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OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Oklahoma City Thunder are headed to the NBA Finals. Kevin Durant scored a game-high 34 points with 14 rebounds, Russell Westbrook added 25 points and James Harden scored 16 off the bench to lead the Thunder to a 107-99 win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals to win the series 4-2. It's the Thunder franchise's first trip to the Finals since relocating from Seattle four years ago. The Thunder became just the 15th team in NBA history to come back to win a best-of-seven series after trailing 2-0. Tony Parker led the Spurs with 29 points and 12 assists. Tim Duncan added 25 points and 14 rebounds and Stephen Jackson chipped in 23 points off the bench for San Antonio. The Thunder came alive in the third quarter, exploding out of the locker room with a 14-4 run to pull within 67-62 on a 3-pointer by Durant. San Antonio got two straight buckets, a floater by Duncan and a finger roll by Ginobili, to bump its lead back to nine. B...
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Closer to home, a state investigation determined roughly three-fourths of seniors at Douglass High School don't have the credits required to graduate on time. Oklahoma City administrators and school board members were asleep at the wheel, at best, to have allowed that to happen.
Without active citizen participation, local government can quickly become out-of-control government. The desire to keep power close to home is understandable, but incompetence and corruption don't become acceptable simply because they're locally administered. Government must be both cost-efficient and accountable.
Those who prefer local control must make the case for it not only by defending it in the abstract, but also in practice — by participating in local elections, attending local government meetings, and holding those in power responsible for their actions.
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ANAHEIM, CA - JANUARY 05: Nicklas Lidstrom #5 of the Detroit Red Wings gets ready on the ice during the game against the Anaheim Ducks at the Honda Center on January 5, 2010 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
The NHL got it's next surefire 1st ballot Hall of Famer when Nicklas Lidstrom announced his retirement after 20 NHL seasons, all played with the Detroit Red Wings. With Lidstrom's retirement, the NHL lost arguably one of the best defenseman of all time. Drafted 53rd overall by the Red Wings in 1987 out of Sweden, Lidstrom played 1,564 games in Detroit, good for 10th on the all time list and 5th among defenseman.... Read more
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Following an 18-inning marathon win over the Seattle Mariners and needing an extra arm in the bullpen, the Orioles have promoted top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy to the big leagues.
Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports is reporting Bundy will be called up to fill a limited role in the bullpen. The Orioles used seven relievers in a combined 12 2/3 innings in the second game of a three-game set in Seattle.
The 19-year-old had been participating in the organization's instructional league in Sarasota after finishing his first professional season at Double-A Bowie. Bundy made three starts for the Baysox, going 2-0 with a 3.24 earned run average in 16 2/3 innings.
Manager Buck Showalter said at the end of August that the Orioles would not promote Bundy, stating the organization's preference for him to go to the instructional league in mid-September to work on his command and time to the plate.
In 23 starts split among low Single-A Delmarva, high Single-A Frederick, and Bowie, the right-hander went a combined 9-3 with a 2.08 ERA in 103 2/3 innings. He struck out 119 batters and walked 28, though he struggled more with his command as he climbed the organizational ladder.
Bundy was the fourth overall pick of the 2011 amateur draft and was already on the 40-man roster, meaning the Orioles will not need to make a corresponding roster move.
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Posted on 08 August 2012 by Nestor Aparicio
I've argued with WNST morning show host Drew Forrester for a decade about this. He's always said – much like everyone in the Angelos family – "When the Orioles win they'll ALL come back!"
Well, in case you haven't noticed while you were dusting off your purple gear this week for tomorrow night's meaningless and mostly unentertaining Ravens game in Atlanta, the 2012 Baltimore Orioles are just about everything you'd want in a MLB team in a "small market" where the owner is pocketing over $100 million in profit every year.
They have young stars. They are exciting every night – including last night's 14-inning marathon victory over the Seattle Mariners that unfolded like The Ilyiad. They seem to play sudden death baseball a lot. It's almost like they WANT you to fall asleep on them.
And these days, it appears, that most Baltimore sports fans have in fact "gone to sleep on the Orioles."
By and large, most of you are not coming to Orioles games right now. The Orioles haven't inspired you to buy a ticket, despite their good fortunes and entertainment value on the field.
This is a perfect day for me to write about going to Orioles games because I'm going to the game tonight.
Well, I got free tickets.
My complaints and reasons for not giving Peter Angelos my money are legendary and well-documented. The incident when the team stiffed me on a $30,000 sponsorship, then attacked me at a game in 2004 and sent an apology note signed, "The Bird." Then, after 21 years of covering the Baltimore Orioles through three ownership groups, they took my press pass in 2007 and have summarily lied about why, which is standard operating procedure from the Angelos family.
