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WASHINGTON — The recovery of the U.S. housing market is looking steadier and more sustainable, a trend that will likely add to economic growth in 2012 for the first time in seven years.
Purchases, construction and prices are gradually but consistently increasing, though they remain far below levels seen in a healthy economy.
Sales of previously occupied homes rose 2.3 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.47 million, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. Over the past 12 months, sales have jumped more than 10 percent.
New-home sales have been strengthening, too. Toll Brothers, a builder of high-end homes, said Wednesday that it's enjoying its most sustained demand in more than five years.
The "evidence that the housing market is recovering … is fairly clear across a wide range of reports," said John Ryding, an economist at RDQ Economics, a forecasting firm. Housing "is now becoming a small positive for the economic outlook."
That's a big change for an industry that has been a major drag on the economy since the housing bubble burst more than five years ago. Michelle Meyer, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, forecasts that home construction will add 0.2 percentage points to growth this year. That would make 2012 the first full calendar year in which housing has added to growth since 2005.
Other recent reports add to the picture of an improving housing market, though one that's recovering at a painfully slow and uneven pace.
Home prices are rising nationwide. They increased 2.2 percent from April to May, according to one leading index. That was the second straight increase after seven months of flat or declining prices.
The median U.S. home price rose 9.4 percent in July compared with a year earlier to $187,300, the Realtors' group said. That was the biggest annual gain in 6½ years. One reason for the increase is that foreclosed homes, which usually sell at steep discounts, are making up a smaller proportion of sales than they did a year ago.
Builders, meanwhile, are growing more confident because they're seeing more traffic from potential buyers. An index of builder confidence rose to its highest level in five years in August.
Builders responded by applying for the largest number of building permits in nearly four years last month. They broke ground on slightly fewer new homes in July than in June. But that was after the number of housing starts had reached a 3½-year high in June.
In May, sales of new homes reached a two-year high, then declined in June. Economists are forecasting that sales rebounded slightly last month. The figures for July will be released Thursday.
Still, the housing market has a long way to go to reach a full recovery. Some economists forecast that sales of previously occupied homes will rise 8 percent this year to about 4.6 million. That's still well below the 5.5 million annual sales pace that is considered healthy.
But the trend remains positive. Modest economic growth and job gains are encouraging more Americans to buy homes. And homes are more affordable: Prices remain about one-third lower than they were at the peak of the housing bubble in 2006.
And home loan rates are near record lows: The average on a 30-year fixed-rate loan was 3.62 percent last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said. Three weeks earlier, the rate was 3.49 percent, the lowest since long-term mortgages began in the 1950s.
Rising demand for luxury homes is contributing to higher sales. Recent stock market gains have added to wealthier Americans' spending power.
Sales of homes that cost $1 million or more rose 18.6 percent in July, the Realtors' group said. In July 2011, sales in that range had barely increased.
Toll Brothers' net income jumped 46 percent in the May-July quarter, the company said Wednesday.
"We are enjoying the most sustained demand we've experienced in over five years," CEO Douglas Yearley said.
The number of first-time homebuyers, critical to a housing rebound, rose to 34 percent of sales, up slightly from June. In a healthy market, first-time buyers make up about 40 percent of sales.
Purchases are being restrained by low levels of homes available for sale and tight credit standards, economists said. Many would-be buyers are having trouble qualifying for loans or can't afford larger down payments being required by banks. A Federal Reserve report last month showed that many banks tightened their mortgage credit standards this summer.
There were 2.4 million homes for sale in July, down 24 percent in the past year. That's helping to push up prices. It would take about 6.4 months to exhaust that supply at the current sales pace. That's just above the six months' inventory that typically exists in a healthy economy.
Hiring picked up a bit in July, which could support more home sales in the coming months. Job growth helps consumers feel more secure about their finances and typically encourages more of them to buy a house.
Employers added 163,000 jobs last month, the most since February. Job gains had averaged only 73,000 in the April-June quarters, raising fears that the economy was faltering and might even slip into recession.


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We are dedicated to channeling the talents we've honed in the business world toward increasing nutrition and improving the quality of life for the most vulnerable in America and around the world. We are guided by the ideals rooted in the same humanitarian concerns that Bill Lee has always been attentive to: serving those who live on the margins – the underprivileged and often forgotten members of our communities. His dedication, leadership and optimism are what Univera hopes to provide our less fortunate neighbors.
Mr. Lee had long suffered from poor health and found no relief in conventional medicine. When he learned more about the properties of the Aloe Vera plant, he tried taking the juice and the result was, in his words, "a miraculous recovery." After experiencing the miraculous power of Aloe, Mr. Lee became focused on a single vision to bring the best of nature to humankind.
He used his financial success to invest in exploring the ethno-botanical properties of the plant kingdom. His goal was to discover more about the connection between the medicinal power of nature's bounty and the body's incredible power of renewal and to bring that power to the world. He had no idea of how successful he'd be.
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This has got to be my new favorite car mod. Some guys fitted an inner tube to the exhaust of their buddy's Corolla hatchback, thereby making the ultimate fart can exhaust.
This video is old, but since I'm only just seeing it now, I can only hope it becomes a huge trend. I'm dreaming of whistle tips go wooo wooooo levels of populatiry here.
Let me say with a straight face, I hope that inner tube fart cans become a worldwide phenomenon. Seriously, I would pay to watch people freak out about a car like this driving by.
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Apple Will Give You Credit for Your Old iPad
Whether or not the third-generation Apple iPad is "resolutionary"...er... revolutionary or not, it's likely you want it. It's sometimes hard not to want Apple's latest gadget. If, however, you already own a first generation iPad (a.k.a. iPad 1) or even an iPad 2, you need not feel guilty about buying the new iPad. Apple is now offering trade-ins.
Trade-in isn't entirely accurate. If you go through the process of pre-ordering a new iPad — which officially goes on sale at retail stores tomorrow — at Apple's web site you won't find a single link to an upgrade or trade-in offer. Instead, you need to visit Apple's Reuse and Recycle page. The iPad is a part of it and you can choose to turn in your "iPad" or "iPad 2". It's hard to say how that list will change when Apple someday releases an iPad 4. Will the "iPad" listing become "iPad 1" so as not to be confused with the current new "iPad"? But we digress.
