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What: Sixth Fort Collins Music eXperiment (FoCoMX)
When: Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26
Where: Various venues in Fort Collins
Tickets: $30 for two-day pass
Info: focomx.focoma.org
With the Lollapalooza, South by Southwest and Coachella music festivals making national headlines by presenting big-name acts and attracting people from around the world, one festival stands out by rejecting that approach and striving to keep it local.
This year marks the sixth installment of the Fort Collins Music eXperiment (FoCoMX), where a plethora of local music talent will be featured in their own back yard for two days, April 25-26, as they showcase the vibrancy of the Northern Colorado music scene.
"We're not one of those festivals that are trying to grow or bring in national bands. We're trying to focus on local acts and keep that love alive. We've got a wealth of music from every possible genre," said Soraya Rozkuszka, press and volunteer coordinator with FoCoMX.
More than 200 bands from Northern Colorado will perform over the two-day period at a variety of venues and locations throughout Fort Collins.
"We have 1,300 bands submit, just from Northern Colorado," Rozkuszka said. "We had to narrow it down to 200, so you can imagine that those bands are pretty good."
She said the festival provides an opportunity for music fans to connect with artists from their hometowns and to branch out and discover new genres they might not have listened to before. But it's also a good opportunity for musicians to network and find new ways to express themselves.
"That's what FoCoMX is about: It's about collaborating with all these people I've wanted to play music with, but haven't because we've been too busy or whatever else. I'm thrilled. Everywhere is going to be packed," said Jason Downing, lead singer of Musketeer Gripweed, who will perform an acoustic set for the first time with fellow Lovelander Johnny Hickman of Cracker.
The Downing-Hickman acoustic set, which likely will pull from the musicians' country, blues and rock styles, is scheduled for 10:45 a.m. April 26 at La Luz Mexican Grill, 200 Walnut St. in Fort Collins.
"People are going to get up and shake their butts to it," Hickman said. "Jason is a superb harmonica player. It's going to be a good representation of Loveland. We're really looking forward to it."
As is Longmont-based Mojomama, which will play at 9:15 p.m. April 26 at Tap N Handle, 307 S. College Ave.
Bassist Paul Rogalski and his wife (and the band's vocalist) Jessica Rowland, have been playing together in Mojomama since 2002. This will be their second year performing at FoCoMX.
"We were thrilled about the music buzz around Fort Collins, especially that night," Rogalski said. "Lots of people were out and very enthusiastic. It's the perfect demographic, people from their 20s to 30s. We wanted to come back to make more of an impression in the music scene."
Rogalski said Mojomama hopes to win over the crowd with its "funky, blues-rock style.
"Maybe if you put Susan Tedeschi with Steely Dan, with a bit of jam, like The Meters, you'll get Mojomama," he said. "Old school, yet contemporary."
On the opposite end of the spectrum, those who attend FoCoMX will have an opportunity to experience the "zombie pirate polka" of Boulder-based The Widow's Bane.
"Governor" Mortimer Leech, of The Widow's Bane, took a moment out of his busy schedule of drinking and undead debauchery to talk about the band's third year at FoCoMX.
"Are we (playing)? Yes, I think I did hear something about that. I love FoCoMX," Leech said. "It just gets better every time, more of a s--- scene. Every other music festival in the world starts out grungy and underground, but then it gets taken over by Ticketmaster and goes completely vanilla. But FoCoMX just gets rowdier and rowdier."
The Widow's Bane perform their dark polka dedicatedly as zombies with a taste for chaos and an appreciation of Fort Collins' thriving music scene. They will perform at 9 p.m. April 26 at the Aggie Theatre, 204 S. College Ave. Leech's advice to the living: "Die as quickly as possible. The afterlife is a ball."
"We classify ourselves as zombie pirate polka. Mostly because we're zombies, we used to be pirates and we play polka," Leech said in a dark, British accent.
"As far as being easy on the eyes ... It's quite a pleasure for people to hear zombie polka, but to lay eyes upon my beauty is unworldly. It's a good chance for the holy populous of Fort Collins to come out and see what real beauty looks like."
FoCoMX also provides local restaurants and businesses a way to get involved. New to this year's festival is the Museum of Discovery, which will offer more family-oriented programming.
"We give venues a chance to be a venue when they aren't usually music venues. La Luz, the taco shop in Fort Collins, is not usually a venue. The Lyric (Cinema) is usually a cinema, but they become a venue for us," Rozkuszka said.
Rozkuszka said one of the most endearing parts of the festival is that it's run by a volunteer board and the nonprofit Fort Collins Musicians Association. She said it's refreshing to be a part of an event as large as FoCoMX that isn't solely about profits but, rather, about fostering a healthy music community.
"We try to make everyone a headliner," Rozkuszka said. "It's all a big deal, they're all important. Our goal is not massive change but to continually support these bands, publicize these bands and maybe give new bands a chance to play their first paid gigs."
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Linlin couldn't wait for the fireworks to start. While her parents watched the New Year's special on TV, Linlin sat by the window, never taking her eyes off the sky.
A loud wail cut through the cool night air. She didn't know they made firecrackers that sounded like alarm clocks, and she looked around to find out what part of the city had already started celebrating. The sky was still dark. It was as if the whole city was holding its breath.
The ringing continued. She looked down and was surprised to find a cat nestled against a big alarm clock that was ringing so hard it bounced.
The cat was fast asleep.
It was not every day that she saw a stray cat on her balcony (they were on the 15th floor, after all) and this was certainly the only cat she'd ever seen with an alarm clock. She shook the cat gently. "Excuse me, Mr. Cat, wake up, wake up..."
The cat yawned and mumbled, "Just a few more minutes, Mouse..." It then turned over and went back to sleep.
A talking cat! She talked to animals all the time, but this was the first time one talked to her! New Year's Eve was really magical. She wanted the cat to wake up and talk to her.
Linlin had a great idea. She went to the kitchen and got some cat food. She didn't think her cat Yumyum would be angry if she gave the strange cat something to eat. After opening the can, she went back the balcony and waved it near the cat. "Wake up, wake up, I've got food for you."
A lazy eye creaked open. The cat's nose twitched and dove into the food, followed by the rest of the cat as it slowly woke up. After finishing the tuna, the cat sat back and licked its paws. "You're not Mouse," the cat said.
"No, I'm Linlin. Pleased to meet you."
"Thank you, Linlin. I'm Cat. If you hadn't woken me up, I would have been late for an important New Year's party. Hey, would you like to come? I think the Jade Emperor would be happy to see you."
"Jade Emperor? Party?" Something clicked in her head. "Who else is going?"
"Don't worry, it's just the usual gang: Rooster, Ox, Goat, and lots of other people... Even Dragon is taking time out from his busy schedule."
The animals from the calendar! Her teacher had told that story on the last day of class. Cat and Mouse used to be great friends, he said, but then Mouse tricked Cat by not waking him up even though Mouse promised. That's why the Cat isn't part of the Chinese zodiac, the animals that protect each year.
Maybe this year Cat could make it!
Cat flicked his tail impatiently. "So, would you like to come?"
She really loved fireworks, but how many times did she get to go with a talking cat to a party? "Let me ask permission first." She turned toward the living room and shouted, "Mom, Dad, can I go with Cat to the Jade Emperor's New Year's Party?"
Without looking away from the television set, they said, "Sure, have fun."
She grinned and turned back to the cat. "Let's go!" Cat held his paw out to her. When she took it, she found herself in front of an elaborate palace. She was shy, but Cat urged her along and introduced her to the whole gang. They feasted for what seemed like hours and Linlin made many friends.
When she got back, she was surprised to find out it was still night. She looked at the alarm clock on the balcony. It was just a minute to midnight! As Cat bowed and waved goodbye, the sky exploded into fireworks.
"Wait! Your alarm clock!" She scooped the clock up and held it out to the cat.
"Keep it to remember me." Cat smiled and disappeared.
As the second hand on the alarm clock hit 12, she grinned to herself. No one would believe her if she told them where she was last night!
(Written in response to the "Last Night" prompt on flashxer)
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Right, that's you. (If you don't use Planner, read on; maybe I can convince you to try it out.)
Planner probably isn't interesting in itself. _You_ make Planner way cool. You aren't just an anonymous person who uses Planner. You are a bundle of unique ways of doing things and maybe I can come up with things that fit you better. I want to know how you think. What makes you tick. How you keep yourself from going crazy even though you have to keep track of so many things.
(If this is starting to freak you out, don't worry; you can pretend I'm just like any other maintainer out there. ;) Ignore that large BBDB in the corner.)
I don't think of myself as hacking just Emacs Lisp. I'm hacking your process. Your way of doing things. _Real_ planner development happens inside _your_ head when you come up with a nifty idea or something you'd like improved. Real planner development happens when you take a look at the way you do things and wonder if you can do them better. My job is to keep track of all these little things people want to do and see if someone else has already done it, I can help you do it, or I can hack it in myself. The Japanese have a word for continuous improvement--kaizen. Process optimization.
We make a lot of progress in small steps. Take that +tue feature. It's not a big thing, but it brings Planner _juuust_ a little closer to the way a lot of people think. Who knows what kind of hacks it just made easier? John Sullivan has plans for that feature, mainly for his template hacks.
The end result is that Planner is this strange, almost bewildering personal information manager that just keeps growing and growing. Sure, the quickstart introduces the essential parts of the system, but there's much more to it. I'm here to guide you through it. I'd love to ask questions to help you figure out how you plan. I'd love to suggest ways of doing things. =) Whether you're a Franklin/Covey or GTD geek or you're using a funky home-brew kind of planning method that changes all the time (I'm like that!), I'd like to think we can get Planner or some other Emacs-based PIM to dance to your tune.
(Of course, there's the danger of spending too much time hacking your process and too little time actually doing things, but I think we can keep ourselves from going overboard.)
So there. Sure, the mailing list is usually where software updates are announced, but think of it as meant for user upgrading.
Keep the suggestions coming. Share your thoughts!
Creating Passionate Users: Upgrade your users, not just your product
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Yesterday's script parsed schedule data and checked that monthly cost and day constraints were observed. Today I wanted to visualize the verified schedule.
At first I tried working with planner (formerly known as <nop>MrProject and not to be confused with PlannerMode). I wrote a Ruby program that converted my schedule.csv into XML, and planner loaded it successfully. However, I didn't think planner would let me do funky color coding. I thought about using etask, but ended up deciding to write something using libgd-ruby.
It was surprisingly easy to write a Gantt-like visualizer for the schedule and even easier to manipulate it once I had written it. For example, I could do silly things like
s.to_image((s.schedule.sort { |a,b| a.start <=> b.start }, 0, 2500, 1800, image)
to see the tasks sorted by start date. Being a Lisp girl, I had no problems writing silly things like
s.to_image((s.schedule.collect { |x| x if x.person_id == '08-1' } - [ nil ]).sort { |a,b| a.start <=> b.start }, 0, 2500, 1800, image) but then I realized that this was much cleaner:
s.to_image((s.schedule.sort { |a,b| x = a.person_id <=> b.person_id; if x == 0 then a.start <=> b.start else x end }, 0, 2500, 1800, image) <br>
Ruby is so cute!
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The City of Lone Grove has received one bid for its water tower elemetry system.
The bid is from Worth Telemetry and will be opened Friday.
City Manager Ian O'Neal said the bid would be presented to the council during next week's meeting.
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When those who know the details of health insurance plans used in city and county government, and those used at Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division and Shelby County Schools, sat down around a table last week, they quickly came to the conclusion that their workforces are essentially the same demographic.
They are employees with families, and they intend to have a long career path there once they get the jobs. And they are part of the larger trend of Memphians who suffer from chronic health conditions that more wellness and preventative measures could target.
The committee looking for better and more cost-efficient health care coverage of a pool of 36,200 employees is the creation of Memphis City Council Chairman Edmund Ford Jr., and it will explore such ideas as a private health exchange among the four government entities as well as a single plan across all four.
"What I'd like to do is look at funding for a study to explore alternatives," Ford said, indicating the cost of a study would probably be outweighed by millions of dollars in savings.
The committee will also consult with various nonprofit groups involved in wellness initiatives and health insurance issues to solicit ideas and possibly cut the costs of a study.
Trinette Small, a business operations analyst for Shelby County Schools who was benefits coordinator for the former Memphis City Schools system, said insurance claims for chronic health conditions are driving the costs she sees even as she serves on an advisory board for Cigna health insurance.
"Unfortunately, when we go, the Memphis area is always one of the ones where the chronic conditions really, really inflate our insurance and our costs," Small said at the City Hall meeting Thursday, Oct. 17. "That's where the bulk of our expenses are coming from – is our actual claims. … What's driving our costs are unhealthy practices and lifestyles."
So wellness initiatives that could drop insurance premiums will be one of the items the ad hoc committee explores for the rest of this year and into the new year.
"If the demographics are the same … we won't look at a completely different demographic and different challenge," Ford said after the meeting. "Is it going to be easy to get there? No. Do we have challenges? Yes."
Among the challenges are different splits in the shares paid by employers and employees.
For the city of Memphis and Shelby County government plans, the city and county pay 70 percent, while employees pay 30 percent. Memphis Light, Gas and Water has a 75-25 percentage split. The school system has moved to a defined contributions system that makes it difficult to give a percentage split for employees across the school system.
The Shelby County Schools health insurance plan is a $170 million program. Health insurance is a $124 million program for the city of Memphis, $58 million for Memphis Light, Gas and Water and $57 million for Shelby County government.
Ford's preliminary survey of all four plans shows single basic coverage annual premiums range from $1,712 to $2,016. Basic family coverage ranges from $4,127 to $6,716 a year.
Ford also got an online quote from Cigna based on a 50-year-old person in good health. The quote shows an annual premium of $3,576 for basic single coverage and $8,484 for basic family coverage.
Since 2007, the utility and the city have partnered on health insurance to cut costs, and Ford said that is a possible model to be studied to see if a single system could be used for all four entities.
"If you use Memphis Light, Gas and Water and the city of Memphis as a pilot test, that could possibly happen. But I know that each particular organization has different employee-employer shares. I also know that quality and what is being offered – it also is different," Ford acknowledged. "We will juxtapose and see if those are viable options. The last thing we would want to do is to save money for the city, the county, MLGW and Shelby County schools, but we don't provide the same quality of insurance for the employees."
The next session of the ad hoc committee is tentatively set for sometime before the Thanksgiving holiday.


