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Known Issues
From e-Learning Documentation
Last updated: 4-15-2011
Resolved Known Issues As issues are resolved, they are moved to this area.
Unable to Download PDFs in Firefox and Chrome
- Problem: After a recent Adobe update, some PDFs will not open within Firefox and Chrome. This problem happens anywhere on the internet, not just in Sakai.
- Workaround: You can download the file and open it on your computer, or you can use Internet Explorer, or you can use this Firefox Plug-in.
- Status: Most people now have the plug-in installed and so this is rarely seen. --Jolaine 10:40, 15 April 2011 (EDT)
Users in Sakai Cannot Change Gatorlink Username
- Problem: Sakai users cannot change their gatorlink username due to a conflicting account being created.
- Workaround: There is no workaround. Username cannot be changed at this time.
- Status: Under Investigation
Need Special Instructions to Set up Webdav in Windows 7 and Mac Snow Leopard
- Problem: Windows 7 and Mac Snow Leopard operating systems do not follow the set-up instructions in the Resources tool.
- Workaround : Go here for instructions on setting up a Webdav connection in Windows 7. No workaround for Mac Snow Leopard is available at this time.
- Status Fixed for Windows 7, Snow Leopard is under investigation.
--Jolaine 09:42, 28 January 2011 (EST)
Some Users See 404 Error When Logging In (Rare)
- Problem: If a user is enrolled in a Project Site/Course that is deleted, other enrollments are affected causing login problems.
- Workaround: Report the issue to LSS staff (call 352-392-4357 Option 3 or write email@example.com). The problem can be fixed manually but may take time. In the meantime, you can login at https://elearning2.courses.ufl.edu/portal/site/. To prevent the problem, do not delete any Project Site that has users enrolled.
- Status: Under Investigation
User Sees Different "My Workspace" than Majority (Rare)
- Problem: Some users may see extra tools on the My Workspace page - such as Syllabus, Roster, Podcasts, etc. that should not be there.
- Workaround: Issue can be reported to HD/LSS staff and can be fixed manually but may take time.
- Status: Resolved. (This problem is corrected for current and new users. This only applies to users who were early users of e-Learning in Sakai.)
Messages to Gatorlink Email from Sakai Captured by UF Spam Filter
- Problem: There are many places in Sakai where email notifications can be sent to users from within the system. Some of these emails are captured in the "Barracuda" spam filter.
- Workaround: Check the "Junk E-Mail" folder in your email account and mark any posts from Sakai as "not spam."
- Status: Under investigation.
Auto-Groups Does not Work
- Problem: If using Auto-Groups to create groups of everyone in a specific role, it appears that the group was created successfully, but if you come back to the group later, there will be no members in it.
- Workaround: You can do the same thing with manually created groups.
- Status: Under investigation.
Assessments Tool Does Not Display Well in IE
- Problem: If all questions as displayed or parts of questions are displayed on a single page they do not load. Assessment does not load at all if using IE 7 or 8 on Windows 7 (Microsoft Vista not tested) works fine on XP.
- Workaround: Use Firefox or display each question on its own webpage.
- Status: Under investigation
Some Grades Not Released When Instructor Clicks "Return to Student."
- Problem: On occasion, the "Return to Student" option does not release the grade to the students. The Instructor's work is saved, but the grade is not released.
- Workaround: On the Submissions page, check the box beside the name of the student and click Release Grades at the upper right corner of the screen.
- Status: Under investigation.
Turnitin Report Not Always Generated
- Problem: Some Turnitin reports are not generated within 2 hours.
- Workaround: Ask student to resubmit.
- Status: Under investigation.
Instructor Comments in the Assignments Shows HTML Tags
- Problem: When a grader leaves comments for the student in the "comments" box, the student sees HTML coding in the text.
- Workaround: If the student submission was made using the "inline" submission box, the instructor can post comments by putting her/his comments in { {double curly brackets } }. The instructor comments appear in red to the student. If the student has submitted a Word document, download the file and make your comments by using "track changes" in Word. Add the edited submission as your feedback.
- Status: Under investigation
Blog Permissions Default is That Students Can Not Create a New Blog
- Problem: By default, Blogs permissions are set so that students cannot create a new blog.
- Workaround: Click Permissions and under the "create" column, check the box beside Student (and CE Student and Auditor if you have participants with those roles).
- Status: Resolved, but older courses may still see the problem. New courses created from Summer 2011 on should not exhibit the problem.--Jolaine 10:47, 15 April 2011 (EDT)
Content Editor
Content Editor Freezes in Internet Explorer 9
- Problem: When insert buttons are clicked in FCKEditor using IE9, the insert window opens but appears blank and frozen. There is no way to close or cancel the window without logging out of Sakai. This occurs in the following options: Insert Link, Insert Flash object, Insert Image, Entity picker , Insert Table, Insert Special Characters, Insert Smiley, Insert Anchor. View screenshot.
- Workaround: Use a different browser when using the rich text editor, for example Firefox or IE 8. Internet Explorer 9 is not a supported browser at this time, so avoid upgrading until this issue is solved. See Instructions for removing IE9 and restoring IE8.
- Status: Under Investigation
--Pchap 16:50, 17 March 2011 (EDT)
Entity Picker in Content Editor Not Fully Functional
- Problem: There is an option in the Content Editor called the Entity Picker . This option is supposed to allow you to link to live Discussions, Assignments and Tests & Quizzes, but does not function as intended. Our recommendation at the present time is not to use the Entity Picker.
- Workaround: None.
- Status: Under investigation.
Content Editor Not Available in Discussions and Mail Tools
- Problem: The Content Editor is no longer available in the Discussions tool and the Mail tool.
- Workaround: One can only use simple text until this is corrected.
- Status: Resolved!
--Narasi 16:29, 26 January 2011 (EST)
Spell Check Not Available in Content Editor
- Problem: If you are using Firefox, the spell-check icon will be grayed out. IE will shows icon but will prompt for a IE plugin.
- Workaround: Compose the content in MS Word and use the spell-checker there. Cut and paste from Word into the Content Editor using the "Paste from Word" icon.
- Status: Under investigation.
Can't open Attachments in Discussions
- Problem: If someone adds a file attachment to a Mail or Discussions post, the file will not open if there are spaces in the file name.
- Workaround: Do not attach a document with a space in the file name. Use _ or - instead of spaces. One may also replace the "+" sign in the URL where the space is with a "%20" and this will display the page.
- Status: Under investigation.
--Narasi 16:29, 26 January 2011 (EST)
Users Get Email When New Post is Made to Discussions
- Problem: The default setting in Discussions is that users get an email notification every time a post is made to a Discussion topic that the user has posted to in the past. This isn't actually a "bug," as this is the common default on discussion board and blogs on the internet, but in large classes the quantity of emails is problematic.
- Workaround: Go to Discussions and click on Watch at the top of the screen. Change your preference to "Do not send notification."
- Status: Under investigation
UFID Column Causing Problems with File Import
- Problem: An update was recently made to the system that adds the UFID column to the file when the Gradebook and Gradebook 2 are downloaded. This was done to provide the UFID in the file for grade submission to Grade-A-Gator. So now, when you download either gradebook, you will see a column containing the UFID. The problem occurs if you try to import that file back into Gradebook. The imported file will convert the UFID to the student name and the import will fail.
