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Grand opening Saturday for high-tech high school in Waterford
Waterford - Inside Christopher Cassidy's Drafting 1 class Thursday, students sat quietly at their desks, focused on their work, compass in hand and erasing shield in the other.
Popular songs by the Dave Matthews Band and Mumford and Sons played softly over the surround-sound speakers, which are installed in every room.
Life is good at the brand-new, technologically advanced Waterford High School.
As students in Ian Cheney's ninth-grade ancient history class settled in to write an essay, he selected Beethoven's Emperor Concerto for them to listen to.
The music bounced through the air.
"I play classical music just about every class, I like the atmosphere it sets for the class," Cheney said. "They don't listen to classical outside of school on their own, so it's good to diversify. Now, it's part of everything we do. They complained to me the first week, but I think they like it now."
After years of working on design and layout concepts, scrapping one idea and emerging with another and searching for the perfect color palette, Principal Donald Macrino is proud of the final product.
"It really is such a nice place, it's so pleasant," he said.
Construction on the $67 million school started in December 2010. In the coming weeks, demolition will begin on the two classrooms that connect the old building to the new, Macrino said. Those will then be sealed off, and this summer, abatement and demolition work will begin on the rest of the old school.
On Saturday, the high school will be open to the public for the first time as it celebrates its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony beginning at 9 a.m.
The school now boasts free WiFi throughout the building, a much-appreciated touch, junior JJ Crowley said.
Students are able to connect their wireless devices such as iPods or iPhones to the school's network. And soon, students will be able to bring and use their own laptops.
"We built the school for technology that hasn't been designed yet, to support in a wireless way what's to come," Macrino said. "I think it's time we've turned schools into something more than factories."
Teachers are also joining in on the fun, learning how to navigate the many uses of the new interactive Promethean whiteboards in every classroom.
The boards operate exactly like a large touch-screen device, and teachers can use them in a multitude of ways. Each board also is equipped with a camera so that in the future, students will be able to visit classrooms around the world.
As a student, Crowley said he appreciates the Promethean's many uses.
"If you're home sick from school, the teachers can post notes on the website for you to see, like you're there in class," Crowley said. "They can also keep notes on the board during class without having to erase them to put something else up, which helps."
There are also no desks in the building. They're all tables that can be reconfigured to whatever classroom setup a teacher wants, Macrino said.
Running late for class and need to print an online homework assignment that the teacher plans to collect in the next five minutes? No sweat. Find one of the 10 FollowMe printers located throughout the school, swipe a student ID over a card reader and have the assignment printed instantly. Students who either forgot their ID card or don't feel like shuffling through their backpack to find it can also key in their identification number on a keypad next to the card reader.
"Every ID has a QR code on it. It's nice because you're actually using your ID for something rather than just having it around," Mady LeBeau, a senior, said Thursday morning.
Students who are tardy to school can enter the main office, swipe their ID card and receive a printed hall pass to their next class without waiting for a secretary to help them, LeBeau said.
Their IDs are also used in the lunchroom as a credit card for their lunch accounts.
Macrino said having 10 FollowMe printers is "far more economical" than installing and paying for ink cartridges for individual printers in every classroom.
New windows in the building have sensors so that the air conditioning or heating will shut off in the classroom if a teacher or student opens a window. CO2 sensors have been installed in each classroom to regulate air flow and will push filtered air into the classroom when elevated CO2 levels trigger the sensor.
Urinals only use one pint of water instead of an entire gallon to flush, and the whole school relies on geothermal heating and cooling units instead of oil.
Jacob Peabody, a junior, said being inside the new school makes him feel better about being a student.
"There was no climate control in the other school, so in the summer it would be really hot in the classrooms," he said. "This school is so much cleaner and nicer; there's no bad smell, and there are two sets of bathrooms on each floor, which is so much better than walking five minutes down the hallway."
If you go
What: Grand opening of new high school and ribbon-cutting ceremony
When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday
Where: Waterford High School, 15 Rope Ferry Road
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I'm not a fan of cooking competitions.
Too bad for me, because there are a lot of them, and more and more every day.
It's not just the drama-laden TV cooking competitions that annoy me — the Top Chefs and the Choppeds and the Hell's Kitchens and I don't know what else because I can't physically watch them (the flesh starts to crawl off of my body if Gordon Ramsay appears on my TV screen). The idea of cooking competitions in general seem ridiculous to me.
Because cooking isn't about competition. At its most basic level it's about feeding people, and beyond that it's about expressing goodwill, friendship or affection. It's about celebration and art, and in restaurants in particular it's about teamwork. Chefs don't try to undermine each other; they collaborate to make great food.
Nonetheless, and kind of hypocritically, I do serve as a judge at a cooking competition or two every year. I'm not sure why, now that I think of it. I suppose I do it in part because it's kind of an honor to be asked, and because if someone asks me to do something I try to be accommodating if I can.
It's also fun about half of the time. The other half of the time it's filling, tedious, nauseating or a combination of the three.
I was pretty sure that being a guest judge at the recent semifinals of the Tavistock Restaurant Group's own top chef competition would be fun.
For one thing, it was held at Tavistock's Albany resort in the Bahamas. I knew that when I accepted the invitation. What I didn't know was that I would be staying on a private yacht of the Lewis family, which owns the Tavistock restaurants and an array of other global interests (Tavistock was the name of the club where family patriarch Joe Lewis got his first job).
I stayed on Charade, the smaller of the two Lewis family yachts. Aviva, the flagship, was docked next to a smaller craft name Privacy, which I thought was a pretty rude name for a yacht until I was told it belonged to Tiger Woods.
Six chefs were competing in the semi-finals.
There was Jason Bergeron, the burly and intense new executive chef of Blackhawk Grille in Danville, Calif. He was just transferred there from Joe's American Bar & Grill in Peabody, Mass., one of the Back Bay Restaurant Group properties that Tavistock bought in 2011.
Next was Randy Leudders, the oldest of the competitors and executive chef of the Albany Resort, where my yacht was docked.
Then there was Taylor Boudreaux, executive chef of the Napa Valley Grille in Westwood, Calif., and, so I'm told, a popular chef on the Los Angeles TV circuit.
Those three already were in the semi-finals. Three other chefs had apparently tied for fourth place during the quarterfinals in Chicago. Picking a fourth semi-finalist was the first order of business in The Bahamas.
There was Patrick "Quack" Quakenbush, who had just been promoted to culinary director of Tavistock Restaurants' upscale division, which included all of the restaurants that weren't the company's fast casual growth vehicle, Freebirds. Then there was Stephen Stromberg, who likes to participate in Iron Man competitions when he's not working as executive chef of Sapporo in Scottsdale, Ariz.
And finally there was Cambridge, Mass., native and avid fisherman Danny Levesque, executive chef of Atlantic Fish Co., in Boston.
Masterminding the whole thing was Charlie Lewis aided by Tavistock Restaurants chief executive Bryan Lockwood and upscale division chief operating officer Bill Bartlett, as well as Steve Byrne, Tavistock's vice president of purchasing and culinary operations — the company's top culinary guru.
Charlie Lewis is possibly the richest person I've ever met (I didn't meet Joe Lewis). It might be gauche to discuss such things, but the Lewis's wealth, it seemed to me, was the theme of the competition. Charlie celebrated his 50th birthday during the competitions. He invited us to sing karaoke songs on the top deck of Charade with his friends to celebrate. He took us boating with his rich friends — a hedge fund guy who lived on Mallorca except for the month when he wintered in The Bahamas, a native Bahamian lawyer whose partnership was somehow important in allowing Tavistock to be headquartered in that tax haven, childhood friends from England. His parents hosted me and some of Tavistock's favorite suppliers and their wives on their private yachts — the stewardess Susie kept our wine glasses or coffee cups (depending on the time of day) full — while the chefs stayed in a luxurious house at the resort.
