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As the clock winds down on 2010, a disappointing, yet transitional season for the New York Mets, let's take a moment to look back at the significant moments, games and issues of the season.
Spring training began with a myriad of issues and questions that never dissipated during the long and tumultuous summer.
Among the more intriguing moments and issues were:
The turnover: Sandy Alderson in for Omar Minaya as general manager and Terry Collins in for Jerry Manuel as manager. Manuel seemed in trouble from the outset with early reports Bobby Valentine would take over. That didn't happen, but this will be the year where the Met could have turned around their culture. We shall wait and see. So far, Alderson has played it conservatively in terms of player acquisition. To date, Alderson's plan is to hope for the physical returns of Carlos Beltran and Jason Bay and that nobody else gets injured. It doesn't sound like much, but the goal is to build a base for 2012 when deadweight salaries are cleared off the books.
Blanking the Phillies: On the field the Mets had two spurts that pushed them into contention, but nothing stood out at Citi Field like the three-game, shutout sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies, featuring R.A. Dickey, Hisanori Takahashi and Mike Pelfrey.
Draining the Bay: The Mets' free-agent splash of signing Jason Bay from Boston busted out. A slow start that never got started flamed out with a concussion that kept him out for most of the second half. The $66 million hire that was supposed to energize the Mets' offense produced just six homers.
Beltran's relationship and knees sour: Botched communications between Beltran and the Mets front office over off-season surgery led to a rift that only shows signs of thawing under the new administration. Beltran returned after the All-Star break but never showed consistent signs of being healthy and strong. In actually, this was mishandled at the end of the 2009 season when Beltran should have had surgery instead of waiting.
Reyes never settles: Jose Reyes missed the first month of the season with a thyroid illness, then returned to the lineup as the No. 3 hitter. Manuel stuck when the results were clear it wasn't working and later conceded it was a mistake. Reyes ignited when he was returned to the top of the order, then strained an oblique muscle and was never the same. This injury was compounded when Manuel rushed him back into the lineup.
Mike Pelfrey's development: Pelfrey took a major step forward, regressed at midseason then showed recovery signs to win 15 games. With a little bit of luck he could have won 18 or 19. With Johan Santana out at the beginning of the season Pelfrey will have to pick it up again to assume the ace role. The pessimistic feelings about Pelfrey at the beginning of the season were replaced by confidence and optimism.
Oliver Perez and John Maine implode: The Mets had questions entering the season about their rotation that were answered in the negative with Perez and Maine. If one player personified the troubles of the Minaya regime it would have to be Perez, who lost his spot in the rotation, and then refused an assignment to the minor leagues to work on his mechanics. Perez forced himself back on the 25-man roster after a stay on the disabled list, then languished untouched in the bullpen until the last game of the season when Manuel pitched him as a parting gift.
The rise of RA Dickey and development of Jon Niese: Out of adversity, Dickey, Niese and Takahashi stepped up and filled the voids left by Maine and Perez. They kept the Mets competitive until the All-Star break. Dickey was rewarded with a new contract and he and Niese will enter spring training with rotation spots. Takahashi left as a free agent.
Johan Santana injured: The Mets were cooked by the time Santana' shoulder was injured late in the second half. Santana didn't pitch with his usual brilliance on a consistent basis and undergoing surgery for the third straight off-season must raise concerns of his durability during the remainder of the contract. If not Pelfrey, the Mets need to start thinking about a No. 1 in their rotation for the future.
The emergence of Angel Pagan: With Beltran out Pagan emerged as a budding star in centerfield and will win a spot in the 2011 outfield. Pagan improved dramatically in his outfield and base running decisions and developed into one of the team's clutch hitters.
The young kids come through: The Mets' long-maligned farm system bore signs of progress with first baseman Ike Davis and catcher Josh Thole, both of whom enter spring training penciled in the lineup. Both showed rawness, but enough glimpses to warrant optimism. Ruben Tejada also saw time but will open the season in the minors. As far as young pitchers go, Bobby Parnell improved over 2009 and will compete for the closer's role.
David Wright goes deep: After hitting ten homers with 72 RBI in 2009 and sustaining a concussion, there were concerns about Wright's ability to hit the long ball. Those questions were answered with 29 homers and over 100 RBI, production that could have been higher with a healthy Beltran and Bay. There aren't any questions now about Wright's power.
Twenty-inning marathon: In a thrilling display of endurance the Mets won at St. Louis, 2-1, in 20 innings. Santana started and was superb with seven scoreless, but the Mets' bullpen was clutch in extra innings, leaving the bases loaded in the 10th, 12th and 14th innings, and 22 runners overall. Pitching on his throw day, Pelfrey earned the save.
K-Rod explodes: Maybe the ugliest moment of the season came when Francisco Rodriguez punched out his father-in-law outside the family room at Citi Field. Rodriguez was arrested and the Mets sought to void his contract. The two reached an agreement, but the relationship remains tenuous. If Rodriguez finishes 55 games this season his option for $17.5 million will kick in.


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With production well underway on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, rumors of a surprise addition to the 2012 film have hit the web. HitFix got the scoop, revealing that Liam Neeson has been spotted on-set and appears likely to be reprising his Batman Begins role as Ra's al Ghul.
There is no official confirmation yet of Neeson's involvement and the part could be little more than a cameo. Josh Pence was previously announced to be playing the character in flashbacks.
The bat-finale is currently in production internationally and features the return of Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and Nestor Carbonell, along with roles for Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Juno Temple, Daniel Sunjata, Matthew Modine, Tom Conti, Joey King, Alon Aboutboul, Burn Gorman and Diego Klattenhoff. It is set for release on July 20, 2012.
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I love me a good keyboard shortcut and there's some I would like to use in Excel all the time if only I could darn well remember them.
CTRL+ Spacebar Select the entire column containing the currently selected cell(s) Shift + Spacebar Select the entire row containing the currently selected cell(s) CTRL + '+' Insert cells CTRL + '-' Delete cells
If you combine these you'll find they become really powerful. For example, CTRL+Spacebar followed by CTRL + '+' inserts a new column into a worksheet (which is what I wanted to do this morning when I began googling this).
