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Come to the Logan Library on Tuesday July 20 at 2:00 for The 1 Minute Challenge. We'll be playing games inspired by the television show Minute to Win It on NBC. In this prime time game show contestants win cash by completing silly challenges while a minute timer counts down. Our version promises lots of fun and prizes for the winners.


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A mini war-of-words has begun boiling between Great Britain's Andy Murray and Austria's Jurgen Melzer ahead of their battle in the Davis Cup relegation play-off this weekend.
The pair's last meeting was in the US Open third round where the Brit baller pulled out an epic 6-7 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-1, 6-3 win after saving two match points - surely one of the highlights of the first week in New York.
During his country's Davis Cup presser Jurgen, who was admittedly devastated by the US Open loss, spoke about the pressure Andy must be feeling ahead of their meetup:
Andy, however, was quick to counterpunch the Austrian's claims saying,
Andy isn't in an easy position because the whole country expects him to win the Davis Cup by himself. After playing such a great grand slam I imagine it would be tough to get your head clear and focus on the next one. It's a big one.
Britain want to be in the World Group so there's a lot of pressure on his shoulders. Let's see how he copes with that on the weekend.
I don't think there's a lot of pressure on me. Jurgen doesn't have a particularly good Davis Cup record. I'm confident I'll be able to handle the pressure.Ha - touché Andy! It does sound like Jurgen is still smarting from his missed opportunity in New York. But their playoff is happening at Wimbledon so the pressure will be on Andy to carry Great Britain into the World Group while the whole country watches.
Though I think he'll pull through just fine, I always appreciate a little dust up before Davis Cup!
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2008 Dodge Charger RT Hemi Shaker Scoop - Fresh Air Funnel UpgradeWritten by on June 1, 2009 Classic Design Concepts' New Hemi Shaker Scoop
I'm lucky (OK, make that old) enough to remember marveling at the audacious Shaker scoops proudly protruding through the hoods of hot-rod E-Bodies on dealer lots way back in 1970. Little did I care back then that they were functional. At the time I just knew they were cool. The fact that they also provided a blast of cooler air to the cast-iron monster lurking beneath was of almost no importance to me, since as a dirt-poor 15-year-old, I couldn't afford even a Slant Six Dart in those days, let alone a testosterone-oozing Challenger or 'Cuda.
Fast forward to 2008, and some things never change. I still can't afford a '70 big-block E-Body, yet I still think a well-engineered shaker setup is the ultimate in cool, both aesthetically and functionally. So does George Huisman and his crew at Classic Design Concepts, and after all the R&D and tooling costs they've invested in the development of their LX-platform Shaker system, they hope you do too. For those unfamiliar with CDC, this is a Motor City company with a well earned reputation for design creativity and quality, serving both the aftermarket (that would be you) as well as Detroit's OEMs (that would be Chrysler, Ford, and GM). In other words, these guys make good stuff, as we're about to show you with the details and installation of CDC's new Shaker scoop system on an '08 Charger R/T. And with all the buzz and hype surrounding the new Challenger, CDC's product planners would have been crazy to make a setup that didn't fit the hot new coupe. They're not, and it does.
OK, so the current generation of 5.7- and 6.1-liter Hemis may not shake quite as exuberantly as their hulking 426-cid predecessors, but they sure look and breathe better with a CDC Shaker sitting up top, proudly broadcasting their Hemi-ness to the world.
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Flipped upside down, you can see that metal frame used to secure the assembly to the car's four fuel rail fasteners. Also visible is the molded-in, cool-air ductwork that will outlet into the car's revised airbox. You can also see a couple of the spring-wire receivers for the quarter-turn Dzus-type fasteners that will secure the scoop to the engine cover.Classic Design Concepts' major Shaker kit components. In front is the steel Shaker scoop itself, with its functional, injection-molded ABS air-inlet vents. It's available in the textured black finish shown, or unpainted. Behind it is the new engine cover/Shaker base, with integral air ductwork. And standing up at the back are the inside and outside hood trim rings. Also shown are the kit's conical, free-flow filter and new airbox lid, along with the filter adapter ring (on the left).The engine cover/Shaker base is heat-resistant, thermo-formed PC-ABS (polycarbonate ABS). The forward opening on the right side allows access to the Hemi's oil filler cap, while the opening behind it leads into the cool-air duct. The four bolts on top secure the cover to its supporting metal frame (visible in the next photo.)Because the Shaker mounts to the engine and pokes through the hood, it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to realize a hole has to be cut in said hood. As a first step, the nine plastic pins retaining the hood insulator pad have to be removed. This doesn't have to be done gently, as the kit includes new push pins to replace them. Trust us when we say that safety glasses are strongly recommended; these hard plastic factory pins become screaming projectiles when pried loose.The windshield washer hoses are separated from the nozzles, and then the nozzles themselves are unclipped from the hood. Because the hood must come off, the washer fluid lines are completely unclipped from the hood and hood hinges.On the bench, the centersection of the hood is taped off, and the side-to-side center-point of the hood is established, front and rear. To fit our available space-we're not able to be overly specific here-but the kit includes extremely detailed and well-illustrated instructions.Once the paper template is properly positioned, a sharp blade is used to trace as accurately as possible the outline of the eventual hood cutout. The idea is to cut through the template, the tape beneath, as well as the paint on the hood. Scoring the paint in this fashion (with the masking tape installed) will help keep it from chipping when the hood cut is performed.The Charger hood is made mostly of aluminum, but it's obviously still a two-man job to lift it off once unbolted from the hinges. Notice the pieces of masking tape that will facilitate reinstalling the hood in the exact same orientation (then again, not all factory hood alignment is perfect, so the hood hinge fasteners allow adjustability if necessary to correct for misaligned hood/fender gaps).A line is drawn on the masking tape marking the longitudinal centerline of the hood. Then, a point is marked on this centerline a distance of 81/8 inches from the rear edge of the hood. Accuracy is vital, as this point is used to correctly position the kit's included template for the hood cutout-and we don't want to cut the hole in the wrong place, now do we?
