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OPENSIDE Ollie Griffiths hopes to take a first step towards emulating a pair of Newport Gwent Dragons friends and rivals by catching the eye for the region in the Premiership Rugby 7s.
The 19-year-old from Newbridge narrowly missed the cut for the Junior World Championship this summer but his time should come in Italy next year.
Griffiths was capped against England, Ireland and Scotland in the Under-20s Six Nations but his older Dragons back row teammates Scott Matthews and James Benjamin, both 20, got the nod for this summer's tournament in New Zealand.
The trio have all impressed in the Principality Premiership – Griffiths for Newport, Matthews for Cross Keys and Benjamin for Bedwas – and are among the youthful brigade hoping to enjoy some senior regional action in 2014/15.
Being forced to wait for Junior World Championship action may have been a blow for Griffiths but it has given him a head-start in the build-up to next season.
He has already been grafting hard alongside seasoned back row campaigners Andy Powell and Lewis Evans at the Dragons' new training base in Ystrad Mynach and is set to feature in the inaugural Welsh leg of the Premiership 7s.
Griffiths and his fellow young tyros will be looking to give a timely nudge to coaches Lyn and Kingsley Jones by going well at BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday, July 26.
He said: "We don't know what the squad will be yet but I am sure there will be a lot of youngsters looking to put their hands up by impressing. It's a good chance to show what we can do.
"I don't have too much sevens experience but I like to play open rugby and I'm looking forward to it.
"The boys have been working hard on our conditioning, which will stand us in good stead for a fast game of sevens on the 4G surface.
"I only had three weeks off before starting pre-season training but it's been good; the new facilities in Ystrad Mynach are first-class and I already feel I've learnt a lot even though we've only just starting doing a bit of rugby.
"I've got another year with the Under-20s, so hopefully I can push on this year and be in the Junior World Championship squad next time."
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The 22-year-old, who has won four caps, suffered a "significant injury" to his cervical vertebrae and spinal cord at a pre-season tournament in Singapore last month.
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That 'Wonder Twins' Movie Poster Was A Hoax, But Not The One Everyone Thought
Back in November, a weird poster that seemed to promote a Wonder Twins movie starring Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher popped up in a few comic shops. As photos of the poster spread around the comics Internet, a lot of folks wondered what it was all about.
The odds of a real, but not-yet-announced Wonder Twins movie coming out in 2014 were low, at best, but could it be a piece of viral marketing for something else? Maybe the Entourage movie, given that the HBO series had gone swimming in DC's waters with Aquaman? It turns out, according to an interview with BatPodcast host Pat Evans on Bill the Boy Wonder author Marc Tyler Nobleman's blog, that the people that guessed it was a Warner Bros. hoax were half right. It's definitely a hoax, but WB had nothing to do with it.


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Vermont's state legislature is the next state to consider a bill that would require food be labeled if it contained genetically modified ingredients. On Thursday, Vermont's House approved a bill (H.112) that would require GMOs to be labeled on all food.
The bill was advanced on a 107-37 vote and now waits to be approved by the Senate. If the Senate approves the bill, it will take effect two years after the date it is passed or 18 months after at least two other states adopt similar bills, whichever comes first. So the earliest it would be required to label GMOs is 2015.
The bill would require food manufacturers to label food produced through genetic engineering and would prohibit this use of the term "natural" on labels. The new bill exempts meat and dairy products from requiring a label for GMOs.
Support for GMO labeling is considered strong in Vermont by Falko Schilling, a consumer protection advocate with the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. Schilling said a recent study from the University of Vermont's Center for Rural Studies showed that 95 percent of people in Vermont support GMO labeling.
Critics of the bill say it goes too far in its regulations. Rep. Harvey Smith (R-New Haven), a long-time farmer that recently started using genetic engineering technology on his dairy farm, told VPR.net, "If you look at the labeling and there's any corn, any canola, any soy ingredients in there, you can be darn sure there's a 95 percent chance that you're buying GMO food."
"We're really making some great gains in our productivity and our ability to reduce the use of herbicides and pesticides, and we're afraid we're going to lose our ability to use this new technology," Smith said during the Republican caucus.
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Hi! My name is Aaron. My Dharma name is Shan Yin. I got this name after a refuge ceremony and taking refuge vows at a Chinese Mahayana Temple in Vancouver. It means compassionate cause. I am an old veteran member of newbuddhist.com, but felt I don't have alot of common ground with most of the threads that are posted there. Also, I think that the Theravada school is right for me, with all deep respect I have for other schools. I have been on a retreat at a Theravada Hermitage, one month long. I struggle with mental health issues and am starting to hope I can overcome it.
I have just started meditating again, doing refuge and reciting precepts. What rocketed me into Buddhism was the book "Dharma Punx" by Noah Levine. Although at the start I felt like I got it, Buddhism for a while to me was a faith belief system.
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The market is still overbought, and since there have been no changes in the Oscillator, I won't harp on it anymore. There were, however some other statistics you should note from Monday's trading.
In the morning, when the S&P 500 climbed to make a higher high vs. last week, we also saw fewer stocks making new highs in comparison to last week's numbers. On the NYSE there were 163 new highs last week, and there were only 147 Monday. The Nasdaq saw 75 new highs last week and 59 Monday. That is not what you want to see when a market is overbought, as it displays fatigue.
In addition to this indicator, the KBW Bank Index (BKX) underperformed the S&P again. As a result, the ratio of the BKX to the S&P ticked lower again.
We might also note that Monday was an outside day on the S&P, which means the index made a higher high and a lower low vs. the previous session. That is considered a bearish development. For my part, I have seen countless times when there's been no follow-through on such patterns -- so if the market wasn't overbought, I wouldn't even fuss over it.
To me, though, the index to watch is the Russell 2000. Yes, it made a higher high Monday, but it did not make a lower low -- and it actually held up during the afternoon selloff. But a gap remains from last Thursday's opening. Here's what I'm focused on: What happens if the Russell gaps down now, leaving these few days around 820 as an island?
If the Russell just gradually fills the gap and retests the downtrend line it broke above last week, then this should be just an ordinary pullback from an overbought reading. But if the Russell gaps down and leaves an island overhead, that would be bearish. Keep in mind that, an island is a gap that remains unfilled.
Away from that, I was asked to look at the European indices this week. Most of these are at their highs, unlike those in the U.S. Who would have ever thought that could happen?
Let's begin with Germany's Dax index, which saw a reversal Monday -- and, if you squint, you can see it. That makes the 7400 level very important now. Should this reversal take the index back under 7400, and should the Dax stay under that line, this move will have proven to be a fake-out -- not a breakout. If it tests 7400 and hold above that area, then we should see another attempt at the upside.
That's the bullish view. But, from a bearish point of view, a move back under 7400 would look bearish because this whole upside move would look more like a throwback rally to the underside of an already-broken uptrend line. Considering that this is reading as overbought, as well, I'd lean toward a pullback under 7400.
The bottom line is this: It's not whether the markets pull back but how they do so. As the week goes on, we'll check in on some of the other non-U.S. indices.


