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I'm finally switching from non-stick pan full up cooking to boil in a bag meals, and need a few good recipies. I know there are several websites, and books out there on this subject.What I'm looking for is your favorite one or two recipes that you make on just about every outing. Preferably something simple, like I mix ... and ... with instant mashed potatoes or Ramen noodles. I'm used to adding chicken to Rice-a-Roni.It seems like several people on this site are using the boil in a bag cooking method. What are you cooking?Thanks,Tony
tony, i started boil in bag cooking this last summer. besides the wonderful book, "Freezer bag cooking", there is another book which i found years ago that easily converts to this type of cooking..it is "Backpack Gourmet" by linda frederick yaffe. you do need a dehydrator and alittle cooking experiance, although the recipes are quite easy to make. i have been busy making meals from this book and testing them out on my husband. so far he has liked the ones i have fixed. mostly breakfast meals. have fun and eat hearty....
Tell me what you like/love/hate and I can steer you to the right recipes :-) For me though I'd say I could eat my Cranberry Chicken Rice on every trip. I just like it ;-) Or any mashed potato recipe....I love taters and cheese :-D
I like the Mountain House Lasagna.....YUMMY. The Beef Mac Chili isn't bad either.
From my site:Cranberry Chicken RiceIn a quart freezer bag:1 cup instant rice2 Tbsp dried veggie flakes or freeze-dried mixed vegetables3 Tbsp dried cranberries1 tsp low sodium chicken bouillon1 tsp Parsley1 tsp diced dried onion1/2 tsp granulated garlicAlso take a 3 to 5-ounce can of chickenAdd the chicken with broth and 1 1/4 cups near boiling water. Stir well, seal tightly and put into acozy for 15 minutes. Fluff up and salt to taste, if desired.Serves 1.Greens & RedsIn a quart freezer bag:3/4 cup instant mashed potatoes2 Tbsp dried milk2 Tbsp dried spinach1 Tbsp dried diced tomatoes2 tsp chicken gravy mix1/4 tsp ground black pepper1/4 tsp dried chivesAlso take:3 ounce can of chicken1 ounce of Swiss cheeseFBC method:Add 1 1/4 near boiling water and the chicken with broth. Stir well, seal tightly and put in a cozy for 10 minutes. Stir in the diced up Swiss cheese.Mug method:Add 1 1/4 cups boiling water and the chicken with broth to the dry ingredients. Stir well, cover tightly and let sit for 10 minutes. Stir in the diced Swiss cheese.Serves 1.Spicy Beef & Tomato CouscousIn a quart freezer bag:1/4 cup cooked and dehydrated hamburger or 'beef' TVP1/4 cup diced sun-dried tomatoes3/4 cup couscous1 1/2 tsp low sodium beef bouillon2 Tbsp dried onions1 Tbsp dried chives1 Tbsp dried parsley1/2 tsp ground cumin seed1/2 tsp dried minced garlic1/4 tsp black pepper1/4 tsp red pepper flakesAlso take 1 Tbsp olive oilFBC method:Add the oil and 1 1/2 cups near boiling water and stir well. Seal tightly and put in a cozy for 10 minutes. Fluff up. Salt to taste, if desired.Mug method:Add the oil and 1 1/2 cups boiling water to the dry ingredients. Stir well, cover tightly and let sit for 10 minutes. Fluff up. Salt to taste, if desired.Serves 2. You can find more by flipping through the food section here (I have posted a number of recipes over the years) or visit our site at: http://www.freezerbagcooking.com/
Yep, that's a good one, Sarah. We just used your recipe 'Thanksgiving On the Trail' on a long day hike the day after Thanksgiving. Just used turkey instead of chicken. Yummm.
Thanks! I love the "Thanksgiving" set so much I reposted it this year on our blog! Yum!
quick, low cost, easydehydrated Black Beans can be found in many supermarket "hispanic" sections. The brand to look for is "mexicali rose"Idahoan brand "loaded baked" potatoesmix together half and half to make 5 very large burritosI usually take 1/2 cup of each in a freezer bag and it makes a filling burrito using a jumbo sized tortilla. cost is about $1 for each meal.special thanks to Andy Skurka for turning me on to mashed potato burritos. now im addicted :)
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Pasted in below are 2 of my favorites that Sarah has posted on BPL and on her website. Although I've copied the recipes verbatim, I really recommend leaving out the mushrooms in the stroganoff recipe. I don't know why it's called stroganoff, either, because it has tomato powder in it, but it does taste excellent. Perk's Beef Stroganoff:In a quart freezer bag put:2 Tbsp powdered milk1 tsp Butter Buds® (or use fresh butter/margarine, 1 Tbsp)1 Tbsp tomato powder (or tomato soup mix)1 Tbsp flourDash of pepper2 Tbsp dried onion1 cube beef bullion (crushed) (or use low sodium Beef bullion)1/4 Cup diced dried mushroom slices (or freeze dried mushrooms) YUCK!1 Cup cooked & dehydrated noodles (egg noodles work well, see drying section.)1/2 cup dried hamburger [I used dehydrated shredded beef I made in my oven]In Camp top with boiling water and cozy for 10 minutes.Serves 2.Nacho Taters:In a quart freezer bag put:3/4 cup instant mashed potatoes2 Tbsp freeze dried corn2 Tbsp dried bell peppers (diced)2 Tbsp instant dry milk2 tsp fajita seasoning mix1/4 tsp dried diced garlicAlso take:1 ounce cheddar cheesetortilla chipsCube up the cheese and add to bag. Add in 1 1/2 cups hot water. Stir fast, and stir well. Seal bag and let sit in a cozy for 10 minutes. Stir again and enjoy. Munch away with chips.Serves 1.Note: As usual this is not high in sodium, so salt to taste if you feel it needs it.
Edited by rosierabbit on 12/02/2008 13:16:12 MST.
Boil some water & pour part into a ziplock with 1/2 pack of Mt. House Beef stew. Put ziplock in cozy for a few minutes.Let it rehydrate for a little while, then pour rest of water into 1/2 pack of instant potatoes (Yukon Gold or your favorite), Line bottom of pot or bowl with a few melba toast (for a crust), then put stew over the top. Next, smooth a layer of potatoes over the stew & put back in cozy. Potatoes will soak up some of the moisture from the stew if it is too soupy.As a last step, put a few strips of cheddar cheese over the top and let melt (in the cozy) before eating.Guaranteed to make your hiking partners drool ...
