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By ridding the team of his earlier signings (Murphy, Dunleavy), Mullin truly may have saved his job. Those two, plus an undersized Ike (all Mullin signings or draft pick), did not fit in, style-wise, with this team.
There was no way that Nelson was going down to visit Davey Jones's locker with a cast of players that he did not want.
Other than Houston and San Antonio, two teams with good center/inside play, this Warrior team can now match up well with all of the Western Conference playoff bound teams...and win, too!
The good thing about having Nelson coaching this team vs. Montgomery is that veterans love to play for Nelson. Although still young, Harrington and Jackson, are veterans and should thrive here with an athletic and uptempo style of basketball.
From Tim K:
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Kawakami: For Mullin, trade may be a career saver
By Tim Kawakami
Mercury News
How did Chris Mullin do it? I'm imagining a swaying gold watch, soothing words and a soft trip into suggestive hypnosis for the Indiana Pacers brain trust.
I'm thinking Donnie Walsh and Larry Bird will open their sleepy eyes soon and scream in unison: We traded Al Harrington to the Warriors for what?
There isn't a better explanation, because the much-maligned Mullin did more than just pull a fast one by shoveling Mike Dunleavy, Troy Murphy and Ike Diogu to his heartland peers.
At the purposeful prodding of Coach Don Nelson, Mullin did much more than win a NBA poker game, though that's a lot by itself.
Mullin doesn't want to say it and probably won't ever admit it. But Wednesday's lightning-strike trade saved an era of Warriors basketball from imminent, precipitous doom.
It didn't make the Warriors a guaranteed playoff team -- we know better than to make those kinds of predictions. But this trade makes them much more athletic and much more relevant, just when they were dipping into concrete boringness.
And Mullin saved himself, too, in the process.
From the bite of Nelson's running (and brutally honest) commentary. From recent critics like me. From the rising tide of anxiety. From letting his early bad contract decisions continue to haunt him and cripple the Warriors.
Before we go further, let's quickly run through the pluses and super-pluses of this deal, which:
• Ended the franchise's strained, over-optimistic dreams about Dunleavy, Murphy and (to a lesser extent) Diogu. The cords had to be cut, probably should've been cut last year, and the Warriors weren't going anywhere until they did the snipping.
Mullin loved Dunleavy's game, especially, and probably still does, but Mullin had to start acting like a boss, not a buddy-teammate, at some point. He finally had to listen to Nelson.
Let me repeat one last time: Neither Murphy nor Dunleavy can create a shot or play a speck of defense. That is not winning basketball -- in fact, in Murphy's case, it was provably losing basketball. (Worst plus/minus player on the team this season and last.)
• Dumped the bad deals he gave Murphy (owed $42.3 million after this season) and Dunleavy ($37.5 million after this season) without having to give up Monta Ellis or Patrick O'Bryant as enticement.
Unbelievable. The Warriors still will have a luxury-tax crush this summer when Andris Biedrins must be paid and they have to make a decision on Mickael Pietrus. But it's a lot easier after bouncing two useless players who will make a combined $17.4 million next season.
After Nelson's tart comments, I thought the jig was up on Dunleavy and Murphy as valued NBA players. Wrong. Is there a Pacers explanation? Only that they were just as weary of Stephen Jackson and Sarunas Jasikevicius (now Baron Davis' backup) as the Warriors were of Murphy and Dunleavy, and maybe they can flip one or both to the Clippers for Corey Maggette, who'll make Jermaine O'Neal feel better about remaining a Pacer.
But I'll guarantee, if the trade ends up as a wash except Harrington for Diogu, the Warriors win all day and all decade.
• Added Harrington, a combo-forward who fits Nelson's style and the Warriors' needs nicely, and Jackson, an aggressive wing player who fits Nelson's style -- though he carries massive behavioral baggage.
Plus neither has a terrible contract. Huge point there.
Think of Davis (happiest guy on earth right now) dribbling, dribbling, defenders all over him at the end of a close game because, heck, why would they concentrate on anybody else?
Now add Harrington (yes, the same guy I thought the Warriors would acquire last summer) and Jackson, and suddenly the defense is torn -- double-teaming Davis opens up Harrington, swooping on Harrington frees Jackson, over-focus on both means Davis has a path to the rim . . .
Now add Jason Richardson, if he returns this season at full form . . .
In summation, the Warriors save $30 million in long-term money, get better and faster immediately, break up the Murphy-Dunleavy doldrums, keep the Ellis-Biedrins kiddie corps together, make Nelson happy and recommit the Warrior Nation.
Warriors fans are remembering that Mullin was the guy who traded for Davis not too long ago -- and forgetting he's the guy who hired Mike Montgomery and emptied the bank for Murphy, Dunleavy and Adonal Foyle.
``I think what this says is we saw a deal that we thought was going to make us better, and we went and did it,'' Mullin said Wednesday.
I don't know if the slight slump in ticket sales was a factor. I don't know if he cared about the booing of Dunleavy or listened to the shreddings by Nelson.
But he answered all of those burning issues, with a burst of magic. This was a Houdini trade for Mullin and the Warriors, a franchise-reviving sleight of hand that no one could have foreseen except the man who had the gold watch and performed the hypnosis.
Check out Tim Kawakami's Talking Points blog at www.mercextra.com/blogs/ kawakami. Contact him at email@example.com or (408) 920-5442.
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I'm pretty sure Nellie is behind the trade. Maybe not directly, but his veiled attacks at all the players traded forced Mullin's hand... So, actually, is more like Nellie saved Mully's job.
Although that may be a bit of a misunderstanding as I never had the feeling that Mullin's job was on the line. Not this season, at least.
Although that may be a bit of a misunderstanding as I never had the feeling that Mullin's job was on the line. Not this season, at least.
uptempo wrote:In summation, the Warriors save $30 million in long-term money, get better and faster immediately, break up the Murphy-Dunleavy doldrums, keep the Ellis-Biedrins kiddie corps together, make Nelson happy and recommit the Warrior Nation.
Dude, I'm trying my hardest... but I can't disagree with Tim Kawakami's summary of this article. This trade was just pure awesome-ness.
The trade proves that Mullin will be aggressive in seeking trades to upgrade the roster. It also proves that Nellie is a straight shooter, he will not talk up players that are in the doghouse and the trading block. Mullin was simply changing the roster based on a new coaching philosophy and had the fortune of a desperate Indy trying to cut ties with the cancerous Jackson. For long time Warrior fans, Nellie ball is about getting fading NBA stars to perform (Mullie, BD) and building around a band of CBA misfits (Mario Ellie, Mr. Jennings, Matt Barnes) who will hustle and outperform journeymen (Dunleavy, Murphy, Foyle) with big fat contracts. Somewhat like Phil in Fakertown, Nellie will make players fit his system or make them sit on the bench while he provide valuable playing minutes to CBA all-stars. On other hand, we have major dilema with our shooting guard position. (Pietrus is underperforming and injury prone and desires a big contract, Richardson could be the next Grant Hill or Allen Houston, and Jackson can't stay out of troube with the law).


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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- The University of Delaware men's lacrosse team, fresh off back-to-back home victories over Villanova and Lafayette this past week, will look to keep those winning ways alive as the Blue Hens hit the road to take on Binghamton Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Bearcats Sports Complex.
Delaware, which received votes in this week's Warrior media poll, will hit the road for just the second time this season and for the first time since dropping a tough 6-4 decision to then No. 15 Bucknell back on Feb. 8.
The Blue Hens (3-2) have won three straight - all at home - with wins of 15-5 over Mt. St. Mary's on Feb. 22, 11-9 over Villanova last Saturday, and 9-6 over Lafayette on Tuesday. A win vs. Binghamton would give Delaware its longest win streak since a four-gamer during the 2010 NCAA Tournament season.
The game will also feature the 600th all-time coaching appearance by Delaware head coach Bob Shillinglaw, who is 314-285 in his 39th season overall. No coach in the history of men's lacrosse has coached that many games.
Delaware is led offensively by Brian Kormondy (eight goals), Logan Aunon (eight goals), and Jackson Finigan (four goals and a team-high five assists) and defensively by James Connelly, Brandon Worrall, and goalkeeper Conor Peaks. Peaks recorded 16 saves in the win over Villanova and 11 more against Lafayette.
Junior Tyler Barbarich is among the national leaders in faceoffs, winning 69.5 percent of his 95 attempts and scooping up a team-high 37 groundballs. Over the last three games, Barbarich has won an incredible 41 of 57 attempts (72 percent).
Binghamton (2-2) is coming off an 11-10 overtime win over Hobart last Saturday and also has a victory over Sacred Heart (8-6) on its slate. The Bearcats' losses have come at the hands of Siena (13-9) and Cornell (13-9)

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BOSTON (AP) -- New Boston College athletic director Brad Bates is looking for a football coach who "oozes integrity," someone who cares about the students and someone who wins.
Two out of three wasn't good enough for Frank Spaziani.
Spaziani was fired Sunday after 16 years at the school, the last four as head coach of a team that lost more games in each successive season.
"This is a very performance-based business," Bates said at a news conference at Alumni Stadium to announce his first major move since being hired by BC last month. "Ultimately, winning and losing make a great deal of difference."
The decision was widely expected, and Spaziani all but spoke openly about his understanding that it would be his last year. Asked on Saturday if he would make his case to stay, Spaziani told reporters in Raleigh, N.C. after Saturday's game, "I do have a case."
"Obviously this is a sad day for my family and me," Spaziani said in a statement released by the school. "Boston College has been my home for more than 16 years, and I have been fortunate to work with some amazing student-athletes. I will always treasure my relationships with them and the BC staff. Boston College is a tremendous place, and I am extremely thankful for my time there. I wish the current and future Eagles nothing but the best."
Spaziani finished 22-29 as the head coach, including the bowl game he coached at the end of the 2008 season after Jeff Jagodzinski was fired for interviewing for an NFL job.
"It was kind of expected, I guess. We've heard the rumors," said junior receiver Bobby Swigert, sitting in a wheelchair with his right leg in a cast. "You try to ignore them during the season, but we knew this was likely they were going to shake it up in some way."
Spaziani, 65, spent 12 years as a BC assistant, the last 10 as defensive coordinator, before taking over a team that had made it to the ACC title game in back-to-back years. The Eagles won eight games his first season, seven the next and four last year.


