), the platform is more than ever set on making its slogan heard: "an ocean in good health is a protected climate!" The first achievement of this group is a range of information and awareness-raising tools that will allow you not only to follow them, but also to learn more about the oceans, their role in the climate and the threats which are looming above them


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Mixed and Muddled
We know what you're probably thinking: A smash sounds like it could be dangerous, and a caipirinha is exotic, at least, if nothing else. But a julep? How does the enjoyment of a julep equate to living dangerously?
For starters, the julep is a libation that has earned a passionate, devoted following, and connoisseurs take a very strong stance on how it should be made. No topic of conversation can turn the mood in a Southern cocktail lounge more quickly than how to make a proper mint julep, which combines fresh mint, bourbon, and sugar. This staple of the Kentucky Derby requires attention to every last detail, including the signature silver cup in which it is served.
Though the first mention of a julep dates back to 1400—then referred to as a syrup used to mask the bitterness of medicine—it became a quintessential American beverage with the addition of mint. Social historian Gerald Carson once mused that "none excels the harmony with which mint blends into a silver goblet filled with ice, a dusting of sugar, and several ounces of mellow bourbon."
Muddling the mint and sugar in the bottom of a glass is key to extracting the essential oils, but a proper julep begins with crushed ice. "Not only does it help the drink chill down faster, but it helps all the flavors of the julep to infuse much quicker," says Bridget Albert, the Chicago director of mixology for Southern Wine & Spirits of America.
Muddling serves as the defining technique for both smashes and caipirinhas, as well. Smashes, which emerged in the mid-19th century, muddle lemon and mint with a base spirit, while caipirinhas muddle lime and sugar with the South American spirit cachaça.
The Amazon Remedy
By Armando Rosario
- 2 oz. Veev Acai Spirit
- 1 oz. fresh lime juice
- 1 oz. agave nectar
- 1 tsp. fresh blueberries
- 4 sprigs of mint
Muddle mint in a tumbler glass. In a shaker, add blueberries, agave nectar, lime juice, spirit, and ice. Shake well and pour (do not strain) into the tumbler. Stir and garnish with mint and blueberries.
The 24-Hour Julep
By David Nepove
- 1 ½ oz. gin
- ½ oz. John D. Taylor's Velvet Falernum liqueur
- 2 oz. coconut water
- 4 mint sprigs
Muddle mint and liqueur in the bottom of a double old-fashioned glass. Add coconut water, gin, and crushed ice. Stir with a bar spoon until the outside of the glass frosts and leave the mint at the bottom of the glass. Top with more crushed ice. Garnish with mint and grapefruit peel.
Pineapple Tarragon Caipirinha
By Arturo Sighinolfi
- 2 oz. cachaça
- ¾ oz. agave nectar
- 5 lime wedges, halved
- ½ pineapple wheel, cut in small pieces
- 1 tarragon sprig
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of the ones I have been too:
1). Wrigley Field
2). Yankee Stadium
3). Comerica Park
4). Great American
5). Jack Murphy
6). Jacobs Field
7). Cinergy
8). Busch Stadium (though Busch has the best game day atmosphere)
of the ones I have been too:
1). Wrigley Field
2). Yankee Stadium
3). Comerica Park
4). Great American
5). Jack Murphy
6). Jacobs Field
7). Cinergy
8). Busch Stadium (though Busch has the best game day atmosphere)
PNC was so great because of the stadium and you walk out of the game to great bars. It's in a perfect location. I loved everything about Pittsburgh.
This is the time. The real Reds organization is back.
I'll be happy to give some of my reasons. But first, here is my current ranking of the ballparks I have been to:Originally Posted by The_jbh
1. Coors Field -- Is this heaven? No, it's Colorado
2. PNC Park -- What GABP could/should have been
3. Yankee Stadium -- Any current ballpark that Babe Ruth has actually batted in will score major points with me
4. Wrigley Field -- See No. 3 (However, the fact that the Cubs play here detracts from it in my book)
5. Old Tiger Stadium -- An overwhelming majority of Tigers fans surveyed by The Detroit News earlier this year said the Tigers should ditch Comerica and MOVE BACK to old Tiger Stadium
6. Dodger Stadium -- Simple yet beautiful baseball atmosphere
7. Riverfront Stadium -- Like R2D2, it was ugly and utilitarian but boy did it have some character
8. Jacobs Field -- The imposing stacks of luxury boxes ruin this park for me
9. Comerica Park -- It looks great but something just SEEMS a little off here
10. Old Cleveland Municipal Stadium -- Baseball wasn't meant to be played in such a monstrosity
11. Great American Ball Park
12. Bank One Ballpark -- Ugh
I might lose some rep points for "being negative," but Great American Ball Park was a major disappointment. First of all, the park is three years old and it's still surrounded by a huge empty lot with mounds of dirt. There is absolutely NOTHING to do around the park on the Cincinnati side of the river, unless you consider that horrible InBetween Tavern to be Major League-quality. That's not entirely the Reds fault (not entirely but definitly somewhat -- the Reds were adamant about not building the ballpark at Broadway Commons, which would have almost certainly blossomed into a destination point had a ballpark been built there. The Reds insisted on the tired riverfront, partly to avoid the pre-game competition from the inevitable bars and restaurants that would have sprung up at Broadway, and this is what we got.) It may not seem like a big deal to some, but while some ballparks are surrounded by ESPN Zones, Hard Rock Cafes and rows of unique sports-themed bars, we have one dilapidated bar in the GABP vicinity.
