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In 2008 I published in a private edition a book on the history of the Star of David, which was based on this blog (star of David album). Since then more material was added, so I found it necessary to release an updated online edition
In this format I can correct any mistake and continue to update
In this online edition, like in the printed book, each article appears exactly in its right place according to a chronological sequence of events - in difference from the blog where articles are organized by the date I uploaded them to the WWW
In this online edition, like in the printed book, each article appears exactly in its right place according to a chronological sequence of events - in difference from the blog where articles are organized by the date I uploaded them to the WWW
Under each picture there's my Hebrew text in the comment section. I hope that enthusiast readers will add their language translations in the comment section, or send me the translation to my email address and I'll add it myself
The main novelty of this site is visual, because till now researchers didn't publish pictures of such quality and such scope, and readers who wanted to see what the researchers relate to had to go to libraries to check each image separately
Here you can see each picture enlarged
Or see all the album as an automatic slide show
Or see the automatic slideshow with captions
Or see any picture on the entire screen with the option to navigate Next / Previous
2500 BCE Sumerian
1700 BCE Minoan Seals
1200 BCE Karkom Israel
9th century BCE - Meggido Israel
7th century BCE, Sidon, Lebanon, Seal
4-1 century BCE Amulet
Third century C.E. -Ein Yael Roman Mosaic Floor
4th Century - Judeo Christian Synagogue Capernaum, Israel-1
Third Century C.E. - Roman Mosaic Floor, Lod, Israel
8th century- King Offa Coin, England
9th Century - Muslim Coin
10th Century Cairo Genizah
11th Century - Codex Leningrad-3
12th Century Ethiopia Lalibela
13th century- Synagoge Statue Bamberg Hexagram
13th Century - Cosmatesque Style
13th Century - Brewer's Star
1367 - Alcobaca Monastery Portugal
1394 - First Mention of Psalms 67 as Star of David
14th Century Jewish Manuscript
15th Century? -Synagogue, Spain
1531 Celestial Alphabet
c 15th Century Tarot Card
15th century, Kennicott Bible, Spain
c. 16th Century - Muslim Tombstone
16th Century Seder Plate
1538- on the Walls of the Old City in Jerusalem
1540 - Prague Flag (Red flag on the right)
16th century Foah Family Print Mark
1613 David Ganz tombstone in Prague
16-19 Century - Mughal, Rajasthan, India
1659- Alchemy
18th century Jonathan Eibenschütz's Amulet
18th century Jewish Chuppa Stone from Wurzburg
1782 - Great Seal of the United States
1870 - Mizrach with Lions
19th Century Free Masons Tombstone
1863 Church Facade, Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
1897- Theodor Herzl's newspaper, Die Welt.
1905- Protocols of the Elders of Zion
1914 - Messiah House, Jerusalem
1921 - Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption
1930 - rastafarians
1939 -Yellow Badge, Holocaust
1948 - Israeli Flag
c 1960 Anti Israel Arab Propaganda.
2001-Jewish Museum Berlin / Holocaust Remembrence
2009 - Long Live Israel Graffiti


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We're feeling under the weather this morning (maybe it was a result of watching that game last night), so you folks can have at it.
What's the problem?...
- Have the Caps hit a "wall?"
- Have they achieved their high water mark?
- Is this merely a speed bump on the way to a division crown?
- Are injuries finally taking their toll?
...that's 1-2-1 in their last four games, during which they've scored eight goals (wasting decent, if at times uneven, goaltending...nine goals -- not counting last night's empty netter -- in these four games). They have the worst last-ten game record among SE division teams (5-4-1). And, after starting 6-1-1 in the SE under Bruce Boudreau, they are now 0-3-1 in their last four intra-divisional games.
Time to panic?...hardly. But with 23 games to go, this is not the time to be embarking on a slump, either.

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Two young women in their late teens/early twenties are talking relationships in the back of the bus.
YW 1: "He's always asking for presents. He's like, 'Buy me this; buy me that.' I would have bought him that ugly-a** Star Wars poster, but I didn't want to have to look at it for the rest of my life."


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SQL Server 2005 has a new version of Analysis Services with a lot of new features, so much that a whole (thick) book would be necessary to describe everything. Nevertheless, many improvements are "marginal", in the sense that bring us better productivity (= less development time) or better performance. Aside administrative and development features, there are not so (very) much end user features so important for him to convince to jump into the new release (even without changing every client...): Analysis Services 2000 is a great product and if pushed to the limits can resolve a lot of business problems, you only have to know the product very well and have to be ready to do some stunt.
Anyway, Analysis Services 2005 (AS2005 for shorter) has some feature that is revolutionary. One of those is the many-to-many dimension.
This is the business scenario: you have a fact table that describe a fact measure (the account balance at a certain date) for an entity (for a bank account) which can be joined to many members of another dimension (the many owners of a bank account). Who knows the multidimensional model already see the trouble, beacuse it's not easy to describe the non-aggregability of measures joined to dimensions with a many-to-many relationship (in this case, each bank account can have one or more owners and each owner can have one or more accounts).
With AS2005 the trouble, simply, disappears. The "trick" is to use an intermediate fact table that, in the relational model, indeed defines the relationship many-to-many. In the following figure fact tables are yellow and dimension tables are blue. Note that DimCustomerAccount is considered a fact table.
When you define relationships between dimensions and measure groups (a measure group is similar to a real cube of AS2000, while a AS2005 cube is more like a virtual cube of AS2000), you specify that the Customer dimension is joined to Balance with the dimension DimCustomerAccount (it's the selected item in the following figure).
The relationship is further described by the following dialog box that you obtain with a click on the button contained in the selected item of the previous image. This dialog box is available for every combination between dimensions and measure groups and it defines the type of relationship.
Here is the result. In test tables I created 5 customers (Luca, Marco, Paolo, Roberto e Silvano) and 9 accounts (numbered from 1 to 9). Each account is joined to one or more customers and the balance for each account is always 100.
As you can see, for each customer you can identify accounts he owns and for each account you can see the balance repeated for each owner.... but the total for each account is always 100 (Grand Total row) and the balance for all accounts is 900 (100 * 9). Try to do that with any other multidimensional model (and I'm not talking only about AS2000) and see what happens... The following image synthetize the non-aggregability of some measure in respect of some dimensions.
You can obtain the same result with AS2000 but only with some stunt and some tradeoff in terms of processing time or query performance. Who, like me, already experienced similar issues, can't wait to upgrade to SQL 2005 in a production environment just only for this feature...
Hi Marco,
It would be of a great help if you could post a query that inserts rows into the factless fact table. I am dealing with this problem but am unsure what to put into the factless fact (what kind of a join, and what to join). As I noticed in some examples one can insert records to the factless fact from OLTP or from DW, is this true?
I've always found the way you have to do many-to-manys in AS very odd. Each time I do it I've had to invent an intermediate dimension just so the intermediate fact table can join to "real" fact table.
In a normal SQL database two related tables are joined by a link table and that's it. But in AS you have the link table and you have to have another one as an intermediate dimension. Usually there is no obvious dimension to hand so I have to invent one - which feels very uncomfortable. I generally make this extra dimension hidden so that the end user cannot see it.
Surely there's a better way?
if you think about it, only a 1-many or many-1 relationship can be expressed as you are saying. A true many-to-many relationship, such as bank account and customers, really needs an intermediate table to establish such a relationship.
The reason SSAS adopt this design pattern is to be the more flexible as possible and also because it is the way that Kimball dimensional modeling describes it.
I have a question on the actual Dimension Usage with a Many-2-Many relationship. In your example it is pretty clear because you only are sharing a single dimension Dim Account. What happens to the Many-2-Many relationship under the covers when I share 2 or 3 dimensions.
