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A neighborhood renewed
Once, everyone wanted to move away. Now, living, working and eating ice cream on trendy Eisenbahnstrasse is all the rage. Our Hamburg-based author, from Eastern Germany herself, went to Leipzig to see what the hype is all about.
My legs dangle in the air. I'm sitting on the window sill, the morning sun warm on my face. As I run my hand over the rough facade, the plaster crumbles between my fingers. In the opposite apartment, the drapes are still holding the new day at bay, while outside the café below, burly men are heaving crates of flatbread out of a van. Birds chirrup, cars honk, and immediately beneath my feet, a tram rumbles noisily over the tracks. I watch it move on down the street, surveying the place I love.
There are plenty of stories to tell about Leipzig's Eisenbahnstrasse; this one is mine. Eisenbahnstrasse is the main thoroughfare in the east of the city. One-and-a-half kilometers long, it connects the city center with the surrounding area. The sun rises on one side and sets on the other. What happens on this street is very much in the eye of the beholder. I was raised in the hinterlands of Saxony but moved to Hamburg nearly ten years ago. Now I'm visiting my friend Annabella, like me in her early 30s, who grew up in Leipzig. Annabella lives at the end of Eisenbahnstrasse. If you want to understand what you see on this street you have to retrace its history.
Eisenbahnstrasse connects three neighborhoods, and this circumstance alone makes it difficult to get a sense of the street's identity. Although close to downtown and about ten minutes from the main train station, it looked for a long time as deserted as the city's outskirts. In spite of its magnificent, almost decadent Wilhelmine architecture, most of the buildings remained unoccupied after East and West Germany reunited. In the 1990s, the city filled the empty apartments with asylum seekers from former Yugoslavia and Africa; folk from the Balkan states, Vietnam and Poland moved in. The newcomers kept to themselves and were left to fend for themselves. Social exclusion and hopelessness bred crime. That was the reality Annabella discovered six years ago: "Back then, my friends were scared to come and visit me here."
Her apartment: broad, creaky floorboards in the hall, heavy wooden doors. An old building, partly renovated – this was the framework Annabella wanted for her life. She tore the yellowing wallpaper off the walls, filled the homemade kitchen shelves with jars of olives and fresh herbs that she found at the local greengrocers. Eisenbahnstrasse is the city's melting pot, with Vietnamese and Syrian takeaways, an Iraqi grocery, a Russian video store and a Korean supermarket between the ubiquitous phone shops and hairdressing salons. We walk down the stairs, heave open the front door to the sight of asphalt glittering in the midday sun. A moving van roars by. Annabella looks pleased. "Now everyone wants to come here."
Eisenbahnstrasse and its immediate surroundings have recently become popular. First came the artists and creatives, then the students and finally, following the classic script for urban renewal, the investors. The influx rate was 30 percent in 2016 – a record, even in an expanding city! A year ago, you could lose count of all the empty windows after walking halfway down the street, but now you are more likely to lose track of where you are, given all the freshly renovated facades. The students are beginning to worry whether they will be able to afford the rents here in the future. "Leipzig for everyone – no crazy rents and crowding out!" say the placards on the plywood boards nailed over shop windows.
Molekühl ice-cream parlor opened on the corner of Hedwigstrasse and Ludwigstrasse a few months back. Outside, children have no hope of challenging the laws of physics – even the coolest flavors soon melt in the sun. Inside, Jona Funke runs his fingers through his hair and proudly pats the glass ice-cream counter. "I had virtually no budget, but really wanted to get something going here," says the 21-year-old engineering student. Light gray walls, untreated pine-wood benches, industrial-design lamps: Jona made everything he could himself and picked up the rest from flea markets. He and a friend spent four weeks drilling holes and driving in screws in this former snack bar. Now, salted caramel, orange-and-rosemary and strawberry- and-basil are passed across the counter at 1.20 euros a scoop.
Outside Molekühl, a young woman in a white crop top with black dreadlocks tilts her face up to the sky. Amira Schauki, also 21, is Jona's girlfriend. She's helping him out while waiting to get into art school. When she isn't preparing posts for Instagram or designing logos, she makes herself comfortable on the bench in front of the shop window and takes in the life now buzzing on this corner of the street thanks to the ice-cream shop. A few people have climbed on top of the junction box and two friends are sitting in the sun. Amira smiles: "Gentrification's not great, of course," she says, "but at least Eisenbahnstrasse is starting to look nice."
Casinos and organic food, student life and Turkish tea: Eisenbahnstrasse is alive with diversity
A gentle breeze ruffles the trees. Annabella and I walk past gambling halls and organic food stores; old men drink Turkish tea; young girls take selfies. The air smells of hummus and shawarma, of coriander and cumin, of what it's like when people in a diverse neighborhood get along. Sitting outside the Brothers Café, Mucahid Yakut, 23, tries to speak without a Saxon accent. He came to Leipzig from Turkey as a child and speaks the local lingo like a native. He's also the only one in the store who understands the local workmen. After ordering the scrambled eggs with sucuk, a number of them ask for his advice. "A construction worker recently complained that his wife had gotten cross with him for preferring spicy Turkish sausage to the German variety," Mucahid tells us.
When his father and his two brothers opened the Brothers three years ago, the menus in the neighborhood were printed almost exclusively in Arabic, Russian or Turkish. In between, there were bars with signs saying "Only Germans allowed."
Parallel worlds, little solidarity. The Yakuts wanted to create a place where Mucahid could take his East German classmates and his mother could take her relatives from the West. Mucahid's uncle is a master baker and came down from Hamburg to help set up the business. He knew what an urban café needed to make everyone feel at home: Tahini börek now sit cozily side by side with Hamburg's typical cinnamon Franzbrötchen pastry and Saxon crullers, gleaming in the golden light of the ceiling lamps.