The message was clear: Be a good chef and you'll be rewarded. Indeed, the winner of the final Tavistock, top chef competition is supposed to win the vacation of a lifetime, the details of which have not been revealed.
For the tie-breaking competition among Danny Levesque, Patrick Quakenbush and Stephen Stromberg, Charlie had them cooking in the galley of Aviva, which Stephen apparently set on fire briefly, but the calmness and aplomb with which he extinguished the flames and kept cooking impressed those who witnessed it.
This is a picture of him in a calmer moment.
Steve Byrne, the boss chef, provided them with lamb ribs, celery root, ginger and chiles and instructed them to make a dish, which, unbeknownst to them, the three chefs already in the semi-finals would judge.
Danny was the first chef in the kitchen, and when I walked in to watch him cook, I could tell that Steve, being a chef, wanted everybody to succeed: Realizing that Danny's dish would be more delicious if he had an extra five minutes to cook his lamb ribs, he added five minutes to all the chefs' time.
This picture shows Steve encouraging Danny.
And in fact, Danny won. Stephen apparently showed genius in preparing his celery root (which makes sense, considering he eats mostly vegetables and protein supplements), but his ribs were lacking. Quack made what, by all accounts, were extraordinary ribs, but his celery root didn't have much soul.
Danny's dish was the most balanced.
So the two quarter-finalists were relegated to the duties of Steve Byrne's sous chefs, which meant they didn't have to participate in the late night impromptu fruit carving challenge — using a table knife and a soup spoon — that was sprung on the semi-finalists that evening.
So it went. The competitors competed in contests that Charlie devised and Steve orchestrated.
In one challenge, pictured here, the chefs were divided into two teams and required to "relay cook": One chef started cooking for ten minutes, then the next chef, who was sequestered away from the proceedings, jumped in for ten minutes, then they switched again, and once again.
Here's a picture of Jason Bergeron, in the foreground, and Taylor Boudreaux, in the background, during the relay contest.
Stephen and Quack were the judges of that competition.
Then there was a tasting and bidding competition. Two chefs at a time were presented with a dish from Charade's galley and, after a coin toss, the first chef bet how many ingredients he could name. His opponent could raise the bet or ask the chef to name those ingredients. It was fun.
After a karaoke competition that was thrown out because the machine obviously wasn't scoring right — Taylor did an amazing Johnny Cash, but he scored very badly — the chefs rode jet skis to the beach and were instructed to make a surf and turf. Those results were judged by CEO and COO Bryan Lockwood and Bill Bartlett.
What did I judge? It turns out they didn't need me to judge after all, except in the way I'm judging them now, which I suppose is fair: I'm a reporter, not a cook.
I did sit in on the final deliberation, mostly by Charlie Lewis, Bryan Lockwood, Bill Bartlett and Steve Byrne, although the suppliers chimed in. I sat quietly until my opinion was asked, and they didn't care who I thought won — that would have been ridiculous since I didn't try any of the competitors' food. They wanted my opinion on their plan, which was that all the chefs were winners! Sure, two of them (Jason Bergeron and Taylor Boudreaux, as it turns out), would actually prepare and present the amuse-bouches that would be judged — along with the story behind the dish — at the gala fundraiser that would be the final competition, but all six chefs would get to attend and help cook. Hurray!
I was completely on board with that, because the lesson of such a decision, of course, was the one I mentioned at the beginning of this blog entry, some 1,400 words ago: Cooking isn't about competition but about teamwork.
And of course it also would help Tavistock display the deep bench of talented, good-looking chefs it had.
The executives shared the good news with the chefs while the suppliers and I go ready for or last dinner in The Bahamas.
I should have expected the mood at the final meal to be what it was, but I was so delighted by the teamwork lesson that I forgot that, in fact, there were two winners and four losers. And the mood reflected that. Four of the chefs hadn't won, and they were neither jovial nor cheery. The winners were appropriately low-key, because to be otherwise was to be a bad winner.
The non-finalists were fine with helping out at the fundraiser if that's what their bosses wanted them to, but a competition's a competition, and you either win or you don't.
They did have fun riding the jet skis, though.
March 27 2013 update:
In case you were wondering, Taylor Boudreaux ultimately won the competition, which was determined by attendees of the Tavistock Cup fundraising gala, who tasted an amuse-bouche made by each of the chefs and cast their votes.
Taylor made corn-mascarpone agnolotti, paired with Folie à Deux Russian River Chardonnay.
Jason Bergeron made a tuna-and-beef roulade paired with Avissi Prosecco.
The press release said it was a close competition.

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The event will be held at Solomon Pond Mall in Marlboro.
Registration is closing soon.
Cost is $50 per Scout and $50 per leader/adult volunteer.
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Dr. Alexander Wei and the Wei research group is driven by the opportunity to discover new phenomena at the interface of chemistry, biology, and nanomaterials science. Synthesis plays a major role in the projects conducted by the Wei group; the ability to create novel nanostructures with molecular-level control creates opportunities for new physical insights and for applications in biology and medicine. Surface chemistry is also critical to their mission: the interfaces between organic and inorganic, nano and bio, and the laboratory and the real world is very often dictated by surface properties.
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When you talk for a living, and are constantly challenged to come up with a fresh "take," the law of averages dictates that eventually if not regularly, something stupid is going to fall out of your mouth.
Step right up, Phil Simms.
Four months after declaring Giants quarterback Eli Manning Canton-bound, Simms fell into the trap of the we-must-debate-silly-things crowd.
"No, he is not one of the elites," Simms said on CBS Sports Network's "NFL Monday QB" show. "Because when I hear the word elite, I'm thinking about guys that can make unbelievable plays on the field by themselves. There are very few quarterbacks in that category.
"So yes, Eli has been a tremendous team player. He has been MVP of the Super Bowl twice. I know that. But the way I look at it, the answer is no."
Pause. Deep breath.
Let's rewind to August.
"Here we were five years ago, before the Giants won their first Super Bowl, and all the talk that year was maybe the Giants need to bring another quarterback in and Tom Coughlin's in trouble," Simms told USA Today. "Now they both absolutely one day will go in the Hall of Fame."
First of all, the notion that we have to weekly define who is and who isn't "elite" is silly. One of the remarkable things about the passage of time is it generally sorts that out for us.
Because if Eli Manning, winner of a pair of Super Bowl titles and MVPs, isn't elite, it's hard to know how many fit the definition, historically.
Manning's in a slump now, true. As Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News points out, he's thrown 99 straight passes without a touchdown, the longest streak of his career. He's been picked off four times in the last three games with no touchdowns, and may or may not have a tired arm.
But this constant and around-the-clock need to quantify, to parse, to rank and to provoke leads only to smart people saying dumb things.
Monday was just Simms' turn.


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Donna Simone spends all of her time helping those in need in Putnam and Westchester counties through her non-profit Yorktown Love in Action.
Now Simone is asking for help after two thieves broke into the facility last week and stole thousands of dollars and gifts intended for local families who have fallen on hard times.
"We are devasted and need the community's help to overcome this," she said.
As word has gotten out about the theft, donations have been coming in each day, but with Christmas right around the corner and the cold weather coming, Simone is worried she won't be able to help someone in need.
