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Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has a way with words — and without words. Two of the most powerful moments in "Appropriate," Jacob-Jenkins' provocative new play at Victory Gardens Theater, are delivered without dialogue. A child silently descending a staircase punctuates the end of the first act with an exclamation mark. The final moment of the play doesn't even involve an actor but simply the interior of a house, fast-forwarding through its future.
Indeed, that house interior serves as a formidable character in a play filled with formidable characters. As theatergoers enter, that set — the living room of an older house, its sofa and chairs barely visible beneath heaps of rumpled clothing and linens, its windows nearly opaque with grime — tells a story all on its own. Empty bins, books piled on the floor, stacks of junk — all suggest a home in such daunting disarray that any attempt at sorting seems futile. Credit set designer Yu Shibigaki for setting the scene for the harrowing — and surprisingly funny — drama that will evolve out of the mess.
Receiving its co-world premiere at Victory Gardens (shared with Actors Theatre of Louisville), "Appropriate" benefits from the synergy between an inventive script from an emerging playwright, a talented, energetic cast and director Gary Griffin's nuanced orchestration of the whole. This must-see production pulls us into the dysfunctional family at its heart from the get-go.
Vying for the title of most dysfunctional is Toni, the eldest of three siblings reunited — more like stuck back together against their will — after the death of their father. She has arrived first at the decaying former plantation home in southeast Arkansas to prepare the house for auction. Kirsten Fitzgerald's fierce portrayal of Toni is a tour de force that pulls us into the very pores of the character and allows us to see how the character sees herself. Anyone who has been unfairly labeled by family members will soon be rooting for her, despite her whopping shortcomings. Alex Stage is convincing as Toni's troubled teenaged son Rhys.
We soon realize that Toni is not the most dysfunctional member of the family. That prize probably goes to the youngest brother, Franz aka Frank, the black sheep of this charcoal gray herd. Stef Tovar captures Franz's inner conflict with nervous gestures and a quavering voice that he must still if he is to succeed in presenting himself to others the way he wants to be perceived, a task that he pursues with the stubbornness of Sisyphus. Leah Karpel as Frank/Franz's young girlfriend River — they have both renamed themselves in an attempt to erase the damage of their past — plays off Tovar like a shot of seltzer in a bitter beverage.
Being the middle child does not keep brother Bo (Keith Kupferer in a mordant turn) from being bossy as he sweeps in from his upper middle class life in New York City with his family in tow: "Raising a kid in New York is a Ponzi scheme," Bo proclaims at one point, bemoaning the challenges of his expensive lifestyle while patting himself on the back for lending financial support as his father declined. Cheryl Graeff plays Bo's wife Rachael; Jennifer Baker plays teenaged Cassidy; youngsters Theo Moss and Mark Page share the role of Ainsley. All are solid in their roles.
One of the elephants in the room is that all the characters are white. The playwright is African American, from a privileged background. His mother was one of the first black women to graduate from Harvard Law School, and Jacobs-Jenkins did his undergraduate work at Princeton. "Appropriate" is one long, engaging conversation about race and racism — as well as about political correctness, anti-Semitism, class warfare, addiction and family dynamics.
The play's title has layers of meaning, from delineating what sort of behavior can pass as appropriate to what's an appropriate way to deal with others while protecting one's own interests. But it is also about appropriation, about taking what one may or may not have a claim to. It would be inappropriate to miss it.
Through Dec. 8, 2013
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
2433 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago (free parking in the former Children's Hospital garage)
Tickets $20 – $50 at (773) 871-3000 or Victory Gardens or email: [email protected]
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bigdigits program described next reads a number entered on the command line (as a string), and outputs the same number onto the console using "big" digits. Back in the twentieth century, at sites where lots of users shared a high-speed line printer, it was common practice for each user's print job to be preceded by a cover page that showed some identifying details such as the username and the name of the file being printed, using this kind of technique.
I'll review the code in three parts: first the imports, then the static data, and then the processing. But right now, let's look at a sample run to get a feel for how it works:
$ ./bigdigits 290175493
Each digit is represented by a slice of strings, with all the digits together represented by a slice of slices of strings. Before looking at the data, here is how we could declare and initialize single-dimensional slices of strings and numbers:
longWeekend := []string{"Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday", "Monday"} var lowPrimes = []int{2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19}
Slices have the
form []Type, and if we want to initialize them we can immediately follow with a brace-delimited, comma-separated list of elements of the corresponding type. We could have used the same variable declaration syntax for both, but have used a longer form for the
lowPrimes slice to show the syntactic difference and for a reason that will be explained in a moment. Since a slice's
Type can itself be a slice type we can easily create multidimensional collections (slices of slices, etc.).
bigdigits program needs to import only four packages.
import ( "fmt" "log" "os" "path/filepath" )
fmt package provides functions for formatting text and for reading formatted text. The
log package provides logging functions. The
os package provides platform-independent operating-system variables and functions including the
os.Args variable of type
[]string (slice of strings) that holds the command-line arguments. And the
path package's
filepath package provides functions for manipulating filenames and paths that work across platforms. Note that for packages that are logically inside other packages, we only specify the last component of their name (in this case
filepath) when accessing them in our code.
For the
bigdigits program we need two-dimensional data (a slice of slices of strings). Here is how we have created it, with the strings for digit 0 laid out to illustrate how a digit's strings correspond to rows in the output, and with the strings for digits 3 to 8 elided.
var bigDigits = [][]string{ {" 000 ", " 0 0 ", "0 0", "0 0", "0 0", "0 0", " 000 "}, {" 1 ", "11 ", " 1 ", " 1 ", " 1 ", " 1 ", "111"}, {"222","2 2"," 2"," 2 ","2 ","2 ","22222"}, // ... 3 to 8 ... {" 9999", "9 9", "9 9", " 9999", " 9", " 9", " 9"}, }
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:= operator, but we can get the same effect using the long declaration form (with keyword var) and the assignment operator
(=) as we have done here for the
bigDigits variable (and did earlier for the
lowPrimes variable). We still don't need to specify
bigDigits' type since Go can deduce that from the assignment.
