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Vancouver is a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English. Classed as a Beta global city, the city is well known for its majestic natural beauty, as it is nestled between the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently ranked as one of the "best cities to live in" and is certainly a beautiful destination to visit.
Kailua is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaiʻi County, Hawaii, United States, in the North Kona District of the Island of Hawaiʻi. It is the center of commerce and of the tourist industry on West Hawaiʻi. Its post office is designated Kailua-Kona to differentiate it from the larger Kailua located on windward side of Oʻahu island, and it is sometimes referred to as Kona in everyday speech. The city is served by Kona International Airport, located just to the north in the adjacent Kalaoa CDP. Kailua-Kona was the closest major settlement to the epicenter of the 2006 Hawaiʻi Earthquake.
Honolulu, on Oahu's south shore, is the main gateway to Hawaii and a major gateway into the United States. The city is a major hub for international business, military defense, as well as famously being host to a diverse variety of east-west and Pacific culture, cuisine, and traditions. The name Honolulu means "sheltered harbor" or "calm port".
Ensenada is a coastal city in Mexico, the third-largest in Baja California. Lying 125 kilometres (78 mi) south of San Diego on the Baja California Peninsula, it is locally referred to as La Cenicienta del Pacífico, "The Cinderellaof the Pacific''. One of the first settlements founded in the Californias, Ensenada has emerged as a cruise ship destination, aerospace center, and there is a nearby region to the north east where wine grapes are grown. Situated on the coastline of Bahía de Todos Santos—an inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the peninsula's Gold Coast—the Port of Ensenada is an important commercial, fishing, and tourist port. The city is home to a navy base, army base, and Ensenada Airport, a military airfield which doubles as an airport of entry into Mexico.
Hilo is the second-largest CDP in the State of Hawaiʻi and the largest settlement on the island of Hawaiʻi with a population of 43,263 during the 2010 census. Hilo is the county seat of Hawaiʻi County, Hawaiʻi, and is situated in the South Hilo District. The town overlooks Hilo Bay, and is near two shield volcanoes, Mauna Loa, considered active, and Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano upon which some of the best ground-based astronomical observatories are placed. Hilo is home to the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi, as well as the Merrie Monarch Festival, a week-long celebration of ancient and modern hula, which takes place annually after Easter. It is also home to the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation, one of the world's leading producers of macadamia nuts. It is served by Hilo International Airport, inside the CDP. $$http://vimeo.com/8462409$$
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On2 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 109 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Hi, our names are Merete and Heidi and the name of our company is On2. We are a newly established Danish company, designing, producing and selling accessories, primary through a web shop.
The name of our company is On2. It is inspired from Salsa, where you can dance on the count of two.
We design and produce accessories for women who like to dress up, go out in the evening or go to parties. Our main product is a fashionable belt bag, but we don´t want it to be a part of our logo.
Our target group is women in the age of 18 to 55. We are expect to reach beyond the Scandinavian marked soon.
The wish for our logo is:
- On2 -be creative with our name!
- Elegant, stylish, and feminine.
- Simple and eye-catching.
- It must be equally suitable for web-, print (such as business cards) and either the full logo or part of it used as a hanging pendant (for bags, purses ect.)
- Preference is 2 or 3 colors.
- Vector graphics and in a illustrato file format
Be creative, and help us make a unique company logo.
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A new study focusing on low-income women in St. Louis, MO concludes that expanding access to free contraception — just as the health care reform law does through its provision to provide birth control without a co-pay — leads to significantly lower rates of unintended teen pregnancy and abortion. Researchers found that when women weren't prohibited by cost, they chose more effective, long-lasting forms of birth control and experienced many fewer unintended pregnancies as a result.
Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis worked in partnership with the local Planned Parenthood affiliate to track over 9,200 low-income women in the St. Louis area, some of whom lacked insurance coverage, during a four-year Contraceptive CHOICE study. The CHOICE project simulated Obamacare's birth control provision by allowing teens and women to select from the full range of FDA-approved contraceptive options and receive their preferred method at no cost. They found that birth rates among the teens who received free birth control in the CHOICE project were less than a fifth of the national teen birth rate — just 6.3 births per 1,000 teens, compared to 34.3 per 1,000 teens nationwide in 2010 — and abortion rates were less than half of both the regional and national rates.
And researchers are confident that these positive findings could extend to the rest of the nation, estimating that the national simulation of their CHOICE program could prevent one abortion for every 79 to 137 women given a choice between free birth control options. "As a society, we want to reduce unintended pregnancies and abortion rates. This study has demonstrated that having access to no-cost contraception helps us get to that goal," Alina Salganicoff, director of women's health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, told the Associated Press.In a press release, Planned Parenthood officials noted that the study strongly suggests that President Obama's health reform law will help lower the abortion rate. "This study shows that the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit can dramatically reduce the need for abortion in the U.S. once it is fully implemented," said Dana Singiser, the vice president of public policy and government relations for Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "To prevent unintended pregnancy, women need full information, full coverage and full choice for what type of birth control works best for them."
Lowered rates of unintended pregnancy are directly related to increased access to contraception, and the CHOICE project reinforces the fact that increasing access involves removing cost barriers to birth control. Women of reproductive age currently spend about 68 percent more than men do on out-of-pocket health care costs, partly because of high contraception costs — for example, a year's supply of oral birth control pills typically costs over $1,200 out of pocket. Nearly one in three U.S. women report they have stopped using their preferred contraceptive method, or used it less consistently and effectively, because they could not afford it.


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Brynlee's Dipped in Gold Abode
Name: Brynlee
Location: Idaho Falls, Idaho
Brynlee's room truly was a labor of love (combined with some serious nesting from baby number two). I combined modern patterns with contrasting colors to create an eye popping yet functional room.
I had always loved the vintage look, but as she was getting older I realized that my style was changing. I was leaning more toward a modern style with bold colors and patterns. After I saw an example on Pinterest of the navy, gold, and coral garland I knew that my mind was made up with my color scheme. I would describe my style for her room as modern, playful, and functional.
My favorite item in her room would have to be her little chalkboard table. If I could dip everything in gold I probably would! It was an easy DIY project that took a simple unfinished IKEA table and turned it into a sleek modern chalkboard table. We love her reading corner as well. The book racks on the wall free up some floor space and that little black chair is big enough (for now) for both of us to sit on.
Source List:
- Pink and gold bedding: Land of Nod
- White and gold curtains: Land of Nod
- Navy rug: Overstock.com
- Small geometric patterned chair: Walmart (surprise!)
- Wall prints: Penny Jane Designs (Etsy)
- Tissue Paper Garland: DIY
- IKEA children's table/chalkboard table: Table set from IKEA but completely made over with paint, gold dipped legs, and a chalkboard top.
- Book Rack: DIY with IKEA spice racks
- Ombre Dresser: Dresser originally from Target, made over with an ombre color scheme.
- Gold "B": DIY metallic letter
Thanks, Brittany! Readers you can see more of Brittany by visiting her blog, Ben and Britt Stanly.