- Workaround: Delete the UFID column before importing the file.
- Status: Under investigation.
Gradebook 2
Gradebook Won't Export if Roster is Very Large (1000 students)
- Problem: If you have a large number of students, neither Gradebook nor Gradebook 2 can be exported.
- Workaround: Change display settings to show all students in the Gradebook. Once the Gradebook displays all the students perform the export using the table below as a guide.
- Status: Under investigation.
|Export as CSV
|Export as Excel
|Gradebook 2
|Internet Explorer
--Pchap 12:28, 2 February 2011 (EST)
Gradebook Won't Export if Students are Enrolled Who are Not Associated With Roster
- Problem: If you have any students enrolled in your course who are not associated with a roster, for example a CE Student, Student or Auditor that you added manually rather than through the Registrar, Gradebook 2 can not be exported to a .csv or Excel file.
- Workaround: Make the person(s) inactive (Site Info and change the "Active" status to "Inactive" using the drop-down menu beside the person(s) name and click Update at the bottom of the list)and download Gradebook 2. Change the person(s) back to "active" status once the download is complete. If you make the person inactive, his or her postings, grades, submissions, etc., will disappear, but will reappear when the person is made active again. If you have a non-Registrar course where all students are manually enrolled and you need to export to a file, you will need to use Gradebook until this problem with Gradebook 2 is corrected.
- Status: Under investigation.
Terminology Incorrect When Using the "Grade Using Percentage" in Gradebook 2
- Problem: In Gradebook 2, if you set the "Grade Using:" option to "Percentage," the creation of Gradebook Items (columns) still asks for "points" when it should say "Percentage of total grade."
- Workaround" The tool actually functions the way it should, it is just the terminology that is off. When grading by percentages all columns are worth 100 points. When you are creating a new column, in the field where it asks you to enter the "Points," enter the "Percentage of total grade."
- Status: Under investigation.
Can't Change from Points to Percentages Once Point Data has Been Entered in Gradebook 2
- Problem: In Gradebook 2, if you have set up the gradebook to use points and you have already entered points in columns, if you change it to percentages, you will get erratic data in the columns that already have points in them.
- Workaround: If you have to change from points to percentages in the middle of the semester, use Gradebook rather than Gradebook 2. If you use Gradebook 2, you will have to delete all old points and then enter new points, however Gradebook will allow you to do so without getting rid of old points. Either way, download the gradebook first for safe keeping.
- Status: Under investigation.
Extra Credit Quizzes Do Not Work if Lowest Score(s) Dropped
- Problem: It is possible to assign online quizzes to be extra credit, but if you also place those extra credit quizzes in a category and drop the lowest score(s), the function breaks. It does not drop the lowest score(s) and it does not add the extra credit.
- Workaround: None at this time.
- Status: Under investigation
Can't Open Attachments in Mail
- Problem: In mail attachments, spaces in the file name cause an error message and the attachment will not open.
- Workaround: If you are asking students to submit a file to you in the mail tool, let them know that there should not be spaces in the file name. Use _ or - instead of spaces. If you receive a mail with spaces in the file name, forward it to yourself within Sakai Mail. In the forwarded message, the attachment opens fine.
Another option is to adjust the URL on the "error" page. Cut and paste the URL of the error page into Notepad. Using "find and replace," replace the "+" with "%20." Cut and paste the correct URL into your browser window.
- Status: Under investigation
--Jolaine 10:00, 7 March 2011 (EST)
Syllabus Redirect Does Not Work Consistently
- Problem: The Syllabus tool offers the option to "redirect" which lets you enter the url of a file in Resources or on the web. This option works fine as along as the file you are pointing to is an HTML file. But pointing to a PDF or MSWord file or other type of static text file doesn't always work.
- Workaround: Use "create" option instead of "redirect" option.
- Status: Under investigation.
Publicly Viewable Option Doesn't Work in Syllabus Tool
- Problem: When creating a Syllabus, there is the option to make the syllabus "publicly viewable" which means that you should be able to send a link to the syllabus to people outside the UF system and allow them to see the file. This is not working. Currently, people are still asked to authenticate into the UF system in order to see the file.
- Workaround: Place the syllabus file in the Resources and make it publicly viewable. The URL captured from the Resources (Actions > Edit Details > Web address (URL)) site does work as publicly viewable. If you still want the file to be available for students in the Syllabus tool, use the "redirect" option in the Syllabus tool to point to the file in Resources.
- Status: Under investigation.
--Jolaine 10:04, 7 March 2011 (EST)
TurningPoint Roster Does Not Export to Sakai
- Problem: TurningPoint Roster is not integrating with Sakai.
- Workaround: None needed - Problem resolved
- Status: Resolved with new TurningPoint version 1.1 for Sakai Integration 2.6
--Rnarasi 12:55, 2 November 2010 (EDT)
Test & Quizzes
T&Q Table of Contents Allows Students to See Their Scores
- Problem: If instructors set up a test to show the Table of Contents, and the "students question and part scores" option is set under feedback (even if "No feedback will be displayed to the student" is chosen), students can see their scores for each question and so can deduce whether or not they got it right and can change their answers while they are taking the test.
- Workaround: Change Feedback by unchecking "students question and part scores." This is now the default setting for all tests. If you do want them to see this part of the feedback after submissions are in, you can go back and check the box later.
- Status: This bug is resolved in the next version of Tests & Quizzes.
--Jolaine 10:19, 7 March 2011 (EST)
T&Q Inputs "Null" in Feedback When Using Markup Text (Cut and Paste from Text Document)
- Problem: If you cut and paste from a text document to create the assessment, the word "null" will be inserted into all the feedback boxes. The word "null" does not appear to students if feedback is enabled, so this isn't technically a "bug."
- Workaround: None needed
- Status: Under investigation
"Import" Function in Tests & Quizzes can Corrupt Username
- Problem: In Tests & Quizzes, the "Import" function does not work and can even cause a corrupted username if attempted. The corrupted username could prohibit the user from accessing the Tests & Quizzes tool.
- Workaround: Either create questions one-at-a-time, or cut and paste from a properly formatted text document using the "Create using markup text" option. If you have trouble accessing any aspect of Tests & Quizzes, your username could be corrupted. Contact LSS at (352) 392-4357 option 3, or write email@example.com.
- Status: In the latest update, the Import button was removed to avoid this problem.
Problems Presenting in Question Pools Larger Than 100 Questions
- Problem: Assessments that pull from Question Pools containing more than 100 questions are showing erratic behavior.
- Workaround: Use smaller number of questions per pool and/or sub pools.
- Status: Under investigation.
Audio Recording Questions not Working
- Problem: The "Audio Recording" type question does not work. The Audio Recorder will not begin recording.
- Workaround: The only workaround available at this time is to require students to create an audio file on their computer and upload it to a "File Upload" type question. This is only practical if you know students have audio recording software.