The iPad recycling program is quite simple. You need only answer a series of questions that will assess the current value of your aging Apple tablet. In my case, I own a first generation iPad with 64 GB of storage, Wi-Fi and 3G. In perfect condition: no scratches or water damage, a fully-chargeable battery and all the accessories, I get $170 in Apple credit. The credit comes on an Apple Gift Card — but you can still apply it to the purchase of a new iPad.
Turning over an iPad 2 will net you even more cash. A similarly configured unit is worth $275 to Apple. Less full-featured iPads with some wear and tear on them can net you considerably less. A Wi-Fi-only model with light-to-moderate scratches and engraving on the back gets you just $60. In all instances shipping and packaging are free.
Obviously, there are other options for trading in your old Apple hardware. Gazelle can net you $350 for a perfect 64 GB AT+T iPad 2 (just $205 for a similarly configured iPad 1) and Nextworth is offering $220 for a 16 GB Wi-Fi iPad 2.
In my house, it's far more likely that I'll pass down my iPad 1 to my son or daughter and then buy the new iPad with 64 GB of storage. I still don't know if I really need 4G. How about you? Does this trade-in/recycling program make you feel better about buying your second or third iPad in as many years? Let us know in the comments.


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Our literacy.com site is (still) under development!
Update: April 2015. When will the site be online? Well... as soon as the new Drupal 8 site is ready and it's still not ready for a production web site, so we're currently working on a WordPress classified ads site for literacy and numeracy products and services.
Literacy.com will provide on-site and linked literacy articles, tutor services, schools, assessments, forums, newsgroups, and more.
Our primary focus is on helping those with some level of dyslexia, or other learning difference, that is impeding them from reaching their potential. The site will also provide links to help those in need of basic literacy skills, or language skills improvement, regardless of where they are in the world. In time, we will broaden our focus to include other literacy areas.
Our sibling site, numeracy.com is also under development. Its focus is similar to literacy.com's--to be a helping/information resource.
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The EURESEARCH Regional Office Eastern Switzerland is part of the Grants Office St.Gallen. The Swiss information network "Euresearch" advises researchers from the three universities and the private sector in Eastern Switzerland (cantons AI, AR, GR, SG and TG).


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Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, and Liam Payne. The five super-hot, sexy boys part of the boyband known as One Direction. The five are traveling the world on their tour, Take Me Home. Once they reach Los Angeles, however, Harry spots a girl named Lily Matthews in a Jack Wills magazine as a new model, and instantly develops a crush on her. By mistake, a couple of the boys reveal on a twitcam that Harry likes Lily. A few days later, something goes terribly wrong with Harry at one of the concerts, and Lily and her best friend, Megan McCaffrey, set out to find the boys and figure out what's going on with Harry. Soon after, someone robs the Jack Wills store, causing Lily and Megan to lose their jobs. With a little help of the boys, the girls uncover the thief, discover romance, and have to face a very difficult truth at the end.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
A Food Wishes Excusive: An Interview with Bruce "Mr. Ice Cream" Weinstein
I'd also like to apologize publicly to Barbara Walters, for all those comments I've made during her various interviews. It is so much harder than it looks! Thankfully my subject, Bruce Weinstein, was a friendly, gracious interviewee. Bruce is the author of The Ultimate Ice Cream Book, and probably the country's leading ice cream authority.
During the interview, I asked Bruce if he had a nickname, or title, like "The Ice Cream Man," or "King Ice Cream." He humbly said he didn't, so I decided to coin him as "Mr. Ice Cream." I figured if it catches on, I may get a mention in his biography, or at least his Wikipedia page.
Please excuse my low-budget equipment/production, and lack of serious editing time (aka skills). I had to chop this up into a reasonable length, from about 25 minutes of footage. And, for all of you that have emailed about seeing more of my face in these videos…be careful what you wish for! Enjoy.
17 comments:
- July 9, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Just watched your video with Bruce Weinstein. Very informative. Received my Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker today and can't wait for that little bucket to freeze so I can make my first homemade ice cream. With your recipe it's a no brainer. Grandkids are staying over for a few days so I will have my taste testers ready to give the thumbs up.
- July 9, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Just watched your video with Bruce Weinstein. Very informative. Received my Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker today and can't wait for that little bucket to freeze so I can make my first homemade ice cream. With your recipe it's a no brainer. Grandkids are staying over for a few days so I will have my taste testers ready to give the thumbs up.
- July 9, 2008 at 2:42 PM
- Chef John said...
Great! My recipe is fairly low-fat, but for grandkids you may want to go full cream and give them a real treat! Enjoy!
- July 9, 2008 at 2:47 PM
This post may not make it past "owner's review," but I'm hoping Chef John doesn't read all the way through... the ice cream demo and follow-up interview are good precursors to a very special date which viewers here and his fans may find interesting: July 11. Yes lucky #'s 7-11, is Chef John's birthday!
May happiness, your viewership, and your bank account overflow! (well, two out of three's not bad!) Happy Birthday!
Love You, Your very left, Left Coast Mom
- July 9, 2008 at 5:58 PM
- Wristbands said...
I love this and hope to see more!
Great job, yet again.
- July 9, 2008 at 7:00 PM
You don't need any plastic surgery chef, you're lookin good! And happy birthday too!
- July 10, 2008 at 7:17 AM
This is sooooooo cool, I love your post!!! I can't wait to see the other interviews you'll do. Informative and entertaining, a winning combination. =)
-Shannon @ Foodbuzz
- July 10, 2008 at 10:23 AM
- Chef John said...
Thanks for setting it up!
- July 10, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Made the ice cream for the grandkids with all cream like you suggested. I am now a Five Star Granny. Thumbs up from all of those kids.
A bit rich for my hips so I might try the original mix of milk and cream for myself. Thanks again.