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I love Fall. The heat is gone, the leaves are changing colors, college football is in play and soup season is here. There's nothing like a warm bowl of savory, satisfying soup. Am I right?
I always feel creative and confident when I am making soup. I make use of pantry staples, cut up fresh veggies for aromatics and use whole grains or beans to make it a wholesome, well-rounded and healthy meal.
My Sausage, Sweet Potato and Rosemary 13 Bean Soup is no different. With 13 beans this soup is high in fiber, rich in protein and low in fat. Oh, and it tastes delicious. So have seconds, people. But before you do let me tell you more.
Each component of the soup is rich and flavorful on its own, but together it's greater than the sum of its parts. I begin with classic aromatic vegetables like celery, carrots and onions. Add your favorite spicy sausage and buttery sweet potatoes and it gets better. But what ties it all together? Two things: Bob's Red Mill 13 Bean Soup Mix and fresh rosemary.
The rich, stick-to-your-ribs heartiness combined with the fresh lemon and pine scents of rosemary is a hit. Each bite has a variety of beans, spicy sausage, sweet potato and a wonderfully, seasoned broth.
Make some Sausage, Sweet Potato and Rosemary 13 Bean Soup tonight and celebrate fall's best dish: soup.
Sausage, Sweet Potato and Rosemary 13 Bean Soup
by Becky of Project Domestication
- 1-1/4 cups Bob's Red Mill 13-Bean Soup
- 1-2 Tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 lb Hot or Spicy Sausage
- 1 large Carrot, chopped
- 2 stalks Celery, chopped
- 4 cloves Garlic, minced
- 1 large Red Onion
- 6 cups Chicken Broth
- 3 cups water
- 2-14.5 oz. cans Diced Tomatoes
- 3 Bay Leaves
- 1 Tbsp Rosemary
- 1 Sweet Potato, chopped
- 1/2 tsp freshly cracked Pepper (or to taste)
- 1 tsp Kosher Salt (or to taste)
Soak beans overnight or up to 24 hours. Heat a large stockpot on medium heat. Brown sausage. If sausage is overly fatty, drain drippings. Set sausage aside. If using drippings add carrots, onion and celery. If not using drippings add olive oil.
Cook aromatics until soft, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook for another minute or two. Add chicken broth, water and tomatoes then stir. Add beans, bay leaves, rosemary, sweet potato, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and let simmer for 1-1/2 to 2 hours or until all beans are soft. Add sausage and cook until sausage is warm. Adjust seasonings to palate preference.
*This soup freezes well.
About Becky:
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PLANO, Texas — Earnings per share for Dr Pepper Snapple Group increased 5 cents to 49 cents, compared with the year-ago period, thanks to an increase in consumer spending and new licensing agreements with Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.
Net sales totaled $1.4 billion, a 4.2% increase from fourth quarter 2009. DPS said the increase was attributed to sales volume growth, positive pricing and deferred revenue from its licensing deals with Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. Under these agreements, PepsiCo began distributing Dr Pepper, Crush and Schweppes in the U.S. territories — brands that were distributed by the Pepsi Bottling Group — while Coca-Cola began distributing Dr Pepper in the United States and Canada Dry in the northeastern United States, where the products previously were distributed by Coca-Cola Enterprises.
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HOUSTON - Sketches were released Thursday of three men wanted in connection with a series of robberies of AT&T employees.
There have been seven robberies since the beginning of August.
- Nov. 14: 1500 Tulane at 10:45 a.m.
- Nov. 7: 790 W. Little York at 2 p.m.
- Nov. 6: 2003 Gardenia at 11:30 a.m.
- Oct. 19: 1702 Wilburforce at 4:20 p.m.
- Oct. 8: 900 Lucky at 12:40 p.m.
- Sept. 26: 9903 NW Park
- Aug. 3: Imperial Valley Drive near Bamell Road
The workers have been robbed at gunpoint and had their personal belongings and company-issued iPhones and iPads taken, investigators said. Officials with the Communication Workers of America said not all AT&T employees are issued electronic devices.
All three robbers have been described as black.
One was described at being in his late teens to early 20s, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and 200 to 230 pounds.
A second robber was described as being in his late teens to early 20s and about 5 feet 8 inches tall with a normal build.
The third suspect was described as being in his 20s and about 5 feet 6 inches tall with a skinny build.
AT&T has offered a $50,000 reward leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the suspects.
Anyone with information is asked to call AT&T Asset Protection at 800-807-4205.
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Don't laugh, funnyman Bill Maher has bought a stake in the New York Mets.
The "Real Time with Bill Maher" host told reporters that he invested in the team months ago at Sunday's Mets 6-1 victory.
It is unsure if Maher bought a full share or is part of a partnership group.
After a deal with hedge fund manager David Einhorn fell through, the team decided to sell 12 shares for $20 million each.
Maher said in a video tweeted by the Mets, that he has been a fan of the team since its inception.
He said he was thrilled when the Mets won in 1969 and 1986 and expects "to be thrilled again very soon."
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This year's Thanksgiving dinner for 10 is estimated to increase by less than one percent with the drought keeping retail food prices even with last year.
Higher prices for crops mean everything from livestock to dairy products and even apple pie will cost more. While the previous year's drought raised the price of Thanksgiving dinner in 2011 by 13 percent, totaling $49.20, this year's meal is expected to add another 28 cents to last year's bill.
American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman encourages members of the agriculture community to connect with consumers during the holiday season.
"At just under $5 per person, the cost of this year's meal remains a bargain," said Stallman, a rice and cattle producer from Texas. "Our diverse farm and ranch families are honored to produce the food from our nation's land for family Thanksgiving celebrations. During this holiday season, I am encouraging farmers and ranchers to reach out to consumers in-person or through social media, to answer questions about the food that they grow or the livestock and poultry they raise."
Yahoo reports food prices have remained steady since last January, but consumers will begin to notice higher grocery bills as companies pass on higher commodity prices.
High feed costs have resulted in tighter livestock supplies and have even forced some farmers to exit the business. The USDA predicts milk prices will increase by 3.5 percent to 4.5 percent due to the smallest dairy herd in over a decade. Higher milk prices mean dairy products such as cheese and cream will increase by up to 10 percent.
Beef prices, which have declined earlier this year due to herd liquidations, are expected to increase by four or five percent as supplies tighten going into 2013. The Consumer Price Index shows the cost of a turkey is up 6.9 percent, about a dollar per bird.
Surveys show consumers won't suffer from sticker shock at the checkout lane. A survey by Millionaire Corner reveals about a third (32 percent) of Affluent households plan to spend $50-$99 on the holiday dinner. Another 28 percent plan to spend between $100 and $199.
Consumers will likely favor pumpkin pies over alternatives because pumpkins have weathered the drought better than apples.
Processed foods will likely begin to increase early next year.
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Investors can't often say that the most can be had just by watching a stock from the sidelines -- regardless of whether the price surges or sinks. In the case of one particular stock, it's a given that the stock will climb or fall; the shares will not sit still. That stock is Herbalife (HLF), a seller of nutritional supplements through its own network marketing channels.
Herbalife first came to the forefront several months ago when hedge-fund manager David Einhorn questioned the company's marketing practices on a conference call. Shares dropped. Several weeks ago, activist investor William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management, in his trademark style, presented a 330-page slide show in which he essentially called Herbalife a "pyramid scheme." Ackman revealed that he was short around 20 million shares, close to a billion-dollar trade. In response, shares fell by about a third to around $27 from nearly $40 in a manner of days.
