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Both Plainview and Lubbock High have struggled to find success much longer than either program ever expected.
For the Bulldogs it's been six years since their last playoff appearance in 2006. While it seems an eternity for the coaches who have been around that whole time, it's nothing compared to the 37-year absence that has been draped around the Westerners like a wet blanket.
But when the biennial UIL realignment was announced in February, suddenly both programs were given a ray of hope with the formation of a six-team league in which four teams qualify for the postseason. Only two of the six teams in the new district made the playoffs in 2011.
There's still five weeks to go, but the playoff push for both teams starts at 7 p.m. today at Lowrey Field, where the Bulldogs and Westerners clash, the victor earning a huge upper hand in the race for the postseason.
"We need this one," LHS running back Brandon Hernandez said. "We need to start district off with some momentum and keep playing hard to the end. If we can get this win then we'll know we're on the right track toward the playoffs."
Plainview (2-3, 0-0 in 4-4A) comes into the game already with a good head of steam, having won two straight before last week's bye.
That included a win over previously unbeaten Caprock, followed by an avenging defeat of Dumas, which defeated Plainview by one point last season.
With two wins, the Bulldogs are at a point they've been in three of the last four seasons, but they have never been able to take the next step. Plainview hasn't won more than two games in a season since its last playoff appearance.
Head coach Marcos Hinojos, however, is confident this year's team has the makeup to make push in district play.
"We haven't had that third win in this program in quite awhile, and we haven't started district 1-0 in six years," said Hinojos, a former assistant coach in his third season leading the Bulldogs. "Those are the things we're fighting for that are important to us. Those are the things this program wants so badly. When you've been there before, it's something that's so addictive that you do whatever it takes to get back there. This team, hopefully, realizes that."
Plainview is built around a strong running game with the tandem of seniors Daniel Miller and Shirmar Jennings. Miller is fourth in District 4-4A in rushing with 521 yards and seven touchdowns, while Jennings has rushed for 342 and a score. In between them is quarterback Wes McCutcheon, who has rushed for 455 yards and four touchdowns and thrown for 519 yards and seven TDs.
"We've gotten to where we're playing four quarters," said Hinojos, whose team dropped three straight to begin the year. "The first three games we'd play a quarter and a half or maybe two quarters of good football against teams that know how to play for four quarters. We've started games well and now we're finishing games well."
That was a point LHS coach Jason Strunk thought his team had reached after it's win two weeks ago over Andrews. But turnovers and penalties killed the Westerners last week in a 20-point loss to Perryton.
Work this week in practice has been to shake those mistakes, because the next three weeks could decide Lubbock High's fate. After Plainview, the Westerners go to Hereford next week then host San Angelo Lake View - three straight games against the teams with a combined 3-12 record it expects to battle for a playoff spot.
"This three-game stretch we're heading into now probably is a season-defining stretch for us," Strunk said. "We're not just handing anything to Frenship and Monterey, but we're playing teams these first three games that will define where we're at, and we've got to find a way to crack through."
The Westerners are driven by the passing game. Senior quarterback Layven Armendariz leads the district with 1,047 yards and eight touchdowns, and senior receiver Bam Jackson is the top pass-catcher in the league with 26 catches for 316 yards and three touchdowns. Hernandez chips in 436 rushing yards and a pair of scores.
Like Plainview, it's been six years since LHS won more than two games in a season, but it's also been three years since it's won more than one. Strunk is confident, however, this team is ready to turn the corner.
"I know it sounds crazy, but we've come so far that we're at a point now where we're beating ourselves. No one is crushing us," Strunk said. "It is progress, as crazy as it sounds. We're beating ourselves and we will learn from it.
"The bottom line is at 7 we'll kick it off and then it will come down to 17-year-old kids making plays."
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"I called my album 4:21 The Day After, because 4/21 is the day after national weed smoking dayits a moment of clarity. Four plus two plus one equals seven, which is a godly number. I smoked weed while I was writing, but I dont celebrate marijuana on this album."
This Wu-Tang member finds inspiration in the unlikeliest of places. The man, the myth, the Method sits down with FHM to talk about his marital woes, ODBs outrageous club antics and a tactless reviewer who earned an ass whupping...
Music critics
"This album was inspired by tactless reviewers. They tried to assassinate my character instead of reviewing my last albumtheyd rather talk about what I did in Hollywood or who I had sex with or tell me that Im not ghetto enough. Once, a Wu Tang member punched a writer in the face because the articles illustration made us look like gay cartoon characters."
Marital woes
"You do your best writing when bad shit happens to you. My wife was sick, but she beat it. But then she and I stopped getting along, and we got separated. It was over other women. I was stupidand thats why Im now sleeping at the studio."
SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs
"When I wasnt recording, I was playing SOCOM on PS2 online. Im in a clan and we go around and murder people for fun. Sometimes other players say, "You sound like Method Man. They figure out who I am. Their friends will say, Stop dick-ridinleave the dude alone."
Judge Mathis
"Judge Mathis is real and hes raw. Hes way better than Judge Judy. Many years back, a judge tried to lock my ass up for drug possession. Can you tell the State of New York to send me my paperwork, please? Theyre supposed to give you your mug shots and your record back if you stay out of trouble."
"One song has a verse by Dirty. Once, in a Miami club, we were about to go on and I went to the bar to get some water. I saw a crowd and there was Ol Dirty, getting brain from a bitch. He was talking to people and they were egging him on: "Go! Go!" ODB aint give a fuck"
01. Intro
02. Is It Me (prod. by Scott Storch)
03. Problem (prod. by Erick Sermon)
04. Somebody Done Fucked Up (prod. by Havoc)
05. Shaolin Soldier (Skit)
06. Fall Out (prod. by Kwame)
07. DirtyMef (Ft O.D.B.) (prod. by Erick Sermon & Mathematics)
08. 420 (ft Streetlife & Carlton Fisk) (prod. by RZA & Beretta 9)
09. Lets Ride (ft Ginuwine) (prod. by Mr. Porter)
10. Glide (ft Raekwon & La The Darkman) (prod. by RZA)
11. Kids (Skit)
12. Say (prod. by Erick Sermon)
13. Ya Meen (ft Fat Joe & Styles P) (prod. by The Charman of the Boards)
14. Konichiwa Bitches (prod. by RZA)
15. Everything (ft Inspectah Deck, Streetlife) (prod. by Mathematics)
16. Walk On (ft Redman) (prod. by Versatile)
17. Pimpin (Skit)
18. Presidential M.C. (ft Raekwon & The Rza) (prod. by RZA)
19. 4eva (ft Megan Rochell) (prod. by Kwame)
*Bonus track*
Method Mans album 4:21 The Day After is out August 29 on Def Jam.

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gains from professional-networking company LinkedIn Corp. and losses from Redbox parent Coinstar Inc. stood out in after-hours trading Thursday following the companies' latest earnings reports.
LinkedIn US:LNKD shares rose as much as 11% in after-market action as the company reported earnings excluding one-time items of 35 cents a share on revenue of $303.6 million. The results easily surpassed the forecasts of analysts surveyed by FactSet, who forecast LinkedIn to earn 19 cents a share on almost $280 million in revenue for the quarter ended in December. See: LinkedIn crushes targets; shares jump
Coinstar CSTR, +3.06% however, shed as much as 10% in the after-hours session. The operator of Redbox DVD-rental kiosks reported fourth-quarter earnings of $22.9 million, or 75 cents a share, on revenue of $564.1 million, compared with earnings of $31.5 million, or $1.04 a share, on $466 million in sales in the year-ago period. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research had forecast Coinstar to earn 74 cents a share on $577 million in revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31.
However, for its first quarter, Coinstar said it expects to earn between 77 cents and 92 cents a share, on revenue in a range of $568 million to $593 million. Analysts had forecast Coinstar to earn $1.22 a share on $628.8 million in sales for its first quarter.
Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. ATVI, +0.93% shares climbed more than 4% in after-hours activity as the company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $354 million, or 31 cents per share, on revenue of $1.77 billion, compared with net income of $99 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of $1.4 billion for the same period the previous year. Activision said its results were helped by strong sales of titles such as "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2."
Excluding deferred revenues from certain game titles, Activision said it earned 78 cents a share on $2.6 billion in revenue. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had forecast Activision to earn 72 cents a share on revenue of $2.4 billion.
Mobile-activation software developer Synchronoss Technologies Inc. SNCR, +1.00% climbed almost 6% in after-hours trading. The company reported earnings of $3.4 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of $73.2 million. Excluding one-time items, Synchronoss said it would have earned $11.1 million or 29 cents a share. Wall Street analysts had forecast the company to earn 25 cents a share on $70.1 million in sales.
Other stocks that were active in after-hours trading included SunPower Corp. SPWR, -0.79% down 6.6%; Ubiquiti Networks Inc. UBNT, +0.89% up by more than 4%; and NCR Corp. NCR, +0.03% which rose almost 4%.