- July 11, 2008 at 7:05 PM
Chef, there is a secret ingredient trick for vanila ice cream and milkshake that works - and is not too widely-known: A ripe Haas avocado, about half of average avocado fruit per quart - and it has a great vanila flavor-enhancing effect. (The avocado has to be buttery-ripe and the mix has to be cooled before avocado is blended in). It does mak the color somewhat into greenish but the texture is much richer and creamier - most people cannot correctly guess what was it (they just note that the vanila flavor is more awesome :)
- July 12, 2008 at 12:05 AM
- Chef John said...
You are an evil genius! I think I might try that with pistachios to have an excuse for the color.
- July 12, 2008 at 12:34 AM
Like milkshake's secret ingredient, the avocado. I will definetly try this. My grandkids wanted to put black food coloring in the ice cream so the green would not bother them at all. They would think it was cool.
- July 12, 2008 at 2:16 PM
- Deeba PAB said...
This is FAR OUT...just great. Wish I had an ice-cream machine! I've been whipping up some ice-creams that I blogged about using good ole elbow grease. I recently did peach-mango which was a HUGE hit. Have also done just mango, plum-cherry too. Wonderful post!! Cheers
- July 12, 2008 at 10:44 PM
- Nate @ House of Annie said...
Great job, Chef John!
I've been a fan since your early days on YouTube. Now you're talking to real live people instead of your food! How cool is that.
Are you in the South Bay? Perhaps we could get together some time for a chit chat.
- July 17, 2008 at 12:40 PM
- Chef John said...
Thanks! I'm in SF.
- July 17, 2008 at 12:56 PM
- Discombobulated said...
Chef John is adorable! He looks like a little Super Mario brother or something:)
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It is known that if $X$ is a curve over a number field $F$ equipped with a flat regular model over $O_F$ the integer ring, one can define, using a suitable ample line bundle with an Hermitian metric, the notion of height for points in $X$. In particular, there are only finitely many algebraic points with height lower than a given constant.
What happens when one studies the heights of CM points on the compactified modular curve, with respect to the ample line bundle defining modular forms of large weight (plus suitable Hermitian metric)? Is it possible to study the distribution of CM cycles through height functions? Does one have similar results as in the previous example, say bounding the number of CM points by heights?
This is also motivated by the Bogomolov conjecture. Roughly speaking, for $A$ an abelian variety over a number field, and $Z\subset A$ an irreducible closed subvariety that is not a torsion subvariety (abelian subvariety translated by a torsion point), then the "number" (or some other numerical invariants) of torsion subvarieties in $Z$ is bounded in terms of suitable constants in heights, degrees, that only depends on $Z$. It might be of interest to work out an analogue for modular curves and perhaps other moduli spaces like Shimura varieties.
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Apple is continuing to widen the availability of its third-generation iPad throughout the month of April. The company announced on Monday that it will make the device officially available in 20 new territories by the end of the month.
On Friday, April 20, iPads will go on sale in Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St Maarten, South Korea, Uruguay, and Venezuela. And the following Friday, April 27, iPads will be available in nine more countries: Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa, and Thailand. By the end of the month, the iPad 3 will be on sale in 57 countries around the globe.
The iPad 3 rollout has been the most aggressive of nearly all iOS devices. Apple sold a record 3 million iPad 3s during its launch weekend, and is expected to have sold as many as 13 million iPads during its most recent fiscal quarter, which ended in March. The additional rollouts announced today should help Apple maintain a healthy sales volume for the current quarter as well.


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I just figured out that both of the web apps I did are not iitializing at all, giving a white screen of death. Thos apps are pretty simple. Did someone experience the same?
I just figured out that both of the web apps I did are not iitializing at all, giving a white screen of death. Thos apps are pretty simple. Did someone experience the same?
I forgot to say that I'm on a iPad 2
Any luck in the simulator? Are you getting any debug console / JS errors?
I did some debug on a Sencha touch webapp that was running for more that one year now. I figured out that when offline the startup screen is not being displayed anymore. The webapp hangs out.
Does anyone have the same problem?
EXt.js version is 0.9.5
ext-touch version is 0.1
Has anyone found a solution to this ? I'm worried that iOS5 will launch and web app will be dead
In fact I discovered a parse error that didn't exist prior to IOS5�and I could fix it. But what's definitly broken is the webapp functions that allowed me to have an app working offline. Now it doesn't. I don't know where to investigate : manifest�
Any goof hack welcome
Any update on this ? I'm completely stuck why my app is rendering a white screen only in iOS5
My app is recently rejected!
First version was ok and approved.
New version has only 2 webviews with different interfaces for iPhone and iPad.
Every webview loads a different HTML that includes the dedicated view.
Now.. In simulator it's all right and i have no errors but if i publish the app on my device, it freeze on a white screen!
On my iPhone4s it doesn't work but on my ipad2 it works.
The debugger seems to freeze too.. It's waiting some process..
Any suggestion or hack?
I have a white screen when i click on the Go button in the keypad,
This issue is appear when i update my iPad to iOS5 , and it does not appear in previous iOS version.
If any member of sencha has any comment on this , please reply
Did anyone manage to get to the bottom of this issue? I am experiencing similar problems and as yet have had no success.


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In what is sure to fuel conservative critics of the president's plan to raise taxes on the wealthy under the so-called "Buffett Rule," the Whitehouse announced on Friday that Barack and Michelle Obama paid an effective federal tax rate of 20.5% on income of $789,674 in 2011.
The president, along with Vice President Jow Biden, spent much of the past week traveling to promote their argument for the rule, named for the famed investor Warren Buffett.
About half of the first family's income is the president's salary; the other half is from sales proceeds of his books. The Obamas paid $162,074 in total tax.
The president and first lady also reported donating $172,130—or about 22% of their adjusted gross income—to 39 different charities, according to the White House. The largest reported gift to charity was a $117,130 contribution to the Fisher House Foundation, a group that houses families of wounded service members.
"The president believes we must reform our tax system, which is why he has proposed policies like the Buffett Rule that would ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share while protecting families making under $250,000 from seeing their taxes go up," the White House said. "Under the President's own tax proposals, including the expiration of the high-income tax cuts and limitations on the value of tax preferences for high-income households, he would pay more in taxes while ensuring we cut taxes for the middle class and those trying to get in it."