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Charter and introductions!
Posted 21 September 2005 - 03:10 PM
The Scientific Photography Forum is dedicated to using digital images as a scientific tool to record data, for communicating to peers and to support education and outreach projects for the public. While everyone is encouraged to post here, this forum is specifically designed to promote discussions among scientists, conservationists and educators that use or would like to use digital photography in their work. To kick start the forum, I'll post several ways I use photography in my work. But what I'd really like to read is how you are using photography as a tool in your work.
Please introduce yourselves let us know how you use photography in your work as a scientist, conservationist, or educator!
Posted 22 September 2005 - 12:58 AM
I'll certainly contribute here! In the UK digital photography is proving to be an excellent tool for use in projects such as SEASEARCH (a volunteer diver habitat/marine life survey program). Although dSLRs do have a distinct edge for fine detail recording (I've just recorded a new site for an obscure and 'rare' coral - confirmed by 3 marine biologists to whom I emailed the pix - the coral Caryophyllia inornata is only 5mm diameter), many images from other digitals are excellent for confirming identifcation and potentially monitoring specific sites.
As an example of how things can be done, a friend of mine has recently set up a compact digital in a housing and uses a Nikonos SB105 (she has Nikonos gear too) with it for biological recording. Interestingly, she uses NO sync cable but merely blocks some forward light from the built in flash. Apparently this works fine for recording marine life and small habitats when she is involved with survey work.
Potentially, digital photography enables far more accurate specie recording than previously.
Paul Kay,Canon EOS5DII SEACAM c/w S45, 8-15, 24L,35L, 60/2.8 (+Ext12II) & 100/2.8 Macros - Sony A7II SEACAM 28/2 & 50/2.8 Macro - UK/Ireland Seacam Sales -see marinewildlife
Posted 22 September 2005 - 07:56 AM
Don Kincaid
Posted 22 September 2005 - 10:46 AM
Posted 22 September 2005 - 04:33 PM
Some uses of digital photography in science and education include:
The Cephalopod Page has been online since 1995 and started with film images digitized for the web. I discovered that many people are very interested in science including the details that get watered down, omitted or portrayed inaccurately by main sources. The internet allows scientists to put it out there as we see things. That got it started. . .
As a graduate student, I was part of a team led by Dr. Jennifer Mather that studied communication in Caribbean reef Squid in Bonaire from 1998 to 2003. This work was recently featured in the HDTV nature special "Tentacles" which has been playing on the Discovery Channel. Over time, we started to notice that the dot patterns, or star signs, on the dorsal side of squid were unique to each individual. We used to draw these on our dive slates and memorize them to identify individual squid. Different scientists would see and draw different things. Communication was a real problem; first of all, if you took your eyes of an individual squid, chances are high that it would switch places with one of the squids around it. Secondly, explaining complex dot patterns through a snorkel was, well, not exactly an ideal method. "Blag blapppfst gurgle!!!" translates to "loot at that!!!" which sounds exactly like "look at the Orion pattern on the lower left side of the third squid from the left's mantel" when spoken through a snorkel.
Also, I wasn't happy with the quality and cost of developing film on site or the one year delay if I took film home to develop it – by then all of last years squid would be long since dead. One year, James Wiseman let me borrow his coolpix. I could anticipate the squid's behavior to work around the digital delay to get pictures of each squid. Then we all could retire to the base camp and over a beer actually talk to each other like normal humans - without a tube in our mouths - about the different patterns on the squid. This was great! And productivity picked up a lot.
But for publications, or anything fast, like the Jacks that prey on squid, it would be several more years before I put my Nikonos down. My name is James Wood and I haven't shot film in at least 3 years.
I still use images for communication of science: in the classroom, online, in scientific papers. The Cephalopod Page, CephBase and the CephSchool Lesson Plans are examples of outreach projects.
I have also use image to record data. In one current project we placed octopuses on different background and took digital pictures of them. As each pixel is a bunch of RGB values, we can do real statistics to quantify how well they matched various backgrounds.
These pictures aren't beautiful, but they do the job.
At the Bermuda Biological Station for Research colleagues use digital video and digital images to do reef surveys. We photograph set transects on the reef and then place random dots over a series of images and count the species that are under the dots. This is used to quantify what exactly is on the reef and can be compared between years for changes.
We are also collecting coral spawn and taking time series of the planula and newly settled corals. Believe it or not, this hasn't been done for many species of Atlantic corals. These shots are done with a microscope and a coolpix.
In an experiment on how squid respond to predators, I'm taking a series of images to show people the behaviors that we commonly observe. Mere words do not begin to come close to describe what these animals are capable of.
And just for fun, I've been trying to capture bioluminescence of Bermuda Glow Worms.
OK YOUR turn
Dr. James B. Wood
Associate Director of the Waikiki Aquarium
The Cephalopod Page
Posted 23 September 2005 - 01:45 AM
Jellyfish Nut
Oly E330, Oly PT-E02 housing, 14-45 mm, 35 mm, Athena OPD-SZ14-42 Dome Port, Heinrich-Weikamp Bulkhead
Posted 07 October 2005 - 09:53 PM
Thomas C. Kline, Jr., Ph. D.
Oceanography & Limnology
Currently used housed digital cameras: Canon EOS-1Ds MkIII, EOS-1D MkIV, and EOS-1DX; and Nikon D3X. More or less retired: Canon EOS-1Ds MkII; and Nikon D1X, D2X, and D2H.
Lens focal lengths ranging from 8 to 200mm for UW use. Seacam housings and remote control gear. Seacam 60D, 150D, and 250D, Sea&Sea YS250, and Inon Z220 strobes.
Posted 07 October 2005 - 10:15 PM
Thomas C. Kline, Jr., Ph. D.
Oceanography & Limnology
Currently used housed digital cameras: Canon EOS-1Ds MkIII, EOS-1D MkIV, and EOS-1DX; and Nikon D3X. More or less retired: Canon EOS-1Ds MkII; and Nikon D1X, D2X, and D2H.
Lens focal lengths ranging from 8 to 200mm for UW use. Seacam housings and remote control gear. Seacam 60D, 150D, and 250D, Sea&Sea YS250, and Inon Z220 strobes.
Posted 12 October 2005 - 12:36 PM
Associate Director of the Waikiki Aquarium
The Cephalopod Page
Posted 12 January 2006 - 04:33 AM
Great to see there's a scientist's corner! Just introducing myself as a new member. I'm a marine biologist, currently based in UK, but with research interests in the Arabian Region. I did my PhD in Chile on behavioural ecology of invertebrates on beaches (not much photography there). More recently I've been involved in consultancy work in Oman, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia- both scientific research and educational work.
We've been using fixed quadrat photo monitoring of coral communities offshore from a large power/desalination plant to look at effects of hot hyper-saline effluent.
