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My Take On Thin-Crust Pizza After 30 Days Of Making Them
Since I started making my pizzas at home again about 30 days ago I have learned several things that I would like to pass along..Some of the things I have learned since last making pizzas at home a decade ago have come out of books, some things I have learned from tips & suggestions from other members here, and some I have just figured out for myself through making about 20 pizzas in the last 30 days..
First, I would like to thank the editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine for their little 96-page hardbound book, How To Make Pizza..Even though I am an experienced chef, with a fair amount of both home & professional baking experience behind me; I still did not know very much about making, or baking pizzas..It was something that I had just not ever focused my attentions upon learning to do..
So, what have I learned recently??..
1. I truly prefer thin-crust pizza to all other types..You can have the Chicago deep dish, the New York pan, the normal crust, the grilled, etc..
2. I like the crust at the rim of the pizza to be REALLY crisp, almost bordering on cracker crispy..
3. The easiest way to make pizza dough is in a food processor, unless you are going to make a really big batch of dough so that you can roll out and freeze a large number of pizza shells..Then, a stand mixer is probably in order, unless you do not mind making the dough in batches..
4. Do not worry about making perfectly round pizza shells when rolling them out..Out-of-round pizzas taste just as good as those that are perfect circles..
5. Making a large batch of dough, rolling out the shells until they are approximately 10" in diameter x 3/16" thick, placing the shells betweem sheets of parchment paper, freezing the stack of 10-20 shells until all of them are rock hard, trimming the parchment so that there is a 1"-1.5" border extending out around the shells, and freezing the stack of shells in a 2.25-gallon zippered food storage bag; is the easiest way to have pizza available to eat whenever you want to..
6. Fresh dough that is rolled out very thin has a greater oven spring than does frozen dough, resulting in a thicker crust, especially at the rim..
7. I prefer the thinness of the frozen pizza shell, and its baked texture, to the fresh shell that is baked without being frozen..
8. A frozen shell can be transformed into a ready-to-eat pizza in 30-40 minutes..While the oven and baking stone are heating up to 450F-475F, the frozen pizza shell, resting on its parchment circle, is defrosting to room temperature on a wire cooling rack..
9. The easiest way to prepare tomato sauce for pizza is in a blender, preferably a blender that has a removeable blade assembly so that as much of the sauce as possible can be scraped out of the blender..
10. There is absolutely no need to further cook the tomatoes out of a can to create a tomato sauce, UNLESS you want to create a thicker, less watery sauce..
11. Put the canned, diced tomatoes in the blender along with whatever spices and seasonings that you like, puree the mixture for however long it takes to pulverize the largest ingredients, and allow the mixture to macerate at room temperature for 1-2 hours right in the blender carafe..Or, the container that you are going to refrigerate the sauce in..
12. ALL of the toppings for the pizza MUST be at room temperature, or hotter, in order for the thin crust to complete baking in the center of the pizza..Cold ingredients are a definite NO-NO, and will result in soggy, undercooked dough..
13. There is no need to use semolina or cornmeal on the peel when putting the shell onto the peel prior to sliding the pizza onto the hot stone..I have been reading with some interest the comments here at TFL regarding putting pizza into the oven on a hot stone with a piece of parchment paper under the shell instead of using cornmeal or semolina under the shell..For the most part I had regarded this practice with some skepticism, as it is just not a practice that many professional bakers choose to employ..However, the day before yesterday, I had intended to bake off two pies..I made the mistake of allowing the shells to defrost for too long on the parchment paper..The result was a shell that stuck to the parchment somewhat when I tried to transfer it onto the cornmeal coated peel prior to topping it, and baking it..The shell stuck to my unfloured fingers & hand and when I tried to flip it off my hand & fingers it stuck to them, got tangled up, stuck to itself, and had to be tossed out as unuseable..For the second pizza I decided to bake it on the parchment..I topped the pizza, slid it onto the peel, placed it on the stone, and baked it off..Voila!!!..Problem solved!!..Within 1-2 minutes the parchment can be pulled out from under the pizza, if desired..Or, left under the pizza until it finishes baking..
14. These thin-crust pizzas usually take about 7 minutes to bake in order for the crust to be crispy at the rim..Sometimes, a little longer if the oven has cooled down when baking more than 1 pizza at a time..
15. Most of these thin-crust pizzas will benefit from having the shell brushed with a thin layer of good olive oil prior to putting the formal toppings on the pizza..The better the olive oil, within reason, the better the final taste of the pizza..The oil does four things..First, it allows any flour on the top side of the pizza to mix with the oil and become incorporated into the uncooked dough; thus reducing the possibility of any uncooked flour taste in the cooked pizza..Second, it helps the pizza to not dry out too much as it bakes at 450F-500F..Third, it acts as a barrier to the moisture content in any of the toppings, thus preventing the dough from getting too soggy..Fourth, it adds flavor, especially if the olive oil is highly flavored..
16. For pesto-based pizzas it is not necessary to use olive oil on the crust first..The pesto itself has more than enough oil in it to accomplish the above four things..Pesto plus olive oil made for a soggy crust that I did not like..Just be sure to try and spread the pesto evenly over the shell, covering it completely..
17. Cheese, to be specific too much cheese, too thick of a layer of cheese, is the enemy of thin-crust pizza..If too much cheese is placed on the pizza, then the rim of the crust will burn to a crisp before the center of the crust finishes baking..Rather than going with the traditional, shredded, dried mozzarella cheese, try using pungent, more flavorable cheeses that can be used sparingly, yet that will add a lot of flavor..
18. The same admonition towards too much cheese applies just the same to any other ingredient toppings..If the toppings are too thick, than the crust's rim is going to char by the time the center of the pie finishes baking..
19. Toppings work best, and the pie bakes more evenly, when the toppings after the tomato sauce are cut into small pieces..Pepperoni, for example, I found to work better if I cut it into small pieces instead of whole circles..Cutting the pie with a pizza wheel is easier when the pieces are small, especially if the pizza is topped with hard , cured meats like pepperoni, salami, proscuitto, etc..
20. Try just about any food that you like for a topping, especially if you are not using cheese on the pie..Most vegetables, and most meats, will taste pretty good..As someone that has only recently come to grips with a life long mild milk allergy, I am finding cheeseless pizzas to be both a challenge, and also very rewarding..
The past 30 days have been interesting, to say the least..I have learned an awful lot about pizza making..Thanks to all of the members here at TFL that have contributed to any of the pizza threads over the past several months..I appreciate your knowledge, and your willingness to share that knowledge..


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Pink Floyd Releases Video Clip From Upcoming 'Wall' Box Set
Pink Floyd has launched 'Behind The Wall Clip 1,' a teaser from the upcoming documentary which will be available on 'The Wall Immersion' box set arriving Feb. 28. The use of 'Clip 1' in the title leads one to believe that other clips will follow prior to the official release.
Though this clip is fairly short, all four members are interviewed about the innovative decision to build a wall during the show and then play behind it. "Originally my idea was to build the wall and when it was finished, that was the end of the show" Roger Waters says chuckling. Keyboardist Rick Wright adds, "We do a show and we'll build a wall up between us and the audience as a statement and then we'll see how long it will take to piss them off."
David Gilmour builds on Wright's comment stating with a grin, "I'm not sure I want to be in that audience," while drummer Nick Mason claims it's about "the walls that get built between people." Relationships can be difficult but, as reported earlier, 'The Wall' wasn't made by angry people, contrary to the age-old rumors.
Furthermore, the UK-based Radio station Planet Rock will air a one-hour special on the making of 'The Wall' at 7PM (UK time) on Saturday, Feb. 25. The show will feature exclusive interviews and cover 'The Wall' from conception, to recording of the original album, staging the shows, right up to the Roger Waters current 'The Wall Live' tour.
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The worst of Mars' southern hemisphere winter has passed. Opportunity has roused from her winter slumber, and she's doing what a Mars Exploration Rover should be doing: rolling across Mars!
Winter is tough on a solar-powered rover. Opportunity's sister, Spirit, died during the previous Martian winter, nearly two Earth years ago. Just like on Earth, the Sun comes in at a shallower angle, rises later, and sets earlier, reducing the amount of light that Opportunity's bat-wing solar panels can catch.
Mars' southern hemisphere winters are especially hard, because Mars' elliptical orbit takes it particularly far from the Sun when it's winter in the southern hemisphere. That makes it even colder than it would otherwise be. I explain more about Mars' extreme seasons in this video:
You might think a rover doesn't care about the cold, but Opportunity has to warm up her wheel motors before she can run them. The colder it is, the more power it takes for heat, and the less available to rove or do science.
It doesn't help that in Opportunity's eight-plus years on Mars (eight! This from a rover warranted to last only three months), she's accumulated a fair amount of dust on her solar panels, screening out half the available sunlight. The net result of all of this: Opportunity stood still for six months, from December 5 until May 7, just waiting out the winter.
The waiting's over, and Oppy's on the road again. (Aside: as a kid, "Oppy" was what I called Optimus Prime. Now, I've transferred the pet name to a real autonomous robot.) Click to enlarge and take in this 360-degree panoramic view of Opportunity's most recent position. I can't tell you how happy I am to see fresh wheel tracks in the sand.
The wheel tracks lead straight back to her overwintering spot. In the foreground, you might notice some white veins of rock poking up above the ground. Those white veins are Martian gold, in the form of mineral deposits left behind in the fractured rock of the giant Endeavour crater's rim by hot groundwater seeping through it a long time ago. In those veins are clues to what Mars was like, way back when liquid water could flow on it, three or more billion years ago. Opportunity's next task is to examine those veins up close with her cameras and elemental analyzer.
For more on Opportunity's ongoing adventures, check out my blog for The Planetary Society. Also recommended are Stuart Atkinson's blog "Road to Endeavour," and if you want to discuss the latest pictures from Mars, visit the Opportunity discussion forum at unmannedspaceflight.com, where I'm an administrator.


