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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I believe the correct idiom is "suffice it to say," which what you'll see if you look up "suffice" on Meriam-Webster.com. But "sufficed to say" and "suffice to say" sound pretty much the same when spoken, and they sort of make sense. I have seen these variations around, e.g.,
In the blogosphere:
I don't feel like running through the whole list; sufficed to say that it includes about 10 guys . . .
http://mistakesports.blogspot.com/2009/ … dians.html
On Twitter:
Sufficed to say, I'm kinda worn out but it's truly been an absolutely amazing work/stress free week. One more day in Paradise…
And elsewhere:
Suffice to say your bridal gown is not just a dress, it's a creation.
I think I can go one better:
Surface it to say that for maximum flexibility, be sure your laptop contains an expansion slot.
Surface it to say that it took a long time before we could pack up.
Surface it to say that such methods correspond with minor modifications, to those already described
Surface it to say at this point that the true arrow with a true antecedent will have a true consequent
Surface it to say that the runway was soon covered in tarmac and everyone was happy.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
I think that you may have come to the eggcorn party, as my Irish friend says, with one hand as long as the other (to be intoned with a west Irish brogue that I can't even begin to replicate). "Sufficed to say" doesn't do much re-imaging and I can't seem to connect up the semantics of "surface" and "suffice."
Welcome to the forum, tripc.
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Surface it to say:
As a superficial explanation:
Without an in-depth analysis:
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
This doesn't jive with the traditional meaning of "suffice it to say", which was something like 'it is enough to say X, (and any more would not only be unnecessary but might be offensive/tiresome/otherwise objectionable)'. The explanation that suffices will ideally be insightful, concise, and accurate, quite different from superficial.
If some use "suffice it to say" nowadays —and I think some do— to mean something more like 'speaking off the cuff' or 'as a first approximation', then the idea of a superficial explanation would fit better.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
How about the possibility that "surface it to say" is an idiom blend between "surfaced to say" and "suffice it to say". So the surfacing imagery is not related to superficiality but to coming out into the open.
Juan's last example of "surface it to say" has got to be a pun or a WTFT.
Kem, your link didn't lead me anywhere – is there a fix?
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Kem, your link didn't lead me anywhere – is there a fix?
Sorry. Fixed.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Like Kem, I have trouble making this look eggcornical. The "superficial" argument seems a bit hypersubtle (though it's certainly better to be hypersubtle about the superficial than the other way around), and the huge gap in semantics between "surface to say" and "suffice it to say" makes the blending theory seem unlikely to me.
But I'm grateful to Kem for introducing that Irish idiom to us. Are your hands of equal length when you come empty-handed because having something in one hand would seem to extend the length of that hand? Or is it because when you're holding something, your hand is partially clenched and therefore looks shorter? My guess would be the latter, but it's a great phrase in any case.
Incidentally, Kem's (now-nonbroken) link gives a good example of just how goofy Google numbers have gotten. Kem's query returns two pages of hits. At the top of the first you see this:
Results 1 – 10 of about 3,010,000 for "with one hand as long as the other". (0.11 seconds)
At the top of the second you see this:
Results 11 – 12 of 12 for "with one hand as long as the other". (0.12 seconds)
I have no idea what's going on there, but I'm convinced that a world that had 3,009,988 more hits for "with one hand as long as the other" would be a better one than ours.
If you get rid of the first "with," Google returns nearly 20 million hits for Kem's query. I'm skeptical.
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Are your hands of equal length when you come empty-handed because having something in one hand would seem to extend the length of that hand?
It was explained to me as a story about arms—when you carry something in a bag, one arm be longer than tother. But this may be a folk etymology. Anyway, it seems to be one of the few IrEng idioms that hasn't emigrated. Yet.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Language Log notes a variation of "suffice it to say" in the form of . A cupertino/eggcorn mix is the general drift. Here's another – or is it? If it weren't so twisted phonetically, it would be a shoe-in. Four hits.
Service it to say that vanity is a major cause of avoiding sounding vain.
Service it to say is conceivably not too far in meaning from suffice it. The rarity does make cupertino a distinct possibility, though.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
I have the impression that "suffice to say" is considered just as correct as "suffice it to say", at least in recent years. Am I wrong about that?


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I've had 3 kids. The endless advice, which ran the gamut from excellent to 'you-have-GOT-to-be-kidding-me!' stupid, was bad enough. For me personally, the worst was the horror stories that people shared with me (in the sisterhood of being pregnant?)... I got blindsided a few times the first pregnancy. I got a LOT more proactive with the 2nd and 3rd pregnancies - I flatly shut people down when they tried to tell me anything amazing/horror/not positive about their pregnancies or deliveries. Being pregnant was frightening - I'm growing a human here, and I don't KNOW how it's going. I'm on the outside, hoping like hell it's all good. Telling me 'war stories' just scared me more, which I did not need. I had to get very blunt with people who insisted I'd find it funny, or had something I needed to hear. I did the fingers in the ears "La la la LA LA LA LA - I can't HEAR YOU!" dance, and told people "Do NOT tell me, I DON'T want to hear it!" until they gave up and shut up.Shared war stories after the fact are one thing. Shared war stories when you're still in the stage of 'it could still all go down the tubes' is another. And the bad advice and old wives tales are astonishing in their ignorance, and do nobody any good.
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I would agree with Joelle about the weight issue, and the BA Seedhouse SL2 having that covered nicely, but as a person that's used it for years, I'm tired of the single door on the end...especially with 2 people...it's a pain in the ass to get in and out of...having to climb over your partner and gear to do it. These days, I'm much happier with the function and convenience of tents that have a side door(s). The tents I would recommend would be the North Face Mica FL2, the MSR Hubba Hubba 2, or the MSR Carbon Reflex 2.
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From what I've read about this tent the fly sits quite high from the ground. Has anyone had issues with dust and rain getting in under the fly? Examples where I would be camping..
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Blake is back... turns back rivals in JAAA race
Raymond Graham, Gleaner Writer
Dr Warren Blake scored a resounding victory over his rivals at the National Arena last night to retain the presidency of the powerful Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA).
Blake, a medical doctor, tallied 177 votes to turn back the challenges of lawyer Lincoln Eatmon, 121, and Olympian-turned-sports administrator Grace Jackson, 28 votes, at the association's annual general meeting (AGM).
The election, which was conducted by members of the Electoral Office of Jamaica, went very smoothly. There was no evidence last night of the tension which preceded the AGM as delegates mingled together.
When Justice Lensley Wolfe made the announcement declaring the winner, there was mixed feeling as several supporters of Blake applauded while there were sad faces among the Eatmon followers. Most thought that they had the votes to defeat Blake.
Security was tight at the National Arena as voters had to show some form of identification to get in and their names had to be on the delegates list.
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Several past athletes and coaches from overseas were present. These included Olympians Winthrop Graham, Davian Clarke, Lacena Golding Clarke and Nikole Mitchell. The current athletes present included Olympians Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Nester Carter, Asafa Powell, Sherone Simpson, Shericka Williams, Christine Day, Kaliese Spencer, Shereefa Lloyd, Jermaine Gonzales and Edino Steele. Lennox Graham and Mark Elliot were two of the overseas coaches present.
Blake said the record of his administration was there for all to see.
"I am not surprised with my easy win tonight as we have done the work and Jamaica has had one of its most successful years at both the junior and senior levels," said Blake.
Eatmon, who lost his bid to head one of the most prestigious sporting bodies locally, expressed sadness at his defeat.
"I am disappointed ... but this is what the membership wanted and we have to respect this. We came into the race a bit late and we thought we had done enough ... ," said Eatmon who also thought that the low turnout of voters did not help his cause.
At press time last night, members were voting for the other positions of on the executive, including first vice-president, second vice-president, secretary and treasurer.
"If people from the other slate are victorious, I am willing to work with them as this is what the people wanted," said Blake.
Grace Jackson said she respected the vote of the delegates.
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On 13 April 2010 Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi delivered his budget speech in Parliament. He reiterated the efforts that the Department of Health is undertaking to improve health outcomes and meet the targets of the HIV/AIDS & STIs National Strategic Plan (2007-2011) in line with carrying out its 10 point plan to transform the health sector. He also committed South Africa to purchasing the lowest-price antiretroviral (ARV) medicines. This is a challenge to local companies to price their ARVs more competitively.