- Status: Errors are due to Java policies – Under investigation
--Rnarasi 12:59, 2 November 2010 (EDT)
Facilitators do not See Published Assessments in T&Q (Rare)
- Problem: Someone with the Facilitator role may not see the list of published assessments in Tests & Quizzes.
- Workaround: Give the user a different role, such as Instructor or Teaching Assistant.
- Status: This problem has been resolved for current users, but there are still some courses created on older versions that display this problem. As new courses are created, this problem should disappear.
Multiple Correct Questions and Partial Credit
- Problem: Multiple Correct Questions by default take away points for wrong answers. There is no option to change this. While its not exactly a "bug," it is something that should be addressed.
- Workaround: If you do not want students to lose points for wrong answers, manually give points for students if they lost points for wrong answers.
- Status: Under investigation
Key Highlights of 1.2.3 Mid Fall Build Implemented 10/24/2010
- Unpublished icon is now displayed
- Published/attempted quizzes can be edited and auto re-grade possible for some quizzes (if a quiz uses a question pool the edit has to be made to the question pool question and it did not flow into the quiz however stand-alone questions can be edited and regarded)
- The confusion caused by adding users with their email ID has been removed, the "Add Participants" only allows one to add users based on their UFID's or gatorlink usernames
- Journal tool has been put back
- Turnitin name restored in Assignment tool


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85th Academy Awards: Who will take home the gold this year?
LOS ANGELES — Like almost every awards season, earlier honors have established clear favorites for the top prizes at Sunday's Oscars, where Ben Affleck's CIA thriller "Argo" is expected to take home the best-picture trophy.
"Argo" has dominated the awards picture with wins at the Golden Globes and ceremonies held by the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers Guild of America. The film now is poised to do what only four movies have managed before at the Oscars: win best picture without a nomination for its director.
With the top trophy and other key prizes expected to go to obvious front-runners, the Oscars will live or die on the show itself, which has a hipper flair with "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane as host and a cool lineup of current and vintage stars. Among performers, presenters and other special guests are Barbra Streisand, Norah Jones, "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe, key players from "The Avengers," and Mark Wahlberg and his cuddly stuffed-bear sidekick from "Ted," voiced by its writer-director, MacFarlane.
Adele will perform her nominated title tune from the James Bond adventure "Skyfall," and the show features a salute to the 007 franchise, an appearance by Bond theme song singer Shirley Bassey, and a tribute to the resurgence of movie musicals over the last decade, which includes current best-picture contender "Les Miserables."
Oscar organizers are trying to inject more verve into a show whose awards generally play out by the numbers. While drama may be lacking in the outcome Sunday night, there was plenty of it early on in the Oscar race.
When nominations came out and Affleck was omitted of the best-director lineup, it seemed to doom the best-picture prospects for "Argo." Likewise, the best-picture chances looked slim for Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty" and Tom Hooper's musical "Les Miserables," since they also were snubbed for directing nominations.
Leading the field with 12 nominations, including one for director Steven Spielberg, the Civil War epic "Lincoln" suddenly looked like the best-picture favorite, almost by default. It seemed the only realistic choice among the nine nominees, given how rare it is for a film to win best picture without a directing nomination. The last time it happened — and the only time other than in the earliest years of the Oscars — was for 1989's "Driving Miss Daisy."
The other best-picture contenders that also had directing nominations — Michael Haneke's old-age love story "Amour," Ang Lee's shipwreck saga "Life of Pi," David O. Russell's oddball romance "Silver Linings Playbook" and Benh Zeitlin's low-budget bayou drama "Beasts of the Southern Wild" — were acclaimed films that all seemed like best-picture longshots.
But the crowd-pleasing "Argo," Affleck's liberally Hollywood-ized chronicle of the real-life rescue of six Americans during the Iranian hostage crisis, defied expectations by sweeping other awards despite the Oscar directing snub — or perhaps partly because of it.
"There's this groundswell of support for 'Argo' that took a lot of people by surprise, and it's making me think that the omission of Ben Affleck in the best-director category was the best thing that ever happened to that movie," said Dave Karger, chief correspondent for movie-ticket website Fandango.com. "All of the 'Argo' fans are going to rally behind it in that best-picture category."
Affleck has taken a page out of fellow "Argo" producer and smooth operator George Clooney's playbook, handling the Oscar attention and his directing snub with grace, humility and self-deprecating humor. It's a reverse of Affleck's quarrelsome demeanor earlier in his career, when he bristled and barked over publicity centering on his relationship with Jennifer Lopez.
Rarely lauded for his performing chops, Affleck joked at the Golden Globes that no one felt he was snubbed for an acting nomination on "Argo," in which he gives one of his finest performances as a CIA agent orchestrating a scheme to disguise the Americans as a Hollywood film crew scouting locations in Iran.
Earning acclaim for all three of the films he has directed, Affleck talks like a modest newcomer, saying after his Directors Guild win that he considers filmmakers such as William Wyler, Martin Scorsese and Spielberg to be the "grown-ups I think of as directors. I think of myself as a work in progress."
And despite the directing snub, Affleck has expressed nothing but gratitude to the academy for his film's seven nominations — repeatedly making note that he is up for an Oscar. As producers of "Argo," Affleck, Clooney and Grant Heslov would share the best-picture honor if the film wins.
Assuming it does, there still will be plenty of love to spread around among other films, particularly "Lincoln." Spielberg's consolation prize, should "Lincoln" miss out on best picture, is a probable third directing Oscar. He would be only the fourth filmmaker to achieve that, along with Frank Capra and William Wyler, who also won three times, and John Ford, who won four.


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Kathleen Parker commentary: Not much is going right in Washington these days
While the nation's attention has been riveted on the Keystone Congress, the executive branch was busy developing its own comedy routine. Picture the cast (you know the characters) shrugging their shoulders in unison: "Who, me?"
This would be the response to the glitch-rich health-care rollout, for which no one seems responsible. "Beats me. I thought it was working!" This would also be the response to the eavesdropping scandal, which soon could become an international showdown. "Who knew?" Hint: He used to work at the NSA and now lives in Russia.
Not least, the shrug also would be the response to a White House rumor that a certain Republican House leader said to President Barack Obama during a government shutdown meeting, "I cannot even stand to look at you."
Except no one said it. Shrug.
The rumor kicked off uncharacteristically glitch-free when Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., heard it from what he apparently considered a reliable source and posted it on his Facebook page. Early rumor embellishments suggested that House Speaker John Boehner was the demon source, which later was clarified to impugn Pete Sessions, R-Texas, who denied it.
In fact, no one said it, according to a White House official, who attributed the untruth to a " miscommunication" during a report by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rob Nabors to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Of course, Reid told the entire Senate Democratic caucus, identifying Sessions as the evil-doer. Durbin did not name Sessions in his post.
Voila! A rumor is born. Roll cameras. The White House regrets the "misunderstanding." Cut.
Meanwhile, the "rollout," a term forever tarnished by the ineptitude displayed since Oct. 1 when Americans were finally going to be able to sign up for "affordable" (translation: I buy, you pay) health insurance, has been an embarrassment. Even if one is inclined to grant benefit of the doubt (because technology can be a beast), evidence suggests that the "glitches" were the result of poor judgment and bad decisions.