I've also just completed an interactive CD on Oman's marine life- compiled in flash- with lots of photographs, video, sounds etc, aimed at school children in the 12-16 range and in both english and arabic (which was a massive pain to work with in flash!). One thing we successfully did, which was quite fun was made a 360 degree VR panorama in a shallow coral habit by stitching together about 10 scanned slides from a Nik V with 15mm lens. It turned out pretty good (well at least i think so!).
We also quite regularly use UW video to record benthic features along transects.
I have to confess to being a bit of a gear- freak. Currently getting really excited about getting an EOS 5D and ikelite housing. Up until now I've mainly been using a housed Olympus 5050 and Inon strobe.
In Oman we also have an active cetacean research group and have been using photography alot for photo-ID work, particularly on humpback whales, but opportunities to photograph them UW have been limited mainly due to poor viz and flightly whales.
If anyone's interested I also have a recent UK coastal project for children online:
I'm hoping to expand this type of format in the future to produce entertaining interactive web experiences for marine areas around the world.
Anyway, I look forward to following everyone's exploits in the forum.
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Posted 14 January 2006 - 04:45 AM
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Posted 15 January 2006 - 08:48 PM
Cheers, Leslie
Posted 07 September 2006 - 05:05 PM
Dave here. I use photography in a variety of ways for my work/studies. I am currently in the last few months of my PhD studies. I am research the poulation dynamics of two marine sponges (one of which produces a potent antiumor compound in pre-clinical trials). I use photography to document changes in the sponges I study from monitoring their health, to determining if any asexual reproduction is occuring. I also document the little critters which utlise the sponges as habitats - you would be amazed with the divesity of fauna (and reproducing too!). The most advanced use of photgraphy in my work is to determine the volume of the sponges i study - to monitor their natural growth patterns (to do accurately - use to have to remove the animal from the substarte or use unaccurate ruler method(lxwxh)). I do this by using a stereo camera system (made up of two canon 30D's and video lights) (developed by my supervisor and me) to take stereo image pairs around the target sponge. Then using these image sets and a software program developed by a college of mine - the volume can be accurately and precisely determined. I have a paper published on the work if anyone is interested.
I also use photgraphy in the lab when examining the histological samples (for studying the sponge reproduction) and during taxonomic work on the sponges (looking at their spicules and skeletons).
I have also used video and digital stills for habitat mapping and surevys of fauna in my previous employment. I look forward to contributing to this forum, sorry about blabbing - but thought you might be interested. If anyone wants more info on what I do or just wnats a chat dont hesitate to ask.
Cheers Dave
West Oz
Posted 02 January 2008 - 02:44 AM
I'm a (brand new) marine biologist in Scotland, working at Glasgow university. I graduated in 2006 and stayed on to work on a project on cod parasites which will be finishing up this month. After that I'm transferring onto a project looking at the bycatch and discard rates in the Nephrops fishery. Most of the photography I do at work involves microscopy at the moment (light and SEM) although I'm hoping to be able to get some video surveys done during the next project as well.
Looking forward to meeting you all
Posted 27 December 2008 - 10:53 PM
My name is Hagai Nativ and I'm very glad that this is happen to be my first massage in wetpixel...
I'm about to graduate my B.S'c at marine biology and new to the UW photography, so I Was very happy to find this forum yesterday...
My list of equipment is: Nikon D300 with an Ikelite housing ant 2X DS125 substrobes with two primery lenses as for now, the Nikon 10.5 fisheye and the Nikon 18-70 which, I guess, soon be replaced, or a nice decent macro lens to be added to the list.
My primery goal in the field of marine biology is to become a better UW photographer and to be a specialized photographer for UW researche.
As a start, my seminar is about Scientific Photography (which happen to be the forum name...).
The primery method I exemine in the seminar is Time Laps Photography as a research tool- so if any of you have some articals about it I'll be glad.
My first method I'll share with you, is Time Laps as well, and I'll describe the setting that I used to make a 1:30 min. length movie, which shows a full day (sunrise to sunset) in a naked coral (polips without a Calcium skeleton).
The camera is mounted on a tripod with a macro lens infront of the coral aquarium.
The aquarium is wraped with black paper as backround and a reflaction preventer, with a place to stick the lens infront of the coral.
The camera in mode A (Aperture) and all the other setting are set to auto (Shutter, Iso, WB).
The Aperture set to 10 (depends in the light you have on your lab, but close enough to get a nice D.O.F.)
The camera sets in the Interval Shooting manu: Start: now, take one picture every 10 seconds. (can be varies as for final usage)
I've started to shoot at dark (Iso 3200 and a 5 sec. expo.) and gradually added more light to the scene, to make the aperance of sunrise to the movie.
After shooting- The whole sequence of images (3000) resized to 1080p standard and stitched to a movie on movie maker program.
I cannot show you the movie as for now, becouse the research it made for is not yet published (and it's not mine), but I prommise to share it with you here and to give a link to it once I can.
good luck!
Hagai Nativ - Underwater photographer
Posted 03 January 2009 - 09:47 AM
For my part my picture use will be as an educator. I use my UW-photography a lot in may day job as a lecturer at a swedish university. My main teaching is in basic ecology, population ecology, environmental issues and tropical ecology. For those subjects, UW photography gives a load of really clear examples to use. The people I teach are mainly in their early 20ies, flooded with media during their growth, so images have to be unusual to get the attention of the students. UW photos are not main course even for biology students, so attention is almost always there. In Sweden, as in most of the "western" world, kids tend not to like natural sciences. Part of my day job is to give natural science inspirational talks to teachers and students of primary, secondary and high schools. I have set up a talk called "From 4095 m asl to 30 m below the surface" with pictures covering a transect from the summit of Mount Kinabalu on Borneo to the lower levels of coral reefs, with most of the pictures from rain forests and coral reefs. I have showed this now about 250-300 times for kids from 4 to 20ish years (albeit with an age-adapted way of commenting the pictures) and it works very well. The first time I did the show, due to a misunderstanding with the organisers and me, I talked to 75 kids 6-10 years old for an hour. Surprisingly enough, the whole thing worked very well, the only problem being the load of questions from the children (snakes, lioonfish, sharks and that kind of animals being the ficus of the questions). I also have had more or less nightmarish assignments a couple of times with the "dropout" classes of schools, but even these kids tend to find pictures of sharks, sea snakes, dolphins, barracudas (the cooler the better) interesting enough to actually listen for a while at least.
I use my pictures also out of my university assignment. I run some eco-diving tours in the Red Sea every year, where divers listen to lectures on non diving time, and then find examples of what I have shown during lectures when diving. I do those schedules both in a more formal way on weeklong liveaboards as well as on shorter, less formal, day diving events. Both are a lot of fun to do, and both really reqiures quite an amount of reasonably good UW pictures.
However, one of the pictures that most often gets the most comments is anot an UW picture, however related to UW. It shows the hand of a woman that happened to stick her hand into a carpet anemone. Enjoy!
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Pork Tacos and Black Beans
Lisa Fain....who is this gal? Where have they been hiding her (from me)? I want to kick myself for not knowing who she was until recently.