The template and tape inside the cutout line are then removed. A half-inch pilot hole is then drilled through the hood. This hole is a starting point for the jigsaw that will be used to make the opening's cut. Note that the tape has been doubled around the perimeter of the eventual cutout, in the area where the foot of the jigsaw will ride.A fine-tooth, bi-metal blade is the way to go in the jigsaw. This slices effortlessly through the outer and inner hood skins, so the hood must be elevated above your work bench. A good tip is to pry up the corners already cut (we used paint sticks), to avoid blade binding. Again, accuracy is critical in this cut, as the inner and outer hood trim panels are molded to lock around the perimeter of the cutout.A second line is then drawn inboard of the perimeter line that was just outlined (don't worry: the instructions are explicit). This is the cut line for the inner panel and is best done with a cut-off wheel as shown. Since only the inner hood skin is being cut this time, a spackle knife or something similar can be used to protect the outer hood panel in the areas where the outer and inner skins are close together.You can see that the inner trim panel has a profile that is stepped to follow the inner cutout. Also, its inner-most flange (where Jim's thumbs are) is referenced around the initial through-hood cutout, and sits flush with the outer skin of the hood. We're looking at a trial fit to see if either the inner or out skin cutouts need further trimming to size.The inner hood trim-ring is then positioned through the cutout, and its perimeter is traced on the inner hood skin. The inner skin will be trimmed out larger than the through-hood opening.The idea is to end up with an opening that looks something like this, with the inner panel cutout clearly larger than the Shaker opening itself. The reason will become more obvious in the next photo.At this point, the washer nozzles snap back in their holes, plumbed with new kit-included hoses. Meanwhile, the hood insulator pad is being cut into two portions, per kit instructions.Using the kit's 3M pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape, the inner trim ring is secured around the perimeter of the main cutout. You can see that one side (the driver's) of the cut hood insulator pad is also in place. The other side remains off until the hood goes back on the car, in order to connect the rest of the washer plumbing. Once the trim panel is securely taped in place, four holes are drilled around its perimeter (and only through the inner hood skin) through which push-pins secure it and the hood insulator blanket to the inner hood.
The plastic factory airbox is trimmed to fit the adapter tube of the kit's conical air filter, and drilled to accept the adapter tube's integral, small-diameter PCV tube. Details and a trim template are in the kit. By the way, when ordering, you'll be asked whether your Charger is a regular R/T, has the Road/Track Performance group, is a Daytona, or an SRT8, as there are detail differences in the kits for each.Next, the outer trim ring is bonded in place, using the same double-sided 3M tape. If you have any doubts about this tape's bonding abilities, put your mind at rest; the OEMs use it all the time to permanently affix moldings, etc. Note that the trim ring has a nice matte, textured finish.As mentioned, the kit's engine cover/Shaker base is shipped with its metal support structure bolted in place. The support is first separated from the Shaker, then is bolted to the fuel rail attaching points using the factory ball-stud fasteners. The oil cap has been removed to allow the engine cover to seat properly (the oil fill port is taped over simply to avoid having anything drop inside.)Here, the modified airbox is back in the car, with the conical filter hidden beneath the kit's new airbox lid. The smaller lid allows an opening (at the inside rear corner) where the air duct filled by the Shaker scoop will feed cool, ambient air to the inlet.Next on is the engine cover/Shaker base, which gets secured to its metal support by four bolts. Notice the rubber hoses dangling from the base. These are drain tubes, and there are five of them in all, to make sure any rainwater that gets inside the frontal openings of the scoop flows harmlessly to the ground. The orientation of the oil and transmission dipstick tubes is altered slightly to clear the cover.Next on is the engine cover/Shaker base, which gets secured to its metal support by four bolts. Notice the rubber hoses dangling from the base. These are drain tubes, and there are five of them in all, to make sure any rainwater that gets inside the frontal openings of the scoop flows harmlessly to the ground. The orientation of the oil and transmission dipstick tubes is altered slightly to clear the cover.Here's the finished underhood installation. Notice how the corner of the Shaker base that houses the integral air duct tucks into the open area of the airbox we pointed out in a previous photo. It is functional and cool. Rumor has it there are even "Hemi" badges available on the internet that might look nice on the flat, beveled surfaces of the base, over top of the heads. Just a thought


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After four days of talking bike culture at the international and very popular Velocity 2009 conference in Brussels (a city that desperately needs to do an infrastructure overhaul, to say the least), it was pretty clear he needed a fix.
No, that substance was not included, we left it to the accord of the sheer intoxicating beauty of hundreds of thousands of people on bicycles moving about in the city.
Henry from Workcycles provided his ride, I assumed the role of a non-structured tour guide and we used the limited amount of time as well as we could.
Of course we whipped out our photo cameras and I recorded a little video for prosperity with my mobile (warning: crappy quality).


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Drug Companies Need Money To develop innovative products. Patients need innovative products whether they can pay for them or not. And a drug pricing policy that forgets either of these vital points is likely to be a disaster.
That was the subject of "Large Molecules, Large Dreams: A Forum on Global Drug Pricing and Sustainable Medical Innovation," held this summer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. The forum brought together economists, pharma professionals, and representatives of other industries to discuss pricing issues—particularly differential pricing, the practice of charging different patients different amounts for the same drugs. At a time when differential pricing is under increasing fire from politicians and the media, the panelists saw it instead as a vital tool that allows companies to continue to develop new products, while fulfilling the industry's obligation to make lifesaving medicines available even to the poorest nations. They took a revealing look at why differential pricing is needed and how it can be preserved in the face of popular opposition, parallel trade, and price controls.
Following are some highlights from the meeting; remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity. A complete online archive of the conference, including additional presentations by Andrew Parece of Analysis Group, Inc., Stephen M. Sammut of Burrill & Company, and Yuri Dikhanov of the World Bank, among others, is available at entrepreneurship.mit.edu/forum/webcast.htm .The $800 Million Megadifference Ernest R. Berndt
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While other industries, such as electricity generation, telecom, software, database services, and motion pictures, all have high fixed or sunk costs and relatively small incremental costs, for most medical products and biologics this difference is uniquely large. Let's call it the $800 million mega difference.
There are those who dream of developing new medicines that can benefit even people with limited ability to pay. For an industry with a megadifference cost structure, this dream is realistic. It is commercially feasible to supply products at very low prices to those who are less wealthy, provided that the up-front science costs can be recouped by selling at higher prices to those who can afford them.
Of course, everyone—especially those running for office—would like a system that requires paying uniform prices only slightly greater than the so-called second-tablet cost. But the magnitude of yesteryear's and today's science investments by the biotech, device, and pharmaceutical industries reflects industry's expectations that it will continue to be able to implement global price differentials.
Because of the megadifference cost structure, medical products industries are highly vulnerable to political and economic pressures to move to more uniform global pricing. But if industry is forced to do that, investments in up-front science will drop sharply. Even more sadly, the move to uniform pricing would result in higher prices in many countries, reducing access to those unable to afford medicines priced above incremental costs. Uniform pricing ironically would make access nonuniform.
If we want to sustain the flow of innovation from medical research and development, we either have to change the $800 million megadifference price structure or figure out some way, collectively across political parties and countries, to construct and maintain a system of global price differentials.
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Great moms are like great chefs -- superb at substitution. Don't have buttermilk? Toss a little lemon juice into that whole milk and let it sit a few minutes. There's the old baking powder + cream of tartar trick. And scores of others I'm sure. Although in my house it's way easier to find baking soda than cream of tartar, that just tells you I'm not a great chef. But the principle of creative solutions? I've got the mom version down pat.
