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Professor David Faigman recently published the latest edition of his five-volume treatise "Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony."
He has also published "The Daubert Revolution and the Birth of Modernity: Managing Scientific Evidence in the Age of Science" in the UC Davis Law Review. Professor David Faigman's article "Wading into the Daubert Tide: Sargon Enterprises, Inc. v. University of Southern California" is forthcoming in the Hastings Law Journal.
On March 14-15, Professor Faigman presented on standards of admissibility and the problem of reasoning from group data in science to individual decision-making in the law to a group of federal judges at a conference on Law, Neuroscience, and Criminal Justice at Stanford University School of Law. On March 22, 2013, he presented at a New Mexico CLE Bar Event: Presentation on Standards of Admissibility for Expert Evidence at a CLE organized by the New Mexico State Bar in Albuquerque, NM. On April 4, Professor Faigman presented a paper on reasoning from group data in law to individual decision making in the law at the University of Oregon, School of Law. On April 27, Professor Faigman discussed reasoning from group data in science to individual decision-making in the law at a conference on the Future of Law and Neuroscience sponsored by the American Bar Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago.
In addition to his written scholarship and public speaking, Professor Faigman's work is cited often by courts in nearly every jurisdiction. His complete body of work is cited frequently (well over 100 times by state and federal courts), but the most substantial reliance on his scholarship occurred in United States v. Scheffer, 523 U.S. 303 (1998) and Sargon Enterprises, Inc. v. University of Southern Cal., 55 Cal.4th 747, 288 P.3d 1237, 149 Cal.Rptr.3d 614 (2012).


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IT solution provider and reseller CDW on Wednesday unveiled a major cut in its initial public offering price as part of its proposed public listing on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol "CDW."
CDW, in a Wednesday SEC filing, said it plans to sell 23,250,000 shares of common stock at an estimated IPO price of between $17.00 and $18.00 per share.
Before expenses, that would raise a total of between $395,250,000 and $418,500,000. Assuming a per-share price of $17.50, CDW estimated its total proceeds, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, would be about $379.2 million.
[Related: Dell Go Private? History, Research Say It Could Be Good For Everyone Involved]
However, this is a steep cut from the company's earlier prospectus, unveiled in a June 14 SEC filing, which said the company expected a per-share price of $20.00 to $23.00.
This is not CDW's first time to go public.
CDW was founded in 1984 by Michael Krasny as Computer Discount Warehouse and first became a public company in 1993. CDW in 2007 went private in a $7.4 billion deal when it was acquired by equity companies Madison Dearborn Partners and Providence Equity Partners.
In its most recent S-1 filing, CDW estimated that sales of Hewlett-Packard products accounted for about 21 percent of the company's revenue, followed by sales of Cisco products, which accounted for 13 percent. About 31 percent of its purchases come from its three primary distribution partners: Ingram Micro, Tech Data and Synnex.
HP, along with Dell and IBM, is among the manufacturers CDW also includes in a list of competitors. The company also said its competitors in the channel side include both volume resellers and value-added solution providers including Dimension Data, ePlus, Insight Enterprises, PC Connection, PCM, Presidio, Softchoice, World Wide Technology and others.
While CDW lists HP and solution providers as competitors, it does not really compete well when solution providers focus on providing value, said Dave Butler, president of Enterprise Computing Solutions, a Mission Viejo, Calif.-based solution provider and HP partner.
CDW focuses mainly on volume sales, while companies like ECS focuses on value, project-based sales, Butler said.
"If one of my reps came in and said CDW was getting a deal from us, and could we come in with a lower price, I'd tell him that that's a CDW deal," he said.
NEXT: Good Time For CDW To Go Public

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University News
Staubus Awarded Centennial Honors Scholarship
December 17, 2013
MACOMB, IL – Bradley Bourbonnais High School senior Katherine Staubus, of Bourbonnais, IL, has been selected for Western Illinois University's Centennial Honors Scholarship, which covers four years of tuition, fees and a residence hall room at the school.
High school students with an ACT score of 32 or higher and a grade point average of 3.5 or higher are eligible for the scholarship.
Staubus said she will likely major in supply chain management at Western.
At Western, Staubus said she hopes to participate in theatre and choir activities, as well as volunteering opportunities.
In high school, Staubus participated in choir, theatre, Tri-M and cheer coaching.
After graduation from WIU, Staubus plans to begin a career in the business field.
For more information about the Centennial Honors Scholarship, contact the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at (309) 298-3100, or email email@example.com. Additional scholarship opportunities can be found by visiting wiu.edu/scholarship.
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California could cut $110 billion in healthcare spending over the next decade, saving the average household $800 a year, by quickly moving away from conventional fee-for-service medicine and embracing more coordinated care, a new report says.
These findings released Tuesday come from the Berkeley Forum, a new group of healthcare executives, state officials and academics that studied California's healthcare market for the last year in hopes of finding ways to make care better and more affordable. The main recommendations are not entirely new, and these shifts are already underway in response to the federal healthcare law and pressure from employers to tame runaway medical costs.
But the group's report does quantify how much work remains to be done and the potential savings if major changes are made in how doctors and hospitals are paid. Health-policy experts at UC Berkeley convened this group, which included high-ranking executives from Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and other industry players.
"This could be a game changer in the state," said Stephen Shortell, dean of the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley and a coauthor of the report. "These are the CEOs of big insurers, big health systems and large medical groups saying it's time for a change, and these are the people who can get things done."


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Posts in Six Nations 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
The Six Nations 2013 Highlights Montage
As we head towards another jampacked international season that includes a Lions tour amongst other things, here's our fast-paced take on some of the most memorable moments from the 2013 Six Nations Championship. We've also got some stats for you. MORE »
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Vincent Clerc's incredible volley almost leads to try
If you watched France vs Scotland on Saturday night you will have seen this great piece of play by French winger Vincent Clerc, who managed to keep an attacking move alive via some impressive quick thinking. France went on to win the game 23-16. MORE »
Sunday, March 17, 2013
France get first tournament win with Paris victory over Scotland
France avoided not winning a championship game for the first time since 1969 as they beat Scotland 23-16 thanks to two tries in the second half. Their disappointing campaign sees them ending bottom of the table however, for the first time since 1999. MORE »
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Wales thrash England by record score to retain Six Nations title
Wales produced a thrilling attacking display as they achieved their biggest ever Six Nations victory over England, scoring two great tries in the second half. Man of the Match Justin Tipuric played a large part in all things good on the night. MORE »
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Italy give Lo Cicero famous send off with historic win over Ireland
Italy achieved their first ever Six Nations victory over Ireland with a famous 22-15 win at the Stadio Olimpico on the final weekend of the 2013 Championship. They ended the tournament with two historic victories for only the second time ever. MORE »
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Six Nations Week Four Highlights Wrap
Week four of the Six Nations contained all the usual hype and drama that has become an integral part of the Championship, but on field there was less to cheer about as all three games failed to live up to the same standards we saw at the opening weekend. MORE »
Monday, March 11, 2013
England hang on for win over Italy and Grand Slam opportunity
England were put under serious pressure by a determined Italy side that scored the only try of the game, but couldn't force a late draw. The 18-11 win for England sets them up for a Championship decider against Wales in Cardiff next weekend. MORE »
Monday, March 11, 2013
France and Ireland draw for second consecutive year
France came from behind to draw 13-13 with Ireland as they avoided a fourth straight defeat, but are still without a win with one game left in this years Six Nations championship. The two teams drew their Six Nations meeting last year too. MORE »
Monday, March 11, 2013
Wales' Championship hopes still alive after gritty win over Scotland
Wales beat Scotland 28-18 at Murrayfield on Saturday in what could possibly be described as a game for the purists. The victory keeps Wales' hopes alive of achieving a Six Nations title, with the decider to be played in Cardiff next week. MORE »
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Scotland go back to back with tense victory over Ireland
Scotland achieved a famous 12-8 victory over Ireland at Murrayfield, making it the first time they've recorded back to back Six Nations victories in over a decade. With two matches left to play, they still have a chance of winning the tournament. MORE »
Sunday, February 24, 2013
England stay on track for Grand Slam with win over France
England continued their charge towards a Six Nations Grand Slam as they beat France 23-13 in a fascinating game at Twickenham on Saturday. Skipper Chris Robshaw attributed the win to the home team's defence against a dangerous French side. MORE »
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Wales win in Rome with comfortable victory over Italy
Wales beat Italy 26-9 in a scrappy Six Nations encounter in Rome on Saturday thanks to tries by Jonathan Davies and Alex Cuthbert. Italy were without inspirational leader Sergio Parisse, who received a heavy banned earlier in the week. MORE »
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Cian Healy banned for three weeks for leg stamp on Dan Cole
Prop Cian Healy has been suspended for three weeks for a leg stamp on Dan Cole during Ireland's 12-6 defeat by England in the Six Nations at the weekend. He will miss Ireland's upcoming matches against Scotland and France. MORE »
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Owen Farrell kicks England to victory over Ireland in Dublin
Owen Farrell kicked all of England's points as they went top of the Six Nations table with a 12-6 win over Ireland in wet conditions in Dublin. It was England's first win there in ten years, as they remain the only side now capable of claiming a Grand Slam. MORE »
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Wales win in Paris as France lose for second time in succession
Wales ended an eight-match losing streak with a hard fought 16-6 win over France in Paris on Saturday. The only try of the game was scored by George North from a perfectly placed Dan Biggar crosskick late in the contest. MORE »
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Scotland score four tries in impressive win over Italy at Murrayfield
Scotland claimed a record 34-10 Six Nations win over Italy at Murrayfield on Saturday. It was their first win in the championship for two years, bringing Italy crashing back down to earth after their famous win over France just a week ago. MORE »
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Flyhalf Luciano Orquera's best bits against France in Rome
Luciano Orquera was a well deserved Man of the Match as Italy achieved a famous 23-18 upset victory over France in Rome on Sunday. Here is a quick look at some of Orquera's best bits on the day, which included setting up two tries and kicking superbly. MORE »
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Brian O'Driscoll and Craig Gilroy big tackles against Wales
Brian O'Driscoll is fast becoming the bookies favourite to captain the Lions on their tour to Australia following Ireland's 30-22 victory over Wales on Saturday. Young winger Craig Gilroy, who also looks to be a star, could be joining him down under. MORE »
Monday, February 04, 2013
Italy stun France with another Six Nations upset win in Rome
In one of the most entertaining opening weekend's of Six Nations rugby for some time, the best was saved for last as Italy and France battled it out at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, with the hosts taking a famous 23-18 victory. MORE »
Saturday, February 02, 2013
England power past Scotland to retain Calcutta Cup at Twickenham
It was a good day for England fans as they beat Scotland 38-18 at Twickenham to claim the Calcutta Cup for the fourth successive year. The Women's team also kicked things off with a win over Scotland, 76-0, and the Sevens team won in Wellington. MORE »


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Didn't they have reliability problems in the past? Am I wrong about that or have they finally fixed it?