I figured the only way I will ever ingrain these into my muscle memory is if I write them down somewhere, nowhere better than on my blog.
If you're a fellow keyboard shortcut fetishist and want to share any obscure ones that you know of then I'm all ears, please put them in the comments below.
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Ctrl-PageUp - Next Worksheet
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Not obscure but...
ctrl + apostrophe - append value from cell above to current cell value
ctrl + semi - append current date to current cell value
ctrl + colon - append current time to current cell value
These all work in MS Access as well.
CTRL+Shift+L turns on the filters for the current set.
What I'd love to find is a good shortcut that uses the same date format as the one chosen when you set the Short Date. There is a shortcut for formatting dates, but it doesn't use that same date format. Sadly, it doesn't seem like one exists. It would be useful for when the datetime columns are copied in, but just show the time portion.
I struggled with the inserting columns and rows shortcuts until I came upon Alt +IC to insert a column and Alt+ IR to insert a row.
Ctrl + g + Alt + s + y (visible cells only)
Ctrl + g + Alt + s + k (blanks cells only)
I too struggle with the Excel built in shortcut for date formatting.
Control + Shift + # gives me a dd-mm-yy format. And what I wanted was something like m/d/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy.
My solution was to record a one line macro like this
Selection.NumberFormat = "m/d/yyyy"
and then assign it to a keyboard shortcut, in my case Control+Shift+ M
works pretty well.
Ctrl+shift+f3 = create named ranges from header
Alt,e,s,v = replace formula with value
Saved me countless hours
Keyboard shortcuts in Excel 2010 from Office.com (also includes links to printable PDF reference cards):
And the 2013 version:
The reference cards aren't as fun to post at your desk as pin-up girls but they are much less likely to get you in trouble with HR.
Alt then 0223 displays the ß symbol
I've always liked Toggle Autofilter (Win: Ctrl Shift L, Mac: ⌘ ⇧ F) because you can use it to clear all filters and "reset" a list without fiddling with the individual filters.
We have a list of over 200 Excel shortcuts here: https://exceljet.net/keyboard-shortcuts
Both Windows and Mac, listed side-by side.


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Attention Social Security recipients: Uncle Sam wants you…to go paperless.
On May 1, the federal government began requiring new applicants for Social Security to sign up for direct deposit of their monthly benefit checks.
The change will also affect new applicants for veterans' benefits, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Railroad Retirement Board benefits, among others.
Current recipients must go paperless too—but not until March 1, 2013.
For most, the requirement should be easy to fulfill. When signing up for benefits, applicants must simply include their bank account number, plus the routing number of their financial institution.
Yet another option that some—including those without bank accounts—may prefer: an electronic debit card. The card, which will automatically receive the recipient's benefits each month, can be used to make purchases in stores that accept it or to withdraw cash from an Automated Teller Machine.
The U.S. Treasury Department estimates going paperless will save taxpayers $1 billon over the next decade.
When deciding between a bank account and a debit card, it's important to consider the fees. Banks often impose fees when an account's balance dips below a set threshold. But the debit cards levy fees, too.
While debit cards are widely available—for example, at drug stores and storefront lenders—both the Treasury Department and consumer advocates recommend that consumers use the Direct Express Debit MasterCard, issued by Comerica Bank. "The fees may be higher than we would like, but they are a lot lower than those on cards issued by other providers," says Margot Saunders, an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, Inc. a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization.
With the Direct Express Debit MasterCard, holders are entitled to make one free ATM withdrawal every month. After that, there's a 90-cent charge for each withdrawal, plus additional surcharges for transactions at out-of-network ATMs. (To avoid withdrawal fees altogether, cardholders can go old fashioned and use a teller.) Consumers are also liable for fees on some transactions, including transfers to bank accounts, and for monthly paper statements, among other services.
Like bank accounts, debit card balances are covered by FDIC insurance, up to the legal limits. Consumers also enjoy certain protections for lost or stolen cards.
To sign up for the Direct Express Debit MasterCard, call 877-212-9991 or go to www.USDirectExpress.com. To set up direct deposit, those with bank accounts can call 800-333-1795 or visit www.GoDirect.org. They can also call their bank or credit union or the Social Security Administration at 800-772-1213 or www.socialsecurity.gov.


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There are some clubs you don't ever want to join.
For instance: the Kenyon Martin Club.
MORE: Arizona falls | Syracuse wins thriller over Duke | Texas slays Kansas
Arizona's Brandon Ashley is the newest member, after it was confirmed Sunday that he did indeed break his foot.
Martin was a great player and extraordinary leader for Cincinnati in the 1999-2000 season, but as much as anything he's remembered for the broken leg that occurred in the Bearcats' Conference USA Tournament opener against Saint Louis. They lost that game, were dropped from a No. 1 to a No. 2 seed by the NCAA Tournament selection committee and then fell in the round of 32 to Bill Self's underseeded 30-win Tulsa team.
He is sort of the patron saint of crushing college basketball late-season injuries. The Bearcats were ranked No. 1 in the nation when he was injured. They were certain to be a No. 1 seed in the tournament and perhaps even No. 1 overall even if they did not fare well in their league tournament. They featured two lottery picks (Martin and guard DerMarr Johnson) and five in all who would be drafted into the NBA.
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No. 1 Arizona — which will hold that title a few more hours at least — was following a similar course to that Cincinnati team. In fact, the Wildcats were ahead of the pace, carrying a perfect record into February. They fell 60-58 on the road at California late Saturday, but more important was the injury that knocked Ashley out of the game in the first half.
He returned to the bench later wearing a protective boot, and coach Sean Miller said afterward it was likely Ashley had a broken foot that would keep him out the rest of the season. Now, it appears those fears have been confirmed.
