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you know garlic? Not until youve sampled scapes
B.A. Nilsson
like a pigtail, bulbed like a phallus, green as a rain-swept
lawn, the flowering stalk of the garlic plant is a luscious,
unusual addition to your dinner table. Find some, cook them,
enjoy them, and soon, like me, youll be impelled to try to
grow them. Unlike many of my gardening pursuits, the garlic
crop I put in last fall grew spectacularly well and just yielded
a bounty of those stalks, known as scapes, which I harvested
last week. Ive been experimenting with different preparations
and sharing these creations with friends; and because you
werent able to share the delicacy at my table, I offer the
You know garlic, of course, as the spicy, pungent partner
of just about everything short of dessert, and, even then,
you havent truly experienced its flavor until youve tried
garlic ice cream. Garlic is part of the onion family (Alliaceae)
and carries its own moniker, Allium sativum. What were
looking at is a variety known as hardneck garlic (or top-setting
garlic, or serpent garlic), which is where youll find the
coiling scape stalk.
Lets dive into The Complete Book of Garlic by Ted
Jordan Meredith (Timber Press), where we learn:
scape supports the inflorescence, called an umbel. As is typical
of aliums, the umbel constitutes garlics flowering parts
with the numerous flowers connected at a common point and
forming a globe shape. Within the umbel numerous bulbils grow
among its flowers, ranging in size from a grain of rice to
a sugar pea. Depending on the cultivar, the umbel may contain
several to more than a hundred bulbils. Bulbils are like miniature
garlic cloves, and like cloves, they can be planted and eventually
develop into bulbs.
The challenge for the scape fan is to pluck them off the stalk
at the right moment for maximum flavor and tenderness. Ideally,
this is before the tendril starts curling, which gives you
the stalk at its most tenderbut then you have a short, short-lived
scape. I like to pick them when the scapes have started to
curl, with the more ambitious of them performing a full circle
or more. The curve is a product of irregular cell growth,
and it eventually evens out, producing a fat umbel on a straight,
stiff stalk. So you want to grab them before they uncurl.
Much of the stalk is too tough to chew raw, but only a light
measure of cooking is required to tenderize the tendril. Trim
the very top, the tip of which may be browning, and, at the
opposite end, cut off any part of the stalk thats still significantly
yellow. If the scape is still very long, you might want to
halve it for easier serving. Steaming is the most straightforward
preparation; season with a little salt and pepper. More complexity
is revealed if you give the scapes a quick sautée instead
of or in addition to steaming. Theres a strong temptation
(in my house at least) to add butter. Resist it. The flavor
is amazing without it. Tease out the richest flavor potential
by grilling your scapes. Marinate them in a little olive oil
and balsamic vinegar, give them appropriate grill-top time
(flip them once), and youll have something even better than
fresh grilled asparagus, in large part because scapes have
their own built-in garlic flavor.
For eye appeal, decorate the presentation dish with a contrasting
color. I made a batch recently that I finished with roasted
red peppers tossed with chopped anchovies. And save the bits
you trimmed off. Theres an excellent pesto waiting when you
combine them with parmesan cheese and pine nuts in a little
olive oil.
Although scapes are a short-season delicacy, they store well,
especially if you pick them while theyre curly. Refrigerate
them in an airtight container and youll get a few weeks out
of them. Or pickle them. You need nothing fancier than good
vinegar, into which youll plunge your steamed scapes. Hot
peppers? Ill add some, thanks. Can them, store themplunge
into them in midwinter.
Picking scapes has the added benefit of strengthening the
bulb, which gets the growth energy that would otherwise have
been directed elsewhere. Unfortunately, scapes have only recently
been added to the nouvelle American diet, so theyre not always
easy to find (and its horrible to think of them mulching
Tempted to do some planting? Start by talking to other growers.
One of the countrys oldest garlic festivals takes place July
24-26 in Gilroy, Calif., an event that gave birth to the Stinking
Rose Restaurant in San Franciscos North Beach (and now with
a branch in Beverly Hills, thank you very much). Thats where
youll taste your garlic ice cream. Closer to home, the Hudson
Valley Garlic Festival takes place in Saugerties on Sept.
26 and 27 (hvgf.org).
And if you want a scape fix right now, try your local farmers
markets. We dont have any in stock right now, said Honest
Weight Food Co-ops Karen Starr when I spoke with her earlier
this week. We rely on local growers to provide them, so its
really a matter of when somebody shows up with them.
This is very much in the spirit of scapesan evanescent pleasure.
here for a list of recently reviewed restaurants.
Saratogas 4x4 dinners? Founding chef Mark Graham,
formerly of the Wine Bar in that city, is now
helming Mezza Notte in Albany and is reviving
the tradition with fellow Capital Region chefs
Larry Schepici of Tosca, Jackie Baldwin of RPI,
and Jamie Ortiz of 677 Prime. Capital Region
Chefs 4x4 will present four monthly dinners
starting in July, rotating among the restaurants
but with all four chefs contributing to each meal.
And each dinner includes an amuse bouche, four
courses, and a wine pairing for each course at
$70 per person. The first event takes place July
27 at MezzaNotte (2026 Western Ave, Albany, 689-4433,
mezzanottealbany.com). The menu includes Alaskan
prawns with toasted almond gnocchi (Chef Jamie),
carpaccio of Creeks Edge Farm elk (Chef Larry),
stuffed rabbit loin with rabbit sweetbread terrine
(Chef Mark), and Local Strawberries with coconut-white
chocolate sauce and pecan madelines (Chef Jackie).
The Tosca dinner takes place Aug. 20, Angelos
677 Prime is Sept. 17, and Oct. 17 is the date
for the dinner at RPI. For more information, visit
chefs4x4.com. . . . Remember to pass your scraps
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The Ruston Bearcats played the Neville Tigers at Louisiana Tech?s Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston on Friday.
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Here are the top five plays that separated Neville from Ruston.
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Amazon increases free shipping minimum order to $35, pushes Prime membership as an alternative – Right before the holidays too! Engadget reported that for the first time in a decade, you have to order $35 worth of stuff in order to qualify for free shipping unless, of course, you have a Prime membership.
Price of ebooks to plunge as EU orders cut in VAT – EU voted to cut the VAT from 20% to 0 on ebooks. Print books are VAT free but ebooks had a 20% VAT. Undoubtedly this will enrage I hate ebooks Scott Turow and I hate literature Noel Gallagher amongst others. "Experts said abolishing the rate could cut the price of an ebook by £1 or more if firms such as WH?Smith and Amazon pass on the savings. Books are considered to be an essential contribution to society and, along with other products such as children's clothing, receive the favourable VAT rating. " This is Money
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All it has going or it is a few funny lines.
Very, very dumb resolution. Nick/Juliette's relationship feels very artificial. Monrosalee and Renard exposing Nick's hypocrisy are good.