We leave the bean counting to the Go compiler, so there is no need to specify the dimensions of the slice of slices. One of Go's many conveniences is its excellent support for composite literals using braces, so we don't have to declare a data variable in one place and populate it with data in another.
main() function that reads the command line and uses the data to produce the output is only 20 lines.
func main() { if len(os.Args) == 1 { fmt.Printf("usage: %s <whole-number>\n", filepath.Base(os.Args[0])) os.Exit(1) } stringOfDigits := os.Args[1] for row := range bigDigits[0] { line := "" for column := range stringOfDigits { digit := stringOfDigits[column] - '0' if 0 <= digit && digit <= 9 { line += bigDigits[digit][row] + " " } else { log.Fatal("invalid whole number") } } fmt.Println(line) } }


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Dec. 6. Unit block W. Hampton Road. Complainant was informed by police that neighbor made 911 call reporting that an unknown person was smashing out passenger side front window of a 2010 Lexus LX350. Offender, black male, tall, 26 – 30 years old, wearing a ¾ length coat. Reported at 3:17 a.m.
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Dec. 8. Unit block E. Chestnut Hill Avenue. Complainant states that following Mass, several items that had been donated to the church had been stolen. Taken were three gift cards, certificates from Acme, two digital Nike cameras, a gift certificate from Hollister Aeropostale, Barnes & Noble, Gamestop, Walmart and Toys R Us. Reported at 12 a.m.
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June 1, 2004, 04:27 AM »
The box sure is purdy.
These sets interest me as much as toast does right now... And I'm not particularly hungry.
Just for clarification, I may nab the ROTJ set if it's a fair price because the Emperor I actually never saw in stoores. I'd take it for him and the stormie (only the stormie justifies buying it).
New figures would be cool... Kitbashes I mean, not "new", but I guess the only thing there is they probably feel they're doing a serivce to collectors by straight reissuing things. Of course, the OTC line's got a lot of not-so-straight-reissues in it... repaints, touch-ups, some fixes...
I think Hasbro looks at collectors and they refuse to acknowledge completists. They assume you'll just not buy it.
My completist ways are dying, seriously. I'm to the point I simply don't have the room for piles of **** I don't want. As it stands, I'm replacingn crappy POTF2 figures routinely with new better versions.
I like that, don't get me wrong, but these multi-packs and things would leave me with doubles and triples of figures I already despise.
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June 1, 2004, 09:56 AM »
I don't mind these sets too much, especially if they were the only "re-releases" we were getting this year. I might pick these up (depending on price/availability), even though I already have the figures. I'll probably just leave them boxed up (rare for me). I agree with what Scott mentioned earlier, I think many of us would be pretty happy if they just kitbashed together a few figures for us, replacing a re-release here and there. Between the OTC, glass sets, TRU Box sets, and now the DVD sets, I think we have seen enough of figures like POTJ Ben, CTC Han, etc. Like I said, if they would have limited the re-releasing to things like these promotional DVD sets, I wouldn't have minded much at all. I probably would have even though they were neat, but since we're already bombarded with so much recarding and rereleasing, it makes it harder to stomach. I am a loose collector, but really, really like the upcoming OTC cards and was thinking about buying many figures I already have, but I'm not so sure anymore. Hasbro may have gone to the recarding well one too many times now
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June 1, 2004, 10:01 AM »
Hey how about another kick in the groin...instead of the pretty cool Cloud City Chewie, we'll give you the slightly inferior Mechanic Chewie that's been rereleased ad naseum for a while now
Seriously...the decisions being made on this line right now is enough for me to say enough, I'm through with you idiots
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June 1, 2004, 10:04 AM »
Agreed about the Chewie Scott, don't know why they couldn't stick in the Cloud City one which everyone pretty much seems to like the best (and we're already seeing Mechanic Chewie elsewhere anyways).
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June 1, 2004, 10:14 AM »
That's all of these sets...hell why not give Luke a Poncho, repaint OTC Spirit Ben, Repack MMC C-3PO and R2 w/ Holo Leia
The ESB one couldn't be much worse for what they chose for figures (sans the CLoud City Chewie thing)
ROTJ is fine too, I just am sick of seeing that Vader and they could just have easily put in Luke and Leia Endor and some Repainted Ewoks or something
It's asinine
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June 1, 2004, 10:19 AM »
Man, this is a whiney thread...Guys, listen up...These Are Not For Us! They are for new kids coming to Star Wars who have never, ever, ever bought a SW product before. Yes, people like that exist. Not everyone is like us.
Personally, I think these are nice sets. Will I buy them? No. I'm a loose collector. In fact, I think hasbro made a good decision to only include old figures. We would all be totally p*ssed off if there was a new one in there with other old figs.
Anyway, I aslo see these as products that will see in non-toy specific retail places like Blockbuster or Suncoast, or even Best Buy. They are sets that are made to be displayed along side the DVDs.
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June 1, 2004, 10:30 AM »
I totally understand who these are aimed at, but my point has been all along, isn't that what the OTC is aimed at too. Again why not just make the VOTC is larger numbers so everyone can have one and call it good, that way you can put out some of the most amazing figures in SW history in every little Johnny and Susies hands who wants one, keep your core purchasing group happy and keep moving product
This way they are taking a huge risk that there will be more new collectors based on DVD's being released! How many new collectors did Shadows of the Empire or Clone Wars bring in. I've been seeing the same Cartoon figures at Target for 4 months now, the Clone Wars regular figs were clearance before Christmas.
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June 1, 2004, 11:23 AM »
I agree about the OTC madness.
IF Hasbro's intent was to get figures into the hands of "new" collectors, then why not offer a VARIETY? They are cranking out re-packs, which I know they need to do to cut cost, bring in new collectors, etc, but why THE SAME figures over and over? Why not mix in some new/different figures/repacks?
If it truly is Hasbro's desire to bring in new "collectors", couldn't the same effect be achieved by presenting a brand new Luke, Obi-Wan, R2 and 3PO in a box? Why, do we need to see re-packs in order to bring in new collectors? If they are "new" to collecting, they don't know that they are missing these figures, do they?
A box set of a brand new Luke, Ben, R2, and 3PO would bring in new collectors AND many of the old ones too, right?
