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Battle of Ranked Teams Goes OT
BURLINGTON, Vt. – Wins against ranked Hockey East teams on the road are tough to come by. Ties are likely viewed as a positive unless you had three leads and ended up with a draw. Kenny Agostino had two goals and five others had assists as No. 10 Yale skated to a 3-3 OT tie at No. 20 Vermont before a packed Gutterson Fieldhouse.
Alex Lyon stopped 32 shots but saw a 6-on-5, odd-man rush shot fly into the net with 53 seconds left to send the game to OT. Agostino had the first and third goals while freshman John Hayden had the othehr. The Elis had 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 leads before the extra session.
"It was a hard-fought point against a quality opponent on the road," said Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach. "We did some things really well. Our fore-check was good and we created a lot of scoring transitions in transition."
A ferocious Bulldog fore-check and a blanketing defense enabled the visitors to dominate puck possession for the first half of the opening frame. Included in that one-sided play was Root's team-best, seventh goal of the season. The senior captain crashed the net after defenseman Ryan Obuchowski hit Mike Santaguida's pads with a shot from the point. Root won the race to the rebound and backhanded it toward the net. Agostino got his stick on it between Root and the net and it zipped over the goalie's shoulder at 4:56.
The Blue had nine of the first 10 shots on target in the game and ended up with a 12-8 advantage after the period. The Catamounts evened the score midway through the period and started getting more shots on Lyon.
The visitors grabbed the lead back at the end of the first when Hayden notched his first collegiate goal. Trent Ruffolo started the play by grabbing a loose puck in his own end and sending it ahead to Carson Cooper, who was moving through the neutral zone on the left side. Cooper crossed the blueline with a 2-on-1 and took the defender with him. The Yale sophomore released the puck to Hayden on the right wing and the freshman sprinted in on the UVM cage before unleashing a wrister stick side with 1:34 left.
"It was a picture perfect breakout. Coop [Cooper] made a perfect pass on the 2-on-1," said Hayden. "I've been trying to shoot more. I saw an open low corner and it worked out. All the credit goes to the breakout."
A wild, scoreless middle frame took twice as long as the average period because of a broken sheet of glass early on. The teams skated around for a while before play - and the end-to-end action – resumed. The Bulldogs had a 14-11 edge in shots, but there seemed to be much more snow accumulating in the UVM end. Yale did have the only three man-advantages of the period, and got 10 of its 14 shots on target, but the puck was in that end most of the time at even strength.
The Elis nearly added to the lead in the first minute after a great defensive play by Nicholas Weberg and a long pass to Agostino that ended in a breakaway and a save at the other end. Agostino would get another chance on a similar play and put it away.
With Yale still holding onto the slim lead, Lyon made a spectacular save with 9:42 left on a point-blank shot by HT Lenz. The Yale rookie swiped the shot out of the air like Superman catching a bullet. He also made a huge stop on a shot from the low slot with 1:32 left in the OT, and another from the middle slot with 29 ticks remaining.
The Cats found the net to even things at 2-2 on a wild scramble outside the Yale crease, which set up another go-ahead tally for the Elis.
UVM dumped the puck on a line change and didn't realize Gus Young was there to grab it so quickly. The senior blueliner quickly sent a long pass to Agostino, who went to the net a step ahead of the defender. This time he slipped it past the goalie for his sixth of the season with 5:49 left. It wasn't enough.
The home team pulled its goalie with 1:13 left and then got a 2-on-1 that ended up as a Chris McCarthy goal from the left side just inside the last minute of regulation.
The Blue got two shots on target before the end of regulation but was outshot 2-1 in extra time.
"There were also some things that needed to be cleaned up for us to take a step forward as a team," said Allain, whose squad moved to 7-3-4 overall with one remaining non-league game left next weekend.
BULLDOG BITES: Yale's first goal was changed from Jesse Root to Kenny Agostino when it was learned that Agostino deflected his linemate's shot in front of the cage... UVM forward Connor Brickley was called for charging when he blindsided Ryan Obuchowski along the boards behind the Yale net 3:24 into the second period. The ugly hit sent the Eli into one glass panel. However, the glass panel next to that one shattered into a countless number of pieces, falling on the ice and on top of the fans in the first few rows. The 22-minute delay included the Zamboni scooping up pieces of glass… Yale's next contest is a week from tonight in the Rivalry on Ice at Madison Square Garden against Harvard. Tickets are still available for the 8 p.m. face-off… The Yale lineup was the same as last Sunday vs. Holy Cross except Frankie DiChiara was in and Mike Doherty was out.
Report filed by Steve Conn, Yale Sports Publicity Director


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"To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." - Oscar Wilde
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Signs of life in the cemetery
In the quiet of the necropolis there are always markers of life continuing. This 'moving on', if you will, is manifested in notices which attempt to maintain order, pickets which promise perpetual maintenance, signs which serve as reminders of our ultimate end, and markers of special remembrance. Click on the photos to get a better view of the signs.

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Australia and New Zealand History & Genealogy Roadshow Day Ten
I seem to have a sixth sense when travelling as I woke up 15 minutes before the alarm went off at 6.00am so that I would be ready for the 8.00am departure from our Christchurch hotel. Today I gave myself time to get some breakfast and a final walk around Cathedral Square. After a slight delay at the airport we were on our way to Wellington and the tenth day of the Unlock The Past history and genealogy roadshow. I should say that is just ten days of actual presentations the travel time has been nearly three weeks!
At the airport we met up with Jan Gow of Beehive Books fame (amongst other things) who was one of the speakers today as well as having a small display table with tempting goodies (aka genealogical software and books).
Today's venue was the impressive Westpac Stadium with a great view over the playing field and the hills of Wellington surrounding the Stadium. To top it off, it was a beautiful day with blue sky, just a hint of clouds and the sun was shining.
The first stream of speakers was the usual suspects – Elaine Collins from FindMyPast UK, Louise St Denis from the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, Rosemary Kopittke talking on FindMyPast Australasia and myself doing sessions on Australian research and Family History on the Cheap. Yesterday both Rosemary and I had sessions where we each presented one of Dan Lynch's talks on Google Your Family Tree but Rosemary must have been the better Dan Lynch impersonator, as today's program was changed so that she presented both talks instead of one each as previously planned.
I was a bit sad that I didn't do a Dan Lynch today as it was challenging trying to do another speaker's talk using their slides, but the show must go on as they say. On the positive side it meant that I got to see another one of the local sessions so perhaps I did end up with the better gig after all!
Which brings me to the local stream and first up was Brenda Joyce talking about the New Zealand Society of Genealogists who had an informative display table with useful handouts on Irish research from their very active Irish group. They also had examples of their publications on CD as well as information leaflets on their various branches – 66 of them to be exact! I was also very impressed with their members only benefits which includes online access at home to things like the 18thC & 19thC digitised newspapers from the Gale collection. I don't think any Australian societies offer this kind of benefit to their members – perhaps we are spoilt by the National Library of Australia E-Resources!
While this session was on, Rosemary was giving a talk on FindMyPast Australiasia and the important thing to remember here is that there is a 24 hour free trial with no credit card and the best results are obtained if you use the Keyword field rather than the name field as it includes both structured and unstructured databases.
The second session was presented by Geraldine O'Reilly from the NZSG Irish Special Interest Group and she talked about Peter Grace an Irish settler in early New Zealand. This was a case study and Geraldine showed just how much can be found on one individual using sources such as newspapers, gazettes, images, various government documents and of course BDM certificates.