But whose?
Four contractors hired to set up the computer system testified during congressional hearings that system testing began just two weeks before the launch date — and the test failed. Part of the problem was a decision not to allow customers to browse anonymously, as most people doubtless would prefer. Privacy and all that (chortle, chortle). Instead, people had to fill out forms before they could take a peek at the merchandise — an unmanageable burden to a system inadequate to the immense demand.
Who made that decision? The contractors testified they didn't know who made the decisions or who was responsible for correcting problems. One can blame the computer guys, of course. Or demand the head of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, under whose supervision the Affordable Care Act falls. But ultimately, the responsibility for the popularly known "Obamacare" rests with the person who insisted in the midst of a historic recession, a global financial meltdown and record unemployment that we needed to overhaul the entire health-care industry.
Not to drone on, but yet another "meanwhile" demands attention: A photo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the front page of Friday's Wall Street Journal saves writers a thousand words. She may be giving the evil eye to a photographer as she arrives at a European Union summit in Brussels, but it perfectly captures sentiments she has expressed upon learning of a report that the National Security Agency had been listening to her cellphone conversations.
Not only Merkel but as many as 35 world leaders may have been targets of our eavesdropping, according to Britain's Guardian newspaper. They are not amused.
Any one of the above would make for a very bad week in governance. Combined, they suggest an uncomfortable conclusion to the world we purport to lead: The lights are flickering in the city on the hill and our ship of state is foundering.
Kathleen Parker writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.


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Have I told you my love affair with banana cheesecake? I swear I must have at some point in this blogging life. I adore the banana cheesecake at The Cheesecake Factory, but sadly they are located far away from me. I've had it on my list for forever to create my own banana cheesecake to indulge in. And finally I've started that process; I think I've found the perfect recipe. I'm still kind of testing and experimenting, but this one is pretty darn good. And I just had to share it with you. My blogging friend at Chez What made a banana cheesecake and shared the recipe with me. I took his advice of using the lemon on the banana, but didn't take his advice on the sheddred wheat for a crust, but trust me I will next round.
I loved the addition of the caramel-rum sauce, but completely forgot the fresh whipped cream. If you do make this, please add on a large dollop of fresh whipped cream. The Cheesecake Factory does it, and it totally adds to the dish.
This cheesecake was so good, I had to give it away ASAP because I would eat the whole thing in one sitting. That crust, man that crust was amazing. Next time I might prebake the crust a bit to get it super-crunchy. This is a cheesecake I know Emeril Lagasse would be proud of, and that makes me happy happy. Emeril if you ever do read this--I will bake one for you and deliver it right to you or you can come to my house.
banana cheesecake with caramel-rum sauce
print recipe
cheesecake filling:
1 1/2 lb. (24 oz) cream cheese softened
¾ cup white sugar
3 eggs
4 mashed bananas, really ripe!
2 ts. good quality vanilla
1 ts. fresh lemon juice for the bananas
crust ingredients:
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
3 TB dark brown sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, melted, cooled a bit
(I put a pinch of salt in the crust)
for the crust:
preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter the bottom and sides of a 9-inch springform pan.
To make the crust, mix the graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar, salt and butter in a bowl until well combined. Firmly pat the crust into the bottom of the prepared pan. Use a glass to press in the edges—it really helps. I like to make some of the crust go up the sides, up to you of course. Then bake in the preheated oven about 10 minutes or until "almost" golden brown.
for the cheesecake:
Preheat the oven to 320˚F. (I found this was the right temp for me. I've heard of turning oven to 350 degrees and baking for 5 minutes then down to 310 for remaining 50-55 minutes. You really have to find what works best for you and your oven temps).
Mash ripes bananas well and sprinkle just a little bit of lemon juice, not too much about 1 ts, set aside.
In a mixing bowl or mixer, combine cream cheese and sugar; beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Then add in the bananas and vanilla extract; mix well.
Pour into the crust. Bake for 1 hour. Or until the middle is not jiggly anymore.
Let cool in the oven for 1 – 2 hours. Do not open the oven door until cool. You must chill this in the fridge for at least 2-3 hours before serving. That amount of time was perfect for me.
caramel-rum sauce
1 cup sugar
6 TB unsalted butter, room temp
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream, room temp (important!)
pinch of salt, optional
a splash of rum or dark rum, optional (room temp)
Cook notes: Please use a thick, sturdy pot for making caramel as you want even heat distribution and don't want your sugar to burn. And it is best to use a pan with high sides as the caramel mixture will bubble up. Please make sure your heavy cream is room temp and not cold. The cold will make the caramel not set up right.
Heat sugar on medium to medium-high heat in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. As the sugar begins to color and melt a bit, go ahead and stir it with spatula or wooden spoon. You want the sugar to come to a boil. Once it started boiling I stopped stirring.
Once all the sugar has melted and you have a dark amber color, this is the time to add the butter. Stir until butter melted, take off the heat, then add in the the heavy cream, very slowly. It will make a lot of noise and bubble up. Once added whisk/stir a lot! Keep stirring until smooth, add in your splash or two of dark rum (optional) and this is when you add in a tiny pinch of salt (optional). Keep stirring. Once smooth, let the sauce sit in pan for a while. If using straight away go ahead and do so, if storing let it cool a bit more before storing in glass jar. Make sure it's completely cool before placing in glass jar and storing in fridge.


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Inside the mansion of a Hollywood widow and pack rat
Stories From Candyland. By Candy Spelling. St. Martin's, 247 pp., $25.95.
By Janice Harayda
"Things might have been a lot different if my parents had encouraged me to write rather than fold napkins," Candy Spelling says in this memoir of her 38-year marriage to Aaron Spelling, producer of Dynasty and Beverly Hills 90210. You can say that again. If her parents had valued writing, we might not have had a book padded with prosaic recipes, friends' mawkish praise for Spelling's "beauty and kindness," and an alphabetized, three-page list of 69 things she collects, including "Dresden butter pats, Erotic figurines, Etiquette books, Fine arts books on master jewelry designers, First-edition books (including Mark Twain), Flower picture books, Gold presentation boxes" and Herend hand-painted characters and figurines."
Stories From Candyland leaks such Styrofoam peanuts until it brings to mind the critic A.O. Scott's description of Leap Year as "a movie only in a strictly technical sense." Spelling casts herself as a victim of misrepresentations spread by her actress daughter, Tori, and professes not to understand them: "I'm not sure what Tori means when she says our relationship is complicated. I wish she would call me …" But the telephone works both ways. And Spelling doesn't make up for all her omissions and special pleading with glimpses of her famous Los Angeles mansion. Perhaps the biggest revelation in this book is that contrary to reports that the Manor has a dedicated gift-wrapping room, it actually has three of them.
Best line: "I live in a place where the tabloid newspapers and TV shows run ads aimed a medical office receptionists, waiters, grocery baggers, and parking valets, offering them money for 'confidential celebrity information' they might have overheard."
