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Carrot Greens Salad
June 23, 2015 by Susan
Stirring it up: Last week was the first week for our Community Supported Agriculture share for this year and it got me thinking about carrot greens. Carrot greens are most often thrown away during meal prep but I thought there had to be a use for them. I searched the internet, got some inspiration from a number of websites then opened the fridge and built a salad. I used various quantities of veggies untill it looked and tasted good. Quantities are to the best of my memory!
Carrot Greens Salad
- 1 1/2 – 2 c. cleaned & chopped carrot greens
- 1 c. black beans, pre cooked or canned
- 1 – 1 1/2 c. garbanzo beans (aka chick peas), pre cooked or canned
- 3 med carrots, diced
- 4-5 stems parsley, fresh & chopped
- 1 scallion thinly sliced
- 5-6 mint leaves, fresh & chopped
- 1 1/2 c. quinoa, cooked & cooled
- 4-5 green peas in the pod, fresh and thinly sliced
- 1/2 c. olive oil
- 3T. red wine vinegar
- 1 small clove garlic, crushed or 1/4 t. dry garlic bits (not powder)
- 2-3 T. lemon juice, fresh
- 2 t. sugar
Prepare all the vegetables and place them in a large bowl along with the cooled quinoa. Prepare the dressing by putting all the ingredients in a small jar and, with the lid on, shaking it well. Pour the dressing over the veggies about 10 minutes prior to serving and lightly toss the salad. Be sure to adjust the quantities and veggies to your liking! It tastes great the following day too and the carrot greens are still fresh looking. Bon appétit!
Next time I might add about 1/2 c. corn kernels and 1 med tomato, diced. I served this with a side of a couple of slices of Cabot Seriously Sharp Cheddar cheese. This salad was a great meal in itself.
Dishing it out: As a child I was sometimes called "carrot top" by those out to tease me but seriously, I had red hair and a carrot top is green. Obviously those folks had no idea what they were talking about and, thus far in my life, I've never seen anyone with naturally green hair!
That being said, we love the carrot greens we get from Muddy Boots CSA and we love being part of the Muddy Boots CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) which is a collaborative venture of Kingsbury Market Garden, Wood's Market Garden and Burnt Rock Farm. It also includes dairy products from several of the local farms including Von Trapp Farmstead and Ploughgate Creamery at Bragg Hill Farm. Our week one share was a marvelous selection of absolutely fresh produce including brie cheese, luscious tomatoes, tasty shallots, crisp carrots and cucumber, crunchy kale, dried black beans, beautiful lettuce, pungent basil, deep red beets, and more. How could you not like any of it, or waste any of it which is why I wondered about the carrot greens. Carrot Greens Salad, what a perfect way to celebrate the wonderful farms and hard working farmers this 4th of July or on Canada Day if you are north of the border!
Happy 4th of July!
July 4, 2012 by Susan
Happy 4th everyone!
The Sugarbush area 4th of July celebrations got off to a great start on June 30 with the 3rd annual Stars and Stripes Air Show featuring vintage plane and glider aerial acrobatics.
This morning the focus is on the 64th annual Warren 4th of July parade with its collection of quirky floats which draw thousands of folks to the area for a day of celebration. Family activities, music, and food – including a roast pig from Gaylord Farm and pizza from American Flatbread- will help keep the celebration going all day.
Swimming holes will be a great attraction today too, as folks look to cool off. Sugarbush Resort has activities throughout the day and to the enjoyment of everyone will conclude the day with a spectacular fireworks display.
Come Sunday we'll all be encouraging the runners in the 2nd annual Mad Marathon as it winds it's way through the beautiful Mad River Valley. We have a house-full of runners booked in for the weekend. Go runners!
Wishing you all a safe and fun filled day.
A 4th of July to Remember
June 16, 2012 by Susan
Our Sap-bucket list is overflowing with activities for one super week of 4th of July celebrations for all tastes and interests!
The 3rd annual Stars and Stripes Air Show on June 30 will bring excitement to the Sugarbush Airport in Warren with vintage planes, stunt flying by both planes and gliders, glider rides, classic motorcycles, food and fun for children and adults alike. Tickets may be purchased on line or at the gate. Check out the air show website for more information and some video of last year's show. Sorry but dogs and coolers must be left at home.
If cooking is your delight, you can learn to impress your family and friends at the cooking classes at The Kitchen at The Store in Waitsfield. Chef John shares his wisdom and makes learning in the kitchen most enjoyable.
On Saturday, Chef's Table-Aound the World offers participants not only the opportunity to create food from 4 different countries but to eat it too!
July 2 and 3 will have you creating scrumptious pies at the Butter, Sugar & Sin-Pies class and the Easy Entertaining-Soups and Paninis classes. The best thing is you don't have to be an expert cook to take these classes, they are fun for all skill levels.
Of course on the 4th of July is the world famous, wild and wacky, 4th of July Parade which makes its way down the main street of Warren to the delight of thousands, yes thousands, of spectators. Family fun, kids games, music, food an more follow the parade in the town as well as up at Sugarbush. The parade starts at 10AM but be there early, no cars are allowed in town but buses will be making the circuit from various parking places to town. The day closes with a bang a fireworks will light the sky over Sugarbush starting shortly after 9PM.
As well as all these activities, don't forget there are mountain walks, energetic hikes, river and lake kayaking, refreshing swimming holes, eclectic shopping, golf and plenty of relaxing to be had here in the valley.
Join the residents of the Mad River Valley and celebrate the 4th of July Vermont style. With the many lodging opportunities here in the Valley, from welcoming B&Bs to condos and rental houses, there will surely be something perfect for you.
See you soon!
Celebrate July 4th weekend in Warren
June 16, 2010 by Peter MacLaren
We have two great events over the July 4th weekend for our guests to enjoy.
On Saturday July 3rd enjoy the Stars and Stripes Charity Airshow featuring bi-plane aerobatics and other great stunts. All proceeds to benefit the Vermont National Guard Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization which serves to meet the emergency financial needs of the men and women of the Vermont National Guard and their families. Tickets are complimentary for our guests – advance booking is highly recommended. Starts at 1PM – don't be late!
Then on Sunday July 4th we have the famous Warren July 4th parade. For the 62nd consecutive year, Warren will celebrate its independence with a wild, wacky, and wickedly fun parade, street dance, and family festivities! Parade starts at 10 AM.
These events are always unique, with little deference to political correctness. This year's theme is "Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Healthiness". The parade typically proceeds down Main Street, then takes the right on Brook Road – floats pull off the road, or continue up to Brooks Field parking lot…where, after the parade, fun & festivities abound on the field until mid-afternoon. Included in the afternoon fun will be a Scottish Highland Games demonstration at Brooks Field. Now THAT is fun!


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NEW YORK (Dec. 26)
Moscow refusenik Eliyahu Steingart received permission to emigrate last week, the World Jewish Congress reported.
Steingart first applied to emigrate in 1981. He was refused on the grounds that he may have been exposed to state secrets through his work in mathematics and computers.
Steingart took over as leader of the ba'alei teshuvah (newly religious) group in Moscow when Eliyahu Essas left, according to Elan Steinberg, WJC executive director, who visited him several times. Essas, who for years was the revered leader of Moscow's Orthodox community, now lives in Israel.
