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Fabrique Delices Rillette Set
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Tender pork rillettes are paired with a classic partner of crunchy cornichons in this set from Fabrique Délices. Enjoy with baguette and a bottle of French wine.
Pork rillettes use pork from famed producer Niman Ranch; they are cooked in the traditional confit style until meltingly tender and ready to be spread on bread.
Cornichons are crunchy and piquant—tiny pickles that can be chopped small to spread on the rillettes or simply enjoyed as palate cleansers in between bites.
Mustard adds a kicky, spicy note and can be combined with the rillettes, cornichons and baguette for a very French sandwich.- Pork rillettes, 7 oz.; cornichons, 11 oz.; mustard, XX oz.
- Made in USA.
- Use & Care
Care Instructions:
- The rillettes charcuterie collection was shipped fresh with ice packs. Upon receipt, refrigerate rillettes, or freeze to serve at a later date. Refrigerated, rillettes will keep for up to 6 weeks, unopened, or frozen for up to 9 months.
- Once opened, serve within 25 days. Rillettes can be refrozen after thawing. Store the cornichons at room temperature until ready to serve. They will keep for up to 2 years, unopened. Once opened, refrigerate and serve within 45 days.
Proper Thawing:
- Remove the rillettes from the freezer and let thaw in the refrigerator overnight. Place the frozen package on a plate or tray to catch any condensation that may accumulate during thawing.
- The rillettes charcuterie collection was shipped fresh with ice packs. Upon receipt, refrigerate rillettes, or freeze to serve at a later date. Refrigerated, rillettes will keep for up to 6 weeks, unopened, or frozen for up to 9 months.
- Ingredients
- Pork Rillettes: Pork, Pork Liver, Modified Cornstarch, Salt, Black Pepper, Spices (nutmeg, bay leaf, thyme).
- Cornichon: Gerkins, Water, Vinegar, Pearl Onions, Salt, Spices (Yellow Mustard Seeds, Brown Mustard Seeds), Calcium Chloride (Firming Agent), Dehydrated Tarragon Leaves.
- Shipping
Shipping Information
To ensure freshness, perishable items are shipped overnight from the supplier and are not eligible for rush shipping. Please allow up to one week for delivery.
Shipping Rates
The shipping rate varies depending on your order total and shipping destination. View Shipping Options and Charges.
Return Policy
At Williams-Sonoma, we take great pride in the quality and craftsmanship of our products. If, within 90 days, you are not completely satisfied with your purchase for any reason, please return the item for an exchange or refund of the merchandise value. View Full Return Policy.


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Yes. We bring titles out in print and digital in the same month of publication. The dates will not match exactly. We do not consider print and ebook rights separately - it just leads to too many complications, how the print and ebook editions are then presented on the same page on Amazon, prevents us from selling overseas rights, etc.
Sales of your ebook will be shown separately on your Financials page, though they will appear as if sold in N America, because they are distributed worldwide from there. Sales on ebooks take two months to get reported.
Not directly. Given that there is a 50% royalty, and you can choose a price, and we are increasingly doing initial promotions or keeping the price down till sales get moving at a £0.99/$1.99 level, we deduct a conversion cost from the royalties payable. This is either-
"Basic" – straight text, no special text styling or formatting. £0.30/$0.50 per page; (not many of these).
"Basic Plus" – has some special text styling/formatting and/or tabular data (however little). £0.50/$0.80 per page; (the large majority).
"Advanced" – has a lot of text formatting and styling and/or tabular data. Or any images, particularly if they have captions or text wrapped around them. Also the occasional title that gets completely ripped apart in the PDF file and has to be reconstructed. Includes academic texts with linked endnotes. £0.90/$1.40 per page.
We use a design house for the ebook conversion, they decide which of these cost levels apply, we pass that on in the royalties Financial page. It is added when the conversion work is done. This is a once-only cost. If the conversion cost looks really high and we're worried that we will not cover it in royalties, we will get back to you separately.
Our standard pricing, irrespective of page extent, is;
$9.99 / £6.99/Euros7.99
Adult fiction $7.99 / £4.99
Childrens' fiction $6.99 / £3.99
These can vary. When customers search for titles in some foreign markets, for example Amazon UK, the list price they see will include the Value Added Tax required for eBook sales in that country. This means that if we set the GBP and EUR prices as 1.49, customers shopping via Amazon UK, France, Germany, etc. would be paying 1.53 including VAT (this price would apply in countries where Amazon does not add a $2 surcharge).
Please post your request your choice of ebook price on the Author Forum in the Editorial section with detail title ISBN and new eISBN. We can not offer that retrospectively yet. The lowest price we can go to is $4.99/£2.99.
Prices have to end in .99 cents or .99 pennies - iBookstores will not accept an ebook that is priced otherwise.
The ebook price we set at publication cannot be changed and will be kept until we review it at 500 copies, because that is when the next publicity effort kicks in.
While bringing your ebook out at a lower price does not in itself guarantee any sales, it does mean that people are far more likely to buy it on impulse, particularly if there are good reviews. And if they like it, they may recommend it. You still make about twice the royalty on a $5 ebook at 50% (after retail discount income probably $4, so $2) than on a $20 print book at 10% (nearer $1, after shop discounts).
