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This article was published 26/10/2012 (1761 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
THIS well-written volume of 20th-century history details how a great American wartime general managed to avoid war during his time in the White House a few years later.
There are dozens of books about Dwight D. Eisenhower (president from 1953 to 1961), ranging from full-blown biographies, like Stephen Ambrose's Eisenhower: Soldier and President and Eisenhower in War and Peace by University of Toronto professor Jean Edward Smith, to monographs dealing with specific issues like David Nichols' Eisenhower 1956.
American journalist Evan Thomas's book is an interesting addition to the list and worth a look because he reveals a side of Eisenhower that may not be familiar to most people.
Intended for the general reader, Ike's Bluff shows us a president who, affable and fatherly on the surface, was often in turmoil over the threat of nuclear war.
Unlike many Pentagon officials, the former supreme commander of the Allied Forces who had sent hundreds of thousands of men to their deaths in the war against Hitler opposed pouring billions into the buildup of the military.
He wanted, in Thomas's words, "to stop global communism without spending America into bankruptcy or forcing it to become a garrison state run by a military dictatorship."
Ike relied instead on creating the impression that he would not hesitate to use the American nuclear arsenal. On a number of occasions he simply bluffed the Russians into backing down, gambling that they would fear the results of nuclear war as much as he did.
He carefully avoided "limited war" because he understood that small wars often become big ones. The fate of America in Vietnam would soon prove him right.
Thomas reveals that Eisenhower had a terrible temper. If he lost at cards or golf he could explode, on one occasion injuring his doctor when he threw a golf club at him.
Thomas sees his temper as a product of the tension between his need to show the world a calm face while at the same time suffering through the stress of knowing just how dangerous the situation often was.
There were many occasions when Eisenhower played his cards close to his vest, leading his opponents to condemn him for being out of touch or even cowardly. Thomas consistently argues that Ike's caginess was good strategy and almost always got him what he wanted.
Indeed, he describes Eisenhower as "the most subtle and brutal strategist of the nuclear age," giving as one example his blocking a massive loan repayment to Britain until she abandoned her attempt to wrest control of the Suez Canal from the Egyptians.
Perhaps Ike's greatest disappointment came late in his presidency in a situation where bluffing did not pay off. On the eve of the first disarmament talks with Khrushchev in 1960, an American U2 spy plane crashed in Russia, destroying the relationship of trust he had worked very hard to build with the Communist leader.
The book leaves us with a new appreciation of this man who, at an age when most people are retired and in spite of failing health, stayed on through two terms in the White House because he understood that only he had the stature and influence to avoid nuclear war.
Jim Blanchard is a librarian at the University of Manitoba and a local historian.


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Correspondences created in enterprises would typically have to be integrated to a back-end process for further distribution (via email, fax, print), document processing (apply digital signatures, encryption, etc.) or archival of the correspondence.
The Adobe Correspondence Management solution provides a convenient way to achieve this by leveraging orchestrations/processes on the ADEP Document Services platform for defining the back-end process (that can use one or more Document Services, based on the enterprise requirements), and providing the ability to easily bind them to a given correspondence template.
Read more about creating a postprocess for the CM solution on the Document Server.
Once such processes are created on the Document Server, can then be mapped to a Letter template in the Postprocess drop down of the Letter Template Editor (as shown below), where the available postprocesses (as defined on the Document Server) are listed:
Tip: If you create a new process, with an existing Manage Assets UI session opened, your process will not be listed in the Postprocesses dropdown until you relaunch or refresh (F5) the Manage Assets browser window (or open the Manage Assets UI in a new browser window).
When the correspondence creation is complete (using the Create Correspondence UI), users can Submit the correspondence (see snapshot below indicating the Submit button), which invokes the associated/mapped postprocess for that Letter template, with the final correspondence PDF and XML data (used to generate the PDF). The postprocess, which would be an orchestration, can then act upon the document (PDF) as necessary.
Original article at http://blogs.adobe.com/saket/cm-postprocess/.

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Game Warden Named "Texas Wildlife Officer of the Year" by National Wild Turkey Federation
AUSTIN—Game Warden Daniel Roraback has been named the 2013 Texas Wildlife Conservation Officer of the Year by the National Wild Turkey Federation.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Director Carter Smith presented the award to Roraback at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting Thursday.
Roraback began his career with TPWD when he graduated with the 54th cadet class at the Texas Game Warden Training Academy in 2009. He is currently stationed in Red River County in northeast Texas.
As the president of the Pioneer Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation, Roraback organizes numerous Jake events for local schools, as well as organizing trips for local youth to experience turkey, waterfowl and deer hunting.
As a warden in a county bordering Oklahoma, Roraback learned the various hunting and fishing laws of that state, and has teamed up with Oklahoma wardens on numerous occasions to enforce game and fish laws on the Red River.
Roraback has also been involved with cases including a range of crimes involving aerial permit violations, criminal trespass and animal cruelty. He also makes numerous hunting cases annually and consistently maintains a high rate of conviction.
He was also selected to be a part of the department's highly specialized SCOUT team, serves as a Glock armorer and a role player for simunitions training.
The NWTF was founded in 1973 and strives to uphold hunting traditions and the conservation of more than 9.6 million acres of wildlife habitat. Since 2000, the NWTF has annually recognized game wardens from North America for enforcement activities related to wild turkeys. This marks the 14th year this award has been presented to a Texas game warden.
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text: During the First World War, Corporal John Henry Pruitt won two Medals of Honor for the same act of bravery, with one medal coming from the U.S. Navy and the other from the U.S. Army. Pruitt distinguished himself in the Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge (October 3-October 27, 1918) in northeastern France. He charged at two machine-gun positions, killed two Germans in the process, and captured 40 Germans in a nearby shelter. He was killed by enemy shell-fire soon thereafter. In the Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge, the U.S. Army's 6th and 36th divisions successfully helped to drive the German Army out of Champagne region of France.


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Security Council: Statement by Ambassador Wittig on the Rule of Law
(Security Council: Statement as delivered by Ambassador Wittig on the Rule of Law)
"Gracias Señor Presidente,
Agradezco mucho la presidencia guatemalteca haber tomado la initiativa por este debate importante. Acogemos con gratitud su presencia, señor ministro, hoy en este consejo.
I would like to thank the Secretary-General, as well as President Song and Mr. Mochochoko of the ICC for their briefings.
Germany aligns itself with the EU Statement to be delivered later during this debate.
Mr. President,
10 years after the entry into force of the Rome Statute, the Council and the ICC have developed an enduring relationship based on common objectives. Sustainable Peace and Security must be solidly rest on justice, the Rule of Law, and human rights. Justice itself requires accountability. Both are crucial aspects of a comprehensive approach to conflict prevention and conflict resolution. The Council's recognition of this linkage has materialized through its own creation of the Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. And given their largely overlapping constituencies, it is only natural that the Council and the ICC should closely collaborate: while the Council exercises its responsibility on behalf of all 193 Members of the United Nations, 121 States have now acceded to the Rome Statute: bringing the ICC ever nearer to the goal of universality. And Mr. President, please allow me therefore to congratulate Guatemala for having become the most recent state party to the Rome Statute.
The Rome Statute of the ICC has provided the Security Council with important options to directly pursue the path of justice. It has thus expanded the range of action under the Council's mandate. In turn, the Council has repeatedly recognized the important contribution of the ICC and the other international tribunals to the fight against impunity for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. This was reiterated most recently when the German Foreign Minister, in his capacity as President of the Security Council, addressed the General Assembly during the High Level Meeting on the Rule of Law on 24 September.
