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Busy day in the nation's capital
Spent the morning at the Smithsonian, where Tommy Lasorda had his portrait put in the National Gallery. I guess that's when you know you've made it, though I'm guessing Tommy probably knew that before.
He's going to do a live web chat in about 45 minutes for those who read this as soon as I post, so please check it out.
From there, we headed to the White House for a tour and got to see some cool spots, including the White House media briefing room where you always see the Press Secretary give his briefings. Photos weren't really allowed on the tour but there will be one group shot in today's SooHoo gallery.
Here's tonight's lineup against the Nats:
Furcal, SS
Ethier, RF
Manny, LF
Kemp, CF
Loney, 1B
Blake, 3B
Belliard, 2B
Martin, C
Kuroda, P
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Thanks Josh! I will attempt to signon and ask a question.
Happy Birthday Tommy! and Congratulations!!
Well then…Thanks Nelly it was fabulous…:-)
Weve seen this line – up before 🙂
Nice lineup of course. Does anyone read "Sarah's Take"? Talk about master of the obvious.
Sarah's Take: Oxygen Vital for Breathing
Dodger4life – told ya so 🙂
Sounds like you had fun Josh!!! ………and thanks for the lineup!! It's looking good.
I can never connect to the chats. It always gives me 'the chat server is down or is not responding. I know is on my side as chat is one of our servers. ughh
Saw Nelly's question about Ethier
Chase Utley on Jayson Werth:
"I remember thinking at the time, 'This guy is a good player. Why would they non-tender him?'" Utley says. "Just playing GM in the offseason, I thought he would be a good addition."
This made room for Gonzalez and Pierre and the rest is history. Thanks Ned!!
Happy B-Day Tommy!!
By the way, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this lineup!!!!!!
Scott, I seldom read Sarah's posts after the first few started to appear a few years ago but if you don't know already, her story is interesting. She is a big Dodger fan just like the rest of us and the Dodgers and mlb.com have been kind enough to give her a forum.
I found Utley's comment on Werth interesting only because everything is hindsight. Really, no one knew for sure what Werth could do because he was injured much of the time while with the Dodgers. Yes, he did show some promise but at the time Ned seemed to favor experience over promise. Perhaps without all the injuries things would have worked out differently for Werth and we will never know. The Dodgers decided not to take a chance on Werth and the Phillies did. So in hindsight that decision is to the benefit of Werth and the Phillies. I don't much care about the Phillies but I am happy for Werth. He seems to be a good guy and fortunately for him he was able to take advantage of the opportunity. I will take what we have now in center and right field and bear with what we have in left.
Not complaining about the lineup at this point, but it does remind me of when Kent was still with us. He had the power, or at least the power potential, but he was like a stiff board playing second base. Can't count how many games Hudson has saved us with his defense, but I guess his time may be over with us. I expect that we won't be the high bidder for his services after this year, but it would be helpful if he is at his peak for us during the playoffs. That's not likely with him on the bench for much of the remaining games.
Scott ~ we are famous (or should I say infamous) for critiquing everything! That's what makes us so special and so much fun.
Damn, I'm in a time warp already!!!
ibirken, yeah thanks, I've read Sarah's story. Is it cruel or something to critique her columns? My bad then.
Also in the Werth article is mention of "misdiagnosed" injury. Werth had looked promising up to that point. Have we seen any other incorrect evaluations during Colletti's time as GM? So it's not just hindsight. Think about all of the long mysterious misdiagnosed/botched injuries the last few years. Repko, Werth, Abreu, Schmidt, Jones, Penny, Furcal, – I'm probably forgetting others…
I want revenge from the Nationals so bad after that game when we had a 6-0 1st inning lead for Wolf. Kemp had a career day with 5 rbi's and a grand slam in the 1st inning and let's not forget it was these same Nats that we had a 14-0 home record streak on the line.
Wolf batting 8th and Pierre batting 9th in that game. It doesn't seem fair why we have to play those 3 up in Washington and only had them played 2 times at DS. I think we should bring back the 2 divisions and didn't we used to play the other division 12 times and our own division around 18 times. I really missed the old day when we had the Braves, Reds and Astros all in the same west division.
This 2nd games was the beginning of Manny 50 games suspension for Manny .The last time we played them they had Belliard (now with the Dodgers), Beimel (Rockies), Johnson (Marlins and never though he would get traded in the same division) and the impressive streak of Zimmerman ended this game with a 25th games hitting streak.
Dang it forgot to copy the rested of the post I've posted earlier with link.
Scott, point taken about the so called misdiagnosed injuries. I had not thought about that issue. As for Sarah, I suppose it is o.k. to critique her views but I suppose her situation does provide a bit of leeway compared to professional media types who actually have access to the organizations and players. I don't think she knows any more than any of us do.
I sent that question into the Chat with Tommy about 1:55, not thinking it had a chance. Andre must have been a good topic to choose. I had assumed all the other good questions had already been asked, which they had. That is pretty cool he is enshrined into the Smithsonian. That is just fantastic!!!
I guess it won't posted the less than and greater than sign by them forgot they don't need them on this blog to click the link.
lbirken, agree. It is hindsight in the sense that there's nothing we can do about it now.
If we keep this lineup the rest of the way, the Dodgers can win 100 games still. No resting players. We need to pound these pathetic clubs into the ground and go into the playoffs with home field and riding high!!
Oh yeah I also don't like us getting sweep here last year.
Happy Bday Tommy
Scott, I agree. This is no time to relax. We don't talk much about baseball teams peaking but wouldn't it be great if that really did happen for the Dodgers? We also don't talk about "trap" games in baseball but these games against the Nats and Pirates certainly could qualify. Just win so it makes no difference what any other club does and let's gat that home field advantage!
Dang I was hoping Adam Dunn was back with the dback lol.
lol you mean the Nationals fans actually booed Manny to?
Gosh damn Manny first pitch hacking
Wow I didn't know. Casey Blake has the highest fielding 3rd baseman in a Dodgers uniform.
Livan looked happy to get out of that inning. I don't think he'll be smiling for to long. When he was with the Mets back in July the Dodgers blasted him 11-2. I saw the carnage in person.
Contract details for Orlando Hudson
By Tony Jackson on February 23, 2009 4:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) | ShareThis
OK, I'm giving you fair warning that this is going to give you a headache. I can't imagine what the conversation must have been like when Colletti and Ng were working these details out with O-Dawg's agent. But here it is:
$380,000 signing bonus, deferred without interest to a time not designated
$3 million base salary for 2009
$150,000 each for 150 and 175 plate appearances
$200,000 each for 200, 225, 250, 275 and 300 plate appearances
$250,000 each for 325, 350, 375, 400, 425, 450, 475, 500, 525, 550, 575 PAs
and then, there is this:
$10,000 for EVERY plate appearance from PA #576 through PA #632. That's 57 PAs for total of $570,000.
also, BEGINNING WITH 550 PAs, every one of these incentives, including that $570k, is deferred without interest to a time not designated. And the contract requires O-Dawg to donate $25,000 to the Dodgers Dream Foundation, something I'm sure he has no problem with because he is heavily involved in charity work to begin with, with a focus on the battle against autism.
Have you hit the Advil yet?
In other words it's costing Hudson big time to be sitting on the bench. I expect Frank passed the word on to Torre, so Frank can save some bucks. MCCHEAP bast***!!!
Maybe they didn't even realize Odog was going to stay healthy all year after having back to back years in a row he seem to get injury in Sept.
Of course you can played the ODog but can Belliard played SS or moved the Odog to SS? I don't like Belliard number on defense but he has been good as 2nd and 3rd.
Hi ITD
Had a busy day, Even missed Lasorda's chat, Well Happy Birthday to him and many more. I missed the first two batters tonight. But I'm here tonight.
What's wrong with Hudson?
I think Belliard is wrong with Hudson. He has the hot hand right now. Not convinced the incentives in Hudson's contract have anything to do with whether or not he is in the lineup. Maybe he needs to get his mom to complain, that might work.
lol @ that poll question and I'd expected 100% voting for Ethier. You known it's going to be alot of non Dodgers fans voting for the other 2.
Did anyone notice the camera position from behind home plate when the batter hits the ball? It looks like it's on the roof. Why so high?
To be honest I think Torre is playing the hot hand.
I remember last year when someone was talking about Pierremommy complaining for playing time.
Yeah I did true.