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I recently read Brian Moran's recent article on the latest Microsoft TPC scores (http://www.sqlmag.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=96147&puuid=420B5669-1279-9119-120E2F28B99E67C6) with great interest. I'm a benchmarking junky from way back in my enterprise DBA days and always look forward to the latest news on major benchmarking results from the big database platforms.
Brian's article points out that Microsoft SQL Server's latest numbers, once again, outperform Oracle both in terms of the raw number of transactions processed and the cost per transaction. As Brian points out, this is both exciting for SQL Server professionals and deceptive. After all, how many of us can afford to buy and equip a $2 million dollar array of hardware for our applications? And if we do need to spend that much money on equipping our application, A) would the TPC-H test really tell us what we needed to know or B) should we spend money building a much more realistic and representative test? As you can guess, the answer is B.
That's why the TPC tests are, at times, deceptive. First of all, the TPC tests are constructed to be as realistic as the Transaction Processing Council can make them, but they're still artificial. Second, any test whose parameters are fully described can be "kludged" for maximum, if unrealistic, performance gains. It's in this second point that I believe every SQL Server professional should take the time to actually read the new TCP test result disclaimers because that's the only way you'll ever be able to see "the man behind the curtain".
So, go to http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_last_ten_results.asp or http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=107052101 and read about the current tests scores. Then go to the bottom of the page and click on "Full Disclosure Report". It's only 509 pages, so it should be a quick read for you, right? Wrong!
However, I'm going to make life a little easier for you and report on the test over the next few days (as I read it myself) to give you a good idea as to the sorts of tweaks and tricks used to achieve hyper-performance on a top of the line HP Superdome system.


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Enbridge Inc will buy a 50-percent stake in its second wind-power project in the province of Quebec from Electricite de France's Canadian renewable-energy unit for C$170 million ($172 million), the company said on Thursday.
Canada's No.2 pipeline company and the backer of the controversial C$6 billion Northern Gateway pipeline project, will take the half stake in EDF EN Canada's 150-megawatt Massif du Sud wind farm in Quebec's Chaudiere-Appalaches region, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Quebec City.
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Enbridge has been building its portfolio of renewable energy projects to supply power for its own needs and offset its carbon emissions. The company generates more than 1.2 megawatts of green power from wind, geothermal and solar plants in Canada and the United States.
Shares of Enbridge were down 9 Canadian cents at C$42.46 in afternoon trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The Massif du Sud project, expected to be fully operational by year-end, will use 75 wind turbines to generate enough power to supply 35,000 homes, the company said in a statement.
The venture is Enbridge's second with EDF EN Canada. The two companies also co-own the 300-megawatt Lac Alfred project in Quebec's Bas-Saint-Laurent region, 400 kilometers northeast of Quebec City.
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Iowa State physicists part of research team testing Nobel-winning theory
Iowa State's Soeren Prell is analyzing data from an experiment that tests a theory that won a share of this year's Nobel-Prize in Physics. The theory and the data help explain why the universe is made of matter.
ISU Pappajohn Center seeks entries for statewide new venture biz plan competition
Iowa students who want to compete in the 2008 Pappajohn New Venture Business Plan Competition have until Friday, Dec. 12, to file an "intent to compete" form with one of the five Pappajohn centers for entrepreneurship -- Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa, North Iowa Area Community College and Drake University.
Companies with ISU ties take top honors in state Pappajohn business plan contest
Submittal Exchange, a Des Moines-based company founded by Iowa State graduate Matt Ostanik; and Innovation Vibration Solutions (IVS), which was founded by Atul Kelkar, a professor of mechanical engineering at ISU; and Jerald Vogel, an Iowa State emeritus professor in aerospace engineering, finished first and third respectively in the third annual statewide John Pappajohn Business Plan Competition.
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Geoffroy's Asian visit bolsters ISU's longtime ties
During a Nov. 11 visit to Kuala Lumpur, ISU President Gregory Geoffroy strengthened ISU links with two Malaysian universities that have a 25-year-plus association with Iowa State.
ISU student cooks up success on Rachael Ray show
ISU junior Madison Mayberry has survived another round in Rachael Ray's "Hey, Can You Cook?!" TV competition. The 21-year-old Orange City native whipped up "Modern Frank and Beans" on Monday's show -- her inspired answer to the challenge of a healthful, delicious, last-minute dinner for four. Mayberry and two other finalists will next compete on Monday, Nov. 17. The Rachael Ray Show airs in central Iowa at 11 a.m. on WHO-TV.
George Washington Carver sculpture to be unveiled at ISU's Seed Science Center
A life-sized sculpture of George Washington Carver will be dedicated at a ceremony outside Iowa State's Seed Science Center at noon, Tuesday, Nov. 18.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina to give Smith Chair lecture Nov. 17
Carly Fiorina, former chair and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, will visit ISU on Monday, Nov. 17, as the Fall 2008 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. She'll give a free, public talk titled "Tough Choices: Women, Leadership and Power," at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.
Turtles alter nesting dates due to temperature change says ISU researcher
An Iowa State researchers says turtles nesting along the Mississippi River and other areas are altering their nesting dates in response to rising temperatures.
Student rock band lives, plays together in Iowa State residence hall
Members of the rock band "Tempest Rose" are all living together, thanks to ISU rooming assignments, in an Eaton Hall suite. The four West Des Moines Valley High graduates recently won ISU's Homecoming 2008 "Battle of the Bands" on Oct. 23.
Center for Study of Violence paper finds violent video game effects across cultures
A new study, led by ISU Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Anderson, shows effects of violent video games on aggression over a 3-6 month period in children from Japan as well as the United States. Anderson also led the effort to establish the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State last fall.
ISU professor hits his stride as an artist for new children's book and murals
Chuck Richards is reaping the success of his newfound passion as a children's book author and illustrator. The art and design associate professor's book, "Critter Sitter," was published recently, just as he delivered to the University of Iowa Children's Hospital the last of four commissioned paintings based on an earlier book.
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Violent video games linked to child aggression
In the new study, Distinguished Professor Craig Anderson and his colleagues looked at how children's and teens' video game habits at one time point related to their behavior three to six months later.
Study links violent video games, hostility
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The U.S. research was the first in the nation to look at the effects of violent video games over time, said lead author Craig Anderson, a Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University and director of its Center for the Study of Violence.
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Since the official end of the Great Recession, America's public sector has shrunk. And shrunk. And shrunk some more. We've said goodbye to about 600,000 government jobs, handing the economy a nasty self-inflicted wound in the process.
But how small has our public sector really become? Here's one way to think about it: Compared to our population, it hasn't been this size since 1968. Your dreams are coming true Baby Boomers. We're almost all the way back to the Summer of Love!
First, credit where it's due. The Hamilton Project has produced a beautiful graph illustrating the government employment to population ratio. As it shows, there are now fewer public sector employees per American than at any time dating back to the Carter administration (To be clear, we're talking state, federal, and local here).
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Attorney General Brown Announces Settlement with Wal-Mart to Give Customers $3 Back for Price Discrepancies at Cash Register
SAN DIEGO—California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. and San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis today announced a settlement with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. that will "help consumers as the holiday season approaches" by giving customers $3 back at the cash register for price-scanning errors.
"We found price-scanning errors in Wal-Mart stores across California," Attorney General Brown said. "Consumers saw one price in the aisles, but were charged a higher price at the cash register. With this agreement, Wal-Mart will give customers $3 back when pricing mistakes are found at the cash register. In these tough times, this will help consumers as the holiday season approaches."
In December 2005, the California Attorney General's Office began an investigation into allegations that Wal-Mart stores in California were scanning items at a higher price than the prices advertised on store shelves and signs. Through random price-checking, county Departments of Weights and Measures across the state found that 164 Wal-Mart Stores in 30 counties had made scanning errors. On average, customers who were overcharged paid an extra $8.40 at the checkout.
Examples of price-scanning errors include:
• From late August to November 2006, customers were overcharged $1.00 on sports bras in Ventura, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Stanislaus, Siskiyou and Tuolumne Counties.
• In January and February 2007, customers were overcharged $2.00 for woven shirts in San Diego, Sacramento, Ventura, Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties.
• In December 2007, customers were overcharged $2.00 on S/S Polo in San Diego County.
• In November 2003, customers were overcharged $5.16 on a Journey CD in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties.
• From December 2004 to February 2005, customers were overcharged $5.02 on Hanes underwear in Los Angeles County.
• In October and November 2006, customers were overcharged $2.00 on a pair of men's pants in San Diego and Tuolumne Counties.
• In March and April 2006, customers were overcharged $1.00 on Kellogg's Special K cereal in Los Angeles and Santa Clara Counties.
• Also in March and April 2006, customers were overcharged $.46 on Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal in Madera, King and Ventura Counties.
In the settlement agreement, Wal-Mart agreed to implement a pricing accuracy program in California for at least four years. The program will include:
• A designated person (or group of people) who will receive and address customer complaints from Wal-Mart stores in California.
• An employee (or group of employees) in every Wal-Mart Store who will scan items on a weekly basis and confirm price accuracy.
• An automatic refund program. Whenever an employee becomes aware that a customer has been or is being charged a price higher than the lowest price currently listed, Wal-Mart will give the customer a $3.00 reduction on the item. If the item is less than $3.00, the customer will receive that item for free.
• A sign, in English and Spanish, will be posted at every check-out stand in every Wal-Mart Store clearly outlining the new store refund policy.
In settlement of the case, Wal-Mart has agreed to pay $1.4 million in restitution, civil penalties and reimbursement for investigative costs, and $50,000 to the State Consumer Protection Prosecution Trust Fund.
The case is People vs. Wal-Mart, Inc, San Diego Superior Court case number 37200800096757-CU-BT-CTL. A copy of the Complaint and Settlement Agreement are attached.