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April 30, 2008 > Tech Trek Scholarships Awarded
Local Fremont students Karina Aranda from St. Joseph's School and Congrui Lin and Monica Oo from Horner Jr. High have been selected by AAUW Fremont Branch to get a preview of college life while learning that math and science can be fun. They have each won an $800 scholarship to attend Tech Trek Science Camp for Girls at Mills College, a summer program for next fall's 8th grade girls. Iman Mojadidi of Peace Terrace Academy was selected as the alternate.This program is sponsored by the American Association of University Women of California (AAUW-CA). The girls will live on the campus of Mills College for a week this summer. They will attend classes featuring hands-on experiments taught by credentialed middle school teachers. Women who are professionals in the fields of math, science and technology will be guest presenters. Field trips to various locations that correspond to science and math will be highlighted and the featured activities. AAUW volunteers serve as camp directors, nurses, dorm moms, and chaperones.Students are nominated by their 7th grade math and science teachers to attend this science, math and technology camp. The Fremont Branch of AAUW which serves Fremont, Newark and Union City provides the funding for students through tax deductible donations and fundraisers. Each applicant was asked to submit an essay on how she would use math and science to make the world a better place. Interviews were held, and the final selections were made this week. The first Tech Trek Summer Camp was held at Stanford University in 1998, with initial funding from the AAUW Educational Foundation. This year there will be six camps, at CSU-Fresno, Mills College, Stanford University, UC-San Diego, UC - Santa Barbara and Whittier College. Tech Trek is continuing proof that AAUW puts their Mission Statement into action: AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education and research.To support programs like Tech Trek or to learn more about the American Association of Women (AAUW), please contact Tech Trek Coordinator Jill Bennett at firstname.lastname@example.com or (510) 206-0510 or AAUW's dedicated phone line 510-728-9700, message only.


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For coloring on fabric with crayons, you will need:
-- 100 % cotton fabric -- white or cream
-- Fine line permanent marking pen suitable for fabric
-- Crayola crayons -- most instructions for crayons to fabric recommend the Crayola brand of crayons. They are readily available and inexpensive. Buy the largest box you can find so you have lots of color choices. Most crayons that are a dollar for a large box do not have enough pigment in them to leave enough color on the fabric after heat treating. For this purpose buy the brand name crayons.
-- Freezer paper
-- Paper towels
-- Iron
Choose white or cream 100% cotton fabric. You may use any color fabric you wish but color from the crayons will show up better on a lighter colored background fabric.
Be sure to pre-wash your fabric to remove all chemicals and sizing. Do not use fabric softener. Washing your fabric is important. If you don't wash your fabric until after coloring and heat setting the pigments in the crayons will wash out with the sizing.
Cut fabric into squares or rectangles an inch larger than the finished size of your block. Iron the shiny side of freezer paper to the wrong side of fabric. Using a light box and a fine permanent pen suitable for marking fabric, trace outline of the picture you wish to color.
Children's coloring books will make excellent sources of pictures. Coloring pages are also available online. You may draw your own outline or have your children draw their own.
Simply color your fabric pictures with the crayons as usual. Because the fabric is backed with freezer paper it won't creep or move and is fairly simple to color.
The darker you color the fabric the darker your finished picture will be. You may wish to do a trial picture simply to see how the crayon colors on the fabric and also heat set so you will see how dark you need to color. As the fabric is heat set the lighter colored areas will appear lighter and the darker colored areas will appear darker. If you wish a pastel effect you will want to color lightly.
To heat set your fabric
Set your iron to a "cotton" setting. Cover your ironing surface with protective paper such as a brown paper grocery bag or similar paper. Leave freezer paper on your fabric picture. Place a clean paper towel on the ironing board. Place your fabric pictures face down on the paper towel. Press allowing the heat to melt the wax in the crayon. The color will remain in the fabric and the wax will come out into the paper towel. Place a fresh paper towel on the ironing board and place your fabric picture face down on the paper towel. Press again. Repeat -- replacing paper toweling until wax no longer continues to be absorbed into the paper towel. Remove freezer paper and press again.
If you see that your picture doesn't have enough color, you may color it again with more crayons. If you wish to color more your freezer paper may be reapplied to the back. Remember every time you add crayon you will need to heat set that portion again.
You may color and heat set as many times as you like until the depth of color on your fabric pictures is as dark as you wish. Trim fabric squares to 1/2" larger than finished block size.
Fabric transfer crayons
Fabric transfer crayons are available in the fabric store or craft department of a superstore. They come in a package of eight colors. Transfer crayons are colored onto copy or typing paper and then are ironed unto fabric. The fabric recommended for this procedure is usually a polyester cotton blend as the pigments in these crayons will adhere better to the blended fabric. You will need to read and follow the instructions that came with your specific brand of crayons. Different brands of fabric transfer crayons have slightly different instructions.
For crayon transfers you will need:
-- Fabric transfer crayons
-- Copy paper
-- Polyester Cotton blend fabric in white or cream
-- Iron
Because this is a transfer system the image on the fabric will be in reverse of the original colored picture. Words will need to be printed backwards on the paper to be transferred to the fabric in the correct direction. This could be easily done using a light box. Print your words on a piece of scrap paper and turn it over. Place it on the light box and trace the reversed words to your fabric crayon drawing. When the drawing is ironed onto the fabric it will be in the correct orientation.
The disadvantages of this method are you need to transfer the drawing and it will be reversed and the sets of fabric transfer crayons have a limited number of colors. The advantage, especially with children, is that the original drawing is on paper so if they wish to make more than one drawing and choose the best, they are not wasting fabric.
Watercolor Pencils
Watercolor pencils are available at office supply stores, craft super stores, and art supply stores. They look like ordinary colored pencils but the pigment inside the wood casing will react to water and blend similar to watercolor paints.
Sets usually include 12, 24, or 36 colors with some brands having a set of 72. The price of a set will run approximately a dollar a pencil. They may be less expensive at a discount store. It might be best to start with a small set and buy a larger set if you like working with this art medium.
To do watercolor pencil quilt squares you will need:
-- 100 % cotton fabric -- white or cream
-- Watercolor pencils -- not just regular colored pencils.
-- Freezer paper
-- Paper towels
-- Iron
Choose white or cream 100% cotton fabric. You may use any color fabric you wish but color from the watercolor pencils will show up better on lighter colored fabric.
Be sure to pre-wash your fabric to remove all chemicals and sizing. Do not use fabric softener. Washing your fabric is important. If you don't wash your fabric until after coloring and heat setting the pigments in the watercolor pencils will wash out with the sizing.
Cut fabric into squares or rectangles an inch larger than finished size. Iron freezer paper to the wrong side of fabric to stabilize the fabric for ease of drawing with watercolor pencils.
Drawing on dry fabric
Use watercolor pencils for a wash art technique that will fill the drawing with areas of transparent color. Draw with the point of the pencil or the side. Then brush clean water over the drawing creating a watercolor wash effect.
Drawing on damp fabric
Lightly spray the fabric with plain water using a plant mister type spray bottle. Draw on the damp fabric for color that spreads and blends easily. Again you may draw with the point or the side of the pencil tip.
Wet pencils
Dip a pencil into water and draw to create dots or strokes of color. A larger area of texture can be obtained with the side of the dipped pencil.
Add details with dry or dampened pencils to dry or dampened fabric. Each quilter will want to experiment on a sample to see which style of artwork suits your particular need.
As always when you are finished with your watercolor pencil artwork you will need to heat set your fabric. Use hot iron set on "cotton". After heat setting, trim your fabric square to 1/2" larger than desired finished block size.
You don't have to just do coloring book pages or children's drawings. You might want to experiment with using crayons or watercolor pencils to highlight flower petals or leaf veins in your appliqué. Crayons, transfer crayons, or watercolor pencils are a fun and inexpensive to add color and artwork to your quilt squares. There is a world of creativity waiting for you with this wonderful art medium.


