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On Tuesday, the growing tyke, who just turned 1, showed off his stick handling skills while hanging at Coldwater Canyon Park in Beverly Hills, Calif.
And we have to say, we're very impressed at how he expertly juggled both his bright green pacifier and the kid-size hockey stick in the grass. Of course, his proud mama, 25, was on hand to supervise considering he recently started toddling.
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Your cooking recipes...hints and tips.
RE: Your cooking recipes...hints and tips.
Pour a can of Irn Bru in a pint glass. Add 3 scoops of Mackies honeycomb ice cream... job done.
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RE: Your cooking recipes...hints and tips.
Hope's Thai Coconut Curry.
Best recipe ever. If you don't like curry, you'll be a convert after eating this!
4 tbs butter or margarine
½ a big onion, chopped
2 – 3 chicken breasts, cubed (you can use other chicken parts if you like)
4 tsp garlic powder or 3 cloves fresh, minced
2 tbsp ginger (fresh) or 1 tsp powdered
pinch of cinnamon
3-4 heaping tsp curry paste (we prefer Patak's Madras Curry Paste)
1 14oz can coconut milk (Aroy-D is a great brand!)
3-4 tsp brown sugar (to taste)
about ¾ cup of frozen corn
one 19oz can of chick peas
other veggies (peas, green beans, carrots, and zucchini are perfect – NO MUSHROOMS - they get slimy...)
Sautee onions in butter or margarine. Add chicken, ginger, garlic, and cinnamon. When chicken is almost cooked through, add coconut milk, curry paste, and brown sugar. Bring to a bubbling simmer until chicken is cooked through. Add chick peas, corn, and other veggies. Simmer uncovered, stirring frequently, until veggies are cooked to desired tenderness and sauce boils down a bit - about 20 minutes to half an hour. Serve over rice vermicelli (China Sun recommended) or brown or white basmati rice.
This is a moderate curry - if you want to warm it up a bit more, add some red chiles.
RE: Your cooking recipes...hints and tips.
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2 cups all purpose flour.
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RE: Your cooking recipes...hints and tips.
Mmmm... Chicken cooked in beer then mixed with beans and onions?
Or potatoes filled with bacon and garlic and then roasted in the oven?
Or my famous beef cooked in sauce with dry plums, green apple, red wine and chilli?
Or the sweet-chilli tomato sauce like salsa, only it is not salsa...
Unfortunately for you, my recipes are not for public use and take way too much time to write them down.
Not to mention omelettes with garlic, young onion, chilli, bacon, cheese... You have no idea how simple ideas can get complicated if you let me do the cooking. Complicated, but pretty unique in the mix of all tastes... You just gotta love cooking for you to experiment with the ingredients you like and make something stunning. I tend to take normal, classical food and remake it to taste ... not standard. In a good way.
There is also "cooking with pot"...
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RE: Your cooking recipes...hints and tips.
(20-04-2012 03:03 AM)Filox Wrote: Mmmm... Chicken cooked in beer then mixed with beans and onions?Sounds great.
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20-04-2012, 03:12 AM (This post was last modified: 20-04-2012 04:37 AM by Filox.)
RE: Your cooking recipes...hints and tips.
You have no idea... Best chicken ever. Very salty and chilli... I might write this one down, this is simple, but some other time, no time right now.
Very well, since no one is giving me what I need here on my job, so I can't continue doing my job today, I will spend my job time to write down some recipes.
Beer chicken...
You take chicken breasts, chop them into one bite pieces, put some olive oil, pepper, salt and chilli on the pieces, mix that good, so it is spread evenly. Than take one big beer, I use half a litre for half a kilo of chicken breasts. The rest is simple, just put the chicken in beer and cook on light flame until the beer evaporates. There should be around 10-20% of the beer at the end, so just a bit of sauce and it is suppose to be pretty salty.
While the chicken is cooking, you take another pot and put some onions in, a bit of salt and some oil, fry the onions on light to medium flame until the onions get golden colour. The onions are to be cut thin, but you choose your style. Don't forget to stir the onions, you do not want it to burn. Then, after it gets golden, put in a bit of bacon, cut into small pieces, also, some garlic could be used as well. NO, NOT the garlic powder, GARLIC! You can not fry powder and it is too dry and old to be of use. Garlic needs to be cut into very thin pieces, so it can melt away during cooking. So now you are frying (on low fire) onions, garlic and bacon, take one can of beans and put it in. You can also put in some sausages if you like. Then just cook it a bit, until the beans get cooked, put in the rest of the spices as you see fit, but don't put salt in the beans/onions, you have plenty in the beer/chicken. When you think that the beans are done, just put it together with the chicken and beer. Try it and put in some spices if you feel something missing. Enjoy.
The chicken is cooked in the time needed for the beer to evaporate, but you will see for yourself is it done or not, the chicken starts to peel in small pieces when it is done, gets tender and stuff...
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(20-04-2012 03:12 AM)Filox Wrote: You have no idea... Best chicken ever. Very salty and chilli... I might write this one down, this is simple, but some other time, no time right now.Holy SHIT that sounds so good!
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Of course it does.
Try it, it may not be that good first time, but when you see how it is done, you will know how to modify it for you next time.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Not sure if we have any bakers or baking fans present but....
If you ever bake with a special shaped pan....line it with butter. Yes, butter then coat it with flour over that. The flour helps the cake slide out after baked and helps it retain the shape rather well!
Used it to make more than one 3D car shaped cake in the past three years and each time it gets better!
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I can't wait for it to get cold again so I can make this:
Crock Pot Guinness Stout Beef Stew
(Serves 6-8)
2 lbs beef stew meat (chuck is fine), cut into chunks
1/2 cup flour (divided in half)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp fresh ground black pepper
1/4 cup olive oil (divided in half)
1 lg. yellow onion, rough chopped
1 bottle Guinness Stout
1.5 cups beef stock (broth works too)
2 tbsps Demi-glace Gold (optional)
2 bay leaves (fresh or dried)
1 tsp dried thyme (or 2 sprigs fresh)
1 tbsp worcesterhire sauce
2 tbsp semi-sweet chocolate chips (don't ewww at me)
1.5 lbs boiling potatoes , cut into chunks (red, white, Yukon Gold, fingerling…I used whatever I found in the bin)
3 small turnips, peeled and cubed
1/2 small sack baby carrots, left whole
Chopped fresh parsley (optional)
Mix 1/4 cup of the flour with the salt & pepper in a big Ziploc bag. Add the beef chunks and shake to coat evenly.
Heat 1/2 the olive oil in a large skillet over high heat. If you have the fancy kind of crock pot that can go on the stove, use that.
When the oil is shimmering, drop the heat to medium and add the beef chunks. Work in batches, with the beef in a single, uncrowded layer. You want it to brown evenly (about 1 minute per side), not steam. Remove the meat as it browns and set aside.
When all the beef is browned, add the rest of the oil and the flour to the skillet. Stir to combine, and cook for a couple of minutes to get rid of the raw flour flavor. Now, add 1/2 the Guinness, and stir to pull up any delicious stuck brown bits. You're going to wind up with a caramel colored sludge. This is a good thing — it's your roux.
Add all the veggies to the crock pot. Add the roux you made in step 4, and stir to coat the veggies thoroughly.
Throw the browned meat on top of the veggies. Do not stir.
Add the rest of the Guinness, the beef stock, the demi-glace (if you're using it), the herbs, worcestershire, and the chocolate chips. Yes, you really do need the chocolate–you won't taste them; they just balance out the bitterness of the Guinness.
Slap the lid on this thing, and cook all day on low (8-10 hours would be fine) or 4-5 hours on high.
If your sauce isn't thick enough (mine was almost too thick), leave the lid off the last 20ish minutes.
Serve topped with the parsley, with some kind of good bread for mopping up the gravy.