Supposedly the fixed one BSOD bug [anandtech.com] a few days ago. That wouldn't be with this controller anyway, but their record isn't spotless. Then again, Intel managed a SSD blemish too so... you're seeing an industry moving at breakneck speed, just make sure yours isn't on the line.
How do these things take to RAID configurations?
Raid 0 1 and 10 are fine, raid 5 or 6 your quickly start getting the raid controller being the bottleneck, it's a whole lot of CPU grunt to do those calcs at a gigabyte or more a sec.
Is there a chipset that does RAID 5 or 6 in HW?
It's not so easy they require reads to write. Say you have 5 drives that's 4 blocks of data and 1 block of parity info the OS has to be able to write out as little as a single block so you have to read 4 blocks then write out 5. In reality the stripe size is bigger than one block. Now the controller has to handle a pile of these at the same time, all real raid controllers do this in hardware. Not your el chepo motherboard built in raid but most of the add in cards over a couple hundred bucks. If you rea
The best RAID accelerators are sold by Intel and AMD under the brand names "Xeon" and "Opteron"...
That would be an expensive RAID controller to dedicate a whole Xeon to acceleration.
That would be an expensive RAID controller to dedicate a whole Xeon to acceleration.
Would it really? At the mid range an extra Xeon is a few hundred USD; obviously a bit more if you have to go for a server with more sockets. At the low end you just pick a 6-core CPU instead of a 4-core. Neither case seems unreasonably expensive to me. With a bit of luck you save an expansion slot.
Sorry, I forgot my sarcasm tag
A stripe would be glorious from a performance perspective. It would only take a few to saturate the bus to the CPU.
I think that TRIM isn't supported in RAID5. Not sure about other RAID levels. I would expect that you'd be able to RAID1 just fine, though.
TRIM doesn't work with RAID, period. Most drives can work with RAID 0 or 1.
Not so fast!
You can use my https://github.com/Cyberax/mdtrim/ [github.com] to periodically TRIM unused space on software RAID-1 on Linux (ext3/4 are supported right now).
Extending it for RAID-0/5/6 is not hard, but right now I don't have time for this.
TRIM doesn't work with RAID, period. Most drives can work with RAID 0 or 1.
I just installed a pair of SSDs in RAID-1 using Fedora 15. I had searched far and wide to see if TRIM was supported, and didn't find anything conclusive, so I installed anyway, since I'm only using 16GB out of the 64GB drive (which means that even non-TRIM-aware wear-leveling would last 4 times as long). After I had installed, I did some more searching, and somewhere I found info that said the 3.0 kernels (which Fedora 15 uses, although renumbered to keep some apps from breaking) supported it. I didn't b
Try my https://github.com/Cyberax/mdtrim/ [github.com] , we use it to periodically TRIM empty space. Works fine with md RAIDs on raw devices, it won't work with LVM though.
Unfortunately, RAID on stock md devices does NOT work, even if LVM/dm TRIM works. You won't get any warnings from ext4, TRIM just silently won't work because md doesn't pass through TRIM requests. There's a thread (dated August of this year) on linux-raid where md maintainer says that TRIM is not his priority.
So - I'm wondering why, exactly, do people want to do RAID with SSD? There are really only two reasons (that I'm aware of) for a RAID. Either you need performance - which the SSD delivers, or you need redundant security for your data. Even in a corporate setting, it seems that running the OS and applications from from the SSD, while keeping data on RAID would be a good solution. Investing in enough SSD's for RAID arrays seems a bit of a waste.
Servers, on the other hand, might make good use of SSD's in
So - I'm wondering why, exactly, do people want to do RAID with SSD? There are really only two reasons (that I'm aware of) for a RAID.
And both are as valid for SSD as they are for spinning disks.
RAID-0 can turn SSDs from fast to insane (if you have the controller bandwidth). Any of the data-protection RAID levels will help if your drive-with-really-new-and-somewhat-untested-technology dies an untimely death.
Keeping OS on SSDs doesn't make any sense in for server applications. You don't need to worry about boot speed and all your code is usually in RAM anyway.
However, databases and SSDs are a natural fit. We accelerated our server code more than 10 times just by moving it to SSDs. And since we're storing critical data, RAID-1 are a must (backups are the last resort - you inevitably lose some data if you have to restore from backups).
It's worth noting that if you desperately need more speed, you should look at Revo line of OCZ's drives. Those are SSDs mounted in a cluster of four separate drives linked to a single raid 0 controller all on the same PCI-E card.
The reason why I'm not touching that is that raid controller doesn't let TRIM commands through, so after a year or so, drive will slow down significantly. That said, at raid 0 and PCI-E interface, it will still smoke any and all SATA solutions.
Well my experience was that the issue wasn't fixed. I just returned one of these drives due to lockups, "disappearing drive" and random BSODs. This happened with a Corsair 120GB Force 3 SSD, but I know the OCZ drives are also affected. The issues have been going on for months.
Were you using the firmware update that was just released three days ago? I'm not being a dick, just genuinely curious.
Well I had used the firmware available on the same day this article was posted. I returned the drive on that day, after it still failed to fix the issues. I had tried the drive on 2 different machines with different motherboards, and in each case the problems occured in the same way when the drive was used. There are plenty of other people on the forums who have had the same experience so basically I had no faith whatsoever in the Sandforce controller-based SSDs. I've bought several in the past - my gaming
SSDs aren't meant/ready as a mass storage solution. They are a performance product aimed at system drives and portable devices -- situations where replacing them isn't a big deal data wise.
Also. if you're storing data on one one drive you're an idiot no matter what kind of drive you are using.
i'm immune - i keep MY data in the cloud!
>>wow, that's not something anyone wants to see,
There's been a LOT of "you lose everything" bugs in the SSD market up till now.
Buying the latest and greatest is nice, but I like to wait until there's a couple hundred reviews of a product on Newegg before buying (filter at 1-egg level to see what can go wrong...)
My SSD is only for the OS and most used Applications, everything else is stored on a network drive that is mirrored in 3 different machines. If my SSD buys the farm right now I will lose nothing of importance.
>>My SSD is only for the OS and most used Applications, everything else is stored on a network drive that is mirrored in 3 different machines. If my SSD buys the farm right now I will lose nothing of importance.
Me, too, actually, but going through the process of reinstalling Windows and my applications is something I'd rather avoid with a little bit of research.
One of the SSDs I almost bought had a firmware bug which could very occasionally cause you to lose everything. The problem, though, was that p
There's been a LOT of "you lose everything" bugs in the SSD market up till now.
There's plenty of "you lose everything" bugs in spinning rust drives as well.
From Western Digital drive failures that led to them being nicknamed "Western Digicrap", to IBM's Deathstar drives, Seagate's logfile one, etc.
Every manufacturer has come up with a line of drives that proved to be lemons, and we're talking about very mature technology here - it's been around since the IBM RAMAC.
SSDs are a game changer in that any idiot w
>>There's plenty of "you lose everything" bugs in spinning rust drives as well.