At the same time, we need to recognise the respective characteristics and differences of both organs which define the essence, scope, and limits of their mutual relationship. The Council is a political organ, and the ICC is an independent court of justice. Therefore, and despite their often complementary functions, any notion of one organ serving the other is misguided. Furthermore, not all Council members have acceded to the Rome Statute. Some Council members have at times voiced scepticism vis-a-vis the Court, they have even questioned its role regarding the interplay of peace and justice. At the same time, the Council has demonstrated unity on such issues when referring the situations in both Darfur and Libya to the ICC. On other occasions, the Council has been deeply divided and, as a consequence, remained inactive. Syria is a case in point where not only peace and security are at stake, but where victims of daily and well-documented crimes cry out for justice.
Mr. President,
In the context of referrals, there are a number of steps that this Council, the U.N. as a whole, and the individual Member States concerned can take in support for the ICC, and in exercising fully the responsibility that stems from interacting with the Court:
- Firstly, on referrals by the Security Council: By referring the Darfur and Libya situations to the ICC, the Council has proven its readiness to incorporate this option in its toolbox of measures. The Council must retain its willingness to use this tool as a last resort. As an act of political responsibility by the Council, a referral does not prejudge the findings of the Court and its organs. At the same time, we are looking forward to ratification of the Rome Statute by the greatest possible number of States, so that referrals become more and more obsolete;
- Secondly, on cooperation: just a few months ago, the former ICC chief prosecutor in this chamber expressed his intense frustration at the fact that the four arrest warrants issued in the Darfur case have not been implemented. Germany fully shares this frustration, as the lack of cooperation seriously undermines the Court's credibility. But just as much as states must cooperate with the Court, the responsibility of the Security Council does not end with the decision to refer a situation to the Court. Rather, the Council needs to carefully watch over all steps and measures taken by the Court and the Prosecutor in following up to the Council's request to investigate a given situation. Regarding notifications of non-cooperation, the Council should actively take note of such a breach of a state's obligation to cooperate, and clearly express its views on the matter. Cooperation of states also extends to allowing the full application of the Rome Statute, including those provisions that relate to privileges and immunities of ICC staff in exercise of their functions, as well as to the full application of the relationship agreement between the United Nations and the ICC; and
- Thirdly, on financing: Both as a State Party to the Rome Statute and a member of the Security Council, we are of the strong view that when the Council, acting on behalf of the International Community, refers a situation to the ICC, ensuing expenses on the ICC side should be borne by the United Nations rather than by the States Parties. We do not concur with the position taken by some Council members in this regard implying that the pursuit of justice should be a free ride. Accordingly, the Security Council should avoid any reference to the apportionment of costs in possible future referrals. Both the Assembly of States Parties and the General Assembly have, in respective resolutions, recently opened the way for the ICC and the UN to jointly address this issue, and we are looking forward to a solution that is a clear expression of international support for the practice of referrals.
Finally, Mr. President, I would like to thank the Presidency again for having organised this important debate. Germany would support the holding of regular debates on this important topic.
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Monday, December 10, is International Human Rights Day.
It is also the day that union members and their community allies will be holding demonstrations and making calls to Congress to block cuts to Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid as part of the "fiscal cliff" negotiations.
The AFL-CIO has sponsored call-in efforts to Congress in the last few weeks, lobbying them on the issue. Monday is a National Day of Action that will target nation-wide calls to members of Congress as they wind down their lame duck session negotiations.
When Social Security was passed in the 1930s, half of American seniors lived in poverty. Research shows that even now, long after the end of the Great Depression and despite the advent of other anti-poverty programs like housing vouchers, food stamps and Medicare and Medicaid, if Social Security didn't exist, half of seniors would again be thrust into poverty. It is unconscionable that anyone in Congress would consider making cuts to these programs when there are still unnecessary and enormous corporate subsidies to Big Oil, Coal, McDonalds, Walmart, John Deere and countless other head-over-heals profitable industries at every level of government.
But the conventional wisdom you hear repeated everywhere in our culture is that of a meritocracy: you work hard you prosper – you be lazy, you deserve no handouts. This simple-minded ethic is flat-out wrong on so many levels (we are constantly subsidizing profitable enterprises, and our nation's largest demographic are the working poor), but it's insulating on a deeper level. Taking care of our most vulnerable people – especially at the time when they are no longer in their role as "productive" workers in society – is what defines us as civilized and not barbaric.
So please join one of the actions taking place in Iowa on Monday.
And if you can't be there in person, please call in, directions below.
1.Dial – in Toll Free: 888-659-9401
2.Listen to message instructions
3.Press 1 to be directed to Congressperson or 2 to be directed to Senator
4.Enter your Zip Code
5.You will be re-directed to their office
If you reach a real person, please share with them how you personally are affected by Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. Be sure to give them your home address and urge them to preserve and protect these important programs.
Burlington: CONTACT: Midge Slater, 515-250-4873, email@example.com
WORKERS WILL THANK CONGRESSMEN LOEBSACK FOR HIS SUPPORT IN NOT MAKING CUTS IN SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, OR MEDICAID AND NO TAX BREAKS FOR THE RICHEST 2%. On Monday, December 10 Iowans will hold a Candlelight vigil and press conference at the Burlington Public Library, 210 Court Street, Burlington, IA. They will be releasing a report that shows the impact of these programs on Iowans and asking their Congress people protect programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
5:00: Candlelight vigil in front of the library
5:15: People move inside to Meeting Room B for press conference
Speakers: Midge Slater, Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans/Ryan Drew, Treasurer, Des Moines, Henry County Labor Council/Jared Hershberger, Staff, Congressman Dave Loebsack
When: 4PM
Where: Sen. Chuck Grassley's Davenport office is located at 201 West 2nd Street.
For further information, please call 309-788-1303
Members from organized labor unions, Alliance for Retired Americans, Progressive Action for the Common Good, MoveOn, and numerous faith-based organizations in the Quad Cities will be rallying outside Sen. Chuck Grassley's (R-IA) office in Davenport, Iowa at 4:00pm to make clear the following: "NO to tax breaks for the Richest 2% and NO to cuts in Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits."
In one of the most prosperous countries in the world, everyone should be able to retire with health and dignity. Working families across the country have made it clear that we need to protect Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits. Millions of working people, jobless people and retirees shouldn't have to sacrifice their health care and retirement security so that the richest 2% can continue getting more tax breaks. It's time for our elected leaders to focus on creating an economy that invests in jobs, healthcare and education for all.
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On Monday, December 10 Iowans from around the state will gather in front of the Iowa offices of Congressmen Boswell and Latham, asking them to protect programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
These Iowans will also be asking these Congressmen to stop the tax breaks for the richest 2% as well.
In a post-election "lame-duck" session, Congress is taking on high-stakes decisions with major consequences for working people and the economy.
Polling after the election clearly supports that the majority of American is saying no to the tax cuts for the top 2% and no to cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. "We want to thank Congressman Boswell for standing with working Iowans," said Charlie Wishman, Secretary/Treasurer of the Iowa Federation of Labor. " The voters made it clear they want the rich to pay more in taxes, without making cuts in programs like Social Security."
"We will continue to demand that members of Congress and the President stand up for fairness and economic security and refuse to increase already raging inequality during the lame-duck session in Congress"


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In Search of Gray Ghosts
Part 2: Suddenly the fish stops, and there he is, alongside the boat, showing his sleek, silvery self.