We can not go on a trip without Sarah's cranberry chicken and rice! It has gone on every trip since I discovered it years ago. Thanks Sarah
Thanks for all the great responses. There are several here that sound very good. I'm not picky, I like Italian, spanish, and oriental dishes as well as meat & potatoes. I just want to keep it simple, easy and very tasty.Sarah, I did look through several recipes, but rather than try them all. I was looking for a few real winners to try first.Thanks again to all those who responded.Tony
Tony - one thing I discovered as I tried Sarah's and Dicentra's recipes for breakfast in their books is that there seemed to be a pattern to them. So I came up with my own formula:1/3 C grain (rice, couscous, or minute oatmeal are the ones I like)1 TB powdered milk (Nido brand is good)1 TB brown sugar1-2 TB dried fruit (blueberries, craisins, raisins, cherries, pineapple, etc.)1-2 TB nuts (pecans, walnuts, almonds)Sometimes a dash of salt helps the tasteAdd enough water to reconstitute - either hot or cold. Cold water takes a bit longer to reconstitute everything.Mix and match to your heart's content with whatever appeals to you. The possibilities are endless!
I typically don't do extensive planning for food... I raid our food pantry and skip going to the grocery store when ever possible... so my recipes are highly variable based on what's on hand. I think one of the more tasty "recipes" was cous cous, foil packed garlic/herb chicken, some olive oil, fresh garlic, dried fruits that are on the tart / flavorable side like cranberries or mangos, and some chopped cashews or macadamia nuts.At least one meal is almost all trips is "chicken" flavored ramen noodles + foil sealed herb&garlic chicken. No other extra additions. I hate to admit it, but not only is this the most common meal, but it's one that I actually enjoy a lot. Somehow, ramen noodles has become associated with comfort and they are a special treat in my family.--Mark
Angel hair pasta or ramen noodles (just the noodles-minus the seasoning packet) with garlic salt, parmesan cheeze, and olive oil. Real basic but tasty and simple to make.
The recipes sound great. Are most of you finding the ingredients in your local grocerie store, esp the veggies and dried meats?
Dennis, in many recipes you can find them locally. Some you might need an online purchase. The nice thing is if you do order online from say Harmony House Foods or Packit Gourmet they are both economical, fast and have very high quality products. (And sometimes they offer great free shipping offers!)
>> The recipes sound great. Are most of you finding the>> ingredients in your local grocerie store, esp the >> veggies and dried meats?Veggies are fairly easy to find ... look at the dried soup mixes in your grocery store or checkout some of the excellent suggestions on Sarah's FBC site. Dried meats are the thing I haven't found an easy way to get (without going the dehydrate @ home route).
Steve,While it can be a bit odd at first, flavored TVP can be great for trail meals :-) The "beef" version for me tastes just like hamburger. And you can carry it for a long time in a pack.While I wouldn't eat the stuff plain, in meals it works well. I add about 2 Tbsp dry per person. Just don't get plain TVP. YUCK!!!! Gotta get beef or ham! And get the smallest size as well (HHF's sells all of it as well in small bags too!)
For years now, I keep thinking I'll get tired of it but my favorite BIABM is Ramen with freeze dried Vegetables and Chicken.I crush the Ramen before opening the package. Put crushed Ramen into snack-sized baggie. Throw away the "flavor" packet. Add one crushed chicken bullion cube. Add an amount of Just Veggies, mixed, freeze dried vegetables. Add a third of an ounce of freeze dried chicken - or, for the first three days, a 3 ounce can of cooked chicken, including the broth. If using canned chicken I remove air from baggie, roll tightly, fasten with rubber band and freeze.Variations of this use instant brown rice and, perhaps, curry powder, ground ginger, crystallized ginger, raisins, and sliced water chestnuts. Still adding the chicken.I always look forward to eating this and only try changing it every few years. If I hadn't just finished a great barbeque dinner, from Gracie's, in Vallejo, I'd whip up some right now.
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Yesterday, i attended the Luminous Green symposium, organized by the lovely FoAM people, on the Groenhoven Estate, near Brussels. The event was exactly what it promised to be: a fantastic gathering of people from different fields and who all battle for a more sustainable environment. There were artists, fashion designers, grassroot activists, business leaders, people from the governement, etc. The aim of the event is to get them to talk together. Not in a self-congratulory spirit but to collect successful stories and see if people from different background can define a common ground.
If you're in Brussels on the 4th, i can only recommend you to head to FoAM and see how artists, designers and engineers translate the issues and suggestions that popped up during the conference into sketches and prototypes.
FoAM set up Luminous Green to reflect on the importance of creativity practice into the environmental debate. The aim is to go beyond the discussion about the effects of global warming. The debate is rather to see how we can adapt to life in turbulent and anti-environmental conditions and more precisely: How can designers, artists and other creative people contribute to the discussion? Maja Kuzmanovic, who curated the event, suggested that what designers and artists can bring into the discussion is:
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- 2. The participatory nature of creative practices.
- 3. The ability to design beautiful things that people might want to surround themselves with.
It's time to be proactive and behave like the avant-garde that many claim to be.
The conference was as sustainable as possible which was not easy at all:
However, they produced very little printed documents, offered picnic snack in lovely bags designed and hand-crafted by people from the Barefoot College and managed to convince the speakers to either use no projections or be content with the very poorly lighted ones. And it worked marvellously.
Conclusion: there's still so much work to do, especially for people who don't have large pockets. We need more tangible products and we need to connect them together to achieve the desired impact.
Just back from the screening of 8 BIT Movie, a documentary about art and video games, directed by Marcin Ramocki. It was presented at the art+game event this afternoon in Brussels and introduced by Isabelle Arvers, a French art curator now based in Switzerland. In 2002, she curated Playtime at La Vilette in Paris. The exhibition featured artefacts from the history of video games, hyper violent contemporary video games and games by artists. She curated two other exhibitions last year. Both showed a more critical and subversive approach: one in Australia and the other one in Norway, called No Fun! In 2004 she also curated Mind Bending in Italy.
Now back to the 8 bit Movie. Its website says: A mélange of a rocumentary, art expose and a culture-critical investigation, 8 BIT ties together seemingly disconnected phenomena like the 80's demo scene, chiptune music and contemporary artists using machinima and modified games.
You don't have to be a specialist in game culture to have a great time watching it, but some basic knowledge about it doesn't hurt either.
The movie kicks off with a history of video games, starting with the role of the Department of Defense and giving a large place to the art of game "cracking"; second chapter of the documentary is focusing on Chiptunes, there's a nice moment there when Cory Arcangel comments the different sounds made by Atari and Nintendo. A few minutes later, the movie goes back to him and have him explain how he hacked the Nintendo cartridge to create works such as the iconic Super Mario Clouds (which removes everything from the games except the clouds), the amusing Totally Fucked, and the adorable Naptime.