Hell, four months ago at a charity cocktail function, Brady Anderson told me I "should leave Baltimore if I don't like the way the team is being run."
But I still watch them every night – which either makes me a sucker, a fool or an eternal optimist. Or maybe just someone who loves Baltimore and the Orioles and remembers how much fun baseball was for the entire community before Angelos wrecked the franchise for anyone who takes the time to examine all of the facts.
Oh, here's one more warm and fuzzy — this Friday will mark the one-year anniversary that one of their legendary players, broadcaster and caring front office man Mike Flanagan put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger.
The Orioles have played 110 games this year. I've watched about 95 of them in their entirety. The other 15 I've either fallen asleep (like last night) or kept track via my mobile device on WNST's live box score feature.
If you follow me on Twitter, you might find five games where I haven't been live tweeting most of the evening from my couch. So, I'm qualified to bitch in many ways because I'm the biggest Baltimore Orioles fan you'll ever find.
And, again, I'm not giving Angelos my money – not tonight or any night.
In Dundalk, we would simply call him a scumbag and leave it at that.
But he doesn't care about whether you or I come to the ballpark. He's sucking that $3.00 per month from my cable bill and yours,
Posted on 12 July 2012 by Luke Jones
As fans dreamed about the possibility of acquiring Milwaukee's Zack Greinke or Cubs pitcher Matt Garza over the All-Star break, the Orioles are apparently kicking the tires on a far less intriguing and cheaper option.
ESPN's Jayson Stark reported Thursday the Orioles have cooled on the possibility of trading for Garza and are "poking around" at the possibility of trading for Seattle pitcher Jason Vargas.
The first-blush numbers suggest it wouldn't be a bad move as the left-hander has an 8-7 record with a 4.09 earned run average in 19 starts for the lowly Mariners this season. Vargas has a 1.15 WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitcher) and has struck out 86 while walking 32 in 126 innings this season.
However, a deeper look at the stats suggest the soft-tossing 29-year-old is far from an ideal target to compete in the American League East.
Vargas has thrived at cavernous Safeco Field this season, posting a 2-3 record with a 2.84 ERA in eight starts (57 innings), but his road numbers paint a different picture entirely. The southpaw has a 6-4 record with a 5.09 ERA and has allowed 17 home runs in 11 starts (69 innings) outside Seattle.
Those numbers just don't translate to being successful at Camden Yards, and the Orioles would likely be getting just another guy to throw in the mix with the struggling trio of Jake Arrieta, Brian Matusz, and Tommy Hunter who are currently at Triple-A Norfolk.
Despite all the talk of acquiring a pitcher such as Greinke or Garza by the trade deadline, executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette and the Orioles are far more likely to add a pitcher like Vargas, who would have a much cheaper price tag but adds very little upside to the starting rotation.
Such an option may be more realistic, but it's not going to get the job done in keeping the Orioles in the pennant race unless there's substantial pitching improvement from within.
In other words, thanks but no thanks.
Posted on 03 July 2012 by WNST Staff
Posted on 18 June 2012 by Glenn Clark
Honorable Mention: Boxing-Victor Ortiz vs. Joselito Lopez (Saturday 9pm from Los Angeles live on Showtime); WNBA: Washington Mystics @ Phoenix Mercury (Wednesday 10pm from Phoenix live on WNBA.com), Washington Mystics @ Seattle Storm (Sunday 7pm from Seattle live on WNBA.com); Pro Lacrosse: MLL Boston Cannons @ Chesapeake Bayhawks (Saturday 7pm from Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium live on Comcast SportsNet); U.S. Olympic Trials: Diving (Wednesday 12am & 10pm Thursday 10pm Friday 11pm live on NBC Sports Network, Saturday 4pm Sunday 3pm live on NBC. All diving from Federal Way, WA); Track & Field (Friday 9pm live on NBC Sports Network Saturday 8pm Sunday 7pm live on NBC Monday 9pm live on NBC Sports Network. All track from Eugene, OR); Swimming (Monday 6:30pm live on NBC Sports Network 8pm live on NBC. All swimming from Omaha)