Manny is now 8/12 against Livan.
Great goin' M A N N Y.
All right Manny nice hit!
Nice played Kuroda
Nice to see Furcal starting to come alive. I'd like to see him finish with a .260 or better average. It would be great for us if he can get hot through the playoffs.
Ouch Furcal if he only had half of those errors we would be #1.
Urgh thanks Furcal.
When Dunn came to the plate, I was thinking that Furcal gave them another run, I expected the HR.
Damn error! It always seems to happen that way.
While the two errors certainly helped, the key to the big inning was Karoda not hitting into a double play.
I meant Kuroda, and this time warp continues to be a pain.
Oh come on IBB to face the pitcher. I don't know why the Nats even care.
Come on Furcal you need to pay for that error.
As I type that Furcal is 3/3
Good job Andre!
ANDRE' Just doing his job.
That's was Furcal 19 errors this season in 140 games/132 games started and 2 years in 139 games he has the same number of errors
Should be 2 years ago.
Let's go Kemp and let's see a 3 runs homeruns like you had your grand slam the last time we face them and then the nightmare game.
Marvelous MATTY.
Funny we only play these National Expos 5 times this year.
Twice in LA.
Furcal is now at .261 and I also forgot that Furcal owned Livan in his career at .361.
What did I say. See you Livan. Just like when he was with the Mets.
Way to go James!!!!!
I still don't like we have to played 3 games there and only have 2 at DS at least let's us have more home games against them or split it.
Oh the president race totally forgot.
The only negative thing I can think of is that we have a long way to go in this game.
You gotta love the crooked number on the scoreboard!
I had a feeling Ethier would get 92% of that vote.
That's right You_know_ something.
We shut them down after the big inning.
THAT 152 PLAY SHOWS THE Dodgers aren't giving any runs away.
Great after a big inning and a 5 pitch 1 2 3 innings.
I want another crocked numbers against the worst bullpen in the league and after putting up that crocked numbers against our bullpen at DS in the 8th.
I wanted a 4th hits by Furcal.
Let's have another 1 2 3 innings with less than 10 pitches.
Shad ~ Does this make up for blowing that 6-0 lead yet?
I think Ethier was trying to be on top 10 espn highlight for great catching but I think he would still had caught it.
Yeah for now but if we scored 8 more runs it would look nice lol.
My gosh they didn't need to check with the 1st base ump that was a swing.
Wow normally Pierre would PH for Manny this early but I guess Torre want to give Manny one more ab's.
I'm waiting for Manny 20th HR.
Ethier has 1 rbi's less than Dunn. Glad that walk didn't cost us and nice dp. Nice a 6 pitches inning after walking Dunn 4 straight.
We just seen a rare 6 innings where a very good team dominates a very bad team.
BLAKE's 18 was a long time in come, but it came nonetheless.
The way Kuroda started the game I was a bit concerned but he certainly got it going! What a great start to the road trip to keep pace towards home field advantage.
hahaha no ibb this time me to.
The way Belliard is going ODawg makes a great cheer leader in that dugout.
So much for the Padres 2-0 lead.
All right THE MIGHTY CASEY comes through again!
I think Kuroda should swing away but we know he's going to bunt.
hahahaha nice Torre let Kuroda swing away.
Now we see the other part of the Belliard trade.
I notice NellyJune asked Lasorda what he thought of Ethier.
That Ethierholic hasn't got anything else on her mind. LOL.
We could have used about half of these runs to give Billingsley a cushion for tomorrow night. He might need it but lets hope not.
Furcal 4 hits and 4 rbi's he's getting hot at the right time.
Shad ~ There's your four hits for Furcal.
I guess Repko going to hit for Manny.
Yeah I'm right and there goes the nats bullpen getting tag for 4 runs so far.
At least Repko got his 1st rbi's this year.
To bad we don't have a 3rd OF's to PH for Kemp.
I ask for 8 and now we got 6 in this inning. Wow that must be a first and Loney coming up twice in a inning two times.
Dewitt would gotten an rbi's nice played by the SS.
This is fun.
Something to think about to keep our minds off Bills.
There's your crooked number against their bullpen. I guess we're even now.
Dang I was hoping Kuroda would had pitch 1 more inning since he let's Kuroda hit.
Nice holding them BELI.
I expected something like this last year when I went Washington D.C. but the Dodgers got swept instead.
Nice town though.
I keep getting these redirect loops so these comment may end up anywhere.
Kershaw looked there, that's great news.
Wow I'm good but dang Belisario as that crooked number if runs you issued a 1 out walk hate that but he does need the work.
That way Bills has been pitching, we need all the runs we can get.
Great play by Loney! Up by 12 runs and he's still diving all over the place, That's why we're in first place.
Dang that was an useless ab's byThome that could had been error #4. I would had like to see Hu there.
Speaking of the devil Hu is batting.
That inning was encouraging for Kershaw. He looked his old self.
I bet Loretta is upset he couldn't even get an ab's and when was the last time Ausmus played?
Look like Hu still can't hit major league pitching after a 2 years absent. I guess Loretta is mad he can't even played in a blowout game.
Yeah Padres 6-5.
This was a great game for the Dodgers Statisticwise and especially for Furcal.
We need Furcal to be hot in the playoffs. Looks like he is firing on all cylinders now.
6-6 tied
Yeah #1 best team in the league lower their team ERA to under 3.41 since both of Kuroda runs were unearned thanks to Raffy. We we're 2nd in Starters ERA at 3.60, the Giants 3rd with a 3.51 and the Braves still leading at 3.56. The biggest part in that 3.41 overall ERA is our bullpen ERA with a 3.11 despite having the 2nd most innings from the relievers in the NL and going to get dropped some more points and the Giants are 2nd with a 3.53 and just a month ago both team were flipping and flopping for 1st and 2nd. The Giants pitching been falling apart this month are been much better this month and all season long.
1 LA Dodgers 18 12 6 2.74 6 0 0 164.1 0 50 58 44 138 .233
2 San Diego 18 12 6 2.74 7 0 0 164.0 0 50 59 70 143 .225
3 Chicago Cubs 20 12 8 3.18 8 0 0 178.1 0 63 76 72 168 .247
4 Cincinnati 19 11 8 3.20 10 0 0 168.2 0 60 64 59 126 .233
The Dodgers and Padres are tied with the 2nd best record this month going 12-6 but the Rockies have a better one at 13-6.
Actually that's should be 3.61 not 3.51.
BTW those numbers don't count all the games today so we would be number 1 in this month team ERA.
Seeing the Rockies win, yet again, got me to wondering. Will Tracy pursue the division title in earnest once they eliminate the Gnats, or will he rest players and set up his playoff rotation? It's ironic to me that probably the WORST thing that could happen to BOTH teams would be a season-ending, weekend series for the division title. That happened in 1996. Dodgers held a two-game lead on Pods coming into final weekend. BOTH teams had already made the playoffs. Padres swept in a hard-fought series, won the division by one game….and BOTH got swept 3-0 in the first round.
I knew we should've had fired him in the first place so what he had his worst record that year but still.
Wow!!! I know we wanted them to go in there and take care of business and boy did they!! Nice to see everyone contributing in today's game.
At least the Padres made it interested
lol at the Giants coming back.
My gosh the Yankees are curse at the big A's.
So much for the 2nd best pitching team in the league. Cain got a beat down and RJ gave up a homerun to Ryal and should retired now.
Nelly, I am glad you had the opportunity to ask Tommy about Andre 🙂
Why are we counting? LOL!!!
I really didn't expect my question to go through. I had just finished a math lesson, the kids were have some free activity time and I just checked into ITD for the lineup. I went to the homepage, logged in and was reminded of the chat, figuring I could read some before recess. In that 5 minutes, I figured why not ask a question. I figured Tommy had already been log jammed with questions of the past, which many questions involved that. So, I thought, "Why not ask a question about our current team, which in most part, is what we talk about on ITD. Andre was a given at that point. I am an Ethieraholic so why wouldn't I? …….And, of course, I liked his answer 🙂
I don't know if I ever mentioned this story on ITD (Goodness, does that sound like dodgereric or what?), but my father-in-law had the opportunity to meet Tommy right here in Merced. We were living in Memphis at the time, but he came to Merced to talk at a luncheon with some local coaches. My father-in-law was the baseball God around here back then. He was mostly involved in the American Legion Baseball Program, but he also coached at a local junior high, where the field was named after him sometime later. So, somewhere in the house, we have pictures of Tommy and my father-in-law on that day. A very memorable day for him, and I only wished I could have been there.
