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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- According to an industry source, the Red Sox continue to be one of a group of teams interested in shortstop Stephen Drew.
Drew, 29, finished last season with the A's after an August trade from the Diamondbacks. He hit .250/.326/.382 with five home runs, 16 RBIs and 18 walks in 29 games for the A's, after hitting .193/.290/.311 with two home runs, 12 RBIs and 19 walks in 40 games with Arizona. Oakland declined a mutual $10 million option, making him a free agent, but reportedly still has interest in him.
In seven career seasons, Drew is hitting ..265/.328/.433 with 77 home runs, 349 RBIs and 293 walks in 812 games.
According to a report from San Francisco Chronicle [1] writer Susan Slusser, Drew's agent, Scott Boras, broached the possibility of a five-year contract during discussions with the Tigers, but that appears unlikely. Slusser also tweeted [2] that Boras is scheduled to meet with the A's about Drew on Wednesday or Thursday.
There also is speculation that the Yankees, who have holes on the left side of their infield due to injuries to Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez, could be interested.
For more Red Sox news, visit the team page at weei.com/redsox [3].
[1] http://www.sfgate.com/athletics/article/A-s-shortstop-short-list-gets-shorter-4091630.php
[2] https://twitter.com/susanslusser/status/276052711420596224
[3] http://www.weei.com/teams/red-sox/home


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It's the Conversation, Stupid!
Posted by Scott Santucci on September 26, 2008
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Why are sales and marketing professionals working harder and longer than ever before? Why are they seemingly in a constant firefighting mode, moving from one fire drill to the next, one meeting to another?
We are in the middle of a major transformation in the B2B sales model. Your company is caught between a rock and a hard place because your investors want to see accelerated growth and improved margins. However, your customers have the same pressures, and all have some form of enterprise-wide strategic procurement initiatives under way. Your goal: sell at a higher price. Their goal: buy only what they need at the lowest possible price. Something has to give.
In response to these tectonic forces, we find many companies have a variety of internal projects designed to combat the commoditization trend. Some common efforts include:
· Training sales people to get access to executives
· Creating "solution selling kits" (in marketing)
· Developing return-on investment tools
· Focusing on demand-generation campaigns
· Developing sales-coaching frameworks
· Creating more structured opportunity identification and account scorecards
· Fine-tuning the CRM system to improve reporting and forecasting processes
· Pricing and packing exercises and corresponding negotiation training
· Reinventing product marketing functions into "solution" marketing roles
· Investing in branding and messaging programs
Unfortunately, most organizations fail to properly coordinate these independent projects, with dramatic negative consequences. To meet growth objectives, companies hire more salespeople and put the burden of the customer relationship on the back of the sales force. To meet margin objectives, marketing resources are centralized and reduced. As a result, most organizations are unintentionally creating sales models that are: excessively labor intensive, rife with inefficiencies and not scaleable; adding systemic problems these firms are trying to avoid.
What do you do? You must manage the complexity or confuse customers. Value is communicated over time through a series of interactions between your company and your customer. However, this value isn't transferred from corporation to corporation. It is achieved by the conversations that individual people from your company have with specific stakeholders within a given account. So, in reality, a B2B sale is really the synthesis of many discrete conversations, and value is best communicated when they are focused on a common goal: solving the client's problem.
What most organizations fail to address is how complex a task it is to corral many discrete conversations into a consistent value communications strategy. To get a sense of the number of variables involved, consider a few questions that must be answered at the point of sale:
· Who is affected by the problem?
· Why is the problem important to address now, and what is its relationship to other problems?
· When will the problem be addressed, and where is the organization in its decision-making lifecycle?
· Where will the money come from to address the problem, and what resources are competing for the funding?
· How should the customer solve the problem, given the unique circumstances?
· What role will your company play in helping the customer solve the problem?
To make matters even more complex, most companies have solutions that can address multiple different problems, so this set of questions must be answered for each opportunity.
We all know that good conversations are dynamic, reciprocal and most effective where there is trust between the people involved in the dialog. To accomplish this, the salesperson must communicate information that is:
· Relevant: to the specific circumstances and realities of a given company
· In context: to the roles and responsibilities of the individual with whom you are having the conversation
· Timely: in concert with where the customer is in its problem-solving process and to the relative importance of that issue to others that could gain investment
Some major organizations are making colossal mistakes when trying to address these "last mile" issues of sales effectiveness. Here are a few examples:
· In terms of relevance. A well-known business consulting firm was preparing for a meeting with the CEO of a $50 billion consumer packaged goods company. Salespeople met with the CEO and unveiled a plan that would cut costs by $5 million that year and reach up to $10 million in four years.
They were surprised when the CEO delegated them to someone four rungs below him. That company had a target to cut more than $2 billion out of its expense structure that year. For a company with revenue of more than $50 billion, $5 million in savings can come from renegotiating the paper supplier contract - certainly not something that is going to get any C-level executive excited, let alone the CEO.
· In terms of context. The sales and marketing leadership team of a multibillion-dollar IT services firm decided to send personalized letters from its CEO to "CxO"-level people in 50 key accounts. These letters were identical and addressed, "Dear CXO." I've yet to meet anyone with the title "CxO," and the viewpoints of a chief financial officer, chief technical officer, chief information officer or chief marketing officer can be very different.
· In terms of timeliness. A large enterprise software company figured out how to position its identity management software as a tool to assist with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and, focusing on audit budgets, began marketing to auditors. However, auditors are not responsible for cost-effective ongoing compliance, and most had already figured out internal requirements for complying. So why was the company targeting people who don't have responsibility for a problem they don't need help addressing?
It's all about the conversation. Strong customer relationships are built over time, through a series of value-added interactions between various people from the buyer and seller organizations. However, most B2B companies fail to use the conversation with key individuals as the design point for go-to-market efforts. As a result, there are tremendous inefficiencies, redundant programs and conflicting agendas that work against the goals of adding more value to buyers.