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Department of Transportation's chief legal counsel left his job two days after the release of an email he sent joking about legalizing prostitution.
The email from John Schulze was among the 28,000 pages of documents collected as part of an investigation into illegal campaign work by former aides and associates of Gov. Scott Walker when he was Milwaukee County executive.
Schulze sent the email in March 2010 to Walker's campaign manager and others. It contained a made up press release from 1998 in which Schulze jokes about legalizing prostitution as a tourist attraction in the Wisconsin Dells or employment opportunities for people on welfare.
Walker spokesman Tom Evenson says "the email is in poor taste and there is no room for this poor conduct" in Walker's administration.


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Alyce J. Bowers
Alyce J. Bowers, age 73, of 224 Cook Ave., Ridgway, died early Monday morning, Nov. 7, 2011, at Elk Haven Nursing Home follow a brief illness.She was born Sept. 14, 1938 in Ridgway, daughter of the late Burton (Bud) and Ruth E. (Gier) Blair. She married Roger K. Bowers on July 1, 1961, he survives. She had resided in Ridgway for the last nine years and was a former Vineland, N.J. resident.She was a 1956 graduate of Ridgway High School, a 1959 graduate of the Hamot Hospital School of Nursing, attended Penn State University for two years where she met her husband Roger, graduated from Rutgers University then received her Master's in Library Science from Rutgers University.She was a board member and treasurer of the Elk County Historical Society, a board member of the Ridgway Public Library, a board member of the Laurel Mill Golf Course and a member of the Ridgway Rotary Club. She had been employed as the director of the Atlantic County Library System for 14 years, and had also previously been employed by the Rockaway Township Library for 18 years.Surviving besides her husband is one daughter, Jennifer L. Cerequas and her husband Fred of Lansdale; one granddaughter, Emily Cerequas of Lansdale; one grandson, Christopher Cerequas of Lansdale; one sister, Martha L. Blair and her husband Larry Glantz of Cape Elizabeth, Maine; and two nieces and three nephews.Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by one brother, Kenneth Blair.Funeral and committal services for Alyce J. Bowers will be held at the Thompson Funeral Home on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. Officiating will be Rev. Erik Hart, Pastor of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Burial will follow at Oakmont Cemetery. Friends will be received at the Thompson Funeral Home on Thursday from 10 a.m. until the time of the service at 11 a.m. Memorials, if desired, may be made to the Ridgway Public Library at 329 Center St., Ridgway, Pa. 15853, or to the Elk County Historical Society at 329 Center St., Ridgway, Pa. 15853, or to the Ridgway Ambulance Corp. at 120 N. Broad St., Ridgway, Pa. 15853.


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- Anal Stories : Jake And Lisa The First Meeting
Jake and Lisa- The first meeting
Lisa wasn't sure what to expect as she knocked on Jake's door. She only knew that 14 months ago her husband of 4 short years was diagnosed with cancer and given only 18 months to live. As the cancer progressed, now into the final stages, he was just a shell of the man he once was. She felt like a full time nurse now, and really missed the attention he once showered upon her. So, she went to an alternative lifestyle site looking for someone who would take control and allow her to loose herself in submissiveness. Her life situation demanded her to be in charge, but all she wanted was to please a man in anyway he wanted her to.
Jake answered the door dressed only in his dark blue bathrobe. Lisa eyed his rugged handsomeness. Six feet tall, Jake loomed over her small frame. He had short hair, a moustache, and goatee. At 47, he was 10 years older than her, but he exuded a confidence that she found erotic.
Jake took in her natural beauty, the short red hair, shy smile and noticed she was obviously nervous about this meeting. He closed the door and told her to come to him. He wrapped his strong arms around her and kissed her deeply, probing her mouth with his tongue. The kiss was not passionate, or tender, but definitely possessive. She instinctively melted into him and returned the kiss, giving herself completely to him. He cupped her breasts, and slid his right hand down to the button of her jeans. Deftly, he unbuttoned them, and slowly slid the zipper down. Lisa offered no objection, instead, she softly moaned as his tender touch ignited flames within her. Her jeans slid off her hips, and she hooked her thumbs in her panties and slid them down also. Jake lifted her sweatshirt over her head and unhooked her bra, freeing her 36B breasts. Round and firm, her nipples protruding like bullets, she stood before him fully exposed as he examined her. Her pubic region was neatly trimmed, and the lips glistened with the juices of excitement.
Jake pressed slightly down on her shoulders and she knelt before him. Tenderly, she caressed his 9 inch erection, and gently licked the mushroom shaped head, the shaft, and both testicles. Then, she opened her mouth and wrapped her lips around it, slowly taking it's entire length into her throat. A moan escaped Jake's lips as her talented mouth heightened his arousal.
Jake withdrew and told her to stand. He seated himself on the recliner and ordered her to lay across his knees. Lisa braced herself, anticipating a hard spanking, but Jake had other ideas. He slapped her ass cheeks a few times, then slipped his hand between her legs and felt the moisture. Then, rather than continue the spanking, he began to insert fingers into the vaginal opening. First two, then 4. Next, he doubled his hand into a fist and tried to put it inside. It stretched her to her limits, and she tried to endure the pain, but she finally cried out. Jake didn't get past the knuckles, but could tell that she was too tight to go further.
Jake then told Lisa to sit in his lap. She stradled his lap, placing his swelled cock into her pussy and impaled herself on it. Jake pinched both nipples causing her to inhale sharply and squirm upon his pole. She moaned as her arousal increased immediately. As she squirmed from the stimulation, she experienced her first orgasm in months. Jake smiled as he felt her whole body shiver from the release.
Next he placed a chair in front of the open window and told Lisa to stand behind it. He went into the bedroom and brought back a blindfold.After blindfolding her, he made her bend over, placing her hands on the arm of the chair. He proceeded to lick her anus, sending waves of shivering delight through her. He placed the head of his cock against her anal opening and told her to fuck herself with it. She slowly pushed back against it. She rocked slowly, allowing herself to become accustomed to its width. After getting the head past her tight sphincter, she pushed back until he was buried deep inside her canal. She then began thrusting back and forth, picking up speed and intensity as lust consumed her. She no longer concerned herself with moral questions about her actions. She was a woman in heat, and this man had ignited long dormant fires within her. She needed to please him, wanted him inside her, and smiled as she felt his cock expand even larger and begin jerking and pulsing as he ejaculated deep into her bowels. His release pushed her over the edge and she reached the most powerful climax she could remember. Her legs nearly collapsed beneath her. Jake wrapped both arms around her waist to help hold her up. He returned to the recliner, and she to his lap, but this time she impaled his shaft in her ass. They sat and talked about what had transpired. Soon, Lisa had to leave and return to her very ordered life, but she knew she would have to see him again.