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TUSCALOOSA | People are more afraid of not being cool than they are of the fires of hell. That's probably because most of them don't believe in the fires of hell. But they know that the hellish consequences of slipping out of the good graces of the high priests who worship the god Cool.
TUSCALOOSA | People are more afraid of not being cool than they are of the fires of hell. That's probably because most of them don't believe in the fires of hell. But they know that the hellish consequences of slipping out of the good graces of the high priests who worship the god Cool.
People are so fearful that they abandon centuries old social traditions and deep religious convictions within moments of discovering they're not cool (for those of you who noticed the difference in punctuation, the false deity is a proper noun, while the state of being in humanity is a common noun). And most people are entirely paranoid about it because Cool changes overnight.
To cite an ancient example, when I was in the seventh grade, we were required to dress out for physical education, and that meant wearing white socks. Rather than bringing white socks to school and changing into them, why not just wear white socks to begin with? It just seemed logical to me.
I found out that logic and Cool had nothing to do with each other. I was informed that I was a "redneck" because I wore white socks and the taunts rained down on me. A few years later, my mother bought me some red pants and red socks to go with them. Both turned pink after a couple of washings, yet I caught no grief for wearing that monstrous outfit. But white socks were unforgivable.
I gave up being logical after a couple of tries, but that didn't matter. Even though I had gone back to wearing colored socks, the fact that I had previously worn white socks continued to be held against me. That kind of institutional memory of the trivial is why people fear offending Cool's high priests. They are entirely unforgiving. And remember, this was just a relatively small breach of Cool commandments; it could have been much worse.
God on the other hand, forgives everything. So if Cool and religion conflict, people go with Cool because God will forgive them, but the high priests of Cool won't.
Another difference is that God is eternal and unchanging. Cool is eternally changing. By the time we were juniors, the high priests of Cool who excommunicated me for the white socks heresy were, themselves, wearing white socks with their Adidas running shoes. And no one said anything or pointed out the inconsistency, because it was Cool.
Cool worship, like most bad things in our culture (and admittedly, a couple of good things), is a product of the 1960s generation. They see themselves as open-minded rebels. But they are actually the most rigid enforcers of orthodoxy since the Inquisition — only the orthodoxy is the ever transient edicts of Cool.
The Cool winds have blown homosexuality and gay marriage into favor. Unfortunately, the social changes introduced by Cool don't seem to be as transient as fashion. Even when we discover that they have negative consequences, they seem permanently entrenched in society.
The generation that destigmatized drug use, unmarried cohabitation, premarital sex, abortion on demand and skyrocketing out-of-wedlock birthrates is about to make homosexuality mainstream. Like columnist Cal Thomas said, do you really expect a country that didn't have the moral backbone to reject any of the above to do anything less?
For goodness' sake, all you have to do is say rejecting gay marriage doesn't sound fair and isn't cool. Just say the magic word and the opposition melts away like the French infantry in 1940. Forgotten by popular history, Charles de Gaulle's tanks actually scored a victory against the Germans during the historic World War II collapse. France just didn't have enough resolute, skilled de Gaulles to stem the tide.
For Christians, homosexuality is what it has always been — a sin, nothing more and nothing less. People who practice homosexuality are no different from any other sinner, and that means all of us, in the eyes of God. Everybody is guilty of sexual immorality, regardless of whether they act on it. But understanding that it's not an unforgivable act is not the same thing as saying it's not a sin.
Anybody who is going to stick to his or her guns on this issue had better have de Gaulle's backbone and tenacity. They'd better be prepared to make a stand while everyone around them is in full retreat, because the Nazis are coming. In this case, their Gestapo are the high priests of Cool. Hold to your beliefs and you won't be cool. You'll be a bigot. If your church holds the line, it'll probably lose its tax exempt status eventually.
If I had to guess, I'd say that society will probably pay a price for caving to Cool. Previous changes brought impoverished mothers trying to raise children without a man's support, fatherless children who grow up wild and undisciplined, shiftless men made purposeless without a family to defend and care for, lives squandered in addiction and a callousness toward human life that continues to manifest itself in crime and murder.
But we'll bow down to Cool and give our approval to homosexuality and gay marriage because we're scared of being ostracized. We don't want to fall out of favor with the high priests of Cool. And then we'll whine about the consequences when we know what they are. It's what we do.
Robert DeWitt is senior writer for The Tuscaloosa News. Readers can email him at robert.


