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This paella-like dish from Chef Pablo Montero of Refectorio at Le Domaine in Ribera del Duero is full of intensely flavorful ingredients, like Ibérico ham.
This paella-like dish from chef Pablo Montero is full of intensely flavorful ingredients, like Ibérico ham. (You can substitute serrano ham, which is less expensive.)
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1 lemon, halved
3 large artichokes
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
Kosher salt
2 tablespoons hazelnuts
1 cup finely chopped onion
6 ounces very thinly sliced dry-cured ham, such as jamon Ibérico or serrano, 4 ounces finely chopped
2 medium tomatoes—halved, seeded and finely chopped
4 cups chicken stock or low-sodium broth
2 cups Bomba or Calasparra rice (see Note)
1/2 cup lightly packed parsley
1/2 small garlic clove
Preheat the oven to 400°. Squeeze some of the juice from the lemon halves into a large bowl of water. Working with 1 artichoke at a time, snap off the dark green outer leaves. Holding the artichoke on its side, using a serrated knife, cut off all but 3/4 inch of the remaining leaves. Peel and trim the bottom and stem of the artichoke. Halve the artichoke and scoop out the furry choke with a spoon. Cut the artichoke hearts in half again, rub with the lemon and add to the bowl of lemon water. Repeat with the remaining artichokes. Drain the artichokes and pat dry.
In a large ovenproof skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Add the artichokes and a generous pinch of salt. Cook over moderate heat, tossing occasionally, until just starting to brown, about 4 minutes. Add 1/2 cup of water, cover and steam the artichokes until just tender, about 12 minutes. Transfer the artichokes to a plate and wipe out the skillet.
Spread the hazelnuts in a pie plate and toast for about 7 minutes, until fragrant. Let cool slightly, transfer the nuts to a kitchen towel and rub off the skins.
In the large skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil until shimmering. Add the onion and cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until just softened, 5 minutes. Add the chopped ham and tomatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, until the tomatoes break down and the mixture thickens, 15 minutes. Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, bring the chicken stock to a simmer; keep hot.
Add the rice to the skillet and stir to coat with the tomato mixture. Stir in the hot stock, spread the rice in an even layer and bring to a boil. Nestle the artichokes in the rice. Cover and bake for about 20 minutes, until most of the stock is absorbed. Uncover the skillet and bake for about 10 minutes longer, until the stock is completely absorbed and the rice is tender but moist. Remove the skillet from the oven, cover and let stand for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a blender, combine the parsley, hazelnuts and garlic and pulse until finely chopped. Add the remaining 6 tablespoons of oil and puree until nearly smooth. Season the parsley sauce with salt. Serve the rice straight from the skillet, drizzled with the parsley sauce and topped with the sliced ham.
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I want to thank Gus Grissom of HalfWheelHell.com for sharing this interview with us. The interview is conducted by John Cutler, founder of a movement to crowd fund testing for the Mid Atlantic region. Cutler has penned an Op Ed for HalfWheelHell here. His interview with the founder of the Florida Clean Ride Fund is below:
Recently John Cutler, coordinator of the recent movement to crowd-fund anti-doping efforts across the Mid-Atlantic region, discussed this project with Jared Zimlin, director of the Florida Clean Ride Fund. They discussed logistics of the project and its impact on the local cycling community. The following is a transcription of the interview…
John Cutler: First, can you tell me if there was some event, some main motivation for getting going?
Jared Zimlin: I've been a licensed racer since 1988 and I think I've always heard the rumors about whoever seems to be strong that year and "you know why they're strong." Well, then I took 10 years off racing — family, all that stuff. When I got back into it, the same arguments were still going on.
It started, ironically, about a year ago last March. There was a random Facebook post about someone getting busted again. We had two riders in the prior six months who had been sanctioned. So my teammate posted "this is more prevalent, we train our asses off, you know this one is cheating and that one is cheating." I challenged him. There has always been talk of testing, so why don't we just do it? We threw a thing up on Facebook and the local rider blogs. Of course everyone responded "well, this one cheats and that one cheats." I was almost the opposite. My motivation was different from a lot of people. Let's call b******t. I don't think as many people cheat as you think cheat. I think you just got your a$$ kicked. But regardless people had been busted in the state so there was clearly an issue. So what we did was contact some people who had tried it in the past and found out why they couldn't get it through.
What it came down to was financing. That was the biggest hurdle. USADA was more than willing to come down and help. But it was expensive. We floated the idea of establishing a fund in which the money goes towards bringing testing down here. We figured that a bigger part of that too was the education. Just finding out what is a banned substance is difficult. It is easy if you know where the links are. There is one little sentence on USA Cycling's website, and one sentence on the back of your license that says you are subject to testing. That is about it. What does that mean? Where do I go? What is legal what is illegal? We started getting in conversations with clubs with masters riders who were freaking out because they have prescriptions. So we started explaining the process to address that. So the education was a big part of it.
JC: So you didn't set up your own non-profit?
JZ: We were able to work with our state organization. We were initially going to do our own thing. We were going to set up our own not-for-profit. But as we started talking we realized that if you don't have your local association on board, and don't have your local clubs, you'd be working outside the system. We wanted to work inside the system, and fortunately they were all very happy with the program. They agreed to set up a separate account. The account is transparent so any member of the Florida Cycling Association can log in and see the finances. They can see where the money is going. That is something you start getting: "where is the money going, is it going to testing?" It takes care of that whole headache (taxes, etc.) If you can work with the organization it is probably a lot easier than setting up your own. Though we looked into that and it was probably $1000 total in legal fees to set it all up. It is not impossible, but it is a $1000 extra you have to raise.