Motsoaledi outlined the shocking health outcomes we are facing as a country. South African healthcare is in crisis. Years of AIDS denialism and neglected health structures have put us where we are today. Poor outcomes include reduced life expectancy and increased maternal and child mortality.
In response to this, the Ministry of Health has positioned itself to make real change. Motsoaledi has recognized the barriers to improving outcomes, including the lack of access and integration of healthcare services; degraded healthcare facilities and infrastructure; human resource shortages and poor management and healthcare financing.
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We're zeroing in on eight "tossup" states where the race is too close to call, but where the election will likely be decided. Try your hand at gaming out the electoral vote possibilities at npr.org/scorecard.
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The presenter correctly indicated that stories can be used to hold interest that might otherwise drift. He supported this by outlining a structure:
- Start with the point you want to make;
- Illustrate the point with a story;
- Provide an example or application that supports your point.
Ugh!! I can't stand this flow because it is simply a regurgitation of the old "Tell them what you are going to tell them; tell them; then tell you what you told them." I agree with the author of the article who says this is not storytelling. The author continues to say:
A side benefit, he contended, is that this structure can be quickly delivered.
It sounds logical, but it is not storytelling. Speeding through events with an eye on the clock cuts the heart out of emotional involvement, and effective storytelling ties directly into the emotions of the audience.
Now, this structure can certainly work when the second step is changed to "Illustrate the point with an anecdote."
I love this article because it is a terrific discussion about the difference between an anecdote and a story -- and when/how to use each effectively. The author makes great points and I know you will get a lot from reading this post.
And if you want more examples of different narrative forms so you can be a smarter storyteller, then go download my free guide "Narrative Forms -- What the Heck is a Story Anyway? Why Can't I Just Use An Example?"
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January 2013
Jeffrey Marx Kabel, MBA '97
Recipient of the Robert J. Swieringa Young Alumni Service Award
Staying connected to his Johnson roots has always been important to Jeffrey Marx Kabel, MBA '97, recipient of the 2012 Robert J. Swieringa Young Alumni Service Award. Whether he's visiting Ithaca for an Advisory Council meeting, or working abroad with the Cornell Club of London — where he lives and serves as the executive director of JP Morgan — Kabel is always thinking of his alma mater.
Glad for an opportunity to give back to the school, Kabel was delighted to be asked to serve on the Johnson Advisory Council. "It is an impressive group of people that have been brought together who really do take it upon themselves to support and advise the dean, faculty, staff and students," he says.
Kabel explains that during the past few economically challenging years, the council has been more engaged than usual in mentoring and assisting students in meeting career their expectations. According to Kabel, being a part of the organization has been a rewarding and welcome distraction.
"It is a true pleasure to be able to 'disengage' (as much as one can) and immerse myself in the AC meetings held twice per year in Ithaca," he says. "[It's] a good change from the daily grind of business."
Since moving to London from Buenos Aires about twelve years ago, Kabel has also been active with alumni in both the Johnson School Club of the UK and the Cornell Club of London.
"For as long as I have been at Johnson, Jeff Kabel has been incredibly engaged with the Johnson Clubs of the United Kingdom and of London," says Tara Taylor Lynn, Johnson's director of alumni affairs. "He is a big contributor to the club's success. Jeff is always there if we need help organizing events and connecting students with European alumni."
Both of the clubs Kabel works with frequently host events that attract alumni, current students, and prospective students. "We hosted an event at the British Museum, which attracted over 400 alumni and guests and was a great collaborative effort between local alumni and various alumni organizations out of Ithaca," Kabel explains. "We hope to repeat this with an event at the Houses of Parliament [later this year]."
In addition to helping host events, Kabel also runs a scholarship program that connects Cornell Club of London alumni with second- or third-year UK university students, and enables the UK students to spend the summer studying in Ithaca. "The scholarship has been in place for about 20 years, has hundreds of applicants, and culminates with the recipient addressing alumni at the club's annual Thanksgiving dinner in November," he explains.
Receiving the Robert J. Swieringa Young Alumni Service Award for his dedication to Johnson is an honor for Kabel. "I am proud to have my name associated [with this award]," he says, "[and] though I am not one who is necessarily comfortable receiving public recognition, this is indeed a true privilege."
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Sept. 23, 2008
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The Schedule
Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. (PT)
No. 16 UC Santa Barbara (4-3-0) at No. 10 Indiana (4-1-2)
Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium
Bloomington, Indiana
Match Coverage
Harder was Hoppin'
UC Santa Barbara hosted the largest crowd in the NCAA so far this season when over 7,000 fans showed up last Sunday to watch the match vs. top-ranked Wake Forest. The 7,408 attendees who filled Harder Stadium for the inaugural Challenge Cup bested the 6,102 that saw Clemson play South Carolina.
A Long Way Down
With three losses in the past four games, UC Santa Barbara is feeling the repercussions in the latest polls. The Gauchos' highest ranking two weeks ago was sixth but now they top out at No. 16 by Top Drawer. UCSB is now ranked No. 22 in both College Soccer News and the Soccer Times and received votes in the latest NSCAA poll. UCSB remains out of the Top-25 in Soccer America's poll after being ranked 10th two weeks ago. UCSB also dropped two more slots in the NSCAA Far West poll, where the Gauchos are now ranked sixth.
Challenging the Champs
Wake Forest won the inaugural Santa Barbara Challenge Cup with a 6-2 victory on Sunday in a match-up of the last two NCAA champions. The six goals were the most UCSB has allowed in 10 seasons with Tim Vom Steeg as coach and it also marked the team's worst home loss under Vom Steeg. Next year's Challenge Cup contest has already been mapped out when UCSB hosts this week's opponent, Indiana at Harder Stadium.
Three Fall
It's been nearly a decade since UCSB has gotten off to this slow of a start. The Gauchos have dropped three of their first seven games this season for the first time since 2000. That team, the only UCSB squad to post a losing record in Vom Steeg's tenure, started the year 3-6-0 and suffered through five consecutive defeats after beginning the season 3-1-0.
Safe at Home
The loss to Wake Forest ended Santa Barbara's 13-game unbeaten streak at Harder Stadium and was the Gauchos' first loss at home since Sept. 2, 2007. Despite the defeat, Harder Stadium has been an extremely friendly place for the Gauchos to play under Vom Steeg. Since the start of the 2005 season, UCSB is 30-5-5 at home. Vom Steeg has guided the Gauchos to an impressive 74-17-9 record at home, including a perfect 10-0-0 mark in 2002.
Points for Pontius
After scoring three goals in the Gauchos' two games last week, senior forward Chris Pontius was named to Top Drawer's Team of the Week, a national honor list composed of the top collegiate players from the previous week. Pontius scored two goals in last Thursday's 4-2 win over Evansville and netted a goal in the loss to Wake Forest, giving him a team-leading six this season. On the Missouri Athletic Club (M.A.C.) Hermann Trophy watch list, Pontius represents the fourth consecutive Gaucho to make the list. The award, considered college soccer's most prestigious trophy, is presented to the nation's top NCAA Division I player. One of the team's captains, Pontius was also named as a Third-Team Preseason All-America by College Soccer News. He leads the team with 13 points - six goals and an assist - which ties him for 17th in the country. He is also second in the Big West in goals and points per game.
Hed's Up
Seeing more action lately, and rightfully so, has been junior Martin Hedevag, who has started the Gauchos' past two games as a defender, lending more size to the squad's back line. Hedevag scored his second goal of the season - matching his entire total from a year ago - in the victory over Evansville. The native of Gothenburg, Sweden is second on the team with six points. He made his first career start against Rutgers after tallying his first goal of the year in the victory over LMU. That was Hedevag's third career goal as a Gaucho, all coming in his first four shots. Last year he scored only two goals on three shots.