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The Neosho City Council voted on final reading Tuesday to authorize Mayor Richard Davidson to sign off on a contract between the city and the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, allowing the city to move forward on a $210,000 grant.
The transportation enhancement grant, provided by the Missouri Department of Transportation, is funding the construction of a 2,750-foot long, five-foot wide sidewalk addition.
The path will connect to the trail nearest the Neosho National Fish Hatchery and run along McKinney Street and onto Park Street to the old Benton School site, which serves as a city green space.
Neosho City Manager Troy Royer said the agreement will now go back to MoDOT, and then the city will begin with the engineering phase.
"We'll have Allgeier Martin start putting the plans together on the engineering specs for the project," Royer said. "Those plans will have to be approved by MoDOT. Then we'll go out to bid."
While the city will begin to move forward with engineering work on the project, Royer said Neosho residents should not expect to see construction begin until 2014.
"We're not obligating this budget year funds for construction, that will be in our next budget year," Royer said. "We're not going to take on too much, more than we can, in one budget year. As we get approved for some of these [grants], we don't want people to think that all of this is going to happen right now. It's going to take time to get through that process which allows us to go into other budget years to fund certain aspects of it."
Royer said the bulk of the costs associated with the new trail will be in the next budget year.
The local cost share is expected to be $69,500.
While the sidewalk project is more than a year away, Royer said once completed, the new path will be a nice addition to the city's trail system.
"I think it'll be great because it fits in with the master trail plan the city had," Royer said. "It's also fitting that it's connecting one city green space with another city green space."
Royer said the city hopes to expand the old Benton School site, where the new trail will end up, with new park equipment.
Council also voted on final reading to approve an amendment to the budget to add a line item for the East Spring Street projects, totaling $521,000.
The sidewalk and roadway repairs are funded by two separate Missouri Department of Transportation enhancement grants, with a 20 percent local match.
The project includes a sidewalk replacement from the intersection of Washington Street and East Spring Street continuing east on Spring Street up until the railroad tracks, as well as a walking trail running behind the Lampo Center and eventually connecting with the helicopter in Morse Park.
The street will also receive some repairs, with a new overlay of asphalt to run from the Washington Street intersection going east until the other side of White Avenue.
Royer said the engineering specifications have been completed, and engineers are currently working on finalization of some aspects of engineering.
The next step will then be to go out to bid for the projects.
He said work is expected to start this summer.
In other business, the council:
• Voted to declare seven Neosho Police Department radios surplus, due to the age of the radios. The units have been replaced by a recent grant and are no longer of use to Neosho police.
• Voted to allow the mayor to sign off on an amendment to the city's contract with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for State Block Grant funds to update the property map at the Hugh Robinson Memorial Airport. The amendment extends the time period of the project to Dec. 31, 2013.
• Voted on final reading to amend the budget to allow for two projects at the city swimming pool. The projects are paid for with the remaining funds from the 2012 pool house construction projects. Council also approved two agreements for that project, one with Blue Water Construction for replacement of filters at the city pool for $22,800 and a second with Tim Long, for replacement of a light pole and light at the city pool, at a cost of $3,382.
• Accepted two resignations from the parks, recreation and golf course board, those of Gary Elam and Pat Meredith, as the two golf course employees are now city employees and because of that are unable to serve on a city committee.
• Announced vacancies that exist on the airport industrial development board; board of adjustments/zoning; economic development sales tax committee; parks, recreation and golf course board, and the planning and zoning commission.


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Montessori school set for Newton
For students and staff at the Montessori at Sandy Ford school, education is about simple gifts – peace, joy and respect.
The community celebrated those gifts Monday with the groundbreaking of a new location for the school on Sandy Ford Road in Newton. Montessori at Sandy Ford will have a sustainable building design to reinforce the school's emphasis on preserving the natural world.
"The Montessori community has been coming to his land for many years, and we are excited to be making this our permanent home," said Mary Helen Cline, head of the school.
The school's new location is a 5-acre, semi-rural setting in Newton that allows students to study the natural world in addition to traditional classroom learning.


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Tonya had her baby! Tyler Joseph was born on Friday, Feb 11th. He was 8 lbs 8 oz and 21 1/2 inches long. She sent me a camera phone picture and promised better ones once they got home and caught up on sleep!
Tonya, I hope you don't me posting this - I'm just too excited!!


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The Rocket Launcher is a weapon that has appeared in every Grand Theft Auto game.
The rocket launcher is an extremely powerful weapon, capable of destroying almost anything capable of being damaged. The advantages of this weapon are its power and range, with its blast being capable of inflicting heavy damage from several meters away. The warhead self-destructs after traveling a distance, limiting it's range. The disadvantages are slow aiming and the propensity to seriously damage one's own health by accidentally hitting a nearby object.
GTA III Era
In GTA III and GTA Vice City Stories, the rocket launcher resembles a US Army M72 LAW rocket launcher with a few aesthetic differences (the weapon is held by a handle on the bottom and fired through a scope, something the M72 LAW lacks in real life).
In the rest of the GTA III Era (GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas & GTA Liberty City Stories) the rocket launcher resembles a Russian RPG-7 portable anti-tank missile launcher.
- Rockford, Staunton Island - Available to buy from Phil Cassidy's Army Surplus after completion of Arms Shortage. ($25,000)
- Cedar Grove, Shoreside Vale - On the west side of the roof of the large pink house at the west end of The Homes (closest to Cochrane Dam). To get this weapon icon, wedge an Ambulance under the lowest part of the roof on the east side of the house, climb the Ambulance then to the roof, then go west along the south side of the roof to reach it.
- Spawns at every safehouse when you collect all 100 hidden packages.
GTA Vice City
- Phil's Place, Little Haiti - The weapon is available for purchase here after completion of Boomshine Saigon. ($8,000)
- Hooker Inn, Viceport - Located in the swimming pool, directly after the entrance arch.
- Spawns at the Ocean View Hotel, the Hyman Condo, and the Vercetti Estate when you collect 70 hidden packages.
GTA San Andreas
- Downtown, Los Santos - On roof of a building with large radio antenna.
- Downtown, San Fierro - On the helipad of the San Fierro Police Headquarters.
- Tierra Robada - Inside Mike Toreno's ranch upon completion of Vertical Bird.
- Las Venturas Airport, Las Venturas - Beside some freighters north of the garage for the AT-400.
- The Emerald Isle, Las Venturas - Two are located on the roof of the casino.
GTA Liberty City Stories
- Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale - Underneath the Shoreside Lift Bridge.
- Bedford Point, Staunton Island - Can be bought from Phil Cassidy's Fully Cocked Gun Shop after completing False Idols. ($9,000)
- Spawns at each safehouse after collecting 90 hidden packages.
GTA Vice City Stories
- Starfish Island - From the western bridge, it is at the front of the second house on the left.
- Ocean Beach - Available at the Ammu-Nation store after completing the mission "Turn On, Tune In, Bug Out" for $9,000 but the price will decrease to $6,750 after completing Phil's Shooting Range.
In GTA IV and The Lost and Damned, the rocket launcher again resembles the Russian RPG-7 portable anti-tank missile launcher, it is not fitted with the PGO-7 optical sight usually seen on the launchers. It is the only heavy weapon available.
The Rocket Launcher can be purchased at the back-alley gun shops for $15,000 and each rocket will cost $5,000. The Rocket Launcher cannot be obtained from Little Jacob.
- Northwood, Algonquin - Can be found on a large boulder in the water north of Northwood. This is the easiest RPG pickup in the city.
- Castle Gardens, Algonquin - Can be found in an alcove on the southeastern partition of the construction site seen in the mission Deconstruction for Beginners. The RPG is inside an alcove facing the water, and can only be reached by boat.
- Alderney City, Alderney - Can be found on the roof of the Kakagawa Building near AutoEroticar. There is no roof access from the street, so a helicopter is needed.
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The Flintville High School Class of 1975 is having a reunion on April 20 at "The Holler", located at 120 Teal Hollow Road in Kelso.
The event begins at 6 p.m., and the band starts playing at 9 p.m. There will be a cover charge at the door for the band.
Food and drinks may be purchased from the menu.
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Terri Edwards Bukar at 937-6713 or Penny Childress Britton at 937-6245, or go to the Facebook page for more information, Flintville High School Class of 1975 Reunion.


