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I bet someone over at Fox was really hoping that this pair would take the bait and the ex-Marine would go all crazy on the Frenchman for being, well French. Luckily these folks didnt follow that carrot, but they do continue down the path started last week: one side is on a quest for cleanliness and the other is on a mission for emotion.
Whip it real good.
Stella, our retired Marine, has had a lousy nights sleep. She had to deal with a leaping crazy man chopping a spider into tiny pieces and a bathroom that was less than ideal. She wakes up and groggily heads to the kitchen only to find a dead mouse trapped under a glass baking dish. The camels back has broken, and Stella convenes a family meeting. She says that this crazy living has got to stop and the house needs to be thoroughly cleaned. She privately says Francois needs to cut out acting like a nutbag and do some work around the house. At first, Francois is what Tom Cruise and I would call glib, but later on in a private interview, he says he doesnt like being a slave to the house, so he doesnt like to clean. But he also says hes fallen under Stellas spell so he will act like a good slave and clean the house.
As much as Stella tries to whip that family into ship shape, Lisa is working on bringing out the emotional side of Jim. Its an odd sceneJim is sitting on the top of the jungle gym/slide thing in his back yard, and Lisa is mindlessly wandering around the yard. She voices over that she knew shed have a tough time with the military aspect of Jims life but shes grown to like him and see hes more than just another Marines dude. She broaches the subject of making puppets again with himshe seems to think that making puppets would be the cure to any and all emotional ills. (What the hell, send her over to the Middle East and lets give it a go. Cant hurt to try, right?) She sidles up to the puppet making by asking Jim what kind of tools he has because she wants to do the project with Breanna. Hes cool with that, because Bre likes crafts, but when she suggests he participate as well, he balks. Lisa says she sees a hurt little boy inside Jim and wants to try to draw him out.
Saving the poochs privates.
Cleaning day has arrived, and Stella has planned on deeply cleaning the whole houseshe wants to rid the abode of all the dead bugs, the live bugs, and mice carcasses. She finds dried up dog poop, and tells Francois to clean it up, but hes more interested in poking it with a pen. We then see Francois jumping around, acting his weird self, cleaning all manner of things. Hes got enough energy to power a small town, but his cleaning technique is less than refined. Finally, it is time for the coup de grace: washing the dog. Stella, Francois, and son Theo get the dog in the tub. Stella, barely able to stand the dog stench, directs the guys in cleaning the dog, who seriously wants out of that tub. They finally get the dog soaped up, and the dog calms down, and almost seems to enjoy it. Or maybe she enjoys mocking the people who are scrubbing her up. Stella barks orders, and Francois says its like being in a war zone, like hes in Viet Nam operating on a GI to save his life. Stella then demands that Theo clean the dogs privates with a washcloth. Francois does not like the idea of his son touching the dog like that, but relents. Then, in what could be one of the most disgusting scenes, Francois washes his face with the same washcloth that Theo used to clean the dogs backside. Disgusting, sure, but nevertheless it was quite hilarious.
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Lisa and Breanna have obviously been to the craft supply store. Theyve got colored modeling clay and some Styrofoam balls to make their puppets. Lisa helps Bre start her puppet while Jim does some dishes, and, after a while, Bre asks Jim to join them. Jim says in the interview segment that he wouldnt normally do puppet making, but hell do anything to make his daughter happy so he went along. He ended up making a crazy guy puppet with a hooked nose, teeth that he pulled out of some stash of maybe Halloween stuff he had in his garage, and punk hair. The puppet was really cute and funny. Lisa was surprised at how much Jim enjoyed himself and she thought they really had a breakthrough on his emotional level. Of course, this all supports her theory that puppets are the key to world peace. Maybe Ws plan to send more troops to Iraq should be revised to send 20,000 puppet makers to Iraq. Thats a lot of modeling clay and Styrofoam.
The road to hell and bad puppetry are paved with good intentions.
After a hard day of cleaning, Francois decides everyone should go out for dinner. His goal is to find out what makes Stella tick. So, he starts out asking her why she joined the Marines, which is a fair enough question. She tells him that her dad committed suicide when she was five and her mom never really recovered, so she had a really hard time when she was little. She eventually moved in with her older sister, who was married to a Marine, so after high school, she enrolled in the Marines too. She said she had a lot of anger at her father for a long time, but has let go of the anger and just pain is left. Francois privately says he is amazed at this story and he finally sees that Stella is a survivor of a tremendous tragedy that she did not deserve. He decides he wants to show her a vision of paradise and that she can evolve her life into happiness.
Francois method for such a demonstration is to put on a puppet show. Now, I dont know about you, but puppet shows to me are some puppets being moved around and they act out a story, maybe voiced by someone off stage or behind a curtain, or very high up like a marionette. Francois approach is far different. He first hands Stella some pretty flowers, which she loves, and then he asks her to come in to another room because hes got something to show her. Based on what I know of Francois, that last statement would give me pause. Stella does follow him in to the other room where he proceeds to put on the show of her life. He picks up a different puppet for each character, but then puts them down. Hes mainly using a pointer, indicating which puppet hes talking about. Then he make a grand statement at the end about finding happiness, while pointing at a painting. The guys aim is admirable, but his presentation skills are lacking. Stella appreciates what hes trying to do and thanks him.
These candles are killing me.
Its time for the wives to write their disbursement letters. Have you all noticed that each and every time, whether it be indoors, out of doors, in the toilet, on the roof, in a swimming pool, whatever, the wives always have a candle burning when they write these letters? I know theyve got to do the wax thing for the seal, but couldnt they just get those sealing waxes with the wick in them? In any event, Stella and Lisa sit down to write their letters then tell the families that it is time to leave.
Lisa says she wouldnt normally hang out with Jim and the military type, but shes learned to appreciate him and will miss him and Breanna. Jim also says that Lisa is a good woman and hell miss her. Stella similarly says that shes come to appreciate Francois zaniness and abundant energy. She even poses with him in a picture styled in an homage to American Gothic, suitably re-titled Franco American Gothic, in which Francois is dressed in his beret and typical French attire, and she has a beret on and holds the big bakers paddle thingamajig that pushes bread in an oven.
These people are too polite.
Eventually the moms depart in taxis and meet up at yet another large house with a little table and two chairs in a big, otherwise empty, room. Stella is anxious to meet Lisa and wants to bring up the housekeeping issues, which she does. She first says that she had a great time and the family is awesome, and Francois is full of energy, but the house was dirty and the accommodations were less than stellar. Lisa says shes sorry for that, but shes the major income provider and has to do the bulk of the cleaning, and some things dont get done. Stella says she tried to whip Francois into shape on that issue, and Lisa seems kind of pleased at that notion.