Enter Daniel Loeb, manager of Third Point Capital, also a highly regarded and respected heavy hitter. Loeb revealed that Third Point is long 8.9 million shares of Herbalife, representing an 8.2% stake in the company. Loeb said, "All multi-level marketers by definition operate under a so-called 'pyramid' structure and have some internal consumption, facts which do not render them patently illegal." Loeb also took a slight jab at Ackman: Third Point started building its stake in Herbalife "mostly during the panicked selling that followed the short seller's dramatic claims."
There you have it: the ultimate bear vs. bull battle. I don't recall ever seeing such a public conflict over a stock. And the money involved is not chump change: hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars are up for grabs. Right now, Loeb has the wind at his back. Herbalife shares are trading back above $41 a share, up more than 50% since the low price of $24 on Dec. 24, 2012. And shares look to be climbing still.
It's likely that the ultimate winner won't be declared for months. Loeb believes that Herbalife shares are worth north of $60. The stock, while up massively over the past two weeks, is still well off its 52-week high of $73. And it's not impossible that shares will continue to climb, Loeb takes his profits, and Herbalife ultimately falls victim to Ackman's claims. As it stands, Herbalife is a $4.5 billion company that has shown impressive growth results: Free cash flow has nearly doubled over the past three years.
Maybe Real Money Pro options guru, Tim Collins, has an option-pair trade that considers both the bearish and bullish stances. Either way, this is going to be a highly visible stock for next several months. Ackman and Loeb have had highly publicized successful trades and not so successful bets. Loeb is known for his loose pen and unafraid to use colorful adjectives. Ackman is an intense and patient investor. He has pledged any gains from Herbalife to charity.
If investors want a lesson in being independent-minded, now is your chance to learn from two of the best. Over the coming weeks and months, both they will find out why they are right or wrong about Herbalife. Ackman said it best; his goal is "to shine a spotlight on the company so that the world better understands the facts about Herbalife. ... The outcome of this investment is not about Pershing Square or anyone else who is long or short the stock. To the extent another investor, long or short, brings additional sunlight to the situation, we welcome them."
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The market continues to struggle as the realization grows that the politicians actually are going to allow us to go over the fiscal cliff. The market is still hoping for some sort of Band-Aid deal but losing faith quickly. The big negative is that we really have no idea how much longer this will drag out and the chances of some sort of "grand bargain" are steadily declining as well.
What is particularly interesting is how poorly the market has anticipated this situation. Market players have been very confident for more than a month that a deal would be made before year's end. The indices have been pricing in and the only real concern is whether we might have a sell-the-news reaction when the deal is done....169 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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The CSS Validator has a problem with the: 64px\9 and 10px\9
what is the correction ?
input.file { opacity: 0; -moz-opacity: 0; filter: alpha(opacity=0); height: 54px; width /*\\**/: 64px\\9; margin /*\\**/: 0 0 0 -10px\\9 font-size: 8px; z-index: 200; } /* IE8 */
and this line below.: no-repeat left\9
.search-button strong { background: url(images/search-button.jpg) no-repeat left; background /*\\**/: url(images/search-button.png) no-repeat left\\9; padding: 1em 0 1em 5px; margin-right: 10px; cursor: pointer; }
all help greatly appreciated
That's because its not valid
It's an IE9 hack which would be better served using conditional comments to serve the alternate rules to IE9/8 using valid code rather than using invalid hacks that may indeed break should a new browsers think differently. Those IE8/9 hacks are notoriously unreliable as they don't work on some properties and best avoided.
If you don't want separate style sheets then use the class on the html approach and you can define alternative rules with the pre-fix.
<!--[if IE 6]>
<html class="ie6">
<!--[if IE 7]>
<html class="ie7">
<!--[if IE 8]>
<html class="ie8">
<!--[if IE 9]>
<html class="ie9">
<!--[if !IE]><!-->
e.g. .ie9 .test1 {width:200px}.ie8 .test1 {width:199px}
Of course that does change specificity so you need to use it sparingly.
However, I would guess that maybe a change of style may fix the issue without hacks.
Hello Paul O'B, thank you for your reply.
so to fix the css lines do I remove the 9 ?
64px\9 and 10px\9
so 64px and 10px will that work ok ?
your help appreciated
Yes the /9 at the end is a hack and all browsers that encounter the rule say "hey this isn't right I'm getting out of here and leave the rule alone". Ie9 (and IE8 if I remember correctly) incorrectly parse the rule as 64px and 10px and forget about the end bit. Therefore authors have used it as a way of passing styles only to those browsers.
If you use conditional comments (or the pre-fix trick) then you can use the valid rules instead.
ok so I will remove the /9 and hopefully all will be ok
the reason I asked is I have seen font size with 12px/18px in css rules
so wanted to check if I should be deleting the /9 or adding a px to the 9 /9px
if would look at this please, it is also a css validation problem:
Feature -webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio doesn't exist for media screen ) { select.mselect, select.mselect:hover { height: auto !important; } select, select:hover { height: 24px; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 0 !important; } }
That's different altogether and is shorthand for the font-size followed by the line-heigh i.e. font-size/line-height.:)
Just normal as 64px.
None of the vendor prefixes are valid so you just have to ignore the errors/warnings for those. They do follow a valid construct but won;t validate through the validator. However you do need to use them these days so you just have to live with it.
Great Errors reduced now
yet I have a couple of zoom errors - Property zoom doesn't exist : 1
#languages-menu li a { display: block; zoom: 1; padding: 0; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; color: #444; font-weight: normal;}
and a couple of opacity=0 errors, and Sorry, the at-rule @-moz-document is not implemented.
/* start ajaxMultiFileUpload */
#maincol { width: 100%; margin: 0 auto 0; }
@-moz-document url-prefix() {
input.file, x:-moz-any-link, x:default { opacity: 0; -moz-opacity: 0; filter: alpha(opacity=0); height: 54px; width: 54px; margin: 0 0 0 -20px;
font-size: 8px; z-index: 200; }/* FF3 */
input.file { opacity: 0; -moz-opacity: 0; filter: alpha(opacity=0); height: 54px; width: 54px; margin: 0 0 0 -15px; font-size: 8px; z-index: 200; } /* FF2 */
input.file { opacity: 0; -moz-opacity: 0; filter: alpha(opacity=0); height: 54px; width /*\\**/: 64px; margin /*\\**/: 0 0 0 -10px; font-size: 8px; z-index: 200; } /* IE8 */
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
input.file { opacity: 0; -moz-opacity: 0; filter: alpha(opacity=0); height: 54px; width: 54px; font-size: 8px; z-index: 200; margin-top: -14px; } /* SAFARI & Chrome */
what to do with these ?
zoom is a proprietary IE only property and not in the css specification (although I believe safari has support for it also) and won't validate. It's mainly used to put IE7 and under into "haslayout" mode to ensure consistent rendering. If you aren't supporting IE7 and under then you can remove it but will likely break IE7 and under very badly. The only way to trick the validator is put it inside conditional comments and call the rules from there. However virtually no one does that these days as we all know why the rules is in the stylesheet and it will do no harm. Validation is merely a means to an end and not a bible. It's there to point out potential problems but then its up to you to ignore them or not. It's not a tool for clients to use to assess a site as that is too simplistic an approach.
and a couple of opacity=0 errors,
That looks like part of the IE filter code and IE filters are again invalid code and the only way to validate them is to remove them to conditional comments and hide from the validator. (unless it should have been 'opacity:0' which is valid (but not when part of the IE filter code).)
and Sorry, the at-rule @-moz-document is not implemented.
Yes that's just more vendor prefixes which won't validate but will do no harm as long as you undesrtand their use.
What some people do is to remove all the invalid rules and put them in a separate stylesheet so that al the main stylesheets validate and just this one stylesheet is invalid. That seems to satisfy clients who don't know better and also shows that you realise they are invalid rules but needed for the page to display properly..
ok good to understand all that, I will just leave it as is.
yes learning what is needing fixing, and what to leave alone,
your help, and sharing is greatly appreciated,
best wishes to you