The president and first lady also released their Illinois income tax return and reported paying $31,941 in state income tax.
The vice president and his wife, Jill, also released their 2011 federal income tax returns, as well as state income tax returns for both Delaware and Virginia. Together, they reported adjusted gross income of $379,035. The Bidens paid $87,900 in total federal tax for 2011, or roughly a 23% effective rate. They paid $13,843 in Delaware income tax and $3,614 in Virginia income tax. The Bidens contributed $5,540 to charity in 2011.


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This photo courtesy Miss America Organization shows Miss DC, Allyn Rose, during the Evening Wear portion of preliminary competition at the 2013 Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013. Win or lose, Saturday's Miss America competition will be Rose's last pageant. The 24-year-old plans to undergo a double mastectomy after the event as a preventative measure to reduce her chances of developing the disease that killed her mother, grandmother and great aunt. (AP Photo/Courtesy Miss America Organization)


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If everyone thinks you're dead, what's to stop Liam Neeson from burying you alive? At least that's what this mad-scientist funeral director tries to pull with Christina Ricci, after she wakes up. Check out After.Life's first trailer.
Christina Ricci plays Anna, a girl who suffers from a tragic accident and wakes up in Eliot Deacon's funeral home, Neeson. He tells her she's dead, and that he is the only one that can see her. Meanwhile he keeps the girl as a prisoner in his workplace, all the while convincing her that she's stuck the afterlife. But Paul, played by Justin Long, thinks she may be still alive. Is she alive, is she dead, or is she a horrific science experiment gone wrong?
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Strap on your sandals, Catholics, during this Holy Week journey into Jerusalem. Pope Francis is guiding the global church towards two major right-to-life issues: poverty and the environment. Take heed: it's not just about prophylaxis.
First, poverty. Francis has called for a "poor church, a church for the poor." Certainly, the Bible is rife with injunctions to care for the poor, and Catholic social teaching insists on the theological and ethical imperative known as the "preferential option for the poor." But has any pope ever talked the talk while walking the walk? Enter Francis, who has decided to not live in the papal apartment (he will live in the Vatican guesthouse), who has eschewed highly filigreed garments, and who has constantly spoken of humility and poverty. Might this papacy be less about pontifical pomp and theological rhetoric than about attention to concrete circumstance? That would be theology as praxis: where the word of God hits the ground, and keeps walking.
Second, the environment (or, in theological terms, "creation"). During his installation homily, Pope Francis invoked those words ten times. Granted, his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, was—in the parlance of our times—something of a tree-hugger who chatted with birds and wolves, and a popular prayer about God's ebullient creation (the "Canticle of Brother Sun and Sister Moon") is attributed to him. Furthermore, in 1979 St. Francis was named the patron saint of ecologists. So it's not enormously surprising that at his first press conference, Pope Francis mused, "These days we do not have a very good relationship with creation, do we?"
No, we don't—neither as an economically-driven global society, nor as a Catholic institution. Sure, Vatican City pledged to become the first carbon-neutral country; but first-world folks in pews, especially in the United States, are unused to heeding this message.
Yet Francis inherits a legacy of Catholic social teaching that links economic globalization, environmental degradation, and poverty. Even the recondite Benedict XVI wrote about environmental degradation and its deleterious impacts on the lives of the poor. Along with the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, he considered access to clean air and fresh water as "right-to-life issues." Moreover, he insisted that commodification of such essential "goods of creation" is unjust. Here's the upshot: In the 21st century, papal pro-creation involves the preferential option for the poor and a critique of excessive pursuit of profit. There is a strong set of Catholic teaching in which the rhetoric of pro-creation is not reducible to the prohibition of prophylaxis.
As it turns out, these social and economic teachings have existed since the 1960s, though they are often minimized or referred to as the church's best-kept secrets—especially in the United States. Think about it: When was the last time you heard a Catholic invoke the "right to life"—and proceed to expound on the importance of clean, fresh water? (Well, never.)
Hopefully, that's about to change. In his Palm Sunday homily, Francis lamented the preponderance of "Greed for money, power, corruption, divisions, crimes against human life and against creation!" These exclamations nestle theology squarely into the thorny nexus of economic globalization, environmental degradation, and global poverty.
To be sure, the new pontiff is no Marxist radical. But neither is he a pawn in the pursuit of corporate profit; indeed, he would have harsh words for the likes of Milton Friedman, who thought that the only social responsibility of business was to increase its profits. As the new pope remarked in his installation homily: "I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment."
In sum: The Franciscan rhetoric of the past two weeks pivots on concern for the poor and for the environment. Pro-creation, for this pope, goes far beyond prophylaxis. If this right-to-life trend continues, it could be more than quirky, or radical, or humble, or even profound. It would be both practical and revolutionary.
Christiana Z. Peppard, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Theology, Science & Ethics at Fordham University, the Jesuit University of New York.


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Paper plates are perfect for a no-fuss party or barbecue. But the tossed plates do add up. What about those plates that claim they'll break down right in your compost?
Consumer Reports checked out two, Chinet Classic White Plates and Hefty Basic Plates.
Hefty says its plates are "biodegradable in home composting" and have "no inks or coatings." Chinet says its eco-friendly plates are made from "recycled materials" and are also compostable.
Testers composted the plates at Consumer Reports' headquarters. They put one of each plate in a separate compost bin and went back each week to check on the progress.
Consumer Reports also composted two regular types of paper plates, the Dixie Ultra and America's Choice, for comparison.
Of course, you don't want your plates breaking down while you're eating, so staffers checked out the plates at a company picnic.
Then there was the chili test. Testers scooped 1 cup of chili onto each plate, and the plates were left on a lab counter to see whether chili leaked through. It didn't. But all of the plates did let some steam through. The driest? The regular Dixie Ultras.
As for the composting, the Hefty plates disintegrated after three weeks. The Chinet, five weeks. It took longer, but both of the regular plates broke down, in about three months.
