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An enterprise can succeed only if it has a goal. To achieve that goal an effective method should be adopted. The method can be harmless with no violence in it. Or it can be hard and cruel which calls for a lot of violence. In both cases the goal is the same. Only the method of achieving it is different. The proverb, a very disputable one, means that if the goal is good the methods adopted for achieving it do not matter. It can be good or bad. The Florentine statesman, Machiavelli, in his book THE PRINCE advocated this doctrine. According to him, it is justifiable to go to any extent for achieving a good cause. It may be necessary to use violence sometimes. It will be harmful to some people. But all that can be justified if the goal is good. Some great Indian leaders and thinkers like Gandhi have opposed this doctrine. According to them it is not only necessary that goal should be good but the means adopted for achieving it should also be good. In some countries governments resort to anything for suppressing riots. When peaceful requests and talk fail to bring about the desired result, they use sheer force to suppress such riots. They argue that it is for the common good of the public. Whatever be the truth, the doctrine ‘the end justifies the means’ happens to be a very controversial one which provokes much thinking and dispute.

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Creamy Bean Soup with Fresh Herbs and Spinach Reviews

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Cara Brunetti Hillyard of Hamilton, Virginia, writes: "I come from a long line of great cooks. My father owns an Italian market in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where my mother gets a lot of the ingredients she uses in her wonderful dishes. My mother-in-law is a recipe developer, and I've been known to sit next to my great-aunt Stella with a pen and paper as she details her amazing recipes. I live far from home now, but I reconnect with my family traditions every evening when I make dinner."

Pureeing the soup gives it a smooth richness — without any cream.

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Good- my whole family loved it and they are not soup lovers. Added some lemon juice for extra twang and some fresh thyme and parsley that I already had. I used an immersion blender and didn't puree completely. I also cut out one can of garbanzo beans. Excellent soup. Really easy to make. I am going to keep this on hand for lunches.

Good recipe. Next time I make it I will not puree everything, leaving some whole beans. It was a little too thick for me, so I may add some additional broth as well, and probably some additional onions and garlic.

Decent basic recipe, but for its second time around I gave it some love. I used leeks instead of onion, and cooked cannelini beans from scratch with chicken broth, garlic, and bay leaf (no garbanzos). Left out 2 cups of beans before pureeing, and added sliced Tuscan kale along with the spinach. Taking the advice of others, I topped it with sage fried in brown butter and a generous swig of balsamic. The fried sage is a MUST. Seriously--if you haven't tried it before this is your chance!

Very subtle but great texture and highly enjoyable. I'd probably add more garlic next time, but I say that about everything. Very easy to make as well.

I altered this recipe by adding two stalks of celery while simmering, because I had a bunch in the fridge. I also added a teaspoon or so of thyme as well as a a splash of lemon juice and a few drizzles of balsamic vinegar. I pureed the whole thing because the idea of stringy spinach in an otherwise creamy soup didn't appeal much. For me, the best addition was a dollop of plain non-fat greek yogurt to my bowl --- that added the zing that this recipe needed . . . for me anyway. Great recipe --- for those of you who found it bland, just be creative and make it your own! Happy cooking . . .

It was a bit bland- I added fresh lemon. Red pepper flakes should be added when onion, garlic & rosemary are sauteeing. Frying sage in brown butter was a great suggestion by another cook. Tomorrow when it's reheating I may use balsamic vinegar and eliminate the lemon. It really needs a kick.

Great soup. I will definitely make it again, but I'll pay closer attention to my ingredients to make sure they are low in sodium. Mine was more salty than I would have liked. Also - I doubled the amount of rosemary.

I think that this is a great recipe. It's fast, healthy, and easy.

Very easy and good for lactose alergic people. I add a little, OK, a lot more garlic. Also Brown a few whole sage leaves in butter until the sage is crisp and the butter browm. Ladle soup into bowls and drizzle with butter and sage.

Very easy recipe with delicious results! I left about 1.5 cups of the beans/broth out of the blender so that there would still be some full beans in the soup. I also used veggie broth in place of chicken broth, and added some fresh thyme since we had it in the garden. This was quick and easy.


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Of the countless preparations for tuna that diners will run across in coastal towns in Tuscany, this one is the most well known. It comes from Livorno, a populous port famous for its seafood restaurants. Simple and quick to put together, the dish combines the best of the area, from the delicious red tuna available mostly in spring and summer to the tomatoes that have become a hallmark of all of Italy. The sauce begins with a trito, a mixture of aromatic vegetables. Ripe tomatoes, a bay leaf and plenty of fresh basil complete it.

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This recipe is delightful. My husband and I love tuna. I followed the recipe, except I used a can of tomatoes with garlic and basil added. I also grilled my tuna. Delicious! I used canned tomatoes because the great tomatoes are not in season yet. Can't wait till summer so I can make this again using fresh tomatoes.

used.. fresh caught tuna san marzano tomatoes fresh herbs reduced sauce and saute in different pans deglazed saute pan added that sauce to farfalle pasta served side by side with a peppery pinot nior

Thought this was decent but not good enough to make again. The "sauce" is more of a topping as shown in the picture. Added some red pepper flakes but not enough probably. Adding capers and olives might help perk the sauce up.

As mentioned by other reviewers, easy and forgiving recipe. I changed the tomatoes to grape (halved, did not peel), added a splash of white wine to the mix at the end and omitted the parsley - delicious.

