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This is a wonderful recipe for macaroni and cheese. I, however, have not made it with the topping. Please let me know if you use the topping and if you like it.
1/2 lb. elbow macaroni
3 tbsp. butter
3 tbsp. flour
1 tbsp. powdered mustard
3 cups milk
1/2 cup chopped yellow onion
1 bay leaf
1/2 tsp. paprika
1 large egg
12 oz. sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1 tsp. kosher salt
fresh black pepper
3 tbsp. butter
1 cup panko bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large pot of boiling, salted water cook the pasta to al dente.
While the pasta is cooking, in a seperate pot, melt the butter. Whisk in the flour and mustard and keep it moving for about 5 minutes. Make sure it is free of lumps. Stir in the milk, onion, bay leaf and paprika. Simmer for 10 minutes and remove the bay leaf.
Temper in the egg. Stir in 3/4 of the cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Fold the macaroni into the mis and pour into a 2 quart casserole dish. Top with remaining cheese.
Melt the butter in a saute pan and toss the bread crumbs to coat. Top the macaroni with the bread crumbs. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and rest for five minutes before serving.
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A man who took part in a private meeting six years ago between Pope Benedict XVI and victims of sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests said Tuesday that he hopes another summit planned soon with Benedict's successor will be more productive.
The forthcoming meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and a half-dozen victims, announced Monday, is being organized by Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston. It will mark the first such encounter for Francis, who has won early praise for his concern for the poor but has gotten mixed reviews for his response to church abuse.
The pope said the meeting would take place early next month. But the Archdiocese of Boston said in a statement that the details of the meeting haven't been finalized and that the meeting was expected to take place "in the coming months."
Bernie McDaid, of Peabody, Massachusetts, founder of the advocacy group Survivors Voice, said he expected the meeting to be a "dog-and-pony show."
"I believe it's always going to be church first, children second," said McDaid, who has not been invited to the meeting with Francis.
McDaid and four other sex abuse victims met with Pope Emeritus Benedict for about 25 minutes at the Vatican Embassy in Washington in 2008.
"It was weird," McDaid said. "He looked down at the floor like he was nervous. He wouldn't engage. ... It was all about praying and blessing us. Like he was going to heal us or something. I didn't come for that. I don't need to be blessed. They need to be, if anything."
Like McDaid, others say they're skeptical the gathering will lead to changes they've long sought. Among them: holding bishops and other church leaders accountable for concealing the sex crimes of priests under their oversight.
In his announcement Monday, Francis revealed that three bishops are under investigation by the Vatican for abuse-related reasons, though it wasn't clear whether they were accused of committing abuse or covering it up.
"On this issue we must go forward, forward," Francis said. "Zero tolerance."
He has spoken less firmly in the past. After a UN report blasting the Vatican for its record on sex abuse, Francis said this year that "no one has done more" to combat exploitation of children than the church and Benedict.
He went to note that most abuse happens in "family and neighborhood environments" and said the church has moved with "transparency and responsibility."
Advocacy groups and attorneys for abuse victims have largely dismissed the forthcoming meeting.
Barbara Blaine, the head of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, said the pope already has all the information he needs to remove priests who abuse minors and bishops who cover it up.
The planned meeting looks like "a public relations ploy," she said.
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Greg Katz in London, Nicole Winfield in Rome and Gillian Flaccus in Orange County, California.
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Gratin Dauphinois
In this classic form the gratin tastes plenty cheesy on account of the reduced milk, but not gooey. For extra goo, sprinkle some shredded Beaufort or Gruyère between potato layers, and more on top. Use half-and-half or milk depending on the richness desired and add a little crème fraîche for extra tang, if you wish.
- Yield
- Makes 6 to 8 servings
- 3 pounds russet (Idaho) potatoes of uniform size
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 medium garlic clove, crushed through a press
- 1 1/2 to 2 cups half-and-half or milk
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- Freshly grated nutmeg to taste
- 4 tablespoons crème fraîche (optional)
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
- 1. Peel and wash the potatoes and slice them into rounds 1/8 inch thick, using a mandoline, the slicing disk of a food processor, or a sharp knife.
- 2. Generously butter a 9 by 12-inch heavy shallow baking dish, preferably earthenware or cast-enamel, or an oval gratin dish of comparable size. (You can also use a 12-inch cast-iron skillet.) Rub the dish with half of the crushed garlic.
- 3. In a small saucepan, bring the half-and-half to a simmer with the remaining garlic and season generously with salt and pepper. Set aside.
- 4. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Arrange the potatoes in one overlapping layer on the bottom of the dish. Season the layer generously with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Arrange two more layers on top, seasoning each layer liberally. You might not need all the potatoes. Press the layers down to compact them. Pour in enough half-and-half to come up just a little below the top layer of potatoes. Set the baking dish on a larger baking sheet, cover with foil, and bake until the potatoes feel tender when pierced with a knife, about 1 hour.
- 5. Raise the oven temperature to 425°F, remove the foil, and bake until the top begins to brown, about 10 minutes. Pour just enough cream to cover the top, dab it with crème fraîche, if using, and sprinkle evenly with the Parmesan. Bake until the top is brown and bubbly, 15 to 20 minutes more. Remove from the oven and let the potatoes stand for 10 minutes to absorb the cream. Cut into squares and serve.
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|Muad'Dib could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just so, Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door." And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation."