Scott Santucci
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Comment from Dr. Jim Anderson (not verified) on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 14:09
Scott: everyone loves to have more conversations; however, the key to getting permission to have those extra conversations with your (potential) customers is to make sure that you have something to say that they are interested in hearing. Every customer is different, but the one common factor that we'll all respond to is someone who can solve our time problem. If by spending some time talking with you, you are going to show me how I can free up more of my oh-so-precious time then I'll move heaven & earth to meet with you!- Dr. Jim Andersonwww.TheAccidentalPM.com
re: It's the Conversation, Stupid!
Comment from - Jeff Wright (not verified) on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 14:41
Scott: I totally agree with what you are saying and not only is it about the stitching together of conversations, it is about how do you leverage that information to proactively (i.e. generate more conversations) take you deeper and wider into the organization. Something sales professionals call radiating into the account.I would also like to point out that marketing can learn from your concept as well. The best quality pipeline developed is through lead lifecycle management (LLM). Much like your "conversation thesis," LLM takes into account a series of live and online interactions with account/contacts over time to stitch together a more comprehensive prospect profile. Combine that with timing and you can generate better qualified opportunities the sales team can then move into a deeper "conversation phase."Also, a quick reply to Dr. Anderson - the key to getting time with decision makers and influencers is to approach every new interaction with a natural curiosity. The great thing about human beings is, we love to talk about ourselves and our problems. All it takes are some well timed, relevant questions to get someone to open up. Then all you have to do is sit back and listen. Before you know it, you will be in a conversation and begin to establish yourself as a trusted advisor with the contact. It's not about, "make sure that you have something to say that they are interested in hearing" - it is about willing to listen to what they have to say and be prepared to link their confessions to something of value you can offer.
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The Write Track, Write Now: A Virtual Symposium with Three RIC Rhetoricians
Claudine Griggs
Writing Center Director
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According to Ron Pitt, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Rhode Island College, "many students today require more writing instruction to achieve the level of proficiency that they will need in their professional, personal, and public lives." He further states that (1) writing instruction at RIC has traditionally centered on Writing 100, which places an inordinate burden on this single course, and (2) with the new general education program, students will be expected to engage in writing experiences throughout their undergraduate careers, including requirements for Writing 100, First-Year Seminars, and a Writing in the Disciplines course to be determined by each program. In conjunction with the apparent increasing focus on writing, I consulted with Becky Caouette, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of English; Mike Michaud, a composition specialist and Assistant Professor of English; and Jenn Cook, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Rhode Island Writing Project about writing generally, the RIC writing program and its future, and teaching writing. Their observations are presented here as a kind of virtual symposium derived from emails and conversations during July-October 2011.
Griggs: Can you provide a brief statement about the hows and whys of writing instruction?
Caouette: My priorities are really about giving thoughtful feedback to each student—and, as much as possible, in person. I implement and encourage others to use Small Group Tutorials that are similar to peer-review sessions, except I'm present and we reassign class time to conduct the SGTs in my office. I meet with three students for an hour, and we discuss, as a group and as readers, each student's essay. Students learn how to give and receive constructive feedback and, presumably, walk away with revision plans. I'm not a razzle-dazzle kind of instructor in terms of strategies. I like to try new things, it's true, and to re-try teaching strategies that might have fallen off my radar. But I also find that the best practices are the ones that stay on my radar: assignments that interest students; time and space to write (like in a computer classroom); personalized feedback that shows the responses of an invested reader; and ample opportunities to revise one's writing and thinking. Those are the hallmarks of my teaching and, in some ways, the hallmarks I've tried to establish in this writing program.
Michaud: My approach is based, essentially, on what we know that good writers do when they write: draft, daydream, draft some more, get feedback, procrastinate, reread, draft some more, daydream some more, seek more feedback, procrastinate some more, revise, avoid drafting, draft, revise, get more feedback, and publish (not necessarily in that order). My job is to create an environment in which these activities can take place. From another angle, I want students to learn to think about writing as an act of participation. We write in classrooms and workplaces, but also in our homes, churches, clubs, civic organizations, etc. We write to different people in different settings, and we use different kinds of writing (genres) to accomplish our goals. We are old timers in some settings and newcomers in others. All of this matters, and I want students to become attuned to the notion that "learning to write" is a lifelong activity.
Cook: I direct the RIWP, where our mission is to "open up" writing for teachers of all grades and content areas so that they are more likely to use writing in their own teaching. Writing is thinking, and the more we use writing as a way to consider problems, ideas, scenarios, and burning questions, the more our classrooms open to complexity and the idea of a "live" social network of learners who communicate through writing. My teaching of writing is built around the following classroom practices:
- Know my audience. Learn my students' names, get to know my students, and allow my students to know me as their teacher and as a writer.
- Find out what my students think about themselves as writers and what they have already learned, in school and out of school, about writing.
- Model the habits of mind I want my students to exhibit, such as curiosity, empathy, critical analysis, and reflexivity.
- Use student interests as a springboard from which to teach inquiry, research methods, interpretive skills, critical reading, and writing for different audiences and purposes.
Griggs: What have you noticed specifically about the RIC writing program, Writing across the Curriculum (WAC), and/or Writing in the Disciplines (WID)?
Michaud: As far as I can tell, there isn't really a writing "program" at RIC, in the sense that someone has tried to take the view from 35,000 feet to ask what such a program would include. That's what we [the Composition Committee and the Writing Board] are trying to do now: to think in a more explicit way about the writing our students do—at different times during their college careers, in different places, for different purposes—and to think more explicitly about the teaching of writing. It feels like, up to this point, we've had a number of groups and people interested in writing, but no one is bringing it all together to ask what it adds up to—for us or for our students. A first-year composition course is not a writing program. A writing center, a writing board, or a writing minor is not a writing program. But if we step back and think about what all these things (and others) add up to, I think we are moving towards a writing program. I hope to be a part of that what-does-it-all-add-up-to conversation.