On all new titles, as of August 2013, we run a price promotion for the last two weeks of the month following publication. The price is 0.99 across all currencies. The purpose is to help kick start initial sales/word of mouth. You will be reminded of this when the book is published. It's an opportunity, along with us, to link the book and highlight the price on your website, blog, emails, FB pages etc. The ebook price promotion is for a limited two week period, we cannot change the price shown on the website. For promotional purposes it is advisable to link to Amazon as they guarantee to start the promotion on the day we state. Copy the URL for your book page at Amazon showing the price reduction and paste it into your blog or other social media activities.
As a long-term set price, we can not get down to the $0.99/$1.99 kind of level (or not until the sales are really substantial, when we can discuss it). That doesn't cover the costs we're charged on for the distributor's cost and the cost of uploading the files to the different retail databases. And it does not necessarily help - there is an association in people's minds between low price and inferior quality, see for instance why $1.99 is a bad price.
The sweet spot for ebook pricing, balancing sales against margin, is generally reckoned to be in the $4-$8 range; http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/the-ebook-pricing-sweet-spot/.
1. Please note that the retail trade are not keen on these low priced titles as it affects the percentage of sales that are generated through the trade. Some retail accounts and trade distributors may penalise ebooks priced this way, or refuse to offer them at all. We can not get into discussions about which, and what effect that might have, it's too variable.
2. Many titles, particularly in non-fiction, have a fairly clearly defined market. People buy them because they want to know more about that subject, not for an impulse read. In other markets (fiction, for example) cheap ebooks tend to do better and help spread word of mouth. So do not assume that making your ebook cheap is exactly as useful in on market as in another.
It is going to take a few years for ebook pricing to settle down. Check out for instance this post, 3 January 2011; http://ireaderreview.com/2010/12/31/the-race-to-zero-6-94-and-2-18-are-the-new-9-99/
You will receive 50% of our receipts, less conversion costs (see above). Retailers will still deduct a trade discount, with amazon for instance it is usually 30% of the retail price. In the UK there is VAT (sales tax) to come off as well. That applies across all titles on the list that are bought out as ebooks. There's a useful post on how income divides at http://www.idealog.com/blog/the-ebook-value-chain-is-still-sorting-itself-out-and-so-are-the-splits.
All published titles have an ebook also created using the ePub format, which is really just HTML and uses the paragraph tag to break paragraphs in titles. By default it has a one line margin so this is what appears in the final ebook releases. Because of the many devices and readers out there, you may see your title displayed differently depending how the ePub format is interpreted. We try to leave the html code as "stock" as possible in our ebook conversations to ensure the highest level of cross-device presentation.
Please note – you will only be able to view your ebook file on these pages if you have an ereader that accepts this file type. If you have a Kindle or ereader that doesn't support this file type you can download Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) for free and it will convert it to the correct file for you.
The difficulties with ebooks
Ebooks are essentially produced by dumping print design files into software that performs a standard conversion process, converting every ebook the same way. This often does not work brilliantly. Tables, for instance, often get muddled. It usually produces terrible results in poetry. The only way to solve that is to do the coding by hand, book by book, but that is expensive. It also does not solve the problem. Because different web browsers, ebooks, ereaders, ereading apps, and so on, interpret the code and style in an Epub file differently. Kindle has its own proprietary file format and style, and we provide separate formatting for them, but the same file can look different in iBooks, Kobo, Sony Reader etc. An indent might look right on one ereader but not another, because the two platforms are interpreting the same code differently.
Over the next few years, this industry-wide problem is likely to get sorted, but for the moment, we can not get into discussions about individual lines or tables that do not come out right in an ereader. For the next couple of years at least - if your title has diagrams, charts, tables - its a question of either accepting they may not come out right, or we do not bring it out as an ebook.
As of late 2011, the answer is no. There's a useful post on this at http://www.idealog.com/blog/searching-for-the-formula-to-deliver-illustrated-books-as-ebooks. As of summer 2012, it is getting easier, particularly with b/w, but the results can still be variable.
While excerpts of your book can be shared to help promote ebook purchases.it is important that authors do not upload their manuscript/PDF/ePub to any 3rd party sites. Our publishing system automatically handles the listing of your title on many ebook stores listed above- this includes the big ones you would expect such as Kindle, Nook, and iTunes. We automatically handle all ebook transactions for authors who publish with us.
Update; 2013 - ebooks are accounting for around 25% of sales in publishing overall. In many areas of fiction, subgenres like romance, SF, fantasy, crime, horror, its more like 80%+ for new titles. Most pundits expect ebooks to account for more than 50% overall sales within a couple of years.
Most publishers are pushing to keep prices for ebooks the same as printed books, and royalties close to the level of printed books, or 25% max.
Authors accuse publishers being greedy. Its not that simple. The conversion costs to an ebook means that its only bestselling authors that can generate enough sales to really make it worthwhile converting the files. The vast majority of ebooks sell a handful of copies, at best.
The distribution and warehousing charges for ebooks are as high as for print books. Wholesalers like Gardners in the UK charge 50% of the income. They argue, as do publishers who handle it themselves, that there are still large costs relating to ebooks, like building, managing and keeping secure e-warehouses, among other things. They are just different to print costs. There's a useful article on this subject at; http://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=17&Itemid=116.
We are going forward on the basis that, medium to long term, digital books are going to be key, though ereaders may be temporary (with tablets and phones taking over). That the costs of production, and hence retail price, are going to be much lower than printed books. That the authors are going to demand, and get, a much higher proportion of the income.
No. Industry opinion is moving overwhelmingly against it. See May 2012 article, the death of DRM.
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Divorced Catholics
I liked what you had to say about making friends with yourself. That's so true.