Easy and flavorful. I suggest this to anyone who likes tuna and fresh tomato-basil flavor of the Mediterranean. I served this with Redwood creek Sauvignon Blanc (2006) and everyone was very pleased.

Very easy to make and very forgiving. I added mushrooms and used rosemary instead of basil as that was the fresh herb I had at hand. The result was an incredibly fresh-tasting sauce.

This was awesome! Made it for a dinner party and everyone loved it. Use peeled canned toms. WAAAY easier.

This is a delicious and simple preparation. If it weren't for peeling the tomatoes, it would be effortless.

Made as recipe was written except added some mushrooms to the sauce and coated tuna in krazy salt and lemon pepper... was so good my boyfriend actually licked the plate!!!

Excellent dish. Added a bit of crushed red pepper, but other than that, made exactly as suggested. Don't cook tnua more than 2 minutes per side, otherwise you'll end up with Chicken of the Sea. Served with pasta w/ garlic and olive oil. Great combo.


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Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less but requires additional unattended time.

Serves 10 to 12

    • 1 envelope (about 1 tablespoon) of unflavored gelatin
    • 1 cup cold water
    • 3/4 cup white-wine vinegar
    • 1/4 cup sugar
    • 3 tablespoons English-style dry mustard
    • 2 tablespoons mustard seeds
    • 4 large eggs, beaten lightly
    • 1 teaspoon sweet paprika
    • 1 cup well-chilled heavy cream
    • 1/3 cup minced fresh parsley leaves

    1. In a small bowl sprinkle the gelatin over the water and let it stand. In a metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water whisk together the vinegar, the sugar, the mustard, the mustard seeds, and the eggs, cook the mixture, whisking constantly, until it registers 160°F. on a candy thermometer, and remove the bowl from the heat. Stir in the gelatin mixture, the paprika, and salt and pepper to taste, stirring until the gelatin is dissolved, transfer the bowl to a larger bowl of ice and cold water, and stir the mixture until it is cold. In a bowl beat the cream until it holds stiff peaks, fold it into the egg mixture with the parsley until the mixture is combined well, and pour the mixture into a lightly oiled 5- to 6-cup ring mold. Chill the aspic, covered, for 4 hours, or until it is set. Dip the ring mold in hot water, run a knife around the edges of the aspic, and invert the aspic onto a serving plate. Serve the aspic with cold poached salmon, shrimp, crab, or chicken.

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  • Calories153
  • Carbohydrates7 g(2%)
  • Fat12 g(18%)
  • Protein5 g(9%)
  • Saturated Fat6 g(31%)
  • Sodium42 mg(2%)
  • Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
  • Fiber1 g(2%)
  • Monounsaturated Fat4 g
  • Cholesterol107 mg(36%)

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About 10 years ago my step-mother made this and served it with ham for a xmas buffet. She had a pretty mold and served it on a platter with fresh blackberries around the edge and some greens for garnish. It was beautiful as well as a wonderful taste with the ham. I am going to make it this year with my ham.

I made this as one of three aspics that I cut into 1" cubes and put in a patterned herringbone-ish arrangement for a dinner party (the other two were a spicy tomato aspic and an avocado aspic). This one was a good companion, a little tart. Would be best served in small portions in contrast to a nice heavy meat stew.

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Mexican Hot Cocoa

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It's not a real party without chocolate! Savor this sweet treat and you'll get 20 percent of your daily calcium.

    • 2 cups reduced-fat (2 percent) evaporated milk
    • 1/2 cup whole milk
    • 1/2 cup chocolate liqueur
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 1/4 cup sugar
    • 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
    • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
    • 1/4 teaspoon ancho chili powder
    • 10 cinnamon sticks
    • 1 dried red chile
    • 2 1/2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, broken into pieces
    • 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

    1. Whisk evaporated milk, whole milk, liqueur, vanilla, sugar, cocoa, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and chili powder in a heavy saucepan. Add 2 of the cinnamon sticks and chile and cook gently over medium-low heat until warm. Add chocolate and cook, whisking until melted. Gently bring to a high simmer; reduce heat and simmer until liquid thickens and reduces slightly, whisking often, 10 minutes. Combine heavy cream with remaining 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and beat until peaks form. Ladle 1/3 cup hot cocoa into each of 8 teacups; top with 1 tablespoon whipped cream and garnish with a cinnamon stick.
Nutritional analysis per serving: 218 calories per teacup, 7.8 g fat (4.8 g saturated), 20 g carbs, 1 g fiber, 2.3 g protein

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I made this cocoa for a Tex-Mex themed party. Everyone absolutely loved it! After reading the reviews, I served smaller portions. I will definitely use this recipe again.

Soooo good! A bit rich, of course... My suggestion is that you serve everyone about a shot's worth of this, or make it with a little more milk and a little less everything else. It's really not too tough to make - I had it done in less than ten minutes. FABULOUS!

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Hard to make, but good.

I served this drink at a family dinner and though everyone said it was very good, no one could drink their entire serving. It is think and rich and yummy, but the richness and the spicy flavor get to be a bit overwhelming after a while. The preparation is a bit much, so you have to be prepared to work a bit and dirty some dishes. The highlight for me was the whipped cream, to which I also added chili powder in addition to the cinnamon. All in all it's a fine finish to a Mexican-themed dinner or a drink to warm you and your guests, in more ways than one, on a cold winter's evening. I'd make this again, but only for special occasions.