By M. B. Roberts
Modra pulls up on the rod, which is bent like a tightly strung hunter's bow. He follows the fish around the boat in big, labored, man-on-the-moon steps as Stanczyk barks out a series of commands involving the motor ("Don't let him get caught under it"), the other line ("Don't let him wrap around it"), and the push pole ("For God's sake, get him away from that").
Modra bends down and passes the rod under the pole, switching it from his right to his left hand. He steadies his feet and takes a deep breath as the bonefish takes off on another high-pitched run.
"Hang on," Stanczyk whispers. With a loud grunt, Modra reels and tugs one last time. Suddenly the fish stops, and there he is, alongside the boat, showing his sleek, silvery self.
Stanczyk pulls what he estimates is an 11-pound fish into the boat and snaps the hook from its mouth. "Look at that!" he says smiling as he hands the fish to Modra. "At first, I was betting on the fish." Modra takes it and places it back in the water. After a few shakes of his tail, the bonefish is gone. A large patch of dark clouds fills the sky directly above the boat, but Modra and Stanczyk are oblivious. With their heartbeats still elevated from the battle, they immediately busy themselves with rebaiting the lines.
Modra, who happens to be my husband, met Stanczyk ten years ago when we were living in Fort Lauderdale, a two-hour drive from Islamorada. Every chance he got, Modra would "blast down to the Keys to see Stanczyk."
Fishing is always on Modra's mind. Even when he is working or sleeping and the topic seems to have briefly sunk below the surface, it's really only a tug away. In fact, a psychiatrist would be wasting his time conducting a Rorschach test on Modra, who would free-associate every inkblot with the screen of a fishfinder ("Well, doc, obviously that's a school of monster perch!"). Then he would steer the doctor into a discussion of how to smoke trout.
But Modra doesn't have a psychiatrist. He has Stanczyk, who at age 58 has been running Bud & Mary's Marina for 25 years. And yes, before him, there really was a "Bud" and a "Mary." Sadly, they split up years ago when Bud ran off with a younger woman. They're both dead now. (Bud and Mary, that is; no word on the younger woman.) In fact, Mary's ashes were spread in the inlet near the marina.
Stanczyk is a true angler. Every day he covers his nose and chin with zinc oxide, slaps a visor on his head, puts on a long-sleeved Bud & Mary's T-shirt and baggy shorts, and heads to the water. He fishes nearly every day, whether it's for work or fun—if a man who finds it physically impossible to leave water where there might be a tailing bonefish can be said to be having "fun."
But I digress. The next day the winds are calm and the just-risen sun is warm in a nearly cloudless sky. Stanczyk heads to the dock around 7:00 a.m. and finds Modra already there. The flats await. They're joined by Vic Gaspeny, an amiable Bud & Mary's guide who caught the world-record bonefish (14 lbs., 6 oz.) on a nine-weight fly rod in 1985. A good guy to have along.
Next page > Part 3: With a loud tail splash, he speeds off. > Page 1, 2, 3, 4
This article originally appeared in the February 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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These magical little puffs are light, crisp and rich all at the same time. The dough is made on the stovetop, then piped into smooth mounds and baked into airy balloons. In French the dough is called pâte à choux, which translates as "cabbage pastry." This name must have been a funny attempt to describe the round shape; otherwise it is not at all descriptive of this tasty pastry. I have filled the cream puffs with raspberry preserves and topped with rich chocolate ganache, but they are also lovely sliced in half and stuffed with vanilla ice cream.
Chocolate Cream Puffs
Makes: about 36 cream puffs
Prep Time: 1 hour
Baking Time: 25 minutes
Level: multiple steps, but all of them are easy
Cream puffs:
1 cup 2% milk (you can also use skim or whole milk, but it will effect the flavor and crispness of your cream puff.)
8 ounces unsalted butter, cut into 1-tablespoon pieces
1 teaspoon sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1 ¼ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
4 extra large eggs, whisked together in a small bowl
Ganache for filling and glaze:
2 cups heavy cream
16 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
2 tablespoons corn syrup
1 cup raspberry preserves
To make the ganache:
In a saucepan heat the cream over medium heat. Once it comes to a simmer, turn off the heat and add the chocolate. Swirl the pan to make sure all the chocolate is covered, let sit for 3 minutes. Gently whisk together the cream and chocolate until it is smooth, add the corn syrup and stir just until combined. Pour into a shallow bowl and cover with plastic wrap, allow to cool to room temperature.
To make the cream puffs:
Preheat oven to 400°F. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
In a saucepan combine the milk, butter, sugar and salt. Bring to a low boil over medium heat. Once the milk mixture comes to a boil, dump all of the flour in and stir with a wooden spoon. Turn the heat to low and continue to stir until the mixture becomes thick, it will look like mashed potatoes. Cook over low heat for about one minute.
Transfer the dough to a stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on low speed for about 30 seconds. On medium speed, add the eggs, about 2 tablespoons at a time, mixing well after each addition.
The dough should still be soft, but will still hold its shape when piped. Put the dough into an 18-inch pastry bag, fitted with a large (1/2-inch) round tip.
Holding the pastry bag straight up and down, hovering about ¼-inch off the parchment, pipe out about 36 balls of dough, each one ¾ inch wide and ½ inch tall. Try to get them the same size and about 1-inch apart.
If there are any points on the top of your dough balls, gently rub them flat with a wet finger.
Bake the cream puffs for about 25 minutes. Remove one of the puffs and break it open, if it is still wet inside they need more time in the oven. You will want to switch the top tray with the bottom tray at this point. Don't switch them before now, or they may collapse. When they are done, the inside will be hollow and the outside crisp and golden brown.
Once the cream puffs are cooled completely, poke a small hole in the bottom with a paring knife. Fit a 12-inch pastry bag with a small (¼ inch wide) round tip. Fill, about 1/3 full, with some of the raspberry preserves and squeeze a small amount into each of the puff pasties through the small hole in the bottom.
In another 12-inch pastry bag with a small (¼ inch wide) round tip. Fill this one with the room temperature ganache, which should be the consistency of icing when it is fully set up.
Melt the remaining ganache gently over a double boiler, just until it is soft enough to dip the cream puffs and get a shiny glaze. Remove from heat and repeat with the rest of the cream puffs. Set the dipped puffs back on the cookie sheet and place them in the refrigerator until the ganache on top is set. See the full how-to here.
Serve with tea, coffee or a tall glass of milk.
Here's everything you need to make these yourself:
- Chocolate Cream Puffs Recipe
- Step-by-Step Cream Puff Photo Gallery
- More Holiday and Christmas Desserts
Zoë François, author of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day and Artisan Pizza and Flatbreads in Five Minutes a Day, studied at the Culinary Institute of America in New York. She now calls Minneapolis her home, where she has worked with some of the top talent in the culinary world — Steven Brown, Andrew Zimmern and many chefs at the D'Amico company. In addition to writing, Zoë teaches baking classes and consults at restaurants, and she maintains her baking blog, zoebakes.com.


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Police stopped a black Chevy Blazer with one working headlight around 11 p.m. Monday and arrested the driver on several felony charges.
Police spokesman Rodney Brown said patrol officers saw the Blazer operating without a front headlight and pulled it over near First and Buffalo.
As they talked with Heinemann, one of the officers saw a Winchester lever action 30/30 rifle that appeared to be intentionally concealed between Heinemann's leg and the center console, Brown said.
Heinemann was ordered out of the vehicle. The firearm, which was loaded, was seized. A check of Heinemann's record showed he had a previous conviction for domestic violence and therefore cannot legally own or carry a firearm.