Outstanding Nelly…That must of been some day for your father in law, and Tommy as well 🙂
11? Go Denny Hamlin!!! LOL!!!!!
I miss Tony Jackson 😦
and I also missed Sweet Lou Johnson's birthday (9/22).
Happy birthday Sweet Lou! You know we luv ya!
Happy 75h!
Hard to believe he just 25 years old. Happy Bday Kemp
HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY MATTHEW RYAN KEMP!!! Knock a Homerun out for your birthday. We won't mind one bit!!!!!
NELLY….great story…that probably means that deep deep…DEEEEEEP down inside your father-in-law LIKES the DODGERS…cause of Lasorad. But just deep down! And thanks for sharing. So is there any new Dodger fans in your class?
Good Morning ITD, Dodger Faithful and Our Beloved Boy's in Blue……………………
Happy Birthday Matt Kemp!
Bills…. This a new beginning, be at ease and in control, my friend…… Its just a ballgame, youv'e done this before, you've had success at it and will again. I have faith in your ability to overcome and get it done…..
Outstanding game and momentum change last night gentlemen….Keep on keep'n on!!!!
D4L: Last nights game was just a big WOW! I am glad KURODA did not give up after the HR the Nationals did. Good job KURODA…actuall GREAT JOB BOYS IN BLUE!
Greinke bolstered his Cy Young credentials by holding Boston to two hits in six scoreless innings, leading the Royals to a 5-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.
"I am biased," the Royals manager said. "Part of that bias is I've seen all his starts. I have a very difficult time believing there is anybody better in the major leagues, that's as good a pitcher as Zack Greinke is in the year 2009."
Greinke is 3-0 with a 0.26 ERA in his past five starts, allowing 18 hits and one earned run in 35 innings. With the stingy stretch, Greinke has lowered his major league-leading ERA to 2.08.
Greinke (15-8) became the first Royals pitcher to win at least 15 games in a season since Paul Byrd(notes) won 17 in 2002. Byrd (1-2) was the losing pitcher Tuesday. Greinke has two starts left and knows the Cy Young could be at stake.
Wow 1 earned run in 35 innings?
How is that Greinke is this good now and for the past 3 years?
But he did goes 6-0 with 2 ER's in 45 innings.
Rose – Bill's dad was mostly an A's fan (the team he watched/listened to most, but he was a fan of baseball in general so I am not sure there was any team he didn't like.
As far as my class, there are a couple, but they not as vocal about it like last year, but it's early still. I do have quite a few A's fans, a White Sox fan, and a couple who like the Angels. However, my students from last year are still keeping track and there were a few students who went to one of the two Dodgers/Giants series at AT&T Park. The two girls that were avid fans (and mini-Ethieraholics) last year are no longer at our school. This year I haven't done too much Dodger talk. I have a student teacher until Thanksgiving, and during my down time I am talking to her versus talking to my students about baseball and the Dodgers. However, no fear, there will be plenty of time until Opening Day 2010 to get them thinking in Dodger Blue.
• RHP Chad Billingsley(notes) will return to the rotation today at Washington after having his last start skipped because of poor performance. Billingsley posted a 6.11 ERA in his last four starts, and he is 3-6 with a 5.49 ERA since the All-Star break. He was 9-4 with a 3.38 ERA before the break and was selected to the NL All-Star team.
• RF Andre Ethier is tied for third in the National League with 41 doubles. The last Dodger to lead the NL in doubles was Wes Parker with 47 in 1970. Ethier is also fourth in the NL in extra-base hits with 75.
We need the good Bills back since everyone is clicking at the same time. I'm not worry about Kershaw he look good last night. Well we have one Parker streak snap so let's try to break another one.
Baseball begins and ends at home plate. RBIs and HRs get the headlines…but QUICK!!….who leads the Dodgers in runs scored? You know, the guy who has touched home plate the most times. Correct! Matt Kemp.
Congratulation's Mr. and Mrs. Perumike, I wish you many more……
The line up last night did have some fire power…..It is all good if we can maintain our productivity and achieve our goals though.
Welcome back to the line up O-Dog…We love ya…


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Live music has always played an important role in The Fest For Beatles Fans - Chicago. So when I went to the Hyatt Regency O'Hare this past Sunday, one of the the things I was most looking forward to was that evening's concert by Liverpool, which would climax with the Beatles tribute band backing this year's guests Peter Noone, Mickey, Dolenz, Laurence Juber from Wings, Mark Rivera, and Mike Pender from The Searchers. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to stay late enough to catch all of that part of the show, but it was still a rewarding day of live music.
At 6:00 PM, I dropped by the Grand Ballroom for the B.U.I. (Beatles Under the Influence) Musicians Forum. This conversation/jam session was moderated by comedian/producer Martin Lewis in the past, but he wasn't involved with The Fest For Beatles Fans - Chicago this year. In his absence, musician/producer and longtime panel member Mark Hudson took the reins. Hudson toned down his exuberant sense of humor, and showed his usual extensive knowledge of music. Mickey Dolenz, who along with Mike Pender, Laurence Juber, and Ringo Starr's Music Director Mark Rivera, served as a panelist, was more than happy to supply the goofiness. But it was Hudson, Juber, and Rivera who fueled this jam session; performing snippets of songs by The Every Brothers, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, and other influential artists. When all five panelists sang together in harmony, the results were glorious.
Around 9:30 PM, Liverpool, the New York-based Beatles tribute band that has been coming to Fest For Beatles Fans - Chicago for several years now, offered another sterling performance. They had also played The Fest on Friday and Saturday night. This year, keyboards player-rhythm guitarist Drew Hill, bassist-vocalist Glen Burtnik, and guitarist-vocalist John Merjave were joined by drummer Joe Bologna, who was filling in for the band's regular drummer Chris Camilleri. These guys don't go in for costumes or English accents; they just nail every Beatles song they get their hands (and voices) on. You know a band is on its game when the audience responds with standing ovations throughout the concert.
After about a 45-minute set that included "Something," "Another Girl," "Strawberry Fields," "Tomorrow Never Knows," and "Hold Me Tight," Liverpool invited Mark Rivera to join them on sax for a rousing take on "Lady Madonna." Laurence Juber then came on board for a version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" that proved to be a showcase for him as well as Liverpool guitarist Merjave, and triggered one of those standing ovations. This lineup also performed "Money, Money, Money," a song that featured Ringo Starr on drums when Rivera recorded it for (Rivera's) recent Common Bond album.
The amazing energy continued to flow on "Got To Get You Into My Life" and Paul McCartney's "Coming Up." Unfortunately, my time was up by then, because I had to catch the CTA and Metra to get back home. As I left, Liverpool, Rivera, and Juber were roaring through the "Rockestra Theme" from the Wings album Back To The Egg.
While it was a major disappointment that I couldn't stay to see Noone, Dolenz, and Pender join in the fun (as they had on the previous night) I still felt The Fest For Beatles Fans - Chicago had given me my money's worth. And I imagine all the fans who spent the entire weekend at this event felt the same way.

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Joe Flacco threw four interceptions. Enough said.
Running backs
Halfback Ray Rice ran 16 times for 87 yards, but he touched the ball only 8 times per half. When Flacco is having a bad day, Rice, Willis McGahee and Le'Ron McClain need to carry the load. Rice was the Ravens' offense.
Offensive line
This group is good when the Ravens run the ball and use a lot of play action. But once they get behind and become predictable, a lot of weaknesses are exposed. The Ravens gained a lot of yards on the left side, but the right side has to do a better job on running plays. Flacco was hurried eight different times.
Anquan Boldin had five catches for 35 yards, and tight end Todd Heap had four for 35 yards, but there was little separation by the receivers. The Ravens didn't challenge the Bengals much down the field, and were content to stay to the outside, which did result in a Derrick Mason's 31-yard touchdown reception. T.J. Houshmandzadeh dropped three passes.
Defensive line
Tackle Haloti Ngata was excellent, and finished with eight tackles, second best on the team. Tackle Kelly Gregg also had a strong game in run defense with five tackles. Both ends, Trevor Pryce and Cory Redding, turned in solid games: Grade: A.