10. Earth, Wind & Fire (Thursday 6pm Pier Six Pavilion), Childish Gambino (Saturday 6:30pm Pier Six Pavilion); Rascal Flatts/Little Big Town (Saturday 7pm Jiffy Lube Live); Counting Crows (Wednesday 7pm Wolf Trap), Diana Krall (Tuesday 7:30pm Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Thursday 8pm Wolf Trap); Jill Scott (Thursday 7pm Verizon Center); LMFAO (Monday 7pm Patriot Center); Mr. Greengenes (Friday 8pm Power Plant Live); Tech N9ne/Machine Gun Kelly (Tuesday 8pm Baltimore Soundstage), Ice Cube/Wale/DJ Khaled (Wednesday 8pm Baltimore Soundstage); Deanna Bogart Band (Saturday 8:30pm Rams Head on Stage); The Hives (Tuesday 7pm 9:30 Club), Modest Mouse (Wednesday & Thursday 7pm 9:30 Club); Fiona Apple (Wednesday 8pm Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric); Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers (Friday & Saturday 8pm Jammin' Java); Del Ray Music Festival feat. Pat McGee (Mt. Vernon Recreation Center Fields Alexandria); Ringo Starr (Sunday 7pm Meyerhoff Symphony Hall); Safeway National Capital Barbecue Battle feat. Soul Asylum/Cowboy Mouth (Saturday & Sunday Pennsylvania Avenue DC); Smashing Pumpkins "Oceania" and Kenny Chesney "Welcome to the Fishbowl" available in stores/on iTunes (Tuesday)
I like Donald Glover on "Community" (Six seasons and a movie!) and all, but I was always skeptical about him as a performer. But honestly, not bad (lyrics NSFW)…
Quick. Favorite Counting Crows song ever. I'll go with this…
Wale and Kevin Durant have something in common. I like them both a LOT but would like them a hell of a lot more if they weren't Redskins fans…
Fiona Apple is coming to town. Anyone remember their awkward feelings about seeing her in her underwear in the "Criminal" video? I can't tell you how confused I was about myself watching it the first time…
9. Aziz Ansari (Friday 7:30pm Meyerhoff Symphony Hall); Paul Mooney (Thursday-Sunday Baltimore Comedy Factory); Jim Gaffigan (Thursday DC Improv); "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter", "Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World" & "Brave" out in theaters (Friday)
If you don't think Aziz Ansari is funny I don't think this conversation is going anywhere and we might want to consider talking to other people…
Also, I think I AM planning on a midnight screening for ALVH Thursday night. I'm hoping to come dressed like this…
If you don't go see this movie you're a terrible American.
Posted on 12 June 2012 by Glenn Clark
Honorable Mention: WNBA-Indiana Fever @ Washington Mystics (Friday 7pm from Verizon Center live on Comcast SportsNet); Tennis: ATP Garry Weber Open (Tuesday-Saturday 1pm from Halle, GER on Tennis Channel)
10. Bonnie Raitt (Sunday 6pm Pier Six Pavilion); Beach Boys (Friday 6:30pm Merriweather Post Pavilion); Neil Diamond (Thursday 8pm Verizon Center); Dave Matthews Band/Gary Clark Jr. (Saturday 7pm Jiffy Lube Live); Martina McBride (Wednesday 8pm Wolf Trap); Reel Big Fish (Friday 8pm Power Plant Live); Of Montreal (Thursday 8pm Recher Theatre); Lindsey Buckingham (Thursday 9pm Baltimore Soundstage), Lisa Marie Presley (Friday 8:30pm Baltimore Soundstage); Kelly Bell Band/Cris Jacobs (Saturday 7pm 8×10 Club); Robert Cray Band (Thursday 8pm Rams Head on Stage); Grouplove (Wednesday 7pm 9:30 Club); The Cult (Tuesday 8pm Fillmore Silver Spring); Bouncing Souls (Tuesday 7:30pm Black Cat DC); Ziggy Marley (Wednesday 8pm Howard Theatre), Little Richard (Saturday 8pm Howard Theatre); Keane (Thursday 8pm Strathmore); Rush "Clockwork Angels" available in stores/on iTunes (Tuesday)
I've already established that "Wouldn't It Be Nice" is the greatest Beach Boys song of all time. Now I point out that I'm an absolute hack because I also enjoy this clip from Full House…
A lot of people know I'm a significant Dave Matthews fan. But do you know that I've proclaimed my all time favorite Dave Matthews tune to be THIS?…
And if you go see DMB don't stay in the parking lot too long. Gary Clark Jr. is freaking AMAZING. You may remember him from a collaboration he had with Ray Lewis a few weeks back at the NFL Draft…
Wait…The Cult? Isn't that the band that does the song from that commercial in that Super Bowl?
