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Like most Americans, I'm a big fan of the NFL.
I admire the hard working players who go out there and play hard each and every week during the season—giving up their bodies and their talent in an effort to deliver their best for the hometown crowd along with the working-class fan base that has made the NFL what it is today.
That is why I find it so upsetting that Papa John's—the pizza company that will soon provide many of its employees with far more time to watch football thanks to a plan to reduce employee work hours in the effort to avoid the company's responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act—is the official pizza sponsor of the NFL.
Think about this for a moment.
Our uniquely American game—one that has grown into an empire on the backs of the hard working players and the loyal, American working men and women who love and support the game—is in league with a company that appears ready to throw some of those same dedicated fans, and their families, under a bus so that Papa John's can drop a few more dollars to the company's bottom line.
The cost of Papa John's professed fealty to its shareholders at the expense of its employees?
These workers, who typically earn too much to qualify for Medicaid and too little to afford health insurance for their families on what Papa John's pays them, will find themselves facing a fourth down and long without a play to call when a member of that family faces a serious illness.
But it's not just these employees who are being left to run a passing route with no ball ever coming their way.
Other fans of the NFL—people like you and I who pay our already expensive monthly premiums for our family's health insurance needs—will be left to pick up the tab for Papa John's employees when they show up in the emergency room because they have no other option for their care. That means that Papa John's will make more money at my expense, despite the fact that I have never set foot in a Papa John's restaurant nor ordered up one of their pizzas. This means that I will personally be subsidizing Papa John's profits without ever once becoming a customer—as will a great many of you—because this pizza company is willing to shirk its responsibilities in favor of letting you and me pay the bill.
Is this really the type of company the NFL wants besmirching its reputation by permitting them to be an official sponsor? What coach would ever preach to his players that they should get out of the way of an oncoming rush and allow a teammate to take the hit rather than stepping up and doing the job that is the player's responsibility?
How does Peyton Manning fit into this picture?
On the day the alliance between the National Football League and Papa John's was announced, it was also disclosed that Denver quarterback and future Hall-of-Famer, Peyton Manning, had become the owner of 21 Papa John's locations in the Denver area. Manning additionally serves as a spokesperson for the pizza chain—featured in a television commercial wherein he encourages CEO John Schnatter to give away two million free pizzas. Note that the cost of the give-away promotion far exceeds the burden of providing the affected employees with health care benefits.
Like most football fans, I love Peyton Manning.
When he faced his career ending neck surgery, I was rooting hard for him to make it back to the game. And while I have never been a Denver Broncos supporter, I have made it a point this year to tune in to watch almost every Denver game just to add my measure of support for Manning's comeback effort and to see his progress as he works hard to regain the form that has made him one of the all-time greats at the quarterback position.
I've been there for Peyton Manning. Now, I would like to ask Peyton to do something for me.
More specifically, I would like Peyton Manning to do something for all the hard working Americans that have been there to support him and the NFL, thereby allowing Peyton to earn a great and well-deserved living.
I would like Mr. Manning to return the favor by announcing that his Papa John's franchise operations will not be cutting back on its employee hours and that his restaurants will gladly comply with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. I want Peyton to tell us that he will personally see to it that the people who work for him at his 21 stores will each receive their health care benefits.
Guys like Peyton Manning lead by example—and I can imagine no better example than his standing up for the working men and women who have always been there to support him, the game and the National Football League. If Peyton Manning will come forward to do the right thing, just watch as other Papa John's franchise owners follow his lead.
On a separate note, I have been interested by the number of commenters responding to my article of this past week discussing Papa John's efforts—along with some other franchise restaurant operations—to avoid giving health care benefits to their employees. It seems that many of these readers are sympathetic to these businesses because they believe that providing healthcare benefits to their employees is just not something these companies can afford to do without damaging their businesses, despite the millions in profit that many of these operations rake in each year.
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To those readers, I would like to introduce Ian's Pizza—a small business with just four locations in Wisconsin—that has been providing full health care coverage to its 50 full-time employees for many years. Indeed, they were able to begin offering the benefits just two years after they started the company up, leaving me to wonder why it would be so difficult for a Papa John's franchise to do the same.
Nick Martin, one of the owners of Ian's Pizza, is hoping that Papa John's elects to avoid taking out its greed on its employees and, instead, decides to raise the cost of its pizzas in order to cover to meet the intent of the Affordable Care Act.
Because operators like Nick Martin—who have long recognized that a small business can provide their employees with a living wage and needed benefits while still making an acceptable return on investment—would enjoy seeing the playing field leveled a bit.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Mr. Martin noted:
"This may level the playing field for us," Martin said of the Papa John's price hike. "If they have to pay for benefits, and that pushes their prices up closer to ours, it will justify what we've been paying for and what we've been fighting to do the past few years."
When national chains like Papa John's—companies who serve the needs of their shareholders (particularly when the CEO is one of the largest shareholders as is the case at Papa John's) at the expense of the company's employees—it becomes far more difficult for small, local companies to compete. You see, these local companies tend to have a greater connection with their communities and take the well-being of their neighbors much more seriously than these national operations who could not, apparently, care less.
If Nick Martin can do the right thing and still make money, would anyone care to tell me why Papa John's, or the other businesses seeking to punish their employees to make a political point, can't do the same?
In the meantime, I hope you will support your locally owned, non-franchised restaurants. These are your neighbors who—while working hard to give you a good product in their effort to earn a living—tend to be far more committed to their communities and the opportunity for everyone in that community to have a better life. And if there is a franchise operation in your area that has seen the light and is doing right by its employees, drop by there for a meal—from time to time—just to let them know you appreciate their effort to do the right thing for your friends and neighbors.
And the next time you call in to a national chain for a pizza delivery, ask the person on the other end of the phone if they are being provided health care by their employer as a part of their compensation. If they aren't, politely hang up and call a locally owned and operated pizza joint.