"Much of that group has emigrated, absolutely all of them to Israel. There's no neshira from that group," Israel Singer, WJC secretary-general, said, using the term for immigration to countries other than Israel by Jews leaving the Soviet Union on Israeli visas.
"They are Zionists and religious at the same time, with equal fervor. They're tireless, selfless people," Singer said. "This doesn't detract from all the others who have Zionist ties or cultural ties alone, but the unique aspect of this group is that the religious component is so central," explained Singer, himself an ordained Orthodox rabbi.
He called Steingart "the last of the old Essas Mohicans."
American visitors say Steingart regularly walked two hours each way between the shul and his house on Shabbat.
Some recall Steingart taking them on a "shortcut" to the Moscow synagogue that was 10 blocks longer–to avoid passing Lubianka prison, where the KGB headquarters is located.

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As if the blues weren't already dark enough. For the entirety of the Dead Weather's debut album, Horehound, Jack White—who, in a commendable show of ego control, relegates himself to the drum stool for this, a sure-to-be successful supergroup (dirty word, I know) he somehow managed to cobble together in the downtime between fronting two of the only signs of life in today's alt-rock landscape—Alison Mosshart and company are visibly determined to imbue an art form which is already obsessed with depression, loss, and all manner of cheerful things with even inkier shades of the human condition.
The album is best appreciated as a pleasurable pop treat from a group whose vision is ever broadening.
It's the perfect summer album: exuberant, lighthearted, with hooks to spare, and plenty of surf rock. It's just further proof that great things come in strange packages.
Unlike many young bands that need time to find their identity, Baroness arrived five years ago with a fully-formed sound that immediately separated them from the rest of the American metal pack, the early First and Second EPs and the 2007 split with Unpersons, A Grey Sigh in a Flower Husk, subtly morphing from monstrous, sludgy post-metal to the broad, all-encompassing style of 2007's acclaimed Red Album. Theirs is a sound that's difficult to pin down, with traces of mainstream American metal, early 1970s progressive rock, Southern rock, the dissonance of Fugazi, the classic gallop and twin guitar work of Thin Lizzy, and the stripped-down, straightforward approach of a jam-oriented indie rock band, pure heaviness offset by an often startling knack for arresting melodies, either from guitar or John Baizley's robust vocals. For those who are wary of the seeming impenetrability of more extreme-minded contemporary metal, the Red Album was far more welcoming, its openness to sounds outside the genre and ability to integrate everything seamlessly lending itself an inclusive rather than exclusive quality.
Although Farm sacrifices some immediacy and fire for expansive emotionalism and nuance, the album is a solid addition to the Dinosaur Jr. catalog and one whose highlights may prove even better with time.
In today's culture, the blogosphere moves with such spitting tenacity, and wields such a ruly force over independent music, that once-loved darlings of the self-appointed press become enemies of the state before their first scrap of music is ever officially turned out for public consumption. While the whole issue of today's scene vs. yesterday's scene is, of course, one of subjectivity, the issue over the immediacy of release and influence—and the rapidly diminishing gap between the two—is one of absolutely no debate. Enter Real Estate, whose debut album this week has been precipitated by indie stalwarts the globe over generating a steady stream of ever-glowing buzz. Their detached emotionalism, ragged endearment, dominance of atmosphere, and consolidation of a scene's worth of musical attributes may make them prime candidates for scorn, backlash and overzealous categorization, but underneath all of those lingering, superficial observations lay several crucial elements that separate Real Estate from the wild pack of indie up-and-comers and anoints them a certain degree of transcendence over their peers.
Brother Ali, you bad mufucka, you have done it again. But should this come as a shock? Each and every album or EP he releases is, at the very least, good, if not great. With six previous efforts under his belt, this Minnesota emcee—known for his storytelling, incredible lyrics, and gripping voice—very rarely disappoints. At the most, he might record one track or verse that sounds forced or out of place every few years. Yet, even that sounds like a stretch for this nearly flawless artist. He has touched on topics from across the gamut, brought us into his family life, told us just why he's such a bad mufucka, and so on in his nine-year career. He really is the whole package and then some.
Back in 1973, Arlo Guthrie made a record about being The Last Cowboy in Brooklyn. But that statement has, for better or worse, proven false. Plenty of dudes are sitting in the meat district right now plucking on an acoustic and listening to their Willie Nelson records, doing their best take on lonesome in the crowded city. And there's not hing wrong with bringing the country to the city—in fact, there's some downright classic music that has resulted from just that action. But country also does just fine on its own—you know, out in the country—so it begs the question of why more artists don't inject some more city into that country sound.
Wilco's success is largely due to their ability to continually surprise, if not outright confound, their audience. Their first five albums saw the band transform from alt-country torchbearers to Wall-of-Sound sculptors to post-rock deconstructionists. Facilitating this transformation was a steady rotation of band members, moving both into and then out of the ranks, eventually leaving frontman Jeff Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt as the only two orig inal members. Looking back over their career, it's easy to see that this constant shuffling of members propelled Wilco's sonic evolution.
The first Fuck Buttons LP, last year's Street Horrrsing, sprawled without actually doing anything. Empty gestures and energy directed towards no eventualities. Folk were disarmed by their readiness to balance the noise with big melodic statements, but it was done without finesse. Their live shows around the time were predictable in the way they dealt in such monochromatic shades as the album—we were either building and exploding, or just whis pering. It is heartening that with their second, Tarot Sport, Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power seem to have found some semblance of intent and an appropriate outlet for that manic energy. They have discovered that there are infinite shades in between the extremes. You might describe it as ascending from Duplo to Lego.
This is country music the way God intended it to be. On his second set for Lost Highway, this Texas-reared singer-songwriter delivers a dozen tunes full of hard living, hard drinking and hard rocking. The album could just as well have been called Roadhouse Son as Bingham's biography reads like the lyrics of a country song, the tale of a young talent nurtured by roughnecks and raised on rough times.
xx is a thoroughly cohesive, moving and accessible album. This young band of Londoners exhibits a level of maturity, artistry and potential that far exceeds their years.


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OVERTON United and AFC Aldermaston had very different results on the final day of the Hampshire Premier League season.
Goals from Oliver Bode, Myles Englefield, Chris Lavisher and Jamie Smith saw Overton record a 4-1 victory away at Hedge End Rangers on Saturday, a result that means they end the season fifth in the table.
However, it was not such a good day for Aldermaston, who suffered a 5-1 defeat away at champions Baffins Milton Rovers. Michael Porter scored the visitors' lone reply but it has been an excellent couple of months for Terry Rooney's men, who ended up 10th in the table.


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Review DateMarch 13, 2005
Overall Rating 4 of 5
Value Rating 4 of 5
Visitors rate this review2.00 of 5,
7.00 votes
Reviewed by: Senior Skier
Summary:I bought these previously "demoed" skis from an on-mountain rental shop after trying them for a couple of days. They are actually last season's model (03-04). But that's OK, because I had gone to the slopes -- after a seven-year hiatus -- with my circa 1992 205 cm Rossignol 7Gs. I would have skied happily on them, except that the toe and heel plates on my same-vintage Nordia boots disintegrated and the rental shop wouldn't fit their boots to my skis with their equally same-vintage Look bindings. So that's how I wound up on "shaped" skis. It's true that they really do like to go fast. I had a blast on them in mostly spring conditions with icy conditions in the morning and late afternoon. Not having skied in seven years, I stuck to the blue runs. The skis were very responsive in the bumps that I found on those runs. So I bought 'em. The shop knocked $100 off the $300 asking price for the skis and bindings. I look forward to skiing on them more next season, after I find some new size-14 boots!