Caouette: I am impressed by the potential for multiple writing programs at RIC. I'm the Director of Writing, but the focus tends to be on First-Year Writing because that is the only "established" program at RIC. My colleagues and peers, including but not limited Jenn, Mike, you, and other composition faculty, illustrate the potential to grow our writing program and branch out into WAC and WID. I'd like more collaboration with the institutions, programs, and departments that serve and inform student writing practices, like the Writing Center, Writing Board, and emerging WID program. There is a real potential for the college to foster a climate of writing.
Cook: In my eight years at RIC, I have seen our emphasis on teaching writing gain momentum through the hiring of new writing faculty, like Mike and Becky, who've brought their energy to campus; new writing initiatives, like Mike's Summer Seminar and the Writing Center's Faculty Writing Retreat; and new programs, like the Writing Minor in the English Department and new writing-related partnerships with local schools, like Rhodes Elementary in Cranston where a RIC writing instructor, through the RIWP, is facilitating a new afterschool creative writing program. I am encouraged by the support that VPAA Ron Pitt and President Carriuolo have shown for all of these efforts to bolster writing on our campus. I believe, though, that administrative support and the best intentions won't do much good unless we have a "buy-in" from the faculty and the students. Much of the challenge is growing a grassroots writing movement from the bottom up so that instructors, professors, and students can feel that they've shaped it; and at the same time, we must work with administrators and program directors to institute new programs from the top down. Changing the culture of any institution is complicated!
Griggs: What are some long-range plans, individually or collaboratively, for writing at our campus?
Caouette: Oh, the dreams! First and foremost, as mentioned above, I'd like to see RIC foster a climate of writers and every member of this community—students, faculty, staff, and administration—to consider themselves writers and to think about writing as a necessary component of learning. Besides insuring that our FYW courses reflect best practices in current scholarship, we also work to clarify the outcomes, to increase professional development opportunities for our instructors, and to celebrate the work of our students. Too many (nearly 90%) of our FYW instructors are adjuncts; the problem is not their expertise, which is considerable, but the lack of institutional support for the work they do (no benefits, little security, and few opportunities to systematically enrich their teaching). I think that we need to consider our hiring agenda, not only in terms of tenure-track faculty and lectureships in the English department, but also writing program administrators across campus and even in individual schools, programs, and departments. Every department should have someone who has some expertise in teaching writing in their respective disciplines. And I think we need to bring together the seemingly disparate programs and people who are invested in writing—RIWP, WC, FYW, WB—in one central location so as to not only share resources, but also to share scholarship and let students know that writing is a force at RIC. Finally, I'd like to see more discussion between K-16 instructors about what each grade does and how we can build on the work of others. RIC should be setting the agenda for writing in Rhode Island, and standardized tests can only be part of the pedagogical picture.
Michaud: Well, I sort of hit on that in the previous section. Long-range, I think we need to be much more thoughtful about writing. There is data available—we know a good deal about what makes for meaningful writing instruction and its role in an undergraduate education. The question is whether we have the will to try to figure out (a) what the data tell us and (b) how to apply what we have learned to our unique local context. Ideally, we would work to create what some have called a "culture of writing" at RIC.
Cook: My immediate writing-related responsibilities on campus are connected to the Rhode Island Writing Project and the Secondary English Education program. As far as the RIWP is concerned, my short- and long-term plans are to keep that organization alive and vital on our campus. The RIWP is the only National Writing Project affiliate in Rhode Island and is the only organization in RI dedicated to the teaching of writing across the K-16 spectrum, which includes elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. The RIWP has a network of over 1,000 teachers in Rhode Island who promote the teaching of writing in their schools and across all content areas and grade levels.
As Rhode Island looks to the future and to the implementation of the Common Core Standards, the relationship that the RIWP has developed with the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) and with partner institutions, like North Providence High School and Warwick Veterans High School, will be vital in supporting teachers—many of whom walk through the doors of RIC at some point—as they navigate the transition to a new world of writing-related standards and assessments. Some examples of how we are building connections between RIC and the RIWP include:
- Bringing 35 English teachers and English education professors (K-16) together to campus on Saturday, December 10, 2011, to attend an all-day RIDE workshop on implementing the Common Core Standards in English language arts.
- Hosting our Annual Spring Conference on campus on Saturday, March 10, 2012, featuring Jeff Wilhelm, professor of English education at Boise State University and Tom Chandler, RI Poet Laureate emeritus. The conference theme will be "Literacy and the Common Core."
Collaboratively, I think our long-terms goals are to make writing more visible and more valued on campus. We are but a few people, though, so it's vital to collectively spread the messages that "writing is central to thinking and learning" and "teaching writing is everyone's responsibility."
Griggs: Do you have scholarship interests that might complement some of the goals of the Composition Committee or the Writing Board?
Caouette: I am interested in WPA research—and the history of Composition excites me. The course I'm teaching in the spring (ENGL 379) is about the time period when Composition emerged as a schoolroom subject. Right now I'm looking at early Composition anthologies and considering the ways that they helped establish the ethos of the field, how the field came to be, and what is it now. So I'm all about looking back to look forward. Jenn trains future K-12 educators; I try to help new English adjuncts and instructors acclimate to our courses and programs by observing classes and providing feedback for them (although many of them have been here longer than me!). Mike's interest in WAC and WID initiatives complements my interest in growing a program college-wide. Your work as writing center director is essential to a successful FYW program...I think I went rogue on this answer.
Michaud: I'm especially interested in ways to use technology to create an environment where meaningful student writing can happen. Technology, in my experience, does more than provide another medium for our work. By combining thoughtful writing pedagogy with technological tools, we can actually create new opportunities for interaction and instruction.