She comes from a loooooong line of Texans but has moved to New York City (I can just hear the Pace Picante "guys" sayin'...'New York City?!'). And Lisa is the author of a fabulous cookbook that I have the pleasure of 'playing with'. It's called The Homesick Texan. It's packed with page after page of mouthwatering recipes.
By the way...she has a blog herself called Homesick Texan. I highly recommend you pay her a visit. You'll thank me for it, I'm sure.
Several of us bloggers have joined with Heather over at Girlichef to spotlight The Homesick Texan and you know what? I am going to thoroughly enjoy this little glimpse of Texas.
Our first recipe is for Pork Tacos, Dallas Gas Station Style. Apparently them hungry cowboys get to feed on some good grub will filling their tank. I guess you could say...they're fillin' up both tanks. If I hadn't seen this recipe and it's history in this book....I know I would not even consider buying a taco from a gas station. Now? You bet your boots I'd grub on a gas station taco in Dallas. I'd probably stop at a gas station just to get one of these tacos....whether or not my car needed gas.
Pork Tacos
4 dried pasilla chiles (stems and seeds removed) (we'll have a little chat about these chiles in a minute)
2 lbs pork shoulder
1 chipotle chili in adobo sauce (not the whole can....just one)
4 garlic cloves, chopped
1/2 tsp dried oregano (I used Mexican oregano)
1/2 tsp ground cumin
Small pinch of ground cloves
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup pineapple juice
1 TB white vinegar
2 TB olive oil
Salt to taste
1 TB vegetable oil
Lets talk about those chiles. You may not be able to find pasilla chiles. Or at least they may not be called that. Apparently here in the states, things get mixed up in translation. I found this great website for reference...talks about the chiles and their substitutes for dried chiles (as well as other things)....Foodsubs.com There's also a great chapter in The Homesick Texan Cookbook called 'The Larder' that provides information and graphics that I found very helpful. I happen to live very close to a Mexican grocery store and was able to pick up "Chile Negro"...which is the same (from what I understand) as Pasilla Chiles. Which by the way is mild in the heat department.
So...you have your chiles all ready, right? Take a nice heavy skillet (I love my cast iron skillets) and heat it up (no oil). Place the chiles in there and heat them for about 10 seconds on each side. Add enough water to cover the chiles. Bring to a boil and then remove from heat, letting the chiles soak until softened which takes about 30 minutes.
While the pasillas are enjoying their little hot tub experience, get out that pork shoulder and get ready to do a lot of chopping. Trim off the fat and cut the pork into little 1/2" pieces. This will most likely take up most if not all of that 30 minute chile hot tub time.
Once the pork is chopped and chiles are softened...drain the water out and rinse the chiles. Place them into a blender. Add the chipotle chile (if you're a-feared of the heat...remove the chipotle seeds), garlic, oregano, cumin, cloves, orange juice, pineapple juice, vinegar and olive oil. Puree it all. Taste it and add some salt.
In a zip lock bag (or non-reactive dish) combine the chopped pork with the pureed chile sauce
I love that rich, deep color....
Mix it all up to make sure all the pieces are covered and stick in the fridge for 8 hours. (yup...you're gonna wanna get this baby started rather early.)
Once all that time has passed and you've spent the day...I dunno...grocery shopping? Reading recipes? Lounging by the pool with a margarita.....
Take the pork out of the fridge and allow to come to room temperature for 30 minutes. Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet over medium heat.
Fry the pork until done. And tender. And tasty. (takes about 15 minutes or more). Don't forget to stir it every so often.
Serve in a warmed taco shell, topped with onions, cilantro and a little lime juice.
If you'd like a little side dish to go along with these Dallas Gas Station Tacos....I recommend the Austin-Style Black Beans.
I don't know if you know this about me or not...but I'm not a huge bean fan. Some I can tolerate more than others. And I can certainly do without. Let me just say....these beans are GOOD!!
Austin-Style Black Beans
1 lb dried black beans
1 TB vegetable oil
1 medium yellow onion (I think I used a white one) diced
1 carrot, diced
4 cloves of garlic, minced
2 canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce, chopped
1/2 cup chopped cilantro, divided
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1 TB tomato paste
1/4 cup line juice
Salt to taste
Rinse and sort your beans to make sure there aren't any pebbles or other weird things in with the beans.
Place them in a large pot. Cover the beans with 1 inch of water and bring to a boil. Cook for about 15 minutes. Drain and rinse.
In the same pot, on a medium low heat, saute the onions and carrots in oil until the onions are translucent and the carrots are lighter in color. This takes a few minutes....8? 10? Just keep an eye on it and make sure you stir them up a bit occasionally. Add the garlic and cook for 30 seconds.
Add the beans to the pot with the veggies. Add the chipotle chiles and 1/4 cup of cilantro. Cover everything with 2 inches of water. Bring to a boil. Turn the heat down to low and simmer, uncovered for about 1 1/2 hours.
Once that time has passed (maybe this time you did a load of laundry and watched your favorite movie for the umpteenth time while sipping on another margarita)....
Add the remaining cilantro to the beans along with the cumin, tomato paste and lime juice. Salt to taste. Cook some more for about 30 minutes or until the beans are tender. Here, Lisa states that the actual cooking times may vary depending on how fresh your dried beans are (never thought about the freshness of dried anything before but apparently it does matter).
When the beans are done, smash a few of them on the side of your pan with a spoon to thicken things up a bit....and then get ready to enjoy the best beans ever! (I can say that since I don't like beans....and I think these are amazing!)
*This post is part of The Homesick Texan Cookbook Spotlight and Cook-Off sponsored by Hyperion and hosted at Girlichef*
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I thought you'd like this food...and I'm so happy that you did. Your meal looks awesome...makes me hungry all over again :DReplyDelete
GREAT post! I really enjoyed that...you could talk about that margarita too, yessiree..ReplyDelete
That is a gorgeous plate of food!ReplyDelete
I'll have to check out the cookbook. Looks delicious.ReplyDelete
These pork tacos rock my world. Delicious!!!ReplyDelete
Great first post!ReplyDelete
I just found out about Lisa's blog myself when Saveur had their best blog awards earlier this year. She won for best regional cuisine.ReplyDelete
I love a good taco and these sound wonderful!
I'm like you, I'd go to one of these gas stations just to get a taco. We thought they were insanely delicious. A definite repeat...only next time I'll be making more than 2 pounds of it. They were so good the next day leftover!ReplyDelete
Yours looks great!
I know that the food was great, but I can't help to keep staring at your margaritia. It's calling my name. Great presentation - I want more beans now.ReplyDelete
i'm beginning to regret not making the tacos...i only made the beans. i am going to remedy that this weekend...you make them look TOO good. :)ReplyDelete
I love the picture with that margarita it just makes the whole meal perfect. I really enjoyed both recipes too--so good! ;-)ReplyDelete
Like Christy, I have regrets, but mine tend to the not making the beans side! I waited until my tacos were finished and posted before I started checking out everyone else's posts so I didn't get taco envy, but now I have bean envy!ReplyDelete
Lovely post - great job! It's a pleasure cooking with you!