Consumer Reports' take: If going green is important, the Chinet or the Hefty Basics plates can get the job done the fastest, and they don't cost a lot more.
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(from Ferrari Press Release) The Ferrari 458 Italia continues to go from strength to strength and has garnered over 30 international awards in its short career. Yesterday, it added two further plaudits to that collection at the International Engine of the Year Awards when its V8 was voted "Best Performance Engine" and "Best Engine Above 4 Litres".
The success being enjoyed by the 458 Italia with both critics and public alike crosses all borders– it has won awards in a host of different nations from the USA to the Far East and Europe. In the US, the mid-rear V8 was named "World Performance Car of the Year". It was also named "Car of the Year" by the Robb Report and topped the New York Times rankings.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the discerning British motoring media proved equally enthusiastic. In fact, the 458 Italia scooped both BBC Top Gear Magazine's "Supercar of the Year" and "Car of the Year Awards". Staying in Britain, CAR magazine also named the 458 Italia "Performance Car of the Year 2010", as did Auto Express and What Car. It triumphed too as the Daily Telegraph's "Car of the Year" and TV programme Fifth Gear's "Fast Car of the Year". The 458 Italia also enjoyed an enthusiastic welcome from the German and Italian public with the result that it voted "Sports Car of the Year" by the highly reputable Auto Moto und Sport and Quattroruote magazines.
Continuing around the world, the authoritative Car Middle East magazine declared the 458 Italia both "Car of the Year" and "Supercar of the Year" also. In China, Top Gear, Auto Moto und Sport, Robb Report and the popular X-Car website all named it "Car of the Year".
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Google has refuted a story that claims the company collects licensing fees from Android phone makers for key apps such as Gmail and Maps.
The story, published by The Guardian, originally claimed that Google charges roughly 75 cents per phone that uses Google Mobile Services. Those services include the Google Play Store and all Google-branded apps, including Google Play Music, Hangouts, and Google Drive.
However, The Guardian has since amended its story, removing all references to the supposed licensing costs. Google also told 9to5Google that the story was inaccurate.
The Guardian still claims that Android isn't as "free" as many people believe, considering the testing costs involved with getting a Google Mobile Services license. 9to5Google noted that device makers could also pay licensing fees to the search giant for settlements or other arrangements, but not for those key Google apps.
Anxiety over AOSP
It's a bit of a touchy subject, as Google slows down development on apps that are part of the Android Open Source Project.
As Ars Technica pointed out last October, Google is gradually replacing these core apps with proprietary versions that are part of Google Mobile Services. For example, Android's stock Music app looks the same as it did in 2010, while Google has actively been developing Google Play Music instead. And while Google Keyboard continues to get new features such as gesture typing, the open source Android keyboard has stagnated.
This shift away from open source is in some ways good for users. It means that Google can update a greater portion of the Android experience directly through the Play Store, bypassing hardware makers and wireless carriers who often take ages to update their devices. But it also discourages heavily-modified Android devices such as Amazon's Kindle Fire, since device makers would have to create more core apps from scratch.
If Google was to start charging license fees for Google Mobile Services, most device makers would have little choice but to pay, as the Google Play Store's extensive catalog makes Android the most viable alternative to Apple's iPhone. Fortunately, Google is doing no such thing.
This story, "No, Android phone makers don't pay Google licensing fees to use Google apps" was originally published by TechHive.


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Course: WGST 51/COLT 39 – Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
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The Basics.
For your major project in this course you will be making a video together with 2 other students (i.e., groups of 3). Group selection is up to you; given the nature of the project, choose people whom you not only get along with, but who share your ideas on interesting directions in which to expand your experiences with fairy tales. You'll make your videos using iMovie, and with the extensive help of the Jones Media Center (see syllabus for various instructional and tutorial sessions). Each video should be 5-7 minutes (please: no LONGER than 7 minutes!).
How to start thinking about it.
In your video you'll be adapting or relating a fairy-tale type, paradigm, or set of motifs that you have encountered in the course to your own personal experience or to some aspect of modern life. The video may take a number of forms: theatrical/ cinematographic dramatization of a fairy tale (in whatever temporal and spatial dimension you like); a dramatized telling (incorporating visual material); a musical rendition (e.g., MTV-type video); a dramatized interview with one or more characters from a tale; a narration in images, etc. etc.! I'm open to and interested in other ideas, of course, but make sure to share them with me before you embark on the project.
How to frame your fairytale.
Approaches to "retelling" the tale or reconfiguring the motifs you choose may involve reversals of fairy-tale patterns or character types we have seen; sequels or prequels to familiar tale types; shifts in narration (e.g., from an objective 3rd-person narrator to a 1st-person narrator [one of the characters of the tale], or to an unreliable 3rd-person narrator); reframing the tale (e.g., changing its temporal and/or spatial coordinates); reinterpreting or zooming in on single episodes, elements, or characters of a tale.
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Throughout the process I will be distributing handouts to help you with the various phases of the project. To give you an idea of this process, these are the main steps:
- Choose your group, and brainstorm about possible ideas for your video.
- Create a proposal, and complete the treatment plan. (I'll give you a form to help you.) Hand in a narrative summary of proposal/treatment (500 words).
- Showcase your ideas in a "pitch session" in which each group will have 5 minutes to present their proposal and then receive feedback from the rest of the class.
- Participate in 2 Imovie tutorials at Jones Media Center (during class hours), in which you'll learn video-making techniques.
- Participate in 1 30-minute session in JMC before your group checks out a video camera.
- Put together a shot list (storyboard). This is optional. (Template provided.)
- Once footage is shot, participate in 1 or 2 editing sessions (depending on need) at JMC, with RWIT tutor.
- Complete video!
- Put together, as a class, pertinent criteria for evaluating the videos.
