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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Tom Izzo isn't happy with where his Michigan State Spartans are headed.

After being outscored by 14 points in the second half of Sunday's disappointing 68-60 loss at No. 18 Ohio State, the coach of the fourth-ranked Spartans took a hard look at his team as it heads into its final three regular-season games and the postseason.

"I haven't seen the same grit since after that Michigan game," he said of a 75-52 rout three games ago over the then-No. 4 Wolverines at home on Feb. 12. "We're not coming in not playing hard. We played hard against Indiana, they just beat us. I just thought today you give up that many layups — 57 percent shooting in the second half — they should run me out of town."

That isn't going to happen, not to a longtime coach with a 434-175 record, one national championship, six Final Fours and seven Big Ten titles.

But it's a mark of how dissatisfied he is with his team's play over the last three games that he continually reflected on what was plaguing the Spartans.

The loss crippled the Spartans' hopes of catching up with top-ranked Indiana, which now leads the Big Ten race by two full games with four remaining.

Freshman Gary Harris had 14 points, Derrick Nix 12 and Adreian Payne 12 points and 15 rebounds for the Spartans (22-6, 11-4), who have dropped two in a row after winning 11 of 12.

"Yeah, it's difficult. We put ourselves in a corner," Payne said of the situation the Spartans find themselves in in the Big Ten. "Now we have to win games. We have to win all of our games. It's tough, but it's something we've got to overcome."

There was plenty of blame to go around.

"It was a joint screw-up," Izzo added.

The Spartans have a week off until playing at archrival Michigan, then complete a stretch of four games against ranked opponents with a home game on March 7 against Wisconsin.

"The problem is when you're in a league where you play three, four or five ranked teams in a row, it takes its toll," Izzo said. "We did it a little early, and we're doing it again now. It all depends on how the schedule falls. You've got to survive."

Aaron Craft, who had scored just 17 points in his last three games, shredded the Spartans' defense on a succession of slashing drives right through the heart of the lane to score a career-high 21 points for the Buckeyes (20-7, 10-5).

The irony is that Michigan State did a terrific job on Deshaun Thomas, the Buckeye who came in leading the Big Ten in scoring at 20.1 points a game. He managed to make just 4 of 16 shots from the field, finishing with 14 points.

But Thomas did have a big 3-pointer that got Ohio State going after the Spartans built a 36-27 lead on Payne's baseline jumper 90 seconds into the second half.

Craft missed a shot that was tipped out to Thomas on the right side and he drained the long-range shot. It started a 24-5 run that flipped the game around.

"It was nine and they got the missed shot and Deshaun got the tip-out 3," Harris said. "That was the turning point of the game."

Yet the Spartans, who fell behind by as many as 10 points, weren't done yet.

Two foul shots apiece by Nix, Payne and Harris pulled them to 61-59, but Craft sped by Keith Appling for a lunging layup with 2:22 left.

After a free throw by Appling, Evan Ravenel, the only senior on Ohio State's roster, was fouled and he hit both shots to push the lead to 65-60 with 1:13 remaining.

Ravenel then blocked an Appling shot to end any possibility of a comeback.

Izzo was asked if this was a good time to have a week between games.

"It's a good time for a week off — maybe two, three weeks," he said, his voice trailing off.

This could be a strenuous week for the Spartans, to say the least. The way Izzo talked, he might just be ready to push his players hard to impress upon them the importance of what lies ahead.

"That whole thing is going to fall on me," he said. "I've got to do a better job this week in practice. I am disappointed we haven't shown the grit we showed in the last two games — which normally happens when you get fat and sassy. I think we've gotten a little bit of that."

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UCF 31-7 run shatters Louisville’s BCS title hopes

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Everything was going Louisville’s way. After taking a 14-7 lead in to halftime, the Cardinals stormed out to a commanding 28-7 lead midway through the third quarter. But Central Florida put together a 31-7 run from that point on and snapped Louisville’s undefeated season with a thrilling, down-to-the-wire 38-35 victory.

Louisville took  28-7 lead when a James Quick picked up a botched snap on a Central Florida punt and returned it for a touchdown a couple of minutes after Dominique Brown‘s 20-yard touchdown run sparked a wild second half. Central Florida rallied to tie the game late in the third quarter, with Storm Johnson getting in from the one-yard line an scored on a 20-yard touchdown pass from Blake Bortles just minutes later. William Stanback added a 12-yard touchdown run with 30 seconds left in the third quarter as the Knights seized momentum in the game and started to wear down Louisville.

Central Florida took their first lead of the game midway through the fourth quarter when Shawn Moffitt kicked a 34-yard field goal to cap a time-consuming 10-play drive spanning 52 yards in a little over five minutes of play. With the fate of the game, season and perhaps a shot at a national championship on the line, Teddy Bridgewater responded by driving the Cardinals 88 yards in nine plays for a touchdown an the lead. Brown’s 15-yard line down the left sideline showed great foot work and balance and seemed to give Louisville a moment to breathe a sigh of relief. But with three minutes still on the clock and timeouts to spare, it proved to be too much time left for George O’Leary‘s Knights.

Bortles was methodic in guiding Central Florida down field and showed great poise and composure. The Knights strung together a patient 11-play drive for 75 yards capped by a two-yard touchdown, and game-winning, pass to Jeff Godfrey for his third catch of the night. There would be no more important catch in the game, because Louisville’s final second desperation Hail Mary fell incomplete in the end zone.

As the pigskin fell to the ground in the end zone, the visions of a crystal ball may have shattered with it. The loss undoubtedly removes Louisville from the BCS championship picture, barring a most-bizarre sequence of events around the country moving forward. The scenario for Louisville to make a BCS title run left little with regard to margin of error. The Cardinals had to run the table in the regular season to even be in the conversation at the end of the season largely due to the national perception of the strength of The American. Louisville may still have a shot to reach a BCS bowl game of course, and they may still be the team to beat in the conference, but now they are chasing Central Florida.

Perhaps Central Florida has already taken on the role of the top program in The American as well. The Knights have scored road wins at Penn State and Louisville this season and they gave South Carolina a very respectable fight. There may not be a team in the conference that can boats the profile Central Florida has put together. This win should bring Central Florida back in to the top 25 rankings on Sunday. The focus can now officially transition to Central Florida’s path to their first BCS bowl berth, which is now coming in to focus.

The champion of The American will receive an automatic berth in the BCS bowl line-up, although there is no direct bowl tie-in. The remaining schedule does feature some tricky spots against Rutgers (4-2) and undefeated Houston (5-0), although Central Florida will get both of those conference foes at home in Orlando. The combined record of Central Florida’s remaining opponents is 12-21. UCF gets Rutgers and Houston at home.

But what about Bridgewater’s Heisman campaign? Had Louisville held on to win the game, Bridgewater would have had his finest Heisman moment of the year while driving Louisville down field in the fourth quarter for the win. Bridgewater ended his night with 341 yards and two touchdowns, but both touchdowns came in the first half. With the loss, Bridgewater will likely take a hit in the Heisman straw polls among voters, but we’ll leave that to our own Heisman pundit to worry about.

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  1. elwaysagenius says: Oct 19, 2013 12:01 AM

    This is why the Big East/AAC can’t have nice things.

  2. 407magic says: Oct 19, 2013 1:33 AM

    UCF! It’s been tough recruiting inat UCF with the big Florida 3, fsu, Uf, Miami. High five UCF

  3. themagicfanguy says: Oct 19, 2013 1:48 AM

    Good job Knights!

  4. vikingapologist says: Oct 19, 2013 2:12 AM

    Good game, but lost 3 parlays due to Ucf. C’mon man

  5. v2the4 says: Oct 19, 2013 2:37 AM

    good job UCF on the comeback victory and the biggest win in school history…a bunch of bubbles were burst tonight in Louisville…the cards hopes for a BCS title are now gone…their hopes for an AAC title are possibly up in smokes as well. and Teddy Bridgewater’s Heisman hopes are history.

    one a side note, why does UCF’s coach George O’Leary always have that snarl and growl on his face like a grouchy old man?