Both dimensions (or the N dimensions) act as a constraint on both fact tables and you might think as a "single" tuple that needs to be the same between both sides of the relationships.
Thank you for your response. So, if I go down the path of M2M I want to make sure the shared dimensions are valid for constraining the data. If the shared dimensions are too constraining then I could materialize the Intermediate Measure Group to create the M2M.
Thank you very much.
I also have reread the M2M Revolution paper and am now rethinking a series of Distinct Count thoughts.
Hi Chris,
How are you doing. I follow your BI blog a lot. I have a question regarding a design.
Dimension Usage:
Two Fact Tables F1 and F2. 6 Dimension Tables – D1 to D5
F1 is in a regular relationship with D1 and D2.
F2 is in a regular relationship with D3, D4 and D5.
F1 also needs to be sliced by D3. F1 is related to D3 by a many-to-many relationship with F2.
Measures – F1.M1 and F2.M2 are placed side by side and only D3 is chosen for slicing the cube is fast.
If D1, D2 and D4, D5 are chosen individually or together with F1.M1 and F2.M2, the cube gets stuck.
Is this the reason - F1 is not related to D4 and D5. F2 is not related to D1 and D2?
But if D1, D2, D4 and D5 are placed alongside as well (even when dimensions are not related to fact), the cube gets stuck due to missing relationships
Possible solution:
Create many-to-many relationships on F1 for D4 and D5 using F2.
Create many-to-many relationships on F2 for D1 and D2 using F1.
Is this feasible and a good use of dimension usage performance wise?


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LAUREL KRAUSE, April 25, 2011
HERE WALKS my dad, Arthur Krause with Reverend John Adams and other protesters on his last trip back to Kent State. His daughter and my sister, Allison Krause, was slain at Kent State University in the student protest against the Vietnam war on May 4, 1970, a day that forever changed our family and civil rights in America … a day that changed America.
Approaching the anniversary of Allison's killing, the energy from that time calls out with new evidence and the truth. Current events and the emergence of new evidence in the Kent State Strubbe tape http://bit.ly/1gcCCWo, demanding we as a democratic, just nation must re-examine what went down in the sixties, ending at Kent State on May 4, 1970 … when the state slaughtered protesters, a crime against man.
A remarkable cosmic signpost arrived on March 11, 2011 when a 7.1 earthquake struck Japan, creating a tsunami that came to our shores with the emerging Fukushima nuclear disaster. Very early that morning I awakened to a reverse-911 telephone call recommending those near water and inlets on the coast move to higher ground for safety from the approaching tsunami due at 7:23am, my account here http://bit.ly/gOovLw Article on the north coast tsunami and damage to the harbor in our community ~ http://bit.ly/gWy090
As I waited at higher ground from 7:00 am on into the afternoon, I realized how this world event had transformed humanity … the way we live together globally. Hours after that massive shake, we were shown on every level that what happens there, happens here as we are all connected on this third planet from the sun.
Most importantly, the nuclear event at Fukushima shows us the deeply polluting, over-reach of corporations, echoing George Orwell's 1984 and Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. Fiction from the 60's now becomes commonplace reality in 2011.
General Electric, the developer of the nuclear technology used at Fukushima also conceived the overall design, organized the construction and manufacture of Fukushima's parts. GE literally put together the concept behind and the 'gears' of the Fukushima nuclear reactor.
Yet following this tsunami in Japan and the nuclear alert created at Fukushima, GE's first step was to protect their corporate interests and distance the General Electric, GE brands, claiming TEPCO's majority ownership. Corporate-owned media machines backed them by never referring to General Electric as a player in this nuclear horror, following the same playbook as the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the BP brand from last year.
GE continues to disassociate itself from Fukushima and in these actions, GE takes no responsibility for the nuclear plant they designed and built years ago, pointing the finger instead at their customer and partner TEPCO, another corporation.
We also see how the Corporatists eat their own, shown last week with BP bringing lawsuits against Transocean and the blow-out protector manufacturer. Each of these players, along with BP, are clearly responsible for the world's worst oil disaster and how it continues to evolve ~ polluting, degrading and jeopardizing the eco-health of a large portion of planet Earth.
When will these offending corporations take responsibility and engage in the required significant remedial clean-up (as in making whole again) as well as thorough research or analysis of the eco-damaging event? When will we demand accountability and hold their feet to fire? To date that is nothing beyond a handful of lawsuits, pay-outs, fines and, yes, bonuses and awards in 2010 to Transocean for safety, of all things.
Lest we not forget newly-awarded energy contracts just signed by the US government and BP. Or the two TEPCO-directed nuclear plants to be built in Texas with $4B of tax payer-derived funds. All's going great in eco-disasterville for Corporatists in America.
Back to Fukushima, the US nuclear energy lobby and US reactor manufacturers (top players, GE & Westinghouse-now Hitachi) without pause, continue skipping down the same development path, lacking proven safety procedures and offering not one innovative effort to safely begin bioremediating the nuclear disaster as it unfolds in Japan.
Just days after Fukushima began it's radiation spew and without missing a beat, President Obama announced US commitment to continue to fund and develop new nuclear reactors as a key energy technology for our country. As their response to Fukushima, China, Germany and many other countries have placed moratoriums on new development in nuclear energy with Germany going a step further to begin de-commissioning every nuclear reactor there.
At my local supermarket a colleague whispered that the GE engineers, the guys that originally conceived of these water boiling nuclear reactors for GE, left the corporation quickly thereafter, quitting to become anti-nuke advocates. They realized the power unleashed in the technology they created, along with humanity's inability to control or harness nuclear fission in a disaster scenario … like a tsunami.
Going back more than 40 years ago and related to nuclear energy, I remember heated arguments around the Krause family dining room table circa 1967-69. Allison, my sister, was 16-18 and I was 12-14. Dad was pro-Vietnam war, voted for President Johnson and worked in management at Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Because of this Dad was de facto pro-nukes. Allison was against the Vietnam war her friends were being drafted into and against the dangers of nuclear weapons as well as nuclear reactor manufacturers. I stood with Allison, Mom with Dad, as the nightly battles ensued.
Before Allison and I were born, Dad came home from WWII and he married my mom Doris. They moved to Chicago where he studied at Illinois Institute of Technology. His first job was at Westinghouse and it became his lifelong employer, common back then.
His employment at Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a big part of our family life. My folks first settled in Cleveland, Ohio. Then in 1963 we moved to Westinghouse headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA. From there we moved to Wheaton, Maryland with dinner arguments as Allison found her voice, progressing through high school.
Going back to 1967, the emerging counter-culture energies of the sixties were in high gear ~ like we have never really seen since. As a pre-teen, I looked up to my older sister by four years and we stood together as a united front against our parents, reflecting the generation gap back then.
TV news blasted widespread unrest, chronicling national protests as we watched bloody Vietnam warfare footage with body-bags of returning killed American soldiers. Many of the dead draft-age men had never voted for or against the war as the voting age was 21, changing to 18 in 1971.
Back then our folks, especially Dad was a lifelong democrat, supporting President Johnson's Vietnam war. Allison locked horns with Dad about the war and how he made his living, his jobs at Westinghouse involved streamlining systems, progressing to creating the computerized shipping & tracking systems for shipping Westinghouse nuclear reactor parts worldwide.
Allison and most everyone her age back then was pissed off at the US Government. By 1968, Allison was protesting the draft and the war in Vietnam with all her friends … no one wanted to die for the war in Vietnam. Male friends her age were required to participate in a lottery, being drafted into the war. To escape the draft, many peaceful folks enrolled in college or dodged the draft by going to Canada as it became impossible to get Conscientious Objectors status. If you drew a bad lottery number based on birthdate, you were forced to make some very serious decisions.