Currently, the organization will pay for gas in the winter and electricity in the summer, as well as help with gifts for children at Christmas and food for the hungry.
"Who does this type of thing?" Simone asked.
Right away the organization, a registered 501(c)3, is in need of an immediate influx of money to recover and get back on their feet so they can get back to helping the families who need them, she said.
A thrift store/donation center at 1736 Front St., Yorktown Heights, run by the organization, helps fund their efforts and is home to the group's headquarters.
Simone was born and raised in Yorktown Heights. She founded and formed Y.L.I.A. in August 2011. For as long as she can remember she has been volunteering and helping people.
"It is always a little easier getting through those difficult times when there's someone walking through them with you," she said.
To help recoup the lost money, Simone has started a GoFundMe site and is taking donations through PAYPAL .
Resident can also help by donating new toys for gifts for needy children and by:
- Donate clothing, household goods, furniture and other items
- Donate meats, chicken, fruit & veggies
- Donate needed supplies
- Place in-door drop off boxes at your business
- Become a monthly individual or business member
- Volunteer your time helping at the Donation Center
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- Sponsor a fund-raiser
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Access Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Wii U games consoles and games
We're pleased to announce our brand new interactive space is ready to be used. The Games Room is located at Room 3.f, Level 3 of the City Campus Library. There are few rules about using this space, so we encourage you to pick up a game and enjoy. The room is not bookable, so please share the space with others.
Controllers for each system and wireless headphones are available from the Enquiries & Loans Desk on Level 2. We currently have the following games for you to play, with more to be added in the future:
Wii U
- Mario Kart 8
- Mario Party 10
- Super Smash Bros
PlayStation 4
- Far Cry 4*
- Call of Duty – Advanced Warfare*
- Fallout 4 (NEW)
- Little Big Planet 3
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
- Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain (NEW)
- Trials Fusion Deluxe Edition
Xbox One
- Call of Duty Black Ops 3 (NEW)
- Forza
- Halo 5 (NEW)
- Titanfall
- Mortal Kombat X
*Games disc must be borrowed from the Enquiries & Loans Desk.
There are whiteboard walls for you to write on – we'd love to hear your thoughts or suggestions for games to purchase! Remember that you can always contact us through social media.
Troubleshooting the Equipment
The power button is located on the back of the TV towards the left. The consoles can be turned on using the power button on the controller or the power button on the console.
Use the HDMI Splitter behind the consoles to display the correct console on the correct TV
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text: Best Case: Corn Ethanol Demand Tops 5 Billion Bushels July 31, 2013 04:53 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Top Producer Editors Email The following information is a Web Extra from the pages of Top Producer. It corresponds with the article "Biofuels Outlook Centers on Politics." You can find the article in Top Producer's Summer 2013 issue. It will take higher blends, however. Corn use for ethanol might again reach 5 billion bushels like it did in the record year 2011, possibly even top it, during the next two years. It will take higher blends to do it, though. "In the event of a scenario where E15 and E85 gain unrestrained market penetration, corn ethanol demand will still likely slow and will peak near 5.4 billion bushels by 2015," says Sterling Liddell, senior vice president, Rabo AgriFinance. That's a best-case scenario and probably a long shot for corn producers, he acknowledges, and would require government and market action. Such an increase would represent a significant uptick from this year. EPA projects ethanol use for 2013 at 12.85 billion gallons, requiring 4.64 billion bushels of corn. That's far short of the 13.8 billion gallon mandate, which will be met by blenders through the use of previously blended ethanol credits, called RINs, which have become a market on their own. Much more dire challenges to the ethanol mandate will be encountered in 2014 when the deficit between the blend wall and the mandate widens to almost 2 billion gallons, Liddell says. In 2013, he estimates that 2 billion to 2.2 billion gallons of RINs are available for filling the deficit. The balance of approximately 1 billion gallons is expected to be available for 2014. "It appears unlikely that there will be any available RINs to help meet the more than 2 billion gallon deficit by 2015," he says. "Obligated blenders will require a feasible pathway through the blend wall (such as E15 or E85) or they face the unappealing decision to meet the ethanol mandate by selling less fuel in the U.S. market." The latter would further reduce ethanol demand. Reason for the mandate conundrum: In 2007, when Congress passed the mandate, U.S. gasoline use was expected to grow to well over 150 billion gallons by 2015. That would have allowed 15 billion gallons of ethanol to be used without exceeding a 10% blend. However, since 2007, U.S. gasoline use has actually decreased to 133 billion gallons. Liddell says that either the mandate is reduced, most likely by EPA, or higher ethanol blends gain traction. If the latter, corn demand gets a healthy push.—Ed Clark Back to news


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The Golden Knights would make things interesting early in the fourth, after a field-goal in the third, QB Amontay Clanton found Isiah Bailey for a long 50-yard touchdown to make the score 14-9.
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Plant Veggies Now for Spring and Summer Eating
Suggestions on sowing your seeds today — and recipes for enjoying the produce later
En español | Recently our lawn was still snow-carpeted, but these last few weeks I've noticed dusky light outside my kitchen window as I prepare dinner. Longer days and brighter light remind me it's time to start planting — seeds, that is. So allow me to share a gardening colleague's tips for starting certain vegetables from seeds, and offer a few of my favorite recipes that feature them.
Why start from seeds? Daria Price Bowman, coauthor of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegetable Gardening, makes the case. "For one, it's much cheaper," she says. A package of basil seeds costs about $2.50 and you'll reap bucketfuls of beautiful, fresh basil. That same $2.50 might buy a basil plant that will yield a couple of nice bunches — or a small handful of basil at your local produce department.
As Bowman talks about the variety of herbs and vegetables available in seed form, her voice brightens: You're unlikely to find white cherry tomatoes, purple and white striped potatoes or watermelon radishes in plant form at the local gardening center, she points out, or in any form at the grocery store.
Besides the lower cost, Bowman says, growing from seeds also means "you're in complete control of the process. You know the water, the soil, the food, the fertilizer."
Finally, growing vegetables from seeds is fun. "When a seed pokes its head out a few days after planting, there's a tremendous sense of satisfaction," she says. It's also a great way for grandparents to connect with grandkids, especially during planting and harvesting. Sometime this spring consider planting seeds with a favorite young person (eggshells set in egg cartons make great compostable seed containers), and then invite them to join you as you harvest throughout the summer.
Vegetables Bowman recommends starting from seeds include tomatoes, peppers, summer and winter squash, eggplant, cucumbers, lettuce and herbs — especially the soft ones such as parsley, cilantro and basil.
The following recipes feature most of them:
Roasted Ratatouille — that wonderful summer vegetable mélange — will help use up bumper crops of zucchini, eggplant, peppers and tomatoes, and making herb oil is a clever way to make the most of a bountiful herb bed. You can drizzle this fragrant oil over freshly picked lettuce or grilled meat, poultry and seafood, with a little squeeze of lemon juice.
Much like zucchini, cucumbers are in abundance in late summer, and there are never enough opportunities to eat them all. Here's one you've probably never thought of — Braised Cucumbers With Sour Cream and Dill. That's right, they're cooked. And a recipe for four calls for two large cucumbers — just the kind of recipe you'll be wanting when all those seeds you're planting now magically morph into gigantic vegetables in just a few short months.
Roasted Ratatouille
Makes about 5 cups
Serve Roasted Ratatouille over toasted European-style bread, as a side dish or tossed with pasta or hearty greens.