Review DateMarch 25, 2004
Overall Rating 5 of 5
Used product forLess than 1 month
Visitors rate this review3.67 of 5,
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Reviewed by: ashburnsp
Summary:This is a review of the 2003-04 Salomon Scream 10 Pilot Hot 175 cm (not Extra Hot). This ski was evaluated March 15-16, 2004 at Wolf Creek Pass ski area, Colorado. The snow conditions varied from ice to slush to packed, dry powder on this trip.
At low speeds and shallow slopes I didn't notice much difference between this ski and my old 205's except they were shorter (and therefore easier to ski). At higher speeds and on steep slopes the skis came into their own and started to carve really well. Under these conditions the skis really like to carve and hold an edge well. They were stable in powder (6" deep) and gave a sense of security on really steep (30 degree) slopes. I had to force really short turns, but these skis are not meant to be slalom skis. They did well in moguls, using either carving technique or pivot-and-slip. Really tight turns are not a problem, but require more input than a pure slalom ski. The off-piste conditions during this trip were truly awful (frozen crud) but the skis seemed to match my intermediate frozen crud skills (are there expert frozen crud skills?) and I managed to stay mainly on my feet.
My overall impression is that these skis are ideal for high-speed cruising and the steeps and give a sense of security and control on truly steep (more than 30 degree) slopes. If you want speciaty skis, say for powder or slalom, then of course they would be better at their specialty than this all-around mountain ski. But for general purpose skiing, especially at Wolf Creek where all runs are covered with powder much of the time, these skis work well. I also noticed that I wasn't tired at the end of the day, whereas with my old 205's, my quadriceps would really ache.
I called a number of knowledgable shops while shopping for skis: Alpine Sports in Santa Fe prefers these skis above all others, and Taos Ski & Boot Company seems to rank them at the top along with the Volkl AX3. Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to demo the Salomons before purchase, but in retrospect it was a good decision and it's hard to go wrong with such a highly-rated ski, although personal preference might lead another person to purchase a different ski.
Similar Products Used:1986 Pre 205's.
Review DateJanuary 28, 2004
Value Rating 3 of 5
Used product forMore than 1 year
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Reviewed by: Kyle Aaron(Unregistered User)
Double Diamond
Summary:Very nice ski. Better be for how much they retail for. Seems to be able to rip through everything, but def a advance ski. Dont turn when going slow - they need speed. Effortless turning, just roll the knees, i love the quick short turns, and they do it without effort. Stable at speed, and very pointable. A bit cumbersome in the trees, at 186cm, but its prob just me being a wimp.
Similar Products Used:ski pants, sneakers, shovels...
Review DateSeptember 22, 2003
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Reviewed by: Talsnic(Unregistered User)
Double Diamond
Summary:This ski is definitly an all mountain ski, and the pilot system is incredible. I am able to go through any snow condition, but it has some definite strengths and weaknesses.
Im a CSIA lvl 3 instructor, which gets a lot of time to test skis, but i am a loyal salomon skier(im not sponsored).
Similar Products Used:-Pocket rockets (incredible skis)
-1080's (these are freestyle only)
-Crossmax 10(if u like scream10's, upgrade to crossmax 10)
-crossmax 8 and 9
-Head monster(all 3 option skis)
-verse 10 pilot
Review DateMarch 19, 2003
Value Rating 5 of 5
Visitors rate this review2.60 of 5,
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Reviewed by: drewwelton(Unregistered User)
Summary:A Ski for fat guy's?? Give me a break! My last ski's, Kastle B-52's , 197cm. Would not work in powder, or any thing remotely close. So I bought a pair of Scream 10, 186's to head to Big Sky, and what a blast! They want to go like a young quater horse. We had, over a four day period, Ice, soft spring like snow, groomed soft, and off-piste crud with 4-5 inches of new. These ski's did incredible in all cases, and most reviews who say they turn themselves, are quite correct. This is not a whimp ski, you need to appreciate the quickness of the turns. OK, I agree, not the best bump ski, it does not like to ride flat, wanders a bit if not in a turn, but this is the type of sking I like. Varied terrain, steep, and off-piste, you can't go wrong with it. I just wish I had the opportunity to get into deeper snow with. When I hit the steeps, it was hard ice, ungroomed, with about 4 inches of new on top, and this ski saved my life, and made me look 25 years younger, just not stoned! At the price I paid, what a deal, I love it!


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Bolivar council considers bonfires after dusk
Bolivar Mayor Tim Pickup simply wants to enjoy a beer in his back yard next to a contained bonfire.
He is calling for a change in the borough's air pollution control ordinance that prohibits fires — other than those used for cooking — after dark.
"I know a lot of people who enjoy having a little fire in their back yard," Pickup said. "And we can't do that without having a stinking hot dog outside."
Pickup called for the change as a councilman at the Feb. 7 meeting. At the end of that meeting, council appointed him as mayor until the end of the year.
The current ordinance, approved in 1994, allows for the burning of brush, leaves and paper in a container during daylight hours on Saturday. Otherwise, open fires are allowed for cooking only, the ordinance states.
Residents who violate the ordinance are subject to fines ranging $40 to $100 under the ordinance, which can be enforced by borough police or Bolivar residents, according to the ordinance.
Councilwoman Sue Bartow said she received a fine for the violation some years ago.
"We had hot dogs outside, but (the officer) claimed there were 30-foot flames, which there were not," she said.
She fought the citation before a magistrate and then in Common Pleas Court, but ultimately had to pay, she said.
Council members discussed allowing attended, recreational fires between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on any day of the week.
Solicitor Jeff Miller said he would draft some amendments for council to discuss at the March 7 council meeting.
"If I have a Wednesday off, and I want to go out and sit by the fire and drink a beer, I want to be able to do it," Pickup said.
Pickup said the issue came up when he was visiting a friend's house in Pittsburgh, and they enjoyed a backyard bonfire.
"I told them we weren't allowed, and they said, 'You live 30 miles out in the country. How are you not allowed to have a fire?'" he said. Any amendment would have to be advertised before council can vote on the matter.