JC: My goal is simple: one round of doping controls, at one random event in 2013. Did you go into this with the idea that you would conduct as many tests as the money would allow? Or did you go into it thinking you'd raise X amount of money to make Y number of tests happen?
JZ: It started out with the initial cost of a test. And then we contacted USADA. And since they had never been involved with something like this in any sport, they didn't have a template either. So we worked together. They gave us a bulk price for seven weekends. But we wrote into the agreement the caveat that this a non-profit, and the donations are voluntary. But whatever number we put out there I can't guarantee we'll get to that number. So if seven weekends become three weekends then that is still better than none.
We didn't hit our financial goal that they put out there. And we didn't hit the number of test weekends we put out there. We had three weekends on the fund that were tested. On top of that they came down on their own two times. And they did a random individual test. Once the spotlight was on – they were already down here — they did some other stuff.
We raised about $9000 to have our testing weekends. Typically for one weekend it is about $2500 to $3000 depending on how many tests you want. When we set up the testing with USADA and Florida Cycling Association we gave them our schedule and said "okay, you all pick the races, the events and everything". We wanted zero opportunity for some riders, some categories, or different section of the state — we have different sections of the state with their own cliques — to claim favoritism. No, USADA picks it. We are just paying for the testing. We didn't want to know. We didn't want the opportunity for a member of the board to just happen to be in a conversation with someone and let is slip about testing at a particular event. That person tells that person and before you know it it is on Facebook and the cheaters don't show up. So what's the point?
So we just gave them the schedule and said go. We looked at finances and kept them up to speed. And fortunately we haven't had any positives. We've had people get emotional about testing, but some of the people got tested and not had positives have gone on to win races. Now these people have a sheet of paper. If you think these people are doping they've got a piece of paper that says they're clean.
JC: I don't know if it is a DC thing where everyone seems to be a politician, lobbyist, or lawyer, but people are getting agitated. What you've said so far echoes the experience we've had here. I'm getting a lot of feedback from people getting very indignant that somehow there is a voluntary fund that people can donate to, yet the testing might apply to everyone. They're coming up with all kinds of reasons why it is a bad idea. What was the most pressing push-back that you got?
JZ: We got push-back. Some of it we were able to refute very quickly by asking them if they signed up and got a USA Cycling license. Did you get a license? There you go. You already agreed to this. We aren't creating rules or making something up that didn't exist. All we're doing is making sure that there is an enforcement of those rules. Because we had 50 year-old riders riding away from Pro 1/2 fields. The amazing thing we noticed this year — and a lot of people commented on it, and gave me feedback on it — is the level of fairness this year.
It is funny, we get a lot of people who come from up north and come down to Florida for the weather. I did a crit in this one city. We had [names omitted], guys that win on a national level at this crit. It was a fair race. They were strong, and they were driving it. It was fast but manageable. The year before we had no riders like that and it was a 35+ masters race. And it was horrendously fast. It has been like that all year. Pro 1/2 riders have been coming up to me and saying "this year it seems much more balanced". There is no one group of riders, or one rider, who is literally on some different playing field. You just don't see that. It has scared some people away. Or there was enough announcement and talk about it beforehand — and I figured this would happen — you'd suddenly see people who were winning tons of races in 2011 — suddenly they had a lot of work going on. They were really busy. They hadn't been able to train as much. Whatever it takes.
It has changed the level of racing. What kind of drove the educational portion of it was that lots of the masters racers were scared. You had some that were on testosterone legitimately. A lot that were not. You have people who were on asthma medications. And so it is providing the links to where people could find therapeutic use exemptions. When someone comes at you with an objection — you're going to bust be because I have to use an inhaler — you say go through the process, put in your piece of paper, and you're fine. When you've shown that it isn't as big and scary as you think it is it kind of takes that stuff away.
JC: You mentioned that prior to this you didn't believe doping was going on. Has that changed? Now that you've done this can you look back and see the past differently?
JZ: Well, if you look at our 2011 results and 2012 results and see who is winning the results are very different in certain categories.
JC: If I talked like you were talking, people would say I had no justification to say stuff like that. And frankly I wouldn't.
JZ: That is why we did the program. Before the program I didn't feel like people had the justification to say that. So I said let's bring in a way to either prove people are clean … The team I run has 94 members from tri to road to MTB. 50 or so that race. I went the opposite route. I have 50 people who spend $1000s of dollars a year and 100s of hours on the road, in the gym, on the road. To have that taken away by someone who is cheating is not right. To say we shouldn't enforce the rules because we might hurt one person when the reality is that person is robbing 100's of people who are the financial engine of racing. I know people that don't race anymore because of doping. Why race?
JC: When I've read the USADA guidelines I wondered who is really taking on the burden of doing the test. Is the promoter having to make sure that the space is there, the cooler is there …
JZ: It depends on how you set it up. We set it up initially that USADA would do the first two ones 100% on their own. They would do it. But it is cheaper if you bring in volunteers. We did for one of the races. We volunteered so me and a bunch of people volunteered to see the process. What does it look like? So if someone asks us we can tell them exactly what happens. It is pretty basic. You find a location. You provide the chairs. You fill a cooler with ice and water so the riders have something to drink. And they get read their rights. They go to their test and that is it.