I am also interested in working with faculty on the teaching of writing—or, perhaps less threatening—the facilitating of writing instruction. This past year, along with Joe Zornado (the director of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning) and Becky, I designed and taught a week-long intensive course on facilitating writing instruction at RIC. We met during the summer and had over a half-dozen participants. This was rewarding work for me and, I think, for those who participated. I hope to be a part of many discussions with faculty from across the campus on how to bring writing instruction into their classrooms.
Cook: The Writing Board is the most important committee on campus that nobody's ever heard of! And it's the only body charged with implementing a writing-across-the-disciplines agenda. The January Faculty Development Workshop, which has a rich history, thanks to our predecessors, is one of the most important professional development opportunities at RIC, and we are fortunate to continue to receive support from the VPAA for this all-day workshop specifically on the teaching of writing. The Writing Board is also a "hub" of sorts where the various writing constituencies gather together; so, in that way, it serves as a kind of think tank or consortium on writing.
As a teacher educator, I am perpetually interested in and fascinated by teacher development. How does a person cultivate a professional identity as a teacher? I am always studying how authentic, intellectual work can enter the writing classroom so that "writing for school" is not "writing for the teacher." Currently, I am fascinated with teaching academic writing through the lens of ethnographic research, an approach I learned from Fieldworking (Sunstein and Chiseri-Strater, 2011). In my Honors Writing 100 class, students conduct mini-ethnographic studies, and after engaging in field notes, interviews, typing verbatim transcripts, searching for secondary sources, and qualitative data analysis, they produce original research that motivates and empowers them as writers and as scholars. I'm writing about this all the time right now.
Griggs: Is there anything else that ought to be said that I didn't think to ask?
Cook: Throughout my 10-year affiliation with the Western Massachusetts Writing Project, I witnessed firsthand the power of bringing teachers and writing together not only to study writing and the instruction of writing but also to study the complexities of the "teaching life." Even my teacher candidates know that I am the "writing person" in Ed Studies; and in my teacher education classes, I necessarily use writing as a mode of thinking, observing, analyzing, and communicating.
Michaud: In the 21st Century, writing has taken over from reading as the predominant literacy. It's not that we don't read anymore—we do, we read a lot, and much of it is done on screens—but we write a good deal, too, and the tools for writing and reaching audiences have never been so available. Because of technology, more of us today are writers. There are now more ways to participate though writing and more platforms for participation. Further, more people write for more purposes to more audiences in more genres with more technological tools than ever before, so there is no practice more critical to our students than writing.


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relating to the body's blood vessels.
a blood vessel that carries blood to the heart.
very-long-acting insulin:
a type of insulin that starts to lower blood glucose within 1 hour after injection and keeps working evenly for 24 hours after injection. See glargine insulin.
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a form of cholesterol in the blood; high levels may be related to cardiovascular disease.
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surgery to restore sight in which the surgeon removes the cloudy vitreous humor in the eye and replaces it with a salt solution.
vitreous (VIH-tree-us) humor:
the clear gel that lies behind the eye's lens and in front of the retina.
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see very-low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
to urinate; to empty the bladder.[Top]
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steps taken to ensure that a wound such as a foot ulcer heals correctly. People with diabetes need to take special precautions so wounds do not become infected.[Top]
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a carbohydrate-based sweetener found in plants and used as a substitute for sugar; provides calories. Found in some mints and chewing gum.
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Feedback information and consumer motivation : the moderation role of positive and negative reference values in self-regulation
Sobh, Rana & Martin, Brett (2011) Feedback information and consumer motivation : the moderation role of positive and negative reference values in self-regulation. European Journal of Marketing, 45(6), pp. 963-986.
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Marketers spend considerable resources to motivate people to consume their products and services as a means of goal attainment (Bagozzi and Dholakia, 1999). Why people increase, decrease, or stop consuming some products is based largely on how well they perceive they are doing in pursuit of their goals (Carver and Scheier, 1992). Yet despite the importance for marketers in understanding how current performance influences a consumer's future efforts, this topic has received little attention in marketing research.
Goal researchers generally agree that feedback about how well or how poorly people are doing in achieving their goals affects their motivation (Bandura and Cervone, 1986; Locke and Latham, 1990). Yet there is less agreement about whether positive and negative performance feedback increases or decreases future effort (Locke and Latham, 1990). For instance, while a customer of a gym might cancel his membership after receiving negative feedback about his fitness, the same negative feedback might cause another customer to visit the gym more often to achieve better results. A similar logic can apply to many products and services from the use of cosmetics to investing in mutual funds. The present research offers managers key insights into how to engage customers and keep them motivated. Given that connecting customers with the company is a top research priority for managers (Marketing Science Institute, 2006), this article provides suggestions for performance metrics including four questions that managers can use to apply the findings.
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Minnesota Voters Consider Voter ID
The state is the latest to consider implementing the controversial practice.
Nov. 7, 2012 7:47 a.m. Update: With 98 percent of precincts reporting, 52 percent of Minnesotans rejected the constitutional amendment to require voters to show photo ID.
For full election coverage and analysis, go to Governing's 2012 Election Center.
Minnesota voters will be the only ones in the country this November who will decide whether to implement a voter ID system similar to ones adopted in other states throughout the nation over the last two years.
The proposal, which would require all voters to show valid photo identification before voting, is an end-run around Gov. Mark Dayton, who has previously vetoed the state legislature's attempts at passing similar bills.
Instead, the legislature has referred the issue to voters, who will decide whether to enshrine a voter ID requirement in the state constitution. The policy would also require Minnesota to issue photo identification at no charge to voters who lack it. Voters who arrive at the poll without valid ID would only be able to cast provisional ballots, which would be counted if voters later returned with valid ID.