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1. Fitz and Simmons in the lab
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4. Case was boring but episode was the best except for the pacing.
C- but only for the AA meeting.
Good. The fight scenes were better. I hope they make Laurel a villain or tragic hero. I'm fairly certain Sarah will be killed off to generate drama for the Lances.
No, you're the one stereotyping.
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Craig Foley came to Frankfort High in June as an assistant football coach.
That title didn't last long as Foley was named head coach this week.
He replaces Joey Thacker, who departed to Franklin County High School to coach the girls basketball team.
Foley, who came to FHS as an assistant coach after serving last season at Franklin County, is looking forward to his first opportunity as a head coach.
"I was kind of surprised when I found out a few days ago," said Foley, a 1990 graduate of Bourbon County High School. "I'm thrilled about this opportunity because I've always wanted to be a head coach."
Foley has nearly a decade of experience as an assistant coach. After graduating from Georgetown College, Foley took his first job at Bourbon County in 1993. He served there as an assistant working with the receivers and secondary before eventually taking over as defensive coordinator.
He stayed at Bourbon County until last season, when he joined the Flyer coaching staff a year ago. Foley then landed at Frankfort High.
Foley's background includes success as a player and a coach. He was a cornerback at Georgetown College for three seasons including 1991 when the Tigers won their first NAIA national championship.
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GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - Highway 55 at General Mills Boulevard and Boone Avenue was shut down for several hours after a fatal collision between a semi-truck and a minivan.
It happened shortly approximately 10:30 a.m. on Friday. Witnesses and the State Patrol say the semi was headed west on Highway 55 when a woman in another vehicle turned on a red light right in front of him.
"Preliminary reports indicate it is just a simple matter of someone turning when they should not have," said Lt. Eric Roeske, Minnesota State Patrol.
The semi driver, who was driving at highway speed,struck the woman and careened into a vacant lot, wrecking the truck and causing thecab to burst into flames. The driver was trapped inside, and the Minnesota State Patrol confirms he did not survive.
Witness Adam Farsloth, of Golden Valley, tried to save the driver of the truck.
"I heard him saying 'Help' a couple of times," Farsloth said. "And then, after we broke the glass, he was still saying 'Help,' but we could not get him out."
The driver of the minivan who turned in front of him survived the crash. She was taken to North Memorial Hospital with undisclosed injuries.
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The Nebraska State Fair is the mecca for 4-H and FFA exhibitors across the state to showcase their hard work throughout the year, and this year Nebraska Farm Bureau is proud to offer them an extra reward for their efforts. All 4-H and FFA large animal exhibitors will receive a T-shirt sponsored by Nebraska Farm Bureau.
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- From: news.com.au
- January 26, 2014
AUSTRALIANS are an odd bunch.
We have weird eating habits (devon and tomato sauce sandwiches, anyone?), feel a compulsion to shorten every word we use (arvo, smoko, rego, spag bol) and can't make friends without giving them a stupid nickname (Davo, Timmo, Jules, Hazza).
But these are the little quirks that define us. We all grew up watching the same television shows, eating the same ice creams after school and wearing the same outfit - a T-shirt and shorts - everyday.
These habits are familiar, comforting and they unite us all.
Australians across the country are today indulging in a little bit of nostalgia. The #youknowyoureaustralianwhen hashtag is one of the top trends on Twitter as people post about the unique characteristics they share with their fellow Aussies.
We've rounded up the best posts for you this Australia Day.
If you'd like to get involved, continue the conversation on Twitter via @newscomauhq using the #youknowyoureaustralianwhen hashtag and send us pictures of what you're up to today.
#YouKnowYoureAustralianWhen You're overseas & run out of Vegemite and it upsets you pic.twitter.com/CA4g7nGI— Dumbth Chronicles (@dumbthchronicle) November 5, 2011
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen you take a photo with a police officer and this is the outcome pic.twitter.com/tNmPt3LBci— (@chantellebc_1D) November 20, 2013
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen when you walk outside in summer and you're like pic.twitter.com/0DsNqrWHpi— Deneka Amelia✌ (@Denekax) November 20, 2013
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen everyone idolises a middle aged man who dresses and acts as a year 12 student pic.twitter.com/g37B22j18C— BACK ON MONDAY (@lukeisfabulous) November 20, 2013
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen YOU'VE BEEN LIVING OFF THESE THIS SUMMER pic.twitter.com/ZIkCpQvCrd— i love you (@nialloholic) January 25, 2014
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen your first introduction to Drugs & Alcohol was by a Giraffe in a massive van in primary pic.twitter.com/5rHEzGgPpp— Bianca. (@voguee_styles) January 25, 2014
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen our ex prime minster pic.twitter.com/V9F8eJllOg— sarah (@saaraahjane) January 25, 2014
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen the ten seconds you had to choose a window were the most stressful seconds of your life pic.twitter.com/cEQwxtuRUY— was @isla5sos (@wintaniall) January 25, 2014
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen rhonda and ketut are your otp pic.twitter.com/Lnq1AO0YcU— P ü m a (@JoyceYammouni) January 26, 2014
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen you wore one of these bad boys to school everyday pic.twitter.com/gEmXWJ2niv— simøney (@Simonneeex) January 25, 2014
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen North East South West = NEVER EAT SOGGY WEETBIX— natalieee (@natalietangorra) January 26, 2014
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen pic.twitter.com/uIFCMKJWn1— sarah (@saaraahjane) November 20, 2013
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen you have had this for at least one of your birthday cakes pic.twitter.com/c5IRBAW4NA— happy straya day (@__5secsofZiall) November 20, 2013
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen you have to put on insect repellent before you go to sleep. #straya— laura (@lauroraborealis) January 19, 2014
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen this icecream was a big part of ur childhood pic.twitter.com/FQk5HOFNo9— h a n (@mcsheeran) November 20, 2013
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen this was the worst thing to ever happen pic.twitter.com/knl6dq5F6C— tianna oakenshield (@remuslupined) November 20, 2013
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen you have to wear school shoes everyday and when you finish school you get a sock tan from the socks— WE LOVE YOU ZACH! (@LivingMyDream14) January 25, 2014
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen pic.twitter.com/AkVvK98pIt— tayla (@horanftedwards) November 20, 2013
#youknowyoureaustralianwhen pic.twitter.com/lw9ympfk2w— (@lusthoran) November 20, 2013
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|Tenting area reflects disease severity and prognosis in patients with non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy and functional mitral regurgitation.
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|PMID: 21106544 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|AIMS: To define which echocardiographic parameters are related to the degree of functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) and to establish their relationship with clinical status, plasma B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels, and prognosis in patients with non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NICMP).