Here are some of my other problems with GABP, in no particular order:
* We're in the third season of baseball there and they can't seem to get the grass right. The outfield is spotted with lighter green splotches of grass. It just doesn't have that lush green feel with freshly mowed lines in unique designs that some other parks have.
* That black building in center field is atrocious. What were they thinking? Coors Field has a mountain scene with a waterfall in the same location. Other parks have trees and fountains. It's a horribly uninteresting piece of architecture and completely inconsistent with the rest of the ballpark -- but hey it makes money. (Right John Allen?)
* The huge Great American Insurance logo atop the outfield scoreboard. Most other new parks put the team logo in huge neon atop their scoreboards -- Indians, Phillies, Rockies, Braves. The Reds put a big insurance company logo. Boring. Takes away a big hometown feeling when you really can't identify with the Reds from any permanent feature of the park besides the small "Home of the Cincinnati Reds" sign below the press box.
* The "Hamilton County, Ohio welcomes you to Great American Ball Park" sign over the main entrance. Odd, to put it nicely.
* I don't have a big problem with the concept of riverboat smokestacks in the outfield, but that thing doesn't look anything like what you would see on the Delta Queen or the American Queen. I like that it shoots fireworks but what are those two "eye" things? Ridiculous.
* Only place to buy tickets is at the main ticket booth at Second and Main. If you're walking across the bridges from Newport (and that's where most of the pre and post-game activities are), you have to walk all the way around the ballpark to buy a ticket. Then, if you buy a seat in the outfield, you have to walk all the way back. Stupid.
* The Reds said when GABP was opening that they didn't want to copy the "retro" look of some other new parks. My question is: What's wrong with that? GABP looks like they tried too hard NOT to make it look retro. Instead it looks like a new Wal-Mart. It's shiney and brand-spanking new, sure. But it's uninteresting. The main concourses are dull with not a lot to do. The upper deck concourse on the first base line looks exactly like Riverfront's red seat concourse. And try walking around the outfield concourses -- it's filled with narrow, concrete-lined passageways that really go nowhere.
* The scoreboard graphics are lame. That faux newspaper they show before almost every batter is really unimaginative. The bugle charge sound is weak. That "GO (thump thump) GO (thump thump) GO (thump thump)" is creepy and I will take Riverfront's Mr. Reds Race any day over the current version. Seattle races boats around Puget Sound, Colorado racers start at Pikes Peak and finish at Coors Field. The three Reds racers run around cones set up on a baseball diamond.
In short, for what GABP cost, it seems like we were seriously short-changed. It doesn't inspire any love for the game on its own (neither did Riverfront really, but it wasn't meant for that). GABP came on the heals of some great parks -- PNC, SBC Park, Safeco, Camden Yards -- so I base it by what it COULD have been.
Last edited by Reds/Flyers Fan; 05-22-2005 at 11:23 PM.
Great post! But im out of rep points today.
I can't help but agree. GAB isn't terrible, but like everything else around this organization it seems halfway done. I hate beating a dead horse, but anyone that wants to see a real ballpark go to Pittsburgh.
This is the time. The real Reds organization is back.
Originally Posted by Reds/Flyers Fan
In short i totally agree with all this.....i would have loved to have seen a big White or red "C" reds logo on top of our scoreboard that would make the ballpark look 10 times nicer. I also believe alot of the ballparks are surrounded by ESPN Zones, Hard Rocks, etc. give the ballpark some character and give people other things to do so its more of an attraction. I mean when u go to the game there is simply nothing to do other than watch a game, and like an earlier post i have looked at all the quotes and such but its just plain dull and not creative. I also hate the fact that we just had to have it put by the river. PNC was an exception walking across the bridge there to go there was amazing and when u look out from the park its a city skyline unlike the Kentucky hills here. We should have put it in Broadway Commons and had a Cincy skyline to look at. Instead we walk down thru the city look at a big whole in the ground, see the offices and the reds hall of fame/dugout store and thats about it. Our statues were so uncreative its ridiculous, you go to other stadiums and there statues have 1 person in a different section doing some sort of pose and they are built upon bricks, concrete, or something of the like. Now at GABP we have our statues all in the middle of some grass it looks horrendous :thumbdown
Simply put Great American Ballpark was a Great American Disappointment
THE University of Cincinnati
I like GABP a lot. Compared to the stadiums that I have been to, it's great.
"My mission is to be the ray of hope, the guy who stands out there on that beautiful field and owns up to his mistakes and lets people know it's never completely hopeless, no matter how bad it seems at the time. I have a platform and a message, and now I go to bed at night, sober and happy, praying I can be a good messenger." -Josh Hamilton
Just curious what are some of the Best/worse ballparks you ever visited? I went to RFK last week and felt the place was in pretty bad shape, but had an otherwise great time in DC. Here are my lists
1. PNC Park
3. Old Tiger Stadium
4. Camden Yards
5. Minute Maid Park
6. Candlestick park
7. Yankee Stadium
8. Jacobs Field
9. Wrigley Field
10. Turner field
11. Comerica Park
12. Old Comisky
* I have never been to Fenway
1. RFK - to be fair they had very little time to prepare for the season
2. Cleveland Muncipal Staduim - about froze to death up there at a game in june!
3. New Comisky - When it first opened it was pretty bland - I understand they have made some improvements
4. Dodger Stadium - I know this might rile up the westcoast zoners but I did not find the park appealing at all! To be fair I onlty saw one game here and that was from the left field stands. I remember we had a hard time finding the park.