( You can brown the beef and make the roux ahead of time, and hold in the fridge over night. )
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Geneva's chase defense has been known to take the opponent's leading scorer and make him a nonfactor, and Pace Temple and Chris Parrilli were on the job Friday night at the Class 4A Wheaton Warrenville South regional championship against West Aurora's Jontrel Walker.
While the Vikings did hold Walker to 7 points, the junior guard chipped in 4 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocked shots and 3 rebounds. He assisted on a basket by Spencer Thomas and a dunk by Josh McAuley that helped West Aurora finally break free from the feisty Vikings late in the fourth quarter, and the Blackhawks did the rest of their damage at the free-throw line making their final 9 attempts for a 45-37 victory.
No. 4 seed West Aurora (22-6) advances to play No. 1 Oswego (28-2) at 7:30 p.m. in the Class 4A Bolingbrook sectional semifinals. It's a rematch of last year's regional final the Blackhawks won on their way to the supersectional.
"It was frustrating but we expected it," Walker said. "We did our scouting. We knew they were going to the box-and-one, but I just really wanted to make sure I was still in the game making plays happen. I didn't want them to take me completely out of the game, I wanted to keep moving, do things on defense, do other things besides score. I wanted to be the leader of the team and that's what I did."
Twelfth-seeded Geneva (21-9), looking for its first regional championship since 1986, succeeded in getting the game played at its tempo. West Aurora led 8-7 after one quarter, 14-12 at halftime and 22-21 after three quarters before the Blackhawks scored more points in the fourth -- 23 -- than the first three quarters combined.
"We didn't really think about the tempo," McAuley said. "We knew we'd like to get it in our tempo but if we can't we just have to roll with it."
The final margin wasn't indicative of how tight the game was. The teams traded the lead 12 times and the game was tied 7 times. Over a stretch from the late second quarter to midway through the fourth, 14 of 15 times the teams scored the points either tied the game or changed the lead.
Geneva looked to be in perfect position for the upset early in the fourth quarter when Walker went to the bench with 7:01 left with his fourth foul. Earlier in the third quarter he and Parrilli received double technical fouls after getting tangled up in what was a physical, tense, hard-fought game.
Parrilli assisted a cutting Connor Chapman for a basket and a 25-24 Geneva lead, but that proved to be the last good Vikings possession over a game-deciding four-minute stretch.
On the Vikings' next eight trips, they turned the ball over five times, missed the front end of a 1-and-1, Nate Navigato missed an off-balanced shot that he had to shoot left-handed to get over McAuley, and the only basket came on Temple's breakaway layup.
West Aurora turned the 25-24 deficit into a 34-27 lead, with Chandler Thomas following a miss from his brother Spencer to put West Aurora ahead to stay. Sophomore Matt Dunn, subbing for Walker in foul trouble, hit his second big basket of the second half, then Walker returned for his back-to-back assists.
Suddenly that 7-point lead felt like 15 on this night when Geneva made only 12 of 36 field goal attempts and 4 of 13 3-pointers. On the same court 24 hours earlier they burned Hinsdale Central for 8-of-14 shooting on 3s.
And on a night the Vikings handled West Aurora's pressure pretty well overall with 12 turnovers, five of them came at the worst possible time.
"We're a team that does much better with maybe being a one-possession game or a lead than a team that's trying to chase two or three possessions down," Geneva coach Phil Ralston said. "We had to do some things that were a little out of our comfort zone and didn't execute some of those sets like we should."
McAuley went 5-for-5 and Jayquan Lee 4-for-4 at the line in the final two minutes to keep a safe distance even as Parrilli sank a 3-pointer and putback for Geneva.
"I think they might have been a little tired from yesterday," West Aurora coach Gordie Kerkman said of Geneva. "They run a lot of good offense, we just wanted to pressure them a little bit so it was tough for them on their cuts. They do an awful lot of picking, back-picking, cross screens, we wanted to try to take those away as much as possible and I think we did."
The Vikings didn't use the schedule of playing back-to-back nights as an excuse.
"I think we were fine. It was a little tough, we didn't get all the preparation in we maybe needed to but stuff happens and you have to adjust," said Chapman who had high praise for his opponent, McAuley.
"He was really good. He had a nice midrange game and he could take it to the hoop. It's fun to play against those top-tier guys in the area."
McAuley led all players with 18 points, 8 rebounds and 2 blocks and also guarded Geneva's leading scorer Navigato all game holding the sophomore standout to 5 points.
"Very good defense," Kerkman said. "He (Navigato) did not get very many good looks and really didn't get his hands on the ball too much either."
Parrilli led Geneva with 11 points, and Mike Trimble, Navigato and KJ Santos all scored 5. The Vikings improved their win total by six games this season, and they will return a young core that accounted for 30 of their 37 points Friday.
"It was awesome, I had so much fun this season mostly thanks to my teammates," Chapman said. "It was a great season for us."
"A couple key possessions would have gone our way, it might have been a different outcome, we might have been the ones shooting free throws at the end. We felt if we took Walker out of the game we would have a chance to win it and we did," Ralston said.
"Our kids battled tonight. They put their heart and soul on the line. I told them before the game it's like you are at the casino and they just gave you a pile of chips. Go out and play your game and have fun. And I thought we did a nice job of that."
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Molly Pleasants has found joy and purpose in becoming a physical therapist. Photo by Cliff Hollis, ECU News Services.
GREENVILLE, N.C. (May 2, 2012) — Molly Pleasants' path to becoming a physical therapist included working in the business offices of a large car dealership and weight loss franchise, in benefits at an academic medical center, and a series of jobs with a temporary agency.
But a visit with an ailing aunt seven years ago introduced her to the possibility of a career in health care. She will graduate Friday with a doctorate in physical therapy from East Carolina University.
"For a long time I didn't know about the profession," she said. In 2005, her aunt had knee replacement surgery and went to a rehabilitation center in Columbia, S.C. After meeting the physical therapist working with her aunt, she decided to look into it. "From that one visit, it started the process and thought toward this," she said. She will take the national board examination this summer, and in September will begin work at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
With an undergraduate degree in communications from Queens College, she began taking pre-requisites for ECU's physical therapy program at Central Piedmont Community College near her home in Charlotte in 2007. Just a year earlier, she gave birth to her second child, Stephen, who is now 5. She also has a daughter, Grace, who is 13. Pleasants worked as a tutor while completing enough credits to earn an associate's degree.
She only considered North Carolina universities with a physical therapy program.
"It felt like East Carolina was where I needed to be," she said. "It was always my first choice." She didn't even apply to a second school. Her grandparents are from Rowland in southeastern North Carolina, and she had spent many summers at their home. She also was awarded two scholarships at ECU.
Remembering to plan
Being a single mother became even more hectic after she started the program and moved in 2009 to Greenville from Charlotte, where her parents live and helped with child care, and whom she could count on day or night.
While Pleasants finished her final year of physical therapy classwork, research and clinical rotations, her daughter has spent the 2011-1012 school year with her grandparents to attend Randolph Middle School, an international baccalaureate magnet school in Charlotte. Pleasant's son has been with her and is a kindergartner at Lakeforest Elementary in Greenville.
"Typically we're in class all day, every day, so on (a typical day) I get home, I get him, do dinner, cleanup and get ready for his bedtime," she said. "By that time, it's 8:30 or 9 o'clock, and I have to study. That's been the most difficult part: time management. You really have to plan."
She goes grocery shopping on a certain day. She launders and prepares her son's school uniforms a week in advance. "I run on time, I don't run early, so when something happens, it's kind of a mini-emergency," she said. "Things always seem to happen at the worst possible moment. I'll have a test the next day, and he gets stomach flu."
And there are the typical sibling fights, just when she is in the middle of preparing a presentation.
Considering the purpose
"It's been a struggle," Pleasants said. "Mentally, at times, it has taken its toll and made me question if I was doing the right thing. I have to keep in the back of my mind this will be over, and I'll be a better mother and I can give them the attention they need, and I'll have financial stability to provide for them, better than I've had in the past. So that's what keeps me going. There is a higher purpose to this."