JC: When I'm reading this stuff I'm thinking that if you drop the ball on one of these things, then the whole thing falls apart. Is it more simple than it appears?
JZ: It is a lot more simple. USADA really runs it. When they come in they're just making sure that they have a place to do the testing. And that they have a restroom that they can go to. There are chaperones. There is a private area where the rider can talk to USADA so they don't feel like they are out in the open. If you are at a crit it could be at any office building nearby. We contacted the city and they said they had a Parks Department room on level 3, and there you go. It was right by the road race. At a road race it could be in an RV. It just has to be a place that is private. It was really easier than it looks.
JC: I've gotten warnings from people that either it won't be that much of a deterrent or it is going to cause negative consequences. What is the downside of what you've done? Has it caused any bad things?
JZ: There are some negative people but they still come out and race. Everybody has an opinion on everything. And people would say this is a waste of time and money. What about our juniors? What about is this organization? My response is that this is a thing we took up and we did. If juniors are your thing, then do it. If having this state series is your thing then awesome, put it together. We support you. Everyone is willing to chip in from the sidelines, but there hasn't really been any super negative feedback. Nothing destructive. We've had bad attendance this year, but that has more to do with how our season was set up. We've had some political conflict issues because Florida is split up. People think the testing is hurting attendance. But you know I think $4 a gallon gas and races every weekend from January to June is hurting attendance. People get tired.
JC: We're noticing that up here as well. It partly has to do with the cyclocross season. The catalyst for me was hearing about this guy who got caught doping at a Gran Fondo.
JZ: That was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
JC: There are definitely people who sit around and lose sleep and are super intense about all the races they think they've lost because of doping. They are very aggressive. I'm not really like that. In my mind this is something we signed up for when we got our license. We've never had a test.
JZ: All you are saying is "these are the rules, and we want to make sure you're enforcing them".
JC: That was my thing. You probably know the type. The type that are steaming in their saddle every time they go out persuaded them everyone around them is on some juice. I'm not like that. I think most of the people just follow the rules and that there are some bad apples. You've said you've had no positives to date.
JZ: No we haven't. None to date. We started 2012 and we've had no positives. That is a good thing.
JC: People assumed that everyone would be getting caught for their cough medicine I guess.
JZ: That was exactly the case. And it didn't happen. One guy was on an asthma medication and I sent him a therapeutic use form. You're fine. Sure enough he was fine. USADA is not out to convict people that accidentally screwed up. They're pretty clear about that. They aren't out to find the person who has an inhaler or who takes Claritin B. If you get tested for that stuff you can actually not be positive because they'll allow you to go to a doctor and get a prescription. So it is not what they are looking for. [NOTE: For non national riders -- amateurs -- there is a different policy for inhalers, and other asthma type medications. This is a process. You actually show a positive and then you are able to get proof for a medical use, and send that back in to USADA and they verify that. They walk you through the steps]. They are looking for the testosterone. The EPO. The growth hormones. The stuff that is blatantly cheating.
JC: Did you even know about USADA before? What are they like?
JZ: We think of USADA and think of cycling. The guy who came down to do the event in Tampa … he had only done a few bike races. USADA looks at every sport. They look at water skiing, table tennis, skeet shooting. We are in our little bubble. USADA gets a list of banned substances for cycling and says "OK." So take the test.
JC: I took a very similar idea. I don't expect all people to care. Some people have some good reasons not to care. I love the sport and I kinda care. Some people just don't care if they are beaten on the podium by someone who is doping. My thought was that by crowd funding it among the people who do care then you can't question that. I'm sure people suggested early on that you tack on a fee to events. But I'm not a fan of that.
JZ: People came out and proposed a dollar donation per entry fee. The reason we didn't do that, and there are people who are waving that flag, and I basically told them to wave that flag at promoters meetings. If you guys can get that done we'll be happy. Right now it is 100% voluntary. And we have the money. And now we can do tests that you agreed to anyway. So that's it. Go be mad at the 500 people.
JC: How many individual donors did you have to raise the $9000?
JZ: It varied. We set up a Clean Team tab and put three tiers on there. $25, $100, and $250 plus. And then the team logos would go on there. We also had some bike shops donate. I went to the banned substance control group website and they have the products that have been tested and shown to be clean. We have a couple of them that have put money in to it, $100 here, $500 there.
Some of the local clubs have done their summertime training series and have done a donation each month. We had a junior who happens to be the national junior road champion donating $25 of his own money. That's cool. He put up or shut up! We had a guy who doesn't race who stays here in the winter and wrote a $1000 check. I asked if there was an extra "0" and he said "I really support fair sport and like what you are doing." You get an initial rush of the early adopters. And then there is a lull. And then when the first test happens, people know it is real. That was the thing. I knew we'd get a second rush of donations when people actually saw that it was happen. We had a rush there. We are starting to look to 2013.
JC: We are at the stage where the passionate people and nay-sayers are coming through the woodwork. I was mostly concerned whether overall you thought it was a worthwhile effort and brought the community together. And if you reached your goals.
JZ: I think the people who were against it were against it for reasons. Those who were adamantly against it. And they are going to be against it no matter what. You'll get that group of people. But a lot of people I never expected actually came out to support it.
One of the ironic things is that one of our officials went up to Georgia and asked — because the juniors would come down here — how come you aren't coming down. And they said "even the juniors dope in Florida. Everyone knows that!" This rumor mill — I remember when I was racing in the 90s we were packed with riders from Georgia and Alabama while the weather was nice — and then in the summertime it was the opposite and we would leave Florida. In the spring when we should be having riders from up north coming down. we weren't seeing that as much. Part of the reason was that if we have this reputation we have to clean that up. It isn't going to help our sport.