5.Busch Stadium - nothing special
I'll add to your list (there are quite a few I haven't been to).
SBC (San Fran)...outstanding.
Camden Yards
Yankee Stadium
The Vet...looked like an empty swimming pool. Good riddance
Shea...just awful
NJ's right, SBC is absolutly unbelievable.
I have been to 24 of the current and five of the old stadiums. I thought I put in my two cents. I have an affinity for the newer stadiums, so I have probably rated them higher.
My dad and I are taking our 4th annual baseball trip. This year we are hitting Turner. the Trop, and Dolphins Stadium.
1. Jacobs - I love the white steel. I get giddy every time I come into view of the stadium. Also, the Jake has the best mustard in the world.
2. Camden Yards the B&O warehouse make a great backdrop
3. GABP I know I am biased, but every time I go I get to see the Reds play.
4. Turner The monument grove and the outfield entrance have a great atmosphere.
5. Coors - The entrance is one of my favorites.
6. PNC probably one of the best views in baseball with Roberto Clemente Bridge in the background.
7. Dodgers - It is a classic.
8. Kauffmann The Dodger Stadium of the AL.
9. Yankee I got to see the Rockets first game as a 40 year old.
10. Fenway I saw a Zito - Lowe match up in 2002. Probably would have been higher if I have had better seats.
11. Riverfront this is probably higher than it should be, but going there as a kid I the 70s and 80s was always memorable.
12. The Ballpark at Arlington I love the shot of the Ballpark in the Rookie where the taxi brings Dennis Quaid there,
13. Bank One, Phoenix It reminds me a lot of Miller
14. Miller, Milwaukee - It reminds me a lot of the BOB
15. Safeco, Seattle - I missed the first half of the game, but it was one of Ichiros first games, so it was still exciting.
16. Comerica, Detroit I really like the statues in the outfield, but I g t a really bad sunburn that day.
17. Busch the best multi-purpose stadium.
18. Enron / Minute Maid - Nice, but a little too quirky in the outfield.
19. New Comiskey I really like this one probably more than I should.
20. Edison / Angels
21. Qualcomm Reminded me a lot of Riverfront.
22. Wrigley I know this is pretty low, but I am not the biggest fan. Every time I have gone the weather has been bad, getting there is a hassle, and it is full of Cubs fans.
23. Pro Player/ Dolphins - Its a football stadium. Just look at the name.
24. Municipal, Cleveland I got to see one of my favorite non-Reds, Reggie Jackson, hit a homerun when I was 7. I was wondering why we had to sit so far away when there where som many empty seats.
25. Olympic I must have gone to one of the few sellouts there in the last years.
26. Tropicana They try hard.
27. Skydome Its GINORMOUS!
28. Metrodome Its not the best place for baseball, but the teams have been decent lately.
29. Veterans All I can say is its gone.
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I agree with much of what Reds/Flyer's fan has to say about GABP.
Regarding things to do outside the stadium. It would be great if they could close down the road behind the stadium (Mehring Way?) and just make it a riverwalk with bars and restaurants. If they did that, maybe they could also put another ticket office down there so that people coming from that side don't have to walk all the way around the stadium.
I know they probably need that road, but it would be great if they could do this. The atmosphere around the stadium is flat out embarrassing.
The stadium itself looks incomplete. Way too much exposed concrete. The cages behind the bullpens are tacky looking. The Sun/Moon deck is a good idea (to take something from Crosley) but I would love to see an upper deck in RF, for monster blasts by Dunn and Griffey to land into. I mean, it's not like they can hit it into the river (like the Bay in SF), so why not have an upper deck to make the park more cozy. It just seems like they ran out of money towards the end and took some shortcuts. I agree that the smoke stacks and batter's eye are pretty cheesy. I remember reading a review somewhere that said the design is schizofrenic with no flow. I agree with this. Just a bunch scattered ideas that don't go together.
The Wedge. I was disappointed with it. I like the kids zone area and the front entrance, but agree that there should be other points to enter the stadium. The entrance (steps) to the bleachers in LCF is pathetic. The first time there, I almost left the stadium (gate) thinking that's where the steps were.
They really needed to take more of Crosley and incorporate it into the design. It was like they tried to take 10 different styles to please everyone and run with it. I know it's been copied by Houston already, but why not a terraced OF somewhere, to pay tribute to Crosley? I mean, this city has so much history and baseball tradition and it's a shame that more of that history is not incorporated into the designs of this park.
Honestly, If I knew they were going to take this many shortcuts, I'd have preferred they put 100-150 M back into Cinergy. It was actually starting to look good.