I can't recall the last time there was a firmware bug in a HDD that caused catastrophic loss of data... I can think of a couple RAID controllers, but nothing baked into the drives themselves. There's a lot of such problems in SSDs.
I know it's a generalization, but HDDs tend to fail more gracefully (though SMART is by no means foolproof, don't get me wrong) whereas SSD failures are characterized by simply not working one day
I can't recall the last time there was a firmware bug in a HDD that caused catastrophic loss of data... I can think of a couple RAID controllers, but nothing baked into the drives themselves. There's a lot of such problems in SSDs.
I know it's a generalization, but HDDs tend to fail more gracefully (though SMART is by no means foolproof, don't get me wrong) whereas SSD failures are characterized by simply not working one day.
Seagate was the most recent one - depending on how you rebooted your PC, it could ju
>>If you avoid the cutting edge super-high-performance SSDs, then you really ought to be fine
Which is basically what I said. I finally bit the bullet, imaged my drive, cloned it over to an SSD, but only after carefully going through all the 1-Egg reviews on Newegg for the models I was interested in, and avoided the ones that had the catastrophic failure bugs.
>>in an SSD, practically the only reason it dies prematurely are due to firmware bugs
Well, and when it runs out of writes, I guess. Though
wow, that's not something anyone wants to see, a bug in their hard drive. CPU I can replace, ram I can replace... pretty much everything I can swap out, but my hard drive is where everything is stored, I can't risk losing data because of a bug.
So, you're storing important data on a single drive with no backup? And you expect a typical rotating-magnetic hard drive to last forever and never fail?
Studies show that, overall, long-term failure rates for SSD drives are *lower* than traditional hard drives.
In vast majority of cases, modern hard drive's SMART will start screaming its mechanical lungs out at you long before failure comes. Even if you ignore that, physical errors with the drive will often cause noise that will lead you to suspect that drive is failing. The "holy shit, it just died" failures are in minority.
On the other hand, SSD dies like that in vast majority of times. Add to that unreliability of the new controllers (not the drive itself which is what you were talking about), and you get a per
Yes, IIRC, the Google report indicated that SMART murmured not a peep in about half of all failures.
I seem to remember a while ago that google published stats on their hard disk failures and that SMART wasn't particularly useful in predicting failure times of drives.
I've read that study. The trouble with it is that it doesn't distinguish types of failure. As far as that study is concerned a drive that died completely, a drive that developed the odd unreadable sector and a drive that dropped out of a raid despite testing out fine as an individual disk are all "failures".
Google's analysis (which someone else mentioned) is correct here -- SMART will generally not trip the overall SMART health status from OK to FAIL. Why doesn't this happen sooner? Because the vendors themselves are the ones who decide the thresholds for when an attribute goes from OK/good to FAILING/bad. On most drives -- consumer-grade and "enterprise-grade" (yes, BOTH!) -- the thresholds are set to the point where the drive will have already experienced so many failures that the end-user notices it as I
You have a good point. I made it a habit to quickly check some important statuses of drives through gsmartcontrol, usually parts like reallocated sector counts and other pre-failure marked parts every couple of months. Essentially parts that show that drive is starting to really suffer from wear and tear, and I should pay more attention to backing it up and probably replacing it sometime soon.
I tend to do that long before it trips the threshold set on the drive because I know that those are artificially hig
SMART hasn't predicted a single one of the HD failure's that my client's or I have experienced. SMART is useful, but not at a predictor of failure.
I obviously do not know who "your client" is so I cannot address the issue, but for a knowledgeable home user maintaining his own and his family/friends machines, it certainly does.
I meant to type "clients" (plural, not possessive). Many hundreds of HD's and many dozens of failures over the 15+ years that HDs have had SMART. Only one or two of the failures were predicted by SMART. I'll put my much larger sample, and Google's vastly larger sample up against your friend's/family's machines any day. SMART is NOT a reliable predictor of HD failure and never has been.
And when talking about servers, I will be forced to agree with you. My disks don't come close to those levels of wear and tear.
I was waiting on an SSD until they worked out the bugs and there were no articles about problems for awhile but with stories like these I'll keep waiting, it's just not worth the risk.
You didn't think HDDs have similar dumb BIOS errors [sourceforge.net]?
I have an older Intel SSD (160GB XM25) and have already had it replaced under warranty once because it ran out of spare sectors. Looking at the spec it is rated for about 17TB of writes, and the SMART attributes report 650GB of writes after a few months of use.
At the time I bought it the expected life time was supposed to be at least 5 years, and I only put the OS and apps on it (data is on a traditional HDD). It looks like I will just have to do another warranty claim next year, and them when the warranty
The problems with the Sandforce controller has been fixed. But yeah OCZ were in the SSD game early and had a few flaky firmwares in the wild. All is good now though.
These drives are not Sandforce based. Did you even read the article?
"The drive, based on the new Indilinx Everest controller, includes an "instant on" feature, that reduces boot times over previous OCZ SSDs by 50%."
Just when their controller matures a bit they switch to a different one....?
Just when their controller matures a bit they switch to a different one....?
Of course, because for some reason, these guys are making SSDs that push the performance envelope. There seems to be a big vacuum of "slower but stable" drives as everyone is racing to try to get 1GB/sec transfer speeds.
Then again, Apple probably is soaking up all the "slow, solid, reliable" SSDs. Plenty of computers and plenty of users who can get by with a slower drive that still does 150MB/sec - most of the speedup comes from the
OCZ's reliability record is in no way different to any other Data Storage Manufacturer past or present.
Seagate's recent 1TB woes: ST31000340AS [tomshardware.com]
Western Digital's recent woes: Caviar Green EARS 1.0TB and 1.5TB SATA [newegg.com]
Going further back, anyone who's been around in IT for a decade or longer recalls the old Micropolis 9GB drive failures that sent the company into bankruptcy. In any case, OCZ is a relatively good company and a notable innovator of SSD technology and I personally find most of their products to be ju
You jumped from 1TB to 9GB, but forgot the biggest one in between. The IBM DeskStar aka DeathStar was a huge scandal and probably lead to them selling off the division.
We all survived the 18GB Deathstar and avoided Fujitsu's sudden death syndrome and it further proves most have had their fair share of failures at one time or another. The only ones I cannot recall any fault with were Quantum and later Maxtor drives. I loved my Fireball and Atlas drives!
Quantum had their share of troubles. The Bigfoot drives would once in a while need a good kick to the side to get going again.
Remember that - happened to my workstation.
Then my laptop hard disk drive (TravelStar) fried. Had to do the recommended trick of putting the disk drive in a freezer bag, chill it out, and give it a good whack on power-up. Managed to get one final incremental backup before it went up to the great server rack in the sky..
For the record, seagate's 7200.11 was the only instance of buggy controller in that line of drives. I have two of 7200.7 drives that clocked over 50.000 hours uptime in raid0 as OS drive pair with no issues (and hilariously, one raid controller failure), and I have several 7200.12 drives (including the warranty replacement drive for 7200.11 that had a controller bug mentioned on the TH.com). No problems.
Problem with OCZ is that they do not have a proper solution for their clients' woes, and they don't send
I think just about everyone had reliability problems with Sandforce based drives, but as OCZ was one of the closest partners to Sandforce they have generally released drives before others; often containing older firmware with more bugs.
It does seem their QA process is not especially robust looking at their track record though, where ever the problem is, you would think they would pick it up and delay shipment until it's fixed (especially seeing how widespread they where).
SSD's must meet or surpass all of your mentioned categories and overall capacity limits before Magnetic HDD's are cast the way of the floppy disk drive. Even then, look at how long it took to get rid of the floppy disk drive:
Beginning of end for Floppy Disk Drive: 1998 with a CD-ROM drive but no floppy drive
End of the Floppy Disk Drive: 2009 Hewlett-Packard, the last supplier, stopped supplying Floppy Disk Drives on all systems
It could be stated that the HDD is more entwined in technology than the FDD was a
Two things really.
1. When the cost per GB become cheaper than what's available in an HDD.
2. Proven track of reliability.
Currently only the Dell PERC 6/i and above will work well with SSDs. Once the two major hurdles have been achieved, we can kiss the ol winchester drive goodbye. Honestly, HDD technology is a marvel of technology. But its time has come.
1. When the cost per GB become cheaper than what's available in an HDD.
Heck, I'd probably pay $200 for a 500GB SSD for my laptop. That's way more than a hard drive, but I'd get something more for it. That's forty cents a GB, these guys want triple that currently.
2. Proven track of reliability.
Yeah, I'm only using SSD's for caches now because of their failure mode, and write caches get mirrored. If OCZ wants to make that 500GB drive a 750GB drive, and put four controllers onboard with a SATA multilane int
The newer SSD drives are SATA3 now. But even with a SATA2 motherboard, these drives fetch data at amazing speeds even if you were to fully saturate the port. Unless you need the performance of an Avid workstation working with multimedia over a fiber channel SAN, I don't think you'll personally see the difference between SATA2 and SATA3 connectivity in a laptop. YMMV of course.