You'll feel better for it. Not only will you likely get a far superior pie, you'll know you have supported a business that cares about supporting your community.
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Obama Administration Report Reveals that the United States Has 26% of World's Technically Recoverable Conventional Oil Resources
Washington, D.C. - Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today commented on a newly released government assessment from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which illustrates the truth about America's vast energy reserves. Despite the President's intentionally misleading claim that the United States only has two percent of the world's oil reserves, this assessment confirms that America's technically recoverable conventional oil resources are 26 percent of the world's supply, and this doesn't begin to include our enormous oil shale, tight oil and heavy oil resources. Moreover, it shows that the United States holds almost 30 percent of the world's technically recoverable conventional natural gas resources, without including our massive supply of shale gas.
Senator Inhofe: "Well, there goes President Obama's favorite talking point. The President's own administration released a report which reveals that the United States has 26 percent of the world's technically recoverable conventional oil resources, and that's not including our enormous oil shale, tight oil, and heavy oil resources. This report from the U.S. Geological Survey is vindication for anyone who thought that President Obama's claims - that we 'only have 2 percent of the world's proven oil reserves,' and that 'Even if we drilled every square inch of this country right now, we'd still have to rely disproportionately on other countries for their oil' - are less than honest. This report comes on the heels of the non-partisan Congressional Research Service finding that America has the largest endowment of oil, gas, and coal resources of any country in the world. President Obama may wish that we only had 2 percent of the world's oil so that he could force us into his policies of energy austerity, but the truth is clear: we could end our reliance on the Middle East if we could just stop President Obama's war on fossil fuels and develop our wealth of resources."
Senator Murkowski: "According to the new USGS global estimates, it appears that we have much more of the world's oil supply than the 2 percent claim the president has repeatedly used. Furthermore, it seems that some of the countries that we've been relying on to provide spare capacity to the global market have less oil than previously thought. It's clear that now is the time for us to move forward with exploration and development of more of our own resources. The longer our nation waits to develop our resources, the longer we wait to improve our energy security, create new jobs, pay down our debt, and invest in next-generation energy technologies."

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OTTAWA — Canada is withdrawing from the United Nations World Tourism Office, a move it said was formalized this week over the agency's recognition of Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird told the Commons Thursday the appointment of Mugabe as an international tourism ambassador was what led to the withdrawal.
The UN body, however, dismissed that reasoning, pointing out that it doesn't actually have an ambassadorial program.
The UNWTO said it gave an Open Letter on Travel and Tourism to the presidents of Zimbabwe and Zambia on May 29, in recognition of a tripartite agreement with both countries on the hosting of the 20th Session of the UN General Assembly in Victoria Falls, which straddles the borders of both countries.
The agency added that the same letter had been given to leaders of other countries around the world.
"The receiving of the Open Letter implies no legal commitment or official title attribution to the country or the recipient," the agency said in a statement.
But the mere recognition of Mugabe at a UN event was enough for Baird, who called it the "last straw" for Canada's participation in the UNWTO, the minister's spokesman said.
"After (minister Baird) heard that (Mugabe) was honoured at an event, after he was invited to join this global leaders group, he signed the Order in Council almost immediately," said Joseph Lavoie.
Canada had already signalled a year ago, by giving formal notice, that it intended to withdraw from the UNWTO. But an Order in Council is required to formalize any such notice period.
"They were legitimizing him by enlisting Mugabe to promote tourism," Lavoie said.
"In our view that makes him a small 'a' ambassador."
Mugabe is currently under a United States and European Union travel ban because of human rights abuses in his own country.
He has been in power for more than three decades and has been blamed for his country's economic ruin, resulting in food and fuel shortages, rampant inflation, high poverty and unemployment.


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Informal and free - most used child care
Use of child care remains much the same as 1993 according to survey figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
In March 1996, 48 per cent (1,501,800) children aged less than 12 years used some type of child care. This proportion changed only slightly since 1993 when it was 49 per cent and continues the reduction in the use of care since the peak of 52 per cent in 1990.
Twenty per cent (624,400) of children used formal care in 1996, an increase from 18 per cent in 1990. Informal care remained, however, the most frequently used child care arrangement by Australian families with 1,128,300 (36 per cent) being cared for, mainly by relatives other than brothers or sisters and mostly at no financial cost to parents.
The most commonly used formal care was pre-school (32 per cent), followed by long day care (28 per cent), before and after school care programs (18 per cent) and family day care (15 per cent).
Reasons for using child care varied by the type of care used. While most school age children were in care because of the work-related reasons of their parents, when it came to pre-school most attended because parents felt it was beneficial for the child.
In general, as family income increased the proportion of children who used care also increased. For children in families with a weekly family income of less than $400, 43 per cent used some form of care, compared with 75 per cent of children in families with a weekly family income over $2,000.
The Childcare Cash Rebate (CCR) was claimed for 278,600 children using formal and/or informal care. This represented a take-up rate of 56 per cent of those eligible. The take-up rate for the CCR increased with income. Families with weekly incomes of $1,500 to $1,999 had the highest take-up rate of 70 per cent while families with incomes less than $400 had the lowest rate of 44 per cent.
At work mothers were more likely to make use of particular workplace arrangements to care for children than fathers (69 per cent compared with 26 per cent). Flexible working hours were the most frequently used option for both parents.
Details are in Child Care, Australia (cat. no. 4402.0) which is available from ABS bookshops.
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16 January 2011
ORDNARIATE: Common Sense and Mutual Enrichment
Well, it must still be All Right to refer to him as "Bishop Andrew" because Fr Aidan Nichols did so in his brilliantly characteristic homily. Fr Aidan has been House Theologian to the Ordinariate during all those many long years before The Project actually turned into The Ordinariate; he first sketched the theological meaning of an Anglicanism united but not absorbed in his The Panther and the Hind. Since then, there have been meetings of the FIF theological group with him in the cellars at Gordon Square; Fr Aidan always so gracious, so sympathetic, so helpful, so erudite, so generous. The first time I read a paper - a very poor one - in his presence, I remember how nervous I felt; but there was no need to.