I really can't go out and do...things....groups and such because I work a rotating schedule. Each month I have different days off and work a different set of hours. So, college courses, church groups....I'm pretty much knocked out of being able to attend.
I, also have virtually nothing in common with the people I work with, so socializing with them out of work is pretty much shot as well.
I do read (buying a Kindle was the best present I gave myself), study my lessons, and write. i write a lot! :)
I also sleep with a pillow and stuffed animals. They don't hog the bed or steal the covers.......:)
Hi Lorrie,
It takes some time to really get used to living alone after having shared a home with someone for a long time. I didn't have the challenges that you are struggling with, perhaps because in many ways my marriage was over long before we seperated. I was even a little worried at one point because I never thought about him after we split up. I still don't.
I still had to adjust to living alone though. I hardly ever eat at my dining room table...it's just too lonesome after all the years raising the kids, when we all sat down to dinner together. I sit on my couch and eat dinner, usually every night. You kinda have to make friends with yourself, because you spend so much time with yourself. You finally now, have the chance to do what you want to do. Resurrect an old hobby, I started doing needlework again and that keeps my hands busy. If I would be brooding or sad, I made myself get up and clean something. When your hands are busy, your mind is focused and soon you forget whats bugging you. Maybe if you took morning walks or afternoon walks.. that would help to allieviate the sluggishness that you are feeling. Excercise makes me feel better when I am blue. Reading is excellent for taking your mind off of everything, and when you put the book down, your mind is refresed and you are no longer thinking about sad stuff.
Oh, the arm hitting the empty bed! Yeah, that's rough. Try hugging a pillow when you drift off...I've heard that this works. Good Luck Lorrie!
I'm sorry that you are suffering.
I have been very lonely after my divorce as well, one thing that really works is exercising. If you can join a gym do it, I only pay $22 a month and no contract. If you don't want to do that, just walk for 35 min or more, you will feel better the first day you try it. And at night you will be too tired and will fall asleep quickly. You won't even think about being alone. Good luck, I understand how you feel.
Hi I don't get bored of dating I do get frustrated.I think one way is for me to be around family.Daying is hard some are to far not what you are looking or not ready to date.They say they are but really not ready.Having a connection is so important.Everyone says start out as friends and see where it goes.I don't know about that.look at it this way you start out as friends and find there is no connection do you really stay in contact with them.I have not dated in 30 years so it's hard to get back into it I don't like bar so where do you go.Dating sites are ok but a lot of fake people to
Daily reading of God's holy word , dailt Mass, prayer , exercise , and random acts of knidness , volunteer work, phone calls, skype , good movies, walks , dinner out , good christian movies , hallmark channel, letters to loved ones and CM forum , get your sleep , radio, music , activities ,
bowling , pool , swimming , go for walks , visit the sick, visit the jail, wash your car and clean your house regularily, Pray , eeat good meals
read good books , and of course Shop for Christmas, sing at a nursing home , read childrens stories at the library , surf the net , and never give up hope that God will give you exactly what and who you need right when you need it , pay you bills , laundry , bike rides , travel on booked tours
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A Look At First 100 Days Of Spitzer, Cuomo
When Governor Eliot Spitzer began his inaugural administration in January, he announced confidently, "Day 1, everything changes."
Actually, as we look back on his first 100 days in office, some things changed, others remained the same.
Some issues which had stymied his predecessors, such as workers' compensation reform and some good government reforms were changed, to the new governor's credit.
The one major area where change was promised or implied was the governor's power versus the power of the state legislative leaders, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno. There was no change.
Spitzer outright lost his first major battle in this area- choosing a successor to replace state Comptroller Alan Hevesi. This skirmish clearly was won by Silver after he broke his word on a deal worked out with the governor, and Silver's pick as the new comptroller, Assemblymember Thomas Di Napoli, was elected by Albany lawmakers to succeed Hevesi.
The governor and the legislative leaders clashed again on the issue of the state budget, but this time with a negotiated settlement both sides could claim a partial victory.
Firstly, Silver and Bruno added about $1 billion to Spitzer's budget proposal.
After that, Spitzer won major victories by including in the budget a new school funding plan which directed more funding to poorer school districts in the state, a benefit for New York City, and sharply reducing the growth of Medicaid to one percent a year from eight percent a year.
Both of these changes will be long-term gains for the state. Thus, they justify the tradeoffs that Spitzer made to get them included in the budget.
In addition to these give-backs on school funding and Medicaid, Spitzer failed to gain any ground on eliminating or reducing the hundreds of millions of dollars that go to the legislators
with hardly a clue to how the money is
spent. That's a battle for another
From this brief look at
the new governor's first
100 days in office, we
would say Spitzer is performing
well. The bruising
battles have taken their toll on
his popularity, according to a
Quinnipiac University poll conducted after the dust settled from the budget battle. But over the long run, the dividends Spitzer will gain by improvements to the state's educational system and the billions of dollars saved in the Medicaid-program will make up for the temporary loss in popularity.
CUOMO GETS GOOD GRADE: In the past three months, another new high profile state official, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, has started to build an impressive record.
The former member of the Clinton cabinet started out with a series of appointments which were very favorably accepted by the Albany community. Then he moved to shed some light on the legislature's oft-criticized member items by requiring the publication of some details about them. This also drew some positive headlines.
Cuomo also jumped into the sale of the Starrett City housing complex in Brooklyn and helped to derail it. Over the past month, he started an investigation into alleged deals between college administrators of student loans and the banks that issue the loans. Somehow in these relationships, the students' interests are perhaps being overlooked and hopefully Cuomo's probe will correct this.