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When it comes to storytelling through song, John Darnielle might be the king.
When it comes to storytelling through song, John Darnielle might be the king.
The Mountain Goats frontman, often called one of the best living songwriters, has certainly lived a life full of stories, from a childhood with an abusive stepfather to drug addiction to time as a psychiatric nurse. That history fuels his robust imagination; of the band's 14 albums, most tell a story, either fictional or autobiographical.
The band, now based in Durham, will bring its stories to the Soapbox on Friday. The show comes as part of a tour featuring just Darnielle and fellow band member Peter Hughes, with drummer Jon Wurster absent.
Friday's show also comes just about a month before the release of the remastered "All Hail West Texas." The 2002 album was the last one recorded on Darnielle's boombox before the band moved into the studio and, like several other albums, tells a story, though a loose one.
The reissue has been something of a "secret plot," Darnielle wrote recently on the band's website. Amid requests for a reissue via Twitter and Tumblr, he remained as evasive as possible as he worked to put out "All Hail West Texas" on Merge Records and to release it on vinyl for the first time. The project forced him to go back through old tapes and dig up the corpses of some of his former selves. What has resulted is a remastered version of the album, with a few bonus tracks thrown in.
The remastered "All Hail West Texas" follows last year's "Transcendental Youth," a concept album loosely focused around a group of people living in Washington state that touches on topics including outcasts, the mentally ill and recluses.
Though Wurster will be missing, the show is sure to feature Darnielle's trademark rambling in between songs and the pure joy he seems to get from performing. He's a famously loquacious performer, and between the songs and rambles, concert-goers are sure to head home with their thirst for stories quenched.
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MADISON, Wis.– The Wisconsin Petroleum Marketers & Convenience Store Association has appointed Ken Kearns as chairman of its board of directors.
Kearns is president of Prairie State Energy, with offices in Barrington and Lake Geneva, Wis. PSE owns and operates convenience stores and supplies wholesale fuels to independent station owners in Wisconsin and Illinois. Kearns began his career in the oil industry 35 years ago with Unocal 76, spending 20 years with that organization until it was sold.
"Representing our members' interests is a great privilege," Kearns said in a press release. "There are many important issues impacting our industry and I look forward to working with our members to move their businesses forward."
Kearns has held many leadership positions in the oil industry, serving on many advisory boards for major oil companies. Most recently he was the chairman for the Marathon Jobber Advisor Board. He also has been on the WPMCA board for five years.
"We look forward to hearing Ken's ideas for helping our members weather the regulatory storms that await us in 2013," said WPMCA President Matt Hauser. "We welcome his insights and expertise."
WPMCA represents more than 2,000 independent petroleum marketers, convenience store owners, truck stop and travel plaza operators, automotive oil change outlets and other automotive service providers throughout Wisconsin. These companies sell more than 80 percent of the motor fuel and nearly all the farm fuel and heating oil sold in Wisconsin. For more information, go to www.wpmca.org.


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Keep end-user storage in check
With free e-mail services offering up to 2GB of storage, it's tough to convince corporate e-mail users that mailbox limits are needed. But companies are realizing that user storage quotas are a necessary evil.
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Enforcing end-user storage quotas is getting tougher as free Web e-mail accounts, such as Google's Gmail, give each user up to 2GB of free storage. This makes typical corporate disk quotas of 50MB to 100MB look paltry by comparison. However, more companies are starting to use quotas to not only reduce costs, but to get better control over where corporate data is stored.
"I'm expecting people to start telling me about Google any day," says John Formet, senior system administrator at The Golf Channel, an Orlando, FL-based cable TV producer and broadcaster. The Golf Channel limits its 350 users to 100MB of personal disk space, and is wrestling with skyrocketing storage demands due to rapid company growth. "We have quadrupled our storage in the last six months," notes Formet, leading the company to migrate to a new SAN.
Knology Inc., a managed service provider in West Point, GA, limits its customers to 25MB each, but that may have to change. "Google and Yahoo! may be forcing our hand," says Bradley Frye, senior manager of data network operations.
"This issue [of limiting end-user storage] has been around for 25 years," says Mike Karp, senior analyst at Enterprise Management Associates, a Boulder, CO, research firm. "There's only so much storage at any given time, and IT managers are forced to enforce sometimes hidebound rules."
Like arguments with teenagers over curfews, conflicts over end-user disk quotas may be symptomatic of a more serious underlying problem. "The real problem is the amount of data on corporate storage that shouldn't be there," says Karp. "Some managers tell me that over half the data they store has no corporate value."
Limiting the amount of storage available to end users opens a Pandora's box of underlying issues: the cost difference between raw storage capacity and deploying and managing storage; classifying data in terms of corporate value and importance; and whether valuable corporate data is being inappropriately stored in personal storage folders. It also brings up the question of whether the organization should back up data stored in personal folders.
"These aren't easy issues," says Richard Villars, IDC's vice president, storage systems research. "The whole topic of disk quotas is really a behavioral discussion, not a technical discussion." Technically, disk quotas are simple to set up and manage.
Quota economics
"Disk is cheap," says Villars. But if you buy enough of them, cheap disks add up--especially when you factor in the time, effort and cost of the tools to manage end-user quotas. "From a storage provisioning standpoint, especially without virtualization, continually adding storage is onerous," says Villars. That's one of the main reasons why most companies limit end-user storage rather than continually add disk capacity.
"I have to manage user capacity because I can't keep buying more disk every month," says Raymond Acuna, IT manager and MIS administrator for the Division of Disease Control at the Florida Department of Health. Acuna has 300 users in his department. Clerical people get 1GB of personal storage, regular staff receive 4GB and power users can get more as necessary.
Timothy Wetzel, system security analyst, infrastructure systems at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, says the college uses RAID 0 and 1 "so our disk costs are doubly expensive." The school allocates 200MB to each of its 2,500 students, and 500MB to each of its 1,200 faculty members and staff.
Letting users have all the storage they want also drives up the cost of backups. Christian Raymond, systems administrator at Ex-Centris, a movie theater and cultural events producer in Montreal, limits his 500 users to 300MB of personal storage and 5GB for corporate folders. Meanwhile, The Golf Channel doesn't back up users' personal storage space, but it does make snapshot copies, which it keeps for a couple of months, reports the firm's Formet. If a user inadvertently deletes or corrupts a file, Formet will recover it from the snapshot.
If you figure in the cost of backing up data or otherwise protecting it, the decision to limit storage increasingly looks like the right choice. "Imagine finding that you can't complete your backup within the overnight window because you're backing up personal data that has no value to the company," says Karp. In that case, the disk storage given over to users suddenly looks quite expensive.
Storage management discipline
Many organizations see end-user storage quotas not so much as a way to save money but to impose better storage management discipline and best practices. "Storage quotas help us keep tabs on what students need," says Robert Lowe, network manager at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI. "It gives us a monitoring mechanism [to forecast demand]."
"We restrict users to a small amount of storage for personal data, 50MB. We want to enforce the discipline of centralized storage for all corporate work," says Gordon Butler, chief information technology officer at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec. Centralized data can be more easily protected, backed up and shared. All information related to a project can be organized in a logical place. Otherwise, "we get an awful duplication of data," says Butler, because users store data that should be centralized and shared in their personal folders.
Some managers resist what they consider pandering to end-user storage demands. "It's a ludicrous attitude of IT to give users more storage whenever they ask for it. Users are addicted to storage," says Colin Clark, business control executive at Somerfield Stores Ltd., Bristol, U.K. The real issue, as Clark sees it, is the ability to find information when it's needed. Giving users more storage doesn't make it easier for them to find data--it makes it worse.
Quota management tools
Where Microsoft Windows is predominant, organizations can use Windows Server to enforce disk quotas. "If the environment is limited, it's smart to just do it in Windows," says IDC's Villars. For larger, more complicated environments or where compliance and governance issues are involved, IT will need more sophisticated tools (see "Types of disk quota management tools,").
|Types of disk quota management tools
"We did not like Microsoft Disk Quota because it eats up server processing," says Acuna at the Florida Department of Health. After looking at the offerings from Microsoft Corp., Tivoli, Tools4ever and custom batch files, the organization settled on SpaceGuard SRM from Tools4ever. The custom batch files were easy to write, but an annoyance to maintain. Dickinson College also opted for SpaceGuard. "Windows is definitely cheaper, but SpaceGuard gives us more options," says the college's Wetzel. In particular, SpaceGuard lets the school send alerts to a wide range of targets, including e-mail addresses, mobile phones, pagers, event logs and more.
Knology upgraded from a BlueArc Corp. Si8000 SiliconServer to the vendor's Titan array in part for the built-in quota management capabilities. The quota management feature lets Knology set and enforce quotas on e-mail. When users hit the limit, the system rejects the e-mail and fires off an alert to the customer, who can then delete e-mail or upgrade to a higher service level.
The company, which runs an entirely open-source environment, looked at putting quota management into the application layer. "That would have taken more CPU cycles and we would have needed to upgrade our servers," says Knology's Frye. "It is easier, faster and cheaper to just do it at the storage array."
The Canadian Museum of Civilization opted for CA's quota management, part of CA's BrightStor suite. "We've been using BrightStor for three years," says the museum's Butler. He particularly likes the reporting and trending BrightStor allows. However, the organization also uses Windows tools in its Windows servers to set, monitor and enforce Windows share sizes.
It will be some time before most IT managers are as generous with end-user storage as Google or Yahoo!. Unfortunately, enforcing disk quotas is a fast way to engender resentment of IT. But no matter how low disk storage costs go, IT managers don't have much choice until the cost of provisioning, managing, backing up and protecting storage is free.