Fr Aidan returned, today, to the great enterprise of gathering up the fragments that none be lost; of appropriating, for the good of all the church, the Anglican inheritance discerned through the purifying prism of Catholic Orthodoxy. He mentioned that Bishop Andrew is engaged in the liturgical side of that - but made clear, referring especially to Blessed John Henry and the Tractarian Fathers, that there is much more to it than Liturgy. His homily, I think, counts as the Programmatic Statement of the Ordinariate as far as theology is concerned. I hope he stays involved.
If Fr Aidan's homily was characteristic, so was Bishop Andrew's liturgy. Fine music (Byrd; Morales); Latin from the Sursum corda until the Communion. We had examples of what the American blogosphere now calls Common Sense and Mutual Enrichment. Sanctus covered the (silent) first half of the Canon Romanus and Benedictus the second half; we were spared those horrid 'Acclamations' after the Consecration. At the Invitation to Communion, Bishop Andrew continued his custom of using the New ICEL translation of Ecce Agnus Dei.
I arrived home to hear the end of the celebratory peal rung on the S Thomas's (ten) very fine bells. That's Patrimony, too.
25 comments:
- AndrewWS said...
It was also noteworthy that the pew sheets put 'first mass' in quotation marks, just like that.
Oratorian subtlety ....
- 16 January, 2011
- Jonathan said...
Reverend surname is just bad English and incorrect, whoever uses it and in whatever circumstances. However it rather fits with a culture that can put clashing nylon carpet against faded Comper pink silk which I have seen in a former Anglican religious house now a RC conference centre.
- 16 January, 2011
- Enrico Dante said...
By the way, the celebration was Eastward-facing versus populum, since the Oxford Oratory is 'back to front'.
- 16 January, 2011
- IanW said...
I'm extremely impressed that you managed a table at Gordon's. It says something for the wordly practicality of the Dominicans and those involved in the Project.
- 16 January, 2011
- Becket said...
@AndrewWS: I'm afraid I can confirm the quotation marks were purely because he technically celebrated his first Mass yesterday at his ordination. I heard this from the horse's mouth, so to speak, in the sacristy before Mass.
- 16 January, 2011
- Becket said...
@AndrewWS: I'm afraid I can confirm the quotation marks were purely because he technically celebrated his first Mass yesterday at his ordination. I heard this from the horse's mouth, so to speak, in the sacristy before Mass.
- 16 January, 2011
- Little Black Sambo said...
... he technically celebrated his first Mass yesterday ..
- 17 January, 2011
- RichardT said...
Referring to him as Bishop Andrew might be premature, but hopefully not very much.
See part 11.3 of the Complementary Norms to Anglicanorum Coetibus; the Bishops' Conference of England & Wales may admit him as a member "with the equivalent status of a retired bishop".
It would seem somewhat bad mannered if they failed to do so.
- 17 January, 2011
- Unknown said...
Is the text of Fr Aidan's homily available online? Where?
- 17 January, 2011
- RichardT said...
Ah, apologies, I missed a bit.
Under Article 2.1 of the Norms, the Ordinary is automatically a member of the Bishops' Conference.
So let's cross-reference that to Article 11.3 (any former Anglican Bishop in the Ordinariate who is invited to join the Conference has the status of a retired Bishop).
Sounds good enough to me; Bishop Andrew it is.
- 17 January, 2011
- Asshole said...
If the words "first Mass" were indeed put into quotation marks, that is absolutely horrible.
- 17 January, 2011
- Gallery said...
The obvious solution is to give Fr Andrew the title of a Bishop but without calling him "Bishop"; I'm not sure what the normal title is in England, but in Rome it would by Your Excellency.
- 17 January, 2011
- Jacob Hicks said...
Well, Bishop Andrew was called 'Father' when he was a practising bishop so now he's 'acting down', he'll carry on being referred to as 'Bishop Andrew' and addressed as 'Father', I'd have thought.
- 17 January, 2011
- Joseph Shaw said...
Fr Aidan Nichols OP will indeed remain involved; he's been roped in formally by the CDF as an advisor on the Ordinariate.
- 17 January, 2011
Actually, I assumed that ordinary at least would be called "My Lord". And am I correct in assuming that he is essentially an archpriest? That seems to be the correct title as he exercises ordinary jurisdiction.
- 17 January, 2011
- XOL said...
Rev. Burnham is not a Bishop nor can he be since he is married. Therefore he is entitled Rev or Fr. Neither is he the Ordinary of the Ordinariate since the Holy Father appointed rev. Newton to this post. Not all ordinaries are Bishops, just as not all bishops are ordinaries. The use of inverted commas is correct since the newly ordained celebrates the first Mass at his ordination; it would be more correct to say that rev. Burnham presided at Mass for the first time yesterday.
- 17 January, 2011
- Osmund Kilrule said...
bishop in partibus anglicanorum
- 17 January, 2011
Let's clear this up once and for all. Burnham is not a bishop and in the eyes of the Church not only was he never a bishop but as he ia married he never can be.
He may have the status of a retired bishop, but he has neither the title nor the sacral functions.
- 17 January, 2011
- Little Black Sambo said...
Let's clear this up once and for all.
That is the kind of bossy comment that usually finishes with the words "end of".
- 17 January, 2011
- Apuleia said...
Aidan Nichols OP's homily
- 17 January, 2011
- William said...
"[T]he quotation marks were purely because he technically celebrated his first Mass yesterday at his ordination."
But that applies to all First Masses. Is it, then, standard practice for First Masses (whether at the Oratory or elsewhere) to have scare quotes placed around them? And if not, what was the reason to do so on this occasion?