My ranking of stadiums I've been to:
1. Pac Bell -SBC
2. Jacobs Field
3. Wrigley
4. Cinergy (2001)
5. Great American Ball Park
6. Municipal Stadium
7. Riverfront
8. Three Rivers
Funny you talk about making it more cozy. I brought two friends down from school for a little road trip back in April. One friend is from Cleveland and the other from San Fran. Both of them said the same thing about GABP: it looks like it got jammed into the space where it was built. It struck me because of the whole wedge site and how they put it in so close to everything else. I agree with them that compared to other newer parks, it is more like a Fenway, built up instead of out. I guess this is good because it gives upper deck fans a closer experience, but it doesn't look as appealing on the inside.Originally Posted by BuckeyeRedleg
I personally love the entrance with the statues and the terraced hill going in. Everytime I go to a game, I love how there is that nice open space with the bricks, team shop, statues, and the like where everyone kind of congregates. If only they could build an outfield entrance like Pittsburgh's, the exterior would be great. Inside, I just wish we had more neat architectural design. I mean the park is pretty much like one you would make in a video game. I love in Pittsburgh with all of the different seating areas and how busy the inside of the stadium is. With GABP, it's like the designed the whole outside, then just shoved a standard configuration on seats inside it, too boring. I do like the power stacks and the batter's eye. You have to have a black backdrop in center field so making it into a party type of area was much nicer than just a big black screen like in many parks. I also love the extras like the fanzone, HOF, and teamshop. Also, GABP has some excellent food variety compared to other parks.
Overall, here is how I would rate my favorites (only stadiums I have toured or been to a game at):
1.) PNC, Pittsburgh - great park, great view, just love the interior design, it's truly a complete package.
2.) Fenway - I love the history here, and the coziness to it with the smallest attendance in the majors. With many of the new renovations set to occur, it will catch up with the current parks.
3.) Jacob's Field - been quite a few years since I've been here, but the Indians did it right. Love the scoreboard and the picnic area in center. Also it is very fan friendly.
5.) Wrigley - cool on the outside and gotta love the history. But the inside is rather dated from what I have heard (only walked around outside so this probably isn't a fair ranking).
6.) Skydome - very neat design, although not very baseball friendly. I love the hotel out in the outfield and the Hard Rock restaurant was a cool feature. Not a great place to watch a game compared to newer parks though, too big.
Every non-Reds fan I've spoken to who has been to GABP (5 in total...I know, small sample size ) has raved about it. I just don't understand why the harshest critics are always the Reds' fans themselves.
GAB and the Jake are fresh in my mind, so I'll compare the two.
The Jake is beautifully designed architecture. I was surprised by the elegant mix of steel, glass and stone.
It's also well-placed in the city, with a great view of tall big-city buildings.
But it also feels a little closed in, like a garden carved out of a canyon.
The concourse at the Jake is nice. Almost mall-like.
The scoreboard puts on an impressive show.
I kind of like GAB's openness, even though some people would rather have a view of a dramatic skyline than of the Kentucky shoreline.
I kind of like the way GAB's scoreboard focuses on baseball in an understated way, and is not such a logo explosion.
But the Great American logo is kind of a flimsy billboard. It lacks character or dimension or something.
Maybe the pitching would be better if the batter's eye wasn't such a good batter's eye. It's a big black hole of light back there.
I wonder if you could build and rent apartments on top of it.
The stadium "neighborhood" still suffers from the isolation of the highway, the bridges and the differences in elevation between the downtown and the riverfront.
It's just not a natural walking around kind of neighborhood. But then, the Jake has a few nice hotels and a great footprint, but the streets around it aren't exactly a boardwalk of happenings.
But Cincinnati's Hall of Fame is world class.
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Mary Ann Glendon on Today's University Students
"Generation Y Bears Unusual Burdens"
ROME, APRIL 5, 2004 (Zenit) - Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon prepared this address for the Pontifical Council for the Laity's 8th International Youth Forum, held near Rome this week. Glendon was recently named president of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences. The text was slightly adapted here.
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University Students Today: Portrait of a Generation Searching
By Mary Ann Glendon
Since most of you are students, I'm sure you know what it is like to be assigned to write a paper in a field where you are not an expert. So I think you can imagine my reaction when the Council for the Laity asked me to give a talk titled "University Students Today: Portrait of a New Generation." I was honored, but a bit daunted.
I. What the Social Scientists Say
I began my assignment the way you probably would. I went to the library to find out what the social scientists tell us. There I found that there is an enormous literature about the young men and women who were born after 1979, who came of age with the new century, and who for that reason are sometimes called the Millennials. In fact, no generation has been more studied than the cohort sometimes also known as Generation Y.
The social science data tells us that you are blessed in many ways. We are told that you are the best-educated generation in history. More young people from more diverse backgrounds are attending universities than ever before (although large gaps still exist between affluent and developing countries, and between rich and poor within the more affluent countries). Girls in particular have never had more opportunities to develop their full human potential.
A circumstance that has given a decisive stamp to your age group is that you and the personal computer grew up together. The first computers for homes, offices and schools were introduced by IBM in 1981, and you are skilled with them in a way that few of your elders will ever be. Another blessing many of you enjoy is that -- thanks to improved longevity -- no generation has ever had the opportunity to know their grandparents for so long a time.
In certain other respects, however, Generation Y bears unusual burdens. Probably nothing has had more profound influence on the hopes and fears of your generation than the social revolution that took place between the mid-1960s (when most of your parents were the age you are now) and the 1980s when most of you were born. Beginning in the 1960s, birth rates and marriage rates plummeted in the affluent nations of North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. At the same time, divorce rates rose steeply, as did the rates of births outside marriage, and the incidence of non-marital cohabitation.