Anyways, I've got an Intel M25 160GB in my MacBook 13". When booting up my Windows XP VM in Fusion, for a moment my CPUs are maxed ou
I just love booting my pc in 6 seconds and going to my photo manager and before you can blink an eye... Scrolling through thousands of photos as thumbnails, and seeing every one no matter how fast I scroll, or what size the pics are, and changing zoom is instantaneous! I have sold 5 SSDs now to friends just based on that!
I never see an IOWait anymore. Truly magical!
That's sick (awsome maybe?). Now my laptops bottle neck is the bloody processor.
Awesome - in my opinion, that's where you always want to be.
Heck, I'd probably pay $200 for a 500GB SSD for my laptop
Laptops aren't the only place people use disks. I've bought two new machines this year. My laptop has a 256GB SSD and the difference that it makes to performance is amazing. I'd hate to go back to using a hard disk. The other machine is a NAS. It has three 2TB disks in a RAID-Z configuration. I am mostly going to be accessing it over WiFi, so as long as the disks can manage 2MB/s I really don't care about performance. I care a lot about capacity though, because it's having things like snapshotted ba
Buy a cheap SSD, partition it, and add part of it as a cache device to your RAID-Z - the L2ARC will be kept fresh and you'll make the cost back in electric costs. If you can buy two SLC's (~$115 each) make a mirror of two partitions and add that as a log device, to save on the write side too (but don't trust a single SSD as a zil, and MLC probably isn't great for constant writes).
I have more data on my laptop hard drive than is economically feasible for an SSD right now. Two more years, I figure. For now
Yeah, depends on your workload. IIRC I worked out a 24/7-busy 5-disk Raid-Z2 to cost about $9/mo in electricity here (counting cooling, 40% or so). If Sun's math is to be believed, SSD L2ARC and ZIL get that down to $2/mo or so.
If your disks are mostly idle most of the time, I can't see how the payback would be fast enough. I don't know of any reliable way to figure carbon load.
1. When the cost per GB become cheaper than what's available in an HDD.
That won't happen for a LONG time.
SSDs only get cheaper in line with Moore's law (the number of transistors limits the size of the flash chips).
Hard drives, it seems, grow in capacity faster than Moore's law. At some point in the future they'll slow down, but that's a huge gap to catch up to.
It could be stated that the HDD is more entwined in technology than the FDD was and so it may be more well more than 11 years before we see Magnetic HDD's disappear from the consumer marketplace.
No. If price and capacity are similar, SSD is a complete replacement for HDD. They use the same form factors and same interfaces. FDD survived so long because of existing removable media. CD/DVD drives will persist for the same reason. HDDs have no backward compatibility issues to maintain other than form factor and interface. If/when SSDs approach the price and capacity of HDD, the HDD will die rapidly because the SSD has huge advantages in latency and portable durability, plus advantages in power, weight,
The cost per gig is unlikely to ever get below the HDD cost. The multiplier used to be around 20x. Maybe it is down to about 15x 2 years later. So if we assume something like the multiplier halves every 4 yrs you still need another dozen years before HDDs are even close. I don't think HDD has that long.
At this point most people experience essentially unlimited storage. Generally the switches: 14 in -> 8 in -> 5 1/4 -> 3 1/2... all happened when the larger drives still had better performance bu
wd and seagate hard drive prices are roofing and will keep going up over the months to come, ssd will be the way as energy costs go up..time for spinning crap to leave anyway
What makes you think that energy costs will go up? It's very country-dependent and at least where I live, electricity is far more likely to go down in price as next nuclear power plant is built in a couple of years.
I was wondering how long this SSD will last in typical use. Let's take the 128 GB unit; thats 128Gx10000 write cycles.
Some numbers for my system: I've got 4 GB RAM, and at the moment it's using 1.5 GB of swap. Let's say the swap gets overwritten once a day. I hibernate 2x/day. New data: that won't be too much, Time Machine backs up maybe 1 GB in a week.
In total 10GB of writing per day. That's 120,000 days, not bad.
Worse case would be rewriting the entire SSD each day, that still 5000-10,000 days. Still good
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Wednesday 27 February 2013
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FC Rossiyanka, who have lost their past two quarter-finals to German sides, face VfL Wolfsburg with Elvira Todua and Anna Kozhnikova believing their new coach can buck the trend.
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FC Rossiyanka are through to their third European quarter-final – but standing in their way once again are German opposition.
In 2007/08 the Russian side reached the last eight in their second season of continental football but fell 2-1 on aggregate to eventual winners 1. FFC Frankfurt. Then, 12 months ago, after two UEFA Women's Champions League round of 16 exits in a row, they returned to the quarters, only to find 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam too strong.
Now, having beaten AC Sparta Praha 3-2 overall despite being held 2-2 in the home second leg, Rossiyanka are up against tough competition debutants VfL Wolfsburg in late March. They will at least have some inside knowledge from their new German coach Achim-Matthias Feifel, formerly of Wolfsburg's Frauen Bundesiga rivals Hamburger SV.
Rossiyanka goalkeeper Elvira Todua and defender Anna Kozhnikova spoke to UEFA.com about his arrival and their ambitions against Wolfsburg.
UEFA.com: You have made it to the last eight; what has been the hardest thing about this competition so far?
Anna Kozhnikova: Every game is hard in a way, including the away matches. Actually, the away games have been easier, we've managed to give a better account of ourselves in them. [Against Sparta in Prague] the first half wasn't so good, but the second half was better. I would say they were not a bad team at all, a strong team. So in a way we were lucky to play that well, but thank God we got through. As for me, it was hard to miss the second leg. I had two yellow cards, and watching from the sidelines is much harder than playing. It's nerve-racking.
UEFA.com: How can you improve further for Wolfsburg?
Elvira Todua: We haven't looked too deeply into it, we haven't talked much, but we watched their games in the last 32 and 16. They're a strong team, with 12 internationals. We're not novices, we understand that the level of their team is very high. If a German club set a goal to develop a new strong team, everybody expects that they will reach the standard of Potsdam, Frankfurt and many others. They are considered a new team in the Champions League, but probably one of the best ones.
Kozhnikova: Physically we have to be at the highest level, because if you make mistakes it's easier to make up for them. And also tactically, because from time to time we get in new foreign players and so we don't have that consistency as a unit, where we have all been playing together for a long time.
UEFA.com: Will having a new German coach help against a German club?
Kozhnikova: I think it definitely can – who better knows the German mentality and how Germans play? Everybody knows them, the team is not new; however there may be some secrets that he can reveal. I think he can.
Todua: You know, we've had lots of different staff from around the world, different types of coaches. What I can say about this coach is that order and discipline beat class. That is why he teaches us order. We have lots of youngsters, and I think it's the right way to do it.
UEFA.com: In 2009, WFC Zvezda 2005 Perm got to the final. Do you think Russian football is strong enough to do that again?
Todua: I think it's essential – it will stimulate our development and give everyone a lift. We've already had one boom in women's football but then we fell into the abyss, at national-team level. While Zvezda reached the final, [Rossiyanka] have played in the Champions League many times, we've been in the quarter-finals more than once, and we want to get through this stage. Having played the quarter-finals before, we want to get to the semis.
Kozhnikova: I think it's strong enough. And more than one Russian club is capable of doing it. Zvezda have a stable squad, they'd been playing together for several years. They had one long-serving coach and they coped without a lot of foreign players, but I think we can do well too. And there are other Russian clubs I don't think are any weaker.


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In spite of the awful fielding, the South African bowling today was spot-on. Finally some control and patience. Just a shame it was all too late.
In spite of the awful fielding, the South African bowling today was spot-on. Finally some control and patience. Just a shame it was all too late.
Today really is an achetypical example of why reading scorecards just does not give you enough info to determine who bowled/batted well. Steyn picked up two top-order wickets and mopped-up the tail, Ntini took two tail-enders. Reading the scorecard, you'd rate Steyn's wickets higher but, in reality, Ntini was easily the bowler of the day and just very, very unlucky.
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Even if Imraan does relative well in this match, he'll make way for Smith when he comes back. Prince looks like he has a point to prove.
Nice.Originally Posted by cricinfo
Prince looks in the mood. Nice to have him back and an opener willing to play a few positive shots.
Not really taken by Khan, credit to him his still there but hangs the bat out and looked a wee bit iffy against the leggie. Nice on the eye though when the bowlers drift into his pads. Shades of Amla.
did McGain look threatening at all?
You forgot to mention the fact that he got hit for 6 second ball, pretty sure Prince picked that one.
Prince going along nicely, 37 off 36 balls, doing a good job supporting the debutant. South Africa well on top.
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No the original Pluton is located somewhere in Alabasta. For some reason I thought that the blueprints also shows the place of the original one, but I was wrong
soooooo do you think everything im saying makes sense,then? pweeease say it is..cos actually everytime i breathe nowadays all im thinking about is every single scene in one piece..did i just make myself sounds miserable??????