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I was never intereted in Final Fantasy, actually. I never was a fan of strategy games of any kind.
P.S, Why won't it let me vote?
Stategy? It's always been an RPG not strategy
I don't have it but, even with all of the shortcomings it has i might still get it, just cuz i'm a die hard fan of Final Fantasy
i got the special edition day one and i am loving every second, combats great, collecting monsters and finding out how they work and leveling them all up feels awesome, i love the characters, and so far i really like the story, one my best buys!
I've played very little of FFXIII and it seemed a good game so I will probably wait for FFXIII-2 to drop in price before I buy it. :)
I still need to play 8, 10(actually beat this time), 12, 12-2, and 13. all of which i have just sitting around. So i'm planning on it i guess. ha
I'm getting it tomorrow :D
ManManDoo:I was never intereted in Final Fantasy, actually. I never was a fan of strategy games of any kind.
P.S, Why won't it let me vote?
And I voted no interest. I never have ever had any interest in these Final Fantasy games.
Hell no I thought that game ended 13 games ago it seem to strange for my taste and im pretty weird
I lost my interest in the Final Fantasy series shortly after 9 was released.. it just started to lose it's appeal.
No, I have no interest at all
No, not at all never been a FF fan
Ahh never had an interest in Final Fantasy since I was younger. I just like Western RPG's and their more realistic tones. Closet to fantasy that im interested in is the new Kingdoms of Amular.
Ahh how do you vote for these?? lol maybe i'm missing something>>>


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Ubisoft has announced they will phase out its online pass program, starting with Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. The game's Uplay Passport will be free to download on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, opening up the game's online features to everyone that plays the game.
Ubisoft said in a blog post that "the Uplay Passport program was initiated as a means of giving customers full access and support for online multiplayer and features, along with exclusive content, bonuses and rewards. However, games today are blurring the line between offline and online, between what is 'single player' and what is 'multiplayer.' Based on that and on the feedback we received from you, we recognized that Passport is no longer the best approach for ensuring that all our customers have the best possible experience with all facets of our games."
Online passes were previously offered for $9.99. Ubisoft adds that users that have already purchased AC4's online pass can contact customer service. No word on whether this announcement will affect previous games.


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The country has fallen silent to remember its war dead at services across the country as the Queen led the nation in honouring the fallen.
At the Cenotaph memorial in London, the monarch laid the first wreath to commemorate members of the Armed Forces who died fighting in all conflicts since the First World War.
In brilliant autumn sunshine, senior members of the monarchy joined Prime Minister David Cameron, military chiefs, servicemen and women and thousands of watching spectators in paying their respects.
When the first stroke of eleven sounded from nearby Big Ben, Whitehall observed a two-minute silence only punctuated by the hum of distant London traffic and birds.
The Queen laid the first wreath, followed by the Duke of Edinburgh.
Then the Duke of Cambridge, wearing his RAF uniform, laid a wreath, under the gaze of the Duchess of Cambridge, who watched from a balcony at the Foreign Office alongside the Countess of Wessex and the Princess Royal's husband Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Lawrence.
William was followed by the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex, the Princess Royal, Prince Michael of Kent and Field Marshal Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank.
Wreaths were also laid by Mr Cameron, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, opposition leader Ed Miliband and Westminster Plaid Cymru group leader Elfyn Llwyd, as well as high commissioners from Commonwealth countries and leaders of the Armed Forces.
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall earlier attended a ceremony in Auckland as part of their Jubilee tour of New Zealand. Under grey skies the royals sat with New Zealand's prime minister John Key, veterans from across the decades, and members of the public around the Auckland Cenotaph.
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Preview Sessions Welcome Class of 2010 to Campus
May 10, 2010
Mount Union will hold its first Preview sessions for the new class of freshmen this weekend on campus.
Session three will bring incoming students on Friday, July 14 through Saturday, July 15 with session four following on Sunday, July 16 and Monday, July 17.
Preview is a two-day summer orientation program designed to begin the college transition process for both new students and parents, welcoming them to the Mount Union community. At Preview, participants will interact with other members of the incoming class and make new friends, meet members of the faculty and staff, learn about living in a residence hall community and explore extracurricular activities on campus. Students also have the opportunity to get a head-start on many 'housekeeping' items ' activating their Purple Plu$ debit card accounts, sitting for their student ID photos and receiving their Mount Union computer network usernames and passwords.
Preview also provides students with the foundation to succeed academically. They have the opportunity to learn about the general education requirements, take math and foreign language proficiency tests and schedule classes for the fall semester with the guidance of an academic advisor.
During Preview, incoming students and their parents will benefit from the knowledge of members of the Preview and Orientation guide staff, comprised of Mount Union's most outstanding student leaders. Extensively trained, the entire Preview and Orientation staff is available to answer questions, share experiences and help provide a smooth transition into life as part of the MountUnion community.
The entire freshmen class will return to campus on August 24 for fall orientation prior to the beginning of the 2006-2007 Academic Year on Monday, August 28.


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It's got Firefox 2.0? I wanted IceWeasel!
Does anyone have any thoughts about MythTV on Ubuntu vs. other distros?
I'm a relative Linux noob, having only been using it for half a year. I ran Myth 0.19 on Fedora Core 5, but broke it somehow when I upgraded to 0.20. I ran into some sound bug that I couldn't figure out, so I took the easy way out and installed KnoppMyth, which has worked like a charm. However, I'm not in love with Knoppix, so I'm thinking about running trying Myth on Ubuntu.
As a relative noob, I really loved using Yum on FC5, but I haven't had as good of an experience with Apt on Knoppix. In my limited experience, I've had more issues with dependencies using Apt than I did with Yum. I know Ubuntu is also Debian-based and also uses Apt, but I've heard it's very noob-friendly, so I was wondering what merits there would be in switching from KnoppMyth to an Ubuntu-based Myth system.
faster booting thanks to upstart (sort of a replacement for init, among others)
I just had a look at "upstart" and some of its configuration documentation, and while I understand "traditional" rc script processes (such as sysvinit, and the variations on that) I cannot see how upstart will speed anything up. It still seems to be a serialised startup process, and the documentation does not make it clear how to specify startup dependencies ("IP before NTP", or "spamd before sendmail"), so there is no implied optimisation behind-the-scenes by using parallel startup.
Have I missed something, or is this just a move to an event-driven RC process "because I can" ?
It still seems to be a serialised startup process, and the documentation does not make it clear how to specify startup dependencies ("IP before NTP", or "spamd before sendmail"), so there is no implied optimisation behind-the-scenes by using parallel startup.
Check gentoo's startup scripts and their structure - they feature a lot of cool modifications like soft boot levels, and an exhaustive dependency structure. I don't know why other vendors aren't adopting it, but its worth taking a look and there is no
This wiki should answer that question for you.
I don't get it. That says it was rejected because of licensing issues. LaunchD is licensed under the Apache license. Does Ubuntu not include Apache which is presumably under the same license?
It doesn't take much to find out via the ubuntu wiki - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReplacementInit [ubuntu.com] has lots of information on the whole implementation.
With regards to launchd, that page says;
The four candidates were Solaris SMF, Apple's launchd, the LSB initserv/chkconfig tools and initNG.
The first two of these suffer from inescapable licence problems, which is relatively unfortunate as both have features that are somewhat appealing though neither quite fix our problems. Having whichever system we use being adopted as a Linux-wide standard would not be possible if we chose either of these two systems.
and also from discussion further down the page;
NabLa: [WWW] Apple's launchd has been [WWW] released recently under the Apache license. Would that resolve those "inescapable licence problems"? Looks like a very interesting possibility now.
- ScottJamesRemnant: it still doesn't meet our requirements, so would be only a base for our own work. We've already implemented enough that it'd be a backwards step to start again based on launchd. Also the new launchd licence may not be GPL compatible, so it would still not be ideal
- jec : I think that the licence (apache 2.0) is GPL compatible. But if work is already advanced on your own solution, then great! Just hope that Redhat/SuSE/Debian will adopt it...
- ThomMay: it's not - [WWW] the FSF mark it as incompatible.
So if the FSF marks the Apache license as incompatible, does that mean Ubuntu does not include Apache, because it sure seems to be there in my install?
Maybe later today, one hopes.
"The DVD contains both Live Desktop and Alternate installers, as well as the other packages in our main archive", according to www.kubuntu.org.
give you the latest and greatest? There has already been discussion of the "best" way to go about upgrading (dist-update, whatever). If instead of having repositories that were "version" specific, why not just have "current" repositories. Then as *everything* progresses, it all gets updated along the way?sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
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Beckie S. Talley, 37, of Amboy; 8:59 p.m. Wednesday; warrant – body attachment; given notice to appear in court.
Sterling Police
Tracie M. Russell, 17, of Rock Falls; 2:09 p.m. Wednesday at East Fourth Street and 14th Avenue; speeding; posted driver's license.
Jennifer L. Pastor-Rojop, 34, of Sterling; 3:56 p.m. Wednesday at 16th Avenue and East Fourth Street; speeding, driver's license restriction violation – no glasses; posted driver's license.
William A. Hudson, 18, of Sterling; 4:40 p.m. Wednesday at 15th Avenue and East Fourth Street; no insurance, speeding; posted driver's license.
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Rachel Bradbury, 25, of Rockford; Wednesday; warrant – possession of a controlled substance; given notice to appear in court.
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THE three Hunter students who topped their courses in the Higher School Certificate this year were from public high schools – and they excelled in vocational subjects.
Scone High student Nicholas Hall came first in electrotechnology, Maitland Grossmann student Joshua Clements topped the entertainment industry exam and Merewether High student Emily Richardson was first in the hospitality exam.
The three were honoured at a special ceremony in Sydney yesterday.
Mr Hall travelled to the Hunter TAFE campus at Muswellbrook each week to do electrotechnology and chose the subject so he could follow in his father's footsteps.
He plans to study electrical engineering next year at the University of Newcastle.
Mr Clements, an Australian music fan, plans to move to Sydney next year to study entertainment business management and one day wants to work for a record label.
''I was expecting a good mark but nowhere near the top of the state,'' he said.
Emily Richardson wants to study speech pathology next year but said studying hospitality would help her work through university in her part-time jobs at Oporto and a Chinese restaurant.
Ms Richardson said she decided a week out from the hospitality exam she wanted to top the state and set about writing detailed summaries over 20 hours to do so.
''When I came out of the exam I thought there was only about three marks that I had missed,'' she said.
Samantha Jones, a student at Brisbane Water Secondary College's Woy Woy campus, said her first place in Human Services was lucky, as she did not take a notebook to class.
The new subject had relatively low enrolments and few sat the exam.
She said the subject, run through the Gosford campus of Hunter TAFE, helped her realise that a career in health was not for her and she plans to pursue teaching instead.
''It was a good learning experience,'' she said.
St Peter's Catholic College Tuggerah student Samantha Opperman came equal first in general mathematics.
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said the awards were a recognition of students' perseverance.
Sydney Grammar School student Mischa Davenport came first in a record four subjects statewide – Italian continuers and extension, French extension and German extension.
Individual results available online, by text message and telephone from 6am
ATARs (Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranks) released
20-page HSC Honour Roll plus how your school fared