- 1 medium eggplant, trimmed and cut into one-inch dice
- 1 large sweet onion, peeled and cut into one-inch dice
- 1 yellow bell pepper, stemmed, seeded and cut into one-inch dice
- 2 medium zucchini, trimmed and cut into one-inch dice
- 12 peeled garlic cloves, sliced
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- Salt and ground black pepper
- 2 cups (1 pint) cherry tomatoes
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
Adjust oven rack to lowest position and heat oven to 425 degrees. Combine eggplant, onion, pepper, zucchini and garlic in a large bowl. Add olive oil and a sprinkling of salt and pepper; toss to coat. Turn vegetables onto a large-rimmed baking sheet and roast until golden, about 20 minutes. Remove pan from oven, stir in cherry tomatoes, then continue to roast until tomatoes start to collapse and release their juices, about 10 minutes longer. Serve hot, warm or at room temperature. (Can be covered and refrigerated up to 5 days.)
Next page: More spring produce recipes. »
All-Purpose Mixed Herb Oil With Lemon and Garlic
Makes 1 generous cup
Toss this mixed herb oil in a salad, and drizzle it over seafood, poultry or meat. If you add 1/4 cup each of ground almonds or pine nuts and finely grated cheese, you'll have turned this oil into pesto.
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 cups packed soft herbs such as basil, parsley, cilantro, dill
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced chives
- 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
Heat a small skillet over medium-low heat. Add garlic cloves and toast them until spotty brown, about 5 minutes. Add them, along with herbs, chives, oil and lemon zest to a food processor; process until pureed. (Can be refrigerated in a lidded container for several weeks.)
Braised Cucumbers With Dill and Sour Cream
Serves 4
- 2 English (seedless) cucumbers, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 large garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill leaves
Place cucumbers, salt and 1/2 cup water in a large skillet. Cover pan and turn burner on high; steam until nearly all the water has evaporated, 8 to 10 minutes. Uncover pan and stir in garlic, sour cream and dill; continue to cook until heated through, 1 to 2 minutes longer. Serve.
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With a fedora shadowing his eyes and a sharp suit accenting some spry dance steps, the 78-year-old Leonard Cohen played many roles Friday before a full house at the Akoo Theatre in Rosemont: gentleman caller, graying patriarch, undertaker, assassin, penitent, screw-up, song and dance man.
Cohen added a few more variations in "Going Home," one of 30 songs he performed in a concert that spanned 3 1/2 hours (including intermission): "I love to speak with Leonard/He's a sportsman and a shepherd/He's a lazy bastard/Living in a suit."
The baritone singer can be wickedly funny, often at his own expense. After a rinky-dink keyboard solo during "Tower of Song," the tepid audience applause brought a wry smile to Cohen's face: "You know the blues when you hear them."
Jokes and the occasional keyboard solo aside, his songs endure. He chisels his words until they can hold up independent of the music, which is as good an explanation as any for why he tours and records so infrequently – no song will be released before its time. Little wonder his songwriting is revered by everyone from filmmaker Robert Altman (whose 1971 Western "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" featured several Cohen classics) to Kurt Cobain and Michael Stipe.
Cohen's earliest music had a stripped-down, folk flavor, built on little more than the rich, subterranean hues of his sing-speak vocals and acoustic instruments. Over time, he's cheesed things up on record with keyboards, synthesizers and other gratuitous glop. Though he wrote "Hallelujah," one of the greatest songs of the last half-century, his original studio version feels leaden compared to superior, less ornate cover versions by John Cale and Jeff Buckley.
The singer's touring band – which included six musicians and three backing singers – can also come off a tad too tasteful for the unadorned grit many of these songs demand and deserve. But the instrumentalists' understated style suited Cohen's delivery, and their transglobal reach touched on East European gypsy flavors, flamenco, blues, gospel and the swing jazz of the opening "Dance Me to the End of Love." Backing singers Charley and Hattie Webb delivered a plaintively moving version of his "If it be Your Will."
Bending a knee or removing his hat while Javier Mas unfurled an oud solo or Alexandru Bublitchi weaved on violin, Cohen often appeared as though he were dispensing or receiving sacraments on stage. His music brims with biblical imagery, cut with Old Testament menace, deceit and blood.
"The Future"? Cohen's seen it, and "Baby, it is murder." It's a world view that may seem impossibly bleak, if not Apocalyptic. Indeed, Cohen seemed to take special relish in enumerating everyday corruption in "Everybody Knows," rolling his shoulders like a boxer readying an uppercut. But the song is less about cynicism than chopping away illusion. Whether the patriot-dissenter in "Democracy" or the broken lover in "Hallelujah," the characters in Cohen's greatest songs arrive without frills or sugar-coating.
It's fascinating to watch as Cohen faces the toughest truth of all: Death. He ignores the typical crutches of the aging poet, the dying-of-the-light songs that solemnly ponder mortality. Instead, the narrator in "Anyhow" is a crusty scoundrel, gently mocked by his backing singers. Forgiveness just isn't possible at this late stage: "I know you have to hate me, but could you hate me less?"
Cohen made the most of his limited voice and dapper, unruffled demeanor. He was the low-key charmer, the understated raconteur, the gracious band leader who introduced his accomplices and then kept re-introducing them, as if fearful the audience might forget their names. And yet in the middle of all this first-class, old-world showmanship were songs that needed no extra drama beyond the weight of Cohen's voice and the conviction he put behind it. The imperfections made it.
"There is a crack, a crack in everything," he sang, "that's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen set list Friday at Ikoo Theatre:
1. Dance Me to the End of Love
2. The Future
3. Bird on the Wire
4. Everybody Knows
5. Who by Fire
6. Darkness
7. Ain't No Cure for Love
8. Amen
9. Come Healing
10. In My Secret Life
11. A Thousand Kisses Deep
12. Anthem
Second Set
13. Tower of Song
14. Suzanne
15. Waiting for the Miracle
16. Anyhow
17. Heart with No Companion
18. Democracy
19. Alexandra Leaving
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20. I'm Your Man
21. Hallelujah
22. Take This Waltz
23. So Long, Marianne
24. Going Home
25. First We Take Manhattan
Encore 2:
26. Famous Blue Raincoat
27. If it be Your Will (performed by Webb Sisters)
28. Closing Time
Encore 3:
29. I Tried to Leave You
30. Save the Last Dance for Me (Drifters cover)


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During the NASCAR at The Glen weekend, guests with state-issued handicap hangtags and license plates may park in the first row of the free daytime parking lots located just adjacent to the track. Paved handicap accessible parking is available in Lot 4 on a first come, first served basis. Be sure to check the Inbound Traffic Map located on page 36 to determine the best access route to access the lot of your choice. For all other weekends, disability parking is available throughout the facility on a first come, first served basis.
During NASCAR at The Glen, disability transportation carts (including wheelchair accessible carts) will be available to transport guests with disabilities and one companion to the grandstands, the infield, or other destination of choice. This service is provided free of charge. To request a disability transport cart, please wait until the cart is needed and then contact us via one of the following methods.
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NEW YORK (AP) — All-Star catcher Brian McCann has completed his $85 million, five-year contract with the New York Yankees and is to be introduced at a news conference on Thursday at Yankee Stadium.
McCann receives $17 million in each of the next five seasons, and the Yankees have a $15 million option for 2019 with no buyout. The option becomes a player option if McCann has at least 1,000 plate appearances combined in 2017 and 2018, has at least 90 starts at catcher in 2018 and does not end the 2018 season on the disabled list.
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A former head of America's National Security Agency (NSA) said Israel was behind the American invasion of Iraq and that the Jewish state has no right to exist and will ultimately disappear.