The chapter dedicated the "Retro" trend was quite short. Christine Paul made an interesting comment when she explained that the craze for retro consoles and gadgets might be a good thing. In her view some of the game forms didn't receive much attention when they appreared for the first time so the fact they they are re-visited gives them a second existence.
The part about people making music with Game boys (and girls!) was the core of the documentary, the artists explained how they started, what makes the medium so interesting (its limits are included in the list), where to find old gameboys, etc. I'm not an expert and some of the names that appeared on the screen were rather new to me. From today two of my favourites musicians are Bubblyfish (not because she was one of the very few girls to grace the movie with her smile but because her music made so much sense that i totally forgot it was performed by using gaming objects) and Bodenstandig 2000 (never thought german language and 8bit music would make such a perfect cocktail.)
Some space was also given to Machinima "a piece of pop culture being mixed into another form of pop culture."
Snippets from the movie: "The player doesn't control the game. He's part of it. He's played as much as he plays and doesn't realize it."
"Cheating is very much part of the game." (this one by John Klima.)
The film is a lot of fun, it's branded as rather rock'n roll and indeed it is. But there's some serious research behind it, and there are comments from the likes of Tom Moody, Ed Halter and Christiane Paul that add some more depth. The bits of interview with Eddo Stern were by far my favourite moments. His research on the realism of FPS games, his comments on the game culture and some insights on works he worked on were really inspiring.
I wonder what a similar documentary done by a European director would have be like though...
The 8 BIT movie cast is of course rather impressive: Cory Arcangel, Bit Shifter, Bodenstandig 2000, Bubblyfish, Mary Flanagan, Alex Galloway, Glomag, Paul Johnson, John Klima, Johan Kotlinski, Nullsleep, Joe McKay, Tom Moody, Akiko Sakaizumi, Eddo Stern, TEAMTENDO, Treewave and Carlo Zanni.
I don't know when and where the next screening of the movie will be but if you hear that it's coming to your neighbourhood, don't miss it.
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Built for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair and planned originally to last only six months, André Waterkeyn's Atomium has survived to become one of Belgium's most popular tourist attraction. Its silvery globes symbolise nine atoms of iron, while the connecting tubes represent the forces that hold together a crystalline molecule of iron that has been magnified 165 billion times.
It was closed for renovation and reopened to the public on February 18th. The original panels of aluminium on the outside have been replaced by stainless steel ones to give the Atomium its original shine.
Some of the spheres can be visited. In the party space sphere, Ingo Maurer designed a ceiling lamp with a suspended plate, 14 feet in diameter, and lighted it with a cobalt halo. Eleven plastic human figures hover around the fixture like astronauts around a spacecraft.
Alicia Framis (whom i knew mainly for her "fashion" collections) has designed the children's sphere using soft polyurethane balls to represent H2O, the formula for water (she was inspired by the rainy weather in Brussels.) Each of the 8 "rain molecules" is big enough for 3 to 8 kids to sleep in. The H2O molecules are suspended on the ceiling during the day and lowered at night for the kids to step in and use it as a hotel.
In the past, Framis had created other spaces, like Kidea but also Remix Buildings-Bloodsushibank now on show at the Musac, in León, Spain. The architectural structure combines the act of eating sushi with that of donating blood. The aseptic space where blood donations are usually performed is transformed into a trendy and cosy spot. The "hospital room" is enclosed by padded walls and seats are covered with white bandages. In the centre, is a white platform where blood is donated. Standing opposite this platform is a sushi bar, which gives the act of donating blood a delicate, fragile connotation, contrasting with the sandwich people normally receive after giving blood. More images.
Via El Pais, designboom, vrtnieuws, La Libre Belgique.
I've uploaded on Flickr the images i took at the retrospective dedicated to Antwerp-based artist Panamarenko. Funky aeroplanes, air balloons, inflatable vehicles, flying saucers, weird cars and backpacks that Daedalus could have engineered...
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Audrey Flack includes a burning candle, lipstick tubes, cupcakes, rainbow-hued dabs of paint, and a charming story about a youthful Marilyn Monroe discovering makeup at an orphanage, in a collagelike 1978 oil and acrylic painting.
Animal subjects are dealt with, brilliantly, in Peter Maier's large, glassy-surfaced painting of the head of a tiny "Chick," and in Richard McLean's oil of a work horse and a dog at a stable (tended by two employees with their bag lunch).
Still life paintings, many of them influenced by Pop Art, are another strong element in the show, including Roberto Bernardo's oil of candy sticks in a glass jar, and Ralph Goings' oil of two doughnuts leaning on a coffee cup.
A winged "Art Angel" hovers over devil-like toy figures and eight planetlike marbles circle a larger marble sun in deftly executed 1986 and 1994 oil paintings by Tulsa native Charles Bell (1935-1995).
David Parrish relies on toy figures rather than actual people — a James Dean-like "Rebel" and a "Bass Man Cookie Jar" — in two large oil canvases, done in 2008 and 2006. Italian artist Luigi Benedicenti does a good job of combining portraiture with still life in "Sara Solitario," a 2011 oil panel of a thoughtful young woman in scanty attire sitting beside a picture of a luscious fruit tart.
Chuck Close supplies two head-and-shoulders portraits — a black-and-white 1986 etching of his wife "Leslie," made with fingerprints, and a 2004 silk-screen of "James," that seems to consist of a host of tiny abstract compositions.
Dealing admirably with our fascination with shiny and not-so-shiny objects, ranging from motorcycles and trucks to vintage, luxury and racing cars, are works by Goings, Maier, Tom Blackwell, Ron Kleemann and Cheryl Kelley.
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A hundred years ago warriors in Borneo would head-hunt. This meant raiding nearby villages and returning with the heads of enemies as trophies. Because this was so dangerous, before the warriors went out they would ask for protection from the gods.
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After spring rains in late May the Boise foothills are still green before turning brown as summer arrives.
This is a view of the taller Boise Idaho downtown buildings and the Boise Foothills. Below is a link to the City of Boise website. www.cityofboise.org
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Viewed from an overlook on South Mountain, just below the TV antennas, the city of Phoenix's southern-most village of Ahwatukee Foothills fills the space between South Mountain Park and the Gila River Indian Community. My home lies near the lakes of the Lakewood subdivision, but is obscured by trees.
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It may take a while to sort out all the details, but we do know some
of what happened last week in Andijon, Uzbekistan: Government
soldiers shot and killed hundreds of unarmed protesters, who had
assembled after rebels freed 2, 000 prisoners from a local jail.