As the Vietnam war progressed and President Nixon was elected in '68, Nixon grandstanded on his secret plan to end the war as he covertly full-throttled secret bombings in Laos and Cambodia that started early in his first term in 1969.
Stoking the embers of the Indochine wars and the war at home, President Nixon and his co-hort were working with the Huston Plan http://bit.ly/gIYTD1 taking aim at America's younger generation like a enemy camp. At the end of the 60s, it had become open season on American youth against the war … a tsunami of persecution, including deadly harassment from the Nixon administration, the Dept. of Justice, the FBI, cointelpro … doing it the J. Edgar Hoover way with help from the Dept. of Defense. Check out this photo album on the folks behind the Kent State Massacre. http://on.fb.me/hFGAgK
Back to the Krauses, as mentioned there was a riff about how Dad made his living. Dad was a well-respected and forward-thinking manager at Westinghouse Electric. He loved his job and enjoyed fixing systems so our family was transferred to plants that needed his help. As a young kid I remember Dad's work colleagues greatly respecting his contributions. Years later Dad would receive the coveted Westinghouse 'Order of Merit' for his superior and lifelong contributions.
In our home back then, my sister and I did not share that pride for our father's work. We also knew that by-products from nuclear reactors contributed to the manufacture of nuclear weapons, something else we were wishing to eradicate. We felt the conflict around Dad's activities and the income he provided at the expense of our safety on Earth and our environment. We knew it back then and brought it to his attention.
That wound between Dad and Allison never healed. Allison continued to protest against the war and for honoring our environment.
In a ruinous, forever-changing chapter for our family, Allison Krause became one of four students slaughtered by the US government on May 4, 1970 as she protested the Vietnam War, the draft and the military occupation of her campus, Kent State University. Allison stood for peace, saying on May 3rd, "What's the matter with PEACE? Flowers are better than bullets."
The day after Allison's death, in our backyard Dad made his plea before television cameras and in TV sets across America. In Dad's passionate and emotional speech, he demanded that Allison's "death not be in vain' as he recanted about Allison:
She resented being called a bum because she disagreed with someone else's opinion. She felt that our crossing into Cambodia was wrong. Is this dissent a crime? Is this a reason for killing her? Have we come to such a state in this country that a young girl has to be shot because disagrees with the actions of her government?
As Dad learned his eldest child was murdered by the US government as she protested the Vietnam war, something he didn't agree with, he fought back for Allison's stolen life and civil rights ~ for the lives and rights of Jeffrey Miller, Sandy Scheurer and William Schroeder on May 4, 1970.
Within the year President Nixon's men strongly encouraged my folks to stop demanding investigations, drop every legal inquiry, offering Arthur Krause bribes for millions of dollars and my father turned them all down. Just the same, our family was put under surveillance by the FBI for years, continuing to this day.
The Kent State law suits were heard in court houses all the way to the US Supreme Court and back over the next nine years. In 1979, Dad's efforts settled at $15,000 with a plaintiff's civil settlement statement and the 'statement of regret' was personally signed by each of the guardsmen that shot at Allison, along with their commanders ~ something Dad insisted on.
Dad fought for Allison's right to protest and her murder at the hands of the United States government until the end of his days. Arthur Krause knew that the murders at Kent State 1970 were personal for us, yet important for all.


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Good food habits set early in childhood can last a lifetime. Lunches provide around one third of our daily nutritional needs, so it's important to put some thought and planning into them. Here are some tips on how to prepare a healthy lunchbox.
Make sure your child's lunchbox is clean and safe. Remember that sandwiches containing meat or other foods that require refrigeration should be kept as cold as possible until lunch. Help keep lunches cool and safe by following these tips:
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Orange Rolls
I'm not sure if this is an accurate memory of our Christmas mornings growing up or if it's a chosen memory from a few certain years. Regardless of if it was an actual yearly tradition or not, my brother seemed to remember the same thing. A few years ago we spent Christmas with him and my sister in-law in California. Christmas morning my brother made orange rolls. I was beyond happy. Totally not expecting that as a breakfast treat. Delicious Pillsbury orange rolls. If you've never had them, you really should. Their cinnamon rolls don't compare to these. They're just so good. So very good. Soft, airy, just the right amount of a citrus flavor and a wonderful creamy orange glaze. Yum! Do I have your attention yet?
Well, when thinking about what items I wanted to make and share as Christmas treats I couldn't get these wonderful little rolls out of my mind. I wanted to attempt to make my own version. I hoped to make some that would be a nice substitute to the store variety, that is unfortunately sometimes very hard to find. Last year I had to go to several stores before I found one that carried them! If you have a Shaws nearby, that's where I finally found mine. If you can't find them, this is a perfect substitute recipe.
What I ended up deciding on was a recipe found from another blogger. It's an old recipe, not her own, saved from an old copy of the LA Times. After doing lots of searching, this was the only one that really fit what I was looking for. Others called for peculiar items that just didn't fit what I wanted. Some weren't orangey enough. This seemed just right. They're easy, very light and fluffy and full of orange flavor. The best part about these is that you can make them the day before and just pop them in the oven that morning. That kind of planning ahead is perfect for Christmas morning or any other holiday when you don't want to be slaving away in the kitchen. You want to be out relaxing with your family opening gifts on Christmas morning, or maybe you're nursing a hangover from New Year's Eve… there's always a few in the bunch… this recipe will make your life easier and more enjoyable.
Yield: Makes 12 large rolls
Orange Rolls
1pkg rapid rise or instant yeast
1/2C and 1tbsp sugar, divided
1/2C warm water
2 eggs
1/2C warm milk
1/4C butter, softened
1/4tsp salt
4-5C flour, all purpose
zest of 1/2 of an orange
1 tsp orange juice
Filling Ingredients:
zest of remaining 1/2 orange
1/4C butter
1/2C sugar
Glaze Ingredients:
1C powdered sugar
2-3tbsp orange juice
additional orange zest, optional
In a glass measuring cup, combine 1 tbsp white sugar, 1 package of rapid rise (or instant) yeast and 1/2 cup warm water. The water should be warmer than room temp but not so hot you can't keep your finger in it. Let the yeast mixture sit for at least 5 minute or until it has puffed up substantially.
Meanwhile, in a large bowl or stand mixer, cream 1/2 cup sugar and softened butter together. Add eggs. Scrape bowl as needed or prior to each new addition. Add salt, orange juice, orange zest and 1/2 cup warm milk. Give a quick mix to combine. Slowly add 1 cup of flour at a time until you have put in at least 4 cups. I ended up putting a total of 4 1/2 cups in while mixing and an additional 1/2 cup while kneading, so 5 cups total. This can easily be different depending on your weather conditions so just pay attention to your dough. If it's still super sticky, you need more flour. Once you've hit the 4 1/2 cup mark, add 1/2 cup of flour at a time. When your dough has begun coming together, transfer to a lightly floured work station to knead by hand. Work in extra flour as needed.
Form a smooth ball, transfer to a greased bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit in a warm location for at least an hour or doubled in size.
Prepare filling while dough is rising. Add all ingredients to a small bowl. Microwave until butter is melted, stir to combine ingredients. Set aside. Prepare a rectangular baking dish with spray. I like to use Pam for baking, it smells so good and of course works well too.
When dough is doubled in size, transfer to a lightly floured work space. Roll out into a large rectangle with a rolling pin.
Spread filling over dough, up to 1/2 inch from the edge.
Roll dough starting at one of the shorter ends. Carefully pinch and fold in the edges as you roll your dough into a log. Slice into 12 equal pieces with a serrated knife. Place pieces in prepared baking dish.