Because of turnovers, the Ravens were put in some bad positions, but this group still dominated. Ray Lewis had 10 tackles and Terrell Suggs had four and several hurries. Jarret Johnson was strong against the run.
This group played well against one of the better receiving corps in the NFL. If Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer had been a bit more accurate, the Bengals could have done some damage. But cornerbacks Chris Carr and Fabian Washington played well, and safety Dawan Landry played a good center field.
Special teams
Kicker Billy Cundiff got great distance on his kickoffs, and he also added a 38-yard field goal. Tom Zbikowski was still a little shaky on punt returns, but Jalen Parmele averaged 30.7 yards on three kickoffs. The Ravens, though, gave up a big kickoff return late in the game, which led to a Bengals field goal. Punt coverage was good.
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Innovación y tecnologíaMar. 14, 2012
EE.UU: California busca alternativas para la fumigación de frutillas
LA SELVA BEACH, Calif. — A state agency is aiding the California Strawberry Commission's quest for fumigation alternatives with an infusion of $500,000 for a three-year research project.
Brian Leahy, director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation, announced the funding March 7 with commission president Mark Murai at Monterey Bay Academy in La Selva Beach.
The site has been used by the commission for research since 1992. The latest will be part of a 5.5-acre project in the Watsonville area testing soil-less growing media for strawberries, such as peat and coconut coir, a fiber from the fruit's hull.
"The 500 or so strawberry family farms throughout California have been working since the early 1990s on fumigant alternatives," Murai said. "But we're very energized to start this larger collaborative effort with the Department of Pesticide Regulation to really expand the project into growers' fields. It's going to add a magnitude to the strawberry growers' ongoing efforts."
Watsonville strawberry grower and commission vice chair Victor Ramirez is among the research trial participants.
"It's a commitment to working with our partners to make strawberry production a really good neighbor," Leahy said.
But soil alternatives face obstacles in cost, logistics and availability.
Substrates like peat and coconut coir run $10,000 per acre — two to three times methyl bromide, — said Dan Legard, commission research director. In California, where the average profit per acre on strawberries is $1,000 to $1,500, the numbers don't add up.
"Our goal is to get the costs down to $5,000 or $4,000, or maybe less," Legard said. "That's the real challenge."
Belgium and the Netherlands use substrates for strawberries, but in greenhouses, and in a market that pays double what U.S. growers get.
"We're trying to modify what they're doing in Europe," Legard said.
The state funding, he said, puts commission efforts on a new level.
"It's very expensive to work new trials in strawberry fields because of the number of harvests and the value of the crop, so typically they're done on a small scale," Legard said. "You get a big enough area and you learn what the challenges are of putting that into a production system."
Peat is reputed to be the best soil alternative, but can't be used more than a year. Mixed with another substrate it might last two or three years, he said, and cut replacement costs.
It isn't just about economics, though.
"One of the largest producers of peat in America told us if we switched all of California's strawberry acreage, that exceeds their entire production," Legard said.
The state produces about 39,000 acres of strawberries.


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I'll get around to posting a more Biblically-based response sometime this weekend looking at some specific examples of mourning in Scripture.
A commenter on my last post linked me to this article. I have chosen not to approve that comment as I thought it was a disgracefully inappropriate response to a man's deep grief.
But rather than leave it unremarked, I thought it more appropriate to address some things which I found untrue in the article.
In the article Wommack teaches that we humans feel a sense of loss or grief because we enjoyed how that thing which is now lost made us feel. We loved–not the thing–but the way the thing made us feel.
He notices greed to be one of the many foul fruits of such self-centredness and that much striving and unhappiness is wrought from this greed, from the failure of the desirable things to appear.
He argues that when the individual focuses on themselves and not on God they will open them selves to those grief-feelings, as they pursue their own goals and desires. If it is true that God would provide for the needs of his children (Matthew 6:33), to feel grief or unhappiness over deprivation of things is a demonstration that the individual is not trusting God.
I can agree with him this far, but he loses me in his discussion of grief over death:
Even in the case of the death of a loved one, our grief is rooted in our personal loss. We focus on the situation from our point of view: How can I go on without them? I won't ever see them again on earth. We convince ourselves that we are mourning over the death of these people, but it's really over how it will affect us. If that person was born again and is now with Jesus, it should be a time to rejoice. Let's imagine the atmosphere of a believer's funeral if we focused on the one who was with Jesus and what that person was experiencing rather than our own self-centered thoughts about what we are losing? Instead of grieving, what an exciting time of thanksgiving and praise it would be!
(Emphasis mine)
Some readers will notice bile rising in their throats after reading that. Others will remember with cold disgust that such sentiments were directed to them in a time of loss.
I do not intend to discuss the insensitivity of these words. I do have a problem with blaming the grieving person for their grief.
It is sick, it is deplorable to tell someone experiencing a massive shift in the very fabric of their life that they themselves are responsible. This is untrue. Death's cold hand takes a man or a woman and all around are touched by the icy appendage.
God made human beings and he breathed his Spirit into them, granting them life. It was as though a part of God was given to humans to allow them to have movement and breath and joy and to do all the things their hearts would desire to do. Yet God decided that such a relationship with human beings wasn't best for them.
God created other human beings like the first to create a family, a clan, a community (Genesis 2:18).
To be with another person then becomes how human beings flourish. If God designed humans for communion with one another, loss of that communion offends that design down to its core.
Death, the great divide which separates people from one another, is cruel because it destroys human life as it is meant to be lived. Each death we endure further ruptures the wonderful design and it changes us. For a while the wound is fresh and it is difficult to function. Yet later still it scars over and the rest of our days are spent in a life which is unlike the one we lived before.
And it is right that we should mourn over this.
Death of a loved one DOES affect us, and it is right that our hearts should grieve it.
The Spirit was given in love that humans could have life, and that Spirit is shared between human beings in their love for each other. It's as though the being of God is communicated between people in their life together. This Spirit gives people life and our lives are sustained by the endless breathing in and out of that same Spirit.
Death is the end of that particular expression of God's unique image in our lives. It's as though we lose something essential, or even essentially of God, when the one we love ceases to have a share in the things of this earth.
So when a Christian sings of the love he had for his friend and cries to God, asking 'why?', I hear it echoing through the ages like so many before who have stood on the edge and screamed into the yawning crevasse which threatens to eat up all that we might find beautiful about this place.
And you know what? It is right to cry aloud.
Because things are not as they ought to be. Like a woman who shambles along the roadside with an aching back, whimpering her condition, the pain felt in grief is the only right response to the crippling devastation witnessed the world over.
And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." Jesus wept. So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
John 11:34-36


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President Obama announced Friday that all US troops will be out of Iraq by the end of this year, closing a war that deposed a tyrant and much-feared regional bully – but at great cost to both Iraq and the United States.
"After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over," Mr. Obama declared at the White House. Most of the 39,000 troops still in Iraq should be "home for the holidays," the president added, although the logistical challenges involved in removing so many soldiers in such a short time could mean the final few will not leave until January.
Obama's announcement signals that US officials have been unable to negotiate with Iraq's leaders a renewal of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) governing the stationing and mission of American troops on Iraqi soil. Pentagon officials in particular, backed by a number of congressional leaders, had called for leaving a force of between 3,000 and 5,000 in Iraq for an extended period.
But Iraqi officials balked at extending the immunity from local laws and prosecution that currently covers US troops in the country – US troops in places like Germany, Japan, and South Korea operate with such immunity – and the Obama administration was unwilling to leave troops in Iraq without that coverage.
Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, will visit the White House in December to mark the end of one era in bilateral relations and the beginning of a new one, Obama said.
The end of the Iraq war – a campaign pledge Obama made in 2008 – allowed the US to mark what the president called "a larger transition" in US foreign policy. "The tide of war is receding," Obama said, noting that US forces are beginning to draw down in Afghanistan as well.
But Obama's Iraq statement will inevitably lead to questions – and certainly to political debates, especially with the advent of a presidential campaign –ranging from "Was it worth it?" to "Did the war set back or advance the hegemonic goals of Iraq's neighbor, Iran?"
A war that former President George W. Bush set in motion in March 2003 cost the lives of more than 4,400 American troops and rang up a tab of nearly $1 trillion. The war ended the reign of Saddam Hussein – a tyrant akin to Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, killed Thursday at the hands of his own people – but it also set off a gruesome sectarian conflict that plunged Iraq into violence and economic collapse.
