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Hermes: What do we do when we break somebody's window?
Dwight: Pay for it?
Hermes: Heavens, no! We apologize! With nice, cheap words.
The Maryland/VA/DC metro area is really starting to go down hill, from an infrastructure standpoint. Things are just falling apart around here...oh, and what's that? Instead of investing in fixing aging infrastructure, they instead are spending billions to build the ICC? [iccproject.com] Oh, and what's that? It's STILL going to be a toll road?
I've lived in Montgomery County my whole life, but I'm quickly getting tired of this place -_-;;
Another Montgomery County resident here, and I second this view. We've had an insane number of power outages, water main breaks, crippling snowstorms with unplowed roads, etc. in the last few years.
I love where I live, though. Who needs electricity?
The governor of MD wrote a letter to Pepco regarding those power outages. As for the snowstorms - its because the DC area historically does not receive snowfall to justify a ROI on snowplows. Instead, they borrow them from the north. Its not like in PA, where if it blizzards overnight, the streets are clear by 6AM so the kids can go to school.
Yes, and the power outages are caused by overhead (rather than underground) power lines that are severed when one of our many large, beautiful trees fall on them. However, I think that if you compare this area to others with similar climate/foliage, we still fall short. The large state roads around here were not plowed for DAYS following the Snowpocalypse this past winter. (And then when they were finally plowed, the plowing was done poorly and left many roads with huge ruts and sudden narrowings.) I've liv
The governor of MD wrote a letter to Pepco regarding those power outages. As for the snowstorms - its because the DC area historically does not receive snowfall to justify a ROI on snowplows. Instead, they borrow them from the north. Its not like in PA, where if it blizzards overnight, the streets are clear by 6AM so the kids can go to school.
And the plowing was also poorly prioritized and executed. I live in Alexandria. My residential street was clear to pavement with repeated passes of salt and sand, but Duke Street and Route 1 were an unplowed rutted mess. All because I have a member of the General Assembly living in my neighborhood (that's at least what I've been told by those in the know).
Yeah, here in New York (state) we kinda laugh at the mid-south states those close over a couple inches. granted, her, we seem to be too slow to close stuff.
Here you go, direct from our local news radio station. [wtop.com]
"Northrop Grumman holds a $2.4 billion, 10-year contract with the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to build, operate and maintain the state's 7-year-old, problem-plagued consolidated computer services bureaucracy. It is the largest single-vendor contract in Virginia history. The partnership has been repeatedly criticized in JLARC studies for poor and tardy delivery of services, cost overruns and system failures."
These systems are directly integrated into the DMV, as well as the Department of Social Services and Department of Taxation, amongst others.
Still, what could they possibly be doing for that amount of money.
Lining their pockets. What else?
Didn't say VA was getting their money's worth, just wanted to tell people what they were doing
Still, what could they possibly be doing for that amount of money. If you work it out, that's almost 30 thousand dollars every hour for 10 years (I didn't even take out weekends or holidays or anything). That's ~890,000 per month.
That's about $20 million/month ($240 million per year / 12 months/year).
This kind of thing seems to be a growing trend in government IT. I'm posting anonymously because while I don't think I'm going to say anything that violates an NDA, it's better to be vague and sure.
The county that I live in recently made a move like this: they fired basically all of their IT staff and replaced them with the lowest bidding consulting company.
The upside of that from a certain fiscal standpoint is that they've eliminated a bunch of positions with pensions and good (and therefore expensive) benefits. These people have been replaced, in some departments, by the exact same people now subcontracting through the consulting company. This isn't really cheaper -- they won't have additional pension obligations to those people, but they're drawing much higher salaries than before, and obviously the consulting company gets a sizeable cut too.
In other departments, all the long-term employees have been replaced by new consultants. This is a problem in that, probably the people who had those jobs should have documented their networks and tasks much better, but the fact is, they didn't. The whole memory of those departments has been flushed. Inexperienced people are now trying to figure out how to maintain processes that literally no one who works there knows anything about. It's a disaster and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Meanwhile, the county executive is running for governor, touting the above as a great accomplishment. Hey, he shrunk the size of government by eliminating many permanent positions! By the time people realize that, not always, but sometimes, a lifer IT person is worth their pay because of the institutional memory they have of a thousand important things that were never documented, the election will be over.
Mod parent way up. I've seen it in other places too.
Often when you ask people in the accounting department, they'll say they don't really know what's going on because IT made the system. When you talk to IT, they'll say they don't know because the system was specified by Accounting. The truth is that some smart guys in each department got together and forged some sort of system together. Then the smart guys went on to bigger and better things, while the peons were left with some special voodoo system.
Now you want to move said voodoo system over to a consulting company. The assumption is that the Accountants know every detail of what the old system did. Well, they don't. But nobody is willing to step forward and say that. So the new consultants come along and gosh, nobody knows what the systems do.
Then people ponder why it "doesn't work." Sigh.
This is how shit happens.
If accounting doesn't know what's going on, then they're incompetent. Accounting is essentially financial epistemology: it is about creating true, *justifiable* beliefs. The ultimate test is the audit. An *outsider* comes in and takes everything you say about yourself financially and puts it to the test. Then they sample things that happened (e.g. an invoice payment) and make every event is reflected on the financial statements.
When you have a situation where ignorance is tolerated in the accounting depa
Read my sig. It explains everything.
Yes, they're incompetent. If they were really good they wouldn't stick around. Most places have a difficult time justifying the sorts of salaries that keep the good people on staff.
Look, the problem is that large organizations have often bought in to the notion that Human Resources knows what it's doing. They do not. They can not. I've watched this process in my own company. It's not pretty. It is a process designed by lawyer/MBA dweebs where success is almost always acci
Maybe, but you may be parochial.
I just heard today about a town who put the entire fire department on half-time and at minimum wage. Infrastructure has been a know problem for decades and more recently even a matter of considerable public concern, as when an interstate bridge collapsed a few years back. But big cuts in public safety are new. And there is a nice pattern. The cuts are not something that make the mass media. but I saw a long summary compiled from local media last month, so I figure this is
Where are you going to find capable individuals willing to run into burning building to save strangers on half time for minimum wage? That's the most asinine thing I've ever heard. better to be a volunteer than a sucker.
you are of course right. But be a little more realistic. With talking heads saying real unemployment is 22% and a better number being 30%, then consider all the really good reasons you can up with for cutting police resources
I'd be a hell of a lot more concerned with your state's taxation, police run amok, and unionization of the public servants. MD is a joke.
Pretty weak apology if you ask me. I guess these military contractors are used to the "boys will be boys" pat on the hand they get from the Department of Defense when they screw up there.
Some (many?) of DoD projects are "high-risk" of failure. They are typically want to push the envelope and be early adopters of technology before their enemy does.
I don't know how they run their IS/IM side of the house (payroll, HR, administrative IT).
Plus NGC and co know DoD has very few obligations to make their budget (per project) overruns public, with the easily cited "national security" concerns.
As much as Northrup is being bashed here, I don't think this problem is specific to NG, but common to many large contractors and their subs.
In the few times I've worked with subcontractors doing IT for the government I've been unimpressed. Even being one step away from the prime contract seems to allow for many problems, both technical and managerial. Requirements and deadlines aren't met, and they pull the BP-Halliburton-Transocean trick of avoiding responsibility by blaming each other (as well as everyone's favorite scapegoat: the government). Trying to get a subcontractor to build things they way they were supposed to will often require waiting for the next spiral, which means going way over budget.