- 18 January, 2011
- vexilla regis said...
"XOL"and "afcote" are concise and precise. "Bossy"is all in the head of the person using the term. God bless the Ordinariate, its Ordinary and the other two new Priests.
- 18 January, 2011
- _ said...
Naughty! Here are Fr Aidan's actual words...
Bishop Andrew – I've known Andrew so long and closely under that description I find it hard to break the habit – is celebrating today his first Mass in full union with the Catholic Church.
I suspect he will manage to break the habit somewhere along the line. Fr Burnham, excellent man though he may be, is not a bishop of the Catholic Church. God bless him, you, and all those entering the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
- 18 January, 2011
- Chris said...
"his first Mass in full union with the Catholic Church" is a careful piece of phrasing - and I've noticed similar in other places, e.g. New Liturgical Movement - which at the very least avoids pronouncing on the status of the many masses he celebrated previously.
- 18 January, 2011
- Canon Jerome Lloyd OSJV said...
Certainly Fr Newton as the Ordinary, might be addressed courtesously and customarily as "Monsignor" in the same way Vicar Generals who are not Bishops may be similarly addressed (if they are not already, actual Monsignori).
One wonders, if, as the Complimentary Norms mention, with a petition for and permission granted, a former Anglican Bishop of the Ordinariate wears Pontificals, he might also be honorarily addressed as "Monsignor"?
- 18 January, 2011


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Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration asked a federal judge Monday to set aside a jury verdict in the infamous videotaped beating of a female bartender by an off-duty Chicago police officer — essentially agreeing to pay the woman $850,000 now in return for erasing the jury's finding that a police "code of silence" protected the cop.
The unusual request is an attempt to prevent last month's damaging verdict from being cited by lawyers in other lawsuits against the Police Department. The former bartender filed the motion jointly with the city; she stands to quickly collect the jury award she won without risking the chance of losing on appeal or having the trial judge reduce the amount.
It will be up to U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve to weigh the interests of the parties involved in the lawsuit against the interest of the public in having the record of the jury's verdict stand. City lawyers said they plan to appear before the judge Monday.
The city battled Karolina Obrycka's lawsuit for five years, arguing that former Officer Anthony Abbate's attack on her, which was caught on security video and eventually went viral on the Internet, was the action of an off-duty officer and not the responsibility of the Chicago Police Department.
As part of her case against the city, Obrycka's lawyers argued that a pattern and practice of covering up police corruption and misconduct exists in the department. Moreover, she argued, Abbate behaved with a sense of impunity because he believed fellow officers would protect him. The jury agreed in its Nov. 13 verdict.
Although the city argued in Monday's court papers that the jury's verdict was "ambiguous" and tied to the peculiar circumstances of the Abbate case, lawyers also wrote that they want the verdict removed from the record because it could influence other lawsuits against the Police Department, of which there are many.
In a statement, Corporation Counsel Stephen Patton said the city reached out to Obrycka after the administration determined it didn't want to appeal the verdict.
"From the city's perspective, vacating the judgment eliminates the risk that the judgment will be misused in a way that hinders the city's ability to defend itself in future cases," Patton said.
The city also argued in the motion that the misconduct in the Abbate case happened several years ago and things are different now. The old Office of Professional Standards, which investigated the Abbate case, was renamed and reconfigured in the wake of the scandal. Also, city lawyers noted that there is a new mayor as well as a different police superintendent.
While the city's effort to erase the jury's verdict would not strike down the record of testimony in the trial, it does pose some risks to the public good, experts said.
"By allowing the kind of agreed-upon whitewash of the jury verdict, it tends to increase the possibility of future bad conduct," said Richard Zitrin, a law professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, who has testified before Congress about secret settlements in police misconduct cases.
"The problem is that the lawyer representing the plaintiff has a duty to do what's right for the plaintiff, and that duty does not include a duty to do what's right for the public as a whole."
Obrycka's lawyer, Terry Ekl, did not respond to calls for comment Monday. City officials also did not immediately answer questions about the move.
In the memorandum filed Monday, the city cited some legal precedents supporting the move to vacate the jury verdict. But federal courts have not always agreed with such motions when public misconduct issues are involved.
In a 2000 case in Virginia, after a federal jury found for a plaintiff in a police excessive force lawsuit, both sides filed a motion to vacate the verdict in favor of a settlement. In that case, the judge wrote, "the public's interest in judicial economy, finality of judgment and the integrity of the courts outweighs the parties' interest in having the verdict vacated."
Lawyer Christopher Smith, who has represented several plaintiffs in lawsuits against the Chicago Police Department, said claims of a pattern and practice of coverups are allowed into cases rarely and on narrow terms.
Applying the precedent from the Abbate verdict to other lawsuits is challenging, he said. However, given the circumstances of the case — the fact that Abbate was off-duty and in a bar — the verdict made a strong statement.
Because the jury decided that the department covered up for a drunken off-duty cop attacking somebody in a bar, the case shows "it's so well-known to officers that no matter what we do, we know we're going to get backed up," Smith said. "No matter how far away (the alleged behavior) was from a police action, there's always a police influence if there's a code of silence."
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration asked a federal judge Monday to set aside a jury verdict in the infamous videotaped beating of a female bartender by an off-duty Chicago police officer — essentially agreeing to pay the woman $850,000 now in return for erasing the jury's finding that a police "code of silence" protected the cop.


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Scott and I have schedules that mean during the workweek we only cook dinner together about two times a week. This makes it impractical to keep a lot of fresh food in our fridge (cleaning it out got depressing, so many unidentifiable items) so we tend to pick something up to cook earlier in the same day. To make it even easier I've been figuring out what half-prepared foods to keep in the freezer. For whatever reason if I made something complete (say lasagna) and freeze it we never seem to actually eat it, we prefer to make something we are craving so having components that will cut down on dirty dishes and chopping time have been making a big difference. It nearly makes me feel like I'm qualified to be an adult.