JC: It sounds like Florida had a problem. You were getting a number of positives. The general idea was that it was something that was pervasive.
JZ: We've had positives here but not under our testing. But we've also had people that were winning who everyone was accusing of doping, and they tested negative. So now you've got your a$$ handed to you legitimately. So you might want to go rethink your excuses.
JC: In 2011 someone floated this by the board of our local association. And they were actually of mixed opinion. And it quickly became a DC thing (everyone is a lawyer). Even among the board — they had extra money sitting around — and they couldn't settle on doing this.
JZ: We went through the same thing. I should have painted that picture clearer. It was probably exactly what you were dealing with. We started with this last April and we didn't get buy in until November. What it came down to was who was going to administer it. It was myself and a partner. And that was a burden. And then there was the lawyer thing. We looked up the liability. I contacted USAC lawyers and USADA lawyers, and a friend who is a lawyer. We looked at if there was any liability to the Florida Cycling Association for testing. And a big question was whether we were violating their rights. And the short answer was "No" They signed this license. And when they signed that license that is when they said I am willing to be subject to testing. So that is where they are off the hook.
That is why we let other people pick the events. We are paying for USADA and USA Cycling to enforce the rules that they have in place. That is it. That is where the board turned around. We were going to do it regardless. It seemed stupid that you have events, and these are the rules of the events, and you're scared to enforce the rules that everyone has agreed to. It made no sense to me. We had lawyers look it. And the bottom line was that the rider has accepted that when they took a license.
JC: For a plan "B" were were thinking of was going directly to the promoters. Could you see that working?
JZ: Absolutely. At the end of the day USADA will contact the promoter to facilitate testing at the event. Any promoter can request and pay for testing. It can be done that way.
JC: If the promoter is contacted, doesn't everyone know about the doping control?
JZ: The promoter can keep their trap shut. That is the biggest hurdle. One of the events we had in Florida — typical state politics — where the promoter let people know there was going to be tested. And suddenly it was central and north Florida picking on South Florida because we had poor attendance at this race because we had testing. And no, it was you had poor attendance because the weather report was shit. And people didn't want to spend that kind of money and effort to go down there and get rained out. And the second day they had monsoon weather. That was why you had poor attendance.
JC: We were thinking that promoters enter their events in a pool and basically agree that their event might get selected. And it might just get selected and they might not get any advance notice. They knew it was a possibility.
JZ: Absolutely. That is what ended up happening. The reality was that if you signed up FRCA you understand that USADA could show up. And all the promoters knew that. And if it happens and not one promoter that had testing knew it was an issue. They barely knew it was there. They were there off to the side. There was no controversy. No bull horn announcements about USADA being here and everyone being up in arms. At one event no one knew they were there until afterwards.
get over yourselves, you dope you win. Easy Peasy.
it's inside the computer
Who get's to put together this watch list?
1. This is a great start. By all means, keep doing it.
2. Unless you are David Anthony, the doping cycle ends days or weeks before a race with testing going negative before race day.
Perhaps the next goal is to track wins/placings and generating a watch list for more targeted testing?
This is so doable.
Yes, we're implementing drug testing by ghosts. Have a problem with that?
Gus Grissom? The dead astronaut? AWESOME!
I'm all for the testing. When signing up for the anual CRCA fee we should have the choice to donate to testing, juniors, or nothing extra at all.
Please read this.
Please don't force USADA to use the Floyd bathroom, that's for the CDC.
Lets do something like this in nYC!
nothing else to say...
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Joe Christensen covered Major League Baseball for 15 years, including three seasons at the Baltimore Sun and eight at the Star Tribune, before switching to the college football beat. He's a Faribault, Minn., native who graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1996. He covered Jim Wacker's Gophers for the Minnesota Daily and also wrote about USC, UCLA and the Rose Bowl for the Riverside Press-Enterprise before getting this chance to cover football again.
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Only 41,062 tickets were sold to the Gophers' game against Purdue last Saturday, already the smallest crowd in TCF Bank Stadium's four-year history, and it looked like there were several thousand no-shows, too. It's a shame that so many Gopher fans missed the most impressive victory of the season so far.
But Jerry Kill said Tuesday he knows who is to blame for such a dispiriting turnout: He is.
Well, sort of. It's not really his fault that the Gophers don't draw well, but it is his responsibility, he said, for making sure that changes.
"If we continue to win, that place will be packed out and we'll have to build on to it," Kill said at his weekly news conference. "If you don't win, that's the way it is. ... It's our job. It's not our fans -- I'm not going to blame anybody. We've got to put a good product out there. That's what I was hired to do a year and a half ago, and that's what we'll do."
Kill said he has been heartened during his tenure here to discover that there are plenty of enthusiastic fans out there, and that negative opinions are offset by positive ones.
"There are a tremendous amount of people that have stuck by the program," Kill said. "There's enough passion in this state, and enough passion in this room. We start winning games, and expect it every week, and all of that stuff will come."
While Kill was praising Minnesotans who has supported him, his boss was trying to keep discouraged fans from abandoning the program. Athletic director Norwood Teague last week wrote an explanation for his and Kill's decision to cancel a two-game series with North Carolina and pay an $800,000 termination fee to do it.