A broken foot can be a tricky injury. While playing point guard at Pitt, Levance Fields broke his foot in late December 2007. He originally was projected to miss 8-12 weeks but came back in six and helped Pitt win the Big East Tournament. He continued to experience discomfort in the foot, however, through part of his final college season.
There are just under seven weeks before the start of the NCAA Tournament, so if presented a similar timeline even a rushed rehab would give Ashley no time to work back into playing shape before the Wildcats opened their pursuit of the title.
Thus it appears Ashley might join these college greats in the Martin Club:
Ronnie Lester, Iowa 1980 (knee)
Lester injured his knee midway through his senior season and missed 15 games as a result. At the time he was hurt, Iowa had a perfect record and was ranked in the top 10. When he returned for the final regular-season game, the Hawkeyes were positioned only to receive a No. 5 seed in the NCAAs, but he carried them to the Final Four with an assist/turnover ratio of 6.5-to-1. He scored the team's first 10 points in the national semis against Louisville — then was injured again. The Cardinals went on the win the national title.
Derek Anderson, Kentucky 1997 (knee)
Anderson was the best player on a 16-2 Kentucky team when he tore his ACL in the third week of January. Anderson was averaging 18.6 points to lead the team in scoring and joined with sophomore Ron Mercer to give UK the best wing combination in college basketball. The Wildcats were able still to earn a No. 1 seed without him; his only action following the injury was the chance to shoot a technical free throw in the national semis against Minnesota. UK lost the title game to Arizona in overtime.
Brian Butch, Wisconsin 2007 (elbow)
In a clash between Big Ten titans in late February at Ohio State's Value City Arena, Butch fell over the end line and landed on his elbow, suffering a frightening fracture and dislocation. The Badgers entered the game ranked No. 1, with Ohio State right behind at No. 2. The Buckeyes won by a point. Without Butch the rest of the way, the Badgers dropped to a No. 2 seed, then lost to UNLV in the round of 32.
Robbie Hummel, Purdue 2010 (knee)
In a late February game at Minnesota, Hummel slipped while trying to plant his leg and tore his ACL. The Boilermakers managed to win that game by a point though he played just 12 minutes, which improved their record to 24-3. They were the No. 3-ranked team. But as he sat out the rest of the season they went 3-2 over the final five games. They got a No. 4 NCAA seed and lost to eventual champion Duke in the Sweet 16.
Kendall Marshall, North Carolina 2012 (wrist)
North Carolina was 29-5 and a No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region when it faced Creighton in a round of 32 game. Marshall was loose for a fastbreak layup when he was fouled hard – some might say excessively hard – by forward Ethan Wragge. There was some discussion that he would try to play, but he missed an overtime Sweet 16 win over Ohio and an 80-67 Elite Eight loss to Kansas. With four NBA players in the starting lineup, the Tar Heels had been viewed as the chief competitor to No. 1 Kentucky. With the Heels out of the way, the Wildcats won the title.


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Topic: The Big Isn't
OK......This is how it works. You post a part of 1 whole story in order, (and you HAVE to add you with your username in it ) Then, at the end I will put it all together and make a short story. Each person can only do 1 part of the story.
I'll start.....
Boba Fett flew his Starship, Slave1, along the space of 'The Big Isn't'. As he glided Slave1 across the system, he noticed a far off flicker of light. "And what do we have here?" he said as he tried to connect to thier transmission. "Transmission connected" Slave 1 confirmed. A red eyed creature's face appeared on his screen. "I know why your here Fett. Your trying to steal my bounty are you!!" It was the Trandishonian bounty hunter, Bossk, flying his ship,The Hound. "Well your no-hey!...how'd you get out?!" Bossk's head turned around on the moniter screen. "PIO!!PIO!!....AHHH!" A flash of blaster fire appeared onto the screen. Bossk's head, lay on the dashboard....unlively. Boba Fett watched in such curiousness to what had just happened. Suddenly, a man's figure appeared on the far side of the screen. His helmet was that of a Scout Trooper's, but painted over with a dark green pastel. His armor, the same color. His small mandalorian cape swayed freely, his blaster, at his side. Boba Fett knew exactly who this was."You!" Fett holard. The warrior responded with the same exact raspy, cold voice as Boba's. "U lookin for me?" the warrior asked. Boba Fett responded," You better believe that when I turn you in to the Empire,you will suffer much pain..............True Warrior" At that moment, the one called True Warrior disconnected the transmission. Boba Fett took his attention away from the viewscreen, and looked out of the cockpit. He could see The Hound in clear view. The Hound then powered up tit's engines, and took off.
Now someone else has to continue the story, and remember......you have to put yourself in it..........I'm not much of a writer, plus I had to type this story fast at the time.But I know theres people on the boards with great talent! ......And I dont care how it goes, I'm just interested in what you write!!
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Lisa does a great job with the podcast. She gives a mix of industry news, research strategies, technology, interviews, blogs and more. I always seem to learn something new from each podcast.
Episode number 79 came out this week and it was great. Lisa did a LIVE podcast during the banquet dinner at the Mesa Family History Expo. It was recorded and then released as a podcast. Lisa discussed with the banquet attendees many of the benefits of blogging about genealogy. I hope to see more genealogy blogs popping up as I am sure her enthusiasm was passed on to those listening. Her guests for this episode were:
Gena Philibert Ortega, Gena's Genealogy Blog
Thomas MacEntee, Geneablogger
Bruce Buzbee, RootsMagic software
Anastasia Tyler, Ancestry


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March 6, 2012
Parents traveling with the team and local alumni dined with the team following their victory at Texas Lutheran.
Mark Cevallos '99, an attorney in San Antionio, and his wife Janis served as local hosts and selected a great restaurant - Los Barrios. The guys enjoyed a great meal and time away from the hotel to meet local alumni. Bob Pollom '70 and his wife Stephanie surprised the guys by providing dessert for the entire group!
Montana Timmons '13 was surprised as the musicians at the restaurant called him up and sang happy birthday to him.
The evening ended with the baseball team singing "Old Wabash".