Although pressed to fit in extracurricular activities, she competed in a sprint triathlon in September and a half-marathon in November. She ran in the Run, Walk and Roll 5K, and has volunteered at the on-campus massage clinics that physical therapy students offer throughout the year.
"Somehow it has all worked out," she said. "I have a friend in my class who has just been available when I've needed her. In a pinch, she will volunteer to assist me, and I really appreciate that."
Her fellow physical therapy students have been supportive and tried to arrange group or team meetings around her schedule. Faculty members also have worked with her on the rare occasion when she has been late or had to miss class for her children.
Beating the odds
"Molly is an exceptional person and student. Despite difficult circumstances she has persevered and performed at a very high level academically and clinically throughout our curriculum," said Dr. Walter Jenkins, chair of physical therapy in the College of Allied Health Sciences. "She is always positive and has been a wonderful representative of our program for the past three years. Molly is a great example of how a determined person can overcome the odds and be successful. I have great respect for her."
Her doctoral research centered on neuropathic pain and changes in proteins after spinal cord injury. She presented at the state physical therapy conference, and at ECU's neuroscience symposium and research and creative week.
Pleasants talks by phone with her aunt, who now lives in Texas and has been cared for by other physical therapists after more surgeries. "She is walking around, and she credits a lot of it to physical therapy," Pleasants said.
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* U.S. jobless claims drop, China, Europe PMIs positive for
* Apple sell-off weighs on U.S. stocks
* Yen resumes months-long weakening against dollar, euro
By Ellen Freilich and Herbert Lash
NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - World equity and commodity
markets rose on Thursday on encouraging economic data, but a
steep sell-off in Apple shares that wiped out about $50 billion
of its market value threatened to snuff a six-day streak of
gains in U.S. stocks.
Apple Inc dropped 11.9 percent to $452.62 after the
technology icon missed Wall Street's revenue forecast for a
third straight quarter and threatened to topple it from its
ranking as the most valuable U.S. company.
The strong downdraft from Apple was offset by surprisingly
strong economic signals. U.S. factory activity grew the most in
nearly two years in January and the number of new claims for
jobless benefits dropped to a five-year low last week.
A third report showed the Conference Board's Leading
Economic Index rose last month, pointing to improved U.S. growth
"You have Apple and technology on the one side and the rest
of the market on the other side," said Hugh Johnson, chief
investment officer of Hugh Johnson Advisors LLC in Albany, New
Early U.S. stock gains pushed the S&P; 500 above the 1,500
mark for the first time since Dec. 12, 2007 and put the
benchmark index on pace for a seventh straight advance, its
longest winning streak since October 2006. Stocks later pared
some gains, with the S&P; falling below the 1,500 mark.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 66.30 points,
or 0.48 percent, at 13,845.63. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index
was up 2.46 points, or 0.16 percent, at 1,497.27. The
Nasdaq Composite Index was down 17.66 points, or 0.56
percent, at 3,136.01.
"It's a reach for return in the equities market," said Todd
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R.J. O'Brien & Associates in Chicago. "Risk takers are being
rewarded so far this year."
MSCI's world equity index rose 0.2 percent
to 353.14, lifted by business surveys showing growth in Chinese
manufacturing accelerated to a two-year high in January.
The FTSE Eurofirst 300 index of top European shares
closed up 0.29 percent at 1,171.06 on signs of growth in
Germany, which bolstered expectations that the region's
sovereign debt crisis may be easing.
"The Chinese data bodes well for demand which translates
into top line revenue growth. If global demand goes up, it's
good for U.S. equities," said Quincy Krosby, market strategist
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trillion in assets under management.
U.S. Treasury debt prices slipped after the weekly jobless
data fell to a five-year low, raising hopes of an improving U.S.
labor market and paring safe-haven bets on government debt.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell 7/32 in
price to yield 1.8507 percent, as investors moved funds into
January's flash euro zone purchasing managers index pointed
to more weakness ahead for a region already mired in recession.
But it also hinted at improvement later in the
The growing confidence in the pace of China's economic
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barrel. Brent settled 48 cents higher at $113.28.
U.S. crude futures rose 72 cents to settle $95.95 a
Gold fell $16.80 to $1,668.30 an ounce.
The yen tumbled against the dollar, snapping a three-day
advance, after a Japanese economic official said the government
has no problem with the dollar hitting 100 yen.
The Japanese currency has weakened to about 90 per dollar
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The dollar was up 1.76 percent at 90.15 against the
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Rebecca Underwood, 36, and Daniel T. Marcum, 40, of Lowe Street in Greensburg, were arrested last Tuesday and charged with first-degree promoting contraband.
According to their arrest warrants, Marcum knew that Underwood was incarcerated and the two made a plan to have illegal substances mailed to the jail. Court records state that the two were planning to mail a Suboxone strip under the postage stamp on the letter.
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A Campbellsville woman has been arrested and charged with selling heroin after she allegedly drove while intoxicated.
Campbellsville Police received a report on Saturday at about 1:20 a.m. of someone possibly driving drunk.
The report states that officers responded and made contact with Sara Marie Teel, 24, of Campbellsville.
After an investigation, Teel was arrested and charged with DUI, first-degree selling heroin, third-degree selling a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Two Campbellsville residents were arrested on Saturday after they led police on a short pursuit.
According to a Campbellsville Police report, Officer Jeromy Burris attempted to initiate a traffic stop at about 4:30 p.m. in reference to a traffic violation in the area of East Broadway and South Jackson Street.
As Burris initiated his emergency equipment, the driver failed to stop the vehicle and sped away.
Campbellsville Fire & Rescue and Campbellsville/Taylor County EMS personnel were called to respond to a crash in Green County last week in which about 40 people were transported for treatment.
Kentucky State Police Trooper Jonathan Houk is investigating a collision that occurred Friday afternoon in the area of Pitman Creek on KY 61 North in Green County.
A Campbellsville man has been arrested and charged with drug-related offenses after a one-vehicle crash.
Matthew Corey Ewing, 24, of Earl Avenue in Campbellsville, was arrested on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at about 2 p.m.
It is the policy of the Central Kentucky News-Journal to publish public records as they are reported by various agencies. Names appearing in "On the Record" are published without exception, to preserve the fairness and impartiality of the CKNJ and as a news service to our readers.
• Carol C. Adams, speeding, completed diversion, no new violations, defendant stipulated probable cause, dismissed.
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A Campbellsville man has been arrested and charged with sodomizing a woman.
Anthony Shepperson, no age given, of Greensburg Road, was arrested on Tuesday at 12:45 p.m.
According to court records, Shepperson allegedly forced a woman to have anal sex with him on Oct. 7.
Shepperson was charged with first-degree sodomy, a Class B felony punishable by as much as 20 years in prison.
A Campbellsville woman has been arrested and charged after she allegedly left a baby alone for about an hour.
Cherie Satterly, 35, of High Pine, was arrested on Sunday, Oct. 12, at 4:40 a.m.
According to Satterly's arrest citation, she allegedly left a 2-month-old baby alone at her High Pine apartment for about an hour while she walked to a nearby residence.
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I was already thinking that I can't miss posting about this kill if we make it. I mean, I didn't talk about LK kill even in 10 was a small success, I didn't talk about both meta achievements from ICC that we did complete some time ago, but… A tribute to Immortality is a subject that worth at least a few words…
Well… it didn't happen and this time was my fault!
My guild was close to this a few times:
- I died because of charge on IceHowl – and it was even in my trial period. I felt so bad… but in a way the instance just started so when I saw the second death, on Twins, I didn't felt that bad for missing this achievement because of me, but failing on that is just no comment… The bosss didn't even target me but the pressure was there and I picked up the wrong direction to run… stupid mistake done by some one that claims some raiding experience…
- A guildy had auto run on = no more 50 tries left!