Over the weekend, Teague sent a letter via email to season-ticket holders, hoping to reassure those who were especially critical of the decision. Kill, Teague and the athletic department received dozens of complaints about the North Carolina series, and Teague acknowledged that the move wasn't well-received. But "I also want to personally assure you that even if we don't always agree on decisions," Teague wrote, "I will always be guided by the best interests of athletics and the entire university community."
The controversy is a matter of tactics, not strategy, Teague said.
"While we may not agree on every decision, I have heard broad agreement that rebuiding the Gopher football program is a priority, not only for the team and its fans, but also for Gopher athletics and the university," Teague wrote. "I will continue to work closely with Coach Kill to implement a plan that builds a winning tradition that inspires pride, fills the stadium with fans, leads us to bowl games, attracts top student-athletes, and generates revenue."
In an effort to create a loud and electric atmosphere for Saturday's game against Syracuse, the Gophers' only night game at TCF Bank Stadium this year, Minnesota put more than 5,000 upper-bowl tickets on sale shortly after last Saturday's victory over Western Michigan.
Gopher fans apparently know a bargain -- the tickets were snapped up by Monday evening.
There are still tickets available to watch the Gophers try to improve to 4-0, but all in the better reserved sections, priced between $40-90. Assuming those tickets move by game time, it could give the Gophers their first sellout of the season.
And nobody is rooting for that more than Jerry Kill. The coach emphasized how much the fans at TCF Bank Stadium helped his team on Saturday -- and that's with a mediocre crowd that the university announced as 44,921 tickets sold, but looked like several thousand fewer, certainly a smaller crowd than one week earlier against New Hampshire.
In discussing the Gopher defense's stand on Western Michigan's final possession, Kill said, "To be honest, I think the crowd had something to do with it."
The Broncos, apparently having communication problems, were penalized five yards on first down for having five men in the backfield. After a sack and a short run, they faced third-and-18.
"The crowd was tremendous on third down," Kill said. "If we're on the road, that may be a little bit of a different story."
Western Michigan quarterback Alex Carder's pass was broken up by Michael Carter on third down, and receiver Jaime Wilson was stopped short of the first-down marker on fourth down, cementing the Gophers' victory.
Carder "was trying to check (change) plays. I can't tell you how important it is when that stadium is loud and it's third down, how tough that is on the quarterback," Kill said. "Everybody's calling plays on the line of scrimmage right now. Communication to get 10 guys to do the right thing is not easy."
Better get used to those 11 a.m. kickoffs again.
BTN announced its TV schedule for September on Thursday, and the Gophers' home games against New Hampshire on Sept. 8 and Western Michigan on Sept. 15 are morning starts, something the Gophers avoided at TCF Bank Stadium last season.
Along with the Oct. 13 game against Northwestern, that means Minnesota has been relegated to the early starts in three of the four home games announced so far. The exception is Sept. 22 against Syracuse, which will kick off at 7 p.m.
Last season, six of Minnesota's seven home games began at 2:30 p.m., a result of Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi lobbying the conference and its network for relief from the morning starts, which make it more difficult for fans to tailgate. But the policy only lasted one season.
In addition to a pair of road games -- a 10 p.m. CDT kickoff at UNLV on Aug. 30 and an 11 a.m. start at Iowa on Sept. 29 -- the Gophers now know the start times for the first half of their 12-game schedule. Most of the remaining games will not be assigned kickoff times until 10 days before each game, as the Big Ten's TV partners slot the games into their schedule. Minnesota's opener in Las Vegas will be televised by CBS College Sports, and the next three games will air live on BTN.
A few quick notes from the Gophers football spring game Saturday, which signals the end of the spring practice season for Minnesota:
*Quarterbacks: MarQueis Gray looked sharp on most of his passes, completing 4-of-8 passes for 62 yards while competing for the Maroon team, which technically took home a 3-0 victory over the Gold team in the 50-minute scrimmage. The crispest offensive play of the day might have been Gray's early 35-yard hookup with Brandon Green. ... Sophomore Max Shortell was 4-for-10 for 68 yards and ran for 30 more. He directed an impressive late drive that ended with a missed field goal. ... Freshmen Philip Nelson (0-for-6) and Mitch Leidner (0-for-2) did not complete a pass. The passing game overall often looked disjointed, though it's not entirely surprising.
Said coach Jerry Kill: "We divided up our receivers evenly. ... Today, there was a ball, an inch, a foot, two feet here or there, and we didn't make a play. But I think that can all get corrected through repetition in the summer."
*Kill was impressed by the team's speed in the secondary and singled out junior college transfer Martez Shabazz, who had a pass breakup and two tackles. "We've got some guys in the secondary who can run, and we're a little bigger in the secondary," Kill said.
*JoJuan Harper led all running backs with 44 yards on the ground. Donnell Kirkwood had 25 and sophomore Cole Banham had 24 on eight carries.
*The Gophers made just one of three field goal attempts, but Kill chalked much of that up to rotating in less experienced holders.
*The announced crowd was 3,512. The weather was overcast at the 11 a.m. kickoff and light rain developed late.
I know today is practically a holiday, what with the highlight of the 2010 bowl season -- the Maaco Las Vegas Bowl, with Utah going for its 10th straight bowl victory against some pretenders from Idaho -- just a few hours away, but I did want to pass along the answer to a few emails I received over the weekend.