* you stir the fruit into the fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt in hiding, so the kids won't know it's not the blended kind which is always full of high fructose corn syrup;
* you use baby wipes to: blow a preschooler's nose at the library, dust the tv screen, remove stinky-sock smell from the toddler's feet on a night when there's no time for a bath, and remove a stubborn stain from the hall carpet all in the SAME day;
* you count Craisins as a vegetable at lunch (for one meal, all that really matters is that their little internal plumbing doesn't get stopped up -- and dried fruit is great for that, right?)
* you slather on Vasaline to protect a diaper rash when you run out of diaper cream;
* you spoon sugar-free applesauce from a giant jar into little single-serving cups to approximate the more expensive packaging;
* you aren't above using Baby Magic Lavendar and Camomile Calming Bath Wash during your own shower when your Oil of Olay Body Scrub runs out (calming is good, right?);
* you make pancake batter in the blender, using whole oats, half a block of tofu, a whole apple, some vanilla yogurt, eggs, and a scant 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour. And the kids LOVE it.
If you do most of these things, you are indeed a Five-Star Mama deserving of a crown or some other accolades.
Either that or, you really really REALLY need to go to the grocery store.
Now, where did I put my keys again?
Friday, April 18, 2008
Five-Star Mama
Great moms are like great chefs -- superb at substitution. Don't have buttermilk? Toss a little lemon juice into that whole milk and let it sit a few minutes. There's the old baking powder + cream of tartar trick. And scores of others I'm sure. Although in my house it's way easier to find baking soda than cream of tartar, that just tells you I'm not a great chef. But the principle of creative solutions? I've got the mom version down pat.
29 comments:
- Kimmylyn said...
I indeed need a crown though I am no where near as inventive as you with the food. :)
I have also been known to use the baby shampoo when I run out.. LOL
- April 18, 2008 at 9:48 AM
- mommythe said...
great idea for pancakes! thanks. hope you don't mind if i add you in my linky link.
- April 18, 2008 at 9:59 AM
- lattemommy said...
You are, indeed, a five-star mama. I'm nowhere near that creative!
- April 18, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- LceeL said...
Hard to be a 5 Star Mama when the plumbing is all wrong. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I LIKE being a man. It means I get to LOVE women (I mean that in the most benign fashion, so get your mind out of the gutter) and I really enjoy that. Especially 5 Star women. I happen to have one in particular that I am especially fond of. SWMBO. 5 Star.
- April 18, 2008 at 11:56 AM
- MIQuilter said...
What about if you run out of dog food in the morning, forget to pick it up on the way home from work, too tired to go out so you just feed the dog cat food? That's gotta count for something.
Or when you bathe them using head and shoulders when you run out of their shampoo. I know, you're thinking "but your dog doesn't have dandruff"..... EXACTLY.
- April 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM
- Fawn said...
Haha, MIQ! Our dog has all sorts of allergies (pork, soy, duck, lamb, potato, barley, wool, cats...) so we can't feed him cat food. When WE run out of dog food (which we have to buy from the vet) it's time to start thawing out the frozen ground beef or stew meat. Not exactly frugal, hunh?
MT, wow, how did you come up with that pancake recipe?! At our house, the girl gets plain vanilla yogurt with a bit of maple syrup to sweeten it... and she loves it! Sometimes I mix in raisins and coconut and pecan; when it sits overnight, the raisins plump up and... ahhh, it's good!
And Craisins definitely count. Well, maybe not as a vegetable, but fruits and veggies are in the same food group, so who cares?
- April 18, 2008 at 12:16 PM
- Fawn said...
Whoops - I meant plain old-fashioned yogurt, not vanilla. But sometimes I add vanilla, too.
- April 18, 2008 at 12:17 PM
- Mr Lady said...
If I go strictly by your scale, I should be accepting my mother of the century crown any day now.
Except for the tofu pancakes. the only thing I make with tofu is my way to the door.
- April 18, 2008 at 12:25 PM
- Nicole said...
I fit into way too many of those, but haven't tried the pancakes in the blender yet!
- April 18, 2008 at 12:56 PM
- Tara R. said...
That pancake recipe sounds wonderful... mind if I borrow it. I'll give you all the credit.
(Craisins aren't a real vegetable? - bummer.)
- April 18, 2008 at 2:22 PM
- Mrs F with 4 said...
I bow down to your superior mama-skills....
I didn't know about buttermilk, what on EARTH are craisins? my children loathe applesauce with a passion, and I don't believe I've ever knowingly eaten tofu, in a pancake or otherwise.
But... I can make muffins or biscuits from a nearly bare cupboard, soup from anything that stands still long enough (or submits after a brief and futile struggle); I know that swishing rice around in a vase removes stubborn stains from glass; and I can remove the vile and disgusting odour of cat pee from carpets with three household ingredients...
One and a half stars, I think.....
- April 18, 2008 at 3:53 PM
- MIQuilter said...
oh Mrs F... the "removing cat pee smell" solution is worth AT LEAST 2 stars by itself!!! It, of course, begs the question... and what would those 3 ingredients be?
Also - crasins are dried and sweetened cranberries.... they're similar in size to raisins but are lovely and tart. The only thing that I don't like about them is that they're always sweetened, whereas most other dried fruit does not have any added sugar.
- April 18, 2008 at 4:12 PM
- Mrs F with 4 said...
OK, MIQ, for an extra star-and-a-half.... to remove cat (and dog) pee stench from carpet.... you will need....
If the stain is still wet, blot up as much as you can. Then soak a white cloth (not paper towels, no matter what the ad says, they really aren't man enough for this) in a solution of 1 teaspoon colourless (or white) dishwashing detergent mixed with 1 cup lukewarm water. Not hot water, and try not to get bubbles! Blot the area thoroughly, but don't scrub it.
Soak up as much liquid as poss with another white towel. Then blot area again with solution of 1 part white vinegar to two parts lukewarm water.
Soak up as much water again as you can. Cover are with white towels, put something heavy on it (possibly the body of the guilty animal?) and leave for a few hours.
I know it seems like you need an inexhaustible supply of white towels, but hey, I admitted defeat with the birth of child 4 and bought bath towels in other colours. Like 'mud'.
Hope this helps - honestly, it does work! Pee is about the only thing Mr Clean's Magic Erasers can't help with....
- April 18, 2008 at 4:24 PM
- Mrs F with 4 said...
And MIQ, thanks for the craisin explanation. Apparently I should get more. Preferably to the supermarket. By myself.
- April 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- Heather said...
You've got me whooped on the pancake batter.
- April 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM
- MommyTime said...
Mrs F, you deserve all the stars, for sure!
Kim, I'm so glad I'm not the only one taking recourse in baby products! (The Burt's Bees Baby Bee Buttermilk lotion is particularly nice, too, in case you were wondering... :)
- April 18, 2008 at 9:35 PM
- Kalamazoo Mom of 2 said...