I understand the difficulty with pushing too hard, punishing contractors who screw up and scaring them away from government work, but it seems we've gone too far in accepting very expensive third-rate work. As much as the public likes to say government can't do anything right, how much worse off would we be than $2.4B in the hole with nothing to show for it but a mediocre datacenter run by amateurs? I don't think I'm asking for much, I haven't touched on the very messy political poisoning of contracting.
I *was* a NG subcontractor, doing sysadmin work in a datacenter in a different state. Oh, the stories I could tell. More than once, as a new project was in the bidding stage, I would point out serious, game-stopping flaws in the proposal. The response was inevitably along the lines of "Fixing that would require us to raise our bid, and we don't have any exposure this way because we can blame the agency for a flawed proposal. Then they would win the bid, a bunch of equipment would get dumped on the floor, th
A couple of months ago there was a declassified document (either on
Unless they have gone to some very lengthy steps to hide this you can probably discover the information on your own.
http://www.dmo.ca/blog/detecting-virtualization-on-linux/ [www.dmo.ca]
This page details steps for many different types of virtualization environments. Though I think it would be just as fast to sort through the output of dmidecode and look for an identification in the mess.
I'm afraid this is rather linux centric, but even so similar data sets can be collected on windows.
Try to use up all the IO, bonnie++ is good for that, to what you assume are local discs.
Hammer it!
Bonnie is good for a straight disk measurement, but depending on the options set it may not be too useful. Depending on the configuration you may be able to burst large quantities over any thresholds.
Really, a few baselines need to be taken and compared against the cluster.
I would perform a few isolated IOZone and Orion benchmarks to set the baseline. Once this completed a parallel initiated test of all hosts will determine which units may be shared.
Now, if all the hardware is the same it should l
Meanwhile, the last week has marked the first time where there was really a valid excuse for apparently unmoving lines at Virginia DMV branches... glad I don't have to get my license renewed until 2017. They should be back up by then.
Frankly, I've been witness to whole Enterprise datacenters going offline and then being brought up system by system in less than a week (candy red button). A week to fix a SAN issue? really? Why not classify it as a Sev0 (public exposure) (probably a somewhat unique code to the company I work for) and get the vendors in THAT DAY to fix it?
Depends on how much storage was in the SAN and the nature of the failure. If it was as easy as replacing a memory card then your point it completely valid. If, however, there was some data corruption then there might have been terabytes of data that needed to be verified and recovered. The article states that 26 state agencies were affected, "some for more than a week" which implies a variable amount of time. Without having more detail, it could have been that some were back up and running the same day
maybe they did not test a hardware fail and the fall over back did not take over / was not setup right.
I think the problem is there is more then one complain against the company.
Still, 2.6 billion I could build way past four nines of availability.
I currently maintain better availability on a budget that is way smaller and the equipment would not be considered inexpensive. In fact, a failure on that scale would blow any availability numbers I have out of the water for years. Short of data corruption that works its way into the system a single SAN failure should not halt operations for a week.
Now, instead of
Which is why you don't try to implement this broad an IT contract. Was a damnfool idea at the start.
Really? This is hardly a great track record:
During the first six months of 2009, Virginia's Department of Transportation (VDOT) experienced 101 significant IT outages totaling 4,677 hours: an average of more than 46 hours per outage. One outage, the Times-Dispatch said, took 360 hours to correct. The state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has experienced over the course of 5 weeks this autumn some 12 outages that put individual DMV offices out of business for a total of more than 100 hours the paper says.
From here [ieee.org]. I'm sorry, but there is no excuse for that.
The sad thing is that there are many thousands of mom'n'pop IT shops that do much better than that on a shoestring budget (when scaled proportionally) that would really love to get even part of a contract like that but never will because they always go to the behemoths filled with fail like NG.
To be fair, there is no evidence that Northrop is doing worse than anyone else would have done.
They are doing significantly worse than the state's internal people before NG took over. And at a much higher price. There were lotsof other inexcusable outages and failures before this one.
The worst part is that even knowing what a terrible deal VA was getting from NG, the governor decided to extend the contract for another 3 years and allow NG to increase their fees. If these guys had been working for a private company, they would have been thrown out long ago, and any executive suggesting they should
But...but...smaller government!!! Private industry is always better and more efficient than the government. That is, except for the all cases like this where they really aren't.
I was wondering what business an aerospace company has doing providing IT services for others.
I can understand diversity... but this is completely out of the aerospace "tree" !!
I work for a smaller DoD related company (17k employees, so not that small really) and I hear nothing but horror stories about NG, and have experienced one of them myself. NG originally developed our project but was not allowed to bid on the re-compete where we picked it up. It was bad, but we are fixing it. I really can't say much more than that at the moment.
Working for huge corporations just sucks.
I used to work for Lockheed Martin. Now I work for a company with 50 employees.
Talk about a head rush of culture shock.
I know. I used to work for Litton, and left 1 month before the NG purchase became final.
Went to work for a small house doing Fibre Channel... Seriously major cognitive dissonance.
Many small defense contractors are pretty messed up also. If yours is honest and competent, you've done well.
I work with a fair number of ngc.com; I'm a contractor myself. At one point, I had a few interviews for Northrop and I'm so glad they over looked my talents because they seem to abuse the talent they have.
Now, this may not be for every department or division, but almost every NGC employee I know is basically well familiar with furlough. Whether good or bad, NGC is left with the ability to place entire departments on furlough to reduce overhead costs in the event a contract dries up. Now perhaps it's their size, perhaps they simply don't care about their workers, but this sort of thing seems to happen often. I'd guess that no NGC employee with a tenure more than 2 years hasn't been out of work for up to a month or so. But this is how things are run there.
See, government contracting works like this. You create a company, hire some folk to work on a contract. Whatever their salary is, you charge the government +50% or more, so essentially the government is not only flat out paying your salary but also the company for your services. If the contract ends, so does your job as the company may not want to charge overhead. In contrast to other business sectors, employment typically isn't grounded so harshly on the existence of a contract, which is where cost of business and business management can keep workers afloat even during down times (think department store).
I only point out Northrop because while all government contracting is essentially this contract+play model, Northrop has a reputation of placing people on furlough much more often than other companies such as CACI, Raytheon, General Atomics etc. Some Northrop employees seem to live the lives similar to actors and actresses in Hollywood, and I'm not talking about Tom Hanks acting, but maybe those actors that get little spots from time to time on your sitcoms. They literally live in apartments, and wait for the phone to ring day after day. Northrop employees seem to wake up in the morning, wondering if they'll still have a job at the end of the day.
What does this observation have to do with the op? Well, it seems that moral and motivation might be a bit low on a large scale at Northrop, so such blunders are no surprise to me.
NGC is what we in the business refer to as a "body shop."
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See, government contracting works like this. You create a company, hire some folk to work on a contract. Whatever their salary is, you charge the government +50% or more, so essentially the government is not only flat out paying your salary but also the company for your services. If the contract ends, so does your job as the company may not want to charge overhead. In contrast to other business sectors, employment typically isn't grounded so harshly on the existence of a contract, which is where cost of business and business management can keep workers afloat even during down times (think department store).