Why, a few Gopher fans wondered, doesn't a brand new stadium in an extreme climate like ours have heating coils under the playing surface? It became an issue for the Vikings and Bears last week, although the field at TCF Bank Stadium ended up being, by all accounts, hard but playable for Monday night's game.
The answer, according to a spokesman for athletic director Joel Maturi, is that the coils are expensive, and once a feasibility study determined that it wasn't practical for the Vikings and Gophers to share TCF Bank Stadium, the building was designed with just the college team in mind.
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That's because the FieldTurf surface stays relatively spongy unless exposed to an extended period of temperatures in the 20s or below -- conditions an NFL team might face in December or January, but much more unlikely during the college season, which ends shortly after Thanksgiving.
"The odds of us experiencing an extended hard freeze during the (college) season are so remote, the investment didn't make economic sense for us," Bowman said.
Thanks to those who wrote for an answer. Now, back to your pregame festivities. Go Utes!
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i wounder how they will over come the slowness of 3g because if you don't have fast internet you can't play on there network. i have fairly fast internet and it will cut me off so i don't see this being any advantage to the user unless they run 100mbs.other thin that it's a good idea/service. to be fair they say they cut it off because of game play not being optimal !
I think they are going to be designing this for wireless access not 3G. Though it might work ok on a nextgen 4G network that has a good quality connection.
It was pretty interesting when I saw a demo of this technology and it was showcasing some graphics intensive games they were playing. It not only was cool for the player on the go but gamers that might not have access to the best systems for game playing. I am still interested in the directions this could take off but I still expect some lag in some cases, dropped connections, and the like.
So onlive is basically streaming its video over wi-fi to tablet devices?
Any reviews or hands on experience with the responsiveness or video quality?
Hothardware should definitely review one of these and compare it to the current big consoles (the ps3 and Xbox 360) or maybe wait untill the Wii U comes around and do a review/comparison of them all together
That would be badass :)
I remember some reviews; they definitely compress it but not to the point where it's unplayable. It's just you can't see as much detail and not everything is sharp.
The responsiveness is also alright but for First Person Shooter games it is somewhat unreasonable due to the video compression.
Yeah lets all plug in to play crysis on our tablets :P
Bow to the turtleneck god! I can only see this as having the ability to play PS2 quality games without any lag. The only other way I can see it working is if you have a strong WiFi or cable connection and route it to your TV.
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Parra Upsets Petkovic, Azarenka On A Roll
Published May 02, 2011 12:00
MADRID, Spain - Arantxa Parra Santonja's two-fisted groundstrokes hit their mark in a big way on the clay courts of the Caja Mágica on Monday, as the Spaniard took out No.13 seed Andrea Petkovic on Spanish soil, 62 76(5).
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Parra Santonja, who had taken out No.20-ranked Flavia Pennetta in the first round on Sunday, continued her good form in her second round match, winning a routine first set against the No.15-ranked Petkovic then battling back from deficits of 4-2 and 5-3 to claim the second set, completing another Top 20 win.
"I've worked hard mentally," the Spaniard said. "I was trying to be optimistic and thought I could do it. I'm so happy. I hope I can continue like this."
Pennetta and Petkovic were the 28-year-old Parra Santonja's third and fourth Top 20 victories. Her first two both came on clay as well, at Warsaw in 2003 (against Magdalena Maleeva, who was ranked No.14 at the time) and at Amelia Island in 2004 (against Francesca Schiavone, who was No.20 at the time).
Next for Parra Santonja is No.4 seed Victoria Azarenka, who followed up her 60 60 first round win with a 61 61 second round win over Sofia Arvidsson. Azarenka won her only prior meeting with Parra Santonja this year.
In the other two second round matches of the day, No.2 seed Vera Zvonareva rebounded from a disastrous 21-minute first set to beat Elena Vesnina, 06 63 63, while No.8 seed Maria Sharapova held her serve 12 of 13 times (and in the only one she lost she led 40-15) for a 63 36 61 win over Ekaterina Makarova.
"When I lost that second set I told myself it wasn't over. I won the first set and did some things right so I went back to that," Sharapova said. "There weren't many breaks in the match and it was important to be more aggressive. She likes to be the first one to hit the ball; I wanted to take that away from her."
Next up for Sharapova is Dominika Cibulkova. "I'm excited I'm in the third round. Dominika is tough, a great clay court player. I'm looking forward to it."
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NORTH CREEK - A crowd gathered at Ski Bowl Park in North Creek as a ribbon was cut to mark the opening of the Hudson chairlift and introduced the completed interconnect between Gore Mountain and the historic Ski Bowl last Saturday, Jan. 26.
The redeveloped terrain on Little Gore Mountain, which now features snowmaking and trails for all ability levels, is now open for skiers and snowboarders, which provides access to the rest of Gore Mountain's multi-peak trail system.
Local and state officials gathered to commemorate the historic significance of the connection between Gore, the Ski Bowl and village of North Creek.
"This is where skiing began in the Adirondacks," said Sen. Elizabeth Little, R-Queensbury. "This is an incredible moment on an incredible day."
The new trails follow the profile of the same terrain North Creek's earliest skiers traveled. The Hudson chair lifeline was once home to a 1946 t-bar.
When Little asked the surrounding crowd to raise a hand if they had skied the original Little Gore, the majority of hands shot into the air.
"This is a historic preservation project," said ORDA chairman Joe Martens. "The Town of Johnsburg pushed very hard for this project and made clear just how important this was to the town."
Little also praised the interconnect as a means to support the economic development of the village of North Creek.