There is only ONE answer for re-using old figures - CHEAP. Cash savings. Easy money. No development cost, only manufacturing cost. CHEAP. That's why we get re-packs instead of new figures. All this "we want to bring in new collectors" crap is exactly that: crap.
If they truly want to sell these new collectors figures, then maybe they should offer those new collectors a VARIETY of figures to choose from? It doesn't make sense to keep repacking the same ones?
If I were a new collector, introduced to the figures through the DVD sets, I'd automatically skip at least 6 of the 38 OTC figures (Vader, Chewie, R2, 3PO, Ben, Stormtrooper), because I'd already have them! Wouldn't it have been in Hasbro's best interest not to repeat these repack figures? Wouldn't they have sold more (cheap) repack figures if they had mixed up the variety a little?
That is my biggest problem with the OTC repack madness. Why re-use figures over and over when, with just a minimum of effort in re-painting existing molds, things could have been improved?
The Endor set could have been better with generic Ewoks, the OTC carded line could have been better with different Repack choices to avoid repeating any figure released in the last year and/or figures in box sets like the Target cup sets, the TRU multipacks, the DVD box sets, etc.
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Also...this was supposed to be th rebirth of POTJ...great new figures of never before done characters. And I have not one complaint about the first 6-7 months of 2004. The rest so far is a waste of time when we could have been getting some of the long requested (Hermi Odle, Yarna, Hem Dazon, R5 resculpt, Padme Handmaiden) etc etc
I come back to time and time again, they had to have had OT characters and sculpts on the drawing board at the time the DVD's were announced. Everything past the Bespin wave was PT related? And if it was why not speed up some of those figures to get them out for the big release
Anyone notice how less and less they have interacted with the community since its heyday in 1999? The "team" wasn't at Toy Fair, they don't seem to be responding to the websites and from the people I have talked to, they don't seem to be talking to anyone right now other than official announcements through their website
I look at the packaging and say it's neat but I also think these packs could have been the OTC and the OTC could have been:
Hem Dazon
Feltipern Trevagg
Bom Vimdin
Obi-Wan Spirit Repaint
Major Bren Derlin
Torryn Farr
Hobbie Klivian
General Veers
Hermi Odle
Yarna D'al Gargan
Klaatu (Jaaba's Palace)
Leia Boussh Resculpt
Anyone think these figures will for sure be coming in the next 3 years? I see the whole OTC first and foremost as a wasted opportunity.
Jeff hammers home the point, they are losing so much money on the line right now that they are having to cut every corner to get to Episode III and the
windfall that might exist. That is until they overproduce and put out preposed action feature laden crap again and have to dump the overstock to try and turn a small profit if they can
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June 2, 2004, 04:28 AM »
I'd like to take this opportunity to remind Hasbro that
SOTE Chewbacca Snoova Disguise
can easily be repackaged as an
Episode 3 Sneak Preview Wookiee Warrior
I can't believe kids haven't had the chance to own a wookiee with a flattop since 1997. [sarcasm]
You guys nailed my feelings about the course of OTC perfectly. So, sorry in advance for my rant, as it probably has nothing new to offer:
Seriously, yes, I suppose we are sounding whiney, but I personally believe weve reached a point where we, collectively, have more practical experience with the SW toy marketplace than anyone at Hasbro does. We all understand that this line isnt for us folks, its for a hypothetical new market coming to the trilogy for the first time. We all see the reason to do this.
Fine, repack figures, but be responsible about it. Weigh the impact on the line past the 3 month DVD sales window and be a tiny bit conservative in your expectations. How many times have they anticipated a giant resurgence of demand, only to be burned? The SE figures, like the ASP Droid? Episode 1? Saga 02? Demand is fleeting. It always has been in the modern era. I totally agree with the idea that pushing the VOTC figures in greater scale would have been the way to go. Theres not enough demand for the amount of variants on the OT theme they are pushing.
Sure, theyll sell to the completists like me for a little while, and the tiny market that the release of these TWENTY-FIVE year old movies generates. The rest is going to clog shelves, again. Dont throw out 30+ recarded figures, and then repeat those figures through multiple exclusive outlets in different packaging, while at the same time offering new figures. And on and on we could go
Everyone in here has suggested much better strategies that benefit both new and old collectors a hell of a lot more than what theyre doing. And this is without the benefit of knowing whats coming down the pipeline months later.
Im really pissed that what theyre doing this fall. Id want every one of those figures OCB listed, and Id happily take them on the OTC cards. We were headed down a great path at the start of 04. Im thoroughly convinced that the glut of rehashed product in the fall is going to completely jeopardize all that work. What a pisser.
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June 2, 2004, 09:49 AM »
The one phrase that keeps coming back to my mind these last few days is "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." How this applies to this situation is that Hasbro has simply not learned from its mistakes. They have done this endless recarding before, and it ended up very badly and killed any momentum the line had at that time with retailers. Only Episode I, believe it or not, saved the SW line.
What I'm referring to is the Freeze Frame line. Very nice concept, but executed badly. Yes, they released a wave of new figures on a regular basis, but mixed in with these new figures were a veritable truckload of older figures who hadn't been all that difficult to find in the first place, on new cards. It had nothing to do with keeping popular characters out there for fans or newcomers; it had more to do with milking the completist carded collectors for all they were worth. And it backfired.
Probably the best/worst shining example of this was the rerelease of a Collection 3 case with nothing but older figures. Never mind the fact that they had just released the first Removable Helmet Vader in an earlier case assortment not more than a month earlier; they had to release a whole case of figures nobody had any trouble finding at all in their previous incarnations (Tarkin, TIE Pilot, Stormie), ignoring the previous wave with the RH Vader, and when it came time for the second wave of Collection 3 figures that were new, they were impossible to find (Ree Yees and DST). All because of Hasbro's desire to cut corners and "maximize their profits."
The fact that they were releasing waves of figures with one new figure (usually packed at 2 per case) like the Ugnaughts or 8D8 wasn't helping either, because it was getting 2 new figures and 14 old figures on the shelf. I don't think I need to explain which ones didn't sell. It was also the FF line that necessitated the ridiculous clearance sales that fall (2 dollars a figure with those little stickers). I have never seen a Wal*Mart so overrun with figures as I did that fall, and it was all the same figures. Nothing new.