The alternative choice here was Rosemary presenting Dan Lynch's Google Your Family Tree: The Basics the session I was originally down to do.
After the break, Jan Gow took us on a 48 hour journey with Scotland's People which was presented with Jan's usual engaging style while still packed with information and clues for our own Scottish research.
This time the alternative choice was Louise talking about genealogy education from a distance. There are handouts for each of Louise's talks on the roadshow and they can be found at the National Institute for Genealogical Studies by going to the tab Institute and then the tab Faculty and Consultants and then selecting St Denis, Louise.
I couldn't listen to Heidi Kuglin talking about It's Not All Online: Searching Original Records at Archives New Zealand because I was presenting the first of my talks on Researching Australian Ancestors.
At each of the venues Gould Genealogy, Family Photo Book and Inside History have also had displays and Alan and Anthea have steadfastly staffed those tables and assisted people with their queries.
After dinner, Elaine talked about FindMyPast UK and Louise did her session I Found It Once, Why Can't I Find It Again and in the final session Rosemary did her second talk on Google: Images and Video while I did Family History on the Cheap. My handout is on my website under the Resources tab and it includes the URLs of all six talks I have presented on the roadshow.
It is fast approaching midnight and I have to be up and ready to leave at 7.00am for Auckland. It is hard to believe that the roadshow is almost over – there have been many long days for the UTP team and all the exhibitors at the various venues but the feedback has all been overwhelmingly positive and there are many people who have gone away from the roadshow inspired to follow up on all the many aspects covered in the various talks.
Stay tuned for the final daily report from Auckland tomorrow although I am tempted to do an overview of the whole roadshow – reply to this post if you want a final wrap-up of the whole roadshow and tell me what you have liked best about the daily blogs!
I'd like an overview if you can manage it after all this travelling!
I was wondering how you could respond before I posted this but then remembered that New Zealand is two hours ahead so you must have read it almost straight after I did it this morning – if that makes sense!! I always like a good ending myself. Thanks
Hi Shauna,
That is a very satisfactory wrapup of your day ten and my one and only day. I came downstairs this morning to write about our day in my Live Journal (Holmesfan) but now I think I will simply give a link to your pages as any of my regular readers who are interested in genealogy will find so much there to interest them. "Why invent the wheel?" I say; and your overview will give me a great memory in my off line journal of my daily activities.
There is so much to learn and follow up from your talk, as from the others we attended.
I'm particularly impressed that you that you have had the fortitude to write the whole stream of daily reports. They have been fascinating as I said to you on the night.
Thank You.
Hey Shauna – I appreciate these updates even more now that I am back home. I can hear how things went. I hope you and Rosemary found my slides useful, but more importantly, I hope that the audience was able to improve their use of Google in searching for their family. I'm still playing catch-up and will miss the next couple days as we celebrate our Thanksgiving Holiday here. Well done with all your blog posts about the roadshow. Safe travels back home. Dan
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This is a very special 2-part episode!!! It's a very long one and poor Ms. B has to edit it. The session went for about 3 hours and so she decided that we need to break this up into two parts.
So why aren't we worthy? That's because the Goddess of yarn, the Wollmeise has graced upon us with her presence in this episode! It's a long one, so let's get started!!!
Welcome and introduction done by the Wollmeise herself in German: "Herzlich Wilkommen und herzliches Grüßgott aus München von der Wollmeise. Ich darf heute hier mit bei der 14. Ausgabe von Podcast, Knitters Uncensored, mit machen!"
Yes, finally we got the Wollmeise to come on the podcast. It was quite a task getting her on the podcast. She was so nervous that both Ms. B and Cashyie had to hold her hands. Wollmeise took some times off her extremely busy schedule to come over and podcast with us. And her English is great, don't you think?
Package from Charles was finally brought out. And the Wollmeise ended sharing the stitch markers from him with Ms. B and Cashyie! ;-)
What's on/off the needles?
- Elemm:
- Mystic Light KAL Shawl that turned into Juno Regina, which the Wollmeise suddenly claimed for herself...I was taken by surprise...but hey, what can I do apart from just bow to her wishes?
- Raku-Clapotis (FO):
- Opal Socks (FO):
- Icarus Shawl (FO) for my mum's birthday:
We veered off a bit here and it seems that Cashyie might be pulled into lace knitting soon. :-p
- Interlacement Tiny Toes "Canyon Lands" Toe-up (I won the yarn from a contest over at Esoteric Knitter)
- Emil-Clapotis
- Ms. B:
- Cobblestone Sweater (FO) for Rockstar-Husband
Ms. B started discussing about the fact that Germans tend to "pack up" themselves, or especially their kids in really warm clothings, so that no skins would be exposed to the coldness.
Wollmeise reckons that German mums put on too much clothes on their kids and they end up losing them. Her own kids generally come back home with only one shoe because they play boat with one of their shoe. :-p
- Firestarters and a pair of socks (FO) for her neighbour and her kid
- Several Saartjes Booties and a pair of simple socks for her son from some hand-spun by Thing4String
- Embossed Leaves socks
- Baudelaire Socks (Wollmeise complained that the socks were too small for her! LOL)
- Wollmeise:
- Regenbogen plain socks
- Pearl Shawl
- Blue-Suzanne plain socks
Cashyie ended up comparing Wollmeise to Prinzregententorte. We also found out that Wollmeise's younger son did an apprenticeship as a Pâtisserie Master at a place that sells their stuff to Dallmayr. Wollmeise then thought of Bienenstich (Wiki entry in German)..hmmmm...yummy!
Wollmeise then shared her family life with us and talked about her kids. We found out why she doesn't knit for her kids, but at the same time throwing away her husbands white socks and giving him only hand-knit socks instead. ;-)
- Cashyie is still on sock-knitting mode and she's knitting up another pair of Hobbledehoy socks! She showed us another pair of socks that she was wearing...and Wollmeise noticed that Cashyie haven't even weaved in the ends yet!
A report from me about the Handarbeits- und Hobbymesse in Cologne that I got to go to the week before with my boss from Lanaiolo. I got some Lanternmoon Rosewood DPNs to try and my review of it is that I really like them! It was the first time for me to knit with wooden needles and to my surprise, they're pretty sturdy and they feel nice in your hands. Thank you very much to Jo from Lanternmoon!
I saw my friend, Daniela from Maschenkunst. I also went to see Kelley Petkun from the Knit Pick's Podcast.
I also got to meet Miriam Tegels, the person who holds the current record in Guiness Book World of Record as the fastest knitter in the world! So, I took the chance and did a small interview with her! (CORRECTION: I said that Miriam knit English style, but now that I go and have a look at the videos again, she actually knits continental.)
Sauerlach Market, 18th-20th April, and the Wollmeise is there with her yarns! She has hardly anymore yarn though....and she still needs to get used to her new dyeing-station.
Spinning!!! I enabled Ms. B into wanting to spin her own hand-spun. And so, she got a Louet S15 lent out from the Wollmeise...plus, Ms. B has already managed to build up a fibre stash. We talked about what's special about hand-spun and got to hear the Wollmeise's take on it.
That's the end of Part 1. Keep a look out for part 2, it's coming soon!


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Microsoft has confirmed that Surface Pro stock will strengthen by 16 February, after both the 64GB and 128GB models sold out quickly at most US retail outlets.
The head of the Microsoft Surface Team provided a few details about availability in a chat on Twitter. Best Buy Staples and Microsoft stores across the US will be receiving more stock by Saturday, according to Panos Panay.