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Vail Daily letter: Die, Twinkies, die
Vail, CO, Colorado
I hope Twinkies die and they take Ding Dongs down with them. Good riddance to one of America's most embarrassing foods. Some may claim, like my husband, that they are decent road food – a name that implies their anonymous consumption in an enclosed vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. I am not going to suggest a healthy alternative like an apple (high in fiber!) or a banana (great source of potassium!), both of which would be good alternatives because I know that when you want a real treat, fruit lacks decadence.
Twinkies, by contrast, are consistently sinful. Whether they are purchased in Denver or Dillon, they taste exactly the same. While an expiration date is required on the packaging, they are rumored to last forever. Therefore, I would not argue with the claim that they are great post-apocalyptic food.
In order to achieve immortality Twinkies boast an impressively long list of ingredients – 37. Most are unpronounceable and vaguely reminiscent of high school chemistry class. Better living through science?
Unfortunately, Twinkies and foods like them do not make lives better. They make Americans fatter and less healthy. Twinkies are emblematic of all that is wrong with the American diet and food industry – the expectation that food must be fast, convenient, predictable and above all, cheap.
I bake from scratch, and it takes time. Most of my recipes have fewer than a dozen ingredients. The most chemical-sounding ingredient I use is sodium bicarbonate. Most flavor and color additives in industrially produced food like Twinkies are developed in labs. By contrast, to get lemon flavor I add lemon zest and for vanilla I add my own homemade vanilla. Food coloring? Never. No preservatives mean my muffins are great the first day, good the second and gone by the third.
I am not glad the employees of the Hostess Co. may lose their jobs and their company may go under. But I am glad that an industrially produced food may have met its demise. Technology continually transforms our lives, but should it transform our food? The FDA may claim they are safe, but since the introduction of unnatural ingredients like artificially produced flavors, colors and preservatives, corn-based sweeteners and hydrogenated fats, the collective American girth has expanded.
Perhaps the cultivation and preparation of our food can only be enhanced by technology to a limited degree, like tractors. At some point we reach a point where food is cheap and tastes OK but contains no nutritional value. Then food ceases to be food.
Need some advice for surviving a post-Twinkie world? Here are few alternatives in our neighborhood:
Batter Cupcakes boast more than 30 varieties of cupcakes in their repertoire. Even one of their most complex cupcakes, the cookie dough cupcake, has a modest 19 ingredients – eight in the cake, six in the cookie dough and five in the buttercream frosting. Liz, Batter's creator, explains, "We only use sweet cream butter, Philadelphia cream cheese, Hershey's cocoa, farm fresh eggs and Madagascar bourbon vanilla extract. Elevated ingredients are the key to making not just great cupcakes, but great food."
Rhonda Niederhaus at Columbine Bakery suggests you try one of their seven varieties of Danish. Her favorite is the almond raisin. She explains that it is the marzipan, which her husband makes from scratch, that sets this Danish apart from the rest.
Sage Pierson at Sticky Fingers Cafe and Bakery in Minturn insists they have the best buns in the valley. No national chain with a sugary icing can compete with Sage's buns and their cream cheese icing. My husband concurs. He claims that they are more of an experience than a mere cinnamon bun.
Lauren at Mountain Cupcakes affirms that no preservatives ever find a way into their cupcakes. Like their fellow bakers in the valley, they make all their cupcakes from scratch. Lauren suggests the carrotcake cupcake that contains lots of carrots (beta carotene!) and is topped with a real cream cheese frosting.
Choosing any of the above supports local businesses. While none of these options are saintly foods – such as kale, quinoa or bulgur wheat – they are all handcrafted locally with fresh ingredients and not a chemical in sight. Sinful, but with a silver lining.
Deirdre Claire Noble
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Dear Frankie (2005)
Dear Frankie uses humor to acknowledge and, temporarily, transcend the fragility of human survival.
Dear FrankieDirector: Shona Auerbach
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler, Sharon Small, Jack McElhone, Mary Riggans
MPAA rating: PG-13
Studio: Miramax
First date: 2005
US Release Date: 2005-03-04 (Limited release)
Lizzie Morrison (Emily Mortimer) lives on the run. Accompanied by her mother, Nell (Mary Riggans), and her deaf son, Frankie (Jack McElhone), she flits from one small Scottish town to the next, barely keeping ahead of the abusive ex-husband determined to find her. Short on cash and stability, this unconventional family copes as they can. Nell daily scans the obituary columns just in case her former son-in-law has died, while Lizzie writes Frankie regular letters purporting to come from a globe-circling merchant seaman father.
Dear Frankie opens the year Frankie is nine, when the threesome has taken refuge in a declining dock town on the River Clyde. As they settle into their gloomy flat above the local chip shop, it seems as if life as usual is about to resume: the new school ritual for Frankie, a fearful isolation for Lizzie, and a despondent tolerance for Nell. Then Frankie hears from a schoolmate that his "father's" ship, the Accra, is docking in town. Suddenly, Lizzie must either puncture Frankie's fantasy of his loving, literate father, or find someone -- anyone -- willing to impersonate Dad for day.
While the solution to this conundrum drives the movie, BAFTA-nominated first-time feature director Shona Auerbach embraces far more complex themes, including the relationship between a parent and a child with a disability, and the near-impossibility of personal connection in a world where transience and serial reinvention are the norm. And her film is funny in the process, although on the evidence of the preview audience's reactions, the deadpan humor may be too culturally specific for some viewers. She conjures a working-class world that soars past sentimentality and brutality and recalls instead the bracing delicacy of movies such as Isabel Coixet's My Life Without Me (2003) and Bill Forsyth's early films, That Sinking Feeling (1980) and Gregory's Girl (1981).