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PQ shooting suspect faces charges including murder, arson
Richard Henry Bain, the English-speaking fishing lodge owner arrested in a deadly shooting at a separatist victory rally, was arraigned Thursday on first-degree murder and 15 other charges.
None of the 16 counts against the 61-year-old mentioned Parti Quebecois premier-elect Pauline Marois, who was rushed off a nightclub stage Tuesday shortly after technician Denis Blanchette was shot and killed nearby.
Crown attorney Eliane Perreault wouldn't confirm police suggestions that Marois might have been the target. The Crown also refused to discuss a possible motive.
"For now the investigation is ongoing and we'll see in the future if there's any charges that have to be added," Perreault told reporters following the brief arraignment.
Constables led the heavy-set, goateed suspect into the courthouse before a horde of news cameras prior to the court hearing Thursday.
Shackled hand and foot, the suspect entered the prisoner's box wearing a white T-shirt, blue sweatpants and glasses. He maintained a blank look on his face throughout.
Bain is also charged with attempted murder related to the shooting of a second club technician.
Other charges are connected to gas, guns and flares in an SUV near the scene. There were also guns in Bain's home north of Montreal, said the Crown.
"Two weapons on him, three in the car and 22 at his house," Perreault said.
The only unregistered gun was the Ceska Zbrojovka rifle used to shoot the club workers.
Marois was concluding a nationally televised victory speech at the packed Metropolis club when a masked man dressed in black came to a rear entrance and opened fire.
Blanchette is believed to have tried to stop the attack before being shot and killed. The entrance was set on fire and the suspect ran away before a police officer tackled him and took him into custody.
The suspect yelled "The English are waking up" just before he was put into a patrol car, raising the spectre of possible anti-separatist motives.
Police have since stepped up security measures around Marois and her home near Quebec City.
Bain's friends told QMI Agency the businessman was taking medication for mental illness.
Donald Kerr, a retired pastor who lives in Bain's hometown north of Montreal, said the suspect has an obsessive personality.
"When I saw Rick on television, I realized that this man was completely crazy," Kerr told QMI Agency from La Conception, Que.
"I knew Rick a bit before this terrible event, and I was completely disappointed."
Others who know Bain said he showed no signs of violence, though La Conception Mayor Maurice Plouffe said the suspect was a very demanding person who was unable to get authorization to expand his fishing lodge because of a government moratorium.
"I'm very surprised," said the mayor. "He was not angry. Persistent, yes, angry, no."
Alleged PQ rally shooter Richard Henry Bain was arrested with two guns on him and three others in his SUV. Here's the tally:
- Gas canisters and flares
- Beretta 9 mm Luger pistol
- 9 mm Luger pistol
- 357 Magnum revolver
- Ceska Zbrojovka rifle
- Semi-automatic 22LR rifle


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I am a lisp newbie, and i was wanting to set up hunchentoot as a lisp application/web server (apache -> hunchentoot)
I am using ECL as it is supported on my platform (ARM)
Everything looked good initially i installed ecl, added quicklisp and did
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(ql:quickload "hunchentoot")
this downloads a bunch of packages, but all seems good, so i try to start up a test server with
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and.... IT WORKS!! i browse to the page on localhost:4242 , great!
I then quit out of ecl and later go back in, and try to recreate
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(ql:quickload "hunchentoot")
seems ok, (but obviously doens't download a bunch of stuff this time)
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(hunchentoot:start (make-instance 'hunchentoot:easy-acceptor :port 4242))
Uh oh, this time i get the following error
Condition of type: BORDEAUX-MP-CONDITION
There is no support for this method on this implementation.
I have tried lots of things (such as using require instead of ql:quickload) , this is being thrown up by the brodeaux-mp-threads package, but i dont know how or why. Here is what seems to be the relevant code snippet from the bordeaux-threads in case it helps...
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(defgeneric make-threading-support-error ()
(:documentation "Creates a BORDEAUX-THREADS condition which specifies
whether there is no BORDEAUX-THREADS support for the implementation, no
threads enabled for the system, or no support for a particular
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:message (if *supports-threads-p*
"There is no support for this method on this implementation."
"There is no thread support in this instance."))))
If i delete my 'quicklisp' folder completely and then re-install quickload, and then load (ql:quickload 'hunchentoot) , the 'test' server will work fine, but if i quit ecl and go back in and try to load it again then I get the error above.
It looks as if something is being loaded up when hunchentoot is being downloaded/loaded for the first time, which it is missing when i go back in. Im not sure if this is a quickload issue, or an issue with the hunchentoot package, or a 'weirdness' specific to ECL,
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On the other side of the trees in the distance was Krematorium V and its burning pits. In this field people were also burned in large cremation pits. The monuments in four languages, Polish, Russian, English, and German read:
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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Dick Bremer has long been a familiar voice for Twins fans, as he is entering his 31st season as the club's play-by-play announcer.
Bremer, who got his start with the Twins as a broadcaster in 1983 and has been working with Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven in the booth for 19 years, took time out of his busy schedule for a Q&A with MLB.com.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Dick Bremer has long been a familiar voice for Twins fans, as he is entering his 31st season as the club's play-by-play announcer.
Bremer, who got his start with the Twins as a broadcaster in 1983 and has been working with Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven in the booth for 19 years, took time out of his busy schedule for a Q&A with MLB.com.
MLB.com: First of all, how did your offseason go and how do you spend your offseason when you're not broadcasting the Twins?
Bremer: I spent a lot of time with the family trying to make up for lost time during the baseball season when there doesn't seem to be enough free time to spend with the family. I live in Minnesota year-round, so I do a lot of hunting and fishing. I enjoy the wintertime sports activities that are available in Minnesota, but like everybody else, I was sick of winter on Feb. 1, so you can imagine how anxious I was to get down here on March 1.
MLB.com: So in that sense, how excited are you to be back in the booth calling Twins games?