You can either choose to continue the rising and baking process now or continue in the morning. Cover and let rise in a warm location until doubled in size OR cover with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge overnight. The rolls will begin to expand slightly overnight. You can then either let them come to room temperature and have them rise slightly more or immediately pop them in the oven. I chose to have mine rise some more. This made for some enormous rolls, popping out of themselves because the dough had no place to go! So don't let them rise too much before baking.
Bake in a 350 degree oven for 15-20 minutes or until the edges begin to turn golden.
Mix powdered sugar with 1tbsp orange juice at a time and optional orange zest - if you have it, use it ... if not, don't worry about it. I used about 2 1/2tbsp orange juice overall. Use less or more depending on how thick or thin you want your icing. Drizzle over warm rolls or use a knife to spread over the enture batch. I opted to drizzle over individual rolls as they were eaten. Keep glaze covered with plastic wrap until using... I need to stress that the plastic wrap should be pressed into the top of the glaze to prevent crust. Don't just put plastic over the bowl and call it a day, there is still air in there that will cause a crust over the icing mixture.
If not eaten immediately, keep rolls tightly covered. Pop in the microwave to slightly reheat.
Recipe source: Living My Dream
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6 Responses to "Orange Rolls"
Ohhh, I love the sound of these orange rolls! They look pretty darn killer too!
Ooh nice Rach. All this baking is making me abandon my savory cooking and start baking everything cookies, yeasted buns and rolls, cakes and more!! Shulie
My mom is so good about having fresh made rolls ready in the morning. You think I would've learned from her….
These look too good to eat!
Yum! Sounds so good! I've never tried cinnamon rollls with an orange twist! Delish! :)
Ooooh my mom would love these!! Anything orange is totally her cup of tea, not to mention if it's in this sort of cinnamon roll form. Will definitely have to keep this in mind for Mother's Day! :D
Oh my gosh! So exciting! I was *just* talking to a friend the other day about how much we love these rolls but have only ever had the pillsbury version. I used to have them on christmas mornings, too! And I'd fight to lick out the frosting container. I have printed this recipe and can't wait to make them. :)


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A lot of games in BK can be likened to chess. There is this strange feeling of "phases" that people often think of and refer to when they play games, especially BK. Words like "early game, mid game, late game" are all over the forum when talking about strategies and balance.
I wanted to write a guide on one of these phases on a brief level, then an aspect of the phase on a more detailed level. This will probably be a long one with edits along the way, so buckle up!
I like to start with assumptions because I'm writing my opinions and guide on how to help people only for players that like to play the game as it was intended (which was EXPLICITLY supported by the devs).
1. The game is on a properly sized map, often a CoH map +1 in player size (so 2v2's on 3v3 maps unless the map). Don't try arguing this here, just dig through the forums for it. viewtopic.php?f=27&t=736&p=8493#p7100
2. The game is played on a BK mod-tip map. If really specific community maps were made for extraordinary scenarios, this guide will not apply entirely. Some concepts may, but it will be hard to put into practice right away without more speculation on the map.
3. The game isn't modded any more than the official BK
Chess and BK Early Game Objectives
The objectives in the chess early game are: Control the center, Develop your pieces, Protect your king. All three of these concepts can be applied to BK through some analogy.
Control the Center
One of the greatest mistakes I see from newer players coming from vanilla CoH is immediately capturing local territories and not controlling the philosophical "center". The direct center of a chess board is an area of high strategic importance because it is a base position in which pieces can move and attack from. If a piece must travel from on side of the board to another, it is more efficient for them to go through the center instead of weaving its way around the edges of the board. Thus, players will almost always start their openings with the center pawns and moving minor pieces towards the center rather than the flanks. This same idea applies to BK twofold. Controlling the "center" will allow for a quicker logistical position of attack just like in chess. However, it can also provide important resource income and deny the opponent income. In many of the BK maps, the higher valued resource points are in the center. So the next time some asshole spam pings you to capture a bunch of low resource points in the back, you can tell them to fuck off because you are striving for a greater strategic objective. It is always easy to go back and capture the local territories because they are easy to defend and your opponent will waste too much effort trying to prevent you from capping those.
When I say "center" in BK I don't always mean the direct center of the map, but rather the position that embodies that "center" value in chess. In some maps there could be multiple "centers" especially since BK is intended for a team game. Some iconic centers are the middle fuel points in Alsace Moselle. Notice there are two +9 fuel points that lie directly between the two teams. Usually, each pairing of opponents will contest for those centers. The team that controls more centers is usually the team with the highest probability of winning.
Develop Your Pieces
In chess, you want to start mobilizing your minor pieces to put them in spots of power. At the start, many of the pieces lie behind the pawn line thus being pretty useless. By moving initial pawns followed by minor pieces, you bring your pieces into more active roles against the enemy. In BK, a similar analogy is applied when you create your first units. Build orders are likened to chess openings, where there are some safe chess openings and safe beginning build orders for more precise play OR extreme gambit openings and build orders looking for a risky but rewarding outcome. But, the most effective build orders is to actually HAVE a build order. One mistake that is commonly done by newer players is moving their engineers or grenadiers out to the front line right away before creating the first building. While this might be done by higher level players, it is considered extremely risky because it greatly slows down your over all ability to field units. Imagine playing chess and only being able to move your pawns for the first 5 moves. If your opponent has even the smallest amount of skill, the opponent will field the minor pieces and run circles and tactics around your limited pawns. Build your first building even if your opponent rushes for the "center" position early with their starting units... it hardly takes any time to build a building and you can always contest your opponent with some variation of a build order knowing they are unable to field units as fast as you.
You can look at some build orders people have suggested over the patches at the following posts:
WM Openings - viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1342
US Openings - viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1340
PE Openings - viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1341
CW Openings - viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1339
Protect the King
In chess, killing the king is the end objective for both players in the game. Thus, king safety is important to ensure that a player may freely position attacks without fear of losing in the process. This is a much harder concept to visualize in BK because there is no true equivalent "king piece" except for the base which is mostly defended by early game AA guns already. Instead of making a direct analogy, I'm going to talk about the essence if "king safety" and how as a player you must think both aggressively and defensively in long term planning.
In chess, by castling and retreating a king behind the rook you ensure that you will not be attacked immediately in the early-mid game and allow yourself to prepare for later stages. It is a tactic to allow for long term planning and survival. When you play BK, you do not want to over extend your aggression in the opening and eventually take stock at what advantages and disadvantages you've obtained. Whether you control the center or developed your pieces, how do you ensure the enemy does not have a remarkable breakthrough? How do you make sure you stay in the game after the opening phase? Some players, rather than aggressively trying to win the center, they force a stalled game and make sure that the enemy does not control the center. It is easier to defend the center than attack it, so players will likely pull their forces slightly back and deny the enemy of advantage. This ensures survival into later stages which maybe the player's skill shines more.
If there is a single unit that is MOST like a king piece (and almost equivalent in combat capability) it would be your initial engineer/builder unit. Ironically, this is probably the MOST important unit in the early game because its survival dictates how fast you can push yourself into the mid game and even late game. Building a new engineer takes a lot of time, enough time for the enemies to catapult themselves into the mid game before you can field the proper counters. Protect that first engineer. Know when to pull that engineer back to build your tier 2 building so that you can press your advantage or defend from upcoming threats. Ensure you can survive to the mid game.
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- Walderschmidt
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Re: Ideas Behind the Openings
This is a good way to explain things, especially for people familiar with chess but not (yet) good at BK...like me!
Could you talk more about transitioning from the early game to mid game and go into more detail about each stage of the game respectively?
Could you talk more about transitioning from the early game to mid game and go into more detail about each stage of the game respectively?
Kwok is an allied fanboy!