Brothers has helped to make Eisenbahnstrasse sparkle. More and more store owners have started scratching the opaque plastic off their windows and selling not just halal meat but vegan dishes, too. Competition is enlivening the neighborhood. A new café, bar or other business opens here almost every week. Annabella and I stroll down the street, whiling away the afternoon. As the day begins to tire, Eisenbahnstrasse comes to life. People sit around on the remains of fallen walls, hungry for nightlife and building their strength for it with falafels from the Syrian place, and a beer from the next-door supermarket. Just before we reach Torgau Square, we turn down to the left and head toward the small bridge that crosses the railroad tracks. Like silver arteries, they stretch away to the main train station. We lean on the railings and reflect what Eisenbahnstrasse could be like in one, two, five or ten years. For the moment, though, the street is fine just the way it is.
Eisenbahnstraße from one end to the other
Getting there from Germany
In September, Lufthansa offers six daily flights to Leipzig (LEJ) from Frankfurt (FRA) and up to four daily flights from Munich (MUC). Use the app to calculate your miles:


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'"You don't like losing," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said. "You get a tough bounce that just found a way of going in. But I thought for the most part we cleaned up our game and I thought all the lines played well for us and got real good efforts out of almost everybody."'
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Power Consumption
My first round of tests involved seeing how well it performs in terms of power consumption compared to a typical laptop spinny Hard Disk Drive. I rigged up a Lenovo X220i (i3-2350M @ 2.30GHz) running Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS (x86-64) to a Fluke 8846A precision digital multimeter and then compared the SSD with a 320GB Seagate ST320LT020-9YG142 HDD against some simple I/O tests. Each test scenario was run 5 times and I based my results of the average of these 5 runs.
The Intel ® 520 2.5" SSD fits into conventional drive bays but comes with a black plastic shim attached to one side that has to be first removed to reduce the height so that it can be inserted into the Lenovo X220i low profile drive bay. This is a trivial exercise and takes just a few moments with a suitable Phillips screwdriver. (As a bonus, the SSD also comes with a 3.5" adapter bracket and SATA 6.0 signal and power cables allowing it to be easily added into a Desktop too).
In an idle state, the HDD pulled ~25mA more than the SSD, so in overall power consumption terms the SSD saves ~5%, (e.g. adds ~24 minutes life to an 8 hour battery).
I then exercised the ext4 file system with Bonnie++ and measured the average current drawn during the run and using the idle "baseline" calculated the power consumed for the duration of the test. The SSD draws more current than the HDD, however it ran the Bonnie++ test ~4.5 times faster and so the total power consumed to get the same task completed was less, typically 1/3 of the power of the HDD.
Using dd, I next wrote 16GB to the devices and found the SSD was ~5.3 times faster than the HDD and consumed ~ 1/3 the power of the HDD. For a 16GB read, the SSD was ~5.6 times faster than the HDD and used about 1/4 the power of the HDD.
Finally, using tiobench I calculated that the SSD was ~7.6 times faster than the HDD and again used about 1/4 the power of the HDD.
So, overall, very good power savings. The caveat is that since the SSD consumes more power than the HDD per second (but gets way more I/O completed) one can use more power with the SSD if one is using continuous I/O all the time. You do more, and it costs more; but you get it done faster, so like for like the SSD wins in terms of reducing power consumption.
Boot Speed
Although ureadhead tries hard to optimize the inode and data reads during boot, the HDD is always going to perform badly because of seek latency and slow data transfer rates compared to any reasonable SSD. Using bootchart and five runs the average time to boot was ~7.9 seconds for the SSD and ~25.8 seconds for the HDD, so the SSD improved boot times by a factor of about 3.2 times. Read rates were topping ~420 MB/sec which was good, but could have been higher for some (yet unknown) reason.
Palimpsest Performance Test
Palimpsest (aka "Disk Utility") has a quick and easy to use drive benchmarking facility that I used to measure the SSD read/write rates and access times. Since writing to the drive destroys the file system I rigged the SSD up in a SATA3 capable desktop as a 2nd drive and then ran the tests. Results are very impressive:
Average Read Rate: 535.8 MB/sec
Average Write Rate: 539.5 MB/sec
Average Access Time: sub 0.1 milliseconds.
This is ~7 x faster in read/write speed and ~200-300 x faster in access time compared to the Seagate HDD.
File System Benchmarks
So which file system performs best on the SSD? Well, it depends on the use case. There are may different file system benchmarking tools available and each one addresses different types of file system behaviour. Which ever test I use it most probably won't match your use case(!) Since SSDs have very small latency overhead it is worth exercising various file systems with multiple threaded I/O read/writes and see how well these perform. I rigged up the threaded I/O benchmarking tool tiobench to exercise ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs and btrfs while varying the number of threads from 1 to 128 in powers of 2. In theory the SSD can do multiple random seeks very efficiently, so this type of testing should show the point where the SSD has optimal performance with multiple I/O requests.
Sequential Read Rates
Sequential Write Rates
xfs is consistently best, where as btrfs performs badly with the low thread count.
Sequential Read Latencies
These scale linearly with the number of threads and all file systems follow the same trend.
Sequential Write Latencies
Again, linear scaling of latencies with number of threads.
Random Read Rates
Again, best transfer rates seem to occur at with 32-64 threads, and btrfs does not seem to perform that well compared to ext2, ext3, ext4 and xfs
Random Write Rates
Interestingly ext2 and ext3 fair well with ext4 and xfs performing very similarly and btrfs performing worst again.
Random Read Latencies
Again the linear scaling with latency as thread count increases with very similar performance between all file systems. In this case, btrfs performs best.
Random Write Latencies
Which I/O scheduler should I use?