"They shot us like rabbits," an Uzbeki told Reuters, "and chased
and finished us off like dogs in side streets and alleys."We also know that the Bush administration's immediate response was
grotesque. "We are concerned about the outbreak of violence," White
House spokesbot Scott McClellan said, "particularly by some members
of a terrorist organization that were freed from prison." It was
three days before the administration shifted the balance of its
criticism to Uzbekistan's government, saying that the slaying of
innocents was "deeply disturbing."
The roots of the crisis are not complicated. Uzbekistan's dictator,
Islam Karimov, does not tolerate dissent. A former communist
apparatchik turned pro- Western kleptocrat, Karimov has tortured
and killed his way to the top of the heap of the world's human
rights abusers. His medieval regime notoriously suffocates
prisoners with chlorine-filled gas masks and has boiled at least
two opponents in cauldrons of water. He has used a real but
exaggerated threat from an Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist
organization, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), as a cudgel
to destroy all opposition.
Andijon, a city of 300,000, sits in the Ferghana Valley in the
eastern-most corner of Uzbekistan, a region that has suffered
disproportionately from Karimov's economic policies. Cotton is the
lifeblood of the Uzbek economy, but farmers are forced to sell the
so-called "white gold" to the regime for pittances, while the
government resells it for massive profits that sustain Karimov's
rule. In Ferghana, citizens sought to counter this crushing
economic system with free enterprise--bazaars, local banks,
informal trade with neighboring Kyrgyzstan--which Karimov has
sought to eliminate, to the anger of Valley residents. That
explains why the criminal case of 23 Andijon businessmen- -accused
of extremism and membership in an outlawed Islamic group--morphed
from just another government show trial into a mass uprising.
Karimov claims the men- -who make up the backbone of Andijon's
middle class--are Muslim radicals, but, for the people in Andijon,
the men were a source of much-needed jobs.
Early this month, protests outside the court where the businessmen
were being tried became regular, and, last Thursday night, rebels
of uncertain origin stormed their prison, which was emptied of its
prisoners, some of whom, Karimov's government alleges, were members
of the IMU. What followed the prison break was an apparently
spontaneous protest in Andijon's town square. Karimov claims that
the crowd was a threatening group of bandits and Islamic
fundamentalists, but most (if not all) were actually civilians
demonstrating against Karimov's corrupt rule and severe economic
policies. One of the few foreign journalists on the scene reported
the following: "They are shouting social slogans, I would like to
stress, not Islamic ones. They say that things are bad, ask why the
authorities have brought the people to live in such misery. "
Soon after, Karimov's soldiers stormed the square in armored
vehicles and fired at unarmed protesters, including women and
children. The United States thinks about 300 were killed, while an
Uzbek opposition group claims at least 745.
The Bush administration's reasons for keeping Karimov as a strategic
partner are wearing thin. We needed Karimov after September 11,
when he offered us an old Soviet airbase to stage operations
against the Taliban. But we now have the sprawling Bagram
installation in Afghanistan. Others argue that Karimov is a secular
bulwark against Islamists in Central Asia's most populous state.
But Bush himself has sworn that privileging stability over the
uncertainty of freedom is a strategy doomed to failure. Moreover,
support for Karimov is counterproductive, since he seems bent on
driving Uzbekistan's Muslim fence- sitters into the Islamists'
camp. Another argument sees Uzbekistan as a way to check Chinese
and Russian influence in the region and to secure Central Asian oil
and gas reserves for the West. But Karimov needs us more than we
need him. Losing the United States as a military partner would be a
severe blow, and there are millions of dollars in U.S. aid that
Bush could rescind with the stroke of a pen.
We ought to start wielding these sticks. After all, the true test of
Bush's commitment to democracy is whether he is willing to push for
it even in cases when it might be against our short-term
self-interest. In that sense, Uzbekistan is the first real test of
Bush's commitment to "end tyranny in the world."
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The horse pictured above is named Roo and, as one can easily notice, its size is by no means an impressive one. Thus, this mini horse only measures about 19 inches (roughly 48 centimeters) in height, and weighs a mere 50 pounds (about 22.5 kilograms).
Roo is now 22 months old and its having to wear a cast on each of its legs has to do with the fact that its limbs display several deformities that keep it from walking and sprinting properly, sources report.
Still, Christine Clark, Roo's owner, hopes that, should she succeed in raising the money needed for corrective surgery, it will not be long until this mini horse is able to make proper use of its legs.
"I made the commitment to him, that if he continues to have a good quality of life, that I would continue to advocate for him. He is an absolute inspiration to me, so much more than people will ever know. I never imagined just how much," Christine Clark told members of the press.
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The Price of Your Food and Fuel is Going Up
- Posted by Jeff Carter
- on February 17th, 2013
It's not inflation that will drive the price higher, nor the bungling policies of the Federal Reserve. It's regulatory inflation. Or, an artificial constraint being put on the market that will increase the cost of your food and fuel.
The actual price of the commodity may not increase. But the risk and cost associated with putting a hedge on it will. Already, a small percentage of commodity hedging has left the transparent public marketplace and gone to the unregulated private market. Volume is down. That's not an optimum event for price discovery and transfer of risk.
The CFTC has gone down the path of enacting a really stupid rule to take care of statistical outliers. If you have followed the news in futures markets, you know Jon Corzine committed fraud with customer funds. On the heels of that, a twenty year Ponzi scheme was uncovered at PFG Best.
Instead of responding by bringing Corzine to trial, the Obama administration stonewalled and swept it under the rug. I don't see Elizabeth Warren sporting false outrage toward people that were defrauded at Senate hearings. Instead, she grandstands against government lawyers towards banks that responded to misaligned government incentives. Good photo op, bad thought process. James Koutoulas has done more to expose Corzine than any other individual, elected or other.
Both Craig Pirrong and Jon Lothian have excellent analysis on this issue. Craig worked on the exchange floors, and has a PhD in economics. He understands opportunity costs, and the exchange clearing mechanism better than 99% of the people out there today. Jon has participated in the marketplace for his entire career, and understands back office operations at a Futures Commission Merchant. They know what they are doing, and writing.
Pirrong writes,
It's also hard to see how these rules, if they had been in place, would have prevented either the Peregrine or MFG situations. Furthermore, there are other ways of attacking the exceptional-and MFG and Peregrine were exceptional-without imposing crushing burdens on the ordinary day-to-day operation of the markets, FCMs and their customers. For instance, the Peregrine fraud could not have continued if Peregrines regulator (the NFA) had direct electronic access to the firm's accounts, thereby preventing Wasendorf from altering the paper statements he sent on to regulators to cover up his fraud. Hell, in the MFG case, having more excess margin in customer accounts would have just increased the money that Corzine could have tapped to cover the company's losses and own margin calls: it is just that excess margin that disappeared somewhere, somehow. I would further note that since an FCM is most likely to be tempted to get at customer funds when it is in financial jeopardy (which is what happened with MF), adding to its financial burdens could create more problems than it solves.