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Shero: Crosby "Looked Good" and in "Good Spirits"by Sam Kasan / Pittsburgh Penguins
Penguins general manager Ray Shero visited team captain Sidney Crosby in the hospital Sunday afternoon.
Shero said that Crosby "looked good" and was in "good spirits" after having surgery Saturday night to repair a broken jaw and undergoing major dental work.
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Crosby, who is out indefinitely due to the injury, was hit in the face with a puck in the Penguins' 2-0 win over the New York Islanders Saturday afternoon at CONSOL Energy Center. He did not return in the game and went to immediately to the hospital.
"I was surprised, he looked really good for what I was expecting," Shero said. "He was in good spirits, up and around. Over the next few days we'll see how things go and get some sort of time frame on it at some point. We'll try to update later in the week if we can."
Crosby hasn't had any sign of concussion-like symptoms. Shero said the team is being cautious, but "there is no sign of that at all."
Dr. Bernard Costello of UPMC performed the surgery. Crosby's jaw did not require to be wired and he lost a few teeth.
"The whole injury could have been a lot worse," Shero said. "When you get hit in the mouth like that on a deflected puck. Hopefully, everything is OK. He didn't get hit in the eye. The jaw can be repaired."
Crosby leads the NHL in scoring with 56 points (15G-41A) in 36 games this season – a 10-point lead on second-place Steven Stamkos of Tampa Bay.
"It's only been 24 hours. We'll get through this and monitor him over the next few days," Shero said. "It's good to see him up and about and doing OK."
Note: The Penguins also announced that defenseman Paul Martin had surgery Sunday morning on a broken bone in his hand. Dr. Robert A. Kaufmann performed the surgery, which did not require wires.
"Everything went well. That was good news," Shero said. "There were no wires put in his hand. That will help the healing process. That's good. Maybe he can get back on the ice conditioning-wise in a week-and-a-half or two weeks. We'll see how it goes. The time frame is 4-6 weeks, but we'll see. We don't' want to get ahead of ourselves."