  6. jimbo75025 says: Oct 19, 2013 3:37 AM

    Great game.

    Congrat to UCF and to Coach O’Leary-he has always been a good coach in spite of that issue at ND a while back.

  7. pdcooper08 says: Oct 19, 2013 3:44 AM

    This is the reason why you just play the game.

    Sometimes the little guy just rises up and smacks you in the face, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

    Great game tonight and big win for UCF!!

  8. speedel says: Oct 19, 2013 4:57 AM

    still better then UF.

    SEC pride

  9. cwk22 says: Oct 19, 2013 8:23 AM

    Go knights – an alumni in Arkansas!

  10. divingdancer says: Oct 19, 2013 8:27 AM

    Come on, speedel, show some class. This is s story about a great game and a great win. Contrary to the belief of so many SEC fans, the world (even the world of college football) does not revolve around the SEC. Based on what I saw last night, UCF would handily beat half of the teams in the SEC. And it’s ok to admit that there are conferences all over the country that actually play some good football. But back to the story…

    The real story last night was the story of misplaced perceptions. Louisville, for whatever reason, has benefited from inflated perceptions of their program. It was enough to get them placed in the middle of the polls to begin with. After that, it was a matter of blind/ignorant poll voters letting them simply float upward as teams above them, with harder schedules, lost and they didn’t. The poll voters do a very poor job of actually ASSESSING the teams that they vote for each week. Instead they take the easy route, and just say “Well, one team above them lost, so they move up one spot”. Not Louisville’s fault. But definitely the fault of the broadcasters and “news” organizations that are complicit in this sham.

    And that’s how we get games like last night’s, in which the broadcasters dramatically proclaimed, on more than one occasion, “What’s on the line with this possession? A chance to play for the national championship!”.

    Just stop it! Louisville was never going to play for the national championship. They are a decent team. But their strength of schedule does not put them anywhere near the national championship discussion when push comes to shove. The computers were going to sort that out in the next few weeks. Yesterday’s broadcast comments were more about inflating the importance of the game, and trying to defend the rankings that they themselves contributed to. The idiot Heisman comments fall into the very same category.

    Too much of the discussion and media frenzy is simply a false platform intended to increase viewership and advertising. They seem to believe that a game is not worth watching if 1) it doesn’t have “championship implications”, or 2) it isn’t an SEC contest (a whole different discussion).

    Just let decent teams go out an play a great game of football. Leave the championship stumping, and Heisman stumping, out of it. It actually IS possible to play a very fun and exciting game without either of those factors being part of it. Last night’s game was a prime example. Two good, and very evenly matched, teams played a really exciting game. We, as fans, should demand that that be the real story. Let the shills play their stupid games. And let the football teams play theirs.

  11. phuckosu says: Oct 19, 2013 9:18 AM

    Do u ever proofread your articles before u publish them?

  12. thegamecocker says: Oct 19, 2013 9:39 AM

    It was a great game to watch on TV! Congrats to UCF and Coach O’Leary. UCF can stay with virtually any team from any conference. They are some very tough and focused football players and if they make it to a BCS game, Coach O’Leary deserves a BIG RAISE. I can see some major programs calling his name……

  13. raysfan1 says: Oct 19, 2013 10:41 AM

    You mean alumnus. Alumni is plural.

    Regardless, congratulations to your team on an amazing comeback.

  14. jimsjam33 says: Oct 19, 2013 11:13 AM

    Louisville has a really soft schedule . BCS powder puffs . UCF ?

  15. timh1955 says: Oct 19, 2013 1:51 PM

    Louisville NEVER should have been in the top 10 as they don’t play a single ranked team ALL season! Who do they think they are….Boise State?

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This is the first newsletter from the organizers of the Yet Another Perl Conference in Europe in 2008. We are would first like to apologize for taking so long with this first letter, but here it is, the first newsletter in relation to the YAPC::Europe 2008 conference.

So to give a little explanation as to why this newsletter has been so delayed.

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So we have been busy with a lot of stuff, but we have not stopped planning this years YAPC::Europe. Oh no - we organize all the time, even in our sleep. Anyway - we are slowly lining up what we believe will be a marvelous conference for all of you - so if you are undecided as to whether you should go, we say please come - we would very much like to have you attend the wonderful YAPC::Europe conference.

We are also currently in the process of evaluating the survey results from previous years: Birmingham and Vienna. A lot of thanks to the support and data we got from barbie and domm - thanks guys.

barbie will even set up a survey to finalize this years YAPC::Europe conference, so when it is time, please take the survey - your input is very valuable to organizers of YAPC::Europe conferences. We will send out a reminder when the survey becomes available.

We are currently looking into offering formal Perl training on different levels in conjunction with the YAPC::Europe 2008 conference. The plan is to do this in the days before (Monday-Tuesday) and just after (Saturday-Sunday) the actual conference. We do not have the facilities to do this ourselves so we are in dialogue with a external partner, with whom we have collaborated before.

More information on this training and what we can offer will follow in a future newsletter. If you however are interested in following the training, please do contact us, since your indication of interest can help us.

30-minute Talks

We have received a lot of talks and some of the submitters are addressing our constraint on talk duration. We have decided to limit the standard talks to 30 minutes, in our experience this is a good length for a talk and we have previously used the format for the Nordic Perl Workshop in 2007.

We want to be in a dialogue with the speakers, so speakers who have more to say than can fit into our format, are simply requested to split their presentations at the natural breaks so people can leave or join during the breaks.

And if the number of questions during the talk overwhelmes the speaker, we are very open to BoF sessions etc.

As we wrote earlier we are having some issues with our graphical image for YAPC::Europe 2008, we are working on a temporary solution, while we figure out the colour of our bikeshed. If you possess any sort of graphical or artistic ability and want to join the discussion or want to helps us close it, logo suggestions are very welcome - you will not be lured into our organizing team if we choose to use your logo, but we will certainly appreciate any sort of suggestions and contributions.

Please contact us at email if you are interested in helping us out.

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We are still accepting talks and there is room for plenty more talks. The deadline is Sunday, 25th. May 2008, so you have to get your talks sent to us shortly. Please see the Call for Papers for details.

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If there are specific speakers that you would like to hear, please send them a friendly mail, and let them know. Or tell us, and we'll poke them for you.

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This was all for now, the next newsletter will not be so long in the making, we still hope to see you in Copenhagen for 3 days of 'Beautiful Perl'.

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We'll meet by the Irish Pub (it is called Irish & Co, address Rua da Pimenta 17-21) at the Expo98 area. Wearing Perl t-shirts will help.

The Irish Pub is in the row of bars close to the river.

Take the subway to the Oriente station (it's the last station on the red line; see LisbonSubway for details on the Subway). Here's a googlemap of the route for folks coming from the Radisson hotel (also useful for those coming from the venue itself).

The Irish Pub is within walking distance from the Subway.

The Irish Pub is within walking distance from the Subway. Exit Oriente Station, walk to the east. Walk from Via Reciproca, Avenido de Berlim, Passeio do Cantabrico or Avendo Dom Joao II to the Avenido do Indico or Avenido do Pacifico. Cross the street (Alameda dos Oceanos) and go left (north) on this street. Walk into the next street on your right: Rua do Bojador. The Rua da Pimenta is the second street on your left.

Irish Pub

The Irish Pub serves food and drinks, and there are several other places around it to suit everyone's tastes when it comes to both food and drinks.

From that area you'll be able to see the Tagus river and also the longest bridge in Europe.

We strongly encourage you to walk a bit around and see the sights.

Please note that the pre-conference meetups are not part of the conference budget, so you are expected to fund your own beer and food expenses.

Some of the bars around the Irish Pub provide free wifi. 'Peter's' and 'Café da Palha' are two of them.

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Feature Improvements

    • The CODcast control panel can now optionally show the overhead map in the player list in games with 10 players or less.
    • Added the ability to view past seasons for all the leagues a team has been a part of in League History.
    • Background Downloading has been enabled on XBOX 360.