The cost-benefit analysis the CFTC advanced in support of the rule is just the kind of joke I've come to expect. This is actually a problem that is amenable to calculation. Collect data on the distribution of customer margin deficits under current rules. Figure out the 99.9th percentile of this distribution. (Importantly, condition this distribution on market conditions-find out what that percentile is during very volatile periods.) Given the rigor of the rule, it is plausible to assume that additional funds equal to this 99.9th percentile will have to be held by customers, FCMs, or both will be held to ensure compliance. Calculate the return on this sum lost because customers and FCMs are required to hold low-yielding assets in order to comply with the rule. That's one component of the cost.
Maybe if Corzine had made an anti-Muslim brotherhood movie that no one watched on YouTube we could have put him in jail. But then, he wouldn't have been able to be out on the trail fundraising for the Regime.
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LMF Lexical Markup Framework
The community responsible for developing lexicons for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Readable Dictionaries (MRDs) started their ISO standardization activities in 2003. These activities resulted in the ISO standard – Lexical Markup Framework (LMF).
After selecting and defining a common terminology, the LMF team had to identify the common notions shared by all lexicons in order to specify a common skeleton (called the core model) and understand the various requirements coming from different groups of users.
The goals of LMF are to provide a common model for the creation and use of lexical resources, to manage the exchange of data between and among these resources, and to enable the merging of a large number of individual electronic resources to form extensive global electronic resources.
The various types of individual instantiations of LMF can include monolingual, bilingual or multilingual lexical resources. The same specifications can be used for small and large lexicons, both simple and complex, as well as for both written and spoken lexical representations. The descriptions range from morphology, syntax and computational semantics to computer-assisted translation. The languages covered are not restricted to European languages, but apply to all natural languages.
The LMF specification is now a success and numerous lexicon managers currently use LMF in different languages and contexts.
This book starts with the historical context of LMF, before providing an overview of the LMF model and the Data Category Registry, which provides a flexible means for applying constants like /grammatical gender/ in a variety of different settings. It then presents concrete applications and experiments on real data, which are important for developers who want to learn about the use of LMF.
1. LMF – Historical Context and Perspectives, Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini and Claudia Soria.
2. Model Description, Gil Francopoulo and Monte George.
3. LMF and the Data Category Registry: Principles and Application, Menzo Windhouwer and Sue Ellen Wright.
4. Wordnet-LMF: A Standard Representation for Multilingual Wordnets, Piek Vossen, Claudia Soria and Monica Monachini.
5. Prolmf: A Multilingual Dictionary of Proper Names and their Relations, Denis Maurel, Béatrice Bouchou-Markhoff.
6. LMF for Arabic, Aida Khemakhem, Bilel Gargouri, Kais Haddar and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou.
7. LMF for a Selection of African Languages, Chantal Enguehard and Mathieu Mangeot.
8. LMF and its Implementation in Some Asian Languages, Takenobu Tokunaga, Sophia Y.M. Lee, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Kiyoaki Shirai, Shu-Kai Hsieh and Chu-Ren Huang.
9. DUELME: Dutch Electronic Lexicon of Multiword Expressions, Jan Odijk.
10. UBY-LMF – Exploring the Boundaries of Language-Independent Lexicon Models, Judith Eckle-Kohler, Iryna Gurevych, Silvana Hartmann, Michael Matuschek and Christian M. Meyer.
11. Conversion of Lexicon-Grammar Tables to LMF: Application to French, Éric Laporte, Elsa Tolone and Matthieu Constant.
12. Collaborative Tools: From Wiktionary to LMF, for Synchronic and Diachronic Language Data, Thierry Declerck, Pirsoka Lendvai and Karlheinz Mörth.
13. LMF Experiments on Format Conversions for Resource Merging: Converters and Problems, Marta Villegas, Muntsa Padró and Núria Bel.
14. LMF as a Foundation for Servicized Lexical Resources, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Monica Monachini, Bora Savas, Claudia Soria and Nicoletta Calzolari.
15. Creating a Serialization of LMF: The Experience of the RELISH Project, Menzo Windhouwer, Justin Petro, Irina Nevskaya, Sebastian Drude, Helen Aristar-Dry and Jost Gippert.
16. Global Atlas: Proper Nouns, From Wikipedia to LMF, Gil Francopoulo, Frédéric Marcoul, David Causse and Grégory Piparo.
17. LMF in U.S. Government Language Resource Management, Monte George.
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This article on the Kony2012 campaign is worth reading. It's good news if the campaign results in renewed resolve to catch the bastard. I hope they do!
But meanwhile, please don't forget the St Nicholas African Education Fund (see the Paypal or ChipIn link at the right), especially if, as I do, you have a problem with Invisible Children spending only 32% of funds raised on any Uganda children, visible or not. As I've mentioned, we send 100% directly to our kids, minus only the bank fees and about $75/month for our hard-working manager in Uganda.
Update: Also have a look at "Guest Post: I've met Joseph Kony and Kony 2012 isn't that bad" by Norbert Mao, a Uganda politico. As he points out, "The sky is overcast with an explosive mix of dubious oil deals, land grabs, arms proliferation, neglected ex-combatants, and a volatile neighborhood full of regimes determined to fish in troubled waters. What we have is a tentative peace."


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Animation news: Toonami, Ralph Bakshi and games
Hey gang, here's what happening in the world of cartoons:
A new Simpsons game, possibly created to coincide with the movie, has been showing up on some retailer's list as "The Simpsons Game." Electronic Arts is publishing the game, which will be available for pretty much all the major platforms, including Wii.
Help the lady astronaut break up the happy couple
Well, this is going to take up a little while this afternoon.
The Game Show Network has a new game on their site called Astronaut Moonstalker, and though it sounds like one of those cheesy movie you always see on The Sci-Fi Channel, it's actually a space game based on the female astronaut who put on a diaper to drive 900 miles and kidnap a romantic rival.
It's a fun, well-designed game. Using the arrow keys on your keyboard, you pilot a spacecraft around rocks, monsters, and space debris to land next to the happy couple and break them up (by telling the woman bad things about the guy). You also get bonus points if you collect the red hearts that are floating through space, and your progress is tracked by a "diaper meter." Play the game after the jump (or play the bigger version at the link above).