Re: Ideas Behind the Openings
Lol, as long as these posts are actually read so I know my efforts aren't wasted working on these instead of complaining on the balance forum, sure I can talk about transitioning. I get these requests on steam, but doesn't seem like these sort of things are really read by forum users.
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Re: Ideas Behind the Openings
Thanks for that detailed text. It's a nice idea to compare it with chess because even if you don't play it often, you recognize the basic similarities.
Sadly some of the openings links are outdated because a few changes happened and there soon will be a few more.
Looks like you forgot to finish that part in the brackets:
Sadly some of the openings links are outdated because a few changes happened and there soon will be a few more.
Looks like you forgot to finish that part in the brackets:
kwok wrote:Ideas Behind the Openings
1. The game is on a properly sized map, often a CoH map +1 in player size (so 2v2's on 3v3 maps unless the map). Don't try arguing this here, just dig through the forums for it. viewtopic.php?f=27&t=736&p=8493#p7100
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Good post there, though... I wouldn't compare Bk Mod too much with chess; because in chess you always have enough time to setup your plans.
While on the other hand Bk Mod is more about quick reactions, well positioning, sighting and knowledge of the capabilities for each unit.. that's surely in addition to some micro skills and a bit of luck, specifically when players of the same level are competing.
While on the other hand Bk Mod is more about quick reactions, well positioning, sighting and knowledge of the capabilities for each unit.. that's surely in addition to some micro skills and a bit of luck, specifically when players of the same level are competing.
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Hi Carey,
My husband and I live in Manhattan. We are 'of a certain age.' We are planning to take a 'vacation' to Brooklyn in November, because we're sick of reading about all the great restaurants there which we never go to because we can't bear the long trek home.
We'll be staying in downtown Brooklyn, and will be there from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. We like small, farm-to-table type restaurants that take reservations. My husband is not that adventurous in terms of ethnic food, so we'll have to miss some of those great options. Also, we need brunch recommendations with non-egg alternatives as he doesn't like them.
What would be your recommendations for our Brooklyn food vacation?
Welcome to our fair borough! Here's hoping you'll find a lot to love, and props to you for hopping on over and taking a chance.
What you'll quickly find—and may already know, if you've done a bit of looking—is that "small, farm-to-table type restaurants" and "take reservations" share a very thin sliver on the Venn diagram of Brooklyn.
But there are ways around this. You might love Battersby, for instance—as endearing and downright delicious a farm-to-table restaurant as I've encountered recently. They don't take reservations for dinner service unless you're doing their tasting menu —which, at 5 courses for $75, is a much more reasonable proposition than most. If you want a look at why food folks put so much stock in Brooklyn restaurants, it's a good bet.
For reservations, though, you've got options. Why not Gywnnett St? If you're staying in downtown Brooklyn, it's a quick hop on the G train (or a reasonably quick cab ride). Hits all the New Brooklyn Cuisine points: 1) Young chefs with a fine dining background 2) moving to an "emerging neighborhood" and 3) opening a less buttoned-down restaurant than they've worked at before—with the happy fact 4) that they succeed wildly (which many do not). If you need a cocktail beforehand, consider Huckleberry Bar, with a lovely back garden and well-crafted drinks; it's a much more adult bar than most in this neck of the woods.
On another night, you might make a reservation at Vinegar Hill House, a cozy spot all the more recommendable now that fall's settling in; what better time for a beautiful roast chicken or masterfully done pork chop?
It's a quick walk from downtown Brooklyn, if an occasionally sparse one, thanks to bridges and the BQE. But whether you walk, subway, or cab it, leave a bit early and don't go straight to the restaurant. Take time to stroll the waterfront at Brooklyn Bridge Park, with cinematic views onto Manhattan. Isn't it lovely from this side?
You won't be wanting for brunch options, even eggless ones. Avoiding crowds is generally as simple as going early, which generally means 11 a.m. or so—probably not a hardship for you, unless you're making like a Brooklyn brunch-er and sleeping until noon. (No judgements if so.)
You could try modern Southern spot Char No. 4, for shrimp and grits or a pulled pork sandwich; or Buttermilk Channel for fried pork chops on cheddar waffles. (Plus your choice of 4 different Bloodies). You could walk down through Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens for brunch at Prime Meats—there's a long list of egg dishes, sure, but also griddle cakes and Weisswurst and an excellent burger.
If you're early risers, maybe split up br– and –unch: Bien Cuit for coffee and first pick of the pastries, then Van Horn Sandwich Shop for a bacon-pimento sandwich, or Court Street Grocers for absolutely any sandwich.
Oh, there are more options. Seafood fan? Walk down to Littleneck and learn what the Style section means when it says Gowanus isn't the backwater it used to be. (And do so over an excellent lobster roll, or a clam roll; or chicken and waffles if that's more your speed.) Or head down Atlantic to the charmingly homey 606 R&D, where your egg-averse husband can choose from a pork sandwich or smoked fish platter and you both must get the doughnuts: two-inchers popped out of their frying gizmo all throughout service.
If you're at 606, stroll down Vanderbilt and you'll hit Grand Army Plaza in minutes. Prospect Park is spectacular in the fall—all the autumn leaves, none of the tourists. Brooklyn's not Manhattan, to be sure. But its charms abound.
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Just out in prepublication at PNAS is a paper from Eric Lander's lab, entitled, somewhat provocatively The mystery of missing heritability: Genetic interactions create phantom heritability. The authors suggest that certain types of gene-gene interactions could be causing us to underestimate how much of the heritability of complex traits has been uncovered by our genetic studies to date.
There has been an awful lot of talk about this research since Eric Lander talked about it at ASHG a few years ago, and the paper itself has generated quite a bit of discussion on- and off-line. Razib Khan reported on the paper last week, giving a good summary. He mentioned a press release about the paper issued by the advocacy organisation GeneWatch, which confuses the additive heritability discussed in this paper with the total heritability of diseases (a distinction explained below), and uses this to draw conclusions about how this result alters the promise of personal genomics. This just goes to show how much confusion there already is out there about this subject.
I have a more detailed post up on Genetic Inference about this paper, the strength of the argument, and what it means for the field. Here I am just going to pull out what I think are some important take-home points about this paper:
1) Broad sense heritabilities (the kind that are clinically important for e.g. risk prediction) have NOT been significantly overestimated The type of heritability we ultimately care about, the broad or total heritability, is how much total phenotypic variation is captured by genetics, or equivalently the correlation between identical twins in uncorrelated environments. The figure at the top of this post shows a plot that I made using Zuk et al's equations, comparing true broad sense heritabilities, against what would be estimated based on twin studies (I have matched the colouring etc to Figure 1 of the paper). The twin study estimator of heritability is a robust estimator of total heritability for heritabilities less than 0.5. Above that, LP epistasis causes growing overestimation – it can make a 50% heritable trait look like a 65%, and 70% look like a 95%. It does not make weakly heritable traits look strongly heritable, just strongly heritable traits look very strongly heritable.
2) This paper is discussing additive heritability. This is a specific form of heritability that acts "simply" – half of it is passed on to offspring, siblings share an amount proportion to how related they are, and the genes that underlie it do not interact with each other. We do not know how much heritability acts like this, but various lines of evidence have made us think that it is a relatively good model, and most competing models have been incompatible with this evidence, or look contrived. What Zuk et al have done is produce a set of plausible, simple and non-contrived models (Limiting Pathway or LP models) that look pretty much indistinguishable from additivity using many of the tests we have run, but can act very differently in twin studies. Under these models, twin studies will overestimate the additive heritability (i.e. make us think that a larger proportion of heritability acts "simply"). The equivalent plot to the top of the page for estimating additive heritability, which you can see here, shows massive overestimation of additive heritability across the spectrum.