Bremer: It's always fun this time of year. The one thing I've learned over the course of time is that you don't really know at this stage of the season what type of team you're going to be following the upcoming season. I do get a chuckle out of people who try to predict win totals and all that. The Twins are probably the best example of how you really can't tell in March how many games a team is going to win before a season starts. The hope, of course, is that the Twins will be this year's version of the Indians or Royals, teams that caught a spark. Baltimore did it a couple years ago, and they rode it out to the end of the season. A lot of things have to break for that to happen, but there is that type of hope.
MLB.com: Bert Blyleven has been your partner in the booth for a long time, but what will the breakdown be this year in terms of how many games he'll work with you?
Bremer: It's going to be pretty much the way it has been the last few years. Bert is going do 100 games, and Roy Smalley will do something in the neighborhood of 25 games. The one change is that Ron Coomer, who did such a great job for us on Twins television, took a job with the Cubs as their radio analyst. So Ron is going to be working in Chicago. So in essence, to do what Ron had been doing, the Twins got Jack Morris to do in the neighborhood 20 to 25 games, and do pre and postgame work, too. So I don't know how many complete games on the field the Twins are going to have, but we're going to have a lot of them in the booth with Bert and Jack.
MLB.com: How do the styles contrast between the other broadcasters you work with?
Bremer: It's different. My job as a play-by-play guy is take whatever the perceived strengths are of somebody who has done it for a long time such as Bert, or even someone who is doing TV really for the first time like Jack or Tom Kelly, and try to extract that from them on the air. So it's fun. But I guess it can be challenging. But it's fun because the people I've worked with are all so different and have brought different experiences, backgrounds and personalities to the booth.
MLB.com: What are some of the other responsibilities that come with being a broadcaster? Are there other events that maybe Twins fans don't realize you do outside of broadcasting Twins games?
Bremer: Well, we do a lot of public appearances for the ballclub. Most of them come in the offseason. The Twins Winter Caravan is kind of the nucleus of all of that. I guess I've always looked at it like you're on the air three and a half hours a night times 150 -- so you're on the air an awful lot -- but you're always representing the ballclub, whether you're on the air or going to the grocery store to get a gallon of milk because people recognize you and associate you with the team. So whether it's a formal, structured public appearance or not, you just kind of feel like you're always out there as a representative of the ballclub.
MLB.com: How much prep work goes into your job?
Bremer: It's changed an awful lot with the advent of the Internet. When I started in the early '80s, we would come to the ballpark and there would be one sheet of paper that was the notes for both teams. So you'd go through that and kind of sort out what you could use for the broadcast and what you wouldn't. But now, as you know, there's so much available to you. Generally, now in the morning, one of the first things I'll do is spend an hour and a half or two hours on the Internet reading things. And not so much on the Twins, because if you're doing your job, you have a pretty good handle on that. But the teams the Twins are playing, reading their local newspapers and Web sites and trying to get more up to speed on what's been going with that team. So for a 7 o'clock game, I've always made it a point to never be there later than 4 o'clock, or three hours before a ballgame. Generally, I'm usually there about four hours before a ballgame. And then you spend that time talking with the managers, coaches, players, other broadcasters, writers to again get as much background as you can for that game that night.
MLB.com: You mentioned talking with the coaching staff, I know something you like to do is participate in the media sessions with manager Ron Gardenhire, so how important is that to get the pulse of the team from the manager?
Bremer: Well, it's very, very important in this day of satellite television where anybody in the world can be watching your broadcast on any given night. Ninety-nine percent of the audience you'll have that night are very biased. They're Twins fans, or they're interested in the Twins so they want to know what's going on with the ballclub. They want to know who's healthy, who's not, why this was done, why that wasn't done. So there's no better person to talk to than the manager. That's why if you're in the job that I have, you really have to establish and maintain a good relationship with the people you need to do your job well, and certainly the manager is at the top of the list.
MLB.com: Can it be tough to balance that fact that you're employed by the Twins but you don't want to be biased when you call the games? How do you balance that?
Bremer: Well, I think the best way to go about it is that the fans aren't stupid. They know good baseball. They know bad baseball. You're not going to fool them by covering up or painting a rosy picture of something that isn't very rosy. The last three years for the Twins, the fans know the team wasn't very good. The balance that comes, or the counterbalance I guess, is that you're still in the business of trying to attract an audience. So if you give the fans the benefit of the doubt that they know that the double-play needs to be turned, then you don't need to harp on it. They can see that. And then you move on, and you try to give them a reason to keep watching.
MLB.com: Obviously, the last three years have been tough for the Twins. Do you believe the future will be brighter for the team?
Bremer: I'm very bullish on the future of the Minnesota Twins. Every organization, all 30 teams, try to convince their fan bases they have great prospects coming up and that future is going to be bright. So there's nothing unique about the Twins lauding Byron Buxton or Miguel Sano and some others. But when you have other organizations and people in baseball who are objective and have seen prospects come up, say, 'This kid is really special, and that kid is going to be an impact player, and that guy is going to be a No. 1 starter sometime,' that's when you realize the corner is being turned here. The immediate future looks very bright for the Twins.
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Of all the bands that emerged from Seattle's so-called grunge scene in the early 1990s — think of the moody, flannel-clad likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains — none was harder to pin down than Soundgarden.
Brutish but thoughtful, muscular yet deeply melodic, the group's music resisted easy classification, just as frontman Chris Cornell seemed to defy attempts to parse his densely allusive lyrics. Even the band's biggest hit, "Black Hole Sun," which cracked the top 10 of Billboard's pop-radio chart in 1994, remains a mystery from its opening couplet on: "In my eyes, indisposed / In disguises no one knows."
Here was an outfit — one that broke up in 1997 — fully in touch with the value of obscurity.
It came as something of a surprise, then, to hear Cornell describe Soundgarden's new reunion album as an attempt to "demystify" the group's attack.
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David Galbraith: online genealogy Archives
David Galbraith's weblog has an Online Genealogy category.
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Students Keep History Alive in Talks With Seniors
Talking with Seniors (L.A. Times, reg required)
Members of a Pierce College sociology class are writing biographies of participants in an older adult program held at the school.