Like these filmmakers, Auerbach and screenwriter Andrea Gibb craft a reflective, witty opening that allows a slow accumulation of everyday incidents that invites audiences to share the characters' accidental discoveries about themselves. As the camera follows Lizzie through the ritualistic steps that sustain the fantasy of Frankie's sailor father -- the collection of Frankie's letters from a P.O. box, the visit to a Glasgow philatelist for an exotic stamp, and finally, her own writing of the father's letter back to Frankie -- we realize, as Lizzie does, that she is even more addicted to the charade than Frankie. Her subsequent passionate insistence that any man who "plays" Frankie's father must only be available for a day, and never be seen again, is thus both understandable and touching. This exchange of letters is the only time she will ever "hear" her son's voice, and if she is forced to confess the truth, that vital lifeline will vanish.
When the selected "stranger" (Gerard Butler) arrives at Lizzie's home in the guise of Frankie's father, he sits, incommunicado at the kitchen table, resisting all Nell's attempts, in the best tradition of Scots hospitality, to normalize the bizarre with a cup of tea. Nothing about his demeanor changes when Frankie appears. He simply draws from his bag a book on marine biology he's brought for the boy. At the same time, everything about the gesture signals the man's loneliness, from the crumpled brown paper bag with which the book is clumsily wrapped to the care he has evidenced in choosing its subject, displaying a knowledge of Frankie's passion he could only have gained through reading every one of the letters Lizzie had given him.
Butler's performance injects a necessary abrasiveness just when the film risks slipping into sappiness, in the encounter of stranger and child. He's almost relentlessly impassive, the very opposite of easy prey to the charm of perky nine-year-olds, and his rigidity hints at the character's terror of the consequences of showing any emotion whatsoever. The performance serves as a foil to Mortimer's, whose constant, fleeting movements and sharp delivery create a Lizzie visibly on the verge of disintegration.
Though occasionally movie-child cute, Frankie is for the most part a complicated young person whose only instrument of communication is his body. Just as credible is the setting through which the boy moves. The film never confuses financial poverty with poverty of imagination or love, or lack of pride. Lizzie and Nell's apartment may be dark and old-fashioned, but the ceilings are high, the walls covered with pictures, and the window glimpses the Clyde and the hills beyond. And when Lizzie meets the stranger for the first time in a Glasgow café-bar, she counters his order of "Americano, strong" with a sturdy "Water, tap."
In an interview from the early '80s, Auerbach's fellow Scot, Bill Forsyth, discussed his understanding of a national individuality. He observed that Scots humor:
is the humour of despair, the humour of the gallows. The humour of awful circumstances or predicaments. I think that is where humour comes from. From situations where the only way out is to laugh, for survival's sake. At the bottom of every joke is a piece of despair, you can't produce a laugh without it. If someone falls on a banana skin you get a laugh, but someone gets hurt.*
Dear Frankie uses such humor to acknowledge and, temporarily, transcend the fragility of human survival. Only the closing sequences, which rush into feel-good resolution, mar this movie. Their inclusion exemplifies the problems faced by filmmakers struggling to represent national cultures and philosophies, while also to sell their work in a global market dominated by Hollywood storytelling.
* Local Hero: The Making of the Film, Allan Hunter and Mark Astaire, Polygon: Edinburgh, 1983.


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There are a number of apps and subscription services now available to prevent drivers from dialing phones or texting behind the wheel. The problem is, most of them prevent users from operating the phone whether they're driving or not. But just as phones are getting smarter, so are the tools to reduce the temptation to text behind the wheel.
Cellcontrol is the maker of one of those solutions, which consists of a module that plugs into the vehicle's OBD II diagnostic port to capture driving data. It blocks the phone from being used while the car is in motion with a downloadable app.
But the company's new DriveID takes the technology a step further by replacing the OBD II module with a windshield-mounted sensor that can tell whether the phone is on the right or left side of the car, allowing or blocking phone use accordingly.
Slide behind the wheel, and phone use is limited to a predetermined menu of options such as navigation, music, or hands-free calls using Bluetooth. Pass the phone to a passenger and full phone functionality is restored. Emergency calls to 911 are allowed at any time.
See our guide to distracted driving to learn more about the dangers of distractions behind the wheel.
The specific menu of what is and is not allowed while driving can be set up by a parent or other administrator through a password-protected page on the Cellcontrol website. A wide variety of customizable options allow the parent to make exceptions for certain numbers, such as their own, or prohibit any phone use other than 911 while the car is moving.
Once everything is set up, incoming calls and text messages get a response saying the driver is unavailable, and voice and text messages are saved for later.
We had a chance to take a brief demo drive with DriveID and found it worked as advertised. It activated as soon as the car was in motion, with the phone display indicating DriveID was on the job. A buffer zone in the middle of the car effectively prohibits the driver from cheating by holding a phone in an outstretched hand. One quirk we noticed is that a rear-seat passenger sitting behind the driver is also blocked from using the phone.
The system provides fleet operators and parents a means of curbing dangerous behavior behind the wheel. The distinction between driver- and passenger-side addresses a common criticism of other antidistraction solutions.
DriveID goes on sale in the fall, and it is compatible with Android, Blackberry, iOS, and Windows platforms. For personal (aka "family") use, there is an $89 one-time cost.
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The Longest Plate Appearance(s) of the Week, 5/24
Normally this series is on the blog side of the site, but since this is an extra-long edition, I've made it an article. If you're new to "Longest Plate Appearance of the Week" because you don't read the blog section regularly, A) read the blog section regularly! and B) catch up on the first edition here and the second edition here. I've added a few new elements this week: the length of the plate appearance, the number of mound visits involved, and a GIF of an exhausted player who's wishing the plate appearance would end.