Lisa then says she anticipated having problems with Jim because of the military issues, saying that she didnt like the guns and didnt like glorifying violence and war. But she goes on to say that Jim, despite having issues opening up emotionally, really came out of his shell when they made puppets and suggests that Stella continue to encourage him to be more feeling. Stella says she loves her husband and will always encourage him. She then says that shes happy and sad that this journey has come to an end. At the uttering of this sentence, Chris Harrison jumps out from the curtains with a couple of roses and some champagne.
Cash distribution is always an issue/Please, someone, pass the tissue.
Lisa arrives home to big hugs from her family. Stella also gets hugs and a cake and roses (Chris Harrison must have stopped off there first). Both moms are thrilled to be home, but Stella cries more with joy. Finally, its time for the disbursement report.
Stella has divided the money for Lisas family in a very lovely letter thusly: $10,000 for the kids college fund (whether it was $10K each or $10K total was a bit fuzzy); $1,000 for a bed and breakfast getaway for Francois and Lisa, $9,000 for fixing up the house; $10,000 for the puppet studio; and $9,000 for expanding the bakery. Despite Foxs promo the contrary, they are thrilled with this result. Lisa summarizes her experience as reaffirming her love for her unique family.
Lisa divvied up the money for Stellas family via poetry. And poorly written poetry at thatno consistent rhyme scheme, meter or mode. Shes as bad at poetry as Francois is at puppetry. This is how it shook out: $3,000 for Jim to use on his boat and boating accessories; $5,000 to Breanna to experience life; $5,000 to Breanna to travel the world (now remember, Breanna is 10 years old); $10,000 for natural/organic foods, $20,000 to fix up the basement, and $6,000 for a dinner table and fancy plates. They arent all that thrilled with this distribution. Stella thinks that much money for Breanna is inappropriate. She also says shes got a beautiful table so she doesnt get the last item. On the other hand, I kept seeing them eat off of paper plates with plastic forks so maybe she wanted them to order some nice Quimper faience. Jim is outdone with the idea of spending $10,000 on organic foods, when hes prefer a steak. Jim needs to wise up because steak can be organic in the food sense, and is definitely organic in the Organic Chemistry sense. But, like Lisa, Stella concludes that she is very blessed and really appreciates her family.
Tune in next week when the infamous God Warrior is back. It will probably take all my restraint not to hop in the car, drive 45 minutes, and slap that woman into next week. If no recap is posted, Im likely in jail for assault and will jail house post for bail money. ;)


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Component Architecture
The following diagram shows the three-tier architecture of a Reporting Services deployment. It shows the report server database and data sources in the data tier, the report server components in the middle tier, and the client applications and built-in or custom tools in the presentation tier. It shows the flow of requests and data among the server components and which components send and retrieve content from a data store. For more information about how connections are made at run time, see Planning for Services, Accounts, and Connections.
Architecture Diagram
The report server includes three applications that run in the same Windows service:
Report Manager, which is represented by the Report Manager component in the diagram. Report Manager is a browser application that provides front-end access to the Reporting Services Web service.
Reporting Services Web service, which is represented by the Web service components in the diagram. This application handles on-demand, interactive report processing.
Background processing application, which is represented by the Windows service components in the diagram. This application processes reports that are triggered from a schedule and delivers reports to target destinations.
For more information about each application, see Service Architecture (Reporting Services).
Data Storage
The report server is a stateless server that stores all properties, objects, and metadata in a SQL Server database. Stored data includes published reports, report models, and the folder hierarchy that provides the addressing for all items managed by the report server. A report server database can provide internal storage for a single Reporting Services installation or for multiple report servers that are part of a scale-out deployment.
The report server supports custom authentication extensions, data processing extensions, report processing extensions, rendering extensions, and delivery extensions. A report server requires at least one authentication extension, data processing extension, and rendering extension. Delivery and custom report processing extensions are optional, but necessary if you want to support report distribution or custom controls.
Security Extensions
Security extensions are used to authenticate and authorize users and groups to a report server. The default security extension is based on Windows Authentication. You can also create a custom security extension to replace default security if your deployment model requires a different authentication approach (for example, if you require forms-based authentication for Internet or extranet deployment). Only one security extension can be used in a single Reporting Services installation. You can replace the default Windows Authentication security extension, but you cannot use it alongside a custom security extension.
Data Processing Extensions
Data Processing extensions are used to query a data source and return a flattened row set. Reporting Services uses different extensions to interact with different types of data sources. You can use the extensions that are included in Reporting Services, or you can develop your own extensions. Data processing extensions for SQL Server, Analysis Services, Oracle, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, Hyperion Essbase, Teradata, OLE DB, and ODBC data sources are provided. Reporting Services can also use any ADO.NET data provider. Data processing extensions process query requests from the Report Processor component by performing the following tasks:
Open a connection to a data source.
Analyze a query and return a list of field names.
Run a query against the data source and return a rowset.
Pass parameters to a query, if required.
Iterate through the rowset and retrieve data.
Some extensions can also perform the following tasks:
Analyze a query and return a list of parameter names used in the query.
Analyze a query and return the list of fields used for grouping.
Analyze a query and return the list of fields used for sorting.
Provide a user name and password to connect to the data source.
Pass parameters with multiple values to a query.
Iterate through rows and retrieve auxiliary metadata.
For more information, see Adding Data to a Report (Report Builder 3.0 and SSRS).
Rendering Extensions
Rendering extensions transform data and layout information from the Report Processor into a device-specific format. Reporting Services includes seven rendering extensions: HTML, Excel, CSV, XML, Image, PDF, and Microsoft Word.
HTML Rendering Extension When you request a report from a report server through a Web browser, the report server uses the HTML rendering extension to render the report. The HTML rendering extension generates all HTML using UTF-8 encoding. For more information, see Rendering to HTML (Report Builder 3.0 and SSRS) and Planning for Browser Support.
Excel Rendering Extension The Excel rendering extension renders reports that can be viewed and modified in Microsoft Excel 97 or later. This rendering extension creates files in Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF). BIFF is the native file format for Excel data. Reports that are rendered in Microsoft Excel support all of the features available for any spreadsheet. For more information, see Exporting to Microsoft Excel (Report Builder 3.0 and SSRS).
CSV Rendering Extension The Comma-Separated Value (CSV) rendering extension renders reports in comma-delimited plain text files, without any formatting. Users can then open these files with a spreadsheet application, such as Microsoft Excel, or any other program that reads text files. For more information, see Exporting to a CSV File (Report Builder 3.0 and SSRS).