- Life tap at 4% – ….
- The frost zone isn't visible… one burrower gets underground then, with 5 up took us a bit by surprise
- And this is my stupid fuck up… the one that should have never been the case and, it wasn't before. My target died of Penetrating Cold. I had target nr 3 but I never had problems before except now…
I could blame a lot of things:
– I changed a bit my grid frames and the middle Icon wasn't like before, but… I lost my target at 6%… so was fine until then!
– it was past midnight (for me) and lately I had problems with my eyes (yes, I have glasses)… but that's not the answer… is not like I had 1px icons on my grid!
– I forgot to count! Yes, this is the best explanation that writes guilty on my head.
Why the hell this needed to happen?
Why blizzard did make such achievements?
I can't blame people that felt disappointed because I failed but my guild always passed those types of "accidents" with "shit happens" and we move on.
I liked that and I know they will do the same in my case now, but even so… I HATE THIS! The pressure is big on everyone and I did wake up this morning thinking that everyone could have had a nice evening if I knew how to count.
Passing a mistake with head up and not making it next time is how things should be, but for this achievement one small mistake will delay the joy for one week and even people are not saying… they still point finger at that person, if not visible, at least on there head. Even I do that for my self!…
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"Eight White Nights"
By Andre Aciman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26, 360 pages
The unnamed narrator of Andre Aciman's new novel "Eight White Nights" puts his finger on the problem almost inadvertently, when chatting up a woman he has just met at a Christmas Eve party in Manhattan: "One could dream of a relationship and one could be in one, but one can't be the dreamer and the lover at the same time. Or can one, Clara?"
Had he heeded his own advice we would not have the novel, which opens at this posh party and leaves our habitual dreamer moonstruck by Clara but instinctively wary of her as well. She seems to have Cleopatran beauty but the tongue of an asp, "alert, warm, caustic and dangerous," in his initial opinion. When another guest at the party calls her a Gorgon repeatedly, it should have tipped off even the most unobservant of suitors.
Clara is off men at the moment, "lying low" in her terms, "for my sins, for my whatevers," although the narrator spots her in a passionate embrace and deeply kissing another man at the party. This causes him to reflect that until that moment, "I had probably never understood what lovemaking was, nor what it was for." What ensues is a halting tale of parry-and-thrust encounters between Clara and the narrator, their respective aims and very natures open to question in the narrator's mind.
On the surface, "Eight White Nights" is an angst-ridden tale of the potential for love, playing out as a series of rendezvous over a week's time between Clara and Aciman's narrator. It is also, however, Aciman toying with literature's romance with romance as a motif. Both Clara and the narrator have overdeveloped literary antennae, as they quip with lines from Keats and Joyce and Gerard Manley Hopkins (not always identified), drop allusions to poems by Verlaine and Leopardi, and refer to the St. Petersburg of Gogol and Dostoevsky. The novel also gestures toward and could be a sly update of Dostoevsky's story "White Nights," which was also narrated by an unnamed, lonely dreamer who walked his city's streets and fell in love.
We might as well call Aciman's narrator "Printz" or "Oskar" as Clara playfully does after they spot a cargo ship named Prince Oscar on the Hudson River while on a daytrip upstate together. They have fun on that drive, even as they visit places that Clara frequented with her former boyfriend, Inky. Inky is "out of the picture," Printz has been told, although Clara continues to field calls from him and he was the one she embraced full-body at the party. Printz wonders, as he puzzles over the meaning of his own connection with Clara, if men get hooked by her because "they took for large bills what to her was loose change."
Printz, who is 28, is also quietly suffering still over the death of his father nearly a year beforehand, but when he and Clara drive by the cemetery where his father is buried, he does not mention it or suggest that they visit the grave. "I hated conversations that threatened to leave me totally exposed," he admits later in the novel, "even when I knew that exposure, as an abstract concept, was far better than being so bottled up."
Printz's reflections - reliving the recent past, debating his responses to Clara minutely, rehearsing the future in advance of its arrival - set the tone of the novel and form the bulk of its substance, with a strong tendency for cyclical, recurrent thoughts. We see Clara and a few others directly in conversation, visit a nightly film festival featuring the romantically challenging works of French director Eric Rohmer, and idle the wee hours in a small park on the Upper West Side near Clara's building. We even accompany Prinz as he circles her block and wonders if he is a stalker. But it is the shadow-life of Printz's mind as it wavers between projected fears and the possibility of happiness that is the real stalker here.
Clara "was my eyes to the world looking back at me," Printz observes- her judgment becomes his way of intuiting how others see his life. Unfortunately, Clara's waspish delight in mocking the world around her often leaves him wondering whether all is in good fun or if she enjoys humiliating him, too. "Was there anything I could do to dispel the indignity of being just a writhing human body?" Printz wonders, after noting the shame of it all, for wanting Clara to "touch me with your lips, your jeering, taunting lips."
The near obsessive quality of love has been worked by Aciman before, in "Call Me By Your Name," his previous novel, which involved a retrospective look at a same-sex affair in the narrator's youth. The passage of time, telescoped in that novel, is here slowed as events loop again and again through Printz's consciousness. As he says, "I want nothing to change and everything to last." Offering up the idea to Clara that some Beethoven music is representative of him, he declares "it's not answers and clarity, or even ambiguity, that Beethoven wants. What he's after is deferral and distended time, a grace period that never expires and that comes like memory, but isn't memory."
Clara is a skeptic - she is not into keepsakes, she had warned Printz - and whether the world of action and the world of thought can have a happy confluence remains to be seen. One of Printz's shibboleths is "the life that never happens," a feeling he believed haunted his late father. He has a hand in the answer, but whether he will raise it is the question. Late in the novel, Printz and Clara's attempts to outwit each other with clever phrases begin to wear thin: Clara's cut-up comments in public make her seem adolescent rather than endearingly eccentric, and Printz's overwrought moments have indeed distended time, toward slackness. He visits his mother at the very end, and she tells him he is just killing time. Even he admits it.
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STOCKTON - Where were you?
STOCKTON - Where were you?
The San Joaquin County Fair opened Thursday, and you should have been there.
That's where Blossom the goat is hanging out.
She was standing up peering over the fence of the petting zoo - probably looking for you.
"All these animals have a story, really," said Rachel Acuff, who raised Blossom and trots her little herd of farm critters out for petting zoos, birthday parties and nativity scenes. "Want to come in and pet them?"
Alessandra Dumpit wants to see you.
Or, rather, her self-portrait.
It's amid a collection of winning artwork in the fine arts building.
Look, it's bearing a blue ribbon for first place in the first- to third-grade Youth Department in Acrilyc Painting category.
It's OK. There's time to pencil in your day at the fair.
Go today and see the Linden Lions.
They'd like to sell you a beer or two. No? Well, they have bottled water, too.
"We plan on selling 700 beers today," Randy Viglienzo said as he worked the booth with his crewmates. "We've sold three so far, but it's early. The fair just opened 30 minutes ago. Come on back a little later. I'll pour you a cold one."
It's 5 p.m. somewhere, right?
Tori Verber says go to the fair, already. You and the whole family. And bring your friends.
"We have a lot of great bands performing," said Verber, who serves on the fair's board of directors and pointed out some new features as she walked the grounds Thursday. "Look at these beautiful murals; check out the go-karts. OK look at this, dog races. What are those, terriers?"
It's eight days and nights of fun at the fairgrounds.
And Nathan Yerian of Tracy Future Farmers of America is hoping you'll make it.
"I just got done washing and (blow-drying) her down," he said as he showed off Two Socks, a Chimaine beef cow aptly named because her two rear legs look like they are encased in white tube socks.
What kind of shampoo does Two Socks prefer?
"That would be Joy dishwashing soap," said Yerian, who tries to fit in college classes with showing his cattle at the fair. "But if I want to get really fancy, there's this Showsheen, here. That's expensive. You can spend a lot on shampoo."