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Kami has a complex and ambiguous personality due to the two antagonistic tendencies that are constantly competing for attention: the more "male" side of her nature (1), lively, headstrong, bossy, independent and somewhat self-centred: she wants to be the best at everything, and tends to think the world revolves around her... Then there is her more "feminine" side (2), timid, passive and dependent, indecisive at times, as well as emotional, attentive and altruistic, stepping aside to allow others to enjoy the limelight... This strange combination of characteristics could make her seem as moody as the moon: enthusiastic and self-assured one moment; passive and defeatist the next. In fact, this is due to her extreme receptivity and emotional sensitivity, and could be more pronounced if her last name doesn´t contain one of the following letters: B, K, T or L. The influence of the 1 will naturally be predominant if she was born on the 1st, 10th, 19th or 28th of the month, or in January; likewise the 2 will prevail if she was born on the 2nd, 20th or 29th of the month, in February or November. It will almost certainly be during childhood that she experiences such ambivalences, torn between her desire for glory (to be the first or the best) and the need for protection and security, especially as her active number vibrates predominantly at the frequency of 2 (inferiority and passivity). On reaching maturity, she could live in harmony with the frequency of 11, which is a master number and requires her to assume responsibility for others. Such inner-conflict can result in irritability, temper tantrums and misplaced touchiness and huffiness. Parents must therefore provide constant stimulation and encouragement by showing an interest in her life, especially in her school work, otherwise Kami could be tempted to indulge in a certain nonchalance, thinking no-one is interested in her. It would be desirable for her to have siblings, and she could be an excellent teacher, proud of her role of big sister and of the respect that she inspires in her cadets. Kami has got bags of character, and will advance slowly, but very surely in life, with the right support. The smallest failure or frustration is liable to affect her more or less deeply and could provoke heartburn or even nervous disorders.
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She enjoys the role of leader and setting an example, and it is often through humanitarian or activist movements that she will fully express herself, perhaps because she has such a profound understanding of friendship... She is more than happy to lend a sympathetic, attentive ear and to be the person that others come to for advice and comfort. In stark contrast, she is extremely secretive where her own emotions are concerned, and this could easily be misinterpreted as indifference. She is likely to have difficulty settling for the role of a mother only, because she has great ambition and is only truly happy when she is fulfilled intellectually and socially. Highly inquisitive and curious, Kami has a thirst for knowledge, enjoys learning and is often self-taught. She can be bossy, uncompromising and domineering in a relationship and won´t miss an opportunity to question the suitability of her beloved if he doesn´t behave as she desires and her criticism can be brutal.
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The Special One was unexpectedly chirpy as this eventful league season ended, generously declaring that the best team had won the title, and pledging to ratchet up Chelsea's challenge for 2014/15.
Speaking at Cardiff City after the Blues defeated the relegated Welshmen 2-1, Jose Mourinho said he believed the spine of his side was sound, and that 'a couple' of new players would bolster the squad.
Jose described the Premier League as 'dangerous', as a couple of defeats can make the difference between finishing inside or outside the Champions League.
"We have to be stronger next season than we were this season; no more Chelsea v Villas, no more Chelsea v Sunderlands," he said, referring to defeats which helped derail the Blues' title tilt.
There were few signs of the grouchiness which enveloped him in April. Instead, Jose patiently observed that Chelsea finished four points shy of being champions, and that tweaks were required, not major surgery.
He believes Fernando Torres (under contract until summer 2016) will stay, playing alongside a new striker.
In the short term, Jose will watch some of the remaining play-offs before taking a fortnight's holiday.
"I can't believe I have to wait three months for my next real match," he moaned. "The summer will be a long summer."
Jose wants to start pre-season as soon as possible, although the World Cup will eat into his practice time.
"We can improve our killer instinct; score goals with less chances. We need a couple of players of a certain level to help the team get to a certain level," he said.
Encouragingly, midfielder John Swift was given a late debut at Cardiff; reward for scoring 18 times for the U21s and U19s this season. Nathan Ake also made a cameo appearance, but the fact that David Luiz remained on the bench may signal his departure.
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The Hyperdunk+ shoe line, which came out this summer, represents the latest step in Nike's push to add more technology to its products and boost its presence in the burgeoning smartphone world. When I think of space-age fitness gear, the Lunar Hyperdunk+ smart basketball shoes certainly fit the bill. (Nike makes Hyperdunk+ shoes for both men and women; the Lunar seems to be currently only available for men, but a Lunar model for women is said to be coming out in September.) They didn't help my woeful basketball game much, but thanks to the built-in Bluetooth sensor and accompanying iPhone app, I could track just how awful I was from game to game. At a pricey $250, though, these high-tech sneaks are more nifty gimmick than training tool.
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The Lunar Hyperdunk+ shoes are outfitted with four pressure sensors that track your motion. Underneath the insoles are slots for removable Bluetooth sensors which connect to your iPhone (sorry, Android fans, no app is available for you yet). To get going, you charge the sensors, pop them into the sneakers, press the heel of the insoles to active them, then connect to them via your iPhone and free Nike+ Basketball app. From there, the shoes can track your performance through several metrics: time played, vertical leap, quickness measured in steps per second, and Nike's proprietary NikeFuel score.
You can start and stop the workout and pause for timeouts. Once you're done with a game, you use your iPhone app to transfer the data from shoes to phone for a handy readout on your handset. The Nike+ Basketball app displays the times and dates of each game, too, giving you a handy breakdown of how many Nike Fuel points were scored, how fast you moved, and how high you can jump. You also receive banners if you set a high mark within any of those areas. On a game-by-game basis, the app tracks whether you were improving or starting to feel the fatigue as well.
By tilting your phone horizontally, you can get the data broken down by time, so you can see when in the game you peaked in terms of quickness, height, or Fuel points.
Your performance doesn't have to live in a vacuum, either. You can compare your stats with your friends', that is if if they also use the app and own a pair of Hyperdunk+ shoes. While Nike has recorded data from athletes using these shoes, it sadly hasn't published any of it yet, which means you can't see how you stack up against Lebron James or any other professional athletes. Nike says it plans to eventually share some of that data with users.
One of the coolest Hyperdunk+ features happens right after you connect the app to the shoes. The app graphically displays the two shoes that fluctuate between orange and black in real time depending on the pressure you apply with your feet, similar to a live heat map. I know this animation doesn't do much, but you have to admire its slick presentation.