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VICTORIOUS showjumper Tom Dyer walked away with two victories to his name at the RDA nationals in Hartpury, Gloucestershire.
Tom, from Shrewton, was representing the Wilton Group Riding for the Disabled, came first in the showjumping level two junior unled class, with a strong 88 per cent finish.
The 15-year-old, who takes part in competitions for grades one to five, also
took top place in the junior class (1-v) walk trot test, proving all his hard work with Wilton RDA pony spangles had paid dividends.
This is Tom's last year of competing at the junior level, as he will now step up to senior riding.


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Tino Martinez says his resignation as hitting coach for the Miami Marlins was the result of three separate incidents in which he had heated confrontations with players who refused to pick up batting cage balls.
In an exclusive interview with Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports, Martinez gave his side of the controversy that led to him leaving the Miami job after less than a full season. Martinez stepped down Sunday afternoon after allegations that he verbally—and in one case, physically—abused players went public.
The batting cage incidents involved 2B Derek Dietrich, IF Chris Valaika and OF Justin Ruggiano. The 16-year major league veteran admits he used profanity with the players and grabbed Dietrich by the jersey.
He disputed reports that be grabbed the second baseman by the neck.
"Do you realize I'm out of baseball basically because a couple of players didn't pick up balls in the cage when I asked them to?" Martinez said. "As a coach, when I asked them to pick up the balls, why didn't they just say, 'Absolutely, no problem, I'll do it right now.' "
Martinez says he was perplexed that the young players refused to pick up balls before or after batting practice, something he says established veterans and stars do every day.
Here's how he describes the incident with Dietrich, a rookie who recently was demoted to Class AAA New Orleans.
"I go, 'Derek, help us pick the balls up,' " Martinez said. "He goes, 'Why? I didn't hit 'em.' I said, 'I don't give a s--- if you didn't hit 'em, help us pick the balls up.' He walked toward me, not angrily, and said, 'Hey, I didn't hit the balls, why should I pick 'em up?'
"I grabbed his jersey and said, 'Because you're f------- part of this team, pick the f------ balls up right now. Pick the f------ balls up. I'm tired of your s---.' I probably pushed him backwards. That was it."
A Miami Herald report over the weekend said Dietrich was one of the one players who complained about Martinez. A source told the newspaper he had been verbally abusive to a number of players dating back to spring training in February.
Martinez was hired in November to be a part of new manager Mike Redmond's staff.


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Chef Govind Armstrong's love of food is obvious, but his love for gardening came to the forefront with his newest restaurant, Post and Beam. Though he planned to use Red Kuri squash on his Seasonal Squash with Lamb Bacon and Pickled Tomato pie, the ginormous Trombetta Di Albenga vine, which engulfs the entire rear fence of his on-site garden, had other plans for the present. The northern varietal squash burst forth with late summer trumpets. Chef Armstrong pairs he squash with fresh mint growing just a few feet away. Pickled tomatoes and lamb belly bacon—both made in-house—round out this light but bold pie.
What You'll Need
- 1 portion of dough
- Seasonal squash
- Lamb belly bacon (cured in salt, pepper, palm sugar, coriander and sumac)
- Roma tomatoes (pickled in white vinegar, salt, and palm sugar)
- Ricotta salata
- Pea shoots
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Mint
Post and Beam
3767 Santa Rosalia Dr Los Angeles, CA 90008 (map)
323-299-5599; postandbeamla.com
About the author: After nearly a decade in Brooklyn, Kelly Bone landed back in Los Angeles where she writes The Vegetarian Foodie. She spends the rest of her time designing office cubicles... you might be sitting in one right now! Follow her on Twitter at @TheVegFoodie


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I am a rabid—as in foaming at the mouth—fan of Cook's Illustrated. While it can be pedantic at times, the magazine's quest for perfection reliably yields delicious, easy-to-reproduce recipes.
In a fit of curiosity, I signed up to test out recipes that may or may not appear in the magazine. You're given a recipe and asked to submit your thoughts on the results by a particular date. Typically, the time frame passes before I have a chance to try it out, so I toss the recipe. But when a recipe for the Ultimate Beef Burger came along—a West Coaststyle burger no less—I held onto it after the window had closed and thought I'd share the results with you all instead. If you're like me, your quest for the perfect burger continues into your kitchen.
The recipe calls for a mixture of sirloin steak tips or flap meat and boneless beef short ribs. Well, I couldn't find either, so I got short ribs on the bone and a thin, flat sirloin steak. (To be honest, the sirloin I used may not have been exactly what was called for, but I don't think it hindered the results much.) Removing the meat from the bone wasn't a big deal, but I would recommend getting rid of some of the fat from the top layer. Too much of the fat resulted in chunks of gristle in the final product.
Grinding the meat in a food processor was new for me and frustrating at first—mostly because I put in too much at once. I'd recommend only filling it up halfway, otherwise the meat won't grind uniformly. In the end, I may prefer this method to the grinder as you do get a much coarser, more loosely packed patty. I also thought quickly freezing the one-inch cubes of meat prior to processing was a great idea, as it keeps the meat from going to mush.
So how did it all turn out? The toasted bun and the burger spread was right on, and the burger was tasty. But I made a couple mistakes that I'll correct next time I prepare this. First, my patties were just a touch too thick, and I didn't have the pan hot enough. After browning the buns on medium-high heat, I forgot to crank it up to high so I could get a nice char on the meat. And if I'm going to make it hotter, I'd need it to be a bit thinner so I can get it to medium-rare without overdoing the crust.
In the end, the mix and quality of the meat is what separates this from the great burgers. I did get Prime short ribs, but I chinzed on the sirloin, getting only Choice. Also, I don't think the short ribs give enough beefy flavor. I'm not sure what else I'd want to add, but I might add brisket next time.
Making burgers at home can be as simple as buying ground chuck and throwing it on your skillet, but if that's all you wanted, you wouldn't be reading AHT. Despite my complaints and faults, this is a fantastic recipe to use as a base. There's room for improvement and personalization, but you'll be happy and full if you stick to the script.