Your entire meal looks very authentic, it is a great presentation. We just love the tacos and the beans and will be making both recipes over and over again. It is fun cooking with you and thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Miz Helen
Greetings from a fellow cookin this book blogger! Loved everything about your post. I wasn't able to make the beans, so i was very excited to read your opinions!ReplyDelete
Looks great!
Pass the Margarita
I love your step by step photos! Everything just looks SO good!! And yeah, I'm glad I'll never make that mistake again (chipotles). My beans turned out way too hot...so we had to doctor them up a bit.ReplyDelete
I love SO many recipes in her book!! So happy to be cooking with you! :)
Now I know what my tacos and beans were missing....a margarita!!! :) I loved that you cooked the meat in a cast iron skillet. :)ReplyDelete
I bookmarked this recipe the first time I saw it when you all started posting. That marinade sounds crazy good.ReplyDelete
The pac picante guys, lolReplyDelete
happy to be cooking along with you!!
- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2011 at 5:15 PM
The meal looks so delicious! It is funny that you mentioned that you never thought about the freshness of dried beans because I thought the same thing. :)ReplyDelete
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Working with option value limit
Online Store limits you to no more than a total of 100 option choices (known as "option values") for all products storewide. We do this for two reasons: It improves your store's online performance — and it makes it easier for customers to buy your products.
Many store customers find it overwhelming to scroll through a long list of values for each option. Instead they may simply abandon their cart. And you lose a sale.
Note: What's an option value? Take a look:
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Jeff Bridges was confronted with a question that's a staple of Reddit AMA sessions while on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."
When asked if he would rather fight a one horse-sized duck, or a hundred duck-sized horses, Bridges said, "I went with the giant duck," explaining that when thinking of the hundred small horses, "in my mind they're angry and they're coming after me, man."
"Now I see this giant duck, he's kind of a cool cat," said Bridges, who recently participated in a "Ask Me Anything" session but wasn't asked the hilarious question. "You know, Daffy, Donald, those guys. I could maybe ride it," he added.
Fallon also showed a clip of "The Giver" star throwing the first pitch before a Los Angeles Dodgers game.
The actor paid tribute to his character in "The Big Lebowski" film by bowling the ceremonial pitch. But he told Fallon that everyone was wrong to assume that.
"Everybody thinks that, [but] it was a bocce ball reference," he quipped.
Bridges, 64, also spoke about his role in "The Giver," which is about a controlled society that loses structure when his character reveals his knowledge about the world.
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Today in Slate (the online magazine), you can find Keats's "To Autumn," with a brief headnote by the poet Robert Pinsky. The note suggests (among other observations) that "The fulfillment, the hovering, and the finality of autumn are so vivid in John Keats' 'To Autumn' that readers of English cannot be sure how much our perception of the season comes from this poem."
From that page you can also download a Windows Media audio file of Pinksy reading the poem.
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Coincidentally, Romantic Circles just this hour announced the publication of a new volume in our Praxis series: "Ode on a Grecian Urn": Hypercanonicity and Pedagogy. Edited and introduced by James O'Rourke, the volume contains eleven essays from a distinguished group of scholars focusing on how they teach Keats's "Urn" in courses ranging from introductory literature surveys to graduate seminars.
The contributors are David Collings, Helen Regueiro Elam, Spencer Hall, David P. Haney, John Kandl, Bridget Keegan, Brennan O'Donnell, Jeffrey C. Robinson, Jack Stillinger, Heidi Thomson and Susan J. Wolfson.


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pythod necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 48 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Need a better customer-friendly design adhering to safer usability practices.
We'd like to challenge you to create a user-friendly, intuitive design that will beat the effectiveness of our current landing pages.
We are considering a re-design of etextshop.com after four years of its operation. The current design has served a very well purpose.
Over the years, we have noticed that some sections on the web site are not very user friendly especially the home page. People who are looking to buy books accidently sell books and send us emails to cancel the Buyback orders.
We want to keep the redesign as simple as possible while adhereing to the safe usability practices.
The two main goals of the website/business are: 1) Buy Textbooks and 2) Sell Textbooks. The home page should be able to funnel both goals efficiently.
- Home Page Redesign
- One Inner Page that is uniform across the entire web site such as the current "Sell Textbooks" section.
- Photoshop PSD. No HTML Req'd.
- A design that focuses on two main goals (funnels) of the website: Buy Textbooks and Sell Textbooks
- We would ideally like to keep the current color scheme because if we change this, then we'll have to change a lot of inner pages and page flows.
- Design that makes people think. We don't want people to think where they want to go.


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Apple Raycer takeover 'all but done'
The key lies in Raycer's hush-hush system-on-a-chip work
Analysis Apple has bought high-end 3D accelerator chip developer Raycer Graphics for around $15 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. News of the two companies' negotiations emerged earlier this week. Since then, MacWeek.com sources confirmed that the deal is "all but done", and it now looks like Raycer's staff will become Apple employees on Monday. So far, neither company has officially commented on the acquisition -- presumably that will happen on Monday, too -- so Apple's motives remain unclear. Improving the Mac's ability to process 3D information is the broad reason for the deal, but this method seems an unusual way of doing so in light not only of Apple's close relationship with the market-leading 3D chip company, ATI, but the trouble the Mac maker is having gaining support from the wider 3D hardware industry. Having an exclusive deal with ATI is bad enough, here -- having your own in-house 3D team could easily kill off ATI's support and the burgeoning friendship with 3dfx. Apple could argue that it wants to be free from reliance on third parties for such a key technology, but that's just going back to the 'not invented here' philosophy the company claims to have long since abandoned. However, a new take on the deal is emerging: Raycer's little-known interest in system-on-a-chip development. Apple's drive to bring down costs led to the development of its Unified Motherboard Architecture (UMA) strategy whereby all Macs are based around a single, core system. Having done that, the next stage is clearly to bring the cost of the UMA down, and the integration of the board's numerous chips is a clear way forward here. Hints that Apple was planning such a move emerged earlier this year when it was suggested that the company was talking to chip vendors about how to create an iMac-on-a-chip part which would combine the chip's networking, peripherals, memory, bus and video chipsets onto a single slice of silicon. For your instant iMac, just add PowerPC... Importantly, for Apple, this would allow it to get the price of both iMac and iBook right down, possibly under $700, and allow it to compete with the full range of consumer-oriented Wintel machines and heighten the iMac's desirability in an increasingly price-sensitive market. That could well be the motivation behind the Raycer acquisition. If Apple focuses the technology on its consumer lines, that would leave space at the high-end, where possible performance losses from such integration are more of an issue (the 'jack of all trades, master of none' vs dedicated products argument), for a continued relationship with ATI. Indeed, since ATI is itself interested in system-on-a-chip development -- last year it bought media processor developer Chromatic Research to kick-start its SoC design work -- Apple's acquisition may very well lead to a closer partnership between the two vendors. ®
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Learn to clear clutter and improve home organizing to free up time for your priorities. Breast cancer and melanoma survivor also offers coping help to cancer survivors and their family and friends.