I've mentioned a few things I keep in the freezer before — kale, bacon layered so it's easy to just grab a few slices, bolognese sauce — and the latest staple I've added is caramelized onions. I use the recipe from Tea and Cookies which mostly calls for "time, patience, and faith" which isn't an exaggeration. The first time I caramelized onions I had to restrain myself from them off the stove too early. They need to be nice and dark:
Image by Tara Austen Weaver, Tea and Cookies.
Basic technique: two sliced onions in a 10-inch pan, 1/4 cup olive oil, medium high heat, stirring every five minutes and patience. It will take about 30 minutes. For a more detailed description go read the entry at Tea and Cookies and follow her tip about slicing bits a little thicker than others. I let these cool, put them in ziplock bags pressed flat and freeze them. Then I break off a tablespoon or so as I need it.
So far we've mostly been using them in egg dishes. For the omlette pictured above I used mushrooms, spinach and goat cheese left over from a salad with some of the caramelized onions to create a way more delicious breakfast than I usually have. Tara describes caramelized onions as the bacon of the vegetarian world, they are smoky and salty and add a hit of flavor whatever you add it to. And people, yum. Also, having them on hand will make you feel like a genius.


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Muncy's three shots lead homer barrage
The final box score said the wind was blowing 16 mph to center field Wednesday and Class A Advanced Stockton's Max Muncy thought it was a relatively still night in Banner Island Ballpark. "At this ballpark, usually the wind is blowing out pretty hard," Muncy said. "It was blowing a
The final box score said the wind was blowing 16 mph to center field Wednesday and Class A Advanced Stockton's Max Muncy thought it was a relatively still night in Banner Island Ballpark.
"At this ballpark, usually the wind is blowing out pretty hard," Muncy said. "It was blowing a little tonight, but it was actually one of the calmer nights I've seen here."
The pitchers in Wednesday's Lancaster-Stockton showdown might disagree. The teams combined to tie a California League record with 11 home runs, with Muncy supplying a career-high three roundtrippers as the Ports outslugged the JetHawks, 13-7.
The home run total tied a record set in 1962 in a game between Bakersfield and Reno. Stockton accounted for seven of the blasts, one shy of the Cal mark set by Modesto against San Jose on Aug. 14, 1999 and matched a day later by Lancaster against Lake Elsinore.
Muncy's three-homer performance was the first by a Ports player since Josh Whitaker hit three on June 25, 2012 at San Jose. It was the first of the first baseman's career at any level.
Muncy has four homers in his past three games after a 28-game dinger drought. The left-handed hitter began the season on a torrid pace, slugging eight in his first 17 games -- including a pair of multi-homer games. He ended the longball famine with a go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning of Lancaster's 6-3 win over San Jose on Sunday.
The turnaround has come as Muncy has adjusted to strategies adopted by the league after his sweltering start. Opposing pitchers began making predictable adjustments against the pull-happy slugger, attacking with soft stuff on the outer half.
"In the first month, he banged a lot of home runs," Stockton skipper Webster Garrison said. "Then pitchers started pitching him differently. … He was seeing a lot of soft stuff away."
Teams also adopted a shift in which he'd either have to blast the ball over everybody to right or settle for lesser damage by going the other way.
"The shift is one of the biggest challenges I've faced," Muncy said. "I had a lot of balls that I'd hit up the middle, and the shortstop would be right there, making plays."
The 2012 fifth-round Draft pick by Oakland out of Baylor University hit just four homers with 20 doubles in 64 games at Class A Burlington after signing last season. The big-shot barrage early in the season unintentionally caused him to alter his style.
"I think I let that get to my head a little and got away from my approach," he said. "My approach is to be a line-drive hitter. The home runs will just come when I get a little underneath the ball and get it into the air.
"I started struggling when I started trying to put the ball in the air instead of sticking to line drives. The last couple weeks, I've been trying to get back to that, and I think I've done a good job of that."
This week has put Muncy back on the breakout track. He displayed an excellent approach in the Midwest League last year, hitting .275 with a .383 on-base percentage. The power was all that was lacking for the first-base prospect, and by adjusting his swing in the offseason to create more backspin, he thinks he's made a move toward solving that issue.
"Last year, I had a lot of doubles," he said. "I can honestly say a lot of those balls were with topspin. I'd topspin balls down the right-field line over the first baseman's head, and even the ones I'd hit into right-center field, I'd be getting some topspin on them."
The backspin has been working and now Muncy's challenge is to maintain that adjustment while continuing to improve his approach. One big step will be learning to better send balls to the opposite field, something he accomplished by homering to left in the bottom of the third Wednesday.
"I don't know if I've hit too many home runs to that side of the field," he said. "I think I can count on one hand how many home runs I've hit out there.
"I've hit a lot of doubles that way, but usually, I don't have the power to get it out. It's good to get a home run like that."
Stockton scored seven runs in the bottom of the third. Muncy started it off with his solo homer, which was followed by Tony Thompson's roundtripper. After Antonio Lamas doubled, Rashun Dixon belted a homer to left. A batter later, Myrio Richard doubled to left field, and after a pitching change and B.A. Vollmuth's single, Philip Pohl capped the scoring with a two-run shot.
Vollmuth capped the home run derby with a two-run blast in the seventh.
Houston's No. 5 prospect Delino DeShields, No. 11 prospect Nolan Fontana, Matt Duffy and Telvin Nash homered for Lancaster.
Jake Seiner is a contributor to MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Jake_Seiner.


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One of the things Jeremy Perry and I have been working on in the GNOME Shell design is a way to make application launching work better. You can see some of this in the following mockup:
As you can see there. We need short "brand" names for the Favorite apps.