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viva_cmpunker wrote:
No the original Pluton is located somewhere in Alabasta. For some reason I thought that the blueprints also shows the place of the original one, but I was wrong
soooooo do you think everything im saying makes sense,then?
Actually yes. If this theory is correct then I definitely see all 3 of the Ancient Weapons come into play. Even if it doesn't happen exactly like this theory, still all 3 weapons will play a major role IMO.
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pweeease say it is..cos actually everytime i breathe nowadays all im thinking about is every single scene in one piece..did i just make myself sounds miserable??????
Lol I still do sometimes. You just can't help yourself when a series is this damn great.
I think Zoro will find a incredible sword (maybe a ancient sword?) or maybe even better... 3 ancient swords. And dam, this theory makes totally sense.
I have an completely off topic question about One Piece that might or might not have an answer... When Robin does her "Clutch" move and twists peoples necks, is she actually snapping thier neck and killing them or just causing them to pass-out?
Sounds pretty legit to me and I may have something to strengthen what you say. The three ancient weapons are Pluton, Posideon, and Uranus. In greek mythology, Pluton is the god of the land, and the giver of wealth, minerals and harvest so it would make sense that this weapon would be used to destroy the redline, marijoa and fishman island. Poseidon is obvious. The ruler of the sea the current mermaid princess is doing be able to control the sea kings and take everyone on fishman island to the surface using Noah. The one that still a mystery is Uranus aka God of the sky. This weapon could have something to do with the fairy vearth enel was talking about since we still don't know what he's doing, or a way to bring all the island that make up skipea back to the surface. Lastly not sure if the manga mentioned this but in one of the movies they mention Dyna stone which is the marines secret weapon. Maybe thats how the Ancient Kingdom got destroyed in the first place.
Not bad , if this seems to be right . then lets just watch and see how it goes in the end one piece for life !
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i do believe what you said about law working with dragon but im confused with sabo ill try to keep an open mind but sabo and law dont make sense at all and sabo and flamingo being brother plz explain your self you need more evidence than they have blonde hair and some retarded alias.
I Love Your Theories, especially about All Blue, but i cudn't find any reason 'why wont WG unify the ocean? what is their purposes?'
Beside, the Pluton's Blueprint had been burned by franky.
If I recall there is 3 Ancient weapon in OP world and only 2 revealed, lets wait for the next one.
I think, Crocco boy cud defeat enel, cuz sands can resist enel's power. which mean sands and earth are enels natural enemys too
My theory is that One Piece will end the day Oda Eiichiro dies
eeeh, while it makes sense from a logic standpoint, I don't feel it makes sense from a story standpoint. If you catch my meaning.
This give meaning to the Fishman arc, which I considered "huge wasted time" previously. Oda is fallible and manages to mess up his story telling from time to time. FIshman arc was clearly important to this goal you're stating, and from what I remember about it, it spent an absurd amount of time making sure we got all these hints and clues that lead to this conclusion.
That said, I kind of don't want this ending.....but.
Maybe explaining it logically before it happens doesn't appeal to me.
I've seen this elsewhere and while it is great and I think some things are right. Especially Luffy destroying Fishman island, that's basically certain. But some of the stuff like the fish police and the Government's motive for not allowing it don't seem right.
I personally think that the answer to this story might lie in space. There are many hints towards that and while reading up on greek mythology of Uranus, I might have spoiled myself a little.
Maybe for regular earth, but in the real world when lighting strikes sand it turns to glass because of the heat or whatever. Idk how Crocodile could or if he can block against that.
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I think, Crocco boy cud defeat enel, cuz sands can resist enel's power. which mean sands and earth are enels natural enemys too
This is god damn perfect!I can't even imagine another,a better ending!I bet it'll take a lot for this anime to be finished,but when it will,it will probably be one of the greatest anime ever created!(Tho for me already is )I'm curious how many episodes it will have <3
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This is just a theory (obviously), but I believe it's possible that when Sabo disappeared, Doflamingo was adopted as a replacement for Sabo. The family, in order to save themselves any sort of embarrassment, adopted a child that looked very similar to Sabo to fool the others around them. The "replacement", was Doflamingo, and through the pressure of being this fake person, became insane (If he wasn't insane to begin with).
Feel free to point out how/why I could be wrong. This was just an idea I came up with after reading through this thread.


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Olive H. Lawrence of Needham died on Friday, May 10, at North Hill Skilled Nursing Facility. She was 94.
Born in Elizabeth, N.J., she was the daughter of Oliver and Ella Houston. She was a Needham resident for 57 years and a summer resident of Oak Bluffs since 1926.
Mrs. Lawrence attended public schools in Elizabeth and worked in the Union County, N.J., court system. She was the wife of Dr. Knowles B. Lawrence, who died shortly after her on Friday, May 10.
Mrs. Lawrence was active all her life as a community volunteer with many organizations, including the Visiting Nurse Association, Norfolk County Tuberculosis Association, the American Cancer Society, Needham Adult and Continuing Education, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts and the Glover Hospital Aid Association. An avid reader, she belonged to Great Books and the Brandeis Women book clubs.
She is survived by her children, Judge Paul Lawrence and his wife, Jane, of Francetown, N.H.; Evelyne Lawrence of Louisville, Ky., and Susan Lawrence of Albany, N.Y.; her grandchildren, Damara Jenkins, Ira and Michael Van Irvin and Jessica and Duncan Lawrence; three great-grandchildren, and her nephew, Michael Houston.
She was the sister of the late Lewis Houston.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 8, at the Carter Memorial Methodist Church in Needham Heights. A gathering of friends and family will follow the service.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Needham Public Library, Permanent Donations Fund, 1139 Highland avenue Needham, MA 02494.


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ROSA KHUTOR, Russia (Feb. 16) - Torin Yater-Wallace (Aspen, CO) and Gus Kenworthy (Telluride, CO) battled through fog and rain to go one-two for U.S. Freeskiing in the pre-Olympic test event of the halfpipe at Rosa Khutor outside Sochi. It was the first opportunity for the top athletes in the Olympics' newest event to visit Sochi and test the new pipe.
QUOTESTorin Yater-WallaceI'm happy with my results. Everyone skied well considering the weather. I mean there were a few people that fell that could have put down sick runs, but that happens it's a competition. It feels cool to be here at the Olympic venue - it's a pretty good halfpipe - it's long. The weather wasn't great but hopefully next year it's not as rainy and humid out, but you can't change the weather.


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If it doesn't happen next episode we might have our first big change and it makes me wonder if we'll see an anime original ending.
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The "kiss" in volume 5 was supposed to take place in Valentine, after Sorata and Mashiro returns to Sakurasou, and it was changed to the current version in TVA. (And before people start complaining, I think that the current version is good in its own way; the original scene ends up being more of a background funny event with no significance whatsoever).
Also, Yuuko's number (xxxx99) not showing up is in the original novel. She does attend Sui-high later on though, because of something that is quite Yuuko-like. Although from the look of things, it seems that we won't get that far (the anime will likely end at volume 6; Sorata doesn't find out that Yuuko will attend anyways until volume 7 starts).
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Looks like my prediction might be correct. The anime will only cover up to vol 6. It will either end at exactly the end of vol 6, or it will cover up to vol 6 and then have an anime original ending. I hope it will be ending at vol 6 cause it leaves the possibility of a second season.
The series will end at vol 10 so if there will be a second season it will only need to be a one-cour series (12-13 episodes) that is enough to cover vol 7-10. It will cover the new school year, which Sorata, Mashiro, Nanami and Ryuunosuke are in their 3rd year. I am more interested that the new season will primarily be about Sorata and Mashiro's relationship. The first half will cover vol 7-8, about Sorata and Mashiro trying to tell their feelings toward each other. The second half will then cover vol 9-10, what happens after Sorata and Mashiro become a couple.
The possibility of the anime getting a second season is not high but still likely. The anime is produced by JC Staff which is a good thing. Most JC Staff anime adapted from popular light novel series had more than one season or their story completed. The average BD/DVD sales for Sakurasou will probably be about 3000 per volume which is quite average, but some JC Staff series managed to get another season even though the first season sold less than 3,000. Since the second season of Sakurasou will only need to be a one-cour series, it should cost much less to produce it.
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It's not up to JC Staff though- It's whether Degenki would be willing to go through with it... Hopefully before the final volume comes out... A single cour Fall season for this year might be possible.
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first time on this thread, thank you AP24 for that spoiler on vol 8 it made my day a good day! i hope you can give us some spoiler of vol 9 and 10 in the future, i really want to know how this serie will end since probably the anime won't cover it all
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Dr. Hudes holds MD and PhD degrees from Tbilisi State Medical Institute (Republic of Georgia, USSR). She completed a fellowship in allergy and internal medicine in Georgia; internships and residencies at Metropolitan Hospital Center, Stony Brook University Medical Center, and Jacobi Medical Center; and the Einstein Allergy/Immunology Fellowship Training Program. Prior to her appointment at Einstein she was head of the Department of Allergy at the Research Institute of Rehabilitation in Tbilisi (USSR).