METHODS AND RESULTS: Ninety patients (mean age: 50 ± 14, 31% females) with NICMP and FMR were prospectively analysed by echocardiography. Global and local left ventricular remodelling parameters such as ejection fraction and sphericity index, inter-papillary muscle distance, coaptation to septal distance, and mitral annular area, as well as mitral valve deformation indices such as tenting area (TA) and tenting distance, were measured as indicators of FMR. Patients were defined as having severe FMR [effective regurgitant orifice area (EROA) ≥ 0.2 cm(2), n = 41] or non-severe FMR (EROA < 0.2 cm(2), n = 49) and followed for 15 ± 3 months. Multivariate regression analysis revealed that TA had the greatest ability to predict severe FMR at a cut-off level of 3.4 cm(2) with 82% sensitivity and 77% specificity. Patients with higher TA values (>3.4 cm(2)) had statistically higher BNP levels, worse functional status, more hospitalizations, and higher death rates. The plasma BNP level (P: 0.012) and TA (P: 0.056) were predictors of all-cause mortality. New York Heart Association class (P < 0.001) and TA (P: 0.005) were predictors of combined death or hospitalization on multivariate Cox's regression analysis.
CONCLUSION: Tenting area accurately reflects the degree of FMR at a cut-off value of 3.4 cm(2) and has a strong correlation with functional status, plasma BNP, mortality, and hospitalization rates. Tenting area is also an independent predictor of mortality and hospitalizations in patients with NICMP and FMR.
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Data on Nitroxyl Donors and CXL-1020 Presented at Symposium on Emerging Therapies in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF)
Atlanta, GA and Chapel Hill, NC– April 1, 2010 – Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutic agents for the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) and other cardiovascular diseases, announced the presentation on Monday, March 15th of a comprehensive review of the pharmacological effects of nitroxyl (HNO) in the treatment of ADHF. The presentation was part of the ACC's "Emerging Therapies for the Treatment of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Symposium."
Dr. William Abraham, Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Ohio State University Medical Center delivered a state-of-the-art update on the use of nitroxyl donors in the treatment of ADHF in a session entitled, "Nitroxyl Donors: A New Generation of Inodilators." Dr. Abraham presented preclinical data outlining the cellular mechanism of action of nitroxyl donors, as well as their effects in animal models of heart failure. The presentation highlighted the potential of nitroxyl donors, and specifically CXL-1020, as novel agents which alter cardiac contraction and relaxation by unique pharmacological mechanisms. Dr. Abraham's presentation outlined how nitroxyl donors are both mechanistically and physiologically distinct from all previous inodilator therapies utilized in the treatment of this syndrome, which currently accounts for more hospitalizations in the USA for patients over age 65 years than any other diagnosis.
Chris Kroeger, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals, commented, "These data, combined with the results of prior studies, confirmed the effects of CXL-1020 in pre-clinical models of heart failure and provided a firm foundation to support the advancement of CXL-1020 into the clinic. Cardioxyl is currently conducting a Phase I/IIa dose-ranging study in patients with chronic stable heart failure to evaluate the safety and tolerability of CXL-1020, as well as the effects of this agent on non-invasive hemodynamic parameters and pharmacokinetics."
"We are gratified that the scientific and medical community continues to express significant interest in the potential of CXL-1020, and nitroxyl in general, as a potentially useful therapy for the treatment of ADHF," commented Doug Cowart, PharmD., EVP of Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs of Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Abraham added, "The ongoing and planned clinical studies will continue to clarify the role of this promising new class of therapeutics in acute decompensated heart failure."
About CXL-1020
During the presentation at the ACC, Dr. Abraham highlighted previous research demonstrating that nitroxyl has been shown to have positive cardiovascular effects that may benefit patients with ADHF. CXL-1020, a proprietary nitroxyl donor, is Cardioxyl's lead compound for the intravenous treatment of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). CXL-1020 is a pro-drug that breaks down under physiological conditions and liberates nitroxyl (HNO). Cardioxyl is now completing a Phase I/IIa safety and dose-escalation study of CXL-1020 in stable chronic heart failure subjects and will soon initiate a new study in patients who are hospitalized with severe heart failure. Based on all pre-clinical studies to date, CXL-1020 is anticipated to improve the symptoms, hemodynamics and clinical status of patients with ADHF.
About Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) and Current Treatment Options
ADHF is the leading diagnosis at the time of discharge from U.S. hospitals and the most common cause of hospitalization for patients over 65 years of age. Well over $37 billion was spent in the U.S. in 2009 for the medical care of heart failure patients. ADHF is a deadly condition, with in-hospital mortality rates of 2-6 percent and six month readmission rates as high as 30-60 percent. Episodes of ADHF are marked by a severe reduction of cardiac function that typically results in fluid accumulation in the lungs and consequent severe shortness of breath and worsening renal function due to poor perfusion of the kidneys. There were 1.1 million hospitalizations for acute heart failure in the U.S. in 2006. Among patients hospitalized with ADHF, the thirty day mortality rate is approximately 11 percent and the one year mortality rate is 34 percent. These poor outcomes indicate the clear need for better therapies to treat this patient population.
Previous therapies have focused on pharmacologic mechanisms that have not changed significantly over the last several decades.
About Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals
Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of new classes of safe and effective therapeutic agents for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Cardioxyl has developed industry-leading expertise in the chemistry, biology and clinical applications of nitroxyl (HNO) technology. The company's core HNO platform has generated several pre-clinical and clinical candidates, including the company's lead compound, CXL-1020, currently in clinical development for ADHF. Cardioxyl is a privately held company financed by life science venture investors, including the Aurora Funds and New Enterprise Associates.
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Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher enjoyed a romantic babymoon last week.
The couple, who are set to welcome their first child, a baby girl, into the world in October, spent a week soaking up the sun at the exclusive La Taha'a Island Resort & Spa on the island of Tahaa, near Bora Bora, in French Polynesia.
A source told E! News that the 'Black Swan' actress, 30, and her 36-year-old fiancé checked into a private over-water bungalow on May 25.
The couple spent much of their holiday relaxing on the resort's private beach, instead of taking advantage of the adventurous activities on offer, including snorkelling, hiking and jet-skiing.
The insider said: "[They] enjoyed the tranquil beauty of the resort."
The duo returned to Los Angeles on Sunday and were spotted visiting Mila's family there yesterday.
The couple, who got engaged earlier this year and started dating in 2012, recently bought a new $10 million mansion in Beverly Hills and the 'Two and a Half Men' actor put his bachelor pad on the market for $12 million.
Ashton, who was previously married to Demi Moore, can't wait to be a father and is doing everything he can to support Mila, whom he first met when she was 14 on the set of their sitcom 'That 70s Show.'
A friend previously said: "Ashton has been taking such good care of Mila. He's doting on her and telling her she looks beautiful. He understands she's going through changes and he hasn't judged her for it.
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Ever wondered what it's really like when two co-stars take their love from the silver screen to reality? Think the likes of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Yep, us too. So thanks to Josh Hartnett who's opened up about dating his fellow actors and confessing that it's 'like trial dating'.
