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The project, which is more than three years in the making, began as a request by Troy's daughter for a train set, and now it's what brings them closer.
Those who have ventured into Troy Pendzimas's basement know that neither he nor his basement are ordinary.
It only takes going down a couple of steps before a nearly 6-foot-high wooden framework grabs one's attention.
That platform is just the beginning of what is a three-level, 21-by-12-foot train yard that contains 530 feet of train track, the Hibbing Daily Tribune reported (http://bit.ly/10oZB9s).
Building railroads began as a common hobby between Troy and his father, George Pendzimas, but now it means much more to him.
The project, which is more than three years in the making, began as a request by Troy's daughter for a train set, and now it's what brings them closer.
"It's been such a big part of our lives," he said. "It's helped us connect. It means a lot to me."
Though Troy is starting to see some payoff, he admitted the project has been a lot of work.
"Hours and hours and hours," he said. "It's quite the feat."
Troy's done a remarkable job, said George, adding that a project of this scale requires a lot of steps, details and skills.
"You've got to know math, know electrical, carpentry, a little bit of everything," he said. "A person has got to be a jack of all trades and a master of none to do this project."
The project originated as a small 4-by-8-foot model in a one-bedroom apartment. After Troy moved, he was able to expand the railroad to 9 feet by 9 feet.
"It didn't look right, and I wasn't satisfied," Troy said.
He then decided it was time to call up his dad for advice.
George, who has worked as an engineer for the Duluth Depot and had previous experience building model railroads, was living in Mexico at the time but agreed to help out.
The two began working together via webcam and the project quickly erupted to its current size.
The duo would spend hours at a time chatting over the Internet with George pitching in concepts and suggestions while Troy proceeded to put the railroad together.
George is now back living in Chisholm, which has added a boost to their progress.
The design of the railroad is N scale and is projected to have a fourth level before it's done, Troy said.
The Pendzimas have named the railroad "Fallen Flags" based on four discontinued railroads, including Spokane Portland Seattle, Chicago Burlington, Great Northern and Northern Pacific.
Everything incorporated into the design is based on the 1920s to 1960s with nothing later than 1965, Troy said.
"We wanted it to look old and rustic," he said. "Before the transition to Burlington Northern Santa Fe."
The scenery will be made out of plaster and foam including cliffs, lakes and waterfalls as well as three train depots and some gag stuff such as an outhouse.
The trains, bridges, depots and tracks are all realistic and prototypical, said Troy. He noted the design is customized.
"It's our own little fantasy world," he said.
The Pendzimas are working with 36 locomotives, but the design has the ability to run up to 120 units. Each locomotive is hand assembled and costs between $80 to $250, Troy said.
"They come with hundreds of pieces," he said. "It's very meticulous and a project of its own."
There is a lot of work left to do, he added.
"Years, it'll take years," he said. "It'll never be finished. There will always be changes to the scenery and the rolling stock."
Once the project is ready to run, it'll be operated off of Digitrax, an all-digital system powered by a computer.
His family has been a lot of help, Troy said. His grandmother provided some lumber, and he's gained a lot of knowledge regarding electricity from his grandfather.
Yet, Troy gives his father the most credit.
"I couldn't have done any of this without him," he said. "He's helped me so much."
He added: "It's been pretty fun so far, but it'll be more fun when I can start running it."


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Aww, what a precious little hammie you are, Minga...a heart stealer of the highest order!:love: Your photos are simply heart melting...love that custom made, "natural" background/scene, which compliments your snow white coat to perfection, and just as your Mommy says, you're super model material, for sure! And your little furry sibling is quite the cutie too!:D You two might not be the best of buds, though you wouldn't know it by the shots of you two together, but who knows, maybe with time you'll come to love each other just as much as your Mommy loves you both! For now, not such a bad deal, the two of you each getting all of that quality, one on one cuddle time!:cool::D
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The four new Planechase decks (Chaos Reigns, Night of the Ninja, Primordial Hunger, and Savage Auras) will contain all-new planar decks that contain a new kind of oversized card, and an assortment of new, Eternal-legal Magic cards.
There are a total of 21 new Magic cards in the set, spread across the four decks. Each deck has six of the cards (counting by name), although some appear in multiples. Each deck has eight new plane cards and two new phenomenon cards, and these cards are not shared between decks; there are a total of 32 new planes and 8 new phenomena.
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IBM has already had a busy June in developer terms. The company has announced Rational Developer for Power Systems Software (RDP) version 8.5, a development tools suite for writing either IBM i, AIX, or Linux-based applications, for the Power Systems server line. Big Blue followed this up with a new version of its integrated software Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution with extended design management capabilities.
Rational Developer for Power Systems
The new RDP suite now includes a "live outline" view of RPG code and is also said to connect more directly and more productively with the Rational Team Concert change management system. But the most significant augmentations to RDP 8.5 are likely to deliver benefits Linux and AIX users — as part of this release, IBM has included an application porting and migration advisor tool for AIX and Linux apps written in C, C++, and COBOL; there is also a performance analysis advisor tool designed for C and C++ applications running on AIX and Linux; and finally a new code test analysis tool designed to serve C, C++, and COBOL applications running on AIX and Linux.
This is a "new class" of tools, according to IBM, as it combines dynamic code analysis and profiling capabilities together with performance management features and expert guidance, all in a workflow-driven framework that is designed to help users optimize the performance of C and C++ workloads as deployed to AIX and to Linux on Power.
According to IBM's product spec pages, this tool delivers performance analysis of C/C++ applications with capabilities such as hot spot analysis that are linked with performance-annotated source code and views for program understanding. It includes support for analyzing time spent in "inlined functions" and it can show the results directly in the source view. It also allows users to compare two profiles of the application in order to easily detect regressions in performance across two builds.
Collaborative Lifecycle Management
So to IBM's Collaborative Lifecycle Management news — IBM's CLM is built on IBM's open development platform, Jazz, and brings together IBM Rational Requirements Composer, IBM Rational Team Concert, and IBM Rational Quality Manager in one solution.
The new CLM software ensures that software design is integrated with the rest of the software application development lifecycle — development teams are then able to collaborate on the design and development of software with key stakeholders from across the business.
According to preliminary findings of an IBM Institute for Business Value Global Study on software delivery, more than three quarters of the participating organizations said they are underprepared for major technology trends that will impact their competitiveness. These trends include the proliferation of mobile devices; the ability to leverage cloud-based resources for flexibility and savings; and the growing percentage of smart products with embedded software. While 50% of organizations believe successful software delivery is crucial to their competitive advantage, only 25% currently leverage it.
"Today's business dilemma is how to address both the need for rapid delivery and required control in the software development process," said Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, general manager, IBM Rational. "We must balance the need for speed and agility with better governance to manage cost and quality, achieve regulatory compliance, ensure security, and have some level of financial predictability."
IBM Rational CLM has also been extended to the IBM Mobile Foundation platform for centralized code sharing and distributed mobile application development.


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I know this is going to soumd a little nuts, but I had this trade idea whilst watching the Cubs game.
Reds trade: Adam Dunn, Homer Bailey, David Weathers and CoCo Cordero
Cubs trade: Sean Marshall and type A prospect.
I know there are probably hundreds of arguments against this, but I see the Cubs beginning to falter without Kerry Wood.
I think the Reds could make either Jared Burton or Josh Roenicke a closer next year.
The Reds use the saved moeny from Cordero and Dunn to sign a couple of FA outfielders and a high end pitcher.


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Effects of earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) on the carbon and nitrogen dynamics of decomposing surface litter in corn agroecosystems", Ecol. Appl., vol. 7, p. 1342-1349, 1997., "


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"pointed stick or post," Old English staca, from Proto-Germanic *stakon (cf. Old Norse stiaki, Dutch staak, German stake), from PIE root *steg- "pole, stick." The Germanic word has been borrowed in Spanish (estaca), Old French (estaque), and Italian stacca) and was borrowed back as attach. Meaning "post upon which persons were bound for death by burning" is recorded from c.1200. Stake-body as a type of truck is attested from 1907. In pull up stakes, "The allusion is to pulling up the stakes of a tent" [Bartlett].
early 14c., "to mark (land) with stakes," from stake (n.1). Hence, to stake a claim (1857). Meaning "to risk, wager" is attested from 1520s, probably from notion of "post on which a gambling wager was placed," though Weekley suggests "there is a tinge of the burning or baiting metaphor" in this usage. Meaning "to maintain surveilance" (usually stake out) is first recorded 1942, American English colloquial, probably form earlier sense of "mark off territory." Related: Staked; staking.