WOW - that pancake recipe sounds awesome .... will try it (maybe minus the tofu because it scares me!) ....
Craisins TOTALLY count as a fruit/veggie - dammit!
I get some stars, but not 5 ... Today, I literally did everything on your list except the pancakes in a blender and the Baby Magic bath .... too late for one, maybe I'll raid the kids bathtub right now ....
- April 18, 2008 at 9:47 PM
- Betsy Bird said...
I've got to try the pancakes! Between those and that birthday cake a few days back, you really are the chef extraordinaire.
- April 18, 2008 at 10:16 PM
- Kupiec Baby Blog said...
Very impressed with your creativity! Those pancakes sound delish.
- April 18, 2008 at 10:40 PM
- foolery said...
I tend to be more of a five ALARM mommy.
But I really want to try your pancakes . . . how much oatmeal? How many eggs? Dunno if i can get away with making pancakes without buttermilk for my crew, but . . . SUBSTITUTIONS are the answer! :)
- April 18, 2008 at 11:15 PM
- mommypie said...
Does cutting apple juice (and all that sugar) with water count? Maybe that just makes me a Cheap Mommy and not a Five Star?
Although I DO use baby wipes for EVERYTHING -- you're so right -- they're perfect for the tv and dusting. I especially love them for cleaning all the little nooks and crannies in the car ...
And, I'm FINALLY working on my book meme tonight, so if I don't fall asleep it'll be up tomorrow!
- April 19, 2008 at 12:05 AM
- Purple Teacup said...
First time here....OK, so I do all of those things except the pancake thing because I use a gluten-free base. I am not a big fan of Craisin poop....
- April 19, 2008 at 12:32 AM
- BusyDad said...
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! What a great post. I am a 5-star mama! Kinda.
- April 19, 2008 at 12:41 AM
- MommyTime said...
K'zoo mom, the tofu hides completely; you'd never know it was there. I came up with this recipe back when my kids were rejecting most proteins.
Purple teacup, thanks for coming by and commenting too! The recipe can be made without any flour at all if needed. See notes below.
- April 19, 2008 at 8:27 AM
- MommyTime said...
For those of you who asked, here's the recipe for the pancakes. Keep in mind that I'm a "toss it in and adjust as necessary" kind of cook, so you may need to tinker slightly with the proportions.
1 cup rolled oats, 2 eggs, 1/2 block tofu (or not, as you wish), 1 whole apple (quartered and cored but not peeled), 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt (or use plain, but then add 1 tsp. vanilla and 1 tablespoon sugar to batter also), 1/4 cup milk, 1/2 tsp. baking powder, and approximately 1/2 cup whole wheat flour. You can also use ricotta cheese instead of the yogurt for something a bit more savory. And, you can increase the oats and leave out the flour entirely if you need to be gluten free. Put ingredients into blender in order listed, and puree until smooth. If too thin, add a bit more oats or flour. If too thick, add a touch more milk.
Cook on slightly lower heat than usual, so that they cook all the way through.
- April 19, 2008 at 8:27 AM
- MommyTime said...
Oh, and on the pancakes, you can make them without apple or without tofu or without whatever else you don't have. Just adjust the proportions of wet and dry appropriately.
- April 19, 2008 at 8:29 AM
- Huckdoll said...
Oohh, I really like the pancake suggestion! I'm going to try it and we'll see if the world's pickiest eaters bite.
- April 20, 2008 at 2:36 AM
- Caffeine Court said...
Wow-you ARE good! I'd probably give myself 3 stars...
- April 20, 2008 at 8:08 PM
- foolery said...
Thanks, Miss MT, for the recipe. Already printed it out, and all I need to buy is the tofu! I think I'll try beating the egg whites separately and folding them in last, just because I LOVE to make more work and dishes for myself. THANK YOU!
-- Laurie
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I was looking at Google Earth and pondering the relationship between the excellent coffees of Northern Peru and the odd absence of Ecuadorean coffee in the United States. We have a really nice lot from Ecuador now, the Puyamgo Loja, so things are changing indeed; but the potential of Ecuador coffee, at least in terms of small lots from particular regions, has not been fully developed. From the north of Peru, we have the Peru FTO San Ignacio Cajamarca region coffee. Geographically these coffees are not that far from each other, and are grown in similar terrain. But the differences in flavor offer 2 interesting interpretations of an Andean coffee appellation. The Peru has a wonderful candy-like sweetness when kept in the City+ range and that's what we were shooting for here, final roast times were around the 14:30 minute mark with final thermoprobe temperatures right around 427 degrees. The Ecuador is a more balanced cup at City+ with a wide range of flavors harmoniously working together to satisfy--again we went for City+ with roast times in the 14-15 minute range and final thermoprobe temperatures of 428 degrees. Checking back two days after roasting I am very impressed with the Ecuador lot we just brewed up here in the warehouse. Yesterday on barely 24 hours rest the cup was a little bitter, and not quite as developed as it is today. As I take my last sip I can taste the wonderful combination of bright alto notes and the nice body that makes this a really great "drinking" coffee. What do you mean, all coffee is for drinking isn't it? Well, yes, however some origins excel at producing great mild coffees that have the right touch of both sweetness and heft. Hope you enjoy two great lots from these Andean neighbors, we already new Peru could produce stellar lots to rival pricey Colombian coffees, now we must recognize the potential for Ecuador to join the party!


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My standard response? I am always looking for creative approaches with good design and fine execution.
That really is what it all boils down to. And really, I'd like to emphasize that while I know that we'd all like to "win" on occasion and that "winning" a challenge in the Moxie Fab World is a goal for many of you, I'd like to hope that all y'all are here because you enjoy stretching your skills, taking some risks, and having some fun. I'm hoping that the deep-down reason why you join our challenges is to get feedback from one another, to champion one another, to learn from one another, and to grow together.
I know that sounds very kumbaya and all, but that really is my true purpose here. That being said, I do have a few tips that may help you get the results you're hoping for. Check it:
1. Offer a creative approach.
A creative approach is just that--it's an interpretation that no one else has offered throughout the challenge itself. Piali's recent card in which she stamped with okra for our Household Items Challenge in Practical Solutions Week is a perfect example:
Not only did no one else stamp with okra for that challenge, I have never seen it done in my nearly 7 years as an editor for Paper Crafts magazine. I know it's a cliche, but you really do need to think outside of the box in order to be a winner.
2. Employ good design principles.
This can be tough if you're not sure what "good design principles" even are. Paying attention to challenge-winning projects, projects that are published in magazines, or projects that really catch your eye online can be a great exercise in discovering what makes good design.
Dissect them. Pick them apart. Ask yourself, why do the elements in this card work so well together?