9. Star-Spangled Sailabration (Wednesday-Monday Inner Harbor, Fells Point, Locust Point); "Rock of Ages" and "That's My Boy" out in theaters (Friday); Gilbert Gottfried (Saturday Magooby's Joke House); Richard Lewis (Thursday-Saturday Baltimore Comedy Factory); Gary Valentine (Thursday-Saturday DC Improv)
Ryan Chell and I are going to see That's My Boy Tuesday night. It will probably make six billion dollars and everyone involved will get new cars. It used to piss me off because I don't really find Adam Sandler's shtick to be funny anymore, but there are a couple issues involved. One-Adam Sandler sat down with us at the Super Bowl and was really nice. He even opened up about my idol Chris Farley, which is something I found out later he really never does…
Two-over the past few months I've developed a unique friendship with Happy Madison star Peter Dante, who might be the best human being on the face of the planet. He's the guy on the right below…
So now I hope the movie is funny and they make a billion dollars. Damn you, nice guys.
Posted on 04 June 2012 by Glenn Clark
It was as if there were some in the sports broadcasting universe that wanted to remind me that the Baltimore Orioles have been struggling mightily as of late.
Sure, they're just one game out of first place at the time I type this, but the Birds sadly appear to be in a downward spiral that unfortunately most of us expected.
I've been a regular "Baltimore expert" for SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio since the channel's inception, and I rotate having conversations with hosts about the O's and the Baltimore Ravens. When I received a call last week asking me to appear on the channel, I assumed the conversation would go in the direction of the O's, as I've made about four Orioles-related guest spots already this season.
But when the producer asked me if I'd be interested in talking some Ravens football, I was admittedly caught off guard. "It's still baseball season" I thought. Just one night later I received a call from another producer on the channel, also asking me to make an appearance to discuss the Purple & Black.
So on both Friday & Saturday night of this past weekend I found myself talking Ravens football across the country on SXM. It was perhaps the single greatest reminder that in Charm City, a "June Swoon" is a great reminder that Training Camp isn't particularly far away.
As the 2011 football season ended, there were two main narratives surrounding the defending AFC North Champs. One was surrounding the pending free agency of RB Ray Rice. The other surrounded the future of QB Joe Flacco, who was set to enter the final year of his rookie contract. The Ravens' season ended 132 days ago in Foxborough (at least as of the time I wrote this) and yet seemingly little progress has been made regarding either situation.
It leads to the question (at least for me), "what's taking so long to get this stuff done?"
ESPN's Sal Paolantonio said in a recent appearance on "The Reality Check" (an excellent afternoon radio program on AM1570 WNST.net) that Rice's agent Todd France was dead set on getting a deal similar to contracts given to Minnesota Vikings RB Adrian Peterson (seven years, $100 million with $36 million guaranteed) or Tennessee Titans RB Chris Johnson (four years, $53 million with $30 million guaranteed). The Ravens are believed to be more interested in a deal similar to those recently given to Philadelphia Eagles RB LeSean McCoy (five years, $45 million with $20.76 million guaranteed) or Houston Texans RB Arian Foster (five years, $43.5 million with $20.75 guaranteed).
On top of that, a source with knowledge of talks revealed to me in recent weeks the Rice camp has a desire to see the running back's deal exceed the overall value of Flacco's.
A Carroll County Times report this weekend indicated the Ravens "aren't anywhere close" to getting a deal done with Flacco. Flacco's negotiating ability has been limited by the fact that contracts signed by quarterbacks not named Peyton Manning this offseason have been less than overwhelming financially. Manning landed a five year, $96 million deal, but if he's healthy the Denver Broncos believe him capable of being Peyton Manning. The highlights of other QB contracts this offseason have been San Francisco 49ers QB Alex Smith (three years, worth up to $33 million with with $16.5 million guaranteed) and Seattle Seahawks QB Matt Flynn (three years, $26 million with $10 million guaranteed).
Neither deal is helpful to Flacco's agent Joe Linta, although despite all of the goofy conversation nationally about Flacco's standing against other National Football League quarterbacks, there simply could not be any argument either of those two quarterbacks have accomplished as much as Flacco. Humorously, Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo's deal is up a season after Flacco's. There had been rumors the Chicago Bears were interested in getting a new deal done with QB Jay Cutler, a decision that could have been helpful in figuring out the parameters of a Flacco contract.
Remember when I asked "what's taking so long to get this stuff done?" Yeah, I'm aware that I've essentially answered my own question.
In both of my chats on SiriusXM this weekend I was asked what expected would ultimately happen with these situations. It was remarkably difficult to answer.
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Classic American Comedy The Foreigner to open on Main Stage at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; In Repertory with Henry V
A "real, live foreigner" creates hilarious misunderstandings while delivering heartwarming laughter in Larry Shue's award-winning comedy, The Foreigner, in the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's production previewing July 8 and 9 and opening Friday, July 10.