Anecdotal evidence suggests using the noop scheduler should be best for an SSD. In this test I exercised ext4, xfs and btrfs with Bonnie++ using the CFQ, Noop and Deadline schedulers. The tests were run 5 times and below are the averages of the 5 test runs.
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And for btrfs, Noop is marginally better for sequential writes and re-writes but Deadline is best for reads.
So it appears for sequential I/O operations, CFQ is the least optimal choice with Noop being a good choice for ext4, deadline for xfs and either for btrfs. However, this is just based on Sequential I/O testing and we should explore Random I/O testing before drawing any firm conclusions.


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Is it November yet? One Direction fans already can't wait, as the guys have promised to deliver their new album before the holidays hit.
The boys took to social media early this morning to announce the first single from the album, "Live While We're Young" will be released for pre-order on iTunes worldwide at midnight as we switch over to Friday, August 24.
Here it is…The
#1DBigAnnoucement from the boys!! Watch it now to check out their MASSIVE news!! 1DHQ x youtu.be/ftQ8Dg1B_7E
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Bad news for American One Directioners though, a note under the video on YouTube advises:
"*pre-order markets may vary, check your local site. Pre-order also not available in US/ Canada / Japan"
Looks like you'll have to wait! In the meantime, their announcement offers a look at Liam Payne's new haircut. Zayn Malik's blonde streak from the Olympics has gone missing, leaving us wondering: did he ditch it or was the announcement filmed before the Closing Ceremonies performance?
The single is expected to go out worldwide on October 1.
Now you've heard the name of the first single! Cannot wait for you to hear the song itself now!
— Niall Horan (@NiallOfficial) August 23, 2012
The new single 'Live While We're Young' will be here soon! Hope you like it .xx
— Harry Styles (@Harry_Styles) August 23, 2012
Screeeeam! Who's excited for the new single then?? 1DHQ x
— One Direction (@onedirection) August 23, 2012
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The Double Elixir Draft Challenge is one of the craziest and interesting challenges ever in Clash Royale, combining the variable Draft Challenge elements when choosing your cards and your opponents cards with playing in Double Elixir Time the entire time in the match. To make this even crazier, it will reward you with tons of Gold! The battles will begin on July 21, 2017.
You will have to choose between two cards, so one of these choices will go to your deck, while the other card will go to your opponent's deck – you do this four times, and your opponent do that four times, and then the battle starts.
After that, you will begin the match and see Elixir regenerating twice as fast as it normally does. Prizes to be won for this challenge are crazy, and you can win up to 400 Cards plus 100,000 Gold. No typo, it's that much!
Now let's talk about some winning strategies. The whole challenge is quite unpredictable because you have to play with the cards you choose and the ones that you get, so the biggest part of your strategy happens when selecting your cards!
When picking cards, always keep in mind that you must never give your opponent a hard counter. Never give him real synergies too. You must also not that expensive cards are precious due to double Elixir (so make sure you don't give your opponent cards like Three Musketeers, PEKKA, etc.)
Having a whole match in double Elixir Time brings a lot of changes to the entire game mechanic, it's not just twice as fast!
Bear in mind that DEFENDING IS VERY IMPORTANT! Yes, you will need to defend because there will be lots of strong pushes which can break through into your King's Tower and make you lose quite fast. Also, rushing full time against your opponent and see who can take down the King's Tower faster could sound like fun, but it definitely won't get you many victories at all.
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When February approaches, a portion of Arkansas fishermen – a minority to be accurate – think of walleye.
Two basic reasons are the knowledge that walleye are great on the table and that walleye move to shallow water for spawning when the weather begins to warm.
Outside of these lines of thought, walleye are generally little known in the Arkansas fishing circles, with some exceptions, including the numbers of people who have moved to Arkansas from points to the north where walleye are a fishing staple.
There is no secret about Greers Ferry Lake and its walleye fishing. In the late 1970s, Fairfield Bay heavily promoted walleye with a contest, and two new state records resulted. This also established a pattern for walleye pursuits.
The Greers Ferry strategy applies to other Arkansas lakes and rivers with walleye.
The fish move upstream to spawn, with the males traveling first, followed by the females which tend to be larger. Walleye stop at shoals, and some anglers call this "staging." All sorts of lures are used, with minnow imitations the most popular. The general category includes stick baits and jointed minnows. But jigs and spoons are also flung in the walleye areas, along with some crank baits. Jigs combined with live minnows are used.
Walleye are picky. You don't find them everywhere on Greers Ferry Lake or the other waters. A handy rule for walleye was voiced by Mike Armstrong of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
"Walleye are found in clear water with gravel bottoms," he said.
The spawning activity, or "walleye run" as some anglers label it, is from mid-February through March. This can vary according to weather conditions.
On Greers Ferry the walleye like the major tributaries of the lake for spawning – South Fork, Middle Fork, Devil's Fork. Shift attention to Lake Ouachita, another lake with good walleye numbers, and the pattern is there as well. The forks with clear water and gravel bottoms on the upper end of the Ouachita are good walleye areas.
Lake Norfolk and Bull Shoals Lake in northern Arkansas have walleye, including some big ones. "Big" means fish upwards of 8 pounds. Beaver Lake is not as abundant with walleye, but its numbers are on the upswing. The Arkansas record, set in 1982 on Greers Ferry, is 22 pounds, 11 ounces.
Experienced walleye fishermen pass along a couple of other basics for catching these fish.
One is light. Walleye have big eyes that are sensitive to light. This means when they moved from the deep water where they spend most of the year to shallow areas, light is intensified. As a result, quite a bit of walleye action takes place at night and on overcast days.
Another basic is to work lures slowly. Water is cold, fish metabolisms are slow, and a lure retrieved rapidly will zip right on by a fish.