@evansturdivant We are shipping more 64gb now to BBY, Staples, MS Store and online. 128gb at BBY and MS Stores by Saturday #winchat
— Panos Panay (@panos_panay) February 12, 2013
Last Saturday, the Surface Pro went on-sale as the second tablet in Microsoft's Surface line. It offers customers an Intel Core i5 processor, starting at $899 for the 64GB model. Early reviewers noted its speediness, but knocked it on form-factor and battery life.
Even with the quick sell-out, it's not clear just how much stock was offered. Photos from the launch day indicated solid numbers in lines at a few stores, however.
Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates sung the praises of the Surface Pro during a Reddit AMA this week.
There's no word on expanded availability worldwide.
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[…] LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice Part 2: All Bugs Are Shallow When Blogged to a Linux News Feed In my prior blog post, my intended lessons for OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice were 1. Try both. 2. Use both. 3. Use what works best for particular cases. 4. Where there is no problems with either, prefer LibreOffice for its community support. 5. I had a specific important case for my usage where I had to use OpenOffice. Now it appears my options will expand in a month. […]
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I am really disappointed with Libreoffice. It simply too buggy for me. I can search for bugs that have no solutions. I have a spreadsheet that I cannot print. I do not know what bug it is.
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Have you tried the Bug Submission Assistant for Libreoffice:
Also available via 'feedback' on the help menu.
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I jumped into Libre Office soon after Oracle showed its colors, and continued using it until… on an upgrade, they added the heading widget thingy — which I found extremely annoying, and removed the page borders. Among other things, I use it for book layout:s, and that was disorientating. I installed Apache Open Office and have been entirely satisfied. I wish AOO was an installation option: I set up my parents with a Linux machine (finally!), and wanted the GUI to be as Windows-like as possible. They had been using OO, so for name recognition purposes, and reliability, I removed Libre Office from the Mint-Mate installation and installed AOO. So far the only feature that's been missed is the ability to import old Works files.
As an aside, I have found Gnumeric to be more efficient than Excel and both Open Offices. One spreadsheet in particular with thousands of calculations which gave Excel (XP version) indigestion, and slowed OO to a snail's pace, works flawlessly in Gnumeric — which also saves it in a fraction of the original size. Although it lacks the formatting candy and macros — but in just doing basic spreadsheet work, it's in another league (that's my experience, anyway).
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JACKSON, Tenn. – The Jackson Sun, a Gannett daily newspaper in Jackson, Tenn., will pay $150,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
The EEOC's lawsuit (Case No. 1:11-cv-01252), filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Eastern Division, charged that The Jackson Sun fired a commercial print manager exactly one week after his return from a medical leave of absence. He had sustained permanent spinal cord damage after back surgery. The EEOC said that The Jackson Sun could have accommodated the employee with minimal effort and that his termination was discriminatory.
Terminating an employee because of a disability violates Title I of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires that an employer provide a reasonable accommodation to an individual with a disability unless the employer demonstrates that the accommodation would pose an undue hardship. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
"This situation and lawsuit, like so many others, could easily have been averted if this company had simply made a good-faith effort at a reasonable accommodation," said Faye A. Williams, regional attorney for the EEOC's Memphis District Office. "The EEOC will continue to litigate these cases to ensure that employers observe the very reasonable provisions of federal disability rights law."
Besides the monetary relief, the one-year consent decree, approved by US. District Court Judge J. Daniel Breen, requires that The Jackson Sun provide training on the ADA to all of its employees, provide a report to the EEOC outlining any requests for an accommodation and the company's response to that request, and post a notice to its employees about the lawsuit that includes the EEOC's contact information. The Jackson Sun also revised its serious leave/disability policy to clarify the process by which an employee should request an accommodation.
Michael L. Weinman, an attorney in Jackson, intervened in the lawsuit and represented the employee.
The Jackson Sun is a subsidiary of Gannett Company, Inc. Gannett operates 82 U.S. daily newspapers, including USA Today, which reaches 11.6 million readers every weekday and 12 million readers every Sunday according to Gannett's website.
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- The Hitler-like teapot on a JCPenney billboard caught the attention of motorists
- JCPenney says any similarities to Hitler were unintentional
- Culver City mayor was offended by the ad placement in his city
Sing it with me, kids!
I'm a little Nazi short and stout, here is mein handle, here is mein spout.
So, JCPenney is selling a new teapot that looks sort of like Adolf Hitler. Well, inasmuch as a teapot can actually appear like a fascist dictator. But it does. And, really, it might be the greatest advertising gaffe you'll ever see.
At least until Gilbert Gottfried somehow becomes a spokesman for Tampax.
"Damn it, Jim, what were we thinking?"
Back to the teapot: It didn't take long for motorists on Southern California's 405 freeway -- where evening plans go to die -- to notice something in the sky that looked a little unusual. It was a billboard promoting this new kitchen essential. And there was no mistaking its resemblance.
Pure Hitler.
(Not to be confused with the classic Eagles double album by the same name.)
Now, in case you can't quite figure out the similarities in the teapot image, notice that the top handle swoops wider to one side mimicking Hitler's dark, curtained hair. The knob on the lid closely resembles his infamous trademark toothbrush moustache. And the spout rises into the air as though he's giving a Nazi salute.
That, or he's just waving to the Eva Braun coffee maker.
Either way, it's him.
However, at this time I can't confirm whether or not the Hitler teapot is designed with only one testicle. Clearly, that little attention to detail would prove this was far more than a simple coincidence.
Mind you, the standard two testicles would be equally concerning.
Regardless, I'm still willing to give JCPenney the benefit of the doubt that this was all just an accident. (The retailer didn't respond to our request for comment.)
Though, to be fair, as a spectator of life with a front row seat, I do enjoy the controversy. For if you're going to accidentally have your product resemble a famous person, somehow, by a strange law of comedy that can't be explained, the absolute worst human being in the history of the world is far more amusing than, say, Tom Hanks.
Now, understand that this particular teapot, from JCPenney's exclusive Michael Graves Design collection, quickly went viral after images of the billboard appeared on Reddit and Twitter.
And that's when things turned delightfully melodramatic.
Culver City's Democratic mayor, Jeffrey Cooper, complained to Mother Jones magazine: "I am disappointed JCPenney actually put that billboard up in the first place. ... As a Jew, I am offended, (and) as an elected official, I am mad that the city I represent is linked to this."
Presumably, he then breathed heavily into a paper bag for half an hour while listening to Enya.
Seriously, pull yourself together, man. If anything, here's all you had to say:
"Yep. Definitely looks like Hitler. Surprised they didn't see it, but I'm pretty sure there was no intention to offend anyone. My guess is they'll take down the billboard and apologize."
Which is exactly what JCPenney did. They took down the billboard and even had some fun on Twitter replying to comments.
In fact, when comedian Patton Oswalt tweeted, "Well, JC Penney, get ready to sell a S***LOAD of these teakettles to a lot of ironic hipsters," the retailer quickly responded with, "Totally unintentional. But they'll need to grab it in stores since it's sold out online. #SadHipsters."
Naturally, sales skyrocketed after the photos went viral. The $40 teapot is now back-ordered on JCPenney's site until late June, and some of the teapots even started listing on eBay for $200. Sadly, I have to admit that now I kind of want one for my house as a conversation piece.
"So, what do you think of my Hitler teapot?"
"I think you need to put on pants."
Not surprisingly, the sales boom started when it all became one big social media circus. Which is why you sort of have to applaud the seemingly levelheaded responses by JCPenney, which never equaled the drama of Cooper's outrage culture hysteria.