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Most Broadway Credits Ever in PSF Production of Les Misérables; Mike Eldred to Play Iconic Role of Jean Valjean
The all new Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival production of the iconic musical Les Misérables features a cast of 37 that collectively represent the most Broadway credits, most recording artists, and most national tours of any cast ever on stage in PSF's 24-season history.
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Les Misérables: All New Production with Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Artists to Open Company's 2015 Summer Season
An all new production of the epic musical Les Misérables will open the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's 2015 summer season. Featuring professional PSF actors from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles, the production will be directed by Associate Artistic Director Dennis Razze, who has directed all of PSF's musical productions.
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Summer 2015: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Announces 24th Season, Directors
"A kingdom for a stage:" Shakespeare's Henry V will rule over the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Main Stage in the company's 24th summer season, and his magical romance Pericles will bring "wind, rain and thunder" to the intimate Schubert Theatre.
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Vision 2030: A World Class PSF
The mission of Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is to enrich, inspire, engage, and entertain the widest possible audience through first-rate professional productions of classical and contemporary plays, with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other master dramatists, and through an array of educational outreach and mentorship programs.
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Vision 2030: A Patron's Experience
The year is 2030. And it's a beautiful summer day. You live an hour and a half to the south of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and you prepare to make your annual pilgrimage to PSF, which has emerged as the highlight of your year for a number of years now. You check to make sure you have your tickets, booked online back in November. You learned the hard way a few years back how quickly the performances sell out due to the ever-growing popularity of the Festival in the Mid-Atlantic region.
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Today is my first day back in the office after participating in TechEd EMEA last week in Barcelona. I am starting to get groggy from jet lag, but wanted to put down a few details about my experience there.
This year was the first year that we had a dedicated Embedded track and we had a total of 29 sessions (breakout presentations,interactive sessions, labs and panel discussions) covering Windows Embedded Standard, Windows Embedded CE, . POS for .NET, NavReady and also .NET Micro Framework. We had a pretty good turnout to the presentations- roughly 30-50 people per session. Most of the content we presented was at an introductory level as we were exposing our products to a whole new audience.
I delivered two presentations, one on "Introduction to Windows Embedded Standard" and then one on "Building Custom OS Images Using Windows Embedded Standard" which detailed some of the planning, footprint, servicing and security aspects when building an image. I had 48 people at the first session, which went smoothly, and 31 in the second, which had some technical glitches forcing some inventiveness on the part of the audio\visual support crew in the room and then I ran out of time in the demo so never got to show the final mage booting off USB key with my cool custom shells, different security permissions for different users and File Based Write Filter <sigh>. I had a very patient and understanding audience. I did set up my demo image in the booth on the exhibition floor after my session so that it was available for people to come by and see if they wanted to, and a few did.
We did not do as well with the interactive sessions. For the session on "Protecting a Windows Embedded Standard Image With Write Filters", which was designed to be a deeper dive into these features and a general forum for a more in-depth look at any aspect of Standard that the audience wanted, I only had one attendee (so he got a very in-depth and personalized tour of the product!) and we had no one turn up for our panel discussion on all Embedded products. It might have been because there was a conflict with one of the cool CE sessions at the time, given by Doug Boling, one of the embedded MVPs.
I got to meet with some of our ISV Gold partners as well - MPC-Data, based in the UK, and Theoris, based in France, and got some good questions and also suggestions from them. One of the highlights for me was being invited to attend a dinner with some for the top software architects that are regular and very popular speakers at Microsoft events (David Chappell, Pat Helland, Roy Osherove, Udi Dahan etc.). It was a very enlightening evening and conversation ranged from software to earthquakes to nutrition! Mostly what struck me was that with any topic these guys can instantly understand the problem and issues, and can almost always provide a perspective that you would not have considered.
Overall it was an enjoyable conference, and I look forward to our continuing participation in TechEd moving forward, and also to diving into more detailed topics for the Windows Embedded product family.
- Lynda
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I was at the building custom image session, I have not seen anything of Embedded windows before, so I wanted only to get some keypointers to what I can do with this, and need to consider this in some systems.
But for next show::
I guess it should be ok to use quickformat.
Another alternative is to also bring an extra key, already prepped and tested, so you could just start to show how to create the image, etc, and then plug in the prepped key in the other computer.
You know, TV-chefs also cheat :D
Yup, I know. I really wanted to show the end-to-end process and then during rehearsal decided that preparing the disk took up too much time and was going to skip it (and I had a disk all ready to go), but because I had practised it I just started to do the prep without thinking and that is the way that demo's go when your brain freezes...! Quick format also was obvious when my brain unfroze <sigh>.