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Created in 2007 by Carnegie Hall's Executive and Artistic Director Clive Gillinson and The
Juilliard School's President Joseph W. Polisi, Ensemble ACJW is an inspirational collective
of young professional musicians who are fellows in a two-year program that supports them in
building careers as top-quality performers, innovative programmers, and dedicated teachers
who fully engage with the communities in which they live and work.
Ensemble ACJW fellows-chosen for their musicianship, but also for their leadership
qualities and commitment to music education-come from some of the best music schools in the
country, including The Colburn School , Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School, New
England Conservatory, Rice University, University of Southern California, and Yale School
of Music.
Ensemble ACJW has earned accolades from critics and audiences alike for the quality of its
performances as well as its fresh and open-minded approach, performing a wide range of
music-from centuries past to works written days before an event-in a variety of performance
venues. The group performs its own series at Carnegie Hall and has regularly appeared at
The Juilliard School's Paul Hall and other venues throughout New York City, including (Le)
Poisson Rouge nightclub in Greenwich Village, Subculture in NoHo, and Galapagos Art Space
in Brooklyn. As part of a partnership with Skidmore College that began in 2007, Ensemble
ACJW gives master classes for university students and performs for the Saratoga Springs
community in both concert halls and in informal settings around town.
Along with performance opportunities at premier venues in New York City and beyond,
Ensemble ACJW fellows each partner with a New York City public school to share their
artistry with-and become central resources for-music classrooms in the five boroughs.
Ensemble ACJW fellows also take part in community work through the Weill Music
Institute's Musical Connections program, in which they perform at multiple non-traditional
music venues across New York City, including healthcare settings, correctional facilities,
and senior-service organizations. Throughout the two-year program, Ensemble ACJW fellows
participate in rigorous, ongoing professional development to ensure that they gain the
necessary skills to be successful in all areas of the program and to become leaders in
their field. Areas of emphasis include artistic excellence, engagement strategies on and
off the stage, advocacy, professional skills, and preparation for their in-school
Exemplary performers, dedicated teachers, and advocates for music throughout the
community, the forward-looking musicians of Ensemble ACJW are redefining what it means to
be a musician in the 21st century. Visit acjw.org to learn more.
A consummate musician, masterful programmer, and dynamic presence, David Robertson has
established himself as one of today's most sought-after American conductors. A passionate
and compelling communicator with an extensive knowledge of orchestral and operatic
repertoire, he has forged close relationships with major orchestras around the world
through his exhilarating music making and stimulating ideas. In fall 2013, Mr. Robertson
launched his ninth season as music director of the 134-year-old St. Louis Symphony. In
January 2014, he assumes the post of chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra in Australia.
In 2012-2013, Mr. Robertson led the St. Louis Symphony on two major tours: his first
European tour with the orchestra-its first European engagements since 1998-in fall 2012,
which included critically acclaimed appearances at London's BBC Proms, at the Berlin and
Lucerne festivals, and at Paris's Salle Pleyel; and a spring 2013 California tour that
included a three-day residency at the University of California, Davis, and performances at
the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and venues in Costa Mesa, Palm Desert, and Santa
Mr. Robertson is a frequent guest conductor with major orchestras and opera houses around
the world. In the 2013-2014 season, he conducts the new production of Nico Muhly's Two
Boys at the Metropolitan Opera and appears with orchestras that include the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He
also leads the summer 2014 US tour of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of
America, a project of Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. In past seasons, he has
appeared nationally with the Boston and Chicago symphony orchestras, Philadelphia and
Cleveland orchestras; and internationally with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle
Dresden, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Sydney and Melbourne symphony orchestras,
among others.
With more than 45 operas in his repertoire, Mr. Robertson has appeared at many of the
world's most prestigious opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Opéra de
Lyon, Bavarian State Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, Hamburg State Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and
San Francisco Opera.
Born in Santa Monica, California, Mr. Robertson was educated at London's Royal Academy of
Music, where he studied horn and composition before turning to orchestral conducting. Mr.
Robertson is the recipient of numerous awards and honors.
Combining a rare, natural warmth with a fierce commitment to the communicative power of
music, Dawn Upshaw has achieved worldwide celebrity as a singer of opera and concert
repertoire, ranging from the sacred works of Bach to the freshest sounds of today. In
2007, she was awarded a fellowship by the MacArthur Foundation, the first vocal artist to
be awarded the five-year "genius" grant, and in 2008 she was named a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
From Salzburg, Paris, and Glyndebourne to the Metropolitan Opera (where she began her
career in 1984 and has since made nearly 300 appearances), Ms. Upshaw has championed
numerous new works created for her, including John Harbison's The Great
Gatsby; Kaija Saariaho's Grawemeyer Award-winning opera L'amour de
loin and oratorio La Passion de Simone; John Adams's nativity oratorio
El Niño; and Osvaldo Golijov's chamber opera Ainadamar and song
cycle Ayre.
Ms. Upshaw is a favored partner of many leading musicians, including Richard Goode, the
Kronos Quartet, James Levine, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. In her work as a recitalist, and
particularly in her work with composers, Ms. Upshaw has become a generative force in
concert music, having premiered more than 25 works in the past decade. From Carnegie Hall
to large and small venues throughout the world, she regularly presents specially designed
programs composed of lieder, unusual contemporary works in many languages, and folk and
popular music. She furthers this work in master classes and workshops with young
singers at major music festivals, conservatories, and liberal arts colleges. She is the
artistic director of the Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and
a faculty member of the Tanglewood Music Center. Ms. Upshaw holds honorary doctorate
degrees from Yale University, the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School,
Allegheny College, and Illinois Wesleyan University.
A four-time Grammy Award winner, Ms. Upshaw is featured on more than 50 recordings,
including the million-selling Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Górecki. Her most recent release on
Deutsche Grammophon is Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra, the third in a
series of acclaimed recordings of Osvaldo Golijov's music.