New Battlestar game coming to Xbox Live
The big news of the announcement is that the game will be available in the Xbox Live Marketplace. This is the first original Hollywood-licensed property for the still growing service. To kick off the promotion, fans can now get Battlestar gamer pics and theme packs from the Marketplace. Thankfully, for those of you that haven't jumped on the 360 bandwagon yet, the game will also be available for the PC and downloadable from SciFi.com, NBC.com, and Sierra.com. It is slated for a fall release.
Sierra will be adding sound from the series and was able to visit the set to get the look and details right. They also have secured likeness rights to talent from the show, and mention the possibility of the actors providing radio chatter for the in game play. The article also talks about the possibility of adding episodes of the show to the Xbox service.
The Five: The Ultimate Lost Quiz
So, you've seen every single episode of Lost and you own all the DVDs and you consider yourself an expert. Check out these five questions and see if you really know as much as you think you do.
1. What is the name of the only hit song that Charlie's band Driveshaft had?
Lost mobile game now available
As promised in last year's TV Squad post, Gameloft has released a mobile game based on Lost. Players will re-enact familiar island adventures and experience new ones as Jack, who is hilariously described by Gameloft as the "charismatic hero" of the series. Many of the settings, characters, and plotlines from earlier episodes are recreated for the game. Gameloft's official site (see above link) includes screenshots, downloadable wallpaper and screensavers, and a demo of the game's first chapter.
You too could win a pimped out john
Do you spend a lot of time in the bathroom? Roto-Rooter is holding a contest, and the winner gets the deluxe, luxury toilet in the picture on the right.
The toilet - which the company is calling a "bathroom oasis" - comes complete with an Avanti Compact Refrigerator with a beer tap, an iPod, an iCarta iPod dock with tissue holder, a Baseline pedal exerciser, a dual-sided magnification mirror, a megaphone (to call your family members for more toilet paper, I guess), a personal cooling fan, a USB powered coffee mug and warmer, an Xbox 360, a TiVo, a Gateway laptop computer, a Philips 20" LCD Flat Panel TV and a Philips DVD player.
Wow, the winner of this probably won't ever have to leave the house again. The contest ends April 2, and the winner will be announced on April 25 (National Plumber's Day).
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The Office cast as Wii Miis
It was just a matter of time before an Office fanatic had too much time on his hands and created Office Miis - the entire cast of the Emmy Award-winning show as Nintendo avatars. Jim, Dwight and Kevin look the best, but they're all little works of time-wasting, pop culture-inspired art. You can check them out on Flickr.
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South Park goes mobile, plus Comedy Central and Spike launch new Web shows
Both Comedy Central and Spike TV are launching new Web series this year. Comedy Central plans to launch eleven new series for its Motherload site, including a show featuring Muslim American comedians called The Watch List, and a spinoff of Drawn Together called Judge Fudge.
Spike TV has eight new Web series slated for 2007, including Spike's Hottest Bartenders, Miss March Madness and FMX Prague.
There will also be a South Park wireless application launched in association with South Park Studios that will feature an avatar maker, clips from every season, Q&As with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, messageboards, production blogs, and artwork. Strangely enough, that's pretty much exactly what you can find on the South Park Studios Web site for free. Maybe this wireless app will have things you can't find on the site, but it sounds like they're simply offering what's on the site through a new platform.
Battlestar Galactica pen-and-paper RPG on its way
I'm off on a bit of a tangent there, but not completely. The two universes meet again in the world of pen-and-paper RPGs. Margaret Weis Productions, the people behind the Serenity RPG, are now at work on a Battlestar Galactica game based on the same system. Plans call for a quickstart guide in early 2007 with the full game being released in the spring. The MWP site is under construction, but you can read the whole press release at OgreCave.
Firefly to be reborn as MMORPG
In a nutshell, Multiverse is a company founded by a team of Netscape veterans. Their aim is to create a universal platform that independent developers can create games on. The advantage being that it will be easier for smaller teams to develop games, and consumers will have the advantage of using one client that is able to play the various Multiverse products. Reportedly, there are already 7000 development teams working with the platform. The Firefly game is the big feather in the Multiverse cap that will get them some much needed mainstream press. Like this.
You too can be a Law and Order writer
The Mayor of Television (hey, they had an election for Mayor of Television? Why didn't anyone tell us??) has invented the Law and Order Fantasy League Game. Basically, you guess which "ripped from the headlines" story one of the Law and Order shows (the original, Criminal Intent, and Special Victims Unit) is going to
ripoff write an homage to. Will it be Michael Richards? The O.J. Simpson book controversy?
But you can't just guess which show is going to do which plot and be done with it. You have to tweak it a little bit, so it's "original" (cough cough). So, maybe a former sitcom actor says some nasty racial remarks, only this time it's not at a comedy club, it's at a private party. Or maybe a former pro baseball star (not a football star! accused of killing his parents (not his ex-wife and her friend!) decides to create a web site (not publish a book!) showing pics of the murder scene and how he might have done it.
The Mayor's idea for a Michael Richards-inspired story is more elaborate than mine, and would fit the L&O world nicely.
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History Channel partners with online game company
Nokia offering Cartoon Network downloads
Turner Broadcasting and Nokia recently inked a deal that will see content from Cartoon Network offered through the Nokia Content Discoverer client which is currently available on a number of Nokia devices. The special client is designed to make it easier for users to find content to download. The deal only includes clips and games of shows such as Dexter's Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls and Johnny Bravo, but not full episodes, though perhaps full episodes aren't possible with this particular client. I wouldn't know since I don't really do that whole mobile phone or handheld device thing. It's just not my bag, you dig? I knew you could. Anyway, if you don't have this particular client but still like to watch cartoons on a tiny screen, you can always get some of these 'toons from iTunes, too.
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Nerds pick apart South Park's World of Warcraft episode
As I said in my review of the South Park episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft," I've never seen nor played that particular game in my life, but like anything else, to many people it borders on a kind of obsession. A few World of Warcraft fans took it upon themselves to add a list of incongruities to the episode's Wikipedia page, pointing out various places throughout the episode where the game the kids are playing differs from the actual version. Most of those claims have been removed from the entry, but you can read a spirited discussion about the relevance of those claims here, and if you really feel like killing time, you can pore through the entry's history. Ah, nerds and the Web, they fit together just like peanut butter and jelly. Admittedly, I'm a nerd myself, but for cartoons. World of Warcraft I couldn't care less about, but if I found some misinformation on Mr. Magoo you can be sure I'd have something to say about it. We all have our weaknesses, after all.