I do a lot of business with both the federal gov't and private sector businesses on IT projects. You've over-simplified things to the point of painting an inaccurate picture. Federal contracting is extremely complex and there are myriad types of contracts that can be awarded, each with different terms. It sounds like what you're describing is a labor-hour contract. The contractor bills the gov't for the "fully burdened cost" of putting a warm butt in a seat. This includes the worker's salary, overhead, G&A (general & administrative), and profit. All together, it's typically a lot more than a 50% markup of the staff's straight salary.
Unlike most private sector contracts, when doing a fully burdened labor hour contract with the feds, the contractor will spell out exactly what their profit margin is. Generally this is only 6-10%, which is considerably lower than the private sector. Despite what everyone thinks, doing business with the gov't isn't all that lucrative. It's an extremely competitive market in which the bottom-line cost is almost always the most important factor. Contracting officers are even prohibited by law to give preferential treatment to companies that have previously done a great job.
I can't really comment on forced furloughs, because I'm not familiar with how Northrup operates. But just because they do "government contracts" doesn't necessarily mean they can afford to keep highly-skilled staff on the payroll until they find a new project for them. Federal contracts can really help with sales revenue because they can be large awards and the government *always* pays. However, the trade off is all the red tape (which increases G&A costs) and the low profit margins. Next time you hear about Company X getting a $10M contract, don't just roll your eyes. Get a hold of their proposal and the contract and see what their actual profit is on the contract. Both documents are public property and available upon request from the federal contracting officer that made the award. (Defense related contracts might need to be pried from gov't with a FOIA request though)
I think it depends on what you consider "profit."
If you consider the money going to the shareholders, then sure, you're right.
However, government contractors aren't run to benefit the shareholders - they're run to benefit the executives. By building empires of lower employees the executives justify their own positions, their large salaries, and they get armies of people they can rule over.
I'd consider any cost beyond the basic time and materials, and minimal overhead for basic facilities, to be "profit" in
I do a lot of business with both the federal gov't and private sector businesses on IT projects. You've over-simplified things to the point of painting an inaccurate picture.
You are correct, the contracts can be very complex. There are all kinds of things that govern contracts, and I didn't mean to belittle this. I just wanted to over-simplify the general structure as it's here that the cause and effect of furloughs, layoffs and such persist.
I'm also somewhat aware of contract awards, primarily from the m
Now, this may not be for every department or division, but almost every NGC employee I know is basically well familiar with furlough. Whether good or bad, NGC is left with the ability to place entire departments on furlough to reduce overhead costs in the event a contract dries up. Now perhaps it's their size, perhaps they simply don't care about their workers, but this sort of thing seems to happen often. I'd guess that no NGC employee with a tenure more than 2 years hasn't been out of work for up to a month or so. But this is how things are run there.
See, government contracting works like this. You create a company, hire some folk to work on a contract. Whatever their salary is, you charge the government +50% or more, so essentially the government is not only flat out paying your salary but also the company for your services. If the contract ends, so does your job as the company may not want to charge overhead. In contrast to other business sectors, employment typically isn't grounded so harshly on the existence of a contract, which is where cost of business and business management can keep workers afloat even during down times (think department store).
FWIW, this makes it sound like NGC is a couple of steps better than the contract IT shops that I'm familiar with that service the private sector. 100% markup is fairly common, and keeping idle employees "on furlough" is a concept that doesn't really exist. When the contract ends, the job ends. A pure pimp agency will usually try to place a profitable contractor in another spot ASAP once a customer provides notice, but they won't guarantee anyones rates and I have never heard of a pimp agency doing anythin
Whoa anecdote! I've worked for DoD contractors for years (and on different coasts). I've never heard of anyone at Northrop being placed on furlogh so I guess we don't know any of the same employees. In my experience, when there are no contracts, the employer covers your salary until the numbers tell them to start laying people off. If you are an employee they either pay you or lay you off. You don't sit around at home waiting for a call. Thats one of the benefits of a big company. They have enough stuff go
It was EMC storage that failed:
"A major portion of the network shut down on Thursday after some of the EMC gear malfunctioned. As many as 400 server computers in various government departments relied on the storage network and were knocked offline.
Both Northrop Grumman and EMC declined to comment, directing all inquiries about the breakdown to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, which oversees all of that state's government computer systems. According to the agency's website, EMC said that Thursday's breakdown was unprecedented. "The manufacturer reports that the system and its underlying technology have an exemplary history of reliability, industry-leading data availability of more than 99.999% and no similar failure in one billion hours of run time,'' the website said."
Both of them?
Lesson: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Nothing new about that...
Actually the lesson is to not let a bunch of incompetents draw up your IT contracts.
Apparently, when VITA negotiated its 10-year, $2.3 billion outsourcing contract with Northrop Grumman to modernize Virginia's 85 state government agencies' IT systems and networks, it forgot to require network that backup capability be provided in case of network failure, the Richmond Times-Disptach reported over the weekend.
I mean really? Requiring redundancy is such a basic requirement that you really have to wonder if the people in VITA even have a brain.
So, for their $2.6 billion, Virginia doesn't get redundant systems? Everything is on ONE SAN?!
I would sue the living shit out of Northrop. That's insane.
I would sue the living shit out of Northrop. That's insane.
Based on what would they sue? The contract they signed had no requirement of redundancy [ieee.org]. As much fault as NG has in this, it's not like they broke the contract or anything. This is as much the fault of the incompetents in Virginia's IT Agency as on NG's.
Apparently, when VITA negotiated its 10-year, $2.3 billion outsourcing contract with Northrop Grumman to modernize Virginia's 85 state government agencies' IT systems and networks, it forgot to require network that backup capability be provided in case of network failure, the Richmond Times-Disptach reported over the weekend.
Referring to an EMC system as "one SAN" is (probably) a gross oversimplification. EMC are the storage vendor you go to when money is no object, and you cannot, absolutely cannot have downtime. If Northrop had the system configured correctly, this is a huge black mark against EMC.
How are they counting one billion hours of run time? Are they counting uptime and multiplying it by each disk or something? One billion hours is 114,079 years... Five-nines for 1 billions hours is 1.14 years... At that rate they should be happy it only took Northrup a week to get things working again.
where I come from, you swap out the suspicious or dead junk, and roll the data back on from backups.
this, of course, requires you know how to find dead junk, swap it, and retrieve tapes that you knew how to make, and roll them back on according to your training.
remove all of the above, and it sounds like the error they have.
monkeys cost less, and can do exactly the same job. just sayin'....
There were some other details about how it was a "memory board" that caused the problem an how the fail-over system didn't work properly. So on paper no one can be blamed.
To me this now seems SOP in the computer industry. Consolidation is king without regard for the idea that consolidation tends to form giant single points of failure. Furthermore, backups and redundant systems are rarely tested. Even when properly tested, fail-over is pure luck as the actual failure case may not be as clear cut as the fail-
good thing Northrup Grumman doesn't do anything important, like, say, vital national security support.
oh, wait... .
I wonder how much that's actually related. When I read the contractor was NG, I asked myself "what the hell are they in that business for?"
The answer, money, is of course, a major suspect in the failure.
This contract should not have gone to someone like NG, who probably just turned around and sold it to EMC who should have been competent. That is, if it really was EMC and not one of their subcontractors.
But according [northropgrumman.com] to Northrup Grumman they were "recently recognized by the National Association of Counties for Outstanding Achievement in the area of "Information Technology in State Government – Enterprise IT Management Initiatives".
Ha! Good one! Ask Northrop what they think of themselves. Mod that +2 Funny.