Thanks for attending the session. Hope that you did at least get some benfit from the information.


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Fruit-Stuffed Loin Of Pork
|Boneless pork loin roast
|4 Pound
|Pitted prunes
|1 Cup (16 tbs) (Approximately)
|Dried apricots
|1 Cup (16 tbs) (Approximately)
|1 Clove (5 gm)
|Ground black pepper
|To Taste
|Sweet butter
|8 Tablespoon, softened (1 Stick)
|Dried thyme
|1 Tablespoon
|Madeira wine
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|1 Tablespoon
|Watercress/For garnish
|To Taste
|Freshly ground black pepper
|To Taste
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Using the handle of a wooden spoon, push the dried fruits into the pocket in the roast, alternating prunes and apricots.
Cut the garlic into thin slivers.
Make deep slits in the roast with the tip of a knife and push the garlic into the slits.
Tie roast with twine and rub surface with salt and pepper.
Set the roast in a shallow baking pan and smear the butter over the roast.
Sprinkle with thyme.
Stir Madeira and molasses together in a small bowl and pour over the roast.
Set the pan on the middle rack of the oven and bake for 1 1/2 hours (approximately 20 minutes per pound), basting frequently.
When roast is done (do not overcook), remove it from the oven and let it stand, loosely covered with foil, for 15 or 20 minutes.
Cut into thin slices, arrange slices on a serving platter, and spoon pan juices over them.
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text: Can those damn lib Brit's get any stupider or more PC. This is totally obsurd and a shame. Churchill was one of the main reasons why the Allies won WWII and why the UK is still speaking english. I think they have taken it too far in England and I just wonder how long it will be before it starts happening like this in America, no more Lincoln in schools.


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Not sure if this has been suggested before, but it would be nice if there were some metric in place for measuring the popularity or reputation of everyone on chess.com.
Something similar to ChessBase's online fairness and reputation scoring system is what I've got in mind. A guy is rude to you in a game? Give him a bad reputation review. A guy reneges on offering a previously agreed to rematch? Vote down his fairness. Someone always offers great advice and encouragement in the forums? By all means, rate them accordingly.
This way, we could all get a sense, beforehand, of the sort of people we're dealing with and can chose to avoid them if possible.
One of the main reasons why I came here about 18 months ago from the site you mention was because I was forever being inundated with people sending me messages saying "Hey man, let's swap positive evals"
that is the precise issue yes
Interesting. Thanks for the input. I hadn't realized that was happening and find it exceedingly lame.
Oh well.
Xboxlive has a very good system where you can file 'complaints' and submit 'Player reviews', the former can cause an employer to look into the case, the latter influences a player's 'reputation'
In the player review, you can choose stuff like bad language, early quitter, cheater.I also think it's fairly balanced out and I think in a game like chess where it's just you and your opponent, people are inclined to use it more. I'm not against something like this, but to be honest I don't experience a lot of problems due to it not being there
Well, maybe that's something to take into account: a system that doesn't try to reward good behaviour, but does make it clear who the jerks are. That way, we wouldn't have anyone wanting to "swap evals," but we'd still have some idea of a person's reputation when we first encounter them.
That seems good. And if they didn't allow new accounts to file these complaints that would help prevent sock puppet stuff... although one problem could still be cliques of people bullying individuals with bad reports.
It's a good system ideally, but there are some practical problems. Does the bad outweigh the good? I'm not sure it does, I'd be interested in seeing this. A trial version perhaps.
I don't like those kind of systems. Just like people can exchange good evals, they can start actions to put someone else down. Then you might have to evaluate that before you understand it.
When you are here for some time, you see people and their reactions and you will make up your mind. Really not mindboggling complicated. A jerk is someone who acts unfriendly or talks unfriendly. How difficult can that be? And what kind of information does it provide you? Prejudical insights? A priori bias? Does it make your life happier and easier?
You really have to be very careful when creating such a system. It works imo at stackoverflow, because the subject is something in which you have expertise or not. You can not cheat using an engine and it is useless to make a combo with other people. The community is too big.
I come here to play chess and exchange information with things around chess. I would be off when such a system would come. But if there would be a system, it always should be a system to reward good behaviour. Always look to the bright side of life. :-)
When you are here for some time, you see people and their reactions and you will make up your mind. Really not mindboggling complicated. A jerk is someone who acts unfriendly or talks unfriendly. How difficult can that be? And what kind of information does it provide you? Prejudical insights? A priori bias? Does it make your life happier and easier?
Well said.