Worst line: No. 1: "And then, suddenly, there he was. Rock Hudson! He was tall, dark, and handsome, just like the magazines said he was." No. 2: "Celebrities get way too much attention and credit, but they certainly sell movies, music, products, and entertainment." No. 3: "There's a big celebrity culture that you'd have to be here in L.A. to truly understand." No. 4: "Being a celebrity, knowing celebrities, working with celebrities, writing about celebrities, feeding celebrities, repairing celebrity cars, and photographing celebrities – these are just some of the elements of our local economy. There is no end to the public's fascinating with all things (and people) celebrity."
Published: March 2009 (hardcover). Paperback due out in March 2010.
Furthermore: News reports that have appeared since the publication of this book suggest that Candy and Tori spelling have mended their fences.
Janice Harayda satirizes American literary culture, such as it is, on her FakeBookNews page on Twitter www.twitter.com/FakeBookNews.
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Sarah Palin a Naive Cynic?
Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 12, 2011
Situationist Contributors Adam Benforado and Jon Hanson have written extensively about a dynamic they call "naive cynicism."
Their work explores how dispositionism maintains its dominance despite the fact that it misses so much of what actually moves us. It argues that the answer lies in a subordinate dynamic and discourse, naive cynicism: the basic subconscious mechanism by which dispositionists discredit and dismiss situationist insights and their proponents. Without it, the dominant person schema – dispositionism – would be far more vulnerable to challenge and change, and the more accurate person schema – situationism – less easily and effectively attacked. Naive cynicism is thus critically important to explaining how and why certain legal policies manage to carry the day.
Naive cynicism often takes the form of a backlash against situationism that involves an affirmation of existing dispositionist notions and an assault on (1) the situationist attributions themselves; (2) the individuals, institutions, and groups from which the situationist attributions appear to emanate; and (3) the individuals whose conduct has been situationalized. If one were to boil down those factors to one simple naive-cynicism-promoting frame for minimizing situationist ideas, it would be something like this: Unreasonable outgroup members are attacking us, our beliefs, and the things we value.
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Is Sarah Palin exhibiting that dynamic? Below the video of her remarks you can read some excerpts from the transcript.
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It's inexcusable and incomprehensible why a single evil man took the lives of peaceful citizens that day.
There is a bittersweet irony that the strength of the American spirit shines brightest in times of tragedy. We saw that in Arizona. We saw the tenacity of those clinging to life, the compassion of those who kept the victims alive, and the heroism of those who overpowered a deranged gunman.
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President Reagan said, "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.
The last election was all about taking responsibility for our country's future.
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Vigorous and spirited public debates during elections are among our most cherished traditions. And after the election, we shake hands and get back to work, and often both sides find common ground back in D.C. and elsewhere. If you don't like a person's vision for the country, you're free to debate that vision. If you don't like their ideas, you're free to propose better ideas. But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.
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As I said while campaigning for others last March in Arizona during a very heated primary race, "We know violence isn't the answer. When we 'take up our arms', we're talking about our vote." Yes, our debates are full of passion, but we settle our political differences respectfully at the ballot box – as we did just two months ago, and as our Republic enables us to do again in the next election, and the next. That's who we are as Americans and how we were meant to be. Public discourse and debate isn't a sign of crisis, but of our enduring strength. It is part of why America is exceptional.
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No one should be deterred from speaking up and speaking out in peaceful dissent, and we certainly must not be deterred by those who embrace evil and call it good. And we will not be stopped from celebrating the greatness of our country and our foundational freedoms by those who mock its greatness by being intolerant of differing opinion and seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults.
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America must be stronger than the evil we saw displayed last week. We are better than the mindless finger-pointing we endured in the wake of the tragedy.
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You can review a list of related Situationist links in the following post: "The Tragedy in Tucson: What Do You Think?."
In addition, here are few more:
- "The Great Attributional Divide,"
- "Naive Cynicism,"
- "Legal Academic Backlash – Abstract,"
- "Emily Pronin on the Situation of Bias,"
- "Asymmetric Introspection and Extrospection," and
- "The Situation of Polarization."
Finally, you can review all of the Situationist posts related to naive cynicism by clicking here.
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January 12, 2011 at 5:06 pm
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January 13, 2011 at 9:29 pm
I don't care for Palin's politics, but she's on right side of the story here. The media and the snearing sushi-eating elitists initially blamed the shooting on the "situation" of a "climate of hate" and inferred that it was related to Palin or the immigration debate. Then the dispositionist truth came out that the killer was insane. Palin called out her slanderers. Instead of showing contrition they are frothing at the mouth and doubling down on their open contempt for blue collar whites and their symbolic representative.
January 14, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Suggesting that Palin is a naive cynic may be giving her too much credit, at least in terms of ideological consistency. Consider her interview with the Today Show in which she takes a situationist perspective and blames David Letterman for contributing to a culture that systematically downgrades the confidence of and disparages young women. Attribution works in mysterious ways, it seems, as our unhinged political figures attempt to make sense of the world.
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Equal playing fields
The Equal Playing Field campaign aims to eradicate gender inequality in sport. Its mission is to develop sports for girls and women around the world and especially in underdeveloped countries. Currently, there are 30 million girls and women playing soccer in countries around the world, but significant cultural and financial barriers are hindering their participation. The Equal Playing Field campaign promotes gender equality in sports through grassroots training and empowerment programmes. It has representation in 32 countries across six continents.
Many critics claim that Fiverr does not provide an equal playing field for international sellers despite the fact it claims to be fair to both buyers and sellers. Buying cheap services from sellers from less developed cultures tends to favor people from poorer cultures. YouTuber Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg used Indian sellers in a controversial video with an antisemitic message. PewDiePie apologized for using the services of Indian Fiverr sellers, but this is unlikely to change the fact that the Fiverr community is not free from discrimination.
One major flaw with Fiverr's model is that it is unethical and punishes buyers for choosing inferior quality freelancers. Fiverr's model relies on supply and is productized. It allows freelancers the opportunity to create gigs and make money from their work. Fiverr is not ethical because it lacks professional standards. If buyers can't tell the difference between a cheap product and a good service, then their ratings will be completely arbitrary and disproportionate to the quality of the work.
A third problem with the model is the lack of respect for customer service. Fiverr's customers, while undoubtedly entitled, are ignorant and naive. Fiverr is trying to exploit an underprivileged, entitled market by promoting itself as a savvy operator. It hopes that customers won't realize they aren't getting professional service. The resulting disparity in standards may deter prospective customers.
An online marketplace for businesses and freelancers
Fiverr is an online marketplace that allows freelancers and businesses to buy and sell services. Buyers can choose from a variety of services and products, and the site will help them choose the right one. The service offers a free mobile app for iPhone and Android users, and the platform is backed by a team of experienced professionals. Freelancers have the ability to list their skills and create a portfolio that showcases their work.
The marketplace structure is similar to an eCommerce store. It includes the names of sellers as well as examples of their work. Buyers can compare the quality of services offered by each seller by viewing their portfolios. They can also read their profile, which includes a detailed overview of their services and a timeline for delivery. It is important to research freelancers before you hire them. Fiverr can help you if you aren't sure what you are looking for.