I don't know if you're aware of it or not, but I try to point out the good aspects of design in each of the Moxie Fab Alerts that can be found beneath each winning project here in the Moxie Fab World. This is what I said in the Moxie Fab Alert for Jinny Newlin's card in the Don't Throw It Away Challenge in Practical Solutions Week, above:
Feel free to take some cues from those. And you know that Paper Crafts magazine itself is full of tips and tricks on good design. (Click HERE to subscribe.)
Become aware. Try some new approaches. Ask your friends for advice.
And keep playing. If your goal is to win, then you've got to keep playing.
3. Make sure your projects are executed well.
It's important that your stamping is well-defined, ribbons are not frayed, and elements are perfectly placed.
The technique in this card by Gayatri Murali for the Cure for the Winter Blues Challenge is flawless.
4. Learn how to take a good photo of your project.
It may not sound fair, but first impressions are important in every aspect of our lives. Projects that are well-lit and free from background visual clutter that competes with the design will always look better than if these aspects are not considered.
Note the simplicity of the background and the loveliness of the foreground in the photograph of this card by Amy Wanford, one of the winners of the DIY Embellishments Challenge for Practical Solutions Week. You can see the elements in her card very well because nothing competes visually with the card, and there is plenty of light.
5. Don't combine too many challenges.
I get it. There are a ton of fun challenges out there and you want to play in them all. But I have found that more often than not, the projects in which 3 or more challenges are combined tend to stray from what the one challenge is looking for. And please don't misunderstand, I will pick a project that caters to more than one challenge, as long as it meets the guidelines I've outlined, as I did with this card by Virginia Lu. She combined the Household Items Challenge for Practical Solutions Week with the Runway Inspired Challenge #8:
Because the two challenges don't compete for the same design element requirements, Virginia was able to combine the two with great success.
6. Don't underestimate the "wow" factor.
You may have already guessed that I am emotional gal, a "feeler," if you will. Projects that make me gasp out loud will immediately be moved into the realm of "contenders" when I'm judging a challenge. They won't necessarily win, but they will definitely capture my attention.
The "wow" factor in this card by Laura Bassen for the DIY Embellishments Challenge for Practical Solutions Week is high, high, high!
7. All styles are welcome.
Believe it or not, I love all styles. When judging submissions as creative editor for Paper Crafts magazine, I was always a champion for including all styles. It is just as difficult to create a clean and graphic card as it is to create a layered and shabby card. And I promise you, if it is done well and offers a creative approach, it will be a contender.
This gorgeously layered card by Joan Ervin for the Embossing & Debossing Challenge for Cool Tools Week is definitely a "winner"!
8. Check your intentions.
The goal of these challenges is to stretch your skills, to foster growth, and to have some fun. If your desire to win is getting the way of any of these things, then step back and take a look at why you're playing. It's the same as with anything else. If you are not in it for the right reasons, then the right reasons will begin to elude you.
In the email JJ Bolton sent me regarding her win in the Fascination with Feathers Challenge, she said:
In closing, I hope that I have earned your trust and confidence to select winning projects that I know will inspire you, my moxie fab readers. Because that's what it's all about, inspiring one another. We may not all have Moxie Fab World badges on our sidebars, but I hope you all know that in my book, you are a winner every time you take the risk to play.
Here's to the "good stretch" that is Moxie Fab World,
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Weirton Area Port Authority officials intend to challenge the port's recent dissolution by the West Virginia Public Port Authority, Chairman B.J. DeFelice said....
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If you have a couple of users in one address book group and wait for 1 day, you end up with ~10.000 identical address book entries. I have tried with isync connector 5.0.18, 5.0.19 and 6.0.2 (Server Version is 5.0.18). All with the same result.
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Dr. Gary Langston joins Dr. Gerry Fuller to discuss The China Study. The 20-year China Study conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Referred to as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in 65 counties, representing 2,500 counties across rural China and Taiwan. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that enjoy widespread popularity in the West.


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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Monday, First Lady Michelle Obama is hosting the first ever Kids' State Dinner at the White House, to celebrate the winners of a healthy lunch recipe contest. She will be introduced by 12-year-old author Marshall Reid.
"I was being bullied and I snapped one day. I said, 'you know what? I'm done with it. ' And so I thought about it, and the only reason I could come up with was my weight," shared Marshall.
His mom, Alex Reid, explained, "We were pretty much eating anything possible out of a box. Or fast food, or 5 dollar pizzas. Anything that was quick and convenient."
But Alex Reid didn't realize how badly that diet of pre-packaged convenience was affecting her son until he came to her with a novel idea: to execute the opposite of the movie "Supersize Me" in which the main character eats nothing but fast food for a month. Marshall's plea: "Portion Size Me" turned into a series of YouTube videos and a book and changed his life dramatically.
"I ended losing 36 pounds," said Marshall.
From their kitchen in North Carolina, the Reids demonstrate how easy it is to get kids involved in cooking in their YouTube videos, with simple recipe ideas that cut portion sizes, and focus on whole, instead of processed food. For instance, healthy lunches kids can take to school this fall.
Marshall gets a thumbs up for coolness in the cafeteria when he pulls out his bento box. In the compartments are sweet bell peppers, tuna and almonds.
"And then in this one, we have dried apricots, good for something chewy, and aloutte portions- perfectly portioned pieces of cheese. They are all natural only 40 calories, only 2 ingredients, really good," he pointed out.
Alex Reid says the move away from sugary cereals and pastries in the morning was tough at first- but not now. A typical breakfast: this fruit parfait, with yogurt, mangos and granola.
Alex Reid told us, "So they get the fiber, but the yogurt actually softens it up a little bit. You can drizzle a little agave nectar if they want it sweeter. But you're just finding a better balance, instead of giving them a whole plate of something that's super sweet and nutritionally void."
"First 2 or 3 days I didn't like it, 'cause I couldn't eat what I wanted and how much I wanted. But day 4, day 5- I felt great. I had more energy, I could focus better, I did better in school. I mean, so much positive happened from the few changes that I had to make," shared Marshall.
The Portion Size Me idea has been so well received that Marshall was asked to be a judge for the Kids' State Dinner recipe competition and will be at the White House with his parents on Monday.


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Good morning, cuppers!
With 52 weeks in a year and three coffees (on average) in each of our weekly cuppings, it stands to reason that we have read, spoken, and learned about – not to mention brewed and tasted – 156 coffees together since this time last year! Of course, one could argue that we have repeated coffees, but anyone who has cupped as long as you all have knows that our understanding of coffee grows through repetition. In the depth-versus-breadth debate, I fall firmly on the side of depth. In any case, it has been a heck of a year in coffee, and it means a lot to me to have gotten to share thoughts from the Coffee Department on all 156 of 'em.