The constitutional amendment, which would take effect July 1, 2013, is opposed by a broad swath of organizations including the state offices of the AARP, League of Women Voters Common Cause, the ACLU. They say it's an attempt to disenfranchise voters and that few examples of voter impersonation actually exist.
Support is led by an organization known as Protect My Vote, which argues that voter ID laws are necessary to protect the integrity of the election and prevent voter fraud
The amendment also includes language that says all voters "must be subject to substantially equivalent identity and eligibility verification prior to a ballot being cast or counted."
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has interpreted that to mean a dramatic shift away from a tradition enjoyed by many Minnesotans: the ability to register to vote and cast a ballot on the same day.
As it stands, voters can register to vote or update their voter information at the poll and then cast a ballot; elections officials take steps to verify voters' information after the fact. The change would mean verification would be needed beforehand, which would be impossible in many situations, Ritchie argues.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be the first German head of state to visit the concentration camp memorial at Dachau.
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hmmm, quite a few of the australian terms are wrong.10-15-2005, 06:51 PM #3
And I noticed that some of the Australian terms were the same as the American, but they changed them.
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hmmm, quite a few of the australian terms are wrong.10-15-2005, 09:13 PM #5
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Here you go, Darlene. The ones I commented on I've highlighted with **
baking tray = cookie sheet
barbecue = grill
beef olives = rouladen ** we also call this rouladen
beetroot = beet
bi-carb soda = baking soda
biscuit = cracker or cookie
bottling = canning
bread rolls = buns
broad bean = fava bean
cake cooler = wire rack ** also wire rack
cake tin = pan
casserole dinner (or tea) = potluck ** casserole or stew (tea is something else, but not tea LOL)
caster sugar = superfine granulated
celery stick = celery rib
chick peas = garbanzos
chicken pieces = chicken parts
chips = french fries or crisps
coconut, desiccated (unsweetened) = coconut, shredded (often sweetened)
copha = white vegetable shortening
coriander (leaves) = cilantro
corn flour = corn starch
cos = romaine lettuce
cream, whipping (37% fat) = cream, heavy/heavy whipping (min 36% fat)
demerara = sugar light brown cane sugar
dressing = mayonaise or viniagrette ** we call mayonaise "mayonaise" and French dressing "viniagrette"
dripping = fat from roasted meat
endive = chicory
entree = the course preceding the main course
essence = extract ** also extract
fairy bread = bread and butter with coloured sprinkles
fairy cake = cupcake
fairy floss = cotton candy
fillet (of meat) = tenderloin
french bean = green bean
frying pan = skillet
ginger nut = ginger snap
glacé = candied
glad wrap = saran wrap or plastic wrap ** also plastic wrap, Glad Wrap is the brand name
golden syrup = similar to light corn syrup
greaseproof paper = wax paper
grill = broil
hundred and thousands = sprinkles
icing = frosting
icing sugar = confectioners' sugar, powdered sugar
jacket potato = baked potato
jam = jelly
jelly = jell-o
jelly crystals = flavoured gelatin
joint (of meat) = large cut of meat with bone
kitchen paper = paper towel - also paper towel
lolly = candy
maltesers = chocolate covered malt balls
Marie biscuits = vanilla wafers (any plain sweet biscuit will do!)
mince = ground meat
mixed peel = candied peel
offal = variety meats (liver, heart, kidney)
omelette = omelet
oven slide = cookie sheet ** baking sheet, I've never heard the term "oven slide".
pasta sauce (jarred) = tomato sauce ** pasta sauce is a storebought version of any sauce, not just tomato, to put onto pasta
pastie = meat turnover
pastry case = pie shell ** also pie shell
patty cake = cup cake
pawpaw = papaya
pepper/capsicum = bell pepper
pigâs trotter = pigâs foot
pips = seeds ** also seeds
plain flour = all purpose flour
porridge = cooked oatmeal
prawns = shrimp
pudding = dessert ** also dessert
rasher = slice (most often used in terms of bacon)
rice bubbles = rice crispies (breakfast cereal)
ring tin = tube pan
rocket = argula
rockmelon = cantaloupe
roast = baked
rump steak = sirloin ** Rump steak is the steak from the hindquarter or the steer. Sirloin is from the ribs - like Tbone without the bone.
self raising flour = all-purpose flour with baking powder
semolina = farina
shandy = beer with sprite
sherbert = powdered candy
silverbeet = Swiss chard
silverside = beef cut from the rump ** silverside is hot corned beef
skirt steak = flank steak
slice = bar
soft drink = soda
southern biscuits = scones ** I've never heard anyone call scones southern biscuits. Scones are scones. I think they reversed the order of these. You call them biscuits and we call them scones.
spring onion = scallion/green onion
sponge finger = lady finger
stock cubes = boullion Cubes
stoned = seeded
stuffing = dressing
sultanas = golden raisins
swiss roll tin = jelly roll pan
swede = turnip or rutebaga
tea towel = dish towel
toffee = taffy
tomato sauce = ketchup
treacle = similar to molasses
vermicelli, chocolate = sprinkles, chocolate10-16-2005, 08:23 AM #6
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Thanks Rhonda!!!10-16-2005, 09:21 AM #7
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Quite a few of the British ones are wrong too!
A biscuit is a cookie and a cracker is a cracker, unless you buy a box of crackers specifically labelled "biscuits for cheese", which contains a combination of digestive biscuits and crackers.
I have NEVER heard corned beef referred to as anything other than corned beef.
Chicory and endive are two different vegetables, at least at my supermarket, as are rocket and arrugula and cos and romaine.
The bottle of Vanilla Extract in my cupboard says just that, extract, not essence.
You grill sausages under the grill, not the griller.
"Marmite - a yeast extract that Brits love to spread on their toast". Not all Brits! It's evil in a jar!