"that which is placed at hazard," 1530s, from stake (v.). Plural stakes, as in horse racing, first recorded 1690s (cf. sweepstakes). To have a stake in is recorded from 1784.
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This image demonstrates what I need to achieve: http://i.imgur.com/JEtfwvt.png
I need those blue widgets opening inside the browser, say, when I hover above some elements in the webpage. They need to hold some HTML. I am far from being an expert in web development, and I don't know how to proceed. What is a reasonable way to implement the widget entities? Modal windows probably won't work, since they block the parent page; tooltip that would open multiple windows sounds like a stretch too.
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Good governance of societies must be predicated on an understanding of what makes people tick. What are they after? "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is a very insightful way to put it. We'll run with that and break it down into pieces.
First, everybody's looking for their own little piece of the pie. This is about the satisfaction of basic survival needs. Life. You gotta eat. In order to do that you must have money - whether begged, borrowed, stolen or earned. Or given to you by someone else.
Secondly, people want peace of mind. Freedom from crime and oppression; a place to lay your head down at night and sleep without having one eye open. Liberty in part is not having to fear for yourself, your family, property or your things.
Once basic needs are met and a certain amount of security can be counted upon, people look for a piece of the action. The pursuit of happiness is found in self-expression, in seeing how far you can go and what you can accomplish.
Only when all societies have successfully acquired these three pieces can the final piece be put into place: World peace.
The puzzle must be assembled in order and no trimming of pieces is allowed. To be honest it has never been completed, and some say it never will be. In spite of recent setbacks and squabbles over the different sizes of pieces, it is thought that the Americans have the best shot at getting it done. After all, they have an outstanding instruction manual, their Constitution, for solving the four-piece puzzle. Yes, there are other manuals out there but none quite as clear, and some are simply incorrect. Americans are excellent puzzle solvers, it is said, and if they are wise enough to refer back to the instructions they just might provide a breakthrough clue that others may follow. Alas, some think the manual is dated or unnecessary and have attempted to improvise - only to their detriment.
It is interesting to note that while the puzzle has never been completely solved, it has indeed been solved in part countless times. The first two pieces are the keys and have predominately been in play in America for some time now. Portions are definitely not equal, but the manual states there are no limits on how big a pie you can bake. Those starting with small slices are allowed to create monster pies, while those starting with big slices could lose all their dough. If you want a piece of the action and your dough to rise, then baking school is very important. It's this third piece that causes the most trouble with the puzzle, with some demanding they be given a piece of the action from others, rather than create their own. The instruction manual, however, makes no provision for such a mandate, and instead encourages individual diligence and friendly collaboration.
The problem is not that we have too many rich people in America, it's that we need a whole lot more. Only when all have cemented in those first three pieces will the rest of the world have a chance of laying the final Peace.
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Games that you hate because they claim to have Strategy, but they're basically Pure Luck.
- Ben Lott(Blott)United States
Michigan...and a curse.
Why is there such a trend to add so much luck into games nowadays? I wish I understood it. Good for you for reading this far, you'll want to keep reading...trust me. Actually, this list isn't about games that are pure luck at all. You see, I have this theory that there are a number of people out there who occasionally don't bother reading the header text on geeklists, or at best they just glance at the first few sentences of it. People sometimes just read the title and jump right in (I've done it myself before.) Because of this, there are a number of times I see people post things that don't apply at all because they failed to read the full explanation. So, if you are reading this, here's how I will know. Post a game that you actually like, instead of hate. But in the text of your item, give some fake explanation of why you hate the game and think it's pure luck.
Now we don't want this to be too easy for the non-readers to figure out, so make sure you don't post a game with no luck whatsoever like Chess. Something with a little luck will do. What will make it even better is if you sport a "fan" microbadge for the game at the same time you're posting the game you are claiming to hate. And if you are a user who missed this text the first time and jumped in to post a game or comment without realizing the trick of the geeklist...be a good sport, laugh at yourself, and leave it up for everyone else to chuckle at. But don't give away the secret, let users discover it for themselves.
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Health Care Network
ESA has more than 12 years experience of safeguarding the health of European astronauts, both male and female. Now it intends to use this experience to increase the wellbeing of people on Earth.
The Heath Care Network is an innovative network created by ESA to develop, promote and commercialise solutions for healthcare and wellbeing derived from space research and development. Its prime target is the service sector and industries working in the growing market of wellness and preventive medicine. The network will collaborate with European institutions, industries and service providers to use science and technology to improve health and the quality of life here on Earth.
The Network's management office is at ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC), in Cologne, Germany. This ensures that it remains in close contact with new developments relating to space and health.
Space solutions for health
Astronauts are extremely fit people - they have to be to withstand the stress of the powerful surge at liftoff and the effect on the body of living in the microgravity conditions of space. Scientists, doctors and industry have been working for many years on ways to alleviate this stress on the body and to ensure that it has no long-lasting effects. The result: space medicine designed both to relieve the effects of debilitating conditions and to prevent them arising, can benefit everyone, not just astronauts.
Many of the solutions designed for astronauts are already being used in preventive medicine, as well as the results of innovative medical research carried out by astronauts in the unique weightless environment that is space. A few examples:
- sensors designed to monitor astronaut's bodies can monitor babies and the elderly
- nutritional guidelines and exercise regimes designed for astronauts can improve health and prevent obesity
- resistance trainers, used in space to prevent muscle loss in microgravity, are now used by professional footballers and can help prevent osteoporosis
- shock absorption systems designed for space can protect diabetics from foot injuries
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Using the ESA Space Solutions label, the Health Care Network will position itself as a business-to-business provider of know how and technologies, bringing added value to industries in the wellness and health market.
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Earth : Europe : Italy : Southern Italy : Campania : Sorrento
Sorrento is in Campania. The town features beautiful architecture, many cafes and restaurants, and shops catering to tourists. As it is on the Circumvesuviana rail system it is easily reached from Naples and an ideal base for visiting Pompeii and Ercolano. Ferries regularly commute between Sorrento for Capri, making Sorrento an ideal base for exploring that island as well.
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A trip to Sorrento is full of possibilities, enjoy a splash in the Naples Bay, a walk through the lively pedistrian only steets at night, or an enjoyable day exploring the ruins of Pompeii. A short trip to Naples will take you to the National Museum that houses some of the best frescoe's and art work from Pompeii. You can catch a bus that takes you on a spectacular but hair raising drive through the Amalfi Coast. You will pass through villages built along the cliffs that have some of the most beautiful churches and architecture in the area. Take a ferry to the Isle of Capri where you can shop like you are on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, or take the walk through tree lined walkways to the Nature Park. Capri also has the famed Blue Lagoon, and amazing cave with the most crystal blue waters imaginable. But, one of the most fun things you can do here is rent a motor scooter and explore on your own historic Capri.
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In the historical center of Sorrento Via Santa Maria Delle Grazie, 20, Sorrento 80067 (Na) Italy - Tel.+39 081 807 15 11| [12]
One of the top souvenirs from the area is limoncello , the signature lemon liqueur. You can find it at Limonoro [16] Via San Cesareo, 51. This is a good place to see it being made, after which you'll know why it packs such a punch – it's basically pure alcohol with flavouring.