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BEIJING (AP) — China says it has tested a heavy air force freighter that is mostly made at home and can substitute for the older Russian planes it uses now.
State media reported Monday that the Y-20 flew successfully from its development base near the northwestern city of Xi'an. The China Daily newspaper says the plane can fly 44,000 kilometers (27,300 miles) with 66 tons of freight, and is designed to fill the need for a stronger long-range heavy lift capacity.
China's now uses Russian IL-76 freighters, including in an early warning role. The reports say the Y-20 will use Russian jet engines until China develops replacements.
The plane compares to the U.S. Air Force's C-17 cargo planes.
Reports also say China successfully tested an anti-missile system Sunday but gave no details.


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Cafe Style Coffee Art in Adobe Illustrator
In this Illustrator tutorial I'll explain step by step how I created the "Delicious Coffee" illustration which was published in "1000 Restaurant, bar & café graphics" by Rockport Publishing.
The final image
This is what we will be creating:
Photo of the illustration in the book:
Step 1: Create a new document
Create a new document, since this is going to be a poster we need a large area to work with. Make it A3 size (297 x 420 millimetres or about 11,7×16,5 inches).
Step 2: Create layers, background and crop marks
Before we start, it is very important to keep everything organized. So please make a few new layers and name them: background, saucer, shadow, cup and smoke. Now select the background layer, grab the Rectangle Tool, draw a rectangle bigger than the page size and lock the layer so you won't accidentally move it. I used #CAD980 for the nice fresh green color.
Now make sure you have no objects selected and go to Object>Crop area>Make to create crop marks for your document. It's a nice little feature which will help you during the export of your file to a different format. It will adjust the document area to the crop marks and ignore any objects outside the artboard.
Step 3.1: Creating the saucer
Select the saucer layer and using the Pen Tool draw a line similar to the one in the picture, give it a white stroke with weight of 2 pt. It will be a basis for our saucer.
Step 3.2
Go to Effect>3D>Revolve, to transform the line into 3D shape. Use settings from the picture below. Additionally you will need to setup the light points, and their strength. In my project each of the three light points have the same Light Intensity and Ambient Light value.
Your shape should resemble this:
Step 3.3
To make the stripes at the rim of the saucer we first need to draw 3 rectangles of the same width and height, align them like in the picture below, group them and drag the group to the Symbol panel.
Name the symbol as Stripes set its type to Graphic and click OK. By doing this we convert our three rectangles into a symbol, to be able to map that symbol onto our 3d shape in the next step. (Colors used: #BD127C – magenta, #A8C653 – lime green)
Step 3.4
Select the saucer, go to the Appearance panel and double click 3D Revolve option. In 3D Revolve options panel select Map Art, go to surface 2 and select Stripes symbol from the drop down menu. The symbol will appear in the surface preview area. Click the Scale to fit button and check the Shade artwork option, so the lights we adjusted earlier will affect the mapped symbol.
The saucer is ready, it should look like the image below:
Step 4: Creating the cup
Now that we've created the saucer it's time to create the coffee cup.
There are two ways to do it, you may draw the whole shape at once like I did, or you may take the "precision way" :-), and draw only half of the shape, duplicate it, reflect it, and join the two halves together.
Hide the saucer layer, select the cup layer, grab the Pen Tool and draw a shape like that, but don't connect the highest and the lowest point.
Duplicate the shape by copying it (Edit>Copy) and pasting it in front (Edit>Paste in Front). Reflect the new shape vertically by double clicking the Reflect Tool, and checking the vertical axis.
Put the shapes close to one another so their end points overlap. Select the top points by dragging over them with the Direct Selection Tool, right click and select Join. Do the same with the two points at the bottom of the shape.
Step 4.1
Take the Ellipse Tool, and draw two ellipses just like on the picture below. The gray ellipse will serve as an inside wall of the coffee cup, give it a nice gray color: #EDEDED. The second one will simulate the coffee and it should have a really dark chocolate/coffee type of color: #1D1C1D
Step 4.2
Open the Pathfinder panel (Window>Pathfinder), select both ellipses that we just drawn and click Divide on the Pathfinder panel. The Divide command cuts selected objects in places where they overlap one another, so now you should have three separate shapes instead of two ellipses.
Since pathfinder automatically groups shapes press Ctrl+Shift+G to ungroup them. Then, select the bottom most shape and delete it, we won't need it.
Your results should look like this:
Step 4.3
No we will use the gradient mesh tool to simulate the coffee foam. Select the coffee shape and convert it to gradient mesh by clicking Object>Create Gradient Mesh. Make it 6 columns, 6 rows with flat appearance.
Step 4.4
Now take the Lasso Tool, make a selection as indicated on the screenshot below and give it a light brownish color. My color is #694E56.
Step 4.4
Drag the indicated mesh points to the area outside the mesh:
You should get something like this:
Step 4.5
Now move the other points like this:
Tweak the mesh a little, adjust the colors, your outcome should resemble the picture below::
Step 4.6
The only thing our cup lacks now is the ear. Select the Pen Tool and draw the shape like in the picture below. Give it a light grey colour, like #EBEBEB. Remember to put it on the very bottom of the cup layer.
Now use the Pen Tool to draw a few highlights over the ear shape just like that (don't worry about the highlights sticking out of the ear shape we will fix it soon):
Use the layers panel to bring the ear shape over the highlights:
Select the ear and the highlights, and press ctrl+7 or go to Object>Clipping Mask>Make. Your ear shape will become a clipping mask for the highlights, and will become invisible.
To make the ear visible again, find it on the layers panel and select it. Give the ear the same color as before (#EBEBEB). The effect should look like this:
Step 5: Adding detail to the cup
Since the basis of the cup is ready, it's time to add some detail to it. We'll start with the striped pattern.
To get started draw a long green (#A8C653) vertical rectangle, and duplicate it by holding the mouse button with Alt and Shift while you drag it.
With the duplicated rectangle still selected, press ctrl+D about 40 times to flood your screen with rectangles :-) Fill every other rectangle with bright pink color (#B94284).
Step 5.1
Group all the rectangles, copy the main coffee cup shape and paste it in front (ctrl+F).
Now select the shape and the stripes and go to Object>Envelope Distort>Make with Top Object.
Select the pattern, go to the layers panel and put it below the coffee shape, and the inside of the cup. Next, go to Effect>Warp>Fisheye, set the Bend parameter to 50 and click OK.
Keep the pattern selected and go to Effect>Warp>Twist. You will be notified that "This will apply another instance of this effect". Just click "Apply New Effect" because this is what we need to apply the second effect. Select the Horizontal option, and set the Bend value to 40.
Now you can obviously see that the pattern is getting outside the cup, this is an undesired effect. To get rid of it we need to "lock" the pattern inside a clipping mask.
Once again copy the cup shape and paste it in front.
Select the shape and the pattern and press ctrl+7 to put the pattern inside the clipping mask.
Now create a white ellipse covering the top of the cup. It will cover the unnecessary parts of the pattern and give the illusion that our cup has thick edges.
Find the ellipse on the Layers panel and put it inside the clipping mask that we created in the previous step.
The effect should look like this:
Step 5.2
In this step we will use the blend tool to give the cup some shading. Start with selecting the clipping path of the cup and the ellipse that we just made.
Copy the shapes, paste them in front and click Divide on the Pathfinder panel. After doing this you will see a new group on the Layers panel. Expand the contents of the group and delete the first two objects.
Now select the only shape that's left inside the group and hit ctrl+shift+G to ungroup it. Copy it and paste it in front (ctrl+F), then scale the copy down and move it up over to the edge of the cup.
Fill the bigger shape with black and the smaller shape with white. Double click on the Blend Tool and choose "Smooth Color" from the Spacing list. Now while having the Blend Tool and both shapes still selected click on the black shape and then on the white shape to obtain shading effect like on the picture below effect:
This is certainly far from what we want our image to look so we have to tweak some settings :-)