A search of the vehicle turned up ammo and drug paraphernalia that is commonly used in the use and distribution of both methamphetamine and marijuana. Police also found prescription morphine, tapentadol and larozepam pills, burglary tools, plus a large amount of jewelry and several knives, according to the police report.
Officers determined there was probable cause to arrest Heinemann for possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, possession of a deadly weapon by a prohibited person, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of burglary tools, possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony and firearms and controlled substance violations.
Heinemann was also cited for possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, violation of motor vehicle light requirements and operating a vehicle with fictitious plates, Brown said.
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Cards' blasts punctuate Gast's debut victory
Beltran, Jay go deep to back left-hander's solid effort at Busch
ST. LOUIS -- For all the attention and praise poured upon the Cardinals' rotation over the first six weeks of the season, John Gast and his rookie company provided a reminder Tuesday that the talent pool is much deeper than the team's Opening Day starting five.
Promoted from Triple-A for what is expected to be a pair of spot starts in place of Jake Westbrook, Gast gave St. Louis its first look at yet another piece in the pitching stockpile that have the Cardinals so seemingly well set up for the long term. The parade of arms didn't end there, either, as the two starters-turned-temporary-relievers to follow Gast had plenty of their own promise to showcase.
It provided the backdrop in the Cardinals' 10-4 routing of the Mets. The victory, which also featured a four-RBI night from Carlos Beltran, came in front of a Busch Stadium crowd of 37,460 fans.
"It's incredible," Matt Carpenter said of the plethora of Major League-ready young pitchers. "The talent we have is a testament to our Minor League system and the product that they continue to develop. ... They seem like they can always find the guys who can come up here and compete and give us a chance to win games."
On Tuesday, that was Gast.
After beginning the Minor League season with a scoreless streak of 32 innings, Gast held the Mets without a run through the first five. And though he allowed four sixth-inning runs before his night ended, he was good enough to earn the victory.
The first Cardinals left-hander to make his debut as a starter since Rick Ankiel in 1999, Gast is now the first to lefty starter to win a debut since Allen Watson in 2002. Asked how the long-time dream measured up to reality, Gast answered: "It was pretty close."
The Mets' offense found no rhythm against him the first two times through the batting order, having particular trouble with Gast's changeup. Of the first 11 he threw, eight resulted in an out.
Gast did not allow a ball hit to the outfield until the fourth. He did not let a baserunner reach second until the fifth. At the close of that inning, the lefty had thrown merely 50 pitches. And behind him, the Cardinals had built up a nine-run lead.
"Obviously his command was outstanding with all his pitches," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "He worked both sides of the plate with his fastball, used his changeup very effectively."
Gast did stumble in the sixth, allowing three straight batters to reach with one out. A botched rundown later extended the inning long enough for Marlon Byrd to connect for a two-run homer. But maintaining his poise, Gast closed his outing with a strikeout -- the same result with which he had opened his night.
"They just come here and they feel comfortable," Carlos Beltran said. "They don't look intimidated at all. They look like they belong here. They look like they want to be out there."
Beltran wasn't speaking only of Gast. His comments were meant to also include rookie right-handers Seth Maness and Carlos Martinez, who contributed scoreless relief appearances.
They preceded Gast as summoned help from the Minors, moved out of Minor League rotations in order to help stabilize a wobbly bullpen. Since Martinez followed Maness to the Majors on May 3, the Cardinals' bullpen has the league's lowest ERA.
That depth the Cardinals have touted over the last few years has been integral in leading the club to the baseball's best record.
"Hats off to our system and some of the things that they have done as far as the draft goes and development to give us some guys who are ready," manager Mike Matheny said. "How that plays long term? There's a lot of time between now and long term. Right now, they're contributing and they're helping us, and we couldn't ask for anything more."
"Being able to replace a guy who throws hard with another guy who throws hard, imagine that?" added Beltran. "When I see those guys coming in, I'm just looking forward to seeing what they're going to do. They throw hard, but they throw hard under control. That's the beauty of watching these guys pitch."
Beltran, a 16-year veteran, was asked if he's seen such a surplus of talented young pitching in an organization.
"I've never seen this," he responded.
Maness and Martinez, along with Gast, represent three of the top nine pitching prospects as ranked by MLB.com in the organization. That group of prospects doesn't even include the likes of Shelby Miller, Trevor Rosenthal and Joe Kelly, whom have graduated out of consideration after making their first Opening Day rosters.
"The list goes on and on," added Maness. "The Cardinals, it speaks a lot for them and the guys upstairs getting this good talent here. It's fun to be along in the ride with them and to keep developing and move on."
On this night, the Cardinals' offense made it easy for the rookie hurlers, banging out 11 hits en route to pushing the Cardinals toward their 11th win in 13 games. Allen Craig keyed a three-run first inning. RBI singles from Pete Kozma, Carpenter and Beltran doubled the lead in the third.
Beltran then blasted a towering three-run, 437-foot homer into Big Mac Land in the fifth,; Jon Jay delivered his fourth home run of the season an inning later. It marked the fifth time this season that the Cardinals have scored at least 10 runs in a game.
Carpenter and Beltran -- hitting in the top two spots in the order -- combined to reach base eight times.
"We have guys who are tough outs," Carpenter said. "If pitchers make mistakes and get behind in counts and we can turn it on, those are the kinds of nights that we can have."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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BRIDGEPORT, Ohio (AP) -- Members of an eastern Ohio Boy Scout group and their parents are protesting after a woman who led the pack said her membership was revoked because she is gay.
WTOV-TV (http://bit.ly/HRWHE4 ) reports the Tiger Cubs group recently protested outside the church where they held scout meetings in the Ohio River town of Bridgeport.
Jennifer Tyrrell told the station that she has been a den leader for about a year. She says she questions what lessons the boys might learn from her ouster as leader.
An official with the Ohio River Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America says the organization does not grant membership to individuals who are openly gay.
Scout executive Bob Drury (jur-REE') says Tyrrell is still allowed to be involved with the scouts as a parent.


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By PAUL LOCHER
Staff Writer
WOOSTER -- At a time in history when the endless drudgery endured by women went all-too-little noticed, Maj.-Gen. David Stanley gave great credit to the efforts and industriousness of his mother in his reminiscences of early Wayne County life.
"My mother," he wrote, "was expert in weaving table cloths and bedspreads ... and although she had female help always, she superintended all, and when the work was difficult and required skill, she did it with her own hands. No one could do her work and no work was too difficult for her to undertake. Spinning, weaving, tailoring, fine cooking, dyeing -- everything I have referred to in the way of skilled work, she could do."
Stanley wrote, "I remember well the labor and study my poor mother underwent to learn one art, the art of cutting men's and boy's garments according to the fashion of those days.
"A tailor stayed at our house on several occasions to teach my mother the rules of cutting, in which she soon became expert; and all this trouble and pains to learn to cut out clothes for the family. Our clothes were very nice and we are very proud of them; I mean our Sunday and holiday dress."
Stanley asked rhetorically, "How much more picturesque the everyday costume of that period than that of the present? The ordinary, everyday wear was drab pants, vest and loose blouse or, as it was called, a wamose, in bright red. In the earlier days," he recalled, "boys wore a cap made at home, drab or black, but soon the hatters started their shops in the country towns and made hats of wool for common wear, and of furs for Sunday wear, which, if not models of beauty, were wonderful to wear.
"The new hat was one of the prizes offered yearly for the best progress in spelling, reading or in committing to memory the shorter catechism or chapters from the New Testament."