Josh, who's dated Scarlett Johansson and is currently in a relationship with British actress Tamsin Egerton, claims that romancing some of his former co-stars has had a negative impact on his career and made him "a lot of enemies" in Hollywood.
Asked about finding love on set, the 'Penny Dreadful' star told US ELLE : "I don't recommend it to young actors. You can make a lot of enemies in the business that way. But when you work with somebody every day, it's like trial dating. You develop a fantasy about them. It doesn't always work out, does it?"
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The 35-year-old actor dated Scarlett for almost two years until 2007 after meeting her on the set of 'Black Dahlia,' and also dated Julia Stiles in 1999 after meeting her on the set of 'O.' He split from 'Les Miserables' actress Amanda Seyfried in June 2012 after six months of dating, and has also been linked to Kirsten Dunst, Sienna Miller, Rihanna and Penelope Cruz. So yeah, he's done the research.
The actor also suggested jealousy has been a problem for some of his famous ex-girlfriends. Discussing the secret to a happy relationship in Hollywood, he said: "Let them be on set whenever they want, with whichever co-star you're working with. Never say the scene is too sensitive. They get very suspicious."
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But the actor - who began dating Tamsin "long after" he met her on the set of 'Singularity' in 2012 - admitted that none of his friends are willing to listen to him complain about dating some of the world's most beautiful women.
He said: "They want to hear all about what you're doing, but they don't want to hear any complaints. Back when I dated a few very beautiful, very famous girls, I said something once - it wasn't really a complaint - and my buddy said, 'Oh my God, my diamond shoes are too tight.'"
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Bieber takes a cut at Brady's hair
Tom Brady's catching more grief for his Bieberesque hairdo.
This time from Justin Bieber himself.
Wednesday night on his Twitter page, the 16-year-old Canadian pop star, under the alias "Shawty Mane," released a video showing off his rap skills over a beat made popular by Harlem rappers Cam'Ron and Vado's in their record "Speaking in Tungs." In the short YouTube clip, Bieber steps to the mic and calls out Brady for his hairstyle (at the 25-second mark in the video above):
Sack like a sacker, Call up Mr. Brady, Tell him leave his hair to the guy that sings 'Baby.'
During the Brady portion of the rap, Bieber... errr Shawty Mane... throws an imaginary football and runs his fingers through his hair.
According to the Globe's Shalise Manza Young, Brady responded today, saying "Julian looks more like Beiber," referring to Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman.
The Herald's Ian Rapoport also mentioned Bieber's new rap to Brady and described the quarterback's reaction as "dumbfounded."
"Really? Wow. You know, I've never listened to his music," Brady said when hearing about the Bieber clip.
The hairy subject made its way onto ESPN's Pardon the Interruption as well today. During the word game, hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon are asked to complete the following sentence: Justin Bieber calling out Tom Brady is ___________ . "Outrageous," answered Kornheiser, while admitting that Bieber had the haircut first. "Imbecilic," answered Wilbon, who questioned Kornheiser's obsession with the subject of hair.
The Patriots star QB recently said his wife Gisele was responsible for the length of his hair and he would have to run it by her before he gets it cut.
On Sunday, CBS NFL analyst Charley Caserly reported that Brady had a heated altercation with former teammate Randy Moss in which Moss allegedly told him to cut his hair because he looked like a girl. Brady denied that such a confrontation rook place.
"He's never made fun of my hair, when everyone else seems to want to make fun of my hair," Brady said by his locker in Foxborough yesterday. "But he [Moss] never has."
On Tuesday, the folks at the Wall Street Journal, inspired by Brady's 'do, had some stylists and a Photoshop expert to do computerized makeovers of a few NFL quarterbacks and they whipped it into a neat interactive graphic.


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The lesser prairie chicken has been under consideration by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for inclusion on the federal endangered species list for nearly 20 years, but the threat to the rare bird posed by hundreds of wind turbines could be enough to force the agency to move forward with a listing.
According to Wild Earth Guardians, a Santa Fe, N.M.-based environmental group that has petitioned the USFWS to "immediately" list the bird as an endangered species, populations of lesser prairie chickens have plummeted by an estimated 97 percent over the fowl's historic range.
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Five Scary and Most Dangerous Addictions You Should Know About
Addictions are scary things as consider how they can ruin one's physical strength, immunity, and cause many health problems. They are by far the most compulsive and chronic habits which we engage in; unhealthy behavioural acts that can aggravate many crimes, suicides or even other social problems.
Shopping Addiction
Omniomania ("onios" means "for sale" while "mania" means "madness") is a term given to describe a psychiatric disorder that is commonly known as shopping addiction, compulsive shopping or compulsive buying disorder (CB). This syndrome was recognized as early as the twentieth century and it's documented that it can co-occur with other disorders like eating disorders, impulsive control disorders, substance use disorders, and anxiety disorder.
According to the survey conducted by a Psychiatric Times, only 6% of the Americans are considered to have compulsive shopping. This shopping habit is different from the normal shopping as the sufferers have used shopping as an outlet to help them cope with anger, stress, depression, boredom, self-critical thoughts, tension, anxiety and loneliness. People with Omniomania will shop until they run into debt because their mind is completely preoccupied by excessive spending. This compulsion can eventually wreck families and hurt relationships. Interestingly, compulsive shoppers with this syndrome aren't concerned much with what they've bought. They leave compact discs wrapped in plastic and never listen to them or hang their new clothes in the closet without even taking them out either.
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Smoking in any form, marijuana, tobacco, or cigarettes can lead smokers to an additive dependence on that particular substance to a degree that when they withdraw from smoking, their mental, emotional feeling or any physical reactions will be greatly irritated.
Nicotine is a psychoactive drug found in the cigarette that causes addiction to cigarettes and the human bloodstream absorbs toxins rapidly via the smoker's lungs. Within 7 seconds of the smoke being inhaled these toxins can reach the brain. High doses of nicotine have shown to stimulate activation of "pleasure centers" located in the brain, particularly the mesolimbic dopamine system, which can cause nicotine dependence among the smokers. This explains why smokers who first started smoking can take in higher doses of nicotine without feeling sick. Nicotine can also "alter" functional as well as structural changes in the smokers' brains, and thus when they suddenly withdrawn from smoking, the physiological functions in their brain or other parts of their bodies will be greatly interrupted.
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. — A 19-year-old Roanoke man was killed in an accident on Interstate 81 in Montgomery County on Friday afternoon.
The man has been identified as Joseph Arellano Perez.
According to Virginia State Police, Perez was driving a truck near mile marker 105 when he tried to switch lanes. He over corrected, then his truck ran off the right side of the road and hit an embankment.
Perez was wearing a seat belt, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The truck was owned by ISR Environmental Services of Blacksburg.
The accident backed up traffic on the interstate for several hours.