Multiplayer Issues Addressed

    • Resolved an issue where players were receiving an error message when trying to join a System Link or LAN Party lobby without internet connection.
    • Resolved Select Fire reverting back to default settings after a round transition.
    • Fixed a potential exploit using the Trophy System.
    • Addressed an issue with the Collector’s Edition camo un-equipping from weapons.
    • Addressed an issue with the Peacekeeper not appearing for players that join into a match that is already in progress.
    • Resolved an issue on Drone where the automatic doors at the weapon plant would trigger/destroy Lethal Equipment.
    • Addressed an issue with the highlight for the Dual Band Scope on players equipped with certain weapons.
    • Fixed an issue with the planted bomb disappearing at the “B” site on Hydro when the water floods.
    • Addressed an issue with the VTOL Warship not destroying if hit when exiting the map.
    • Players will now be able to complete the Shredder Scorestreak challenge using a Death Machine from a care package.
    • The Stealth Chopper no longer counts towards completion of the Chopper Hunter challenge.
    • Resolved an issue where planted Riot Shields were not getting destroyed by the gondolas in Downhill.
    • Resolved an issue with C4 and Bouncing Betty’s killing players on contact.
    • Fixed an issue where the Combat Axe would sometime destroy the Guardian.
    • Addressed a missing image issue with the Medals section of the Combat Record for new players.
    • Players with Hard Wired equipped will no longer lose their Care Package if throwing it while an enemy EMP Scorestreak is active.
    • Fixed an issue with bomb plants being automatically aborted while a Care Package or Hunter Killer Drone is equipped.
    • Hosts can now kick players in Custom Game lobbies.
    • Hint text for the Camera toggle in the Live Stream menu updated to include support for the XBOX 360 Kinect sensor.
    • Videos being rendered in the Theater will no longer be automatically canceled when the controller disconnects.
    • The CODcast UI is now displaying the flag for the Flag Carrier in the Objective column.
    • Addressed a button mapping issue in the Emblem Options menu.
    • Resolved an issue with the red crosshair appearing in the Target Finder when targeting an enemy equipped with Cold Blooded.
    • Fixed an issue with the stats tracking for the Executioner’s Accuracy in the Combat Record.
    • Fixed an issue where the Friends List showed a joinable/green arrow icon for players who were not playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
    • Resolved an issue where the turret in the northern building on Turbine would become unusable.
    • Addressed an issue with the Lightning Strike Scorestreak if the player had the tablet out during a host migration.
    • Fixed an issue with some weapons having invisible magazines from 3rd person animations during an automatic reload.
    • Resolved an issue on XBOX 360 with backing out of a Guest Account sign-in.
    • Addressed an issue where the game would sometimes crash after repeated host migrations.
    • Fixed knife lunge launching players on the Express map.
    • Fixed an issue where the player could get an empty War Machine or Death Machine when switching classes at the start of the match.
    • Addressed a loss of functionality for the player and guest when switching between Multiplayer and Zombies and having the guest switch back to Multiplayer.
    • Match clocks in Multi-Team and Free-for-All games modes no longer continue to tick down in Theater when a CODcast game is paused.
    • Resolved an issue where planting a Claymore in front of a crouched player with a Riot Shield would cause the Claymore to fly across the map.
    • Resolved a couple of overlapping UI issues when CODcasting.
    • Players can now turn the Voice Icon On/Off when CODcasting a match in Theater.

Gameplay Balancing

Spawn System Improvements:

    • Reduced the weight of positive team spawn influencers on owned Domination flags. This reduces cases in Domination where players may spawn near their team but also near danger.
    • Added more spawn points to Hijacked for Demolition and Kill Confirmed, which improves the spawn-picking algorithm on that map in those game modes.
    • Adjusted spawn influencers on Standoff for improved spawn-picking algorithms in all game modes.

    • MSMC: Recoil has been increased.
    • MSMC: Hip fire accuracy has been slightly reduced.
    • PDW57: Recoil has been increased.
    • PDW57: Hip fire accuracy has been slightly reduced.

    • KAP-40: Dual wield damage reduced.
    • KAP-40: Dual wield hip fire accuracy has been reduced.

    • MMS: Cold blooded now renders enemies almost completely invisible to MMS.

    • QBB-LSW: Medium range damage increased.
    • HAMR: Medium range damage increased.

Assault Rifles:

    • FAL OSW + Select Fire: Damage reduced when firing full auto.
    • SMR + Select Fire: Damage reduced when firing full auto.
    • Type 25: Move speed increased.
    • Type 25: Medium range damage increased.
    • SCAR: Long range damage increased.
    • SWAT-556: Long range damage increased.

    • M1216: Medium range damage increased.

Sniper Rifles:

    • Ballista + Iron Sight: Idle sway reduced.

Zombies Issues Addressed

    • Resolved several issues with exploitable areas in the Die Rise
    • Resolved several exploits in Green Run
    • Resolved network/connectivity issues that could occur in the frontend and lobbies.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ All these intentional walks to David Ortiz are becoming a good move _ for Mike Napoli and the Boston Red Sox, that is.

Napoli hit a grand slam right after Ortiz got a free stroll, Felix Doubront stifled the Yankees once again and the Boston Red Sox sent New York to its sixth loss in seven games, 11-1 Saturday night.

Napoli has batted four times this season after intentional walks to Ortiz. He’s produced in those spots, homering twice and driving in eight runs.

“My job is to be his protection,” Napoli said. “I like protecting him and maybe giving managers another thought.”

Daniel Nava added a three-run homer in the eighth inning that emptied the crowd. The aisles were full of fans streaming to the exits by the time Nava touched the plate, and a “Let’s go, Red Sox!” chant erupted when Stephen Drew homered in a three-run ninth.

The Red Sox stopped Phil Hughes’ recent run of success against them and evened this three-game series going into Sunday night’s wrapup. Boston won on a warm evening, with Yankees catcher Chris Stewart leaving after the fourth inning because of dehydration.

Napoli’s second slam of the season capped a five-run burst in the third and followed the one-out walk to Ortiz. Stewart and shortstop Jayson Nix visited Hughes when the count reached 2-2 _ Hughes said it was to change signs _ and Napoli lined the next pitch over the right-center fence for his fifth career slam.

“Maybe a little bit of an extra challenge,” Boston manager John Farrell said. “He responded well.”

Napoli admitted he was extra eager, and swung too hard at first. He then took a deep breath, relaxed and connected.

“You got one guy that’s struck out 75 times in 200 at-bats, one guy that’s struck 22 times in 150 at-bats coming into this series,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “To me, you’re looking for a strikeout in that situation.”

“It’s a situation where I don’t necessarily want to do it, either,” he said. “I don’t want to start putting people on base, but you’re trying to shut down an inning. I’m going to do what I think is the best thing to do. I thought the best thing to do was to try and get Napoli.”

The Red Sox had been outhomered by the Yankees 4-0 in their first four meetings this year. Napoli and Nava provided pop, and more _ Nava got four of Boston’s 18 hits and had an RBI grounder in the ninth, Napoli had three hits.

Doubront (4-2) won for the first time in five starts since his last victory on April 27. He permitted one run and six hits in six innings, striking out six.

The 25-year-old lefty with the slow, big-breaking curve has a 2.52 ERA in 10 career outings against the Yankees, including four straight quality starts last year.

“The adrenaline, facing those guys,” he said.

Robinson Cano was hitless in 12 career at-bats against Doubront before solving him for a single. The next time up, the All-Star took a wild swing and missed a 72 mph breaking ball by a lot.

Hughes (2-4) was pulled in the fifth when Napoli came up. The right-hander won his final three starts against Boston last year while allowing a total of three earned runs.