3) There is no real evidence that these LP models apply (and in fact there are still a few reasons to believe additivity could still broadly apply, see my other post for details). The issue is that we cannot conclusively rule these models (or models like these) out, and therefore the heritability explained by the genetic variants we have found so far is very uncertain.
4) This is important because our measures of "heritability explained" by the genetic variants we have found look at how much additive heritability is explained. These measures have in general told us that we have only explained a small proportion (generally < 25%) of additive heritability – but if in fact the heritability is largely not additive, but we are treating it like it is, we could in fact have explained a higher proportion of heritability than we believe. This would mean that the "missing heritability" is missing not because we have not found the right genetic risk factors, but because we have not found the right model to use. This could be good news: the genetic variants we have discovered could in fact be used to predict disease a lot better than they we can at the moment, if only we can find the right model to use them with.


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Following the last update on the official MKA site, I decided to update with the renders of both the Prison and Reptile's Lair arenas.
And along with that is the best part of this update, I opened a new section containing all the renders for the 30 characters that are currently available on the official site, the special thing about these pics is that they have a transparent background, which makes them perfect for digital art, sigs, comics and stuff, without further ado here's the new Cut Out Renders section!
Also, MKW is in need of a graphics guy, anyone with l33t Photoshop skills please comment on this post, among the things this guy (or girl) will have to do is some PS2 and X-Box buttons along with cutting out the versus pictures of MKA that have been floating around.
PS: Why aren't you watching the opening movie for MKA?
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OMG!!! that looks awesome!!!! zombie kang is the shiz!
I'll tell you why I'm not watching the intro video to Armageddon, because youtube is being worked on. ;)
I can't belive it! Cool! I can't wait anymore for THE game!
Damn… I had a good idea for the KaK, but it's too late for sent it… In deception the ending of a normal character is only two (three for Sindel)screenshots and some line for tell what's happen, but for a KaK? My idea was to unlock another Kreate mode: the Kreate-an-ending when you clear the game with a KaK, where you can make two screenshots with some sprite, and write the line under the screen how a comic! With one sprite for arenas and five-six for character (Basic action how: stand, hit, be hitted, lying on gorund,victory pose…)that's can be a realy good mode to personalize the create mode!
THe cutouts were good… the new arenas were good… I wish i could be the graphics guy, but my comp won't work with the damn program… but the intro… THAT WAS SICK!… Stryker was awesome, he hit Mileena then started running… the first smart thing he's ever done… then he's killed by Kano after killing Kabal and the battles just keep coming… then Liu and Shang come to fight and Liu stops Shang from going all the way… but some of the charaters die at the beginning, which means they probably won't make it to the next gen… I liked how Li mei was the first Casualty… get rid of the "sexy" character that Boon liked… but the intro was the best man…
MuRdOiNk said:
MKW is in need of a graphics guy, anyone with l33t Photoshop skills please comment on this post
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can i fill up?
Awesomeness! *i thought it was funny when there all just gazing at the flame then stryker just punches mileena in the face.*
Well the video proves it Reptile has his MKDA costume
"Awesomeness! *i thought it was funny when there all just gazing at the flame then stryker just punches mileena in the face"
Lol, I also laugh at it. The two best fights of the video, for me, are the ones of Scorpion and Sub-zero(especially when syb-zero stops one of his attacks with the sword on the back), and the one of Liu and Shang, when liu ends up thrwoing the chains.
I´m also waiting for this game…hope I can get it.
the game intro looks awsome. Man i feel bad for Shao Khan he gets carried off by Onaga. Liu Kang was awsome he made it look like he still had his neck snapped to remind Shang Tsung of what happend. then Kenshi gets killed and i feel so bad for Cyrax his last words are *insert robot sound here* then he falls to his death
MuRdOiNk,you asked for a photoshop skilled dude,i'm ready.can i sign up?
also,yea,the video was kool and kicks ass,but i don't like scorpion being on the bad side.meh,who cares,the intro is non-canon maybe.
I have.I posted some cut-outs too.Hope you like 'em.and hope i get the job too.I've been knowing MKWarehouse for years and i could try to promote it with more stuff.
im guessing scorpions only on the bad side since sub zero is on the good side. Anyway, still can't wait for this to come out.
I hope there is the human version of smoke and at least 3 costumes 4 each caraters or more
Wow!The renders was exactly what i was wating for!Just need some versions of the same renders (like Scorpion's one…i mean whit fire and whithout) and renders of another mk games…damn!I love this site!
This is awsome MORTAL KOMBAT!
Not a spritesheet but an unbelievable substitute! Keep up the awesome work!!
Yeah…about that Photoshop guy you needed. I can do that. I have several MKA VS poses cut out already. Contact me if you need anything. :)
I hope there is belokk he is a canceled mk charater and i would kreate gorbak the fartter of goro and chan kang the movie look on wikipedia you will see gorbak OH! Art Lean i hope I saw that there was gonna be (not sure if this real) Hellbeast, Sierra, Tao Long, Drako, Terra, Usui Hasashi , Tarkata Shao kahn,Dark Havik, The One Being,Evil Raiden but im not sure if they really ……
I got some pics that can be used for the armageddon part of this site but dont know who to send it to. Who is the owner of this site and what is ur email address. your welcome and thanks
the owner is Murdoink and his email is firstname.lastname@example.com
anyway,i want the job,plz!!! i already sent 3 example VS poses to Murdoink and i have lots more!
Murdoink,plz!!!!!!i want the job!!!!i want to contribute something to mkwarehouse,plz!!!
Well, I am an master of Photoshop… if you need some help Contact me, My Mail is: firstname.lastname@example.com Anything about the MK I can do it
im not sure you can make Shokans in this game and yea in an interview Ed Boon said he was only a fake character he nvr was even was gonna be in the game
Belokk i forgot to add Belokk in my last comment
Belokk only appear in that mag.we never have a full size pic of him.
Thanks for showing that video! I never knew it was made. Also, I hope they put in each characters original fatalites, or at least most memorable.
And one more thing. Why is Quan Chi bleeding in the cutouts.
Can't Wait for reptile
Hey, Murdoink, i think i can help you out with Mortal Kombat: Deception.
He's bleeding from an injury, or he supposed to look tough…
who do you mean?
I was replying to Nightmaric's post:
"Thanks for showing that video! I never knew it was made. Also, I hope they put in each characters original fatalites, or at least most memorable.
And one more thing. Why is Quan Chi bleeding in the cutouts."
oh ic ok then.
Nice game
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I remember years ago my sister once making mashed cauliflower and serving it to her husband (then boyfriend) - he took a bite then gave her a look that said, "Did you really think I was going to believe this was mashed potatoes?" Jamie and I have made mashed cauliflower before, and it's always disappointing that it tastes like... well, cauliflower. But this version I came up with is really tasty and packed full of flavor so that you (almost) think you're eating potatoes, but you're not getting all the extra starch.
Yet I've come to realize that when it comes to mashed cauliflower, you have to stop pretending that it's potatoes. Accept it for the vegetable that it is, and it may just surprise you with its flavor and creaminess. I think the English got it right when they slather cooked cauliflower with a bunch of melted cheese!
Yet I've come to realize that when it comes to mashed cauliflower, you have to stop pretending that it's potatoes. Accept it for the vegetable that it is, and it may just surprise you with its flavor and creaminess. I think the English got it right when they slather cooked cauliflower with a bunch of melted cheese!
In addition, this is made with skim milk and nonfat Greek yogurt - no butter or cream in this recipe! I don't think you'll miss the fat, though, once you try this. And a few crumbles of blue cheese add just the right amount of tanginess and creaminess. (Because I had a couple small red potatoes in my fridge that needed to be used, I did add those to the recipe, which, I know was cheating, but you can also make this with just cauliflower.)