Even the Anti-Defamation League took it in stride, commenting to Mother Jones that "JCPenney did the right thing by responding to public concerns and removing the tea pot from their product line. We take JCPenney at their word that any resemblance to the Nazi dictator was completely unintended."
In the end, it's just a minor blip in the cosmos. But, from a social perspective, what's truly interesting is that Hitler -- at least as an iconic image -- doesn't seem to have the same meaning to a newer generation which is further removed from his horrors and unthinkable crimes. Kind of like Genghis Khan to anyone during the last 700 years.
These days, to many, Hitler has become just sort of a caricature, having transcended his evil reality into something far more abstract. Like a teapot.
And this explains why we nonchalantly have the website Cats That Look Like Hitler.
Which, clearly, by the laws of comedy, is way more fun than dogs that look like Tom Hanks.


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|Statement by Ambassador Wang Min, Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, at the Side Event on the Launching of PADIS-int of the 44th Session of the UN Commission on Population and Development
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
At the outset, on behalf of the Chinese government, I welcome all of you to the side event on the launching of PADIS-int.
The Chinese government highly values the role played by population forecasting in demographic development, and has worked vigorously to promote the innovation and application of population forecasting technology. As a product that builds on Chinese experience and wisdom in demographic development, PADIS-int uses population forecasting technology that has been proved scientific and applicable by
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Countries may differ in their national conditions, but they are all faced with the arduous task of promoting demographic development. The Chinese government is willing to share its achievements and experience in demographic development with other countries and regions. I am confident that PADIS-int will bring benefits to all countries.
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Dear Doctor K: I know yoga has a lot of physical benefits, but is it true yoga can help reduce stress as well?
Dear Reader: Many people initially come to yoga to become physically fit, but they soon discover the psychological benefits.
In addition to being great exercise, yoga is one of the best antidotes to the stress of modern living. I won�t go as far as saying it is a fountain of youth, but I will say it can be a fountain of calm and equanimity.
The first person I ever knew who regularly practiced yoga was an intense and ambitious young doctor. Any conversation with him was short and difficult; he completed your sentences for you and interrupted you at will. He was very smart and had a lot of valuable things to say, but that didn�t mean you looked forward to talking with him.
Then something odd happened. I had a conversation with him in which he didn�t interrupt me.
A few weeks later, I had another. What was going on? I learned from his wife that she�d suggested, strongly, that he try yoga � and he loved it.
In addition to physical postures and exercises, traditional yoga incorporates breath control, deep relaxation, meditation, concentration and mindfulness. These mind-body practices counteract stress by evoking the relaxation response.
When we feel stress, our bodies enter �fight or flight� mode. We release stress hormones that put our brain and body on high alert. This �fight or flight� response was of great help to our distant ancestors when they were running from a lion, and it�s also of great help today when we face an urgent and dangerous situation.
It can even help in dealing with a sudden stressful situation that really isn�t dangerous � like talking your way out of a speeding ticket. But with time, stress can take a toll on your mental and physical health.
The relaxation response is essentially the opposite of the stress response. It lowers heart rate and blood pressure and decreases the production of stress hormones.
Practicing yoga leads to changes in the mind and body that promote feelings of tranquility and well-being.
My friend, Dr. Herbert Benson, a famous meditation researcher here at Harvard Medical School, described the following exercises to elicit the relaxation response. Give them a try to see if they help you to feel more relaxed:
n Select a word, mantra, prayer or thought. Focus your attention on it in a relaxed manner.
n When other, everyday thoughts intrude, let them go. Refocus your attention on step one in a relaxed and patient manner without frustration or judgment.
n Start by doing this for five minutes. Gradually increase the amount of time you spend on the exercises.
To learn more about the physical and mental benefits of yoga, you can read a short new e-book called �Your Brain on Yoga� by Harvard Medical School�s Dr. Sat Bir Khalsa, with Jodie Gould. You can learn more about this book at my website, AskDoctorK.com.
Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. To send questions, go to AskDoctorK.com, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, Mass. 02115.


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Here's how Xbox Live Gold subscribers can extend their Gold subscription benefits to multiplayer gaming, Game DVR, and Smart Match.
As an Xbox Live Gold subscriber, you can share the benefits of Xbox Live Gold with others while they're using your Xbox One console in your home. Friends and family can simply create their own account and gamertag on the console, which gives them the ability to enjoy Xbox Live online multiplayer gaming.
Friends or family members with their own gamertags coming over to play? No problem. They can sign in and play online multiplayer games, even if you sign off.
When you go to a friend's house, you'll be able to play multiplayer games on their Xbox One console, even if your friend is not an Xbox Live Gold subscriber. Once you sign in with your Xbox Live Gold account, everyone using that console can access multiplayer games for as long as you're signed in.
With Xbox One, everyone in your home has a personalized account to enable powerful and personal experiences. That's one of the reasons we created Home Gold. It means that your account and your gamertag are truly yours. You don't have to share your gamertag for multiplayer gaming with others in your home, or have recommendations for your children appear next to recommendations for the adults in the family. It also means you can introduce new games to and enjoy multiplayer games with visiting friends. When you buy one Xbox Live Gold subscription, multiple people can enjoy the best benefits of Xbox Live Gold on your Xbox One at no additional charge.
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I was wondering does anyone know what's the difference between Fluke's 'papa-who-ma-mix' and 'dee doo dee mix'?? I can't tell any. At least 'dee doo dee dub mix' is instrumental.
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They sound very similar, if you open them both in Audacity or similar programme they "look" different in places, if you compare the places where they are obviously different you can hear the differences but listen to them one after the other and its hard to tell the difference I guess over all they are more alike than they are different - FWIIW
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- Report: It's easy to identify smartphone users by their movements
- Researchers from MIT and elsewhere tracked 1.5 million people for 15 months
- Each mobile user's daily movements are unique and create a "fingerprint"
- Privacy advocates worry how law enforcement and others may use that data
Can you be identified only by where you take your phone? Yes, according to a new study, which finds it's not very hard at all.
While most of us are free to go wherever we want, our daily and weekly movement patterns are pretty predictable. We go to work, to school, to church, to our neighborhood gym, grocery store or coffee shop, and we come home -- all quietly tracked by the GPS in our phone.
And with nothing more than this anonymous location data, someone who wanted to badly enough could easily figure out who you are by tracking your smartphone. Patterns of our movements, when traced on a map, create something akin to a fingerprint that is unique to every person.
Those are the findings of a report by researchers from MIT and elsewhere, published this week in the journal Scientific Reports.
They say that, throughout history, people have always yearned for some degree of privacy, and there have always been others who wanted to keep an eye on them. With modern technology, they say, tracking people is easier than ever.
"Modern information technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones, however, magnify the uniqueness of individuals, further enhancing the traditional challenges to privacy," they wrote. "Mobility data is among the most sensitive data currently being collected. Mobility data contains the approximate whereabouts of individuals and can be used to reconstruct individuals' movements across space and time."
For the study, the research team studied 15 months of anonymous mobile data for roughly 1.5 million people. What they found was that, if they got accurate hourly updates on a person's whereabouts, tracked by their mobile carrier's cell towers, four "data points" were all they needed to figure out the person's identity 95% of the time.
That's the sort of thing that has privacy advocates, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, worried.
In a wrap-up of last year's developments in mobile privacy, the group's Hanni Fakhoury and Marcia Hofmann noted that, in multiple cases, law enforcement has approached wireless carriers for mobile data to track users. At least one court has ruled that users have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding their cell phone data.