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Mark Burnett's Gold Rush debuts on AOL
The introductory video on the site has some of the same elements that make up the opening segments of any of Burnett's trademark shows. There are spinning graphics, a fleet of thirteen black SUV's in a secret underground location ready to carry the gold to its secret destinations, a reality-TV hosty-type guy, and -- just to get you in the mood -- a spectacular musical theme reminiscent of The Amazing Race. There's lots poke around the site and see. I barely scratched the surface.
If any of you here happens to win a chunk of the gold, don't forget your friends at TV Squad. At least post a comment here to gloat.
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Brian Barrett looks at the new iPad Mini and claims Apple is losing its edge:
The iPad Mini is an obvious and bloated—both in size and price—response to last year's Kindle Fire and this summer's Nexus 7. Before it came the iPhone 5, Apple's limp concession that people actually do want bigger phone displays. … Compare the Apple of 2012, then, to the Apple juggernaut of 1998 to 2010. That Apple didn't react to markets. It created them. Who wanted a tablet before the iPad? Who gave smartphones a second thought before the iPhone? Those products defined technology for a decade.
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The president couldn't resist spiking the ball after scoring his "keep the status quo" touchdown earlier this week in his remarks on Thursday:
You don't like a particular policy or a particular president, then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election!
Well that is exactly what conservative challengers are attempting to do against those who folded in the showdown over the debt ceiling and ObamaCare funding. In Mississippi, Republican Senator Thad Cochran is now facing State Senator Chris McDaniel in the Republican primary. Immediately upon making that announcement, McDaniel began receiving "a flood of support" from various groups eager to unseat Cochran, who is perceived by many to be a RINO.
In South Carolina, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham will face three challengers in his primary, including State Senator Lee Bright, who blasted Graham's support for the debt-ceiling deal: "We didn't get anything ... we surrendered again."
In Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will be forced to face primary challenger Matt Bevin, a supporter of Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Bevin posted a web video saying:
This shutdown was completely avoidable if we had real leadership in Washington. Instead we have career politicians like Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid who make decisions based on what is political expediency for them — not on principles — and not on what is in the best interest of the American people.
In Tennessee, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, hardly a favorite among conservatives (in August a coalition of 20 Tea Party and conservative groups sent him a letter asking him to retire), is now being challenged in his primary by two conservative aspirants.
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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly resort with full-service spa and restaurant
A family-friendly stay in Ubud awaits you at Rama Phala Resort & Spa. Within just a 15-minute stroll, you'll find Ubud Monkey Forest, Arma Museum, and Gajah Mas Gallery. Highlights at this resort include a full-service spa, a restaurant, and an outdoor swimming pool.
LCD TVs with satellite channels are featured in all 36 rooms, and you can enjoy balconies, separate bathtubs and showers, and coffee/tea makers. Dining in is an option with room service, and minibars provide refreshments. Free bottled water, safes, and hair dryers are also available.
A relaxing day at RAMA PHALA can include massages, body scrubs, and body treatments along with aromatherapy and reflexology. The restaurant, Restaurant, serves international cuisine and is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The resort's own poolside bar is a nice place to enjoy a drink. Other amenities include free WiFi in public areas, a kids' swimming pool, and a coffee shop/café. There's also the convenience of an airport shuttle.
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In addition to a full-service spa, Rama Phala Resort & Spa features an outdoor pool and a children's pool. The resort offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A poolside bar is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
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Sailing the Seas of Cheese: The Case of the Sprained Kneecap
By now everyone has assumed crash positions after hearing the Packers' Offensive Line took another hit when Coach McCarthy told reporters yesterday that Bryan Bulaga had a sprained kneecap and that it would be challenging to get him ready to be back on the line for the Christmas Day game against the Chicago Bears.
First of all, you can't sprain a kneecap. It's a bone. You can fracture a kneecap. You can bruise a kneecap. You can dislocate a kneecap. And if you've ever had to attend a school or athletic banquet at the Swan Club in De Pere, you've probably eaten a kneecap or two (which is the perfect marriage of deep-fried dough meets powdered sugar with a dollop of some sort of creamy goo in the center to form the proverbial patella of desserts. Think beignet with a Northeast Wiscosin twist to it.)
Anyhow, the only thing you can sprain is a ligament. There are four in the knee if you're curious. The two you hear about all the time are the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) which holds the femur to the tibia and the MCL (medial collateral ligament) which attaches the same two bones together in a different location. In short, you sprain a ligament, strain a muscle, and fracture a bone. And the meniscus is a cushion between the bones that's made of cartilage. You can tear that as well.
So what does this mean for Bryan Bulaga?
It means McCarthy is holding his cards pretty close to his chest with this injury and isn't divulging anything that can be used against the Packers. The only thing that would have been more nebulous would be one of those great McCarthy declarations, He Has a Knee. Well, yeah, unless there was some amputation that we didn't know about, chances are Bulaga still has two of them.
This wouldn't be the first time the Packers have not been all that forthcoming with injury disclosures. Remember resounding OMG when the Packers, after the fact, acknowledged that Clay Matthews had been nursing a stress fracture for a large portion of the 2010 season? That's what happens when a player Has a Leg , I guess.
Let's face it, opposing teams will use injury reports for game planning. There's no denying it. The Chiefs definitely knew Jennings was down and out with his MCL problems and used that to their advantage with the man-on-man and did a pretty effective job manhandling Jordy Nelson. But it goes the other way too. Vague injury reports have also bitten teams in the rear when it came to game planning. During the Holmgren era, the Detroit Lions listed RB Barry Sanders as doubtful the entire week and the Packers probably planned to defend a Lion's offense that was minus their huge playmaker. Only he wasn't doubtful. He played lights out and ran for 167 yards.
Since 1947 the NFL has required that teams list injuries in relation to probability of play. Teams are required to list injured players as Probable, Questionable, Doubtful or Out. Teams can be fined for not doing so. What they don't have to disclose is the actual nuts and bolts of a diagnosis. Case in point various members of 2008 New York Jets leadership were fined a collective $125,000 for not disclosing He Who Should Not be Named's injury status regarding his torn biceps tendon. No team knew the Jets' QB was even injured. Had they known he'd been playing with a gimpy throwing arm, you know every blitz would have been aimed at it.
So how does this affect Bulaga? No one knows, because McCarthy doesn't want you to know. More importantly, he doesn't want the Bears, Lions, Saints or 49ers to know. Per the current rules, he has until Friday to declare Bulaga's official status. Until then he's Challenged , whatever that means.