So the prognosis is good for the 49-year-old son of former Governor Mario Cuomo who ran into some obstacles between his days as a Clinton cabinet member in Washington and his election as New York state attorney general in Albany.
MONSERRATE BACKS CRUISE'S 9/11 PROGRAM: A new detoxification program for 9/11 rescue workers, sponsored by actor Tom Cruise calling for 30 straight days of treatment, was recently endorsed by City Councilmember Hiram Monserrate, an ex-cop, after he completed the strenuous program himself.
The Corona lawmaker told a reporter afterward: "I will tell you I felt 100 times better after the program than I've felt in the last 15 years."
He also said many others who went through the program told him that it helped them to feel better also.
The novel program was created by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology Church, of which Cruise is a member and passionate advocate. The program includes a regimen of high doses of niacin, long and regular saunas over a period of time and ingesting cold-pressed oils.
Monserrate has joined as a host for a fundraiser on Thursday, April 19 for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, of which Cruise is a co-founder and at which he will appear.
Monserrate, whose district includes Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst and part of Jackson Heights, has moved his district office to 32-37 Junction Blvd., just a block from Northern Boulevard.
QUINN'S BUDGET PROPOSALS: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D- Manhattan) announced several proposed inclusions in the 2007-08 city budget last week, including $261 million for a new $300 tax credit for 1.1 million tenants. Another top priority would be to keep library branches open six days a week at a cost of $16 million the first year and $43 million by the third year. A third priority would add $7 million to extend 2,100 prekindergarten slots from halfday to full-day status.
In all, Quinn would add $61 million to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed $57 billion spending plan and redirect $570 million to cover the council's own initiatives and proposals.
Quinn's proposals are expected to pass when the budget receives final approval. It must be in place by July 1.
WEINER WANTS MORE COPS: About 3,500 more police officers would be added to the New York Police Department under a bill introduced recently by Congressmember Anthony Weiner (D- Queens/Brooklyn). The measure would provide 50,000 more cops throughout the United States at a cost of $600 million. Another $350 million would be included in the anti-terror legislation for technology improvements and $200 million to bolster district attorneys' staffs. Weiner said that under his bill, the cop funds could be used to pay officers' salaries for anti-terror assignments.
APPOINTMENTS ETC.: State Senator Frank Padavan (R- C, Bellerose) has been reappointed as chair of the Senate Majority Task Force on Port Security, which focuses on shipping containers and their contents, including stolen merchandise, and safety and security from terrorists in general.
+Governor Eliot Spitzer has appointed James Sheehan, a former federal prosecutor in Philadelphia who handled more than 500 health fraud cases, as the new Medicaid inspector general.
+Judge Jeremy Weinstein has been appointed Administrative Judge of the Queens Supreme Court, Civil Term and Bernice Siegal has been named Administrative Judge of Queens Civil Court. Siegal has been serving as president of the Brandeis Association, a lawyers' organization. Weinstein has been its director.
STAVISKY SPEAKER: State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky (D- Flushing) will speak on the record state budget recently enacted at the Thursday, April 19 meeting of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Association at the Chabad of NE Queens (formerly ANIBIC), 212-12 26th Ave., Bayside at 8 p.m.


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Another from my recent visit to Mam Tor. Slightly later on, and the sun made a burst through the clouds again.
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Excellent shot! I like the three lead in lines of the fence, rocks and path leading your eye through the shot to the hills in the background and that atmospheric sky!
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The Texas Rangers are coming to town on Monday and the three-game series against the AL champs is well worth the price of admission. The powerful Rangers have been to the World Series two years in a row and seem even stronger this season.
How good are they? Consider that the Rangers rank first in the AL in runs scored, batting average and slugging and boast a team OPS of .847. And, oh yes, Yu Darvish is pitching the first game vs. the Jays on Monday, bringing a large entourage of Japanese media with him.
The Jays will continue on after hosting Seattle and Texas to tangle with the remaining AL West teams, the Angels and A's on the coast. Fans should have a good idea at the end of the coast trip as they head to Minneapolis, how the Jays stack up this season.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery from the latest physical setback to the tenacious Dustin McGowan and on to the mailbag.
Q-Hi Richard,
Been following you on twitter lately. Thanks for the replies and the RTs. My question for you is what's the deal with Bautista? And NO I'm NOT talking about his stats! Rather, from my perspective, he seems more cocky this year when dealing with umpires (e.g. will make faces when borderline pitches go against him, talks back to umps, etc).
I have a three-part question for you about this:
1: Is this actually happening or am I just noticing it this year because he's off to a slow start (e.g. this is a non-issue when you're hitting HRs)?
2: Assuming it isn't just in my head, does behaving this way hurt get you a bad rep among umps? In other words, is this going to come back and haunt Bautista?
3: Assuming it earns Jose a bad rep, whose job is it to talk to Jose about it (e.g. Farrell, AA, teammates)?
Francis P., Ithaca, NY
A-I think cocky is a poor choice of words. Yes, Bautista has changed his demeanour this year unintentionally, but as you suggest, a lot of the facial expressions and anger come from frustration. I do believe the whiny reaction is hurting him with umpires and maybe even hurting his teammates by association, with the same umpires.
The Jays don't want to be known as a whiny team, although the Yankees are the worst at it and it doesn't seem to affect them too much. Since Jose is the clubhouse leader it's up to him to regulate himself. Trust me, he knows it's happening and he talks freely about the frustration and the close calls that don't go the Jays way. When he starts hitting it will ease.