So, in preparation for GNOME Shell, a few of us have been looking into how we should handle application names in GNOME 2.28 – since GNOME 2.28 is primarily a prepatory release for GNOME 3.0. We need to make a decision on this soon.
First, some background.
What is a name?
Applications, like many things, have a few different names associated with them. Such as:
- Unique Identifier — rhythmbox.desktop
- Generic name — Media Library
- Brand Name — Rhythmbox
This is analogous to what we find in the consumer pharmaceutical world:
- Chemical Name — 7-chloro-1,3-dihydro-1- methyl-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one
- Generic Name* — diazepam
- Brand Name — Valium
Note: I'm ignoring differences between INN, BAN, USAN for this. And also ignoring the fact that generic drugs are usually exact copies of the same chemical substance.
Also see: this and this.
For both drugs and applications, generic names are meant to be a substitute for a brand name. They are not classifications, categories, or descriptions. For example, an alternate for Tylenol may be called acetaminophen / paracetamol but it belongs to the categories of analgesic and antipyretic.
In the open source world, our application naming system is described in a nearly universally adopted freedesktop.org specification. However, the specification does not address how these names can and should be used. Nor does it address how a name should relate to an application icon. These are things that we (GNOME) must decide.
How are names used?
Let's go back to our drug example again to think about how these names are used. At least in the US, Tylenol is like Firefox (ha, Mozilla.com wishes!) in that it is a very widely recognized brand among consumers. So, for our purposes let's suppose a new relatively unknown brand of orally administered analgesic: Livernol. There are a few different ways this name is used:
- Local Pharmacy
Kelly goes to the store with the intention of finding something to ease her headache. She probably won't know the name Livernol, she may ask the pharmacists if they can recommend something like Tylenol or that can help with headaches. They may hand her Livernol and she can confirm from the descriptions on the label that it is will help with headaches and may be compared with Tylenol.
- Medicine Cabinet
Kelly has another headache (she is a designer who works with open source software). She staggers to the bathroom and grabs the bottle of Livernol on the shelf. No need to read the descriptions since she knows what it is. However, she may consult the documentation if she has forgotten how to use it.
- Talking to Experts
Gosh darn headaches won't stop. Kelly goes to the doctor. She tells the doctor that she gets headaches frequently and the analgesic she takes doesn't seem to help. The doctor asks her what analgesic and then looks looks up the chemical name and then details about it. He informs her that this isn't the best choice for her since it doesn't treat her specific problem and it has a number of unwanted side effects.
- Online Pharmacy
Now she is looking for something else on an online store since she didn't find it in the local one (or didn't trust the recommendations). The doctor scribbled on a note "napro…" something. Oh here it is, the store generic Naproxen Sodium. Label descriptions and reviews confirm it is good for severe headaches.
[Public service announcement: consult your doctor to make sure Tylenol is right for you]
So what does this have to do with software?
In GNOME Shell we want to handle the above scenarios separately.
- When looking for something new you can either browse or search through a rich set of information
- When you already know something you want to optimize for easy access
- When you need help or just want to share information you need to be able to talk about it unambiguously
- When you don't find what you need on your computer, it should be simple to find and access more online.
Matthew Paul Thomas has discussed some specifics of naming on the GNOME development mailing list before. I agree with what he says there.
So what rules govern the use of Name and GenericName?
Proposed guidelines:
- When Name is the same as GenericName, the GenericName should be removed
- The desktop entry Name value, application menu (for GNOME shell), window titlebar (for GNOME 2.x), documentation, and about dialog should all use the same name
- The desktop entry Name value should be the brand name unless the application is a simple (single purpose), core GNOME built-in and does not have an established external brand identity (web site, online help, etc)
- Brand names should be considered carefully but can't be relied on to indicate functionality in many languages
- Application icons should supplement names of all kinds and are critical to recognizing already known applications
- It doesn't make sense for Dictionary or Calculator (GNOME is implied) to be separately branded.
- It is fairly clear that something like Firefox or Rhythmbox is branded.
- Totem which actually do bit more than the generic name implies (It is a little strange that Movie Player plays songs and youtube – according to the description) but the name isn't known outside of GNOME for the most part.
- gedit is tough because the name doesn't "read" well and it is a pretty core component. However, it does have an external presence and the authors feel it should be called gedit.
That's nice but how do we handle this in the current panel?
Frederic Peters made a nice proposal to XDG list to add another entry to the spec to over the case where the two names are used in menus. The primary reason for this was to try to avoid problem translating the combined use of Name and GenericName. I was initially in favor of this approach. However, the proposal was not well received. After discussing the proposal with Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, and others I don't think we can rely on this solution for a few reasons.
- We will only need this solution in GNOME for a single release. It isn't required for the GNOME Shell.
- It will take a significant amount of time for all desktop files in existence to be updated to use the new key.
- We will need to create a fallback solution for desktop files that don't have FullName.
- It isn't clear that translations should fundamentally alter the design of the menu entry layout.
- It isn't clear how you can do much better with a translated key than we can with a programmatic layout (given the constraints of a menu and that we don't want to combine the strings).
- We aren't trying to concatenate the names. The names are substitutes for one another – so articles and grammatical combinations are not needed.
- There seems to be tepid support for programmatically adding both Name and GenericName to the GNOME menu items using a translated format string i18n("%1$s – %2$s") or similar
- Using a separator isn't ideal but then the menus are just terrible interfaces for launching anyway
- After actually trying out the approach in the menus – it doesn't look that bad
So, concretely, what do we need for 2.28?
- We need to patch the panel to support showing both Name and Generic Name to workaround the fact that menus are very poor ways to discover new things.
- We need to fix a lot of our desktop files to use Name and GenericName correctly: GNOME Goal, tracker bug, Fedora wiki page.
- Consider renaming applications that have really poor names.