That according to Professor Yossi Shain, head of the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University, who made the remark during a Knesset discussion on the various boycotts targeting Israel.
Several government official continued to claim that there is no boycott of Israel, and that every time the media speaks of one, it only empowers the groups that are trying to instigate worldwide boycotts of the Jewish state. But representatives of academia who were present at the discussion, such as Prof. Shain, called on the nation to wake up and realize that this is a very real and serious problem.
In response to the government's belief that there is no boycott problem, Prof. Shain argued that senior members of the American administration in Washington have already been infected with anti-Israel perceptions.
"When I taught in Washington I once met a very senior US official - I don't remember his name, but he was the head of the NSA - who told me that the [US] invasion of Iraq was because of us [Israel]," said Prof. Shain. The US official added that "Israel has no right to exist and that is what will happen in the end."
Prof. Shain said he responded to the American by "asking if he was feeling well."
He want on to argue that the moment a major anti-Israel proposal passed through the UN or other international body without an American veto, a wave of anti-Israel action will be unleashed. And, as the above example demonstrates, the seeds of anti-Israel sentiment that will one day result in Washington no longer blocking anti-Israel motions have already been sown.
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We're back from our week of adventures away from the office and it feels good. But before our tans fade, today we're sharing photos from our respective vacations! (Lobster figures large, as you might have guessed.)
Where have you traveled this summer?
First coke in a bottle for Walker and Addie. And the deserving winner of a kids' sand sculpture contest.
I embrace being in Maine with gusto. Sarah is...undecided.
A pseudo-staycation with a brief jaunt down to DC and a stop at the Smithsonian to pay homage to Juuuuulia's Kitchen.
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I stayed at my Mom's lake house at Lake Thoreau in Reston, VA. Swimming, kayaking all day in 90+ weather.
Much-needed greenery and a beautiful view from the top of Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire.
Lobster dinner for two at Waterman's Beach Lobster, right on the water. I wish you could have seen the view!
I'm going to go old-school here and post a scan of an actual INSTANT PHOTO, since there was very little phone access for Instagram on the North Shore of Kauai. Here we're having Black Bean Orange Peel Edamame on the beach before dinner! I'd also like to thank vvvanessa and her sister vrunka for their amazing restaurant recommendations for Kauai's South Shore. We ate ahi and barbecue until our bellies were full.
Lemon-parsley marinated split lobsters on the beach grill, and my husband Dana's 11-hour smoked beef short ribs. (He smokes 'em, I make the rub and sauce).


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Eater has an interview with Gabe Stulman and Jim McDuffee, proprietors of Joseph Leonard, on how the first year of their West Village restaurant went. Watching the chefs make such good food out of such a small kitchen an impressive spectacle.
The limitations that we have are, I think, severe. We don't have a freezer, anywhere. We don't have ice cream or sorbet, we don't have anything that needs to be frozen, it's all fresh, fresh, fresh. We've got refrigerators touching each other over there. We've got ten burners, two ovens, a fryer and a salamander. That's what most people have as a prep kitchen. It's really impressive when I look at how we've got five seafood entrees, five meat entrees, thirteen appetizers, all done with these varying, beautiful techniques and preparations. I tip my hat to everything that Jim and the team in the kitchen have been able to pull off.
It took awhile for my wife and I to warm up to it, but Joe Leo is our go-to neighborhood restaurant now. On our one child-free night out a week, we generally end up there.


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Initialize your application
- In the Project Explorer view, open the main.c file, located in the src folder in the project.
In main(), create a screen context. We use this context to initialize EGL to use a window surface. EGL is an interface between standard rendering APIs (like OpenGL ES) and underlying windowing systems. We also use this context to receive screen events.
screen_create_context(&screen_cxt, 0);
Initialize the BlackBerry Platform Services (BPS) library. This allows the application to receive and process events. We must perform this step before we can call any other BlackBerry Platform Services functions.
Initialize EGL using the screen context that we created. To do this, we use a utility function called bbutil_init_egl(). This function is part of bbutil.h, which was included automatically when we created the project. The bbutil.h file is a collection of utility code that, among other things, handles EGL interactions that are typical for games and similar applications. You can take a look at bbutil_init_egl() to see how you can initialize a native surface. You don't have to use the functions in bbutil.h (you can work with EGL directly in your own applications, if you prefer), but they're provided as helper functions and are ready to use. If the EGL initialization doesn't succeed, we print an error to stderr, clean up the EGL surface by calling bbutil_terminate() (another utility function in bbutil.h), destroy the screen context, and close the application.
if (EXIT_SUCCESS != bbutil_init_egl(screen_cxt)) { fprintf(stderr, "bbutil_init_egl failed\n"); bbutil_terminate(); screen_destroy_context(screen_cxt); return 0; }
Initialize the application data by calling initialize().
if (EXIT_SUCCESS != initialize()) { fprintf(stderr, "initialize failed\n"); bbutil_terminate(); screen_destroy_context(screen_cxt); return 0; }
In initalize(), do the following:
Initialize the vertices of the square in the application. Each pair of values represents the coordinates of a corner, or vertex, of the square.
vertices[0] = -0.25f; vertices[1] = -0.25f; vertices[2] = 0.25f; vertices[3] = -0.25f; vertices[4] = -0.25f; vertices[5] = 0.25f; vertices[6] = 0.25f; vertices[7] = 0.25f;
Initialize the colors of the square. Here, we're specifying the color of each vertex in the square using RGBA color components, so the first four values correspond to the color defined by R=1.0, G=0.0, B=1.0, and A=1.0.
colors[0] = 1.0f; colors[1] = 0.0f; colors[2] = 1.0f; colors[3] = 1.0f; colors[4] = 1.0f; colors[5] = 1.0f; colors[6] = 0.0f; colors[7] = 1.0f; colors[8] = 0.0f; colors[9] = 1.0f; colors[10] = 1.0f; colors[11] = 1.0f; colors[12] = 0.0f; colors[13] = 1.0f; colors[14] = 1.0f; colors[15] = 1.0f;
Obtain the width and height of the EGL surface that was created using the initialization functions in bbutil.h. We'll use these values to position the square on the screen. We also determine whether obtaining the width and height values resulted in any errors. Here, the return value of eglGetError() is compared against 0x3000 (EGL_SUCCESS) to determine whether any errors occurred.
EGLint surface_width, surface_height; eglQuerySurface(egl_disp, egl_surf, EGL_WIDTH, &surface_width); eglQuerySurface(egl_disp, egl_surf, EGL_HEIGHT, &surface_height); EGLint err = eglGetError(); if (err != 0x3000) { fprintf(stderr, "Unable to query egl surface dimensions\n"); return EXIT_FAILURE; }
Call glShadeModel() to use smooth shading when the colors are computed between the square's vertices. Smooth shading causes the colors to be interpolated at runtime to provide a smooth transition between vertices.