Also in his writings, Stanley recalled, "Overcoats and furs had their uses in the winter. The latter were made up into caps and fur gloves by the family shoemaker, and were of fox or coon skins and were very warm and durable."
As for the long cold winters, he wrote, "Everybody worked at some kind of indoor work. Grandfather was pretty sure to make a pipe out of the hard knot of the hickory, or to be working with a vim (vigor) on a corn basket. Father would be mending harness; the hired girl running the big spinning wheel in the shop where work never ceases; mother, the most skillful of all, flying the shuttle, finishing the winter weaving, which when snow falls is likely to be coverlet weaving or some pretty pattern of table cloth."
Source: "Personal Memoirs of Major-General David S. Stanley"
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Approved Community Partners
The community has lots to offer those who are interested in MCC's Service-Learning. The link below will allow you access to the Service Sites Database so you can learn more.
You must serve at an approved community partner on our database. If you want to serve at a site not on the list, please fill out an "Agency Involvement" packet from the Center for Community & Civic Engagement to work on getting that community member on the MCCCD District approved list. It can take 2 weeks to 2 years to get an agency member approved, so keep that in mind when doing your Service-Learning for the class.
Access the Service Sites Database
How to Search the Service Sites Database
- Click on the "Access the Service Sites Database" button above
- Please select to login as a Guest - you do not need a username or password
- If prompted, select "Agency Database" as the location you want to go (only some web browsers will require you to select the destination folder)
- You can now search the Service Sites Database in four different ways:
1. Agency Search by Category: this is the preferred way to search! We recommend "less is more" when searching and ask that you try to search by one item at a time or use reduced word phrases (i.e. child). Also, make sure that you DO NOT hit enter. You must hit "Perform Find" on the left panel navigation area to actually perform a search. If you click on "Return to Search Menu", it will bring you back to the main menu of the Service Sites Database and you can select which of the four ways you want to search all over again.
You can search by agency name (i.e. Phoenix Zoo) or by city location or zip code (do you want to serve at a location on campus? near the school? near your house? near your job? what works best for you)
2. Agency Partners: this is a Rolodex-type listing of all the approved community partners in our database listed alphabetically. You must flip the book pages on the left panel area to switch to the next set of listings. We have over 400 approved community partners to look at!
3. School-Based Partners: this is the place to look for schools and school districts, charter schools, and private schools.
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With the state tournament coming up this weekend in Columbus, it's an exciting time to be part of high school wrestling.
However, a recent decision at the highest level of the sport has caused shock and dismay on the local wrestling scene.
The International Olympic Committee voted Feb. 12 to exclude wrestling from its 25 "core sports" beginning with the 2020 Olympic Games.
Wrestling, which includes Greco-Roman and freestyle at the Olympic level, now must fight with seven other sports for inclusion in the Olympics in 2020. The full Olympic committee will vote on whether or not to reinstate later this year.
Needless to say, local wrestling coaches and wrestlers are furious with the decision.
Aurora coach Dick Bliss used terms like "asinine" and "silly" to describe the Olympic committee's decision. "It's not a final decision," Bliss said. "A lot of people are going to want to see it come back. Russia has a very strong program."
"If the Olympics are supposed to about tradition, what are they thinking?" said Ravenna coach Mike Whitmore. "Are they going to cut the marathon next?"
Although former amateur wrestlers have gone on to success in either professional wrestling or mixed martial arts, the sport of wrestling has no true professional circuit. That means winning an Olympic medal is the pinnacle of the sport.
The fact its been taken away could have a big impact on the lower levels of the sport.
"I think kids in all sports want to aspire to something," said Woodridge coach Mike Massey. "Every kid that plays football wants be a professional football player. Youth wrestlers aspire to be gold medalists. That's not an option now."
MASSEY HAD some choice words on the decision.
"It's actually almost unbelievable," Massey said. "How can you remove the oldest sport in the games? You might as well get rid of track and field. Running and wrestling are what the old Olympics were based on."
Reports from the Olympic committee indicated the IOC chose to keep modern pentathlon in the games while excluding wrestling. "I don't think there's a single kid that thinks about being a pentathlete when they grow up," Massey said.
While it's impossible to know how the IOC's decision could effect wrestling participation at the youth and high school level, Stow-Munroe Falls coach Randy Jenkins fears it could have a negative effect.
"I was just floored," he said. "I'm looking at these young kids and telling them the Olympics are gone for them. [The IOC is] shattering a lot of guys' dreams."
One area wrestler with Olympic aspirations also expressed dismay with the IOC.
Nate Tomasello, a three-time state champion from Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy, said the chance to wrestle for an Olympic gold medal was "one of the biggest motivating factors" in his dedication to the sport.
"It was really shocking," Tomasello said. "For them to take away the sport like that was really a bummer. That's what wrestlers shoot for."
Although he's only a senior in high school, Tomasello said he doesn't plan to give up on his Olympic dream. He plans to try to wrestle freestyle at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
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Among the projects short listed in north Pembrokeshire are repainting the outside of Yr Hen Ysgol in Dinas Cross and repainting some of the rooms of Point Youth Centre run by Fishguard and Goodwick Young Persons' Trust Ltd. For both projects, High Sheriff helper Brian Murray is looking for volunteers to help with the painting, and for generous builders' merchants and DIY companies to donate paint and painting equipment. Says Brian: "The Go M.A.D. funds don't stretch to doing every project on the short list so we really need local businesses and individuals to help by donating materials and labour."
The picture shows Yr Hen Ysgol management committee members Pete and Sheila Duffill measuring up the building with High Sheriff volunteer Brian Murray, to work out how much paint they're going to need to give the building a face lift.
Yr Hen Ysgol is now a community centre owned and run by the people of Dinas Cross to provide education, health and leisure activities for all ages. Point provides young people aged 11 – 25 with a drop-in service and activities that help them build self-esteem, skills and confidence.


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I set out not to write an ode to eggs. I was afraid I would be too obvious, embarrass myself with my unabashed affection for them.
My love started long ago. Mom would serve eggs for breakfast every morning before school. It got me through until lunchtime, headache and hunger-pain free. Those things tasted good and stuck with you, too. I was sold. I preferred the drippy yolks then as I do now, on anything from toast or pancakes to polenta or frisee au lardon.
If you asked me to eat my way through all 200 varieties of chicken eggs known worldwide, I'd gladly take you up on the challenge. Why? I just love their taste. And lucky for me, the large egg—72 calories, 6 grams of protein and 10-percent of your daily need for Vitamin D—is also pretty cheap, relative to other proteins of course. Even if you buy the "fancy" cage-free, vegetarian-fed and organic eggs that cost a little more. And I recommend you do, because they aren't fancy. They are eggs the way they were meant to be.
But I had a goal not to make a hero of the everyday egg. So I went digging for the egg's dirty past, no matter how trite, to aid my mission. Cholesterol, the obvious solution. What about egg's cholesterol?
Aha. Here's a story. Not long after culinary school, I was working the pastry line at a three-Star French restaurant in New York City. For a year, I lived on minimum wage, freshly spun glaces (ice creams) and eggs, eggs, eggs for every other meal. They were fast and affordable.
That fall, at my annual appointment, my doctor noted I had lost 20 pounds but my cholesterol had increased enough to get his attention.
Eggs, I said. I race around a busy restaurant 60 hours a week and eat nothing but ice cream and eggs.
Just recently, I read a report by Dr. David Katz, Director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center on the USDA finding that eggs are significantly lower in cholesterol and higher in Vitamin D than previously thought.