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Corso Italia, 221 - 80067, Sorrento Italy Ph +390818772210 Fax +390230135574 The Hotel Sorrento City is set in the middle of the two main squares of Sorrento, Piazza Tasso and Piazza Lauro, right in the center, next to the supermarket, trendy shops, theatre and the cinema, beside the circumvesuviana train station and the port, at the same time isolated from the busy day-life of Sorrento. http://www.sorrentocity.com/?utm_source=wikitravel-en&utm_medium=linkbuilding&utm_campaign=promo
Via Madonna di Roselle, 20/A 80063 Piano di Sorrento (Na) Italy Phone 081/53.21.832 - Fax 081/87.88.368 Costa Alta resort, is located on the Sorrento Coast and it is the ideal solution for an holiday in Sorrento where you can enjoy open air and nature. Resort Costa Alta offers accomodations in bungalows, chalet and touring caravans. Thanks to the surrounding gardens and the convenient prices, it may be considered an ideal campsite; the services and the comfortable premises will not turn down your expectations. http://www.costaalta.com/?utm_source=wikitravel-en&utm_medium=linkbuilding&utm_campaign=promo
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Aggie Football Hosts Wyoming on Senior Day Saturday Afternoon
Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013
Football game notes …
WYOMING at UTAH STATE
Date: Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013
Kickoff: noon (MT)
Location: Logan, Utah
Stadium: Merlin Olsen Field at Romney Stadium (25,513)
Series: USU leads, 35-24-4
TV: ROOT Sports, Tom Glasgow (Play-by-Play), Sed Bonner (Analyst), Tori Holt (Reporter)
Radio: Utah State Sports Network, Al Lewis (Play-by-Play), Craig Hislop (Analyst)
Live Stats: UtahStateAggies.com
Twitter Updates: /USUFootball
YouTube: /USUAthletics
Facebook: /USUFootball
Tickets: 1-888-USTATE-1
- With a victory against Wyoming in its regular season finale, Utah State will win the Mountain Division of the Mountain West Conference and advance to the inaugural Mountain West Championship game on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. (MT), in a game that will be televised nationally on CBS Sports. The location of the championship game is to be announced.
- With a victory against Wyoming, Matt Wells will tie Tony Knap for most wins in school history by a first-year head coach as Knap's Aggies went 8-2 in 1963. USU coaches with seven wins in their first season include Fred M. Walker (1907), Chuck Mills (1967), Phil Krueger (1973) and Wells.
- Utah State is bowl eligible for the third-straight year and has assured itself of back-to-back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 1978-80. USU has never gone to three-straight bowl games and has played in back-to-back bowl games just three times in school history (1946-47, 1960-61, 2011-12).
- Utah State has won 17 of its last 18 league games dating back to 2011, and won a school record 13 straight conference games before falling to Boise State, 34-23, on Oct. 12, 2013.
- Utah State has won 11 of its last 13 home games overall and seven of its last eight home games against conference foes. Overall, USU is 123-98 (.557) all-time at Romney Stadium.
- Utah State has won 23 of its last 30 games overall and those seven losses during its last 30 games have been by a combined 41 points as it lost to Ohio (24-23) in the 2011 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, at No. 22 Wisconsin (16-14) and at BYU (6-3) in 2012, and at Utah (30-26), at USC (17-14), against BYU (31-14) and against Boise State (34-23) in 2013.
- Utah State has won nine straight games and 11 of its last 12 overall during the month of November. The last time USU lost a game in November was in 2010 at home to Idaho, 28-6.
- True freshman quarterback Darell Garretson will make his fifth career start against Wyoming and is one of just 21 true freshmen at the FBS level to start at quarterback this year. Garretson is the first freshman quarterback in USU history to win his first four starts, and is tied with Adam Kennedy (2011) for the most wins to ever start a career.
- Senior linebacker Jake Doughty ranks third in the Mountain West and tied for seventh in the nation with an average of 10.9 tackles per game, while junior linebacker Zach Vigil ranks sixth in the Mountain West and 37th in the nation with 9.2 tackles per game.
- Senior cornerback Nevin Lawson ranks first in the Mountain West and fifth in the nation with an average of 1.55 passes defended per game.
Utah State (7-4, 6-1 MW) will conclude its 2013 regular season with a Mountain West home game against Wyoming (5-6, 3-4 MW) Saturday, Nov. 30, at noon. The game will be televised regionally on ROOT Sports (Comcast Ch. 52/693HD, Dish Network Ch. 414, DirecTV Ch. 683) and available to watch live on the internet via the Mountain West Network with Tom Glasgow (play-by-play), Sed Bonner (analyst) and Tori Holt (reporter) on the call. Live audio of the game is also available on www.UtahStateAggies.com. Live stats will also be available through GameTracker, while Twitter updates — @USUFootball — will also be a part of Utah State's Game Day coverage.
Utah State will be making its second appearances on ROOT Sports this weekend against Wyoming as its first game on the network was a 45-10 win at New Mexico Oct. 19, 2013. In all, USU had nine nationally televised games on ABC, ESPN, CBS Sports Network and Fox Sports 1 in 2013, along with its two regional broadcasts on ROOT SPORTS.
Read much more in the full game day notes at the Athletics website.
Additional Aggie sports news is available at the Athletics website.


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A Quality Dairy on West Willow Street in Lansing was robbed Saturday night around 8 p.m.
Lansing Police tell us a man entered the store with his hands in his pockets claiming he had a gun.
The store clerk gave him cash from the register and cigarettes.
No one was injured. The store clerk describes the man as a black male around six feet tall.
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This is the eighth in our Top 13 of 2013 series. Every day for the rest of 2013, we will count down the Top 13 moments/games of the year, with each program represented. With three Little East Conference Titles, several huge upsets over nationally ranked teams and some dramatic finishes-2013 was another step forward for UMass Boston Athletics.
#13: Softball Clinches Playoff Spot With Senior Day Win Over Rhode Island College (April 27)
#12: Women's Basketball 76, UMass Dartmouth 73 (January 22)
#11: Women's Tennis Earns First-Ever Win Over Plymouth State (October 19)
#10: Men's Soccer Earns Statement Tie against Eastern Conn. (October 5)
#9: Men's Hockey Crowned Codfish Bowl Champs (January 6)
#8: Bristol Backstops Lacrosse To Little East Tournament Berth (April 23)
#7: Women's Hockey Upsets Castleton State In ECAC East Quarterfinals (February 23)
UMass Boston Baseball experienced an up-and-down 2013, but no win was more impressive than the Beacons' 4-0 win over national runner-up University of Southern Maine on April 23.
Junior right-handed pitcher Lucas Ilges (Gloucester, Mass.) pitched the best game of his career to hand the #11 Huskies their first shutout in 64 games. The shutout marked the first of Ilges' career, as he limited the top offense (8.91 runs per game) in the Little East Conference to just three singles and a walk, over nine dominant innings.
The performance was made even more special considering the fact the Beacons knocked off the Huskies at the USM Baseball Stadium, one of just three losses Southern Maine suffered at home all year.
While Ilges dominated the Huskies offense, his batterymate Todd Ezold (Westfield, Mass.) carried the Beacons' offense with two RBI. Junior Jose Pena (Boston, Mass.) added two hits and an RBI, while senior captain Matt Consiglio (Southbury, Conn.) recorded two hits and a run scored.
Ilges set the tone early in the game, retiring the first 10 Huskies he faced, while his offense gave him some breathing room.
Consiglio doubled with one out in the first and came home on an RBI single from Ezold to give UMB an early 1-0 lead. The two players would be involved in the next Beacons' rally as well, as Consiglio singled to move Pena over to second and Pena scurried home on Ezold's one out sacrifice fly to make it 2-0 UMass Boston.
That would be more than enough run support for Ilges who adeptly worked around minor trouble in the fourth, fifth and sixth, before the Beacons padded the lead with two more runs in the seventh (4-0).
The junior right-hander faced a bases-loaded two out jam in the eighth, but forced Southern Maine's number five-hitter, John Carey, to weakly pop out to Ezold for the third out.
Another quick 1-2-3- inning in the ninth sent the Beacons home with their biggest win of 2013, as they dealt the Huskies, the eventual #2 team in the country, one of their 10 losses on the season.


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Let's go Crimson! Let's go Zips!
NCAA Tournament LATE NIGHT Thread
to Tommy Amaker and the wicked smaht kids.
anyone know what time um game will be on saturday?
Till the opponent has been determined.
Belmont just went on a quick 10-0 run.
Go Zips, Go fighting Amakers and go Montana Grizzlies. Now that Michigan has won I want some upsets.
Golden Bears are looking pretty good right now
With the news of akron players being sick, I think I rather have them in the Third Round.