Here is the news release from Virginia State Police:
The Virginia State Police are continuing their investigation into a fatal crash that occurred around 12:45 pm today on Interstate 81 southbound at the 105.8 mile post in Montgomery County. A 2000 International truck operated by Joseph Arellano Perez, age 19, of Roanoke, Virginia was traveling in the right lane when he was attempting to switch lanes and ran off the left side of the roadway, over corrected and then ran off the right side of the roadway striking an embankment before overturning. Perez was wearing a safety belt at the time of the crash but was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.
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The Telly Awards competition is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions, and online film and video. The Telly Awards annually showcases the best work of the most respected advertising agencies, production companies, television stations, cable operators, interactive agencies, and corporations in the world. Winners are chosen annually from more than 13,000 entries from all 50 states and countries around the world.
Launched in February 2008, the Cart Whisperer is a campaign based on the personal crusade of Liberty Fillmore, a.k.a. the Cart Whisperer, and offers a light hearted look at a common online business pain point: abandoned shopping carts. The Cart Whisperer includes a Web site (www.nomoreabandonedcarts.com) which features videos, photos and poems depicting Liberty's life as a rescuer of abandoned shopping carts. The successful campaign garnered more than 5 million views on YouTube, attracted nearly 123,000 visits to www.nomoreabandonedcarts.com, and acquired more than 400 friends on MySpace and Facebook combined.
"We are ecstatic and honored to be recognized by the Telly Awards for the Cart Whisperer campaign," said Marianna Peyzner, SSL product marketing manager at VeriSign. "The objective of the Cart Whisperer campaign was to show online retailers how to prevent cart abandonment by letting consumers know it is safe to shop with the Internet's most visible Web site security indicator -- the green browser bar of Extended Validation SSL Certificates."
In June 2008, the Cart Whisperer was inducted into the MarketingSherpa Viral Marketing Hall of Fame. Most recently in 2009, the campaign received an Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Internet Advertising in the "Best Computer: Software Web Sites" category. The campaign also helped VeriSign win the 2008 Online Safety Leadership Award by the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance (AOTA) for exceptional commitment to improving online safety.
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Rangers bankruptcy courtroom drama recap: Relive wild and crazy night
I'm following the court case from 1,500 miles away via twitter, but I'll pass along any updates I get right here:
1:04: Andro: Chuck: "It was a lot of money but we're still going after Cliff Lee."
12:50: Andro: "Nolan Ryan said it was time for someone to say uncle."
12:43: Andro: "Cheeers erupt in courtroom with standing ovations all around. … Hugs everywhere."
12:41: Andro: "Crane just shook Nolan's hand and said Congratulations we're done. … Don't know what it means but I saw it and heard it. … If I'm lying, I'm frying and I want Lauria to defend me."
12:27: Andro: "Cuban group wants 10 minutes to assess its next bid."
12:25: Andro: "We are back in session. Greenberg group just bid $385 million cash money for #Rangers. … The Greenberg bids can be less because of present value of money. They can close bid now."
12:12: Andro: "We could have another bid in about five minutes. Greenberg didn't need the 30. Said five."
12:10: Andro: "The Cuban bid for the #Rangers right now could total somewhere in the $610 million neighboorhood. But the pressbox wireless is still bad."
12:08: Andro: "We just had a bid of $390 million from Cuban and a cut of the $12 million escrow."
12:05: Andro: "It's after midnight and the courtroom is starting to fill up again."
11:41: Andro: "The Greenberg bid to buy #Rangers just went to $365 million and also removed escrot. We have a 15 minute recess. … The total bid is around $585 million for Greenberg with $12 million in escrow removed."
11:40: Andro: "The total value for the last bid from Cuban was $563 million."
11:35: Andro: "Everyone is back now and we are a go again."
11:28: Andro: "Now the Cuban big three of Cuban, Jessup and Crane have left the room."
11:27: Andro: "We are still in a holding pattern at 11:27 for the 11 p.m. meeting. All Cuban people are here still here and so his judge."
11:10: Andro: "All sides are in room with exception of key Greenberg people."
10:54: Andro: "CRO says if it ends now, banks will net $80 million from initial bid for team."
10:39: Andro: "Lauria said the Greenberg group is trying to assess options. We will reconvene at 11. That is all for now."
10:36: Andro: "Reconvening without Rnagers Baseball Express Group here. Judge Nelms said we will sit here until they get here."
10:30: Andro: "Sides are coming back into court."
10:02: Andro: "Cuban just walked out smiling. He's kept his cool remarkably well."
10:00: Andro: Lauria in spat: "Our money is worth more than his money because you get it now."
9:57: Andro: "Spat in courtroom right now."
9:37: Andro: "By my count. CRO lawyers checking bid for five minutes, then Greenberg group will have 30 minutes to respond. I think."
9:33: Andro: "Jessup said the Cuban group is bidding $355 million for #Rangers. Wow."
9:30: Anthony Andro is reporting that Judge Nelms is going to allow another bid from Cuban for the Rangers.
9:27: Andro: Lauria: "We ask again that this be brought to Judge Lynn and ask him to sort this out because this is a mess."
9:25: Andro: CRO lawyer: "We should be able to take bid from Cuban-Crane team."
9:24: Andro: CRO lawyer: "Bids were $15 million apart. Doesn't sound happy with Lauria."
9:20: Andro: Jessup: "Put the auction back in order with CRO and debtor running it. We've been delayed all day in bidding."
9:17: Andro: Lauria: "This is not an auction. … We're not prepared to continue."
9:10: Andro: "The deduction to Cuban/Ryan bid was $6.7 million. … Greenberg/Ryan group is upset with discount numbers."
9:09: Andro: "Cuban team wants to bid in increments of $10 million over Greenberg/Ryan group."
9:08: Andro: "They are seeing who had the last highest bid figuring in the discount."
9:05: Andro: "Nelms doesn't want parties to explain cases to him anymore, instead to through CRO and debtors. … CRO attorney said the two bids are neck and neck."
9:03: Andro: "Judge Nelms said we need to move proceedings along. … We will break for 30 minutes from now on."
8:50: Andro: "Cuban and Crane are back in the room."
8:42: Andro: "Judge Nelms just said he get a new bid at 9 p.m."
8:30: Andro: "Cuban just walked in courtroom for a sec but it gone."
8:25: Andro: "What we are waiting on is to see how the debtors value the Cuban-Crane bid."
7:52: Andro: "Chuck Greenberg just said they are waiting for a few people. Said the ball wasn't in their court. Something may be afoot."
7:45: Andro: "It's not a good sign that the Cuban group just had a bunch of pizza delivered."
7:27: From CBS11: "can tell from mood of people walking in that something has happened, lots of leaning over each other and whispering. More people walking out with phones in hand."
7:20: Andro: Now it looks like we are in a delay again. … From CBS11: "7:20 now, over an hour past when we thought next update would come. "
7:09: Andro: "A bit early. Not everyone is here yet. Most of the Ryan-Greenberg team. Still waiting on Cuban brood."
7:04: From Andro: "We have everyone back in court now."