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I was thinking it might be some sort of panic attack but I mentioned it too my counselor and she didn't seem to know or be too concerned so I would just like some input please


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The focal point for this home is the distinctive center gable that adds charm to this modern country home. The focal point for this home is the distinctive center gable that adds charm to this modern country home. Siding artfully balances stone in this design, accented by a box-bay window and an arched entry. Louvered shutters, a classic cornice and a delightful flower box add curb appeal to this one-story design. Inside, the foyer leads to a cozy great room warmed by a fireplace, built-in shelving and French doors to the large rear covered porch. The kitchen boasts a breakfast bar opening to the keeping/breakfast room. This spacious room is flooded with light and features a hearth for cool days and nights. The master bedroom occupying the right wing of the home, gives direct access to the covered porch. Two additional bedrooms complete the main level and share a jack-and-jill bath. More Less...
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Frankly, it is becoming harder and harder for me, for us, to tolerate our own moral and political inconsistencies by protesting the Hobby Lobby decision, then advocating for the current ENDA with its broad religious exemption, and then insisting that the president not include a broad exemption in the upcoming executive order protecting LGBT people working for federal contractors. How can we demand that a woman have coverage for reproductive healthcare at a company but support a bill that allows a lesbian cafeteria worker in the religiously affiliated hospital next door to be fired from her job?

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  • 1. MichaelGrabow  |  July 9, 2014 at 8:11 am

    The attorney in the SD suit is asking for a summary judgment

  • 2. brandall  |  July 9, 2014 at 9:08 am

    CO state court hearing this morning to stop the Boulder County Clerk just ended. Unfortunately, no live video and no live blogging. Judge Hartman said he hopes to rule soon. I'm looking for more substantive details. Stand by.

  • 3. JayJonson  |  July 9, 2014 at 9:13 am

    brandall, thank you so much for your posts keeping us informed about these cases. You and Ragavendran contribute so much to the site. With the prospect of Ragavendran being away for a month or so, we will depend upon you even more.

  • 4. SeattleRobin  |  July 9, 2014 at 9:18 am

    I'm glad these groups have withdrawn support for ENDA in its current form. With this Supreme Court bad legislation is most certainly much worse than no legislation.

  • 5. DaveM_OH  |  July 9, 2014 at 9:40 am

    CA6 update:

    Final appellee brief filed in Henry (14-3464) yesterday.
    Also, a load of amicis were granted permission to file briefs in Bourke, Tanco, and Obergefell last week.

  • 6. brandall  |  July 9, 2014 at 9:42 am

    So AP jumped the gun. The hearing is still going on. It was scheduled for 9am to 12 noon MDT. I found a reporter tweeting out from the courtroom. "AG's attorney objected to this hearing turning into a case about gay marriage [huh?]. AG is not seeking to overturn licenses issued at this point in the case."

    I have to run to the airport. If anyone else would like to follow @jsteffendp and update us, please be my guest.

  • 7. Ragavendran  |  July 9, 2014 at 9:53 am

    According to this report, the judge is hearing testimony from gay couples who were married in Boulder County in the past two weeks. Suthers's attorney objected to this, saying that this case is not supposed to be about the merits of gay marriage. The judge has also said at the outset that he is unlikely to rule immediately.

  • 8. ragefirewolf  |  July 9, 2014 at 10:26 am

    I don't think it was ever about marriage on the merits. It was about whether Boulder County could issue licenses while the 10th Circuit's decision has been stayed. I personally believe that a clerk may neither surreptitiously nor overtly up and decide what is legal to do or not. It matters not that the action is intended in our favor…it is putting the cart before the horse. We are in danger of other rogue clerks taking direction from their beliefs willy-nilly rather than lawful direction until they are sued into order.

  • 9. Jen_in_MI  |  July 9, 2014 at 10:44 am

    Anything about DeBoer?

  • 10. F_Young  |  July 9, 2014 at 11:23 am

    Colorado's Gay Marriage Fight Echoes Drama in 1975

  • 11. TomPHL  |  July 9, 2014 at 11:42 am

    One of the possible ways to challenge the constitutionality of a law has always been to break the law and use the law's unconstitutionality as a defense. This has its risks if you lose, but was how the sodomy laws were invalidated in Lawrence. In this case Hall believes she is acting within the law and is being taken to court by the AG who disagrees. The courts will decide and I expect she will abide by the courts decision. She is not opening the door for other rogue officials. That door has always been open and others on the other side have already gone through it many times.

  • 12. brandall  |  July 9, 2014 at 11:49 am

    Hearing has finished. One women from each of two couple testified representing Hall. This is why we read the comments above about the AG saying this is not a ME case. The AG brought in a witness from the Bureau of Vital Statistics to testify how licenses are issued. County Clerk Hall testified for the final hour. Cross examination of Hall included her saying the harm to the state is not allowing couples to marry, a play upon the AG's positioning. [no link, pulled from multiple sources]

  • 13. brandall  |  July 9, 2014 at 11:50 am

    BIG news alert….Utah AG will file petition with SCOTUS as opposed to seeking ruling from the full 10th circuit. Utah is opting for "clarity and resolution from the highest court"…

  • 14. Zack12  |  July 9, 2014 at 12:00 pm

    I think the fact that the court is more Democratic now and the fact one Republican has already ruled against them make them decide against doing the En Banc hearing.