Neeps and Tatties are turnips and potatoes, but usually in Scotland, not England and Wales.
Pine nuts are pine nuts.
It seems that some of the terminology is quite antiquated, and the list just needs updating.10-16-2005, 09:37 AM #8
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Thanks for the update Peaches! Loved the evil in a jar comment, sounds like it is. :::shudder::: Makes me think of limburger cheese, that is evil in a package.
If you ladies think of some things that aren't on the list and want to add them, please do.10-16-2005, 12:35 PM #9
Thanks for the updates- I don't think some of the American terms are altogether accurate- at least not in my household- lol. Some are just a little misleading. For the edification of everyone, I'll include MY comments.
For instance, a celery rib to me is the whole length of celery. A celery stick is a celery rib cut into smaller pieces. You'd never catch me actually calling a piece of celery a rib. (Of course, you aren't likely to catch me talking about celery at all as I don't like it!)
Chick peas and garbanzos are both used.
Nobody I know calls french fries "crisps"- the only thing I know as crisps are potato chips from the UK. French fries do sometimes get called chips, though,m in the right setting (as in "fish and chips.")
Coriander and cilantro are two different things here- one is the leaf and one is the seed.
We use ther term dripping in the same way.
Like Peaches said, romaine and cos and endive and chicory are different, though similar items.
We have a specific type of green bean cut called a french cut green bean.
Frying pan and skillet are interchangeable.
Sprinkles are often called jimmies and sometimes hundreds and thousands (this is usually only comercially, though.)
Icing and frosting are two different things- icing is a thin topping you can usually drizzle or pour over a sweet, while frosting is thicker and generally needs to be spread. Icing is usually just 10x (confectioner's) sugar and some liquid.
Glad wrap/plastic wrap/saran wrap- all used.
Mincemeat is a specific thing here- but it isn't used too often anymore. It is meat and raisings and apples and is generally a pie. I don't know anyone who has ever tried this- sounds nasty to me.
We don't call anything variety meats that I am aware of. We have stuff called offal- it is generally reserved for feeding animals. Heart, liver, etc., are referred to and sold individually.
Ditto what Rhonda said on the pasta sauce.
Pie crust is used more than pie shell around here.
A bell pepper is a specific kind of pepper. There are lots of different varieties available. Bell is the bell shaped (I guess) one that is generally sold green, but can also be red, brown, orange, yellow- it is sweet.
Some people use the term porridge.
Prawns and shrimp are two different things.
We have self rising flour and we call it that.
I'm not sure what is up with "slice=bar." We have slices and we have bars. A slice would be somthing like a slice of cake, a slice of bread, a slice of cheese. There are few things we refer to as bars- generally soap and chocolate or candy bars.
Ugh- the soft drink debate again- around the country it has different names- pop, soda, soft drink, cola- we use 'em all. As a matter of fact, you can usually tell where in te US someone is from by what they call this drink.
Stuffing and dressing are used interchangeable, though where I live it is generally called stuffing (as in "Stove Top Stuffing.")
We also use the term tea towel- usually dish towel, but both are acceptable. I generally have "nicer" towels that I refer to as tea towels and they aren't used for drying dishes or wiping hands- they are the ones I use to wrap around warm bread or lay over rising dough, but this is just my usage.
Toffee and taffy are two different things here. Toffee is a hard candy, like the candy part of penut britle- it is generally sugar, butter, and vanilla. Taffy is soft, chewy stuff.
Tomato sauce and ketchup are two different things here, too. Tomato sauce is just pureed, reduced tomatoes with or without seasonings. Ketchup or catsup is a tomato based condiment with with molasses, spices, and other ingredients added. I think it is pretty yucky myself, but it is highly popular.
Now I just have some questions-
If jam=jelly, then what do you call fruit spead made only from the juice of a fruit, and not the whol fruit? This is our distinction between jam and jelly- jams generally include the whole fruit (or most of it,) and jelly definitely does not- it is the juice strained and then jelled.
And what do you call toffee, as in a hard candy that tastes similar to soft caramels?
And a potluck here is not a type of food, it is a type of get-together. It is when a bunch of people gather for a meal, and everyone brings something to share. Is this what the OP is referring to when she says a casserole dinner? I'm still a little confused by that one.
And if kethcup is called tomato sauce, what do you call sauce made from tomato sauce that doesn't have molasses and spices added?
Thanks, everyone, for adding to this, and thanks, Darlene, for posting. This has been really interesting and fun. I am enjoying this. Actually, I got involved in a lengthy discussion about measurements and the British/American terms on Recipezaar not too long ago. I am really interested in other cultures, so this is quite enjoyable.10-16-2005, 02:33 PM #10
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We have three names for fruit jams. we call it jam or conserve if it's fruit cooked in sugar and we call it jelly is if it is make from fruit juice and comes out clear. We have very few jellies.
We call toffee toffee or caramels.
We don't use the term potluck here. A casserole is a stew type dish, usually eaten for dinner at night. In addition to being a drink, tea is any meal eaten in the evening, usually early in the evening. I consciously stopped using the term "tea" when I first left home at 18 as I thought it was too unsophisticated for my fabulous self LOL!!! But as soon as I had my babies, I started using it again as it seemed more appropriate. Even now if I'm with my family I call it "tea" and if I'm talking to other people, I call it "dinner".
And while I'm at it, "tea" is a hot drink here. There is a soft drink iced tea and some people do make iced tea, but it's not common here. Flavoured tea didn't really take a hold here either. We have them but they aren't nearly as popular as plain old black tea or green tea.
Heinz make tomato ketchup, which is on the label but we still call it tomato sauce. Tomato pasta sauce is called tomato sauce and tomato sauce is called tomato sauce.10-16-2005, 02:47 PM #11
Thanks, Rhonda.
So, do you have potluck dinners (where everyboy brings a dish) and just call them something else?