I am thinking about this idea in general a lot lately. I would love to everyone carrying an index with him in his online virtual self and me having a browser plugin filtering out "the noise". When I see most online discussion forums there is so much noise, it mostly gets useless...
A guy is rude to you in a game? Give him a bad reputation review. A guy reneges on offering a previously agreed to rematch? Vote down his fairness. Someone always offers great advice and encouragement in the forums? By all means, rate them accordingly.
Bad idea too many ways reviews and voting could be abused people with inflated egos will get angry when they get checkmated or beaten badly will give their opponent a bad review then there are people who will be abuse it and make stuff up that isn't true to smear other members reputations they don't like if they have an axe to grind.
@alec840: completely agree, very well to the point.
Whay this odd obsession with ranking and rsating each other? Most people outgrow this kind of thing by the age of 16.
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Jan 23, 2006, Vol. 11, No. 18 • By JOSEPH BOTTUM
Work still needs to be done to explain the causes of the priests' crimes, together with the reasons for the American bishops' horrifyingly insufficient response. But, along the way, the political power of the Church itself came at last to its complete end. Perhaps the perceived influence of America's hierarchy had been, in fact, unreal for some time--a brief-lived leftover from the days when Catholic bishops really could direct their parishioners' votes. Still, the national prominence of, say, John Cardinal O'Connor before his death in 2000 seemed the natural order of things: Archbishops of New York have always occupied a powerful place in American affairs--or, at least, they always used to occupy a powerful place. O'Connor's successor, Edward Egan, appears mostly to wish he belonged to the Church Invisible, and he remains little known even to his fellow New Yorkers. With some exceptions (such as Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver and Francis Cardinal George of Chicago--neither, it is worth noting, implicated in the cover-up of the priest scandals), the vast majority of America's bishops have joined Cardinal Egan in full retreat from public engagement.
And that leaves--well, who is there now to speak for American Catholics? As their ethnic unity dissipated, Catholics have had considerably less need for someone to represent them, in the old, tribal sense of the word. But at the same time, the vacuum in public discourse allows Catholicism to act as a marker of intellectual depth about public philosophy--for good or for ill, depending on your view of the various issues on which it impinges, but always somehow a symbol of something that must be taken seriously.
So, President Bush, reeling from the rejection by conservatives of a nominee perceived as unserious, tossed aside all the diversity qualifications he had claimed for Harriet Miers and picked yet another Catholic for the Supreme Court. It doesn't always prove true, of course (as the existence of pro-abortion Catholic politicians demonstrates), but the American public seems to take serious Catholicism as an immediate sign of moral attention on intellectual topics like the law. Who now speaks for American Catholicism? A good example might be someone like Samuel A. Alito Jr.
NOT THAT ALITO is much of a spokesman for his coreligionists. He's never been a professional Catholic, one of those commentators who make their living off the fact of their faith. Nor has anyone claimed that his earlier jobs at the Justice Department and on the federal bench were obtained through some Catholic quota, the way the Supreme Court for decades had what used to be called the "Catholic seat." According to a report on Beliefnet.com, Alito sometimes attends Mass at St. Aloysius in Caldwell, New Jersey, a church very traditional in both its theology and its sacramental practice. But he's also a registered parishioner at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in neighboring Roseland, which is, by all accounts, a fairly typical liberal suburban church, and the parish where his wife teaches catechism to the local children. Nothing in Alito's record suggests a desire or even a willingness to stand as the token Catholic representative for much of anything.
Which, in its way, makes him even more representative. In 2004, during the second presidential debate, John Kerry boasted that he used to be an altar boy, as indeed he did. It was a naked appeal to the old style of the Catholic vote: the ethnic unity that for more than a century delivered the votes of blue-collar urban America to the Democrats. In the end, George Bush won a good majority of Catholic votes--as might have been predicted when Kerry went immediately from mentioning his boyhood Catholicism to explaining why he supported public funding for abortions. Fifty years earlier, Bush's appeal to shared ideas of Catholicism would have been trounced by Kerry's appeal to shared membership in the Catholic Church.
Of course, 50 years earlier, Kerry would have shared the ideas of Catholicism, too. The meeting of evangelicals and Catholics in the opened center of American public discourse was probably bound to produce somebody like President Bush, an evangelical who couched his second inaugural address almost entirely in the language of natural law. But what's particularly interesting is that this somebody is a Republican--for by all rights, it should have been a Democrat. For that matter, so should most of the Catholics that Republican presidents have put on the bench in recent years. Perhaps the privileged upbringing of the new chief justice, John Roberts, would have made him a Catholic Republican anyway (there were occasionally such rare beasts), but Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas would almost certainly be Democrats, if there were left any place for their kind of Catholic thought in the Democratic party.