XML Rendering Extension The XML rendering extension renders reports in XML files. These XML files can then be stored or read by other programs. You can also use an XSLT transformation to turn the report into another XML schema for use by another application. The XML generated by the XML rendering extension is UTF-8 encoded. For more information, see Exporting to XML (Report Builder 3.0 and SSRS).
Image Rendering Extension The Image rendering extension renders reports to bitmaps or metafiles. The extension can render reports in the following formats: BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and WMF. By default, the image is rendered in TIFF format, which can be displayed with the default image viewer of your operating system (for example, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer). You can send the image to a printer from the viewer. Using the Image rendering extension to render reports ensures that the report looks the same on every client. (When a user views a report in HTML, the appearance of that report can vary depending on the version of the user's browser, the user's browser settings, and the fonts that are available.) The Image rendering extension renders the report on the server, so all users see the same image. Because the report is rendered on the server, all fonts that are used in the report must be installed on the server. For more information, see Exporting to an Image File (Report Builder 3.0 and SSRS).
PDF Rendering Extension The PDF rendering extension renders reports in PDF files that can be opened and viewed with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 or later. For more information, see Exporting to a PDF File (Report Builder 3.0 and SSRS).
Microsoft Word Rendering Extension The Microsoft Word rendering extension renders a report as a Word document that is compatible with Microsoft Office Word 2000 or later. For more information, see Exporting to Microsoft Word (Report Builder 3.0 and SSRS).
Report Processing Extensions
Report processing extensions can be added to provide custom report processing for report items that are not included with Reporting Services. By default, a report server can process tables, charts, matrices, lists, text boxes, images, and other report items. If you want to add special features to a report that require custom processing during report execution (for example, if you want to embed a Microsoft MapPoint map), you can create a report processing extension to do so.
Delivery Extensions
The background processing application uses delivery extensions to deliver reports to various locations. Reporting Services includes an e-mail delivery extension and a file share delivery extension. The e-mail delivery extension sends an e-mail message through Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) that includes either the report itself or a URL link to the report. Short notices without the URL link or report can also be sent to pagers, phones, or other devices. The file share delivery extension saves reports to a shared folder on your network. You can specify a location, rendering format, and file name, and overwrite options for the file you create. You can use file share delivery for archiving rendered reports and as part of a strategy for working with very large reports. Delivery extensions work in conjunction with subscriptions. When a user creates a subscription, the user chooses one of the available delivery extensions to determine how the report is delivered.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 2, 2013) – For the first time this academic year and the fourth time in his career, Oklahoma Christian's Sam Johnston was named Wednesday as the Heartland Conference's men's golfer of the week.
Johnston, a sophomore from San Diego, earned medalist honors for the third time in his career by taking the Western New Mexico Fall Intercollegiate at The Golf Course at Estrella (par 72, 7,139 yards) in Goodyear, Ariz. Johnston posted a three-round score of 7-under-par 209 to top the 98-man field.
He posted three consecutive under-par rounds, improving his score with each round. He fired an impressive 4-under on the back nine of his final round, hitting his approach shot on No. 18 to within five feet of the hole before making the birdie putt to finish off a round of 68.
Johnston, a Division II All-America second-team selection last year, led the No. 21-ranked Eagles to their second team title in three tournaments this fall. The tournament field included schools from the Heartland, Lone Star and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conferences, as well as three squads from California.
Three times as a freshman, Johnston was named as the Heartland's player of the week. An OC player captured that honor seven times during the 2012-13 campaign. Johnston is the first to do so during the 2013-14 academic year.


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Having been active professionally in the pond industry for more than 30 years, you would think that I'd seen it all and then some. Nope, not even close. Actually, when I think about it, it brings humor to my life, and that you just can't buy.
I thought I'd share some of these anecdotes with you in an effort to serve two purposes; first, for your hopeful entertainment, and second, for your enlightenment, mixed with the smile on your face.
I've learned by seeing, assessing and fixing thousands of ponds, done by do-it-yourselfers or "certified" high dollar so-called "professionals". There's always some individual walking around with a rubber mallet, looking for another anvil to break. These highly qualified, enthusiastic budding 'engineers' (actually blooming idiots) never cease to amaze me with their new way to build a square wheel . . . upside down and sideways.
Having taught many seminars to potential "pond professionals," I know from personal experience that many manufacturers and large distributors in our industry have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on hosting, training and educational seminars. There is no charge for many of these seminars, and for those who do charge, the fee is nominal. These manufacturers realize that by offering this training, they get a higher return on investment (ROI). Another thing it does is point out those who are interested in learning the right way to install and size equipment.
There has never been, well at least not in the last 10 or 12 years, a shortage of high-caliber professional contractors offering instruction and education, financially sponsored by major industry players. The problem has been the male ego.
I've got the T-shirt in my closet, given to me many years ago by a loving wife, that boldly states: "Real Men Don't Need Instructions." Just for giggles, I wear it into Home Depot every now and then. It never fails—I have always been stopped by more than one woman who has read it and wants to know where she can get one for her dad, father, husband, brother or uncle. That is a real problem in our industry that needs to be overcome. We do need instructions, especially when it comes to our profession. With new products coming out, we need to understand the differences between the old and the new, so that we can do a better job.
The most common thought process goes something like this—short and sweet: "How tough can it be, dig a hole, throw in some liner and rocks and add water?" I know, I've seen it and I've been there, even though it was 35 years ago. Wow, do they think a heart bypass is that easy, too?
You've got to become educated on water quality, bacteriology, fluid hydraulics, friction loss on pipes and fittings, fish health, aquatic plants, and how to determine the proper size of a pump, plumbing, filtration, turnover and much more. A one-day seminar does not a pond professional make. A lifetime of dedicated self-improvement will, if you pay attention.
How many of you have seen skimmer throat plates installed upside down? How about in the same skimmer they run the plumbing out the overflow opening, screwing up the leaf basket, and run the overflow out the plumbing hole with no bulkhead? What about using shallow soil pipe in the skimmer? Have you seen schedule 40 fitting, with flex PVC pipe, glued together with clear PVC glue? Didn't the person that made that installation realize that it was the wrong glue? Didn't he realize that after the one-year warranty runs out, three weeks later, it all falls apart? Oh, and the autofill is set to shut off 1/2-inch higher than the overflow pipe.
And yet, they continue to do it over and over and . . . well, I think you get the picture. By the way, I've recently repaired two systems with these exact problems. Within three days, these two calls came in. The unfortunate thing is, they were installed by a contractor who was "certified" by the manufacturer.
How about this one? A happy new pond owner, bubbling with enthusiasm, who's buying three of every chemical offered at the nearest pond store and gleefully dancing around the pond like Johnny Appleseed, throwing in enough chemicals, ignoring label directions, to cause the pond to spontaneously combust . . . or almost.