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NEW YORK — Transocean, whose floating Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew out in 2010 to cause the biggest US oil spill, has agreed to settle all civil and criminal claims with the federal government for $1.4 billion.
The Deepwater Horizon exploded, burned, and sank in April 2010. Eleven men were killed, and millions of gallons of oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico and fouled the shores of coastal states. The Macondo well was owned by the British oil giant BP, which settled its own criminal charges and some of its civil charges in November for $4.5 billion.
While this settlement resolves the government's claims against Transocean, that company and the others still face a multistate civil case scheduled to begin in February in New Orleans. Under a deal filed in federal court, Transocean Deepwater agreed to one criminal misdemeanor violation of the Clean Water Act and will pay a fine of $100 million. Over the next five years, the company will pay record civil penalties of $1 billion under the act.
Transocean also agreed to pay the National Academy of Sciences and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation $150 million each. Those funds will be applied to oil spill prevention and response in the Gulf of Mexico and natural resource restoration projects.
The agreement is subject to public comment and court approval. The company agreed to five years of monitoring of its drilling practices and improved safety measures.
Transocean Ltd., the Switzerland-based parent of the rig owner, said the company thought these were ''important agreements'' and called them a ''positive step forward.''
The company announced in September that it had set an ''estimated loss contingency'' of $1.5 billion against the Justice Department's claims.
Shares of Transocean Ltd. rose nearly 3 percent on the news, to close at $49.20.
In a statement, Lanny A. Breuer, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Criminal Division, seemed to suggest Transocean played a subservient and lesser role in the disaster to that of BP.
''Transocean's rig crew accepted the direction of BP well site leaders to proceed in the face of clear danger signs — at a tragic cost to many of them,'' he said. Breuer added that the $1.4 billion ''appropriately reflects its role."
Under a law passed last year, 80 percent of the penalty will be applied to projects for restoring the environment and economies of Gulf states. That fact was applauded by a coalition of Gulf Coast restoration groups, including the Environmental Defense Fund and the National Audubon Society. A statement called this ''a great day for the Gulf environment and the communities that rely on a healthy ecosystem for their livelihoods.''
Still, the penalty struck some as light. David Uhlmann, who headed the Justice Department environmental crimes section from 2000 to 2007, praised the civil settlement, which ''reflects the scope of the Gulf oil spill tragedy.''
He argued, however, that the criminal penalty should have been at least as onerous, ''given Transocean's numerous failures to drill in a safe manner, which cost 11 workers their lives and billions of dollars in damages to communities along the Gulf.''
The settlement, he said, should have included seaman's manslaughter charges, which were part of the BP settlement.
As for the company's role in following the lead of BP, he said, ''following orders is not a defense to criminal charges.''
At the Environmental Protection Agency, Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator, called the settlement ''an important step'' to hold Transocean and others accountable. "EPA will continue to work with DOJ and its federal partners to vigorously pursue the government's claims against all responsible parties and ensure that we are taking every possible step to restore and protect the Gulf Coast ecosystem,'' she said.
The multistate trial over claims in the Deepwater Horizon cases that have not been settled are scheduled to begin in February. Lawyers who represent the steering committee of plaintiffs in the cases said Thursday's settlement did not change the case, and that BP and Transocean will be found grossly negligent at trial.


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Transition at UCL
Starting a degree can be a daunting experience.
The Transition Programme supports new first-year students ensuring they settle in quickly and are able to achieve their potential.
The programme is specifically designed for each of the undergraduate programmes at UCL, and is run by members of staff within each department and the Transition team.
Every first year student is assigned a Transition mentor for their first term at UCL. Transition mentors are later-year students from within your department.
They will work with you and other first-year students in small groups on a weekly basis throughout the first term to help you in getting to know UCL and London as well as focussing on academic issues and topics relevant to your degree programme.
You will first meet your mentor during Fresher's Week at your department's 'Meet your Mentor' session. If you are unable to attend, you can email email@example.com so that we can put you in touch with your mentor.
- New Students website for details on the enrolment process and other important information about becoming a member of the UCL community.
- Preparing for UCL
- Settling in at UCL
- Studying at UCL
- Finances and Budgets
Explore our student profiles to read first-hand accounts of what it is like to be a UCL student
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When Héctor Caymaris became the only Park Ranger in Laguna de Rocha in Uruguay in 2001, it wasn't the wild animals that were a threat, it was the wild people.
At the time, the area was exploited by hunters and poachers and overrun by four-wheel drivers. The lagoon was virtually empty of the native rodent capybaras and waterbirds. With great risk to his and his family's safety, Héctor set out to change people's attitudes to the area.
"Starting a cultural change is not easy," he says. "It involves a lot of time and persistence to discourage the inappropriate use of natural resources. In this process, my wife and I received threats and insults, and were often the targets of shootings and moving vehicles."
But Héctor did persist. With help from his wife Veronica, and with the support of like-minded locals, he turned around the hostility of cattlemen, fishermen and tourism operators.
"By maintaining high conservation goals, we managed not only to change the way the land was being used, but also created an awareness of the protected areas as a natural resource for the society," he says.
It is hard to imagine what the 26-year-old Héctor thought when he became the only Park Ranger of an area of over 24,000 hectares that was abused by the local urban people. Having previously led a youth group that attended to visitors of Barra del Chuy, a seaside resort in northern Uruguay, taking responsibility for Laguna de Rocha must have been a daunting challenge.
But Héctor knew how to take charge of the situation. With little government support, and often without a reliable salary, Héctor did what he felt must be done. He was firm with unruly four-wheel drive operators, poachers and tourists; he worked with national and municipal authorities; and he established alliances with private property owners, educators and fisherman.
As poaching and exploitation of the lagoon decreased, the waterbirds returned to nest and the capybaras grew in numbers. The local community then began to appreciate the natural value of the site, with some even developing tourist activities.
Through his dedication and leadership, Laguna de Rocha was accepted as part of Uruguay's National System of Protected Areas and became a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, while Héctor was also pivotal in the creation of the Foundation of Friends of the Coastal Lagoons in Rocha, of which he is the Executive Director.
As one of his supporters states: "There really is a before and after in this area since he came here."
Nearly ten years since taking on the challenge, Laguna de Rocha is now the Protected Area of Laguna de Rocha, Héctor is the Chief Ranger with three ranger staff, and the lagoon is the best place in Uruguay to spot capybaras.
In March 2011 Héctor's work was recognized by IUCN WCPA and the International Ranger Federation when he was presented with the 2011 Young Conservationist Award.


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A playthrough of Queensdale and how Renown Hearts affect leveling in Guild Wars 2.
There have been a few accusations of poor content implementation at early levels in Guild Wars 2.
Finding those criticisms very much different to my experience, I decided to approach the game in the way that I thought was causing the issue: Renown Heart grinding.
There's been a lot of discussion of how those hearts alter the perception of content flow for players -- the latest including an excellent write up by Elisabeth Cardy -- including how their prominence on the map leads to a false perception of their importance.
The video below is my run through Queensdale on my fresh Engineer where I try to get a feel for gaining XP when using the renown hearts as the guiding path for exploration.
Several times issues arise in regards to meeting the level curve, but is that the fault of the game? And is there easy to access content as you run around in the renown heart circle?
The answers lie within!
Have a watch and let me know what you think in the comments section.
Scott "Jarimor" Hawkes, Editor in Chief


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Artist: Tom De VitaTitle: "The Locals" Year Installed: 2013 Venue: Lee Wagner Art Gallery
This exhibition, titled "The Locals", is inspired by the wonderful and eclectic characters that I have met since moving to South Florida. It is an exploration into the personalities and the symbols that define these people. It reveals a truth that lies beyond the visible surface of the person's image and resembles them in a more poetic way. My work is about finding a harmony in dissonance. I want to force multiple "reads" of images and figures, while exploring the deconstruction of their meanings. It is my pursuit to create paintings that appear disjointed, while developing overlays of images in a pastiche of my own personal semiotics. I want to embrace the "sea of visual noise", that is so inherent to our contemporary way of seeing, while preserving my conviction towards painting in the grand tradition of figuration.