Founded in 2010, Fiverr is a two-sided marketplace that connects businesses with freelancers. Buyers can either buy or sell digital services to sellers. It is a transparent marketplace which makes it easy to hire freelancers and eliminates the friction associated with freelancing. Fiverr can be used by businesses to find professional freelancers at a fraction the cost.
Fiverr is a different platform than Upwork, which focuses more traditional freelancing. Buyers post a job listing on Upwork and freelancers bid on it. Then, the freelancer offers their services. Typically, buyers will choose one or more of the services. Fiverr allows buyers to pay in advance, which makes the payment process smoother. It also offers packages that allow clients the ability to purchase multiple services at once.
Since its inception, the company has raised more than $50 million. Fiverr founders didn't seek funding for the company when they started it. They wanted to create a business that could grow organically without relying on outside investors. The strategy paid off: revenues increased by 77 percent in fiscal 2020, but the site still suffered losses of $14.8million.
An easy way to get a freelancer involved
There are many ways to get a freelancer involved with Fivelr, and one of the easiest is by selling your services. First, create appealing titles and descriptions of your gigs. This will cut down on the back and forth with potential customers. Fiverr will notify anyone who orders a gig. The buyer will pay you in advance, and you will get 80 percent of the total purchase price.
Then, create your profile and begin bidding on jobs. You can then get started on the website free of charge. You can bid for jobs in many areas, including web design, marketing, and writing. You can expect to make a decent income if you have a high-quality profile. However, the quality of the work you do will vary depending on the service you provide.
Upwork is another popular freelance marketplace. You can search for project types and browse expert profiles on Upwork. After you select an expert, you'll be able to access a virtual workspace that you can use to work on the project. The best part is that the platform has security measures in place to protect you from scams. Upwork has a huge list of projects that cover all levels of expertise. This means you can find jobs that suit your skills and budget.
You can also start your own business to get freelancers involved with the site. This website is different from a traditional job board. It allows service providers to set up a storefront, and clients can choose from pre-defined gigs. To become a Fiverr, you will need to create a $5 gig and get approved by Fiverr. This is a good way to start a freelancer business.


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We Need to Move On
The problem the Celtics have right now is they don't give a crap. Rondo is a shell of himself. I don't care if your best friend got traded. You're a professional basketball player. Deal with it and start playing with passion again. You are awesome at life, start acting like it.
Jeff Green is better than he has shown. I watched him live last night and the guy definitely has game, he's just not a perfect fit for this system. We may want to put him in with the starters more. Shaq's absence has obviously been huge. For anyone who didn't expect this type of thing to happen you are living in a dream world. We need Shaq for 15-18 minutes to grab boards and defend. Call me a dreamer but I think he can do it.
At the end of the day what do we get out of discussing the what ifs? It's over, the deal is done. I read something about comparing Perk to an ex-girlfriend. Well, we all know reminiscing about the good old days with your ex isn't healthy and neither is this. We are Celtics fans first, not Perk fans. I miss Perk as much as anyone else and wish him the best. We can get comfort knowing he's in a better situation now with a young, up and coming Thunder team. Let it go people. I still believe in Banner 18, do you?


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Henry Denander by Henry Denander
Poetry Dispatch No. 279 | April 30, 2009
6 Poems
Writing, Writers, Fatherhood, Marriage, Jazz, Jazz Musicians, Fame
Much More
My first encounter with Henry Denander was not the written word but the image.
Evidence of him. His art. His watercolors. In the summer, 2007 issue of my friend, t.k. splake's (and artistic ed., Jikiwe's) putting-it-all-together, as they did, in a lively, color drenched, fine-papered, got-your-attention little 'off-the-road' lit-mag from Up-North/copper-country, Michigan: THE CLIFFS, "Soundings". (That may or may not still exist, given the short life-span of these heartfelt, time/dollar-wrenching, often thankless endeavors).
A treat to the eye. A keen eye to the 'Beat'-ing word. I saw Henry's front cover of a guy with a tall, yellow hat, a hand, a blue rabbit-cat, a couple of mountains off in the distance, a house, maybe the sun (and saw something/someone in this instantly), then flipped it over to the back cover, and…ah, Jazzy…sax-man in blue, blowing fire down his horn, blowing his scrambled gold head off. Yes. I've been here before. I know the color of this music…
Bring front and back covers together and what I saw/see in Henry, was one I've harbored in my imaginary/image-marrying of words and paint, of my own self for more than forty years: Miller time. (Not the beer.) But the Henry Miller time-man who taught many a writer: Though it's all in the words—it's in the watercolor too. Drink it all. Work a little color in those hands.
What I'm saying is I found another compadre. Immediately. A writer-painter-man after my own heart. And if there was any doubt, all I had to do was open the front cover, and there it all was on the fly-leaf. Miller's Greece. Henry's Greek Island of Hydra; my Greek Island of Rhodes, village of Lindos. All the white houses watercolor-washing down to the blue Aegean.
One way or another all that we love…we meet all again–in spirit. It's not a matter of being unable to go home again. It's a matter of knowing where to find it—the words and pictures that put you there when you need it.
I HARDLY KNOW THIS GUY! But I do. In that instance of image alone. And know him even better as I grow more familiar with his written lines. You'll see what I mean, those reading him for the first time. You'll find yourself smiling when you least expect it. (Oh, yeah…he got that right.) Smile..
It was not my intention to say much here. I've said enough already. Henry can more than speak for himself in words and images. I just want to introduce or re-introduce you to delight. In case you need it. Or are looking.
There are those, I know, who may find these poems too simple, too easy, "just talk." I think Locklin put it best in his Foreword to Henry's, I KNOW WHAT SHE WILL SAY: "…contemporary poetry can be about anything and it can be in any format and style (as long as it has the properties of music, and even they may be inconspicuous)."
Even so, I still see at least one critic "harumpfing" in the distance, not buying it, whether the music goes 'round an' round" or not.
'Hey,' I'm fixing to say: "Everything's a poem. When you're there, it's there. The problem is getting there. —Norbert Blei
Airhead by Henry Denander
for some years i have been trying to write
poetry, my literary heroes like bukowski and
locklin and fante (both John and dan) were
writing in english and all my friends in the
literary world were in america so i started to
write in english as well.
when i recently read a poem by locklin i felt how poor
my language was when i saw how beautifully he writes
and how broad his language is and how he uses words
that i didn't even know about.
being Swedish my english vocabulary is not
very big of course.
now i've bought a synonym lexicon, suddenly
i realize there are many words to choose from,
many of the words i find in this book i have
never seen before but they sound really nice
when i try to pronounce them.
i will use some of them in my next poem.
conceivably the solitary negative aspect is that
my acquaintances who appreciate me and my
written and verbal communication will not be
sufficiently proficient to recognize my
technique in my forthcoming poems.