And then that winter, after a whole load of relative hype, Hasbro released the Expanded Universe line at the tail end of the FF series. Was there anyone here who had an easy time finding any of these, particularly the Darktrooper and Spacetrooper? Then the last wave (the Hoth Leia wave) wasn't even released to retail because after the clearance disaster, retailers pretty much told Hasbro "NO MORE." They had to seek out alternative outlets because they had burned the retailers so badly with endless repacks.
This is all going to happen again. Out of 38 regular carded figures, there are arguably 7 new figures, two repaints (Hoth Vader and Bespin Luke), and 29 repacks. I don't care what Hasbro says: this line is NOT going to get new people to start buying figures because of the DVDs. People are going to buy the DVDs and that is it. Given the fact that the electronics section and the toy section are a good distance away from each other in most retailers, people are going to buy the DVDs and that's all, not even giving the toy section a second thought. They're basing their entire product offering (and a vast amount of their products themselves) on the assumption that new people will buy things, when in reality, this will be a very small portion of the buying population. They should know this by now, but they obviously prefer to live in their ivory tower and develop new ways to package POTJ Obi-Wan and CTC Han than put money into developing toys that people actually want to buy.
Get ready folks, it's going to be 1998 all over again, if not worse.
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June 2, 2004, 10:12 AM »
Wow didn't even think about that one Doc but you are pretty much spot on, with the only exception that these are supposedly HOF versions that might appeal a little bit better than 1000 Malikilis that were at Target for 4 months. True there were some main characters in there as well
It is almost as baffling as it was then...I know that I scooped up bags full of FF's from Target for customizing, 20 R2's, 10 Ewok packs, ERG's etc
I think the same thing might be happening here
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At this point, I barely even care. I've seen enough special repacks to know I don't want 'em. I do give them some credit for finally reusing the beautifully sculpted Bespin Capture Han Solo, but I guess I take the credit immediately away by seeing they're trying to reuse last year's horribly botched Emperor.
As for OTC repeating the mistakes of the FreezeFrame year, I've been worried about that since I first saw the line-up.
I keep thinking hopefully Wal*Mart/Target/TRU will set up large sections for the figures again this fall (they'd almost have to, what with the vehicles.) I also keep hoping the figure space gets divided equally between the vOTC and OTC figures. At least then we'll have a sporting chance to find the 15 or so hits among the 50 or so clunkers. If not, well, history tells me I can always wait till 2006 when these all float back out at a dollar each clearance.
In the end, do I buy the premise that more kids will be looking for the toys based on the DVDs? No, I think the only time that has panned out was the original 1995 figures coming out at the time of the "new" VHS versions, and then it only worked because no one had sold Star Wars toys for ten years prior.
Your action figures want to live in the Cardboard Galaxy!
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Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of modern tonal music as well as film music. Copland's music achieved a difficult balance between simple and effective composition. His often slow harmonies were near motionless recalling the vast American landscape. He incorporated percussive orchestration, changing meter, polyrhythms, polychords and tone rows. Outside of composing, Copland often served as a teacher and lecturer. During his career he also wrote books, articles and served as a conductor.
Copland born in Brooklyn, New York. Of Russian Jewish descent, he spent his childhood living above his parents' Brooklyn shop. Although his parents never encouraged or directly exposed him to music, at age fifteen he had already taken an interest in the subject and aspired to be a composer. His music education included time with Leopold Wolfsohn and Rubin Goldmark, also one of George Gershwin's teachers, and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1921.
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Many composers rejected the notion of writing music for the elite during the depression, thus the common American folklore served as the basis for his work along with revival hymns, cowboy and folk songs. Copland's second (vernacular) period began around 1936 with Billy the Kid and El Salon Mexico. Perhaps Copland's most famous work, Fanfare for the Common Man, scored for brass and percussion was written in 1942 at the request of the conductor Eugene Goossens. The fanfare was also used as the main theme of the fourth movement of Copland's Third Symphony. The same year Copland wrote Lincoln Portrait which became popular with a larger amount of the public leading to a strengthing of his association with American music. He was commissioned to write a ballet, Appalachian Spring, which later he arranged as a popular orchestra suite.
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Having defended the Communist Party USA during the 1936 presidential election, Copland was investigated by the FBI during the red scare of the 1950s. In 1953, his music was pulled from President Eisenhower's inaugural concert due to the political climate; that same year Copland testified before U.S. Congress that he was never a Communist. The investigation went inactive in 1955 and was closed in 1975. Copland's membership in the party was never proven.
Aaron Copland died in his home in Peekskill, New York.
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I'm convinced that Rajon Rondo is the first guy off the second tier instead of the last guy off the first. He shot 1-for-10 last night, he's shooting .377 this month, turning the ball over nearly five times a game, and bricks almost half his free throws. Yeah, yeah, I know all about those assists and steals. It isn't worth it at a premium price. Remember that when you're keeping and drafting for next year. Or just hope that August Adam remembers and that you read it here then.
Here's what else I saw last night in fantasy basketball:
Kendrick Perkins – Returned to play his first 20 minutes with the Thunder, ending with 6/9/2. Add in a block or two, this is what you should expect for the next three weeks.
Daequan Cook – Scored 18 hot-handed points, as he went 6-for-9 from the field, all nine of which came from behind the arc. Or ark if you're into animal pairs. I've written about Cook fewer than fie times this year, mostly because I can't swear he's played in more than five games this year. Cook's roll is so minimal on the Thunder, I thought he played for the Bobcats.
Serge Ibaka – Thirty-three blocks in his last seven games. If you own him, congratulations on having defeated your opponent already this week. If you don't own him and your team is facing the team that does own him … punt blocks.
Trevor Booker – 14/13, with two blocks in 41 minutes. He's started the last two, playing well and owned in fewer than 10 percent of fantasy leagues. Now is the time to go with hot hands and guys playing a lot of minutes. Relatively speaking he's the former and literally speaking, he's also the latter. Also, he's arguably one of the two best Trevors in the league.
Nick Young – Shooting .384 this month. When a fantasy player's total worth rests on his jump shot and his jump shot leaves him in the dust … so should you.