That quote cuts off an important bit: "In fact, our partnership with the Virginia Information Technologies Agency was recently recognized" (emphasis mine). So if that's this same project it's not like we're talking about that recognition as a proven track record, though other examples may exist. And this is, in fact, the same project, as you'll can see from the figures ($1.9B over 10 years, which apparently grew to $2.4B) show
Go see it yourself here [virginia.gov].
On Wednesday, August 25, at approximately 3 p.m., the Commonwealth of Virginia experienced an information technology (IT) infrastructure outage that affected 27 of the Commonwealth's 89 agencies and caused 13 percent of the Commonwealth's file servers to fail. The failure was in the equipment used for data storage, commonly known as a storage area network (SAN). Specifically, the SAN that failed was an EMC DMX-3.
According to the manufacturer of the storage system, the events that led to the outage appear to be unprecedented. The manufacturer reports that the system and its underlying technology have an exemplary history of reliability, industry-leading data availability of more than 99.999 percent and no similar failure has occurred in more than one billion hours of run time. A root cause analysis of the failure is currently being conducted.
Anybody else read this like some middle age guy after "finishing a bit too quickly" and telling his , "I swear honey, this the first time this has ever happened to me..."
Northrop Grumman was cobbled together over several years from about 1999-2006 from Northrop, Grumman, TRW and several other players. It is so dysfunctional because it is composed of so many competing units that don't operate like a single company. In fact, when I briefly worked for them out of college, most of my coworkers were from TRW and hated the idea of being NGC employees.
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Juan Mata thinks Manchester United will be challenging for silverware this year under Louis van Gaal.
When Mata signed for United last January, the club were in the midst of a dreadful run of form that cost manager David Moyes his job.
Despite the £37.5million arrival of the Spaniard, United could only finish seventh and Moyes was replaced by Van Gaal.
United fans will get a first glimpse of their new boss in the dugout on Wednesday night when the Red Devils take on the Los Angeles Galaxy at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Van Gaal has only been in his position for six days, but his arrival has injected optimism into a squad previously short on confidence and Mata is looking forward to a successful season ahead.
United finished 22 points behind winners Manchester City last term, but Mata sees no reason why his team cannot challenge for the Barclays Premier League and other trophies under the vastly experienced Van Gaal.
"It's the start of a new era for the club, with a new manager and players coming in," United's club-record signing said.
"I'm really happy with the manager's style of football and hopefully at the end of the season we can celebrate something, which would be amazing for him and for us.
"We're focused on improving and trying to learn from the manager, to play at our best level during the season. The main idea is to play as a team and compete for titles."
Mata and his team-mates have been keen to impress Van Gaal during intense double-training sessions under the LA sun.
And if they needed another reminder that they are playing for their futures, then it was duly delivered by Ed Woodward on Sunday when he told United fans to expect more incomings and outgoings over the next few weeks.
While Mata understands the need for tough training, the Spaniard thinks it is important the players do not overdo it.
"The most important thing is to get ready, step by step, and not too hard because injuries can happen," the former Chelsea player told MUTV.
"It's important for us to prepare physically and mentally for the long season."
Like Mata, Chris Smalling will take part in the entire pre-season tour as England were knocked out of the World Cup at the group stages.
The centre-back is under pressure to establish himself as a first-team regular following the departures of Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic.
Smalling hopes the hard graft he and his team-mates are putting in during their stay in the US will be worthwhile.
When asked what the toughest part of pre-season is, the former Fulham defender said: "The running. You usually do two or three sessions a day, two outside and one in the gym.
"It's quite hard on your lungs and your legs, but you know that come August you'll be ready to last the distance for the season."
Van Gaal will speak for the first time on the tour on Tuesday at a press conference in the 92,542-capacity Rose Bowl stadium which will host the match.
Striker Javier Hernandez will join up with the squad on the eve of the match but is unlikely to play.
After the game against the Galaxy, United will head to Denver, where they play Roma in the International Champions Cup.
Further matches against Inter Milan in Washington and versus Real Madrid in Michigan follow, as well as a potential final against City, Liverpool, Olympiacos or AC Milan in Miami should United top their group.
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If not for passing references to Friendlys, the "Big E," and Bristol Community College, you'd barely know that Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren are fighting for a US Senate seat in Massachusetts.
In Wednesday's debate in Springfield, moderator Jim Madigan asked about potential areas of job growth in the region, and about why electronic medical records weren't cutting costs in the state's biggest economic sector. What he got was a presidential debate writ small: Warren and Brown alike kept going back to military cuts, entitlements, the deficit, and Obama-care.
The heavy emphasis on national themes is more of a missed opportunity for the Republican incumbent than for Warren, who's lashed herself tightly to a Democratic president who won 62 percent of the vote in Massachusetts in 2008. Brown keeps stressing his departures from GOP orthodoxy on abortion and playing up his local roots.
But there are, in fact, some local issues. Brown glanced in this direction a few times, bemoaning, for instance, an Affordable Care Act tax that targets the medical device industry. Yet you could imagine a much more robust debate on matters affecting the state's knowledge economy — about whether tax breaks for venture capitalists fuel startups or just enrich plutocrats, or about whether forced efficiencies in health spending jeopardize Boston's big-name hospitals. Instead, the Obamacare-deficit-abortion tape keeps repeating.
Warren delivered her lines, and parried her opponent's, more crisply than Brown did. But both campaigns should know: We get it. We get that Brown would work in a bipartisan way, and that Warren would be a vote against GOP control of the Senate. To close the deal, both Brown and Warren might want to zero in on the peculiar issues facing Massachusetts.Dante Ramos is deputy editor of the Globe editorial page. Follow him on Twitter @danteramos.


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Because maybe when Sprint gets it's 12th LTE tower up and running everyone else will be doing quantum teleportation.
Hahaha, funny I know, but Sprint LTE is showing up in Miami, FL now. It's been in the Chicago area for a while. They ARE progressing! And may soon be the best option.
I might even switch.
--disillusioned AT&T customer
Or everyone in Canada, all the 3 top players are on band 4. Rogers, Bell and Telus. Now I do regret not getting it.... argh
Iirc AT&T too.
Because maybe when Sprint gets it's 12th LTE tower up and running everyone else will be doing quantum teleportation.
Not all of us. My AT&T tower doesn't even do 3G yet. But since all other carriers provide only 0G at my house, I'm stuck with AT&T...
lol, it wasn't that long ago that ISDN was still considered bloody fast.
1700/2100 is T-Mobile USA's LTE, so does this get LTE on T-Mobile or not?
It will when T-Mobile rolls out LTE service next year. For now HSPA+ 42 is just fine on T-Mobile, in fact I get the same speeds on that as my friends who have Verizon LTE get. And I have unlimited data to boot.
I assume there is a reason Google does not enable this by default.
Are the patents licensed? Does their FCC certification cover LTE?
Maybe they just didn't think it was worth the potential confusion, given the limited frequency support. (Compare Apple's "4G" support in Australia. [guardian.co.uk])
There's a 1% chance the phone could explode. So... just don't hold it too close to your body.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.
This didn't work for me. Still no LTE - but 30 phones appeared out of nowhere.
All 30 are free and probably enough to get you to the end, but the draconian 2y contract keeps you from using spread, laser, or fire attacks. Also, the data caps mean you'll be fighting through to it in monochrome vector glory or with heavy sprite limits.