And cue the douche negging everyone in this thread in 3...2....1...
says we're not going to play Akron on Saturday. Anrgy Akron Basketball Hating God strikes
For god knows what reason I thought it was a good idea to pick Belmot to make the elite eight. Whoops. Also UNLV is pissing me off.
I feel better now that I only had them winning one game. But damn that loss effected the percentile standings in the espn community big time
I'm lucky in that the games that I've gotten wrong so far I had them losing the next round anyway. We'll see how that goes though...Still would appreciate a miraculous UNLV comeback.
I just don't want to play VCU... I am not saying we can't win... Because, on paper, it's a good matchup for us, but damn I wouldn't mind destroying the Zips.
I say bring on VCU. Let's see them try to press one of the least turnover prone teams in the nation. #EZBUCKETS
Not so late out in Portland, OR. THis time of the year West coast is the best coast.
so true! love living on the west coast. great for football too. late night games don't ruin going out in the evening.
I like Syracuse and have them winning a couple at least. But I think their game tonight will be damn interesting.
I think Akron is going to rally around the misfortune and come out with a win.
have them making a run. Not looking so smart right now
I know their D can be trouble, but it really looks like if you keep calm and keep the ball moving forward you can get some easy buckets.
Their defense is terrible if not creating turnovers and I believe we have the least TOs in the country. I think it is a perfect match-up for us.
We haven't faced a team that pressed like this all game. Watching VCU they play fast - very fast. I am a bit more nervous than I was reading Brian's assessment...
Wisconsin presses pretty hard and Burke had success breaking it. The key to VCU will be Burke breaking the press. Color me not concerned.
I meant Indiana.
Pressing teams press usually because their half court D isn't very good.
On the blog for less then a week and I double post. Apologies.
Prediction: someone will vomit on the court tonight.
Coach brown from the M Block says we may have gotten a commit in the past hour and to stay tuned...
Akron is going to lose this game by 20+. They are outmatched
ok, i am officially worried about playing vcu saturday
Why? Based on 6 minutes against an undermanned Akron team?
good shooters. excellent coach. fantastic defense.
we've played undermanned teams and not looked as good.
not that i am picking vcu to win, but i am more worried after actually watching them.
Flagrant! Toss the bum out. A punch to the face then pulling him down midair? Insane.
Herm vs Ted Valentine in a verbal dispute.
Live on PPV.
I'd buy.
I think VCU has the potential to get in major foul trouble against Michigan if they continually press.
My god...UNLV let Cal go inside on them at will.
The Cal free throw shooter got his own rebound...that is embarassing.
Let's hope all the VCU players have the flu come Saturday.
I must say, I'm excited about the possibilities of our offense against VCU's defense. We are a great transition team and if we can get Burke with the ball and numbers a few times I feel we have a great chance of winning with style.
I think its pretty safe to say at this point that VCU will be our opponent on Saturday.
Trying to pull of their best Davidson impression right now and give this game to UNLV
And UNLV has a chance....
I swear if Cal blows this...
Is it bad that I'm a little worried about VCU right now..... Naw fuck it
Right now I'm just hoping Akron makes this game semi competitive and wears down VCU.
was thinking the same thing.
number 1 for the zips is excellent. he's their only hope.
Screw you UNLV...
I've noticed that some refs really don't pay attention when teams foul...they obviously fouled but didn't call it and 4 seconds went off the clock. Game's over now.
End of game officiating.
Cal looked pretty solid.
Alright...now I have Montana over Syracuse. Please happen.
i think verne lundquist only knows "beautiful" as an adjective for a good basketball play
wish michigan had as much energy as the vcu guys on defense
Not the best end game strategy or execution by Cal, but they still get the W.
VCU gonna run away with this one. Zips are zippered.
Do we play Burke, alberht/levert, statuskus, hardaway, Robinson?
Also I like statuskus for some corner 3's when we break press
Pretty sure most of the guys you listed don't exist
The VCU press will do that to ya.
Why do 12 seeds beat the 5 so often? It's bizzare.
I think what it shows is that there is just a lot of parity. From the #5 seeds through the #12s, not all that much separates them. Oregon went 26-8 in the regular season and got a #12 seed.
Stronger mid majors/horribly under valued majors against weaker majors and mid majors with shiny records that didn't play anyone. Historically, anyway.
This year it looks more like the committee dramatically under valued the PAC-12.
Akron's starting to chip away. It may yet be a game.
EDIT: Or it may not.
vcu press ok but louisville press is outcold
ok.. i've seen enough of the VCU game.. just hoping that its because akron is not that good
They're calling it really tight early in NM/Har. Seems strange there is a difference even within the tournament crew-to-crew.
Well if you think about it, the crews calling the tournament are coming from all over. Some of our "favorite" guys we're used to are in the tourney.
We will not bode well verse VCU.
We rarely turn the ball over. We'll be fine.
This is the first time I've seen VCU this year. Color me impressed. #30 is a sniper, and VCU is very good at attacking the rim. I think we'll get plenty of easy looks in transition, but VCU seems like a team that won't go away easily.
Keep in mind, Akron has three guys sick with the flu.
Not to mention their starting PG for slanging that reefer
Actually we have. Arkansas also brings a lot of fullcourt pressure. Our turnover rate for that game (18.8%) was a higher than usual for us, but much lower than what VCU forces (28.7%).
What does Arkansas usually force? Is it close to VCU?
They're pretty good - they force turnovers on 24.1% of opponents' possessions, against a tougher schedule than what VCU faced.
Arkansas forces TOs on 24.1% of possessions, which is 14th in the country. VCU is #1.
You're only looking at one side of the coin. We're a bad matchup for them. Every time teams have kept their turnover rate under 22% (IIRC), VCU has lost. We have the lowest turnover rate in the country (9.4%). Not to mention that they give up a lot of transition baskets, and we thrive in the open court.
Also, John Beilein is familiar with Smart's press - it's based on what Oliver Purnell used at Clemson, whom we faced in the 2009 tourney. If you recall, we beat that press easily despite having walk-ons at PG.
Also New Mexico also has a fat pasty ginger. Sadly he is not as bad as SDSU's
What would happen?
does the tournament setting hurt a defense like VCU.. the quick turnaround.. only one day of rest between the games?
They play 12 guys, so it's not like they're all out on the floor for 30+ minutes... I think they'll keep the intensity up just fine, just gotta have Burke stay calm under pressure and I could see us running away with it.
Look again at VCU's schedule this year. Most of their 8 losses came on a short turn around. Given their play tonight, we had better hope they tire out.
If I'm not mistaken, they also were in the play in game when they made their deep tourney run and seemed to overcome rest issues then. Granted that was not the same group of players, but their style of play and depth is essentially the same.
better bring our best effort against VCU because Akron is no pushover and VCU is just kicking their ass.
Akron is playing awful. No composure whatsoever.
What game is everyone watching? The VCU game looks less than competitive.
I started off watching that one but have moved on to New Mexico/Harvard. Needing a New Mexico win to get my bracket back on track.
Colorado state game. Ending sooner than the others and still, kinda, competitive.
Who else wants to see a game between VCU and Wisconsin? Just thinking about it blows my mind.
Sure. But not this year.
Bo Ryan would find a way to suck the life out of that match up. He would purposefully take 9.5 seconds to get past half court against the press, then milk the next 25.45 seconds before resorting to a Frank Kaminksy shot clock special.
When is Shaka Smart going to get a job at a big school? And if you are the Northwestern AD or another power conference AD, would you be dangling millions at him?
I have a theory. Brad Stevens to Duke when coach k retires, and Shaka to UNC when Roy retires.
Personally, I'm more of a Brad Stevens fan. Brad Stevens recruits in a tough region against some real powerhouses and coaches up his players. I don't really like the VCU "havoc" defense, as I think it is a little gimmicky and ends up being better in a tourney setup than it does in an conference setup because I think it loses some of its efficacy with familiarity. That being said, both would be great hires, but I wonder if 5* recruits would be that gung-ho about playing in VCU system, as they may be looking for something that translates more closely to the NBA, etc.
He will eventually - he's only 35. But note that he inherited a VCU program that had already been built up by Jeff Capel and Anthony Grant. He's done a great job keeping the momentum they established going, but has never had to rebuild.