Printable Recipe
Smashed Cauliflower
- 1/2 head of cauliflower, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 3 small red potatoes, skins on, cut into 1-inch pieces (or leave the potatoes out and use more cauliflower)
- 1/8 - 1/4 cup skim milk
- 2 tablespoons water (reserved from boiling the cauliflower and potatoes)
- 1 heaping tablespoon nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1 shallot, diced
- 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1/4 cup bleu cheese crumbles
Place the cauliflower and potatoes in a medium saucepan, cover with water and bring to a boil. Boil until tender (easily pierced with a fork), about 10-15 minutes. Drain, reserving 2 tablespoons of the liquid.In a large bowl, smash the potatoes, cauliflower, water, milk and yogurt with a potato masher until you've reached the desired consistency - it should be slightly chunky and creamy, but not too thin or liquified. Add remaining ingredients and stir to combine. (Since the blue cheese is salty, taste the cauliflower before adding too much extra salt.)
We ate ours with some baked Panko-crusted chicken that we baked in the oven, and it was a satisfying but light dinner.
Now on to the second half of my post...
Since starting this blog in May, I've made so many new "foodie friends" and had a lot of fun learning from what they've shared on their blogs as well as creating and sharing recipes of my own. It's become a personal challenge to think creatively and improve my skills as a home cook. Not everything I make is a success, but I learn from my mistakes as much as when I get it right the first time I try. And when I perfect a recipe, then I'm so excited to share it with all of you.
Ann at Cooking Healthy for Me has been so supportive of me and always gives such thoughtful feedback on my blog posts. She was given the opportunity to award the "Cute Little Chef" and "Interesting Blog(ger)" to 15 other blogs, and I'm so honored that one of the ones she picked was mine. Please visit her blog for some amazing healthy recipes and her post about the awards!


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DI completes sweep of Arizona with another third-period rally
January 12, 2013 | Tucson, Ariz.
Sophomore forward Luke Baumgarten netted a hat trick and Liberty University's Division I men's hockey team overcame a third-period deficit for the second night in a row, notching a 7-5 victory Saturday night at Arizona's Tucson Convention Center.
Liberty (16-10-1) outshot the Wildcats (11-13) by a 49-43 count and had only 27 penalty minutes compared to 43 for Arizona. The Flames scored four power-play goals, two by Baumgarten, in one of their best man-up performances of the season.
"That would rank up there," Liberty head coach Kirk Handy said. "It was a real physical game. The power play was definitely clicking tonight and a big part of that was Brent Boschman. Brent has a knack for getting in and finding the open areas. He's a very, very skilled offensive player and when he's in a zone like he was tonight, he's very dangerous."
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"Last year, he was our leading scorer and he's someone who, night-in and night-out is a big part of our offense," Handy said.
Liberty opened a 3-1 lead after the first period, scoring the last three goals as they did again in the third.
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That lead was short-lived, however, as Arizona tied it back up at the 15:25 mark on a goal by Justin Gaudino and went up 5-4 less than two minutes after that when Brian Slugocki capped off a hat trick of his own.
But Boschman re-tied it by finishing off Liberty's fourth power-play goal with 8:49 to go, assisted by Scott Morongell and Lindsay LeBlanc, who got the game-winner a minute and a half later. After Arizona pulled its goalie, Bob Schultz, Morongell put the game out of reach with an empty-net goal in the final minute.
"(Boschman) has an excellent shot and he was able to find the back of the net and it was huge on the power play," Handy said.
Though pleased to come away with two wins on Liberty's three-game road trip to Arizona, especially on the heels of a 4-3 shootout loss to top-ranked Arizona State, Handy wasn't completely satisfied with the Flames' defensive showing against the Wildcats.
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The weekend just passed me by in a blur. This is the first weekend in eight years that I haven't participated in the FANS 24 Hour Run. I hadn't even looked up any entrant information and I haven't yet looked up the results. I was consumed with something else: Tyler's graduation from high school.
Although I have known since Tyler's birth that the day of commencement is going to arrive, I didn't know that it would be so difficult for me. It wasn't the act of the commencement that was difficult; it is everything that the commencement signifies and the emotions that go along with the change. I've never done well with change.
I chose to leave my job once the boys arrived to stay at home until they were of school age, then once again return to the the fast paced, goal oriented, progressive company I worked with in the high rise luxury office building to the slow paced, stark public school district so that I could be more involved with my boys day to day lives. It's a change I am still glad that I chose to take. I'll never have this time back.
I have been able to ride with the boys to school each day, to work their school hours, to have their time off. It's been fabulous.
Tyler participated in full time PSEO at Saint Cloud State University as a high school senior this year so I didn't see him in the office day to day. I missed his lunch time visits to the office very much but was still able to catch up with all of his friends as they visited quite (maybe too much some would say) frequently.
As graduation loomed last week my emotions were riding a roller coaster. So proud of him for making the Dean's list, so proud of his accomplishments-so proud of the way he carries himself as a person. He's a respectful, well- mannered boy. Man. He's almost 19 years old. He has never given me any problems.
It became clear to me on Tuesday that I needed to take a vacation day on Friday prior to the evening commencement. Friday arrived. As I was walking through the grocery store tears just began to stream down my cheeks. Tyler is graduating. Everything is changing. I lost it, over and over again.
My parents arrived and I tried to put on a brave front. Although I couldn't eat I was able to put the tears away. I was nervous as to how I would react at commencement. I didn't want to be ridiculed for showing my emotions.
Luckily for me Troy had a baseball tournament so I had other things to distract me. Get him to the field an hour before the game, make plans for him to meet up with us after commencement, games on Saturday and Sunday.
Commencement arrived and I was holding it together. I visited with all of his classmates. These are friends that I've known since Kindergarten. I have volunteered in their classes, had them overnight, to birthday parties, driven them all over the world and visited with them every day in school. To see them leave was heartbreaking. They kept asking me "Julie what are you going to do without us to visit you" I kept a brave face but said that I would indeed miss them but that I was excited for their future.
I made it through commencement with a few sobs, and afterward I mingled quite a bit, posed for many pictures with Tyler and his friends and thought it was going to be ok. I made it!
Saturday was filled with baseball games and a quick trip to the Edina Art Fair. Sunday was back to baseball. I had a few events to take my mind off of my sadness. I broke down a few times. I just can't help it and realize this is OK to feel this way.
I kept telling myself be happy! Be proud! Yes, I am I am, but I'm sad too. I'm sad for the changes, sad for the end of my life as I have known it, sad for the little everyday things that will be changing.
Tyler tells me this experience will make it easier for me as Troy graduates. I say Pffft.
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A contract extension for White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper figures to become official on Tuesday afternoon with the announcement of a new multi-year deal that will precede a two-game stint as manager in place of Ozzie Guillen.
Cooper is finishing his ninth full season and 10th overall as Chicago's pitching coach, having begun the task on July 22, 2002. He has worked under managers Jerry Manuel and Guillen, and soon will be practicing his craft for a third — whomever is hired during the offseason to replace Guillen.
With Guillen released from his contract after Monday's 4-3 victory over the Blue Jays to pursue other opportunities and bench coach Joey Cora apparently heading to the Marlins with Guillen, Cooper will run the show over the final two days of the 2011 season as the team's interim manager.
CSN reports first base coach Harold Baines will get a multi-year deal too, but third base coach Jeff Cox and hitting coach Greg Walker won't get new deals.
UPDATE: The extension is for 4 years:
Of Cooper, Williams said, "Well, the pitching has been as consistent over the last decade, and that's a testament to our scouting department, to our player development department, to Don Cooper, directly in his direction. It's something that's well deserved and I'm happy, thrilled to know that he's going to be on board here for the next four years."