Deron Williams – Returned after a week off due to the birth of his child. Speaking of new birth: the Nets beat the Celtics! Suck a thumb, snitches! His wrist is still hurting, but not as bad as your fantasy team without him. Full speed ahead.
Chris Paul – Speaking of elite point guards (or writing about an allusion, as it were), CPTrois dropped a 27/5/10/7 steal-line on the Nuggets after a slow start.
Blake Griffin – 8/9, not his best effort. None of the last four games have been his best effort. The player with the league's second-highest number of double-doubles this season has rebounded 7, 9, 5, 9 in his last four. Disgustingly, this counts as his rookie wall.
Aaron Brooks – Kyle Lowry got flummoxed playing against his old scrimmage mate and turned the ball over a half-dozen times. Brooks got flummoxed at the thought that he was gift-wrapped an opportunity to carve out some playing time and shot 1-for-9 in 21 minutes. So, that's that. Welcome back, Steve.
Jrue Holiday – If he's available, grab Louis Williams while Holiday continues his drought. Screwy Louis has averaged 15.3/3.3 during the same three-game span Holiday has averaged 6.3/4. Jrue story – literally! As any pair of sisters will tell you, it's comforting when ebbs and flows coincide with one another.
Al Jefferson – 30/17/6, with two blocks. He's playing mad. No Jerry. No Deron. No Paul. He's averaging four more points, two more rebounds and an extra assist and a half-block per game more than he has in any other month and no one is talking about it. Besides me, but I don't count. And people from Utah. They're probably talking about it. They don't count either.
Devin Harris – Left the game with a hamstring injury. Then returned, making it a shamstring injury. But then he left again. So who knows. Shizz is too important for the already undermanned Jazz. Unless his injury is crippling, he'll play in the next game.
David Lee – Really kinda blows this season. Never got into a groove, doesn't move as quickly as he needs to. Has a rotting elbow. You know, stuff.
Marcus Thornton – A career-high 42 points. "Did you know he could do that?" – Monty Williams. Yes, Monty. Yes, we all knew he could do that.
Francisco Garcia – 13/4/6, with a pair of steals and blocks each. I don't expect it to last (we've danced this dance with him before), but he's playing well. Three games of this is better than no games of this.
Dwight Howard – Nine turnovers, Dwight!?! 6-for-11 from the line, Dwight!?! If getting boogeyed by the Lakers is wrong, I don't wanna be Dwight.
Ty Lawson – 23/10 in 36 minutes. He's this team's starting PG and clearly beat out Raymond Felton.
Raymond Felton – 22/12 in 42 minutes. HaHA, jerks. George Karl's playing them tandemly in heavy minutes, Felton at the "two." Eat it Spellcheck Afflalo and Earl! La-hoo, zah-hers!
J.R. Smith – 18 points, with five threes. You eat it, Razzhole! I gots mine. So you did, J.R. My apologies. I can only assume when Afflalo returns, he'll somehow fit in 30 points a game and the Nuggets will just blow every team out by 50.
Gary Forbes – Gary Forbes here. Seems I'm the odd-man-out, despite starting at SG. I played less than six minutes and have little else to show for it other than a little bit of bloat from drinking too much Gatorade without running around.


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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Old Time Doc
Clueless at the time, when I applied to medical school I sort of imagined myself one day making house calls, good ol' Doc Schwab, paid in chickens and pies, smiles and blackberry jam. There I'd be, delivering babies on kitchen tables, patchin' up Old Lady Jones's leg on the sofa, shaking out thermometers and feeling foreheads.
One of my roommates in med school was the son of such a doctor, although instead of clopping around with a horse and buggy, he raced across the back roads of Kentucky in an Aston Martin DB4, before James Bond ever thought of it. State cops would look the other way: Aincha gonna stop 'im Jess? Do whut now?...hail no, that thar's Doc Munger, heading t' th' McCoy homestead, I reckin'...
I liked the whole idea of it.
More so in the early days of my practice, when I had a little extra time on my hands, but to some degree throughout my entire career, I actually made house calls. As time became more precious, I had to be realistic: not too far out of the way, people with a simple problem for whom a trip to my office was especially difficult. Or, once in a while, a friend. But as a youngster there were a few times when I went quite out of the way, and spent a lot of time.
For example: I've always had mixed feelings about "the phone call." A woman is awaiting the news of a breast biopsy; I call her and note the stoppage of breath at the other end of the conversation. To defer by saying she should come in is to let her know but provide no support. To give the news over the phone is in some way heartless. So I'd split the difference by breaking the news as gently as I could, and inviting her in for an immediate consultation. But sometimes, early on, I reversed the equation and said, "How about if I come over and we can talk about it?"
One time, in my pre-gray-hair days, after I'd spent at least an hour at their home, my patient and her husband gushed at how much they appreciated the visit and my care to that point, but they'd be going to Seattle to be treated. Probably thought I looked too young. And hungry. Pissed me off.
Most of the time, my house calls were to a post-op patient, usually older, having a hard time getting around: quick check of a wound, a little debridement, change a bandage, remove or unclog a drain. I'd load up with a few tools, some tape and gauze and ointments; sometimes I stuffed them into my black doctor bag, for my own nostalgia more than anything else. Walking to the door, wondering what the neighbors thought, figuring they'd be jealous, their neighbor had a heck of a doctor there.
Always the visit was greatly appreciated, and generally met with amazement. Sometimes it was my own: finding out how my patients lived, in a trailer, in an unkempt crumbling home, in a fancy joint with all the options. And I'd learn about how they were able, or unable, to carry out the instructions I'd given them. Which led to a much more practical and pragmatic approach to what I'd tell people about after-care at home. Dispensing with certain residua of academe.
Once I got a call from a feisty old lady for whom I'd recently done a mastectomy: she was worried about her wound, or a drain, or something. To her obvious delight I'd said, "Well heck, I'm almost done here, how 'bout I swing by your place on the way home and have a look?" She answered the door buck naked from the waist up, her unoperated side of the enormous variety; responding to my undisguised surprise she said, "Hell, I figured you'd want to see it anyway, so why get dressed?" Her home was right on a main street. No screeching tires, far as I recall.