NOTES: Girardi said Stewart got “lightheaded” but was OK. … Napoli hit Boston’s fourth slam of the year. … Yankees 1B Mark Teixeira singled for his first hit of the season after coming off the disabled list a day earlier. … Red Sox CF Jacoby Ellsbury missed his second straight game because of tightness in his left groin. Farrell says he hasn’t ruled out Ellsbury returning Sunday night. … RHP Clay Buchholz (7-0, 1.73) is set to start for Boston in the series finale vs. RHP Hiroki Kuroda (6-3, 2.39). … The Yankees will host a day-night doubleheader (1:05 p.m./7:05 p.m.) on Aug. 20 against Toronto to make up for a rainout on May 19. … Bernando LaPallo, who says at 111 that he’s the oldest Yankees fan, was on the dirt near the dugout during batting practice and injured star Derek Jeter came over to greet him. “Hit some home runs,” LaPallo told Jeter. “I got to start playing first,” the All-Star answered. Born on Aug, 17, 1901, LaPallo says he first saw the team in person when it was called the Highlanders and played at Hilltop Park, its home until 1912. LaPallo says he met Babe Ruth even before he played for the Yankees or Red Sox.

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In a Solar System Not So Far Away

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Someday a team of men and women might board a spaceship and fly the 15 light-years to a small, low-mass star called Gliese 876. In its orbit they'll find a cold planet -- as yet unnamed -- of hydrogen and helium gases so enormous it's twice the mass of Jupiter. Newly discovered by San Francisco State researchers at the Lick Observatory in California, and further researched at the Keck I telescope in Hawaii, it's also the closest planet to our solar system ever found. There isn't another until you look 35 light-years -- 5.9 trillion miles -- away. It's also only the twelfth planet discovered in the universe. Since it formed around a red dwarf such as Gliese 876, the most common type of star in the universe, astronomers suspect there could be many more planets floating in solar neighborhoods near ours.


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Live blog: Danica defends Tony Stewart; Bowyer deal announced

By Nate Ryan, USA TODAY

USA TODAY's Nate Ryan live-blogged from NASCAR driver availability at Kansas Speedway today, offering up interview excerpts and breaking news.

6:20 p.m.: Greg Biffle will start Sunday's race where he finished last October: First. The rest of the top 10 are: Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Kasey Kahne, Paul Menard, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon. Kevin Harvick, tied with Carl Edwards for the points lead, is 14th.

6:10 p.m.: Greg Biffle knocked Roush Fenway Racing teammate Carl Edwards from the pole position. Kyle Busch is third, followed by Matt Kenseth and Kasey Kahne.

6 p.m.: Carl Edwards is atop qualifying with nearly two-thirds complete. The rest of the top five: Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, Kevin Harvick and Brian Vickers.

Still waiting to take a shot at Edwards: Greg Biffle, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon.

5:45 p.m.: With nearly half of all qualifying complete, Kevin Harvick is pacing the field with a 173,617-mph lap. Brian Vickers, Kurt Busch, Joey Logano and Scott Speed round out the top five.

5:30 p.m.: With 10 drivers completing their qualifying laps (and 36 remaining), Travis Kvapil occupies the top spot, followed by Dave Blaney, Reed Sorenson, Steve Wallace and Landon Cassill. Many big names have yet to run, however.

5:00 p.m.: Turner Motorsports, which has been in the news often this week because of the departure of Reed Sorenson, took the top two spots in the final Nationwide practice with Jason Leffler and Justin Allgaier. Steve Wallace ranked third, followed by Trevor Bayne and Danica Patrick.

Sorenson, who must qualify for Saturday's race on speed because he isn't guaranteed a spot in the race, was 18th fastest in the No. 82 of MacDonald Motorsports.

4:30 p.m.: Nationwide cars are on track for their final practice that runs until 5 p.m. ET. Sprint Cup qualiyfing will begin 10 minutes after that. Among the big names going out late in the session (when pole speeds often are achieved): Jeff Gordon (the 44th attempt among 46 drivers), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (41st in the order) and Kyle Busch (39th).

There also will a spotlight on Austin Dillon, who will be attempting to make his Sprint Cup debut. The grandson of championship team owner Richard Childress will be the 27th driver to make a qualifying attempt.

3:30 p.m.: Carl Edwards says the track in the Chase for the Sprint Cup that might worry him the most is Martinsville Speedway. The Roush Fenway Racing driver, who is tied for the points lead with Kevin Harvick after three races, said he's been up and down on the circuit's shorter tracks recently.

"Richmond was unreal; we were as fast as we've ever been," Edwards said. "We really struggled at Loudon. Eighth was a gift. I'm a little nervous about Martinsville. If we can find some things and pick up just a tiny bit of speed ... otherwise, that's a track where we'll fight and claw for a top 10. I'd like to be surprised, but I'm a little nervous about that one. ...I won't be finishing this race and thinking we're going to Martinsville to win it!"

Edwards was making a joking reference to a postrace vow after finishing third at Dover, where he radioed his team he would win at Kansas.

3 p.m.: Michael Waltrip Racing confirmed the addition of Clint Bowyer beginning with the 2012 season. Bowyer, who has driven for Richard Childress Racing the past six seasons in Cup, signed a three-year deal with MWR and 5-hour Energy as the primary sponsor.

The news conference opened with a light moment between Michael Waltrip and Bowyer, who once referred to Waltrip as "the worst driver in NASCAR" after a wreck at Bristol Motor Speedway three years ago.

Turning to Bowyer with a smile, Waltrip asked, "Did you say I was the worst driver ever? Or did you mean just during that period?"

"You never know when you have to eat those words," Bowyer said. "Today's the day. He promised me he'd be the best owner ever."

The 5-Hour Energy sponsorship is for 24 races, leaving a dozen unfilled. Waltrip is confident the team would find backing for Bowyer because of the driver's affable and energetic personality. "I love the way Clint conducts himself," said Waltrip, who is well known for being savvy with sponsors.

Bowyer joked his new sponsor would be easy to represent. "It was a huge transition from Jack Daniel's to Cheerios," Bowyer said of his last sponsor switch in 2009. "I can handle this one. It was an adjustment last time."

The company and Bowyer formed an alliance three months ago. There wasn't much light shed on why Bowyer couldn't stay at RCR despite having a sponsor lined up. "We talked to them about the 5-Hour deal, and they still couldn't put a deal together," Bowyer sasid. "Well, all right, we'll go somewhere else. That's what led to leaving RCR."

2:45 p.m.: It's shaping up as a balmy weekend with temperatures hovering in the mid 80s. But Denny Hamlin dismissed the suggestion that it might be the best weather weekend the track has experienced since its 2001 opening.

"It's not Sunday yet," Hamlin said, smiling. "We bring rain."

In a season that already has featured three postponements for rain, a Sprint Cup tire test earlier this week at Phoenix International Raceway was interrupted by a desert storm.

Sunday's forecast calls for a 20% chance of rain.

2:15 p.m.: Friday's lone Sprint Cup practice has concluded with Paul Menard pacing the field, followed by Clint Bowyer, Jeff Gordon, David Reutimann and Matt Kenseth. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch, David Ragan and Kasey Kahne rounded out the top 10.

Qualifying will occur later this afternoon, and there are two more Cup practices Saturday. It's the fourth consecutive week it's on a different day (Saturday at Chicagoland and Dover; Friday at New Hampshire), and some drivers said they prefer having it on Friday because it negates potential temperature changes and allows more time to tune their cars. When qualifying is held on Saturday, there is no practice time on the day before the race.

"I feel (it's) a better use of our time, tires and resources that we have at track where we have qualifying practice, qualifying and then we come back and have race practice tomorrow," Jimmie Johnson said. "It's so tough to do all of your race practice on a Friday and kind of help rubber in the track and then guess where the track is going to be come Sunday when you're back on the track. Weather conditions change a lot. I think it's tough, and it's exciting in a way we don't want it to be. If it puts on a better show for the fans, which I don't know how that really plays out then it probably needs to stay that we because we need to do everything we can to put on a great show. I don't know how it looks from the grandstands so that's the only catch there."