Set the background color to white by calling glClearColor(). Setting it to white makes the square more visible.
glClearColor(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
Initialize a simple orthographic projection for rendering.
glViewport(0, 0, surface_width, surface_height); glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glLoadIdentity(); glOrthof(0.0f, (float) (surface_width) / (float) (surface_height), 0.0f, 1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f); glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); glLoadIdentity(); glTranslatef((float) (surface_width) / (float) (surface_height) / 2, 0.5f, 0.0f); return EXIT_SUCCESS;
In main(), we request events from the screen and the navigator so that the application can process them. We want our application to respond to touch events and navigator events. When we request screen and navigator events, we check to see whether the requests were successful. If not, we clean up and close the application.
if (BPS_SUCCESS != screen_request_events(screen_cxt)) { fprintf(stderr, "screen_request_events failed\n"); bbutil_terminate(); screen_destroy_context(screen_cxt); return 0; } if (BPS_SUCCESS != navigator_request_events(0)) { fprintf(stderr, "navigator_request_events failed\n"); bbutil_terminate(); screen_destroy_context(screen_cxt); return 0; }
Indicate to the BlackBerry Platform Services library that we don't want to lock device orientation. At the result of this code block, BlackBerry Platform Services generates an orientation change event that you can handle in your code. Take a look at the orientation recipe for more details on orientation change handling.
if (BPS_SUCCESS != navigator_rotation_lock(false)) { fprintf(stderr, "navigator_rotation_lock failed\n"); bbutil_terminate(); screen_destroy_context(screen_cxt); return 0; }


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GSW Hoops Fan wrote:32 wrote:The only thing that worries me is the slippery slope that these vague injury updates typically harvest. We saw it with Monta's moped ordeal. I'm afraid of Bogut's missing opening night turning into the first week turning into the first 3 weeks. He's been off it since January; yet he didn't have his surgery til late April. If he's going to miss the first month, a lot of us fans will be wondering why he didn't have the surgery closer to when we acquired him in mid March...
When I tore my ACL it happened in December, but couldn't have surgery until Feb because we had to wait until the swealing went down so the doctors could go in there and do what they needed to get done. I imagine that he had a similar issue. It isn't abnormal to have to wait. Also, with broken bones sometimes they have to see if the bone settles in the right position, and if it doesn't, then they go in a move it into position, but they perfer to not have to do that if it isn't necesary.
Touché sir.
I've never broken a bone (*knock on wood*), so I have no idea what surgery entails.


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By Cody Willard
Be sure to check out my new book, Everything You Need to Know About Investing, available right now for $9.99 for the digital version or for $14.99 for the paperback version.
How much faith do you have in the system of stocks, trading and investing on Wall Street?
Do you believe that it's only a matter of time before the money that you think you have in your E-Trade, Schwab, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, etc stock account is plundered like those of MF Global and Peregrine?
How much faith do you have that the price of oil, gold and most every other commodity and derivative product on the planet aren't manipulated and rigged on a daily basis like that of LIBOR?
How much faith do you have that your deposits at
Wells Fargo, Bank of America or JP Morgan are really going to be there when you go to pull out every last dollar?
How much faith do you have that the endless "debt crises" from the financial sector and/or Europe will magically fix itself with quantitative easing and bond buy backs and so on and so forth?
ECB's Draghi Hints at Bond Buys
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Knight Looks to Bolster Capital After Trading Glitch
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My Big Top Gumball machine just like the one at the Pancake Circus in Sacramento. (See youTube for the video of one of these in action!)
Puts on a real show, and no one can get enough of it...
Has been a real money-maker!


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Chankillo was built as a fortified temple complex over 2,300 years ago in the coastal desert of Peru, near the Casma-Sechín river basin. The monumental complex was constructed from cut stone and includes a fortified temple, a plaza, and 13 towers, which are now thought to be an astronomical observatory. Excavations at Chankillo have indicated that the site was occupied sometime between the mid-fourth century B.C. and the early first century A.D. for a relatively short period of time and was subsequently abandoned, most likely due to violent conflict.
Chankillo was identified as an observatory in 2007, creating greater interest in the site. Strong winds, humidity, temperature fluctuations, and earthquakes have caused erosion, loss of mortar, and weakening of stone masonry to the historic elements of the site. As a result, stones have cracked and fallen out, causing structural instability and the gradual collapse of walls.


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I am in the process of organizing a 1st time trip to Seattle for the home opener vs the niners, and i am using Hotwire to book a hotel. You can save alot of money by using the secret hotel feature, but the problem is that you don't know what hotel you are booking. Long story short, I won't have a car while in Seattle, so what area should i book for to be close to the CLINK but also be central to fun things to do in the city. Listed areas include: Downtown Pike Place, Space Needle Area, Lake Union South, Downtown Bellevue, Redmond Kirkland, Renton or Tacoma.
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A Man and His Popcorn
Nothing screams Americana quite like the 7th inning stretch and a box of Cracker Jacks. But would you believe this time-tested snack was created by a German immigrant and debuted not at the ballpark, but at the World's Fair? The story of this American candy classic is an interesting one, indeed.
Frederick William Rueckheim had been selling popcorn on the streets of Chicago for years, when, in 1893, he came up with a new popcorn creation for the Chicago World's Fair. When his brother Louis arrived from Germany, they established the F.W. Rueckheim & Bro. company to sell their popcorn together.
What is a Cracker Jack?
In 1896 the name Cracker Jack was officially registered (before then the snack had been called candied popcorn and peanuts) and the familiarly sticky and sweet candy we know today was born.
Back in the day, the term "cracker jack" could refer to anything of high quality, so it's no wonder the name stuck! The coining of the name, however, was just the first of many big steps for this candy favorite.
Out of Left Field
Henry Gottlieb Eckstein's invention of the "Eckstein Triple Proof Bag" in 1899 made him the perfect business partner for the Rueckheim brothers. And, in 1902, the company became Rueckheim Bros & Eckstein.
But it would take six more years before Cracker Jacks came into their own. In 1908, Jack Norworth penned the infamous lines of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" that shot Cracker Jacks into the limelight. Since then, no baseball game has been complete without at least one box of the crunchy, sweet treat.
Changes came to the company, fast and furious, as Cracker Jacks grew in popularity. In 1912 Rueckheim Bros & Eckstein began adding tiny prizes to each box of Cracker Jacks. Candy and toys? These guys really knew what would sell. The face of Cracker Jacks got another boost in 1918, when Sailor Jack and his dog Bingo were added to the packaging.
The endearing duo was apparently based on Rueckheim's grandson and dog. But, I'd say it's probably not a coincidence that they appeared at the end of the 1st World War. A patriotic move, if I do say so myself.
A Home Run
Four years later, the company underwent another name change, this time becoming The Cracker Jack Company. This name lasted through much of the 20th century, until Borden bought it in 1964.
Today, Cracker Jacks are made by Frito-Lay. They're still a fan favorite at baseball games, enchanting the young and the young-at-heart as they have for decades. So while the prizes may have changed over the years, you can be sure that the candy inside hasn't changed a bit.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_Jack
- http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcrackerjacks.htm
- http://www.delish.com/food-fun/cracker-jack-history-snack-foods#slide-2


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One of the reasons I love shopping Store for Knowledge is that they are always adding new items to their selection. The other day while browsing their dinosaur toys category I stumbled upon their new Dinosaur Train toys collection and thought its contents were incredibly cool. The Dinosaur Train toys category features a line of assorted dinosaurs and the train track from the hit show Dinosaur Train which the kids I babysit can't get enough of. The collection features the main character Buddy and other members of his Pteranodon family that the kids love. All these hi-tech dinosaurs feature an infrared transmitter and receiver that give them the ability to recognize and interact with the other dinos in the line. With simply the press of a button kids can hear over 40 sounds and phrases as these dinos interact and communicate. From chomping and sneezing sounds to stomping sounds when they walk, these Dinosaur Train interaction figures act just like real dinosaurs. The category also features the Dinosaur Train dino track adventure set that includes
the dinosaur train in the TV show. Kids can go on an adventure with the three included dinosaurs beginning at Pteranodon Terrace, stopping at Rexville Station, then making their way to the Pteranodon Family's nest. Altogether this is just a great category for preschoolers who love both trains and dinosaurs. The Dinosaur Train collection encourages basic scientific thinking skills and allows them to go on a prehistoric journey with their favorite dinosaurs from one of the coolest kids shows on TV. So stop by the Store for Knowledge dinosaur train toys collection. I'm sure you'll be as impressed as I was!