Making those decreasingly frequent but career-continuous house calls always made me feel good. The benefits were invariably mutual. Part of my medical school curriculum was the matching of every first-year student with a family in which the wife was pregnant. We followed her through pregnancy and delivery and were involved in the care of the baby. At least one home visit was a requirement, and we met in groups afterward to discuss what we'd found. Among others, the import was in learning that patients' illnesses are part of an entire life and not just the little slice of the day during which we see them.
All doctors -- and most especially surgeons, who typically send people home very significantly altered (if only, hopefully, for a short while) -- would be amazed by and learn from seeing their patients in their homes. It is, of course, completely impractical and nearly wholly impossible nowadays, which are very good reasons why it rarely if ever happens. Not to mention the occasional fright of seeing an old lady naked at her front door.
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- rlbates said...
I love those fiesty old ladies (hope to be one someday). I have made a couple of house calls over the years, but (thankfully) never been met at the door like this.
- egomosperficio said...
i think that's great, sid. of course, it makes me think of when i gave private music lessons in students' homes. i once showed up at one young ladies' house for a lesson and realized that her parents were out of town that week because she had decided to meet me at the door wearing nothing on top but a piece of lingerie.
did you ever have a patient misinterpret your motives when you offered to make a house call?
- Devorrah said...
It's my habit to make home visits to all my students before the first day of class for all the reasons you mentioned. There's just no substitute.
Au contraire! House calls and home-based practices are making a comeback.
You write so passionately and wistfully about this - maybe it's the next chapter for your practice?
- Sid Schwab said...
annie: yes, but it's sort of "either/or." Some set up their practices that way, but you can't have a traditional practice and do it. Plus, most of the new wave are premium-based, and for those who can afford to pay that premium. I never charged for a house call, but even if I had it would not come close to paying for itself at the going rates. (Nurses, actually, get more!)
"....but you can't have a traditional practice and do it"
That's ironic, isn't it, since house calls used to be the standard for traditional practice. I didn't realize that there was an organization for home visit-based physicians, but the FAQ is interesting.
What would be your vision of an ideal practice?
And just to be a gloom and doom purveyor, in the event of a flu pandemic, it'll be almost all home care and isolation/shelter in place. You could be REALLY ahead of the curve (hopefully not over the cliff)
Here's the modern day version for you Dr Schwab...
- Margaret Polaneczky, MD (aka TBTAM) said...
Unless gas prices come down, tooling around to patient's homes anywhere but in a 20 block radius in Brooklyn like our firend Jay Prkinson will be too costly.
- JP said...
My grandpa in Olympia just had surgery and received a house call from his (general?) surgeon when something-or-another wasn't draining properly. My whole extended family now knows this doctor's name. He holds lifetime hero status, as much for catching the close-call requiring surgery as for the house call that followed. I'm sure you hold hero status in many families, too.
My surgical career in Monterey/Pacific Grove CA could be superimposed upon Sid's in many ways, in particular, house calls. This essay is exactly my experience. I have talked to Sid about the joys of the house call and one thing he didn't say was that he (and I) never sent a bill.
My senior partner had a saying: "you make your friends in the office and at home, you make your money in the operating room."
Times have changed.


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Reading is a big deal at my house. Everywhere you look are stacks of books and it gives me so much happiness to see them there waiting for me. Likewise, my boys have hundreds of books for themselves. I've read to my niños every night since they were babies and taught them to read before they stepped a foot into school.
Left: My favorite Spanish alphabet book, "F is for Fiesta" by Susan Middleton Elya / Illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Without going into too much terminology, the method I used to teach my boys how to read employed the use of flash cards and what are referred to as "High Frequency Words" or "Sight Words". These are the most commonly used words in a language. By practicing with the flash cards, (showing the child the card and saying the word), they soon memorize it and learn to read it on "sight". (This is in addition to teaching them the alphabet and phonics first.)
This worked well for my kids and so, after practicing with them in the Silabarios, (Spanish phonics books), over the summer, I am now teaching them to read "High Frequency Words" in Spanish.
I made the flash cards and you can use them too. To download the PDF of the 175 most common words in Spanish for your niño go HERE. Once you've downloaded it, open the PDF in Adobe, print (I recommend using card stock, but regular printer paper works just fine.) – Cut them into individual cards and then they're ready to use!
"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!" – Betty Smith/A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


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Still just use the #include <mylib.h>, and the build will find them?
The problem is wiring isn't defined properly. It's not in the list of programmers. So it may have been done to fix a timing error, but introduced a bug with 100% failure rate. The stk500v2 simply works. When programmers.txt gets updated to define wiring, I'm sure it will fix everything. But until then, this is the only way to get it to work.
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On Monday, Daniel Smith, Wide Receiver from Clay High in South Bend, committed to Notre Dame and became the second player to do so for the 2010 class.
The 6′-4″ 205 pound Smith, didn't hesitate to jump on the opportunity to play for the Fighting Irish. Almost immediately after he was offered a scholarship, Smith scooped it up.
I'm a little late on the draw here so here are a few links that you should read if you haven't already…
Welcome to Notre Dame Daniel!!!
- Video announcement of his decision. (UHND)
- The Biscuit talks about the logic of Smith committing. (HLS)
I promised you guys this the other day, so I might as well put it on here. The following is the 2010 eligibility chart. Before you go crazy on my ass, I better explain a few things first.
- The senior column has all those that have that kind of eligibility. I'm not sure who from that column that will have a 5th year, will decide to come back or leave.
- Also, the freshman column is a little thin. This is because we still have to wait a while to find out which 2009 freshman will redshirt in 2009.


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It was a fun and engaging demonstration, but I have to admit that I never really felt confident about the connection (if there is one) between the social psych. principles and the contagiousness of itching. So I was happy to spot this article on the phenomenon: "You scratch, I scratch! The social contagion of itch."
This short article describes research about itch contagion and the brain biology that might explain why we itch when we see others scratch. The next time I do this demonstration, I'll do it in the bio unit I think, and I'll be much better informed.
image credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Itch_02.jpg
Blog post title is a quote from: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/12/10/you-scratch-i-scratch-the-social-contagion-of-itch/
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It's hard to believe until you witness the sheer power in the above video, but this full bodied vintage Rolls Royce is capable of a 8.09 second 1/4 mile. According to the builder, the car is still 100% street legal although it has slimmed down quite a bit to a 3050lb race weight. Helping move this British steel down the track is the twin 88mm turbo fed 588 ci big block Chevy engine that now resides under the car's hood.