The last of 2013's Friday cuppings showcases three stellar coffees from Burundi. Our story begins with the washed coffee from the Buziraguhindwa washing station in Kayanza, which we have been purchasing since 2010, making it our longest-running relationship in Africa. Is that surprising? Given how new the whole country is to the specialty coffee industry, I'd say it's kind of surprising, and we certainly have longer track records of purchasing from washing stations like Ndaroini in Kenya, but those purchases haven't been in consecutive years. The strong relationships we now count on to bring us awesome coffees – see: Haru, Idido, Remera, etc. – have been built on the model of Buziraguhindwa and the lessons we have learned in the years we have been working with them.
We were really excited to get to buy coffee from Mpemba in 2012 because we weren't the only buyer interested in the Kazoza N'Ikawa cooperative's first coffees from this washing station. Good elevation, solid infrastructure, and a well-respected manager are universally appealing, but we were especially committed to getting connected to a cooperative because most of our successes in Burundi, including Buziraguhindwa, had been with privately owned washing stations. Elsewhere in the world, almost all of the coffee we buy from small-holder farmers comes to us through producer cooperatives, which come in all shapes, sizes, and degrees of effectiveness but, at the end of the day, share a measure of accountability to the individual, as well as potential for empowerment that private washing stations don't.
After last year's lot of Mpemba arrived tasting fantastic, we were doubly pleased with our decision to grow, and in 2013 the washing station's coffee took fourth place in the Burundi's Golden Cup Competition. In most of our cuppings this year, Mpemba's coffee has been the more complex of the two in flavor and brightness, but I'll be curious to hear whether you find them to be distinctly different, and how.
Finally, the coffee that will inevitably generate the most discussion is Buziraguhindwa's sundried natural coffee, which is, as far as we know, the only sundried natural coffee exported from Burundi. Despite similarities between climate and geography across the coffee-producing countries of East Africa, Ethiopia has remained the only producer of sundried natural coffees for export – which is a way of saying that all countries make them but they're mostly not good. Buzi Nat – as I know this coffee will be nicknamed – is the result of curiosity and of our ability to experiment within our supply chains.
I feel like a broken record when I say that our strong relationships and our persistence are the foundation of innovation, but it's true, and it's important to understanding who we are and what we do. The reason that Ramadhan, one of the owners of Buziraguhindwa, was intrigued by the prospect of sundried natural coffee wasn't because he got some tip that it's a market poised for massive growth but because we were excited about it and committed to it before it even existed (which was the case with our first coffee from the washing station back in 2010, as well). The story of our sundried natural coffee from Bufcafe in Rwanda last year bears many similarities to Buziraguhindwa's and now Sam, the mill manager, wants to produce an entire container of sundried natural coffee for us– which is, like, 10 times as much as we bought from him in last year. I don't know if we'll actually want that much, but it feels like a testament to Counter Culture's ideas and our approach.
Though this story is far from complete, I can never fit everything I want to say into a single e-mail and I've got 52 e-mails to write in 2014, I'll leave you now with the hope that today's cupping is a great conclusion to this great year.
–Kim Elena


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Royals announce game times; ticket prices remain unchanged from 2009
The Royals have announced their 2010 regular season schedule with times. The 2010 schedule opens with a 3:10 p.m. CT game on Monday, April 5 against the Detroit Tigers. The Royals also announced that single-game ticket prices will remain unchanged in 2010. The on-sale date for single games will be announced at a later date.
Kansas City's home schedule includes 58 night games and 23 daytime contests. Kansas City will also play a 3:10 p.m. contest on Saturday, May 22 when they host Colorado. Kansas City's lone holiday home game will be a 1:10 p.m. matinee on Memorial Day (May 31) against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The Royals will also host the St. Louis Cardinals in a special 1:10 p.m. start time on Saturday, June 26. The Royals host weekday 1:10 p.m. matinees on April 8, April 28, May 13, May 26, June 3, July 21 and July 28.
Standard start times for all other contests at Kauffman Stadium in 2010 are:
Monday through Friday: 7:10 p.m.
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The Royals have season tickets packages available for any budget, including the "Buy 2, Get 2 Free" Plan and the 9-Game Plan starting as low as $99. Season ticket packages offer savings over single-game prices. Full Season, Half Season and 21-Game season ticket plans include the home opener and a limited number of home opener tickets remain available for those that secure a 9-Game Plan. Season tickets are currently available on the team website, www.royals.com, and by calling 816-504-4040, option 2.


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i have already started to daubt myself, because there are some filter rules i keep changing all the time and they just never work. once i forgot to set it to move the matches anywhere, instead i just left "keep it in inbox" selected, another time i used the rule "From is" instad of "subject contains" and so on. and i kept working on one and the same rule all the time..
now i have figured out, that it wasn't entirely my bad at least that's how i feel about it
here's waht went wrong:
i've added a new filter rule: if From contains XY, file into folder /inbox/xy and saved it and went back to my inbox.
a mail containing XY in the subject arrived and was not filtered, because my rule was set to look in the from field, rather than in the subject.
so i went back to the rule wizard to check my rules and found the problem.
i changed the setting to Subject contains XY and saved it again.
but my filter still left all those XY mails in my inbox. i went back to the filter and saw, that it now says "Keep in Inbox" instead of "File into folder". so i changed this back to File into folder and saved it. but then again it didn't work and when going back to my rule i saw, that it now says "file into folder" but in the criteria list it changed back to "From is" instead of "Subject contains".
i must say, that when saving my changed settings, all fields where filled in appropriately, but as it seems, after pressing the OK button, they change when the form is hidden to the default value (only those i haven't changed).
so there is obviousley something wrong. i then deleted the rule and re-entered it without any mistakes and now even this rule works
this error is reproducable by doing the procedure described above. basically just add a rule, change a part of it and save it, and the unchanged part will switch back to the defaults without any notice.
oh and... i'm using M2 on FC4 and Firefox 1.0.6 on the client
kind regards
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Rafael Nadal was spotted working shorter, but still lovely, locks in his Davis Cup presser today. But his hair isn't the only thing new with the speedy Spaniard.
It looks like he's working some new style Nike trainers in Spain's colors which don't look like his fave Cages. Anyone have any word about this style (and remember: focus on the shoes ONLY people)?
(images via Getty)
Thursday, September 18, 2008
FASHION FIX: Rafa cut his locks but did he switch out his sneakers?
Labels: Rafael Nadal, sneakers, tennis
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They're not cages? They look so close. I love them, I want them...ReplyDelete
(i'm a big help!)
It's not that big a change, is it?ReplyDelete
Oh and by the way..does somebody know if he will be wearing something with or without sleeves? ^^
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...shorter shorts...ReplyDelete
What was that, Rich? Something about shoes...? Or cages...? Or being caged with Rafa wearing only shoes...????