Walleye are found in the mountain and foothill areas of Arkansas. This includes those five large lakes – Greers Ferry, Ouachita, Beaver, Bull Shoals and Norfork. Boat docks and marinas on these lakes can help point anglers toward walleye possibilities.
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In Central Arkansas, the upper Saline River has walleye, as do the upper and middle sections of the Ouachita River.
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I still remember the day Coach Brown called me into his office. There stood the gruff-voiced man who put me through enough drills to tire the entire ROTC brigade. The authority figure who had me run enough laps to encircle the Earth, who pushed me miles beyond my previous peak performance to be a more solid and well-rounded athlete…and he was smiling.
In the palms of his hands laid the ultimate gift of gratitude a Coach can bestow an athlete in High School. A symbolic token of their appreciation for the gallons of sweat and game day magic that embodied that season's defeats and triumphs. To some it was a simple piece of woven cloth fashioned into a capital letter "D".
When I first heard about a week ago that Tampa Bay Rays Manager Joe Maddon was thinking of having his brood wear 1950's style letterman sweaters, I was a bit concerned. Most of his squad had been presented these tokens of athletic performance before in their teen athletic endeavors, and I wondered if it might be a bit…sophomoric. But I am wrong thinking that, for the task this Rays squad performed over their last 4 games definitely embodies and shows the work and pride needed to be presented with a woven "TB".
I was an honor this morning to click upon an web article and see the entire Rays team, including staffers wearing the blue Rays sweaters also with their uniform numbers set in Carolina Blue. Just like the Rays last 4 games, the letters and numbers pop off the jersey with confidence, commitment and a determination to conclude their drive to the post season.
Sometimes Maddon does remind me of Coach Brown. Always pushing always striving for a little bit more out of you to achieve more and more, and bringing that dose of confidence with you. Heading into another 4-game battle against the New York Yankees, such high levels of pride and confidence need to be maintained, but I have a feeling Maddon has that also under control. The wearing of a letter is the ultimate symbol of prestige and honor. I can think of no better group than this 2011 squad to wear the "TB". You have made an old letter man proud to be a Rays fan.


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The McGeorge Global Center hosted a meeting through the International Jurist Series with Lidija Nedelkova, President of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Macedonia, and Vladimir Panchevski, Chief Judge of Basic Court Skopje 1-Skopje on Oct. 3, 2013.
The Sacramento visit was arranged through Judge Lawrence Brown of the Sacramento Superior Court, who had participated in a program in Macedonia with the judges, and the U.S. State Department. Macedonia is transitioning to a more adversarial approach in its criminal justice system. At the McGeorge meeting Professors Linda Carter, Emily Garcia-Uhrig, Cary Bricker, Brian Landsberg, and Jay Leach discussed ideas relating to comparative criminal procedure, advocacy, evidence, and legal education.
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PLAN-FREE GARDEN: Planning not required for spectacular garden - Tammy Lewis is proof it doesn't take a master gardener to cultivate a backyard sanctuary. More than 50 plant varieties grow in her yard, but Lewis said she has never had a plan for her garden. SPRINGFIELD
'MIRACLE OF SCIENCE:' Brain surgery reduces Parkinson's symptoms – A procedure called deep-brain stimulation surgery turned back the clock for a New York man with Parkinson¹s disease.
SENIOR SAVVY: What to do when mom calls too often -- My mother calls me several times a day to talk. If she does not find me she becomes anxious as I can hear it in her voice. How can I reduce the calls during the day, and why is she doing this?
DR. MURRAY FEINGOLD: A rash with new-age roots -- A 10-year-old boy was seen by his doctor because his mother noticed a red, very slightly raised, reticulated or lacy rash on the top of both of the child's thighs. What
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DARIN ST. GEORGE: Simplest foods, exercises the best -- Is there a best exercise for your body? And what's the best food to eat and why?
LORETTA LAROCHE: A somewhat startling nose bleed cure -- This author wound up in the emergency room with a nose bleed and got a rather startling but effective suggestion for her follow-up care: KY jelly.
DANNY HENLEY: An insect that triggers good memories -- If I were asked to identify a favorite insect, without hesitation I¹d pick the firefly, or as many folks refer to them, the lightning bug. To the best of my knowledge these nocturnal members of the beetle family are innocuous. I¹ve never been pinched, stung or bitten by one.
JULIE FAY: Lice, and mice, and plagues - oh my! -- One morning last week, I made the unpleasant discovery of mouse droppings in my kitchen. Last June, it was lice; now, it¹s mice. This leads me to wonder, what¹s next? Ice? Rice?
SHAYNE LOOPER: Perhaps the church needs a changeover -- I was once on a prayer walk with seven other area pastors. As we proceeded along the circuit of the lovely prayer trail, our guide and host would occasionally halt and read some relevant passage of Scripture and invite us to pray.
DISNEY WORLD: Disney without tears? It's possible - here's how - I'm a Mickey Mouse mom and was hell-bent on creating Disney memories with my son. Certainly I was discouraged against bringing a 2-year-old to Disney World – the cost, the travel, limited age-appropriate activities and attractions, and so on. Could I really make Disney happen for a 2-year-old and simultaneously keep my marriage intact over four days? Yes, but I had to plan. Here's what to do. By Dana Barbuto.
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KENT BUSH: My 'Field of Dreams' no match for progress -- My hometown had recently invested millions of dollars into one of the most stunning facilities in the region. Dozens of baseball and softball fields, flanked by soccer and football facilities with all the modern conveniences replaced my Field of Dreams.
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ECONOMY: Three-month stock rally fuels hope of economic improvement - There are also some signs the good news may go further than the stock market. The pace of new layoffs is slowing down, and some economists think consumers are ready to make big-ticket purchases they had been delaying. By Steve Adams.