Tell that to the Canadians who are using it without issue.
LG has to say no -- the alternative is to admit they released a terminal with an optional radio mode completely untested for regulatory compliance, failing their FCC certification until they retest it including LTE.
Mobile data plans in the UK have always been a running joke with me (too little data for far too much), but Everything Everywhere in the UK have taken this to a new art form recently. They have a monopoly on 4G/LTE for a while and have decided to *start* their data plans at 36 pounds ($57) for 500 MB (yes, that's megabytes folks) per month. Yep, that's lower data and a much higher price than most 3G data plans.
So let me see, if say I get a 10Mbits/sec connection on 4G (and that's pretty conservative) and use it for a large download or a continuous stream at that rate, I will exhaust my expensive monthly 4G plan in under 7 minutes. Way to go, EE - let's make 4G utterly useless in the UK by underquotaing and overpricing it. Geniuses!
I try to tell my American compatriots this exact thing when they get on the american cellular providers suck bandwagon, but it usually goes in one ear and out the other. As much as I hate American Telco's I'd take them any day over many of the European ones.
The UK providers don't count as European. In that matter as in so many others, the UK prefers to look at what the European countries do and what the US does, and combine the bad things from each.
Makes sense, analysis when the LTE capable chip was first found was that the chipset could support LTE but the phone lacked the required antennas for it, I guess band 4 is the one band that can be picked up by the 3G antenna?
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Weeden was injured in the closing minutes of Sunday's 20-14 win over Pittsburgh. He was replaced by backup Colt McCoy, who would play against the Raiders if Weeden is not cleared.
Browns coach Pat Shurmur said Weeden was at the team's facility Monday and is going through the "strict concussion protocol." Shurmur would not say if Weeden did any physical activity. Shurmur would not predict if Weeden will be able to play and said he'll know more about his status Wednesday.
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LONDON (AP) - British racing authorities say another seven horses from a Godolphin stable have tested positive for a steroid, including the winner of the world's oldest classic.
Trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni already has been banned eight years. He has acknowledged giving anabolic steroids to 15 horses in one of the largest doping scandals to hit the sport in Britain.
After tests on all Godolphin-owned horses in Newmarket, the British Horseracing Authority reported that seven based at Al-Zarooni's Moulton Paddocks yard tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol. They include Encke, the 2012 St. Leger winner.
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The wreck of the Titanic could become an underwater museum, its discoverer said.
Footage of the doomed vessel from 4,000m under the ocean off the coast of Canada could be broadcast live, Dr Robert Ballard said.
It now enjoys Unesco world heritage protection to prevent pillaging.
The oceanographer uncovered the vessel in 1985 and said the technology existed to beam material from the depths across the world.
"I see the Titanic becoming an underwater museum, accessed, with wonderful facilities," he said.
"We hope to come live on the anniversary of the discovery, September 1."
He was speaking at Titanic Belfast, a new visitor's centre in Belfast.
American oceanographer Dr Ballard was part of the team that found the wreckage of the famous steamship in the Atlantic Ocean in 1985.
Events were taking place this evening to mark the centenary, including a Requiem for the Lost Souls at St Anne's Cathedral and a commemoration in music and film at the Waterfront Hall, featuring well-known performers including singer Katie Melua.
Meanwhile, the new Titanic Memorial Garden on the east side of City Hall has been completed ahead of its opening tomorrow morning.
The names of more than 1,500 victims of the tragedy are engraved on five bronze plaques on a plinth nine metres wide - making it the first monument to record all those who died.
Many existing memorials have failed to include the Titanic crew or musicians. On this one there is no distinction between first-class passengers and others, with names in alphabetical order.
The garden will be unveiled after a commemorative service takes place to mark the time the Belfast-built liner sank.
Landscape architect Joy Hutchinson said: "We've gone for a colour scheme built around blue, white, silver and green, reflecting water and ice.
"It is to try to encourage a sense of peace and contemplation."
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I'm a new writer, looking to do a book for moms. It's written like a children's book so I need drawings/sketches to go with it.
I need about 20-25 (simple) colored drawings and the rights to them, as I plan to eventually submit it.
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poz bf stopped taking meds. how safe is this for both of us?
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My partner had been hiv+ for 6 years. He's been on meds to treat his infection for about 5 he says. He recently lost his qualifications to get his medicines through the state and we cannot afford to buy them without insurance. His viral loads were undetectable and he felt great. But he's been of his meds for 2 months. I'm worried about his well being, that he might get sick or I may bring something home like a flu or cold and get him sick, and wondering about how safe is oral sex with him now that his viral loads are beginning to rise. I hope I don't sound ignorant about this, I'm just worried. Phrase any info or advice you can give me would be appreciated.
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Thanks for writing in. I'm sorry to hear that both you and your partner are having to deal with a situation like this.
It's understandable that you are concerned about bringing home the cold or flu but even if he were to get a cold or flu his body would fight it off just the same as you or I would. At the two-month mark it is unlikely that his immune system has been compromised that much.
Oral sex is a safer-sex activity that you can engage in without much concern. You could certainly use a condom if it makes the two of you feel better, but I don't think it's necessary. As an added precaution, try to avoid brushing or flossing your teeth two-hours prior to engaging in oral sex.
You can safely engage in anal sex by using a condom.
I'm not sure if you have already done this, but I would suggest making an appointment to see a case manager at your nearest HIV/AIDS service organization. They can help you find alternate resources to help pay for your partner's HIV medication. If you live in a rural area, you may need to travel to a larger urban area where resources are available. This link will take you to a listing of HIV/AIDS services organizations by state. If you don't find anything in this listing, an internet search may provide additional results.
Please keep me posted on your progress with securing treatment for your partner. Not the words "Follow-up" in your subject line. Good luck!
In health,
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The MGH Bicentennial Youth Scholars were recognized at the event.
From the presentation of a videotaped message from President Barack Obama to recognition of the Bicentennial Scholars, the Sept. 16 Bicentennial Gala celebrated the MGH's achievements over the past two centuries while highlighting its vision for the future. More than 1,000 staff, friends and honored guests filled the ballroom at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center to commemorate the hospital's 200th anniversary. The gala also served as a benefit for the Bicentennial Scholars Program, raising approximately $1 million.
Across the large, multimedia screens flanking the ballroom, guests watched archival video of President John F. Kennedy congratulating the MGH on its 150th anniversary. Then the Tanglewood Festival Chorus performed "A Jubilant Song"; Chief of Emergency Medicine Alasdair Conn, MD, and Respiratory Care Director Robert Kacmarek, PhD, offered recitations from James Jackson, MD, and John Collins Warren, MD, founding fathers of the MGH; MGH President Peter L. Slavin, MD, reflected on this milestone moment in time; and Claudius Conrad, MD, PhD, MGH surgeon and Steinway artist, played Chopin's "Raindrop Prelude." Through a montage, of music, images and inspiring words, the MGH Bicentennial Gala saluted the sense of purpose and the tradition of accomplishment that have long defined the hospital.
"Just as Drs. Jackson and Warren had envisioned so many years ago, the MGH still stands as a symbol of healing and health, hope and promise," Slavin said. "The institution is dedicated to our patients and their loved ones and is a testament to our staff, donors, trustees and volunteers who have collectively built and guided it in the past and are now leading it into the future. It is because of them -- because of you -- that we look to the next two centuries with confidence, optimism, humility, gratitude and more than a little wonder."