Or, apparently, just a little.
Oh, hey. The jockeys think you should check out the racetrack.
"Look how nice it is out here this year," said Barrington Harvey, a 49-year-old jockey who was resting up for the second race of the day, where he'd be riding Vista Girl. "They've fixed it up. It's beautiful. There's more shade than ever; they've done a lot of planting. It looks great out here."
So many people want to see you.
Play hooky. It's only once a year.
Let's go, already.
If nothing else, come out for the carnies, as in carnival workers.
Steve Thompson will give you a twirl on the Double Eagle Ferris Wheel.
"Boy, it's a treat. When you get those little kids up there and they say 'weeeeeeeeeeee,' that's fun," he said. "You want to ride? Get on in a bucket."
So, what do you say?
"It's fun," Josue Beltran, 2, said as he climbed up the stairs to the ferris wheel with his family.
Should we do it?
"Yes," little Josue said. "Fun."
Fine. But first, let's get a corn dog.
Now you're talking.
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10 Posts That Were Unexpected Hits
Kittens in the kitchen? Puppies in the pantry? Okay, so maybe it's not so unexpected that those posts were popular this year. But we did see a few out of-the-blue hits, including a post about black chickens, an idea for a picnic table with a gutter, and a clever tip to help you determine whether or not an avocado is perfectly ripe.
• 1 Kittens in the Kitchen! A Cuteness Break for Your Post-Holiday Tuesday Morning
• 2 Puppies in the Pantry! The Dogs of The Kitchn's Kitchen Tours
• 3 The Best Trick Ever for Separating Eggs
• 4 The Do-Not-Freeze-These-Foods List
• 5 Outdoor DIY Wine Cooler Idea: A Picnic Table with a Gutter!
• 6 The New Baby Taco Box
• 7 What's The Deal with Black Chickens?
• 8 Freeze and Preserve Fresh Herbs in Olive Oil
• 9 How To Determine Whether an Avocado Is Perfectly Ripe Inside
• 10 Why You Should (Almost) Never Use Your Oven's Self-Cleaning Function
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From December 17 through January 1 we are rounding up some of our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the past year.
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ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — The family of a 12-year-old New Mexico boy who police say opened fire inside his middle school gym is heartbroken over the tragedy.
The boy's parents and grandparents issued a statement through their lawyer yesterday, saying their thoughts and prayers are with the two children who were shot Tuesday at Berrendo Middle School.
The family says its remorse cannot be expressed in words. They added that they love the boy and will continue to cooperate with law enforcement as they piece together "how this awful tragedy occurred."
Police say the shooting was planned but that the victims — an 11-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl — were chosen randomly.
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What we'll cover:
Why it's important (and difficult) to make an information architecture as tangible as possible
- Examples that help you visualize an information architecture from both the top down and the bottom up
- Ways of categorizing the components of an information architecture so you can better understand and explain IA
In the preceding chapters, we discussed information architecture from a conceptual perspective. This chapter presents a more concrete view of what information architecture actually is to help you recognize it when you see it. We also introduce the components of an architecture; these are important to understand because they make up the information architect's palette. We'll cover them in greater detail in Chapters 5–9.Visualizing Information Architecture
Why is it important to be able to visualize information architecture? There are several answers. One is that the field is new, and many people don't believe that things exist until they can see them. Another is that the field is abstract, and many who might conceptually understand the basic premise of information architecture won't really "get it" until they see it and experience it. Finally, a well-designed information architecture is invisible to users (which, paradoxically, is quite an unfair reward for IA success).
IA's lack of tangible qualities forces all information architects to be salespeople to some degree. Because it's highly probable that you'll need to explain information architecture to several important people, including colleagues, managers, prospects, clients, and perhaps your significant other, it's in your interest to be able to help them visualize what an information architecture actually is.
Let's start by looking at a site's main page. Figure 4-1 shows the main page for Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota, USA.
Figure 4-1. Gustavus Adolphus College's main page
What's obvious here? Most immediately, you see that the site's visual design stands out. You can't help but notice the site's colors (you'll have to take our word for it), typeface choices, and images. You also notice aspects of the site's information design; for example, the number of columns—and their widths—changes throughout the page.
What else? With a careful eye, you can detect aspects of the site's interaction design, such as the use of mouseovers (over main menu choices) and pull-down menus for "Go Quickly To" and search options. Although the college's logo and logotype are prominent, the site relies on textual content (e.g., "Excellence," "Community," and so forth) to convey its message and brand. And although this particular site functions well, you'd learn something about its supporting technology (and related expertise) just from the main page—for example, if it didn't load properly in a common browser, you might guess that the designers weren't aware of or concerned with standards-compliant design.
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Thus far, we've noticed all sorts of things that aren't information architecture. So what is recognizable as information architecture? You might be surprised by how much information architecture you can see if you know how to look. For example, the information has been structured in some basic ways, which we'll explain in later chapters:
Organization systems
Present the site's information to us in a variety of ways, such as content categories that pertain to the entire campus (e.g., the top bar and its "Calendar" and "Academics" choices), or to specific audiences (the "I am a…" area, with such choices as "Prospective Students" and "Staff Member").
Navigation systems
Help users move through the content, such as the "A–Z Directory" and the "Go Quickly To…" menu of popular destinations.
Search systems
Allow users to search the content. Here, the default is set to search the Gustavus site, but one could also search the Gustavus calendar, its directory, or the whole web from the site's search interface.
Labeling systems
Describe categories, options, and links in language that (hopefully) is meaningful to users; you'll see examples throughout the page, some (e.g., "Admission") more understandable than others ("Nobel Conference").
Figure 4-2 provides a visualization of these architectural components.
As we can see from this figure and from Figure 4-3, these areas are just the tip of the iceberg. Categories group pages and applications throughout the site; labels systematically represent the site's content; navigation systems and a search system can be used to move through the site. That's quite a lot of information architecture to cram into one screenshot!
Figure 4-2. This page is crammed with architectual components
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In effect, the Gustavus main page tries to anticipate users' major information needs, such as "How do I find out about admissions?" or "What's going on this week on campus?" The site's information architects have worked hard to determine the most common questions, and have designed the site to meet those needs. We refer to this as top-down information architecture, and the Gustavus main page addresses many common "top-down" questions that users have when they land on a site, including:
- Where am I?
I know what I'm looking for; how do I search for it?
- How do I get around this site?
- What's important and unique about this organization?
- What's available on this site?
- What's happening there?
- Do they want my opinion about their site?
- How can I contact a human?
- What's their address?
Figure 4-3. A site's main page is crammed with answers to users to users' questions
Figure 4-4 shows a slightly different example—pages tagged by one of the authors as relevant to enterprise user experience in del.icio.us, a social bookmarking service.
Figure 4-4. Bookmarks tagged as about "enterprise_UX" in del.icio.us, a social bookmarking service.
There is little to see here besides the information architecture and the content itself. In fact, as the content is just a collection of links to bookmarked pages from other web sites, the information architecture is the bulk of the page. It provides context for the content, and tells us what we can do while we're here.
- The information architecture tells us where we are (in del.icio.us, on a page maintained by user "louisrosenfeld" that contains bookmarks he tagged as "enterprise_ux").
- It helps us move to other, closely related pages (by, for example, scrolling through results ("<< earlier | later >>") and to pages we've bookmarked using different tags (under "tags" and "related tags").
- It helps us move through the site hierarchically (for example, we can navigate to the del.icio.us main page, or to recent or popular bookmarks) and contextually (for example, by clicking on "saved by 4 other people" or by seeing who else bookmarked pages using the same tag).
- It allows us to manipulate the content for better browsing (we can display tags in alphabetical order, as is shown, or as a "tag cloud"; a variety of other configuration choices are displayed in the "options").
- It tells us where we can go for basic services, such as logging into our account or getting help ("contact us" and "help").
In many respects, this page from del.icio.us is nothing but information architecture.