"What this will do for the hamlet of North Creek will involve them in the whole ski experience," she said. "We will be a destination. It goes to show that persistence pays off."
As Emily Stanton, Gore Mountain marketing director, welcomed the many skiers and riders who waited to be the first to try the new lift she commended the Hudson chairlift as, "the starting point of an elevation of 3600 feet and a new starting point for the region."
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If your "friend" is only calling you when he/she wants something, she may not be a true friend. She may only be interested in what you can do for him/her.
that is one baffling concept.
Belinda. I'm a bibliophile; Window-gazer; Weird; Amusing.
Things that make me happy: Beauty and the Beast, Ghibli, Disney, pretty images, Happy Endings, Merlin, Chuck, Suits, Matt Bomer, animals, and anything else that catches my fancy.
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House: Fear me. I've killed hundreds of Time Lords.
Doctor: Fear me. I've killed all of them.
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He's. Got. The. Accent. Too.
"When the elephant is young and relatively weak, it is tied to an immovable stick. So later, no matter how large and strong he becomes…he continues to believe that he cannot free himself.
Many intelligent people are like circus elephants. They never question their self-imposed limitations."
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We Love The Band Perry: TBP fans unite!!: Proud to be a TBP fan
I just wanted to say how proud I am of Kimberly, Reid and Neil. It is amazing how far that they have come. It is the best feeling to watch their career and success grow, because they truly deserve all of the success that comes their way. They are some of the kindest, sweetest, most down to earth…
Not super-exciting, but Kimberly wearing the same shirt in 2005 and 2010ish.
Second pic is from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-5aa7YjS3E
Taylor Swift/The Civil Wars "Safe and Sound"/The Band Perry "If I Die Young" mashup @MikeSquillante (by mikesquill)
Maybe then you'll hear the words I been singing,
funny when you're dead how people start listening.
Brad pranking The Band Perry!
Brad pranking The Band Perry!
Brad pranking The Band Perry!
I like your lips like I like my coca cola…
Purr Baby Purr: Band Perry And Rascal Flatts Featured On A Very Special Christmas
(RTTNews) - The Band Perry and Rascal Flatts are two of the artists to be featured in this year's holiday music series, A Very Special Christmas. Other country artists contributing tracks to the 25th anniversary edition of the compilation are Vince Gilland Amy Grant.
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Engineering. Trying to figure out how to make each seam count.
Sometimes I just stared at my design wall trying to figure out what had to be sewn first, second, third. This quilt is challenging… but its the kind of puzzle I like!
Started a new piece two days ago- Jody calls it "Pickled Egg". Bolder than I am used to- but I am trying to work bigger- and need to get my arm to be able to draw much larger shapes- then I can get more complex. The photo really does not pick up the subtle color variations of all the dark colors..
New Years resolution
1. To step up my game. No more hiding my quilts in a drawer. I formally joined the Society for Art Quilters Association- and have vowed to enter at least one quilting competition this year.
2. To continue to push myself. I started a new quilt today- I like where it is going- very simple curves. Jody said it looks like a pickled egg! I may just have to call it that.
3. To try not to judge myself too harshly. I am my hardest critic. Not everyone will like my quilts… tough shit.
4. To try to use some new color combinations. I always fall back on my trusty dark Palette… I need to broaden my horizon.
5. To sew more than Facebook and not get distracted.
6. To continue to write. It maintains my sanity.
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"The idea is to die young as late as possible."
— Ashley Montagu
I put together a book for roger before he died. Luckily we were able to get it to him last week. For that I am thankful. He was totally touched by all the stories and letters for him. I sewed it out of denim. Roger was denim. Frayed jeans that were always comforting and dependable. That was Roger.
Tonight is not a machine sewing night. I tried. Tonight is a hand quilting night. A contemplative night. A sad night.
Roger died today. Not unexpected but a complete surprise at the same time. Luckily Lucinda and I saw him less than a week ago- in Milltown- in his surroundings, in his beloved Clarke County. Surrounded by Snow and Kristin and his beautiful house and mill.
And while his body was wasted, his mind was sharp as a tack, and we spent 3 hours with him joking, telling stories, sipping wine and nibbling on cheese. When Lucinda and I drove back, we were sure we would see him again. Not to be.
I tried sewing today- picking up on a piece that I started- a circle piece before I figured out my new technique. But the sound of the machine was jarring. I just needed silence. So I sat in front of the fire, Barley at my feet, Dave asleep in the couch with a book on his stomach- and I hand quilted. No music this time. Just thoughts of Roger. Missing him terribly.
Miss you Mom
6:15. Time to call MOM.
8:00 Damn I missed it. Wonder if she is up.
7:00 I'm sure she is eating but I'll call anyway.
My sister calls at 7:15 in the morning. My brother calls twice a day- usually during a break or Phillies or Eagles game.
We call to check up. To check in. To take her pulse. To unload.
So for 10 days she is unreachable. And my brother and I go crazy. We even call each other. But it is not the same.
All these months I have thought I've been calling for her sake. Turns out I have been calling for my sake. I miss you MOM. Come home already!
More circles. Just not sure when to stop. Have decided to resurrect the last set into a new piece.
Switched things up again last night. Removed the blue portion and recropped and reworked. Loved every minute of it. Not sure if I will end up with anything yet, but the process is wonderful. I feel creative today… after an awful day.
I spent the better part of the weekend arranging and re-arranging and tearing apart and reconstructing this piece. I am torn between a literal interpretation of Katie's poem or a more symbolic graphic one. I decided on the latter.