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Several Chucks place at Brookville Invitational
BROOKVILLE — The weather wasn't quite perfect, with permanent gray skies above, but Punxsy boys' track and field was glad to compete in a meet without having to battle snow Saturday at the Brookville Invitational.
Last Tuesday, the Chucks competed in the snow during their dual meet at Brookville.
Punxsy coach John Smith said that he was happy with some of the individual performances his team finished with. No team score was kept.
"We came away with some good performances on a cool, windy day," Smith said. "All day we hoped for a warm-up (in temperature) that never came."
Punxsy's A.J. Meterko was the Chucks top finisher as he grabbed a second place finish in the 800-meter run (2:00.5).
"An outstanding time for this early in the year," Smith said. "He was nipped at the finish line by Cranberry's Morgan Huegel."
Brody Morgan picked up a third place finish in the javelin (156-1). Kevin Byars placed fifth in the long jump (19-7) and triple jump (41-3). Two Punxsy relay teams also placed.
The 4x800 relay, consisting of Tom Wagner, Quinton Weber, Derick Kelly and Luke Fugate, placed seventh (9:09). The 4x400 relay team, consisting of Wagner, Meterko, Kelly and Ward placed eighth (3:44).
Jesse Reichard had a personal best 18-9 1/2 in the long jump and placed ninth.
Other results include:
100-meter dash — Glenn Perry, 12.25; Spencer Fiumara, 12.32; Devon Luzell, 12.56.
200-meter dash — Fiumara, 24.98; Glenn Perry, 25.89.
400-meter dash — Kelly, 57.05; Wagner, 57.52; Tom Renwick, 62.81.
1600-meter run — Ward, 4:58.9; Nathan Steffey, 5:21.6.
3,200-meter run — Ward, 11:50; Fugate, 11:50.
4x100 relay — Perry, Fiumara, Matt Burke, Kevin Byars 48.9
110-hurdles — Dylan Lettie, 18.28; Lance Deet, 20.81; Brett Neal, 51.20.
300-hudles — Lettie, 46.23; Deet, 49.94; Neal, 51.20.
800-run — Kelly, 2:17.26; Weber, 2:23.58.
Triple Jump — Reichard, 38-6 1/2.
High Jump — Lettie, 5-4; Deet, 5-2.
Pole Vault — Christian Falgout 9-0; Tyler Baer, 8-0.
Shot put — Morgan, 4


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Automating (almost) Everything Using Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn
Ryan Slobojan discusses how to perform issue tracking, code review, commits and builds in an automated manner by integrating Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn.
And It All Went Horribly Wrong: Debugging Production Systems
Bryan Cantrill discusses debugging production systems using post-mortem debugging and dynamic instrumentation, with a bit of history and an introduction to useful debugging tools.
Open APIs: State of the Market
John Musser discusses the state of open web APIs, remarking its growth over time, the current technological trends, the market leaders, and other API-related aspects.
Software Quality - You Know It When You See It
Erik Dörnenburg shares techniques for estimating code quality by collecting and analyzing data using the toxicity chart, metrics tree maps, size&complexity pyramid, complexity view, code city, etc.
Mobile JavaScript Framework Bake Off!
Roland Barcia introduces Dojo Mobile, David Kaneda talks about SenchaTouch 2, while John Bender lures developers to jQuery Mobile.
Reliability Engineering Matters, Except When It Doesn't
Michael Nygard shares essential Reliability Engineering techniques that can keep systems from falling apart, but the discipline has some limitations to be considered.
Who Ever Said Programs Were Supposed to be Pretty?
Brian Foote wonders in this session if the quest for clean or beautiful code makes sense in a bottom-line obsessed business world.
Webmachine: A Practical Executable Model for HTTP
Steve Vinoski introduces Webmachine, a toolkit for declaratively building well-behaved HTTP applications, making the job of dealing with HTTP simpler.
A Quick Tour of Dart
Gilad Bracha discusses Dart, its type system, interfaces, generics, ADTs without types, built-in factory support.
Exploring Composition and Functional Systems in the Cloud
David Pollak discusses predicates, dependencies, functional languages and programming for the real-time cloud.
Kick-starting Kanban
Rick Simmons presents a launch process meant to introduce a team to Kanban in two days, focusing on the core concepts and techniques, and by setting the team on an improvement path.
Sufficient Design: Quality In Sync With Business Context
Joshua Kerievsky invites developers to start thinking as entrepreneurs, writing code that is "good enough" for the purpose it is supposed to serve rather than write elaborate code that is beautiful.


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Oct 23, 2013
From staff reports
Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis' address to the Board of Trustees on Nov. 1 will be streamed live on the president's website.
Those wishing to watch can view the stream here, at http://www.ohio.edu/mediaserver/live.cfm?videoid=48eaa077a0c2
The live feed will provide the entire Ohio University community, in Athens and beyond, with an opportunity to take part in the meeting.
The board meeting will take place Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at Walter Hall in Athens. To access the meeting's agenda and background materials, click here.


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A portion of the state-owned Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area near here has been closed due to a potential public health risk, state officials said.
Terry Crawforth, director of the Nevada Division of Wildlife, announced the closure late last week of Cinnamon Pond.
He said the alleged improper treatment of sewage effluent that the city of Yerington discharges into the area is causing concern for the health of hunters.
For the last two years, an average of more than 180 hunters a day have used the area during the fall hunting season between October and January.
The 17,000-acre wildlife area is home to a variety of species, including ducks, geese, migratory birds, porcupine, mule deer and mountain lion. It's also a popular fishing area.
At least two separate discharges of improperly treated effluent have been reported in the area, one in July and another in October, officials said.
"Due to the reoccurring problem of improperly treated effluent, we felt it was prudent to close the affected portions of the management area," Crawforth said.
"In coordination with the Nevada Divison of Environmental Protection and state health officer, we determined that there may be a health hazard in the area, prompting the closure," he added.
In two separate inspections in July, Yerington's wastewater treatment facility was found to be in non-compliance with permitting requirements, officials said.
Later that month, state environmental regulators issued an order alleging violations of the city's groundwater discharge permit.
On Oct. 15, a follow-up inspection found that decomposed toilet paper, sanitary items and floating debris had again been discharged at Cinnamon Pond.
In late October, the state environmental protection division ordered the city of Yerington to complete designs for an automatic treatment system by Nov. 28 and to have the system in operation by Jan. 31.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—Students in the College of Education's workforce education (WF ED) program represented Penn State well at the recent Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) International Conference in the Americas last month in Houston. Eight students coauthored research papers for the conference, five of which were recognized with awards.
According to Judith Kolb, associate professor of education in the workforce education and development program, students who aspire to academic careers become known by the presentations made at the AHRD Conference.
"A research paper in the AHRD proceedings often represents a first attempt at publication and becomes a stepping stone to subsequent journal articles," said Kolb.
This year, seven papers were selected to win the Human Resource Development Cutting Edge Award, which recognizes, among other things, new knowledge to the human resource development (HRD) profession. Five of those seven awards went to papers co-authored by College of Education students. Marie Saul, Woocheol Kim, Taesung Kim, Cho Hyun Park, Yu Kyoung Park and Jong Gyu Park were the WF ED students who co-authored the winning papers.
"This is quite an accomplishment, especially considering that the selection process involved several rounds of rigorous blind review," said Kolb. "The results of their studies on topics such as work engagement, learning organization culture, leadership, psychological well-being and knowledge sharing have implications for national and international HRD policy and practice."
Jong Gyu said that winning an award like this is very important to scholars and students who want to be a faculty member or practitioner in the HRD field.
"I was really surprised when I found out I'd won the Cutting Edge Award from AHRD," said Jong Gyu. "I'm very grateful for the recognition of my work and delighted to know that AHRD is thinking of my paper in such a positive way."
Saul said that being recognized with this award brought a great sense of validation of the importance of her research.
"The AHRD conference offers a platform for institutions and universities to showcase what their programs can produce," said Saul. "It is also an occasion for those interested in the field to gain insight into the breadth of sub-topics and specialty areas."
Woocheol said he is thankful for all of the support that he received from the faculty in regards to his success, specifically offering relevant ideas to pursue and encouragement on papers.
"When I ask faculty members to work with me on research papers, they are always open and very supportive," said Woocheol.
"I firmly believe that this is strong evidence that shows the high standards and quality of the College of Education's WF ED program," added Woocheol, regarding Penn State winning five of the seven awards.
Saul echoed those sentiments.
"This success is a reflection of the strong collaborative approach taken and valued by students in the College of Education's Workforce Education and Development program," said Saul. "Beyond the program itself, the achievements of the students at the 2014 AHRD Conference shines a very positive light on the University, our faculty and the caliber of our students."


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Guinea sanctioned for illicit wildlife trade, including great apes
The sanctions prevent Guinea from importing and exporting all the 35,000 species listed by CITES. Guinea has a significant export trade in several CITES species including reptile leather, live birds, such as parrots and raptors, live reptiles, live monkeys, orchids and seahorses.
Guinea has been sanctioned due to concerns over the issuance of invalid CITES permits, which facilitated illegal trade for protected species. Great apes such as chimpanzees and gorillas, among other species, have been exported from Guinea, reaching foreign markets, especially in Asia.
In past years the CITES Secretariat has visited Guinea, and outlined specific actions that Guinea needed to take to resolve the problem.
However there is no evidence that these actions have been undertaken. Guinea has issued several export permits for chimpanzees and gorillas, declared as 'captive-bred'. Yet the CITES Secretariat is not aware of any captive-breeding operations for chimpanzees in Guinea.
Guinea was requested to provide a detailed report to the secretariat by 31 December 2012 to avoid facing commercial sanctions, and later invited the country to provide a written report at the Bangkok CITES meeting.
Sanctions came today as the report from Guinea had not been received while and Guinean CITES documents for 'captive-bred' specimens continue to be issued to this date.
Investigative non-governmental organizations reported that in 2007 two chimpanzees were exported from Guinea to China. The export of chimps increased to eight in 2008, 29 in 2009 and 61 in 2010. More than a 100% increase. Additionally ten gorillas were exported in 2010. Figures fom 2011 and 2012 haven't yet been reported.
The decision to sanction Guinea was unanimous, and is a positive sign that CITES governments can take the strong measures permitted under the convention to hold failing countries to account.
WWF is calling on CITES to impose sanctions on countries that have for years flouted international laws meant to protect threatened species. Tigers, rhinos and elephants in particular are at risk from poaching for illegal trade.
Take action to stop wildlife crime. Join WWF's campaign.