Breast cancer survivor and clutter clearing author learns to walk her talk
Clutter clearing cancer coping author and motivational speaker We can learn to live our priorities fully (and not just surviving or getting by on a day to day basis) by clearing out the distractions and focusing on what is important to each of us, our families, and our lives. Cancer Survivorship Coping Tools: We'll get you through this by Barbara Tako, two-time cancer survivor and published author and motivational speaker on the topic of clutter clearing. For updates on this new book, click here.
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Jack.xiaobo.zhan necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 132 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
123OfficeDirect.ca is the new domain name for Canadian e-shopping site 123InkCartridges.ca. 123InkCartridges.ca is Canadian number one online source to shop generic printer ink and toner cartridges. Since spring this year, we began to sell office supplies, computers, parts and accessories. That's why we upgrade our domain name.
View our website at: http://www.123inkcartridges.ca
As an online shopping retailer, we are targeting to many different levels of customers, such as small-middle class companies, governments and schools, students and also family users. We now sell to Canada and USA, but also look forward to expand to other English countries soon.
1. Please understand our website, what we do, who do we sell. It is ecommerce, there are many famous ecommerce websites. their logos can give you a generous idea, such as amazon, newegg, and more.
2. the number 123 is a way to let customer feel that to shop with us is easy as 1, 2, 3 steps. It means simple and quick. "Office" and "Direct" are two words, they have meanings, maybe a creative design will make our customers to remember that we are selling office products online directly.
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Both Harry and Ray in a recent thread expressed interest in reading about Omar Minaya's best deals. There have been more than a few. Some of his bad ones were actually good in the beginning, such as Oliver Perez and Guillermo Mota.
There were also decisions on Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Paul Lo Duca, Alex Cora and signing David Wright and Jose Reyes to long term extensions. The John Maine trade was good. Nobody could have thought he would be injured. Getting Xavier Nady was a good deal.
We must remember, that in all fairness, the Mets came within an inning of the World Series in 2006. Minaya put that team together.
Julio Franco, Moises Alou, Orlando Hernandez all had moments, but the negative reviews came with the subsequent contract extensions.
So, let's have some fun with this today and talk about Omar Minaya's Greatest Hits.


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Mayweather-Pacquiao: Dud of the Century
May 3, 2015 in Best Of, Boxing, Sport by pacejmiller
Manny Pacquiao failed to deliver two promises on Saturday evening at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The first was that he would hand Floyd "Money" Mayweather his first defeat in 48 professional fights. The second was that he would give fans an exciting fight. While he could blame Mayweather for failing the first promise, Pacquiao was just as much to blame for the second. And so after five years of speculation, close calls, failed negotiations, name-calling, lawsuits and serendipitous meetings at Miami Heat basketball games, the so-called Fight of the Century turned out to be one huge stinking dud.
Before the Fight
The atmosphere before the fight lived up to the hype. Just about all the biggest names in sports and entertainment were there (see this link for a full list with pictures), either due to their connections (ie, Floyd's buddy Justin Bieber, Showtime stars like Claire Danes, boxing royalty like Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, or sponsor-related celebs like Jake Gyllenhaal, who's there to promote his new boxing flick Southpaw) or their huge wallets capable of paying the exorbitant ticket prices (Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Andre Agassi, etc). It was the richest gate in sports history (ticket sales alone generated US$74 million), with even the shittiest ticket in the nosebleeds section costing just under US$3,000 according to StubHub.
The PPV numbers are not yet available, but they are expected to blow away the record of 2.48 million buys from the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight in 2007. The actual money amount will be astronomical, considering PPV prices are also significantly higher than for other bouts, with people paying US$90 for the fight (and US$100 for it in HD) in the United States and slightly cheaper prices in most other places on the planet (only a handful of countries such as Mexico, China and the Philippines aired it for free).
The demand was so high that the start time of the actual main event was delayed by approximately 45 minutes due to troubles encountered by people trying to order the PPV from their providers.
I was rooting for the Filipino and predicted a Pacquiao victory not just because he apparently possessed all the tools on paper to give Mayweather trouble (southpaw, speed, power, footwork, stamina, high work rate, awkward angles), but also because the American seemed to be genuinely spooked by the occasion. Mayweather appeared nervous at all the public events and even told reporters he no longer had the passion for the sport and was looking forward to retiring after one final fight in September.
He was uncharacteristically polite and passive, a far cry from his old ways of trash talking and acting brash and disrespectful towards opponents, and he continued to be plagued by reports that dredged up his history of domestic violence. It seemed like Pacquiao, who acted relaxed and confident throughout the promotion, had won the psychological battle, and I felt the Mayweather camp was rattled judging from the last minute reports claiming that it had tried — unsuccessfully — to block Pacquiao from using his commission-approved gloves for the fight. It also didn't help that reports surfaced today alleging that Mayweather attempted to block certain female journalists who harped on his domestic abuse charges.
Pacquiao also appeared to land the first blow — figuratively speaking — when he entered the ring smiling and with plenty of confidence as his coach Freddie Roach snapped a selfie on his phone. He even allowed talk show host Jimmy Kimmel to take an unsubtle jab at Justin Bieber, who is part of Mayweather's entourage and infamously crashed the introductory press conference a couple of months ago.
The Fight
Everything I said above may have been true, but none of it mattered once the two fighters got into the ring. I hate to break it to those still in denial, but the fight wasn't close. You can hate on Floyd Mayweather Jr all your want, but you can't deny his skills. Tonight, Mayweather proved he was the best boxer of his generation. Five years ago, who knows what the outcome would have been, but all that matters is what actually happened. For the record, I believe the outcome would have been the same because Mayweather's just that much better and his physical advantages are too difficult to overcome.
Freddie Roach claimed that he had the perfect game plan — one he had been honing and perfecting over the past five years — and that Pacquiao was probably going to win every round. Well, it became clear after round one that Pacquiao had an uphill climb ahead of him. The Filipino needed to get off to a good start and probably should have rushed Mayweather from the opening bell to assert himself, but instead he was overly passive and spent too long posturing and feinting. Mayweather won the first three rounds, or at least two of the first three, with his accuracy, counterpunching, and ability to dictate of the pace.
Pacquiao had his moments in the next three rounds, but only when he managed to trap Mayweather against the ropes so he could launch his patented flurries. Most of the heavy blows, however, were either blocked or deflected. In terms of jabs and single shots in the middle of the ring, however, Mayweather dominated. It was simply a master class in how to control distance and range. Mayweather perfected using his 5-inch reach advantage to keep Pacquiao at bay, and clinching or arm-locking whenever Pacquiao got too close. Having referee Kenny Bayless, who typically allows Mayweather to get away with a certain amount of holding, didn't help matters. It was frustrating and boring, but it was a brilliant strategy.