Of course, the fish are the first casualties in this scenario. Then you've got the homeowner who power feeds his fish to the point that the water is so choked and green from algae that deer are drowning in it after trying to walk across the "meadow."
He refuses to cut back because he feels guilty about starving them—they are so hungry all the time, they must need food. Not.
Anybody gone to a leaking pond and found the liner cut 1/2-inch lower than the level in the stream, or the pond? Have you seen 6000gph pumps on one-inch clear vinyl tubing? Or even better, with the barbed fitting that came with the pump used for a 5/8-inch garden hose?
Have you seen waterfalls that look like someone piled up an oversized stack of marbles and foamed them in with enough foam to insulate Carnegie Hall? Oversized pumps in undersized skimmers? "Pondless" features back-filled with small pea gravel that has clogged all the openings in the vault and has even filled the bottom of the vault to the point where the gravel has beaten the impellers flat? They couldn't pump water any more, even if they could get enough from the top opening of the vault.
If you've noticed the high number of questions, and if you don't know the answers, you need some education and information. It's readily available if you can just get past your male ego and ask. The International Pond Professional Companies Association's (IPPCA) INFO TANZA multiple-day educational workshops at this year's Irrigation Show in San Diego, California, comes to mind.
In closing, there are many things that are done wrong in our industry. That doesn't mean that they have to be done wrong. There is a plethora of high quality products from multiple manufacturers available to us pond professionals.
Many years ago, I built a website called Pondcleanout.com. It's not a beautiful site, unless you're there for information. That, its got. I included an article/seminar guide sheet in the related topics section titled Back to Basic Pondbuilding. In this article, I list the 16 most common mistakes made by pondbuilders, both amateur and professionals alike, that I've seen in my career. I could have done a top 100, but. . . . You might want to check it out. I've always felt it was easier to learn about our chosen profession than breaking an anvil with a rubber mallet. Of course, that's just me. I'm not as talented as some.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dave Jones is the owner of The Pond Professional, Woodstock, Georgia. In writing this article, although these are serious problems, Jones adds a little levity just to keep it light.


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We're no experts on medical research. Nonetheless, we offer this humble safety tip to those who are: When conducting experiments on deadly pathogens, safety protocols must be extremely restrictive and strictly followed. Always.
It should go without saying, but amazingly, employees at the until now revered Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta didn't get the memo. The nation's pre-eminent medical research laboratory has been rocked by revelations of scientists' sloppy handling of anthrax and an extremely dangerous strain of the deadly bird flu. (This around the time the also highly respected National Institutes of Health found a box of smallpox vials lying around a storage area. It had been there for 60 years, but still, not a good summer for health institutions.)
Among its many functions, the CDC actually sets safety and security standards for dealing with dangerous pathogens, but its own internal investigation revealed that it has not always lived up to the standards itself. It's pretty much a miracle that people haven't been killed.
The CDC was first embarrassed by the news that dozens of laboratory employees at its headquarters might have been exposed to anthrax samples through improper handling of the deadly pathogen.
As Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the director of the CDC, was preparing to release details of his investigation to the public, he learned that CDC workers had shipped a strain of the H5N1 avian influenza virus to a research lab run by the Department of Agriculture.
Frieden discovered that the incident -- which was at least as dangerous as the anthrax mishap -- occurred in late May, and while some employees knew about it, CDC's top management wasn't told until July 7.
Frieden conducted an investigation of that incident as well and last week released his report on both. It was candid and critical of senior staff members for failing to write a proper plan for the anthrax study, and it found that the agency was not prepared to respond to an employee being exposed to anthrax.
Frieden has ordered an immediate review of all protocols at the highest-security labs and plans to bring in outside experts to form an advisory group on lab safety.
Some argue that the CDC should have oversight from an agency with subpoena powers comparable to the National Transportation Safety Board. Let's see what Frieden's approach does first.
Frieden has taken responsibility and what appears to be appropriate action to fix the problems. A distinguished external advisory group should be sufficient to ensure that all labs are operated safely. That, and a little more common sense.


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Ben Seys is a Belgian graphic designer and illustrator. He studied animation at the RITS School of Art in Brussels, and has worked on several TV and film productions since. In his spare time, he makes illustrations for newspapers and educational books. He is also the creator of comic strips like 'Wieger', 'Dino, the Saurus', 'Eratos' (with Sascha van Laeken) and 'Eddy & Caddy', the latter being his monthly comic for Play Golf.
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Submission + - Another Cable Provider Takes Aim At A Muni Broadband Provider (bizjournals.com)
acidradio writes: The city of Monticello, MN (about an hr. drive north of Minneapolis) decided to roll out its own city-wide broadband network after all of the local phone and cable providers shafted them with either expensive or no service at all. Ironically carriers that never wanted to offer any kind of significant broadband in Monticello went to court and the Public Utilities Commission to fight Monticello's construction of this network! If they can't sell the broadband in Monticello nobody else can? Providers testified that it was not feasible for any of them to offer broadband or they could only offer it at low speeds for ripoff prices. After all that Charter is now offering a combined TV/DVR/cable modem package for $60/mo which is normally offered in other communities for significantly more than that. Maybe competition does help the consumer here!


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"Coriolanus," directed by Ralph Fiennes, 122 minutes
Why make a film of a play by William Shakespeare? If it's one of the warhorse tragedies, reason enough might be to put one's stamp upon the public consciousness of an eternal work. But why film a relatively obscure play? Why contend with what, to a contemporary audience, is alienating language when you're going to have to cut most of it anyway to bring the text down to film-appropriate length? What news can the play bring us that is so urgent that it can only be told through translation onto the screen?
My questions are prompted by a recent film adaptation, "Coriolanus," directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes. Shakespeare's play is set in the early years of the Roman Republic. The background to the action is the persistent conflict between the land-owning and money-lending patricians and the debt-crushed plebeians (a conflict resolved only by enslaving first the neighboring Italian states, then the rest of the Mediterranean). The hero, Gaius Marcius, later surnamed Coriolanus, is the consummate warrior but cannot make the transition from martial to political leader. Outmaneuvered by cynical politicians and banished from the city by the people who only moments earlier had chosen him for consul, he allies with his former foes to destroy Rome, the city he spent his life defending from enemies foreign and domestic—only to falter at the last moment at the urging of his indomitable mother.