Select the blend, set its blend mode to Multiply and bring the Opacity down to 25. It should look like this:
Step 6: Creating shadows
This step is fairly simple.Turn off the cup layer, select the shadow layer and draw a shape resembling a shadow of the cup. Fill it with black. It should be similar to the one on the picture below. Pen or Pencil are the best tools for the job.
Change the shadows opacity to 15% and go to Effect>Stylize>Feather. To slightly blur the edges of the shadow.
Now turn on the cup layer and position the shadow so it aligns well with the cup.
Step 6.1
Turn off the cup layer again. This time we will draw a shape that will be used as a dark shadow directly underneath the cup. Take the Pen Tool and draw a thick line just like in the picture below. Lower its opacity to 85%.
Turn the cup layer on and position the shadow properly underneath the cup. You will probably need to tweak points and handles on the curve to make it look good.
Step 7: Adding steam
Select the Pen Tool or the Pencil Tool and start to draw a steam-like organic object. Be creative :-) There is no automatic way to do it, you just need to imagine the shape and draw it.
The best way to do this is to start from the bottom and draw every "branch" as a single shape. You can connect everything later by using the "Add" option in the pathfinder.
Step 7.1
Lower the opacity of the smoke object to 70%, copy it and paste it in the back by using ctrl+B or Edit>Paste in Back. Offset the copy a little to the left and lower it's opacity even more, to about 30%.
Step 7.2
The shape in the back is barely visible right now. We need to take care of that by making the shape in the back thicker. Thicker, not bigger so scaling the shape is out of the question.
Select the shape, go to Effects>Path>Offset Path and enter 6 px in the offset value field, leave the other options unchanged.
Step 8: Background
To make the striped background, draw two really long lines with 0.75 pt white stroke outside of the artboard, and rotate each of them 45 degrees.
Step 8.1
Select the Blend Tool and click on both shapes to make a blend from them. After this double click on the Blend Tool in the tools panel. From the Spacing list select Specified Steps and enter 100. The lines will be duplicated 100 times to form a striped pattern.
This is the end of the tutorial. In case you had any problems with following the steps feel free to contact me.
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Add point Subtract pointsachin (1 Point)
Very Nice Tutorial! Thank You!Flag as inappropriate
Add point Subtract pointJaz (1 Point)
Great tutorial, excellent detail.
I too had trouble getting the stripe onto the saucer – and I used the same number of points as you, but perhaps the shape was slightly different? Anyway, I didn't even know that feature existed and think it's fantastically clever that you made the saucer just using that so kudos and keep up the great work!Flag as inappropriate
Add point Subtract pointGebel Scarduzio (0 Points)
Download60s.com is a graphic designing website. photoshop tutorials.Flag as inappropriate
Add point Subtract pointdebbie (1 Point)
BTW: thanks so much for the tutorial!!!…lot of work explaining all the tiny detailed steps that make the difference between a flat piece of work…and one that has depth and looks professional!!!Flag as inappropriate
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working on this tutorial…but trying to incorporate the new CS5 features for practice: paste within….and the widen stroke feature…Flag as inappropriate
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Excellent tutorial! Thank you!Flag as inappropriate
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Very nice tutorial man, I did it, just had some problems with the Blend tools, but everything was very easy to understand. Thanks,Flag as inappropriate
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Hi, awesome tutorial . I love Ai. ThanksFlag as inappropriate
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The best tutorial of Ai: congratulations and thank.Flag as inappropriate
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Great tutorial! I'm excited to use tools I never knew about!Flag as inappropriate
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best Illustrator tutorial i have ever readFlag as inappropriate
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Looks very interesting tutorial, will definitely come back to this one later. Thank you.Flag as inappropriate
Add point Subtract pointCizzle (1 Point)
Besides the uniform striping on the cup, I prefer to do those other types of effects manually with shapes and gradients. But I'll give these fake 3D effects a look through and see how and when i can use them, good heads up.Flag as inappropriate
Ps and Ai aren't rivals, they're both great tools that perform different tasks. Open up your arsenal!
Add point Subtract pointA Daniel (1 Point)
Great Tuutorial, but I had a couple of problems I couldn't work around. 1 was that in the tutorial it says to put the symbol of the three stripes on the saucer on the 2nd plane, but my object had 9 planes when i put it through the 3d rotate. 2nd, was that the stripes didn't look as clean and well distributed on he cup when i put them through the envelop option, other than that it looks good to me. ThanksFlag as inappropriate
Add point Subtract pointBartosz Oczujda (1 Point)
Probably your shape of the saucer is different than mine. It has to be built with as few points as possible.
More points = more planes = less clean 3D object.
I don't really know how to help you with the second problem, but sometimes illustrators Envelope option behaves unpredictably and gives you weird distorted objects. The only solution is to delete the object and start again :/Flag as inappropriate
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Wooooow! The best AI tutorial ever!Flag as inappropriate
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Great tutorial!Flag as inappropriate
Add point Subtract pointBartosz Oczujda (1 Point)
Thank you guys for the words of kindness (and critique :-). This it my first tutorial ever and I didn't expect to get such a positive feedback on it :-)
I've got some more Illustrator tutorials coming up for you later so stay tuned :-)Flag as inappropriate
Add point Subtract pointsara (1 Point)
the steam looks like a white tree growing out of the coffee.Flag as inappropriate
i wouldn't want to create something like this, i don't think it's very interesting looking, but that's just me.
Add point Subtract pointSteve Martin (1 Point)
Nice Tutorial… Detailed explanation makes easy to learn… Moreover images explain themselves greatly… Really good work…Thanks for sharing :)Flag as inappropriate
Add point Subtract pointElsa Lee (1 Point)
Interesting tutorial. I know and have used some of these tools, but not others. Hope to combine them into my next vector piece.Flag as inappropriate
Add point Subtract pointSanuly (1 Point)
Fantastic IL tutorial man! Easily the best I've ever seen. I'm a die hard PSo phile my self. Never realized AI had so many automating options! I'm gonna make the switch. All the legacy tutorials of vector art, with its manual layers of shadows and highlights, wasted endless days of my time! I consider myself Born Again!Flag as inappropriate
Add point Subtract pointBartosz Oczujda (1 Point)
I'm really glad that my tutorial helped you in being born again :-)
But hey, don't forget about Photoshop. I'ts a great piece of graphic software. Plus, PS and AI work great in combination :-)Flag as inappropriate
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Vaoow very nice great detail tut. ThanksFlag as inappropriate
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Love the outcome, very professional result. Great work.
I'm really impressed with the detail overall.Flag as inappropriate
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Awesome illustration!Flag as inappropriate
Add point Subtract pointTom Ross (1 Point)
LOVE the use of the warp tool for this tutorial. Really cool stuff!Flag as inappropriate
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Thank you :-)
Illustrator has got some pretty cool tools under the hood. You just have to know where to look :-)Flag as inappropriate
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nice tutorial! learned some new stuff in this tut. thx for sharing it :)Flag as inappropriate
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Great tutorial, I love Ai. Any good designer should know how to use Ai as good as Ps. They are complementary but NOT similar applications.Flag as inappropriate
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like others above. i dont know much about AI, this will be a good guide to learn it.Flag as inappropriate
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I never really liked working with Ai – Ps is my thing. But I'll give it a go.Flag as inappropriate
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Awesome tutor! I'm not familiar with AI but I will try this very cool stuff!!! Thank you!Flag as inappropriate
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I've always used Ps, since I don't like Ai. But I think I'm going to try this one in Illustrator.Flag as inappropriate