Beyond tracking your game, the Nike+ app offers an alternative Live Mode, which constantly measures how high you jump and how quickly you can shuffle your feet. Presumably, you can practice with Live Mode to improve your movement during a real game. There's also a Showcase Mode, in which you can take a video of yourself during the game, pair it up with the relevant data at the time, and share it with friends on social platforms.


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"Perhaps one in 10 to one in 20 species in the tropics are known to science. How can conservation work in the face of this degree of ignorance? How can economic development be guided in a more benign direction?"
—Thomas E. Lovejoy of the World Wildlife Fund (1986)
An unbroken string of ants plies the leaf-cutters' foraging trail, a well-beaten highway through the forest. Each large ant cuts a round piece of leaf and carries it home on its back; a small ant rides shotgun on the leaf to defend it from the fly that would lay an egg on it, an egg that would hatch into a parasitic maggot by the time it reached the ants' underground nest.
Inside the nest, the two ants defecate on their leaf, depositing enzymes that tenderize it, and feed it, shredded, to a fungus—Rhozites gongylophora—that is found only in leaf-cutter ants' nests and has no spores with which to propagate itself. The ants eat the fungus.
Leaf-cutter ants refuse to cut leaves that contain chemicals toxic to themselves. They also refuse those with chemicals toxic to their fungus. The amount of light and nutrients an individual plant receives affects the kind and quantity of toxic chemicals it can produce.
Entomologist Jack Schultz returned from Costa Rica last January with four colonies of leaf-cutter ants. A graduate student, Colin Nichols-Orians, remained in the field until May, then came back to test his ideas with the laboratory ants. Nichols-Orians wants to learn exactly how, from the point of view of an ant, light and nutrients affect a plant's chemical defenses. That is, how do ants choose which leaves to cut?
At a Penn State lecture last year, Ghillean T. Prance of the New York Botanical Garden, a man the fliers said is "generally acknowledged as the foremost North American authority on the Brazilian tropical rainforest," summarized the quandary rainforest scientists find themselves in. Receiving question after question about the interactions in the rainforest, Prance threw up his hands: "Everything is related to everything else," he said.
Schultz and Nichols-Orians work at La Selva Biological Station, 3,300 acres of Costa Rican rainforest owned by the Organization for Tropical Studies, of which Penn State, along with 36 other American and two Costa Rican universities, is a member. "La Selva," says Schultz, an assistant professor in Penn State's College of Agriculture, "just means 'the forest.' " It is roughly the size of a Pennsylvania state park and holds over 450 species of trees; in all of Penn's Woods, there are about 100 species and only 30 to 40 of them are tall enough to be "canopy" trees. "In La Selva, it's not unusual to have to walk a third of a mile between any two individuals of even the commonest plants." Schultz and two others spent two weeks last January trying to collect 10 leaf samples each from 10 species; they had time to find only 60 samples.
La Selva also has 388 species of birds, 143 species of butterflies, and 63 species of bats. On an average walk outside the 5,000-square-foot, air-conditioned laboratory ("It's really tough to answer the questions people have about tropical rainforests without more and more sophisticated laboratories right there," says Schultz), an average, inattentive visitor might see three species of monkeys, a two-toed sloth, agoutis (guinea-pig-sized rodents), river otters, a cayman on the beach, a three-wattled bell bird—"its call sounds rather like someone hitting an anvil with a hammer"—and electric-blue morpho butterflies "like flying blue plates." In the middle of the Jaguar Trail might be a large, steaming cat pile, filled with bones and hair and agouti teeth.
The rainforests of the tropics, covering seven percent of the earth's land surface, contain more than half the earth's species of living things. No one knows the total number of species on Earth. Until a scientist from the Smithsonian found 41,000 species of insects in a two-and-a-half acre plot of Peruvian rainforest, the estimate for the planet was five million. It has now risen to 30, even 50 million.
The home of these 15 to 25 million species is rapidly disappearing. About 40 percent of the world's rainforest is already gone, says Harvard University biologist Edward O. Wilson; an area the size of West Virginia is cleared each year. At this rate, rainforest will be extinct (if that term can be applied to an ecosystem) sometime in the 21st century. With it will go what one scientist has called the "wonder plants of the future": plants like those that in the past have given us peanuts, chocolate, rice, coffee, eggplants, oranges, tea, bananas, cashews, coconuts, papayas, and pineapples, as well as quinine, curare, the birth control pill, ipecac, and 70 percent of the 3,000 plants the U.S. National Cancer Institute lists as having anti-cancer properties—not to mention rubber.
In La Selva, Schultz and Julie Denslow from Tulane University, Boyd Strain from Duke, and Peter Vitousek from Stanford, with a million-dollar National Science Foundation grant, are trying to describe not individual species, but the basic patterns of the rainforest itself. Does the shape of the forest, for instance, cause and maintain its diversity? "We hope we'll also learn how to reforest the tropics," says Schultz, "when people decide they want the rainforest to regrow." They are checking out what Schultz calls "the grey literature," an enormous body of personal recollections, tales, stories, and suppositions, on which much of what we "know" about the rainforest is based.
In the past few years, such work has led scientists to a striking realization: The rainforest's diversity and complex structure are intimately related to disturbance. "La Selva is undisturbed by humans," says Schultz, "but more than half of it is recovering from natural disturbances—from tree falls. At least two trees fell in the last two weeks I was there."
When a 150-foot tree, laced to its neighbors by an intricate web of woody vines, topples, it opens up a light gap the size of a football field. The "grey literature" says that certain species are adapted to take advantage of this sudden burst of light: their seeds disperse readily into light gaps or remain dormant until the light level increases; their seedlings grow tolerably well in the shade, always ready to shoot up when a tree falls nearby.
The adaptations assumed in the grey literature have been documented for temperate plants. Do they truly apply in the tropics? Not all. A tall canopy tree has large, heavy fruit and needs birds or animals to disperse its seeds. A seed cannot remain dormant on the wet forest floor. "If it doesn't germinate immediately," Schultz says, "it either rots or is eaten." But some species are always fruiting in the year-round tropical growing season. "What ends up here," says Schultz, peering down into the circle of his fingers, "may depend on what plants were reproducing when this gap appeared. If all trees fell in the same month—or if all plants fruited at the same time—the forest would be a different place."