Whether we view Coriolanus's career as tragic in a political sense or not depends on our views of the martial virtues and their place in political life. The Victorians were quite enamored of Coriolanus, and especially of his mother, Volumnia. The play was also notably popular in Germany both before and during the Nazi period. The common thread between the play and two rather different European societies is the tension between a martial/aristocratic ethic and modern, mass politics. The play was banned in Germany by the Allied occupation and retained a power in the postwar era owing to the Nazi connection. Bertolt Brecht spent his last years working on his own version of the play, one that "corrected" Shakespeare to reinforce the theme of class struggle, and in the 1950s Peter Hall directed Sir Laurence Olivier in a production that climaxed with the title character hanged upside-down like Benito Mussolini.
But we are far from the fascist era today, and farther still from the faded ideal of martial aristocracy. Our societies wear the imperial burden lightly. The fraction that is actively engaged in military service is strained heavily indeed, but it is a very small fraction, and our elite families are hardly inclined to raise their children, as Marcius was raised by Volumnia, in the Spartan fashion. An anti-fascist production of Coriolanus would be pointless.
Indeed, it is easier to see how a contemporary staging could become a kind of paean to these lost martial aristocratic virtues—a filmic treatment in particular, by bringing us very close to Coriolanus, would be likely to draw us into identification with his own perspective on his tragedy: that the people of Rome simply weren't worthy of a man like him. Fiennes does something less satisfying but more interesting than this, more true to the spirit of Shakespeare's sneakily Brechtian play. Instead of staging our fantasies of a redemptive figure of martial virtue, Fiennes gives us a hero who is living out that fantasy without knowing it and uses him to take that fantasy apart.
Fiennes has set his film in the vague present of contemporary stagecraft. The geography is Balkan—the film was shot partly in Serbia—but the cast has the multiracial "no-place" look of colorblind casting, and the polyglottal "no-place" sound of actors using their native accents; this cuts against any interpretation of the piece as representing the actual Balkans. Marcius's principal political enemies, the tribunes Brutus and Sicinius are portrayed as smarmy Labour politicians; his principal martial enemy—Aufidius, commander of the Volscians—is attired as a Che Guevara-esque revolutionary; and Coriolanus himself, when he joins with the Volscians to make war on Rome, affects the skinhead stylings of the lumpen-right.
This vagueness blunts the political edge of the play, and Fiennes blunts it in other ways as well. For all the blood spilled in battle, he keeps Marcius's ferocity towards the people of Rome largely verbal—a news bulletin announces that he has "suspended civil liberties" and riot police disperse a mob that gathers at the city granaries, but they do it with truncheons, not with a hail of bullets. Presumably, one reason for this choice is to keep us from turning against our protagonist prematurely, but he also neuters the political argument on the patrician's side. Menenius, a patrician senator, has a famous speech early on defending his class to that same mob by analogizing the city to a body with the patricians as the stomach, taking in the nutriment and distributing it as appropriate. The speech is self-serving but entirely sincere—Menenius is a sympathetic figure—and the argument should be familiar to pretty much all defenders of capitalism. But Fiennes cuts it; Menenius appears momentarily on television and is ignored by the mob.
These choices further remove any likelihood of a specific political interpretation of the movie. "Left" and "right" get their stylings, but neither really gets to make an argument as such. What we are watching, as it turns out, is more than anything a Shakespearean action movie.
But that is an interesting thing to watch—and an interesting place for Fiennes to rest his critique. Shakespeare's Marcius is already an action hero—before the end of Act I, we've seen him practically single-handedly conquering the Volscian city of Corioli, which is how he wins his new name. His actions come off as rather mad in the Shakespeare—by succeeding, he won himself a name, but he risked the success of his entire mission on his own arms. In Fiennes's movie, which must adhere to action-movie tropes, the absurdity of what we are viewing is even more obvious. Marcius and Aufidius throw down their guns and engage in single combat with knives, only to fall through a window and be blown away from each other by an explosion. We can't avoid noticing that Marcius's action-movie antics have no military purpose. We're told that he took the city single-handedly, but we don't see him actually do anything that looks like that; we just see him showboating with a dagger.
When we then meet Marcius's terrifying mother, Volumnia, the intimacy of the screen pays off enormously. Vanessa Redgrave delivers a knockout performance in the role, and her chemistry with Fiennes is sizzling. But more even than usual, she comes off as a type of stage mother, demanding a performance from her son more than anything; the "honor" that Marcius wins by his new wounds are like trophies won by a tiger mother's prize cub. When she pushes her son to flatter the people to win their voices for the consulship, he protests, "would you have me/ False to my nature? Rather say I play/ The man I am." Redgrave's Volumnia gives him a look as if to say: really? Are you that limited a performer that you can only play the man you are?
Coriolanus protests that he is a man of action, not an actor. He will not flatter the people; he will not speak in his own defense; he will not show his wounds. Even when others praise him, he hides from hearing it. This isn't just aristocratic disdain, it's the desire to be found rather than to seek. Below the conscious level, he knows his whole life has been a performance for his mother's benefit, an acting out of her dreams, her demands; his reticence to perform for others is a demand that somebody value him for exactly the man he is, not the part he's playing. But this demand is itself a theatrical gesture.
His feigned reticence is very close to that of the traditional action-movie star: a man remote, self-defined and self-created, who doesn't take orders easily, who acts out of his own motives and not for recognition. But we, in this respect, are in the role of Volumnia. The action star's "actions" are performances, enacted for us, to show us our dreams and demands for self-creation through violence. Cameras, and camera phones, are everywhere in the movie; there's not a moment that isn't being filmed by somebody, and Fiennes's Coriolanus flees their gaze. But he does not flee the gaze of the movie camera that Fiennes himself is directing. That camera he courts.
And from within the movie, the contradiction between what Coriolanus asserts he is—a man of action—and what he really is—a man of image—continues to ramify down to the end. We see even less of Coriolanus's martial prowess after his defection than before. So far as we can tell, the only benefit he's brought to the Volscians is knowledge of the Roman defenses—the kind of information any high-placed traitor could bring. But he affects an aura, of utter indifference to the consequences of his actions, which is infectious. The Voslcian men ape him, shaving their heads by firelight. They've got an action star in their midst, and they want to be like him. Which means to look like him.
When Coriolanus's mother shows up, and points out the obvious—that he's a traitor if he attacks Rome, and will earn no honor thereby; that his actions do not exist in a vacuum but have context and consequences—Coriolanus succumbs quickly and comprehensively. Aufidius mocks him later for surrendering at "a few drops of women's rheum, which are/ As cheap as lies," but he did not give in out of sentiment. He'd lost his audience—the only audience that actually mattered to him. But once he must play the politician and make peace—however honorable—Coriolanus is easily dispatched, defeated by his need to be seen as an action hero, the man who took Corioli single-handedly.