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Can't decide if this should be in mobile or here.
I purchased an Athlon64 3000+ S939 processor and an Asus A8V Mboard on tuesday.
Just looking over the fan'heatsink that came with the processor, there appears to be, what might be, a thermal pad attached to the bottom of the heatsink.
Q: Is it a thermal pad ?
Q: If so, what do people think of it's quality/reliability.
Q: What do people think of the performane expectation from the fan. It looks very much like your standard 80mm fan to me. I don't suppose AMD have built in some obsolecence there. The fan sure dosen't impress me? I will probably replace that.
Up at the local shopping center there's an outlet called "Dick Smiths", a general electronics type shop. It does carry some Thermal-Take products, mostly heatsinks and a couple of standard 80mm fans, nothing to elaborate. They do have some small tubes of "Arctic Silver" though, which i have noticed gets a good recommendation.
My main question is on this sticy, grey, pad thing, very thin and stuck to the bottom of the heatsink, and the right size and place to cover the cpu .... a thermal pad ???
There is nothing in the instruction sheet that is specific on that, (which drives me to total distraction (grin) )
For all i know it could just be a protective film, that needs to be removed, then wiped over with some iso-pro before the real past is applied.
If anyone can correct me on that,, it would be mucho grandae.
PS: The Mainboards manual is really slack i recone . I would have expected a bit more elaboration there, so it looks like it will be using mainly defaults untill i'm better informed
And it is __really__ windows specific too. Looks like open source drivers are going to have to be tracked down, before i can try to use some of the cool features Asus claim for thier board. Would have thought a major company like that would have been more Linux supportive, but ... it would seem not
We still have such a long way to go i guess...
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Well I just got home awhile ago. Long 3 hour drive back from shopping, over 10,000 ft mountain. Deer every where, driving slow at night. But it still happened, 2 doe's and a lil fawn ran out across the road and stopped right in the middle of my lane. So as I was slowing down and moving over into the on coming lane to go past them, those 3 deer decide to go back. Right infront of me. All I could do was slam on the brakes. With my wheels locked and tires sqealing. I am so glad that the wagon has 4 wheel disc brakes. Because I stoped only a few inches away from hitting them all. They just looked at us in the car, blinked there big brown eyes at us and slowly walked off into the forest.
If it hadn't been for the 4 wheel disc brakes I am sure I would have totaled the wagon and us in it too. I could just see those 3 deer coming in through the windshield and nailing us in the front seats. As I have said to others I work with here ( SUBARUS RULE ) And I thank GOD we were all ok........
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Posted 15 September 2003 - 02:31 AM
thats why alot of people say head straight for them, and dont swerve. deer have to be some of the stupidest damn animals. natures speedbumps that kill!
disc brakes rule! and its funny to still see new production cars with drums in the back.
disc brakes rule! and its funny to still see new production cars with drums in the back.
Posted 15 September 2003 - 06:00 AM
My mom hit a deer in her 98 2.5RS, It did almost three thousand dollars worth of damage to her car! I called my uncle, who drug it off and cut it up. Later, when I was eating a delicious veinison steak, I thought,
MMM..... the beauty of all-wheel drive!
MMM..... the beauty of all-wheel drive!
Posted 15 September 2003 - 05:47 PM
glad to hear everyone came out ok... and that the wagon is still serving you well
Posted 15 September 2003 - 07:10 PM
Originally posted by archemitis
deer have to be some of the stupidest damn animals
Nope, I guarantee you turkey's are more stupid . I have to, on occasion, get out and chase turkeys off my driveway. The Hella Supertones used to work to move them- the fact that a moving hunk of steel was coming right for them sure didn't
Posted 15 September 2003 - 07:21 PM
most animals don't seem to get the concept of being hit by objects. If everybody drove pickups with giant bumpers in the front I wonder how fast deerkind would evolve a fear of moving vehicles?
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UEFA president Michel Platini thinks Serie A sides should follow Juventus' lead if they want to thrive financially and succeed on the pitch.
Juventus won the race to the Scudetto last season, and currently lie top of the league and have qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League at the expense of last campaign's winners, Chelsea.
Platini believes that the Juventus Stadium, which was opened last season, was key to their revitalisation and has urged other Italian clubs to renovate their grounds.
"Italy's problem is the stadiums," he told Sky Sports Italia. "You have to re-do them but the first thing you need is the political will to do it.
"The stadiums are not worth points in the standings, I admit, but [they are important] in terms of credibility and in the financial fair play. Plus, it is important to solve the economic problems of society."
The former Juve No. 10 refused to predict whether the Turin-based club will win the top European trophy this season, but admitted that they have already stamped their authority on the continent once more.
"Juve have globalised," the Frenchman added. "They have become a great team, and after winning in Italy they are now making their mark on Europe.
"I do not know if they are strong enough to win the Champions League, it's a matter of mentality, my Juventus team had it."
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RocketAcademy writes "The Federal Communications Commission has issued a Public Notice to help commercial space companies obtain use of communications frequencies for launch, operations, and reentry. Commercial space companies can obtain the use of government frequencies on a temporary, non-interference basis through the FCC's Experimental Authorization process. Experimental Authorizations are valid for a six-month period from the date of grant and are renewable, but applicants must obtain a new authorization for each launch and must apply 90 days in advance. Unfortunately, this requirement does not meet the needs of suborbital launch providers who expect to fly several times per day and schedule launches as needed, on very short notice."


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The challenge imposed by the tough economic climate has served as a disruption for even the most fundamentally sound businesses.This reality makes it difficult to have anything but a dismal outlook for companies like Alcoa ( AA) that are in economically sensitive businesses such as aluminum. By and large, this has been what has kept investors at bay although Alcoa's stock remains undervalued from its true long-term potential. There's no question the stock will soon rebound because the economy is showing signs of improvement, albeit slowly. But I wonder, how long should investors wait and will the patience pay off?
Doing More With LessIf nothing else, the company is consistent. Alcoa understands the challenge it faces and continues to execute as best as it can until circumstances improve. This was especially true upon dissecting the results of its third-quarter earnings report, which revealed another solid performance despite significant market turmoil. Though Alcoa reported a loss of $143 million, this figure had little to do with its execution as it included a payout of $173 million stemming from a previous legal dispute. Excluding this cost, Alcoa actually earned $32 million, or 3 cents per share, enough to beat EPS estimates, which was expected to be flat. Alcoa also beat on its revenue number, which registered at $5.8 billion -- topping estimates of $5.54 billion. That its revenue dropped year over year by 9% wasn't much of a concern considering the broader climate of the aluminum business, resulting in price declines of 5% sequentially and 17% year over year. Nonetheless, Alcoa was able to deliver close to $100 million of aggregate growth when combining all of its segments. The improved performance was the result of the company's management figuring out ways to develop productivity gains, which helped offset cost concerns. But how long can the company pull a rabbit out of its hat without aluminum prices showing signs of a recovery? Betting on Alcoa at this point requires faith in the company's management being able to do more with less.
Moving ForwardAlthough things might look a little grim now, over the long term there are plenty of causes for optimism. Alcoa's management continues to show its belief in the aluminum business and fully anticipates that demand will pick up. Management also continues to speak favorably about the automotive and aerospace industries where companies including Ford Motor ( F) and Boeing ( BA) have started to migrate towards using aluminum in their vehicles and jets.
While forecasting demand growth of 6% over the next several quarters, Alcoa expects other areas of its business to see significant improvements. These include gas turbine markets, food packaging and commercial transportation. Likewise, there are also plenty of growth opportunities in areas such as appliances where names including General Electric ( GE) might become significant consumers of aluminum. Alcoa stands to benefit immensely once the market rebounds.


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A Mt. Morris woman was taken to the hospital Tuesday after a one-vehicle roll-over crash approximately four miles south of Mt. Morris.
Ogle County Sheriff's Police said Virginia Masters, 93, was transported by Polo ambulance to KSB Hospital, Dixon, for treatment of minor injuries.
Masters was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Judith Johnson, 63, Mt. Morris.
The vehicle was southbound on North Lowell Park Road when it left the roadway, rolled, and came to rest on its top in a small creek. The crash occurred around 2 p.m.
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A contemporary summer reading list could easily be comprised of selections from Mr George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, Ms Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games and perhaps some Ms Nora Ephron books for good measure. And it's not just because I have a thing for archery, or that I spend my weekends designing sigils and words for House Ortved. It's because those books represent a great deal of what we love about summer reading. Summertime gives us the luxury to fantasise. It's a time to get away, a time when we can carve space out of our lives to leave our offices, stake out long chairs, sip drinks with lemon and truly disappear into other worlds of pleasure, adventure, sex and mystery. It is in the summertime that we have the clearest view of Hosseini's kite races, the most open mind for Gilbert's prayers, the longest laughs for Sedaris' twisted family, and the direst hopes for Mantel's Cromwell. On these long, languid summer days, time is on our side; Egan's goon squad cannot catch us.
But MR PORTER's summer reading list is not fodder for your conditional - in this case seasonal - susceptibility (which any airport bookshop can do). Instead, it includes books that will enrich and not merely enrapt; works that will involve you and not merely provide an escape. Just because the summer is the right time for fantasy, that doesn't mean you need to waste it.