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By Kevin Henderson, KF11, Mongolia
"What is microfinance?" I've been asked this question a lot during my time as a Kiva Fellow. I used to answer by saying "microfinance is extending credit to people who do not have access to the traditional financial system" then remembering Kiva Fellows training I would add, "but not just credit, it's providing other financial services, too."
I think because Kiva is a lending platform and the field partner I primarily work with in Mongolia, Credit Mongol, is exclusively a lending institution*, it's easy to forget about the "other" part of the equation. So I was very interested to learn about a program at XacBank, Kiva's other field partner here, that is using funds from Kiva to provide more than just credit. Since August 2009, XacBank has provided Kiva borrowers with savings accounts when their Kiva loans have been repaid. To start the borrowers-turned-savers off XacBank returns 9% of the interest a borrower pays over the course of his or her loan.
Offering the poor a safe, liquid option for savings can be as valuable as providing credit. Savings can protect against interruptions in income caused by, for example, the loss of a job or illness. Providing a secure location for deposits can also remove the temptation to spend frivolously (see a great article on this topic by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times). Deposits are also beneficial for the sustainability of the lending institution because they are a source of capital.
Savings programs are actually commonly called the forgotten half of microfinance. Due to the high administrative costs of accepting small deposits most banks have been unable to offer this service. Unlike microcredit, which is often funded by donor aid and organizations such as Kiva, there haven't been many organizations committed to funding savings programs.
XacBank began offering the savings account program for Kiva borrowers when they were looking for a way to share the benefit of Kiva's 0% interest capital. Since Kiva loans are usually pre-funded from the bank's source of capital and there isn't a guarantee they will be funded on the Kiva website, XacBank can't offer a lower interest rate to Kiva borrowers and instead decided that returning interest in the form of savings accounts would be the best way to contribute to Kiva and XacBank's common goal of alleviating poverty.
The greatest challenge in implementing the savings program has been extending it to all Kiva borrowers. XacBank can only afford to offer the program to borrowers who repay their loans as scheduled. 55% of borrowers are ineligible because they repay early. However, of borrowers who do receive accounts, Xacbank has found that so far they have all kept their accounts open and some clients have even started making small deposits.
I'm getting better at explaining that microfinance is about more than just lending. For me the best reminders are these press releases from XacBank describing proud Kiva borrowers receiving their account passbooks. XacBank translated these press releases into English to share them with Kiva lenders.
XacBank branch in Arhangay province started opening savings accounts for its Kiva borrowers
January 29, 2010. Branch staff informed our clients of this happy news via phone. Microentrepreneurs all were very happy no matter if they received 1000MNT or 10,000 MNT in their savings account. Mongolians are very superstitious. The day we organized the event to hand them a savings book was a special day in the Buddhist calendar that wealth is increased a lot if someone has wealth on this day. One of XacBank's repeat clients Ms. Davaadorj wore her best traditional dress because she respects this event and her understanding was that she was getting a benefit from an international organization. She was very proud of herself for becoming a Kiva borrower. All microentrepreneurs who received Kiva benefits through savings accounts expressed their gratitude to both Kiva Microfunds and its lenders and also to Munhmandah and her colleague Ms. Botagoz who are working on this project. In this picture: Kiva borrower and Micro Entrepreneur Davaadorj C., branch manager Galya Ch. along with branch staff.
Motto: Let's take the Kiva loan. Let's pay it back on time. Let's get the benefit from it.
April 30, 2010. Invitation to the Kiva event in Uvurhangay province was distributed to XacBank's micro entrepreneur clients. The event was held on the following day. Best performing micro borrowers were awarded a Kiva savings passbook with total amount of MNT 418,000. At the event XacBank promoted its microfinance services and products to participants. Furthermore, XacBank's success stories and microclient successes were presented during the meeting. There was high satisfaction shown on our borrowers' faces.
* I don't want to imply that Credit Mongol has forgotten about the importance of savings in microfinance. As a non-bank financial institution they are prohibited from accepting deposits.
Kevin Henderson is serving in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as a member of Kiva Fellows 11th Class
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Q and A with History Shots' Larry Gormley on Civil War Information Graphics
My August 16, 2009 post, Review of History Shots – History of the Union Army, American Civil War 1861 – 1865, promised a Q & A with History Shots creator Larry Gormley of History Shots. Larry was kind enough to shoot answers to my first barrage of questions this evening.
Q: What was the most challenging aspect of creating the two Civil War graphics?
A: The toughest challenge was how to display the multi-variable data sets within an easy to follow and interesting design. The subject matter dealt with both chronological and geographical content which is difficult to map in a two dimensional space. Selecting the scale and scope of the data took a lot of trial and error. The color palette was critical to the design and information flow and, therefore, required significant work.
Presenting accurate and objective information is very important to me as well. And the importance of accuracy and objectivity is directly related to the level of complexity found in each of the graphics. I wanted to provide enough information and context about the subject to allow people to understand the topic and to draw their own opinions and conclusions.
Q: What techniques do you use to research and create the graphics? I'm imaging a room with ceiling to floor white boards and lots of dry erase pens along with sticky pads.
A: The creation process was long and often difficult but it was always interesting and highly educational; I enjoy greatly the journey from raw idea to completed print. It took about a year to create the first print, History of the Confederate Army, and about nine months to complete the History of the Union Army. Half of the time was devoted to research and data collection. For the research, I started with books in my collection and quickly added material from many libraries located throughout the Boston area. In addition, I purchased a number of very specific, limited run editions that focused on Civil War statistics. Also, I spent hundreds of hours going through a CD version of the Official Records. I captured my research in a spiral notebook and many Excel spreadsheets.
After most of the data is collected I started to prototype micro parts of the story (for example, an individual army in 1862) and high-level views. I find working in both micro and macro levels helps me during the design process. I created about 10 rough ideas before settling on an overall design. I started the design process using paper and colored pens then I moved to Adobe Illustrator.
Q: In your mind, why is this form of social study powerful?
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Q: Do you have any other Civil War graphics planned?
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TIP Simmer the wine in a wide, shallow pan to reduce it.
Serves 6
Adapted from Wildwood, by Cory Schreiber.
1 head garlic, outermost papery skins removed
2 tablespoons olive oil
1¼ cups Pinot Noir
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, soft
1½ teaspoons minced fresh thyme
Salt and pepper
¼ cup flour
2¼ pounds skinned halibut, cod, or other thick white fish fillets
2 tablespoons snipped fresh chives
With the rack in the center position, heat the oven to 375 degrees. Slice off the very top of the garlic head to expose the tops of the cloves, place in a dish, drizzle with 1 tablespoon oil, and cover with foil. Roast 40 minutes, then remove the foil and continue roasting until soft and golden brown, about 15 minutes longer. When cool enough to handle, squeeze the cloves out of their skins and mash.
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In a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat, heat the remaining oil until shimmering. Meanwhile, spread the flour in a shallow dish. Sprinkle the fish with salt and pepper, dredge in the flour, and place in the skillet. Cook fillets, without moving, until the edges are opaque and bottoms are golden brown, about 5 minutes. Carefully turn the fillets, adjust the heat to medium, and cook, without moving, until the fish is opaque and the thickest part of each fillet is firm and flakes easily, 2 to 7 minutes longer (depending on type and thickness of fish). Transfer the fillets to a serving platter, top each one with 1 tablespoon wine-garlic butter, sprinkle with chives, and serve at once.
Makes about 6 cups
1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
3 pounds cremini mushrooms, quartered (left whole if very small)
¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
2 garlic cloves, minced
1½ teaspoons minced fresh thyme
1 teaspoon each finely grated zest and juice from 1 lemon
1/3 cup chopped mixed fresh herbs, such as parsley, chives, or dill
With the rack in the center position, heat the oven to 425 degrees. In a medium skillet over high heat, bring broth to a boil and reduce to about 3 tablespoons, about 7 minutes; set aside.
Meanwhile, in a large bowl, toss the mushrooms with 3 tablespoons oil and 1 teaspoon salt. Spread on a large rimmed baking sheet and roast until liquid is released and evaporated, about 35 minutes. Taking care to avoid escaping steam, stir mushrooms; continue roasting until deeply browned, 10 to 15 minutes longer. Remove pan from oven, add the chicken broth reduction, and stir to mix.
Meanwhile, in a small skillet over medium-low heat, saute the remaining oil, garlic, and thyme until they begin to sizzle, about 4 minutes. Add the lemon zest and juice, then add this mixture, pepper to taste, and the herbs to the mushrooms. Taste and adjust seasoning, if necessary, transfer to a serving dish, and serve at once.
Makes 1 3-quart crumble
7 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut up, plus extra for baking dish
½ cup granulated sugar
1½ teaspoons finely grated zest and 2 tablespoons juice from 1 lemon
5 pounds ripe but firm Bartlett or Anjou pears, peeled and cut into 1¼-inch pieces
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1 tablespoon cornstarch
2/3 cup flour
1¾ cups hazelnuts, toasted, skinned, and chopped
1/3 cup light brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
With the rack in the lower-middle position, heat the oven to 400 degrees. Butter a 13-by-9-inch pan and set aside. In a large bowl, stir together 1/3 cup granulated sugar and the lemon zest, then toss in the pears, cardamom, and ¼ teaspoon salt. In a small bowl, mix the lemon juice and cornstarch; add to the pears and toss to combine. Scrape the pears into the baking dish and spread evenly.
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A Superior Court judge paved the way Monday for Henderson County to fund emergency erosion control work at the deteriorating Seven Falls subdivision near Etowah.
A Superior Court judge paved the way Monday for Henderson County to fund emergency erosion control work at the deteriorating Seven Falls subdivision near Etowah.
After viewing a video of the degraded conditions at Seven Falls, Judge Zoro J. Guice Jr. granted the county's request to use up to $262,000 in bond proceeds to perform remediation work at the defunct golfing community.
"We need to do something as soon as we can, before it degrades to a worse condition," said Guice, who required the county to return to court if the work will cost more than $262,000.
County Attorney Russ Burrell asked the court for permission to use a limited portion of $6 million the county won from a performance bond forfeited by developers. He told the court that work includes cleaning out clogged sediment traps, grading and seeding eroding areas with grass.
"It is work that would be done under any set of circumstances," Burrell said. "It is work that will only cost more if it is done later than if it is done now — hopefully, during the grass-growing season of this year, so we don't wait another year, watching the hillsides go sliding down into the French Broad."
Burrell quoted from a July 2010 court order dismissing a bankruptcy filed by developers Seven Falls LLC, describing how inadequate ground cover, overflowing sediment traps and compromised weirs have led to "advanced deterioration" of the 1,300-acre site.
"That was the property then, almost three years ago," he said. "Nothing has been done to maintain the property since then. It has indeed gotten worse."
Developer Keith Vinson told the court his company fully supports the county's motion that the court approve emergency work to stabilize eroding roads and slopes. But he asked Guice to raise the approved amount to $340,975, "to encompass the totality of the work that needs to be done."
The county's engineering consultant, William Lapsley, did the original design work at Seven Falls and based his estimates on new aerial mapping photos showing the changes in topography from soil loss, Burrell said. His estimate also included 10 percent for contingency.
But Vinson testified his own engineering firm looked at the maps and found 4,200 feet of road, ditch lines and silt fences that weren't included in the 14,800 feet cited by Lapsley.
"Mr. Lapsley — I hate to put it this way; it's a little flippant, but I can't help myself — he missed by about a mile," Vinson told the judge, adding, "We have a contractor ready to put that to contract today and start performing the work."
Burrell said the county wouldn't object to the permitted amount being raised, but added the county must by law accept at least three estimates and award the work to the lowest bidder.
Referencing heavy rains the past two weekends, Guice expressed concern that procedural delays might exacerbate erosion problems.
"I guess if it takes three or four more months to do this and we stay on the weekend pattern, we could have a Grand Canyon out there," he said. "I don't want to do something that's going to unduly delay the process."
Since Lapsley knows the property intimately, Burrell said, he should be able to get bids for the work out within the next 30 days.
Guice asked three other attorneys involved in the case to weigh in. Guardian ad litem Walter Carpenter, appointed to represent plaintiffs not yet known to the court, said granting the county up to $262,000 would "cover a lot of bases."
Carpenter said the county could always come back if expenses went beyond $262,000, "but I would prefer that (the court order) have that number in there so when we're ready to go, then they can get the work done. I don't see a downside to that."
Hayley Wells, an Asheville attorney representing TD Bank, agreed, saying the "court should enter an order authorizing emergency work up to the $262,000 and should it become evident that additional funds are needed, the county would have to come back and ask for more money."
Under Guice's order, the county will return to court July 15 to give an update on progress it's made in fixing erosion problems.
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Puttin' On The Ritz
Advertisement for "Pigall's" - a restaurant that is "the only fashionable establishment that is amusing."
It appears that the establishment was once well-known in Paris, located in Place Pigalle. Here's a fan from Pigall's found on Pinterest.
Found in "The Social Secretary" by David Graham Phillips. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1905.
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at 1/02/2014
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- Diane said...
Fashionable and amusing-- what more can you ask for? Like that book cover too.
- January 2, 2014 at 5:13 PM
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That is so wonderful- I cannot imagine a restaurant or bar saying the same today.
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Scarlet Wool
Added Feb 28, 2014
by lauramae
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This is a fabulous dress with great bone structure!
As you may have noticed, I added sleeves to my version. I knew that a sleeveless wool dress was not going to get very much wear, so sleeves were my logical choice.
I also added 1" to the torso length, and another inch to the bottom edge to make this knee length with a 2" hem. The given hem is a scant 1" according to the directions, which is too narrow for me when working with a straight skirt like this.
Because I prefer full linings, I cut an entire dress out of bemberg rayon. I would normally stitch a skirt lining to the skirt before attaching the bodice pieces, but since I added sleeves to the design, a complete lining made finishing the upper edge quick and easy and gave me one less thing to keep track of.
To avoid bra strap issues, I added a pair of bra cups between the dress and lining layers as well as a grosgrain stay. I think I would have added the bra cups to the original design as well – a bra (strapless or otherwise) would be hard to find to fit under the minimal front bodice pieces.
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And as always, more pictures and info may be found on my blog, Lilacs & Lace.
Material Notes
Wool, courtesy of Britex
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Kidnapping suspect caught
Sheriff's deputies now have an alleged kidnapper in custody after a 4-hour search.
Jamey Lineberger, 33, took a woman, who he was in a former relationship with, from her home near Bethany Church Road and forced her into a van. Lineberger then led Catawba County sheriff's deputies on a high-speed chase for about 15 miles into Lincoln County near Goodson Road.
Sheriff Coy Reid said Lineberger drove his van through a field and hit a fence, wrecking his van. Lineberger then escaped the vehicle on foot. Reid said K-9 units tracked Lineberger to N.C. 150 east, where they lost his scent.
"He may have gotten a ride," Reid said.
At about 1 p.m. Wednesday, sheriff's deputies announced Lineberger is in custody.
Reid said the female victim was located and has no injuries. In addition to the two sheriff's departments, N.C. Highway Patrol also used its helicopter during the search in Lincoln County.