In all, the violence claimed more than 112,000 documented civilian deaths, according to Iraq Body Count. Some organizations, though, place total Iraqi civilian and combatant deaths at more than 1 million.
Middle East experts have long debated the impact of the war on Iran and its designs for expanded regional influence. Some have argued that the US presence in Iraq was a deterrent to Iran, while others held that the war and stationing of American troops in Iraq not only opened the door to Iran – as some Iraqi Shiite factions sought to counterbalance the US presence – but also to Al Qaeda-affiliated militant groups opposed to any "infidel" presence on Muslim soil.
But the fact that the American intervention resulted in the violent replacement of Iraq's traditional Sunni-dominated power structure with a new "democratic" structure dominated by the majority Shiites – a group more closely aligned with the country's historical enemy, Iran – was one of the war's ironies.
Obama signaled Friday that the US intends to monitor Iran's meddling in Iraq. "We'll partner with an Iraq that contributes to regional security and peace, just as we insist that other nations respect Iraq's sovereignty," he said.
Iraqis and the US diplomats who will work to forge a long-lasting civilian partnership will also face the question of what the US military departure means for Iraq's internal stability.
The US military's combat mission ended in August 2010, but US forces remain involved in the training and professionalization of Iraq's 600,000-strong military. Moreover, US troops continue to play a key role in the intelligence-gathering, logistics, and other assistance that have allowed Iraqi security forces to reduce the levels of violence of just a few years ago.
US forces will leave behind an Iraqi society with sectarian and ethnic divides that are just as deep as when they invaded in March 2003. The test for Iraqis will be holding together and moving forward without either a Saddam Hussein or a foreign military presence.
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Go down the bypass road to Poipu take a left and go down the way to the Hyatt. When you see the poipu ba golf rock wall sign turn in their and go to the end of the road and your there!
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you dont have to worry about locals to mutch just give them space
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- stayed over at the "Point at Poipu". shipwrecks was just a short walk. probably the staple break of my trip because it was working every day. definitely was able to rack up some barrel time. not the longest ride or anything but definitely a fun little wave. local scene was a bit imposing at first but give them some space and they're fine. even against us haoles heh.
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I got a great deal on the Ford ZX5 cause my brother worked for Ford. The car is awesome... especially if you can a hold of the 2.3L engine instead of the 2.0L. Otherwise... look at the Mazda3... the Mazda P5 was really good too. FYI - Ford is offering employee level discount until early July, so check out the discount before you buy.jrobson wrote:Lovely that you use the Focus hatch, I am buying the new model next month(nice packing space for all the gear). Anyway, when looking for a new car I went and test drove a few models from different manufacturers and also spoke to alot of people who have tried a few different models in the same range... Every single person agreed that the Focus is indeed the car that offers most value for money and has a better drive and handling than all the other competing models from other manufacturers, in a league of it's own. Looking at the sales figures though shows a different story, 2nd place, VW outsells it by about 15%, and this was in the launch month when the Focus was suppose to come out strong. So this month and next VW will problably outsell it by 20-30%. On discussing with some industry insiders the general idea is that because VW has a better history here compared to Ford than in some other countries, they will continue to outsell, even though the Focus is cheaper and performs better. And is alot more car for your money.
I disagree... at lot of people swap to Best over the last year an a half, mostly experienced kiters... so don't tell me people keep their heads in the mud.People simply don't like change.
Same goes for Hellfish... people aren't lineup because G-ball say 13m powered in 6knts... people are lineup because of the kite is
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c) speed oriented kite with improved hang time
Of course they will... people want a better product, period. No one likes to pump a kite okay... but we don't like tangled bridles either... PL was a compromise of both, made believers out of Kiwis, but nowhere else.Now it is all about turning speed, if the next foil comes out and turns as fast as a LEI would everyone switch... No.
The fact that HF is so hot tells you how much a premium you can command if you simply produce a REAL improvement. Don't see why this is so hard to believe.


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I preach fiscal control and morals. I will tell you how to live your life. I am going to give away our whole history and our strategy for 2010. It won't matter because you are all too dumb to remember.
I might chase congressional pages.....but it won't hurt the party. As long as we can stand self-righteously against the abortion and gay marriage the base won't care. We could arrest all of the black population for smoking a joint and no one will care. We fixed the courts to get Rush Limbaugh a pass for buying $8000.00 a week in Oxys. I stand here before you and say to my brain-dead constituency that I know you will keep my political career going. Without me, Wall Street will be regulated and we would lose our biggest backers, but we won't let that happen. Sure some of us were sent packing in the last election and maybe we will lay low for awhile, then reappear and issue a budget with no numbers.
We don't need facts, because we only have to yell "illegal aliens" and "tax cuts". You the populace will think the tax cuts are for you. They never have been, they never will be, but you will still respond to the ditto head mantra. In 2010 the voters will give the GOP another chance. I mean, come on... the voters will forget in four years. They will think the Democrats put us in the hole and we will promise to save the country with tax cuts. I know that the GOP knew what Wall Street was doing and kept it quiet. I know we're in the minority now, but who would've thought we'd actually get the blame for this mess?
Look... our party's given you George W. Bush, the Iraq war, and the current depression, yet we still have the ability to say NO to any meaningful reform in congress. For eight years we were able to give you the 9/11 attacks, two wars, a broken economy, too many scandals to mention, but we will tell you that just when we were going to fix everything the Democrats got a majority during the last two years and sabotaged our final solution. Don't get too depressed just because the Dems seem to have a majority in both houses and the presidency. Look who's still in control.
Harry Reid is going to drop any real help for homeowners while we can still have a court cram down our 2nd homes and investment properties. We broke the Union contracts and let the AIG executives keep their bonuses. By the time we "compromise" on the Employee Free Choice Act, management will get the right to cast 51% of the votes. Look how easy it is, we grab a couple of blue dogs, yell
"drill, baby, drill" , "no, baby, no" and chant fail, fail, fail, to the president.. (Trademark R. Limbaugh). Don't forget to start thinking about the theme for 2010. We tell the public You let this happen, you elected the Democrats.
If we just keep on repeating it long enough you will believe. Now go away, go to sleep, and vote GOP in four years.
"So it's time to admit it: We're fools, protagonists in a kind of gruesome comedy about the marriage of greed and stupidity. And the worst part about it is that we're still in denial — we still think this is some kind of unfortunate accident, not something that was created by the group of psychopaths on Wall Street whom we allowed to gang-rape the American Dream."
-- Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone: "The Big Takeover" by Matt Taibbi/3.19.09
Jobs leaving the US. Do you want to work in India?
Two weeks ago, IBM announced that it plans to shift all operations to India and offered US workers the chance to move to India if they would adapt to Indian wages. Cisco,another heavy hitter in the networking sphere,after announcing that it is planning major cutbacks,also announced moves to India and China. The pharmaceuticals have already climbed aboard this train,moving research work in drugs to India to contain their spiraling costs.
Technology Review,MIT's prestigious journal predicts that in the next ten years 36 million jobs in technology related fields will move to India,decimating an already reeling middle class. This is the kind of calamity that Paul Craig Roberts has been predicting for quite sometime now. As manufacturing moved to China,economists crowed that this need not worry us because we are the leaders in high technology and the best jobs will stay in US. That now sounds like a mirage.
A long age of suffering is upon us because there are now many more competitors who are gaining strength through their educational systems. They have also learned the American trick of empowering the people with capital and encouraging their enterprise. And they can do all this at fraction of our costs. All this bodes ill for our own economy.
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Introduction to the exhibition
by the director of the the Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5-7, rue de Fourcy
75004 ParisDoes one become a photographer through vocation or through necessity?
In the case of Karl Lagerfeld, the answer is simple: he became a photographer through challenge.
It all began over twenty years ago when, disappointed with the press photos of his collection, Karl Lagerfeld decided, under the benevolent pressure of his colleague and friend Eric Pfrunder, to go behind the camera, to look through the lens and make his own images.
Photography " is an adventure, just as life is an adventure", wrote Harry Callahan.
"Whoever wishes to express themselves through photography must understand their relationship with life."
This 'Parcours de travail' is thus a retrospective illustration, among many others, of the brimming activity of a man of taste and culture who has chosen, through fashion and photography, to highlight the beauty of lines, forms and colors. A man for whom it can be said that he has committed his life to images everyday, with his only concern being to invent, in the lightness of a moment, new ways of seeing.