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DO we go into the final game of the season with a better team than what we started the season with? I'd say definitely yes.
But should we be going into the final game of the season already in the play-offs? I'd say yes and no.
Last season I expected us to finish in the play-offs as a minimum. Of course that didn't happen and we nearly got relegated.
Gary Bowyer has had to deal with the fallout from that and there has been a lot of change around the football club.
Gary has brought stability to the team and more promise to the team and the fans are happy with that.
But it would have been nice to have kicked on and got into that top six.
Yes we are unbeaten in 11 games but we have dropped too many points against teams we should have beaten.
And it's those games that we are probably going to look back on and rue the fact that we have missed out on the possibility of promotion.
The most recent one was the stalemate at home to Yeovil but there were other matches before that when we've taken the lead only to fall apart.
So we really should be going into Saturday's game against Wigan level on points or better off than the three teams above us.
We're not and that's why, for me, this season could well be a case of 'what if'?
That's not to say we shouldn't be positive.
You only have to look at the team Gary has assembled to see that.
I think the introduction of Rudy Gestede has been good and, while, for me, there is still a question mark over whether he and Jordan Rhodes can do it together, he is really coming into his own.
Craig Conway has been a breath of fresh air and getting Tom Cairney has been phenomenal, he has been my stand-out player.
We had to sell our captain Scott Dann but to be fair you can't take anything away from Matt Kilgallon, I think he's filled in that role very well.
I think the signing of Michael Keane has also helped, so there have been plenty of plusses.
But will there have been enough of them to get us into the play-offs? It looks unlikely.
But whatever happens we should still want to end on a high by beating Wigan.
If we do that, and do that comfortably, then the lads can go back into the dressing room and see if results elsewhere have gone their way.
There is no pressure on them and there hasn't been since that Yeovil game.
They have just got to go out there and win.


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Every year the Vermont Fine Furniture Festival in Woodstock, VT gets better and better. It's not too early to mark your calendar for this year's Fall show on Saturday and Sunday, September 24-25. Vermont Woods Studios Furniture customers have journeyed from all over New England and as far away as California to attend the show, get to know Vermont's fine furniture makers and place orders for custom crafted furniture made especially for their spaces.
This year Celebrity Home & Style Designer Stephen Saint-Onge will join us at the Festival and will be a Guest Speaker for the Vermont Woodworking Design Competition. Stephen has been seen by millions of homeowners with his column House Calls in Better Homes and Gardens magazine and has made numerous television appearances on programs and networks including The Today Show, Oprah, The View, CNN, CBS's The Early Show, Fox News, ESPN and TLC. His work has also been featured in publications such as House Beautiful, In Style, Child, Renovation Style, Real Simple, Elle Decor, Cottage Living, Metropolitan Home, Home, Shape, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.
House Beautiful magazine named Stephen "one of the top fifteen designers in America." We are excited to see Stephen at the Fine Furniture Festival this year and hope to see you there too!
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An open lesbian has been unexpectedly removed from her position as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Texas A&M University-Commerce, and the student newspaper reports that "questions have been raised" about whether sexual orientation was a factor.
Christine Evans was removed as dean and given a position as a professor in the agriculture department. Evans told The East Texan that her sexual orientation "probably" wasn't the reason for her removal as dean. But she adds that even if it was, she would have no recourse. Neither the university policy, nor state or federal law, includes employment protections for gays and lesbians.
"I am openly lesbian, and have made no attempt to either trumpet or hide that orientation," Evans said. "I'm quite certain that most people on campus and in Commerce who have interacted with me to any extent are aware of that. I can also add that I have had no direct experience of mistreatment or different treatment related to the issue. …
"My personal opinion is that my sexual orientation was probably not the reason for my dismissal," she said. "Further, although it hasn't been shared with me, I would be very disappointed if I were to learn that my career status had been so abruptly altered by something so insubstantial."
The provost of the university, Larry Lemanski, says Evans' removal was a "personnel matter" and that he wanted to move the college "in a new direction."
While Evans isn't publicly claiming anti-gay discrimination, she did take an apparent swipe at the administration.
"It will be refreshing to have a supervisor I respect and colleagues I can trust," she said.


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I bet that big payout and those royalties to Nokia are laughable to eh? Apple is already paying for their misdoings.
If you find that amusing, then here's something that will probably ruin your day which would most likely never have been reported on this site.
Still laughing?
Funny how it's only trolling when someone doesn't suck the slimey Apple d!ck.
There's nothing "laughable" about a lawsuit, no matter how much money is involved. Just because they have billions doesn't make it laughable. What....the courts shouldn't fine them because it's such a small amount? We should just throw the law out the window when small fines against multiple-billion dollar corporations are handed out?
You know what I find laughable.....the mere fact that Apple has been through so many lawsuits that their lead patent attorney got burned out and dipped out from Apple. Or just the sheer number of patent lawsuits companies file against Apple which of course homers will just say is out of jealousy rather than the fact that Apple is not the "innovative" giant people try to make them out to be.
And the last time I mentioned the Nokia lawsuit was in the thread about how Apple "surges past Nokia", but in typical one-dimensional fashion the writer (guess who) just happened to leave out the fact that Part of the reason Apple surged past Nokia is because of the patent features they use FROM NOKIA and pay them for. Somehow that little bit of info seems to be left out everytime. Instead some of the writers intentionally leave out certain information that might cast Apple in a negative light......and while this is a sight for Apple product fans......as an Apple product owner......I want to know ALL of the news regarding the company that makes my product......good OR bad.
I don't get tired of the news, but I DO get tired when writers intentionally leave out information to attempt to make Apple look better......if facts are gonna be posted.....post THE WHOLE FACTS. And until they do...I'll take care of the rest no matter how repetitive it becomes.
looks like these guys missed your point rico. maybe you need to dumb it down to their 12 year old mentality level.
you guys talking spam, this "u mad" crap is just as bad if not worse. its too overused to be used anymore. think of something new.


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Gear up for back to school with this collection of must haves for any budding sports fan. He'll be on track with all the things he needs for the classroom and remain totally sporty. Back-to-school essentials include pencils, notebooks, a good backpack — and don't forget the clothes! We've rounded up a collection of sports-themed items your little fan is sure to love.
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The 2013 Cornell PRO-DAIRY Herd Health and Nutrition Conference is coming up. The one-day conference will be held April 10, in East Syracuse, N.Y., and repeated April 12, in West Lebanon, N.H. The conference is a joint project of PRO-DAIRY and the Northeast Ag and Feed Alliance.
The event is designed to provide an opportunity for dairy producers, veterinarians, feed industry representatives and agriservice personnel to increase their knowledge of current herd health and nutrition management techniques, while interacting with other professionals.
Topics on the agenda include group feeding of calves, economics on the farm, and advances in corn silage. Commercial exhibits also will be featured.
The conference has been approved for four ARPAS continuing education credits.


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I looked at these photos a day or two ago and forgot to comment. I love the identical glasses on the couple in the first photo. Both husband wife look very serious. I wonder if you know anything about their personalities. I can imagine him being a tease.