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Welcome to the July Carnival of Natural Parenting: Let's Talk About Food
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have written about their struggles and successes with healthy eating. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
I am the first to admit that I'm a lackluster housefrau — cleaning takes a backseat to going for walks; cooking is mainly left to my (much better chef of a) partner; laundry gets done… well, when it gets done. I have books on these topics and I've read them all. Devoured them! A good cookbook, beautifully photographed and wittily composed is one of my most treasured bookstore finds. I dog ear the recipes that sound most delicious and vow to work my way through those before tackling the ones with main ingredients I find less than tempting. (Beets? Err…we'll wait 'til Fall.) If I make three dishes from one book, however, it's a feat to be commended because I enjoy the hunt a lot more than the preparation.
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Well, it turns out that vegetables — ones you grow in your own backyard — are practically free if you start them from seeds. Vegetables you don't grow yourself are still cheaper than a three-times-a-week burrito habit, and can be bought from — get this! — the people who grow them! If I had a mind to, which I often do, I could mosey on down to the farmer's market on Saturday and, for ten to fifteen dollars, purchase an astounding haul of colorful gorgeousness from my neighbors. And the next week, I can come back and say hey, neighbor, thanks for that beautiful chard/those crazy fiddlehead ferns/the garlic-looking thing I've forgotten the name of!
The availability of wholesome food isn't going to make me a better cook any more than my collection of unused cookbooks. But one thing it does: makes me a more enthusiastic consumer. Friendly farmers and dairy owners soften the blow of not being able to eat out when I want. The bummer of poverty is often feeling deprived. If I can support my community, feed my family with a clear conscience and spend my days feeling energetic and healthy, I can't imagine feeling like I wont for anything at the dinner table.
Visit Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama to find out how you can participate in the next Carnival of Natural Parenting!
Please take time to read the submissions by the other carnival participants:
(This list will be updated July 13 with all the carnival links.)
- Welcome to Two — All About Food — In case you hadn't heard, there is a conspiracy afoot from the two year olds of the world. Shana at Tales of Minor Interest stumbled onto their newsletter!
- Four Seasons of Eating Locally — Jenn at Monkey Butt Junction has pointers for what fresh produce can be found year-round. (@MBJunction)
- Happy Families Can Have More Than One Diet — Deb Chitwood at Living Montessori Now has figured out a way for her family to live happily as vegans and vegetarians with relatives who eat meat. (@DebChitwood)
- My Own Omnivore's Dilemma — Seonaid at The Practical Dilettante prioritizes responsible consumer choices for her family.
- No Gluten — No Cry — Joni Rae at Tales of a Kitchen Witch Momma learned to cook balanced meals when her son's food sensitivities prompted a diet overhaul. (@kitchenwitch)
- Try, Try Again — Stefanie at very very fine has become an enthusiastic consumer of locally grown food.
- CSA — Week 1 — Casey at What Love Is wants her children to know where their food comes from, so she joined a friendly CSA. (@CBerbs)
- Food: Parenting or Homemaking? — Michelle at The Parent Vortex sees food as part of a parent's nurturing role. (@TheParentVortex)
- 5 Tips to Help Kids Develop Healthy Eating Habits — If you struggle with healthy eating, helping your child develop healthy habits might be a challenge. Dionna at Code Name: Mama shares five easy tips that will help your kids learn to make good food choices. (@CodeNameMama)
- Family Food: Seeking Balance Between Healthy, Sustainable & Affordable — Kristin at Intrepid Murmurings has a whole list of ideas for how she can improve her family's eating, both now and into the future. (@sunfrog)
- Whole Foods in, Wholesome Feelings Out — Jessica at This is Worthwhile has turned her back on the processed, preservative-ridden food of her childhood. (@tisworthwhile)
- When to Splurge on Organic (and When It Is Okay to Skip It) — Becoming Mamas tell you what foods to prioritize when buying pricier organic food, and where you can find it cheaper. (@becomingmamas)
- A Locavore's Family Meal — Acacia at Be Present Mama tells a story in pictures of her family taking a trip to the local organic farmers market and then preparing a summer meal together with their bounty.
- Eat Your Food, or Else — Why should we not bribe a child to eat? TwinToddlersDad from Littlestomaks (Science Driven Real Life Toddler Nutrition) explains. (@TwinToddlersDad)
- Food, Glorious Food! — Luschka at Diary of a First Child describes three easy ways her family has started eating healthier. (@diaryfirstchild)
- Celebrating Food — Mrs Green at Little Green Blog believes in food as medicine and thinks it's worth paying more to keep healthy. (@myzerowaste)
- Oil and Yogurt — What have you been motivated to do with the current oil spill crisis? midnightfeedings has started making her own yogurt. (@midnightfeeding)
- Growth-Spurt Soup (AKA "Beannut Stew") — BeanMa has a special stew to help her baby through growth spurts that keep her up all night. (@thebeanma)
- Why I Love The Real Food Community — Much like many people who follow AP/NP values, Melodie at Breastfeeding Moms Unite! takes the parts of the "real food" philosophy that work for her family and leaves the rest. (@bfmom)
- Feeding a Family of Six — Mandy at Living Peacefully with Children gives helpful tips for feeding a family of six.
- Starting Solids at 6 Months — Did your doctor recommend that you give your baby cereal? Sheryl at Little Snowflakes discusses how whole foods are so much healthier (and more delicious) than traditional cereal. (@sheryljesin)
- Am I What I Eat? — Andrea!!! at Ella-Bean & Co. has figured out a way to avoid grocery stores nearly altogether.
- Are We Setting Our Kids Up To Fail? — Megan at Purple Dancing Dahlias found that cutting out the junk also transformed her sons' behavior problems.
- Changing your family's way of eating — Lauren at Hobo Mama has techniques you can try to move your family gradually toward a healthier diet. (@Hobo_Mama)
- Real Food — What kinds of fake foods do you eat? And why?! Lisa C. at My World Edenwild talks about why she chooses real food.
- A Snackaholic's Food Battle — Julie at Simple Life wants to stop snacking and get into the old ways of cooking from scratch and raising her own food. (@homemakerjulie)
- Food, Not Fight — Summer at Finding Summer doesn't want her kids to grow up like her husband: hating everything green. (@summerm)
- How Do You Eat When You Are out of Town? — Cassie at There's a Pickle In My Life wants some tips on how to eat healthy when you are out of town.
- Carnival of Natural Parenting: Food! — Sybil at Musings of a Milk Maker hopes that by serving her children healthy, balanced meals, they will become accustomed to making good food choices. (@sybilryan)
- There's No Food Like Home's — NavelgazingBajan at Navelgazing revels in the Bajan food of her upbringing. (@BlkWmnDoBF)
- This Mom's Food Journey — Kat at Loving {Almost} Every Moment made a journey from not paying attention to food to growing her own.
- Who Knew Eating Was So Hard? — The challenges involved in changing to healthier eating habits take on a whole new dimension when you have a child who has difficulties eating. kadiera at Our Little Acorn shares her own experiences. (@kadiera)
- Loving Food — Starr at Earth Mama truly believes food is her family's medicine and is willing to spend days preparing it the traditional way.
- Food Mindfulness — Danielle at born.in.japan details how her family spends money on each category of food. (@borninjp)
- Food for Little People — Zoey at Good Goog wants to bless her daughter with happy traditions built around good food. (@zoeyspeak)
- Eat Like a Baby — Have you been told that you should not equate food with love? Kate Wicker at Momopoly shows us why that's not necessarily true. (@Momopoly)
- Food — Deb at Science@Home tries to teach her children three rules to help them eat a healthy diet. (@ScienceMum)
- Healthy Eating Lactose-Free — MamanADroit gives us tips on how to eat healthy if you are lactose intolerant (or just don't want cow milk). (@MamanADroit)