MOSQUITO SEASON COMING SOON: Buzzing, biting, pesky skeeters - Mosquito experts say the intensity of this season, running until about mid-September, looks to be in line with the past few years. But the wet spring, which facilitates larvae growth, could mean it is going to be a bit worse. Ledger, with photo
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KILLING ALIENS: High Voltage Software takes aim at breaking ground on the Wii - Five Rockford residents and two guys from Poplar Grove will be the death of millions of aliens. They want you to join them in killing off alien invaders and have fun doing it. Eric Nofsinger, Mark Muraski, Pat Dolan, Tom Martin, and Damion Davis, all of Rockford, along with Altair Lane and David Pellas, both of Poplar Grove, helped develop High Voltage Software's latest release for the Nintendo Wii called "The Conduit." ROCKFORD
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Baby bottles have always been a staple to every mother's home in order to feed their young bundle of joy, whether they're a breast-feeding or not. Most baby supplies and products, especially bottles, are quaint and utilitarian in design, which makes feeding babies a little bit dull and boring.
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How they were built: Oakland A's
A look at the composition of the Athletics' Division Series roster
In the 10 years that have passed since "Moneyball," Michael Lewis' seminal book about the 2002 A's, was published, it might not appear as if much has changed in Oakland. Billy Beane is still the general manager and his quest to find undervalued players continues.
Some things, however, have changed. The A's have seen their payroll increase about $20 million in the past decade as they have invested more heavily for free agents such as Yoenis Cespedes, Coco Crisp and Bartolo Colon.
A's owner Lew Wolff recently told MLB.com that he views this year's team much differently than the 2002 and '03 clubs that also won the American League West.
"We've always wanted to be competitive, so this is not what 'Moneyball' is supposed to look like," Wolff said. "We're not the bottom of the salary list. Strategically, we make investments where Billy and his guys think we need them.
"We're not paupers by a long shot."
Although the A's might not have to be as frugal as they were a decade ago, they still have been careful to build the team around young, controllable talent, such as Jarrod Parker, Josh Donaldson and Josh Reddick.
Most of those players came to Oakland after the 2011 season through a series of trades and free-agent signings that overhauled the roster. Older players gave way to a younger nucleus that quickly became one of the more formidable teams in the AL and made a late charge to the division title.
For Wolff, it was a season ahead of schedule. He said when the A's made those moves, they were targeting 2013, not '12. But the plan paid off a year early, and the A's have now won back-to-back division titles for the first time since the Moneyball era. They begin the best-of-five AL Division Series against the Tigers in Oakland on Friday night at 6:30 p.m. PT on TBS.
"We were building up a team. I didn't think it would come along as fast as it did," Wolff said. "I think the progression of what we've done, giving up certain players and getting others, the movement of players every day, is brilliant."
Here's a closer look at how the A's roster was built:
Homegrown players
Most of the players on the A's playoff roster began their professional careers with another organization. But Oakland's handful of homegrown players has played a key role this season, led by Cespedes.
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The A's surprised the industry by signing Cespedes, a Cuban native, to a four-year, $36 million deal in February 2012. Since then, all he has done is win the '13 Home Run Derby and help the A's to back-to-back division titles.
The A's starting rotation includes three recent Draft picks in Dan Straily, Sonny Gray and A.J. Griffin, though Griffin was left off the ALDS roster due to elbow tendinitis. Straily and Griffin were later-round picks but have transformed themselves into key pieces of Oakland's staff. Though Gray was the team's first-round selection in 2011, he has had to prove himself. His undersized stature made some teams view him as a future reliever, but the A's saw Gray as a starter, and he has not disappointed. He made his Major League debut in July and has a 2.85 ERA in 10 starts.
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Beane's greatest tool in defining the A's direction in the last few years has been the trade. He acquired 17 members of the ALDS roster in 15 different moves, dating back to the trade that brought Daric Barton (along with Dan Haren and Kiko Calero) to Oakland in exchange for Mark Mulder in 2004.
While the trades that shaped this year's team have taken place gradually since that first move, December 2011 would see three of Beane's most important deals. Two months after the A's finished a 74-88 campaign that placed theim third in the AL West, Beane made a series of trades that changed the course of the franchise.
First, Beane shipped Trevor Cahill and Craig Breslow to the D-backs. Two weeks later, he sent Gio Gonzalez to the Nationals, and two days after that, he traded Andrew Bailey and Ryan Sweeney to the Red Sox. In return, the A's got 10 players, including Parker, Ryan Cook, Tommy Milone, Derek Norris and Reddick.
Wolff said the A's determined they needed to get younger at certain positions and moved aggressively to make it happen that winter.
"You have to always give up something to get something in this business," Wolff said. "And that was a strategic move, very, very vigorously determined by Billy and his people."
The deals didn't stop, however. Seven more members of the Division Series roster were acquired since December 2011. Most recently, Beane traded Grant Green, then the A's No. 3 prospect, to the Angels for Alberto Callaspo at the Trade Deadline.
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While Oakland has mostly looked to other markets to build their roster, they have plucked a few important players from free agency. The A's signed Colon to one-year deals in each of the past two years, and he rewarded them by pitching his way into the AL Cy Young Award conversation this season.
Colon hasn't been the only player in recent years to experience a revitalization in Oakland. Crisp was coming off the worst season of his career when he signed a one-year, $5.25 million deal with the A's in 2009. Grant Balfour was a good reliever when he came to Oakland in '11, but he made his first All-Star team this year as he developed into one of the most dependable closers in the AL.
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Here at Google, we're committed to helping build a clean energy future and reducing our carbon footprint. And now Google Talk is part of the solution. We don't know about you, but we were surprised to learn the inconvenient truth that every character (byte) we send in a message results in about 0.0000000000000000034 metric tons* of CO2 being released into the atmosphere! So if we can reduce the number of characters we send when we chat with all our friends, we can help the environment at the same time.Of course, if you want to make an even bigger difference, you may want to look into becoming a Virgle Pioneer.