The scale and speed of these phenomena were unprecedented -- with increases or decreases of more than 50% in less than 20 years. When these rates finally stabilized at their new, high levels toward the end of the 1980s, we found ourselves on a social landscape that was utterly and completely transformed. Customary understandings that had governed human sexual behavior for millennia were not only widely disregarded, but openly rejected.
With hindsight, we can see that the changes in behavior and ideas that took place in those years amounted to nothing less than a massive social experiment. Though few realized it at the time, it was an experiment that was conducted largely at the expense of children. We now understand what should have been obvious all along -- that when the behavior of adults changes, the environments in which children grow up are changed as well.
By giving priority to adults' quest for personal fulfillment, society changed the whole experience of childhood: More children than ever before grew up in households without fathers. More were left in non-parental care at younger ages. Little thought was given to what these changes might mean for children, or for the future of the societies most affected.
Some of you may have heard reflections on that subject by Father Tony Anatrella, the psychoanalyst who addressed this gathering last year. According to him, the changing experience of childhood has had an adverse effect on the ability of many young people to have trust in others, and even on their ability to have hope for the future. He was rather harsh in his criticism of the generation that came of age in the 1960s. He claimed that while they, like all parents, wanted their children to be happy, many failed to teach their children "the basic rules of social life, the customs that are the treasures of a people, and the Christian life that has been the matrix of diverse civilizations."
The story in the developing world is different, but changes in family life there have been equally rapid and profound. ...
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Cinnamon Brown Sugar Cookies
|Light butter
|3 Tablespoon, softened
|Packed brown sugar
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|1 Large
|Vanilla extract
|1 1⁄2 Teaspoon
|All purpose flour
|1 3⁄4 Cup (28 tbs) (Divided Into 1 1/2 Cups And 1 1/2 Teaspoons)
|Baking soda
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Ground cinnamon
|1 Teaspoon (Divided)
|Granulated sugar
|1 1⁄2 Tablespoon
1. Preheat oven to 375°.
2. Beat butter with a mixer at medium speed until creamy. Add brown sugar, beating well (mixture will be crumbly). Add egg and vanilla, beat well. Lightly spoon 1 1/2 cups flour into dry measuring cups, level with a knife. Combine flour, baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, gradually add to butter mixture, beating well after each addition.
3. Sprinkle remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons flour over work surface. Shape the dough into 2 (6-inch) logs. Cut each log into 12 portions. Roll each portion into a ball.
4. Combine remaining 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and granulated sugar in a small bowl, stir well. Roll balls in cinnamon-sugar mixture, place 3 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 8 minutes or until done. Remove from baking sheets, cool completely on wire racks.


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Entering his 15th year as an assistant coach at Long Beach State, John Crutchfield has become an integral part of the 49er coaching staff.
In his 14 seasons with the 49ers, LBSU has qualified for the MPSF Tournament 12 times and has advanced to the NCAA Championships twice. The Beach made an appearance in the NCAA finals in 2004 and the semifinals in 2008.
Crutchfield has played and coached the game of volleyball for over 40 years, both indoors and on the beach. A lifelong Long Beach resident and avid supporter of 49er Volleyball, he brings boundless enthusiasm and attention to detail along with his knowledge of playing and coaching the game. For seven seasons prior to joining Alan Knipe's staff in 2001, Crutchfield was the head coach at Wilson High School, where he also taught U.S. History, World History, Career Guidance and Criminal Law.
While teaching and coaching at Wilson he wrote the curriculum for Career Guidance for the Long Beach Unified School District, served as faculty president and was twice selected as Teacher of the Year by the student body.
Prior to that he served as the head coach at Servite High School and began his high school coaching career at Santa Monica in 1989 alongside the legendary Butch May and Olympic Gold Medalist Eric Sato.
A graduate of USC, both undergraduate (B.S., 1975) and law school (Juris Doctor, 1978), Crutchfield practiced full time as a trial attorney until 1993. He also served as a legal consultant for the law office of Bradon C. Bodnar in Long Beach. While still practicing law full time, Crutchfield began coaching boys' club volleyball in 1990 and since then has taken 12 teams to the Junior Olympics, winning the gold medal in 2002 and the bronze medal in 2005.
In addition to his high school, club and LBSU coaching experience, Crutchfield was a head coach for the USA Volleyball Regional Camps in Long Beach and Ohio, served as an assistant coach for the National Youth A-2 Team at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and was also a coach for the USA Volleyball High Performance and Youth National Camps and Regional Tryouts in California.
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I'm completely stuck on what to do now i updated zip from zv7 to zv8 lost keyboard until i figured out how to get lg keyboard lost all sound even with eri unchecked and didnt have cwm and couldnt get the bat file to find "specified path" tried flashing cwm through rom manager with esteem said successful so i rebooted and now im stuck in lg boot screen have tried battery pulls and a factory reset twice. what should i do any advice or instructions would be greatly appreciated
I am currently on ZV8, rooted and am having trouble getting CWM. I am in USB debugging mode and internet connection and when I run the .bat file and choose option 1 (CWM Recovery for ZV8) I get * daemon not running. starting it now * * daemon started successfully * and then it does absolutely nothing. I've let it sit for a while and still see no response. Any help is appreciated!