Gauchos' Goals
UCSB has made its way into some of the top NCAA rankings based on their six goals scored in two games last week. The Gauchos are now tied for 15th in the nation in goals per game with 2.14, having found the net a total of 15 times. Senior forward Chris Pontius is tied for 15th in the nation with 0.86 goals per game while freshman midfielder Bryan Dominguez has averaged 0.57 assists per game, good for a tie at 22nd in the country. Dominguez and Danny Barrera were named to College Soccer News' Top 100 Freshmen to Watch
Indiana Info
The last time UCSB and Indiana met was in the 2004 NCAA title game when the Hoosiers won in a penalty kick shootout. After playing through regulation and two overtimes deadlocked at 1-1, the Hoosiers defeated UCSB 3-2 in penalty kicks. That helped avenge a 1-0, double overtime loss to the Gauchos earlier in the season when the two teams met at the Lobo Classic in New Mexico. Indiana is ranked No. 10 by Soccer America, 12th by College Soccer News and Soccer Times, No. 14 by the NSCAA and 18 by Top Drawer. The Hoosiers are led by junior midfielder Eric Alexander, who just captured Big 10 Offensive Player of the Week honors. Alexander has two goals and two assists while freshman Will Bruin also has a pair of goals. Senior goalie Chay Cain has three shutouts this season and 15 saves in seven games with a goal against average of 1.07. The Hoosiers hold a 2-1-0 all-time record against UCSB.
Kaveny, Cintas Out for Year
UCSB suffered a big blow when it found out that it would be without both senior defender Kyle Kaveny and junior midfielder C.J. Cintas for the entire season. Kaveny suffered a fractured left ankle in the Gauchos' 4-0 exhibition win over Westmont while Cintas broke his left foot during practice. Each is expected to undergo surgery, costing them the 2008 campaign.
Young Guns
Several newcomers to the Gaucho soccer program have already made an impact this season. UCSB has started as many as five freshman in a game (Bryan Dominguez, Peter McGlynn, Luis Silva, Trond Helge Takset and Michael Tetteh) with four others (Danny Barrera, Christian Dahlskog, David Ponce and Tim Pontius) seeing significant minutes.
The L Word
Losing consecutive games is a rare thing for Santa Barbara. The back-to-back losses the team suffered to Rutgers and Columbia occurred for only the eighth time in the 10 seasons Vom Steeg has been UCSB's head coach. It is the first losing streak the Gauchos have had since Sept. 23-27, 2006. This is only the fourth time in eight years that a Vom Steeg-coached UCSB team has lost at least two games in a row, whereas the other four sets of consecutive defeats occurred in Vom Steeg's first two seasons coaching the Gauchos (1999-2000).
First Things First
UC Santa Barbara was picked by the Big West coaches to capture its league-record sixth Big West title, claiming six first-place votes. Over the past seven seasons UCSB has won five league titles and qualified for postseason play six times.
Large and In Charge
UCSB welcomed one of its most talented and largest recruiting classes this season. College Soccer News ranked the Gaucho incoming contingent sixth in the nation and tops on the West Coast. A total of 17 new players will don the blue and gold in 2008.
TV Time
UCSB will be featured on Fox Soccer Channel on Oct. 17 when the Gauchos travel to Cal Poly.
Listen Up
KCSB 91.9 FM will broadcast 10 straight matches beginning with the Oct. 1 contest at UCLA. The games can also be heard streaming online live at www.kcsb.org.


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A giant radio dish that usually keeps tabs on spacecraft in the far reaches of the solar system is instead keeping tabs on a bit of the solar system that's come to us: an asteroid that'll pass just 200,000 miles from Earth tomorrow.
The asteroid is known as 2005 YU55. It's a chunk of rock about a quarter of a mile in diameter — a relic from the time of the formation of Earth and the other planets.
Two giant antennas are scanning the asteroid with radar. They beam out pulses of radio waves, then listen for some of the energy to bounce back to Earth. One of the antennas is used to track probes in deep space, while the other is the world's largest radio telescope.
Astronomers will use these observations to create detailed pictures of the asteroid, and to measure its composition. They'll determine how rough the asteroid's surface is, and measure how quickly it spins on its axis.
They'll also plot the asteroid's orbit more precisely than they could before. YU55's orbit periodically crosses Earth's orbit, so there's a chance that it could hit us sometime in the future. And it's big enough to do significant damage if it did hit us.
The tracking done to date has ruled out any chance of a collision over the next century, but it's not precise enough to look any farther than that. The new observations will allow scientists to assess the threat much farther into the future.
Tomorrow: a powerful light show.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Nothing Like a Day at the Beach
The great thing about the Saratoga race meet, of course, is the fact that today's feature race is a Grade 2 stakes for 3-year-old fillies on the turf.
Not bad for a Wednesday.
In any event, the Lake George is loaded and while the two early line favorites easily are the most probable winners, it's far from a two-horse race vis a vis wagering.
The two favorites, obviously, are Stephanie's Kitten (5-2) and Samitar (3-1). Stephanie's Kitten is developing beautifully with figures that are marching forward incrementally. But for "class on the grass" fans, she's got that, too, as the winner of the G1 Alcibiades and the G2 Breeders' Juvenile Fillies Turf.
And it certainly would be appropriate if last year's leading Saratoga rider and upcoming Hall of Fame inductee were to win it. His next loss aboard this Catalano-trained filly will be his first in four rides.
But the wildcard in her is Samitar, yet another Martin Schwartz high-priced European purchase. She is a Group 1 winner in Europe and, as such, might have this field at her mercy—and that includes the accomplished Stephanie's Kitten.
To make matters worse for the early line choice, Samitar attracts Ramon Dominguez, who appeared to be on a mission even before Sunday's six-pack of winners.
Still, we'll take Stephanie's Kitten to win at early line odds or greater, an exacta box with Samitar, and will use the sharp improving Centre Court (4-1), G2 winning Better Lucky (8-1), Dancing Solo (10-1), seeking her third straight with Bravo shipping up to ride, and Medolina, 3-for-3 lifetime with Castellano—the last two fillies being Todd Pletcher trainees.
Running Totals: (1122) 345-218-168 Total Dollar Return: $2,373.20 [win selections only]
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Kershaw shaky at start, White Sox beat Dodgers
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Clayton Kershaw is trying to get ready for his third straight Opening Day start.
The left-hander gave up four hits in two innings and was charged with an error, allowing Chicago to grab a 2-0 lead. The White Sox went on to win 9-0.
''I feel good,'' said Kershaw, who was selected to make his third straight Opening Day start on April 1 against World Series champion San Francisco at Dodgers Stadium. ''I feel strong. That's the important thing right now.
In the first, Chicago's Alejandro De Aza singled and took third off an errant throw from Kershaw in a pickoff attempt at second. De Aza scored off an Alex Rios' single. In the second, Kershaw gave up two hits and a run. Chicago's Alexei Ramirez singled and scored off a Gordon Beckham double.
''For the first day, things went all right. Obviously, you don't want to give up runs. But better now than April.''
Unlike the Dodgers' ace, White Sox pitcher Dylan Axelrod was just trying to prove that he belongs on Chicago's major-league roster.
Axelrod began to prove himself with three innings of one-hit ball in a 9-0 victory over the Dodgers. The White Sox made it look easy. Axelrod and five relievers limited the Dodgers to three hits. The White Sox got 14 hits off seven Dodger pitchers.
''My job is to be there if I'm needed, no matter what happens in spring or the regular season,'' said Axelrod, who last season was 1-2 in seven starts and 1-0 in seven relief appearance for the White Sox. ''I'm trying to make a point that I can pitch at that level.''
Chicago scored two in the third, one in the fourth, two in the seventh and two in the ninth. White Sox catcher Tyler Flowers led the hit parade with home run in the fourth off.
''It was an OK at-bat,'' said Flowers, who wasn't happy with several pitches he took before sending a 2-3 pitch over the left-field fence. ''I didn't really see it well except for a couple of pitches. The result is good, but there is definitely more work to be done.''
The Dodgers' three hits came from Juan Uribe with a single, Andre Ethier with a triple and Yasiel Puig with a double. Puig sent a shot to left field in the ninth and rounded first base to second with the power of an NFL linebacker. Then, was nearly thrown out at third
''You wouldn't want to get run over by him,'' Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said of the outfielder, a Cuban defector who in the off-season signed a seven-year deal for $42 million. ''But you want to see that kind of aggressiveness, especially in young guys.''


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SIU investigates after boy struck by cruiser in Brampton
Ontario police watchdog called in after 8-year-old boy suffers broken leg in Brampton
Ontario's police watchdog has been called in to investigate after an eight-year-old boy was struck by a police cruiser in Brampton, west of Toronto.
The Special Investigations Unit says the boy was taken to Brampton Civic Hospital for treatment of a broken leg Monday morning after being hit by a Peel Regional Police cruiser.