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I believe Canelo.
By Daniel Hernandez, notifight.com
Former IBF junior flyweight champion Archie Solis is pushing for justice from the local authorities in Jalisco, Mexico. A year after filing a complaint for aggravated assault against 154-pound champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, there has been little to no movement on the case.
The alleged confrontation took place on the 25th of October 2011 at Barranca de Oblates while Solis was doing his morning run. Solis suffered a badly broken jaw that required two surgeries, two plates and 20 screws to fix. Solis also lost three of his teeth during the beating.
Canelo has denied any involvement in the incident, and says it was one of his brother's who attacked Solis.
Under the criminal code of Jalisco, an individual who causes injuries to a person that require longer than 15 days to heal will face imprisonment of three months to two years, and up to eight years for having endangered the life of the victim.
However, Solis states that the authorities in Jalisco have yet to apprehend Canelo and so far no decision has been rendered by a judge.
"What can you do against an influential person, who knows the Governor of Jalisco, who knows the attorney [handling the case]. It's a chain of monopolies and influences. That's not going to stop me, it only motivates me to keep fighting and to show what kind of people they are and the people who support them," Solis said.
Solis returned to action this past weekend after being out of the ring for over a year due to the injuries.


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Regarding the murder of Michelle Busby
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, August 31, 2012
CONTACT: Reza Clifton, RICADV: (401) 467-9940, Cell: (401) 497-5246
Statement by Deborah DeBare, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Kristin Lyons, Executive Director of the Women's Center of Rhode Island
"First and foremost, our hearts go out to the family, friends and community of Michelle Busby. Though not much has yet been released about her murder, her death is a stark reminder that we still have a long way to go to achieve a Rhode Island that is free of violence in the home and free of intimate partner violence."
"Domestic violence escalates to the point of murder because our system has failed to either keep a victim safe or hold an abuser accountable. In the case of Ms. Busby's death, we know that the "person of interest," Andrew Jett, was arrested in 1992 and convicted and sentenced to 40 years in 1995 for the brutal beating murder of Stephanie Oxendine, his off-and-on girlfriend with whom he had two children. What remains unclear is why he served so little time for the killing; records indicate that Mr. Jett was released on parole in 2010 after only serving 18 years."
"This gray area is part of a series of important questions that this case helps bring to the surface. Why wasn't Mr. Jett's original charge documented as a domestic violence crime given the nature of the relationship between Mr. Jett and Ms. Oxendine – which clearly met the standards of the Domestic Violence Prevention Act? What are the parole board's considerations when releasing the perpetrator of such a brutal act? Did Mr. Jett have disciplinary infractions while incarcerated, and, if so, how did that impact his eligibility for being released early into the community? There are also questions about the systems that were supposed to monitor Mr. Jett after he was released. Was the State aware Mr. Jett was living with Ms. Busby (his residence should have been known as part of the supervision mandated for violent offenders)? What are the standards for approving private community service options for violent criminals?"
"All too often, victims may be hesitant to contact the police for many reasons, including fears of retaliation from the abuser, insecurities about losing support from the abuser or developing guilt about the possibility of his/her incarceration. In addition, victims may lack faith in the system when they see that people are let out early and are able to reoffend. That is why we are concerned about the policies carried out during the parole process and why we are calling for a thorough review of parole protocols and procedures. In cases of domestic violence, we need systems to assess an abuser's dangerousness and prevent future instances."
"We question, in this case, what could have been done to keep the victim safe. Leniency unfortunately sends the message to abusers that they will not be held accountable for their crimes, while simultaneously jeopardizing the safety of victims. But we also recognize that eliminating violence against women demands a comprehensive and coordinated effort between elected and appointed officials, government and non-government organizations and agencies, community leaders, businesses, public organizations and private citizens. The Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence and its six member agencies are here to help through a wide array of services, including analysis and monitoring of the legal system, support groups, emergency shelters, and a 24-hour hotline to support victims and answer questions. We urge all Rhode Islanders to remember that if they hear or see someone being hurt to call 911 immediately, and if they or someone they know needs support to call 800-494-8100."
This statement has been updated to reflect the fact that, to date, Andrew Jett has been identified as a person of interest, and his recent arrest is tied to a parole violation.


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Atlanta Thrashers GM Don Waddell released the following statement Thursday afternoon regarding contract talks with winger Ilya Kovalchuk.
"Our goal from the start of this negotiating process was to sign Ilya Kovalchuk to a long-term contract. During the process, Kovy affirmed his desire to be a Thrasher for life. We've spent several months exploring scenarios with Kovy and his agent to reach a mutually beneficial agreement, and offered many lucrative packages in an attempt to meet his financial objectives. Unfortunately, we've reached an impasse and at this point he has declined all of our proposals and we can't reasonably go any higher.
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Two recently reported telephone scams, including one in which a resident was bilked of more than $600, prompted Roseville Police to issue a warning to residents to be wary of callers offering prizes.
�It�s just a reminder,� said Deputy Chief Donald Glandon of the Roseville Police. �These things happen.�
Police described the first scam.
A caller who identified himself as a �Mr. Nelson� from Kingston, Jamaica claimed to be a representative of Publisher�s Clearing House. The caller told the victim he had won a vehicle and $680,000, but he�d first have to pay $615 before the prizes could be awarded.
The caller instructed the victim to purchase money cards and later called back to secure numbers from the back of the cards, which enabled the scam�s perpetrators to then withdraw the money. The caller then told the victim representatives from Publisher�s Clearing House would arrive to award the prize and complete Internal Revenue Service paperwork. At that point, the prize winner would need to pay an additional $950.
In the second incident, a caller told a resident he had won $3 million, but would have to pay $500 to receive the cash, according to police. The target hung up the telephone, but the persistent would-be thief continued to call and became angry when the man refused to pay. The perpetrator tried to intimidate the victim by telling him he was being watched and he was to go to Wal-Mart to put $500 on a J-Pay account.
In both cases, the perpetrators called back several times. After the victims made police reports, a Roseville officer was present at the time of at least two of the calls. The officer attempted to gain information from speaking to the suspects, but was not successful.
Glandon said residents should not pay any money in order to claim a prize and should be wary of callers who make such demands. Persons who feel they might have been victims of this type of fraud should contact their local police agencies.


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Conventional wisdom held that in last year's U.S. presidential campaign, a leader saddled with a weak economy running against a smart, accomplished businessman backed by hundreds of millions of dollars did not stand a chance. But data-driven geeks like Silver nailed the election forecast while many old-fashioned pundits flopped.
One reason President Barack Obama won a convincing victory that surprised so many was his campaign's quiet, methodical use of a combination of tools from the world of behavioral science: highly motivated volunteers armed with sophisticated technology and field-tested messages to deliver voters. Call it the rise of evidence-based campaigning.


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Office for Android and iOS to ship by March 2013?
Maybe, but not in the sense you're hoping for
Posted in Software, 10th October 2012 23:28 GMT
A product manager for Microsoft's Czech division may have let the cat out of the bag on Wednesday – almost – when he announced that versions of Microsoft Office for Android and iOS devices may ship as early as the first quarter of next year.
After spotting a report on the Czech site IHNED, The Verge was first to cite Microsoft product manager Petr Bobek as saying that Redmond plans to unveil versions of Office for Android and iOS in March 2013.
But while your Reg correspondent's Czech is a little rusty – all right, nonexistent – Google Translate's actually isn't bad, and a read of the robo-translated IHNED article fails to reveal such definite dates. All it appears to say is that Office 2013 will be launched in the first quarter of 2013, and that Microsoft will gradually publish versions for other platforms after that.
So it's a non-story? Frank X. Shaw of Microsoft's corporate communications department seemed to think so, having issued the following terse smackdown via Twitter:
The information shared by our Czech Republic subsidiary is not accurate. We have nothing further to share. theverge.com/2012/10/10/348…— Frank X. Shaw (@fxshaw) October 10, 2012
When El Reg reached out to the Redmond home office for clarification, however, the response wasn't quite so categorical. "We have nothing to announce today about retail availability of the new Office," a Microsoft spokesperson said in reply. "As we shared previously, Office Mobile will work across Windows Phones, Android phones and iOS, and we have nothing additional to announce."
Refreshingly, for a non-response response this actually yields some information. It appears that yes, we will be seeing official Office products coming for Android and iOS at some point in the future. But it will be Office Mobile that ships for those platforms, not the full Office 2013 suite, and it will be aimed at phones, not tablets.
Forgive us for being a little disappointed. Microsoft has promised a full-featured version of Office 2013 that will run on Windows RT–powered devices like its upcoming Surface line, so we know that it's at least theoretically possible to port the suite to devices with ARM processors and large touchscreens, like Android tablets and the iPad.
Office Mobile, on the other hand, has never been much better than any of the various third-party Office document viewers and editors that can be found in the Android and iOS app stores today.
Still, it's an encouraging sign that Microsoft seems committed to releasing apps for mobile platforms other than Windows Phone, as it has already done with such products as SkyDrive and OneNote.
As for whether the Office Mobile apps for Android and iOS will launch by the rumored March 2013 date, however, that seems possible but unlikely.
So far, the closest thing to a launch date for Office 2013 we've heard is for the Windows RT version, which will ship when Microsoft debuts its Surface devices on October 26. But even that version will only be a preview release; the final version of Office 2013 RT isn't scheduled to appear until a few months later.
So while Bobek's comments seem to confirm that the full version of Office 2013 for the Intel architecture will ship in the first quarter of 2013, it might be safer to assume that means March, rather than January. To expect Microsoft to deliver new Office software for non-Windows platforms before then sounds like wishful thinking to this hack. ®