For some seniors, the sessions provide an opportunity to ponder what they still want to accomplish.
"It's a wonderful way for students to learn historical events in a personal context. Older adults can begin to figure out where they will be in the decades ahead," said Donna Benton, a USC assistant research professor in gerontology. She runs the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center at USC's Andrus Gerontology Center and is familiar with the process called life review.
It also gives students a chance to dispel stereotypes about seniors and become more comfortable with the aging process, Benton said.
"[Before the interviews] young people might think that older people aren't sexual ...Read More
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Survivors of the SHOAH
An online history collection with first-person accounts of Holocaust survivors
Shoah Visutal History Foundation
This is taken from the FAQ (which is in a pernicious PDF format that does not allow selecting and copying text):
1n 1994, after filming Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg established Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation as a nonprofit organization to document the experiences of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, including those who aided, rescued, and liberated the survivors. Beacuse of the advanced age of most of the survivors and other witnesses, the Foundation's mission was particularly urgent.
In each testimony [the term they use to refer to their oral history interviews] , one survivor or other witness speaks about his or her ...Read More
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Genealogy in the News
News stories about Genealogy.
(I wonder if it's got an RSS feed. I didn't see one on the page) Genealogy in the News is a service of genealogysearch.org, pointing out newsstories relevant to Genealogy. I found one that was interesting…
* Growing your family tree
The thrill of making connections between the past and present is one of the reasons genealogy has become the second-most-popular hobby in the United States after gardening. Newsday (NY), March 15, 2004.
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Veterans History Project
The Veterans History Project: Sponsored by the U.S. Congress (elsewhere I've seen Library of Congress), AARP, and the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust.
The Veterans History Project focuses on World War I (1914-1920), World War II (1939-1946), and the Korean (1950-1955), Vietnam (1961-1975), and Persian Gulf (1990-1995) wars. It includes all participants in those wars—men and women, civilian and military. It documents the contributions of civilian volunteers, support staff, and war industry workers as well as the experiences of military personnel from all ranks and all branches of service—the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy, as well as the U.S. Coast ...Read More
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From a blurb in a Michigan paper
This is one time when the words moderator and boring in the same sentence may not spell out punishment. (and when I was in grade school I hated my last name, too.)
The Freedom Series: "Air War in the Pacific" moderated by Frank Boring, director of oral history and programs, Michigan Military Preservation Society, at 9:30 a.m.Tuesday at Caledonia High School, 9757 Duncan Lake Ave. SE, Caledonia, free, call 974-1955.
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Man finds roots using oral history
Tate County Democrat story about Melvin Collier's search into his family's past.
Collier's quest to find his family roots has led him in many directions. He has learned a great deal through oral history—by talking to older relatives recounting stories of days gone by. "You know, without this, I could never have gotten as far as I have. The oral history is extremely important," Collier said. Collier has also spent a lot of time searching census, marriage, death, birth and social security records in an effort to find out about his family. "It takes a lot of work, but it is something that I love to do," he stated.
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ARTICLE: Oral history project explores women in science
From the Univeristy of Wisconsin an article about a woman faculty member whose experiences as a first woman faculty member has been recorded in the University of Wisconson-Madison archives Oral History Project.
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Listen & Type
MacOS shareware app for playing audio files in order to transcribe them.
The playback window always goes in front of whatever other app you're working with (Word?), and the playback is controlled via key commands. Download it from Nattaworks. Available in two flavors: MacOS X and MacOS 8/9
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Turn your iPod into a digital recording device
Record oral history conversations using Griffin Technology's iTalk, which turns your iPod into a Voice Recorder.
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Oral History and The Bomb
Los Alamos Monitor story on UNLV Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
Lecture by the director of the UNLV NTSOHP (now that's a mouthful!), Mary Palevski.
In her lecture, Palevsky will discuss "Atomic Fragments" and how it led to her current work directing the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at UNLV, during which oral history interviews are being conducted with over 150 individuals affiliated with the site in a variety of capacities during the Cold War. She will be conducting several interviews while in New Mexico
The article also discusses a bit about Oral History itself:
Although oral traditions are as old as humankind, the discipline of oral history came into being in the 20th century, with the rise of recording technologies. Palevsky will discuss the value of oral methods when researching and documenting nuclear history ...Read More
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Bulitt Library (Louisville, KY) joins oral history effort
Veteran oral histories, part of the Veteran History Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the AARP.
Louisville Library takes part in Veterans History Project
The Bullitt County Public Library is joining a national effort to preserve the memories and oral histories of war veterans, starting with an informational session this week to gauge interest in the county.
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Family Oral History weblog begins!
Let the weblog begin! At the outset, this will be a collection of links and stories of interest, while I explore where weblogging on family oral history is going.
what happens when I attempt to create a link list?
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This cane was presented to one of Greenfield, Massachusetts', longest-serving lawyers on his retirement in 1903. Samuel Lamb was born in Guilford, Vermont, in October, 1821, the son of a Baptist minister and farmer. He was a good student, and taught school for four years after completing his own formal education. In 1843, Lamb came to Greenfield and began reading law in the offices of Whiting Griswold. Two years later, Lamb began writing for one of the local newspapers, the Franklin Democrat. In 1848, he became editor and proprietor. Lamb was typical of early lawyers in that he became a lawyer without going to college. Throughout the 1700s and 1800s lawyers in training read law in an established law office for several years. At some point, they were then given an oral examination by other lawyers, who would then either accept or reject their application "to the bar." Lamb passed the bar in 1850. He practiced in Greenfield for more than fifty years. A pillar of the community, he was involved in a number of other business and service interests, including serving as president of the Franklin Savings Institution. Much beloved in the town, he died in 1908.
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So there was a book festival in town last weekend.
The 5th Annual Chestnut Hill book Festival was a slightly more subdued event than it has been in the past, with a single day of events instead of the three-day affair it was in the beginning. The festival still drew some impressive guests, however, including Inquirer writer Michael Klein, Daily News columnist John Baer and former Daily news writer Al Hunter Jr.