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Content itself can have information architecture embedded within it. The recipe in Figure 4-5 shows a nutritious drink from the Epicurious site.
Figure 4-5. A recipe for the thirsty from Epicurious.com
Beyond the navigational options at the top of the page, there's not much information architecture here. Or is there?
The recipe itself has a clear, strong structure: a title at the top, a list of ingredients, then preparation directions and serving information. This information is "chunked" so you know what's what, even without subtitles for "ingredients" or "directions." The recipe's native chunking could also support searching and browsing; for example, users might be able to search on the chunks known as "recipe titles" for "salty dog" and retrieve this one. And these chunks are sequenced in a logical manner; after all, you'll want to know the ingredients ("Do I have four ounces of grapefruit juice?") before you start mixing the drink. The definition and sequential placement of chunks help you to recognize that this content is a recipe before you even read it. And once you know what it is, you have a better idea what this content is about and how to use it, move around it, and go somewhere else from it.
So, if you look closely enough, you can see information architecture even when it's embedded in the guts of your content. In fact, by supporting searching and browsing, the structure inherent in content enables the answers to users' questions to "rise" to the surface. This is bottom-up information architecture; content structure, sequencing, and tagging help you answer such questions as:
- Where am I?
- What's here?
- Where can I go from here?
Bottom-up information architecture is important because users are increasingly likely to bypass your site's top-down information architecture. Instead, they're using web-wide search tools like Google, clicking through ads, and clicking links while reading your content via their aggregators to find themselves deep in your site. Once there, they'll want to jump to other relevant content in your site without learning how to use its top-down structure. A good information architecture is designed to anticipate this type of use; Keith Instone's simple and practical Navigation Stress Test is a great way to evaluate a site's bottom-up information architecture (http://user-experience.org/ uefiles/navstress/).
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You now know that information architecture is something that can be seen, if you know what to look for. But it's important to understand that information architecture is often invisible. For example, Figure 4-6 shows some search results from the BBC's web site.
Figure 4-6. BBC's search results include three "Best Links"
What's going on here? We've searched for "chechnya," and the site has presented us with a couple of different things, most interestingly three results labeled as a "BBC Best Link." As you'd imagine, all search results were retrieved by a piece of software—a search engine—that the user never sees. The search engine has been configured to index and search certain parts of the site, to display certain kinds of information in each search result (i.e., page title, extract, and date), and to handle search queries in certain ways, such as removing "stop words" (e.g., "a," "the," and "of"). All of these decisions regarding search system configuration are unknown to users, and are integral aspects of information architecture design.
What's different is that the "Best Link" results are manually created: some people at the BBC decided that "chechnya" is an important term and that some of the BBC's best content is not news stories, which normally come up at the top of most retrieval sets. So they applied some editorial expertise to identify three highly relevant pages and associated them with the term "chechnya," thereby ensuring that these three items are displayed when someone searches for "chechnya." Users might assume these search results are automatically generated, but humans are manually modifying the information architecture in the background; this is another example of invisible information architecture.
Information architecture is much more than just blueprints that portray navigational routes and wireframes that inform visual design. Our field involves more than meets the eye, and both its visible and invisible aspects help define what we do and illustrate how challenging it really is.
Please check back next week for the conclusion to this article.


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MEDINAH Ill. - Somehow, the image of Sergio Garcia as the European team's clown prince and firestarter, by turns wacky and inspirational and instinctively sensitive to its emotional needs, is so far off the beaten path, you wonder if we're talking about the same person.
Sergio Garcia? The child star who burst on to the major golf scene 13 years ago proclaiming himself as, simply, Sergio — one name, please, like Pele or Ronaldo — and then cried on his mother's shoulder when he missed the cut at Carnoustie?
Sergio the exuberant teen debutant of 1999 who over years of disappointment morphed into an often sullen complainer, compulsive re-gripper, eternal major championship bridesmaid, man-boy who howled about the entire universe conspiring against him when he lost the 2007 Open to Padraig Harrington, who savagely flayed himself only this past spring after a third-round 75 at the Masters, saying he simply didn't have what it took to win a major: "I'm not good enough. I don't have the thing I need to have. Today the conclusion is I need to play for second or third place."
That Sergio Garcia?
Evidently, yes.
The game, it seems, has finally knocked most, if not quite all, of the grating edges off his personality. He is 32 now. Everybody grows up sometime.
The fiesty Spaniard who nearly quit in frustration after rising as high as No. 2 in the world rankings late in 2008 — who so loved the Ryder Cup he agreed to be a non-playing vice-captain for Colin Montgomerie's team in Wales two years ago, and found it so unsatisfying he re-dedicated himself to his craft — is back as a confirmed leader within the European team room.
With two wins on the European Tour last year followed by a victory at the PGA Tour's Wyndham Championship this season, he won his way back onto the European side and will compete this week in his sixth Ryder Cup as a player.
Hanging around the fringes in the rain at Celtic Manor in 2010, with a walkie-talkie, wasn't his idea of a good time.
"I remember his words when we were having a little chat a couple of years ago," said Europe's 2012 captain, Jose Maria Olazabal, who was a vice-captain in Wales. "He said, 'If I knew this, I wouldn't have come,' in the sense that he wanted to be playing."
"It was great, but at the same time it was hard," Garcia said in his pre-event press room visit. "We achieved what we wanted to achieve that week, so it was very positive. But I'd rather be on this side than on the other (non-playing) one.
"So it's great to be back on the team. It's been four years since I last played, and it feels like it's been 10 or 12. I'm very excited about it. You know how much the Ryder Cup means to me."
"It was a huge disappointment for him two years ago, but it showed what the Ryder Cup means to him when he showed up as an assistant captain," said Luke Donald, who's never been beaten with Garcia as his partner in foursomes play (4-0). "He brings a lot of enthusiasm and passion to the team. He's just upbeat and energetic and lively. He's not going to let you get down on yourself. At times in his career, he's needed that. But he really has that in abundance at the Ryder Cup."
"Sergio is a world-class player and one of the best Ryder Cup players I've ever been partners with," said Europe's reigning greybeard, Lee Westwood, who's playing his eighth consecutive Ryder Cup this weekend.
"He helped me at The Belfry (2002) when I was struggling with my game. He was the bouncy sort of exuberant partner I probably needed to take my mind off the seriousness of the Ryder Cup and just go out and hit the ball and find it and hit it again, and try to make a few putts.
"He's great for that, and he's good fun in the team room and he's very passionate about the Ryder Cup. He's stuck in."
Garcia was famously second to Tiger Woods here on Medinah's No. 3 course at the 1999 PGA Championship, not even a month after his meltdown at Carnoustie. A little over a month after that, as the youngest Ryder Cup competitor in history, he won 3 1/2 points for the losing side at Brookline though he fell 4-and-3 to Jim Furyk in the fateful Sunday singles.
When the PGA Championship returned to Medinah in 2006, he tied for third, again behind the victorious Woods. So he's on familiar turf, with some good memories of the place and maybe best of all for the Europeans, he is 8-0-1 all-time in foursomes (alternate-shot), which was American captain Davis Love III's choice to be the opening session Friday morning.
With a 14-6-4 over-all Ryder Cup record, Garcia's is not the kind of power and clutch play the Europeans can afford to be without this week, against what looks like a deep and powerful United States squad.
There are no Brett Wetterichs or Chris Rileys on this U.S. side. All 12 qualified for the season-ending FedEx Cup finale last week, so they're good and they're hot, and they're playing on their home turf, before what's certain to be a raucous home crowd, on a course set to their captain's specifications.
It will be a considerable upset if the Europeans can pull it off.
Love, who dictated Medinah, said he'd done it not to favour either team but to guarantee a flood of birdies.
"I think it comes down to putting, generally," said Love. "A chip-in here or there, maybe, but it generally comes down to which team holes the most putts."