Bonus long plate appearance trivia: I don't know why I didn't think to look it up before, but if we're going to talk about long plate appearances every week, we should know what the gold standard in long plate appearances is. The pitch-by-pitch data in our database goes back to 1988, and in that time, the longest plate appearance was a 20-pitch battle between Bartolo Colon and Ricky Gutierrez on June 26, 1998. Gutierrez struck out swinging. So, 20 pitches: that's the goal. The average plate appearance in 1998 was 0.15 pitches shorter than today's, so we have a head start.
Longest Plate Appearance(s) of the Week, 5/16-5/22
For the first time, we have a tie! I wrote in week one that when we had a tie, I would pick the most interesting PA and write about that one. That is what I'll do most times there are ties, but both of this week's two contenders were interesting in completely different ways. I couldn't choose between them, so I'm writing about both. We'll start with Slowey vs. Goldschmidt and wrap up with Rosenthal vs. Gomez .
The plot:
This is Slowey, career walker of 1.5 per nine, so naturally everything is right around the plate.
The exhausted player(s):
That was one continuous shot. It was 81 degrees in Arizona, batting helmets are hot, and swinging makes you sweat. So does breaking from first four times (and scrambling back to first once) during a 13-pitch plate appearance. Poor Didi Gregorius.
The sequence:
1. 0-0: 80-mph slider, ball
You know what you're going to get from Slowey, and it's not super-exciting to watch. Fastballs and sinkers in the 89-90 range, 60-65 percent of the time, with the other 35-40 percent of his offerings comprising sliders, changeups, and curveballs, none of them moving much over 80 miles per hour. He won't walk you, and when you put a pitch in play, there's about a 50-50 shot of it being a fly ball.
Slowey starts Goldschmidt off with slow slider that's not as far from the strike zone as Rob Brantly makes it look (see the strike zone plot). In an interview running next week at Grantland, Ryan Hanigan told me that the biggest mistake he sees inexperienced catchers make is "giving up" on getting a call too quickly on borderline pitches and turning the glove to receive the pitch with the wrist pointing up. That's what Brantly does here, even though Slowey hardly misses his spot. The ball almost pops out of his glove, as if it's higher than he'd expected (or as if he has his eyes on Didi Gregorius at first).
2. 1-0: 89-mph four-seamer, ball
Slowey comes back with his heater on the outside corner. This pitch looks even more like a strike, and Brantly does an okay job of selling it, but home plate umpire Adrian Johnson isn't buying. Now Goldschmidt has a couple pitches to play with before the count can even up.
3. 2-0: 89-mph four-seamer, called strike
Same pitch, but more centered. This one's a strike.
4. 2-1: 83-mph changeup, foul tip
A changeup that gets too much of the middle, and Goldschmidt likes it so much he almost sprains his front foot swinging. The change of speed has him just slightly out in front, which is all that saves Slowey.
5. 2-2: 90-mph sinker, foul
Slowey changes speeds and locations, going up and away for the first of many fouls.
6. 2-2: 89-mph four-seamer, ball
This is the farthest away from the strike zone Slowey is going to get. Goldschmidt lets it go by for ball three. The count is full, and we're not even halfway through this thing.
7. 3-2: 90-mph four-seamer, foul
This is the first of six consecutive pitches on (or slightly off) the outside part of the plate. Slowey saw Goldschmidt hit a ball 400 feet in the first, so he respects his power.
8. 3-2: 90-mph sinker, foul
Slowey lives low and away. Goldschmidt tries to pull the outside sinker and dribbles it foul.
9: 3-2: 89-mph sinker, foul
Another outside sinker Goldschmidt fights off but can't square up.
10: 3-2: 91-mph four-seamer, foul
This is the hardest pitch of the sequence, but Slowey doesn't have the velo to blow the ball by Goldschmidt. The best he can do is keep it away from the heart of the plate.
11: 3-2: 90-mph four-seamer, foul
Goldschmidt remains in protect mode, waiting for a pitch that isn't on the corner.
12: 3-2: 90-mph sinker, foul
I'm out of things to say about Goldschmidt fouling off outside sinkers. Slowey hasn't thrown anything off-speed since his fourth pitch.
This is the sixth consecutive foul ball of the at-bat, and both the guy throwing the five-ounce ball at high speed and the guy swinging the 30-something-ounce bat at an even higher speed have to be tiring. Maybe you're wondering whether the hitter has an advantage after seeing so many pitches from the same pitcher in the same plate appearance. Five years ago, Russell Carleton looked into whether the batter performs any better than expected after fouling off a two-strike pitch:
Okay then! But what about after fouling off multiple two-strike pitches?
So Goldschmidt isn't more likely to, say, hit a homer on the next pitch because he's seen so much of Slowey's stuff. However, he would be more likely to hit a homer if Slowey were to groove one right over the middle. Speaking of which:
13: 3-2: 90-mph four-seamer, in play
Sooner or later, Slowey was bound to make a mistake. He didn't miss by much—Brantly set up on the inside corner, hoping Goldschmidt wouldn't expect it after the barrage of outside pitches, and Slowey left it a little up and over the plate—but it was enough for Goldschmidt to do what he tried to do on his earlier, almost-ankle-spraining swing.