If Bulaga's demeanor is any indication during the Chief's game, I would be hard pressed to say this injury is very serious. After all, he was still in pads on the sideline after returning from the locker room. There was no giant ice pack or brace on that knee. He certainly didn't look as uncomfortable as Greg Jennings did the week before after he sprained his medial collateral ligament. Sure, he could have sprained something that will put him on the bench indefinitely. Teams would definitely be adjusting their rush accordingly. He may be ready to go Sunday, but McCarthy may want him to wait until he's 100% instead of 95% and is willing to take his chances with playing Musical O-line because they already have a first round bye and feels comfortable giving Bulaga a week or two to heal all the way. Or Bryan is a little sore but ready to rumble, the injury is trivial and the Packers are creating a distraction much like a killdeer does flopping around like its wing is broken trying to misdirect defensive coordinators.
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Are the Kids Eating the Heatlhy Lunches in the Chicago Public School Cafeterias?
I have read several articles that have reported on how the healthier lunch options are working out in the Chicago School System cafeterias. While I only read a few articles it seems the consensus is, the kids are not happy about the food they are being served now.
While no one seemed to track how much food was thrown away before the change, there have been some audits conducted since then and I am sad to say that the kids are throwing away lots of fresh fruit and veggies.
It was also reported that kids buying school lunch has declined and some kids are skipping school lunch and getting a candy bar or some other questionalbly nutritious item to hold them over until they get home.
As usual, the push for health has gone overboard by out lawing the use of salt to prepare most of the food in the cafeterias...they went from super high sodium content in the processed food that they had been getting to no salt. I am not sure I could put a delicious meal on the table without a little salt.
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Should Ryan Strome Start in the AHL or NHL?
Kevin SchultzAh yes, it's that time of year again. The weather is getting cooler, summer has passed us by, and people are debating where the top Islanders prospect should start the season…
This year's prospect du jour is Ryan Strome, who will be joining the Sound Tigers this fall, if not the Islanders. After four years in junior, the 2011 first-round pick is ready for the pro game. He got a taste of the AHL last spring during a 10-game PTO with the Sound Tigers where he looked more than up to the task, totaling seven points in those 10 games on Bridgeport's top line.
So where should Strome skate in October? Is he ready to debut on Long Island on October 5th, or should the Islanders take it slowly and call him up at mid-season or even as late as next year?
The way the roster stands right now there appears to be 13 forwards already on it. There are 12 forwards who would require waivers to be sent down, and the one who doesn't is Casey Cizikas who will almost certainly be sticking with the team. So, at most, we're looking at one roster spot open for forwards or maybe two, if the Islanders decide to cut, say, Eric Boulton (probably not going to happen, otherwise they wouldn't have re-signed him).
Like it or not, unless Strome is absolutely beasting most of the roster during camp, he'll end up in AHL. In that case, he needs to be the first call up when it comes to injuries, etc. He's likely ready for the pro game, and as LHH pointed out this morning, players in his position get the opportunity to prove themselves in the NHL after training camp 92% of the time.
To check whether this impression was correct, I looked at all top 10 forward draft picks since the 2000 Entry Draft to determine how many were not given a spot on their NHL team's opening roster by their 3rd post draft season…
As it turns out, out of 80 draftees [that fit the criteria], only 6 players failed to make their team's NHL roster in their third post draft year. In addition, not one of these 6 players matched Strome's level of production in Juniors and most encountered significant issues in their development after they were drafted.
At the point Strome is at, the overwhelming majority of top-10 picks make their respective teams out of training camp. The ones that don't are the ones that have injury set backs or whose stock falls after the draft thanks to poor production. So going by the general practice in the NHL, Strome should be on the team.
If he doesn't make the team out of camp, and again based on the roster situation there's good reason to think he won't, the Islanders should still make an effort to bring him into the fold sometime this season. While the player can certainly learn the franchise's system and get used to the pro game in the AHL — all things that will be beneficial — he's likely a good enough student where that won't take him 80 AHL games to figure out.
But there's one other benefit to him not starting the season in the NHL; he won't be directly under the spotlight. There won't be pressure from the fans and, er, media to make a good first impression. Mid-season call ups don't usually face the same hype.
Strome is likely to begin the year in the AHL, but there's certainly a strong case to be made to put him in the NHL from Day One. The situation doesn't seem to be clear cut one way or the other, although the general school of thought around the NHL is that players of Strome's talent and age are ready for the big show at this point in their careers.


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FREEDONIA, KAN. - Doris Jean Packard Belcher passed away in Fredonia, Kan., on Oct. 11, 2011.
She was born in Danville, Ill., on July 15, 1935. She married Eugene Belcher on Nov. 6, 1952 and later divorced.
Doris had four children, 11 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren who loved her.
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Looking back NBVC has its roots in WWII
Oct. 1, 2010, marks the 10-year anniversary of the establishment of Naval Base Ventura County, the official date that Naval Air Station Point Mugu and Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme combined under a single commander.
In recognition of the anniversary, The Lighthouse is publishing these "Looking back" items that detail the history of the two bases leading up to their unified command and that recall the major news of the last 10 years.
Naval Base Ventura County has its origins in World War II.
In the early days of the war, Port Hueneme, the only deep-water port between San Francisco and Los Angeles, became a place to train, stage and supply the newly created Seabees. In 1941, as the United States entered the war, that training area was expanded to include Point Mugu.
On May 18, 1942, the Advance Base Depot was officially established at Port Hueneme. In 1945, it was renamed the Naval Construction Battalion Center (NCBC).
In 1946, Point Mugu officially became a Naval Air Missile Test Center. On Aug. 1, 1949, the Naval Air Station (NAS) was established to support the missile test center by providing material and service support.
NCBC Port Hueneme and NAS Point Mugu continued to operate independently for the next half century. Port Hueneme has provided supplies, equipment, camps and roads to support not only the Seabees, but also the Army, Air Force and Marines. During the Korean War, almost all the Navy construction equipment and supplies that left the States was routed through Port Hueneme. Point Mugu has been a center for research, development, testing and evaluation of missile weapons systems.
At the end of the 1990s, the Department of the Navy began looking for ways to streamline base commands. In 1998, that process began in Ventura County, and the consolidation was completed on Oct. 1, 2000, with the establishment of Naval Base Ventura County. Today, the base is a major naval installation on the West Coast, providing the Pacific Fleet with a deep-water port, a railhead and an airfield capable of handling the largest of Air Force aircraft, including the C-5 Galaxy. Combat and weapon systems continue to be tested on the 36,000 miles Sea Range off the coast of Point Mugu.
Today, 88 military commands are located at NBVC.