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As a reminder, here is the overall Top 40, with my list next to it. Highlighted are the names unique to each list.
|Group Top 40
|Markee Top 40
|Rasmus, Colby
|Rasmus, Colby
|Hawksworth, Blake
|Hawksworth, Blake
|Garcia, Jaime
|Garcia, Jaime
|Anderson, Bryan
|Anderson, Bryan
|Ottavino, Adam
|Narveson, Chris
|Narveson, Chris
|Ottavino, Adam
|Pomeranz, Stuart
|Pomeranz, Stuart
|Perez, Chris
|Stavinoha, Nick
|Jay, Jon
|Perez, Chris
|Stavinoha, Nick
|Haerther, Cody
|McCormick, Mark
|Jay, Jon
|Haerther, Cody
|Lambert, Chris
|Kinney, Josh
|Edwards, Jon
|Lambert, Chris
|McCormick, Mark
|Edwards, Jon
|Marti, Amaury
|Greene, Tyler
|Ryan, Brendan
|Jones, Daryl
|Kinney, Josh
|Hamilton, Mark
|Jones, Daryl
|Ryan, Brendan
|King, Blake
|Herron, Tyler
|Herron, Tyler
|Boggs, Mitchell
|Boggs, Mitchell
|King, Blake
|Hamilton, Mark
|Marti, Amaury
|Greene, Tyler
|Worrell, Mark
|Cavazos, Andy
|Parisi, Mike
|Worrell, Mark
|Webber, Nick
|Solano, Donovan
|Cavazos, Andy
|Pham, Thomas
|Sillman, Mike
|Sillman, Mike
|Haberer, Eric
|Lane, Matthew
|Martinez, Jose
|Schumaker, Skip
|Norrick, Tyler
|Lucena, Juan
|Degerman, Eddie
|Scherer, Matthew
|Dove, Dennis
|Wilson, Joshua
|Roth, Randy
|Meacham, Cory
|Daley, Gary
|Hearne, Trey
|Solano, Donovan
|Haberer, Eric
|Garcia, Isa
|Furnish, Brad
|Schumaker, Skip
|Webber, Nick
|Pham, Thomas
|Martinez, Jose
|Meacham, Cory
|Hanson, Travis
As can be seen in the above table, there were seven players in the group's Top 40 that were not on my Top 40 list: Mike Parisi, Tyler Norrick, Eddie Degerman, Dennis Dove, Randy Roth, Gary Daley and Isa Garcia. As mentioned in my Randy Roth write-up, he was originally my #40 but I replaced him. The rest of the six were omitted for various reasons. Four of the six are 2006 draftees and I have reservations about ranking the newest professionals on such a limited performance period, although one of the four highlighted in this article is a 2006 draftee. Additional weight is also given for the higher level performances.
The seven players I did rank in the Top 40 were all in the bottom eleven slots. That part of my Top 40 was fairly fluid and an argument can be made for including/excluding a number of players in that range. Brian Walton discussed three of the seven in his article: Juan Lucena, Josh Wilson and Travis Hanson. Hence they will not get further coverage in this article.
That leaves four players to be highlighted here. All four are pitchers with three of the four pitching out of the rotation. Only one of the four was drafted in 2006. The other three were not ranked in last year's Top 40, either personally by me or collectively by the group. Now I will make my argument for why I think each deserved a Top 40 nod.
At number 29 on my 2006 list is right-handed starter Matt Lane.
Matt Lane was selected in the 16th round of the June 2005 draft, out of the University of Louisiana-Monroe which brought us former pitcher Chuck Finley. He spent 2005 at Rookie League Johnson City where his 8.3 strikeouts per nine innings average was sixth-best among Cardinals' minor league starters.
Lane pitched in Short-season A State College in 2006 where he got better results in several pitching categories than some of his more highly-touted teammates. He had the best batting average against, WHIP and BB/9 IP of any State College starter, including Adam Ottavino, Brad Furnish and Eddie Degerman.
Lane compiled a 0.97 WHIP in 65.2 innings pitched and walked an average of 1.78 batters every nine innings, both of which led the 28 starters in the system that qualified for Pitcher of the Year consideration. He held opposing batters to a .209 average which led all State College starters. Lane ranked eighth among starters in the system in the DIPS stats of strikeouts, walks and home runs allowed.
On the down side, Lane pitched at the rookie level after being drafted out of college in 2005. He did not make either a full season rotation or the initial State College rotation in 2006. That appears to be an indicator that he is not highly thought of within the organization. His strikeouts were down this season.
Lane turned 22 in August 2006 which puts him right at the league-average age for Short-season A ball. He is younger than either Eddie Degerman or Tyler Norrick and only five months older than Brad Furnish.
Both Lane's draft slot and subsequent handling by the organization indicate that he does not have the 'stuff' to compete with Degerman, Norrick or Furnish. I am not trying to indicate otherwise. But his 2006 season had enough to it that he merits watching. He is a groundball pitcher. At 6-feet-8, Lane has the size to be a possible innings-eater. I think the total package he showed last season is worth a Top 40 slot.
I placed reliever Matt Scherer as my 32nd-ranked prospect. There were 24 pitchers in my Top 40 and six of them were relievers. Scherer is the only one of the six with no prior professional closing experience. He slid in between Matt Lane and Josh Wilson in the pitcher rankings.
There were only six relievers in the system in 2006 that pitched in full-season ball and averaged double-digit strikeouts per nine innings. Scherer was one of those six. (The other five are Troy Cate, Cory Doyne, Mike Sillman, Matt Trent and Mark Worrell.) Scherer averaged just under 12 strikeouts every nine innings (11.88) while walking an average of just over two (2.24) while pitching for the High A Palm Beach Cardinals. He compiled a 5.30 K/BB ratio and a 1.13 WHIP.
Scherer was moved into the bullpen this season after spending all of 2005 in class A Quad Cities' rotation. That works against him as the highest ceiling pitchers are generally starters. He was 23 for the entire 2006 season as he turns 24 this month. While that places him right at the average age for the level at which he pitched, prospects are expected to be a bit younger than the league average age.
But his strikeout average almost doubled over his 2005 numbers of 6.45 while his control improved a bit. (He walked 2.88 batters every nine innings in 2005.) Scherer was somewhat more effective against righties than lefties but still held the latter to a respectable .246/.318/.407/.725 in 31 innings. In the end I simply love the strikeout average and the strikeout-to-walk ratio.
The next stop in my 'Unranked and Overlooked Tour' is at starter Trey Hearne's place. Hearne is my 35th-ranked prospect. 2006 was his first full season of professional ball after being picked in the 28th round of the June 2005 draft.
Hearne began 2006 in the Swing bullpen before moving into the rotation in late May. He went on to compile a 1.06 WHIP in 128 innings and averaged 7.5 strikeouts every nine innings while walking 2.4 batters. He held opposing hitters to a .216 average.
Since I have an oft-stated bias towards on-the-field performance, let us compare Mr. Hearne's performance against that of Tyler Norrick. The latter was The Birdhouse's 31st-ranked prospect this season.
Norrick, a sixth-round 2006 draftee, compiled a 1.45 WHIP in 65.2 innings at Quad Cities to go with an average of 8.2 strikeouts and 4.8 walks every nine innings. Opponents batted .252 against him. So, Norrick outpitched Hearne in one category, strikeout average, and has the decided advantage of being left-handed.
Well, let us look at their respective ages. Trey Hearne turned 23 in August 2006 and Tyler Norrick turned that exact same age the next month. That category is a wash.
I maintain that Norrick got the Top 40 recognition because of his higher profile which is due, in no small part, to his much higher draft slot. Trey Hearne put up better numbers at the same performance level and did it over almost twice as many innings.
Lefty Brad Furnish is my 37th-ranked prospect. The second rounder was one of eight 2006 draftees that made my Top 40. The final Birdhouse Top 40, in comparison, had ten 2006 draftees.