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Wharton's war chest built by lawyers
One-third of mayor-elect's $336,000 in donations from attorneys, according to latest campaign filing
Donations from lawyers helped make A C Wharton the campaign cash king of the special mayoral election, financial disclosures show.
Attorneys accounted for nearly one-third of the 640 donations listed in the Wharton campaign's latest report, filed Oct. 8.
And those numbers leave out any lawyers who didn't list their profession on forms, gave less than $100, or turned in last-minute contributions.
In all, Wharton reported nearly $336,000 in receipts between July 1 and Oct. 5, including $30,000 rolled over from earlier fundraising.
Wharton, 65, had a decades-long career as a criminal defense lawyer before entering public life. As many as 200 attorneys came to the Memphis Botanic Garden on Aug. 12 for a fundraiser aimed at the legal profession.
"They knew me and my reputation," Wharton said Friday. "I'm sure it was a proud moment for them to see one of their fellows elected mayor."
One of many local law firms whose employees contributed to Wharton's campaign was Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh.
Sixteen people associated with the firm contributed $250 each, for a total of $4,000.
"I think all the lawyers know him," said Max Shelton, a partner in the firm and one of the donors. "We know him to be a good person and a really good lawyer."
Other Wharton donors included government employees, major corporations, labor unions, Wharton's family members and private citizens.
The flood of money helped Wharton outspend his opponents by huge margins on his way to taking 60 percent of the vote in Thursday's election. His expenses were $333,000 between July 1 and Oct. 5. Much went to advertising.
Wharton's spending during that period was nearly three times that of Charles Carpenter, who loaned nearly $100,000 to his own campaign.
Wharton also spent 11 times as much as Myron Lowery, 13 times as much as Carol Chumney, 14 times as much as Rev. Kenneth Whalum Jr. and 75 times as much as Jerry Lawler.
As always in political campaigns, contributions raise questions about what donors expect from the candidate.
"The only way to deal with (the perception of influence-buying) is to keep your reputation intact and to be able to say over seven and a half years there's been no correlation between who gives and who gets," Wharton said. "I have been (county mayor) seven and a half years, and no one has even alleged any impropriety."
Wharton emphasized that he gets a lot of donations from small contributors and aims to cast a wide net.
His campaign finance report showed that only 17 percent of reported donations were smaller than $100.
One of the biggest single donations to Wharton, $4,500, came from the political action committee of the West Tennessee chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, a group that could stand to benefit from city construction projects.
The group's president is Mike Carpenter, a Shelby County commissioner and now a member of Wharton's transition team. But he said he's not a voting member of the committee that decided to donate to Wharton. Carpenter also said the group's support of Wharton predates his service there.
He said the group doesn't aim to buy influence.
"I think that those of us who give and organizations that give, they're giving to candidates who will do the best job," Carpenter said.
Executives and employees of nonprofit hospital group Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. gave Wharton at least $3,125.
Baptist's president and CEO, Stephen C. Reynolds, hosted a fundraiser for Wharton, senior vice president Scott Fountain said.
Fountain said he's known Wharton for years and said his $250 contribution won't purchase influence.
"That would be unfortunate if anyone felt that a politician could be bought with that level of contribution," he said.
Aside from the money from companies and organizations, there were also donations from many prominent Memphians.
Vasco Smith, a dentist, civil rights leader and former Shelby County commissioner, donated $250 just weeks before his death on Sept. 28. His wife, NAACP leader Maxine Smith, gave the same amount.
-- Daniel Connolly: 529-5296
Staff reporter Zach McMillin contributed to this story.
Notable donations to A C Wharton
From corporations (Political-action committees and employees):
AutoZone Inc.: $4,000
** GTx Inc.: $2,700
Valero Energy Corp.: $4,000
From unions and industry associations:
Metropolitan Memphis Hotel and Lodging Association: $5,000
Tennessee Carpenters Regional Council: $5,000
Memphis Police Association: $500
From individual contributors:
AutoZone founder J. R. "Pitt" Hyde III and his wife Barbara: $2,000
Richard Janikowski, University of Memphis crime expert: $250
Cleo Kirk, former county commissioner: $500.
Examples shown aren't necessarily the largest in their category.
Source: Campaign finance records
** NOTE: Dr. Mitchell S. Steiner, CEO of drug company GTx Inc., donated to A C Wharton's campaign for the special mayoral election Thursday, as did several other company employees, but GTx does not have a political action committee. A company spokesman says the employees donated on their own, not as a corporate activity.
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