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In the last decade, U.S. auto manufacturers have built and sold millions of vehicles that have "flex fuel" capability — that is, they can burn not only regular gasoline but also combination ethanol-gasoline fuels.
Most of the people who own these vehicles likely don't even know it, unless they happened to spot inconspicuous verbiage in their owner's manual.
And even if they knew, it would matter nary a bit because in most of this country there's no place to buy the stuff. Outside a few Midwest states, where the bulk of the ethanol/E-85 fuel production is located, owners of flex fuel vehicles are still slaves to Big Oil.
States with major metropolitan areas and 50,000 or more flex fuel vehicles registered have not one single station selling E-85 fuel. In the entire United States, less than 500 of the 176,000 stations are selling E-85.
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The United States has the capability to produce many millions of gallons more ethanol than the current 4 billion being manufactured and all auto makers, domestic and foreign, can crank out flex fuel vehicles with no sweat (and usually at no additional cost).
Yet, no concentrated effort is being made to mandate moves that could result in reducing this country's dependence on imported oil.
In Brazil, where gasoline prices are in the neighborhood of $4 per gallon, owners of flex fuel cars can fill their tanks for about half that amount.
Brazil, brought to its knees by the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s, did what no other country in the world has done so dramatically — it mandated development of an ethanol industry and vehicles that would run on ethanol-based fuels.
Today, it has nearly 30,000 stations that sell not only gasoline, but pure alcohol, and combinations thereof; more than 40 percent of all the fuel Brazilians pump into their vehicles is ethanol. It is a government requirement that all fuel sold in the country be at least 25 percent ethanol.
Within a few years, Brazil expects to be self-sufficient in fuel production, while the United States bumbles along, subject to the whims of OPEC and other forces beyond its control.
Of the flex fuel-capable vehicles being manufactured in the United States, only General Motors is even bothering to make buyers aware of that capability by using yellow gas cap fillers. Ford has produced hundreds of thousands of flex fuel vehicles, but the only way you'll ever know if yours is one of them is to pore through your owner's manual.
So, why the chicken-and-egg scenario of manufacturing flex fuel vehicles when an infinitesimally small number will ever have access to E-85 fuel before they end up in the junkyard?
In another of those government ironies, a 1988 law says that companies building flex fuel vehicles can then be rewarded by being allowed to make all their other vehicles less fuel efficient.
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The NY Times piece highlights a few interesting points. I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but a VP from BMI in the article refers to one of the large group of folks who call and visit these venues as "salespeople." We've seen this before. The role that is supposed to be an auditor or an investigator is actually defined as a sales role, meaning that they often have a specific stake in squeezing as much money as possible out of the people they talk to. I don't know if BMI's compensation is structured that way, but certainly other Performance Rights Organizations (PROs) are set up that way.
As such, it's no surprise that BMI uses cheesey motivational techniques found in sales training:
One afternoon, I sat with Baker at her cubicle. Besides pictures of her fiance, Mike, and her nieces, she also has a smiley-face chart. Her boss made it up for all the licensing executives, to remind them that their moods and their tones will determine their success. The chart is like a traffic light. There's a green smiley face, a straight face in yellow, then a face in red, frowning. "You never wanna be on the red," Baker said.Then there's the new tools that BMI is using to track down everyone who's playing music. It's spying on more and more areas where music is played, and the reporter discussed with a few people, and they all found it creepy. BMI's response? They like that people refer to them as "Big Brother."
Friends I talked to had a similar reaction. To a one, they said: "Jesus. Sounds like Big Brother." When I mentioned this to DeBusk, he smiled ominously. "Yes. Well. We're here to help."Finally, the closing vignette is really kinda sickening. The reporter follows the "salesperson" as she goes to talk to a struggling restaurant who has trouble paying the bills. After a bit of "negotiation" she gets them to pay up and then admits she knows she's taking money that the owners really need:
Baker accepted Ross's invitation and sat down in the booth with Ross and her pug, Frank. Out came the checkbook. "I could tell she was low on money," Baker told me later. "I could tell it was hard for her to shell out the money."Sickening. This is legalized extortion. And, make no mistake. It's all very legal. But we should be asking why.


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Angels beat Orioles 9-5 to end 4-game skid
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BALTIMORE (AP) — One rousing comeback victory won't completely turn around a frustrating season for the Los Angeles Angels.
Their 9-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday did, however, make the prospect of taking a cross-country trip home a whole lot more palatable.
Erick Aybar hit a bases-loaded triple and Albert Pujols homered during a six-run seventh inning that helped the Angels stop a four-game losing streak.
Hank Conger homered, Pujols had three hits and Howie Kendrick contributed two doubles to help Los Angeles (28-38) avert a three-game sweep and put a positive finish on a 2-4 trip that began in Boston.
"After losing the first two games of the series, we really needed this win," Conger said. "It's very uplifting for us to go home with this win."
Los Angeles trailed 4-2 before getting five hits — three for extra bases — and two walks in the seventh against three pitchers.
"Real good at-bats," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Drew some walks, got into some good hitting counts. It was good to see our offense ... with some clutch hits at the end."
After an off day, Los Angeles opens a season-high 10-game homestand Friday night against the New York Yankees.
"It's going to be a big series," Conger said. "We played two good teams on this road trip, and now we've got to keep grinding. That's all we can do right now."
Chris Davis hit his major league-leading 21st homer for Baltimore, 0-5 this season when trying to complete a three- or four-game sweep. The Orioles next host the AL East-leading Boston Red Sox in a four-game series beginning Thursday night.
"That was a tough inning for us," outfielder Nate McLouth said, referring to the Los Angeles seventh. "Won the series though, and got Boston coming in. We'll worry about them now."
McLouth had his run of 19 consecutive successful steal attempts snapped in the third inning when he lost his footing and toppled off second base after reaching the bag ahead of the throw. He was tagged out by Aybar, ending the longest active steals streak in the majors and third-best in Orioles history.
Davis gave the Orioles a 3-2 lead in the fourth against Jerome Williams (5-2), ending a 1-for-17 skid with his first home run and RBI since June 2. Adam Jones made it 4-2 in the sixth with his 14th homer, his third in four games.
The lead vanished in the seventh. Alberto Callaspo singled and Brad Hawpe drew a four-pitch walk, prompting the exit of starter Jason Hammel. Pedro Strop came in, and Conger hit a sharp, high grounder that glanced off Strop's glove for an infield hit.
"It was going to be a double play if I could catch that one — but I couldn't," Strop said.
"For us to get a break like that to get something going was huge," Conger said, "because not too many breaks have been going our way lately."
That loaded the bases for Aybar, who hit a liner into the gap in right-center. As Aybar slid into third, the relay throw from Ryan Flaherty bounced out of play, allowing Aybar to score for a 6-4 lead.
"In that situation, you're looking for one pitch, and he threw a fastball in the middle and I (made) good contact," Aybar said.
A groundout, a walk and Pujols' 11th homer followed. Strop (0-3) then exited to jeers from the crowd of 25,964.
"Not good. Only thing I can say," Strop said. "I couldn't do the job."
Strop, who starred as Baltimore's setup man last year, has a 7.58 ERA after yielding nine runs in his last five innings.
The Orioles scored an unearned run in the eighth, and Los Angeles tallied an unearned run in the ninth.
Williams, who has jockeyed from the rotation to the bullpen this season, allowed four runs over six innings in his seventh start of 2013.
Baltimore went up 2-0 in the first when Nick Markakis and Jones delivered run-scoring groundouts.
Conger hit a solo shot in the third, his fourth homer of the year and third in his last five starts. The drive was the 69th in the 22-year history of Camden Yards to land on Eutaw Street, beyond the right-field wall.
Josh Hamilton singled with two outs in the fourth and scored on Kendrick's double.
NOTES: Scioscia said he will skip Joe Blanton (1-10) against the Yankees and start C.J. Wilson, Tommy Hanson and Jered Weaver. ... Baltimore's Manny Machado extended his hitting streak to 10 games, one short of his career high. He also ended a season-long run of 11 straight games without getting at least two hits. ... Angels 1B Mark Trumbo did not start, but entered in the seventh as a defensive replacement and has played in all 66 games this year. ... Orioles LHP Wei Yin-Chen (oblique) is scheduled to throw off a half-mound on Thursday in Sarasota, Fla. If all goes well, he will pitch off a full mound Saturday.