Marlins Park is one of the hardest places to hit homers, so it's the perfect park for an extreme flyball pitcher like Slowey. But against Goldschmidt, there is no perfect park. Over his first two seasons, Goldschmidt had a .769 OPS vs. right-handed pitchers and a .996 OPS vs. left-handed pitchers. His splits this season are .998 and .992. It's such a small sample, where platoon splits are concerned—141 PA against right-handers—that it might not be worth mentioning, but Diamondbacks fans could get used to this. A Goldschmidt who hits righties is really, really good. If his current-season splits are just the latest example of Goldschmidt's "tremendous makeup" helping him become better than we thought he could be—he was never a top prospect, so he's already exceeded expectations—he's going to be a bargain.
Rosenthal vs. Gomez
In his first two at-bats of this game, Gomez conserved energy by striking out looking on three pitches and popping up on the first pitch, so he was prepared for an epic plate appearance. Still, as recently as last season, it would have been even stranger to see a plate appearance involving the aggressive Gomez last this long. This season, though:
Gomez is as aggressive as ever: he hasn't really reduced his rate of out-of-zone swings, and overall he's swinging more often than ever. The increase has come from swings at pitches inside the strike zone, which are generally the ones at which you want to swing.
The plot:
Scavenger hunt: Can you find pitch no. 12 on this plot? It's there, but it's well-hidden.
The exhausted player:
The sequence:
1. 0-0: 96-mph four-seamer, ball
Rosenthal couldn't be much less like Kevin Slowey. He throws his heater on 80 percent of his pitches, and his heater is hard. Get ready to see some fastballs! This one is outside, and Gomez lets it go, which is notable because Gomez takes the first pitch of a plate appearance less often than any other batter in baseball. He swings at the first pitch 50 percent of the time (up from 38 percent as a rookie).
2. 1-0: 96-mph four-seamer, called strike
Another four-seamer at 96, this time on the opposite side of the plate. Yadier Molina does a nice job of stopping it before it can move any farther inside.
3. 1-1: 97-mph four-seamer, swinging strike
Rosenthal goes back outside, this time at 97, and Gomez chases up.
4: 1-2: 98-mph four-seamer, foul
A little harder, a little lower, and a little closer to the plate. Gomes goes for it again.
5: 1-2: 98-mph four-seamer, foul
The GIF makes it look like Gomez swung through this pitch, but he got a piece of it. You can see Molina tracking it at the end.
6: 1-2: 98-mph four-seamer, foul
On the strike zone plot above, pitches no. 5 and 6 are almost on top of each other. Not only does Rosenthal throw 80 percent fastballs, he throws some of them in the same spots on consecutive pitches. Clearly, he trusts his stuff. If you've seen his stuff, you probably trust it too.
Let's return to Russell's research, specifically the part that says: "If the batter is fouling off two-strike pitches after being behind in the count, it means that he's more likely to get on base." Here are the expected on-base percentages for a league-average hitter broken down by number of fouls on a 1-2 count:
Gomez is still in the same count he was after the third pitch of this plate appearance, but by fouling off the next three 1-2 pitches, he's raised his expected OBP by almost 50 points. So he's got that goin' for him, which is nice.
7: 1-2: 97-mph four-seamer, ball
Gomez was tempted, but this one was too high.
8: 2-2: 98-mph four-seamer, foul
Time for a few more fouls. Gomez has the fourth-highest in-zone swing percentage of the 197 hitters who've seen at least 500 pitches this season (76.1 percent), so he's not going to take strike three. The only hitters who swing at a higher rate of in-zone pitches than Gomez are Pablo Sandoval and Josh Hamilton, who swing at everything, everywhere, and Matt Holliday. Holliday swings at 76.5 percent of pitches inside the zone, but only 29.3 percent of pitches outside of it. That difference of 47.2 percentage points between in- and out-of-zone swing percentages is the second largest in baseball. I was going to say that that explains why Holliday is such a good hitter—he swings at hittable pitches, and lets the rest go by—but the first- and third-largest percentage point differences between Z-Swing and O-Swing rates belong to Justin Ruggiano and Pete Kozma, respectively. Sooo.
9: 2-2: 99-mph four-seamer, foul
This is a mistake: Molina sets up outside, but Rosenthal misses his target and delivers a pitch almost perfectly centered in the strike zone. He gets away with it anyway, because he throws 99 mph.
After this pitch, Molina went to the mound for a chat with Rosenthal. Maybe they discussed whether to show Gomez something else or throw him a 10th consecutive fastball.
10: 2-2: 97-mph four-seamer, foul
Fastball won.
"About time to end this at-bat," says Mike Shannon on the Cardinals broadcast. Gomez disagrees.
11: 2-2: 89-mph changeup, foul
On the 11th pitch of the plate appearance, Rosenthal throws a changeup, which Gameday classifies as a fastball because even Rosenthal's changeups average almost 90 miles per hour. Gomez still gets a piece of it, although this time he's early instead of late.
12: 3-2: 89-mph changeup, ball
This is the sort of thing that happens when Rosenthal throws changeups. Maybe he should throw more fastballs! The runners advance. (Oh, have I mentioned that there are runners? There are runners.)
13: 3-2: 98-mph four-seamer, ball
Rosenthal goes back to his heater and misses inside, and Gomez takes a rare walk. That's a pretty good long plate appearance. And this should make you appreciate Gomez more: the next batter, Yuniesky Betancourt, struck out swinging on an 0-2 changeup after fouling off, whiffing, and fouling off three four-seam fastballs.
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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Dave Scott
Regarding that first pitch to Goldschmidt, sometimes you see a catcher try to avoid turning his hand palm up only to have the ball break so much it it glances off the end of his glove. Then the announces might accuse him of being lazy. Ha! the woes of the hard working catchers.
May 24, 2013 15:43 PM
You've left me in suspense now, Ben, did Rosenthal get the last out after the walk or did Milwaukee score a run with the bases loaded?