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From NBC/NJ's Carrie Dann
DENVER -- Where in the world is Tim Pawlenty?
With the Minnesota governor in Denver to continue his role as a GOP surrogate during the Democratic convention here, reporters were bent on determining where he stands -- or rather where he'll be standing tomorrow morning.
Pawlenty, a much talked-about vice presidential prospect, said that he is "scheduled to be and plans to be" doing a weekly scheduled radio show from the Minnesota State Fair tomorrow morning at 9:00 am. He told reporters that he will be leaving Denver this afternoon, bound for his home state.
The interest in Pawlenty's whereabouts comes amidst news that McCain will debut his vice presidential pick in Dayton, OH tomorrow.
The Minnesota governor would not answer any questions about the vice presidential process, including a volley of queries about how recently he has spoken with his party's presidential nominee. "I refrain from answering any questions relating to the VP selection process," he said. "We're going to allow Sen. McCain to make that announcement."
Pawlenty's tea leaves offered little news to reporters hungry for the veep scoop, but don't miss this answer from another GOP surrogate present at the morning press conference. When Sen. Jon Kyl, McCain's Arizona colleague, was asked if the Republican Party would be deeply divided if McCain was to pick a pro-choice vice presidential nominee, he responded that his Arizona colleague is a "strong conservative."
"But" he added, "he has also willing to take on orthodoxies and to be a maverick at times. Certainly not to be President Bush on certain key issues. And I think the American people respect that."
"If the American people believe and the Republican Party believes that John McCain has good reasons, sound reasons, for making the judgments that he makes," Kyl continued, "then I think that they will be very very supportive of him regardless of who he selects."


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To the Editor:
The cover story regarding disaster preparedness in the March 8 Northwest Herald clearly was flawed. It mentioned such possible disasters as earthquakes, tsunamis and meteors but failed to grasp the real danger. That danger was right in the center of the story's photo illustration – tuna cans that could be linked to a recall! Oh the humanity!
I thought the irony of the recall happening on the same day as publication was humorous. Now back to watching the skies.
Jay Kilian
Crystal Lake


text: CBP Rep. John Dingell on the importance of Public Broadcasting By Patrik Holubik • Feb 24, 2014 The architect of the Public Broadcasting Act, Rep. John Dingell spoke to WEMU advocates at the first State of the Station in 2013 on the importance of public broadcasting in the community. John Dingell, who served a record 58 years in Congress, has announced he will be retiring after his current term. Among Dingell's many achievements in Congress, he helped sign the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 into law, which paved the way for the CPB, PBS and NPR.