*runs to ebay to see if Rafa's hair is for sale*
b2012: they don't look like cages because they usually have air bubbles along the back sole and heal and these don't.ReplyDelete
kiko: not sure what he's going to wear but if i were to guess i'd say sleeveless. he doesn't want to fix what's NOT broken...at least for now.
natch: you so crazy!
He cut the locks AGAIN?! *panicks*ReplyDelete
I really hope this is the farthest he'll go. Although I have to say it doesn't look THAT different.
But the day he gets a real short haircut I'll stop watching tennis. I'll stop leaving the house. Does. Not. Go.
Anyway, shoes... normally that's my topic, but I also think they look kinda similar to the cages.
Also, since natch mentioned that cage fantasy I'm all dizzy. Rafa does bear resemblance to a caged tiger sometimes, when he paces the court with piercing eyes and flexing muscles. Oy.


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It was 43 years ago today (September 18th, 1970), that Jimi Hendrix died at the age of 27, about two months shy of his 28th birthday. Over 40 years later, the events surrounding his death remain sketchy at best, with the only clear fact being that the coroner report stated that Hendrix had asphyxiated in his own vomit, which mainly consisted of red wine. Monika Dannemann, his girlfriend at the time, has long contended that he was alive when placed in the ambulance.
Hendrix fans are in for a treat this fall with a new American Masters special airing on PBS. The two-hour documentary, Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin,' will be released on DVD on November 5th -- the day of its TV premiere -- along with the new concert CD culled from Hendrix's two concert appearances on May 18th, 1968 as part of the Miami Pop Festival. The two new releases cap off the year-long commemoration of what would've been Hendrix's 70th birthday. Back in March, the guitarist's latest vault release, People, Hell And Angels, debuted at Number Two on the Billboard 200 album charts.
Earlier this summer fans welcomed the latest Jimi Hendrix "official bootleg" sold through AuthenticHendrix.com. The collection, Live In Cologne, which has been bootlegged numerous times over the years, is more of a historical curio for die-hards than an audiophile's delight, having been recorded on January 13th, 1969 in Cologne, Germany by a fan using a single microphone in the audience. The set was released on 180-gram vinyl with a digital download as a web exclusive.
The tracklisting to the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Live In Cologne is: "Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)," "Foxey Lady," "Red House," "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," "Fire," "Spanish Castle Magic," "Hey Joe," "Sunshine Of Your Love," "Star Spangled Banner," and "Purple Haze."
Hendrix aide James "Tappy" Wright claimed in his recent memoir Rock Roadie that Hendrix's final manager Michael Jeffery confessed to killing the legendary guitarist a year after Hendrix's death in September 1970. According to Wright, Jeffery claimed that he plied a semi-conscious Hendrix with enough pills and alcohol to kill him so that he could collect insurance money and not risk Hendrix breaking their management agreement.
Wright, who also roadied for Elvis Presley and Tina Turner, among others, said that Jeffery said in his confession: "I had to do it, Tappy. You understand, don't you? I had to do it. You know damn well what I'm talking about. . . I was in London the night of Jimi's death and together with some old friends . . . we went round to Monika's (Dannemann's) hotel room, got a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth . . . then poured a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe. I had to do it. Jimi was worth much more to me dead than alive. That son of a bitch was going to leave me. If I lost him, I'd lose everything."
Jeffery, who died in 1971, had told Wright that he had taken out a $2 million policy out on Hendrix, which named him as the chief beneficiary.
The official cause of Hendrix's death was "barbiturate intoxication and inhalation of vomit."
The events surrounding Hendrix's death have always been shady, especially when it comes to how Hendrix was found and who exactly called for an emergency crew -- neither things which are ever out of the ordinary in an O.D. case.
Eddie Kramer, who was the engineer on the Jimi Hendrix Experience albums Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold As Love, and Electric Ladyland, recalled his memories of Hendrix's death: ["We had just completed Electric Lady Studios, and we were halfway through a record which was going to be called The Cry Of Love. I spoke to Jimi a week before he died, and he was very positive, and was looking forward to coming back to America. His death was an unfortunate accident, there's no question about that."]
Journey guitarist Neal Schon first saw Hendrix play when he was only in his teens, and says that he was simply the greatest guitarist he ever saw perform: ["Y'know, if I had to pick one guy, I'd probably say Jimi Hendrix, just because he was so innovative in inventing the electric guitar, almost reinventing it."]
Janie Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix's step-sister and president and CEO of Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix, told us that Hendrix was always good to his father Al and was about to buy the family a new house -- but one a bit different than the one he'd grown up in as a boy: ["He was gonna come stay with us, and he told my dad to go look for a house on Mercer Island, which here it's a little island that you can get to via bridge. It was where all the upper-class people lived, and he wanted him to go find a house in that area, and he was going to come stay with us."]
Stephen Stills spent hours jamming with Hendrix and recalled that Hendrix turned him on to restringing lefty guitars for righties for a better sound: ["Jimi showed me up close and personal, something about the positioning
Woodstock promoter Michael Lang recalls trying to talk Hendrix out of his closing spot at the legendary 1969 festival: ["I think they came in Sunday morning. I asked them if they wanted to go on earlier. And Michael (Jeffery, Hendrix's manager) said 'No, we definitely want to close the show.' I said 'Well, closing the show might not be good idea. It's running approximately 12 hours behind. Chances are you're going to be closing in the morning,' and they sort of insisted on it. Unfortunately, most of the audience was gone by the time Jimi played. But he played an unbelievable set."]
Chicago trombonist and co-founder James Pankow recalls the band touring with Hendrix being a life-changing experience: ["That was quite an experience. He was a god, if you will. He could snap his fingers and disappear into thin air, in a matter of speaking. He was psychedelic ladyland. Musically he was daring and innovative as anybody was -- if not more. I mean, an Africa-American who played guitar left-handed, a trio who had a bigger sound than big ensembles, and did music that was not only expressive, but was characteristic of the day."]
Band Of Gypsies bassist Billy Cox was asked what he thinks Hendrix would have accomplished had he not died in 1970: ["I get asked that question quite often, and we were gravitating toward more, like, The Rays Of The New Rising Sun. We were gravitating toward classical music, I think. We would've taken those modes into a classical vein. And then he had thought about perhaps maybe going to Juilliard, and there's no telling. (He) always talked about it."]
CHECK IT OUT: The Jimi Hendrix Experience on June 18th, 1967 live at the Monterey International Pop Festival performing "Hey Joe" and "The Wind Cries Mary":


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Three KC prospects to participate in Arizona Fall League Rising Stars Game, which will air on MLB Network
The Arizona Fall League has announced that Royals' minor league left-handed pitcher Mike Montgomery (left), first baseman Eric Hosmer (center) and second baseman Johnny Giavotella (right) will participate for the West Division in the league's Rising Stars game on Saturday, November 6.