His creed is to see, to see everything, relentlessly, with great curiosity and appetite, and in this seeing, choose what should be looked at. From then on, he can take portraits, landscapes, architecture, nudes and even still life.Karl Lagerfeld works a lot in the studio for fashion. The device has little importance in his eyes: he works just as well with a 20 x 25 or 24 x 36 camera, or with a digital camera, surrounded by devoted and motivated assistants. He selects his models carefully and tries to give them the best role. "We must not consume models", he says. "We must give them an air (1)."
When Karl Lagerfeld has an order, he behaves, according to his expression, like a serial killer. He moves ahead, whatever the difficulties or obstacles. But this serial killer only tracks down and executes imperfection. This is no doubt why, once the moment has passed, many of his fashion photos do not go out of fashion. They change, improve, and end up escaping their context, such as those by Avedon and Peter Lindbergh.
His nudes are always clothed with a certain grace; they are modest, never indecent.
With Karl Lagerfeld, there is no desire to shock or provoke. We are far from the world of Wolfgang Tillmans, or the infamous History of Sex by Andres Serrano. The transgression, when it exists, is always mental - as in the series entitled The Beauty of Violence, where in a Dionysiac dance, the young Baptiste Giabiconi exhibits the most profound impulses of desire, while constantly stealing away from the lens and not revealing his nudity.Karl Lagerfeld makes most of his images in a massive studio that resembles a cathedral, lined with books neatly laid out and classified. The place has often wrongly been compared with Warhol's Factory, as nothing is further from the practices and ethics of Karl Lagerfeld as the universe of the one who wanted to be a machine.
The Factory in New York was a venue for wanderings; it was the dream of an anonymous creation enterprise founded on repetition and stereotype. Nothing like that here. Karl Lagerfeld's model remains the haute couture workshop, where a collective work is produced, where everyone contributes their skills, their know-how, and where sewing a simple button becomes a true work of art. Aside from a bottle of Diet Coke sitting on the table, we are very far from 1960s America and its disillusionment.
Studio 7L, in the heart of Paris, is tidy and bright. A small team evolves at its own pace in a warm atmosphere where humor often takes over from the seriousness and concentration. It is a photographer's or rather an image producer's workshop. It is really an Image workshop, where a unique work is produced.There are many examples throughout photography's history of artists with parallel activities.
Degas, Lewis Carroll and Brancusi, to name but the most famous, have each used photography in their own way and created original and innovative work. However, where Degas used his images to document his pictorial work and Brancusi to highlight his sculptures in space, with Karl Lagerfeld, drawings give the impetus. Line precedes form and form embraces light. "I compose a photo in the same way as a drawing, but the lighting gives it a new dimension (2)." Thus, taking a photo is not only writing with light but also and mainly composing and drawing with it.
For many photographers - photo journalists in particular - exposure is taking a risk. Not only in terms of danger, but also because the moment captured will not, or will only rarely repeat itself. There is however a family of photographers for whom exposure is only a stage in the photographic creative process. A process which includes the laboratory, developing and printing. For those, the choice of paper is often essential, as are the inks and colors. Karl Lagerfeld excels in this field. "Paper is my favorite material; it is the starting point for a drawing and the final result of a photo (3)." As for all processes, be they old, modern or new: gold and silver printing, resinotype, Polaroid transfer, screen printing, digital printing, etc. As Anne Cartier-Bresson rightly points out in her Notes on the material of Karl Lagerfeld's images, "The time period for his photographic work, from 1987 to now, has seen many significant changes in exposure and printing. Karl Lagerfeld has relied on this change but also on the parallel development of an alternative film photography which, as with haute couture, is capable in terms of image of highlighting the manual aspect and craftsmanship of printing, which in turn becomes a unique piece (4)."Karl Lagerfeld admits to a passion for Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Clarence Hudson White, as well as for 1920s German photography. But his work also refers to other areas such as painting, cinema, architecture or comic books.
The "Homage to Oskar Schlemmer" combines series inspired by Metropolis by Fritz Lang and films by Murnau, while other images are a reference to Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema or to Caspar David Friedrich as in his admirable landscapes, or even to Frederic Edwin Church.
Karl Lagerfeld evolves with great elegance and humor in these various fields and, in the same way that he is still as interested in still as in moving images, we can consider that his photographic work is in perfect harmony with that of the younger generation, which is also challenging boundaries and equally combines the practice of arts, photography, cinema, video, etc.
Nourished with a near-encyclopedic and resolutely European culture, his work is perceived both as a relentless search for forms and materials and as a tremendous lesson in photography. A lesson which is neither heavy or academic, rather light and full of fantasy, in the image of a man longing for freedom who likes, above all, to venture off the beaten track. A master, who would really happily and constantly skip the image school.Jean-Luc Monterosso
Director of the 'Maison européenne de la photographie'
Paris, August 25th, 2010(1) Interview with Eric Pfrunder, Paris, July 20th, 2010.
(2) Preface of the catalogue for the Galerie Boulakia exhibition, Paris, 1992.
(3) Idem.
(4) Anne Cartier-Bresson, The 'skin' of photography. Notes on the material of Karl Lagerfeld's images, see below p 215.


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USB drives are ubiquitous these days. They plug in. They store smallish amounts of info and make that info portable. We all know this. Getting noticed requires quirky design, like this Intercontinental Ballistic Design Missile from Milan-based H-57.
Not only is the design a nice mix of retro and clever packaging (IBCM is of course a play on ICBM), the shop behind it is also responsible for those cool Star Wars typography posters that made the rounds the other day. Two for two. [H-57 via technabob]


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Tacos de Acelgas
Molly O'Neill's One Big Table is filled with all sorts of unexpected recipes, like these Tacos de Acelgas, Swiss chard tacos from a cattle ranch country in Texas. When thinking about dinner on a cattle ranch so close to the Mexican border, "barbecue" springs to mind way before "vegetarian tacos." But cookbook author Melissa Guerra, who contributed this recipe to One Big Table, makes these deep-fried veggie tacos on a regular basis.
More of a flauta than a soft taco, these corn tortillas are filled with sautéed chard, wrapped tightly, baked until crisp, and topped with a fresh tomato-garlic salsa and crumbled cotija cheese. A wonderful vegetarian main or side, these tacos are a much fresher, brighter take on what most of us would consider Texan or Mexican cuisine.
Adapted from One Big Table by Molly O'Neill. Copyright © 2011. Published by Simon & Schuster. Available wherever books are sold. All Rights Reserved.
- Yield:8
- 3 pounds fresh tomatoes, peeled and seeded
- 1 or 2 garlic cloves
- 4 tablespoons corn oil, plus additional for frying
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 pound fresh red or white chard, washed and chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 32 corn tortillas (6-inch size works best)
- 3 ounces crumbled cotija cheese or shredded Monterey Jack (about 3/4 cup)
Preheat the oven to 200°F. Line a baking sheet with paper towels. Place a wire rack over another baking sheet.
Purée the tomatoes and garlic in a blender or a food processor. If necessary, add up to 1/2 cup water to facilitate blending.
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the purée, season with salt and pepper to taste, and bring to a simmer. Cook until thick, about 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
While tomato purée is reducing, fill a large pot with water and bring to a boil. Add the chard and cook for 10 minutes, until tender. Drain thoroughly.
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent. Add the chard and minced garlic, and season with salt and pepper. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the filling is very dry and well flavored. Remove from the heat.
Wrap 8 tortillas at a time in a clean, damp kitchen towel. Heat them in the microwave for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes on high, until they are steamy and pliable. Remove 1 tortilla from the bundle and lay out flat. (Keep the rest well wrapped in the towel.) Fill the tortilla with 1 to 2 tablespoons of the chard and roll up tightly. Place the taco on a baking sheet, with the curved edge of the tortilla underneath. Dampen, warm, fill, and shape the remaining tortillas into tacos in this fashion.
Heat 1/2 inch oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until hot but not smoking. Place the tacos one by one in the hot oil, with the curved edge still underneath. Fry for 1 to 2 minutes, then gently turn over with tongs and fry the other side about 1 minute, until crisp. Remove from the oil and drain on the paper towel–lined sheet pan.
Place all the tacos on a serving platter, pour the warm tomato purée over the top, and sprinkle with the cheese.