As to which team that might be, the form charts don't have much to do with it. Colin Montgomerie, Love said, to use just one example, always putted better in a Ryder Cup than anywhere else.
"Sunday of Brookline (1999), what did we do? We made every putt," Love said. "Valderrama (1997) you could not have seen a worse putting team than the U.S. had: Tiger, Justin (Leonard), myself, we putted so poorly.
"These teams are so evenly matched, great ball-striking teams, and you have a big-ballpark golf course where guys are going to be able to go out there and bomb it and free-wheel it. So it's going to be fun to play, but it's going to come down to chipping and putting."
And maybe chemistry, in which case ...
"Sergio's such a great player. He'll be great in the team room," said Graeme McDowell. "That Spanish flair, that Spanish emotion, he's going to be huge for us to have him back on the team."
But probably not huge enough.
A prediction? United States 15 1/2 Europe 12 1/2.


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Robert Nelson waived right to jury trial
Maine man guilty of drug-related murder
Robert Nelson waived right to jury trial
SKOWHEGAN, Maine —
A judge has found a Skowhegan man guilty of murder in a drug-related fatal shooting from three years ago.
Justice John Nivison said Tuesday that 41-year-old Robert Nelson had the means and the motive to kill Everett Cameron and that the state had proven his guilt.
Nelson waived his right to a jury during his trial in Somerset County Superior Court earlier this month on charges he killed the 60-year-old Cameron in his pickup truck on Oct. 31, 2009.
Nelson testified that he met Cameron that day but didn't shoot him. He said he met Cameron to tell him he couldn't repay money he owed him for prescription drugs that Cameron had sold him.
Prosecutors said Nelson was buying painkillers that Cameron was taking for treatment of lymphoma.


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As a rule, Guy No. 1 runs the combine about 98% of the time. That has been the case since about 1990 when we traded combines and got just enough technology in it to keep The Chairman Emeritus from feeling comfortable behind the controls. Ever since then, he has hauled wagons. The combine is the perfect machine for Guy No. 1. Previous models used to have a throttle with a lever on it that you'd push forward to crank up the engine. When Deere & Co. introduced the 9000 series machines around 1990, it was as though they tailored them to a Guy No. 1 mind-set. The throttle is now a rocker switch. You are either idled or floored — nothing in between. Coincidentally, the same can be said of Guy No. 1. Although, he's not idled very much. Anything with an engine on it will be operated wide open if he's at the controls.
I don't recall if I was put in the combine for a lunch rotation or for tax visit reasons, but this time GN1 had me run the combine and unload it to wagons parked in the field, while he retrieved full wagons we had left parked in a driveway. Then his A-D-D kicked in and he decided we should move the wagons from the driveway to a different position. Speed hitches make that way too easy for him, so it wouldn't take long.
Sure enough, as I pulled up to a wagon in the center of the field to unload some corn, I saw GN1 and a set of wagons flying down the grass strip border on the way to my unloading point. There was corn in the way to block a clear view of the scene, but I could see that the pair of wagons behind the tractor suddenly changed their usual separation distance. This I had to check out!
I pulled up to the field border to see one wagon hooked onto the tractor and the other wagon parked pretty much in the middle of the fence. It appeared that more-than-adequate road speed had not only caused the safety clip to get popped out of the wagon's hitch pin by cornstalks at high speed, but then the hitch pin popped out between the two wagons. Inertia being what it is, and momentum being one of GN1's most successful ongoing construction projects, there was enough force to propel the wagon through the fence. Fortunately, the fence stopped the wagon partway through its breakout performance.
We gathered some materials to do a little extraction work and then got everything hooked up again like it should be. There was no debate about cause or responsibility, because, really, how long would that court case take with the evidence at hand? While I resisted the temptation to pile on, I did not resist the temptation to document the event. I also made sure to do it in plain sight of the perp.
A few days later, a friend stopped by. Walt had just gotten a couple hundred cornstalk bales made and he needed to get them moved home before the next week's blizzard.
It was all I could do not to volunteer to help Walt move his bales. How would things not go better with me and a Ranch Hand involved? The thing that kept me from being Mr. Volunteer is that I've helped him with other stuff in the past, and his geography is even more challenging than my own is sometimes. With bare ground (and bare gravel), it wouldn't be a problem, but the recent snow was going to add a bit more fun to it than even I prefer. That whole "Alps of Cardinal Marsh" effort a couple years ago pretty well changed my views on forage transportation in hills with slick conditions.
I wished Walt well in his efforts and decided to keep to myself the next day.
When I talked to Walt a few days later, he said the bale migration hadn't gone so great for him and his crew. He was hauling two loads of bales behind his tractor on an icy road.
Here's a tip. If you're pulling a load on a glass-like surface, make sure the surface is level. If it's sloped downward, you're going to have problems stopping. If it slopes upwards, you're going to have problems making consistent forward progress. Trust me.
Walt was headed up the glass hill. Just as he began his shift and headed north up the hill, the running gear under his wagon suddenly qualified for Medicare and decided to retire and move south to Florida right there on the spot!
The front part of his running gear said its farewells to the back part of his wagon. Seeing as how he had two wagons hooked together, I will let you do the Murphy's Law math on this one and see if you can figure out if it was the front wagon or the rear one whose infrastructure experienced problems. Here are a couple of background hints: This happened on a long slope, near the top. Losing the back half of the front load AND the ENTIRE second load vs. losing only the back half of the rear load more or less takes your trouble and multiplies it exponentially.
Time's up. Which one do you think it was that busted?
Both loads of bales slid down the hill and then off the roadway before tumbling down the steep ditch on the other side of the road. The ditch where the bales landed was so steep and deep that it would have taken a crane to get them out. Converting them into an abundance of compost seemed to be the best option for them in their new final resting spot. Had this been a more standard ditch, Walt could have gotten them out with a loader tractor with front-wheel-assist. I mean, that's what I've HEARD some unfortunate souls have done in similar situations.
Wouldn't know myself. Nope, not a clue.
That brings up yet another issue from last winter. My phone rang one Wednesday around noon. The caller was at McDonald's in Decorah and said there was a large round bale of hay parked in the street near the McDonald's exit.
"By chance, would it be YOURS?" the caller inquired. Okay, it was about an hour before the weekly Fort Atkinson Hay Auction in nearby Fort Atkinson. I've hauled hay down there in the past myself. I've not a 100% perfection rate in the transport and sale of said forage. I've maybe even documented those shortcomings from time to time. STILL, that doesn't mean EVERY bale mishap in northeast Iowa is MINE!
No, I told the caller, it was NOT MINE! But thank you for your default assumption.
The caller eventually regained his/her composure and went on his/her way.
A minute or two later, my phone rang again.
"I'm at McDonald's in Decorah. Did you lose a bale on the street?"
Once again, I explained it WASN'T ME and this wasn't the FIRST call I'd received on the subject, but I certainly appreciated the benefit of the doubt no one was giving me!
That caller also broke into hysterics. "Well, I just figured . . . "
Yeah, I know, I know.
The first caller at least cut me some slack and said that the bale didn't look to be of good enough quality to be mine. That was nice to hear, even without seeing the bale to know how much or how little benefit of the doubt that statement generated for me.
My next step was to quickly send an e-mail to a friend who works in radio in Decorah so that she would know it wasn't my bale. She'd more than likely be getting calls about it, so I figured it might be worthwhile to have some confirmed deniability for her from the one who appeared to be, based on a small focus group, the leading suspect. <
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April 27. 2014 7:28PM
Allen Lessels' UNH Notebook: It's spring football crunch time for Wildcat gridders
New Hampshire Union Leader
IT'S CRUNCH time — spring style — for the University of New Hampshire football team.
The Wildcats are down to their last week of spring football, which wraps up with the annual Blue & White game on Saturday at noon in Cowell Stadium.