Fiennes's "Coriolanus" undermines the action hero by showing us how his apparent preference for action over acting is an inversion of the truth—literally, in that an action hero is just an actor playing a part, but also by highlighting that the hero's actions only have meaning inasmuch as they are a performance for an audience, an acting-out of that audience's fantasies. To the extent that Fiennes's movie has a political point to make, that point relates to the ways we look for action-hero characteristics in our own politicians—and, beyond this, the ways we interpret the actions of our own warriors through the lens of the action genre.
Western societies are no longer mobilized en masse around the fantasy of self-creation through violence. But we live out that fantasy at one remove through the actions of our representatives on a global field of battle who we increasingly conceive in action-hero terms as armies of one.
Noah Millman blogs for The American Conservative at TheAmericanConservative.com/Millman.


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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has postponed the Falcon 9 v1.1's first mission to geostationary transfer orbit until Nov. 28, as mission managers sort out a liquid-oxygen pressurization issue on the rocket's first stage.
The planned Nov. 25 mission was to carry the Orbital Sciences Corp.-built SES-8 satellite to a supersynchronous transfer orbit of 295 km x 80,000 km altitude and an inclination of 20.75 deg. for Luxembourg-based SES, the world¹s second largest commercial fleet operator by revenue.
The first stage pressurization anomaly was among a series of what appeared to be minor technical setbacks during a 66-min. launch window that opened at 5:37 p.m. EST at SpaceX's Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla.
The Falcon 9 v1.1 and its SES-8 payload are now slated to launch at 5:38 EST Nov. 28. If successful, the mission would give SpaceX entree to the commercial launch market and position the company to unseat United Launch Alliance (ULA), a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture that holds a virtual monopoly on NASA, U.S. Air Force and intelligence community missions.
"We're hoping to provide a forcing function for increased competitiveness in the launch vehicle industry and potentially for improving the technology across the board," SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk stated in a pre-launch conference call with reporters Nov. 24, adding that SpaceX competitors will have to quickly catch up or risk losing "significant market share" to the Falcon 9.
"They are now going to need to improve their rocket technology in order to compete, and that¹s a good thing for the future of space," Musk says.
About two minutes before the launch window opened at 5:37 p.m. EST, SpaceX said engineers were troubleshooting a first-stage liquid-oxygen vent anomaly, and the countdown was set to a launch target of 5:54 p.m. EST.
At T-6:11, mission managers stopped the clock as the vehicle's first stage transitioned to an internal power supply. At 6 p.m. EST, the clock was once again reset to T-13 minutes as engineers changed telemetry limits on the power supply.
At 6:12 p.m., with the power-supply issue resolved, the launch was recycled to 6:30 p.m. It was then put on hold at T-3:41 owing to a problem raising the strongback support into position. Minutes later the launch was scrubbed owing to a liquid-oxygen ullage on the first stage.
SpaceX says despite the anomalies, the Falcon 9 v1.1 could launch SES-8 Nov. 26. But it says that the mission must be postponed until Nov. 28 due to FAA airspace restrictions associated with heavy traffic in the days leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.


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Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome pilot has started production in VancouverProduction has begun in Vancouver on Syfy's highly anticipated 2-hour pilot, Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, the all-new chapter in the Battlestar Galactica saga. Universal Cable Productions will produce the event with Syfy utilizing cutting edge CGI and virtual technology.
Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome takes place in the 10th year of the first Cylon war. As the battle between humans and their creation, the sentient robotic Cylons, rages across the 12 colonial worlds, a young, talented fighter pilot, William Adama (Luke Pasqualino), finds himself assigned to one of the most powerful Battlestars in the Colonial fleet: the Galactica. Full of ambition and in pursuit of the intense action that the Cylon war promises, Adama quickly find himself at odds with Coker (Ben Cotton), the battle-weary officer to whom he reports. With 47 days left in his tour of duty, Coker desires an end to battle just as much as Adama craves the start of it. Though they clash at first, the two men forge an unlikely bond when a routine mission turns dangerous and becomes a pivotal one for the desperate fleet.
Joining Pasqualino and Cotton in the cast is Lili Bordán, who will play Dr. Beka Kelly, a Ph.D. who worked for Graystone Industries that created the Cylon robots. Currently assigned to a secret military mission, Beka and Adama quickly establish a rapport.
From the award-winning producers of Battlestar Galactica, this new action-packed chapter of the BSG canon was written by Michael Taylor form a story by David Eick, Taylor and Bradley Thompson & David Weddle and directed by Jonas Pate. David Eick, Jonas Pate and Michael Taylor will serve as executive producers.
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The public is cordially invited to attend the Westfield Grape Discovery Center's Grand Opening, a mile west on Route 20, between 1:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13.
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Although the center's conception was launched in 2008 with the purchase of a building, raising money for it took longer, thus its low-key but official opening on Memorial Day this year, according to Helen Baran, president of the Concord Grape Belt Heritage Association (CGBHA), originator of the project. "Without the help of (state) Senator Catharine Young, who was responsible for getting us a $1 million state grant, we would have taken longer," she said.
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Ready to welcome visitors to the grand opening of the Grape Discovery Center Sept. 13 in Westfield are, from left Helen Baran, president of the Concord Grape Belt Heritage Association; Mackenzie Cady, manager; and Carolyn Bills, Operations Committee member and volunteer.
Other sizable monetary gifts for the non-profit endeavor came from Grower's Cooperative, National Grape/Welch's, the Baran Family, local grape farmers, businesses and private donors.
In addition to educating and promoting the wine and grape industry, the center also wanted to attract tourists to the area along with its history. And, as visitors learn about grape growing, they have the pleasure of doing so in unique surroundings.
Upon entry, one is elated at the sight of the many windows that brighten the large room with a view of a grape vineyard. The next room has a tasting bar where visitors may savor any of 12 wines produced in the nearby New York and Pennsylvania area. Have a small taste or buy a glass and accompany that with local cheese or curried meats.
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In October 1984, a 21-year-old American Airman deserted and hitch-hiked from an Air Force base in Augsburg, Germany to Stockholm. He built himself a life in Sweden never sharing his secret with anyone, while becoming one of the U.S. Air Forces eight most wanted fugitives. Today, David A. Hemler, 49, comes forward in an exclusive interview with Dagens Nyheter (DN), Stockholm.
Its been 28 years since David Hemler left the 6913th Electronic Security Squadron in Augsburg and found his way to Stockholm via Copenhagen. He had planned on staying for a week or so now he has three children and goes to his job with a governmental agency in the Swedish capital every day.
Hemler himself is amazed that he has managed to stay away for 28 years. He moves nervously in the chair, but is relieved after having shared the truth. Relieved, not only because he has told his Swedish family, who were completely unaware of his background, and his relatives in the US, with whom he has now spoken with for the first time in nearly three decades, but also because he has e-mailed and revealed himself to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), whose web site he says he has visited a thousand times over the last 20 years.