"(T)he government claims that cell phone users give up their privacy rights because they have voluntarily disclosed their physical location to the cell phone providers every time a phone connects to the provider's cell tower," EFF said in a statement related to an October court case. "... However, this theory undermines privacy in nearly any networked communication."
Increasingly, the makers of mobile operating systems are opening up anonymous location data to developers designing apps that do things like target local advertising to the users. Apple, for example, states in its privacy policy that it can share anonymous mobile data with "partners and licensees."
The study's authors said keeping data anonymous is not necessarily enough to ensure real privacy.
"A simply anonymized dataset does not contain name, home address, phone number or other obvious identifier," they wrote. "Yet, if individual's patterns are unique enough, outside information can be used to link the data back to an individual."
So, for example, say that you wake up at home every morning, head to the office five days a week, then hit the gym on three of those days. That's three data points already. Then maybe you go to the same church, or restaurant for brunch, every Sunday. There's the fourth -- plenty to figure out who you are, the authors say.
Every additional location you hit regularly just makes it that much easier.
Like EFF, the study's authors said that has troubling implications.
"These findings represent fundamental constraints to an individual's privacy and have important implications for the design of frameworks and institutions dedicated to protect the privacy of individuals," they wrote.


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FIREWORKS EXPLODE OVER the heads of spectators assembled near the athletic fields on Creek Road in Middlebury for part of the town's New Year's Eve celebration.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
January 3, 2008
By JOHN FLOWERS
MONTPELIER — While the state has turned the page on 2007, the Vermont Legislature's 2008 agenda will have a decidedly familiar look when legislators return to the Statehouse next week.
MIDDLEBURY — Only a decade ago, Middlebury Police Chief Tom Hanley didn't have to worry a lot about filling unexpected vacancies on his force. He would just reach into his filing cabinet and pull out a folder with more than 50 qualified candidates, and start recruiting.
It's not that easy anymore.
Middlebury is currently struggling to fill two longstanding vacancies on its police force, a chore made especially difficult by a shallow pool of applicants, many of whom can't measure up to even basic entry requirements.
"It's been a rough road to hoe this past year," Hanley said on Friday.
"The candidate pool is very thin," he added. "The trend seems to be that people are not entering this type of public service anymore."
It was back in February that the town began advertising its two police officer vacancies, thus far with limited success.
Hanley now has around 30 résumés in his file of candidates, but none have completely worked out. The department has offered multiple rounds of candidate testing during the past 10 months, but the smattering of hopefuls have either failed to make the grade; have moved on to other opportunities; or couldn't pass the requisite background check.
Middlebury has decided to continue its search rather than make some potentially bad hires.
"We are not going to lower our standards to get people in the door," Hanley said. "You can't let a cancer in the door."
The town of Middlebury is far from alone in having a hard time attracting and retaining qualified police officers. It is a problem that has been plaguing local, county and state law enforcement operations not only throughout Vermont, but the Northeast, officials said.
January 3, 2008
By MEGAN JAMES
ADDISON COUNTY — When former state Rep. Mark Young of Orwell got his first crash course in Vermont's captive insurance industry 15 years ago, the rest of the country was suspicious of what the Green Mountain State was up to.
At the time, only a handful of states had laws to license captive insurance companies, which a business may form if it wishes to insure its own risks, rather than get coverage from an outside insurance company.
Once known as "offshore" insurance companies, captives have traditionally operated out of places like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. But back in 1992, Vermont's captive industry was already on its way to becoming the largest in any state in the country.
Today, it is the second largest in the world, and the economic benefits for Vermont are undeniable. Besides creating employment opportunities for young Vermonters with a college degree — there are nearly 1,500 related jobs — the industry brought in $24.3 million last year in tax revenue.
"And think about it, there's no smoke, there's no pollution, no trailer trucks coming in and out," Young said. "It's a huge thing for Vermont."
In 2003, the last time the state released a comprehensive evaluation of the captive industry's economic impact, 1,429 Vermonters worked in the industry. The average salary for those jobs was $55,179, about 60 percent above the average private, non-farming job in Vermont, according to Dan Towle, Director of Financial Services at the Vermont Department of Economic Development.
This year 814 businesses have captive insurance licensed in Vermont, and $11.5 billion has flowed through the state in premium payments.
"Vermont started from humble beginnings, and now we're the second largest in the world (behind Bermuda)," Towle said.
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Looking back on it all, I can't believe what a fool I've been. Of COURSE my mother knew the truth about her own father and his "business". She lived with the man until she was 3 years old! Oh sure, they lost touch for decades when he left, but my mother kept tabs. And in her own cryptic way, she was obviously just trying to protect me from his posse and their covert ties with the underworld.
I sent you $20 at your home. You never mentioned it.
Here's a little extra for your pocket.
P.S. Don't get involved with Pop's business. And don't sign anything regarding his business! I know what I'm talking about.
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Dispelling A Few Myths...
Even prior to emergence of the Internet and its "instant information" channels and high-speed means of communication, racers and engine builders were exchanging ideas and opinions about a range of topics. Among them were claims and explanations that sometimes led those seeking correct answers down less than accurate paths of information, not entirely unlike today. In fact, perhaps more so in current times because of how information is occasionally derived and shared. As some of the subjects have been and continue to be focused on racing engines, we thought a brief discussion about some of them might be helpful. So in no particular order, consider these subjects.
Carburetor Spacers
You've likely read or heard about an assortment of consequences when a carburetor is raised (or lowered) relative to an intake manifold's plenum floor. More plenum volume helps high rpm, for example. Or maybe, smaller carburetors like more spacer. This isn't to say these analogies are incorrect, but maybe the reasons are a bit obscure.
For example, let's look at it this way. A carburetor is a pressure differential device. It delivers fuel into a region that's designed to be at less than atmospheric pressure. It's a fuel metering "signal" that allows atmospheric pressure to force fuel into the incoming airstream, acting through the carburetor's bowl vents. By elevating a carburetor, all else being equal, it becomes more remote to runner entries and thus can experience a weaker metering signal. The carburetor tends to act "leaner" in the presence of a decreased signal. Aggregate airflow tends to be the same but there's less fuel flow, so fuel enrichment is decreased.
However, as Smokey often said, "there's one more little item." Once discharged from the carburetor, air/fuel charges are required to make a relatively abrupt turn into the manifold's runners. Air, being compressible can navigate this sudden change more easily than fuel. Increasing carburetor height allows air/fuel charges more time to slow down and make the turn more effectively, often reducing the possibility of air and fuel separation. As carburetor size is decreased and no spacer is used, the problem becomes more critical. In fact, carburetors placed too near a plenum floor can be akin to sticking a hose in a bucket with fuel impingement materially upsetting proper air/fuel mixtures.
One key here is to map brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) data as carburetor height is changed, assuming carburetor sizing remains the same. If a disproportionate amount of fuel is required for best power and BSFC data are trending higher and higher, chances are good mixture quality is being upset and raising the carburetor is a potential solution.
On the other hand, if you discover that a four-hole spacer is beneficial, possible reasons include the fact the fuel metering signals were insufficient (for the calibration or jetting being used) and stronger signals provided by the spacer helped deliver additional fuel. But in virtually any case, power changes from raising or lowering a carburetor affect more areas than plenum volume.