A couple of the challenges facing coach
Sean McDonnell
and his staff during the spring have been to come up with a wide receiver or two to help fill in for the loss of
Justin Mello
and to find a kicker to replace
Mike MacArthur
of No. Hampton.
Kyon Taylor
, who will be a sophomore in the fall, is the latest receiver to receive passing grades from the coach.
"He's taken a step in the right direction catching the ball," McDonnell said. "He understands where he's got to go and he's going a pretty good job."
Jimmy Giansante
has drawn praise from McDonnell in camp, too.
UNH's top receiver,
R.J. Harri
s, has not been on the field during the spring, which has given others more of a chance to show their stuff.
Harris and fellow senior
Steven Thames
, a defensive back, are serving what McDonnell called, "indefinite suspensions from the team for breaking team and university rules."
McDonnell said he thinks the players will be back: "Once they correct the mistakes they made."
Harris is a huge piece of the UNH offense.
He had 76 catches for 1,004 yards and five touchdowns last year and for his career has 210 catches for 2,777 yards and 21 scores. He is second on the school's career list for receptions to
David Ball
's 304 and fifth in career yardage. Ball leads the yardage list at 4,655.
David Gamble
is second at 3,072,
Curtis Olds
third at 3,028 and
John Perry
is next at 2,873.
MacArthur handled the kicking duties the last four seasons. McDonnell had been pleased with the work of junior
Christian Breda
and redshirt freshman
Max Pedinoff
in that department.
"Both of them have been kicking the ball extremely well," McDonnell said.
The track and field teams head to the University of Vermont for the America East championships on Saturday and Sunday, looking to improve on their results in the league indoor meets that capped the winter season.
"The goal is always to be in the top two or three and if we can match the indoors (fourth for women and men) and maybe be a little higher, that would be great," said
Jim Boulanger
, the director of UNH's track & field and running program. "The biggest problem for everyone has been the weather and getting your training in, but we feel we're in pretty good shape."
Albany's well-funded teams have dominated America East track & field for years — the women have won five straight titles, the men nine — and are favored again.
George Jumpp
, a fifth-year senior out of Manchester Memorial, is ranked third in the hammer throw in America East.
"The goal is to make it to the NCAA Regionals," Boulanger said. "He basically has to throw about six feet farther. I think it's doable."
John Prizzi
in the steeplechase, freshman
Chris Poggi
of Pinkerton Academy in Derry in the 800, senior
Jesse Swink
in the javelin,
D'mahl McFadden
of Merrimack Valley in Penacook in the hurdles and junior
Isaiah Penn
in the 400 are among the other contenders.
Rosemary Read
in the hammer, senior
Allison Behm
of Pembroke and sophomore
Lauren Perrodin
in the sprints, junior
Virginia Lavallee
of Kingston in the hurdles, senior
Steph Walsh
of Merrimack Valley in the discus, senior
Elise Beattie
in the 5 and 10k and senior
Anne Twombly
of Exeter in the 800 are among the women who will be looking for points.
The lacrosse team, 7-9 overall and 2-3 in America East, is the No. 4 seed in the league tournament and takes on No. 1 seed and host Stony Brook, 14-3 and 4-1, in a semifinal on Friday at 5 p.m. No. 2 Albany, 13-2 and 4-1, plays No. 3 Vermont, 12-5 and 5-2, at 7:30.
The winners play at noon on Sunday, also at Stony Brook, for the league championship and a spot in the NCAA tournament.
The Wildcats lost a 15-5 regular season game at Stony Brook on April 15.
The Wildcats dropped their regular season finale, 19-5, to Albany at home on Saturday.
Laura McHoul
had three assists in the game, giving her a school record 36 for the season. She also has 20 goals.
Cori Rees
, a senior out of Hampstead and Pinkerton Academy, is second on the team in groundballs with 26 and senior midfielder
Molly Gaffey
of No. Hampton and Winnacunnet has 12 goals and six assists for 18 points.
Matt Willows
, who will be a senior forward, will be the 111th captain of the men's hockey team next season. The announcement was made at the team's awards banquet on Saturday night.
Fellow senior forwards
Grayson Downing
Casey Thrush
will be alternate captains.
Willows will be the top returning scorer for the Wildcats. He had 18 goals and 21 assists for 39 points as a junior and shared the Guy Smith Award as the team's best forward with
Kevin Goumas
. Goumas was also the winner of the Frank "The Fan" Halbert Fan Favorite Award.
Goumas, who is graduating, had 19 goals and 33 assists for 52 points and won the Roger A. Leclerc Award as the team's Most Valuable Player.
Eric Knodel
and junior
Trevor van Riemsdyk
, who passed on his final year of eligibility to turn pro, shared the Rod Langway Best Defenseman Award; senior
Justin Agosta
won the A. Barr "Whoop" Snively Award for citizenship and service; senior goalie
Jeff Wyer
won the Charles Holt Coaches Award; senior forward
Nick Sorkin
won the Bob Kullen Unsung Hero Award; sophomore
Kyle Smith
was voted Most Improved; and senior forward
Jeff Silengo
took home the Nate Hardy Ironman Award and the Warren Brown Award for best defensive forward.


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This is a regular meeting of the NCCEH SOAR Caseworkers Dialogue Group.
It is a caseworker roundtable to problem-solve and connect with others around the state who are working on SOAR cases.
Details on how to call in will be emailed to registered participants by the day of the call.
Dialogue Groups are free for all NCCEH members. If you are not a member and are interested in joining, you can sign up here.
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Concrete With Soul: Richard Holschuh's Countertops
We're smitten with these concrete countertops from Richard Holschuh, an artist and artisan from Vermont. His company creates custom concrete countertops for kitchens, baths, and other areas, and some of them blow away our usual ideas of what a concrete surface can look like.
We discovered Holschuh and his company, Concrete Detail, via an interview at kitchen designer Paul Anater's weblog. In the interview Holschuh talks about his philosophy of design:
Concrete countertops are, at least in our interpretation, highly functional aesthetic furnishings – we call it Artformed TM. Not rarefied, subjective collector's items, but hard-working and deeply satisfying necessities. Every home needs a countertop and everyone wants to make their home their own; the medium of concrete allows personal expression without design constraint, all the while meeting the demands of everyday life with durability, versatility, and sustainability (at a very competitive cost). Today's high performance concrete has very little to do with a cracked sidewalk and everything to do with lasting design in the hands of a master artisan. We utilize these capabilities to invest the concrete with soul: captured within the finished pieces are the craftsman, the dweller, and their environment. When the completed elements are delivered and brought into their intended places, they belong – because they were consciously made for that person and place alone. This is the essence of appropriate design.
Wow! Concrete with soul — that's a tall order. But we really love some of these designs; the flowing, stylized trees worked into that drainboard are really beautiful. The shiny black surface of the sink pictured above is really striking, too; we didn't know that concrete could look like that! (And we love that little egg bowl worked into one of the countertops!)
• Read the whole interview: Richard Holschuh, an artist in concrete, talks about counters at Kitchen and Residential Design
• Visit Richard Holschuh's website: Concrete Detail
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The Colorado Rockies released SP Greg Smith, RP Craig Baker, C Johnny Bowden, C Josh Powers, C Ben Petralli, P Chris Sampson, IF Eric Duncan, OF Nathan Hines and OF Jason Botts, InsideTheRockies.com's Jack Etkin reports.
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Troy E. Renck, of The Denver Post, reports the Colorado Rockies sent P Alberto Alburquerque, P Craig Baker, P Juan Nicasio, P Edgar Escalona, P Andrew Johnson, P Chaz Roe, P Andrew Graham, P Shane Lindsay, C Jordan Pacheco, C Michael McKenry, IF Darin Holcomb, IF Hector Gomez and IF Jeff Kindel to the minors Tuesday, March 16.
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Danny Wild, of MLB.com, reports Colorado Rockies P Craig Baker gave up four runs (one earned) and three hits in one inning to take his first loss of the Arizona Fall League Monday, Nov. 2.
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