Police say two cruisers were responding to a call on Moregate Crescent, near Dixie Road and Bovaird Drive East at about 8:45 a.m. when one of the cruisers struck the child.
The watchdog agency has assigned five investigators, two forensic investigators and a collision reconstructionist to probe the circumstances of the incident.
Anyone who may have witnessed the incident is asked to contact the investigators.
The SIU is an arm's-length agency that investigates reports involving police where there has been a death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.


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something that's actually legitimate for Netcraft to confirm!
Wait.. BSD isn't dead?
Wait.. BSD isn't dead?
They changed its name, they call it "Mac OS X" nowadays.
No, MacOS X is a heavily modified MACH 3 os Microkernel, running a BSD server in Userland**.
The Server in userland may as well be BeOS, ReactOS, Haiku, or, for that matter, even WinNT.
So no, BSD is BSD, MACH is MACH, and MacOS X is Mach running a BSD Server in userland.
** A similar arrangement, and probably inspired by Mach is the "personalities" of WinNT (for those who rememeber there were the DOS personality, OS/2 Personality, Posix personality and Win 32 Personality).
Nginx is a great product. Not surprised.
Time for some legitimate competition for Apache, it's been a long time. A bit of competition, which they haven't had much of could help them too. I am curious if it is easier to configure than Apache, and how well does it integrate with a JEE containers for serving the static content?
But what a fucking name though.
The only thing that makes me dubious is that they're based in Russia, I hope Putin and his boys don't have a back door into it. But America is starting to look no better than Russia these days in terms of a government that actually cares about the people. Have you checked out the NDAA that Obama signed this week? It lets the American military arrest civilians inside America (heck Fox news AND democrat supporters are all screaming bloody murder about this one). So on second thought I think I'll give this jinx thing a try.
1) Hell yes, it's easier to configure than Apache. Has most of the plugins you could want from Apache, whilst being much more lightweight.
2) I'll echo the other comment here, YOU HAVE THE SOURCE CODE. Worry about backdoors in IIS from the U.S. Gov't., nginx has way more eyes on it.
3) You eventually figured out the pronunciation. Most of the people I know that use GNU/Linux and LaTeX ca't pronounce GNU or LaTeX, but they work great so they get used. What's the problem?
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxJavaServers [nginx.org]
So I say, why not just call it EngineX.
Just be thankful it's not named Libre Nginx.
The only thing that makes me dubious is that they're based in Russia, I hope Putin and his boys don't have a back door into it.
Right, because the evil Russians can easily hide a backdoor in the source code. You're much safer using software made by a company that obeys the NSA.
I actually did the test, passed all my local config from apache to nginx, the config approach is quite different, it took me like 3 day of getting it 30-60 minutes to config ngix all the things that apache had working but the final config was about 20 lines long, oppossed to a much bigger apache config that has taken year to "master".
Needlss to say, been happy using nginx for a couple of months now on local testing env., still neeed to port production sites
nginx uses a different strategy for how it utilizes hardware. It is not so much a configuration problem as a density problem. For things like webhosting companies, which are a huge percentage of websites, nginx cuts costs.
They're usually backend errors, nginx is often used as a reverse proxy.
Most of the time you see a server error, it means that the web server is working but something else (often the database, more often the fastcgi or whatever) has failed. It's when you don't see any error that the web server itself is broken.
Since Apache 1.x is now officially unsupported, OpenBSD has imported nginx into the base system and it will be the included web server in a near future release. I've been using Lighttpd for a few years because it was lighter-weight and easier to configure. Development seems to have stalled in the past couple of years though, and nginx looks like a promising alternative.
I am quite surprised. nginx may be a good product, but it's also lacking a lot of functionality that a web server used as a load balancer or cache should support. For example, it doesn't support HTTP 1.1 to the backend, thus it can't do name based virtual hosts on the servers it caches.
I *WANTED* to use nginx for a large multi-tennant website we were building, but it didn't support it.
I don't use nginx, but:
By default, the Host header from the request is not forwarded, but is set based on the proxy_pass statement. To forward the requested Host header, it is necessary to use:
proxy_set_header Host $host;
I haven't heard of a web server which refuses to accept Host headers just because the client sends HTTP/1.0 instead of/1.1.
I'd recommend HAProxy. It's twice as fast as Nginx is for load balancing, it's just as stable, and it supports more advanced balancing than simple round-robin.
In my somewhat limited experience the place that nginx really shines is ssl.
I am prone to putting varnish on 80 and nginx on 443 with something heavy on the back end to spit out the dynamic content to the reverse proxies,
Bullshit. Microsoft uses it on every site they have. The only reason that "web server identification" surveys like Netcraft say they run Linux is because, like all large websites, they utilise the services of a CDN such as Akamai.
And there are no "secret agreements". Most of the time the company forbids such things is because there is no support, or because there is no ability of the in-house technical support to provide assistance with it. We're a very large IT company here and we have maybe 3 RHEL servers (because Linux was the best option for the task) and a couple of thousand (including virtual) Windows servers. (There's also about 2 Solaris servers, 4 or 5 Oracle Linux servers, a SCO Unix server and 2 or 3 HP-UX servers). None of this is due to any "secret agreements". It's all because there's one person trained to work with Unix based systems, and about 8 to deal with Windows. We utilise quite a large number of open-source packages across our infrastructure if it's the best tool for the job.
We're a very large IT company here and we have maybe 3 RHEL servers (because Linux was the best option for the task) and a couple of thousand (including virtual) Windows servers.
Wow, it must suck to work where you work. Could you please tell me the name so that I may have nothing to do with it?
Wow, it must suck to work where you work. Could you please tell me the name so that I may have nothing to do with it?
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA
And there are no "secret agreements". Most of the time the company forbids such things is because there is no support, or because there is no ability of the in-house technical support to provide assistance with it.
There is a difference between white-listing certain applications because that's what a company decides to support, and adding to this list whenever there is a need, and a blanket ban on free or open source software where it's banned for being free and/or open source.
The first I can totally understand. You can't support just everything.
The second totally not. There is no reason why a software packed becomes easier to support by an IT department because the source code is not available.
You have 8 people that deal with windows servers because you have a lot of windows servers
You have a lot of windows servers because you have 8 people that deal with windows servers
In my last job, we had a client with an all Windows environment. We're talking 2 DCs, a file server, an exchange server and a dedicated IIS server on the other side of the firewall and off the domain.
One day, they decided to revamp their static HTML website (this was a government department trying to justify their existence, IT wasn't exactly at the top of their list). We talked to the outfit doing it, who told us they were using PHP. Great, I though. We can get rid of an old and outdated Windows server and replace it with a nice, lean little Linux box. Nope, I was told to install the PHP ISAPI module on IIS, because "we were a Microsoft shop", even though this server was quite literally doing nothing but serving up HTML and chewing up an unnecessary Server 2k3 license. So after much fighting, and arguing to explain that we may as well NOT go through the trouble trying to set up and debug PHP as FastCGI, another guy went behind my back and stuffed up the install, leading to me wasting 3 or 4 hours rolling it back and installing it properly. Anyway, it's all smoothed over, until I get the zip file I've been promised by the "website makers". It was indeed a website, 10 or so DreamWeaver files with the extension renamed to PHP. No Drupal theme, no Joomla install, nothing. -.- God I hate the people in this industry that like to sell themselves as professionals
If they already had the Server 2k3 license paid for, what reason would they realistically really have to drop it for Linux when they can do what they want with what they have? The deed is already done shelling out for the license, putting Linux on it is just like pouring salt in the wound. Anyway, as you said, the site is just from a government department trying to justify their existence, I doubt it really matters what OS is serving up the content. It's not like they're Google or something.
...go through the trouble trying to set up and debug PHP as FastCGI...
I think it's funny how common it is for anyone who mentions working with Windows professionally on Slashdot to be called out for being inexperienced or some kind of unauthentic system administrator with no real skills, but no doubt there are just as many who consider themselves experienced *nix system administrators who I could make fun of for being inept at basic Windows administration tasks.
Anyway, there are plenty of good reasons that web server should have been a Windows box. Even if it wasn't joined to the domain by switching that box to Linux they would lose the ability to leverage their existing update (SUS) and backup infrastructure. Also, the cost of a Windows license for a small shop like that would pay for itself probably 3 times over if they had to even try to get some kind of professional support for the Linux box even once.