Q-Hi Richard,
Two comments that maybe you can elaborate on.
John Farrell's use of his bullpen has not improved over last year and may in fact be worse.
Thames stat line for April will be worse than Snider's from last spring yet all we hear is that he will have a long leash, while Snider leads the world in every major offensive stat at AAA.
Matt Meisner, St. Catharines
A-In answer to your bullpen comment, I honestly believe that this year's Jays' pen is much easier to figure out than was the relief corps in 2011. Farrell has already been better this year after a season of experience.
At the start of last season, recall the Jays' closer role was up in the air. Frankie Francisco was supposed to be it, but he had always been a notoriously slow starter and was injured at training camp to boot. Jon Rauch became the closer by default, while Octavio Dotel was the equivalent of a right-handed specialist, with little ability to retire lefty hitters.
Of course Dotel now has a World Series ring and looked great down the stretch with the Cardinals. He said he had been misused in Toronto. Marc Rzepczynski was a poor man's Scott Downs, whom he was replacing, and Jason Frasor was, well, Jason Frasor. Casey Janssen had not yet come into his own at the start of last season and Carlos Villanueva it seemed was the complement every five days to Jo-Jo Reyes, until taking over as a starter himself. Then came the trade with the Cardinals for Rasmus that decimated Farrell's bullpen.
This year is easier. I could manage this pen. Santos is the closer with Francisco Cordero as the setup man in the eighth. Janssen, Frasor and Darren Oliver are the seventh inning combo, while Luis Perez has come on like gangbusters passing everyone on the depth chart. Villanueva can be a solid long guy but hasn't had many opportunities. How do you screw that up as a manager. Farrell can't do anything about births or injuries that have cost Santos games, so to say he has not handled the relievers as well as lat year is somewhat a case of perception over reality. The 16 innings of relief in the first two games in Cleveland certainly did not get the pen off on a regular path and rhythm.
As for the Thames/Snider debate, this seems to be one of the hot topics of the season thus far. Snider has done this before in the minors, ripping it up then coming back to the majors and levelling off, falling off and returning to the minors again. Both Thames and Snider are Jays' assets. They are both young and they are both valuable either here or elsewhere without the thought of kicking either one to the curb. The situation will play itself out.
Q-Hi Richard,
Do you think Eric Thames will last in left field for the Jays? Looks like he's an average defender, with average speed, and average batting, with not much power. It also appears he doesn't have a plan when he's at the plate and has taken some awful swings. At this point I think Davis is a better option for the Jays. Your thoughts?
Paul Rudan, Campbell River, B.C.
A-Thames is an average to below average defender. He has average speed. It's tough at this early stage of his career to rate his batting average and his power. He has started to gain more plate discipline where he does not as often get himself into pitchers' counts by swinging at off-speed pitches down and out of the zone, but he's not all the way there. That perception of how a player looks on any swing should be minimized. That's why the rules give you three strikes, so you can have some awful swings on pitches that you guessed wrong on and then in the same at-bat, bounce back and get a big hit.
As for Davis, I love the reserve role that was outlined for him with the Jays this spring. A disrupting weapon in late innings off the bench and an occasional starter in the outfield against certain left-handers depending on matchups. He is not an everyday player, but he can be a significant contributor.
Q-Hi Richard,
I know the Jays made a committment to Thames to start the season, but when does that change? Snider has a hit in every game this year in Las Vegas and either a 2B or HR in 8/10. How much longer do we have to wait to see the true future left-fielder take his place? Thanks,
Adam G., Brooklyn, NY
A-These things have a way of taking care of themselves. If Vegas manager Marty Brown and 51's hitting coach Chad Mottola were adamant that Snider needed to play in Toronto and had nothing else to learn at Triple-A then I believe the move would already be made.
GM Alex Anthopoulos is not about winning games in Las Vegas or New Hampshire. He is about winning games in Toronto. I like Snider as much as anyone and to me, it was a coin flip at spring training, but their feeling was that it was Thames' job to lose and he didn't lose it. If Snider is gaining confidence with his great start, that's good for him.
Q-I like Eric Thames and his game but I am sad Travis Snider wasn't able to crack the lineup or live up to his lofty promise after such a strong start to his career. I am hopeful there is a place for him on the club at some point in the future if he can earn it as he just looks like he can be such a force if he can ever put it all together. My question is, should the Jays remain injury-free in the outfield and should Snider somehow NOT get traded this year do you think he would be a lock next year as the 4th outfielder considering how he would be out of options and the Jays seem to hate seeing players lost to another club for nothing? All the best and keep the bag coming...the best Q&A blog out there!
Aaron Hickey, Sydney, Australia
A-I remember being stunned in Minneapolis at the old Metrodome watching from the press box when Snider crushed two home run balls off the upper-deck facade in right field in the same game at the start of the '09 season. With his humble attitude and respect for his old coaches, his father and the game of baseball, it looked like the sky was the limit. Less than a month later he was gone back to the minors -- and that was not the last time he has been yo-yo'd to the farm. His defence improved last spring under the tutelage of coach Torey Lovullo, but he still has trouble with consistency at the plate. He's a year younger than Thames and they are both still not to their prime baseball years. Sometimes we are all too impatient.
As for next season, yes Snider will have no options left, but that is not a reason to keep him as a fourth outfielder. Between the end of this current year and the start of next year, it says here that the Jays will entertain offers for one of the two outfielders and that one of them will be traded.