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Teacher Who Faced Statutory Rape Charges for Sleeping with Student Fends Off Trial by Marrying Him
A North Carolina law prohibiting the state from compelling the spouse of a defendant to testify against their significant other has helped a former teacher escape statutory rape charges for sleeping with her student.
42-year-old Leah Gayle Shipman was arrested in Janurary 2009 for allegedly having sex with then-15-year-old Johnnie Ray Ison.
In addition to statutory rape, Shipman was also charged with sexual offense with a student and taking indecent liberties with a student.
She subsequently lost her job, but gained a husband.
Five days after ending her 19-year marriage in January 2011, Shipman sought and received the permission of Johnnie Ray's mom to marry her son. (Shipman needed a parent's signature because Johnnie Ray was still a minor at the time.)
Last month, when it came time to move the charges along, prosecutors realized they no longer had a viable case.
"None of the statements made in this case would be admissible without the victim," Brunswick County Assistant District Attorney Gina Essey told the StarNews of Wilmington.
But the state didn't leave court empty handed: Shipman received a 30-day suspended jail sentence and 12 months probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of resisting a public officer over texts she sent Johnnie Ray while he was being interrogated.
"The police witnessed the texts, and we were able to get them from the phone," Essey said.


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Yep, Tim had the term trademarked. You know -- so no one else can profit off it; it's still a prayer to him.
Yep, Tim had the term trademarked. You know -- so no one else can profit off it; it's still a prayer to him.
New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow shares his relationship requirements in the latest issue of Vogue:
"Obviously looks play a big part. Being attracted to someone plays a big part, but there's also so much more than that for me. It's about finding someone sweet and kind -- and that has a servant's heart."
Italics our own.
Tim Tebow is headed to New Jersey after being pushed out of Denver by Peyton Manning.
NBC Sports reports that the Jets gave up a fourth-round draft pick for Tebow, who will now be nipping at starting QB Mark Sanchez's Achilles heel.
In other football news, the NFL handed down sentencing today following the conclusion of its investigation into the New Orleans Saints' "bounty program."
General manager Mickey Loomis has been suspended for eight games; head coach Sean Payton received a year-long suspension; and former defensive coordinator Gregg William, the program's mastermind, is suspended indefinitely.
Additionally, the Saints will pay a $500,000 fine, and lose their second round draft pick for the next two years.
The new Tebowing is... Manning?
ESPN is reporting that Peyton Manning -- newly released from the Indianapolis Colts -- is engaged in "intensified contract negotiations" with the Denver Broncos to replace Tim Tebow as the team's quarterback.
According to ESPN's sources, the Broncos will attempt to trade Tebow once the deal with Manning is finalized, which only an "unforeseen significant obstacle" would prevent at this point.


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Well that didn't take very long—one of the jurors from the Sandusky trial has shed some light on the deliberation process. Among other things, Joshua Harper told TODAY that he and the other jurors felt that Sandusky's lack of emotion when reacting to the verdict was "confirmation" that they had made the right decision. Now, let's put aside the likely fact that Sandusky was coached to appear like that and get in to some more of the insight offered by Harper.
He and his fellow jurors felt they did not have the evidence necessary to convict Sandusky on the charges relative to Mike McQueary's testimony because McQueary had not witnessed Sandusky actually penetrate the victim. Harper did note that he had "no doubt" that Sandusky raped him. It's kind of a credit to the jury that they were able to separate their guts from their brains on this one, though they were likely comforted by the sheer enormity of the remaining charges and sentences associated therewith.
Harper said that the jury's focus was on determining credibility, and he and his peers found decisively in favor of the victims.
"I think there were a couple that I felt [were] very credible. I mean, it's hard to judge character on the stand, because you don't know these kids, but most were very credible, I would say all," Harper told TODAY.
With high profile cases like this one, it sometimes seems impossible (and probably is impossible) for any jury to be unbiased, but as long as biases are held in check, that's really the best you can hope for. If Mr. Harper is to be believed, we may have gotten just that out of this jury.
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Robert (Bob) Starbird Dorney, 1928-1987, was an ecologist and a pioneer in the field of environmental management. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Veterinary Science and Wildlife Management with an interest in diseases of wild animals. He worked first as a conservation biologist in Wisconsin with the State Conservation Department and at the University of Wisconsin, during which time he wrote on ruffed grouse, raccoons, squirrels and rabbits. He then moved to Latin America and for three years was a science advisor on renewable natural resources to the countries involved in the Pan American Union. In 1967 he was hired by the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, School of Urban and Regional Planning, as a professor in the area of applied ecology, environmental and resource management. For twenty years he educated students, politicians, developers and the general public on the value of the science of ecology in improving the design and livability of urban environments, a private as well as a public commitment. As a founding member of the Waterloo Region's Ecological and Environmental Advisory Committee, he was a major force in identifying environmentally sensitive areas for inclusion in the Region's master plan, while at his home he developed a mini-ecosystem of natural vegetation which was studied by students and gardeners alike. He was also a founding partner of Ecoplans Ltd., an environmental planning consulting company, and author of The Professional Practice of Environmental Management published posthumously in 1989.
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I was lucky in 1994. My cousin was married to a Beastie Boy and you know what that meant? Backstage passes, boyee! Not just for me, but for my parents, my grandparents (they set up a couch for Grandma at one of their Florida gigs), my friends, you name it.
But the best part wasn't just seeing them for free or experiencing backstage shenanigans, it was the hanging out BEFORE shows that rocked. If the gig was in NYC, we'd most likely meet up for dinner before a show at Adam's sister Rachel's Manhattan apartment and I'd just sit back and people watch. I think his old bedroom still had some graffiti on the wall that he did when he was much younger. And since my cousin lived in LA, it was always a treat to see her in NYC and hang out (still is!).
The funny thing about 1994 is that I didn't even live in NYC. I lived in Lawrence, Kansas and got to see the Beastie Boys play Lollapalooza that summer at the Sandstone Amphitheatre in nearby Bonner Springs, Kansas. My good friend Colin flew in from NYC to experience this whole backstage thing, and he wound up playing basketball with the Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest and Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins).
We saw most of the line-up from behind each band, literally standing on stage while they performed. There's nothing quite like seeing the audience from the perspective of very popular bands; thousands of kids going absolutely APE SHIT on a beautiful summer day while their favorite band rocked out. Such an awesome spectacle to behold!
A month later I would come back to NYC to visit, and of course, milk the Beasties/Lollapalooza connection even further. I had no shame!
As the cooler weather approached, I found myself returning to NYC at the end of '94. Blackout Books was just opening up on Avenue B, Moon Ska Records was opening their first storefront around the corner on East 2nd Street, and my friend Christina hooked me up with a job at the New Prospect Cafe in Park Slope, which led to a $400/month apartment on Sterling Place from their liquor guy and ANOTHER job as babysitter for their accountant. This would equal four jobs (three paid and one volunteer), so plenty of cash on hand to go see...Skarmageddon!
This was also around the time that I awkwardly shaved my head with a #2 comb (that's REALLY short), leaving a ring of bangs, payes and a mild case of mullet on my nape. No, this wasn't a Jewish Upsherin ceremony, but rather my own initiation into a slightly lesser known club: skinheads! I know, images of nazis and Geraldo Rivera are filling your mind, but if you know anything about anything you'd know that real skins aren't racist and listen to reggae. Confused? Of course not. Eventually I would get the haircut right, but somehow still be mistaken for a young Jewish man while drunkenly roaming the streets at night in Williamsburg (back when Hasidim still lived there).
I'd keep this look up for the next five years, which may or may not be obvious with my ticket spread, but it sure was fun. Most of the time.
I only have one gig from '95, which of course, is another Beastie Boys show:
At least the backstage pass has a Vespa on it...
And would you believe I have nothing to show you for 1996? Strange. Probably spent all my gig money on pitchers of Dark at Sophie's...
1997 starts off not with a concert, but with a show much more entertaining (and not all in a good way): a D.C. United vs. Metrostars away game:
Okay, so the day starts off at a bar where we all get beer buzzed before heading for D.C. Most of us have shaved heads, Metrostars jerseys, soccer scarves for one country or another, and are feeling boisterous and proud about attending an away game in support of our home team. We get to the stadium in D.C. and enjoy the first half of the match without incident.
That was the first half.