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WANDERERS are poised to make a decision on whether they will sign Sweden international full-back Mikael Dyrestam.
Dougie Freedman has been chasing the defender since the summer but will decide today if he is in the right physical shape to play Championship football and solve his long-term search for a full-back.
Dyrestam, capped twice by his country, has battled back from a serious knee injury and is believed to have offers from a handful of other European clubs.
But having battled hard to get the 22-year-old to Euxton, where he has trained since the start of the week, Freedman revealed yesterday that he is now close to making a choice on whether to offer the ex-IFK Gothenburg star a contract.
"We really like him," Freedman said ahead of tomorrow's clash with Watford. "It isn't so much a trial because he has really only been doing fitness tests but we have him for one more day and then I'll see where we are.
"He has impressed me but I know him anyway. I have seen him a few times in Gothenburg and watched him play.
"He has got huge potential – a couple of caps already – and he is the profile of the type of player I want to sign.
"Is he ready to come into the team right now? Probably not, and that is a little concern of mine.
"He plays different positions though his favourite position is full back. He hasn't played for a couple of months because Gothenburg have been off with their winter break.
"My concern is if he could come in and help us right now."
Freedman has been on Dyrestam's trail since he left Gothenburg at the end of the Swedish season last autumn but it has taken until now to bring him to the UK.
With Marc Tierney out until April and Tim Ream still seen as a stop-gap at left-back, the scene appears set for Dyrestam to make an impact, provided he can prove his fitness to the club's medical staff.
And for Freedman it would mark the end of a long fight to get the versatile defender to the club.
"I can only say we're working extremely hard behind the scenes to put things in place," he said. "The IT department and scouting department working so hard to find the young talent all over Europe.
"I know it's not translated onto the pitch right now with results. But it is only a matter of getting results and the whole club will start spiralling upwards.
"We started looking at Dyrestam live last August. Eight times we have watched him and I have been over a couple of times.
"We have built up a relationship with these people so if he did become available we would be closer to the deal than if we had just jumped in yesterday.
"It's been a long process. He has been here to see if he can step in for Saturday or if he needs another month or another two months."


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Will Apple, Foxconn, & Sweeteners Satisfy Labor Activists?
Foxconn Electronics Inc. is either one of the most loyal corporate partners in the electronics manufacturing community or a patsy for its biggest customer, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL)
Before you charge me with being too harsh on the world's No. 1 electronics manufacturing services provider, consider two recent developments. First, early this week, the Fair Labor Association began auditing Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, under instructions from Apple, which faces a barrage of accusations of condoning labor violations at plants that make its products. Apple said the audits were "voluntary." That implies Foxconn readily and willingly allowed FLA workers to turn the floodlights on its operations.
"Apple's suppliers have pledged full cooperation with the FLA, offering unrestricted access to their operations," Apple said when it announced the beginning of the inspections. CEO Tim Cook had this to say:
We believe that workers everywhere have the right to a safe and fair work environment, which is why weve asked the FLA to independently assess the performance of our largest suppliers. The inspections now underway are unprecedented in the electronics industry, both in scale and scope, and we appreciate the FLA agreeing to take the unusual step of identifying the factories in their reports.
I don't accept the notion that Foxconn cheerily invited the scrutiny. Few companies would ever do this. Granting such access inevitably turns up something, no matter how spotless a manufacturing facility might be. Foxconn agreed under pressure. Apple is by far its biggest customer and helped propel it to the top of the EMS rankings. The idea of turning down such a request from Apple is laughable. Apple needed to deflect complaints from workers' rights advocates and an intensely inquisitive press, and this move ensured that any blame would be placed squarely on Foxconn's doorstep.
That's the first evidence that Foxconn is willing to take a blow for Apple. But Foxconn is going further to burnish its own reputation and stop those who want to use it as a cudgel against Apple. Today, it announced that salaries for workers making iPhones and iPads in China will go up 16-25 percent starting in February. This will be the third hike in just under two years, according to a Reuters report. Junior-level worker salaries could rise to 2,200 yuan (about $350) per month from as low as 900 yuan three years ago.
Such a hike is incredible and probably unprecedented in manufacturing. Somehow, though, Foxconn is able to swing it without necessarily pushing the cost back to Apple in a business with extremely thin margins. Either Foxconn was overcharging Apple before, or it can now absorb the extra costs without disappointing investors. Whatever the case might be, iPhone, iPad, and iPod prices are unlikely to increase at a double-digit rate to offset the additional costs.
I want to return to the question at the top of this page. Will these steps taken by Apple and Foxconn satisfy their critics? Probably not, and this won't be because the actions are not commendable. They are. What may detract from the effectiveness of these moves are issues such as the timing and the controversial role the FLA is playing.
Two days after the FLA supposedly began its review of the Foxconn facilities, its president, Auret van Heerden, set off a firestorm of criticism by telling Reuters the EMS provider's plants are "first-class." Apple critics have seized on this statement to claim that it selected an organization already seen as partial to businesses to audit its suppliers. However one looks at it, Apple and Foxconn still have much to do to convince folks their operations are above board.
In a subsequent blog, I will write about what Apple's actions mean for other electronics and high-tech OEMs and their extended supply chain.
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Time's Up! from the Inside: Chapter 3
From the community blogs.
In the last article, we were looking at things that you can only see under a microscope, and it would have been wonderful to continue in that vein because — as much as it creeps a lot of people out — there is so much "out there", and also "in here", that is invisible to the naked eye. I could have had such adventures with phytoplankton in my book (although I do talk about them in Chapter 5), fungal spores, single-celled amoebas and all sorts of other minute organisms that contribute to the rich tapestry of life on Earth.
But for some reason I was attracted to Nematodes. Actually, by logical necessity I had to progress to something around a millimetre in size otherwise the size of the book would have got out of hand; but even at that scale I could have chosen all sorts of fairly familiar things, like seeds, springtails and zooplankton (tiny floaty animals). The thing that made nematodes so compelling was that I knew almost nothing about them — few people do — and yet they were considered by those in the know to be some of the most important creatures on Earth:
There is a certain difficulty in gaining realistic statistics about the variety and quantity of nematodes; after all, nematodes were not formally discovered until 1808, principally because they are too small to observe properly with the naked eye. Victor Dropkin made a more sober assessment than [Nathan Cobb, father of Nematology] of the nematode population in 1980, stating: "Take a handful of soil from almost anywhere in the world . . . and you will find elongate, threadlike, active animals. These are nematodes. Or catch a fish, a bird or a mammal almost anywhere in the world…and in most cases you will find some nematodes inside." Although nematodes are aquatic animals, in that they need water to survive, the best place to find them is in soil. Simon Gowen of the University of Reading tells his students that in temperate grasslands there are around nine million nematodes for every square metre of soil – then the same students are expected to count them for themselves (not all nine million of them, I hasten to add), just to get an idea of what this means. That is an astounding figure for something that is not a virus or a bacterium, but an animal. This means that the lush grasslands of New Zealand that produce rich butter, high quality lamb and 150 thousand tonnes of wool each year, but only constitute 5.5% of New Zealand's land area, also hold something like 132,660,000,000,000,000 nematodes. That's 132 quadrillion, for those of you who ever wanted to know how large a quadrillion is. Compare this with the apocryphal (but believable, and slightly disturbing!) figure of one million spiders per acre of grassland, and you find that nematodes outnumber spiders by 36,000 to 1.
Anyone like to hazard a guess on how many nematodes there are to each human being? I worked it out at about a trillion, for every single human being on Earth! If that's not interesting enough, there is also the fascinating division between what are considered "good" and "bad" nematodes: it depends to a great extent on whether you are trying to sell pest control devices and chemicals or not; but there are also a great number of nematodes that are unequivocally highly effective — more than almost anything else — at controlling the very "pests" that the agro-chemical companies make so much money out of. Not surprisingly, this relates very closely to the whole synthetic chemicals industry, as well as the often indecent world of biotechnology:
So why aren't nematodes used all over the world, making most types of pesticide redundant? There are three reasons. First, not a lot of widely read research has been carried out on the usefulness of such nematodes; in fact many nematologists still believe that every nematode is a pest. Second, although nematode insect parasites were identified as effective controls in the 1930s, the availability of cheap, effective chemical pesticides in the 1940s caused this research to be largely ignored, and it was not until some chemicals were banned that research started up again. Finally, and linking these two together, it is clear from the continued lobbying of powerful companies like BASF, Monsanto and Syngenta, that the chemical industry will not give up without a fight. It is no coincidence that DDT was not widely banned until 20 years after clear evidence of its terrible impacts on wildlife was made public, and that the 2007 European Union REACH legislation – which enforces the control of hundreds of previously uncontrolled chemicals – took ten difficult years to come into force. Industry still calls the shots, even in an age when it is so obvious that natural ecosystems cannot cope with the torrent of chemicals being washed into them day after day.
Even with that said, there was even more to unearth in the shady and mysterious world of nematodes. It took me an awful long time to make the rather esoteric concept of Degree Days work on paper; but I had to because it related directly to Climate Change. I won't try and explain it here, but after about four rewrites I finally made it easy to understand, and thus showed (I think) how relevant a warming world is to agriculture and our force-fed dependency on the global food market. The most surprising thing of all, though, was that it was possible to knit together the fate of something we now take for granted in the West — to the extent that in some countries the familar yellow banana forms an integral part of the cultural milieu — with Industrial Civilization's obsessive quest for homogeneity, and just two types of nematode that could spell disaster for the world banana crop.
What strange and wonderful things nematodes are.
Keith Farnish is the author of "Time's Up! An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis", which is published by Chelsea Green in the USA, and Green Books in the UK. He is also the founder of The Earth Blog and The Unsuitablog. He lives in Essex, UK, with his wife, two children and a much-loved garden.
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Just one day after Halloween—one of the biggest days for candy consumption—The Hershey Co. is facing a lawsuit alleging it could knowingly have violated and benefited from child-trafficking laws.
Yesterday, the Louisiana Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System, a Hershey shareholder, sued the country's leading chocolate maker, demanding it uncover documents that reveal its knowledge of allegedly working with cocoa suppliers in Ghana and the Ivory Coast that use child labor.
"By producing chocolate at its Pennsylvania factory that is the product of child and forced labor in West Africa, Hershey has flouted domestic and foreign law and placed at risk its century old brand and reputation," said the complaint, which the shareholder filed in the Delaware Chancery Court. If the court orders Hershey to turn over the documents, the shareholder could look for evidence that would support a lawsuit against the company and its directors.
In a statement, Hershey said that it has "been involved in on-the-ground programs, working with public and private partners, to help eliminate inappropriate labor practices in cocoa communities." The company says it is committed to ensuring that by 2020 all of its cocoa will come from suppliers meeting international labor standards.
Thomson Reuters reports that a 2011 Tulane University study found that 1.8 million children in Ghana and the Ivory Coast work in the cocoa industry, and the majority of them are unpaid.
Such findings have prompted concern over Hershey's and other chocolate companies' business practices. Last month, Whole Foods Market opted to pull Scharffen Berger, Hershey's artisan chocolate brand, from its shelves after pressure from activists.
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Chuck E. Cheese fined for child labor violations
Nestle to probe West African cocoa farms for suspected child labor
Pennsylvania teens may be allowed to work longer
Firestone escapes child labor suit
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Jude Law and Robert De Niro sandwiched Uma Thurman during a photo call this morning in France. The trio make up a portion of the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival, along with other cinema people like Linn Ullmann, Nansun Shi, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Johnnie To, Martina Gusman, and Carlos director Olivier Assayas. Uma, in Dolce & Gabbana, had a white dress faceoff with fellow early riser Rachel McAdams, who was also out today to promote her movie Midnight in Paris. Jude touched down near the Mediterranean just yesterday to get settled before his judging duties commenced. Robert is the head of their group, a task he should be comfortable with after years of helming the Tribeca Film Festival, which just wrapped up recently in NYC. We're in Cannes reporting from some of 2011's biggest premieres, so make sure to stay tuned for the latest red carpet news from the likes of Angelina, Brad, Johnny, and more!