Q-I haven't heard any talk of the Jays hosting the all-star game again. How long before that happens? It's been 20 years. With this up and coming team it would've been a perfect opportunity to put the Jays on the map again with the all-star festivities within the next few years.
Kam H., Richmond Hill
A-The Jays hosted the All-Star Game in 1991, the second full season that the SkyDome was open. It was the traditional carrot on a stick for the city of Toronto handed to them for building a new stadium. It's been 21 years since T-O hosted the midsummer classic and there are 30 franchises. Do the math. Besides, all-star games have become most times a bribe, a reward to municipal or state governments that are willing to bend over for baseball and take one for the team, usually by building a new stadium using some public money, then in a glitzy announcement they are awarded the big game from Bud Selig so they can present a questionable study that shows that hosting the game brings in a jazillion dollars in tourist money. If baseball is fair, then the Jays would get the next game in 2022.
Q-"Prince has been to the post-season one time and, in fact, Jose Bautista has as many WS rings." could possibly be the dumbest response to a very legitimate question I've ever heard in my life. For me, you lost all credibility with that answer. To insinuate that Prince's lack of rings at the relatively young age of 27 in a very team oriented sport such as baseball somehow justifies AA's non pursuit is at best moronic and at worst a frightening sign of your limited baseball knowledge.
Nolan Michael, Toronto
A-You are certainly pulling out just a small part of the response and opinion that was given in that mailbag and presenting it as me saying it is the only reason for not pursuing Prince Fielder. Why is it that stats aficionados universally seem to have absolutely no sense of humour or sense of the absurd or the ability to see the game as a game. They are like the Christian right. Everything must be black or white, right or wrong and if your opinion does not agree with my opinion then you are wrong...and an idiot to boot. The great thing about opinions in baseball is that everyone can have one and since it's an opinion it can't be right or wrong. That's what makes the game so arguably great. God bless you Nolan.
Q-As far as your comeback player of the year assessment goes, your criteria doesn't seem to hold for past winners like Aaron Hill and Cliff Lee - granted both came back from injuries (so maybe this is additional criteria)? Hill, for instance, never has a pre (nor even post) award OPS close to Rasmus' 2010 total. Similarly, Lee only had one decent year prior to his win and it was at 2.3 WAR versus Rasmus' 3.2 of 2010 (WAR being perhaps the best measure across these diverse positions).
Yes, Hill's previous .291 batting average and Lee's 18-win season stand out, but the value of Rasmus' OBP, defence, baserunning, and more shouldn't be underrated even if the focus on traditional stats tends to do that. You may be right about how many Comeback Player voters feel, but it doesn't negate the fact that Rasmus' 2010 was superior to the pasts of other winners and a monster 2010 could (and perhaps should) facilitate his being honoured thusly.
Derek Maisonville, Montreal
A-The comeback-player is not even an official award, so it's hard to say who the voters are, but one thing I do know is that if you are coming back from serious injury, you have a far better chance of winning it than, say, a Colby Rasmus who surely had a great OPS as a 23-year-old then slumped for a couple of years, maybe because of factors like "manager-angst" and "urban sprawl". If you're young and healthy and coming back to some good numbers like Rasmus, that shouldn't and doesn't mean squat. I never doubted those readers that said Rasmus 2010 numbers were very good. But does that suddenly mean every hot rookie who encountered the sophomore jinx should be a comeback-player-of-the-year candidate. I just know and undersand how the comeback award is voted for and a guy like Rasmus has no chance. Besides, he's not coming back to defence, because defence, like rust, never sleeps.
Q-I think they should do something about the hitting coach, like replace him. What do you think ???
John Finch, Burlington
A-Many times, a major-league hitting coach is the one to take the fall for a team's failure to hit. Admittedly, it was a tough transition for Dwayne Murphy from Cito Gaston's philosophy where a 10-pitch at-bat, as Adam Lind put it this spring, would draw Gaston's response of "What took you so long," to the John Farrell response of high-fives all around for wearing a starting pitcher down, even if you end up making an out.
Farrell believes that the weakest point of any team is its middle relief and if you can get to that early then you have a better chance of winning. Murphy had to convince some of his same pupils, the ones he had earlier convinced to be uber-aggressive under Cito to change their philosophy again. It's not easy and Murphy probably has the easiest target on his back if the offence continues to founder. But who knows, by the next mailbag they may all have turned it around and the Jays offence could be on a significant roll.
Q-Hi Richard,
Still anticipating your infamous mailbag. I know it's early but how much longer can the Jays wait for Lind to come around? I've had enough. I believe more in Thames' hitting ability than Lind. The Jays offence is a big question mark thanks to the lacklustre production of Joey Bats (whom I think will end up with a .265/30/95) and non-leadoff hitter Escobar. I really would like to see Davis playing almost every day. His career avg. is around .275. The lineup would be more productive with Davis leading off followed by, Johnson, Lawrie to start off and I'd put Colby to bat ahead of Lind. Any thoughts? April's a soft schedule and they should take the most advantage from it. Any thoughts? or am I off in your opinion?
Kam H., Richmond Hill
A-The Jays' offensive success all comes down to the success of Jose Bautista. That's just the Jays' bottom line to winning and he knows it, his teammates know it, the fans know it and opponents know it. Adam Lind and Edwin Encarnacion hit better when Bautista is on a roll. If it was up to me and there was a clean slate for the Jays' lineup, I might at this point go: Johnson, Lawrie, Bautista, Encarnacion, Lind, Escobar, Rasmus, Arencibia, Thames. But that's just me.