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Gerry "The Ghost" Kanov and Shari "The Shark" Stauch combine an unprecedented wealth of professional pool experience and talent to create this book. Both are staff members of Pool & Billiard Magazine, the top publication for the sport. They have played and worked with virtually every top professional pool player and instructor in the world.
Kanov has been playing professional and amateur pool since 1968. He has dozens of local and national top 3 finishes and championships, including two national team championships as a player and coach. He is an instructional editor and technical advisor for Pool & Billiard Magazine and has written dozens of instruction articles, including the popular "Ghost" and "Eight Ball Ernie" columns, P&B reader favorites.
Kanov was a touring professional on the Camel Pro Billiard Series and a coach for several top players. He also has a screen credit: He portrayed a referee in the motion picture The Color of Money. Kanov and his wife make their home in Nashville, Tennessee.
Stauch, a member of the Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) Hall of Fame, was a touring pro on the Women's Pro Billiard Tour from 1980 to 2004, when she retired to pursue promotion of the sport full time. She was consistently ranked in the top 32 players in the world, even while serving as executive editor of Pool & Billiard Magazine and handling publicity for the Women's Pro Billiard Tour. She has performed dozens of exhibitions for clients, including Gordon's Gin and ESPN.
Stauch was the founding president of the Billiard Education Foundation, which conducts youth billiard national championships and scholarship programs. Stauch also was involved as a consultant for The Color of Money. In 2003 she was selected as the billiard mentor for You Can Do It, a book conceived by United Flight 93 heroine Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas to inspire women to try new sports and hobbies. Shari resides with her husband and two children outside of Charleston, South Carolina.
Together, Kanov and Stauch authored the first edition of Precision Pool as well as Pool Player's Edge: Advanced Skills, Shots, and Strategies for 8-Ball and 9-Ball. For more on the authors, including archived articles, visit www.PoolMag.com.
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DIXON – Paver sales from the "Leave Your Mark Program" tallied $6,350 for the Riverfront Commission in the last 12 months, members learned Tuesday. That's up about $500 from last year.
The commission sold 31 pavers, eight more than last year, Riverfront Chairman Larry Reed said. Engraving started Tuesday.
Since the program started in 2010, the memorial bricks have raised $53,693, which has gone into maintenance and projects at the Heritage Crossing.
"[Executive director] Kay [Miller] just sold three pavers today," Reed said. "We'll keep selling them for fundraisers, as long as it's still going good."
Reed also said he and commission member Paul Miller met with the city regarding the organizational study to explore Riverfront, Dixon Tourism and Dixon Main Street consolidation options.
Police Chief Danny Langloss, special assistant to the City Council, proposed he start a committee to study the three organizations, which asked for city funding this year, to determine if they are operating as efficiently as possible, or if they would be better off consolidating. Langloss will make a recommendation to the City Council.
"I told them I don't care how it comes out, as long as the [commission] gets a say in the future of maintenance," Reed said, noting he's doesn't want to see the maintenance slip at the Heritage Crossing.
Last month, it was estimated the Riverfront could wind up spending about $2,000 to replace the dirt in flood-damaged areas at Heritage Crossing.
By using dirt donated by the city and moving plants around, the commission was able to stay within its $360 budget, maintenance coordinator John Groshan said.
The Riverfront also learned that its sign violates city code, because it lacks the proper foundation for a ground-based sign, among other things. A subcommittee was formed to install a sign that meets codes.
Another subcommittee will explore funding options for a possible $5,025 storage unit.
Reed said he will meet with city officials regarding a request for an Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program grant. Reed said the grant would secure funds for a bike pathway from the Riverfront leading to Seventh Street.
Groshan also said the Riverfront should have more committees with membership involving residents from outside the commission, not only to work more efficiently on topics, but also to get more townspeople involved.
To buy a paver
Engraved pavers to be installed at the Dixon Riverfront Heritage Crossing are $250 for a 6-by-8-inch stone with three lines, up to 13 characters per line; $275 for a 6-by-12-inch paver with three lines, up to 18 characters per line; and $325 for a 12-by-12-inch paver with seven lines, up to 18 characters per line.
Go to www.dixonriverfront.net or www.discoverdixon.org/riverfront for forms, or call Riverfront Executive Director Kay Miller at 815-973-0931. Forms also are available at Dixon City Hall, Dixon Chamber of Commerce, or Dixon Main Street.
Dock subcommittee meets Saturday
The Riverfront Commission's boat dock subcommittee meets for the first time at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Dixon Main Street Office, 115 S. Hennepin Ave., to discuss ways to raise enough money to install a 13-slip dock at Heritage Crossing.
The project, which was heavily discussed last summer at Riverfront meetings, would cost about $153,000: $82,305 for the docks, $42,500 for a vertical anchoring system and $28,000 for labor. There is only $4,665 in the boat dock fund.
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The Script: Skwibs
Synopsis: The story of Francis Falkirk, a Scottish medium and spiritual detective on a mission to release the spirits of the restless dead.
Meet Stewart Thomson
How did it feel to be shortlisted for Rocliffe?
Just to be shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum feels like a fantastic achievement. To receive the recognition of such an esteemed judging panel is a huge shot in the arm for my project and writing in general.
What are you most looking forward to about attending the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum event in New York?
To see SKWIBS performed in front of a live audience would be terrifying but also hugely constructive. Comedies need to be performed, even if that means facing the jokes that fall flat.
When did you get involved in writing comedy?
I've been writing as far back as I can remember. Apart from a brief spell of angst ridden teenage poetry I've always tried to write comedy.
What inspired you to write comedy for the screen?
I think making people laugh is one of the hardest things to do as a writer but also one of the most rewarding.
Which part of the writing process do you find most difficult and which come most easily?
I'm a bit of an over-writer; my first drafts are often alarmingly gigantic. This is something I'm trying to reign in. Writing dialogue is the part that comes easiest to me.
My week at the New York Television Festival as part of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum was a whirlwind of excitement and opportunity. As we arrived on Sunday afternoon, and our Sitcom Showcase with Greg Daniels wasn't until Wednesday, we had a few days to soak up the festival, shake off our jetlag and explore a little of New York City.
These first few days were packed with inspiring speakers including not one but two fantastic sessions with Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz; the first an exclusive "artists only" chat followed by his keynote speech to kick off the festival in style.
Our evenings were mostly spent with our fellow artists over a few beers in the Varick Room of Tribeca Cinema. It was fantastic to meet writers, directors and producers from across the globe, all there with a vast variety of pilots, scripts and reality TV concepts. It was also wonderful (and a little terrifying) to hear that so many people were looking forward to our event on Wednesday night. The live performance aspect was the only event of its kind at the festival and it was clearly attracting a lot of attention. And having Greg Daniels on stage probably wasn't hurting either…
When Wednesday rolled around the excitement was palpable. It was to be another packed day filled not only with rehearsals and the event itself but also with a reality TV pitch to the Bio network in between. There was barely enough time to be stressed!
Any worries about the performance were quickly blown away at rehearsals. Working under the direction of Susan Jacobson, the assembled actors (cast by Kate Murray) were uniformly excellent, diving into the material and collectively knocking it out of the park. It was thrilling to hear my words come alive and to see the actors responding so positively to the script.
After rehearsals I hurried over to my pitch with the Bio Channel. I was pitching a reality TV concept about American exorcists. To say I was out of my comfort zone would be quite the understatement. But despite being nervous it proved to be an enjoyable experience and one that I was really happy to have taken part in. It seemed pretty clear from the off that Bio were not going to rush American Exorcist into production any time soon but the pitch was a great experience and the door is now open if I want to pitch something to the network again in the future.
And so to the main event…
After a red-carpet photo call with Greg Daniels we took our seats and waited nervously for the show to begin. It was wonderful to see the three performances play out on stage, each of them completely different and enthusiastically received from the sell-out crowd. To see my own work performed by such great actors, under brilliant direction and in such a wonderful setting was undoubtedly a career highlight. My on-stage Q&A with Greg Daniels was a bit of a bright-light blur but it was amazingly encouraging to hear his positive feedback to the performance and to the work in general. As my project had previously been rejected on more occasions than I care to admit from numerous UK channels and production companies, to be sitting up there with Greg Daniels at the New York Television Festival under the banner of BAFTA Rocliffe was enormously rewarding.
Having dinner with Greg in Soho House after the event was the perfect end to an amazing day. I went to bed that night exhausted, a little tipsy and with my head spinning with previously unimagined possibilities.
With the excitement of the showcase out of the way, we could relax a little and enjoy the rest of the festival. Our final few days were taken up by yet more inspiring talks and networking opportunities with our fellow artists. It was great to hear such a positive response from the people who had attended the showcase; to many it had been a festival highlight.