Slavin's sentiment was echoed during a special videotaped message from Obama, congratulating the MGH as a true center of academic excellence. Personal remarks by keynote speaker and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, included reflections on his experience as an MGH patient over the past several decades. He expressed his gratitude, fondness and deep respect for his physicians -- W. Gerald Austen, MD, chair of the Chiefs' Council, and Roman DeSanctis, MD, director emeritus of Clinical Cardiology -- who escorted Kissinger onto the stage.
"I am absolutely honored to be here with you all this evening," said Kissinger. "You should celebrate and be proud that people come here from all over the world to seek care from MGH's experts and resources and that it is a magnet for young trainees in health care seeking a chance to learn from the best and brightest the medical field has to offer."
Visiting from China with a group of colleagues was Jianguang Xu, MD, PhD, who followed Kissinger at the podium. He eloquently spoke about sharing knowledge, ideas and working together across different countries and cultures to advance medical science in the new millennium. Xu then unveiled a traditional vessel from his native country, called a "ding," which he presented as a birthday gift to the MGH community.
The night's highlights included the presentation of the MGH Trustees' Medals by Cathy Minehan, chair of the MGH Board of Trustees and gala co-chair. The Trustees' Medal honors American physicians and scientists "whose lifetime contributions have uniquely benefited humankind, particularly through the advancement of medical care and practice." Only 14 individuals have received the award since it was created in 1986, including this year's awardees: Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD, chancellor of the University of Texas System; Patricia K. Donahoe, MD, chief emerita of MGH Pediatric Surgical Services and director of the Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratories; Howard M. Goodman, PhD, former chief of the MGH Department of Molecular Biology; James O'Connell, MD, MGH physician and president of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program; and Morton N. Swartz, MD, former chief of MGH Infectious Disease and beloved resident educator.
Slavin presents a Trustees' Medal to O'Connell.
The evening drew to a close with the recognition of 22 local high school students selected as Bicentennial Scholars, who will receive financial and mentoring support in acquiring admission to, succeeding at and graduating from college. The students were introduced and congratulated by Valerie Stone, MD, MPH, of the Department of Medicine -- the first African-American woman full professor at the MGH -- along with a musical tribute by a septet from the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Slavin ended the evening with a warm salute to those who have worked tirelessly to makethe MGH the place it is today and has been for 200 years. "Since 1811, Massachusetts General Hospital has become a temple of healing for Boston and for the world. It is a place where bright and kind-hearted men and women stretch their imaginations, act upon their ideas and pursue their passion to help, to heal and to offer hope."
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Mung Beans and Sweet Potatoes Soup (Tong Shui)
Kindly excuse the colour of the above pic, due to my lack of skills instead of making it look real and better, I turned it looking a bit retro which reminded me of photos taken by my dad in the 70s.
This tong shui is one of the simplest but big in taste! Just boil the mung (green) beans in some water until they're soften before adding the orange sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes that I've bought is the easy to cook variety, hence do not need to cook it for long. I've used gula melaka (palm sugar) for this tong shui which is the key ingredient to enhance the taste.
I like this to be serve cold but it's as good when it's hot.
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- Life for Beginners said...
Retro is good. Simple is good. It looks delicious! :D
- 25 May 2010 at 22:04:00 GMT+8
- PureGlutton said...
This is a cute combination! Never actually done green beans + sweet potatoes before - but it looks delish :-)
- 26 May 2010 at 09:47:00 GMT+8
- Lee Ping said...
This tong shui seems like is easy to cook. I think it is suitable for the undergraduate (like me, hehe ^^) to try out in the hostel.
- 26 May 2010 at 15:59:00 GMT+8
- Little Corner of Mine said...
Easy and delicious!
- 27 May 2010 at 01:31:00 GMT+8
- mel^^mel said...
Seriously? I usually cook mung bean tongshui only... I shall try it one day ^^
- 27 May 2010 at 11:22:00 GMT+8
- tigerfish said...
Though the weather is hot here and I shd be asking for cold desserts but I like to eat this Tong Shui...hot :p
- 27 May 2010 at 15:24:00 GMT+8
- babe_kl said...
Thanks Kenny :D
Definitely LeePing
mel^^mel, yes serious! where hv you been??? so long no see you here?
tigerfish, this is nice when cold too!
- 27 May 2010 at 16:30:00 GMT+8
- mel^^mel said...
babe, haha... I also dont knw whats wrong w me, so lazy... its like day by day... and i jst realize i have been lazy for 6 mths :P I will be good girl, visit you more ^6^
- 27 May 2010 at 17:55:00 GMT+8


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Supreme Commander 2 arrives for PC in North America on March 2, with an Xbox 360 version following on March 16. GPG's next project is the fantasy RTS Kings and Castles.
First up in our trailer double-bill is the grand reveal of The Kraken, the aforementioned mahoosive laser-spewing robotic octopus who sets my heart a-flutter.
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text: We are located in the scenic North Carolina Mountains where you not only get a hunting experience of a lifetime, but also enjoy the breathtaking beauty of thousands of acres of Blue Ridge Mountains where the Russian boar was first introduced to the United States by a wealthy Englishman. They have since spread across North Carolina and into Tennessee and offer the sports person a real challenging trophy. These ill tempered tuskers will often turn away a pack of hounds and charge, so don't be surprised if you become the hunted instead of the hunter. The founder of Chestnut Hunting Lodge is film and television star Jerry Rushing. A real mountain man at heart, known for his steel nerve movie stunts and rawhide toughness in the characters he has portrayed in over 38 movie and television roles including The Dukes of Hazzard which was based on Jerry's life. You can hunt from our tree stands or from an enclosed blind (these are especially nice in foul weather) that are located on well used trails or in feed areas. If you prefer you can take the challenge of stalking your game or have the thrill of hearing our hounds strike a "hot trail". Duck Creek Taxidermy, located on the grounds of Chestnut Hunting Lodge, is owned and operated by Darlene Tarlton. Our White Tail Deer area is a 5-mile stretch of heavy timbered mountain land, dotted with fields and well-planted food plots. The area is fed by mountain springs that offer an abundant water supply. Electronic game feeders and feed stations keep a lasting supply of high protein feed for these monster White Tail Deer.


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"It's makes me happy to hear that," Klinsmann said with a slight grin to small group of reporters during a media symposium held just outside of Washington, D.C.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves, insists the U.S. head coach.
It's a departure from the early days of Klinsmann's tenure, when he was more vocal in endorsing the talents of young up-and-coming American stars. Take Brek Shea and Tim Ream for example.
In 2011, Klinsmann praised Ream as "one of the very promising center backs in this country... I think he's definitely on a very good path." Ream hasn't featured for the national team since that year and his move to English club Bolton is looking more and more like a bust after sporadic appearances. Geoff Cameron, Matt Besler and Omar Gonzalez have all eclipsed Ream on the U.S. depth chart.
The jury is still out on Shea's move to Stoke, another player who initially received plaudits from Klinsmann. After a promising debut as a substitute, drawing a penalty against Fulham in a 1-0 loss, the 22-year-old hasn't been included in the 18 since March 10 despite being healthy. A source close to Shea told me that Stoke's manager Tony Pulis doesn't want to throw a young, developing player into a stressful relegation fight late in the season. The thought process: why risk the confidence of a 4 million euro investment? The same source insists that Shea's situation isn't similar to Maurice Edu's and that Shea will feature more next season.