Teenagers (and some adults) must be aware of this, because they already reduce their character usage by abbreviating words and dropping vowels when they send IM and SMS (text) messages. We think this is a great idea. If all our millions of users started using IM-speak, we'd save hundreds of millions of wasted (and environmentally damaging!) characters.
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No matter what you study at Iowa State, you'll hear about how important it is to learn by doing.
Dr. June Olds takes that to heart. She's a primary care clinician in the Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center at Iowa State's College of Veterinary Medicine. She is also a veterinarian at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa. With those responsibilities, she can offer her students a rare opportunity: the chance to work with exotic animals.
First-year veterinary students might enjoy the opportunity to shadow Dr. Olds, while fourth-year students performing clinical rotations might carry out dental procedures on a snow leopard or a llama, monitor reactions of lions to anesthesia, and listen to the heartbeat of a sea lion or a giant tortoise.
At Iowa State, we believe in the value of learning both inside and outside the classroom. That's why we make a point of providing students with experiences that are life changing and career defining.
Fourth-year veterinary student Anne Nemeth-Wild said, "I love the variety of animal species that I get to work with. Every day is different. I've learned how important preventive medicine is to zoo programs."
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Though I'm no longer involved in the negotiating process much these days, once in a while, I'll get thrown into the tail end of a deal. Things have taken a turn for the worse, and for whatever reason, the customer is intent on leaving without their new car.
It always seems like a tough one, and frequently, I won't know too much about what's been going on, or how it got to this stage. One thing's for sure however,,,I have a vested interest in the outcome, and the sales person is pretty interested in how I do. I have a pretty standard M.O. for this one: Be honest, very honest.
I usually tell the customer how we feel about them leaving to think about it. "We hate it when this happens! This just never seems to work in our favor. I don't know much about what has been going on out here, but I do know one thing for sure Ms. Customer. We couldn't have gotten this far if at some point you had not agreed that if the deal was right you would own the vehicle...Right?" (well yes, but we just want to think about it over night, we always do.) "I understand, and it so frequently comes down to this moment, but you know what? No matter how many times you go home to think about it, it's always going to come down to this moment. The moment where you are finally going to have to say yes. This is that moment. You have spent a lot of time getting to this very moment. The time to think about it is past...You have spent three weeks traveling to get to this time, three weeks, and now it's here...And you have to call it...It's either yes or no, and you have to say. You're ready to walk out the door, and you know what? We have never let anyone walk out the door if there was a lower price we could go to. You've done a great job. We have no lower price to go to. You have gotten yourself a great deal. You'll never find a lower price anywhere. I know that you know we are offering you a great deal. We do have a deal now don't we?" Stick out your hand and shut up...Shut up. Hold out your hand and shut up even if it takes five minutes. They will shake your hand.
Of course this is far oversimplified, but this is how I do it, and when done with total sincerity, it works every time...almost.
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Route 35 will be getting a facelift through sections of the Jersey Shore that were heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
Gov. Chris Christie will make an announcement Tuesday in Lavallette regarding reconstruction of the road. Local and state officials have been talking for months about the need for the roadway to be resurfaced from Point Pleasant Beach to as far south as Island Beach State Park. That's at the tip of the barrier island that was hardest hit by Sandy.
Route 35 is the major north-south route through several devastated shore towns including Mantoloking, parts of Brick Township and Toms River, where the Ortley Beach section was particularly hard-hit.
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LAS CURCES, N.M. - New Mexico State softball player Amber Olive earned Capitol One CoSIDA Academic All-District honors. Olive is one of just three players from the Western Athletic Conference to receive the prestigious honor.
Joined by Louisiana Tech's Erin Kipp and Seattle's Allegra Wilde, Olive now advances to the national ballot for Academic All-America consideration.
The communications major from Simi Valley, Calif., earned a spot on the All-District 6 team for her success during her senior year. Olive carries a 3.88 grade point average and has started each of the Aggies 50 games this season. She leads the WAC in hits (71) and runs (39) and ranks second in batting average (.403). Her 71 hits this season puts Olive third on the all-time records list for hits in a single season.
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Tilapia Florentine
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes4 servings
- 1 package (6 ounces) fresh baby spinach
- 6 teaspoons canola oil, divided
- 4 tilapia fillets (4 ounces each)
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 teaspoons garlic-herb seasoning blend
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup part-skim ricotta cheese
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- In a large nonstick skillet, cook spinach in 4 teaspoons oil until wilted; drain. Meanwhile, place tilapia in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Drizzle with lime juice and remaining oil. Sprinkle with seasoning blend.
- In a small bowl, combine the egg, ricotta cheese and spinach; spoon over fillets. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
- Bake at 375° for 15-20 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 249 calories, 13g fat (4g saturated fat), 122mg cholesterol, 307mg sodium, 4g carbohydrate (1g sugars, 1g fiber), 29g protein.
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My husband just loved this. It's not my favorite but I'll make it again.
Dec 15, 2012
This was fast and easy to prepare but very bland.
Nov 25, 2012
As said easy recipe to become create with.....Made this many times....I use frozen spinach with the water squeezed out, add Feta cheese and this evening I am going to add grape tomatoes
Sep 30, 2011
This was good. I found that the spinach was a bit oily cooked with 4 tsp of oil. When I make this again I will cut the oil and add more seasonings. We found it to be a bit bland. I served it with carrots and mashed butternut squash.
Aug 3, 2011
Outstanding! Even my anti healthy-food men gave this a thumbs up.