6:38: From CBS11: "no sign of anyone… we're waiting"
6:25: From Andro: "We are waiting for the 6:15 bid at 6:25."
5:52: From Andro: "Cuban and his team are still in the courtroom talking things over."
5:50: Looks like court will reconvene in about 30 minutes
5:45: Andro: "Jessup makes topping bid right now. … The Crane-Cuban topping bid is $15 million for $335 million cash."
5:44: Andro: "Ryan-Greenberg top their cash bid by $2 million from $318 to $320."
5:40: More from Andro — "Lawyers all looking for place to sit. … We are back in business. … We're about to get a bid from Ryan-Greenberg, I think."
5:35: The latest from Anthony Andro's Twitter account: "We have lawyers heading back into courtroom. … Greenberg is sitting back down. … The sides are all back in the court, with the eception of the judge."
5:30: The latest tweet from Sports Business Journal's Daniel Kaplan: ":greenberg told me that crane cuban bid is a phantom bid, with no partnership agreement or details on debt equity split.maybe but court accepted." … Meanwhile, still waiting on a Greenberg-Ryan counter offer or white flag in auction portion. Either way, feeling emanating from those in court room is that process has turned heavily in Crane-Cuban's favor. It's starting to feel like election night 2000, when Al Gore won the popular vote (fans) and George W. Bush won where it counted (the courts).
4:30: Anthony Andro reports that Judge Nelms says we're going work through the night to make bid happen. Judge Nelms says bid was in hand before 8 last night, just a question about whether it was correct bid. Greenberg-Ryan group just got markup of the document. It could take an hour or more.
4:15: Anthony Andro reports that Greenberg said a legit bid was never submitted by Cuban's team and they still haven't seen the Cuban bid. Chuck Greenberg says they will appeal.
3:33: Tim Cowlishaw and Daniel Kaplan report lawyers are dropping f-bombs on each other in the hallway. Now, this I'm sorry I missed.
2:51: According to Maury Brown, Cuban-Crane bid comes in $25 million above bid from Ryan-Greenberg. Ball now in Ryan-Greenberg's court.
2:39: Anthony Andro reports that 2:45 is the latest estimate.
2:28: Again, from Andro: Jim Crane is back in court now too, still no Greenberg or Ryan in the room.
2:24: From Anthony Andro: Mark Cuban is back in the courtroom.
2:21: From Anthony Andro: Chuck Greenberg is confident this will all be done by noon ….. Tomorrow. His timeline guesses haven't gone so well in the past.
2:14: Anthony Andro reports that a source says the latest delay is to go over small details in Cuban-Crane bid to buy.
2:14: From Maury Brown: It appears Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan's group is making another attempt to end this sale/bankruptcy process without an actual auction.
1:24: A million people have already mentioned it, but just in case you haven't heard, it was 17 years ago today that Nolan Ryan put Robin Ventura in a headlock.
1:22: From Channell 11: Courtroom is now finally starting to fill up again. Maybe an actual auction will take place this afternoon.
12:30: From Anthony-Andro (Star-Telegram): Source: The secondary lien holder who blocked the sale from going down last night was Sal Galatioto, who has dealt with Hicks before. OUR REACTION: Galatioto's firm, I believe, was retained by HSG to help with the sale of the Stars. If so, it just adds to the intrigue at every turn in this mess.
11:29: From Tim Cowlishaw: Opening bid in auction won't be for an hour. Next bid may take another hour, judge says. OUR REACTION: Oh, goody. This is suddenly about as exciting as a Chan Ho Park start. Moving about as fast as one, too, if I recall correctly. Hope they brought in concessionaires.
11:19: I'm hearing that Greenberg/Ryan essentially had yet another deal in place last night that would have satisfied all first-lien holders (believe that includes Monarch), but a second-lien holder objected. And thus back to the auction. To think the possibility that Monarch was satisfied at one point and yet this thing goes on. Wow.
11:05: From Daniel Kaplan: now auction to start at 1230 pm et and assuming greenberg is not hi bid, he has requested one hour to review it
11:00: From Daniel Kaplan: Rangers have requested more time to review bid so auction will now not start at noon et. ugh
9:55: From Tim Cowlishaw: Auction won't start til 11. But there will be auction, judge just announced. Later.
9:52: The assumption, by Maury Brown, is that Greenberg/Ryan and MLB are challenging the qualification of the the Crane/Cuban bid based on the presence of "bridge-funding," the inclusion of short-term financing by Monarch to help that bid. Perhaps the bridge-funding and the need to then pay off Monarch's financing in a very short period makes the value of the deal either worth less in net value or more shaky because of the need to go back out and refinance the loan.
9:48: From Daniel Kaplan: judge nelms will decide whether cuban crane submitted a qualified bid
9:47: From Maury Brown (Biz of Baseball): If the auction is off due to technicality, it will be but one more incredible twist in this whole Texas Rangers sale affair.
9:45: From Daniel Kaplan: its suddenly unsure again if there will be an auction.
9:42: From Daniel Kaplan (Sports Business Journal) mlb and greenberg are challenging qualification of cuban crane bid, meanwhile I am hearing of a split within the loan group.


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How to Cure Neck Pain
In this article, I am writing some tips with which you can cure your neck pain.
Neck pain is a condition which tends to hurt a lot and makes it difficult for people to work or study. In this article, I am writing some tips with which you can cure your neck pain.
Keep your neck straight
First and foremost in my advice on getting rid of neck is to keep your neck straight and don't look down or crane your neck too much. If you are reading, keep the book to your eye level. If you are working on a computer, make sure that the screen is level with your eyes and that you don't have to move your head down to read it.
Neck Exercises
There are some simple neck exercises that can relieve your neck pain in a small amount of time.
Horizontal Movement: Move your head from right to left and then from left to right. Do this about five to ten times.
Vertical Movement: Move your head up as far as you can (until you can see the ceiling) and then down as far as you can (until your chin touches your collarbone). Repeat this five to ten times. Your neck will be stretched and relaxed.
Circular Movement: Move your head in a circle (360 degree) first in the clockwise direction five times and then in the anticlockwise direction five times. Your neck muscles will feel relaxed.
Invisible Pull: I have described this exercise in my article "How to Improve Eyesight Naturally" (http://healthmad.com/weight-loss/how-to-improve-eyesight-naturally-2/) and I will explain it in this article as well.
This is an exercise that helps relieve the tension in your neck veins. Close your eyes and feel that an invisible hook/force is attached to the back of your neck by the wall behind you and another hook/force is attached on the top of your head from the ceiling above. Move your head from one side to the other. Move your head this way about ten times. You will definitely feel great after doing this exercise. It will eliminate your neck pains and ultimately reduce the stress on your eyes.
Support your Neck
If you can have a chair that has headrest, use it in your office or while studying. When you are sitting in your car, rest your head against the headrest in order to rest your neck. This way, your neck does not have to bear the full weight of your head all the time and gets some relief.