It turns out that the ice cream and lack of dietary fiber (vegetables and fresh fruit) in my diet during my restaurant job was likely to blame for the oddities in my weight and cholesterol, not the scrambled egg dinners after all.
I still consume eggs almost daily as my main protein, along with tons and fruits and vegetables, nuts, legumes and whole grains. And, my cholesterol has been behaving like a good little friend for ten years and counting. I once again believe that eggs aren't bad guys at all. Not even a little.
Oh darn, I just wrote an ode to eggs. Blame it on Megan Palmer's insanely delicious egg dishes, which I'd gladly eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They put me right over the edge.
Get Megan's recipes for egg dishes (plus 15 more!) here.
Photos and post by Sarah Copeland. Recipes by Megan Palmer.
Sarah Copeland is a food person and serious egg lover. Follow along with Sarah on her blog, edibleliving.com, and be sure to check out her first cookbook, The Newlywed Cookbook.


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Topic: Universal Cancer Vaccine developed in Tel Aviv - in clinical trial now
Hi folks! I received a "tweet" last week with the following breakthrough information about a "universal cancer vaccine" (developed in Israel) that is in clinical trial NOW: http://soc.li/0MDgO0O
In researching, I was able to find two additional articles that related to the MUC1, and indicated some success with Cholangiocarcinoma:
http://jjco.oxfordjournals.org/content/ … 6.full.pdf
I will be looking into this further and will post more information as I find it.
Please let me know if any of you have heard about this yet.
Wishing everyone the best!


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A conversation snaps around you. A string trio plays in front of you as you turn your attention from cello to violin. A soprano walks across the stage, and you turn your head to follow her voice. Conventional sound recording cannot capture those experiences -- but an invention by audio engineers at the University of California, Davis is changing that.
Motion-tracked binaural sound ( MTB ) captures cues for direction, distance and movement and the subtleties of natural, ambient sound that other systems don't. Developed by Ralph Algazi, Richard Duda and Dennis Thompson at the Interface Laboratory in the UC Davis Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing (CIPIC), the patent-pending technique uses off-the-shelf equipment that won't break the bank.
For the listener, it's an eerie experience of listening to invisible people talking, playing music or singing around you while you can turn your attention from one to another.
"Conventional audio playback doesn't reflect how you hear in real life," Algazi said. "Your body, the shape of your head and the room acoustics all affect how you hear."
Conventional binaural recording uses microphones embedded in a dummy head to record sound, so that playback through headphones mimics the recording. That method does a fair job of reproducing sounds to the left and right but not to the front, where sounds appear to come from immediately in front of or behind your head. Furthermore, it doesn't allow for movement, Duda said.
"The problem is that people do not keep still," Duda said.
The new method records through multiple microphones (eight for voice, 16 for music) spaced around a head-sized ball or cylinder. The sound is played back through headphones with a small tracking device attached to the top to follow head movements. As you turn your head while listening, the system mixes sound from different microphones, reproducing what you would hear if you were in the room.
Listeners can move their heads to locate a sound source, turn to "face" a person speaking and tell when sound sources are nearby or far away. In addition, MTB captures the ambient sounds of the location, so you recognize the echoes in a church or the confines of a conference room.
The engineers have made sample recordings with musicians from the UC Davis music department and visiting classical and bluegrass musicians.
"The system can capture the sound of instruments much more fully than a conventional single microphone. It captures changes in sound and the effects of a room in a way that is much closer to reality," Algazi said.
"I think they have something really wonderful," said Pablo Ortiz, chair of the Department of Music at UC Davis.
"The thing that's interesting to me is the way that it records space," Ortiz said.
William Beck, a composer of electronic music and lecturer in the music department, said that live recordings could be a major application.
"The 'being there' feel is something people would really like," Beck said.
The technique could also be used for teleconferencing, computer games and virtual- or augmented-reality systems. The work, which is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, was presented at the 116th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society held in May 2004 in Berlin, Germany.
The CIPIC Interface Laboratory is a multidisciplinary research center that studies human perception and its role in the interface between humans and machines.
The original release can be found here.


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When Are We Available?
During term time the Service Desk is open from 8am to 6pm Monday to Thursday and 8am to 5pm on Friday. During school holidays we are open from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday.
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Outside of these hours we have an answer phone for you to leave a message and an analyst will log your enquiry when the Service Desk reopens. If you call during the opening hours and all our Service Desk Analysts are busy you will be held in a queue until an analyst is available. If after 30 seconds an analyst is still not available you will be asked to leave a message. If you do not wish to leave a message then please hang up and call back later. We constantly monitor our answer phone so if you do leave a message your enquiry will be logged.
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We aim subject specific insets to coincide with routines that you run in school such as Key Stage return and school census.
The Service Desk will keep the websites frequently asked questions up to date and will add news items that may be of interest to you.
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I now have the opportunity to expend my website into Arabic, but I have a major problem Western text is Left to right whereas Arabic is Right to left. When I copy the text sent to me in Arabic, it copies the text wrong. The template start as below...
<!doctype html><html><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ar">
I have been informed, maybe misinformed, that within HTML 5 the last line above is not valid, also the DIR= is also redundant, therefore what is the right code to overcome this annoying issue?
Experimental h5 is non normative but still RTL is the value you'd use for the text direction. Regarding the META pragma directive it would be deemed 'obsolete' in h5, you could consider specifying the language on the root element instead. For example; HTML lang="ar" that should very loosely cover both questions posed regarding the markup aspect.
So does that replace both of these lines?
<meta charset="UTF-8"><meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ar">
No, only the following: <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ar"> would be obsolete since you cannot use that pragma (for the experimental h5). One alternative way would be use the lang attribute on the HTML root, resulting in: <html lang="ar" dir="rtl"> instead.
many thanks
The dir=rtl in your html tag should (in proper user agents) also fix your text-copying.
Hello Robert,
There is an error at line 5, column 7 (absolute position 59) of "templates:Persian.dwt": Unbalanced #EndEditable tag
What does this mean?
That has to do with your HTML editing software (dreamweaver?). It seems to be saying somewhere you started an editing tag but didn't close it, or you're closing one you never opened.
But this is not an HTML error. HTML doesn't have Editable anythings (except the new contenteditable stuff they've added recently)
That's a Dreamweaver specific error with a DW template editable region (I don't have Dreamweaver installed or use it) to be balanced there has to be a #BeginEditable region and an #EndEditableRegion maybe you should create a new template loosely based on that one.
Many thanks folks. I shall investigate further


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Plastic Bag Industry Against the Plastic Bag Ban
November 30th, 2011
The plastic bag ban has had huge success over the past year, with cities all over California taking initiative to ban the distribution of plastic bags in grocery stores. The ban has even extended to paper bags which are considered to be energy guzzlers because of the huge amount of energy required for their production.
However the plastic bag ban movement is facing opposition from the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, which includes members of the plastic bag manufacturing industry. The coalition claims that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a hoax fabricated by environmentalists and legislators, and have gone as far as threatening to sue San Francisco for its attempt to strengthen the plastic bag ban.
They argue that the swirling mass of garbage in the Northern Pacific Gyre, often depicted as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is not a garbage patch at all but instead consists of floating plastic pieces. The coalition also claims that the depiction of marine debris in the gyre as being twice the size of Texas is false and that there exists no actual photos of the "garbage patch".
In actuality, the coalition's claim that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a misleading conception, is true! Teams of scientists, organizers, and ocean-health advocates alike, including Sea•thos, have taken care to demystify the popular misconceptions of the Northern Pacific Gyre as a garbage patch or floating island.