  • 15. debater7474  |  July 9, 2014 at 12:02 pm

    The court was never going to grant a motion to rehear En Banc; the only question was whether Utah would use the motion as a stalling tactic. Even some of the conservatives on the court would probably prefer to just let it go up the Supreme Court. When the ninth denied en banc in Perry, only a couple of the conservative judges dissented. Most content to let it move on to the next level.

  • 16. brandall  |  July 9, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    My source in Utah beat AP by 13 minutes. Here's the AP story:

    NOTE: Scottie has posted this announcement very quickly. Hopefully, we will continue this discussion under that article and not split the threads in two places.

  • 17. StraightDave  |  July 9, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    This indicates UT is not simply interested in time-wasting tactics or deferring to another state. They're going to deal with this head-on and give it their best shot. It also pretty much assures SCOTUS a chance to deal with this next Spring if they want to (or deny cert in Dec). In any case, the fuse has now been lit…. counting down…. 1,000,000… 999,999…

  • 18. Bruno71  |  July 9, 2014 at 12:16 pm

    I know from the experience waiting in Windsor and Hollingsworth that December was pretty much the very latest we could expect a decision on cert, but what's the earliest? October?

  • 19. StraightDave  |  July 9, 2014 at 12:27 pm

    This sounds incredibly early vs the 90 day requirement, unless I'm missing something (again):

    "Sean Reyes’ office said in a statement Wednesday it will file an appeal to the high court sometime in the next couple of weeks"

  • 20. Ragavendran  |  July 9, 2014 at 12:36 pm

    The Daily Camera reports that the judge said this was a very complex case and that he'd rule soon. Also, the judge made it clear he won't be deciding right now, as far as a TRO or preliminary injunction is concerned, whether the licenses issued so far were valid or not:

  • 21. overcoming crippling pani&hellip  |  July 9, 2014 at 7:26 pm

    overcoming crippling panic

    Equality On TrialEquality On Trial »

  • 22. anxiety blog&hellip  |  July 9, 2014 at 10:58 pm

    anxiety blog

    Equality On TrialEquality On Trial »

  • 23. ragefirewolf  |  July 10, 2014 at 5:36 am

    I'm sure you're right. I still don't like it, but that's just me. The reasoning seems sound, I suppose. Seems a little too late for initiating civil disobedience…?

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What Is an Atheist (and Are You One)?

These days many people claim to be atheists. What is an atheist? Are you one?

Atheism is the belief that there is no God. It is different from agnosticism, which is the position that you don't know whether there is a God. Agnosticism is a suspension of judgment; atheism is a type of belief. Atheist belief may be certain (a belief that there definitely is no God) or merely probable (a belief that there probably is no God).

To decide who is an atheist, you first have to know what the word "God" means. What exactly is it that the atheists are denying?

This question is not easy as it seems. The problem is that there are many different ideas of God in human thought. Serious, informed thinkers (and some less serious and informed ones as well) have held a spectrum of different ideas about God. The mental picture of God that you grew up with is not the only possible idea of God.

Some atheists seem to think that the only idea of God is the Biblical idea, and that the word "God" means a supernatural creator of the world. Although many people believe in this idea of God, those who regard it as a definition of the word "God" are on the wrong track. Some philosophers have arrived, through reason, at ideas of God that can be true even if there is nothing supernatural. Some religions have taught that God is not the creator. According to some concepts of God, God is not very humanlike, and is not even what we usually think of as a "person." I've written elsewhere (here, here and here) about various ideas of God, so I won't try to list all the ideas again here.

What do all these ideas of God have in common? The differences can be great. However, most ideas of God (at least most of the well-thought-out ones) have a common core. In one way or another, most of these ideas portray God as a greatest possible being. They depict God as a being or reality that is greater, better, or more perfect than anything else. What is more, these ideas portray God as having mindlike properties of some kind - mental, spiritual, or moral properties. These ideas don't just equate God to something physical, like matter or energy. Instead, they portray God as being a bit more like a "someone" than a mere "something." This is true even of ideas that deny that God is a "person" in the usual sense of the word.

Pantheism is one form of belief in God that is different from the supernatural-creator idea. In its basic version, pantheism equates God to nature or to the physical universe. Some critics claim that pantheism is only a disguised form of atheism, but they are wrong about this. Some forms of pantheism might amount to atheism, but other forms amount to a real belief in God. However, pantheism is not the only possible form of belief in God that denies that God is a supernatural creator. As I pointed out elsewhere, there are other such beliefs. (See here and here.)

The God of real religious thought is very different from the "God" of Biblical fundamentalism. The God of the fundamentalists is a very humanoid, and sometimes very mean, fellow who makes a habit of violating the laws of nature. Other, more reasonable religious thinkers long ago rejected this idea of God. Some of these other thinkers still consider God a supernatural creator - but that isn't the most important part of their understanding of God. These believers could continue believing in God even if it turned out that God was not a supernatural creator.