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Perhaps no position group was as exposed, however, as the secondary. Sophomore Greg Henderson was a second-year starter, but he had three true freshmen - Kenneth Crawley, Marques Mosley and Yuri Wright - on the field with him a lot. That trio of freshmen, along with another true freshman Jeffrey Hall, combined to play 1,595 plays.
CU gave up 262.5 passing yards per game. Even worse, they gave up 8.61 yards per pass attempt and 12.7 yards per completion. Opposing quarterbacks made throwing a football look easy at times.
That same group is now a year older and is going to be counted on again this year, but Henderson said he expects better results. He's already seeing better results this summer, in fact, as the Buffs go through player-run practices.
"We've been making plays that we usually never made last year," said Henderson, who has played most of CU's defensive snaps the past two years. "I feel like we're moving in the right direction.
"(Last year's freshman DBs) all have more experience, look more composed and they're making more plays on the ball when it's in the air."
When asked which of the young DBs have impressed him the most this summer, Henderson surprisingly didn't name the four who saw so much last year.
"John Walker and (junior walk-on) Harrison Hunter," he said. "Those two really have improved and taken it to another level.
CU expects to have a better group of wide receivers this year, with Paul Richardson back from injury and Jeff Thomas finally in the mix. Better talent at that position has helped the young defensive backs, too.
"We get work on every play. They go hard on every play," Henderson said. "They're making us a better defensive backfield.
"This coming season, we're looking good."
As for Henderson, he feels he is becoming a much better player this offseason, too. He said he's been studying a lot of film to learn not only his position, but other positions. He said he hasn't watched much CU film; instead he's spent hours studying film of San Jose State, where most of the new coaching staff came from.


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The Bruins had slogged through an ugly second period, giving up a shorthanded goal, landing only seven shots on net. They had barely seen anything resembling a solid chance when Shawn Thornton wrapped himself around the net and sent home the team's third goal.
The score was the byproduct of hard work, with Thornton knocking in his own rebound to give his club some breathing room in a 4-1 win over the Florida Panthers Thursday night at TD Garden.
"I'll take 'em any way I can get 'em," Thornton said. "I think our line has been playing pretty hard. Got rewarded tonight. Some nights we don't, but tonight we did."
On the play, Thornton had been attempting to pass the puck after determining he didn't have a good shooting angle. As he said, "I was hoping it would bang off something in or to one of my [linemates]."
It did bang off something — a skate and into the crease. That's where Thornton was able to push it over the line for his third goal of the season (and second this week), at 12:43 of the third period, with the assists to fourth-line mates Daniel Paille and Gregory Campbell.
"I think that that line has been pretty good lately," coach Claude Julien said. "They're giving us some good games. They're scoring some timely goals.
"Again, they're a line that deserves a lot of credit lately. When your team goes through those kind of stages, sometimes it's important that lines like that pick up the slack, and that's what they're doing right now."
When the offense seemed to be sagging, with bad giveaways and little energy, it was the fourth line that provided what the team needed. And not just the goal.
"I think they reminded me about when we had the Cup run," said goalie Tuukka Rask, who acknowledged the Bruins' "heads were not in it" on Thursday night.
"They bring energy, and when they get a chance to go out there they really take it upon themselves to take the puck deep and go to work. It's good to see it pay off in the end."
Goals, of course, are not the way to judge that fourth line. It's more about physicality and time in the offensive zone, Thornton said.
But the energy is crucial, and it was especially crucial on a night with a lackluster effort from just about everyone else.
It's something the line has been providing a lot of lately, with the group getting praise from Julien earlier in the week, as well.
"I think every night we have to bring that, the other parts of the game we can't really control," Thornton said. "But when we're out there, we have to do whatever we can to try to create some energy and some offensive zone time. I thought the three of us did an OK job of that tonight."
For his part, Thornton passed the praise to Paille, calling him "unbelievable."
"He told me after the first that he had his legs and I thought a lot of times I got pucks quick up, it was mostly to him and he was going with it," Thornton said.
But it was Thornton who sneaked the puck home, giving the Bruins that two-goal lead. It was after that score that the team pushed its play from unimpressive to solid, from primed for an upset to 2 more points in the standings.
And for that, they can thank the fourth line.
"The way the players on our line think, we're very straightforward," Thornton said. "We have to play a certain way. We're not creative, really. Listen, you don't want everyone playing like us. We get a combined 30 goals a year if we're lucky.
"We're going to do what we're going to do when we're out there. But everyone has their role, and I think everyone's been doing it pretty well this year."Amalie Benjamin can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @amaliebenjamin.


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Over the next few days, there are two events that will be attractive to anyone interested in antique, classic or custom autos: Historic Autos at Winterthur and Cruise Night at Herr's Snack Foods.
Historic Autos at Winterthur. which is included free with museum admission, provides visitors with the opportunity to see a variety of vehicles from the past that have been maintained in pristine condition. There will be different displays every Saturday through the month of May.
Some of the magnificent autos that will be featured this Saturday are: 1928 Mercedes-Benz S 2-Door Touring, 1930 Marmon Big 8 Coupe, 1933 DeSoto Rumble Seat Coupe, 1935 Ford Station Wagon, 1935 Packard 1201 Closed Coupe Senior and 1936 Packard 120 Convertible Sedan.
Also featured will be 1936 Chevrolet, 1938 Buick Limited 90 Limousine, 1939 Packard 120 Convertible Coupe, 1939 DeSoto S-6 4-Door Sedan, 1941 Packard 1475/1903 Club Coupe 160, 1941 Cadillac 7523 9-Passenger Touring Sedan and 1942 Cadillac 7533F Limousine.
The roster of classics for May 18 includes 1955 Cadillac Series 2 Coupe, 1949 Hudson Sedan, 1950 Oldsmobile, 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn 4-door Saloon, 1956 Lincoln, 1958 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud Radford Countryman, 1959 Buick, 1962 Bentley Continental Flying Spur Saloon, 1963 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III 4-door Sedan, 1969 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow LWB Formal Sedan.
On May 25, the focus will be on Cadillac and LaSalle with the following vehicles: 1940 LaSalle Series 50 Sedan, 1940 Cadillac 6267 Convertible Coupe, 1940 Cadillac 6219D 4-door Sedan, 1941 Cadillac 7523 9-passenger Touring Sedan, 1962 Cadillac DeVille 6339 Sedan, 1964 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible and 1968 Cadillac 68347 Coupe deVille.
Historic Autos Lectures at Winterthur will be presented on May 18 and 25 at 1 p.m. each day. This Saturday's lecture will be "Automobile Advertising: Slogans and Images of the Post-War Era" by Greg Landrey. The talk scheduled for May 25, which is also by Greg Landrey, is "Highlights of Cadillac and LaSalle automobiles, 1903–1972."
Sometimes, cars can lead to legal troubles. There are many municipalities in the area where "Cruising" is frowned on in a big way. Drivers can be issued a traffic ticket and be forced to pay a fine just because they repeatedly drove up and down the main street showing off their hot rods or customized vehicles.
But, there are exceptions, especially in Nottingham when Herr's Snack Foods hosts its 14th Annual Cruise Night on May 16. Visitors to the event will find that cruising is welcomed rather than frowned upon. The popular annual event, which features free admission and free parking, will get underway at 5 p.m. and continue until dusk.
Over 300 classic cars and hot rods will be on display. Car owners are encouraged to register in the people's choice contest for first, second and third place Best of Show trophies. Spectators will be able to vote for their favorite classic car between 5-7 p.m.
The free event will also feature factory tours, food booths with festival fare, children's games, music by a disc jockey and a variety of door prizes.
What: Historic Autos at Winterthur
When: Every Saturday in May
Where: Winterthur, Route 52, Wilmington, Del.
Tickets: Adults, $18; seniors and students, $16; children (ages 2-11), $5
Information: 302-888-4600 or www.winterthur.org
What: Herr's 14th Annual Cruise Night
When: May 16 - 5 p.m.- dusk
Where: Herr's Snack Foods, 20 Herr Drive (Route 272 and Route 1), Nottingham
Tickets: Free
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Frankenstein shows good hoop form, the Teenage Werewolf is digging it but, alas, Count Dracula doesn't have a clue.
In February 1958, Warren and Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland harnessed the gathering Monster Fad that would sweep America. The magazine's phenomenal success effectively created the monster movie magazine business, setting the stage for the inevitable imitators and bandwagon riders. In September of '58, Monster Parade was the first title out of the gate, beating out World Famous Creatures by a mere four weeks.
While World Famous was a straight clone of Famous Monsters, Monster Parade went its own grab-bag way, mixing monster movie news and photos with horror comic reprints and mildly titillating horror fiction. Publisher Irwin Stein's Magnum Publications was a reboot of the Royal Publications imprint he had just recently shut down, along with Science Fiction Adventures digest. Fiction editor Larry Shaw followed Stein into his new venture, bringing along his stable of writers that included future mainstream bestselling author John Jakes, and the young, wildly prolific Robert Silverberg who would contribute several stories per issue under different names.
Monster Parade only lasted four issues. A sister magazine, Monsters and Things, two. Irwin Stein's monster movie magazine experiment lasted all of eight months. In 1961, Stein and fellow publisher Walter Zacharius, with editor Shaw still in tow, created the Lancer Books imprint, a downmarket paperback house that went ballistic in 1966 when it brought out Robert E. Howard's Conan series with iconic covers by Frank Frazetta.
The first three covers of Monster Parade featured damsels in distress. Issue No. 1 combined a painted monster with a photo cutout of a blonde with deep cleavage, apparently model/actress and one time JFK date Arlene Dahl.
The hula-hooping monsters graced the final cover (March 1959), a pop culture image that perfectly captured it's time, overlapping the now waning Hula hoop fad introduced in America by the Wham-O Company — selling over 100,000 hoops in 1958 — and the nascent Monster Mash era.
A look inside Monster Parade, on Magic Carpet Burn
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One of the area's newest state representatives is getting to know a little bit about one of the counties he'll be representing.
Halsey Beshears spent the day touring Gulf County. The Monticello Republican picked-up Gulf County from Jimmy Patronis in this year's legislative redistricting.
In fact, Patronis set-up Wednesday's tour to help Beshears learn the ropes of the new legislative district.
The tour included the port area in Port St. Joe, and Gulf Correctional Institution in Wewahitchka. The warden showed both men a couple of the new innovative inmate dorm programs, and urged them not to support additional Department of Corrections funding cuts.
Rep. Beshears commented later, "My take-away from this is that these guys need some help. They're short handed. What they do is dangerous, it's difficult, and it's very much under-appreciated too. They provide a great service to the community."
Patronis said the prison showed him the extra staff was really needed. "I didn't really find any big concerns other than that there's definitely some staffing issues here that I could see some realities in which extra staff would be good."
Beshears owns a nursery in Monticello. This is his first term in office and he's about to attend his first legislative session next spring.