The Northern Pacific Gyre, located in the northern pacific ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii, is a region where currents meet and attract floating marine debris via the rotational movement of the currents. Unfortunately, tons of marine debris have accumulated in ocean gyres over time. The Northern Pacific gyre (the largest of the five gyres) has accumulated the most debris- an estimated 3.5 million tons!
As described by Save the Plastic Bag Coalition's claim, marine debris in the Northern Pacific Gyre does not form a solid patch twice the size of Texas nor an island of debris. In actuality marine debris is scattered throughout the ocean, is heavily concentrated at the center of gyres, and resembles plastic soup.
Exposure to sunlight and wave action cause plastic marine debris to beak down to small fragments which can be bite size for the smallest of ocean creatures from bottom feeders to zoo-plankton. These small plastic fragments either sink to the ocean bottom or are suspended in the upper water column and therefore are not often visible from the ocean surface. Plastic enters our food chain as soon as it is consumed by sea creatures. The toxins which plastics carry intensify as they move up the food chain, eventually ending with the highest concentration of toxins on our very own plates.
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Nationals edge Bucs in opener for fourth straight win
Harper, LaRoche both drive in pair of runs as Soriano holds on in ninth
WASHINGTON -- Bryce Harper and Adam LaRoche drove in two runs apiece and helped the Nationals down the Pirates, 5-4, at Nationals Park on Friday night.
The Nationals have won four consecutive games, improved their record to 67-53, and remain six games ahead of the Braves in the National League East race. That same night, Atlanta won its game, 7-2, against the Athletics at Turner Field. However, the Nationals players don't think they have a comfortable lead.
"There is a lot of ball to play and a lot can happen, we've seen it happen," Nationals first baseman Adam LaRoche said. "So we go out every night, try to win. It doesn't happen, we try to do the same thing the next night."
Right-hander Charlie Morton started for Pittsburgh and the Nationals went to work on him in the first inning. With runners on first and second and one out, LaRoche singled to right-center field, scoring Asdrubal Cabrera to make it a 1-0 game.
After Ian Desmond walked to load the bases, Harper singled over the head of second baseman Neil Walker, scoring Anthony Rendon and LaRoche.
"I wasn't sure. Neil is pretty good over there. I'm just happy it fell and got those two RBIs, get that lead early and be able get that W," Harper said
Two innings later, LaRoche drove in his second run when he singled to left field, scoring Cabrera. Three batters later, Rendon scored the team's fifth run on a single by Wilson Ramos.
During the month of August, LaRoche has been swinging a hot bat, going 17-for-52 (.326) with four home runs and nine RBIs. It helps that he is hitting the ball the other way. That's when one realizes that LaRoche is going well at the plate.
With a month and a half to go in the regular season, the Nationals need him to be clutch.
"[The bat is] better. No question, it's better," LaRoche said. "I hit those two balls tonight. I hit them good. I found the right spot. I feel two or three weeks ago, it was right at somebody and a potential double play ball. That's how this game goes. It kind of comes in streaks. I'm doing pretty good right now."
As for Morton, he lasted three innings and allowed the five runs on seven hits.
"We didn't see a lot of consistency in the sink, or break in the breaking ball. The misfires ... even in the zone ... he got behind and was not able to recover. It just wasn't there for him," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said about Morton.
But Pittsburgh made it a game in the fourth inning off right-hander Tanner Roark. After Walker led off with a double, Starling Marte homered over the left-field wall to make it 5-2. Three batters later, with a runner on first, Pedro Alvarez doubled to right-center field, scoring Travis Snider.
"He was a little off on his command tonight, the ball was up in the strike zone a little bit," Nationals manager Matt Williams said. "Marte hit a slider for the homer and the ball just kind of elevated. But he battled. He got through the innings he needed to get through. He pitched well."
Roark lasted 5 2/3 innings, allowed three runs on five hits and picked up his 12th victory, which is tied for the team lead with right-hander Doug Fister.
"I felt good. I was trying to be too fine with my slider and my curveball. Everything else, I felt my fastball was good. I had good life on it, keeping it down," Roark said. "The changeup was good. When I was getting 1-2, 0-2, I would try to be too fine."
The Nationals needed four relievers -- Jerry Blevins, Drew Storen, Tyler Clippard and Rafael Soriano -- to keep the lead the rest of the way. Soriano, who picked up his 28th save of the season, was shaky for the second straight game. With two outs, Alvarez drove in his second run of the game by hitting a single to right field, scoring Marte.
After Chris Stewart, representing the go-ahead run, singled to right field to put runners on first and third, Josh Harrison came to the plate and popped up to Ramos to end the game.
"That's three games in a row for Soriano. He got through it tonight. We'll see how he feels tomorrow," Williams said.
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The recent revelation that J.K. Rowling is the author of the critically acclaimed and -- until now -- commercially unsuccessful crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling has electrified the book world and solidified Rowling's reputation as a genuine writing talent: After all, if she can impress the critics without the benefit of her towering reputation, then surely her success is deserved.
And yet what this episode actually reveals is the opposite: that Rowling's spectacular career is likely more a fluke of history than a consequence of her unique genius.
Whenever someone is phenomenally successful, whether it's Rowling as an author, Bob Dylan as a musician or Steve Jobs as an innovator, we can't help but conclude there is something uniquely qualifying about them, something akin to "genius," that makes their successes all but inevitable.
Even when we learn about their early setbacks -- Rowling's original manuscript for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was rejected by no fewer than 12 publishers; Columbia Records initially refused to release Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone; Jobs was booted from Apple in the mid-1980s -- we interpret them as embarrassing oversights that were subsequently corrected rather than evidence that their success may have somehow been a product of luck or happenstance.
Several years ago, my colleagues Matthew Salganik and Peter Dodds at Columbia University and I challenged this conventional wisdom with an unusual experiment. We set out to prove market success is driven less by intrinsic talent than by "cumulative advantage," a rich-get-richer process in which early, possibly even random events are amplified by social feedback and produce large differences in future outcomes.
To test our cumulative-advantage hypothesis, we recruited almost 30,000 participants to listen, rate and download songs by bands they had never heard of. Unbeknownst to the participants, they were randomly assigned to one of two groups: an "independent" group, which saw only the names of the bands and the songs, and a "social influence" group, whose participants could see how many times songs had been downloaded by others in the group. In addition, those in the social-influence group were assigned to one of eight different "worlds" that were created concurrently, allowing us to effectively "run" history many times.
If quality determined success, the same songs should have won every time by a margin that was independent of what people knew about the choices of others. By contrast, if success was driven disproportionately by a few early downloads, subsequently amplified by social influence, the outcomes would be largely random and would also become more unequal as the social feedback became stronger.
What we found was highly consistent with the cumulative-advantage hypothesis. First, when people could see what other people liked, the inequality of success increased, meaning popular songs became more popular and unpopular songs become less so. Second and more surprisingly, each song's popularity was incredibly unpredictable: One song, for example, came in first out of 48 we sampled in one "world," but it came in 40th in another.
In the real world, of course, it's impossible to travel back in time and start over, so it's much harder to argue that someone who is incredibly successful may owe their success to a combination of luck and cumulative advantage rather than superior talent. But by writing under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, an otherwise anonymous name, Rowling came pretty close to recreating our experiment, starting over again as an unknown author and publishing a book that would have to succeed or fail on its own merits, just as Harry Potter had to 16 years ago -- before anyone knew who Rowling was.