Still, Shea's lack of immediate playing time has drawn concern from Klinsmann.
"Players make their own decisions and they have to deal with the consequences of that," Klinsmann explained. "Brek Shea badly, badly wanted to go to Stoke. Now he's not playing there. He's not even in the first 18."
Despite a mantra that encourages players to seek bigger challenges, Klinsmann revealed on Wednesday that he didn't encourage Shea to seek a move to Stoke, his comments hinting that the move wasn't a good fit. Rather, he suggested that Shea's move to England was manufactured by Shea and his agents, a growing problem with young American players in his view. Klinsmann cautioned rising players to consider where they are getting their information from.
"They need to understand the role of their agents, who's honest and sincere with them and who's not," Klinsmann stated. "They need to raise questions and be curious. That's what we tell players, to not just listen to what people tell them.
"They need to make their own decisions."
Shea was on last year's disappointing Olympics qualifying squad. The rumor is that certain players saw the Olympics as their big ticket to teams abroad, though players and coaches on that team won't confirm that. However, it is clear that Klinsmann views the U.S. absence as a major development opportunity missed.
"We clearly saw with our Olympic team, they weren't ready to get that exposure," Klinsmann said. "They weren't ready to see themselves on ESPN. They thought they were already there and it was too late to bring them back to the ground. Caleb [Porter, the U.S. under-23 manager] wasn't able to do that in that moment and, boom, there goes your team chemistry."
He added, "That was probably the best Olympic team over the last 20 years. There was so much quality in that team but they didn't get their act together."
Klinsmann is a strong believer that player confidence directly correlates with performance and he explained that the Olympic team failure set back the development of several players including Shea, Bill Hamid and Sean Johnson. Each player struggled upon returning to MLS action. So, Klinsmann's goal now is to make sure the next set of young promising players don't fall into similar pitfalls.
"You want to be careful with the next generation coming through and don't make them, at the age of 19 or 20, something they can't be yet," Klinsmann said. "Give them time, give them the up and downs. Keep them on the ground."
As several U.S. players approach the wrong side of 30, the development of young players like McInerney and LA Galaxy standout Jose Villarreal will be crucial to the national team's player pool. Klinsmann is keenly aware of this. In the past, as shown with the likes of Freddy Adu, Jozy Altidore and Juan Agudelo, the thought process was to give players trials by fire to determine their ability on the national scene. With Villarreal and McInerney, Klinsmann appears content to allow both to work their way up the U.S. youth setup.
It will be a much more measured approach from Klinsmann and the United States this time around.
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Klinsmann is impressed with Stuart Holden's progress: "Stuart excites us. He is really coming back. What he really needs is games, games, games - minutes, minutes, minutes. It's looking very positive," Klinsmann told reporters on Wednesday.
Almost two years ago, it seemed unlikely that Holden would ever feature for the U.S. national team again. In fact, his entire career looked in doubt after cartilage damage forced another six-month rehab process for a knee injury. Now, with some games at Sheffield Wednesday under his belt, there's a good chance that Holden could even get a look in this year's Gold Cup.
"He doesn't want a [summer] break! He said, 'I had a break for one and a half years,'" Klinsmann revealed.
No Joe Corona in the Gold Cup: Many expected Corona to finally get a lengthy look in this year's Gold Cup, but it appears the young Mexican-American will have to continue to wait for his chance. On Wednesday, Klinsmann ruled out Corona and other Liga MX-based players for this summer's competition.
Germany will win 2014 World Cup: Bayern Munich destroyed Barcelona 4-0 in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League semifinal and Borussia Dortmuch almost replicated the scoreline, beating Real Madrid 4-1. After years of stumbling to the finish line, German soccer looks to finally secure a major competition win that will propel the country to reach its potential. I fully expect Germany to win in Brazil next year, though Mario Balotelli could be on his sane meds again next summer.
It is painful to be a New York Jets fan these days: So essentially the Jets traded away Darelle Revis, arguably the best cornerback in NFL history, for an injury-prone Dee Milliner and a defensive tackle that no one rated in Sheldon Richardson? [Expletive]. I'd imagine this is how a Toronto FC fan feels. It's going to be a long season for the green half of New York/New Jersey. At least the Knicks are up 2-0 against the Boston Celtics in the NBA playoffs.
Get to know: Tony Beltran
Beltran has been a solid defender for Real Salt Lake over the past five years and he's finally starting to get his due. The right back was called up twice to the United States senior team, getting his international debut against Canada in a January friendly. Beltran shared his perspectives on the experience with Goal.com via email. [Editor's note: Responses have been edited for length].
What was your initial reaction to your recent call ups to the U.S. national team? Did you have to participate in any initiation rituals?
My first call up is one of the proudest moments of my career. At first to know I was selected and included in a group that had the opportunity to earn a chance to put on the jersey of our country at the senior level, it was a surge of emotion. I'll never forget how I felt getting that email and walking out of the tunnel before the game versus Canada.
As far as initiations go, it's a little different than, say, college initiation. We're all grown men and accomplished professionals. But all the new guys did have to tell a joke in front of everyone. I remember Will Bruin and I researched the night before and found two good ones on the internet. When it came time to share them Connor Lade beat Will to it and actually said Will's same joke he had rehearsed. The poor guy had to delay until the next day.
What do you have to do to earn more call ups?
This is something that I've thought about a lot since my first camp.
Being involved twice with the national team, I of course want to continue to be involved with that group. The important thing to do is exactly what earned me my first call up in January. To continue to give everything for my club, to try to play every game of the season and consistently get better in my profession. Now that I've been capped nothing changes really.
It's been four years since RSL won a title, is there a concern that the club's MLS Cup win that year is starting to be viewed as a fluke?
Absolutely not. ... That year was an up and down one, full of growing pains and difficulties with injuries, as we were all trying to develop together and justify Jason [Kreis] and Garth [Lagerwey]'s decisions to bring in so many new players. Now since there was so much unfamiliarity, I think it took the full year for us to really gel and understand how to play together. To understand what we were capable of as a collective group.
Sneaking into the playoffs on the last day as the last seed, I remember our captain Kyle Beckerman saying in the locker room leading up to the first game vs. Columbus, "Well, we're here, now we might as well go out and win the thing." And that's exactly what we did. The guys we had, and the mentalities instilled in us from the coaching staff, gave us belief. We were all fighters, and once the soccer came together I'm not surprised we accomplished what we did.
Let me interject and say that four years without trophies is never acceptable, not with the team we have. But in those four years it is clear that RSL has been established as one of the top teams in the league. We've constantly been in the running for the Supporters' Shield, have five straight years of participating in the postseason, and missed out on winning the Champions League by one goal. Constantly I hear other players around the league complimenting our style of play, our stadium, our home atmosphere and coaching staff and entire organization.
The club has been built into a competitor, in the smallest market in the league.
Can this team be better than the 2009 title winning version?
In sports and especially soccer it's tough to compare teams of different years. I would say that the team in 2009 did win the championship, and has that over the current team. But it isn't fair or right to say one is better than the other. While now we still retain a good core group from the '09 team, there are a lot of new and young exciting players. Players who are eager to step in and contribute and have shown they are good enough when presented with the opportunity. Because there are so many new faces this year there is again, like in '09, going to be a period of learning and adjustment. But the potential for this group is sky high, and I'm anxious to see what we can do over the course of the season, and confident it will be a success.