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- Spider-man, Iron Man, Wolverine
We can never get enough awesome socks. We've evolved past the boring black and brown crew socks and even most of our boring white athletic socks. Socks are the perfect vehicle for expression in an office where you have to remain "professional." Your power suit should be paired with equally powerful socks and thanks to ThinkGeek's partnership with Marvel, now you can have them!
This set of Marvel Superhero Costume Socks includes three of our favorites: Spider-man, Iron Man, and Wolverine. They're a soft and comfortable blend of cotton, polyester, and stretchy Lycra and will fit most adult humans. (See the measurements below.) With such super socks, you'll fly through your work day and maybe even save the life of someone cute on the way home.
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- Crew socks based on Marvel superheroes
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- Fits men's shoe sizes up to 11
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Hafner helps Yanks down Astros
Bronx, NY – Travis Hafner went 3-for-4 with three RBI, Hiroki Kuroda pitched seven scoreless innings and the New York Yankees downed the Houston Astros, 7-4, in the middle portion of a three-game series.
Kuroda (4-1) battled through a shaky start and retired 14 of the final 15 batters he faced. He gave up four hits and four walks while fanning eight as New York took its fifth win in six games.
Lyle Overbay smacked a solo homer, Chris Stewart went 2-for-4 with an RBI and Eduardo Nunez had three hits and scored a run as the Yankees knocked around Philip Humber (0-6), who was tagged for four runs on nine hits in six innings to lose his sixth consecutive outing to begin the season.
"Eventually the balls are going to bounce my way," Humber said. "Hopefully it happens soon, I'm getting a little bit frustrated."
Chris Carter belted a two-run homer and Jose Altuve went 2-for-5 with two RBI to highlight Houston's offense.
The Yankees scored their first two runs without any crisp hits. In the first frame, Brett Gardner walked, stole second and advanced to third when Ichiro Suzuki beat out an infield single. Two batters later, Hafner sent a humpback liner to left field that appeared to be caught by Brandon Barnes. Barnes, however, was ruled to have trapped the ball, and Gardner scored on the single.
Two innings later, Hafner sent a dribbler through the shift to plate Suzuki, who reached on a dropped third strike and stole second.
The Astros had several quality hits in the first three innings but stranded seven baserunners. They came away empty with runners on the corners and one out in the first, left the bases loaded in the second, then watched Kuroda set down three straight after he put the first two on in the third.
"You have to be pretty good to stick around and make it through those first three innings and then end up giving your team seven," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said of his starter.
Kuroda shook off Altuve's leadoff single in the fifth, and New York added two in the bottom half. Suzuki, after legging out a tapper to third, scored when Brennan Boesch beat out a potential inning-ending double-play ball, and Jayson Nix's sharp ground ball to short ate up Marwin Gonzalez, allowing Robinson Cano to cross the plate for a 4-0 New York lead.
After Carter halved the deficit with his sixth home run of the season in the eighth, the Yankees tacked on three insurance runs against Rhiner Cruz and Brad Peacock. Overbay led off the eighth with a blast into the right-field bleachers, and Stewart singled in Nunez before scoring on Hafner's bloop hit to left.
Shawn Kelley yielded Altuve's two out, two-run double in the ninth, and with the tying run on deck, Mariano Rivera entered from the bullpen and struck out Jason Castro to pick up an easy save -- his 10th of the season.
Game Notes
Houston won the opener of the series in a 9-1 final, scoring just four runs less than the total it has scored in all of Humber's starts this season ... Humber has allowed 19 runs and 27 hits over his last three starts ... Kuroda improved to 4-0 with a 1.39 ERA in eight career starts against Houston ... Before the game, the Yankees placed infielder Kevin Youkilis on the 15-day disabled list with a lumbar spine sprain ... Wednesday's rubber match pits Houston's Erik Bedard against New York's David Phelps.


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One out of two isn't bad. After we featured Marianne Vos' bike before she rode it to victory in the Elite Women's World Championships, we wondered if our presence might do the same for Sven Nys in the Elite Men's race. Alas, it wasn't to be, even though for much of the race Nys looked to have the edge, a small mistake on the final lap allowed Zdenek Stybar to escape to his third title.
Since becoming a Trek sponsored rider at the start of the year, there has been plenty of interest in Sven Nys' new Trek Boone 'cross machine (see our first ride review here). On his first outing, Nys won aboard the disc version. He's since almost exclusively used the cantilever model, so we were torn trying to decide which to feature here. Thanks to arriving early, and some helpful mechanics, we decided to go for two out of two, so here are both Boones to compare and contrast.
Trek Boone 9 disc
First up, the Boone 9 disc, which maintains the same frame geometry and shaping as the non-disc version, but obviously with different brakes. The frame is an evolution of the excellent Domane road frame, taking the IsoSpeed fork and frame decoupler designs, and adding some tyre clearance. The fork uses a conventional looking curved shape, but continues the curve slightly forward of the dropout, which is tucked in underneath, creating a small amount of extra shock absorption and stability. The steerer tube has a 1.5" lower bearing, tapering to 1 1/8", turning inside Trek's E2 geometry head tube, which offers a less aggressive position that is ideal for cyclocross. Although outwardly similar, the disc bike's fork will be substantially strengthened around the calliper mounting, a weight increase possibly offset by omitting the cantilever post mounts.
The innovative IsoSpeed seat tube decoupler would be easy to overlook on this bike, but on the road the huge amount of extra flex and comfort it generates over rough surfaces is mind-blowing, and it must surely increase the ability to continue to pedal more effectively when the ground is bumpy off road too. Whether it's a clear advantage is impossible to say, but we're sure it's no disadvantage, especially when combined with possibly the sport's finest technician.
Out back, there's no need for a brake bridge, and so the seat stays remain independent of each other until the seat tube, removing a potential clogging point. The rear disc calliper is neatly tucked in between the stays, and Trek has retained another feature that adds practicality, namely the hidden fender mounts on the fork and rear dropouts. With double bottle bosses and convertible cable routing, the Boone has potential to be as versatile as you could wish. There's also the built in, adjustable chain catcher, sitting unobtrusively against the base of the seat tube to hopefully prevent chain jams.
But this is Sven's race bike, and he has remained with Shimano components, using the company's R785 Di2 hydraulic shifters here, matched with Dura-Ace Di2 derailleurs, and a Dura Ace chainset with 39/46 rings spinning in a BB90 bottom bracket and turning an 11-28t cassette. The workmanlike setup is completed with some Shimano M980 pedals, which, like those of other riders we've seen, appear to have had some of the surface coating lightly filed or sanded away, leaving a shiny, bare finish. Whether this is to gain some extra mud clearance, no one would let on.
Bontrager continues its relationship with DT Swiss, with the disc version of the Aeolus 3 wheels. The shiny, polished hubs bear no branding, but closely resemble other DT Swiss units, and are designed with 24 holes front and rear, which is a minimum requirement for disc brakes. While laced two-cross at the back, the front wheel uses radial spokes on the non-disc side. The Bontrager tubular carbon rims are 35mm in depth, and wider than average, with external nipples for ease of maintenance.