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Sounds like Ron Mexico's brother.
Weiner's Lead Has Shrinkage
Weiner Refuses to Pull Out
Despite Outwardly Gay Opponent Weiner has Homosexual Vote
Weiner Thrusts Into Lead
Is Weiner the Real Whitey Bulger
The scary thing is between the News & the Post most of these are actual headlines lol
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Sounds like Ron Mexico's brother.
Saw an article on Twitter-Rejected Names for Weiner before he settled on Carlos Danger.
Naughty Frijoles is pretty good.
Interesting way to court the Latino vote.
Weiner has Electile Dysfunction
Dems Support for Weiner Goes Limp
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Will the NFL outlaw Carlos Danger jerseys the way they did with Ron Mexico?
Weiner has a set of balls.
Weiner's Poll Numbers Go Limp
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Mods feel free to combine this with other threads....
Anyway I see all kinds of Stanton, Headley, Fowler trade ideas on here, so I decided to make a thread for all comers and give my opinions of each.
Ill start with big league players I could see the reds partings ways with. To me it more or less comes down to is this player necessary or is he a nice piece to have and is more of a want than a need. As well as piece acquired in a deal.
Mike Leake: 5th starter. Cingrani could take his place.
Cingrani: top three reasons he could go. Latos, Cueto, and Bailey. Three ace level guys already. I'd be sure of rotation health before I traded him
Todd Frazier: Averagish D. Low plate discipline and average contact skills. Great power. Could be replaced by Hannahan who has a better glove and possibly a chance at a higher obp. His power could be expendable if a 4 hitter is obtained.
Devin Mesoraco: I like the guy, but dusty doesn't seem to. Still young and has definitely plus side at a premium position. Hanigan could catch.
JJ Hoover: with Marshall broxton and chapman, Hoover is a nice piece but could be expendable in the right deal.
Homer bailey: may or may not want to stay in Cincinnati. Could become less of a need if cingrani steps up. Could bring a haul.
Johnny cueto: ace. No question. But has recent injuries. IMO has maxed out his talent and latos and bailey will surpass him in the next year or so.
Jay Bruce: I wouldn't trade Bruce unless we know we have choo locked up long term or if the player we get in return is equal or superior to jay defensively or if we had already acquired a righty power bat and it was a move to get choo out of center.
Target one Stanton: what would be a pragmatic approach to acquiring his massive power? I've seen every trade idea known to man for him. I think the best bet to go in acquiring him and not drain the farm would be a three way trade a la the choo trade where we give pieces and trade a guy to another team and maybe Miami gives them another piece and they give pieces to Miami too. I think if we started with cingrani and Mez/Frazier it'd get the marlins attention. Maybe flip Frazier/Mez Hoover or prospects to another team and see what they'd throw in towards the fish or offer those some combo of those guys and minor leaguers, probably Bham. But in reality if we didnt want to drain the minors any deal for Stanton would have to start at cingrani in my mind. When the marlins firesale they generally want pitching in return. So for Stanton some sort of three way deal or drain the minors and pray we can rebuild it. I just see him costing way too much and destroying the minor league pipeline that we've built for the past decade.
Chase Headley: my favorite target of the group. Good obp guy. Great D and switch hitter. In a perfect world I'd offer cueto straight up. Or a Frazier leake combo. But in reality neither deal would probably fly. So lets look at it two ways. First off to trade Homer or not to? If you go the homer route I'd offer straight up since they have similar contract lengths and each would be going to a more productive stadium for their given skillsets, theyd be likely to resign. So I think straight up or with a decent minor league sweetener homer could get him. So if you don't want to deal homer, you'd have to go cingrani, Frazier, maybe even Hoover and a decent minor league sweetener in my mind. Either way you're going to have to give up a starter you'd rather not want to, but then again you have to give to receive. I don't think the price would be as high as Headley as on Stanton.
Dexter Fowler: I don't think I'd go after fowler unless a right handed power bat is acquired first, or someone steps up on the team to that spot. But if one of those occurs. Offer Bruce and a Cisco, Romano, Garret or maybe corcino (pick one) level pitching prospect and I think the Rockies may go for it. Shift choo to right. I'd not trade Bruce unless I knew choo was signed long term or if a power righty bat was signed first to offset the loss in the player we were getting back played great D and got choo out of center.
On Bham: I'd try to be reluctant in trading him. He has sooo much speed. Choo is poor in center and if he steps up in AAA after a bad start he'd be a great In house option to shift choo to a corner. IMO, while I'd love to have Stanton, he'd cost too much and would handicap the outfield D.
Ok just for fun: lets go video game crazy and acquire all three.
Trade one: Homer and Frazier to SD for Headley. Team is solid after trade.
Trade two: Bruce and corcino to Colorado for Fowler. Choo to right fowler to center. Team is great after trade. Bordering unfair.
Trade Three: we drain the minor league ship minus cingrani for Stanton.
Hamilton, Stephenson, Travieso, Hrod, Lutz, you name em they go.
At that point the series may just be an after thought.