Furnish held the opposition to a .234 batting average while compiling a 1.12 WHIP in 15 game starts over 75.1 innings. He averaged 8.1 strikeouts and 2.3 walks every nine innings for a 3.58 K/BB ratio.
Furnish outpitched both of his State College teammates, Eddie Degerman and Gary Daley, in many categories. Furnish had the best WHIP, K/BB ratio and control of the three and was bested by Degerman only in batting average against (.227) and average strikeouts per nine innings (11.27 – hard to not get excited about that little number). But Degerman also averaged over four walks a game and pitched only 42.1 innings. Daley was in third place of the three in batting average against, WHIP, K/BB, average strikeouts and average walks.
Age-wise, Furnish is 16 months younger than Degerman and nine and one-half months older than Daley. Furnish turns 22 this month and was the highest drafted of the three. He also has the added benefit of being the only lefty of the three.
Yet Furnish did not make the Birdhouse's Top 40 while all three of my Birdhouse counterparts ranked Degerman and Daley. Degerman was our 32nd-ranked prospect and Daley came in at number 35. I admit that I do not understand why he did not make the overall Top 40.
However, choosing a Top 40 is, in the end, very subjective and each of us brings our own inherent bias. I simply try to be as fair as possible and give all factors equal consideration. The most fun part of this will come in a few years when we are able to check and see how well we prognosticated.
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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway, American journalist and author, was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899. He began his career as a reporter for The Kansas City Star at the age of 17. When the United States joined World War I, Hemingway quit his job to volunteer as an ambulance driver for the Italian army. He was seriously wounded shortly after arriving and was sent home. His novel "A Farewell to Arms" (1929) was born out of this experience. When the war ended, Hemingway continued his career as an international newspaper reporter. In the 1920s Hemingway joined a group of American expatriates in Paris which he later depicted in his novel "The Sun Also Rises" (1926). Drawing on his experiences as a reporter, Hemingway's most ambitious work,"For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940), is set in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952) – his story of an elderly fisherman struggling with a giant marlin – while living in Cuba. This remains one of the best-read of his works to this day. In 1954 Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work. Over his lifetime he wrote seven novels, six short story collections, and two works of nonfiction.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego lifeguards have rescued six athletes whose outrigger canoe flipped over in rough waters.
Lifeguard Sgt. Travis Gleason tells U-T San Diego (http://bit.ly/1uypxzF) the canoe with eight people aboard capsized in the Mission Bay channel on Tuesday night.
Gleason says one person stayed with the boat, one was able to swim to the nearby jetty, and the other six were pulled from the water by lifeguards, who reached them with two boats and two Jet-Ski-style personal watercraft.
The crew from the canoe, which had been in the Bay with another outrigger group, had called to the jetty for someone to get help.
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Jersey Woman Arrested For Taking Her Daughter Tanning
Nutley, New Jersey, mother Patricia Krentcil really likes tanning. That's obvious when you look at her oranged-up skin and bleached hair. But police officials in Nutley believe that Krentcil likes tanning so much that she brought her five-year-old daughter into the tanning booth with her, giving the child serious burns.
Krentcil's daughter Anna, who is fair-skinned and red-headed, came to school with serious burns. After the school nurse questioned the girl, she revealed that she had been "tanning with mommy." Krentcil said her daughter came to the salon with her, but didn't go into the booth.
Under New Jersey law it's illegal for anyone under the age of 14 to go tanning (this is the land of Snooki, after all). Krentcil insists her daughter got the burns from playing out in the sun. "I never once in my life let my daughter, especially at that age, go into a tanning booth," Krentcil told reporters. "That will be her choice when she's older and legal to go into a tanning booth. She does not go tanning now, end of story."
Krentcil pleaded not guilty to second degree child endangerment. [LA Times]
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The amount of rainfall and number of tropical storms during the summer monsoon season greatly impact the agriculture, economy, and people in Asia. Though meteorologists and climate scientists have worked for years to develop helpful prediction systems, seasonal predictions of these two types of weather phenomena are still poor.
Scientists working at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, have now made a promising breakthrough for predicting in spring both the summer monsoon rainfall over East Asia and the number of tropical storms affecting East Asian coastal areas. The study is published in the January 21, 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The scientists have shown that both the East Asian summer monsoon and the storm activity in the western North Pacific are controlled by fluctuations in the western Pacific Subtropical High (WPSH), a major atmospheric circulation system in the global subtropics centered over the Philippine Sea.
When this system is strong in summer, then monsoon rainfall tends to be greater than normal over East Asia, and in the western North Pacific there tend to be fewer tropical storms that make landfall.
With the help of computer modeling experiments, the scientists found that these summer fluctuations in the WPSH are more than 65% predictable in spring. When the Indo-Pacific warm pool shows a dipolar sea surface temperature anomaly (that is, an unusually warm Indian Ocean together with an unusually cool western North Pacific) or the central Pacific tends to cool in spring, then the WPSH will be strong and stable with ensuing greater summer monsoon rainfall over the East Asian monsoon front and the Ganges River Valley in India, but fewer tropical storms will affect East Asian coastal areas and the western subtropical Pacific.
The team traced the rainfall and storm variability in the Asian monsoon region to the feedback occurring between the WPSH and the underlying Indo-Pacific warm-pool ocean.
"Our findings create a promising way for predicting monsoon rainfall and tropical storm days during the East Asian summer," concludes lead author Bin Wang, meteorology professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and faculty at the International Pacific Research Center.
"As a first step, we use global general circulation models to predict the fluctuations in the WPSH, and then in a second step, we use this forecast to predict rainfall and storm days in regional analyses. We have done hindcasts from 1979 to 2009 using this approach and have found substantially improved skills over the use of dynamical climate models in predicting the East Asian Summer Monsoon rainfall and tropical storm activity."
This work was supported by the Global Research Laboratory Program, Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Grant 2011-0021927; National Science Foundation Award AGS-1005599, an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Climate Center international project; and by the institutional support of the International Pacific Research Center (JAMSTEC, NASA, and NOAA) Wang, B., B. Xiang, and J.-Y. Lee: Subtropical High predictability establishes a promising way for monsoon and tropical storm predictions. PNAS 10.1073/pnas.1212646110
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Surfing made Fred Van Dyke's life. And, as he says with a shrug and a remorseful chuckle, surfing ruined his life. Of the many things I love and admire about Van Dyke, his ability to live comfortably with his own contradictions is near the top of the list, next to his relentless honesty, and a humaneness that you can warm your hands by.
Van Dyke was 75 years old when I interviewed him, in 2005, at his small but well-appointed house in Lanikai, on the east side of Oahu. We didn't shoot the shit much. Van Dyke isn't big on banter. He wants to engage, to connect. There are always big things to talk about. At that time, after a lifetime of exemplary fitness, Van Dyke was having health issues. His balance was off. His memory, especially when trying to recall anything recent, was spotty. On the other hand, Van Dyke was more at peace with himself then he'd ever been. Retired, happily married, spending half the year at his second house in Montana, fishing and hiking and soaking up the Big Sky. Peter Cole and Ricky Grigg, both lifelong friends of Van Dyke's, told me they'd never seen him in better spirits. When I visited, Fred approached the subject of his own happiness in a manner that was typically offbeat and forthright. For the past 28 years, he told me not long after we sat down, he'd been seeing a psychologist. "Great guy. He's opened up my life a million times. I just had an appointment yesterday, and he said, 'Fred, you've made it. You don't need me anymore; you're in good shape.'"