I find a lot of peace in piecing… hah! Seriously it is concentrated focus on design and elements- what is work and what is not. And the technique I use to inset these circles really does not permit me to plan ahead… which means lots of fits and starts… lots of undos. And when it works it is beautiful.
Sitting in my sewing room with the snow falling, I can imagine not leaving forever.
Start of the new quilt… the background and circle massing
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My next quilt
snow disappears in the ocean salts the sand with hoary frost until waves melt the whiteness until everywhere I look is dark again
This is a poem written by a close friend Katie Gekker who wrote it as one of her first twitter poems. And I love it, and it has stayed with me. I have been thinking about doing a quilt inspired by this piece. Tonight I begin!
On a cold dreary day, Lynn sent me this photo of flowers at the farmhouse, and I felt a hint of spring, a brief brush with possibility.
Dave and I give each other 2 cards for every anniversary and every birthday- one silly one and one sappy one. This year I only got one sappy one… the reason being that he was in Cairo for 6 days before my birthday and I suspect he had little time to find an appropriate funny one.
But when I opened the envelope I thought, "What a lie." as read the cover: For my beautiful Amazing wife. OK I can buy the amazing part. But beautiful has left the words describing me about 10 years ago. I look at photos of me and all I can see is 4 double chins, 50 extra pounds, bags under my eyes and grey hair. But the irony is that apart from cards we exchange, Dave is always telling me I am so cute or beautiful. I chalk it up to failing eyesight.
But it is comforting after all these years to know that my wonderful silly husband is still in love with me after 34 years. So while the latest card, complete with pink flocking and glitter- hardly a card to give to a designer- is hard on the eyes, and the prose is just a little overblown, I know that he does think I am amazing, and I feel the same about him.


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Have you ever used Picnik.com? It's a free picture editing software available through the web. It's free. Did I mention that?
When I first started blogging a few years ago, I gave it a try at a friend's insistence. I loved how she was able to create stylized photos with rounded edges and watermarks. I wanted to do that too. But I had Photoshop. I didn't need some simple little web program that had intolerably slow performance.
Then I remembered that Photoshop requires a lot of knowledge and while I'm good at getting by, I wasn't good enough to have it do what I needed it to do in a timely manner. So I started using Picnik here and there. And I actually started to like it. And I actually decided to pay for the premium features.
That was a big decision for a do-it-yourself blogger like myself that hates to pay for anything unnecessarily. And then a few short weeks later, I was notified that Picnik was going away. For good.
Through what I am sure was a random Twitter stream, I found out about the impending launch of PicMonkey.com, a supposed alternative to Picnik, and I signed up to be notified when it launched.
That day finally came and I even had the good fortune to interview the brains behind the monkey over at ShePosts.
But what good would a photo editing service be if it didn't meet or exceeds the needs of its users?
I decided to put some of its photo features to the test. I took three original photos from three different mediums: my iPhone, my webcam, and my DSLR. Then I created modified versions in both Picnik and PicMonkey.
Whether your concern is to be able to duplicate the features found in Picnik or to simply have a rad photo editing tool, PicMonkey seems to make it's case.
Photo #1: The Webcam
I started with a picture of myself taken with my webcam. It's not the greatest picture. No hairstyling. No makeup. No contact lenses. And my age was showing. I knew my picture could use a little help.
The Original
Since I wanted to put features to the test, I went ahead and changed my eyes to green, put on my favorite shade of purple lipstick, applied a spray tan, and reduce just a few of those wrinkles. I then completed my look with a lovely orange flower in my hair and a Polaroid-style frame.
The PicMonkey Version
The Picnik Version
Is your opinion the same as mine? Yes. Spray tans are awful and purple doesn't belong on lips.
Photo #2: The iPhone
I wanted to play around with the features a little more and decided to switch to a nature shot. Namely, a recently bloomed Camellia in my yard. As bloggers, we use a lot of mobile photography and making shots like these look good is important.
The Original
Normally, I wouldn't do any sort of photo editing to a shot like this except to maybe make the colors a bit more brilliant and add a little clarity to the image. I did exactly that but had a little fun with some additional features.
The PicMonkey Version
The Picnik Version
Conclusions on this one? The functionality is great but sometimes nature is best left alone.
Photo #3: The DSLR
If you're serious about photography, especially for your blog, you've probably invested in a DSLR for some of your photos. I had an amazing photo I took at the North Carolina Zoo when the elder chimpanzees decided to come and sit right next to the glass. The only problem was the glass. It made a reflection in an otherwise great photo. So I decided to do a little clean up.
The Original
For a shot like this, I was hoping to balance out the color, contrast, and exposure to minimize the look of the glass in the lighter grays post of the photo. I also wanted to watermark it, or simply add text.
The PicMonkey Version
The Picnik Version
I got the font wrong in the Picnik version and I don't think I made exactly the same edits but I got pretty close. And that monkey looks pretty darn handsome.
Now with all things being equal, which do I prefer?
I'm familiar with Picnik but I've always thought it lacked an intuitive flow. From a usability standpoint, I like and prefer PicMonkey. From a feature standpoint, I'm still missing a few things on PicMonkey (like collages) but I'm assured they are coming and will rock my world.
Now it's your turn to weigh in. Do you use photo editing software? Have you or will you give PicMonkey a shot?
For more information on how PicMonkey relates to Picnik, read my interview with them over at ShePosts.


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