Why Exhaust Crossover Pipes Are Beneficial
It's not necessarily about "smoothing out exhaust pulses." This Enginology column has previously contained discussions about how and where in an engine's rpm range exhaust collectors tend to work. You'll likely recall we suggested they are most effective below and up to peak torque rpm. In fact, if an engine operates primarily above its torque peak rpm, collectors are essentially out of play. You've likely seen some engine applications where low-rpm torque is unnecessary or unwanted, so employing little or no collector volume is an effective tool. Further, as collector volume is increased (to a point), additional torque is produced up to this engine speed. Consequently, joining two sets of collected primary pipes with a connecting cross-pipe effectively adds functional volume to both sets of collectors. It's also always wise to revisit air/fuel calibrations after adding a cross-pipe.
Why Carburetor Bowl Vents Require Attention
Think these are innocuous little vents that don't affect overall fuel enrichment? Will exposing them to non-atmospheric pressure conditions affect fuel delivery? Maybe some of the following will help point out their importance.
Simplistically described, a carburetor provides fuel as a function of its delivery system (passages and jets) that relies heavily on the difference in pressure between fuel bowls and throats. If for some reason bowl pressure is caused to deviate very far from atmospheric pressure, especially if this deviation varies over a range of engine or vehicle speed, net fuel delivery can become influenced by a condition other than delivery passage sizes. You'd actually like for bowl pressure to be constant throughout all conditions of engine rpm and vehicle movement, as near to atmospheric pressure as possible. That's in a perfect world. In reality, making an effort to not create pressure fluctuations at the point of bowl vent entry is a fundamental requirement to allowing stable fuel delivery. Exposing vents to irregular pressure conditions or pulses should be avoided wherever possible, even if you only use the tried-and-true method of joining primary and secondary bowl vents with a section of hose and providing a small vent-hole around the mid-point of the hose.
Is Valve "Float" Really Float?
Maybe this is an issue of semantics. Do valves really experience "float," or does the condition amount to a lack of valve control? Regardless of how the issue may be defined, you can boil it down to two primary periods during valve motion when it becomes problematic. One has been termed valve "pitch," when camshaft followers are briefly separated from the nose of a camshaft lobe, particularly at higher rpm. The other occurs at the instant of valve seating when a lack of motion control is lost to what we'll call "bounce" that can immediately follow the failed initial seating. In either case, barring mechanical contact between a valve head and piston crown, valve-springs face immediate damage.
Years ago, well in advance of when commercially-available valvetrain "spin" machines became available, we built our own at Edelbrock. It was during a rocker arm design and development project and we were doing our best to examine as many dynamics variables as possible. What we quickly learned was that an unstable valvetrain (for whatever reason) could cause spring damage prior to any audible evidence of the problem. And, in fact, when the problem became heard, chances were good that damage had already occurred. We also discovered that the subsequent loss of valve-spring pressure did not transpire in a linear fashion. In other words, when we created and repeated the conditions of valve motion instability (on our spin device), spring pressure would decrease by multiple times what had been lost from the previous such test.
As a result, each period of instability caused the same condition to occur at a lower rpm, during subsequent run-ups of the machine as a further sign of rapid spring pressure decay. Of course, today valvetrain component design and the tools by which they are configured are far more sophisticated. But the problem can still be created by racers and engine builders, virtually independent of how well the camshaft and valvetrain component manufacturers do their jobs.
Small Holes in Header Pipes Near Their Cylinder Head Flange
Years ago, Smokey was doing this little trick, causing broad speculation about his reason for doing so. All sorts of theories abounded, some so complex it was difficult to separate fact from fiction from speculation. One frequently-heard reason was he'd discovered some innovative way to control reversion, if you can believe that . . . and on and on. During one particular late-night engine dyno session in his shop, I asked him point-blank if it was a quick way of seeing if any cylinders were misfiring. His answer? "Yep. But I like being told all the theories because it ain't often I get to hear from geniuses."


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Why would she marry him?
It's the natural question that arises after watching the video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice dragging the unconscious body of Jenay Rice from the elevator where he knocked her out. Then his fiancée -- the video was taken in mid-February before their wedding later that month -- on Friday she stood by him as his wife for a stomach-flipping press conference. The disgust starts with the monstrous obliviousness of Ray Rice's stating, "Failure is not getting knocked down, but not getting up," and ends with Jenay Rice sharing the blame for his unconscionable crime. That so many wonder how this situation could end with Rice easily avoiding jail time and marrying the woman he battered betrays the willful ignorance of a society that enables him.
Violence is how abusers keep their victims from escaping. Wondering why Jenay Rice would stay requires a focused ignorance of a world in which roughly one third of murders against women are committed by an intimate partner. In this world, the threat of death, expressed or implied, can keep anyone captive.
Ray Rice, the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL have seemingly normalized domestic violence as a learning experience for the abuser. Apparently, the crime isn't the crime itself, but failing to offer a mawkish homily on how the crime made you a better person. The future of domestic violence in sports is here now.
For contrast, take the case of Gurbaksh Chahal. The founder and former CEO of RadiumOne, a tech advertising company, was recently fired by his board of directors after being charged with 47 -- yes, 47 -- counts of domestic violence. Chahal plea bargained down to misdemeanor charges after a video of him hitting his then-girlfriend 117 times over a half-hour period was ruled inadmissible. Prosecutors, however, blamed the victim's "lack of cooperation" for the plea bargain that will leave Chahal with a clean record after three years probation.
In our legal system, a prosecutor's ideal domestic violence victim is one who has not yet removed the knife from her back and is willing to talk about it in detail. Still, Chahal lost his job. The male-dominated, money-mad tech industry couldn't resist the public and media scrutiny of offering a documented abuser safe harbor.
The Ravens, meanwhile, are not just keeping their abuser, they're standing by him on national television. Following Friday's press conference, ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported that sources who have seen the full video say Rice struck his wife twice before she fell headfirst onto a railing. For this, Rice must complete a pre-trial diversion program and serve whatever suspension the NFL hands down. He will definitely keep his job. This outcome is common among athletes in domestic violence cases and other crimes, but the tightly controlled narrative disseminated by Rice and the Ravens offers a disturbing peek into a worsening future.
As long as sport has existed, the deification of its stars has inoculated them from real world consequences. More than 100 years ago, Stanley Ketchel was a superstar boxer and drinker with a fondness for misogyny and racism. No one cared because none of that was a big deal back then. It's different now: Stanley Ketchel would have to show up for a press conference and take a few months off. That is the measure of progress in how sports deals with its own past and present of domestic violence.
A woman has publicly sided with her abuser before, but the collusion between athlete and team to impose a feel-good narrative of personal redemption on the public sends a horrifying message. In the U.S. alone, 22 percent of women experience intimate partner violence and account for 85 percent of all domestic violence victims. However, only one quarter of all intimate partner assaults are reported to the police. The rates are worse for women of color. Consider this, then think about the message sent when a reported assault ends with the victim on television sharing the blame. The message is clear: Reporting intimate partner violence is pointless.
We will never know the true nature of Ray and Jenay Rice's relationship, but no competent therapist would suggest a victim of violence take the blame, never mind doing so in front of millions. The Ravens aided their employee in committing violence against Jenay Rice again, as well as other victims of intimate partner violence. The message sent was no one cares about those victims.
The devil of it is this -- I'm not sure NFL fans care. Past uproar didn't keep this from happening and future uproar may not be loud enough to keep it from continuing. This much is clear, though: The NFL offered a glimpse into its ideal future, where domestic violence is the start of a Disney movie.