EDIT: I had to install the TL Bootstrap on my computer and then I at least got a response after * daemon started successfully *. Except now it says the following message before restarting the phone without CWM installed.
Device found
Mounting Device
remount failed: Operation not permitted
Pushing Recovery
8757 KB/s (5345280 bytes in 0.596s)
Installing CWM Recovery
/dev/block/mmcblk0p14: cannot open for write: Permission denied
Remove Trash
rm failed for /system/etc/install-recovery.sh, Read-only file system
rm failed for /system/recovery-from-boot.p, Read-only file system
rm failed for /data/local.prop, No such file or directory
CWM Recovery!!!
Press any key to continue . . .
The instruction in this thread worked perfectly:
Am I missing something here? I have been trying all night to get CWM on my phone after the software upgrade and this is all I get...
I have my phone on internet connection, with USB debugging enabled. I have the LG drivers installed on my pc.
I have tried the batch file, I have tried the terminal emulator, I have tried opening the shell from my pc.
I don't know much about all of this, but I can follow directions (or so I thought) but I cannot get CWM back! I need to get broken out! This LG stock software sucks balls!
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Justice: Texans' comeback win has redeeming quality
Commentary: Texans' comeback win has a redeeming quality
RICHARD JUSTICE, Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle | October 13, 2008
Photo By Brett Coomer/ChronicleMatt Schaub sprints into the end zone on a last-second score to seal the Texans' first win of the season.
Photo By Brett Coomer/ChronicleHouston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub (8), Jacoby Jones (12) and Travis Johnson (99) celebrate Shaub's three-yard, game-winning touchdown run.
Photo By Brett Coomer/ChronicleHouston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson (80) celebrates the Texans first win over the season.
Photo By Brett Coomer/ChronicleHouston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub wins the game on a last-second touchdown run.
Later, they would laugh about how Jacoby Jones walked the sideline muttering: "I hate this game."
"He just kept saying it," Andre Johnson said.
To set the record straight, Jacoby Jones doesn't really hate football. Oh sure, he may have hated it for an hour or two Sunday afternoon. Lots of people at Reliant Stadium did.
That was nothing more than his way of relieving stress as our little football team once more found itself at the intersection of respectability and slapstick.
Jones hated football sometime before Johnson walked off the field and offered some wisdom of his own.
"I might have just given this game away," Johnson said.
Johnson had just had the football knocked from his hands inches from the goal line. Sometimes it seems these things are unique to the Texans, but they do indeed happen to others. No, really.
"Now you've got to go make a play to win the game for us," Gary Kubiak told him.
Johnson eventually did that, but let's not spoil the ending. Welcome to another day with the Texans. Another day of stumbling and bumbling one moment, dancing gracefully the next.
What was different about this day is that it would have a different ending. One week after the most bizarre loss in franchise history, a fourth-quarter meltdown against the Colts, the Texans won a game they had no business winning.
Not on a day when they turned the ball over four times and surrendered two second-half leads.
Not on a day when Matt Schaub was booed off the field, when Kubiak's play-calling and clock management were shaky.
Not on a day that looked like so many others the franchise has had.
Texans 29, Dolphins 28.
Let's pause while you roll that thought around in your head. Reliant Stadium had emptied out by the time Schaub shocked the Dolphins with a 3-yard quarterback draw to score the winning touchdown with three seconds remaining.
The Dolphins appeared to have won the game when Ronnie Brown scored on a 6-yard run with 1:45 left. Schaub then led a 12-play, 76-yard drive.
Gut check, indeed
Johnson redeemed himself and then some with an amazing 23-yard reception on fourth-and-10 to keep the drive alive. Then Kubiak made the gutsiest call of the day on fourth down with no timeouts.
Had Schaub been stopped, we'd be discussing an 0-5 start and exactly when Kubiak would begin cleaning out his desk. Instead, an entire organization exhaled.
"It's like a breath of fresh air," Mario Williams said.
At this point, it doesn't matter how the Texans won. This time, the devil isn't in the details.
All that matters is that Schaub and Johnson had huge days, that Mario Wil- liams led a solid defensive effort, and that an embarras- sing season has been inter- rupted for at least one week.
Almost as interesting as how the Texans won is how they reacted to winning.
They laughed and screamed and hugged on the field. Once inside, they seemed more relieved than truly happy.
Relief trumps happiness
This was a game they simply had to win. There are no excuses for a third-year coach going 0-5.
These Texans are Kubiak's. His players. His system. They'd been blown out in two games and embarrassed themselves in another.
Even the most patient of owners is going to get tired of losing at some point. When the Texans finally did win, Kubiak seemed happy. Sort of.
"We're a 1-4 team, and we're just battling for our lives," he said. "We're doing some unbelievable things if we can just figure out a way from a maturity standpoint to protect the ball better, do some smarter things in tougher situations. I think we've got a chance to be a dang good football team."
That's the maddening thing. The Texans do have talent, especially on offense. Their defense has played better the last two weeks.
What they've been unable to do is finish games. It's as if their collective will fails them at the worse time.
These mistakes reflect on the coach and his ability to instill the right mindset. Turnovers get coaches fired.
"I think a game like this shows us what we're capable of," Johnson said.