Problem is that happened two years ago, and VCU, who has no business doing it with their AD budget, gave him a huge raise . I think a he is around 1.5-1.7 per year. He has a good salary and no pressure, at least not like BIG or ACC type pressure.
Question is, does his system play when he can recruit legit talent? Would they want to play that style? Bballers want to play somewhere that can get them to the NBA on a year or two.
New Mexico's coach just said that what jumped out at him about Harvard's film was how good the coaching was. Mind. Blown.
Their coach is Steve Alford, another B1G washout. Like Amaker, he's done shockingly well in his new job.
How exactly is he a wash out? He chose to leave Iowa for NM. They, you know, gave him money.
And they have been one of the best MW teams the last 7 years and counting. Tourney relevant...
Alford did the same thing Tubby Smith did - leave a school where he was on the hot seat before they could fire him, for a less-prestigious program. He didn't do very well at Iowa. He succeeded Tom Davis, who had them in the tourney pretty much every year, and performed at about the same level as Amaker here.
He has done extremely well at UNM, though. It must be as mind-boggling to Iowa fans as Amaker's success at Harvard is to us.
I had somehow forgotten Tommy Amaker was the coach of Havard. Having said that go New Mexico!
Do not attempt to run with VCU. I know we have great athletes, but this team plays 12 guys every game and just goes all game. You get the ball into half court and sprint back, when we break their press we only take the shot if we have a layup or a dunk.
VCU is very entertaining to watch. I really hope we play the game we want against them because that's the best team I've seen in the tourney so far.
Against a flu ridden Akron team playing their backup PG. Brian says on Twitter he has a TO rate of 46 (!!!!). Small difference between that and Burke.
Even Bo Ryan thinks the Harvard/New Mexico game is boring
Hopefully it's not the VCU game of 2013
Who just died?
That's cruel, Bo Kimble just shot a left handed free throw
New Mexico's fat ginger is impressive.
People need to chill about VCU. Yes, they force a lot of turnovers. They also give up a lot of easy buckets, which is why they are 236th in opponent FG%.
We need to Rebound well on the defensive end so they cannot set up the press. If we do that and not get caught into playing at their pace we will be fine.
They're smoking an Akron team that is short on starters and on bodies in general. I'm not going to worry (too much) until I see Trey start turning the ball over consistently against that D
77-36 with seven minutes to go--jeebus. Hope they are blowing their next five wads here.
flu-like rhea when Michigan is done with them.
In MSU game they were literally grabbing the ballhandlers arms as they drove by. Also, the picks are more like O Linemen engaging rather than a pick. It sure makes for some ugly basketball when the ref's ignore these things and others.
Here is a great look at VCU's ridiculous defense, with GIFs
VCU's diamond press is taken from Smart's old boss at Clemson, Oliver Purnell, who still uses it often in his new gig at DePaul.
Purnell, you'll recall, is the guy we beat in the 2009 NCAA tournament. So Beilein is familar with the press.
The pace of the VCU vs Akron is nuts. I would think the looser, run and gun style favors us, but maybe too much of a good thing?
ok, vcu is good no doubt.
but they are shooting lights out tonight.
better tonight against akron than against us.
no way they shoot this well against us and burke shoots as badly as he did tonight.
beilein will have the boys ready.
my brackets be damned, I love laughing at the SEC's expense
Just saw Tommy Amaker's halftime interview and it bothers me to say I immediately noticed he was sans turtle neck. Did harvard make him give it up? is he a changed man?
His one-man (two man if you count Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) crusade against the necktie, however, continues.
Fucking useless pseudo-scarves.
And looking very good. I thought New Mexico was supposed to be good. This game is a bracket-destroyer!
I always thought Amacker would succeed; perhaps his problem at Michigan was that he wasn't good at recruiting super-studs. I never joined in the Michigan fandom beat-down of Amacker.
So much for the pundits who thought the Mountain West was some sort of power conference.
Amaker recruited well enough. He landed Daniel Horton, Dion Harris, Lester Abram, Epke Udoh, Manny Harris and DeShawn Sims, to name a few. But his teams were always really careless with the ball and also seemed to fade as the year went on.
that didn't mean he was a bad coach. Love that he is doing well in Bean Town.
VCU is up 38 points. Maybe it's time to stop pressing?
I could be mistaken but I think Barkley just said "shit" on the air.
Missouri continuing the trend of terrible postseason play from the SEC.. why, oh why, did I pick a team from this awful conference in the Final Four? That damn Florida pick is going to just ruin my bracket.
It appears that the teams that beat VCU got to the free throw line. That might be one way to slow their insane pace. I don't see how people commenting here could not be impressed right now. I don't care if they're playing a middle school team. These guys look really good.
Anyone else think its a little unsporting that VCU continues to do their mega-press up 40?
i don't know. that's vcu's thing. it's not like they haven't subbed the starters out a lot.
i probably would, but in the end, you don't want your team to take their feet off the gas pedal in the tourney.
It's more than a little. It's a dick move.
It also doesn't seem like the smartest move from an endurace standpoint, even if they do go 10-deep.
What's makes it worse is Shaka is close friends with Akron's coach. I don't get it.
Check out the article about VCU's press that was linked above.
Basically, two players were asked if Smart would call off the dogs. One responded by saying only if they were up big with a couple minutes remaining. The other said they would still press, just not trap, and that he has never heard Smart tell them to stop pressing.
They were trying to hit 50.
It seems like VCU fouls 10 times a possession but the refs can't possibly call it every time. What so you do about that?
They also reach over the baseline while defending the inbounds pass at least 40% of the time. Never called.
Based on Wisconsin, the refs surrender.
I dont normally watch anything other than Michigan games but it seems like almost every game tonight has had a flagrant foul reviewed and called. Here is one now in the Montana-Syracuse game. Is it a normal thing to see this much?
IT'S CALLED HAVOC FOR A REASON. Thats the problem with the society today, everybody want everyone to take their foot off the pedal. No you stop me if you don't, I will score 100 and beat you by 50. good approach Shakain trying to send Michigan a message. I hope our kids are watching .
That's one of the most short-sighted posts I've ever read. There's a thing called pride in the world. You don't gain more by kicking a team when it's down. If you're up less than 20, I can see it. When you're up 45 against an already weakened team, it's just being a douche to keep it up.
What is the message? "We love to embarass teams!"??
I can promise you that Michigan isn't going to be intimidated by VCU running over the Akron JV team.
When you start beating a team by 50, you risk looking like an asshole to the country, which does tend to catch up with you, and you also risk your kids being targeted for some very hard fouls.
Sending a message by continuing to press a team with no starting PG and several team members sick with the flu goes a bit beyond "STOP ME BRO"
Can be a stone cold Internet warrior like you.
Amaker might really pull this off. Can't say I saw this one coming.
The Mountain West hasn't looked too good tonight...
As an Mich undergrad and Harvard grad who has never cheated at either university, dismissal from the university seems pretty serious for cheating, no?
If they have one where you actually sign an honor code, then yes, one strike and your out! Same in the real world. You steal from your company, you are fired.
Please. If 50% of a company's staff was caught stealing you would immediately question the institutional organization of the company. The chance that half of a blow-off class at Harvard came to the conclusion that they should cheat is an indication that the class was constructed in a way that encouraged it.
victorious. Kind of a fun night.
terribly comfortable in his own skin.
"Harvard really relented on their standards for letting people into Harvard and that has changed their basketball program a lot" -- best soft-peddling of letting stupid people in to play sports ever.
Smart is lucky some Akron player didn't put an elbow right in the throat of one of his guys.
Agreed. I think that was a secondary risk of running it up. The primary is looking like an idiot by having your kids play full press while up 45.
New Mexico can't make a bunny to save their fucking lives
So i guess you guys wasn't a fan of the Running Rebels in the early 90's. you can get hurt trying to take it easy also. If that is their style to go full speed all the time, you got to play at that pace. last thing: S-E-C S-E-C
But not as badly as your grasp of the English language does.
How about putting some of that "never stop" attitude into a writing class?
White canadians can shoot those threes.
Yeah....my Montana over Syracuse pick isn't happening.
SEC Speed in Football: Running quickly
SEC Speed in Basketball: Getting out of the tourney quickly
I remember thinking i could watch the Harvard game and be in bed by midnight, Damn they milk the ads in the Tournament. It's only obviously when you want to go to bed.