The festival wrapped up in style with an awards show in which my fellow BAFTA Rocliffers, Brona C. Titley and Tony Cooke scooped a development deal with VH1 with their pitch for a reality show called Teen Time Machine. After the closing night party we said farewell to the many new friends we had met over the week and vowed to do our darndest to return to the festival again the following year.
After a whirlwind day of sightseeing on the day of our departure we flew back to the UK (in the middle of the worst storm in decades) inspired, enthused and ready to make the very most of the contacts, opportunities and possibilities that the BAFTA Rocliffe experience had provided.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Matthew Mitchell era began Thursday in Memorial Coliseum in front of 2,119 fans as the Wildcats used an in-your-face pressure defense to force 30 turnovers and defeat NCAA Division II foe Kentucky Wesleyan 83-61 in their first exhibition game.
Four Wildcats scored in double-figures led by senior guard Samantha Mahoney's (Detroit) 13 points. Sophomore guard Amani Franklin (Decatur, Ga.) came off the bench for 11 points and junior Carly Ormerod (Louisville, Ky.) and freshman Victoria Dunlap (Nashville, Tenn.) added 10 apiece. Dunlap also posted a game-high 12 rebounds for her first career double-double.
"I thought it was great to play tonight and great to get out and play in a game atmosphere with officials and the crowd and everybody there," UK Coach Matthew Mitchell said. "I thought our players tried to play with the type of intensity that we had been working on in practice."
Eleven of the 12 Wildcats that saw action scored at least one point. Jenn'e Jackson (Radcliff, Ky.) who started for injured center Sarah Elliott (McKee, Ky.) charted nine points and four rebounds in the winning effort and Lexington native Chelsea Chowning came off the bench for nine points and seven boards. Following Chowning in the scoring column was freshman shooting guard Carly Morrow (Chattanooga, Tenn.) who hit 3-of-5 from the field, including two three-pointers, for eight points. Senior Chanté Bowman (Detroit), red-shirt junior Eleia Roddy (Columbus, Ohio) and sophomore Lydia Watkins (Hopkinsville, Ky.) scored four points each and sophomore Brittany Edelen (Springfield, Ky.) added one point.
The first half was the tale of the tape as Kentucky bolted out of the gate to start the game. The Wildcats jumped out to a 19-9 lead in the first 10 minutes with back-to-back three-pointers from Mahoney and scoring from five different Wildcats.
"The first half was a good half for us and I am not sure we are a finished product yet, but we will get there," Mitchell said. "The intensity was there from the standpoint that the players wanted to try to play hard for us. I was proud of that and we need to get better in a lot of areas and I am confident that we will."
UK hit 6-of-12 from beyond the arc and shot 40.5 percent from the floor. The Wildcats also forced 18 turnovers alone in the opening stanza and scored 21 points off those miscues. The Cats led by as many as 27 points (44-17) heading into halftime and 22 points came from the Wildcat bench. UK held the Panthers to just 26.1 percent shooting (6-of-23) and won the battle on the boards 26-20.
"We were pleased with our defense," Mitchell said. "Anytime you force a team into 30 turnovers, you are playing with the type of aggressiveness that we are trying to instill in our players - a type of intensity and aggressiveness that teams do not want to play against. I thought there were several times in the game where Kentucky Wesleyan just kind of tossed the ball out of bounds and that was a direct result of our pressure. I don't think we are used to playing that for 40 minutes, so that is a work in progress."
In the second half, Kentucky built a 30-point cushion (54-24) before the Panthers began to whittle the lead down. Kentucky Wesleyan went on a 12-0 run at the 15:04 mark, pulling to within 18 points (54-36). The Cats responded and rebuilt a 25-point lead before posting the final 83-61 win. UK shot just 33.3 percent in the second half while KWC improved to 46.9 percent. The Panthers held the Wildcats to just one three-pointer in the second half and outscored UK 44-39.
"It was a totally different offensive scheme on our part in the second half," KWC Coach Ron Williams said. "I thought defensively we really did a pretty good job. We told our kids that if we give up anything we want to give up the three-ball. And we did, and they knocked them down. You have to give UK credit for that. In the second-half they didn't hit the threes like they did in the first half and we were able to hang in there a little bit better. The kids did a good job of understanding the adjustments we made in the second half and how to take advantage of (Kentucky) playing aggressive."
Kentucky concludes its 2007-08 exhibition schedule on Monday, Nov. 5, when it plays host to the Ohio Legends. Tip-off in Memorial Coliseum is slated for 7 p.m. and the game will be carried live on the Big Blue Sports Network (radio) with Neil Price.


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Posted: 2013-09-17 01:20:46
Updated: 2014-06-10 15:05:02
(CNN) - Not again.
That's what I and parents across the country say on social media following any large-scale assault on a group of innocent people, especially one involving children.
Aurora. Sandy Hook. Fort Hood. Boston. Washington, D.C. Murrysville, Pennsylvania. And now near Portland, Oregon, where a gunman opened fire at Reynolds High School, killing one student, injuring a teacher and sending others running for their lives. The suspected shooter is also dead.
Every tragedy filled with incomprehensible injury sparks nonstop news coverage and a major question for parents: What do we tell our kids?
Last year, that question was even more difficult for parents in the Washington area since their children -- from elementary school age on up -- were likely to hear about the Washington Navy Yard attacks that unfolded in their backyard and left 12 people dead, as well as the gunman.
After that shooting, Jessica McFadden, a mom of three who lives just outside Washington, said she'd be taking her cues from her children about what to say and when. At the same time, she said she would try to ensure that she and her husband were the first sources of information for their eldest, a 9-year-old son.
"He's going to hear about it, and I don't want him to be scared or to feel as if his world is insecure if he hears about it from kids on the bus," said McFadden, who founded the blog A Parent in Silver Spring.
"So we will be talking about it with him; we will talk about how his school has great safety procedures, how my husband's office has good safety procedures, how our neighborhood is safe, that this isolated incident shouldn't make us more fearful in our day to day," she said.
Sadly, McFadden knows this from experience. A few years ago, McFadden's husband worked inside the Maryland headquarters for Discovery Communications, where a man armed with a gun took three people hostage before police shot him to death.
"We had to talk about it because other adults that came into our family's sphere were talking about it, and so we wanted to make sure that we were the sources for the children's information so that they weren't overly scared hearing about it kind of second hand," she said.
Stephanie Dulli, who lives in Washington with her two boys, ages 2 and 5, initially said she didn't have any plans to tell them what unfolded during the deadly rampage at the Navy Yard. "It would accomplish nothing but creating anxiety, especially for my eldest," said the host of the blog Stephanie Says.
But there will come a day when her boys are older, when sadly, another tragedy strikes and when she'll definitely have to talk with them about it. It's not an easy conversation for any parent, but for Dulli, it will be exponentially harder.
Her father was murdered when she was around the same age as her 2-year-old.
"I guess I can only try to do what my mother did. No matter how terrified or scared she was, she never let it affect me," Dulli said. "I will try to do the same. To explain what happened as clearly as I can, reassure and then show by example that we just have to keep going. I may be terrified to let my child go on the overnight trip, but he will never know that."
Reassurance is one of the most important things parents can provide children during a time of tragedy, when they fear it could happen to them, said Dr. Glenn Saxe, chairman of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU's Langone Medical Center.
"The first kind of thought and feeling is, 'Am I safe? Are people close to me safe? Will something happen? Will people I depend on protect me?' " said Saxe, who is also director of the NYU Child Study Center.
"You want to be assuring to your child, you want to communicate that you're ... doing everything you can do to keep them safe," Saxe said. "You also want to not give false assurances, too. And this is also depending on the age of the child. You have to be real about it as well."
Sarah Grosjean, who lives in Leesburg, Virginia, about 45 minutes from the Washington tragedy, hoped to arm her 5-year-old daughter with information when she talked to her.
"I want to be able to make sure my daughter knows, in the event she's ever in something like this ... how would she react? Would she know what to do?" said Grosjean, founder of the blog Capitally Frugal, who said she'll be emphasizing how her daughter should listen to the police or teachers in case of an emergency when her mom isn't around.
Saxe said there are "no hard and fast rules" on the right age to talk to kids about tragedies. He said parents should take into account whether they think their kids will have heard about an event, but -- especially for middle and high schoolers -- parents should bring the subject up.
"I think the most important thing is that the parent communicates a willingness to talk about this, an openness about it, that parents are really attuned to where their children are in this, even just asking a general question, 'Have you heard about this?' and see where your kid goes with that," Saxe said.
Parents should also be mindful of what images their children are seeing on the news and make sure even older ones, who may be watching the nonstop coverage, aren't "flooded with images ... without any attempt to help make meaning for them or bring perspective to it because that could be very difficult," Saxe said.
McFadden said she kept the television off immediately after the Navy Yard shootings, but followed the latest developments via social media on her laptop. She knew she would be only so prepared when she ultimately had the conversation with her kids.
"One of the biggest questions children ask is why," she said, "and that's something that we can't answer."