But some plants are adapted to life in the dark. Four years ago, Schultz and the other scientists took thousands of cuttings from eight common species of shrubs in two genera; two shrubs in each genus were "sun" plants and two were "shade" plants. They transplanted some of the cuttings along the boles of new-fallen trees, some at the edges of light gaps, and some in deep forest. "The result was very simple and straightforward," says Schultz. "The shade species all responded well to the available light, while the sun species couldn't make it in the shade at all. It's hard to imagine why the shade species don't take over. They didn't outperform the sun species in the middle of the gap, but they did very well."
In the next four years, Schultz and his colleagues will extend their study to the tallest canopy trees, planting thousands of seedlings in the deep forest, and then, after a year, toppling six trees near the test sites and seeing how the seedlings respond. "The goal is to determine the value of being a little plant when a big tree falls. What characteristics must you have to be successful in the middle of a disturbance?"
One possibly crucial difference Schultz found between sun species and shade species has to do with the leaf-cutter ants. Trees make toxic chemicals—bitter phenolics and tannins, or alkaloids like caffeine—to defend themselves against ants aand other insects. Phenolics and tannins derive from carbon, which plants manufacture through photosynthesis. These chemicals are expensive make: They represent a significant carbon drain and constitute a large proportion of the plant's weight. Alkaloids are made from nitrogen, which comes from the soil; Denslow and Vitousek found that the top four inches of earth at La Selva—the dense mat of root hairs and detritus—had the highest nitrogen concentration of any "soil" anywhere in the world.
Sun species make phenolics and tannins. "Under high light," says Schultz, "these plants seem to make such a good income through photosynthesis that they can spend both on defense and on growth. They grow like incredibly well and they increase their chemical defenses. In the shade, they can't grow or make their defensive compounds, so when a light gap finally opens up nearby, they're too chewed up to benefit."
Shade species make alkaloids, which are toxic at very low doses. "In the shade, a plant can't fix too much carbon, but it has plenty of nitrogen. So a shade species defends itself with things that are relatively cheap, and puts most of its income into growth. In the shade, it grows slowly, but reasonably well, and it defends itself reasonably well. When it's put in the sun, it grows at the expense of defense, but it still does better than the sun species in the dark.
"It's probably rare for a plant to start growing and get going in the dark. It will be able to maintain itself, but it needs a gap to grow. We estimate that an individual tree has to be near at least two natural tree-falls over its lifetime in order to make it to the canopy."


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ANAHEIM, Calif., May 9 (UPI) -- Nick Bonino's overtime goal Wednesday gave the Anaheim Ducks a 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings in Game 5 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series.
Ryan Getzlaf and Kyle Palmieri each had goals in regulation and Jonas Hiller stopped 29 shots for Anaheim, who aim to finish the series Friday in Detroit.
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Operation Write Home (OWH) is having a fundraiser. They are a not-for-profit organization that collects and sends handmade greeting cards to American soldiers so they can stay in touch with their families. They need to raise $13,000 to cover holiday shipping costs.
Two stamp illustrators, Katlyn from K 'n K Stamps and my friend Deedee Anderson, have kindly designed 7 new digi sets exclusively for this cause. Each "set" includes an image and some greetings, in both JPEG and PEG file formats, all in a zip file.
100% of the proceeds from the sales of these stamp will go to OWH. These sets are available for just $2 each or get all for just $10. You can buy them at the K 'n K blog (not the store) and all purchases will be emailed out within 24 hours of payment clearance.
Here is a sneak peek of some of the digis for sale:
Not a card maker? Donate to help with shipping! You can sponsor a box for $13, or any amount you choose – click on the yellow PayPal button on the Operation Write Home site to make a gift directly right now, or send in a gift with your box of cards!
For more sneak peeks, join in the hop and visit these other talented ladies. The hop starts here. If you have come from Michelle's blog, you are in the right place. Your next stop is Deedee's blog.
Two lucky hoppers who comment along the way will win 2 digi prize pack from K 'n K Designs! (Be sure to check Deedee's blog on Monday to see if you have won!) Blog hop ends this Sunday 10/23, at 8pm PST.
These soldiers and their families have given their lives to make our home safe. Now is the opportunity for you to support them. What are you waiting for? Do something meaningful today!
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We have always stated that we would rather our favorite teams get blown out then lose a close game. Also, if you are going to lay a stinker, you might as well do it against one of the better starting pitchers in the major leagues. The Stinker? You need look no further than the bottom of the third inning tonight. Here are the numbers from that inning…5 hits, 3 walks, 2 errors, 1 one wild pitch, 43 pitches and 7 runs. I can just hear Doug Waechter now. "How can I win the game if I don't get any run support?" It was ugly. It was hard to watch. It WAS a Stinker. Enough said. Let's move on. Tonight's game and tomorrow's are why the first game of the series was so important to the Rays. We knew tonight would be tough with Curt Schilling on the mound. However, tomorrow scared us just as much with Tim Wakefield on the mound. For his career, Wakefield is 13-1 against Tampa Bay with a 2.96 ERA. If we had to guess, we would say that Wakefield probably has a good record in his career against teams with lots of young inexperienced players. The types of players that tend to be impatient at the plate. Patience is a requirement when facing a knuckleballer. Still, a number of Rays have had success against Wakefield. Jorge Cantu is 5-16 (.313), Carl Crawford is 18-50 (.360) with a home run, Jonny Gomes is 3-9 (.333) and the veteran Travis Lee is 10-27 (.370) with 4(!) home runs. Look for Lee to make his second appearance as a cleanup hitter for the D-Rays. On a brighter note, Scott Kazmir makes his 7th career start against the Red Sox. That is the most starts against an opposing club. He is 2-1 with a 2.79 ERA. Both of his wins have come at Fenway Park. Normally we would worry about such a young pitcher pitching against such a good offensive team in a historic park such as Fenway. If Kazmir pitches poorly, it won't be because of nerves.
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