As I discussed earlier in the mailbag, I prefer Davis in the role he fills right now. In the 8th or 9th inning, if Rajai is starting you will never be sure when he is going to be coming up or if he ever does come up in those key innings, you can't be sure whether he is going to reach base. Meanwhile, if you have him on the bench through seven innings you can control when he reaches base as a key weapon in late innings in a close game.
April may be a soft schedule and they needed more wins, but the thing about this year's Jays is that they are going to be better in August than they are in April, especially when it comes to the young startng pitching, which has been better than expected already. So that improvement should offset any issues about the schedule.
Q-I commend the work of AA in the last couple years and I believe that the Jays are two players away from truly contending for the next few years and that the dynamite lefty arm of Aroldis Chapman would be a great addition as the #3 starter. What would it take to pry Chapman loose from the Reds and do you think that the addition of a top-3 lefty is needed? I don't want to wait for the kids in the minors! GO JAYS & GO SPOS 4EVER
Dave Loney, Ottawa
A-I'm with you about commending the work of AA, but from there on out with the rest of your letter I need to comment. When the Jays are finally contending, they don't want it to be for simply the next two years as you suggest. They want sustainability in contending and that means tapping into their own minor leagues for future bargaining chips in trade in areas of need and tapping into the farm system for solid major-league talent to replace other solid major-league talent. The Jays are two years away from opening that long-term door to future opportunity, especially with regard to outfielders, catchers and young starting pitchers. The cupboard is full.
As for your pitching suggestion, the Jays had their chance already at signing Aroldis Chapman when AA decided not to enter the Reds' stratosphere of over $30 million for four years for the Cuban free-agent. They will not go there, but they do have some minor-league talent that can be similar-type impact guys at a great financial savings. The Jays are being patient in that regard, understanding that help is on the way, but, for the record, they were foiled in their bid to get Chapman's teammate Mat Latos from the Padres.
Q-Did you see the latest SI power rankings based on team WAR?
The Royals are ranked #7 while the Jays are down at #20. The article says that the Royals are due for a turnaround based on their team WAR. My question is what do you think will happen in the likely scenario that the Royals finish near the bottom of the league? Will FanGraphs admit that WAR is just plain wrong?
Eric E., Toronto
A-"WAR, huh, yeah, what is it good for ? Absolutely nothing, uh-huh. WAR, huh, yeah, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing . Say it again, y'all." Edwin Starr.
Q-Hi Richard,
Well I've been impressed and excited by the start so far, and I'm not greatly worried about AA's 'failed attempt' to get a #2 or #3 starter in the offseason. I just look at all the home-grown possibilites and wonder which one is going to be this year's Juan Guzman. Although with a longer career trajectory, of course. Who do you think has the best chance of that?
Bryan Willis, Vancouver
A-The failure to get a #2-3 starter like Latos or Yu Darvish is what will cost the Jays a chance to contend this year. I agree that there will likely be a Juan Guzman-type surprise performer pop up either later this year or early next season, but the Jays needed someone solid all year in 2012 if they were going to seriously contend for a wild card. What it would take now is a huge season from Ricky Romero and Brandon Morrow, plus someone else stepping up in the second half. I have a hard time seeing Henderson Alvarez as that guy because, despite his solid repertoire, he's won just once in 14 starts and despite the low regard in which Ws are looked upon, that is how they rank teams in the official standings.
Q-Hi Richard.
Why do the Jays have so many call-ups from Double-A? You would think they would come from Triple-A Las Vegas. Also, why do they say the Triple-A Pacific Coast league is so 'hitter-friendly'? Thanks!
Terry Fallat, Espanola
A-Basically. Double-A can be seen as a league for talented young players on the way up. Meanwhile Triple-A is a balance, a mixture of players on the way up and players on the way down. It is a holding tank for potential major-leaguers to fill in with the big club due to disablements.
In the Jays' case, they purposely don't send many of their best young pitchers, kids on the way up, to Las Vegas because it is such a hell-hole for pitching. Organizations know that before a player can establish himself as a major-leaguer, he needs to experience failure. Ask Ricky Romero. Ask Travis Snider. Ask Kyle Drabek. Most top draft choices never failed as kids. They never did in high school and they never failed in college. But it's a given they are going to fail as pros.
So, for your young pitchers, do you want their first failure to be at Triple-A? Not really. Pitching in Vegas and in the PCL is nasty. Most parks are at altitude where the ball carries. The air is light, the winds blow and the infields are rock hard and uneven because of the weather, usually hot and dry.
Meanwhile at Double-A, in the Eastern League and Manchester, New Hampshire, it's more sublime for the Jays' young stars – New England clam chowder, Sam Adams, warm summer nights and young baseball players just like you. Plus, in the Jays' situation, the kids are confidently aware from precedence that they might be just one step away from the majors. Trust me, the Jays would love to have their AAA affiliate somewhere like Buffalo.
I have a quick question on scoring in baseball. When the Jays use their funky defensive set up where the third baseman is lined up behind first base like against Tampa's Luke Scott. When he grounded to Lawrie is it still scored as ground ball to third and put out at first even though it was a ground ball to right field. How would it make sense in the box score later?
Brian Runciman, Oakville
A-That's one thing I have never agreed with. Yes, you're right, the play to Lawrie was scored a 5-3, so if you were looking at your official scorebook a year from now you would believe the pull-hitting Scott had gone the other way, unless you also chart direction. It basically is just a bookkeeping notation so that when the official scorer is adding up putouts and assists after the game for the league records, he has the right players involved and doesn't have players changing position for a batter at a time.