May 25, 2013 01:40 AM
I could be totally off-base here, but I feel like I remember hearing that some time in the past 10 years or so, there was a plate appearance involving someone on the KC Royals that was something like 17 or 18 pitches, but also had a similar number of pickoff attempts involved, resulting in an at-bat that lasted more than 15 minutes.
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Like many of my questions, this question is actually aimed at $p$-adic analysis. One of the main obstacles in doing analysis $p$-adically ist that the $\mathbb{Q}_p$ is totally disconnected.
From previous answers and reading I learned that one tries to circumvent these problems and the result are things like "rigid analytic spaces" or "Berkovich spaces".
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Searching on the for connectify or connectification I only got a few results, which only seem to be from point set topology without applications in other areas of mathematics. Why is that so? Is connectification somehow bad behaved, or does it not exist in general? By connectification I would understand something like for algebraic closure or completion or the stone-cech compactification which can all be defined by a universal property. Does this make sense at all to define connectification like that.
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The hugin Control Points table is an optional pop-up window listing all the control points in the project, whereas the hugin Control Points tab shows only those points joining a pair of images.
The list of points can be sorted by clicking on one of the column titles, clicking twice will reverse the sort:
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- Alignment, the type of control point, these can be normal control points, horizontal control points, vertical control points or straight line control points.
- Distance, the distance in pixels between a perfect alignment and the actual alignment achieved by the optimiser. Otherwise, after selecting Fine-tune all Points from the Edit menu, this column shows the correlation between the points (0.0 indicates no correlation and 1.00 indicates 100% correlation) - Typically values over 0.8 show that the image areas around each point of the pair are very similar (an 80% correlation).
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Sugar Miller, a freelance health journalist and self described "research nut," set out to find an answer for her. She has spent more than 200 hours on the project over six months, and the surface of her dining-room table is thick with research papers and correspondence.
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Sugar Miller, a lawyer by training, also has a journalism degree. After moving here from New York to marry a Montrealer, she worked on contract with CBC television in the early 1990s and pitched segments to the fifth estate on trans fats and to The Health Show on soy and helped to research and produce them. She had a health column on Newswatch and, later, produced and hosted a live monthly health show for three years on Mountain Lake PBS in Plattsburgh.
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Ruth Salmon, head of the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance, observed: "We have improved vaccines with which we treat our young fish and antibiotic use has dropped dramatically in the past years; we are comfortable that we have good management practices for fish health." There are trace amounts of PCBs and dioxins not just in salmon but also in the most common foods we eat, she said — including beef, chicken, pork, eggs and butter.
Among several types of salmon carried at Montreal's La Mer, widely acknowledged to be Montreal's best fish shop, is organic farmed salmon from Ireland: although Europe has standards in place and bodies to certify fish as organic, there is no comparable body in Canada yet, explained owner John Meletakos.
(Requirements to be certified organic include: fish must be fed with fish parts that are fit for human consumption, sustainable and receive no antibiotics from the time they are tiny smolts to when they are ready for market.)
He also stocks king salmon from British Columbia, which he said is raised to organic standards, and farm-raised king salmon from New Zealand as well as farm raised Atlantic salmon grown on both Canadian coasts.
—But without knowing exactly what is in the food given to organic salmon, it's impossible to know if it's more healthful than conventional salmon, said Sugar Miller. "Although fewer chemicals are used in organic salmon farming than in conventional aquaculture, the feed manufactured for organic salmon contains a higher percentage of fish and fish parts than standard feeds — which use lots of plants and even parts of land animals.
"Depending on which fish go into the organic feed and where they come from, you may be getting more industrial pollutants," she said. That said, Europe has adopted strict regulations for industrial pollutants in farmed fish, so it's not a big worry. And sources of fish used in fish feed here in North America are cleaner than in Europe because our waters are cleaner, she said.
—Some experts rate wild Alaskan salmon as the best choice for consumers, but Sugar Miller says B.C. salmon is just as good — except certain species from the rivers around Vancouver, where the water is not as clean as farther out. Sockeye, pink and chum should be fine: for the most part, they migrate quickly out of the Strait of Georgia and out to sea. Chinook and coho species in southern B.C., however, spend most of their lives in the Strait of Georgia and are more polluted.
"Every piece of salmon you select will differ in its fat content — and it's the fat that's important. That's where the healthy omega-3s as well as the pollutants reside," she said. The best choice for consumers is also one of the most economical: canned pink salmon. "The cheap pink salmon, which is considered trash salmon by the industry and thus is put in cans, is the cleanest species — and you need to eat about 500 grams a week to get the recommended amount of omega 3s," she said.
But contact the manufacturer to make sure the can is free of Bisphenol-A, or BPA, she said: researchers classify BPA as an "endocrine disruptor" because it can disrupt activities in the body's hormonal system.
—Although farmed Atlantic salmon is "much cleaner than it used to be," intake should be limited to 200 to 250 grams per week. In terms of pollutants, sockeye, coho and Chinook salmon fall between pink and Atlantic. "To get the recommended amount of omega-3s and the fewest pollutants, you'll need to eat somewhere between 300 and 400 grams a week, depending on the species and on where that species is from. Like pink salmon, sockeye often comes in cans." Again, choose BPAfree cans.
If it's Atlantic salmon, it's always farmed
There is a single species of Atlantic salmon — and it is always farmed. Wild Atlantic salmon exists but it is not fished because it is an endangered species.