And casseroles are the same thing here. We don't call those dishes potlucks.
Would love one/some of our British members to weigh in on these same questions.10-16-2005, 03:10 PM #12
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We have "bring a plate" dinners.10-16-2005, 04:05 PM #13
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As far as I know, jam is jam, whether it contains fruit or just the juice. You can get preserves and conserves, but these all tend to fall under the umbrella of "jam". Then, of course, there's marmalade if the fruit is citrus.
Toffee is toffee.
Ketchup can be called tomato sauce or ketchup (we call it ketchup in my house). Pasta sauce is just that, pasta sauce. If it contains tomatoes but no meat it tends to be called an arrabiata or marinara. If it contains mince it's called a bolognese.
We also have brown sauce, which is made from molasses, raisins, spices, dates and vinegar. Nice on chips!10-16-2005, 04:09 PM #14
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yes, I forgot about marmalade. Citrus jam is called marmalde here too.
Vicky, is brown sauce HP sauce? We call worcestershire sauce black sauce.10-16-2005, 04:51 PM #15
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Jelly is Jello and wobbly gelatine that you eat after a meal or whatever!
Jam is jam is jam and was considered a treat in times gone by, hence the British saying " you jammy sod" ( meaning you lucky person.........!)
Brown sauce is what Brits have when they are not having Tomato sauce (ketchup)on their pie/chips ( fries ) ketchup would be more widely used in say an ex-pat household LOL!
Yes it can be HP but that is a BRAND name and so if you have Brown sauce it can be "daddy's"( another brand name) or just generic stores' own brand...........
Taffy is a colloquial term ,meaning a Welsh man/woman but not considered PC these days
Potluck is "taking a chance" and is generally not used when referring to food
Most Brits are not happy about eating food from other peoples houses ( strangers) and as the show "How clean is your house?" is British in origin you can see why
I won't eat anything that came from a domestic dwelling that I was unfamilliar with............also eating out is easier to say no to if you just watch the right "undercover documentaries"
Think of the money you save LOL!( not to mention the gut rot ( green-apple quickstep )
Tea is something you drink hot AND the common parlance for the meal that you have in the evening, "Dinner" is what you have at lunchtime if you are Working class
Dinner as a reference to the evening meal is more middle class and is sometimes considered "pretentious" to call it that.
"Supper" is what working classes call a snack before bedtime, but the upper classs refer to when they really mean"Dinner"
I mean who CARES what we call it? it is pretty obvious what most things are and if you don't know you can always ask right?!
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I think you are a borderline case. You have as small collection of fat to the lateral thighs and abdomen. My opinion is that having a slim lipo lipoplasty is not going to make you slim. The result you can have in this way is to make more even the areas where there is a small collection of fat. If you feel that this fat collection disturbs you a lot, you can proceed. The result you are going to have will be very good, because the skin quality looks good as well. If you are addressed to a qualified plastic surgeon, it is sure that you will have an improvement. The truth is that your problem is small but what is small or big differs from person to person. It depends on how each one feels about his problem.
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You Don't need Liposuction
You look great and I would recommend not doing any procedure. You are 21 and can exercise your way into the body that you want. Trust me; we've done thousands of liposuction cases; You don't need it.
Wait until you are further along in life and have children (which loosens skin and makes you gain weight) and then you may have a more dramatic transformation. At this point, I don't think there would be much fat to remove.
You'll look back some day on your 21 year old self who contemplated liposuction and you'll laugh :)
Good luck in your decision.
Wait until you are further along in life and have children (which loosens skin and makes you gain weight) and then you may have a more dramatic transformation. At this point, I don't think there would be much fat to remove.
You'll look back some day on your 21 year old self who contemplated liposuction and you'll laugh :)
Good luck in your decision.
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I agree with Dr. Corey. I don't think that you would get a substantial benefit from any form of lipo.
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Well............Sometimes the worst thing I can say to a patient is "You look great" because that is NOT what they want to hear....Considering my office is full of women that would love to look just like you (and I know you hear that all the time!) and that I do Slimlipo pretty regularly, I really would suggest, at 21 years old....that you not do the procedure. Right now you look great and can show off your tummy without any problem....But if you had lipo, even Slim, and had some waviness to your skin after surgery, you would be devastated and so would I if I was the surgeon....Trust me on this....Don't do it!
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If it's true, does anyone have an idea of the science behind it - how does the milk remove the toxins?
Do you have a website that you can recommend explaining how to feed my indoor cat a raw diet? Her coat is no longer shiny and her tail has lost its bushiness. Even though I buy an expensive dry food, I don't think its best for her. Especially after having an outdoor hunting cat who brought home rabbits and devoured them.
It has nothing to do with removing toxens (milk soaked liver) In fact it started when home made pate's were in vogue, duck livers.)
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I am not a vet but have been involved with cats and their mannerisms and behavior for years. I foster mother cats and kittens every 8 weeks and study them. I volunteer at one of the biggest NO KILL animal shelters in Florida 2 to 3 times a week as a behaviorist and try and match people to cats.
Cats are really not domesticated, they permit you to share their enviorment not the other way around. In the wild they ate fresh kill and if any left over would bury it. Its unlike the meat we eat. We would not even be able to chew it. They should be fed a good quality wet and a good quality dry food. The dry food is just for our convienence not theirs, They never ate cereal in the wild . Read the label of the food, try and eleminate corn flour and or corn gluten, better with brown rice or barley as a filler. Make sure meats contained or poultry are listed first. Let the cat eat wheat or rye grass which grows in 3 days in a small pot, it aids their insides, digestion and helps eliminate hair balls. Science Diet, Blue, Purina Pro Plan , Nutro are some good foods. Iams has changed slightly over the years. People know very little about these fantastic animals , they are true survivors and can love you and show you affection to the death.