By the time the second half rolls around, most people worth their weight in Lotto sneakers are wasted, us included. The first sign of trouble was the ice. Someone seated above us was throwing ice at us from their soda cup. This quickly turned into the rest of contents of their soda cup, packets of mustard and ketchup, and then full cans (of beer? soda? I don't remember). We had to get the fuck out of there.
So, what does stadium security do for us? Escort us out of the stadium, but to the parking lot EXACTLY OPPOSITE from where our bus was parked. You can imagine what the walk back toward the bus was like: drawing the ire of every drunk D.C. United fan (some of whom were also bald and boisterous, just like us! Yay!) and a few pushes and shoves along the way. We get to the bus where we're confronted by a sizable posse headed by some real local winners (friends who were there will remember the clowns I'm referring to) who threatened all kinds of nonsense if we didn't get out of there quickly. Well, we WANTED to get out of there, so later skaters! But before we left, the bus driver cleverly emptied the very full contents of the on-bus toilet out onto the parking lot...
The drive home consisted of our own internal squabble where I ended up punching someone in the face. For what? I don't remember. This would be a common theme for me during the late '90s... Oi!
But being a skinhead didn't mean we were traditional dorks about it. We loved other kinds of music besides the obligatory oi, punk, ska, reggae, etc. Some examples include the Chemical Brothers and Rage Against the Machine:
The Rage show was awful. Wu-Tang Clan opened and they just sat on stage with 40s in their hand while poorly lip syncing the lyrics to all your favorites from "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" which were no longer your favorites because they fucking destroyed it.
The sound was bad, too, which you wouldn't expect from an arena gig (or would you?). At least we knew Rage would be amazing, because, well, they're Rage. But what happens, like, two songs into their set? Singer Zack de la Rocha slips and twists his ankle while jumping around on stage. He lays there in agony while the band keeps playing for a second until everyone realizes he's totally fucked. The band stops playing and escorts him off the stage, the crowd starts booing thinking "that's all folks!" but Zack limped back on a few minutes later and they completed their set, sans Zack's usual maniacal hopping around.
Now, gigs at Wetlands didn't typically have ticket stubs (at least I don't remember it that way), but this Slackers gig had a nice line-up:
The singer for the Adjusters dropped down on one knee and proposed to me at this gig. I said no.
We end 1997 with an Atari Teenage Riot gig:
We took them out drinking afterward and all I remember is Carl Crack talking intelligibly about nazi skinheads in Berlin and me swooning hard over Alec Empire. Alec would stay in touch for another year or so by sending me mix tapes of his private party sets in Germany, and unfortunately, Carl Crack would die of a drug overdose four years later.
See? Swooning!
And since I only have one item for 1998, we'll end with a gig for which I have a VIP pass but no memory of:
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Real Salt Lake (1-1-0, 3 points, T-2 in West) dropped its match at D.C. United (1-1-0, 3 points, T-1 in East) on Saturday night, conceding a 60th minute goal to fall 0-1 at RFK Stadium.
RSL has never won at D.C., with Saturday's result moving the team to 0-6-3 across all competitions in the nation's capital. Now 1-1-0 on the year, the Claret-and-Cobalt will take on the Colorado Rapids next Saturday, March 16 in the team's home opener at Rio Tinto Stadium.
Saturday's match started rather slowly, with the game's first opportunity not coming until the 25th minute. D.C. FW Chris Pontius started the play, crossing from the left side to the back post where MF Nick DeLeon to hit his six-yard header just wide of the net.
RSL had its best chance of the first half in the 30th minute. FW Robbie Findley hit a cross from the left side that looked destined for the head of open FW Alvaro Saborio at the back post, but D.C. GK Bill Hamid had other ideas, getting a fingertip to the ball to put it out of danger.
RSL GK Nick Rimando made a big play of his own in the 32nd minute. Pontius ran onto FW Lionard Pajoy's through ball in the left side of the area, ripping a 12-yarder toward the near post that a diving Rimando parried away.
Real Salt Lake had a half chance in the 35th minute, when MF Luis Gil headed a DF Tony Beltran cross into the hands of Hamid.
The game slowed down after that, with neither side registering an opportunity until Pajoy put D.C. ahead in the 60th minute. D.C. MF John Thorrington started the play, collecting a loose corner kick outside the area and lifting a shot toward the top-left-corner that Rimando palmed away with a diving stop. Pajoy – kept onside by RSL MF Sebastian Velasquez – pounced on the rebound, heading the ball home from close-range.
The Claret-and-Cobalt nearly equalized in the 74th minute. Gil played MF Khari Stephenson in on the left side of the box, with the Jamaican attacker curling a shot toward the top-left-corner that Hamid held.
RSL's other Jamaican – substitute DF Lovel Palmer – had a good look at goal in the 83rd minute, hitting a shot just wide of the left post from 30 yards out.
That was about it for the Claret-and-Cobalt, which didn't register another good chance for the rest of the match.
D.C. did have another opportunity, nearly going ahead through substitute FW Carlos Ruiz in the 94th minute. Rimando made a great stop to keep the Guatemalan international's shot out, blocking Ruiz's point blank effort with an acrobatic save.
RSL will next play on Saturday, March 16, when it will take on Rocky Mountain Cup Presented by Mark Miller Subaru rival Colorado Rapids in the 2013 home opener at Rio Tinto Stadium.
Click here to access video highlights and the MLSsoccer.com MATCHCENTER for RSL 0-D.C. 1
Real Salt Lake Match Notes – RSL 0-1 D.C.
- RSL is winless in nine all-time matches in the nation's capital, with Saturday's result moving the Claret-and-Cobalt to 0-6-3 across all competitions at D.C.
- RSL was without four regulars for the second straight game on Saturday, with MF Javier Morales (R Lateral Meniscus Surgery), DF Nat Borchers (R Quad Surgery), DF Chris Wingert (R Fractured Metatarsal) and MF Ned Grabavoy (Family Matter) all missing the match.
- Real Salt Lake Head Coach Jason Kreis ran out the same starting XI that he used in last Sunday's win at the San Jose Earthquakes. Kreis started the same XI in consecutive games just four times in 41 games across all competitions in 2012.
- Real Salt Lake rookie MF John Stertzer made his professional debut on Saturday, coming on in the 81st minute for Khari Stephenson. A Fairfax, Va. native that played four years at the University of Maryland, Stertzer made his debut in front of a good number of family and friends in attendance at RFK Stadium.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake 0 0 0
D.C. United 0 1 0
Scoring Summary:
DC – Lionard Pajoy – 60'
Misconduct Summary:
DC – Lionard Pajoy (Off the ball foul) – 28'
RSL – Tony Beltran (Foul) – 31'
RSL – Abdoulie Mansally (Foul) – 63'
RSL – Kyle Beckerman (Dissent) – 87'
RSL – Alvaro Saborio (Foul) – 93'
Real Salt Lake (4-1-2-1-2) – Nick Rimando; Tony Beltran, Chris Schuler, Kwame Watson-Siriboe, Abdoulie Mansally (Lovel Palmer, 66'); Kyle Beckerman (C); Luis Gil, Sebastian Velasquez; Khari Stephenson (John Stertzer, 81'); Robbie Findley (Joao Plata, 65'), Alvaro Saborio
Substitutes not used: Josh Saunders (GK), Carlos Salcedo, Devon Sandoval, Yordany Alvarez
D.C. United (4-4-2) – Bill Hamid; James Riley, Brandon McDonald, Dejan Jakovic, Chris Korb; Nick DeLeon, Perry Kitchen, John Thorrington (Marcelo Saragosa, 75'), Marcos Sanchez (Kyle Porter, 58'); Chris Pontius, Lionard Pajoy (Carlos Ruiz, 83')
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Zac Efron & Lily Collins Spend Valentine's Day Together
The pair were spotted at West Hollywood's Soho House on Tuesday night
Romantic dinner date?
A little more than a week after Zac Efron and Lily Collins were spotted holding hands at STK restaurant in West Hollywood, the duo were out and about together once again.
Efron, 24, and the star of the upcoming Mirror Mirror, 22, were photographed leaving the Soho House in West Hollywood on Tuesday, which happened to be Valentine's Day.
As they left the hotspot, Efron, dressed in a blue button-down and black pants, trailed behind Collins, who wore an all-black ensemble paired with an ivory-colored jacket.
Previously, Collins was linked to her Abduction costar Taylor Lautner. Efron hasn't had a serious public romance since splitting with Vanessa Hudgens about a year ago.
– Dahvi Shira