Also, the cost of a Windows license for a small shop like that would pay for itself probably 3 times over if they had to even try to get some kind of professional support for the Linux box even once.
A Windows license doesn't magically come with professional support. And honestly, if you need professional support for a server *NIX is going to cost you the same as an equally competant Windows admin.
If you can't handle management of a web server in-house with qualified staff, you should move to a hosted solution. It will cost less regardless of OS choice.
I need support for a specific issue and I open up the yellow pages and look at my options there are going to be way more options for me that will be less expensive if I need to hire someone to take a look at a Windows server.
And most of those will be sixteen year old kids who think that the fact that they know how to find the control panel qualifies them to administer a windows server.
If you're looking for qualified, certified, experienced administrators, there are plenty in both worlds. The BSDs and Linux have dominated the server market for a long time; there's a very large pool of talent to draw from.
You kidding?
Why do you think live365 exists?
It's that exact agreement. They don't say "don't use free or open source software" they just say "don't use any of our competition". It throws in the whole microsoft suite (office, sharepoint usually in the face of wikis or better solutions, live365, etc), always with the argument of "we have a MS specialist to help you migrate" (even if that won't fix problems).
agreement cost = substantial.
cost of all the microsoft stuff non-agreement = easily 10x as much.
So you
What the heck?
The office live 365 agreement says nothing about not using competitors software.
I think you need a new tinfoil hat...
But it's all MS, so it all integrates and works together seamlessly, right? And it's all managed centrally using AD, right? I mean, that's got to result in significant savings, right? Oh, and the agreement covers all our computers and all this extra software that would cost us so much separately, so we're really getting a great deal on it. Please, MS Salesman, tell us something that's easy to believe and we'll sign.
Even Microsoft doesn't use it on it's major websites
curl -v www.microsoft.com
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
curl -v www.hotmail.com
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
What sites are those, exactly?
Actually www is fronted by reverse proxies running on linux (you can check with nmap). IIS apparently can't handle the load by itself.
And, hotmail took a long time to convert to M$. They tried once, then had a two week outage since M$ didn't scale worth a shit. They rolled back to Solaris, and kept it that way for a _long_ time.
Fun fact. Microsoft also used sendmail on sun boxes for internal mail for a long time after exchange was introduced. M$ couldn't get their own software to scale to an enterprise as large as their own.
There's some truth to this.
Several years ago, GoDaddy switch all of their domain parking to IIS, explicitly to get microsoft's numbers up. Throw 10,000 cnames pointed at a single machine serving up parking pages, and boom - 10,000 websites running IIS.
Please stay firmly convinced...it will make it easier for me to recognize you as a complete idiot if I ever have to interview you.
More and more I'm finding the best way to recognize talent is to find people who understand how to apply the right technologies to a solution rather than the mindless ".NET is da best!" or "Windoze sucks!" I keep hearing from the typical zealots.
This has probably always been the case. However, using
At my last job I wrote an entire back office in Java. When my company merged the decision was made, over my vehement protests, that we would recode in c# just to support a thick client that was the bread and butter of the traders at the other company. Literally everything had to be moved just because it had been marginally easier to code a desktop app in c# initially.
Microsoft makes some good stuff, they really do. But since MS stuff only works well, or at all, with MS stuff you may end up taking a heavy does of shit along with the good.
I've used a load of web servers in the last few years - an early verion of IIS when I had only windows many years back, apache, lighttpd, thttpd, netscape web server (showing my age) and various others... but I didn't even know this was out there.
Suppose it just shows how out of the loop I am these days. Computer stuff covers a vast field these days.
I was also going to speculate/wonder if it was one of those "rigged" deals, like a few years back when IIS was declared as "overtaking firefox" and becoming #1 because "most web sites on the web used it". The actual reason was that GoDaddy (which hosts a vast majority of "parked" domains) was paid-off (or "otherwise incented" by Microsoft to switch to IIS. So when you considered a "www." to be a "unique site", and 99% of "unique sites" to be garbage parked-domains, IIS was not the leader.
So, I wonder if some other bizarre statistical work is at-play. For example, does someone like Akamai, who hosts a lot of other people's sites, use Nginx to skew these numbers??
no, this is genuine. it has been steadily gaining popularity over the past several years.
nginx is being developed by a russian guy who up until recently was working (as a sysadmin, apparently) for one of the major russian web portals where nginx originated as an in-house project first but was open-sourced. the guy has now left the company (which has been slowly dying anyway) and incorporated an llc or something, focused on nginx. it was already quite popular in russia 5-6 years ago (when i was still living there).
nginx is an efficient event-driven front-end server, quite often used for loadbalancing in front of traditional apache or tomcat or whatever other backends, but in a simple case of a LAMP server it can be hooked up directly to PHP via FPM or FCGI.
config syntax is quite expressive, with quite advanced uri / header - based rewriting capabilities. there is even a built-in Perl interpreter for more advanced use (which tends to be abused by people who forget what being an event-driven server means by sticking logic in there... oh well, people use things like node.js too *shudder*).
> oh well, people use things like node.js too *shudder*
Can you elaborate on that? What is the matter with node.js?
Why is the Google icon on the post when its MS that got overtaken. Is Nginx run by Google?
The Google icon is probably there because the poster mentioned that Google's webserver, among others, lost share the past month.
The article and summary are misleading, typical slashdot. Typically nginx is used as a forward cache engine, often on the same box as apache. People typically put apache on port 81, and nginx on 80, and configure nginx to cache from port 81...
Doesn't make it the number 2 web server. Yes perhaps the number 1 cache engine, but its generally not used as a web server.
Not always... for our Rails (and Sinatra) projects, we use nginx as the frontend/static asset server to a (pool of) Ruby-based application servers (mostly Unicorn). There's no Apache anywhere in the mix, and that has greatly reduced my migraines. Perhaps in some situation it makes sense to have nginx as a cache engine or load balancer for Apache, but in my world, nginx usually replaces Apache, rather than supplementing it.
I've dropped apache completely. I've got nginx in front of php-fpm (wigh fcgiwrapper/spawn-fcgi for things w/ legacy cgi like nagios/collectd) and uwsgi.
You can easily find appropriate nginx rewrite rules for the major php apps like wordpress and menalto's gallery2. And for performance's sake it's all in the server config, so there isn't a disk access to read the
It's even better for apps, like django, which keep in mind delivering static files out of the hands of the app server. And configuring nginx to serve static files instead of hitting app servers is a piece of cake.
And for those really wanting max performance, there are plugins for direct access to memcache/postgres or even writing your web app directly in the config file with something like the lua plugin.
The article and summary are misleading, typical slashdot. Typically nginx is used as a forward cache engine, often on the same box as apache. People typically put apache on port 81, and nginx on 80, and configure nginx to cache from port 81...
You do know there is something called mod_proxy for apache?
Apache can be configured as a proxy or a web server.
Nginx can be configured as a proxy or a web server.
Your point is
Nginx is a great loadbalancer for http which makes it quite suited as a frontend and thus getting counted by netcraft . There could be hundreds of apache servers behind it . E.g. on my boxes Nginx runs as a reverse proxy in front of about 20 different apache, tomcat, more Nginx, other servers that generate some kind of html. But these 20 will all be counted as Nginx while they actually run something different. So I beleive it is quite hard to actually say what Server actually is the most popular.
Yep, it's mostly used for front-end duties like connection pooling, load balancing, SSL offloading, gzip, that type of thing. If you're running PHP stuff, it's still debatable whether you want to go FCGI or PDM instead of Apache's built-in module. There are ups and downs in both cases and you'll have to see what works best for your site. At my company we use Nginx up front (with server type obfuscated) for SSL offloading and gzip and connection pooling. From there it goes into a varnishd cache on the same server (stored in 100% RAM) which handles the static stuff. Varnishd then forwards remaining requests to an L7 load balancer appliance type thing which then drops requests to each of 10 web "application" servers which are a combination of Apache with mod_php, Tomcat and Jetty Java servers. We've also used Nginx as an IMAP proxy and cache and it works quite well for that.
Apache has a good architecture but it's horrible at handling a lot of simultaneous connections and recycling them (that will change in 2.4 but it's not out yet). Also, if you're using mod_php, over time each Apache process will take the total maximum amount of RAM your php process uses, and many of our PHP applications use 128-256M of RAM or more (data management type stuff). So you can run a server out of RAM if you're trying to maximize connections.