Van Dyke was born and raised in San Francisco, and moved to Hawaii in 1955, at age 25, to surf big waves. Bright, handsome and educated, he quickly got a teaching job at Punahou School, which he held for over 30 years. In the late '50s he took John Severson's surf movies on the road. A few years later he ran the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational. In 1965, Van Dyke dropped a quote for the ages in the ear of a Life magazine reporter, saying that "most big-wave riders are latent homosexuals." In the Freudian sense, Van Dyke later explained, a bit desperately. Big-wave surfers didn't necessarily want to have sex with other men, but they were in a state of arrested development where the only thing that mattered was the company and opinion of other men. But the niceties were lost. Van Dyke had called the entire big-wave fellowship a bunch of pansies. That's what stuck. To absurdity-loving surfers of a certain age, myself included, it's still one of the funniest episodes in surf history.
You took shit for that "latent homosexual" remark for years.
Years and years. I'm still taking shit for it!
Do you regret saying it?
[Long pause] I'll always try and get at the truth, and that's what I was trying to do with the interview. But yeah, I do regret it. It didn't come out the way I intended. Plus I was just being kind of a know-it-all. I meant what I said, but I overstepped. I should have said "latent adolescents" instead of "latent homosexuals." That would have saved me a lot of hassle.
Have you always been kind of an anti-establishment guy?
Sure. Starting, probably, with religion. I was raised a very strict Catholic, went to a really strict Catholic school, and I was disciplined constantly—sometimes way beyond what was called for. Once I started thinking for myself, the first thing I did was throw out everything I learned from the church.
When was this?
Late teens, around there. I was confused about a few things when I started college, and didn't know where to go, so I thought, "Well, I'll go to the bishop." So in I go, and I ask him these really deep important questions about where my life was heading, and what was I supposed to do—all these things that were really bothering me. After I was finished the bishop sits back and looks at me, and says "Faith, son. You must have faith." That's it. I go "Thank you, Father," got up and left and thought to myself, "Screw this. No more religion."
Years later, when you were teaching at Punahou, didn't you mix it up a bit with the administration there?
I was popular with the students. Kids flocked to get in my classes. But no, the administration didn't like me all that much. And they weren't totally wrong. Teaching never really felt like a career to me. Surfing was my career. Teaching was just a way to support my surfing, and a way to cover up the fact that I was basically addicted to riding waves. It was sort of like "Hey, everything's fine! Look at me, I have a respectable job!" So I enjoyed teaching, but could have lived without it. And I cut work all the time; whenever the surf was good. It got brought up at meetings a number of times. "Do we really want to keep this guy?" But they couldn't fire me because I was so popular with the kids and their parents. The administration ended up just having to live with me.
How did you end up running the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational?
Kimo McVay, Duke's manager, put the contest together, and needed somebody to run it. He asked Peter [Cole] first, and when Peter refused, he asked me. I said okay, but only if we do it on my terms. So the Duke event ended up being really different from all the other contests at the time. Smaller, better surf, great media coverage. It was a great contest, as contests go.
But you aren't really a big fan of surf competition in general.
No, not at all. Contests, most of them, are totally ridiculous. Ludicrous. There's enough competition happening out in the water just on a day-to-day basis. I remember this day at Sunset, probably in the late '50s, all of us were out there, Peter and Buzzy [Trent] and Ricky [Grigg], the whole gang. Fantastic surf all afternoon. And at the end of the day, we walked up the beach, and we all looked at Ricky. It was his day. We all knew it. There's your winner.
What was the high point of your surfing life?
The first time I rode a 20-footer at Makaha. Without a doubt. It was my first winter over here, and at that point I really had no business being out in big surf, but I was just so determined to do it. And the very first wave I caught that morning was a 20-footer, and I shot down to the bottom, looked up, tried to climb back into the pocket, then just got buried. It was the most memorable wipeout of my life, because I really seriously didn't think I was going to come up. When I finally did make it to the surface, my whole life had changed. That really was the wave of my life. I was screaming, out of my head, all the way to the beach. I caught five waves that day, all 20-footers, and wiped out on all of them. And I loved it. It was the biggest thrill of my life, and I spent the next 30 years trying to recapture the feeling.
Surfing pretty much took over your life, you said?
Totally. Completely. When the surf was up, I didn't think about anything else. I just wanted to surf all day, go home, eat dinner, sleep, and do it again the next day. I didn't think I'd ever quit riding big waves. Ever. Jose Angel and I used to sit out in front of my house and talk about how long we could keep going for. And I said, "Jose, we can probably do this until we're 70." And Jose said, "No, longer. I'm never going to quit." That's what we believed. And we surfed accordingly. But meanwhile, I didn't think about my wife [Van Dyke was married twice before Joan], my kids, my work—none of it mattered. I didn't care about anything. If I found out the surf was good and I'd missed it, it would ruin my whole week. The whole thing was selfish as hell. And I'm not selfish by nature. I wasn't selfish when the surf was flat.
Did you think of it in those terms at the time?
No, it was just who I was. It was all I wanted. In a lot of ways, it was wonderful. I loved being that devoted to something. For years and years, it was fulfilling. But then it wasn't.
Was it that obvious? Like, all of a sudden it wasn't fulfilling?
No, no, no. Not at all. It took me forever to realize that my life was really screwed up.
Greg Noll and Buzzy Trent pretty much quit cold turkey. You kind of phased out.
I was downshifting out of the big-wave things for years, but I was still surfing pretty much all the time right up until I married Joan [in 1985].
And now?
As far as big waves go, what I like to do now is rent a car in San Francisco and drive north up Highway One during winter, along the coast. I love looking at huge waves still. But I have no desire whatsoever to be out there.
Peter Cole still rides big waves.
Peter is just a completely different animal. He's a phenomenon. No fear out there, where I was pretty much always terrified. I mean, he was an All-American swimmer. He has size 13 feet! He has swim fins for feet! He can't drown.
Ricky Grigg said you were the bravest big-wave surfer of all, because your fear level was higher than anybody else's.
I forced myself into big wave riding at the point of a gun! (Laughs). I was a big-wave rider who couldn't swim worth a damn. I was out there mostly for reasons having to do with proving to myself and everybody else that I was a man. Ricky, Peter, Buzzy and the rest—yeah, they enjoyed it a lot more than I did. Any time the surf was big, the happiest moment for me was afterwards, walking up the beach toward my car.
Do you surf these days?
I've got two boards in the backyard, and sometimes, by myself, I'll walk down there. It has nothing to do anymore with if the waves are good or not. If I catch one wave I'm happy. If there's no surf, I'll just paddle, and that makes me happy too. Mostly what I do now is bodysurf. That's how I started, when I was a kid, in San Francisco. Swimming in the ocean—that was always my real joy, anyway.


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|Undercover Investigators Give Commercial Colleges a Failing Grade
A recent study by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) has determined that you don't need a high school degree to enroll in some commercial colleges. You don't even need to be a real person — and you may be able to pass your classes without doing any work.