Mar 31, 2011
Enjoyed this very much! I did tweak the recipe using lemon rather than lime juic, cajun seasoning and gruyere cheese both in the spinach mixture and on top. A good recipe to be creative with!
Dec 16, 2010
Very very good! I didn't have garlic herb seasoning on hand so I just used Italian seasoning instead and it turned out great. I also sprinkled some italian seasoning and garlic powder into the ricotta mix. Was so good! My DH has been on a spinach kick so I think this recipe will become a fav!
Oct 19, 2010
i started this diet and trye it not knwing what i was gettin into beeing this is a first with bake fish ...but overall it was very tasty and deliteful allat the same time and i was very satisfied.....
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This was scrumptious and quick! Next time I'm going to add a small amount of fresh mushrooms.
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I LOVE fish! This recipe is off the hook.


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Reminder: The first exit polls from the Italian election will hit some time around 9 AM ET on Monday, before US markets officially open.The hope for World markets/the EU/Italian elites is that the centre-left parties get enough votes to form a stable majority.
The fear is that there will be a big surge for the conservative (Berlusconi) and populist (Beppe Grillo) movements, making a government untenable, and thus risking a backsliding of Italy's reforms, causing borrowing costs to jump, and thus reigniting the European crisis. Italy is Europe's largest debt market, and the third largest in the world.
According to Goldman, it could go either way:
On what is seen as the most likely result – a centre-left coalition government – the 10-yr yield spread to Germany could narrow by 50-75bp from current levels. But an outcome deemed almost as probable – a 'hung parliament' – could lead to market volatility while an agreement among parliamentary groups is sought. From a strategy standpoint, we reiterate our constructive stance on the direction of EMU spreads, but maintain a preference for Spain over Italy.
If the parliament is hung, says Goldman:
An outcome seen as almost as probable, however, is one of no clear majority resulting from the vote. In case of a relatively strong showing by either Mr. Berlusconi or Mr. Grillo's movement, the coalitions headed by Mr. Bersani and Mr. Monti would not get enough seats to control the Upper House and form a government. In such scenario we foresee two alternatives:
- 'Government of National Unity': Facing the prospect of political instability and subject to international political and market pressures, President Napolitano could encourage the formation of a government of national unity on the basis of a specific and pre-agreed agenda, which would include a new electoral law. This solution would probably attract the support of moderate actors across the political spectrum and, possibly, of Mr Grillo. The resulting transitional government could be headed again by Mr. Monti, but would be highly unstable and with a short term mandate (between 1-2-years).
Markets would be very nervous until an agreement is hammered out. Consequently, we would expect a sharp increase in volatility during this period, with spreads widening in a two-way flows market. As it becomes clearer that a new government would be formed, BTPs could stabilise around current levels – i.e., wider than implied by macro factors especially at longer maturities.
- Fresh General Elections Are Called: This is generally deemed as a much more remote outcome because it appears fruitless to call for new elections under the current electoral law. The decision rests with President Napolitano, who has the power to dissolve one or both Houses.
From a markets perspective, this outcome would magnify volatility, and BTPs would come under considerable pressure. Bond spreads as wide as those seen in November 2011 (550bp over Germany in the 10-yr area) are not unreasonable as a working hypothesis. Under this scenario a caretaker government could ask the Eurogroup and the ECB for help under the OMT framework.
Goldman also leaves the door open to a possible victory outright by Silvio Berlusconi, which would potentially be very unwelcome news.
One note so far: Turnout is down from the last election in 2008.
This is a bit of a surprise, and it could be ominous for the cause of stability. It could mean that the mainstream centre-left parties (which seem to inspire very little passion in anyone) are seeing their supporters stay home, while the protest parties (especially Beppe Grillo's 5-star movement) are surging. That's just one possibility. The weather is also bad in a lot of the country. Some older voters might just be sitting it out.
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The RTC Podcast: No Team is Safe EditionPosted by rtmsf on February 4th, 2014
Another weekend down means another RTC Podcast. In this week's edition, the guys were pleased to welcome Sports Illustrated columnist and all-around good guy, Luke Winn, who regaled us with stories about some of his favorite pieces over the past few years, a couple of teams that he believes might be overlooked according to the national polls, and his favorite graphic that he's created in the always-entertaining and informative Power Rankings column. Aside from Luke's visit, we also found time to run down what was a simply ridiculous weekend of college basketball — Super Saturday, instead — and examine the week's most compelling upcoming games. As always, Shane Connolly (@sconnolly114) hosts the proceedings.
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- 0:00-5:51 – Arizona Loses In More Ways Than One
- 5:51-12:34 – Duke-Syracuse Lives Up To The Hype
- 12:34-20:42 – Slew of Other Top 10s Fall (And in OK St's Case Fall Again)
- 20:42-33:05 – Rush The Takes: Luke Winn
- 33:05-37:32 – Kentucky Takes a Tumble in the Ranks
- 37:32-41:55 – Randy Overrating Cincinnati???
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In the Preface of The Tyranny of God, I explain that before we get into discussing religion, we need to know what our Natural History is. We must begin from the very start to establish that we are all working on the same page, so to speak. Chapter 1 of the book is titled Cosmology. Cosmology is the study of the origins and eventual fate of the universe. I begin Chapter 1 with the Big Bang, because this is how far back human knowledge goes. So here it is, for you, this Sunday 11th of August 2013, Chapter 1 of The Tyranny of God.
This is our very first Reasonism Podcast. Today, I want to share with you a conversation I recently had with a Baptist Pastor. He is visiting from the Philippines with a relative of mine, whom he was grooming to become his assistant. We had a chat about the general state of affairs here in Australia. I was telling them how Australia has been doing fine economically but how recently, the demand for Western Australia's mining resources have begun to decline as a result of the reduced demand for China's goods world-wide. Slowly then the conversation progressed to what he thought was going on in the world. Because he is a Pastor, I expected somewhat of a religious tinge to the way he would read current affairs. I did, however, not expect it to be as bizzare as it turned out to be.