Nginx can handle 10K connections on a little box with very little RAM due to the way it threads stuff. It's basically a copy engine and it's very fast. Varnishd can also handle a lot of connections and can serve up content straight from RAM in less time than apache takes to build a connection. That being said, Apache is reliable, and has I feel better logging at the moment and just more of everything. It's a reference implementation. It's actually fine for most purposes but if you're handling 1000 users simultaneously and they are making 10-20 connections each with various service calls and static downloads, you gotta have something that can pool the conenctions on the front end and handle static content or you're going to spend a lot of money on RAM. And if you're serving up static content with Tomcat, Tomcat is absolutely garbage. I think it has to boot the whole JVM to serve up your one file. If not that bad, it's still awfully slow, and it REALLY benefits from caching up front. BTW, Nginx does caching as well but varnishd seemed more mature and elegant.
Now lastly, you can just go out and buy an F5 BigIP and it does all this stuff on specialized hardware (Ok, special board, intel chip) and it's out of the box. But even the little ones are $20K which is a lot of software dev hours and/or web server/database/storage hardware. Would be nice and fun to have but if you can't spend the money on hardware (and training!) the nginx/varnishd frontend is pretty much the best setup in my book at the moment. A little complex but once it's set up you just let it run. I made an internal nginx cache for all our internal sites, including some Java apps (e.g. Jira) and with requests going through the cache everything just flies. If you use sharepoint on IIS, you would be prettty stupid to not try a cache server up front, it's amazing. If nginx fixed mod_rewrite stuff to be the same as apache, it would probably be possible to make it into an application server, and we're going to get a test environment set up with php-fpm [php-fpm.org] and see how it fares. We'll see how managable it is though.
Tomcat is absolutely garbage. I think it has to boot the whole JVM to serve up your one file.
No. When Tomcat starts up, that's your JVM boot right there. It stays running until you stop Tomcat. All the apps and files served by that Tomcat instance are served using the same JVM process. It will spawn extra threads for extra connections when required though.
In fact most other web stuff uses a long running process like that. It's mostly only CGI or 'CGI-like' configurations and PHP that work by starting up fro
Guess what class I had today?
CIS311 - Web Server Management
Guess what we use!
IIS 7 and Windows Server 2008!
Good thing I've run both Apache and lighttpd for personal experience. And taught myself C, C++, PHP, Lisp, Perl, Python, and a little bit of Assembly. And MySQL. And how to run Linux from the command line. And... what the fuck am I paying this college for, again?
And this is why I thank god I just up AND DID Web Development and didn't shit my money down the toilet on a CS degree.
So yes -- Why are you paying for college?
For most Software Development, the "University of Google" is a far more cost and time effective education.
And... what the fuck am I paying this college for, again?
The ability to get your resume past HR and in front of someone who knows what any of that means. Sorry.
I am the main server admin for a very large website that has been running Apache for 10 years. Then, last year, after a period of tremendous growth, we began to encounter serious memory/CPU issues with Apache. I had been researching alternative, light webservers for a while, so after thorough research and testing, we made the transition to nginx overnight with resounding success. We've never looked back! It is very easy to configure, ridiculously scalable and highly extensible. There are plenty of how-to guides and recipes for those moving from Apache. Nginx seemed like a no-brainer. Apache is a great reference server; it has every bell and whistle imaginable, but at a cost. Our site uses PHP, so for those wondering about PHP integration, we use PHP-FPM. I'm generally pretty conservative and slow to change our architecture, but looking back, we made the right choice.
I'm not OP, but have a bit of experience with this..
There are two things "against" apache:
1. It runs either a thread or a process for each connection
2. With all the fun stuff on, each thread / process take a lot of memory (especially with php enabled)
The new breed of popular webservers (which nginx seems to be the most popular of) are event-driven [daverecycles.com], which means it can handle a silly amount of connections in one thread/process.
This gives them advantages in a lot of situations. Especially for serving static fi
A lot of people here are talking about how nginx is "only" useful as some sort of reverse proxy or cache engine or something. We haven't used it for that, although it's on our list of things to try at some point as a lot of people seem to have success with it.
We do use it for serving files over HTTP - primarily video gaming-related files, so they range in size from a few meg up to several gig. It generally performs flawlessly, although sometimes struggles under significant load.
We did a little formal testin
How come I've never heard of it till now? I don't live under a rock. I read tech sites daily and listen to poscasts. How did this slip under my radar?
Firefox will soon, probably Firefox 11, have support for SPDY (Speedy HTTP) like Chrome, but server support is limited currently.
If nginx would support it, I'm sure it will replace or serve as a proxy in front of many, many more servers of performance oriented websites.
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Skip to comments.Howie Carr ping week of July 26, 2009
Posted on 07/26/2009 5:33:51 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread for the week. He returns to the air Mon 7/27 after hip surgery. I'll post his Sun column but right now (8:35 am) I can't get into the site -- heavy traffic (Gates case?) at bostonherald.com Stay tuned.
I'll post Howie's Sun. column—assuming there is one—when I can get onto the Herald's site.
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My son in law had two seperate hip replacements, he was 33 when he had his done and he was not up and around and able to get to work in two weeks, could Howie possibly be doing a remote from home? Maybe he's sleeping over in the studio all week? LOL!
who knows; we'll find out tomorrow...
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Riflemans Fifth toll rises
By Howie Carr | Sunday, July 26, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Nine murders - thats how many unsolved slayings serial killer Stevie Flemmi has been asked about in this latest mob trial in U.S. District Court here.
And nine times the wrinkly 75-year-old archfiend has replied in the same way.
Ill take the Fifth, or words to that effect.
The mobsters already doing life-plus for at least nine other murders. But he wouldnt cop to any additional killings in this civil trial, where the families of some of his victims are suing the feds for coddling mass murderers, including the Rifleman and his dear pal Whitey Bulger.
So lets go down this up-to-date account of the murders Flemmi refuses to discuss, lest he, ahem, possibly incriminate himself.
We begin with Punchy McLaughlin, Charlestown plug ugly. By the fall of 1965, Stevie had fallen in with crooked FBI agent H. Paul Rico, who was offended more than somewhat when he heard Punchy on an illegal wiretap referring to him and his G-man boss J. Edgar Hoover as fags.
Rico knew where Punchy was hiding out and how he was getting into Boston every morning for his brothers murder trial. Punchy was taking the bus, because he hadnt been able to drive since his right hand had been shot off in Brookline by gangsters dressed as rabbis a few months earlier.
One morning two guys caught up with Punchy on a bus in West Roxbury. Punchy had a revolver in a brown sandwich bag, but its tough to grab a gat quickly enough when you only have one meat hook. Sayonara Punchy.
Asked about the hit the other day, Stevie took the Fifth.
A year later, in October 1966, the McLaughlin gang was down to one capable hitman, Stevie Hughes . A car full of shooters caught up with Stevie and another hood, Sammy Lindenbaum, on Route 114 in Middleton. (Quite a gruesome photo of the sanguinary aftermath resides in the archives. Discretion keeps us from printing it here.)
Flemmi then reported back to FBI agent Rico that with Hughes dead, the entire city is much more at ease. When asked about the double murder this month, he took the Fifth.
Flemmi got his start in organized crime working for an older Roxbury hoodlum named Wimpy Bennett . Wimpy disappeared in January 1967 and Stevie alerted Rico that there was absolutely no chance that Bennett would be found alive.
In court when he was asked about Wimpy, Flemmi mentioned the Bill of Rights. Ditto with Wimpys older brother Walter, who according to Stevies report to his FBI cohort-in-crime was taken out of the picture Monday evening 4/3/67.
That left Billy Bennett . Just before Christmas 1967, Billy Bennett was picked up by a friend from Southie named Richard Grasso . A few minutes later Bennett was dead, shot in the head, his body up against a snowbank in Mattapan. A week later, Grassos body turned up in the trunk of his 1967 Buick Wildcat in Brookline, shot two times in the head.
Stevie Flemmi took the Fifth twice more.
Next to go was one Thomas Timmons, age 47. Rico reported in May 1968: The reason that STEVIE FLEMMI had killed and buried TOMMY TIMMONS was that TIMMONS was very anti-Italian and indicated that he was going to blow up LANGONEs funeral parlor when they were all at some connected Italian wake.