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LOL panini! =D "Overweight" is a Beagle characteristic! "Working" dogs have to work. Otherwise they get fat and neurotic (like tearing up the house when nobody's looking!). Do you have any "play" groups in your area that offer agility or (especially) flyball? Beagles love that stuff. Then you could use chicken livers as treats afterwards ;-)
good luck!
I agree with you about cats Chef Ed. Most of the commercial diets contain w-a-a-y too much cereal for cats. They're obligate carnivores and need meat as their primary dietary ingredient. That's tough to accomplish in commercial form, though. I'm on the fence about raw diets. Raw meats can be unsafe for animals too, due to the way we process it. The other downside is that homemade or -prepared diets don't usually address the supplemental nutritional requirements for pets. There are supplements available to correct this, though. One manufacturer that makes a powder to be added to homemade diets for cats or dogs in various life stages and health is called "BalanceIt". I used it for a while, but it got to be sort of a pain making diets for numerous individuals! (me, SO, pets ...). For those with the motivation and desire to provide "the right" nutrition, it's a better alternative than commercially available forms ... especially for cats. Worth looking at anyway.
Hey Shel,
Milk proteins have the ability to bind iron (some of it as lactoferrin). I have always thought that soaking liver in milk reduced the metallic taste of the liver by removing unbound iron.
other metals also bind to milk like copper and zinc so it is not a stretch to think that toxic heavy metals could also be bound by milk proteins hence the notion of detoxifying the liver.
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Updated at 1909: Twelve years later and nothing that has happened over the course of 4 Cups affects me like McCarty's destruction of Claude Lemieux. Still, to this day, it's just…ours. It's a Wing fan's moment.
It's been nagging at me the last hour or so that we didn't do Mac justice with the last post announcing his official retirement. You guys have seen every second of the videos below, but I'm showing them to you anyway. Because the hat trick in '02 kicked Roy's ass once and for all. And because that frigging goal to clinch OUR first Cup was a moment that defined so much for so many of us.
And because Darren McCarty brought a city to its feet with a beatdown that just had to happen and then he laughed at Denver with the rest of us with his OT winner.
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The film industry still manages to make offensive remarks about women, time and again.
New Delhi: Our Hindi film industry has a knack of surprising us. Just when you think the industry is finally evolving and making realistic films, comes a 'Grand Masti', 'Himmatwala' and 'Zanjeer' which takes us back in time when Bollywood was all about male machismo.
From Priyanka Chopra's 'Pinky' dance to sexual innuendos filled trailers of 'Grand Masti', the film industry still manages to make offensive remarks about women, time and again.
The December 16 gangrape in Delhi not only led to a movement of sorts about safety of women in India but it also made many of us retrospect about the society we live in. Naturally, Bollywood and its representation of women in films was at the top of everyone's mind. While film celebrities openly condemned the horrific crime, they were all quick to defend their work and fraternity and stated that how films should not be held responsible for the misdeeds in the society.
But when leading actors agree to be a part of raunchy numbers and adult comedies where women are easily commodified , it clearly gives out a strong message to the audience on how things are still the same.
Some six months back, Priyanka Chopra had made headlines when she had asked Sanjay Gupta to first show her lyrics of the song she was approached for in Gupta's 'Shootout At Wadala'. Chopra, at that time, had stated that she would not feature in any song which had derogatory lyrics. Six months down the line, the same actress raised eyebrows when she featured in a song called "Pinky hai paisewalon ki". The lyrics of the song from the disastrous 'Zanjeer' went something like "Paisa phek tamasha dekh, nachegi Pinky fultoo late". The same actress also featured in khaki hot pants in another song giving a "tribute" to Mumbai police where she urged the film's leading hero, Ram Charan to show his "gun". Clearly Chopra, just like her screen avatar Pinky, would readily agree to feature in any song if the moolah was good.
A still from the upcoming 'Grand Masti' shows its three leading men nicely placed between the legs of the leading ladies. A sequel of the adult comedy 'Masti', the film has its heroes speaking almost every dialogue laced with sexual overtones and equating women to delectable food items.
While some may argue that a premise of an adult comedy is almost always stereotypical, the irony is not lost on anyone. So while an actor may agree to be part of such films, on social media network they will harp about gender equality, safety for women in the society. Individually they might believe in certain issues, their screen avatars might be diametrically opposite to their real self.
Agreed that films cannot be the moral police of the society and perhaps should be treated strictly for entertainment purpose but in a country which treats films as a religion and which uncannily manages to unite all communities across the country, most of the viewers tend to blur the lines between fiction and reality. Also, if films are banned when certain community is offended due to its content, why can't they be banned if they do not show women in the proper light? But then, that would perhaps lead to banning of half of our films, no?
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The World According to Garp (1982)
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Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.- Written by Tony Bowden <firstname.lastname@example.com>
T.S. Garp has led an unusual life. Born in 1944 and named after his father, he is the bastard son of opinionated feminist nurse Jenny Fields who wanted a child but not a husband. She got herself pregnant by a hospitalized soldier on his deathbed, he known only to her as Technical Sergeant Garp. As a young adult, Garp, shaped by his upbringing especially his mother's influence, is an aspiring writer and freestyle wrestler. He shows great aptitude in both. His writing inspires his mother to try her hand at it as well, her subject being her greatest curiosity in life which is human sexuality, most specifically male lust and its effect on women. Into Garp's life comes a myriad of Jenny's friends, acquaintances, groupies and advisers, which includes a transsexual ex-football player named Roberta Muldoon, a reformed prostitute, and a group of women who practice self-mutilation all in the name of making a statement. Also into his life comes Helen Holm, the daughter of his wrestling coach. Garp and Helen have a stormy but passionate relationship, the passion based in part on their joint love of literature. Through all these unusual experiences, Garp just wants to find his place in the world which has a different sensibility than him.- Written by Huggo
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