C'mon Harvard - hang on!
Does Doug Gottlieb think ANYONE is good at basketball?
of Doug Gottlieb. Most others, not so much.
How about that number 1 conference's champion? Pretty impressive.
need to come focused and ready to play VCU, if we do that, I really like our chances. Their style might just be a good fit for us.
If we can play well and move forward, that will be a great thing for our freshmen gaining even more confidence cause they played really well in their 1st game in the NCAA's.
For fuck's sake all you have to do is get the ball in bounds
Congrats Tommy
Great job Harvard - Congrats Coach Amaker!
Yesssssssss. Hell yess
Steve Alford: Not a good NCAA Tourney coach
Thanks for NOTHING, Amaker
If i had the points i'd make a thread.
but man, the SEC is just plain bad. Total collapse in SEC for those teams they thought were slighted, and not looking so good after one night of the Dance.
It doesn't really matter what Florida does. The SEC has already embarassed itself beyond repair.
Steve Alford + NCAA Tourney = PROBLEMS
Steve Alford + NCAA Tourney = PROBLEMS
I guess it doesn't matter if they respect your conference (Mountain West) or "disrespect" it (SEC). They both stunk up the place. Although the SEC teams shitting the bed after the UT coach running his mouth makes me laugh harder.
Biggest upset of the night and first ever tourney win by the Crimson.
Illegitimi non carburundum
Domine salvum fac
Gaudeamus igitur
Veritas non sequitur
Illegitimi non carburundum
Ipso facto
has the #1 conference RPI. They have 1-3 record to show for it in the NCAA tourney with a lone win from Colorado State who beat a very soft Missouri. They should bow out against Louisville. SDSU may have a chance to beat Oklahoma but they won't go far in the next round with Georgetown coming up soon if they beat FGCU. That means, they're likely to have a NCAA tourney record of 2-5 which is terrible for the supposedly best conference in the country.
Meanwhile, the computer and humans(except for NCAA tourney committee who rewarded MWC a ton with favorable seedings and punished B1G for beating up on each other) thought the B1G is head and shoulders above any other conferences in the country. So far, so good. MSU and Michigan handled Valpo and SDSU with relative ease. I am expecting all of the B1G team to win the 1st round.
Speaking of West Region, OSU suddenly have an easy road to the Final Four as long as they take care of business.
I wouldn't be surprised if SDSU beat Georgetown.
Happy for him, bummed he couldn't get it done here, but we're in a better place.
And Amaker had a catastrophe to clean up. He did that well.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Alex Rosner, a child survivor of the Holocaust whose family was rescued by Oskar Schindler, will give the talk, "Testimony of a Survivor," on Thursday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in Bucknell Hall at Bucknell University [note change in location].
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Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1935, Rosner spent the years between 1940 and 1945 in various German concentration camps, where his father's musical talents were chiefly responsible for their survival. He and his parents immigrated to the United States in 1946.
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FIFA 14 has been banned on matchdays by League One leaders Leyton Orient, who have decided that their players spending 'several hours' on their games consoles is affecting performance on the pitch.
Orient sit top of the table in England's third-tier - one point ahead of second-placed Peterborough - but have not posted a win in the league since FIFA 14 was released at the end of September.
Russell Slade's side had recorded eight consecutive victories prior to FIFA 14 becoming available to buy, but their last two league outings have ended in draws, allowing Posh to close the gap at the top of the table.
The Orient boss has now moved to prevent his players spending time on FIFA 14 on the day of a match, after worries emerged that members of the squad were spending too much time in the virtual world.
"For the majority of the trip [to play Oldham] the lads, led by Lloyd James, got stuck into the new Fifa 14 game and at times even played as themselves against Oldham in preparation for the match the following day," Orient communications manager Jonny Davies told The Independent.
"The staff were quick to implement a "no Fifa on a matchday" rule, however. The gaffer suspects several hours playing football on a video game is not conducive to a good performance in the real thing."
Orient face MK Dons in their next league outing, and Slade will be hoping his new rule can enable his side to return to winning ways.
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CRIME would be reduced at Dubbo if a specialist court was available to address drug dependency resulting in criminal offending.
That is the view of high-ranking police officers who have backed Magistrate Andrew Eckhold's call for the creation of a drug court at Dubbo.
Orana Local Area Command crime manager Detective Inspector Rod Blackman and former drug court prosecutor acting Inspector Adam Wood said the success of drug courts had been well documented.
"We would support any system that intervenes and breaks the cycle of recidivism," they said.
"Drug courts aim to help drug-dependent offenders to overcome both their drug dependence and their criminal offending. We have seen evidence of the positive results these courts have achieved.''
Drug courts have emerged in a number of countries as a result of growing disenchantment with the ability of traditional criminal justice approaches to provide long-term solutions to the cycle of drug use and crime.
In NSW drug courts sit in two locations - Parramatta and Toronto.
They take local and district court referrals of offenders who are dependent on drugs and considered eligible for a drug court program.
"Drug courts adopt a therapeutic case management approach rather than a punitive approach,'' acting Inspector Wood said.
"They work in conjunction with the probation and parole service, the department of health, Aboriginal Legal Service and Legal Aid.
"Participants are subject to weekly urine testing. If testing shows drugs are still being used offenders can be penalised by having to go into jail while still taking part in the drug court process.
"Offenders initially report to the drug court weekly. Reporting is extended to fortnightly and finally monthly.''
Detective Inspector Blackman said there was plenty of evidence supporting drug use as a significant causal crime factor in Dubbo and surrounds.
"It's the same story in most communities,'' he said.
"Oxycodone-based products are a well-documented concern locally, nationally and globally.''
The opioid prescription painkiller, commonly known as hillbilly heroin, is sold in tablet form as quick-acting Endone and the more powerful slow-release OxyContin.
Associated narcotics are available as a patch under the brand names Durogesic and Norspan.
Oxycodone is highly restricted under Schedule 1 of the Misuse and Trafficking Act and Schedule 8 of the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act.
Without a valid and legitimate prescription its possession, supply and use is a criminal offence.
Along with benzodiazepines, oxycodone has become a sought -after drug for unauthorised or criminal use in communities across Australia.
"NSW Police and Orana Local Area Command are well aware of the abuse of these drugs and proactively pursue those who offend the legislation,'' Detective Inspector Blackman said.
"Additionally, NSW Police have a number of joint agency strategies to combat the problem.''
Detective Inspector Blackman said oxycodone-related crime was part of the Dubbo community.
"Methamphetamines and cannabis are also ongoing problems,'' he said. "There have been detections locally of everything from cocaine to heroin.''


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WASHINGTON — Even though the U.S. Embassy's military attache was expelled from Venezuela shortly before the death of President Hugo Chavez was announced Tuesday, the country could still be headed for a change that would have infuriated the fiery populist: better relations with the United States.
For 14 years, Chavez sought to build a role as a regional leader by flamboyantly defying what he called the "Yankee empire." He cultivated ties with Iran, a leading U.S. adversary, and assembled a bloc of left-leaning Latin American countries to challenge Washington's political and economic dominance in the Western Hemisphere.
Though Chavez's immediate successors probably won't jettison his socialist domestic policy, those in position to take over don't appear to have the same hunger for regional leadership or the skill to take on such a role, say current and former U.S. officials and other analysts. That could make the relationship with Washington less rancorous, if not exactly warm.
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"Chavez had a map in his mind of how he wanted to pursue his revolutionary project around the world," said Stephen Johnson, a top Pentagon policymaker on Latin America during the George W. Bush administration. "It's hard to imagine that his successor is going to have the same determination or self-confidence in those areas."


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SPRING VALLEY — Morris senior golfer Olivia Kief has picked a good time to find her A game.
Despite starting off the Class A St. Bede Regional with a pair of three putts on the front nine, Kief composed herself and carded scores of 40/42 to earn top medalist honors on the afternoon. Her score of 82 was one better than Gina Vallone of Bishop McNamara on the day.
In addition to Kief, Morris sophomore Hailey Hoaglund also made the cut individually with a round of 111. McNamara won the event as a team with a combined score of 360.
However, this day — and the Spring Creek Golf Course — belonged to Kief.