Undercover investigators from the GAO spent the past year testing online introductory courses at fifteen popular commercial colleges. Twelve of the colleges allowed investigators to enroll online using a fake high school diploma, or a diploma from a high school that had closed. Most of the schools either violated their own policies on cheating and grading, or failed to offer federally mandated exit counseling for those with student loans.
Investigators tested academic policies by failing to log in to required classes, completing assignments incorrectly or not at all, and engaging in obvious plagiarism. One undercover student submitted pictures of celebrities in response to essay questions and failed to participate in required chat sessions, yet still passed the class. Another received an A on an assignment that was never submitted. After failing two multiple choice quizzes, another student was encouraged to cheat. Since the correct answers were displayed at the end of each quiz, the instructor told the investigator, "it's not hard to get a 100 percent on the second try; just jot down the correct answers and take the quiz again."
Senator Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, requested the investigation as part of his ongoing examination of commercial sector practices.
"The fact that many of the schools accepted incomplete and plagiarized work — sometimes for full credit — leads me to question whether for-profit college students are truly receiving the quality education they are promised to prepare them for a good job," he said in a statement. "Coupled with sky-high tuition costs, alarming dropout rates, poor job placement services and the many other troubling practices that we've uncovered in the HELP Committee's investigation, it is obvious that Congress must step in to hold this heavily federally subsidized industry more accountable."


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Lil Kim Kills Plastic Surgery Rumors Via Twitter + Rep Calls Reports 'Despicable'
Lil Kim was seen in NYC promoting her new artists Tiffany Foxx, and some were thinking maybe she put ona few pounds, while those who wanted to be really mean were saying Kim might've recently went under the knife.
Lil Kim has no idea why people have so much to say and says it i not her fauly, but says that a photog or someone w/in the media has photoshopped her face heavily.
She hit her twitter o vent:
"Years & years they have been photoshopping pics of me & sabotaging my image. I'm not putting up with that sh*t no more. All they have been proving is im THAT b*tch with or without an album out & they always want to attack & bring down the real ones. Today was the last straw. You saw me on TV, people were posting pics all day… None of them looked the way that fake picture looked. Here is a side by side that shows the sh*t they did & a few more raw, unedited pics. You guys f*cked it up for all the Paps. F*ck outta here. None of y'all Paps is getting a pic now" (The Jasmine Brand)
Lil' Kim's rep kills reports of plastic surgery and calls reports dispicable:
"can only be described as fictitious, malicious, and despicable." He continued, "We would like to inform fans, the media, and the general public that this is nothing more than the blog site doing its best to conjure up much needed publicity and what better way to do so, than to take an American music icon and create a fictitious platform in which to disrespect and humiliate. We at Team Lil Kim are not taking this lying down and are taking this matter very seriously." (E! Online)
The Jasmine Brand, E! Online


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Mumbai: There have been reports about Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor's marriage to be held in London. The reports suggest that the two have decided to tie the nuptial knot in London to avoid the media interference. For last few days, this news has been making the bigger rounds of the web and the media. There is a big buzz over the matter and the viewers and their fans are getting glued to the web to dip the nose into the matter deeply since this-to-be marriage is the much-awaited one.
But Saif has now come up to clear the dust. He says the marriage will surely take place in India and not in London. He adds that all these are just rumors and there is no truth in them.
The latest reports have it that Pataudi family members flew to Bhopal to discuss the marriage and there it was finally decided the location of the wedding i.e. India. But the marriage's final dates are yet to be confirmed among the family members. Although in the media, the marriage date is 16th October as Sharmila Tagore had announced it to the press. But Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor both have denied and said the marriage dates are yet to be zeroed in.
Saif even further reveals that the marriage will be held by the year end. Kareena Kapoor will be wearing her mother in law to be's lehnga on her wedding reception. But this lehnga will be further adorned by the leading Bollywood designer. The necklace has always been ordered.
The source close to the Patudi family says that the marriage will be held at a private function at Patudi Palace and then in the same evening, the lavish wedding reception will be held where the Bollywood and other celebs from other walks of life come to attend it.


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Set on affluent Long Island, Aloft follows the life of a suburban, upper-middle-class man during a time of family crisis. Jerry Battle's favorite diversion is to fly his small plane over the neighboring towns and villages. When his daughter and her fianc arrive from Oregon to announce their marriage plans, he looks back on his life and faces his disengagement with it-his urge to fly solo-and the people he loves. Chang-rae Lee burst on the scene with Native Speaker, which won numerous awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, A Gesture Life, established him as one of the preeminent writers of his generation. Now, with Aloft, Lee has expanded his range and proves himself a master storyteller, able to observe his characters' flaws and weaknesses and, at the same time, celebrate their humanity. Aloft is an unforgettable portrait, filled with vitality and urgency, of a man who has secured his life's dreams but who must now figure out its meaning.
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THE regeneration of the Basing View business park has been given a helping hand after the borough council was awarded a £100,000 grant.
The money will support the implementation of a local action plan aimed at developing skills and employment in the area, and will help ensure that Basingstoke has the right skills to meet the needs of current and future Basing View occupiers.
URBACT, an urban exchange and learning programme that promotes sustainable urban development, and which is the European funding programme behind the ESIMeC project, invited the borough council to apply for a grant in October last year.
The borough council has been working with ESIMeC, which brings together eight medium-sized towns and cities from across Europe that share similar challenges and priorities.
The main aim of ESIMeC is to develop economic strategies for medium-sized places to ensure they are better equipped to cope with economic downturns and to encourage faster economic recovery and long-term economic growth and resilience.
The project has a total budget of €425,000 to spend over 14 months, and €129,000 (£106,000) is coming to the borough.
It will help Basingstoke improve the delivery of its local action plans and will involve working closely with the Basingstoke Skills and Employ-ment Zone, a partnership bringing together a wider range of local partners involved in skills and employment development.
Councillor Ranil Jayawardena, deputy leader of the borough council, said: "Yet again, Basingstoke and Deane is leading the way when it comes to getting taxpayers' money back from Europe and putting it to good use here in Hamp-shire.
"This new grant will help our borough's children and young people get the skills they need for the future, enable the council to raise the profile of Basing View internationally, and encourage companies to relocate here in the years ahead."


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I need some help. I have had a female Jenday Conure for a little over 3 years now, and I just found an egg in her cage this morning. However, I see that she is till trying to get another egg out. Is there anything I can do to help her? What warning signs I should look for if she is in trouble? Any info would be very helpful and appreciated. Thanks. (As youy can see I did not have time to register, but I will once I get through this.)
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Hi, When did you hen lay her first egg?
Birds lay eggs every other day.
If she has gone longer than 3days without producing the egg and you can actually see the swelling at her vent then you will need to see an avian vet asap as egg binding can be very serious until you see the vet add a little vegtable oil to some water and rub a little on her vent and see if this helps her expel the egg...
But an avian vet should be sought asap
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Thank you so much! I really appreciate your help. She laid her first egg yesterday. I will bring her to the vet tomorrow or Wednesday just to be safe and cover my bases. Thanks again Mike.
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HI, Sounds like everything maybe ok as birds lay eggs every second day and since she only laid her first yesterday she is due another one tomorrow.
Does she have a mate?