Before the fight, I thought Pacquiao had a decent chance because of his volume punching. I believed if he kept punching and overwhelmed Mayweather's output he would be favoured by the judges. But against Mayweather, his punch rate suddenly came crashing down. It's not an anomaly because it's happened to every volume puncher Mayweather has ever faced. It goes back to Mayweather's ability to control range, because Pacquiao knows there's no point in throwing punches that have no chance of landing. It also says something about Mayweather's underrated power. If those counterpunches didn't sting, Pacquiao wouldn't have grown so reluctant in coming forward. He knew he couldn't be reckless and try to walk through Mayweather's punches in order to land his own because he knew those shots could hurt him.
Mayweather's not the same type of counterpuncher as Juan Manuel Marquez, the man who gave Pacquiao fits in their four fights and brutally knocked him out in their last matchup. JMM takes huge risks and gambles on his counters, which is why Pacquiao's had success against him too, but Mayweather is a counterpuncher who plays it safe because he can.
The result was as one-sided as many of Mayweather's other fights. 118-110 one one scorecard and a generous 116-112 on two others for a unanimous Mayweather victory. I had it 117-111 on my sloppy unofficial scorecard. Here's how the judges scored each round.
Anyone claiming that Pacquiao won — including himself — or that it was a close fight is deluding themselves. Your eyes or heart may deceive you, but the stats don't lie. Compubox is not a perfect science, but in this case it's an accurate indication of what took place.
Mayweather landed 67 more punches than Pacquiao at 15% more accuracy. The most startling stat is that Mayweather ended up throwing more punches than Pacquiao did overall. In a fight where just about everyone thought Pacquiao would need to throw 800 punches to win, he ended up throwing barely half that. Full credit to Mayweather for turning the usually tornado-like Pacquiao into just another fighter who thought he could outbox the master.
I mistakenly predicted a Pacquiao victory partly because big boxing matches usually turn out to be unpredictable, but the it ended up being one of those rare fights where everything pretty much went according to how fight experts predicted it could go. Pacquiao would have his moments early, when his best chances were available, but Mayweather would eventually figure it out — as he always does — and dominate the rest of the way. The only thing unexpected was that Pacquiao would be so passive to start the fight and allow Mayweather to claim those precious early rounds.
Unfortunately, Mayweather's dominance — and Pacquiao's reluctance — turned the Fight of the Century into a total bore. Brilliant performance? Sure. Exciting? Hell no. I can appreciate technical skills better than most, but for a fight of this magnitude the fans deserved more. A lot more.
Boos rained down on Mayweather when he proclaimed victory at the end of the fight and when they announced the decision, and while some of them were aimed at him as a person, I believe a lot of them were directed at the way he turned the fight into a snoozefest. There was no genuine action, no serious exchanges, nothing close to resembling a knockdown, and no one was ever in serious trouble or hurt from a big shot. Mayweather danced around, held, and ran some more, not just avoiding action but actively preventing it from happening. There may have been some natural tension early on, but even that evaporated as Mayweather's tactics became a predictable pattern.
Mayweather deserves the bulk of the blame because that's his style, but the typically exciting Pacquiao isn't fault-free either. Perhaps it was his brutal KO loss to JMM a couple of years ago that made him so wary, but when the fight was clearly getting away he didn't exactly go for broke either. With US$100 million-plus heading into his bank, Pacquiao probably decided it wasn't worth risking his health for glory. I would have much rather seen him get knocked out trying to score the knockout himself rather than trying to feint Mayweather to death. And that's what 80%-90% of the fight was: feinting and posturing. It was a chess match that was more boring than watching actual chess matches.
After the Fight
We waited 5 years for that… #underwhelmed #MayPac
— Mike Tyson (@MikeTyson) May 3, 2015
Everyone was disappointed. "Underwhelmed" was an extremely popular word on Twitter. I may have rooted for Pacquiao but the thing I wanted above all was an exciting fight that would come at least 70% to meeting expectations. This fight was about a 15%.
There were the Pactards and blind boxing novices claiming that Pacquiao had been robbed, that the sport is corrupt, etc, with some even going as far as slamming ESPN's post-fight interviewer Max Kellerman for daring to press Pacquiao about how he could have possibly thought he won. Can you imagine the same thing happening if Mayweather was in Pacquiao's position? Not hating, just pointing out the hypocrisy.
The internets was flooded with the same arguments Mayweather has faced for years — that he ran like a coward and didn't dare to exchange in a real fight, like a real man. But that's where his genius and understanding of the rules of boxing come into play. Do you think his career would have lasted as long as it has if he decided to go toe-to-toe with every foe? Do you think there would be as many people hoping that he would get knocked out every time he stepped into the ring?
The biggest flaw with the running argument, at least in this fight, is that Mayweather was actually more active than Pacquiao. Forget that he landed nearly twice as many punches. He actually threw more punches than Pacquiao. If he simply ran, how could he have won? It wasn't as though the judges awarded Mayweather for evading Pacquiao's punches. He landed a lot more at greater accuracy in almost every round. End of story.
That did not stop the excuses from rolling in immediately after the verdict. The Pacquiao camp revealed that the Filipino fought with a tear in his shoulder and that he was denied an anti-inflammatory shot before the fight. Not to be outdone, Mayweather claimed that both his arms and hands were injured either prior to or during the fight.
My Facebook feed became flooded with articles slamming Mayweather's character and his woman-beating tendencies, and claims that he will never be respected no matter how many Manny Pacquiaos he beats. I suppose it comes with the territory of having been a complete prick for so many years, but even I felt all the media attacks in the aftermath of a career-defining victory were below the belt.
I haven't had a chance to watch the fight again and I'm not sure I want to put myself through the pain for a second time. Big fights often disappoint; I can think of a few I was really amped up for that failed to meet expectations, but none were as disappointing as Mayweather-Pacquiao. Accordingly, my final impression of the fight will likely be Mayweather's best blow of the fight — when he thanked God first in his post-fight interview. As someone irked by Pacquiao's repeated "God will deliver him into my hands" remarks before the fight– no offense intended to any of my lovely Christian friends — I kinda liked that final insult to cap off all the stinging right hands and counters he fed Pacquiao all night.
Where to Now
Mayweather insists he will fight just once more, this September, before riding off into the sunset for good. He seems genuine about this, and I believe he will carry through with the promise unless he desperately needs money again in the future — which is quite likely if you've heard the stories about his spending habits. Potential opponents include American young gun Keith Thurman, a 26-year-old heavy-handed fighter also with an unblemished unbeaten record (25 wins, 21KOs and 1 no contest — from an accidental headbutt in the first round), as well as Brit Amir Khan, who has a glass jaw but the height (5'9″), reach (71″), speed and boxing skills to potentially give Mayweather trouble on paper. Personally, I'd like to see him take on both guys to erase all doubts and retire at 50-0, breaking Rocky Marciano's celebrated record.