Ive been on the page with the most wanted fugitives, clicked on my name and looked at a photo of myself from high school. It is the only photograph of myself Ive had access to from my life before Sweden. There is also a picture of what I could look like as a 47-year-old, a pretty handsome fellow. I guess they had less credence for my ideology than my looks, he tells the DN reporter.
From the AFOSI he received a polite response stating that Hemlers situation is not something they deal with on a daily basis and they have to look into how to handle it. Four weeks have passed since then.
David Hemler was born in 1963 and grew up in a conservative environment in Pennsylvania, which is in the northeastern part of the USA. He was insecure and dreaded speaking in larger groups for fear of being ridiculed and beaten, which often happened. I dont know why I never hit back, I had no moral objections, he says.
The future seemed uncertain and when a military recruiter came to his school with promises of high salaries and a university education, Hemler grabbed the opportunity. It pleased his parents. Their son was finally on his way into adulthood. He would later sign on for six years.
Then a certain young woman crossed his path, and when the relationship became known among his classmates, David Hemler gained a respect he had never experienced before. From that day on, he was never bullied again.
The problem? The woman was a promoter of peace and member of a pacifist congregation called the Church of the Bethren. The message attracted Hemler and his time spent in church made him happy. It was eight months before he would report to a base in Texas, some 1,700 US miles away, and he worried about what would happen to their relationship. Was there any way to get out of his contract?
David Hemler went to Texas, where the salary was much lower than what the recruiter had promised and he found it hard to stay in touch with his girlfriend. The relationship eventually ended and he grew depressed. In 1983, he was transferred to Augsburg, Germany. He liked the city and its people, but the university degree one of the big reasons he joined was only possible if he traveled to different Air Force bases around the country, just to fulfill a few general courses. Efforts to get to class consumed his weekends. At the same time he was heavily influenced by his German friends.
It was like arriving in a fantasy world. Germany was a rich country, even if they werent constantly involved in wars in third world countries to defend themselves. The German people were very involved in peace movements, anti-nuclear-weapon demonstrations and were against apartheid. When I spoke to my friends and immigrant acquaintances and read German newspapers, I understood there were different opinions about my countrys military efforts abroad. The Taliban were not called freedom fighters but lawless rebels who plundered nearby villages. The brutal extreme right-wing dictator, [Manuel] Noriega, who sold drugs in the US, and Saddam Hussein, werent exactly called honorable statesmen.
What did your German friends say?
Many wondered why my Commander in Chief, [Ronald] Reagan armed them? These heads of state and freedom fighters murdered millions of people. They were no better than those they fought. Many also wanted to know how the US could support the South African regime, which was brutal and terrorized their neighboring countries. Shouldnt these leaders be brought before a tribunal? How could our taxpayers be forced to arm terrorists like the Contras in Nicaragua? They attacked civilians, almost exclusively. Why did my school teach me that the end of World War II and the development of nuclear weapons lead to freedom and prosperity in the world?
David Hemler became fed up. He believed that his involvement in a pacifist church would make the Air Force release him from his contract and requested to be discharged. Instead, he lost his security clearance. A year later he learned that he was being transferred to another base in Germany. His life fell apart.
I felt so hopeless and had no one to talk to. That was what made me leave the Air Force base without permission, he says.
You say you are no longer religious?
I have lost my faith. They use Gods name to start wars. When I came to Europe and asked for a pacifist church, nobody understood what I was talking about. There are no churches in Germany or Sweden that are pro war.
What happened when you arrived here in 1984?
I made up a story that I had ran away from my parents who were travelers but nobody believed it. I worked for the hamburger chain, Clock, and in geriatric care. In 1994, I started at the university and earned a very good degree.
With Swedish authorities, David Hemler is registered as a citizen of an unknown country. He was, according to the documents, born in Zürich and immigrated in January 1986. He does not want DN to print the fictitious name he has been using in Sweden, which he created by using an old friends surname and the last name of another.
Have people believed your story?
No. The mother of my oldest daughter never believed me, but still, she was pretty shocked when I told her everything. She has always been on my case, for the sake of our daughter.
Did you have any contact whatsoever with your relatives or parents?
No. I was too scared. I knew they would cooperate with the military and if I contacted them, they would eventually find me. And if I was exposed in Sweden, I feared Id lose my residence permit. I didnt want to leave my daughter, and with a dishonorable discharge I would never find a job, get no retirement and no medical benefits.
So for 28 years, you didnt give any signs of life. Your family in the US didnt know whether you were dead or alive. How did you handle this, mentally?
It was hard, but after a while I began believing my own, strange story.
When did you decide to come clean?
At first I expected the military police to come and get me. I never thought Id still be in Sweden. I never intended to be gone for this long, rather the opposite. My thoughts wander when I cross the streets in Stockholm. I have always been afraid I would die before I could tell anyone. Ive had daydreams about me lying wounded and bleeding in the street, whispering: Please, call my mother in the US. I have been afraid that my parents would die. I checked for my fathers name in American obituaries, almost every day. He was a heavy smoker when I last saw him almost 30 years ago.
His decision slowly took shape.
Helmers oldest daughter is now grown and his youngest child is in pre-school, which means that his wife could support the family, should he be imprisoned.
He first contacted attorney Emma Persson at the Borgström and Bodström law firm, and learned that his residence permit is unlikely to be revoked after such a long time.
He was also concerned about extradition to the US, but my assessment, based on the information he has provided, is that extradition is out of the question, Persson says.
Then it was time to tell his supervisor, the wife and children, and call the American family.
I first reached an aunt, who was skeptical. She asked me to call my brother, who could ask questions that only I could answer and after we had spoken for a while, he understood it was really me, Hemler says.
So far, nobody has been upset with him. The wife is happy to have gained additional family, and his American family is happy he is alive. They have even booked tickets to come visit in Sweden.
I had expected and deserved a scolding. But nobody has reacted that way. Nobody has even asked about what happened, but allowed me to tell at my own pace. Everyone is just happy that I am alive. They had started to believe that I was dead; that was hard to hear.
Have you missed the US?
Enormously. It is the military actions I have a problem with, but the US is run by a thousand people or so, not the public, Hemler responds.
He is critical of much of American foreign policy, the recruitment policies employed by the military and that there are four-to-six-year-contracts that cannot be broken. He also dislikes that the he or she who deserts, as he describes it, is punished every day until he or she dies.
In a country where higher education costs a lot of money a promised university degree, attracts unsuspecting young people, says Hemler.