"I'm really excited. I'm please with how I've been playing," Kief said. "I started the season out kind of rough with the tendinitis and everything, but I couldn't have picked a better time for my game to improve and to be playing my best."
Playing good right now has fit in nicely for Kief in terms of the goals she has set from the beginning of the season.
"I couldn't be happier for her. She had certain goals in mind coming into the season," Morris coach Matt Lafond said. "The first one was winning the conference. That was mission accomplished. The next one was winning a regional and beating a certain individual who has gotten her in years past. She beat her by one stroke. That makes it even more sweet for her."
One Kief overcame her slow start, she was well into full gear three holes later. In fact, she came within about one inch from carding an eagle on five and after hitting the turn plunked one in from 25 yards out on 11.
"That what probably helped me win this today because I won by one stroke," she said.
All the while, Hoaglund was putting together the kind of day that even Kief could not achieve two seasons ago as a sophomore.
"Hailey's going to be someone to watch in the coming years because she got to sectionals as a sophomore and I didn't do that," Kief said.
Lafond was equally as happy for both his performers.
"You know, I'm extremely happy for Olivia, but to see Hailey moving on as well — I'm overjoyed," he said. "I don't think she came in expecting anything. She was happy to come along and do the best she could. For her to make it is awesome."
Hoaglund said that getting the chance to golf at the Champaign Sectional on Tuesday is more than she ever could have expected.
"It feels great. I didn't know I could do it. Now I want to keep going," she said. "I'm proud. I think for only having two girls on the team we did pretty good. For Oliva to win it was great."
Both Seneca and Coal City were also at the event, though neither team advanced. Junior Alyssa Erickson of Coal City had the best round with a 118 (60/58). Seneca's best score came from Natalie Hamilton (125). Morgan Piehl also golfed for Coal City and she carded a 141.
"Alyssa got out her freshman year. Last year was a tougher regional and didn't make it out there. This year was a little bit smaller. Not weaker — smaller. So we thought she might get out this year. I think she would have been one of the next to go," Coal City coach David Sinkular said. "Overall, both girls shot today better than they did at conference. They improved and we are obviously happy with that. It hurts us not to have the fourth player this year and it hurt. The girls had to play with the boys a lot and didn't get a lot of time on the course because of it. Hopefully we can pick up a couple more girls and get a team."
Seneca did field a team and finished sixth with a team score of 569.
"For the girls, we're a young team. We have three freshmen and one junior," Seneca coach Bryan Erickson said. "Coming into this it was more about getting experience in regional play. Natalie Hamilton was our low, and she's one of our freshmen. We have high hopes for her. Jacquelyn Newberry (127) been around a couple of years, but she didn't play as well today. We thought she had a chance to get out, but she'll be back as a senior. Hopefully those two, and if the other freshmen improve and we add some new players, we'll be looking at maybe competing at a regional."
Also scoring for the Lady Irish were Hannah Cisco (154) and Heather Vroman (163).
Kief's making history
SPRING VALLEY — Morris senior golfer Olivia Kief has picked a good time to find her A game.


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48-Hour Mobile Apps Hackathon
Friday, September 28, 2012
6:00pm - Next Day
Design Lab 1, Duderstadt Center
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|The hackathon runs for 48 hours from Friday, Sept. 28th, at 6:00pm to Sunday, Sept. 30th at 6:00pm.
About the Event
The 48-Hour Mobile Apps Hackathon, organized by Prof. Elliot Soloway, has become a tradition for hackers at Michigan. This is an incredible opportunity for students interested in any aspect of mobile app development: the Hackathon will give you the time, space, food, caffeine, teammates, and camaraderie you need to build an app for ANY mobile platform -- in a weekend!
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I don't tend to do tutorials, but I thought it may interest someone- if it isn't please avoid negative comments!
I'm sure I'll annoy people with a windows server-running linux desktop gui as a server, but I really don't care as it works for ME!
I have run similar setup on ubuntu for years. This is a basic initial setup suitable for home server base.
It should be noted that WHS is well liked on this product, but I wanted a linux server for 2 reasons
1) I believe it is based on server 2003 and is nearing end of life
2) all my other computers run linux
Since 12.04 the kernel is same for server and desktop.
I don't want the bloat that ubuntu seems to have and unity of late -so I wanted an
Issue 1 was that the desktop install does not cover LVM which allows pooling of drive
Note Do the same for the /dev/mapper/lm13-root partition and assign it to
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Step 1. In the terminal copy/paste the following line
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Step 2. Copy/Paste this line into the phptest file:
Step 3. Save and close the file.
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Step 4. Now open you're web browser and type the following into the web address:
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Using the Webmin APT repository and remember you need sudo with your commands
apt-get will then download and install OpenSSH Server. Depending upon the speed of your computer and Internet connection, the installation may take several minutes.
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Once the installation has finished, return to the Terminal. We'll need to make a few changes to your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file in order to increase SSH's security. First, however, we'll want to make a backup copy of your sshd_config file in case anything goes wrong (it's always a good idea to do this when editing configuration files). Type this command into the Terminal:
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Once you're editing the file, you'll want to add the following two directives to the end of the file:
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AllowUsers adds an additional layer of protection by only allowing specific users to connect via SSH. For instance, if you wanted only users test1 and test2 to have SSH access, you would set AllowUsers as
You may also want to consider changing the Ports directive. By default SSH runs over TCP/IP port 22, which means that any malware bot autoscanning port 22 can target it. Changing the Ports directive to something different will make SSH run over a different, blocking some of those automated cracking attempts.
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Once you have finished changing your settings, save the sshd_config file, and restart the SSH daemon with this command:
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NEW YORK — Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs board member, has asked a federal appeals court to reverse his conviction on insider trading charges, arguing that a judge made a series of incorrect rulings during his trial.
"This court should reverse the convictions in view of the court's serious evidentiary errors, which decisively tipped the scales in this case,'' wrote Gupta's lawyers in a brief to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan filed late Friday.
A jury found Gupta guilty of leaking Goldman boardroom secrets to his friend, the former hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam. Gupta, 64, of Westport, Conn., is free on bail pending the resolution of his appeal. Among the most significant arguments is that the government should not have been allowed to use certain wiretap evidence during the trial.
On one wiretap, Rajaratnam tells a colleague, ''I heard yesterday from somebody who's on the board of Goldman Sachs that they are going to lose $2 per share.''


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Sparty being too aggressive cost them the game.
College Football Evening Open Thread
Sparty plays lights out and loses. Absolutely hilarious.
Nice line: "(Wisconsin is) the first inaugural Big 12 champions"
I could not under any circumstance cheer for MSU, especially not when they go to the Rose Bowl with a win. I refuse to cheer for MSU just because they are MSU, but even if I took the rivalry emotion out of it, and just looked at the coaches/players regardless of the colors they wear, these guys are impossible to cheer for. They think way too highly of themselves, as evidenced by their over-celebrating and immature gesturing after a catch or big tackle. They learn this attitude from their coaches, who are the most smug and arrogant bunch you could ask for. I'm glad their careless and undisciplined play finally caught up with them at the very end...and regardless of the effect it has on UM's BCS chances, I thank God above that I don't have to listen to my in-laws, who are all Sparties, talk about how excited they are for MSU to go to Pasadena. That would have been a long month-plus, even if they did end up getting housed by Oregon.
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Solar in the least expected places
This week a Hindu statesman eloquently praised the Vatican for having installed a 2,400-panel solar field.
"We may believe in different religions, yet we share the same home—our Earth," Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, said urging all religious leaders to work on environmental issues. "We must learn to happily progress or miserably perish together. For man can live individually but can only survive collectively."
The Vatican's solar panels will cut carbon monoxide by 225 tons and save 80 tons of oil each year, and according to this article, the Vatican is considering building a 740-acre solar panel field north of Rome.
Perhaps all religious leaders should thank the dead for their contribution as well. Their final resting places have become a field of solar panels in Santa Coloma de Gramenet a small but crowded town outside Barcelona, Spain. The town is so crowded that the cemetery was one of the only places they could place the 462 panels, which produce 60 homes' annual use, The Huffington Post reports.