As for Pacquiao, he said he'll take a break and leave the rest to his promoter Bob Arum. To be honest, this loss doesn't affect his legacy all that much. He lost to a better boxer on the night, not because he's over the hill or a shot fighter. He's still loved in the Philippines, where he'll probably become president one day, and people still love to watch him fight. Against the right opponents there's no reason why he won't still be a massive PPV draw.
Roach and Pacquiao said they would like to push for a rematch in light of the shoulder injury revelation. There's no rematch clause in the contract, but considering how much money the two will make (estimates for Mayweather are as high as US$180 million), the temptation must be there to do it all over again. Given how one-sided this fight turned out to be — and especially seeing that Pacquiao no longer has one-punch knockout power to give himself a puncher's chance — it's not something I want to see.
PS: The most exciting fight of the night was actually on the undercard. Vasyl Lomachenko, Ukranian amateur star, proved once again that he's going to be the next P4P best fighter on the planet with his impressive destruction of the game but outgunned Gamalier Rodriguez. It was just Lomachenko's fifth professional fight and the featherweight displayed an offensive aggression reminiscent of the Pacquiao of old and the technical brilliance and precision of Mayweather. Check out the highlights from that fight.


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Thursday, July 10, 2008
I doubt it. But I have no idea. So I decided to make this an open forum. e-mail me a blog post to put here, in my style or not, and I'll post the ones I like. email@example.com.
Because this comic wholly uninspires me.
Update: I didn't get any responses I liked enough to put up here, which doesn't surprise me that much. There's nothing to say to this. Just sort of staring blankly is all I think anyone could come up with. And, of course, the pathetic excuse that it's not meant to be funny. Good try, my friends. But that excuse is lame.
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- AnonymousJuly 10, 2008 at 10:51 PM
A pupil once asked the master to explain an xkcd comic, to which the master responsed "there is no joke". Then the pupil was enlightened.ReplyDelete
Then the pupil said, "no wait, that's bullshit. It's supposed to be a comic. It's a webcomic. 'Comic' means 'funny.'ReplyDelete
Then it was the master who was enlightened. And the pupil said, "What now, bitch?"
- Locutus ZeroJuly 11, 2008 at 7:51 AM
While I didn't really "get" this one either, I can say this in general: You shouldn't be upset when xkcd doesn't have a joke. Forget what "comic" is supposed to mean. "Comic" is simply the classification that these drawings best fall under. They aren't all funny. They aren't all meant to be funny.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 11, 2008 at 5:37 PM
I thought it might be a reference to mathematicians from past centuries. I'm by no means a math history expert, but I vaguely remember hearing lectures about various mathematicians from centuries ago who made amazing mathematical discoveries before they hit 18 or 20. Some of them (or most, I have no idea) were attending university at 11-12.ReplyDelete
I'd go and double check, but I'm too lazy and can't for the life of me remember any names.
Locutus - While some are not meant to be funny, I think this one was. The way the character on the left says "You're thirteen" at the end has the feel of a punchline to me.ReplyDelete
Perhaps one reason I don't like xkcd is that it can't decide what it's trying to be - a long-story type comic, a bunch of one-panel gags, a collection of computer science jokes, or something else.
Anon - I think you are on to something. Of course, for this comic to make sense in that light you have to assume that the guy on the left did some awesome math at a young age ("It doesn't come easy like it once did"). Maybe. Maybe he's supposed to be one of those genius young mathematicians. Who knows. I still don't think it's that funny.
I'd swear to God this was ripped straight from Good Will hunting. It doesn't say anything about apples, or Fields Medals, or girls though.ReplyDelete
I may be wrong.
I didn't see good will hunting. Can you go into more detail? (or can someone else who has seen the movie confirm or deny this?)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 13, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Hi, I left the original comment. And that's not a defense of the comic, but a mockery of it, although I guess you have to know some zen to get the joke.ReplyDelete
Ah. Yeah I guess I misunderstood. I still like my response though, so let's pretend we both planned it that way.ReplyDelete
TO EVERYONE: If you use a name of some kind, you don't have to explain which comments are yours! But I guess it's not a big deal.
It's said that a research mathematician will do his best work when he's young (say, less than 30). This only really applies to the real geniuses who'll do something ground-breaking.ReplyDelete
I think that's what Randall is making a joke of in this strip. It's not all that funny though.
- AnonymousJanuary 16, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Sorry for a late comment on this entry, just discovered this blog.ReplyDelete
Don't know if you've heard this interpretation before... When I first read this one, I assumed that it was about the odd excuses kids try to use to get out of doing math. (I guess I didn't read the alt text!) Kind of like that strip with Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes" claming to be a math atheist. Looks like I might be wrong, but I think I'll stick with my version, makes it slightly more amusing.
- GlarfugusMarch 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM
READ THE ALT TEXT. Not that hard to get if you read the entire comic!ReplyDelete
- Really lateDecember 20, 2010 at 3:46 PM
Blah, I know I'm way way way too late but I HAVE to say I think the joke here is actually playing on xkcd's art style -- you don't realize the guy is thirteen until the very end cuz there's no indication.ReplyDelete
Um, that's my two cents.
Maybe I'm just easily amused, but there you go.


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A June column in this space warned readers about Diamond Foods (DMND) shares. Its business looked attractive but the shares had simply gotten too expensive. Since then, they have lost more than half their value — but the plunge is related to questions over the company's accounting.
Is this an opportunity for bargain hunters, or a trap?
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Worse, Diamond has planned a mammoth acquisition of Pringles potato chips from Procter & Gamble (PG), mostly in exchange for stock. That leaves the company exposed to accusations that its walnut mix-up boosted its earnings ahead of the deal.
A spokeswoman for Diamond declined to comment. On Monday, the company announced that an ongoing investigation will delay its quarterly financial report. Its stock had jumped more than 50% Friday on an analyst report saying the matter is likely to be cleared up quickly. Early Monday it slid 20%.
Thilo Wrede, who covers the stock for Jefferies & Company, an investment bank, wrote last month that management is guilty of poor communication, but not likely anything more.
For contrarian investors considering a purchase of the stock, the first thing to consider is the price. It sells for 11 times forecast earnings for fiscal 2012, which would be a handsome deal if earnings forecasts could be relied upon. They can't, until more is known.
Mr. Wrede reckons the stock is worth $39 a share, or $7 a share more than it recently sold for, based on a "worst case scenario." That includes the Pringles deal falling through (at this point, the purchase price is nearly three times Diamond's stock market value), triggering a $60 million break-up payment in the current fiscal year. It also includes an investigation that costs $15 million a year through fiscal 2015.
However, Mr. Wrede also cautioned that the stock could trade well below his target price before the accounting questions are resolved.
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Diamond's discount doesn't seem big enough. For example, forgetting about expenses and earnings, it sells for 0.7 times revenues. That's merely average for packaged food companies.
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