Said Kevin Harvick: "I would rather qualify on Friday after we get done practicing, and it is fresh in your mind. The biggest thing we need is consistent weather. That helps us a lot. Last week the weather changed a tremendous amount from Friday when we practiced. It was 12-13 degrees cooler on race day, misting and cold. I think as we went through the race last week, we didn't keep up with the race track, and didn't adjust far enough to keep the car as good as it was on Friday. I think with that Saturday practice it will allow us to get the car closer with more rubber on the racetrack (and) more current conditions."

1:15 p.m.: After finishing second at Kansas in June, Dale Earnhardt Jr. mentioned apropos of nothing that he'd enjoyed a fine meal at Oklahoma Joe's, one of the region's many barbecue institutions.

Earnhardt, who stood in line to eat at the restaurant that he saw on Man V. Food on The Travel Channel, said he hopes to make a return visit this weekend. "It was awesome," he said.

Earnhardt said Hendrick Motorsports also had zeroed in on the sway-bar malfunction that relegated him to a 24th at Dover last weekend.

"My crew chief, Steve Letarte, told me that when they were making the weld, it broke where it was welded together," Earnhardt said. "It's unfortunate, but it won't happen again. Chad Knaus (Jimmie Johnson's crew chief) promised me it wouldn't. I'll take his word. Pretty strong word."

12:45 p.m.: Danica Patrick smiled when she was asked about Tony Stewart being a sometimes difficult interview.

"I'm remembering his interview a few weeks ago just before the Chase," said Patrick, who will drive a Sprint Cup car in a limited 2012 schedule for Stewart-Haas Racing. "I was like, 'Awesome!' I sent him a text afterward and said, "That was awesome!' "

Patrick was referring to an interview session (captured on a national live broadcast by ESPN) in which Stewart castigated reporters for asking him the same questions each week.

Patrick also faces a barrage of familiar queries but typically handles them with more aplomb. She playfully was asked if Stewart would be a bad influence on her or if she would help the NASCAR team owner change his ways.

"I'd imagine everyone respects him, and he's accomplished a lot, and you can say what you want a little bit more," Patrick said. "I'm still young and still have things to do. I look at those moments and think that looks like something nice you can say sometimes. I don't think I'm in position to do that all the time, but Tony is, and he's earned his way there. I would imagine you all respect him. And it's true. Sorry, but what he said was kind of true, but I'll let that be part of my inner monologue for a while."

12:15 p.m.: One of the season's most perplexing stories took another twist Friday as NASCAR said Reed Sorenson would be in the No. 82 of MacDonald Motorsports for Saturday's Nationwide race. Sorenson was booted this week from a Turner Motorsports ride despite being ranked third in points.

Nationwide points leader Ricky Stenhouse Jr. said the move came as a shock and predicted the move would narrow the title race to himself and Elliott Sadler.

"Reed was very much in it for sure," Stenhouse said. "It's good to see he has a ride, but it's tough to start bouncing between teams. I'd say it's probably up to Elliott and me now."

11:45 a.m.: Danica Patrick will be racing Saturday in the Nationwide Series at Kansas Speedway before heading to Las Vegas Motor Speedway next week for her final race as a full-time Izod IndyCar Series driver.

In between, she'll make a stop Tuesday in Washington, D.C., where she will be the keynote speaker for a congressional briefing on raising awareness about COPD. Patrick has been a national spokeswoman since last year for DRIVE4COPD, which has helped screen more than 2 million for the illness.

Patrick discussed her Capitol Hill appearance in a USATODAY.com story here.

11:30 a.m.: The weekly media briefings with Chase for the Sprint Cup drivers are under way with past champions Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson leading the parade to the podium.

In light of NHL superstar Sidney Crosby missing the start of the season because of lingering concussion symptoms, Kenseth and Johnson both were asked about the progress NASCAR has made in preventing head injuries. Johnson said the energy-reducing SAFER barriers had helped immensely.

"You look at what the soft walls have done for us, there might be something to consider on the boards of a hockey game," Johnson said. "There's a lot of data out there. In our sport, we looked at the data, but we weren't going to change until NASCAR got serious about implementing things. It took the loss of the greatest driver out there in Dale Earnhardt to get serious about it. I think the leagues need to get more involved with spearheading technology and implementing it."

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The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America's Schools

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Public contact number listed in this company's reports to the EPA (740) 477-5200

Toxic chemicals emitted by company

  • Mercury and mercury compounds

    Definition: Mercury, in liquid or gaseous forms, is used to produce chlorine gas, thermometers, dental fillings, and batteries. The nervous system is very sensitive to all forms of mercury. Exposure to high levels can permanently damage the brain, kidneys, and developing fetus. Cancer studies are limited, but the EPA has determined that mercuric chloride and methylmercury are possible human carcinogens. Source: EPA

  • Lead and lead compounds

    Definition: Lead in the air comes from mining, manufacturing and burning fossil fuels. Lead has been banned from gasoline for more than a decade and has been removed from most paints. Children are more vulnerable to lead poisoning than adults; swallowing even small amounts of lead can cause anemia, muscle weakness and brain damage. Adults exposed to high lead levels can suffer high blood pressure and damage to the nervous system. EPA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services consider lead and its compounds a probable or possible carcinogen. Source: EPA, HHS

  • Nitric acid

    Definition: Nitric acid is used to produce fertilizers, dyes, explosives and organic chemicals. Mists and vapors of nitric acid are extremely irritating to the eyes and respiratory tract. Delayed pulmonary edema may result. U.S. and international agencies have not classified nitric acid as to its carcinogenic potential.

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Monday, August 1, 2011

Briefcase Owned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Briefcase

The monogram reads:

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New York"

The address is not Fitzgerald's but that of his publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons.

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Oh my! What a prize that would be!

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Wow, wonderful historic piece. Love it!

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I used to love going into Scribners when I was in the city. What a beautiful bookstore that was.


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Six Questions for Louise Rogers Lalaurie, Translator of The Explosion of the Radiator Hose by Jean Rolin

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As I noted earlier this month in my interview with Charlotte Mandell, I’m hoping to run more interviews on this site in 2011. This is the second in my making good on that goal.

I read Jean Rolin’s autobiography/memoir/novel The Explosion of the Radiator Hose earlier this month for a review and immediately caught whiffs of Sebald and Chatwin. The book, which will be published in April of this year by the Dalkey Archive, is a fragmentary account of the author’s journey transporting a used car from France deep into the Congo.

As in books of this genre, the plot of The Explosion of the Radiator Hose is only one of many things going on here–a counterhistory of the Congo, an up-close look at the machinery of late capitalism, a inter-textual response to Conrad, Proust, and, yes, Sebald.

I’ve interviewed the book’s translator, Louise Rogers Lalaurie to convey more about this excellent book and it’s very interesting author, Jean Rolin. The Explosion of the Radiator Hose is the first of his books the be translated into English, but after reading this I think you’ll join me in wanting to hear more from him.

Here’s how Rogers describes herself in her own words:

Louise Rogers Lalaurie studied English, literary translation, and art history at the University of Cambridge, and worked in book and magazine publishing in London before moving to France in 1991. Her published translations include short stories by Delphine de Vigan, Serge Joncour, and Catherine Millet, and exhibition catalogs and monographs for leading Paris museums and fine art publishers. She is currently researching an MPhil on French livres d’artistes at the University of London Institute in Paris.

SE: Since this book is based on a strange sort of postmodern, Sebaldian adventure that Rolin undertook—involving sailing on a cargo ship and smuggling a car through Congolese customs—I wanted to get some sense of him as an individual and a writer. Is he known for being an adventurous sort? Are his previous books similar to The Explosion of the Radiator Hose?