Keep a Straight Pillow
Use a pillow that does not elevate your head too much. Personally, I always develop pain in my neck when I use a puffed-up pillow. So try to use a flat one or one with which your neck and head remain in the same line with each other or horizontal.
Take a Break
If you keep on staring at the computer screen or your television screen for too long, you will develop a stiff neck. Take a break after every two hours or so and stop looking at the screen, stretch a little or go and walk around the office and relax your neck.
Avoid Stress
Stress can have a bad effect on your overall health and especially on your neck. When I am very stressed out, I develop a headache that travels from my left temple to the left side of my neck. It is not migraine but it is very painful nevertheless. So avoid stress or any kind of worry. See my article on "How to Deal with Stress". http://healthmad.com/mental-health/how-to-deal-with-stress-6/
I wish you a happy life free from neck pain!
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Four years ago, the shrewdest presidential candidates used YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and a dash of Twitter. They also tried to gain a strange new psychic edge called—in the contrived conceit of the day—"mindshare in the blogosphere." Apps were nowhere in campaign strategies. The iPhone was new. The iPad didn't exist.
So who e-campaigned best last time? During Super Tuesday week in 2008, Garlik, a British firm that monitors digital reputations, ranked the day's presidential candidates by online popularity. It didn't take Nate Silver or that Zogby person to call the winner. If you hung around social media even a little, you knew the fix was in.
It wasn't Hillary Clinton. Nor Mitt Romney, John McCain or Barack Obama. Blowing them all away—sealing for himself, in fact, the Presidency of the United Cyberstates of Digital America, commander-in-chief of the Information-Wants-To-Be-Free World—was, naturally, Congressman Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul.
Ron Paul, President of the Internet! Hail to the online chief! Four more years!
Ron Paul. Elfin ob-gyn goldbug. Ayn Randian. Foe of war, abortion and government. Texan. Rejector of Medicaid, rejector of Medicare. Climate-change skeptic. Keeper of odd company. Espouser of tendentious views.
In 2012, he's still kicking back in the Online Oval Office. Ron Paul, commanding the mad and visible support of somebody. Sure he doesn't fare so well with actual flesh-and-blood voters of majority age who are motivated to drive gas-burning cars and appear with their laminated IDs at three-dimensional voting booths. But you can't have everything.
Big online, small in the real world?
Tim Hwang, a researcher of online movements and memes and the managing director of the Web Ecology Project, says that Ron Paul illustrates a fact we often overlook: "The Internet is not coterminous with the real world." He told me by email, "Like in a rearview mirror communities can be smaller than they appear on the Internet: discussion is often subject to parties who are loudest and can rally the most participants to appear online and participate at that specific moment."
This time around, for Paul, the Internet rally seems to have been sound and fury signifying little.Paul's big hopes for Alaska, Idaho and North Dakota were dashed on Super Tuesday, and he has yet to score a victory in a single contest in this election.
However, he's still logging mindshare in the blogosphere.
So how does he do it? Paul, for all his flat, engineer-like charisma, hardly seems like a Julian Assange mastermind, able to bend the Internet to his Machiavellian hacker will. Instead, it seems the President of the Internet just got lucky.
"I was on YouTube looking for some sort of guitar video or something," an ardent supporter of Ron Paul told PBS a while back, by way of explaining how he came to his candidate years ago. He had stumbled on a Paul propaganda video: "Ron Paul: A New Hope." "He was just speaking truth," concluded the guiter-vid-hunter. A Paulian was born.
I know, because this happened to me. I'd give a link to my interrogation of the Paul scene from the waning days of 2007, but it doesn't exist. My editor at the New York Times fully expunged the record after hundreds of Paulians swarmed the site—like bacteria or antibodies—and sowed the comments section with vitriol.
The complete retraction delighted the Paulians. And to their credit, Paulians can bring the bombast. Lew Rockwell, the "anti-state, anti-war, pro-market" blogger wrote ominously at the time: "Those who smear Ron Paul will live to regret it." He went on: "MSM, here are the new rules: no lying, no ridiculing, no suppressing. Remember 'journalistic ethics'? You really have no choice. The Internet rules."
A victory for Ron Paul would be a victory for the Internet, then, and in theory that victory would be a victory for people—anti-statist, libertarian people, the normal kind who have grave doubts about paper money and spooky conceptions of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Support is limited, but organic and real
The grassroots support Paul lavishly enjoys is either
illusory—"astroturfing" by a campaign determined to make its marketing
initiatives seem organic—or real.
Most observers feel it is real, as far as it goes. Hwang doesn't believe the campaign is funded well enough even to seed all the user-generated Paul propaganda that's out there.
Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham legal scholar who organized Howard Dean's online campaign, has said that where most campaigns make "Stepford" Web sites that aim to control a candidate's brand, as Coke or Apple would, Ron Paul's sites, many of them made by fans and not PR firms, look like places where anyone can belong and contribute.
Paulians, Teachout says, do not endeavor to meet the candidate, which would be costly for the campaign. Instead, they content themselves with meeting one another—online and in live meetups. Thus convened, they figure out clever ways to engineer shows of online force.
Some of Paul's most ardent supporters are sui generis, including Trevor Lyman, an Internet music entrepreneur and Ron Paul superfan. In 2008, Lyman abandoned a lifetime of political apathy to throw in with Paul, whose opposition to the war in Iraq appealed to him.
Though he's now not on the campaign's payroll, and has had very limited contact with the candidate—no tete-a-tete flights in Gulfstreams to discuss pet issues—Lyman is credited with having staged the campaign's biggest fundraising initiatives (many of them Internet-driven "moneybombs"). He also co-owns a for-profit company that flies blimp advertising Ron Paul for President in 2012. Giving money to Lyman's company is one way for donors to do an end-run around the federal contribution limit of $2,500, per election, to a candidate.
Getting around limitations imposed by government or big business is second nature to digital natives like Lyman who are the right age to have grown up getting music and movies from Napster and BitTorrent. Ron Paul's politics are a natural fit with the frontiersman ideology that drives longtime users of the Internet—especially the pure-hearted ones, trained in the 1990s, who can code, develop online projects, create and curate user-generated content and start digital initiatives. They also happen to be the ones who don't expect money for their labors.
For now, they have only one problem as a support base. There are not enough of them. Ron Paul has about 900,000 Facebook likers, almost precisely the number of votes for Paul in this election, which he is not—you heard it here first—going to win.


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This article from the onion made me laugh, probably because it sounds a lot like me. Except I would never draft Pedro Martinez.
Posted on: June 20, 2008 2:29 pm
Throw a freakin' strike
This article from the onion made me laugh, probably because it sounds a lot like me. Except I would never draft Pedro Martinez.
Category: MLB
Tags: Fantasy Baseball
Posted on: June 18, 2008 3:02 pm
Dear Omar
Thanks for making me and Frank not look like such complete jackasses anymore for the Grady Little disgrace. Way to take one for the team.