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Another Sioux Falls Pool Closed Due to 'Fecal Incident'
Laurel Oak Family Aquatic Center in southeast Sioux Falls has been closed because of what's called a 'fecal incident.' It's the second such incident at a city pool this week.
City Parks and Recreation officials say the closing is based on guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and City Health Department.
The federal and city guidelines state when a fecal incident occurs, chlorine levels are substantially raised and kept at that level for a recommended length of time in order to properly disinfect the water to make it safe for everyone.
The Parks and Recreation Department says swimming lessons scheduled for Laurel Oak today will continue as scheduled as land lessons.
The Laurel Oak Family Aquatic Center is anticipated to open at 1:00 p.m. Saturday.
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Before there was Rachael Ray or Emeril Lagasse, there was the great Julia Child. Before being a chef was a glamorous career and before "foodies" were commonplace, Child dared to learn and to teach America the beauty of French cooking.
Before there was Rachael Ray or Emeril Lagasse, there was the great Julia Child. Before being a chef was a glamorous career and before "foodies" were commonplace, Child dared to learn and to teach America the beauty of French cooking.
Having worked at the Food Network myself, I find her style fascinating. She wasn't concerned with perfection like the productions today are. She wasn't embarrassed to wipe the sweat from her face or flip a potato pancake all over the counter.
On the PBS show "American Masters," Julia asked the great question: "If you are alone in the kitchen, who is going to see you?"
A note about the recipe that follows: Child's version of onion soup changed only slightly over the years. This recipe is from her book "Julia's Kitchen Wisdom." In the spirit of culinary evolution, I've added a few tips of my own throughout, but feel free to ignore them if you'd like.
In one of the early episodes of "The French Chef," Child suggests grating a small amount of raw onion into the finished soup, just to give it that certain "je ne sais quoi." She recommends using at least a 1/2-inch layer of cheese for the top of the soup and says one serving option is to top the individual croutes with a poached egg before covering with the cheese.
Although at the end of the episode she says canned stock is an option, in the beginning she says if you are going to use canned stock, you might as well use canned onion soup. Her stock consists of vegetables and nearly any kind of meat scraps, from beef shank to chicken necks, simmered for 4-5 hours. I say freeze bones and scraps throughout the months and make a huge batch; freeze in zip-lock bags or ice cube trays.
Onions, thinly sliced
3 Tbs. butter
Olive oil
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. sugar
2 Tbs. flour
2 1/2 quarts beef stock or broth
1/4 cup cognac or brandy
1 cup dry white wine or dry French vermouth
1 French baguette
1 pound Swiss or parmesan cheese
In a large saucepan, slowly sauté the onions in the butter and 1 tablespoon oil for about 20 minutes, until softened. (Keep the heat on medium low. You are looking to cook and soften the onions but not yet add color. Cover the pot with a lid, and stir occasionally.)
Stir in salt and sugar; sauté 15 to 20 minutes more over moderate heat, until golden brown. (This is the time when the caramel color and flavor will develop; if this is your first time caramelizing onions, watch closely. Lose the lid and don't stir too often. The onions will slowly darken and become sweet.)
Sprinkle flour over the onions and cook slowly, stirring, for 2 minutes. Off heat, whisk in 2 cups of hot beef stock and cognac or brandy. (Personally, I have a fear of lumps in my sauce, so I recommend slowly whisking in the beef in about 1/2-cup increments. Make sure all is incorporated and you are lump-free before adding the next 1/2 cup.)
When well blended, stir in 2 quarts more of stock or broth and the wine or vermouth. Simmer, loosely covered, for 30 minutes. Season to taste.
While the soup is simmering, preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Slice the baguette into 1/4-inch thick rounds and dry out for about 25 to 30 minutes in the oven, until light brown and crisp, painting with olive oil halfway through.
Increase oven temperature to 450 degrees. Line the bottom of a large casserole or individual crocks with hard-toasted croutes (French baguette croutons we just made); top with thin slices of Swiss cheese.
Ladle the hot onion soup over them, float more toast rounds on top, and cover with a layer of grated cheese. Bake in a 450-degree oven for 20 minutes, or until cheese is melted and browned.
(I like to bake mine for less time at a lower temperature, say 10 minutes at 350 degrees, to melt the cheese, then crank on the broiler to get the cheese that lovely "gratinee" look — brown and bubbly.)
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A Different Approach to Fence Moving
Fences have been a popular topic among Padres fans since the team moved to Petco Park in 2004, including our little corner of Padre-land-ville.
We approach the subject from different angles, from chats about what type of baseball is most entertaining (and to what type of fan), to how the park affects free agent signings, or most annoyingly the "other teams can hit in Petco just fine" crowd, which is clearly not true.
After so many keyboards have died discussing the subject, the Padres today announced they're finally moving in the fences. Lets have fun and approach this a little differently. Lets re-write Padres history. Pretend for a moment it's 2004. Petco Park debuted and played perfectly neutral to hitters and pitchers. Phil Nevin never pointed and glared at Kevin Towers after that long fly out. We were then more aware that Brian Giles kicked all kinds of ass on offense, and we spent more time talking about the best looking Padres ever and a lot less time discussing the fences.
Now you're sitting in 2012 following 9 years of completely neutral baseball reading The Sac Bunt on your tablet or phablet or whatever, and I make a rather indecent proposal:
The Padres should move the fences out. Way out, so far that Petco Park becomes the most extreme ballpark in baseball.
When looking at making a change, it helps to imagine what things would be like had that change always been the case, and propose the opposite. This process is a great way to remove potential bias based on what we know and are used to. And it's helpful with the fences debate, because taking a neutral park and making extreme seems rather silly. Don't you agree?
There's more to it than that
Of course this isn't the only way of looking at it, but it is enlightening. Other things to consider include the result–how sure are we that the changes will make the game neutral, or close to it? That's a hard question to answer without looking at what studies have been done. Considering the Zona Boyz have been with the team 3 years now, and the Padres have presumably been collecting data for the 9 years it has been available, I'll assume they've done their homework as best as can be done and this isn't something taken lightly.
Another consideration is the potential advantage of an extreme environment. Opinions from people I respect about that possibility vary. Dave Cameron writes that the Mariners, after adjusting their fences this year have been "freed from [the] bondage" of having to rely on players with a particular skill set in their formerly non-neutral park.
MGL asks if anyone has evidence that pitching, speed, and defense can be tailored to provide a home field advantage. He doesn't seem convinced by what's out there (in 2009). Interestingly, in the comments section the same Dave Cameron suggests a team can indeed build a roster that creates an advantage for the home team. This discussion was from 2009, perhaps Dave has since changed his opinion about what's possible or advantageous.
Differing ideas exist from inside the baseball world as well, even from former Padres employees. Former GM Jed Hoyer famously said he'd prefer to move the fences OUT rather than in, believing he could build a team around the park. Or he was just making a point, I wouldn't know as I interpret everything I hear literally.
Former CEO Sandy Alderson favors a more neutral environment, supporting the potential move for the Padres and later an actual move as GM with the Mets. But I take anything an employee says about their employer's ballyard with a blue and white grain of salt.
After following the debate for a large part of the decade, it's obvious to me that anyone who's absolutely convinced they know what's best either knows something everyone else doesn't, or needs to chillax a bit.
How many teams are there again?
"Uh sir, I have some bad news. Remember when you put me in charge of designing the bullpens at Petco Park, and I said that probably wasn't a very good idea because I've never watched baseball before in my life, then you said 'It's cool brah' and went back to your game of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3? That may not have been so cool, brah, because apparently there are supposed to be 2 bullpens."