If there is no mate and she just laying eggs do not remove any eggs allow her to sit them until she gets bored this will help reduce the chances of her laying again.
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She does not have mate. I do not have a cuttlefish bone but will pick one up tomorrow. I always give her fresh fruit and vegtables, but she does not like the vitiamns I give her. I can't even tell you how helpful you have been. I just have one last question for you. When should I move her cage and toys around? She I do it while she is still laying eggs, or after she finishes? As you can probably tell she is my first bird, and I want to make sure that she always gets the best care possible. Thanks yet again Mike for all your help.
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Hi. You can either wait until she has finished laying or do it after she has had her 2nd egg.
If you move the toys and things around after the 2nd egg then you shoudl remove the eggs while your moving things this is will help her stop laying and things she be ok.
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A state hearing officer has ruled against ECOT (the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow) in its appeal of the Ohio Department of Education's determination that it owes $60 million for enrollment that cannot be justified.
ECOT did not document its full enrollment, and thus was overpaid by $64 million last school year, hearing officer Lawrence Pratt wrote in his recommendation, which now goes to the state Board of Education. He said the board should use its power to collect $60 million of overpayment or deduct it from the school's future payments.
The Department of Education concluded that, based on log-in durations provided by ECOT, that it was able to justify only about 40 percent of its purported 2015-16 enrollment figures. That was based on the state-minimum requirement that students receive 920 hours of learning opportunities.
ECOT appealed, which was heard by a hearing officer. The school also sued the state, and that case is pending before the Franklin County Court of Appeals after ECOT lost at the trial court level.
Within the law, "it is clear that offering a learning opportunity includes the concept of student participation in that learning opportunity," Pratt wrote. It is not reasonable to "conclude that its purpose and intent is to authorize the payment of public dollars to schools to teach to what could be the equivalent of an empty classroom."
Pratt said the department acted "lawfully and reasonably in applying durational data to the funding formula for the 2015-2016 academic year."
ECOT has argued that the department illegally created a new rule asking for log-in duration data, which was not required in prior attendance audits. The state's largest charter school also said the rule was illegally applied retroactively to the start of the last school year.
Pratt dismissed ECOT's retroactivity arguments.
"Because it is incumbent on an e-school to maintain documentation, including durational data, supporting its funding," the education department can decide funding is not supported when the school doesn't produce requested data.
The state Board of Education will decide at its meeting on June 13 whether to accept, reject or modify the recommendation.


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Yesterday, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote a blog item outlining Canonical/Ubuntu's weak numbers in participating in development for GNOME.
Rather than address Greg's blog item with a reply that addresses the issue, Mark Shuttleworth decided to take a page from the Fox News playbook — not to mention the Sarah Palin dictionary — in responding to Greg's blog.
To recap, here is Greg's blog item, and following it is Mark's response.
Clearly, Mark can do better than this, and if I were a Canonical/Ubuntu advocate, I'd be a little sheepish about the response. Criticism can be handled by either addressing it or deflecting it, and clearly Mark chose the latter. To call someone a "hater" and calling them "stupid" because they present an argument with which you don't agree — especially when the numbers are there to show that Canonical/Ubuntu does not pull its weight — is, quite frankly, a load of crap.
Rather than address the fact at hand, we get a liturgy of how "tribalism" (whatever that means) is bad — yes, that's true, Mark, as you define what "tribalism" is — but how does that apply to the fact that Canonical/Ubuntu has only 1 percent of contributions upstream in the GNOME project? Without begging the question that if it's 1 percent in GNOME, what is it for Xorg? For the kernel?
Does pointing out that the emperor has no clothes make you a "hater," or does it just make you observant? Taking it one step further, if Greg is right — and I think he is — doesn't that call for more intelligent response than "you're a bad person for pointing this out, and anyone who thinks like you is a divider"?
A more honest response would have been, "Yes, we are lacking in contributing upstream. We have not been involved as long as others, like Red Hat, but we hope to be up to speed in the near future."
But no: What we get is some of the mudslinging and divisiveness that, ironically, Mark himself rails against.
True leaders know that having shortcomings pointed out to them helps an organization grow, assuming the shortcoming is fixed. It'll be interesting to see if the true "leaders" in Canonical/Ubuntu actually try to close the gap in contribution upstream, or if they hold fast to Mark's dictum of "those who are not with us are against us."
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


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GRAND CHUTE, Wis. – A wild pitch thrown by Fort Wayne reliever Luis De La Cruz in the bottom of the 10th inning allowed Wisconsin's Rafael Neda to score from third base, sending the Timber Rattlers to a walk-off, 3-2, win on Wednesday night. Wisconsin now leads the best-of-five championship series, 1-0.
De La Cruz began the 10th inning by allowing a single to Timber Rattlers catcher Rafael Neda. Adrian Williams laid down a sacrifice bunt, moving Neda to second. De La Cruz then walked Brandon Macias, putting runners at first and second with one out. Following a groundout by Chadwin Stang, De La Cruz intentionally walked Ben McMahan, loading the bases. With Nick Ramirez at the plate, a De La Cruz fastball evaded the grasp of catcher Austin Hedges, sending Neda across the plate for the win.
A first-inning wild pitch started the scoring for the Timber Rattlers. 19-year-old Joe Ross, who was making his first start in a TinCaps uniform since May 4th, walked Macias to start the bottom of the first. Macias advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt, and traveled two bases on a wild pitch that skipped past Hedges to the backstop. Wisconsin held that 1-0 lead until the third inning.
Kyle Gaedele led off with a walk against Timber Rattlers starter Jacob Barnes, and proceeded to steal second. He later scored on a Travis Jankowski grounder that got past Ramirez at first. The first baseman was charged with an error. The tie did not last long, as Neda doubled home Max Walla to make it 2-1.
Ross departed after five innings, having allowed two hits, two earned runs, issuing three walks and five strikeouts. James Jones followed with three scoreless innings of relief.
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Mitt Romney said in a newspaper interview that he believes President Obama is holding onto the government's stake in General Motors to "avoid an embarrassing financial loss" before Election Day.
In an interview with The Detroit News, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee vowed to quickly sever ties between the U.S. government and GM, which was bailed out with about $50 billion in taxpayer funding.
"The president is delaying the sale of the shares to try and avoid the story that the taxpayer took another loss. I would get the company independent from the government and run for the interests of the consumer and the enterprise and its workers -- not for the political considerations of government officials," Romney said.
The U.S. government still holds a 26% stake in GM. The automaker is currently trading at around $21 a share. If the government sold its remaining 500 million shares now, it would lose about $16 billion of its investment, The News says.
GM reported first quarter profit of $1 billion in May, aided by strong numbers in North America.
Romney and the Obama campaign have sparred repeatedly over the auto industry, a major economic force in Michigan as well as the battleground state of Ohio. Democrats frequently bring up Romney's opposition to the auto bailouts, especially is now-famous New York Times column titled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."
Romney, the son of a former American Motors chief, favored what he called a "managed bankruptcy" process.
He told The News that Democrats are "distorting" his stance on the auto bailout, which also provided assistance to Chrysler.
"If they needed help coming out of bankruptcy and government support, that was fine, but I was not in favor of the government writing billions of dollars in checks prior to them going into bankruptcy," Romney said in the interview.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
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