LR: English-speaking readers will recognize Jean Rolin as a classic lone male traveler and writer, broadly comparable to authors like Paul Theroux, P.J. O’Rourke, and others. In France, I would say he’s probably had greater critical than popular success, although his backlist is long, and all of it in print! He’s a classic travel writer in many ways, but his full-length works are mostly presented as fiction, with elements of memoir and autobiography. I was talking about Explosion to a Paris-based English academic just today—he characterized him very aptly as a “psycho-geographer.” His travels are all real, as far as I know, but they are a process of self-mapping, too, and the vehicle for his distinctive worldview as conveyed in his writings. In this sense, he’s also comparable to Sebald and Bruce Chatwin. Like them, he might be said to have created a genre all his own—French reviewers have described his work as “Rolinian.” He has a clear preference for “underbelly” places, conflict zones, port zones, peripheral zones (literally, in the case of Zones and La Clôture, his explorations of the Paris beltway or périphérique, and the Boulevard Ney, part of the city’s petite ceinture). He portrays marginal characters with great humanity and empathy, and he also writes reportage and travel pieces for leading French magazines and newspapers, recently collected in L’homme qui à vu l’ours—which includes some of the source material for Explosion. Translating Explosion has whetted my appetite to read much more: L’organisation (written in the 1990s but describing a period touched on at the very end of Explosion) is his “hindsight” account of his involvement as a young man with the Gauche prolétarienne, a Maoist revolutionary group born of the May ’68 uprising; Chemins d’eau (“Water ways”) is an alternative tour of France on the country’s canal system; Un chien mort après lui, his most recent book, is a themed compendium of travels and encounters with stray dogs—a sidelong look at the human societies co-existing with them, and a book about “errance” itself. To name but a few.

SE: Throughout The Explosion of the Radiator Hose Rolin continually references W.G. Sebald and gives some reason to think he admires him as a thinker and a writer. (Rolin also prominently mentions Conrad and Proust as influences, among others.) At times the book even resembles Sebald in how it arranges the cultural history of European imperialism under the logic of Rolin’s personal adventure. Do you know of any links between Rolin and Sebald, and how exactly do you look at Explosion—history as otherwise told, memoir, etc?

LR: I’ve yet to meet Jean Rolin in person, and I’ve never asked about his links with Sebald, but I agree that his vision of the intersections of geopolitical and personal history (sometimes random and absurd, sometimes full of bizarre coincidences, immanent patterns) is comparable to Sebald’s. Explosion is quite like The Rings of Saturn in many ways—the wry humor, the affectionate cameo portraits, the lyrical descriptions, the historical scope, the “self-mapping,” and the underlying melancholy, with hints of death and suicide. As I mentioned earlier, the book is also a quite “Chatwinian” mix of travelogue and fictional narrative (both in the first person), with elements of memoir. As you point out, it also has a very strong sense of history, of crossed personal and geopolitical destinies, and (arising out of that), the “human comedy” and the absurd. Warren Motte, writing in the Review of Contemporary Fiction, has described Explosion as a “loiterly” novel—the narrator is bound up in his own past, his identity, his relationship with his father, but he digresses into great swathes of Congolese history, too: his extended, detailed and powerful account of Patrice Lumumba’s journey to violent death ends with the narrator figuring out (somewhat crestfallen) that the deposed leader probably didn’t cross the exact spot where the radiator hose explodes . . . With regard to Sebald, Rolin’s narrator (his fictionalised self?) takes him to task at times, accusing him of failing to quote his sources, and of anti-French sentiment. But it’s quite tongue-in-cheek – a kind of back-handed tribute, I think: the “little man” (Rolin’s self-deprecating persona in the book) squaring up to the literary giant. And as you say, Sebald isn’t the only literary heavyweight honored here—Conrad and Proust are everywhere.

SE: I loved the exchange you allude to here—Rolin first complaining that Sebald makes a “ridiculous, unpleasant character a Frenchman” before retracting it when “Sebald unleashes a series of violent anti-Belgian diatribes.” Rolin plays it quite well, implying a kind of Gallic outrage on behalf of his fellow Frenchmen before taking it all back when Sebald insults the neighboring Belgians. To continue on with the Sebald comparisons for a moment, Rolin seems to be a much more fragmentary writer than Sebald; whereas Sebald knit so much together into his lengthy chapters and paragraphs, Explosion is characterized by many, many short, discreet chapters (although the overall impression is of continuity amidst digression). With so much in the mix here, what did you see as the central strand of this book, that one thing that under it all this book was most “about”?

LR: “Continuity amidst digression” perfectly describes the book’s “loiterly” pace: Rolin’s and the car’s slow journey underpins everything. And of course, a river runs through it (to coin a phrase . . . ). Without wanting to sound too trite, it’s tempting to see the text’s relentless forward movement and eddying digressions as a metaphor for the stately Congo River itself. The chapters are carefully crafted building blocks, each one starts in a subtly or surprisingly different “place” from the last, carrying the reader along. I think the central strand of the book—and what has always touched me most about it—is its portrayal of human hopes and dreams, the quest for advancement and a sense of purpose in life, in Paris, Kinshasa, or anywhere. It’s about how people cling to hopes and delusions—through the life stories they tell themselves, and through tiny, practical, ambitious or utterly megalomaniacal schemes—and about how those hopes and delusions can be built up and shattered. This is what underpins the first-person narrative, and virtually every encounter and character sketch in the book, every historic life story retold. The Audi‘s gradual deterioration en route to Kinshasa, and the description of a transporter truck rolling out of a parking lot in northern Paris, bound for Africa, loaded with battered VW Combis packed to the roof, are brilliant metaphors or emblems of the same theme.

SE: It’s strange sometimes, the shape that hope and/or delusion can take. I’m thinking of when Rolin describes Che Guevara, who attempted to free the agrarian Congolese from the tyranny of the land, only to learn that they already owned their land and were indeed free. So Che reasons that “ways would have to be found of fostering the need to acquire industrial goods” in order to put them into a proper relationship of subjugation so that they’ll begin to want the revolution that Che knows they need. Rolin rightly, and ironically, compares this rhetoric to that of any multinational corporation looking to exploit these individuals. As with the Che anecdote, in this book we see so many forces that head into the Congo to shape it per their own wants and desires . . . do you see anything genuinely Congolese emerging in this story? Lumumba, perhaps?

LR: The passages about Che in the Congo are a great example of Rolin’s wry comedy and sense of the absurd! Also, the region’s surreal way of taking “in-comers” completely off-course, thwarting their schemes, warping their take on reality, leading them somewhere they never intended. That’s one “genuinely Congolese” characteristic, perhaps, that emerges here and in other Western texts I’ve read about the Congo, not least Heart of Darkness of course. It also seems to me that Rolin’s many portraits and cameos go some way to evoking a national character–I get a sense of a rich mix of irrepressibility and ebullience, gentleness and quiet dignity in adversity, pragmatism and archaic superstition, hard-headed realism and fervent faith in Christianity or traditional beliefs. There are touching portrayals of bravado and humility, coupled with allusions to past violence and atrocities experienced by people who cling to hope in the face of experience, finding ways to get by. We see level-headed self-preservation and concern for others; selfish, tricksy characters and people prepared to go far out of their way to help, with no thought of reward. Foudron (the exiled colonel whose family in Kinshasa are the recipients of the Audi) is resigned if philosophical, and a very sick man, but he doggedly pursues his carefully laid plan, doing what he can for the advancement of his family. Lumumba, as portrayed in the account of his last days, shows aspects of all this. In many ways, his character, story, and fate stand for the nation as a whole.

SE: I’d like to shift gears here and ask you a little about the translation of this book. To start, the prose throughout Explosion is excellent—it’s very honed and precise with some clause-ridden, intricate sentences, but it never feels overcooked or wordy. What do you think is most characteristic about this prose, and did you consult with Rolin or any particular source material while doing this translation?