Tyre choice for the World Championships was simplified following Saturday morning's rain, as even though the course did dry considerably, the sections that were still wet and muddy were too sticky and deeply rutted through soft mud for anything other than a mud tyre. Sven had these brand new customised 33mm Dugast Rhinos with rainbow stripes and his name on the sidewall, which his mechanic estimated he'd race at 1.35 bar front and rear – that's 19.5psi – for a 71kg rider.
Bontrager supplies the finishing kit, a 120mm XXX aluminium stem clamping the 44cm RXL IsoZone carbon bars, which have gel strips recessed in to them under the main hand holds for increased vibration reduction, along with Bontrager's cork tape, applied in green and black to match the colours on each side of the front end. The seat post is Trek's Ride Tuned seatmast, which cleverly avoids the need for cutting by having an externally sliding post slotted over the frame's extended seat tube. It's available in different lengths, with the added bonus of sealing the seat tube against dirt ingress, and clamps Sven's preferred carbon-railed Bontrager Serano RXL saddle.
This 56cm bike is no sized-down special, but a well-fitted tool for a job, so we were impressed by a total weight, as pictured, of 7.75kg / 17.08lb (56cm), which compares very favourably with Marianne Vos's much smaller bike with a nearly identical drivetrain. Even though the disc bike has been raced less, the fact that it's here, and Nys has it in his arsenal is a sign of things to come.
Trek Boone 9 cantilever
As expected, Nys chose to race the cantilever version of the Boone 9 for the Worlds, bringing three of them along with two disc versions, and a whole lot of wheels and tyres. The cantilever bike is outwardly very similar, sharing the frame geometry, but dispensing with the disc calliper mounts and necessary frame reinforcements they require. It also gains a fork crown mounted front brake cable hanger, which should prevent fork judder under braking, and at the back there's a bridge to brace the stays against the braking force, and a cable hanger mounted above that, but the universal cable routing is the same.
Shimano's CX70 cantlievers have great adjustment and an attractive minimal design, and are controlled by Dura-Ace Di2 levers, keeping identical shifting across the bikes. The drivetrain too is understandably identical, with the same chainset, mechs, cassette and pedals, although the chains were a CN9000 on the canti bike, and a Dura Ace ON9000 on the disc machine.
The wheels have similar looking Bontrager carbon tubular rims, but with a braking track included, and 24 holes at the rear and 18 up front. These are laced in a more common pattern, radial at the front, and two cross on the rear drive side, with radial spokes on the other. Hubs are DT Swiss Aeolus, with straight pull bladed white DT Swiss spokes holding it all together. Tyre choice was Dugast Rhino again.
Identical Bontrager finishing kit tops the bike off, although the Ride Tuned seatmast fitted on this bike is 40mm shorter than that on the disc bike we measured. There is sufficient adjustment there that it doesn't matter, and all it means is more of the seat post is exposed. Whether the white Serano saddle was fitted deliberately to differentiate between disc and canti bikes in a hurry, we can't be sure, and although this frame doesn't feature the world champion's rainbow bands, as the disc bike does, at least one of the canti bikes he raced did.
Regarding the performance of the Boone, Nys finds it far more stable generally, and more predictable in the corners than his old Colnago. Where before his front hub was hidden behind the handlebars when he was in the saddle, now he can see it ahead of them, suggesting that the 72 degree head angle is more relaxed, and the 102cm wheelbase longer than his previous machines.
It was no surprise to find that the cantilever-equipped bike was lighter, at just 7.17kg/15.8lb, which is very impressive when allowing for Di2, pedals and mud tyres, meaning a sub 7kg weight would easily be achievable. Sven had stated before coming to Trek that the added weight of his disc bike was still too much, but now the difference is under 600g, and will decrease in time, it will be interesting to see what happens throughout the next season. What are the chances of a Belgian Champion themed bike, now the World title has escaped?
Complete bike specifications
Sven Nys's Trek Boone 9 Disc
- Frame: Trek Boone 9 disc
- Fork: Trek IsoSpeed Cross carbon disc, E2
- Headset: Cane Creek
- Stem: Bontrager XXX 120mm
- Handlebar: Bontrager RXL Isozone 44mm, 125mm drop, 85mm reach
- Tape: Bontrager cork, black and green
- Front brake: Shimano BR-R785 hydraulic caliper, RT99-SS 140mm rotor
- Rear brake: Shimano BR-R785 hydraulic caliper, RT99-SS 140mm rotor
- Brake levers: Shimano ST-R785 Di2 hydraulic
- Front mech: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 9070
- Rear mech: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 9070
- Shift levers: Shimano ST-R785 Di2 hydraulic
- Cassette: Shimano Dura-Ace 6900 11-28 11 speed
- Chain: Shimano Dura-Ace HG ON9000 11 speed
- Crankset: Shimano Dura-Ace 9000, 172.5mm cranks with 39/46 rings
- Bottom bracket: Shimano BB90
- Pedals: Shimano PD M980
- Rims: Bontrager Aeolus 3, 24 hole
- Front hub: DT Swiss disc
- Rear hub: DT Swiss disc
- Spokes: DT Swiss straight pull, white
- Front tyre: Dugast Rhino 33mm 1.35 bar
- Rear tye: Dugast Rhino 33mm 1.35 bar
- Saddle: Bontrager Serano RXL with carbon rails
- Seatpost: Trek Boone Ride Tuned carbon post
Critical measurements
- Height: 1.82m / 5'11 1/2"
- Weight: 71kg / 156.5lb
- Saddle height BB centre to top: 765mm
- Saddle setback: 60mm
- Seat tube centre to top: 533mm
- Seat tube centre to centre: 510mm
- Saddle to bar centre: 572mm
- Saddle to bar drop: 105mm
- Head tube length: 157mm
- Top tube length: 558mm actual
- Total weight: 7.75kg/17.08lb
Sven Nys's Trek Boone 9 cantilever
- Frame: Trek Boone 9
- Fork: Trek Boone 9
- Headset: Cane Creek
- Stem: Bontrager XXX 120mm
- Handlebar: Bontrager RXL Isozone 44mm, 125mm drop, 85mm reach
- Tape: Bontrager cork, black and green
- Front brake: Shimano CX70
- Rear brake: Shimano CX70
- Brake levers: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 9070
- Front mech: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 9070
- Rear mech: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 9070
- Shift levers: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 9070
- Cassette: Shimano Dura-Ace 6900 11-28 11 speed
- Chain: Shimano Dura-Ace HG CN9000 11 speed
- Crankset: Shimano Dura-Ace 9000, 172.5mm cranks with 39/46 rings
- Bottom bracket: Shimano BB90
- Pedals: Shimano PD M980
- Rims: Bontrager Aeolus 3, 24 hole rear, 18 hole front
- Front hub: DT Swiss Aeolus
- Rear hub: DT Swiss Aeolus
- Spokes: DT Swiss straight pull, white
- Front tyre: Dugast Rhino 33mm 1.35 bar
- Rear tye: Dugast Rhino 33mm 1.35 bar
- Saddle: Bontrager Serano RXL with carbon rails
- Seatpost: Trek Boone Ride Tuned carbon post
Critical measurements
- Height: 1.82m/5'11 1/2"
- Weight: 71kg/156.5lb
- Saddle height BB centre to top: 765mm
- Saddle setback: 60mm
- Seat tube centre to top: 533mm
- Seat tube centre to centre: 510mm
- Saddle to bar centre: 572mm
- Saddle to bar drop: 105mm
- Head tube length: 157mm
- Top tube length: 558mm actual
- Total weight: 7.17kg/15.8lb