Some atheists try to define "God" as a supernatural creator of the universe. Then they try to debunk God by proving there is no supernatural creator. The big problem with this line of argument is that it doesn't tell us much about God! At most, it hits one concept of God: the idea that God is a supernatural creator. Even if this atheistic line of argument worked, it would not disprove God. At most, it would disprove the supernatural-creator concept of God. Some sincere believers in God rejected this concept long ago - but they didn't have to give up believing in God.

The atheist trick of defining God as a supernatural creator pins the "atheist" label on anyone who accepts a different idea of God. By claiming that God must be a supernatural creator, the atheists are playing with words. They are defining into existence a whole bunch of "atheists" who might not be atheists at all. This atheist ploy is much like defining the word "dog" to include the concept of being lime green in color. Once you buy into that definition, you can say that lime green dogs are the only real dogs - and anyone who disbelieves in lime green dogs is actually a disbeliever in dogs. (This covers a lot of people, even people who have dogs, because lime green dogs are rather easy to disbelieve in.)

It's easy to label anyone an "atheist" if they disagree with your particular idea of God. However, the fact that you have stopped believing in the Bible, in religion, or in the supernatural isn't enough to make you an atheist. You don't have to become an atheist just because you don't believe in these things. There is another option: rethink your idea of God - and think for yourself.

Some people who think about religion call themselves "atheists" just because they don't believe in a supernatural creator. If that describes you, then you might not really be an atheist at all!

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Rapid Reaction: Mets 3, Cubs 2

WHAT IT MEANS: Starter Matt Harvey drove in his own damn run.

With the Mets torn between desperately needing a run and also not wanting to pull their ace for a weak and undependable bullpen, manager Terry Collins allowed Harvey to hit with two outs, Rick Ankiel at second base and the score tied in the seventh inning.

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Matt Harvey's bat won the game with a two-out RBI single in the seventh.

Harvey -- with his pitch count at 92 and having retired the last 11 batters he had faced -- gave himself a one-run lead by hitting the ball through the left side of the infield for an RBI single that chased opposing starter Edwin Jackson. That proved the decisive blow as the Mets held on for a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field. The Mets have won two in a row after losing six straight.

Right fielder Marlon Byrd threw out a runner at the plate in the eighth. David Wright and Daniel Murphy earlier produced solo homers.

Harvey improved to 5-0, snapping a streak of four straight no-decisions during which he posted a 1.98 ERA while the Mets scored only six runs with him on the mound.

Harvey’s final line: 7.1 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 6 K. He threw 106 pitches (78 strikes).

He had retired 14 straight batters, and 20 of 21, until allowing a leadoff single to Darwin Barney in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Julio Borbon then bunted Barney to second. Collins pulled Harvey and inserted heavily used left-handed reliever Scott Rice to face the lefty-hitting David DeJesus.

DeJesus singled to right field, but ex-Cub Byrd -- who had entered the previous half-inning for Jordany Valdespin -- fired a strike to the plate to throw out Barney as he attempted to score from second.

Harvey has now allowed three runs or fewer in 16 straight starts, the fifth-longest streak by a starter in franchise history. The only longer: Dwight Gooden (24 straight, 1985), Johan Santana (21, 2008-09), Tom Seaver (19, 1971-72) and Gooden (17, 1985-86).

Harvey had showed his mortality in the first inning when the Cubs jumped on his fastball. He allowed a one-out single to Starlin Castro, then a double by Anthony Rizzo that put both Cubs in scoring position.

The fielding let Harvey down after that. Shortstop Ruben Tejada ranged to his left to field a grounder from Alfonso Soriano behind the bag, but bounced the throw to first baseman Ike Davis. Davis was unable to scoop it and the ball got by him. Both runners scored as the Cubs briefly grabbed a 2-1 lead.

The official scorer officially ruled it an infield single (very generous) and an E-6 allowing Rizzo to score from second. Both runs were earned because the scorer determined that Rizzo, who otherwise would have been on third base, would have scored on Nate Schierholtz’s subsequently shallow lineout to the strong-armed Ankiel in center field.

Gooden tweeted: “Love the way @MattHarvey33 bounced back after the 1st. Sign of a great pitcher in the making”

HIT, MAN: Davis snapped an 0-for-24 skid with a two-out single in the sixth against Jackson. Davis had struck out looking and grounded into a momentum-killing 4-6-3 double play earlier in the game. Davis’ skid was the longest by a Met this season. Josh Thole had an 0-for-30 streak in 2012.

WHAT’S NEXT: Mets right-hander Jeremy Hefner (0-4, 4.61 ERA) opposes righty Scott Feldman (3-3, 2.53) at 1:05 p.m. ET Saturday.


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Lawrie wins player of year

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The best college softball player in the United States comes from a town just north of the border between Washington and British Columbia.

A junior pitcher for the University of Washington, Danielle Lawrie was named USA Softball Player of the Year during Tuesday's opening ceremonies at the Women's College World Series. She is the first player from the school to win the award and edged a pair of senior finalists in Florida's Stacey Nelson and Arizona State's Kaitlin Cochran.

"There were a lot of other great athletes up for the award, so I think that I'm still soaking it in," Lawrie said. "I had to congratulate both of them, because it could have been either one of them as well."

One of the final 25 candidates for the award as a sophomore in 2007, Lawrie used a redshirt last season at Washington in order to play for the Canadian Olympic team.