LR: I think you’ve put your finger on exactly what is most characteristic about Rolin’s prose. He‘s a heroic advocate of long sentences, using clauses like building blocks, taking the cumulative effect of the discrete short chapters right down to the level of individual sentences. I tried hard to match Rolin’s register and clause sequences, and to preserve the flow of the original sentences. But while French grammar is very robust and can hold things together over many lines, English has a tendency to come apart in your hands if you over-stretch it! I did re-order the clauses very occasionally, for readability, and to keep things “up together.” Jean Rolin read the translation, and was characteristically concerned to check the precision of specific terms. We ran the ship-board terminology past a friend of his in the industry, so I learned the correct vocabulary in English for parts of container ships! With regard to his/the narrator’s family history, he also—naturally—wanted to make absolutely sure that the distinction between Vichy France and the Free French resistants (including his father) was clear in English. As with any translation, I checked Rolin’s quoted sources in English: Michael Hulse’s fabulous translation of The Rings of Saturn (which I’ve read several times before), Jerry Allen’s book The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad, snippets of Proust and Conrad… I also did some background reading, for example Tim Butcher’s marvelous travelogue Blood River (an almost exact mirror image of Rolin’s journey), and Barbara Kingsolver’s extraordinary novel The Poisonwood Bible.

SE: Did these source books go beyond serving as background information to furnish words or insights that aided you in the actual translation of the book?

LR: Well, to give one small example, Barbara Kingsolver’s novel clarified the term pagne (the traditional Congolese loincloth, but also a general term for the colorful cotton prints worn everywhere in sub-Saharan Africa). And Tim Butcher’s journey often corroborated placenames, political personalities, and historical events in English. But beyond that, both were invaluable as vivid, immersive accounts of the region, its atmosphere, and its people. Both texts compared and contrasted interestingly with Rolin’s narrative as travelogue, fiction, memoir and history. That applies to Sebald, too, but above all, The Rings of Saturn resonated in so many ways with Explosion’s narrative voice and technique, the hero/author’s personality, and his worldview.

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I'm very new to cooking and honestly don't enjoy it all that much, but I am trying to expand my skills beyond very simple foods like tuna helper and chicken, so I thought I would try making a meat loaf as the next step.

However, since I've never made one before, I'm not really sure what I should be looking for in a recipe, or if there's anything I need to know about the preparation that might not be mentioned in a recipe. I'm wondering about things like:

  • Does it matter what type of meat I use?
  • How do I control how heavy/dense it is?
  • How can I make sure that it doesn't fall apart?
  • What oven setting should I use so that it cooks all the way through but doesn't burn the outside?

Any other useful tips would also be helpful.

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Hi, thanks for joining the site. We'd like to help, but, as this post explains - meta.cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/728/… - this is not a recipe swap site. If you could reword your question to ask about a particular part of making meatloaf or about how to improve a meatloaf recipe you have, we could help you more. Thanks. –  Chad Jan 9 '11 at 12:04
As you're asking for 'ingrediants and stuff', this is bordering on a recipe request ... but for other recipes we've handled technique related questions. –  Joe Jan 9 '11 at 13:33
I've reworded this to minimize the recipe-request aspect. I've had to make a number of assumptions in the process so please let us know if this is straying too far from what you really want to know. –  Aaronut Jan 9 '11 at 16:05

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You'll likely do better first trying a recipe, and see how it comes out and we can tell you how to adjust it for your preferences, but a few things to consider when making meatloaf:

  • Don't squish the meat or work it too much while you're mixing it; you'll end up with a rather dense meatloaf. (unless of course you like that sort of thing).

  • Some people prefer on fattier grinds of meat for a 'juicier' meatloaf ... I personally go with 85/15 or fattier.

  • Mixing types of fat with different melting characteristics will also change the texture; for this reason, some recipes call for adding pork sausage, or a blend of ground pork, beef and veal.

  • Vessel is important -- some people will cook their meatloaf in a loaf pan; personally, I like a little crust on mine, but because of the grease that comes off during baking, I use a broiler pan.

  • Shape will affect the crust and cooking time -- a larger cross-section will need a longer cooking time, but the top may crust up too much; you can either tent with foil while cooking, coat with a glaze, top with bacon strips, etc.

  • Mixing the meat while chilled will keep the meatloaf less dense, but allowing it to warm up before cooking will allow it to cook more evenly. (so the outside isn't overcooked while the middle's still cold; especially important if you're not going with a glaze or similar)

  • Almost any vegetables can be added as a filler, if you pre-cook them to soften and remove most of their moisture so they're not overly wet. Onions, bell pepper, carrots, cellery, dark greens (spinach, chard, etc), summer squash (eg. zucchini, yellow squash) all work well.

  • To speed up cooking time, or if you're living alone and know you won't eat the whole thing, consider making smaller loaves. You can even make it in a burger patty size & shape for individual servings.

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Great answer on the meat part. Just to add, part of controlling the density is adding a starch (bread crumbs, oatmeal) which is one of the things that keeps meatloaf from being a brick and meatballs from being hockey pucks. Not a requirement certainly, but traditional and will give you some leeway, which is good for a new cook. –  Doug Johnson-Cookloose Jan 10 '11 at 15:08
@Doug -- I made it community wiki, so feel free to add ... I've always done dry breadcrumbs (not necessarily stale, just not soaked first), so I don't know how different starches might affect things –  Joe Jan 10 '11 at 15:13

I've never been unlucky enough to make a dry loaf, but I suggest finding a well-regarded recipe and following that. Beyond that: don't squish.

I cook in a 12-inch cast-iron pan, with a hand-shaped loaf in the middle. This gives room for the grease to spread away from the meat without losing it altogether. The cast-iron is easy to clean. Others prefer loaf pans. I suspect that my use of the cast-iron over a loaf pan does the most towards preventing a hard and dry loaf.

Finally, the recipe I have based my loaf on calls for half the dry ingredients and 1/3rd of the egg that I use. In my case, this has not resulted in mushiness. Of course, this doesn't really make the loaf very healthy!

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One thing I've found that helps keep it together is something called Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP). It's a vegetarian protein substitute that comes in a dry crumble (among other forms) that works great to absorb the fats in whatever meat you use. I found about 250mL of TVP to 1L of ground meat works well.

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I often need to hull and slice large batches of strawberries. But hulling by cutting a cone out of the top of the berry with a paring knife can be slow work. How can I quickly remove the core (the hard white part near the stem) from the strawberry?

What do professional chefs and kitchens do to quickly hull strawberries?

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I don't know what professionals do but if I am going to slice the strawberries anyway then I slice them in half and take the hull out of each side as a quick triangular cut. –  Sobachatina May 15 '12 at 16:59
Why do you remove the center? I eat it. If the strawberry is terribly unripe, then I cut off the whole top up to the place where it turns pink, but leave the lower part of the core inside. –  rumtscho May 15 '12 at 17:14
Go to Amazon and search for "strawberry tool". There are several for under $10. –  Cos Callis May 15 '12 at 17:55
@rumtscho: On occasion I've purchased huge mutant strawberries where the green/white "stem" goes all the way down to the center; they were very difficult to hull properly, maybe that's what Katie has. –  Aaronut May 15 '12 at 18:14
Generally I get "Hood" strawberries (from Oregon or Washington), which are softer, juicier, and have a shorter lifespan than the more common California berries. The white core of strawberries has a different (undesirable) texture and taste. –  KatieK May 15 '12 at 18:51

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I don't usually hull strawberries, but when I do I use a straw. The idea is that you push the straw up through the tip of the strawberry and it comes out at the stem. For pictures you can see http://amy-newnostalgia.blogspot.com/2010/06/hulling-strawberries-with-straw.html are just Google "hull strawberries with a straw"

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That is ingenious. Is it fast? –  Cerberus May 15 '12 at 19:06
I think so - but I haven't used a "strawberry tool" so I don't have much to compare it to. For me it's faster than trying to use a paring knife to carve out the stem and it takes less skill then using the spoon technique (plus I've had the spoon mangle berries that were very ripe). –  djmadscribbler May 15 '12 at 19:09
Perhaps that's where their name comes from! –  Mien May 16 '12 at 13:56

I always use a teaspoon to scoop out the green. Going any deeper than 5 mm is unnecessary anyway (it's only the green and the little stalk that are unpleasant), but you can go as deep as you like. It is fast and it works perfectly. You press the spoon's edge into your thumb, so to speak, with the strawberry in between. You can easily continue to hold it in the right position in your right hand while you pick up new strawberries with your left hand. When I found this out years ago, I couldn't understand why the whole world wasn't using this, just as with grating garlic. The only thing quicker than a teaspoon would be a teaspoon with thinner (= sharper) edges.