Anyway, the Texans overcame themselves Sunday afternoon and have a chance to win back-to-back games for the eighth time in franchise history next Sunday when the Detroit Lions come to Reliant.
Maybe winning back-to-back games wouldn't be a big deal to the Patriots or Giants, but after losing 68 of their 101 games, the Texans are still taking baby steps.
"It just gets the feeling back in the locker room," Williams said. "Playing hard and getting close is not what we're looking for."


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Budget fight not over yet; 'It was a mess' -- Halbert
City Council still debating pieces of last-minute compromise on June 21, with some changes possible
The day after the City Council passed a $661 million budget on June 21, councilman Harold Collins reminded a writer for The Commercial Appeal that he predicted weeks before that he and his peers would have to compromise on a series of measures to come up with a balanced budget.
As the minutes ticked away on the last day of the regular scheduled council meeting for the fiscal year that ended June 30, that's exactly what happened.
Thanks to the clock-about-to-strike-midnight aspect of the deliberations and some hard persuasion by Mayor A C Wharton, the council -- on a 10-1 vote -- passed a budget.
Council member Jim Strickland voted against it. Council member Edmund Ford Jr., a Memphis City Schools teacher, recused himself.
The compromise, however, appears to fraying as some council members want to try to roll back pay reductions and revisit a buyout plan for the city's sanitation workers.
What happened on June 21 appears to be a temporary respite over lingering philosophical differences over the role of city government.
Council Kemp Conrad described the dividing line this way:
Council members who believe citizens need the very best government possible at the smallest price and those who don't want to restrict the size of government.
The battle likely will resume in earnest in August and will continue to be waged through budget deliberations next spring.
Last month, though, those differences were set aside as the council and Wharton used a mix of budget cuts, new revenue generators and promises of future reforms to get a balanced budget.
The budget included a one-time (maybe!) 18-cents property tax assessment to help fund city schools, layoffs, and a 4.6 percent wage reduction for city employees
Why did council members who were adamantly opposed to a tax increase and those adamantly opposed to layoffs and pay reductions back off their positions?
"I believe reality hit everybody when they realized that council members were willing to stay there all night (without budging from their positions)," Collins said.
Council chairman Myron Lowery added, "Several people on the council, in my estimation, were jockeying for position. They expressed their views and didn't want to move forward...
"The mayor talked to individuals to see what they wanted and that brought about the move to compromise."
Meanwhile, some council members said they didn't understand that they had approved the pay reduction when they voted for the budget. Council member Joe Brown wants council members to consider rescinding the reduction, which could happen next month.
By that time, the council will have elected someone to replace Barbara Swearengen Ware, who resigned while facing a felony charge of official misconduct.
Whether Brown can muster the seven votes to rescind the pay cut remains to be seen. It would require the city to come up with about $10 million, which Brown suggested could be taken from the city's reserve fund.
Two things, however, could affect what happens. Police officers are among the employees hit by the pay cut.
Eleven days after the council's budget vote, police officer Timothy Warren was fatally shot while responding to a call at the DoubleTree Hotel Downtown. It was a grim reminder of how dangerous a police officer's job can be -- as police officers are having their pay cut.
Last week, 13 unions representing about 5,000 city workers sued in U.S. District Court to stop the city from implementing the pay cut.
The lawsuit alleges that the city violated provisions of a bargaining and impasse ordinance passed after a 1978 referendum giving workers collective-bargaining rights.
The buyout for the sanitation workers is problematic because the provision the council passed opened the buyout to all sanitation workers.
That wasn't what some council members thought they were voting for.
"It was a mess," said council member Wanda Halbert, referring the crush of budget proposals the council had to deal with June 21. "A lot of things were hitting the table at the last minute without any documentation."
Janis Fullilove, who proposed the buyout, thought it would only apply to workers 65 or older. "Somewhere in the meeting it turned out that anybody could take the buyout," Halbert said, adding that no one could explain what would happen if too many workers took the buyout.
While those issues will be up for discussion the rest of the summer, the council and the Wharton administration face a bigger problem.
By passing the 2011-2012 patchwork quilt of a balanced budget last month, the city's budget ills were simply kicked down the road until next spring when budget talks begin for the 2012-2013 budget.
The city, according to Conrad and Strickland, will be facing a $30 million-$40 million hole when those talks begin.
Collins thinks two other flies in the budget ointment are the uncertainty over whether the city will have to maintain current funding levels for city schools and negotiations with employee unions over the elimination or reduction of some of the extra benefits employees receive, such as college graduation bonuses.
Conrad said he went along with the compromise even though he didn't want to pass a "one-time gimmick budget in an election year." (City elections are Oct. 6.)
He wants to see more long-term fiscal planning to address budget issues. That planning should include pension reform and a hard look at the city's paid time-off policy.
"Do we want to continue to provide above market pay for below market productivity," Conrad said, referring to the sanitation workers as an example. He said that situation hurts all employees.
Conrad caught flak for proposing to privatize the city's trash pickup services.
Lowery doesn't think the city can operate efficiently with fewer employees. "At what point do you stop cutting the grass," he asked.
However, he thinks the city needs to consider freezing hiring in some departments.
Some council members accused Strickland of playing election-year politics by casting the lone vote against the budget.
He said he was prepared to vote for the budget, but not for a tax increase.