Lawrie is 37-7 with a 0.84 ERA in her return to the college game this season. She leads the nation with 472 strikeouts in 308 innings. With one full year of eligibility remaining, she's already 15th all time in strikeouts in the NCAA record books with 1,316, leaving her 60 strikeouts away from the top 10 and 452 away from the top five.

She also became the first player in NCAA history to no-hit Arizona and UCLA in the same season, beating Arizona on April 3 and UCLA on April 29.

"You don't want to say that one player makes your program, but obviously it starts in the circle," coach Heather Tarr said. "It's just been awesome to see her growth and development, from the time she started as a freshman, kind of as a baby, and knowing what she was capable of and being able to see it come right before our eyes with her team is just neat."

A regular part of Washington's batting order when she pitches, Lawrie is hitting .277 with six home runs and 25 RBI this season. In the win last weekend against Georgia Tech that clinched a World Series berth, she threw a three-hit shutout and hit two home runs.

"She's like a living legacy now for our program, which is awesome," Tarr said.

Seeking the program's first national championship in its ninth World Series appearance, the third-seeded Huskies are the second highest remaining seed in the competition after top-seeded Florida. They are 46-11 this season, including 5-1 in the NCAA tournament.

"I wouldn't have experienced anything better than that," Lawrie said of a potential championship. "To me, that's the best thing that this team could possibly get in my career. That would be amazing."

Former Virginia Tech pitcher Angela Tincher won the award last year. Other past winners include former UCLA catcher Stacey Nuveman and former University of Texas pitcher Cat Osterman, who is the only player to win the award multiple times.

Lawrie and the Huskies open their World Series schedule on Thursday afternoon against No. 6 seed Georgia.

Graham Hays covers women's sports for ESPN.com.


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Tuna testimonial helped make Rex a Jet

Once upon a time, Bill Parcells was the larger-than-life figure who saved the New York Jets from themselves, driving a hoax of a franchise to the brink of the Super Bowl. So maybe it was fitting that Parcells gave the Jets one last gift.

Maybe it was fitting that he notarized a candidate named Rex Ryan.

"I was very impressed with Rex when I met with him," Parcells said Tuesday night by phone. "I could just sense that, 'Hey, this guy's going to have a chance.'"

This was three years ago, when Parcells was the executive vice president of football operations for the Miami Dolphins and a man in dire need of a head coach. He sat down with Ryan and discovered a kindred spirit, a football lifer born in Oklahoma but one projecting that Parcellsian Jersey Guy vibe.

If Parcells hadn't shared a strong working relationship with his former aide in Dallas, Tony Sparano, he likely would have hired Ryan on the spot.

"Yes, that's correct," Parcells said.

He went with Sparano, breaking Ryan's heart if not his resolve. A year later, after Eric Mangini went poof in the night, Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum solicited his mentor's official scouting report on the Baltimore defensive coordinator with a big plan and a bigger mouth.

Parcells told his protégé he liked Rex and his pedigree, as in a lot, and Tannenbaum took it to the bank. On Jan. 21, 2009, the Jets made Ryan one of the franchise's Mount Rushmore hires, right there with Weeb Ewbank, Joe Namath and Bill Parcells.

"I had a fierce rivalry with Rex's father when I was coaching the Giants," Parcells said, "but I held Buddy in high regard. What made Buddy a dangerous adversary was that he knew what he was looking for personnel-wise, and Rex is the same way. That's a pretty good head start for Rex because there are quite a few coaches in this league who don't know what they're looking for."

No, Parcells didn't believe he was staring in the mirror when he met Ryan, a candidate who counted his prospective employer among his coaching idols. During Rex's two stunning years in New York, he's often been cast as a cross between his father and Parcells.

Like Parcells, Ryan arrived as an imposing presence who believed in himself and his ability to elevate a downtrodden team with the force of his will.

"But when I interviewed him it wasn't so much Rex that struck me as [it was] guys like Rex," Parcells said. "Guys who grew up in football like Bill Belichick, guys whose fathers were coaches. ... Those guys are just different. They get it. They have a great understanding of things that a lot of people who haven't been in football their whole lives don't have, and Rex was one of those guys.

"Rex is quite straightforward, and he has a passion for the game, but I think in some other ways he's entirely different from me. He's his own guy, and there are all sorts of different personalities that have won in this league. All that matters is he tries to give his players a good design, and that's really what coaching is. Give your players a chance with a good design and get them to execute it and play hard, and that's what Rex has done very well."

Parcells did all of that for the Jets, needing two seasons to turn Rich Kotite's 1-15 into a 12-4. Including a playoff victory over Tom Coughlin's Jaguars, the 1998 Jets had won 11 of 12 heading into the conference championship game in Denver, their lone defeat a one-point loss at Indianapolis.

Long before Rex Ryan was a glimmer in anyone's eye, Parcells had dramatically altered the Jets' culture. He allowed their weary fan base to believe that Super Bowl III didn't have to be their one-and-done day in the sun.

The Jets had the Broncos down 10-0 in the third quarter, and Vinny Testaverde was outdueling John Elway as clearly as Mark Sanchez outdueled Tom Brady in Foxborough, Mass. But other Jets kept dropping the ball, the winds picked up, and suddenly Elway became Elway again, leaving Parcells a ghostly shade of pale as he stood outside the losers' Mile High locker room, hunched and beaten and begging the writers to temper their interrogation.