Stevie took the Fifth.
In September 1969, Stevie went on the lam to the West Coast with Frank Salemme and another member of the old Bennett gang named Peter Poulos, who had the misfortune of being a witness to Wimpys murder two years earlier. Two months later, Poulos bullet-riddled body was found in the desert outside Las Vegas. Salemme has since denied murdering Poulos. The other day, Stevie took the Fifth.
The lawyers probably could have asked the Rifleman about a few other murders from a few other decades, but nine are enough to make the point, dont you think?
In Boston, until well into the 1990s, the F and the B in FBI stood for Flemmi - and Bulger.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1187139
At the start of HC's show yesterday they played an intro with old(er) news bits and it ended with "oh where oh where has Howie gone, oh where oh where can he be?" I thought,
uh oh, maybe he isn't coming back today after all and we're
about to get Col. Hunt or a rerun. But no, they just played the wrong intro.
Remember the case of the 18 yr old in Saugus who ran over an elderly woman while driving drunk after the "alcohol free" prom?
>>But according to the four defendants statements to police, they decided to continue partying. After driving to Vokeys house, where Baldwin picked up nearly a case of beer, the four headed to Nahant Beach. At the beach, Vokeys girlfriend arrived and picked him up, leaving Baldwin, Palomba, and Caruso with the beer.
>>According to their statements, Baldwin and Palomba each consumed about five beers, and Caruso drank as many as six. The three were at the beach for about two hours. When they got into Carusos car, Baldwin asked Caruso if he was good. Caruso responded, Ya.
>>Moments later, police said, Caruso hit Carol Marean, who had been walking her dog with her daughter, Charlotte, 41, near Essex and Grove streets in Saugus. Marean was killed, and her daughter has since recovered from critical injuries.
Caruso told authorities at the scene that he had been drinking and that he had probably fallen asleep at the wheel.
>>According to statements Baldwin made to police, which were entered into court records, Caruso looked up immediately after the accident and said, What happened, not a problem. Baldwin said he told Caruso he had just hit two people and Caruso responded, No way, really?
Yup—now thing about this, these kids have probably been up for at least 24 hours—they probably did have a regular school day on that Friday (at least I think it was a Fri.) then later there's the prom, everything ends at 4 am and
parents pick them up, no problem. Except they decide to
stop being alcohol free and drive two towns away to Nahant
where they get blitzed, and the 18 yr old is "OK to drive"
After six beers.
After being up for 24 hours straight at least.
And many teens are probably on the thin side so it wouldn't take too many brews to get them drunk.
And he's OK to drive.
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This Buds for you - take it or leave it
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Heres a modest proposal: Tomorrow night at the White House, everybody drinks the same brand of beer.
How America 2009 is that? Its not enough to have the host provide the adult beverages. No, now all the guests have to get on the record with which beer they prefer, and please, hold the Milwaukees Best.
Baracks a Bud man. You know, the No. 1 domestic brand, although he probably hasnt gotten the memo that August Busch IV and Ed McMahon arent walking through that door. Some Belgians now own the Clydesdales and the Beechwood aging process.
Actually, now that I consider Barack and beer, the first brand that comes to mind is Schlitz Malt Liquor, especially when Obama gets near a microphone:
Look out for the bull!
As for Professor Skip Gates - he says hes a Red Stripe man, surprise surprise. After all, its brewed in Jamaica, mon, which must appeal to his repeatedly self-proclaimed 44 percent African DNA. Dont tell Skippy, but I think the Red Stripe brewery was founded by Germans, and I wonder if that horrifies Skip, the way his 56 percent white DNA does.
Skips fallback lager: Becks.
But didnt the serial killer known as Whitey Bulger once serve Becks to a bunch of G-men after a double-hit? Got the feds good and beered up, and then found out what they knew. After Whitey poured them back into their Crown Vics he said, Thank God for Becks beer.
If its good enough for Whitey, how can it possibly be good enough for Skip?
Then theres Sgt. Crowley, and were all disappointed in his pick - Blue Moon. Are you bleepin kiddin me, Sarge? Thats one of those beers you put a slice of fruit in. Surely you meant to say Blue Ribbon. Or you could have asked for Busch Beer. That way, they would have had a familiar target to blame if things go bad tomorrownight.
It used to be the host only had to provide one beer. Everyone would be happy, because it was the best kind of beer - free beer.
One final question: Remember when Larry Summers was president of Harvard? Back in 2002, Summers went after Gates pal, Cornel West, because of alleged skepticism over the academic rigor of his courses in Gates African-American studies department.
Irony of ironies, Summers now works for Barack Obama - as one of his top economic advisers. Will Larry Summers of Cambridge and Harvard be invited to the Cambridge-Harvard summit?
Given his relationship with Gates and his lack of PC, Summers only gets to the beer summit on one condition. Hey, Larry, BYOB.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1187649
today's show via howiecarr.com; btw Howie also said (on Mon.) the death pool would prob be today. He didn't want to do it yesterday because he knew he'd be out of the studio, broadcasting from the Eastern Standard in Kenmore Sq. (though there were tech problems so he had to do the show from the studio anyway)
Wednesday, Jul 29PDT
1st Hour (DEATH POOL?)
2nd Hour (DEATH POOL?)
3rd Hour
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4th Hour
We will speak with author Jonathan Tudan author of Lovers, Muggers & Thieves - A Boston Memoir in which he recounts his experiences in 1969 as an eighteen-year-old college freshman who was offered a free ride into Boston's Combat Zone, the most bizarre neighborhood the city has ever known, when he was asked to manage a flophouse renting rooms by the week to the purveyors of the neighborhood sex trade.
4pm death pool.....
yup, and Howie is on WRKO till 7 pm as Sox are on WEEI
btw I will be away for one last vaca week Aug 10-14 or so;
while I will have a laptop with me down in "delta blues"
country, it would be great if you could do the list that week (even if it's just posting links to his articles or the
articles themselves)
No problem.
I remember that I was putting in an alarm for my cousin at the Arts One and Two on Stuart Street. As I was running wire as some hookers were rolling some guy on the other side of the fire door.
All to naught, some Mafia clown got pissed, the owners were Greeks, and rolled a fire bomb in the front door, exit an account, they did pay in cash though.
today's show..wonder if he will also talk about Manny & Ortiz (no, not "Manny Ortez", Senator) testing positive for
steroids in '03....naah, maybe not. I'll just note that on the same page of the NY Times online there was an ad for a ticket agency that could put you in Yankee Stadium for a game vs. the Sox on 8/6 and some tickets were going for $19,500
Hey, those steroids are expensive you know. Need to pay the players big bucks.
Thursday, Jul 30PDT
1st Hour
The black professor and white cop at the center of a race relations dispute that garnered international attention when President Obama dove into the discussion are ready to toast and make up during a White House "beer summit" tonight. Did the President help or hurt this situation by getting involved?
2nd Hour
3rd Hour
Call in for THE CHUMPLINE!!!! 617-779-3469 and leave a message for Howie or Sandy about today's stories or whatever else is bothering you!
The ranking Republican on the House Subcommittee on Immigration says Democrats have refused to pass an amendment that would prevent illegal aliens from being covered in the Obama healthcare plan. Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa), finds it outrageous that Democrats want to force hardworking Americans to foot the healthcare bill for those who are in the country illegally. We will speak with Congressman King about this outrage.
4th Hour
Veterinarian John deJong will be with us to talk pets.
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Love 'pet talk', some of the funniest radio when they go off on a tangent...
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And we owe it all to Governor Deval Patrick
By Howie Carr | Friday, July 31, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
On this final shopping day before the 25 percent sales tax increase here in Massachusetts, I would like to personally thank Gov. Deval Patrick for making it all possible.
Happy T-Day, Governor.
Dont worry about us taxpayers, Governor - whats another billion dollars to people who actually have to work for a living and didnt get free rides to Milton Academy, Harvard College and Harvard Law School?
None of us has any pressing need for extra dough, especially not with the economy humming along like it is.
Thank you too, Governor, for that property tax relief that you promised all of us during the 2006 campaign.
Thats working out so well that last weekend in Abington, the voters nixed a Prop 2 override by a 4-1 margin, in a turnout rivaling last years presidential election, with 500 people taking absentee ballots.
Thank you, Governor, for getting the people of Massachusetts interested in the political process again.