Recall that in the Cleveland series in extra innings, Farrell brought in a five-man infield with Omar Vizquel emerging from the dugout to replace Eric Thames, standing next to second base and giving the Jays three men on the left side of the infield and two on the right. Well, even though Vizquel never left the dirt of the infield, he was listed as the left fielder because he replaced Thames. It's now the only time he has played the outfield and is silly because he didn't really play the outfield. There has to be a better way because it does not re-create the game with accuracy and isn't that what scoring a game is all about?
Q-Hi Griff,
What is up with Joey Bats? I have seen him take more "ugly" swings this year more than ever. He was always patient to me, but now seems to be reaching at balls out of the strike zone. Is this cause for concern? Another point, Brett Lawrie is also struggling. Is he up too soon? I love my Jays, but this series with Baltimore is giving me fits.
Anton Forde, Freeport, Bahamas
A-Bautista has taken a lot of ugly swings, especially at balls up in the strike zone. He seems to be popping a lot of balls up and is not hitting as many balls on the screws as he has the past two seasons. It's cause for concern only if it continues indefinitely. Bautista is an intelligent player, an intelligent hitter. Once he gets back to only attacking balls in the strike zone, the numbers will all rise.
Lawrie is not up in the majors too soon. He is a free swinger that makes contact. He is a major-league player and will continue to get better.
Q-I was wondering if you believe there would be any benefit in signing someone like Vlad Guerrero as a threat off of the bench. Is he too expensive to have around as a pinch hitter and sometime DH? He's past his prime, no doubt, but he would also represent much more of a game changer than Ben Francisco, I think.
Mark Twain, Charlottetown, PEI
A-The Jays have worked hard since the Frank Thomas debacle to not hire aging one-dimensional hitters that can only DH. Vlad has reached the point where he is just such a player. Like Johnny Damon, Guerrero would not be an expensive sign at this stage of his career, so that's not the reason. But a player like Edwin Encarnacion is exactly what the Jays seek in a DH so that he can play a position in the nine inter-eague games in NL ballparks each year. Besides, Vlad has led an active life in baseball and may be done as a player. Your comment on Ben Francisco is a good one. If they don't have a defined role for Francisco, since he now doesn't even go in for defence ahead of Rajai Davis, then he has little use as a fifth outfielder.


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The objectives are to develop guidance from lessons learned for the proper selection; use and delivery of vaccines towards control of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI); build consensus among experts in avian influenza from government, academia and international organisations and incorporate views of poultry producers and vaccine manufacturers.
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(aka bird flu, avian flu) is caused by a type of influenza virus that is hosted by birds, but may infect several species of mammals. It was first identified in Italy in the early 1900s and is now known to exist worldwide. A strain of the H5N1-type of avian influenza virus that emerged in 1997 has been identified as the most likely source of a future influenza pandemic. Strains of avian influenza virus may infect various types of animals, including birds, pigs, horses, seals, whales and humans. However, wild fowl act as natural asymptomatic carriers, spreading it to more susceptible domestic stocks. Avian influenza virus spreads in the air and in manure and there is no evidence that the virus can survive in well cooked meat.
What to look for
- Ruffled feathers
- Soft-shelled eggs
- Depression and droopiness
- Sudden drop in egg production
- Loss of appetite
- Cyanosis (purplish-blue coloring) of wattles and comb
- Edema and swelling of head, eyelids, comb, wattles, and hocks
- Green diarrhoea
- Blood-tinged discharge from nostrils
- Incoordination, including loss of ability to walk and stand
- Pin-point hemorrhages (most easily seen on the feet and shanks)
- Respiratory distress
- Increased death losses in a flock
- Sudden death
- Nasal discharges
Poultry Vaccination as a strategy for controlling AI in commercial birds
Outbreaks of avian influenza in the poultry industry cause devastating economic losses and is generally controlled through extensive culling of infected birds. Alternative strategies also use vaccination as a supplementary control measure during avian influenza outbreaks.
. Advantages of Vaccination- Vaccination reduces susceptibility to infection.
- A higher dose of virus is necessary to infect the vaccinated birds.
- Vaccinated birds shed less virus.
- Decreased contamination of the environment.
- Decreased risk of human infection - Used strategically vaccination compliments a stamping out strategy by slowing/stopping the spread of the virus
- Vaccination as Part of an Avian Influenza Control Strategy
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Avian Influenza (Fowl Plague) is a potentially devastating disease, predominantly of chickens and turkeys, although the virus can also affect game birds (pheasants, partridge and quail), ratites (ostrich and emu), psittacine and passerine birds.
Avian Influenza is caused by an orthomyxovirus, or influenza virus and can survive for considerable lengths of time outside of the host and birds are infected through contact with other birds, mechanical vectors such as vehicles and equipment and personnel travelling between farms, markets and abattoirs.
Precautionary requirements include cleaning and disinfection of premises and the establishment of a Biosecurity barrier to help prevent spread of disease is essential.
For more information on biosecurity see the links below
- Efficacy of rHVT-AI Vector Vaccine in Broilers with Passive Immunity Against Challenge with Two Antigenically Divergent Egyptian Clade 2.2.1 HPAI H5N1 Strains
- Efficacy of a Recombinant HVT-H5 Vaccine Against Challenge with Two Genetically Divergent Indonesian HPAI H5N1 Strains
- OIE - HPAI Situation Reports
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- Avian Influenza CDC information
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