Atlantic salmon is farmed in countries including Norway, which has the world's largest salmon farming industry, Chile, Scotland and Ireland, as well as on Canada's east and west coast: to make things more confusing, then, there's Atlantic salmon being farmed in places that don't necessarily abut the Atlantic.
As well, North America has five species of Pacific salmon, which is generally wild. From most fatty to least, they are: Chinook, or king; coho, or silver; sockeye, or red; chum, or keta, or dog; and pink.
Canned salmon is mostly wild — and much of it is from British Columbia and Alaska.


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Nielsen-Arbitron $1.3B Deal Review Goes Into September
NEW YORK (The Deal) -- Nielsen Holdings said Friday, Aug. 30., it has agreed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to extend the period for the antitrust review of its $1.3 billion acquisition of Arbitron (ARB) .
The company's statement said the review was extended into September without specifying a date.
Nielsen, with a core TV ratings and consumer buying habits business, is acquiring Arbitron, which focuses on radio and out-of-home media consumption, for $48 per share in cash, or $1.26 billion. The deal received a second request from the FTC on March 8 and Nielsen said July 30 that the companies expected the FTC to accept that they have complied with the second request. At that time, the companies expected to hear from the FTC by the end of August.
An FTC commission meeting scheduled for Aug. 22, which was perceived by some risk arbitrageurs as a vote on the Arbitron deal, was cancelled. This raised expectations that Nielsen had approached the commission with some proposed fix for the FTC's competition concerns.
Both companies are developing new technology for multiplatform acquisition of marketing data and can be seen as direct competitors in that evolving market.
The extension of the time frame from the end of August to some unnamed date in September does suggest Nielsen could have entered a timing agreement not to close the deal without a 30-day notice. At the very least, the company would be unlikely to give the agency more time if it did not expect that a solution to the FTC review was possible.
The Arbitron spread has narrowed over the past two weeks from $2.60 to $1.04, or 2.2%, Friday on market expectations that a consent order is in the works.
Nielsen declined to comment beyond its statement regarding the extension into September.
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Rockies nix plan to shift CarGo to center
Gold Glove winner to stay in left field; Stubbs to lead platoon in center
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Rockies have scrapped a plan to move three-time Rawlings Gold Glove Award winner Carlos Gonzalez to center field and will keep him in left, manager Walt Weiss said Saturday.
The Rockies told Gonzalez he'd move to center after they traded their former center fielder, Dexter Fowler, to the Astros in November. The thought was the Rockies would have an easier time filling left field.
But the Rockies traded with the Indians for Drew Stubbs in December. Stubbs is considered a strong defensive center fielder, but he was not as effective last year when the Indians moved him to right field. Stubbs, who avoided arbitration by signing for one year at $4.1 million, has never played left field.
Additionally, the Rockies are expected to go with a platoon in center, since Stubbs hits left-handed pitching (.274 average, .349 on-base percentage, .448 slugging percentage) better than right (.226/.296/.358).
Left-handed hitting Charlie Blackmon is a center fielder by trade, and lefty Corey Dickerson played passably in center in the past and made progress over the winter. Also, right-handed hitting Brandon Barnes, who arrived in the Fowler trade, played center for most of last season for the Astros and is a candidate.
"We are feeling comfortable with the alternatives, watching these guys run around," Weiss said. "The big thing is we want to keep [Gonzalez] on the field. Risk and reward has kind of swung the other way. We are in a different place than we were in the fall. That's what it comes down to."
The Rockies' first full-squad workout is Sunday at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. Weiss said he spoke to Gonzalez on Friday and again Saturday.
The center field mix also affects the Rockies' batting order, which has a hole in Fowler's old leadoff spot.
Stubbs has displayed top-end speed (127 steals in 156 attempts) -- enough that the Reds tried to make him a leadoff man during his time there (2009-12). However, Stubbs also hits with occasional power but also with a high strikeout rate (729 in 2,221 at-bats). Weiss has already said Stubbs will hit behind the middle of the order when he plays, which means second basemen DJ LeMahieu and Josh Rutledge would lead off when Stubbs plays. The rest of the competitors will likely be trying to prove themselves as leadoff hitters.
At any rate, the Rockies were looking to keep Gonzalez in one position. He played all three outfield spots with aplomb early in his Rockies career, but he has dealt with nagging injuries. Also, in 2011, his versatility likely cost him a Gold Glove. It was the first year the awards were position-specific, instead of going to three outfielders.
However, the decision eliminates what could have been a dramatic race between Gonzalez, who won last year's National League Gold Glove Award for left field, and the Pirates' Andrew McCutchen, who won it in center.
Gonzalez is coming off a sprained ligament on his right middle finger, which curtailed his power in the second half of the season. Any decision that trims Gonzalez's injury risk, Weiss figures, is a good one.


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A while ago, I had a bowl of pork noodle at New Seaview and was unimpressed with the food there. With my insatiable hunger for pork noodles, I decided to dig around some food blogs for better alternatives. One of the names which came up in those blogs was Restoran Ah Or located at Dataran Mentari.
The auntie who operate this stall was very friendly. In fact, she doesn't even mind that I took her picture up close. According to her, her family is running a string of popular pork noodle shops around Klang Valley. Hence, it was no surprise that the popularity of their pork noodle was evident from the number of people eating at her shop during lunch hours.
The pork noodle was seen cooking inside a big hot pot.
A good yardstick to determine how good a bowl of pork noodle is the soup. Here, the soup was really tasty and full of porky taste. It was sweet and flavoursome. Even my colleagues agreed with me hands down.
I always like my pork noodle (RM 5.70) to be cooked with Hor Fun as the noodle is smooth and soft.