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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval favors keeping alive the threat to leave the bi-state Tahoe Compact.
Sandoval's appointee to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency told members of the Senate Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday that while the possibility of Nevada's withdrawal is "remote," the governor wants to retain the authority to do so.
SB229 would repeal a law passed in 2011 that paved the way for Nevada to leave TRPA and instead regulate environmental protections and development within its boundaries.
Nevada lawmakers blamed their California counterparts for favoring tough environmental standards that they said were hindering development and the economy.
TRPA in December approved an updated regional plan that gives local governments more control over some decisions.
Conservationists say the law should be repealed to show Nevada's recommitment to the lake.


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Which privilege (in MySQL 5.1) is minimally necessary for enabling the equivalent of the USE database statement, which in PHP for MySQL is the mysql_select_db() function?
I don't want any privilege that provides more actions on a database, such as creation or dropping.
I have a separate (segregated) database from the mysql db with user table provided by MySQL during its setup, which is a database (assume the name = 'university_department_records_and_info') with an 'authorized_users' table.
So for the purposes of getting access to that db and table, I have created two user accounts (which are of course in the 'user' table of the 'mysql' database):
unpriv_guest: this password-requiring account is supposed to grant the MINIMUM privilege just for selecting (USE) the 'univer..' database, and reading the 'authorized_users' table to check username/password login info.
priv_guest: If the check is true in 1 (authenticated/logged in), then the connection (new mysql_connect() in PHP) is "elevated" with the ability of the authorized user to select/update/insert table records in database 'univer....', using PHP functions, of course. User priv_guest must have all grant options that enable such table operations, and of course the ability to select the database by the equivalent of MySQL statements in PHP.
Does anyone have an idea of the appropriate system grants for each of these two user accounts?
As far as I can tell, if a given DB user has any privilege on a given database, then he can "use" it; if not, then it will fail with an error.