The 21-year-old Montgomery joined the Arizona Fall League after pitching for Team USA at the Pan Am Qualifying Tournament in Puerto Rico. Montgomery is 2-1 with a 6.10 ERA in three starts for the Surprise Rafters, allowing 13 hits and seven runs in 10.1 innings, while walking two and striking out 11.
Montgomery's teammate on Team USA, the 21-year-old Hosmer is batting .184 (9-for-49) with three doubles and 10 RBI in 11 games for the Rafters.
Giavotella, 23, is batting .385 (15-for-39) with seven doubles, one home run, six RBI and eight runs scored in nine games. The second baseman currently ranks eighth in the league in batting after finishing second in the regular season to teammate Clint Robinson in the Texas League with a .322 mark.
The Rising Stars game, scheduled for 8 p.m. CT at Surprise Stadium, the spring home of the Royals and Texas Rangers, will be nationally televised by the MLB Network and online via MLB.com (MLB.TV).


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Fake Hostage Situation At Ashton Kutcher's House Will Cost LA Taxpayers $10,000
By Mack Rawden 4 years ago
The fake hostage situation the Los Angeles Police Department responded to at Ashton Kutchers house last week will wind up costing the city a whole lot more than time and mental energy. The final monetary figures wont be known for weeks or even months, but right now, sources within the police department reportedly expect it to end up north of $10,000. That might not be an astronomical amount of money for the taxpayers of Los Angeles, but its an astronomical amount of money for a thoughtless, reckless prank.
According to TMZ, the LAPD dispatched a few dozen officers, a helicopter and quite a few vehicles to rescue the deaf woman supposedly held hostage in Ashton Kutchers bathroom by three men with guns. Upon their arrival, officers handcuffed and detained three men, but they later discovered the guys were merely workers who were supposed to be there. The girl, who called 911 using the teletext service for the deaf, wasnt inside and assumedly, never was.
Not only is this entire situation a strain on taxpayers, its frustrating for the deaf community too. Now, the next time someone with hearing problems calls 911 in Los Angeles using teletext, its possible emergency responders will be wondering in the back of their heads whether its just a big joke.
Theres a difference between a good-natured prank and a dangerous lie, and this mess definitely fell into the latter category.


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Greetings all. I think I may have a go at this month's challenge. This is a preliminary workup of the, as yet unnamed, solar sector that I am going to be working on. I'll probably post frequent updates.
Greetings all. I think I may have a go at this month's challenge. This is a preliminary workup of the, as yet unnamed, solar sector that I am going to be working on. I'll probably post frequent updates.
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I like this so far. I know, not much of a comment but I don't have any crits
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Thanks. I just noticed how few entries (two at this posting) there were and I figured they were lonely.
I appreciate any feedback so thank you.
I love the planets, they're all very cool. I do have one tiny suggestion though -- the orbit lines are popping out to me as much as the planets are, which seems off. You might think about decreasing the opacity on the orbit rings so that the planets catch your eye before the rings do.
- Added labels for several of the inner worlds.
- Muted the orbital rings.
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As far as visual goes, it looks good. However, I don't think I could ever bring myself to use it in a game. Even with Sci-Fi level technology, colonizing a planet that close to the sun is not going to be feasible, at least not to my mind. Radiation levels would be insane, and the extreme hot/cold cycle wouldn't help much either.
The setting is pure Space Opera so the radiation deal is pretty much solved with rubber science force fields. For that matter, the temperature could also be handled by the same explanation.
I am toying with this idea of somehow demonstrating space stations and such. That would help indicate that the "colony" close to the sun is a mobile research station that keeps itself parked on the dark side of the planet. Working with straight visuals and no accompanying text can be a challenge in and of itself.
Edit: And this map is still in very early stages. It is built upon many, many layers that allow me to manipulate where exactly a planet and it's label goes.
Thanks for the feedback.
I have no idea if it suits your concept, but if you're going to add space stations, you might want to consider adding clusters in the trojan positions of your gas giant. Jupiter's trojans have about the same amount of matter as the asteroid belt, and packed in to a smaller area. Being just outside the stellar snow line they also tend to be good places to get oxygen/water and nitrogen/ammonia.
Call the Lightning. Ride the Storm. Find your Power. Become Reborn.
Seek your Place, and know it well. Live a tale you wish to tell.
- Tightened up the label boxes and changed the border colors to correspond to the solar "zone" that the planet dwells in. Purple represents the Black zone.
- Added in, then subsequently removed some actual trade route designators. They resembled the borders of the Green and Blue zone planets' labels.
- Legend
- Revised Trade Lanes
- Rename to indicate this map shows only the inner planets.
- Possible additional remote stations that are not orbiting a planet(oid).
- Possible additional reference for planets beyond the inner systems.
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October 21, 2009 10:00 AM
to October 23, 2009 3:00 PM
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
The American Association of Community Colleges with the support of the National Science Foundation will hold the sixteenth national ATE Principal Investigators Conference, "Technicians in the Green Economy" at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. The conference will bring together approximately 800 people to focus on the critical issues related to advanced technological education. Key people working on ATE projects across the country will participate in the conference. Conference attendees represent community colleges, business and industry, secondary school systems, four-year colleges, and research and development centers covering projects in a wide variety of areas such as: information technology, engineering technology, micro- and nanotechnologies, chemical technology, biotechnology, and others.
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Linda Inabinet, 202-728-0200 x257, email@example.com
Wesley Lumpkin, email@example.com
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However, I happen to carry with me a set of rather nonstandard feet: large (US size 13) and - what's more important - very wide. The painful problem I encounter every time I dive is that whatever fins I try, I end up crying under water when the fin pockets squeeze the sides of my feet.
Does anyone has a recommendation for a fin with extra wide pockets? The width of the pockets will have to be the primary criterion; design/performance will have to take the back seat.
(I guess the obvious answer is that with feet that large and that wide, who needs fins! Unfortunately, I do not have webbing between toes...)
Of the rented fins I tried, ScubaPro Twin Jets were the least painful. Atomic Aquatics SplitFins were distant second.


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The month of October approaches, and around here people's thoughts turn to pumpkins, pumpkin pie, pumpkin ice cream, and, above all else, the Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival, which is kicked off by the big Pumpkin Weigh-Off. The Half Moon Bay Library will be closed over the weekend of October 15th and 16th, but stop by Saturday morning for the Costume Contest. Some of us will be acting as judges.
To get a feeling for how this all got started, check out the DVD Pumpkin Madness. Of course, sometime during the month you'll want to stop off at a pumpkin patch to choose just the right gourd, and then go home and practice some Extreme Pumpkin Carving. On your way back, stop off at M Coffee (our Main Street coffee house) and get a cone of Mitchell's Pumpkin Ice Cream.
The traffic is always heavy on October weekends, so you might as well stick a Smashing Pumpkins CD in your player for the drive.
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Joe Toschik is a Public Services Librarian.
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