- Ensure that application names perform well in GNOME Shell
I will bring this up on the GNOME desktop development list. Discussion should happen there.


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D-backs honor fallen firefighters before game
Team observes moment of silence and wears No. 19 for victims of wildfire
PHOENIX -- As sports venues often are following tragedies, Chase Field transformed into a ballpark-size homage on Friday to the 19 firefighters who lost their lives Sunday while battling a wildfire near the Northern Arizona town of Yarnell.
With remembrances to the victims spread out across the stadium including a black No. 19 painted behind home plate, fans turned out in droves to sell out Chase Field for the first time since Opening Day.
In a special pregame ceremony, the D-backs and Rockies observed a 19-second moment of silence followed by a photo montage in memory of the lost firefighters and a performance of "Amazing Grace" by the Arizona Fire Service Bagpipe and Drum Band, which included more than 45 firefighters from communities all over the state.
"We do it as a tribute to the families and the people that gave their lives," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "You're always trying to figure out what can you do, so I know the organization is doing all it can. You can't replace the people that you lose, but we want to remember their spirit."
Yarnell is located about 85 miles northwest of Phoenix, and the firefighters that were killed were members of an elite fire suppression unit known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots, which is based in nearby Prescott.
The deaths marked the largest loss of life among firefighting personnel since 340 perished in the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. It was the largest in a wildfire since 1933, when 29 firefighters lost their lives in Los Angeles.
The D-backs wore their black jerseys Friday, but whereas they used to say "D-backs" across the front, they instead read "Arizona" and had a patch over the heart bearing the No. 19.
The two clubs also donned Prescott Fire Department hats during batting practice to show support. The D-backs are petitioning MLB to allow the club to wear the hats during games this weekend, like the Yankees and Mets did following 9/11.
"It's to honor those guys and their families," Willie Bloomquist said. "We're all in this together and we all feel a part of it. We sympathize with them and we're going to do the best to honor them."
Said Brad Ziegler, "We want them to know we're thinking of them. It's unfortunate we have to do this, but at least this is a way we can show our support because those that were taken were heroes."
In addition to the symbolic tributes, the D-backs also have launched a number of fundraising efforts for the families of the victims. The organization has already matched $100,000 in donations from fans at dbacks.com/19 and pledged on Friday to match an additional $100,000 in contributions.
Beginning Friday through July 14, the club is also auctioning off game-worn and autographed black Arizona tribute jerseys from this weekend and signed nameplates from the D-backs Clubhouse online at dbacks.com/auctions. There will be a 50/50 raffle each game this weekend at Chase Field that will support the families as well.
"Nothing can give back to those families what they've lost, but whatever we can do to help, we're going to try to do," Cliff Pennington said. "This organization is first class when it comes that and it makes me really proud to put on this uniform."


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Noam Chomsky Appeal for Z-net
September 2004
"We live in an era of media concentration, vast efforts on many fronts (political, economic, military, ideological) to insulate state and private power from critical discussion or even popular awareness, and to reduce citizens to isolated atomized creatures restricted to satisfying personal 'created wants.' This massive and coordinated campaign has been partially successful, but only in a limited way.
The range and scope and dedication of popular activism has also increased, all over the world, reaching a level of international solidarity and mutual support that has never been seen before. The basic conflicts are very old, but they have taken quite dramatic and significant new forms, and the stakes are far higher than ever before. It is, regrettably, no exaggeration to say that the survival of the species is at risk -- and many others with it. We all know why.
Popular movements are the hope for a decent future. They of course have to have access to information and modes of interaction. In addition to alternative print and video, to a very large extent they have relied on the internet, which allows people to escape from the constraints of the doctrinal systems, to explore and investigate and discuss crucial issues with one another, to plan and organize.
Z and Znet have played a crucial role in serving all of these functions. I see that every day. I travel and speak constantly, in the U.S. and abroad, and spend many hours a day just responding to inquiries and comments. I constantly discover that the people and organizations I come in contact with are relying very substantially on Z projects for information, discussion, and opportunities for interaction and organizing, to an extent that is quite remarkable. It also is an invaluable resource for me personally, in all of these respects, and also in my case for providing a forum for intense and very constructive discussion, the only one I regularly participate in. And for posting articles, interviews, commentaries, etc., of mine. I know that many others have very much the same experience.
It is of inestimable importance, in my judgment, that Z and ZNet continue to flourish and expand, not to mention their growing video efforts and incomparable media school, arguably the most exciting and instructive I have ever encountered. Again, I do not think it is possible to exaggerate the stakes. I hope that all of us who are committed to resisting and reversing the powerful currents of reaction and oppression and violence, and showing that another world is indeed possible, will contribute as best we can to ensure that the remarkable achievements of Z and ZNet will be carried forward."


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Using the pattern you will obtain this teapot block. Note: the handle made of appliquéd bias tape. The bias tape is 7/8 in wide before folding.
Make a quilt sandwich and quilt the pot holder any way you like.
Then trim the square.
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Place the ric rac to the edge of the quilted pot holder and stitch leaving a 1/8 seam allowance.
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To stitch the binding by machine, stitch first the bias tape to the back of the quilt sandwich as per picture.
Iron the bias tape from the back.
Then make a fold on the bias tape and iron (see picture) to make it easier to pin.
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May 22, 2012— -- The FBI is investigating the founder of a "revenge porn" website, where scorned lovers were posting nude photos and videos of their ex-partners anonymously online.
Officials would only confirm to "Nightline" that there was an investigation, but declined to comment further on any other details.
Hunter Moore, 26, used to run a website called IsAnyoneUp.com, which he told "Nightline" he had launched as a place for "public humiliation." On the site, users could upload sexually explicit photos and videos without a victim's permission, and include screen grabs of Facebook accounts and links to Twitter accounts. A section on the website also allowed people to comment on the photos and videos.