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BIG BEAR, Calif. (CNN/CBS News) The manhunt for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected of going on a killing spree converged may have ended Tuesday at a mountain cabin where authorities believe he barricaded himself inside, engaged in a shootout that killed a deputy, and then never emerged as the home went up in flames.
Investigators found charred human remains in the burned out cabin's debris, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office, which said forensic techniques would be used to try to identify the body.
Law enforcement sources tell CBS News senior correspondent John Miller that they are confident that a body in a burned cabin in Big Bear, California is believed to be that of Christopher Dorner, the fired former LAPD officer who is suspected of earlier killing three people, and was also the subject of an intense manhunt.
According to those sources, their confidence was based on the facts that the man who stole the truck fit Dormer's description -- that the same individual was chased to the house, that he tossed a green smoke grenade at the officers from inside the house, and used a fifty caliber weapon to fire on them. Based on the fact that the house was surrounded and no one was seen fleeing, the totality of the facts police agencies were advised that they believed there was a body inside and that it was Dorner's.
However, despite earlier media reports, LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith announced at a Tuesday evening press conference that the cabin was too hot for anybody to make entry, and that there has been no body located inside the cabin. The spokesman added that the cabin has yet been searched because the fire is still too hot for anyone to go in there.
The spokesman said the LAPD will continue to protect the LAPD officers that Dorner – accused of targeting police officers because he the LAPD fired him in 2008 – allegedly identified as potential threats in a letter made public last week.
Earlier, sources told CBS News, CNN and other media outlets that Dorner, who was suspected of killing four people, and was the subject of an intense manhunt, had died after being barricaded in a cabin that was later engulfed in flames.
The cabin in which Dorner was believed to be holed up in San Bernardino County, east of L.A, is in flames, CBS Station KCAL Los Angeles had reported. It followed after an earlier shootout Tuesday afternoon between the suspect and authorities that left one deputy killed and another wounded.
A law enforcement official, who wished to remain anonymous because the investigation is ongoing, told The Associated Press that the person believed to be the suspect never came out of the burning cabin.
CBS News correspondent Carter Evans, reported that tear gas was fired into the house, which was surrounded by authorities, before the fire broke out.
Dorner attracted a dragnet and a $1 million bounty on his head after three murders. Officials say he was targeting cops and their families in a rampage of revenge for his firing.
As KCAL reported, Dorner reportedly broke into a couple's home and tied them up -- possibly days ago -- before stealing their vehicle and fleeing the scene Tuesday afternoon. He was spotted by authorities around 1:30 p.m. and repeated gunshots were exchanged on Glass Road.
One of those gun battles was recorded by Evans, who was at the scene. A transcript of that audio as Evans reported follows:
"I hear some screaming. You heard all that gunfire. I see a team of sheriffs deputies in full-on fatigues running towards us right now. We are down on the ground behind the fields of our car right now with the doors open. I'm talking to you on speakerphone. We are right, right in the center of the action here. We are right where this is happening."
Evans later told "CBS Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley that the SWAT team had the cabin surrounded where Dorner is located at the moment and has been moving into position for the last hour or so. "We haven't heard a volley of gunfire like you heard there in the last hour or so," said Evans. "What we have heard are police officers firing tear gas into that building. They've also been laying down suppressive fire to keep Dorner from firing back at them while they've been moving officers into position."
Evans also reported that there are two police helicopters circling overhead, keeping an eye on things from the sky. On the ground, things seemed to have calmed down a bit as authorities seem to have moved into place.
As for whether there is anybody else with Dorner inside the cabin or if there are hostages, Evans said that is nothing at the moment to indicate that. "We have heard reports that may at one point have been someone inside that cabin with him but I've not been able to confirm that with the authorities. at least authorities standing around me right now think Christopher Dorner is the only one in that cabin."
According to KCAL, reporters in the vicinity were asked by the San Bernardino District Attorney's Office to abstain from tweeting about the developing situation.
Police say Dorner's rampage began a week and a half ago when a couple was murdered in Irvine, California. One of the victims was the daughter of a retired police captain who had defended Dorner in a disciplinary hearing that led to his firing by the LAPD police spotted Dorner early last Thursday but he escaped after allegedly shooting two Los Angeles cops.
He's also accused of ambushing two riverside policemen, killing one of them.
Investigators found Dorner's truck in the mountains northeast of L.A.
CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, who once headed up the major crimes division of the L.A.P.D. reported that there was some kind of confrontation Tuesday that involved a truck that, based on video, was kind of almost rammed into a snow bank and buried in the snow. that confrontation then spilled over with de deputies.
"It appears that Dorner may have been in that house for some time," said Miller. "Ironically, strangely or surprisingly, that house is located almost just across the street from the police command post where they've been running the search operation for a number of days, and not far from where his burned-out pickup truck was found."
According to Miller, the weapon Dorner is using is a sniper rifle -- a 50 caliber Barrett, an extraordinarily high-powered rifle, the kind used by the military. The SWAT resources on the scene from San Bernardino County have the house surrounded. Other armored vehicles and SWAT personnel are on the way from the city to assist if San Bernardino needs them.
Dorner was fired from the LAPD five years ago, when a department board determined that he falsely claimed another officer had kicked a suspect.
Asked about recent decision to reopen the case into Dorner's past with the LAPD, CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, former head of the Major Crimes Division of the LAPD, had earlier said on "CBS This Morning" the police may be testing Dorner.
"Dorner's manifesto says, 'I need to get my reputation back, and I didn't lie, and I shouldn't have been fired. But if I get justice, the killing stops,'" Miller said Tuesday. "I think if the department takes a step of, 'We'll take a second look at the case, if he is a man of his word, then the killing has to stop.' "
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BIG BEAR, CALIF. A man police believe to be the fugitive ex-Los Angeles officer wanted in three killings was barricaded inside a burning cabin Tuesday after a shootout in a California mountain town that left one deputy dead and another wounded.
The developments raised the possibility that the nearly week-old hunt for America's most wanted man might be coming to an end.
The cabin was on fire and smoke was coming from the structure in the late afternoon after police surrounded it in the snow-covered woods of Big Bear, a resort town about 80 miles east of Los Angeles.
Authorities have focused their hunt for Christopher Dorner there since they said he launched a campaign to exact revenge against the Los Angeles Police Department for his firing.
Authorities say Dorner threatened to bring "warfare" to LAPD officers and their families, spreading fear and setting off a search for him across three states and Mexico.
"Enough is enough. It's time for you to turn yourself in. It's time to stop the bloodshed," LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said earlier in the day at a news conference held outside police headquarters in Los Angeles, a starkly different atmosphere than last week when officials briefed the news media under tight security with Dorner on the loose.
If the man inside the cabin does prove to be Dorner, it will both lower tensions among the more than 40 targets police say he listed in an online rant.
It would also raise them for law enforcement officers who are engaged in a standoff with a former Navy reservist who has warned that he knows their tactics as well as they do.
Until Tuesday, authorities didn't know whether he was still near Big Bear, where they found his burned-out pickup last week.
Around 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, deputies got a report of a stolen vehicle, authorities said. The location was directly across the street from where law enforcement set up their command post on Thursday and not far from where Dorner's burned-out pickup was abandoned.
The people whose vehicle was stolen described the suspect as looking similar to Dorner. When authorities found the vehicle, the suspect ran into the forest and barricaded himself inside a cabin.
U.S. Forest Service spokesman John Miller said the first exchange of gunfire involved state Fish and Wildlife wardens at 12:42 p.m., and then there was a second exchange with San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies, two of whom were shot.
Police say Dorner began his run on Feb. 6 after they connected the slayings of a former police captain's daughter and her fiance with an angry Facebook rant they said he posted. Threats against the LAPD led officials to assign officers to protect officers and their families.
Within hours of the release of photos of the 6-foot, 270-pounder described as armed and "extremely dangerous," police say, Dorner unsuccessfully tried to steal a boat in San Diego to flee to Mexico and then ambushed police in Riverside County, shooting three and killing one.
Jumpy officers guarding one of the targets named in the rant in Torrance on Thursday shot and injured two women delivering newspapers because they mistook their pickup truck for Dorner's.
Police found charred weapons and camping gear inside the truck in Big Bear.
Helicopters using heat-seeking technology searched the forest from above while scores of officers, some using bloodhounds, scoured the ground and checked hundreds of vacation cabins -- many vacant this time of year -- in the area.
A snowstorm hindered the search and may have helped cover his tracks, though authorities were hopeful he would leave fresh footprints if hiding in the wilderness.
Dorner's anger with the department dated back at least five years, when he was fired for filing a false report accusing his training officer of kicking a mentally ill suspect. Dorner, who is black, claimed in the rant that he was the subject of racism by the department and fired for doing the right thing.
He said he would get even with those who wronged him as part of his plan to reclaim his good name.
"You're going to see what a whistleblower can do when you take everything from him especially his NAME!!!" the rant said. "You have awoken a sleeping giant."
Chief Charlie Beck, who initially dismissed the allegations in the rant, said he would reopen the investigation into his firing -- not to appease the ex-officer, but to restore confidence in the black community, which long had a fractured relationship with police that has improved in recent years.
Asked about recent decision to reopen the case into Dorner's past with the LAPD, CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, former head of the Major Crimes Division of the LAPD, said the police may be testing Dorner.
"Dorner's manifesto says, 'I need to get my reputation back, and I didn't lie, and I shouldn't have been fired. But if I get justice, the killing stops,'" Miller said on "CBS This Morning" Tuesday. "I think if the department takes a step of, 'We'll take a second look at the case, if he is a man of his word, then the killing has to stop.'"
One of the targets listed in the manifesto was former LAPD Capt. Randal Quan, who represented Dorner before the disciplinary board. Dorner claimed he put the interests of the department above his.
The first victims were Quan's daughter, Monica Quan, 28, a college basketball coach, and her fiance, Keith Lawrence, 27. They were shot multiple times in their car in a parking garage near their condo.
Dorner served in the Navy, earning a rifle marksman ribbon and pistol expert medal. He was assigned to a naval undersea warfare unit and various aviation training units, according to military records. He took leave from the LAPD for a six-month deployment to Bahrain in 2006 and 2007.


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Robert Morris University
The agreement makes 970 AM ESPN the flagship station and broadcast home for all Colonials games in football and men's basketball as well as for all home games in men's hockey.
The agreement also includes weekly coaches shows for the three programs, which will take place at various Buffalo Wild Wings as well as other locations in the Pittsburgh region and will feature head football coach Joe Walton, assistant head football coach John Banaszak, men's basketball head coach Andrew Toole and men's ice hockey head coach Derek Schooley.
"We are absolutely delighted to be affiliated with one of the top sports radio stations in Pittsburgh," Coleman said. "Thanks to 970 AM ESPN now being the new home of the Colonials, were are excited about expanding our brand recognition in the Pittsburgh market. We appreciate the recognition that we have evolved into a major player on the city's sports landscape."
Robert Morris football, men's basketball and home men's ice hockey games can be heard on 970 ESPN and on the station's website, www.970espn.com, as well as on iHeartRadio, Clear Channel's all-in-one free digital radio platform.
Pittsburgh Clear Channel, which owns 970 AM ESPN, currently carries the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers (WDVE-FM 102.5) and the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins (WXDX-FM 105.9 FM).


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Samantha Gridley won the No. 5 singles match in Harvard's victory over Cornell (Gil Talbot).
ITHACA, N.Y. – The No. 54 Harvard women's tennis team opened its Ivy League schedule with a 7-0 sweep of Cornell Friday afternoon. The victory moves the Crimson to .500 this season with a 6-6 record.
Doubles play kicked off the match with Hannah Morrill and Holly Cao defeating Christine Ordway and Ryann Young, 8-4, in the No. 2 match. Hideko Tachibana and Kristin Norton secured the doubles point for the Crimson after downing the Comolli sisters, Kelly and Shannon, 8-5, in the No. 1 match. Samantha Rosekrans and Natalie Blosser completed the doubles sweep for Harvard with an 8-4 win in the No. 3 match.
The winning ways continued in singles play for the Crimson, as Harvard won each match in straight sets. Holly Cao improved to 10-0 this spring, knocking off Ordway, 6-0, 6-3. Morrill picked up her second win of the day, taking the No. 6 match over Sarah O'Neil, 6-1, 6-3.
Matches No. 2 and 5 wrapped up next with Tachibana and Samantha Gridley each capturing two-set wins. Norton then toppled Sinziana Chis, 6-3, 6-4, in the No. 3 match. Play concluded after K. Comolli retired in the second set against Blosser after losing the first set 7-5.
The Crimson will take on Columbia tomorrow afternoon seeking a 2-0 start in Ancient Eight play.
Harvard 7 def. Cornell 0
1. Tachibana/Norton (HAR) def. K. Comolli/S. Comolli; 8-5
2. Morrill/Cao (HAR) def. Ordway/Young (COR); 8-4
3. Rosekrans/Blosser (HAR) def. Dumitrescu/Chis (COR); 8-4
1. Cao (HAR) def. Ordway (COR); 6-0, 6-3
2. Tachibana (HAR) def. Young (COR); 6-1, 6-4
3. Norton (HAR) def. Chis (COR); 6-3, 6-4
4. Blosser (HAR) def. K. Comolli (COR); 7-5, 1-2, ret.
5. Gridley (HAR) def. Dumitrescu (COR); 6-4, 6-1
6. Morrill (HAR) def. O'Neil (COR); 6-1, 6-3
Order of Finish
Doubles: 2, 1, 3
Singles: 1, 6, 2, 5, 3, 4