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Thanks for the links guys.
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Very Cool,informative and real wargames
Uhm, I am a bit of a n00b to these things because i never played them before. But how do you play those games? I tried semtex but the pages said you had to connect to port 2004 or something like that and to ignore every second bite .
Can anyone tell me how to do that, maybe some more info.
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Hi DakX,
you have to code yourself a programm in C or whatever language you prefer. And this program have to ignore every second byte when it reads from port 24000.
The guys from pulltheplug.org were even so nice and gave us a link to a network programming tutorial: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/html/
Good luck
Hi DakX,
You might find the mentioned link games a bit harder(if you are new). Try out the following
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I've tried hackquest but when i want to do a challenge it ask for a password. And i don't kno what that is. Any hints?
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The plan is to consolidate three locations into one, making the operation more efficient and simplifying things for residents who no longer will have to figure out which office is appropriate for their various needs.
After years of waiting, the search for a new home for the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections Office has begun.
Supervisor of Elections Pam Carpenter said the office requested additional space before she took over the position in 2005, and that need has grown as the nature of elections has evolved.
The supervisor's office currently is housed in three locations: the County Administration Building on SE 1st Street in Gainesville, where early voting is held; the nearby Star Garage on SE 1st Avenue; and an operations and training facility off Depot Avenue. Office staff moved into the Star Garage six or seven years ago with the expectation that it was a temporary fix until a permanent, larger facility could be found, Carpenter said.
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"Our main goal is to get the supervisor of elections the space she needs," he said.
Proposals are due by 2 p.m. Jan. 9 to the purchasing department at the County Administration Building, located at 12 SE 1st St., and can be delivered in person or by mail.
The building should be within an approximate 5-mile radius of the county's downtown headquarters and cover about 40,000 square feet, but proposals don't necessarily need to meet those exact requirements, Sapp said.
Carpenter said multiple supervisors around Florida are moving offices this year.
"Each year, we see more of the supervisors being moved into more appropriate spaces as the election laws change and the demands of the office change," she said.
The move is especially important as supervisors across the state prepare for January 2016, when a state law requiring all residents to vote a paper ballot goes into effect, Carpenter said. A new type of voting equipment for the visually impaired then must be used. It will provide touchscreen or keypad options and allow people to listen to the ballot or magnify it, but it will also print out a physical copy once they've voted — an added feature the current equipment doesn't offer.
The new equipment takes up twice as much space, and the supervisor's office doesn't have the space to store the new machines in its training center, Carpenter said.
Another concern is the record number of mail-in ballots her office received for the recent presidential election, which strained its storage capacity, she said.
The new location must meet some basic requirements. It needs to be accessible to the public and preferably located along a public transportation route. It also needs plenty of parking spaces since training sessions for poll workers can bring in 100 people at once, she said. Additionally, a loading dock is necessary to move equipment to the polls.
"Parking is a real issue downtown," said Carpenter, whose office reserves parking spots for early voters before elections but still faces limitations.
Morgan Watkins is a Gainesville Sun staff writer.


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Ok this is a released, unfinished, version of Street Legends for NBA Live 07.
I have taken 60 of the NBA's best players and added them with 30 NBA Legends, 10 Street legends from the NBA Street series and 20 AND1 Ballers.
The rosters are the result of a fantasy draft, if you wish to do your own fantasy draft goto Playoff mode and make sure all 10 teams are included. After finishing the draft save the playoff and take the players.dbf and import it into the Street Legends Roster.
If you decide to play season mode, you can only select 6 teams, you need to make sure there is 1 for each division. I have not fully tested season mode so dont expect it to be perfect and without crashes.
I have included team select logos and that is it for logos.
As for the Street AIACT, pdub has graced me with a "street" AI file, the CPU will be more challenging and will really embarrass you if you dont stay on top of them.
Also c0nr4d has given me 10 AND1 jerseys as well as the template for the street legends.
There is a crowd3d.fsh file included in the sgsm folder, it will overwrite all 3dcrowds with a generic crowd unless you delete it. Then crowds will remain normal in NBA games.
Besides the crowd3d.fsh and the AIACT, this mod is COMPLETELY separate from the NBA Live 07 game, no files will be overwritten and your normal game/dynasties/ect will not be affected by playing this.
Enjoy, and please, if you want to use anything included in this mod for your own use, you must first contact me. Thank you for your cooperation.
the contents of the sgsm folder go into C:/program files/ea sports/nba live 07/sgsm
the Street Legends folder inside the saves folder goes into My Documents/NBA LIVE 07/saves
Feel free to contact me with any issues and enjoy!
JaoSming @ NLSC
AIM: JaoSming
Email: email@example.com
oh BTW it is a big file, unrar'd it will take up ~400MB
JaoSming wrote:right now it is "basic" meaning the movement of the wiimote doesnt matter right now. I just mapped moving, shooting, passing ect to different buttons.
Im learning how to use the "tilt" commands now and Basically it will work for all Lives on the computer.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 7718058513
Thats the Mii Manager, it's a cheap bluetooth adapter with some BS software that you can get for free.
THE_FAST wrote:the courts where based on a freestyle online game.... i know cause i also played in that mmorpg....
lionld wrote:hi..jaosming!
i found some street courts for ur NBA07 street thread.
would you try to make these if you have spare time?
JaoSming wrote:JaoSming wrote:well for those that wanna help out right now, I could use some help with the "101" jerseys
Basically I need you guys to just make a simple jersey texture of either shorts or a top. I will re-color the texture as needed and pair it up to make it look good.
Here is a zip file that contains I think 10 textures for jersey tops and 10 for jersey bottoms.
http://www.nba-live.com/jaosming/Street ... ackups.zip
So basically if you want to help just take one of those textures and make a pair of shorts, or a tank top. Remember to keep it simple and dont go overboard with it. You dont see (that many) people playing pickup with neon tanktops and flames on their shorts. Take a look at nike.com and other apparel for ideas if you want to help but cant think of anything.
Use of brand names and stuff is cool, same with generic NBA themed stuff, but dont have team specific stuff on the jerseys.
You can either post here or PM your stuff if you want to help. I'll hopefully get some of this done myself when i get a chance. Also, I can take care of the alphas for the jersey. So dont worry about those.
Thank you for any help. Hopefully Ill get some real progress done this week.
I am bumping this so people can see that post. I could use all the help i can get.
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By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) - The U.S. government, which is pursuing a $5 billion lawsuit accusing Standard & Poor's of misleading investors by inflating its credit ratings, on Friday asked a federal judge to move similar cases by 15 U.S. states and the District of Columbia back to state courts.
In a filing in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where the state lawsuits are now being handled, the U.S. Department of Justice said federal courts do not have jurisdiction because the cases turn on alleged violations of state laws against unfair consumer practices or deceptive business practices.
The Justice Department said S&P had argued that the cases belong in federal court because they touch on the meaning of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and a 2006 federal law governing credit rating agencies.
But it said these issues touch on potential federal defenses to the states' claims, and are not inherent in the claims themselves.
"Assertions of federal defenses cannot provide a basis for removal of properly pleaded state-law claims," the Justice Department said.
Catherine Mathis, an S&P spokeswoman, said the Justice Department had previously made similar arguments in an earlier unsuccessful effort to return these cases to state courts.
"This offering is no more persuasive," she said.
S&P is a unit of McGraw Hill Financial Inc.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan has scheduled an October 4 hearing over the states' effort to move their lawsuits back to various state courts, and S&P's effort to dismiss the states' litigation altogether.
Consolidating the state cases may help S&P avoid multiple judgments or conflicting rulings, and reduce its legal bills.
The state lawsuits were consolidated before Furman in June, and represent most of the lawsuits that state attorneys general have filed against S&P over its ratings.
Many were filed six months ago, on the same day that the Justice Department sued S&P for $5 billion. Last month, U.S. District Judge David Carter in Santa Ana, California allowed the government to continue pursuing that case.
S&P has said statements about the integrity of its ratings are "puffery" that cannot be a basis for the fraud lawsuit.
The cases are In re: Standard & Poor's Rating Agency Litigation, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 13-md-02446; and U.S. v. McGraw-Hill Cos et al, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, No. 13-00779.
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Though many of us may not realize the grave disparities that exist in our own communities, people struggle with hunger in every county and congressional district in the United States. They could be our neighbors, kids in our children's classes – the possibilities go on.
In the United States, 41,204,000 people are struggling with hunger - and of them 12,938,000 are children.
1 in 8 people
struggles with hunger.
The average cost of a meal in the United States is $2.94. Data from Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap 2016 study. Learn more ›
Charitable programs are unable to fully support those struggling with hunger. The combination of charity and government assistance programs are necessary to help bridge the meal gap.
SNAP, formerly food stamps, provides temporary help for people going through hard times – providing supplemental money to buy food until they can get back on their feet.
In the United States,
*Economists estimate that every dollar a household redeems through SNAP generates about $1.70 in economic activity.
The Feeding America network is able to reach 46 million people, largely thanks to the commitment of volunteers. Our communities are stronger when we join together – help give your neighbors a hand up by volunteering at your local food bank.
To make progress toward ending hunger in the United States, we need to make sure our lawmakers in Washington are fighting for those struggling back home. You can help make sure they see how great the need is in the United States – tell your member of Congress to visit a local food bank.