Appropriately enough, this hot rod Rolls was built across the pond in England. Shown here is the first and only time the car has been on a track and the Rolls was running a conservative 17lbs of boost. The owner believes the engine has a potential for upwards of 2300hp that should be capable of pushing this example of British luxury well into the 7 second quarter mile range. After seeing what the car is already capable of, we don't doubt these claims for a second.


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Vegetarian High Tea, Horse Buggies for Narendra Modi's Swearing-In
As New Delhi prepares to welcome the country's 15th prime minister, here's a look at the pomp surrounding the swearing-in of incoming premier Narendra Modi.
Typically the ceremony takes place in a ballroom within the official presidential residence known as the Rashtrapati Bhavan, but Monday's events will be on a larger and grander scale.
At least 4,000 guests are expected to attend, including leaders from neighboring countries who were invited by Mr. Modi, whose Bharatiya Janata Party won elections by a landslide this month.
Leaders from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and a government representative from Bangladesh arrived at the nation's capital over the weekend and Monday.
The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, will lead the oath-taking ceremony for Mr. Modi and his cabinet ministers on a stage in the forecourt of the Bhavan.
"Preparations are in full swing," said Venu Rajamony, press secretary to Mr. Mukherjee.
With a nod to the dietary preferences of Mr. Modi, who doesn't eat meat, the evening's dishes will be mostly vegetarian. Snacks at high tea include sandwiches and pastries. Dinner will feature kebabs made from taro, tandoori potatoes, prawn stew and fried okra. For dessert, there will be a mango-flavored strained yoghurt dish known as a shrikhand, a popular summer staple from the western state of Gujarat where Mr. Modi served as chief minister.
Some guests are expected to arrive in horse-drawn carriages, according to local media reports. Bands from the Navy, Army and Air Force are expected to play before the start of the ceremony.
During the swearing-in ceremony, the incoming prime minister is invited to take an oath of office as well as an oath of secrecy – that he will not reveal any confidential information or state secrets.
The oaths can be taken in the name of the Indian constitution or any God -- owing to India's secular nature.
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Nationwide Series Banquet Highlights Nicely Done By ESPN
During the off-season, it has been mostly gloomy topics that have dominated the NASCAR scene. The ESPN2 telecast of the Nationwide Series banquet proved to be a pleasant distraction on Sunday afternoon.
Both the Nationwide and Truck Series have recently changed their banquet TV coverage to an old school "Tonight Show" format. On this telecast, it was Allen Bestwick behind the desk as the late Johnny Carson and Shannon Spake sitting to the side and doing her best Ed McMahon. Once again this year, it worked like a charm.
After watching the tightly-wound Bestwick all season on ESPN and ABC, it was a very different TV personality that viewers saw on Sunday. As each of the top ten drivers came over to the "set" to be interviewed, Bestwick related personal stories, teased them about off-track issues and asked each of them at least one hilarious question.
"You're a young guy," said Bestwick to runner-up Brad Keselowski. "Those of us who have been around for a while know that those who wear the Nomex (fire suits) tend to attract women. So, this been a good year for you?"
"Awwww man!" said Keselowksi blushing. "Well...it can always get better," he continued as the crowd roared. "Thanks for that one," Keselowski croaked.
This is "banquet lite TV" with little in the way of real content. It is basically a fast-paced whirl through the drivers with a musical performance along the way. Hardcore fans are once again going to be thrown off-guard, as this show simply skimmed the surface of the season and focused on quick conversations and a couple of brief speeches.
Shannon Spake was in good form and kept her questions to relevant topics. Some drivers talked about the season while others talked about family or real life events. Spake and Bestwick combined to offer a good mix of personalities in this highlights format.
Over the years, NASCAR has struggled to figure out how to translate the post-season festivities to TV. This highlight format basically assumes a small TV audience and is more an hour of conversation than anything else. One has the feeling that a collective "whew, that is over" can be heard as the teams head out for vacation.
This signals the official end of the Nationwide Series season and closes the ESPN coverage for the second year. Bestwick and Spake certainly did their best to keep the mood light and the TV program moving along. The TV schedule for the Truck and Sprint Cup Series banquets is located on the right side of the main page.
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- Anonymous said...
Television award's program have a history of dismal ratings. It does not matter if it's the Emmys, Oscars, Tonys, Grammys, etc. At most of these they usually have A-list celeberties honored, A-type entertainment, and A+ hosts--and they still can't get super ratings.
NASCAR does not have as big a following, so I think lite is good. I'm sure the familiy members and guests had a good time. I hope they all have a good off season.
- November 30, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- inkthatpaints said...
Marcos gets a free pass from Nascar due to a 'family commitment'. Kyle must've been fuming at the banquet. Talk about rubbing salt in the wounds.
- November 30, 2008 at 3:18 PM
- Vicky D said...
I always find award shows rather boring and unwatchable, although as I was scrolling through the tv channels noticed David Reutimann's interview which was ok, although he's still beating himself up. After that I couldn't help but change the channel.
- November 30, 2008 at 3:19 PM
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- November 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM
- Dot said...
I didn't watch the banquet because Marcos wasn't there. I can see the Cup drivers at their own banquet next week.
@ inkthatpaints, you took the words right off my keyboard.
- November 30, 2008 at 4:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
I had to look to see if I could find a reason why MA was excused from the NW banquet.
This was posted on MA's site on November 25th. It is from a press conference that was held "last weekend", which would have coincided with the Banquet.
Q: How long are you home for?
MA: Good question. Until they call me and they want me back.
My Grandad's not that well, my Dad's not that well, I've had my family over there in the US away from their parents and grandparents for too long so I'm excited to be home so I'm trying to make the most of it and it will be great.
So it seems that his reason for being excused was family. I think that is more important than a sponsor appearance. When you sign up to drive, you know the commitments. Unfortunately one can not control your family's health.
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- Daly Planet Editor said...
Sorry folks, our racists are back and having fun. They sure do have a lot of free time on their hands.