"You're talking about my saddest day in professional football," Parcells recalled a dozen years later. "If I had to make a list, that loss would be No. 1, and Tony Romo fumbling that snap in Seattle would be No. 2."

Over the phone, when reminded that his Jets surely would've beaten Atlanta in the Super Bowl, a team they had blown out in the regular season, Parcells lowered his voice to a whisper. He sounded as though he were back on the losing side at Mile High, reminding everyone of how many things would have to go right for the Jets to return to the final four the following year.

"It was such a devastating loss, it's hard to explain how I felt," Parcells said. "I'm sure it's how Bill Belichick felt last Sunday. I'm sure every coach gets to a place where you think you can go to the next spot, and you don't get to go. It takes a lot of blood to get back there, and those windows can close fast.

"We were winning but they don't pay off halfway through the race. They pay off at the finish line, and we didn't finish."

Testaverde popped his Achilles' in the 1999 opener, and that was that. A lifetime later, with their team booked for Pittsburgh and a shot at Super Bowl XLV, Jets fans want to know if Rex Ryan can finish the job.

Parcells can't offer a Joe Willie guarantee; he swears he's no prophet. At 69, Parcells is merely a former Miami consultant who still gets enough of a rush out of pro football to keep the possibility of one last coaching comeback alive, if barely.

"I've coached my last game," he said. "But I've said that before."

For now, Parcells will assume the role of the anxious fan who can't wait for Sunday's kickoff. He's intrigued by the psychology of Jets-Steelers because, he said, "there's a positive psychology on both sides.

"The Jets know they can win in Pittsburgh because they've already done that this year. But the Steelers know they have to be at their best because they've already lost to the Jets at home. It's like Ali-Frazier the second time, when Ali knew Frazier was capable of beating him."

Parcells will not be openly pulling for the Jets. As a father confessor to dozens of coaches around the league, Parcells has friends on both sides of the aisle.

Only there's no denying his link to Ryan. Parcells wants it known that he takes no credit for Rex's development, or even for Tannenbaum's decision to hire him.

But when Ryan was struggling in the middle of last season, he ignored AFC East protocol and called a certain Dolphins executive for help. In effect, Parcells advised the man he nearly hired to expand his voice on the offensive side of the ball and to become more of a head coach.

Rex Ryan has become more of a head coach than anyone could've guessed, not to mention the embodiment of Bill Parcells' last great call for the Jets.


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Located near the coast of the southern city of Karachi, the National Bank of Pakistan Sports Complex cricket ground boasts one of the lushest outfields seen in the country. Small boundaries compared to major international venues, the ground offers great sights with the Mohatta Palace and the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi on either ends.

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The Most Important Book of the Twenty-First Century

If I were a Republican policy-maker, if I were the Koch brothers, if I worked for Goldman Sachs, Capital in the Twenty-First Century would frighten me more than anything at Occupy Wall Street.

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The term must-read has lost most of its urgency by this point—if indeed it had any urgency to begin with. When you see it in a review today, you assume it simply means the reviewer enjoyed the book, or that everybody else will be reading it and therefore you must, too. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a must-read in that sense: It's at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and everyone with an interest in politics or policy or economics is at least pretending to read it right now. But it's a must-read in another, deeper, truer sense: If you want to understand the world, if you want to comprehend the mechanics of the forces shaping our time, if you want to know the political choices we face, you must read it. I cannot think of a more important book published in my lifetime.

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Economists have already, in their own quiet way, gone absolutely batshit crazy for this book. It is the kind of game-changing text that revolutionizes whole academic fields. At a recent economics conference in Toronto every single session contained at least one reference to Piketty. The Economist has devoted a discussion group to the book. Paul Krugman, in his review for The New York Review of Books, offered a trained economist's take on it that could not have been more complimentary.

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I'm not an economist, but then, I think Capital in the Twenty-First Century will change much more than an academic discipline. It will change how we feel about the personal and political choices of our lives. At the core of the book is a simple formula derived from one of the largest data sets ever compiled—two hundred years of income and wealth data from more than twenty countries—distilled into a single graph:

In the broadest terms, what this graph means is that, except for a brief period between the first World War and the 1970s, the rate of return on investments has tended to be greater than the rate of economic growth. The consequences of this insight are enormous. It means that the great period of the growing middle class, the golden age of prosperity for all, amounts to a historical blip. Piketty's book ends the idea that a rising tide lifts all boats. It ends the magical thinking about capitalism that has consumed our political life since the 1980s, the idea that open markets and growth solve all problems. Even more radically, this graph means that capitalism and democracy do not necessarily complement each other, as we have assumed for a century. As the return on capital overwhelms the income that can be earned, money will overwhelm speech. Citizens United was just the first crack.

Capitalism, untrammeled, produces more and more intense forms of inequality. Piketty calls this "the internal contradiction of capitalism," which sounds a lot like Karl Marx. Piketty doesn't deny the connection, although by no means could he be considered a Marxist. Like everyone who lived through the fall of the Berlin Wall, Piketty is under no illusions about the virtues of communism—there are none. No possible regime of inequality under capitalism would be worse than totalitarian state control.