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Updated: House backs immunity for gun owners whose guns are stolenBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
February 20. 2013 8:35PM
If a gun is stolen and used in a crime, the owner would have civil immunity under a bill the House passed on a 211-151 vote Wednesday.
Opponents of House Bill 388, which would give gun owners immunity if a weapon is stolen and used in a crime, said there is no demonstrated need for the bill or the possibility that a gun owner would be charged with a crime because of a stolen weapon.
"We do not try to come up with solutions unless there is a demonstrated need," said House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Paul Berch, D-Westmoreland. "We did not hear from Granite Staters there is a demonstrated need to change the law."
The House Judiciary Committee had recommended on a 12-6 vote to kill the bill.
But bill supporters said a recent court decision does demonstrate the need for the bill.
"Innocent home and gun owners should not be held liable for a crime committed by someone who stole their gun," said House Minority Leader Gene Chandler.
Rep. Lenette Peterson, R-Merrimack, noted a gun is not protection if it is locked away, saying but it is when it is accessible and available.
"Gun owners should not be victimized twice," Peterson said.
The House refused to back the committee's recommendation, voting 167-192, before sending the bill to the Senate by the 211-151 vote.
The bill now goes to the Senate for action.
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Dave's Rating:
...kind of sentimental and corny
Who's In It: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood
The Basics: Mickey Rourke, in what everyone will call a comeback role that also functions as an analog to his own acting career, plays a washed-up, hard-living pro wrestler whose heyday was the '80s (think 9 ½ Weeks) and whose recent career has been ignored by all but the most hardcore fans. He's got an angry neglected daughter (Evan Rachel Wood), an almost-girlfriend in middle-aged stripper Marisa Tomei and a job selling pesto pasta salad in a grocery store deli. Depressed yet?
What's The Deal: This is a movie about relearning to look at Mickey Rourke's monster-face, one he acquired by a life dedicated to partying (and what appears to be liberal amounts of horrifying cosmetic surgery), without thinking, "Holy crap, man, what did you do to yourself?" And then you realize that he's still the same guy from Diner, just a sadder version, and that his performance here is so good and unshowy (better than the movie itself, in fact, because overall it's kind of sentimental and corny) that you wind up almost happy to keep watching that mangled mug struggle for redemption.
Who Keeps Earning Her Oscar For My Cousin Vinny: Marisa Tomei. And if you like, you can just insert this movie into her resume as the reason she won it, the rare instance of future-gifting of that award. And I think that scenario is at least as logical as Whoopi Goldberg getting one for Ghost post-deserving-it instead of The Color Purple.
Squeamish-Audience Alert: My second favorite scene--my first favorite involves a really miserable autograph signing event where no one shows--may not be yours, but if you're into wrestling matches where they use barbed wire-wrapped crutches, artificial limbs and staple guns as weaponry, you're going to be in bloodsport heaven.
See Also: The documentaries Bigger, Stronger, Faster (about steroid weirdness and how one family of brothers gets involved with it) and The Backyard (about amateur wrestling insanity and senseless, Jackass-adjacent pain management).
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Wednesday, under the leadership of Speaker Sheldon Silver and Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Robert Sweeney, the New York State Assembly passed legislation to extend a two-year moratorium on the drilling practice known as "fracking."
In response, Eric Whalen, field organizer with Environment New York, issued the following statement: "Across the country, fracking is a rolling environmental disaster - contaminating drinking water, making residents sick, and transforming forests into industrial zones. Environment New York, our allies and supporters have worked hard to build momentum for a moratorium on fracking in the state. Today, the New York State Assembly acted to protect our health and the environment from the rush to drill by passing a temporary ban on fracking. Great credit belongs to Assembly Speaker Silver and Assemblymember Sweeney for working to protect our air and water from toxic drilling, as well as the Assembly members who voted in support of this legislation.
"Our elected officials have been under immense pressure from the oil and gas industry, but today they disregarded this pressure and stood up for the best interests of New Yorkers. "We've seen other states take the plunge toward dirty drilling, and now they are facing poisoned water supplies, polluted air, and families worried about long-term health problems associated with the legacy of toxic pollution that fracking will leave behind. We need to keep this dirty drilling out of New York.
"Fortunately, leadership in the New York State Assembly understands these concerns, and have acted to protect New Yorkers. Environment New York encourages the New York State Senate and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to follow suit by approving this two-year moratorium."
Environment New York is a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization.


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To get PHP5 and PHP4 to work at the same time you will also need to change all "php_value", "php_flag", "php_admin_flag", and "php_admin_value" occurences; otherwise, you can't set configuration file settings.
This faq section will help you migrate from PHP 4 to PHP 5.
Although PHP 5 offers many new features, it's designed to be as compatible with earlier versions of PHP as possible with little functionality being broken in the process.
Be sure to read the appropriate PHP 5 migration appendix of this manual as it contains even more information on the topic of migrating to PHP 5.
MySQL is supported with the only change being that MySQL support is no longer enabled by default in PHP 5. This essentially means that PHP doesn't include the --with-mysql option in the configure line so that you must now manually do this when compiling PHP. Windows users will edit php.ini and enable the php_mysql.dll DLL as in PHP 4 no such DLL existed, it was simply built into your Windows PHP binaries.
Also, the MySQL client libraries are no longer bundled with PHP. More details on this topic are covered in the following FAQ and be sure to read the MySQL section for details on installing MySQL. An example configure line would be --with-mysql=/usr while Windows users will need the libmySQL.dll available to the system.
The main change in PHP 5 is to the OOP model as PHP 5 now uses the Zend Engine 2.0. The zend.ze1_compatibility_mode directive enables compatability with the Zend Engine 1.0 (PHP 4).
The new OOP model is documented in the OOP language reference and OOP migration appendix sections.
Few other changes exist, see the migration 5 appendix for details. There won't be a PHP 5 specific version of the manual as the bulk of PHP remains the same.
To get PHP5 and PHP4 to work at the same time you will also need to change all "php_value", "php_flag", "php_admin_flag", and "php_admin_value" occurences; otherwise, you can't set configuration file settings.
You can run PHP4 and PHP5 as Apache2 modules at the same time. The trick is to hack the sources a little bit.
Change all occurences of application/x-httpd-php (and MIME type for sources) to application/x-httpd-php5 and then add that mime type to apache conf.


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Australian Woods? We're Not There Yet
My biggest fear when traveling to Australia wasn't the 16-hour flight, the change of hemispheres or the spiders that would make my *deleted* fall off.
It was the timber I'd have to work with.
Australian woods have the reputation of being the nastiest, hardest, most interlocked and silica-choked timbers on the planet. One stroke on a board of figured blackwood has been known to reduce an infill smoother to tears.
So I headed to Australia with my old block plane, 1/2" chisel and Tite-Mark gauge and hoped they wouldn't be destroyed.
After four days, I can report no problems whatsoever. Of course, I haven't gotten to work with any Australian timbers. To build this tool chest during my first session in Australia, we're using Malayasian Kauri pine, which is fairly soft like radiata pine or a sponge cake. But it planes up just fine, as long as your tools are really sharp and finely set.
The classes in the coming weeks promise more fun.
I'm off to bed in a few minutes, but in the coming days I'll show you some photos of the amazing woods in the racks at the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking. So stay tuned.
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Food Pantry Weekly Event
Thursday, 28 February, 2013 @ 05:00 PM - 07:30 PM |
Volunteers are needed to help at the Charleston Food Pantry. volunteers will get a chance to help serve our local community in need. Volunteers will help organize and distribute food to Charleston Food pantry clients.
For more information on how to register for this event, please visit http://cats.eiu.edu/studentCommunityServiceRegistration/workshops.asp or call us at 217-581-3967Categories: Civic Engagement and Volunteerism