He wants to see the council and city administration prioritize spending.
Public safety -- fire and police protection -- should be given top priority, followed in order by court-ordered school funding, funding that directly impacts the public and funding that doesn't directly affect the public -- internal functions, Strickland said..
"Once you prioritize, then you have to do zero-based budgeting," which would require the administration to justify every position.
As an example, he thinks the city has too many employees holding public relations positions. He also thinks some departments could be consolidated, which could result in a reduction in employees and end duplication.
Halbert believes there still is a bit too much fluff in the budget, especially regarding miscellaneous professional services, in which contractors are being paid as much as city employees. The same holds true for temporary employees. She said city workers could perform some of those jobs, which could prevent layoffs.
As the council and Wharton wrestle with those issues, Halbert, perhaps, has zeroed in on one of the main issues some say is negatively affecting Memphis' long-term financial viability.
"I'm not sure how the city can continue to deal with the $4.2 billion in salaries and benefits that walk out of this city every year.
"There is no shared investment in ending the high poverty and high unemployment rates that don't add up to a successful city," Halbert said.
Jerome Wright is citizens editor for The Commercial Appeal. Contact him at 529-5830.
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Maple Chiffon Pie
|Orange flavored gelatin
|3 Ounce
|Boiling water
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Maple blended syrup
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Grated lemon rind
|1 Teaspoon
|Egg whites
|Pie shell
|9 Inch
Dissolve 1 (3-oz.) pkg. orange-flavored gelatine in 1 cup boiling water and stir to dissolve gelatine.
Add 3/4 cup maple blended syrup and 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind.
Cool until mixture is the consistency of unbeaten egg white.
Beat 4 egg whites until stiff.
Beat gelatine mixture until light and fluffy and immediately fold beaten egg whites into gelatine.
Turn gently into 1 (9-inch) pie shell, baked.
Chill 1-2 hours.
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Dissolve 1 (3-oz.) pkg. orange-flavored gelatine in 1 cup hot water.
Add 1/2 cup cold water.
Chill until syrupy.
Rinse 5-cup mold with cold water.
Pour gelatine to depth of 1/8 inch, to line bottom.
Fill jelly roll pan with crushed ice.
Lay mold on side in crushed ice and spoon in syrupy gelatine, spinning mold around to coat sides evenly.
Add more syrupy gelatine and spin mold to build up gelatine layer to 1/8 inch.
Chill lined mold 20 minutes.
Add maple chiffon filling.
Chill at least 2 hours more.
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The Use of Outcome Measures By Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists in Iowa
Carroll, Kevin Patrick
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Problem: In recent decades there has been growing concern about the ability of mental healthcare services to demonstrate their value. The primary purpose of this quantitative study is to advance the client-focused research paradigm for improving quality and efficiency in the provision of psychotherapy services by investigating the use of outcomes measures by Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs) in Iowa. Secondary purposes of the study are to collect basic demographic and practice data on LMFTs in Iowa and to examine the relationships between LMFTs' use of outcome measures and demographic and practice variables. Procedures: Paper surveys were mailed to all 174 LMFTs in the state ofIowa. Addresses were obtained from the Iowa Department of Public Health's Bureau of Professional Licensure. A self-report survey instrument, LMFT Outcomes Survey, was created for this study. An initial mailing with cover letter and survey was followed up with a reminder postcard sent two weeks later. A 52.3% response rate was achieved. Findings: Sixty-four percent of the active therapists in the sample reported utilizing 80 different outcome measures with 70% of their clients to assist in assessing client outcomes. Five percent of active therapists report continuous use of outcome measures in routine practice, with Partners for Change Outcome Management System's Outcome Rating Scale and Session Rating Scale outcome measures being utilized the most. No significant relationships were found among demographic and practice variables and LMFTs' use of outcomes measures. Future Research: While therapists are using outcome measures consistently, they are not using them with every client over the course of treatment. Future research questions could include: (a) What is occurring with the clients/cases for whom outcome measures are not utilized? and (b) more clinically focused questions, such as, How is the use of outcome measures aiding the client? Additionally, exploring therapist training received in master's degree programs or in on-going supervision settings and examining workplace requirements could yield useful information, illuminate current practice, and perhaps accelerate the adoption of a scientific-practitioner mindset with regard to measuring outcomes.
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Clam Pie
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|3 Tablespoon
|Chopped onion
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|2 Tablespoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Canned minced clams
|23 Ounce, drained, reserve 0.5 cup liquid (3 Cans Of 7.5 Ounce Each)
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Cooked potatoes
|16 Ounce, drained and diced (Whole)
|Snipped parsley
|2 Tablespoon
|1 (For A 1 Crust 8 Inch Pie)
Heat butter in a large skillet; add the onion and cook until transparent.
Blend in flour, salt, and a few grains pepper.
Heat until bubbly.
Add the reserved clam liquid and the milk gradually, stirring constantly.
Bring to boiling; cook and stir 1 to 2 minutes.
Remove from heat.
Mix in potatoes, clams, and parsley.
Turn into an 8-inch pie pan.
Prepare pastry and roll out to fit over clam mixture.
Cut a simple design near center of pastry to allow steam to escape during baking.
Place pastry on clam mixture and flute edge.
Bake at 450°F about 20 minutes, or until pastry is lightly browned.
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