A conversation I'm pretty sure happened circa spring 2004. It's about time that gets fixed. Same for doing something else with the weird party area in left field that never made any sense and no one will miss. Except maybe that dude who passed out there while simultaneously being only interesting event that happened in 9 years of that area being a thing.
Sorry to bring this up
It sucks the Padres won't be able to use the park as an advantage, but we considering nobody knows if that's even possible it's hard to get upset about it. And if the Padres can fix other ballpark issues in the process, I say great. I also say we want Sculpin available while your'e at it. And that's one more seemingly endless discussion we can put to rest. If we can move in the fences on Matt Bush I'll be golden.
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John Farrell likely to hear boos in Toronto
Sour reception awaits Farrell
NEW YORK — John Farrell pitched 116 games in the major leagues. He then worked as a college assistant coach before returning to professional baseball as a player development executive, a pitching coach, and then manager.
Farrell will take on a new role on Friday, that of villain.
Fans of the Blue Jays have been angry with Farrell since he left the team in October to return to the Red Sox as manager. Farrell spent two years managing the Blue Jays and jumping to a division rival was viewed as disloyal.
Now Farrell returns to Rogers Centre for a three-game series and is sure to hear it from the crowd there.
"People are going to have their own opinions and I respect that," Farrell said Thursday. "I think it goes along with the heightened interest in the Blue Jays and a lot of the changes that they've made. There's a lot of excitement there.
"In this case, with how things unfolded, the unique set of circumstances that surround the change, both in Toronto and in Boston, I can fully appreciate that they might have those feelings and what might come out of it, we'll see starting [Friday]. But we're looking forward to going up there and looking forward to competing against them."
Farrell was traded to the Red Sox for shortstop Mike Aviles on Oct. 21 after informing the Blue Jays that he wanted to manage in Boston. Since then, the usually cheerful people of Ontario have not been very fond of him.
Farrell got tough questions from Toronto reporters when he was introduced in Boston and again at the winter meetings and during spring training. He's as unpopular in Toronto as Bobby Valentine is in Boston.
"Villain or the bad guy, whatever it might be, I can only say we look forward to the challenges that lies ahead of us," Farrell said.
Butterfield is back
On the other hand, Sox third base coach Brian Butterfield will probably get some cheers in Toronto. He spent 11 years in the Blue Jays organization as a third base coach and bench coach.
Butterfield was passed up twice to become manager of the Jays, but says he has no ill feelings.
"I have nothing but great memories," Butterfield said. "I hadn't thought about going back. But it'll be fun.''
The hyperorganized Butterfield is much more than a third base coach for the Sox. He is the infield instructor and directs how the team shifts its defense for certain hitters. He also spent much of spring training working on base running with the players.
"I'm involved with these guys and I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed the camaraderie and enjoyed what I'm doing,'' he said.
Bench coach Torey Lovullo and bullpen catcher Brian Abraham also came with Farrell from Toronto.
A Maine attraction
Stephen Drew started at shortstop for Double A Portland and played five innings in the first of what the Sox are planning on being a four-game rehabilitation assignment.
Drew suffered a concussion March 7. He drove in a run with a groundout in his first at-bats. He then lined to shortstop and struck out.
The Sox are hopeful that Drew will rejoin the team for the home opener on Monday.
Ortiz on the run
David Ortiz was not at Yankee Stadium for the game Thursday. He returned to Fort Myers, Fla., and is expected to go through base running drills Friday. He remains scheduled for an extended spring training game Monday . . . Lefthanded reliever Franklin Morales threw a 25-pitch live batting practice Wednesday in Fort Myers. He is coming back from a strained lower back . . . Lefthanded reliever Craig Breslow (shoulder) is throwing in the bullpen in Florida. His rehabilitation assignment is not yet scheduled.
The mayor visits
For the final time as Boston's mayor, Thomas M. Menino, will visit Fenway Park on Friday to view improvements made during the offseason and taste new menu offerings. The event has been an annual one for Menino . . . Rookie Jackie Bradley Jr. wanted to get his hair braided before the game and could not find a spot near the team's midtown hotel. He turned to his smartphone and the Yelp application and found a shop in Harlem. He then hit T.G.I. Friday's for lunch. "Next time I'm back here I'll find out a closer spot to where we stay," Bradley said. "But it has been fun going around the city." . . . Mariano Rivera has played in parts of 19 seasons for the Yankees, a franchise record he will share with Derek Jeter once the shortstop returns from the disabled list. Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle held the old record of 18 seasons . . . The Sox have yet to hit a home run. They last started the season with three homerless games in 1993, when they went five games before hitting one.
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I'm not quite sure if this is the right way to express it, but my soft spot for the Taken franchise is…getting hard?
Look, I knew Taken 3 was more of a cash grab than a genuine attempt to rekindle the magic of the original, one of the best action films of the last decade. Taken 2 was largely an over-the-top failure with some decent moments, but at least it tried. Taken 3, on the other hand, has more or less become an unintentional parody of itself.
The beauty of Taken was in its remarkable simplicity — a relentless man with a very specific set of skills sets out to find the man who took his daughter, and kills him. Taken 3, however, has reverted to a fairly typical murder-mystery in the vein of (well, more like ripped right out of) The Fugitive, where Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is set up for the murder of a loved one and must find the killer before the police — headed by a sleepier-than-usual Forest Whitaker — catches him.
The action is never really the problem with Taken 3. Director Olivier Megaton, who was responsible for Taken 2, gives us plenty of car chases, shootouts and hand-to-hand combat scenes, most of which are executed rather well (with some caveats I will get to). Liam Neeson is still capable and relentless, but at 62 he has clearly lost a step, making Bryan Mills by far the most vulnerable we've seen him. Fortunately, he is still a regular Houdini and somehow manages to escapes certain death at least a handful of times in this film without incurring anything more than a couple of temporary scratches.
The big problem with Taken 3 is that the portrayal of the action is heavily muted for classification purposes. When audiences watch Bryan Mills they want to see swift brutality. The blood is almost expected. In Taken 3, the violence is rapid cuts at the point of impact and cutting away when the "good stuff" is about to happen. People get shot and stabbed, but we don't actually get to see any of it. The result is a strangely unsatisfying experience that takes away a lot of the visceral thrills from the original.
The rest of the film doesn't offer much. The script, penned by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kaman (who collaborated on the two earlier films), is truly horrendous, complete with dialogue that will make you shudder with embarrassment. Gaps in logic and common sense fails are all over the place, and I'm not even just talking about typical instances where bad guys conveniently spare lives and give the good guys opportunities to turn things around — though that happens a lot too.
And Maggie Grace's character, Kim Mills, continues to be such an annoying, grating BIATCH that it horrifies me to realise that her father would go to all these lengths to protect her. I was secretly hoping that she would get killed all throughout the movie — which actually would have been awesome because it would have set Bryan on a historic rampage. Alas, it wasn't meant to be.
At 109 minutes, the film is far too long as well, especially when you consider that Taken was a perfect 90 minutes and Taken 2 was a manageable 98 minutes. It's as though the makers of Taken 3 have gradually stripped away everything that made the original Taken a classic and replaced it with conventional Hollywood action cliches.
Having said all that, if you are a fan of the franchise because of the first film like me, then you might still find Taken 3 to be acceptable. It's essentially just another average Hollywood action-thriller being carried by the goodwill of the original and its familiar, iconic protagonist. For some, that might be reason enough to watch it.
2.75 stars out of 5