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Deloitte OCM Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Senior Manager in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Are you passionate about bringing value to our clients through the entire Merger & Acquisition (M&A) and restructuring lifecycle, from pre due-diligence through transaction planning and integration/divestiture/restructuring execution?
Does advising and supporting clients in a fast-paced M&A environment, delivering bold strategic goals, while managing complex interdependencies against accelerated timelines interest you?
Would you like to utilize your experience to advise on the organizational dimensions of integrations and divestitures, including development of future organization designs, leadership and talent management strategies, workforce transition, cultural transformation and implementing change management and communication strategies?
Our Human Capital Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) team performs activities across the M&A life cycle from pre due-diligence identifying and quantifying transaction risks and opportunities around complex M&A and Restructuring engagements. Our focus includes understanding and mitigating potential deal risks associated with organizational culture, leadership, talent, and operations. We provide advisory services on the broad enterprise-wide integration efforts including change management, organization design, culture, workforce transition and leadership. Our approach to integration/divestiture planning and execution focuses on identify potential risks, developing an end-state vision and strategy, and supporting clients to implement maximum value realization opportunities.
Work you ll do
Senior Managers lead and deliver client engagements that identify, design, and implement Merger & Acquisition (M&A) services, with a focus on Organization Transformation. You will support clients in the following areas:
Strategic Change: Assist in the implementation of transformation strategies related to M&A that focus on targeted interventions to achieve the value of the deal. This includes organizational change and impact assessments; driving leadership, stakeholder and employee engagement and delivering effective internal and external communications.
Cultural Alignment: Assist in the culture assessment and alignment of legacy companies and work to transition to future state.
Organization Strategies: Drive development of organizational design to enable future-state strategy; support design of combined or separated operating model and the accompanying organizational structure; facilitating the overall workforce transition processes to optimize roles, responsibilities and performance in the future organization.
Leadership Advisory Services: Drive leadership alignment and capability, including transformative leadership coaching, board effectiveness, capability analysis and executive development.
The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Engage with senior-level client executives to drive priority strategic initiatives, working with other exceptional professionals across the range of Deloitte capabilities, including the broader Consulting group, Tax and Advisory.
Provide service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.
Lead and contribute to business development efforts, including Statements of Work (SOW), proposal development, client presentations, etc.
Perform the role of counselor and coach; provide input and guidance into the staffing process; actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities.
Lead and contribute to practice development initiatives including culture building, internal community involvement, eminence, recruiting, whitepapers, etc.
The team
A part of Deloitte Consulting LLP, our Human Capital professionals work closely with clients around the world to develop effective and efficient people-centered solutions. Our team helps clients define their talent strategy and align it with their executive business vision using innovative strategic frameworks that enhance HR service delivery models, set the stage for continuously improving operational excellence, and reimagines the HR brand. Learn more about our Human Capital practice.
Strategic shifts such as new products and services, market expansion, evolving growth strategies, innovative technology, new leadership, or mergers and acquisitions, all impact a company s most important asset, their people. With these shifts, the need to align corporate culture, structure and talent with business strategy becomes more urgent. Deloitte s OT&T practice helps our clients with the critical changes required for success, offering business-oriented and data-driven solutions to drive transformation agendas and achieve high impact, sustainable business results.Learn more about our Organization Transformation & Talent practice.
Minimum of six (6) years relevant experience, including change management initiatives, organizational design and development, learning solutions, talent solutions, technical adoption, and/or sales force effectiveness
A minimum of four (4) years experience with Human Capital Mergers and Acquisitions, restructuring or enterprise cost reduction, including background in due diligence, assessment of transaction risks, target screening, integration planning & execution, and/or post-merger integration
Proven experience in business development and/or proposal development in support of related specialty areas
Bachelor s degree
Ability to travel 80 - 100% of the time (Monday - Thursday/Friday)
Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or other related advanced degree
Proven experience in business development and/or proposal development in support of related specialty areas
Previous experience in assessing and developing employees
Previous experience in budget oversight and staffing of project teams
Demonstrated interest in a profession in Human Capital work through professional organizations, coursework, certifications, conference attendance, etc.
In addition, successful Managers will also have the following preferred skills:
Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Word)
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
Strong analytical skills
Eagerness to mentor junior staff
How you ll grow
At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University, The Leadership Center.
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After the coffee. Before gearing up for yet another TV press tour.
The Skinny: I caught up on the last two episodes of CBS's "Under the Dome" over the weekend. I've decided viewers needs to watch "Under the Dome" as if they were watching "Sharknado." If I nitpick, I'll turn it off after five minutes. But if I goof on it, it is tolerable. Monday's headlines include the weekend box office recap and speculation about the future of CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo.
Daily Dose: CBS and Time Warner Cable have just over two days to either agree to a new distribution deal or extend the old one. Otherwise, CBS content will disappear from millions of Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere around the country. While most distribution deals expire at 12:01 a.m. (how dramatic), the Time Warner Cable - CBS pact is up at 5 p.m. Wednesday. At least I don't have to stay up late to see what happens.
Scary weekend: "The Conjuring, " a low-budget horror movie from Warner Bros., ran away with the box office with a take of $41.5 million. But the real horror was how poorly "R.I.P.D." and "Turbo" did. "R.I.P.D." may end up being the biggest bomb of the summer. Meanwhile, "Despicable Me 2" continues to roll along and took in an additional $25 million. Weekend box office recaps from the Los Angeles Times and Hollywood Reporter.
PHOTOS: Hollywood backlot moments
What went wrong? With "R.I.P.D." joining a growing list of big budget summer flops, Hollywood and the media that cover the movie business are starting to wonder what's going wrong. Crazy thought: Maybe movies that have little to offer other than mass destruction have worn out their welcome. There have been a few bright spots including sequels "Despicable Me 2" and "Grown Ups 2" and female buddy comedy "The Heat." The New York Times and Los Angeles Times on the summer movie season.
Another sale. Broadcaster Allbritton Communications, parent of eight TV stations including WJLA-TV Washington, D.C., is on the block. Bids are expected this week from the usual suspects -- Sinclair Broadcast Group, Hearst Corp., Nexstar and Los Angeles Times parent Tribune Co. Hearst and Tribune would like to cherry pick WJLA but Allbritton wants to sell the whole company to one buyer. Its other stations are in much smaller markets. More on Allbritton from the Wall Street Journal.
Bartiromo looking to bolt? Longtime CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo is shopping herself to other cable channels including CNN and Fox Business, according to the New York Post. Bartiromo, once CNBC's biggest personality, is nearing the end of a five-year deal and has the powerful Creative Artists Agency representing her. The question is whether Bartiromo is worth as much to CNBC as she once was and would still be catch for a rival network. No leverage equals no big new deal.
PHOTOS: 2013 Emmy nominees react
Remember me? Before "The Sopranos" changed television forever, HBO's "Sex and the City" was the pay-TV channel's television game-changer. Now, 15 years after the comedy about four best friends navigating New York City first made a splash, New Yorker critic Emily Nussbaum argues that the show is not getting its due from critics.
Inside the Los Angeles Times: "Tiny Times," a new movie in China, is causing a big debate.
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UniMote server is a universal Android-to-Linux Bluetooth remote controller for multimedia applications. It is fast and stable. It supports easy-to-develop plugins. For now, plugins for controlling these applications are available: XBMC, Clementine, VLC, and file browser. More plugins will be added as soon as the core is stable.
WIRN is a professional stored program control. It is optimized for heat control, but you can control whatever you want. It is a multitasking system using FreeRTOS.org on Atmel AT32UC3A1512, and has an API for simple sensor/actor interaction that makes it modular and simple to extend. Also included is a triac control over AVR ATtiny2313 and a 1Wire Interface. You can extend it via software: implement your own control loop with some lines of C code. You don't need a compiler; upload your code and get a binary back. Flash this binary over USB and go. It also has 3 ports to plug in your own hardware.
Open-BLDC is firmware for STM32 microcontroller based brushless motor controllers. The goal of the project is to support active freewheeling, active break, adjustable timings, rotation speed and power controllers, and many more. Support for multiple interfaces like PPM, RS232, I2C, and CAN is planned.


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Whether it's focus or fun, 250 or 45, Trey Canard has found equilibrium. It's nothing new for a Lites rider to jump onto a 450 and race the premier class at rounds that are not in their series, but it is a bit rare for them to become an instant success and a podium mainstay.
Like any of us who've been around for a while, Honda's VFR has changed. Meet one on the street and you'd never guess it was once the VF750F that tossed the sportbike world on its collective head in 1983. There's no hint of Fred Merkel's '85 AMA Superbike Championship, Wayne Rainey's five-straight wins in '86, or the 190-mph RC45 that won eight of 10 races under Miguel DuHamel in '95. Look closely and you can catch a glint of the broadband '98 VFR800. But beyond that three-letter prefix and its basic engine configuration, this VFR bears no resemblance to its illustrious ance
In an effort to keep pace in the hotly contested 250 four-stroke motocross racing class, Big Red continues to enhance its 2012 Honda CRF250R dirt bike. Like its big brother ('12 CRF450R), it gets a host of intelligent refinements making it a better overall platform to campaign on the racetrack or trail, as demonstrated at Southern California's Piru Motocross Park.
What a difference a year makes. Honda's biggest news in 2009 was the Fury chopper—a stretched-and slammed symbol of aughts-era conspicuous consumption, the two-wheeled equivalent of a Hummer on 28s. This year, the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer did an about face. The era of blinged-out butt jewelry is over, so American Honda representatives tell us. Our nation is hungry for economical, practical motorcycles. Enter the NT700V—just the bike for our post-recession age.
After nearly two decades of being a sleek thoroughbred
with racing bloodlines, for 2002 uninspired styling and
unnecessary gadgetry (VTEC) transformed the Honda VFR800
Interceptor into Rocinante, Don Quixote's ungainly steed.
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Choreographer-director Remo D'Souza has used chartbuster Aa re pritam pyaare from the film Rowdy Rathore, in his new film ABCD - AnyBody Can Dance. He says it will be shown in the movie with a new twist.
"I have got Aa re pritam pyaare, the superhit song from Rowdy Rathore in ABCD.... It was a surprise for Prabhu Deva, who had directed Rowdy Rathore. I thought why not have something that he had created for his film and show it with a new twist in ABCD...," Remo said.
Remo, who has got various dancers together for his dance-based 3D film, says there is one common factor in the picturisation of the number in Rowdy Rathore and ABCD....
"Interestingly, Shakti Mohan danced to Aa re pritam pyaare in Rowdy Rathore. Shakti is a Dance India Dance winner. And in ABCD..., Vrushali, another superb Dance India Dance dancer, who is making her mark in Bollywood now, has danced on this mega hit track.
"The song is used in the film for a bit," he added.
Directed by Remo and produced by UTV Motion Pictures, ABCD... features veterans like Prabhudheva and Ganesh Acharya, alongside several young choreographers.


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If anybody sees a clip of McCutchen in the dugout afterwards, I'd love to see it. MLB cut the game off very quickly.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
Geez, score some runs and you don't have to face Chapman in the 9th.
"I can't take this homerism anymore." - 10xWSChamps, August 11, 2010. A Cardinals fan having a problem with all the homerism on Redszone. Classic.
"Man do I miss the days where were didn't need a calculator and an encyclopedia of baseball metrics to enjoy a baseball game ... - MikeS21" - 8/2/12 game thread
That is, quite literally, the kind of pitch that Bob Gibson never hesitated to throw. Ever.
I wouldn't be, personally (unless it were a Tony LaRussa-managed Cardinals' team then I would for the sake of hating them).
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
I posted about this in tonight's game thread, but I'll say the same thing here. I don't think even for the slightest that Chapman was trying to hit Cutch... I even have doubts he was trying to brush him back... I think it was simply a fastball that got away from him.
I do believe that there will be some attempt at retribution in this series though, especially if Hanrahan comes in to pitch.
Hanrahan did that to the Reds in 2010 when Mike Leake hit Cutch with a changeup by hitting a Reds batter the very next inning... He may have even hit Mike Leake. At any rate, sometime this weekend I'd count on a Reds hitter getting nailed by a pitch.
Three words.
Kimo von Oelhoffen.
"Pirate" fans (LOL) can zip it and put their Big Ben jerseys back on.
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DORSET, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police have arrested a man wanted in Pennsylvania on suspicion of stealing over $20,000 from a youth soccer team.
Daniel Deets, former treasurer for the team, had not appeared at a preliminary hearing in Pennsylvania's Pike County on a charge of theft by unlawful taking. He was accused of using the team's money for personal purchases.
Pennsylvania troopers believed that Deets was living at a home in East Dorset, Vt.
When Vermont police arrived at the residence Thursday, the 38-year-old Deets was arrested without incident and charged as a fugitive from justice.
He was being arraigned Friday in Bennington County District Court.