Why do politics look like they do today when it was the US that armed the Taliban and the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein? There is little attention given to the fact that maybe the US itself is behind the negative image, especially in the Middle East, he continues, questioning the American educational system the world history he learned through the pacifist church and in Europe was entirely different than what was portrayed during his schooling.
Are you angry with anyone?
No. One cannot be angry with the system, but I want people to think twice, after hearing my story. I want to explain why I did it.
Why did you decide to go public with your story?
I dont think I can keep this out of media, and I wanted to tell my story without pressure and in my own words.
Are you happy with your life today?
Yes, Sweden is a fantastic country for people like myself. Many people think its been horrible for me to carry this secret for such a long time, but I have mostly missed my parents.
What do you hope will happen now?
That there will be no penalties at all or a few weeks in prison, max. Travel is important to me. Today I have three home countries: USA, Sweden and Thailand, which is where my wife is from. I also have important family members there.
DN has sought comments from various authorities to shed light on the status of David Hemlers case. Europol does not comment on investigations involving individuals and with the AFOSI, we have to file an application to possibly gain access to documentation.
According to press attaché Jeff Anderson of The American Embassy in Stockholm, who received a copy of Hemlers e-mail to the AFOSI, they can neither confirm nor deny any knowledge of the case.
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Interesting story, for sure. Hard to respect an individual who did not keep his word as a young man. And now after 28 years he wishes the freedom to travel unabatedly. Good for him, however, for making a productive life, even if he deceived his closest ones all these years.
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His feel-good story makes him no less a deserter ...
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Yup whatever dude you lied. Image what Roger Goodell would do with you.
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I'm not gonna say he was all right but according to the article (and an interview I saw with him in swedish) "David Hemler went to Texas, where the salary was much lower than what the recruiter had promised". I just know that if I was hired to do a job for say $3000 a month and after I start working all of a sudden i get paid $2200 I'd be thinking about quitting too, I don't know any figures, just making an example.
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Looks like it has caught up with mainstream media.
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Greenwich High School head football coach Rich Albonizio said his new-look team entering the season "is a mystery," and rightly so.
Yet Albonizio and the Cardinals' coaching staff will learn plenty about their squad during the season-opener against unfamiliar foe West Haven. They will also get some answers the following week against Darien and in their team's game in Week 3 against New Canaan.
Yes, Greenwich's schedule is loaded with opponents that would provide a tough challenge for any team -- especially one that's a bit short on experience like the Cardinals.
"We lost 36 seniors, we're used to losing 28 to 30, but that's an exceptionally large number of kids to lose," Albonizio said. "We're trying to fit the pieces to the puzzle, but it's a challenge to replace a lot of those players."
After making consecutive appearances in the FCIAC championship game and earning a berth in last year's Class LL playoffs, the Cardinals have their sights set high despite the high roster turnover.
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Greenwich, which lost to rival Staples in the 2012 FCIAC title game for the second straight year and was beaten by Xavier in the Class LL quarterfinals, opens the season against West Haven on Thursday at 6 p.m. at Cardinal Stadium as part of the FCIAC-SCC challenge. The last time the Cardinals and Blue Devils met was in the 2002 Class LL title game, a contest West Haven won 20-13.
"We haven't played West Haven in a number of years, so it's going to be a lot of fun out there," senior lineman and quad captain Justin Gaccione said. "The first five games are going to be the toughest on our schedule, so we have to come out and play well from the start. I think we'll step up to the challenge."
Senior quad-captain Jose Melo, who started the first three games at quarterback last season for the injured Liam O'Neil, is primed to lead the Cards' spread offense this fall.
"We have a lot of new guys on our team, but they've been working hard and have been improving," Melo said. "A lot of the older guys on the team have been teaching them and helping them along. We're really pumped for the season to begin."
Said Albonizio: "We want to get back to FCIACs and states. Hopefully, this team will surprise us and we'll get there."
AT THE HELM: A recent FCIAC Hall of Fame inductee, Albonizio is starting his 17th season as head coach of the Cardinals. Greenwich has won five FCIAC championships and three CIAC Class LL titles under his watch. Prior to arriving at Greenwich in 1997, Albonizio, who guided GHS to an 8-2 finish a year ago, had successful head coaching stints at Port Chester (N.Y.) High School and Trinity Catholic. Carl Cairo, who played football with Albonizio at Port Chester, returns as an assistant coach along with Wayne Gioffre, Kerry Gavin, Robert Mata, Stephen Murphy and TJ Ostruszka.
WHO'S GONE?: Greenwich was hit hard by graduation to say the least. On offense, starting quarterback Liam O'Neil, who passed for 1,134 yards and 17 touchdowns despite missing four games due to injury, graduated, as did versatile running back Alex McMurray (671 yards rushing), running back Mark Bernstein (489 yards rushing, seven touchdowns), tight end Joe Kelly (27 receptions, 660 yards, 12 touchdowns), wide receiver Vincent Ferraro (26 receptions, 520 yards, five touchdowns), tight end/receiver Taylor Olmstead and running back Dan Claroni. Offensive linemen Bob Decker, Alex McGee and Nick Spano, all of whom helped power the team's running game, also graduated.
Olmstead, an all-state selection at free safety who is playing baseball at UConn, registering a team-high five interceptions. Claroni excelled at linebacker, as did Bernstein. Some of the other key players that graduated were: DE Pat Callahan, DB/RB Mike Longo, DB Shawn Dunster, long snapper Emmett Odegard, DB Nick Pulitano and kicker Jesse Adelberg.
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"With Austin and I lined up side by side, it's going to be tough to stop us both," Melo said.
Gaccione, (5-foot-11, 215 pounds), senior guard Andrew Del Carmine (6-0, 250), senior center Vincent Murphy (6-0, 230), sophomore tackle Kevin Woodring and junior guard Justin Montier should anchor a rebuilt offensive line.
"The line is working well together," Gaccione said. "We started off a little shaky, but we are making progress each day. We're definitely coming around and I think we can be a strength for the team."
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DEFENSE: Senior quad-captain and defensive end Jack Wynne (6-5, 230) -- a UMass commit -- is a big threat on the edge, as is Jack Harrington, who is expected to miss the first three games due to an injury. Longi, a ball-hawking cornerback, free safety Griffin Tiedy and defensive back Nick Schepis give the Cardinals a solid secondary, with Pozo leading the linebacker corps.
"Our defense is going to be one of our strong points," Albonizio said. "We have some toughness and experience there."
SPECIAL TEAMS: Senior Peter Heerdt begins his first full season as the team's placekicker and punter, while Del Carmine serves as the longsnapper. Longi could be a difference maker on special teams. He ran a punt back 99 yards for a touchdown and returned a kickoff 67 yards for a score as a sophomore last season.
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