But here we come to the book's most significant weakness: what to do about it all. The brief window of narrowing inequality was marked by mass destruction—by two world wars and the Great Depression. Hopefully, we won't have to live through those nightmares again to achieve some degree of egalitarianism. Raising income taxes is at best a limited option, for the simple reason that taxes in advanced economies now range between 35 and 50 percent of national income. Raising that number to even, say, the ludicrously high level of 75 percent would not be that big of a jolt.

Piketty's big proposal is a global tax on wealth, much like property tax but on industrial capital and other investments. (The tax would have to be global to prevent capital from fleeing to other, less regulated jurisdictions, as it does now.) Piketty himself describes this idea as "utopian." It presupposes, first of all, that the mechanics of markets will adopt near-complete transparency. Even more unlikely, he imagines the people of the world allowing an international government to tax their savings and investments. Frankly, the chapter of solutions to global capitalism shouldn't have appeared here. Piketty should have saved those proposals for a second book. Because we need solutions. And none are apparent.

Like Marx's Das Kapital, Piketty's is better as pure diagnosis. It reveals, beyond any doubt, using all intellectual resources available, the internal contradictions of capitalism. If I were a Republican policy-maker, if I were the Koch brothers, if I worked for Goldman Sachs, Capital in the Twenty-First Century would frighten me more than anything that happened at Occupy Wall Street. Occupy was a mess of old-fashioned ideologies infused with inchoate rage, and it produced no clear vision and no clear goals. Piketty's book is much more radical. Never again will the idea fly that all we must do as a society is permit the flow of capital and leave entrepreneurs alone and everything else will take care of itself. Society requires collective decisions about how and why resources are produced and consumed.

The huge fortunes that have been amassed in the past couple decades are neither an accidental by-product of an otherwise wonderful system nor a benign force. Capital in the Twenty-First Century takes nearly seven hundred pages to say: "I call bullshit." And now bullshit has been called. So, what's next?

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• Mariah Carey is recovering from a freak video-shoot accident. According to CNN, Carey was rushed to the hospital on Sunday after injuring her shoulder. "She was taken to the hospital late last night, where doctors reset her shoulder," said her rep on Monday. "She is fine." Carey was filming the remix video for her song "#Beautiful," directed by her husband, Nick Cannon. Carey will reportedly still perform this coming weekend in Central Park. [CNN]

• It's been exactly a month since former South African President Nelson Mandela, 94, was admitted to the hospital. Since then, there have been numerous reports and updates regarding his health. The leader was also reportedly on life support at one point. But officials have announced that his condition is improving. [Grio]

• Halle Berry and her lawyer filed a cease and desist letter to The Montreal Auction, which claimed to be auctioning off 400 items that belonged to the actress. However, none of the items were hers. They all belonged to her ex-boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry. The auction house immediately postponed the sale. [TMZ]

• Kevin Hart's latest film, Let Me Explain, broke records. It became the biggest comedy concert film opening of all time with $17 million. "This is why I work so f*cking hard… this moment is what I've been dreaming about~ Thank you God & thank you fans! I love y'all 4 this," he tweeted. [YBF]

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Construction Product Directive (CPD)

CE-marking of solar collectors related to Directive 89/106/EEC, Construction Product Directive (CPD) is under preparation.

The CE-marking will cover the following characteristics for solar thermal collectors in buildings.:

  • Mechanical resistance to climatic loads (wind, snow, ...)
  • Fire safety (e.g. initiation, reaction to fire, risk to adjacent elements, ..., as relevant)
  • Weather tightness (when relevant - i.e. for roof integrated or façade integrated collectors)
  • Attestation of conformity according to CPD Annex III.2.(ii), econd possibility:
  • Initial type-testing of the product by an approved laboratory
  • Factory production control
  • CE-marking should go hand in hand with Keymarking:
  • CE-marking being the manufacturer declared (lower level) quality assurance scheme
  • Keymarking being the 3rd party certified (higher level) quality assurance scheme

It is expected that this CE-marking will be in force in 2014-15.

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Pressure Equipment Directive (PED)

As solar collectors are pressurized, the question arises if they are touched by the regulations of the EU pressure equipment directive (PED).

According to the rules and guidelines referred below:

  • Large collector modules with PS*V BIGGER THAN 50 bar*litres SHALL be CE-marked in relation with the PED
  • Normal collector modules with PS*V LOWER THAN 50 bar*litres CAN NOT be CE-marked in relation to the PED

In Guideline 2/23 of March 31st, 2006 to the Pressure equipment directive 97/23/EC by the Commission's Working Group "Pressure", it is clarified that: "A typical solar panel would be classified as Article 3, paragraph 3 equipment, due to the maximum allowable pressure and volume" - see Annex II and the figure below:

PS: Maximum allowed pressure in bars; V: Volume (fluid content) in litres.

It is seen that far most collectors are covered by the Article 3 Paragraph 3, stating: "Such equipment and/or assemblies must not bear the CE marking ...".

However, in some cases CE-marking of solar thermal collectors is obligatory according to the curves above (large collector modules):

  • Collector volume in litres multiplied by the max. allowable pressure in bars > 50 litre*bar: Category I - Conformity Assessment Procedures: Module A applies
  • Collector volume in litres multiplied by the max. allowable pressure in bars > 200 litre*bar: Category II - Conformity Assessment Procedures: Modules A1, D1, E1applies

PS: In accordance with clause (5) of the preface of the PED, not a collector array, but a single collector has to be considered.

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