[from: I KNOW WHAT SHE WILL SAY, Foreword by Gerald Locklin, Bottle of Smoke Press, 503 Tuliptree Square, Leesburg, VA 20176, $5 ]
Keith Jarrett? | by Henry Denander
headache & a cup of coffee
keith jarrett is fingering away
some well known melodies
all by himself
more controlled than he usually is
hesitating to take off without the bass
and the drums
perhaps waiting for them
to arrive
trying to get the guts to go to the office
and do some work this Saturday but i 've got a headache and
i ended up in front of the computer
my wife and young son are visiting the Mother-in-law
over the weekend
i will call them later
tell them i have been working all day
i am surfing on the net and sending emails and answering letters and
writing a long poem
about the time i met chet baker in london
in 1986
making a cup of coffee from the greek coffee that we brought home
from hydra
it's nescafe but in the greek way
tastes great
stir it into hot milk and you are
in java paradise
it started to snow again yesterday
bad news
now it's five in the afternoon and
still light outside
i think the winter
wtil slowly leave now
thinking of writing a poem about just nothing
or perhaps about the things i have been doing today
i'll think about it
we'll see
[from: I KNOW WHAT SHE WILL SAY, Bottle of Smoke Press, 2002, 503 Tuliptree Square, Leesburg, VA 20176, $5 ]
The Denander family by Henry Denander
The last stanza
I had a letter from a magazine editor
saying he passed on my poems, which
is fine of course, but in the end he
added that he really liked one of my
poems up to the last stanza which he
didn't like at all.
I liked the letter from the editor except
his last stanza.
[from: WEEKS LIKE THIS, Poems & Artwork, Bottle of Smoke Press, 2005]
Blue Guitar by Henry Denander
I told my wife about the incident at
our son's school today when a new
girl in his class asked me if I was
William's grandfather.
-If it had been someone else
maybe they would have taken it
really badly but for me it was OK,
I am cool, I said
-But you're not THAT cool about it
are you? my wife said, rubbing it
And later when I shaved off my three
weeks old grey beard I thought that
maybe she was right.
[from: WEEKS LIKE THIS, Poems & Artwork, Bottle of Smoke Press, 2005]
Miles Davis by Henry Denander
Jazz memory
I called Anders and we tried to remember how many times
we had seen Miles Davis in concert in Stockholm over the
years and we double-checked with a discography of all
his live recordings.
Anders was not sure but he vaguely remembered that we'd
been to the concert in 1982 at Konserthuset when Mike
Stern and Marcus Miller had been in the band.
I wasn't sure at all.
But Anders remembered that one time we had been out
drinking before a Miles Davis gig and we had been really
drunk at the concert. This must have been the 1982
It must have been a great concert—we don't remember
[from: WEEKS LIKE THIS, Poems & Artwork, Bottle of Smoke Press, 2005]
Blues for Retirement – based on Gerald Locklin's poem by Henry Denander
Our neighbor on the next floor is a well-
known author. His latest book was a big
event here in Sweden. It's 794 pages
long and I am mentioned in the book. In
one sentence he writes that he wakes up
in the middle of the night and can't go
back to sleep because his neighbor is
snoring so loudly. If these were my
fifteen words of fame perhaps I was
expecting something more.
[from: I KNOW WHAT SHE WILL SAY, Bottle of Smoke Press, 2002, 503 Tuliptree Square, Leesburg, VA 20176, $5 ]
Kamini Press by Henry Denander
was started in 2007, named after a small village on Hydra island. The editor has had his summer house there for 12 years and the name is in homage to some former "neigbours" in the village. In 1939 Henry Miller arrived together with Katsimbalis (the Colossus himself) to visit the artist Ghikas in his mansion overlooking the Kamini harbour. Miller describes this in "The Colossus of Maroussi". The ruins of Ghikas' house are still there. The poet, author and singer Leonard Cohen's house is also close by in the Kamini village. It was there that he wrote many of his songs and books. The beautiful photograph on the back cover of "Songs From a Room" was taken in his Kamini house.
Kamini Press publishes fine poetry in handmade, self assembled chapbooks, usually together with original cover art. Most books also come in limited editions with watercolors.
No rush jobs, one book per year was the idea, but this is flexible and we try to keep up the tempo.
We like to present the poetry in a good way, to respect the writers. We agree with the great publisher William Packard of the New York Quarterly, who said he wanted to present the printed poem in the best possible way; he thought that "bad printing and mediocre book design inevitably militate against a fair reading of a poem". He even found different typeface for each poem in his magazine. We don't do that, but we agree on his thoughts.
We do not take submissions at this time, as we have plans already for the next two years.


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Tagged: Cincinnati
Let's get this party started!
Finally! The Marlins have come back to Miami! Just like The Rock says (haha). It has been busy, busy, busy — so I haven't been able to blog as much as I like, but we are ready to get this party started. The stadium looks nicer and nicer every time we get in there because they are still adding the finishing touches. It seems as though it's going to be a loud place to play, and that's awesome. Hopefully it provides a home field advantage for us.
We played the Yankees yesterday and again today. All I have to say is: Wow, we scored two runs off of Mariano Rivera, and that never happens. Hopefully it's a sign of good things to come. Some of our key guys got hits like Mike Stanton and Logan Morrison (LoMo). If those guys stay healthy like we need them to, we should be alright.
The champion St. Louis Cardinals come into town on Wednesday for the opener, and then we hit the road right away for Cincinnati and Philadelphia. It would be nice if we are able to set the tone early. I love the energy from our guys so far. Maybe the energy comes from us being a young team, but they have been fun to watch so far.
We are so close to what we have all been working towards: OPENING DAY! No other sport does Opening Day like baseball does, and it shows. It's always a special day for me; I'm very happy that this is going to be my 27th Opening Day. I consider myself very blessed to have been around for that long and to be given this opportunity with the Marlins. Now let's kick some ass!


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Last week it was announced that Willow Smith was no longer attached to the Annie remake being produced by her father Will Smith and Jay Z.
Over the weekend Will explained why Willow dropped out. While promoting Sister Soulja's new book 'A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story' at Temple University, Will explained,
"In the past eighteen months, I have spent a lot of time focusing on the emotional aspect of my life and my family. In 2010, in one year, our family had the "Karate Kid", we had "Whip my Hair", we had Hawthorne, and at the end of the year, we did the Nobel Concert when Barack Obama won his Nobel Peace Prize. Don't be clapping yet, that wears you out. The thing that had become very clear to me is the danger of a material world and focusing so hard on coming up with money or a house or a job. You focus so hard on those things, and sometimes you can lose focus on why you are doing it in the first place. The only reason to do any of that is to have love."
"Willow was supposed to be doing "Annie", we got Jay-Z to do the movie, got the studio to come in and Willow had such a difficult time on tour with "Whip my Hair" and she said, "You know Daddy, I don't think so" and I said, "baby, hold up! I said no,no,no, listen, you'll be in New York with all of your friends and Beyoncé will be there. You will be singing and dancing," and she looked at me and said, "Daddy, I have a better idea, how about I just be 12."
"I'm really learning through Willow the necessity that we have to snap ourselves back and refocus on the emotional needs of the people that we love. Someone's emotional needs can be very very different from your dreams and what you think they should be doing and where they are supposed to be."