By the way, where are we hanging out in september? I hear phoenix is nice and they treat unemployed people well. Let's talk soon.
Ned Louis Colletti Jr.
P.S. Last weekend was off tha hook, one love me breddha.
Category: MLB
Tags: Dodgers, Frank McCourt, Mets, Ned Colletti, Omar Minaya
Posted on: June 14, 2008 2:51 pm
Sowing rotten seeds
It's been too long since I've given dynamite fantasy advice, so let's get right to it.
I would like to shine a glaring, blinding ray of fantasy spotlight on someone who has about as much value as John Rocker at a march for tolerance.
Jeremy Sowers
Sowers, who just turned 25 in may, has electric stuff kind of like a wheelchair has at Talladega. He can't overpower you, he gives up plenty of hits, he can't top 92 on the gun (except for maybe at Busch, too bad he's in the AL), and his twin brother, Joshua Sowers, probably has more of a future at this point if only because he has not had the opportunity to fail at the major league level yet.
Some meaningless stats:
2008: 0-1 7.23 ERA 8:5 K/BB sparkling 1.77 WHIP and most important of all, 0 QS in 4 GS
And as if 2007 is any indication of what we can see going forward...
2007: 1-6 6.44 ERA 24:21 K/BB 1.56 WHIP in 67.1 INN
Fantasy Analysis:
Unless you have access to a DeLorean and play fantasy baseball 2006, where he pitched 22 scoreless INN including two SO's before hitters realized who he was... wait you actually own a DeLorean?
Fantasy Recommendation:
Must start in all AL-only leagues with no reserves or relievers, and the only pitchers you can start are in the starting rotation on the Cleveland Indians.
Category: MLB
Posted on: May 26, 2008 9:56 pm
If you're like me and tried to buy on Francisco Liriano after his putrid start in hopes of having lightning strike out of your fingers later on this year, your hopes just got a little bit dimmer this Memorial day.
Tonight's line from the Rochester Red Wings (AAA Twins affiliate):
6.2 6 6 6 1 4 1 4.61
After giving up two runs in 7 in his last start, and 3 in 8 before that, this isn't the roadblock we were expecting to see. It's been well documented the road to recovery from Tommy John surgery has lingering effects in some arms up to two (and sometimes over) years removed from the procedure, but I for one expected things to really start to take shape more resembling when I plucked him out of free agency that oh so glorious season ago.
Feels like it was almost yesterday.... but enough nostalgia.
One thing that worries me is that the K's are very much down. You can always attribute decreased velocity, adjustments in delivery due to his injury, but maybe something that hasn't been discussed yet is the mental side of it. If you were dominating hitters so foolishly, would you want any period of your career after that to be less than stellar? I guess you would have to ask Nolan Ryan or Roger Clemens how they felt after they knew they turned the apex.
I'm not about to compare Liriano to the greats, because it's far too soon to give up on a young arm. But one has to wonder...
Category: MLB
Posted on: May 26, 2008 4:51 am
Rocket Launch Pt. II
This absolutely fantastic article just had to be linked from driveline mechanics.
Already a site you should be following, Kyle Boddy goes in depth on the goods from the youngest phenom to hit the bigs. Not to spoil it for Dodger fans, but you really need to read this.
After striking out twice vs. Kershaw, and four times total, Cardinals RF Ryan Ludwick had this to say about Public Enemy #1 (for non vin scully fans, this means his curve)....
"kind of like (former American League Cy Young Award winner Barry) Zito's. It's big."
What more of a complement do you need after being compared to Barry Zito?
Category: MLB
Tags: Barry Zito, Cardinals, Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers, Ryan Ludwick
Posted on: May 25, 2008 7:06 pm
The rocket has been launched
Not too shabby for a major league debut, not exactly Max Scherzer like but also take into consideration Max didn't start the game.
So far, the Clayton Kershaw experiment has to be considered a complete success. Tonight's final numbers:
If it was not for a coughed up lead, it would of looked prettier but it could of also have been worse.
One thing you'll notice with Kershaw as he continues to work with Rick Honeycutt (as much as possible hopefully), is that he'll have to be proactive with his curve rather than reactive. When watching him get into counts it's obvious major league hitters have a lot easier time picking up the curve than at AA ball, thus you get an Albert Pujols situation with a run scoring double (should of been held to 3rd if not for Juan Pierre's terrible defense), but perhaps worse than that you get a lot of fouled off pitches, which means you get taken further into the count than need be and you have to be pulled out of the game sooner.
Not what you want when you're already on a 175-180IP max cap for the rest of the season. Maybe a minor tweak in the delivery could help hide the ball if not anything more than a nanosecond longer, thus making the ball harder to pick up, and forcing the hitter to adjust his timing. Just my thoughts anyway.
All in all, congratulations to Clayton on a successful first try, and props on the cute girlfriend, she's not Mike Piazza good but hey, it's a start.
Category: MLB
Posted on: May 12, 2008 10:55 pm
Edited on: May 13, 2008 12:59 am
Crash and Burn
Attention baseball fans:
This is not a dream, this is just another wonderful case of deja vu.
Yet again they seem to build us up, just before they push us over the edge laughing.
You know who I'm talking about, let me count the ways....
I don't believe Rafael Furcal's absence is hurting the offense. I believe it's torturing it. I believe he flies around during BP and sprinkles pixie dust on all the players and on the field so that the gods can grant us runs. If that's not it, what is?
Category: MLB
Posted on: May 9, 2008 1:41 pm
Living in my fantasy
Most sports blogs post fantasy info on hot prospects, potential breakouts, and other general steals of your league that you or I might want or already have on one's team.
That's stupid.
Why would you want to give out all that info to your opponents?
Therefore, I give you the first installment of the fantasy spotlight on:
Randor Bierd
A rule 5 draft pick via the Tigers, Bierd went 3-2 with a 3.38 ERA at AA Eerie in 07. He finished the year with a K/BB of 52:10 in 45.2 INN. So far in 08, before going on the DL, in 9 appearances he has logged 13.3 INN with a sparkling 0-1 record and a 1.35 WHIP.
Fantasy Analysis:
Has a cool manly name, said to have some mystical off-speed pitch capable of bringing vampires and dragons to their knees.
Fantasy Recommendation:
A Must reserve in all deep 18+ team leagues with multiple DL spots. Only own him if you can afford to stash away a MRP on a sub-par team that may or may not be a fixture in the majors.
Category: MLB
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The first score of the fourth quarter came with 10:05 remaining in the game. After the Gator offense drove the ball 52 yards in nine plays, Ijjas converted from 32 yards on his first field goal attempt of the season bringing the score to 52-24.
The Trojans responded with a 26-yard touchdown reception from Silvoy to narrow the Gators margin, 52-31. The touchdown, with 7:00 remaining in the game, was Silvoys second of the night.
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