There was much more. Temple professor and award-winning novelist Don Lee read from his novel "The Collective." Children's Author Daniel Kaye read from his book "Never Underestimate a Hermit Crab." There were readings by historian and photographer Joseph Minardi, memoirist Beth Kephart and poet James Hoch. Philadelphia Stories led several workshops for both adults and children, and Chestnut Hill Improv returned for a repeat performance in the Bombay Room of the Chestnut Hill Hotel.
There was quite literally something for every interest. And it drew a healthy crowd of neighborhood bibliophiles who listened to authors, asked questions and participated in workshops. There were 14 events spread out over nearly eight hours.
The event was put together by a very small group of local volunteers: Chestnut Grill owner Greg Welsh, Chestnut Hill Business Association Deputy Director Kate O'Neill, local author Hugh Gilmore, Musehouse owner and writer Kathy Bonanno and neighborhood book festival supporters Marie Lachat and Bob Rossman.
A book festival in itself is a fairly brave undertaking by any measure. There is no apparent shortage of people writing books, and the path to publishing and promoting those books has never been easier. Self-publishing options are capable of producing good-looking volumes, and Amazon makes bringing a book to market almost a point-and-click process.
With that, though, comes the sense from the reading public that there is an awful lot of "noise" out there. With more and more books available from nearly anyone with the time and inclination to print them, how does one choose what to read?
Also, in an age where conventional wisdom suggests that attention spans are being drained by the ever louder and greater noise of the World Wide Web, the concept of sitting down and typing out a manuscript seems as antiquated today as delivering milk door-to-door.
I had the chance to ask John Baer and Al Hunter about the impact of Internet noise on their own writing, both in their experience as journalists and as writers of book-length works of non-fiction.
Neither writer was terribly optimistic about the evaporation of the professional journalist and the resulting decline of informed and expert writing on important matters of government, science and more. Baer said that all we would have left is news about sex and celebrities. In the drive to produce more page views, the carefully considered work of writing doesn't stand a chance against the latest paparazzi photos.
It's all pretty depressing in that light.
But despite frequent death predictions, the book is not nearly dead yet. Authors are writing great stories, and people are buying them. And many are buying them electronically, which is just as good as if they bought them in print.
Dedicating a day to books is more proof of that concept. There are still great writers and audiences willing to hear what they have to say.


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Squadron has introduced a bill into the state legislature that would make it illegal to make a profit off reselling tickets to charity events. Squadron was concerned about the Sandy relief concert – the 12-12-12 concert – for which scalpers snatched up the tickets as fast as they could and then resold them for a big profit to people who just wanted to see a good show and support a good cause.
Instead, most of their hard-earned money went to unscrupulous ticket dealers.
So Squadron introduced his bill, and gave a small speech explaining it. You can read some of his comments in the article in the "news" part of the paper, but the stuffy editors at this rag took out all of the good parts. We feel we would be doing a disservice to you, our loyal readers, if we didn't share the whole epic quote with you. Here it is:
"Those who profit from charitable events when NYC is in need, yeah that's a trifling friend indeed. Events like this are about artists donating their time for a good cause. Yet today, profiteers are able to co-opt charity events to line their own pockets. We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control to know that profiteering from charitable causes is wrong. Baby we were born to run away from letting charitable events be hijacked by profiteers."
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MIDDLEBURY — The Addison County American Legion baseball team opened its 2014 campaign with a pair of losses in a Sunday doubleheader, 7-3 in 14 innings and 11-0 to the visiting Colchester Cannons.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Typically, baseball's Trade Deadline motivates the Giants to do something.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Typically, baseball's Trade Deadline motivates the Giants to do something.
This year, they have little urgency to do anything.
The reigning World Series champions approach the end of July well under .500, leaving them short of respectability and steadily further from contention in the National League West. Until recently, trying to acquire an elite pitcher or proven hitter appeared to be an option for the Giants. Now, after a disastrous 3-7 homestand, making such a deal probably would be a fruitless effort, not to mention a waste of the personnel the Giants would have to surrender. Since depth of talent has become an issue for the Giants, parting with decent prospects probably would be an unwise move for the organization in the long run.
Giants general manager Brian Sabean recently defined the Giants' situation in terms that might have sounded somewhat contradictory but didn't totally clash with each other.
"I would say, on balance, I'm prepared to stand pat," Sabean said. Yet he also said that he would remain "open minded," thus keeping his options open.
Sabean didn't ruled out the possibility of dealing a marketable veteran -- for example, right fielder Hunter Pence or left-handed reliever Javier Lopez leading up to Wednesday's 1 p.m. PT non-waiver Trade Deadline. The club's free fall on the field increases the likelihood of this kind of deal, at least incrementally.
If the Giants dealt Pence, it would mark his third consecutive year to change teams at the Deadline. The unconventional yet productive 30-year-old went from Houston to Philadelphia in 2011 before moving to the Giants last year in exchange for three players. Eligible for free agency at the end of this season, Pence has said that he'd like to stay with San Francisco. But he wouldn't be the first player to swoon under the romance of the open market.
Lopez, 36, ranks as one of the league's top relief specialists. He'd be a wise acquisition for a contending team hoping to complement its bullpen with somebody who can neutalize left-handed hitters.
"If the right suitor came along, we would listen on some of our players," Sabean said.
That's because even Sabean acknowledged that the Giants appear finished as postseason contenders this year.
"As we speak, the math is horrific against us and we're almost ready to turn the page on this season," he said. And that was before the Chicago Cubs swept San Francisco in a weekend series.
Sabean has made trades while the club struggled. In 2008, the Giants were eight games out of first place on July 20 when Sabean traded second baseman Ray Durham, a fixture in the lineup since he joined the team in '03, to Milwaukee. They were 11 games behind in '07 when right-hander Matt Morris went to Pittsburgh.