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Roy Halladay is a Phillie. One of the best pitchers in all of Major League Baseball is a Phillie. Not only that, he wanted to come specifically to Philadelphia. Halladay's words, per David Murphy:
This is where I wanted to be. […] This is a dream come true. […] I've heard great things about the people and great things about the organization.
It wasn't that long ago when Phillies fans were feeling pessimistic after missing out on the Braden Looper sweepstakes. When former GM Ed Wade stockpiled aging relief pitchers like canned goods and duct tape during nuclear winter. When ownership had to begrudgingly commit to a much larger payroll ($58M in 2002; $71M in '03; $93M in '04) to sign Jim Thome and trade for Kevin Millwood (and Eric Milton!). When Scott Rolen called St. Louis "heaven", simply happy to be out of Philly. When Wade once called Curt Schilling a "horse's ass".
Philadelphia used to be where baseball went to die, like Washington presently. Now, Philly is baseball Mecca. National networks like ESPN and FOX air Phillies games nearly as frequently as Red Sox and Yankees games. Roy Halladay wants to pitch here. Cliff Lee seemed genuinely upset he would no longer be pitching here. Even John Smoltz, a raging homophobe who has trash-talked Philadelphia and Citizens Bank Park in the past, would not be opposed to donning red pinstripes.
It's so good right now that some of us were legitimately upset that the Phils would not have two Cy Young winners in the starting rotation instead of one.
To echo the sentiments of Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas, "how far we've come."
Meanwhile, two hours north on Interstate-95, you have the bumbling, fumbling New York Mets. In 2007 and '08, they gift-wrapped the NL East division crown for the Phillies with incredibly depressing late-September climaxes. Daniel Murphy led last year's 72-90 team with 12 home runs. To put that in perspective, if he were on the Phillies, Murphy would have been tied in sixth place with Pedro Feliz in home runs. Ryan Howard himself out-homered the Mets' top-four home run hitters combined.
Last year was so depressing that it spawned a Sporcle quiz, "Can you name the 2009 injured Mets players?" Pundits are using the Mets' futility to complain about seating charts and prices. SNY's Howard Megdal wants the Mets to simply do nothing, in response to the suggestions by others that the Mets consider trading Carlos Beltran and Johan Santana (that's right, the Mets could trade a Cy Young winner without actually getting one in return!). With the Mets heavily pursuing Jason Bay, Dajafi of The Good Phight suggests that Bay should "call the other 29 teams first and unleash a barrage of 'C'monnnnn… pleeeease?' before saying yes to Omar [Minaya] through your tears."
The Mets went from one game away from the World Series in 2006 to laughingstocks of baseball in just a few short, depressing years. They are as pathetic and unlovable, if not more, as the late-1990's and early-2000's Phillies teams. While the Phillies are at the top of the food chain, the Mets have quickly sunk near the bottom. The current iteration of the Phillies is led by a GM with an apparent Midas touch (see: Burrell, Pat; Ibanez, Raul); the Mets by a GM with little job security and a reputation for racial favoritism.
It's a great time to be a Phillies fan right now. The starting rotation may not be Halladay-Lee-Hamels but at least it's not Daal-Person-Chen as it was in 2001. It's important to regain that perspective from time to time. That doesn't mean we should always accept the status quo, but simply to see the forest for the trees.
Was I too hard on the Mets, do you think? Hey, at least they're not the Flyers.


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Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The Minnesota Supreme Court has appointed Rita Coyle DeMeules to succeed retiring Supreme Court Commissioner Richard Slowes. She will join the court December 12 and assume her role as Commissioner on January 12, 2012.
Coyle DeMeules has served as an Assistant Attorney General since 2006, where she represented the State of Minnesota and Minnesota agencies before state and federal trial and appellate courts. In that position, she provided legal research, analysis, and advice to state agencies on litigation and agency policies, and served as principal attorney responsible for trials, motions, pretrial activities, and arguments before the courts. From 1990-2004, she was a partner and associate at the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP, in Minneapolis, and served as an Adjunct Professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul from 2004 to 2010; and from 1991 to 1993.
She also served as law clerk to the Hon. Michael J. Davis of the United States District Court, District of Minnesota, from 2004 to 2005; for the Hon. Donald P. Lay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Paul from 1989 to 1990; and for the Hon. Glenn E. Kelley and Hon. M. Jeanne Coyne of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1988 to 1989.
Coyle DeMeules received her law degree from William Mitchell College of Law.
Commissioner Richard Slowes came to the court in November 1998. Prior to his service as Supreme Court Commissioner, he worked for more than 20 years at the Minnesota Attorney General's Office, the last 12 as Assistant Solicitor General and manager of the Civil Litigation Division.
The Supreme Court Commissioner serves as chief counsel to the Minnesota Supreme Court and provides legal research, advice, and memoranda recommending dispositions in a wide variety of civil and criminal legal cases that come before the Court, and supervises a staff of senior level attorneys.


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A recent study revealed that Americans with financial plans felt more secure about their financial futures than Americans without financial plans. Guests Daphne Wright, a certified financial planner with LPL Financial and Rita Cheng, a financial advisor with Ameriprise Financial Services, join host Kelvin Boston to talk about the necessity of financial plans. This episode also features small business development tips from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - No. 21 Creighton certainly didn't look like the nation's best 3-point shooting team in the first half against Bradley.
Coach Greg McDermott implored his players to try first to score inside after halftime, and that strategy swung the momentum the Bluejays' way and led to a 75-58 victory Saturday.
``The first half Bradley did a great job of muddying stuff up inside and coming at us with double teams,' McDermott said. ``Normally when teams do that to us, we have a way of making them pay with our ability to shoot from the 3-point line. They just didn't go in.'
The Bluejays trailed by three points at half after launching 21 of their first 29 shots from 3-point range and connecting on seven.
Creighton scored its first four baskets of the second half in the paint to turn a 30-27 deficit into a 35-30 lead.
``That's kind of been our bread-and-butter all year, playing inside-out basketball,' said Doug McDermott, who scored 25 points.
The Braves closed within a point twice before Creighton went on a decisive 12-0 run, with McDermott scoring the last nine points.
The Bluejays (20-3, 9-2 Missouri Valley Conference), who have won 15 straight over Bradley at home, hit the 20-win mark for the 14th time in 15 seasons. Bradley (13-10, 5-6) lost its fifth straight road game and eighth in a row against a ranked opponent.
McDermott and Jahenns Manigat made 3s to start the game and get the Bluejays out to a quick lead. But the they suddenly went cold from beyond the arc, and the Braves were able to stay close. Tyshon Pickett scored five of his 11 points during a 9-2 run that gave Bradley its three-point lead at the break.
``The second half we wanted to get an inside touch first, whether it was off the drive or the pass into the post,' Greg McDermott said. ``We just wanted to try to establish something in there. I thought Doug and Gregory (Echenique) worked a little harder the second half to demand the ball, especially at the start.'
Manigat found McDermott alone underneath for an easy two points before Echenique hit a short left-handed hook to start Creighton's 8-0 flurry to start the second half. After the Bluejays missed a couple 3s, Echenique took an entry pass for a third-chance bucket. Then Grant Gibbs threaded the ball into the lane to McDermott, who converted for an easy basket.
``I feel like those four possessions we were trying to get it all back, playing hero ball,' said Dyricus Simms-Edwards, who led Bradley with 18 points. ``We told ourselves a lot that they're going to make a run. We have to stick to what we do, get the ball moving and keep them off offense.'
Austin Chatman, who had 16 points, drilled a 3-pointer after Bradley had closed to 53-48. Then McDermott went to work, hitting a 3, a layup and four straight free throws to make it 65-48 with 5 minutes to play.
The Bluejays shot 69.2 percent after half and finished with a 33-24 advantage on the boards after outrebounding the Braves 18-4 the final 20 minutes.
Echenique had eight of his 10 points in the second half, and he blocked three shots.
Walt Lemon Jr. added 15 points and Tyshon Pickett 11 for the Braves.
The Bluejays, shooting a nation-leading 45 percent on 3s coming into the game, made 15 of 28 from long range against Missouri State on Wednesday. Greg McDermott said he didn't want his shooters to shut down when they started struggling Saturday.
``I'm not going to tell Ethan Wragge not to shoot, Jahenns Manigat and Doug and guys that have shot the ball over the test of time at almost a 50-percent clip for their careers,' the coach said. ``When they've got rhythm 3s with nobody on their side of the floor, they've got to let it fly.'
Doug McDermott said: ``Our shooters have short memories. Ethan, Jahenns, myself, we're all looking to the next shot, not thinking about the last shot we took.'
The Bluejays didn't hesitate to shoot more 3s once they took control. Wragge and Chatman hit a couple in a row before McDermott struck from long range to start his 9-0 run that all but finished off the Braves.
Creighton wore jerseys with pink trim and pink shoes as part of its third annual Creighton vs. Cancer Pink Out, and the first 14,000 fans received pink T-shirts. A jersey auction raised $24,444, with $5,002 bid for McDermott's No. 3.