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Doesn't a spoon destroy the berries, rather than cut? Perhaps you and Ree Drummond have sturdier strawberries than I do... –  KatieK May 15 '12 at 18:57
@KatieK: No? They become more or less as in the picture. I guess if they're extremely ripe it becomes hard (then I would personally not like them anyway). –  Cerberus May 15 '12 at 19:05
I think a lot depends on the edge thickness and the ripeness of the berries. Personally I have mangled quite a few berries using this technique because the spoon edge wasn't sharp enough and just deformed the berry. –  djmadscribbler May 15 '12 at 22:22
@djmadscribbler: I don't know...I have used this method exclusively with strawberries for years, and never a problem. I wouldn't use it with other berries, probably. –  Cerberus May 15 '12 at 22:37
I'm guessing the thickness of the spoon's bowl will be a factor -- I have a bunch of different spoons, and I'm guessing the thicker ones wouldn't be useful ... but I'd be inclined to use a grapefruit spoon (as I have one). –  Joe May 16 '12 at 23:01

Alton Brown recommends a star-shaped tip from a pastry piping bag. He mentioned this in the Good Eats episode on strawberries, which has tons of good info on why hulling is important and the effects of not hulling.

piping bag star tips

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Never used it, but I'm assuming these exist for a reason: enter image description here

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Has anyone used these? –  KatieK May 15 '12 at 18:53
Looks like you waste a lot with that... –  nico May 15 '12 at 19:18
I had an older version of this (my great-grandmother's) but as it was silver plated it tarnished. Pictured in answer by SAJ14SAJ. I use that. Works great. Especially for large amounts as needed for jam. Was going to add photo of huller and slicer(a must for arthritic hands), but I don't know how to add a photo!! –  user19877 Aug 27 '13 at 14:47

Try using the small end of a melon baller (AKA Parisienne scoop).

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All you really need to remove is the stem and leaves, so just a quick down and up cut (or a V, one cut from each side) will get it done, just wasting a little of the top of the berry on either side of the stem. I think it'll work better than using a spoon if you don't have a sharp/thin enough spoon and your berries are pretty ripe; otherwise they're roughly equivalent.

For another dedicated gadget option, a tomato/strawberry corer/huller:

strawberry huller

I tried my grandmother's a couple times; it works fine, though I'm personally happy with a paring knife and a tiny bit of waste.

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I just did 16# today. I use a tomato shark. Doesn't waste the berry and takes out the green leaves at the same time. Costs $1.49.

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Welcme to the site! Could you please explain: What is a tomato shark? –  Stephie May 6 at 20:52
What is "16#"? Is that a quantity or is it referring to a list somewhere? I can't tell if this is intended as an answer or comment. –  Aaronut May 8 at 4:12

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When my mayonnaise splits I add a little water or lemon juice to fix it. Works all the time. But this time my hand slipped and I ended up adding way to much water. I mixed everything until the mayonnaise fixed itself but now it's too liquid (looks like a soup).

I want to make the mayonnaise split so that I take out the excess oil and water and fix it in another bowl where I slowly add the ingredients back together. But I can't make it to split again :)

How do I make mayonnaise to split?

P.S. If I start making a new mayonnaise and slowly incorporate "the soup" in it will do the trick (I've done it before) but this time it's too much. I'll end up with lots of mayonnaise for which I have no use. So I need to rebuild the existing one.

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Your best bet may be to leave it to set an hope the emulsion breaks on its own. You don't want to heat it and cook the egg. –  SAJ14SAJ Dec 23 '13 at 20:21
You might be able to break it by adding more oil, but then you'd have even more of it to deal with. –  SourDoh Dec 23 '13 at 20:36
It seems like your problem is now that the mayonnaise is too thin, not that it won't split. If it's too thin, why not start with another yolk or two and then gradually mix in the existing mayonnaise? –  JasonTrue Dec 23 '13 at 23:39

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Mayo that splits is typically from one of two things:

  1. Insufficient water
  2. Insufficient mixing leading to large droplets

(It's hardly ever insufficient emulsifier, as one yolk can do many cups of mayo.)

The lack of mixing can happen fairly easily with a whisk, but it won't happen if you're using a food processor, blender, or immersion blender.

You're probably normally making mayo that is on the border of insufficient water, so it's fairly easy to get it to break. When you added more water, the emulsion actually became more stable.

That explains why you can't get it to break, I have a few suggestions on how to fix:

  1. Freeze it. It should break upon thawing.
  2. If hand-mixed, use an immersion blender on it. That should thicken a little, by better mixing. (Assuming you're not using extra virgin olive oil, which should not be blended)
  3. I'm sure there are some thickeners that could be added, but I've never tried thickening mayo like this.

Keep in mind that some flavors are fat soluble, some are water soluble, so if you discard part of the water, you may be changing the flavor balance.

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Friday, November 7, 2008

100th Post and BBFCCCC's

Wow. If you had told me three months ago when I started this blog that I would reach 100 posts by now, I would have told you that you were crazy. I can't believe that just by blogging what I make for dinners, parties, and other get-togethers, I have 100 posts under my belt already!

So I guess it is fitting that my 100th post is a very famous cookie over on the What's Cooking board: BFCCCC's (Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies). These cookies are fanTAStic, due in part to the enormous amount of butter that goes into just 16 cookies. The first time I made these I tried to make them smaller to spread the wealth around, but quickly found out these cookies benefit from their large size. It makes them very moist, chewy, and chocolatey - so go ahead, treat yourself! Make sure to use a full 1/4 cup measure per cookie :)

Makes 16 cookies

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 egg yolk
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.

Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.

In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon.

Drop cookie dough 1/4 cup at a time onto the prepared cookie sheets. Cookies should be about 3 inches apart.

Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted. Cool on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

Melanie said...

Congratulations on your 100th post!! And the cookies look awesome...I like them just like that - HUGE!

Katie said...

Giant cookies = heaven!

Happy 100th post :)

BMK said...

Congrats on reaching 100 and here's to 100 more!

madebymel said...

These are my go-to chocolate chip cookies, the are THE BEST!

Congratulations on 100 posts!

Brooke said...

Yum - these are my favorite chocolate chip cookies. Happy 100th!

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Katie said...

YAY! I CAN"T BELIEVE you are already at 100! You are cooking/bakin fool! :)

Colleen said...

Thanks everyone! :)

Calypso said...

Thank you so much for this recipe - I made these after my son and I cut our Christmas tree. They came out beautifully!


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August 12, 2011 Two things came together and made a splash: data and love for good food! Last year the USDA launched a new mapping feature for their National Farmers Market Directory and access to raw data for “app designers and researchers to develop even more sophisticated or fine-tuned uses of the USDA Farmers Market Directory.” The result has been a multitude of sites which have created new ways to find locally grown food wherever you are. Here are some examples:
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May 11, 2009 | Soup, Vegetables

I was so busy before I left town for Charleston last week that I don’t think I even remembered to mention I’d be away. I’m pulling together my photos from the trip and will post them on my travel journal blog, but after 3 days of eating Southern food and partying with my niece who just graduated, I need to focus on eating healthy a bit. Came home just in time to find my daughter making this vegetable soup for a cleansing diet she’s on. The photo is ugly, but the soup is really good for you.
Â You simmer together 4 medium zucchini, 3/4 pound green beans, and 7 stalks celery until soft, then add in a large bunch of spinach, a large bunch of basil and a large bunch of parsley and let it cook for another minute or two. Puree the whole thing using a stick blender with as little of the cooking water as is needed and enjoy. She drank it straight for her purist diet – I added a bit of grated Parmigiano Reggiano and salt and it was downright delicious!

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