Otherwise, the Giants have attempted to bolster their roster in recent years at the Trade Deadline. Despite being only marginally in contention in 2005 and '06, they dealt for outfielder Randy Winn and first baseman Shea Hillenbrand, respectively. While cruising above .500 in each of the last four years, they acquired first baseman Ryan Garko and second baseman Freddy Sanchez ('09), Lopez and right-hander Ramon Ramirez ('10), right fielder Carlos Beltran and shortstop Orlando Cabrera ('11), and Pence and second baseman Marco Scutaro ('12).
Ideally, the Giants would latch onto a consistent starting pitcher or a proven hitter to begin restocking the roster for next year. But that performer would have to be under contract for 2014 or ready to guarantee his services to the club past this season. As Sabean has said and as common sense dictates, adding a rent-a-player who's bound for free agency would be pointless at this juncture.
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Post subject: Dining Out: Hard Knox Cafe (San Francisco, California)
There is a special place in my heart for soul food. Thinking of the crunch of buttermilk fried chicken, melt in your mouth texture of braised ox tails, and succulent barbecue ribs makes my mouth water. There aren't very many places in the San Francisco Bay Area that do an outstanding job at preparing soul food, but Hard Knox Cafe in San Francisco is definitely one of the best.
Hard Knox Cafe is located in the Dogpatch historic district of San Francisco near the corner of 3rd and 22nd streets. Like many of San Francisco's restaurants, the front door (which is barred) is actually kind of easy to miss unless you're looking for it.
Inside, the cafe features walls lined with corrugated steel, a bar that seats about seven or eight people, and several four person booths with vinyl seats that are cracked or ripped due to age and use. When you spot an empty table, make a beeline for it and sit down. If you don't, there's a high probability that someone else coming in after you will move in and take the table. Don't wait to be seated, just go for it.
Sandwiches and burgers can be had for about $6 to $8, but the real deals are the entrees that range from $8 to $13. All entrees come with two sides and a pair of corn muffins. After ordering, the first things that arrive are your corn muffins which are served piping hot. The crust nice and crunchy and the insides moist and flavorful. Sinking your teeth into these corn muffins makes you wish you could start every meal with them.
My favorite sides to have are the corn and the rice with gravy.
After tasting their fried chicken, Tina exclaimed that theirs was the best fried chicken she has ever had in her life. When she asked if I thought the same, I said, "Why do you think I brought you here?"
Last time I showed up at Hard Knox, a little past noon on a Saturday, they had a breakfast menu that was available that I hadn't seen before. This allowed me to marry two of my favorite classes of foods - soul food and breakfast food. I ended up with a delicious country fried steak served with an incredible gravy (they refused to tell me what was in it except that it starts with homemade stock) that I paired with two eggs over medium and home fried potatoes. Although the eggs and potatoes were good, it's not in the same league as their classic entrees.
The food served at Hard Knox Cafe is so good that I don't really know what to say. If you get a chance to visit, I recommend ordering the fried chicken or the ox tails. One thing to note is that the green vegetables will be cooked Southern style (way overcooked).}?>
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:21 pm
Post subject: Great looking food
Real good looking comfort food there. The country fried steak and eggs with homefries looks great.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:26 pm
Post subject: great place to eat
last time I was in the bay area my buddy took me to HardKnox. all I have to say is WOW. I had the ribs with an amazing bbq sauce, collard greens, and mashed sweet potatoes. All were amazing and I will definitely be going back!
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:57 pm
Post subject: how extremely interesting!
i bet i'll never go there - but how fascinating to get a look at this restaurant and its offerings. thank you very much!
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I've been there three times and it is definitely one of my favorite restaurants. I would highly recommend it to anyone who will be in the Bay area.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:30 am
Post subject: Looks Great
Great pics! I once saw this featured on "Pacific Fusion" with Brook Lee. The oxtails looked so good I recorded the episode. I wanna go on my next SF visit!
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:22 pm
Post subject: I love Hard Knox!
The cornbread, mac n cheese, and red beans and rice are the BEST. I thought the fried chicken was ok but the short ribs are awesome! Go there as soon as possible if you live anywhere near by.
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:28 pm
Post subject: Gotta go back to this place...
Well, if this wasn't a great tip! I recently returned from a Stateside trip (including Sanfra, NV and UT) with my loved one and this was the one place I told her I wanted to go to while in town. Being herself a good food lover, she had no qualms about it.
The place sure is out of the tourists' routes, and that's a major bonus. We went there on Nov.4, so the TV was tuned to elections results and everybody's eyes were glued to the screen. The atmosphere was palpable...
Just a few minutes after taking place at one of the tables we had hot cornbread in front of us and it filled up the air with a heavenly fragrance. It was hard not to gobble it at once, but we opted for smaller chunks and savored it slowly. I never visited the Southern states, so I can't say if they have better, but this is the yardstick every other cornbread I'll taste will be measured against.
Choosing from the menu didn't take long: fried chicken with a side of corn and rice for her, short ribs with mashed potatoes & gravy and yams from me. Of course we enjoy sharing...
Portions are, as always in America, sizeable and it wasn't easy to get to the end but -considering what was in our dishes- we would've felt like criminals if we didn't clean up the plates.
The entrees were excellent: juicy and crispy chicken and perfectly cooked ribs, but the sides were out there, especially the yams and mashed potatoes. ANd I could swear that gravy comes directly from Heaven's kitchen.
Once again, Cooking For Engineers proved to be an invaluable resource: thank you and keep up the good work.
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really? I've only gone there once and wrote it off as some of the worst cooking I've ever had. . . Most items were beyond overcooked and the greens were of seriously low quality. Maybe I hit a bad day or something?
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really? I've only gone there once and wrote it off as some of the worst cooking I've ever had. . . Most items were beyond overcooked and the greens were of seriously low quality. Maybe I hit a bad day or something?
I've had subpar fried chicken there once when I showed up late in the afternoon and the frying oil was "tired" enough that everything was a little burnt. It's best during "normal" hours. I suspect you hit a bad time and suggest you try it again. All my other meals there were excellent.
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