"The best tribute we can pay to our ancestors, whatever your religion may be, is to generate clean energy for new generations. That is our leitmotif," said Esteve Serret, director Conste-Live Energy, a Spanish company that runs the cemetery in Santa Coloma and also works in renewable energy.
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Assistive technology
- For Enlarging website text the accessibar extension for Firefox is a useful tool. You can also download it from Mozilla Add-Ons. NoSquint add-on is also good. You can also download NoSquint from Mozilla Add-Ons.
- Three main tools have been developed by the KDE accessibility team a screenreader, screen magnifier and a mouse tool. To install them use synaptic to get the packages; kdeaccessibility and festival
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President Barack Obama says U.S. forces assisted in a failed attempt to rescue a French citizen in Somalia on Friday.
Obama says the U.S. forces provided limited technical support to French forces leading the operation. The president says the Americans had no direct role in the assault on the compound where a French intelligence agent was believed to be held hostage.
French officials say the hostage is almost certainly dead. A French commando was also killed in the rescue attempt.
Obama disclosed the U.S. role Sunday in a letter alerting Congress about the deployment of U.S. forces.


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Approval of an application for amendment to The Colorado Highlands Wind, LLC conditional use permit was postponed until April 9. The permit is for design, construction, operation and maintenance of a state of the art wind power generating facility of approximately 90 megawatts, on property currently zoned agricultural in portions of Township 9 North, Ranges 48 and 49 West of the 6th P.M.
Colorado Highlands is looking to expand their site near Fleming and put in an additional 14 wind turbines this year. They installed 42 last year. At a Logan County Planning Commission meeting last week, after some homeowners expressed frustration over the turbines, the commission voted to recommend the commissioners approve the amendment.
The only other action the commissioners took Tuesday was to approve the consent agenda, which included the Veteran Service Officer's monthly report and certification of pay.
During a workshop following the business meeting, the commissioners met with Sterling Fire Chief Kurt Vogel to discuss repairs to a LIFEPAK 12 (heart monitor) unit that is currently out of service. The unit is not covered under the preventative maintenance plan the county signed with Physio Control, for service and support for LIFEPAK 12 and 15 units.
Vogel said the unit needs a $1,600 repair to continue to perform ECG monitoring and $2,000 to $6,000 worth of repairs for carbon monoxide monitoring. If only the ECG monitoring repair is completed, the unit would not be able to be used in any of the ambulances - only fire trucks.
An alternative would be to spend approximately $7,500 for a refurbished LIFEPAK 12.
Vogel explained they have seven units right now, with one in each of the five ambulances and one ready for use if there is a problem with one of the units in the ambulances.
Commissioner Dave Donaldson said he thought one unit for backup is enough; he asked Vogel if he agreed. Vogel said he thought one would be enough, but he pointed out that you never know what's going to happen.
There was concern about whether or not there would be any kind of warranty covering the repairs if they're made.
Vogel said he might be able to get another unit from Washington County's ambulance service. The commissioners asked him to look into that, as well as what it would cost to look into the repairs needed for the carbon monoxide monitoring, to get a better idea of what the cost would be.
They will meet with Vogel again next week to discuss his findings.
In other business, county attorney Alan Samber presented an addendum to the ambulance contract, which he worked on with city attorney Curt Penny. The addendum clarifies the use of on-duty, active response personnel to be able to be used for non-emergent transport service when they're on standby, as long as adequate off-duty personnel are available for recall status.
The addendum will be included in the commissioners' agenda at their business meeting next week.
Additionally, Donaldson presented an amendment regarding employee health insurance, changing the waiting period from 60 days to 30 days.
Also, he said he would represent the commissioners at a meeting on Thursday at the Northeast Colorado Health Department, regarding rabid skunks and feral cats. Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Logan County Humane Society and county and city personnel will be discussing who the custodian of these animals is.
The commissioners' next business meeting will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 2, at the Logan County Courthouse.
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Opening today's show with a review of two recent bands of the Global Roots Festival at the Cedar… and some more Buena Vista Social Club All-Stars. At 12:30 I have a local expert on Affordable Healthcare with a special opportunity to share with us at the beginning of the discussion around MNSure options. Take a listen – you might get a new perspective from the dialogue ! I end the program with some Vinicius Cantuaria, Brasilian musician coming next week to the Dakota on Tuesday October 8.
A wide ranging scope crosses Quebecois, northern Italian, Ukrainian & Sephardic and Arab influenced music from Spain with Ethiopian brass band on today's program. Also previews of a Brasilian bossanova artist and a Tamashek rock band from Mali coming to town this month, what else ?? — check it out !!!
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Well, that didn't take long.
The Miami Dolphins have cut cornerback Benny Sapp after he was among the Miami cornerbacks who got burned by the New England Patriots and Tom Brady on Monday night.
Agent Andy Simms made the announcement on his twitter account earlier.
Sapp is the one who gave up the 99-yard touchdown to Wes Welker and several other completions. He also gave up a 2-yard TD to Welker that actually seemed just as troubling in that he competed better on the long TD than the quick pass in the flat TD.
By the way, Sapp wasn't alone in playing poorly against New England. Nolan Carroll similarly got burned several times. Vontae Davis got beat a handful of times before he left the game with cramps in the third quarter. Sean Smith suffered the least damage of Miami's corners but he also struggled at times against the Patriots.
The assumption here is Sapp will be replaced on the roster. The further assumption is that Will Allen will be the man replacing Sapp. Final further assumption: Look for the Allen reunion to happen by Wednesday.
This Sapp move raises several issues:
One: The NFL is a what-have-you-done-lately league and Sapp learned that.
Two: The same people that decided Sapp was good enough to be on the team last week are deciding this week he's not good enough to be on the team, which shows their initial evaluation was wrong.
Frankly, I think Sapp is still better than Carroll right now. He had a better training camp. But Carroll is younger. He's a draft pick. He has ability to grow as a player yet. And he was less expensive than Sapp.


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The organisers of Auckland's popular Grey Lynn Park Festival have defended their decision not to reimburse stallholders after the event was cancelled due to a bad weather forecast.
Organisers of the festival broke the news tomorrow's event would not go ahead last night on its website and posted a message explaining the decision on its Facebook page.
"The Grey Lynn Park Festival Trust Board have made the really tough decision to cancel this weekend's festival. The weather heading to Auckland is going to be relentless and Saturday is going to be miserable, not what anyone wants for a festive occasion. Thank you to everyone who has supported us this year and we will see you all next year."
The festival, which has been running since 1989, was to include several New Zealand performers, including Herbs.
Several stallholders have called for organisers to refund them following the decision to cancel.
"I have been working so hard towards this. I expect a full refund if you cancel this far out, on the day is different if it really is atrocious weather. Rain is no reason to cancel a festival," Vicki Stoner wrote on the event's Facebook page.
Helen Burton Coyte agreed.
"So you make a call like that 2 days before the event and all the stallholders who have been working their butts off for weeks/months get nothing? I think the least you can do is give a us all a refund! Fair enough if it was cancelled on the day, but 2 days before is a bit premature!"
Sera Mitchinson said the organisers should consider a rain date.
"This is such a big day for so many stallholders, and it has been such a tough year for small businesses, very unfair to pull it two days before!! The weather forecast has been terrible and turned out wrong so many times, this seems really presumtuous [sic]."
Stallholders are charged $100 plus GST to set up at the event.
However the stallholder conditions on the event's website states there is no rain date if the event is cancelled, and there are no refunds on stalls once booked.
Chairperson of the trust board, Kate Burke, said there would not be refunds. She said compared to other festivals, stallholder fees were "very cheap".
"We haven't put our rents up in 20 years. It's a gamble - it's a chance you take when you choose to participate."
Ms Burke said the festival would not have been fun if visitors had top wade through a "mudbath". She said the event had only been cancelled due to rain twice.
"In 2006 it rained like mad - it turned the fields to swamps."
Ms Burke said it was also not feasible to postpone the event.
"We've got musicians, we've got performers, we've got stallholders ... they've got a circuit of commitment. To make it another date - I don't see how that could happen.
"It's just a huge event with a lot of layers to it ... it's just too complicated to have to set it up twice."
The event was to have around 500 participants - which includes stallholders, rides, bands and performers.
"It's a huge disappointment for many people - including ourselves."


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