The site became so popular that Moore said he was getting nearly 5 million hits a month. But in April, Moore sold his website for less than $15,000 to BullyVille.com, a social website on which people can share stories about being bullied and seek help. IsAnyoneUp.com was taken down.
But before the website was shut down, Kayla Laws, a 25-year-old aspiring actress, said nude photos of herself that she took, but never distributed, surfaced on IsAnyoneUp.com. Laws claims her computer was hacked.
"To be seen on that website is like, breaks my heart inside," she said. "It ruins everything I've built up for myself. It's embarrassing to know that they've seen that photo of me and they know what I look like topless because of that site."
Her mother Charlotte Laws, who is a private investigator, said she was outraged and contacted the FBI after Moore refused to take down her daughter's photos.
"We first asked him, we sent him a cease-and-desist and a take-down notice, and he basically said 'screw off,' in so many words," Charlotte Laws said.
She said she convinced the FBI to launch an investigation into whether Kayle's computer was hacked.
"The FBI, I've been extremely impressed with them," Charlotte Laws said. "They're highly competent and extremely responsive."
Moore denied that he ever hacked anyone's naked photos.
Before IsAnyoneUp.com was shut down in April, Moore boasted to "Nightline" that he was a self-proclaimed "professional life ruin-er" and he had no scruples about hosting the website because the people on it were simply "characters and avatars and icons on a screen" to him and he wanted to take "full advantage of people's mistakes."
Moore also bragged about the multiple cease-and-desist letters and complaints he got from victims' lawyers, and said his typical response was either to send a dirty picture or a simple "LOL."
Just as YouTube hosts other people's videos, IsAnyoneUp.com fell into the same category -- the person submitting the picture accepts full responsibility for uploading it.
"Your only remedy is against the person who took the picture and posted it," said Bruce Johnson, an attorney in Seattle who specializes in First Amendment and media cases. "There's no real remedy against the website that's posting that photo. The best advice is not to disseminate the picture to begin with."
When BullyVille.com bought Moore's site and shut it down -- IsAnyoneUp.com's URL now re-directs to BullyVille.com -- it seemed that Moore had changed his tune. The site hosted a letter from him filled with words that sounded nothing like the rebel "Nightline" had previously interviewed.
"I think it's important that everyone realizes the damage that online bullying can cause," Moore wrote.
James McGibney, a former marine and founder of BullyVille.com, told "Nightline" he did a public service by shutting down Moore, something he said even the government wasn't able to do. However, several critics called the move a media stunt because the re-direct from IsAnyoneUp.com occurred less than a week after BullyVille.com launched, and BullyVille.com received two million visitors from it.
McGibney denied that shutting down IsAnyoneUp.com was for personal gain.
"Do you know what kind of base [Moore has], the subscriber base?" he said. "It's not the type of people I want on BullyVille."
But BullyVille.com isn't McGibney's only website. His bread and butter is CheaterVille.com, a website where anyone can accuse someone of cheating on a spouse or a partner and post it anonymously. But McGibney said CheaterVille.com is nothing like Moore's "revenge porn" website.
"There is no doubt I believe in what I'm doing or I wouldn't do it," McGibney said. "[CheaterVille.com] was not started for revenge or for malicious intent. It was designed to warn people, and I'm never going to change that thought because that's what I believe in."
Moore may have turned humiliation into a business model, but he hasn't cornered the market on getting even. Today, revenge is something he is trying to avoid.


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Andrássy, Julius, Count
Andrássy, Julius, Count, 1860–1929, Hungarian politician; son of the elder Count Andrássy. He occupied several cabinet posts before becoming (1900) minister of the interior of Hungary in the coalition cabinet under Wekerle. He opposed the Austrian diplomacy of 1914, and as foreign minister (late in 1918) he severed all connections with Germany in the hope of obtaining a separate peace for Austria-Hungary. In 1921 he was involved in the second attempt of King Charles IV (Emperor Charles I) to regain the Hungarian throne, and he later led the royalist opposition to Admiral Horthy and Count Stephen Bethlen. He wrote a number of political and historical studies, notably, in German.
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And a beer.This folding table was incredibly useful and versatile. One of my favourite things while camping. It made an instant home outside our tent. For coffee, books, beer, candles, plates...Just thought I'd mention it.
Lunch: toasted sandwiches, on the fire. Leftover potbread, unhealthy white bread out of a bag (and well aged), yellow (!) cheddar, and some cherry tomatoes, which travel very well.
My new favourite genus, though that does not mean that I can identify its members. I saw my first Hermannia in Namibia in 2009, at Klein Aus Vista, and was smitten with their delicate, bell like flowers. I had no idea what it could be. Above, possibly Hermannia cococarpa.
Growing in a great mass in some stones at an outlook point in whipping wind, perhaps Hermannia depressa, or rooi opslag, in Afrikaans.
Here's the happy gogga again, in what I was sure would be the easiest flower of all to identify. Obviously a hibiscus, yes? Malvaceae, yes? So, can I find it in a book or on the web? No. Help! It grew no taller than 6".
Below, looking like a white version of my birdsfoot violets (Viola pedata) in Brooklyn. Growing in bone dry shale beside the road, I think it is an oxalis, the split leaf helping with ID: Oxalis smithiana. They can also be pink. Closed perhaps because of the wind.
I am not sure where my love of pelargoniums comes from. I get so excited when I see them in the wild. This one was almost crushed by the heavy 4 x 4. Growing in the road, just on the edge, a tiny, tiny flower, smaller than the nail on my smallest finger, and almost black.
And found a songololo.
I used to play with them when I was little. Selina is terrified of them and freaks out 100% (loudly) if she sees even a tiny one in Cape Town (which only ever has tiny ones). She was told as a little girl, growing up in the Free State, that if you were bitten by one you had to count all its legs, accurately, or you would die. The impossibility still gives her palpitations.


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