What to watch:
Wigan vs. Tottenham, FSC, April 27, 10 a.m. ET
There's a lot of money on the line in this match. For us Americans, the focus will be on whether or not Clint Dempsey can continue his hot form and help Spurs inch closer to the Champions League with a win, but Wigan's Premier League future could be determined in this fixture as well. Latics head coach Roberto Martinez has guided the Greater Manchester side out of threatening situations before, but this team looks gassed. There will be goals in this one.
Prediction: Tottenham 3-1 Wigan
Athletic Bilbao vs. Barcelona, beIN Sport, April 27, 12 p.m. ET
After years of absolutely dominating world soccer, Barcelona was sent crashing back down to earth by a determined Bayern Munich side. Long-term Barca vet Xavi called the 4-0 result the worst he's ever seen in his 13-year career. Now, Barcelona has to pick itself up against a disappointing Bilbao side that hasn't ever really recovered from losing Javi Martinez. The Catalan club should squeak this one out, even if Lionel Messi and a few regulars sit it out.
Prediction: Barcelona 2-1 Bilbao
Real Salt Lake vs. LA Galaxy, MLS LIVE, April 27, 9 p.m. ET
This clash between two of the top four teams in MLS's Western Conference promises to be an electric affair because both sides like to dictate tempo and play ball. Yes, Bruce Arena tends to focus on defense first, but there's no denying the Galaxy's firepower, especially with Landon Donovan starting to round back into form. Then factor in an RSL side that hasn't lost a step despite losing some key vets in the offseason. Very likely, we'll see a draw, but at least it'll be entertaining...
Prediction: RSL 2-2 LA


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FORT COLLINS — Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith flew to the Storm Mountain and Pinewood Springs neighborhoods Wednesday to meet residents who have refused to evacuate their stranded communities.
Ten military helicopters flew in the mountains Wednesday expecting to evacuate some of the estimated 450 people still stranded behind washed out roads in remote areas of Larimer County. But only a few agreed to take a ride to safety.
"I was surprised by how many people are refusing," Deputy Incident Commander Chuck Russell said. "I guess they have a comfort level about why they are there and have their reasons."
Jessica Hill, 35, evacuated from Drake with her kids Faythe, 7, and Jacob, 6, Tuesday. Now they're bunking at a Red Cross shelter at Timberline Church in Fort Collins.
Her husband, Lenny, stayed behind with a band of volunteer firefighters and other residents worried about horses, houses and vehicles left behind as others have evacuated from the stranded town northeast of Estes Park.
A group of 50 people have been using picks and shovels to dig a route through a 5-foot wall of mud to access a Colorado Parks & Wildlife-controlled road that cuts through private property outside town. The road is open during hunting season, but the Division of Wildlife has asked the property owners not to allow evacuees to follow the road back to town once they leave.
"It's not safe," DOW spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said Tuesday.
The U.S. Forest Service closed parts of the Arapahoe-Roosevelt National Forest where the road runs. And Larimer County also has requested the closure, Churchill said.
The existence of the road convinced Lenny and others that it might make sense to stay. Hill said it would be reasonable to allow access back and forth, not just one way.
"I mean, especially at a a time like this," she said. "It's not like we're going to a Christmas party."
The Hill's house is stocked with enough food for a couple of weeks. Their Jeep Grand Cherokee has gas.
"I'm not scared for him. I'm supportive of him staying and trying to get our vehicle out," she said. "If nothing happens by the beginning of next week, then I will start worrying."
Search and rescue crews are still trying to tally the number of people have refused be evacuated. National Guard helicopters rescued about 420 people Monday and 414 people Tuesday.
"We are trying to document how many people have refused," Larimer County sheriff's spokesman John Schulz said. "These are people that, if they don't come out now, they will be stuck for months."
They can't force anyone to evacuate, but rescue crews continue to try and convince people to leave, showing them photographs of the flooding that has washed away U.S. 34 and 36, the key highways linking mountain towns with civilization. They're also warning that ambulance response to holdouts may be impossible for months.
"We see this as dangerous," Schulz said. "There is no way for us to get them help if they need it — medical, any kind of emergency — there will be no response because we will have no way to get to them.
Schulz also warned that the National Guard helicopters are "not an indefinite resource."
Search and rescue teams dropped from Chinook helicopters along with ATVs are sweeping areas for stranded people.
"It's a big chunk of country up there that has been impacted by this flood," Russell said.
Some areas are still to hazardous to search. "We need the water to come down a little more before we access the steep canyons."
Once the sweeps are done, the teams and their 4-wheelers are hoisted back into the aircraft.
Russell said the helicopters will be around "as long as we need them."
Rescue operations remain a priority, but the mountain work has moved into assessment for long-term planning.
Russell estimated it may be six months to a year before roads washed out by epic flooding last week will be rebuilt.
"Long term," he said shaking his head, "it's going to be a big load for this county."
Rescue efforts Wednesday were concentrated in the areas of Storm Mountain, Glen Haven at The Retreat, Fish Creek, Idlewild, Waltonia and Pinewood Springs.
At least 197 people are still considered unaccounted for, meaning they have not contacted friends, family or authorities, according to the sheriff's office.
Two women are missing and presumed dead from the Cedar Cove area of Big Thompson Canyon. Teams using dogs have been deployed to flood debris fields near Loveland.
"We have no confirmed fatalities at this time," Schulz said.
Larimer officials are also warning people not to drive through standing water or pass road blocks, saying violators will be ticketed.
People have been seen moving road barricades to cross bridges at Shields and Ackerman and Overland Trail and Lyons Park in Fort Collins. Those bridges are "extremely damaged" underneath and are dangerous, sheriff's officials said.
Monte Whaley: 720-929-0907, email@example.com or twitter.com/montewhaley


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Originally intended as a conceptual showcase for the brand's new design language, the California-penned Lexus LF-LC concept looks like it may be production-bound, according to a report from Automotive News. Over its nearly decade-long production run, the SC 430 coupe began showing its age, and carried the dubious distinction of being one of the last vehicles to have a cassette player when it ended production in 2010. A production version of the hybrid-powered LF-LC would finally give Lexus a modern, efficient, high-performance premium coupe option, joining the IS hardtop convertible, and six-figure LFA among Lexus' two-door lineup.
The pressure is heating up for Lexus, which for many years was comfortably on top of luxury car sales, but has recently been eclipsed by its German arch-rivals Mercedes-Benz and BMW, as well as having to fend off a resurgent Audi. The 2013 Lexus GS, with its leaner lines and more aggressive styling, has signaled a change in direction for the brand, which gained a reputation for making refined, feature-packed, but somewhat bland, uninvolving models. Although the high-performance Lexus IS-F has been out since the 2008 model year, and the ultra-exclusive LFA exotic debuted for 2011, the two models were notable exceptions to Lexus' otherwise sedate lineup.
The LF-LC concept featured a front-engine, rear-drive hybrid powertrain. The specific engine was not disclosed at the Detroit debut, but may be a version of the GS' 3.5-liter V-6.
Source: Automotive News


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This is my Masterpiece. It's 39" by 24". In a black frame with the red white and blue theme for American Baseball. I look at it and it brings back all the games I played in and how much fun the game of Baseball really is. I did all the work on this one myself. Always loved Baseball as i grew up in it. The Norman Rockwell collection has always been a favorite of mine.


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