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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — An aggressive President Barack Obama accused challenger Mitt Romney of peddling a "sketchy deal" to fix the U.S. economy and playing politics with the deadly terrorist attack in Libya in a Tuesday night debate crackling with energy and emotion just three weeks before the election.
Romney pushed back hard, saying the middle class "has been crushed over the last four years" under Obama's leadership and that 23 million Americans are still struggling to find work. He contended the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya was part of an unraveling of the administration's foreign policy.
The president was feistier from the outset than he had been in their initial encounter two weeks ago, when he turned in a listless performance that sent shudders through his supporters and helped fuel a rise by Romney in opinion polls nationally and in some battleground states.
When Romney said Tuesday night that he had a five-point plan to create 12 million jobs, Obama said, "Gov. Romney says he's got a five-point plan. Gov. Romney doesn't have a five-point plan. He has a one-point plan. And that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules."
Obama and Romney disagreed, forcefully and repeatedly — about taxes, the bailout of the auto industry, measures to reduce the deficit, energy, pay equity for women and health care as well as foreign policy across 90 minutes of a town-hall style debate.
Immigration prompted yet another clash, Romney saying Obama had failed to pursue the comprehensive legislation he promised at the dawn of his administration, and the president saying Republican obstinacy made a deal impossible.
Romney gave as good as he got.
"You'll get your chance in a moment. I'm still speaking," the former Massachusetts governor said at one point while Obama was mid-sentence, drawing a gasp from the audience. He said the president's policies had failed to jumpstart the economy and had cramped energy production.
The open-stage format left the two men free to stroll freely across a red-carpeted stage, and they did. Their clashes crackled with energy and tension, and the crowd watched raptly as the two sparred while struggling to appear calm and affable before a national television audience.
While most of the debate was focused on policy differences, there was one more-personal moment, when Obama said Romney had investments in China.
"Mr. President, have you looked at your pension?" Romney interrupted.
"You know, I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours," shot back Obama to his wealthier rival.
Obama noted Romney's business background to rebut his opponent's plans to fix the economy and prevent federal deficits from climbing ever higher.
"Now, Gov. Romney was a very successful investor. If somebody came to you, Governor, with a plan that said, here, I want to spend $7 or $8 trillion, and then we're going to pay for it, but we can't tell you until maybe after the election how we're going to do it, you wouldn't take such a sketchy deal and neither should you, the American people, because the math doesn't add up."
Countered Romney, a few minutes later, "It does add up."
Under the format agreed to in advance, members of an audience of 82 uncommitted voters posed questions to the president and his challenger.
Nearly all of them concerned domestic policy until one raised the subject of the recent death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya in a terrorist attack at an American post in Benghazi. Romney said it took Obama a long time to admit the episode had been a terrorist attack, but Obama said he had said so the day after in an appearance in the Rose Garden outside the White House.
When moderator Candy Crowley of CNN said the president had in fact done so, Obama, prompted, "Say that a little louder, Candy."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has taken responsibility for the death of Ambassador L. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, but Obama said bluntly, "I'm the president, and I'm always responsible."
Romney said it was "troubling" that Obama continued with a campaign event in Las Vegas on the day after the attack in Libya, an event the Republican said had "symbolic significance and perhaps even material significance."
Obama seemed to bristle. He said it was offensive for anyone to allege that he or anyone in his administration had used the incident for political purposes. "That's not what I do."
According to the transcript, Obama said on Sept. 12, "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for."
One intense exchange focused on competing claims about whether energy production is increasing or slowing. Obama accused Romney of misrepresenting what has happened — a theme he returned to time and again. Romney strode across the stage to confront Obama face to face, just feet from the audience.
Both men pledged a better economic future to a young man who asked the first question, a member of a pre-selected audience of 82 uncommitted voters.
Then the president's determination to show a more aggressive side became evident.
"That's been his philosophy in the private sector," Obama said of his rival. "That's been his philosophy as governor. That's been his philosophy as a presidential candidate. You can make a lot of money and pay lower tax rates than somebody who makes a lot less."
"You can ship jobs overseas and get tax breaks for it. You can invest in a company, bankrupt it, lay off the workers, strip away their pensions and you still make money. That's exactly the philosophy that we've seen in place for the last decade," the president said in a scorching summation.
Unable to respond at length because of the debate's rules, Romney said the accusations were "way off the mark."
But moments later, he reminded the national television audience of the nation's painfully slow recovery from the worst recession in decades.
There are "23 million people struggling to find a job. ... The president's policies have been exercised over the last four years and they haven't put America back to work," he said. "We have fewer people working today than when he took office."
Economic growth has been slow throughout Obama's term in office, and unemployment only recently dipped below 8 percent for the first time since he moved into the White House. Romney noted that if out-of-work Americans who no longer look for jobs were counted, the unemployment rate would be 10.7 percent.
Both men had rehearsed extensively for the encounter, a turnabout for Obama.
"I had a bad night," the president conceded, days after he and Romney shared a stage for the first time, in Denver. His aides made it known he didn't intend to be as deferential to his challenger this time, and the presidential party decamped for a resort in Williamsburg, Va., for rehearsals that consumed the better part of three days.
Romney rehearsed in Massachusetts and again after arriving on Long Island on debate day, with less to make up for.
Asked Tuesday night by one member of the audience how he would differ from former President George W. Bush, the last Republican to hold the office, Romney said, "We are different people and these are different times."
He said he would attempt to balance the budget, something Bush was unsuccessful in doing, get tougher on China and work more aggressively to expand trade.
Obama jumped in with his own predictions — not nearly as favorable to the man a few feet away on stage. He said the former president didn't attempt to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood or turn Medicare into a voucher system.
Though the questions were from undecided voters inside the hall — in a deeply Democratic state — the audience that mattered most watched on television and was counted in the tens of millions. Crucially important: viewers in the nine battlegrounds where the race is likely to be settled.
The final debate, next Monday in Florida, will be devoted to foreign policy.
Opinion polls made the race a close one, with Obama leading in some national surveys and Romney in others. Despite the Republican's clear gains in surveys in recent days, the president led in several polls of Wisconsin and Ohio, two key Midwestern battlegrounds where Romney and running mate Paul Ryan are campaigning heavily.
Barring a last-minute shift in the campaign, Obama is on course to win states and the District of Columbia that account for 237 of the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. The same is true for Romney in states with 191 electoral votes.
The remaining 110 electoral votes are divided among the hotly contested battleground states of Florida (29), North Carolina (15), Virginia (13) New Hampshire (4), Iowa (6), Colorado (9), Nevada (6), Ohio (18) and Wisconsin (10).
Obama has campaigned in the past several days by accusing Romney of running away from some of the conservative positions he took for tax cuts and against abortion earlier in the year when he was trying to win the Republican nomination.
"Maybe you're wondering what to believe about Mitt Romney," says one ad, designed to remind voters of the Republican's strong opposition to abortion except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at stake.
Romney countered by stressing both in person and through his television advertising the slow pace of the economic recovery, which has left growth sluggish and unemployment high throughout Obama's term. Joblessness recently declined to 7.8 percent, dropping below 8 percent for the first time since the president took office.