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Tanimura & Antle is shipping iceberg lettuce heads in baseball-themed packaging.
A graphic of red stitching circles the lettuce head, and a wedge salad recipe resembles a baseball card. It's available to retailers through October, said Diana McClean, director of marketing at the Salinas, Calif.-based grower-shipper.
The idea was drawn from the company's experience in 2007, when similar packaging boosted sales for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, McClean said. Then the baseball packaging was linked to a retail display contest; now it's not.
"This time we went simply with the packaging," McClean said. "We had great success in 2007, and as we come back into baseball season it gives our retailers an opportunity to present something eye-catching throughout the season and rejuvenate iceberg sales off the shelf."
The recipe, dubbed "home run wedge salad," includes a half cup — and a graphic — of another Tanimura & Antle product, Artisan sweet Italian red onions. Other ingredients are tomato, bacon and ranch dressing.
"We're co-marketing our own product and also giving consumers a meal solution on the package, which is something regularly commented on," McClean said. "Consumers like to have recipes on the packaging."
The shipments began in May, when Tanimura & Antle also redesigned its wrapped leaf lettuce bags. The bags come in five color-coded varieties and promote the company's field packing process. The line was renamed Field Fresh Wrapped Leaf Lettuce.
The company's Summer Fun Sweepstakes runs through July. Weekly $1,000 winners are named on the Artisan Facebook page.
"We've got quite a few things going on cohesively during salad season, focused on packaging to give retailers an opportunity for product to stand out," McClean said.


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(AP) — A pastor accused of stalking the woman who opened an abortion clinic in Wichita is expected to be in court.
The allegations against Mark Holick stem from a move by an abortion-rights group, Trust Women Foundation, to open a clinic offering abortions and other medical services. It opened earlier this month in the shuttered building that housed the clinic of Dr. George Tiller, who was shot to death by an abortion opponent in May 2009.
Trust Women's executive director, Julie Burkhart, has obtained a temporary protection-from-stalking order against Holick. Thursday's hearing is over whether to make the order permanent.
Holick is accused of picketing Burkhart's home and handing out "wanted-style" fliers. A court filing says he pointed a sign at her house that read, "WHERE'S YOUR CHURCH."