Thank you too, Gov. Patrick, for yet another new tax going into effect tomorrow - the brand-new 6.25 percent sales tax on all alcohol products, which will of course be imposed on the full price of the alcohol, which already includes a state excise tax.
In other words, a sales tax imposed on an excise tax - itll do wonders for all those mom-and-pop package stores on the New Hampshire border. Itll do for booze sales what the earlier tax-on-a-tax on smokes did for cigarette sales along the Merrimack.
And now everyone will have yet another reason to cross the border.
Governor, thanks for the new sales tax on all of us satellite-TV subscribers. That kicks in tomorrow too.
And we sure do appreciate all your recent fee increases at the Registry of Motor Vehicles - at the same time youre shutting down, how many, 11 Registry offices, including the one in New Bedford, which no one ever uses, right, Governor?
Thanks, Governor, for dithering all through the budget process, going back and forth on raising the tolls, and the gas taxes, and every other damn thing, enabling the unspeakably corrupt Legislature to move into the vacuum of your nonleadership to sock it to us with this 25 percent increase in the sales tax.
Thanks for giving Mumbles Menino et al. the right to impose higher meals taxes, but why do they have to wait to jack up the cost of a cheeseburger until Oct. 1?
Thanks, Governor.
Thanks for nothing.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1188137
With the economy going the way it is, the compassionate thing to do would be suspend all taxes on alcohol and cigarettes (might as well fully legalize pot too). Might not help the economy, but poverty might not bother people as much! ;-)
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Fearless Friday Seminars
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science features a continuing Fearless Friday Seminar series open to interested students, faculty and the general public.
The talks are typically held at noon or at 2:30 p.m. in the Tutt Science Center, often with pizza provided!
To help gauge the level of Fearless Friday talks, they come with a built-in rating system for mathematical background required, mimicking the motion picture ratings with which we are all familiar.
Rated G: No mathematical or computer science background required.
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MADISON, Wis. -- With a nod to Wisconsin-Eau Claire's 2013 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey championship, as well as the hometown of current Badger assistant captains in senior forward Jefferson Dahl and junior defenseman Jake McCabe, the Wisconsin Badgers will use their first official day of practice for the 2013-14 season with their Red-White scrimmage in Eau Claire, Wis.
Skating at Hobbs Ice Center on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 1 p.m., the Badgers will start with 30 minutes of practice, then follow with two officiated 20-minute periods. An autograph session with the men's hockey team will follow.
The 2013-14 Wisconsin men's hockey season marks the first year of Big Ten hockey. UW enters the season after a four-month surge that culminated in the program's 12th and final WCHA playoff championship.
Pre-sale tickets for the Red-White Scrimmage go on sale Monday, Aug. 19 for $15. Tickets will cost $20 at the door. A total of 1,500 tickets will be available. All proceeds will benefit the UW-Eau Claire men's hockey program.
Pre-sale tickets will be available through the UW-Eau Claire Service Center in Davies Center, over the phone at 715-836-3727 or online at http://www.uwec.edu/Servicecenter/tickets/index.htm.


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Emergency Services Loan Fund Expanded
A highly successful state loan program to assist first responders is changing with the times under legislation (S.3728B) signed into law yesterday. The legislation was sponsored by Senator James Seward and increases the amounts of allowable loans under the emergency services loan fund.
Seward was the author of legislation in the 1990s creating the state emergency services revolving loan fund, which has awarded 439 loans worth more than $53 million since 1995 to fire and ambulance companies, municipalities and fire districts for equipment and capital improvements. The loans are repaid, with payments being recycled into new loans for eligible fire companies and districts.
In 2004, the size of the fund was expanded and new maximum loan amounts were established. The Seward legislation again boosts loan parameters to account for inflation and help departments with equipment purchases and other necessary upgrades. For example, the allowable loan amount for the purchase of protective or communication equipment will increase from $100,000 to $200,000, while the allowable loan amount for the purchase of an ambulance or rescue vehicle will rise from $150,000 to $225,000.


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Audra McDonald takes the stage in her own concert special, singing personal favorites including selections from her new album, "Go Back Home" on Live from Lincoln Center at 6 pm Sunday.
Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise for a night of remembrance featuring an all-star line-up performing with National Symphony Orchestra on National Memorial Day Concert at 7 pm Sunday.
Antiques Roadshow at 7 pm Monday discusses Northwest Coast Indian masks in Seattle with appraiser Ted Trotta at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
On Antiques Roadshow Vintage Atlanta at 8 pm Monday, a collection of documents related to gold legend Bobby Jones sped from an original estimate of $15,000 to a current value of $20,000 to $25,000.
Carole King: The Library Of Congress Gershwin Prize at 7 pm Tuesday.
Constitution USA With Peter Sagal Built To Last? at 8 pm Tuesday travels to Iceland, where after the country's economic collapse, leaders decided to create a new constitution, looking to the U.S. Constitution for inspiration. This prompts Sagal to consider why our own founding document has lasted more than 225 years.
Frontline Outlawed In Pakistan at 9 pm Tuesday spends five years tracing both Pakistani teenager Kainat Soomro's odyssey through Pakistan's broken justice system after she accused four men of gang rape and her alleged rapists' quest to clear their names.
Independent Lens Detropia at 10 pm Tuesday takes an in-depth look at Detroit, the quintessential American city that suffers from a bad case of post-industrialism that just may rise from the ashes thanks to a dynamic cluster of innovators, entrepreneurs and proud, self-proclaimed "hustlers."
Nature The Himalayas at 7 pm Wednesday explores the diversity of wildlife and habitats of this mountain chain starring the mysterious snow leopard.
NOVA Manhunt: Boston Bombers at 8 pm Wednesday follows the manhunt, step-by-step, for the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, and explores the role modern technology — combined with old-fashioned detective work – played in finding the suspects.
NOVA Deadliest Earthquakes at 9 pm Wednesday follows a team of US geologists as they first entered Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy in 2010.
Overheard With Evan Smith at 7 pm Thursday features Civil Rights leader Marc Morial.
Arts In Context presents Young Composers at 7:30 Thursday. This special concert presents the world premiere of nine new orchestral works composed by Texas students age 18 and younger.
The Daytripper presents Kingsland, Tx at 8:30 pm Thursday. Chet heads to the Hill Country to pick grapes at a winery, go swimming and boating on a scenic lake, and enjoy Italian food on a hill side with a big Texas sunset.
Ellen DeGeneres: The Mark Twain Prize at 9 pm Friday celebrates the work of Ellen DeGeneres, the 15th recipient of The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Cool things down, refresh the senses, and bring on the wildlife with a tour of pond garden designs and fountains, even in small spaces on Central Texas Gardener Wonder at noon & 4 pm Saturday.
Austin City Limits presents songwriting legend Randy Newman at 7 pm Saturday with a selection of his greatest tunes.
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Police investigate drug links in severed head caseGrant Wynne
As the police taskforce investigating the mystery of the severed head found on Rottnest Island continues its inquiries, it is now believed the victim was a player in a major WA crime syndicate.
Stephen Ramon Cookson was due to stand trial later this year on serious allegations of drug trafficking.
His severed head was found by an 11-year-old girl while beachcombing in Porpoise Bay on January 6.
Police allege Mr Cookson was a player in a major drug cartel involved in the importation of high grade methamphetamine from New South Wales.
He was one of five people arrested during raids by organised crime detectives on properties in South Perth and Burswood in September 2010.
There police seized around 1.25 kgs of high purity methamphetamine.
The highly covert police operation involved months of intelligence gathered through phone intercepts and police surveillance both in Perth and New South Wales.
Police allege Cookson was the principal of the methamphetamine once it reached WA and it is also alleged he organised collection of money to fund the purchase of the drugs.
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Submission + - Delaware Enacts Law Allowing Heirs to Access Digital Assets of Deceased
An anonymous reader writes: Ars reports: "Delaware has become the first state in the US to enact a law that ensures families' rights to access the digital assets of loved ones during incapacitation or after death." In other states, the social media accounts and email of people who die also die with them since the companies hosting those accounts are not obligated to transfer access even to the heirs of the deceased. In Delaware, however, this is no longer the case. The article notes that even if the deceased was a resident of another state, if his/her will is governed by Delaware law, his/her heirs will be allowed to avail of the new law and gain access to all digital assets of the deceased.