Rowling made a bold move and, no doubt, is feeling vindicated by the critical acclaim the book has received. But there's a catch: Until the news leaked about the author's real identity, this critically acclaimed book had sold only 500 to 1,500 copies, depending on which report you read. What's more, had the author actually been Robert Galbraith, the book would almost certainly have continued to languish in obscurity, probably forever.
The Cuckoo's Calling will now have a happy ending, and its success will only perpetuate the myth that talent is ultimately rewarded with success. What Rowling's little experiment has actually demonstrated, however, is that quality and success are even more unrelated than we found in our experiment. It might be hard for a book to become a runaway bestseller if it's unreadably bad (although one might argue that the Twilight series and Fifty Shades of Grey challenge this constraint), but it is also clear that being good, or even excellent, isn't enough. As one of the hapless editors who turned down the Galbraith manuscript put it, "When the book came in, I thought it was perfectly good -- it was certainly well-written -- but it didn't stand out."
Ironically, that's probably how those 12 editors felt about the original Harry Potter manuscript. Now, of course, they look like idiots, but what both our experiment and Rowling's suggest is they might have been right all along.
Had things turned out only slightly different, the real Rowling might have met with the same success as the fake Robert Galbraith, not the other way around. As hard as it is to imagine in the Harry Potter-obsessed world that we now inhabit, it's entirely plausible that in this parallel universe, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone would just be a "perfectly good" book that never sold more than a handful of copies; Rowling would still be a struggling single mother in Manchester, England; and the rest of us would be none the wiser.
Duncan J. Watts is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research and author of Everything Is Obvious (Once You Know the Answer): How Common Sense Fails Us.
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HOUSTON - An investigation was launched Monday after a 12-year-old, who was the subject of an Amber Alert, had a bruise on his arm when he was found.
An Amber Alert was issued around 5:50 a.m. Monday when the boy disappeared Sunday afternoon from his mother's apartment at the Villas at Cypresswood apartments. The alert was cancelled a short time later because Harris County deputies said the child was not abducted.
Investigators said on Sunday, a Kroger employee found the middle school student wandering around the inside of a store and told him to go home.
However, a source told KPRC Local 2 that instead of going home, the boy walked across the parking lot to an office building, where he slept on the concrete all night long. When he woke up, he walked back to Kroger, where officers found him hours later.
Investigators said the boy was too scared to go home and he had a suspicious bruise on his arm, so he was taken to Child Protective Services.
CPS officials said they have launched an investigation.
It's not yet determined whether the child will go back to his mother's apartment or stay with relatives who live outside of Houston.
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January 19, 2010 – New York Rangers 8, Tampa Bay Lightning 2 (Game #50, Home #27)
· The Rangers defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning, 8-2, tonight at Madison Square Garden, marking the first time New York tallied six-or-more goals in back-to-back games since the 2006-07 season (Mar. 31 at Philadelphia, 6-4; Apr. 1 vs. Toronto, 7-2); the last time the Blueshirts notched six-or-more goals in back-to-back home games was Nov. 12, 2003 vs. Pittsburgh (6-2) and Nov. 23, 2003 vs. Ottawa (6-2).
· New York have now posted a record of 24-19-7 (55 pts.) overall and 12-11-4 (28 pts.) at home this season; the Rangers have now tallied a point in 14 of their last 17 games (10-3-4).
· New York notched three goals in the opening frame tonight, marking the third straight period the Rangers tallied three goals in a period following three-goal performances in the second and third periods of Sunday's 6-2 win vs. Montreal; it is the first time since the 1998-99 season the Rangers accomplished the feat (third period of a 6-6 tie on Nov. 17 at Toronto and all three periods of a 10-2 win on Nov. 10 at Tampa Bay). *Statistic courtesy of the Elias Sports Bureau
· The Rangers had eight different goal scorers and 16 different players register at least one point; the last time the Rangers had eight players score a goal in one game was a 10-5 win on Dec. 13, 1992 vs. Montreal; New York's 16 players with at least one point ties the franchise record for a single game, accomplished twice before – Oct. 25, 1984 at New Jersey (W, 11-2) and Feb. 17, 1985 vs. the NY Islanders (W, 9-3). *Statistic courtesy of the Elias Sports Bureau
· The Blueshirts converted two of four power play opportunities (3:56), and are now three of nine (33.3%) with the man advantage in the last two games.
· Marian Gaborik tied his career-high with four assists (last – Oct. 26, 2002 at Phoenix), and registered four hits and a plus-three rating; the four assists also mark a team season-high, and is the most recorded by a Ranger since Jaromir Jagr tallied four assists on Feb. 17, 2008 vs. Montreal.
· Brandon Dubinsky, Marc Staal, Vinny Prospal, and Christopher Higgins each registered one goal and one assist apiece, and Matt Gilroy recorded two assists; Dubinsky also posted a Gordie Howe Hat Trick, and Gilroy's two assists marked his first career multi-point effort.
· Henrik Lundqvist made 21 saves to improve his record to 22-15-6 on the season; he has now held opponents to two or fewer goals in 18 of his last 21 games, posting an 11-5-5 mark, 1.77 goals against average and .941 save percentage over the span.
· The Rangers return to action when they will face-off against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday, Jan. 21, at the Wachovia Center (7:00 p.m.), in a matchup between Atlantic Division rivals; the game will be televised live on MSG Network and can be heard on 1050 ESPN Radio.
Henrik Lundqvist on the team crashing the net for goals… "We've been working on it for weeks now. That's how you score goals; it's in front of the net, in the blue, you just have to battle. It's not often when you beat a goalie one-on-one, you have a clear shot. A lot of times, its deflections in front, it's rebounds. And when you start getting those goals, then you start making nice plays too. The last few games we've been doing a good job of coming in front and creating opportunities for rebounds."


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Quinoa, 5 Waysby Toby Amidor in Uncategorized, May 5, 2012
Quinoa-a-holics have been sprouting all over the nation. If you're looking for some new, creative quinoa recipes—we've got 5 you'll love!
This Asian-inspired warm quinoa salad is a quick side dish for any weeknight dinner. Wrap leftovers in a whole-wheat tortilla for a high-protein brown-bag lunch.
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Toss out your protein powder! This deliciously healthy breakfast smoothie is made with almonds, quinoa and oats has 9 grams of protein per serving.
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Bean Salad
Beans + quinoa = a winning combination. Beans are chock full of fiber, B-vitamins, iron, calcium and zinc while quinoa provides protein, B vitamins, potassium and selenium.
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Combine quinoa, whole-grain oats, sunflower seeds, pistachios and dried mango with maple syrup and canola oil to make these simple snack clusters.
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Hot pepper, adobo seasoning, garlic, and onions dress up this quinoa salad. Leftovers can be added to scrambled eggs or used as a topping for homemade pizza.
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Last week GSP airport officials announced GSP 360, a new website and marketing effort designed to get the word out about surrounding tracts of land that are prime development opportunities.
The initiative is the result of a study completed by the airport in 2012 on land use planning and development. The study identified nine tracts of land, approximately 2,000 acres, which are located close to the airport and are available now.
Each tract is ideally situated in close proximity to GSP International Airport, Interstate 85 and Interstate 26. Extensive rail service will be enhanced by the presence of the South Carolina Inland Port. Air cargo services, utilizing the airport's 11,000-foot runway, are also well-established and poised to add capacity as both the Inland Port and GSP 360 increase demand.
"There are very few airports in the country that can put all of those elements together," said Kevin Howell, vice president and chief operating officer of GSP Airport.
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