On the afternoon of 22 May 2013, a British Army soldier, Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was killed by two assailants near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London, in a terrorist attack.
Record numbers of young, white British women are converting to Islam. Of the British citizens going through the conversion, more than half were white and 75% of them were women, according to an article Richard Peppiatt, (Women & Islam: The rise and rise of the convert, published on The Independent. Many of them apparently find it a struggle to assimilate their previous beliefs with that of their newly adopted religion More than three-quarters told researchers they had experienced high levels of confusion after conversion, due to the conflicting ways Islam was presented to them.
As of June 2011, scientists at CERN have succeeded in trapping atoms of anti-hydrogen for more than 15 minutes: sufficient time to study them in a little more detail.
I can at least try to let you know what I understand, in broad strokes, why this news item is important and hope to impart my sense of appreciation of this milestone.
The reason why this is important is because it is believed that the universe came into existence from nothing. Studies in Quantum Physics indicate that out of nothing, certain particles can come into existence for brief moments. They come into existence, however, with the presence of their anti-thesis. So in effect, +1 (Matter) and -1 (Anti-Matter) is still equal to zero. Perhaps the same had been true with the Big Bang, the only difference between is that for a very, very small percentage of all the particles that existed during the Big Bang a few managed to remain in existence because they did not manage to come in contact with their anti-thesis before their anti-thesis disappeared. What has remained is the matter that makes up everything in the universe today.
I am just reading about many scientifically-trained and educated individuals who studied science at post-graduate level, and thereafter, get involved in Creationist activities, espousing among many other ideas for example, that the Noah's Ark is true. They then sell books and other materials to children and their parents, propagating their ideas.
Bertrand Russell wrote:
"[I]t is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."
When you have individuals who are educated in Science, or are working in Scientific endeavours telling us that Noah's Ark is true, it does not necessarily mean that their belief in Noah's Ark has any scientific credibility. What we need to ask is why they believe it. Do they believe it because the Bible says it is true or do they believe it because there's evidence for it.
For something to be science, it must use scientific methods to qualify mere assertions of beliefs from scientific theories.
In this video, Hans Rosling debunks old but persistent notions of 'developed world' and 'third world countries'. He also encourages better use of the information that is already available so we can better provide for our communities..
In writing this book, I imagined five groups of readers:
Every one of these readers will have different needs and reasons for wanting to read this book.
I sought to tell the story of humanity from the beginning to the present. I structured this book so you can read it like a story book, where the earlier chapters are the foundations of later chapters. The following is a quick preview of what we will be discussing.
One of my biggest worries in writing this book was the breadth of topics I had to cover. At times, I wondered whether I was doing the right thing in casting as wide a net as I did. I chose to proceed because, to understand the true nature of religion, we cannot limit our discussions to religious texts. Instead, we need to take a larger, macroscopic view. We need to see how it relates to human nature and to our society. We need to consult our sciences and corroborate our analysis with our history.
In our struggle to broaden our outlook, we need to start from the very beginning. From there, we work progressively. We will learn about cosmology, abiogenesis, genetics, evolution, language, memes, history, current affairs and so on.


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Ready to set aside alleged beliefs concerning government's intrusion into personal lives, the Kansas Legislature is considering doing away with no-fault divorces in the state.
Kansas, like every other state in the union, allows married couples to walk away from troubled relationships without blaming one of the parties for undesirable behavior. Common since the 1960s, no-fault divorces permit one of the partners to claim incompatibility, irreconcilable differences or an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. As courts don't have to spend time determining guilt or innocence, they become more neutral. The divorce process itself is spared the acrimony that arises from one publicly accusing the other of misdeeds.
The system has worked well in Kansas for years. Couples and families going through divorce proceedings are not forced to air their dirty laundry in public, allowing for less hostility and easier transitions to whatever lies ahead.
Rep. John Bradford, R-Lansing, doesn't see it that way. The author of proposed legislation that would eliminate "incompatibility" as justification for divorce believes family values are undermined by no-fault divorces. Or at least his website touted such an approach to "building strong family units" until recently.
Fellow family-values promoter Rep. Keith Esau, R-Olathe, introduced Bradford's bill to the House Judiciary Committee last week.
"No-fault divorce gives people an easy out instead of working at it," Esau said in an interview. "It would be my hope that they could work out their incompatibilities and learn to work together on things."
To encourage Kansans to work things out, this legislation eliminates one person being able to claim incompatibility as grounds for divorce. Instead, the courts are directed to grant divorce only if one of the partners was convicted of adultery, felony crime against a person or sex offense, had abandoned the home for more than a year, had physically or sexually abused the partner or a child, had failed to perform a material marital duty, or they had mental illness or mental incapacity. Courts also could decree a divorce if both partners have been living separately for one or two years depending on the situation, if both had mental illness or mental incapacity, or if both had agreed to a no-fault separation.
See the difference? If one person is stuck in some sort of abusive situation the other doesn't want to end, the victim will need to stay married for at least one or two years -- or until the abuser is convicted of the very crime the partner was attempting to get away from.
How could that be the kind of family values to which Kansas aspires? It's easy, if you don't mind having state government force your notions of marriage upon everybody else.
"If we really want to respect marriage, it needs to be a commitment that people work at and don't find arbitrary reasons to give up," Esau offered.
We would suggest if legislators really want to respect the office to which they were elected, there needs to be a commitment to do the people's work and don't find arbitrary reasons to intrude into personal lives. The state's supposed vested interest in supporting strong families should not outweigh the individual's freedom of expression, pursuit of happiness, or the right to be left alone.
Editorial by Patrick Lowry