- November 30, 2008 at 5:18 PM
- Newracefan said...
The show was pretty good, AB and Shannon did a nice job. Reut got a decent amount of TV time and actually seemed to be having fun which is not the usual Reut interview. Brad presented himself well. Anybody else think Mike Bliss was a little confusing? Clint's speech was good, rehearsed but good. I wonder if he sat with AB and Shannon and we missed that part. At least the music didn't suck. Would have liked to hear everything everyone said but it will do. It's always good to see them having some fun.
- November 30, 2008 at 5:33 PM
- Sophia said...
I had NO CLUE this was on ...very disappointed I missed it.
Oh, well. No promotions on any site and Jayski's links don't seem to work half the time and I can't find the HUGE countdown to Daytona anymore.
Bummer. If it was posted here I certainly did not see it.
HOPEFULLY somebody will mention the TRUCKS banquet??
I am confused...did you turn OFF the comment moderation? I see several comments deleted....sorry if I am missing something.
- November 30, 2008 at 6:19 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
The schedule of all three banquets has been on both Jayki's site and mine for over a month. My listings are on the right-hand side.
The info on the Truck banquet on SPEED is also listed at that location.
We have tried to return several times to free posts, but unfortunately have one very immature individual who is having problems with the pretty simple to follow rules.
The comment moderation will stay on for a bit. He is one of those Internet trolls who will not email the webmaster but continues to try and express himself in the comments section. Not gonna happen.
- November 30, 2008 at 6:29 PM
- Sophia said...
thanks for the explanation. I have TRULY been in a fog and am embarrassed I never saw the link for the awards show HERE...sorry.
I still say when I click on a jayski link, it sometimes does not send me to ONE STORY but a page with tons of stuff...so, well, I obviously missed this show but not a big deal. I see the trucks listed and WILL catch that.
Sorry you have been so busy JD, and thank you for taking care of this place.
Oh, and I stumbled onto Raceline this morning, a little before noon. The guy does a WEEKLY show all winter long. JD did an article on him many months ago....I think he is Racelineonline or some such link. Those of you in NASCAR Withdrawal will want to check out the show. I just caught the last 10 minutes and hope to REMEMBER it's on next sunday at 11:30AM Sunday morning here in SW Ohio...some little station called CW. But I am sure you can look for your areas.
Hope it was ok to mention that JD since you mentioned the little show yourself. :-0
- November 30, 2008 at 6:54 PM
- Anonymous said...
I do like the "relaxed" feeling to allow everyone to just sit and speak. But with the hour (and I believe hour and a half for the Pick 'em Ups) format it still seems "rushed". By the time the guy sits down and gets comfortable, it's over. I hope they sat longer, but due to editing it seems they only had 2 minutes or so.
I did giggle when JD lost his speech!
@Vicky--yes that's why I record and FF through. I like this a bit more than Cup because of the more relaxed, in/out not constantly "reviewing" every last second of the season. I usually wait to "watch" Cup after reading what others post so I know if I should stop on a specific segment. I gave up on watching it live (well not live live...but ya know) after they had people hanging from the ceiling a few years ago. I know they said they'd never go back to that so we don't have to see that again, but really the majority of the Cup one regardless bores me.
@Robyn, thanks for posting about Marcos' situation, I hadn't been following my newsletters folder so was going to check to see if there was anything in there about it. It's hard enough when dealing with one family illness but two :(.
I did notice on the Cup wrap up show at the end they had their own "poet"...wonder if they'll keep him next year to "out do" SPEED?
Thanks JD for all you do! Sorry some people have to act like children and make more work for you :(.
- November 30, 2008 at 7:08 PM
- Unknown said...
I enjoyed the banquet from what I watched. I really only seen Brad K, David R, Carl and Clint. Also I watched the last half of Nationwide highlights this morning. I had no idea they were on tv, but it was a nice surprise. I thought the package was well put together, concise and to the point.
- November 30, 2008 at 11:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
hoist on my own patard again... With Shannon yet again shoving a mic in a drivers face to ask an inane question and Brian France the only human who can look rumpled and unkempt in a tuxedo were the bits I saw and just turned it off. I guess I will have to go back and watch the re-air if AB was that good.
- December 1, 2008 at 9:40 AM


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Although I treated my nephew to a haggis samosa over the weekend, I wanted him to try the real thing, no not the meat version, but the vegetarian version which apparently is much better than the traditional haggis; so I have been told. My nephew snug his nose, but said 'i'll eat whatever you feed me'. I had to convince him it was not something I ate everyday, just now and again. In fact the last time I had a similar meal was for Burns Night Supper.
Here was my humble attempt at celebrating St Andrews day: home-made Clapshot and Macsween of Edinburgh's vegetarian haggis.
Neeps and tatties are the traditional accompaniment to haggis, but I decided to make clapshot for a change. So what is clapshot? Clapshot is a Scottish dish similar to Northern Ireland's champ and also to colcannon. Clapshot differs by having the potatoes and turnips - called swede in England and Wales, and for short, neeps in Scotland, instead of the chosen green, whether its cabbage, leeks or spring onion.
Some of you may have read early in the year, that the origins of haggis have recently been disputed. There are records of a similar 'sausage' in Greek writings, according to the famous Scottish cook, Clarissa Dickson Wright the origins are more likely to be Scandinavian - a legacy of the Viking raids. However shrouded in mystery the history of the haggis may be, there is no disputing the fact that Robert Burns brought it into the limelight through his poem 'To a Haggis'.
Our Scottish meal was warming and comforting, and I am pleased to report that my nephew enjoyed it, though he did sprinkle a lot of black pepper on his clapshot.
For sweets, I was going to make a cranachan, I like the pinhead oatmeal texture, but decided it was too cold too, maybe next time. Next year I intend to make my own vegetarian haggis too.
Happy St Andrew's Day for those of you celebrating it.
Serves 6
500g potatoes, peeled and chopped
500g turnip (swede) peeled and chopped
50g butter
Put vegetables in two separate pots of cold salted water, then cover and bring to the boil. Simmer until the vegetables are tender. Return them to the pan, cover and shake the pan over a very low heat to dry them off completely. Then mash the vegetables together with the butter, season with salt and pepper.


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