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Bumping for an update . . . OP how did things turn out?
Quote from: jpcher on May 26, 2012, 01:24:32 PMBumping for an update . . . OP how did things turn out?Since my last post, BIL wrote "I'm bringing the grill and kickball gear!" and Sister wrote "Only a week away!" (or something similar) on the Facebook event wall. Only one couple responded that they will not be attending, but no one else has commented anything. The count remains at 20-ish and the menu remains the same as well.The get together is this Saturday, so I'll be back to let everyone knows how it turned out.
What also made it difficult to figure out initially was that the guests invited didn't know each other well or some at all, so it wasn't a "norm" in our social group to have this kind of get together since we weren't a social group. Everyone had fun though and suggested we do it again!
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In Focus: Traditional Values
Bennie Logan Sustains an LSU Legacy
A quiet yet destructive force wears No. 18 this season, and junior defensive tackle Bennie Logan is one of the best and most unique to wear what some might call the holy grail of numbers at LSU.
However, Logan never dreamed of one day running onto the field wearing the No. 18.
"Never in this world did it register to me that I would be nominated to wear that number," Logan said. "I know the great history and honor behind it. There was no doubt in my mind that I would gladly wear that number and represent it with great pride and dignity."
The No. 18 has become an unconventional tradition at LSU. It started during the 2003 national championship season when quarterback Matt Mauck wore No. 18. When Mauck decided to take his talents to the NFL, the number was passed to fullback Jacob Hester. From there the number traveled to tight end Richard Dickson, running back Richard Murphy, and then last year, to safety Brandon Taylor.
In what has become quite the unique tradition, coaches, equipment staff and players pick a teammate to wear No. 18 based on who they believe will be a great leader and embody exceptional work ethic both on and off the field.
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There was no question that Logan was the man to honor this legacy.
"On and off the field, Bennie is as good as they come," defensive tackle Anthony Johnson said. "He is a great student and on the field he is a great leader. He plays his technique well and teaches younger guys how to get better."
Logan has become the designated leader of the Tigers because of how he carries himself with humility while still managing to be a powerhouse on the field.
On a team with so many dominating personalities, Logan's quiet and modest demeanor can often be overshadowed, but what he brings to the field every day is something no one can overpower.
"He is a very talented young man who has played very outstanding football for us," defensive coordinator John Chavis said. "It is important to have a guy that provides that kind of leadership. That leadership is not just during the game. It's every day."
Growing up in Coushatta, La., Logan was a small town boy looking to shine playing football.
"Coushatta is a very small town with a lot of talent but a lot of people didn't get the right recognition," Logan said. "People were never really given a chance."
In his senior year of high school Logan was playing for Class 2A Red River High School and even received the honor of being named First-Team All-State. However, Logan was overshadowed when it came to being recruited, and he knew that if he wanted to play college football he was going to have to work for it.
Logan began going the extra mile in the summer prior to his senior season by working on his strength, motor skills and overall performance. Offers started rolling in from small in-state schools and finally midway through his senior year Division I offers began to appear.
When the offer finally came to play for his home state Tigers, Logan knew that LSU is where he would be the happiest.
"When I came to LSU I felt right at home," Logan said. "Playing for your home state is a great honor and when Les Miles said he wanted me on this squad that was a great achievement to me. It showed others that hard work never goes unnoticed as long as you stay dedicated and continue to work, then anything is possible."
Three years later, Logan has made a distinct name for himself on one of America's most glorified teams.
Following a redshirt freshman year, Logan made his first career start in 2011 against Oregon with four tackles and a near interception. From there he earned Southeastern Conference Defensive Lineman of the Week against Mississippi State. Logan then rose to the challenge during the "Game of the Century" at Alabama and was responsible for one of the Tide's missed field goals, and when LSU and Alabama met for the second time in the New Orleans Superdome, Logan tied a career high with six tackles.
Prior to the 2012 season, Logan earned the Toby Caston Award for outstanding leadership on defense, and in just 23 career games, he has delivered 79 tackles, 10.5 tackles for loss and four sacks.
Even with great success, Logan remains a regular, humble guy off the field and he is quickly reminded to never forget where he came from.
"Sometimes you feel great because you made a few plays or your name is in the newspaper, but you always have to stay humble because in any given day it could all be gone," Logan said. "It's great to have that support from back home. They support me whether we win or lose."
Logan made LSU his home away from home and playing for his state's flagship school was an honor he quickly grew to love and appreciate.
"Playing for your home state is a great honor and to be able to have your friends and family come watch you play a game is a great thing," Logan said. "It gives kids back home hope that it can be done if you work hard, stay focused and take care of business on and off the field."
With all eyes set on another championship season, some fans may have been distracted by the unusual size of the traditional No. 18.
The 6-foot-3, 295-pound Logan is the first defensive lineman and quite possibly the largest player to have ever worn the No. 18 at LSU.
"If you look at the guys before me who wore No. 18 they were way smaller than me," Logan said. "So I've definitely been looked at a lot because it's a really small number, on a really big guy. I think the No. 18 fits me quite well though; I mean they literally had to make a bigger jersey to fit me."
Logan has tried to pattern his leadership after the greats before him, but only one No. 18 fits a player right now.
Through humility, great leadership and an overall sense of responsibility, the No. 18 fits the fiercely quiet big man quite nicely.


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South Korea's Kim Chi-woo struck seven minutes into stoppage-time to salvage a 1-1 draw away to bottom side Lebanon in a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday that put his relieved side top of Group A.
Kim's free-kick was deflected off the defensive wall into the net after Hassan Maatouk's 12th minute strike had put the unfancied hosts ahead in Beirut.
Maatouk raised Lebanon's hopes of pulling off an upset win when he slotted Mohamad Haidar's cross into the bottom left-hand corner of the South Korean goal.
The stunned Koreans went on the attack, but Lee Chung-yong hit the post after combining well with Lee Dong-gook.
The visitors mounted several raids, but Lebanese goalkeeper Abbas Hassan thwarted them time and again to preserve the hosts' lead at half-time.
After the break South Korea's forwards spurned a number of chances, but deep into stoppage-time found a fortunate equalizer when Kim's left-foot free-kick was deflected into the net.
Oman brightened their prospects of a maiden World Cup finals appearance with a 1-0 win over Iraq in a qualifier in Muscat on Tuesday.
Ismail al-Ajmi headed in a corner on the stroke of half-time and Oman's tight defense denied Iraq a goal in the second half to keep them at the bottom of Group B with five points from six matches.
Oman pocketed three points, much to the delight of their fans at Muscat's Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, to jump to second position in the group with one more match to play against Jordan.
Asian champions Japan, who earlier on Tuesday became the first side to qualify for next year's finals in Brazil, lead the group with 14 points, followed by Oman on nine.
Australia moved above Jordan on goal difference with both sides on seven points and having played one game fewer. The top two teams from the group qualify directly for the finals.
On a hot and humid day in Muscat that necessitated occasional drinks breaks for the players, both goalkeepers had a quiet first 30 minutes as neither Oman nor Iraq could create scoring opportunities.
Iraq finally managed to put together a couple of attacks, but neither yielded the elusive goal.
Ali Adnan's clumsy effort from the touchline sailed over the bar, while captain Younis Mahmoud got a long pass inside the box but could not dodge past the only defender between him and the goalkeeper.
Oman woke up after the half-hour mark, but striker Abdul Aziz Mubarak's spectacular overhead kick from 16m sailed over the bar.
Iraq stepped up their attack too and an unmarked Alaa Abdul Zahra got a long cross inside the box but Raed Saleh, who shone in the Oman defence, cleared the ball.
Before they could catch their breath, Oman's defence was shaken by Saif Salman's effort from 25 metres which narrowly missed the target.
Iran put their World Cup qualifying campaign back on track after Reza Ghoochannejhad's 66th-minute strike powered them to a 1-0 away win over Qatar on Tuesday.
Carlos Quiroz's team pocketed three points from the match at Doha's al-Sadd Stadium to sit third in Group A on 10 points, a point behind second-placed Uzbekistan and leaders South Korea.
The defeat has all but ended Qatar's hopes of a first World Cup finals appearance as they lie a further three points behind with one game to play — an away match against Uzbekistan.
Although the teams got off to a lively start in Doha, there was little goalmouth action with Mojtaba Jabari's 21st-minute effort from the edge of the Qatar box presenting the first goalkeeping test.