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XBMC Running On Raspberry Pi 177
The big news is that the GPU on the Raspberry Pi doubles the performance the iPhone 4S -- on a board that costs a fraction of the iPhone. Now that's impressive.
And probably sucks up five times the power that the iphone GPU does. Amazing what you can do when you don't have to deal with trying to get 7 hours of run time out of a 5watt-hour battery.
Back of the envelope calculations:
The iPhone 4 battery is 5.25 Whr at 3.7V. The Raspberry Pi draws 300mA peak. Let's be pessimistic and assume that's the constant draw for XBMC video decoding. At 5V, that's 1.5W, which will give about 3.5 hrs of battery life. I'd bet you'd actually see closer to 4 hours in real-life tests. SD or 720p video would probably see even lower power consumption.
So, how does the iPhone do? Real-world examinations of Apple's claim of "up to 10 hours" for playing video are hard to find. Apple's tests were done with a video from iTunes: 640×480 resolution, so this is hardly a fair comparison. PCWorld [pcworld.com] found the life to be about 6 hours for 720p video, but that includes the power from the display (at full brightness) and wifi. (The iPhone has had battery life issues because of an OS problem, just to complicate things a bit).
So, the Raspberry Pi compares pretty well. I would love to see someone make a fair test here: play an HD video over HDMI for both devices and measure the power consumption. The Raspberry Pi will draw more current, probably, but not nearly as much as you might think.
That is pretty cool.
I have a HTPC that does that for 10x the price. But even my box needs to use gpu hardware (an Ion2) to play back 720p h264 files fluently (those come in
This demo shows
So will the Raspberry be able to play common file formats, or will you have to encode everything in
Can the hardware really only manage 8-10 frames/sec. or is that their software?
As I understand it that is the speed of the UI updating. The video, as you can clearly see, is running at full speed.
"Clearly see" on a youtube video?
Maybe it's just me but I'd prefer a proper framerate displayed...
while the specs for decoding video are AWESOME (especially for the price point), what I continually point out to people is that the low CPU can still kill you on some things. I have an NVIDIA ION / Atom D330 HTPC that can destroy the 40Mbps x264 killasample absolutely no problem, yet has trouble on some of the even medium-flashy skins for XBMC.
like i said, performance/dollar this thing is still awesome, but you do still have to think of the whole package.
It's mouthwatering
I'm not sure I fully understand this yet:
You're willing to spend a few thousand on a big TV and sound system but the media player can only cost $25?
Somebody please explain it to me...
It's not the price, it's what you can do with it
Let me guess... you buy Monster cables?
Have you tried it with XBMC Eden and dirty regions enabled? In advancedsettings.xml:
Another combination to try is:
I know that the Raspberry Pi is specifically advertised as supporting hardware decoding of H.264 up to 1080p30 at up to 40 Mbps. What I want to know is if it also supports VC-1 and MPEG-2 decoding at the same resolutions and data rates. I know that the underlying SoC has this capability, but will it be blocked or omitted from the SDK for licensing/patent reasons? Any of these three codecs can be found on Blu-Rays, and transcoding the rips to H.264 would reduce the quality.
Also, what about bitstreaming the HD audio codecs (Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA) over HDMI 1.3? I know Raspberry Pi didn't want to pay for audio decoding licenses, but simply sending the raw bitstream to a receiver over the HDMI link shouldn't present any licensing issues (and is the best quality method to use anyway).
For the Raspberry Pi to be a good media streamer, it needs to be able to do these things.
The issue is licensing the patents from MPEG-LA. The cost of licensing a codec is too high to license them all for every Pi sold: the cost of licensing AAC alone is 4% of the total price of the board. So, either there will be a hardware version that comes with all the codecs (and costs a lot more), or there will a software codec pack that you can pay to download.
The problem is that the Raspberry Pi's relatively weak ARM-based CPU is almost certainly not powerful enough to decode high-bitrate 1080p VC-1 or
It stutters a bit when he plays the muppets. My linux box has trouble with 1080p video and IIRC it's quite a bit more powerful than a R-Pi. I'll be waiting to see some serious reviews before I look to use this as an HTPC.
There are lots of little single-board computers at low price points. It's not just Arduno and Basic Stamp machines any more. The BeagleBone [beagleboard.org], at $89, is available now. Runs Linux on an ARM chip.
The Raspberry PI $25 price is vaporware until they ship in quantity. Remember OLPC. They never made their $100 price point.
BeagleBone doesn't even come with any video-out connector as standard so probably not the best solution in this instance. More likely Beagleboard or Pandaboard for higher $.
Chinese New Year celebrations likely delaying Raspberry Pi ETA by a week or 2 I guess, but not long now....
True but it's easy to interface a touch screen LCD to the Beagle Bone.
Yeah...what size? And it needs a special adapter to hook to an HDMI monitor... Sorry...you're grasping at straws. Don't get me wrong, the BeagleBone's a GREAT device. So's the BeagleBoard and PandaBoard. All of them are way more expensive...and they're overkill for what's being done here and for that purpose.
They might work out for YOU, but they don't provide the stated purposes (Providing an inexpensive computer specifically intended to do comp-sci education with what's a very usable but almost utterl
BeagleBone's how much more? Besides...the OLPC's problem was they aimed high. This beastie's down to roughly the pricepoint in question. Not for profit, remember. And...the devices are very much a first cousin to a device that retails for $99 or less for the mid-range and basic models- that plays back things like Hulu, Netflix, etc. BoM costs place the Roku2 series devices right down into the price-point of the R-Pi...and the only real differences are possibly a bit of POP RAM profile and a few diffe
I love the Raspberry Pi project, and have my CC ready to order. However, this isn't that spectacular of a use for it
There are a ton of specialized boxes that already do it in a neat package with a proper remote. (personally I use a WD TV Live both 1st and 2nd gen).
To all those criticizing the performance, or codec support etc etc, remember this is just ONE of the many things this thing can do and it's just to show you the potential of what a $25/$35 general computing device can be made to do. The coolnes
Well, it is impressive and very much an accomplishment, even if you consider other limitations already pointed out. But all I see is an implementation that might provide playback support. One very important thing for me in a media center is tuner support. So until there is support for a tuner for the Raspberry Pi, I'll still need to use a PC as a media center.
XBMC uses many tuners, but depends on their drivers being installed in the OS. I don't see that happening any time soon for the R Pi. I hope I'm wron
XBMC uses many tuners, but depends on their drivers being installed in the OS. I don't see that happening any time soon for the R Pi. I hope I'm wrong about that, but until then this will not really serve as a media center.
It's not supposed to be a full media centre - it's a potential front end. I like the idea because I'm already running MythTv, and if this works it's $50 plus an extra screen I have lying around to put another TV in my kitchen.
Try a network tuner like the hd homeruns. Make a lot more sense than a tuner in every device and is thus cheaper. A single mcard cable card can do 6 streams (the HD homeruns only do 3 per card for some reason).
I run OpenELEC, which is a very stripped version of XBMC based off of Linux.
Hulu (mostly) works for me. Every once in a while something will pop up and say there is an error with a stream, but not very often. It also works on Amazon Prime for me.
I don't have Netflix, but I'm assuming unless Netflix decides to release a generic Linux client the answer is "no".
Yeah, you'd have to nab binaries off of a Roku2 somehow to accomplish the same thing...at which point, just use the Roku2...
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These are the facts: Reds haven't won in st louis much in the past several years. Arroyo has struggled, while Garcia has excelled. Yes, we have injuries and are not at full strength, but they have theirs as well. It's time to put all that aside, GUT one out, and win the series in day two. I like Robinson getting the chance in LF - hopefully he can provide a spark that is much needed. If we want to be champions, this is the game we need to win - when the odds seem stacked against us. LETS GO REDS!
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.........I didn't know athletes/footballers had neurons.
The only thing we really know is that the big dumb jocks you meet in high school only get bigger and dumber.
Yet there are people who argue that football is a game based on sophisticated strategies, that anyone able to play it proficiently must have an intelligence on the higher outliers of genius.
Now it seems that "mushy" neurons are good enough...
I completely disagree. No offensive scheme or technique on it's own is a match for a good linebacker or DB who can read offenses. And no defensive scheme or technique on it's own is a match for a good quarterback and skilled players who can read defenses and adjust on the fly. Linemen need to be able to make split second decisions and reads and adjust accordingly. I cannot reconcile your statement with reality at all.
But would I compare Peyton Manning with Albert Einstein? Would you?
Yes, yes I would. It's easy, looks like this:
(with regards to intelligence) : Peyton Manning < Albert Einstein
It's not an insult either, it's just the way it is.
Led Gardner places intelligence into eight groups. Logical, linguistic, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. They're all lateral to each other. To this day, his idea on the subject is controversial.
I was going to say what you said, but you said it better.
Which people say that again?
It was a common thing back in the day to claim that black players were only suited to be linebackers, because the other positions in football required "too much intelligence." Now that black players have entered and excelled in those positions, sports people don't talk about that anymore.
It's funny, back in the nineteen thirties, Jewish players dominated basketball, and sports commentators made up all kinds of racial Just-So stories to explain that, too. (Because just saying "they live in the ghetto, and th
The players don't have to be smart - they just have to memorise set plays. That doesn't require a great deal of intelligence.
Have you seen a printout of a modern football playbook? It's usually a binder that looks big under an offensive lineman's arm.
What about Lou Gehrig? How many times could he have gotten hit in the head playing baseball? I would be not that many...
Windows Media Codec Pack [cnet.com]
Pretty much everything, but to be able to rub the lotion on Giselle's back on the beach in Ipanema might be the simplest way to express it.
Have you ever headed a soccer ball? They're extremely light. And while there's contact all the time, soccer players are too fast/agile to do much damage.
I'm not so familiar with american football (looks like they wear a lot of padding), but there's no comparing soccer injuries to what see regularly in australia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFy_kBEn5UY [youtube.com] (fast forward to 50 seconds in).
"Have you ever headed a soccer ball?"
"They're extremely light."
So is a baseball. But I don't think you would want to take one to the head. And soccer balls can reach a significant fraction of the speed of a pitch. Head them wrong and they can cause real damage and broken bones (been there, done that). Done right they still cause damage.
"And while there's contact all the time, soccer players are too fast/agile to do much damage."
Then why is one of my friends suffering permanent brain damage from a co
And while there's contact all the time, soccer players are too fast/agile to do much damage.
Not really, it's just that football players are miraculous creatures, their bodies heal amazingly fast. Have you seen the number of times Ronaldo has had a fracture and been rolling around the ground in pain, and been up and running a minute later? Amazing.
Just to point, we are talking about American Football, not Football. It's not the same.
American Football is real football, just as is Canadian Football. The rules are slightly different, but there's no reason to claim one is any more real than the other.
Just to point, we are talking about American Football, not Football. It's not the same.
True. A medical story regarding non-American Football would likely cover one of these topics instead:
1. How a nudge to the shoulder can translate into a compound leg fracture.
2. How grabbing your shin while writhing on the ground can partially alleviate the pain of a compound leg fracture.
3. Whatever is in those magical spray cans the trainers carry around, and how they can instantly heal a compound leg fracture immediately after a penalty has been awarded.
Just to point, we are talking about American Football, not Football. It's not the same.
I think you mean to say that we are talking about American Football and not Association Football, known to some by its abbreviated name soccer and to others simply as football. American Football is a ball game played on foot, and thus is very much a type of football. In fact Rugby is also football - hence the Rugby Football Union.
See wikipedia's article on the word Football [wikipedia.org]
That's why that version of Football, as in where you kick around a white spherical ball with black pentagons, should only ever be referred to by its proper name: Soccer.
That's why that version of Football, as in where you kick around a white spherical ball with black pentagons, should only ever be referred to by its proper name: Soccer.
I agree. The rightful title of 'Football' should go to the sport where you carry an elliptical object with your hand and
Just to point, we are talking about American Football, not Football. It's not the same.
You mean that sport where there wear so much padding, you could drop them off a 10 storey building with no ill effect.
The rest of the world plays rugby!
My orthodontist played football in HS and college. He always advised kids not to play it: knee damage, concussions, damage to teeth and jaw - mouth guards only give you so much protection.
Everybody knows that the only healthy thing you can do is to sit at a desk with a computer for 50 years!!
Funny thing is, at least in places (not Texas) that don't take high school football too seriously, football is an excellent opportunity for a nerd to get into the "in" crowd.
In fact, it's how I became "cool." It didn't matter how well you played or how annoying or ugly you were, as long as you survived hell week and stuck with the team, you were in with the cool people(and, by extension, the juniors and seniors and the parties that they threw and all the pussy surrounding that whole scene).
No, actually, the funny thing is how in the USA (maybe also Canada?) you so ridiculously obsess about being popular, being with the "in" people. Is being yourself so scary, over there?
While I believe that there is some peer pressure to conform, everywhere, in the USA it seems it has become grotesque.
No, actually, the funny thing is how in the USA (maybe also Canada?) you so ridiculously obsess about being popular, being with the "in" people. Is being yourself so scary, over there?
When you're 13? Well, yes.
While I believe that there is some peer pressure to conform, everywhere, in the USA it seems it has become grotesque.
I don't disagree that it is harmful, but to point out the USA as grotesque is a pathetic joke given other nations in the world. In some you will be punished if you do not wear the "correct" clothing. In some you will be killed if you have sex with the wrong people.
The USA might encourage sameness, but we still permit an unparalleled degree of personal freedom. Can't say how long that will last, of course.
It's not so much about being popular, it's about being completely ousted.
Once you are blackballed in elementary school it can take more than a decade to undo the damage.
Or you can be like many nerds (myself included) who after years of inflicted upon social isolation you just don't give a damn anymore and fit in just about anywhere.
It's not so much about being popular, it's about being completely ousted.
Once you are blackballed in elementary school it can take more than a decade to undo the damage.
Or you can be like many nerds (myself included) who after years of inflicted upon social isolation you just don't give a damn anymore and fit in just about anywhere.
Pretty bleak. I am happy my son won't grow up in such an environment.
"Or you can be like many nerds (myself included) who after years of inflicted upon social isolation you just don't give a damn anymore and fit in just about anywhere."
Good point, which I note other replies failed to understand: It only hurts to be uncool if you care about being cool. As soon as you stop caring about being cool, you're cool anywhere, with anyone, in any situation, because it's no longer about how OTHERS see you.
"He was a leader because he did not look back to see who was following him."
I think it is not that slashdotters dislike football players, otherwise they would be all here ranting, it is just that they probably do not find it all that interesting. It is all just a matter of taste and personal interests which can even change over time. My father is an academic dude, who topped his state in highschool, has two four year degrees, a research masters and is currently working on his PhD. When he was younger he could never stand watching any sport, however when he was forty or so, he reali
It is exposing younger players to the injuries of this and other sports that is going to be a problem for an already strained healthcare system and limit the opportunities for gainful employment due to physical and mental disabilities. I have seen parents as young as 10 in situations where they can be injured. Though young children are plastic, injuries
Oh lots of us love football, it's just we don't get American Football. We prefer the version where players use their feet to kick the ball.
Many of us think American Football might be rugby but with more padding because Americans are scared of getting hurt. Or perhaps they are more sensible and like their teeth and unbroken bones or other such faint excuses.
The number of replies to this story seems to indicate that perhaps a vast majority of slashdotters don't particularly like football players. I was actually hoping for some technical insight and whatnot, but it would seem everybody is still maintaining the same attitude they had in high school.
I don't see any reason to believe that the football players have changed substantially since school, when they thought they were better than everyone else because they were athletes. Indeed, when a strategy works for someone, they generally continue to employ it. If the vast majority of football players (with some notable exceptions like Flutie... but he had personal tragedy to deal with) aren't assholes I am very, very surprised. Having had to deal with the jock mentality much more than I would ever have l
After all, they don't worry about what happens to geeks' muscles.
The disturbing TFA makes me think I am rather happy not to kickbox anymore.
The objective in boxing is to cause sufficient brain trauma to your opponent that he loses consciousness or can no longer stand up. That's not a sport, that's barbarism, and has no business in a civilized society. the short term, it's highly dangerous, and in the long term it can turn you into what's left of Muhammad Ali.
By contrast, wrestling is a real sport, in spite of the fact that professional boxing is for real and professional wrestling is as much fake showmanship as sport. (And yes, just because
I find Sumo interesting to watch for the same reason -- it's a subtle contest rather akin to baseball, that "game of inches". A quarter of a degree shift of balance translates into an advantage, and so on. I gather that just bulldozing your opponent out of the ring is considered poor technique.
Mind you I also love American Football, but for itself. Every sport doesn't need to have the same virtues!
Yeah. Watching reruns of Ali doing the 'rope-a-dope' against George Foreman is watching irreversible horrible trauma as it was inflicted.
Saying boxing is not a sport just because you think it is barbaric is ridiculous, though. It is attractive to people because it is a blood sport. You're just misusing language in an attempt to make your point. I happen to agree that boxing has no place in a civilized society, but I'd rather see straightforward and honest arguments used to facilitate its demise.
In America, at least, boxing has almost fallen off the cultural radar (I blame the rise of pay-per-view) and been replaced by mixed martial arts. The question is, is that any better?
College football had become so lethal around 1900 that the game came within an inch of being abandoned.
The 1905 season...brought its rash of casualties. There were twenty-three football deaths. Only a handful took place in intercollegiate play, but one in particular set in motion the movement to reform the game. In a match between Union College and New York University, Harold Moore of Union died after being kicked in the head. Chancellor Henry M. MacCracken of NYU seized the opportunity to summon a reform conference.
In the 1906 season and for two years following, the verdict on the "new football" was generally favorable. In spite of fluctuations in the injury count, the number of deaths dropped to fourteen, fifteen, and ten.
Then, in the fall of 1909, the trend toward a safer game abruptly reversed itself. In a match between Harvard and West Point, the Army captain, Eugene Byrne, exhausted by continual plays to his side of the line, was fatally injured. Earl Wilson of the Naval Academy was paralyzed and later died as a result of a flying tackle. And the University of Virginia's halfback Archer Christian died after a game against Georgetown, probably from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered in a plunge through the line. . "Does the public need any more proof," wrote the Washington Post, "that football is a brutal, savage, murderous sport? Is it necessary to kill many more promising young men before the game is revised or stopped altogether?" President David Starr Jordan of Stanford referred to football as "Rugby's American pervert..."
Early headgear, seldom worn consistently, shielded the ears and surface of the head but gave inadequate protection to the skull and brain. After World War I a sponge-rubber lining was added to the crown of the helmet, and by the late 1930s a sturdy leather helmet with an inner felt lining was being used. But it was not until 1943 that all players were required to wear headgear. The plastic helmet, which distributes shock more evenly, was introduced in the 1940s amid objections reminiscent of those that accompanied the original solely leather helmets. Some critics argued--and still do--that the hard plastic helmet, used as an offensive weapon, has as much potential for causing as for preventing serious injuries. Inventing Modern Football [americanheritage.com]
This is the same rebuttal MMA advocates use when people comment on the brutality of their sport, and its very valid. Blackouts aren't caused by the force of the punch, but the force applied per second. Boxing gloves spread this force out (like the crumple zone in a car), making them more damaging in the long-term than single-punch knockouts that you see in MMA.
So, this explains the US Cxx class and all their wonderful and logical decisions.
The description of axons returning to normal appearance but being in a fragile state internally could explain second concussion syndrome.
I know in baseball there is generally a growing recognition that a concussion calls for mandatory rest afterward. Research to determine how much rest is needed would be very useful, right now they have to guess and hope it's enough. A good diagnostic tool might be even better.
Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to execute a job? A: Four; three to hold it down, and one to rip its head off.