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Morning Five: Memorial Day EditionPosted by rtmsf on May 30th, 2011
Happy Memorial Day to everyone around the country, whether you're honoring our fallen soldiers and/or the family members who are no longer with us. It's a day worthy of reflection and memory, and we hope that your day will be spent in equal parts pouring out an ounce of liquor and cooking up some tasty barbecue. After all, life is here to be lived, even while we're remembering those who are gone.
- As if five full days of the hoops extravaganza known affectionately as the Big East Tournament wasn't already enough, Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said late last week that he wants to see the tournament expand to 17 teams (or further upon additional expansion) when TCU formally enters the league in 2012-13. His justifications — that teams (such as UConn last year) can win five games, and that every player in the conference deserves a chance to play in the Garden at the league's marquee event — sound reasonable enough to us. Although the idea of a #16 vs. #17 play-in game between DePaul and TCU on Monday night seems about as enticing as talking derivative markets over at the Harvard Club. The setup Boeheim suggests, though, would be more workable if the league ultimately expands to 20 teams and could have a "First Four" of its own then.
- Speaking of Big East expansion, maybe someday soon the University of Memphis will get a long-desired invitation to the league, but in the meantime we'll have to settle for a home-and-home series between the Tigers and longtime rival and nemesis Louisville scheduled to begin next season at the KFC Yum! Center. The two schools who battled for decades in the old Metro Conference and later in Conference USA (when it was still relevant) have not played in six years since Louisville left CUSA (the infamous Darius Washington game) but, needless to say, the two are still not friendly. This will be a great series, and we hope that even if Memphis doesn't join the Big East in the coming few years, that the two will continue this series indefinitely.
- Say what you want about Dick Vitale as an announcer past his prime or a shameless homer for certain east coast schools where he's friendly with the head coaches… but never question the man's commitment to improving the lives of the people around him through his relentless advocacy to fight cancer in his role as a spokesman for the Jimmy V Foundation. As Andy Staples writes in this piece on Friday, Vitale has leveraged his name within the sporting community to raise over $100M at his gala in just the last six years, a ridiculous number in philanthropic contributions when you think about it. Someday, when this very site or its replacement is writing the obit for one Richard Vitale, the first sentence shouldn't mention the word ESPN, or Duke, or even basketball — it should focus on the consuming passion that he has given into the fight against cancer and how his tireless efforts in the "fourth quarter" of his life helped make the world a better place.
- The LA Times published a piece over the weekend examining the odd situation of three southern California kids all returning back home to play for UCLA after spending at least one season all the way across the country at UNC. Larry Drew II, Travis Wear and David Wear each returned to LA after finding Chapel Hill not to their liking for one reason or another, and are looking to regain some of the form that made each of them elite recruits coming out of high school. Considering that very few players leave Roy Williams' teams to transfer elsewhere (only seven in over 20 years of head coaching), it's a weird coincidence that four of those players came from the sunny skies and endless avenues of Los Angeles (Alex Stepheson was the other). Good news for Tar Heel fans: none of the players on the 2011-12 UNC roster is from SoCal.
- It continues to amaze us that South Park is still on the air, but it is, and it continue to push the envelope with its politically incorrect jabs at just about everything anyone considers holy and sacred. It's been a long time since anyone considered the NCAA sacrosanct, but SP's recent episode, "Crack Baby Athletic Association" skewers the governing organization in a parody that likens modern student-athletes to slaves in a for-profit scheme run by a select few. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone's alma mater, the University of Colorado, comes off as particularly complicit in this show as the school the boys visit in an attempt to ply their exploitative trade. We could go on, but don't take our word for it — the entire unedited episode is here.


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Carey Price sends Habs fans on dog hunt
The Boston Bruins let the dogs out on Saturday night beating the Montreal Canadiens 5-3.
And in an unfortunate coincidence, two of Carey Price's own pooches went missing.
Price, the Canadiens' starting goalie, tweeted early Monday morning asking for help finding his two lost Labrador retrievers, "If anyone finds two labs running around Candiac they're mine."
Candiac is a suburb south of Montreal.
TSN 690 in Montreal reported that a caller named John Mastromonaco, who heard that Price had lost his dogs on their radio show, actually found the labs and returned them.
"I don't know if they're his dogs, but I'm in Candiac," he told TSN 690 on Monday morning. "One's name is Duke and one is Motty, they just came to me and are sitting next to me.
"They had his number on the tags, his wife picked up the phone," Mastromonaco told TSN radio host Shaun Starr. "I just told her I think I found your dogs, I just said I could bring the dogs over, I'm five minutes away.
"She was very happy that I found them."
Mastromonaco received an autographed stick from the Habs netminder, according to TSN 690.
It all went down live on our show. #TSN690 listener John Mastromonaco saves the day & finds Carey Price's dogs #Habs. http://t.co/2wShasQrUA— Shaun Starr (@Starr690) May 5, 2014
The Canadiens and Bruins are tied 1-1 in the Eastern Conference semifinal, with Game 3 set to go Tuesday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal.
If anyone finds two labs running around candiac they're mine— Carey Price (@CP0031) May 5, 2014


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White Water Shaker Table
We set out to reproduce a simple side table from the White Water Shaker community. We failed.
By Christopher Schwarz
Pages: 38-41
From the June 2010 issue #183
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The first time I encountered this table in the White Water Shaker collection, it was locked in a storeroom with more than a dozen other pieces. To my eye, there was something unusual about it.
Was it the size? It's 25″ high – a bit shorter than typical. Was it the single drawer surrounded by a solid apron? That's atypical for Shakers. Or was it something else?
I put my fingers around the front knob and slid the drawer out. And that's when the mysteries really began. The craftsmanship on the table's base is impeccable. Tight joints. Neat pins. Clean tapers. And the maker chose excellent wood – the aprons are all quartersawn walnut.
But the drawer was a different story. The drawer had one giant dovetail at each corner, and the half-blind tails at the drawer's front left a scant 1/16″ of drawer front. Further, the groove that held the drawer bottom was visible on the ends of the drawer front. That's usually a no-no.
Then I turned my attention to the tabletop. Unlike the table's base, the top was flatsawn walnut and was thinner along its edges with an enormously wide rabbet on the underside. The top was glued and nailed to the base. Several weeks later, I measured the table and all its details. I sat before it and stared for a long time, hoping that I would find the answers to the questions racing through my head.
Was the drawer original? Was it made by a different maker? Was the top a replacement? And what was this table used for? It's a little big for a side table. And it's too small and low for a typical worktable. But I liked it, and I resolved to build one to donate to the organization restoring the White Water village – Friends of White Water Shaker Village.
Even today, I don't have answers to any of these questions, but I do have clues. Senior Art Director Linda Watts visited the South Union Shaker village in Kentucky in 2009 and reported she saw a table like this being used as a washstand with a large washbowl on top. Could the original top of this White Water table have been ruined by water?
From the June 2010 issue #183
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Spain plans to take DNA samples from illegal immigrant children arriving in the country's North African enclave of Melilla to make sure the adults accompanying them are their parents.
Authorities suspect many North African immigrants seeking Spanish residency claim children are theirs because families have a better chance of success and they live in better conditions while waiting.
Melilla Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irene Flores said Thursday officials are waiting for judicial approval before enacting the DNA testing plan.
Children who are not with their parents would be put under the care of the Spanish state.
Melilla is a small city surrounded by Morocco. Its immigration center currently houses 101 children.
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Kevin Gray's Spring Training Notebook: Nashua North grad Zapenas feeling better in Cubs' campBy KEVIN GRAY
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 26. 2013 9:28PM
Forget ripping a homer or impressing the Chicago Cubs with crazy arm strength. Minor leaguer Brad Zapenas is thrilled to be wearing a jersey in Arizona and simply playing catch.
Zapenas, a Nashua North and Boston College graduate, is returning from a shoulder injury and looking to regain his place as a versatile infielder in the Cubs organization. A career .250 hitter in the minors, Zapenas was making a successful transition to third base when he injured his right shoulder while diving to make a play for Peoria of the Midwest League. He played in only 24 games last season, batting .273 with three doubles, and spent the rest of the summer rehabbing from a June shoulder surgery.
"It scared me just because you hate to have an injury where you miss a lot of playing time, but I always tried to stay positive with it and think of it as a good experience. It certainly makes you appreciate the game so much more, especially little things that we as baseball players sometimes overlook like playing catch, which I am finally beginning to do again," said Zapenas, who spends most of his time working out at Fitch Park in Mesa, Ariz.
While many minor leaguers have yet to report to spring training, Zapenas is making the most of his extra time in Arizona. This week, he has spent extra time with Cubs minor league hitting coach Bill Buckner. Yes, that Bill Buckner. The former Red Sox first baseman - and scapegoat for the 1986 World Series disaster - has worked wonders with Zap's swing.
"Last season, (Buckner) told me I'm really good hitting (to the opposite field), but I get beat inside. So he started doing flip drills to my front left hip and told me to hit the ball off the L-screen instead of hooking it. This allowed me to drop my hands down, and it helped. The next game, I hit a home run to left field off Travis Wood, who's now in the big-league rotation. I'd say (Buckner) is really big on hitting the ball where it's pitched."
Zapenas isn't sure where he'll end up in April or if he'll need extended time at spring training.
"I'm just excited to be playing catch again, and it feels like I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel for my shoulder rehab," he said.
GRAPEFRUIT SEEDS: Red Sox starter Ryan Dempster gave fans a glimpse of what to expect on Tuesday. The 35-year-old pitched for the first time in a Red Sox uniform, tossing two innings without yielding a hit. He fanned two batters and did not issue a walk. Red Sox manager John Farrell was impressed with Dempster's overall command and action on split-fingered pitches. Dempster, who owns a career record of 124-124, also won his first mini-press conference in Fort Myers by taking a light approach when dealing with the media.
His goals for this spring?
"I'm going to try to shoot under par. That's a big one, and I'm going to try to swim with a dolphin at some point. I've seen a few of them on the water," Dempster told reporters. "Things went well (today). My body felt good, my arm felt good. I was able to attack the strike zone for the most part. Good first day."