Customers have a choice to to add an egg into their pork noodle which costs RM 1 extra.
Intestine and pork meat are vital ingredients that give the 'ummph' in a bowl of pork noodle.
The inclusion of a huge chunk of pork was a bonus. It was certainly the biggest chunk of meat I had for a bowl of pork noodle.
Overall, I would highly recommend this place. Not only was the food delicious, the restaurant was also clean (albeit a bit hot due to the scorching afternoon weather). If you love pork noodle, you will enjoy the food here. Although it is more expensive than the pork noodle at Restoran Ten-Tien Fatt, the taste was certainly on par with it.
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The miracles of autumn
Fall is upon us. The September equinox occurs Sept. 22. In the past few days, I have observed splashes of yellow and orange color making its appearance around the Vail Valley. During the active summer months, our local farmers markets have gifted us with farm-fresh fruits and vegetables. These foods have helped to detoxify the body and supply energy during the warm summer months. Many of us have home and community gardens, which await the cold-weather vegetables to emerge. Now is a great time to stock up on the last of the summer produce. Freeze or can fruits and vegetables to be enjoyed throughout the next several months.Nutrition plays an important role in promoting our overall wellbeing. Our brains get smarter, bodies get slimmer, hearts get healthier, just to name a few benefits. During the warm months, I enjoy fresh, raw food and green protein drinks. Even though the days are staying warm, I am adding warming soups and fall vegetables such as squash and pumpkin. In the mountains, I find myself eating more grains and proteins during the fall and winter months. I do not eat red meat as a rule. However, my son-in-law provides fresh elk meat each fall. If your kitchen has been stocked with fresh whole foods, you are well on your way to vibrant autumn health.Take a day trip to Paonia, enjoy fall colors and bring home scrumptious apples and apple cider. Our family took a convertible ride to Paonia last weekend. Delicious Orchards has a variety of apples; there are Jonathan, Jonagold, Macintosh and Honey Crisp. We got baskets and walked through the orchard to pick our own. My nine-year-old granddaughter, Jadyn, enjoyed every minute of our wonderful fall outing. If you had more vitality, better health, a more positive outlook and an improved immune system, wouldn't you feel differently about yourself? Exercising boosts our cognitive abilities and our brain can grow new cells. We prevent joint pain and arthritis, osteoporosis, Type 2 Diabetes and heart disease. Colorado is blessed with activities we can choose to participate in year-round. Fall allows us to bike, hike and run outdoors in cooler temperatures. Recently, I stepped into a yoga class and afterwards, took a cooling saltwater swim at The Westin Resort in Avon. The choices are endless. Activity helps us prepare for skiing, skating and winter fun.The days are getting shorter in the northern hemisphere. Daylight is later and sunset earlier. Adjusting our sleep patterns in the fall is essential for our wellbeing. Dr. Eve Van Cauter at the University of Chicago found that chronic sleep deprivation – defined as 6-and-a-half hours or less of sleep per night or less – has the same effect on insulin resistance as aging. Along with poor diet, a sedentary lifestyle, aging and chronic stress, lack of sleep is a risk factor for Type 2 Diabetes and obesity. Some tips for a good night of sleep include:• Avoid bedtime snacks, particularly grains, sugar, caffeine, liquor, high fat or spicy meals; these will raise blood sugar levels, stimulate digestion and make sleep difficult.• Eat foods that enhance serotonin levels such as salmon, hummus and baked tempeh.• Do not watch television or work in bed. Read inspirational literature for a few minutes before bed. For sound sleep, keep your bedroom dark. Keep all electrical devices turned off or away from your bed.• Try to reduce or avoid as many drugs as possible, which may affect sleep. There are a variety of herbs for a sound sleep such as melatonin, lavender, chamomile, hops and valerian root.Autumn greets us with gold aspen leaves, sweaters and boots, children back in school, crisp mornings, more stillness and inward focus. We are blessed to be living in a beautiful area. Take time to enjoy this season.Eagle resident Cynthia Olsen has authored and published books on natural health since 1990. She founded Kali Press, an independent publishing company, in 1989. Olsen's new book, "Looking Up: Seven Steps for a Healthy & Youthful Midlife and Beyond," is available at The Bookworm of Edwards. Visit http://www.kalipress.com to learn more.
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Vail, Beaver Creek opening more terrain, hoping for full season
A Nov. 30 to Governor Polis and the Eagle County Commissioners from Beaver Creek Resorts Company – as well as the towns of Vail, Avon, Eagle and Minturn – requests a variance program which would allow businesses to remain open.


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Major country music star gives free concert tonight in Greenville
Country star Blake Shelton is giving a free concert in Greenville tonight.
Blind Horse Saloon manager Nick Land confirms Shelton will have a concert at 8 p.m.
Doors open at 6 p.m.
Admission is first-come, first-served.
The building holds 2,000 people.
As of 2:30 p.m., Land said there were about 100 people in line.
Land said the saloon has known about the concert for a while, but could not release the information before today.
Shelton is a coach on NBC's hit show "The Voice".
"The Voice" has set its schedule for the coming season, which starts March 25, goes into "knockout" rounds on April 30 and wraps up with a winner being crowned on June 18.
Two-hour editions of "The Voice" will air on April 30 and May 7 before a special Wednesday edition on May 8 will unveil the top 12.
As in previous years, the show breaks down into four stages: blind auditions, battle rounds, the knockouts and the live performance shows. The TV audience determines which two singers go home each week during the live rounds.
Besides Shelton, Adam Levine returns as a coach, with two rookies -- Usher and Shakira -- taking the place of Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green in the big red chairs.


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