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NEARLY a third of all health claims on food sold in NSW supermarkets will have to be removed under laws to be introduced from Friday, research has found.
The laws mandate basic standards products must meet to promote the benefits of ingredients, preventing products making claims such as ''high in calcium for healthy bones'' when they are also high in things such as saturated fat, sugar and salt.
The food industry has been given three years before it will be forced to comply with the new standards.
Unhealthy foods that make only simple nutritional claims about the presence or absence of certain ingredients will not have to meet the health criteria; they will simply have to contain a certain level of that ingredient.
The nutrition program manager at the Cancer Council NSW, Clare Hughes, said people rely on health claims on food to make health-conscious choices. She believed any product that made nutrient claims should be covered by the new rules.
''It's only telling shoppers part of the story,'' she said.
''This can cause consumers to think products are healthier than they are.''
Her study, published in the journal Public Health Nutrition this week, assessed more than 1000 breakfast cereals, drinks and cereal bars for three different types of health claims: high-level claims that linked ingredients with particular conditions such as cancer; general claims linking ingredients with benefits such as healthy bones; and simple nutritional claims.
She found 29 per cent of the products that carried the simple nutritional claims would not meet the health standards if they were required to, in addition to a further 31 per cent of products making health claims that will now have to be removed.
She said health groups were concerned there would be a proliferation of basic nutritional claims in place of health claims once the new rules were enacted.
The parliamentary secretary for health, Catherine King, said the rules would give consumers confidence that health claims were backed by scientific evidence. ''It aims to support industry innovation and help consumers make informed food choices,'' she said.
But a spokesman for the Australia Food and Grocery Council said the rules were flawed and would lead to dairy and honey products being branded as unhealthy, and that the government had acknowledged more work needed to be done on the standard.
''It is fundamentally important to correct the major flaws in the health claims standard and address anomalies through this process, otherwise it risks retarding food manufacturing innovation and potentially could mislead consumers about the food they consume,'' he said.
A spokeswoman for Food Standards Australia New Zealand said nutritional claims would still need to meet high standards.
''For example … for vitamins and minerals 'good source' requires that 25 per cent of the RDI [recommended dietary intake] is present per serve of product,'' she said.
All health claims must now be supported with an agreed amount of evidence, and ''high-level'' health claims must be pre-approved. ''It's important that there is actual scientific evidence to support the claim,'' she said.


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10 Amusement Park Rides We Wish Existed — The Funnies
One of the best parts of summer is heading to an amusement park. You've been to a few amusement parks in your day and been on the same rides over and over again. It can get old after awhile and you wish someone would come up with ideas to spice up these boring rides.


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LESLIE (WILX)- A local community mourns as a fallen firefighter loses his battle against cancer. Assistant Fire Chief for the Leslie Fire Department Scott Dunsmore passed away of pancreatic cancer early January, he was 45 years-old. He left behind a wife, 3 children and a community that was his family as well.
The Leslie Fire Department, along with 25 other departments joined together Saturday morning for a procession, carrying Dunsmore to his final resting place on one last firetruck ride.
"You could call it a funeral, but essentially it's a family reunion," said long time friend and co-worker Don Kidd.
Many people who personally knew Dunsmore lined the street to watch the procession.
"You have hundreds of people here and you don't realize he was a part of all of their lives in some way, shape or form. Whether it was a dad, leader, or a hand on the side of the road helping you out, he was always someone that was there," said Ashley Hughes. Dunsmore was Hughes 4-H leader.
Relatives say the family holding up as well as they can.
"Just a heavy heart for everyone involved," said cousin Karyn Blood.
All who attended the funeral, his preschool teacher, his middle school football coach, and co-workers, had good memories to share.
"He was caring and dedicated to the fire service," said Kidd.
"He was an all around family guy. You could always talk to him, but he was still that stern dad that kept things in line," said Hughes.
Thousands of people filled the Leslie High School gym for the funeral to say goodbye to a man that always had a helping hand.
"You'll be greatly missed," said Kidd.
There will be a fundraiser for the family January 19th at 5 pm in the Leslie High School. If you are unable to attend, but would still like to help donations may be made to the Scott and Darcie Dunsmore benefit fund at Independent Bank in Leslie or Mason.